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TV SHOWS: Greek, SLiDE, The Vampire Diaries, Misfits, Skins, The Walking Dead, Pretty Little Liars, Shameless US, Once Upon a Time, Pan Am, White Collar, Lost, Game Of Thrones, Downton Abbey, Hart of Dixie, Chuck, One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, Revenge, American Horror Story, Community, True Blood, The Borgias and Suits.
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- 500 episodes in 2012
MY OTPs: damon/elena from the vampire diaries
"I love you, Elena… and it's because I love you I can't be selfish with you. Why you can't know this — I don't deserve you. But my brother does…God, I wish you didn't have to forget this but you do."
MY OTPs: cappie/casey from greek
"You were buying all this food, and I was wondering if you got high when I wasn't looking. And when I asked you about it, you said "I wanna stock the fridge in your room" because you knew that I was lazy about going to the cafeteria and you didn't want me to go hungry. And you were at the register paying and you tucked your hair behind your ear, looked back at me and just smiled. Case, this is where I first realized I loved you. And I've loved you every day since."
MY OTPs: lucas/peyton from one tree hill
"It's you"
"When all my dreams come true, the one I want next to me. It's you. It's you, Peyton."
MY OTPs: julien/sophie from jeux d'enfants
"You know… there were lots of things I was game for that you never said."
"Eating ants… insulting the unemployed… loving you like crazy."
MY OTPs: noah/allie from the notebook
"So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me… everyday."
MY OTPs: step/babi from the book: "three meters above the sky" (pics from the film and i had to translate the quote cause my book is in portuguese)
"I'm better than ever"
"In point to reach the sky?"
"Not exactly, i'm at least three meters above the sky"
MY OTPs: cesare/lucrezia from the borgias
"I shall never love a husband as I love you, Cesare."
MY OTPs: jeff/britta from community
"hey.. you should kiss me right now"
MY OTPs: drogo/daenerys from game of thrones
"moon of my life"
MY OTPs: chuck/sarah from chuck
"Look, we both know how I feel about you so I'm just going to shoot straight. Sarah, you're the greatest thing that's ever happened to me. You're beautiful, smart, you laugh at all my stupid jokes and have a horrible habit of constantly saving my life. The truth is, you're everything that I thought I ever wanted and more."


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We're behind the wheel of the 2014 Kia Cadenza and it's crawling through Beverly Hills traffic like a seasoned pro. Adaptive cruise is set to 95 mph, but we're averaging something like 6. Her side of the dual-zone climate control is set to 80. Ours is set to 65.
The roughly idling bus next to us is muted by the Kia's acoustics. We're beeped by the lane departure warning system before merging. The streaming Bluetooth audio is tuning out everything else. If not for this whole steering thing, we'd just be along for the ride.
But then a crinkle brings us back into the real world. It's our Chinese takeout in the backseat and it's listing hard off the port bow. A delicate arm is stretched to its maximum, but the crinkle of plastic is getting louder. The smell of garlic is getting stronger. We're one brake application away from an order of Kung Pao carpet. A strained voice says, "I can't reach it. The backseat's too far away."
And with that one line, everything clicks and it dawns that the 2014 Cadenza is a different and altogether special full-size sedan...from Kia.
Prix Fixe
In contrast to the myriad trim, package and powertrain options available in other large, front-wheel-drive sedans, the 2014 Kia Cadenza is only available in one flavor, and with few available toppings.
The only powertrain is a 3.3-liter V6 bolted to a six-speed automatic. Armed with direct injection, this engine makes 293 horsepower at 6,400 rpm and 255 pound-feet of torque at 5,200 rpm. Fuel economy numbers haven't been released, but we averaged 20.6 mpg with a best tank of 28.1 mpg in mixed driving.
As for trim levels, there's one. Kia's eschewed the tactic of offering a base car with few options and a seductive low price, for a fully loaded ride that pulls out nearly all the stops. Standard features on this Kia include a back-up camera, navigation system with high-res 8-inch touchscreen, 550-watt Infinity 12-speaker stereo, heated leather seats, dual-zone climate control, keyless entry with push-button start and Bluetooth audio and phone pairing. Standard. On this Kia.
But Wait, There's More!
Should you still feel that you're not thoroughly whooping the Joneses, Kia will happily sell you one, or both, of the available option packs (prices TBD). Our test car had both.
The Premium package adds a split panoramic sunroof, adaptive HID headlights, Napa leather seating surfaces, cooled driver seat, heated outboard rear seats, heated steering wheel, power tilt-and-telescoping steering wheel, extendable thigh support and a 7-inch TFT LCD that replaces the traditional speedometer.
Go all big-dog on the Kia and step up to the Technology package (Premium pack required) and the 2014 Cadenza gets even more impressive and slightly autonomous. Adaptive cruise control, blind spot detection, lane departure warning, hydrophobic front door window glass (blame this water-repelling feature's absence on the windshield on the sloths at NHTSA) and an electronic parking brake. The 18-inch wheels are replaced by 19s as well.
And, finally, there's a White package that blanches the Napa leather and adds wood grain trim and premium textile to the headliner, pillar trim, rear parcel shelf and sun visors.
Our 2014 Kia Cadenza is an early production prototype and represents a slight amalgamation of the options listed above. We've got most of the White pack and most of the Technology pack, but we have 18-inch wheels instead of the 19s. Half of the trim here is wood, while half is a brushed metal look. Even if they don't visually match, the interior is immaculately prepared, with tight gaps and a quality feel to all of the buttons and actions.
While we'd prefer that the trim had matched, one "not production correct" feature of this tester we'd hate to give up is the 18-inch wheels.
Kia says that this prototype's suspension and steering are "95 percent production" with some minor tweaks to be done to combat some bump steer. We're advising them here and now, in the open, to be careful with any additional tweaks, as the Cadenza we drove is exemplary in the field.
Pavement seams are dispatched with a thunk-thunk that borders on Germanic. Bigger dips are damped away in a single stroke with none of the high-seas yachting often found in this class. Again, think German. Kia clearly did.
One area where Kia was thinking American (and maybe just a hint of Chinese) was the backseat. Not only is there a phenomenal amount of shoulder and legroom (56.3 and 36.8 inches, respectively) but the outboard seats are heated and there's audio controls located in the rear center armrest. The actual measurement numbers are only on par with the 2013 Toyota Avalon (55/40), but the Cadenza feels airier and the seat comfort is great. For all of this rear-seat comfort, you give up the ability to fold the seats. Thankfully, there's a ski pass-through and plenty of space in the trunk. Still, if an Ikea trip is on the menu, the Cadenza won't be the first pick.
Kissing Cousins
The 2014 Kia Cadenza is closely related to the current Hyundai Azera, which we've had on our shores since 2012. But it doesn't take a professionally trained butt to notice the differences straight away. The Hyundai is tuned to win over the Buick/Toyota crowd. It's soft and isolated and coddling. The Cadenza's ride and steering, however, give the driver a sense of communication and occasion more in line with Acura and Infiniti.
If you needed proof that Kia and Hyundai are separate organizations doing separate things, look no further than the Cadenza. The platform is the same, but the missions are worlds apart.
Kia's new president, Peter Schreyer may have had his way with the way the car looks ("classy" and "expensive" come to mind) and how it drives, but he didn't have much say in the way it goes. The 3.3-liter V6 is the same one found in the Azera and we'd expect it to do the same 0-60 time of 6.7 seconds and about the same 15.0 seconds at 94.8-mph quarter-mile time.
The Price Debate
Despite going on sale in April, official pricing for the 2014 Kia Cadenza has not been announced. That said, we think we can take a fair guess. The 2013 Toyota Avalon Limited starts at $39,650, while the 2013 Hyundai Azera starts at $33,145. While this fully loaded tester will likely tickle $40,000, a base price of $35,000 feels right.
Ultimately, the greatest threat to the Kia Cadenza's success won't be from outside forces. Unlike Lexus, Acura and Infiniti before it, Kia has decided that its budget name and reputation will not be a hindrance to selling a car for luxury level money.
The 2014 Kia Cadenza surprised us with an elegant combination of driving dynamics, build quality and easy-to-use tech features. But it won't do that for anyone who can't see beyond the badge.
The manufacturer provided Edmunds this vehicle for the purposes of evaluation.
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What a great early review! I am literally biting my nails as I count down to see how well the cadenza will do in the markets. I would love to purchase a k7 this year if and only if the pros outweigh the cons. So far I am all go for KIA!
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This car does absolutely nothing for me. For this price, I'd easily head to the Acura dealer for a base TL. The Acura may not be as roomy, but it is better looking both inside and out, and probably drives better. This Kia is just a disappointment. I truly love the Optima's relatively original design, both interior and exterior, and was even more hopeful for that to be taken up a notch with the Cadenza. Oddly, the opposite occurred. The Cadenza's exterior design is trying too hard to be a 5 Series and A6, so it immediately screams "derivative". And the interior, while handsome, would put me to sleep, almost like an "interior-by-numbers" design.
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the brand name is an issue. the model name is worse. major fail. makes me think of credenza. nothing exciting about that. good luck, kia.
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The Pistons entered the week on a three game losing streak, playing some of their worst basketball of the season. With two home games and two away games on the schedule this week, Detroit showed overdue signs of improvement. They competed hard in three of their four games, and may have learned a little bit about the character of some of their rotation guys.
The week opened up with the visit of the Milwaukee Bucks to the Palace to offer up a genuine opportunity to snap the losing streak. Next on the schedule Detroit headed to Indianapolis to face off against the struggling Pacers. Then on Friday they moved on to face another playoff team on the road, as they looked to close the season series out against the Brooklyn Nets. Before finally, on Saturday night, it was back home again with the Boston Celtics the visitors.
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As many of you know, Colorado Avalanche center Matt Duchene is up for the cover vote of EA Sports NHL 15. The voting started back on May 5th and the quarterfinals ends on May 18th. Make sure to vote on Twitter using the hashtag #NHL15Duchene.
Duchene is going head-to-head with St. Louis Blues winger T.J. Oshie in the quarterfinals. If we want to be fair about this, we go with the player who has the better stats, correct? Nevermind, that's probably just my logic — after all it's basically a popularity contest.
2013-14′ Season Stats:
Matt Duchene: 71 games – 23 goals, 47 assists, 70 points.
T.J. Oshie: 79 games – 21 goals 39 assists, 60 points.
As you can tell above, our boy Matt Duchene deserves the cover vote to surpass Oshie in the quarterfinals. Sure, Oshie will get a lot of votes due to the Winter Olympic Games where he scored shootout goals galore, but Matt Duchene was obviously the better player in 2013-14′ and throughout his career. Nothing against Mr. Oshie and his play but that's the way I see it.
Career Stats:
Matt Duchene: 337 games – 105 goals, 158 assists, 263 points.
T.J. Oshie: 371 games – 91 goals, 164 assists, 255 points.
You can also follow this link to vote online for the cover vote. Don't forget, #NHL15Duchene.
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What Are Parents For?
- Friday, July 05, 2013
Everybody Else Wants to Be the Parent
Since our culture doesn't want to follow God's example of parenting, we are left with parents who are losing their right to actually parent their own children. In fact, everybody else wants to be the parent.
In reference to a legal case involving a homeschooling family being wrongly charged with neglect in the medical treatment of their child, Michael Farris of Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) stated: "Parents, not the state or its doctors, have the fundamental, God-given right to choose and direct the medical care that their children receive."2 You would think this was a given, but we still have to fight for these God-given rights on a regular basis. Why? Because everyone else wants to and believes they can do a better job of parenting your child.
I was just on the phone with my 17-year-old's doctor, who asked me to hand the phone to my daughter in order to ask her personally about her illness. While the doctor had her on the phone, she asked my daughter several other "routine" invasive questions that were meant to be private between the doctor and the child. Obviously, I was in the way, unnecessary, and worse, made to feel like an intruder in the private world of my teen. What happened to parents talking to doctors about our children and making decisions for our children?
We are becoming a child-led society. We all know what a child-run household looks like—it doesn't work! To have a child-led society will not work any better either, because it is not God's design.
Amelia Harper, author of "Are Parents Really Necessary? A Guide to Preschool Education," wrote the following account after attending a Head Start meeting in her community:
"For nearly two hours, they discussed various issues regarding the health, education, welfare, and success of our tiniest scholars. Then I noticed a remarkable thing: the word parents had barely been mentioned. This got me to thinking, "Are parents really necessary?" If I were a disinterested observer at the meeting, I would certainly conclude that they are not. I would conclude that the government alone had the responsibility to provide for the future of its citizens and that parents were simply accidental providers of a human commodity: the youth of our nation. In fact, from the tone of the speeches, I would conclude that parents were often obstacles to a child's education and that his greatest chance for success was to be removed from the home as soon as possible and placed in the state's more nurturing bosom."
My friend Marla Nowak, who has two children with Down syndrome, expressed similar ideas when she informed me of this important bit of frightening news about her parental rights:
"When our son with Down syndrome was younger, we made a deliberate decision to install extra locks up high on exit doors to prevent our wanderer from leaving the house. We had to decide if other threats from inside the house, like escape during a fire, were more likely than the very immediate threat that our child could walk out the front door in the middle of the night and go who knows where. But personal decisions like this and many other choices such as medical care, education, and financial decisions might be taken away from parents if the U.S. Senate passes the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This includes the decision of where our children should live and with whom. But that is not the worst part of this UN treaty if it passes. Imagine a group of "experts" from places like Iran or China dictating where your children should live, requiring a medical procedure that you know is not best for your child, or determining that your home is not good enough to meet the standards for a son or daughter with a disability. It's not far-fetched. This CRPD treaty will become a reality in the United States as early as this fall if passed and signed by the President."3
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Earth Days Past
Apr 25
In Stories, Thoughts at 6:29am
We celebrated Earth Day this past week. This observance has been around for a while now, and back in the 70′s I was occasionally assigned to cover some of the events. I shot the above for UPI one year, at an Earth Day observance at the UN. I recall it being the usual, uh, cluster….k, in NY press terminology, with all the papers, the wires, and the TV folks angling for angles and exclusives. I was working for the formidable drill instructor of editors, Larry DeSantis, or LD, as we called him, who told me in no uncertain terms to get the muckety-mucks. In color. Read the rest of this entry »
The Polar Vortex
Jan 15
In Rambling, Thoughts at 10:33am
We tend to come up with new, slick names for stuff all the time now, given our buzzword laced world. The phrase "Polar Vortex" got a lot of play lately when a chunk of really cold air that should've behaved better and hovered nicely over the North Pole pushed south in unruly fashion over Canada and the US. I've encountered the polar vortex before on assignment, but wasn't smart enough to call it by its proper name. I think I just used the term, "f*%#ing cold."
The Wild, and Occasionally Wonderful Internet
Jan 13
In In The Field, Thoughts at 8:24am
Last year, when I stood on the railing that supports the aircraft warning lights atop the Burj Khalifa, 2,716 feet over the sidewalk, and I leaned forward slightly, I was cautious, of course. Not that I was going anywhere. I had safety ropes attaching me to the structure. And my cameras were hooked to me, and were quite secure. (Whenever I make a climb over an urban area, I run heavy gauge wire through my camera straps, so the cameras are literally wired to my person.)
What wasn't connected, or tethered in any way, was my Iphone. I took that slippery son of a bitch in my hands, with great and grave care, looked down, and saw my feet. Made a snap, pushed a few buttons, and it became an Instagram. I had a sense of standing at a window clutching a bird I was about to release into the wild. I flung it outwards and up into the sky, and I knew it would go many places, and I wouldn't have a shred of say in the matter. Which, for this pic, was okay. (If anyone out there had similar childhood reading habits, you might remember the last page of Sterling North's Rascal, one of my favorite books as a kid.)
This little picture did in fact cover a lot of ground, and was retweeted, screen grabbed, printed, and chatted up all over the internet. It easily, and quite rapidly, became the most seen picture I have ever shot, and I have shot lots of pictures. And it certainly became an education for me about the life of a digital image, as it's still being retweeted on a regular basis, even now, almost a year after shooting it.
I have to admit, when it started hitting lots of screens and the retweets piled on and on, I sort of stared at my own computer screen somewhat slack jawed, a look of bovine wonder on my face. " I mean, at the risk of sounding stupid, or old, or both, I knew the internet was big, and fast and linked, but the speed of dissemination and numbers of eyeballs glancing at my battered shoes was definitely bracing.
Here's an upside, speaking of my shoes. I've been buying the same model Ecco Track II, for at least twenty years, maybe more. A pair of those shoes has been with me to the top of the Empire State Building, up some bridges, onto power line towers, in and out of helicopters, and trod ground in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Siberia, South America, and coast to coast back home. I guess the Ecco folks were pleased to see their shoes atop the tallest man-made structure on earth, but also mildly embarrassed by their disrepair. So, they sent me a new pair. They reached out on Facebook, and next thing you know, I had a new pair of size 11′s. Haven't used them yet, as there's still life in my old ones, but it's nice to have brand new shoes in the wings.
The other cool thing about the marriage of the internet and the camera is that the resultant, instantaneous, widespread migration of your images can make someone like myself, who started looking through a camera way before it was also a phone and a tweet machine and all the rest, appear somewhat with it, even to my kids. The pic, as I mentioned, still gets rerouted and retweeted, though it has all died down to a comparative simmer. But with one recent mention, my daughter picked up on it again, and shouted out the below.
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Wonderful Machine Portfolio
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After 35 years of doing this, how do you sort out a portfolio? It's beyond my ken, really. Especially after having spent most of my time pursuing a generalist bent, to say my work is all over the lot would be kind. A more accurate description might be that my physical files, not to mention the file cabinet of my head, are a bit like a nightmare basement straight out of Hoarders.
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Fifteen cardboard boxes.
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And about 1.5 million people who want to be heard signed their names on one or more petitions, for a total of 2.3 million signatures.
A group of AARP volunteers – known as the Capitol Hill Strike Force – descended on the U.S. Capitol this morning to deliver their messages to the House Ways and Means Committee.
"As members of Congress consider proposals to reform these vital retirement security programs, it's critical that they hear from people who have paid into Medicare and Social Security and who rely on their benefits," said John Hishta, AARP senior vice president. "Americans want to have a voice in any changes to these programs, and today millions of them have made their voices heard."
The petitions included more than 1.5 million signatures [2] specifically addressing the proposal to adopt the chained CPI [3]. That's a fancy Washington term for a plan that would change the formula for the cost of living adjustment to the program. Bottom line: It amounts to nothing less than cutting benefits [4] to Social Security recipients and veterans.
Other petitions urged support for a program to prevent and reduce improper Medicare expenses [5] and other measures to reduce costs across the health care system.
Click here [6] to find out what you would lose under chained CPI. To learn more about AARP's efforts to strengthen Social Security and promote responsible solutions in Medicare, visit aarp.org/earnedasay [7].
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Do You Have Any Idea?
Chris and Rob have been at lots of conferences about interesting things. We discuss the US government shutdown and its effect on science an scientists. We talk about the rumours regarding the Sky at Night, the nature of art and science, and the evolving culture of science communication.
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The Network Really Is the Computer
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Automated Service Discovery
The final thing I'm going to talk about is wrapped up in the question:
What do ICQ, Jini, and Napster all have in common?
To me, the essence of all of these systems is an approach to service discovery that fosters informal, peer to peer networking, rather than hierarchical client-server computing. Napster is a kind of "instant messaging" where the question isn't "are you online to chat?" but "do you have Metallica's latest?"
|We have to allow for false starts, for early ideas that don't quite work but pave the way for others that do, and for technologies that are designed in such a way that other people can surprise us by the way that they use them.
The role of a central server, if any, is not to return the data, but just a pointer to who has it. (And need I say it? That's an example of metadata.) The next step is to apply this model to the provision of more complex services.
As is often the case, Sun was one of the first to articulate this vision, of devices that expose the services they offer, and other devices that automatically discover and use those services. The initial focus of Jini has been on networked hardware devices, yet the same principles apply in the world of the web that I've been talking about for the past fifteen minutes.
What we're going to see are sites you can query for the services that they provide, and the methods they expose for calling those services. We'll see search engines and directories that help us find those services, and of course, lots of opportunities for companies like O'Reilly to document and explain them.
I'm seeing companies sprouting up all over the net who have a hold of some part of the same elephant. For example, there was an intriguing announcement in the past couple of days about the beta release of the infrasearch technology, based on Gnutella. (In case you haven't heard of it, Gnutella is a robust free software implementation of a Napster-like program.)
Whether infrasearch scales or not is unknown. But the idea is completely right on: build a search engine that looks for services, not for static pages, and ask questions of those services. The simple example they show, of putting an algebraic equation in the search engine, and returning the answer from a calculator, is just what I've been talking about.
I don't know which of these various architectures for service publication and discovery will catch on. It won't necessarily be the best one.
In fact, as Clayton Christenson pointed out in The Innovator's Dilemma, less is often more. It's the technology that's just good enough, and easier to use, that often wins. After all, going back to ecological succession: it's not until the lichens and mosses have had their day that it's time for higher plants and animals to arrive.
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Some material got cut as the talk evolved, but I thought I'd keep them in the written version as a small digression.
We have to allow for false starts, for early ideas that don't quite work but pave the way for others that do, and for technologies that are designed in such a way that other people can surprise us by the way that they use them.
This returns me to the theme with which I began my talk, open source. The real power of open source is that it lowers the barriers to entry, allowing people to participate more easily in development and invention. In the age of the network, which distributes the power of participation to anyone in reach of a computer, not just the people on your own development staff, the technology that makes it easiest for anyone to join in moving things forward will ultimately win.
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Inc. Considered by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Strata: The Business of Data, the Velocity Conference on Web Performance and Operations, and many others. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O'Reilly's early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online, PeerJ, Code for America, and Maker Media, which was recently spun out from O'Reilly Media. Maker Media's Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution.
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This class should not be your first time working with hand tools. If you have self studied and completed many of the projects in Jim Tolpin's "The New Traditional Woodworker" or have taken hand tool classes elsewhere or have other equivalent experience then this will be a great class for you.
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Mozilla and the web makers
September 7, 2011 § 6 Comments
When I say 'maker', most people understand what I mean: a DIY ethic, a hankering to create. Often, makers are into robots and gadgets. Physical things. But the web is also filled with people who love to tinker, create and make.
In my last post, I argued that Mozilla should engage these 'web makers' as we refine and evolve what we started with Drumbeat. Which begs the question: who are the web makers?
Looking at the people who have joined our community recently, I see teachers, filmmakers, journalists, artists, game makers and curious kids who a) want to be part of what Mozilla is doing and b) are making things using the open building blocks that are the web. I believe Mozilla has alot to offer these people, and vice versa.
To understand this, it's worth looking at the people who have gotten involved Mozilla as a result of Drumbeat. Here are three examples:
Jess Klein is a designer who teaches kids about technology. She's designed games. She's worked for Sesame Street. And now she's helping Mozilla bring Hackasaurus to life, designing a whole new way for kids to learn about the web.
Kat Cizek is a documentary filmmaker. She's chronicled the participatory media org Witness. She's won an Emmy for a web documentary she made in Flash. And now she is making a whole film with Popcorn and WebGL, a film made for the browser and solely with the open building blocks that make up the web.
Cathy Davidson is an iconoclastic professor at Duke University. She let's her students choose their own grades. She wrote a book about how the web is rewiring our institutions. She also built out a huge part of last year's Mozilla Festival, and now is helping us figure out where to go next in education.
These people have some things in common. They share Mozilla's open spirit and maker ethic. They see the open web as a canvas for their ideas. They are building things with the web. And they are all actively contributing to Mozilla.
I like to think Mozilla offers these people something special: a chance to build — and learn– alongside people from Mozilla's more traditional community who are creating the cutting edge of the web. This is what we've started with Drumbeat.
On the flip side, these people clearly have something to offer Mozilla: help building a world where millions more people understand that the web is about making things.
This is why I want these people actively involved in shaping where Mozilla goes in the future. In my next few posts, I will talk about how these people can help us build on the work we've started with Drumbeat, especially how we teach and build tools for web makers.
A question in the meantime: what do others think about the role the people I am describing here can play in Mozilla?
NextBeat: a generation of web makers
August 31, 2011 § 5 Comments
We started Drumbeat as an experiment to bring new people and new ideas into Mozilla. Some results from the first 18 months: 20,000 people signed up, dozens of new community leaders and solid core projects like Hackasaurus, School of Webcraft, Popcorn, MoJo and OpenBadges.
While I'm proud of all this, I actually think Drumbeat's biggest achievement has been carving out a new way for Mozilla to work: teaching and building things with people I call 'web makers'.
The projects at the core of Drumbeat have been built by matching teachers, filmmakers, journalists, artists, game makers and curious kids with the kind of developers who make up Mozilla's more traditional community.
While these new community members come from different backgrounds, they have two things in common: 1) they share Mozilla's open spirit and maker ethic, and 2) they want to use the open web as a canvas for their ideas.
As part of Mitchell's broader conversation about the next era of Mozilla, I want to explore how we can work with these web makers to refine and evolve what we've started with Drumbeat.
Specifically, I want to explore how we weave teaching and building things with web makers into the core of Mozilla's work. The MoFo team came up with some early thinking on this over the summer:
- We set up Drumbeat to figure out how to extend our mission beyond Firefox (and beyond software).
- What we found: Mozilla has an opportunity to build the next generation of web makers. This opportunity is huge.
- This is partly about teaching: helping people learn how to use the building blocks that make up the web.
- It's also about making tools: tools for creativity, tinkering and invention. Built by and for web makers.
- We can — and should — do these things. They will keep the Mozilla spirit alive, advance our mission, and build our values into the future of the web.
Of course, Mozilla should continue to invent and evolve the core building blocks that make up the web. That is what we've always been good at.
But — as our early work in Drumbeat has shown — teaching people how to use and extend these building blocks also has huge potential to advance Mozilla's cause. As Mitchell said last year in Barcelona:
One of the values of Mozilla is that we *build* things. Moving individuals from consumption to creation is Mozilla's goal.
Reaching this goal will take millions of individuals teaching each other how to build things, and then extending how things are built. I can imagine Mozilla as a new kind of learning institution and open research lab that brings these people together. That's something that can — and should — be a part of who we are.
In my next posts, I plan to explore this web maker concept and introduce some of the new people who have joined Mozilla through Drumbeat. I will also float some concrete ideas on how we can refine Drumbeat with the help of these people, rolling it back into the mainstream of Mozilla and growing it into something bigger at the same time.
Media, freedom + the web: berlin talk
March 24, 2011 § 5 Comments
As I pointed out a while back, this year is Marshall McLuhan's 100th birthday. It's a good time to be thinking about media and the web: in particular about how the free and open medium of the web is shaping all media that came before. Increasingly, this is a theme for Mozilla Drumbeat in 2011.
Why now? Yes, partly because it's Marshall's birthday. But more importantly, we're at a key juncture: traditional media are increasingly reinventing themselves by tapping into the essence of the web; at the same time monopolies in spaces like social networking and mobile apps are calling the freedom of the web into question. Things could go either way: open or closed.
Back in February, I explored this theme in the annual Marshall McLuhan Lecture at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin. I've re-recorded the talk and posted it here:
It's a long talk: 40 minutes. If you just want to get a feel, you can flip through the PDF version. Or, you can download an mp3 audio version or an ogg video version.
At a high level, I believe we have to make a number of critical choices in coming years that will impact media and society for decades to come. My three top level points are:
We rarely call it out, but the same basic principles that make free software and open source great are also baked into the very fabric of the web itself. The web gives us the freedom to use, study, remix and share — that's what we are all doing at a massive scale. We do these things because they are baked into both the technical building blocks and the culture of the web. When we think about the web as the medium that is shaping our times, it's important to remember that this kind of freedom that is central to what's going on.
McLuhan said: "The next medium, whatever it is – it may be the extension of consciousness – will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form."
This has happened. And it hasn't just happened to television. All media have become the content of the web. As a result, all media are wrapped in this context of freedom: in a world that lets you bend and share without asking permission. The initial reaction from old media was push back. But times are changing. We're very clearly entering a phase where smart media players are using the essence of the web to reinvent themselves. Eg. witness the Guardian and Wikileaks or Al Jazeera in Egypt.
The context is a web built on freedom. The opportunity is that all media are reinventing themselves in this context. If we seize this opportunity, we can bake things like transparency, remix and sharing into the media culture and practice for the next 100 years. That's what we're trying to do with Mozilla Drumbeat projects like popcorn.js: build tools that give filmmakers and journalists access to the essence of the web. If we succeed, we also bake the web into how whole industries work and think.
Of course, there is another direction we can choose: we could close down the web. Tim Wu talks eloquently about this in his book the Master Switch. Talking about media empires in the last 100 years, he says: "Open eras tend to last for about 15 – 20 years. And then they flip into being more closed. We may be at the beginning of the closing with the internet."
Specifically: we could give up our privacy and identity to one or two social networks; we let one or two companies decide who gets to innovate and create software; we could let governments decide whether we get to access the internet at all. The result would be a very different web than the one we have now.
It's this point about choice that makes media such an important theme for Mozilla and Drumbeat in 2011: now is the time to aggressively, creatively and playfully promote web technology and web thinking in the broader world of media. What we do now will shape media — and society — for a long time to come.
I'd love to get people's feedback on the ideas in this talk. And, even more, I'd love to see people building things and playing with the theme of media, freedom and the web as part of Mozilla Drumbeat in 2011.
This is the third in a series of posts about media, freedom and the web. I'm hoping to do more, including a few posts on the future of cinema.
Drumbeat: what's next?
September 2, 2010 § 17 Comments
We're eight months into Drumbeat. We've built a bit of a brand. People are interested. They want to get involved. More importantly: new people have shown up. Educators. Filmmakers. Artists. Not Mozilla natives. These new people are doing interesting things. And their peers are noticing.
It's is a good start. We have some momentum. There is potential. Which begs the question: now what?
One thing is clear: we need to turn interest into action and impact. With 2011 on the horizon, I'm asking: how do we best do this? What does Drumbeat do next?
I want to know what you think about this. As comment fodder, here are three + one things I think we should focus on as Drumbeat moves into 2011:
0. Narrow our focus. Pick grokkable, magnetic topics.
Drumbeat started with a very broad call to action: 'help keep the open web open'. This didn't work as well as we'd hoped. Some people responded. Most just stared back blankly.
Recently (and somewhat by accident), we've shifted focus to more specific mashups of Mozilla's mission and other people's big ideas. Re-invent cinema using the open web. Use the culture of the web to transform education and learning. And so on.
These mash ups have been much more magnetic. People already excited about the big ideas in question have looked up and said: ah, the web people are interested. Cool. How can I join in?
No matter what else we decide to do, one of our next steps should be to consistently use these 'somebody's big idea + open web tech and culture' combos to focus what we're doing. On the flip side, we should (dramatically) turn down the volume of the generic 'help the open web' angle.
1. Follow through on what we've started. Amp up participation and impact.
During the last eight months, we've dug our teeth into some awesome and substantial projects — Web Made Movies, Mozilla / P2PU School of Web Craft, Universal Subtitles. And it's possible we'll start work on a couple more by year end.
Each of these projects has big dreams. They also have clear goals for the coming year. A web developer education program that is 10,000 learners strong. A bustling open video studio pumping out productions with leading directors from around the world. Grassroots subtitling taking hold on well known, globally important video sites. These are amongst the 2011 goals Drumbeat projects shared in Whistler.
One answer to 'what's next for Drumbeat?' is 'follow through and help these projects reach these goals'.
There are three primary ways we can do this. Help with the technology side of these projects (e.g. P2PU leveraging Labs' open social tools). Build fundraising capacity by actually designing and running campaigns with the projects (we're doing major campaigns this fall and into next year). And, bring more people and profile to the table (e.g. volunteer recruitment in mainstream Mozilla newsletters and more promotion on Mozilla sites).
Helping in these ways will drive participation and impact in the projects we've already started. This, for me, is the baseline of what Drumbeat should do next. If that's all we did in 2011, would it be enough? Personally, I don't think so.
2. Get get good at open innovation. Find and grow more promising ideas.
We've always seen Drumbeat as a way to get many good ideas on the table, and then to back the best. A decent number of people have responded to this aspect of what we're doing — there are now over 220 projects on drumbeat.org.
We've highlighted and helped a handful of these projects in small ways. Promoting them in our newsletter. Setting up peer coaching on our community calls. But, overall, we haven't yet figured out a good and sustainable way to help these projects evolve, expand and succeed.
What we need is a simple, systematic way to find and grow promising ideas. One approach: combine the Mozilla labs open innovation process with the 'magnetic topic mashups' described above. Pick a topic. Run an innovation challenge. Back the best ideas that come out of the challenge.
For example, we might run a challenge around the question: how can the culture and technology drive innovation in the world of journalism? The challenge process would get many ideas on the table, spark collaborations. We'd offer fellowships or grants to the 'winners' of the challenge.
If Jetpack for Learning was any indication, this approach is more likely to yield results than the general Drumbeat 'propose a project that helps the web' call to action we've been using so far. One of our priorities for 2011 should be to put this open innovation model centre stage, pick some awesome topics and see what we learn.
3. Spark people's imagination. Make it easy for them to connect. Focus on (big) visibility.
While our existing projects are awesome and important, Drumbeat (and Mozilla as a whole) needs another side to it — a side that is lightweight, easy to engage and, well, sexy.
Why? Because part of our goal with Drumbeat is to spark people's imaginations — to get millions of people excited about how the open web can liberate, empower and delight them.
If you look at this from a 'what's next?' perspective, this is partly a matter of linking what we're doing already to things people care about. Making Web Made Movies with well loved producers and artists. Connecting Universal Subtitles to widely known content brands. Showcasing robots, lasers and other shiny open tech toys at Drumbeat events. The good news: we're working on all these things.
However, 'sparking imaginations' need not — and probably cannot — be completely tied up in the idea of Drumbeat projects and events. We should embrace anything we can dream up that delights and engages, and the connects people to Mozilla outside of their day to day experience of using our products.
Google showed how you can do this with it's recent HTML5 Arcade Fire video. It was a lightweight, fun, internet-scale way to demo what HTML5 video can be. And people loved it.
We hope to do something similar with our upcoming Firefox 4 parks campaign with the World Wildlife Fund — using sexy demos to make the link between the forests of the amazon and the web ecosystem that Firefox helps sustain. We've got other ideas up our sleeves as well (including some involving cats!)
But, the fact of the matter is, Mozilla isn't naturally good at this. We're more often than not too earnest about the web. We need to develop or lighter sexier side. Especially if we want millions of people across the web to join and support our cause. In terms of Drumbeat next steps, this is a major area we need to work on.
These are early thoughts that need much shaping and refinement. I'm interested to know: Which sound right? Which sound exciting? Which sound unachievable? You've been watching Drumbeat unfold. Where do you think it should go next?
I've posted an etherpad version of this content for people to hack on. And you can also make comments below. I'll feed whatever people post into a Mozilla board discussion mid-September. And, if there is alot of interesting changes, I'll repost the full etherpad version here.
PS. I know this post is too long. Sorry about that. I really want to see how people react to the whole set of ideas here — so my attempts at chopping it into a bunch of smaller posts didn't work.
10 days of freedom in Barcelona
August 27, 2010 § 3 Comments
I just had a fun breakfast with Simona Levi from ExGAE/ / oXcars. What I learned: Learning, Freedom and the Web isn't the only interesting thing happening in Barcelona two months from now. There are at least seven open internet / open education / free culture events happening over the span of 10 days.
Between October 28 and November 6, Barcelona will host: the 2000 person oXcars free culture festival; the Free Culture Forum; the P2PU summit; Open Education 2010; Drumbeat Learning, Freedom and the Web; an open ed play day in the Raval; and possibly a Communia meeting. Phew.
We should find a way to shout and promote all of this. Barcelona will be the global epicentre of free culture / open education / open web stuff for 10 days this fall! We need a phrase or a name for it. '10 days of freedom'? 'Barcelona abierto'? Not sure, but Simona and I agreed to call out for suggestions. If you have ideas, post them below.
PS. goes w/o saying -> book an extended trip to Barcelona if you can.
Experiment: badges, identity and you
August 12, 2010 § 10 Comments
Figuring out who to pay attention to and who to work with is a big challenge in a community like Mozilla. Using the Whistler Science Fair as example, Les Orchard points out the underlying issue — we don't have a quick way to parse through all the awesome to find out who's good at what / who's contributed what / who is doing things relevant to me. This is a common problem in online life overall. We don't have an easy, portable and reliable way to represent our skills, achievements and social capital.
Over the last two months, I've been talking to people about this same challenge in another context — learning and education. Historically, we've used degrees and certificates to show what we know. This breaks down online — partly because we have no good way to show these credentials and partly because so much of our learning is now informal that degrees aren't really relevant. People like P2PU, Remix Learning and others have come same conclusion Les has — we could use online badges to represent these things. Sites like Stack Overflow already use badges like this. We're going to do the same for the Mozilla / P2PU School of Webcraft.
Which brings me to the experiment I want to do: a digital 'backpack' that lets you store and display badges you pick up from many different sites across the web.
Badges can provide a good way for potential friends, collaborators, co-workers and employers to size you up. However, that's only true if they can associate all your badges with you. You don't want to send them traipsing around the web to look at sites like P2PU, iRemix and Badger to see your badges. Instead, you want to all the badges from these different places reliably associated with your online identity.
With this in mind, I've been talking to Mike Hanson and others about an experiment that displays badges from multiple places as a part of the identity you build up through Firefox. Someone wanting to check you out would see something like this:
At an implementation level, this would work by storing your badges (or references to your badges) in both a personal data vault like Weave and some sort of claims system. It could work something like this:
The main 'layers' of this system are the 1. the badge issuer, 2. you and your online identity and 3. badge display and badge viewers. Specific to my proposed experiment are:
- P2PU, Badger and iRemix -> these are places where you *get* a badge for some skill or activity. They act as 'badge servers' and would expose all the badges they have awarded to you in a structured and standardized way.
- A personal data vault (e.g. Weave) and a claims system (Mike Hanson is working on a general system like this) -> from a user perspective, these items combine into a 'personal badge manager' that you access via identity tools in your browser or on a web site.
- Your identity profile (webfinger?) plus social media sites like LinkedIn -> these display all of your badges and associate them with the rest of your identity.
At a practical level, we need a system like for P2PU School of Webcraft and the kind of badge platform Les is proposing for Mozilla. Connecting badges a version of your online identity the you control also presents a huge opportunity in informal digital learning – everyone working in that space needs something like this as well.
With this in mind, my proposal is to roll out an proof of concept for the idea described above using badges from Mozilla, P2PU and various orgs in the MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Network. I'm going to work with Mike, Les, Philipp, Robert and others on this in the next few months, with the hope of showing the prototype at the Drumbeat Learning, Freedom and the Web Festival in Barcelona this November. If you've got ideas or want to help out, please post comments below.


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The Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden has once again opened its doors for a spectacular twenty-third season. Located 2010 km north of the Arctic Circle, the winter hotel is constructed entirely of ice and snow and features artist designed suites which this year include a UFO-inspired creation from PinPin design studio. Read More
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The Ten Commandments of Blogging
A Poem – by Ana Luisa Amaral
The most perfect image
Were I to sweep every morning this shrub's
spiky leaves off their harbouring ground,
then I would have a perfect metaphor for the reason
why I've come to unlove you. Were I to wipe clean
every morning this window pane and feel
beyond my reflection the distracted transparency
of nothingness, I would see that the shrub
is but a small inferno in the absence of the decasyllabic flame.
Were I to look every morning at the cobweb woven between
its branches, then I would also understand the imperfection
that eats at its thread, from May to August,
disarming its geometry, its colour. Were I even now
to see this poem in the manner of a conclusion, then I would notice
how its lines grow, unrhymed,
in an uncertain and discontinuous prosody
unlike mine. Like slow wind, eroding. I would also learn
that longing belongs to a web woven in another time,
a memory of some insistent beauty perched
on some neuron of mine: the fire of a funeral pyre.
The most perfect image of art. And of farewell.
A mais perfeita imagem (in Portuguese)
Se eu varresse todas as manhãs as pequenas
agulhas que caem deste arbusto e o chão que
lhes dá casa, teria uma metáfora perfeita para
o que me levou a desamar-te. Se todas as manhãs
lavasse esta janela e, no fulgor do vidro, além
do meu reflexo, sentisse distrair-se a transparência
que o nada representa, veria que o arbusto não passa
de um inferno, ausente o decassílabo da chama.
Se todas as manhãs olhasse a teia a enfeitar-lhe os
ramos, também a entendia, a essa imperfeição
de Maio a Agosto que lhe corrompe os fios e lhes
desarma geometria. E a cor. Mesmo se agora visse
este poema em tom de conclusão, notaria como o seu
verso cresce, sem rimar, numa prosódia incerta e
descontínua que foge ao meu comum. O devagar do
vento, a erosão. Veria que a saudade pertence a outra
teia de outro tempo, não é daqui, mas se emprestou
a um neurónio meu, uma memória que teima ainda
uma qualquer beleza: o fogo de uma pira funerária.
A mais perfeita imagem da arte. E do adeus.
© Translated by Ana Hudson, 2008
in A arte de Ser Tigre, 2003
Poem "Music Man"
From Unpeopled Eden by Rigoberto Gonzalez
Oh father, oh music man
with a whistle instead of a coin
to toss on your walks,
keep these things for us
until we're ready to come home:
Our baby teeth, fragments of bone
that rattle in a domino box.
Tuck it in your pocket but please
don't gamble it away
the way you lost our
christening gowns in poker.
We had outgrown them, true,
but what other proof
did we have that all seven
of our outfits could be stacked
and shuffled like a deck
of cards. Keep the bottle cap
opener hanging by a string.
Wear it like a locket
and stay collared to our after-school
bliss when we found you
underneath a tree that scattered
glass fruit around your feet.
The boys lined them up
for death by slingshot
and the girls giggled
when the bodies shattered.
Take good care of our drawings,
our crooked handwriting
exercises, the scribbles of our names,
and sew a suit with sailboats
on the sleeves, a coat with Qs
sliding down a wire, and pants
that celebrate our pre-pubescent
autographs. And in your shoe–
don't tell us which! let us guess!–
save the coin you told us
came from China. It had a hole
in the middle because the merchants
slid their change on chopsticks.
We pictured them on market
Sundays holding up their earnings
like a shish kabob. We know
you hid the coin because all seven
of us wanted it and so you
took it with you. Or so I claimed.
Can I be blamed, oh father, oh story
man, for wanting to possess
the single thing that couldn't be shared?
You saw me slide it out
the window of your wallet
while you napped and didn't
snap into attention to complain.
Of all your sons and daughters
it is I who wanted to escape the most
to anywhere. I learned the desperate
alchemy of flowering a barren day
with song from you, oh master.
A minstrel needs his freedom.
And so you let me take it.
Excerpted from Unpeopled Eden by Rigoberto González with permission from the author. Copyright 2013. Published by Four Way Books.


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Recruiting: 2015 K Drew Galitz drops UM, OT Bar Milo favoring Hurricanes?
- 8:27 pm Tuesday, August 26th, 2014 by Matt Porter
The Hurricanes' recruiting staff hasn't seen too much of this lately: a decommitment.
Tuesday, Texas high school kicker Drew Galitz said on his Twitter account he was dropping his UM commitment.
He said it in two tweets:
"I have officially decommitted from the University of Miami, I would like to thank the coaching staff for recruiting me," he wrote.
The next tweet:
"I am now committed to Baylor University! #SicEm"
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Plus: Beer and wings for Jimmy Fallon at Pinkerton, Mario Batali is dining out in Crocs, and more, in our weekly roundup of where famous faces are dining out.
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Plus: Chris Brown's working on his graffiti tag at Downtown Cipriani, Michael Musto suffers a fall from grace (thanks to a faulty chair) at Rouge Tomate, and more, in our roundup of where famous faces ate out this past week.
A satellite radio show, a possible movie or TV series, and a cookbook is in the works for the Lion chef.
Plus: Nancy Pelosi's bottle (water) service, Jessica Szohr and Ed Westwick remain "on" — for now, and more, in our weekly roundup of celebrity dining.
Plus: Robert Sietsema skips pho in favor of a Vietnamese beef salad.
Gianfranco Sorrentino will open his Southern Italian restaurant in March.
Plus: Bethenny Frankel reminds us she's skinny, Todd English is perhaps eating the oysters at Flex Mussels for a reason, and more, in our weekly round up of celebrity dining.
This (Fashion) Week in celebrity sightings.
"At two in the morning, just ten hours before my presentation at Lincoln Center, I crossed Eighth Avenue to dance with my friends at a gay club with live shows and go-go dancers."
Plus: Rihanna dines just about everywhere, and Amar'e Stoudemire is keeping it kosher, in our weekly roundup of where the who's who is eating out.
It's time to play Two for Eight. Today: New & Buzzy.
Plus: A sweet treat for Penn Badgley, Alicia Keys gets fed an unusual entrée, and more, in our weekly roundup of celebrities dining out.
Plus: 'The New Yorker' at Torrisi, and Robert Sietsema goes West African.
Plus: Watermelon and Fairy Tale eggplant both hit the Greenmarket.
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This is a plan for an activity to be used with Reception and lower ability Year 1. The theme is moshi monsters (these are very popular with my class at the moment) but you could adapt. for any other character or theme. I have also uploaded the moshi monster cards that the plan mentions into tes resources.
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The moshi monster cards seem to have been removed- any chance you can add them again?
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Cafe Mambo, Paia, Maui, Hawaii USA
Name and Description: "Crispy Duck Burger" …
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Table Additions: none
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Price: $10.95
Score: 7 out of 10
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Richard Kingsmill talks to the US singer about some of the key songs on Ultraviolence, working with Dan Auerbach as well as the continuing confusion that surrounds parts of her life and her persona.
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#99 Lana Del Rey - 'Video Games'
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#97 M.I.A. - 'Paper Planes'
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#95 Ben Lee - 'Cigarettes Will Kill You'
#94 Foster The People - 'Pumped Up Kicks'
#93 Soundgarden - 'Black Hole Sun'
#92 Of Monsters And Men - 'Little Talks'
#91 Jebediah - 'Harpoon'
The LA songstress called into Breakfast from LA and explained one of her new tunes, exploring the taste of her vagina.
From the moment Lana Del Rey glided onto stage on Saturday night at Splendour 2012 she had the audience eating out of her hand. Backed by a guitarist, 3 string players, an immaculate white grand piano and decked out in a white veil + wedding dress combo - Lana had no trouble turning her crowd to mush. In fact, she spent at least a third of the set in the pit in front of the stage surrounded by adoring fans who sang along to every line of her Born To Die cuts. Enjoy the luscious sounds of 'Blue Jeans' and 'Video Games', the song that scored her the #6 spot in the Hottest 100 of 2011.
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VILONIA, Ark. (AP) — President Barack Obama is telling residents of tornado-ravaged communities in Arkansas that their government will be with them until they rebuild.
Obama stopped in the state on Wednesday to survey damage from severe storms that tore through Arkansas on April 27. Fifteen people were killed and hundreds of homes were destroyed. He walked through a devastated neighborhood in Vilonia, a small city about 30 miles north of Little Rock.
Obama says a lot of repair and rebuilding remains to be done, but that he came to remind residents they won't be doing the work alone. Obama says when something like this happens to a wonderful place like Vilonia, "it happens to all of us."


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Jerry Sandusky has been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison in the child sexual abuse scandal that brought shame to Penn State and led to coach Joe Paterno's downfall. The sentence means the 68-year-old former Penn State assistant coach will be in prison at least until he's nearly 100 years old. Full story...»
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St. Mary's, founded in 1904, is the oldest Romanian Orthodox parish in the United States. Prior to the building of today's cathedral in Cleveland's Kamm's Corners neighborhood in 1960, the church's home was on Detroit Avenue in the old Romanian area of the city.
The 110th Anniversary of the oldest Romanian Orthodox parish in the USA
The 30th Anniversary of H. E., Dr. Archbishop NATHANIEL as ruling Hierarch of the Episcopate
The 25th Anniversary of Very Rev. Dr. Remus Grama as our Parish Priest
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BPO Jobs In Mumbai | www.gratitudeindia.com | Gratitude India Requires Technical Support Executive
Gratitude India Recruitment www.gratitudeindia.com
Job Locations : Mumbai, Mumbai City, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Pune
Experience Required : 1 – 10 years
Required Skills : Bpo, IBPO, Voice Process, Customer Service, Technical Support, Collection, Sales, Upselling, Semi Tech, Call Centre, Call Center, Advisor, CSA, CSO, CSE, CCE, TSE, TSO, Agent, Representative, Officer, CCO
Job Type : Customer Service/ Call Centre/ BPO
Job Role :
• Fresher
• Technical Support Executive ( voice)
• Customer Service Executive (Voice)
Job Description :
As a Candidate one gets so many Calls from different consultancies to come for a BPO job. Everyone Promises that the Candidate will get the Best Service. The Question that arises is "Which Consultancy should I choose" and "Why Gratitude India".
Though there are a lot of local consultancies in your City who do a Good job but the Fact is Gratitude India is the only National level BPO Consultancy in India. What this means is that our ability to bargain with the client for your salary offer is much better then the local consultancies. This is because the local consultancy delivers numbers to a BPO in only a particular city. So lets say, Consultancy XYZ gives numbers to Conve*gys Bangalore whereas Gratitude gives numbers to Conve*gys Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Bangalore etc. So our ability to bargain is better.
Reason 2] You can walk in to Gratitude's Bangalore office and lets say you like an offer of Mumbai then you can give all the rounds of Interviews in our Bangalore office and directly join Mumbai. This facility is not available with a local consultancy.
Gratitude India Website : www.gratitudeindia.com
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