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Canada offers a Way to Avoid the "Hockey Cliff", forms New League 1 comment
There's more than one cliff North America approaches and, even as US President Barack Obama hopes to steer clear of the "fiscal cliff," the NHL is trying to avoid a cliff of their own. After 107 days of the NHL Lockout, fans are steaming at a lack of hockey in their lives. Just in time, perhaps, to save everyone, Canada has a plan.
Canadians announced today that their teams are withdrawing from the NHL and immediately forming the Hockey League of Canada. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has budgeted that every major city in Canada will have its own Hockey team if they don't already have one. For example, this includes Goose Bay, Iqaluit and Whitehorse. They are inviting all Canadian hockey players to ditch their American teams and come play on a new league immediately.
"It's Canada, so players can be assured that they will receive great pensions and healthcare, without having to barter their lives and careers away for that," Dermott Mulchahy said in a statement to the press this afternoon outside of Rogers Arena, home of the Vancouver Canucks. After Muchahy spoke, GM Mike Gillis of the Canucks said, "What choice do we have? We have an obligation to our Canadian fans, our charities, and our players. Playing them is better than not playing them. Playing them is the only option." He looked around the room. "Canadians and hockey fans in general are fed up."
Players will be chosen in a lottery so that every city has the chance of winning star players. This completely shakes up any of the teams–but many already believe this will be a good thing. The new games begin on February 1st. Mulchahy, as President of the newly formed Hockey League of Canada, believes that fans will be so excited to see hockey happening that they won't care if it's called NHL or HLC. And American cities, still mired in the negotiations for their hockey teams, minus Canadian players who defect and come back home, will probably find themselves watching HLC games and not caring if the NHL ever forms again.
Farm teams in the south, like the Odessa Jackalopes, are being offered the chance to come play major league hockey right away, adding a lot of surprise, and fresh blood, to the game. "Me and my buddies, we're already heading north!" said Jamie Gonzalez, one of the best scorers in the Jackalopes.
Whitehorse, Yukon, already knows the name of their team, the Dawson City Nuggets, even though the team will play in Whitehorse. "It'll bond our two cities together," said Whitehorse mayor, Dan Curtis. "We couldn't be more thrilled."
If the NHL does not reach an agreement by midnight January 1st, the HLC goes into effect in Canada. Canadians are now hoping that the NHL never gets their act together.
"Come home," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement today to Canadian hockey players worldwide. "Come back home to Canada and play your hearts out. We'll tend your goals."
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My Interview over on Speculating Canada Leave a comment
Derek Newman-Stille, over at Speculating Canada, a hot new-ish site for reviewing Canadian science fiction/fantasy and horror, gave me a really fun set of questions for this interview, asking me to think pretty deeply about the motivations I had when writing three of my stories, as well as asking me farther-reaching questions about the power of science fiction to change society! Pretty heavy stuff, but I did my best to come up with answers. We all hope to sound intelligent during interviews, at least interesting. It helps to have good questions.
We cover subjects as diverse as the American educational system, healthcare and the difference to science it would make if animals really did talk. (What would that grizzly be saying to you?)
Thanks to Derek for doing what he does to help get more science fiction reviewed, and read, by those looking for it!
(photo is from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, a display of grizzlies in the North American Mammals section. I do believe Theodore Roosevelt brought these in.)
Young Sherlock Holmes vs. Harry Potter: If Chris Columbus doesn't bring claims against JK Rowling, No One Should 3 comments
Yes, this should ease JK Rowling's mind and set a new standard for anyone pursuing copyright claims against her. If they can't get as close as the Barry Levinson directed, Steven Spielberg produced, Chris Columbus penned, Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), then they have absolutely no case. If Chris hasn't pursued a claim, no one should.
Young Sherlock Holmes was a fantastic movie for its time. But it could never have been made AFTER Harry Potter. Let's look at it through Post Potter eyes.
Taking place in a boarding school, it involves two boys and a girl who uncover magic mystery that involves the duplicity of one of their teachers. A beloved, befuddled mentor figure dies. One of the boys is short and has glasses, looking very Harry Potter. A lot of running to the library to figure out what teachers and detectives won't tell them, and Holmes is the most famous kid in class, whose rival is the rich, pompous Dudley, every bit the Malfoy look alike. His hair is even died ice blond as Holmes' revenge. The young Watson, who looks too much like Potter, is called a Weasel at one point, and his character works like that of Ron Weasley, comic relief, loyal buddy, and always trying to get out of adventure. The girl, Elizabeth, is no Hermoine, but then Rowling admitted that Hermoine is herself in the Harry Potter series. The kids spend most of their time with a retired schoolteacher, WaxFlatter who serves as both Dumbledore and Hagrid. The kids are threatened with expulsion for all their snooping around. A cult is the culprit and the villain is their own professor. Magic, in the form of hallucinations, is the staple of the film. Many of the scenes are set as they would be on Harry Potter–including an identical Great Hall scene, though cramped, and a Professor of Chemistry that reminds me of any of the professors from Potter, especially the Potions room (though I imagine many are typical boarding school sets). There is a Diagon Alley full of shops and crowds of consumers. Even a shopkeeper who closely examines their blowpipe reminds one of the wand seller. The set up in this movie is that Holmes' nemesis Moriarty will continue to plague him, even as the Potter/Voldemort must occupy the series.
This is NOT to say that Rowling copies anything or even saw this movie, but that Chris Columbus, her first director knew this kind of film intimately. Though Wikipedia claims that he was selected based on Mrs. Doubtfire and Home Alone, no one can miss the Harry Potterness of Young Sherlock Holmes. Spielberg, who was in negotiations, it is said, to direct Potter 1 ultimately wanted to make it animated–according to this source. Why would he say that? Young Sherlock Holmes does everything that Harry Potter did–except the story and casting are weaker–he could have just rinsed and repeated. Rowling had a better story, but the sets and the structure would have been very familiar to Columbus and Spielberg.
If you see the film, you'll realize this could not have been made post Harry Potter–too many elements are the same. Columbus wrote the script for Holmes, so it was conceived as a movie first, which means that it was built to be filmed not read.
My biggest question is that when Potter came out as a book, then a film, people asked themselves–why did this strike such a chord? And my question is why didn't Young Sherlock Holmes grab that same audience in a film first.
It could be that Holmes and Watson were already established characters–they had no freshness to them. But a boarding school mystery with magic and the occult—with two boys and a girl. It's the formula that wins in Potter. One can't merely say that it was that combination that finally became a hit with audiences and children. ONe has to look at the execution of that kind of story.
Inevitably a huge nod in Rowling's direction must be given for taking a combination that had been seen before and making it fresh and more complex. Whereas Columbus was restricted by Doyle, to a certain extent, on the way he could craft the characters of Watson and Holmes, Rowling's development of the main three characters, as well as a believable world is to her credit. Columbus was good in his writing of Young Sherlock Holmes, but Rowling was amazing with the same elements in Harry Potter.
So when I hear of silly people who think Rowling copied them–one can point back to an earlier model for all of them–and say that it's not the material you have, it's not the little elements that add up because no one beats Columbus for more elements. It's what you do with it that's important.
Rowling is not in the set pieces; Rowling is in the writing.
Speculating Canada reviews my story, "One Nation Under Gods" 1 comment
Really thrilled that Speculating Canada reviewed my short story, "One Nation Under Gods" which appeared in Tesseracts 14. It's hard to get short fiction reviews and they are so valuable. The SF/F/H community should hold tight and nurture as many reviewers as we can. With a growing market of books, the discerning reader looks to reviews to help choose what to read. And reviewers who choose short fiction, new authors, and anthologies help support beginning writers who are starting their careers, hoping that someone notices. So we can't fete reviewers enough–we need them, we love them, we should be very kind to them.
I'd say this for any thoughtful reviewer, even if Derek had NOT liked my work. It's the way he liked my work that makes me happy.
Speculating Canada has a really great aim:
This site has been created in response to the overwhelming number of people who are surprised that Canadian literature includes the fantastic. Canadian SF, fantasy, and horror have been cast into a literary ghetto under the power structure of CanLit, and cast as either inferior literatures, or literatures that are not 'of here', i.e. from abroad. Yet, Canadian speculative fiction has a long history in Canada and engages with ideas of Canadian identity, belonging, and concepts of nationhood, place and space (both 'the final frontier' type, and the geographical).
Realist fiction is often seen as the only 'truly' Canadian fiction, but even realist fiction speculates, postulates and creates a fantastic idea, just one that is based more closely on the normative world around us than most SF authors are inclined to do.
Canadian SF allows for the engagement with ideas such as What is Canada? What does belonging mean? What is the nature of 'human'? Why are things the way they are? How do we change things? Can things change?
The appeal of Canadian SF is not just regional, but has implications for a wider audience. Canadians, long un/comfortable with our identity as a hybrid of the American and English, Francophones and Anglophones, Aboriginal and settlers, and the multicultural mix that is embedded in our philosophy, means that we are comfortable with questions of identity and the exploration of our place, ideas that naturally lend themselves to science fiction, fantasy, and horror. We live in a world that is unsure of itself, and uncomfortable with ideas of belonging, and Canadian SF plays with ideas of belonging, disrupts the normal (or what has come to be seen as normal) and allows for a new way of experiencing the world.
As for the review–well, I'll let you read most of it as his site, but here's a nice chunk:
The Yearning To Be Seen: a Review of Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata Leave a comment
Deeply touched by the Arts Club Theatre Company's production of Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata. Veda Hille and Bill Richardson have written a non-linear musical that uses actual Craigslist ads for its lyrics. Craigslist, in case you've been in a hole, is an online one-stop-shopping for finding whatever it is you want— from someone you saw on the train that day, to an old trumpet, to homes for your cats. It's a pared down, non-glitzy site—just text–where you have to use words to sell what it is you want to sell, or get what you want. Ads are quirky. I think with the number of them, people have to come up with newer and more outlandish ways to make their ad stand out. It's not a Tumblr site so there's no pics in your subject line to make you stand out–just a line of text. What is Craigslist anyway?
The musical is episodic, going from ad to ad, occasionally reverberating or repeating a motif in another ad, enough to make it stick together well. There are a number of "characters" who have very specific and ludicrous (sometimes even strange) desires and wants. It would be easy just to laugh at all of them–and we do. Audience tonight was having a great time laughing it up at the woman trying to sell her 300 stuffed penguins, singing an alphabetical list of the different species of penguins and hoping to find a special child who might want them all. Or the man who wants someone to sit in his bathtub of cooked noodles… Or the wanderers who keep missing each other–though having a brief moment with someone they fall for.
It would be easy to laugh, except Hille and Richardson don't let us off that easy. They have found a way to make that search poignant, a statement on 21st Century technology becoming the medium for expressing our desires. There's a song though that Hille sings in the middle–a quite surprising song about Noah and the doves he sends out into the world to find land. And this becomes the central metaphor that pulls the show together in a quite exposing, vulnerable, emotional way— that Craigslist is a collection of those doves, sent out–with no replies, really. "No one learns how the story ends. Did they find each other? We don't know," Hille says in the Artist talkback tonight. There are only beginning moments–story starters, if you will–but we don't know if any of the missed connections actually connect.
CBC's DNTO to air my story on Coming Out to My Church for "Lost Causes" 2 comments
Definitely Not the Opera, (DNTO) a CBC Radio One program devoted to the art of storytelling in Canada, asked me to tell my story of coming out to my church for their Nov 3 show "Lost Causes".
I had pitched the idea to them last year for a different show called "Making Enemies" but withdrew the pitch because a) I don't think I meant to make enemies, nor do I think I have made enemies; and 2) because I didn't want to restir a pot that has finally calmed down.
But they remembered my pitch. And they sought me out. Which is humbling, and cool. We recorded on Friday morning and they are editing my lengthy story to 3-4 minutes. I appreciate Andrew Friesen's belief that my story was important and needed to be told. I feel like the story is more appropriate under "Lost Causes" because trying to reason with people who don't want to listen to you, or discuss with you–and believing that you alone have to spark change–well, it can feel like a "Lost Cause". But in the end–and the end hasn't come yet–who knows if the cause is lost? I think every person who says the church must look at the evidence, must consider the Christian testimonies of LGBT folks in the discussion, is a step towards change. We need more people who realize how many people have fallen away from the faith, have decided against Christ, have been repelled from the church, and who, sometimes when there is no hope left, taken their own lives, all because the Church has historically refused to consider the scriptures in an accepting light–and this causes their members to refuse to accept their children in an accepting light. This splits familes. My God and my Christ are not what I encounter when I come into a Baptist Church anymore. I daresay they wouldn't recognize it. Churches are not all one defined Mass though–as many churches are beginning to change their minds about LGBT people. Episcopals, Lutherans, Presbyterians, United Church of Canada–all have begun seeing that this is just the next issue the church has to rethink. As it did slavery, race, and its treatment of Women. And divorce. Change comes when people inside churches decide they can't hold false doctrine anymore. Christianity and Faith are not the problem. Interpretation is.


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Is there a list anywhere of airports that allow you to leave the international zone and visit the city without a visa? I know that Heathrow allows you to do this as long as you have proof of an outgoing flight within 24 hours.
I'm asking this because I'm from a country requiring a visa to enter pretty much anywhere, and want to know which layovers are preferable in my case.

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DECATUR — A former assistant principal at Arlington Heights High School will get an administrative job and $300,000 under a settlement reached Wednesday just before testimony was to begin in his whistle-blower suit against the Fort Worth school district.Joseph Palazzolo will get a central administration job as an educational logistics administrator and will be paid about $74,000 each of the two years of his contract. The district will also pay Palazzolo and his attorney Jason Smith $300,000.In return, Palazzolo will dismiss a second whistle-blower lawsuit against the district.I look forward to returning to an administrative contract and moving forward with my career, said Palazzolo, who claimed the Fort Worth school district fired him for reporting wrongdoings at Arlington Heights.The settlement will become final pending approval by the Fort Worth school district board of trustees. Attorney Thomas Brandt, representing the school district, told Judge John H. Fostel that the settlement will be presented to trustees at the next board meeting.We want to move as quickly as possible to get this done, Brandt said.A special board meeting will be called for Monday, said board President Judy Needham, who declined further comment pending the vote.The trial started on Tuesday with opening statements and testimony was scheduled to begin Wednesday morning.But about 9 a.m. lawyers announced that a compromise agreement had been reached.Fired in 2010Palazzolo, of Weatherford, sued the district in July. He was asking to be reinstated to his job or a comparable position and was seeking damages, including court and attorney fees, the suit says.Palazzolo started with the Fort Worth district as a teacher in 2007 and was promoted to assistant principal after one year, working with ninth-graders at Arlington Heights. He had a stellar job evaluation in June 2009, but soon after he raised concerns, his June 2010 evaluation included negative comments, and he was transferred to Western Hills High School at a lower salary, Smith said.School district officials investigated and verified some of Palazzolos concerns, including the falsifying of attendance records and a sexual relationship between a coach and supervisors.The report on the investigation, released in October 2010, also said that Palazzolo singled out minorities for punishment, lied on his job application and falsified a students disciplinary record.Days later, trustees voted to fire Palazzolo. In February 2011, an independent hearing examiner appointed by the Texas Education Agency upheld his dismissal, saying school trustees had good cause to terminate him. But a new hearing was ordered after it was determined that the district overpaid the examiner during the first one.The district, however, never conducted another hearing. Trustees in February 2012 voted to pay him a years salary without reinstating him.The system workedWe worked hard with the district to come to a fair resolution, said Smith, Palazzolos attorney.After the settlement was announced in court and jurors were dismissed, Palazzolo spoke to several witnesses waiting in the courthouse to testify on his behalf Wednesday morning.At least eight current and former teachers were expected to testify, including Jacob Barron, a former English teacher at Heights.Barron said that attendance records from his class were changed and he reported the problems to Palazzolo.He was the best assistant principal Ive ever worked with in terms of following through, being fair, being equitable and holding kids accountable, staff too for that matter, Barron said Wednesday in an interview with the Star-Telegram. I think that at the time, we had a culture of enabling at our school. What looked good was more important than what was actually going on.Barron, now a field engineer at a petroleum company, said the settlement is the best outcome in the case.Larry Shaw, former executive director for the United Educators Association, was expected to testify on Thursday.I believe that this settlement is good for the district and for Joe Palazzolo, Shaw said in a telephone interview. Its also good for employees to know that they can stand up and report things that are wrong and the system worked.This is a case that needed to be resolvedThis is the second whistle-blower lawsuit that Palazzolo has pending against the school district. His first lawsuit, filed in October 2010, covers his complaint that after he filed reports about problems, he was demoted by being transferred to a job with lower pay. That suit will be dismissed as part of the settlement agreement.The states whistle-blower act allows a government employee to file a lawsuit in any county within an established council of governments where he or she lives, such as the North Central Texas Council of Governments, which includes Tarrant and Wise counties.Smith said he filed the suit in Wise County because he thought he could get a speedier trial than in Tarrant County.Judge Fostel told the attorneys that he appreciated that they worked out an agreement.I think it was prudent on everybodys part to resolve this matter, he said. This is a case that needed to be resolved and I appreciate your getting it done. This includes material from Star-Telegram archives.
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Coffee. Red Bull. Monster.
Those beverages mean little to Kevin Wilson. But he knows the common theme: caffeine. And as Year 4 of the Wilson era begins, the Indiana head coach is plenty energized to turn around a program that's been short on success since an economist and university professor coached the first group of Hoosiers in 1887.
I'm not flat a lot of days, Wilson said Monday at his weekly news conference. I've never had one of those energy drinks. I don't need those. Nothing against those 5-Hour guys and all the Monster drinks you guys have, but I don't need that. I'm ready to roll.
It's welcome news for Indiana, which has improved steadily during Wilson's tenure. After a discouraging debut season of 1-11, Wilson's Hoosiers won nine games over the next two seasons, surpassing the previous year's win total in each instance.
Still, an emptiness has lingered. Six seasons have passed since Indiana's last postseason appearance. It's a hot topic around Bloomington and an absence that hasn't gone unnoticed by coaches and players. As a new season dawns, Wilson knows missed opportunities cannot be squandered like years past.
I think the team is more prepared, and that excites me, he said. We've been close the last couple of years. You can say, Hey, you have underachieved.' But we haven't. We've lost some games where at the end we couldn't make a play we needed to. We've been on the verge of winning six, seven, eight games the last couple years. We've been a little shy of that. This team could do the same thing, or this team could stay shy. (I'm) looking forward to seeing how these guys want to ride it out.
Recent deficiencies for the Hoosiers have related to defense. Last season's unit ranked near the bottom nationally in every team defensive category, including 120th (out of 123) in total defense, 115th in rush defense, 114th in scoring defense and 113th in pass defense.
Defensive woes were ultimately Indiana's downfall in a 5-7 season that was a third-down stop here or forced turnover there away from a bowl berth. The Hoosiers were 5-0 when allowing fewer than 40 points, a dubious statistic.
New defensive coordinator Brian Knorr brings a track record of fixing leaky defenses and heightening expectations. His 3-4 alignment and scheme is viewed as the missing link Indiana has sought to reach just its second bowl game since 1993.
We're an attacking defense, Knorr said. I think a successful day for our defense is to play fast. We need to minimize what we're doing initially. Part of our goals is to not allow explosive plays, be lined up and not make mental errors.
To help point the unit in the right direction, Knorr's implemented a new tackling technique that mirrors what NFL teams do. College football has been plagued in recent seasons by missed tackles, something Indiana knows all too well.
With a bye week after the opener against Indiana State, the Hoosiers are poised to gather early momentum.
Our kids need confidence, Knorr said. Last spring, that's one of the things I noticed – when they had success, they gained confidence. So it will be important for us to have success, and success early. With that success, they'll have more confidence and they'll play faster.
If all goes according to plan, Wilson will have another fall free of energy drinks.


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text: NBC News' Gregory Comes This Close To Calling Carney Liar Print article Send a Tip by Larry O'Connor 12 May 2013 post a comment On Sunday's "Meet the Press," host David Gregory played White House Spokesman Jay Carney's now-infamous November declaration that "the White House and State Department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of these two institutions were changing the word 'consulate' to 'diplomatic facility' because 'consulate' was inaccurate." He followed up the video clip by declaring "We know that's not accurate." In Washington DC, using the word "lie" or calling someone a "liar" is almost completely forbidden, unless you're talking about President Bush and weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But, let's parse this passage on "Meet the Press" for a moment and reach our own conclusions, as informed and responsible adults, shall we? Carney asserted that the White House and State Department only changed "one word" in the Benghazi talking points. As Gregory correctly says, "we know that's not accurate." But, why didn't Gregory say,"we know that's not true?" or, even better, "we know that's a lie?" The only reason Gregory won;t go there is a lie or an untruth is descriptive only in the context of the individual repeating an inaccurate statement also had full knowledge that the statement was inaccurate and said it to serve a deceptive purpose. For Gregory to keep his description at "not accurate" rather than "a lie" he is giving Carney the benefit of a pretty big doubt here. He is granting Carney a cloak of protection that the facts and logic just don't support. Does Gregory really believe that the White House press secretary was unaware in November that the State Department and White House had participated in twelve different revisions to these talking points prior to the CIA issuing the draft that was then modified by one word? Does Gregory really believe that Carney assumed the press was only asking him about the final draft of the talking points, and not the entire creative process involved in the crafting of the talking points? Logic and common sense suggest otherwise, but for now, Gregory walks a very narrow line and comes oh-so-close to describing Carney's November assertion of only one word change to the talking points as what it undeniably is: A lie. Watch the clip here:


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Al-Qaeda sites go silent in possible cyber attack
Al-Qaeda's main Internet sites have gone silent for more than a week in an unprecedented blackout that is most likely the result of a cyber attack, analysts said Tuesday.
Al-Qaeda's main Internet sites have gone silent for more than a week in an unprecedented blackout that is most likely the result of a cyber attack, analysts said Tuesday.
A US cyber war against Iran's nuclear program may have only just begun and could escalate with explosions triggered by digital sabotage, experts say.
Middle Eastern oil and gas companies have been targeted in massive attacks on their computer networks in an increasingly open cyber war where a new virus was discovered just this past week.
A self-proclaimed leader of the LulzSec international hacking group has been arrested in Australia, police said, charging him with attacking and defacing a government website.
The United States and Australia will announce cooperation on cyber warfare as the close allies mark 60 years of a defense treaty by tackling 21st-century threats, officials said Wednesday.
US spy master Keith Alexander on Friday courted hackers at an infamous Def Con gathering rife with software tricksters wary of police and ferociously protective of privacy.
Theft of Internet service is on the rise, and experts say only a few of the culprits are being caught.
A group of US senators has revived stalled cybersecurity legislation by offering compromises to address civil liberties concerns, an effort quickly endorsed by President Barack Obama.
A hotline between the United States and Russia designed to defuse misunderstandings that could trigger a nuclear conflict will likely expand to cover the potential risk of a cyber war, The Washington Post reported Friday.
Tokyo-based computer security firm Trend Micro on Friday said it linked a hacker in China to a "cyber espionage" campaign targeting India, Japan, and Tibetans.
Al-Jazeera news network said on Wednesday a number of its websites had been hacked, and Internet users reported that pro-Syrian regime slogans were posted on the broadcaster's pages.
Britain launched a new spy recruitment drive on Thursday aimed at "Xbox generation" youngsters without a university education but with social media and computer game skills to counter the threat of cyber attack.
US authorities have shut down one of the largest file-sharing websites and charged seven people with copyright crimes, sparking a retaliatory cyber attack on the FBI and Justice Department websites. ...
Taiwan has set up a unit to create a comprehensive Internet shield against hackers, its intelligence chief said Wednesday, in response to what it claims is a growing cyber threat from China.
Iran has denied US media reports it carried out cyber attacks on US banks, the official IRNA news agency said Friday, quoting a statement from Tehran's UN mission. ...


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Photos and Description of this 4 bedroom holiday villa in Mandelieu-La-Napoule
Villa, 4 Bedrooms, 4.5 Baths, (Sleeps 8-10)
The Villa Hermes is located on the Capitou hill of Mandelieu on 2,000 square meters of private land. The Mediterranean view from the property is a panorama view of the bays of Cannes and Mandelieu as well as the Lerines Islands. This French Riviera setting is within a short distance to the villages of Mougins, Grasse, St Tropez, St. Paul de Vence and the jewels of the Riviera, Nice, Cannes and Monaco. The gated property is entered by a private drive and is comprised of a brand new Californian style marbled floor house with terra cotta tile roofs. The house will comfortably sleep up to 8 people. There are several terraces, both sunny and shaded, a new swimming pool overlooking the Mediterranean, and olive, mimosa and eucaliptus trees. A wonderful variety of flowers including jasmine, lavender and hydrangeas grace the property.
Keywords: California Style Villa, Mediterranean Residence, Luxurious Casa
- Suitability:
- non smoking only
- pets not allowed
About Enrique Collado
I, Enrique, am a fun-loving father and Dr. of Economics with a career in finance, wealth management and investment banking. When I am not busy traveling elsewhere, I spend my time between Montreal, Mexico, San Francisco and France. Both of us are fluent in French, English and Spanish.
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I do not want special treatment. I do not want campaigns or petitions; I want to provide for myself and try to leave a legacy for my children. Well reported cases would give the impression that society is dealing with its prejudices. Sadly, it would appear that I am prevented from doing so by prejudiced attitudes that still prevail - no matter how many high profile cases hit the media.


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Google teases more modular smartphone details in run-up to dev meet-up
Google has posted a video that provides a few more details of its "Project Ara" modular smartphone effort, perhaps to drum up interest in the upcoming Ara Developers Conference to be held later this month. Google's Project Ara 'Phonebloks' phone Want to upgrade your Wi-Fi from 802.11n to 802.11ac? There should be a module for …
And they said it would never happen.
It looks super cool…
I can't really imagine this really taking off though. When you think of it, there is less than 1% of people who even upgrade a laptop before buying a new one.
Re: It looks super cool…
Yes, but there really only 2 things you can upgrade on a laptop. HDD and RAM, both of which can only give a small performance increase and requires screw drivers and some knowledge.
If you can swap Graphics, CPU and so on as easily as you would a fridge magnet then its a big difference.
Re: It looks super cool…
Laptop screens do not tend to break anything like as much as phones.
About the only easily replaceable part (For your average user) would be the battery or maybe the hard disk. Replacement hard disks are the only one universal in size and they are stocked in every hardware store.
If you could easily slide out the processor, ram, gpu etc it would be a different story.
Interesting concept...
...I like it. Hope it actually gets off the R&D desk and into production for us in the real world to play with :-)
Type approval might be interesting ...
with some officious regulators thinking any change is bad.
Great concept, though, should do well so South Paws (l/handers) can have cell handsets that fit their needs precisely.
I want my LEGO phone
Where I snap the PnP parts I want on the baseplate back cover, which includes the replaceable battery and removable flash memory, add filler blocks as needed, then snap on the front cover display/touchpad (or 2/3 display if using the BB-style keyboard). A quarter turn at the locking post holes with the supplied tool, done.
Anything less just doesn't seem "modular" enough.
Re: I want my LEGO phone
If you watch the video when the guy's talking about 3D printing the back parts you can see a white LEGO design on one of the pieces along with a skull design.
The future of personal computing?
This has so many uses beyond phones.
Home computing (word processing, browsing etc) - Being able to assemble a low-spec PC from either new modules or cast-off modules you do not need any more could decimate the consumer desktop market.
Home entertainment (IPTV / XBMC etc) - Though I think some of the maturity of some of these apps is there yet, this is definitely an emerging market. Also it makes it very easy for TV makers to include optional (and upgradeable) Android functionality in TVs.
Gaming (Console / Casual / Mobile) - It would be very easy to make a gaming machine by shaping the endo like a game controller.
It could also be a way to get a slice of the console market without actually releasing a console.
It's also good for small businesses - they can bring modules to market without having to design a whole device.
Possibly a very shrewd move by Google with regards to Apple.
It distances them design-wise from Apple, with a feature that if Apple implemented, would hurt their business model badly.
So many potential wins for Google, they would be mad not to pursue it.
Cautiously curious. If this gets real it could be the first product from Google I'd shell out cash for.
Going nowhere?
I can't see this being in Lenovos interests to go far so Moto now says no ?
Abandoning standardisation is the way to keep reselling everything to us fools. So this concept has business problems.
A secure PC in your pocket?
If the keyboard, screen etc are the crypto key I could see this working very well.
We could even have a secondary module at home as auto-backup but their heads are in the cloud away from practicality.
The traditional PC needs this to fail.
Wait a minute...
This is being developed in Cupertino right? Because they invented everything on "mobile" right? Damn Google copycats!
LTE went that way -->
Forget the battery, display, CPU, RAM, GPU, WiFi, and all that boilerplate. Within 2 years your phone will be so obsolete that no upgrades will be compatible. The one thing that needs ultra-rapid upgrades is the radio. At least in the US, spectrum shuffles around at least once a year. You're on legacy bands or kicked down to 3G before the phone is paid off.
I don't think anything will come of it
The problem is, most of the different components of a phone a better housed on a single chip. Yes, you CAN increase the modularity, by having bluetooth/wifi/cell on different modules, but if it comes at an increase in cost, what's the point?
I'd be happy just keeping screens and batteries modular.
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Cornbread with Caramelized Apples and Onions
If you don't have (or can't spare) a cast-iron skillet, this can also be finished off in an 8x8" glass dish for baking.
Published: November 2013 Servings: 8
- ¾ cup plus 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter
- 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt plus more
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 medium red- or pink-skinned apples (such as Pink Lady), thinly sliced
- 5 tablespoons sugar, divided
- 3 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves, divided
- 1½ cups cornmeal
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 2 large eggs
- 1½ cups buttermilk
Nutritional Information
Calories (kcal) 400 Fat (g) 22 Saturated Fat (g) 13 Cholesterol (mg) 110 Carbohydrates (g) 45 Dietary Fiber (g) 5 Total Sugars (g) 14 Protein (g) 6 Sodium (mg) 110
PREPARATIONView Step-by-Step Directions
Preheat oven to 400°. Melt butter in an 8" cast-iron or other heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Pour all but 2 Tbsp. butter into a small bowl; set aside.
Add onion to butter in skillet, season with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is softened and beginning to brown, about 4 minutes. Add apples, 2 Tbsp. sugar, and 2 tsp. thyme and cook, stirring often, until apples are softened, about 4 minutes. Transfer onion mixture to a medium bowl and reserve skillet.
Whisk cornmeal, flour, baking powder, 1 tsp. salt, and remaining 3 Tbsp. sugar in a large bowl. Gradually whisk in eggs, buttermilk, and ¾ cup reserved melted butter until smooth (no lumps should remain). Fold in half of onion mixture and scrape batter into reserved skillet. Top with remaining onion mixture and remaining 1 tsp. thyme.
Bake cornbread until golden brown and a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 30–40 minutes. Let cool slightly before serving.
DO AHEAD: Cornbread can be made 6 hours ahead. Reheat before serving, if desired.
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Teen battles City of London cops over anti-Scientology placard
Re Unlawful. Period.
The words have their ordinary meaning Anon Coward. The problem is that the phrase is so wide that it covers of multitude of situations. Which is why section 5 is so liked by the police.
But under section 5(3)(c) X needs to show, inter alia, that his "conduct was reasonable." Further by section 6(4) "a person is guilty of an offence under section 5 only if he intends … the writing, sign or other visible representation, to be threatening, abusive or insulting, or is aware that it may be threatening, abusive or insulting."
So in the pre-HRA case DPP v. Clarke [1992] 94 Cr. App. R. 359 the magistrates dismissed informations issued against a group of anti-abortion protestors who stood peacefully outside a clinic holding placards of aborted fetuses. The bench accepted that they did not intend the placards to be threatening, abusive or insulting. And this was despite the sole witness, a policeman, who said he was upset. The poor flower.
So if the defences are properly applied and the offence is read down by the court using the HRA to give free speech its proper weight it shouldn't go any further.
Unlawful. Period.
Proceedings will be dropped against X. Any conviction is going to be unlawful under the Human Rights Act being an act incompatible with the Convention (ECHR) right to freedom of expression. (Section 6 and Sch 1, HRA 1998). The issue turns on whether the speech was 'insulting'. The European Court has stated on many occasions that 'freedom of expression constitutes one of the essential foundations of a democratic society and one of the basic conditions for its progress and for each individual's self-fulfilment. Subject to para 2 of art 10, it is applicable not only to "information" or "ideas" that are favourably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb' (see Handyside v UK [1976] ECHR 5493/72 at para 49). More recently Sedley LJ stated that 'free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative provided it does not tend to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.' Redmond-Bate v DPP (1999) 7 BHRC 375 at 383.
However, Article 10 is a qualified right. In other words it can be restricted in the public interest. However, such restrictions must be both convincingly established and proportionate. Here a three limbed test needs to be satisfied. First, is the restriction prescribed by law? Yes the POA. Second, does the prosecution further one of the legitimate aims set out in Article 10(2). Yes, the protection of the rights of others. And third, is the interference is 'necessary in a democratic society'. The answer is clearly no. In Percy v DPP [2001] EWHC Admin 1125 the defendant was prosecuted for trampling on the Stars and Strips in front of a group of US personnel. She was convicted. She appealed from the Magistrates Court by way of case stated to the Divisional Court which reversed her conviction. The Divisional Court concluded that her actions did not go beyond legitimate protest on a matter of public concern (Star Wars Shield) - as such it represented a disproportionate interference with Article 10. Her conviction was quashed.
Moreover, the activities of the Church are a matter for legitimate debate. Is it a cult? Certainly their activities have been a matter of concern to HMG in the past: http://www.justis.com/titles/iclr_s7530027.html This is a matter for legitimate debate. There is a public interest here is not 'chilling' speech. In Giniewski v France [2006] ECHR 64016/00 the applicant complained that a conviction in France for public defamation of Christianity was a disproportionate interference with his Article 10 right. The court agreed. In doing so it noted that "While the published text, as the applicant himself acknowledges, contains conclusions and phrases which may offend, shock or disturb some people, the Court has reiterated that such views do not in themselves preclude the enjoyment of freedom of expression. Moreover, the article in question was not "gratuitously offensive" or insulting, and does not incite to disrespect or hatred."


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O2 wins UK Palm Pré exclusive?
minus 1 pre` customer
I have an iPhone 3G, i wanted the web in my pocket and nothing compared to the browser on the iPhone until the Pre`. I was going to switch to the Pre` to get the freedom of network choice and packages. Why would i bother changing now?
The quirks of the iPhone that may not exist in the Pre` will not be enough to justify a change of handset, only if it becomes free on a handset upgrade would i now consider the Pre`. Shame really, as i was ready to dive in with both feet until this news.
Kinetic kit promises gratis gadget power
Is that an nPower PEG in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me.
WD VelociRaptor 300GB HDD vs SSD
What made you use the Crucial ??? At £320 you could have had
Which is 120GB capacity
Read up to 170 MB/sec
Write up to 98 MB/sec
£352.44 inc. VAT
Lets compare the latest in performance HDD against some second rate SSD...
The PSP: what's its future?
Mobile Online Gaming Platform !
Add 3g / hsdpa
Add voice comms (ventrilo for example, so it's game independent)
Port your main ps3 titles to psp - it's about game play not just gfx and allow them to play on servers hosting both ps3 and psp in same game
maybe allow customer to by the rights to one copy of the game and allow it to be used on both platforms or subsidised
What about an mmorpg (everquest!), maybe even port wow (yeah right) Then people might be able to raid on the move :)
If your SSD sucks, blame Vista, says SSD vendor
SSD can and do out perform HDD
OCZ are dropping their pants and shaking their butts at the competition. Faster than all but the fastest of HDD, we are talking velociraptor / raptor territory here.
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Photos fool cigarette age-verification software
Or just....
Install huge speakers blasting out the special tone that kids can't stand and adults can't hear. Couple of hundred decibels should do it :)
Suddenly, smoking can seriously damage your health (and ears) will become more apparent.
Ofcom confirms Freeview will get HD next year
HD Nonsense
It's all a load of crap.
I have Sky HD and the only thing i have watched that was remotely HD is heroes (on BBC HD). Everything else seems to be up scaled crap. My Panasonic TV probably up scales SD content just as well. They should be forced to advertise what the content is. It's just as big of a con as the HD Ready bollox.
Boffins develop '500TB iPod' storage tech
About 3meg.
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Heart disease is not a statistic. It affects women everywhere regardless of where they live, how much they earn, or what they do. This video is an effective tool for patients, community groups, women's clubs and families seeking to raise awareness of heart disease among women. It shares five "stories from the heart" about how heart disease has changed the lives and outlooks of women. They explain why women should take steps now to protect their heart. The truth is, heart disease doesn't need to be the #1 killer of women.
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AT&T cozies up to Rogers to bring LTE roaming to Canada
A deal with the Canadian communications company will enable US customers who have LTE devices to access high-speed service while in Canada.
AT&T is making it a bit easier for US customers traveling in Canada to have access to high-speed networks.
The company on Monday announced that it has partnered with Rogers Communications in Canada to offer international LTE roaming to its US-based customers. Under the agreement, AT&T customers with LTE-equipped smartphones -- about 42 percent of the company's postpaid subscribers at last count -- will be able to surf the Web on Rogers' LTE network without needing additional equipment.
To take advantage of the offer, however, customers will need to choose from one of three of AT&T's "Data Global Add-On" packages. For 120MB of data, customers will be charged $30 per month, while 300MB will set them back $60 per month. An 800MB plan goes for $120 per month.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Democratic voters are showing support for Mary Burke in the governor's race primary where she faces only nominal opposition from state Rep. Brett Hulsey.
Jeff Schultz, of Racine, said he voted Tuesday for Burke over Hulsey, calling him a "nonfactor."
Schultz says he likes Burke's experience as a Madison school board member and former Trek Bicycles executive.
Gilbert Walker of Madison says he favors Burke over Hulsey because he believes she has a better chance at defeating Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
Voter Connie Laska of Madison is a Walker backer. He says the Nov. 4 general election will be "close."
The past two Marquette University Law School polls released in May and July showed the race between Walker and Burke to be a dead heat.
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The Member States of the United Nations must negotiate a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs) that will frame a new international development agenda to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that expire in 2015. This issue brief examines how migration can be integrated into the post-2015 development agenda, outlining proposed migration targets and elements for indicators within the SDGs.
The humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Central African Republic (CAR) has received scant world attention, even as more than 20 percent of the population of 4.25 million has been displaced as a result of deadly sectarian violence. This article examines the causes of the violence, the international community response, and the impacts of large-scale displacement within the country and beyond its borders.
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Eight of the ten countries eligible to apply for free carbon emission allowances for electricity producers from 2013 to 2020 have submitted their requests to the European Commission, a spokesman confirmed on Monday.
Countries had to apply to use a derogation to full auctioning to the European Commission by last Friday, 30 September.
The eligible member states that have applied are Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Romania.
Latvia and Malta were the only two eligible member states that chose not to ask for free allowances.
Country-specific estimates
Bulgaria was expected to apply for 58m EU allowances (EUAs), after a Ministry of Environment official confirmed the figure last month (see EDCM 26 September 2011).
The Czech Republic made a last minute decision to apply, with government sources saying the country would ask to hand out 108-110m EUAs for free (see EDCM 9 September 2011 and EDCM 1 September 2011).
Poland was expected to fight for up to 20m free carbon allowances per year in phase III, deputy prime minister Waldemar Pawlak said last month (see EDCM 20 September 2011).
The Commission will now proceed to check that the applications comply with conditions set out in the EU's emissions trading directive. For instance, the directive caps the maximum amount of free EUAs according to baseline emissions and sets out that the estimated market value of the free allowances have to be invested into green technologies.
The Commission will have six months to publish a final decision.
The remaining applicant countries, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania and Romania has not disclosed how many free EUAs they would seek to hand out.
The Commission did not comment on exact figures it had received from companies in their derogation submissions, making it too soon to estimate the total amount of free allowances that the electricity sector would receive in these countries between 2013 to 2020.
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September 30 was not only the deadline for the derogation applications from a few select countries, but also for all states falling under the EU emissions trading system to list exactly how many EUAs each industrial plant within their borders would get for free in phase III. The plans, known as national implementation measures (NIMs), are based on EU-wide benchmarks for industrial sectors.
The Commission did not respond to questions about how many states had met the deadline or give any details of the NIMs that may have been submitted. Sources have earlier said many are expected to be delayed.
The EU-wide benchmarks will replace the system of National Allocation Plans (NAPs) used in phases I and II, which left it up to national governments to calculate the allocation to plants under the European Commission's supervision.
But replacing the NAPs with NIMs left a lot of legwork to states. They have to apply the benchmarks to the production rates of plants in the baseline years to arrive at a final number of EUAs to be handed out free.
If the total free EUA allocation submitted to the Commission by member states is higher than the provisions agreed upon for the phase III cap, the Commission would have to revise each NIM list. Any delay in the NIMs could stop industrials from coming to market and start selling off their expected large phase II surplus. MLDB
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Help really needed recovering lost files
Hopfully someone can help me hear, I did a full system recovery about 1 or 2 mounths ago becouse of a bad virus, but in the process i lost all my Media files, pics, movies, music, ex. is there anyway i can get them back without starting from scratch?
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Hi! WhiteNight8669, welcome to 7F
If you did not make any back-up disks, no.
Recovery wipes the HDD before it re-installs.
Repair only works to repair system files.
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|14 Dec 2010
WELL THAT SUX, i would have made a backup disk but whatever virus i had wouldn't let me do access probly about 90% of my files.
but i do have another question,
this HP laptop that i have was givin to me and im not sure what all it has. but when i go into MY COMPUTER i seem to have what looks like a recovery drive of some sorts, but i can't access it, would that be any type of special "backup" built in?
just throwing it out there
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Windows 7 Home Premium x64
First, Welcome to SF!
I don't have much faith in this idea since there have been re-writes to the drive, but you can try any number of disk Recovery software out there.
A lot of them are free and do a decent job.
Based on what you have said, I don't think you'll have much luck, but it doesn't hurt to try- you may be able to scavenge some of it...
Googling, I got 137,000,000,hits on 'Software Recovery Free', so there are lots of things you can try...
Regarding the recovery partition that you mentioned, that will only work on the original machine. And it's not a backup- at least not in the way you would like.
Normally the OEM puts an original image of the computer on the drive on a hidden partition so in case of emergencies just like yours, the system can be brought back to its original, factory condition (with all its bloat). This will not bring back any personal data that you have accumulated. In fact, it will destroy any data that you have on the disk. (Personally, I really despise all the software that OEM's put on new computers. But, that's another story, for another time.)
It is really intended as a complete system backup (ie, factory original).
Try out some of the 'recovery' software out there and, hopefully, you'll be able to get back some of the data files you are seeking.
Good Luck!
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|14 Dec 2010
Read this:
Restore Backup User and System Files
You may have some luck with step #9
Don't forget to look at the bottom of the tutorial to see if there are any more options.
If you can access the recovery drive it should rebuild the OS, but not anything done by a user. your files folders pix, installed programs etc.
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|14 Dec 2010
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
Since you did a full system recovery, it likely overwrote the entire drive. That's one reason I don't like that method, and typically remove the system recovery partition from an OEM systems I use. I'd much rather just clean up the virus and then make sure my data is backed up before doing a clean format. That being said, you should have been given warnings that your data would have been gone.
Since you did this 2 months ago, there's little, if any chance of recovering your files. Recuva could possible get some of them back, but I'd take it as a learning experience.
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Employee killed during stabbing at Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly plant in Detroit
Updated On: Sep 20 2012 05:43:51 PM EDT
Two people are dead following an apparent love triangle quarrel Thursday morning at Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit.
A Chrysler line worker stabbed his union steward by the loading docks of the plant on Conner Street.
Watch: Uncut: Press conference on Chrysler plant stabbing
Police sources said the line worker stabbed the steward over a possible affair with his wife, who also works at the plant. Sources including plant workers and neighbors have identified the victim as union steward Keith Readus and the suspect as his coworker Jeff Hunt.
Readus lived at the Parkstone Apartments not far from the Detroit plant. Hunt lived in a new home in Brownstown.
Detroit Police Inspector Dwayne Blackmon said the incident was isolated and strictly limited to a dispute between the two men. He said a knife was recovered in the plant.
"From the initial accounts, it appears to have been a face-to-face encounter," said Blackmon.
The line worker then drove to nearby Belle Isle and shot himself.
Production has been suspended for the day and first shift workers were sent home. Second shifts workers are also off. Grief counselors are available.
-- Scene on Belle Isle
The plant has a no weapons policy, but doesn't have metal detectors.
Statement from Chrysler:
"Chrysler Group is deeply saddened by events that occurred at its Jefferson North Assembly Plant this morning. Two employees were involved in an altercation inside the plant. One employee was stabbed and unfortunately pronounced dead at the scene. The Detroit Police Department is currently investigating. Production has been suspended for this morning and employees are being released."
Statement from UAW:
"The UAW expresses our deepest sympathy to the families of our members involved in the tragic incident today at Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly Plant. Although many details are unknown at this time, we are deeply saddened by the loss of life."
The Jefferson North plant employs just over 3,000 workers on two shifts. The 3-million-square-foot plant makes the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango full-size SUVs.
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Career highlight: Traveling to Uganda this summer, where I was able to apply lessons learned from field work in Pakistan and South Africa to harness field-collected data into the existing IT infrastructure across many platforms.
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