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This is so much work!!!
Trying to plan a Spring Break trip to someplace other than WDW! DL has come up as an option and I am stressing out! Can someone please help me? If we are going to spend big bucks to fly to Cali, we want to get all this in:
1) We may want to visit some relatives in San Diego.
2) We want to spend at least one additional non Disney day.....doing something....I don't know what. Not interested in the beach, Sea World, or San Diego Zoo. Probably not interested in Universal. Thinking some Hollywood / LA tourist type thing. Any suggestions appreciated.
3) Obviously: DL and DCA.
So, here are some of my questions:
Do we fly into SNA, shuttle and stay in a walkable DL hotel for our entire stay, renting a car for 2 "off" days sometime during the middle to the trip? 1 daytrip to San Diego, 1 daytrip to .......?
Do we fly into one airport, change hotels, and fly out of another airport? I really don't like changing hotels, but I was thinking something along the lines of flying into LAX getting a car and nearby hotel, staying 1 night to do whatever it is we decide to do, then driving to DL area late the next day. Stay put 4 (?) nights. Check out, rent car, drive to San Diego to visit relatives, get hotel for 1 night and drive selves to airport (San Diego) the next day.
Or is there an option I'm missing?
Also, is 4 nights too little or too long for the Disney stuff?
How hard is renting a car going to be if we don't get a rental from the airport? I haven't rented a car while on vacation since 1993!
I have been researching / planning this all of about 24 hours, so I know almost nothing. If I can't pull this off, we will just be driving to WDW....again. I do want to go back, but I feel like we should take the kids somewhere else! We do long weekend trips closer to home, but our main family vacations have only been to WDW. Still Disney, but at least a different state!!
Thanks for any help or suggestions. I really need to book something quickly and am having a very hard time making decisions!
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Okay, so I think a LA/Disney/San Diego vacation is very doable and could be a lot of fun. There are a variety of ways you could do your trip -- none are more right or wrong than another.
San Diego is about an hour and a half from DLR. you could drive down, visit, and drive back or drive down, spend the night, and fly out of San Diego. If you rent your car at SNA and drop it at San Diego, it will probably have an additional fee. You could drive back up to SNA on departure day to avoid that fee.
It's sort of a question of time vs. money.
You could do LA from your hotel in Anaheim, just try to avoid rush hour traffic in the AM and the PM.
Does that help get you started?
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I don't know if I would go during spring break because of the crowds. If you think you will have a blast then I would say you may need 4 days to see/do everything? I would not rent a car while at disney because it will sit in a parking lot and charge you fees for the rental and the parking. I would use a shuttle and then rent a car after your stay at DL/DCA to drive to see family and whatever else so it's less of an expense.
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It is a lot of work... but oh, so worth it!! Our family has several similarities to yours. We are doing DL rather than WDW to be similar, but different. While researching Southern California, we came up with so many other fun activities, that we are actually only doing DL for a couple of the days. I don't know what your family is into or your kids' ages, but we are trying some other things that may be of interest. We will be in San Diego for 3 days and while there we are doing:
*Legoland (our boys are sooooo excited about this)
*Kayak along the coast of La Jolla (comes very highly recommended- minimum age is 6).
*Tour the USS Midway which is a Battleship.
*Take a boat ride at Dana Point
*Balboa Park
*See sea lions at Children's Park.
Then to LA where we will take in all the traditional tourist stuff/ Hollywood... because WE'RE HERE... may as well experience it. Also, near LA you can go on whale watching tours from Newport Landing. Then we'll end our trip with a couple of days in DL/DCA. We're quite excited to try so many different things and our kids are super excited about the non-Disney things too!
We are flying into San Diego and out of LAX. We're glad about this, but be prepared that renting a car at one place and returning it another is quite a bit more expensive.
Yes, it's different than WDW... but now that I dove in, I can't wait to do it!
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I'd definitely look at flying in and out of different airports. Next month, I'll be flying into SNA, heading to San Diego for a night, heading back up to Hollywood, and flying out of Burbank. I try to avoid LAX at all costs because it's so hectic. I've used SAN, SNA, ONT and BUR. With Southwest, it's super easy and pretty reasonable. It's a lot better than having to head back to your original airport, though you have to watch for drop fees on rental cars. Still, worth it IMO.
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Would your relatives be interested in joining you for a day at DLR? Or for some sightseeing in L.A.? If so, then you would only need a rental car for one day.
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You could easily fly into SNA, take a cab to Disney, spend your 4 days, then get up the next morning and rent a car from the Alamo at Downtown Disney, do your LA stuff and then drive to San Diego, visit family and fly out of San Diego. Then you would only have to rent a car for 2 days at the end of your trip.
We rented a car for the day from that Alamo for a day trip to visit a friend at Universal so I know it's an easy place to do it.
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Just set up my rental car for our Aug San Diego/DLR trip, we are flying into San Diego and leaving from LAX, we got a compact(just me/DH/DD10) and it was $375.00- that was with no discounts, so I am hoping it goes down to about $300ish. It was worth it for us to not have to drive back down to SNA.
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Lots of good info in the replies here! Thanks everyone!
There are so many hotel options, airport options (there are 2 near home to choose from for our flight out, too) and possible ways to do this! I have spent hours trying to find the right hotel and the best flight and airfare possible. A lot to research, so little time! I still haven't booked anything!
I think we could stay 8 nights instead of 6 if we travelled around Thanksgiving (my kids have a whole week off school), so we may end up putting it off until then!
Oh, and of course, my DH has had car trouble this week. So we are dropping his truck off for repair in the morning. The estimate for the work was $1,300. Kind of took me out of "planning mode". Also makes me not want to spend so much money! I have Friday off work and am going to try to make a decision by then!
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At least in terms of the airports on the CA side, you could see that as a blessing, too. It's *really* easy to get from LAX and SNA to Disneyland, and not really a big challenge from the secondary airports, either. So it doesn't matter too much which one you choose. There really isn't a "wrong" decision in this regard :-)
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I, too, like the idea of basically making it two trips (Anaheim/LA and San Diego); flying into one and leaving via the other.
I'm not sure about your family's financial situation or credit, but in my quest to reduce Disney travel costs, I investigated the credit card miles/points game. I know some cards have decent sign up bonuses, such as a free two nights in a Hyatt after $1,000 spend on the Chase card (like your truck repair), the Hilton American Express card (no annual fee version) has 40,000 Hilton points after $750 spend, which you can use for a cash & points room to make the room rates less expensive. The Citi Hilton Reserve card has two free weekend night rooms after $2,500 spend (I think that's it), along with Gold status with the hotel chain (free breakfast and internet with the chain). Of course, there are airline versions as well, which can save on airfare expenses, enabling you to channel the cash into hotel/park costs.
Maybe something worth looking into.
Also, you may want to look into signing up for rental car preferred programs, since many times they will have your car ready (no check-in desk) and sometimes auto upgrade to a bigger vehicle.
Just remember, DLR is much easier to plan than WDW. A basic framework is usually fine for both on-property and off-property activities.
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Oceana Uncovers Widespread Seafood Fraud in NYC
Today Oceana released a new report documenting the problem of widespread seafood fraud in the New York City area. A full 39 percent of seafood sold in New York City grocery stores, restaurants and sushi venues was found to be mislabeled.
Out of 142 samples Oceana conducted DNA testing on, from 81 separate businesses, 56 were found to be different species than advertised. Oftentimes cheaper fish was swapped in for more expensive species, but seafood fraud can be an issue of consumer safety as well, as discussed in the above segment aired on the NBC's Today Show this morning covering Oceana's report.
The report's key findings were:
- Small markets had much higher fraud (40 percent) than national chain grocery stores (12 percent).
- 100 percent of the 16 sushi venues tested sold mislabeled fish.
- Tilefish, on the FDA's do-not-eat list because of its high mercury content, was substituted for red snapper and halibut in one small market.
- 94 percent of the "white tuna" was not tuna at all, but escolar, a snake mackerel that has a toxin with purgative effects for people who eat more than a small amount of the fish.
- Thirteen different types of fish were sold as "red snapper," including tilapia, white bass, goldbanded jobfish, tilefish, porgy/seabream, ocean perch and other less valuable snappers.
The fraud could even lead consumers to unknowingly violate religious dietary restrictions, such as when kosher fish like albacore or pacific cod are replaced by non-kosher fish, like escolar and sutchi catfish, respectively.
"Everywhere we look, we find seafood fraud, and New York City is no exception," said Beth Lowell, campaign director at Oceana. "Seafood fraud is a national problem that requires national attention. Traceability, tracking fish from boat to plate, will ensure that seafood is safe, legal and honestly labeled while preventing consumers from getting ripped off. "
Elsewhere Oceana and others have found similar levels of fraud: in Boston 48 percent of seafood was mislabeled, in Los Angeles that figure reached 55 percent and in Miami 31 percent. Oceana is urging congress to pass the Safety and Fraud Enforcement for Seafood (SAFE Seafood) Act, H.R. 6200, introduced this summer by Reps. Edward Markey (D-MA), Barney Frank (D-MA) and Walter Jones (R-NC). The Bill would require full traceability for all seafood sold in the U.S.
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Oceana Talks Seafood Fraud on ABC's 20/20
Oceana's senior vice president for North America and chief scientist Mike Hirshfield sat down with 20/20 to discuss the widespread problem of seafood fraud (skip to around 3:30 in the video). He gives a stark example of the problem.
"If you go to Los Angeles and eat red snapper everyday for the next 30 days you will never see red snapper," he says.
Not only does seafood fraud affect consumers' pocketbooks (inferior fish are often labeled as more expensive fish and drastically marked up) but it can be dangerous as well. As ABC found in their own investigation, 86% of sushi labeled as white tuna around the country was, in fact, escolar, a fish whose high content of waxy esters can cause "intestinal distress", to put it politely. The results echo Oceana's own investigations of seafood markets and restaurants in Boston, L.A. and Miami which found the problem of fraud to be widespread.
ABC also spoke with Oceana supporter, chef and National Geographic fellow Barton Seaver.
"40,000 fish of copper river salmon were sold last year," he says. "Well, sorry, only 12,000 fish were caught in Copper River last year."
Seaver admits that even chefs of his caliber are vulnerable to the tricks of deceptive marketing, as he describes his recent experience being duped into buying inferior asian crab meat marketed as Maryland blue crab. One of the major problems, he says, is that the country imports more than 85% of its fish but the FDA inspects less than 2% of it. It's why over 500 chefs signed a letter calling for full traceability of seafood sold in the U.S. and why in July, Representatives Edward Markey (D-MA) and Barney Frank (D-MA) introduced the Safety and Fraud Enforcement for Seafood (SAFE Seafood) Act (H.R. 6200). The legislation requires that all seafood sold in the U.S. be fully traceable. Oceana is currently building support in Congress for this important bill. Show you care about what's on your plate and sign our petition.
New Report: Seafood Fraud in South Florida
How would you feel if you found out the red snapper on your plate wasn't red snapper at all, but instead something illegally fished or potentially unhealthy? A new Oceana study found that 31% of seafood we tested in South Florida is mislabeled, keeping consumers in the dark about what they're really eating.
Our campaigners used DNA testing on seafood samples from grocery stores, restaurants, and sushi venues in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach areas. We've conducted studies like this in other cities, and the results from Los Angeles and Boston were even more striking—55% of seafood in L.A. was mislabeled and 48% in Boston.
But just because the numbers are lower in South Florida doesn't mean that seafood fraud is any more acceptable. Some of the fish being served under a different name pose risks to health and sustainability. The study found that king mackerel, a high mercury fish with a health warning for sensitive groups, was being marketed as 'grouper.'
Sushi restaurants were the biggest offenders, with 58% of samples found to be mislabeled. All the samples of white tuna collected from sushi vendors were actually escolar, a fish species that can make people sick.
The large amount of seafood coming into the U.S. market can make it difficult to trace each item to its source. Oceana is calling on the federal government to ensure that the seafood we find in our markets is safe, legal, and honestly labeled. By implementing a traceability system, consumers can make informed decisions about what they put on their plate.
Sign the petition to fight seafood fraud and ensure you're getting what you order.
Tuna Still Feeling the Effects of Fukushima
It might seem straight out of science fiction, but this story is real – radioactive tuna could be swimming in an ocean near you.
A new study found that after last spring's Fukushima nuclear accident, Pacific Bluefin tuna caught off of San Diego appear to have been contaminated by radioactive materials from last spring's nuclear accident in Japan.
The March 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami led to the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant in central Japan. Even now, the only way to enter the zone 20 kilometers around the plant is with special government permission. After the accident, tests showed that concentrations of radioactive Cesium in coastal waters increased up to 10,000-fold.
This study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found the same radioactive Cesium in 15 Bluefin tuna specimens caught outside of San Diego. The fish tested showed a 10-fold increase from normal Cesium concentrations, well below the safety limit established by Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishes.
Bluefin are a highly migratory species – they spawn in the West Pacific near Japan, then, once they have matured, may travel more than 9,000 miles to the East Pacific and the California coast. They're such strong swimmers that the trip only takes a few months.
During the course of this trip, the radioactive concentration fell as the fish grew and the Cesium decayed. If they had tested tuna from Japan, the radiation would be expected to be up to 15 times more concentrated, according to Daniel Madigan, Zofia Baumann, and Nicholas Fisher, the co-authors of the study.
Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch already lists bluefin as a species to avoid due to severe overfishing and high mercury levels. They're highly valued as sushi fish, which has led to a steep decline in their populations in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Bluefin tuna are slow to mature, and are often caught before they have a chance to reproduce. Oceana is currently working to protect bluefin tuna from overfishing.
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Kate Walsh on Access Hollywood
Kate Walsh was on Access Hollywood yesterday to announce the winner of her sushi dress giveaway on Twitter -- and she again gave Oceana a shout-out, check it out:
And congrats to Ariel B from Ithaca, NY, whose tweet was chosen from many to win the dress!
Adrian Grenier Joins Oceana to Protect Bluefin Tuna
Last week Oceana launched a new bluefin tuna PSA campaign featuring "Entourage" star Adrian Grenier. In March, Grenier joined Oceana to swim with the endangered fish and help get the word out that they are "going fast" -- literally and figuratively.
Bluefin can grow to 15 feet in length, weigh up to 1500 pounds and can swim at speeds of more than 50 miles per hour. They are on the verge of extinction as a result of overfishing, and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico further threatens their survival.
The Gulf is the only place where the Western population of Atlantic bluefin tuna reproduces. After the spawning season (April to June), baby tuna continue to swim through the Gulf region where they can accumulate toxins in their gills from the oil itself and from the chemical dispersants.
"I hope that my involvement will bring attention to what is going on in the bluefin fishery," Grenier said. "I want these PSAs to encourage people to get involved and help Oceana save these amazing creatures."
Watch the PSA and get involved with Adrian and Oceana to protect bluefin!
Adrian Grenier Wants To Stop Bluefin Tuna From Going Too Fast from Oceana on Vimeo.
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Wha? Wednesday: Bluefin for Sale
As you know, Wednesdays are normally devoted to blogging about the latest whale news. But I've redubbed today's post in honor of yesterday's news about a certain sleek giant of the sea who continues to fetch exorbitant auction prices as it heads toward extinction. It makes you go, "Wha?"
Yesterday, a 513-pound bluefin tuna sold for $177,000 -- the most since 2001 -- in an auction at Tokyo's famous fish market.
Ironically, the sale took place amid a decline in Japanese tuna consumption due to the nation's worst recession since World War II.
So as Tokyo's fish market representatives fret over how to keep c
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Air France-KLM's cargo unit posted an operating loss of 62 million euros ($76.3 million) in the second quarter compared with 14 million euros ($17.2 million) a year ago as traffic declined sharply in a bearish global air freight market.
The worsening cargo performance contrasted with improved passenger activity, which helped Europe's largest airline to more than halve its operating loss to $81.2 million from $178.4 million last year.
Cargo revenue contracted by 4.4 percent to $940 million in the second quarter as traffic shrank by 6.9 percent and unit revenues declined by 6.7 percent after stripping out the impact of currency fluctuations. Capacity was down 3 percent from a year ago, and the load factor eased 2.7 percentage points to 64.1 percent.
First half cargo losses soared to $160 million from $28.3 million, while revenue declined 3.8 percent to $1.85 billion.
The Franco-Dutch carrier's net loss widened to $1.1 billion from $242 million, partly due to a $453 million charge for buyouts related to planned job cuts. Revenue grew 4.5 percent to $8 billion.
Air France-KLM plans to eliminate more than 5,000 jobs at its French unit to achieve savings that CEO Jean-Cyril Spinetta says are vital to ensure the airline's survival.
Unions representing pilots and ground workers have backed the voluntary job cuts, which account for 10 percent of Air France's payroll, but two of the three cabin crew unions have rejected the plans.
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Most students taking prescription medications for pain, sleep, anxiety or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do not misuse the drugs, a new study finds. And proper use of these medications was not associated with a higher risk of addiction or other drug problems. But while 78% of teens used their medications as prescribed, 22% did report misusing their prescription drugs at least once. These kids were nearly eight times more likely to receive a drug abuse diagnosis, compared with those who used their medications appropriately.
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3D elements used in web design can make a website more impressive and memorable. The purpose of 3D elements is to create a feeling of depth. For that reason, websites with 3D elements look interesting because most websites have a flat, 2-dimensional design.
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Sarfraz raza
Excellent designs.Web design plays an important role.what we need is a solid and attractive web design for our website and that design must fulfill our business requirements..
Chris McConnell
Cool collection. Thanks for featuring Freelance Review Tomas! Keep up the great work.
Wow Nice Source Thanks a lot man.
like the coke one, east valley bible is not too good
Jordan Walker
All of those sites take the mundane two dimensional interface of the computer monitor and turn it up one notch!
Some inspiring, some not, I definitely like the design components that produce shadows (chrome handle, red arrows). The 'wrap around' banner graphics are just too redundant.
Computer Gaming sites, usual have the best examples as they integrate the 3D models into the designs.
Jeremy Olson
Great roundup Tomas! I've beent trying to find some great examples of 3D design since I've been experimenting with it on http://www.skookum.com/blog and http://www.gradesapp.com
I think a key is to add depth in the right places so as to not look overly superfluous. It's tempting to want to 3Dify everything since it is a neat trick (and can really set your site apart) but, for example, I feel like the DesignMess account labels are drawing too much attention to themselves and the depth seems a bit repetitive since those labels are so close together. I think repeating the same 3D effect over and over in a small area kind of gets stale.
Thanks for posting!
Martin Lachapelle
I tomas Laurinavicius , i wonder how you create a blog entry like this one do you site down and try to find 3d website or do you bookmark as you go and then post it when you got enough site…
bad english sorry i am from Montréal (QC)
Wow, Dragon Interactive sure looks impressive.
Thanks for an inspiring list.
Comcast Town is my fav. Perfect example of the power of Flash.
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Need to think twice for next project… ;)
thanks for this, Id like to see more posts like this one!
Eko Setiawan
Great collection, capture again..some of them, for my inspiration folder…
Peter Chon
Please checkout mine too :)
Shawn McConnell
Are there any downfalls to having this type of coding on your homepage? ie load times etc
Nice collection,
Some of the designs are awesome while I didn't like others. I would believe that use of 3D elements should be limited only to portfolio sites!
really nice. it look like live.
Great post, many nice elements seen to use in future designs!
Today stumbled upon another (dutch) site with nice 3d elements: http://flume.nl/
Levinson Axelrod
Excellent 3D examples. Marc Mendell and Pixelgraphix utilized the 3D element very well.
Excellent examples of the 3D design. Marc Mendell's site utilized this element very well.
Some of the 3D elements are really cool! I just love to see smart usage of the elements. But flying ribbons and sheets of paper are not the example of something new.
Two of my latest favourites to the great 3D collection:
Calgary web design
Thx for compiling this great list of examples. It definitely created some awesome comments too. Keep 'em coming!
Wow, I must say very nice designs. Today web designing is growing day by day and it is very important that website must be very appropriate with it subject. Here given examples are superb and very well designed. Nowadays people need more and more creative designs. These all are really very nice examples. I really appreciate that you had shared this.
Awesome! thank you for featuring! :)
Once again a great article! My 2 cents…
I think the web is not made to be in 3d! BUT… there are numerous cases in your examples above that 3d elements are carefully chosen to highlight or call to action by popping out of the rest of the design.
This is the right way to use 3d in a web page I think. If you overdo-it you lose it.
Nauman Akhtar
All of these are so damn creative, beautiful, thanks for letting us know. Regards.
Beautiful use of 3D graphics in a website! I am loving it :)
awesome collection.. loved it..
inspiring me to make a my own portfolio website :)
Thanks for this great showcase. 3D features change webdesign to creative and new look.
I like 3D ribbons. One of famous example is CNET.com.
That was a brilliant round-up of great tools : I loved reading it, and I agree @Tyler Stample, the screenshots and brief descriptions were really good to help make the list easier to browse.
wow. they all are sooooooooo beautiful
i love them all.
Antonea Nabors
I love seeing 3d is web design. It is truly beautiful to see a designer work 3d into 2d design effectively.
Joe Payton
Just got back from vacation and noticed the spike in my traffic. AWESOME! Thank you for having me on this great list!
The Marc Mendell design has serious problems with perspective. I mean, the viewing angle of the table is different from the perspective that we see the macbook. I don't understand how no one mentioned this.
My favorite design is the Steven Wittens
Nice information, I really appreciate the way you presented.Thanks for sharing..
Wow – thanks for the inclusion on the list! Flattering to be included in such an inspiring group~
Yosoychi – I am aware that the perspective is off – it was a choice believe it or not – When I did this design, the intent was not specifically to be 3D or even literal, but to create a mood -looking over my shoulder – using the perspective of the keyboard increased the size of the laptop vertically – something that I did not want, as it competed with the images on the inside. But I can certainly appreciate your thoughts -
some very interesting 3D designs you got here, thx for the useful post
light and clean webdesign~ like the colours~ excellent 3d design~
Very cool
Wonderful :), all that are really in-spiry designs for me.
Mark Morcom
Thanks for the great inspiration. Pulling out Cinema 4D to crack out some 3d websites :D
Evandro Teixeira
Most of them are just static websites :). I would call that list of "Beautiful Examples of 2D Elements" but it's still awesome!
Best disain!
aftab ahmad
I like all over the designed. very impress


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In the weeks, months and even years after my spouse's A, some works of art had relevant impacts in our healing process. Apart from the self-help books we both worked through, we read read novels together on road trips, attended plays, and saw a few films that we felt either resonated with us, or triggered meaningful conversations. I don't think they would have had nearly the impact on us had we note been in the middle of rebuilding our marriage from the brink.
I thought I would share a few and in the process ask you if any works of art had impact on your rebuilding.
For us, there were:
The Shack by William P. Young
No way this book would have meant anything to me had we not been in the middle of the conversation of forgives. This book might not work for others but both my spouse were raised in a religious tradition that allowed these characters to resonate with us without taking offense. Didactic at times, but this came at a good moment for us.
We just stumbled into this play (also made into a movie). When the final lights went up, half the audience was in a state of shock or in tears, the other half walked out not having any clue what the play was about. Whoever wrote this play had to have been in a place like all of us are. Looking at your spouse after all the crap and saying, "I just lost somthing, and I can't ever get it back. How do we move forward from here?" Stunning!
David Barnes, "Home"
Matt Nathanson, "Come and Get Higher"
These were healing songs that were new after my spouses A and only had relevance to us in our rebuilding. Music is really tricky and worth having a dialogue about.
This film was a disaster to watch, and it would not be for the faint-of-heart, or for someon fresh from D-Day. I cried during the film (and I like to think of myself as a burly man's man.) and the film had really strong triggers.
BUT, the three hour conversation we had in the lobby of the theater after the film (because we couldn't make it to the car), was a major dialogue in our healing process. I really tried to shut my mouth, listen, and accept what my spouse was telling me after the film. I felt I grew up a lot that day. This was a really hard film to possibly consider for those who are in an aggressive rebuilding period.
Another Earth
A redemption film about a young girl who made a tragic mistake. In her attempt to repair that mistake, she only compounded the problem. It had an amazing ending and a few jaw dropping moments. Not about affairs. Worth a look, maybe two.
Ruby Sparks
In our immaturity, what if we could write into life what we think is the perfect spouse? What would that look like? This quirky, funny, and eventually dark film about relationships was smart, enjoyable, troubling and thought provoking.
I would love to hear your thoughts.
|Sat, 08-25-2012 - 7:57am
the other was a download of the rosary. Hail Marys get me through times of stress and fear. Included in this rosary was the song "gentle woman" ito
is just a very peaceful song amd puts me a good frame of mind.
|Mon, 08-27-2012 - 11:37am
I hadn't found that one, thanks. My spouse and I are fans of Rascal Flatts but I hadn't purchased their last album. My spouse found the Keith Urban song "Hard Way" to sort of represent our hard work. I like it.
I apreciate your words about the rosary. I looked up a youtube of Gentle Women and it seemed nice. I didn't have anything like that in my life. I sort of lost God in all this. I'm glad you found somthing that gives you comfort and provides peace. For me, I finally had to just write the words in ink on the inside of my left thumb, "NO TIME," to remind me that any time spent thinking about the OM was a waste of my pecious time and was bad for my soul.
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On September 18, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the judgment of the District Court in Van Hollen v. FEC. The Court of Appeals found that the lower court erred in holding that Congress "spoke plainly" when it enacted 2 U.S.C. §434(f) of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, thus foreclosing any regulatory construction of the statute by the FEC.
The appeals court remanded the case with instructions to "refer the matter to the FEC for further consideration." On September 20, 2012, the district court directed the Commission to inform the court by October 12, 2012, whether the Commission "intends to pursue rulemaking or defend its current regulation." On October 4, 2012, the Commission filed a status report informing the court of its decision not to initiate a rulemaking to amend its regulations governing the disclosure of electioneering communications, but instead to continue to defend the current regulation at 11 CFR 104.20(c)(9).
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) defines an electioneering communication as any broadcast, cable or satellite communication that refers to a clearly identified candidate for federal office, is publicly distributed within certain time periods before an election and is targeted to the relevant electorate. 2 U.S.C. §434(f)(3). Under the BCRA, every person who makes disbursements for an electioneering communication aggregating over $10,000 per year must file a report with the FEC identifying, among other things, the person who made the disbursement. 2 U.S.C. §434(f)(1), (2). If the disbursement is paid out of a segregated account consisting of funds contributed by individuals directly to the account for electioneering communications, then the report must disclose the names and addresses of all those who contributed an aggregate of $1,000 or more within a certain time period to the account. If the disbursements were not made from a segregated account, then the report must disclose the names and addresses of all contributors who contributed over $1,000 within a certain time period to the person making the disbursement. 2 U.S.C. §434(f)(2)(E).
At the time BCRA was passed, all labor unions and almost all corporations were prohibited from making electioneering communications, so Congress did not specify a particular disclosure regime for such communications. The regulation at issue in this case, 11 CFR 104.20(c)(9), was promulgated by the FEC in 2007 after the Supreme Court's decision in Wisconsin Right to Life, which allowed corporations and unions to make certain types of electioneering communications for the first time. The regulation requires corporations or labor organizations that make WRTL-permitted electioneering communications to disclose the name and address of each person who made a donation aggregating $1,000 or more to the corporation or labor organization, which was made for the purpose of furthering electioneering communications. 104.20(c)(9). (Emphasis added.)
The District Court found that BCRA clearly requires every person who funds electioneering communications to disclose all contributors, "and there are no terms limiting that requirement to call only for the names of those who transmitted funds accompanied by an express statement that the contribution was intended for the purpose" of making electioneering communications. The court also stated that Congress did not delegate authority to the FEC to narrow BCRA's disclosure requirement through agency rulemaking.
The Court of Appeals rejected this analysis and reversed the lower court's decision. The Court of Appeals found that the lower court erred in holding that Congress spoke plainly in enacting 2 U.S.C. §434(f). The appellate court concluded that 2 U.S.C. §434(f) is "anything but clear, especially when viewed in the light of the Supreme Court's decisions in [Citizens United v. FEC and WRTL v. FEC]." Instead, it found that 2 U.S.C. §434(f)(2)(F) could be construed to include a "purpose" requirement since that subsection only applied to disbursements for the direct costs of producing and airing electioneering communications. The appellate court also noted that there was no indication that Congress anticipated the circumstances at issue in this case. The court found that it was "due to the complicated situation that confronted [the FEC in promulgating 104.20(c)(9)] in 2007 and the absence of plain meaning in the statute that the FEC acted pursuant to its delegated authority… to fill 'a gap' in the statute…" The FEC's promulgation of 11 CFR 104.20(c)(9) reflects an attempt by the agency to provide regulatory guidance under the BCRA following the partial invalidation of the speech prohibition imposed on corporations and labor unions in the context of 'electioneering communications.'"
The Court of Appeals stated that, since the FEC did not participate in the appeal, the court did not fully understand the FEC's position and would not "divine how the FEC would resolve the many issues raised in the appeal." Instead, the Court of Appeals vacated the District Court's decision and remanded the case to the District Court with an order to refer the matter back to the FEC for a "prompt" decision on whether it intends to pursue a rulemaking or whether it will further defend the current regulation in District Court.
On September 20, 2012, the District Court issued an order referring the matter back to the FEC with instructions to file a status report on or before October 12, 2012. On October 4, 2012, the Commission filed a status report informing the court of its decision not to initiate a rulemaking to amend its regulations governing the disclosure of electioneering communications, but instead to continue to defend the current regulation at 11 CFR 104.20(c)(9).
Subsequent to the Commission filing its status report, CFIF filed a petition asking the Commission to conduct a "narrow rulemaking" to amend the regulation to address issues raised by the D.C. Circuit. On October 9, the district court ordered the parties to notify the court of any decision by the FEC on CFIF's petition.
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Einhorn's a Hustler and He Doesn't Understand Or Care About Apple
The people who claim to "understand" Apple -- as the company moves through little more than a media- and analyst-induced noise fest -- these people do not have even a basic comprehension of why Apple is great. In fact, they see the world through a lens that's so antithetical to what Apple is about that's it probably not possible for them to get it.
This fantastic Haruki Murakami quote sums it up:
If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.
The MBA-types are beside themselves. They can't make sense of what Apple's doing. You have people coming on CNBC and elsewhere applying whatever some freaking textbook taught them and concluding that Apple should do this with X much cash and yield Y percent based on Z. Because that's what the formula says. Anything else just can't be. It's not possible. They can't deal with anything outside of their boring, lukewarm comfort zone.
These guys are bean counters. And, when it comes to Apple and companies anything like Apple, the beaners have irrelevant and outdated opinions.Sometimes things just don't make sense. They don't shake out in the real world the way you learned them in school. Apple doesn't play by the rules. Never has. Shouldn't now. It's not just a case of Apple being Apple because Apple can. It's part of a much more complicated mystique.
When a company does what Apple has done since it introduced the iPod, it deserves to play by a completely different set of seemingly nonsensical rules. Like Cramer said last night on CNBC's "Mad Money": Apple deserves our patience.
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DexCom Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2012 Financial Results
DexCom, Inc. (Nasdaq: DXCM) today reported its unaudited financial results as of and for the quarter ended September 30, 2012.
Product revenue grew to $21.1 million for the third quarter of 2012, an increase of approximately 27% from the $16.7 million in product revenue reported for the third quarter of 2011. The Company recorded $1.2 million of additional sales returns as a reduction of revenue related to the approval and commercial launch plans of our DexCom G4 PLATINUM ® system (the "G4 PLATINUM system"). Total third quarter 2012 revenue, which included development grant and other revenue, grew to $23.1 million, an increase of 26% from the same quarter in 2011. Product gross profit totaled $7.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2012, compared to a product gross profit of $7.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2011. The Company reported a net loss of $17.3 million, or $0.25 per share for the three months ended September 30, 2012, compared to a net loss of $13.3 million, or $0.20 per share for the three months ended September 30, 2011. The net loss for the three months ended September 30, 2012 included $6.9 million in non-cash expenses, comprised primarily of share-based compensation, depreciation, and amortization. Also included in net loss were revenue reductions and additional cost of goods sold totaling $4.2 million due to the approval and commercial launch plans of our G4 PLATINUM system.
Product cost of sales increased $4.2 million to $13.4 million for the third quarter of 2012 compared to $9.2 million for the same quarter in 2011, primarily due to the increased volume of product sales and $3.0 million of additional charges related to excess and obsolete inventory and accelerated depreciation on manufacturing equipment due to the approval and commercial launch plans of our G4 PLATINUM system. Total cost of sales increased to $14.7 million for the third quarter of 2012 compared to $10.1 million for third quarter of 2011, primarily due to increased product sales and charges noted above. Research and development expense increased by approximately $2.4 million to $10.6 million for the third quarter of 2012 compared to $8.2 million for the third quarter of 2011. Changes in research and development expense included additional salaries and payroll related costs, share-based compensation and clinical trial costs. Selling, general and administrative expense increased by approximately $1.9 million to $15.1 million for the third quarter of 2012 compared to $13.2 million for the third quarter of 2011, with the change primarily due to additional selling, marketing and information technology costs. As of September 30, 2012, the Company had $54.4 million in cash, marketable securities, and restricted cash.
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Yes, I see about 100 movies in a movie theater per year. So far there is only one person I know who sees more, but he doesn't keep a list.
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Slide Confirms Game Closures, Ending a Long and Wild Journey Building Social Apps
Some social gamers are going to miss SuperPoke Pets. But in Silicon Valley, social developer Slide will be remembered for how it saw the opportunity in social apps early on, and for how it doggedly and sometimes successfully adapted as social platforms changed.
It will also be remembered for how it didn't quite hit the key part of the trend at the right time as the industry evolved. Zynga instead cornered a big portion of social gaming, and is now heading towards an initial public offering worth billions.
After being acquired by Google in 2010 for more than $182 million, Slide initially seemed poised for a second wind (or more like a fourth wind) helping to lead the creation of a product to go against Facebook. Instead, some of the team continued running SuperPoke and other apps — it still has nearly half a million monthly active users on Facebook — or worked on new ones like photo-sharing mobile app Photovine. Those efforts were more on the peripheral of Google+ products, if not in competition with them. Tellingly, Slide's games weren't even included in its games launch earlier this month.
So, it's not all that surprising that Slide announced to the company yesterday that it would be shutting down almost all of its apps.
AllThingsD, which broke the story, also reported that founder Max Levchin is leaving, and so is up-and-coming product leader Jared Fliesler, who will join fellow former Slide executive Keith Rabois at mobile payments company Square.
This still isn't a failed acquisition in the way that other recent big ones have been, like Cisco's closure of its Flip device line. Most Slide employees are staying to work in other parts of the acquirer, and we've heard that attrition to date has already been very low. And because Google is busy hiring anyway, including for its game platforms and social products, these 100-some veteran employees are still in a good position to make an impact.
A Look Back at Slide's Products Over the Years
The company began life as a desktop photo browser app back in 2005, but quickly transitioned to take advantage of MySpace. It built an online photo app of sorts that users could embed in their profiles. To get a sense of how early this was in the industry, MySpace sometimes viewed third-party developers as threats and at various points tried to block their embeds.
Along with other older social competitors, like RockYou, Slide eagerly jumped on to Facebook's platform when it launched in May of 2007. It already knew how to get social distribution without a host platform's support. With official communication channels at its disposal, Slide quickly grew to become one of the largest developers in Facebook, with hits like profile embed Top Friends, and the unofficial wall app FunWall (later FunSpace).
Facebook effectively crippled many of these apps through a variety of product and policy changes in 2007 and 2008, removing profile boxes, banning apps that mimicked its official profile wall, and altering the news feed and notifications.
It was many of those same changes that game developers, notably Zynga, Playdom, Playfish and a few others, took advantage of to build social games in 2008 and 2009. When Facebook product and policy changes in turn hit these developers, they had already built up sizeable audiences — that monetized through virtual goods.
Slide spent much of the time focusing on a variety of other social products, like social sponsored television and ads. And although it fought its way into social gaming, it was going uphill against fresh incumbents in new terrain.
A Case Study in Perserverance
Future business case studies might draw all sorts of lessons from Slide. Certainly, today's entrepreneurs are.
It was right that social app development was a big new market. It hit at a good enough time to gain millions of users and become a leader on MySpace. It transitioned to do the same on Facebook. In the scope of the market, it also became caught in the paradox that faces all incumbents — it invested so much in earlier iterations of social apps that it wasn't in the right position at the right time to take advantage of social gaming.
It also arguably fought cleaner than many competitors. Although it observably spammed users in some of its apps, especially at earlier points in its history, it made a point of acting in the interests of users on Facebook when many game developers were merrily breaking the user experience to grow or make money. It never touched the scammy advertising offers that most social game developers initially relied on to generate revenue from virtual goods.
So all in all, despite not being a full win, Slide shouldn't be seen as a failure.
The company went about it the hard way, but got to a successful exit, and appears to be offering some ongoing value to its acquirer. And don't forget that the acquisition appeared to be a profitable return for stockholders — while the company was at one point valued at half a billion dollars, the final sale price was healthily above the $78 million it raised.
We had thought that Slide, given all of its experiences building social apps across platforms, could provide some hard-earned wisdom in Google's social product and platform development. And in fact, maybe it is and the results just aren't labeled clearly now.
If nothing else, we hope that the remaining Slide employees at Google help their company design great social products with high user value, low spam and no scams — and avoid some of the difficulties that MySpace, Facebook, and the various developers on their platforms, have had over the years.
[Photo browser via CNET. Top Friends screenshot via All Facebook. SuperPoke screenshot via Flickr/Lucy Takakura.]


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Welcome to the project's "What's On" page for the year. Keep checking here for details of all our events.
Oak Leaf Tea Room open Monday to Saturday 10am-3pm
Come along and treat yourself to morning coffee, lunch or afternoon tea in our fabulous tea room in a country setting, with home made cakes and lunches to tempt you. .
Oak Tree Farm Pottery
Terracotta and stoneware garden pots, produced by Team Members with help from our Pottery Instructor, are for sale Monday to Saturday all year round.
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are available year round for regular or one-off garden maintenance work. Telephone 01889505653 for details.
Annual General Meeting
This year's AGM will be held on Wednesday 9th April 2014 at 7.30 p.m. in the Oak Leaf Tea Room.
Plant Day, Saturday 10th May 2014 10am-4pm
Our Team Members are now working hard planting and potting in preparation for Plant Day. This is an opportunity to buy bedding plants, basket plants, hanging baskets etc, as well as look at the lovely pottery and visit the tea room.
Open Day, Saturday 13th September 2014 11am-3pm
Another favourite, our annual Open Day. A chance to see the work of the Team Members and to enjoy a day out.
Christmas at the Farm, Saturday 6th December 2014 11am-2pm
Start your Christmas shopping! Wreaths and gifts available, along with mince pies, fun and games!
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This specific video was recorded through a cell phone camera on the day before Epiphany Day on January 6th (according to the Old Julian Calendar; on January 18 according to the Revised Julian Calendar) in 2006, during the blessing of the waters which takes place every year on the same day at the Jordan, in the very same area where Jesus Christ himself was baptized.
This is a recurring annual miracle in the Holy Land on the Feast of Holy Theophany as followed by the Jerusalem Patriarchate. Read Fr. Milovan's article that accompanies the YouTube clip.
"Today the nature of water is sanctified. The Jordan is parted and reverses its flow on seeing its Master being baptised." - Orthodox Hymn for Theophany
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Theophany Miracle - The Jordan Reverses Its Flow
Posted by John Sanidopoulos at 3:34 AM
Labels: Miracles , Nativity and Theophany , Orthodoxy In Israel


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