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My answer to this question was, "never" until a couple of years ago. Sure, I was more likely to make a phone call on my cell phone than on my computer, but that is to be expected - it has traditionally been designed to be a voice communication device.
Opting for my cell phone rather than my laptop first started for me a couple of years ago. I began using SMS as a substitute for email. Then I started using email on my Blackberry because it would boot faster than my computer. Next came Google SMS - for me it was soooo much faster to get a phone number for a business through Google's SMS service than to call (ok, which costs money) or look online. Then, I got an iPhone and started downloading all kinds of applications. Some I barely use, but .... there are quite a few that I use rather than comparable experiences on the PC. These include Facebook (I'm more likely to be doing something interesting when I'm out and about), Scrabble (tallies the score for you), and maps (stopped printing all those maps out) among others.
For all of these services whereby I opt for my phone rather than my PC, I do so because the experience on the cell phone is more convenient. That means the benefits outweigh the inhibitors to use. When it comes to mobile services, there is convenience when there is value to the immediacy of the information or service, tasks are simple to execute and there is context - like my location.
We lay out this framework in our newly released report, "The Convenience Quotient of Mobile Services: A Facebook Case Study."
Thanks for your post. I think
Thanks for your post. I think maybe some years later, with the development of science and technolog, we can have only one device, a combined and powerful one.
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Yes I would have to agree, that I certainly use my mobile before my desktop. It's sometimes comical how I will check and reply to email using my phone evening while I am sitting at my computer.
The reality is our cell phone is psychologically attached to the task we perform. Even leaving the house with out your mobile can almost make you feel emotionally sick.
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LIKE READ, IRA DRUKIER, AN OWNER OF THE NEWLY opened Chambers hotel in midtown Manhattan, is a serious collector who's translating his passion for art into a business strategy. Located near MOMA and the galleries of West 57th Street, the Chambers' 77 guest rooms mimic artists' lofts: high ceilings and exposed concrete floors in the bathrooms, blackened-steel-and-leather furniture, bedside tables upholstered in canvas. And of course the rooms are crammed with art: more than 500 original works by emerging talents. "We started thinking about pieces for the guest rooms, and then we got carried away," recalls Drukier, who is also a co-owner of the chic Mercer in SoHo. "We began to develop site-specific installations in the hallways and asked David [Rockwell, the hotel's architect] to design the lobby so that art could be moved around and changed."
Drukier tapped consultants Leslie McBride and Adele Abide of New York's Museum Editions Art Advisors to curate what was becoming a substantial collection. "This was a major undertaking," Abide says. "Not too many hotels have all original work in every room." Abide and McBride pored over slides from recent art school grads and visited studios in Chelsea to dig up new talent. They gave each of 14 artists their own elevator landings to do with what they wished. John Newsom created vibrant paintings of fruits and flowers on one floor; on another, Bob and Roberta Smith painted a series of wall texts that make such fashionista-style pronouncements as up is the new down; irascible cult-classic director John Waters contributed photos from the set of his 1998 movie, Pecker. Unfortunately, the Chambers's hallways tend toward the narrow, so these installations don't always look their best. In some cases you wonder if extra space would have helped.
As in Budapest's Art'otel, catalogues in each guest room provide background on the artists and their work. Nothing in the Chambers is for sale, however. "If anyone likes the work, the front desk will refer them to the artists' dealers," Drukier says. "I don't want to be in the art business." And he really doesn't want his hotel overwhelmed with the tour groups that descend on the Budapest Art'otel either. "The lobby might become something of a destination," he concedes, "but we are, after all, a hotel."
Indeed. Though Drukier sees his hotel's focus on emerging artists as a boon to business, many guests who are able to pay $500 for a room don't necessarily want their art chosen for them. What happens if they take an active dislike to the canvases hanging on their wall?Is housekeeping allowed to come take them down?
André Balazs has skirted that problem altogether by embracing one of contemporary art's newest media. The stylish young things at his trendy Standard on L.A.'s Sunset Strip won't find original art in their rooms, but they can head down to the retro-chic lobby to see nonstop video installations by buzz-heavy artists like Vanessa Beecroft and Marco Brambilla. Every six months, curator Yvonne Force rotates the offerings of "The Standard Projection: 24/7." "I tailor the work to the people who stay at the Standard," says Force, referring to the hotel's youthful and chic devotees. Balazs is developing a system whereby guests can watch the lobby videos from the comfort of their rooms, on the in-house "Standard Channel."
LUXURY CHAINS—BESIDES THE RITZ-CARLTON AND THE FOUR SEASONS— are getting in on the act, too. The new 67-story Park Hyatt on Chicago's tony North Michigan Avenue features pieces by three big-name artists: Gerhard Richter, Isamu Noguchi, and Dale Chihuly. The centerpiece of the lobby is Richter's 1968 Piazza del Duomo Milan, a canvas purchased by the Hyatt chain from Sotheby's in 1998 for a reported $3.6 million. Staci Boris, an associate curator for Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, selected the art for the public spaces; David Travis, the Chicago Art Institute's curator of photography, chose the work of local photographers for the guest rooms. There's even a designated gallery on the seventh floor.
In New York, developer Forest City Ratner Companies and the Hilton Corporation sought guidance from the Public Art Fund in putting together a $4 million art program for the Hilton's newest properties, the Embassy Suites in Battery Park City and the Hilton Times Square. They liked "the idea of bringing the cultural life of New York into their hotels," says the Public Art Fund's Laura Raicovich.
Though the budget Embassy Suites might not be an obvious destination for art lovers, it should be. In the soaring atrium is Sol LeWitt's specially commissioned 11-story swirl of colors titled Loopy Doopy (Blue and Purple). The lobby has smaller but equally bright murals by Pat Steir. Farther uptown, in Disneyfied Times Square, whimsical sculptures by Tom Otterness angle from the Hilton's marquee. Inside, visitors will find 14 large-scale photos by Hiroshi Sugimoto, whose images include wax-museum mannequins (Madame Tussaud's is practically next door), and old Times Square theaters shot by Andrew Moore.
In the guest rooms in both hotels hang specially commissioned print editions by painters Mary Heilmann, Elizabeth Peyton, and Sara Sosnowy. "We made enough for both hotels," Raicovich says. Each property also claims a who's who of the contemporary art world, with prints, etchings, and photos by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Julian Schnabel, Louise Bourgeois, and Jeff Koons. "It's amazing that developers are committed to doing this kind of thing," marvels Raicovich of the push to give art top billing. "It's not cheap to commission someone like Sol LeWitt."


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RUNNING BACKS: A Like Cutler, Matt Forte was productive in a limited role, with 12 carries for 103 yards and a TD and 2 receptions for 45 yards. He had gains of 47, 46, 16 and 15 yards. But his 8-yard TD run was the most impressive.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Instead of getting more touches Sunday, Matt Forte got fewer against the Tennessee Titans. He just did more with them.
With only 12 carries and two receptions, Forte showed off his versatility and efficiency in the Bears' 51-20 rout of the Titans. He had a combined 148 yards on the 14 touches, rushing for 103 yards and a touchdown and adding 45 yards receiving.
But the numbers don't tell the whole story. Forte ran left for 15 yards. He ran right for 46. He ran up the middle for a tough-as-nails eight-yard touchdown, driving Titans defenders into the end zone for the final three yards. On a well-executed draw play, he gained 22 yards on third-and-21 for a first down. And he gained 47 yards on an equally well-executed screen pass.
''We took a big step in the right direction,'' Forte said. ''It started off a little slow. The defense and special teams got us going with turnovers and the touchdown. We did a great job.''
Forte said he got some help from his teammates on the touchdown run, when he bulled his way in after meeting resistance inside the 5.
''That was help from the offensive line,'' Forte said. ''They made a great block. The hole was right there. I think I got to the two-yard line and started getting hit, and the line came and knocked me into the end zone. I didn't do it on my own.''
Forte also credited his teammates for making key blocks on the 47-yard screen pass. Guard Lance Louis and tight end Kellen Davis had key blocks.
''Lance made a great block, and then I got a couple of guys blocking downfield and made the safety miss,'' Forte said. ''You do that, and you can make a big play out of it.''
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Bears fans seemed to outnumber Titans fans at LP Field and owned the stadium as the rout ensued.
''Coach [Lovie] Smith said this is Soldier Field South today,'' cornerback Kelvin Hayden said. ''We just wanted to make it worth their while.''
''Today was like a home game,'' defensive end Israel Idonije said. ''The fans [were] chanting, 'Go, Bears.' We have the greatest fans in all of professional sports. The support. The way they travel. The ability to take over a game and drown out the home-field advantage. That's hard to find. The dedication of our fans is unparalleled.''
Idonije 'sore' but OK
Idonije (left leg) and defensive tackle Henry Melton (back) left the game after suffering injuries in the first half. But each said his injury isn't serious, and both expect to play Sunday against the Houston Texans.
Idonije's injury appeared to be serious at first.
''It sounded bad,'' linebacker Brian Urlacher said. ''Any time you get one of your teammates down there screaming like that, it's not a good thing. But I think he's going to be OK, hopefully.''
''I got rolled up, but I'm OK,'' Idonije said. ''I'm sore now, but it'll be all right. I'm fortunate that I can play through pain.''
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Devin Hester nearly gave the Bears' special teams a second touchdown in the first quarter when he returned a punt 44 yards to the Titans' eight-yard line, where he was tackled by running back Jamie Harper. Forte scored on the next play to give the Bears a 14-2 lead.
It was Hester's longest punt return of the season. His previous best was 23 yards.
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When Louis retrieved a deflected pass inside the Titans' 10-yard line in the third quarter, he was thinking what everyone on the Bears thinks when he gets the ball.
''I was definitely thinking end zone, but things didn't work out,'' Louis said.
Louis was tackled at the 4 for a four-yard gain that led to a 22-yard field goal by Robbie Gould that gave the Bears a 37-12 lead.
''I just wanted to get the ball and make sure none of their guys intercepted it,'' Louis said. ''It was definitely exciting. It brought back memories of the tight end days in college.''


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Georges St-Pierre is as qualified as anyone to comment on the highly anticipated UFC 183 main event between returning former longtime middleweight champion Anderson Silva and his fellow returnee, former Strikeforce welterweight champ Nick Diaz. St-Pierre was Silva's contemporary for years atop the sport's pound-for-pound polls, and he fought Diaz, defeating him via decision at UFC 158. And while St-Pierre gives Diaz plenty of respect, he believes Stockton's most famous athlete made one mistake: read news >>
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Although it will have a minimal impact on our seafood supply, the awesome tsunami that roared across the Indian Ocean the day after Christmas has had a devastating effect on fishing communities in countries from Southeast Asia to Africa.The loss of life, of course, is beyond comprehension. In some villages in Indonesia's hard hit Aceh province, two thirds of the local fishermen were killed.And many of the fishermen who were fortunate to survive have lost everything. In Sri Lanka, almost 20,000 fishing boats were destroyed, either sunk or deposited as much as a mile inland by the incredibly powerful series of waves. The tsunami wiped out the infrastructure that supported the local fleets. Ice houses, harbors, shipyards, offloading docks, roads — all gone in a matter of minutes. In the areas where fishermen could venture out, they had a hard time selling their catch; rumors of fish feeding on corpses killed what little demand was left. While fishermen have suffered, so have fish farmers. Although there are very few shrimp farms on the Thai coast along the Andaman Sea, Thailand has large numbers of hatcheries that sell larvae to shrimp farms along the Gulf of Siam.These hatcheries are small-scale, family-run operations, and thousands of them were destroyed by the tsunami. Cages full of high-value fish like grouper and snapper were ripped apart. In many cases, an entire family's net worth may have been swimming in a cage. Now many fish and cages are gone.In the best of times, it's often a struggle just to make a living in this part of the world. Now tens of thousands of families in these industries have literally nothing but the clothes on their back. That's why the outpouring of help from the world seafood community has been particularly heartening. Within days of the disaster, people in the fish business were on the phone raising funds. In the United States, the National Fisheries Institute set up a coordinated effort to collect funds. A Seattle importer who markets seafood under the Tsunami brand promised to donate a portion of its sales to the effort (see Newsline, page 1). In Alaska, the state's Marine Safety Education Association immediately started raising money, which it funneled directly to a fishermen's organization in Sri Lanka. In Newfoundland, the provincial fishermen's union quickly organized a fund-raising campaign and contacted fishermen's groups in Iceland and Norway to coordinate efforts. In addition to money, the groups planned to send members to the affected countries to help rebuild fleets. In Norway, one fishermen's group announced it would start building boats for the ravaged fleets in Thailand. While the tsunami devastation is beyond tragic, the response from the global seafood industry is empowering. This incredibly diverse group has banded together and shown its true character.


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Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on August 5, 2014 | Be the First To Comment1942's Casablanca has repeatedly been canonized as the best film Hollywood ever made. Its iconic dialogue produced a bevy of quotable lines that sealed seated their seemingly eternal place in movie culture, and it's damn near impossible to refer to Humphrey Bogart's iconic career without bringing to mind his worn mug reminiscing to Dooley Wilson's iteration of "As Time Goes By" in his empty bar's depths of night. Never has Bogie been so tragically Bogie, or, for that matter, Bergman so classically Bergman, Rains so nobly Rains, Lorre so campily Lorre, and the film's team of studio scribes so harmoniously in tune towards a pitch-perfect example of Hollywood narrative convention. Given the vaunted reputation of Casablanca, it's strange that the film's director, Michael Curtiz, is so often obscured within observations of its notable ensemble, much less considered the film's reigning auteur. Among all the beloved directors of Classical Hollywood – Howard Hawks, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock – Curtiz is rarely included, often regarded on the relative margins as a talented director for hire, a perfect mirror to Casablanca itself: a stellar Hollywood product, but in a class altogether separate from, say, the previous year's Citizen Kane. But Curtiz's diverse career (for classical Hollywood) as it manifested over several decades, across horror films and gangster pics and musicals, bears evidence not only of a capable Hollywood director-for-hire, but a behind-the-lens personality whose revisited worldview throughout his career is inseparable from his individual works.
Of All the Gin Joints in All the Towns: The 10 Greatest Movie Bars
Cinematic Listology By Samantha Wilson on May 6, 2014 | Be the First To CommentSometimes, the urge to crack open a cold one when you're stuck in the middle of a Netflix binge can get overwhelming. And it's understandable; so many of our favorite films feature incredible bars and pubs that put our local haunts and dives to shame, intergalactic gathering spots that bring together alien races, chic international watering holes and rough roadsides that may necessitate a bodyguard or two. While we can't frequent these cinematic watering holes, it's okay to daydream and sip a martini or two while doing so. Here are the movie bars at which we'd love to pull up a stool.
The Amazing Origin Stories of 5 Great Films
Cinematic Listology By Scott Beggs on July 26, 2012 | Comments (6)This content series is in partnership with smartwater. smartwater, good taste travels well. Click here to learn more. Where do movies come from? At the risk of sounding like Lucas from Empire Records (although "What's with today, today?" is a perfectly valid question), there's something genuinely incredible about the spark that leads to a multi-million dollar piece of art, crafted by thousands of people that a massive audience can enjoy. Someone reads a book or hears a story or finds an old family heirloom in a basement. Someone wants to recognize a figure that made a profound impact on our world. Someone stumbles across an old idea or has a Eureka Moment in the shower. It all gets put through the ringer and ends up as the only source of light in a darkened room. So, yes, there's a magic to it all. Movies take their ideas from anywhere and everywhere (including other works of art and other movies). To celebrate that, here are five great films made just a bit more incredible by exploring where they come from.
12 Terrific Real Movies Shown In Other Films
Cinematic Listology By David Christopher Bell on June 14, 2012 | Comments (11)We rarely get to see movies being watched in other movies – probably because while it's fun to watch films, it's fairly boring to watch other people watch films. That being said – there are plenty of characters out there who would no doubt be a blast to watch movies with… Batman, for example. Anyway, when we do see a real life movie being watched in another movie it tends to be a film that most likely inspired the filmmakers either in their own upbringing or as a plot device in the film itself. Because of that one thing is certain – if you see a real movie being watched in the movie you're watching, there's a good chance that movie is awesome. Before anything though, I gotta shout out to Mr. Cole Abaius for coming up with the idea for this list. The man is a true demigod, and from what I hear the other half is pretty good too.
Movie News After Dark: More 'Chronicle' Found Footage, Oodles of Marvel Stuff, 'Casablanca,' 'Millennium,' and Fassbender's Missed Opportunity
Movie News By Kevin Carr on May 15, 2012 | Be the First To CommentWhat is Movie News After Dark? This week, it is like the idiotic parents' suburban Pasadena home in Project X. The responsible party is taking some time off, so he has handed the keys to some of us on staff, and we are having the Movie News After Dark House Party of the century. We're doing our best to remain somewhat respectable and deliver some entertainment news you may have missed this week, but at some point we all know we'll put a dwarf in the oven. On with the show. The first story is one you've likely seen already this weekend, but it's worth repeating for the sheer joy it brings. This weekend, Movies.com published the story of George Lucas doing something we can all get behind. After decades of trying to develop land in Marin County to make the biggest movie studio in the galaxy, and with his snooty neighbors blocking the $300m a year initiative for fear of causing problems, he has decided to develop low-income housing. Finally, people can pat him on the back and forget about Jar Jar, Han shooting first and a certain crystal skull.
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Movie News By Scott Beggs on May 10, 2012 | Comments (3)Warners is hoping to start a beautiful friendship with movie fans by offering digital copies of classic scripts – complete with background information and scenes embedded amidst the dialogue and description. Their digital distribution arm has announced the "Inside The Script" program which makes available these beefed-up versions of the original screenplays for classics for iBookstore, Kindle and NOOK. In addition to the script, a veritable book of production history, production notes, storyboard, pictures, posters and behind-the-scenes pictures are all included in the ten-dollar download (or $9.99 if you're a stickler for exactitude). Right now, the program includes work from Casablanca, North By Northwest, An American in Paris and Ben-Hur with plans to add more shortly. This seems like a treasure trove of movie geek goodness, but it'll be interesting to see if fans will shell out ten bucks for the privilege. What's most interesting here is that this is the kind of material normally relegated to coffee table books and historic tomes that could double as anchors. It's a sign that the studio is interested in engaging on a digital level. Now to see if that intuition will translate to film distribution itself. Either way, this program is a spectacular idea that could give a lot of fans the chance to delve deeper into a part of the movies they love. I'll take 3 Casablancas please. For more information, check out Inside The Script's Facebook Page.
The 10 Greatest Movies of All Time (According to the Internet)
Features By Scott Beggs on May 8, 2012 | Comments (63)This post is probably not what you think. There are no LOLCats, no Rage Comic stick men bellowing about the superiority of The Dark Knight and Inception. It's not really a love letter to modernity. But it's also not Sight & Sound's decennial Top Ten List. That prestigious publication has done great work since even before polling critics in 1952 to name the best movies of all time. They've recreated the experiment every ten years since (with filmmakers included in 1992), and their 2012 list is due out soon. However, there is certainly overlap. The FSR poll includes only 37 critics (and 4 filmmakers), but we're young and have moxy, and none of us were even asked by Sight & Sound for our considerable opinion. That's what's fascinating here. The films nominated by those invited by S&S have the air of critical and social importance to them. They are, almost all, serious works done by serious filmmakers attempting to make serious statements. This list, by contrast, is the temperature of the online movie community in regards to what movies are the "greatest." The results might be what you expect. But probably not.
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The report about Sea-lion hunging on Takeshima dates back to two weeks before the famous Battle of Tsushima which almost ended around Takeshima on 28th May 1905. This is one of the good evidence not only that incorporation was not "secret" at all, but also people of Shimane has already know the fact of incorporation very well.
"●Sea-lion Hunting on Takeshima
As you readers have already know, Takeshima is a solitary island far off in the sea which locates 85 sea-ris north-west of Oki country and one of the island is around 20-chou(町), the other is merely aounrd 12-chou. Mr. Nakai Yonesaburo first voyaged tothe year before last and found the colony of Sea-lion. He found it is a pity that the island is omitted from the sea-chart, and petitioned to the national government. Through the good offices of Mr. Nakai, the islands were determined as the territory of the empire and incorporated into our Shimane prefecture by the Prefectural Order on 22 Feb. Ths islands are, as were described above, a meeting place of sea-lions for three months from May to July. Now apart from Nr. Nakai, three more rivals has emerged. Then they publised the licence only to those four and is going to let the four to hunt cooperatively. Furthermore, from what I hear, the period of time above are the period of their deivery, so the female are on the land for nurcing the baby, and male also land for the love of female. This is convenient for hunting. 7-8 thousand of sea-lion are on the same zone, tops, but excessive hunting would damage their reproduction. So the number of hunting is limited to 6-7 hundred per year so that they would make a profit for 5-10 years."
The article says the man's name was Yonesaburo, but it is Yozaburo or Yosaburo, in fact. San-in Shimbun(山陰新聞) is a local newspaper in Matsue, and now it called San-in Chuo Shinpo(山陰中央新報).
The article was founded and provided by Mr. Magic Eye, who is a good researcher and a collector of those historical stuff. Thank you for sharing a good information with us !


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Introducing the Gran Fondo Virginia - one big celebration on two wheels!
The Gran Fondo Virginia will explore the rolling hills, lush scenery and vineyards of Albemarle County, Virginia - birthplace and home of U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe.
Starting and finishing at Walnut Creek Park, just south of Charlottesville, the GFV offers three courses that suit every level of cyclist: from the approachable (and reasonably flat) 22-mile Piccolo Fondo, to the hilly 71-mile Medio Fondo and the challenging 101-mile Gran Fondo that serves up 6,500 ft. of climbing over the many short,steep hills of southern and eastern Albemarle County.
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Event Format: A gran fondo is a non-competitive but challenging ride with a European, and specifically Italian, tradition. Designed to challenge and inspire, the gran fondo celebrates the sport of cycling and welcomes all cyclists to the start line. The Gran Fondo Virginia offers three routes of 22, 61 and 101 miles.
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Owner Emmanuelle Chiche is laissez-faire about Traore, who used to cook for Kofi Annan at the U.N. "He is developing a new style of 'nouveau African' cooking and people are responding to it," she says. Asked about the nightmare of her relationship with Ganic, Chiche demurred: "I'm so happy to put all that negativity behind us. It's not something we have to worry about anymore." Except for the fact that Ganic's new restaurant, Petite Crevette, is right around the corner and that he appears in the window from time to time. But there's room for both kitchens in Carroll Gardens.
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Retailers are finding that a key to success in the mushroom category is merchandising more than just your basic white or brown varieties.
The Angeli Foods Co. store in Iron River, Mich., carries 19 varieties of mushrooms, said produce manager Gary Simonson.
To-Jo Fresh Mushrooms Inc.The Acme Markets Inc. store in Hockessin, Del., featured 10 portabella caps for $10 during a promotion with To-Jo Fresh Mushrooms Inc., Avondale, Pa., June 21.Conventional whole and sliced white mushrooms are the most popular, but whole and sliced baby portabellas really have gained popularity in recent years, he said.
Simonson attributes their newfound fame to their "better flavor and better appearance after they've been cooked" than white mushrooms.
The fact that the price point is not much more than that of white mushrooms also helps.
Sales of other varieties seem to have inched upward, while sales of whites remains steady, he said.
The company sells bulk and packaged mushrooms, but the bulk product tends to be the more expensive mushrooms, like shiitake and oyster varieties, "where people might just want a couple of them."
Simonson thinks some of the increasing popularity of mushrooms is a result of their frequent appearances on TV cooking shows, and because consumers are becoming more aware of their health benefits.
Oyster mushrooms are a good example, he said.
In the past, he would have to throw away half of those he received.
"Now, I can't keep them on the shelf," Simonson said.
The independently owned Ralph's Red Apple market in Bremerton, Wash., offers whole and sliced white mushrooms, brown crimini mushrooms and portabellas, said produce manager John Walker.
They're available bulk or in 8-ounce packages and merchandised in a 4-foot display.
The store also offers chanterelles when they're in season in the fall, he adds.
Shoppers are as likely to pick up packaged mushrooms as they are bulk product at Ralph's Red Apple, he said.
"Some like to grab and go, and others prefer to pick their own," Walker said.
Packaged product is on ad more often, though. The store features mushrooms in its ad about twice a month.
Walker said he has no preference whether he puts out bulk or packaged product.
Angeli's features one type of mushroom on ad just about every week — usually whole whites or baby portabellas or sliced white mushrooms, Simonson said.
A couple of times a year, the store will feature all the mushroom varieties in one ad.
Simonson also has noticed sales becoming consistent year-round.
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Video: Were Scouts Held at Gunpoint?
DES MOINES, IA (CBS2/FOX28) A Des Moines Boy Scout leader is standing by his troop even in the middle of a new controversy.
Earlier this month, Troop Leader Jim Fox was traveling to Alaska with Troop 111 when they were stopped by Border Security.
One of the scouts took a picture of the agent, which is against the law, and as soon as that happened, security agents began searching their van.
Two scouts told Fox that when they tried to grab a bag to help, one agent pulled out his gun.
But now, there's some discrepancy in that report, because video from the border patrol's surveillance cameras, don't show anybody taking out a gun.
The Des Moines Register is reporting that on Wednesday, federal investigators met with Fox and another troop leader.
Fox says he doesn't believe his troop would lie and that the video was grainy, only had a few different angles, and had no audio.
Federal investigators say they're going to continue looking into things, and have requested to speak with the two scouts who say they saw a gun.
Fox has asked the boys not to speak publically and has discouraged them from meeting with federal investigators.


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"Albert McLean"
In loving memory of a dear son and brother Albert McLean who passed away 15 years ago February 21, 1998.
A date that's filled with sadness,
Has returned to us once more.
To mark the day you left us,
Yet still we miss you more.
So much in life has altered,
So much in life is new.
But where ever life may lead us.
We still always think of you.
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Photos: Cries of "Shame!" as camping ban passes at tense council meeting
The mood was charged from the beginning. Even before City Council voted nine to four to approve Denver's new urban camping ordinance, one audience member made a point during the Pledge of Allegiance. During its conclusion of "peace and justice for all," he shouted "ALL!" in protest against the measure councilmen Paul Lopez and Albus Brooks later refered to as developing along the lines of a "class war." Throughout the ninety minutes council members discussed the ban, shouts against it from outside the City and County Building underscored the debate . Big photos below.
And when the vote on the concept Brooks launched nine months ago was concluded, protesters drowned out the announcement with shouts of "Shame!" Many turned their backs on the council to symbolize their discontent, with some of those backs bearing the same message, "SHAME," as drawn in Sharpie on white T-shirts. They taped dollar bills to their mouths in protest.
Only council members Debbie Ortega, Paul Lopez, Susan Shepherd and Robin Kniech voted against the ban, which will go into effect on May 29 after it is signed by Mayor Michael Hancock within the next day.
All four opposing voters addressed the packed council chambers with concerns regarding enforcement and the city's shelter capacity. In her message, Ortega said 425 homeless individuals have died on Denver's streets in the past seven years, and she criticized the ordinance for not having the "balance" of its sit-lie predecessor. She earned the night's first standing ovation among many. The eruptions frequently compelled council president Chris Nevitt to bang his gavel and threaten audience members with expulsion if they did not quiet. Kelsey Whipple The audience turns its back on the council's decision to pass the ban.
Shepherd, who delivered her statement through choked breath, called the ban a "great injustice and tragedy" and reminded the audience that those who voted in favor of it will be up for re-election in 2015. When asked by Nevitt to present it to the gathering, she refused the task. "One thing I've learned in nine months is that I lead with my heart, and tonight my heart is very heavy," she said. "My heart is broken." In the meantime, she told the congregation, "You have the power to hold the proponents of this bill accountable. You better watch these suckers like a hawk."
In response to Shepherd, councilman Herndon reiterated the ban's improvements over similar ordinances across the state and pointed to the one in Colorado Springs as proof of success. "My logic is fact-based," he said. Brooks blended the two ideas, saying he has lead with his head and his heart across nine months and more than seventy meetings with citizens and stakeholders. Kelsey Whipple Protesters scribbled the Occupy Denver legal support line on their arms in case of arrest.
To stress once again the Denver Police Department's stated intention not to cite or arrest anyone for violating the ban unless in an emergency situation, Brooks read from the new protocol officers will use to train for it, which urges them not to make any arrests if shelter is unavailable -- although that suggestion does not appear in the ordinance as written. Kniech congratulated the department on the addition, but said it was not enough of a change to earn her vote. Kelsey Whipple
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- 1/2 cup(s) buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon(s) Dijon mustard
- 2 clove(s) garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon(s) hot sauce, such as Tabasco
- 2.75 pound(s) chicken legs, skin removed, fat trimmed
- 1/2 cup(s) whole-wheat flour
- 2 tablespoon(s) sesame seeds
- 1.5 teaspoon(s) paprika
- 1 teaspoon(s) dried thyme leaves
- 1 teaspoon(s) baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon(s) salt, or to taste
- Freshly ground pepper, to taste
- Olive oil cooking spray
- Whisk buttermilk, mustard, garlic and hot sauce in a shallow glass dish until well blended. Add chicken and turn to coat. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator for at least 1/2 hour or for up to 8 hours.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with foil. Set a wire rack on the baking sheet and coat it with cooking spray.
- Whisk flour, sesame seeds, paprika, thyme, baking powder, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Place the flour mixture in a paper bag or large sealable plastic bag. Shaking off excess marinade, place one or two pieces of chicken at a time in the bag and shake to coat. Shake off excess flour and place chicken on the prepared rack. (Discard any leftover flour mixture and marinade.) Spray chicken pieces with cooking spray.
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The movie poster for this fall's The Hunting Party features a black-and-white photo of Richard Gere and Terrence Howard, press passes dangling from their necks, pasted on a blood-orange background that reads: LIARS—CHEATS—PLAYBOYS—THIEVES. The last word in this litany? JOURNALISTS.
The poster is meant, presumably, to attract audiences through the sheer force of its irony. (They're liars and journalists? How intriguing!) But the real irony, most viewers would agree, is how un-ironic these labels are: the mighty fell a long time ago. "Once a cultural hero," Russell Baker writes of reporters in a recent piece for The New York Review of Books, "he was glamorized in the movies by Clark Gable and she by Rosalind Russell." But now, on film as in life, "nobody phones the paper expecting to find a hero anymore."
First: ouch. Second: granted. Gone are the days when a movie journalist—Citizen Kane's Thompson, Deadline, USA's Hutcheson, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein—occupied a black-and-white moral landscape where Right battled Wrong with the sharp sword of Truth. But gone, too, is the post-post-Watergate disenchantment that forced celluloid reporters to fall on that sword through treatments that portrayed them, as Christopher Hanson pointed out in these pages in 1996, as amoral (Absence of Malice), callous (The Paper), credulous (Bob Roberts), cartoonish (I Love Trouble), sensationalist (Network), ambitious (Broadcast News), manipulative (Hero), manipulated (Wag the Dog), murderous (To Die For), or some dastardly fusion thereof. Hollywood's Janet Malcolmesque indictment of journalists as "morally indefensible" has had its fifteen minutes—well, fifteen years—of infamy. Its time, thankfully, is up.
In its place, we have Capote, which The New Yorker's David Denby called "the most intelligent, detailed, and absorbing film ever made about a writer's working method and character." And Good Night, and Good Luck, whose portrait of Edward R. Murrow is as reverent as it is finely wrought. And Veronica Guerin, whose journalist heroine is murdered—martyred—for her dogged reporting of Dublin's illegal drug trade. And In My Country. And Infamous. And Blood Diamond and Zodiac and A Mighty Heart. Recent films, from 2003's Shattered Glass to The Hunting Party, don't glorify their journalist figures; neither do they reduce them to big-screen villainy. Perhaps taking a cue from journalism's increasing expansion into mass culture, or perhaps simply sick of all the gloom, these films trade the traditional hero/villain archetype—"mass-mediated myth," the film scholar Matthew Ehrlich calls it—for nuanced studies of the social, familial, financial, and sometimes ethical compromises journalism demands of its practitioners. With the odd exception (Perfect Stranger, in which Halle Berry's status as a journalist is a mere plot device, or All the King's Men, in which Jude Law's columnist is as flat as the film he narrates), Hollywood is replacing symbolism with sympathy. And its films are better for it.
Take Capote and its (criminally overshadowed) sister film, Infamous. The movies are not portraits of Truman Capote himself—they offer only snippets and insinuations of his life as a whole—but, rather, biographies of his most famous piece of journalism. They depict In Cold Blood from conception (Capote's serendipitous sighting of a headline about the Holcomb murders), to gestation, to eventual development into a nonfiction novel that is, as Infamous's Truman purrs, "as dazzling and unique as a Fabergé egg." The films study the economy-of-two that develops between a reporter and a source, one that transforms truth and trust into valuable—and tradable—commodities. In Capote's case, those transactions can be turbulent. ("I never judge my characters," Infamous's Truman informs Perry, the murderer who is also his key source, by way of encouraging the exchange. "I am not a character," Perry retorts. "I am a human fucking being.") The films question the relationships Capote brokers with Perry and his other sources: the way he manipulates their trust. The way he exploits their pain. The way he views them as vehicles for the poetry of his prose. But they also celebrate the journalism In Cold Blood represents, a "new form of reportage" that, as New Yorker editor William Shawn predicts in Capote—correctly, it turns out—"is going to change how people write."


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An exploration of contemporary Aboriginal art comprises Debra and Dennis Scholl's exhibition this year for Art Basel Miami Beach. The Australian curator Henry Skerritt has transformed the couple's home to mix their contemporary art collection with their new interest in indigenous abstract painting.
Skerritt, who has devoted equal space to both, says that the juxtapositions throughout the interior of the couple's South Beach home—such as a large work by the Peruvian artist William Cordova riffing against a pair of elegant pieces by the late Prince of Wales (Midpul) and Lily Kelly Napangard—are employed to help visitors recognise the inherent contemporaneity of the works of art being produced in indigenous Australia. "These are not 'primitive' or 'ethnographic' objects," Skerritt says. "They are works of art that address the most pressing question of our time: how do we conceive the unity of the planet and the diversity of worlds it contains?"Sensory perceptionSeeking a visual vocabulary specific to their culture, the Aboriginal paintings in the show are characterised by abstract forms and unique symbolism. Painters such as Paddy Bedford from East Kimberley use a thick application of natural ochres in broad, minimalist sections of modulating colour. Dots on the outlines of shapes work like musical notes, accentuating the liminal spaces to create a warm and vital world view, blending the historical traditions and contemporary realities of indigenous life. "All of these works are about the visualisation of different modes of sensory perception; they are about redefining the isolation with which we consider our senses. This, again, comes down to how we see, shape and imagine the world in which we live," Skerritt says. "These artists are attempting, albeit in very different ways, to reconnect art to the sensory world of the present." The exhibition promises to engage visitors by giving them an opportunity to experience the energy and inventiveness of an art form that Skerritt says is still mysterious to many."Aboriginal art is produced in some of the most remote parts of the planet, in places with little access to internet or telecommunications, and yet the artists are producing works that touch on the most relevant issues in contemporary art," he says. "Most of the works in the show are produced by elderly men and women deeply rooted in ancient cosmologies, but they are able to distil this knowledge into profoundly moving visual statements.""No Boundaries"; by appointment only. The exhibition is due to open at the Nevada Museum of Art in February 2015 and will tour to four other US museums
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50% less sat fat • 100% less cholesterol than the original recipe see the comparison. This lemony bean-and-grain side dish is packed with fiber6 grams per serving! Pair it with any grilled entrée for a fabulous summer meal.
- 1 cup fresh basil leaves
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup chopped seeded tomato
- 1/2 cup sliced green onions
- 4 cups torn Bibb lettuce
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 cups cooked quinoa*
- 1 can (15 oz) red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 cup chopped yellow sweet pepper
- Place basil in a food processor. Add Parmesan cheese, lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, salt, and black pepper. Cover and process until nearly smooth, stopping to scrape down side as needed. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, stir together cooked quinoa, the beans, sweet pepper, tomato, and green onions. Add basil mixture; stir to coat.
- Serve quinoa mixture over torn lettuce.
- * To make 2 cups cooked quinoa: In a fine strainer, rinse 1/2 cup quinoa under cold running water; drain. In a small saucepan, combine 1 1/4 cups water, the quinoa, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Let stand to cool slightly. Drain off any remaining liquid.


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Back to machines! Not a big Ford Fan , but 351 cu. in. 1970-ish.? Larger intake-exhaust valves. Small "quench" comb. chamber.! Hotter cam.! 285 HP , I think ? Carburetor and the Heads were the biggest Difference.! Don't know a hole lot about the Fords , Chevy man here..!
My buddy Eric's AMX. He has three. The gold one has the original paint on it. He always whoops up on my goat at the track. But I have beat his blue one.
one of my favorite Trans Ams ever! 1973 Super Duty 455 in Brewster green.
two more semi-muscle cars i owned in the past. both were somewhat obscure then and one is very rare today. the first was a 1975 Laguna S-3 based of the Chevelle body. last Chevrolet passenger vehicle even offered with a 454 big block. the Laguna body was used for NASCAR racing and they were still using them into about 1977 or 1978. mine had the silver and black stripes and rally rims like this one. mine had a 350 SB and TH350 transmission. console, Astro bucket seats, full gauges including a tachometer, P/S, P/B, A/C and other goodies. loved the car, but i traded in on my first new truck in 1988. this one of the few i wish i had back. second one is a 1977 Pontiac Can Am. based off the Lemans body and platform with many Grand Prix interior parts. only came in Cameo white with either tan, black, red or white interiors. mine had the red interior. only made that one year. production was around 1377 but this is not been confirmed for fact. mine had a Pontiac 400 in it with a TH350 trans. very cool looking car. another one now i wished i had back due to the low surviving numbers of them. i sold mine to fund a big block Monte Carlo project i had going on at the time. the Can Am is defenately worth way more than the Monte Carlo ever was!
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Starrett 798 Series Caliper Gauge Review
The Starrett 798 Series Caliper Gauge is a quality measuring tool and customers believe it is the best digital caliper on the market. It will accurately measure from 0 to 12 inches and features an easily readable LCD screen as well as a sleek design. They are accurate to 0.0005" or 0.01 mm and will always measure and read reliably.
Its IP 67-certification ensures that the electronic components will resist a variety of debris and submersion for a period of 30 minutes under standard conditions. It means that measurements will not only be reliable, but accurate as well. This caliper is designed to be used with one hand and the bar and slide are substantial at 3.5 mm thick. The unit comes with a battery and is programmed to automatically shutdown after 30 minutes when not being used.
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Design – a device which will measure 0 to 12″ and 0 to 300 mm and which provides 0.0005″ and 0.01 mm accuracy
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Lock Screw – this will hold the slide in position for accurate measuring
Outer Measuring Jaws – 2-1/2" (63.5 mm) long
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Monday, April 2, 2012
So, Lately...
I've been thinking about all these things:
- The view of the harbour from my apartment is pretty amazing to watch as the sun rises
- Actually, I just can't eat wheat. Not even "just this once". Unless of course my idea of fun is being doubled
over my ulcer pains
- Shameless is probably the next thing I'm going to be obsessed with
- Being alone and being lonely are not the same thing
- Gay Best Friends are people who should be cherished
- Girls from the Southern Suburbs aren't nearly as scary as I had first imaged, and they really make for pretty
wonderful friends
- I should (and I am going to) ride my bike to work more often
- This year has probably been the most I've ever grown as a person, and I am quite pleased with that
- You can try and try and try to show someone that they are doing something the wrong way, but until they
see it for themselves, you really are wasting your breath
- Living in Woodstock means that taking a taxi to town is finally financially viable
- Just because you can cook for and look after someone, doesn't mean they owe you anything
- Heels are absolutely wearable and actually do make you feel pretty sexy
- It is absolutely imperative that my lingery match if I'm going to have any chance at a good day
- The attributes you love the most in people, are also the attributes you will at some point hate the most
- Getting up at 6am on a Sunday makes your weekend that much longer, and offers some beautifully quiet
bits of Cape Town for you to explore
- Sometimes, you just get a bout of Booze Psychosis
- Followed by Booze Losers Complex
- I am probably going to give in to my iPhone envy with my next upgrade
- There comes a time when you don't even feel like online stalking someone anymore. And then you know
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This post has made me sad. Or perhaps it's that I feel sad already and, in reading your post, I can relate to a lot of what you've said: this year has probably been the most I've ever grown as a person too. The attributes you love the most in people, are also the attributes you will at some point hate the most. I love Shameless too (but never got to see the end of the very last season because of the breakup of my relationship). Sounds so retarded and I'm sure that if I had to explain to people, in general, what it is that's taken the ground from under my feet they'd tell me to fuck right off and rememer how fortunate I really am... but this post... today... resonated with me in a really big way. Just wanted to share that with you
ReplyDeleteRepliesThanks so much for your comment. Cause I suppose that's what really makes writing these posts worthwhile. Knowing that someone out the in the world wide interweb is feeling the same things that I am. It's nice to know I'm not the only one. I hope it's nice for you to know you're not the only one either.
- AnonymousApril 3, 2012 at 7:59 AM
So many things to relate to, been finding it so difficult from a guys point of view to deal with a complete breakdown of a marriage, especially when it's unexpected and you have the notion of "harden the f*#k up" constantly drilled into you by society.
Thanks for offering a brief respite to the crappiness of life at the moment.
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Check out our top 20 list of fun things to do with your kids in Westchester this November, including menorah and Christmas tree lightings, Thanksgiving events, and family shows in Ardsley, Chappaqua, Dobbs Ferry, North Salem, Ossining, Scarsdale, Tarrytown, White Plains, Yonkers, and beyond.
Hudson River Museum, YonkersNov. 2
The Mexican holiday of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) remembers and honors those who have departed. Family members make an altar, placing offerings of food, sugar skulls, candles, incense, flowers, and a photo of the departed soul on it. At the Hudson River Museum's Dia de los Muertos Celebration, families can enjoy art projects, music, food, face painting, and other traditional holiday fun. At 3pm, see a parade and performance from Banda de los Muertos, a 14-piece group with a heavy-metal, brass-driven sound. From 1-4pm, take a guided Spooky Walk in English and Spanish through haunted Glenview, the museum's riverside mansion; view the altar, decorated by Yonkers artist Zafiro Romero Acevedo (on view Oct. 26–Nov. 4); and make scary skull prints, face masks, tissue-paper flowers, or mini skull pillows with artist Pepe Coronado. Mexican food will be available for purchase.
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Toddlers join in the center's traditional "turkey token" hunt along a woodland nature trail, followed by refreshments and nature crafts. Registration online is recommended. Rain or shine.
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Welcome to the start of your voyage of discovery through 'Incredible India'! You will be met at Delhi International Airport by our friendly local team and transferred to your hotel where your room is reserved for early check in. Enjoy the remainder of the day at your leisure to explore or relax as you like.
This morning, our Welcome Meeting takes place. We'll then enjoy a morning sightseeing tour of Old Delhi, taking in the impressive Red Fort, Jama Masjid - India's oldest and largest mosque. This afternoon why not further enhance your exploration of this bustling city with an afternoon guided journey through the New Delhi area the highlights will include India Gate, a drive past the Parliamentary buildings and President's house, a guided visit to Humayun's tomb then concluding with sightseeing to UNESCO World Heritage Site Qutub minar. Have a read of the Enhance Your Holiday page for info.
This morning we will take you to the station for the express train to Agra (Bhopal Shtbdi - DEP:-06:00 - ARR:-08:06 - AC Chair Car). Arriving into Agra our local guide will take you to the hotel. Later, we visit Agra Fort which boasts some of India's finest Mughal buildings behind it's fortified walls. During its history it has been a palace, a fort and a prison! We conclude the day with a guided visit to the Taj Mahal.
This morning we head out of town with our luggage and visit Fatehpur Sikri, former imperial capital of the great Mughal emperor Akbar. Built between 1569 and 1585, it has been deserted for more than four centuries, by all accounts abandoned in 1600 due to a meagre supply of water. After, we drive to Bharatpur and enjoy a rickshaw ride through the bird reserve to see the natural surroundings and then you have a few hours to enjoy an early dinner at a gorgeous mansion house. We then transfer to the station for the train to Jaipur. (Kurj Udz Sup- DEP19:00 - ARR22:20-AC Chair Car). Arriving into Jaipur we transfer you to the hotel.
This morning look out for the snake charmers that dot our route as we travel to the 16th century Amber Fort. An exotic elephant ride transports us to the lofty fort where we'll enjoy a tour of this Rajput extravaganza. This afternoon perhaps opt for a journey of discovery through the historic pink city of Jaipur where we start with a photo stop in front of Jal Mahal (lake palace) thereafter visit the ancient astronomical observatory of Jantar Mantar, and a guided tour of the city palace complex and it's fascinating nooks and crannies. Have a read of the Enhance Your Holiday page for info.
Enjoy a day at your leisure to further explore the city. hotel check out is 12 noon and you can leave your bags at the hotel reception. This evening we transfer to the station for the train to Jodhpur (Ranthambore Exp DEP:-17:00 - ARR:-22:00 - AC Chair Car). Arriving into Jodhpur station our driver will assist you to the hotel.
This morning with a guide enjoy a visit to the magnificent Mehrangarh Fort, the Old City clock tower, Sadar Market and the Royal Cenotaphs located in Jodhpur city. Remainder of the day is at your leisure to explore.
Today we will make our way to Udaipur by private car. Along the way, making two interesting stops to visit Ranakpur with its famous Jain temples, then Kumbhalgarh Fort, one of the most important and well preserved forts in Rajasthan.
This morning enjoy a sightseeing tour of the breathtaking City palace, which is followed with a visit to the Jagdish Temple and Sahelion-ki-bari Gardens. This afternoon/evening why not opt to visit the Monsoon Palace to experience a magical atmosphere at twilight? Have a read of the Enhance Your Holiday page for info.
Enjoy today to explore this romantic city packed with interesting little street markets, temples and ancient residential buildings.
This morning you be taken to the airport in Udaipur for the flight to Kochi. (07:15 Udaipur – 16:40 Kochi - Connecting in Mumbai). Arriving into Kochi, we will transfer you to your hotel.
This morning board a simply furnished private rice-boat for a 2 night journey through the backwaters of Kerala. Crewed by a poler to push the rice boat through the water, a distance of some 20 kms will be covered, during which time the boat will glide past colourful local villages. As for dining, the on-board cook will prepare meals using fresh local produce.
Sit back, relax and enjoy the scenery, tasty meals on board and the few stops made along the way to see rural villages and the laid back pace of life on the backwaters.
Disembarking at Alleppey, you'll be driven the short distance to your gorgeous boutique hotel at Fort Kochi, the Eighth Bastion.
Sit back and relax here in this laid back coastal area of India; walk along palm fringed beaches looking for shells and watching the fishermen at work, or simply kick back and enjoy some fresh fruit cocktails served on a silver platter.
Sadly your journey has reached its conclusion, we will transfer you to the airport in Kochi in time for your flight home.
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The FTM Plus models are in MemoRight's Commercial Series of products. MemoRight believes they manufacture SSDs that are a cut above consumer drives; a claim we will be looking at today in the build quality. In the past we've found MemoRight's products to be of the highest quality with custom features and a strong emphasis placed on reliability. The company isn't always the first to market with a new product, but their products are generally regarded as some of the best.
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After a quick search online I was able to find the MemoRight FTM Plus Series of SSDs controlled by a SandForce SF-2281 and synchronous flash. At this time the 120GB model has the absolute lowest price for this combination I've seen to date, 159.99 USD. It is important to remember that this is a drive with synchronous flash, not asynchronous flash. To put it bluntly, this is the combination you want. The 240GB model that we are looking at today doesn't share the same ultra-low cost, it's 449.99. The 240GB model is right in the middle of the pack with its competitors.
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The older language in which the theme of "conformity to this world" was stated in Bible times had to do with "idols," with those unworthy objects of devotion to whom men in their blindness sacrificed. Thus it is quite fitting to describe the use of violence as the outworking of an idolatry. If I take the life of another, I am saying that I am devoted to another value, one other than the neighbor himself, and other than Jesus Christ Himself, to which I sacrifice my neighbor. I have thereby made a given nation, social philosophy, or party my idol. To it I am ready to sacrifice not only something of my own, but also the lives of my fellow human beings for whom Christ gave His life.
In the deep nonconformity of mind to which the gospel calls us, we can not accept the analysis according to which one kind of action (suffering servanthood) is right from the point of view of revelation, but some other pattern is equally right from the practical perspective. This ultimately denies the lordship of Christ and shuts Him up in the monastery or the heart. There is clearly a double standard in the world, but it is not between discipleship and common sense; it is between obedience and rebellion.
~ John Howard Yoder, The Original Revolution, 174-75.