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Blog on a regular basis. A common, and critical mistake that bloggers make is not providing updates often enough. Readers will become bored quickly if the articles aren't updated on a regular basis. Beginning bloggers should aim to post one blog a week and send out an email update when they do this.
Avoid succumbing to writer's block by varying your content between text, audio, and video formats. This helps to avoid the mundane and livens up your blog with all different kinds of exciting media. By mixing up the content, your mind will be fresher and more engaged. Your followers will feel the same way.
Link building is an important aspect of blogging as well. This is an easy way to start getting your blog a lot of traffic. Then you may see profits rise as you continue to blog.
Think carefully about using advertisements when you blog. This is one of the common ways to earn money while writing a blog. The dilemma is that they are clearly advertisements. The moment a reader sees an ad, he or she knows that you're attempting to make a profit from your blog.
Search Engines
Do not overuse keywords. Selecting good keywords is certainly a key part of getting readers to your blog, but a few good keywords far outweighs tons of less-targeted ones. Web content is constantly being analyzed by the search engines in more sophisticated and efficient ways. When you use too many keywords on your site, it flags the search engines and tells them that quality content is not your first priority, which results in lower rankings for your site. It's most important to choose key phrases which are exacting and will bring in new readers, instead.
You can use other forms of social media to promote your blog, but be careful not to overdo it. If everything you tweet is a link to your blog, people will not pay attention to them after a while. Surrounding your links with some interesting content will make you look like less of a spammer.
Choose a topic for your blog which you are passionate about. It is easier to write things that you care about. It will give your writing more weight and sincerity. Also, it will make your connection to your readers stronger, making your blog thrive.
Build some specific tabbed areas for highlighted articles. The area right before your sidebar is another important hot spot. You can create a custom tabbed zone that contains the most important articles for your most relevant categories. Tabs increase your page's usability and increase the probability of your reader clicking on the tabbed material.
Commenting on other people's blogs is an excellent method of raising interest in your own blog. Keep a folder in Google Reader for your competition and check it daily. Continually comment with interesting remarks.
Redistribute your blog posts all over the worldwide web. This will help get you as many readers as possible. There is no such thing as too much viewership. You want to get your content out to the largest number of people with the least amount of effort. Make use of every outlet you can find to attract the most readers.
Two important parts of writing a blog are great content and marketing. Having one without the other won't get you very far – you need to combine both aspects. If you aren't writing excellent posts on a regular basis, your readers will leave and find a blogger who does. But, if you fail to promote the blog effectively, no amount of good content will save you. Make sure to promote your blog as well as producing great articles to ensure that your blog has the best chance of success.
Now that you've reached the end of this article, you are equipped to create and maintain your blog. Keep this information in mind and do not hesitate to re-read the article to be sure you've absorbed all of the tips.
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In 1991, Dan Gookin, a would-be programmer who couldn't find a simple book that would help him learn to code for DOS, wrote DOS for Dummies. The book's popularity launched the massively popular For Dummies series, which now comprises 1,800 topics with 250 million books in print.
Open Air Publishing hopes to cash in on the next iteration of how-to books with apps designed specifically for the iPad.
"We think of books in a non-print way and think about how interactive and video elements can add to the user experience," said Jon Feldman, CEO of Open Air.
One of Open Air's iPad apps, Master Your DSLR Camera: A Better Way to Learn Digital Photography, is designed for aspiring photographers who purchased a DSLR because they want to take better pictures than they can with their smartphone, but can't take advantage of their camera's manual settings.
"The 'Dummies' books in the printed form make a promise that you'll become a great photographer, but they have trouble delivering," said Feldman, who founded the company in 2011.
"With a black-and-white paperback book trying to make you a great photographer, there's a real disconnect between the promise and the results. Plus, a 200- or 300-page book can get really boring and intimidating," he said. "We thought we could do this better.
"The other failed promise of the paperback how-to book is that you probably won't have it with you when you need it. With e-books in general, you'll always have your complete library with you."
Like a traditional how-to photography book, "Master Your DSLR" takes you through the basics of how a digital camera works, photographic techniques and camera settings. But because it's an interactive app, you can see for yourself the difference various settings make to a photo.
By sliding your fingertip across ISO settings from ISO 100 to ISO 6,400, for example, you can observe how adjusting the camera's light sensitivity affects a picture of a dark room, for instance.
Each of Open Air's three books takes an approach that matches the content. "We think about the best way to teach each concept in a how-to book. In some cases that's writing, but in many cases it's a mix of writing, photographs, illustrations, interactivity and video. It's a product that's a better way to learn, built from the ground up for this medium," said Feldman.
Another app, Speakeasy Cocktails, begins with some history about the failed social experiment, Prohibition, that gave rise to the illegal parlors where alcohol was sold—and is the app's namesake. The opening chapter, which describes speakeasies in the 1920s, is accompanied by a rollicking recording of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes."
The app continues with a description of the tools of the bartending trade, such as the Boston Shaker, Cobbler Shaker and Parisian Shaker, which you can purchase with a couple of taps on the iPad. Also included, of course, are "old school" and "new school" cocktail recipes, categorized under the predominant spirit.
The real stars, however, are the two bartenders whose videos demonstrate techniques such as shaking, stirring and rolling, as well as measuring, swizzling, muddling and garnishing, among others. Bartenders Jim Meehan and Joseph Schwartz also demonstrate how to make mixed drinks, from a martini to a mojito.
Not all recipes have videos—that would be redundant—but they all include links to the videos of the techniques they call for.
The personalities of the bartenders, as well as the two cooks in the third book, Holiday Recipe and Survival Guide, jump off the screen in a way that isn't possible with printed books.
"Besides being an expert on their topic, we look for people who can connect with the audience. It's hard to know until you see it, but people like Martha Stewart and Oprah are fantastic at connecting with the audience, and that's what you look for in our camera talent," Feldman said.
Open Air's next book, "The Better Bacon Book," will be about how to make, cook and appreciate high-quality bacon at home.
So how's it working for OpenAir? The company didn't want to get into specific unit sales with TabTimes, but a quick look at the App Store revealed that, while the volume of user reviews isn't particularly high, each of the three books mentioned above have an average rating of 4.5 stars.
"For us, what's been successful is to focus on very high-quality talent, both the writers and the people who appear in the videos, and to focus on a very beautiful design aesthetic that is easy to follow with high-definition photos and videos that take advantage of the beautiful iPad screen," Feldman said.
"On the iPad, people are looking for high quality, and we strive to outdo ourselves with every book."

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SRI Profiles
Associate scientist
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
2075 Bayview Ave., Room E2 40
Toronto, ON
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- M.Sc., 1994, department of pharmacology, University of Toronto, Canada
- PhD, 1997, department of pharmacology, University of Toronto, Canada
Appointments and Affiliations:
- Associate scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Trauma, Emergency & Critical Care Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
- Executive director, pharmacoeconomic research, HOPE Research Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Assistant professor, department of pharmacology, University of Toronto
- Co-director, Clinical Research Associate Network (CRAN)
- Co-chair, Working Group in Economic Assessment (WGEA), National Cancer Institute of Canada
- Scientific steering committee member, Ontario HIV Treatment Network
- Member, research ethics board, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Member, pharmacy and therapeutics committee, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Research Focus:
- Health economic and outcomes research
Research Summary:
Dr. Mittmann has conducted and collaborated on research projects in the areas of meta-analysis, economic evaluations, outcomes research and utility assessments. Her research methodologies include the examination of large databases, economic methodologies and decision analysis. Her clinical areas of interest include oncology, cardiology, trauma, infectious disease and health policy.
Dr. Mittmann has received funding as either a principal investigator or as a co-investigator from Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC), Neurotrauma Foundation, Heart and Stroke Foundation, Canadian Dermatology Foundation, Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN), Canadian Stroke Network and the Physician Services Incorporated Foundation.
Through the Clinical Trials Group of the NCIC (NCIC CTG) and the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), Dr. Mittmann is the co-principal investigator for the adaptation of economic guidelines for oncology products. This project will provide national guidelines for the conduct of economic analysis for oncology products. This work will be used by decision makers across Canada for the economic evaluation of oncology medications.
Dr. Mittmann has also co-supervised two masters-level graduate students and has undergraduate teaching responsibilities at the University of Toronto.
Selected Publications:
See current publications list at PubMed.
- Mittmann N, Trudeau M, Alloul K, Koo M, Verma S. Cost effectiveness of TAC versus FAC in the Adjuvant Node Positive Breast Cancer. Current Oncology. In press Feb 2010.
- Lathia N, Mittmann N, DeAngelis C, Knowles S, Cheung M, Piliotis E et al. Evaluation of Direct Medical Costs of Hospitalization for Febrile Neutropenia. Cancer. In press 2010.
- Chan B, Hales B, Shear NH, Ho V, Lynde C, Poulin Y et al. Work Related Lost Productivity and its Economic Impact in Canadian Patients with Moderate to Severe Psoriasis. Journal of Cutaneous Medicine & Surgery 2009;13(4):192-7.
- Bessette L, Risebrough N, Mittmann N, Roussy JP, Ho J, Zlateva G. The Cost of Utility of Celecoxib Use in Different Treatment Strategies for Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis from the Quebec Healthcare System Perspective. Journal of Medical Economics 2009;12(3):246-58.
- Mittmann N, Au HJ, Tu D, O'Callghan CJ, Isogai PK, Karapetis CS et al. Prospective Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Cetuximab in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Evaluation of National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group CO.17 Trial. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2009;101(17):1182-92.
Related News and Stories:
- Counting the cost: Researchers offer guidelines on conducting economic evaluations in patient safety (July 30, 2012)
- Study to examine economics of patient safety: Drs. Etchells and Mittmann lead research on cost of adverse events, supported by Canadian Patient Safety Institute (June 7, 2010)
- Sunnybrook launches ROAM study: Research will open Canada-wide window into management of anticoagulant warfarin (January 15, 2009)
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Running The Gamut(s)
Color measurement for electronic displays is getting easier and easier.
For best results, make sure the image grayscale is set for widest dynamic range, not brightest image or highest contrast. If not, you'll likely see much bigger color shifts at the high and low end of the grayscale test patterns you use, resulting in noticeable magenta, yellow, or cyan tints at different luminance levels.
While I opted for the ColorFacts system, there are other tri-stimulus color analyzers for these tests. Two that come to mind are the OpticONE, sold by Ovation Multimedia, and Sencore's ColorPro 5000 and ColorPro 5001 "pocket" analyzer. Whichever model you choose, make sure its sensor can keep up with the imaging speeds and refresh rates of different display technologies, so you can read color coordinates and luminance values accurately.
Or, you could just trust your eyes and be off by a few hundred degrees (not so noticeable) or a few thousand degrees (very noticeable) in your calibration.
Pete Putman is a contributing editor for Pro AV and president of ROAM Consulting, Doylestown, PA. Especially well known for the product testing/development services he provides manufacturers of projectors, monitors, integrated TVs, and display interfaces, he has also authored hundreds of technical articles, reviews, and columns for industry trade and consumer magazines over the last two decades. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The azure-blue sea and palm-tree-lined beach on El Nuevo Frutilandia's rustic painted sign hint at the Caribbean cuisine served inside. A modest menu highlights multiple courses of Cuban and Puerto Rican dishes, including meatless options such as mofongo vegetariano, a classic dish of fried plantains smashed together with olive oil and garlic. Pork is featured throughout the menu, whether roasted and sliced alongside ham and cheese in the Cuban sandwich, or fried as chops with a spritz of lemon and crown of onions.
El Pollo Supremo satisfies all appetites with its eclectic menu of Latin American fare. The bill of fare blends Cuban congri––beans and rice–– fried plantains, and Mexican burritos and tortas with a meal that deliciously unites all climes and cultures: charbroiled chicken, served with tortillas and homemade sauce.
The best Cuban food in the Bay Area?that's the lofty assessment of El Chevere staffers. And with mouths full of slow-roasted pork, crispy beef, and french-fry-sided Cuban sandwiches, visitors are in no position to disagree. Add some live music on a Saturday, and suddenly a simple night out becomes an evening that's truly ch?vere?the word means cool, or awesome. After the last savory bite of fried plantain or spiced ribs, a guest can finish their meal with a caf? cubano or a glass of red beans.
Ca?a Cuban Parlor celebrates Cuban heritage with live music, mojitos, and Cuban food made with local produce and meat. Their signature dishes include the Cuban sandwich, as well as flatbreads topped with paprika-dusted chicken and prawns sauteed in garlic-rum sauce. Pairs can share a couple of empanadas to stave off hunger before a hearty entree of slow-roasted pork with yucca-potato mash, Angus steak ropa vieja, or zesty eggplant-garbanzo bean stew. Dinner is served inside a lively, industrial-chic dining room, anchored by a curved white bar where staffers grind real ca?a, or sugarcane, to make glazes, syrups, and tinctures for their rum cocktails.


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About Rating Widget
Shows the current song, artist, and rating, and lets you change the song's rating with one click right from Dashboard. You can even give half-star ratings.
Apple is providing links to these applications as a courtesy, and makes no representations regarding the applications or any information related thereto. Any questions, complaints or claims regarding the applications must be directed to the appropriate software vendor.


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Source code version control is one thing that no developer should ever live without. If you're working on some code that isn't in a version control system, stop what you're doing now and get yourself one!
There's no excuse - there are plenty of free ones available that are simple to install and use. My personal favourite is Subversion (SVN). The particular flavour I use is VisualSVN which has a simple server configuration system and a convenient Visual Studio plugin. If you're really new to version control, you could do a lot worse than to read the SVN book, too.
Exact revision numbers are a vital part of our quality control process. All bug reports are logged against a specific revision of our code. If a customer calls to report a bug we insist on having the exact revision number - 'Version 2.0.285'. Bug reported for 'Version 2' just aren't good enough and won't get logged in our bug list.
When bugs are fixed, the revision number which includes the fix is also logged. This gives us exact points in time where the bug existed, and where it was ultimately fixed. It also allows us to pinpoint what was done to fix the bug, and who did it.
Incrementing the revision number which gets displayed in your UI every time it changes is not something that should be done manually, though - it's far too easy to forget and is also completely unnecessary when you can quite easily automate it.
In our build process, we use the MSBuild Community Tasks project to automatically retrieve the revision number of the code from Subversion and add it to our assembly information. At runtime, we use reflection to read this information back out of the assembly for display to the user.
First off, download and install the MSI package from the MSBuild Community Tasks website. You'll need to do this on every machine that will build your project.
Next, you'll need to modify the MSBuild script for your project - in other words - your Visual Studio project file (.vbproj or .csproj). You can do this either using your favourite text editor, or from within Visual Studio...
If you look through this file, you will find some <Import Project="..."> statements. Add a new line and add a reference to the MSBuild Community Tasks targets:
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\MSBuildCommunityTasks\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets" />
Directly under this, create a property group to contain the Major, Minor and Build numbers for your project. Note that the 'Revision' will get overwritten by the revision number from SVN:
<PropertyGroup> <Major>1</Major> <Minor>0</Minor> <Build>0</Build> <Revision>0</Revision> </PropertyGroup>
The standard Visual Studio project template has a <Target Name="BeforeBuild"> section which is commented out by default. Un-comment this and change it to the following:
<Target Name="BeforeBuild"> <SvnVersion LocalPath="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)" ToolPath="C:\Program Files\VisualSVN\bin\"> <Output TaskParameter="Revision" PropertyName="Revision" /> </SvnVersion> <Message Text="Version: $(Major).$(Minor).$(Build).$(Revision)" /> <AssemblyInfo CodeLanguage="VB" OutputFile="My Project\AssemblyInfo.vb" AssemblyTitle="My Assembly Title" AssemblyDescription="My Assembly Description" AssemblyCompany="My Company" AssemblyProduct="My Product" AssemblyCopyright="My Copyright" ComVisible="false" CLSCompliant="true" AssemblyVersion="$(Major).$(Minor).$(Build).$(Revision)" AssemblyFileVersion="$(Major).$(Minor).$(Build).$(Revision)" Condition="$(Revision) != 0" /> </Target>
There are obviously a few things in there that you'll want to change - particularly in the <AssemblyInfo> tag to make it more specific to your product. You may also need to change the 'ToolPath' attribute of the <SvnVersion> tag to the location of your command line SVN tool.
Once you've made these changes, reload your project and try a build. All being well the resulting DLL will include the correct version number.
The final step is to get your revision number showing in your UI for all to see. Luckily, reflection comes to the rescue and allows you to retrieve your entire version number in this (rather long) single line of code:
VersionNo = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName.Version.ToString
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The Veteran's Health Education staff serves both our inpatient and outpatient population. Veteran's Health Education helps educate patients and family members about their healthcare. There are many programs and classes offered to our Veterans. The hospital has an extensive patient education library where patients can get informational materials and watch videos regarding their diagnosis and upcoming procedures. There is a MyHealtheVet website for patients to follow VA news, reorder prescriptions and research health topics.
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This was a tough week to pick a single Play of the Week. There were a litany of dramatic games and huge play, all serving to make the upcoming All-Star break even crueler. I almost certainly would have picked Carlos Gomez's game-winning catch off Joey Votto on Monday, but I already talked about the joy and amazement of watching Gomez in this column.
I could have chosen any number of plays from Tim Lincecum's no-hitter on Saturday — probably this, from Hunter Pence, or maybe this one, from Pablo Sandoval, but Drew already covered that game here.
Instead, I'd like to highlight how one of the league's best players over the past year or so capped off his first half:
Donaldson also hit a two-run game-tying home run in the seventh inning to eliminate what had been a Brandon Workman shutout — and a no-hitter through six innings. The win pushed the Athletics to 56-39, and they will enter the break with a two-game lead in the American League West — one game more than the biggest division lead Oakland ever held last season.
I doubted this team heading into the season, mostly because it was a lineup that appeared to lack impact talent beyond Yoenis Cespedes. The A's had six other above-average hitters with more than 100 plate appearances last season, and two of them — Jonny Gomes and Chris Carter — are elsewhere this season. ZiPS didn't project a single Athletics hitter to post an OPS above .800 — even Cespedes was at .790.
Cespedes hasn't even been good this season — he's hitting .225/.293/.420 — and that has made Josh Donaldson's rise to stardom even more important. His exclusion from the All-Star Game is criminal. Donaldson has been by far the best hitter on the Athletics and one of the best in the league. His Sunday heroics raised his line to .310/.379/.522, good for a 149 wRC+ in Oakland's cavernous Coliseum.
It's easy to dismiss a player like Donaldson who fails to make a flashy first impression. He lacked a positional home, as he bounced between catcher and third base. He was an unheralded piece when the Athletics picked him up in the Rich Harden trade with Chicago back in 2008. He didn't hit a lick in the first half last year either — in 100 plate appearances, he hit .153/.160/.235 for an even 1 wRC+.
But Donaldson was a first round pick in 2007, and that talent never disappeared. He didn't hit what you'd expect from a college product in his first year for the Athletics at Double-A Midland — he slugged just .415 — but he consistently showed excellent discipline. Now, the power has shown up as well.
Donaldson hit .290/.356/.489 in the second half last year. Throw that in with his first half results this year, and he has a .303/.371/.511 line with 24 home runs over his past 140 games. His 145 wRC+ ties him with Ryan Braun, Prince Fielder and Adrian Beltre for seventh in the league.
Donaldson should have been an All-Star. He knows it, and Jim Leyland knows it. The third base crop in the American League is as impressive as it has been in recent memory now, with Miguel Cabrera, Manny Machado, Evan Longoria and Adrian Beltre all competing for either two or three All-Star slots. These things are going to happen.
Donaldson will just have to settle for winning games and leading his team to first place, I guess.


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The Cascadia conundrum: Balkanized transportation
Puget Sound is a poster child for the problems of regional transportation planning. One big roadblock: long-standing distrust of Seattle.
The Cascadia Center has been affiliated with the Discovery Institute, known for its advocacy of "intelligent design." Cascadia has balanced Discovery's charter because its expertise is "unintelligent design," namely regional transportation. Everyone agrees those problems are man-made.
Cascadia was founded in the 1990s to push a regional agenda aimed at infrastructure and economics in the larger region, and especially focusing on the Vancouver-to-Eugene corridor. They urge high-speed rail, freight mobility, they even helped cook up the downtown tunnel as an Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement option. Bruce Agnew, a former staffer for onetime Republican Congressman and Seattle City Councilman John Miller, runs Cascadia, and the group has been partly funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They're now looking at a more distant relationship with Discovery, which will likely make some potential funders more comfortable, especially greens for whom anti-science conservatism is anathema.
The bigger picture is that the Cascadia Center has been a less airy-fairy advocate of regional coordination and cooperation. It emphasizes Cascadia's joint economic clout as opposed to its green-corner-of-the-world feel. Cascadia as an economic zone, not an isolated Ecotopian Alamo. The center has been concerned with how to get people and goods, and ideas, back and forth across the Canadian border, for example.
Agnew, at a recent meeting with Crosscut staff, talked at length about lessons that can be imported from British Columbia, where public-private partnerships (P3's in transpo jargon) have helped build highways, bridges, hospitals, and schools. This in "socialist" Canada. There are opportunities here too, especially if banks and investment funds get more active and the gap between public funding and infrastructure appetites continues to grow. The 520 bridge is a couple billion dollars short: Could the private sector step in and win a contract to manage it, with the inevitable tolls, to the benefit of both public and private interests? Could public employee or union pension funds invest in such projects to make a reasonable return and keep their people in jobs? Cascadia originally envisioned the downtown tunnel as a P3.
There are plenty of other, smaller opportunities for P3s as well, including some kind of multi-use redevelopment of Colman Dock on the Seattle waterfront. The ferry system might be an ideal agency to experiment with them, matching need (new docks and terminals) with amenities for tourists, commuters, maybe even housing. Why not?
One of the biggest barriers to progress in transportation is balkanization, and Puget Sound is a poster child. It's tough, says Agnew, to do even simple stuff that can make a difference. The ORCA card? That no-brainier took only took eight years and $35 million, Agnew said. There are plenty of arbitrary boundaries here that impact our ability to move broadly and nimbly. It's an old complaint, but it's a real one: we have too many cooks in the kitchen; our process fetish leaves many opportunities for parochial monkey-wrenching. He points to the example that along Highway 99, each city has a separate contract with different companies to manage the traffic lights. Instead of having synchronized traffic signals along its length, let alone smart lights that read and adjust lights in real time to traffic levels, the corridor is more of a bottleneck than need be. Imagine the savings in time, congestion, and pollution if it something as simple as traffic lights were coordinated?
Creating a new regional governance system for Puget Sound always raises big fears and suspicions. Back in the 1950s and '60s when Metro was formed, it was portrayed a kind of spider at the center of a Big Government web. Many suburban cities opted out, and the water cleanup was eventually limited mostly too Lake Washington, but the larger plan, which would have included lakes and sewage systems throughout the region, was whittled down. Local opt-outs and funding based on location rather than need are also problems. Regional government and planning reform are shot down by local interests, fear of big government, and distrust of Seattle.
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Posted Tue, Oct 4, 5:49 a.m.
The distrust of Seattle is justified by the dominance and behavior of the "other" regional council, the King County Council by Seattle Centric legislators. The population has grown in the Suburbs, but the actions to drive developement back into the urban centers and to make rural communities "Densify" Seattle style via GMA and CAO has stolen the ability of communities to develope their own character and identity.
Knute wrote "Instead of being bossed around by Seattle, many suburbs have simply been turning into Seattle, becoming more dense, more diverse, and better places for starving artists to find vital immigrant communities, cheap housing, and work space." I believe the facts prove exactly the opposite.
Posted Tue, Oct 4, 5:59 a.m.
It would be good to know who is paying Cascadia's bills. It often appears to be a front group for people who will profit from things like small diesel trains, foot ferries and drawing up private deals to build public infrastructure.
It had $10 million from the Gates Foundation - which was also used to pay bills for Discovery. That was 10 years ago. What happened with all that money? Will Cascadia get more?
At one time Discovery and Cascadia were opponents of the Sound Transit, a true regional government with a specific regional purpose. If they really want to make Seattle more like Portland, a good first step might be to get the trains and the buses under the same roof, like in Portland.
Now might be a good time to do that because all the transit agencies are hurting and seeking ways to do more with less.
Posted Tue, Oct 4, 9:54 a.m.
He points to the example that along Highway 99, each city has a separate contract with different companies to manage the traffic lights. Instead of having synchronized traffic signals along its length, let alone smart lights that read and adjust lights in real time to traffic levels, the corridor is more of a bottleneck than need be. Imagine the savings in time, congestion, and pollution if it something as simple as traffic lights were coordinated?
Fascinating. I'd always assumed that 99, as a state highway, was run by, well, the state. No idea that whatever funding the state provides does not extend to traffic signaling projects.
Posted Tue, Oct 4, 12:43 p.m.
This is an excellent article, and it highlights many "Seattle issues" that residents of the Queen City are bound to reject indignantly. However, for those of us in The Rest of the State, these issues are axiomatic.
Posted Tue, Oct 4, 12:44 p.m.
So the solution is more un-elected boards like Sound Transit? Ie taxing authority but no accountability?
Posted Tue, Oct 4, 1:32 p.m.
you need to recognize the distinction between "Seattle issues" and "Seattle residents," who, if we are talking in large round numbers, are for the most part asleep about not only their own issues but those of the rest of the state.
I'd venture few residents anywhere know about the Regional Council's Vision 2040—the official regional response to state growth management mandates—let alone that the new vision abandoned the far less hegemonic Vision 2020. Crosscut writer MacDonald inspired this now out of date response from PSRC: "the interim results should not be surprising, in that the Regional Growth Strategy was understood to be a long-term commitment to 'bend the trend.'"
What results? "At the regional geography level, in most counties, recent growth in the Metropolitan Cities, Core Cities and Larger Cities falls short of the 17.5 percent mark, and while growth in the Small Cities, Unincorporated Urban Growth Areas and Rural areas exceeds the mark."
These stale 2000-2007 numbers remain the only official recognition that bending the trend takes progress on the real forces and issues that set people and jobs down where they do and don't. Who'd know to look in Appendix IIA here: http://psrc.org/growth/vision2040/background
The 2010 census numbers have been available for a long time. Does reluctance to issue a new benchmark mean the trends are still not bending Vision 2040's way and what we don't know won't hurt us?
Posted Tue, Oct 4, 9:38 p.m.
Wow, where to start with this article? Let's start with using union pensions to fund public projects.
From the article:
Could public employee or union pension funds invest in such projects to make a reasonable return and keep their people in jobs? Cascadia originally envisioned the downtown tunnel as a public private partnership.
You've GOT to be kidding. Can you imagine asking for a toll increase on 520 with the unions as the investment bank? The conservative road warriors would have a field day with this one, demonizing the unions to their hearts content.
Regarding the public private partnerships, there is nothing magical about this P3s. The monorail tried this trick when it was supposedly trying to build a citywide monorail. The practical effect was that this was used to hide the bid from the public for 9 months. It was also used to deceive that public by saying the monorail would cost less, when in fact it wound up costing alot more.
Posted Tue, Oct 4, 9:51 p.m.
Knute and the Cascadia Institute should be careful what they wish for. In New York, we have an 'integrated' governance infrastructure with the CEO of the MTA answering to the governor. And the Port Authorities control all of the bridges and roadways in the bi-state area. Sounds great huh?
Well, not so fast. The Ports proposed and implemented huge toll increases this year, with tolls rising from $8 to $15 by 2015. When this hit the press, the governors of both NY and NY pretended to act shocked as if they had no knowledge of this rate hike. And the AAA is now suing.
AAA sues Port Authority over recent toll hikes
You see, this regional governance structure is about as unaccountable as you can get. They're using these rate hikes to finance the new World Trade Center which is wildly over budget. So $11 BILLION in tolls are going to a building project in Lower Manhattan. Thus, the lawsuit from the AAA.
Here's an article I wrote on governance reform for Crosscut back in 2008:
Why governance reform for local transit would not work
Posted Wed, Oct 5, 11:29 a.m.
If I was unclear, by "Seattle issues" I was not talking about issues which effect or interest residents of Seattle, but the issues that Seattle and its residents cause for those of us living in The Rest of the State (such as the irrational desire of many in the city to cut a big chunk out of SR-99).
Posted Wed, Oct 5, 4:49 p.m.
dbreneman, thanks for the clarification, but your example does not seem to fit the complaint. How can an admittedly drawn-out democratic process that got you what you wanted in the end (no big chunk out of SR-99 at least for those who can afford the toll) be an issue that Seattle AND its residents cause for those living in the Rest of the State? What might have worked better is if you had said that Seattle and its residents are content with uncoordinated traffic lights all along SR-99 both north and south of the city center (apparently Seattle"s responsibility).
I stand corrected if your complaint was not about the powers that be in Seattle defending its fleeting hegemony with self-important claims to state expenditures and the passage of laws that reduce residents' rights. There is no comparison as to the comparative weight of the powers that be and the residents in such contests, which is why the residents who do pay attention are not that interested in making the imbalance worse.
Possibly your complaint was the other Rest of State complaint, Cameron's— the desire to be left alone and the population growth dumped upon density happy Seattle. It is true in this case that the Rest of the State would be against Seattle residents foot dragging, if so it is important to know that the opposite of what is desired is taking place—trend-bending from on-high takes economics in its favor.
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Sunder Rajan, Marta Zanchi, H. Bassen, PJ Hardy, Joshua Guag, "MRI Skin Injury: poster presentation at the 2010 annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, May 2010
Kainz W., Guag J., Benkler S., Szczerba D., Neufeld E., Krauthamer V., Myklebust J., Bassen H., Chang I., Chavannes N., Kim J. H., Sarntinoranont M., and Kuster N., "Development and validation of a magneto hydrodynamic solver for blood flow analysis", Physics in Medicine and Biology, submitted
Neufeld E., Szczerba D., Benkler S., Kyriakou A., Guag J., Kainz W., Krauthamer V., Bassen H., Kozerke S., and Kuster N., "Simulation of the Magneto-Hemodynamic Effect for Aortic Flow", The 32nd Annual Meeting of The Bioelectromagnetics Society, Seoul, Korea, June 14-18, 2010
Bassen, H. "Metal Detector Interference of Personal Electronic Medical Devices (PMEDs)", ANSI-HSSP Workshop on Standards for Non-Invasive Inspection Systems, 4/29/2010.
S. Seidman, In Vitro Testing Reveals Sample RFID Readers Inducing Clincially Significant EMI to Pacemakers and ICDs, published online October 12, --2009 Heart Rhythm Journal, print version in-press scheduled for January 2010.
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D. Witters Invited presentation "Building consensus towards electronic-mobile-health and patient safety" given at the 3rd International Symposium on Medical Information & Communication Technology (ISMICT), Montreal, Canada, Feb. 25, 2009.
D. Witters Invited presentation "FDA Perspectives for Wireless Mobile Healthcare: Building Pathways to Safe, Secure, Reliable Deployment", TEPR+ 2009, Palm Springs, CA, Feb. 5, 2009. (DP-2008-061)
D. Witters Invited presentation "Wireless Technology: What and How to Address in Submissions ", CBER Workshop on Blood Collection systems, Nov. 5, 2009.
D. Witters Invited presentation "Making Wireless Healthcare Safe, Effective, and Reliable", IEEE EMBS-EMC Joint Section meeting, Baltimore, MD, Dec. 12, 2009.
D. Witters, H. Bassen, S. Seidman, "EMC and Wireless Healthcare", Submitted proceedings paper for the 2010 Asian-Pacific EMC conference April 2010 Beijing, China.
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KINGSTON, R.I. — The University Brass Quintet played as families found seats on the sunny quadrangle before the main commencement ceremony began.
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I know this should not be posted but I had to tell all my gardening buddies. Over on the greenhouse forum there is a posting with a 15 percent off coupon for harbor freights greenhouses. This is cheap.. I do not work for harbor freight I just own one. I lub it.... They have a 6 x 8 or 8 x 10 or 10 x 12....... Barb |
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Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission Revived; Press Conference with US Senator Rand Paul
Submitted by will4liberty on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 23:07Dear Daily Paul Liberty Community,
Major Developments on Industrial Hemp in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Finally, US Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer joined by State Senator Joey Pendleton and State Senator Majority Leader Dan Seum will revive the Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission. Yes, there was a major press conference on Industrial Hemp at the Annual Ham Breakfast at the Kentucky State Fair. So, the a great day of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the nation as a whole.
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Industrial Hemp Turning Point Wednesday 8 AM Eastern Time
Well, it has finally arrived the moment of truth has arrived in the Industrial Hemp Movement to legalize/decriminalize in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Red Hot Alert as SB 50 Sponsored by Kentucky State Senator Paul Hornback comes up for a hearing and a vote on Wednesday, February 27th 2013 at 8 AM Eastern Time in the Kentucky State House.
We need everyone who resides in the Commonwealth of Kentucky to call 1-800-372-7181(free call) and leave a message for the State House Agriculture Democrat Chairman and members to vote yes on SB 50!!!
US Senator Dr. Rand Paul, Congressman Thomas Massie, and Secretary of State James Comer are all behind this vital legislation.
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KY Congressman Signs Up As Hemp Co Sponsor
This is fantastic news as newly elected US Congressman Thomas Massie signs up as a co sponsor the Federal Industrial Hemp legislation. This is the brand new web link: http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Massie-signs-on-as-co-spo...
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Yet Again: Central Planning
Kentucky state senator Joey Pelton at 4:27:
It's a great privilege to be here today to talk about something we can push -- jobs. That's what it's all about, jobs. And [jobs] are what government should be about.
Drug legalization promoters, recognize the words you speak, the words you receive and their manifestations, your acts, will accomplish one thing: moving a private affair into government, a transference that will continue transformation of both entities -- the private person/the individual and the government -- into reversed roles, their unnatural roles: the government person says X, the individual does X: order giver, order doer: master, slave.
Legalization promoters, learn the difference between legalization and decriminalization. Pay attention to words so that you can understand their significance.
Said Pelton at 5:20: [Drug legalization-decriminalization] is not a democrat and republican issue. This [issue] is an issue [we citizens elected to our positions by our fellow citizens] can do to put [our citizens] to work. (DPer: Notice the role reversal.)
State secretary of agriculture Jamie Comber at 13:46: That's one of the roles. ... This is going to be a working commission. This isn't going to be a board that sits and meets and not does anything. This is going to be a commission that will try to create jobs.
Pelton is right. The issue isn't political. This issue is what all issues are: discernment between freedom and slavery and living the state you want. Let us learn words and their significance. Let us trust ourselves, our ears and our minds. Believe what you hear is, yes, what you hear.
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Excellent analysis.
It could be considered a friendly warning that government will always try to find a way to justify its unsolicited involvement with every aspect of people's lives that it can identify, be it economic planning, marriage, gun ownership, property rights, safety regulations, etc etc.
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Your reply is excellent. But I would dismiss "friendly," leaving warning. lol.
Although belated, I hope your Christmas was good, Chris. Happy new year's day too. Let's make this year a good one. New year, more liberty.
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Go Kentucky!
One good point that I got from this video that I had not considered... is the registration, regulation, and inspection of the farms that are permitted to grow it. While ideally, they should not regulate what a farmer decides to grow, this is a step in the right direction.
The main reason for not allowing hemp is that it looks too much like marijuana, and you can't tell the difference from the air. If you only have a couple of hundred farms that are regulated and inspected, that blows that reason out of the water.
Will be watching this carefully. Is Rand on the verge of making up for his endorsement of Romney?
Good post!
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11/25/2012 Backward Thinking On Hemp Must Cease
This is a brand new news article from 11/25/2012 stating that the backward thinking on Industrial Hemp must cease. It is time to legalize industrial hemp in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Brand new news article on the legal backward thinking on hemp:
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We want to show our gratitude for the leadership of Dr. Bronner Magic Soaps in the Industrial Hemp a reality in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. If you wish to join us in writing a brief letter to thank this company for its real leadership, please click here: http://www.drbronner.com/contact.php
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Thank them
By buying their soap. I do. It is good stuff.
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James Comer Kentucky Secretary of Agriculture On Hemp
This is Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner on Industrial Hemp in front of the Joint Agriculture Committee meeting in Frankfort, Kentucky. This is
Kentucky Secretary of Agriculture James Comer commences at the 36 minute mark. Please click here to view: http://www.ket.org/cgi-bin/cheetah/watch_video.pl?nola=WLEGP...
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Washington Examiner: Kentucky Industrial Hemp Begins in 2014
Folks, a major movement today as James Comer, Kentucky Secretary of Agriculture become official head of Kentucky's Industrial Hemp Commission. Also, a soap company as well as Rand Paul's Rand PAC is donating $50,000 each for a sum of $100,000.
Here is the web link from the Washington Examiner of the imminent cultivation of industrial hemp in the spring of 2014.
Click here the latest news developments:
This is from Lexington, Kentucky WKYT: http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Industrial-hemp-panel-mee...
This is from Louisville Metro Kentucky newspaper the Courier Journal: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20121114/news01/31114...
The Lexington, Kentucky largest newspaper the Herald-Leader: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/11/14/2407570/state-hemp-commis...
PR Newswire on the early major donations: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/11/14/2407570/state-hemp-commis...
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Kentucky Hemp Commission Meeting Today
Just wanted to let everyone know that the Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission met for the first time today. The cultivation of industrial hemp may begin as early as the spring of 2014. If you want to invest in industrial hemp in the Commonwealth of Kentucky the time is very near.
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This is my new favorite video
This video is like a dream come true for me.
I became a hemp activist in 1993. The medical marijuana Prop 215 in CA killed hemp, and then, and I don't agree with the commissioner on this, the medical marijuana community claimed hemp would cross-polintae and and ruin their crops. I don't believe that. Hell, most mendical marijuana is grown from clones indoors. here, where it is decriminalized.
Hemp for food, feed, fiber and fuel.
THANK YOU RAND PAUL! THANK YOU KENTUCKY. It is a wonderful day. Awesome. I've waiting a long time to see this day.. it's only a start, and it makes me VERY HAPPY!
Hemp Hemp Hooray!!!
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This issue should be questioned to every candidate for every office. Get involved, gather like minded people, put together groups, talk to as many people as possible, network, and we will make this Hemp Dream a reality.
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Kentucky Industrial Hemp Movement Grows
This is the latest and greatest news article on Kentucky rapid movement toward Industrial Hemp. Please click here for the news article: http://kentuckyhempcoalition.blogspot.com/2012/09/industrial...
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Now if us r3volutionists
are not looking into ways to get the best industrial hemp plant seeds available, we are missing a ripe opportunity. Learn from what is happening around us so we can capitalize on the knowledge given, in turn we become stronger financially as libertarians to do some good things. There is a reason our Founding Fathers were rich and able to push forward, and there is a reason the people pushing the agenda of today are rich and pushing forward. Let us learn to latch on to opportunities, and to all you Rand naysayers, I stick my tongue out at you, and maybe my thumbs in my ears with my fingers sticking up.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must. like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.-Thomas Paine
The R3volution requires action, not observation!!!!
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It's way too obvious, beneficial, and common sense rational...
... so it has a rats ass chance in hell of ever passing lol.
I'm only half kidding. I will be pleasantly surprised if this survives the inevitable tidal waves of ignorance, special interest money and lobbyists, and the total political cowardice of the 'overlords'.
My first instinct is the country is still not ready or smart enough to do it. But hey ... ya never know ..
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"Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear." - Benjamin Franklin
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Campaign Promises Made and Kept
Now, we need to champion when liberty minded elected officials campaign promises are kept. US Senator Rand Paul and Agriculture Commissioner James Comer stood their ground and should be applauded.
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Local, State, and National Media Coverage of Press Conference
These are a few excerpt from local, state and national media coverage of the Revival of the Industrial Hemp Commission in the Commonwealth of Kentucky!
This is the Dr. Rand Paul's hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky news paper: http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/state/paul-comer-push-indust...
Western Kentucky University Public Radio station: http://wkyufm.org/post/sen-paul-agriculture-commissioner-wan...
Virgin Islands Daily News: http://wkyufm.org/post/sen-paul-agriculture-commissioner-wan...
More grassroots media coverage to come on Monday night live at 6:30 PM Eastern Time live: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ky-grassroots-radio or call-in 1-347-637-3086.
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New News Article Shines Light On Rand Paul and Industrial Hemp
This is a brand new article on US Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and industrial hemp. This news article shines a light on the subject of industrial hemp legalization. Click here for the news article: http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/11021-the-real-reason-...
If full coverage on Monday night of this prime issue check out Kentuckiana Grassroots Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ky-grassroots-radio
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'Oz the Great and Powerful' Gets a Poster Worthy of Its Title
Movie News By Scott Beggs on July 5, 2012 | Be the First To CommentRight around the time that the 67th poster of two stars leaning back to back hits theater lobbies is when the pessimism about modern one sheet design starts to creep in. Fortunately, there's always a handful of excellent posters dotting the year to keep hope alive. Thank you, Oz the Great and Powerful poster, for keeping hope alive:
First Look: Angelina Jolie as 'Maleficent'
First Look By Scott Beggs on June 19, 2012 | Comments (2)Production on Maleficent started on June 13th, and the movie won't be in theaters until March 14th of (wait for it) 2014, but Disney has already released a teaser image of star Angelina Jolie as the iconic, evil witch queen who really hates Sleeping Beauty. To be fair, without Maleficent, the fair-haired heroine would just be called "Beauty," and that name was already taken, so she probably wouldn't have a cool nickname at all. Credit has to be given to Gregory Maguire's "Wicked" for birthing a modern fascination with the villain's side of the story (but mad respect to the old school "Grendel"), and the Robert Stromberg-directed fairy tale promises just that for Jolie. Although this will be the directorial debut for the veteran effects designer, the writing team features both Paul Dini and Linda Woolverton, so there's a lot to be hopeful for. Plus, the cast also includes Elle Fanning, Juno Temple, Sharlto Copley and a ton of other solid names. Clicking on the image makes it largified. [Disney]
Teaser Trailer for 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green' or Who Asked for a Cabbage Patch Kid Movie?
Movie News By Kate Erbland on August 9, 2011 | Comments (1)Earlier today, the international trailer for We Need to Talk About Kevin showed us that a child raised in a seemingly normal environment could still end up a horrifying, dead-eyed sociopath with a panache for porn. Lynne Ramsay's Cannes film swiftly removed any hope that human spawn could be charming or cuddly – so let's chuck 'em all and turn to something a bit more organic. After all, there's nothing more hip than locally grown produce, so why not some locally grown kids? You liked the Cabbage Patch Kids when you were younger, right? Enter Disney's The Odd Life of Timothy Green. The film is billed as "an inspiring, magical story about a happily married couple who bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, their child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears." That's right, in this film, Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton can't have children, so they write down everything they'd want for the kid they can never have, toss those wishes into a box, bury it in their garden, and act like it's totally normal when a mud-covered elementary schooler shows up in their house during a hefty rainstorm. I know we're doing great things with soybeans right now, but this is too much – there's a big difference between a tofu burger and a garden-grown kid. Cue some stuff that looks like Powder fell in with some slow food hippies, and boom! there's The Odd […]
'Tron' May Head Back To The Grid For Another Sequel
Movie News By Scott Beggs on January 13, 2011 | Comments (11)For those that simply look at domestic box office numbers (and who really does that?), it might appear that Tron Legacy was a failure. Of course, it was a failure in the sense that it didn't kick the door to the theaters around the country right off its hinges, but it was still a success considering that it pulled in $300 million-ish worldwide and probably sold double that in video games and plastic toys that young children can throw at each other while chanting, "De-rezzzz!" Tron Legacy needs a sequel, and Disney might be in agreement with that statement if the rumors are to be believed. The film itself almost seems secondary to the largest beast – the toy creating machine – but with another sequel, everyone involved has a chance to create something that works on the story level as well as for the soundtrack and flashy images. That would be something to look forward to. [Aint It Cool]
Why Jon Favreau Made The Right Choice In Leaving 'Iron Man 3′ Behind
Features By Scott Beggs on December 15, 2010 | Comments (5)The movie world is so affected by Jon Favreau's departure from the Iron Man franchise that there's even speculation that some sort of BFF break-up between the director and Robert Downey Jr was to blame. That will most likely never be proven (until the tell all book comes out in three decades), but it's clear that fans are reaching for any sort of explanation that rationalizes why the man who was at the forefront of the Marvel solo launch would choose to walk away from his creation in its adolescent phase. The reason, however, is less important than the simple fact that leaving was absolutely the right thing to do.
Interviews: The Cast of 'Tangled' Gets Unraveled
Features By Dustin Hucks on November 4, 2010 | Be the First To CommentNovember 24th sees the release of Disney's 50th full-length animated film Tangled, based loosely on the famous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, and starring Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Ron Perlman, and a loaded cast of talented actors. I had an opportunity to screen the film recently at the Disney AMC 12 at Disneyland in Anaheim, California — and sit down with cast members Zachary Levi (Chuck), Donna Murphy (The Fountain, The Nanny Diaries), as well as directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, to talk about the process of making an animated film, and a bit more.
Disney Wants to Bring 'Gargoyles' to Life
Movie News By Scott Beggs on July 14, 2010 | Comments (11)The 90s are no longer safe. Unless they are. It took me a while to do the calculation, but apparently people born in 1990 turned 20 this year, and that means that Hollywood has suddenly realized there's an entire decade's worth of material that's ostensibly retro enough to hammer into our theaters. It's been a long time coming, but if the report that Disney wants to put live-action Gargoyles on the big screen is truly an adaptation of the Mouse's very own cartoon show of the same name, then 1990 has been breached, and the entire decade is now vulnerable to remakes, a creepy live-action Duck Tales, and possibly a "Blossom" film. Luckily, there are scarce details (beyond Disney molding this in the same glossy-to-hide-the-lack-of-substance way they're doing all action adventure these days) so it might be a newer concept or it might see Goliath, Hudson, Broadway and the whole crew resurrected for feature length. [Heat Vision]
Discuss: Will You Use Facebook to Buy Movie Tickets?
Discussion By Scott Beggs on June 2, 2010 | Comments (3)Disney wants to use you to sell its products, but you won't be getting paid. How do you feel about that?
Old Ass Movies: The Delightful Racism of 'Song of the South'
Features By Scott Beggs on September 20, 2009 | Comments (13)Normally I'd be selling you on how an ancient movie is still enjoyable today or that a modern audience can still be moved by pictures made over half a century ago, but I'm not so sure Song of the South really deserves all that much praise for its own artistic merit.
Disney Shows Off 2D 'Princess and the Frog' Pics
Movie News By Scott Beggs on June 10, 2009 | Comments (7)A few years ago, Disney announced that it would no longer be doing 2D animation. We're lucky they changed their minds.
Real RocknRolla Becomes a Dark 'Sorcerer's Apprentice'
Casting Couch By Scott Beggs on April 20, 2009 | Comments (2)Toby Kebbell will face off against Nicolas Cage and Nicolas Cage's Magic Hair Piece for supremacy in The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
UPDATE: Dreamworks and The Mouse Officially Doing the Grown Up
Movie News By Scott Beggs on February 9, 2009 | Comments (28)By "the grown up," I of course mean that they are engaged in a purely platonic, business relationship to distribute movies together. And probably sleeping together.
Discuss: Should Wall-E Shoot for Best Picture?
Movie News By Scott Beggs on October 28, 2008 | Comments (36)Disney is looking to nab the Best Animated Feature nod and consideration for the Top Prize at the Oscars. Is it a good idea?
Disney to Tackle Controversial Synchronized Swimming Issue
Movie News By Scott Beggs on July 10, 2008 | Comments (4)It was either drum up fake controversy or make the entire news post about how The Mouse is about five years too late to hop on the sport parody gravy train.
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Toyota Motor Philippines has launched the all-new Wigo hatchback at the Waterfront Hotel in Cebu. The Philippines is the second country to launch the new vehicle, after Indonesia. The Wigo, known as the Ayga in Indonesia, was developed to conform to Indonesia's low-cost green-car program. Under that program, a vehicle is mandated to get at least 20 km/liter fuel efficiency.
According to Daihatsu Motor Co. Chief Engineer for the Wigo Nobuhiko Ono, the Wigo is an all-new vehicle that was expressly designed for the ASEAN market. He cites the vehicle's relatively low 750kg curb weight as one of its advantages. Daihatsu is a subsidiary of Toyota Motor, and specializes in small vehicles.
Toyota is expecting the Wigo to appeal particularly to new-car buyers, with its return to the sub-P500,000 market. The 1.0G M/T retails for P499,000 and the AT variant for P534,000. Even more affordable will be the 1.0 E M/T that will be launched in April for P448,000. Actors John Lloyd Cruz and Sarah Geronimo are the product endorsers; they will appear in TV commercials for the Wigo.
The engine is a three-cylinder long-stroke 998-cc gasoline unit, producing 64hp and 85Nm. Transmission is a five-speed manual or four-speed automatic. Suspension uses MacPherson struts in the front with torsion beam axle at the rear. Brakes are front discs/rear drums, with the G getting larger front discs.
The hatchback looks modern, with a tall one-box design. Length is 3600mm, width 1620mm and height at 1520. Turning radius is 4.7 meters. The car seats five, with suitcase space in the trunk. The rear seat can be folded to expand the cargo area. The G gets 175/65 tires on 14-inch alloys, while the E gets steel wheels with 155/80R13 tires.
Wigo G gets front foglamps with chrome surrounds, chrome trim on the door handles and door trim, rear spoiler with LED third brake lamp, electric side mirrors, remote control doorlocks, two-DIN navigation-ready audio unit with four speakers. ABS brakes as standard on the G. Electric power steering, power windows, trip meter and dual airbags are standard on all variants. Also on the launch stage were cars with original body kits: one with side skirts, and another with TRD-badged wheels and lower-body aero kit.
Colors for the Wigo are white, silver metallic, grey metallic, light blue metallic, blue metallic, and black.
Toyota observed growth in the low-cost hatchback market, with sales jumping from 5861 units in 2011 to 15,516 in 2013. With the more than 200 percent jump, it is eager to carve out a slice for itself. The Wigo seems to be the ideal vehicle to do it with.
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When my feminist friends and I began our communal Facebook message thread, we envisioned a no-holds-barred place to discuss careers, gender politics, and the gospel of Beyoncé. But ever since soccer season took the Internet by storm, our only mentions of "Flawless" have concerned abs. In the past week alone, my "progressive" peers and I shared 10 "World Cup Hottie" listicles, 18 winky faces, and too many Netherlands-based puns to count.
As over-the-top as our behavior was, we were never ashamed. There was an implicit empowerment to our objectification, like a hard-earned reward for eons of inequality. Even when I read our conversation (and watched a video of Ronaldo slow-motion jogging) in a very public, very crowded coffee shop, I didn't bother to turn down my laptop brightness. If anyone saw my screen, I trusted they would be impressed: I wasn't some creepy guy browsing Google images of Megan Fox — I was a proud woman, flaunting the sex drive to which I was entitled! Keep reading »


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Three US Zoos Take Leadership Role in Supporting Sustainable Palm Oil Practices
November 7, 2013 - As part of an effort to encourage sustainable palm oil production, San Diego Zoo Global, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and the Indianapolis Zoo joined the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and will attend the RSPO conference (RT11) in Indonesia next week. During the conference, the zoos representatives will be involved in strategic planning and reviewing of RSPO criteria for certification. Additionally, they will visit RSPO-certified and noncertified palm oil plantations to further their knowledge of industry sustainable and nonsustainable practices.
Palm oil is used in more than 50% of the manufactured items we find in the grocery store every day, said Allison Alberts, Ph.D., chief conservation and research officer for San Diego Zoo Globals Institute of Conservation Research. The largest threat to orangutans and other tropical wildlife around the globe is deforestation due to agriculture, primarily the production of palm oil.
The zoos memberships in the RSPO add to a growing movement among zoos to become an active voice in the palm oil crisis. Last month, a resolution was unanimously passed at the 68th annual conference of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) in support of the RSPO and encourages all zoos to promote certified sustainable palm oil.
"The vision of the RSPO -- to drive the sustainable palm oil agenda forward to protect our environment, wildlife and communities -- is a transformative journey that involves the cooperation of an extensive group of players," said the RSPO's secretary-general, Darrel Webber. We welcome the San Diego, Cheyenne Mountain and Indianapolis zoos, whose combined annual visitors exceed 7.5 million, to the RSPO and look forward to working closely with them in helping to educate the broader community about the need to support the sustainable production of palm oil," Webber added.
Conservationists point to the increasing challenges faced by wildlife in Asia and particularly to the effect of palm oil production on high profile species like Sumatran and Bornean orangutans.
The current generation of wild orangutans could well be the last unless we can find workable solutions for the Indonesian economy, its government and the orangutans, said Rob Shumaker, Ph.D., the Indianapolis Zoos vice president of conservation and life sciences and one of the worlds foremost authorities on orangutan cognition. RSPO and programs focused on the reforestation of orangutan habitat are critically important to saving orangutans in the wild.
The Indianapolis Zoo will open a $25 million International Orangutan Center in May 2014.
In 2010, nearly 90% of global palm oil production occurred in Malaysia and Indonesia, and more than half of plantations established since 1990 in those two countries have occurred at the expense of natural forest. Species like orangutans depend on the Asian forests for survival. Conservationists estimate that over the last 60 years more than half of all orangutans in these countries have disappeared. The decline of the species is predicted to continue at this rate, primarily because of forest loss.
By joining the RSPO we are leading by example and are encouraging other North American zoos to make this same commitment, said Tracey Gazibara, vice president, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Together we can raise awareness about the complex issues surrounding palm oil production and fight against extinction of animals and habitats created by unsustainable practices.
About Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
The Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society was founded in 1926. Today, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Americas ONLY mountain zoo, offers comprehensive education programs, exciting conservation efforts and truly fantastic animal experiences. It is Cheyenne Mountain Zoos hope that guests fall in love with animals and nature, and take action to protect them. Of the 224 zoos and aquariums accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is one of just nine operating without tax support. Cheyenne Mountain Zoo depends on admissions, membership dues and donations for funding.
About San Diego Zoo Global Wildlife Conservancy
The San Diego Zoo Global Wildlife Conservancy is dedicated to bringing endangered species back from the brink of extinction. The Conservancy makes possible the wildlife conservation efforts(representing both plants and animals) of the San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo Safari Park, San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, and international field programs in more than 35 countries. The important conservation and science work of these entities is supported in part by The Foundation of the Zoological Society of San Diego.
About Indianapolis Zoo
Located in White River State Park downtown, the Indianapolis Zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the American Association of Museums as a zoo, aquarium and botanical garden. The mission of the Indianapolis Zoo is to empower people and communities, both locally and globally, to advance animal conservation.
About Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
The RSPO is a not-for-profit association that brings together stakeholders from all sectors of the palm oil industry - oil palm producers, palm oil processors or traders, consumer goods manufacturers, retailers, banks and investors, social and developmental NGOs, and environmental and nature conservation NGOs. The RSPO seeks to transform the market to make sustainable palm oil the norm.
About World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA)
World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) is the unifying organization for the world zoo and aquarium community. Our more than 300 members are leading zoos, aquariums, associations, affiliate organizations and corporate partners from around the world. With more than 700 million visitors annually, together we are 'United for Conservation.'
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