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Last December I bought a Brugmansia from a great small nursery in San Francisco (Hortica). The plant was labeled Brugmansia sanguinea 'Inca Princess' (an all yellow clone). I had bought a plant with that label from the same wholesaler (Suncrest) a couple years ago. I later heard that that earlier plant bloomed red. So I knew that Suncrest had a problem with mislabeled plants, but I assumed that they fixed the problem by now. The nursery owner told me when I took the plant up to the counter that it was probably not the plant as labeled. One had bloomed, and it had bloomed an intense pink color. He thought the plant, whatever it was, was superior to 'Inca Princess'. He was also sure that it was not the Strybing Vulsa (the plant sold for years as B. vulcanicola). While the flowers of that plant fade to pink, the nursery owner was familiar with that plant as well, and said the color of the one that bloomed was more intense. I have seen a photo he took of the one that bloomed. As it's his photo I won't post it here, but I thought it would be interesting to watch as mine bloomed. I really don't know for sure what it will look like, so this will be a surprise. My plant is in the ground and appears happy. People who have seen the photo of the intensely pink flower, and have seen pictures of my plant's leaves, seem to think it's a vulsa (VULcanicola plus SAnguinea hybrid). So we'll see. Here's that plant when I bought it. I believe it was $11 for a 1 gallon plant. And here's what a bud looks like, as of this afternoon: I should add that although this is a one gallon plant, labeled by Suncrest wholesaler as 'Inca Princess', I also recently saw 5 gallon plants, from Suncrest, labeled 'Inca Princess', in bloom at Berkeley Horticultural Nursery. They looked like "regular" Brugmansia sanguinea: And just for reference, here's what unopened buds look like of Brugmansia sanguinea 'Pasachoa' (left) and the Strybing Vulsa (right): So in the next few days it should become apparent what this plant is: Some possibilities are: 1) a new, dark pink Vulsa (?) Any guesses? I'm hoping for 1, but I'll be happy with anything but 4 (which I have). |
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Thanks for posting, Mark. It is interesting to watch with you of the progress of the blooms. My brugs are still dormant in the basement. Soon I will put them under lights to get ready for moving outside late this spring. It is still snowy and freezing here. This cold spring is making up for the very early warm spring we had last year. |
mnwsgal, I didn't realize it was still so cold in MN. Half of my relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins) live there. I have an uncle in Northfield who grows Daturas. Years ago I suggested he try Brugmansias, and I think I gave him a couple cuttings. I'm not sure if he followed up on it. I think it's amazing they can be grown successfully with such a short growing season. Here's tonight's update: The bud is bigger/longer: And a second one is opening: I still can't figure out what it will be... |
It's getting longer and more colored: I still can't tell what it is, although the coloration might be consistent with a B. sanguinea or something else. Not a yellow sanguinea. Possibly the coloration on the corolla tube extends farther up than on most red B. sanguineas? |
The color continues to intensify, and I think the bud is still lengthening. Here's a photo this morning in the sun. Again note that the color extends farther up the corolla tube than for a typical B. sanguinea. It also seems relatively long and narrow, I think. |
I think it's getting very close. I was hoping it would be opening this morning. I think the color of the most intense regions is close to what is called "international orange"--the color of the Golden Gate Bridge. I expect that color to change. |
The view at 7 A.M.: And from below (sorry for the fuziness): A check of the color comes up with names such as "torch red" and "radical red". It will be interesting to see how the color continues to develop. |
Here's one from this evening. It was no longer sunny, but not yet dark when I took the photo. I added a couple things that I grabbed nearby for color comparison/contrast. The red is Petunia exserta, the pinkish/purple is Centradenia floribunda. |
Beautiful! It's nice to see how it progressed, congrats. |
Hi Eloise, Thanks. It's nice to get a pleasant surprise from a mislabeled plant! I think the color has stabilized in the first flower to open. Here's a photo that shows it nicely: A second flower has opened, and I'll just show the whole plant so that you can see them both. The newer flower is on the left: The entire plant is about two and a half feet tall,and growing quickly. |
I notice the colors in the photos seem a bit muted. The Gardenweb photo upload system seems to work better than Photobucket for this. I'll repeat the last photo, using the Gardenweb upload: |
I'm not sure if I mentioned that I later bought a second plant at the same nursery, with the same label. That plant opened a flower over the last few days. It is still in a 1 gallon pot. I believe it's the same, and that any differences are due to the lighting, age of the flower, etc. |
- Posted by MissMudPuppy z7 - L.I.,NY (My Page) on Sat, Apr 13, 13 at 15:54
WOW! What a stunner! Never seen one that color before. Blessings really do come in disguise ;) ! Does it have a scent? |
I haven't noticed a scent, but if there is something faint I could have missed it. From what I understand, fragrance of a "cold group" (Sphaerocarpium) flower would imply the flower is part Brugmansia arborea, as it's the only species in this group with any fragrance. Even then, only some such hybrids are fragrant. The color is pretty amazing. I've grown the Strybing vulsa, and it reminds me of that, but much more intense. One of the "experts" has suggested that the hybrid is B. sanguinea ('Inca Princess'?) x Strybing vulsa. |
Thanks for showing us your images, the flower has stunning colour. |
- Posted by diane_v_44 Z6 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 14, 13 at 21:23
MARK Seems California is the place to grow Brugmansia Boy that was nice going through the day to day reports on the development of the bloom More Diane |
Beautiful, if you ever sell any cuttings, I'm up for grabs. Patsey |
- Posted by diane_v_44 Z6 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 15, 13 at 17:11
Mark again the picture just came to my laptop while I am awaitng news re my son is travelling by air from Toronto to Ft Myers I am listening to the news of the bombing in Boston and worried about him on an air plane Then here came this picture of beauty My sister in law and brother are going to be in California, now I forget where they are going to be For an entire month Do you think they might be able to purchase and send to me one of those plants if there are yet any at the nursery you purchased yours from. |
Hi Diane, You would have to check with the owner of Hortica to see what he might have in stock or if he could special order. The problem is that since the wholesaler doesn't seem to realize what they have, you'd have to buy a previously bloomed one to be sure. I did see 5 gallon plants with the same label at a nursery in Berkeley that bloomed like a typical red/orange B. sanguinea. Another problem is that one gallon plants are difficult and expensive to ship. I'm attempting to propagate the plant(s) and have already started about 15 cuttings. Cuttings are slower and less predictable than warmer-growing Brugmansias. This is probably premature, but you could always check with Elizabeth Peters at Grassy Knoll Exotic Plants and see if this is a plant she plans to propagate and sell. She already sells the Strybing vulsa at a very reasonable price and I believe she has other interesting Sphaerocarpium Brugmansias that she will hopefully sell at some point. I'm sure she would be interested to know that there are people who would buy the plant. She runs a first-rate nursery and has some amazing plants. I understand she does ship internationally. It doesn't have a name, but she'd understand which plant if you referred to it as the Suncrest Brugmansia from Randy. I've discussed this with others, and I think it makes sense to refer to the plant as the "Suncrest vulsa" in the absence of any other information. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Grassy Knoll Exotic Plants
- Posted by diane_v_44 Z6 (My Page) on Wed, May 1, 13 at 0:01
I am all the way back home in Canada Brought my dear Brugmansias out of the cold room and now outside Is yet cold for them but not freezing Has been lots of rain and it in spite of cool weather, gets them going Lots of clean up , spring clean up to do in the gardens. I miss my lovely gardens in Ft Myers Florida that I left behind Including the Brugmansia that where just starting to bloom Was hoping tonight there might be more of your fabulous photos to inspire and keep me motivated. It is so good to be home, but, all the treasures in my gardens, need time and care Will be awhile Lots of Hellebores in bloom Different colours they look good and crocus and daffodils Don't get me wrong, spring is pretty. Love to see more of your so good photos. Still, we want more. |
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For nearly 60 years, the Voice of America (VOA) has been the USA's primary means of disseminating news and information throughout the world. Today, a network of 22 stations broadcasts material from 40 radio and three fully equipped television stations in Washington, DC, to more than 1,000 stations worldwide. One particular VOA relay station has some interesting stories to tell. Here is one of them.
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When it was time to switch, the crew gathered around the free end of the nylon line, and one crewmember picked it up. Recalls Vodenik, "He pulled on the line — and pulled some more. He pulled and pulled, and still the antenna didn't switch."
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The Groovy development team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 1.8-RC-4.
The main reason for doing another RC release is to address some important bugs:
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- an obscure GEP-3 bug (GROOVY-4774)
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Due to some hiccup during the release process, not all the fixes we had intended to bundle were part of the 1.7.9 release, so this newer drop fills the gap and brings back all the changes we had previously announced. And on the front of the Groovy 1.8-RC-3 release, we fixed a potential synchronization issue that may affect users of ExpandoMetaClasses. Those two releases are basically just bug-fix releases.
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The Groovy development team is pleased to announce the joint releases of Groovy 1.7.9 and the second release candidate for Groovy 1.8.
In those two releases, we essentially focused on bug fixes.
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Thanks for your help test driving that Release Candidate.
The Groovy development team is pleased to announce the joint release of Groovy 1.7.7 and Groovy 1.8-beta-4, the latest releases of the popular dynamic language for the JVM.
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- the bundling of GPars in the libraries of the binary distribution,
- and built-in JSON support with a JSON slurper and a JSON parser
If you wish to learn more about the JSON support, you can have a look at the JSON Groovy Extension Proposal and the unit tests for the slurper and the builder.
Here's an example for the JSON slurper, fetching tweets from Twitter about the #groovy hashtag:
And another example showing how you can create JSON payloads with the JSON builder:
You can download and read about the JIRA release notes here:
Groovy 1.7.7
Groovy 1.8-beta-4
You may wish to have a look at the recent features introduced in previous betas by reading the following release notes:
- Groovy 1.7.6 and 1.8-beta-3 : new AST transformations, closure memoization and trampolining, etc.
- Groovy 1.7.5 and 1.8-beta-2 : closure composition, new Domain-Specific Language syntax, etc.
- Groovy 1.7.4 and 1.8-beta-1 : new AST transformations, annotation closure parameters, etc.
We'd be glad of you could test the Groovy 1.8 beta to give us as much feedback as you can on this release, before it becomes the new official stable branch of Groovy. Thanks a lot for your help making the 1.8 release a success and for your invaluable feedback. We'd love that everybody try the latest beta in their respective applications, so we can find any regression or potential issue that may arise.
Thanks a lot to all involved in this pair of releases, and for the support of our friendly community!
A new important milestone of the Gaelyk toolkit for Google App Engine has been released, with version 0.6. This is an important release in terms of quality, features and documentation.
Gaelyk is a lightweight toolkit developped in Groovy, letting you develop applications for the Google App Engine cloud using the Groovy programming language.
Make sure to have a look at the release notes in the download section. You'll be able to appreciate a list of existing Gaelyk apps in the wild on the front page. You will be happy to browse the documentation as a PDF or as asingle-page ready to print. And you will be able to search through the documentation, the Google Group, and the GitHub hosting site for the latest code activity and feature requests and bug reports, thanks to Google's integrated search.
One sign that Groovy has entered main-stream is the
raising availability of regular training events.
Main provides of such training events are
SpringSource, SkillsMatter (UK), and LinuxHotel (Germany),
which provide regular, quarterly events.
Please find more information on the respective
Wiki Page
--Dierk Koenig
Hi all,
The Groovy development team is pleased to announce the releases of Groovy 1.7.6 and 1.8-beta-3.
Groovy 1.7.6 is mainly a bug-fix release, whereas 1.8-beta-3 offers some interesting new features and capabilities, especially a preview of performance for primitive operations.
You can have a look at the JIRA release notes for Groovy 1.7.6 and Groovy 1.8-beta-3.
The key highlights for the new beta of our upcoming Groovy 1.8 release:
- extended command expressions can be used on the right-hand side of assignments
- the @Log AST transformation is customizable for your own logging needs
- Map now has an isCase() method
- a @GrabResolver shortcut with @GrabResolver("http://some/url")
- String can be coerced to Enums ("blue" as Color)
- support for closure memoization and trampoline
- @ThreadInterrup, @ConditionalInterupts and @TimedInterrupt AST transformations for stopping the execution of embedded scripts
- min() / max() methods on maps (on values)
- ability to store node metadata in AST nodes, for use in your AST transformations
But beyond those new features, a key aspect of the new beta is a first batch of performance improvements related to primitive int handling.
Currently, most int based operations are optimized to use primitive arithmetics bytecode.
So when a lot of int calculations is involved, you should see some interesting improvements.
Later on, we'll obviously add support for the other primitive types, and find other areas to improve as well.
As usual, you'll find the download information on the Groovy download page.
The Maven artifacts may be delayed a little as we have issues with their upload on the Codehaus infrastructure, but hopefully it'll be resolved rapidly, and the binary distributions should be up shortly if not already there when I hit "send"
We're very interested in hearing about your feedback on the Groovy 1.8 beta, as it contains some experimental code regarding performance improvements for primitive int arithmetics, and we would love to have a maximum of users trying these new aspects, to iron out all the possible issues that may surface.
Thanks a lot to all those who contributed to this release!
Looking forward to your feedback, and keep on groovying!
The Groovy development team is happy to announce the joint release of Groovy 1.7.5 and Groovy 1.8-beta-2.
Both releases contain several bug fixes and minor improvements, but I'd particularly like to highlight two new features of Groovy 1.8-beta-2: closure composition and the new extended DSL capabilities. Make sure to have a look at the new features from the previous beta of 1.8 too, if you haven't had a chance so far.
If you recall your math lessons, function composition may be a concept you're familiar with. And in turn, closure composition is about that: the ability to compose closures together to form a new closure which chains the call of those closures. Here's an example of composition in action:
def plus2 = { it + 2 }
def times3 = { it * 3 }
def composed1 = plus2 << times3
assert composed1(3) == 11
assert composed1(4) == plus2(times3(4))
def composed2 = times3 << plus2
assert composed2(3) == 15
assert composed2(5) == times3(plus2(5))
// reverse composition
assert composed1(3) == (times3 >> plus2)(3)
To see more examples of closure composition and reverse composition, please have a look at our test case.
Groovy 1.8-beta-2 features the great work of our Google Summer of Code student, Lidia Donajczyk, who worked on an extension of the command expression notation (also known as GEP-3 / Extended Command Expressions). In a nutshell, Groovy allows you to omit dots and parentheses for chained methods calls, so that such calls look more like natural language sentences.
A few sentences this new DSL capability will allow you to write:
move left by 30.centimeters
sell 100.shares of MSFT
take 2.pills of chloroquinine in 6.hours
I've blogged about extended command expressions already, if you want to have some additional examples of sentences you can write, and you can have a look at the various examples published on the Groovy Web Console which also demonstrate how to construct such DSLs.
You can have a look at the JIRA release notes:
You can download those Groovy versions from the download area. And as usual, the artifacts will be sync'ed up with Maven's central repository.
Thanks a lot to everybody involved in those new releases.
The Windows-Installer for Groovy 1.7.4 can now be downloaded from the Groovy Website (direct link). It takes care of the gory details of a Windows installation, copying files, setting environment variables and file associations.
It contains the Groovy 1.7.4 Binaries, API Docs and a PDF snapshot of the Wiki, the native launcher, easyb 0.9.7, Gaelyk 0.4, Gant 1.9.3, GMock 0.8.0, GPars 0.10, Griffon Builders (0.3.0 compatible), GroovyServ 0.3, Scriptom 1.6.0, Spock 0.4. The installation of everything but the binaries including the native launcher is optional.
Currently supported languages for the installer are english, german, spanish, french and brazilian portuguese.
This is with great pleasure that the Groovy development team is happy to announce the joint releases of Groovy 1.7.4 and Groovy 1.8-beta-1!
Groovy 1.7.4
Groovy 1.7 is our official stable branch, and 1.7.4 is a new minor release of that breed.
Among other things, we fixed a few issues with automatic reloading when using the GroovyScriptEngine, with the joint compiler, with some minor syntax issues with Enums. We added a few new GDK methods like File.renameTo(String path), minus and intersect for sets, etc. And we have new option in the Groovy swing console to compile scripts -- versus running them right away.
You can have further details on Groovy 1.7.4 in the JIRA release notes.
Groovy 1.8-beta-1
Groovy 1.8-beta-1 is the first drop of what the next major version of Groovy will be -- we plan on releasing 1.8-final at the end of the year.
From a practical Groovy developer perspective, we've decided to move to Gradle for our build, thanks to the help of Hans Dokter. This release was still done with Ant, but our final build should be ready soon for prime-time, and we're also seizing this opportunity to work in parallel on making Groovy more modular. Some early work towards more granular Groovy JAR(s) have already started on modules for JMX and BSF, as first experiments.
In this first beta, we obviously included all the bug fixes and minor enhancements from the 1.7 branch. And we've been working on new features as well:
- closures are now "callable" (inheriting from java.util.concurrent.Callable)
- new AST transformations like
- @Log to inject a logger in your classes
- @ScriptField for creating a field in a script (should be renamed to @Field in the next beta)
- @PackageScope now working also on methods and classes (not just fields as before)
- @Synchronized for providing safer synchronization semantics
- @InheritConstructors to inherit constructors, like often the case when extending exception classes
- @IndexedProperties to add JavaBeans indexed property support
- @AutoClone providing automatic cloning support to your beans
- @AutoExternalize providing automatic externalization of your POGOs
- @Canonical adding proper equals(), hashCode(), toString() methods
- @EqualsAndHashCode adding an equals() and hashCode() method
- @ToString for creating a default readable toString() method
- @TupleConstructor for adding a tuple constructor
- an additional syntax for strings, with $/.../$, to circumvent various escaping corner cases, like for example $/a/b\c$$ $//$
- new GDK methods like Map.countBy{}, Map.collectEntries{}, Date.putAt() (subscript operator), Date.updated()
- + obviously all other incremental improvements and new features from the Groovy 1.7 branch like
- the new String methods like tr(), stripMargin(), stripIndent(), (un)expand(),
- Map's withDefault{} method,
- Closure's ncury() and rcury()
- Sql's withBatch{} and withTransaction{}
A feature I'd also like to highlight in particular is "closure annotation parameters". In Java, there's a limited set of types you can use as annotation parameters (String, primitives, annotations, classes, and arrays of these). But in Groovy 1.8, we're going further and let you use closures as annotation parameters – which are actually transformed into a class parameter for compatibility reasons.
Closure annotation parameters open up some interesting possibilities for framework authors!
You can have a look at the JIRA release notes for Groovy 1.8-beta-1.
You can download Groovy 1.7.4 and Groovy 1.8-beta-1 in the download section of the Groovy website.
Thanks a lot to everybody for their contributions and involvement in those two new milestones!
After Groovy 1.7.3 on Monday, this is time to release Groovy 1.6.9 as well.
Groovy 1.6.9 will be the last version of the Groovy 1.6.x branch, and we'll now focus on the 1.7.x and Trunk branches from now on.
The key highlight of this release is the JDK 1.4 support, as Groovy 1.6.8 had issues running on JDK 1.4. Fortunately, this is fixed now, and 1.6.9 is the last version of Groovy running on that old JDK.
I advise all those still on 1.6.x and JDK 1.4 to upgrade rapidly to a newer JDK, as even JDK 5 has been end-of-lifed recently.
You can download Groovy 1.6.9 at the usual place: http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download
And find the JIRA release notes here: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10242&version=16236
Thanks a lot for your attention, and have fun with Groovy!
Particular thanks to Paul and Roshan for resolving the issues surrounding the JDK 1.4 "retrotranslation" issues we've had.
Time for a new release!
Groovy 1.7.3 is out, on the shelves, ready to be unleashed in your projects!
You can download Groovy at the usual place:
(Note that you can also live on the edge these days, as we now publish regular snapshots of Groovy 1.7 and 1.8 automatically, as explained further down on the Download page)
You can look at the JIRA release notes here:
In particular, you may be interested in the following new features:
- new AST transformations, like @Synchronized (safer use of synchronization) and @InheritConstructors (nice for inheriting Exception constructors)
- first() / last() / head() / tail() methods on arrays for consistency with lists (primitive arrays not covered yet)
- some BigDecimal handling improvements for better results on some edge cases calculations
- an update to the static imports for properties
- new method on Date so you can do cal[DAY_OF_WEEK] = MONDAY
- new String handling methods, like capitalize(), UNIX's tr(), expand()/unexpand(), as well as stripIndent() and stripMargin()
- a nice Groovy icon for the Groovy Swing Console on Mac OS X
Thanks a lot to everybody for their feedback, contributions, and their support towards this release!
Tellurium is an automated web testing framework. Tellurium was started in June 2007 as an internal project and became an open source project on Google Code in June 2008. The key techniques include Groovy, Groovy Grape, jQuery, Selenium, Antlr 3 parser generator, JUnit, TestNG, and Maven. Tellurium 0.7.0 is a milestone release and it is the outcome of one year's hard work. Today, we are happy to announce the release of Tellurium 0.7.0. Over 250 issues and tasks are closed for 0.7.0 with many bug fixes and feature enhancements.
New Features
- Santa Algorithm: The Santa algorithm is the missing half of the Tellurium UI module concept. The algorithm can locate the whole UI module at the runtime DOM. After that, you can just pass in UI element's UID to find it in the cached UI module on Tellurium Engine. That is to say, you don't need Tellurium Core to generate the runtime locators any more.
- Macro Command: Macro Command is a set of Selenium commands that are bundled together and sent to Selenium Core in one call. This will reduce the round trip latency from Tellurium Core to Engine and thus, improve the speed performance. Another advantage for Macro Command is that Tellurium Engine can reuse the locator because many times the commands in the same bundle act on the same UI element or same sub-tree in the DOM.
- UI Module Caching: From Tellurium 0.6.0, Tellurium provides the cache capability for CSS selectors so that Tellurium can reuse them without doing re-locating. In 0.7.0, Tellurium moves a step further to cache the whole UI module on the Engine side. Each UI module cache holds a snapshot of the DOM references for the UI elements in the UI module.
- Tellurium New APIs: Tellurium Engine in 0.7.0 re-implemented a set of Selenium APIs by exploiting jQuery, plus many more new APIs.
- Trace: Tellurium 0.7.0 provides built-in support for the command execution time including execution time for each command, total run time, and aggregated times for each command.
- UI Module Live Show: The show command is used to show the UI module that you defined on the actual web page. The UI module on the web page is outlined and if a user hives over the UI module, the UIDs of the selected UI element's and its ancestors' are shown as a tooltip.
- I18n support: Tellurium now provides support for internationalization of strings and exception messages. Internationalized strings for each locale is provided through a MessageBundle for a specific locale which is of the format
<MessageBundleName><language-code><country code>.properties
. - The Tellurium UID Description Language(UDL): used to address the dynamic factors in Tellurium UI templates and increase the flexibility of Tellurium UI templates.
How to Obtain Tellurium 0.7.0
Tellurium 0.7.0 tar ball can be downloaded fromhere. You can also find Tellurium udl, Tellurium Core, and custom selenium server from the following Maven repositories, respectively.
If you Tellurium Maven archetypes, you can use the following command to create a Tellurium JUnit test project.
mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=your_group_id -DartifactId=your_artifact_id \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=tellurium-junit-archetype \
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.telluriumsource -DarchetypeVersion=0.7.0 \
Similarly, use the following Maven command for a Tellurium TestNG project,
mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=your_group_id -DartifactId=your_artifact_id \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=tellurium-testng-archetype \
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.telluriumsource -DarchetypeVersion=0.7.0 \
Please report any problems back to Tellurium User Group at
and follow Tellurium on Twitter for any the latest update.
Tellurium Team is looking for new open source contributors to join our team and read the wiki Tellurium Calls for Open Source Contributors for more details.
Tellurium Team


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Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Jean Mariat Yogo Tognia, age 35; Elza Carmelle Tognia, age 34, both of Ellenwood, Georgia; and Hoagonde Irene Amedegnato, age28, of Decatur, Georgia, in connection with a bank fraud conspiracy in which they fraudulently obtained more than $338,000 from financial institutions in Maryland. The indictment was returned on April 4, 2011 and unsealed late yesterday upon the arrest of the defendants.
The indictment was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Postal Inspector in Charge Daniel S. Cortez of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service - Washington Division; Special Agent in Charge David Beach of the United States Secret Service – Washington Field Office; and Chief J. Thomas Manger of the Montgomery County Police Department.
According to the 12 count indictment, the defendants created numerous aliases for themselves and obtained forms of false identification in their alias names. The indictment lists 16 aliases for Jean Tognia, eight aliases for Elza Tognia, and two aliases for Hoagonde Amedegnato. The indictment alleges that the defendants opened accounts at financial institutions in their own names and in their alias names, using the false identification documents, then wrote checks on their accounts to each other, and deposited the checks into each others' accounts. The indictment alleges that the defendants knew that the accounts on which the checks were drawn lacked sufficient funds to cover the checks ("NSF checks"). According to the indictment, the defendants then drew funds from their accounts by way of VISA check card and debit card purchases, cash withdrawals, checks written on the accounts, and transfers to other accounts before the NSF checks were dishonored.
The indictment also seeks forfeiture of the proceeds of the scheme, including at least $338,775.76 , believed to be the losses sustained by the Maryland financial institutions.
The defendants face a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison for the conspiracy to commit bank fraud and for each of 11 counts of bank fraud. The defendants had an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, Georgia late yesterday and were detained. The defendants have requested an identity hearing, which is scheduled for Monday, April 11, 2011, along with their detention hearing in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
An indictment is not a finding of guilt. An individual charged by indictment is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at some later criminal proceedings.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein praised the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Secret Service-Washington Field Office and the Montgomery County Police Department for their work in the investigation. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant United States Attorney Adam K. Ake, who is prosecuting the case.


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SBCF > SEC Filings for SBCF > Form 8-K on 2-Jan-2014 | All Recent SEC Filings |
Other Events, Financial Statements and Exhibits
On January 2, 2014, Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida issued a press release to announce that it has redeemed all of its Series A Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock from investors on December 31, 2013. The preferred stock was originally issued to the United States Department of Treasury through the Capital Purchase Program. The press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.
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Domain Auction Site Bido Closing Down
Domain name auction site Bido is closing down.
Domain name auction site Bido is closing. The company announced the move on twitter moments ago:
Bido is ceasing operation as of May 5, 2010. All transactions and accounts will be gracefully finalized and closed.
I confirmed the closure with the company. Although representatives would not speak specifically to why they are shutting down the platform, the company must have been losing substantial money. It had been self-funded for years and current sales commissions could not have been covering expenses.
Just this past January the company announced it was packing up to move to Silicon Valley to get closer to the action. It also hired a number or employees.
Bido launched in early 2008 with DN Journal editor Ron Jackson teaming up with Sahar Sarid. The site started with one auction a day starting at just $1 with no reserve. Jackson resigned from the company in March 2008. Bido later expanded but hit growing pains. It went offline in late 2008 for several months as the company tried to improve its overall technology.
The company pushed the bounds of innovation in domain name marketplaces, adding a number of features to create a sort of "social" marketplace and even paying out a portion of proceeds to people who picked domain names to be sent to auction. But the challenges of creating a domain name marketplace may have been too great.
52 Comments
thank god for that
everyone tried telling them it was a big fail
and got sick of their spam all over forums
good riddance -
I wish they stuck to the simple "1 domain per day" idea and instead of spending all the money, put up some good domains for auction from their portfolio. It would get better traction and encourage other domain owners to put up their good domains as well. Instead, they ended up with garbage in a vicious cycle and it was a point where they would probably not risk their own good domain names.
Their spam was called marketing and I for one thought it was a great platform for selling domains!.
It takes balls to start a big operation like that, and Sahar did a great job while it lasted!
"It takes balls to start a big operation like that, and Sahar did a great job while it lasted!"
He might have done some things right but a "great job" means it was a success.
Closing down is crazy to me though. I would assume that at this point it is all automatic from the submission of domain to the selling of domain to the collecting of revenue, if that is the case then now that the cost to design it has been spent what other costs are there? I recognize that I know nothing about it not working for them but couldn't you run it with only one person in a basement by this point?
The facade's are starting to fall in the domain world. We are beginning to see that many of the people that we have been taught are the most successful were really only hoping and praying to strike it big, and just letting us think they were the guru's, Sex.com, Bido.com, SanDiego.com, and I bet we are about see a whole lot more as well!
The way I see it I will always shoot to streamline my expenses. If I can only make a consistent $10,000 per month then that is a good life for me as long as my expenses a much lower. Don't get me wrong, I will shoot for $100,000 per month or more and I am building businesses that I hope will achieve that, but the key is to be streamlined, to not need much so you will always stay afloat.
Don't get greedy and don't build faster than you can sustain.
Oh ya, and don't send $14 million for a domain that competes in an industry where everything is free!
It was bound to happen. They were doing better when they first started. They should of had one auction per hour. I sold a few domains on Bido when they first got started. After that it went down hill. One domain auction per hour for 12 hours(9:00am-9:00 pm) would of been a positive note for Bido. Good luck!!!
It definitely takes balls to close such a project like Bido, where you have invested a lot of your time and money, and now you have to admit that this was a failure.
But only those who do nothing make no mistakes, so don't worry and good luck with the next project Sahar!
It seems to me that some company should step in and buy the platform.
Too bad really. They needed better domain IMO.
Too much trash….like eBay. Who has time to sort through it all?
You said "I gotta say, they stuck their neck & money on the line to make something work. That takes guts. And I bet we'll see some of their innovations creeping into other auction platforms in due time"
Exactly – what the haters don't get is that anyone in this business who is trying to launch new services and further this industry are always risk takers and should be welcomed. When we get to a more mature domain aftermarket market in 5 or 10 years it will be because people like Sahar put their money in to seeing things like BIDO take off and grow. How many of you can say the same?
Failure is often not due to a poor business plan but just simple bad timing. What happened to BIDO it seems is less the fault of anybody involved but just an immature industry not catching up quick enough.
Social platforms, bid for credits etc… 5 or 10 years from now I bet all these ideas will be incorporated into some kind of aftermarket venue for domains and people will hail – what a success and original idea!
Have no doubt it was Sahar's vision that also helped the future founders of the venue come up with these ideas and new venues.
Anyone can auction off names like Snap and NameJet but the future of aftermarket venues will all be derived from ideas that places like BIDO introduced.
A lot of domainers build and fail (hell, we have many times) but there are many success stories as well – fortunately we work in an industry where the next roller coaster is much easier to catch then the brick and mortar world.
Sad to see it go. I had good experiences with Jarred and some of the other folks involved and am sure they will land on their feet. It came down to inventory and pricing. (Duh)
Too bad to see it go.
Great team and great ideas but I think they might have tried to pack too many creative ideas into the platform too soon.
I thought about listing some domains but seemed like the voting, and bidder credits and all that was too much of a learning curve.
Also, domainer to domainer sales are WAY WAY down from my experience and I would say 80%+ of bido customers were domainers.
Maybe a sedo or afternic or godaddy would want to buy the guts of the system and hire some of the people but when it the money isn't rolling in and does not appear to be any near term future for revenue, what's the sense?
Just a pair of hours before this annnouncement I was discussing with Jarred about the integration of Bido.com in a service we are planning to launch. He was trying to reassure me about his affiliate program as payment model… It was a friendly business conversation and I felt motivation because he was trying to convince me…
So I can tell you it's not a decision that has been taken previously. It look likes an event just occured that push them to take the decision to stop.
I wish them all the best on whatever they will do in the future.
I agree with Rob's points – way too complex, yet lacking in basic features like a watch list, my bids, etc. I told Bido guys multiple times that it seemed overengineered and marketing communications of how it worked were weak. Heck, the home page was always some stupid video that stood in the way of users doing what they wanted to do – trade domains. To me, marketing and featured were the problem.
As others have said I'll add a kudos for putting money and neck (reputation) on the line like they have. It's not a good day for anyone in the domain business when those trying to advance it fail.
Well I think it was a good attempt at being innovative but there were simply too many domains and I lost focus alot of the time. I purchased a few domains on there but like some people here said I didn't have the time to get through all of them or figure out what time each were going on the chopping block.
Too much work for too little quality.
"The facade's are starting to fall in the domain world. We are beginning to see that many of the people that we have been taught are the most successful were really only hoping and praying to strike it big, and just letting us think they were the guru's, Sex.com, Bido.com, SanDiego.com, and I bet we are about see a whole lot more as well!"Sounds like something I wrote about in the New Times prior!
ya no surprises here, just go to flippa who sells both websites and domains, and see how much interest there is in buying domains
I like Sedo
I'm sorry to see BIDO go down like this…. as a business I think it had legs; maybe it would have taken another year or more to put down decent roots and this was simply not possible but congrats to the guys for having a shot at opening up the domain market, you have my condolences!
Gary -
The domain platform they developed was an enormous effort and Bido deserve much credit for creating what they did. I had written a few times that I believed their model was off in that they continued to gravitate toward too many domains, and then eventually too many lower quality domains.
What is needed is a brokerage that focuses exclusively on the upper echelon and not the lowest common denominator. There is no such brokerage anywhere, yet. That void definitely exist and will one day be filled. But it will require very seasoned sales professionals, top notch communicators, and staff with exquisite customer service skills.
I had hoped Bido might become the Sotheby's or Christie's of the domain world and be the first brokerage to establish a real connection to the larger business community. Actually, Bido could reinvent and take itself in an entirely different direction.
Thanks everybody for your thoughts and well wishes. After a long run, we decided it was time to move on. To everyone who supported us along the way, and recognized and commended our efforts and innovation, we appreciate that very much. Can't say it enough, really. Thank you for two years of allowing us to help you with all of your businesses; acquisition and sales goals.
Since we made the announcement this morning, we had some significant offers come in. If anyone else reading would like to explore acquiring the Bido.com brand, list, and technology, get in touch with me soon. This is a time sensitive opportunity. Thanks again to everyone who supported what we did along the way, from all of us here at Bido.
Jarred Cohen, COO
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Though I've not used Bido myself, I've always thought it great that Sahar and his creative, hard-working team was willing to put themselves out there, to take that chance, to pick up the bat and swing for the fences.
I wish them the best in whatever they come up with next.
To avoid criticism:
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Do nothing.
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Bido should be respected for their guts to invest, innovate, experiment, and for the courage to END it…although it will be painfull. People like this are the true guru's of domaining world….THEY DO WHAT THEY BELIEVE in. Wish u'll good luck in next venture.
It's a very very sad day.
Bido was an incredible domaining tool for us all. and the Bido team was second to none in the Domain Industry for Customer Service.
I was very fortunate to have been very involved with Bido from the first trial auction all the way up to being their last sale today, and I tell you one thing for sure…They will be missed by a whole domain Community.
I really hope someone buys Bido, and brings it back to life very quickly….maybe a little simpler by focusing strictly on domain sales, then slowly adding extra features.
Either way, we all know the people who made Bido what it was were first class individuals.
Vito. -
Sorry to hear this news; no doubt these are hard times. Bido had an excellent and innovative team in Jarred and Sahar. And I wish you all the luck in your next endeavor.
A lot of idiots in the domain industry bitch and moan about people who have achieved success in the domain industry, accusing them of not doing enough or anything at all.
Here you have a group of entrepreneurs, who put money where their hearts were and took the risk of improving the marketplace. And here we have small minded morons accusing Bido as a spammer and a failure instead of commending them of trying to help the industry as a whole.
Innovation, a great customer service and investing a huge amount of resources in time and money takes a lot of guts. Bido and its founders had them.
Shame on those who disparage those who thread the roads they themselves will not have the courage to step foot upon. All they can come up with are useless accusations and meaningless opinions.
They gave their all. Bido will have my highest respect.
Yes, truly a shame.
I am sure that a few tweaks could have fixed their issue.
I've sold quite few names on Bido, and bought a few gems too.
If Bido is in trouble. I am now wondering about Parked.com
The main issue in our industry is that it is full of jealous Monday morning quarterbacks and those who are skeptics about others who have achieved success or do anything beyond sitting on message boards all day.
To be honest, these petty types are the ones that make our industry look and feel like a bunch of unprofessional snake oil salesmen. I will never forget the feeling I got when first going to a domain conference and feeling like I was at a used car convention vs. going to something like SES or Affiliate Summit where it felt more professional. I've never really learned anything from a domainer in terms of useful strategies to grow a business, etc. Until we grow up as an industry, we will always be perceived in a negative way.
While I was not a big fan of Bido (flooding my inbox although not spam), I commend them for their effort to do something entrepreneurial and have the rocks to put themselves out there.
I wonder if they will want to sell it. Its a great application and if its was given to me [ ] I would have expanded it to website marketplace. It has a great concept and very user friendly.
@Afif, yes Bido is currently actively for sale. See my other comment above for details.
nice platform but sad ending.
Sorry to see Bido go. I have been successfully clearing out my "junk" there and biding my time while they grew before putting out my better domains. Wish they would have tried tweaking some more, such as adding a small listing fee and/or putting in a minimum commission, such as even $5 or $10. They were certainly on to something, and still are, IMHO. I guess just ran out of runway, which is something we can all relate to. I tip my hat to these guys for going for it, while most people just sit on the sidelines and don't even try. I look forward to seeing what you guys do next! -Chris
It's sad to see Bido go.
A failed business venture is a very painful experience to go through, I would imagine particularly painful in an industry that is so public.
Rather than dwell on the negative aspects of what went wrong, I recommend closing it out quickly and then dwelling on the positive experiences and know that you both (Jarred and Sahar)have a lot of resources to draw on for your next business venture.
1.Courage-To put yourself out there.
2.Innovation and creativity.
3.Exemplary customer service ethos.
4.Integrity.Good luck in your future endeavours.
Having personally dealt with Jarred I can honestly say that it is in fact sad to see Bido go. Customer service was definitely a top priority and they need to be commended for that.
Bido was a great idea and platform and I'm sure the ideas will grow and evolve into something even greater for them. I wish them all the best in their next project. Don't pay attention to the haters, anyone who is willing to put hard work into such a project needs to be commended for it.
Thanks again for a great experience guys.
Always a shame to see dedicated entrepreneurs have to make the tough decision to shut down, especially when (as with Bido) they've been putting heart and soul into moving the industry forward via innovation. Now we can look forward to seeing what Sahar + Jarred + team will come up with next. Good luck guys!
Actually no domain auction website in this planet sell more domain names daily than Bido was selling. Bido was selling 35 to 40 domain names a day, but the things is the domain names Bido was selling were cheap domain names, and the sales fees taken could not cover Bido expenses. In the current nature of domain market/business the coming of Bido as a domain sale business, taking into account all what it invested in the business, could only result in the sale of cheap domains, that's because premium and expensive domain names don't sell easily, and when they sell they usually are bought by domain speculators, not end-users. Since in the current nature of the domain business/market good domains are rarely bought by end users most domains names auctioned with Bido were being brought or bought by domainers/speculators , they want to make money selling or speculating, and cheap domains are speculators' favored domains, so Bido failed because in the current nature of domain market/business the fees taken on the sale of domain names can't cover bido's operational costs. Even Sedo, Moniker, Afternic, if they apply the technology and sophistication Bido applied they would fail.
@M. Menius and others,
That sounds like something we offer at Go Daddy, called DomainConnect and offered through our Executive Account team.
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This was DOA the day it started.
Sahar has carved a career out of throwing piles of cash at dead ideas.
I admire anyone "who goes against the grain", "who sticks two fingers up at the naysayers" or who subscribes to the "have to fail to succeed.."
but saying all that, it was an epic dumb concept.
Excuse my language, but "F**K Off" :)This is the most blatant publicity stunt I've seen for a while. Mark my words…. in 3 or 4 days time, once bido get all the links they need to boost PR, they will miraculously be in a position to continue trading Anyone fancy a small wager on this?
I can only say: at least they tried to make something in this Industry.
Thanks for all the effort. -
"Excuse my language, but "F**K Off" This is the most blatant publicity stunt I've seen for a while"
I can't excuse your language, but I'll take some of that action because I know they won't relaunch for at least 10 days.
They'll sell the biz and remain majority owners. LOL
I am sad to see them close…
They are a terrific bunch of smart, honest, fun business folks… and I think the service
was a useful domainers tool…If they would have been hiring someone that
works from home – I'd have joined on to promote them… I was looking for something
to do from home for another domain company etc… It would have been even tougher on
me now though – with them closing down… I get so attached to people I work with…
I go out of my way to make others as
successful as I am … I keep my own successes primarily super quiet (most are
contractually required) but domaining and development is my life… so I RECOGNIZE
the USEFULNESS that Bido.com provided even if for the short 2 yhears… I hope someone steps up – purchases it and continues on…
someone equally as knowledgeable, honest,
fun to work with…~Patricia Kaehler
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I was slow to give them a try.
I had countless domains I couldn't sale at Sedo,DNForum,and several more places.I had my domains everywhere. My first week using Bido I made a truckload of sales and about everything got voted on.1 out of 4 sold above average I was told. Today I pushed 3 more domains to new homes on Bido and just saw the notice. They became my first listing platform for quick sales. I learned to like the Bido platform because it worked for me."Bido" deserves a strong sale and I think this service would have had "exploded" in cash flow had it had a little time and/or additional features. -
Thank god such a stupid idea anyway, destined for failure
A failure in style, at least. Good luck!
I would call it far from a failure. if you read Sahar's blog as I just did he mentioned that within minutes he had offers coming in to buy the business in a range of six figures. if six figure offers are pouring in within minutes then its pretty obvious that they are going to sell the business off for much more
to any of the detractors here, let's see you build a site up from scratch and within two years peel it off for 7 or 8 figures.
they built something of real value. Kudos to the whole Bido team and good luck to them all in the future
I am not surprised at all. From one domain A DAY to auctioning like crazy, it was obvious from start that these people had NO SOLID BIZ plan to start a Business.
sorry to see you go but your deserved it.
"so we have reset your complimentary voting points to 2220″
Just look at the business concept before judging my email. A kid can look at the potential for making money with this system and say "ARE you CRAZY?"
"so we have reset your complimentary voting points to 2220″
I do no care what anyone says, if there were smart they would show it by at least to exit with dignity. Which business gives 24hr notice to close?
smart business man plan for exit as well. there were no explanation but "Good bye" and we are trying to sell our business domain name and technology for SIX figures. That is almost as stupid as the business.


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Police report that a South Lake High School student is allegedly being harassed by his former girlfriend's boyfriend. The victim told police that the first incident of harassment was when the suspect, described as a black male in his early 20s, reportedly followed the male victim in his vehicle at around 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 to a location at Eight Mile Road and Harper.
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never had any problems- 10 trips-always have combined room key/ticket
Hi All,
My hubbie told me he'd heard of people having issues with their all-in-one ticket - room/park entry/Dinning Plan card.
He has heard that people have had problems entering the park because the cards aren't programmed properly and they've have to make the trip back to the resort hotel to get it sorted.
My last visit the room and park tickets were seperate.
I'm really worried it will happen and was wondering if anyone has experienced any issues or can put my mind at ease??
The first morning I've an ADR for Crystal Palace an hour before park opening and don't want anything like this to stop the fun or ruin my Honeymoon.
never had any problems- 10 trips-always have combined room key/ticket
You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas.
The last trip we used the all-in-one key was much better than when we used separate keys. We had been told by numerous cast members that the plain park tickets (the paper ones) tend to need to be replaced tons of times, while the all in one (which are like credit card material) work very well.
I hope everything works out and that you have a wonderful honeymoon. That is where we went for ours and it was better than I could have ever imagined. Make sure you get the "just married" buttons! They work.
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." Walt Disney
Prior to 1998-Offsite (2 trips)
2000-Fort Wilderness (5)
2001-Fort Wilderness (5)
2006-Offsite (3)
10/10/09-10/17-Coronado Springs (Honeymoon) (6)
12/31/09-1/4/10-All Star Movies (New Years) (3)
10/7/10-10/16-Wilderness Lodge (1st Ann.) (8)
11/24/10-11/28-Lighthouse Keys (2)
3/9/11-3/15/11-LK & PO Riverside (5)
7/29/11-8/6/11- LK and Disney Dream (3)
12/31-1/6/12 - LK and Carribbean Beach (7)
3/29-4/2 - Pop Century (3)
11/1-11/11 - Poly, Port Orleans Riverside & Disney Dream (5)
8/3-811 - Disneyland (4)
Total Days in Disney Parks: 72
Sure hope it is not a real problem and have a wonderful honeymoon.
Been there, done that...
Luckily the Guest Services at AK was able to assist and we got into the park.
However, a Key To the World Card should be treated as it if were an invalid... It should NEVER be allowed to come in conact with another credit card, your cell phone etc.... If you treat it VERY carefully you MIGHT get lucky and it will work throughout your stay! (Why is this? Right now my hotel key is rolling around in the bottom of my purse with my TWO cell phones and thousands of other things... And it will WORK when I get to the hotel ) What a concept!
For this reason I do NOT put my tickets on my KTTW card and really hope they never move to this "technology" for Annual Passes! I have never had a problem with the "paper" annual pass and if you do, you just walk to Guest Services and get a new one! Much easier then standing in line at a resort for them to try AGAIN to fix the KTTW card!
I always keep my tickets in my purse, they each have its own slot. As I'm on holiday in over-seas climes I never bring all the many cards I've got doubled into each card slot and again as I'm on holiday my cell phone stays in the hotel room switched off. Hopefully this will mean it's ok...
Anecdotally from several CMs I know, they say that they actually have fewer problems with the "paper" (not really - it's Tyvek, a really tough and durable material - they wrap houses in the stuff as a moisture barrier) than with the plastic cards. Numerically, there may be "greater" problems with the Tyvek tickets because they are a large percentage of the overall daily ticket use.
I have not heard of any mysterious increase in ticket problems of any type recently.
What I DO know is that if you have the dining plan and plan on upgrading your ticket to an annual pass, you should get the ticket entitlements separated from the KTTW card at the resort(*) and upgrade it separately at a ticket booth. If you upgrade a ticket entitlement on a KTTW card at a ticket booth, there is the possibility of your DDP credits getting messed up, although I believe steps have been taken to correct that.
* Finding a resort concierge that will actually do this is reportedly a challenge - some will claim it can't be done, although it most certainly can be. The other suggestion is to postpone the upgrade until the end of your trip, so long as its within 14 days that you first use the ticket entitlement.
Oh, and more...yes, BOTH Tyvek and plastic cards are subject to scrambling by magnetic fields, more so than typical credit cards. Credit cards are "permanently" imprinted with their magnetic signature. That information never changes, and has various error correcting codes for minor errors.
The magstripes used by Disney are rewritable - think of them more like a floppy disk (for those that remember such ancient technologies ), and this does make them slightly more fragile in that regard. Many purses that now have magnetic clasps can easily scramble them. Sometimes rubbing two magstripes together can scramble them both.
The best caution is to keep them away from magnetic fields (obviously no magnets, but keep them separated from cell phones as well), and if they must be stored with each other, make sure they all face the same way (front to back), and if you want to be a little extra cautious, give them a half-turn so the magstripes on each are on opposite ends (top, bottom, top, bottom, etc.) so there are two layers of Tyvek/plastic between each stripe.
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Kinda off topic, but for those who are concerned the the "fragility" of the Tyvek, park tickets are available in plastic form when purchased through the Disney Store.
I'm about as All-American as they come!*Natalie*Must get a new trip on the books! I'm dyin' here!


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A Language Learning and Living Area for Students and Teaching Assistants
Albion College offers language-learning housing for foreign language teaching assistants and language students in French, German, and Spanish. This residential space, called the I-Space, serves as a "living laboratory" where Albion College students can practice their conversational skills with fellow students and native speakers.
Students pledge to speak the intended language within their living quarters. Eligible students can earn .25 unit for residency in I-Space for one semester and active participation in weekly programs in the student's respective language house as well as in cultural events for all I-Space residents. Students add this course during the first week of classes, once they have moved in.
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