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I've got some exciting news to share! Tomorrow (Thursday April 7th), I'm going to be presenting some spring decorating ideas and DIYs on CTV's The Marilyn Denis Show! I've been a huge fan of Marilyn and her programs for years, so this is a huge honour for me.
In preparation for the show I did a little shopping — thrift and not-so-thrift — to get inspired. I'm thinking of fresh, springy colours, floral motifs with maybe a touch of black, and lots of affordable tips and tricks.
I'm thinking this wallpaper from Thibaut says spring with a capital S, don't you?
I was lucky to find this handsome chest of drawers at my local Whitby, Ont. Value Village. A perfect makeover candidate!
Toronto's Angus & Company is always full of inspiration for me. Check out these drop-dead gorgeous gourd lamps I'm hoping to use in the Marilyn segment.
I hope everybody (including Marilyn) thinks my vignette is pretty and spring-y! Be sure to check me out on the show tomorrow morning at 10 EST on CTV! (Click here for your local listings.)
To keep you busy until Thursday, try one of my other DIY projects.
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2. Gatehouse Collection, Newman in Straw, T4702, Thibaut
3-4. Michael Penney
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2009 Hyundai Elantra
bryan_05 Posts: 162009
Although most attention will be placed on the advent of the 2009 Genesis luxury sedan, Hyundai is bringing a few other offerings to market. A lightly-revised form of the midsize Sonata sedan is already at dealers, while an all-new five-door Elantra, dubbed the 'Touring,' arrives in North America in January.
http://blogs.automobilemag.com/6291140/future-cars/future-hyundai-products-focus- -on-fuel-economy/index.html -
smith20 Posts: 256the 'Touring,' arrives in North America in January
That is so incredibly sad. If January turns out to be actual release, they will have delayed this thing almost a year from it's original projected release of spring 2008 . . . right when small car demand has reached levels not seen since the 1980s. It seems like they're really missing out on some nice small car profits on this one. I would believe they would be extra motivated to get this one out on the dealer lots. Perhaps the tardy release portends serious problems in getting this car consumer-ready . . . though that would be very surprising since this model is so similar to the European I30 model.
I guess I am just bitter since we're going to need to replace one of our cars soon and we're basically waiting for this car, but I don't want to buy it during the first few months of crazy demand, so January would realistically mean April '09 for us. *sigh* -
backy Twin CitiesPosts: 18,787I am in the same boat. The Elantra SE and Touring are at the top of my list, but SEs are really hard to find now, the 2009s aren't out yet, and the Touring won't be out until next year it appears. To top it off, incentives on the Elantra are decreasing due to the popularity of small cars. So I might be forced to go to the other cars on my list.
backy Twin CitiesPosts: 18,787While I was waiting for an oil change at my local Hyundai dealer today, I was talking with a sales rep about various things. He mentioned that the 2009 Elantra sedans were due in "next month." He also said that they would have styling tweaks from the 2008s (maybe like we've seen in those photos from the Beijing auto show?). I asked him if the GLS would get ESC, as has been rumored, and he said he didn't know yet. He is waiting for the 2009s because they have only one 2008 left, a base 5-speed.
He also said he's heard it would be "a few months" before the Touring comes out, which is consistent with the January 2009 date mentioned here earlier. -
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mrcellus Posts: 52I do not know if this has been posted yet but I ran up on it by way of another site. Hyundai News has all of the press releases for the 2009 models -including the 09' Elantra sedan-so it is coming soon peps as mentioned. I am just glad the body doesn't change like overseas. Here is the link enjoy: link title.
backy Twin CitiesPosts: 18,787Thanks for posting this! It confirms some rumors (iPod interface) and kills others (styling tweaks, ESC on the GLS). The tweks to the suspension on the GLS and SE are a surprise, but welcome.
Notice all the new features listed are "late availability." That means, apparently, that for awhile the 2009s will be just like the 2008s. :surprise: I wonder if there will be a price increase for 2009? (The price link wasn't active on the linked article.)
I am disappointed that the GLS won't have ESC. Hopefully Hyundai will ship more SEs here for 2009--they were pretty hard to find for much of 2008.
P.S. Another local (Twin Cities) dealer confirmed that 2009 Elantras would be coming in the next 2 weeks. -
mrcellus Posts: 52Hey Backy! I knew you would probably be the first to post . Like you, I am surprised at alot that is coming even late. I am going to wait on the new tweaks for sure and as mentioned I am glad the body style stays.
The actual website is HyundaiNews.com then choose the Media Kits tag at top and choose 2009 Models. The new suspension tweaks and the 24 inch and 20 inch front and rear bars make for some nice wheels and very sporty drive now for sure I hope.
I am also hoping in more SE's available and accessories for sure. I can't wait to see how the new SE performs! -
backy Twin CitiesPosts: 18,787I am getting a little tired waiting, and need to get a car by late October, maybe November at the latest. If an SE is available then at a decent price,that's probably what I'll get, but if not... on to other choices! For instance, the Sonata GLS is actually lower priced right now with all the incentives than the Elantra SE. If I could find an Optima LX with ABS/ESC, that would likely cost less than an Elantra SE too.
backy Twin CitiesPosts: 18,787"Expect prices to start around $16,000."
Uh, sorry... no way that will happen. That is not an official statement from HMA, but wishful thinking on the part of the author of the article. Consider that a GLS with Preferred Package (A/C, stereo, fogs, some other bits) is over $16k. Compare the equipment on the Touring to that of the GLS. The Touring is much closer to and in some ways exceeds the SE in equipment. Also consider that the last Elantra hatch, from 2001-6, sold for a little more than comparable sedan versions. So I don't see any way the Touring will start for less than the price of the SE, which would put it over $17k with a stick and over $18k with the automatic. In a few weeks, we'll see for sure. But don't count on a $16k sticker for the Touring. Although I wish it were true... -
backy Twin CitiesPosts: 18,787That is another example of the equipment in the Touring exceeding that of even the SE sedan. Other examples are adjustable lumbar support and available 17" alloys. The official announcement on the 2009 sedans came out recently from Hyundai and it didn't mention a Shiftronic as an added feature. It only mentioned things liked tweaked suspensions on the GLS and SE and the addition of an iPod port ala the Sonata.
bryan_05 Posts: 16http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2008/10/first-drive-200.html
Large photo gallery included.
"Two weeks ago I got the chance to drive an early version of the Elantra Touring due out later this year. I was impressed with the little wagon as were others on our staff like Bill Jackson, our resident Weekend Athlete. We'll be posting a video with his thoughts on this car in the near future, but for my initial impressions and a photo gallery keep reading.
I enjoyed driving this economy car a lot more than I thought I would. Besides a lot of buzzy engine noise — it's amazing how you rarely hear buzzy engines anymore — the little wagon did everything right. The ride was comfortable, and there wasn't a lot of road noise. The manual transmission was a joy with light clutch feel and smooth shifter.
As a package, the Touring seemed a bit nicer inside than the Elantra sedan. The backseats folded flat with one button, and there was a lot of cargo room. But I was shocked by the starting price of nearly $18,000 for a manual transmission. Although Hyundai hasn't announced its official pricing yet, there was a sticker inside our test car, so I assume the price is accurate.
While the Elantra Touring is a nifty economy wagon, the Scion xB offers more utility and style, the Pontiac Vibe is more fun to drive, and a base Subaru Impreza gives you all-wheel drive. And all can be had for a similar price. Economy car indeed."
"mileage is 23/31 manual, 23/30 auto" -
backy Twin CitiesPosts: 18,787The Scion xB offers more style than the Touring... LOL, that's a good one! The Scion offers more style if you like driving around in a box.
Not sure why the driver was surprised that the price of the Touring was nearly $18k. The price of a comparable 2008 Elantra SE, with a moonroof as on the Touring tester, is $18k today. And it looks like the tester might have the optional 17" alloys. So I am actually surprised that the price is under $18k. And if you compare prices of comparably-equipped Scion XBs, Vibes, and Impreza wagons, i.e. with moonroof, alloys, leather wheel, fog lamps, etc., I'll bet they will be over $18k. I know a base Impreza wagon with steel wheels is at least $18k if not more, and there's no moonroof on that car (but there is AWD). -
moparbad Posts: 3,842I don't mind driving around in a box. The current xB is not even a box. First gen xB was a nice design. Very functional.
I'm not a fan of the Vibe/Matrix. There used to be Corolla Wagon, Focus Wagon, Cavalier Wagon (not missed by anyone), and other fuel efficient, space efficient cars available.
It will be good to have Hyundai back in this category. -
backy Twin CitiesPosts: 18,787"Very functional" is a, er, kind way to describe the looks of the previous-gen xB.
There's still lots of fuel-efficient, space-efficient cars available. But most are known as "hatchbacks" now vs. wagons--even if they really look like a wagon, as does the new Touring. So for example, we have the Matrix instead of a Corolla wagon version. Not much difference except the Matrix has different styling than the Corolla sedan--but mechanically they are both Corollas, and I think Toyota even counts Matrix sales in their Corolla sales.
The new Touring looks really good, but I still like the "fastback" lines of my '04 Elantra hatch. Practically speaking, i.e. with safety in mind, it holds as much cargo as the boxier hatches/wagons and looks sportier (to me anyway). -
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joe97 Posts: 2,248Production for the North America version has started, I believe.
http://www.cars.com/go/video/index.jsp?makeid=19&year=2009&modelid=219&location=- CC_2009_Hyundai_ElantraTouring.flv&cat=r -
inharmsway Posts: 153Just come home from the auto show here in Sacramento Ca. and they had an Elantra Touring on the floor. Looked very nice and roomy. Ground clearance is 1" less than the sedan,the inst. panel is different. The rear seat has "theatre" seating, it is possible because the body is taller than the sedan. The upholstery is diff. from the sedan. If you have any questions, I will try to answer them.
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Quick summary, this guy is going to a party with 2 girls and his brother. He said it wasn't a safe place so he decided to take his gun, as he called a Smith & Wesson 40 S&W. (He showed a photo of it and it was a S&W Sigma) Since he didn't have a CCW he was carrying it open.
They were leaving the party and he was driving since according to him the girls were drunk and he only had a couple of beers and was fine to drive. He had removed the pistol from the holster and put it on the console. It was making the girls uncomfortable and as he went to move it or clear it (it was a murky story at this point) he pulled the trigger and shot the dashboard and windshield.
He had previously paid for the windshield but the girl was suing for the dashboard. JJ didn't rule in her favor since the girl kept saying she was uncomfortable with the guy and the gun so why did she get in the car in the first place?
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An anonymous reader tips news of an incident in a Pennsylvania high school in which a student, Christian Stanfield, was being bullied on a regular basis. He used a tablet to make an audio recording of the bullies for the purpose of showing his mother how bad it was. She was shocked, and she called school officials to tell them what was going on. The officials brought in a police lieutenant — but not to deal with the bullies. Instead, the officer interrogated Stanfield and made him delete the recording. The officer then threatened to charge him with felony wiretapping. The charges were later reduced to disorderly conduct, and Stanfield was forced to testify before a magistrate, who found him guilty. Stanfield's mother said, "Christian's willingness to advocate in a non-violent manner should be championed as a turning point. If Mr. Milburn and the South Fayette school district really want to do the right thing, they would recognized that their zero-tolerance policies and overemphasis on academics and athletics have practically eliminated social and emotional functioning from school culture."
Update: 04/17 04:36 GMT by T : The attention this case has gotten may have something to do with the later-announced decision by the Allegheny County District Attorney's office to withdraw the charges against Stanfield.
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from Princeton University and Northwestern University have concluded, after extensive analysis of 1,779 policy issues, that the U.S. is in fact an oligarchy and not a democracy. What this means is that, although 'Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance,' 'majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts.' Their study (PDF), to be published in Perspectives on Politics, found that 'When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.'"
An anonymous reader writes "We've heard a few brief accounts recently of the housing situation in San Francisco, and how it's leading to protests, gentrification, and bad blood between long-time residents and the newer tech crowd. It's a complicated issue, and none of the reports so far have really done it justice. Now, TechCrunch has posted a ludicrously long article explaining exactly what's going on, from regulations forbidding Google to move people into Mountain View instead, to the political battle to get more housing built, to the compromises that have already been made. It's a long read, but well-researched and interesting. It concludes: 'The crisis we're seeing is the result of decades of choices, and while the tech industry is a sexy, attention-grabbing target, it cannot shoulder blame for this alone. Unless a new direction emerges, this will keep getting worse until the next economic crash, and then it will re-surface again eight years later. Or it will keep spilling over into Oakland, which is a whole other Pandora's box of gentrification issues. The high housing costs aren't healthy for the city, nor are they healthy for the industry. Both thrive on a constant flow of ideas and people.'"
jammag writes: "Heartbleed has dealt a blow to the image of free and open source software. In the self-mythology of FOSS, bugs like Heartbleed aren't supposed to happen when the source code is freely available and being worked with daily. As Eric Raymond famously said, 'given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.' Many users of proprietary software, tired of FOSS's continual claims of superior security, welcome the idea that Heartbleed has punctured FOSS's pretensions. But is that what has happened?"
Lasrick writes: "Meghan McGuinness of the Bipartisan Policy Center writes about the Electric Grid Cybersecurity Initiative, a collaborative effort between the center's Energy and Homeland Security Projects. She points out that over half the attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure sectors last year were on the energy sector. Cyber attacks could come from a variety of sources, and 'a large-scale cyber attack or combined cyber and physical attack could lead to enormous costs, potentially triggering sustained power outages over large portions of the electric grid and prolonged disruptions in communications, food and water supplies, and health care delivery.' ECGI is recommending the creation of a new, industry-supported model that would create incentives for the continual improvement and adaptation needed to respond effectively to rapidly evolving cyber threats. The vulnerability of the grid has been much discussed this last week; McGuinness's recommendations are a good place to start."
McGruber (1417641) writes "Return-free filing might allow tens of millions of Americans to file their taxes for free and in minutes. Under proposals authored by several federal lawmakers, it would be voluntary, using information the government already receives from banks and employers and that taxpayers could adjust. The concept has been endorsed by Presidents Obama and Reagan and is already a reality in some parts of Europe. Sounds great, except to Intuit, maker of Turbotax: last year, Intuit spent more than $2.6 million on lobbying, some of it to lobby on four bills related to the issue, federal lobbying records show."
First time accepted submitter Iarwain Ben-adar (2393286) writes "The OpenBSD has started a cleanup of their in-tree OpenSSL library. Improvements include removing "exploit mitigation countermeasures", fixing bugs, removal of questionable entropy additions, and many more. If you support the effort of these guys who are responsible for the venerable OpenSSH library, consider a donation to the OpenBSD Foundation. Maybe someday we'll see a 'portable' version of this new OpenSSL fork. Or not."
April 15, 2014 isn't just a full moon: it's Tax Day in the U.S. That means most American adults have already submitted a tax return, or an extension request, to the IRS and -- except for a few lucky states -- to their state governments as well. I filed my (very simple) tax return online. After scanning the free options, since I live in a state -- Texas -- that does not collect personal income tax, I chose Tax Act's free services. That meant enduring a series of annoying upgrade plugs throughout the process, but I could live with that; I have no reason to think it was better or worse than TurboTax or any of the other e-Filing companies, but I liked Tax Act's interface, and it seemed less skeevy in all those upgrade plugs than the others I glanced at. The actual process took an hour and 19 minutes once I sat down with the papers I needed. My financial life is pretty simple, though: I didn't buy or sell a house, didn't buy or sell stocks outside of a retirement account mutual fund, and didn't move from one state to another. How do you do your taxes? Do you have an argument for one or another of the online services, or any cautionary tales? Do you prefer to send in forms on paper? Do you hire an accountant? (And for readers outside the U.S., it's always interesting to hear how taxes work in other countries, too. Are there elements of the U.S. system you'd prefer, or that you're glad you don't need to deal with?)
An anonymous reader writes "Amazon Web Services has cut its prices on 40-plus consecutive occasions, at times leading the charge, at other times countering similar moves by Microsoft and Google. This article at CRN includes some interesting behind-the-scenes trivia about how Amazon keeps costs down, including some interesting speculation — for example, that perhaps the reason Amazon's Glacier storage is so cheap is that maybe it might be based at least partly on tape, not disk (Amazon would not comment). The article also explains that the company will only pay for its employees to fly Economy, and that includes its senior executives. If they feel the need to upgrade to Business or First Class, they must do so from their own pocket. And instead of buying hardware from an OEM vendor, AWS sources its own components – everything from processors to disk drives to memory and network cards — and uses contract manufacturing to put together its machines."
Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "Bloomberg reports that humans are taking the place of machines in plants across Japan so workers can develop new skills and figure out ways to improve production lines and the car-building process. "We need to become more solid and get back to basics, to sharpen our manual skills and further develop them," says Mitsuru Kawai, a half century-long company veteran tapped by President Akio Toyoda to promote craftsmanship at Toyota's plants. "When I was a novice, experienced masters used to be called gods (Kami-sama in Japanese), and they could make anything."
According to Kawai, learning how to make car parts from scratch gives younger workers insights they otherwise wouldn't get from picking parts from bins and conveyor belts, or pressing buttons on machines. At about 100 manual-intensive workspaces introduced over the last three years across Toyota's factories in Japan, these lessons can then be applied to reprogram machines to cut down on waste and improve processes. In an area Kawai directly supervises at the forging division of Toyota's Honsha plant, workers twist, turn and hammer metal into crankshafts instead of using the typically automated process. Experiences there have led to innovations in reducing levels of scrap and shortening the production line and Kawai also credits manual labor for helping workers improve production of axle beams and cut the costs of making chassis parts. "We cannot simply depend on the machines that only repeat the same task over and over again," says Kawai. "To be the master of the machine, you have to have the knowledge and the skills to teach the machine.""
Late Yesterday, the Pulitzer Prize board announced (PDF) the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners. The public service prize was awarded to the Guardian and the Washington Post. The Washington Post was given the award for its role in revealing widespread surveillance by the NSA, "...marked by authoritative and insightful reports that helped the public understand how the disclosures fit into the larger framework of national security," and the Guardian for sparking "...a debate about the relationship between the government and the public over issues of security and privacy." Snowden released a statement praising the Pulitzer board: "Today's decision is a vindication for everyone who believes that the public has a role in government. We owe it to the efforts of the brave reporters and their colleagues who kept working in the face of extraordinary intimidation, including the forced destruction of journalistic materials, the inappropriate use of terrorism laws, and so many other means of pressure to get them to stop what the world now recognizes was work of vital public importance. This decision reminds us that what no individual conscience can change, a free press can. "
sciencehabit (1205606) writes "The U.S. biomedical science system 'is on an unsustainable path' and needs major reform, four prominent researchers say. Researchers should 'confront the dangers at hand,' the authors write, and 'rethink' how academic research is funded, staffed, and organized. Among other issues, the team suggests that the system may be producing too many new researchers and forcing them to compete for a stagnating pool of funding."
Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "Just in time for the April 15 IRS filing deadline comes news from the Washington Post that hundreds of thousands of taxpayers expecting refunds are instead getting letters informing them of tax debts they never knew about: often a debt incurred by their parents. The government is confiscating their checks, sometimes over debts 20—30 years old. For example, when Mary Grice was 4 (in 1960), her father died ... 'Until the kids turned 18, her mother received survivor benefits from Social Security ... Now, Social Security claims it overpaid someone in the Grice family in 1977. ... Four years after Sadie Grice died, the government is coming after her daughter. ... "It was a shock," says Grice, 58. "What incenses me is the way they went about this. They gave me no notice, they can't prove that I received any overpayment, and they use intimidation tactics, threatening to report this to the credit bureaus."' The Treasury Department has intercepted ... $75 million from debts delinquent for more than 10 years according to the department's debt management service. 'The aggressive effort to collect old debts started three years ago — the result of a single sentence tucked into the farm bill lifting the 10-year statute of limitations on old debts to Uncle Sam.'"
Lasrick (2629253) writes "Tom Wigley is one of the world's top climate scientists, and in this interview he explains his outspoken support for both nuclear energy and research into climate engineering. Wigley was one of the first scientists to break the taboo on public discussion of climate engineering as a possible response to global warming; in a 2006 paper in the journal Science, he proposed a combined geoengineering-mitigation strategy that would address the problem of increasing ocean acidity, as well as the problem of climate change. In this interview, he argues that renewable energy alone will not be sufficient to address the climate challenge, because it cannot be scaled up quickly and cheaply enough, and that opposition to nuclear power 'threatens humanity's ability to avoid dangerous climate change.'"
First time accepted submitter WebAgeCaveman (3615807) writes in with news about just how big the stolen smartphone black market is. "A black market of shops and traders willing to deal in stolen smartphones has been exposed by a BBC London undercover investigation. Intelligence was received that some shops across a swathe of east London were happy to buy phones from thieves. Two traders were filmed buying Samsung S3 and iPhone 4 devices from a researcher posing as a thief - despite him making it clear they were stolen. The shops involved have declined to comment."
Bennett Haselton writes "If you read no further, use either the BestParking or ParkMe app to search all nearby parking garages for the cheapest spot, based on the time you're arriving and leaving. I'm interested in the question of why so few people know about these apps, how is it that they've been partially crowded out by other 'parking apps' that are much less useful, and why our marketplace for ideas and intellectual properly is still so inefficient." Read below to see what Bennett has to say.
An anonymous reader writes "For the last 6 weeks the Debian developers have had an election to determine the new Debian Project Leader. The election is now over and Lucas Nussbaum was re-elected. As always in Debian, the result of the voting was found using the Condorcet method."
dcblogs (1096431) writes "A study of New York City's tech workforce found that 44% of jobs in the city's 'tech ecosystem,' or 128,000 jobs, 'are accessible' to people without a Bachelor's degree. This eco-system includes both tech specific jobs and those jobs supported by tech. For instance, a technology specific job that doesn't require a Bachelor's degree might be a computer user support specialist, earning $28.80 an hour, according to this study. Tech industry jobs that do not require a four-year degree and may only need on-the-job training include customer services representatives, at $18.50 an hour, telecom line installer, $37.60 an hour, and sales representatives, $33.60 an hour. The study did not look at 'who is actually sitting in those jobs and whether people are under-employed,' said Kate Wittels, a director at HR&A Advisors, a real-estate and economic-development consulting firm, and report author.. Many people in the 'accessible' non-degree jobs may indeed have degrees. For instance. About 75% of the 25 employees who work at New York Computer Help in Manhattan have a Bachelor's degree. Of those with Bachelor's degrees, about half have IT-related degrees."
An anonymous reader writes "Even though many independent bookstores around the country blame their closing on competition from Amazon.com, bookstores in Seattle are booming thanks to Amazon's growth. It turns out many of the thousands of new workers at their downtown headquarters are avid readers who prefer shopping at the local stores. '"A lot of our customers work at Amazon," said Tracy Taylor, the general manager at the Elliott Bay Book Company, one of the city's largest independent booksellers. The store, about a mile from Amazon headquarters, last year earned what Ms. Taylor called the "first substantial profit" in almost 20 years, enough to even pay employee bonuses.'"
barlevg (2111272) writes "In May 2012, in the midst of an FTC investigation into Google's search practices, the law school at George Mason University in Northern Virginia hosted a conference attended by congressmen, regulators and staffers. The topic: competition, search and social media. What none of the attendees of the conference knew was that Google was pulling many of the strings behind the event, even going so far as to suggest invited speakers. This event, as documented in The Washington Post is just a snapshot of the operations of one of the largest and highest spending lobbying entities in DC, a far cry from the one-man shop it started out as nine years ago, from a company "disdainful" of Washington's "pay-to-play" culture."
An anonymous reader writes "On the heels of a study that concluded there was less than a 1% chance that current global warming could be simple fluctuations, U.N. scientists say energy from renewables, nuclear reactors and power plants that use emissions-capture technology needs to triple in order keep climate change within safe limits. From The Washington Post: 'During a news conference Sunday, another co-chair, Rajendra K. Pachauri of India, said the goal of limiting a rise in global temperatures "cannot be achieved without cooperation." He added, "What comes out very clearly from this report is that the high-speed mitigation train needs to leave the station soon, and all of global society needs to get on board."'"
StartsWithABang (3485481) writes "Over at Starts With A Bang, the weekly question comes in from Germany, where we're informed: 'In Germany, many teachers have adopted a new way of teaching children to write properly. The way is called "Writing by Reading" and essentially says: Write as you wish, you're not bound by any rules. Recently, this way of teaching has been heavily criticized [link in German], but not before it has been "tested" on several years of school children.' The reading wars have been going on in the US, too, but will this wind up having a negative outcome? Or, as this piece argues, is it likely to be a wash?"
An anonymous reader writes "The GNOME Foundation is running out of money. The foundation no longer has any cash reserves so they have voted to freeze non-essential funding for running the foundation. They are also hunting down sponsors and unpaid invoices to regain some delayed revenue. Those wishing to support the GNOME Foundation can become a friend of GNOME."
chicksdaddy (814965) writes "Given Apple's status as the world's most valuable company and its enormous cash hoard, the refusal to offer even meager support to open source and industry groups is puzzling. From the article: 'Apple bundles software from the Apache Software Foundation with its OS X operating system, but does not financially support the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) in any way. That is in contrast to Google and Microsoft, Apple's two chief competitors, which are both Platinum sponsors of ASF — signifying a contribution of $100,000 annually to the Foundation. Sponsorships range as low as $5,000 a year (Bronze), said Sally Khudairi, ASF's Director of Marketing and Public Relations. The ASF is vendor-neutral and all code contributions to the Foundation are done on an individual basis. Apple employees are frequent, individual contributors to Apache. However, their employer is not, Khudairi noted. The company has been a sponsor of ApacheCon, a for-profit conference that runs separately from the Foundation — but not in the last 10 years. "We were told they didn't have the budget," she said of efforts to get Apple's support for ApacheCon in 2004, a year in which the company reported net income of $276 million on revenue of $8.28 billion.'"
An anonymous reader writes "The Linux 3.15 kernel now in its early life will be able to suspend and resume much faster than previous versions of the Linux kernel. A few days ago we saw ACPI and Power Management updates that enable asynchronous threads for more suspend and resume callbacks. Carrying out more async operations leads to reduced time for the system suspend and then resuming. According to one developer, it was about an 80% time savings within one of the phases. On Friday, work was merged that ensured the kernel is no longer blocked by waiting for ATA devices to resume. Multiple ATA devices can be woken up simultaneously, and any ATA commands for the device(s) will be queued until they have powered up. According to an 01.org blog post on the ATA/SCSI resume optimization patches, when tested on three Intel Linux systems the resume time was between 7x and 12x faster (not including the latest ACPI/PM S&R optimizations)."
An anonymous reader writes "When Microsoft terminated official support for Windows XP on April 8th, many organizations had taken the six years of warnings to heart and migrated to another operating system. But not the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Only 52,000 of their 110,000 Windows-powered computers have been upgraded to Windows 7. They'll now be forced to pay Microsoft for Custom Support. How much? Using Microsoft's standard rate of $200 per PC, it'll be $11.6 million for one year. That leaves $18.4 million of their $30 million budget to finish the upgrades themselves, which works out to $317 per computer."
An anonymous reader writes "A study out of McGill University sought to examine historical temperature data going back 500 years in order to determine the likelihood that global warming was caused by natural fluctuations in the earth's climate. The study concluded there was less than a 1% chance the warming could be attributed to simple fluctuations. 'The climate reconstructions take into account a variety of gauges found in nature, such as tree rings, ice cores, and lake sediments. And the fluctuation-analysis techniques make it possible to understand the temperature variations over wide ranges of time scales. For the industrial era, Lovejoy's analysis uses carbon-dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels as a proxy for all man-made climate influences – a simplification justified by the tight relationship between global economic activity and the emission of greenhouse gases and particulate pollution, he says. ... His study [also] predicts, with 95% confidence, that a doubling of carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere would cause the climate to warm by between 2.5 and 4.2 degrees Celsius. That range is more precise than – but in line with — the IPCC's prediction that temperatures would rise by 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius if CO2 concentrations double.'"
An anonymous reader writes "Members of the Senate have proposed a bill that would prohibit the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) from selling to other U.S. federal agencies technical papers that are already freely available. NTIS is under the Department of Commerce. The bill is probably a result of a 2012 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) which points out that 'Of the reports added to NTIS's repository during fiscal years 1990 through 2011, GAO estimates that approximately 74 percent were readily available from other public sources.' Ars Technica notes that the term 'public sources' refers to 'either the issuing organization's website, the federal Internet portal, or another online resource.'"
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: "Alex Mayyasi reports that in the parking lots of Silicon Valley's venture capital firms, expensive cars gleam in the California sun and a closer look reveals that the cars share a mysterious detail: they nearly all have a custom license plate frame that reads, 'Member. 11-99 Foundation.' Are the Bay Area's wealthy all part of some sort of illuminati group that identifies each other by license plate instead of secret handshakes? The answer is the state highway patrol — the men and women that most people interact with only when getting ticketed for speeding. A number of the frames read 'CHP 11-99 Foundation,' which is the full name of a charitable organization that supports California Highway Patrol officers and their families in times of crisis. Donors receive one license plate as part of a $2,500 'Classic' level donation, or two as part of a bronze, silver, or gold level donation of $5,000, $10,000, or $25,000. Rumor has it, according to Mayyasi, that the license plate frames come with a lucrative return on investment. As one member of a Mercedes-Benz owners community wrote online back in 2002: 'I have the ultimate speeding ticket solution. I paid $1800 for a lifetime membership into the 11-99 foundation. My only goal was to get the infamous 'get out of jail' free license plate frame.'
The 11-99 Foundation has sold license plate frames for most of its 32 year existence, and drivers have been aware of the potential benefits since at least the late 1990s. But attention to the issue in 2006-2008 led the foundation to stop giving out the frames. An article in the LA Times asked 'Can Drivers Buy CHP Leniency?' and began by describing a young man zipping around traffic — including a police cruiser — and telling the Times that he believed his 11-99 frames kept him from receiving a ticket. But the decision was almost irrelevant to another thriving market: the production and sale of fake 11-99 license plate frames. But wait — the CHP 11-99 Foundation also gives out membership cards to big donors. 'Unless you have the I.D. in hand when (not if) I stop you,' says one cop, 'no love will be shown.'"
sciencehabit writes: "ITER, the international fusion experiment under construction in Cadarache, France, aims to prove that nuclear fusion is a viable power source by creating a 'burning plasma' that produces more energy than the machine itself consumes. Although that goal is at least 20 years away, ITER is already burning through money at a prodigious pace. The United States is only a minor partner in the project, which began construction in 2008. But the U.S. contribution to ITER will total $3.9 billion — roughly four times as much as originally estimated — according to a new cost estimate released yesterday. That is about $1.4 billion higher than a 2011 cost estimate, and the numbers are likely to intensify doubts among some members of Congress about continuing the U.S. involvement in the project."
Phil Shapiro often loans his Chromebook to patrons of the public library where he works. He says people he loans it to are happily suprised at how fast it is. He wrote an article earlier this month titled Teachers unite to influence computer manufacturing that was a call to action; he says that if 20,000 teachers demand a simple, low-cost Chromebook appliance -- something like a Chrome-powered Mac mini with a small SSD instead of a hard drive, and of course without the high Mac mini price -- some computer manufacturer will bite on the idea. Monitors? There are plenty of used ones available. Ditto speakers and keyboards, not that they cost much new. The bottom line is that Phil believes Chromebooks, both in their current form factor and in a simpler one, could be "the" computer for schools and students. Maybe so, not that Android tablets are expensive or hard to use. And wait! Isn't there already a Chromebox? And even a Chromebase all-in-one Chrome-based desktop? In any case, Chrome-based computers look pretty good for schools and libraries, especially if and when prices for the simplest members of the family get down to where Phil thinks they should be. (Alternate video link)
An anonymous reader writes "Earlier this week, the government introduced the Digital Privacy Act (Bill S-4), the latest attempt to update Canada's private sector privacy law. Michael Geist reports that the bill includes a provision that could massively expand warrantless disclosure of personal information. Organizations will be permitted to disclose personal information without consent (and without a court order) to any organization that is investigating a contractual breach or possible violation of any law. This applies both past breaches or violations as well as potential future violations. Moreover, the disclosure occurs in secret without the knowledge of the affected person (who therefore cannot challenge the disclosure since they are not aware it is happening). Consider it a gift to copyright trolls, who won't need the courts to obtain information on thousands of Internet users."


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8 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. | 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death." |
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It's a hard knock life for Annie and the other orphans of Depression Era New York City, under the patronage of the wretched and scheming Miss Hannigan at the Hudson Street Orphanage.
One day, Annie's life is changed for ever when Grace, the beautiful assistant of the enigmatic millionaire Oscar (Daddy) Warbucks comes to ask for an orphan to stay at his mansion for the Christmas holidays.
This begins a wild and mad-cap adventure where Annie's bright and shining personality wins over the crochety business and teaches him the meaning of love, life and looking on the bright side.
Velma Kelly is glamorous cabaret dancer and acrobat awaiting her trial for the murder of her philandering husband in Cook County Jail. Used to being the talk of the town, she is surprised on being upstaged by the new girl, chorus girl Roxie Hart, a timid but ambitious murderess who's in danger of stealing Velma's carefully cultivated limelight.
On murdering her lover, Roxie first convinces her dim-witted husband to take the fall, but when he puts two and two together, she's all on her own, until she meets charming, media savvy lawyer Billy Flynn. There's just one problem, Billy Flynn is also Velma?s lawyer. This starts a battle over the charismatic Flynn, which Velma and Roxie must go against each other to get themselves out of prison and onto the stage!
Seen by millions across the globe, this worldwide smash hit tells the coming-of-age drama of Francis (aka Baby) and dance instructor Johnny.
Two fiercely independent young spirits from different worlds come together in what will be the most challenging and ultimately triumphant summer of their lives. Featuring the hit songs, "Hungry Eyes", "Hey Baby", "Do you Love Me" and the legendary "(I've Had) The Time of My Life."
Differing from the popular stock character-sung musical, this dance-heavy production tells its story with the help of live singers who reside outside the main action.Break out your leotards and dance socks for this experience of a lifetime!
Told by a mysterious troupe of performers, a young and dreamy prince, Pippin is unhappy with his lot. Overlooked by his errant father King Charles, and mocked by his family, he wants to learn the meaning of life, and takes on a series of thrilling challenges, including becoming involved in war, switching sides to become a revolutionary, whilst leaving a trail of broken hearts over the land. But perhaps excitement and freedom isn't the key to living, and maybe its modesty that will fill the void.
Pushed together as room-mates at The University of Shiz, initially the beautiful and popular Glinda clashes with the fiery, misunderstood, green-skinned Elphaba. Soon they learn to put their differences aside, and form an unexpected bond, that stays with them for years to come. An uplifting and affirming adventure, get your tickets for the hottest tour in town!


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A new Web site devoted to forage information, research data and news has been introduced by Lallemand Animal Nutrition.
"Our goal is to help beef and dairy producers maximize the value of their for-ages by learning, and then practicing, quality silage management," says Bob Charley, forage product manager for the company, which sells silage inoculants. "The new site is focused on sharing silage production and storage information plus the latest in research developments, rather than simply promoting specific products."
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OWENSBORO, Ky. (3/19/14) – Brescia University continues to see record enrollment as spring 2014 numbers are released.
Brescia announces a 10 percent increase in total headcount compared to spring 2013 final numbers.
As of today, Brescia has 946 students enrolled.
This includes undergraduate degree-seeking students, graduate students, and students not working toward a degree. These are the final spring numbers as a new module of online classes began this week.
This overall enrollment increase is comprised of a 13 percent growth in undergraduate degree-seeking students over spring 2013.
The total headcount for this population is 872.
Spring undergraduate degree-seeking enrollment is actually higher than fall 2013, when Brescia listed 869 students in this category. While rare, Brescia has experienced this phenomenon twice since fall 2008.
Brescia is also experiencing a steady retention rate of 87 percent from fall to spring for its undergraduate students seeking a degree. For its first time full-time student population, the retention rate is 89 percent, which reflects an 8 percent increase over this time last year.
"This is a very exciting time to be a part of Brescia University as we get ever closer to our strategic planning goal of 1,000 students," said Chris Houk, Vice President for Enrollment Management and Executive Director of BUonline. "The possibility of meeting this goal by fall 2014, one year ahead of schedule, is incredible. Brescia University's success continues to be the direct result of the support, dedication, and hard work of the entire campus community."
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Sleep Attacks And Micro-Sleep
Posted 24 April 2013 - 11:57 AM
Posted 24 April 2013 - 12:23 PM
I call a sleep attack a wave of fog/sleepiness that hits suddenly w/o warning. Those of us with cat usually relate that to being a sleep attack. I know my triggers for my sleep attacks are the same for cataplexy, so I think I'm just expressing it differently (my mind seizes up instead of my body) . Microsleeps have an official medical definitions as periods of sleep that occur in <1-30 second duration, IIRC.
Posted 24 April 2013 - 12:34 PM
Interesting descriptions DeathRabbit.
For me, I consider the Micro Sleep what happens when I'm doing something either tedious or non-stimulating, perhaps also or in other words, if I'm just not able to remain focused due to boredom or repetitiveness; the result is basically finding that I've missed a section of what I'm watching or maybe as DeathRabbit described 'mind seizes up' and I've breifly nodded off or just tuned out/day dreamed away. I sort of think of that last bit as 'Automatic Behavior' also.
Sleep Attack, for me, would be similar but perhaps more, during while I'm actually trying to remain focused on whatever, rather than not having the interest.
These both occur mainly while I'm attempting to watch something, a movie or a series/show, reading can trigger it too; there is for me definitely something related to stimulation though as well as at what point it is in the day, along with how rested I am from the previous night. I do not have a job, nor do I socialize hardly at all, I do cook almost daily but what I'm saying is that my low key and non overwhelmed mannerism helps a lot in avoiding such happening, a lot more; as most anytime I do begin more normal or routine activity/ies I have a lot more of both sorts of attacks, including Cataplexy.
I refer to them both as, 'nodding off' as well.
Posted 25 April 2013 - 05:13 AM
When I refer to "sleep attacks," I mean falling asleep without knowing it ... At least, that's how it's played out in my life. That's how I got diagnosed, in fact: I started falling asleep at work, and I didn't know it was happening. Got in trouble for it, even, and argued with the supervisor who wrote me up, telling him he was flat wrong and I hadn't been asleep--until a co-worker quietly told me I had been. Didn't feel sleepy; didn't feel like I was falling asleep; didn't feel like I was sleeping; didn't feel like I was being woken up. As far as I could tell, I was just sitting there watching my monitor. Since then, I've also found it happening at home, if I'm doing anything that involves sitting down--watching tv, playing on my computer, reading, even chatting with my mother or friends, if we have anyone over. It also happens when I'm a passenger in a car for any length of time. Thankfully, not while I'm driving--but, then, I'm a lot more attuned to how tired I am when driving is involved. I'm learning to recognize the same signs when I'm not driving, so I can fight off the attacks.
Posted 26 April 2013 - 08:43 AM
Ok so these are some terms I see a lot on this forum. But the official symptoms of N are EDS, Cataplexy, HH, and SP. So what are sleep attacks and micro-sleep episodes? I have only thought of my symptoms as Extreme fatigue/sleepiness, and HH and SP. But I am wondering if there is more to my EDS than I had thought about. Can someone elaborate on these terms please?
It has taken me a while to figure out how all of this works. Here is how I describe sleep attacks and microsleep (aka automatic behavior).
Sleep attack- I get an overwhelming feeling of crushing exhaustion, like a tsunami wave that keeps rolling in. I feel it coming and can try to fight it. If I can keep myself active, I can stave it off with varying degrees of success. This is a major red flag that I need to take a nap.
Micro sleep- This often occurs for me when I am fighting off a sleep attack. this continues to be a mystery in many ways. It may be a long blink where I sleep for a second or two. Or a vacant stare for a second or two.
Micro sleep ties in with automatic behavior. I describe this as "walk sleeping" as opposed to sleep walking. I am not walking in my sleep, I am sleeping in my walk- quite literally. Once, I was starting a 3 mile run before diagnosis. I was fighting off a sleep attack before starting and tried to push through it. At one point, I noticed my breathing was very shallow and my feet were shuffling in baby steps. I was in a different place along the road- and I had no memory of getting there. This scared the heck out of me- especially when I figured out that 12-15 minutes had passed. Yikes.
I hope this helps.
Posted 26 April 2013 - 10:29 AM
Hank, that makes a lot of sense to me. I had a sleep attack yesterday, right after work. I was really busy all day, but knew I just wanted to sleep. I walked back in after walking the dog, and I must have made a particular noise because my wife said, "No, don't go to sleep!" as I walked into the bedroom. I REALLY wanted to lay down and snooze. Alas, I had trash to collect and take out, so I stayed away from the bed and got it done. But I relate to the waves rolling in, the tiredness just washing over you. I was able to stay awake for the rest of the evening, and even watched a movie with my wife until bedtime. But MAN, did I want to sleep during the day.
As for the micro-sleep, I do have moments where I zone out and miss what's going on. Or I'll be driving somewhere and suddenly have no idea where I am, or how far I've driven, until I see a landmark I recognize. Scary! It's like driving through a time warp!
I'm not yet diagnosed, and still waiting for my sleep study to be scheduled, but I'm trying to learn as much as I can here.
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Posted 06 May 2013 - 10:59 PM
Microsleep is the worst. Sleep attacks I can see coming and prepare for them. Microsleep is like being there but not. Some part (or parts) of your brain are asleep, but you might seem awake. I could be "gone" for 5 - 15 min or so, and come back with full awareness with little memory of what I did. Sometimes I did things (this usually happens at work) sometimes I don't, I just notice because the clock has progressed or my monitor has timed out. It has even happened driving on the interstate. I work with patients and once during a session I was gone for 15 min or so. One time I fell asleep on a patient who thought I was boring him (that was a sleep attack though).
I don't have cataplexy, but the microsleep and sleep attacks are by far the scariest thing. I can deal with the EDS and the fog I have some days. Those are just my "low" or off days. Microsleep and sleep attacks do not discriminate though. Even on medication, I can tell when the micro sleeps still occur, although now I dont' lose awareness.
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Posted 28 May 2013 - 12:21 PM
Wow, that's crazy scary! I still have yet to hear about my sleep study being scheduled, so I think I need to get in touch with my doc. It's been far too long, and I'm getting tired (no pun intended) of waiting.
Posted 29 May 2013 - 12:22 AM
Posted 31 May 2013 - 04:13 AM
My sister, dx'd with N about 2 years ago, did not believe she fell asleep for one nap. Apparently not only did she hit REM within seconds, but she had hundreds of micro sleeps per hour. She was literally living in a dream. I guess she had a ton of automatic behavior, too. Honestly, it makes me understand how people can be dx'd with ADHD instead of narcolepsy!
what are her of n symptoms /EDS like?
just curious because i'm adhd-pi but before adhd dx & now during my adderall holidays, I feel like i'm stuck living in a dream, even down to my handwriting. it gets as loopy and nonesensical. I can't maintain muscle tone, walk like i'm drunk and sink into chairs but my minds awake yet the people speaking around me are respresented in dreamstate, i can follow the coversations and tell you what was said, but i'm unable to open my eyes and they bcome surreal. Recent example. i was in that aware but unable to move feeling the dream state take hold of me. my friend, Will, was speaking w/ my boyfriend and I saw him in my dream state as a large muppet letter E blue with black yarn hair flopping aroung as his big muppet mouth moved to the conversation I heard. I asked them after i repeated their conversation to them if i heard it right and I had. funny muppet friend, but this is what my eds is really like and not quite what the doc's says EDS is. luckily i've tested and ruled out some scary other causes but the sleep study is looming... mirco-sleeps aren't what I thought I was experiencing but what I desrcibe as my eds.,, hmm
Posted 29 June 2013 - 06:21 PM
I spend a lot of time micro sleeping, at least I believe I do. That quick 15 min doctors visit where your told you have Narcolepsy and given prescriptions for Xyrem and Nuvigil doesn't explain much. However, I live by daydream. In college I spent many a day living in my dorm room listening to music having such wonderful daydreams, sometimes going into a full sleep, but mostly too tired to move.
Now, over twenty years later I want to say my Narcolepsy and Sleep Apnea have made it worse, but maybe its my lifestyle that has changed. I now work more in meetings and from my computer, so less movement.
In meetings, especially ones that last for hours, I always drift off, but never sleep.


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