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A little patch of summer has popped up in snowy Minneapolis — the Boat Show is at the Convention Center. It's a chance to check out the latest watercraft, engines, electronics and gear.
Boaters Make Up For Lost Time Now That Wake Restrictions Have Been Lifted
Businesses and boaters around one of Minnesota's most popular lakes say it's time to salvage summer. All wake restrictions have now been lifted for Lake Minnetonka. Boaters have been forced to slow down since early June when severe storms raised the lake to record levels. They're glad to be back to normal.
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Lake Minnetonka Is Back in Business
For many boaters on Lake Minnetonka, full speed never felt so good. "Everybody hasn't been burning much fuel this year, but they're burning a lot of fuel today," said boater Steve Leighton. "All the boats are running wide open out there today, a there's a lot of waves."
Businesses Welcome End Of 'No Wake' On Lake Mtka.
After seven weeks of slow going on Lake Minnetonka, the emergency no-wake restrictions will end at midnight on Thursday. Last month's heavy rain sent the lake to a record high, but it's fallen nearly a foot since June 5, when the emergency high-water declaration went into effect.
Minimum Wake Restriction Still In Effect On Lake Minnetonka
Boaters and other lake goers are still being asked to go slow on Lake Minnetonka. On June 5, the Lake Minnetonka Conservation District implemented an "Emergency High Water" declaration, during which it is against the law for any watercraft to go at a speed that would result in more than a minimum wake.
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Holiday Weekend Marks Start Of Summer Injuries
Every year Twin Cities doctors see the same kind of injuries. "The most common thing that we see are falls," Dr. Andrew Zinkel, emergency room physician at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn. said.
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Not only is Minnesota the Land of 10,000 Lakes, we're also home to the second-highest number of registered boats in the nation. Only Florida has more motorboats registered than the 540,000 cruising our waterways. But there's a new trend that's getting even more families on the waters.
Minneapolis Locks Reopen To Recreational Boaters
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reopening its three Minneapolis locks to recreational traffic Monday.
No-Wake Boating Imposed On St. Croix River
Authorities have imposed no-wake restrictions on boaters venturing out onto the St. Croix River. Because of high water levels, boaters on the St. Croix between Taylors Falls, Minn., and Prescott, Wis., must go slow to reduce shoreline erosion.
High Water Levels Cause 3 Locks To Close To Recreational Boaters
Three waterways were closed to recreational boaters Friday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul district due to increasing high water flows in the Mississippi River. The locks closed included Upper St. Anthony Falls, Lower St. Anthony Falls and Lock and Dam 1, located next to Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis.
DNR Debuts 'Recreation Compass' Mobile Map
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources wants to make it easier for people to find a place to go hiking or hunting. So on Friday, the DNR rolled out a mobile map called the "Recreation Compass," and it's available for download on both phones and tablets.
The World's Biggest Ship Graveyard
Nouadhibou is an African sea town, whose shores serve as the final resting place for more than 300 ships. The rusted hulks that litter its coastal waters are considered an eyesore by many (go figure), but they've brought some unexpected benefits to the local community as well.


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- ASP.NET MVC - Worked on a college essay web application.
- Entity Framework -I've done multiple projects using EF and have come to like it.
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How do I correctly derive a Key and IV?
It looks like there is an overload to the Rfc2898DeriveBytes constructor for the salt length, which I assumes mean that it will generate the salt for you. I think that should suffice for what I'm doing. FYI, I this project Encryptamajig that I'm building to act as a reference for encryption in C#. Right now it's pretty basic, but if you check out the Dev branch you can see what I'm doing. Hopefully I'll push some changes and merge into master later today with what I've learned here :)
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Right, I understand now. One more related question: it looks like I can use the Rfc2898DeriveBytes class to generate a random salt for a given key, and then use that to generate the Key byte array and the IV byte array. Therefore, the IV is derived from the Salt. Then, I should be able to simply store the salt in the database, without the IV. Plus, I can prepend or append the salt to the ciphertext to avoid adding another column to the DB. How does that sound? |
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Sorry, but your last comment confused me further. Let's say I'm storing a user record in the DB and want to encrypt their birthday. It sounds like I need to also store the IV and the salt on that same user record in order for me to decrypt the birthday. |
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Dr. Robert Slosberg facilitates accurate mapping and obturation of the resportive defect with CBCT imaging
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Zoe Davitt provides some clarity into this complex subject, giving useful, practical advice on how to use search engine optimization to boost the number of website visitors.
Search engine optimization (SEO) seems to be the buzz phrase in dental marketing at the moment. Hardly a dental publication appears without an article on just how important it is, and as a result, more dentists are asking about it.
But what exactly is SEO? What effect does it have on your website and your practice? Do you really need it, and how much expertise and investment should you be putting into it?
This article aims to provide a simple guide to providing some clarity into this complex subject, and to give you useful, practical advice on how to use SEO to boost the number of visitors to your website.
What is SEO?
SEO is all about making sure that your website appears high up in search engine results, when people search for the services you offer. So, if you were an endodontist with a practice in Reading, Pennsylvania, and you wanted to attract clients for your root canal treatment, then you would want to be first in the list when someone searched for "root canal, Reading, PA."
Being first in the list means your website is likely to be looked at first, and hopefully, the person doing the searching would be so captivated by your site that they wouldn't look anywhere else.
However, you must bear in mind that even with the best SEO in the world, if your website is no good, it won't work—people will go back to the search results and look elsewhere.
So yes, SEO is vital—but so is having a website that is attractive to potential clients, and that gives them the information they need to know, quickly and easily.
How does it work?
Google® describes searching the web as being akin to "looking in a very large book with an impressive index telling you exactly where everything is located." When you ask search engines to find something for you, their programs check their index, and give you the results they think are most relevant.
Going into detail about everything that search engines take into account when delivering results would take up far too much space and be far too dull to bother reading. Plus, the truth is that search engines don't give away all their secrets—if everyone knew the definitive way of achieving a number one search engine ranking they would use it, which would make doing it utterly pointless! But the basics are good to know.
The first process used by search engines is called crawling, which is when the search engines' programs (often referred to as robots, bots, or spiders) fetch (or crawl) billions of web pages on the Internet.
The search engines then process all the pages to compile a massive index of all the words that the spider sees and their location on each page. This is called indexing. They also process information that is generally hidden from public view—the metadata. This is, in short, data about the data—it helps search engines to clarify and find the actual information that they need to show.
The final stage is to serve the results to the person using the search engine. The search engine computers search their huge index, and give the results that they think are the most relevant to the user. This relevance is determined by more than 200 factors!
What you can do to improve your website's SEO
How can you use this knowledge to improve your website's search engine rankings?
Google® advises that the most important thing you can do is to provide high quality content on all your pages, especially your home page. "If your pages contain useful information, their content will attract many visitors and entice webmasters to link to your site," they say.
This means the information on your website needs to be clear and to accurately reflect your services and products. Your wording should include keywords—those that most reflect what you are offering. For example, keywords for a cosmetic dentist might include tooth whitening, cosmetic dentistry, smile makeovers, and veneers, plus your location. Don't overdo it though—loading a page with too many keywords can make it difficult to read, which will put off site visitors. It can also attract the wrong sort of attention from the search engines.
Make sure that the keywords and metadata you use are relevant—this should be fairly obvious, but we have seen some sites with very peculiar keywords that you can't imagine anyone ever searching for! Keywords, by the way, is a slightly misleading term—it actually means key phrases, such as groups of two or three words, for example, "smile makeover, Reading, Pennsylvania."
Make sure your meta-description is appealing. This is the bit in the search engine results that describes the web page. It is, in effect, your sales pitch urging people to click through to your site and not the others. Make it relevant, and not too generalized. For example, your tooth-whitening page description should focus on tooth whitening, not give a general overview of your practice.
Have lots of links from other websites to your site. This increases your "page rank," which is just one of the things that the search engines take into account when delivering results. However, you need to be careful, and ensure that all the links are natural and genuine—i.e., that they are relevant and relate to the content on your site. Search engines can spot links that have been placed specifically to make your site look more popular than it really is, and upsetting the search engines can result in your site being penalized (given lower search engine rankings) or even banned from their index.
Examples of good, natural, links include ones from your dental lab and other suppliers. You can also make sure you are listed in local business directories, and you can have click-through advertisements on suitable sites.
Try to update your site regularly. This makes it clear that your site is up-to-date and still valid and attracts more attention from the search engines.
There are a few things to avoid as well. Don't do anything intended to deceive search engines, such as having "cloaked" (hidden) or "crawler only" pages. Anything on your site that you don't intend visitors to see can be spotted by search engines, which may decide to ignore your site as a result.
Finding expert help
Unless you are a real web expert yourself, it is usually best to leave SEO to the experts. The only difficulty is finding experts who really know what they are doing, as there are a lot of rogue SEO companies. Be careful if a company is secretive or won't explain what they are going to do, and ask questions if necessary. After all, if your SEO company uses bad methods which get your website banned from the search engine index, it is your company that will suffer, not the SEO company.
Bear in mind that you don't necessarily need expensive SEO work. For many of our clients, having the basics in place (keywords, meta-title, and meta-description) is enough. We see great, first-page results with these. You are only likely to need to invest in ongoing SEO work if your practice is in a particularly competitive region.
Please remember that this article is only intended as a beginner's guide to SEO, to help you understand the basics of what can otherwise seem a mind-boggling subject. SEO is a very complicated subject, often referred to as a black art, and so, while the advice in this article is accurate and relevant, it should by no means be considered to be comprehensive.
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WWD: You published your memoirs this year. Do you have plans to make your life story into a movie?
S.T.: It's either as soon as the plane goes down, or in my lifetime. I'm thinking since Ron Howard bought my book, his production company is thinking about doing something. My book is called "Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?" It's collected thoughts. It's all this s--t I've been thinking about for 40 years. This whole thing with Aerosmith has been like a dream come true. It's like it's been plotted out and planned and written about before. Every time something happens, I think, "Is this a movie?"
WWD: What was it like working with your 22-year-old daughter, Chelsea, on the Andrew Charles ad campaign?
S.T.: I called Chelsea up, like I did with Liv once before, and told [Chelsea] I'd love to do this with you. It's going to be huge. She's in art school, and she doesn't want to be huge. She's already got a huge daddy. They kind of want to do their own thing. When we were done with the pictures that Melissa Mahoney took…with Chelsea's face, it just took the whole project over the top. She just got signed with a modeling agency [IMG Models].
WWD: Would you like to have a collection under your own name, or is this good enough for now?
S.T.: This is good enough right now. Every day things are coming my way. I'm with CAA [Creative Artists Agency], and I talk to all kinds of people all the time. Because of "Idol" now, it's taking the whole fame thing up and the notoriety tenfold. I don't know if it's a good thing or not. I can't really go anywhere now. I can at least go to some town in Japan.
WWD: With "American Idol" taking up so much of your time, do you still have time to devote to your music?
S.T.: We've been doing an album while we're doing this. There's not enough time to get involved in the album the way I'd like to. It's getting done, slowly but surely. The tour's certainly happening. I'm so happy. The band is back together. Everybody's lost their anger for me, for taking on "Idol," they've all grown up a little, so it's great.
WWD: Have you had a chance to watch "The X-Factor" and what did you think?
S.T.: It's all right. They're not finding the talent that we are. That will always be my brag. I will never look as good as the Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger. I'll never be as bad ass looking as Nicole.
WWD: How did you and Jennifer Lopez get along?
S.T.: I'm going to fall in love with her all over again this year. And now she's single. I'm in a relationship with Erin Brady, my girlfriend. But J.Lo is a force to be reckoned with. At the end of the day, it's all fun. She's such a female. She respects my talent, and she knows I love her. It's all good. And Randy's so smart with all the up-and-coming and today's artists because he's a producer and knows all these kids. I just know from whence I came. Jennifer knows dance and feeling and the star quality, and the professional side. Randy knows his melody and the today-ness of it all. And I know my melody, rhythm and the old-school stuff.
WWD: Do you think you would continue as the inspiration for the Andrew Charles line beyond your one-year contract?
S.T.: I don't know. We'll wait and see how successful it is, and how it plays out. It's a new marriage. I love Tommy [Hilfiger] and Andy [Hilfiger] is an old rocker from the old days, and it's been a good marriage up to now.
WWD: How did you like the Andrew Charles line when you first saw it?
S.T.: I didn't. I didn't love it in the beginning. I told them exactly what my vision was, and as it went on, they decided to go in that direction a little bit more. I was so taken back by what Andy laid out and showed me in the beginning, compared with what we wound up with in the end. It went from 1 to 10. We worked so well together. We came up with such great styles, and some really cool prints and some great dresses.
WWD: How would you describe your own personal style?
S.T.: Over the top, old school, a mixture of now and then, with rock and chic. Funky, but chic, with a side order of sexy.
WWD: Tell me about your closet in your home in Boston.
S.T.: If you were to go through my closet right now, you'd lose your mind. I have 300 square feet from the last 40 years, 20 clothing racks. I got boots from hell from everyone from what Brian Jones [of the Rolling Stones] used to wear to boots I've designed recently. Just tons of stuff. I'm exploding with ideas. Andy [Hilfiger] came to my L.A. house, you couldn't walk through [the closet] either. You need a seeing eye dog to get through it all.


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Michael Zsoldos holds a Bachelor of Music degree in saxophone performance from the Eastman School of Music (1993) and a Masters in music theory from Michigan State University (2000). His saxophone teachers were Ramon Ricker, Andrew Speight, and Branford Marsalis.
Michael has performed with jazz musicians such as Paquito D'Rivera, Sheila Jordan, Ernie Watts, Jim McNeely, Matt Wilson, Rebecca Parris, and Jerry Bergonzi and has opened for piano legend McCoy Tyner with his group The Other Three Tenors. His debut CD as a leader will be released in the fall of 2009. Since 2004, Michael has arranged for and performed with the horn section of the dynamic Dartmouth Gospel Choir and Chicago's One Accord, featuring Walt Cunningham. DCGC and One Accord have performed at the New Orleans Jazz Festival, completed two tours of Italy, Chicago House of Blues, Jazz @ Lincoln Center and most recently performed as part of the Inauguration of President Obama, sharing the stage with Bebe Winans, Yolanda Adams, and Carole King.
In June 2009, Michael was the musical arranger for Oprah Winfrey's "Trip of a Lifetime" Mediterranean cruise for Harpo productions. He also taught and performed at the 2009 Festival Internazionale del Sassofono in Faenza, Italy.
As a composer, Michael composed and performed a full-length score for the award-winning 2006 documentary "Birdsong and Coffee: A Wake-Up Call", which has aired on PBS and Link-TV.
Teaching has always been an important part in Michael's life. For six years, Michael inspired students as the Band Director at Woodstock Union High School and Middle School, teaching Concert Band, music theory, and jazz ensembles to students in grades 7-12. He has been a frequent conductor of District Jazz Bands in Vermont districts, and has been a repeat clinician for the Vermont and Maine Music Educators Associations. He is currently on the teaching faculties of Castleton State College and Interplay Jazz Camp.
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Baby Shower Planning
Traditionally baby showers are given for the families first child and only women were invited to "shower" the mother to be with gifts, celebrate new life and share their wisdom and knowledge of becoming a mother. It was also considered that someone who is not a family member should throw the shower to avoid having it look like the family was asking for gifts.
Today anything goes and traditional rules are not followed as any relative, close friend, close co worker can plan an amazing baby shower both before or after the baby arrives, typically the last two months of pregnancy. And, although baby showers are predominantly still "for women only" holding a shower for both men and women is becoming more popular especially when it's for the 2nd child.
When setting a date for the shower you should check with grand parents or other guests of honour to make sure they are available. It wouldn't be good to send out invitations only to find that the most important guests can't attend. Invitations should be sent at least 3 weeks in advance to an intimate number of friends and family.
Baby shower themes can also be great fun and sometimes helps to organize the party preparations, but are not necessary. What about a tea party? Fancy table cloths, tea pots, plates and cups. Serve assorted teas, scones with clotted cream and jam, finger sandwiches etc. You can even theme your tea party; everything to do with pink or blue, of course that can only be done when you know what the mom to be is expecting.
Throw a long leisurely baby brunch shower! or how about breaking tradition and having a "Mommy Shower". Instead of guests bringing baby gifts, everyone brings something to pamper the mommy, like chocolate, bubble bath, gift certificates for take out food, spa services, comfy clothes etc. If you opt not to have a theme, a simple, elegant bright decor with flowers are most appropriate, remember all eyes will be on the belly of the mom to be, so keep the decor simple and to a minimum.
Serving food at the shower is always easiest as a buffet. Serving finger foods allows your guests to try something different and by spreading small bowls around the party, allows guests to also mingle by moving around the room. Keep food light and simple by serving such items as a veggie tray, fruit tray, keish, sandwiches, cheese & crackers, salads, deviled eggs, buns & cold cuts and lets not forget cute cupcakes. There is also no shame in pot-luck either!
Gift opening is the main event but baby shower games and prizes are always a fun way to create atmosphere and there are many games to choose from. One unique idea referred to as "Diaper Extraordinaire" is simply putting together a gift basket filled with items like a bottle of wine and glasses, cheese and crackers, wine opener etc. and on your invitations write that there will be a draw for a gift basket that anyone would love. The price of a ticket is one small pack of diapers & wipes. Guests can enter as many times as they want. The lucky winner goes home with a beautiful basket while the mom to be will have a lot of diapers that can be quite expensive.
When deciding on a gift sometimes practical versus cute for example can be the most invaluable. Perhaps a group gift for those big-ticket items is the way to go – a stroller, car seat, portable crib, items that will endear you to the parents on a daily basis. Of course everyone wants to ooh and ahh at all the cute little outfits, blankets and booties.
Send your guests home with a simple party favour. Perhaps something edible, like wrapped home made cookies or a boxed cup cake, a sweet ending to a beautiful shower and it's a nice way for you to say "Thank you for coming".
Old Mill Marks Centennial With New TTC Subway Sign
Old Mill marks centennial, honours area history with new TTC subway sign
TTC, MPP-elect Peter Milczyn partner on pictoral tribute
The Old Mill has made a name for itself over the past century as a place to celebrate milestone events, share family dinners and partake in afternoon tea.
It has become a fixture on the bank of the Humber River and cemented itself in Toronto residents' family histories. While many people know of the Old Mill, fewer are familiar with its heritage, said its president Michael Kalmar.
"The story of the Old Mill is a wonderful story; it's a good news story," said Kalmar at a special reception to commemorate the centennial of the Old Mill, established Aug. 4, 1914.
In partnership with the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) and with support from former Etobicoke-Lakeshore councillor and Liberal MPP-elect Peter Milczyn, The Old Mill unveiled a pictoral tribute to the early history of the Humber Valley and Kingsway area at the Old Mill subway station.
"What's the tie in between the Old Mill and the TTC? Both are important conduits to the area," said Kalmar during the afternoon reception Wednesday, June 18 that brought together decades-long staff members for the centennial event.
The new signage, permanently installed on walls of the east and westbound platforms of the Old Mill subway station, incorporates rare historic photographs and drawings that date back to the 1600s when Huron Indians made their homes on the banks of the Humber River to the early 1900s through the First World War and the Depression era.
"A picture tells a 1,000 words," said Kalmar, who pointed out the Old Mill got its start as a community centre. Its founder, Robert Home Smith, who built the surrounding neighbourhoods, wanted a place where everyone in the community could come and socialize. Long before the invention of social media or the television, the Old Mill was where residents came to share news of the day, to be entertained and have afternoon tea, Kalmar said.
"Really, we're just custodians of a wonderful tradition that we have to make sure carries on," he said.
Natalie Bauer, director of marketing and events at the Old Mill, chose the photos that make up the words 'Old Mill' at its namesake subway station. She said with each letter, she wanted to tell a story. She began with photographs of the Huron Indians living along the river. She called the project "a great experience."
The TTC's Chief Customer Officer Chris Upfold said a project such as this one helps the transit commission create links to the communities it serves.
"This is a great thing for our customers, a great thing for the TTC. We're excited to be a part of it," he said.
Milczyn said the project creates a "link between a local institution, our community and the transit system, the very lifeblood of our city."
Speaking to the staff, Milczyn thanked them for their "contribution to so many special events in people's lives," including his own wedding.
"The Old Mill has a special place in my heart and many people's hearts," he said.
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For further information about the Old Mill's centennial, visit Centennial Celebrations
Story By Lisa Rainford / Bloor West Villager
Backyard Entertaining
With the flowers starting to protrude above the ground, and the sun shining just enough to go outside with out bundling up, summertime is just around the corner and it's a great time to plan getting together with friends and family to enjoy the outdoors.
There are many ways to plan a successful backyard party, but the first thing to arrange is the perfect seating experience to allow everyone to be comfortable and engage in conversation. If your entertaining a large crowd then smaller seating areas, scattered around the backyard will ensure that people will mingle and create different conversations that can be enjoyed by various people.
Setting the perfect decor for your backyard entertaining can be done with a simple string of patio lights or hanging lanterns. Light tiki torches around the garden and use votive candles to set the mood by placing them in small glass jars. Get creative with your table decor by using lightweight colourful tablecloths and brightly coloured paper napkins, which are easily disposable afterwards, and less time in cleaning up.
Providing music for your party is a great way to encourage fun. You can use your patio as a dance floor and keep the music near by so those that won't to dance up a storm can. You can hire a DJ but if you do not want the added cost then plan ahead with top dance hits from your era downloaded on to your iPod or use your MP3 player or cd's for everyone to enjoy dancing to.
Food at your party always seems to be the number one concern. Easy backyard entertaining is preferably done with a smart backyard buffet. Keep your menu light and simple, food should be yummy and easy to handle and the less you have to fuss the more time you get to spend with your guests. Why not take advantage of your grill and have a few people to watch over grilling hotdogs and hamburgers. Don't forget dessert, something perfect for a summers evening like fresh fruit kebobs and maybe some freshly whipped cream to dip into. Be sure to have plenty of finger foods on various tables around your garden and set up a self serve bar table complete with a cooler for ice, so everyone can help themselves to a drink.
Hospitality is the key to throwing a great party, welcoming your guests and making them feel good that they came. Chances are with great friends, just being together is all that's important.
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"An Artist in Your Midst"
The Old Mill Toronto has a special place in the hearts of Torontonians, and as it celebrates its 100th anniversary a visit to the website was timely. As I scrolled through the site looking at the old photographs and reading the history of the Old Mill I felt compelled to share pertinent information about an artist who lived "in your midst".
Clara Isabella Harris was an accomplished, prolific artist who lived in close proximity to the Old Mill Toronto. For forty years (1930's -70's) Clara and her husband Frederick, a commercial artist, lived at twenty-three Valleyview Gardens.
Title: "Clara Perry" (Self portrait before Clara married)
The exterior of the house looked like any other on the street except for one difference: the inside was a "full blown" artists' den and thriving business.
As described in Fred's diary:
March 27, 1938 – Clara had W. Scott to sit in afternoon
October 2, 1938 – designing cards, cutting canvases, making stretchers
November 22, 1938 – Evie had 20 school teachers in to see work & get cards
October 14, 1939 – Don, Gloria and Jack for class
April 15, 1941 – Cleaned studio
Clara was well trained. She studied under J.W. Beatty, a colleague and major influence on the Group of Seven Painters; portrait painter Archibald Barnes, George Agnew Reid, Manly MacDonald and William Cruikshank.
She studied at reputable institutions: the Ontario College of Art, the Port Hope Summer Art School (Affiliated with the Ontario College of Art) and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Clara exhibited in Canada and the U.S. with such notables as A. J. Casson, Franklin Carmichael, Emily Carr, Clarence Gagnon, A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, Paraskeva Clark, Frank Panabaker and Edward Potthast.
True to the "plein-air" method of painting Clara travelled long distances, in all seasons, in Canada and the U.S. Considering the cars and roads of the 1930's these were serious undertakings. And to "top it off" she often went without Fred!
But Clara's favourite spot to set up her easel was in her own backyard: the Humber River by the Old Mill. Clara captured the Humber in all its glory as well as surrounding areas. Through careful documentation she has left a significant historical and environmental record before colour photography was commonly used.
From Fred's diary:
May 14, 1938 – "out to Humber River in morning"
Title: "Berry Road at the Bottom of the Humber River", Toronto
Title: "Church St., The Kingsway, Toronto, Morning, May 16, 1934".
Title: "Summer on the Humber River, Toronto Ontario".
Title: "Autumn on the Humber River, Toronto, Afternoon, October 15, 1935".
I now live in the NYC area but return to Toronto regularly facing the reality that change is inevitable. But all is not lost. Clara Isabella Harris and the Old Mill Toronto share a common advantage. Their respective values are appreciated in what exists today and preserved in what is recorded on their websites. A "win-win situation".
Verna McLean
Curator, Clara Harris Collection
Robert Home Smith
February 4, 1935:
Robert Home Smith dies at age 58. Smith established a real estate company in 1913 and opened the Old Mill Tea Rooms on the day World War I was declared, which remains a prestigious Toronto restaurant and event venue.
In 1878 the building housed a flour mill that accepted the first revenue freight delivery in Toronto from the Credit Valley Railway. Smith owned 3,000 acres of land in the Humber Valley and his prestigious Kingsway Park subdivision was built along the lower portion of the Toronto Belt Line Railway's Humber Loop.
Robert Home Smith was also President of the Algoma Central Railway and chairman of the Toronto Harbour Commission during the time the waterfront was being redeveloped for the Union Station railway viaduct.
In this capacity, Smith was largely responsible for the establishment of Sunnyside Amusement Park.
New Year's Resolutions
Promises, Promises, Promises… why do we do this to ourselves? Are we truly setting a realistic goal or are we setting ourselves up for failure? Do we tell anyone about our resolution because that would be making it official, which maybe isn't such a bad thing as we might feel more accountable to following it through.
Do you know what the top ten commonly broken New Year's Resolutions are?
- Lose Weight and Get Fit
- Quit Smoking
- Learn Something New
- Eat Healthier and Diet
- Get Out of Debt and Save Money
- Spend More Time with Family
- Travel to New Places
- Be Less Stressed
- Volunteer
- Drink Less
Maybe the resolutions we set for ourselves are to general, maybe we should start by taking a good look at ourselves and changing little things that could make a huge potential difference. Like stop beating yourself up if you can't make it to the gym because your ran out of time, but when you have time make sure you do go! Who care's how many people like your photo on instagram or you had 302 people following you on twitter but now you have 300! Social Media anxiety is a waste of time and something you can change.
Cross something off your bucket list that you have always wanted to try. It could be something from riding a roller coaster to jumping out of a plane…stop making excuses and just do it.
Perhaps the key to a perfect New Year's Resolution is…ready…wait for it……. Enjoy Life more! It's an important step to a healthier and happier you! Why not try a new hobby like water colour painting and tap your inner artist or pick up a sport like skiing or bike riding. Of course heading to the spa for some "You" time is a great way to enjoy life more… "The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
I would be remiss if I did not mention, you should try a yoga class, who knows maybe it will be the beginning of a new you! It's different for everyone, but ultimately yoga makes you feel great in body, mind and soul. Yoga removes limitations and provides clarity to enhance your experience of life.
And with that we wish you all a wonderful beginning to a New Year and an outstanding ending! And good luck with your resolutions! may you appreciate all the little things in life because that's what truly matters in the end. It's not about what what you look like or what you own but about the person you have become.
The History of The Old Mill Toronto
As we round the mark leading to our Centennial Celebrations we thought it may be appropriate to share a little history on the Old Mill Toronto, a Toronto tradition since 1914.
The Old Mill and the Valley in which it sits, have long been a part of Canadian Heritage. Centuries before the coming of the white man, the Huron Indians roamed the Humber Valley.
In 1615 Samuel Champlain sent a young guide to scout the route southward from the Lake Simcoe region . So it was that Etienne Brule became the first recorded explorer to see the Humber and view Lake Ontario. Brule lived among the Huron Indians, learning their language and customs, becoming an important mediator between the Huron Indians and the French settlers. Brule travelled the Humber, part of a long established trading route known as "Toronto Carrying Place". Ornaments, weapons and furs were popular trading commodities.
During the 1600′s the Humber River was known as St. Johns Creek, but was renamed by John Graves Simcoe, the first Governor of Upper Canada, after two rivers in his homeland. In 1793 Simcoe ordered the Queens Rangers to build a saw mill, which he named the Kings Mill. This was the first industrial site of what is known today as the City of Toronto.
The days of trading along the Humber Valley had transformed the Humber River into a vibrant industry of Mills throughout the Valley. By 1834 many mills were in operation along the banks of the Humber River which became the hub of both business and social activities of the day.
The Kings Mill was leased and later bought by Thomas Fisher. The Mill was poorly constructed so Thomas Fisher replaced the original Lumber Mill with a Grist Mill in 1834 just a few yards to the north of the original Mill. Years later William Gamble, Etobicokes first Reeve, bought the Grist Mill and shortly thereafter built a new larger Mill in the same location. This new Mill was destroyed by fire in 1849.
Not to be deterred, Gamble had a 4th Mill constructed, the stone, lumber and the heavy beams for this Mill came from the Humber Valley. The upper loft of the Mill served as a storage area for apples. During the frigid winters the loft was kept heated by a wood burning stove in order to prevent the apples from freezing. During the cold winter of 1881 the stove overheated and fire destroyed this latest Mill.
The introduction of steam power once again transformed the Humber Valley from an industry of bustling Mills to a backdrop of leisure and recreation.
By the early 1900′s one man's vision began the transformation of the Humber Valley forever. Robert Home Smith, financier, railway builder, real estate developer and avid sportsman purchased 3,000 acres in the Humber Valley, from Lake Ontario to what was to become Eglinton Avenue. His concept was to develop a unique modern community.
The early prosperous years of the 1900′s were shattered with the out break of World War 1 on August 4, 1914, the day the Old Mill tea garden opened. The Tea Garden acted as the community centre for the residents of this new residential development, a place where news and events of the day were exchanged. Home Smith's motto "A LITTLE BIT OF ENGLAND FAR FROM ENGLAND" epitomized his objective to create a Toronto suburb of grace and tranquility through English tudor architecture.
During the war years the original bridge adjacent to the Old Mill was washed out. It was a tribute to Home Smith's political connections and financial clout that a new bridge was quickly constructed in 1916, during the lean years of World War 1.
As the popularity of the Old Mill grew, Home Smith began the first of many additions to the Old Mill building. The print room was built in 1919 and was one of the few places of the time that offered the enjoyment of dinner and dancing in an elegant atmosphere. Thus began the live music tradition at the Old Mill.
By the year 1928 Home Smith centralized the hub of his activities around the Old Mill with his next addition the administrative office of "Home Smith and Company" later to be known as "Home Smith Properties." The cottage was built soon afterwards and became a popular private entertainment spot for Home Smith.
In response to the ever growing popularity of the Old Mill, design and construction of the Dance Hall and the Garret Room began soon after. Home Smith paid great attention to carry over the design features of the familiar English Tudor architecture into the Dance Hall design.
Who could have predicted that shortly thereafter on October 25th 1929 the financial world was to suddenly collapse with the crash of the stock market.
Through the depression years the Old Mill continued to attract a regular clientele. By now the reputation of the Old Mill stretched well beyond the boundaries of the Humber Valley to include all of Canada.
Groups became a familiar site enjoying the established afternoon English Tea tradition, which began in 1914. Home Smith continued to promote the Old Mill as a focal point of his development. The Old Mill management sent personalized letters to the residents of the area outlining many of the Old Mill's attractions including dining and dancing, facilities for private parties and special occasions with the emphasis on the quality of food prepared by their famous European Chef.
In February 1935, Robert Home Smith died suddenly in Toronto at age 58. He never lived to see the completion of his dream. Home Smith willed his estate to his close and long time friend Godfrey Petit who assumed the chair of President of "Home Smith and Company."
Monday September 10, 1939 then Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie signed the proclamation of war entering Canada into the war against the German Reich. Canada's entry into war changed daily life throughout the Country. The war effort drained the Country of it's labour talents and other resources.
An announcement by Home Smith and Company on October 20, 1939 stated: "Due to the uncertainty caused by the war it has been necessary for us to make certain revisions in our organization…"
The attention to old world charm, exquisite gourmet dining and the dancing to the Big Band orchestras of the day made the old Mill a popular rendezvous for the armed forces during the war years.
The Globe and Mail of Saturday October 16, 1954 reports, "Great storm hits after 4 inches of Rain". Toronto residents were jolted by the fury of Hurricane Hazel." Cars were overturned, homes and businesses destroyed and carried away by the torrential rains. Thousands of people were left homeless in the wake of her storm. Many properties along the Humber Valley sustained extensive damage or were lost all together. The Old Mill bridge, the original Mill ruins and the Old Mill itself were spared from Hurrican Hazel. Only the road adjoining the Old Mill bridge sustained damage.
Barely two years later with the continued popularity of the Old Mill, it was expanded once again. The addition of the Humber banquet room became a new feature for private parties which was elegantly decorated with wood panelling and lead pane windows over looking the picturesque Humber Valley. Over the next two decades the Old Mill continued to function in the tradition of its past and became a well known landmark to the ever sprawling city for Toronto.
In 1973, William Hodgson, an Etobicoke resident, reportedly saved the Old Mill from demolition to make way for a new residential development. William Hodgson closed the building for massive renovations. New sections were added, a Wedding Chapel built, rooms were restored and newly decorated.
In 1986 the Old Mill was once again under construction in response to the popularity attributed to the boom years of the 1980′s. An entire new wing of Banquet rooms was added. The Old Mill had grown to a 16 room function facility nestled on the banks of the Humber river.
In June 1991, then new owners, George and Michael Kalmar became the latest proprietors of the Old Mill. In October 2001, the Mill "ruins" were transformed once again into a boutique Hotel that now stands proudly within the walls.
So begins the new chapter in shaping the history of the Old Mill.
Thanksgiving Food Drive
Daily Bread Food Bank is a non-profit, charitable organization that is fighting to end hunger in our communities. Every year thousands of people across Toronto rely on food banks. Daily Bread serves these people through neighbourhood food banks and meal programs in over 170 member agencies. In support of our local Fire Department station #422, the staff at the Old Mill Toronto held a food drive for the daily Bread Food Bank.
Boxes were placed in various staff areas throughout the Old Mill Toronto building with signs to support our mission.
Every staff member was encouraged to donate at least one can or jar as listed on the poster. All non-perishable food items were being collected on Friday October 11, 2013 and being delivered to our local Fire Department.
Every year, with the assistance of volunteers, Daily Bread Food Bank conducts a survey across the GTA of people who access food banks. For a fifth year in a row, food banks in the GTA saw over a million client visits. Did you know that 32% of Food Bank Clients are children and that 45% of adults go hungry once a week as they struggle with fixed incomes and rising food costs.
Daily Bread Food Bank is committed to providing food and resources for people experiencing hunger and poverty. Thank you to everyone who supported our food drive, we collected 11 boxes with over 350 non-perishable food items.
It's amazing what the power of a group can do to help a greater cause!
Christmas Decor
Are you the everything has to be perfectly in sync with colour and shape, synonymous with the rest of your year round décor or are you the type that can never part with the sparkly popsicle picture frames and the ornament from 1969?
Every year I drag out the many boxes filled with décor dating back to my child's first Christmas. My decorations are a real mixed bag of sentimental things I had growing up, new items I seem to pick up every year, and handmade ornaments from my little one who's not so little now.
Out comes the painted Santa's, the candle holders encrusted with sparkle dust that's seems to get in every nook and cranny~ the stuffed reindeer and the all time favorite snowman dressed in a cross country ski outfit complete with a set of skis…he stands beside the fireplace every year.
While I admire and sometimes desire the perfect tree with every cylindrical ornament sparkling away and matching the colour scheme of the year, I find myself reaching for the same ornaments and décor year after year, unable to part with them yet once again.
Christmas Décor is what ever brings you happiness, what ever fills your heart with Joy and makes your home feel festive for the holidays.
It's a once a year thing where you get to show your sentimental side. So put that garland up the rail of the stairs and of course every decoration your children ever made must go on the tree or mantle or somewhere in the house. I think it's not about following principals of design but more about giving in to the sentimental side of the season.
The Flower shop at The Old MIll has great festive seasonal decor and classic ornaments and with every gift ware purchase over $30 you will receive a mini Holiday arrangement or an ornament.
Happy decorating everyone!


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Beauties gather for "Miss World" contest, Cafe de Paris, London (?).
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Dredge spoils on Inkwell Beach cause alarm
Several truckloads of dark, grimy material spread over Inkwell Beach in Oak Bluffs has alarmed residents and set off a storm of protest on social media. The material was dredged from Vineyard Haven Harbor as part of the project to build a new permanent drawbridge.
Town officials say the sand will look like normal beach sand in a short time, though they concede it looks alarming now.
"It does, but I've seen it before," highway superintendent Richard Combra Jr. said. "With a couple of rainstorms and a little sun, it will bleach right out. By summer time it will be all bleached out."
The town got similar complaints in 2010, when dredge spoils were used to replenish sand on Jetty Beach.
Dredge spoils spread on Inkwell Beach have been a source of complaints in recent years. Beach users have complained about trash, including broken glass, found in the dredged material, and large pebbles and rocks that make it difficult to walk in bare feet.
The beach has been regularly replenished with dredge spoils, all permitted by federal and state authorities, to replace sand washed away by erosion.
"regularly replenished with dredge spoils, all permitted by federal and state authorities" I suppose this makes it all O.K. then? Sure, lets trust the Government–after all they are overflowing the truth, transparency and doing what's right for the public.
Either put sand on the beach or have no beach at all. Those are the two options.
The sky is falling!!
what's not to trust ? it's sand– being moved from one spot to another. It's been done before. And I don't see anyone else stepping up and offering to dredge a safe boating channel on one part of the island, and moving the sand to a beach that could use some sand.. So there might be some rocks.. oh, well,.. If you see glass, pick it up and put it in a recycle bin. I get sick of this endless wining about the government.. It gets really old, you know..
Dondon. You should take your own hint and stop supporting your current administration. You know! The transparent, non decisive and non devisive groupe of pAtriotic communists!
My comment makes no mention of the current administration.
Does the Obama administration have something to do with putting sand on inkwell beach other than having a permitting process that prevents someone like Donald Trump from putting a 20 story casino there ? Or when I demolish a house, I can't just dump it there and wait for the tide to take it out to sea ? No– The permitting process has been going on ever since we decided we didn't want to have rivers catching on fire, or raw sewage and municipal trash washing up on our beaches (remember the Jersey shore story ?) http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/25/nyregion/on-a-clear-day-nary-a-sludge-ball.html )We have permitting processes in place to protect the general public from unscrupulous business men and clueless local authorities, and they go on whether there are democrats or republicans in office. Fortunately, for this Island , we have local authorities that are capable of making good decisions, and federal authorities that make sure they are implementing them in a sane and safe manner..
And name calling, while wrapping yourself in the flag is the last refuge of a —well, you know..-
Don Don! If you believe in what you are saying. Than you should check out the state guidelines for beach renourishment materials. Mandatory! Any dredge spoils will have to be tested for toxins ie pollutants. Also all spoil material shall be is compatible grain size. Did the towns of Oak bluffs and Vineyard Haven conservation committees perform these test prior to depositing harbor ( most probably polluted with heavy metals and boat bottom paints as well as nitrogen laden spoil from the lagoon) I'd bet NO. Also to rely on a town highway guy with no professional training in this field to tell you everything is going to be just fine?! An educated individual of your stature should know better. And yes I more than believe the current blowhard administration is
The better question: who is responsible for making sure these soils were tested and compliant with guidelines? and did they do their job?
I am loving it that the conservatives are wanting something tested and regulated !!!! there is hope..
Now don't go giving me that liberal dribble. Hey! And who said I was the ungodly word Republican! My word! now don't go insulting me!
Sorry. I never use the "r" word when referring to an individual . I only use it when referring to a political party. I always use "conservative" –[aka the "c" word] or some variation of it when referring to an individual.
The sensor here even occasionally deletes people for using the other synonymous "r" word, but,in my opinion, only when it fits his bias. -
The political banter is my favorite!
But in the end all of us want what's good for all of us.
Oops sorry for my L dribble but I'm on a beach in the Caribbean drinking a nice scotch thinking about how to dodge my tax obligations v( loopholes) come April.
Wish you were here for a little political jousting, a cigar and a fine single malt scotch! But seriusly someone should ask my question and get a real answer.
Soon to return and keep you on your toes! -
hope you enjoy your stay there,, I was in Barbados last month.. I am outing myself here about who I really am.. Have mentioned my real name a number of times on this site, but I think the times doesn't let you do that– always deleted very quickly. But you will actually be able to see me reading the times in one of Barbados's roundabouts sometime soon.
It really is nice to forget about the carbon footprint and see the footprints in the sand..
( I am sure to get some feedback about that, eh ? ) -
OB Con Com would oversee the project. Ma DEP Chp 91 dredge permit includes a 401 Water Quality Certification which requires testing of the dredged material which would have to be compatible with the material the disposal site.
A permit to transport the material over the road would also be required. If it did test compatible, it will be fine by summer. -
Question is DID they TEST.
WE should be shown the states findings on this current dredge spoil. Or as usual with OB did they sweep it under the rug?! -
Yes, they did test. Dredged material was tested and testing for Inkwell was done previously and is on record. The dredge material was originally supposed to go to Rhode Island. So your question would be who compared the two tests for compatibility. And did Con Com make sure DEP Water Quality okayed it. I think they did.
Trust but Verify is the only way!!!!!!!
we can speculate about what test the town performed, or their fields of expertise.
I would rather the epa cracked down real hard long ago, and made sure heavy metals didn't get into the lagoon in the first place. If boat bottom paint is so hazardous that it can't be dredged out of the lagoon and put on a beach, it should be banned. Perhaps someday we will have better products to paint boat bottoms with.
Nitrogen is better on land than in the water, so a healthier lagoon to boot. Still don't see a problem. I am happy you are at least concerned about those heavy metals etc.. -
Who says we are worlds apart
you know, sometimes I read some of the comments here, and I think half the people commenting here just could care less about the environment.. I am not implying you feel that way.
But the talk about the epa and government is so bad, and plovers taste like chicken etc. Sometimes it really gets me down.. So nice to find a little common ground. -
A lack of humility precludes the need to embarrass yourselves, I apologize but I am working two jobs and just paying my bills when I can, in a few months my mortgage is done and I still savor the sanctity of the Island my heart belongs to. While you are on those other islands the people there most likely have the same opinion of you that I do
God love you George. Somebody has got to do the work!
Or just let the beach disappear. That would be the "natural" approach.
You haters are racist! I think it looks more like the ink well and I like it!
Same thing happened at Bend in the Road Beach in Edgartown a few years ago. Some of us thought the beach was ruined but it's all been smoothed out, thanks to storms, sun, and tide.
actually, going back a bit further, a large portion of state beach was filled in with dredging materials from the pond. With the help of environmentally concerned volunteers, we saved the road, and have healthy beach grass on the dunes for the plovers to live in. The dredging also helped the water flow into the pond which contributes to a healthy shell fish population.
Sometimes you get win win situations..
You would think that after years of Politically correct items That the term (INK-WELL) would have been a term that would have disappeared, but NO not on the Vineyard You might as well call it N@#%& Beach because we all know where the term INC-WELL came from. But while you have to kiss a dolphin, hug a tree and the Holocaust was a horrible thing,we still have the inkwell or is it N@#$% beach on the Vineyard ????????????????????????????? Now lets all call a spade a spade.
And although most people may think they know me my previous post is not how it sounds or is it??????????????????????????????????????????????
One of the best ways to help prevent the beach erosion is to put back the beach "groines" that used to be there when I was a kid. I have photos of the beach groines between the harbor jetties and the SSA dock for the 1950's. They show that there was a beautiful beach there, and as the groines, or wooden breakwaters, slowly deteriorated, so went the beach. Saving the beach right from the start will mean we won't have to keep bring in soil from somewhere else to recycle the beach. I think this would save money in the long term.
I think the new sand color at the inkwell looks ten times better then the decaying store fronts of Main Street ob


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Ok if not used everyday as personally it dried my skin out but ok as deep clean rather than an exfoliant I'd say every two to three days
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Got a sample bottle of this from a sample service; it was either GlossyBox or BirchBox, I don't remember specifically.
I used it all, but, I'm really not impressed and won't be repurchasing.
I don't like the shaker style bottle.
I don't like that it smells like plain, ordinary hand soap.
I don't like that it dissolves into nothingness when I used it, I really didn't find it to be an exfoliant.
I don't like that it massively dried out my face.
And to be honest? Like seriously honest? I really believe that someone got a bar of soap, took it over a cheese-grater, put it in a little plastic bottle with a high price tag, and slapped a name on it that loads of people follow like a cult.
I'll look into some of their other products, but I won't be buying this one.
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Very unimpressed with this pricy product. Daily use was irritating. I won't purchase it again. Going back to my tried and true 2x a week Olay exfoliation.
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Absolutely love this product!
I have super oily skin and have been using the daily microfoliant alongside the derma clay cleanser and active moist moisturiser and love the results!
I am beginning to break out again now (which is totally normal!) so am excited to see the results in a few months time when it clears again!
Love this product!! I have very oily, acneic skin. I'm able to use this product every morning without getting any irritation. It's definitely suitable for pretty much every skin type. The packaging isn't the best but it's probably one of the better options for a product of this kind. I would recommend this to everyone!
I was sceptical about this product at first. It seems like a catch 22 for me. On the one hand it makes my skin polished and lovely looking, however by the middle of the day I feel tight and more dry than when I don't use it. I am now using it every other day and I do think it is having a positive effect on my skin. It seems to be bringing all of the spots from under the surface out, which in the long term will improve the look of my skin. All in all I am very happy with the dermalogica range and will continue to use for now. Ill post an update if anything changes. NOTE: I have combination skin and would not recommend using this product everyday due to the drying effect.
have used this for several years on and off for the extra special feeling of a great clear skin. feels lovely and soft after using and great to know you can use more often if needed.
love it !
Great exfoliant for anyone who is very sensitive and who have problems finding an exfoliant their skin can tolerate. It's light and fluffy and feels great to use. As long as your not intolerant to salicylic acid you should have no bad reactions to this light weight exfoliant. Good choice for someone on retin-a and fighting the daily flakiness.
This is an okay product. I have mild acne so I did not want to use an abraisive scrub as an exfoliator. I decided to get this as it is a powder which you wet to create a paste. It does give the skin a nice, smooth feel however if you want a good exfoliation then this is not the product for it. I tried to apply makeup after using this as my weekly exfoliator and it didn't really do anything to remove the dry skin. Didn't work for me but I do think it could suit certain people.


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The bucket hat originated in Ireland, where it was traditionally worn by fisherman and farmers as rain protection. As it gained in popularity it English upper class began wearing bucket hats while enjoying outdoor activities such as hiking.
This casual hat usually has a flat crown and floppy brim to shade the suns rays. Some bucket caps have eyelets or mesh on the crown to provide ventilation. These hats are floppy and can be easily folded for storage.


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Gabe Newell Responds: Yes, We're Looking For Cheaters Via DNS
Whoosh (511 comments)
No need to check your DNS history to tell you haven't visited OhNowIGetTheJoke.net
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Whoosh (511 comments)
No need to check your DNS history to tell you haven't visited OhNowIGetTheJoke.net
Re:How Tragic (422 comments)
Don't they have a right to an opinion.
Everybody has a right to their own opinion. What they don't have is a right to their own facts.
Re:Old school (90 comments)
It's a figure of speech. But please, don't stop being a pedantic asshole.
Re:Congratulations R Team (75 comments)
Also, there's Julia (http://julialang.org/), and I recently came across at least one IDE for it (although I haven't tried it yet): Julia Studio.
Re:Slavery? (215 comments)
Well, I guess it voluntary.
Re:VPN not a requirement for doing useful work (529 comments)
a) I wasn't trying to. (b) it was a joke.
Re:VPN not a requirement for doing useful work (529 comments)
I'm not saying don't use VPN. I'm saying you don't need the VPN all the time. If you've got all the material you need to write a report in Word, then you don't need to be on VPN the entire time you are typing.
VPN not a requirement for doing useful work (529 comments)
Sure you need to be on the VPN to see your e-mail (that notorious destroyer of productivity), but there's a lot of stuff you can be doing offline (or at least off the VPN) that is still productive work. For example, if I'm writing code, it's not always the case that I have to be on the company network to do it.
Also, my VPN software seems to be the only common element in the rare blue-screen crashes I get on my work laptop - so it's usually a lot less frustrating to leave it off.
In fact, if I am goofing off, I'm much more likely to log into the VPN and open my e-mail so that others can see that I'm "online" and working. I like to sit my laptop next to my gaming desktop while I do this!
Re:Mac Whitelist (884 comments)
Yeah, sure is a pain when you add new device, especially since it's completely ineffective at keeping anybody out.
Re:Not necessarily (257 comments)
And if you want to do iOS apps, you need a Mac to even get started.
Re:My experience with the GIMP (197 comments)
Again...it depends on how much you value your time. Doing something "easy" saves time, whether or not the time saved over the lifetime of the product adds up to $200 - $600 depends on your situation.
Re:My experience with the GIMP (197 comments)
Some people attach a value to their time, you apparently do not.
Re:Why? (212 comments)
According to one report I read, he had a particularly rare mutation in his mitochondrial DNA. So no, there aren't too many people who share it.
Re:Why? (212 comments)
Really, the natives were the real villains here. They had no concept of how anybody could "own" land and yet the happily took 60 guilders of some poor Dutch traders anyway.
Re:Reburial Where? (212 comments)
They didn't have Google Maps then.
Also, it seems unlikely that the current or future government of England will actively try and erase him from history again.
Re:Still no explanation (212 comments)
He wasn't. He was buried at a chapel. A chapel that was later knocked down and replaced with a house. A house that was later bought by the council, knocked down and replaced with a car park.
Re:Reburial Where? (212 comments)
Leicester Cathedral. Which I'm assuming they are not likely to lose track of.
Re:Oh dear... (212 comments)
Somebody clearly hasn't seen Black Adder.
Re:Publicizing patents (211 comments)
Can anyone think of a downside?
there's also the fact that hiring the advertising media is far cheaper than hiring patent lawyers.
And that's it. Remember a lot of politicians are/were lawyers. But seriously, the only downside is that it might encourage companies to keep things as trade secret so that they don't have to publicize it.
Re:Don't innovate, litigate! (211 comments)
It is the patent holders responsibility to defend their patent.
And that would appear to be what they are doing. Also, patents aren't trademarks. You don't lose them if you don't sue.
Facebook is a company of technologists, not marketers. If you wanted to bet on someone succeeding in the marketing business, you'd bet on technologists only if they could invent some new way to sell; you wouldn't bet on them to sell the way marketers have always sold.
"As Facebook gluts an already glutted market, the fallacy of the Web as a profitable ad medium can no longer be overlooked. The crash will come. And Facebook—that putative transformer of worlds, which is, in reality, only an ad-driven site—will fall with everybody else.
"Friedman, who carries a radio-frequency analyzer that emits frightening crackles around cell phones and Wi-Fi routers, says smart meters are a dangerous idea. They are an invasion of privacy and might even cause illness, he has alleged in a legal complaint set to be heard by the Maine Supreme Court next month.
As a promotional tool to impress potential clients, Mykonos engineers have built versions of the company's software that taunt attackers. One directs a hacker to a Google Maps search for nearby criminal attorneys. Another parodies Microsoft's now-defunct anthropomorphic paper clip, Clippy, with the message: "It looks like you're an unsophisticated script kiddie. Do you need help writing code?"
Their tactics include placing supercookies on suspected attackers computers.
There are few things hackers hate more than being taunted. So is this a valid strategy? Or is it waiving a red cloak at a bull?"
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"As of Friday, the viruses were still active. The Chronicle says that CCSF administrators are telling students and employees to "change computer passwords, avoid using school computers for banking or purchases, and to check home computers for viruses" since the viruses have, the college's Chief Technology Officer warned, infected servers and desktops "across administrative, instructional and wireless networks."
"Online piracy is like fouling in basketball. You want to penalise it to prevent it from getting out of control, but any effort to actually eliminate it would be a cure much worse than the disease.
"When the original Xbox video-game console went on sale in 2001, it wasn't clear why Microsoft, known for staid workplace software, was branching out into fast-paced action games. But Microsoft decided that capitalizing on the popularity of gaming could help the company position itself for the coming wave of home digital entertainment.
Panos Iperitos set out to study the dollar value of online reputation, and along the way he discovered the counter-intuitive ways that reviews inform it
Not surprisingly, people are willing to pay a premium (up to 5%) to buy a product for a seller with a good reputation, but interestingly, negative product reviews can lead to higher sales:
One reason is that buyers gain confidence that "if this is the worst this product will throw at me, it must be pretty good." "Negative reviews that are specific actually tend to serve as risk mitigators," says Ipeirotis On the other hand, the phrase "good packaging" makes it sound like there was nothing else in the transaction worth complimenting.
Spelling and grammar in reviews also have an impact. So much so that unconfirmed rumors have suggested that shoe seller Zappos has spent $0.10 per review to have Amazon's Mechanical Turk correct spelling and grammar in Zappos reviews."
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Though people with autism face many challenges because of their condition, they may have been capable hunter-gatherers in prehistoric times, according to a paper published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology in May.
The "autism advantage," a relatively new perspective, contends that sometimes autism has compensating benefits, including increased abilities for spatial intelligence, concentration and memory. Although individuals with autism have trouble with social cognition, their other cognitive abilities are sometimes largely intact.
So is autism a "disorder" or a normal part of human evolutionary history?"
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"The human race has a susceptibility to harm, but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record. He has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age. Because he harnessed 'Friday Night,' that is, 'Everybody needs to get laid,' and he turned it into a structure for degenerating the integrity of human personality. And he has to a remarkable extent succeeded with a very poor deal, namely 'I will give you free Web hosting and some PHP doodads and you get spying for free all the time.' "
These are the provocative words of Columbia University law professor Eben Moglen and begins IEEE Spectrum's interview with the Software Freedom Law Center's James Vasile, one of the minds (along with Moglen) behind the idea of the Freedom Box."
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"Foursquare now provides its merchant platform to more than 300,000 businesses, which can track their customers through a newly launched analytics dashboard. Merchants can analyze various metrics over time, including how many check-ins are recorded each day, who the most recent and most frequent visitors are, how visitors who check in break down by gender, and what time of day the most people check in; businesses with multiple locations can aggregate statistics to fit their needs. Foursquare provides the same platform "for Joe's coffee shop and Starbucks," says Eric Friedman, Foursquare's director of business development, but companies use the tools and data in different ways, depending on their specific objectives. "Some people are using it directly to measure [differences between] top-performing stores and low-performing stores," Friedman says. Others might track geographic differences.
What happens if Facebook or Twitter or, say, your blog hosting service, makes you take a different user name? Sound impossible? It's happened. Last week, a software researcher named Danah Boyd woke up to find her entire blog had disappeared, and in fact, had been renamed, because her hosting service had given her blog's name to someone else.
"And as important as they are, what protects our accounts are the terms of service agreements. If you read them—and who does?—you'd learn, probably to no surprise, that they protect the provider a lot more then they protect you.
"For example, by looking at the location metadata stored with pictures posted through one man's anonymous Twitter account, the researchers were able to pinpoint his likely home address. From there, by cross-referencing this location with city records, they found his name. Using that information, the researchers went on to find his place of work, his wife's name, and information about his children.


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Glastonbury Festival Travel Booking Page
Buy your Early bird Coach tickets HERE(limited offer to end of October)
You will be taken to our partner booking site at BIG LEMON where you can purchase your travel tickets for the Festival securely.
Alternatively if you require further information on our festival travel ticketing arrangements for 2015 then please e-mail us.
Once you have booked we will get you sorted with maps of pick up and drop of points and a link to our facebook group for those travelling with us so we can discuss and share everything Glastonbury!
Every year the Brighton Peace and Environment Centre runs coaches to Glastonbury Festival from Brighton for anyone travelling to the festival. It's one of the greenest ways to travel and we always have fantastic feedback from those who have travelled with us before. Travelling with BPEC also means you are entitled to a green traveller pass once you get to the festival.
We aim to provide the greenest possible way of travelling to the festival and use The Big Lemon wherever possible.


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How Pinterest Can Inspire You to Write More Blog Posts
Posted on November 14th 2012
If you write posts for your own blog or are a guest blogger, then you most likely have experienced times when inspiration is lost and the topics for writing have dwindled. When moments such as these occur, you tend to feel like there is nothing to write about or appealing enough to share with your online audience. This is where the photo-sharing site, Pinterest, can help in rekindling the spark for writing that is at times absent.
Pinterest is mostly used for sharing fun, interesting and collectible images, either found on the web or of ones taken by its users and is what the site was intended for, but Pinterest can be useful in other ways too. Instead of looking at Pinterest as a site to find photos; see it as a place to discover stories. Every image you see on Pinterest has the potential of becoming a great article; it just depends on what type of content you want to produce.
Bloggers are always looking to keep their blog up-to-date with recent posts and are constantly in search of topics for writing. Pinterest provides a multitude of interesting images and has many categories to choose from, which makes it even easier to narrow down a subject you would want to cover. No matter if your blog is about food, photography, technology, or has a geeky flair, Pinterest has several categories to choose from and there is something to be discovered within each of them.
All of the categories listed on Pinterest are filled with photos that are connected to their original source or websites, which usually provides additional information about the item(s) showing in the photos that can help with your writing and can also give you the "source" of the image if you choose to use them within your blog posts.
Here are 5 steps on how to get inspired to write a blog post using Pinterest.
1. First choose a category, like "Food" on Pinterest or one that is relevant to your blog. In this example I am going to base it on a blog that writes about the Food Industry.
2. Find 5 images with recipes that would be great to make during the holidays (Tip: To make it even easier look for images that have "recipe" written in the description box below the image).
3. Click on each of the 5 food images you have chosen on Pinterest to make sure it takes you to a website that has the full details of the recipe so you can use those sites as the "source" of the images and recipe content within your blog post. For instance, when I clicked on the image above on Pinterest it took me to the website: CupCakes and CrabLegs.
4. Create a title, like "5 Festive Recipes for The Holiday Season".
5. Now you have all the inspiration you need to begin writing your blog post.
It's simple, chose a category, pick a photo that best suits your style, and unleash the inspiration for writing hidden within the images on Pinterest.
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Great idea! Will definitely try it out when I'm out of ideas =] Thank you for the article!
This is a great idea to expand your imagination esp. for writters who are looking for something different everyday. It can also help brands to understand what people are more interested in.
Great work!


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