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Esnatech has released the latest version of its unified communications platform, Office-LinX 8.5, that integrates with cloud-based applications, VoIP service, PBXs, mobile operating systems, and business applications.
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RTC is dispensing with the practise of issuing tickets manually in city buses on an experimental basis
Conductors in some city buses do not feel burdened anymore. They don't carry the tray with bundles of different ticket denominations and instead carry a Ticket Issuing Machine (TIM), which spews out ticket as soon as the destination is punched into it.
The decades-old cumbersome practice of issuing tickets manually is being dispensed with in the city buses on an experimental basis. The RTC has now begun using the TIMs in about 100 city buses in the State capital in different depots.
A massive fleet of 3,600 city buses criss-cross the capital in which nearly 30 lakh tickets are issued every day. The automation of ticket issuing is being welcomed by the conductors as it has obviated the need to carry the bulky tray on which bundles of tickets of different denominations are to be carried. In addition to this, the onerous duty of recording the sale of tickets for every stage in the Statistical ticket Accountable and Record (STAR) document is also dispensed with now.
The job of a conductor is not just collecting the fare and issuing the tickets. He has to report at least 30 minutes before his duty time to collect the tickets which are given in blocks of 100 tickets. Normally, a conductor carries 13 different ticket denominations. When the tray is accepted, he has to check the ticket numbers entered in the computer.
While on the move, the conductor has to enter details of tickets sold in the STAR document and on completing the trips, he has to submit it at the respective depot along with the charges collected. The verification of the unsold tickets and tallying the numbers would take much time.
However, with the TIMs being used now, a conductor is spared of all these burdensome duties. TIM facilitates issue of a single ticket for a group of six passengers and the ticket would have details of the stage where the passenger boarded and the destination too. The rigmarole of filling up of STAR is dispensed with and the TIM once connected to the computer would transfer all the data, says A. Koteswara Rao, ED of RTC greater Hyderabad zone.
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The corporation would also be saving money as it has to spend Rs.15 to print 1,000 tickets. The biggest advantage, however, can be checking the malpractices if any. Sometimes, a few conductors collect the issued tickets and give them to other passengers again.
"This can be controlled totally as TIM issued tickets have date, time, stage, depot name and other details," says Mr. Rao.
The stage-wise data can also help the corporation analyse the passenger flow and occupancy ratio, which could enable the RTC to rationalise the services and plan schedules.
"Earlier it used to be tough to issue tickets and update the ticket sales at every stage in STAR document. TIM make things very easy," says A. Prasad, a conductor in Pushpak service.
Welcoming the move, RTC Employees Union general secretary, K. Padmakar suggested that the RTC ensure quality printing paper in TIMS and also for facilities to charge the TIMs in buses.
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A man named Rahal is to get back behind the wheel of a Formula One car. Graham Rahal, son of ex-F1 driver and former Jaguar team principal Bobby, will demonstrate a BMW Sauber next month when the teams Pit Lane Park attraction lands in Las Vegas, USA.
"It's a great thrill for me to be driving a Formula One car even though it's not on a proper racing circuit," said the 18-year-old American, who will get to blast along a specially-prepared 90-metre straight. "It has been a dream of mine to drive an F1 car and I can't thank BMW enough for giving me this opportunity.
Rahal, whose father made two Formula One starts with Wolf back in 1978, began his single-seater career in 2004 in Formula BMW USA. He led the Toyota Atlantic series in wins and poles in 2006 before graduating to the Champ Car World Series in 2007, becoming the youngest driver ever to claim a podium in the series in only his third race.
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Brandon Morrow worked 6 2/3 strong innings, giving up only one run, to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to a 7-1 win over the New York Yankees in the second of a four-game series at Rogers Centre.
Morrow (6-4) scattered four hits while fanning six and walking only a pair to win his fourth straight decision.
Yunel Escobar went 3-for-4 with a pair of RBI, while Eric Thames smacked a pair of doubles. Edwin Encarnacion, who filled in for the injured Jose Bautista at third base, added an RBI double for the Blue Jays, who extended their winning streak to five games.
Eduardo Nunez knocked in the only Yankee run with a single. Nick Swisher added two hits for the Yankees.
Freddy Garcia (7-7) worked five innings in defeat, giving up six runs -- five earned -- on seven hits while striking out five and walking four.
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Bautista hurt his right ankle in Thursday's 16-7 win when he caught a spike in the turf while sliding into third base. He could return to the lineup on Sunday for the series finale.
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Review of Ilium by Dan Simmons
By Dan Simmons; Narrated by Kevin Pariseau
From the towering heights of Olympos Mons on Mars, the mighty Zeus and his immortal family of gods, goddesses, and demigods look down upon a momentous battle, observing—and often influencing—the legendary exploits of Paris, Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, and the clashing armies of Greece and Troy.Thomas Hockenberry, former 21st-century professor and Iliad scholar, watches as well. It is Hockenberry's duty to observe and report on the Trojan War's progress to the so-called deities who saw fit to return him from the dead. But the muse he serves has a new assignment for the wary scholic, one dictated by Aphrodite herself.With the help of 40th-century technology, Hockenberry is to infiltrate Olympos, spy on its divine inhabitants…and ultimately destroy Aphrodite's sister and rival, the goddess Pallas Athena. On an Earth profoundly changed since the departure of the Post-Humans centuries earlier, the great events on the bloody plains of Ilium serve as mere entertainment.Its scenes of unrivaled heroics and unequaled carnage add excitement to human lives devoid of courage, strife, labor, and purpose. But this eloi-like existence is not enough for Harman, a man in the last year of his last 20. That rarest of post-postmodern men—an 'adventurer'—he intends to explore far beyond the boundaries of his world before his allotted time expires, in search of a lost past, a devastating truth, and an escape from his own inevitable 'final fax.' Meanwhile, from the radiation-swept reaches of Jovian space, four sentient machines race to investigate—and, perhaps, terminate—the potentially catastrophic emissions of unexplained quantum-flux emanating from a mountaintop miles above the terraformed surface of Mars.
If someone were to describe this book to me (if they even could), I don't know if I would believe how much I absolutely enjoyed it. Dan Simmons is a mad genius.
Shakespeare-quoting humanoid robots, Greek Gods, post-humans, and old-style humans somehow make the craziest awesome story imaginable.
Ilium is a story told through essentially three unrelated viewpoints. First, there's Hockenberry. This is told in first person. Hockenberry is called a "Scholic," a human from our the 20th century (our time) who was rebirthed in a future where Homer's Trojan War is being fought. His job is to report on the war … to the Greek Gods.
At first, this is completely confusing. Why? is a question I asked myself over and over, but it begins to make sense with time. Plus, it's hard not to be fascinated with the events of the Iliad. It's also impressive how much research went into it, though that's only an assumption since my knowledge of the Trojan War is essentially from the movie, Troy (but I have read the Odyssey!).
The second viewpoint is the humans, mainly Daemon. Daemon is a self-involved fool who is unlikeable to say the least. But who wouldn't be when you have everything handed to you on a silver platter by robots called servitors (sp – I did listen to the audio so forgive me), like all humans everywhere. Pleasure is their life, knowledge … is lacking.
The third viewpoint is that of a sonnet-loving humanoid robot called a "moravec" and named Mahnmut. Specifically, and only, Shakespeare's sonnets. It's work consists of exploring the moon of Jupiter called Europa. Mahnmut is called in on a mission with a group of moravecs to explore some occurrences on the planet mars.
At first, I was highly entertained, though confused, with the events of the Trojan war and the other parts were just above boring. Slowly, the story takes hold and it had me hook, line, and sinker.
Listening to the audiobook, I was looking forward to my morning and evening drives and not too sad to do errands on my lunch hour either. Somehow, it ALL makes sense even though it sounds like the oddest collection of classics to make up a cohesive story all its own. What does Shakespeare have to do with the Iliad or Proust (his work makes appearances too) for that matter, all set in the future with technology that gives humans everything they ever want or need?
It's crazy I tell ya. Crazy! How did I like this book this much? I'm telling you, Simmons is a mad genius. I will just sit back and let him take me on his journey. It's amazing. I question not.
Kevin Pariseau is the narrator of this audiobook and while at first I thought he over-acted the part of Hockenberry, though somehow not the other parts, I really grew to like him and found out that it was literally just the character of Hockenberry that he was playing. And it's impressive given how many Greek words and names he's got to …erm… name.
The only problem is that Ilium is only half the story. It stops at a huge cliffhanger and I'm already heading to Olympos to see how this ends.
5 out of 5 Stars (Mind … blown)
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Review of Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
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'The writing is humorous, painful, awesome in its effect on both mind and heart…There are few modern novels to match it.' —Rolling Stone
On an arid Mars, local bigwigs compete with Earth-bound interlopers to buy up land before the Un develops it and its value skyrockets. Martian Union leader Arnie Kott has an ace up his sleeve, though: an autistic boy named Manfred who seems to have the ability to see the future. In the hopes of gaining an advantage on a Martian real estate deal, powerful people force Manfred to send them into the future, where they can learn about development plans. But is Manfred sending them to the real future or one colored by his own dark and paranoid filter? As the time travelers are drawn into Manfred's dark worldview in both the future and present, the cost of doing business may drive them all insane.
Martian Time Slip has everything I love about Philip K Dick's writing: artificial life, unsettling visions, chaos and decay, hilarious satire, and story horizons that stretch into eternity.
PKD's Mars is a strange and slightly alien version of 1960s California: a desert suburbia where the powerful waste water to show off their status, neglectful housewives pop pills and complain about their "whiny and dreadful" neighbors, and dodgy door-to-door salesmen offer illegal Earth foods like turtle soup and smoked frogs legs.
Since machines degrade quickly in the dry climate and resources for constructing new things are scarce, repair is a big business on Mars. The story starts when Jack Bohlen, a working-class repairman and latent schizophrenic, is diverted from a remote repair job to help some Bleekmen out in the desert.
Bleekmen are the subjugated natives of Mars, apparently related to ancient humans and the sole residents of the planet for thousands of years until the colonists arrived. Now's they're left to work menial jobs, and even their mystic practices are being "corrected" by the newcomers. For example, after they give Jack a lovely but creepy gift called a water witch, they explain how it works…
More carefully examining the water witch, Jack saw that it had a face and vague limbs. It was mummified, once a living creature of some sort; he made out its drawn-up legs, its ears . . . he shivered. The face was oddly human, a wizened, suffering face, as if it had been killed while crying out.
"How does it work?" he asked the young Bleekman.
"Formerly, when one wanted water, one pissed on the water witch, and she came to life. Now we do not do that, Mister; we have learned from you Misters that to piss is wrong. So we spit on her instead, and she hears that, too, almost as well. It wakes her, and she opens and looks around, and then she opens her mouth and calls the water to her."
While on this mission, Jack runs into Supreme Goodmember Arnie Cott, the leader of the Water Works Union (one of the most powerful positions on Mars). Arnie is an obnoxious, manipulative, and racist schemer. He decides he can use Jack and so brings him in on one of his schemes to harness the precog abilities of an autistic boy, thus giving Arnie an advantage in real estate investment.
However, once he brings the autistic boy Manfred Steiner and Jack together, things start to gets very, very weird (in the best kind of way).
Originally, I was almost going to give this book a low rating, thinking it might be the first PKD book I've read that I didn't really like. I kept going back to the audiobook and thinking I'd re-started in the wrong place, or that I'd zoned out and missed something the last time. It wasn't until I decided to try a print version that I realized the reason I was losing my way was a side-effect of the novel's beautiful and crazy structure, which spirals around and folds back in on itself.
Once I had a handle on this, I fell in love with it. This novel doesn't reward broken up or distracted reading, but if you can give it dedicated attention, it's brilliant.
I thought the audiobook I listened to, narrated by Jeff Cummings for Brilliance Audio, was well performed and the characters were easily differentiated, even though personally the narrative style wasn't for me. In my mind, I tend to hear PKD's characters as sort of dry and indifferent, so some of the characters in this version seemed too enthusiastic for my taste. But this is a very subjective thing and I imagine this reading would work well for lots of listeners. Just check out the sample audio before you buy.
This is a funny, eerie, and unforgettable story and definitely recommended, especially for PKD fans!
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The SFFaudio Podcast #291 – READALONG: Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
The SFFaudio Podcast #291 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, and Marissa van Uden talk about Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick.
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Dick), Aristotle, Abraham Lincoln, Julius, Winston Churchill, Tiberius, Thomas Edison, warfare, history, a million neat ideas, Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great, schizophrenia and autism, experiencing time at a different rate, derangement in a sense of time, A.D.D. and A.D.H.D., Camp BG, setting your watch by the stars and by the seasons, schizophrenia as a tendency but not a disability, daylight savings time, recipe for going to jail: act as if daylight savings isn't real, its what the novel is about, the Soviets, an American Mars, a Bradburyian Mars, Martians as elves, the Bleekmen, water witch, hunter/gatherers nomadic culture, the "tame" Bleekman, the dream-quest is payback, a "pilg" (pilgrimage), Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny, the trek through the desert, Tibor, Psychology Today, "oh, boy!", thiotimoline, reconciling realities, "gubble gubble", sharped tongued secretary, bicycles in outer space, she's the predator, he's the predator, Arnie and Manfred, sniffing around Doreen, they're from the "TOMB WORLD", Silvia is the most common female character name PKD uses, an analogy (or metaphor) for marriage, uppers and downers, drugs and coffee, back to the keyboard, Dr. Glaub is desperate to make some money, Dick's own financial concerns, Anne, webbed fingers, inside the minds of horrible people, the dialogue driven sex scene is kinda creepy, why is she with this guy?, access to all the booze, why does Jack go back to his wife?, the perfunctory affairs are unbelievable, unredeemable, somehow it seems to all work, the Swiss rocket, Bleekmen are homo-sapiens, the S.M. Stirling Lords Of Creation novels, Mars as California, Australian aborigines, "dreamlines dreamsongs and dreamtime", Ludwig Binswanger, psychiatry, psychology, Ellen had split her life, the "tomb world"," degenerate and degenerating", being trapped in your own body, "a narrowing a contracting", gubble as a marker, Being John Malkovich, "Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich!", our bodies with their low needs distract them from our purposes (if we have any), oblivious to suffering, depression, it's all brain chemistry, anorexia, obsession with death, Mafred's "sick" drawing, Amweb as the "tomb world", the Manfred illustration, the nightmare woman, "her tongue wants to cut", seeing into the future is seeing death, awesome imagery, a recurring image, The Minority Report, armless and legless (limbless characters), the movie adaptation of A Scanner Darkly, dialogue driven storytelling, what are they reacting to?, mental processes, "it was there to be found", Virgil Finlay, reading it harder, a post apocalyptic zombie novel, building up a picture, open to being expanded, PKD is concise, most books aren't dialogue driven, creative writing classes, showing off descriptive skills, novels vs. poetry, is J.R.R. Tolkien responsible for this?, a reverence for the landscape, what color is the dust?, visuals are everything has colonized Science Fiction and Fantasy in the last 30 years, eating meals and walking the landscape, this book isn't a distraction from life, a meta-description of life, what makes this a SF story?, "the chamber", the technology is your mind and your brain, even Mars isn't very different, mars rats, what do the bleekmen hunt?, water witches!, does the water witch protect Jack?, the pistol, the real SF idea behind this is PKD is trying top figure out what déjà vu is, the "I know what is going to happen next" feeling, we are very poor at capitalizing on our future knowledge, the slipped gear, "Oh, little Jackie.", Philip K. Dick's science fiction is Psychology Today, an ansible, this problem in science and the social situation between these characters, lying in bed in a hypnagogic state, doing dream style processing of mental white noise in a semi-conscious state, "all different all equally true", different angles, the broken mosaic, the fact that these books are dated doesn't age the books, the Brilliance Audio audiobook narrated by Jeff Cummings, Grover Gardner (Tom Parker) narration of Martian Time-Slip, the bicycles floating into space, a horrible human being (he wastes water), Heliogabalus -> Helio (sun -> son) will Gabalus (gubble) less, Elagabalus, the religion of the Roman Empire, a scene, W.A. Mozart, "I love Mozart!", Bruno Walter conducting, that hideous racket, encoding messages, Manfred Steiner, is this the sign?, they emerged from her pores, whoever's perspective we see the scene from they all enter the "tomb world", "teeming with gubbish", "he wanted to bite her lip", the pivot point, screeches, the screech of the bus, music, what do dogs think of music?, what do autistic people think of music?, trance music, a Dickian idea, music and sound, the bus brakes screech, "fire!", bears at the zoo cavorting for peanuts, the suicide, "more evidence that Arnie is a horrible human being", we just need a little bit of hope, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, Galactic Pot-Healer, Fair Game by Philip K. Dick, The World Jones Made, there are 36 public domain Philip K. Dick stories, Time Out Of Joint (is Paul's favourite Dick novel), a constructed town,
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Eric S. Rabkin talking about Mars
Professor Eric S. Rabkin talking about Mars.
Saturday Morning Physics – March 25, 2006.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #264 – READALONG: The Martian by Andy Weir
The SFFaudio Podcast #264 – Jesse, Jenny, Tam, Julie, Bryan, and Mike discuss The Martian by Andy Weir.
Talked about in this episode:
Dust on Mars is too thin to allow for sandstorms; terpkristin says NASA would never build a faulty antenna; and we finally introduce the book; is The Martian science fiction?; the one-way Mars mission Mars One; reminiscent of Heinlein's Farmer in the Sky; Mike tracks Watney's journey through Google Mars; why NASA picks boring locations to land their first missions; Andy Weir on Science Friday; the most far-fetched element of the book is its lack of budgetary concerns; Bradley Cooper in the film adaptation?; The Martian and Gravity have depressing implications; the novel's (Heinleinian?) lack of character development; Mark Watney is in "full on Macgeyver mode"; most pilots are boring; many LOLs in the book; Andy Weir's webcomic Casey and Andy; strong language in the novel; stoichiometry; feasibility of plot points; engineer-as-hero motif pitted against bureaucracy; Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum; Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe; Robinson Crusoe on Mars starring Adam West; The Makeshift Rocket by Poul Anderson, a spaceship powered by beer; From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and First Man on the Moon by H.G. Wells; Robinsoniad; Thunder and Lightning series by John Varley; Rocket Ship Galileo by Heinlein, featuring Nazis on the Moon!; the United States falling behind in the Space Race; Stephen Hawking on the dangers of artificial intelligence; Mars Attacks!; the novel's lack of Earth focus makes it literally escapist; Heinlein's prophetic Destination Moon; send more potatoes to space; pop culture references; "I'm a space pirate."; The Case for Mars by Bob Zubrin, a non-fiction proposal for reaching the Red Planet; Red Mars and other Kim Stanley Robinson novels; Marooned starring Gregory Peck; Gravity; Apollo 18, a found-footage horror film; Falling Skies; Bruce Campbell and Martin Koenig in Moontrap; Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs; A Walk in the Sun by Geoffrey Landis; Transit of Earth by Arthur C. Clarke bears a strong resemblance to The Martian; new party game: "You an astronaut on Mars. What's the last music you listen to before you die?"; We Who Are About To by Joanna Russ; hope in fantasy and science fiction; Jesse hopes they don't make a sequel; locked-room scenarios; Portal; would Earth really expend so many resources to save a single human being?; Ascent by Jed Mercurio; T-Minus: The Race to the Moon; Limit by Frank Schätzing; Planetes; The Souther Reach by Jeff VanderMeer for more botanist action; The Apollo Quartet by Ian Sales; Voyage by Stephen Baxter, dramatized by BBC Radio.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Review of The Martian by Andy Weir
The Martian
By Andy Weir; Narrated by R. C. Bray
Publisher: Podium Publishing (on Audible)
Publication Date: March 2013
[UNABRIDGED] – 10 hours, 28 minutes
Themes: / Mars / NASA / survival /
Publisher summary:
I'm pretty much f**ked.
That's my considered opinion.
Six days into what should be the greatest two months of my life, and it's turned into a nightmare. I don't even know who'll read this. I guess someone will find it eventually. Maybe 100 years from now. For the record… I didn't die on Sol 6. Certainly the rest of the crew thought I did, and I can't blame them. Maybe there'll be a day of national mourning for me, and my Wikipedia page will say "Mark Watney is the only human being to have died on Mars." And it'll be right, probably. Cause I'll surely die here. Just not on Sol 6 when everyone thinks I did. Let's see…where do I begin?
This book should be subtitled: Keep It Together. Work the Problem.
Astronaut Mark Watney is marooned on Mars after a freak dust storm literally blows him away from his crewmates. Thinking he's dead, the mission is scrubbed and the rest of the crew head back to Earth. Mark hopes to survive until the next NASA mission to Mars in four years.
Most of The Martian consists of Mark's log entries which read like a MacGyver episode. He keeps as lighthearted a mood as possible while recording the details of how he is attempting to grow food, find water, and so forth. It is this lighthearted element which helps keep this from being merely a manual of "how to survive on Mars." For example, Mark's selection of entertainment from among the things left behind by his crewmates yields the complete series for Three's Company. His occasional comments on the series afterwards made me laugh out loud.
Fairly early in the book, NASA's side of the story begins being interwoven with Mark's struggle for survival. Since Apollo 13 is one of my favorite movies, the comparison is inevitable and irresistible. NASA must juggle PR, competing agencies, rescue plans and more … while we see Mark doggedly surmount one obstacle after another. It is a welcome element because an entire book of Mark's survival log was going to need some sort of additional depth to make it interesting.
Although I always felt fairly sure that Mark would survive, as the end of the book loomed near I got increasingly tense. What if these were his "found posthumously" logs? The author kept the tension up to the very end.
And at the end? I'm not ashamed to admit it. I cried.
Tears of joy? Tears of sorrow? Read the book and find out.
Or listen to it as I did. Narrator R.C. Bray did a good job of conveying Mark's sense of humor and absorption in problem solving and survival. He also was good at the various accents of the international cast comprising the rest of the crew and NASA. He had a tendency to read straight storytelling as if it were a computer manual or something else that just needed a brisk run down.
The main thing a bit at fault was Bray's German accent, which I kept mistaking for a Mexican or Indian accent. Those don't seem as if they should be that interchangeable do they? My point exactly. However, I always knew who was speaking, I felt emotions as they came across, and it was a good enough narrating job. Not enough to make me look for other books in order to hear his narrations, but good enough.
This novel is not a short story and I felt it would have benefitted from more characterization. Yes, we get to know Mark Watney and, to a lesser degree, his crewmates and the NASA crew. However, to hear Mark's story for so many days (sols) and get to know so little about him during that time … well, after a while it got a little boring, aside from the new problems to be solved or emergencies from which to recover.
We also got occasional forays into NASA and the spaceship crew, but more about Mark would have enriched the story. It didn't have to be soul-baring and I realize he was writing a log, but after several hundred days some personalization would have crept in, one would think.
Anyway, that is not a huge factor because I enjoyed the story. But I was not surprised to see that the author is a computer programmer and it did cost the book a star.
Posted by Julie D.


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So I'm trying to port the camera app from the Arc to our Play.
Looks like we will need to modify the libs, as the camera installs flawless but gives errors on start "No camera found".
Only tried the Arc app, as I didnt get my hands on the Neo dump yet.
Here the zip with (i hope) all libs and the apk itself.
Attempt #1
Copy & Paste all camara related libs from the arc to the play
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By: dinnerdiva on May 17, 2005 - 11:19am - Add new comment
I am so happy with Bluffton Elementary. Last night was the Spring Arts Festival for the Elementary School and was held at the high school. The kids did a GREAT job due to the great guidance of Mrs. Sturgis and Mrs. Hoadley. We were so impressed by the professionalism that has exhibited by many of the students on the stage.
I also have an incoming Kindergartener and attended Kindergarten Orientation at the school on Friday. I was so impressed by all of the things that are going on at the school that I didn't even know about. Mrs.
By: dinnerdiva on May 21, 2005 - 6:50pm - Add new comment
The thing that our family loves to do together is going out to dinner. I decided to change my blog entries to sort of reviewing the places that we have tried here in Bluffton. I also love to cook and love to share food and recipes with people. I have 3 kids and we take them everywhere. So therefore there will be lots of kid friendly tips.
Mi Tiera was where we went tonight. It is located just west of Habitat for Humanity in the Mellichamp Center. We are from the West and have been waiting for the day that we found good Mexican Food again. We sure found it tonight.
By: dinnerdiva on May 24, 2005 - 3:32pm - Add new comment
Last night we visited an old favorite of our family's. Guiseppi's Pizza in Bluffton. When we were moving here, we stayed at the Holiday Inn Express for a couple of weeks and ate at Guiseppi's a few times. We fell in love with the pizza. It is our favorite.
Last night I went on a limb and had the Original Weggie. It was really yummy. It reminded me of our favorite Pizza place in college, the Pizza Factory in Cedar City, Utah. Fresh baked pizza dough and lots of ham and pepperoni and cheese and the coolness of the lettuce and tomatoes. It was great.
By: dinnerdiva on June 3, 2005 - 11:13pm - Add new comment
Someone else made a comment on another thread, I thought I would make a post about this. I am also looking for a babysitter. I live in the Farm and have been here for several months. I have 3 great kids. I even usually buy pizza for babysitters for dinner. I just want to be able to leave my kids with someone I trust for a few hours to go see Star Wars or try a couple of the grown up restaurants here and in Savannah. If you are interested in meeting me and my kids to see if babysitting is going to work out, email me at firstname.lastname@example.com or post a comment to this blog.
By: dinnerdiva on June 6, 2005 - 1:55pm - Add new comment
I have had quite a few responses from moms and babysitters about getting in touch with each other. I decided to start a Yahoo Group so that I could get everyone in touch with each other in a less public format. It is a private group which means that it is not available to search for. Membership requires approval. There is a database started with information about moms and babysitters.
If you are interested in joining, just click on the link below. Thanks.
By: dinnerdiva on June 16, 2005 - 10:26am - Add new comment
I know this is not the usual restaurant to review but I have too.
Yesterday I was stocking up at Super Walmart. And had all 3 kids with me. After (forever according to my 7 year old son) about an hour or so we were all starving and it was lunch time. I decided to take them to try out the new Blimpie that was put inside the Walmart.
Not only was it VERY clean in there but they were very quick in getting our order (4 sandwiches) and the food was great. The people were so friendly and there was the nicest man that was cleaning up behind all of the patrons.
By: dinnerdiva on June 16, 2005 - 10:31am - Add new comment
I also have to put a little plug in for the big Yard Sale that is happening in the Farm this weekend. I am getting stuff ready today for it. I have a deep freeze that I will have for sale. As well as a ton of toys and clothes and high chair and swing. I have barstools that are nearly new and a lawnmower that just needs TLC to get it working again.
We are on a corner as you come West from the silo.
I know there are many families getting ready for the Yard Sale. Come to the Farm this weekend.
By: dinnerdiva on June 19, 2005 - 1:40pm - Add new comment
Shame on all of you for not mentioning Sigler's for "Where to go for dinner?"
We left the kids and went in there last night. I loved the atmosphere of the restaurant. It was just enough intimate to be good date material but just enough eclectic to be non-stuffy. And I have to say that the food was the best I have had in recent memory. Both of us had the Rotisserie Prime Rib. We ordered the Fried Tomato Appetizer. It was so good that it was heaven. I have never had better Prime Rib. It was like experiencing it for the first time. It just melted.
By: dinnerdiva on July 5, 2005 - 7:17pm - Add new comment
Just a little heads up to all of you parents who are enbarking on the school supply hunts this week.
Go to Staples. They have everything and they have it on sale right now and not 3 weeks after year round school starts.
They have everything from the crayons ($.49 for 24 pack) to the red, yellow, green and blue folders ($.10) and wide ruled paper for $.50 a ream.
Hope this will save someone else from doing the Walmart, Target run around.
6 days and counting. (sigh, I have a kindergartener this year)
By: dinnerdiva on July 8, 2005 - 11:35am - Add new comment
I am sure that there are others out there that are facing the big rite of passage that I face this week.... Sending my child to Kindergarten.
I am surprised at how sad I have become. She is an older Kindergartener and we are really close. She is my second child and she has been so anxious to go to school that we have had a paper chain in the kitchen since after Christmas break when she mistook the break for time for her to start.
So for 121 days we have been looking forward to the day when she can go to school with other kids and I can be home with only my 2 year old.


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Self-service: more than just pumping gas
Has your car lost a good friend - the service-station man who used to fill the gas tank, check the oil, and wash the windshield? A good worker also would keep the battery from going dry, show you where the fan belt was cracked and worn, and tell you if the water hose was about to let go. He'd even cast an eye at the tires and add air if he thought it was required.
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I once took my car to a trusted mechanic for an oil change and some other minor work. About a month later, the low-oil light suddenly came on, and I discovered that the car was almost out of oil. The mechanic had done the other work but had forgotten the oil change.
Also, be sure to check those bills. Ask questions. If I had checked the bill, I would have seen that an oil change was not listed.
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Remember that it is important to see that it's done. Running out of fuel isn't half as serious a problem as running out of oil.
If you have an older car, check the radiator water sometimes before you start up; in other words, before the water gets hot. Take a look at the water hose. If the hose is cracked and worn, have it replaced. It is disconcerting to have a cloud of steam suddenly erupt from under the hood.
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Salt Lake Bees: Opening Day postponed following Adenhart death
It was supposed to be opening night at newly dubbed Spring Mobile Ballpark. The Salt Lake Bees and Reno Aces were scheduled to open the Pacific Coast League season at the stadium on Thursday night.
That all changed, however, when word reached Utah that former Bees pitcher Nick Adenhart had died from injuries suffered in an automobile collision early Thursday morning. The 22-year-old was a passenger in a car that
was hit by a van — reportedly driven by a drunken driver — that ran a red light in a Fullerton, Calif., intersection.
Two passengers died at the scene. Adenhart passed away during surgery at the UCI Medical Center in Orange on Thursday morning.
Hour earlier, he had thrown six shutout innings as a starter for the Los Angeles Angels against the Oakland Athletics.
"It's a sad day for the Bees and the Angels organization, very tragic," said Salt Lake manager Bobby Mitchell. "We're all, obviously, saddened by the loss of not only a great pitcher but a great person. We're all going to
miss him terribly.
"And I think it's fair to say that our team, here, will miss him more than anybody because he had a lot of friends on our team that have come up with him through the organization and were very close to him," he continued.
Adenhart spent most of the 2008 season pitching for Salt Lake. His unexpected death prompted both the Angels and Bees to postpone their games Thursday.
"It was really apparent that nobody was ready to play and, given the set of circumstances, it was just the right thing to do and not a difficult decision," said Bees general manager Marc Amicone, who noted that all parties involved were supportive of the action.
"This is a lot more important than a baseball game. I hope and believe our fans will understand this decision and will come back this weekend, the opening weekend, and help show their support of Nick," he continued. "This
is not just about the Salt Lake Bees or the Los Angeles Angels. This is about Nick and his teammates. We need to support these guys. It was the right thing not to play tonight."
Mitchell explained that the decision was made out of respect to Adenhart.
"It would have been very difficult to go out and play a game tonight with this on (the team's) mind," he said. "Opening Day is supposed to be a fun time and it kind of turned into something very difficult for everybody. I
think we did the right thing from an organizational standpoint."
The Bees plan to honor Adenhart with a moment of silence before tonight's season-opener. His Salt Lake jersey No. 32 will be placed on the team's uniforms and a locker in the clubhouse will be set aside in Adenhart's memory. In addition, the American flag at the stadium will fly at half-mast throughout the opening series.
"I think that will help everybody," said Mitchell. "He's not going to be forgotten, ever. But this, hopefully, will help people move on a little bit."
Adenhart worked his way up the majors after blowing out his elbow as a high school senior. The injury, which dropped him from a projected first-round draft pick to the 14th round, was so severe that it required Tommy John reconstructive surgery.
Following minor league stints in Orem, Cedar Rapids, Rancho Cucamonga and Arkansas, the 2003 Baseball America Youth Player of the Year reached the Triple-A level as a 21-year-old.
Adenhart's promotion to Salt Lake last season put him just one step away from his dream of playing in the majors.
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[Seashell Resort Koh Tao ]
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Seashell Resort Koh Tao
9/1 Sairee Beach, Koh Tao
Suratthani 84360
Koh Tao, Sairee Beach
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Seashell Resort Koh Tao offers a tropical getaway directly along Sairee Beach. An on-site diving centre, free Wi-Fi, as well as 3 outdoor pools, can be enjoyed at the resort. Featuring traditional Thai decor with Balinese influences, air-conditioned rooms are equipped with a TV, fridge and minibar. En suite bathrooms come with towels and hot water showers. Seashell Resort Koh Tao is less than 2.3 km from Mae Haad, Jansom Bay and Sai Nuan Beach. .The resort is styled around a garden landscaped and swimming pool, with PADI dive center and a spa area. An additional bar and modern restaurant is located on the beach serve Thai Food ,European Food and Seafood just opposite the lobby.
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Date of stay:
Jun 24, 2014
Accommodation and facilities:
Little worn down but ok place, but front pool was not very clean and was very green.
Reservation service:
Easy, good Price compared to other booking services
Jul 04, 2014
written by:
Einar Viken
Date of stay:
May 24, 2014
Accommodation and facilities:
fantastic location. big clean rooms and the seashell diving centre had the best staff on the island. absolutely recommend this place to stay.
Reservation service:
easy to book. but I would have liked to have had the option to paid up the whole payment instead of just a deposit.
May 27, 2014
written by:
linda thomas
Date of stay:
Apr 09, 2014
Accommodation and facilities:
Very good hotel, but incredibly poor service
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Apr 23, 2014
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Erik Lindloekken
Date of stay:
Jan 04, 2014
Accommodation and facilities:
Great location and very friendly staff. Beach narrow in front of the hotel but gets better a few steps further. Room was great (Family de luxe garden view). Pool OK but poolside toilets and showers of poor quality. A lot of constructions going on in the hotel area which can be a little disturbing from time to time. Restaurant was nice, breakfast nothing fancy but quite OK. Overall a pleasant stay.
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Booked originally another hotel via Sawasdee -after payment the hotel price was suddenly elevated which was very annoying! Got this hotel instead and this time the booking turned out OK.
Jan 10, 2014
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Wuite Harry
Date of stay:
Nov 22, 2013
Accommodation and facilities:
Проживал в отеле с 20.11.13 по 22.11.13 в номере Beachside Pool Access (room 305). Отель не более чем на 1-2 ночи. Прекрасный вид на забор, отсутствие заявленного wi-fi в номере, питание в ресторане - ужас любого критика) и очень удобная парковка лодок в 5-ти метрах от берега.
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Nov 26, 2013
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Stanislav Yudin
Date of stay:
Nov 11, 2013
Accommodation and facilities:
Grundsätzlich ist der Service des Personals gut bis sehr gut. Ansonsten für das gebotene zu teuer. Es gibt günstigeres mit gleichem Standart, insbesondere wenn man bedenkt das das Zimmer (bei uns, vorne am Strand mit Privatpool )schon recht abgewohnt war, Flecken an den Wänden, schmiere von Seifenscchaum in den Ecken der Dusche, Schimmel und Seifengammel am Duschvorhang... Bin eigentlich nicht kleinlich, erwarte aber in diesem Preissegment etwas anderes und nicht unteren Travellerstandard. das Frühstück war insgesammt gesehen ein Scherz bestehend aus Eiern in unterschiedlicher Form, kalte Pancackes und French Toast, nicht ganz reifes Obst, den Toast nicht zu vergessen. Empfand es sehr Lieb- und Fantasielos...
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Nov 17, 2013
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Georg Blau
Date of stay:
Oct 26, 2013
Accommodation and facilities:
hotel wird von tauchern besucht, somit ist der grosse gemeinschaftspool viel besetzt mit lernenden! wir hatten ein pool acces zimmer gebucht mit eigenem pool!! war herrlich, es gibt dort nur 4 zimmer mit direktem poolzugang. die zimmer sehr schön mit wasserkocher und toilettenartikel ausgestattet. sie sind 20 meter vom meer entfernt. würde dieses zimmer wieder buchen.
Reservation service:
perfect as always
Oct 29, 2013
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Oct 03, 2012
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Oct 05, 2012
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wang zhongzhao
Date of stay:
Sep 21, 2012
Accommodation and facilities:
Hotel location good breakfast and restaurant overlooking the sea. Existing and Thai smile.Good hotel services, booked a cruise from the hotel were fantastic.night market very good and a beautiful beach but boats pollute the sea and you must walk a distance to swim.There are no water to shower after swimming in the sea. There are no funds for trash.So tourists put their garbage on the coast and this is something uncivilized.
Reservation service:
sawadee very good
Oct 14, 2012
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Ebrahim Alnajran
Date of stay:
May 10, 2012
Accommodation and facilities:
l hotel a 3 categories de chambres du plus roots à plus luxe ( piscine privee) bel emplacement le personnel est nul et peu accueillant mais c est pas grave j avais une chambre de luxe , spacieuse et agreable petit dejeuner tres correct servi en bord de mer piscine et jaccuzi sympa et centre SPA top
Reservation service:
very very good , easy
May 14, 2012
written by:
Levy Berry
Date of stay:
May 06, 2012
Accommodation and facilities:
Free pick-up from and return to the pier. Location is very good, near shops, bars, restaurants but quiet enough. The gardens look a bit sloppy, although staff is constantly trying to keep up. The pool is not very clean, apart from one pool that is only for diving instructions (no access for normal swimmers). Staff is friendly.
Reservation service:
Very good service
May 09, 2012
written by:
Paul Graff
Date of stay:
Feb 12, 2012
Accommodation and facilities:
It was inpossible to swim in the pool becaurse it was so dirty. The breakfast where not so good. the rooms were exellent and for a good price.
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Feb 23, 2012
written by:
Marielle Karlsson
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Seashell Resort...
The most beautiful sunset beach resort on Koh Tao.
Seashell Resort Koh Tao is centrally located in the popular resort area, within easy walk to markets, shops, beach bar, restaurants and Sairee famous beach. The resort is styled around a garden landscaped and swimming pool with PADI dive center and a spa area. An additional bar and modern restaurant is located on the beach serve Thai Food, European Food and Seafood just opposite the lobby.
:: Superior Garden View (Twin or Double) ::
All of rooms are set in garden view. There are nine of these terraced, brick built apartments. Each with air-conditioning.
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Concrete contemporary style with front terrace
Air conditioning
Mini bar
Satellite TV
Hot & cold shower
Modern furnishing
80 - 100 m. distance from the beach
:: Deluxe Garden View (Twin or Double) ::
:: Deluxe Family Garden - 4 Units ::
A boutique style resort hotel all of rooms are set in landscaped gardens. There are twenty of these with concrete contemporary Thai design full furniture, front terrace or balcony, adjoining rooms ideal for friends of families traveling together.
Room Amenities
Air conditioning
Mini bar
Satellite TV
Hot & cold shower
Modern furnishing
50 - 70m. distance from the beach
:: Poolside Villa (Twin or Double) ::
Our ultimate nit consists of two bedroom connecting door and open balcony. The villas close to swimming pool and right next to the beautiful Sairee beach with traditional Thai design villa and tropical gardens landscape.
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Air conditioning
Mini bar
Satellite TV
Hot & cold shower
Modern furnishing
25 - 50m.distance from the beach
:: Deluxe Ocean View - 4 Units ::
All room are set in landscape sea view. There are four of these on second floor with concrete contemporary Thai design full furniture front balcony and pool view.
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Pool view
Air conditioning
Mini bar
Satellite TV
Hot & cold shower
Modern furnishing
0 - 20 m. distance from the beach
:: Beach Side Pool Access ::
All room are set in landscape sea view. There are five of these on first floor with concrete contemporary Thai design full furniture front balcony pool access directly.
Room Amenities
Air conditioning
Mini bar
Satellite TV
Hot & cold shower
Modern furnishing
Pool access & sea view
:: Family Room Private Pool - 1 Unit ::
:: All Room Amenities ::
Air condition
Balcony / terrace
Hot & cold shower
Complimentary 2 bottle of water
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Satellite / cable TV
:: Hotel Services & Facilities ::
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Jacuzzi / swimming pool
Children pool
Beach front restaurant (Thai / Western cuisine)
Safety deposit box
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Seashell divers - scuba diving is a safety & exciting
Seashell Resort Koh Tao is located in Sairee Beach.
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The Lafayette High School baseball team moved one step closer to locking up a playoff spot with a pair of wins against Rosa Fort on Tuesday evening. The Commodores (10-10 overall, 5-3 Region 2-4A) knocked off the Lions 15-0 and 12-0 in two run-ruled shortened games at W.V. Brewer Field. (April 11, 2012, Page 9)
Whole lotta Alabama Shakes going on
OXFORD TOWN – There was so much to say about the Alabama Shakes that there was no way that we were going to fit it all in Oxford Town this week (No. 972) — from the instant downloads of live tracks available when you pre-order the "Boys & Girls" CD to the bonus 7" album that includes the tracks "Heavy Chevy" and "Pocket Change/Mama" when you pre-order your vinyl copy to the band's television debut on "Conan."
(more…) (March 29, 2012)
Murphree, Stanley 'lift up' LHS in win
It took 13 games for the Lafayette High School baseball team to record its first home run of the 2012 season, proving the old adage of good things come to those who wait.
John Murphree broke a 2-2 tie in the fourth inning when he belted an offering from New Albany pitcher Ben Foster over the left field fence for a two-run home run to put the 'Dores ahead 4-2 in what would turn out to be a 7-2 win over the Division 2-4A rival Bulldogs at W.V. Brewer Field on Friday night. (more…) (March 26, 2012, Page 7)
'You'll understand when you get older'
Assistant News Editor Jeff Eubanks admits it – he can't, or doesn't want to, do some of the things he once did. It's a sign of "getting older," he writes, as he recalls some wise words from his father from not that long ago. (March 22, 2012, Page 4)


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On a recent visit to Tokyo, I picked up a copy of Kengo Kuma's new book entitled, Studies in Organic, published by Toto. Kuma's work has been of special interest to me, given the depth and breadth of his experimentation with unconventional material applications. For this reason, he is one of the subjects of my upcoming book, Matter in the Floating World, which attempts to uncover the creative processes that inspire such applications.Studies in Organic is essentially a monograph compiled by Kuma's office—an intimately-scaled, delicate, and highly-accessible tome designed by Hideki Nakajima, which contrasts nicely with the coffee table Kuma monographs compiled by others. Kuma's introductory essay alone is worth the price of the book, as it highlights his recent shift in focus from "erasing architecture" to "organic architecture."Although Kuma's fascination with dematerialization and so-called light "particles" continue to inspire his work, his projects have assumed greater formal complexity in recent years—representing a notable departure from the geometric minimalism of projects like the Hiroshige Ando Museum. He credits the increasingly global territory of his work with this transformation, acknowledging the pressures to give greater visual presence to projects entered into international design competitions.Kuma's competent foray in formal and structural biomimicry reinforces the strong contemporary movement in Japanese design led by architects Toyo Ito and Makoto Sei Watanabe and artist Tokujin Yoshioka. Despite Kuma's claim that architecture should not assume the aesthetics of organisms—and his critique of the 1960's-era Metabolism movement in Japan—Studies in Organic provides validation of the growing interest in biomimetic architecture in Japan.
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The German Book Office (GBO) New York, Inc. was founded in 1998
as a non-profit organization and is one of four international Frankfurt Book Fair offices with a cultural mission. Operating out of the Goethe-Institut New York, we connect American editors with German rights directors, editors, translators, and readers through our annual Editors' Trip. We also act as an intermediary for German translation rights within the publishing community through publications including New Books in German and the GBO Rights Lists. We spearhead the Festival Neue Literatur planning committee, organize selected literary events and workshops, send out Book of the Month Picks, showcase German books at the American book fair BookExpo America, and are an active part of the American publishing community. The GBO is co-funded by the German Foreign Office on a by-project basis.
The GBO promotes German-language books that have been translated into English, but is not an agency or a publishing house.
As the New York office of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the GBO promotes Frankfurt Book Fair activities in the US such as the Fellowship Program and the annual Rights Directors Meeting. We organize an annual Guest of Honor preview event prior to the Frankfurt Book Fair and Riky Stock, the Director of the GBO, runs the Literary Agent and Scouts Centre at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Three Young Translators Awarded in First Nonfiction Translation Competition
The winners of the first nonfiction translation competition from Geisteswissenschaften International and the German Book Office New York have been announced.
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Actress Emma Roberts seen dressed like a cute kitty cat as she hits a Halloween party at Hollywood Forever Cemetery last night(October 31st). Emma was seen with a masked companion (Evan Peters?) wearing the famous mask from the "Scream" movies, which Emma stars in the fourth film! Check out the photos below!
Emma attended Wantful: Art of Giving Los Angeles at The Eveleigh on October 29, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. Check out photos below! Also check out additions to the shopping in Beverly Hills yesterday in the update below!
EDIT: Check out candids of Emma shopping at the new Rag & Bone and Barney's New York in LA today(October 30th)!
Emma was spotted shopping in Beverly Hills today (October 29th). Check out the candids below!
Emma Roberts attends the Opening of LA rag & bone Flagship store on October 26, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. Check out MQ and HQs below plus leaving the event below! Also Emma along with Evan Peters was spotted leaving a Halloween party in Beverly Hills, she went as her Aunts famous "Pretty Woman" role. Check out the photos below!
Emma Roberts goes Halloween costume shopping with her boyfriend Evan Peters in Hollywood, CA on October 26, 2012. Check out the photos below!


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Russia sees no chance of Assad stepping down
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Russia acknowledged on Saturday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will not be persuaded to quit but insisted there is still a chance of finding a political solution to the 21-month conflict.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrives for talks with peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi in Moscow on December 29, 2012. Russia acknowledged that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad would not be persuaded to leave power, but nonetheless insisted there was still a chance of finding a political solution to the Syrian conflict.
International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi warned Syria was facing a choice between "hell or the political process" after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on his end-of-year bid to accelerate moves to halt a conflict that monitors say has now killed more than 45,000 people.
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text: A lot was going on in Monaco on Friday the 12th. World Motor Sport Council was busy rubber stamping the cost saving measures, the winners of 2008 championships were busy collecting their trophies. Here are few photos from 2008 FIA Prize Giving Gala. I think Hamilton is wearing exactly the same outfit he had on when I bumped into him in the hotel lift in Monaco in 2007 :


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Duluth police search for rubber ball fetish burglar
A Duluth man with a history of burglary to satisfy a self-professed sexual fetish for slashing large rubber exercise balls has been at it again, according to a complaint made public on Thursday.
Christopher Neil Bjerkness, 31, is accused of breaking into the St. Mary's/Duluth Clinic West building at 4212 Grand Ave., where he allegedly slashed exercise balls, apparently with a sharp knife.
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