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the longer version of a frock from this family on Malin Akerman at the Oscars. I can't decide which version works better for me, but I might give the nod to Kendrick because I didn't like the shoulder part on Malin's, but then again, I have been knee-deep in Akerman hoopla this Fug Madness so it might be my fatigue talking.
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Vanity Fair Oscar Party: Who Fabbed It More, Amy Poehler or Patricia Clarkson
These two both killed it this year, in similar enough patterns that I've decided to be heinously cruel about it and make you choose.
Let's start with Patricia Clarkson:
This is so good. SO good. The pattern is fabulous. It's a combination of gleaming marine life and fireflies at night. It makes me want to go camping. Which is how I know I need to stop looking at it, because I am not a camper of any stripe, unless there are bathrooms and also beds and tents that are more like cabins, and electricity. So, I'm a hoteler.
Anyway. From that fabulousness to this one:
A bracelet — and a gorgeous one — is a check in the Poehler column. As is the fact that she looks better here, I think, than she's ever looked, with the exception of the Globes. Actually, I give this more credence than the Globes because there is actually less pressure on this, and that's often when people get sloppy, but instead she's in a Peter Som gown that's unusual and flattering and graceful, still formal but not constrictingly so. Whether you vote based on gowns alone, or past performances weighed against current success… that's up to you. Consider this choice a warm-up for Fug Madness in two weeks.
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Oscars WTF: Whoopi Goldberg
When we saw Whoopi wearing this, we assumed it was the beginning of some elaborate joke about Julia Roberts's outfit from the Globes:
And then NO JOKE MATERIALIZED. Friends, I am confused. For one thing, Whoopi's get up looked like she made it at home – which is one of the reasons I thought it was a joke. For another…well, who would wear this again if it wasn't a joke, unless you're doing it to make Julia's version look more streamlined and fabulous (which this does)? I was going to say that Whoopi was planning to crack on Julia, but thought better of it considering that Julia's had some rough family stuff go down over the last three weeks, but you can buy a new dress in three weeks if you're Whoopi Goldberg, especially if that dress only needs to be better than something you threw together for a bit. Or is it possible that we're all bit players in a new Hollywood psychodrama wherein Whoopi is slowly sliding into a fugue state where she believes herself to BE Julia Roberts? Because, actually, that's really interesting. Wait while I pop some popcorn, I want to see how this one turns out.
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Who Fugged It More: Rashida Jones vs. Michelle Dockery
These ladies didn't wear the same dress from the Prada collection that had faces plastered all over everything, but that doesn't mean we can't compare. Michelle's had the face down on the bottom half of her dress; Rashida's is more… everywhere:
Dockery wins the hair battle, thanks to Rashida's apparent feud with grooming products. Neither bodice is particularly appealing to me — both flatten them out, although Rashida's might be a shade more criminal. Dockery's looks like the face was concussed by a bag of Skittles; this one looks like the Wizard of Starburst is ripping out her memories and replacing them with an ad for an iPod Shuffle. Dockery's had shape, but it also sliced her across the chest more; this one looks like a pillow case with cat ears. At least Rashida handily wins the shoe battle — those are awesome — but as for the rest… I might not be able to pick a winner, because that would imply even a modicum of favoritism one way or the other, and that simply won't do.
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Fug/Fab Face-Off: Jennifer Hudson vs Chloe Grace Moretz
It's not every day that a dress someone wore to the Teen Choice Awards gets donned by an adult at a Grammy party. But Chloe Grace Moretz is a pretty mature teen, and Jennifer Hudson has crazy young skin, so maybe they meet in the middle. I would also like to meet them there, but sadly, that ship has sailed straight down my forehead furrow.
On Chloe, Jessica noted that this looks like a Swatch ad come to life, and that was deeply apt. Jennifer's spiked short cut and sassy red lip give this the right, dressier dose of maturity — it doesn't look like she's in a teenager's clothes, nor did it look like the teenager had stolen hers. I think this dress, as loud and lively as it is, might be a rare breed that can adapt to the wearer and look right when it's treated properly, and both ladies did that. So I actually think they BOTH pulled it off. If you're going to dress like the credits of an 80s comedy, at least make sure you look like the star of the movie.
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Charles Victor de Bonstetten (3 September 1745, Bern – 3 February 1832), was a Swiss liberal writer.
By birth a member of one of the great patrician families of Bern, he was educated there, at Yverdon, and (1763-1766) at Geneva, where he came under the influence of Rousseau and of Charles Bonnet, and imbibed liberal sentiments.[1] His father, intending to fit him for a career as a Bernese senator of the traditional type, was alarmed at the tone of his letters from Geneva, and recalled his son to Bern. After a suicide attempt, precipitated by his distaste for Bernese life, the son was soon sent to Leiden to finish his studies.
The climate of Leiden disagreed with him, and he was permitted to proceed to England in 1769, where he made many friends, among them the poet Gray. He returned home via Paris where he was introduced to literary society. At home, he nursed his father during his final illness. After his father's death in 1770, he made a long journey in Italy, and on his return to Bern (1774) entered political life, for which he was unfitted by reason of his liberal ideas, which led him to patronize and encourage Johannes von Müller, the future Swiss historian.[1]
In 1779 he was named the Bernese bailiff of Saanen or Gessenay (here he wrote his Lettres pastorales sur une contrée de la Suisse, published in German in 1781), and in 1787 was transferred in a similar capacity to Nyon, from which post he had to retire after taking part (1791) in a festival to celebrate the destruction of the Bastille. From 1795 to 1797 he governed (for the Swiss Confederation) the Italian-speaking districts of Lugano, Locarno, Mendrisio and Val Maggia, of which he published (1797) a pleasing description, and into which he is said to have introduced the cultivation of the potato. The French revolution of 1798 in Switzerland drove him again into private life. He spent the years 1798 to 1801 in Denmark, with his friend Friederike Brun,[1] and travelled with her to Italy 1802-03.
He then settled down in 1803 in Geneva for the rest of his life. There he enjoyed the society of many distinguished persons, among whom was (1809-1817) Madame de Staël. It was during this period that he published his most celebrated work, L'Homme du midi et l'homme du nord (1824), a study of the influence of climate on different nations, the north being exalted at the expense of the south. Among his other works are the Recherches sur la nature et les lois de l'imagination (1807), and the Études de l'homme, ou Recherches sur les facultés de penser et de sentir (1821), but he was better as an observer than as a philosopher.[1]
Bonstetten is best remembered in his social character — as a conversationalist, and as the friend, often the intimate companion, of many of the leaders of thought and action during his long life. Lives of Bonstetten have been written by A. Steinlen (Lausanne, 1860), C. Morell (Winterthur, 1861), and R. Willy (Bern, 1898). See also vol. xiv. of Sainte Beuve's Causeries du Lundi.
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- Lives by A. Steinlen (Lausanne, 1860), by C. Morell (Winderthur, 1861), and by R. Willy (Bern, 1898)
- vol. xiv. of Sainte-Beuve's Causeries du Lundi.
- Baynes, T.S., ed. (1878). "Bonstetten, Charles Victor de". Encyclopaedia Britannica 4 (9th ed.).

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The Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative (GVEC) in Gonzales, Texas is a member-owned electric distribution cooperative serving the South Central region of Texas since 1939. It spans across 66,000 meters, has 35 substations and approximately 3,500 square miles of territory. It borders San Antonio on the east and serves a very dense population on its western edge.
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REDWOOD CITY, California—Fresh from a recent fan-packed Manila premiere with a record-breaking opening day gross of P25 million, the Philippines's "Ultimate Heartthrob" Piolo Pascual and actress-singer-host Toni Gonzaga will fly almost 8,000 miles to meet their fans in the San Francisco Bay Area for the U.S. premiere of the romantic comedy, "Starting Over Again."
The premiere, a Valentine's Day offering from ABS-CBN Star Cinema and TFC@TheMovies, is set for Feb. 15, Saturday, with 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. screenings at historic Fox Theatre in Redwood City.
"Starting Over Again" has generated huge buzz because of the chemistry of the two lead stars and the numerous positive reviews by critics, bloggers and fans who are raving over the brilliantly directed movie by the award-winning Olivia M. Lamasan.
Lamasan directed international Filipino blockbusters from Star Cinema like "Milan," "In My Life," "In the Name of Love" and "The Mistress," to name a few.
The screenplay is by Carmi Raymundo who wrote the recent Kim Chiu-Xian Lim blockbuster, "Bride for Rent" and other hits like "My Amnesia Girl" and "It Takes A Man and a Woman."
Toni plays Ginny—bubbly, brilliant and driven—a student in architecture, romantically pursues Marco (Piolo), a professor.
Eyebrows may be raised but the two genuinely fall in love, until one day, Ginny left for no apparent reason, breaking Marco's heart.
Years later, their paths cross again: Ginny has the successful career that she dreamed of while Marco is now a chef, with a new ladylove in Patty (played by Iza Calzado). Seems like they are all happy. But Ginny wants Marco back. The journey of second chances begin with Ginny chasing Marco again. But will this have a happy ending or will it end again in heartbreak?
Joining Piolo, Toni and Iza in this romantic comedy are Joross Gamboa, Bryan Santos, Edgar Allan Guzman, Cai Cortez and Beauty.
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Why Siri Can Replace a Screen
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OkSiri brings always-on voice control to jailbroken iOS devices
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Siri makes a cameo on The Tonight Show
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When Siri eyes-free goes wrong
You don't need Siri in the car to be an idiot.
Oh Siri
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Product DescriptionMerida Dominator
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User Reviews
Date Reviewed: June 13, 2001
Strengths: My second review on the same bike, it's because I like it very much and have done a bit of modifications to remove the week parts. Since last review I'de installed Time pedals and Manitou Mars C front fork. With these mods there simply is no week parts and that is the strength. I still weigh 240 lbs and not one single problem during three years of weekly usage.
Weaknesses: After the new fork have been installed, NONE.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: More than 3 years
Price Paid: $700.00
Purchased At: Roines Motor & Cycle Hallstahammar
Similar Products Used: Had a Carbon Miyata before, does not compare.
Bike Setup: Front, Manitou Mars C. Standard Ritchey wheels, LX duralier
Time attac pedals, more or less standard all over
Date Reviewed: March 12, 2000
Strengths: Good price with regard to quality level. Nice looks. Very strong overall, my weight is 240 lbs and I havent had one single problem.
Weaknesses: Front chock is a little beow the standards for the rest of the bike. The spots that Merida have choosen for putting the water botles on is the absolut worse I,ve ever come across.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Similar Products Used: This is my second MTB and the one before was a hard tail Carbon Miata wich doesn´t compare really.
Bike Setup: LX duraliers tectro V-brakes, and I replaced the chain to Sachs M22 wich is a matter of taste more than anything else I suppose.Othervise it´s original straight through.
Date Reviewed: December 16, 1999
Looks, some good name gear.
Bottom Line:
Could anyone eles who owns or has tried this bike please write something on it, i need to know what it's like and if this brand is any good.
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Duration Product Used:
tested or demo'ed only
Similar Products Used:
1999 Giant Warp DS-1
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De Lima orders to check if pyramid scam suspect still in PH
MANILA, Philippines—Justice Secretary Leila De Lima has ordered the Bureau of Immigration to check if those involved in the P12-billion pyramid scam remained in the country.
"Pinapa check ko na kung may nakalabas na ng bansa and kung may nakalabas na, anong countries para immediately we can invoke our existing bilateral agreements like MLAT (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty)," De Lima told reporters in a chance interview at the Department of Justice before she left for Malacanang.
De Lima said she would issue a Department Order to create a fact finding body to investigate the case.
"We hope to file a case in court before end of this year," De Lima said.
The NBI identified the company involved in the scam as Aman Futures Group Phils. Inc., a company allegedly managed by a former janitor and driver. It has allegedly victimized at least 15,000 people in Mindanao and the Visayas.
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FEV is offering challenging internships in the field of light-duty diesel powertrain. This internship is designed for Masters of Science candidates in collaboration with Dr. Valentin Soloiu, the Distinguished Allen E Paulson Chair in Georgia Southern University. At FEV, engineering intern will be part of a team and receives project tasks and responsibilities within a group, which are mentored and supervised by an experienced project engineer. The tasks include but are not limited to engine dynamometer testing of diesel engines, vehicle testing for emissions and performance and associated data handling, processing and presenting combustion and performance data, engine and aftertreatment control strategy development, rapid control prototyping using MATLAB/Simulink/C environments and participate in internal FEV training and experience sharing activities. Because of the complexity of the tasks encountered in the daily job, FEV prefers internship duration of min 9 months to 1 year. Interested candidates can submit resumes and questions to the contact information listed below.
Position Announcement: FEVInc_Students_GSU
NSF-REU Research Program in ME/CEIT has started under prodigious auspices
Dr. Soloiu, the Allen E. Paulson Distinguished Chair, has been awarded $360,000 by the NSF for his research in advanced combustion and emissions technologies. Under the framework of this program, "REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Green-Engineered New Transportation Technologies (URGENTT)" the brightest students from 25 universities from across the country will be selected to do research in hybrid combustion technologies, in Mechanical Engineering Dept. / College of Engineering and IT.
The Allen E. Paulson Research Laboratory for Renewable Energy and Engines Combustion in ME offers summer-term interdisciplinary research experiences for engineering undergraduate students thus becoming the research hub of the United States in advanced combustion technologies for the next three years. The program aims to increase students' interest in conducting fundamental research along with interdisciplinary concepts through hands-on-learning; STEM problem-solving skills and ability to apply them to research; independence as well as ability to collaborate effectively as part of a highly diverse team; and communication competence at both the interpersonal and presentational level.
The research problem is immediately significant and requires multidisciplinary strategies coordinated by Dr. Soloiu and contributed by 8 faculty from 5 departments in 3 colleges of the university. The program provides stipends to 10 students for 10 weeks each summer from 2014 to 2016. They develop an individual research and project, delineating their expected contribution to the assigned team. All participants attend lectures, seminars, workshops & labs and industrial visits to develop their knowledge of, and skills in energy, research methods, and technical writing.
NSF-REU-GSU team greeted by Mr. Masahiko Kayama the President of Honda Manufacturing in Tallapoosa, GA (from Left to Right: Human Resources Manager, 2nd from left, President Masahiko Kayama, Department Manager Christopher Cates, Administrator of Human Resources Rashauna Pettis, Sherwin Davoud, Thomas Falloon, India Oakley, Dr. Frank Goforth, Julia Heimberger, Stephanie Cheng, Anthony Wolliston, Tyler Naes, Emerald Simons, Martin Muinos, Jaimie Pate, Remi Gaubert, Dr. Valentin Soloiu Distinguished Energy Chair, Channing Watson, Vice- President Michael Jett).
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National Science Foundation: Research Experience for Undergraduates
"Undergraduate Research in Green Engineered New Transportation Technologies (URGENTT)"
The Allen E. Paulson Research Laboratory for Renewable Energy and Engines at Georgia Southern University will offer summer-term interdisciplinary research experiences for engineering undergraduate students in the field of Renewable Energy and Biofuels Combustion in Internal Combustion Engines (ICE). REU students will be trained to use the AEP Laboratory's state-of-the-art equipment. A ~$1.5M investment in applied equipment (high-speed data acquisition and gas analysis systems, engines, dynamometers) secured with NSF, DOE, EPA, and ORNL research grants.
Features of the program: The research problem requires multidisciplinary strategies contributed by 8 faculty from 5 departments & 3 colleges of the university. The program will provide stipends to 10 students from various universities, for 10 weeks each summer from 2014 to 2016. In consultation with a faculty mentor, they will develop an individual research project, delineating their expected contribution to their as-signed team. Participants will attend lectures, seminars, work-shops, and labs to develop their knowledge in, renewable energy, engines, research methods, and technical writing. Read More…
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My Super Life, way better then yours...XD
Name: Kid Panell.
Height: 6'3
KP, In the Ultimate Universe had a drastically different life. He Was moved to New York At a young age not having to experience the troubles the Vine Prime Version had, But Alas Tragedy struck for when he was fifteen years old a group of roaming Satanists Broke Into his home, They beat him brutally and kidnapped him, Intending to sacrifice him as a virgin. But a Strange Occurrence happened as the dark magics they had summoned, Murdered them. The reason being was that Young KP Was not a virgin by any means, They're assumptions being wrong had Caused the spells to go haywire. A Curse was placed over him, Every Time the Sun Would go down he would be driven to the point of madness, His Skin Would turn a foul Color, His Teeth would fang and sharpen, His Eyes would dialect, His Fingernails would grow into Razor Sharp Talons, His Spine would arch and his veins would bulge out of his disgusting skin. He Would go into Tunnel Vision each night, Trying to hunt down and kill whatever it saw in it's path, Spread chaos as far as he could. He was able to contain these bouts of Insanity and Rampages to only his bedroom. He had a perfectly Normal Life By Day But when The Night Struck he was enraged, Finally he couldn't hold these days When the Shadows overwhelmed him any longer. He Began Rampaging and Taking his attacks to the streets. He Tried to Make the best of what he could, Training to only attack the Criminal Scum That is the New York Underworld. This Occasionally worked, As he took on a new Persona referring to himself as "The Shadow Devil." He Hunts down the People of New York Under this persona, But By day he seeks salvation for his cause and illness.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has converted her months-long lead in the polls into fundraising momentum, another sign that she seems headed for her party's nomination.But the big splash Fred Thompson made last month when he belatedly entered the race on the Republican side hasn't translated into an advantage in campaign cash. Those are the take-home messages from the third-quarter campaign finance reports released by the candidates last week. Clinton, the former first lady-turned-senator from New York, raised $27 million in July, August and September, her strongest quarter of the year. On the other hand, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, her closest rival, raised $20 million during the third quarter, down from $32.5 million during April, May and June. With Clinton already leading in the polls, the financial numbers merely add to the evidence that her candidacy is gaining steam, said Merle Black, a political science professor at Emory University. "She's consolidating her strength as the Democratic front-runner," he said. "I'd suspect she's going to do even better as we get closer to the election." The way the Democratic presidential race appears to be playing out might seem surprising considering where Obama was positioned just a few months ago, a rock star of a candidate pushing a message of change in a country that showed it wanted something different by putting Democrats in charge of Congress. Obama wants to "turn the page," a phrase he repeats often in his stump speech. To some voters, that represents not only turning away from the Bush administration but from the Clinton era before it. But Gordon Giffin, a prominent Atlanta lawyer and Clinton supporter, said many voters look back to the 1990s, when Bill and Hillary Clinton were in the White House, with a sense of nostalgia for less troubled times. "We had a balanced budget. We weren't at war with anybody," said Giffin, who served as U.S. ambassador to Canada during the Clinton administration. "She would be a change from what we've had the last seven years." Hillary Clinton's standing in the Democratic contest also might surprise those voters whose visceral hatred of the Clintons inspires them to plaster "Anybody but Clinton" bumper stickers on their cars. There are a lot of Hillary haters out there, enough that some political pundits wonder how the Democrats could be dumb enough to nominate someone so polarizing. But Giffin said he's not convinced that those anti-Hillary voters aren't simply anti-Democrat. "The segment of the electorate that's not going to vote for a Democrat has crystallized with her because she's been on the national stage for some time," he said. "It's not necessarily any larger than for any other Democratic candidate." Black agreed that most anti-Hillary sentiment can be found in states that Democrats aren't likely to win anyway. "She doesn't have to win states where her negatives outweigh her positives," he said. "She would be still be a strong candidate in the Northeast, on the West Coast and in the Midwest." That leaves the South, the Great Plains and the Mountain states as both Republican strongholds and likely friendly turf for conservative former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson. The popular actor from TV's "Law and Order" series made his long-anticipated candidacy for the GOP nomination official just after Labor Day. But thus far, his fundraising hasn't kept up with his appeal in the polls. Thompson, who was taking in campaign contributions long before his formal entry into the race, raised about $9 million during the third quarter. That put him behind former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who raised $11 million, and ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who raised $10 million in donations and kicked in another $8.5 million of his own money. There's not a huge difference between those numbers, but Thompson trails Giuliani substantially when it comes to cash on hand. After getting off to a much earlier start, Giuliani has $16 million left in his campaign account, compared to just $7 million for Thompson and $9 million for Romney. "(Thompson) still needs a lot more money," Black said. "He hasn't come in and dramatically changed the field." But Georgia Sen. Chip Rogers, executive director of Thompson's Georgia campaign, said his candidate's numbers are stellar for someone who just got into the race. "If you look at the number of contributors and the amount collected per day, we're far beyond any of the other Republican candidates," said Rogers, R-Woodstock. "Everything is going according to plan." Rogers said he expects Thompson will pick up more donors as second-tier conservatives now in the race drop out. E-mail Dave Williams at email@example.com.
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Seems like it's been a while since we last had a hardware-ish coffee morning. Let's have one next week.
Thursday 28th May, 9.30am for a couple of hours, at the Book Club (100 Leonard St).
Same as before: Super informal, just hanging out and chatting, bring your cross-stitch or circuit boards if you have em. If nobody turns up it'll just be me checking my email, and that's fine too.
So why has it been over a month since the last coffee morning? I've been hiking in Colorado for one thing.
But also I've been trying something new... does the coffee morning format transfer to other situations? This term, Durrell Bishop is running a course at the Royal College and he asked me if I'd like to get involved. I suggested that we try doing weekly coffee mornings for the students: A place to chat outside the studio, something we can invite others to, but not a crit and not a talk and not unrelated to work either. So we've been trying that.
It's risky, because the informality means no outcomes can be guaranteed. And anyway, is there any benefit to organising something like this, beyond what you get anyway from grabbing a cuppa in the canteen? Well I don't know, which is why experimenting with Durrell and his students is so cool.
At the back of my head, I'm wondering whether there's a commercial model for convening coffee mornings inside corporations. I don't really want to do trad consultancy again. But the idea of establishing a DMZ on the edge of a company... a place where serendipity can happen, over time... no talks and no audience, but catalytic conversations, convened once every couple of weeks for several months... I'm curious about whether that could work.
Anyway. See you a week on Thursday!
From Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas:
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of 'history' it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened . . . There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning . . . And that, I think, was the handle-that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting-on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave . . . So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark-that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
(Also, a 1997 interview with Hunter S. Thompson.)
Ben emailed me this quote the other day.
Giant realistic cat head, with photos of it being worn (via @matlock).
Bacon by post: Cure & Simple.
Gosh there are tons of these subscriptions boxes.
This is the sharp end of - and this is how the Harvard Business Review puts it - why strong customer relationships trump powerful brands.
[digital technologies] allow more direct interactions with customers, bypassing expensive middlemen and reducing the cost of sales and marketing; they allow firms to optimize customer lifecycle management based on detailed data and analysis of customers' needs; they improve efficiency and quality across the value chain as a result of continuous customer feedback
Meanwhile the value of a brand is declining because
purchasing decisions have become more fact based, and less brand-image based.
@herdyshepherd1, shepherd, author, and Twitter superstar. His new book on the Lake District is half autobiography, half history, and half manifesto for land and animals: The Shepherd's Life.
Herdwick sheep are 'hefted'; which means they hold (without fences) to a place on the fell (mountain) because they are taught a sense of belonging by their mothers in their first summer. This stretches back countless centuries and has never been broken.
This is the bit where I make some awkward analogy between hefting and brand recognition/customer lifetime value.
Tempescope, an ambient weather display for the home that looks like a glass jar with actual weather happening in it. Fog, rain, etc.
Patch of Sky,
a set of three Internet connected ambient lights, enabling you to share the sky above you in real-time with loved ones, wherever they are.
The term bardo
refers to the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth.
also translated as "transitional state" or "in-between state" or "liminal state".
Liminality, from the Latin
meaning "a threshold":
the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the ritual is complete.
When you step through a door, the door has width -- a couple of inches. For a fraction of a second, you're not in/out but liminal.
Walking through doorways causes forgetting.
"Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an 'event boundary' in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away," Radvansky explains.
"Recalling the decision or activity that was made in a different room is difficult because it has been compartmentalized."
Photos of sea mountains.
To make Lemmon Cakes, a recipe from 1670, from the cookery book The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of Rare Receipts For Preserving, Candying and Cookery. Very Pleasant and Beneficial to all Ingenious Persons of the Female Sex by Hannah Woolley.
The history of sugar in Europe.
During the 18th century, sugar became enormously popular. Britain, for example, consumed five times as much sugar in 1770 as in 1710.
Something interesting is happening:
Uber, the world's largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world's most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world's largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate.
Despite its name, I wonder whether this is the real common thread running through the sharing economy... there's nothing on the balance sheet.
So look at the Bring Your Own Device trend... maybe this is the same, workplace IT with no technology. So what about facilities with no offices, menswear stores with no clothes.
The realisation that the heart of business is the ops machine and not the assets -- orchestration not ownership. That's a valuable insight.
Take this trend, cross-breed it with the shift to subscription box companies (of which there are trillions because a company that takes advantage of life-term value can out-market one that doesn't when it comes to customer acquisition), plus fluid workplaces such as holacracy... where do we get? Don't know. On my mind. Feels like we're on our way somewhere.
It's a bit last minute I know, but let's have another hardware-ish coffee morning this week!
Thursday 9th April, 9.30am for a couple of hours, at the Book Club (100 Leonard St).
Why? It's sunny, I'm in the mood to hang out and chat about cross-stitch and hardware startups and distribution. Zero structure though, chat about whatever you fancy -- here's how it works.
If you've been thinking about coming to coffee mornings 1 thru 7 but haven't, bunk off work and come along to this one. It'd be lovely to see you.
(Reminders, as always, are sent to the coffee morning list.)
Amazon Dash... yup, makes sense. Give away light-weight Internet of Things gadgets to encourage purchase of fast-moving consumer goods. Tiny plastic buttons that allow for instant product ordering:
Your entire house is now a shopping cart.
We worked on a bunch of similar stuff at Berg -- such as Cloudwash where purchasing washing powder was part of the machine itself, and some secret projects where the transactions and connectivity explored different configurations. It was my colleagues who spent most time figuring out the service design and all the mini design interactions -- but I was steeped in this for a year or two, so I figured I would dash out some notes...
Dash. Ho ho.
Look, a warning. I haven't proofread these notes so they might make no sense. And there's nothing about how the Dash is designed, or what this means for your strategy. Feel free to get in touch for a coffee if you want to talk about either of those aspects, or if anything in what follows rings a bell for you...
By putting the Dash Button in the home, it lowers friction to purchase and shifts the distribution channel to Amazon.
This is good for:
You could probably make a pretty simple equation out of this, saying something like... it's worth it when:
revenue from selling N buttons + N1 * channel cost saving + N2 * margin on additional sales + value of effective marketing > development cost + server cost for 1 year + cost of producing N buttons
where N1 is the number of buttons used by existing customers who switch channels, and N2 is the number of buttons used to make new purchases.
Assuming you're giving these buttons away, and assuming you don't have access to the marketing budget, the relevant costs become:
And when these costs fall enough, the question becomes: Do you reckon you can make a profit on the 2% of customers who will buy 5% more a year?
I brushed over the marketing benefits above, but let's not forget that we're enamoured with web-connected physical things. Internet of Things gadgets are novelty; brands that launched with Amazon will be pleased with the publicity.
Though... why not go with a Youtube video for the publicity, and not bother making the thing itself, like Evian's fridge magnet launching their water subscription service? It's a lot cheaper.
I can think of a couple of marketing benefits to actually making and distributing the button itself.
Advertising is changing. You need Adwords and Facebook ads to fish where the fish are... but come on, they're boring, they don't create the emotional impact of a full-page glossy magazine ad, or a great TV spot.
So, for me, these buttons are the first step to a new channel. Sure, they're utilitarian -- they order more consumables. But they also tell a story that this brand is there for me, it's in my home, it's at hand, on-demand. Products are people too and this button has a character... it's now up to us to create physical objects that have different characters, one that might be more suitable for high fashion, fragrance, whatever.
You need these different marketing channels because building awareness requires a drip-drip approach... a banner ad here, a Buzzfeed list there, a button on the fridge. A new advertising component.
E-commerce continues to grow at the expense of physical retail, and discovery in e-commerce continues to suck. Another way to think about the Dash Button is that it's doing the same job as a shelf-end promotion, or a BOGOF. This is a replacement for the lost world of point-of-sale discovery tricks, and it's in-home.
In a way, we're really seeing the future of marketing here. We've separated awareness (advertising) and distribution (stores) for so long, but it's no longer the way. When you get a Buy Now button in a tweet you're seeing ads and distribution merging, and the Button is the physical instantiation of this same trend.
In the future that Simon Wardley paints, this is a warning shot against the supermarkets, and in the future every product will carry a buy button. We're already in this world with smartphone apps: Because App Store discovery sucks, the best mode of distribution is word of mouth. The more downloads you already have, the more downloads you'll get. Which is why app publishers need to get their dirty mitts on your address book. Is this a future we'll see with consumable home products, too?
The costs of making the button dropped for Amazon before anyone else -- as I said above, they have the technology Lego bricks already, and the logistics available. But there are two other groups I've run into repeatedly who have looked seriously at the same concept
Traditional manufacturers of either FMCG or the kit that consumes it (that is, makers of washing powder and makers of washing machines). In 90% of cases, these manufacturers don't know how to speak with end consumers. They maybe know how to speak with consumers pre-sale... but they tend to outsource that to marketing agencies. But typically their customers are distributors and retailers, not end consumers.
This is a problem because the Dash Button isn't just a button, it's a communications channel. It's an app. It's push notifications. It's the update emails. Somebody needs to write that copy, somebody needs to manage the feedback, somebody needs to choose when to do a price promotion.
For most manufacturers, there's not a group in the company that knows how to do this, so making the Button isn't an engineering challenge -- it's a difficult corporate re-org where the voice that would advocate that strategy isn't even present in the leadership team.
There's a particular problem for the device manufacturers, as opposed to the manufacturers of the consumables. Connectivity of shared objects means back-end servers, and these cost money to run. When you're a big company, you think via the profit and loss. A connected machine which just offers neat user features (e.g. a notification when your wash cycle has finished) doesn't make sense on the P&L: it just means you have to knock points off your margin when you first sell it, to put cash aside to keep the service running. The only way connectivity makes sense is to align the recurring costs with some kind of recurring revenue.
In 2015 that means creating a sales channel for consumables... which the white goods manufacturers don't have available to them. Ink-jet printer manufacturers do. And we won't be stuck as this stage forever. Give it 12 months, and you'll have a microwave with in-app purchase. I'm only half kidding.
The marketing agencies get it. But marketing agencies are organised (have teams; do sales; are paid) around campaigns. Campaigns have a beginning and an end. In the web world, we're used to the KPIs of ongoing services (acquisition, activation, retention, etc): we measure Monthly Active Users. That's what you need to build a new sales channel. But it's not how you run a successful campaign.
And besides, marketing agencies need to do something different every quarter -- they don't build up a tight ops machine of technology and logistics. Building the Dash Button isn't, for them, just the next easy thing to do.
On my list of startups I would do - which is way too long and honestly, mostly awful - is an agency that offers to speak with customers post-sale.
So the manufacturer of Break Maker X would get us in to run the communications channel with the customers... either a button on the machine or just the app. And we'd all come from the web world, so it would be all A/B testing emails, looking at the button stats, partnerships with legendary bakers to sell artisan yeast, all that nonsense. We'd run it on a retainer basis, and eventually get bought by one of the big networks for a billion quid.
By the way, there is one group I've met who do (a) know how to have a customer conversation, and (b) have an incentive to cross-sell and up-sell on that channel. And that's the retailers, especially the retailers who already have a logistics network and run post-sales activities such as an extended warranty programme.
In the UK, that means John Lewis/Waitrose -- I was half expecting to see this button come from them, first. But they don't have "retail platform" in their DNA like Amazon.
And there are some manufacturers who understand that the product is the channel. But I can't say who because I'm still under NDA.
I have to say, the Amazon Dash Button makes a ton of sense to me, as the near future of the Internet of Things, in a way the internet fridge never has.
I've always said that if I was making an internet fridge, I'd just make a fridge magnet that ordered milk. Or, better, a tiny talking Fridgeezoo pet that - when tapped - would text both me and my wife "we're out of milk!"
It's that shared use that makes this button really great. Smartphones are still stuck in the Personal Computer era... but my shopping list isn't personal. We live with flatmates, families, and friends. We can hack it -- at home we use shared Reminders on iPhone for the weekly shopping. But my online grocery order is associated with a single user account. It seems dumb; the button fixes that.
It's the ability for some kid in the household to say "hey, need more toothpaste" that leads to the button requiring wi-fi: Bluetooth is cheaper, but it would need a paired smartphone around.
And I am curious to see how it all works. The service design is complicated... without a screen, or any feedback, maybe your order is already on the way because somebody else hit the button, but how do you know? Sure the button automagically doesn't place a repeat order until the delivery is made, but what about more complex orders, or what if what you want is out of stock? Ultimately, this'll do for 80% of the cases, which is more than enough.
And then - for the rest - there's the Dash Replacement Service, Amazon's button-to-logistics technology all wrapped up, and ready to be integrated into whatever product you're creating. I see Quirky are building this replenishment service into the device itself:
a new line of smart appliances including an artisanal pour-over coffee machine, a baby formula maker, and a pet food dispenser. Each appliance will measure remaining consumable supplies and place an order using DRS before running out.
DRS is the best bit. Can you imagine what the life-time value is, for Amazon, if [white goods manufacturer] bake this into a washing machine, an item with an 11 year replacement cycle?
We're seeing the various stacks line up to own the smart home ecosystem:
I know the Dash Button feels utilitarian -- but to my mind it's also eminently sensible, and executed in exactly the right way. I like it. If it does well, it'll make possible connected devices which are less utilitarian. I'll like that even more.
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Some lines that stuck with me from Berger:
The animal scrutinizes him across a narrow abyss of non-comprehension.
an animal's life, never to be confused with a man's, can be seen to run parallel to his. Only in death do the two parallel lines converge and after death, perhaps, cross over to become parallel again
As I say, I'm no scientist, but I have the impression that scientists today, when dealing with phenomena whose time or spatial scale is either immense or very small ... are on the point of breaking through space-time to discover another axis on which events may be strung
Some lines that got me in McPhee, the first about the Colorado river, the second on Lake Powell:
he quoted Edith Warner: "'This is a day when life and the world seem to be standing still -- only time and the river flowing past the mesas.'"
The Utah canyonland had been severed halfway up by a blue geometric plane, creating a waterscape of interrupted shapes, spectacularly unnatural, spectacularly beautiful.
I can't help myself but point my finger at these conjunctions. Narrow Abyss. Discover Another Axis. Interrupted Shapes.
And so, with more rules we have solved most of the problems in the world. That just leaves the weird events left like disappearing 777's, freak storms and ISIS. ... Ultimately, this is why the world is getting weirder, and will continue to do so. Now with global media you get to hear about it all.
everything that has ever happened has happened in the last decade or less.
There's a zoo in Japan where you can shake hands with an otter.
a video conferencing device and remote treat dispenser for pets.
Project began at Startup Weekend (great mission -- I'm a trustee of the European arm). Inventor was 14 years old.
Charles Mingus, jazz legend, literally wrote the book on how to train your cat to use the toilet.
We don't have a written constitution in the UK, but occasionally habit and precedent gets collated and scribbled down. In 2010, the operation of government was set out in the Cabinet Manual. For procedure nerds, it's a fascinating read.
Section 2 is about elections and
The principles of government formation -- especially interesting because of the upcoming general election. Also I love the writing: The tone is colloquial, plain, and straightforward. But you can tell every word is chosen with care, every "should," every "expected." With a thousand year history, our system of government needs to balance what works with an openness to exceptionality.
Today we're entering purdah, the period of
self-denying ordinance from the civil service.
See also, Erskine May: Parliamentary Practice.
The Hammersmith and City line, including a picture of the 1908 White City exhibition. Gosh.
An LED jacket for sausage dogs. Back Disco Dog on Kickstarter.
If your dog runs too far away and the connection is lost, the vest will show an automatic "LOST DOG" message
Best video.
There are eleven Sikh gurus -- the 11th,
Final and last, eternal living guru took leadership in 1708, and is the community itself, the Khalsa:
the temporal leadership of the Sikhs was passed on to the Khalsa with the bestowed title of "Guru Panth" and spiritual leadership was passed on to the Guru Granth Sahib [the central religious text]
Guru Gobind Singh the 10th guru:
All the Sikhs are enjoined to accept the Granth as their Guru. Consider the Guru Granth as embodiment of the Gurus. Those who want to meet God, can find Him in its hymns.
I wonder what this kind of metempsychosis feels like from the perspective of the guru -- to awaken as a text; frozen mid-thought, only alive when in communion with other minds.
The brain is electric. Transcranial magnetic stimulation works by stimulating bits of your brain with a whopping great magnet.
Zap your frontal lobe, it can make you savant at drawing cats (New York Times, 2003.)
It's loud too. Magnets eh.
Zap your motor cortex, your arm jumps. Quinn Norton on neuro-engineering (Wired, 2009):
A few inches over my ear is the part of my brain that controls my hand and arm. Schneider holds the coil there and activates it. The muscles in my scalp contract automatically, and it stings. My hand is jumping with each loud snap from the TMS machine.
I remember Quinn telling me about this experience... what stuck with me was her experience with free will. If you zap your muscles, they twitch despite yourself, but you can resist it.
But when you zap your neurons, you don't resist: you change your mind.
Hold your arm down. Zap. [Arm moves.] Why did you move your arm? I wanted to.
So I look at all this augmented reality nonsense and it all looks quite distracting.
And so I figure: What about a transcranial magnetic stimulation helmet, with Google Maps inside? That way your can check your email and Skype your mum, while the Walking-Down-The-Street Hat takes care of the tedious job of moving your legs, and collision-detecting your way around obstacles like buses and humans.
C'mon Google, sort it out.
I made a slo mo video of a bee yesterday -- that ethereal hooting you can hear in the background - turn it up, it's very quiet - is birdsong.
9 Beet Stretch
is Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony stretched to 24 hours, with no pitch distortions. It's broadcast online continuously: Listen now.
Recorded by the Huygens probe, the sound of the winds of Titan, largest moon of Saturn.
Hardware-ish coffee morning yesterday was weird... I missed a conversation about knitting. I got a short demo of Made By Many's Hackaball - which has just blown through its Kickstarter goal CONGRATULATIONS - but missed the main discussion. Matt from Speakset was talking about their super simple videophone for old folks, but I got dragged off elsewhere halfway through that chat. Laura was talking about energy, and honestly I could have spend an hour rambling about how Apple could use their big solar farms to make a vertically integrated consumer power offering... but I got distracted about something else. And with Blaine, I think we were about to have a breakthrough moment figuring out how to put micropayments at the protocol level of the web, and what new features we could offer, but by then my head was too full.
I hope everyone else had a good time :) Thank you for coming Alessandra, Matthew H, Matthew L, Tom T, Blaine, Tom A, Abby, Ben, Matt, Anna, James, Josh, Martin, Max, Laura, and Melissa!
So the gestalt for me is route to market.
It's a bugbear of mine that we've ceded the future of the web to advertising. And you know, thinking about what would happen if we started to charge for content on the web... it doesn't feel like it would work. Products on the web spread virally across social networks, producing random clicks that tease you into greater engagement. This is true for apps and articles.
And paying money inhibits virality. So there always has to be a free tier, to get as many of your eyeballs to infect as many more eyeballs as possible. Or it's totally free and there's indirect revenue -- you sell the data, or sell ads.
This, it turns out, is the failure mode with "the product is the marketing" philosophy: Now we don't separate out acquisition marketing into a different effort, we need every single one of our product users to be a shill. The route to market is right through your friends list.
Then I was looking at Hackaball which is
a smart and responsive ball that children can program to invent and play games -- and this is great for a bunch of reasons, but primarily (for me) because behind it is the digital agency Made by Many (where Melissa is from), and that's terrific, that they've got the capabilities to design, launch, and then manufacture a Bluetooth-connected product, because that means they can bring those capabilities to all their clients. Gosh.
But educational products always confuse me slightly, because kids use them, but kids don't pay for me, and so the way the product is talked about isn't targeted at them. Like, I remember being seven. On a good day. Mostly I don't even remember being 30. But when I do remember being seven, I remember being into fun and cool and what my friends have... not learning. The route to market is not what makes the product good.
And with Speakset - which, again, is awesome - the customer is not the user. User: old people. Customer: Care providers.
So the way you design the product to best take it to market is not the same process to make it great for its users.
Is this a bad thing? Of course it isn't. Speakset will improve the lives of its users. It can only do that if it reaches lots of users. The best way to reach lots of users is via care providers.
But but but. One of the reasons I like Apple is that the proposition is clear. I give them money for hardware. I am the customer and the user both. They pay - separately - for marketing to tell me about the hardware. There's no misalignment of interests where they want to push the hardware into my hands so that they can make money out of selling usage data, or something.
Now I'm not going to claim that Apple are selfless angels, always acting in my interest. Far from it.
But when I've been sketching out business models for startups recently (which I have, a bunch), and those business models have been complicated with lots of actors having lots of different interests, I've been trying to draw them as a business onion. Where the core is a perfect knot of aligned interests of customer, user, and marketing, everyone acting in a way that supports revenue break-even, growth, and great product. Maybe not any profit yet. That's the next layer of the onion: More aligned interests, but this is where the profit is. And then maybe another layer, with a more complicated ecosystem play.
Never making a tradeoff between layers. Never saying: Well, we'll make a loss on product sales here because we'll make it up by selling the data over the customer lifetime. Ugh. Misaligned interests. Dirty onion.
I'm rambling. Business onion.
Let's do another coffee morning in 3 weeks... Thursday April 9th, same bat-place, same bat-channel.
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Liguori: No Distractions For Mickelson, So He Says, As Quest For U.S. Open Title Continues
Phil Mickelson has finished as a runner-up in the U.S. Open six times. Could this be the tournament he finally captures to complete a career Grand Slam?
Liguori: Brilliant Short Game Will Determine U.S. Open Champ At Pinehurst
What, no ankle-deep rough? What kind of U.S. Open is this? A course with no tall, gnarly rough seems almost unheard of.
Liguori: Memory Of Payne Stewart Permeates Pinehurst, U.S. Open
It seems like just yesterday when I was here, in 1999, when Stewart won an electrifying U.S. Open. Four months later, Stewart and five others perished in a plane crash.
Nadal's Knee Is A Question Heading Into The U.S. Open
Nadal's knees have had recurring problems over the years, particularly the left one, which kept him out from late 2012 until early 2013.
Arthur Ashe Stadium To Have Roof By 2017 US Open
U.S. Tennis Association officials said Thursday that Arthur Ashe Stadium could be covered as soon as the 2016 tournament, but more likely the following year.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Withdraws From US Open
The eighth-ranked Frenchman hasn't played since June 26 when he was forced to retire from his second-round match at Wimbledon against Ernests Gulbis.
USTA: Retractable Roof Will Be Constructed Over Arthur Ashe Stadium
The United States Tennis Association says a retractable roof will be constructed over Arthur Ashe Stadium, the main venue for the U.S. Open.
Ryder Cup Appears To Be Headed To Bethpage Black On Long Island
From an operations standpoint, there is ample space in the state park for hospitality and other structures that have turned the Ryder Cup into the biggest show in golf.
Federer Trying To Re-Energize Game In Cincinnati
Roger Federer usually feels good when he arrives in Cincinnati for a tournament he has won more times than anyone else. This week, not so much.
Serena Williams Wins Rogers Cup In Romp
The top-ranked woman breezed to her third Rogers Cup title Sunday with a 6-2, 6-0 victory over unseeded Romanian Sorana Cirstea. This was her eighth WTA title of the year and the 54th of her career.
Seles Picked For US Open Court Of Champions
Two-time U.S. Open winner Monica Seles will be inducted into the tournament's Court of Champions during a ceremony before the women's final Sept. 8.
Murray, Nadal Win In Montreal
Andy Murray made a successful return in his first match since winning at Wimbledon, beating Spain's Marcel Granollers 6-4, 7-6 (2) on Wednesday in the second round of the Rogers Cup.
Silverman: PGA Stage Is Set For Epic Tiger Vs. Lefty Duel
When Woods is on, most of his fellow competitors are intimidated. None would admit it, but even solid top-10 golfers seem to lose their confidence when Woods is on. Mickelson is not one of them.
Isner's Loss Means No US Men In Next Week's Top 20
Next week, for the first time in 40 years of ATP rankings, there will be no American men in the top 20. That's because John Isner, who is 20th this week, is assured of dropping lower after losing Tuesday.
Phil Mickelson Eyes Career Grand Slam After Winning British Open
The last one eluding Mickelson is the U.S. Open, a championship where he's been the runner-up six times — most recently last month at Merion.


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Mass grave of Kosovo victims found in Serbia
Kosovo deputy Prime Minister, Rame Manaj, claimed the discovery was a result of pressure from the EU.
"This comes too late, but this pressure from the international community is welcome as it is the only force that can move things from point zero," Manaj said of the discovery of the bodies.
"It is painful news," said Xhavit Beqiri, the spokesman for Kosovo's president.
"We suspect there are more Kosovo victims in other such mass graves around Serbia which Belgrade has always known about, but has selectively unearthed them to reduce the scope of the crimes committed in Kosovo," Beqiri said.
Vukcevic urged Kosovo's authorities to investigate the fate of about 500 Kosovo Serbs who he said remain unaccounted for since the 1998-99 war after revenge attacks by ethnic Albanians.
Associated Press writers Dusan Stojanovic in Belgrade and Nebi Qena in Pristina contributed to this report.
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The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have passed a $956.4 billion farm bill that includes money that Rep. Allyson Schwartz secured for a national Healthy Food Financing Initiative to bring jobs and affordable food retail options to urban and rural communities.
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Holiday dining and celebrations are a culinary challenge for most Americans, especially those with diet-related illnesses. While I'm not a diabetic, my family medical history provides a cautionary tale. The American Diabetes Association estimates that 23.6 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, but only 17.9 million people actually have been diagnosed. This means approximately 5.7 million people have diabetes and don't know it.


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