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In the mid-1990s, Craig Newmark began the experimental email-list-then-webpage known as Craigslist in the San Francisco Bay area. People would post job listings, classified ads, announcements and so forth. Among the first users of the site was a woman who is known to thousands of readers as "drmk," one of the authors of the hilarious site "You Suck at Craigslist" (YSaC).
"Not to be the old grumpy man who insists on telling stories about walking to school uphill both ways barefoot over broken glass, but I really do remember when Craigslist was actually just a small group of people, and when you could trust everyone on it. I found jobs, roommates, subleasers, co-workers,
friends and things to do on Craigslist," drmk said in an interview with Toledo Free Press Star.
She continued to use the service throughout its explosive expansion, which would see it grow to include cities around the world. A few years ago, inspiration struck.
"I was spending more time than usual on Craigslist during the summer of 2008 because I was bargain hunting, and I kept seeing ads that made me laugh, cringe or both. I started posting them on my personal webpage, with snarky comments, just for my friends. They made the mistake of encouraging me, and here we are now," drmk said.
Yes, here we are, three years and more than 1,000 posts later. The blog has become an exhaustive archive of entries on Craigslist from around the world, including everything from people selling nonsensical items, pictures that don't go with the description, sub-literate and misguided text and so on. Each entry comes accompanied by snarky and hilarious commentary by drmk or her husband, Dan.
"I wrote the posts for about the first year of the site; I would always run them by Dan, though, to see if he could think of anything, or could think of a clever title. Eventually he started writing posts, and we now share the post-writing responsibilities. When one of us is busy, the other will go on a spree and write a bunch in a row," drmk said.
Ever since the early days of the site, drmk and Dan have maintained strict anonymity. The only clue to drmk's "real" identity she will provide is that she works in academia. When she started YSaC, "drmk" was just a nonsense alias she had used for all her online writing.
"When I kept writing the site, I was glad I had started it anonymously because I realized that if my colleagues and supervisors knew what I was doing, they would ask me why I was wasting my time doing this and not writing more professional articles. Academia is on a publish-or-perish model; if you don't get articles published, you don't get to keep your job … so I didn't want there to be any questions about whether I could have done more professional writing when it came time for my reviews," drmk said.
Still, drmk and Dan are far from reticent in participating in the community which has formed around their work.
In addition to maintaining Facebook and Twitter pages devoted to the site, both are frequent participants in the "You Suck at Craigslist" forums, where their unique avatars have given rise to the curious nicknames "Llama-nun" (drmk) and "Ostrimu."
drmk credits YSaC visitors with much of the evolution the site has gone through.
"They're the ones that pick up certain ideas and run with them, creating memes and recurring 'in-jokes.' I frequently say that I think that the reader comments are the best part of the site," she said.
With such expansive and passionate readership, it's unlikely that the authors behind YSaC will run out of material anytime soon. They receive between 75 to 100 new submissions a week, drmk estimates, and post a new installment every weekday, with weekends spent spotlighting older entries from the expansive archives.
Such a wealth of material would seem to be naturally transferable to the printed page, though drmk said not to hold your breath for a YSaC book anytime soon.
"I was told by a couple of different publishers that I would need to dumb things down. Sorry, I like that we make references to the Maginot Line, modern art and physics in posts — sometimes in the same one! — and if we remain with a small core of readers who enjoy that as well, then we're happy," she stated.
And happiness is the key to the enterprise for its two authors.
"Dan and I have an agreement: we will keep writing the site for as long as it's fun for us. If it stops being fun, we will stop writing the site. It's still fun," drmk said.
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We've known for months that Maryland would open its season against Connecticut in Brooklyn this fall, but now we've been provided with some details.
According to a release from the Maryland athletic department via Twitter, the Terps will face the Huskies on Nov. 8 at 6:30 p.m. ET at Barclays Center to begin their 2013-14 campaign. The game will air on ESPN2.
Maryland began last season with a game at Barclays vs. Kentucky, a marquee matchup between two future lottery picks, Nerlens Noel and Alex Len.
This season will have a different feel without Len, now making it a matchup between two teams both in the midst of conference realignment.
Coach Kevin Ollie and UConn will bring a rebranded program to Barclays on Nov. 8, a team that is back to being eligible for the NCAA tournament. In Ollie's first season at the helm in 2012-13, the Huskies were barred from postseason play for achieving a non-qualifying Academic Progress Rate.
Ollie weathered a storm of transfers and defections, along with the departure of longtime head coach Jim Calhoun, and now is the head of a team that is stronger as it enters the new American Athletic Conference.
The November matchup will mark the first meeting between the two programs since March of 2002, when Maryland beat Connecticut in the NCAA East Regional Finals.
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Apple, Google, and the value of iOS
Google continues to enjoy a unique position in the mobile space -- they make money off of pretty much every platform. If you use their own, freely licensed Android platform, they earn revenue off of advertising. If you use anyone else's platform, including Apple's iOS on the iPhone or iPad, Google still earns revenue off of advertising.
Recent Nielson numbers claimed Android owned nearly 50% of the US smartphone market. Google, however, owns the vast majority of advertising revenue on nearly 100%.
According to The Guardian, since 2008 Google has earned $550 million from Android, or roughly $10 per device per year. (Since Google gives away Android licenses for free, that money likely comes from advertising related to search and other services). By contrast, Google is estimated to earn $30 per PC per year. What's more, Google CEO Larry Page recently claimed revenue from mobile was now running at $2.5 billion. So $2.5 billion minus $0.55 billion leaves roughly $2 billion in revenue from other platforms. And given market share, much of that would likely be iOS.
Marketingland calls foul on The Guardian's numbers, however, saying there's no way to tie settlement valuations to earnings figures from Android, and hence no way to determine what percentage of Google's mobile revenue comes from iOS vs. Android.
Update: Asymco weighs in and thinks the numbers might not be far off.
Many of these figures begin to "hang together" as we balance assumptions about costs, revenues and statements made in public. There is a consistency within a comfortable margin of error. If that is the case, then the economics of Android begins to take shape.
So in terms of returns, Android is sustainable. However, in relative terms the value created leaves much to be desired. Whereas Android generates $1.70/device/year and thus an Android device with a two year life generates about $3.5 to Google over its life, Apple obtained $576.3 for each iOS device it sold in 2011[4]. The economics of Android are nothing like the economics of iOS.
For the sake of argument, even if they're not 20/80 but closer to 50/50 or even 80/20, that's still a huge amount of money to make from a competitor's platform, and a huge competitive advantage.
Apple, of course, makes no money from Android users. They offer other platforms precisely nothing in terms of services or software. While you can get iTunes on Windows, you can't get mobile iTunes Store.app on Android or any other platform. You can't get the mobile iWork or iLife suites. You can't get iBooks. You can't get anything.
While the iOS App Store plays host to several apps from Google (and Microsoft), Google play (and Microsoft Marketplace) have exactly nothing from Apple.
That means iOS users have absolutely the best choice when it comes to mobile software (what else is new?), but it also means Google (and to a lesser degree, Microsoft) have revenue opportunities beyond their own platform.
That's part of the reason Android exists. Google originally fielded Android in part so that it could never be frozen out of mobile, where they and everyone else saw the future was headed at an accelerating pace. Back then, Android was meant to compete with Windows Mobile, and the potentially dominant Microsoft cutting out Google and using their own services was a legitimate concern.
Then the iPhone happened, and with it the mobile web happened in a way never possible before. Microsoft's mobile future suddenly dimmed sharply, and Google responded, smartly, by doing an about face and making taking Android decidedly in an iPhone direction. Whether or not Apple would ever field a Google competitor remains in question, but Google fielded an Apple competitor. It caused a schism to the degree that the late Steve Jobs vowed "thermonuclear war" to stop what he considered to be "stolen property". It also gave the carriers a powerful OS to do with as they would (and if we can agree on anything, it's that the carriers are more "evil" than Apple and Google squared).
Now, four years later, despite attacking Apple as being the enemy of openness, despite giving control of the user experience back to carriers, despite creating an uncertain update and compatibility environment for a growing segment of the smartphone market, Google remain the default search and map engine on iOS, and iOS remains a valuable revenue source for Google.
Sure, Apple could one day flip a switch and make a different provider the default search engine, and even with the market dominance Google enjoys, that would hurt. (For some percentage of users, settings don't exist and whatever is the default remains the default.) Yet, ironically, it's Android itself that's made that more likely than it may otherwise ever have been.
Still, for now, the more users Android gets, the better for Google. The more users iOS gets, the better for Google. The more users anyone gets -- with the exception of forked variants of Android itself, like Amazon's -- the better for Google.
Reference: The Guardian, Marketingland, Asymco
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Apple, Google, and the value of iOS
Considering that these values were not based on any solid Android revenue numbers, but rather on speculation based on pre-trial documents concerning what Google as offerred Oracle settlement talks, I would have to agree that this is the sort of amplification of unfounded rumor around the blogosphere you had indicated tipb would not be doing. Had this been a story that put Apple in bad light, I daresay you would have decried this as dumb and refused to write about it, not placed its premise in a headline as a fact.
Yeah, totally my bad. I hit publish instead of update while still working on the post (not the first time, probably not the last). One of our writers first wrote this up when The Guardian's article went live and we sat on it for a while to check into the numbers, and both of us updated it several times, and sat on it some more. We ended up scrapping it to go with a more editorial approach.
The idea that Google earns significant revenue from competing platforms, even when Android has become the dominant platform by market share, is interesting regardless if the numbers are 20/80 or 80/20. It's a huge hedge and a huge competitive advantage.
It's also not a "dumb Google story" by any stretch of the imagination -- I'd write it up in a second for AC if they wanted it, and point out the huge advantage it gives Google just the same.
Apologies again for the mix up, feel free to flame on the proper post if it's equally deserving.
Re: "Sure, Apple could one day flip a switch and make a different provider the default search engine, and even with the market dominance Google enjoys, that would hurt. "
First step: new Apple mapping system. Not just the toy OpenMap in iPhoto. An advanced system based partly on C3 Technologies, which Apple acquired last year. That might hurt a little.
Next step: beef up Siri and its use of Wolfram Alpha and other non-Google technologies. Siri gives you an answer, not a spammed-up and questionably prioritized list of web page links. That will hurt more.
Beyond that: expand Siri to iPad and Mac (and maybe the Apple television set.) Apple users won't need to use web browsers to get quick answers. The browser is the "truck" of the internet. The big, clunky workhorse that can do almost anything, but which is terrible overkill for simple information retrieval tasks.
Using a browser for "What time is Hunger Games showing near me?" is like driving an 18-wheeler to the 7-11 to get a six-pack of beer.
There is something wrong with the idea that a company making billions on topic billions, and has so much cash it doesn't know what to do with it, needs to hurt another company. Steve Jobs is dead and that grudge should have died with him.
Lloyd, the steps I outlined are more or less inevitable. iOS' Maps app is barely acceptable now. Apple needs to seriously improve it. Apple can and will leverage Siri, and doing so will affect many existing businesses, including Google's browser-based search engine advertising business.
The automobile hurt the horseshoe business. Oops. Sorry.
I think the bigg difference between Google (as a former Andriod user), is when you by Apple you can use all Apple products. But a lot of the "Google" apps don't work well on iOS. However Apple works smoother and is not a the Mercy of the Carriers. I wish Apple would by out a carrier and then offer their own network.
Very insightful and thought-provoking analysis. Keep up the good work.


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The Link Gallery is a unique exhibition space connecting the Door Community Auditorium to the adjacent Gibraltar Area Schools. The Link provides a space for exhibits that explore ideas in the humanities, the creative arts, history, the sciences, the world around us and the world beyond.
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Photography of Jim Rossol. Also featured, Reformations by John Whitney.
The Trillium Quilt Guild Presents Door County, Its Land and Water
Dates: August 4 – 27
Door County, Its Land and Water features approximately 30 quilts depicting the richness of Door County. Among the subjects are landscapes, water scenes, wildflowers and wildlife, and the county's abundance of agricultural products.
The Trillium Quilt Guild has been part of the Door art scene for more than 16 years. The Guild's recent projects have included donating quilts to Sister Bay's Centennial, the Neighbor to Neighbor organization, victims of Hurricane Sandy, the Cancer Center at DCMH, and the Quilts of Valor project.
Trillium Quilt Guild's regularly scheduled exhibitions have included a collaboration with Door County Poets that resulted in two exhibitions and a publication, as well as shows at the Fairfield Gallery, the Link Gallery, the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Gallery, the Corner of the Past Museum, the Scandia Village Gallery, and The Ridges Sanctuary's Invitational Show celebrating its 75th Anniversary. Quilts by individual members have been juried into shows at the Hardy Gallery and the prestigious Quilt Expo in Madison.
Pictured: "The Flight of the Dragonflies" by Fran Burton of Ephraim, is a modern depiction of the endangered Hein's Emerald Dragonfly, which is found almost exclusively in Door County.
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Follow the 45-year journey to Northern Sky Theater… the evolution from a small 1970s troupe of folk enthusiasts singing on a sparsely-used stage to one of the major professional theatres in the Midwest, winning the Governor's Award for Arts, Culture & Heritage, and attracting over 45,000 loyal fans each year.


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A group of New Jersey residents are in the early stages of gauging the public's opinion about the idea of founding a charter school in Freehold Borough.
According to the State of New Jersey Department of Education website, "A charter school is a public school that operates independently of a local school district's board of education under a charter granted by the commissioner (of education).
"Once a charter is approved and established, the school is managed by a board of trustees with status as a public agent authorized by the State Board of Education to supervise and control the school. A charter school is a corporate entity with all the powers needed to carry out its charter program."
Richard Ginn is serving as a spokesman for a group of residents who are considering the possibility of seeking approval for the creation of the Beta Charter School.
Ginn said the charter school would create an innovative learning environment that includes a personalized learning program for all students, a longer instructional day, and technologically enhanced curriculum that fosters creativity and problem solving.
He discussed the idea of a charter school with members of the Freehold Borough School District Board of Education on Jan. 23. Ginn said he is hoping to engage board members in a dialogue about the issue.


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WPAY Radio "Man on the Street" interview around 1950 submitted by Craig Shaw.
Craig Shaw wrote: This is Harold Arthurs of WPAY conducting an interview in front of Kresge's on Chillicothe Street.
Ron Gulley wrote: Bill Dawson also did the "Man On The Street" and gave out coupons for a free bottle of Barq's Root Beer. I got my share.
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The intellectual and political life of the United States over the past 60 years was affected in so many important and enduring ways by Irving Kristol that it is difficult to capture in words the extent of his powerful and positive influence. Irving, who died today at the age of 89, was the rarest of creatures—a thoroughgoing intellectual who was also a man of action. He was a maker of things, a builder of institutions, a harvester and disseminator and progenitor of ideas and the means whereby those ideas were made flesh.
The clarity of his thinking and the surety of his purpose were one and the same; they were immeasurably enhanced by a powerful curiosity for the way things worked and the ways in which things could be made to work better. His was a restless intelligence, always on the move; there was not an idea he didn't want to play with, and there wasn't a new idea for a think tank or a magazine or a center for the study of something-or-other that didn't excite him. He was a conservative by temperament and conviction, but he was an innovator to the depths of his being.
The number of institutions with which he was affiliated, or started, or helped grow into major centers of learning and thinking is hard to count. There is this institution, COMMENTARY, where he began working after his release from the Army following the conclusion of the Second World War. There were two other magazines in the 1950s, the Reporter and Encounter, which he helped found and whose influence on civil discourse was profound and enduring, even legendary. There was the Public Interest, the quarterly he co-founded in 1965 with Daniel Bell and then ran with Nathan Glazer for more than 30 years, which was the wellspring of neoconservative thinking on domestic-policy issues. He helped bring a sleepy Washington think tank called the American Enterprise Institute into the forefront. And he made Basic Books into a publishing powerhouse that was, for more than 20 years, at the red-hot center of every major debate in American life.
It was through his encouragement and lobbying efforts that several foundations began providing the kind of support to thinkers and academics on the Right that other foundations and most universities afforded thinkers and academics on the Left. Through his columns in the Wall Street Journal, he instructed American businessmen on the relation between what they did and the foundational ideas of capitalism as explicated by Adam Smith, and changed many of them from sideline players in the battle over the direction of the American economy into front-line advocates.
Just an example of Irving's approach: In 1979, as a first-year student at the University of Chicago, I started a magazine called Midway (later Counterpoint) with my friend Tod Lindberg, now the editor of Policy Review. I sent the first issue to Irving, a family friend. He called me a few days later. "Do you need money?" he said in his fascinating accent, which bore both traces of the Brooklyn of his youth and the London where he spent crucial years in his 30s. "Money?" I said. "No, we made enough from advertising to pay for it."
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So it was with Irving the mentor. There are people throughout the United States, writers and editors and academics and thinkers and speechwriters and policymakers, who owe their careers and the shape of their lives to Irving and his direct efforts on their behalf—giving them counsel, writing them letters, finding them employment. He was a human job bank.
It was interesting how interested he was in people in this way, because he was not an open person—friendly, funny, brilliantly anecdotal, yes, but not given to the present-day exchange of intimacies. And yet no one I've known in my 48 years on this earth did more, and more selflessly, for more people than Irving Kristol. It might have been that his essential kindness required him to keep some distance emotionally, lest he be swallowed up by his compulsive need to help.
His hunger to do lots of different things, his innate restlessness, was certainly why he was not a writer of books, though he was a crafter of English prose almost without peer in his time, strong and bold and authoritative. He published several important collections of essays but left the writing of magisterial volumes to his wife. When they were dating, he related at his 80th birthday party, he told the ambitious young Gertrude Himmelfarb that he would make sure if they married that she would write 10 books—and, he reported almost offhandedly in a manner that made tears spring to the eyes of many in the room, page proofs for her tenth book had arrived that day at their apartment in the Watergate. I suspect that, in Irving's eyes, his foremost contribution to the intellectual life of his time was the encouragement, support, and freedom he gave in supporting Bea as she became one of the great historians of ideas of the 20th century.
We at COMMENTARY will be opening the entirety of his 45-article oeuvre in our archives (from his first contribution, a short story called "Adam and I," published in November 1946, to his last, a 1994 essay entitled "Countercultures") for free perusal by all readers. It is a treasure trove, as he was himself an incomparable treasure of a man, an intellectual, and an American. May Bea, Bill, Liz, and Irving's five grandchildren be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.


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Escape is a new competitive multiplayer mode in Aliens: Colonial Marines where you can choose to be either a Xenos or marine soldier.
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Aliens: Colonial Dukes Forever.
Playing in "first person view" as a marine, then switching into "3rd person view" to play as an alien seems irregular. Hope you can end up changing it.
gameplay seems very shallow. however, i trust Gearbox to deliver on this one.
looks nice but why not 8 vs 8 or 16 vs 16? 4 each team is a bit less :s
Reminds me of the multiplayer for pc :)
This game looks promising. The Xeno Spitter looked the coolest of the 3.
hope its as good as it looks
Page froze twice while I was trying to watch this. Nice one, GS. 0/10
That's one HELLLL of a trailer! This is one to watch....it might be great!
That is the way DX11 is supposed to look like. Fantastic looking game. If the game play matches the graphics this will be great.
The game seems to be great. Fortunately, with this lackluster pre-order bonuses, I am in no hurry to give them my money. I'll be able to check the reviews to choose which version I'll get.
Its such a shame the game got zero point o chicks in it
Gun turrets, ATV's, and a playable female marine character in the 41's second of the video? Its looking like Gearbox is taking the extra year to hash everything out, and it looks well worth it. now if they can only make the game as good as the movies Alien, and Aliens, which were both four star movies, we as fans will be all set! "An opportunity for perfection".
@GamerOuTLaWz No, the two series are separate. AVP has nothing to do with the original Alien, Aliens, or Prometheus series. Predators don't exist in that world.
A:CM is going to be awesome, even the doubters are getting swayed to believe it might actually be good.
When I first saw game play of this game it didn't look too promising...but now I'm actually excited...Dead Space 2's multiplayer was so good in my opinion, so if people could stick around and play this? It'd be awesome!!! I honestly like the fact that you're trying to escape...the only thing that could be bad is if they came out with only 3 maps or something like that. THAT would get old...5 could get by :) and hopefully it can be balanced and what not. Also this would be sick because of a "horror" and "intense" feel the game could give off. Xeno's are terrifying, and dangerous, so that would definitely help with the atmosphere :) Looking good Gearbox!!!
looks good :)
Good old slimy with special combat skills ? Looks promising.
The more I see, the more I want. In Randy we trust.
meh.. not interested.. looks rubbish
yes im getting excited with each bit they show of this game looks like it was worth the wait :)
Wow! This is looking really good, I must admit I was very unsure of how this one would turn out but after a whole heap of images and a few videos later, I'm definitely interested! Let's hope it matches our expectations and delivers an Alien game that we've been waiting for...For so long!
We could build a campfire. Sing a couple of songs.
Game over, man.
Looks realy badass!
i was seriously praying they would produce a game as per the versus mode in left 4 dead ... thank god my prayers were answered! this is going to be one hell of a game.
"they mostly come at night...mostly"Lets be honest here, anyone that grew up with Alien and AvP games isnt going to get the same kick out of this as they did as kid, same can be said for much of life. What this game will hopefully do however is get a hole new generation of kids hooked on the Alien experience and hopefully have as much fun as i did when i was younger.
It matters not which game pioneered modes etc first or any other similarity. What matters Is that a game Is fun. I hope that this game Is fun to play because the visuals & sounds are looking authentic.
Me in 1999- Playing AVP with a friend on survival mode in the gorge. We fight our way through waves of aliens through the gorge until we see a bunker. We open it and shut the door. Theres a smartgun and a flame thrower in there. We continue firing through the port holes as they start to mount the bunker and tear it apart from the top. The roof collapses and aliens pour in. Game over man...game over.
Wow has no one here played the first AVPs? They had modes like this way before L4D. This is not a new attempt at multiplayer survival for these guys. I get the feeling most of you L4D kiddies weren't even born back then.
Left 4 Dead Aliens edition :D
Wasn't sure about this game. But reading posts and watching videos, this looks awesome.
i so hope that the game lives up to the 3 years of hype its been given (",)
Looks cool but I've been fooled before...
Left 4 Alien.
@Ronaldo27 PC. ONLY!
@Ronaldo27 Yeah I'm on that boat as well.
@Armyboy5 i know. if it weren't being made by Gearbox, i would completely ignore this.
i mean, what's in there? Aliens? yeah sure, who wouldn't like Aliens, but that's about it. extremely shallow looking FPS. not even their official website can tell a single interesting feature that the game is going have. it's like "GUNS! ALIENS!" and that's it.
@Armyboy5 What's not to like? Aliens, guns, multiplayer, the canonical sequel some of us have wanted since 1986...
@genjuroT Game over man....game over.. Best quote EVER from Aliens. & agree w/ your prev comment, AvP had some fun multiplayer for its time..
@orpheus-livepa It's been way longer than 3 years.
@Nerdonomicon do some research and stop talking out your ass, L4D was not orignal.
@boredom_kills @Armyboy5 Aliens vs Predator (2010) also had aliens, guns and multiplayer. heck, even predators on top of that, and was it any good? hell no. unlike the original AVPs.
@DaRadRussian @orpheus-livepa Yeah but it's not 3 years of non-stop development. Things get shelved or set aside for other things.
Just guessing, but I think they chose Left 4 Dead as they can swap the 'Dead' for 'Alien'… Because it's funny...
@groowagon Sorry, I have to disagree with you there. I know I'm in a minority, but I really enjoyed AvP back in 2010.


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Who Did Justin Bieber Take as His Date to the Billboard Music Awards? (Hint: Not Selena Gomez!)
Selena Gomez lent her boyfriend, Justin Bieber, to 18-year-old Cady Eimer for the night of the Billboard Music Awards.
Justin decided to take the Virginia high school student as his date to the awards show after prior obligations forced him to decline her many, many invitations to go to senior prom with her (all chronicled on Cady's website, One Less Lonely Prom).
"I couldn't make it [to prom] so I said I need you to fly to the Billboard Awards and you can be my date," he told People. "She's a big fan and I thought it would be fun."
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How is this Bushes fault?
#1. Bush didnt make Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.
#2.Bush didnt make any one of the lost lives or the rescused people stay in their homes when they should have had enough sense to leave.
#3. Local and Sate Governments FAILED horribly. They should have been the first in line for support and help.
Now I will agree, hindsight is 20/20 and looking at this any caring person should have just broke the chain of command and went in there and helped these ppl. Our Government wastes too much money on forgien soil only to neglect out own interests here at home. But this is not a BUSH issue, it is a General GOVERNMENT issue. No matter who was in office I doubt the recovery effort would be significant enough for any of you.
Bush is no saint, he is just as guilty in the lack of immediate recovery as was Blanco, Nadin, and the people who choose to stay behind and then rely on someone elses helping hand. Everyone is a bit at fault here, so people should bury the hatchet , quit the public biching and get on with the rebuilding of this great city!


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EnerGulf Resources Inc. has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) ) with the Congo, being represented by its Minister of Energy, to further negotiate the final terms of a Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production Concession covering all or significant parts of the onshore area, Les Zones du Bassin Cotier (ZBC). The ZBC is located in the onshore coastal Congo Salt Basin of Western Congo. The approximate size of the area is 4,916 square kilometers (1.2 million acres).
The ZBC is adjacent to the highly prospective Cabinda area of Angola. The offshore blocks of Cabinda closest to the ZBC contain the giant (>500 million barrels recoverable reserves) Malongo and Takula field complexes operated by Chevron. Immediately adjacent to the ZBC in onshore Cabinda are several undeveloped shallow oil discoveries in blocks held by Devon, Occidental and ROC. It is also immediately adjacent to the East-Mibale, Laiwenda-Kinkasi and Muana-Banana fields operated by Perenco.
Onshore oil production from the Perenco fields is about 9,000 barrels of oil per day. Offshore production from Perenco and Chevron in Congo waters account for about 18,000 barrels of oil per day. Currently, proven and probable reserves for both onshore and offshore Congo is estimated at 107 million barrels of oil and 133 billion cubic feet of gas.
A major U.S. oil company previously documented six untested leads with potential recoverable reserves of 880 million barrels of oil within the ZBC. The primary potential reservoir zones associated with these leads are at depths between 6,000 and 10,000 feet.
Commenting on the MOU with the Congo, Jeff Greenblum, Chairman of the Board of EnerGulf stated, "We are planning a very aggressive exploration program that will begin upon the execution of the Concession that is being formalized. This agreement achieves another milestone in EnerGulf's Pan-African business plan of assembling a strong portfolio of highimpact oil and gas exploration opportunities."
Dr. Bill St. John, EnerGulf's Senior Advisor for African Exploration commenting on the geological merits of the MOU said, "Nearby onshore production has shown the area covered by our MOU has similar potential to the proven fields offshore. I believe that modern exploration techniques will unveil the world class potential long thought to exist in the Congo Salt Basin."


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LOS ANGELES (AP) – It probably would have been quite the spectacle to watch: Sasha Baron Cohen as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in a movie. But it looks like that won't happen now. Cohen has pulled out of the project. Deadline.com says the reason is creative differences with Queen over the shape the project would take. Cohen wants the movie to be rated R, while the surviving members of Queen want it rated PG-13. The musicians also disagreed with some of the writers and directors Cohen wants to bring aboard the project.


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Intel's work to raise awareness of environmental issues, such as the
K-12 e-Green Initiative
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World Environment Day 2010
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Excellence Award
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Environmental consciousness runs through every aspect of Intel's work, as the company strives to minimise its environmental footprint. As well as addressing its operations, including product design and manufacture, Intel has also assumed responsibility in helping to encourage and educate tomorrow's generation around environmental issues.
Since 2008, the Korea
K-12 e-Green Initiative
has fostered young environmental leaders and evangelists and empowered students and educators in the area of environmental science.
Initiatives include a nationwide environmental science contest; with winners from the contest taken on a trip to Intel's facilities to learn about how chips are manufactured and witness eco-friendly operation management at first-hand.
Internally, Intel Korea initiated the '
Go Green
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World Environment Day 2010
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The results were above expectations and, following the participants' recommendations, plans have been made to expand the Bazaar to a building-wide event in collaboration with other companies housed in the building, such as 3M and Hanadaetoo Securities. All unsold goods were donated to the
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|Papers (1931-1981) of Reino Makela (1915-1979) consist of letters he wrote from the Soviet Union (Karelia) to his childhood and youth friend Eva Helen Erickson residing in the U.S. Makela was born in the United States and emigrated with his family to Karelia in the Soviet Union in 1931.
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Roger that jsmith, well said.
Maybe you're right. Maybe it's time they do away with the killer whales, change their logo to a dolphin or turtle, and just repurpose those tanks for something else. I can think of one completely awesome thing to do with that tank if they ever felt the need to build a new attraction.
Anyone ever remember MarineWorld in the late 70's, early 80's? They had that attraction where you rent a wetsuit and snorkel through an artificial reef? I'd love to see a park make one of those again someday. Of all the park attractions that died and never came back ( at any theme park ) that one still ranks #1 in my book. Someone should have redone that by now.


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95% of the orders at Hallmark Business Connections are processed online, CEO Tressa Angell says.
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95% of the orders at Hallmark Business Connections are processed online, CEO Tressa Angell says.
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The iPhone 4S shows the future of the mobile user interface.
Apple Inc.'s latest and greatest trick is Siri. And what a great trick it is.
Siri is the female-voiced speech recognition software that enables users of the new iPhone 4S to speak instead of type. Siri is comprehensive—she works in the smartphone's Calendar, Contacts, Music, Notes, Phone and Text apps. When used on her own, she can do any number of things, such as check the weather or current stock quotes.
She even has a sense of humor. When you say to her, "Siri, beam me up." She addresses you by name and says, "Stand still."
But what startled me while trying out the new technology was when I asked her a retail question, having no idea what she'd do. I said, "Siri, I need a men's shirt." She paused for just a moment, then told me, "I found a number of men's clothing stores fairly close to you." And onscreen she displayed listings of stores from closest to furthest. Touching a store links to Google Maps where you are supplied with directions.
There have been other applications of speech recognition technology, but I've never seen one so comprehensive and accurate. And helpful. That's the whole point, to be helpful.
Much is made of typing on the small screen of a smartphone being difficult. Well, if that's a problem for you, here's the solution. And it's a solution that's only going to grow in availability and use. Why type when you can speak? Some mobile technology experts like to call typing "friction" and say, rightfully so, that mobile commerce should be as frictionless as possible. Speech recognition is definitely the way to go.
I could not write this post without mentioning the pioneering work of Buy.com Inc. The e-retailer offers speech recognition technology as part of its site search in its mobile app. In addition, you can take a picture of an item and search by image or scan a bar code of an item and search by code. Site search through Buy.com's app is about as frictionless as you can get.
It won't be too very long before people start expecting speech recognition, so you might want to jot it down somewhere on your mobile commerce strategic roadmap. The future of speech recognition is a bright one.
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UNICEF celebrates 60 years for children
NEW YORK, December 2006 - Six decades after its inception as a temporary relief agency, UNICEF is marking its 60th anniversary today, celebrating its many achievements on behalf of children all over the world.
For 60 years UNICEF has been the world's leader for children, working on the ground in 156 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.


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Phoenix Networking Breakfast
IHOP - 225 E Apache Blvd, Tempe AZ
Please join your fellow AZSA members for breakfast and networking!
Time: 8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Date: Wed., Feb. 26, 2014 -- NOTE: ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR FEB. 13, RESCHEDULED TO Wed., FEB. 26
Location: IHOP, 225 E Apache, Tempe, AZ (Click here for map)
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Join AZSA owners, operators, managers, and vendors to network over breakfast. If you are in the industry in any way, we'd love to have you. This is an open forum facilitated by Board of Directors member Dave King of Westport Properties/US Storage Centers. We will start by introducing ourselves and the companies we work for, followed by a short presentation by our sponsor. Then we will open the discussion up to the attendees. All storage related topics are welcome and you're encouraged to participate in the conversation. We'll do our best to conclude by 9:30 a.m.
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This uses a BS2 and some LEDs to make a cheap costume rad. The neighborhood kids loved it!
Step 1: Parts
19 Leds
1 Solderless breadboard
2 9 volt batteries
16 470 ohm resistors
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Wire strippers
soldering iron
Serial port
Step 2: Solder time
I plugged them in to the breadboard in pins 1-16 of the BS2.
I ran one wire from the negative of the 9v battery out to the "chest plate" of the costume, wear I ran it to all of the negative leads on the LEDs.


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Open Football Practice Coaches and Players Quotes
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. - West Virginia players and assistant coaches addressed members of the media Saturday during the Mountaineers' open practice at Milan Puskar Stadium.
Redshirt junior tight end/fullback Cody Clay
On improvement
I put a lot of effort into losing a little bit of weight. I wanted to boost my speed and I've gotten better at that. Any possible category of speed is what I want to get better at and what I'm working toward.
On position changes
I've gotten used to playing a lot of different places in the last two years, and I think I'm getting better at that. Tight end is my natural position, but I'll do whatever they tell me.
It's tough because I might go from playing tight end on one play and then play fullback on the next. It's difficult, but it's just something you have to do.
(Junior tight end/fullback) Garrett Hope is more of a natural tight end than a fullback, and he helps me on some things. I mean, it's a struggle for all of us and we're trying to just learn the ropes right now.
I definitely see multiple amounts of us on the field at once. There's a never ending amount of possibilities.
Redshirt sophomore offensive lineman Adam Pankey
On playing left tackle
It's fun to be next to a veteran like (redshirt senior offensive lineman) Quinton (Spain). I get a lot of tips from him every day. I'm learning a lot from all of the veterans. They help me out every day.
On the offseason
I worked a lot on my upper body, and I'm still working on a lot of upper arm stuff. The biggest thing for me is getting stronger because I'm a little bit smaller than everybody. I'll continue to work on that throughout the spring. I just want to be on the same level as everybody.
On the offense as a whole
It's too early to tell, but we're gelling a lot better. Our communication is getting a lot better. We're just taking everything a day at a time.
On experience last year
It helped me a lot to get on the field last year as a freshman. I got to know what to expect week in and week out in the Big 12, which is a lot of competition. It definitely helped me for this year.
Senior running back Dreamius Smith
On spring practice
It's going well. Everyone is doing new stuff. We're just all going 100 percent and doing what we can do.
On the competition
I knew coming in this year that everyone is fighting for a spot. It's a huge competition. We just treat it like it's ours. You just have to be the person to work the hardest. We're going to keep working hard every practice, executing plays and doing everything we can.
On improvement in the offense
We have more experience, and we talk a lot more now. When we come off the field, we talk and communicate. We see what we did right and wrong. We're going to feed off of that and just keep playing ball.
Redshirt junior linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski
On multiple looks on defense
Being multiple on defense is very important. Everyone can run a certain defense, but if you can come out with different things and different formations, you will be fine. It's a very big thing in the Big 12 because you see so many different offenses. You have teams with fast quarterbacks, run games and fast games.
If I had to call it something I'd just call it multiple. There are so many things we can do and it's early. It's early so it's hard to say.
On spring practice
It's a constant battle. Having this practice today definitely helped us on both sides of the ball, and it is a competition. At the end of the day, it's all fun and games.
Defensive Coordinator Tony Gibson
On defense as a whole
As long as we're playing hard, seeing the right stuff and playing the right guys, it's going to be hard for them to get past us. Right now, we've got a couple blitzes and base coverage plays. I want them to master that first to see what they can do. When you do a lot of things but you can't master them, that's when you see problems.
I think that the way we line up right now and our structure as a defense, we're giving them the position to succeed. We just want to get really good at what we're doing. We're about two weeks away from playing the spring game, and we only have about two weeks to get it cleaned up.
Senior Associate Head Coach Tom Bradley
On pacing of the defense
It's really hard to play in a game and not worry about how fast you're going to go. We're trying to get that going and alleviate some of that pressure by playing more than one guy at every position. We have guys that want to be the first ones on the field, and that's great competition.
We have some very good guys on our defense. Everybody on the defense, hopefully, will be able to do what we want them to do. We're getting practice with the pacing. That's one of the great things about practice here. At certain times we're getting tempo periods, and we get to run a lot of plays. We get to practice getting lined up.
One of the things you absolutely have to do is communicate, and that's what we're trying to do. Communication is the very first thing. Nobody huddles anymore. Everybody has to know the signals that way the game is played now. You're forcing everybody to limit and change the ways that they do things, because you just can't do all of them due to the changes.
Associate Head Coach - Special Teams Coordinator Joe DeForest
On improvement from last year
I'm coaching 10 safeties and nine specialists and coordinating all of these special teams. I've done that for 11 years, so it's not that different, but I mean it's always a challenge.
(Redshirt sophomore safety) Jarrod Harper is having a good spring. We have to find a consistent free safety. (Sophomore safety) Jeremy Tyler and (junior cornerback) Ricky Rumph are working back there. I'm going to play the best three guys, whoever they are.
If we're down in an overtime game and a close game, we will need to make good plays and make good spots, and I think we are well on our way to doing that.
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'I still find it strange that when I laugh, no sound comes out'
Posted: May 26, 2014|
Cancer has robbed Kym Godfrey of her voice – the words "daunting" and "life-changing" don't seem adequate to describe it – but the inspirational mother-of-two has overcome a setback which would defeat many of us.
"If I had to lose a sense I would rather my voice. I would hate not to be able to see or hear," she said.
Of course, the 49-year-old cannot utter the words – she converses are through her iPad, her fingers flying in response to my questions. Thanks to app technology, the machine voices the words as she types them.
Kym, from Loughborough, was the first woman and only the second patient at Leicester Royal Infirmary to have her vocal chords and tongue removed – a third patient has just had the same surgery.
By the time the cancer was diagnosed in October 2011, the tumour at the base of her tongue was the size of a prune.
She said: "I am sure it would have been smaller if the cancer had been picked up earlier.
"I had chemotherapy once a week and radiotherapy everyday for six weeks.
"I had to be tube-fed straight into my stomach and a special mask was made that moulded to my face and shoulders.
"This, in effect, bolted me to the table so I couldn't move while the radiotherapy rays tried to burn the tumour away."
It didn't work. At her March 2012 check-up, Kym was told the tumour had grown and spread into her vocal cords.
The only option was surgery.
Kym said: "It wasn't a difficult choice. It was surgery or die.
"I had my tongue, larynx and all the lymph system in my upper body removed. Muscle was taken from behind my right breast and brought up into the cavity left by my tongue being removed.
"A new base for my mouth was created from a skin graft taken from my thigh.
"I now have a permanent tracheostomy for breathing."
She was warned she would be unable to eat, drink or speak again.
New Zealander Kym, who lost her father to head and neck cancer 10 years ago, can't speak but can drink and eat liquidised food.
She said: "I miss bread and chips. I can still eat chocolate by putting pieces in my mouth and letting them melt.
"Even without a tongue I can still taste which is good. But I still find it strange that when I laugh no sound comes out."
Her darkest moment came two months after surgery when one of her sons, Lewis, was badly injured in a road accident.
Kym said: "There was nothing worse than not being able to talk to him in my own voice while he was in a coma. It broke my heart."
But Lewis pulled through and Kym went back to work part-time for care homes provider Rushcliffe Care, in Loughborough, where she is a training manager.
She is also involved with the charity 20-20 Voice which is raising money for the latest equipment to help early diagnosis of head and neck cancers.
Kym said: "Fund-raising is hugely important but for me 20-20 is all about helping others.
"I remember wishing I had someone to talk to before my operation who wasn't a family member."THE FACTS: Cancer of the larynxTHIS is an uncommon cancer which develops inside the tissue of the larynx.The larynx, or voice box, has thee main functions: It channels oxygen into the windpipe; produces the sound of the voice and acts like a valve by closing off the trachea to stop food or drink falling into the lungs.Symptoms of laryngeal cancer may include a lump or swelling in the neck, pain when swallowing, a persistent cough or a change in the voice.The causes are not clear but those who have a close relative diagnosed with head and neck cancer are estimated to be twice as likely to develop it.Other causes are thought to be exposure to some chemicals, as well as smoking and drinking.Most patients are over 60 and about four times as many men as women are affected.It is thought the human papilloma virus – HPV – may cause changes in the cells of the pharynx, the cavity connecting the back of the nose and mouth with the larynx and oesophagus.Treatment depends on how far the cancer has spread.For early-stage cancer it may be possible to remove it with laser surgery or radiotherapy.If it is more advanced, major surgery may be needed and in some cases a laryngectomy – removal the larynx. Where to get help and support
20-20 Voice Cancer is a Leicestershire-based charity raising money to buy the latest camera technology to help detect head and neck cancer. The other aim is to set up support, particularly for those with cancer of the larynx, such as phone and text line, plus an easily remembered e-mail for patients to contact.
For more information, see the website, or e-mail:
secretary2020cancerappeal @live.co.uk www.2020cancerappeal.org
COPING with Cancer is based at Helen Webb House, Westleigh Road, Leicester.
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Dr Thiagarajan Sridhar is a consultant oncologist at Leicester's hospitals. His colleagues see abut 150 cases of head and neck cancer a year.
He said: "Head and neck cancer is known to be associated with smoking and drinking and also with chewing tobacco.
"Recently, there has been more research on virus-induced cancer, from the HPV – the human papilloma virus.
"In 15 to 20 years we might see a reduction in cases because of the vaccination programme in schools, although only girls are vaccinated."
Dr Sridhar said there had been big advances in radiotherapy and chemotherapy in recent years.
"Radiotherapy techniques and more modern machinery means it is easier to adjust the dose of radiotherapy around the tumour," he said. "This in turns makes it easier to save structures such as the spine."
"However, it is still one of the toughest treatments with some difficult side effects.
"Ten to 15 years ago, most people would have had surgery, but this number is coming down."
Cancer of the larynx is considered a rare cancer with about 6,000 cases nationally each year.
Dr Sridhar said: "Many cases of oral cancer where patients smoke and drink could easily be avoided."


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profanation (plural profanations)
- The act of profaning; desecration, blasphemous behaviour, defilement.
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Ishi Pishi is the Klamath's only Class VI rapid, where luck plays a larger role thanskill in surviving it in a raft. Many ghosts roam its rocky foam. From the river canyon above, Ishi Pishi looks like it's half rapid, half waterfall. It is a 300-yard whiteout, spiked with house-sized boulders and 15-foot holes. Named by the Karok Indians, Ishi Pishi means end of the trail.
They knew what they were talking about. Over the years, many Karok dip netters have fallenhere and drowned. The most recent deaths came in the mid-eighties when three Indians took a motorboat across the river just above Ishi Pishi in order to fish on the far side. The motor cut out, the boat was swept through the falls and flipped, and all three men died.
Only one team of rafters is known to have run Ishi Pishi and survived, although the boat flipped and there were several injuries and near-drownings. James Quinn of Oregon led a team of rafters in a 17-footer, a big river raft by any standards. Brad Throgmorton, a steelhead guide who lives just above Ishi Pishi, was offered a seat in the raft, but decided to watch instead.
"They hit a big suck hole, and the raft started to wallow," Throgmorton told me."The oarsman jumped out of the boat, holding onto the railing, hoping to catch the current with his body to pull the boat out, but he was swept right out and the boat started to flip. Quinn's leg stuck between the bottom of the frame and the boat, and then it flipped upside down. With my binoculars, I felt like I was in the boat with them. I've done enough rafting so that I was living it blow-by-blow with them. My knees were actually trembling and I lost my breath."
It was a miracle that no one drowned, although Quinn came close. He came out of it with a broken hand and a warning for all rafters: Do not attempt it. At Ishi Pishi, we took his advice andportaged.
Next we were on to the Ikes, a long series of 10-foot rollers, Grand Canyon-style rapids and waves, big water made even bigger by the flooding of the Klamath. They are Ike, Big Ike and SuperIke. In a raft, you head for each crest and try to punch through, disappearing under water for a few seconds, then plunging straight down into a deep river hole, the hydraulics of the suck hole yanking you and the raft under.
"We should be reaching the Ikes by midafternoon," said Claypole, looking at the map while I guided the boat, directing it with various oar strokes. "But to get there, we'll have to get past Savage, Mixmaster, the Trench and others." After a while, you begin to feel like you're in a submarine, not a raft.
When you're at the oars, the idea is to point the boat at the shoreline, keeping trouble spotsdirectly in front of the raft. Then you can pull the oars back with all your might, rowing to stay away from rock outcrops, flip holes and vortexes that can haul you down and keep you there.
The river is like a motor on your boat, pushing you at 5 to 10 miles per hour, sometimes faster. But this motor never turns off, and that forces you to make snap decisions. The river does not wait for you. To keep a fresh man at the oars, we would trade every 30 minutes or so.
Rafts that flip at the Ikes often go completely airborne at a 45-degree angle before turning over and dumping their occupants.
At one big rock, I tried to skirt the raft along the edge of a whirlpool, but it literally sucked us in and spun us around 180 degrees before spitting us downriver. At least we were still upright. "I better take over at the Ikes," Claypole said with a laugh.
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A lavish urban fantasy playground attracting locals and guests alike
Philippe Starck's whimsical, extravagant design is present throughout the property, including in the restaurant and two bars, which have become a destination for locals and guests alike. Sheer curtains, a long teal and silver French chaise in the lobby, and an 80-foot bar are all memorable design elements. With the interesting design comes a hot scene, found in the Long Bar, the theatrical Purple Bar (where the bar resembles a meteorite), and the Suka Restaurant serving Malaysian street food. There is also a striking courtyard garden where DJs spin at night.
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The Sanderson Hotel is located on the north edge of Soho, a seven-minute walk from both the Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road tube stations. Soho is one of the most entertaining areas of London, home to the red light district, gay quarter, independent dining, record shops, and boutique shopping. The neighborhood is ideal for people watching at cafes and mingling with the hip, local crowd. Reasonably priced high street shopping is also near the hotel.
Sleek, sensual, novel interior design
Rooms at the Sanderson were designed with tranquility and urban escapism in mind. The lack of interior walls and presence of layers of movable sheer curtains results in a sensual, relaxed environment. Beds are often freestanding and bathrooms have transparent walls (not providing the most privacy). While the design is extravagant, the rooms also have great amenities including stocked minibars, flat-screen TVs, and big bathrooms. Some bathrooms have separate freestanding soaking tubs and walk-in showers. Carpets in the rooms feature the handwriting of Voltaire. A Wii gaming system is provided in every room, along with face towels and bottled mineral water for the ultimate Wii workout.
A courtyard with a fountain, billiards room, and tranquil spa
The Sanderson is packed with features. The Agua Spa (called the hotel's "urban bathhouse") is a relaxing, all-white space with 14 treatment rooms and meditation beds. The contemporary fitness room has cardio machines with individual TVs, and the billiard room is a dramatic space with a two-story stained glass window.
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The Sanderson is home to Suka's, a restaurant focused on Malaysian street food. The emphasis is equally on the design as it is the cuisine -- the hotel commissioned a high profile Paris architect for the interior.
The Long Bar features an 80-foot white onyx bar flanked by chairs decorated with eyeballs, while the Purple Bar is a darker, more theatrical space for cocktails.
The Sanderson is an edgy hotel with original and extravagant design by Philippe Starck. Innovative rooms feature a mostly all-white color palette designed without interior walls. There is an emphasis here on texture, seen in the layers of sheer curtains that divide different areas of the room. Design touches include carpets with Voltaire's handwriting and luxurious bathrooms, some with separate walk-in showers and freestanding soaking tubs. There are many hotel highlights beyond the rooms, including an all-white tranquil spa with 14 treatment rooms and meditation beds. A contemporary fitness room has individual TVs at cardio machines, and a billiard room features 1950s stained glass. The restaurant, Suka, serves Malaysian food, and a Mad Hatter's themed afternoon tea is served in the striking courtyard.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking Congress for authority to effectively regulate firms such as the one that Mount Pleasant resident Bob Ross said sickened him with their product.
"The deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis associated with a compounded medication was a horrible tragedy, and I've asked myself many times if and how it could have been prevented," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in her latest blog post.
"I speak for everyone at FDA when I say that our hearts go out to the many victims, including those still struggling with this devastating infection, and their loved ones."
Ross said he was injected with a suspected fungus-tainted steroid shipped from New England Compounding Center. Under current law, such compounding pharmacies fall in a regulatory gray area, according to experts.
The pharmacies are supposed to mix prescriptions one at a time, on a per-patient basis. But demand for special formulations is so high that hundreds of compounders have started large-scale production. They closely resemble drug manufacturers, but without the very strict oversight and long list of sterility requirements that manufacturers must follow, officials said.
"There should be legislation that establishes appropriate, minimum federal standards for firms that compound sterile drug products in advance of or without a prescription and ship them interstate," Hamburg said.
Ross was among 14,000 patients who received an injection of a suspected fungus-tainted NECC steroid.
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Well! It's been a long time since I decided not to run through my day in terms of food, exercise, and everything in between. Now, I'm sharing everything from kitchen mishaps to my poor driving skills to the best-tasting balls around.
Still, since I did the what-I-ate thing daily for three-and-a-half years, it's a hard habit to break! 99% of the photos on my computer are of food, not people (although the February Photo A Day project is inspiring me to shoot other things). I'm always curious about what my friends and family ate throughout the day; their meal ideas so often inspire my own. I thought it might be fun to bring the old format back every so often, just to keep things fresh.
As I've mentioned, the temperature in New York City apartments isn't something you can count on. Many older buildings, in particular, don't have central heating, and more often than not the super and landlord controls the heat. And more often than not, it is freezing when I get out of bed in the morning! Hot breakfast to the rescue.
Stovetop ingredients:
- 1/3 cup rolled oats
- 2/3 cup water
- 1/3 cup flax milk
- 1 t chia seeds
- cinnamon
- dried goji berries
- pinch sea salt
- warmed organic frozen mixed berries
- Plain Jane Nuts About Granola
- sunflower butter
After catching up on e-mails and getting my morning chores out of the way (what is it about mornings that makes them fly by so much faster than the rest of the day?), I did a quick 20 minute yoga podcast (you can find my list of free favorites here) before making lunch.
I've been obsessed with quesadillas lately. Depending on what I've got lying around, they're pretty simple and usually just have two ingredients. My current favorite is black bean dip (Good Neighbor's version, which I found at Whole Foods, is blended with chickpeas and jalapeño for a spicy, protein-packed kick) and Daiya cheese. Initially, I wasn't a fan of this rice-based cheese, which I bought during the whole allergy debacle. However, there's something about the combination of the bean dip and the crispy tortilla that has me craving it every day at lunch time.
Black bean + "cheddar" quesadilla, arugula + pepper salad, gnarly carrots
After lunch, a trip to the orthopedist to see what in tarnation has been going on with my foot.
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For a little over a month I've had strange pain in both of my feet: it feels like both the ball of my feet and all of my toes are bruised. My right foot hurts the most, and I have a hard time both curling and flexing my toes. When I press on it, the pain seems to be concentrated around the second metatarsal on both the top and bottom of the foot. The feeling was similar to the dull ache I experienced when I had a stress fracture in my femur a few years ago, so I was worried that might be what it was.
There's also a lot of tenderness when I press along my inner arch, which is probably my recurring plantar fasciitis flaring up.
So I met with the orthopedist, who took X-rays of both of my feet, looking specifically for stress fractures. Usually when stress fractures have had a while to develop, as mine would have, the X-ray displays a highlighted area where the bone has started to heal itself. Nothing showed up.
Soooo, now I'm waiting for my insurance company to approve an MRI, which, as a more sensitive test, would be able to scan for other things. It's possible I do just have a bit of bruising along the bone; it's also possible I've pinched a nerve between my second and third metatarsals. I'm not in constant pain; it's more like a slow acceleration when I walk (which I do a lot, and think probably caused the problem) or during yoga. I'll keep ya posted.
My visit to the doctor worked up quite an appetite, so when I got home I made myself a hearty snack of mango Chobani, chocolate fudge cake, and peanut butter. (Speaking of Chobani, check back on Monday for a chance to win your own!)
Just as the sun set, Anna and I met at the Orley Shabahang Gallery for the opening of an exhibit by Steven Colucci, a professional mime and painter. The gallery is also a showcase for Oriental rugs, which were stacked and rolled all around the space. It was a cool juxtaposition of sparkly paint and dyed wool.
A glass of Tuscan red and a bite of a mac 'n cheese ball (eh) while we brosed:
Viewing art makes me hungry! Thankfully I'd prepped most of my dinner (sliced the sprouts, cooked the 'cous) so it took almost no time at all to sit down to dinner. I made Brussels Sprouts with Bacon, Dried Cherries and Israeli Couscous, substituting tempeh bacon and currants. I also halved the recipe and ate the whole thing as a main, rather than a side. Dee-lish!
For dessert, chocolate chip cookies (x2) and a milk chocolate Adora disc. (Don't forget to enter to win!)
After dinner, I snuggled up with a little more wine and The Four-Faced Liar, a quirky romantic dramedy that I streamed on Netflix. I've been all about the romantic movies lately… I just saw Restless (very good!) and When Harry Met Sally (for the 4395 time). And, for whatever reason, I am ridiculously excited to see The Vow when it opens.
What kind of movies are you into right now?
What have you got going on this weekend? I'm going upstate, and am suuuuuper excited about it. It'll be good to get out of the city! It's also supposed to be 4˚…