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It's been a little while since we checked in
with web browser Mozilla, but a lot has happened in a short time. Faced
with a
surging Chrome browser from Google Inc. (GOOG),
Mozilla has altered its strategy somewhat. Perhaps taking note of
Chrome's psychological advantage of a faster release schedule (Chrome 13 sounds
very advanced), Mozilla has pushed Firefox towards a shorter release cycle as
well adopting a new "Rapid
Release" calendar.
Firefox 4 launched
March 22, four months behind schedule. Since then Mozilla has kicked
things up a notch, releasing Firefox
5.0 on June 21. Now after five betas the company is
back at it, almost ready to release Firefox 6.0.
The installation executables for Windows, Mac,
and Linux (links)
popped up on Saturday, as
noted by posters on the Neowin forums.
While the installed browser's landed page is still stuck on the beta
testing page, a quick look at Help > About Firefox shows that this is indeed
the release channel final 6.0 build.
That led some to speculate that Firefox 6.0 might
be releasing early. Yet the days slipped by and Mozilla appears to be
content to release it on the previously announced date -- Tuesday, August 16.
Since late March, Firefox has
been available for the world's most used smart phone operating system
Android. Firefox 6 marks another release of desktop and Android browsers
There's not much in the way of cosmetic tweaks on
the desktop side. The biggest change you'll notice (or maybe won't) is
that the domain name is now bolded in the address bar. Where as
sub-domains in Chrome are also bolded, only the base domain is bolded in
Firefox, which is nice in a way, for quicker visual recognition.
Aside from bug fixes and web developer-centric
additions, the only other item of note an optimized "Panorama" tab
organizer. Mozilla says its now faster to loaded Panorama and surf
through your tab collection. A new permissions manager was rumored to be
planned (see Wikipedia) -- but is noticeably absent from the change log (Update: it's there -- you can find it by typing "about:permissions" in the URL bar, thanks Gungel!).
The release notes for the desktop version are available here,
while the bug fix log is available here.
On the Android side, the browser has been sped up,
uses less memory (thank you!), scales images better, and offers a "fresh
visual style in Chrome Gingerbread".
CNN is
reporting that Mozilla is upset about people downloading
Firefox 6 (release) early (which begs the question of why they put it up in the
usual location). Mozilla reportedly said that early download traffic
overwhelms its servers and slows the standard release process.
Don't blink because you might miss Mozilla's next
launch. Along-side Firefox 6.0 will be Firefox 7 beta 1. Firefox 7,
which will reportedly offer "vastly" improved memory usage, will
release on Sept. 27, after only a single beta. Alongside Firefox 7
(release) will be Firefox 8 beta 1, another single-beta release. The
release version of Firefox 8 will drop November 8, just in time for
Thanksgiving festivities.
At this rate, we should hit Firefox 20 in holiday
season 2013.
quote: I kind of like the way Mozilla has been handling Firefox. It's absurd that Chrome came out years and years later, and is already at "version" 15. Small updates or patching in a new feature does NOT make an entire new version, Google.Firefox doesn't need erroneous version naming schemes to compete with Chrome or give people the impression they are working extra hard on the browser.
quote: I'm sure that is a factor, but the other factors were:1. Its faster2. Extensions can easily be removed, added, disabled and enabled without having to close the browser.3. Seriously, its fasterPlus with the extensive extensions/app/theme support it has now, there is little reason to go back to Firefox anymore.
quote: Does FF even have paste and go yet?
quote: Who is to say they aren't tracking all my browsing habits and selling those too?
quote: I've actually had someone tell me (may be paraphrasing slightly), "Microsoft is falling behind Apple because they develop too slowly. They only release an operating system every few years, while Apple releases one every year."
quote: I'm not sure just coming out with "new" versions every few months is going to cut it with this crowd.
quote: Mozilla is accelerating its update schedule


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This powerful anti-aging serum combines advanced Idebenone technology with a complex of highly restorative ingredients to transform the look of skin around the eyes. Proven as one of the most powerful environment protectants, Idebenone helps to prevent oxidation on the skin, a leading cause of visible skin aging. This cream helps reduce the appearance of lines, wrinkles, age spots, as it improves the look of firmness and sun damage.
I have used so many different eye creams. This is the only one I noticed the result. My under eyes puffiness is reduced, Of course, is not totally disappear but for just using cream and having significant, noticeable outcome, this is the one. very happy about this product.
I hate to say it, but this rather expensive eye cream is the best one to do the 'firming' heavy lifting. I am a youthful 62 years old, but the upper eye lids show age. This cream actually mitigates the effect of loose or slightly droopy eyelids.
The only eye moisturizer I can use...every other one I've tried either causes irritation, is extremely shiny and doesn't absorb, or doesn't really do anything at all. It's overpriced, but it's a high quality product.
Apply a small amount of product daily for at least three days to a small area of skin on the forearm near the inner side of the elbow. If any iching, burning, redness, or swelling occurs during this trial period, wash the product off and discontinue use immediately. If no reactions occur, follow the usage directions.
Usage Directions: Hold upright and depress with finger in a downward motion several times to initiate or reactivate product flow. Do not push applicator tip sideways. Apply to fingertips and gently pat a small amount around eye area 1-2 times daily. Avoid getting into eyes. If product gets into eyes, wash thoroughly with water.
This product can be shipped to any country to which SkinStore currently ships.
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DescriptionBmtI has a High Fidelity version BmtI-HF™ (NEB #R3658).
High Fidelity (HF ™) Restriction Enzymes have 100% activity in CutSmart ™ Buffer; single-buffer simplicity means more straightforward and streamlined sample processing. HF enzymes also exhibit dramatically reduced star activity. HF enzymes are all Time-Saver qualified and can therefore cut substrate DNA in 5-15 minutes with the flexibility to digest overnight without degradation to DNA. Engineered with performance in mind, HF restriction enzymes are fully active under a broader range of conditions, minimizing off-target products, while offering flexibility in experimental design.
Product SourceAn E.coli strain that carries the cloned BmtI gene from Bacillus megaterium S2 (S.K. Degtyarev).
Reagents Supplied
The following reagents are supplied with this product:
|Store at (°C)
|NEBuffer 3.1
Properties and Usage
Unit DefinitionOne unit is defined as the amount of enzyme required to digest 1 µg of pXba in 1 hour at 37°C in a total reaction volume of 50 µl.
Reaction Conditions
1X NEBuffer 3.1
Incubate at 37°C
1X NEBuffer 3.1:
100 mM NaCl
50 mM Tris-HCl
10 mM MgCl2
100 μg/ml BSA
pH 7.9 @ 25°C
Activity in NEBuffersNEBuffer 1.1: 100%
NEBuffer 2.1: 100%
NEBuffer 3.1: 100%
CutSmart® Buffer: 100%
Diluent Compatibility
Storage Conditions
10 mM Tris-HCl
300 mM NaCl
1 mM DTT
0.1 mM EDTA
500 μg/ml BSA
50% Glycerol
pH 7.4 @ 25°C
Heat Inactivation65°C for 20 min
Methylation Sensitivity
dam methylation: Not Sensitive
dcm methylation: Not Sensitive
CpG Methylation: Not Sensitive
Heat InactivatedYes
Quality Control
Quality Control AssaysThe following Quality Control Tests are performed on each new lot and meet the specifications designated for the product. Individual lot data can be found on the Product Summary Sheet/Datacard or Manual which can be found in the Supporting Documents section of this page.
- Exonuclease Activity (Radioactivity Release):
The product is tested in a reaction containing a radiolabeled mixture of single and double-stranded DNA. After incubation for 4 hours the exonuclease activity is determined by the % release of radioactive nucleotides.
- Ligation and Recutting (Terminal Integrity):
After an over-digestion of DNA with a restriction endonuclease the percentage of the DNA fragments ligated with T4 DNA ligase and the percentage that can be recut are determined by agarose gel electrophoresis.
- Non-Specific DNase Activity (16 hour):
The product is tested for non-specific nuclease degradation in a reaction containing a DNA substrate. After incubation for 16 hours there is no detectable degradation of the DNA substrate as determined by agarose gel electrophoresis.
This product is covered by one or more patents, trademarks and/or copyrights owned or controlled by New England Biolabs, Inc. For more information, please contact NEB's Global Business Development team at email@example.com.
Supporting Documents
The Certificate of Analysis (COA) is a signed document that includes the storage temperature, expiration date and quality control's for an individual lot. The following file naming structure is used to name these document files: [Product Number]_[Size]_[Version]_[Lot Number]
- R0658S_L_v1_0021302
- R0658S_L_v1_0021306
- R0658S_L_v1_0021312
- R0658S_L_v1_0021406
- R0658S_L_v1_0021411
- R0658S_L_v1_0021505
- R0658S_L_v1_0021510
- R0658S_L_v1_0021603
The Specification sheet is a document that includes the storage temperature, shelf life and the specifications designated for the product. The following file naming structure is used to name these document files: [Product Number]_[Size]_[Version]
The following is a list of Safety Data Sheet (SDS) that apply to this product to help you use it safely.
The Product Summary Sheet, or Data Card, includes details for how to use the product, as well as details of its formulation and quality controls. The following file naming structure is used to name the majority of these document files: [Catalog Number]Datasheet-Lot[Lot Number]. For those product lots not listed below, please contact NEB at email@example.com or fill out the Technical Support Form for appropriate document.
- BmtI is an neoschizomer of NheI.
- Star activity may result from extended digestion
- What effect does BSA have on the performance of NEB's restriction enzymes when included in the new buffers?
- How can I access the old NEBuffer Activity Chart?
- Why is my Restriction Enzyme not cutting DNA?
- Why do I see a DNA smear on an agarose gel after a restriction digest?
- Why do I see additional DNA bands on my gel after a restriction digest?
- How many nucletotides do I have to add adjacent to the RE recognition site in order to get efficient cutting?


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I'm glad no one got hurt.From Deadspin.com:
Ryan was already having a multi-car pileup of an offseason, metaphorically. Now comes word that the Jets head coach literally had one last week: A tipster wrote us yesterday to say that a week earlier, Ryan was in a three-car crash in Bethlehem, Pa.
The tip said that Ryan had sped through an intersection, only to have his car collide with another vehicle, which in turn crashed into a third. A source with the Bethlehem police department confirmed those details, except for the speeding.
According to the police, Ryan was driving a red Mustang westbound on West 3rd Street in Bethlehem at 6:14 p.m. on Jan. 14 when he allegedly ran a red light at the intersection of West 3rd and Wyandotte Street. The Mustang collided with another vehicle, sending it crashing into the third vehicle. "It's a blind hill to some degree," a police source said, describing the intersection. "It kind of crests at Wyandotte Street."
The police source said Ryan denied he was speeding, and that the damage at the scene did not indicate he had been speeding. The police source added that Ryan allegedly did not deny he ran the red light, however. All three vehicles sustained what the police source described as "moderate" damage. There were no injuries, and the police source did not say whether Ryan had been given a citation.
Our tipster speculated that Ryan might have been driving through Bethlehem because he was on his way to meet with Marty Mornhinweg, the former Eagles offensive coordinator hired over the weekend to the same position with the Jets. We could not confirm why Ryan was driving through Bethlehem, Pa., in the early evening hours last Monday.


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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: September 2012
The September poll finds with the November election fast-approaching, Medicare trails only the economy and the federal budget deficit as key priorities for voters, and interest in the federal health program is even higher among seniors. More than a third (36%) of Americans say Medicare is "extremely" important to their…Poll Finding Read More
Health Reform and the Tea Party Movement
With much media discussion of the role that the Tea Party will play in the upcoming Congressional midterm elections, this data note takes a closer look at Tea Party supporters using the most recent Health Tracking Poll data from September. While 57 percent of voters who do not support the…Poll Finding Read More
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — June 2010
The start of summer finds Americans remain divided on the health reform law, but favorable views of the new law increased seven percentage points over the past month to 48 percent, compared to 41 percent who have "generally unfavorable" views and 10 percent who have yet to make up their…Poll Finding Read More
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — January 2012
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear legal challenges to the health reform law in March, most Americans expect the Justices to base their ruling on their own ideological views rather than their interpretation of the law, according to the January Health Tracking Poll. Other key findings include: The public…Poll Finding Read More
Massachusetts Special Election Poll
The Foundation, as part of The Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University partnership series, conducted a poll to better understand how health care played into the mix of issues and frustrations that brought voters to the polls in the Massachusetts special election for U.S. Senate. The poll was conducted among a…Poll Finding Read More
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — October 2010
With the November midterm elections just weeks away, Americans remain chronically divided over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but most say that their feelings – pro and con – about the health reform law are not a dominant factor in how they will vote for Congress or whether…Poll Finding Read More
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — August 2010
The August Health Tracking Poll finds that support for health reform fell over the course of August, dipping from a 50 percent favorability rating in July to 43 percent, while 45 percent of the public reported unfavorable views. The dip in favorability returned public opinion on the new law to…Poll Finding Read More
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — February 2012
In the midst of continuing debate on the future of the Medicare program, the February Kaiser Family Foundation Tracking Poll finds most Americans and most seniors favor the status quo, though arguments about the program's solvency have the potential to sway opinion toward new proposals. The survey also gauges public…Poll Finding Read More
Role of Government Survey
The Foundation, as part of The Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University partnership series, conducted a poll to examine the public's views on the government and its role. The Role of Government Survey is the 20th in a series of surveys dating back to 1995 that have been conducted as part…Poll Finding Read More
The Swing States and Medicare
The latest partnership poll from The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation explores attitudes towards Medicare among registered voters in three swing states — Florida, Virginia, and Ohio. While the economy remains the top issue, in each state about four in ten voters say Medicare is an extremely important…Poll Finding Read More


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cyorstyle 5 years 33 weeks
Perfect!! Thanks binky!! Love your looks and your blog!! I just started a blog too, cyorstyle.onsugar.com xx
binky 5 years 33 weeks
Hi Cyorstyle, welcome to Shopstyle! To participate in the challenges, just join the groups with challenges that you want to do, create a look based on the latest challenge (or any challenge that has been posted in the group topics, it's up to you) and then post it in the group by ticking the group name in your look builder before you post it. That's it, happy Shopstyling!
cyorstyle 5 years 33 weeks
How do I post for challenges? I am way too new at this! :)
ggflower 5 years 39 weeks
Hi SSists! I realize I might have posted my challenge at a time when there were already beaucoup events and challenges up already..so I am going to extend my my Look of the Month Challenge for August until Sept 30th. I know your busy but remember there are two challenges now : August=Teen Choice Awards September=Emmy Award Winners Let's see what you can do! The winning look will be published on my blog and anything you earn is yours alone! Good luck, GG Flower
clairedearxdr 6 years 5 weeks
Oh! I forgot about that, thanks Poison! I'll get on that and put it in my next update!
PoisonV 6 years 5 weeks
great idea!!!! i love it!!!! but do not forget the uk edition.... there are groups there too... :)
binky 6 years 7 weeks
Hi darling, I'm throwing a Birthday Book Launch Party - a combo between my birthday and book launch party - and the invite is already posted in SS Parties. Hope you can make it! xoxo
binky 6 years 8 weeks
Hey Claire! Just letting you know I've restarted Occupation Inspired - new challenge "Spy" is up! Thanks xoxo
binky 6 years 9 weeks
This is such a great idea, Claire! I used to update everyone on the parties and challenges with SS Weekly but with my internet situation now I can't keep up myself! So I really need this, thanks for coming up with such an ingenious idea! You rock! xoxo


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LG announces long-awaited G5 smartphone
Qualcomm X12 LTE 600Mbps modem, dual rear cameras and more
Today, LG President and CEO Juno Cho took the stage at Mobile World Congress and shook the audience for a moment with a slide titled "The era of smartphones is not over," followed shortly by a full hardware announcement of its long-awaited 2016 flagship G5 smartphone and a variety of unexpected accessories.
Samsung Connect Auto provides LTE to road passengers
Available on AT&T in Q2 2016
On the eve of Mobile World Congress 2016, Samsung announced a new automotive device enabling all passengers of a moving vehicle to connect to nearby available ultra-fast LTE networks. The device is aimed at providing a convenient way for owners of older cars to add LTE connectivity to their vehicles for anyone using a mobile device and not sitting behind the wheel.
IoT industry leaders announce open source standard group
Aims to accelerate Internet of Things to a single open standard
On Friday, a group of industry leaders making headway in the Internet of Things (IoT) market announced a cross-industry collaboration effort aimed at unlocking the massive opportunities for consumers and business with IoT devices, and ultimately a way to quickly get everyone to adopting a single open standard.
Intel to highlight "path to 5G LTE" at MWC 2016
New software technique gives IoT devices an extra 20dB signal range
This week on stage at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, Spain, chip giant Intel will focus its efforts on announcing new developments in the realm of fifth-generation (5G) LTE networks. The focus comes just days after the company showed the results of a low-power wide area (LPWA) field test for IoT devices in collaboration with Orange S.A (formerly France Télécom S.A) and Ericsson.
HP Elite X3 5.96-inch enterprise superphone leaked
Snapdragon 820, 4GB of RAM, fingerprint and retina scanners
Hewlett Packard is planning to launch a new Windows-based smartphone this week at Mobile World Congress 2016, thanks to reports that have been surfacing since the week after CES 2016.
Instagram now supports two-factor authentication
Helps users mitigate identity hijacking
Social media giant Instagram has recently begun rolling out two-factor authentication to some of its users in an effort to spare any attempts at hijacking and changing account passwords, according to recent reports. The Facebook-owned service is the latest to add additional security measures to protect its users from financial losses, identity hijacking and false representation.
Re-issued iOS 9.2.1 fixes bricked "Error 53" iPhones
But there is a catch
On Thursday, the Palo Alto, California-headquartered technology giant with a Fischer Price-themed mobile operating system re-issued iOS 9.2.1 with a software fix for the widespread "Error 53" hardware error that has bricked tens of thousands of iPhones worldwide since becoming a frequent issue over the last few months of 2015.
Apple will fight US government over iOS encryption backdoor
Order affects all 1 billion active Apple devices worldwide
Tim Cook and company at the Palo Alto, California-based, fruit-themed toy giant will fight a US government court-ordered iPhone encryption backdoor, citing "implications far beyond the legal case at hand." The order has specifically asked for FBI access to unlock and decrypt an iPhone 5C linked to one of the San Bernardino, California shooters who killed 14 people in December.
Sony PlayStation VR arrives this fall
According to interview with GameStop CEO
Sony's entry into the virtual reality market may be just a few short months away, thanks to an interview segment with GameStop CEO Paul Raines with Fox Business on Monday.
Sony's 2016 4K HDR TVs now available for pre-order
Pre-orders begin $800 below MSRP
On Wednesday, Sony announced the availability of its latest line of 2016 premium 4K HDR-enabled Ultra High Definition television sets, complete with TRILUMINOS display technology, Sony's 4K Processor X1 advanced image engine, and the Android TV operating system featuring home automation integration for IoT devices.


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Jazz Festival set for Nov. 20-21Baldwin City, Kan. — The 11th annual Baker University Jazz Festival, highlighted by a performance from the Baker Jazz Band, is set for Nov. 20-21 at Rice Auditorium on the Baldwin City campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The Baker Jazz Band, directed by J.D. Parr, professor of music, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Barb Catlin, a pianist and jazz educator from Phoenix, will be the guest artist. As professor of jazz studies at Mesa Community College, Catlin has performed with such artists as Smokey Robinson, Ben Vereen, Lou Rawls and Wayne Newton.
From 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Catlin and a panel of area jazz educators will team up to hear 17 local school jazz bands from the Kansas City and Topeka areas. All the bands will perform three or four selections for the judges, receive critiques and ratings and attend a clinic led by one of the guest artists.
Baker University is committed to assuring student learning, and developing confident, competent and responsible contributors to society.


text: I am using Internet Explorer as my default web browser. Whenever I download something it goes in the default download folder. But now it is not. When I download it goes to some weird location. I had not modified anything here. I am trying to download some updates but they are going in different folder. Also my system has failed to read my flash card reader. It is not able to find anything. Before when I connect it to my XP system it shows me a popup window showing up the files inside the card. But not it is not working.


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It's official: South Sudan to get .ss
The new African nation of South Sudan has officially been given the two-letter country code SS, meaning it is likely just months away from getting the top-level domain .ss.
The SS string appeared on the International Standards Organization's ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code list this week, following a request by the government of the country.
The 3166 list is the standard by which ICANN judges a territory's eligibility to be delegated a country-code top-level domain.
South Sudan does not yet appear on IANA's list of ccTLDs, but it's likely to be added soon.
The last three nations to form, following the breakup of the Netherlands Antilles last October, already have ccTLD records in the IANA database, although none have yet been officially delegated to a registry or added to the DNS root system.
The delegation of a new ccTLDs is usually a much more straightforward proposition than the redelegation of an existing ccTLD to a new manager, which can take many years.
South Sudan declared independence July 9 this year and was officially recognized by the United Nations five days later.
It's one of the world's poorest and unhealthiest nations: it is estimated that 11% of its children die before their fifth birthday and that 2% of mothers die in childbirth.
Getting a ccTLD is probably quite low on the nation's list of priorities.
According to reports, the South Sudan government was well aware of the connection "SS" has to the Nazis in Europe when it asked for the string.
It's pretty tenuous connection, and I doubt anyone reasonable would take offense, but the incoming registry may want to add a few well-chosen strings to its reserved list just in case.
Could .om become the next typo TLD?
Will Oman's .om domain follow in the footsteps of .co? Or .cm? Or neither?
The country-code top-level domain is set to be transferred to a new manager following an ICANN vote this coming Thursday.
The redelegation is one item on a unusually light agenda for the board's July 28 telephone meeting. It's on the consent agenda, so it will likely be rubber-stamped without discussion.
The domain is currently assigned to Oman Telecommunications Company, but the new owner is expected to be the national Telecommunications Regulatory Authority or an affiliated entity.
The Omani TRA was given authority over the nation's domain names by Royal Decree in 2002.
It has already successfully had the Arabic-script ccTLD .عمان approved by ICANN for use as an internationalized domain name, but the IDN has not yet been delegated.
AusRegistry International this March won a $1.3 million contract with the TRA to provide software and services for the .om and .عمان registries.
At the time, the TRA said it planned to market both Latin and Arabic extensions to increase the number of domain registrations.
The .om ccTLD is of course a .com typo, like .co and .cm, but squatting is not currently possible due to its strict registration policies.
Only Omani entities may register .om domains today, and only third-level domains (such as example.com.om and example.net.om) may be registered. Domains may not be resold.
I have no particular reason to believe this situation will change under new stewardship, but it will certainly be worth keeping an eye on the TLD for possible policy changes.
When Cameroon's .cm opened up, it implemented a widely vilified blanket wildcard in an attempt to profit from .com typos.
Colombia's .co of course took the responsible route, disowning wildcards and embracing strong anti-squatting measures, even if its mere existence was still a headache for some trademark owners.
Three more countries get IDNs
Citizens of Algeria, Morocco and Serbia will soon be able to use domain names in their local Arabic and Cyrillic-based languages, after ICANN approved internationalized domain names for the three nations.
The three new ccTLDs are الجزائر (meaning "Al Jazair" for Algeria), المغرب ("al-Maghrib", for Morocco) and .срб ("srb" for Serbia).
ICANN's board approved the requests at a meeting on Thursday. They could enter the domain name system's root in as little as 10 days, though delegations usually take longer.
There are now 37 IDN ccTLDs in IANA's database of top-level domains, covering 27 countries.
On Thursday, ICANN also approved the redelegation of North Korea's ASCII ccTLD, .kp, to an entity called Star Joint Venture Company.
Niue: the myth of the "Wifi Nation"
The tiny Pacific island of Niue is commonly referred to as the world's first and only "Wifi Nation".
There was a lot of feel-good press coverage back in 2003, when the Massachusetts-based manager of the .nu country-code top-level domain started deploying wireless internet on the island.
NU Domain said at the time that it was "building the world's first nation-wide wifi Internet access service, all at no cost to the public or the local government" (pdf)
This led to major media outlets, such as the BBC, reporting the line: "The free wi-fi link will be accessible to all of Niue's 2,000 residents as well as tourists and business travellers."
This story has remained in the media consciousness to this date, encouraged by the registry.
Just this week, NU Domain's charitable front operation, the IUSN Foundation, was fluffily claiming that it has provided Niue with "the world's only nation-wide free Internet".
Even ICANN's Kiwi chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush, spread the meme during a recent interview (audio), saying Niue had "installed free wifi across the entire island".
There is just one problem with the "Wifi Nation" story: it's bollocks.
This is what Niue's Premier, Toke Talagi, had to say to Australian radio (audio) this week:
The internet services are unreliable, they're not available throughout the island, and if you do want internet services connected up to your home you have to pay for it. Some people as I understand it have been paying up to $3,000 [$2,400] just for the installation of the wifi.
We're never quite certain about what that "free" internet services is about, because we've had to pay.
According to Talagi, the wifi network provided by IUSN does not cover every village on the island, and users have to pay for it. The free wifi nation is neither free nor nationwide.
Even IUSN, while continuing to make its claims about nationwide wifi, admitted a year ago, seven years after the "wifi nation" claims were first made, that "villagers have been waiting to get online for some time".
According to Talagi, the lack of reliable internet access is such a big problem that the Niuean government has had to take matters into its own hands and build its own ISP.
It is close to completing its own wired and wireless internet infrastructure, at the cost of $4.8 million, according to reports.
Niue discussed its needs with IUSN in 2009 and 2010, Talagi said, but "they felt they didn't need to discuss these particular matters, that the services they were providing for us were adequate".
It appears that IUSN doesn't even pay to maintain its own equipment. This quote comes from a locally produced newsletter dated April 2009:
While IUSN is committed to provide free internet for its residents it is up to the users of this service to look after and maintain the internet enabling facilities.
That came from a report about residents of one of the island's villages holding a fund-raiser in order to collect the $2,400 required to fix a wifi mast that had been damaged in a lightning storm (a common problem).
The per capita GDP of Niue, incidentally, is $5,800. Its citizens are not starving, but by the measure of its estimated GDP, about $10 million, it's one of the poorest nations on the planet, reliant heavily on aid from nearby New Zealand.
According to Talagi and other sources, good internet access is not only required for economic reasons such as boosting the tourism industry.
Fast, reliable connectivity would also enable important human services, such as remote video diagnoses to be performed by overseas medical specialists, which the island lacks.
Niue's ongoing economic problems come about largely because, other than fishing, it has very few natural resources to exploit.
A notable industry in the past has been the export of postage stamps to overseas collectors.
That business made headlines recently when a stamp was issued, celebrating the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton, which featured a perforation separating bride and groom.
There's also talk of setting up a casino on the island, to boost revenues.
One asset it does have, at least on paper, is its top-level domain, .nu, which has proven popular in Sweden, where the word "nu" means "now".
However, other than the lackluster internet connectivity provided by IUSN, Niue apparently does not see any significant revenue from the sale of .nu domain names.
According to IANA records, the .nu domain is officially delegated to the IUSN Foundation, previously known as the Internet Users Society – Niue.
The technical back-end provider is WorldNames Inc, which also operates as a registry/registrar under the brand NU Domain.
IUSN's contact address is a PO Box in Niue, probably due to the fact that all ccTLD registry operators have to be based in the country they purport to represent.
The IUSN's domain name, iusn.org, is registered to the same address as WorldNames and NU Domain, in the leafy Boston suburb of Medford, MA.
Most of the company's business is done in Sweden, where most of its staff are based.
WorldNames has been in control of .nu since 1997, when its founder, Bill Semich, in partnership with a American ex-pat living on the island, managed to acquire the IANA delegation, pre-ICANN.
By several accounts, Niue has been trying to reclaim .nu from Semich for almost as many years.
In 2003, the government hired an American lawyer, Gerald McClurg, to be its representative on ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee and attempt to secure a redelegation.
That same year, McClurg made a submission to the International Telecommunications Union (.doc), in which he alleged that the nation was tricked out of its domain:
In 1997 IANA, without the approval of the Niuean Government, delegated the ccTLD for Niue to a businessman, William Semich, who lives in the United States. The advisor to the Government at that time was an ex-peace corp volunteer named Richard Saint Clair. Mr Saint Clair told the Government that the name meant nothing, that it was of no value or significance, and there was nothing that could be done. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Saint Clair then left his post as advisor and joined with Mr Semich in his organization – IUSN. The Government of Niue has been working every since to regain its ccTLD.
The Niuean government has actually passed a law, the Communications Amendment Act 2000, which states: ".nu is a National resource for which the prime authority is the Government of Niue".
It also established the Niue Information Technology Committee, which "shall be the only designated Registry Manager of the Niue ccTLD .nu."
Yet, eleven years on, IUSN is still the registry manager for .nu.
Talagi said in his radio interview this week that Niue was preparing to submit a redelegation request to ICANN/IANA in February last year, which is in line with what I was hearing at the time.
I have in my possession documentation from a European domain name registrar, dated March 2010, offering to take over the management of .nu on a not-for-profit basis.
It's not clear to me whether Niue's redelegation request is still active. Under current IANA practices, ICANN does not discuss pending ccTLD redelegation requests.
But I suspect IUSN has little interest in handing .nu back to Niue.
While registration data is not easy to come by, the number that has been reported frequently over the years, and as recently as 2008, is 200,000.
At 30 euros ($44) per year for the standard service from NU Domain, that's close to a $9 million business just from domain registration fees.
That may not be much on the grand scheme of things, but it would certainly be material to a nation so reliant on hand-outs as Niue.
But IUSN is very protective of its asset.
Take a look at the Accountability Framework – one of the methods by which ICANN establishes formal relationships with ccTLD managers – that IUSN and ICANN signed in 2008 (pdf).
ICANN has signed 26 Accountability Frameworks over the last five years. They're all very similarly worded, but the one it signed with IUSN has a notable addition not found in any of the others.
All ccTLDs' Accountability Frameworks call for the TLD to be managed "in a manner that is consistent with the relevant laws of [insert country name]".
But the .nu agreement is the only one to also make a specific reference to RFC 1591 and ICP-1, two rules dating from the 1990s that govern how ccTLDs are redelegated from one organization to another.
While ICP-1 gives governments a significant voice in redelegation requests, both documents state that IANA should only redelegate a TLD when both the winning and losing parties agree to the transfer.
The only notable exception to the rule is when the incumbent registry manager has been found to have "substantially misbehaved", which I understand to be quite a high bar.
With that in mind, it's far from obvious whether Niue stands any chance of getting its ccTLD redelegated to an approved registry any time soon.
According to a recent report (pdf) from ICANN's ccNSO, IANA has redelegated ccTLDs in cases where the losing registry fought the decision, but its procedures for doing so are utterly opaque.
North Korean domain to change hands
ICANN is set to redelegate .kp, the country-code top-level domain for North Korea, when its board of directors meets next week.
It's less than four years since .kp was first created. In September 2007, IANA delegated the ccTLD for the first time to the Korea Computer Center, a Pyongyang-backed governmental organization.
The technical side of the registry is currently handled by KCC Europe, a German company, but while some .kp domains still resolve, the official registry web site has been offline for months.
The redelegation is part of the ICANN board's consent agenda. This means that, barring surprises, it will simply be rubber-stamped with no substantive discussion.
Because ccTLD redelegations are handled in private, we won't know who the new registry manager is until after the handover happens and the IANA report is published.
In other ccTLD news, ICANN may also create three new internationalized domain name ccTLDs, for Serbia (.срб ), Algeria (الجزائر) and Morroco (المغرب).
Those delegations are part of the board's regular agenda for its April 21 meeting, and will be discussed.


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|PHILIPPS-UNIVERSITÄT MARBURG Patent applications
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|COMPOUNDS AS PPAR BETA/DELTA INHIBITORS FOR TREATING PPAR BETA/DELTA-MEDIATED DISEASES - The present invention concerns substances which act as selective ligands of nuclear receptors of the PPAR beta/delta subtype and which can be used for the treatment of PPAR beta/delta-mediated diseases. The substances of this invention act as inhibitors of PPAR beta/delta receptors.
|CYCLIC TRIPEPTIDE MIMETICS AS PLASMIN INHIBITORS - The invention relates to peptide mimetics comprising the residues P4-P3-P2-P1, which were cyclized between the side chains of P3 and P2 amino acid and are, as inhibitors of the serine protease plasmin, suitable to be used to inhibit fibrinolysis and thus to reduce blood loss in hyperfibrinolytic conditions, for example during surgery.
|PEPTIDE DERIVATIVES OF EXENDIN-4 - In the current invention peptides, which are derived from GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) and exendin-3 and/or exendin-4, are provided which bond to the GLP-1 receptor and can be used, labeled or unlabeled, for the production of an agent for diagnostic and therapy of benign and malignant diseases, in which GLP-1 receptor expression plays a role.
|Spreading Active Agricultural Agents - Disclosed herein is a device for the application of agricultural active agents, wherein the device is suitable to be brought to the site of action in a manner temporally and spatially separated from the production process, and comprises a dispenser and non-water-soluble nanofibers and/or mesofibers charged with agricultural active agents. The polymers from which the nanofibers and/or mesofibers are made are preferably biodegradable. The agricultural active agents are selected from fungicides, herbicides, batericides, plant growth regulators and plant nutrients. These are preferably pheromones, kairomones and signaling substances. Furthermore, a method for the production of this device is disclosed, wherein the nanofibers and/or mesofibers charged with active agents are produced via electrospinning. The device is suitable to be used to bring agricultural active agents to the site of action in a manner temporally and spatially separated from the production of this device. The application is suitable to be carried out mechanically or automatically. This is preferably agricultural land used for fruit growing, viticulture, gardening or a commercial row crop. The device according to the present invention is particularly suitable to be used for the regulation of arthropods.
|Electrospun Polymer Fibers Comprising Particles of Bacteria-Containing Hydrogels - The present invention provides electrospun polymer fibers comprising bacteria-containing hydrogel particles. Bacteria-containing hydrogel particles are produced by crosslinking water-soluble polymers to form hydrogels and mixing them with a bacteria suspension. The crosslinking is suitable to be carried out either chemically before the addition of the bacteria suspension or physically before or after this addition. Subsequently, these hydrogel particles are electrospun together with an electrospinnable polymer solution to form fibers or fibre non-wovens.
|Non-Viral Transfection Agent - The invention relates to a non-viral transfection agent comprising polymer/nucleic acid complexes and nanofibers, wherein the polymer/nucleic acid complexes are composed of at least one nucleic acid and at least one cationic polymer. The nanofibers carry the polymer/nucleic acid complexes, wherein the non-viral transfection agent is advantageously produced by means of electrospinning. The cationic polymer is favorably a polyimine or polyethyleneimine and can be modified with one or more hydrophilic polymers coupled thereto. It can also be advantageous to couple the cationic polymer with one or more carbohydrates and/or with a receptor-specific ligand. The nucleic acid is a DNA or an RNA, or a DNA or RNA derivative, advantageously a therapeutically active nucleic acid. The nanofibers are composed of biodegradable, biocompatible polymers. The nanofibers or the entire transfection agent can be provided with a polymer coating. A method for producing a non-viral transfection agent comprises the following steps: providing the polymer/nucleic acid complex, producing a spinning solution containing the polymer/nucleic acid complexes, and electrospinning.
|N-TERMINALLY MODIFIED TETRAPEPTIDE DERIVATIVES HAVING A C-TERMINAL ARGININE MIMETIC - The invention refers to multibasic, N-terminally modified tetrapeptide mimetics with a C-terminal P1-arginine mimetic, methods for their production and use for therapy and prophylaxis of diseases, caused by bacterial pathogens or viruses, as well as for therapy and prophylaxis of diabetes, arteriosclerosis, cancer, Alzheimer's or the onset of obesity, as well as the use of these compounds as inhibitors of the proprotein convertases which cleave behind basic P1 residues, especially for inhibition of the protease furin.
|NANOSCALED POLYMER FIBERS - The invention relates to supports consisting of nanoscalar polymer fibres, polymer tubes or hollow fibres for the application and targeted and/or delayed release of ingredients, in particular, agricultural active ingredients. The invention also relates to a method and a device for the production of supports of this type in a charged or empty state. The method and device use electrospinning technology.
|DEVICE FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE OUTPUT OF NANOSCALED POLYMER FIBERS - Carriers for the production and targeted and/or delayed release, particularly of agricultural active substances, as well as a method for the output and a device for the production of such carriers in a loaded or unloaded state are proposed. The method and the device use the technology of electrospinning.
|METHOD FOR COATING TARGET SURFACES IN THE FORM OF DIELECTRIC SUBSTANCES OR FERROELECTRIC CRYSTALS - The invention relates to supports consisting of nanoscalar polymer fibres, polymer tubes or hollow fibres for the application and targeted and/or delayed release of ingredients, in particular, agricultural active ingredients. The invention also relates to a method and a device for the production of supports of this type in a charged or empty state. The method and device use electrospinning technology.
|HYDROLYTICALLY DECOMPOSABLE IONIC COPOLYMERS - The invention at hand provides hydrolytically degradable ionic copolymers. These ionic copolymerizates are composed of one cyclic ketene acetal A, one anionic or cationic methacrylic acid derivative B, selected from 2-methyl-methacrylate, [2-(2-methyl-1-methylene-allyloxy)]ethanesulfonate, [2-(2-methyl-1-methylene-allyloxy)ethyl]phosphonate or a quaternary amine of the N,N-dimethylaminoethylmethacrylic acid (DMAEMA) and, optionally, a neutral methacrylic acid derivative C.
|Cdna Production from Cells After Laser Microdissection - The present invention provides a new procedure for the synthesis of CDNA from single cells after microdissection. It has the advantage that it is cost-efficient and can be carried out quickly with only few steps, even by less skilled laboratory employees. For the first time, the time-consuming and risky step of RNA isolation is omitted during cDNA synthesis from single cells by performing lysis and cDNA synthesis in the same reaction tube and in one buffer solution, which provides reliable and contamination-free results. The buffer is composed of NP40, carrier-RNA and Super RNAsin, as well as dNTPs and cDNA synthesis primers.
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10 Reasons The Nokia E5 Is The Best Affordable Social Smartphone
Nowadays, it is easy to get lost in a discussion about raw power, stellar hardware specs, and the high-end smartphone market. But what many websites and analytics forget is that the vast majority of people, worldwide, want a decent mobile that can help them in their everyday life without punching a ginormous hole in their savings account. The Nokia E5 is one of the latest smartphones that falls into the affordable category, while still managing to cram enough features to appeal to the most social nutcase amongst us. Here are 10 reasons the E5 is a perfect social smartphone.
Admit it or not, the social butterfly lifestyle comes with a pre-requisite: texting, emailing, connecting, tweeting, IM'ing, posting, commenting,… and a lot of typing is required on almost every level. A decent qwerty like the one found on the E5 is a godsend for such cases, with nice tactile feedback, large keys, and even predictive text on the software side of things.
2. Facebook
We've already talked about the Facebook integration of contacts between the Nokia Contacts on your phone and your Facebook Friends that the E5 & C5 offer. It gets the latest status and profile pictures of the contacts and lets you always stay on top of your peeps without manually checking Facebook every few minutes. The standalone Facebook application also shows you your friends walls, images, lets you upload and tag new photos, view your timeline, comment and like your friend's status, call or SMS them without quitting the app.
3. Contacts Homescreen
The E5 brings the improved standby screen that people fell in love with on the Nokia 5800 XM. This lets you assign 20 contacts with pictures to your homescreen, so you can easily call or message them, as well as view a log of your latest joint communications, and follow one of their RSS feeds.
4. Ovi Contacts
If your contacts are available on Ovi chat or on Google chat, you can add them to the Ovi Contacts application and connect them to the Contacts you have in your phone book. You can then easily see who is online while going through your contacts, chat with them, share your music or location with them, as well as keep on top of it all with notifications on the standby screen.
5. Nokia Messaging Chat
If Ovi Contacts isn't enough, another application is preloaded on the E5, entitled Chat. This lets you sign in to Ovi, Google, Yahoo and Windows Live's chat services, and communicate with your friends through IM.
6. Nokia Messaging Email
Another preloaded essential on the E5 is Nokia Messaging Email which allows you to sign in to your Gmail, Hotmail, Ovi, Yahoo… and many more email services, with multiple inboxes, HTML view, push service, folder support, and much more. With homescreen notification, this is a great email client to stay on top of all of your communications.
7. Share Online
By itself, Share Online isn't much, but combine it with the stellar all-in-one Pixelpipe plugin or the specific Furtiv plugins, and you can upload any image, video, or audio from the E5 to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, AudioBoo, Picasa, Flickr, Blip.Tv, Vimeo, Twitpic, Twitvid… the list just goes on and on.
Image courtesy of Furtiv
8. Ovi Maps
The E5 is one of the newest Nokia devices that come with the free worldwide Ovi Maps navigation software preinstalled. With Ovi Maps, you can share your location on Facebook, send your location's coordinate to your friends so they can meet you, or input any address where you're meeting your social contacts and navigate to it walking or driving.
9. Hardware
You might start wondering why Hardware is on this list, but when you consider than the E5 packs a 600Mhz processor and 256MB of RAM, you see that it's one of a limited breed of handsets who can take a beating and come back victorious: it's fast for all tasks and doesn't slow or bug down when many apps are open in the background. With the optimized 1200mAh battery, you're guaranteed to still have a few battery bars left for that midnight party you were planning to attend even if you exhausted it all day. And the 5MP camera with EDoF, while not stellar, is good enough for most situations, plus the images and videos size is also small and hence fast to upload online or share via bluetooth. Add to that fact that the E5 looks nice, especially in the blue variant I'm totting, and it's almost a royal flush in terms of hardware for the social butterfly.
10. Ovi Store
The E5 comes with Ovi Store pre-installed, letting you download more social apps like the previously mentioned Pixelpipe or Furtiv plugins, but also Nimbuzz, Fring, Socially, Gravity, Google Maps with Latitude and many more.
If those 10 reasons aren't enough, the E5 runs on S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2, Nokia's tried-and-true platform. That means that the software is mature, stable, and all applications run somehow better than on Nokia's touchscreen S60 5th devices. Even Nokia's homebaked apps, like Ovi Contacts, Nokia Messaging Chat and Email, are more responsive and faster.
What do you think of the E5? Have you bought one or are you considering it? Do you think it's a viable smartphone option for a social person, amongst the slew of full QWERTYs and big touchscreens, especially given its price?
nice article,i am using E5 for 2 months,really its a featured packed powerfull smartphone. The 600mhz processer and 256mb ram makes it superfast,never lags or hangs with tooo many apps running.
From features published here it seems a great phone. But does it have a devanagari script support with proper rendering?
Have to agree.
Thank-you Nokia for a smartphone with decent battery life.
I have been using this phone for 5 months now and I must say it is really value for money. It has the features that I need and a very good phone for business and socializing. The pre-installed apps, map, ovi, quickoffice etc. are pretty much helpful and fits my lifestyle. I think I'm going to use this phone for years before I get a new one
If you're a workaholic person whose priority is to get things done fast, this is your phone. I was a bit afraid at first that the phone might not actually be up to my expectation in terms of speed but now that I'm using it, I'm totally beyond satisfaction!
Browsing through the gallery lags a little, but it doesn't bother me much because my priority isn't taking photos etc.
If you're considering to buy this phone, I highly suggest it.
I like what the author says, "That means that the software is mature, stable…".
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I want to buy mobile but confuse either blackberry or nokia c5. Plz suggest.


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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — An unexpected coaching search is underway at Penn State after Ed DeChellis left his alma mater to take the same position at Navy.
Athletic director Tim Curley began working the phones a day after DeChellis announced his surprise resignation. Curley didn't name names Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press, but did stress the priority of finding the right fit for the program.
Penn State prides itself as a power conference team whose athletes also excel off the court.
Curley said he didn't have a timeline for the national search, but said he hoped to move quickly.
Curley said DeChellis left the program with a good foundation after eight years. Penn State went just 114-138 under DeChellis, but made the NCAA tournament this past season.


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general suvorov wrote:another typical melo weirdness. Instead of praising the effort, he focused on his self-rightous points as usual. Das ist Das, I'd not make it big problem, just keep up the good work brother!
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CDDRodrigo wrote:Awesome post. thanks.
JMVP wrote:If I haven't got it wrong, Quick Turn is the Cruyff Turn, right?
Yes, yes and yes. Don't put it has a question, just say it straight because that's what it is and what it always as been.
I think some people still think of quick turn as a faster way of turning, like this new speed merchant card.
Uzair wrote:so wait, just how does the new 'speed merchant' affect the way a player dribbles????
EDIT: and who exactly deserves it. i know i could just test it myself but it's very cold in my room where my ps3 is so....
Uzair wrote:oh wait does 'speed merchant' give a player the ability to do something like the 'piksi turn' ala Dragan Stojkovic because all the players you listed that have it as default do it quite often when dribbling...i think.
Uzair wrote:ok i get it now. i've tested the 'speed merchant' card and players with it just turn more fluently. similar to the card description - it is a turning card.
S14 – Speed Merchant is a new card (it has nothing to do with the old P card Speed Merchant) and by checking the players who have it, we can comfortably say that it's a special one which is for special players. In the default database, Konami's given this card to only 16 players (or all I could find: Arshavin, Wright-Phillips, Krasic, Alexis Sanchez, Piatti, Villa, Messi, Ronaldo, Capel, Ribery, Robben, Elia, Donovan (Dotan ), Tamada, M. Moralez and S. Blanco).
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Taxpayers Urged to Use On-Line Payment systems.(Main News)
As part of the reforms to clean up the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and effectively collect the much-needed revenues of the government, President Macapagal Arroyo yesterday urged large and small taxpayers to avail of the new fail-safe e-filing or e-payment and the debit payment system, respectively, for their tax payments.
The President announced the new methods of tax payments as she allayed public anxiety over the integrity of the existing tax payment schemes in the wake of the P205-million tax diversion scam at the Land Bank of the Philippines.
"We are intent on cleaning up the BIR and free it from the clutches of corrupt individuals," she said in a statement.
Under the new tax payment method, Arroyo assured taxes will go directly to the government and not diverted to the pockets of corrupt individuals.
"These methods of payment will reduce the risk of diverting cash payments as this method is done electronically and very secure," she said.
Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said the new tax payment methods are more foolproof than the existing regular methods which have been proven flawed following the discovery of the multi-million tax diversion scam at the Land Bank.
"It gives taxpayers added convenience plus the money can be easily be utilized by the national government," he said.
Arroyo said the e-payment system for large-scale taxpayers, the brainchild of resigned BIR Commissioner Rene Banez, has been institutionalized last Aug. 1.
Such electronic filing of taxes, she said, is being further enhanced to broaden the number of banks that can accept payment.
Rep. Enrique Garcia received kudos from the President for spearheading the work with the banking system in developing the debit payment system.
Under the system, small taxpayers would fill out an agreed form of debit memos to their banks authorizing the transfer of cash from their account to the Bureau of Treasury, payable to the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Arroyo directed acting BIR commissioner Cornelio Gison to monitor the implementation of the new tax payment systems.
"Let us not allow ourselves to be paralyzed by the events transpiring in the government's efforts to uncover unlawful activities depriving our nation of much-needed resources," she said.
The President, meantime, sought the help of the public to file correct value-added taxes (VATs) and income tax returns (ITRs) as the government struggles to boost revenues to keep the budget deficit within the P130-billion ceiling.
"This is a time when the government needs the help of all well-meaning citizens to do their share of building our revenue base and guarding those revenues with much zeal and vigilance," she added. …


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I am experimenting with taking pictures in RAW format, and this is one of my first shots (it makes me forget about JPEG )
I am so angry about myself that I did not take ALL if my pictures in RAW first, but in high jpg .... soooo helpful minimal changes you can do with that and the result is just tripple better ...
the glass is very poland style
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Sustainable Seafood 411: Wading Through the Waters
Lean protein that's good for the heart and the brain. Rah, rah, Omega-3s. That's what the doctor will tell you about fish. In fact, the American Heart Association recommends a minimum of two servings a week.
I wish it were that simple. Eat fish, save your ticker from conking out and your brain from turning into mush, and everybody's happy, right?
For several years, I've been consumed by the ways and means of how our food is grown, raised and processed. As I educated myself about the difference between organic and conventional, grass-fed versus free range, the meaning of COOL, CAFO and RbGH and the intricate web of profit, manure, corn and E.coli that is industrialized livestock production, I digested this stew of knowledge as quickly and thoroughly as possible to make it decipherable for my readers (at least that was my hope).
Of all the topics under the umbrella of "sustainability," the one that continues to both fascinate and irritate me is seafood. I'm schooled on beef versus chicken versus pigs, and sure, I can riff on organic versus local, seasonal and/or conventional in the produce section. But fish? That's the whole wide ocean sea we're talking about!
And that sea is boiling more and more, not just every day, but nearly every minute. I don't know if you've heard, but we're fishing our fish into extinction. At this rate, scientists predict, there will be nothing left but jellyfish and algae by 2048. Math: 39 years. I'll be an old lady by then, but I sure would like to know I could have a fish dinner if I wanted.
This uplifting topic is the subject of a new documentary, "The End of the Line," a sober investigation into why the seas are emptying day by day.
But. (And with seafood there are several buts.) We here in the West are eating fish because the doc is telling us to do so, but we also have menu choices. What about folks in parts of the world – coastal Africa, most of Asia and western Alaska, to name a few – where fish is the only thing on the menu, that if there were no more fish, there'd be nothing left to eat?
(I warned you, this is bleak.)
At this point, some of you may say, "Screw it, let's give the oceans a much-deserved break" and some of you may say, "Screw it, I'm going to eat whatever I want whenever I feel like it."
Here comes yet another wrinkle. Should you decide to ignore all the environmental red flags and continue eating your favorite fruits of the sea, now you've got to factor in the toxins.
As in PCBs and mercury.
These lovely extras are especially partial to big, predatory fish – swordfish, tuna, shark, salmon, for example – which love to attach to their fatty skins (PCBs) and their older flesh (mercury).
Here in the USA, our seafood palate is fairly unadventurous, and all of our favorites have issues. Two of the aforementioned toxin-loving species — tuna (in a can) and salmon — are America's second and third runners up. And shrimp, our number one fave, is by and large coming from farms in southeast Asia and central America, where environmental standards are inconsistent and unregulated.
If you're wondering how in the world does one keep track of all this data, join the club. It makes my head spin, even with a walletfull of the well-meaning seafood cards from Monterey Bay Aquarium, Environmental Defense Fund and Blue Ocean Institute.
So if you want to keep eating seafood (I still am) and can't be bothered with a seafood card (or even know what I'm talking about), here's my advice: You may not be able to remember the status of all your favorite species or how they're caught, but you can learn a few rules of thumb.
With some help from Tim Fitzgerald, a scientist at Environmental Defense Fund, here are a few themes to keep in mind – at the fish counter, in the frozen aisle, at the sushi bar or at the neighborhood seafood joint. Bear in mind — these are guidelines, and as always with seafood, there are exceptions to the rule and constantly changing conditions.
* Eat fewer big, predatory fish (swordfish, tuna, shark, salmon): they live the longest and accumulate the most toxins. Exceptions to this rule: Wild salmon from Alaska and smaller albacore tuna from the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, which are both relatively well-managed fisheries.
* Eat smaller on the food chain (sardines, anchovies, clams, mussels, oysters) which have shorter life spans, reproduce more readily and as a result are more resilient to fishing pressure.
* Eat a variety of fish rather than a lot of one type, which will likely reduce your exposure to contaminants
* When shopping for fish at the supermarket, look for the country of origin labeling on fresh and frozen fish. Generally speaking, US/Canada means green light; Central America means yellow light and Asia means red light. Caveat: This is not to say that all – or even most – North American fisheries are sustainable.
What to avoid
* Most ahi (yellowfin/bigeye) tuna. That goes for bluefin tuna, too, which is nearing extinction. (P.S. Celeb sushi restaurant Nobu continues to serve it, despite major 'outing' by Brit investigative journalist Charles Clover in "End of the Line," who compares it to eating orangutan.)
* imported farmed shrimp
* farmed salmon, which is usually sold as Atlantic salmon. P.S.: There is no more wild Atlantic salmon to speak of. The crowded conditions of salmon farms in Chile has resulted in infections viruses over the past few years. Even Wal-Mart has stopped buying salmon from Chile.
* Another one to let go of at the sushi bar: freshwater eel (aka unagi). It's just about gone — as in 95 percent gone.
Believe it or not, I've only scratched the surface. We didn't even get to talk about the collapse of the west coast salmon fishery or why farmed bivalves are an amazing success story. Add your comments and questions and we'll keep talking about this issue as long as it takes.
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So I tried a couple of aqua fitness classes this week at a nearby Health & Wellness Center as part of a free 1-week trial coupon I got at their booth at a fair this summer. The first one I did was called "Aqua Boot Camp." However, the intensity wasn't quite high enough for me (I WAS the youngest person in the class by a few decades) so I was glad that today's class, "Cardio Cross," was better at getting my heart rate up. However, I am NOT a fan of how much the chlorinated water bothers my eyes for the rest of the day after swimming! I have enough issues with my eyes being dry that the chlorine just makes it SUCK.
Also, while I enjoy the low-impact aspect of water aerobics, there are some downsides. For example, I have a rather large bust, and my swimsuit doesn't give me a lot of support (I'm just grateful that it holds the girls IN) so when we do exercises that have us jump/pop out of the water, I either have to hold on to my chest, not jump so high, or else my back will suffer.
Another downside, besides the afore-mentioned chlorine in the eyes, is that my already loose joints feel looser after exercising in the water. My boyfriend suggested that it's because the exercises ARE low-impact which means that I'm not strengthening the muscles around those joints that really need it (knees & ankles). Right now, my knees are achey, which wasn't the case before I did the water aerobics despite me doing a good amount of daily "dry-land" exercising.
So instead of doing my 3rd day in a row of aqua fitness classes, I'm taking tomorrow off. I'm going to go back to my dry-land workouts and make sure to do my physical therapy exercises for my knees, especially. I plan on trying another class on Saturday. Hopefully my joints will be more stable by then.
Tonight my boyfriend and I knew that we wanted to make something for dinner and I suggested we do a stir fry. I chose chicken as the meat of the dish, and then together we went through the vegetable section of the grocery store picking out things that looked good for a stir fry: snap peas, onion, broccoli, peas (canned), and mushrooms (sliced/canned). We chose a low-sodium soy sauce (regular was 910g per tsp and the one we got was 520g) and grabbed a container of garlic powder.
I was in charge of prep work like washing, cutting, and straining the veggies as necessary and my boyfriend did the actual cooking. He used a little too much soy sauce so the dish tasted overly salty at first, but we just added some water to the pan to dilute the mixture and then poured the excess liquid out into the sink. Much better! We each had two bowls for dinner at abou 180 calories per bowl (note that it was only veggies and chicken; NO RICE). Good deal! And there were some leftovers which he can take to work tomorrow for lunch.
Overall, pretty good day. Gonna SLEEP IN tomorrow!!!
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So I have a legit copy of ArmA 2: OA, version 1.60, friend is thinking about downloading ArmA 2: Free. Is it possible for us to do some coop together, or do I have to redownload the free version of ArmA? Kinda sucks if I do :I
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Yep either he needs OA or you A2 (Free).
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