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The iPad mini is a good size tablet, the screen size is a happy medium. The system operates quickly and mine has never froze or shut itself down. It's lightweight which means it's easy to travel with such as students taking it to school or college rather than a bulky laptop. It's think and stylish design also helps with the travel aspect as it makes it easier to just pop in a bag and take on the go. The back camera is good quart for a tablet camera and the front camera is a decent quality but is not quite as good as the back camera, which is expected. It responds quickly to touch and there is no lagging or waiting around for a response, which makes typing easy and quick. I highly recommend this iPad to people of all ages as it is easy to use and is within most people's price range.
After having to decide between this Apple iPad and other tablets from other companies I finally decided to buy this one and definitely glad that I went with this one!! It's great. So easy to use, I use it to watch programmes on bbc iplayer, itv, 4od players which are great on the iPad. I also let my little one play games on it and let her take pictures of herself! The outer camera is great but he inner camera isn't so clear. To me that is one of the only down sides to the pad. The White colour looks really nice and fashionable and is definitely more girly than the black colour. It is by far the best tablet I have used, having used nexus pads etc. Definitely worth the money you pay for it, even if it is quite expensive! Recommend this to other people, you wont regret it.
I was undecided between the pad mini and the full sized I pad and I am not sure if I made the right choice. I was drawn to the mini because it fits in the handbag and, let's face it, it is cute. I bought the white one and a nice Ted Baker case and it does look lovely. The main problem I have is that for work/ writing (which is what I mainly bought it for) I am still using my laptop for the bigger screen.
There are many positives to the product. It is light and can fit comfortably inside your handbag; it is quick and it is easy to use. Like all Apple products, the I pad uses the IOS software and you can sync contacts, messages and photos between devices. You can even share documents between devices using the cloud. Personally, I find this useful because I can write on my laptop; I phone and I pad and sync it all together. It is also good if you like to play games and browse the web.
Now for the drawbacks. It is still a little small to use for a sustained length of time without hurting your eyes; I find after half an hour I need to take a break when using the I pad mini. And this is why part of me wishes I had gone for the full sized I pad. One final thing is the memory; I would highly recommend that you don't get the 16 gig (which I have). With the increasing size of the IOS updates, it doesn't leave enough space for everything you might want to put on there.
Overall, it is a brilliant product and I do use it every day. However, depending on what you want to use it for, consider the full size and a bigger 'gigage'. Enjoy!
I've had my iPad mini for over two years now and it's still going strong. They're incredibly difficult to crack if you've got a decent case for it - I've dropped mine multiple times and there's not a single scratch as of yet.
The reason I opted for the mini as opposed to the full size iPad is how easy it is to carry around. I've taken mine to sixth form a few times to do work, and I can barely even feel it in my bag! Whereas the full-size iPads are a lot heavier and perhaps a little inconvenient.
The iPad mini has a lot of great features. It has a main camera on the back and a front camera - although the camera quality isn't great with no flash, I wouldn't class it as an issue.
16GB obviously isn't the largest space available but I've got a lot of apps / photos / music and have experienced no problem with memory space so far.
Personally I use my iPad mini daily, but I know others who rarely pick up their iPad. It just depends on what you want to use it for - I tend to use it for the browser and social media apps which look great on the big screen. I also use it to type up my college work.
I have had the Kindle Fire HD in the past which was nowhere near as good as the iPad mini. It's worth spending that little bit extra for a device which will actually do what it's supposed to with no problems!
I have been using an iPad Mini for around a month. I am satisfied by its working. Though it is known that an iPad is just a larger version of an iPod. Most of the people prefer it for a larger screen. We can buy an full size iPad, but it is expensive, obviously.
iPad Mini has a smaller screen than the other iPads, but for that particular reason it becomes a lot more portable.
It has a front camera that allows video chatting and selfies, of course. The front camera is 1.2 MP. Its main camera is 5 MP. It is not made for photography. However, you can capture photos and make video pretty well. Its camera works even better in natural light.
Its battery life depends upon the application that you are using, plus the background apps. Sometimes it can work up to 8 hours and sometimes its battery drains in 2 to 3 hours.
The 16 GB memory is more than enough for me as I store many songs, pictures and application in the iPad.
It supports Cloud as well.
The e-mail accounts can easily be synchronized and easy to access.
It is excellent for browsing websites for its screen size.
The best feature for me is the books I can read on it. It is so much easy to read books on iPad and you can take it anywhere.
It has been a great device for me so far and I am looking for to using it for a long time, taking advantage of all its features.
I bought my iPad mini as an end of exams treat for myself and it has served me well so far. It is more compact than the iPad - as the name suggests - which means it can easily be held in one hand and slots into a small bag! It has a sleek design and fits in perfectly with all the other Apple products. I opted for the white iPad mini to match my phone and I find the silver back creates an attractive design.
Extremely good value as it does the job of an iPad for a smaller price tag and a more compact size. I have found the16gb memory to be a sufficient amount of storage space as I have more than enough room for my music and copious amounts of apps.
The main flaw I have found with the iPad mini is that it is not compatible with Adobe Flash meaning that certain websites do not work to their upmost potential on this tablet.
I have been reluctant to buy an Ipad for sometime - mostly due to its size and then when the mini came out I thought great! I have not been disappointed. It is the perfect size, is handy to carry around with you and has excellent quality apps. I love the way I can photos and music on my ipad and phone. I think the ipad mini is good value for money. If you have had an iphone it is certainly easy to navigate around. I would definitely recommend this tablet.
I received an Apple iPad Mini as a gift and could not be happier with it. It is a fantastic product and beats all other tablet computers on the market in my opinion.
It is an excellent size - easily held in one hand and controlled by the other. The screen is so clear and bright and the design is just exquisite. It is so sleek and stylish, the white front and silver back make it seem almost space age. It is like a piece of modern art.
You can personalise the iPad by changing the wallpaper, choosing apps, syncing email accounts and other documents amongst many other functions.
I use my iPad for a variety of things including; watching TV and Movies, word processing, playing games, browsing the internet, writing and sending emails...the list goes on.
There are so many apps that you can download for this device, from the Apple App Store. There truly is something for everyone. I also have my iPad synced with my iPhone through the Cloud which is a storage system. This means that any photos or documents I take or download to my iPad automatically appear on my iPhone and vice versa. This is a fantastic addition to an already amazing product line.
The only slight downside is the battery life of this product. If I use it constantly for 3 or 4 hours, the battery life quickly drains. This would be a bit disappointing on a long journey with no power supply. However this is only a slight downside, all the other positives more than make up for this.
I would recommend the iPad Mini to everyone, especially those with limited technological knowledge as it is very simple to use, an excellent user interface.
I brought the Apple -Pad mini for my wife for Christmas and she loves it. I opted for the 16GB version as it has sufficient space as the all the applications she needed. The Ipad is preloaded with numerous apps on it, many of which she is yet to open.
In terms of internet access it comes with safari which is a search engine I hadn't used before. It's easy and straight forward to use and for those creatures of habit it's easy to download the likes of Google etc.
The Ipad is light weight and very easy to hold and use. Also the screen size is ample to easily navigate and also a good size to watch the variety of tv viewings available.
The downside of the Ipad is it's price, it certainly isn't cheap and currently retail around the £240 mark.
For those out there undecided about which which brand to purchase serious consideration should be given to this brand/model.
I can't say I have been a big apple fan so far. I do have an ipod but have so far steered clear of owning an Iphone or an Ipad. I am not a big fan of touch screen technology so it didn't interest me too much. I have though recently been looking to purchase a tablet and wanted something cheap without all the frills. After looking online and reading a few reviews I found several favourable ones pointing me towards the Ipad Mini. Others under consideration were the Kindle Fire and Google Nexus. I decided to go with the Ipad Mini 16gb Wifi in white. I paid £249 on the John Lewis website. I decided to go with them as they also included a 3 year guarantee with the price.
The Ipad itself
Inside the box you obviously have the ipad itself which is white in colour with a glossy finish. The screen size is 7.9 inches with dimensions of 200 × 134.7 × 7.2 mm and it weighs a very slight 308g. It is very light when you pick it up. It is very easy to hold in just one hand. The Ipad mini is thinner and lighter than its main tablet rivals but boasts a bigger screen
Also in the box is a very basic instruction card with a link to see more information and user guide and another information leaflet which in keeping with the product itself are mini in size. You also have the usb cable/charger.You can use this to charge the device via the mains or via usb to a laptop or computer.USB connection also allows you to sync and transfer files, photos etc.
Technicals and features
The mini features a 1 GHz dual core processor. This is the wi-fi version but there is a wi-fi and 3g cellular version available at a slightly higher price. The memory is 512 mb ram. ) It also features a diagonal LED-backlit Multi-Touch display. The resolution is 1024 × 768 pixels. The camera is front-facing 1.2MP and rear-facing 5MP. The oprating system is currently ios7.0.4. There are four buttons and one switch on the iPad Mini which include a home button at the bottom which returns the user to the home screen, and three aluminum buttons on the right side and top: wake/sleep and volume up and volume down, plus a software-controlled switch.
Setting up
The set up includes choosing things like language and setting up an Apple ID if you already do not have one. You then have to enter your wireless connection settings and then you are connected up to the internet and you can browse, download apps, play music/videos , take photos and explore the various other features.
Apps and software
The iPad Mini comes with several pre-installed applications, including Siri, Safari, Mail, Photos, Video, Music, iTunes, App Store, Maps, Notes, Calendar, Game Center, Photo Booth, and Contacts. You can sync up your ipad with your itunes so you can listen to your music. I have though chosen to use the Amazon Cloud player app. I purchase a lot of my music from Amazon so this seemed to be the better option for me. The music could be streamed so would not take up space on the device which at 16gb isn't very much.
There are a wide range of apps available via the app store.
I am not really a big ebooks fan but you can also read these on this device. There is an ibooks app as well as an app from Amazon available.
The home screen offers space for 26 apps - 20 on the main screen, with a further six squeezed together on the bottom row .
Another feature is facetime which allows you to have video calls via voice over IP (VOIP). This is kind of similar to Skype.
Siri is a great fun addition to the Ipad Mini which features also on various other apple devices. If you don't know what Siri is it is like a personal assistant on hand for you to answer questions, make recommendations and perform tasks. It works using voice commands.
The camera isn't the best feature of the ipad mini to say the least. This has seemed to always been the case. It is ok for taking spur of the moment / fun pictures but the quality is not too great with the 1.2mp front and 5mp rear camera.
With video it is slightly better with the Mini sporting 1080p on the back and 720p on the front. This allows for pretty good quality videos.
Battery life
The battery life is excellent at around the 10 hour mark which seems to be more than adequate for most. This is likely to be lower on the 3g version.
The iPad Mini is in my opinion and probably many others the nicest-looking and most well built compact tablet on the market. For the higher price compared to the other two, arguably it should be. In terms of power and performance, there's not a lot to really separate it from the Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire HD. When handing over money for an apple product or ithing you are paying for the research, design, craftsmanship and also brand association.
I didn't think I would become an Apple fanboy but this product has certainly converted me to an Apple product admirer if not a total fanboy. It is a fantastic product which I would highly recommend to those considering a purchase for a compact tablet. 5/5 stars from me.
I got the Ipad Mini for my boyfriends birthday a few months ago. The reason I got him one was as he loves to watch videos on his phone, he also needs to look and download videos due to his job . He has an Iphone and ends up using that to view them on the way home from work as he has a two hour train journey. I was nervous at first as I knew this was the cheaper version without 3G and I was not sure if that meant that you could ONLY use it with WIFI. I went into the Apple store to speak to a woman and she explained about using personal hotspot! HOW FANTASTIC.
For a much cheaper price you have access to 3G through using your Iphones 3G.
I would highly recommend it, ofcorse its not as fast as if you were to get the ipad with 3G but wow its worth the money and he loves it, you cant infact tear him away from it.
Great value!!! Fab Size.
There is an app for practically every occasion available on an iPad Mini. These range from things like centimetres to metres or paid to do apps like Maximiles. These are highly useful if you are not good at mental maths or want to earn a bit of cash while out and about.
The interface is easy to navigate and you can get accustomed to it extremely quickly even if they do change the entire interface like with IOS 7. The IOS 7 is not as good as previous versions however and anyone that has used the pervious version is unlikely to enjoy using it. There is one good difference here between iPad Minis, iPads and iPhones as the iPad Mini much like the iPad has some extra hand gestures that make things easier to access.
The battery life is excellent in the iPad Mini but IOS 7 has reduced the life by quite a small amount like the iPhone. Fortunately the battery life is not an overly large issue as if you can still get about 24 hours of pure playing on games out of it without having to charge it. You can play music on with the screen turned off on holiday for about 2 weeks without having to charge it. This makes it an extremely good device to have on an aeroplane as the kids can play away on it giving you peace and quiet to sleep or just relax. The iPad Mini however does have less battery power than an iPad but it does not make much difference really for the price.
The performance of the iPad Mini is brilliant as it will open webpages, switch between apps or even just open apps within seconds. There is nothing that will make you frustrated when using this product. There is also some extra apps that are not available on the iPhone.
I have found however that their is not enough storage space as if you have a lot of apps, music, photos and videos stored on your phone then you can be guaranteed that you will be constantly be getting the "not enough data storage available" message. Much like the iPhone and iPad I think a 32GB device is better.
The iPad mini is basically a bigger version of an iPhone, it fits in the palm of your hand. Most of the time, the battery lasts me a day considering how much I go on it. However, it takes the iPad very long to charge. The camera quality of the iPad is good but still not great, I dont really see that as a major problem because iPads are not designed for camera purposes.
The iPad is very good for education, apple offers apps like keynote, pages and numbers which is free on the iPad. They are also apps in App Store that you can use for educational purposes.
Its so easy to use an iPad. I love the fact that you can slide from one app to the other instead of opening your multitasking bar (you can do this on ios 6+7 not quite sure for the older updates). Also you can close an app by pinching the screen with 4 fingers instead of pressing the home-button which is a huge time saver.
In conclusion, I think the iPad mini is very beneficial and is a must-have for daily life.
Having previously owned a Kindle Fire, I decided to fork out the increased amount so buy an ipad mini. Having only ever previously had an Ipod I was unsure initially whether it would be worth the money. I can report back that it was definitely worth it and I would not change anything about the product.
The range of apps is fantastic and even though it is smaller than the ipad it is just as good for watching films and playing games. There are also a great range of extras e.g. covers which can be used to personalise your ipad. The latest upgrade to IOS 7 is fantastic and though it takes some time to convert to the new layout I have adapted very quickly.
Hope you found this interesting and I urge you to purchase this product. Maybe wait for the latest version to be released and then go for it.
The Ipad mini is a touch screen tablet released by apple. I was given one as a present, and here is the review.
The ipad mini has a decent battery life, and can spend almost all day sitting there watching videos, playing games etc... I also really like the design of the charging port, it has this magnetic click as the power supply goes into the charging port which I really like.
In terms of functionality, I remain unsure about how functional this is. I still think a normal computer is more functional than something like this, however that said this just remains in the living room, where it is useful for quickly checking whats on tv, skype calling, and just general messing about. However for more "intense" reasons, like online shopping, this thing is just horrible to try and use, you are better off just using a laptop or something like that.
In terms of programs, the way this works is that you connect to the apple store. Here you can pay for and download and install various programs for your ipad mini. I personally find the prices for some of the stuff incredibly lame. Really most of them are just little "games" or stuff like this... really the same sort of stuff you might find on a smartphone. Personally I have never bought anything off there and never intend to... I really think you are better off just sticking with skype, safari and the odd few free apps.
Another problem I have found with this is that when someone is using the ipad mini, the wifi in my house goes REALLY SLOW! More than a laptop connecting to the internet would cause. I am unsure if this is a problem with my wifi, or if the ipad is just really heavy on wifi routers?
However I do like watching things on here (like from bbc iplayer and youtube), as the screen is large, and has a nice display. Also the device feels very well made, and has a nice finish. The screen is also nice and responsive. I suppose as a device itself it is very nice, but the software I personally find lets it down (however it is very easy to use, and I commend it for that because I even managed to teach my granddad how to use a few of its features, and it only took me around 5 weeks!).
Overall then, I have to say if it was my own money, I wouldn't buy this. Sure its good for a quick glance on the internet (this turns on and off really quick as well, as it has flash memory), and maybe you want the odd app, but I don't see why you would choose this over a smart phone for any reason other than to watch things on there... which really is only youtube and bbc iplayer unless you have signed up with something like netflix... where you could just watch them on the tv if you have one of those wireless box things or a ps3 or even a nintendo wii. I know that my parents enjoy using it, and my sister likes playing her little apps on the ipad, but I still think a laptop is the way to go. With a laptop you can use flash based websites (you can only visit these on an ipad if you use an app... but not every flash based website has an app for it. I believe there is another way but its annoying and confusing). Overall then I give this 2/5, because I don't really see what niche this device fills. I don't think its as good as a laptop or computer, and its not as portable as a smaller smart phone. I understand some people would enjoy using it for watching things on, but watching it on this tablet limits what you can see, thus making it fairly pointless in my eyes. Really for £120 I would want something that would be useful for more than about 20 minutes searching the web when I am in the living room. For that you could get a decent smart phone which could also do all that (admittedly with a smaller phone), but you could also make calls off, as well as carry in your pocket!


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Bethune-Cookman dropped a 5-2 decision to Missouri- Kansas City Thursday afternoon at City Island Courts.
Leonardo Lima and Moritz Pronath won at Nos. 5 and 6 singles for Bethune-Cookman, who slipped to 12-10 while the defending Summit League champions improved to 6-8.
Doubles play set the tone for the rest of the day when the Wildcats dropped two of the three contests in hard-fought tiebrekers.
"That kind of took the flame out of us to lose like that and play so well," said B-CU Head Coach Tim Pleasant. "We could not lift ourselves back up to pull out four singles wins."
Lima won his fourth straight match to improve to 12-7 on the season.
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Glenn Close will return to Broadway for the first time in twenty years in a new revival of Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance." The three-time Tony and Emmy Award winner was last seen on the New York stage as Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard," for which she won the 1994 Tony for Lead Actress in a Musical.
Ms. Close's long and celebrated career includes roles in "The World According to Garp," "The Big Chill," "Fatal Attraction," "Dangerous Liaisons," "Albert Nobbs" and dozens of others. She joined the cast of the acclaimed FX television drama "The Shield" during its fourth season, playing Monica Rawling, a new police captain. Two years later in 2007, she starred in a series of her own, playing the ruthless attorney Patty Hewes in another acclaimed FX series "Damages." In addition to her Emmy and Tony Awards, she has been nominated for six Academy Awards.
Her prior stage appearances include "The Real Thing" and "Death and the Maiden," both which garnered her Tony Awards.
Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance" was first produced in 1966 and won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Pam MacKinnon, who won a Tony for directing Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" directs an all-star cast that includes John Lithgow, Lindsay Duncan, Martha Plimpton, Bob Balaban and Clare Higgins.
The limited eight-week run begins on October 20 with a scheduled press opening on November 20.
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Most Americans know Leo Tolstoy only by his most famous books – the lengthy novels "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina." But Tolstoy achieved a far greater fame in his native Russia for the philosophy he espoused in his later years. A forerunner of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., he spoke on behalf of the oppressed, common peasants of Russia, and urged a major upheaval of the country's socio-economic system through passive resistance. However, like a contemporary, well-meaning rock star, he did his proselytizing from the comfort of his own mansion, against the backdrop of an almost paparazzi-like international news crew which followed his every move.
The new movie "The Last Station" recounts this period of the great writer's life. Centered around the character Valentin Bulgakov – an earnest and naive idealist who goes to work as Tolstoy's personal secretary, the film explores the multiple conflicts of Tolstoy's last year.
Leo's wife Sofya – who not only bore him 13 children, but also transcribed the working manuscript of "War and Peace" six times – worries that her husband's followers are more interested in his royalty checks than in him. Leo's dear friend Vladimir Chertkov, meanwhile, insists he wants Tolstoy to change his will not because he wants to disinherit Sofya, but to ensure that the great writer's books will always "belong to the people of Russia."
Both Sofya and Vladimir give Valentin a blank book, and ask him to spy on Tolstoy for them. Caught in the middle, Valentin's affections are torn, until he falls for Masha, a comely Muscovite who is working on the collective farm housed on Tolstoy's estate, which is (supposedly) governed by the principles of Leo's teachings.
Academy Award winning actress Helen Mirren give another stellar performance as Sofya, exploring her character's multifaceted personality traits – charm, pathos, histrionics and tender affection for her husband of 48 years. Christopher Plummer gives an equally memorable turn as the novelist – a humble man who can't quite make sense of his fame, his idealistic followers, his neurotic wife, or his own conflicting passions. Like any author, he usually wants nothing more than a quiet place in which to collect his thoughts and write, but nobody seems willing to treat him like a common scribbler anymore.
Paul Giamatti does a dashing job as the two-faced Chertkov, a character as slippery as the wax that practically drips from his handlebar mustache. James McAvoy is charming (and as cute as a button!) as the kind-hearted Valentin. And Kerry Condon, looking like a young Vanessa Redgrave, steals every scene in which she appears as the character Masha.
"The Last Station" played the art-house theatre circuit at the beginning of this year, but has just been distributed in wide release in anticipation of this weekend's Oscar show. All lovers of literature, history, and fantastic acting will find something to their liking in this film. As for the more common peasants amongst us – well, what better way to fill the hole left by the conclusion of the recent Winter Olympics than to sit in a dark movie theatre and watch some serious Russian snow!


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Philips Lumiblade Reflections OLED Mirrorwall Now Available
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- Philips LumibladeWhen we saw the debut of the Philips Lumiblade Mirrorwall prototype last year in a special exhibition during the Milan Furniture Fair, we fell head over heels for this sophisticated use of lighting technology. The series of linked OLED modules act asa mirror in the off state, and as an interactive lit curtain wall when powered. Well, it's been almost a year since the prototype debut, and Philips has announced that a version of the mirrorwall, called Lumiblade Reflections, will be available for sale in limited quantities. The technology is cutting edge, extremely energy efficient, and perfect for the eco-enthusiast looking to splurge on one of these limited edition museum-worthy products. P.S. Thanks to reader mertero for tipping us off!1
- Philips LumibladeLumiblade tiles use OLED technology, which allows for a very homogenous surface light. Unlike LEDs, this light will never have those pesky hot spots. OLEDs work by passing low levels of electricity through thin layers of organic semiconductor materials. In other words, the tiles are a stack-up of films that can be electrically charged, causing them to become "excited" and emit light. Right now, the tile sizes are limited in size, but they can be linked together into endless configurations.2
- Philips LumibladeOLEDs are superior to LEDs in their even output, their flat form, and their minial circuitry required for powering. OLED is extremely energy efficient with ratings for white modules providing up to 15 lumens per watt. Efficiencies depend highly on the colors, with white being the most efficient.3
- Philips LumibladeCertification bodies, such as Energy Star, typically rate lighting efficiency by efficacy, which is a ratio of lumens per watt. The white Lumiblade tiles provide approximately 15 lm/W. This is a great rating considering that these tiny tiles output 1000 candelas for up to 10,000 hours.4
- Philips LumibladeAs a comparison, the efficacy of a Philips 100 watt incandescent bulb is about 14 lm/watt, but only gives off 120 candelas for a lifespace of about 750-1000 hours.5
- Philips LumibladeIn an off state, it is possible for the OLED tiles to be transparent, since the materials on the layers of sandwiched films appear to be clear.6
- Philips LumibladeA mirror-like appearance, like that of the Lumiblade Reflections, can also be achieved by using specialty layers in the stack-up.7
- Philips LumibladeThe tiles have infrared sensors behind the illuminated panels that detect an object or presence, so when an object passes in front of the tiles, the OLED face dims to a mirrored surface.8
- Philips LumibladeIf one were to stand in front of the mirror, the tiles around their silhouette would stay illuminated, allowing for a very functional mirror and light in one!9
- Philips LumibladePhilips has made a major investment in OLED research, including a dedicated Business Center and the world's first-ever production line for OLED lighting in Aachen, Germany.10
- Philips Lumiblade"Our concepts demonstrate a new light ambiance, novel design possibilities and unique interactivity of light and human gesture," says Rudy Provoost, CEO of Philips Lighting.11
- Philips LumibladePhilips showed several concept products with integrated Lumiblade lights at 100% Design London this past year. The range of one off designs included a pendant, table lamp, and pathway lighting.12
- Philips LumibladeInformation on the Philips website states that they are also working on flexible polymer OLED products.13
- Philips Lumiblade"Our concepts demonstrate a new light ambiance, novel design possibilities and unique interactivity of light and human gesture," says Rudy Provoost, CEO of Philips Lighting.14


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Looks good, and functional! Nice Work!
I like how it can be used from either side.
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Looks good, and functional! Nice Work!
I like how it can be used from either side.
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text: Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act (1986): To protect and enhance the scenic, natural, cultural and recreational resources of the Columbia River Gorge; and to protect and support the economy of the area by encouraging growth to occur in urban areas and allowing future economic development consistent with resource protection. download the entire National Scenic Act Why is the Columbia River Gorge Important? · Formed by ancient volcanoes and cataclysmic floods, the Gorge carves a spectacular corridor through the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington. · The Scenic Area stretches 85 miles on both sides of the Columbia River from Troutdale, Oregon and Washougal, Washington in the west to the Deschutes River in the east. · The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (Scenic Area) is home to an incredible combination of spectacular landscapes, rare plants, wildlife, recreational opportunities, farmland, ancient Indian rock art, and other cultural and historic sites. It is also home to more than 55,000 people and a place to visit for more than 2 million people each year. · Millions of federal dollars have flowed into the Scenic Area as a result of Congress' recognition of its importance as a national resource. Those dollars have gone to a variety of economic development, recreation, county, and other functions. Who Manages the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (NSA)? · The Scenic Area is managed on a partnership basis by the Gorge counties, states of Oregon and Washington, the US Forest Service and the Gorge Commission. · The U.S. Forest Service sets policy for lands in the Special Management Area (approximately 115,000 acres), determines consistency with federal actions in the Scenic Area, and manages 71,000 acres of National Forest land in the Scenic Area. · Five of the six Gorge Counties implement ordinances under the Scenic Area Management Plan, just as they manage other aspects of development. · Thirteen urban areas (about 30,000 acres) designated by Congress are not subject to NSA regulation, and are solely under the jurisdiction of the applicable city or county government. · Congress authorized $10 million for economic development grants and loans. The Washington and Oregon Investment Boards manage the funds and economic development planning. · Four tribal governments with interests in the NSA play an important role in implementing the Management Plan and protecting cultural resources. · The Gorge Commission is a bi-state Compact agency authorized by the Scenic Act and created by Washington and Oregon legislation in 1987. The Commission is funded equally by the two states and is comprised of twelve volunteers appointed by the counties and states.


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The Embassy of the Republic of Sierra Leone in Germany wishes it to be known that, as a Government Policy, it no longer processes application for the issuance and renewal of passports. Sierra Leone Passports are only issued and renewed by the Immigration Department in Freetown.
Sierra Leoneans wishing to obtain or renew their passports can purchase the application form from the Embassy in Berlin.
After completing the form, applicants are to send the form to Freetown for the application to be processed by the Immigration Department at their own expense.


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London Bloggers in 2013
It has been a great start to the year for the London Bloggers community.
Our first monthly social 'Blogging Resolutions' was a great success. We had just shy of 100 bloggers join to listen to our panel talk about how they plan to get the most out of their blogging this year. Thanks to Marko, Simon and Eva (see photo above) for sharing their thoughts, experiences and wisdom.
What else is coming up this year?
It looks like we're going to have a busy year and we're packing the calendar with great stuff for the blogging community. Here's a quick run down of what's coming up:
London Bloggers Meetups / #LBMLive:
The Sharing Economy and Social Media, February 12th
Featuring guest speakers from Airbnb, tripbod, hirespace.com and the sharing economy podcast, we'll be discussing the importance of the growing trend to share, rather than own, great stuff. We will also be looking at the use of social media and blogging as a way to shout about the sharing economy.
Our friends a Freeagent, the small business and freelancer accounting solution, are putting £500 behind the bar at this event too. Get there early to grab a free drink or two.
After that we have…
Multi-Author & Community Blogging, March 11th
Music, Blogging & Social Media, April 9th
Blogging for Good, May 14th
We're also working on another wine blogging event too. These have always proved popular in the past and I'm sure this one will be no exception. Keep your eyes open for news of this to be released soon and if you're on twitter, make sure you follow- the hashtag #LBMlive.
LBM Audible, the London Bloggers Podcast:
We'll be producing a bi-weekly podcast all about blogging this year. We plan to talk to all manner of guests about their experiences with blogging.
So far we've spoken to Mark Schaefer from the Ghrow blog which was a really interesting conversation. Mark gives some advice for brand new bloggers, describes the different approach businesses need to take to blogging, talks about telling stories, being patient and why he sees blogging as a central element of his content marketing and much more. Click here to subscribe via iTunes.
Who's next?
We'll be speaking to the team behind the community blog shareable, Marcus Sheridan from the Sales Lion blog, Mitch Joel from Six Pixels of separation and a whole bunch more.
London Bloggers Community Blog
Just in case it needs clarifying, the London Bloggers Community Blog is what you are reading right now.
We'll soon be upgrading the way it looks and feels so it's much more user friendly. We are also inviting members of our community to write guest blog posts too. We want this to be a community blog so everyone is welcome to contribute one or more posts about their experiences with blogging.
We will also be continuing to run our blogger interview series also. If you would like to take part just get in touch.
You will soon also be able to sign-up to a monthly email summary of all the latest blog posts each month to help those who like to use email.
London Blogger All Stars / #LBMAllstars
We're working with leading gamification company leaderboarded to create a list of Blogger All Stars from our community.
Any member can join the competition and we'll be creating a chart to see who is the most active blogger. The secret sauce behind the leaderboard rankings will be looking at factors such as the number of blog posts published each month and importantly, the number of comments too.
More details coming very soon. Watch this space.
Prizes and Competitions
Regulars LBM'ers will have noticed that nuffnangX, the mobile blogging and commenting platform, have been regularly joining us and running prize draws at our events. Don't be surprised to see them throughout the year with great little prize draws to tempt you. You can find out more about nuffnangX here.
WooThemes has also just agreed to provide some themes and more to give away as prizes too. If you want to upgrade your blog look and feel, join us at a London Bloggers Meetup and see if you can win a free WooTheme.
Is that it?
No. We're working on a handful of other projects and ideas to make the London Bloggers community the first place to go for blogging ideas, advice, inspiration.
Thanks for being part of the London Bloggers Meetup community.


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Music : "Cosmic Debris" by Frank Zappa from
For the new comers: The reports of Interzone contain the monthly activities of the members of the group in different domains. As we are about 300 people in the world, all different, the whole might appear at first sight as an incongruous medley. For more information on the subjects developped here, please refer to the previous reports since 1997 in the page Information on Interzone
Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~ City Lights, Big Sur, Cabin Fever
Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~ City Lights, Big Sur, Cabin Fever
Hi all,
Spring is definitively here and I have been settling in my new place, have a nice garden, and the animals seem completely satisfied. France Culture is broadcastsing a reading of "On the Road" at the moment, and I am writing this report listenning to the adventures of Kerouac and Old Bull Lee.
From the Zone side, this report is really thick : here are the news events of the month :
Grazulis in China :
Grazulis is coming back from a trip in China. You can read his accounts in his blogspot at http://grazulis.blogspot.com and view the pictures he puts on line regularly at http://www.flickr.com/photos/grazulis Very nice photos. His site is at http://www.grazulis.co.uk
Bernard de Clairvaux's letters to the pope Eugène III:
I have used the opportunity of the election of the new pope to put on line letters by Bernard de Clairvaux to the pope Eugène III. You can read them at http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/declairvaux1.html. Kind of strong speech ! If you do not read French, you can have a rough translation through a translator.
Non-aristotelian economy : call for experimenters :
I am preparing a teaching on line through the site "La Sémantique Générale pour tous": http://semantiquegenerale.free.fr and still working on a non-A economy in the frame of the Zone (see the articles on the subject at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9445/economy.html.) Here I am looking for Zoners from different countries interested in it to make a theoretical simulation of organization, which we can then present to our bankers : mine is interested in it. We can first make it like a monopoly game, and if the bankers agree with it, then we can apply it.
Dreamachine making :
I am having requests for dreamachines, mainly from people in US and England. Due to the differences of electric systems in France, I am not sending the whole dreamachine, but make just cylinders, adapted to the size of the turntable. I can make plans for 78 or 45 rpm. The turntable which I use is a Sony PS-LX250H, which is wide, and easier for the 45 rpm, which require more holes than the 78. Price of one cylinder : 50 euros for the work (5 hours), plus mail fee.
Dreamachine plan stealing : "Faut pas prendre les enfants du Bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages !" 1
Some French satanist took my dreamachine plan to put it in his site at http://www.magick-instinct.com/lamachine.htm pretending it comes from a Spanish site of TOPY which would own them. Actually, the Spanish site had translated my plan without asking, of course, and the French translated it from the Spanish translation. After I asked him some clarification, the bastard answered the plan was his, obviously did not know anything about Burroughs nor Gysin, and nearly asked me for money ! I have no objection about anybody using this plan or putting it in one's site, if one asks before and quotes his sources, but I object against one using my work without asking and presenting it like his.
Once clarification about the satanists : since some years, a number of attempts, from different origins, have tried to link it to Interzone. I shall not impose on you today the list of their doubious jokes , just want to make it clear about the dreamachine :
When I put my plans on line in 1998, some guys from Temple Press, who had published Gysin's plans and also refer to satanism, got upset and pretended that they had the monopoly of the dreamachine stuff. Though, this plan was mine, not the same as Gysin's one, as it allows to access to different rhythms inside the alpha band, and Gysin had encouraged me to spread it.
Having heard Gysin's comments on this group at the Final Academy during the projection of their video Naked Lunch , I know that he had no link with Temple press satanic orientation, which he did not specially appreciate, though he was eulogistic towards some previous collaboration with them, which he preferred much more. So this orientation does not involve Gysin at all, and associating his work and image to it is a swindle. I understand that satanists need to steal some people or groups image to appear presentable and make their activities appear as acceptable, but as for me, I have no interested interest in manipulation of symbols.
Now which attitude did Gysin have with the dreamachine effects ? He discovered those effects in one bus at sunset, looked for explanations, and then he built with Iam Sommerville a machine which could reproduce them, which he called the dreamachine. He described those effects, emitted a number of hypothesis about them, and used the dreamachine in an artistic context, but did not try to hide the information on it, nor to limit its spreading, and never earned a cent with the machine. When he put me in from of the dreamachine in his flat, he did not ask me for any money, and as far as my plan was concerned, he said "Go on !"
As for the link between satanism and dreamachine, it also is a swindle : it
rests on a false image of human organism : weather one likes it or not, the
dreamachine effects are part of the human program since mankind lives on this
planet. They were know and used centuries ago by sufis (see the extract of
Henri corbin's book : "L'Homme de Lumière dans le soufisme iranien"
in a spiritual context, and certainly not a satanist one ! As a result, people
involved in such swindles act in the sense of criminalization of some human
programs, through the association of some functions of human organism with the Aristotelian
concept of "evil". (see about it the article "Les
différentes étapes de l'évolution de l'Occident:
Aristote, Descartes, Kortzybski" at http://semantiquegenerale.free.fr/Articles/evol_occ.htm , and on the so-called "knowledge of good and evil" : De l'origine de la répression sexuelle en Occident : Une interprétation non-aristotélicienne du récit de la création d'Adam et Eve at http://www.geocities.com/interzonelibrary/dptsg6Genese.html )
As far as I am concerned, I have had no power of decision on the programs included in human organism, nor have been consulted about them, but for what I have stated and experimented with mine, I have no complain about it, and find it absolutely great. So if some people have some critics about it, nothing prevents them to see directly the manufacturer, who is responsible for the program, rather than forbidding the artefacts to function.
To end this subject about our no-relation with satanism, we have no money to invest in temples nor churches of any kind, and particularly not for high level hallucination and medieval mental creation deprived of real existence and power.
" Look here brother
Who you jivin' with that Cosmik Debris?
Now what kind of a guru are you anyway? . . .
Don't you know You could make more money as a butcher
And so, don't you waste your time on me
Don't waste it
Don't waste your time on me "
Frank Zappa, Cosmic Debris
Catalogue of Interzone creations 2005 :
The catalogue 2005 has been remade : http://www.inter-zone.org/catal1.html (new look, flashy, but chic). If you have books , CD, or more to add to it, or prices to change, let me know at email@example.com .
Exhibitions :
It now seems that because of a software problem
at Resonance FM 104.4 the slot for 7.00 Monday April 11 has been double-booked,
so instead of
hearing techo-jazz poetry and soundscape fiction from Paul A Green & Lawrence Russell you'll probably hear a program about the American poet
Muriel Ruykeyser...
....but stand by your screens and/or watch the skies for announcements of Brother Paul's rescheduled appearance - and for forthcoming updates of audio
& texts at http://www.culturecourt.com
Ricardo Mbarak in Berlin, festival Transmediale : "Art and new media in Lebanon" Feb 2005
- World Summit Contributory Conference on ICT & Creativity / Vienne / Vienna / 2-3 juin / June 2-3 / 2005
The World Summit Contributory Conference on ICT & Creativity is an
Austrian initiative that will take place in Vienna, June 2-3 2005.
The conference aims:
- "at taking a critical look at what has been happening worldwide since the beginning of the Digital Revolution. This process of analyzing is to be followed by agreeing on measures to shape the further development of the Information Society."
- "to produce a truly optimistic statement, the Vienna Declaration". "This document shall be presented by the Conference Chairman at the Plenary Session on the Second Part of the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis 2005."
The participation of Ricardo Mbarak is in June 3rd, Workshop Session 6: "eCulture, Creative Content and DigiArts"
Web Site: http://www.wsa-conference.org Link to the program: http://www.wsa-conference.org/data/cd_prog.htm
- Ciné Club à l'Espace SD... Jeudi 28 Avril à 19h.
- Ciné-Club Mondrian: Mr. Boogie-Woogie Man www.espacesd.com
- "Facettes" de ZEINA BARAKEH jeudi 21 avril à partir de
18h. L'exposition se prolongera jusqu'au 21 mai 2005
Espace SD. Immeuble S.Dagher. Avenue Charles Hélou. Gemmayzé. Beyrouth. Tél: 01 56 31 14
- Kitchen, Where Frequency Meets Pixel From the 14th till the 16th of April 2005, at Espace SD.
See the details of the exhibitions at Espace SD in the news page of April
PRESENTS May The Fourth (Be With Us) an
informal gathering of Pentapoids & Friends
at The Others, Top Floor (above the billiard hall), 6-8 Manor Road, Stoke Newington, N16. This invite-only event precedes our monthly public event, starting on Friday 10th June 2005.
DATE & TIME From 8.00 pm on Wednesday May the Fourth, 2005 AD (Gregorian) until at least 1am
THE VENUE The Others, Top Floor (above the billiard hall), 6-8 Manor Road,
London, N16 Tel: 020 8802 3755 Trains: every 10 minutes from Seven
Sisters/Liverpool Street Buses: 106, 67, 73, 76, 149, 476 and 243 http://www.cabaretsauvignon.co.uk
for a map
DOOR CHARGE Free entry
FOOD & BOOZE Reasonably priced bar: 2.50 for a beer, 3.00 for a large beer Free novelty food items for early arrivals but no substantial gastronomic offerings on this occasion (vast array of cafes nearby for the hungry-bellied)
EXHIBITS from Gary Clarke ("homo sapien aqueous immersion") and Lisa Lovebucket ("voting for politicians gives you piles")
RHYTHMS, RHYMES & REVELATIONS from Kate Alderton, Ishmael Fiifi Annobil, Liza Hayden, Niall McDevitt, Moksha Medicine, Dave Pepper & Paradox
CHRONICLES, CURIOSITIES & PHILOSOPHICAL MONOLOGUES from Dr Leonard Stamford Dupennis, Joseph Hawkins-Hawkins Hawkins Esq & Yap
VINYL SPLENDOUR & DIGITAL JOY from 51RIV5 & Smirk
PLUS PROJECT PAN-PONTIFICATION (free life-long Popeships for all attendees)
We are now confirmed for our monthly event, to be held on the last Friday of the month for the whole of 2005, starting on Friday 27th May. If anyone wants to perform, project or exhibit any works at our monthly event please let me know. And we are now open to submissions for next year?tm)s anthology.
May the fourth be with us.
Xx xxx
- FRONT BY FRONT- Les vitrines du DOJO An exhibition of Eddie Ladoire and
Cl?/2mentine Roy (Heller-OS.011) and Nicolas Moulin OZEANISCHE KNISTERN Opening
on the April 02 18.00 P.M - Le dojo 22 Bis Bd Stalingrad 06300 Nice www.le-dojo.net
SUPERAMAS- APRIL /France : BIG 2nd episode Paris Ð 6, 7 April 2005 - 19H30 Ð La Villette/Centre G. Pompidou www.cnac-gp.fr or www.villette.com www.superamas.com
RADIOTOPIE (exhibition) is an exhibition of the artist PHILIPPE LEPEUT. Optical Sound and PIERRE BELOUIN have made label tracks selection and the jingle for the seven radio show of this event. PINUP BADGES made a special edition of Philippe Lepeut. It will take place between the April 9 to May 21 at GALERIE L'ONDE Espace Culturel 8 bis Avenue Louis-Breguet 78140 Velizy-Villacoublay Infos : firstname.lastname@example.com / 01 34 58 19 92 Free bus on the April 09 at Trocadero 17.30 P.M/
CLAIR OBSCUR Live jeudi 7 avril AmiensLa Lune des Pirates, 17 quai B?/2lu
80000 Amiens / T?/2l : 03 22 97 88 01http://www.lalune.net/
vendredi 20 mai Marseille Le Poste ˆ Galne, 103 rue Ferrari 13005 Marseille / T?/2l : 04 91 47 57 99 ou 04 42 32 66 52 http://leposteagalene.free.fr/
vendredi 27 mai Maxeville (Nancy) Le T.O.T.E.M., 36 rue du general Leclerc 54320 Maxeville / T?/2l : 03 83 37 54 53 http://www.materiaprima-totem.com/totem.htm
AUDIOROOM section~On-Line RADIO is now available (mac user only)
RELATED PROJECTS section~Pierre Belouin Art, Exhibitions, Curatoring, Workshops.
(OS.007- CD+ROM) "Cocoon" Cocoon and Servovalve (CD 10 tracks + INFINITE CD-ROM) 12 Euros
(OS.008- 2xCD) "Re:Courrier Electronique" Rainier Lericolais (CD 12 tracks Original + CD 17 Remixes) 20 Euros
(OS.009 - CD ) "Les enfants gates" Rainier Lericolais Music from Daniella Marxer movie 12 Euros
(OS.010 - CD) "Echo Location" V/a from 80's french scene (18 tracks + booklet 24 p) 15 Euros
(OS.011 - CD) ".01..05" Heller (Sebastien Roux and Eddie Ladoire +Portfolio 12 sleeves by Clementine Roy) 15 Euros
Sites :
* The Taxidermist on line : The comix by José Altimiras and Fran çois Darnaudet : The new pages of this month : page pages 31 http://www.geocities.com/the_taxidermist_on_line/taxi31.html, 32 http://www.geocities.com/the_taxidermist_on_line/taxi32.html et 33 http://www.geocities.com/the_taxidermist_on_line/taxi33.html .
* Agent of discord's blog : http://agentofdiscord.blogspot.com/
Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" http://agentofdiscord.blogspot.com/2005/04/jack-kerouac-was-mommas-boy-week-two.html
* Jon Nelson : My blog :
New blog entries http://www.cheblogs.com/roller/page/njon/
* J. Ward-Nichols" :
Once Again, We're LAWRENCE, KANSAS (not to be confused with "KANSAS") : From my BLOG, which can be found at http://www.livejournal.com/users/jlwn111 (see the contents in the news page of April. )
* More paintings by Paul Donovan :
Paul has sent two new paintings which have been added to his gallery http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/odonovan6.html
* the lazarus corporation news & updates : http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk
more new artwork from liza aspell
more information at http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/v4/irishfae/
new photography from irishfae
more information at http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/v4/liza/
the lost films of alain noslier
more information at http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/v4/michaelkemp/
latest forum topics
more information at http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/forum/
Calendar :
The Interzone calendar of May 2005 is on line at http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/cal0505.html .
New pages on line:
In Interzone sites :
- Bernard de Clairvaux's letters to Eugène III : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/declairvaux1.html.
· Calendar of May 2005 : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/cal0505.html
· "La sémantique générale pour tous" http://semantiquegenerale.free.fr
· Paul Donovan's gallery: Burroughs : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/odonovan6.html
· Update of Reporters Rédacteurs d'Interzone : http://www.inter-zone.org/RRI.html and http://www.geocities.com/clemsnide23/
· Update of the page Information on Interzone, Zone rubrics, reports, news and clubs http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/infzone.html
· Interzone news of April 2005 http://www.geocities.com/clemsnide23/News67.html
- Virus and spams senders : "Pas vu pas pris, pris pendu !" (suite) http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/virussenders10.html
- The Taxidermist on line : The new pages of this month : new pages 31 http://www.geocities.com/the_taxidermist_on_line/taxi31.html, 32 http://www.geocities.com/the_taxidermist_on_line/taxi32.html et 33 http://www.geocities.com/the_taxidermist_on_line/taxi33.html .
In the other Zoners' sites:
* firstname.lastname@example.com :
- Ciné Club à l'Espace SD... Jeudi 28 Avril à 19h
- Ciné-Club Mondrian: Mr. Boogie-Woogie Man www.espacesd.com
- "Facettes" de ZEINA BARAKEH jeudi 21 avril à partir de
18h. L'exposition se prolongera jusqu'au 21 mai 2005
Espace SD. Immeuble S.Dagher. Avenue Charles Hélou. Gemmayzé. Beyrouth. Tél: 01 56 31 14
- Exposition Photo à Saifi Village Tout un chacunPhotographies de Gilbert Hage Sur la place de Saifi Village
- Visages Photographies de Nadim Asfar, Hayat Karanouh, Joe Kesrouani et Roger Moukarzel Saifi Village. Quartier des Arts. A coté de la Galerie Nada Debs, en face des tentes des artisans. Du 11 au 17 avril 2005
* Lisa Lovebucket : May the Fourth
(Be With Us) - Pentapus Proudly Presents an AntipoliticalParty :PENTAPUS PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENTS May The
Fourth (Be With Us) an informal
gathering of Pentapoids & Friends at The Others, Top Floor (above
the billiard hall), 6-8 Manor Road, Stoke Newington, N16. This invite-only
event precedes our monthly public event, starting on Friday 10th June 2005.
* Paul ODonovan : Kral Majaes The link below contains Robert Lavigne's original block print design for the poster poem edition of Kral Majales - good resolution format http://www.allenginsberg.org/library_detail.asp?thisItem=38
* STEVENALLENMAY Co-Founder & CEO www.planbpress.com authors who choose an alternative plan
" Jon Nelson" New blog entries http://www.cheblogs.com/roller/page/njon/
* agent1914 Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" http://agentofdiscord.blogspot.com/2005/04/jack-kerouac-was-mommas-boy-week-two.html
* Grazulis: Travelling in China What am I doing? http://grazulis.blogspot.com The
official line: http://www.grazulis.co.uk
Visual Aids: http://www.flickr.com/photos/grazulis
* "Paul Green" : Brother Paul's Archives rescheduled... for forthcoming
updates of audio
& texts at http://www.culturecourt.com
* the lazarus corporation more art, photography and lost cinema alternative visual art, music & writing
your irregular almost-monthly round-up of what's new on the lazarus corporation site:
more new artwork from liza aspell http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/v4/irishfae/
new photography from irishfae http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/v4/liza/
the lost films of alain noslier http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/v4/michaelkemp/
latest forum topics http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/forum/
* "J. Ward-Nichols" <firstname.lastname@example.com> Once Again, We're LAWRENCE, KANSAS (not to be confused with "KANSAS") http://www.livejournal.com/users/jlwn111
* celie99us 'beat' DVD trade?
This report is on line at http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/reportapril05.html. The French version will be on line in some days at http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/reportapril05fr.html
Rock on !
1. "Faut pas prendre les enfants du Bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages" : ("One must not take God's children for wild ducks!" ) : title of a French comic movie by Michel Audiard.
Images of the day / Images du jour / Imagenes del dia:
De Argentina : Daniel Gualda
Thoughts of the day / Pensées du jour:
Littlemute (US)
Grazulis blogspot and photos (U K)
Jon Nelson (US)
J. Ward-Nichols (US)
Agent of discord (US)
Back to Information on Interzone, Zone rubrics, reports, news and clubs
To access to all the reports since the beginning: Information on Interzone
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The barrier, lighted with flashing red lights, was in the down position as its drawspan was open to allow passage of vessel traffic around 12:30 Monday afternoon.
The State Patrol said the white van, driven by Stephen J. Patch, 64, of Port Townsend, struck the barrier.
Patch was unhurt, the State Patrol said, and the van was driven from the scene — once the drawspan was back in place for traffic.
Everything on the bridge, including flashing warning lights on approach to the traffic barrier, was working, an investigating trooper said.
Patch was cited for driving too fast for conditions, the State Patrol reported.
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Although the television reboot of "Cosmos" on Sunday nights may be less popular than the 1980 "Cosmos" on public television, a new paperback edition of the equally popular 1980 book "Cosmos" might attract readers by being easier to hold and read quickly than the 1980 book written by Carl Sagan.
"Cosmos," the trade paperback published in December by Ballantine Books, has just 24 of the more than 250 full-color illustrations from the original "Cosmos" written by Sagan to accompany the series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" being rebooted by Fox in its series with astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
Some of the illustrations that do reappear, together at the center of the new book, have more concise captions. Reading of the original, larger hardcover "Cosmos" was perhaps slowed by the illustrations appearing on many pages along with the text.
Reading this paperback, with its generous spacing between lines, is also enhanced compared to the 1985 mass-market paperback.
Getting through concepts of "Cosmos," or at least understanding them better, seems easier with this new trade paperback. If you can make it to Chapter 10, "The Edge of Forever," and its great writing about galaxies, quasars, pulsars, and cosmology, you might tackle the remaining three chapters, all in one fascinating read. If one result is additional readers, who might have stopped reading the larger book, that is good for science and the future of space exploration.
This new paperback also has a new foreword by Tyson, "Reflections on Carl Sagan's Cosmos," and a new foreword/introduction by Ann Druyan, who was married to Sagan until his death and was his "co-writer on Cosmos."


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text: German website Hard Tecs is reporting that the AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8GHz) processor based on the new 0.13 micron Thoroughbred core will be released on May 2nd. The shrink in the die size means the processor will operate at lower temperatures, this means good news for overclockers and achieving higher clock frequencies than ever before. You can read more at Hard Tecs.


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Dr. Matthew Highlands Pilot Plant - Food Processing Equipment
- Cheese Making Equipment
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The Dr. Matthew Highlands Pilot Plant has various cheese making equipment available and host cheese making workshops periodically sponsored by the Maine Cheese Guild and Cooperative Extension.
Freezing, Freeze Drying and Dehydration are important food processing methods for todays Food Processors. We have the latest technology to accomplish your freezing and drying needs.
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Oreotragus oreotragus
|Scientific Name:
|Oreotragus oreotragus
|Species Authority:
|(Zimmermann, 1783)
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Ansell (1972) listed 11 subspecies, but only the isolated Western Klipspringer (O. o. porteousi) of Nigeria and Central African Republic, is assessed separately here.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group
|Mallon, D.P. (Antelope Red List Authority) & Hoffmann, M. (Global Mammal Assessment)
Listed as Least Concern as the total population has been estimated at more than 40,000, 25% of which were in protected areas. Populations in many protected areas and on private land were considered stable, and substantial numbers occurred in unprotected but inaccessible habitat. This species' conservation status should not change and its future should be secure as long as it continues to receive active protection in national parks and equivalent reserves, hunting concessions and private farmland. It should also continue to survive in substantial numbers in extensive, inaccessible areas of unprotected habitat.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The Klipspringer has a wide distribution from north-eastern Sudan, Eritrea, northern Somalia and the Ethiopian Highlands southwards through East and southern Africa to South Africa, and along the west coast in Namibia and south-western Angola. Isolated populations occur in the Central African Republic (two separate areas in the northern and western uplands) and south-eastern DR Congo (East 1999; Roberts in press). In Nigeria, they occur in and around the Jos Plateau (East 1999), and also in the east in the Gashaka-Gumpti N. P. (Nicholas 2004). The only country in which they formerly occurred, but are now probably extinct, is Burundi.
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Native:Angola (Angola); Botswana; Central African Republic; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Namibia; Nigeria; Rwanda; Somalia; South Africa; South Sudan; Sudan; Swaziland; Tanzania, United Republic of; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Possibly extinct:Burundi
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|The Klipspringer can reach relatively high population densities within continuous areas of favourable habitat, e.g., 10.0-14.0/km² in a 9.6 km² area of escarpment, ridge top and gorge in Simien Mountains National Park (Ethiopia). More typically, the Klipspringer's habitat is discontinuous within a given area and its abundance is closely related to the extent of suitable rocky terrain. Its overall population density is frequently in the range 0.01-0.1/km² in protected areas within which it is common in restricted areas of suitable habitat. Higher densities occur in areas with more extensive Klipspringer habitat, e.g., 0.15-0.30/km² in Lengwe (Malawi) and Karoo, Mountain Zebra and Royal Natal National Parks and Giant's Castle Game Reserve (South Africa) (various authors in East 1999).
East (1999) produced a total population estimate of about 42,000 animals, which is probably conservative. Population trend is stable in many protected areas and on private land, but tending to decrease in areas where small, isolated populations are subjected to uncontrolled hunting and competition with livestock. The numbers of the western klipspringer are unknown but are unlikely to exceed a few thousand at most, in view of its very restricted distribution. This subspecies' population is probably decreasing, at least in Nigeria.
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|Klipspringers are dependent on rocky and mountainous terrain, occurring up to 4,380 m in the Ethiopian Highlands (Yalden et al. 1996). The Rift Valleys and the Southern African escarpments provide extensive suitable habitat and are central to its distribution. Klipspringers are primarily browsers.
|Major Threat(s):
|There are no obvious major threats to Klipspringers across their range. Their habitat is of little value to humans and it persists outside protected areas in regions where subsistence hunting pressure is not intense. The Klipspringer's adaptation to the inaccessible hillsides and cliffs in these areas enables it to avoid most competition from domestic herds. Small, isolated populations within relatively small areas of rocky habitat are more vulnerable to hunting and competition from goats, and many of these populations have been eliminated in settled regions.
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|About one-quarter of the population occurs in protected areas, including: Simien and Bale Mountains (Ethiopia), Tsavo (Kenya), North and South Luangwa (Zambia), Nyika (Malawi), Namib-Naukluft (Namibia) and Matobo (Zimbabwe). It occurs in lesser numbers in a large number of other protected areas throughout its range which contain smaller areas of suitable habitat. Very large numbers survive on private farmland in Namibia.
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The MFAH, in collaboration with filmmaker Carroll Parrott Blue and the University of Houston, welcomes celebrated Afro-Cuban filmmaker Gloria Rolando to Houston. This program features a conversation with both of them, along with film scholar Margarita de la Vega Hurtado, and includes a screening of Rolando's latest film: 1912, Breaking the Silence (Voces para un silencio).
About the filmmaker
The primary focus of Gloria Rolando's work is the African diaspora in the Caribbean. Originally trained in art history, she transitioned to filmmaking and has made documentaries and features. She has worked with the Cuban National Film Institute and is a founding member of the film collective Imagines del Caribe, based in Havana. Rolando is best known for films such as Oggun: An Eternal Presence, about Cuban Yoruba singer Lazaro Ros; My Footsteps in Baragua, a recounting of the history of a West Indian community in Cuba; and Eyes of the Rainbow, a documentary on Assata Shakur, the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who took refuge in Cuba. Her current project traces the history of Africans in Cuba.
Cosponsored by the University of Houston's El Paso Corporation Lecture Series.
Special thanks to UH professor Martin Melosi for his generous support.


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DescriptionA coin pusher game, which is played with lifelike money.
Themed British money. Both the Royal Shield collection coins introduced in 2008 and former design coins will appear.
Feel the sense of openness by tossing precious money without scruples.
Feel the exhilaration by getting enormous amounts of money.
Enjoy the the super-rich experience too wasteful to do in real life.
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The proposed model of tourists' behavioural intentions was developed and tested. The empirical tests completed provide support for the critical causal relationships between the constructs in the model. The results reveal that tourists' overall satisfaction and their perceptions of value have a p...
Culture is an important part of the tourism "product" and is one of the factors that can improve the competitiveness of a tourism destination. Cultural tourism covers all aspects of travel that provide an opportunity for visitors to learn about another area"s history and way of life. However, ...
The proposed model of tourists' behavioural intentions was developed and tested. The empirical tests completed provide support for the critical causal relationships between the constructs in the model. The results help clarify the roles of perceived quality of performance, perceived quality of exp...
An examination of the effects of perceived quality, price-value, and satisfaction on golf tourists' behavioural intentions
This study attempts to better understand the VFR market in Prince Edward Island, Canada by using data set drawn from Tourist Exit Survey during the period from 2000 to 2004. The study provided an exploratory examination of trip characteristic variables between VFR and pleasure travellers and identif...
Tourism has become a development tool for many rural and more isolated areas to supplement traditional industries that are often in decline. In this paper, development of cultural rural tourism is examined in a case study of a French Acadian region on an island in eastern Canada. The roles of cultur...
This article reviews grounded theory studies available in the literature that deepen understanding of leisure travel decisions and tourism behaviors. The article includes a set of core propositions that are examined empirically. The reported study includes applying the "long interview method&qu...
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The oldest sperm cells that have ever been found in the geological record were reported by Professor Mike Archer of the University of New South Wales School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences and colleagues in the May 13, 2014, edition of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The sperm cells originally came from ostracod fossils. The sperm cells are 17 million years old.
The fossil ostracods were originally discovered at the Bitesantennary Site at the Riversleigh fossil deposits in northwestern Queensland in 1988. Ostracods are an ancient species of shrimp that has about 8,000 species living today. Only recently did the researchers discover that the fossil shrimp contained soft tissue.
The soft tissue included ostracod sexual organs and gigantic sperm cells. The sperm cells were 1.3 millimeters long. The shrimp were about the same order of size. The Zenker organs were also preserved as soft tissue. The sperm cells included a complete nucleus and all the DNA of the ancient shrimp.
The researchers propose that the Bitesantennary Site was a tropical rainforest 17 million years ago. The ostracods lived in small pools of water in the rainforest. The location where the fossils were originally found was a cave. The scientists propose that a continuous deposit of bat guano over 17 million years provided an environment that preserved the soft tissue of the shrimp. Phosphorous in the bat guano provided the chemical environment that was responsible for the preservation of the ostracod fossils and the preservation of extremely ancient soft-tissues.
The preservation of soft tissues or even the mineralization of soft tissues from ancient animals is extremely rare. The Riversleigh fossil deposits have provided several other soft tissue samples over the years. It is possible that the soft-tissues of a female ostracod from the same time period may be found. The potential to create an ancient species from ancient DNA preserved for millions of years may be possible.


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Kelis' new album Flesh Tone hits stores today and has already been tipped as one of 2010′s "Best Bets" by Billboard. The David Guetta-produced single "Acapella" is already an international No. 1 hit, while the festive "4th of July (Fireworks)" is a club banger that mixes R&B soulfulness and electro breaks with a rip-roaring wobbly bass riff. Kelis says of the album, "there's a physicality behind it – it's about blood, muscle, heart. I was pregnant when I recorded 75 or 80 percent of this music… And that became a real driving force for me. She also worked with label head will.i.am, Alle, Benny Benassi, Free School, Boys Noize and Burns to achieve her club-ready sound.
Kelis Video: "4th of July (Fireworks)"
Check out the explosive video for Kelis' new single, "4th of July (Fireworks)," the follow-up single to the chart-smashing "Acapella," from her 6th album, Flesh Tone, set for release July 6th.
Kelis "Acapella" Video & DJ Replay Mix
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"Acapella" is the Free Video of the Week over at iTunes so grab it now before it's gone. You can also stream loads of remixes here. Besides those remixes by the likes of Benny Benassi and David Guetta, a lesser-known DJ Replay also made a dope mix to get you hyped up for the new album, Flesh Tone.
Queen of Hearts: Off With Their Heads: Kelis Fleshtone Mixtape
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New Global Navigation Menu - New Feature for All Users
The entry point to My Blackboard is available all the time in the top right corner of the Learn interface and provides one-click access to your Courses, Settings, Help, and the new My Blackboard tools. You can see the new My Blackboard tools going down the left-hand side of the menu in the screenshot below. And the numbers in red tell you if there's something that's new or needs your attention – so you never have to worry about missing anything. With this new Global Navigation menu, you can access everything you need quickly and easily, from wherever you are in the Blackboard Learn. More information regarding global navigation.
Calendar Update – New Feature for All UsersCalendar events are color coded to indicate which place/entity they are associated with. Easily add calendar events by clicking on a date and adding an item. Items with due dates automatically appear on the calendar. Faculty can move calendar events by dragging and dropping them to a new date. The due date on the associated item is automatically updated. Users can click through calendar events directly to the associated item. Calendar honors adaptive release and availability rules. External calendars can subscribe to events created on the Blackboard Learn calendar through an iCalendar feed. When reusing content through course copy, archive/restore or import/export, the course calendar events are propagated (roll-over) to the new course. For more information regarding the New Calendar watch this.
New Content Editor – Enhancement for All UsersThe new and improved Content Editor enables simple content creation through an easy to use interface. The editor reads, writes and renders modern HTML – so the content you created in Microsoft Word and the course pages you designed so carefully in Dreamweaver will render with great fidelity within Blackboard Learn. You can easily add rich content by pulling in mashups from YouTube, Flickr, Slideshare, and more. You can expand it for full-frame editing to build rich content.
Additionally, there is a new math editor in Blackboard Learn that simplifies creation and delivery of equations by enabling editing directly from the Content Editor. The new math editor supports saving and copy/paste of equations using mathML.
Watch a video on using the new Content Editor.
Item Analysis – New Feature for FacultyThe new Item Analysis feature helps you easily assess and refine your tests and quizzes by evaluating the quality and validity of each question and that question's ability to discriminate between students who understand the material and those who do not. Ineffective questions can be easily identified and then you can quickly correct them with the Automatic re-grade feature. As an educator, you will be able to access an at-a-glance summary of your Blackboard assessments (see below). This summary provides insight into student performance on that assessment and how the question items performed.Item AnalysisAnd from this summary page, when you scroll down, you can see a list of questions sorted in order of discrimination – with the most ineffective listed on top. A simple red dot next to a question tells you if the question requires review. Item Analysis detailAfter examining the question, you can see whether it was poor wording, vague answer choices or some other factor. If you decide to change or update that question, you can immediately take action right from this page by clicking the "Edit Test" button. You will be taken directly to the assessment where you can use the automatic regrading feature to either update or delete the question and regrade it – even if students have already completed the assessment. And the updates flow automatically into the Grade Center. In summary, with the new Item Analysis feature, you can quickly and easily ensure that your assessments are successful discriminators of student performance.Watch a video on item analysis.
Fill in the Blank Question Enhancement – Enhancement for FacultyInstructors can now take advantage of using "contains" and "pattern match" logic when grading Fill in the Blank questions. That means you no longer have to rely upon an exact match for Blackboard Learn to automatically grade these questions. So you no longer have to enter multiple answer choices when creating a Fill in the Blank question in order for Blackboard to grade the question for you.
For example, let's say your test question is "Who was the first president of the United States?" Instead of trying to enter all possible correct answers for the blank (George Washington, Washington, President Washington, President George Washington, etc.), you can simply select "contains" and type Washington.
In addition it also includes flexibility for special needs students by allowing them extra time.
File Picker Enhancement – Enhancement for All UsersA new and improved File Picker will be available everywhere you attach files. The goal is to de-clutter the page, remove unnecessary functionality and make the primary action of choosing a file as easy and simple as possible. The new File Picker will be available for both direct file attaching, as in Assignments, or attaching files via the Content Editor.
File Picker Enhancement
Video Everywhere – New Feature for All UsersVideo Everywhere is available in the Content Editor is. Users will be able to record video and upload it directly to YouTube safely. The feature provides the ability for faculty and students to record a video on the fly using a webcam and have it seamlessly embedded in course materials, interactions, and feedback through the content editor and reuse previously recorded videos by choosing from one's own "library" of videos. All you need is a webcam. For more information regarding Video Everywhere is available here
Inline Assignment Grading:Instead of requiring instructors to download student-submitted files to view or edit those submissions, Instructors will now be able to view student-submitted files "inline," i.e. in the web browser, without requiring any plugins, applets, or client-side applications. Additionally, annotation tools will be made available as part of the inline viewer, enabling Instructors to provide feedback including comments, highlights, and even drawings/annotations directly on the inline view of the document.
Grading Schema AlignmentThe new Grade Schema default will be A, B, C, D, F instead of A+, A, A-, B+, ....... that is more aligned with CCC Grading System. Instructors can still edit and make changes according to their needs.
Automated Re-gradingInstructors
can now fix problematic questions by simply editing the invalid
question directly and having all necessary updates flow automatically to
the Grade Center. For any assessment question, Instructors can drop,
give full credit, change point value, or change which answer is marked
correct. After the question has been updated, Blackboard Learn
recalculates the score of all submitted assessments that included the
updated question, reflects the updates in the Grade Center, and provides
notification to both the Instructor and optionally to the Student for
all impacted submissions.
Test Availability ExceptionsTest availability exceptions are a set of new settings on the Test Options page, available only after the test is added to a content area. Select one or more groups of students and make a number of exceptions to the already established availability settings. Exceptions can be used to provide an accommodation to a disabled student, or provide accommodations for technology and language differences. Exceptions can be created for:
Exporting Test QuestionsAll questions are now retained in exported and imported tests, including questions that originate outside the exported test, such as Question Sets, Random Blocks, and Question Links. When the user exports a test and imports it back into a different course, all questions are now present irrespective of their origin.
Test Access LogInstructors and proctors can verify student activity or lack of activity during a test using the new Access Log. The Access Log is available from the Attempts page of a test and provides detailed information on student's test attempt interactions.
Negative Marking Negative Marking allows Instructors to apply negative point values for incorrect answers on assessment questions.


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We love the fresh take on shelving demonstrated by the Rex Shelving Unit at Weego Home ($2315). The white lacquer shelving unit can be used alone or in a group to create an almost store-like display in your space. Perfect for books or for displaying random knick-knacks, the shelving works with almost any style space and in any room in your home.
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In a few short years, San Juan Hills High School has developed a dance program that students are clamoring to join. "We are still considered a pretty new school but we have an elite program here and it's run differently from any other high school," explains Kristine Calder, Dance Program Director at the school. "We use professional guest artists currently working in the industry to keep us up to date. We have dancers who choose to do open enrollment so that they can dance here. People are attending our school to dance."
The program spends approximately $20,000-$25,000 on its productions. The school does not provide financial support for expenses to produce the program. Instead it depends on fundraising through ticket sales, ad sales, a sponsor wall and carwashes.
This year's year-end show on May 24 and 25 included a variety of genres from jazz, lyrical, tap, hip-hop, musical theater, and character and novelty numbers.
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The New Orleans Saints barely had time to catch their breath from Sunday's frantic conclusion before they were already looking ahead in the week.
The 23-20 win against the San Francisco 49ers was already on the back burner Monday morning with a divisional game at the Atlanta Falcons coming up Thursday.
Typically teams have a 24-hour rule to enjoy the win. Not this week.
"We've got out of that game, we won that game, it was a hard physical fight," said Saints defensive end Cam Jordan. "We're looking forward towards Thursday. We're already breaking down film for Atlanta today."
The Saints will have a light week, practicing on Tuesday, which is normally the players' day off, and leaving for Atlanta on Wednesday.
"Typically on a short week like this we get right on to the next opponent," said Saints coach Sean Payton. "There have been snippets we looked at, really nothing has changed since last night. We are kind of on to the Atlanta plan just with the reduced time."
The Saints beat the Falcons, 23-17, with a last second goal line stand at home during Week 1. Since then, the fortunes of the two franchises have diverted wildly, with the Falcons losing several key players and falling to 2-8.
Atlanta is also coming off a short week after a blowout loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday.
"We know them and they know us," Jordan said. "Familiarity helps in a short week, but at the same time it's going to be a physical, hard-fought battle regardless because we always play each other tough."
Payton said this week will be mostly about keeping the players healthy, mentally and physically, during a quick turnaround.
"I think (about) the toll on the players and just trying to get them as much rest as possible prior to playing another football game," he said.
The Falcons have struggled this season, losing several key starters, including wide receiver Julio Jones, and losing four games in a row. But Saints wide receiver Robert Meachem gave them a healthy dose of respect on Monday.
"It's going to be a challenge to just be rested and be mentally tough for this game. Atlanta has a good defense and a good offense, and when they're clicking, they're clicking," Meachem said. "At home, they are tough to beat."
Added Jordan: "It's a division opponent, it's our rival. I mean to flip around and have a game Sunday then a game Thursday, it's going to talk a lot about the fortitude and what we have on this team."
The Falcons were the Saints only Thursday night opponent last season. The Saints turned the ball over five times and lost that matchup, 23-13.
Mum on Butler: The Saints have until Tuesday to decide whether or not to allow linebacker Victor Butler to resume practice or be placed on injured reserve.
Butler was placed on the physically unable to perform list in the offseason after tearing his ACL during June OTAs. If he returns to practice on Tuesday, he'll have three weeks before the Saints must activate him or send him to IR.
Payton did not elaborate on Butler's status when asked Monday.
"We will see where we are at with him," he said.
Quote of the Day: 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks was not pleased with a fourth quarter call that negated a sack/fumble of quarterback Drew Brees.
Brooks was flagged 15 yards for hitting Brees in the head and neck area.
"I didn't hit him with my hand or my helmet," Brooks told the San Francisco Chronicle. "I basically bear-hugged him. That's just how football is played. I think this sh-- is bullsh--. Football, the way they call stuff these days, it's watered down. It ain't real no more."
Stat of the Day: In their last two games, the Saints have produced 63 first downs to just 21 first downs allowed.


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Former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has become so successful in his new career as photographer and author that event organizer Molly Barnes invited him to be a featured speaker at a new program on career transitions. Garcetti's latest book project, "Power of Beautifully Dressed Parisian Women on Bicycles," was featured as an exhibit and speaker program at the Los Angeles Art Show last weekend.
Garcetti is using photos from Europe's fashion capital to help more cities think about ways to incorporate the healthy benefits of cycling in visions for 21st Century cities. He chose Paris as the venue for his outdoor photos because there are so many attractive subjects to photograph in bicycles in a context where they would almost only be seen driving cars in the U.S. The photo exhibitions and book project are a subtle way of encouraging Americans to consider cycling as an alternative to our traditional car culture.
Garcetti's cycling photos capture viewers' imaginations with a hint of the improbable. Fashionable women in high heels riding bikes. Cycling while wearing a long coat in the wintertime. Speeding through a drenched thoroughfare holding a red umbrella. A romantic couple kissing while cycling side by side. The message is appealing. Anything you can do in a car, you can do on a bike and you don't have to buy gas or search a long time for a parking spot.
Garcetti's past experience as an elected official in America's largest county have made him realistic about the dedicated communications efforts that will be needed for many more Americans to embrace cycling the way to many Parisians already have. "There are obstacles to practically everything," he told readers in his book lecture on January 18. The public relations effort is already gaining momentum. Garcetti's photos will be exhibited in Bordeaux, France as a feature of events highlighting the 50th Anniversary of the Bordeaux- Los Angeles Sister City Program.


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