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Officially on the Galapagos IslandsGalapagos, Fall 2011
[gallery link="file" orderby="title"] "Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent." H.P. Lovecraft. The quote above is one at the beginning of a chapter in a book we have to read for one of our classes - "Galapagos at the Crossroads" by Carol Ann Bassett. I decided that it is a pretty perfect way to describe my first few days on the island. They have been wild and crazy, yet peaceful at the same time – just like the ocean I am currently surrounded by. We left the university at 5am Sunday morning to make it to our flight to San Cristobal. After arriving on the island, we were met by the head of the university here and taken to the beach, wait I mean the school. Well, I guess I could say either because they are basically the same place. Playa Mann, a beautiful white sand beach with tons of sea lions, is located directly across the street from the University. In our downtime before lunch and our first tour, they couldn't keep us out of the water. It is beautiful. Our first day consisted of a tour and meeting our Primos, or cousins, (basically buddies who are Galapagños in English classes, they showed us around town as we did a Scavenger Hunt together, and practiced their English while we practiced our Spanish). After our Primo adventure we met our host families. We all waited on the steps of the University as what seemed to be every taxi in town made the rounds with each family to pick us up. When my family arrived I met my mom, dad, and two host brothers (ages 9 and 2 – so cute!). They took me to our house and I got settled in and then they took me on a 20-30 minute tour of the entire town. The town is really small, with only about 7,000 people, no addresses, and few street names. As my host dad said (Translated from Spanish) "I know everyone and everyone knows me." (Although I'm not quite sure how true that really is because one night when I couldn't find my house I stopped to ask a police officer and he had no idea who my host dad was by his name… but don't worry, I found it!) The family I am with is really nice, and they were telling me all sorts of stories about other students they had stay with them in the past. They also said that they thought my Spanish was really good – which must mean I've improved in the past month, considering my last family agreed with me when I said I was bad! They assured me I would get even better in the next three months, and they would make sure to help. The town is pretty run-down, which I was not expecting. In my mind I imagined the Galapagos as being as prestine and full of nature as Darwin experienced when he rode the Beagle over in 1835. I guess it was pretty silly of me to think. It looks a lot more like I imagined South America to look than where we stayed in Quito. Most of the buildings don't look finished, and there is trashed piled in the streets. Aside from the initial appearance, everything here is really nice. The people especially. It is so nice not to have to be on edge and worried about being robbed, like in Quito. The island lifestyle is definitely more my type. The university is great. As I mentioned before, it is right on the beach. It is basically a second home to all of the students. In my locker I keep my bathing suit, towel, and sun block. During the day I usually put them on when I put my backpack in after class. The past few days we have been reading for class out on the beach and on the universitybalcony overlooking the water. I can't think of a more perfect location to study, seriously. My class right now, Evolution, seems like it is going to be pretty demanding. The professor is going away during the third week to do research on Isabella Island, so we have two hours of class in the morning and two hours of class in the afternoon for the next too weeks, and only a final in the last week after he returns. In those two weeks, however, he expects us to do a semesters worth of work – including 45 hours of class, reading a text book with daily reading quizzes, reading a chapter book, making a presentation, writing a paper, and taking both a midterm and final. I just keep reminding myself that one, we are on the Galapagos, two, the class will only last for two and a half weeks, three that I will learn SO much in that time, and four, that if I am going to be taking a class on evolution why not do it here, in the Galapagos – the "birthplace of evolution" where Darwin became famous. Tomorrow we have a class field trip to the highlands, accompanied by a look a the giant tortoises and a swim in the ocean nearby, and this weekend we have another field trip where we will visit a number of places around the island, and take a boat to Kicker Rock for snorkeling. More pictures to come! Best wishes from the Galapagos - Samantha
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M&Ms had this White Chocolate Candy Corn flavor last year. I wonder if it's around this year? I will have to candy hunt to find out!
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M&Ms had this White Chocolate Candy Corn flavor last year. I wonder if it's around this year? I will have to candy hunt to find out!
On that same trip to Target I found these Caramel Apple Milky Way minis. This find took me completely by surprise, since I hadn't heard any announcement by Mars nor had seen any mention of them on fellow candy blogs. This was a new candy gem that I had found completely on my own, which I will admit, makes it more exciting. I immediately snatched up a bag and knew they'd be an excellent new limited edition Halloween candy to review for my readers.
Thankfully these came in a big bad of minis, because they're so much easier to share that way. The bag is a delightful apple red, with an image of a caramel apple on the side with caramel ripples from a opened Milky Way bar making the "Caramel Apple" wording on the bottom. The minis have the pretty red stripe belting the wrapper on the minis. Opening one up, you can immediately smell the caramel apple. It's quite impressive actually how they do get the aroma spot on.
The flavor starts off sweet, with the first flavor you notice is definitely apple. It's a strange flavor, mainly because it's not just apple. It's apple cinnamon, like it's a packet of instant hot cider mix. This was unexpected on my part. I'm guessing the apple flavor is coming from both the caramel and the nougat filling, as the nougat filling is bright white and isn't the same as classic Milky Way. Once the apple flavor subsides some, the caramel flavor popes through with great buttery flavors. I'm surprised because you really don't taste much chocolate in this Milky Way, despite there's still a chocolate coating. On the whole it does indeed convey the flavor of a caramel apple, but the apple is "off" because of the addition of the cinnamon element. It's a little strange, but still tasty.
My fiance loved these way more than I did. I thought they were good, but I didn't really eat any beyond the few I needed for the review. My fiance however kept eating them and even grabbed a few to add to his lunch at work. Point being, there are certainly worth a try.
Rating: Will Eat Again
Links Milky Way Website
I am super happy that I found this candy: Zombie food by Skybar. If you are unfamiliar with Skybar, it's a classic candy made by Necco, that has four different sections that each have a different filling. I recall my Mom introducing them to me at a very young age, and she claimed it was one of her favorite candy bars. I will forever think of her when I see Skybar. I found this Skybar Zombie Food at Michael's of all places. I had stopped in for some things and saw them on the candy shelf while I was making my way to the checkout. The bring package immediately caught my eye, as did the word "Zombie" and the Skybar logo in the top left corner.
"So what is Zombie food?" I wondered as I picked up one of the packages. The front of the wrapper reads: "Milk Chocolate covered assortment of brains, feet, and hearts filled with and oozy red caramel". Well, that certainly explains it! I feel it's a terribly clever idea! I feel up the wrapper and I find the candy is one large piece, so I'm guessing it's one "body part" for each package. For my review, I was guessing that the one I had chosen was a brain, as the candy felt head-shaped. I was mistaken.
The first piece I tried was shaped like a realistic heart. It was leaking a little from one of the top corners on the back as the red caramel found a crack and tried to leak out. No matter, it still looked delicious, and I'm not a zombie!
The chocolate smells sweet and creamy. It reminds me of how a Cadbury Creme Egg smells. My first bite is quite flavorful. I was expecting the chocolate to be more hollow on the inside, and have the caramel be more liquid. The candy is not structured that way, although it was a very hot day when I did this tasting, so it's possible that the candy has lost some of its structure. The caramel is very buttery and toasted, it almost comes across as peanut butter to me at first. The combination of the caramel and chocolate is incredibly sweet, so much so that I had a hard time finishing the sample piece.
This candy was really tasty and really fun. I could see these being handed out at parties and to trick or treaters. They're the size of the Reese's Pumpkin, so they aren't as large as a normal candy bar nor as small as the mini sizes. I mentioned this find to my Mom and she asked me to save her some, which I will as I'm interested to see how she likes them. If you see these around I highly recommend you check them out.
Rating: Will Buy Again
Links Skybar Webpage
I love pumpkin gummies. Sadly I find them getting harder and harder to find!
The first of the Halloween candies! It seems that each year finding new, original Halloween candy just gets harder and harder to come across. So far, this year candy hunt has felt a bit easier than past years. Yes, I did see many repeats from years past, and like old friends I am happy to see them again. I'm happy when a seasonal candy is successful. Which, leads me to today's gem of a find, as I squealed out loud when I saw it in its display: The Cadbury Scream Egg!
It seems Cadbury has finally solved the issue of the CCE only being available at Easter. We now have a Halloween variety, with a very clever name to match! The wrapper sports a black, green and purple color scheme, and it feels very festive. The Cadbury Bunny was shown on the display wearing a wizard's hat. I will certainly scream at the cuteness!
I unwrap the foil on the CSE, and it looks the same as the CCE. It has the same outer rings on the edges and the star etched into the middle. It smells the same as a CCE. It's sweet with an intense dry milk dairy scent to it. So familiar and so awesome.
The flavor is just as I remember it. The chocolate is smooth and sweet with the same dairy notes to it as the aroma. It's creamy with a slight yogurt tang. The nougat cream center is thick and very sweet. The "yolk" is green. Clever! The flavor of it is, sweet of course, with very slight flavors of vanilla and a hint of coconut in there. The texture is slightly grainy and yet so smooth. It's just a good as the regular CCE from Easter.
So here you go CCE fans! Finally you can get your CCEs during another time of the year. As for myself, I am very happy about it. Now I wait 6 months instead of a year for my fix. I hope you all are as excited about this as I am, as it feels that if any other holiday would make room for a CCE, it would be Halloween.
Rating: Will Buy Again
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US Cellular LG Apex Android 2.2 Froyo update now available
Sure, the world may be abuzz about Android Ice Cream Sandwich, the version that's coming later this year. Sure, 5 months may have passed since the current version of the operating system, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, was released. Sure, sometimes we may be annoyed at how slow phone manufacturers are moving in getting their devices updated to Gingerbread.
And then there are such devices as the LG Apex for US Cellular. This smartphone still runs Android 2.1, and has just received an update to Android 2.2 Froyo, a version of the OS that's almost one year old.
Froyo for the Apex brings every improvement you'd expect, including the mobile hotspot capability, storing apps on the SD card, faster overall performance, better browser, and Exchange support. However, because the Apex has a measly 600 MHz processor, there will be no Adobe Flash support on it.
The update isn't over-the-air, meaning that you need a computer to perform it. What's more, you need a Windows computer to update your Apex. On the other hand, the update is available to download right now – whereas OTA updates usually go through staggered rollouts. So if you've got a spare half an hour, get updating!
Full instructions on how to perform the update are provided in this PDF, and a complete overview of the new features can be found in this PDF.
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Amy Nathan commemorates the courageous American women who have proudly served their country since the Revolutionary War. Count on Us traces women's long struggle to serve as full members of the armed forces and shows how each new war brought new opportunities. Soldiers-in-disguise in the Revolutionary War. Nurses in the Civil War. Telephone switchboard operators and office workers in World War I. Mechanics, technicians, and aviators in World War II. Medevac pilots and mid-air refuelers in the Persian Gulf War. Combat pilots in Operation Enduring Freedom. Today, one in every seven people in the military is a woman. Children will be inspired by these long unsung heroes who challenged the status quo and overcame formidable barriers to serve their country.
Readers meet Deborah Samson, who disguised herself as a man and fought for more than a year in the Revolutionary War; Clara Barton, whose work gathering much-needed supplies for wounded soldiers during the Civil War led to the establishment of the Red Cross; and Colonel Christine Knighton, who was the first female commander of her Black Hawk helicopter unit. Foreward by Walter Kronkite.
In this clearly written, well-organized book, [Amy] Nathan traces the gains [military women] have made from the Revolutionary War to the present day...Each major war is discussed from the perspective of the female participants of that era, and quotes from individuals, insets with mini biographies, and an abundance of period photographs bring the narrative to life. Readers will find this book valuable for research and interesting for browsing.starred review, School Library Journal


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Family summer vacations should have something to entertain everyone in the family, and this summer you'll be hard pressed to find a spot with more exciting options than the Mt. Washington Valley of New Hampshire. New mountain top zip lines, a new dinosaur themed roller coaster and an encounter with the world's worst weather are just some of the unique attractions awaiting in the White Mountains of New Hampshire this summer. Here's a look at six new attractions that are sure to become family favorites:
Longest Single-Plane Zip Line in USA Opening at Attitash Mountain
All you thrill seekers who love to fly down the trails at Attitash ski resort all winter long, will want to be among the first to experience The Flying Bear. The Flying Bear aerial zip line tour will whisk riders from the summit of Bear Peak to the base of Attitash. Traveling nearly 5,000 feet, the zip line will reach heights of more than 400 feet as it spans across two mountains. The Attitash Aerial Zip, a second run, is just under 3000 feet long. This new attraction joins Attitash's alpine slide, mountain coaster and New Hampshire's first free-fall Airbag Jump.
Story Land Gets New Dinosaur Themed Roller Coaster
The "Roar-O-Saurus" is set to debut at the Valley's favorite family theme park, Story Land in Glen, New Hampshire. Rory, "a little dino with a big roar", is a 40 foot high wooden roller coaster that promises park goers a gravity-defying thrill ride. In celebration of Story Land's 60th season, the new dinosaur-themed area features animatronic dinosaurs surrounding the new roller coaster ride.
Mt. Washington Observatory Opens All-New Extreme Mount Washington Experience
We've all seen the pictures of hurricane force winds whipping the ice coated Observatory while it stands watch from the peak of Mt. Washington. Now you can experience what a winter day is like at this windblown outpost. Even on warm summer days, climbing the Mt. Washington Auto Road can bring you to another world of chilly temperatures and gusting winds. Indeed, this is the location of the highest recorded wind gusts in the world. But don't worry, you'll be protected and fascinated inside the Mt. Washington Observatory as high-tech exhibits reveal story of this unique scientific research facility. This year the "World's Worst Weather" museum has been entirely rebuilt and re-imagined to emerge as "Extreme Mount Washington". The museum reveals a Mount Washington winter in all its extremes, with interactive exhibits and high-tech demonstrations - a visit that is sure to fascinate every member of your family.
Ride To The Sky on Black Mountain's Overnight Adventure
Not just a camping trip, but a full-out cowboy/cowgirl getaway awaits at Black Mountain in Jackson, New Hampshire. Groups of up to 8 people saddle up for an evening trail ride to the peak of Black Mountain for breathtaking sunset views of Mt. Washington and beyond. Go for a scenic hike to stretch your legs or settle down to watch your guides prepare a delicious BBQ meal followed by s'mores around the campfire. As your horses graze, bed down in one of the rustic mountain-top cabins (complete with electricity and running water), or go native and camp under the stars. The next morning savor breakfast and the views before riding back down to the stables. This is a night in New England you won't soon forget.
So pack up the kids, it's time for a road trip north to New Hampshire's Mount Washington Valley.


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TC TO JEAN CARLYLE AITKEN ; 8 October 1850; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18501008-TC-JCA-01; CL 25: 256-257
Chelsea, 8 Octr, 1850—
Dear Jean,—I am here, alone, since Wednesday Night; you may perhaps have heard of my movements: how I went to Cumberland, but found no continuance there; then on into Westmoreland (with my Cumberland hosts), but found ditto ditto, in a still stronger degree; and so, at last, saw myself constrained to "sling my kit," and get away home, to see if there were any quiet and comfort attainable in the solitude there. My railway ride was not so bad as many have been; and I arrived accordingly. Alas, the little maid that waits on me here is full of "inexperience," tho' a fine little creature otherwise; so that unmixed good was not attainable here either; nay, what was worse, Jane knew too well all the shortcomings of this handmaid (having indeed already provided a successor for her, properly up to her work); Jane took on, and made herself miserable on my account, and got no good of her country advantages where she is: so, in fine, it has been arranged that I am to go and join her there, for the next 12 days;—and accordingly tomorrow I am off, on the tramp once more, happily only a journey of 2 hours by rail; and am to meet the poor Dame tomorrow about 3 o'clock. That is my history up to this date. In spite of all evils, I feel plainly strengthened by my country operations: the 12 days more of it, I hope, will not throw me back, but advance me.— I heard too how James took my mother down to Scotsbrig; I have regularly heard of all things: no teeth for poor Mother, ah me!— — My haste just now is extreme: but if you write within 12 days, the address is, The Lord Ashburton's / The Grange / Alresford / Hants /: tell Jenny about these things also;—and thanks many for the patience and kindness you shewed to me. God bless you all. Your ever affecte
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Police: Poultney teens pepper spray sheriff's deputyBy Darren Marcy
Staff Writer | June 18,2014POULTNEY Two teenagers picked the wrong victim Monday afternoon in Poultney.
The boys, who were not identified by authorities, allegedly pepper-sprayed an off-duty sheriffs deputy, a retired member of the Vermont State Police, as he jogged along Main Street about 4:15 p.m.
Deputy Edward H. Hunter, 53, turned and gave chase despite the effects of the pepper spray, catching and holding at least one of the boys, both of whom were on bicycles.
Three state troopers and Fair Haven police responded and questioned the boys, holding them until parents arrived.
Trooper Walter Ribeiro cited the boys to appear in juvenile court at a later date to answer to the charge of simple assault.
Police were investigating whether the pepper spray that was used had been stolen from a local hardware store.
Vermont State Police Lt. Charles Cacciatore said the two boys were apparently riding their bikes on the sidewalk toward Hunter just before they sprayed him.
Cacciatore said there was no indication the boys knew Hunter was a deputy or targeted him for any reason except that he was the next person to come along.
It was just a haphazard deal, Cacciatore said.
Hunter was treated at the scene by the Poultney Rescue Squad.
Cacciatore said Hunters face was sore after the assault.
Sheriff Stephen Benard said Tuesday Hunter returned to duty and appeared to be well on his way to recovering from the incident, although, he said, the effects of pepper spray can linger for days.
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Archive for category holidays
Posted by Native NYker in holidays, magaluf, majorca on July 3, 2014
RTnM Hiatus: We Will Return Shortly
Posted by Native NYker in hiatus, holidays on June 27, 2014
As much as it pains us, we are having to head out for work purposes unrelated the posh world of celebrity coverage. As such, during our hiatus, we will not be able to post regularly for a few weeks but we assure you we will return!
Rest assured we are still thinking of y'all. We may, at times, find the wi-fi needed to drop a post – or two, maybe three -but its not a given.
We want to thank you for all y'all's support and hope you will continue to check in with us.
Wishing you the bestest summer ever!
A Merry RTM Christmas to All
Posted by Native NYker in holiday tidings, holidays on December 24, 2013
Dashing down 7th Avenue, on a balmy drizzling evening, we caught a glimpse of the Empire State Building all decked out in the Christmas colors. And rather than break stride we snapped a Galaxy S4 pic to share with y'all and wish you and yours a very festive and merry holiday.
Stay tuned… We will soon get back to the celebrity grind.
Don't forget to unwrap whats coming to you.
Native NYker
Macys: Thankgiving Parade 2013
Posted by Native NYker in ariana grande, gavin degraw, holidays, richard simmons on November 28, 2013
As a New Yorker, there are a few things that tourist's consider must do's while in NYC that we will never volunteer to do – for instance: Times Square Ball Drop – sure we once went to a rap party at a hotel on East 42nd Street which is within the vicinity, but being herded in throngs of barricades with folks back to back, HELL NO; Statue of Liberty – of course we have seen her while covering a premiere on the adjacent island, but that is as close as we want to be really; and the Thanksgiving Day Parade – something about parades just doesn't sit well after you have attended a Catholic School that forced its student body to march every fucking parade imaginable.
RTnM: Happy Turkey Day To All
Posted by Native NYker in holiday tidings, holidays on November 28, 2013
Not much happening on this end… The drop in temps and the holiday have put a damper on chasing a photo. But we haven't forgotten about y'all… Let us give thanks for you your viewership and continued support.
May you get stuffed nicely!
Brazilian Hotness: Palais de Justice Capoeira Performance
Posted by Native NYker in brazil, capoeira, france, holidays, hotness, hottie, hotties, palais de justice, vacation on August 10, 2013
Its not often that we will sit and watch street performers – especially while on holiday – it generally isn't our thing but what is one to do while you wait upon the arrival of a friend in the old center of Nice and a lot of hotties arrive and begin to stretch it out? Sit your ass down and watch them warm up is what you do. It's that simple! (see video after the jump!) Read the rest of this entry »
Brussels: RTnM Holidays
Posted by Native NYker in holidays, travel, vacation on July 31, 2013
Time for a holiday! As we enter the tale end of Summer we head across the Atlantic for a much needed respite. Don't judge us, we find working for the man – as opposed to working on one – exhausting. Read the rest of this entry »
Merry Ho-Ho-HO 2012
Posted by Native NYker in christmas tidings, holidays, seasons greetings on December 24, 2012
Twas the night before supposed merriment and we have to work but the thought of wishing you well we'll never repent! Getting is good though giving can be great – but whatever your preference do it with zest!
Happy ho-ho-HO to one and all from your friend Native NYker at RT&M!
Darren Criss: Shirtless Santa Pic
Posted by Native NYker in candy cane, christmas photo, darren criss, glee, holidays, shirtless, topless on December 20, 2012
The holidays are hard for some folks. So here's something to take your mind off the lackluster merriment that plagues your ho-ho-ho. Darren Criss – of Glee stardom – posing as a Santa (of sorts) shirtless, holding an over-sized candy-cane.
It put a spin on our very own. If for a moment.
Less is more, is our personal practice, but we ain't kicking the Murphy gift-horse for sharing this teaser. Although we might've been a little more gleeful had this been an over-the-should showing some smooth posterior.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda been…
Merry Holidays to all and to all a long lick the candy cane!
Bahamas Run: Summer 2012
Posted by Native NYker in bahama divers, holidays, mommie, vacation on August 4, 2012
"Do you think I could still find a beau?" asked our mommie & lady creator of a little engine that could with a laugh during our visit to what we term paradise – Nassau, Bahamas. 'With that hair flowing, it's a no brainer," we responded.
Just look at the perfect blend in that do? We thought it highlights but au contraire! C'est au natural.
Believe that!
And with that vision of beauty that is our Mommie our brief Summer 2012 visit has fast come to a fast an end but as the saying goes – it's truly better to have five minutes of wonderful than a whole hour of trifling.
OK; so we adjusted that slightly but y'all get the gist.
We give a whole big thanks to the Wayne & the folks at Bahama Divers for four awesome dives! The Sting Rays, giant Tortoise and Nurse Sharks while out on The Wall and The Blue Hole dives made for an exciting time down in the warm waters of The Bahamas! (Better video clip of dives coming up, b4 u guys start quipping about 'where's the turtle!)
Now, as if the above mentioned weren't enuf to require us to get out a little blue pill (the ones that calm you, no the Jeremy Renner blue one) and make us mind out heart murmur some, we were joined by Tracie and Wayne – two of our real BFFs, not Paris Hilton BFFs – for din-din at Tracie's house. Good times and good home cooked food! That's icing. And dinner featured some kick-ass bread pudding for dessert – homemade!
Can't beat that with a Sizzling Garden Kalik cocktail, we thinks. Nothing personal y'all.
Luv you guys. We will be back soon. Gotham here we come…
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These photographs I took with so much love and passion are my life and all my world. Each one of them hides a story to tell, sometimes sad, sometimes happy, but always real as life itself. I only live for them, photography is my whole life. It´s life sense..... without "them" I wouldn´t exist.
In 1967 se was born, with a camera under her arm, something se didn´t discover until 1991 during a journey she made to Morocco.
It was the colour, the heat.... the south air, what converted her in a disciplined slave of the "photographic art".
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Internet Video to Your Television: A Few Steps Closer to a Mass Market
By Charles B. Slocum and Ellen Stutzman
Internet video is a few steps closer to reaching television sets in mass numbers, thanks to unforced errors by the market leader, an astute move by a stealth competitor, and a rare, tantalizing, hint of what is next for the most inscrutable video provider. The move from the PC to the TV is a key development in breaking the cable cartel and it's closer – but less predictable – than ever.
The leader in delivering video content to television sets has long been Netflix, which astutely entered the DVD-by-mail business when most business strategists thought the DVD business was long settled and soon to decline. Netflix knew, by all accounts, that they had to bide their time until streaming content to viewers got cheaper than mailing it, until high-speed Internet subscriptions were common enough in the U.S. to make subscriptions in high numbers possible, and until devices existed that could deliver the content to TV sets. Netflix entered the streaming business long after some of its competitors, but at precisely the right time, and pursued a strategy of ubiquity, even getting inside the tightly controlled world of the Apple TV.
Netflix succeeded in the DVD-by-mail space by being a one-stop shop. If a DVD exists, you can probably find it on Netflix. The relatively low monthly fee was fixed, with no late fees (though there is an implicit late fee if you keep those same two DVDs on the coffee table for weeks and weeks). Netflix's stated goal was to do the same by streaming buffet-style "anything you want" and "all you can eat" for a fixed low price.
Hollywood had already seen Netflix and Redbox devalue the DVD and thus trim DVD revenues. The industry did not want streaming to perpetuate lower prices. Because Hollywood controls the licensing, the industry could say "no" to the plans – and did so. Netflix found itself without content; no content meant no strategy.
Then, in March, Netflix stunned Hollywood by outbidding HBO for the series House of Cards, a remake of a popular British political TV series. This signaled a new strategy: Netflix would be the HBO of the Internet. The company also licensed the pay TV window for films from Relativity and Dreamworks Animation. Starz realized Netflix was more of a competitor than an ally and did not renew its sub-license. Without all-inclusive content, Netflix had to buy a small portfolio of marquee content to satisfy pockets of constituencies and patch together a smaller, but more loyal, subscriber base. Netflix already had 20 million subscribers to HBO's 28 million. Many analysts compared Netflix to Comcast, but the astute ones compared it to HBO.
But the best analogy for Netflix might be Tiger Woods—once invincible, now humbled and injured. The problem, it appears, is that Netflix itself was not convinced of its new course.
By all outward appearances, Netflix was courted as a buyer for House of Cards as a stalking horse, a source of negotiating leverage for the producer against HBO. Just as the $100 million license was approved within Netflix, senior executives were simultaneously proclaiming publicly that Netflix was not entering the original-content business. Had they missed the memo about the strategy change? More likely there was no memo. Netflix's next two moves demonstrated a huge gap between the apparent deep understanding Netflix had of its customers and the reality of its complete lack of understanding of what its customers loved about the company. They raised prices as much as 60 percent for the very same services that customers were already receiving, then announced that they would split the DVD service apart from Netflix under a different brand name Qwikster.
The split specifically meant that customers could no longer search for desired films and add them to either a DVD queue or streaming queue, depending upon availability. Users would now have to search separately. The combined search had been a significant convenience. With pricing and searching no longer cross-collateralized, viewers protested and a significant number cancelled their accounts. Investors were spooked and the stock, which had reached a stratospheric $300, tumbled to less than $100. Netflix retreated on the split operations, but not the pricing, and the subscriptions and stock price did not rebound. With its shares worth one-third of what they had been worth, Netflix faces a tough fundraising challenge, essential for a growing company.
Had Netflix never understood its customers? Had they lost sight of their customers in a funk over a changed strategy? Likely the latter. When the all-inclusive/low-cost streaming strategy was rejected by Hollywood, Netflix cast about for a new strategy. It found two new elements and made mistakes because of each. The first was original content. The House of Cards deal had been a stroke of luck and an ideal choice. Netflix made headlines and found what would likely be a successful alternative strategy. Yet, they appear to have reacted with panic to the economics of high-priced content with a move to raise prices.
The company that tested each operating change in its website intensively to gauge customer acceptance seems to have made a gut call and badly misjudged customer reaction.
The Anti-Social Network
The second element of a new strategy for Netflix involved Facebook. Among the less noticed of Facebook's recent moves to add direct links to video within the site is Facebook's integration with Netflix. What your friends are streaming through Netflix can be recommended to you via Facebook.
However, a law exists prohibiting video distributors from revealing a customer's rentals. By recommending to you what your friends are streaming, Netflix and Facebook could be violating this law. It's not clear that the law applies to streaming videos (or even to Netflix's rentals-by-mail operation), but disassociating the streaming activity from DVD rental activity would make the separation clearer. Thus, the separate queue management and separate brand name for the DVD service. All the better, also, to position the DVD service to be sold off at an appropriate time.
The problem is that customers didn't appreciate either of those advantages. By responding to its own corporate needs, and not those of its customers, Netflix stumbled. It's a precarious place to be, sitting atop a stock price that is 80 times earnings. And Netflix fell from grace to about 20 times earnings (still high) amid subscriber defections and doubts that it knows what it is doing.
A Stroke of Luck
Into this strategic opportunity steps the Dish network satellite service. Satellites are elegantly low-cost as a video distribution technology – adding a customer adds exactly zero cost on the transmitting side of the operation. Yet, this one-beam-hits-all infrastructure has a major disadvantage: It's a one-way technology. There is no on-demand utility. Satellite service gets close with hybrid techniques, but there is always a limit that cable can beat. What cable calls "TV Everywhere," Dish (and DirecTV) can't offer anywhere.
To counter this limitation, Dish bought the remnants of Blockbuster in April. The online service that Blockbuster created failed as a standalone business, but perfectly complements Dish's satellite service as an on-demand offering. The DVD-by-mail aspect offers the greater value that Netflix demonstrated is so important to customers. And, the brick-and-mortar stores that Blockbuster and everyone else has written off as obsolete, can serve as the unified retail outlet network that Dish could never previously afford.
Possibly the only buyer who could find an upside in Blockbuster's failed leap to the future, Dish got a bargain on its incremental move. Then, Netflix tripped and suddenly Dish's "plan B" turned into an opportunity to craft a new "plan A." Dish has the triple threat of linear channels, DVDs, and streaming on demand.
Stimulating this competitive landscape is Amazon, which, in February, turned millions of subscribers of its free shipping program into online video subscribers. It's an illogical but elegant move that gives Amazon a streaming video service with millions of subscribers on day one. And, Amazon offers the portable devices for subscribers to view the content on. Their set-top integration, however, lags.
Another major player in online video is Hulu, which the potential buyers concluded was an incomplete business as packaged for sale. Its TV network owners committed a few years of programming rights to their online baby as they put it up for adoption, but the buyers saw through that ruse. They either offered a price too low for the owners to sell at, or required a greater commitment of programming rights than the owners were willing to commit, especially for current series. This is true even with the inclusion of Hulu+, which offers a wider selection of content for a subscription price similar to that of Netflix. So for now, Hulu remains the red-haired stepchild living above the garage of the networks' TV-built estates.
More Stealth Bombers
The other stealth players in Internet streaming are the incumbent cable TV operators. Eager to protect their cartel, they used their economic power to limit suppliers from selling to new competitors who might be seeking to compete with cable over the Internet. This gave rise to the concept of TV Everywhere, which provides cable TV content via the Internet, but only through the subscription you have with your cable company. As this Internet access blends together with cable-based on-demand content, and as portable devices become more frequently used for TV Everywhere, at what point will a cable TV company simply offer an Internet-based subscription? The answer is that AT&T already does – its U-verse service is all Internet technology, though still limited by its physical wires. If Dish attracts more than a few new subscribers, cable operators will grow eager to offer service outside their wired footprints. Already, cable operators (Comcast and Verizon Fios, so far) are cooperating with third-party boxes such as the Xbox from Microsoft to blend its TV Everywhere offering with other Internet-linked content. In the past, with TiVo as the sole active player in that space, the cable operators only cooperated as much as the FCC required them to.
Other companies are also poised to move into the online streaming business. Their moves remain as yet unmade, but potentially strong. Wal-Mart bought the Vudu streaming service. Best Buy bought the CinemaNow streaming service. Google bought the Sage TV software company to beef up its Google TV product.
And then there is Apple. Apple is perennially rumored to have both a TV and a streaming video service in development. An unusual hint came in the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, published shortly after Jobs' death. Jobs is quoted by Isaacson as saying that he had been pursuing the reinvention of the television, integrating a wide variety of sources of content into a simple user interface, and that he had "finally cracked it." The most common Internet speculation is that Jobs was referring to integrating Siri, the voice-controlled artificially intelligent software program newly offered on the iPhone 4S, into a television. It seems likely that a touch interface, using an iPhone and/or iPad also is a part of the breakthrough. And, beyond that, Jobs' surely was also referring to getting around the poorly performing technology currently required by cable companies for third-party set-top boxes. This "cable-card" technology is the technology that Google acquired with its Sage TV acquisition and which TiVo has long had as a strategic advantage. Neither of those solutions, as successful as they are at coping with the limitations of the current infrastructure, seem anywhere close to something Jobs would allow Apple to release. It's safe to say that Jobs has sought to leverage the iCloud infrastructure that currently makes all your iTunes music available on any iOS device for his reinvention of the television. This must, of course, include linear television channels, rumored to be something Jobs had sought to license, but could not. With Jobs telling Isaacson that he "cracked" the interface and with the iCloud technology in place, licensing content seems to be the only obstacle to the rumored 2013 release of an Apple TV.
As Wal-Mart dominated video sell-through, Netflix was starting to dominate rentals and threatening to dominate streaming. The Hollywood production cartel has a "love/hate" relationship with the cable TV/Internet cartel and really doesn't like the near-monopolies of Wal-Mart and Netflix. By content-owners withholding licensing, and with the unforced stumbles of Netflix, a near-monopoly in streaming is now much less likely. Netflix will likely survive its missteps, though perhaps through a shotgun marriage with a deeper-pocketed partner. And subscribing to Netflix will become a nonexclusive proposition, like subscribing to both HBO and Showtime is now.
But in the near future, a combination of Dish/Blockbuster, Wal-Mart/Vudu, Best Buy/CinemaNow, Google TV, and Apple will likely also share in the streaming market. This would create a more seller-friendly market. A key development to look out for is HBO offering its Internet-based HBO Go outside of a cable TV subscription. This would mark a major step in the disempowering of the cable cartel.
Also, smaller bundles, or outright a la carte cable TV, would also indicate actual competition, rather than the cartel activity prevalent in cable TV today.
Where do these strategic churnings leave content owners, and writers who receive residuals from them? Happy. Consumers would have more choice. Content sellers would have more leverage and thus receive higher license fees. Writers then receive more residuals. These are all signs of a healthy capitalism and a healthy Hollywood.


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General Description/History
Snaps are typical spike flowers with several flowers forming an elongated flowerhead. Flowers mature and open from the bottom up. Snapdragon flowers have a very distinctive shape as the petals have fused to form a kind of hood overhanging a large lip, that looks very much like a dragon's mouth. They are very colourful, coming in yellow, red, purple, white, as well as bi-colour combinations.
These were a very popular cut flower in the 1950's, where they were in the Top 5 cut flowers grown in the USA. While still solid sellers, snaps are not as sought after now, perhaps it's time for a revival.
Snaps are mostly field-grown in cooler areas near Melbourne, Sydney, in Tasmania and in SA and WA.
What to look for
- Stems with at least 1/3 of lower flowers open;
- Straight stems – stem tips curve up if laid flat;
- Avoid bunches with signs of flower drop or yellow leaves.
Flower Care
- Keep cool whenever possible.
- Split bunches and strip leaves from the lower half of each stem.
- Wash stem ends thoroughly.
- Recut at least 2 cm off each stem with sharp secateurs and place in water immediately.
- Preservative is essential – this will help buds to colour up and open.
- Replace water every day.
- These flowers are very sensitive to ethylene, which causes flower drop. Keep them away from fruit, car exhausts and cigarette smoke.
- Pinch the top bud off each stem, as this helps prevent stem bending.
Interesting Facts about this Flower
Snapdragon's botanical name is Antirrhinum, from the Greek anti (like) and rhin (a nose), referring to the snout like shape of the flower.
A popular child's game is to pick individual snapdragons and squeeze the sides of the flower, making the dragon's jaws snap open and shut.
In the Language of Flowers they can mean 'Gracious Lady'.


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Short squeeze
A short squeeze is when many people who have sold a stock short buy back shares at the same time.
Expanded Definition
When many investors have sold short a stock on the hope that its price will plunge, that price may begin to rise. As it does so, more and more of these "shorters" will "cover" their investments. That is, they'll buy back the shares that they had shorted, and take a loss, since they're having now to buy the shares at a higher price. As more and more shorters do this, the price rises (since more people are buying than selling). In a nutshell, this is a short squeeze.
Remember that a short position starts with borrowing (through your broker) the shares of stock you've sold. The brokers who have loaned out the stock can also require the short-sellers to return the shares, meaning that the shorts must buy the stock themselves or risk a forced "buy-in" by the brokerage firm (that is, the broker buys back the stock for you). Because brokerage firms aren't very picky about paying a good price on such occasions, the stock can spike dramatically, especially since market makers responsible for providing liquidity for a stock often see forced buy-ins as an opportunity to make a quick killing by temporarily raising their prices. Forced buy-ins may result from a trade going so much against a short-seller that he gets a margin call from the broker to either put up more cash or risk losing the position. Other times, it simply represents a change in short-term supply and demand exacerbated by increased trading volume and rapid turnover.
Let's say a heavily shorted company announces positive news that brings in new buyers. This demand pushes the stock higher, but it also leads some old holders to sell. The stock moves from one broker to another. Short-sellers who had borrowed shares from these old holders may have to cover the short position if their broker can't find new shares for them to borrow. This creates more demand, which pushes prices higher and continues the process. As you might expect, short squeezes often come in waves that attract momentum-oriented investors who see a stock rising and jump on for the ride. This additional demand, in turn, exacerbates the squeeze. Of course, these momentum investors usually jump ship quite rapidly when the momentum changes, adding to selling pressure later.
Of course, when the buying pressure stops, the stock price often falls back down to where it was before the squeeze happened, or even further.
Companies can try to reduce the number of shares sold short by encouraging their shareholders to "take delivery" of the shares. That is, move the position from the margin account to a cash account. (Shares in a cash account cannot be borrowed, so they aren't available for shorting.) Of course, the best way for a company to get rid of shorts is to provide good earnings and other results from their business operations, leading to a rise in the stock price that way. If the company is resorting to tactics like the above, it's probably time to leave as a long investor.
Another item to watch for is investors who invest in the hopes of a short squeeze. That would, of course, allow them to exit their position at a higher price, but it is a sign of desperation and long investors should probably avoid those companies, too.
The ultimate short squeeze occurs when some savy investor manages to corner the market in that security making it impossible to cover the short position. Short sellers can take unlimited losses, because theoretically the market value of the stock becomes infinite. Stories are told of famous investors who managed to corner various markets from time to time. The risk of this development is not very high in modern times, but shorts should not sleep too soundly.
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The majority of Georgia's legislators are a conservative group of politicians, as you would expect in a conservative state such as ours.
One of the tenets I have often heard my conservative friends avow is the right of a person to do as he or she pleases with the property they own. Property rights, I've been told, are one of the bedrock rights of people living in our free society.
Tommy Smith has been part of the Georgia Legislature for a long time.
The silver-haired blueberry farmer from Bacon County was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1978, when a guy named Jimmy Carter was president. Smith was a lifelong Democrat until a few years ago, when he switched to the Republican Party and was able to hang on to a committee chairmanship.
Josh McKoon is a young attorney from Columbus who is in the middle of his first term as a state senator.
Georgia voters of the Republican persuasion will be choosing their favorites in the presidential preference primary coming up on March 6, and it looks like those could be very important ballots.
As one of several primaries set for "Super Tuesday," Georgia could actually have a big impact on which candidate gets the Republican nomination.
In a normal year, the first week of the General Assembly session is a time when very little is happening.
Legislators wander into the capitol to start their daily session at a few minutes after 10 a.m., hold a roll call, listen to the reading of some resolutions commending their constituents, and applaud a group of high school students sitting in the visitors' gallery.
It is a routine that normally can be knocked off in 50 minutes or so before the Senate and the House of Representatives adjourn for the day.
Georgia's legislators will do plenty of talking about the major issues that confront them during the General Assembly session that kicked off Monday.
When it comes to actually passing legislation that would do something about these issues, however, the odds are much lower that lawmakers' actions will match their words. You shouldn't expect to see the passage of many significant bills this year.
A big reason for this is that 2012 is an election year in which the seats of all 236 senators and representatives will be up for grabs.
It's a tradition for political columnists to close out the year by picking their list of winners and losers for the 12-month period that just ended.
These winners and losers typically are defined by what they did to gain or lose political power. I modified that concept to decide who would be on my list: in Georgia politics, winning and losing usually depends on who ends up with the money.
When Bobby Franklin passed away last summer from a heart attack, I thought we had seen the end of a legislative tradition.
Franklin, who represented Cobb County in the Georgia House for 15 years, was a somewhat strange politician who was at the center of a yearly tradition at the Gold Dome. Each November, when legislators would start pre-filing bills for the upcoming session, Franklin would introduce a bunch of measures that were, shall we say, out there on the far reaches of the political spectrum.
While we're in a post-holiday lull, let's look back on some of the news developments we've been tracking this year.
Back in May, we reported that 61 Georgia banks had collapsed in less than three years, a number higher than in any other state.
That shockingly high number of bank failures had failed to generate a single comment or call for action from any of the state's top politicians.
Every few years, the idea circulates at the Capitol that it sure would be a good idea to start using the state's pension money to invest in exotic business ventures.
During the Roy Barnes administration, there was a proposal to amend state law so that the money in public pension plans could be steered to such private equity investments as leveraged buyout funds, venture capital funds and timberland.
Next Tuesday night, as ballots are being tallied in local elections around the state, one of the longstanding political walls in Georgia should finally come tumbling down.
An end to the last vestige of the old blue laws prohibiting the transaction of business on Sundays will be on the ballot in more than 100 cities and counties as voters consider eliminating the ban on the Sunday package sales of alcoholic beverages.
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Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
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Neobiota as non-native species are commonly considered as alien species. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) intends to "prevent the introduction of, control or eradicate those alien species which threaten ecosystems, habitats or species". The European Union has financed the DAISIE research project for the first pan-European inventory of Invasive Alien Species (IAS), which is supposed to serve as a basis for prevention and control of biological invasions. This paper discusses the evaluation approach for classifying "100 of the Worst" IAS in Europe by the EU DAISIE research project. The main impact categories used by DAISIE for assorting "100 of the Worst" IAS are investigated and the texts of the "Wanted" species factsheets are examined. Two examples from the DAISIE factsheets of the "100 of the Worst" IAS [Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) and the Raccoon (Procyon lotor)] are discussed to illustrate DAISIE's biodiversity evaluation approach in more detail. However, the classification criteria used by DAISIE do not allow for sufficiently differentiating these neobiota from an ecological behavior of native species with a similar ecological niche. In conclusion, neobiota evaluations are not comprehensive when they refer mainly to the successful expansion and competition with native species into available ecological niches. A comprehensive assessment of the impacts of neobiota on biodiversity and humans needs to take into account the different values of biodiversity as mentioned in the preamble of the CBD.
KeywordsBiodiversity evaluation CBD values Environmental impact assessment European biodiversity policy Invasive alien species Neobiota
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Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
Volume 25, Issue 4 , pp 597-606
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- 2012-08
- 10.1007/s10806-011-9323-5
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Petal [AKROSS 2012]
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So pretty! I love the music and the colors. Gave it a dream-like feel. Though without reading the description....I didn't get it at all. But still was a pleasure to watch.
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Re: Petal [AKROSS 2012]
One of my favorites in 2012. So simple, yet so beautiful.
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Re: Petal [AKROSS 2012]
iheartsable wrote:So pretty! I love the music and the colors. Gave it a dream-like feel. Though without reading the description....I didn't get it at all. But still was a pleasure to watch.
I'll try to improve on my story-telling if when making another video of this type in future. Thanks a lot!
Will91Ber wrote:One of my favorites in 2012. So simple, yet so beautiful.
You know what? I've always wanted for my announcement thread to have more than 2 pages
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bombush wrote:First of all: Awesome job!
Now that I got that out of my system, let's get a little more specific...
I loved every bit of the video, including the story. With the recent abundance of crossover videos with tight storytelling following pretty much the same pattern of unrequited/tragic love, what you did felt like a breath of fresh air. A storytelling video built solely on emotions, a mystery but unpretentious amv. I understand it's not everyone's cup of tea but the vague storytelling was precisely what made the atmosphere so strong. I actually even felt that the photo frame at the end was telling too much, and since it is a very concrete and in crossover videos overused object it felt kind of disrupting to the whole mystery atmosphere.
x2. I loved the mystery aspect of it at the start because I didn't know what the girl was. Just a random angel? Someone he knew? Or maybe it was all his imagination? Could have been any of those. It was only after I saw the photo frame, that I realized that the girl was dead so it shortened all those options to just one. Which then left me wondering for a while what their relationship was cause originally I thought she was an angel of death who came to take his life away because he had done something bad and was waiting for his time to end. (hence the clocks) xD
Still it had a fantastic atmosphere. The colouring was gorgeous, the lighting was a bit strong at a few parts but it looked mostly good to me. Very nice! I loved it! ^^
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when I read einaudi, it was enough for me, I love it!
I really enjoyed the video, especially the fastest part! good luck for akross
I really enjoyed the video, especially the fastest part! good luck for akross
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Tech Places 13 on All-American List
A total of 13 student-athletes earned All-American honors at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships last week.
June 12, 2012
LUBBOCK, Texas - A total of 13 Texas Tech student-athletes officially earned All-American status on Tuesday as announced by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
The announcement comes after the program completed competition at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships at Drake Stadium June 6-9 where the men's team earned its third-consecutive top-20 finish.
"I'm extremely proud," head coach Wes Kittley said. "It's just another long line of All-Americans that we have been so fortunate to have in the past few years and this class was no exception. There was a lot of great talent and a lot of seniors. I'm just proud to see them end the year that way."
Shane Brathwaite (110 meter hurdles), Jamele Mason (400 meter hurdles) and Gil Roberts (400 meters) earned first team honors on the men's team, while Precious Nwokey (heptathlon) and members of the Lady Raider 4x100 relay garnered first team status on the women's team. The All-American Lady Raider 4x100 relay is comprised of Erica Alexander, Taylor Evans, Candace Jackson and Terra Evans.
Taylor Evans also earned second team honors in both the 4x400 relay and the 200 meter dash.
The 4x400 relay ran a season-best time of 3:32.17 to finish fourth in their heat during the preliminaries. Evans finishes her career as a nine-time All-American at Tech.
"I'm so proud of the way she finished her senior season," Kittley said. "She had some of her best this spring."
Roberts meanwhile finishes his career as a six-time All-American at Tech. "We were just so fortunate to land one of the greatest quarter-milers certainly for us and in the country," Kittley said of Roberts. "He has had a great history here and has a lot ahead of him. I'm just very proud of the person that he has become and of course what he has done for Texas Tech. He is going to be a great ambassador for us in the future."
Mason was the runner up in the 400 meter hurdles Friday with a school record time of 48.89. Gil Roberts finished third in the men's 400 meters while Precious Nwokey broke the school record in the heptathlon for the third time during the 2012 season with a total of 5,734 points. She finished seventh overall.
Mason finishes his career at Tech as a four-time All-American. The men's 4x100 relay team earned second team honors with a time of 39.92 to finish 15th overall in the preliminaries.
Katie Grimes earned second team honors in the 100 meter hurdles after earning second team honors during the indoor season in the 60 meter hurdles. Grimes ran a time of 13.25 in the preliminaries to finish fifth in her heat.
Kyal Meyers earned second team honors in the pole vault after clearing the bar at 5.30 meters (17'-4.50") on his first attempt and finishing 10th overall. He also earned second team honors during the 2012 indoor season.
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The NCAA Women's Final Four are coming to Nashville and the excitement is building throughout the city. The teams will play at Bridgestone Arena April 6 & 8, 2014 and highlight the reasons on why these four teams have come to play in this Championship round.
The excitement of the Final Four does not only come to the games being played since the NCAA Women's Basketball will be holding Tourney Town at the Music City Center starting on April 5, 2014. Tourney Town will bring additional enjoyment to the city of Nashville for those attending the games or are in the area. Music City Center will become Tourney Town with autograph sessions, basketball demonstrations, concerts and pep rallies which is fun for the whole family.
Be sure to catch the Broadway Bounce on April 5, 2014 where youth will be dribbling their way through downtown Nashville. Pre-registration for the Broadway Bounce event will be at 11:00 AM. If dribbling is not your thing, participate in the 4Kay walk/run in honor of the late North Carolina Coach Kay Wow which raises money for cancer research. The 4Kay will be held on April 5, 2014 in downtown Nashville with the pre-registration beginning at 6:00 AM and the event beginning at 8:00 AM.
No matter what the level of interest in basketball there is, the events around downtown Nashville will be family friendly and fun.


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Elmer Flying Horse has been sentenced to more than two years in prison, for stabbing a man four times with a kitchen knife, during a fight that occurred on his birthday at an Indian reservation in North Dakota.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland ordered Flying Horse, 25, of Porcupine, N.D., to serve 27 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Hovland went after Flying Horse's wallet too, ordering him to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victim's Fund and $8,383.90 in restitution.
On March 31, 2011, Flying Horse, his younger brother and others gathered to celebrate Flying Horse's birthday at a home on Standing Rock Indian Reservation. During the course of the evening, Flying Horse's younger brother became involved in a verbal altercation that quickly became a fight with the victim, according to U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon.
Flying Horse joined in the scuffle and, with a kitchen knife, stabbed the victim three times in the upper back and at least one time in the head. The victim required medical treatment for a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain and a punctured lung.
Authorities arrested Flying Horse and charged him with assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury. In June, Flying Horse pleaded guilty to the assault with a dangerous weapon charge. He faced a potential sentence of up to ten years in prison.


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It's been several years since my last WinForms programming experience - I'm a ASP.NET maniac since 2002/2003 – but this year started with an unexpected challenge: build a Visual Studio 2008 Integration Package (VSIP) with an advanced Editor for some in-house metadata xml structure.
If you already did some work related to VSIP is no surprise that I was forced to embrace the long ago forgotten Winforms controls specificities.
Maybe I simply forgot or never noticed before, but the TabControl when operating in vertical mode – either Left or Right – display an amazing poor user experience and in most cases text are not showed.
Ok, no big deal, TabControl have enough extensibility points to enable us to work around and its even available a Msdn article with the recipe: How to: Display Side-Aligned Tabs with TabControl.
Maybe it's just me but this is the kind of behavior I did expect to be fully available and functional since it seams to be quite common in most applications.
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The long waiting, for RedGate to release the new official .NET Reflector version, is finally ended.
I must say that as far as I know (and I was an early adopter and usability tester), RedGate took special care with this new version, specially the new Reflector Pro version.
This new product (€145) integrates the technology of .NET Reflector into Visual Studio to let you debug third-party code even if you don't have the source.
You can say that this can also be done without this product, and it's absolutely true, but the simplicity how the integration with Visual Studio (2005, 2008 or 2010) is done worth it .
I use this tool since the beta versions and I'm addicted ;) … try it for yourself.
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An Indiana parent and daughter driving northeast along Mann Road in Indianapolis reported joining nearly two dozen vehicles who pulled over to watch a huge, shiny disc-shaped UFO hovering nearby under 500 feet in the air, according to March 12, 2014, testimony in Case 54619 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness thought people were pulling over to watch the sunset, but then noticed people pointing into the sky and taking photos during the event, about 6:30 p.m. on November 11, 2013.
"I immediately pulled the car in the only space left in a driveway and immediately me and my daughter got out and we watched this beautiful gleaming spaceship just up in the sky," the witness stated.
The witness could not take his eyes off of the object.
"I immediately felt a vibration start in the top of my torso and I felt a shiver work its way down all the way to my feet. My daughter watched it. I told her to get her iPad out and record. She did and it should be on this thing. My daughter got scared and wanted to go where the other people were, but I said I didn't want to take my eye off it. Right then I turned toward my car door, looked back, and it was gone."
The witness said jets moved into the area after the object left.
"I felt as if whoever was piloting this huge shiny craft could read all of our minds at the same time. I'm almost positive. Anyway, after it was gone, we stayed there. I had to collect my thoughts as to what we had just witnessed. Right then about one or two moments, there were about 5 or 6 jets all heading in from different directions toward where the UFO was at. It was the most shiny thing you could ever imagine."
No images or videos were included with the MUFON report, which was filed on March 12, 2014. The witness did submit two illustrations with the report: Image 1 and Image 2.
Indianapolis is the capital and most populous city of Indiana, population 829,445. Indiana has a current UFO Alert Rating of 5 with a low number of recent reports nationally. Indiana had 6 UFO reports in February 2014 - the 21st highest reporting state - while California had 59 reports - the highest reporting state in the nation.
You can read more details about other recently reported cases at the UFO Examiner home page. The above quotes were edited for clarity. If Indiana MUFON investigates and reports back on this case, I will post an update. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.


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A.M. Vitals: Teen Births, Food Fight, Hearing Loss
Teen Births Drop Again: The birth rate among Americans ages 15 to 19 years old fell 9% from the previous year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The WSJ reported that more effective sex-education programs along with a rough economy may help explain the continued decline.
Food Fight: The Obama Administration is gearing up for a fight with Congress over whether pizza should be considered a vegetable under rules for school lunches that get federal funding, the WSJ reports. Under current rules, pizza is considered a vegetable because of the tomato paste in the sauce. The USDA wants to cut how much a portion of tomato paste counts as a serving of a vegetable, but lawmakers are blocking the effort.
Widespread Hearing Loss: A nationwide study found that about one in eight Americans age 12 and older are hard of hearing in both ears, Reuters reported. The reasons for hearing loss include genetics and poor nutrition, researchers found, but they said aging is the biggest factor.


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Beyonce turned heads at the 2014 Brit Awards on Wednesday and all she needed to do was walk on stage. The talented entertainer obviously had the world watching as she belted out her hit "XO." The entertainer was wearing a sexy green sequin dress at the Brit Awards. According to Hollywood Life on Wednesday Beyonce's performance was one of the most talked about segments on social media.
The gown that Beyonce wore made quite a splash in front of the European audience. The floor-length dress shimmered as the entertainer sang and it seemed to show off her figure quite nicely. Add that she looked like a beautiful mermaid in some aspects and the European fans couldn't stop talking about the fashion.
As everyone knows Beyonce isn't all about the sequins. The artist can definitely sing too. Perhaps that is why the fans couldn't decide what they loved more about the star when she came on stage. It was a perfect moment at the 2014 Brit Awards and the viewers got a chance to see one of the best entertainers ever!


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"Fundamentals Waterwise Mediterranean Landscape" by Nan Simonsen (Los Angeles)Wed, September 23, 2009 - 10:49 PM
Location: Growcology Learning Garden
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This class will highlight the essentials of creating a beautiful garden including soil preparation, climate considerations and plant options. Lessons will be offered via a slide presentation as well as a garden/training tour on the beautifully landscaped site.
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Finding Marc's Family: Aid Reaches Marc's Street
As thousands of Haitians flee the capital of Port-au-Prince, Marc Henry Bigot of Miami is going in to rescue what is left of his family. Wall Street Journal reporter Gina Chon is accompanying Marc on his journey. Follow his story here on Dispatch, and on Facebook. (See more photographs of his journey home.)
Aid came for the first time to Marc's street on Sunday and energized the residents. Several men in a truck with free, clean water, donated by the government, came in the afternoon. Neighbors scrambled to gather buckets to carry the water to their homes.
"Things are looking up," Marc said. "Hopefully things will continue to get better."
Marc also managed to get the workers to come to his home and this morning, they cleaned the debris of broken cement on the second floor of his home. They will inspect the roof later today to see what needs to be done.
But the process is slow because the workers don't want to spend too much time on the second floor for fear of aftershocks. There are rumors circulating in the neighborhood that there could be another earthquake.
"We can't rush these things," Marc said. "We have to take things step by step."
He's also adhering to that philosophy in dealing with his wife's visa appointment, which was scheduled for tomorrow before the quake occurred. She plans to go to a center that is linked to the embassy to check on her status, as opposed to dealing with the long lines at the embassy.
In the meantime, Marc's daughter's health alternately gets better and then worsens, but she's not in a serious enough condition that Marc is considering sending her to a hospital.
"She's still running around so I think she's ok," Marc said. "And with the way the hospitals are now, I'm worried bringing her there will make her more sick ."


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Dennis Earl Gaubatz
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Drafted by the Detroit Lions in the 8th round (111th overall) of the 1963 NFL Draft.
Drafted by the Boston Patriots in the 25th round (199th overall) of the 1963 AFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 48 (1602nd overall since 1950)
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Chris Jericho in talks with WWE
Dec 20, 2012 - by Steve Gerweck
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that Chris Jericho has contacted Wold Wrestling Entertainment about returning for another short run. Jericho wants to work a program that would culminate at WrestleMania in April, where he would put over a younger talent. Jericho only wants a short return and remain available to do outside projects.


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Faceted Search
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Sully Sullivan commented
There are some great FOSS enterprise search solutions, and especially those from Apache (Apache Lucene, Apache Nutch, Apache Solr) and proprietary from Microsoft (Search Server 2010 Express, FAST for Sharepoint Search) would be good for inclusion. It would help with directory sites, eccommerce, and sites where a lot of content is closely related and a search term isn't enough or will always be too vague to narrow your selection.
Steve Amerige commented
Faceted search (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_search) is a key search feature for websites that have a lot of content. This is useful not just for e-commerce, but also for directory services, API browsers, and for websites where taxonomies are important. This feature closely aligns with having a CCK (content construction kit) and is so important.


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'Enormous loss to firefighters'
Police Minister Bob Cameron expresses his condolences to the family and colleagues of dead firefighter.PT0M0S 620 349
THE Blackboy Fire Track in the Bunyip State Park still appears on many survey maps. It was originally cut following Victoria's 1939 fires, when access to the bush was deemed important in the fight against conflagration.
Then about eight years ago, the Department of Sustainability and Environment closed it off and ripped up about the first five kilometres. It was a practice pursued in many state parks.
Where there was once a track there are now huge holes and mounds, partly overgrown with vegetation. Initially it was popular with horse riders, and increasingly, to the department's disgust, with trail-bike riders and four-wheel-drive owners. Winemaker Andrew Clarke, whose Jinks Creek winery at Tonimbuk adjoins the park, wonders how they will fight a bushfire when the next one roars through. Tonimbuk narrowly escaped the Bunyip Ridge fire, and he has no doubt a fire is due, with much of the area waist high in combustible material. "We just don't know what their agenda was in closing this track."
Local winemaker Andrew Clarke is pictured on the closed Black Boy Fire Track at Tonimbuk. Photo: Pat Scala PDS
There was a fire here last April and the department's firefighters had to tear across the Clarke property and through their fences with a bulldozer to gain access.
"We are not anti conservation measures," says Mr Clarke's wife, Abi. "We want to conserve the bushland, but we don't understand how they can do it without access." She said that another nearby track that had been sealed off was hastily bulldozed open when the recent fires roared through.
Mr Clarke said it would take at least a day to open this track again with a bulldozer, in which time a fire could have already done enormous damage.
A spokesman for the department said he was unsure of the track in question, but believed it had been closed because it went through an crucial environmental reference area.
"We have 14,000 kilometres of tracks in state parks and there are always changes. Fire management is our priority, and before this track was closed our fire manager would have had to be satisfied there was adequate alternative fire access."