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Frankenstorm Strandings: Travelers Can Only Wait Out Sandy
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Travelers grounded by the massive East Coast storm have few options since airlines move planes out of the path of the storm and will stay away until the skies clear.
Airlines waived penalty fees for changing reservations ahead of Hurricane Sandy, though travelers have to travel on rebooked tickets by Nov. 4, giving them only about a week to reuse tickets. However, if flights are canceled, airlines have to provide refunds. Even if an airline pushes you to keep a credit on account at the airline, you can demand a refund if the flight never left the ground.
In this case, airlines canceled thousands of flights at airports from Washington, D.C., up the East Coast on Sunday as the weather deteriorated ahead of the storm's landfall and carriers worked to get their aircraft out of the way. On Monday, airlines say, most operations at airports from the mid-Atlantic region to Boston will be suspended, and there will be a large number of cancellations Tuesday morning as well. That includes some of the nation's largest connecting hubs, at Washington's Dulles International Airport and both New York's Kennedy International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
Some international flights arriving Sunday afternoon took off for the U.S. as planned, such as trips from Tokyo and Zurich bound for JFK. An Air France A380 super jumbo was inbound to Dulles for arrival Sunday at about 5:30 p.m., according to flight tracking service FlightStats.com and AirFrance's website. The airline had given passengers the option of changing tickets bought for that flight. Passengers connecting from those flights to other destinations could end up stranded at the airport if their connecting flights are grounded.
Recovery for airlines from major storms often depends on conditions on the ground. Airlines need public transportation running so airport workers and cabin crews can get to work, for example. Damage to terminal buildings can also slow resumption of flights. But if facilities and services come through the storm in good shape, airlines can recover quickly when they have planned ahead. They try to have crews and aircraft positioned so they can get back on schedule quickly.
If you are stranded away from home, hang on to your hotel room and wait it out. Most hotels are thrilled to have stranded travelers stay extra days since their bookings for arriving guests get wiped out by canceled trips. There should be plenty of rooms available.
If you need to rebook or request a refund, use your airline's website rather than already jammed phone lines. Sign up for flight alerts at your airline and an independent service like FlightStats, which uses information from the Federal Aviation Administration as well as airlines, to get first word of cancellations and changes. Acting fast can get you the most availability for available seats for rebooking. But in cases like hurricanes, seats are usually readily available for rebooking once the storm clears because so many passengers completely canceled trips.
If rebooking, be realistic about resumption of flights — it's not like all flights return as soon as the rain lets up. Give yourself a cushion of at least a day or two for airlines to recover. Rebooking is easier if you have elite status with an airline—the higher your status, the higher your priority for nabbing an available seat. Passengers also get prioritized by ticket price and other factors, including how long they have been stranded and whether families are traveling with children.
If you haven't left home, don't try to fight your way into the storm's path, no matter how badly you need to go. Travelers sometimes press on only to get stuck when they arrive at an airport, for example, because there is no ground transportation or no connecting flights. Part of the art of good travel is to know when not to travel. This is a time not to travel.


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Konbit Sante: The Earthquake's Consequences for Cap Haitian
By Bryan Schaaf on Thursday, February 11, 2010.
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While the impact of the earthquake was felt most acutely in Port au Prince, the entire country has been affected. Hundreds of thousands of the displaced have returned to a long neglected countryside and to secondary cities like Cap Haitian. Nate Nickerson, Director of Konbit Sante, provides an update on how Cap Haitian is dealing with the influx and what is being done to meet the health needs of returnees. You can learn more about Konbit Sante's important work, and how you can support them, on their Website and Facebook Page. Read more »
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Appraisals affect a real estate agent's ability to help clients get loans and buy homes. We will address many issues as they relate to today's fast paced world of real estate and the new appraisal process. There were numerous sources utilized in compiling this course and these examples are shown for educational purposes only. The author is a certified residential appraiser and a Realtor®, and is not offering any legal opinions or advice.
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Designed by famed Japanese designer Yamamoto, this limited edition version of adidas' F50 is inspired by ancient Japanese culture. The lion dog is a symbol of protection and prosperity. By adding the robot aspect, Yamamoto wanted to merge ancient culture with modern technology. In his own words Yamamoto was aiming to create a "a guardian deity for victory, a sovereign creature that expresses the beginning of life and protects those playing on the field".
And at only 5.6 ounces this adizero is one of the lightest, fastest cleats on the field. The adizero is a shoe for players who want to quicken their footwork and accelerate with the ball.
This incredible cleat will be worn by Real Madrid's new superstar Gareth Bale at El Classico, the famed match-up of Barcelona and Real Madrid, on October 26. On this same date, six other players in clubs around the world will play in the Yamamoto F50 as well.
This truly is a cleat for the pride of the pitch.
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Los adizero están entre los botines más ligeros y veloces que han pisado una cancha. Son esenciales para aquellos jugadores que quieren hacer más rápidos sus movimientos y acelerar con el balón. CORTE: Material Sprintskin que reduce drásticamente su peso.


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In just a few days, triathletes from around the world will gather in Budapest Hungary for the Dextro Energy ITU World Championship Grand Finale. In a Twitter post, I posted a link to the USA Triathlon press release noting that Team USA is sending more than 400 of the nation's fastest athletes to compete in sprint and Olympic distance non-drafting triathlon; aquathlon; paratriathlon; and junior, U-23 and elite draft-legal World Championship events. Check this list to see if anyone you know is racing next weekend.
On the official site for the Grand Finale you can see inspiring video showcasing clips from races around the world. In addition to a full schedule of racing, the international governing body for triathlon gathers for the annual congress meeting and various committee meetings. I was elected to the Constitution Committee a few years back and will attend the related meetings.
Of course it's always fun to stay and watch all of the world-class racing too – best wishes to all racers.
I see from the weather predictions that I need to pack rain gear. It's looking like high 60s, low 70s and rain for some of the days.
During the Thanksgiving holiday week I was in Madrid, Spain for the 2008 International Triathlon Union Congress meeting. The purpose of my attendance was to be part of the Sport Development presentations. You can see the entire Congress schedule attached at the bottom of this blog. (If you don't see the attachment, click on the blog title and the attachment should be at the bottom of the blog.)
The Congress is part of the organizational structure that manages the sport of triathlon within the Olympic organization. The entire management structure of the ITU can be found within the Constitution document in the download section of the ITU website.
If you read the Constitution, you will find that there are specific rules to include a certain number of representatives from the five regions:
1) Africa,
2) Europe,
3) Americas (North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean),
4) Oceania (seventeen member nations including Australia and New Zealand) and
5) Asia
Inclusion rules are established to be sure that each region has a voice.
This Congress was a historical event in that the only president the ITU has known, Les McDonald, retired and a new president was elected. That new president is Marisol Casado from Spain.
More history was made with this being the first ITU Congress that did not require "recruiting" by the organization to fulfill the requirement of at least one woman on the executive board. Though I have not found a complete list of International Federations, I am told triathlon is the only federation with three women on the executive board.
In addition to Marisol, two more women sit on the Executive Board and include newly elected Secretary General Loreen Barnett (Canada) and Vice President Sarah Springman (Britian).
Each National Federation, or National Governing Body submits names to be considered for election. The NGB in the USA is USA Triathlon. Individuals from the USA that were elected to new positions at this congress include:
Melissa Merson (Executive Board)
Joyce Donaldson (Technical Committee)
Doug Hiller (Medical Committee)
Gale Bernhardt (Constitution Committee)
Full election results can be found here.
I will give you a few more congress tapas (name of a wide variety of appetizers in Spanish cuisine) in the blogs this week. In addition to the blog tapas, I am in the process of boiling down a five-hour interview I conducted with outgoing president Let McDonald. Watch for that story in an upcoming issue of Triathlete magazine.
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The Coveted Turd Trophy Awards – dried, lacquered and glued
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Will the Federal Grand Jury Information Collected on Lance Armstrong Become Public?
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Myths about coyotes and what you city dwellers ought to know for your own safety and that of your dog
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Q:Men and women are equally likely to have fertility problems. True or False?
A:True. Men and women are equally likely to have a fertility problem. In about one in five infertile couples, both partners have contributing problems. In about 15% of couples, no cause is found after all tests have been done. This is referred to as unexplained infertility.
Q:What is a major factor for infertility in women?
A:Age, weight and anovulation. Rarely, in the uterus, fibroid growths, endometriosis, tumors, cervical problems, or irregular uterine shape can keep the egg from implanting in the uterus. In women, fertility declines with age, and even more so after the age of 35. Conception after age 45 is rare. Being overweight or underweight can also play a role in having trouble conceiving. Anovulation refers to a woman who is not ovulating and therefore cannot conceive.
Q:Women who are trying to conceive should boost their intake of what vitamin?
A:Folic acid. Women trying to conceive should add a supplement of at least 600 mcg folic acid, either alone or as part of their prenatal vitamins to decrease the risk of fetal malformations. Folic acid may also decrease the risk of a miscarriage. The folic acid supplement should be started at least one to two months prior to conception to maximize its efficacy.
Q:The most fertile days of a woman's cycle can vary from month to month. True or False?
A:True. A woman is most fertile around one to two days before ovulation (when the egg is released from the ovary). Ovulation occurs on different days for different women. It can vary month to month for many women, and some women can have longer or shorter cycles. Ovulation typically happens for most women 11 to 21 days into a menstrual cycle.
Q:Women should avoid pregnancy for three months after discontinuing birth control pills. True or False?
A:False. There's no reason to wait to try to get pregnant after discontinuing birth control pills. Most women start ovulating again about two weeks after taking the last pill.
Q:Men do not experience age-related decreases in fertility. True or False?
A:False. Men who are 40 years of age or older often have decreased fertility. However, in men, the most common reasons for infertility are sperm disorders. These problems include: Low sperm count (too few or no sperm in the semen); Low sperm motility (sperm don't move as well as they should); malformation of the sperm, and/or blocked sperm ducts .
Q:Which sexually transmitted disease can result in infertility in women?
A:Pelvic inflammatory disease. Pelvic inflammatory disease or PID, is an infection of the female reproductive organs. PID is one of the most serious complications of certain sexually transmitted diseases in women. PID can cause irreversible damage to the uterus, ovaries, Fallopian tubes, or other parts of the female reproductive system, and is the primary preventable cause of infertility in women.
Q:If a couple is infertile, this means the couple what?
A:Could not conceive after 12 months of unprotected sex. Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive after 12 months of regular unprotected intercourse. For many couples infertility is a crisis, but infertility doesn't mean you can never have a child. Fertility problems often come with feelings of guilt or inadequacy. Up to 15% of all couples are infertile, but only 1% to 2% are sterile. Half of couples who seek help can eventually conceive and birth a child either on their own or with medical assistance.
Q:A 35-year-old woman is considered infertile after trying to conceive for how long?
A:6 months. If the woman is 35 or older, an infertility diagnosis is considered after only six months of regular unprotected intercourse. A woman's chances of having a baby rapidly decrease every year after age 30. As a woman ages, she has fewer healthy eggs remaining.
Q:In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a simple, cost-effective procedure for infertile couples. True or False?
A:False. IVF involves combining eggs and sperm outside the body in a laboratory. Once an embryo or embryos form, they are then placed in the uterus. IVF is a complex and expensive procedure; only about 5% of couples with infertility seek this treatment.
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Kleiner, Andreessen, Google Ventures: We'll Fund Google Glass App Makers
As Google prepares to ship its high-profile Google Glass wearable-computing device to programmers so they can develop apps that would run on the device, the company's venture-capital arm on Wednesday said it would team up with two big tech investors to fund the app makers.
Google Ventures, which primarily invests in early-stage startups, said it would work with heavyweights Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to identify and co-invest in companies that build apps for Google Glass.
The three firms, which called the effort the "Glass Collective," didn't say how much money they would invest in such apps but said they already had identified several unnamed candidates.
With Google Glass, "the Web's no longer in your pocket; it's right before your eyes," said John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner and a Google board director, at an event on Tuesday at the offices of Google Ventures. He added that the device "moves beyond" tablet computers.
Google Glass, which is still under development but is expected to be sold to the public by the end of the year, is worn on a person's face and allows them to view a computer screen that is positioned above one of their eyes. The current version of the device lets people control it with their voice—by stating "OK, Glass," followed by a command—to perform Web searches on Google, take photos and videos, send emails and get directions, among other basic tasks.
To connect to the Internet, Google Glass is "tethered" to a smartphone using Bluetooth technology, and the company is working on integrating the device with reading glasses and sunglasses.
Other companies have long been working on similar devices, and Google rivals such as China-based Baidu recently added their names to the list.
Representatives of the Glass Collective said they hope to spur the development of the kind of rich "app ecosystem" that exists today in app stores for smartphones and tablets, including those powered by Google's Android mobile-operating system.
Marc Andreessen, a founder of Andreessen Horowitz who sits on the board of Facebook, eBay and Hewlett Packard, said at Tuesday's event that Google Glass reminded him of Mosaic, one of the first Web browsers that helped popularize the Internet.
"This is a real platform" for developers to create thousands of apps, he said, citing the potential of apps for health professionals or "first-responders" that could view a medical guide while they treated people.
Bill Maris, managing director of Google Ventures, said the device would be able to help people with disabilities, including those paralyzed from the neck down. "We could be sitting on the edge of a paradigm shift" in computing, he said.
Maris added that he would consider investing in apps that use facial recognition technology, though he wouldn't touch any app that might "hurt people."
Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who is overseeing the Google Glass development and made a brief appearance at Tuesday's event, said he wanted an app that transformed Glass into the "view-finder for my SLR" camera so that he wouldn't have to hold up the camera to his face.
As Brin snapped on a helmet before riding off on an outdoor elliptical bicycle while wearing blue Crocs, he added that he also wanted an application made for bike riders that might give them information on the go, such as their heart rate.


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1998 102 cm x 116.4 cm Editions CR: 96
Cibachrome photograph between Plexiglas and Alucobond plates
Photographic close-up of an experimental mixture of laquer, oil paint, and water.
The title refers to a character from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
35 copies, signed and numbered in felt-tip pen on reverse, title and date stickered on reverse.
3 artist's proofs, signed, numbered in Roman numerals, and marked a.p. in felt-tip pen on reverse; title and date stickered on reverse.
2 trial proofs, signed, dated, and marked Probe in felt-tip pen on reverse; title stickered on reverse.
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A bacterial or viral infection can cause worsening of the symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which is called an exacerbation. Antibiotics help fight bacterial infections that can occur with COPD, and anti-viral medications are used to fight viral types of infections, such as influenza.
Viruses are different from bacteria in many ways. A bacterium (single bacteria) is a tiny living cell that can reproduce itself. A virus is not a cell and some argue it is not even living. A virus is a piece of nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA) packed inside a protein coat called a capsid. Viruses are much smaller than bacteria and cannot reproduce by themselves. (This is one reason some people do not consider viruses to be living.) Instead, viruses need to infect another cell before they can reproduce. After the virus enters a cell, it actually takes over the cell's machinery to manufacture new viruses. It then kills the host cell by bursting it open so the new virus particles can infect other cells.
Some viral infections are difficult to treat or develop effective medicines for because viruses have an amazing ability to mutate, or change themselves to avoid destruction by the immune system or by antiviral drugs. Anti-viral drugs have been developed to treat some specific viral infections.
Bacteria are single-celled organisms that can cause infection in humans. Tuberculosis, or bacterial pneumonia (such as that caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae) are examples of lung disease caused by a bacterial infection. Bacterial infections are treated with antibiotics, but antibiotics don't work on viral infections. If you are given antibiotics to treat a bacterial infection, it is very important to finish taking all of your medicine as prescribed - even if you feel better before your medicine runs out. This is because stopping your antibiotics before they're through can lead to the development of drug-resistant bacteria, or "super bugs," and drug-resistant bacteria is very difficult to treat.
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - Does Snowmass Village's 10.4 percent sales tax rate, one of the nation's highest, discourage people from shopping here?
Some residents and merchants have argued that it does, which has prompted the Snowmass Village Town Council to discuss the issue at its next regular meeting on April 8.
Snowmass Village's local sales tax totals 3.5 percent. One percent of the town's retail revenue goes to its general fund, and 2.5 percent is dedicated to its marketing fund, a tax that voters approved in 2003.
Some other ski resorts in Colorado, including Steamboat Springs, Telluride and Vail, have local sales tax rates of 4 percent or higher, according to their websites. But their combined rates fall below 10 percent because of their counties' low tax rates.
Pitkin County's 3.6 percent tax rate helps drive Snowmass' rate over the 10 percent mark. The Town Council can't touch the tax rate of the county and other taxing districts or entities such as the state and Roaring Fork Transportation Authority.
The Town Council's most viable option would be to trim the rate of the marketing tax, said Town Manager Russ Forrest, because the village couldn't afford to operate if it lost the sales tax for the general fund.
Reed Lewis, owner of Daly Bottle Shop, Grain and 81615, said that the 10.4 percent sales tax is daunting to a consumer. Given the choice of paying a different price for the same item, people will choose the better value, he said.
"It's over 10 percent, and that's the threshold at which people can't handle," Lewis said.
The highest combined sales tax rate in the country belongs to Tuba City, Ariz., with 13.725 percent, according to an organization called Tax Foundation. Alabama's Birmingham and Montgomery had the highest rate in major U.S. cities last year, at 10 percent.
Forrest said there are no hard data to show whether the sales tax has had an impact on spending. Some people have pointed out that the cost of a vacation in Snowmass Village remains lower than in many other resorts, he said.
"The experts we've contacted don't think it would make an impact on spending," Forrest said.
Susan Hamley, director of Snowmass Tourism, has said in the past that there might be a time when the marketing tax could be reduced. Hamley is leaving her post at the end of ski season, and there has been talk of restructuring Snowmass Tourism in light of her departure. However, she said this is still not the time to reduce the marketing tax.
"We have to remember that Snowmass was behind competitively when this program was put in place in 2003," Hamley said. "Advertising and (public relations) campaigns, special events, guest services and other tourism-oriented activities needed to be developed and launched, which required funding just to get on a more level playing field."
A dedicated marketing effort led to increases in occupancy and sales tax revenue until the recession hit, Hamley said.
"Internal and external factors, including an improving economy, are helping to return to a healthier performance," she said. "If we truly believe in our aspiration to be the leading multiseason, family-oriented, inclusive mountain resort community, this is not the time to slow down the momentum."
Lewis served on the Marketing, Special Events and Group Sales Board in its infancy and says the department it oversees could operate on a smaller budget. Marketing-fund expenditures totaled $3.6 million last year.
"Snowmass' economy has mirrored the national economy," he said. "I agree we need to spend money, but not ... to the tune of $3 million."
Lewis also thinks lowering the sales tax is a good marketing move in itself.
Forrest said the town staff encourages merchants and residents to participate in the discussion at the meeting, starting at 4 p.m. on April 8. The council probably won't make a decision, but the officials might give the staff some direction on how to proceed.
"We would probably have to look into what the appropriate process" is for making that change, Forrest said.
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It doesn't take much for a bank to make me happy. Give me online access, a good interest rate, a bunch of branches, and I'm all good. Heck, lately I'm just thrilled when my chosen banking institutions don't implode and go boom.
But just because I'm easily satisfied doesn't mean a bank often gets my juices flowing. Yet that's exactly what happened this week as my main bank, JP Morgan Chase, installed sweet new ATMs that take the latest MOFT (My One Favorite Thing) title. I don't know if Chase used TARP money to finance these new contraptions, but if so, consider it money well spent!
What's so great about these new ATMs? It's all about the deposits, baby. It used to be that whenever I wanted to deposit a check, I'd have to stand in line at the counter with all the deposit slips and envelopes and wait until one of the few chained pens that actually still had ink in them became free. I'd then fill out a bunch of uncomfortably personal information – account numbers, address, etc. – with strangers looking over my shoulder (waiting for their own shot with that elusive working pen), before getting back in line to wait for an ATM. Sure, the process only took several minutes, but my time is valuable, ya hear.
So imagine my delight when I stop by my nearest Chase branch and see these fancy new ATMs, which will take your loose checks, sans envelopes or deposit slips. Shove a bunch of them all together in the slot and watch the machine somehow magically decode the amount of each check (sometimes it fails to read handwriting and asks you to manually type in the amount – I was tempted to put in one meeeeelioon dollars, but somehow didn't think my girlfriend had that much in her account). The ATM will even print your receipt with images of the deposited checks.
Ok, maybe it's not very impressive. But all you hear about lately is how stupid bankers have been and how they're responsible for much of the economic mess this country is in. And I just want to give props where props are due.
Though Chase yesterday reported its fourth-quarter profit fell 76 percent from the year-ago period, the bank remains in an enviably solid position, having acted the least stupidly during the mortgage and credit bubble. And now they are exploiting their relative largesse by placing themselves squarely at the forefront of cutting-edge ATM technology. Bravo, Chase … This check's for you!


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On Saturday night, SNL jumped on the Back to the Future bandwagon, bringing us a look at some discarded screentests from the new DVD release. SNL posits Eddie Murphy as Marty McFly and Robin Williams as Doc Brown, among others.
In the sketch's second installment, we get Alan Alda as Biff and Joan Cusack as Loraine.


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A term often used in software development, when the technical team are trying to troubleshoot a customer problem. This term usually suggests that the technical team is constantly asking the customer for log files.
Manager: Did you manage to troubleshoot the issues that Technico had?
Neils: Not yet, I've taken them for a ride on the log flume until I can figure it out
Neils: Not yet, I've taken them for a ride on the log flume until I can figure it out
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The process of pooping on a girl's back, more towards the shoulder blades, and then pissing it down towards her ass. Resembles a log flume ride.
Keith: Yo, i just log flumed this girl last night.
Dan: o yeah, howd it go?
Keith: She loves that shit.
Dan: o yeah, howd it go?
Keith: She loves that shit.
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To have a bowel movement in a bathtub.
Great day - parade, festival, funnel cakes, shopping.... and then the baby log flumed in the tub...and one of her sisters was in there too!
by Matt Lispen October 16, 2010
Similar to an upper decker, however the turd is taken in the upper tank of a gravity fed toilet (those which the tank is suspended 6ft up). When flushed the turd is sent flying down the pipe fed by gravity and makes a large splash similar to that of a log flume ride.
"Woah! Man I've just been log flumed!!"
by Josh Bird September 09, 2006
The log flume is when you take a dump on someone's chest, and urinate on the chest shortly after. As you urinate the excrement will slide down the chest and stomach the same way a log would.
Ashley was an extremely kinky girl. Everytime I saw her she wanted me to give her the "Log Flume"
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January 18, 2013
Newly-vacated stores previously used by the likes of Jessops and HMV could be made available for independent 'pop-up' retailers looking for space on the high street. That's the message that a new body – the PopUp Forum – has taken to the administrators of HMV and Jessops this week.
The PopUp Forum includes Dan Thompson from the Empty Shops Network, Emma Jones of StartUp Britain and Nick Russell from We Are Pop Up. The Forum is proposing that boarded-up high street shops are made available at affordable rates to hundreds of home-grown British businesses.
Emma Jones said: "We're working with the administrators' lawyers to contact landlords and find out if we can take control of a percentage of the newly-closed shops with a view to offering affordable retail spaces to small and start-up British retail businesses, on a rolling basis."
She added: "Last year may have been a bad year for big retailers, but it was a record year for British start-ups. Our local high streets are in trouble – and yet what small retail business wouldn't give their right arm for the chance to trade in their own communities, generating sales and awareness of their brand?"
Nick Russell said: "The job of administration is a long and arduous process that can take years. What we've asked for is the chance to throw open boarded-up shops for an agreed time to small businesses and give consumers the chance to support British enterprise."
PopUp Britain, which is currently being showcased at the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), sees six small businesses and start-ups co-funding and co-working in a retail space for two weeks at a time. A specific pop-up lease has been developed to cover legal issues.
Dan Thompson, author of Pop Up Business For Dummies, said: "Creative, independent shops and businesses are a growing part of the British economy right now. Times are hard, yes, but resourceful people are making business ideas come to life and are reinventing the high street."
According to the latest statistics from the British Retail Consortium (BRC), 11.3% of shops are now empty.


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I am having problems with making layers invisible in blocks once they have been inserted into a drawing.
I am laying out a radio transmitter chassis. I have built up a library of component outlines. I have two templates, one for imperial measurements, the other for metric measurements. Each template has the same layers. One of the layers, called 'Objects' shows the component outline as it would appear on the final drawing. Another layer, called 'DrillingPattern' shows just the size and outline of the required chassis or panel hole or cutout and any associated dimensions. Having built a library of components, I can play chess with them on a drawing of the chassis so that interferences between components can be eliminated.
The problem is that when I want to show a drawing of the chassis or panel with just the drilling pattern, everything on the 'Objects' layer in each of the inserted blocks still shows.
What am I doing wrong?


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Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the nervous system that can cause numbness, blindness even paralysis, but faced with that diagnosis, Wendy Booker didn't give up; she dug in and set out to run marathons and climb mountains.
Wendy Booker set out to climb Mount McKinley last year, despite the fact that she'd been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis a few years earlier.
Wendy Booker came to Tallahassee Wednesday to encourage other women and men with MS to set goals for themselves and challenge them to, as she calls it, "climb their own mountains."
Wendy ignored a numbness in her leg and left side for months and ultimately learned she had an incurable disease, but six marathons later and many mountains, Wendy lives out the words of her favorite saying, "The miracle is not that I finished, but that I had the courage to start."
The things this woman has done are simply amazing and inspiring. She has run two Boston marathons, climbed Mount McKinley and Mount Ranier among others, and soon she'll be running the Boston Marathon.
It's a disease of the nervous system, it causes numbness, it can cause blindness and paralysis and though it is not fatal, it is a chronic illness, so Wendy Booker is making sure more people know about it in hopes that more awareness and more money will lead to a cure.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
What Causes MS?
Source: www.nmss.org (National Multiple Sclerosis Society Web site) contributed to this report.


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I have not been the "Birthday Girl" in a long time.
I remember having great parties as a kid, usually involving the pool or some form of roller skating( yes i said roller skating not rollerblading) type party. Then at some point you become too old for parties and as the numbers increase celebrating just isn't something you feel like doing.
I know for me i always expect my family to do something wonderful for me. I dream every year that my husband is going to plan the grandest of days starting with breakfast in bed as my children all look at me adoringly dressed and bathed in perfect matching outfits wishing me a "Happy Birthday Mommy Dearest"! This has yet to happen, and honestly they haven't even come close. I count my blessings when my husband actually remembers its my Birthday and quietly slips away in the early morning to grap a card from whatever store is open.
This year has been an unbelievably hard year for me and i knew i wanted to celebrate how good i now feel. I wanted to celebrate being alive. When sickness has brushed past you things like age and and the years tacking on become less important and a celebration becomes a top priority.
The great Lubavitcher Rebbe really pushed the custom of celebrating a birthday he said it was a day of renewal a time to reflect and choose what you want to better in the next year, a time to think of others and give extra charity, and most importantly a Birthday should be celebrated. I always followed this custom and with my kids, but why not me?
I invited about 50 of my closest friends and we all squished into my house. We ate large quantities of sugar and drank some sweet wine. We schmoozed, sang a little, said L'chaim, and just plain celebrated.
Its funny how being sick can change such basic things in your life, yet they are so simple and easy to change. I feel like this is my message now.
Why do you have to be sick to live life to the fullest to enjoy every tiny little itty bitty moment? Life is worth living and Birthdays are worth celebrating no matter the age.
I hope everyone, in this time of sadness for the Jewish people , as we morn the destruction of our Holy Beis HaMikdash, find the Simcha, the joy, that is often concealed in life. Celebrate, enjoy, connect, be happy, and everyday will feel like your Birthday!


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HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Corpus Christi native Vanessa Johnson collected medalist honors and the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi golf team finished second at the Harold Funston Invitational, hosted by Sam Houston State, on Tuesday afternoon. Johnson shot a 214 (69-72-73) to win the individual title by four shots, while teammate Krista Fenniak finished third.
"What a performance by Vanessa this week," head coach Carol Blackmar said. "In her young career, she has shown flashes of being a top-flight golfer in the Southland Conference, but this week was the culmination. If she continues on this path, she can go down as one of the top golfers in our program's history.
"As a team," she added, "we still have some things to work out, but it was a great performance as a whole. I'm so proud of Nikki [Dunn] coming through the way she did today. For us to break 300 all three rounds and not count a single score in the 80s is huge for us. This was a good week for Islanders Golf."
St. Edward's won the team title with an 884 (290-297-297), while the Islanders finished just five shots behind at 889 (298-296-295). Host SHSU finished third with a three-round 892 (297-295-300), while fellow Southland foe Lamar took fourth with an 898 (300-297-301).
Fenniak finished just one shot out of second place, tying for third with a 219 (73-72-74). Dunn had a tremendous final round, firing a 70 – the lowest round of her career – to surge to 13th place with a 225 (78-77-70). Taylor Slagle delivered a 78 in the third round to finish in 22nd with a 231 (78-75-78). Cristina Reynoso shot 244 (81-83-80) to tie for 35th in her first action of the season.
The Islanders return to action in two weeks, when they travel to the FIU Pat Bradley Invitational on Oct. 21-23. It will be the final event of the fall for the Islanders.
For all the latest on Islanders Golf, follow the team on Facebook (IslandersGolf) and Twitter (@IslandersGolf).


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Thursday January 17, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Despite sophomore guard Devonte Thomas tying a career-high in scoring with 27, the Augusta State Jaguars suffered a 70-73 home loss to the Flagler Saints on Thursday, Jan. 17 in Christenberry Fieldhouse.
The loss dropped ASU to 8-4 overall and 4-2 in the PBC, while the victory moved Flagler to 7-7 on the season and 3-4 in the conference.
The Jags were led by Thomas' game-high 27 points, including five buckets from behind the arc. Devon Wright-Nelson contributed 12 points and a team-leading eight rebounds. D'Angelo Boyce handed out a game-high eight assists, while Ryan Weems nabbed four steals.
The Saints had four players in double figures. Guard Matt Clark notched 20 and forward Ante Gospic scored 19 and pulled down a game-high nine rebounds.
The Jaguars maintained a lead through most of the first half, going up by 26-15, with 4:28. ASU ended the half with an eight point lead, 30-22.
The Jags kept the lead through most of the second half off a layup by Thomas giving ASU a nine point advantage with 10:57 on the clock, but the Saints claimed the lead, 54-52, with 6:23 left in the game. Free throws by senior Travis Keels knotted the contest again. ASU pulled away by five on a steal and layup by Ryan Weems.
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Three Lady Jaguars scored in double figures to lead Augusta State to a second straight home victory, 54-48, over conference foe Flagler on Thursday, Jan. 17 in Christenberry Fieldhouse.
The win moved the Lady Jags to 10-2 overall, while the defeat dropped the Saints to 2-5 in conference play and 4-8 overall.
"I knew tonight was going to be a grind," head coach Nate Teymer said. "You have to play through missed baskets and we're fortunate enough to come out with a victory in this one. Flagler is a very improved team."
One-on-one with the opposing point guard, senior Brittany White stole the ball and drove the floor for an uncontested layup to tie the game 39-39. Senior Taylor Ayers gave ASU the lead on a jumper from the right side as she cruised her way to her fourth double-double of the season with 12 points and 10 rebounds. White added eight points and three steals.
Winning the opening tipoff and earning the first ASU points of the night, senior Laci Schreiber posted her season-high with 11 points, adding five rebounds. Junior Tiffany Jaecks also added 11 points to match her season-high, while White handed out a game-high seven assists.
Flagler junior guard Shorty Spencer led all scorers with 22 points while forward Shelbi Lindsey notched 12 points. Sophomore center Treva Mason grabbed a game-high 13 rebounds for the Saints.


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WASHINGTON (December 20, 2012)--An independent analysis by the Tax Policy Center says taxpayers who make more than $1 million would get hit with tax increases averaging $100,000 next year under House Speaker John Boehner's alternative tax bill.
And the center says some low-income people would get smaller tax increases because the plan would let expire several tax cuts first enacted as part of President Barack Obama's 2009 economic stimulus package.
The Ohio Republican offered it as a backup plan in case stalled talks with Mr. Obama fail.
U.S. Senate leaders have pronounced it DOA, however.
If Congress and the White House don't reach an agreement, taxes would go up for nearly every American family as part of the year-end "fiscal cliff."


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The Brooksville Plant Materials Center (PMC) is situated on about 140 acres of federal land that historically has been predominantly a longleaf pine ecosystem with small inclusions of hard wood hammock. For almost 30 years, prior to the PMC being established in 1967, fire had been excluded from the management of the property. As a consequence, hardwoods encroached over the whole tract and very few Longleaf Pine were left. Greg Hendricks, the Florida NRCS state resource conservationist and plant materials program manager; along with the state plant materials specialist, Mimi Williams, and the PMC staff, decided to do some restoration.
In conjunction with a major land clearing operation to establish a new 13 acre seed production field, the Brooksville PMC is in the process of restoring about 100 acres to its original longleaf pine savanna ecosystem. Phase one, which involved hard wood removal and initial herbicide treatments to control invasive species, was completed in 2010. Phase two will include herbicide treatments to control hardwood re-sprouts with long leaf pine planting scheduled for January 2012.
In April of 2010, to commemorate Earth Day and NRCS's 75th Anniversary, and also to help educate the public on longleaf pine ecosystems, Hendricks planted a ceremonial Longleaf Pine tree at the PMC.
Stay tuned for updates on this project.
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Much like the inventive 2009 "Star Trek" reboot that chronicled the early days of Spock and Kirk, "X-Men: First Class" goes back to the beginnings of "X-Men" when Professor X and Magneto first meet. Gifted scientist Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), who, because of his own genetic make up, has a gift of telepathy, and Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender), who, possesses the power to control magnetism when provoked, join together to stop Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon). The powerful energy-absorbing mutant has hatched a plan to have mankind succumb to its own demise so mutants can take over the world.
Read interview with Fassbender, Bacon
The imaginative story is set in the 1960s at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, and uses real historical events fused with fiction to heighten the tension. In "X-Men: First Class," Shaw has figured out a way to escalate the Cold War crisis to trigger an all-out war.
Setting the film in the 1960s also lends the atmosphere a bit of James Bond mystique. It's the dawn of the Space Age -- no cell phones, no 21st century high-tech gadgetry, just submarines and super powers. There are other themes from the era that are fascinatingly interwoven including human themes of Civil Rights. Here the question of man's equality creates audience sympathy for the mutants, outcasts who are feared and hated because they are different. It's also a bit of a tribute that the film is set in the 1960s -- the Marvel Comics series was first created in 1963 by Stan Lee with Jack Kirby.
Of course, what's most intriguing in this Part One is how the X-Men came to be the X-Men. How did Professor X end up in a wheelchair? And how did X and Magneto become archenemies? Those of you who aren't concerned about these burning questions can just enjoy the magnificent effects and the mastery of the story.
Fassbender as the headstrong Erik is the focal point of the film. "X-Men: First Class" introduces Erik with a scene that opened the original "X-Men." He's a youngster held at the Auschwitz concentration camp in the 1940s and has been separated from his parents. "First Class" takes the opening a step further with the evil Dr. Schmidt pushing Erik to the limit so that the boy's strong mental powers become a force to be reckoned with.
The film moves forward 20 years later, where Erik is out to seek revenge for what he had endured at the hands of Dr. Schmidt. One of the best scenes (reminiscent of "Marathon Man") is when Erik visits someone who may know the whereabouts of Schmidt, but in order to make the man spill his secrets he must use his magnetic powers to do a bit of dental work on the gentleman.
"X-Men: First Class" also introduces other heroes and villains (and villainesses), some from past "X-Men" films and others primarily from the pages of the comic books. Here, we meet some new recruits as teenagers: Blue-skinned Mystique, a changeling who can appear as her human self, Raven, or assume the appearance of anyone else, has been taken under the wing of Charles. In the original film trilogy, she is played by Rebecca Romijn, part of Magneto's Brotherhood. Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence from last year's "Winter's Bone" plays the young Mystique with an innocent charm.
There's also the big-footed Hank (Nicholas Hoult), whose secret to how he became Beast is revealed; Alex Summers (Lukas Till), aka Havok, who emits super-heated energy waves; Sean Cassidy (Caleb Landry Jones looking an awful lot like Harry Potter's Ron Weasley), aka Banshee, whose unique sonic blasts carry him into flight; and Armondo Munoz (Edi Gathegi), aka Darwin, who is able to adapt to any situation or environment. Zoe Kravitz (musician Lenny Kravitz's daughter) plays Angel, who sports an insect-like tattoo on her back that actually sprouts real wings, which enable her to fly.
Shaw's Hellfire Club villains and villainesses include Shaw's right-hand woman, Emma Frost, played by a seductive January ("Mad Men") Jones; the demonic Azazel (Jason Flemyng) and the tornado creating Riptide (Alex Gonzalez). So where's Wolverine? Now that's a surprise.
"X"philes will rejoice that the franchise is back in full force after a slump while anyone out for a little fun will herald this super, superhero extravaganza that kicks off the summer movie season with a resounding bang.


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2014 Islanders Softball Calendar Poster
CORPUS CHRISTI – Tickets for the upcoming Islanders Softball season are now on sale. This season, the tickets are flexible and will allow fans to utilize their tickets for all games located at Chapman Field. This means fans who can't attend a game are welcome to use those tickets at another Islanders' home game. The flexibility of the season tickets are more conducive to our fans' schedules.
Adult season tickets are $40 while youth 16 and under, seniors 60 and over, active military personnel, along with Texas A&M - Corpus Christi faculty and staff are $25.
The Islanders will open the season with a challenging non-conference schedule with four tournaments on the road totaling 21 games. The squad will start the season in San Marcos, Texas, in the three-day CenturyLink Classic on Feb. 7 through Feb. 9. The Islanders will compete against the likes of Southland foe Stephen F. Austin, Ball State, Southern Illinois and host Texas State.
The first chance for Islanders' fans to watch the team live at Chapman Field will be on Friday, March 7, when they host Central Arkansas in a doubleheader to open Southland Conference play. The Islanders finished the 2012-13 season with an 11-39 record under head coach Stephanie Hughes. This season, Hughes and her staff return 12 letterwinners from a year ago and welcome seven newcomers along with the addition of Assistant Coach Keith Stein.
Tickets can be purchased online HERE or by calling 825-BALL (2255).
For the latest information, follow Islanders Softball on Twitter and Instagram (@IslandersSball) and Facebook (Islanders Softball).


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Should Animals on the Brink of Extinction Be Used to Promote Tourism?
I have to admit it: last year, my traveling to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, to see polar bears in the wild was motivated not only by a 10-year anniversary but by a fear that soon the animals could be gone. I go to see glaciers because I'm afraid we're losing them. And this coming January, I'm returning to Yellowstone National Park to try to photograph our nation's wolves before they almost completely disappear in the Lower 48 — again.
You could call me an "extinction tourist."
I'm far from unique. In fact, today people are traveling in ever-greater numbers to see what they think could quickly vanish from the Earth. While just a few years ago travelers might have endeavored to tick off all seven continents or Africa's Big Five wildlife species, today there's a certain "cred" given to those who see the landscapes, animals and plants that are just managing to hang on. And tour providers are tapping into that desire with their marketing messages. "See [fill in your favorite endangered animals] before they're gone!"
But should tourism companies use threatened species as marketing tools? Given our ability to tune out ads, does that minimize the dire circumstances that these animals and environments are now in and dilute the attention that conservation messages might have been able to muster?


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Silicon Valley has given the world another matchmaking service -- this one, to set up recent college graduates with gainful employment.
Looking for a strong writer and varsity athlete? A computer science major and Python programming whiz? Ask Collegefeed, and a short list of candidates will soon pop up in your inbox.
In an era where algorithms suss out one's tastes in music and love, finding the right job and a strong hire shouldn't be so agonizing, says Sanjeev Agrawal, founder of Mountain View-based company. It's part of a new wave of startups aiming to make looking for work -- and workers -- less of a slog.
On most job boards, he said, "You post yourself on these sites and you wait and you hope to be discovered."
Collegefeed tries to move things along by acting as a broker, screening profiles (now, mostly, through automation) and e-mailing its matches to recruiters based on their preferences. When recruiters get a small batch of screened profiles, the thinking goes, they are likely to give them a good look.
"I'm feeling really optimistic that this site is going to lead to an interview," said Charles Ademola Saseun, a recent UC Berkeley graduate whose profile shows him smiling in a suit jacket, bow tie and sunglasses.
A San Francisco startup contacted him on the site last week, he said, and they have been communicating by email.
The startups MindSumo and Studyka have a different angle, creating challenges to help students get companies' attention. Emjoyment, a Mountain View company launched early this year, compares itself to Tinder, a popular mobile dating app.
"The reason for this new site was simple," one of Emjoyment's co-founders posted on Reddit in February to announce its launch, "finding a job is a pain in the ass and you almost never find ones you actually want."
Companies pay for most Collegefeed services -- including tips on setting up profiles attractive to millennials -- but it is free for job-seekers like Saseun. The Cal graduate's profile highlights his interest in sports marketing and participation on UC Berkeley's varsity track and field team -- which, he said, he didn't originally emphasize.
The site is open to anyone who has been out of college for less than five years, Agrawal said.
As of this week, Collegefeed said it had between 30,000 and 40,000 job-seekers and more than 1,000 employers; Emjoyment's co-founder Adam Saven said the app had roughly 10,000 users and 100 employers -- both tiny compared to LinkedIn, a professional networking giant with a decade of lead time.
LinkedIn has 39 million students and recent graduates, said a company spokesman, and more than 25,000 employers use the site to recruit workers.
Its size makes the network a must for college students, said Elizabeth Krishnan, an associate director at Santa Clara University's career center. "LinkedIn has the attention of recruiters in a massive way," she said.
But, she added, the center encourages students to explore a range of sites, including Collegefeed.
Like students, companies seeking a match don't limit themselves to one resource. NetApp, a data storage company based in Sunnyvale, uses LinkedIn, Collegefeed and several others, said Trent Peterson, a recruitment manager for the firm.
NetApp used Collegefeed when it needed to hire college students for its Boston office in a hurry -- and it worked, he said. They hired three within two weeks.
"Collegefeed gets top talent and they send it right to your email," Peterson said. "It's a gift."
Collegefeed can tell when a company has contacted a graduate on the site, but it doesn't collect data on hiring.
A few weeks after setting up his Collegefeed profile, UC Berkeley grad Shyan Kashani had yet to hear from an employer, but he's not giving up. He predicts the job-search innovations will keep getting better -- and that they will eventually take over the job search.
"It's funny," he said. "The job application process, even for these extremely high profile tech companies, is still the same one that's been employed for many decades, and it's pretty clunky."
Follow Katy Murphy at Twitter.com/katymurphy.


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Teens Who Can Express Themselves More Likely to Avoid Drugs
Dec. 23, 2011 -- When New York City stock broker Karen N. was raising her now 27-year-old daughter, dinners were never quiet -- especially during Kimberly's teen years.
The mom and daughter often went at it about grades, money, chores, and friends. "You name it and we discussed it," she says. "Kimberly never had any trouble telling me how she felt and why she felt that way. I didn't always agree, but I always let her speak her mind."
And neither of them would change a thing. Kimberly sailed through her teen years, excelled at school, and never got mixed up with drugs or alcohol. The two even work together as brokers today.
New research shows that teens like Kimberly who are able to express themselves to their moms are better able to resist peer pressure and say no to drugs and alcohol.
The findings appear in Child Development.
Researchers interviewed more than 150 teens and their parents about substance use and abuse, daily interactions, and relationships with friends. The teens who were able to hold their own in discussions with their moms particularly about grades, money, rules, and friends were better prepared to stand up to their peers, the study showed.
"Parents who can have the right kind of discussions with their kids are setting their children up to handle peer influences," says study author Dave Szwedo. He is a doctoral student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
What are the right kinds of discussions? "They are calm and reasonable," he says. "They are not based on shouting or whining. They allow kids a chance to be heard."
Kids Who Say No to Mom Also Say No to Drugs, Alcohol
"Let your children know that disagreements can be solved without emotions that bring on shouting and whining," Szwedo says. The teens in the study were 13, 15, and 16 during the time that they were interviewed. But "it is never too late or too early to show kids that arguments or discussions can be held in this way," he says.
"The teenage years don't have to be tumultuous if parents can work out any disagreement with their kids in a reasonable, calm way," Szwedo tells WebMD.


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Patrick Salyer says he's known the appeal of social media since his days as a Harvard undergrad, when he lived in the same dorm as Mark Zuckerberg and signed up as one of Facebook's early users.
Today he's CEO of Gigya, a Mountain View startup that helps clients like Pepsi, Verizon and ABC deliver a Facebook-like experience to customers who want to post comments, play games or earn rewards when they visit a corporation's website or mobile app. Many of those sites let customers sign in by using their name and password from Facebook or another social networking account.
But some consumers are growing wary of sharing their social networking information with other websites. In this interview, edited for length and clarity, Salyer explains why companies want you to log in -- and why Gigya recently launched a new service, called "SocialPrivacy Certification," for sites that promise consumers their data won't be abused.
Q What does Gigya do?
A We provide online businesses with a complete social infrastructure. On the front end, we provide social plug-ins (so visitors can interact or post comments) and "gamification" technology (which lets them earn points or rewards), to create a kind of Facebook-like layer on a website or a mobile app. On the back end, we have a registration system that manages social-identity data, so users can log in with their social network accounts like Facebook or Twitter. We work with almost 700 large online businesses; altogether, we touch 1.5 billion users a month across our client base.
Q What do your clients do with their customers' social identities?
A More than half of all people on the Internet have used social logins. It's great for sites because when someone registers in the traditional way, you might get four or five pieces of information. But if someone logs in (through a social network account), it's like you've known them your whole life. They opt into letting you know what their interests are, where they live, where they work -- an incredibly rich amount of information.
We help businesses make sense of all this data, so they can take what a person may be interested in and deliver a very targeted or customized email. Or you can change their site experience based on what you know about a user or their friends. This ends up being a much better and more relevant experience for users.
Q Are some people leery about using their Facebook credential on other sites?
A There have been cases where users felt burned in the past. Like some sites would automatically share something you read, like some article about Lindsay Lohan, and you didn't really want that shared (as an update to all your friends on Facebook). Not that that would ever happen to me. (Laughs.)
There's also concern that something's going to happen to your data. We think there are legitimate concerns, but the businesses we work with are not doing these things. And they're willing to promise that they will not do these things.
So we saw an opportunity where a business could make this promise, and users therefore would be much more comfortable and willing to provide this sort of information for a more customized experience.
Q So what does your "SocialPrivacy Certification" promise to consumers?
A We came up with four key tenets: First is not to spam your news feed. The site won't send a message to your news feed without your permission. Second, it won't send a message to your friends without your permission. Third, it won't sell your social data. And fourth, it won't spam your own email.
Q What does that leave for your clients to do?
A What businesses want to provide, and what users really want, are personalized, more relevant experiences. There are businesses that do this well -- like Spotify, when you want to see what your friends are listening to and I'm happy to share what I'm listening to, as long as it's an opt-in process. Or with TripAdvisor, if I'm thinking about making a trip to Kauai, and I want to see where my friends have stayed.
Users absolutely want this. That's why they spend so much time on Facebook. But they just want transparency, to know what's happening. We've started with several partners, including Martha Stewart Omnimedia, AutoTrader.com, the Globe and Mail (a Canadian newspaper). When sites implement this, we see an increase in social logins. So businesses are seeing that it's good for them to do the right thing.
Q How do you check that businesses are keeping their promises?
A There's an initial audit and then ongoing audits on a regular basis. We have a team that's checking the sites, logging in socially and doing activities on the site to make sure the tenets are being followed. We also are doing secret shopping to make sure users' data is not showing up in third-party data stores.
Q Is Facebook the most widely used credential for logging onto other sites?
A Facebook is the most widely used, but about a year ago it reached its height in terms of market share, about 58 percent. What that shows is users want choice.
I think of LinkedIn as my professional contacts. Twitter is people I want to be connected with but I might not know them personally. And Facebook is my real friends. In each instance, I may go to a different site and want to interact with a different group.
So we see Facebook being a critical player in the identity realm, but I don't think they will own 90 percent. And we'll see what other networks come along.
Contact Brandon Bailey at 408-920-5022; follow him at Twitter.com/BrandonBailey
Age: 31.
Job: CEO of Gigya.
Career: Ran a food-service business in his college dorm, then worked as a business consultant and launched his own software startup, Salyer Ventures, which built apps for MySpace and Facebook. He joined Gigya in 2007 and held jobs including vice president for strategy and operations before becoming CEO two years ago.
Education: Earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard in 2004.
Personal: Married with a 5-month-old daughter; grew up in Orange County, Ca.
Source: Patrick Salyer, Gigya.
Five things to know about patrick salyer:
1) He joined Gigya after it was founded by three Israelis who built software widgets for MySpace pages; now it makes software that lets websites integrate with Facebook and other platforms.
2) The 6-foot, 6-inch Salyer says he enjoys playing basketball because it's a team sport. "You can do a lot as an individual, but you'll never be great unless you play with other people really well."
3) He likes to compete; for a vacation last year, he and several friends took a jungle survival course in Guyana, taught by a former British commando.
4) He's friends with actors Channing Tatum ("21 Jump Street") and Adam Rodriguez ("CSI: Miami"), who both went along on last year's jungle trip.
5) Salyer also enjoys playing the strategy board game Settlers of Catan and is active at his church, Menlo Park Presbyterian.
Source: Patrick Salyer, Gigya.


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U.S. Government Accelerates its Purchase of Fuel-Efficient Vehicles
President Barack Obama announced on April 9 that the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) will buy about 17,600 new, fuel-efficient vehicles from U.S. auto companies by June 1. The purchase will draw on funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and will be on an accelerated schedule to help support U.S. automakers. The GSA will spend $285 million to purchase the vehicles from General Motors Corporation, Chrysler LLC, and Ford Motor Company. The purchase will include 2,500 hybrid sedans—the largest one-time purchase yet of hybrid vehicles for the federal government—and each new vehicle will yield at least a 10% fuel economy improvement over the vehicle it replaces. The GSA will also spend $15 million by the end of September to purchase a pilot fleet of advanced-technology vehicles, including all-electric vehicles, hybrid buses, and buses that run on compressed natural gas. See the White House press release.


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Maybe Rob or someone else on better terms with the political fringe can explain the email I just received through our "reader-generated-news" feature:
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Through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which has helped grant the wishes of more than 226,000 children in the U.S. since 1983, Janelle's dream of meeting her favorite player again will become a reality, as she is scheduled to serve as an honorary coach for the A's on Saturday, as well as deliver the team's lineup card before their matchup with the Red Sox.
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