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What is CWD:
CWD Monitoring and Prevention in Maine:
MDIF&W Recommends that Individuals:
People using trail and game cameras may not place a camera upon the private land of another without written permission. All cameras must be labeled with the person's name and contact information.
Hunters For the Hungry
Attention hunters! Some Maine citizens lack adequate nutrition. A gift of meat from your hunt can help reduce hunger in Maine.
Hunters for the Hungry is a program for donating wild game meat to food kitchens, shelters, and charitable organizations statewide.
To find out how you can help call
Waste of Game
A person may not waste a wild bird or wild animal that has been wounded or killed while hunting. For purposes of this section "waste" means to intentionally leave a wounded or killed animal in the field or forest without making a reasonable effort to retrieve and render it for consumption or use. This law does not apply to coyotes.
Regulations on feeding deer
The commissioner can stop anyone from feeding deer when it is deemed to be a public safety hazard or detrimental to the deer population.
Department Check Stations
Our wildlife biologists annually collect information that allows the Department to assess the condition and productivity of Maine's deer population. Much of the information we collect comes from hunter harvested deer. As such, the information you provide us with is used directly for deer management purposes, in Maine. A summary of the information we collect from you can be found within our Annual Research and Management Reports.
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that the liver and kidneys of moose not be eaten because of possible contamination with the heavy metal cadmium. Also, recent studies have shown smaller amounts of cadmium in liver tissues from Maine deer, and deer, elk and antelope from other States. Maine health officials recommend that deer liver consumption be limited to 0.8 pounds in one sitting and 1 to 11⁄3 pounds per week. Human symptoms of acute cadmium poisoning include severe nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle cramps and salivation. There is no known health risk from eating moose meat or deer meat.
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Electroconvulsive Therapy - Portneuf Medical Center
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is a treatment option for patients suffering from severe depression who have been unsuccessful with other forms of treatment, such as antidepressant medication and psychotherapy. Bipolar and Schizophrenia are other illnesses that can be effectively treated by ECT.
ECT involves sending electronic current briefly through a portion of the brain. A thorough psychiatric evaluation must be completed to determine whether or not a patient is a good candidate for ECT. Other tests must be done prior to receiving such services including a physical, EKG, CT of the head, Chest X-ray, and the patient must be medically cleared by a physician.
In recent years, ECT has been much improved. A muscle relaxant is given before treatment, which is done under brief anesthesia. Electrodes are placed at precise locations on the head to deliver electrical impulses. The stimulation causes a brief (about 30 seconds) seizure within the brain. The person receiving ECT does not consciously experience the electrical stimulus. For full therapeutic benefit, at least several sessions of ECT, typically given at the rate of three per week, are required.
The actual procedure itself lasts only a few seconds and the patient wakes up from the effects of anesthesia within 5 to 10 minutes. It is a well controlled, highly successful treatment option.
ECT is an effective medical treatment alternative, helping as many as 90% of patients who receive it . Most patients remain well for many months afterwards. The tendency to relapse after a favorable treatment outcome can often be countered by medication after a series of treatments. Maintenance treatments of ECT may be given depending on individual patient need.
Side-effects may result from the anesthesia, the ECT treatment or both. Common side-effects include temporary short-term memory loss, such as recent events, dates or what you ate that morning. Other side-effects could include confusion, nausea, muscle aches and headache. Some people may have longer-lasting problems with memory after ECT, but this type of memory loss is rare.

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Early Registration Deadline is October 9!
Register now for this
exciting event! Free registration ($250 value) to the Sprint Developer's
Conference will be provided to the first 30 university researchers
or students who register for the full non-student MobiCASE rate.
There will be an exclusive Exhibit Center tour and reception at Ericsson Silicon Valley.
MobiCASE, the 2nd International ICST Conference on Mobile Computing,
Applications, and Services is an international conference specifically
focused on application-layer research and development in mobile computing:
applications, application management, and application services. Research
work presented here is driven by what we see in the consumer space
today: high-end mobile phones, high-bandwidth wireless networks,
novel applications, scalable software infrastructures, and of course
an increasingly larger consumer base that is moving towards an almost
all-mobile lifestyle.
The program comprises 15 excellent papers and two invited
speakers. The presented research covers recent novel work in mobile web
and mashups, software engineering and development tools, cross-layer
approaches, location-based services, mobile health and mobile social
networking. The list of papers accepted to MobiCASE can be found at:
Moderator: Rich Wong, Accel Partners
Vishal Gurbuxani, Co-Founder, MobClix
Kedric Van de Carr, Director Publisher Development & Monetization, Smaato
Elgin Kim, Western US and Asia Sales, Nexage
Sean Galligan, VP Business Development, Flurry
Stephanie Bauer, Associate Director of Mobile Marketing & Advertising, Verizon Wireless
Alex Linde, Director, Mobile Advertising, Yahoo!, Inc.
Sponsored by Wireless Communications Alliance
Mobile content providers are funded by the service providers, of course,
but we are increasingly seeing new applications supported by direct
sales and advertising. The billion-dollar market for mobile advertising
is currently experiencing a CAGR exceeding 40%, with the result that the
competition for place is intense throughout the food chain and those who
invest in it. A panel of distinguished mavens discusses the winning and
losing strategies that potential competitors would be wise to adopt.
Moderator: Reed Peterson, Corporate and Business Development, GSM Association
Weidong (Larry) Shi, Senior Researcher, Nokia Research Center
Tony Kueh, Senior Director Product Management, Sybase
Kiumarse Zamanian, Adjunct Professor, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
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As mobile handsets become more ubiquitous, and the demand
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changing the face of mobile and providing more innovation, opportunity,
and access to the end user. This panel will discuss the key players,
technologies, business models, and challenges effecting that change.
Moderator: Raj Singh, EIR, Storm Ventures & Co-Founder of YumYum Labs
Neal Goldstein, Author
Joe Jasin, Managing Director, DNA Investments
Dhana Pawar, President, Girls in Tech
Nimish Radia, PhD. Distinguished Researcher, Ericsson Silicon Valley
Juggs Ravalia, VP, Strategic Alliances, SPB Software
Ted Selker, Associate Director, Mobility Research Center, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
Consumers, developers and companies have become comfortable
with the role of app stores and frameworks in (quickly) creating
and distributing applications for various mobile devices, supported
by services in the cloud. With dozens of app stores and more than a
hundred thousand applications available, what have we learned? What is
the next big thing after location-based applications? Will 4G change
the kind of applications that consumers want? With the increased power
of HTML5 and WebKit on the dominant platforms, will browser based or
resident applications dominate? What do device makers and operators
need to provide to differentiate their offerings? How will the deluge
of new kinds of connected devices ranging from phones, tablets, cars,
cameras and TVs affect developer decisions? What are the most exciting new
applications you know about? These and other questions will be addressed
by the panelists in this closing event of the conference.
MobiCASE will include a rich collection of hands-on demonstrations
and posters on mobile applications. The list of posters/demos can be found at:
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Martin Griss, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, USA
Technical Program Committee Chair
Guang Yang, Nokia Research, USA
Industry Track Chair
Christian Martin, Institut Telecom, France
Posters/Demonstrations Technical Chair
Angela Nicoara, Deutsche Telekom Inc., R&D Labs, USA
Posters/Demonstrations Marketing Chair
David Kagan, Kagan Media Net, USA
Workshop Co-Chairs
Yingen Xiong, Nokia Research, USA
Djamal Zeghlache, Institut Telecom, France
Local Arrangements Chair
Stacy Marshall, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, USA
Publicity Co-Chairs
Wendy Fong, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, USA
KRS Murthy, I Cubed, Accelerated Corporate Growth Experts, USA
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Minister of rural development Jairam Ramesh met with nine cabinet ministers on Thursday to finalise the contents of the draft bill. These include finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, home minister P Chidambaram, minister for tribal affairs Kishore Chand Deo, information minister Ambika Soni, defence minister AK Antony, among others. The cabinet is likely to meet on Monday to discuss the bill.


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Check out the photo at 3:43 as well... she just missed it and fouled it off--but look at her form. I love her swing.
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last time I was in Costa Rica, we were at Ollies Pt, me and 3 friends plus one other boat with 2 guys from San Diego had it head+ and perfect for a couple hrs, then a boatload of Brazilians showed up, there were a couple of families age range from about 12 to older than me, I'd guess late 50s. They surfed in that completely etiquette free manner they are known for. We had a longboard on the boat so I swam back and grabbed it. Nice 10ft RA single fin. I position myself way inside and say (in English) first person to drop in on me gets plowed. Of course, the youngest Brazilian, maybe 12, paddle-battles then drops in on me. So I stepped back onto the tail to try stall and go above him, but I miss-timed it and ran right over him. Nose of board then fin hit him right in the shins. I asked him if he was ok, he said si, and I paddled away. Meanwhile the kid's whole family has seen the whole incident. Father, grandfather, brothers/cousins. All tough-guy Brazilian MMA looking types. Seeing as how I'm in a completely remote place in a foreign 3rd world country, I decide I don't want to get my skull cracked open and I play it apologetic and humble to the kids dad, who looks to be in this mid-30s, the guy just looks at me, smiles and laughs and goes "no problem" - meanwhile his kid is bleeding from the shin and obviously in intense pain. He checks to make sure he is ok and we all surfed there for another 2 hrs and no one made the slightest reference to the incident. I saw the guy later that night at the bars and I apologized again. The guy said "no problem, he need to get tough, get beat up a little." Had this incident happened anywhere in America with Americans, one can only imagine the ensuing coddling, whining and self-righteous threatening and yelling on the part of both the kid and the elders. The kid in that video got way less than he deserved on the wave and deserved to get a backhand across the face for saying **** off in response.
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Yeah you're right... There are only altercations in the water in the US. Everywhere else in the world people are super friendly.... That is not only ridiculous, it is just wrong.
Did it make you feel good when you saw a 12 year old in pain? No... You wouldn't apologize if you weren't afraid of his dad??? Cool..
That could have easily happened to the kid in the video. Would that have been a good result? I dont think Fitz would have been happy if that happened... That's why it was a bad idea...
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Thief steals Girl Scouts' cookie sales money
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. Authorities say they have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of stealing money from a Girl Scout troop that was selling cookies.
San Bernardino County sheriff's officials said that after surveillance footage was widely aired they identified the suspect Colin Sawyer and arrested him at a gas station in the Phelan area on Monday night.
A night earlier, the Girls Scouts reported that a young man grabbed a bag of money from their table outside a Stater Bros. supermarket.
The victims were packing up their supplies to go home just before 7 p.m. when the thief took the bag and ran.
One Girl Scout chased him, but fell, causing minor scrapes and scratches.
The man was captured on surveillance video entering the store.
The amount of money taken was not disclosed.
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Genital Herpes Health Center
Genital Herpes in Mom Linked to Schizophrenia in Baby
Nov. 13, 2001 -- In the first large-scale study of its kind, researchers from several U.S. centers have found an as-yet-unexplained connection between herpes simplex 2 -- the virus that causes genital herpes -- and schizophrenia. Babies born to women infected with the virus, commonly called HSV-2, appear to have a greater risk of developing the brain condition that causes an impaired perception of reality.
The team examined records and blood samples from more than 3,000 women who gave birth in Providence, R.I., between 1959 and 1966, and their offspring. From the review, the researchers found that 27 of the otherwise-healthy babies eventually developed schizophrenia or a related psychotic condition. On closer inspection, they found that many of these babies were born to mothers who had genital herpes.
The researchers report that there were no other significant differences between the mothers of babies who did and didn't develop schizophrenia that might explain the link. The groups of women were about the same age and had comparable education levels, smoking and dietary habits, and prenatal care. They gave birth at about the same time or season and had similar rates of physical or mental illness themselves, as well as infection with other sexually transmitted diseases. So the link could not be explained by health or lifestyle, leaving herpes infection as the sole differentiating factor.
"This evidence shows some association of maternal herpes simplex 2 virus with schizophrenia later in life. Whether the herpes infection is a direct cause or just a factor is still unknown," says researcher Robert Yolken, MD, a neurovirologist at Johns Hopkins University's Children's Center, in a news release.


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Overheard talking about ITAR and EAR compliance
|Organizations in certain industries will not tolerate the incursion of iPads and iPhones into their IT infrastructure because of compliance reasons.
Kevin McDonald, iPads force their way into corporate IT
Today's WhatIs.com Word of the Day is ITAR and EAR compliance.
"On the HIPAA side and in ITAR, [customers] were booting iPhones," McDonald said. "We're removing them in favor of the Blackberry." (ITAR refers to the U.S. State Department's International Traffic in Arms Regulations, which outlaw the export of critical technologies that could be used against the U.S.)
"You can't centrally manage them or control the apps," McDonald said. "You can't remote-delete with any assurance. And in an environment where you absolutely must prove where the data goes and where it's stored, if it's encrypted, you cannot do that with an iPhone or iPad."
In short, the strength of the iPad and iPhone — the availability of thousands of apps — is also their weakness when it comes to security. To be fair, Google's Android phones fall into the same trap, McDonald said.
Overheard talking about N+1 UPS
|Modular systems let you plug in UPS capacity as you need it. Incrementally enabled systems provide the same end result, but are shipped with the extra capacity already installed, but disabled. It's activated via software or firmware when you're ready. These systems all grow differently, but the principles are the same — add capacity and pay for it when you need it.
Robert McFarlane, How to choose the right uninterruptible power supply for your data center
Today's WhatIs.com Word of the Day is N+1 UPS.
Overheard talking about non-governmental organizations
|ISO is a non-governmental organization. As such, its standards are voluntary, but many of its member institutes are part of the governmental structures of their countries, and ISO standards have found their way into many laws. Information technology professionals are probably familiar with the ISO/IEC 27000 series of standards for IT security management.
Linda Tucci, FAQ: An introduction to the ISO 31000 risk management standard
Today's WhatIs.com Word of the Day is non-governmental organization.
Overheard talking about the Library of Medicine
|The Library's main portal for consumer health information is MedlinePlus, available in both English and Spanish. MedlinePlus has comprehensive, up-to-date, easy-to-read information on nearly 800 health topics. It also provides interactive health tutorials and a collection of surgery videos, as well as information about thousands of prescription, over-the-counter and herbal medicines.
David R. Donohue, M.A., NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE FACT SHEET
Today's WhatIs.com Word of the Day is National Library of Medicine.
Overheard talking about the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
|Our reliance on the conveniences of remote access, and the ability of our networked control systems to reduce costs and manpower needs, have led to weaknesses that are being exploited daily by our opponents.
Melissa Hathaway, Government Must Keep Pace with Cybersecurity Threats
Today's WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Cybersecurity Enhancement Act 2009. Melissa Hathaway does an excellent job summarizing all the cybersecurity legislation efforts currently in place.
Overheard talking about federal portfolio management
|The next time you start a project, begin by creating stakeholder groups, indentifying which stakeholder belongs to each group. Next, initiate the communications process with the main stakeholders before even launching the project. If you don't have a solid communications link with your stakeholders, then your project is poised for failure.
Danielle and Nelson Ruest, Communication with IT project stakeholders is key to success
Today's WhatIs.com Word of the Day is federal portfolio management.
Overheard talking about rugged IT
|Cisco says the new smart grid products are "ruggedized" for the electrical network, can tolerate higher and lower temperatures than its traditional network gear, include a high level of security, and can help integrate renewables, detect network outages and migrate older proprietary gear to IP network gear.
Katie Fehrenbacher, The Sleeping Giant Awakes: Cisco Launches First Smart Grid Products
Today's WhatIs.com Word of the Day is rugged IT.
If you've been wondering (like we have) what exactly networking giant Cisco planned to sell to utilities for the smart grid, ponder no longer. Cisco announced its first smart grid-specific products on Tuesday, including a router and grid switch, which are based on its traditional networking products but have been built specifically for the utility environment.
Overheard talking about SmartBUY government software procurement
|"If I could say one sentence to Barack Obama, it would be, 'Sir, our government's extreme reliance on outsourcing software development to third parties is a threat to national security.'"
Marcus Ranum, Should the Government Stop Outsourcing Code Development?
Today's WhatIs.com Word of the Day is SmartBUY.
"As an industry, we know how to provide security assurance in software and systems. But most of the time, we don't care; commercial software, as insecure as it is, is good enough for most purposes." – Bruce Schneier
Overheard talking about Peppermint
|Peppermint combines the base Linux operating system with a number of cloud-based applications and services. The result is a lightweight distribution, but with integrated access to some of the most popular online apps. Better yet, Peppermint uses Mozilla Labs Prism so the cloud-based software looks and acts like desktop software.
Matthew Humphries, Cloud-focused Peppermint Linux OS now available
Today's WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Peppermint.
Overheard talking about EU Transparency Directive
|All EU-wide legislation must be "transposed" into nation-specific law by the European Union's 27 member states; keeping those transpositions in harmony can be difficult, and the Transparency Directive is no exception.
Jeremy Woolfe, EU Transparency Directive Seeks to Reshape Reporting
Today's WhatIs.com Word of the Day is EU Transparency Directive.


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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart Man and the Natural World Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Yam, the king of crops, was a very exacting king. For three or four moons it demanded hard work and constant attention from cock-crow till the chickens went back to roost. The young tendrils were protected from earth-heat with rings of sisal leaves. As the rains became heavier the women planted maize, melons and beans between yam mounds. The yams were then staked, first with little sticks and later with tall and big tree branches. The women weeded the farm three times at definite periods in the life of the yams, neither early not late.
And now the rains had really come, so heavy and persistent that even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health. The personal dynamism required to counter the forces of these extremes of weather would be far too great for the human frame.
And so nature was not interfered with in the middle of the rainy season. Sometimes it poured down in such thick sheets of water that earth and sky seemed merged in one gray wetness. It was then uncertain whether the low rumbling of Amadiora's thunder came from above or below. At such times, in each of the countless thatched huts of Umuofia, children sat around their mother's cooking fire telling stories, or with their father in his obi warming themselves from a log fire, roasting and eating maize. It was a brief resting period between the exacting and arduous planting season and the equally exacting but light-hearted month of harvests. (4.35-37)
Yams require a good deal of attention to grow successfully. But the planting season is not all hard work and no play; the advent of the rainy season brings lots of eating, storytelling, and enjoyment of family company indoors. Rain is so crucial to their survival that the Umuofia associate it with the godly world.
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For three years Ikemefuna lived in Okonkwo's household and the elders of Umuofia seemed to have forgotten about him. He grew rapidly like a yam tendril in the rainy season, and was full of the sap of life. (7.1)
Because he is so closely tied to the earth, Ikemefuna's growth and development are described in terms of youth present in the natural world – yam tendrils and sap.
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Nwoye knew that it was right to be masculine and to be violent, but somehow he still preferred the stories that his mother used to tell, and which she no doubt still told to her younger children – stories of the tortoise and his wily ways, and of the bird eneke-nti-oba who challenged the whole world to a wrestling contest and was finally thrown by the cat. He remembered the story she often told of the quarrel between Earth and Sky long ago, and how Sky withheld rain for seven years, until crops withered and the dead could not be buried because the hoes broke on the stony Earth. At last Vulture was sent to plead with Sky, and to soften his heart with a song of the suffering of the sons of men. Whenever Nwoye's mother sang this song he felt carried away to the distant scene in the sky where Vulture, Earth's emissary, sang for mercy. At last Sky was moved to pity, and he gave to Vulture rain wrapped in leaves of coco-yam. But as he flew home his long talon pierced the leaves and the rain fell as it had never fallen before. And so heavily did it rain on Vulture that he did not return to deliver his message but flew to a distant land, from where he had espied a fire. And when he got there he found it was a man making a sacrifice. He warmed himself in the fire and ate the entrails. (7.3)
Nwoye is inexplicably drawn to stories that anthropomorphize nature and its creatures. The implication here seems to be that children – being innocent and pure in their youth – are naturally drawn to mother earth in all its wonder, even when it is only in words. There is something fantastic about imagining the natural elements and animals with human personas, it seems to draw connections between man and the natural world. These stories, to Nwoye, are more fascinating than the completely human-centered stories of violence and bloodshed.


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Don't these two look like mother and daughter? Lindsay Hohan and Muppet-faced Donatella Versace were both in Hollyweird at the 2009 Whitney Museum Gala. Jennifer Hudson and Chanel Iman were present also.
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Whether you're delivering a proof of concept to a client or simply sharing some work online, a watermark is often a good idea. A simple line of text with your name, website or the word "sample" covering the main design is enough to stop others plagiarising or stealing your work. Luckily you can now do this from anywhere, without the need for desktop software like Photoshop, using uMark Online – a browser-based alternative to uMark for Windows.
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There's a myriad of festive fun to be had in London this Christmas, but to get you started, here are a few suggestions for Christmas things to do in London.
Planning a trip? Browse Viator's London tours and things to do, London attractions, and London travel recommendations!
1) Christmas lights
London's shimmering decorations are some of the best in the world and none are as impressive as the Oxford Street display, in the heart of London. The official lights-on date is generally early November, marked by a celebrity studded ceremony and crowds of thousands. Past year's lights were switched on by British pop stars Robbie Williams and Leona Lewis, and viewing places will be ticketed so book your place now.
2) Kew Gardens
London's famous gardens get seriously festive from the end of November to January, with a range of activities for young and old. Take a free guided Winter Walk where you can marvel at the park's glittering Christmas decorations, enjoy a horse and carriage ride, or send kids off to meet Santa at his grotto. A vintage carousel, special Christmas gift shop and daily children's entertainment will also be featured.
3) Hit the ice
Hyde Park, Somerset House and Hampton Court Palace all host popular open-air ice rinks throughout the holidays, but if you fancy slipping and sliding beneath one of London's most popular historic landmarks, head to the Tower of London. The Tower's ice rink is generally open starting November and is nestled in the grounds of the dramatic fortress.
4) Reindeer petting
Santa's antlered pals will be greeting kids each Saturday until Christmas Eve in Covent Garden, and keeping Santa company in his grotto at London Zoo. Alternatively, head to the Winter Wonderland weekend in December at the London Wetland Centre, where fluffy Huskies will be pulling the sleighs and posing for photos instead.
5) Santa Run
Burn off some of those Christmas calories in the name of charity, by taking part in London's annual Santa Run. Held in December in Greenwich Park, over 1,000 runners will undertake a 5k run around London decked out in Santa suits (provided free if you raise over £100 for the World Cancer Research Fund).
6) Harrods Christmas World
The capital's ever-impressive Christmas shop displays make even window-shopping a festive experience, but for the ultimate in decadent decorations, pay a visit to the world-famous Harrods. The iconic department store hosts a 'Harrods Christmas World', with a Santa's Grotto, snowglobe village, gingerbread Harrods shop front and a replica Tower of London. If you can't afford the £1,299 box of luxury Christmas crackers, you can at least pick up a bauble or two as a souvenir.


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Communicating the Weather:
The "Garske Chart"
by Major David L. Martens, USAF
It is well understood that accurate weather information is essential to the Army's success on the battlefield. Armed with a good weather forecast, the battlefield commander can exploit the changing nature of the atmosphere to his advantage. Expert use of the weather can be a force multiplier that can turn defeat into victory and victory into rout.
However, it must be communicated in a simple, straightforward manner. Even the best weather forecast will be of little use if it cannot be effectively communicated to the commander and his staff. The weather teams supporting the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) employ an effective communications tool that can quickly put the maximum amount of weather intelligence into the hands of the division's key decisionmakers. This useful communications tool is known throughout the division as the "Garske Chart."
Describing the ChartNamed after its developer, Master Sergeant Don Garske (U.S. Air Force), the Garske Chart displays 24 hours-worth of weather data and analysis required by the division staff. The chart shows a time evolution of weather elements deemed critical to planning the full range of division operations. On a single Garske Chart, a weather forecaster can display the day's solar and lunar data, as well as cloud cover, visibility, wind, and temperature forecasts. The Chart also provides space for remarks related to the weather effects on electro-optical weapons and night vision device usage.
By using this Chart, the battle staff can determine - in a single glance - what time the weather forecaster expects the fog to break, how low the cloud ceilings will be, and how high the temperature will be during the afternoon. During a briefing, the staff weather officer uses the Garske Chart as a jumping-off point to open a dialogue with the battle staff concerning the weather's effect on division missions. The chart is useful in determining the best time of day to launch an air assault or to schedule a reconnaissance flight to best minimize the negative effects of the weather on friendly operations.
To date, the Garske Chart has proven to be the most effective way to communicate critically needed weather information to the division staff. It fuses weather intelligence into the planning cycle to maximize the division's effectiveness in a frequently hostile and uncooperative environment. Using the Garske Chart, the division battle staff is determined to make "Mother Nature" an asset and an ally in its quest for battlefield dominance.
Figure 1. The Garske Chart
Interpreting the Chart
The Garske Weather Chart (see Figure 1) is normally prepared in color. When this article is loaded on the Internet, it will have the full-color chart. The chart includes the following data:
- As of Date. This is the date the Weather Chart was created.
- AO Forecast and Date (or "D+ Day"). The weather data is valid in the area of operations for this day.
- ITO. This is the Integrated Tasking Order for the day that starts at 0600L (local time).
- Time. The two timelines depict information in 2-hour intervals for both Zulu (Z) and local (L) times for a 24-hour period. The hashmarks under the times on each line correspond to the times listed at the top of the Chart.
- Solar Data. A black box depicts darkness, a gray one for twilight, and a yellow box for sunlight. BMNT (beginning morning nautical twilight), sunrise, sunset, and EENT (end evening nautical twilight) are listed, in that order, in local time.
- Lunar Data. The hours of moonlight are depicted by a blue box, with moonrise and moonset listed on each side of the box. The percentage of illumination is listed inside the blue box.
- NVG. The night vision goggle window displays the best time for NVG use. This row depicts the NVG window as a green box and shows the exact start and stop times on each side of the box. The criteria for the window are a moon elevation of at least 30 degrees and moon illumination of at least 26 percent.
- Electro-Optics. A purple box shows the forward-looking infrared (FLIR) window. A red line depicts the thermal crossover between the target and the background. The blank areas on each side of the red line correspond to times unfavorable for FLIR use (times when the temperatures of the target and background are within 2 degrees of each other). The FLIR window depicts the best time to use electro-optical systems. Thermal crossover refers to the worst time to use electro-optical systems (times when the targets cannot be distinguished from the background because their temperatures are equal).
- Sky Condition. This line shows the cloud coverage in terms of how many clouds are present in the sky. The altitudes of the cloud bases are given in hundreds of feet. There are five categories of cloud cover shown in the chart:
SKC (sky clear) refers to a cloudless sky.
FEW refers to cloud coverage of 1/8-2/8 of the sky.
SCT (scattered) refers to clouds present in 3/8-4/8 of the sky.
BKN (broken) refers to cloud coverage in 5/8-7/8 of the sky.
OVC (overcast) refers to solid clouds (over 8/8). A cloud level (in hundreds of feet) of 005 indicates that the base of the cloud is at 500 feet, 030 is 3,000 feet, and 200 means that the base of the clouds is at 20,000 feet above sea level.
- Winds. Winds are listed with the direction from which they are blowing and their exact speed in knots. Wind direction is based on a 360-degree circle. Figure 1 shows winds from a direction of 220 degrees (SW) at 10 knots.
- Visibility. The exact visibility is listed in miles. If there are any restrictions to visibility; the restrictor is stated after the visibility; e.g., 3 MILES FOG, 2 MILES SNOW, or 1 MILE BLDU (blowing dust).
- Temp.This line shows the temperature in 2-hour increments, either in degrees Celsius (C) or degrees Fahrenheit (F).
- Snow Depth. This is the average snow depth in valleys and on mountains (MTNS) for which operations are planned.
- Hazards. This line lists all the weather hazards that will affect operations. Turbulence is depicted as TURBC with intensities depicted as LGT (light), MDT (moderate), or SVR (severe). The altitude where the turbulence is present is given in hundreds of feet after the word TURBC. (On Figure 1, it is from the surface (SFC) to 10,000 feet.) Icing (ICG) has the same levels of intensity as were listed for turbulence, and the altitudes at which icing may occur are given in hundreds of feet. Thunderstorms are shown as TSTMS; it is assumed that lightning will be present for the duration of the thunderstorms. The freezing level (FRZ LVL) altitude is given in hundreds of feet. The time during which the hazards will take place are depicted by solid lines on each side of the hazard description. If there are no lines, the hazard will take place for the entire 24-hour period. Weather advisories and warnings may also be listed here, but they are usually disseminated by other means.
- Sea State. This gives the state of the sea as 1 (green), 2 (amber), or 3 (red). These sea states are based on U.S. Navy descriptions; the states incorporate such factors as wave height and wind speed. This information is used primarily for Joint-Logistics-Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) and amphibious operations.
- Color Legend. The color legend in Figure 1 shows what the various colors mean.
The "Screaming Eagle" Weather Chart was developed as a tool for use in the mission planning process. It depicts all of the weather data significant to Army operations for a 24-hour period. Most importantly, it allows the commander to determine, at a glance, how the weather will influence future operations.
Major David Martens is the Director of Weather Operations at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and also serves as the Staff Weather Officer in the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). He has served as a Weather Officer in the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at Hill Air Force Base (AFB), Utah, and the Operations Officer, Seventh Air Force Weather Support Unitat, Osan Air Base, Korea. MAJ Martens worked in the Readiness Support Section of the Environmental Technical Applications Center, Scott AFB, Illinois, where he co-authored a study of the climatology of South America. He returned to Korea in 1994 to serve as officer in charge of the Theater Forecast Unit, Yongsan Army Installation, Seoul, Korea. He has a bachelor of science degree in Meteorology from the State University of New York at Oswego and has a master of science degree in Climatology from Utah State University. Readers may contact him via E-mail at [email protected] and telephonically at (502) 798-2519 or DSN 635-2519.


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Muslim Surveillance Shows Tensions Between NYPD, FBI
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A trip to a New Jersey mosque by a Federal Bureau of Investigation official was postponed Thursday, but the planned visit still underscored a rift between law enforcement agencies over the surveillance of Muslim groups.
Michael Ward, the head of the FBI in New Jersey, said the planned visit to a mosque in Paterson was meant to repair relations with local Muslim leaders amid the fallout from reported surveillance by the New York Police Department. The decision to postpone the visit was made by the mosque's leaders.
The mosque has been identified as a target of NYPD surveillance in documents. A call seeking comment on the leaders' decision to postpone the visit was not immediately returned.
Ward told reporters Wednesday that the NYPD's monitoring had damaged the good relationships law enforcement officials had built in the local Muslim community since Sept. 11, 2001.
"When people pull back cooperation, it creates additional risks, it creates blind spots," he said. "It hinders our ability to have our finger on the pulse of what's going on around the state, and thus it causes problems and makes the job of the Joint Terrorism Task Force much, much harder."
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg responded to Ward's comments Thursday at a conference in Chicago, praising his police force as the best in the world and pledging not to "let our guard down." He said the NYPD has a "daunting task" and has to be perfect every day to prevent terrorism.
The dispute over surveillance has laid bare tensions between the FBI and NYPD that have existed for years. But it also proved how New York and New Jersey view police spying programs differently 10 years after the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks.
Muslim leaders in New Jersey have been vocal in their criticism of the NYPD's activities and planned to hold a news conference Thursday to renew demands for a formal investigation by state and federal authorities
Attorney General Eric Holder also said Thursday that he is disturbed by reports of the NYPD's monitoring of mosques and Islamic student organizations in New Jersey. "At least what I've read publicly, and again, just what I've read in the newspapers, is disturbing," he said at a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing.
Holder said the Justice Department is reviewing the matter, including letters from New Jersey officials complaining that they were kept in the dark about the surveillance.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, asked Holder how a law enforcement agency could spy on another state's residents without notifying authorities.
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When it comes to first impressions at hotels, minibars play a major role, says Simon Westcott, Asia-Pacific managing director for Mr & Mrs Smith, a boutique-hotel booking specialist that's similar to hotels.com. In fact, hotels now battle it out to offer the best in-room amenities. Today, guest-room extras — often for a fee, of course — can range from a selection of local organic fare to miniature vending machines that offer up deodorant and Champagne to a miniature in-room sweets shop.
"A great minibar says: Yes, welcome indeed, and enjoy our little cabinet of curiosities," says Mr. Westcott. Were he to design one, it would include these top five picks.
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Yesterday, I had an incredibly powerful yoga class. I spent the entire class practically wtih my eyes closed. It wasn't intentional at first but then had great meaning for me. We started with a little flow and then stopped with eyes closed to "set an intention" as my teacher says. I closed my eyes and had some tears come out. I decided on this early early morning (I do yoga at 6 AM), I was going to search inward for the light, for the joy. That I could not attach to finding that in the stressful situations before me. That no matter how Zubin does on the steroids or if and when he deteriorates to a wheelchair, that no matter how he does in school or if we feel we get what we need there, that joy is not something I can wait for from these things. I have to search inward and get joy from within. And so I closed my eyes and set my intention, to search for the light and peace within.
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A New Way to Think of Lovingkindness
This post originally appeared in the author's blog Mindful Mothering on December 7, 2011.
Happy Valentine's Day!
I still have thoughts swimming from David Whyte's workshop and one was on this idea of lovingkindness. That is not how he described it but he speaks of the essence of how we nurture ourselves. He suggests that we are the only part of creation that is allowed to deny itself, ie a tree or flower do not get to deny their essence but we as humans, constantly deny or reject parts of ourselves that we are dissatisfied with. And so this idea of how to nurture ourselves is cast aside by our self-criticism. Read more


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Ever since Yehudah Hamaccabi and his small band of fighters defeated the mighty Greek army, and a tiny flask of pure oil burned miraculously for eight days, Chanukah has been known as a time of wonders. Throughout the ages, Jews all over the world have made great sacrifices in order to fulfill the mitzvah of lighting the menorah, even if it meant putting their lives in danger. In turn, the flickering candles inspired them and gave them the courage to keep their faith despite the trials they were faced with again and again. In A Tale of Two Wagons, Raizy Kessler has collected and retold a group of classic stories that take us from the small shtetl in Poland to the battlefields of World War l, from the victims of the Cossack hordes to the inmates of the Nazi camps, with tales of courage and commitment to the Chanukah lights.
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VINCENT - A rainbow appeared in the heavens after Warren rallied to defeat visiting Marietta 2-1 in overtime in a boys' soccer sectional final Saturday.
A good sign for the Warriors? Perhaps.
Warren, the Southeastern Ohio Athletic League co-champion with a 12-2-4 overall record, will now advance and play Lancaster Fairfield Union (7-3-6) in a district semifinal at Lucasville Valley at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The Shane Perdew-coached Falcons defeated Washington Court House (6-7-2) , 3-0, in a Division 2 sectional tilt in Rushville on Saturday.
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Warren's Eli Duff (21) goes after the ball, which Marietta's Andrew Roberts, right, is trying to clear out during sectional final boys' soccer action at Warren High School Saturday. On the ground between the two players is injured Holden Weihl of Marietta. The Warriors rallied to win 2-1 in overtime.
MIKE MILLER Special to The Times
Marietta defenders' Brennan Uhrig (9) and Holden Weihl, right, have Warren striker Ty Kroner (2) sandwiched in during sectional final boys' soccer action at Warren High School Saturday. The Warriors rallied to win 2-1 in overtime.
"You know that when it's a Marietta-Warren game, it's going to be 2-1 or 1-0," said second-year Warriors' head coach Andrew Johnson. "That 5-2 game doesn't usually happen."
During regular-season play, Warren beat Marietta, 5-2 in Vincent, and also lost to the Tigers, 1-0, at Don Drumm Stadium.
"Neither team was 100 percent," Johnson continued. "Their best player Brent Huck was hurt, and I was missing one of my better players in Alex Miller. It was just gut-check time. Both teams gave everything they had. It just a great game all the way around.
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Warren 2,
Marietta 1 OT
Sectional final, at Vincent
Marietta (11-4-3) 1 0 0 - 1
Warren (12-2-4) 0 1 1 - 2
1st half
M: Owen LaBarre, unassisted, 14th minute
2nd half
W: Eli Duff, unassisted, 63rd minute
W: Evan Yabs (match winner), unassisted, 83rd minute
Team stats
Shots: M 5, W 21
Keeper saves: M (Eric Pierce) 13, W (Cody Stanley) 2
Corner kicks: M 0, W 7
Next match: Warren vs. Fairfield Union in district semifinal at Valley at 7 p.m. Tuesday
Eli Duff scored the equalizer in the second half, and Evan Yabs got the match-winner early in overtime for Warren, which trailed 1-0 at the intermission.
Owen LaBarre had the only score for the East Central Ohio League repeat champion Tigers, who exit with an 11-4-3 overall mark.
"It's tough," said MHS head coach Todd Morris. "I thought we had the game in hand 1-0, but give Warren credit for coming back. They defended their home field. They finished, and we wish them the best of luck going forward."
Warren went on the attack early, and gave Marietta keeper Eric Pierce a workout between the pipes. Pierce, a junior, finished the contest with 13 saves.
"Eric was busy," Morris said. "They (Warren) kept a lot of pressure on us, and they did what they needed to do to advance. We just came up a little short."
At the 26:08 mark, MHS attempted its first shot on goal, and it was a good one as LaBarre drilled it past Warren goalie Cody Stanley to make it 1-0.
Then, just before the break, Marietta's Jacob Holdren slipped one into the back of the net, but the score was nullified due to an offsides.
"That was a big momentum swing," Morris said. "Obviously 2-0 is much better than 1-0.
"And, you know, we could never get that second goal to put them away."
Warren, no doubt, felt fortunate to be trailing by only one at halftime.
"I brought my boys aside and said to them, 'Look. Look at the seniors. This is the last time they'll play together,'" Johnson said. "So, this team went out in the second half and rose to the occasion."
Still offensive-minded in the second half, Warren finally tied the score at 1-all when Duff beat Pierce with a hard shot in the 63rd minute.
"I was just there and was able to finish it after the ball bounced off the keeper," said Duff who had a hat trick in the 5-2 win over Marietta.
Said Johnson, "If every player on the team had a heart that Eli Duff has, we might not ever lose a game. He'll give everything for me. You need those 'glue players' to come up big."
Yabs, another glue player and a defensive mid, scored 2 minutes and 21 seconds into the extra session to give the Warriors the sudden death victory.
"I think Ben (Koch) crossed the ball, and they (Marietta) cleared it out," said Yabs of his winning score. "And when they did that, the ball came right to me, and I kicked it with my left foot. I really didn't kick it that hard, but it went in. That's all that matters, I guess."


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LONDON: As Prime Minister David Cameron sealed his UK coalition deal with Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats he signed up one more ally: Mervyn King.
The Bank of England Governor on Wednesday endorsed Cameron's plans to cut the record budget deficit after discussing the government's proposals in a morning telephone conversation with the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. The new government plans an emergency budget within two months.


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Granddaughter responds to road name debate
In the letter, Frede let it be known that she would be opposed to removing her grandparent's name from the sign. She wrote, "The family of Irving and Rose Rosenberg have no objection to sharing the name of this road with my grandparents' old friends, the Segar family. However, we would object most strenuously to all record of our grandparents' names being erased. My grandparents were very involved in the life of the local community during the many years they lived there; it was their primary residence, even though they also maintained a small apartment in New York City, they voted and paid taxes as Bethel residents. We do still own property on the road that was originally named for them, and if we or our children choose to build another home there, it would be very sad indeed if the name of our grandparents was no longer honored as it had been for so many years."
Bethel supervisor Dan Sturm said the he was hesitant to change the name before, and now that he has received the letter he is even more convinced that it should not be changed. He said that if every time new residents moved onto a road and wanted to change the name, before long the town's history would be gone.
Frede provided several documents including a tax bill that bore the address Rosenberg Road. Sturm has forwarded the letter to the other board members.
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SIKESTON -- It can be a struggle -- and big cost -- for companies to fill open positions.
To help alleviate some of that burden, the Sikeston Area Chamber of Commerce informed its members Wednesday about a job skills assessment program, WorkKeys.
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One less view from Iraq MAR 22 2003
Kevin Sites, a CNN correspondent currently in Iraq covering the war, was "asked to suspend" writing for his weblog. It's unclear who asked him to stop. Most likely it was CNN, but could have been his wife for all we know. Many folks are disappointed because news from Iraq that is unfiltered by major news organizations is hard to come by and is a welcome addition to the regular coverage.
Some people in the discussion thread that accompanies his final post are flipping out a little bit...and unnecessarily so. If CNN did tell him to stop, it's not a case of corporate censorship or crushing the little guy (jeez, talk about paranoia). Kevin is over in Iraq on CNN's payroll and probably has a contract that doesn't allow him to report on the war for anyone else, even for himself.
Hopefully he and CNN can come to an agreement to let him keep blogging from Iraq, either on his site or on CNN.com. It would be a good thing for CNN to do to generate some goodwill among online news readers and to give an innovative, experienced correspondent a little freedom to explore new methods of war reporting.
There's an additional angle here concerning the nature of weblogs and other online writing. When looking at weblogs in a legal sense, is a weblog a personal diary or is it journalism? If Kevin's site is a personal diary, CNN might not have any right to make him stop, contract or not. But given his occupation and the simple fact that he is publishing information on an open network for anyone to read, that seems to make it journalism. As it stands now, many webloggers want the best of both worlds: the legal protection and benefits offered to journalists combined with the flexibility and freedom of keeping a personal diary. It will be interesting to see how (or if) this changes in the future.


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Above ground basement shopcomments (0) July 17th, 2011 in Workshop Floor Plans, DreamShop Spring Challenge
Shop Specs
- Location: Spotslyvania, Virginia, USA
- Size: 345sq. ft.
- Type: Basement
- Focus: Furniture
- Heating/Cooling: Central AC and Heating
I'm trying to use just half the basement. The inside door is actually strips of plastic hanging from the top of the door frame. This keeps the dust out but makes it easy to move through the door when your hands are full.
The sliding door leads to a patio and my back yard. Give's me some natural light and a little scenery when working at my bench.
My work flow is from the inside door to the workbench. I store wood and projects drying just outside the this door.
Just outside the inner door I have a small drafting table; this is also where I keep my shop references.
The center and back of the room is for machining. The table saw being the center piece. I have a common dust collector under my general bench (this is also my table saw out feed bench) with hoses along the floor. However, the hoses do not cross where you normally walk. I'm able to do this because all the equipment it supports is central to the table saw. I do have a shop-vac under my general table that supports my miter saw, band saw and shop cleaning. Being under the table also keeps the vac noise down.
At the far end of the shop opposite the inner door is assemble and detail work. Here my workbench is next to a wall where my hand tools are stored and support tools and consumables for non machinery work.
To give me more counter workspace, I mounted a kitchen counter top along one wall. This is where the miter saw, bench drill press and bench mortiser sit. Under this counter I have storage for wood and some small power tools.
I joined to mechanic cabinets on wheels and mounted my dimensional planer on it. This gives me a movable platform for my planer and tons of storage drawers as well as a place next to the table saw and router extension to store blades and router accessories.
My band saw is on wheels so this enable me to roll it from the corner when I need it. This enables me to have a large clear area between the table at the end of the table saw and my workbench.
For safety I keep my shop chemicals in a dedicated cabinet outside the shop. The only chemicals in the shop are what I am currently using. However I keep my adhesives and glues in the shop all the time.
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Locals head east for disaster relief
SAN DIEGO Firefighters and Red Cross workers from San Diego County have headed to the East Coast to help with the disaster relief efforts wreaked by superstorm Sandy.
Four firefighters were sent from San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, one from Chula Vista and one from San Marcos. The first responders were picked for their specialties in incident management, such as logistics, communications and information technology, said San Diego fire spokesman Maurice Luque.
The deployments began Sunday. The first firefighters who left were flown to Herndon, Va.
The firefighters will join incident management teams and won't be part of actual searches and rescues.
The requests for aid come through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and California's Emergency Management Assistance Compact, a system that allows states to send help to disaster relief efforts in other areas.
Other members of California's Urban Search & Rescue Incident Support Teams are coming from Riverside, Los Angeles and Orange County, according to the governor's office.
The American Red Cross of San Diego and Imperial Counties sent two staff members ahead of the storm. Teri Klemchuk has been serving in Delaware, initially coordinating media coverage and getting out the message of preparedness to residents before the storm struck.
"This is bigger than one organization," Klemchuk said Tuesday. "Last night we had almost 11,000 people in our shelters. We had 250 shelters across 16 states."
Rick Hinrichs, San Diego's disaster services director, was sent to New York, where he is leading an operation.
Other San Diego volunteers have been reporting their availability, should they need to be deployed in the coming days, said spokeswoman Courtney Pendleton.
Monetary donations for the relief effort can be made at redcross.org.


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to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in
the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams. For more social
media snippets, follow her on @emodkate – or for general twittery,
week: This week: judges can Google; the Conservative's Great Social
Media Adventure; and marketing on Chatroulette… in Lycra. Plus: we'd
still love your feedback on these updates: tweet Yay! or Boo! to
@emodkate. It'll take ten seconds, promise.�
So: after months of tossing and turning; of agonized grimaces and broken
nights, Google has finally pulled the tooth that was ailing it, and quit
China: an April 10 pullout is mooted. In an effort to continue
offering uncensored results to its Chinese users (and not at all to
cling on to the revenue potential attached to 800 million Chinese
internet users – don't be ridiculous), Google began redirecting
users to their uncensored Hong Kong site, announcing that they'd be
'carefully monitoring access issues'.
Sure enough, the Chinese government began
disabling certain search results, and China's national mobile
provider dropped
Google as its default search engine. Chinese netizens found
themselves back where they first began: censored. But to be perfectly
frank, they don't seem all
that fussed. China's increasingly affluent middle class have, till
now, been avid Googlers; but even amongst this key constituency there
was little sympathy for Google's position, with many, according to the
Telegraph, feeling that the company had been disrespectful of local
mores, a feeling even
more pronounced amongst 'mainstream' Chinese. So when, for a short
while on Tuesday morning, Google's corporate pages were displayed in
Chinese, many
cried 'hack' – despite Google's protestations.
Meanwhile, Dell and Go Daddy want to join the
Leavin' Train, with the latter telling a US Congress committee
hearing that the company no longer had the stomach for
domain-registrations in China, where new regulations now demand photo ID
from anyone registering a .cn domain.
But Westside, Google's self-penned profile as 'stout defender of
internet freedoms' is increasingly under scrutiny. Co-founder Sergey
Brin's Guardian interview, in which he positioned Google as Poster Corp.
for digital liberation whilst berating Microsoft for working within
China's rules, got backs
a-bristling: several commentators pointed out that this was
Google's own strategy until – ooh, three months ago?
Fred Teng in the
Huffington Post, meanwhile, calls for tolerance for China, whose
journey from feudal island to globally-connected digital nation has, he
points out, been laudably swift.
There's not many matters in this world upon which we can all agree – but
the proposition 'Nestle's week has been a bit …meh' might, I suspect,
one of them. Item: their Facebook page was targeted by Greenpeace.
Item: their response went from 'placatory' to 'I'm deleting yo'
account', then dashed back to 'I never meant to hurt you' – in what felt
like moments, with bystanders gazing on in open-mouthed horror. At
the time of going to press, Nestle's Facebook page was best described as
sit-in – and this painful episode can't fail to spotlight the huge
variation in the quality of brands' moderation policies. Jake McKee has
some useful thoughts here
– upon which we were delighted to comment.
Brace yourselves – Facebook's latest
privacy battle could have huge implications for all UGC platforms,
potentially shifting the responsibility for protecting personal privacy
away from users, and onto social networks. European regulators are
investigating whether the privacy of people whose photos and videos are
posted on social networks is being habitually breached.
There's been a deal of huffing
and puffing about the upcoming 'Social Media Election', with BBC
journalists explaining Twitter to social slowpokes, and expounding
on how both parties are utilizing it to sway voters. Facebook launched a
new page called Democracy
UK, where its posting news of a political nature for all and
sundry to comment upon);
ITN hosted live
online debate during their budget special; and new
tools for tracking party-political
sentiment – like Yomego's,
pictured here – are being launched Left, Right and Centre.
The Tories were first out of the gate: it emerged
that they were outpacing Labour on Facebook by a 'connection' ratio
of two to one. Alas, their social success went straight to their
heads and, minded to build upon their initial victory, they launched a rather
snazzy Facebook campaign which incorporated a Twitter feed of the
hashtag #cashgordon. Alas, opponents discovered that the feed was entirely
unmoderated, and took the opportunity to bombard the site with an
awful lot of – how to put it? – brand-negative comments. Worse still,
they discovered that the site didn't strip html, allowing those
less-than-positive reviews to really, you know, shine
out. The website was removed later that day.
Meanwhile, Gordon Brown has described 'superfast'
broadband as the "electricity of the digital age". Outlining
Labour's plans, he promised ziptastic speeds for every citizen, as well
as a webpage through which to manage their interactions with local
government – a proposal which, according to the government, could slash
billions from the public service budget, and generate a quarter of a
million jobs.�
Best not to mention, then, the ongoing
brouhaha over the government's plans for our digital future which,
it must be said, are not meeting with unqualified support. �
Following a tip-off from the FBI, French police
arrested the man responsible for hacking Barack
Obama's Twitter account late last year – then released him, after
he claimed that, far from being a master-criminal, he'd simply guessed the
President's password (His birthday? "ThePrezz"? or [gulp].. "password?"). All rather embarrassing
for the man they're calling the first president of the digital age.�
Then, in an intriguing instance of plot-thickening, ReadWriteWeb
revealed unconfirmed reports that the hacker was the very same
bounder who leaked Twitter's confidential business plans to TechCrunch,
who chose to publish them, despite a flurry of controversy.�
Truth is, there's not much in digital life that can
truthfully be called 'secure' – this was the takeaway from the annual
Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest security show, which challenges
hackers (sorry, 'security experts') to break into a roster of everyday
devices and software. This year, the scallywags succeeded in hacking
into nearly every major browser (Safari, Firefox and IE8), as well as
stealing the entire SMS database of a non-jailbroken iPhone.
Eew. Director of Public Health Peter Kelly this
week claimed that the rise of social networking has produced an
alarming spike in reported cases of syphilis. Sites like Facebook,
he said, were "making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex,"
and several of the syphilis cases he'd seen "had met sexual partners
through these sites." Facebook, understandably keen to quash the 'ridiculous'
idea, pointed out that correlation is not quite the same as causation. Nevertheless – yikes.�
Ah, hindsight is always 20:20; foresight – not so
much. All the more impressive, then, is the
inspired guess made by Nik Tyler, who a year ago registered three
domain names: ipaddownload.com, ipaddownloads.com and ipaddownloads.net.
They are now on the market; a million bucks will snag all three.�
You have your lycra tiger-suit ready? And your scary
clown-mask? Good, then we'll begin our 'Marketing on Chatroulette' 101,
as taught by Stage
Two Consulting. They advise marketing execs wishing to explore the
potential of the latest social craze to "have several masks/outfits
available in case the occasion arises." Bless.
Facebook's Gross
National Happiness Index has landed in the UK, revealing the
emotional ineptitude of the average Brit in all its glory – we are, it
seems, only really free with our emotions in the matter of family, TV
and the Weather. Disappointingly, the Index focuses on extremes of
emotion – happiness, or sadness – and so fails to track those
sentiments which, in my experience, are most frequently demonstrated by
we Brits: 'mild annoyance', 'qualified enthusiasm', and
This is genuinely rather impressive – Franklin Page, a
fleet-of-thumb employee of text-software company Swype, has beaten the
World Record for texting at speed: you can watch and marvel here.
Huzzah – the astonishing and bizarre viral clip of a Russian
lounge singer warbling something called 'Trololo' has been given
it's own iPhone app! If you've not yet had the pleasure, do take a look:
you will be tickled pink, or horribly disturbed – one or t'other. �
Online dating is now so mainstream an activity that
it's now bigger than the online adult industry, and is worth a humungous
one billion dollars per year, according to this new
infographic from Online Schools.
A US federal appeals court has ruled
that a judge who is unsure about a matter of common knowledge may use
Google. Never again will a member of the bench be flummoxed by the name
of a popular beat combo. �
are predicting that Apple will bite 40% of the tablet and e-reader
market this year, sending shares zooming. And the iPad is already
attracting high-end and big-name
advertisers to its apps, causing ripples of relief to bloom
throughout an anxious ad industry. The New York Times reporting that the
going rate is anywhere between $75,000 and $300,000, and adds that it's already sold its first two
months of post-launch inventory.�
in Japan will be using Nintendo DS's in class before the end of the
year, the education authorities there having spotted the platforms
wealth of educational titles.�
Global web use continues its relentless
upward trajectory, with users on average spending 5.5 hours on
social networks last month – up more than two hours on the previous
year's figures.�
New data
from Hitwise suggests that users who come to news sites via
Facebook are more loyal than those who are directed by Google news.
And finally, stop counting those Twitter stats. New
research finds very little correlation between Twitter counts and
actual influence – so there. �
That's all folks!


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Borrowing From Family to Pay for College
By AnnaMaria Andriotis
With a few weeks left until the new school year begins, families with college-bound children are preparing to pay hefty tuition bills. As we point out in the Weekend Investor cover story, "You Paid For College How?," some families are turning to alternative methods to cover these costs.
Interest rates on federal loans run up to 7.9% and rates on private student loans as high as 16%, making them costlier than most consumer loans. In some cases, rather than turning to a bank, families are setting up their own loans with grandparents or parents becoming the lender.
Here's a rundown of how so-called intrafamily loans work.
Intrafamily Loans
Rate: 0.25% to 2.23%
Dan Weedin and his wife Barb faced roughly $30,000 in out-of-pocket college costs for their two children last year. To help fill in the gap, Mr. Weedin, an insurance consultant, says they turned to his parents who lent them $15,000. The Weedins repaid them in full earlier this year. "It was similar to having a line of credit but with a much friendlier lender," he says.
Financial planners say more families are turning to each other for loans rather than going to a bank. The math can work in their favor. Borrowers pay less interest when compared to federal or private loans. And parents could earn a higher return from this loan than they would in a savings account or money-market fund.
With intrafamily loans, the Internal Revenue Service requires the lender to charge interest, but at a rate lower than what most banks charge. Known as the Applicable Federal Rate, the August rate is 0.25% for loans of up to three years, 0.88% for loans of more than three but less than nine years and 2.23% for loans with a longer duration.
Lending money to children can pose risks in particular for the family dynamics. If borrowers don't repay the loan, that could ultimately mess up relations. Parents should be clear about how repayment will work before giving the loan, says Shomari Hearn, a certified financial planner at Palisades Hudson Financial Group in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. They should include the loan amount, interest rate and repayment schedule in a formal written contract, he says.
They should also discuss penalties if the child stops repaying the loan, such as holding back on future monetary gifts or inheritance.