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The Real Avengers Will Save the Stock Market
Somebody needs to do a mash-up of this immediately. Take that image from the Avengers you've seen plastered all over the place — the one with the gang of heroes standing in a tight circle in front of Grand Central — only, instead of Robert Downey, Mark Ruffalo, and Scarlett Johannsen, we see Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, and William Dudley.
Or maybe Mario Draghi. Or Mervyn King. You get the idea.
There was a dramatic turnaround overnight in the markets, which seemed on the verge of a serious sell-off. The Dow futures were down 176. S&P futures were within spitting distance of 1340. The euro was plunging, pushed under the $1.30 mark.
Then, the selling stopped. The markets turned around. In France, the epicenter of one of Europe's twin electoral earthquakes, stocks actually climbed into the green. The euro held at $1.30. S&P futures held. By the time the opening bell rang on the NYSE, it all seemed like a bad dream.
What happened? A few things.
For one thing, the elections' outcomes were widely expected. There was some surprise at the level of thumping the ruling parties took in Greece, but not at the thumping itself.
Secondly, there was a technical save. In the futures market, traders seized on better-than-expected German factory orders. Forget for a second whether or not that's a legitimate fundamental reason. The news hit as the S&P futures were near key levels; traders seized upon the news, made a stand, and held 1340. A similar stand was made in the euro at $1.30 (although the reasons are still being debated.)
We're also talking about relatively thin markets, which can lend itself to wild swings like this.
But above all this stands those central-bank avengers, those market heroes that have held everything together, with printing presses rather than magic hammers or flying suits of armor. Much as the central bankers want the politicians to pick up the magic hammer, the flying suit, and set things straight, that hasn't happened. Given events in Europe this weekend, that is less likely now.
Which leaves the world's central bankers. The market still believes in them, in Ben Bernanke and his band of merry bankers. They've got history on their side, and as Bernanke himself said at his last press conference, everything is still on the proverbial table.
In the end, all the market wants is stability, and it still believes the Fed will provide it.


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Over the decades, leading Santa Clara County defense attorney Dennis Lempert has been known as Dennis Lempert, Dennis A. Lempert and Dennis Alan Lempert.
But now that he's running for judge against a deputy district attorney -- D.A. in courthouse shorthand -- his ballot statement lists him as D.A. Lempert. On purpose. Lempert's modified his handle to, as he puts it, "level the playing field."
"I'm not making any misrepresentation," Lempert said. "That is in fact my name."
Lempert contends the public blindly regards prosecutors to be good judge material, regardless of their actual experience in the District Attorney's Office. He too has worked as a prosecutor and even a reserve cop. He argues he's handled a wider variety of criminal cases than his opponent, Deputy District Attorney Julianne Sylva.
Lempert has handled capital murder trials and even argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Santa Clara County Bar Association narrowly endorsed Lempert over Sylva in what is expected to be a close race.
Sylva, meanwhile, says she has other things to offer, including valuable experience in "therapeutic courts" -- drug and mental health cases -- and in family court handling child abduction matters.
"There are people who just do evil," Sylva said, "and then there are people who commit felony errors and people who are troubled or broken. If those people in our courts get another chance, get counseling, you're fixing the problem that is driving the crime."
Sounds like a different kind of D.A. -- a defense attorney. It's a philosophy Lempert may well have embraced long ago.
Honda turns down chance to debate Khanna, others
Is Rep. Mike Honda afraid to debate his campaign opponents?
Honda has passed on a televised debate with his 17th Congressional District rivals that would double as the San Francisco Chronicle's pre-endorsement interview, a campaign spokesman said last week.
Spokesman Vivek Kembaiyan declared that Honda will participate only in a May 3 League of Women Voters-sponsored "debate" in Fremont, which all of the other candidates for his district seat have also been invited to attend.
But the organizers aren't calling that a debate. They bill it as a "forum." Candidates won't have any opportunity to question or respond to each other directly.
Honda's Democratic challenger, Ro Khanna, for months has been urging Honda to take part in debates. He has agreed to take part in the debate with the Chronicle, KPIX-TV and KCBS radio. The debate will be conducted at KPIX's studios in San Francisco on April 16, April 17 or April 23.
The format will include opening and closing statements from the candidates as well as questions from local media panelists, voters and the candidates themselves.
"Residents of the 17th District will benefit from an open debate, moderated by members of the local media, about who is the best candidate to address the unique challenges and opportunities facing our community," Khanna said in a statement.
Cortese poll lends insight into his mayoral campaign
Nothing lends more insight into how a candidate is planning a campaign than a long poll.
Such was the case recently when one of our readers recorded a 12-minute questionnaire asked by a pollster on behalf of Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese, who is running for San Jose mayor.
The first set of questions was largely straightforward: Would you be more or less likely to vote for Cortese if you heard he fought for the Strong Neighborhoods Initiative and invested millions in schools? What about his support of the $10 minimum wage? If you heard he supported mass transit or saved taxpayer dollars, what then?
The second set was on vaguer themes: Would you be more or less likely to vote for Cortese if you heard he would repair the relationship between City Hall and employees? What if you learned he wanted "fair compensation" for police who put their life on the line?
Finally, the pollster tested one or two negative themes. If you heard a candidate had allowed government pensions to spiral out of control, what then? If you heard that a candidate was "the hand-picked candidate of special interests who are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to help that candidate," would you be more or less likely to support that person?
By process of elimination, you might guess Cortese is testing out themes against Councilman Sam Liccardo, the leader in fundraising, or even Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen, who is in second place.
But more likely he is testing possible attacks on himself. None of the three candidates really qualifies as the "hand-picked candidate of special interests," though Cortese has labor backing. Then again, politics is a strange business.
S.J. library tax foes focus on lack of porn filters
The opponents of the measure that would extend San Jose's expiring library parcel tax say in their official ballot argument that the initiative should be rejected because it would help children watch porn.
"Children's computers in San Jose libraries do not protect our children from graphic sexual pictures," the argument begins. "Pornographic images are available to our children on the computers in the children's section of the San Jose Libraries."
It notes the San Jose City Council in 2009 voted against spending money on technology that would filter pornography out of the children's section of city libraries, as is done at county libraries. City leaders said it would be costly and ineffective and the issue was being overblown.
Now, opponents of Measure B -- which needs two-thirds voter approval to extend the $30-per-home library tax -- say taxpayers shouldn't give libraries any more money until the porn is filtered out.
Though the critics' sentiments about library porn filtering are sincere, you could sense an air of political payback as well. Those who penned the opposition argument include Larry Pegram, president of the Values Advocacy Council, who had led the charge to filter porn in city libraries in 2009, citing incidents of men hunched over hard-core nakedness on screens plainly visible to kids walking by. He didn't get much sympathy then from Jane Light, who was head librarian and now leads the campaign to extend the library tax.
Joining Pegram in opposition are pornography addiction specialist Mary Anne Fitfield, parent Oretta Rodriguez, teacher Sue Sheffield and Moreland School District trustee Robert Varich.
Library tax supporters haven't addressed porn in the public discussions about the measure or in their official argument backing the initiative. They say the funding is necessary to avoid closing library branches and laying off librarians.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. Some history was made Thursday out in Bowling Green, and one local athlete was the one causing the stir.
Clay County junior to be Tyler "Chip" McDaniel won the 2013 Kentucky State Amateur golf championship, shooting a 203 13-under for the tournament, and winning the event by six strokes. McDaniel becomes the youngest golfer to ever win the Kentucky State Amateur championship.
"It makes me feel like I'm a part of history," says McDaniel. "It feels pretty awesome to be considered that good at that age. It's a feeling of relief and happiness, especially after last year's bad blood. I put myself in contention again and I got the job done this time and it felt great."
McDaniel won the Kentucky State Amateur championship by six strokes, beating out Patrick Newcomb who finished in second. There were several golfers in this year's event from the coverage area; Pikeville's Will Branham finished one over par; David Snyder of Somerset shot a four-over 220; and Matt Gann of Pineville finished tied for 31st with a seven over par. This year's state amateur championship was held at the Bowling Green Country Club in Bowling Green.


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>Significant services (which may need duplication or conflict
>resolution between Unix and AD):
In general, we (MIT CSAIL) pretty much ignore Windows DNS. The DCs
run it, because AD requires it, but we don't consider it
authoritative. All users have Kerberos principals in the
CSAIL.MIT.EDU realm, which has one-way cross-realm (because of the DES
issue) into the AD realm. User accounts in AD have completely random
passwords and are created to grant firstname.lastname@example.com (and
sometimes firstname.lastname@example.com if the user needs it for business
reasons) login access to the AD account. We distribute a .reg file
for workstation users to run prior to joining the domain which creates
the right registry entries for users to log in directly to the
CSAIL.MIT.EDU realm, and domain member workstations handle this
correctly. No services that matter to non-Windows machines run on
Windows, so their service principals are in the CSAIL.MIT.EDU realm.
>Forward DNS -- I suspect you serve separate DNS domains from BIND
>vice AD servers
Correct. The real DNS (driven from our WebDNS application and its
database) is authoritative. Windows DNS is just there to make Windows
>Reverse DNS -- Which platform gets which IP numbers, i.e. do you mix
>or segregate them?
IP addresses are assigned first-fit per subnet. Subnets are a
combination of geographically- and function-based assignment.
>DHCP -- 1 or 2 DHCP services, provided by which? Does DHCP care
>about platform?
We don't use Windows DHCP.
>DynDNS -- How is this integrated with DHCP (plus the above question).
We don't support dynamic DNS at all, and tell all Windows users to
uncheck that option in their settings. (I don't know if the AD group
policy enforces this.)
>Kerberos -- krb5.conf or DNS SRV?
We support both. Windows machines are using the registry, of course.
(We do distribute a custom krb5.conf with our customized package of
>advertised DNS servers -- BIND, DC, mix, pre-configured or DHCP
We want people to use our name servers, but I have no idea whether AD
member workstations actually do. (The NS records are set up
appropriately so AD names can be looked up.) Non-AD-member Windows
machines definitely do. We tell all users to use DHCP.
>cross-realm -- [domain_realm] section or DNS records maintained?
Again, we do both (for the limited selection of realms we support
cross-realm with -- this is really only necessary for the
ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm).
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Jim Cerny
Along with hosting Rangers Radio, Jim Cerny is currently in his third season as the beat writer for NewYorkRangers.com, and he also pens the NHL blog, Jim Cerny's Rink Rap.
Jim has covered the National Hockey League as a member of the media since 1989, and has been a fixture at Madison Square Garden for many of those years, including the Stanley Cup-winning season of 1993-94 when he was with the Rangers every step on their historic journey. Jim has worked a total of five Stanley Cup Finals, four NHL All Star Games, and the Canada Cup and World Cup of Hockey tournaments in his career.
He spent four years hosting the talk show "Rink Rap" in New York in the early 1990's before becoming the play-by-play voice of the Islanders in 1997. Jim later co-hosted the talk show "NHL Live" on Sirius-XM, the NHL Network, and nhl.com, and covered the league as a reporter for The New York Times.
You can follow Jim's current NHL work on Twitter, http://twitter.com/JimCerny.
Steven Gelbs
Along with hosting Rangers Radio, Steven Gelbs is currently working as a reporter for MSG Varsity. You can catch Steven manning the sidelines in Brooklyn and the Bronx, as well as reporting for Mike Quick's weekly show, A Quick :60.
Steven spent the last four years in Syracuse, NY, covering Syracuse University Football, Basketball and Lacrosse for WAER-FM. He has also spent parts of the last two years working with "The Hockey Maven," Stan Fischler, on various projects.
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Preparing for the 2014 Save Mount Diablo Scholastic Photo Contest, 11-year-old Annie McClain said it best: "I believe we should save Mt. Diablo because Mt. Diablo is incredibly beautiful and has animals who depend on their home there."
The Lafayette resident and Stanley Middle School student continued, in an email, naming the wild plants and trees that "find their home" on the Contra Costa County landmark. "If we took that away, the whole eco-system would be impacted negatively," she warned.
The annual contest, open to all K-12 students in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, supports the nonprofit organization's efforts to preserve and restore open space for people and wildlife. With a $1,000 Apple store gift card as the grand prize, winning submissions on exhibit in Walnut Creek and published in Diablo Magazine, iPod nanos, gift certificates for field photography tip sessions, pizzas and more, Annie says she's trying to show the mountain's beauty once again.
Last year, her image of two geese soaring in silhouette against a gray, textured sky won the contest's wildlife category. Her mother, Wendy McClain, said participating in the contest was a catalyst: looking through a lens revealed the mountain's essence. Adventures on the mountain were gifts for the entire family, as they re-engaged with the park.
Scott Hein, nature photographer, contest judge and Save Mt. Diablo's board president, said he was amazed at the quality of last year's entries. A minor amount of professional, respectful envy leaked out in his second comment: "There were many images that I would have been pleased to have captured myself."
Photography and a passion for protecting the natural world are intertwined for Hein, who said becoming a better nature photographer requires more than deft camera handling. Spending time outdoors, sharing environmental and conservation awareness with other nature enthusiasts, and discovering subjects of interest are the primary techniques for producing pivotal, provocative imagery, according to Hein.
Award-winning wildlife photographer Hank Perry, returning for his second year as one of the three-judge panel (Robert Picton of Jessamyn Photography is the third), appreciated the artistic and compositional talent of 2013's winning photographs. "Instead of just recording or depicting something, they wished to describe it somehow," he recalled. "I am inspired when photographers of all ages wish to tell me something with their photos."
An online photo gallery of the 2013 winning images at the Save Mt. Diablo website tells a compelling story. From brilliant sun rays spilling into a cavernous, rock-framed "window" (Chandler Dunn's "Sunset City") to the heart-stopping, gold-orange glow of a California poppy (Kristine Manalo, untitled) to McClain's flying duet ("Geese"), the mountain's vigorous endurance seems irrevocable. And the creative energy of young minds, engaged with nature, just as powerful.
But Perry said awareness and appreciation for Mount Diablo has to compete with "the bandwidth in well-intentioned peoples' lives."
Taking pictures in nature helps him to remain aware of the environment, despite the manmade distractions we all encounter.
"This year, it's my wish that we create a stronger connection between the contest and the battle for open space which is our future," he said. "It all fits together for me -- great educational systems, stunning open spaces, and people who care about striking a balance between the constant need for growth and the need to preserve."
In the end, the mountain isn't owned by the contest's sponsors, judges, and young photographers -- or even Mount Diablo's many supporters. As last year's Morgan Fire proved, the forces of nature will determine a great deal about the East Bay landmark. But that doesn't mean mankind can't play a vital, supporting role in its future.
A voluntary donation on the photo entry form and an auction of the winning art work at SMD's 13th annual "Moonlight on the Mountain" in September--new additions this year--will continue the careful, committed work of preserving Mt. Diablo's beauty.
For complete contest rules, entry information and answers to FAQ's, visit http://www.savemountdiablocontest.com/
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Last night we brought you word of report in British press of an unnamed Romney foreign policy advisor claiming Romney had edge over Obama because of that "Anglo-Saxon" thing (see below). Romney camp today disputes account, claiming fella couldn't have said it, or in any case was not speaking for the campaign. But still: Who is he? One of my sources in London says that he is getting tips that it is one Nile Gardiner, from the Heritage Foundation, a frequent Fox News talking head and critic of Obama. Unconfirmed, of course. Wikipedia reveals that he a frequent contributor to the newspaper that got the scoop--the Telegraph. His Heritage bio here.
Update: Gardiner denies it, to Wash Post's Greg Sargent, but says he did talk to reporter. Then again, would he confirm it?
Update 2: Now Talking Points Memo reporter talks to Romney staffer who says no retraction or correction requested--and the Telegraph confirms it has received no such request.


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Get To Know: Andrew Ebbett
Friday, 02.5.2010 / 1:07 PM CT / Minnesota Wild | Features
By Glen Andresen - Manager of Social Media
Wild.com: What was your favorite part about going to school at Michigan?
Andrew Ebbett: Oh man. I think the whole small-town feel on the campus was my favorite part. Everyone thinks it's such a big school, but it's pretty compact and everybody comes together for the football games on Saturdays. It's kind of a tight-knit campus.
Wild.com: Were you big into the football scene there?
AE: Yeah, usually at the start of the season in September. That was kind of the football time for us.
Wild.com: Michigan has more players in the NHL than any other school. How has that happened?
AE: I think it shows a lot for what Red Berenson has done and the way he's run his program. He likes getting guys ready for the pros, and he runs the team like a professional team in college.
Wild.com: Did that help your transition, because you didn't spend much time in the minors?
AE: Definitely it helped. It seems like every night, I'm running into a guy that's played at Michigan so it's fun to see.
Wild.com: You live in British Columbia. Is there any chance of you going to take in some of the Olympics in person?
AE: No, I'm not going back this year. I think it's going to be a little too crazy. My dad drives his delivery truck back and forth to Vancouver a couple days a week, so he's not looking forward to the Olympics. His schedule is all messed up. It's going to be a crazy couple weeks in B.C.
Wild.com: Besides hockey, what sport do you think you'll end up watching during the Olympics?
AE: I like the new Snocross stuff…the snowboarding and skiing when they race down the hill. I like the bobsledding too. They're always fun to watch.
Wild.com: Other than hockey, what's your best sport?
AE: I played a lot of lacrosse when I was younger, but I kind of quit that when I moved into junior hockey. Now, it's probably golf, but it's more of a practice sport. The more I play, the better I get, but I'm trying to make that my best hobby.
Wild.com: What's your favorite part of the Twin Cities so far?
AE: We've been on the road so much, it seems like I haven't had any time to do anything. I do like the different restaurants. But honestly, coming to the rink is my favorite part. Even before I came here, this has been my favorite rink to play in. To be on the home side of this atmosphere has been a blast.
Wild.com: What is it about here that stands out more than other arenas?
AE: I think it's the hockey knowledge that the fans have here. It reminds me of playing up in Canada. The fans know so much, with 18,000 people here, they groan and they cheer when they're supposed to. It's a fun place to play.
Wild.com: You have a great crowd, but do you still have any pump-up music?
AE: I'm a pretty easy-going guy, but I guess I'd go with a little rock-and-roll. I'm not a big rap guy. I'm pretty low-key. I usually don't get too fired up until we go out there for the start of the game.
Wild.com: On Wild.com, we recently did a Wild look-alike feature, but we couldn't find anybody for you. Is there anybody out there that you look like?
AE: (laughs) There's a guy on the PGA Tour that a lot of my buddies say I look like. His name is Aaron Baddeley. I guess when he wears a hat, we have the same kind of look. I kind of see it when I look at some of the pictures.
Wild.com: You seem like such a nice guy, but so far this year, Ed Jovanovski has been suspended for a hit on you, and T.J. Oshie probably should have been for a slew-foot move on you. What are you doing to anger these guys so much?
AE: (laughs) I wish I knew. I don't know, maybe I'm just a little lighter on my feet and smaller on the ice so I get the forearms or the elbows.
Wild.com: So it's not a case of you trash-talking them until they snap?
AE: No, I'm pretty quiet on the ice. You're not going to see me trash talk too much unless there's more dirty plays like that.


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App.net just announced a major new file API, but this isn't just "a Twitter alternative adds photo sharing". Since last year's launch, this is perhaps the first major step App.net has taken to truly become a platform, not just for messaging, but everything. Let me backup a second.
App.net is a platform for doing stuff online. That's it, that's the elevator pitch. It just so happens that the first in-house app they built to attract attention and help show off what will be possible is a public messaging service. It is a safe, easily digestible demo, thanks to years of Facebook and Twitter.
Then it launched a messaging API—it's similar to public messaging, not too much of a mind bender, though it takes some interesting extra steps. There's support for private messages, chat rooms, and group texting. There is also a "notification fabric" that seems like a much better tool for "let me know when my dryer's done" use cases; the decreasingly nerdy and impersonal stuff that people have so far pulled off with dedicated Twitter accounts.
This new file API is the first App.net announcement that should really blow some minds. It sounds like one part Dropbox or iCloud, one part Facebook Apps (sans the slimy tactics and privacy woes because it's a paid platform), and a sprinkling of CloudApp. All current (paid) users get 10GB of free space, and the new file API allows for some wild stuff.
A basic implementation, which App.net already built into its demo messaging client at alpha.app.net, is photo storage and sharing. But the new file API can power applications that store data in your App.net account, publicly share any type of file, play online or app-powered games, let you collaborate and edit files with friends, and more. Think about that—many of these tasks typically require you to signup with and bounce between two or more services, each with their own terms, features, and rules. They are also often ad-supported so you and even your data are up for grabs.
Granted, it's the early days, and App.net already faces an uphill battle. We live in a world where companies have long given everything away for free to attract users, then turned around and made terrible, user-hostile decisions down the road once it's time to actually start paying bills. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, and users have proven to be suckers for forgiving. App.net avoids that entire problem by building a great platform and offering it for a reasonable price.
There's a tremendous amount of potential in App.net, particularly today's announcement, and I'm excited to see how developers bring it to life. After all, at App.net, developers and users rule. In fact, they're the only rulers.


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In what could be the next buzzword, J AHIMA has an article on the experience of one Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO): '...The pilot project was not without obstacles. One of the most difficult was, and continues to be, overcoming the organization-centric mentality of the leaders of stakeholder organizations. Hospitals and reference laboratories often find it difficult to see any value in participating in community initiatives by offering access to their own information system, especially when they must pay to support the network's information infrastructure. However, physicians and their offices strongly prefer a single point for accessing patient data—they do not want to visit multiple Web sites, maintain multiple user accounts, and learn different applications. In addition, it is impossible to create a true continuity of care record when healthcare systems remain independent. After the two hospitals in the pilot program began delivering results to physicians electronically, the physicians pushed nonparticipating hospitals to join the community initiative...' The article mentions that they had to lash together proprietary systems using HL7, some of which did not support HL7. What specific software's used was not mentioned.
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|Luis Suarez of Liverpool
A strange weekend for those of us who follow the beautiful game with a passion bordering on the romantic as Manchester United lifted another league title, Alex Ferguson defied his age, Robin Van Persie scored an incredible goal and Luis Suarez defiled his sport. Again.
So let's start with the action at Anfield on Sunday where Liverpool came from behind to snatch a 2-1 draw courtesy of the Uruguayan striker Suarez, a contender for player of the year in the Premier League this season.
Suarez popped up with a clinical header right at the death to snatch a point for Liverpool and dent Chelsea's Champions League hopes for next season.
The goal typified everything that is good about Suarez. His competitive nature ensured he was fighting until the final whistle on Sunday.
His sense of positioning had him in the right place at the right time. His instinct got his head onto the ball at just the right moment to steer it past Petr Cech in the Chelsea goal.
That header should have been the only reason to remember Luis Suarez for his contribution to the Reds vs. Blues clash on Merseyside. Instead it was long forgotten by the time the final whistle blew – seconds later!
The abiding memory of Suarez's Sunday will revolve around his decision to bite the Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic after he was held back as they contested a ball inside the box.
The referee didn't see the bite so there was nothing he could do about it when Ivanovic and the goalkeeper Petr Cech complained.
But this is the modern age – and television caught it all.
Within seconds Sky TV were replaying the incident. Within minutes it was all over Twitter and all over the world.
The pathetic actions of the Liverpool player were rightly exposed for all to see. And now it gets interesting.
On Sunday night his employers fined Suarez and his manager insisted no player is bigger than the club. On Monday, the FA charged him with violent conduct and admitted that the regulation three game ban isn't sufficient in these circumstances.
The same day, Liverpool announced they have no inclination to sell him before his contract expires three years from now.
Ivanovic declined the offer to press charges. And the players' union offered Suarez an anger management course. Sad.
Luis Suarez has been an accident waiting to happen for years. He bit another player during his time at Ajax.
He deliberately handled the ball on the line during a World Cup quarterfinal against Ghana in South Africa. And he racially abused Patrice Evra last season.
Sure, he is a great player, a really great player as his goal proved again on Sunday. But he is no role model. He is no character for kids to reference.
Contrast his demeanor on Sunday with the magnificence of Robin Van Persie as Manchester United clinched a 20th English title with a 3-0 win over the struggling Aston Villa at Old Trafford.
United won thanks to a hat-trick from Van Persie -- no saint in his time by the way -- and the second goal was quite something to behold as he volleyed a brilliant pass from Wayne Rooney past a helpless Brad Guzan.
That goal alone would make it a memorable season for the Dutchman, but the sheer joy on his face when he was interviewed after the first league medal of his career proved why football is the beautiful game.
So did the spring in Alex Ferguson's step after his 38th trophy as Manchester United manager. Now in his 71st year, Fergie offered no hint at retirement as Old Trafford applauded their heroes.
Instead he joked, "Look at me – it's taken 10 years off me today. It's these tablets, they're great!"
Asked about Van Persie's stunning second goal, he said, "It's the goal of the century for me. It was a marvelous hit, head down, over the ball, perfect timing -- a magnificent strike."
Ferguson's exuberance and Van Persie's happiness were in such contrast to the actions of Suarez on our television screens just over 24 hours earlier.
The Scot was a man without a care in the world on Monday night, but he will have empathized with his Liverpool counterpart Brendan Rogers on Sunday evening.


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Birth Exemptions:
For those who are planning a hospital birth but want to evade invasive routine post natal procedures such as a Hep B shot, vitamin K injection, newborn screening, or the application of silver nitrate in the newborn's eyes, a very specific birthing plan must be submitted to the hospital in advance of the birth. Hospital staff must be informed, in advance, of your needs, wants and desires where your baby and birthing experience are concerned. The same applies to midwives.
Birth Plans (To be used with hospitals and/or midwives)
(Links to model birth plan letters)
Model Birth Plan Letter for Hospital Births. You can attach an exemption from immunizations. In some states, there are religious exemptions from newborn screening tests such as PKU, etc...
Information on the Dangers of Hospital Birth and the Benefits of Home Birth from gentlebirth.org
Our best and most itemized birthplan:
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(HTML) BirthPlan-Itemized for reading on screen. Includes handy small dictionary of terms in the document.
(.doc) Model Letter for Hospital Births (Model11425.doc)
Model Birth Plan Letter for Hospital Births. This one is more detailed.
(.doc) Model letter for hospital births 2.doc (11426)
Model Birth Plan Letter for Hospital Births for an adopted child...
Model letter for hospital births for adoptions -- Dear Doctor and Medical Staff.doc (11427)
(.doc) Model letter for hospital births for adoptions.doc
"Refusal to Permit Medical Treatment" form
A generic form.
(.pdf) letters/refusal_treatment.pdf
It would be good idea to use the AFFIDAVIT below AND a model birth plan letter from above above.
Affidavit - Birth Exemptions
HTML (simple text) Affidavit to modify.
AFFIDAVIT in Microsoft Word (.doc) format. (may be modified)
If your Title and Paragraph number of your state law is not pasted above, click here for the link to your state law.
Vitamin K Injection...
The Question of Vitamin K for Newborns
"Essentially all human infants are born with very low blood levels of vitamin K and, since low amounts of vitamin K crosses into breast milk, levels remain low for several weeks after birth in breastfed babies. The purpose of this natural, universal experience of low vitamin K levels in newborns is not known. ..."
"Mouse and epidemiologic studies indicate that the neonatal "deficiency" of vitamin K, which promotes cell turnover, may actually protect the developing fetus from damaging substances that "escape the primary placental screen."
Read the rest of the article here:
The prescribing information on Vitamin K shot states that fatalities are an adverse reaction according to the Merck pharmaceutical package insert.
"The injectable form of vitamin K can rarely cause severe (sometimes fatal) allergic reactions when given by injection into a muscle or vein. Therefore, vitamin K should be injected into a muscle or vein only when it cannot be given by injection under the skin or taken by mouth, or when your doctor has judged that the benefit is greater than the risk. Seek immediate medical attention if you experience symptoms of an allergic reaction such as rash, itching, swelling, dizziness, or trouble breathing."Potential exists for the newborn to experience hypersensitivity to any component of this medication.
Each milliliter contains: Phytonadione ............. 2 mg or 10 mg
Inactive ingredients:
Polyoxyethylated fatty acid derivative ................... 70 mg
Dextrose...................................................................... 37.5 mg
Water for Injection, q.s. .................................................. 1 mL
Added as preservative: Benzyl alcohol ...................... 0.9%
Links to prescribing information for Vitamin K:
Archive: Year 2002 Merck Vitamin K Package Insert - Aquamephyton PI | posted on Scribd
Alternatives to Vitamin K Prophylaxis...
Although oral vitamin K is not licensed for use as a drug by the FDA, drops for oral administration are available. Typically, one drop contains 2 mg. of vitamin K. Contact a midwife in your area, or a birthing supply company (such as birthwithlove.com), or Scientific Botanicals (206 527-5521) where your health care provider can order liquid vitamin K directly.
Here's another much safer alternative that your chiropractor or naturopath can order for you.
Or buy direct from Amazon.com:
A good organic whole food diet along with lots of leafy green vegetables is all that is necessary to prevent vitamin K deficiency in newborns.
Hepatitis B Vaccine
Most states now require the Hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Many parents are also cornered by emergency room personnel during accident visits. Hospitals nationally are under pressure to utilize every opportunity to score a "hit." If your pediatrician understands your views, get him involved with the hospital. As a last resort, protect your right to receive quality care in by asking hospital personal to sign the following waiver. Usually, you'll never find anybody in the hospital to sign this simple form, but you well get relief from demands to vaccinate your child.
"I certify that the (Name of Vaccine)________ vaccine being administered to (Name of Child)_________ is free from all known and yet unknown zoonotic or human viruses or viral fragments and will not cause acute or chronic illness in the recipient due to viral contamination or as a reaction to the components of this vaccine. (Signature of Physician and Date)_________."
If you do get a signature, hold on to the form.
See Birth Plans for more information on avoiding Hep B Vaccination at birth
Some states require Prophylaxis against Gonococcal OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
A discussion of medical and legal issues regarding Silver Nitrate in the eyes of the newborn is here:
PDF file: Statutory Law USA: Requiring Silver Nitrate in Eyes of Newborns at: http://www.rbs2.com/SilvNitr.pdf
Written by Dr. Ronald B. Standler, attorney in Massachusetts and consultant
Blog type discussion of pros and cons of eyedrops for newborn is here: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/20050.html
New Born Screening
U.S. states now require screening of newborn babies for specific diseases.
Religious Exemption from newborn screening allowed.
Mass. Acts, Chap. 111 § 10A
May I refuse these tests?
Most states have specific laws regarding newborn screening. In Massachusetts you may refuse for religious reasons. If you do so, you may be asked to sign a refusal form. This form relieves your doctor of liability for damages that result from a disorder that could have been detected by screening.
Chapter 111: Section 110A Tests of newborn children for treatable disorders or diseases Section 110A. The physician attending a newborn child shall cause said child to be subjected to tests for phenylketonuria, cretinism and such other specifically treatable genetic or biochemical disorders or treatable infectious diseases which may be determined by testing as specified by the commissioner. The commissioner may convene an advisory committee on newborn screening to assist him in determining which tests are necessary. The department shall make such rules pertaining to such tests as accepted medical practice shall indicate. The provisions of this section shall not apply if the parents of such child object thereto on the grounds that such test conflicts with their religious tenets and practices.
Hearing Screening...
Statute: Sec. 67F. Such test shall not be performed if the parents or guardian of the newborn infant object to the test based upon the sincerely held religious beliefs of the parent or guardian. [Source: Chapter 243 of the Acts of 1998]
Conditions and legal status of "requirement" of newborn to be screened for each state:
National Newborn Screening Status Report - http://genes-r-us.uthscsa.edu/nbsdisorders.pdf
Newborn Genetic Screening Privacy Laws
(includes links to laws for various states)
Archived Copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20130603035608/http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/newborn-genetic-and-metabolic-screening-laws.aspx
Newborn screening From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Federal NewBorn Screening Law (from Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy)
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Waivers - Take Care In SigningIf you take your new baby to an MD as opposed to a naturopath and/or chiropractor, please be aware of and careful of any forms you sign.
Our WARNING below is about signing (some) state approved and AAP created forms. See this letter from our director, Ingri Cassel, before you consider signing waiver forms.
A modified AAP form is posted here that you may wish to use with your doctor: AAPmodified.htm
AAPmodified.doc MSWord .DOC file | AAPmodified.pdf PDF file, best for printing.
Not all State employees are aware of the law and many exhibit the Hitler Complex. Take a firm stand. Some individuals have had difficulty getting the required forms. Such arrogance on the part of State employees should be reported to the Director of your state Department of Health.
AnaiRhoads.org Why Signing a Waiver to Avoid Vaccines Can Be Considered Abuse
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Letters Forms AffidavitsLinks to Model birth plan letters (above).
Link to Refusal to Permit Medical Treatment form
Links to Affidavit - Birth
An Adult Affidavit, with Christian beliefs, is here. (MSDOC file) Feel free to modify as needed.
Dr. Tenpenny has the following forms on her web site. The forms are generic and may be used in any state.
Affidavit for Parents Participating in International Adoption (Word) (pdf)
Hep B vaccine in hospital for newborn refusal, sample (pdf)
OSHA Declination Statement Form (also, pdf)
Religious exemption letter that was approved in Florida (Word) (pdf)
School Vaccine Exemption Form, sample (Word) (pdf)
TB testing refusal, sample (pdf)
Childcare and School Immunization Requirements
Sample Vaccine Letters. from www.vaccines.bizland.com/letters.htm archived on VacLib.org/letters/doctor.htm
Short Sample Vaccine Letter
Most states now require the Hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Many parents are also cornered by emergency room personnel during accident visits. Hospitals nationally are under pressure to utilize every opportunity to score a "hit." If your pediatrician understands your views, get him involved with the hospital. As a last resort, protect your right to receive quality care in the following manner. (Usually, you'll never find anybody in the hospital to sign this simple form):
"I certify that the (Name of Vaccine)________ vaccine being administered to (Name of Child)_________ is free from all known and yet unknown zoonotic or human viruses or viral fragments and will not cause acute or chronic illness in the recipient due to viral contamination or as a reaction to the components of this vaccine. (Signature of Physician and Date)_________."
If you do get a signature, hold on to the form.
The ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY is imperative in exercising your rights for legal exemptions from forced medical experimentation and legalized bioterrorism. DO be prepared to fight for your baby's rights!
An index page to various Acceptance of Responsibility) forms is here:
. http://www.vaclib.org/legal/accept.htm
Religious exemption forms will be listed below under Daycare Schools Colleges
Did not find your state exemption form on our site?
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DayCare | Preschool | K thru 12 | Colleges
State form required: NO 1) a medical exemption is allowed if a physician submits documentation attesting that an immunization is medically contraindicated; and
2) a religious exemption is allowed if a parent or guardian submits a written statement that immunizations conflict with their sincere religious beliefs.
See below under schools for a suggested letter:
See below under schools for a suggested letter:
Kindergarten & Schools
1) a medical exemption is allowed if a physician submits documentation attesting that an immunization is medically contraindicated; and
2) a religious exemption is allowed if a parent or guardian submits a written statement that immunizations conflict with their sincere religious beliefs.
[Short Form]
Notice of Religious Exemption to Vaccinations To whom this may concern, We, parents names, are exempting our child, (child's name,)___________________ from all vaccinations because it conflicts with our sincerely held religious belief.
Exceptions: MGL 76, &15.
1) Upon certification that a doctor has personally examined the child and found "that his health would be endangered by such vaccination or by any of such immunizations."
2) No "child whose parent or guardian states in writing that vaccination or immunization conflicts with sincere religious beliefs shall be required to present" the certificate in order to be admitted.
Exemption does not require the objecting persons to be a member of a recognized church or religious denomination. Dallo v. Board of Education, 358 Mass 753, 267 NE 2d 219
220.500: Immunization Requirements for Preschool, Elementary, Middle and High School Students
(C) The requirements in 105 CMR 220.500 (A) and (B) shall not apply:
_________________________ Name(s) of Parent(s)
A longer form to download that you may modify as you see fit:
(.doc) VaccineTruth.net/letters/AFFIDAVIT for Massachusetts Older Child.doc
220.600: Immunization Requirements for Postsecondary Students
Here are the laws that pertain to Post Secondary Schools (colleges and universities)
They are in PDF and .RTF format, as PROOF that your son is allowed religious exemption. It should be downloaded and printed out.
(.pdf) http://www.lawlib.state.ma.us/source/mass/cmr/cmrtext/105CMR220.pdf
(.rtf) http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/docs/dph/regs/105cmr220.rtf
(Religious exemption is mentioned on page 3)
M.G.L. - Chapter 76, Section 15c
(CMR = Code of Massachusetts Regulations)
(Exemption Information)
Suggested letter follows:
Notice of Religious Exemption to Vaccinationsbr>
NAME of SCHOOL ____________________________
As per General Laws of Massachusetts chapter 76, section 15C (Vaccination and Immunization; Exceptions by Reason of Physical Condition or Religious Belief) I am exempting myself from vaccination because it conflicts with my sincerely held religious belief.
Title 105 CMR 220.600: Immunization Requirements for Postsecondary Students
(D) The requirements of 105 CMR 220.600 shall not apply where:
(1) the student provides written documentation that he or she meets the standards for medical or religious exemption set forth in M.G.L. c. 76, § 15C;
_____________________ ________________
Name/Signature of Student
Long Form letter that should be edited if you use it:
(.doc) AFFIDAVIT for Massachusetts Adult (college religious exemption) M.G.L. c. 76, ss 15C;.doc
MDPH Information about Meningococcal Disease and Vaccination from Mass.Gov and
Waiver for Students at Residential Schools and Colleges
Waiver is at bottom of page 2.
Tufts University
MDPH Meningococcal Information and Waiver Form
Waiver for Students at Residential Schools and Colleges
(.pdf) http://ase.tufts.edu/healthservice/documents/meningococcalVacc.pdf
(.pdf) Meningococcal Disease and Vaccine Information and Waiver PDF
Other Immunization Forms listed by Shool:
Andover Newton Theological School
MDPH Meningococcal Information and Waiver Form
See the Registrar for information about waiving this requirement.
Pine Manor College
MDPH Meningococcal Information and Waiver Form
Waiver for Students at Residential Schools and Colleges
Waiver on page 2
(.pdf) http://www.pmc.edu/Websites/pmc/Images/health_wellness/MeningWaiver.pdf
University of Massachusetts Amherst
MDPH Meningococcal Information and Waiver Form
Waiver for Students at Residential Schools and Colleges
Waiver on page 2
(.pdf) hhttp://www.umass.edu/uhs/uploads/basicContentWidget/9376/101-011%20nsip%20form%20Mar2013.pdf
Waiver is on page 2 of the pdf file. You will need to submit your statement of religious exemption for other required vaccines.
Bridgewater State College
MDPH Meningococcal Information and Waiver Form
Waiver for Students at Residential Schools and Colleges
Waiver on pages 1 and 4
(.doc) http://www.bridgew.edu/HealthServices/Health%20Form%20and%20Meningitis%20Waiver.doc
Fitchburg State College - 160 Pearl St., Fitchburg MA
MDPH Meningococcal Information and Waiver Form
Waiver for Students at Residential Schools and Colleges
Waiver on page 2
(.pdf) http://www.fitchburgstate.edu/uploads/files/HealthServices/MeningococcalInfoWaiver.pdf
Boston College
MDPH Meningococcal Information and Waiver Form and Health Form
Waiver for Students at Residential Schools and Colleges on page 6
(.pdf) http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/offices/uhs/pdf/waiver052007.pdf
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Official Decline of Meningococcal Vaccine
(.pdf) http://www.gordonconwell.edu/hamilton/current/documents/hamreg_immu_mening_waiv.pdf
Amherst College
MDPH Meningococcal Information and Waiver Form and Health Form
Waiver for Students at Residential Schools and Colleges on page 2
(.pdf) New Student Immunization Form Fall 2012 image - Amherst College
Wellesley College
MDPH Meningococcal Information and Waiver Form (page 11) and Health Form
Waiver for Students at Residential Schools and Colleges on page 2
(.pdf) http://www.wellesley.edu/sites/default/files/assets/health_history_2013_0.pdf
Applicable law has been interpreted to mean that a religious belief is subject to protection even though no religious group espouses such beliefs or the fact that the religious group to which the individual professes to belong may not advocate or require such belief. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended Nov. 1, 1980; Part 1605.1-Guidelines on Discrimination Because of Religion.
Our legal rights are guaranteed by the free exercise clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. States can only go against this if they can prove a compelling state interest is at stake. But recent court decisions have upheld the rights of individuals seeking exemptions from immunizations based upon "personal" religious beliefs. [Sherr and Levy vs. Northport East-Northport Union Free School District, 672 F. Supp. 81, (E.D.N.Y., 1987); Allanson vs. Clinton Central School District, U.S.. District Court, Northern District Court, Northern District of New York (84 CV 174), 1984; Campain vs. Marlboro Central School District, Supreme Court Ulster County Special Term, November 15, 1985; Brown vs. City School District, 429 NYS2d 355; Maier vs. Besser, 73 Misc.2d 241].
On the U.S. Supreme Court level in Frazee v. Illinois Dept. of Security, 489 U.S. 829, 1989, it was found that a state may not deny an exemption simply because a person is not a member of a formal religious organization. In addition, the Supreme Court has noted that nontraditional beliefs, including secular humanism, atheism, and nontheistic faiths, are all "religion" for the purpose of free exercise analysis. The Supreme Court in Fowler v. Rhode Island, 345 U.S. 67 (1953) held that it was "no business of the courts to say what is a religious practice or activity for one group is not religion under the protection of the First Amendment."
Section 15C. No full-time student under thirty years of age or any full-time or part-time undergraduate or graduate students in a health science who is in contact with patients shall, except as hereinafter provided, be registered at an institution of higher education except upon presentation of a medical certificate that such student has been immunized against measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus and diphtheria; provided, however, that a student may be registered at such institution upon certification made, in writing, by a physician who has personally examined such student and in whose opinion the physical condition of such student is such that his health would be endangered by any such immunization; and provided, further, that students who have attended an elementary or secondary school in the commonwealth may submit a copy of their school immunization record, indicating receipt of the above required immunizations, in lieu of such certificate; and provided, further, that unimmunized students may be registered on the condition that the required immunizations be obtained within ten days of registration.* Nowhere in the above text does it mention that a letter from clergy is required.
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE HEALTH SERVICES (forms)
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002-3359
Waiver for Meningococcal Vaccination Requirement on page 8
(.pdf) http://www.hampshire.edu/newstudent_newsletter/2012_New_Student_Health_and_Counseling_Forms.pdf
http://www.emerson.edu/sites/default/files/Files/StudentLife/health-center-meningococcal-info-waiver.pdf Emerson College Center for Health and Wellness
Meningitis Information and Vaccination Waiver - Required for all Undergraduate Students**
(.pdf) health-center-meningococcal-info-waiver.pdf
For other vaccines...
Emerson College Center for Health and Wellness
(.pdf) health-center-religious-exemption.pdf
For all other colleges vaccine requirements (MMR, tetanus, Hepatitis B):
Use the letter at Colleges or you can modify this AFFIDAVIT. Be sure to cite the law at the bottom of the affidavit. Edit to satisfy the college or university requirements.
(.doc) AFFIDAVIT for Massachusetts Adult (college religious exemption) M.G.L. c. 76, ss 15C;.doc
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OptOutRegistry for VaccinesVaccine Registry Opt-Outs:
and various other Opt-Outs
Sharing Your Immunization Information (MIIS)
Objection (or Withdrawal of Objection) Form
Confidentiality of Your Child's Vaccination Records
FERPA: The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- - - - Other Opt-Outs - - - -:
Birth Certificate and Marriage License Opt-Out:
Did you know that you can REFUSE to sign the hospital birth certificates and that there is no law that requires you to do so?
See: Marriage Licenses, Birth Certificates & #SSNs
Military Recruiters:
STUDENT OPT OUT FORM regarding the
(.pdf) Archived letter from www.militaryfreeschools.org
(.doc) Archived on VacLib.org: http://veterans4peace.org/opt_out.doc
Act to Protect Your Privacy from Military Recruiters
Information links and forms at AFSC site
STUDENT OPT-OUT - Google Search
STUDENT OPT-OUT NOTICE regarding the instruction of sexuality to children:
STUDENT OPT-OUT NOTICE Valid in all 50 states
(.pdf) http://www.armenianchurchlibrary.com/files/national_opt-out.pdf
STUDENT OPT-OUT NOTICE - Google Search
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EmploymentAdult Immunizations
Massachusetts Recommendations and Requirements for 2012
Standard Interpretations
09/23/1997 - The Bloodborne Pathogen Standard and the Enforcement Procedures for TB.
"Finally, be aware that participation in the employer's skin testing program is voluntary on the part of the employee. OSHA does not require that employees participate in TB skin testing, only that the employer make such skin testing available to employees."See TB Testing for more information.
US Fish and Wildlife Service Form 3-2283
Hepatitis B Immunization Consent/Refusal Form
(.pdf) http://www.fws.gov/forms/3-2283.pdf
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TB and/or Lead Testing
Generic letter for Exemption to TB Testing:
HTML (text): Exemption-tb-test.html
MS Doc file: Exemption-tb-test.doc
Standard Interpretations
09/23/1997 - The Bloodborne Pathogen Standard and the Enforcement Procedures for TB.
"Finally, be aware that participation in the employer's skin testing program is voluntary on the part of the employee. OSHA does not require that employees participate in TB skin testing, only that the employer make such skin testing available to employees."
TB and Lead Testing Links:
F L Y E R LETTER Exemption_Letters OSHA_and_TB_test Tubersol Treatment TB_Screening Alternatives/Additional_Information
The above TB and Lead exemption letters are courtesy of Deirdre DeVane of Wash DC. Thank you Deirdre!
The adult TB letters were edited by Sherri Tenpenny. Thank you Sherri!
TB can be detected by biofeedback machines that are hooked up to a computer, such as the QXCI, Best BioMeridian MSAS (Meridian Stress Assessment) or Electro Dermal Screening, Quantum Life System, and the F-Scan. You will need to ask specifically for a pathogen scan, especially TB. You will also need to request a printout with the results.
Here are some of the practitioners for Massachusetts
Massachusetts BEST BioMeridian Practitioners:
Harmony Center
Beverly Holt, MPH, RD, CDE
315 North St., Medfield, MA 02052
Beverly Holt, MPH, RD, CDE rediscovered her own green world of flower essences in 1988. As a health coach, she provides allergy relief, homeopathy, and Meridian Stress Assessment to clients in Dover and Boston. Licensed by the state of Massachusetts as a nutritionist, she has trained in Homeopathy in the US and Canada. As a certified Diabetes Educator she provides consulting services to individuals and groups.
Please call contact below to find additional BioMeridian practitioners in your area or closeby.
Oksana Gorodetsky
Marketing/Administrative Coordinator
BioMeridian International
12411 South 265 West, Suite F
Draper, UT 84020
Toll Free 888-224-2337
Allied Wellness Affiliates of Cape Cod
All-Well Holistic Healthcare
Thomas E. Bober, D.C.
1046 Main Street
Osterville, MA 02655
Meridian Stress Assessment
Massachusetts QXCI Practitioners:
Heart Weaver-Energetics
David Alden
General EPFX / QXCI Practitioner
37 Warren St
Brookline, Mass 02445
For information on purchase or lease of the new Quantum Life BioFeedback L.I.F.E. System, please email Donna and leave your name, mailing address, phone number and email. If you're inquiring for another interested individual or practitioner, please leave their information. The company will then send information and contact the interested parties.
Or you may call 1-407-672-6144.
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Misc Info - Sponsors - Etc.
This unique debut CD introduces the listening world to the provocative vaccine song, "The Shot." Jamie Murphy also takes on the TV and movie media with his searing lyric in "Talk To Me." His soul searching stories in "For What I Am" and "Pockets Full of Tales" round out an impressive CD that combines folk-rock, blues, and jazz.
Jamie Murphy is a singer-songwriter and played guitar with Van Morrison and band at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia and the Wang Center in Boston. He has also been a guitarist-vocalist in several local Boston bands.
Jamie Murphy is the author of the book, What Every Parent Should Know About Childhood Immunization (10th printing, 2005) and is a respected spokesperson for the anti-vaccination movement.
Also check out his book...
"What Every Parent Should Know About Childhood Immunization". By Jamie Murphy $15 + S&H 192 pp.
Murphy has really done his homework, extensively reviewing the medical literature as he was researching all aspects of the vaccination question. We can see from his book that although we are told that "the benefits of vaccines outweigh the risks" it is clear that doctors and public health officers don't have a clue as to what vaccine risks are. This book is extremely well written and covers a lot of ground. -- If you don't understand what natural immunity is and why vaccine immunity is based on a faulty premise, antibody production, this book is a must read.
Jamie Murphy is also the director of V.I.A.L., which is our Massachusetts Vaccination Liberation state Chapter.
V.I.A.L. - Massachusetts Chapter
V.I.A.L. - Massachusetts Chapter
James Murphy, director
Boston, MA
(617) 780-1754
Calling hours: M-F 4:00pm-7:00pm
Sunday: 1:00pm-5:00pm
What can be said but political dissent takes a lot of styles. In this case, musician and author Jamie Murphy goes at the rather unique topic of vaccinations. Murphy, a critic of childhood immunization, wrote the song from the perspective of an infant receiving vaccines. Not for the faint of heart, but intriguing nonetheless; chances are you've never heard a protest song against shots.
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You can buy Jamie's CD, "Issues in D" from our products page


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A classroom full of tweens frantically sketched out monstrous torsos, hands, heads, and assorted tentacle-like appendages on Thursday morning with a simple goal in mind: To create the coolest-looking alien in the class.
California State University, Stanislaus photographer Cary Edmondson has been selected by an international higher education organization as the grand gold medal winner in the Photographer of the Year competition.
Clayton and Elaine Everett will spend the next two months constructing giant mushrooms, massive trees, and a colossal butterfly. These structures will be part of a rainforest exhibit that the Everetts designed for the 2009 Stanislaus County Fair.
"She's ragged," says one student.
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The Carnegie Arts Center is bringing the artist of "The Infinity Boxes" to town on Sunday for a presentation on his creation.
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HUNTINGTON - A Wood County man on Monday pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in West Virginia to possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said.
Andrew Tracy Oldaker, 37, of Parkersburg, admitted that on Nov. 4, 2011, he knowingly possessed on his computer more than 600 images and videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, that is actual or simulated sexual intercourse and the lascivious exhibition of the genitals and pubic area of the minors, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Oldaker admitted that he knew the images and videos constituted child pornography. He also admitted that many of the images depicted prepubescent minors. Oldaker further admitted that at least one of the images portrays a prepubescent minor depicted in sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence.
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Andrew Tracy Oldaker
On Oct. 20, 2011, an undercover law enforcement officer logged onto the Internet and downloaded child pornography that was shared by the defendant. Oldaker admitted that he used the peer-to-peer file sharing program, Frostwire, to download, receive and share child pornography.
Oldaker was previously convicted in August 1999 in Barbour County Circuot Court of first-degree sexual abuse. He faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years and up to 20 years in prison because of his previous conviction and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced on March 11, 2013, by Judge Robert C. Chambers.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation West Virginia Cyber Crimes Task Force, the Nitro Police Department, the Parkersburg Police Department, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department and the Charleston Police Department conducted the investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Lisa Johnston is in charge of the prosecution.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims.
For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/usao/wvs/PSCpage.html. For more information about internet safety education, go to www.usdoj.gov/psc and follow the link named "Resources."


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Madhuri Dixit Nene to be ousted from Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa
Madhuri Dixit Nene, who was in the US for a long time found luck in her role as a celebrity judge on Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa. The show fetched high TRP's for the channel.
The channel is now in a fix as to whether they should have Madhuri for the second season of the show or not since the actress is a brand ambassador for a new entertainment channel. However, the new channel has no problem with their brand ambassador judging Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa.


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Live Recap: Apple Reports 2Q Earnings
It's a make-or-break quarter for Apple–and it appears the company delivered.
Apple today reported earnings of $9.5 billion, or $10.09 a share, and revenue of $43.6 billion in sales, beating analysts' estimates.
The company said it sold 37.4 million iPhones in the quarter and 19.5 million iPads, up 6.7% and 65%, respectively. Gross margin was 37.5% compared with 47.% in the year-ago quarter.
The news gets better for shareholders: Apple is also boosting its dividend by 15% to $3.05 a share and increased its share repurchase authorization to $60 billion from the $10 billion level announced last year.
Apple's revenue estimate doesn't look so great on first glance, however. It expects revenue for the fiscal third quarter to be $33.5 billion to $35.5 billion, which means it's expecting revenue could fall for the first time since 2003 – revenue in the year-ago third quarter was $34.96 billion.
It's also expecting a gross margin of 36% to 37%.
Arguably, this is one of the most important quarters of Apple's history.
Here's a full recap of the earnings call.
Here we go!
The closing bell just rang. Apple will be reporting its second-quarter earnings in just a moment.
Other companies reporting earnings
There are also several other companies reporting earnings today like AT&T and VMWare. Be sure to check out The Wall Street Journal for full coverage of those.
Some woes in the market
Investors have had a bit of a struggle valuing Apple heading into this quarter. Is it a hardware company or a devices and services company?
With few analogies in the market, Apple's valuation is basically dependent on itself.
"Realistic" guidance coming?
This should also be the first quarter in which Apple is shooting for a more realistic guidance.
Here's CFO Peter Oppenheimer, in the last call:
"Going forward, we plan to provide a range of guidance that reflects our belief of what we are likely to achieve. We cannot forecast with complete accuracy, we believe we are likely to report within the range of guidance we provide."
Apple has traditionally set its own guidance pretty low, but that may have changed in the most recent operating quarter.
For a full recap
While we're waiting for the earnings to come in, you can find essentially a full transcript of Apple's last earnings call on Digits, complete with Oppneheimer's comments.
Earnings coming shortly
Apple's earnings usually come in 15 to 30 minutes after the bell, with some variation.
Make no mistake — this is a huge quarter for Apple CEO Tim Cook, and possibly his most important one. Apple's shares have lost a significant amount of value in the past quarters under his tenure.
From the archives
As of the first quarter, Apple had $137.1 billion in cash, compared to $121 billion at the end of the September quarter.
CEO Tim Cook has said over and over again that it isn't burning a hole in the company's pocket. But that could very well change if the earnings come in south of what Wall Street is hoping to see, and Apple sees the need to find ways to get people excited about the company again.
Apple's barren Q1
While Apple hasn't released a significant flagship product since the beginning of the year, the following has either come out or is coming very soon:
- BlackBerry's flagship smartphone, the BlacKBerry Z10.
- Samsung's flagship Android smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S 4.
- HTC's flagship Android smartphone, the HTC One.
- The "Facebook Phone," the HTC First.
The competition is particularly fierce for Apple now. How will Cook respond on the call?
Apple's shares are down
Heading into the earnings release, Apple shares are down about 1% in extended trading. They were up about 2% in regular trading.
Apple's iPhone sales
With so many new phones flooding the market and an update of the iPhone expected this year, will that continue to slow?
In Q1 this year...
For the first quarter this year, Apple said it sold 47.8 million iPhones, up from 37 million from the year-earlier period. It sold 26.9 million in Q4 2012, and 35.1 million in Q2 2012.
And then there's the iPad
In Q1 this year, Apple sold 22.9 million million iPads, compared to 15.43 million in Q1 last year.
Apple sold 11.8 million iPads in Q2 2012.
How's profit looking?
When Apple last reported its earnings in January this year, a major downside was that profit growth was flat. Apple recorded a profit of $13.1 billion in Q1, compared to $13.06 billion last year. For a company built around hyper-growth, that doesn't look great.
Here we go!
Apple was just halted. Should be coming any second now.
AT&T says tablets carried its contract adds
Meanwhile, AT&T just announced its earnings — the carrier reported it added more contract customers than expected due to tablet activations. In a break from tradition, AT&T didn't disclose iPhone activations in the quarter but will likely do so on the call coming up. We'll have those details.
Should be coming any second now
The shares were halted at about dead even after being up 2% in regular trading today.
In the mean time...
Analysts are expecting $42.3 billion in revenue this quarter, with earnings of $9.5 billion.
More estimates
EPS estimates are for about $10, according to S&P CapitalIQ.
They're here!
$43.6 billion in sales, $9.5 billion in profit.
EPS beat slightly
EPS of $10.09, a tiny beat.
Onto the stats
37.4 million iPhones sold, 19.5 million iPads sold.
Nailed it
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a beat.
Big buyback boost coming
Apple is boosting its buyback by $50 billion. Here's the quote:
Apple today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a significant increase to the Company's program to return capital to shareholders. The Company expects to utilize a total of $100 billion of cash under the expanded program by the end of calendar 2015. This represents a $55 billion increase to the program announced last year and translates to an average rate of $30 billion per year from the time of the first dividend payment in August 2012 through December 2015.
As part of this program, the Board has increased its share repurchase authorization to $60 billion from the $10 billion level announced last year. This is the largest single share repurchase authorization in history and is expected to be executed by the end of calendar 2015. Apple also expects to utilize about $1 billion annually to net-share-settle vesting restricted stock units.
Additionally, the Board has approved a 15% increase in the Company's quarterly dividend and today has declared a dividend of $3.05 per common share, payable on May 16, 2013 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on May 13, 2013. Apple is among the largest dividend payers in the world, with annual payments of about $11 billion.
Here's Tim Cook
"We are very fortunate to be in a position to more than double the size of the capital return program we announced last year," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "We believe so strongly that repurchasing our shares represents an attractive use of our capital that we have dedicated the vast majority of the increase in our capital return program to share repurchases."
Dividend boost too
Dividend is up 15% to $3.05 a share. That boosts its dividend yield to 3% from 2.6%, putting it below what Intel (3.9%) and Cisco (3.3%), on part with Microsoft (3%), and above H-P, Dell and IBM.
Really, really nailed it
This is basically exactly what Apple needed to show Wall Street.
We'll see where things go once the stock is no longer halted.
A note on Macs
Apple sold 3.95 million macs, nearly flat from the same quarter last year.
That's pretty solid considering the PC industry is basically in free fall.
Some on Guidance
Guidance is a tad soft though, more on that in a moment.
Apple expects 3Q revenue could decline
Apple expects revenue for the fiscal third quarter to be $33.5 billion to $35.5 billion, which means it's expecting revenue could fall from a year ago for the first time since 2003 – revenue in the year-ago third quarter was $34.96 billion.
Of course, Apple said in the last earnings call that it would be more conservative with its expectations.
It's also expecting a gross margin of 36% to 37%.
Cash pile still growing
Apple added $8 billion to its cash pile, now up to $145 billion.
Margin guidance
Apple is expecting gross margin between 36 percent and 37 percent, which is still a slight dip. But it's dealing with some lower-margin products, like the iPad Mini.
The Wall Street Journal also earlier reported that Apple is working on developing a cheaper smartphone.
iPhones sold
Slightly up year-over-year.
iPads up too
Not quite Q1, but still looking good.
Trading resumed for Apple
Apple shares are now up 4%.
And here's macs
More or less flat.
The call will start in a few minutes
Expect a victory lap from Cook to get things started.
One more chart
The call is about to start
Here we go!
The call is starting!
Tim Cook is starting it off
Tim Cook, Peter Oppenheimer are on the call.
Cook getting things started
"We've accomplished a tremendous amount. We've introduced and ramped production of an unprecedented number of products."
"Our net income was over $22 billion. During that time, we sold 85 million iPhones and 42 million iPads. These are very, very large numbers."
A note from Cook
"We acknowledge that our growth rate has slowed and our margins have decreased."
Cook is aware of the stock price
"The decline in Apple stock price has been very frustrating to all of us… the most important objective will always be creating innovating products."
Fall releases coming
"Our teams are hard at work on some amazing new hardware, software and services we can't wait to introduce this fall and throughout 2014."
Nothing any time sooner, then?
Some note on investor returns
Apple has already returned $10 billion. "We continue to generate cash in excess of our needs… we remain firmly committed to our objective of attractive returns to shareholders."
Apple will return $100 billion by the end of 2015, most of it coming in the form of share repurchases. "We concluded that investing in Apple was the best."
Over to the CFO
Peter Oppenheimer is taking over.
First, on iPhones
2.3 million, or 7%, more iPhones sold year-over-year. There are 11.6 million iPhones in channel inventory.
A big jump in Japan
"IDC Japan announced iPhone gained the number one position. This is the first time a non-Japanese company has achieved the number-one spot for a year… unprecedented for a non-Japanese company."
Oppenheimer is basically taking a victory lap, talking about the awards and such the iPhone has garnered.
Apple shares still up
Apple shares are up more than 4.5%.
Onto iPads
7.7 million units, or 65%, more iPads sold year-over-year. Sales more than doubled in Greater China and Japan.
"We were able to sell significantly more iPad Minis in the March quarter than the December launch quarter. The market suggests iPad Mini purchasers are first-time iPad customers."
Desktop Macs softened the blow
"We experienced strong year-over-year growth in desktop sales offset by decline in portable sales," Oppenheimer said.
A nice pop for iTunes
iTunes revenue was up 28% year-over-year, Oppenheimer said.
An update on downloads
Cumulative app downloads have surpassed 45 billion.
Over to retail
Revenue from retail was $5.2 billion, up 19% year-over-year.
More on the share repurchase
"This is the largest share buyback operation of any company in history."
Onto the outlook
Revenue between $33.5 billion and $35.5 billion, compared to $35 billion in the year-ago quarter.
Gross margins are expected by 36% to 37%.
OpEx should be between $3.85 billion and $3.95 billion. Tax rate should be about 26%.
Q&A Time
Q: Can you rank the biggest factors limiting margin recovery?
Oppenheimer: In the March quarter, gross margin was 37.5%, at the low-end of our range. We had a few items that on balance resulted on us reporting at the low end. That included mix, selling more iPads than planned, getting iPad Mini into channel inventory range, changes to service policies and some unfavorable adjustments.
As I look forward, we're guiding gross margin to be down sequentially, due to two factors: the largest is a loss of leverage on sequentailly lower revenue, and a different product mix. We expect both of these headwinds to be offset by better costs.
Some notes on China
Q: What are some thoughts on the stickiness of customers in China?
Cook: We actually had our best quarter ever in China. Revenue came in at $8.8 billion, including retail stores. That's up 11% year-on-year. The highlights for the quarter in China were that iPads grew 138% year-on-year. If you look at revenue on a sell-through basis, our Greater China revenue was up approximately 18%, so it's a bit better than it first looks. In the year-ago quarter, we launched the iPhone 4S with China Unicom in January and China Telecom in March. This year, the iPhone 5 launched in December, so it's a different set of dynamics.
Going forward, we still see a significant opportunity in China, it's a great market. We expect to double the 11 stores there in less than 2 years. This number is obviously too low, currently. We're also innovating int he online store there. China has an unusually large number of potential first-time buyers, and that's not lost on us. We've seen significant interest in iPhone 4 and we're making it more attractive to first-time buyers.
What about the competition?
Q: Can you comment on the competitive landscape?
Cook: The smartphone market has always been competitive, the names of competitors have changed. It was RIM in early days, today it's Samsung married to Google on the operating system side. They're obviously tough competitors, but we feel we have the best products by far. We continue to invest in innovative products and feel really confident about our product pipeline. We have the best ecosystem by far, and we're just gonna keep augmenting it and making it better and better. That shows up in both our loyalty and ratings.
When are products coming?
Q: You alluded to fall announcements. Is that indicating there might not be substantial new products until literally fall?
Cook: I don't want to be more specific. We have some great stuff coming in the fall and across all of 2014.
More on margins
Q: Revisiting gross margins, can you comment on whether you feel you're experiencing normal declining cost curves.
Oppenheimer: We're very pleased with the progress we're making on getting down cost curves, this will help to partially offset the loss of leverage and different product mix. We have factored these cost improvements into the guidance. The iPhone ASPs were down sequentially around $28, driven primarily by mix. This was a result of making the iPhone 4 more affordable in more markets and mix with the iPhone 5 in its second full quarter.
More on mix
"As you get further from a previous product launch, there is a general lower mix than where it starts, so all things being equal you'd expect to see that on most of our products."
What about Apple losing market share
Q: Most data would say the smartphone market grew 30%. Looking broadly, it appears very unlikely that Apple will grow at that market rate of 30% or more. Is that loss in market share something Apple is focused on?
Cook: The numbers we've seen from IDC would indicate the market in March declined 30% from December. As you can see from our numbers we declined 15%. If that holds we did much better than the market and had a very nice pickup in market share. On iPad we continue to have an ecosystem story that is unparalleled. We have 350,000 apps optimized for iPad, versus hundreds for our competitors.
On the phone side, the numbers you talked about, you really have to convert that to sell-through to look at the underlying demand. As I've gone through before, we did go through channel inventory in the year-ago quarter, because we were catching up on the iPhone 4S. You have to factor in to get at the real sell-through. I take your point, the point is not lost, and we do want to grow faster. We don't view it, however, as the only measure of our health. We look at customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and repurchase rates, and the ecosystem commerce. Market shares are important and unit volumes are important, but these other things are extremely important.
That said, we see an enormous number of first-time smartphone buyers coming to market in certain countries around the world. We started last quarter making the iPhone 4 even more affordable, which has made it more attractive to first-time buyers. We caught up on our demand late in the quarter.
What about a bigger iPhone
Q: What do you think about the five-inch smartphone market?
Cook: My view continues to be that iPhone 5 has the absolute best display in the industry, and we always strive to create the very best display for our customers. Some customers value large screen size. Others value other factors, such as resolution, color quality, white balance, screen longevity, portability, compatability… Our competitors have made some significant trade-offs in many of these areas in order to ship a larger display. We would not ship a larger display iPhone while these trade-offs exist.
New products?
Q: Were you looking at new product categories? Presumably in the next year?
Cook: I did. I didn't announce a specific time frame.
More on fragmentation
"Because we are not fragmented like our competition, we can update an OS with a major release and a substantial percentage of our customers will update to our latest software. Because the usage for iOS is so much higher, when we integrate things well, people use them a lot more."
One last note
Tim Cook, on payments: "I think it's in its infancy, Gene. It's just getting started."
More on Macs
Q: What about Macs?
Cook: The reason we were down, the market for PCs is incredibly weak. At the same time, we sold almost 20 million iPads, it's certainly true the iPads cannibalized some Macs. I don't think it's a huge number, but it's some. It's probably extending the upgrade cycle. I don't think this market is a dead market or a bad market by any means, and we're gonna keep innovating. People may be even more willing to buy a Mac than buy a PC today. We're going to continue making the best personal computers, our strategy is not changing, and we feel really good about it.
A last note on Macs
"We've got some more great stuff planned, this is an area we continue to innovate."
What about launch cycles?
Q: Were there any learning points in terms of, maybe it's better to stagger launches?
Cook: I don't spend a lot of time looking back. If we could run it owner, frankly I would have announced the iMac after the time of the year. Customers had to wait too long. For the iPad Mini, I would not have done that differently. We were able to get the iPad Mini out to many millions of customers. Yes, we did do a lot, our teams fortunately can do a lot. In retrospect, I certainly wish Mac would have been after the end of the year.
Another note from Oppenheimer
"We are paying our developers more than $1 billion every quarter."
That's it!
The call is over. Be sure to follow The Wall Street Journal and Digits for continuing coverage of Apple's second-quarter earnings.


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Monday, 15 February 2010
At the moment Russ & I are all snugged up house sitting for friends in Instow Devon. We have been coming to this part of Devon for over 10 years now, ever since Russ discovered his love of surfing. We used to always camp, then a few years ago good friends moved here & we swapped our inflatable mattress for a very comfy double bed. I have been pondering the correlation between our friends buying a house here and my lack of surfing. I think it comes down to the fact that when camping I used the chance to surf as some sort of wash, but now there are bubble baths & a power shower at my finger tips, surfing has been largely replaced with bike rides that more often than not end up at teashops selling scones thick with cream !
Although this afternoon scones were scoffed at a very Miss Marplesque hotel with my parents.
it's a good job I get to play football on the beach, otherwise I will turn into clotted cream !
PS Joyce from Pattern & Perspectives, yes we will soon be selling the Belle & Boo tape, I am not sure how to contact you so I really hope you see this :)
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yummy! those scones look delicious!!!ReplyDelete
what is this tape you are going to be selling? I am excited by the possibility of what it could be!
oh not sure how i missed that tape.. now i see!!ReplyDelete
GORGEOUS! I want some now please! :)
wow, beautiful photos again. I am missing the sea a lot...ReplyDelete
great, i like the tape a lot, maybe i can get a roll for my kindergarten kids, i guess they would love it :-)
oh, and i like to say, sorry for my second comment last time, i just forgot to say something and i didn't thought about the giveaway. well, have a great weekend!
Mandy - Thanks! - my email is firstname.lastname@example.com - but emailed y'all thru etsy and I was notified that you will be figuring out the logistics and be selling the tape soon! Thanks!ReplyDelete
It looks beautiful there.ReplyDelete
Ohhhh looks like you had a great time... I'ver never been to Devon but I am this summer for the first time!ReplyDelete
Since discovering your cards, I have become an avid follower of your blog and love to keep up to date with all the lovely things that you make and share! Please accept this well-deserved Sunshine Award, check out my blog to find out more: http://dotsandspotsdesign.blogspot.com/ReplyDelete
i love, love, love belle and boo!! i just stumbled across your blog and fell in love:). i want to have kids now, just so i can purchase everything:). i'll be following your site and store- absolutely adorable!!
Oh wow Mandy it's a stunning beach and what yummy scones! Just catching up and good to know you're back in England again :) Belle and boo looks to be having some exciting things coming up!! Love kat xxxReplyDelete
Yummy, cream tea at the Commadore with the folks. Glad you had a jolly time in Instow.ReplyDelete


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This thing is ridiculous. We're all for great concepts, and we're even more excited about seeing crazy things that we can wear on our body. Like a watch. Or a fanny pack for the chest. But when it looks this shiny, and packs enough features to make anyone drool, we have to say we're pretty skeptical. Or maybe we just don't want to be let down. Meet the future of computing for Sony: the Nextep Computer.
When we think about mobile computing right now, we picture all sorts of different netbooks, laptops, and even tablets at this point. And, while some watches out there offer up Bluetooth capabilities to show our text messages, we want something better. A lot better. And thanks to the crazy minds at Sony, it looks like 2020 is the target date to get us what we want. The Nextep Computer concept is completely designed to be worn on your wrist like a watch -- so much so, in fact, that its OLED panels are of the touchscreen nature, but are completely flexible to shape around your wrist.
It also features a holographic projector (of course, right? Why not?), and a slide-out keyboard that's separated at the middle, for easy typing. You can fold out the Nextep Computer, and place it on the table to answer your emails, Instant Messages, or whatever else you need to do on your mobile watch computer. Sony's targeting this for a 2020 projected release date, but let's face it: that's only 10 years away. We'll keep our hopes up, though.
[via Ubergizmo]