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China to Survey Soil Amid Fears Over Rice
BEIJING—China said it will conduct nationwide sampling of soil in order to map pollution levels across the country following recent revelations that portions of the country's rice supply were tainted with the toxic metal cadmium.
The official Xinhua news agency, citing China's Ministry of Land and Resources, said late Wednesday that the government would conduct the survey, though it wasn't clear when or whether results would be released to the public.
The newly announced soil survey comes as the Ministry of Environmental Protection is locked in a battle with transparency advocates who are demanding that the government release the results of an earlier nationwide testing of soil. The ministry has so far refused to publish those results on the grounds that the data are a state secret.
"For the health of mankind, we must persist in increasing supervision and intensity of punishments toward polluting activity," the Xinhua report quoted the ministry as saying.
While details of the ministry's initiative remained sketchy, the timing of the announcement appeared to be in response to growing concern across China about the impact of soil pollution on food safety.
The presence of heavy metals, such as cadmium, in staple foods like rice has spurred rising anxiety in recent weeks. The results of a government test released last month, in the southern city of Guangzhou, suggested nearly half the rice sold in the city was tainted by cadmium. Two subsequent local-government surveys of broader southern Guangdong province, of which Guangzhou is the capital, showed tainted rice levels of 5.8% and 1.4% of provincial supplies.
Major factors causing soil contamination in China include improper dumping of industrial waste and overapplication of fertilizer, environmental scholars say.
Officials say contaminated rice discovered in Guangzhou was mainly shipped in from the nearby province of Hunan, among China's most important agricultural regions. Among other efforts recommended in recent weeks, the Communist Party's People's Daily newspaper has advised people to diversify their diets to make sure they aren't eating food from just one, potentially contaminated, region.
Food safety is particularly sensitive for China's leaders. While Chinese in many cities have for decades lived with adverse health effects of stifling air pollution, the prospect of widespread health issues related to food contaminated by the soil is potentially even more destabilizing to the Communist Party.
However, party leaders face a balancing act in allowing the nation to come to grips with the severity of soil pollution. Among the likely challenges will be how to restore the livelihoods of farmers growing crops in areas deemed unsafe by the government. In addition to cadmium, other heavy metals believed to be contaminating China's soil include lead and arsenic.
Identifying the gravity of China's soil-pollution problem is one thing, but solving it is another challenge. Particularly in rural areas, where economic development remains the key goal for local leaders, incentives for regulators to push stringent environmental standards against industrial facilities are insufficient. Meanwhile, analysts say, environmental-protection bureaus tasked with enforcing policies aimed at curbing pollution are often lacking in both staffing and political power.
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As I've said before, I'm a creature of habit. I like what I know. I realize how boring that makes me sound, but it's the truth. I'm a planner, a list-maker, a neurotic weirdo who wears the same perfume for years on end and the kind of person who equates the risk of trying anything(…)


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The things we thought that we should do
We other things have done
But those peculiar industries
Have never been begun --
The Lands we thought that we should seek
When large enough to run
By Speculation ceded
To Speculation's Son --
The Heaven, in which we hoped to pause
When Discipline was done
Untenable to Logic
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The things we thought that we should do
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My January 9th Vowwritten by icuresick on 2011-02-15
Every January 9th of the year, millions of Catholics flock to Quiapo to celebrate the Feast of the Black Nazarene. In four years I was there thrice to document atleast a thousand of these devotees. And I promise to shoot more next year.8 27 Share Tweet
Cristo Redentor, Just Call Him Jesuswritten by wil6ka on 2010-04-04 #places
Well there are some landmarks, that are hard to discover, because, they are just there, very exposed not hidden at all. Take the Chinese wall, the pyramids of Egypt or Christ the Redeemer.15 18 Share Tweet
WINNERS ANNOUNCED for 10 Prophecies of the Analogue Future - A Local Rumble to be exhibited at the Lomography Gallery Store LA!!!written by lomographyla on 2011-04-11 #news
Just 4 more days until you can see this competition's winning photos up on display at the Lomography Gallery Store LA!6 10 Share Tweet
10 Prophecies of the Analogue Future - A Local Rumble to be exhibited at the Lomography Gallery Store LA!written by lomographyla on 2011-03-10 #news
What's the best way to wrap up March Madness AND Phase I of the 10 Prophecies of the Analogue Future world-wide competition? How about a Los Angeles locals-only competition with loads of piggies awarded and the opportunity to be exhibited in the largest Lomography Gallery Store in the world!5 9 Share Tweet
The Sea of Galileewritten by jogintas on 2009-08-13 #places
The lowest freshwater lake in Earth has a lot to offer: strong both - in religion and nature...4 2 Share Tweet
The Long Journey of Nazarenowritten by icuresick on 2012-03-22 #news
Since we are closing in on Lent, here are my photos and stories from the Feast of the Black Nazarene. I promised that I would cover it again after attending last year so read after the jump to find out more about this celebrated religious event in the Philippines.4 Share Tweet
A Pilgrimage to the Hands of our Lordwritten by bluemie5 on 2011-03-25 #places
Visita Iglesia is a century-old tradition in the Philippines which involves visiting churches and holy places for prayer and part of that is attending mass. This place is one of the top Lenten destinations and it is where you can find the largest life-sized image of Jesus Christ on top of a mountain with his hands open wide. This place is called, Kamay ni Hesus.2 Share Tweet


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Dozens of police officers surrounded a home on the 100 block of Royal Terrace in Harrisburg, where a suspect was barricaded inside the house and refused to surrender.
Harrisburg police, Dauphin County sheriffs, Capitol police, and the Dauphin County SERT team were at the scene.
Police say they think the suspect robbed the Belco Federal Credit Union along Second Street in Harrisburg Tuesday afternoon.
Residents told News 8 that seeing the police activity was a first because it is usually a quiet neighborhood.
The suspect is in custody.
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CARROLLTON - Jennifer Harris leaned back against her 1993 Oldsmobile and grimaced as the meter on the gas pump clicked past $25.
"I'm a single parent of three, and the gas prices are definitely putting a damper on our plans to enjoy the summer," Harris said.
At the start of the Memorial Day weekend, Harris and millions of other motorists were struggling to deal with the price of gasoline, which hit a record $1.93 per gallon for self-serve regular in Texas.
Many of them plan to keep driving, even if it costs more. Auto club AAA Texas predicted that 3.2 million Texans would travel away from home over the long weekend.
Many will take advantage of relatively low air fares. Officials at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport predicted that 995,000 passengers would pass through between Thursday and Tuesday, up 13 percent from the same period last Memorial Day weekend.
But 87 percent of traveling Texans will be hitting the roads and highways despite gas prices that have set records for four straight weeks, AAA Texas said.
Most motorists aren't ready to give up their vacations because of higher gas prices, said Rose Rougeau, a spokeswoman for AAA Texas.
Many consumers blame the oil companies and so too apparently does Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist, who has subpoenaed records from Irving-based Exxon Mobil, Houston-based ConocoPhillips and several other oil companies. Crist is asking whether refineries withheld supplies to jack up prices. California authorities are also investigating.
Oil company officials say they're being blamed unfairly. This week, Exxon Mobil chief executive Lee R. Raymond said the company only makes a nickel from a gallon of gasoline.
He said the real culprits are the high cost of crude oil and taxes.
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Few things have excited the music industry as much as Spotify recently. It's the hottest music app in town and it even has the national press jittery with excitement.
The reason? Spotify represents a major shift in focus for an industry currently ravaged by digital confusion, piracy and DRM.
In short, it's an ad-supported music application that allows you to listen to any track absolutely free. As far as PC and Mac users are concerned then, it's just like iTunes - but you don't have to pay for the music. The only downside is that you hear a 20 second advert every 10 tacks or so. For a small fee, you can opt out of these ads.
In fact, people are so excited that Spotify is being hailed as a genuine threat to the market-dominating iTunes. That might be the case, but before Spotify can really lay claim to the industry it's going to have to improve in eight key areas:
1. Access on portable devices
The most obvious drawback of Spotify is that it's limited to home PC use. By contrast, if you buy a track via a download service then you've got the option of loading it onto your phone or MP3 player and listening to it on the move.
But the solution to this is simple: Spotify could partner with phone and MP3 player manufacturers in order to build the app into their devices. Using Wi-Fi and 3G connections, people could then stream music from Spotify on the go and they wouldn't even need any locally stored content.
A cache on the devices would also mean tracks only need to be streamed once - saving bandwidth. Britain's national Wi-Fi infrastructure isn't currently up to the job, but as soon as it is, Spotify will need to be ready.
It has to be said that iTunes is inextricably connected to the iPod and as long as Apple's music player exists, so will iTunes. However, as Apple is unlikely to ever offer Spotify integration on the iPod, it's plausible that offering Spotify integration might someday see normal MP3 players becoming as popular as the ubiquitous iPod. Maybe Apple will have to adopt Spotify's business model in the future? But that's another article entirely...
2. Downloads
Downloads are not currently part of Spotify's business model. However, if it really wants people to migrate from iTunes, it may have to reconsider this decision.
People expect to be able to purchase and own music. As portable streaming from Spotify isn't currently available, maybe downloads could be used to bridge the gap. It doesn't seem likely this will happen, though, because Spotify uses the Vorbis codec and it would need to use MP3 if it were to supply downloads. Unfortunately, that would cost Spotify more than it's probably willing to spend.
3. Digital Radio streaming
While we're waiting for Spotify to appear on our portable gadgets, it would be much easier to first build it into devices in our own homes. Many digital radios now come with the ability to wirelessly stream music from a PC over a home Wi-Fi network and Spotify should get in on this.
If Spotify could partner with the likes of Pure, it could get itself used in people's kitchens instead of just offices and bedrooms. And as people are already used to hearing adverts on the radio, it could afford to pump out a few more ads on these kinds of devices to support the development costs.
4. More music
It's an obvious point really, but one that needs to be made. Spotify currently has a great catalogue of music, but compared to iTunes, it's still relatively small. Luckily, Spotify is currently adding 10,000 songs every single day. So if your favourite album wasn't on Spotify yesterday, it may very well be there tomorrow.
5. Social networking
Because Spotify's music is all stored in the cloud, it's extremely easy to share playlists and songs with your friends. You can make a playlist, send a friend a link and within seconds they're listening to the same mix you are.
This social side of things could be improved further by giving each user a homepage, so they could share links to their playlists, comment on music and promote their favourite albums and tracks.
6. Media playing
One of the drawbacks of Spotify is that it can't play songs stored as MP3 files on your hard drive.
It would be a welcome feature for Spotify to add the ability to playback locally stored music files as well as Vorbis tracks in the cloud.
This would be as beneficial to Spotify as it would be to the people using it. Searches could integrate online and offline content, so if you've got a song on your computer, there'd be no need to stream it from the Spotify servers - saving bandwidth and money.
7. Podcast integration
Another trump card that iTunes can play against Spotify is the availability of podcasts. Spotify could combat this by cataloguing all available podcasts (say, from the BBC website) and then serving streaming links from within the app.
So, you could find the latest Adam and Joe podcast on Spotify, and the app would stream it direct from the BBC Radio 6 Music site. This wouldn't take up any bandwidth on the Spotify servers, but it would give people another reason to use the service. And who knows, maybe in the future Spotify could host podcasts as well?
8. A recommendation engine
While iTunes has the Genius recommendation engine built into it, Spotify's initial effort is pretty weak. Thankfully, it wouldn't be too hard to sort out.
In iTunes the feature has a downside: it can recommend new music, but you have to pay money to listen to it - and you don't even know if you're going to like it. Spotify could create its own intelligent recommendation engine and it would be free to sample the results.
Now read: Spotify - the biggest thing in music since Napster 1.0?
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Jewel Story Downloadable game. Match jewels to bring back your inheritance that was stolen by Doctor Evil, Burglar John and Irene! With each step of your journey, you'll gain access to new game modes and bonuses and return your jewelry! With beautiful hand-drawn graphics, simple point-and-click controls, and special logic levels, Jewel Story will lead you through an adventure. Justice awaits you!
Travel Riddles Trip to France Downloadable game. Have a fantastic trip to one of the most beautiful countries. Travel to France and unlock its secrets through a series of puzzles set in the capital city of Paris, amazing landscapes of Champagne, Provence and the jewel of French Riviera Cannes.
Earn dozens of achievements, get free gold to charge the powerups, blast through challenging levels and set the best score.
Learn fun facts about past and present of France on every level and collect tons of artifacts and souvenirs!
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Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo Downloadable game. Today is the grand opening of the Cartown Zoo, but food is running low and all the baby animals are missing! Putt-Putt and Pep need your child's help to reunite the little ones with their parents before Outback Al can open the zoo gates. Along the way, they'll swing across alligator-infested rivers, play ice hockey with a polar bear, build a bridge out of icebergs, bop with dancing penguins and enjoy many other adventures. This zoo is full of loyal friends and captivating challenges that are sure to run wild through your child's imagination.
Shadowplay Darkness Incarnate Downloadable game. From the innovative minds at Mad Head Games comes a unique new tale of psychological terror!
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Myths of the World Island of Forgotten Evil Downloadable game. Eipix Entertainment proudly presents the newest addition to the Myths of the World series!
Before his death, your uncle hid a mysterious artifact that only you could find. What starts as a search for the truth quickly turns into the adventure of a lifetime when a ghostly apparition tries to thwart your plans! Can you break the curse of the Legionary before it's too late, or will you be its next victim? Find out in this riveting hidden-object puzzle adventure!
Rainbow Mosaics Blooming Garden Downloadable game. When Cate receives a chance to participate in a competition on the best garden, she gladly grasps this opportunity to demonstrate her creative talents and to become the best of all the participants.
Solitaire Beach Season 2 Downloadable game. Solitaire Beach Season 2 is the perfect summer friend. This classic solitaire game, complete with 12 locations, 120 levels, and various difficult levels, is the perfect escape for beginners and veterans alike. Take a long afternoon to yourself, playing your way across the beautiful beaches of Solitaire Beach Season 2!
Reflections of Life Call of the Ancestors Downloadable game. Grandma Studios proudly presents the newest addition to the Reflections of Life series!
It's your sister's 21st birthday. What should be a joyous occasion quickly turns dark when shes kidnapped by cloaked figures before your very eyes! With the help of your new magical friend, can you track down the evil behind the kidnapping and save your world in the process? Find out in this gripping hidden-object puzzle adventure!
Ominous Objects Lumina Camera Downloadable game. Daily Magic Productions presents the newest addition to the Ominous Objects series! The National Museum of France is about to premier a new exhibit about the Lumina Camera. What starts as a simple investigation quickly takes a dark turn when people start disappearing after having their photo taken by the camera! Can you bring them back from their mysterious picture prison before it's too late? Find out in this riveting hidden-object puzzle adventure!
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Babble's Top 50 Pregnancy Blogs Announced! Did your Favorite make the List?emily
Seven years ago, when I got pregnant for the first time, I felt I had very few places to turn to look to for support. I was the first of my siblings to grow my family, all my friend were still very much preoccupied with the next happy hour location, and I lived in a city where I had very little community to turn to for advice. To be honest, while it was a joyful time of my life, it also was very lonely.
And then sometime after my daughters first birthday, I made a glorious discovery. Blogs. Specifically, the mommy blog. Not to sound dramatic, but my world was opened up tenfold. I was no longer alone as I journeyed through live raising my young family.
This week at Babble, we announced the Top 50 Pregnancy Blogs. What I love the most about this list is that it's not just 50 popular bloggers that just happen to be knocked up at the moment. No, the list is a true resource for anyone waddling through the journey of conception, gestation, and raising a young family.
Broken down into 6 categories, the list is easy to navigate. Go ahead, find your tribe:
- Want to dive into someone else's pregnancy journey? Watch and read as they document each stretch mark, belly kick, and food craving? BEST PERSONAL BLOGS are for you.
- Looking for an edgy site that speaks no crap? Look no further than the MOST THOUGHT-PROVOKING blogs.
- Desperately on the hunt for inspiration as you design the baby nursery? Researching baby gear and don't know where to turn? The BEST STYLE blogs have all best "stuff" you're looking for.
- Searching for an all-inclusive site that covers an umbrella of pregnancy topics? Want to find a place to hang where you won't feel like the big weirdo in the room? The wit and wisdom of the MOST INFORMATIVE blogs can help.
- Need advice about a crazy symptom so embarrassing it makes you blush just thinking about it? Seek refuge with the FRIENDLIEST EXPERTS.
- And lastly, the "readers choice" category. We're asking you to NOMINATE YOUR FAVORITE pregnancy blog. Either tell us which blog you love, or vote for your favorite lady already on the list.
40 weeks of pregnancy can sometimes feel like an eternity, let's not tackle this journey alone. Food cravings, mood swings, and that unexplained discharge? I hear you loud and clear.
Thank God for the internet, and all the amazing resources it has given us. And who knows, someday you might find your best friend (who you "met" on the internet, hello there, #6 "best personal" blogger) on one of these amazing lists.


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This party includes fun, guided activities. Each party meets on the lower level of The Living World/North Entrance building. There, Education department staff will lead the group in an active game, craft, and live animal presentation, followed up by cupcakes and drinks.
Caring Keepers
Engage in activities about Zoo animal keeping and veterinary care at this fun party.
Build A Zoo
Guests will work together to create their ultimate zoo. Natural building materials, and animals and plant replicas are provided to assist their amazing imaginations. They'll learn what different animals need in their zoo homes, and what zookeepers need to care for them. Will it have a giant shark tank or a drive through flight cage? Only these creative curators know.
Blow Darts!
Make paper blow pipes and blow darts as you see about how Zoo vets use this important tool both at the Zoo and in the wild to deliver medicine to animals. Then develop your darting skills as you play the blow dart game. Watch out parents, you might be asked to act like an animal!
Animal Contact
Three animals will be brought out for your guests to see and touch (NOTE: animal contact limited to 30 guests only). We cannot honor requests to contact specific animals, however we will honor any request to avoid contacting animals due to allergies, etc.
Dynamic Discovery package is $400 for up to 30 guests (adults and children), $7 for each additional guest. Each child 3 and under must be accompanied by an adult. There is a 1:4 adult to child ratio for children 4 and older. Maximum 40 people allowed. Zoo Members at the Family level or higher receive a discount of $40.
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This party is offered year-round on Saturdays and Sundays at 9:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Please call (314) 646-4544, #6, or submit an inquiry form. We require a signed agreement and full payment to hold your date. We suggest reserving at least two weeks in advance.
Full payment is due when you make your reservation.
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South Africa
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I'm from South Africa, If I import the OSD now and want to upgrade later, do I send the origional one back? Do I pay shipping? Please axplain,
Allready have most of you're sensors, can't wait for the Pro!! That's all I need to finish off my EZ*
Hi Dion,
That's correct. If you purchase our standard OSD board now, you will need to send it back to the USA, and include $20 + the shipping to receive the OSD-Pro.
Once the OSD-PRO goes into preorder, we will discontinue the upgrade offer.
Bill, for Eagle Tree
Ho much will be the shipping to Austria?
and Pandoras box has been opened.
Hi All,
Sorry for confusion. Please DON'T send back any OSD's now. Here's the procedure:
1) We ship the Pro. That has not happened yet.
2) We post a process to upgrade your standard OSD to Pro. That has not been done yet. Most likely, you will need to purchase the Pro, and then return your standard OSD for credit.
Everyone here is focusing on #1 right now. :-)
Bill, for Eagle Tree
I thought I was able to do the upgrade myself with the USB cable included.... I guess I can live with "purchase the Pro, and then return [the] standard OSD for credit". Not what I was expecting BUT.... not bad. Bad would be if I had to send mine, be with no OSD and wait until I get mine back to connect everything... that would be BAD... yeah paying two way shipping... yeah... really BAD. Since that is not the case... no reason to panic, I guess.
Southeast TN
Joined Jan 2006
600 Posts
Bill....I'm confused. I speciffically went ahead and purchased airspeed sensor, baro-altimeter sensor, and the "V3Logger+GPS+OSD" package early (now versus later), so that I could begin using it AND have the opportunity to be one of the early folks to do the $20 upgrade. I assumed (and asked during a call to ET) that once the Pro went into production that existing OSD customers would have first shot at the Pro upgrade, before you started shipping the Pro to new customers that never purchased the original OSD. Otherwise what incentive would there be to "buy early" if the old package ($265) is simply replaced with the new package for about $20 more ($285) ? Can you clear up my confusion?
United States, IN, Carmel
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Wait a minute. I spend $265 + shipping to buy the first OSD version plus logger, sensors, etc then when the new ProOSD comes out, I purchase it for it's full price + shipping and finally if I want I can send in our my OSD (+shipping in our own expense again) for CREDIT (ProOSD price minus $20 bucks) to buy more stuff in your store??? NOT CASH?
So essentially you are buying back the old OSD that I paid 44.99 for and you are giving me credit -to spend in your own store again.
Is it me or this offer doesn't sound so good anymore?
I'm getting confused too by now. I was expecting to ship my old OSD in along with $20 and get the pro back. If there's a way to still keep the old one until the new arrives that would be even better, but I understand that would be hard to implement without leaving the door open for the customer to keep both. I was fine with shipping mine in with the payment.
I'm not too worried about the details of how the upgrade happens, since from the beginning the details have been vague -- see page three of the original OSD PRO announcement (pertinent paragraph attached). I suspect they'll end up offering both options -- one way for those who want to keep their old OSD's through the upgrade process and one way for sending in the old OSD first. However it shakes down, I'm glad I qualify for the $20 upgrade and I can't wait to get it.
Well, looks like I have caused more confusion rather than clearing up confusion.
Let me describe the upgrade plan in more detail, which hopefully will address all the concerns.
The critical thing for us is that we streamline/automate the upgrade procedure as much as possible, so that we do not overwhelm our sales/shipping dept.
1) We complete development of the Pro OSD Module, and post a pre-order on the website when mass production begins.
2) Those who purchased our standard OSD Module during the "upgrade ok" period (between Sept 14, 2008 and when we post the preorder for the Pro) can upgrade the standard OSD Module to the Pro module for $20 + shipping, as follows:
a) Request an RMA number via email from firstname.lastname@example.com so that we know you are returning the standard OSD Module
b) Purchase the Pro module from our eShop, and choose your shipping method. The price of the Pro module will be in the $70-$90 ballpark (unknown as of yet). Of course, you can purchase additional items from us at this time.
c) Once we receive your standard module back, we refund your card toward the Pro purchase, all but $20+shipping. For example, if the Pro is $70 and shipping is $8, we refund your card $50. This refund will happen almost immediately if we receive your standard OSD back before you purchase the Pro on our eShop.
3) Once the production boards arrive at our office, we ship the Pro module to you.
You must complete items 2a and 2b within 30 days after the date we begin shipping the production OSD-Pro boards.
Steps 2a and 2b are very important for us, as they automate the address and credit card collection, tracking, and label printing steps, saving a lot of work for our staff, and greatly decreasing the likelihood of something getting lost or shipped to the wrong address.
I hope that clears up the process. We may further refine/streamline the process based on feedback, but I don't think it will change much.
Bill, for Eagle Tree
Southeast TN
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Bill...Maybe it's just me but this doesn't sound good at all. First, what prevents someone who never ordered the original OSD (after Sept 24) from simply ordering the new package which includes the OSDPro and getting one before me, and basically cutting in line ahead of me after I bought early to take advantage of the $20 upgrade? Second, why are we even bothering to return the original OSD and incurr those shipping charges? Like others, I might want to keep my original OSD. It isn't the physical ownership of the original OSD that entitles me to the $20 upgrade offer...it's the fact that I ordered and paid for your non-Pro OSD early in anticipation of being allowed to place a "pre-order" for the OSDPro once you and ET reach that stage. If you are trying to use it for "proof of purchase", then instead of calling in for "RMA" number to ship the OSD back, why don't you just verify our previous order, or payment, or shipping, or invoice #, etc, and then issue us a "proof of purchase number" (POP instead of RMA). We could then plug that into or online order (kinda like a coupon) and the credit could be given at time of purchase, so the actual purchase price for the OSDPro in the "cart" would be $20 for those that supplied their "proof of purchase" number, and it would be the regular price for those that never bought an original OSD. Then be sure to ship the OSDPro first to those that ordered via the "upgrade" option using their proof of purchase number, before shipping to those that never bought one in the first place. Otherwise there was no benefit for those of us that bought into this program early....other than you got our money based on a promise. Sounds like this "upgrade" was never thought out very well ahead of time, and now somebody is trying to come up with answers on short-notice. It also sounds like you may "have Santa in your sights", but his bag will surely not have any OSDPro's to hand out anytime soon.
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I bought the OSD thinking that I could keep the old one (maybe I was a bit naive ). With 2 OSD we would need to buy more sensors.
What will you do with all the used v1 OSD ?
I will keep refining the upgrade procedure until everything is clear, and we meet as many needs as we can.
First, it is a requirement that the standard OSD module be returned to us. We are not going to send out two OSD modules for less than half the price of one Pro OSD module. However, what we will do for people who want to keep the standard OSD as well as the Pro is lock the Pro price at $64.99, which is $20 more than the Standard. This will be considerably less than the retail cost of the Pro. Hope that helps.
It is very unlikely that upgrade orders will be delayed significantly by non-upgrade orders. The way the process works is that we get a production run of boards in, which is generally larger than the number of orders we have, and all of those ship within a few days, in the order received. Placing an upgrade order once the preorder is posted is the easiest way to get to the head of the queue, but it's not really necessary. The primary purpose of offering the upgrade was to "future-proof" your system. I don't believe any other OSD manufacturer has a modular system that can be upgraded at such a low cost, or is offering any type of upgrade whatsoever.
The standard OSD is not being discontinued. Many people will still want that one, because it is lower cost and some people like the large font. We will use the returned standard OSD's (after testing) for warranty replacement, samples, etc.
Please see the updated process below:
1) We complete development of the Pro OSD Module, and post a pre-order on the website when mass production begins.
2) Those who purchased our standard OSD Module during the "upgrade ok" period (between Sept 24, 2008 and when we post the preorder for the Pro) can upgrade the standard OSD Module to the Pro module for $20 + shipping, as follows:
a) Request an RMA number via email from firstname.lastname@example.com so that we know you are returning the standard OSD Module
b) Purchase the Pro module from our eShop, and choose your shipping method. The price of the Pro module will be in the $70-$90 ballpark (unknown as of yet). Of course, you can purchase additional items from us at this time.
c) Once we receive your standard module back, we refund your card toward the Pro purchase, all but $20+shipping. For example, if the Pro is $70 and shipping is $8, we refund your card $50. This refund will happen almost immediately if we receive your standard OSD back before you purchase the Pro on our eShop.
d) If you wish to keep your standard module AND purchase the new OSD Pro module, the price of the OSD Pro module will be fixed at $64.99 + shipping. Make sure you mention this to us in step a) above, and include a copy of your original order number and/or your original purchase invoice in the email.
3) Once the production boards arrive at our office, we ship the Pro module to you.
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How My Restaurant Was Taken Over by RobotsDawn Meehan
I was visiting with my friend, Ally who has an important position in HR at a major corporation. She was talking to my teens, telling them where the jobs are going to be in the future. "Technology and environment," she said. "You know what jobs won't exist in a few more years? Customer service," she went on to say. "Customer service jobs will be nearly non-existent."
"That's okay. With his grades," I nodded my head toward my son, "my kids are likely to end up scooping elephant poop at the zoo," I joked. Then I thought about it for a minute. Could she be right? No customer service? Sure, you rarely speak to a person when you call a customer service line anymore. You get routed through an automated system, but I can't imagine customer service jobs disappearing altogether. Will they?
Later that same evening, my kids and I went out to dinner with Ally. We walked into a Chili's restaurant in Winter Garden, FL and were seated at a table upon which sat a small screen, not unlike an iPad. I saw several game apps displaced on the screen and immediately rolled my eyes. I made a sarcastic comment. "In case you're not addicted enough to your phone, now you can also play on this screen in order to completely tune out your dinner companions."
I talked with my friend and my kids, but my gaze kept getting pulled to this screen with the nonstop advertisements. My son quickly realized that, for .99, he could play a game on this tablet, and repeatedly asked for permission to do so. I adamantly refused to give in, citing that he had enough opportunities to play games during the day. Dining out with family and friends is a treat and a chance to visit with loved ones, not an opportunity to zone out with a game that costs a dollar to play. I moved the tablet off the table and onto a counter behind us.
After the waitress took our orders, she explained that we could use the tablet to order drinks and dessert whenever we wanted. "Well, whaddya know? Ally, you were right! Customer service WILL BE a thing of the past! Our waitress has been replaced by a computer. Robots are taking over the world! We're all gonna die!" I dramatically announced.
My kids (and possibly a few dozen other patrons) stopped eating and stared at me. Our waitress delivered our food and reminded us that we could use the tablet screen to order drinks and dessert, pay our bill, and find a back door into a military central computer, mistake it for a game, and possibly start World War III.
We ignored the tablet through our meal. When it came time to pay, I asked the waitress, "Can I have the bill, please?"
She answered, "It's on there," indicating the tablet. You just swipe your card to pay. You can split it into separate bills first, if you'd like."
Wow. There's no getting around it. It makes me wonder though — is this something you find helpful? Do you like the idea? I imagine research and testing was done before this technology was implemented and since it was indeed implemented, I presume it was accepted by the masses. But how about the older generation? Do they shake their heads, confused by technology they may not instinctively know how to use? Do parents of small children applaud the apps that occupy their kids so they can carry on a conversation without them? Or do they think it's ridiculous that kids today can't hold a conversation and have the attention span of a rock, thanks in part to all the electronic stimulation they receive?
What are your thoughts? Helpful or a little ridiculous? My opinion? It all reminds me of the Jetsons. No matter what your feelings are, I'm sure these tablets won't be going away, and other establishments will be following along shortly. Now if only they'd perfect the flying car of the future — today, so I could sail over traffic, I'd be a happy camper.
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Alabama junior left tackle Andre Smith received the 2008 Outland Trophy tonight during ESPN's awards show, which is being broadcast live from Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Smith becomes the first Alabama player since Chris Samuels in 1999 to be named the nation's best collegiate interior lineman. He beat out fellow finalists Ole Miss' Michael Oher and Oklahoma's Duke Robinson.
Smith's reaction?
"I am proud to win this award," he said, "though I'd still like to be playing for a national championship."
The Outland Trophy is awarded by the Football Writers Association of America.
Smith joined Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban, who is being honored tonight as the Home Depot national coach of the year. Saban attended Thursday's ceremony and was seated next to his son and UA athletics director Mal Moore.
Said Saban of Smith: "There are a lot more guys who get the reputation than actually live up to the billing, He started as a freshman and has improved every year. I don't see them all, and I'm not saying he is better than anybody else, but it's hard for me to think there is any other offensive lineman who has played any better than him this season."


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Spring rolls made with wisteria flowers, redbud flowers and chickweed. It's the perfect way to infuse spring into spring rolls.
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Pupils from Norham St Ceolwulf's First School held a Marie Curie Blooming Great Tea Party last Wednesday. Parents and friends of the school came along to enjoy music as well as home baked treats.
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The smiles and cheers were plenty Friday afternoon in downtown Greeley during an inaugural fire truck pull to raise money for Special Olympics Colorado.
The event, organized by Greeley's fire and police departments, took place on the 9th Street Plaza. Teams of 10 attempted to pull one of the Greeley Fire Department's fire trucks 30 feet, with the team that performed the feat in the shortest amount of time declared the winner.
The teams were cheered across the finish line by a crowd of a few hundred people, many of whom made the weekly trek to the downtown area for Friday Fest. But for many of the teams, the event's trophy was ample motivation. Sgt. Sean Standridge, spokesman for the Weld County Sheriff's Office, joked that a team of deputies were planning to bring in a few ringers.
"We brought in some guys from the jail," Standridge said with a laugh.
Greeley Police Chief Jerry Garner in turn joked that he needed some clarification on that point.
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Randy Sparkman, spokesman for Greeley's fire department, laughed off the jibe.
"Hey, we're the honest guys," Sparkman said with a laugh. "But seriously, this is just a great cause, and we're always happy to bring people to the downtown area. The various departments and businesses have been very willing to help out."
Greeley businesses did have a big hand in Friday's event.
Adam Terrazas, general manager of The Penalty Box, 822 9th St., said his team jumped at the chance to join in the fun.
"We're happy to be a part of community events," Terrazas said. "We just came out to have fun and make this a great place to be."
As for how it felt to pull a fully-loaded ladder truck 30 feet, some participants were surprised at how they handled the challenge.
"It was easier than I thought it would be," said Casey Luzar, manager of Hampton Inn, 2350 29th St. "But I was in the back."
One of the crowd's favorite teams was the Slaughterhouse Derby Girls, a roller derby team based in Greeley. Allison "Tongue-N-Cheek" Mockmurphy, executive director of the league, noted it was the only all-female team.
"If we had been wearing skates we would have won," Mockmurphy said with a laugh. "But we're proud we only needed 10 people to do it. And we're obviously happy to support the Special Olympics."
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Kanye West got an early Father's Day present.
The rapper welcomed his first child with reality TV star Kim Kardashian -- a little girl -- on Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. The baby was due in July, but was born five weeks early.
"Kim got sick last night and had the baby early," a hospital source told Us Weekly. "They're all doing great and amazing!"
West, 36, reportedly canceled an appearance at his own record release party so he could be by Kardashian's side. The new album, "Yeezus," is scheduled to be released Tuesday, but was leaked online Friday.
Kardashian, 32, announced the sex of the infant June 2 on the season premiere of her show, "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."
While the bundle of joy's name hasn't been revealed yet, E! Network -- which airs the reality TV series -- says that Kardashian reportedly told friends and family that the girl's name "will start with a K."
"All I know is that they're going to name it something with a K," a source close to West told HollywoodLife.com.
The mystery surrounding the child's name has led to bookmakers listing odds on what it will be. Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has "Kim" at 8-to-1 odds, with "Kris" (Kardashian's mother's name) at 20-to-1 and "Kimye" (the couple's nickname)at 25-to-1.
As for the baby's middle name, it could be "Donda" after West's mother, who died of complications from cosmetic surgery in 2007, according to People magazine.
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Wednesday's New England Patriots training camp roundup: Brandon LaFell shows improvement, Malcolm Butler on the verge of 53-man roster lock
Tom Brady targeted Brandon LaFell five times. All five resulted in receptions. The 6-foot-2, 210-pound LaFell has been putting it all together of late. His initial camp practices were marred by drops, but he seems to have hit his stride over the last week.
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Looming UMass football season opener against Boston College more than just another game for Norwood native Joe Colton
Growing up in Norwood less than half an hour from Chestnut Hill, Colton and his father Robert – who played for UMass in the 1970s – cheered on the Eagles each and every week.
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He felt the bruise after getting jammed on a pitch in his last at-bat after going 1-for-3. The Red Sox don't expect it to be serious.
Jon Lester still open to return to Boston Red Sox: 'I'm not going to the highest bidder'
In the midst of a career year and up for a possible Cy Young Award, the 30-year-old will be among the most coveted of free agents.
Xander Bogaerts feeling good and impressing at shortstop for Boston Red Sox
Bogaerts made just 86 percent of the "routine plays" at third base, according to fangraphs.com. He struggled making throws while moving to his left because the angle wasn't natural for him. Grounders would often scoot under his glove and trickle into the outfield grass.
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- County attorney: Scott Brumley*
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- Precinct 1 commissioner: H.R. Kelly*
- Precinct 2 commissioner: Fabian Tankesly
- Precinct 1 constable: Todd Page*
- Precinct 4 constable: Juan Gonzales
Democratic ticket in Potter
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Why Firms Use Currency Derivatives
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Catherine M. Schrand
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October 1996
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We examine firms' use of currency derivatives in order to differentiate among existing theories of hedging behavior. Firms with greater growth opportunities and tighter financial constraints are more likely to use currency derivatives. This result suggests that firms might use derivatives to reduce cash flow variation that might otherwise preclude firms from investing in valuable growth opportunities. Firms with extensive foreign exchange-rate exposure and economies of scale in hedging activities are also more likely to use currency derivatives. Finally, the source of foreign exchange-rate exposure is an important factor in the choice among types of currency derivatives.
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Prison Slang for forcing a perfectly heterosexual male into an involuntary homosexual relationship and identity role through coersion, violence, or threat of violence.
"Big Tony will 'Flip A Bitch' later tonight during showers. I think his name is Al."
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to get Angry, Loose, or Exited.
If i tell him hes ganna flip an bitch.
Im so heated, im about to flip a bitch.
Im so heated, im about to flip a bitch.
door JoeBeFresh 16 februari 2008
To kill a prostitute.
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Did you just flip a bitch? You better clean that hooker's blood off your hands.
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to have a fit, freak out, flip out, or otherwise become quickly and unreasonably angry.
If she cuts in front of me in line again, I'm gonna flip a bitch.
door apaigeb 10 december 2005
When a man is making love with a woman, front-to-front, and suddenly (and often unexpectantly) flips her around for doggy-style copulation. The woman will respond negatively or positively depending on her kinky factor (KF); but it is always good to know a woman more intimately before trying this stunt. If the man is really jumpy, he will only be facing her, anterior-to-anterior with his erection between them before attempting this quick maneuver.
"Dave's such a wimp; he won't flip a bitch the first time they 'make love'."
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When a cop pulls a U-turn to pull you over.
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Alaska's brown bears are putting on a show
It's not easy being a brown bear in Alaska. Territorial disputes, mating woes and the endless hunt for salmon infuse daily life with drama. Thanks to eight webcams set up in Katmai National Park, this drama is ready for prime time.
The bear-cam project, funded by the Annenberg Foundation, was launched for two weeks last July to expose people to the brown bear, an icon of the Alaskan wilderness. Katmai National Park, 275 miles west of Anchorage, is accessible only by float plane.
This year, eight cameras will broadcast their activities in the Brooks Camp area, where about 100 of the park's 2,000 brown bears live. The webcams – one of them underwater – are set up along the Brooks River and at Brooks Falls, where many bears wade into the water to catch salmon traveling upstream. View the action at explore.org/bears.
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IRIS sheds new light on the sun's power
NASA is getting an unprecedented close-up look at the sun, thanks to a new telescope.
NASA's IRIS spacecraft, launched about a month ago, already is providing detailed pictures of the sun.
The telescope's door opened in late July, and it began observing the lower solar atmospheres in never-before-seen detail. The early results were announced and hailed by the research team as exciting. Its predecessor, the SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) spacecraft, offered much less detail.
NASA's science mission directorate chief, former astronaut John Grunsfeld, said it's "a grand opening of a new era in solar physics."
IRIS is short for Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph. It will continue its mission for the next two years.
Scientists say the observations will help shed light on the sun's impact on Earth.
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My wife and I laugh and mock when Hollywood types pat themselves on the back for their bravery. They choose a role designed to get them critical applause and an Oscar and they tell us how brave they have been by, say, playing the role of a gay man confronting bigots, for example. There is nothing brave in that and their well-practiced gravitas and denunciation of the straw men that they build up in the movies are just an extension of the make-believe worlds in which they live and work.
That isn't to deny artistic merit or even to say that there aren't truly meaningful movies or is it to say that all of their words are playacting; it's merely to note that there isn't much bravery required to cash big checks, denounce racism, and collect awards.
Bravery is something else entirely. If you want bravery, then look to the cover of the latest Time magazine and you will see the face of a brave woman.
If I ever seem proud of my own bravery--or overly proud at my small accomplishments--someone slap me and point me back to this young woman.
Read the rest. Beware: it is, very honestly, a disturbing image.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Tough Choices for Obama
General McChrystal was wrong. Even if he and his aides were right about everything they said in the Rolling Stone piece (PDF warning), they were wrong. It was purely dumb to let the reporter from RS have that kind of access to the general's inner circle. It was dumber still to treat the reporter like just another troop with an ear for the kind of rough commentary that comes from military man instead of like an enemy looking for an ugly story to break in a magazine not known for its friendliness to the military. And it was completely idiotic to break the rule that even a trainee in basic knows: you don't get caught playing in national politics and that rule is more important the higher you get up the food chain.
If you can't swallow your words, you resign your position. An officer in a time of war can't expect to keep his job after displaying judgment that poor. To allow him to maintain his position, in fact, would be damaging to an already depleted presidency--a show of weakness that President Obama really doesn't need right now. And yet firing McChrystal could be hugely damaging to the war effort--finding the replacement, confirming the appointment, and getting the new commander up and running could leave Afghanistan a mess during the transition. I somehow imagine that our enemies won't be honoring any timeout requests.
What Obama needs to be asking himself right now is how he can visibly punish McChrystal, preferably involving a change of command in Afghanistan, without creating a huge setback in a war effort that is already in near-crisis. I have been unimpressed with our president's executive capabilities thus far, but I hope that he and his advisors can find the right path on this. The BP spill is ugly, no doubt, but completely fumbling Afghanistan would be ruinous (and not just to a presidency). McChrystal needs to resign and he needs to offer up everything that he can do to help this president maintain authority and credibility.
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Thursday, November 08, 2007
Lose by Any Means Possible
I think that we are seeing demonstrable, often positive changes in Iraq--changes that came from Iraqis weary of war and the excesses of thuggish "insurgents", the creative leadership of General Petraeus, more troops, the the aggressive tactics of the surge. Iraq isn't won, but these changes do seem to be creating an environment where the political victory can incubate. A real victory seems more possible now than it did less than a year ago; nothing is guaranteed, I realize, but if we continue to let the military do its job we can give the diplomats and politicians the time to do theirs.
Which is why I am surprised by this from Nancy Pelosi--a move that seems calculated to toss some red meat to the Kossacks and progressives, but which might just confound the general public.
I'll be curious to see what support she gets from the Democrat candidates for the presidency--obviously Kucinich will like the legislation, but what will Edwards, Clinton, and Obama say publicly? This does seem to confirm that ensuring defeat is the policy of at least some of the Democrats' leadership. Announcing to the world that we are no longer willing to support our troops or our mission will send a message of abandonment to our friends and encouragement to our enemies. Brilliant.
And, no, I'm not an absolutist. There is a time when a nation must face up to defeat and failure. You can't fight a war forever. It's just better to make that choice when you're actually losing.
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Monday, September 26, 2005
Good Drug, Bad Drug
It was at a party where an angry anti-war type confronted me about the drug trade in Afghanistan that I discovered a really great idea: make the Afghan drug trade into something legal and positive for the country. Instead of funding a drug war that would be, probably, about as successful as our other drug wars, instead of throwing money at a fight that would target the only reliable economic driver in a country that desperately needed money and industry, we should legitimize that industry and use it to help re-build the country.
My version had tax credits as incentives for pharma companies to source their opiates through some as yet unnamed and uncreated Afghani bureau of Good Drug Development. I won't pretend to be the first to have the idea, but it was new to me at the time. All this to say: I'm glad that someone else is working on toward the same goal.
Aside from the economic benefit, it might also pull more people (and more powerful people) into the legitimate political system, reducing the violence and helping speed Afghanistan's recovery.
Sounds like a damned fine idea to me.
Update: Kindly linked by John Hays.
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Thursday, July 07, 2005
The Wrong Reaction
From Salon's War Room (subscription or willingness to watch an ad required) :
I find it highly unlikely that any American President would be feeling relief at any attack on a friend. I find it unlikely that he is finding some happy silver lining in an attack engineered that left innocent civilians dead and hundreds injured. I can't even fathom that he would take a single moment of joy from the thought that we still have so far to go in our battle with the murderers and thugs.
Any suggestion otherwise is offensive.
People forget that this President was something closer to being an isolationist than an imperialist when he first stepped into office. His instinct seemed to be to follow in Clinton's footsteps when it came to questions of the Middle East: leave it alone as much as possible and hope that the problems don't require much in the way of American attention. That only changed following 9/11--and, regardless of how history will remember W, I'm also convinced that he would give up that place in history if he could have been a President that presided over 8 years of peace instead of having to send young men and women to fight and die far from home.
No, the President doesn't "like" the continuing war any more than Tony Blair does; he just recognizes the necessity of fighting back against the threat. Suggesting otherwise is just trying to score cheap political points
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News Flash: Afghani Women Didn't Mind a Life of Servitude
A bit ago, Shawn Macomber wrote a story about women's progress in Afghanistan. Forget which side of the aisle you sit on, it should be celebrated that women can now attend school and enjoy even the most basic of freedoms in a country where they so recently suffered. But for some, that just isn't possible.
Take this response, from "Ryd" on a discussion board, to some of what Macomber had to say:
What happened to the idea of giving a voice to the voiceless? "Women were not complaining" so they must have been awfully happy, right? Of course, with no voice in their political system, no free and open press to express or explain the horrors of many of the women's' lives, and no government protection, it's highly unlikely that this little fool would ever have heard their complaints to begin with.
And don't forget to put Shawn's Return of the Primitive on your blogroll.
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Monaco, a Principality Known for Its Royals, Can't Find a Poet to Anoint
As Cultural Olympiad Looms, Officials Go Through Hoops to Find Would-Be Wordsmiths; Inspiration From Ode to a Fig
MONACO—Early this year, Monaco's foreign-affairs department couriered a letter with a pressing request to the principality's head of cultural affairs: Could he rustle up a local poet?
The government needed one to participate in London's Cultural Olympiad, an arts festival that will coincide this summer with the 2012 Olympic Games. This two-square-kilometers of coastline on the French Riviera is one of only nine nations that hasn't been able to produce a poet to take part in the London event.
The others are Brunei, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, the Central African Republic, Liechtenstein, the Seychelles and the Pacific islands of Palau and Vanuatu—mostly tiny countries where the event's organizers expected the search to be hard. Monaco, population 31,000, "fits into that category…but the fact that it is in Europe makes it surprising," says Katie Toms, a spokeswoman for London's Southbank Centre, which is helping coordinate the summit.
The task of finding a Monacan poet fell to Jean-Charles Curau, Monaco's director of cultural affairs, who sought suggestions from local writing groups and an organization dedicated to preserving the native language, Monegasque. A local newspaper, the Monaco Times, joined the search, publishing a call-out for any poets to represent Monaco at the event. Judith Gantley, administrator of Monaco's Princess Grace Irish Library, sent the article to several contacts, hoping to smoke out the local talent.
"We haven't found anybody," Ms. Gantley said from the library's cool corridors in Monaco's hilltop Old Town, a short walk from the 16th-century palace where Princess Grace lived with Prince Rainier III.
Theories abound to explain the tax haven's paucity of poets. One of the favorites: too many rich people.
"Rich people don't write poetry," says Leontia Flynn, an Irish poet who spent several months in Monaco in 2005 as a guest of the Princess Grace library. Monaco, she says, is a place people go "for tax reasons." Poetry "is never going to make you money and it's very hard to do," she says.
In Monaco's yacht-choked port, the captain of a sleek 165-footer shrugged when asked about the problem, saying the principality's high rollers were unlikely to embrace poetry "unless they can hang it on a wall and point to it and say, guess how much I spent on that?"
Mr. Curau, the cultural affairs director, says Monacan poetry has died out with the Monegasque language, which has been smothered by French and Italian and is spoken today by only a few hundred people.
"We have had a lot of poetry in the past but it is dead now," he says. Indeed, the only Monacan poet mentioned to the festival organizers was Georges Franzi, a priest who died in 1997.
According to Eliane Mollo, a Monegasque expert who translated "The Adventures of Tintin" into the local language, Monaco's place in the literary canon troubled none other than Prince Rainier III. Shortly before his death in 2005, Ms. Mollo says the prince asked her, "Is there such thing as Monegasque literature?" The question prompted her to dig into the Monegasque-language archives, where she uncovered some surprising evidence.
One poem was "about a fart," she says. Another was a kind of ode to a fig that Ms. Mollo recalls finding rather suggestive. What she didn't find were any references to love or other tender sentiments. She attributes this to the natural reserve of the Monegasque, a trait she fears may crimp their willingness to write verse. "We don't express our deepest feelings…we have a secret garden within ourselves that remains secret," she says.
Still, in an informal search, some local people were eager to suggest leads. Standing outside Monaco's famous Beaux Arts-style casino with her Chihuahua, Cleopatra, Russian resident Tatiana Belchanskaya raised her Chanel sunglasses and offered that another Russian she'd met in Monaco sometimes wrote verse. The woman, though, lived partly in Moscow, she said.
Martine-Annick Rosticher, a French-speaking bookbinder in the medieval Old Town, nodded quickly when asked in English whether she knew any poets, jotting down an address where she said the McNabs, a husband-and-wife duo, could be found. But the address led to a ceramics studio where U.K.-born Ewan McNab was locking up for the day. "Poetry? No, I do pottery," he said.
Some of Monaco's natives consider themselves poets at heart. "I make myself my poetry every day. Life is very short. I enjoy my life every day," said Mani Haddou, the 43-year-old manager of a cafe.
At a lawn-bowling club overlooking Monaco's harbor, a table of elderly gentlemen sipping wine snorted when asked whether they knew any poets. "We make the poetry at the table!" said Yves Santini, 65.
The search for a poetic Olympian produced a tantalizing tip from Claude Passet, general secretary of the Academy of Dialects, a group dedicated to preserving Monegasque. Monaco, he insisted, does indeed have a poet: one Paulette Cherici-Porello, an elderly woman who was born, as the locals say, "on the rock"—a reference to the rocky promontory on which Monaco Old Town stands.
Ms. Cherici-Porello, it seems, published a book of Monegasque-language poems in the 1980s. It is out of print, and unavailable in shops or libraries.
But Ms. Cherici-Porello won't go for the gold in London. Mr. Passet says he and a few colleagues approached the elderly poet about representing Monaco at the festival, but Ms. Cherici-Porello declined, saying she didn't feel up to the travel. "She is 86 years old. She lives in an elderly person's home. To go with a plane is very difficult," Mr. Passet said.
Monacan poetry may come out a winner after all, however. Mr. Passet said a movement is afoot to republish Ms. Cherici-Porello's book in a small run for friends and family. He hopes it can be ready to present to students who study the Monegasque language in a ceremony later in June.
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To awaken with a boner so hard a cat couldn't scratch it , otherwise known as to sleep in a tent, or to have a dawn horn.
Loose the morning glory before you put somebody's eye out
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When you wake up with morning wood, put it in your girlfriends ass and yell "the south will rise again!"
I gave her the morning glory this morning. She loves the confederates.
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An erection caused by testosterone levels being high in the body during the early hours of the morning.
Man waking up with a mysterious erection.
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"Rob always gets a morning glory"
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The seeds of several varieties of Morning Glory (Ipomoea violacea) contain a naturally occurring tryptamine called Lysergic Acid Amide (LSA), which is closely related to LSD. Seeds are taken orally, and can be eaten whole or the active alkaloids can be extracted.
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I didn't have any LSD so I orally ingested some Morning Glory seeds instead.
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1. LSA or 9,10-Didehydro-6-methylergoline-8ß-carboxamide or D-lysergic acid amide or LA-111.
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2. To wake up with a 'hard-on'.
1. "Know where I can get any Morning Glory seeds?"
2. "I've got 'Morning Glory'."
2. "I've got 'Morning Glory'."
作者 Diego 2003年8月31日
Waking up with a hard on
Morning hunnie, wanna sort out my morning glory?
作者 Bandylank 2008年10月08日