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I agree with some of the other complaints. A complete ripoff and unwilling to do a free repair after they completely broke my camera worse than it was. When I informed them of this a manger was going to call me back.I am still waiting for that 3 weeks after complaining. They have a complete lack of what customer service is all about at this company. Not only rude but very uncaring it seemed to me.
I since have taken my Nikon Dslr to there local competitor who serviced and completely fixed the unprofessional repair that United did. I was happy to pay and get the service I thought I would have gotten at United Camera. Stay away from this place would be my advice. There guarantee is completely bogus so beware. I am sure they will have a rebuttal but they sure did not call me like they said.
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Sunlight illuminates this cosy studio with 2 single beds which can be pushed together to form a double bed, and a generously-sized sofa bed. The kitchenette is equipped with cooking utensils, and meals can be enjoyed whilst sitting on the balcony.
A 10-minute walk away is the Jerusalem Theatre, a centre for the performing arts.Considered one of the world's leading art and archaeology museums, Israel Museum is a 20-minute walk away.
Within a 5-minute walking radius of the apartment are many tasty restaurants, pretty cafes and and delicious bakeries. Pretty gardens also feature in the area, where guests can enjoy a delightful stroll.
Domovní řádBed linen and towels are provided.
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A quiet apartment in the Rehavia neighborhood not too far from the center.
About 20 minutes walk. The host is very friendly. We want to come back.
Noam is a perfect host
His flat is very well located in the center of Jerusalem, not far from the old city nor the most interesting places to visit. I recommend you to rent his flat
A very nice place to stay: 15min walking distance from Old city (Jaffa gate), but at the same time nice and quiet residential area. We were 3 guests staying in the apartment and it was comfortable. The room and bathroom were clean. We did not use kitchen, but we saw all standard appliances and utensils to prepare dishes. As opposed to many other flats we looked at, this one has a parking for a car which is extremely useful in Jerusalem. Noam was very kind and helpful; we were able to check in early and leave bags after check out until afternoon. We definitely recommend this place and would stay there again should we come to Jerusalem.
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Very well located apartment, close to the old city. Noam was very helpful. We had a privacy in a quiet place. I really recommend to rent it.
Noam has been a perfect host
His flat is very well located in the center of Jerusalem, not far from the old city nor the most interesting places to visit.
I recommend you to rent his flat, that was clean, quiet and perfectly located
Noam's Central Apartment + garden & Wi-Fi (2) was perfect for our vacation in Jerusalem. Centrally located, a short distance on foot to the old city, food shops near by. A small terrace/garden which was ideal for breakfast and morning coffee and to ralax on in the evening. The garden should, however, be tidyed up a little bit.
Noam is fast and efficient in replying and providing his flat´s keys.
The flat is in a nice district in a walking distance from the Old Town, two minutes from a food shop and five minutes from the Azza Road with shops, local restaurants, a bank and a money changer (who is better than the opposite bank).
There is a sufficiently equiped kitchen there.
However, an overall clean-up and some small repairs would certainly make the stay there more pleasant.
Perfect location, very convenient flat and perfect host.
Apartment very comfortable and roomy for mother and son stay. Location good too, close to supermarket, restaurants and 10 mins walk to central parts, e.g. Jaffa Road and 15mins to Old City. Would recommend, only gripe would be shower, although good, facilities to dry yourself not so good. However, small thing.
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APEPTICO Initiates Phase I Trial With AP301 In Pulmonary Oedema
AP301 is the first compound against respiratory failure caused by pulmonary oedema that activates lung oedema reabsorption and thus differs from the currently used anti-inflammatory treatment that often fails in patients with acute lung injury. The synthetic peptide AP301 activates alveolar liquid clearance (ALC) and prevents both endothelial and epithelial lung tissue from hyper-permeability as a result of microbial and viral lung infections. AP301 also prevents ischaemia reperfusion injury following lung transplantation in the lower respiratory tract.
The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose escalating study is enrolled in Austria. Up to 48 patients will receive a single dose of AP301 or matching placebo converted into an aerosol by state-of-the-art nebuliser technology.
"We are very pleased to expand the development of our lead molecule AP301 into clinical studies, particularly as we have faced widespread scepticism regarding the usefulness of peptide drugs in inhalation therapy," said Bernhard Fischer, CEO of APEPTICO. "Treatment of oedematous respiratory failure represents an unmet medical need as no specific therapy or medicinal product has been approved so far for the prevention and treatment of pulmonary oedema caused by hyper-permeability."
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"Pulmonary oedema is the primary cause of death in patients with influenza. Due to our promising results with AP301 in mice infected with influenza virus and a porcine model of acute lung injury, we are very confident that we will soon find partners in the pharmaceutical industry for further development of AP301," said Bernhard Fischer.
Treatment of influenza virus-infected mice with AP301 results in a significant reduction of oedema fluid accumulation in the air space and increased ALC. AP301 acts synergistically with anti-viral neuraminidase inhibitor, such as oseltamivir and zanamivir, in influenza virus-infected mice by reducing virus-mediated lung oedema and by prevention of endothelial/epithelial hyper-permeability. In a porcine model of acute lung injury, inhalation of AP301 peptide results in a sustained improvement of the lung function according to the parameters oxygenation index, extravascular lung water (EVLWI) and pulmonary shunt fraction.
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AP301 is a synthetic peptide that corresponds to a structural motif of the human tumour necrosis factor alpha. It is water soluble and can be administered into the lung by instillation or by oral inhalation. Formulated AP301 can be nebulised and the resulting aerosol is composed of peptide/water droplets of diameter 3 μm or less. AP301 was originally designed for the treatment of acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Additional research demonstrated that AP301 has additional significant potential in related clinical indications, such as prevention and treatment of pulmonary permeability oedema, prevention of progression of acute hypoxemic respiratory failure due to bacterial/viral pneumonia and prevention of ischemia reperfusion injury. AP301 activates lung oedema reabsorption and protects both endothelial and epithelial lung cells from virulence factor- and reactive oxygen species-induced hyper-permeability of lung capillaries. AP301 has received orphan drug designation by the EMA (European Community) for the treatment of acute lung injury and by the FDA (USA) for the prevention of ischemia reperfusion injury in the lung during lung transplantation.
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SailNet Community (http://www.sailnet.com/forums/)
- Pacific Northwest & Alaska (http://www.sailnet.com/forums/pacific-northwest-alaska/)
- - PNW - Cruising Guides. (http://www.sailnet.com/forums/pacific-northwest-alaska/57876-pnw-cruising-guides.html)
PNW - Cruising Guides.
What I would like to see is a compilation of PNW Guides plus any other information that relates to the area, be that books, magazines, links to websites, dvds etc. This is not meant to be the place for individual cruising reports (though we can link to them) but could include your favourite marinas, restaurants, whatever.
Cruising Guides
A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands - Migael Scherer
Don Douglass and Réanne Hemingway - Exploring Series Cruising Guides
Charlies Charts - Charlie and Margo Wood
Dreamspeaker - Anne and Laurence Yeaden-Jones
Northwest Boating On Line
Waggoner Cruising Guide - Bob Hale
Sailing Directions (from the Canadian Hydrographic Service)
BC Marine Parks Guide (published by Heritage House)
Marinas, Repair Facilities, Restaurants etc.
Rosario Resort (Sept 09)
Cleats and Eats
The Burgee - David Kutz
Personal Blogs and Cruising Reports
Faster -- Yet Another Great Summer
JRD22 -- Desolation Sound Trip
nikolajsen -- 31 Days to Desolation Sound in a 20' Yawl
Erps -- Labor Day Weekend in the San Juans
Around Vancouver Island: A story about circumnavigating Vancouver Island, British Columbia
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Post your suggestions and I'll edit them into the list. If you think any of the suggestions are utter rubbish, please feel free to say so. The same goes for the layout and the categories. Tell me what you want.
I do not at this time have too many guides per say, but three on the list I have and like,
A Cruising Guide to Puget sound and the San Juan Islands, I have the Olympia to Port Angelas version, would assume there is another for the gulf islands north, but could be wrong. Witten by Migael Scherer. It also has a few tide current charts at the rear along with how to get into different bays and marina's etc.
I also have two current carts, one of puget sound, and another that is popular for the san juans. But being as both are 15 min away on the boat........I'll get them maybe later tonight, or this weekend if someone else does not mention them in the mean time. Currents can be rather tricky around here. Where you think the water would be flowing, it is going opposite!
A few more that I have used
Exploring Vancouver Island's West Coast, 2nd Ed. (Paperback)
by Don Douglass
Bill Wolferstan's books - a little dated, but still good resources.
Gunkholing in The Gulf Islands and Gunkholing in Desolation Sound and Princess Louisa by Al Cummings and Jo Bailey Cummings
The San Juan Islands - Afoot and Afloat by Marge and Ted Mueller
Good thread tdw, thanks.
"Exploring the North Coast of British Columbia" - Blunden Harbour to Dixon Entrance. By Don Douglass & Reanne Hemingway. 600 pages jam packed with very useful cruising info including lots of historical info.
I find this one to be invaluable and very interesting to browse even when I'm not cruising.
If your suggestion doesn't make it onto the list at first, don't despair. I am trying to give each suggestion a quick run through before I edit the main list and I only have so much time.
I fear the links may end up getting the shaft. It is perhaps a little bit too difficult to keep from becoming overly commercial.
We shall see.
I have not looked at the above links to see if they go to a book store, the authors web site...........
Hopefully, "IF" folks choose to link a book, then the link disappears for what ever reason, they will list the book name/author etc, as this is probably the "best way" IMHO as to not worry about losing the info! I can then look up the book via my favorite seach engine, be it google, yahoo, msn or lets see if we can come up with a benehuntalina word for it..........."yagoosn"
Anyway, 10pm here in the lovely NW, I've had my IC, cold drink, walked the bleeping dog.......time for bed!
May I suggest that you include some of the great trip reports that our PacNW Sailnet members have posted here? Maybe you could list them under the "Personal Blogs" category?
I think these would really help to give folks a taste for sailing in the PNW. Recently we've had some trip reports from Faster, JRD, Erps, and others (I'll stick some links in at the bottom), but I know there are plenty of others who have made nice contributions in the past.
Faster -- Yet Another Great Summer
JRD22 -- Desolation Sound Trip
nikolajsen -- 31 Days to Desolation Sound in a 20' Yawl
Erps -- Labor Day Weekend in the San Juans
Not strictly a cruising guide.
Sailing Directions from the Canadian Hydrographic Service
It has some information lacking in a cruising guide
- Weather conditions throughout the year
- Traffic Zones and VHF frequencies, etc.,
As an official publication, none of its information is prefaced with "not for navigation."
When teaching, I refer my students to Sailing Direction before a cruising guide, and compare the advice.
Marine Parks forever publishes a nice guide to BC marine parks. Agree that the rather out-of-date Pacific Yachting/Wolferstan books are still of value for the historical aspects in the text. (There's one for the West Coast of Vancouver Island as well)
I think TD has pretty well covered the other (more or less current) editions. Keep in mind that the marina and aquaculture situations are always in a state of flux, and often recommended destinations may well turn out not to be as advertised.....
There are a couple of pure marina guides out there... "Docks and Destinations" is one of them. Again, though, be prepared for changes to what's listed.
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If the romance of the Brazil World Cup and TV screens full of Samba'ing dancers have begun to give you a craving for the local cuisine you don't have to go all the way to Rio to find it.
There are plenty of good restaurants and clubs here in the UK to get an authentic taste of Brazil and Portugal.
Canela in Covent Garden, Central London, is run by a Brazilian and a Portuguese, who have produced a menu that samples both the cross-over dishes and aspects of the cuisine particular to each of these indelibly linked nations.
My early experience of Brazilian food involved copious amounts of steak, of different cuts, carved off a large skewer at the table, in what rapidly turned into an eating competition. It was good, but heavy going.
But at Canela I found the emphasis very much on fresh, light, modern dishes.
The decor too is minimalistic, but warm, with a couple of neat but quirky features, such as old wooden radios on the wall.
Sitting down with some friends during the week we ordered a bottle of Arca Nova Alvarinho 2013, a really tasty crisp northern Portuguese wine. Perfect for hot weather.
We had small plates of Pataniscas (Portuguese salt cod fritters), cottage cheese with figs and tomatoes and something called a squid boat - calamari stuffed with chorizo and tomatoes.
These colourful, beautiful to look at dishes pay homage to the seafood that is a staple of life in both countries. They are simple but evocative.
Our mains of Guisado, black rice with prawns and bulgar wheat salad, touched different cultural aspects.
The guisado, a beef stew dish with grilled bananas, that developed in Brazil is a hearty, honest meal served with a poached egg and cereal. It's the type of meal you would find in any South American labourer's cafe, designed to sustain you for a hard day's work. At Canela it had all that protein-hungry goodness, presented sharply with a London diner in mind.
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His body, authorities told the Tribune, was recovered approximately four hours later.
Schmitz was teaching history and coaching the boys' track and field team at Land O' Lakes High School in Pasco County, Fla.
He served as offensive coordinator of the Land O' Lakes football team in 2011 and 2012, but was not coaching football this season, the Tribune said.
"When he came to us, the thing that attracted him to us was his resume, which had a lot of quality to it," Land O' Lakes principal Ric Mellin told the Tribune. "He was also humbled to have the opportunity to start over again. He embraced the notion of not only teaching on the field, but teaching in the classroom."
Schmitz, who starred in football and basketball at Coast Guard, was inducted into the Academy's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.
He held assistant coaching positions at Division I schools Cincinnati, Rice, Vanderbilt and Eastern Michigan from 1981-1991 and spent the 1992 season as an assistant with the London Monarchs of the former World League before landing his first head coaching job at Coast Guard.
He guided the Bears to a 20-19 record over four seasons (1993-96), capped by an 8-2 regular season in 1996 that led to the program's first NCAA Division III playoff appearance, where Coast Guard lost 17-16 in the opening round to the College of New Jersey.
Schmitz left Coast Guard to become head coach at Austin Peay, a Division I-AA program in Clarksville, Tenn. He coached the Governors until 2002, was head coach of Tampa Jesuit High School in 2003 and 2004, and then spent two seasons as an assistant at Alabama-Birmingham and two more at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty at Land O' Lakes.
Coast Guard athletic director Tim Fitzpatrick, in a statement released by the Academy on Monday, said: "We are very saddened to learn of the passing of coach Bill Schmitz, CGA Class of 1976. The athletics division coaches, staff and cadet-athletes send out thoughts, prayers and condolences to Bill's family during their time of loss.
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I called RJ, because he moved to Redondo Beach. I asked him for the video and that I would be willing to edit the video. He told me sure. no problem, but never sent a thing. I called again, He acted surprised that I did not receive the video and said he would be sending immediately. That was 6 months ago and I have yet to hear back from him.
He is now not answering his phone or email and I am stuck! Scammed out of my wedding video that he promised to send. Do not hire RJ for any project he will scam you like he did me. Something so important as a wedding video cannot be replaced and he robbed us of that.
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will win7 beta be working with whs?
yup - and real well. you still need to install the software as normal, but the librarys work real well with newtowrk files, and so does the sync center (well happy it all works correctly!). This is with me using buld 7000.
What if anything did you do to get yours working? I installed 7 over a working Vista Ultimate image and all seemed fine for a few days then BSOD at random times viewing shares. There is no apparent cause in the BSOD message. Its so random. Ive had WHS sessions without issues and others BSOD the moment i click a folder to view files. I tried removing WHS from add/remove and put it back on but still issues. Im not sure where to grab latest software either. Ive looked and none found other than through update.
i did nothing at all.. worked like a charm straight away... i tested it firstly after doing an upgrade from vista home premium to 7, and after a fresh install of 7. powerpack 1 was already fully installed, and i used the software downloaded directly from the server rather then the old one and upgrading. could be the reason? only slight glitch i've found is when you use "available offline" sync on windoiws 7, it takes a while for the directory to re-connect (even after all the others work no problem!). few glitches found so far but overall i think i will be one of the first load of people to actually buy it!


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There is no doubting the popularity of "ethical" investing, and why not? As Eiris, the ethical investment screening service (not for profit, naturally), points out, ethical products – fair trade, etc – have become increasingly popular with good reason. Why, then, should financial products be considered differently?
The catch is that once you get into the process, problems occur. Take the FTSE4Good index, which has been "designed to measure the performance of companies that meet globally recognised corporate responsibility standards, and to facilitate investment in those companies".
Decisions on whether a company gets in are based on Eiris research.
It is rather a shame that the names of those who are in aren't published on FTSE's website, but fortunately the index provided me with a list and there are one or two interesting companies on it. Take, for example, the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell. As I have said before in this column, I was hauled over the coals by a colleague for querying whether oil should be seen as an ethical investment. Her point was that the lights wouldn't be on without it.
Debates can actually be conducted about a wide range of companies in a wide range of sectors. Take Diageo (featured last week). Those who enjoy the odd tipple probably enjoy Diageo's products. It has so many famous drinks brands that they are actually rather hard to avoid. However, a Muslim might feel differently. So, for that matter, would many Christians. But it is still in FTSE4Good.
Those who gamble would probably have no issues with bookies such as Ladbrokes or William Hill (I certainly don't). Religious people might, though.
Some left-wing commentators and politicians (from the sillier parts of that side of the political spectrum) have also been puffing their chests out because bookies have allegedly been opening shops up in poor areas.
Actually, they've been opening all over the place thanks to the abolition of the "demand" test that used to allow existing betting shops to block rivals from opening new ones.
Lack of profitability will see a lot of those new shops closing over the next few years, but let's not let that get in the way of some good old tub thumping. Hills and Ladbrokes are both in.
Meanwhile, a broadcaster such as BSkyB (it's in) might find itself on certain people's blacklists for showing pornography (or material deemed to be pornographic). Oh, and then there's the small matter of one of its director's connection to the phone-hacking scandal.
Much actually depends on one's own personal prejudices. Which is why some "ethical" funds are classified as "light green" – perhaps using similar criteria to FTSE4Good – and some are "dark green": wind farms ok, but no to a wide range of companies including (probably) booze, gambling and of course, fags.
Yet the ever-controversial weed has some attractions as an investment right now. On the face of it the tobacco industry faces problems, particularly in the big Western economies: taxes keep getting higher and restrictions on where people can smoke keep getting tighter. What's more, the recession has hit volumes. Tobacco is addictive. But even those who are reluctant to give it up have cut back.
That said, when your customers are addicts they tend to stick. So when you've got your hooks into them, they're yours.
Then there are the emerging markets where the restrictions on what tobacco companies do tend to be less stringent and whose citizens are benefiting from rising incomes. Guess where some of those are being spent?
This backdrop means that the tobacco companies can offer reasonable growth prospects (Imperial Tobacco should turn in earnings per share growth of 9 per cent, British American Tobacco a bit more). They also produce solid dividends which are well covered by earnings.
Trading on about 12 times 2012 full-year earnings with a prospective yield of 4.2 per cent, Imperial Tobacco has been able to push through price rises to more than offset a fall in volumes. Its most recent update (at the end of last month) has provided confidence that it will meet full-year forecasts.
The shares have come off a bit recently, but tobacco companies tend to be resilient when markets get choppy.
Personally, I'd rather my money wasn't in these two, not so much because I object to tobacco but because pushing it hard in countries where regulation is light makes me a little uncomfortable. FTSE4Good shuns them too.
But if this doesn't bother you, Imperial Tobacco would be a solid hold.
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Today via Twitter, @AdamLambert asked his followers to request his latest single at their local radio station:
Everyone request Never Close Our Eyes today Non-Stop. Its Time for some Glambert HEAT! How bad you want it?! #shameless
— Adam Lambert (@adamlambert) July 17, 2012
Before I go on, I want to be sure everyone knows that I am not claiming to be an expert on this topic. In general, my "expertise" seems to lie in the realm of collecting useless information in my head and stringing it all together into cohesive topics and much of my background is fairly technical (which is why my blog posts are usually short and to the point.)
What does this all mean? I'm pretty good at connecting the dots. To this end I present the following dots I've run into on this topic over the years.
Dot number one: A dozen or so years ago I signed up with a survey company called Luth Research. They call me occasionally to see if I qualify for a paid research study. If I qualify I go to their office, discuss a topic, they record it and I walk out with money (usually betweeen $65 and $200). A couple of times a year I get called to do radio survey. As I usually avoid top 40 radio like the plague I've never qualified for a music listening survey.
Dot number two: On August 26, 2010 I listened to a podcast by Juneau & Xena's Salon with guest Radio DJ Chloe. She's a DJ (if I remember right she works for a radio station in Long Island NY) and she talked about her experience DJ'ing for a Top 40 radio station. You can listen to the podcast here (the topical discussion starts at about 38 to 40 minutes into it):
What I got out of the broadcast was that DJ's have absolutely no control over what they play. She comes in to do her shift and she is presented with a list of music that she will play and when she will play it. She has very little to no lee-way to play things that are not included on the list. She even mentions at about 45 minutes in that calling in a request that is not on the pre-aproved list does no good.
Dot number three: I am currently looking for a job and regularly look at several different sections on the job listing section of Craig's List. One section I recently started trolling is the "Etc." section. Marketing companies advertise different research groups there and I often see one for radio stations and music such as the following:
Help your local radio station (San Diego)
Harker Research is seeking individuals in the San Diego area to join the Music Listening Panel. Your local radio stations want your opinions on what songs YOU want to hear.
As part of the Music Listening Panel, we will contact you once per month inviting you to take a 5 minute survey rating music. For each survey you take, you will earn survey points towards gift cards from your choice of national retailers. If you are interested in learning more about the panel please click the link to start rating music and earning points:
My conclusion: Although I'm sure calling in to request a song isn't a complete waste of time, in general corporate run radio stations pick their songs based on the results of these types of polls.
If you really, want to make a difference get involved with the polling process. Find out what company the radio stations in your area hire to do the demographic testing. In San Diego (my market) I often get calls from Luth Research and they have offices in other major cities as well. Call the research company and tell them you want to be on their Focus Group call list. You might have to take time to fill out a survey over the phone or online so they can get your demographics so they can start calling you. Here is Luth Research's online survey arm. I think it might cover parts of the country where they don't have a physical presence.
If you can't find a local company that is doing this type of polling, try looking on your local Craig's List "Etc." job section for these types of one-time paid surveys.
The down side is that once you sign up to do surveys these companies might start calling you for other types of surveys (I've done everything from taste testing Subway Sandwiches to discussing various washing machine options), but the up side is that if you qualify for a study you get paid. I do it all the time and make at least a couple hundred extra dollars a year doing it.
One last thing. You should be aware that all of these surveys are run by demographics. You must fit a certain demographic to "qualify" for the study. Based on how the survey I found in Craig's List panned out, it *seemed* that since I said I was "over 42" I didn't qualify. Take what you will from that.
The bottom line is from what I can tell radio stations are not run by DJ's any more. They don't get to pick out the songs they play. They are given a playlist and told what to play and when to play it. The lists are created using the above types of surveys. Get involved with the survey process to make a real difference.


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Center Mathieu Perreault signed a two-year contract extension with the Washington Capitals worth $2.1 million, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
Perrault, 24, earned a place on the Capitals' roster out of training camp last season and had 16 goals and 14 assists in 64 regular-season games this past season. However, he was not in uniform for most of the postseason.
He said he's been told he will play a more prominent role this coming season.
"They told me I was part of the elite forwards on the team," Perreault told the Post. "They see me on top lines and they think I can do good things for them, so I'm excited for next year. A new coach coming in hopefully I'll get a little more ice time than I did last year."
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UPDATE 3-In split from SocGen, TCW's fortunes seen set to rise
By Greg Roumeliotis and Jessica Toonkel and Jennifer Ablan
HELSINKI Oct 18 Russia's transfer of nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad is an aggressive demonstration of power against the whole of Europe, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said on Tuesday.
"Knowing that Iskanders are not defense but offense equipment, that means an aggressive, open demonstration of power and aggression against not the Baltic states but against European capitals," Grybauskaite said at a press conference after meeting her Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto.
Russia earlier this month moved Iskander-M missiles into the Kaliningrad enclave bordering Poland and Lithuania, saying it was part of routine drills. (Reporting by Jussi Rosendahl)
By Greg Roumeliotis and Jessica Toonkel and Jennifer Ablan
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BeschreibungFAIRY TALES FROM THE SWEDISH BARON G. DJURKLOU. This book contains and interesting and characteristic collection of Swedish Folk and Fairy Tales. They are written in the dialect of the Swedish peasantry and therefore have presented difficulties in the wy of translation into other languages. In this present English version the translator has tried to retain as far as possible the humourous and colloquial style of the original. The book is delightfully illustrated by two well-known Norwegian artists, and the frontispiece is by Carl Larsson, the prince of Swedish illustrators. This book was first published in 1901. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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BeschreibungThe Winds of Shamal depicts the use of psychic warfare techniques to counter Islamic fundamentalist militarism.
Western governments, tiring of exportation of terrorism to their countries, form a coalition that targets the faith based organization, al Dar. A diverse clandestine group of intelligence agents and independent contractors execute the operation, the Protocol.
Through coercion an electronics engineer, Fouad Franklin Hindrix, serves in the Protocol organization to develop a computer driven machine to induce near death experiences. The machine effects the psychological reorientation of abducted militant Islamic clerics.
The story draws its power from the historic and current politicization of organized religion and the conflict it engenders.
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A while ago I started on LUCENE-2369 with the goal making fast and memory-efficient locale-aware sorting in Lucene. During this I've wandered quite a bit out of course while exploring the possibilities in ordinals. I've discovered that two building blocks enables sorting, (hierarchical) faceting, index lookup and range searches in a way that supports custom ordering and has the trade offs "slow initialization, fast execution, low memory overhead". I would like to share my thoughts on this and I would like to hear if and how I should move forward with this. At the core, this is about using ordinals instead of the terms themselves. Index-wide ordinals. For Lucene trunk, SegmentReaders supports ordinal-to-term resolving directly, albeit not super optimized. Other IndexReaders does not support this out of the box and there's the whole problem of how to handle duplicate terms. As part of LUCENE-2369 I implemented Building block 1: A map from custom ordered positions to term ordinals, without duplicates. Example: Let's look at the terms for a given field split over 3 segments: Segment 1: A, B, C Segment 2: B, D Segment 3: A, E The index-wide ordered list of the terms would be A, B, C, D, E. The map from ordered positions to ordinals would be (segment 1, ordinal 0), (s 1, o 2), (s 1, o 3), (s 2, o 1), (s 3, o 2). This index-level map takes up #logical_positions*log2(#terms) bits (PackedInts to the rescue), rounded up. For the example above, this is 5*log2(7) bits. Scaling up to 10 million terms, out of which 5 million is unique, we have 5M*log2(10M) bits = 5M*24 bits = 14 MByte. If custom order is used, we would like to cache the calculated segment oriented maps for faster re-opening of the index. As there are no duplicates inside of a segment, the sum of the segment maps will be a bit more than #terms*log2(#terms) bits. For 10M terms, this is 29 MByte extra, bringing the total memory requirement up to 43 MByte. Building the map requires the sorting of the ordinals at segment level (this can be skipped if the index order is to be used) plus a merge-sort of the segment oriented ordinals to get the index oriented ordered positions. This map could be used for custom order range-queries by doing two binary searches and iterating between the points. It could also be used for index lookup. Of course, one might just make a field with a custom order at index time (long live flex), so maybe this way of doing it has little value. However, the building block is a stepping stone for Building block 2: A map from document IDs to ordered positions for a given field. Building this map is in principle a matter of stepping through the terms from building block 1 and requesting all the document IDs for the terms from all segments. Some memory optimization can be done if there is only 1 term/document, but the general case is handled by keeping an array of entry points for all document IDs into an array of ordered term positions for the document IDs. Memory requirements for this map is #documents*log2(#documents) + #term_references*log2(#logical terms) bits. For 20M documents with 40M references to 5M unique terms (aka ordered positions) this is 20M*log2(20M) + 40M*log2(5M) bits = 20M*25 + 40M*23 bits = 228 MByte. On top of that comes the memory requirements for building block 1. With building block 1 + 2 we can implement the rest of the functionality: Sorting is trivial: The order of two documents is determined by comparing the first integer from building block 2 for each document. We could also specialize building block 2 to exactly 1 term/document to save some memory and gain a little more speed. Faceting is simple: A counting array (the obvious choice is to use int[] or long[]) of length "#ordered_positions from building block 1" is created. The document IDs for all the hits from a search is used to get the ordered positions from building block 2 and the corresponding entries in the counting array is incremented. Extracting the tags by count is done by iterating the counting array with a priority queue, finding the top-X tags ordinals, then extracting the terms themselves with the map from building block 1. Extracting by order is done by iterating and collecting the indexes of all entries where the count is > x (typically 1). As far as I understand, this is more or less the approach used by Solr's field cache faceting. Hierarchical faceting is more complex. Let's leave it for another post and just say that augmenting building block 1 with about 1 byte/logical term gives us what we want. The code as well as unit tests is in LUCENE-2369 for the curious. There is working code that we use in-house with a test-setup. It needs cleanup and polishing, but does not require changes to existing Lucene code. It could be part of Lucene core (for sorting and range search at least), it could be a contrib, it might belong in Solr (SOLR-64 or maybe SOLR-792), Bobo-browse or somewhere else. My personal preference is to make a Lucene contrib so that the maximum amount of projects can benefit, but I would very much like to hear some thoughts on this. Thank you for listening, Toke Eskildsen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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Sheamus Busted Open, Team Long vs. Team Laurinaitis Notes, More
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– Matt Hardy and Reby Sky will be appearing for the Trans-South Wrestling promotion in Union, South Carolina on April 7th at the Union County Fairgrounds.
– Hornswoggle revealed on Twitter that he is the official mascot for Team Long at WrestleMania 28. There has been talk of having The Bella Twins in the corner of Team Laurinaitis while Aksana and Hornswoggle will be representing for Team Long.
– Sheamus was busted open at last night's WWE SmackDown live event in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Sheamus was wrestling Mark Henry when Daniel Bryan came out and clocked him with the World Heavyweight Title, causing a gash on the side of his head. Sheamus won the match and hurried off to the back as the WWE crew cleaned up the ring.


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CEO & Founder
online game publisher
"virtual fairground", each game = 1 ride, main street coming soon, linking games together
5 games, 1 flash Items-based game
>3 M registered users, >2 M monthly uniques,75% from USA, 16-25 year olds
Founder & CEO
ERP for Virtual Worlds & online entertainment, banking, reporting, inventory management, horizontal white label platform
publisher-sanctioned primary and secondary market vgoods transactions, B2C and C2C
VP of Operations
publisher-sanctioned primary and secondary market vgoods transactions
recently bought PayByCash
revenue-share model with game publisher
former VC at Charles River Ventures
nothing outsourced in primary market (B2C), built this themselves because nothing was available when they were starting 2 years ago
signed PlaySpan for secondary market (?)
probably need couple of hundred thousand $ of volume in primary market before secondary market takes of, also look at the game: once players start setting up stores themselves, time to open up the secondary market officially
secondary market needs to exist to promote primary market, makes market liquid for players, Susan Choe supported this view, bumps up the sales of primary market, separating primary & secondary is artificial, it's a interconnected economy, and you need to consider the whole
think secondary market should take place outside of the game
time & cost of implementation of secondary market?, regulatory costs (e.g. different state taxes, international laws), try not to be a "money holder" so you won't become regulated, these platform providers take care of this (?)
secondary market allows users to trade money to time and vica versa
what are the key performance indicators, first optimize your user experience, get the free to play part working, understand the friction between selling items & gameplay, what can you sell etc, then you can optimize your catalog, need real-time access to data
needs tools to spot fraud, e.g. limits on dollar amounts per user/demographics, had challenges with in getting this done with PayPal, fraud becomes noticeable with increased volume and non-USA geography
have a PhD just doing analytics
track data, marketing source, funnels, new users, what they buy, how they buy, engagement etc, lifetime value, in-game stats & web stats
qualititative data, surveys, focus groups
essentially a retail business + entertainment
events, social interaction drives retention!
need to do number crunching, sales, traffic, demographics, buy what, how, when, identify what sells -> try to bring this up in the game at the right for the right players
C2C market, needs escrow -> leads to money holding & banking regulations, scary stuff, better to outsource it
acquired Sony's Station Exchange, increased their revenues a lot, now at 50-60 $ / transaction, also volume of transactions has grown
if you don't have a secondary market, somebody will build it if there's money to be made
if you have a secondary market when you go out, there is less hesistancy from the users as they accept it from the get go
secondary market is a profit center, if it is publisher-sanctioned, black market just creates support costs, bad image for the publisher etc
Inventory control, metrics & control on what's going on the economy, data from secondary market helps in managing primary market
10% fee for secondary market, profit share with publisher
primary more expensive
light integration, e.g. verifying from the item DB what the seller owns
10% fee for secondary market, profit share with publisher
10% fee
you could perhaps apply standard retail rules of thumbs for this
test price points, collect data, tweak it (5%, 10%, even 20-30%), see what happens
do market research, what other games sell, when, how, then test these hypotheses, look at black & grey markets to see what's the going rates / elasticity
test with sample of users, try to measure price elasticity
"socioeconomic stats", sample = 100 users -> if you get a trend, then it is typically right
don't forget ROI, see what ARPU you need, and how you get to that, cost of development of content, marketing costs
spray & pray doesn't work
who gets free credits etc
Susan Choe, if users get used to free stuff, it is really hard to get them to pay, don't start that way, you can do real world sweepstakes, e.g. 40" HDTV
Susan Wu, give it out for behaviour you want to encourage
Lee Crawford, give out soft currency, not the hard currency, does somewhat cannibalize hard currency sales, but you can always tweak soft currency "give out" rates
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Are the days of people dressing up as vampires, monsters and witches gone? What happened to the makeup and fake teeth? Sure they still sell them, but is anybody buying them?
Not Houston's Sergio Nino. All he bought was a mask. A masquerade mask with sequins…not exactly frightening.
"I don't know I guess when you get old you get out the scary part and you enter more of the sexy seductive part of Halloween."
Stephanie Hill works for one of the many costume shops in Houston. She says this year's popular costumers are devils and angels and Greek and Roman soldiers.
"One gentleman came in and said he had been working on his body and he wanted to show it off. So that was his reason."
Hill says they have a new costume from the movie the Watchman and another one is master chief from Halo.
"It's a very involved costume, you have like an undergarment and then you have all these armor attachments that you wear and then you have this nice helmet."
Nothing scary for Brittany Turner this year, unless you call a pirate scary.
"How did you decide to be a pirate?"
"I'm pregnant, so it's really the only thing that fit when I was in the store. "
With Halloween coming up this weekend, many stores have run out of the popular costumes, but as everyone knows, some of the best costumes are the ones you make yourself.
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What do you get when you mix cell phones with a culture of Girls Gone Wild? Sexting. Sexting is the practice of young women sending text messages of nude or partially nude photos of themselves to their boyfriends or romantic prospects. It's the newest craze. And it's getting more and more prevalent.
A survey of 1,280 teens and young adults – conducted by TRU, a global leader in research on teens and 20-somethings – reports that one in five teen girls (22%)-and 11% of teen girls ages 13-16 years old-say they have electronically sent, or posted online, nude or semi-nude images of themselves. These racy images are also getting passed around: One-third (33%) of teen boys and one-quarter (25%) of teen girls say they have had nude/semi-nude images-originally meant to be private-shared with them.
The statistics among the young adult population of 20 to 26 year olds is even more staggering. More than one third (36%) of young adult women have sent or posted nude or seminude images of themselves.
Other findings from the Sex and Tech Survey include:
- Sending sexually suggestive messages is even more prevalent than sending nude/semi-nude images. Nearly half of young people (49% total, 39% of teens, 59% of young adults) have sent sexually suggestive text messages or email messages to someone.
- Even more have received sexually suggestive messages: 48% of teens and 64% of young adults (56% total). Fully one-third of young teen girls (ages 13-16) have received sexually suggestive messages.
- Even though nearly three-quarters of young people (73% total, 75% of teens, 71% of young adults) say that sending sexually suggestive content "can have serious negative consequences," nearly one-quarter (22% total, 19% of teens and 26% of young adults) say sending sexually suggestive content is "no big deal."
- What teens and young adults are doing electronically seems to have an effect on what they do in real life: Nearly one-quarter of teens (22%) admit that technology makes them personally more forward and aggressive. More than one-third of teens (38%) say exchanging sexy content makes dating or hooking up with others more likely and nearly one-third of teens (29%) believe those exchanging sexy content are "expected" to date or hook up.
Law enforcement agencies are struggling with how to manage the sexting phenomenon. In several cases across the nation, prosecutors have threatened child pornography charges against teens who received or sent the text messages.  In Pennsylvania, a prosecutor threatened to charge three teenage girls with trafficking in child pornography after photos of themselves topless or in their skivvies ended up being sent to classmates' phones. A kiddie porn conviction could mean jail time or even registration as sex offender. The district attorney offered that in order to avoid the charges, the girls participate in a five-week re-education program, in which they would discuss "what they did wrong" and "what it means to be a girl." But their parents and the American Civil Liberties Union intervened. They argued that these young women had every right to send the explicit photos.
There's so much that could be said about all this, but what's so interesting to me, is the district attorney's insistence that the girls needed to be "re-educated" about "what it means to be a girl." The irony of the situation is that the actions of these girls are totally in line with our culture's definition of womanhood. The reason they're sexting is because they HAVE been re-educated about what it means to be a girl! They're the first fruits of a truly feminist culture. They've been taught – and they truly believe – that women have the right and the power to do and be whatever they want. Women define themselves! So in their minds, they haven't done anything wrong. Sexting is just another expression of Girl-Power. It's nothing but a practical application of Betty Friedan's mantra that "We (women) need and can trust no other authority than our own personal truth!"
The authors of the Sex and Tech survey conclude that teens need to think before pressing "send" and that parents need to talk to their kids about sex and technology. This is undoubtedly true. But until we present our young women with a new and beautiful vision of womanhood – a biblical vision . . . a high and noble vision that speaks to their true identity and purpose – they will continue to pursue the modern sexualized ideal, and slither further down the slippery slope. Women, it's time to reject the feminist notion that women can define what womanhood is all about. It's time to look to our Creator for a true definition of womanhood. It's time to stand up for the minds and hearts of the next generation of women. It's time for a holy counter-revolution.
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