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After more than 26 incidents in six years in which e-cigarettes have caused fires or explosions on planes, a new federal rule is set to go into effect banning the devices from being left in checked baggage. [More]
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Federal Advisory Panel Recommends Clearer Disclosure Of Airline, Hotel Resort Fees
It's no secret that airlines have increased their fees and shrunk the size of their seats over the years in an attempt to maximize revenue. While those extra costs and seat sizes are generally available through the carrier's website, a federal panel thinks that information would better serve passengers if it were readily available during the ticket purchasing process. [More]
All Major U.S. Airlines Offer Free Cancellations Within 24 Hours, Except One
Update: In March 2016, American announced that it was phasing out the hold option and transitioning to the 24-hour cancellation window option.
Even the most prepared traveler occasionally has to change their itinerary for unforeseen circumstances. While dealing with airlines to make a simple change can be both a test of your patience and a drain on your bank account, if you catch the issue soon enough you might save hundreds of dollars in change fees. That's thanks, in part, to Department of Transportation rules that allow a ticket to be held at the same price for 24 hours before purchase or canceled within 24 hours after purchase — most of the time. [More]
Another Report Finds NHTSA Failed To Hold Automakers Responsible For Defects, Other Issues
The hits keep on coming for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Less than a month after internal reports determined the agency failed to adequately address the General Motors ignition switch defect that has been linked to more than 100 deaths, an audit from the U.S. Department of Transportation identified a plethora of shortcomings within the auto-safety regulator's Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) that prevent it from properly protecting consumers from vehicle defects. [More]
Upcoming Online Airfare Comparison Changes Raise Privacy, Discrimination Concerns
A group of senators raised concerns Tuesday that a new airfare comparison shopping system currently being developed could lead to unfair discrimination practices based on information the airlines receive from customers. [More]
Southwest Fined $1.6M For Lengthy Tarmac Delays
Southwest Airlines is once again feeling the ire of federal regulators, as the Department of Transportation on Thursday imposed a $1.6 million fine against the airline for forcing passengers to stay on planes for hours at Chicago's Midway airport in January 2014. [More]
Airlines Hopefully To Break Guitars Less Often As Rule About Instruments As Carry-Ons Goes Into Effect
A musician's instrument is a precious thing, in both senses of the word: they can be both riotously expensive, and also deeply loved. Airlines, however, have a bad track record of treating instruments less well than they deserve, by losing or wrecking them. The obvious solution — keep it with you, on board, in the passenger cabin — hasn't always met with a positive response from the airlines, but now it's official: you are, indeed, allowed to keep your instrument with you so that the airline can't break it.
Report: Envoy Air, ExpressJet More Likely To Lose Your Bags; Virgin, Frontier Least Likely
Each time I check my suitcase before hopping a flight, I say a little prayer that my things will make to my final destination. Luckily for me, I've had few issues with checked baggage (knock on wood), but thousands of other passengers haven't been so fortunate. In fact, a new report from the U.S. Department of Transportation reveals that more than 1.6 million consumers have filed mishandled baggage reports in the first nine months of 2014. So, is there one airline that's more apt to lose your luggage? Probably.
Proposed Rule Means Airlines Would Have To Be More Forthcoming With Fee Disclosures
Purchasing plane tickets can be a painstaking task. First, you comb through options to see what fits your schedule, then you search high and low for a price that meets your travel budget. But upon arriving at the airport you're faced with fee after fee and pretty soon, that travel budget goes out the window. Those days might be over, however, now that the U.S. Transportation Department has proposed a new rule that would require airlines to directly disclose basic service fees.
GM To Pay $35 Million Fine For Botched Ignition Switch Recall
GM will be paying a record-setting $35 million fine over its completely botched decade-long ignition-switch defect and subsequent recall, the Department of Transportation announced today.
Congress Wants To Restore Glory Days Of Misleading Airfares And Hidden Fees
Remember what it was like to book air travel way back in ye olden days of three years ago? You'd spot a really excellent online deal on a flight, only to discover at checkout that after the taxes and fees, it was $50 higher than you'd thought. The Dept. of Transportation changed all that in 2012 — but now, a bill rapidly moving through Congress could reverse that change entirely.
Even Business Travelers Don't Want Anyone Yakking Away On The Phone In Mid-Air
Who do you think of when you imagine the chatty kind of person who might want to make phone calls in the middle of a crowded airplane, mid-flight? While your mental picture might land on a businessperson in a suit yelling something about mergers and Hong Kong markets and getting that deal done before they close, a trade group representing business travelers has come out against the idea. [More]
The DOT Wants To Know: Should Cell Phone Calls Be Allowed On Planes?
Back in December when the Federal Communications Commission announced it would start investigating whether or not it's a good idea to lift the ban on cell phone calls on planes — from a technological point of view — the Department of Transportation was all, "Hold on, we're going to look into this too." The DOT is now turning to the public to hear your thoughts. [More]
DOT Fines Delta $750,000 For Breaking Rules On Passenger-Bumping
Delta isn't great about letting passengers volunteer to be bumped off an oversold flight instead of just bumping them by force. The company just doesn't have enough CEOs to go around and offer seats to people who need to get home. Don't take our word for it: the U.S. Department of Transportation gave them a public reprimand and ordered the airline to pay a penalty of $750,000. [More]
Supreme Court Denies Airline Industry Challenge To Price Advertising Rules
Ever since the Transportation Department told U.S. airlines they'd have to advertise the total cost of a ticket when touting their fares, the industry has been fighting back. Back in July a U.S. Appeals Court sided with consumers and ruled that airlines must stick to the new rules, and now the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the industry's challenge once again, in refusing to hear the case.
Airlines Mishandled Fewer Bags Last Year Maybe Because We Hate Paying To Check Them
The good news is that the Department of Transportation says airlines are mishandling fewer bags than before, with a nice little 8% drop in the amount of "lost, damaged, delayed or pilfered" pieces of luggage from 2011 to 2012. But before we go slapping airlines on the back with a hearty "good job!" pat, perhaps it's just because passengers are keeping their personal effects out of the hands of baggage handlers. [More]


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FEC Seeks $67,900 From Rep. Buchanan's Former Business
By Danny Yadron and Brody Mullins
The Federal Election Commission is seeking $67,900 from a car dealership once owned by Rep Vern Buchanan (R., Fla.) for what it calls illegal campaign contributions to the lawmaker.
In a court filing Friday, the FEC asked the car dealership to pay the fines for reimbursing campaign donations to the congressman's campaign.
Sam Kazran, part owner of now-defunct Hyundai of North Jacksonville, allegedly had employees donate a total of $67,900 between 2005 and 2007 to Mr. Buchanan's campaign, and then reimbursed them for the donations, according to a motion the FEC filed last week in the U.S. District Court for Central Florida, based in Orlando.
The FEC said turned to the court because Mr. Kazran has not responded to the commission in several months.
It is illegal for individuals to be reimbursed for campaign donations or for companies to route political contributions through individuals.
The "lawbreaking was not a mere lapse in judgment," the FEC said in its court filing. "It was an extensive and ongoing scheme that spanned two election cycles, three calendar years and dozens of secret illegal contributions."
The FEC alleged that employees of the dealership and their family members made a combined 32 donations to Mr. Buchanan's.
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Author Tom Shachtman will discuss his latest historical biography, American Iconoclast: The Life and Times of Eric Hoffer. Mr. Shachtman will uncover the steps by which this self educated figure created himself as an artist and writer.
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In this biography, historian and social analyst Tom Shachtman offers the clearest and most detailed examination of one of America's most influential thinkers.
Eric Hoffer was a self educated longshoreman who came to fame in the 1950's with the publication of his first book, The True Believer, a caustic analysis of the nature of mass movements and those who are driven to join them. Hoffer was a beloved and controversial figure with veiled origins. Tom Shachtman uncovers the steps by which this unschooled migrant field hand and dockworker created himself as an artist and thinker and how his background and occupations were reflected in his published works. Hoffer'
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In a professional career spanning almost two decades, Simon "Smudger" Smith has played for over 67 clubs and has reinvented himself time and again, from poacher to goalkeeper.
This week has seen more upsets than my stomach during that pre-season trip to play Bombay Argyle. The shock of the round in the FA Cup was Blackburn's triumph at the Emirates. It was a real David v Goliath clash but what people forget is that David actually had an excellent win ratio against the big man. The League Cup final tomorrow between League Two Bradford and Welsh giants Swansea is another being labelled David and Goliath so one can only hope the referee stamps down on any use of slingshots.
Lowly Milan's win against Barcelona was another massive shock. It really was heartening to see a team that hasn't won the Champions League in over five years play in such a big competition. The goals came courtesy of two ex-Portsmouth players but we all know that's long been a breeding ground for phenomenal talent – just ask Linvoy Primus.
Things went better for Goliath on Tuesday as Bayern got that crucial third away goal and won 3-1 at Arsenal. They must have been delighted by Arsène Wenger's decision to field a weakened team: the regular starting XI. Now he has to try and find a way back – ideally to 2004.
Celebrity Gooner Piers Morgan supports his team through thick and thick and immediately took to the radio to call for Wenger's head. I know what it's like to have a talk show host state that you're not good enough. Parkinson did it during my time at Barnsley; Wossy did it when I played for Orient; Letterman had a pop when I played for the New York Red Bulls. I also know what the icy judgement of Morgan feels like – he said I was a disgrace to the Arsenal shirt when I did my Thierry Henry impression on Britain's Got Talent.
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Joe Posnanski, in his column for MLB.com:
"It is with great humility I enter the Hall of Fame," Simpson said in his recorded acceptance speech. "And it's about damn time. I'm fatter than Babe Ruth, balder than Ty Cobb and have one more finger than Mordecai 'Three Finger' Brown."
The thing about "Homer at the Bat" that endures is the obvious love for baseball that fills the episode. Yes, of course, there are classic Simpsons bits in it, such as Boggs and Barney having a violent barroom argument over the greatest British Prime Minister (Lord Palmerston! Pitt the Elder!), Jose Canseco continuously running into a burning home to save a woman's furniture, Roger Clemens clucking like a chicken, Bart and Lisa arguing about who gets to bring Homer a beer after he crushes a game-winning homer ("Kids, kids, you can BOTH bring me a beer").
"Mattingly, get rid of those sideburns?"
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Speaking of Castro, the latest version adds a much-requested feature:
Enhanced Audio improves the listening experience for many podcasts and makes it easier to hear in loud environments. Under the hood, Enhanced Audio applies a dynamic compressor and a peak limiter to increase volume just where it's needed.
Enhanced Audio helps when playing a show where voices are at different levels and makes it much easier to listen to podcasts in a car, on public transit, or in a busy noisy place.
These smart speed and equalizer features are becoming table stakes for a podcast player today.
Erik Michaels-Ober:
The decentralized structure of podcasts creates a chicken-and-egg problem for JSON Feed to gain adoption. There's no incentive for podcasters to publish in JSON Feed as long as podcast players don't support it. And there's no incentive for podcast players to support JSON Feed as long as podcasters don't publish in that format.
Breaker is hoping to break that stalemate by adding support for JSON Feed in our latest release. As far as we know, Breaker is the first podcast player to do so. Unlike other features that differentiate Breaker, we encourage our competitors to follow our lead in this area. The sooner all podcast players support JSON Feed, the better positioned the entire podcast ecosystem will be for the decades to come.
Three years ago I wrote that podcast players had replaced Twitter clients as the leading UI playground — the space where there's a lot of competition and new ideas being tried out. I still think that's true. Overcast and Castro keep getting better, and Breaker is a new and interesting take. The big difference with Breaker is that they have a social networking model, where you can follow your fellow Breaker-using friends and get podcast recommendations based on what they're listening to.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, reporting for Motherboard:
The "Change Password" button linked to a short URL from the Tiny.cc link shortener service, a Bitly competitor. But the hackers cleverly disguised it as a legitimate link by using Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP. This is a service hosted by the internet giant that was originally designed to speed up web pages on mobile, especially for publishers. In practice, it works by creating a copy of a website's page on Google's servers, but it also acts as an open redirect.
According to Citizen Lab researchers, the hackers used Google AMP to trick the targets into thinking the email really came from Google.
"It's a percentage game, you may not get every person you phish but you'll get a percentage," John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, told Motherboard.
So if the victim had quickly hovered over the button to inspect the link, they would have seen a URL that starts with google.com/amp, which seems safe, and it's followed by a Tiny.cc URL, which the user might not have noticed. (For example: https://www.google[.]com/amp/tiny.cc/63q6iy)
A huge reason that phishing works is that most people just aren't technically savvy enough to tell a phony-looking URL from a legitimate one. But a URL that really is coming from the google.com domain — that's the sort of link that even a web developer might think looks legit, especially at a glance.
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Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg, writing for The Washington Post:
Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases — even when they happen offline in brick-and-mortar stores, the company said Tuesday.
The advance allows Google to determine how many sales have been generated by digital ad campaigns, a goal that industry insiders have long described as "the holy grail" of online advertising. But the announcement also renewed long-standing privacy complaints about how the company uses personal information.
Here's Google's announcement about this. I can't figure out how it works. But it sounds creepy as hell. This is why I don't grant Google any background access to my location data.
Small point of follow-up regarding my post the other day about Hodinkee's $12,000 hourglass designed by Marc Newson. I wrote:
I do find it odd that every unit is numbered "1/100" rather than giving each piece a unique number.
I later clarified that to:
I do find it odd that every unit is numbered "1/100" rather than giving each piece a unique number — "1/100", "2/100", … "100/100".
But I keep getting email about this. I am aware that this is how edition numbering works:
Edition Number: A fraction found on the bottom left hand corner of a print. The top number is the sequence in the edition; the bottom number is the total number of prints in the edition. The number appears as a fraction usually in the lower left of the print. For instance the edition number 25/50 means that it is print number 25 out of a total edition of 50.
That's exactly what I think Hodinkee should be doing with these hourglasses, but from their own description, they're not:
The Marc Newson Hourglass for Hodinkee is a limited edition of 100 pieces. Each is numbered "1 of 100" just below the "Hodinkee" signature on one side, with Marc Newson's signature on the opposite side.
That says to me that all 100 pieces are numbered "1 of 100". My guess is that the nature of the glass makes it difficult to print a unique number on each piece, but for $12,000 I would expect no expense to be spared. Also, when you label each piece with a unique number, owners of the pieces can feel more confident that theirs is unique. E.g. if it were ever discovered that two of them were labeled "12/100", you would know something fishy is going on. I don't think Hodinkee is secretly selling more than 100 of these, I'm just pointing out why it would be nicer if they were sequentially numbered.
Yoink is a terrific utility for MacOS by Matthias Gansrigler. It gives you a shelf at the side of your screen where you can drop files (or clippings, like URLs or text snippets). Think of it as a place to park drag-and-drop items temporarily, while you switch apps or whatever. Cheap too: just $7 (here it is in the Mac App Store). Be sure to check out the usage tips — I've been using Yoink for over six months, and I learned a few things just now.
Back in 2012 I recommended a similar utility called DragonDrop, but DragonDrop is on hiatus, and I think I much prefer Yoink's interface.
Walt Mossberg:
This is my last weekly column for The Verge and Recode — the last weekly column I plan to write anywhere. I've been doing these almost every week since 1991, starting at the Wall Street Journal, and during that time, I've been fortunate enough to get to know the makers of the tech revolution, and to ruminate — and sometimes to fulminate — about their creations.
Now, as I prepare to retire at the end of that very long and world-changing stretch, it seems appropriate to ponder the sweep of consumer technology in that period, and what we can expect next.
Godspeed on whatever's next, Walt.
Interesting video by Nick Murray, discussing the merits of Alcantara, the synthetic suede-like product that Microsoft has used for their new Surface Laptop. Murray is coming from the perspective of Alcantara's use in cars, not laptops, but he says it wears terribly on things you touch, like steering wheels and gear shifters, losing all its softness after just a few thousand miles. This might bode poorly for the Surface Laptop.
Watch the video and read this. I'll update this post with my comments later today.
Update: OK, so my take on this is going to upset many of you. I first saw this last night via this tweet from Marco Arment, and I read through the replies and every single one of them was mocking either the entire premise of an exquisite hourglass or at the very least the price.
I think this looks beautiful, and I don't think there's anything crazy about it costing $12,000. I'm not buying one. But all sorts of pieces of art cost tens of thousands of dollars, and I say this is most definitely art. Newson's previous hourglass design, for Ikepod, ranged from $13,000–40,000.
I do find it odd that every unit is numbered "1/100" rather than giving each piece a unique number — "1/100", "2/100", … "100/100". And Hodinkee isn't doing themselves any favors with some of the precious bits of copywriting (e.g. "approximately 1,249,996 little spheres" is not an approximation). But if you don't see anything ludicrous about a mechanical watch costing in excess of $10,000 (or $100,000, or more) why is there something ludicrous about a $12,000 hourglass?
The world is full of cheaply-made mass-produced crap. Why not celebrate the creation of something genuinely beautiful?
This is so well done it gave me goosebumps. Makes me think the franchise could use some Moore-like suaveness when they recast the role post-Craig.
James Whitbrook, writing for io9:
Moonraker might not be the best Bond movie — it might not even be the best of Moore's time with the Bond mantle. But all these years later, its goofy charm perhaps best represents the joyful camp that Moore brought to his role as 007, something we will always remember now that he's gone.
Over the years, my youthful resistance to campiness has faded, and my esteem for Moonraker has grown.
The New York Daily News:
At approximately 6:30 a.m. Monday, a car crash involving two pickup trucks sent one of the vehicles inside the AnalTech building of Newark, Del., leaving a giant hole. The truck damaged the facility's laboratory and caused an odor to emanate from the cavity, WDEL reports.
Regarding the company name:
In an email sent to the Houston Chronicle, a spokesperson revealed, "In 1964, the company paid a marketing firm to come up with a different name. They said, 'Well, you guys do Analytical Technology — why don't you put the two words together and call it 'AnalTech!'"
However, the spokesperson admitted that "AnalTech faces certain challenges because of the 'juvenile' humor that has developed in the past few decades and current web filters that may block the company name" and has considered rebranding as a result.
I don't see anything "juvenile" about this humor. Good butt jokes are funny to all ages.
Eric Petitt, writing for The Official Unofficial Firefox Blog yesterday:
I head up Firefox marketing, but I use Chrome every day. Works fine. Easy to use. Like most of us who spend too much time in front of a laptop, I have two browsers open; Firefox for work, Chrome for play, customized settings for each. There are multiple things that bug me about the Chrome product, for sure, but I'm OK with Chrome. I just don't like only being on Chrome. […]
But talking to friends, it sounds more and more like living on Chrome has started to feel like their only option. Edge is broken. Safari and Internet Explorer are just plain bad. And unfortunately, too many people think Firefox isn't a modern alternative.
In an update posted today, he walked that back:
In my original post I made a personal dig about Edge, IE and Safari: "Edge is broken. Safari and Internet Explorer are just plain bad." I've since deleted that sentence.
It's true, I personally don't like those products, they just don't work for me. But that was probably a bit too flip. And, if it wasn't obvious that those were my personal opinions as a user, not those of the good folks at Firefox and Mozilla, then please accept my apology.
It's easy when making an aside — and it's clear that the central premise of this piece is about positioning Chrome as the Goliath to Firefox's David, so references to Safari and IE are clearly asides — to conflate "I don't like X" with "X is bad". So I say we let it slide.1
But I've been meaning to write about Safari vs. Chrome for a while, and Petitt's jab, even retracted, makes for a good excuse.
I think Safari is a terrific browser. It remains the one and only browser for the Mac that behaves like a native Mac app through and through. It may not be the fastest browser but it is fast. And its energy performance puts Chrome to shame. If you use a Mac laptop, using Chrome instead of Safari can cost you an hour or more of battery life per day.2
But Chrome is a terrific browser, too. It's clearly the second-most-Mac-like browser for MacOS. It almost inarguably has the widest and deepest extension ecosystem. It has good web developer tools, and Chrome adopts new web development technologies faster than Safari does.
But Safari's extension model is more privacy-conscious. For many people on MacOS, the decision between Safari and Chrome probably comes down to which ecosystem you're more invested in — iCloud or Google — for things like tab, bookmark, and history syncing. Me, personally, I'd feel lost without the ability to send tabs between my Macs and iPhone via Handoff. Update: Unbeknownst to me, Chrome fully supports Handoff with iOS devices. Nice!
In short, Safari closely reflects Apple's institutional priorities (privacy, energy efficiency, the niceness of the native UI, support for MacOS and iCloud technologies) and Chrome closely reflects Google's priorities (speed, convenience, a web-centric rather than native-app-centric concept of desktop computing, integration with Google web properties). Safari is Apple's browser for Apple devices. Chrome is Google's browser for all devices.
I personally prefer Safari, but I can totally see why others — especially those who work on desktop machines or MacBooks that are usually plugged into power — prefer Chrome. DF readers agree. Looking at my web stats, over the last 30 days, 69 percent of Mac users visiting DF used Safari, but a sizable 28 percent used Chrome. (Firefox came in at 3 percent, and everything else was under 1 percent.)3
As someone who's been a Mac user long enough to remember when there were no good web browsers for the Mac, having both Safari and Chrome feels downright bountiful, and the competition is making both of them better. ★
What really struck me about Petitt's piece wasn't the unfounded (to my eyes) dismissal of Safari, but rather his admission that he uses "Firefox for work, Chrome for play". I really doubt the marketing managers for Chrome or Safari spend their days with a rival browser open for "play", and even if they did, I expect they'd have the common sense not to admit so publicly, and especially not in the opening paragraph of a piece arguing that their own browser is a viable alternative to the rival one. ↩
Back in December, when Consumer Reports rushed out their sensational report claiming bizarrely erratic battery life on the then-new MacBook Pros (which was eventually determined to be caused by a bug in Safari that Apple soon fixed), I decided to try to loosely replicate their test on the MacBook Pro review units I had from Apple. Consumer Reports doesn't reveal the exact details of their testing, but they do describe it in general. They set the laptop brightness to a certain brightness value, then load a list of web pages repeatedly until the battery runs out. Presumably they automate this with a script of some sort, but they don't say.
That's pretty easy to replicate in AppleScript. I used that day's leading stories on TechMeme as my source for URLs to load — 26 URLs total. When a page loads, my script waits 5 seconds, and then scrolls down (simulating the Page Down key), waits another 5 seconds and pages down again, and then waits another 5 seconds before paging down one last time. This is a simple simulation of a person actually reading a web page. While running through the list of URLs, my script leaves each URL open in a tab. At the end of the list, it closes all tabs and then starts all over again. Each time through the loop the elapsed time and remaining battery life are logged to a file. (I also logged results as updates via messages sent to myself via iMessage, so I could monitor the progress of the hours-long test runs from my phone. No apps were running during the tests other than Safari, Script Editor, Finder, and Messages.)
I set the display brightness at exactly 68.75 percent for each test (11/16 clicks on the brightness meter when using the function key buttons to adjust), a value I chose arbitrarily as a reasonable balance for someone running on battery power.
Averaged (and rounded) across several runs, I got the following results:
I no longer had a new 13-inch MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar (a.k.a. the "MacBook Esc") — I'd sent it back to Apple. I included my own personal 2014 13-inch MacBook Pro and my old 2011 MacBook Air just as points of reference. I think the Air did poorly just because it was so old and so well-used. It still has its original battery.
I saw no erratic fluctuations in battery life across runs of the test. I procrastinated on publishing the results, though, and within a few weeks the whole thing was written off with a "never mind!" when Apple fixed the bug in Safari that was causing Consumer Reports's erratic results.
Anyway, the whole point of including these results in this footnote is that I also ran the exact same test with Chrome on the 13-inch MacBook Pro With Touch Bar. The average result: 3h:40m. That's 1h:50m difference. On the exact same machine running the exact same test with the exact same list of URLs, the battery lasted almost exactly 1.5 times as long using Safari than Chrome.
My test was in no way meant to simulate real-world usage. You'd have to be fueled up on some serious stimulants to read a new web page every 15 seconds non-stop for hours on end. But the results were striking. If you place a high priority on your MacBook's battery life, you should use Safari instead of Chrome.
If you're interested, I've posted my battery testing scripts for Safari and Chrome. ↩
If anyone has a good source for browser usage by MacOS users from a general purpose website like The New York Times or CNN, let me know. I honestly don't know whether to expect that the split among DF readers is biased in favor of Safari because DF readers are more likely to care about the advantages of a native app, or biased in favor of Chrome because so many of you are web developers or even just nerdy enough to install a third-party browser in the first place. Wikimedia used to publish stats like that, but alas, ceased in 2015. ↩
Amazing story from Marc Haynes about meeting Roger Moore as a 7-year-old in 1983.
(This tweet I'm linking to has screenshots of Haynes's post on Facebook; here's the same story in text copied and pasted into a forum, without attribution. Have I ever complained about how much I dislike Facebook?)
Dr. Drang, after adding JSON Feed support for both his blog publishing engine and his homegrown feed reader:
JSON Feed, for all its advantages, may be a flash in the pan. Not only do bloggers and publishing platforms have to adopt it, so do the major aggregator/reader services like Feedly and Digg and the analytics services like FeedPress and FeedBurner. But even if JSON Feed doesn't take off, the time I spent adding it to my blog and aggregator was so short I won't regret it.
Again I say: easier to generate, easier to parse.
Update: Rob Wells on adding JSON feed to his site:
I think this is what all the people complaining on the Hacker News thread missed. Working in JSON is comfortable and familiar — the tools are good and you get told when something goes wrong. Working with XML can be unclear and a bit of a pain, and creating an invalid document is a risk.
So my super-duper advanced JSON Feed implementation is… constructing a
dict, adding things to it and passing it off to the JSON module that I use all the time. Taken care of.
I do something similar to what Wells and Drang do. DF's RSS and Atom XML feeds are generated via templates: skeleton XML documents with tokens and loop constructs where the actual content gets filled in. But for JSON Feed I just build a Perl data structure that maps exactly to the JSON Feed spec, and just call a single function from the standard JSON module and it gets printed. That's it. A template would add complexity.
Ben Ubois, announcing support for JSON Feed in Feedbin:
One of the criticisms I've seen of JSON Feed is that there's no incentive for feed readers to support JSON Feed. This is not true. One of the largest-by-volume support questions I get is along the lines of "Why does this random feed not work?" And, 95% of the time, it's because the feed is broken in some subtle way. JSON Feed will help alleviate these problems, because it's easier to get right.
I also want JSON Feed to succeed because I remember how daunting RSS/Atom parsing were when building Feedbin. If JSON Feed was the dominant format back then, it would have been a non-issue.
Easier to generate and easier to parse — that's the whole point of JSON Feed in a nut.
Samuel Clay, founder of NewsBlur:
Starting today, NewsBlur now officially supports the new JSON Feed spec. And there's nothing extra you have to do. This means if a website syndicates their stories with the easy-to-write and easy-to-read JSON format, you can read it on NewsBlur. It should make no difference to you, since you're reading the end product. But to website developers everywhere, supporting JSON Feeds is so much easier than supporting XML-based RSS/Atom.
According to Clay, there are 15,000 NewsBlur users who subscribe to Daring Fireball. It's very cool to see a feed reader that popular adopt JSON Feed so quickly.
The DF RSS feed isn't going anywhere, so if you're already subscribed to it, there's no need to switch. But JSON Feed's spec makes it possible for me to specify both a
url that points to the post on Daring Fireball (i.e. the permalink) and an
external_url that points to the article I'm linking to. The way I've dealt with that in the RSS (technically Atom, but that's sort of beside the point) is a bit of a hack that's caused problems with numerous feed readers over the years.
Worth a re-link today: Roger Moore, two years ago, writing for The Guardian:
The sad fact is that I know exactly how to make a dry martini but I can't drink them because, two years ago, I discovered I was diabetic. I prefer one with gin, but James Bond liked a vodka martini, "shaken not stirred" — which I never said, by the way. That was Sean Connery, remember him?
The worst martini I've ever had was in a club in New Zealand, where the barman poured juice from a bottle of olives into the vodka. That's called a dirty martini and it is a dirty, filthy, rotten martini, and should not be drunk by anybody except condemned prisoners.
My dry martinis taste amazing and the day they tell me I've got 24 hours to live I am going to have six. Here's how I make them.
I hope he had all six yesterday.
Chris Murphy, writing for CNN back in 2013 on the "greatest James Bond scene of all time":
Despite this wealth of choice, a series of Bond experts, and one of the film's legendary producers, are in no doubt as to which scene should be anointed the best ever.
And given the recurring role that skiing has played throughout the life of Bond, it should comes as no surprise our panel's chosen encounter occurs on the slopes. "I would argue the most iconic sequence is in 'The Spy Who Loved Me', when Bond shot straight off the edge of a cliff at Baffin Island in Canada," Ajay Chowdhury, editor of the James Bond International Fan Club, told CNN.
"We saw him fall and fall, and when the Union Jack parachute opened up and the theme tune kicked in, the world cheered.
"That was Britain's Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee Year in 1977 and I think to this day it was (famous Bond producer) Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli's favorite ever scene in a Bond movie.
"When everything cleared it was him, on his own against the world. You play that sequence around the world and it is James Bond. And he did it on skis."
That opening scene in The Spy Who Loved Me is also the one where Bond is wearing a digital Seiko watch that can receive secure text messages from MI6 — at the time, sheer fantasy; today, a feature many of you reading this now have on your own watch. (Albeit without the ticker tape.)
I don't know if it's the single best Bond scene of all time, but it's up there, and it's almost certainly the best Bond stunt of all time — stuntman Rick Sylvester actually skied off that cliff and parachuted to safety. I just love how the fall takes place in silence.
Without hesitation I would put The Spy Who Loved Me at the top of my list of Roger Moore's Bond films. It has everything: the aforementioned great opening, an iconic car (the submarine-convertible white Lotus Esprit1), a great villain (Jaws), and a perfect theme song (Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better"). Bernard Lee was still in the role as M. And at the center of it all, Roger Moore at his cool, suave, and assured best.
Moore was quite self-aware of what he brought to the role. His take, in a 2014 interview with NPR, is exactly right:
I look like a comedic lover, and Sean [Connery] in particular, and Daniel Craig now, they are killers. They look like killers. I wouldn't like to meet Daniel Craig on a dark night if I'd said anything bad about him.
Moore's Bond had fun doing his job. ★
A terrific and much-loved actor, but also by all accounts a good man.
"Who's your favorite James Bond?" is a fun game to play, because there's no wrong answer. I have at least two friends who swear their answer is Lazenby. But one thing I would argue is undeniable about Moore's run as Bond is that he was the perfect Bond for the 70s. He didn't just keep the franchise going, he helped adapt it to the times. Sean Connery made Bond a sensation. Roger Moore turned it into a cinematic and pop-cultural institution.
Nick Heer:
I've generally had pretty good luck with Spotlight on iOS, but I've long noticed that results are delayed or nonexistent after not using it for a little while, particularly if I haven't rebooted my phone recently. I thought I was losing my head a little bit, until I found a tip on Twitter from Anand Iyer :
Settings > General > Spotlight Search > toggle Slack off
A week or so ago I ran into this, where Spotlight was running so slowly on my iPhone that it was unusable. Restarting my phone fixed the problem, but I'll bet it was this Slack problem.
Update: Sounds like there might be widespread problems with Spotlight indexing on iOS 10, because a bunch of readers have written to say they have the same problem but don't even have Slack installed.
Update 2: Several readers are saying this was a bug in iOS 10.3.1 but has been fixed in last week's 10.3.2 update.
Nice profile of Anker by Nick Statt for The Verge:
So in airports, the back of cabs, and on city streets we're plugging into lithium-ion slabs in our pockets and bags to stay connected. The market for portable battery packs generated $360 million in the 12 months ending in March, 2017 in the US alone. The brands behind these packs are largely anonymous — Kmashi, Jackery, and iMuto — and they often stay that way.
Except Anker. The steady rise of the company's profile is proof that it's possible to meet one very specific consumer need and ride that wave as it continues to ripple out to other markets. A majority of Anker's sales come from cables and wall chargers, and it's now moving into the smart home and auto market — anywhere a plug and a cable can solve a problem.
It's always satisfying to see a company thrive by focusing on making great products.
New podcast from the inimitable Craig Mod about the art of making books. The first episode is an interview with Jan Chipchase:
Researcher and author Jan Chipchase has a new book — "The Field Study Handbook." We discuss how he came to produce this 500+ page magnum opus — a distillation of his life's work — and why he is self publishing.
Ben Thompson, in praise of Google's "boring" I/O keynote:
Google Assistant has a long ways to go, but there is a clear picture of what success will look like: Google Photos. Launched only two years ago, Pichai bragged that Photos now has over 500 million active users who upload 1.2 billion photos a day. This is a spectacular number for one very simple reason: Google Photos is not the default photo app for Android or iOS. Rather, Google has earned all of those photos simply by being better than the defaults, and the basis of that superiority is Google's machine learning.
Moreover, much like search, Photos gets better the more data it gets, creating a virtuous cycle: more photos means more data which means a better experience which means more users which means more photos. It is already hard to see other photo applications catching up.
Google Photos is Google at its best. Their visual recognition is clearly the best in the world right now, and Thompson makes a good point that the "virtuous circle" makes it difficult for anyone to catch up.
In addition to being a great product, technically, Google Photos also launched with a terrific ad campaign.
Owen Philips, writing for The Awl:
Fortunately, Tim Lybarger, a 40 year-old high school counselor from just outside of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, wondered the same thing a few years ago. Back in 2011, on his blog devoted to all things Mister Rogers, neighborhoodarchive.com, Lybarger recorded the color of every sweater Rogers wore in each episode between 1979 and 2001. "When I realized such a resource didn't exist," Lybarger told me over email, "I just felt like somebody needed to do it…might as well be me."
The chart below uses the data Lybarger meticulously collected to show how Rogers' preferences for the color of his cardigan changed over time.
When I was a kid I simply loved Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. (Via Kottke, of course.)
Here's an interesting exchange in a Hacker News discussion about my criticism of AMP over the weekend. Malte Ubl, creator and tech lead of Google AMP:
With respect to scrolling: We (AMP team) filed a bug with Apple about that (we didn't implement scrolling ourselves, just use a div with overflow). We asked to make the scroll inertia for that case the same as the normal scrolling.
Apple's response was (surprisingly) to make the default scrolling like the overflow scrolling. So, with the next Safari release all pages will scroll like AMP pages. Hope Gruber is happy then :)
"Om2", who seemingly works on WebKit for Apple added:
In current iOS Safari, webpage scrolling is inconsistent from all other scrolling on the system. This was an intentional decision made long ago. In addition, overflow areas are consistent with the rest of the system, and thus inconsistent with top-level webpage scrolling. This is semi-accidental. In reviewing scroll rates, we concluded that the original reason was no longer a good tradeoff. Thus this change, which removed all the inconsistencies: https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/211197/webkit
Having all scrolling be consistent feels good once you get used to it.
That doesn't necessarily mean it was a good idea for Google's hosted AMP pages to use overflow scroll all along. The inconsistency definitely did feel weird. And the way they do scrolling prevents Safari from auto-hiding its top and bottom bars. I believe all the desired scroll effects could have been achieved without the use of overflow scroll.
That's a pretty big change, but I'll bet Om2 is right that it soon feels normal. Web views have had different scrolling inertia than other scrolling views ever since the original iPhone. (My beef with scrolling in AMP is not that AMP's fast scrolling is bad and Mobile Safari's current slower scrolling is good, but rather that scrolling in AMP pages should not feel totally different than regular web pages. And I forgot to complain about the fact that AMP's weird implementation also breaks Mobile Safari's ability to hide the bottom and top browser chrome toolbars. Update: One more complaint: AMP breaks Safari's Reader mode.)
First native app I've seen with support for JSON Feed. Pretty interesting take on a modern Mac feed reader, including nice support for using the keyboard arrow keys to move around the UI.
New documentary from Hulu on George Lazenby, who played James Bond in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service and then turned down an offer for a six-picture contract. Watched it over the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it.
My thanks to Stashword for sponsoring this week's DF RSS feed. Stashword is simple but feature-rich password manager for iOS and the web. In addition to passwords, Stashword can securely save notes, financial information, and more. You can even scan and save documents like your drivers license, insurance documentation, and passport.
Stashword is free to try for 15 days. Paid membership enables you to synchronize across all your devices and their website. As a special offer for Daring Fireball readers, through May 25 annual membership is just $7.99, which is 20 percent off the regular price.
Federico Viticci:
I've been thinking about some of these ideas since iOS 9 (you can see a thread between my iOS 10 concept and this year's version), while others would be a natural evolution for iOS on the iPad. Once again, Sam was able to visualize everything with a fantastic concept that, I believe, captures the iPad's big-picture potential more accurately than last year.
Below, you'll find our iOS 11 for iPad concept video, followed by an analysis of my iPad wishes with static mockups. I focused on foundational changes to the iPad's software — tentpole features that would affect the entire OS and app ecosystem.
This isn't a prediction of what Apple will announce at WWDC; it's my vision for what the future of the iPad should be.
Viticci and Beckett put months of work into this, and it shows. Some of the ideas they present: system-wide drag-and-drop, a Finder app, a redesigned App Store, and much more.
The best part of this feature isn't any specific idea, but rather Viticci's profound enthusiasm for the iPad as a platform.
Amy Tenderich, 10 years ago, in an open letter to Steve Jobs:
If insulin pumps or continuous monitors had the form of an iPod Nano, people wouldn't have to wonder why we wear our "pagers" to our own weddings, or puzzle over that strange bulge under our clothes. If these devices wouldn't start suddenly and incessantly beeping, strangers wouldn't lecture us to turn off our "cell phones" at the movie theater.
In short, medical device manufacturers are stuck in a bygone era; they continue to design these products in an engineering-driven, physician-centered bubble. They have not yet grasped the concept that medical devices are also life devices, and therefore need to feel good and look good for the patients using them 24/7, in addition to keeping us alive.
This was incredibly prescient, given the rumors that Apple is working on continuous non-invasive glucose monitoring for Apple Watch. Jobs didn't live to see it, but I think it's exactly the sort of thing he would be pushing for if he were still alive.
From chapter 37 of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs:
Even when he was barely conscious, his strong personality came through. At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was deeply sedated. Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it. Though barely able to speak, he ordered them to bring five different options for the mask and he would pick a design he liked. The doctors looked at Powell, puzzled. She was finally able to distract him so they could put on the mask. He also hated the oxygen monitor they put on his finger. He told them it was ugly and too complex. He suggested ways it could be designed more simply. "He was very attuned to every nuance of the environment and objects around him, and that drained him," Powell recalled.
Scott Gilbertson, writing for The Register:
Quite a few high-profile web developers have this year weighted in with criticism and some, following a Google conference dedicated to AMP, have cautioned users about diving in with both feet.
These, in my view, don't go far enough in stating the problem and I feel this needs to be said very clearly: Google's AMP is bad — bad in a potentially web-destroying way. Google AMP is bad news for how the web is built, it's bad news for publishers of credible online content, and it's bad news for consumers of that content. Google AMP is only good for one party: Google. Google, and possibly, purveyors of fake news.
It's time for developers to wake up and, as Jason Scott once said of Facebook, stop: "Shoveling down the shit sherbet" Google is now serving with AMP.
I'm on the record as being strongly opposed to AMP simply on the grounds of publication independence. I'd stand by that even if the implementation were great. But the implementation is not great — it's terrible. Yes, AMP pages load fast, but you don't need AMP for fast-loading web pages. If you are a publisher and your web pages don't load fast, the sane solution is to fix your fucking website so that pages load fast, not to throw your hands up in the air and implement AMP.
But other than loading fast, AMP sucks. It implements its own scrolling behavior on iOS, which feels unnatural, and even worse, it breaks the decade-old system-wide iOS behavior of being able to tap the status bar to scroll to the top of any scrollable view. AMP also completely breaks Safari's ability to search for text on a page (via the "Find on Page" action in the sharing sheet). Google has no respect for the platform. If I had my way, Mobile Safari would refuse to render AMP pages. It's a deliberate effort by Google to break the open web.
Damian Carrington, reporting for The Guardian:
It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world's most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity's food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel.
The big takeaway from this should be that climate change truly is a threat to civilization. But, I have to say, that melting permafrost wasn't taken into consideration during the design of this vault seems like a glaring oversight.
Update: Looks like The Guardian might have shamelessly sensationalized this story. Mary Beth Griggs, reporting for Popular Science:
"If there was a worst case scenario where there was so much water, or the pumping systems failed, that it made its way uphill to the seed vault, then it would encounter minus 18 [degrees celsius] and freeze again. Then there's another barrier [the ice] for entry into the seed vault," Fowler says. In other words, any water that floods into the tunnel has to make it 100 meters downhill, then back uphill, then overwhelm the pumping systems, and then manage not to freeze at well-below-freezing temperatures. Otherwise, there's no way liquid is getting into the seed bank — so the seeds are probably safe. […]
Still worried? Maybe this will help you exhale: "We did this calculation; if all the ice in the world melted — Greenland, Arctic, Antarctic, everything — and then we had the world's largest recorded tsunami right in front of the seed vault. So, very high sea levels and the worlds largest Tsunami. What would happen to the seed vault?" Fowler says. "We found that the seed vault was somewhere between a five and seven story building above that point. It might not help the road leading up to the seed vault, but the seeds themselves would be OK."
Sounds like the vault itself is designed to survive a climate apocalypse — it's just the entry that isn't.
Niclas Darville, on creating a JSON Feed template for Jekyll:
It literally took me longer to write this blog post than the JSON feed code, because I couldn't get Jekyll to escape the Liquid code example.
On Twitter, Darville wrote:
One of the best things about @jsonfeed is how well it works as a Hello World kind of programming exercise.
Sure beats to-do lists.
Jason McIntosh described adding JSON Feed support to his home-grown blog engine as a "blowing-off-steam project".
These reactions are exactly what I mean about JSON Feed being fun. There's a time and place for specs that are drop-dead serious, but I think it's often overlooked just how important fun can be in having a new spec gain traction.
Actual headline in the staid New York Times: "Trump Told Russians That Firing 'Nut Job' Comey Eased Pressure From Investigation".
Jason Ditzian, writing for The Bold Italic on what happened when the car sharing service he'd been using for 10 years was acquired:
However, City CarShare was recently bought by a corporation, Getaround. And Getaround built its platform on top of Facebook. So when I went to migrate my account over to them, I found that there's literally no way to do it as a non-Facebook user. If I want to share cars with my fellow city dwellers, I'm compelled to strike a Faustian bargain.
To access the services of Getaround, one must authenticate their identity through Facebook. […]
I know that for you Facebook-having people, this is no big deal. You have resigned yourself to the idea of Facebook owning your data. But if you don't, haven't and/or won't resign to this fate, you might end up left, like me, in a peculiar situation: the price of "sharing" a car equals money plus forking over a huge trove of personal data. Personal information is supplanting money as a form of currency.
There's clearly a problem here, but I don't think it's Facebook's fault. I think the problem is that Getaround sucks.
Karl Bode, writing for TechDirt:
Surprising absolutely nobody, the FCC today voted 2-1 along strict party lines to begin dismantling net neutrality protections for consumers. The move comes despite the fact that the vast majority of non-bot comments filed with the FCC support keeping the rules intact. And while FCC boss Ajit Pai has breathlessly insisted he intended to listen to the concerns of all parties involved, there has been zero indication that this was a serious commitment as he begins dismantling all manner of broadband consumer protections, not just net neutrality.
As you might have expected, the FCC was quick to release a statement claiming that gutting the popular consumer protections would usher forth a magical age of connectivity, investment, and innovation.
One of my very favorite songs from Chris Cornell — the opening credits theme to Casino Royale. A great song that just fits the movie so damn well.
The New York Times:
Chris Cornell, the powerful, dynamic singer whose band Soundgarden was one of the architects of grunge music, died on Wednesday night in Detroit hours after the band had performed there. He was 52.
The death was a suicide by hanging, the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office said in a statement released on Thursday afternoon. It said a full autopsy had not yet been completed.
Great interactive feature by Farhad Manjoo for The New York Times:
Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, are not just the largest technology companies in the world. As I've argued repeatedly in my column, they are also becoming the most powerful companies of any kind, essentially inescapable for any consumer or business that wants to participate in the modern world. But which of the Frightful Five is most unavoidable? I ponder the question in my column this week.
But what about you? If an evil monarch forced you to choose, in what order would you give up these inescapable giants of tech?
Great question. I love thought exercises.
My order (from first dropped to last):
Facebook. I love Instagram, but could live without it. I don't use anything else Facebook offers.
Microsoft. The only Microsoft product I use regularly is Skype, for podcasting, and I suspect I could find another solution. (If I couldn't, I might have to rethink my answer here.)
Amazon. I buy stuff from Amazon almost every week. I just counted — 11 orders so far in 2017. My wife buys stuff from Amazon even more frequently. But just about anything we buy at Amazon, we could buy elsewhere. It'd be painful to replace, but not irreplaceable. There are a couple of shows exclusive to Amazon Prime that I enjoy, but none that I love.
Alphabet. I already use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine, so giving up Google search would be frustrating at times, but not a deal breaker. I use a few email accounts backed by Gmail, but I actually dislike Gmail, and have been procrastinating on moving all my mail to FastMail for years. I despise Google Docs. I don't use any Android devices other than as a curiosity. I greatly prefer Safari over Chrome. YouTube, however, is irreplaceable, and so essential that it pretty much singlehandedly catapults Alphabet to #4 in my list.
Apple. I mean, come on. If not for Apple I'd be stuck using computers I don't like and a phone that I consider a distant second-best. With all the other companies on the list, what I'd miss most are certain of their services — Instagram, Skype, Amazon's store, YouTube — but Apple is the only company in the world whose hardware I consider irreplaceable. And you need the hardware to make best use of the services from any other companies. And that doesn't even touch upon Apple's crown jewels: the MacOS and iOS software platforms. ★


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Beatiful apartments sea wiew – Home 1716415
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Key Info
- Beach / lakeside relaxation
- Swimming pool
- Not suitable for children
- Air conditioning
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Description from owner
In a splendid Caribbean location, Commodore Panorama Club offers fully furnished apartments just 65 ft from the beach in San Andrés Island. Guests can also sunbathe in the outdoor pool.
The apartment is nicely styled with white tiled floors and modern furniture. It includes a separate sitting area with sofas, flat-screen and cable TV, and it also features 2 bedrooms and bathrooms.
Guests staying at the Panorama Club can use a complete kitchen with microwave, refrigerator and coffee makers. The balcony includes a sitting area, ideal for dining with a view of the sea.
The Commodore Panorama Club is situated on Colombia Avenue, 1 block from the main restaurant and bar area, with picturesque stores and local attractions.
Bed & bathroom
- 1 Double Bed, 2 Sofa Beds, 2 Single Beds
- 2 Family bathrooms
- Air conditioning
- Shared outdoor pool (unheated)
- Waterfront
- Balcony or terrace
- Sea view
- Freezer
- Microwave
- High chair available
- Towels provided
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- Not suitable for wheelchair users
- Check in time:15:00, Check out time:12:00
- If you have any questions about check-in or check-out times, please contact the owner/manager.
- Payment
- This rental can only be paid for online through Holiday Lettings using your credit/debit card or PayPal (never by bank or wire transfer).
- Smoking
- No smoking at this property
- Cancellation policy
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Pierantonio G.
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- Calendar updated::
- 28 May 2017
- Years listed:
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NEW YORK: Gold rose for a third session on Monday as investors were uncertain about the US budget crisis and hopeful that the Federal Reserve will unveil new economic stimulus this week.
Growing unease about Europe boosted safe-haven bids for bullion after Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti announced he would resign once the 2013 budget is approved.
Investors also bought more gold ahead of a two-day Fed policy meeting. The US central bank is expected to announce monthly bond purchases of $45 billion, on top of the $40 billion in mortgage-backed security purchases it announced in September.
Also underpinning gold was a lack of apparent progress in US budget talks. US President Barack Obama was scheduled to speak in Michigan on Monday afternoon. He met on Sunday with Republican House Speaker John Boehner in hopes of reaching agreement on a budget ahead of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts set to go into effect in the new year.
Analysts said safe havens such as gold and silver could sell off in the near term if a budget deal is clinched.
"Although markets are taking the lack of progress thus far with an impressive degree of complacency, we wonder when a potential breaking point will be reached," said Edward Meir, metals analyst at brokerage INTL FCStone. "As a result, we would be cautious on gold and silver here, but less so on platinum and palladium."
Spot gold rose 0.5 percent to $1,712.80 an ounce by 11:23 a.m. EST (1622 GMT), rebounding from a one-month low hit on Friday after data showed US employers hired more workers than expected in November.
US gold futures for February delivery were up $8.90 to $1,714.40, with trading volume on track to finish sharply below its 30-day average, preliminary Reuters data showed.
Gold market largely ignored news that high-profile hedge fund manager John Paulson told his clients on Friday evening that his funds experienced mixed returns in November with softer gold prices weighing on some portfolios.
Late Friday's CFTC data also showed hedge fund and money managers cut their bullish bets on US gold last week to the lowest level since late August.
Among other precious metals, silver was up 0.9 percent at $33.28 an ounce. Platinum climbed 1.6 percent to $1,620.50, while palladium gained 1 percent to $699.70.
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On Sunday, Pearce publicly stated he had accepted the job of succeeding Peter Taylor, only for his club to immediately point out no agreement had been reached. However, a solution has now been found which takes into account City's fears over Pearce being side-tracked at a key stage of the campaign.
The FA's director of football development Sir Trevor Brooking told www.thefa.com: "We are very pleased Stuart will take the team against Spain so that he can get to know the players. However, we also realise that as manager of Manchester City, he must then give his full focus to the club until the end of the season."
He added: "Stuart has huge international experience as a player and has already shown at Manchester City that he is a talented young manager."
Pearce, assisted by Nigel Pearson, will take command for next Tuesday's friendly with Spain at Pride Park and also this summer's European Championships, but has also insisted he has no intention of applying to become Under-21 coach on a permanent basis
Pearce said: "It is a fantastic honour for me. Hopefully, I can be a success. But, after that, I will come back to the club and work for Manchester City. I won't be involved in the Under-21s after the summer because I will not be applying for the job."
Meanwhile, Blackburn forward Matt Derbyshire is one of three new faces in a squad of 23 which has been named for Pearce's first game in charge.
Derbyshire, Aston Villa defender Gary Cahill and Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart (currently on loan at Tranmere Rovers) are selected for the first time.
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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - February 14, 1984, New Braunfels, Texas American ship shells Syrian artillery positions BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A U.S. Navy warship shelled Syrian artillery positions in central Lebanon today as the Lebanese army and U.S. Marines came under attack in Beirut. Lebanese jets also went into action, for the first time since September. U.S. Air Force Capt. Jack Giese said the guided missile destroyer USS Claude V. Ricketts fired ll rounds from its five-inch guns after the Lebanese command requested fire on Syrian positions before daybreak. The Marine base at Beirut's international airport came under mortar fire from the southeast at 6:45 a.m., and the Marines shot ack with mortars, said Giese, a spokesman for the Marine force. Lebanese air force jets bombed Druse insurgent positions in the mountains southeast of Beirut, the first air strikes by the force since last fall, after the Druse attacked army positions. The clashes ended a two-day lull in the fighting around the capital. A military communique said army positions southeast of Beirut had come under attack by the Syrian-backed Druse militiamen, and the air force jets scrambled to retaliate with several bombing runs. Ground-to-air missiles were fired as a pair of Lebanese Hawker-Hunters flew sorties in the Chouf mountains about ll miles from Beirut's center. It was the first time the Lebanese air force went to action since last September's civil war in the central mountains, when it lost two of its five World War II British-made Hawker-Hunters. The tone of the army communiques and of statements issued by Druse leader Walid Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party suggested a major Druse offensive was under way to overrun the village of Kabr Chmoun. The village controls the main crossroad intersection linking the southeastern Chouf mountains with the central Aley ridge that overlooks thes U.S. Marine base at Beirut International Airport. Communiques from both sides later said the fighting spread to the Abey area, 1.2 miles south of Kabr Chmoun, where an army garrison has been holding out since September. An army communique said the new druse attack was mounted late Monday night, and heavy fighting had been raging since then. New 4Ui Braunfels Nm Braunfels, Texas Volume 93 —No. 32 Zeftima 12 Pages TUESDAY February 14,1984 25 Cents (USPS 377-880)fined, gets probation By DEBBIE DeLOACH Staff writer District Attorney Bill Schroeder said Tuesday the case against M&R Sportswear owner Michael McGuire was concluded in court Monday. The doors of M&R Sportswear at 483 N. West End closed Oct. 14 without notice to its 30-35 employees. The business was owned by Michael McGuire of Trinidad. At County Court-at-Law Monday, McGuire was sentenced to one year in jail which was probated for one year, and fined $2,000. The charge against McGuire was theft over $200 and less than $750. "I gave him the maximum sentence I could under Class A misdemeanor," presiding judge Ron Zipp said Tuesday. "And I hope to send a message that theft isn't good any way you slice it. The Texas Department of l.*bor and Standards began an investigation in the unexplained closing of M&R Sportswear after employees came to work and found the locks had been changed and most of the equipment removed. "From my end, it was a matter of everyone getting their money," Schroeder said. ''That was the agreement, and the case is closed." Mnnpv mattprq /Pavin9 machine'new program IVIvJI ICJy 11 laiLOlO/^ make revenue sharing budget An asphalt paving machine nixed by the City Council last year got thrown back into this year's federal revenue sharing budget. A last-minute plea from Bobbie Carmichael got $3,000 for the new Hospice Program. Council decided to update just two of the city's three outmoded traffic lights, though Barbara Tieken was against updating any of them. Funds for emergency repairs on Lands Park's spring-fed pool were trimmed to a bare minimum of $30,000. Council funneled all the leftover monies ($74,650) into street and drainage projects. After two hours of public hearing and discussion, the 1963-64 revenue sharing budget was approved on a 6-1 vote. Tieken voted "no" on account of the stop lights. The city has $225,000 to spend before this fiscal year ends in June. The final allocation included $74,650 few streets and drainage, $40,000 for a modulance-ambulance. $31,350 to update two traffic signals, $30,000 for a pavement machine, $30,000 for pool repairs and $4,000 for the audit required by federal law. Council allocated $3,000 apiece to the Hospice Program, Conununity Service Center, Home Care Center, Mental Health-Mental Retardation and the Senior Citizens Center. This budget deviates just a little from the one proposed by City Manager E.N. Delashmutt. He had earmarked $48,250 for replacing traffic lights, $60,000 for pool repairs and only $60,750 for streets The Hospice Program, which trains families of terminal patients to care for them at home rather than in a hospital, wasn't on the original list. Delashmutt had asked for an asphalt pavement laydown machine at last year's revenue sharing budget hearing. When he noted thai Comal County had just bought a similar machine, council asked him why he couldn't work out some kind of a deal to borrow that one. Delashmutt did just that. In fact, County Judge Fred Clark complained some months ago that New Braunfels got more use out of that paver than the county did. The City Council was very impressed with the work done, and it was Mayor O.A. Stratemann Jr. and Councilmember Donnie Seay who suggested Monday that "we need to look into getting our own machine " Delashmutt was glad to hear that, because he'd just received word that Comal County's machine might not be available for such extensive city use this year He said if he'd heard that sooner, he might have included it rn the revenue sharing budget. He thought he could get one for $30,000 He said he could stand to lose that much money from the spring-fed pool repair fund, if the council promised to allocate some more toward that when the 1964-85 revenue sharing budget comes up next June Finance Director Jim Jeffers said it would take See REVENUE, Page 12 Inside Today's Weather The Comal County forecast calls for sunny ami warm today, becoming clear and mild tonight. Wednesday morning will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms. CLASSIFIED......................9-11 COMICS.........................7 J CROSSWORD......................8 OEAR ABBY........................2 DEATHS...........................2 HOROSCOPE.......................8 OPINIONS..........................4 SPORTS.........................5.6 STOCKS..........................12 TV LISTINGS.......................• WEATHER.........................2 Jones' defense rests its case GEORGETOWN (AP) — Generic Jones' defense lawyers, apparently confident that their expert witnesses had poked holes in the state's murder case against the 33-year-old nurse, today rested their case without calling Ms. Jones to the witness stand. Defense lawyer Jim Brookshire closed the case after calling six witnesses over three days. Four of the witnesses were medical experts who never saw the little girl Ms. Jones is accused (rf killing, but studied medical records and said it didn t look Uke a murder. State District Judge John Carter today prepared to move the trial, now in its fifth week, into its next stage, rebuttal testimony from prosecutors. Ms. Jones, a 33-year-old mother of two, is charged with killing the girl and injuring five other patients who came to the Kerrv ille pediatric clime where she worked in the suiiuner of 1982 She faces a possible life sentence if convicted Brookshire used two experts on Monday to chip away at the prosecutions'* story of an aggressive nurse who aUegedly used a powerful drug to kill Chelsea McClellan in September 1982. Poison expert Joseph Ba lk on on Monday challenged the prosec ution witness who said his tests found traces of s ucc in y Ic no Ii ne in the girl's body. "We'd have to say no cigar' on the basis of confirmation'' of the drug in the girl's tissues. Ba Ikon said. And Dr. William Goldie, a Houston pediatric neurologist, said the medical records he studied showed a natural death, not a murder by drugs. MALDEF seeks NBISD injunction The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund is going to the courts to try to stop the New Braunfels ISD trustee election in April. MALDEF staff attorney Judith Saunders-Castro said a request for an injunction is near completion. "1 would speculate it will be filed today," she said. The request will be filed with U.S. District Judge William Sessions, who will take over the case in place of retired Judge Fred Shannon. The NBISD election for April 7 was called during the trustee meeting on Feb. 7. The school board members were required to call the election under the Texas Education Code, but had delayed the decision because they were waiting for the results (rf a review by the Justice Department on their new election plan Because the Justice Department requested additional information in the case, NBISD will continue with its present system of electing at-large by numbered places Two places will be on the ballot School board treasurer Garland Lloyd has filed for Place I while school board president Margy Waldrip will seek reelection in Place 2 The filing deadline is midnight March 7. Candidate* can file at the district's administration office Ray Martinez gets his award from Clyde BoothLocal Texas Ranger 'Officer of the Year' Texas Ranger Ramiro * Ray" Martinez was honored as Officer of the Year for 1964 by the Breakfast Lion's Club Tuesday. The award is given rn memory of Sheriffs Investigator Ed Murphy. who died ut a helicopter crash in 1961 while chasing a burglary suspect. Club president Clyde Booth and member Duke Abbott orchestrated the presentation. "From the lime we were all children, we've heard about the Texas Rangers We had an idea about what they stood for, and the job they perform,'' Abbott said "This is the third year we've made this presentation.'' he added, "and Ray Martinez is the kind of individual we've set out to honor. Theres no man more deserv ing " Martinez, along with his wife VerNell, were present to accept the award. "This honor is especially dear lr my heart because I worked closely with Ed," Martinez said "And my wile certainly deserve* pert of this. She probably didn't realize 23 years ago that she was marrying my job, too." As an Austin police officer, Martinez was involved in shooting Cheries Whitman off the University of Texas tower on Aug. 1,1966. He joined the Department of Public Safety narcotics i J in 1966, end three years made it to the interview beard for the Texas Rangers "I died on the eligibility hat that time, because there weren't MQT openings," Martinez said in a February, 1982 interview. But he applied again in 1973, made the grade and the list, and wee stationed in Laredo. Then, in January of 1976, bi asked for end received a transfer to the New Braunfels area. He'a a Ranger in Company D, which covers all of South Texas and ie headquartered in San Antonio. People like you make my Jab easy," Martinez told the i Tuesday 'i ve worked In counties, and I've anon their chains of law enforcement. The ones who complete thai chain art people like you, and I I***"!! yen.** Others on hand to echo agreement with the clab's selection were New DPS Sgt. Bob Hold) Walter Fellers, Ranter Company D Sgt Gene Powell, and Mayor O.A. "Skip" Stratemann. 'i've been with the stale MW years, and worked around a let af Texas Rangers*" SgL Haider said-"Ray is the hneel I've anoa."M&R owner Exemption vote due seven homeowners at random, end compared their tax-roll values before and after the 1981 reappraisal Tieken also got before-and-after figures for "a popular resort, a leading industrial site, and two businesses," she said. The seven homes she checked had gone up 56 percent, 75 percent, 79, 82, 86,87 and 119 percent, respectively. Value of the leading industrial site had increased 3.89 percent. The resort went up 33.3 percent, and the business values increased 48.5 and 60.3 percent, Tieken said. She conceded her sample was small, and perhaps not statistically sufficient. Still, Tieken thinks it proves her claim that homeowners bore the brunt of the tax shift" in the state-ordered re-appraisal. "Do you know why''" Councilmen! ber Donnie Seay asked "Certainly," Tieken replied, before the advent of central appraisal districts, commercial and industrial properties tended to be reappraised more often than homes. When all properties were brought to fair market value under the Beveto Bill, the homes took a tagger jump Seay's point seemed to be that See HOMESTEAD. Page 12 ByDYANNE FRY Staff writer Keeping your hose dean New Braunfels firefighters Wes Meyer (left) and R.J. Reed try out a new hose washer outside the Central Fire Station. This device uses high-pressure streams of water to forcibly clean a fire hose, and replaces the old method of scrubbing Staff photo bv John N Sahter them by hand. Reed operates the clamp at right, letting water into the unit. The hose is then pulled through a cylindrical pipe with internal jets The pipe was donated by Comal Iron and Metals, and Fischbeck welding put the machine together New Braunfels citizens will get their chance to vote on the 40 percent homestead exemption. City Council accepted Douglas Miller's second petition Monday-night, and unanimously agreed to put the question on the April 7 ballot Miller said the petition had been signed by 346 registered voters That's more than he had on his Jan. 23 petition, which was declared void due to improper wording. Mayor O A Stratemann Jr. said the second petition, drawn with the help of City Attorney John Chunn, appeared to be all in order." All seven council members agreed to put it on the ballot. However, they are not agreed on the issue of the homestead exemption itself. It s been voted down on four separate occasions. Before voting on Monday, several council members took the opportunity to express their individual views. Barbara Tieken, one of the two members who have consistently supported the exemption, had some hard figures to back her position She said she had gone to Comal County Appraisal District records, picked ;
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Kolkata, Oct 7: Bolstered by their back to back wins against India, South Africa batsman David Miller says his team is all pumped to make a clean sweep of the three-match T20 series here tomorrow (October 8).
"I think it is a massive point. We are 2-0 up and are determined to make it 3-0. As you say, momentum and confidence is a big thing in international cricket. I think, our preparations have been really good. We've been trying to check all the boxes and hopefully we come out on top tomorrow," said Miller on the eve of the third and final T20 International.
"To be honest, its a great feeling to be coming to Kolkata 2-0 up in the series. The series win is really big. We came here with a lot of expectations to do well, we have put a lot of pressure on us to perform.
"India are an amazing T20 side with huge players. It gives us a lot of confidence moving forward coming close to the World Twenty20," said the hard-hitting batsman.
"We are playing against England and at the end of the year in Australia. We just need to take as much confidence as we can moving forward. It has been a huge confidence booster."
South African key batsman AB de Villiers did not come for the practice today and Miller said it was not much of an issue.
"It is an optional practice today. Some players have taken a day off. It has been a long week. We have had some intense games, a lot of practice and travelling. I hope AB does play. We will see tomorrow.
"As supposed to what is going to happen tomorrow, I am not very sure. Maybe resting a few guys but I have got no idea about that as well."
The general pattern is to practice in the evening if the match is a night affair. Why morning practice?
"To be honest, we have been given that slot. I am not sure how the logistics work on practice scheduling. I have been told to be ready at 9 am in the morning and I made sure I was not late for the bus."
Dhoni was suggesting that home matches during this time of the year should start earlier to negate the dew factor but Miller said: "To be honest, I don't know what to say. The games are given to us at 7 pm. The dew factor is bit of an issue. But to fair, it has been the same to both teams. I think there isn't too much of an issue."
Miller further said their exposure in IPL has helped South Africans players immensely. "It makes a massive difference. We have come out on top against India. I think the IPL has helped not only the foreign players but the younger guys from India as well.
"It's an unbelievable tournament, it has given opportunity to a lot of players. It also definitely helped South African getting used to the conditions in India. We are feeling a lot more at home," he added.


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