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City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters
We provide City of Norwood Payneham and St Peters residents with a:
- blue-lidded bin (140 litres) for general waste
- yellow-lidded bin (240 litres) for recycling
- green-lidded bin (240 litres) for food/kitchen and garden organics
- at call hard waste collection each year.
General waste is collected weekly and alternate fortnightly pick-ups are scheduled for recycling and green organics. Check your collection calendar and map for bin collection days. The City of Norwood Payneham and St Peters also provides its residents with a basket and compostable liners to collect kitchen waste – this can be put into the green-lidded bin with your green organics waste.
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Missed bin day? Get in touch with us to arrange collection or report a problem. East Waste also manages bin repair for the City of Norwood Payneham and St Peters – contact us to organise this service for you.
East Waste and the City of Norwood, Payneham and St Peters are working together to reach the goals and targets outlined within the State's overall waste strategy as well as the City's specific goals in CityPlan 2030: Shaping Our Future.
Key commitments in the plan include:
- promoting sustainable and efficient management of water, waste, energy and other resources
- creating efficiencies – achieving more with less, using fewer resources and generating less waste
- using less resources and produce minimal waste, which involves a target of 35% less community waste to landfill by 2020
- identifying and implementing new waste reduction approaches for Council operations and the community
- substantially reducing our City's ecological footprint.
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Athi River
Accommodation in Athi River
Mlolongo, a mere 6 miles (10 kilometers) from Athi River, is where you can find the 67 Airport Hotel. As Travelocity's bookings page features no accommodation in Athi River itself, this is the best option for those wanting to stay nearby.
Athi River Vacation Packages
You won't need to travel for hours to get to Athi River, 17 miles (27 kilometers) to the southeast of the thriving city of Nairobi.
Grab your tickets to see the local sports heroes and experience the vibe of the area. Just enjoy the drive 16 miles (26 kilometers) northwest of Athi River to Nairobi City Stadium for the chance to see the Gor Mahia F.C. and the Posta Rangers F.C. play here. Once the game is over, the locals will lead you to the most popular pubs in the area.
Are you looking to see more of the region? If so, arrange a visit to Kitengela, which is 8 miles (13 kilometers) to the southwest, and Katelembu, 14 miles (23 kilometers) to the east.
Let your senses be your guide on some of the wildlife spotting tours and wildlife safaris available in this region.
Traditional food and drink are part of a country's heritage. Have fun and learn more about the local culture and tradition by trying different dishes.
Potato and maize are local ingredients likely to pass your lips during your time in the region.
Many of your fondest memories will involve food. Don't skip the opportunity to taste a few of the region's most popular menu delights, such as ugali (cornmeal) and irio (mashed peas and potato mix).
Chilled banana cream is a tasty dessert that no culinary explorer should skip.
Take it easy with a Picana (mango juice) in hand to completely immerse yourself in the tastes of the region.
The colorful celebrations of Independence Day, on the 12th of December in Kenya, will totally capture the attention of all travelers.
If you're flying to Athi River, be aware that the closest major airport is Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, found 10 miles (16 kilometers) away.
Packages in Athi River
It's a breeze to get great savings when you book a Athi River accommodation and flight deal with Travelocity.
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Like its sedan counterpart, the 2017 Honda City facelift, the mid-cycle update of the Jazz gets subtle styling upgrades. Do these changes add to the Jazz' appeal? Let's find out.
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In its latest iteration, the Honda Jazz offers a healthy balance of space, equipment and convenience. A big part of the last factor is the inclusion of an automatic transmission, which was missing in the old model. The Jazz AT is only offered with a petrol engine and in two variants i.e. the Jazz 1.2 S AT i VTEC and Jazz 1.2 V AT i VTEC. The V is the more expensive variant. At a price of Rs 8.47 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi, as of 9 May, 2017), it commands a premium of Rs 1.07 lakh over its manual counterpart.
On the outside, the Jazz V adds touches like a rear wiper and washer, alloy wheels and wing mirrors with integrated indicators. Inside, like the SV grade, it gets an advanced instrument cluster with an LCD multi-information display and even features paddle-shifters for the automatic gearbox. This variant also adds an outside temperature display, a leather wrap for the steering wheel and a glossy silver finish for the inner door handles. It also sports a bigger, 5-inch infotainment screen with CD compatibility added to the kitty. A nice touch is the addition of automatic climate control and electrically folding wing mirrors. For safety, apart from dual airbags and ABS, it also gets a rear camera.
Powering the Jazz AT is a 1.2-litre, 4-cylinder petrol engine that makes 90PS of power and 110Nm of torque. The motor comes paired with a continuously variable transmission (CVT) and delivers a claimed fuel efficiency of 19kmpl, which is marginally better than the Jazz MT.
The Honda Jazz automatic goes up against the likes of the Maruti Baleno, Maruti Ignis, Hyundai Elite i20 and the Volkswagen Polo GT TSI.
Like its sedan counterpart, the 2017 Honda City facelift, the mid-cycle update of the Jazz gets subtle styling upgrades. Do these changes add to the Jazz' appeal? Let's find out.
Like the 2017 Honda City, the Jazz facelift features subtle aesthetic changes over the outgoing model.
The spy shots of the Honda Jazz Facelift being tested in Brazil have surfaced on the Internet
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Bangalore, July 30 (UNI) The Karnataka Government today decided to hand over the sensational Padmapriya case to the Corps of Detectives (CoD), while the Opposition demanded a CBI inquiry into it.
Speaking at the Legislative Council, Home Minister V S Acharya rejected the Opposition demand and said the CoD was capable of doing a good job in this regard.
Not satisfied with his statement, the Congress members entered the well of the House and staged 'dharna,' following which the House was adjourned for a brief period.
The Opposition demanded a CBI inquiry stating that three States had been involved in the case as she travelled from Karnataka to Goa and then to Delhi.
Udupi and Mangalore Police had been conducting investigations into the case so far.
Padmapriya, wife of Udupi BJP MLA Raghupathy Bhat, went missing from her Udupi home on June 11 and was found hanging in an apartment in Dwaraka in New Delhi on June 15.
Preliminary investigations had revealed that a family feud might have resulted in her suicide.
The Legislator had alleged involvement of family friend Atul Rao in the incident. Mr Rao, who was arrested based on a complaint from Mr Bhat, is now under judicial custody. It was alleged that he had taken Padmapriya to Delhi on her request and arranged an apartment for her.


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Instructions on how to unlock Verizon Smartphone
We will teach you everything you need to know about Verizon Smartphone unlocks. Just as the logo of the Verizon phone says, this unlock solution is only for the brave. So if you already have Verizon smartphone that is currently under lock with some of the biggest mobile carriers around the world, you will learn today how to remove the lock directly from the database servers on a factory level grade.
But let's take things step by step. As you know, many operators offer smartphones such as the Verizon at far cheaper prices if the user agrees to sign a contract that he will use only the network services of that particular network only.
In this way, the Verizon phone is locked and works only with the SIM card from that operator.
If the user tries to insert a new card, it will not be read.
However, due to various reasons a lot of people simply cannot wait till the contract expires and are forced to look for alternative solutions to this problem. Many of whom, even opt in to buy a completely new device.
If you belong amongst this category, you should not rush things because there is perfectly safe method which will not cost you a single dime and which will allow you to remove the network lock on your Verizon locked Smartphone.
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2017-06-10T06:00:00-04:00It was 8:15 p.m. and Jason Sylvain was drunk. When the 41-year-old man encountered Knightscope's 300-pound K5 security droid doing laps in the company's Mountain View parking lot, things didn't go well—for either of them. The large, pyramidal robot can't have been easy to overturn. But Sylvain, whom a police spokesperson later described as "confused, [with] red, glassy eyes and a strong odor of alcohol emit[ting] from him," persevered. Upon finding itself topsy-turvy, the unarmed bot did what anyone would do: It called the cops and hollered for help. In response to the K5's siren, Knightscope's vice president of marketing, Stacy Stevens, rushed out of the company's HQ and nabbed the assailant. Stevens later told CNET that the sloshed Sylvain "claimed to be an engineer that wanted to 'test' the security robots." He added, "I guess he now has his answer." Knightscope rather insistently compares its weaponless 5-foot-tall robots to the loveable and heroic R2D2. But they really look more like Daleks, the heavily armored aliens best known by their Doctor Who catchphrase "Exterminate!" And there has been one reported incident in which a K5 arguably violated Isaac Asimov's First Law of Robotics by "injuring a human being or, through inaction, allowing a human being to come to harm." Last year in a Silicon Valley shopping center, a toddler had a run-in with a "K5 Autonomous Data Machine (Machine Identification Number 13)." The 18-month-old boy sustained a boo-boo after an encounter with Paul Bleep, mall cop. Details are unclear, but in hilariously dry technical language, Knightscope's official statement gently suggests that the victim, young Harwin Cheng, may have tripped over his own feet: "The machine's sensors registered no vibration alert and the machine motors did not fault as they would when encountering an obstacle." Is "the machine's sensors registered no vibration alert" the robot equivalent of "the suspect was resisting arrest"? Maybe. But while body cams on human security agents are not yet universal, the whole point of the K5 droids is that they record and broadcast everything they do, generating meticulous records. Regardless, the company pulled the bots to work on an update, which was undergoing testing when Sylvain stumbled onto the scene. Knightscope rents its robots for between $6.25 and $7 per hour—less than minimum wage, a price point that's not coincidental. The K5 is ready and willing to take a job that Americans just won't do, or at least a job that Americans won't do at the wages that the law mandates companies must pay them. In the headquarters of Microsoft, Uber, and other corporate clients, K5s do pretty much what a civilian security guard would: mosey around looking moderately menacing while listening and watching for anything out of the ordinary. The droid uses lasers, GPS, thermal imaging, and a super-fast license plate scanner where a human being would use his ears and eyes. Also similar to the human guard, the bot's primary weapon is its phone. But the K5 never loses its temper or calls in sick. And it's much, much cheaper. There's no doubt that higher minimum wages are encouraging automation. Just ask the members of the joke Facebook group "Robots for a $15 Minimum Wage." In February, the burger chain Wendy's announced plans to outfit 1,000 locations with automated ordering kiosks. "Last year was tough; 5 percent wage inflation," CEO Bob Wright told investors and analysts earlier this year. Then he noted that demand for kiosks was very high among the company's franchisees—small businesspeople who are struggling with increased labor costs. But daily stories chronicling the rise of automation in response to wage increases typically take a hysterical tone, as though automation itself were an evil to be avoided—root cause of social dysfunction rather than a rational response to increased labor costs with some positive side effects. Tax proposals even exist to impose duties on robots to pay for the disruption and perhaps to slow down their adoption. In February, European Union lawma[...]
(image) A Ukrainian company has unveiled a cheap autonomous mobile house with a 3D-printed frame. The PassivDom modul-One includes solar panels, batteries for power storage, and an inverter, as well as water storage, purification, and independent sewage. The frame is made of carbon fiber, fiberglass, and polyurethane. It claims to be the "warmest house in the world" thanks to new thermal tech, and the entire structure is recyclable.
The whole shebang sells for $65,000. So far, only one model seems to exist, but the company claims potential buyers will be able to test drive the unit soon.
If you're shopping for new digs with disaster in mind, the firm offers a "Zombie apocalypse" package, which includes armored glazing on the structure's extensive transparent walls, a perimeter alarm, extra storage for toilet paper, and a "gift-edition" Bible.
Another set of upgrades, the "not in my backyard" package, includes extensive insurance coverage, an alarm system, and the rather whimsical addition of "a replica of a Kalashnikov."
2017-05-25T09:37:00-04:00Cory Doctorow, author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother, and Makers, is a three-time Prometheus Award winner, an honor bestowed on the best works of libertarian science fiction. In his most recent book, Walkaway, the super rich engineer their own immortality, while everyone else walks away from the post-scarcity utopia to rebuild the dead cities they left behind. Reason Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward spoke with Doctorow about cyber warfare, Uber-style reputation economics, and that most overused and poorly understood of sci-fi themes: dystopia. Edited by Todd Krainin. Cameras by Mark McDaniel and Krainin. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Subscribe to our podcast at iTunes. This is a rush transcript—check all quotes against the audio for accuracy. Katherine Mangu-Ward: Do you think that the underlying conditions of free speech as it is associated with dubious technologies, are they getting better or worse? Cory Doctorow: There is the—there is a pure free speech argument and there's a scientific argument that just says you know it's not science if it's not published. You have to let people who disagree with you—and who dislike you—read your work and find the dumb mistakes you've made and call you an idiot for having made them otherwise you just end up hitting yourself and then you know your h-bomb blows up in your face, right? And atomic knowledge was the first category of knowledge that scientists weren't allowed to freely talk about—as opposed to like trade secrets—but, like, scientific knowledge. That knowing it was a crime. And so it's the kind of original sin of science. But there's a difference between an atomic secret and a framework for keeping that a secret and a secret about a vulnerability in a computer system. And they're often lumped together. I was on a family holiday. We were on like a scuba resort in the Caribbean, in a little island called Roatan in Honduras. And there was this family of D.C.-area spooks. Like multigenerational. And Grandpa what had been like with USAID when the tanks rolled on Hungary and in Budapest. And all of the kids worked for undisclosed three-letter agencies. And so we're like sitting in in the pool one day and talking about cyberweapons and cyberwar. Katherine Mangu-Ward: Like you do. On vacation. Cory Doctorow: On vacation. That's what I do. That's my idea of a good time. So the guy said like, "Well what about cyber weapons? Like why shouldn't we develop cyberweapons? Why shouldn't we a cyberwar?" And I said, "There's a difference between a secret bomb and a secret vulnerability in a computer operating system." Because if I invent the h-bomb, it may be unwise. But keeping the physics of the h-bomb a secret does not make Americans more vulnerable to atomic attack than disclosing it. Maybe it would help them at the margins build slightly better bomb shelters. But it's really—it's not the same thing as me discovering a vulnerability in Windows and saying, "It would be great if I could attack former Soviet bloc countries or countries in Middle East or jihadis or drug runners by keeping this vulnerability a secret and assuming that nobody else discovers that vulnerability and uses it to attack the people I'm charged to protect." That mistake calls into question the whole scientific enterprise. Because we really only know one way to make computers secure and that is to publish what we think we know about why they're secure now and see what dumb mistakes our enemies and friends can locate and help us remediate. And so you end up in this place where these vulnerabilities—that you are blithely assuming won't be independently rediscovered by your adversaries and exploited against you and yours—end up getting exploited against you and yours. And not just by state actors but by petty criminals, too. And this is one thing we're learning after the Vault 7 leaks. It's that a lot of those vulnerabilities were independently rediscovered and wea[...]
2017-05-17T06:00:00-04:00Presidential budgets have all the legal force of a letter to Santa—they're essentially the White House asking Congress for a pony. The "skinny" blueprint released by the Office of Management and Budget in March is the result of even less consultation and collaboration than usual with the legislators who hold actual budget-making power, which makes wish fulfillment even more unlikely. Nevertheless, when President Donald Trump announced $54 billion in cuts to several federal agencies, the press immediately got to work on its own form of slash fiction, fetishizing the appropriations status quo and moaning over any possibility of budgetary restraint. "Donald Trump Budget Slashes Funds for E.P.A. and State Department," declared The New York Times. Gizmodo: "Trump's Plan to Slash the NIH Budget Won't Just Hurt Scientists—It Will Hurt Everyone." Bloomberg: "Trump Would Slash Research in Cut to Health Budget." Daily Kos: "Trump would slash education budget…but pour $1.4 billion into privatization." Business Insider: "Trump's slash-and-burn budget could hit his own political base the hardest." The metaphor makers at The Washington Post preferred smashing to slashing: "Trump's budget takes a sledgehammer to the EPA." In fact, most of Trump's budget cuts take the targeted agencies back to federal funding levels of the mid-'00s—hardly a Hobbesian state of nature. And despite the apocalyptic rhetoric, they're largely sensible trims that Republicans have been jawing about for years without having the chutzpah to actually propose them. Cuts to Health and Human Services, for instance, clock in at a 17.9 percent decrease from the levels established so far in 2017 by continuing budget resolution. Some of those savings come from reduced appropriations to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Scientists "brace for a lost generation in American research," reports The Atlantic. Never mind that funding for the type of research NIH produces already comes predominantly from non-federal sources. In the mid-1960s, the federal government footed the bill for about 60 percent of R&D. That number has since flipped, with about two-thirds coming from private sources for the last decade. The cuts, described in the Atlantic article as having "deadly" consequences, will take the federal component of NIH funding down to levels not seen since…2003. You remember 2003, when pain treatment consisted of willow bark tea and natural philosophers were still trying to figure out the epicycles that would explain the movement of heavenly bodies around the earth. Some programs were actually zeroed out in Trump's budget. Meals on Wheels, the food aid program for the elderly and disabled, isn't one of them. The bulk of the program's funding comes through a line item in the Department of Health and Human Services budget that goes unmentioned in the blueprint (although the department is slated for a 17 percent cut overall). Some Meals on Wheels offices, which are locally run and employ a patchwork of funding, do receive relatively small amounts of federal cash through the community development block grant program, which is what Trump actually cut. The press panic over the future of the program was totally unwarranted. One program that really is on Trump's hit list: the United States Institute of Peace (IOP). Anyone who has ever driven by the IOP HQ in Washington, D.C., might be forgiven for wondering whether the $186 million spent on the structure was really the most efficient use of funds. Architectural Record once wrote that the building "evokes a geometric sketch of a single bird's outstretched wings"; The Washington Post preferred to call it "a duck amuck." This structure is located on one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the capital, a huge plot right across the street from the State Department with a view of the Vietnam Memorial. Even if the federal spigot runs dry, the IOP has long partially funded its laudable mission to pursue "a world without vi[...]
(image) Everybody's favorite libertarian economist and blogger, Tyler Cowen, is back with his signature mix of despair and optimism, following up on The Great Stagnation and Average Is Over. His latest book, The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream (St. Martin's Press), tells the story of various American subtypes of the rich ("the privileged"), poor ("those who are stuck"), and middle class ("those who dig in"). These classes, Cowen says, have historically contained larger shares of big-thinking go-getters, but they are increasingly reconciled to the status quo.
We don't lack in innovation, reports the Marginal Revolution founder, but our innovators are more likely to pursue comfort and convenience than to look for ways to revolutionize the world. Ironically, our politicians, entrepreneurs, and pundits are more prone than ever to use overheated rhetoric about Manhattan Projects and moonshots. Think of everything from apps that promise to "change the way you do business" to Joe Biden's hastily conceived mandate to cure cancer in the final year of Barack Obama's second term.
Cowen suggests the way out is some kind of large-scale, messy political or social upheaval. Maybe Trump's election is just what the doctor of economics ordered.
2017-04-09T06:00:00-04:00Good fences make good neighbors, or so Robert Frost reminds us in his annoyingly overused and frequently misquoted high school literature class staple. The poem that made the adage famous actually offers a more ambiguous take on the utility of border barriers than its signature line would suggest, with the speaker musing: "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know / What I was walling in or walling out, / And to whom I was like to give offence." The question of what exactly is being walled in or walled out by Donald Trump's barrier—he issued commands for the "immediate construction of a physical wall on the southern border" in a January 25 executive order—is trickier to answer than it initially appears. The short answer, illegal immigrants, is an unsatisfactory one, in part because so many other goals tend to get lumped in once the policy rationalization process gets rolling, including drug interdiction, terrorism prevention, and tariff enforcement. The question of who will be offended is easier. From Trump's unflattering remarks about Mexican immigrants while announcing his candidacy in June 2015 to his ongoing insistence that Mexico will pay for the wall, much offense has been given, and much taken. During the campaign, Trump flew to visit Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Upon returning home, the candidate claimed that they had discussed the wall but not who would pay for it—an assertion his counterpart denied. Shortly after his inauguration, tensions built around a planned visit by the Mexican president to the north. "If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall," Trump tweeted, "then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting." When Peña Nieto did just that, Trump made it clear that he would consider garnishing some of the $26 billion in annual remittances from the U.S. to Mexico. The Associated Press also reported the following astonishing threat by Trump, gleaned from (disputed) transcripts of a phone conversation between the two men: "You have a bunch of bad hombres down there. You aren't doing enough to stop them. I think your military is scared. Our military isn't, so I just might send them down to take care of it." Simultaneously on the table during that period: A 20 percent tax on goods at the Mexican border, though that idea was withdrawn almost as quickly as it was proposed. When Trump addressed a joint session of Congress on February 28, he reiterated his intention: "We will soon begin the construction of a great, great wall along our southern border," he told the assembled lawmakers. This time, notably, he didn't say that Mexico would pay for it, reportedly as part of a deal he struck with Peña Nieto. The following day, however, his vice president reiterated that this was still the plan. "He didn't say Mexico is going to pay for it," said George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America. "Well, they are," Mike Pence quickly replied. In Mexico City in late February, when I visited for a conference sponsored by Arizona State University, the chattering classes were waiting with bated breath to hear whether Trump's capricious treatment of their leader would be returned. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson were cooling their heels before a planned meeting with the Mexican president. Would they be turned away? In the end, the three men spoke briefly before the American officials returned to U.S. soil. While the intrigue was titillating, the general sense was that conversations with Cabinet members didn't much matter, because Donald Trump could and would do whatever he liked. "The only thing that is certain is uncertainty," said El Universal columnist and journalism professor Ricardo Raphael. "Trump talks about renegotiating [the North American Free Trade Agreement] and figuring out Mexico's 'debt' for the wall later, but we have no way of knowing how he will extract what he imposed. Some ways will be w[...]
(image) It sounds like a deranged hummingbird, it has a comically small range, and its photo quality is abysmal, but there's something weirdly appealing about The World's Smallest Camera Drone ($26.99 from the BoingBoing online store; also available at Amazon).
The temptation to personify the wee unmanned aerial vehicle—with its cheerful red and blue led lights, drunken bumblebee flight patterns, fleeting battery life, and tendency toward rotor jams—is almost irresistible. From the first jerky takeoff, the bright orange mini-drone feels more like a recalcitrant pet than cutting-edge tech, even though it can capture a rather large volume of video footage and still photos on the 2GB of storage on the included micro SD card.
If you're looking to conduct stealth surveillance, take keepsake photographs, deliver tacos, or rain death on your enemies from the sky, this is not the drone for you. But for all its failings, The World's Smallest Camera Drone really is a remarkable piece of engineering: For less than the cost of a couple of pizzas, you can own a remote-operated quadcopter so small it can land in the palm of your hand. And while the current model is little more than a fluky novelty item, it's not hard to imagine how traveling with a personal drone videographer and archivist could easily become a staple of modern life.
2017-03-14T06:00:00-04:00The kids these days are incredibly lame. They barely do drugs. They hardly have sex. When they do finally get around to doing the deed, it's at much later ages than previous generations. They're responsible about birth control and disease prevention. They probably even make it home in time for curfew. Skeptical? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that the average age of self-reported virginity loss is now nearly 18 years old. The percentage of high school students who say they have had intercourse has been falling for two decades. Two-thirds of the students who are having sex say it's with a steady romantic partner. Eighty percent say they used contraception their first time, up from less than 50 percent in the '80s. They're also using more effective fertility-fighting methods than previous generations: IUDs, implants, and other forms of long-acting reversible birth control with lower failure rates have become much more popular, with use rising from 0.4 percent in 2005 to 7.1 percent by 2013. The rate of teen births fell 8 percent in 2015, capping off a 46 percent decrease since 2007. The rate of teenage abortion has also fallen sharply from its peak around 1990. It seems like the combined efforts of America's adults to scare the bejesus out of kids about the dangers of the horizontal mambo while subsidizing the wazoo out of birth control have, in fact, paid off in fewer teens knocking boots. But all of this responsible behavior has created a generation gap. The Boomer version of the birds and bees is on the verge of becoming worthless, and the GenX sex talk isn't far behind. Coaching preschoolers as they carefully roll condoms onto bananas simply doesn't make sense as the exclusive focus of sex ed anymore. Jimmy hats are still a good idea, of course. But even as the physical act of sex becomes safer—at least as practiced by today's older, wiser, romantically involved, pharmacologically reinforced, temporarily sterile teens—the legal risk of many common sexual choices is skyrocketing. Leaving aside the fact that Generation Alpha will probably be conceived in the back seats (or the front seats!) of autonomous vehicles as they speed untended down the highway, there's really nothing new under the sun, and that includes sexting. Teenagers have managed to communicate intemperately about their desire to get it on—often right underneath the noses of their guardians—since at least imperial Japan; court ladies anxiously awaited morning-after haikus in one of the world's first novels, Murasaki Shikibu's 11th century Tale of the Genji. The new danger doesn't spring from the fact that digital Romeos and Juliets are communicating about sex in a way that might generate a permanent record. In fact, by the time today's 15-year-olds run for office, youthful nudie pics will be a prerequisite for reassuring the American people that you're a normal human being, not a disqualification. Instead, the serious threat is from meddling cops, bureaucrats, school officials, and other avatars of officialdom. The state has always had an unhealthy interest in sex—think Comstock laws, Loving v. Virginia, Bowers v. Hardwick—but as we increasingly infantilize teens and young adults while disregarding privacy protections that once shielded intimate communications, more "kids" are being caught in a legal dragnet that is purportedly designed to protect them. Consider a case in Cañon City, Colorado. After following up on a call to a state bullying tipline in December, a public high school official uncovered widespread sexting. Rather than taking a moment to consider whether the common nature of the behavior suggested an appropriately proportionate remedy, the administrator decided to follow the letter of the law in Colorado (and many other states), in which the sender of a sexually suggestive selfie is both victim and perpetrat[...]
"The system tries to kill you in many ways," writes Prodigy, half of the hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, in the introduction to Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook (Infamous). The book, co-written with journalist Kathy Iandoli, chronicles what the rapper cooked and ate while serving three years in four different prisons for gun possession.
Built from staples available from the prison commissary, recipes include "Fake Ass Pad Thai" made from ramen noodles, peanut butter, and canned veggies and "P's Prison Potstickers," which involve the clever expedient of overcooking macaroni in order to make it into dumpling dough. And, of course, there's hooch.
He admits the recipes aren't Chez Panisse, or even Olive Garden. "You think I wouldn't have cooked with extra virgin olive oil and shit if I had the chance to?" he writes. "Nah. This is prison."
2017-02-11T06:00:00-05:00When John Stossel was diagnosed with lung cancer in April, he announced it in the most characteristic way possible: He dashed off a column from his hospital bed with a quickie economic analysis of why nurses don't care when your out-of-date heart monitor beeps all night long. (The explanation involved the word sclerotic and the phrase "hospitals are largely socialist bureaucracies.") Stossel, 69, is now cancer-free and ready to move on to the next thing. In recent years, the man with the moustache has developed an alarming habit of giving away the Emmys he won as a consumer reporter, saying he considers them ill-gotten gains; they all predate his conversion to libertarianism and the subsequent realignment of his career to preach the gospel of free markets and consumer choice. First as a reporter at ABC's 20/20, where he made his name with his signature "Give Me a Break" segments, and then as a commentator at Fox for the last seven years, the television newsman has served as the most recognizable face of libertarianism, appearing on America's TV screens week in and week out and invading the minds of America's youths with his Stossel in the Classroom educational videos. With a penchant for antics like piloting onto the set on a Medicare-subsidized mobility scooter or printing out the entire federal register, Stossel has always prioritized making arcane economics intelligible to the boob-tubing masses. The final episode of his eponymous show on the Fox Business Network aired in December. Starting in 2017, he'll be working with Reason TV to produce web videos and with the Charles G. Koch Institute to mentor young media professionals. He'll continue on as a commentator in a role that he describes as "libertarian senior statesman" at Fox. Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward spoke with Stossel over the phone in December about the past, present, and future of video. Reason: Is television getting dumber? Was there a golden age of news broadcasting, or was it always dumb? Stossel: TV has always been relatively shallow. You can read at seven times the speed you can listen. And when there were five channels, we had to try to appeal to everybody. If you watch programming from what people call the "golden age," there was not much nuance there. Also, our brains have changed. When I was on 20/20, we would do a 17-minute piece on gay marriage, say, or the transgender world. And when the executive producer would say, "You've got to take out two minutes," I would resist because I just didn't think you could take out those two minutes and have the story be nearly complete. All of it was so important! And yet now if I watch those stories, they are tediously long. And do you think that's because we've gotten better at the craft of storytelling with video or do you think it's because the attention span of the viewer has changed? The attention span of all of us has changed. We are just doing so many more things at a time. Is this worse? I don't presume to make a judgment. Before you called I was in my car listening to the Iliad, and there are parts that go on and on. Ugh, Homer. There's so much padding. Somebody should really edit that guy. Exactly. If you were beginning a media career right now, would you be looking at cable news or broadcast television? No. When I started to make video, you had to have a camera that cost $100,000, an edit bay that cost—I don't even remember what it cost! We would go out with a three-man band to cover things: a lighting guy with all the heavy lights, and the sound specialist, and the cameraman. You had to go work for a television station or a movie company. Now everybody has all this equipment in their smartphone and their laptop. So why go through those cumbersome steps? Do you think your job is the last to go in your industry, the guy with the face in [...]
2017-02-08T06:00:00-05:00As 2016 came to a close, dictionary makers Merriam-Webster posted a pathetic little tweet—a cry for help, really—that quickly went viral: "'Fascism' is still our #1 lookup. # of lookups = how we choose our Word of the Year. There's still time to look something else up." Why the sudden interest? As Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination and then the presidential election, political commentators and opinionated uncles at dinner parties started tossing around this vintage 20th century political terminology with abandon. Which caused a bunch of intrepid dictionary searchers to wonder: Here at the dawning of the Trump era, does fascism mean what we think it means? In a technical sense, the word is a pretty good descriptor for what we've seen of Trump's economic policy so far. That is to say, he seems to be embracing the notion, which blossomed in Benito Mussolini's Italy, that the business of government is best conducted where an authoritarian state dominated by a powerful strongman and the leaders of large corporations meet and decide the fate of a nation. But in its more common use, fascism is at once too generic—it's frequently deployed to describe any old bossy jerk, and is formally defined as "a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control"—and way too specific and extreme, with its grace notes of Blackshirts, one-party rule, nationalization of industry, and violence. What's wanted is a way of describing the love-hate, push-pull, utterly dysfunctional, and horrifically co-dependent relationship between big government and big business that Trump was already expert in, just from the other side. The gentler term for this is crony capitalism, or cronyism for those of us who don't like to see one of our favorite words besmirched. Yet that phrase shows up most frequently in contexts where the corporations are in the driver's seat: They come to elected officials or bureaucrats to demand special favors. They are granted those favors in exchange for promised gains for the tax base or contributions to the campaign funds of the relevant politicians—classic rent seeking, in the jargon of economics. If they're really lucky, the corporations manage to cozy up to and capture some regulators to keep in their back pockets as well. But as far as we know, the heating and air company Carrier was minding its own business when Trump came a-knockin'. The firm was in the midst of executing a run-of-the-mill decision about the best place to locate a production facility when boom, it became the very first test case for the fledgling Trump administration in the none-too-judicious application of the carrot and the stick. The carrot was subsidies to keep jobs in the United States; the stick was almost certainly the threat of the revocation of valuable military contracts from Carrier's parent company. (For a deeper exploration of how this deal went down, check out David R. Henderson's cover story on page 18.) Carrier isn't alone on the receiving end of Trump's attentions. Boeing's stock price took a hit after he tweeted in December that "Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!" Trump also took credit for keeping an auto plant in the U.S.: "Just got a call from my friend Bill Ford, Chairman of Ford," Trump tweeted in November, "who advised me that he will be keeping the Lincoln plant in Kentucky - no Mexico." He followed up: "I worked hard with Bill Ford to keep the Lincoln plant in Kentucky. I owed it to the great State of Kentucky for their confidence in me!" Ford quickly clarified that it was only considering moving production of one model, the Lincoln MKC, out of the Kentucky facility, but also carefully said nice th[...]
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2017-01-11T07:00:00-05:00Barack Obama, privatizer. That's not how historians will likely describe him. But when Obama killed George W. Bush's Constellation program—a roadmap for getting humans back to the moon and eventually on to Mars—he declared it "over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation." In other words: a government program. Conceived in a state of panic triggered by the impending death of the space shuttle program, Constellation was larded up with space pork. By the time Obama got around to scrapping it in 2010, the effort had already burned through $9 billion with little to show for it. Anything that Washington touches pretty much immediately turns treyf; a certain amount of bacon buildup around any appropriations bill is inevitable. After Obama nixed Bush's pie-in-the-sky scheme, stick-in-the-mud Republicans hustled to remind anyone who was paying attention that they, too, could be the party of big government and bureaucracy. The Space Launch System, an expensive post-Constellation scheme, was designed by Congress to Frankenstein heavy-lift rockets and a capsule out of the scavenged remains of the shuttle program—to be built, naturally, in the districts of powerful lawmakers, including Sens. Richard Shelby of Alabama, Ted Cruz of Texas, and Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio of Florida. It is sometimes affectionately referred to as the Senate Launch System, for obvious reasons. Amid the usual horse trading, though, the Obama administration managed something rather remarkable: It carved out a little money and a lot of room for the private space industry to flourish, extending another Bush-era program that most people assumed was on the chopping block. The Commercial Orbital Transportation Services project—funded at the cost of less than a single shuttle flight—was aimed at encouraging private companies to develop the capacity to serve the transport needs of the International Space Station (ISS). The result was successful public-private partnerships with Orbital Sciences and Elon Musk's SpaceX. An adjacent effort created Commercial Resupply Services contracts with private companies to deliver cargo to the space station, and later commercial crew vehicles to carry human passengers. The Republican Congress repeatedly tried to cut funding to these programs, intending to redirect the money to the old space-industrial complex. Obama's original budget asked for $5.9 billion over five years to fund the effort. The House countered with an offer of $250 million in the first year. These programs work thanks to a wonky but essential fact about their creation: The contracts they create are different than the NASA norm. The government and the contractor agree on a price for a certain number of runs back and forth to the ISS, for instance, and the firm provides that service at that price. This is, of course, the way people handle most transactions in their normal lives. But these common-sense practices frequently don't apply when government money flows to contractors under so-called cost-plus arrangements, especially those who are perceived to be doing something with relevance to national security. To understand the weirdness of cost-plus, try this: Imagine you want a cone of mint chocolate chip ice cream. You walk into an ice cream store and say, "How much for mint chocolate chip, please?" They either say, "That'll be $3," or, "We don't have that flavor right now. Try the shop next door." Here's how the U.S. government conducts the same transaction under cost-plus. It stands in the middle of the street and shouts "I WANT ICE CREAM" until someone who makes a related product—pudding, say—comes by and says, "I might be able to make you some ice cream. What were you looking for?" Then the government [...]
2017-01-08T07:00:00-05:00When Lionel Shriver took the stage at the Brisbane Writers Festival this fall, her speech was billed as a talk on "community and belonging." And in a way, it was. Modern writers, she argued, have been put in an untenable position. In our age of "super-sensitivity" about identity politics, we insist that novelists populate their books with diverse casts of characters, while simultaneously warning that writing a character from a different background than their own may carry the taint of "cultural appropriation." Shriver raised the specter of being "obliged to designate my every character an aging 5-foot-2 smartass, and having to set every novel in North Carolina," which would surely make for dull reading. "We fiction writers have to preserve the right to wear many hats," she said in closing. She then produced a sombrero, popped it onto her head, and left the podium. Shriver has made a career of writing about things she's not supposed to write about. Whippet thin, she chronicled her sibling's morbid obesity in 2013's Big Brother. Childless, she explored what it means to dislike and fear your own offspring in We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005 and was subsequently made into a chilling film starring Tilda Swinton. In 1994's Game Control, she sends her white protagonist to Nairobi with a modest proposal to deal with overpopulation. Her most recent book, The Mandibles, is a near-future dystopia in which the United States has finally, and catastrophically, defaulted on its debt. In a mode that is reminiscent of Ayn Rand, the characters in The Mandibles claw, bite, squabble, and sulk over the economic and political world where they find themselves, struggling with what they are allowed to say—and what they are allowed to think—about the people they live with and among. In October, shortly after the Brisbane speech, Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward spoke with Shriver about gender politics, the likelihood of economic collapse, and coming out as a libertarian in The New York Times. Reason: Talk about why you wrote that New York Times piece—rather brutally titled "I Am Not a Kook"—about, essentially, being a libertarian. Shriver: Out of frustration. Because I think there are a lot of people that don't regard themselves as libertarians who, if you take their views apart one by one, belong in that camp. But because the word has become associated with some rather strange views, and even stranger people, a lot of the people to whom it would naturally apply disavow membership. This whole business with being fiscally conservative, preferring a more effective but less ambitious government that takes a smaller piece of the national pie, but also being socially liberal, so I have no problem with gay marriage, I want abortion rights, I would legalize recreational drugs rather than have a war on drugs that doesn't work and puts a lot of fairly harmless people behind bars, many of them minorities—I just think there are a lot of people who have those same views. And the truth is that the libertarian rubric of "You should be able to do whatever you want as long as you don't hurt anyone" is the core concept of the United States of America, and something that we should be proud of. So every time a national election comes up I get frustrated, and I think I have a lot of company in that frustration. Because the Democratic Party meets some of but not all of my liberal social agenda, but it's still the party of taxing and spending. And yet the Republicans are nuts, and very religious, which I am not. I was absolutely shocked that every single one of those 16 candidates that ran originally on the Republican primary ticket was anti-abortion.[...]
2016-12-30T23:00:00-05:00The day before this issue went to press, Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election. Many people—and not just Democratic partisans—experienced a sinking feeling in their stomachs as Hillary Clinton's widely anticipated victory turned to ash. Faced, suddenly, with the prospect of a political neophyte snagging the awesome power of America's executive office, they became anxious about what he might do with it. Welcome to the party, guys. Such intestinal-level disquietude is the lot of libertarians the morning after every election. In their shock, some on the left will act like the United States is merely experiencing a bug—as if the system that normally works so well unexpectedly glitched on November 8. That is incorrect. The problem isn't that the wrong person won or that our mechanisms for picking winners are rigged or corrupt. The problem is the power itself. Every time Obama made a recess appointment, or issued an executive order on gender-neutral bathrooms, or limited the comment period on a new regulation, or denied a Freedom of Information Act request, or disregarded state marijuana laws and sent in federal law enforcement, or allowed the IRS to investigate his ideological opponents, he made it easier for President Trump to do the same. He knew what he was doing, and he did it anyway. Likewise, George W. Bush knew what he was doing when he used the post-9/11 Authorization for the Use of Military Force to launch a protracted, decade-long multinational war, began indefinitely housing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, issued signing statements that waved away restrictions on torture, and much more. Those who eagerly handed power to Obama, or who cheered when he grabbed it himself, did so because they genuinely believed he would use that power for good, to help those who needed it—women, minorities, the disabled, the poor. Trump's supporters believe the same thing: that he will slide behind the Resolute desk, pick up the phone, and do his darnedest for the Americans who have lost their jobs to immigrants, their free speech to political correctness, their sense of safety to Islamic terrorists. Democrats have spent the last eight years paving the road to this particular hell with good intentions. But good intentions aren't what separates Obama from Trump. The prospect of an eventual handoff should itself be the biggest check on the growth of government: Power grabs, in theory, ought to be less frequent in a world where you can be virtually certain that the bad guys (however you define bad guys) will get their hands on the levers of power, the nuclear codes, and the veto pen in short order. It's bad practice to load a gun you're likely to lose in a wrestling match. Unlike some of his Republican predecessors, Trump has chosen to dispense with the traditional conservative rhetoric about humility and restraint. His agenda, insofar as it is currently known, involves fully deploying all of the tools at his disposal. But the weird myopia of being in charge seems to afflict people from all parties, and has for a long time. You won't find much about the president-elect in the pages that follow. Drowning in polling that almost universally missed the mark, this magazine's editors figured on a Clinton victory and therefore less sturm und drang. No matter; Reason's message won't change. But as we hurtle toward a period of Republican control of the White House and the Capitol, advocates for limited government may find ourselves unexpectedly popular with down-and-out Democrats. At least until they win again. [...]


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Facebook ordered to pay $500 million over Oculus VR lawsuit — but still comes out a winner
Facebook ordered to pay for $500 million over Oculus VR lawsuit -- but nevertheless comes out successful
Facebook's Oculus has been ordered to pay for $500 million after a jury found that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey violated a non-disclosure agreement, in accordance with Polygon.
It could have now been a lot worse. The jury also found Oculus wasn't guilty of the very serious allegations -- that the virtual reality company's founders had stolen trade secrets -- in particular, code that would help in the development of the company's Oculus Rift VR system. The lawsuit, brought by gaming company Zenimax, sought $4 billion in total damages.
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How to Call Off a Wedding
Here is a how-to you won't locate in the bride books.
If calling off your wedding feels like the proper choice, then it possibly is. New investigation from UCLA identified that newlywed girls who seasoned prewedding doubts are two.five times more likely to divorce than brides who did not report cold feet. In truth, practically twenty percent of wives in the review who stated they had hesitations about the marriage divorced inside of 4 many years.
Although it's not a divorce, the process -- not to mention the determination -- of ending your engagement can be demanding, shameful, emotional, and melodramatic. But keep in mind: breakups are by no means effortless, and just due to the fact it truly is tough doesn't suggest you shouldn't do it. You surely won't be the first bride to flip about on her way down the aisle, and if you know a partnership is not meant to be, much better to admit it before you say "I do." Here is how to call off a wedding ceremony as smoothly as achievable.
If you know acquiring married is the wrong decision, accept it and move forward. Instead of worrying what people will say, simply determine what you're going to say to them, and never allow any person query your selection.
If you are not yet confident if you need to get in touch with the wedding ceremony off completely, take into account postponing it. Don't fret about setting a new date at this point just notify visitors that the wedding ceremony has been postponed till more notice with a printed or handwritten note.
If you have not sent the invitations yet, you can notify folks informally. Enlist close buddies or members of your wedding ceremony celebration (if you have picked one), divvy up the guest checklist, and have them call every person to break the information.
What if the invitations have presently gone out?
If you have already mailed the invitations, etiquette rules propose sending a formal notification by mail. The language can be basic and straightforward. Just checklist the names of whomever was internet hosting the wedding ceremony (you and your groom, your parents, your households) and follow with a simple announcement that the wedding ceremony has been canceled no explanation needed.
Even so, if the wedding is just a few days away, you must notify people by cellphone, then even now adhere to up with a formal printed notification.
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Motivate your buddies to make other plans. If everybody has already obtained tickets to the destination, motivate your close friends or household to use the chance for a reunion. And join them it will possibly make you truly feel a entire whole lot much better.
This almost certainly goes without having saying, but you ought to return any wedding gifts you have acquired as well.
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Hey Christy! So glad you had a great holiday... and every little tidbit about D&J just makes me love them all the more. What an extremely UNBORING couple those two are.Although I sadly remain Kindle-less and Nook-less, I have managed to get my hands on several good books this past week. Now, to find the time to read them!I finished Jodi Thomas's Somewhere Along the Way, the follow up to Welcome to Harmony. I haven't read much from her BUT I LOVED both these books, and highly recommend them. I also finished Jo Davis's Ride the Fire. I'm reading Toni Blake's Whisper Falls right now, as well as two very different kinds of books - Butterfly Tattoo by Deidre Knight and Tara Taylor Quinn's The First Wife. Hope everyone is recuperating nicely from the hustle and bustle of Christmas. We had a few snow flurries Christmas Day, a rare thing that was fun even though it was not enough to stick. Besides, snow that sticks to the ground needs to hold off until school is back in session. :-)
Oh wait! I also started The Chief by Monica McCarty, which you recommended AGES ago, Christy. Shows how behind I am. :-)
It was a mostly quiet and relaxing Christmas at my house. The funniest thing was my daughter giving my husband a pair of his own underwear as a present! I spent more than 4 days with a book that I sadly cannot recommend. I really tried to like it, but just couldn't...which is pretty unusual for me.Kara, I have Butterfly Tattoo in my TBR and have heard wonderful things about it. Less of a romance, though, right?We escaped the heavy snow here in the DC area and I'm back at work today. Hope everyone had a good one!!!
Hey, Kara, wow, lots of great reads from you. I so admire that you can read more than one book at a time. I've heard many wonderful things about Butterfly Tattoo, with lots of people saying it was their favorite read in years. Must. Read. It.LOL on the snow. I hope that it holds off for you until school starts back and then you have as much as you like. Just don't send it to Bama. I am so ready for Spring!
Kris, I love quiet and relaxing Christmases! Glad you enjoyed yours. Your hubby got a pair of his own underwear as a gift? LOL I'll bet he was surprised. Did you get a photo as he opened it?My hubby loves to play practical jokes with gifts. I don't know how many times he has wrapped up a telephone book and given it to family and friends. Sigh... (:Have a great week, Kris. Hopefully you'll find some recommends here that you'll enjoy.
Good Morning everyone, Santa was so good to me this year! I got a Nook and have been reading it like crazy. I hope Santa was good to all of you also. Last week I read several first time authors for me (all these are first time authors for me):Midnight Run by Lisa Marie Rice. It was short and sweet.I also read Cherry Adair book Kiss and Tell. I really enjoyed it. I've already downloaded the next book on my Nook. Marie Force's Fatal Affair. Finally I was able to read it on my Nook and it lived up to my great expectations. I definitely recommend it!I also read Jo Davis Trial by Fire. It was a good read also.Once a Cowboy by Linda Warren it was a fluffy read. The Wicked House of Rohan by Anne Stuart. It was a short story.I've also started my first Roxanne St. Claire book it is the Bullet Catcher's series. I'm really enjoying it so far. Books that I have downloaded on my Nook so far (that I haven't read)Hide and Seek -Cherry AdairWhispering Rock -Robyn CarrLong Hard Ride- Lorelei JamesHis Lady Mistress- Elizabeth RollsColter's Wife- Maya BanksI feel like I am forgetting something but I guess I'll come back if I remember what it is.Christy I am looking forward to the covers and blurbs!! I'm not one to wish time to go by fast, but if I could fast forward to your releases then rewind back to the now I would be all over it!!! lol By the way Hope's son is competing in the world championship karate tournament this week. So I don't think she'll be stopping by. So try and send him some good luck vibes through the techno world. lolHave a great week everyone. If you have big New Years plans be careful and have fun!! Remember your DD!!! :)
I don't know if it was because I was way behind on Christmas prep and there were no presents under the tree, or if she just wanted to put something under there without having to ask us for any help (we both took her to Color Me Mine to make something for us). She just took the initiative, found the wrapping paper, etc. I didn't get pictures, but Greg's first question was "did you get these out of the laundry basket or my drawer?". (fyi- they came from the drawer) My present was a box she had made with hand written coupons for things like hugs, etc. (i definitely got the better gift!!!)
Hi Everyone!I'm glad to hear everyone had a great holiday! This year we didn't travel to MO to see our families, so it was just the two of us...four if you count our two 4-legged kids :-) It was very relaxing without the stress of travel. I got a couple gift cards to B&N and Borders so I forsee some serious book buying happening! Woohooo!! Christy...I'm picking up Honor's Splendour tonight, you've said so many good things about this book I have to read it! I read Marie Force's The Fall...This book is amazing, so emotional. I lucked out and won an advanced copy of her new book Everyone Loves a Hero, it was also a great read!! I read Bella Andre's Game for Love...from her bad boys of football series..very hot!! I'm still blazing through the TS series...I'm reading Dark of Night right now. I can't wait for Izzy's story...I think he could be one of my favorites. Kara, how's The Chief? Its in my TBR pile, but I'm waiting until the last in the series is out this week before I get started. Crystal, it sounds like your new Nook is getting a work out :) Fatal Affair is great...I had to wait until I got my Kindle to read it! I can't wait for the next book in the series!I hope everyone has a very Happy New Years!
Alison!!! I can't wait for you to read Honors Splendour. You will love it. :)
Alison, I don't read historicals often, and have just started The Chief, but so far it definitely has my attention. I think it's going to be really good.Kris, Butterfly Tattoo is definitely not your average romance, but I'm glad I read it. At one point, I was thinking maybe I wasn't liking it as much as I wish I was...five pages I was CRYING. SO emotional, and some really likable characters.
I was reading Stephanie Tyler's Promises In The Dark....but I think I left it at work last night (dang it). So I started Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Mederios.Cherry Adair's ~ UNDERTOW is on it's way to me, and I can't wait.
I got my book nook and the first think I did was pre-order Tami Hoag's new book that comes out tomrrow. I can't wait. Other then that just playing around with it and seeing what I can do with it. Have not really got much reading done lately. But the new year will lead to more reading. lol. Happy New Year all!
Hi all Hope you all had a good holiday. We had a blast but I'm glad it's time to relax. I read:A Perfect Fit - Sheridon SmytheHome for the Holidays - Sarah MayberryUnguarded - Tracy WolffI'm In No Mood For Love - Rachel GibsonAgainst The Wind - Kat MartinA cowboy story with a familiar theme but so good - can't wait for the rest.Now reading:Truly, Madly Deeply - Rachel Gibsonand/orTrue Confessions - Rachel Gibson
Hey Christy,Sounds like you had a great Christmas. Can't wait for the new books to come out. Right now I am finishing up Bayou Bad Boys with JoAnn Ross, Nancy Warren & E. C. Sheedy. Gotta love those Cajun boys..lol! I'm probably going to start on the Shadow Force series by Stephanie Tyler next. Happy writing, Sherrie
Crystal, congrats on your Nook! Sounds like you're enjoying it already. Do you find it harder to get lost in a story with an e-reader? I know I did at first.Glad you're looking forward to the blurbs and covers. And if do happen to learn how to fast forward time and then rewind it, let me know before you do it. LOL I want to make sure I'm ready. (:Thanks for letting us know about Hope's son. How exciting! Sending good luck vibes his way as I type!Happy New Year, Crystal!
LOL Kris, that was a cute thing for her to do. However, I agree that you got the best of the two gifts!
Allison, your Christmas sounds so relaxing. There were a few times that we didn't travel for Christmas and spent it with each other and our fur-kid. That kind of celebration has its own special rewards. (:Yay for bookstore gift cards! Hope you got some recommendations here so your shopping will be even more fun! And I hope you enjoy Honor's Splendour. Such a lovely romance!I need to look for Marie Force's The Fall. I love an emotional romance! I noticed on her Facebook status this morning that her second book in the Fatal series, Fatal Justice, is out next week. I'll see if she's available to come by and talk to us about it. Lots of people excited about this second installment of Nick and Sam, including me!Happy New Year to you too!
Kara, you cried with Butterfly Tattoo? Wow, wonder if I will since we know that I NEVER cry when I'm reading. (LOL, thought I'd get all my lying out of the way before the end of the year so I can start 2011 with a clean slate).
Gingabread, leaving behind a book you're in the middle of is so frustrating! But Goodnight Tweetheart looks so good, so hopefully that helped. I can't wait to get my own copy!Yay for Cherry Adair's Undertow. Looks like another great read by this fabulous author!
Yay, Sarah! Congrats on your Nook. Let us know how you like it. The ability to pre-order a book and have it download automatically the day of release is one of the best features of an e-reader to me. LOL When I want a book, I want it asap!Enjoy!
Hey Mary G! Glad you had a great Christmas. Looks like you had a some great reads too. I'm super excited about Kat Martin's new series. I love her writing and these books look wonderful!
Hey Sherrie, so glad you're looking forward to my new books!Oh, Bayou Bad Boys sounds great! And Stephanie Tyler is one of our favorites so I'm sure you'll enjoy her new series.Thanks for coming by. Hope you'll visit often!
Happy Holidays everyone! I got a 3G Kindle for an early christmas gift (because hubby wanted some expensive music gadget, he felt guilty and bought me the kindle. It will be nice to read my ebooks on a screen larger than my iPod! I got gift cards for Borders, ITunes, fabric shop and movie theater. Then after the great weekend, I got the stomach flu that is going around!! Gave me an extra day off work, which I used to finish JoAnn Ross' "The Homecoming". Started Jo Davis' "Hidden Fire" which I am really enjoying.Hope everyone has a safe new year's eve. We go out to eat early and get home before "Amateur Hour" and the wild parties start.
Sounds like everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend! Shelly... sorry to hear you got sick! I hope you are feeling much better I didnt get much reading done with all the festivities. My parents are divorced, so I had 4 different houses to visit with my daughter through out the weekend. The kiddo got so many toys, I had to go buy a huge new shelf to organize her room. I am so thankful to have an amazing family to help give my little one such a blessed christmas! I cant wait to see the blurbs for the books Christy. How does that feel to see something you worked so hard on really come together? It must be a huge rush! I know im excited : >
Shelly, congrats on the Kindle! So sorry you had a stomach virus though. That'll definitely spoil any kind of fun. But it sounds like you were able to get some reading done anyway.Hope you're feeling better and have a Happy New Year!
Heather D, sounds like your Christmas was super busy but enjoyable. How exciting it must have been for your daughter to get presents at all the grandparent's houses. Fun!Glad you're looking forward to the blurbs. It is rush to see ideas and thoughts that I put into words created into a book. With each book, I get a few copies and the day they arrive on my doorstep, I'm like a kid at Christmas. I rip open the box and ooh and ahh for hours. (:
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I would like to offer my congratulations to Brisbane City Council for actively discouraging both locals and tourists from spending money in the shops, cafes and restaurants around the city.
Nothing is more off putting to people who want to enjoy a meal or stroll around the shops than exorbitant parking fees and over-priced public transport. Nothing says you're not welcome like expensive parking fines (or having your car towed!) for parking in a poorly signed street where the rules are not consistent from one parking bay to the next.
If you are thinking of flying into Brisbane please keep the following thoughts in mind:
- The train from the airport runs once every 30 minutes and will set you back around $17.00 for a fare for a 25 minute journey to the city centre. A taxi from the domestic airport to the city will cost about $20 for a 20 minute taxi ride.
- If you choose to drive be careful where you park your car in the streets. The rules can change from one minute to the next.
- Beware of signs that say 'all day parking'. If you are in the inner city suburbs 'all day parking' can change at the drop of a hat to two hour parking or even 15 minute parking without much warning. The council parking vultures will be quick to issue a fine or even have your car towed.
- If you fancy a spot of shopping and a leisurely lunch in the CBD on the weekends have credit card handy to pay the exorbitant carpark fees. If you choose to park in the street there are different rules for almost every parking bay. Even the ones that are side by side in the same row. In the same row of parking spaces one or two bays will be free parking all day, the next few bays will be one hour metered parking and others only 15 minutes. The signs explaining the rules are designed to be as confusing as possible to locals and tourists alike.
- Look down before you park. No standing zones are not always signed. If you see solid yellow lines against the curb do not park there.
- You may also see dotted yellow lines along the side of the road which can indicate that the road is a clearway at certain times of the day. Good luck finding the sign that specifies the hours of the clearway. I know someone who had their car towed from a restaurant precinct at 8:00pm on a Sunday night for parking near a dotted yellow line.
My feeling is that if City Councils genuinely want visitors to spend their money in local shops and restaurants and explore the city they would less inclined to make it a punitive experience for all concerned.


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