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San Bernardino International Airport officials' willingness to trust Scot Spencer - now charged with five felonies and the owner of a criminal record when he began his relationship with SBIA - with developing a passenger terminal and other key facilities may have come from a lack of others' interest in taking on a project that may have had a slim chance of success in the first place.
That's the interpretation of former L.A./Ontario International Airport manager Michael DiGirolamo, who said Tuesday that conversion of former Air Force bases in San Bernardino, Victorville and Riverside into civilian airports was never certain of success, despite the aspirations of officials in those communities.
"Are they viable entities? It depends on your perspective," DiGirolomo said Tuesday.
"It's very easy to sit back and say it might not be a viable airport and attract not viable people, and that may be part of the problem. "
This week, Spencer was charged with conspiracy for allegedly seeking to defraud the San Bernardino International Airport Authority of more than $1 million by filing a false claim.
In his many roles at SBIA - before airport officials severed their relationship with him last fall - Spencer was a key figure in the attempt to convert the former Norton Air Force Base into a commercial airport. SBIA presently serves charter flights, but its new terminal has yet to host a passenger carrier although airport boosters continue to express confidence SBIA prove to be a viable airport and economic hub.
"We're very optimistic that we have built an airport with an array of services. We've got a maintenance area fully leased now. We've completely disgorged our relationship with Spencer," San Bernardino Mayor and airport board president Pat Morris said.
"The only thing we don't have now is scheduled airline service, and it will come," he added.
Morris, who began his first term as San Bernardino's mayor in 2006, has also held a leadership role on the San Bernardino International Airport Authority's governing board during much of the time Spencer and the companies he managed were entrusted with vital airport projects.
Morris, as well as former airport board members who served when Spencer was hired to manage the terminal in project in 2007, said few, if any, alternative candidates stepped forward at the time to take on the project. They also defended their decision to work with Spencer despite the fact that he had done time in federal prison for bankruptcy fraud. Spencer was sentenced to 51 months of federal prison in 1996 after being convicted failing to disclose payments he had received from Braniff Airlines while that company was in bankruptcy protection.
Morris served as a Superior Court judge before being elected as San Bernardino's mayor. He said he believed Spencer's knowledge of the airport industry and prior experience doing business at SBIA justified officials' decision to hire his company to build the airport's terminal and other capital improvements.
Spencer stepped forward, Morris said, after SBIA officials' talks with other firms did not result in any deals.
"The board looked at it and decided that his unique talents and connections with the industry were such that we could and should work with him," Morris said. "I don't think we acted recklessly. There were good things that came of that. "
For example, Spencer oversaw the construction not only SBIA's main terminal, but also another luxurious facility designed to serve charter flyers. The facility no longer bears the name of Million Air, a well-regarded Texas-based franchise, but Morris said the building is a key asset.
Morris was surprised to learn of the charges against Spencer, he said.
"That was a stunner. Shameful, assuming the truth of the allegations," Morris said.
The San Bernardino International Airport Authority's governing board also includes representatives from the Colton, Highland and Loma Linda city councils, as well as a member of the San Bernardino council.
Former Colton and San Bernardino council members John Mitchell and Esther Estrada said they could not remember if anyone else submitted their qualifications to the board, but there was certainly no crowd of applicants.
"Let's put it this way. I know we didn't have 100 people," Mitchell said Monday.
In regards to Spencer's past, Mitchell said it was his understanding at the time that Spencer had made, or was making, amends. Estrada said she trusted the endorsement from the airport executives.
Former Loma Linda mayor Robert Christman said board members gave careful consideration to Spencer's past and had appropriate cash controls to ensure that all money spent on the terminal or other capital projects went toward board-approved expenses.
"The answer is an unqualified yes. It (Spencers' criminal record) did give us pause," Christman said, before emphasizing that Airport Authority cash controls required four signatures for money to change hands.
"What he did was manage the project, for a fee and we were the ones who controlled all the expenditures," Christman said.
He also said he was surprised by the new charges against Spencer.
"I didn't see that one coming," he said.
In 2007, the airport board hired Norton Development Co., LLC, one of several Spencer-managed firms at SBIA to manage terminal construction. The project initially had a $38 million budget, with costs capped at $45 million.
An expansion of the project's scope in March 2009 included parking lot improvements, construction of a flight kitchen, an airline food handling and maintenance area, security fencing and other work that increased the tab to $61 million, according to a 2011 San Bernardino County Grand Jury Report.
By January 2011, the terminal and additional work cost $96 million, including a $1.3 million development fee paid to Spencer's firm.
Christman took exception to the idea that the $96 million figure signifies ballooning costs for the terminal. He said the rising costs simply reflect the fact that airport officials approved additional work at SBIA.
"I defy anybody to say that the costs of the terminal rose from $38 million to $100 million," he said.
Even if prosecutors had found no reason to charge Spencer, there is still a question of whether SBIA will attract an airline. Officials have engaged a consulting firm, Mead & Hunt, to assess what kind of airline may fit the airport.
Contrary to the optimism from officials like Morris and Christman, DiGirolamo and former American Airlines marketing executive Jack Keady said they do not believe SBIA will be able to attract airlines when located between ONT and Palm Springs International Airport.
Keady, who now runs a travel consultancy in Playa del Rey, was also critical of officials' hiring of Spencer in the first place.
"Airline executives are a little incredulous that a convicted felon was hired," he said.
San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos on Monday announced five charges, including two counts of conspiracy, had been filed against Spencer. Authorities also charged an alleged accomplice who invested in Spencer's business activities, Felice G. Luciano, with two counts of conspiracy.
The pair allegedly sought to defraud the Airport Authority of more than $1 million by filing a false claim. The charges are the first to be handed down as a result a multi-agency investigation that also involved the FBI, U.S. Attorney's Office and state Attorney General's Office. The FBI raided airport offices and Spencer's residence in Riverside in September 2011.
Spencer's attorney could not be reached for comment.
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Randy Houser now has three consecutive chart-topping hits to his credit with "Goodbye Kiss."
The country star's latest single reached number one on the Mediabase country singles chart this week to match the success of his previous hits, "How Country Feels" and "Running Out of Moonlight." But the accomplishment this time around has added significance. "Goodnight Kiss" is the first song Randy has written that has topped the chart.
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I am in my 40s and looking for alternative contraception methods. I have been on the Pill on and off and now, I have read about how it's being linked to glaucoma. Is it true?
What other forms/methods of contraception can I use? I don't want to go natural since my period can sometimes be unpredictable.
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Dear Raven,
Yes the latest research does worryingly show that women who are on the pill for 3 years or more have double the risk of glaucoma.
Other forms of contraception include:
- condoms: these are over 98% at preventing a pregnancy.
- IUD: this is inserted in the uterus and is a long term contraceptive option
- contraceptive injections: these are effective for between 8 and 12 weeks
- Implanon: this is inserted into the upper arm and releases the hormone progesterone
- diaphram: often known as the female condom
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There are some very qualified individuals on the 18-person ballot and there are some questionable names on the list. It will all come down to the final vote and the results will be announced over Twins Fest Weekend in January.
How do the players stack-up against one another? Here is a break down of the top ten players on the ballot according to their WAR rankings from Baseball Reference and FanGraphs.
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1. Chuck Knoblach, 2B 1992-1997
By looking at this list, it seems easy to think that Chuck Knoblach should be a lock to be selected into the Twins Hall of Fame. He is one of the top ten players in franchise history and he was one of the catalysts that helped the Twins to their second World Series crown. His exit from the team and his return to Minnesota were full of some ugly moments but plenty of time has passed since those events transpired. It should be time for Knoblach to be enshrined with the other top players from the organization but 2012 might not be his year.
2. Camilo Pascual, RHP 1961-1966
The right-handed pitcher had already played seven seasons at the big league level before the Senators moved to Minnesota. He was an original member of the Twins and he put together six great seasons with the Twins name on the front of his uniform. He was a vital part of the first team from Minnesota to qualify for the World Series. In recent weeks there has been a push by multiple Twin Cities media members for Pascual to be elected to the team HOF (Reusse article, Christensen article) and this could be enough to push him over the top for 2012.
3. David Goltz, RHP 1972-1979
Goltz might be a name that is unfamiliar to the newest generations of Twins fans. The Minnesota native spent much of the 1970's playing with the team from his home state. He was never overpowering on the mound but he had a stretch of six seasons in a row in which he won double-digit games. In 1977 he was a 20 game winner and he finished sixth in the Cy Young voting. Statistically he looks like a Brad Radke type of player from an earlier era.
4. Cesar Tovar, OF 1965-1972
As a rookie on the 1965 World Series team, Tovar gained experience that will help him be a leader with the next decade of Twins players. He was part of the two Twins teams in the 1969 and 1970 who lost in the playoffs to the powerful Baltimore Orioles. Mr. Tovar would continually find his name on the MVP balloting at the end of the year. He finished seventh in 1967 and he would finish in the top 24 in each of the next four seasons. He even started one game in 1968 but only pitched one inning because he would end up playing all nine positions on the day.
5. Corey Koskie, 3B 1998-2004
The newer generation of Twins fans will be very familiar with the name of Corey Koskie. He was a vital part of the revival of Twins baseball in the early 2000's. The defense he played at third base was good and he combined that with a powerful swing from the left side of the plate. The 2001 season might have been his best where he set personal bests with 26 home runs and 103 RBI. Concussions hampered the end of his career and it was tough to watch him suffer through his last couple years in Toronto and Milwaukee. His role in the revival of Twins baseball could be enough to get him into the Twins Hall of Fame in the future.
There is a good chance that all of the top five candidates will get their opportunity to be recognized as members of the Twins Hall of Fame. The problem is that only two of the players can be enshrined in any single season. If I could only pick two players, I would vote for Knoblach and Pascual. On the online voting, the fans can vote for up to five players and I will most likely vote for all of the players listed in my top five.
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Tornados Top Catawba in Five SetsOctober 19, 2013
SALISBURY, N.C. – The Brevard College volleyball team held on for a 3-2 win over Catawba after taking the first two sets in Goodman Gym on Saturday evening in South Atlantic Conference action. The Tornados won by the scores of 25-23, 25-22, 17-25, 14-25 and 15-10.
Brevard improves to 5-12 overall and 2-11 in conference play while the Indians fall to 3-12 and 3-10.
The Tornados rallied from a 7-4 deficit to take the deciding fifth set. The Tornados used an 8-1 run to take the advantage 12-8. Camille Cameron and Joy Oswalt added kills from there, and Kayla Hanus sealed the victory with a service ace.
Oswalt led the Brevard attack for the third straight match, chipping in 13 kills after pacing BC with a career-high 14 kills last night. Fatima Gharachorloo and Erin Rollins also contributed a dozen kills each.
The Tornados offense was quarterbacked by Hanus, who distributed 47 assists to go with two service aces. The senior also collected 17 digs, but it was Aleksandra Vrvilo who recorded a season-high 22 digs to lead the Tornados defensively.
Brevard took a 2-0 lead, pulling away late in the opening set and rallying from an 18-15 deficit in the second set.
A three-point run by the Tornados broke an 18-18 tie and effectively put the first set out of reach for the Indians.
Down by three at 18-15 late in the second set, Gharachorloo had three kills and a service ace during a 6-1 run that gave BC the edge.
Catawba responded in the next two sets to even the match before the Tornados triumphed in the deciding set to clinch their second conference victory of the season.
The Tornados return to action on Tuesday as they visit UVa-Wise on Tuesday night for a nonconference match from the Prior Center at 7 p.m. BC handled the Cavaliers 3-1 at home in the season opener on September 5th.
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Brevard vs Catawba (Oct 19, 2013 at Salisbury,NC)
Brevard def. Catawba 25-23,25-22,17-25,14-25,15-10
Brevard (5-12, 2-11) (Kills-aces-blocks) - Joy Oswalt 13-0-1; Fatima
Gharachorloo 12-2-0; Erin Rollins 12-0-1; Camille Cameron 7-0-3;
Savannah Cox 6-0-2; Kayla Hanus 2-2-1; Aleksandra Vrvilo 0-1-0; Bailey
Hayes 0-1-1; Amanda Possidente 0-0-1; Totals 52-6-5.0. (Assists) -
Kayla Hanus 47. (Dig leaders) - Aleksandra Vrvilo 22; Kayla Hanus 17;
Fatima Gharachorloo 12; Bailey Hayes 8
Catawba (3-12, 3-10) (Kills-aces-blocks) - Haley Lanier 16-0-1; Erin
Morant 15-3-3; McKenzie Garrison 8-0-1; Savannah Tomlinson 6-0-4;
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- Separate living room
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Digital TV service
- Free WiFi
- Pillow menu
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Sofa bed size
- Free wired Internet
Where to Eat
A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is served each morning between 6:30 AM and 9 AM.
Nearby Things to Do
2 outdoor swimming pools are on site along with a children's pool. In addition to a seasonal outdoor pool, other recreational amenities include a spa tub and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Ecotours nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Boat tours nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-in time ends at 2 AM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 18 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Only service animals are allowed
Noise-free rooms not guaranteed
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- SpringHill Suites Houston Hotel Woodlands
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Virtual Tour
This tour comes to you courtesy of students — freshmen and sophomores — in our award-winning program Engineering Practices Introductory Course Sequence (EPICS). Given projects that present engineering challenges, students develop key skills for their upper-division courses and future careers. The programs covers topics including:
- the computer as a problem-solving tool
- word-processing, graphics, spreadsheet and CAD packages
- 3-D visualization
- audience analysis and the preparation of a variety of technical documents
- oral communication and skills in group work
- project management.
Over the last three years, groups of Design EPICS II students have been building and assembling a highly accurate 3-D model of our campus and have published it to Google Earth. Each semester new students add buildings and features to the model so that presently it includes the main campus buildings, Greek Row and Mines Park.
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The Texas Evening MBA Program offers a number of student-led organizations to further professional development, provide additional networking opportunities, and serve the broader community. Organizations centered on program enrichment, community service, entrepreneurship and consulting are just a few examples of existing groups serving the Evening MBA community. You are encouraged to explore these organizations, or even start your own group. This is an excellent way to develop and demonstrate leadership skills and make connections with classmates and industry leaders. Below is a sample of some of the organizations that have been the most popular in past years.
The GBC serves as the student government for all students in the Texas Evening MBA program. Representatives to the GBC are elected by classmates and work directly with program administration to enhance the overall student experience. GBC representatives serve on a number of standing committees and organize and actively promote community service opportunities, social events and program improvements.
The Texas Consulting Club's (TCC) mission is providing students with the resources, training, and connections to Mccombs staff, alumni, and current students with experience in consulting. TCC offers its members opportunities for case interview practice by providing practice materials and practice groups. Traditionally, first-year and second-year MBA students interested in pursuing a career in consulting make up the membership of this club. Workshops, seminars and mentoring transform this club's members into effective, and sought-after, TEMBA consultants.
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The blog you have reached . . .
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A contemporary whom I admire and who will go unnamed (but he knows who he is) admonished me the other day for not updating my blog in a timely manner. Mea maxima culpa.
The thing is: I don't blog unless I have something to say, however profound or trivial. So there may be days when I don't post something, as many of you outside my family reading this blog might have noticed. But apparently, that's not how things work in the blogosphere.
In the blogosphere, apparently, it's not what you write, it's how much you write. Of course, that's why ICANHAZCHEEZBURGER.com is kicking blog butt.
So taking my contemporary's advice, I am going to blog more often; once a week, twice or three times maybe. Heck, maybe I'll just write every day. Rather than make profound observations, I'll just list a grouping of ramblings tied together by the common thread of FOSS.
Burn Free . . . as free as the wind blows, as free as the grass . . . ahem, er, sorry. I get carried away sometimes. But one of several things that make me burst into song is the availability of FOSS from a free vending machine, a concept being implemented in South Africa and funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation (yeah, that Shttleworth). The Freedom Toaster is a machine that is a "conveniently located, self-contained, computer-based, 'Bring 'n Burn' facility." The Web page introduction continues: "Like vending machines, preloaded to dispense confectionery (Note: That's "candy" to North Americans south of Canada and north of Mexico), Freedom Toasters are preloaded to dispense free digital products, including software, photography, music and literature." Instructions on how to make a Freedom Toaster are also included. Great stuff. Now, who do I know with power tools I can borrow . . . ?
Hail to the Treasurer: After a process that made herding cats seem like an effortless cattle drive, Cabrillo College Linux Users Group (Cabrillo LUG) has finally been established. An organizational meeting was held on Oct. 24, and yours truly was elected treasurer by consensus. Cabrillo College is located in Aptos, Calif., in Santa Cruz County.
Open for business: I mentioned this before, but it bears repeating. HeliOS Solutions West, a division of HeliOS Solutions in Austin, Texas, is up and running in the town of Felton just northeast of Santa Cruz, Calif. It's located at the Felton Trading Post at 6396 Highway 9, Felton CA 95018. Phone: 831.335.7303.
(Larry Cafiero, editor/publisher of Open Source and Free Software Reporter, is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)


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Carfilzomib fails in refractory myeloma FOCUS trial
The big news yesterday evening was that Amgen's phase III FOCUS trial in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma failed to meet its primary endpoint of overall survival (HR=0.975).
Such a marginal hazard ratio (HR) tells us that the risk of death was not reduced by taking carfilzomib over best supportive care.
According to the company:
"The 315-patient, open-label study evaluated single-agent Kyprolis® (carfilzomib) for Injection compared to an active control regimen of low-dose dexamethasone, or equivalent corticosteroids, plus optional cyclophosphamide in patients with relapsed and advanced refractory multiple myeloma. Nearly all patients in the control arm received cyclophosphamide. Patients were heavily pretreated and had received a median of five therapeutic regimens prior to study entry."
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Spoiler: The Big Brother 13 Head of Household Competition is Over!
Spoiler: The Houseguests had their HoH Competition tonight! Keep reading to see who won!
Porsche won the Head of Household!
What does this mean for the house, and who will she nominate? Keep up with all thing Big brother in the forum HERE!


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(c) Such amounts as may be necessary for the carrying out, at a rate not in excess of that which obtained in the last quarter of the fiscal year 1950, or that provided for in the Budget estimates for 1951, whichever is lower, for projects and activities under applicable appropriations as follows:
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Rock N Roll Heaven – Country Roots [VIDEO]
The Wichita Theatre was packed to the rafters Friday night for Rock N Roll Heaven, a triple threat tribute show featuring Johnny Rogers as Buddy Holly, Al Nelson as Roy Orbison and Kraig Parker as the King, Elvis Presley.
In an earlier post I reminded you of who Buddy, Roy and Elvis were. (As if you needed reminding!) This time I thought I'd tell you a bit more about the performers.


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As I sit thoughtfully, wedged between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I have a mobile premonition that times are a'changing.
Black Friday may be becoming Cyber Friday – which would mean a dark Monday for many retailers and malls in North America.
On November 28, 2005, Shop.org started discussing an online shopping phenomenon following the Thanksgiving weekend that it coined Cyber Monday. After fighting for sale items in the aisles, shoppers starting surfing the web for remnant deals.
However over the past year, Matt Shay and his team at the National Retail Federation should realizing that the online shopping cloud (that was politely situated on a separate day with separate deals for online shoppers) is now disruptively moving into our primetime shopping calendar.
While most mobile shopping on Black Friday still tends to be mobile marketing focused: Price comparison hunting with Amazon PriceCheck, ShopSavvy or eBay's Redlazer App; Mobile couponing clipping for show-to-save deals that drive impulse door swing into the mall and retail store.
These shopping APPs and mobile web services are great for hardcore price hunters but the small-screen experience is not optimal. The mobile phone may help the shopper better navigate high value items such as shoes or electronics in their local mall. The mobile phone may steer the shopper to a purchase or may rudely interrupt an in-aisle purchase.
But what is beyond price hunting? If a PriceCheck shows a better deal online, many folk are likely to close their phone and choose to buy the item that evening on the web on a large screen in the comfort of their home.
This is about to change. There is a new breed of shopping disruption entering the market. Apple's iPad has hybridized:
- mobile & fixed internet
- small screen & large screen
- impulse & thoughtful shopping
Kindle Fire: The Mall Buster
The new commerce-tablet is a portable mall buster. The iPad allows for an elegant portable internet experience, Apple focus continued to be the APP economy and digital checkout on iTunes.
Other tablets have entered the market on Apple's terms and had mix results . . . until the Amazon's new tablet Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire is all about one-click commerce. The device is optimized for in-store, in-mall deal hunting, price comparison and most importantly one-click checkout.
Amazon has always been a commerce disrupter. They battled and beat the book store. Now they are taking on the entire mall.
Amazon reinvented book browsing. In 2007, we saw the first Kindle, the harbinger of a new power game and more importantly a new relationship with the mobile consumer. In order to promote its Kindle device, Amazon sold electronic books below wholesale prices. A tactical loss. Owning the commerce platform was the ultimate reward for Amazon.
Amazon won the book battle: Borders bookstore went out of business and Barnes & Noble opened coffee shops and began selling household furniture.
The Kindle Fire (which combines book commerce with the immersive Kindle experience) is the final commerce frontier. Amazon is so confident in the commerce that they will generate in the mall that they are selling the unit at a loss ($199 while the unit cost is $210).
Amazon's One-Click commerce along with VISA's V.me service, Billing Revolution's Single-Click and a flood of cloud commerce options will enter the market this year.
What does this mean to the great American Black Friday tradition?
It means that shoppers on Friday, November 30th, 2012 may move from comparison price hunting in the mall to disruptive purchasing in the cloud. No longer are Cyber Monday and Black Friday neatly separated: the cloud is in the mall . . . to stay.
Dark Clouds
We anticipate over 5000 store closings in 2012 – nearly 40% up from 2011. Many of these closings will be due to continuing shopper malaise; however, as in-mall cloud shopping accelerates, stores particularly in the apparel, shoe and electronics vertical will need to reinvent themselves. They will need to focus on breaking down the channel barriers between their online presents and the physical store. Tackling "cross-channel disconnect" will be key to survival.
Stores will need to focus on the non-Black-Friday days – all 364 of them and work to build a loyalty, one-to-one relationship with the shopper using their phones to bridge the store experience with the store's cloud experience.
Content curation, sensory experience, customer service and love are all the store has. It will not win on price alone.


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Moon Series
- Overview
Celestial style. Abstract orbs sit atop an iron and wood base in the Moon Series, which was inspired by the lunar phases. Arrange them with plants, books and photographs for a sophisticated shelf or desk display.
- Various sizes.
- Marble with an iron and wood base.
- Made in India.
- Details + Dimensions
- Sun: 3"w x 3"d x 10"h.
- Warrior: 3"w x 3"d x 10.5"h.
- Moon: 4.5"w x 4.5"d x 11.75"h.
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These items ship from our Distribution Center by UPS and arrive in your home within 4-5 business days of order receipt.
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Next Day Delivery
For an extra charge of $17.50 per address, we can arrange for rush delivery to most destinations.
We happily accept returns on stocked items within the time frames listed below. Products designated as special order (SPO) cannot be cancled or returned. All items on our website and in-store are considered 'stocked' unless expressly identified as 'special order' instead. Prior purchases are not eligible for price adjustments. Please familiarize yourself with our returns policy before placing your order.
Stocked Items: If you are dissatisfied with your purchase of a stocked item, you must exchange or return it within the following time frames for a full refund of the merchandise cost (delivery fees are non-refundable). Outside these time frames, we will replace or refund your purchase against manufacturer's defects ONLY. Please note that we cannot accept returns on gift cards or items damaged through normal wear and tear. We also cannot accept returns of final-sale items, which are identified by a price ending in .99 or .97.
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What's Trending and iHeartRadio Partner For TUBEATHON
What's Trending and iHeartRadio Partner For TUBEATHON To Benefit The American Red Cross On Wednesday, April 20th
Star-Studded Variety Show Features Performances By MAGIC!, American Idol's La'Porsche, Jessica Sanchez, and Nick Fradiani, BC Jean and Mark Ballas, And More
Event Kicks Off Red Cross National Giving Day And Encourages Viewers To #help1family
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- April 14, 2016 -- What's Trending, the leading online destination that curates the best of "what's trending" on the web, and iHeartMedia, the media and entertainment company with the largest reach of any radio or TV outlet in America, have partnered for TUBEATHON, a star-studded digital telethon and musical variety show benefiting the American Red Cross on Wednesday, April 20, 2016. TUBEATHON will feature a mix of musical performances, live entertainment, and celebrity appearances streamed live from the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles on twitch.tv/whatstrending from 7-9pm PT with a gaming pre-show from 5-7pm PT.
The event serves as an early kick-off to the American Red Cross' 2016 Giving Day on April 21, a one-day fundraising effort designed to increase public emergency preparedness awareness and raise funds for the Red Cross and its mission to help families who have been affected by disasters such as home fires.
"TUBEATHON is a powerful platform that brings together entertainers and influencers to raise awareness and funds for families affected by emergencies or disasters," said Gail McGovern, American Red Cross President and CEO. "We are thrilled to be involved in this unique concert event as part of our Giving Day awareness and educational programs."
TUBEATHON will feature musical performances by an all-star lineup, including: MAGIC!, Nick Fradiani, La'Porsche, Jessica Sanchez, Alyson Stoner, BC Jean and Mark Ballas, Chanel West Coast, Melanie Martinez, iLoveMemphis, Christina Grimmie, James Maslow, Tyler Hilton, DSharp, 80Fitz, Sky Blue, Sam Tsui, Janina Gavankar, Alex Boye, Heffron Drive, and more. Additionally, the show will include variety segments and appearances from fan-favorite influencers live from TUBEATHON's Draft Kings sponsored Tweet Bank, a modern day take on a charity phone bank. Hosted by Shira Lazar with co-hosts Bart Baker, Quddus and Taryn Southern, TUBEATHON's mix of celebrity guests and social media influencers--who traditionally generate more than 200 million social media impressions combined-- will encourage viewers throughout the live stream to participate and donate to the Red Cross by using the hashtag #help1family. For every Tweet with the #help1family hashtag, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark will donate $1 to Red Cross.
Throughout TUBEATHON on April 20 and Giving Day on April 21, viewers can help provide funds to support a family with basic essentials following a community disaster, including tornadoes and home fires. Every year, the Red Cross responds to nearly 66,000 disasters nationwide where a family has lost everything; the roof over their heads, their clothes, and their most cherished possessions. With less than $90 needed to support a family of 3 for one day, a gift toward TUBEATHON and the Red Cross' one-day awareness effort using #help1family can help provide urgent relief, such as a day's worth of food, blankets, and other essentials.
Leading up to TUBEATHON, iHeartMedia leveraged the company's spectrum of multiplatform assets to address key aspects of fire safety and prevention. For the last several weeks, iHeartMedia has launched an on-air and online campaign across its more than 850 radio stations, station websites and iHeartRadio.com, designed to build awareness and drive tune-in to TUBEATHON.
"At iHeartMedia it's a priority for us to focus on the relevant and critical issues that matter most to our listeners and our communities," said Alissa Pollack, Executive Vice President of Global Music Marketing for iHeartMedia. "TUBEATHON is a unique opportunity to deliver a very important message about home fire safety and preparedness by combining the social influence of some of the most popular online celebrities with the national and local reach of all of our 850+ radio stations."
TUBEATHON has already garnered social support from a number of stars, including Lamorne Morris, Don Benjamin, Chloe Lukasiak, who will be joining live from the Draft King Tweet Bank the day of the event. In addition to using #help1family, donations to the Red Cross can be made by visiting redcross.org/givingday. A $10 donation to the Red Cross can be made by texting REDCROSS to 90999. All donations will be processed on April 21, 2016.
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AVInfo is a utility for displaying AVI, MPEG (1 and 2), OGM, MKV, and IFO (DVD) information. It returns the length of a clip, FPS, resolution, codec, audio and video bit rate, number of key frames, sound parameters, the number and type of streams, and the language for audio/subtitles. It then generates a file list with statistics (HTML, plain text, or CSV).
Alliance CAD System is a set of EDA tools and portable cell libraries for VLSI design. It covers a wide range of the standard design flow (from VHDL up to layout). It includes a VHDL simulator, RTL synthesis tools, place and route tools, netlist extractor, DRC, and a layout editor.
Brook for GPUs is a compiler and runtime implementation of the Brook stream programming language for modern graphics hardware. The goals for this project are to demonstrate general purpose programing on GPUs, to provide a useful tool for developers who want to run applications on GPUs, and to research the stream language programming model, streaming applications, and system implementations.
FIM (Fbi IMproved) aims to be a highly customizable and scriptable image viewer targeted at the users who are comfortable with software like the Vim text editor or the Mutt mail user agent. It is based on the Fbi image viewer and works either in the Linux framebuffer console or in the X system. It features the ability to filter the list of images with regular expressions, Vim-like autocommands, command line autocompletion and history, completely customizable key bindings, external/internal scriptability, and much more.
The GUIShell project is a collection of utilities facilitating the use of the GTK+ toolkit in shell scripts through the gtkshell utility. The ACE configuration environment provides sample scripts utilizing gtkshell for desktop utilities. rootcat provides the ability to display messages to the root window using Xft, allowing one to write status display scripts.
HGL is a compiler/interpreter suite for developing images. It features its own simple but powerful language, Lua integration, output in various formats as well as runtime input handled by plugins, and easy integration into various environments like Web servers or graphical applications. The input is taken from a source file, which has to be compiled for quick and frequent access by the interpreter. An interpreter then runs the compiled files, takes input from custom plugins (if neccessary), and outputs its result via custom plugins.
The Heirloom Development Tools provide yacc, lex, m4, make, and SCCS as portable derivatives of the utilities released by Sun as part of OpenSolaris. The OpenSolaris utilities were in turn derived from the original Unix versions, and are assumed be conforming implementations of the POSIX standard.
A PHP class to authorize and access APIs using OAuth 1.0, 1.0a, and OAuth 2.0.
Complex special functions, numerical linear algebra, and statistics in JavaScript.


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SIT322 - Distributed Systems
Unit details
|2017 unit information
|Enrolment modes:
|Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online)
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James Zheng
SIT221 or SIT232
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Campus: 2 x 1 hour class per week, 1 x 2 hour practical per week.
Cloud (online): Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin. Students will have the opportunity to participate in online consultation sessions.
The key focus of SIT322 is on introducing students to implement integrated systems over distributed web applications, websites and web services. In SIT322 students will learn how distributed web applications are developed by using ASP.NET framework and associated messaging systems. Students will examine four major integration styles adapted by modern business systems and the techniques of integrating loosely coupled applications. The unit enables students to develop complex web-based systems capable of processing analytical, geographical and personal information retrieved via Windows DLL, web and database APIs. In particular, students will use XML-based messages and message channels to facilitate information exchange. Students will also explore the real-world business systems such as HR, CRM and ERP. A good programming background in C# and SQL is essential for those who wish to achieve a high standard of this unit.
Programming projects (20%, 15%, 15%) 50%, Examination 50%. To be eligible to obtain a pass in this unit, students must achieve at least 40% of the total allocated mark for the examination.
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Looks like Weidman finally gets his wish.
Looks like Weidman finally gets his wish.
3-2-0 Pro Fighter managed by TFL Sports Agency
Hope they both come through training camp without getting injured
Just because you have beaten the rest, doesn't mean that you will beat the best.
I like Anderson huge in this fight.
Sherdog.com - The number one MMA site on the web today!
I like the fight weidman looks hungry and could give silva a fight for couple of rounds anyway cant seehim winning bit id rather a guy like him got a shot than simply feeding silva another bonnar or irvin that nobody believes can make a fight of it.
Weidman by 5 round wrestle smash.... Beeeeeeliiiiieeeevvvveeeee. Either that or he finishes Silva.
Weidman deserves this fight no doubt and this could be a tough match up for Silva but still see him getting the ko/tko at some point. Weidman has had fairly favourable matchups to get to the top contender spot imo. Maia at MW and Munoz aren't and never really have been top guys in the division so I think it is a massive step up in competition so this is a very difficult fight to predict. If he had fought the likes of Vitor or Sonnen it may be a little bit clearer as to how he will fair in this fight
At the same time these were the very same people calling for Weidman to get a fight.
Don't get me wrong i think Weidman has a much better chance than Bisping but it always makes me chuckle slightly.
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Chris Weidman wasn't given as easy run, I'm pretty sure we argued about this before, when he fought Maia, Maia was ranked 6/7th in the world (off the top of my head I can't remember which one), then when he beat Mark Munoz, Sonnen had already reverted to LHW meaning that Munoz went from #3 to #2 so when Weidman beat him, he became the number one contender. Simple.
I'm not denying he deserves the title shot, as much for being unbeaten and winning all of his fights comfortably with finishes. But what contenders you fight on the way of the title is the luck of the draw and who's currently available. Vitor and sonnen would provide far sterner tests to wiedman than Maia and Munoz. i don't think he's faced a guy who can really push him yet. That's my point!
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JPMorgan Chase Settlement
The $299 million in damages will settle claims that the company misrepresented the value of residential mortgage-backed securities sold to the California Public Employees Retirement System and
"JP Morgan Chase profited by giving
The settlement is part of a broader, $13 billion settlement between the investment company and the
Harris said her office's investigation found that documents provided by the company did not accurately disclose the nature of the underlying mortgages and that the company did not properly eliminate risky loans from the securities it was offering the pension funds.
The settlement will reimburse the funds for the losses they took for investing in mortgage-backed securities offered by JPMorgan, Washington Mutual Bank and Bear Stearns. JPMorgan acquired the other two companies in 2008 and has said most of its mortgage-backed securities came from them.
The federal settlement includes $4 billion in mortgage relief for consumers nationwide who were harmed by the same three firms. The money will go toward loan modifications, forgiving the principal on mortgages and efforts to improve blighted neighborhoods.
Harris' office could not predict how much of the $4 billion will come to
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When President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney meet Wednesday in their first presidential debate, the GOP nominee will have the most to prove. But both parties say the first debate traditionally helps the challenger, whose stature tends to rise simply by appearing on stage as the alternative.
What Romney must do
Be clear • Trailing in the polls , Romney must defend himself, while also going on offense. He needs to reintroduce himself as a candidate with a clear vision who understands the struggles facing most Americans.
Egg him on • Romney will aim to provoke his rival. His campaign wants to create a moment that makes the president come across as smug like when Obama described Hillary Clinton as "likable enough" during a 2008 Democratic debate.
Play it cool • Romney needs to attack without appearing angry. "He needs to not confirm people's fear that he'sgot a nasty arrogant streak," says David Gergen, a Harvard University professor who has advised a bipartisan roster of presidents.
Be likable • Romney has higher negatives than Obama. This debate gives him perhaps his last best chance to reshape that image before the largest audience of the campaign.
Address the 47 percent • Romney must confront early on his secretly recorded "47 percent" remark, in which he described almost half the country as dependent on government benefits. He needs to reassure voters he cares about them.
Dodge distractions • No $10,000 bets. No talk of Harvard law school reunions. No "couple of Cadillacs."
What Obama must do
Play it safe • With the president clinging to a small to moderate lead, Rice University political scientist Paul Brace has this simple advice for him: "Don't screw up."
Show likability • One of Obama's big edges is voters like him more than Romney. He needs to remain genial, even when criticizing.
Woo 2008 backers • Romney's best chance to beat Obama is to win the votes of disappointed 2008 Obama voters. The debate gives the president a shot at winning them back.
Keep it short • The format lends itself to highlighting one of Obama's weaknesses ponderous answers so he must tighten his responses. His tendency to slip into professor-mode limits media-friendly sound bites that can stick with viewers.
Mine the middle • Obama will use his tax plan to charge Romney with being at odds with the interests of middle- and working-class voters.
Bring up Bain • Obama will raise Romney's work as head of the Boston-based company to spotlight the Republican's personal wealth. It's a topic the former private-equity executive doesn't always handle well.
More online
With President Barack Obama ahead in the polls, Republican challenger Mitt Romney needs the debates to be a game changer. For advice on how to do well, he could look to one of the great GOP debaters, Ronald Reagan.
A second-by-second preview of what Romney will do at the debate
Twitter heightens debate risks for Obama, Romney.
Eight predictions about who will win the debate.
Will the debate be a game-changer?
Ann Romney's pre-debate words for Mitt: 'He's great. He's competent'


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OK, it's crunch time. At the end of the week, you should be in Columbus, Ohio, at Ohio Linux Fest — if you're going to a Linux show before the year's out, make it this one. This is the last big show on the North American continent until SCALE in January. At OLF, Bradley Kuhn and Cathy Malmrose are keynoting — along with Jon "maddog" Hall — so you'll not want to miss that (especially Cathy — Go ZaReason!).
KDE's Aaron Seigo, "a shift-key-challenged KDE hacker," wrote an interesting blog item this week where he outlines where KDE is going with Plasma Active. While the blog item itself may not be terribly earth-shattering, the significance of a member of the KDE project leadership taking the time to outline where things are going, so there are no surprises down the line, is significant.
Most telling and reassuring, at least to me, is this paragraph: " . . . [W]e do not believe in the 'one interface that runs on both your desktop and your tablet'. We believe in code reuse, in component-reuse (and, where beneficial, drop-in-replacement), compatibility and interoperability; but we also believe that a tablet interface and a desktop interface are not, and should not, be the same thing. The use cases and form factors are just too different."
He adds later: "So those who are concerned that we're going to do something nasty to the desktop interface: breath easy."
Amen to that, Aaron. Thanks for bringing that up and I'm breathing easier as a result.
"Hue and cry" is something at which various Linux and FOSS communities excel. When we find something going amiss, usually a controversy of biblical proportions ensues, where the end of the whole Linux/FOSS paradigm — not to mention yet another delay in the Year of the Linux Desktop — is inevitable unless said problem/redirection/error is fixed, and fixed now.
But while wailing and gnashing of teeth is a hallmark of Linux and FOSS communities, so is the ability to overcome these missteps and improve the programs, or if improving is impossible, forking the program to make a new one. Think LibreOffice, which was trapped by Oracle before being released into the Apache wild. Or this: Not that it's a fork per se, but my Fedora colleague and friend, Juan Rodriguez — who wanted GNOME 2.32 on his Fedora 15 — stated his displeasure of GNOME 3, but rather than harping on it, he went to work and created the BlueBubble respin of Fedora which has the older GNOME desktop atop Fedora 15.
So amid the upheaval of desktop environments, we have a precedent to look at with KDE having gone through this before. Fortunately for GNOME, KDE's experience serves as a cautionary tale. KDE seems to have ridden out the rough spots after their release of version 4, though there are some that are just not going to be happy with anything other than their KDE 3.x, and they aren't shy about saying so.
Arguably, GNOME has stepped in a steaming pile with GNOME 3, and it would bode well for them to take a page from KDE's playbook here and recover in the same manner. Frankly, I'm expecting GNOME to get over this rough patch, circled as they seem to be by angry users (and ex-users) with torches and pitchforks. The folks at GNOME could learn something from Aaron's blog item about not making one desktop fit all, but I digress.
Meanwhile, back at the point of this blog . . . the point of this blog today is to remind those KDE users who are constantly picking on KDE because 4.x is not 3.5, as well as to the army of GNOME 3 enemies throughout the shire mercilessly beating up on GNOME, to heed these words: Stop already — we get it.
For better or worse, or for good or evil, both KDE 4.x and GNOME 3 are here. The barn door is open and the horses are in the pasture. The toothpaste is out of the tube.
Get over it and move on.
While I remember the "false start" that accompanied KDE 4.0 and the problems and complaints that KDE users made at its release, I don't know the situation first hand because I was an intermittent KDE user at the time. I've clearly warmed up to the KDE 4.x series and, to be honest, I don't get what all the hubbub was about, since KDE 4.6 works pretty well on my Fedora 15 laptop.
I understand the animosity toward GNOME 3 — I can't use it (I have old hardware), and I consider the "fallback mode" the digital equivalent of sitting in the back of the bus. On the few occasions I have had to use it on newer hardware, I want to like it, but I just can't — it's an interface that doesn't seem to belong to the laptop or desktop.
However, that's all I'm going to say about it, except that I hope GNOME 3.x will fix some of the problems I have with it, making it usable for me. If not, I won't use it. That plain, that simple. As an aside, I am warming up to Xfce quite well on the whole, so I may be splitting my time between KDE and Xfce from here on in.
But I don't plan to bludgeon GNOME every time it comes up in a forum or an on-line discussion, because beating dead horses gets you nowhere.
So the choice is yours: You can keep harping on this great injustice, picking at the scab so the unkind cut doesn't heal, or you can move on by either accepting the way things are or adapting them to what suits you, as Juan did with BlueBubble.
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September 8, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Fully agree. The desktop bashing movements are way more harmful to Linux desktop than Microsoft is. Write something nice (and true) about any desktop environment and hell is loose.
It's a kind of destructive narcissism that is eating desktop linux alive from the inside. And everyone close to Microsoft can sit back, watch, and laugh all the way to the bank.
I NEVER bash linux desktop environments i don't use (or like). Sad thing is, I don't write about those I prefer either. I've just had it with the never ending bashing. It's even difficult being critical about "my own" desktop environment. It will immediately be construed as support for something that I really do not support.
It's the same story with distros. If it's easy – it's to simple. If it require some effort it's useless and so on and so on.
It's a never ending story, and the major reason for me putting Linux at rest. Still way beyond Windows in just about any way I can think of. But I've had it with the "Linux enthusiast community". They are more destructive than just about any community I know.
September 8, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Hear, Here!
I never bitched that KDE on linux wasn't PCTools on DRDOS, or that dreadful Windows 95 way over a decade ago. I've likewise moved easily with KDE as it's advanced from 3.5 to 4.6. I'm currently waiting enthusiastically for our hard-working benefactors to put 4.7 into the Debian sid repositories and I have the confidence in our developers to know that I know I'll love it when they give to me. When it's available, I'll be entirely grateful.
There are always a few fringe loonies who'll carp about anything. We don't need them.
September 8, 2011 at 4:36 pm
I use openbox and fbpanel, because I have been burnt by DE rewrites one too many times. Never again.
September 8, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Larry, the headers on your posts major them *much* less useful to me. What shows up for every item in my RSS reader is the Ohio Linux Fest image and blurb. If I reshare your post, that's what readers will see. I'd like to send others with similar interests to your site, but the headers make it much harder.
September 9, 2011 at 4:54 am
Larry –
Agree with hue and cry up to a point, but…
Smug put-downs of "wailing and gnashing of teeth" and stern-faced Puritan commandments to go fix it thy own self miss the mark badly on a couple of counts.
First, most of it can't fix it ourselves.
Most GNOME or KDE developers can't perform a coronary bypass or change the timing belt on a car. Most computer users can't re-spin fedora, or fork a major desktop. We (and they) are at the mercy of those who can.
Second, that hue and cry is a useful thing. It should be painful for developers to royally screw up widely used and relied upon software. It should be painful enough to soak through those thick little noggins and plant the thought, "Gee. Maybe we could have done this better."
The issue is trust as much as it is technology. If we are going to entrust the systems used to make our daily bread (like mine), we want to know that the people who make the software we need take that responsibility seriously. Because trust is harder to recognize and quantify than a software feature list or bug count, it takes longer to win back.
I was heartened by Aaron's post. It shows a budding maturity that has been missing from many KDE team communications. For the first time, I see signs that Aaron may be trustworthy, and, by extension, the KDE team. The software seems to have improved mightily since the bad old days of 4.0, and, were it not for the trust issue, merit a good tire-kicking.
I've grown comfortable with XFCE since leaving KDE behind, but, after using KDE for more than a decade, I can't quite shake the sense of being somehow disloyal. It would be nice to know that the developers understand that kind of thing.
September 9, 2011 at 6:31 am
Why did Gnome make the same mistake as KDE? They had years to learn the lessons yet they did not act. M$ never made such radical changes in the desktop environment. They have evolved it. I agree it's good to try to stretch how folks use technology but not everyone wants to be cutting edge. I would argue that the changes in KDE and Gnome and subsequent flack has hurt the linux movement.
September 9, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Windows has evolved into what? They have kept their UX/GUI/DE consept because they believe they have to – keeping old users happy. They keep it – not because it's good – they keep it because they have forced themselves to. Even when they want to execute radical changes they don't dare.
If Gnome stuck to Gnome 2.X it would have suffered like Winmo, and if KDE kept 3.5 rolling it would have been in a worse state than Symbian. We are talking whipping dead horses.
The world changes and those who do not adapt to the new reality becomes obsolete. If you would like museums that's fine. Just don't demand that everybody else should be forced to stay in your museum.
T-fords and Tuckers were fantastic consepts for their time. But it's not what will take the auto industry to the future. And it's not what the general audience want.
KDE 4.1 was released more than 3 years ago and is doing just fine, thus get over it. Gnome 3 and Unity will need some more time to fulfill their potential. Give them that time. Meanwhile there are still LTS and so on if you want to stick to Gnome. There's also XFce and LXde.
There are plenty of alternatives.
Some people might have noted that there's a few new form factors around – and concepts to take advantage of them. Android, iOS and WebOS.
The most important thing with the iPhone was not the UX or the design. The most important thing with the iPhone was that it broke the habit of "windows-familiarity" in all systems and form factors. Everybody tried to make their DE/UX familiar for someone used to Windows. And that goes for the applications too. That's why Windows will change a lot in the future. They will change it as much as they dare.
Now, everthing is up for grabs. And both Gnome and KDE did the right thing. They acted. They might excel – or not. Doing nothing was and still is – no option. Ask Nokia.
It's very very simple: The DE's either change and improve – or they die. Therefore it's a generally good idea to support your preferred DE and try to influence the devs to make your preferred environment a better solution for the future – rather than forcing the devs to live in a museum of your choice. And while supporting your DE there's no need to pick on the others. Leave that to the Microsoft guys. Because they are the only ones that will benefit from it.
September 9, 2011 at 10:50 pm
Like it or not, there is always going to be a hue and cry, a major hubbub when a desktop environment radically alters the way it works and leaves those who really liked the way it worked having to look elsewhere.
I made my complaints about KDE 4 when it first come out. If you were not a KDE 3.X user, you cannot understand what a piece of crap KDE 4.0 was. You need to check out the last version of KDE 3.x and then try 4.0 to understand. I am not suggesting that anyone do this. It is water under the bridge. I have moved on the XFCE 4 and will remain with it unless they decide to do something that their users do not like. After all, that is what the desktop experience is supposed to be aimed at. What the users like and want.
That is why I use Linux rather than MS Windows or a Mac. I have choices in desktop environments. But when the one I really like changes so drastically from what I like to something that I cannot really even use, I am going to complain. If the complaints are dismissed, I will (and have) move(d) on.
Just my two cents worth.
September 11, 2011 at 8:52 am
Make all the changes to you want to everything and anything. No problem.
But (I know Larry) BUT keep the old version around for a long time, just to
see if anyone does like the new. Also because LtFSG and the Colonel are
way too old for this change stuff… and get off our lawns.
Peace, Bob
September 23, 2011 at 2:58 am
You have brought up very fantastic points, thank you for the post.
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Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 - Biography & Autobiography - 292 pages
By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary.
Johnson imagined that he could complete the job in three years. But the complexity of English meant that his estimate was wildly inadequate. Only after he had expended nearly a decade of his prime on the task did the dictionary finally appear - magisterial yet quirky, dogmatic but generous of spirit, and steeped in the richness of English literature. It would come to be seen as the most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century, and its influence fanned out across Europe and throughout Britain's colonies - including, crucially, America.
Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, " Defining the World" is the story of Johnson's heroic endeavor, 250 years after the first publication of the "Dictionary." In alphabetically sequenced chapters, Henry Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure - his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.
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Rochester, N.Y. – Eight more of Rochester's business leaders will be honored this year in the Rochester Business Hall of Fame.
"It really is quite humbling when you think of all the great leaders that have come before us," says Dixon Schwabl CEO Lauren Dixon about both her induction and the induction of Dixon Schwabl President Mike Schwabl. "We just feel so lucky to serve a wonderful community like Rochester."
Robert Morgan the CEO of Morgan Management and Dilip Vellodi the Chairman and CEO of Sutherland Global Services will also be inducted into the hall Tuesday.
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By Gale Fiege Herald Writer
CAMANO ISLAND — More than 30 acres of forest and wetlands located adjacent to Cama Beach State Park will be preserved forever thanks to a gift from a Camano Island couple.
Joe and Cathy Holton, along with their four sons and seven grandchildren, donated a conservation easement on their property to Whidbey Camano Land Trust, which now ensures that the land remains perpetually protected and free from development.
The Holtons could have made a lot of money selling the property, where theoretically a developer could have built up to 30 houses. At the very least, the family might have sold it for a half-million dollars, said Cathy Holton's son Randy Reeves, a real estate broker.
"It's not all altruistic, however," Reeves said. "My folks have a connection to the land and they happen to have the economic means to preserve it. We have seen our share of misguided, unsustainable development. We believe this is the highest and best use of the property."
In August 2011, the Holtons attended a community meeting called by the land trust, which was seeking to find potential conservation easements among property owners living near the state parks on Camano.
The Holtons stepped right up, said Elizabeth Guss, development director with the Whidbey Camano Land Trust.
"Their contribution is a beautiful illustration of a family thinking ahead into the future and seeing the big picture," Guss said. "It's a way to marry private property rights with the common good."
Joe and Cathy Holton are known on the island for their generosity and their volunteer work with the Friends of Camano Island Parks. Conservation of some of their property was something they had been considering since they bought it in the 1990s. The Holtons also own a house near the beach as well as a pasture adjacent to the preserved land.
Together, the three generations of the family compared the development opportunities to the conservation values and decided to donate the conservation easement, said Joe Holton, 83.
"The decision was unanimous," Holton said. "We didn't want to see a high-density residential development there. We wanted to leave a legacy into the future, for our family and for the community."
Jeff Wheeler, manager of the Cama Beach State Park said he is pleased with the donation and the buffer it provides for the park.
"I've known Joe and Cathy for years and have found them to be wonderful people and great volunteers. With the thoughtful actions of people like Cathy and Joe, this island is a great place for people and the environment to co-exist," Wheeler said. "(The Holton property) preserves an animal corridor between the two state parks."
With the donation of the conservation easement, the Holton's property doesn't become a public park. It remains in private hands. However, the benefits to the community are numerous, Guss said.
"It's a significant gift to the larger good, in terms of water sources, wildlife and clean air," she said.
A public trail that connects Cama Beach and Camano Island Island State Park runs along the east side of the Holton property. On the other side, the property has views of Saratoga Passage.
The 30 acres includes a peat bog, a 10-acre wetland, an upland mature forest that is home to trees estimated to be more than 250 years old.
"My parents didn't want to see any wildlife move away from here," Reeves said on Monday as he walked through the property on a deer trail.
The trees on the property include big-leaf maple, vine maple, Western red cedar, Douglas fir, hemlock, madrona and grand fir. The land is covered with sword fern, native nettle, salmonberries and elderberry.
Along with deer, the land is home to other animals and many species of birds.
"We have even seen red-legged frogs, which are not common here, so that's a good sign that the forest is healthy," Reeves said. "We have few invasive species here."
Reeves said trees on the Holton property tell a story.
One can see evidence of a fire that raged across the island in the 1920s along with stumps that are reminders of the logging that took place there in the late 1890s and early 1900s.
"It's a great example of the regeneration of a forest," he said.
In his job, Reeves, 52, said he often has real estate clients who aim to pave paradise.
"We want to inspire others to make gifts of conservation easements, which can sometimes mean tax advantages for people," he said. "Land is a precious resource. It's about preserving it for future generations.
"I want my son's son to come here."
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About a year ago we started this feature to remind you of things to consider for your apiary this time of year. You'd think (and we had hoped) that we could just run last August's article again, but golly, there's so much to learn and think about, so it wasn't that easy. Plus, you wonderful Read more >


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Two female teachers took a group of students from grades 1, 2 and 3 for
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children to the 'bathroom', it was decided that the girls would go with one
teacher and the boys would go with the other.
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Duct tape fun in Avon this weekend
(Lorain County) - An annual Father's Day weekend tradition, the Duct Tape Festival in Avon is underway.
This is the 10th anniversary of the festival and will feature a fashion show. Event goers are encouraged to show up to the festival wearing an outfit made out of duct tape.
Two winners will receive four suite seats to the Justin Beiber concert in Cleveland, July 13th. Project Runway Season 11 star Michelle Lesniak Franklin will be a celebrity guest judge.
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