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Kate Upton celebrated her Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover Tuesday night in New York. And from her teeny bikini to her buxom chest, she's stirring up chatter.
A Victoria's Secret spokeswoman says she "would never" put the 19-year-old Internet-made model on its runway.
Why? Her look is "too obvious," Sophia Neophitou, who casts the shows, told the New York Times. Upton's measurements: 36-25-34. "She's like a footballer's wife, with the too-blond hair and that kind of face that anyone with enough money can go out and buy."
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I waited until Mary closed her eyes, and didn't open them again. Tears had begun to walk down her cheeks, but they stopped as well. There wasn't the rise and fall of her chest anymore.
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South Beach Wine & Food Festival: Five Events Under $151
As wementioned last week
, tickets to the2011 South Beach Wine and Food Festival
go on sale on October 25. But with so many high-priced tickets, how do you choose where to spend your dollars? Here are five events that sound promising and will set you back at most $150 - which is not bad for a festival where the most prized tickets are upwards of $200.
Oh, yes, if you're an American Express cardholder you can already buy tickets on the festival website.
Dim Sum and Disco
This event debuted last year and Lee Klein deemed it his favorite event of the festival. It returns this year at the same place (The Setai) with the same host, Ming Tsai, who will prepare lots of dim sum with local chefs Richard Hales of Sakaya Kitchen, Gregory Yu of Tropical Chinese, and Keyvan Behnam of China Grill, as well as Joe Ng of New York's Red Farm.
When: Friday, February 25, 11:00 pm - 2 am
Where: The Setai
Price: $150
Michael's Genuine Food & Drink Brunch at Sea with Jonathan Waxman
There's no denying that brunch at Michael's Genuine is one of the city's best Sunday morning treats. For this festival event, chef Michael Schwartz and pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith take their act to sea aboard The Biscayne Lady. And they're bringing chef Jonathan Waxman of New York's Barbuto along. What's not to like about brunch on the water on a Miami winter day?
When: Sunday, February 27, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Where: Biscayne Lady
Price: $125
Taste Wine Like a Master Sommelier
Some may not realize it but aside from the glitzy parties and high-priced dinners, the festival has a series of educational seminars. For wine enthusiasts who want to show off their wine smarts, master sommeliers share their techniques and take participants through a double blind wine tasting.
When: Sunday, February 27, 11 am - 12:30 pm
Where: Gansevoort South Beach
Price: $100
Barilla Interactive Lunch with Bryan and Michael Voltaggio
If cooking along isn't your thing, skip this. But if you have no problem sharing a table with strangers and trusting them - and yourself - to cook the dishes that chefs on stage are preparing, this is a fun event. Leading the cooking this year is Top Chef season seven winner Michael Voltaggio, and his brother Bryan, also a Top Chef contestant and runner-up. Just hope that they get experimental.
When: Saturday, February 26, Noon - 2:30 pm
Where: The Biltmore Hotel
Price: $150
Shine & Swine
Not many details have been released yet but it's a party, at the swanky W hotel, and there's swine involved. Sounds good to us.
When: Thursday, February 24, 11 pm - 2 am
Where: The W Hotel
Price: $100
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Lawyers for Oro Valley have issued a response to a lawsuit that alleges town employees denied a plaintiff his due process rights in a building renovation application.
In their response, dated July 23, Oro Valley's lawyers asked for dismissal of the charges.
The plaintiff, Reflections at the Buttes owner John Fazio, claimed town building safety employees needlessly withheld his application for a certificate of occupancy at the business that serves as a reception hall, church and a home.
Fazio claimed that Oro Valley officials have harbored a grudge against him for an earlier judgment he won against the town.
He also accused one employee of hiding and altering a document that was part of an application for building renovations.
Town Attorney Tobin Rosen denied the allegation.
The town's lawyers asked that the judge throw out the case on grounds that Fazio waited too long to file a claim against the town.
They claim that Fazio was first denied a certificate of occupancy for Reflections at the Buttes in 2001, but that he didn't file suit against the town for seven years.
State law says that actions against a public entity or employees should be brought within a year after the alleged injury occurs.
Attorneys also asked that the case be dismissed because Fazio and his lawyers did not provide sufficient facts to prove their claim that the town violated due process.
"Even if the town's decision was wrong, this does not equate to a federal violation of substantive due process," town lawyers wrote in their reply to Fazio's claims.
Fazio's attorneys requested the judge grant them time to issue a reply to the town's filing.
Rosen did not want to comment further on the lawsuit except to say that the case has always been about Fazio's failure to comply with building safety codes, not a vendetta against him.


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Political Scientists Move Meeting Out of Uganda
The American Political Science Association announced Friday that it will move its summer workshop for African scholars from Uganda to a yet-to-be-determined location elsewhere in Africa. The association planned the meeting well before the current debate there about legislation that would impose severe penalties -- including execution in some cases -- for gay acts. A statement issued by the association noted that "legal hostility" toward gay people is a problem in almost all African nations. But Uganda poses "unique" problems, the association said, in part because of the breadth of the proposed legislation, which covers some thought as well as behavior, the statement said. The association has been studying the issue and hoping that the legislation would be withdrawn or defeated, but at this point, plans need to be made, so the APSA decided to move the meeting. "We cannot commit today to send staff and scholars to work in Uganda safely on topics that include the study of sexual identity in politics, and we of course must not remove these topics from our agenda for the workshops," the statement said.
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A month or two ago I was just starting to tell my friends that FFXIV was shaping up. With the info about Ver2.0 with release dates, I started telling friends they should consider returning at that time.
"They are really making sweeping changes. Battle is fun, targeting is fixed. New content is here with more and more on the horizon. The materia system is cool!"
Good stuff.
But then, the PL'ing debaucle.
It seems this game is going in the direction of, "Who the **** cares about leveling. Let's skip through to the end-game so we can spam the two end-game dungeons for a month and then get bored and quit."
I played that game before, it was called Kingdom Under Fire and it blew goat nuts. You have fun for a week or so. Then you get in a party with experienced players, level up to max in a day, go fight the end boss the next day, and then you are done. Game over.
This game does not have enough end game content to support this mentality. It never will. As we all know, hardcore players can clear new content faster then it can be created. Even if the success conditions are frustratingly random and the drop rates for loot is excruitiatingly low.
The only way to overcome this is to provide incentives for players to enjoy a variety of the content - with new players preferrably. It's not like leveling up was exactly satisfying. I'm quite glad that Leves are a thing of the past. Although some new Leves with some variety would have been nice. The most fun I've had are in the EXP parties, but after your third or fourth class leveling through Raptors you notice that there's not a lot of depth there.
It's like this game has fast forwarded to the end-end-game where everone is bored of everything and they haven't even started charging yet! They are going to make the same mistake as last time, premature action.
Predict: Game will take a massive hit to population at subscriptions and failure will ensue.
Remeber all the polls about who is staying and who is leaving? Well let's take a repoll now that the majority of the population has fast-tracked their way to every meaningful goal. You have a 50 in every class you wanted right? Just PL up to 40 and then Spiritbind Party to 50. 2-3 days tops. Lame.
So what do I tell my friends about FFXIV now?
"Well, I'm afraid it's turned into one of those games where you PL to the end and then complete the final dungeon and quit." They nod knowingly. We have all played that game before. You may be willing to play that game for free, but you certainly don't pay for it.
My hopes for the future are sputtering out yet again.
EDIT: My old signature. Leaving it here. I am curious if there will be changes to PL'ing when the party search is implemented.
Yoshida: ...I believe that the Market and the party formation system are the next big issue so we are planning to use FFXI's system as a reference and make an adjustment as soon as possible.
Yoshida: Improving the linkshell system is our highest priority task after the party search function, so we plan on doing so in patch 1.21. However, it involves a very complex script (which is why we haven't been able to make improvements yet) so we appreciate your continued patience in the matter!
Yoshida: Improving the linkshell system is our highest priority task after the party search function, so we plan on doing so in patch 1.21. However, it involves a very complex script (which is why we haven't been able to make improvements yet) so we appreciate your continued patience in the matter!
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Kubera Venture Capital Group Announces New Residential Community in Nosara, Costa Rica
Hoboken, NJ (PRWEB) July 26, 2006
Kubera Venture Capital Group, LLC, a privately held real estate investment and development firm, today announced it has broken ground on a new 100-unit residential community, Jade Azul, in the popular beach town of Nosara, Costa Rica. Jade Azul will be a 27-acre gated community, offering residents a secluded lifestyle in a biologically diverse setting.
Kubera Venture Capital Group will build approximately 20 single-family villas and 80 condominiums on the site. The first phase of 10 villa units is now under construction and available for pre-sale. Each unit will feature unique Balinese-inspired architecture with floor-to-ceiling windows, vaulted ceilings, sunken bathtubs, expansive outdoor terraces with jungle and mountain views, along with satellite television and high-speed internet access. There will also be a commercial center conveniently located on-site, with shops and restaurants for Jade Azul residents.
There are two available floor plans (a 1-story model and a 2-story model), both with 2-bedrooms and 2-baths (the 2-story has an additional powder room). Each of the 20 villas will offer 1,000 square feet of indoor living space on a private ¼ acre lot. They will also feature up to an additional 500 square feet of outdoor terraces, allowing homeowners to fully immerse themselves in the tropical surroundings. Pre-construction pricing starts at $ 150,000 for 1-story villas and $ 165,000 for 2-story villas. Optional upgrades, such as swimming pools, kitchen and landscaping packages, and furnishings are available at additional cost.
Mr. Kush Wadhwa, Managing Partner of Kubera Venture Capital Group, stated, "We are very excited about the groundbreaking of the Jade Azul development. Nosara continues to be an extraordinary place to vacation and to live, offering something for both the restful traveler and adventure seeker alike. We are thrilled to be able to offer a development with such luxury at what is obviously a very attractive price point."
The second phase, the Condominiums at Jade Azul are expected to be released for pre-sale in early 2007, with architectural features similar to the villas. The condominiums will be built on the higher elevations of the property, and will offer 1,200-1,500 square feet of indoor living space, along with expansive outdoor terraces. The majority of these units will have 180-degree ocean views. The villas and condominiums will be built with ecological integrity; a full 50% of the property will be reserved as "green space" to maintain the jungle habitat. Low-impact walking and hiking trails will be added for residents to experience the wildlife and tropical environment.
About Nosara
Nosara is a small Pacific coastal town located in the Guanacaste province in Northwestern Costa Rica. The town is famed for its world-class surfing and sport-fishing, and offers a myriad of other eco-tourism related activities. It boasts a large American population, dubbed the "Proyecto Americano," and has long been a home for privacy-seeking celebrities and wealthy Americans. Tucked away in the jungle, Nosara is accessible either by air (a 40-minute flight from the Juan Santamaria International Airport in San Jose, Costa Rica's capital city) or car (a 2-hour drive from the Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia).
About Kubera Venture Capital Group:
Kubera Venture Capital Group is a US-based real estate investment firm focused on international residential vacation and second-home development. The principals have a collective 20 years of experience, including turn-key construction, new construction, land development, multifamily renovation, and condo conversions. Over the past ten years, they have completed many successful projects in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Central America.
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Hoboken, NJ (PRWEB) January 5, 2007
Kubera Venture Capital Group, LLC, a privately held real estate investment and development firm, today announced the release of the Master Plan for its 110-unit gated residential community, Jade Azul, in Nosara, Costa Rica. Offering residents an ecologically-rich lifestyle, the Balinese-inspired community will have a mix of single-family villas, ocean-view condominiums, and commercial amenities. To celebrate this first milestone of 2007, Kubera is offering a unique, limited-time promotion to Jade Azul buyers. Details of the promotion can be found on the Jade Azul website, www.jadeazul.com.
The Master Plan, available on the community's website, www.jadeazul.com, outlines the proposed layout of the community's 25 villas, 85 condominiums, and amenities. The villas and condominiums will be built with the intent of preserving the natural habitat; approximately 50% of the property will be reserved as "green space," with low-impact walking and hiking trails for residents to enjoy the tropical wildlife and environment.
With the first phase of villa construction nearing completion, prospective buyers visiting Nosara will soon be able to see all the features offered by the unique Balinese-inspired design aesthetic. The 1-story and 2-story villa models both feature 2 bedrooms and 2 baths (with an additional powder room in the 2-story model), and provide 1,000 square feet of indoor living space, along with large outdoor ceramic tile and teak terraces and optional upgrades such as swimming pools and landscaping packages.
In addition, the properties can be purchased with basic or upgraded furnishing and accessory packages, and as the build-out continues and residents begin to move into their new homes, a broad range of amenities are being added and planned, including outdoor spas and meditation areas, high-speed Internet access, shuttles to local beaches, maid service, pool cleaning, and local bill paying services. Pre-construction pricing for the jungle- and mountain-view villas ranges from $ 180,000-$ 225,000 for 1-story villas and $ 195,000-$ 240,000 for 2-story villas, with actual prices dependent upon lot sizes. Pre-construction condominium pre-sales are expected to begin in early 2007 for delivery in early- to mid- 2008, with pricing starting in the high $ 200s. The condominiums will feature expansive 180-degree ocean views and will incorporate many of the Balinese-inspired architectural details featured in the villa homes.
Mr. Kush Wadhwa, Partner of Kubera Venture Capital Group, stated, "We are extremely pleased to announce the release of the Master Plan for Jade Azul. This will enable our buyers to more fully appreciate the vision for the overall community, as well as the amenities that will be built into the environment to make Jade Azul a world-class destination. We are working aggressively on the next phase of construction and look forward to delivering high-quality, beautiful, and exotic homes to our discriminating buyers."
About Nosara
Nosara is a small Pacific coastal town located in the Guanacaste province in Northwestern Costa Rica. The town is famed for its world-class surfing and sport-fishing, and offers a myriad of other eco-tourism related activities. It boasts a large American population, dubbed the "Proyecto Americano," and has long been a home for privacy-seeking celebrities and wealthy Americans. Tucked away in the jungle, Nosara is accessible either by air (a 40-minute flight from the Juan Santamaria International Airport in San Jose, Costa Rica's capital city) or car (a 2-hour drive from the Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia).
About Kubera Venture Capital Group:
Kubera Venture Capital Group is a US-based real estate investment firm focused on international residential vacation and second-home development. The principals have a collective 20 years of experience, including turn-key construction, new construction, land development, multifamily renovation, and condo conversions. Over the past ten years, they have completed many successful projects in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Central America.
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If you are looking for the hustle bustle of a big city with pollution, crime and more buildings than people, Nosara Costa Rica is not the place for you. This is a town that is in many ways unaffected by so much of the modern problems of life. Things there are simpler and purer, like taking a step back in time in many ways. Topping that off is the fact that there is plenty of ocean coastline to enjoy with six beautiful beaches and unlike many beautiful ocean areas they are not covered in homes and businesses.
Ostional Wildlife Refuge Keep Beaches Protected
The obvious lack of development on most of the beaches of Nosara, Costa Rica is due to the Ostional Wildlife Refuge that covers a large part of this prime oceanfront property and is designated to protect the Olive Ridley marine turtles that nest there. This property is safe from builders, at least momentarily while these marine turtles are an endangered species.
Untouched Beaches
It is almost hard to believe there is still an unspoiled beach with a dramatic view of the ocean and so much wildlife left here to enjoy. In fact, the Nosara beaches received an award from the Costa Rican government for their commitment to preserving wildlife and taking care of the environment. The Nosara Civic department is absolutely dedicated to their preservation efforts and has been extremely conservative in their development, landing them the honor of being one of the most eco-friendly communities in the world.
There's No Place like Home
There's no place like home, especially once you have found a special place like Nosara Costa Rica to live in. Life moves at a slower pace and people still care about each other is this little ocean town. Fishing and farming are ways of life and there are very few small businesses in town.
Roughing It
Not all hotels have air conditioning or even hot water. You could almost consider Nosara as the "outback" of Costa Rica and you can make quite an adventure out of a visit here. There are snakes, scorpions, wasps and spiders, but they aren't all that threatening and don't usually seem to cause much concern. The few minor inconveniences are more than made up for by the unspoiled natural beauty of the beaches in the area and the pleasant warmth of the people that live here.
If you ever have the chance to visit Costa Rica you will want to take the time to visit Nosara. There are few places left on earth that are still so naturally beautiful and so unspoiled.
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Question by Virginia P: nosara costa rica? pacific ocean coast costa rica?
i am spending tomorrow night in tamarindo then the next 3 or 4 days in nosara, besides the beach, is there anything really interesting or worth checking out while there? i need time away from my family at certain points just to get a break, know of anything?
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Well, I have to say sorry about your luck that you ended up in that region for vacation. Unfortunately you will not find that much of anything to do there, as the Tamarindo and Nosara areas are very boring indeed. Other than decent beaches, the nightlife scene is nothing worthy of mention, and as I am sure you have already experienced, it gets pretty lame, pretty quick in the Guanacaste region.
The best place to visit in Costa Rica for an overall better time and experience is the Manuel Antonio or Jaco Beach areas. There you will find a much better variety of things to see and do, and plenty of nightlife as well.
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Question by ela: Which is the best way to get Nosara beach? What is the best transport to get there?
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One of the many enjoyable activities available in Nosara, Costa Rica is sport fishing in the Pacific Ocean. There are many popular varieties of fish that are commonly caught off the shores of Nosara, Costa Rica including Yellowfin Tuna, Black and Blue Marlin, Red Snapper, Sailfish and Dorado aka Mahi Mahi. If you enjoy a fine dining experience with your catch, there is no better place to fish than off the shores of Nosara, Costa Rica. These are the fish that are usually served in the most exclusive restaurants and nothing tastes better than cooking your own freshly caught gourmet verities.
A Rental or a Charter
You may want to simply rent a small boat and head out on your own fishing trip or you might prefer to hire a qualified guide to take you out on a chartered boat to where the best fishing is known to be found. A qualified charter guide will help you make the most of your experience and avoid the pitfalls that an inexperienced person might make fishing for their first time in the ocean waters of Nosara. Understanding things like, not only where the best fishing is, but also how currents and the weather affect the fish is another big advantage to hiring a guided charter.
Using the Right Equipment
Of course, using the right fishing gear for your ocean trip is vital. You will want to have plenty of sunscreen and a good pair (or two) of sunglasses on board to protect yourself. Next, you need the right fishing poles and bait. You need special deep sea fishing gear that will include a heavier weight fishing line that won't break while you reel in your prize winning marlin. Don't worry if you can't get all your fishing gear on the plane with you since there are plenty of little places to rent equipment in town.
A Fishing Vacation
Traveling to Nosara, Costa Rica specifically for a fishing vacation is a great way to escape the everyday pressures of life and truly enjoy some good fishing in a peaceful environment. The views out on the ocean are fantastic since Nosara, Costa Rica is so underdeveloped at this time. It is likely to stay that way for quite some time due to the Ostional Wildlife Refuge that was created to protect the large numbers of olive ridley turtles that nest there. This is also a great place to really stop and appreciate nature in its intended format. The next time you are planning a fishing vacation, you should really consider Nosara, Costa Rica.
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Plenty of vacationers these days prefer rentals like nosara vacation rental to a typical hotel. It is certainly interesting to know why people do so. Apart from value for money, vacation rentals probably offer something intangible that hotels do not.
About Vacation Rental
Simply put, vacation rental refers to renting out a furnished house or an apartment for travelers who are out on a vacation for a short duration. Here is an important point to remember though. A vacation rental is not to be confused with timeshare. Timeshares are ownership properties, usually resort condominiums where multiple parties have rights to use the property. Then again, a timeshare owner can rent out his allotted duration as vacation rental.
What Makes Vacation Rentals Click
People find furnished accommodations like nosara vacation rental offering great value for money. You have more room, more amenities and an ambience that beats anything that even the best hotels offer. In fact, vacation rentals have always been very popular in Europe and now people in the US seem to have caught fancy too. Tourists have fully equipped kitchens that allow them to cook their own meals, a great facility that saves money as compared to expensive restaurants. In addition, vacation rentals provide larger living spaces allowing tourists to travel in groups thus saving on lodging costs. However, you have some cons too. Vacation rentals are self-service accommodations. Unlike in hotels, you have no room service, no daily room cleaning service and no caretakers. Yet the benefits outweigh the trade offs. If you have a look at what nosara vacation rental offers you will understand why. For example, Nosara Vacation Rentals can offer you a large bedroom with a king-sized bed, a large living room, more than one bathroom, a well-equipped kitchen, a washer cum drier and an outdoor portico with a garden — all your own. Compare these amenities with what even a good hotel offers. You do have a bedroom, but only with a mini-kitchen equipped with just a refrigerator and a coffee maker. You also have a television and access to the hotel's swimming pool and fitness center. Just contrast the prices. For a fixed duration, the cost per head in a vacation rental can very well be one third of what a hotel charges. It could be even less. Again, cost is not the only factor. Vacation rentals offer certain intangible benefits. You have more space, more privacy, convenient locations and more comforts that defy valuations. The choices for today's traveler are enormous. You have vacation rentals suiting all budgets. From studio apartments to large expensive villas at exotic locations, the choices are just numerous.
The growth in vacation rentals has been phenomenal. Consumers have now become choosy and they know what to look for. With the needs of travelers diversifying, vacation rental business is maturing too. A close look at nosara vacation rental will show how villa rentals have worked hard to satisfy the discerning traveler. Whether you are travelling in groups, as a family or with a partner, self-catering rentals like costa rica nosara vacation rental are here to stay. The likes of Nosara vacation rental have created a niche that will keep on evolving to provide better quality stays and better value for money for the traveler who is looking for something different from the staid run of the mill hotel.
Nosara, Costa Rica with three air-conditioned bedrooms, a large kitchen, and a seven-foot eat-in island and a private pool is an ideal vacation rental amidst acres of jungles. To know more about a Nosara vacation rental visit the given link
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Question by Poisonivy94894: What is the name of the forest surrounding Nosara and Nicoya in Costa Rica?
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Cabo Blanco Nature Reserve is at the extreme southern tip of the Nicoya Peninsula. Theres more i think go here http://www.nicoyapeninsula.com/
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Nosara, Costa Rica has long been considered a top surfing destination among surfing enthusiasts. The beaches are extremely clean and almost never crowded which adds to the ideal surfing climate, along with the great waves, of course. In fact, the breaks here; from point breaks to lefts, rights and peaks are unparalleled in all the world. It is really a kind of surfer's paradise in the middle of paradise, itself. The relaxed lifestyle, stable economy and low cost of living are enticing many people to make Nosara, Costa Rica their home.
Where to Surf?
Playa Guiones is probably the ideal surfing destination in Nosara, Costa Rica. You may get even better waves at Playa Ostional, but the sharp rock formations, heavy shark population due to the large numbers of turtles that nest there and blistering hot black sand beaches make it less than hospitable for surfers. Guiones is ideal with its pink sandy beaches and multiple peaks both left and right and ideal beach breaks. Travelling to the hottest surfing locations in Nosara is no easy feat since there are very few paved roads, but according to surfing aficionados, it is well worth it even if you have to walk a certain distance to get there.
When to Surf?
Nosara, Costa Rica has an exceptionally long surf season from October to May with the most ideal surfing happening between December and April each year. This allows for a great deal of flexibility if you are looking to plan the ideal surfing vacation. The best time of day to surf in Nosara, Costa Rica is just like in California-in the morning. If you are serious about your surfing, you will want to forego overdoing the wild nightlife and get to bed at a decent hour so you can get up early enough to catch the early morning waves at Guiones.
Planning a Trip to Nosara
You will need to check with the airlines about getting to Costa Rica. Be sure to check with the airlines regarding their policies for carrying your board. From there you will have to rent a car to drive to Nosara. Keep in mind that few roads are paved and it will be a rough ride. Make sure you bring your own soft racks and straps because rental cars in Costa Rica aren't usually equipped with them. Surfing in Nosara, Costa Rica is the trip of a lifetime for anyone who is serious about surfing.
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There are numerous various companies that can aid you locate a vacation rental in Nosara; nonetheless, there are numerous basic suggestions you ought to adhere to when it arrives to locating a vacation house rental in Nosara. For instance, you really should contemplate the time of yr you will be vacationing in. It is fully possibly that a vacation rental in Nosara might be inclined to supply discounted charges for the duration of the reduced season when there will not be several vacationers all-around. Most management firms will supply these discounts in the early portion of the spring season.
When it comes to the expense of your vacation rental in Nosara, its location will impact its all round cost. Units that are situated on or closer to the seashore will have a tendency to be a lot more pricey; even so, since Nosara is a little neighborhood, a more centrally located home will only be a couple of moments walk from the seaside. The number of amenities that a vacation house rental Nosara has will also impact its general price. If you are arranging on investing all of your time at the seaside, then it may well not be essential for you to rent a home that has a pool.
The up coming step to obtaining the appropriate vacation property rental Nosara is to be mindful of who and what you will be traveling with. If you are traveling with good friends or youngsters, you will want to make certain that your accommodations are big adequate for all of you to comfortably rest in. Moreover, there are some rentals that do not let pets, so you must be careful to verify the guidelines and regulations. Regardless of whether you check out the area in the winter or the summer, it is an absolute assure that you will get pleasure from your stay in your vacation rental in Nosara.
If you are searching to lease vacation home Nosara, then you will come across a plethora of various properties to opt for from. The common vacation rental in Nosara functions 3 bedrooms, an outside pool, and out of doors consuming places. Most homes are rented by the week, and they are offered for rental 12 months round. Due to its undeveloped allure, the vacation rental in Nosara you choose will most likely be surrounded by untamed jungle on a single or far more sides of the house. Google Maps can frequently allow you to obtain satellite views of the property or home you are interested in.
In addition to surfing, there are quite a few other activities to appreciate when you rent vacation home Nosara. The open air marketplace of Nosara is well-known amongst vacationers, and the Gilded Iguana and the Cafe de Paris are also well-liked spots with vacationers and locals alike, as is the Nosara Yoga Institute. Whilst in town, you may possibly also want to go to Coconut Harry's Surf Store, which gives all of the gear and equipment, for sale or rent, that you will need to make the most of the seaside. Take a break from your hectic every day life, and take pleasure in the laidback, soothing ambiance with a vacation rental in Nosara nowadays.
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Question by Bird Lover: What are the dangerous animals/insects in Nosara Costa Rica?
I'm going to Nosara in January or February with my family and i'm a little bit paranoid of animals and insects because I have never really had to worry about them where I live so if you could tell me a list of dangers such as…sharks,spiders,snakes etc. thanks!
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Answer by Fritz
I've lived fulltime in Nosara for 3 years and was bit by a scorpion once, it was like a beesting. There can be stingrays in the water, shuffle your feet so you don't step on one. It's very unlikely that you'll see a snake, especially that time of year.
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Geoscience students from the University of Utah took the top prize in this year's AAPG/AAPG Foundation Imperial Barrel Award competition, beating out 10 other teams from geoscience departments from around the world.
The finals were held in Pittsburgh right before the start of the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition – and for the second year, the awards ceremony itself was held immediately before the convention's opening session.
That session, emceed by IBA co-chairs David Cook and Chuck Caughey, and featuring swirling lights, rollicking music and a celebratory atmosphere, attracted a crowd estimated at more than 500.
Members of the winning Utah team are AAPG members Mason Edwards, Morgan Rosenberg, Tyler Szwarc and Alexandre Turner, plus Marko Gorenc.
The winning team, representing the Rocky Mountain Section, received the actual 2013 Imperial Barrel Award, individual medals and a $20,000 prize for their school's geoscience department.
Finishing second (Selley Cup winners) was the team from the University of Oklahoma, representing the Mid-Continent Section, which earned individual medals and $10,000 in scholarship funds for the department.
Finishing third (Stoneley Medal winners) was the team from Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, representing the Middle East Region, which earned individual medals and $5,000 in scholarship funds for their department.
The remaining eight finalists, all winners in Region or Section competitions, each earned $1,000 in scholarship funds for their schools plus individual medals for themselves as IBA finals participants.
The final teams were (in alphabetical order):
The IBA program gives teams of students the chance to evaluate the petroleum potential of a sedimentary basin and to test their creative geological interpretations. Their work must be completed in a six-to-eight week period, with results presented to – and judged by – an independent panel of petroleum industry experts.
A total of 107 teams from 30 countries, involving at least 535 students, competed in this year's IBA program.
Past IBA winners were teams from:
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Skip to comments.Bricks, pipes thrown from occupied SF building
Posted on 05/01/2012 10:16:56 PM PDT by SmithL
Hundreds of protesters took over a vacant building on Turk Street owned by the Archdiocese of San Francisco on Tuesday. One climbed to the roof, threw a brick and struck a man with a video camera standing in the swarm of police and demonstrators below.
Police arrested Jesse Nesbitt, 34, of San Francisco on felony charges of aggravated assault after he ran out the back of the two-story building at 888 Turk St. But they didn't find another man who hurled metal pipes into from an adjacent rooftop.
The Occupy activists had marched from Market Street to the Western Addition on Tuesday afternoon, cutting through a chain link fence and surging into the church's building at the corner of Turk and Gough streets.
Police Chief Greg Suhr said they appeared to be the same group - dressed in black and wearing masks - that had rampaged through the city's Mission District on Monday night smashing windows. "As far as I'm concerned, they're a gang of anarchists, the same as last night," Suhr said.
As evening fell, police estimated that about 200 protesters remained holed up in the building, while dozens outside faced off with police in riot gear, shouting, "Pigs go home!"
Frustrated church officials said that Occupy protesters had already caused $25,000 in damage when they took over the building last month and smashed doors and dry wall.
"We are not the 1 percent. I don't get it," said George Wesolek, spokesman for the archdiocese. "I think it's an indication of how confused the Occupy movement has become in terms of its goals and its focus."
Last month, police let occupiers remain in the building overnight. On Tuesday, officers also let protesters enter the building and kept watch. After the brick- and pipe-throwing, hundreds of police gathered...
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Last month, police let occupiers remain in the building overnight. On Tuesday, officers also let protesters enter the building and kept watch.That will learn `em!
Just shoot them.
You watch with Zimmerman getting his get out of jail card on May 8 and the OWS amping it up on the 10th this could be a bloody month.
Locked and loaded but hoping I can get out of town before any of this goes down.
Ever been on Turk St, not somewhere you want to be in daylight, and they are still there. What does that tell you? Fags all of them
So it would be ok if they were perceived as the 1% ??? I'm guessing the "victims" all voted for Nancy "bless their hearts" Pelosi - who expressed so much fondness for the thugs.
Getting hit with a video camera's got to hurt.
This country is going to absolute sh*t.
The left must be dealt with.
as long as they destroy SF and not SD, what do I care
as long as they destroy SF and not SD, what do I care
I think Dirty Harry needs to come out of retirement;)
Because they shouldn't be allowed to destroy anything at all, and the fact that they are being allowed to is rather telling.
The left encompasses more than these uselful idiots.
They are being directed from elsewhere.
Go Ahead.....
Make My Day...
I've been to both SF and SD, and I love different aspects of each, but I have to say that SF is a more beautiful locale, if not pleasantly tropical as SD.
If only SF could be flushed, it'd beat SD hands down.
How about getting struck with a brick? One climbed to the roof, threw a brick and struck a man with a video camera
looks like attempted murder to be. at the very least reckless endangerment
each one of the items tossed from the building probably have prints on them
collect all the prints and start making arrests
Sounds like its about time to wall up all the exits and let them keep the building.
Chickenshit cops not doing their jobs.
Exactly. Talk about accepting the premise. If his statement really reflects his thinking, then he deserves to have his church smashed.
I've been a soldier, a National Guardsman, and a State Guard member. I've had riot control training and been through five riots, at least.
Folks have asked, "Would American Troops fire on American citizens?" Tossing a brick or iron pipe off a rooftop is the kind of behavior that would make me say 'yes, I would!'
These people are mentally ill and/or emotionally underdeveloped and maladjusted.
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TheShipsList-L ArchivesArchiver > TheShipsList > 2001-01 > 0978902069
From: Sue Swiggum< >
Subject: Re: [TSL] Cunard Line
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 17:14:29 -0400
At 12:43 PM 2001-01-07 -0800, Jan Griggs wrote:
>My relative, Jørgen Hage, left Kristiansand Harbour, was number 593, in
year 1903, Mars 20. Birth year was 1878, lived in Mandal and left Norway
heading to New York. Can anyone help me with his arrival date and
destination please? Also, would be interested to know if it was the
Carpathia vessel from the Cunard line. The paperwork from Digitalarkivet:
Emigrants from Kristiansand 1873-1903 does not identify the vessel.. only
the line, which is the Cunard Line.
Hi Jan,
The way to estimate a North American arrival date for Norwegians from
Christiania and Christiandsand is to add two weeks +/- to their departure
date. In your case, Jørgen would have departed on the Wilson Line
MONTEBELLO as that was the "feeder ship" which departed Christiania and
Christiandsand March 20th 1903, bound to Hull, England
Solem, Swiggum & Austheim - Emigration from Norway - SS&A
>From Hull, he would have taken the train to Liverpool to embark on the
Cunard line ship. I don't have the Liverpool departure date, but .. the
UMBRIA looks like it has to be the ship .. UMBRIA arrived at New York, NY
Yes, Carpathia was a Cunard Line ship. Her maiden voyage was
Liverpool-Boston departing Liverpool 1903-05-05 and arriving Boston 1905-05-14
I can't help with the US passenger list .. so, good luck!
Sue & Gery Swiggum
co-owners TheShipsList©
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Excessive, uncontrolled crying that persisted beyond three months of age was linked with behavioural problems and lower IQ at the age of five.
The US National Institutes of Health study, in Archives of Disease in Childhood, supports prior UK findings.
Experts said most crying was normal and parents should not be unduly concerned.
Cry baby
The NIH team, working with researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, looked at 327 babies and their parents.
They assessed the babies' crying patterns at six and 13 weeks of age and whether or not the crying could be explained by simple colic.
When the children were five years old, the researchers assessed their intelligence, motor abilities and behaviour.
The children who had continued to cry beyond three months of age as infants, which was not due to colic, had intelligence scores (IQs) nine points lower than the other children studied.
Prolonged crying was also linked with poorer fine motor abilities, hyperactivity and discipline problems in childhood.
In 2002, a team of UK researchers, led by Professor Dieter Wolke at Bristol University, found children who had cried excessively as babies, beyond three months, were 14 times more likely to develop attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and do worse at school as eight year olds.
Professor Wolke said: "This confirms what we found.
"Now there really is more certainty there is really something going on."
He believes the core of the problem is one of under-regulation.
"With ADHD you can't regulate your attention. You can't concentrate, for example. The same thing is happening with crying.
Picking up problems early
"With these babies, it may be that their brains are built in a way that they have problems regulating themselves. They don't learn to calm themselves down, even with the best parenting."
He pointed out that most crying in babies was completely normal, and that this excessive crying linked to later problems occurred in only about 2-5% of cases.
"But that's still quite a lot of children - between 14,000 and 35,000 children per year in Britain alone," he said.
He said it might now be possible to pick up ADHD as early as six months and intervene.
"These babies, because they are under-regulated, they need incredibly regular routines.
"Some babies you can take to noisy parties and they will sleep and won't cry. But these babies, any change to their routine and they can't cope.
"A very strict, regulated parenting pattern but which is warm and loving seems to reduce the amount of crying.
"What we really need now is a good randomised controlled trial on a large scale to look long term whether intervention has an effect."
Heather Welford from the National Childbirth Trust said: "This is very interesting...and if their findings are correct could affect one in 20 parents.
"Those parents must be having a very difficult time.
"It's very wearing to be looking after a baby who cries a lot, who is not giving you the positive feedback that you need as a parent to let you know that you can tune in to your baby and reassure them."
She said it might be that the crying hampered bonding between the parents and the baby and this contributed to the difficulties in later life.
"We know that a good close attachment between parents and babies is very important for intellectual and emotional development."
She emphasised that in most babies, crying was normal and stopped by about three months and that support was available for parents.


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By Mark Sherman And Pete Yost, Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court sided with business in two cases Wednesday that limit state lawsuits against medical device manufacturers and invalidate Maine's regulations of package delivery companies.
The court denied business groups a third victory, however, in ruling that retirement plan participants could sue to recover losses.
The two favorable outcomes for business relied on federal laws that the court said pre-empt state action.
Meir Feder, a New York appeals court specialist, says the decisions are part of a trend that generally has limited the ability of individuals to sue businesses.
"There is a lot of skepticism by the court about the benefit of allowing private civil lawsuits against companies and a lot of concern about the downsides of litigation -- deterring investment and raising costs," Feder said.
In an 8-1 decision, the court made it harder for consumers to sue makers of federally approved medical devices.
The case has significant implications for the $75 billion-a-year health care technology industry, whose products range from heart valves to toothbrushes. In a recent three-month span, federal regulators responded to over 100 safety problems regarding medical devices.
The justices ruled against the estate of a patient who suffered serious injuries when a catheter burst during a medical procedure.
At issue was whether the estate could use a state law to sue Medtronic Inc. of Fridley, Minn., over a device previously approved for sale by regulators.
Under federal law, a company must provide evidence of the safety and effectiveness of a medical device before the Food and Drug Administration will approve it for the marketplace.
State suits are barred to the extent they would impose requirements that are different from federal requirements, according to the opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in dissent, said Congress did not intend such drastic limits on state court suits.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said the decision strips consumers of rights they have had for decades. "We'll pass legislation as quickly as possible to fix this nonsensical situation," said Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Chicago lawyer Mark Herrmann, who defends drug and medical device companies in suits, sees the ruling as a favorable sign for the pharmaceutical industry in a pending Supreme Court case on a similar issue. In that case, drugmaker Wyeth contends it should not have been subjected to a suit because the company had FDA approval for the warning label that accompanied the drug.
The case the court ruled on Wednesday is Riegel v. Medtronic, 06-179.
The package delivery case could provide the impetus for the transportation industry to get out from under state laws regulating cigarette deliveries in the Internet age.
The court unanimously invalidated parts of a Maine law that bars Internet tobacco sales to minors.
The justices said the state cannot impose a regulatory scheme on transportation companies delivering tobacco products directly to consumers. The justices said federal transportation law prevents state-by-state regulation.
"Despite the importance of the public health objective, we cannot agree" with Maine's approach, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote. He said federal law "says nothing about a public health exception" enabling state regulation.
Federal law bars states from regulating prices, routes or services of shipping companies.
Thirty-one states besides Maine have cigarette delivery laws targeting the problem of underage smokers.
Maine's law requires delivery companies to intercept packages from unlicensed tobacco sellers and to verify the age of buyers. This requirement hits delivery companies with huge additional costs, the industry said.
Wednesday's ruling could enable the industry to argue that similar laws in other states are invalid. The decision could clear the way for companies to challenge an aggressive campaign by New York that led the industry's biggest players to stop shipping cigarettes directly to consumers from illegal Internet sellers.
The case is Rowe v. New Hampshire Motor Transport Association, 06-457.
Business groups were on the losing end of another unanimous ruling, allowing individual participants in the most common type of retirement plan to sue under a pension protection law to recover their losses.
The decision has implications for 50 million workers with $2.7 trillion invested in 401(k) retirement plans.
James LaRue of Southlake, Texas, said the value of his stock market holdings plunged $150,000 when administrators at his retirement plan failed to follow his instructions to switch to safer investments.
The issue in the LaRue case was whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act permits an individual account holder to sue plan administrators for breaching their fiduciary duties.
The language of the law refers to recovering money for the "plan" rather than for an individual, raising the question of whether a participant can sue solely for himself.
Business groups argued that ERISA is aimed at encouraging employers to set up pension plans, while guarding against administrative abuses involving the plan as a whole.
But Justice John Paul Stevens, in his opinion for the court, said such suits are allowed. "Fiduciary misconduct need not threaten the solvency of the entire plan to reduce benefits below the amount that participants would otherwise receive," Stevens said.
Jeff Russell, a trial lawyer who defends company sponsors of 401(k) plans, called the ruling "a return to the common sense notion that a participant can sue for mistakes made in the handling of their account."
Given the Bush administration's position in support of the right by plan participants to sue, the Supreme Court ruling was not a surprise, said Russell.
The case is LaRue v. DeWolff, 06-856.
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Colonel von Gilsa was a former Prussian officer who had been a major in the Schleswig-Holstein War of 1848-50. After immigrating to New York City, he had supported himself by lecturing, singing, and playing piano in music halls along the Bowery.
In view of his European service, Von Gilsa had been commissioned colonel of the 41st New York volunteer regiment before First Bull Run, where his regiment was in reserve and missed the fighting. His first combat experience on this continent came in the Shenandoah Campaign in the spring of 1862. There he was severely wounded at the climactic battle of Cross Keys on June 8. While convalescing, he missed the Battle of Second Bull Run in August. His brigade leader, Brig. Gen. Julius Stahel, was promoted to division command after the latter battle, so when von Gilsa returned to duty in September, he was put at the head of the brigade, which was by then part of the Eleventh Corps, in the Army of the Potomac. The entire corps was manning the defenses of Washington when the Battle of Antietam was being fought, and was also not present for the Battle of Fredericksburg, so von Gilsa had a long time to wait before his first test in combat as a brigade leader.
Then, in May 1863, came the disaster at Chancellorsville. Von Gilsa's men were at the extreme right flank of the entire Union army when Jackson's whole corps came crashing down on them, and after the panic that resulted, 265 men of the brigade never returned to the brigade's roster. The fault was not von Gilsa's--when he took news of Confederates massing on his flank to corps headquarters, he had been received with taunts--but it was with this humiliating rout fresh in his mind that he approached Gettysburg two months later.
Von Gilsa was notorious for his genius for profanity in his native German. As a witness put it, "When in difficult straits he was wont to be overcome by a lingual diarrhoea of sonorous expletives in the Bismarckian vernacular." Eleventh Corps chief Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard discovered the extent of von Gilsa's gift when to two crossed paths on the bitter retreat from Chancellorsville--when Howard characterisically reminded the German officer to depend on God, von Gilsa poured out a stream of oaths in German with such vehemence and in such profusion that Howard thought he had gone insane. The description of von Gilsa that Howard wrote later: "a German soldier, who at parades and drills makes a fine soldierly appearance"--begs the reader to understand that he considered von Gilsa ineffectual, a toy soldier.
Howard's appraisal was echoed by his new hand-picked division commander, the ferocious Brig. Gen. Francis Barlow. In particular, von Gilsa was not as strict a disciplinarian as his new superior would have liked. Barlow placed the Prussian colonel under arrest on the march north to Gettysburg for allowing more than one man at a time to leave the column to get water.
|At Gettysburg
| About 1:00 P.M. on July 1, as Barlow's division was trotting through
the streets of Gettysburg to take their places north of town, Barlow relented
and restored von Gilsa to command. The colonel's return was witnessed by a
Gettysburg resident:
Past our house came, running at the double quick, Howard's eleventh army corps. They kept the pace without breaking ranks; but they flowed through and out into the battlefield beyond, a human tide, at millrace speed. Far down the road, behind the passing regiments, a roar of cheers began. It rolled forward, faster than the running of the men who made it--like some high surge sweeping across the surface of a flowing sea. Its roar of cheering neared and neared, until we saw a group of officers coming at a brisk trot, with the mighty cheer always at their horses' heels. Among them rode one man in colonel's uniform who held his head high and smiled. He was an officer, a favorite with the soldiers, who had been under arrest until the eve of the battle. Now, released he was on his way into action, and the whole brigade that knew him was greeting him with the chorus of the lungs.
Pushed forward by Barlow to Blocher's (later called "Barlow's") Knoll soon after he had rejoined his men, von Gilsa found himself in a dangerous position, exposed on both flanks. While Doles's Georgians menaced his front, Gordon's Georgians swooped down on his right. Within minutes Von Gilsa's entire brigade was in full flight, back through the streets of Gettysburg. Von Gilsa had one horse shot from under him, but jumped onto another and desperately tried to stem the retreat. One soldier saw him ride "up and down that line through a regular storm of lead, meantime using the German epithets so common to him." An admiring Confederate soldier remembered, "Their officers were cheering their men on and behaving like heroes and commanders of the 'first water.'" The skedaddle did not end before it reached Cemetery Hill.
The next evening, July 2, von Gilsa's unfortunate brigade was again the target of a desperate Rebel attack. Now sited on the northeast face of Cemetery Hill, von Gilsa's men were yet again sent flying, this time by Hays's Louisianans. The Union batteries on the hill, supported by Carroll's brigade brought over from the Second Corps, eventually drove the Confederates back.
Having failed to hold his position three times in his two major battles, von Gilsa never fought another--Brig. Gen. George Gordon, who replaced the wounded Barlow, had the much-maligned division transferred to the coastal islands of South Carolina two weeks after Gettysburg, and von Gilsa reverted to the command of his old regiment. He held several posts in South Carolina and later in the Washington defenses. However, he was never promoted--von Gilsa began and ended the war as a colonel.


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A subsection, Parapinaster, is established for these exceptional species.
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I was in charge of my subsection at the guns and the men wanted water.
In this subsection Kant introduces the distinction between understanding and judgment which he has sought to justify in A 130 ff.
Editorial interjections, including section and subsection headings not in the original, are enclosed in brackets.
An order of a Magistrate under this subsection shall be final and conclusive.
Among the Soft Pines the external duct is invariable in the subsection Paracembra.
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Posted on May 5, 2013
In these audio excerpts from their extended conversation in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Chris Hedges asks Julian Assange about legal strategy and the WikiLeaks founder's thoughts on Pfc. Bradley Manning.
For much more, including an in-depth commentary by Hedges based on their conversation, an interactive timeline, resources and an original illustration by Mr. Fish, visit this related Dig.
Audio editing by Brittany Knotts. Transcript by Lucy Berbeo.
(Clip two appears on page two).
Clip 1: Chris Hedges talks with Julian Assange about his opponents' legal strategies.
Chris Hedges: So what do you, when you watch all these sort of, you know, all this movement, what do you think they're trying to do? How do they want to try and get you out of here?
Julian Assange: I think it's a mess. I don't think that they have—there's so many different parties with different interests. It's a mess. The U.K. wants it to go away, but doesn't want to lose prestige in relation to Ecuador. The situation in Sweden is getting so bad now that … Sweden will never offend the U.S. Neither country—neither the U.K. or Sweden will ever offend the U.S. But within that, the situation is so bad now in Sweden—
CH: What do you mean so bad?
JA: Politically, it's—the head of the Swedish Supreme Court came out and said that the case is a mess.
CH: Have you had any indication that the Americans have attempted to manipulate the case in Sweden?
JA: They don't need to. … We have some indications. The [then-U.S.] ambassador for the U.K., Louis Susman, said in the beginning of 2011 that they were waiting until after the Swedish case. The Independent [newspaper]—
CH: Waiting for what?
JA: What's the U.S. interest in this situation? It's up for my extradition. He didn't say that, but it's the obvious context.
Assange's assistant: So the U.S. ambassador to the U.K. said early—
Assange's assistant: … early 2011 that the U.S. was waiting to see what happened with the Swedish case.
Assange's attorney Michael Ratner: They wouldn't file at the same time, because then there'd be two competing extraditions—and so they would wait until—
CH: Oh, I see. OK, I got it.
JA: If not, there'd be one in the queue, and then the other one would come in, and then it would be the plight of the home secretary to make a decision, a reviewable court decision, a politically reviewable decision, to swap the precedent for these.
MR: So what they would do, is if they were going to actually, if Julian had won a non-extradition, they would likely at that point in the U.K. court file their extradition.
JA: Yeah, or the rights to … I go to Sweden. So that's what the ambassador said, and then also The Independent's diplomatic correspondent said in late 2010 that there were already informal talks between Sweden and the U.S.
Assange's assistant: The day after, the day after you went into prison.
JA: Yeah.
CH: Informal talks between Sweden and the U.S. So you—extradite you to Sweden and then—
JA: And the details were that, I think in that he said it was on conclusion, would be on conclusion of the Swedish case. And then for the U.S., where I think the political equation is the most interesting. You have prosecutors in the [Pfc. Bradley] Manning case that are clearly gearing up for the 12-week Broadway musical, where they have their star diva, which is the Navy SEAL guy, and they're going to make him sing. And it's such a big machine—141 prosecution witnesses that they've listed. And the grand jury investigation has been such a big machine; I mean, so many people, so many records, all sorts of court cases about it; things spun off from it. EPIC [Electronic Privacy Information Center] has a court case in relation to FOIs [Freedom of Information] which is very interesting information, by the way, about—
MR: You know EPIC at all?
CH: No.
JA: It's a Washington-based NGO, the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Sort of like the ACLU for privacy. And so they asked for all FBI and DOJ records about lists of WikiLeaks supporters. They're making an attack under the associative rights … there was interference, potential interference with associative rights. But anyway, in litigating that case, the way that the FBI and DOJ is defending the thing, we have these classes of documents, and we're counting how many documents in each class, and they form sort of sections, like the section of the DOJ that has to do with extradition—interesting pitch. Anyway, you can see that there's a really very big machine. There's, you know, over a dozen different U.S. departments significantly involved. But that machine is now quite hard to stop, insofar as there's budgets already predefined. For example, there was a tender put out by the DOJ about a year ago for a case management computer system for the WikiLeaks case. The tender was 1 to 2 million dollars for that computer system just to look at the documents. There's all sorts of career interest from prosecutors, FBI, et cetera, in keeping that big thing going. They want to, you know, score. Now, at the level of the senior generals, uh Eric Holder. … Actually let's just go down one, Neil MacBride.
MR: You know who he is?
JA: The DA for Massachusetts has become—
MR: No, no. Neil MacBride, just so you know, he's the attorney, U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Virginia. … He's the head U.S. attorney guy.
JA: He's the guy who's responsible for the national security prosecutions, and in particular, most of the U.S.' extraterritorial prosecutions. There was a hagiographic article appeared in The Washington Post about him, maybe four months ago; it's really worth reading to understand the geopolitical aspect of the legal part of the case, which I sort of hadn't realized before, but there's a lawfare thing going on with U.S. law, to apply U.S. law to as many jurisdictions as possible. And if you have control over use of force in a foreign jurisdiction, it's your jurisdiction. It's part of your state by definition. So he's involved with this project to push to encompass as many states as possible under U.S. law and to bring them back. That article says there's 60-something territories that they're pulling people in and prosecuting them in Alexandria, Virginia. He's also handling the Kim Dotcom case.
JA: So there's a question as to whether there's a sealed indictment already. If there is a sealed indictment, we believe based on the lots of evidence through leaks, but particularly based on the behavior of the DOJ and Neil MacBride, and through questions, that there is a sealed indictment.
CH: What does that mean, a sealed indictment? In terms of, like—
MR: If there is an indictment and they won't give public notice of it—
CH: Why wouldn't they?
MR: Well, because in this case the person is—
JA: It's normal.
MR: Yeah, it's normal, if the person is outside the country—
JA: The person hasn't been arrested yet.
MR: They don't want to telegraph to that person, "you've been indicted."
JA: If the person hasn't been arrested yet, it's normal. The indictment is sealed. And then, by law, it is a criminal offense, for any U.S. official aware of the sealed indictment to tell any person, even another U.S. official, of the existence of the sealed indictment, except in the course of executing a warrant.
CH: And can you tell me if there have been any public indications that seem to hint that there is a sealed indictment?
JA: Under their own procedure, if you ask "Are you a subject, target or witness for a grand jury inquiry?" they are meant to tell you. They refuse to do so.
MR: You can't go to court on it, but their guidelines say—
JA: Their guidelines say—
CH: So if you were to ask if you're a subject, target or witness for a grand jury, they would have to tell you.
JA: They are meant to. The guidelines are, the prosecutorial guidelines are that they should tell you. And they refuse to engage with the question at all.
CH: You posed the question to them?
JA: Yeah, we've posed the question. They refuse to engage.
CH: Oh, that's interesting.
MR: It's very suspicious behavior.
JA: But when you say, "Who should we speak to about it?" they go, "that guy, that guy"—you know, there is a "guy" that is responsible for answering that question, and he refuses to touch it. Why? Well, the easiest explanation is that he would be in breach of that law that says you can't.
CH: Do you have any sense as to when that sealed indictment might have come down?
JA: There's a leak from Stratfor, that was internal mail from Stratfor, which is "please don't publish … there is a sealed indictment against Assange."
CH: Oh right, I remember that.
JA: The vice president.
CH: I remember that—
JA: He used to work at [the U.S.] Diplomatic Security Service, so he actually had … on the other hand, he is a guy who is a bit fast and loose with records, so. …
CH: Do you have any sense of when it might have happened?
JA: Well if it … that email was from 2011, early 2011. Someone has said that maybe they had made an indictment and they were all ready, because if I won the case here, the extradition case, then they needed to move quickly. Or it's possible that this was a draft indictment. They… always they have a draft indictment ready to go in case they need it. So maybe the draft indictment was ready always to go, and they didn't file it until later on. But what's quite suspicious is that for sure, they have said publicly "the investigation is ongoing," but they refuse to follow their procedure and confirm my status, which would be natural if there was a sealed indictment.
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NEW WATERFORD — A Scotchtown man and a New Waterford boy are facing charges in conjunction with an alleged assault Wednesday that now has a 14-year old New Waterford boy in hospital for the sixth day.
Dakota Charles Williams, 18, of Scotchtown, is scheduled to appear in provincial court in Sydney on Wednesday for a bail hearing on charges of aggravated assault, possession of a prohibited weapon and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. Williams has been remanded pending the court appearance.
A 17-year old boy from New Waterford who cannot be named in accordance with the Youth Criminal Justice Act has been charged with aggravated assault and has been released on conditions.
On Monday, Theresa Sudworth of New Waterford said her son Alexander, 14, was still in the Cape Breton Regional Hospital and is doing good.
"He's getting better every day. He's got bruising on his brain, a fracture on his skull and what we're told could be a busted or fractured eardrum."
Sudworth said her son was on Eighth Street between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. with a group of girls at the time of the incident.
She said from what she's been told, the group was walking arm in arm when the suspects yelled at them and said "Say something to us again, I dare you."
Sudworth said her son said he hadn't said anything to the suspects.
"He had his headphones on and didn't know what was going on."
Sudworth said the suspects then said "Say something again and I'm beating your boyfriend."
She said one of the girls replied again "We didn't say anything to you."
Sudworth said she was told the person then jumped the fence and began hitting her son with a baton.
"My son started fighting back to defend himself," she said.
"The other boy jumped in and attacked him and said, 'Don't hit my friend.'"
She said one of the girls called police but in the meantime a vehicle stopped.
"My son said the driver tried to break up the fight."
Sudworth said her son didn't know the suspects.
"He doesn't remember anything after being hit in the head the first time."
She said he didn't have any visible marks on his face but then she discovered he had bruising on his arm, his leg and his back and had blood coming from his ear. She took him to the Cape Breton Regional Hospital where he remains.
Sudworth said her son recently also had a mild concussion from a soccer incident.
"They want to keep an eye on him."
Desiree Vassallo, spokeswoman for the Cape Breton Regional Police Service, said that on July 23 on 9:40 p.m. police were called to Eighth Street in New Waterford where it a boy had reportedly been assaulted.
She said apparently a group of seven youths were walking along Eighth Street, including the victim.
"They were approached by two other young males who struck the victim."
A vehicle arrived on scene shortly after.
"The two suspects got in the vehicle and left the scene."
Vassallo said the two suspects were arrested the following day and charged.
She said the people with the victim were able to identify the suspects.


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New 'Injustice: Gods Among Us' Trailer Explains Harley Quinn And The Joker [Video]
By now many fans have read DC's Injustice: Gods Among Us prequel comic and have a basic understanding of the character motivations in NetherRealm's upcoming post-apocalyptic fighting game that pits heroes and villains against… villain-y heroes and heroic-ish villains? It's a turbulent elseworld where up is down and down is up, with two characters proving especially puzzling: The Joker and Harley Quinn. Who are they, and what are they fighting for? A new trailer provides some insight. Potential spoilers ahead.
Fans will have to wait until April 16 to find out what the full deal is with Harley and Mystery Joker, which Injustice: Gods Among Us drops on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and the Wii U.


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Subject: Making of America
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:35:43 -0400
is online at http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/MOA-JOURNALS2/WARO.html
There are many volumes. Index for each volume is at the back of the book.
Volume 1 seems to have a lot of southern information. Many names are listed. This is all Civil War material. Have not had time to check them all out yet but thought this information should be passed on to the list.
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Karl Winterling wrote: > I'm a college student in California, so I can't afford a World of > Warcraft account. However, I might try to design and "sell" a Racket > application to my Co-op. so I'll need to avoid sounding mentally > disturbed to the central IT staff. Be aware that IT staff might be a bit reluctant to deploy traditional CGI applications these days. Traditional CGI invokes an executable on each request, which tends to put unnecessary load on servers, particularly if the application has many users, or if it's public and has search bots crawling it. The P languages, Perl/Python/PHP, have long since moved to using either modules integrated with the web server, or FCGI/SCGI approaches where you need a separate server running the application anyway. If FCGI or SCGI are options, then a third option that might be open to you is running a Racket web server on a non-standard port and having IT set up proxying to expose that server through their primary web server. That takes just a few lines of configuration on most major web servers, and it doesn't require any special protocols, libraries, or APIs. Anton
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- So I got a pretty lively and thoughtful response Thursday morning after tweeting out the basics of a proposal to eliminate the kickoff from football, as suggested by commissioner Roger Goodell in this week's edition of TIME magazine. My strong sense is that, like it or not, we should prepare for the eventual implementation of some version of the proposal.
Once the NFL deems an issue a matter of "player safety," after all, it becomes a runaway train of sorts. A vote against it is a vote against player safety, and given the league's current state of litigation, that can't happen.
You brought up a number of objections and questions, and so I thought I would try to address them on this fine Thursday afternoon. I asked Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe about a number of them and also got some help from ESPN Stats & Information to help flesh things out.
First, the short version of the proposal: Kickoffs would be replaced by fourth and 15 at the scoring team's 30-yard line. You could either punt or "go for it" in a strategy that would roughly parallel onside kicks. You would have one play to gain 15 yards and retain possession.
@Blingris asked why the league is focusing on kickoffs and not punts.
Generally speaking, kickoffs are considered much more dangerous than punts because they expose players to potentially severe injuries. The idea was hatched by Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano, who had a player -- Eric LeGrand -- paralyzed on a kickoff at Rutgers.
"It's the difference between two guys running next to each other and then stopping to block each other," Kluwe said, "and two people running straight at each other and smashing. … The injuries on kickoffs usually happen when the wedge guys hit the interior guys who are usually linemen or bigger dudes. You have 290 pound guys hitting another 290 pound guys [at full speed]."
@Timjob320 tweeted: "UGH. SERIOUSLY? Getting rid of kickoffs? Stupid idea. Football is not a safe sport. Get over it."
Sorry, Tim, the NFL has pretty much decided that kickoffs are uniquely dangerous even in the context of a violent sport. Based on what Kluwe said, it's a relatively accepted idea within the game.
"Eliminating kickoffs would definitely make the game safer," Kluwe said. "I really think the NFL will take the stance that it's not the overall amount of injuries, it's the severity of injuries. … They can't afford to open themselves up to future lawsuits."
@DetroitfaninWI brought up an excellent point: "What will they do to fix ticky tack pass interference calls on this play. illegal touching.5 yard penalty.automatic 1st down?"
It's a concern Kluwe voiced as well.
"If they're going to do this, they really have to codify pass interference," Kluwe said "As it is, there is so much pass interference called, and no one knows what pass interference is and isn't. If a team goes for it on fourth-and-15, all you have to do is have a receiver fall down and there you go."
I'm guessing that's an objection the NFL might not be able to accommodate, at least not right away. It might be worth seeing if it plays out that way first.
Finally, @Jason_Decker asked: "4th and 15 is much easier to convert than recovering an onsides kick?" And @hooshouse wondered: "Any chance you can get ESPN's stat guys to compare conversion rates of onside kicks vs 4th and 15 or comparable? I'm curious."
Why yes I can. Thomas McKean of ESPN Stats & Information found that teams have converted 19 percent of fourth downs of 15 yards or more this season (four of 21). By comparison, 13.3 percent of onside kicks have been recovered (six of 45). So based on that sample, at least, it might be a bit easier to convert than an onside kick.
The specifics of this particular proposal could always be tweaked, either by the competition committee or before a vote of owners. But Goodell is a calculating politician. I don't think he would have floated the general elimination of kickoffs if it isn't something he intends to pursue moving forward.
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Tertiary Update
Tertiary Update
Ministry advice may have misled minister
The Ministry of Education must re-do its analysis of submissions on proposed changes to university and wānanga councils to make sure its advice to the minister was correct says TEU national president Lesley Francey.
Tertiary strategy is narrow and limiting
Tertiary education minister Steven Joyce outlined how he will allocate tertiary education funding for the next five years when he released his new Tertiary Education Strategy yesterday. The strategy focuses almost exclusively on making sure tertiary education supports the economy, businesses and industry.
UCOL strike after employer offers 'maybe' money
Last minute talks on Monday between UCOL and its staff to resolve a long running pay dispute were unable to avert a strike on Tuesday.
Public good research funding at risk under new rules
Steven Joyce, the tertiary education minister, proposes to increase the proportion of PBRF (contestable public research funding) allocated based on external research income, from 15 to 20 percent of the total PBRF fund. He also wants to reward research organisations that attract external research income. He says 'this places a higher value on research that meets user needs'.
Inequality growing issue in tertiary institutions
Prince William is visiting New Zealand just when we are facing up to the horrifying thought that we are a society divided by class. The long-held myth that New Zealand forged itself into an escape from Britain's stultifying class society is quickly being eroded by evidence that shows the opposite. And those class divisions are as clear within our tertiary education institutions as anywhere.
Parental leave extension costs officially halved
Official figures for the total cost of extending paid parental leave to 26 weeks are public, and are less than half the $500 million figure finance minister Bill English originally claimed.
No more words - it's time for action
This Saturday is International Women's Day 2014, and the International Trade Union Confederation is says it is the right occasion to call time on gender-based violence in the world of work.


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This review is from: Seagate 500GB 2.5" USB 3.0 Slim External Hard Drive Model STCF500801
Pros: I mostly use on Mac so not the a huge issue but I was interested in this because it could be used with a PC with an HFS driver or so it stated
Cons: Since I couldn't easily find the location of the Windows driver and another review says Windows support is to format...
Attach drive, install driver, reboot system. Kind of sloppy, I'm guessing they want to make sure their product is attached before the driver is installed but my plan was for quick copying of things that are a little too large for a flash drive., or at least the 32 GB I carry around with me
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