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Andora a mega city of about 225 million people where city is layered by economic level. Higher the elevation, the richer the people. Nearly everyone works for either a corporation or the government or runs a business that caters to people in the city (restaurants, stores, etc) as the city does not produce anything. Though the city does have a large space port, most businesses use the Space Elevator that ferries people and goods to the Sonoma Space Station. From the space station, the few large merchant vessels that enter the system transport the goods out of the system. Some travel occurs to the moon or a couple of the less hospitable planets that are used for predominately for mining.

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Ransomware activity has spiked again last week worldwide with the largest cyber gangs targeting pornography viewers.
Symantec predicted this year's upswing and continual growth of the highly profitable malware, which extorts more than US$5 million dollars a year from its victims.
While several variants of the ransomware threat are responsible for the overall spike, Trojan.Ransomlock.Y is currently taking centrestage.
This variant is being distributed through pornographic websites leading to the Impact Exploit kit.
has the following Intrusion Prevention Signatures (IPS) in
place for the Impact Exploit kit and is observing a similar
telemetry spike around detections of this exploit
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Scottish Green party councillors have called for Edinburgh's lord provost to travel by train to a forthcoming first world war commemorative service in northern France, instead of flying.
The provost has been invited to take part in a commemorative service at Contalmaison on 1 July to honour the participation of battalions of the Royal Scots at the Battle of the Somme.
Green Party councillor Steve Burgess said that going by train would be less harmful to the environment, and would be a more reliable option than flying, because of the chance of disruption to flights by the volcanic ash from Iceland. But the suggestion was rejected at yesterday's meeting of Edinburgh's policy and strategy committee.
Burgess said in a statement after the meeting that "the lord provost, councillors and other council staff should be trying to reduce climate-changing pollution by considering alternatives to flying". He pointed out that Contalmaison is only a few hours by train from the Eurostar station at Lille.
"The provost could take a sleeper from Edinburgh and be there in the morning," argued Burgess. "As the city's top representative, with a high public profile, it's important that the lord provost is seen to be trying to reduce the environmental impact of travel."
At the same committee meeting, approval was also given for the lord and lady provost to visit Norway at the end of the month to attend the 2010 Bergen International Festival, at a cost of around £1000.
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Tight integration on the world's most-used smartphone operating system is Facebook's Goal
IPhone, what? Facebook.com, Inc. (
) let it be known that its preference is with the masses,
a new user interface called "Home" that's built atop Google Inc.'s (
) Android, the world's most-used smartphone operating system.
I. Android Gets a Fresh Paint Job
Android OEMs like Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
) typically take the base UI -- say Ice Cream Sandwich -- and then build their own UI gloss atop it (e.g. Samsung's TouchWiz UI or HTC Corp.'s (
) Sense UI). The new Facebook app adds
yet one more layer
atop those OEM UIs.
Despite the fact that Android is now running a base UI, plus two custom skins (the OEM UI and Facebook's addition) performance at a demo at Facebook's California
Menlo Park headquarters
felt "incredibly native",
according to
The Verge
The new Facebook UI modifies your homescreen and lockscreen via an app called CoverFeed that pushes updates and communications to your device.
Some updates are even visible when your phone is locked (that should get interesting from a privacy standpoint).
II. Apps Ensure No Matter Where You Are in Android, Facebook is Near
When using apps, a new UI charm now appears atop running apps, with round face icons called "Chatheads" that represent your friends you're talking to. Click on a Chathead and the running conversation pops up, without exiting your current app. The Chatheads also unify messaging for known contacts, using Facebook Chat/Messaging when possible, but falling back on SMS if necessary.
Facebook has also made a new app launcher and app drawer, to help prioritize your favorite Android apps.
The kit will also bundle Facebook's popular photo-doctoring software, Instagram.
While the Home app kit will eventually be available on a "wide range of [Android] devices]", including tablets, it will initially be only available on a handful of top sellers -- the HTC One and One X, and the
Samsung Galaxy S III
Galaxy S4
, and Galaxy Note II.
It will be available on those select smartphones starting April 12 via the Google Play store. Current users of Facebook's first-party Android app will be asked whether they want to try out the new UI/apps.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that Android is his company's top priority. He said that new features will be launching for Home every month, and that his company would tireless work to roll out smooth support for lower-end Android models.
III. HTC First is First Smartphone to Preload Home
Alongside the announcement, HTC and Facebook
the anticipated "Facebook Phone"
: the HTC First. HTC and Facebook have worked together closely in the past on the ChaCha, Status, and Salsa smartphones, which had Facebook integration built tightly into their UI.
For all the
months of rumors and hype
the First does not appear to be the high-end device some had hoped for. It has a modest 4.3-inch 1280 x 720p SLCD3 display combined with an LTE-endowed Snapdragon 400 1.5 GHz dual-core processor from Qualcomm, Inc. (
). It is available in black, white, red and blue and will be AT&T, Inc. (
) exclusive. The phone isn't exactly a killer when it comes to memory (1 GB) and camera resolutions (5 megapixel rear, 1.6 front camera).
Embattled HTC CEO Peter Chou
calls the HTC First the "ultimate social phone". Priced at $99 USD with new two-year contract, it will be one of the cheapest devices to support Facebook Home (that makes it
half the price of the HTC One
on contract. And it's the first device to have Home preinstalled.
The HTC First's specs are somewhat similar to Samsung's year-old Galaxy S III, which recently also
dropped down
to $99.99 USD, with the impending launch of the Galaxy S IV. However, the GS3 has the edge in screen-size and camera resolution.
Overall the First is pretty underwhelming from a hardware standpoint, but it may appeal to some budget buyers. AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega brags that the First is "the most immersive engagement I've ever seen."
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teehee....I dunno how I managed to make my room look like a dressing room, except for the trolls and stuff in the background... XD
Happy Birthday, Blue!! (corny, yeah, I know. sue me)
Everyone go to kissmeimacr4cka 's journal and wish him a happy 21st!
I have a poll-type question for all ya guys...Is it common/required for you all to try to get as far as you can with a girl the first time you meet her? Is there some sort of rule for it, or what? I'm just curious. Indulge me, please?In other news, the dress I wore last night to the club met with rave reviews...I stood out like a sore thumb, but it was awesome..a yellow/green glow in the sea of black. :DI wish I had pictures...maybe next time I wear it, I'll convince my friend to take some shots. Anyhoo....I'm goin back to bed now. Yeaaah.
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Whatever's bolded is how I'm feeling right now...I only wish I had someone to share it with.
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I had a whole fucking entry ready to post, and it errored and died. so fuck it. I hate my life...anyone want to take it away from me? I'd love ya. Please....help....I just wish I didn't feel so EMPTY. I can't even cry anymore. I can't feel anything....anything but empty. Fuck this...I'm out.
So it's officially my birthday, by the time I get to postin' this, anyway. And I'm crying. Go me. Just one more day...one more day. I think I can handle that. I hope.


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Q. I'm a mason working in an area devoid of building codes and cannot afford an engineer. I'm building a 16-foot diameter circular gazebo that will have a concrete floor. I will lay 12-inch half blocks side by side in a circle beginning 9 feet below grade and would like to use this space under the gazebo as a basement.
The floor above this basement (or the basement ceiling, depending on how you look at it) must be concrete. So I will pour the wall solid and pour the floor at the same time, tying it in with the wall with a grid of 1/2-inch rebar on 8-inch centers to reinforce the floor. Is this rebar spacing, 2 inches up from the bottom of 6 inches of 2000 psi concrete, sufficient for this application?
A. With this limited information, it's not possible to determine what you are proposing is sufficient. For instance, what loads will the floor have to support? Will there be reinforcing steel in the wall, and if so, will you provide sufficient overlap with the slab reinforcing for this to act as a monolithic structure?
These are the types of things, among others, that an engineer would consider in designing such a structure. Even if there were a building code in your area, you should have engineering input on the project you describe.
Given what you have outlined above, perhaps a better question to ask is: When the ready-mix truck pulls up to deliver the concrete you ordered, will the driver will be willing to unload into your formwork? This is the kind of project that demonstrates why there are engineers, and why there are lawyers.
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divide in the indicated base
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Division in other bases is very much similar to division in base 10, except that the multiplication and subtraction have to be done (mentally) in the given base.
This forum does not permit lining up digits, so a long division demonstration is not possible.
Try another site such as:
(Note that the division (2252÷23 in base 7) was not done correctly, because 6*237 is 2047, not 2037. Consequently, the answer should have been 667 with a remainder of 5).
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I went to a Pentatonix concert on Sunday night. They sing a cappella. I have a geeky and committed relationship with a cappella music, so when N. was offered a ticket to the show last minute, he graciously passed it on to me, kept the babe and sent me on my merry way.
I met up with some college friends. Some have graduated. Some are still in school. All of them are still cool. They were part of the a cappella community that I so loved when I went to JMU, and it felt so good to be with some of them again.
They are wild. And funny. And dramatic. And quirky. And self-deprecating. And they sing things that you would usually say. They're loud. And huggy. Very huggy. That's something I always forget about college--all of the hugs. And they're so very happy. I absolutely love being around that kind of energy.
But I couldn't help but think the whole time,
Man, my life is so different now.
One of the best parts of my night was carrying an actual purse instead of a diaper bag.
I had so much fun. I hopped one someone's shoulders in hopes that I would get called on stage. I shuffled up as close as I could to the front and my cheeks got red-hot from sharing such a small space with so many dancing bodies.
And it was just like the old times except for one feeling that kept bobbing up and down in my mind:
this, alone, isn't enough for me anymore.
I used to be able to survive off of the passion and thrill of being young and free and having no schedule and no real responsibility.
And now even when I try to enjoy my independence I feel an invisible string connecting me to home, and there were times I had to force myself to stay when I wanted to go back home, kiss my baby, hold my man and get in my ever-loving bed.
I don't think they would ever say it to my face, but I'm fairly sure some of my friends consider me a cliche. Get married, get steady job, get dog, have kid, stay at home, join mom groups.
And, yes, on the outside, that's exactly what I've done.
But the best part is that I finally don't mind being predictable or normal.
As simple as it may sound, I feel like I'm exactly where I was meant to be. Exactly.
Do I miss the glory days? Sometimes, when I'm feeling frumpy or cranky or invisible.
But most of the time, I'm so very happy. And so very content to be right where I am.


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So the worst case scenario has happened... you were in an accident, and now you're coming to me as your insurance company's adjuster and I've told you that most likely, your car is going to be a total loss. What am I going to do next, you ask? Well, here goes:
My company uses CCC Pathways for our estimating software (there are several different ones out there, though). At the top of my estimate is a running ticker that counts up to the total loss threshold. It has a generic value set based on year make and model of car. Once that hits 100%, I know that there is a potential for a total loss.
The next thing I do (after letting you know that there is a potential for a total) is I get a good overall condition of the car. We rate in these categories:
- Body (condition of the sheet metal and bumpers. Is there prior damage? Is there rust? Are panels misaligned or ill-fitting? The amount this affects value depends on the year of the car. For instance, several dings will not hurt a 2001 model like they would a 2011 model. This applies to all categories)
- Paint (how does the paint look? Is it faded? De-laminating? Does it match across the car? Is there obvious overspray? Is there obvious paintwork? Obvious meaning "I can spot it from across the lot", not "My spectrochromograph shows a 1% variance in hue".)
- Glass (any chips, stars, cracks, or pitting?)
- Tires (what is the current tread depth? Measured in 32nds of an inch. New is between 10 and 12/32 of an inch)
- Mechanical (Pop the hood, how does it look? Is there a lot of seepage around seals? Pull the oil dipstick, is the oil black? Or does it look pretty clean? Pull the trans stick. Is the trans fluid burned up? Are there huge scorch marks on the bumper around the tail pipe? Start the car. Does it start right up, or does it struggle to crank?)
- Interior (How is the inside of the car? Are the carpets in decent shape? Does the headliner sag? Are the seats worn to crap? Is the dash all torn up? Does the interior smell clean?)
Each category is rated on a 4 point scale: Excellent (never seen anything rate Excellent. Doesn't mean they're not out there, but it would basically be an absolutely flawless vehicle), Dealer Ready (car can be sold as is other than normal dealer prep work), Average Private (What we expect to see in a car with the year and miles yours does. AP in a category neither adds nor takes away value.), and Rough (car needs some serious TLC).
I also make sure that I have all the options correct for your car.
After I have my evaluation, I'll ask you if there has been any major work done to the car lately. A new engine or transmission would rate this. A new all-over professional paint job. Regular maintenance doesn't count, nor do new tires, or a really sweet vinyl job.
From here, I send all the information I have about your car to CCC Pathways. Most of the time, I'll get a response within about 2 minutes of sending it. What they give me, first and foremost, is a number. It will also give me all the locations it used to find this value, as well as all the cars used in the comparison. Pathways searches through dealer ads and classified ads, starting in your zip code and working out from there.
Once I have the value of the car, I'm going to take a minute to put some numbers together. I'll add in state sales tax for the vehicle (varies by state, VA is 3.5%), I'll add in tag and title fees ($12 for VA outside of Virginia Beach.), and I'll subtract your deductible. I'm also going to determine a salvage value for your car. We have what are called "guaranteed bids" for certain classes of cars (domestic, year range 1. domestic year range 2. import year range 1. import year range 2.). We are guaranteed to receive no less than that when your car goes to a salvage auction. I cannot give a lower salvage value than that. I usually start at about 20% of the ACV for any car less than $6,000. If it's more than that, I'll make a couple phone calls to local salvage yards I trust and ask them what they would bid for it.
Now is when we start chatting. If you own the car free and clear, you have two options. Let us keep the car, and you get the full ACV minus deductible, or you keep the car, and we keep the salvage value. This is typically where the debates start. Your car has intrinsic value to you. This was the car you first learned how to drive in. So on and so forth. Divorce yourself from the emotional attachment and start thinking reasonably. If I tell you that I'm offering $5,000, and you say the car is worth $10,000, then the conversation is more or less over. I can't negotiate on 100% of the value. Different bosses will give differing amounts of leeway to their adjusters based on experience and company policy, but my boss usually gives me about 20% of the value to negotiate with.
Things I can negotiate on: Cash value, category analysis, and salvage value. Things I cannot negotiate on: your deductible, the options that exist on your car (if I missed something, let me know. But each option is specifically defined. There is no room for interpretation as to what "Power seats" means.), tax/tags/title. If you feel that negotiations between you and me aren't getting far because you can't negotiate on what I can, then feel free to ask for my boss' phone number. I had one total loss settlement go all the way to our regional Vice President once. He settled for $250 more than I was offering. I was thoroughly puzzled, as the guy showed no interest in talking to me about it. I'm happy to give you my boss' number, but give me a chance first. If the first thing you want to do is talk to management, you're just going to annoy me, and them, and make it tougher on yourself. You approach my boss in an understanding way, he's going to be a lot easier to deal with.
Bring solid evidence to negotiate with, as well. You give me good info, and I'll deal with my boss and work it out for you. You bring me a newspaper clipping for someone in California selling a car similar to yours and asking for $2000 more, though, and I can easily dismiss it. Bring me some info on cars similar to yours that were sold around the block from your house for more, and we've got something to go on.
My goal with a total loss (and really, and customer interaction) is to get you off the phone/out of my office as soon as possible, and as happy as possible. The last thing I want is for you to call my boss with a legitimate complaint about something that I did or failed to do.
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That's what we get tonight with The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All (7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4).
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MasterChef (7 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13): The 13 remaining contestants compete in a mystery-box challenge involving wild Alaskan king salmon.
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Tripod recommendations
Hey guys im in the market for a new tripod. Kind of curious as to what you guys use when you are using a tripod. Just looking to get ideas. trying to stay with in a reasonable price range... whatever that means. :yikes:
Video or stills or both?
Mostly stills. i will venture into video a little. but nothing crazy yet.
I'm running with Manfrotto 055CXPRO3CF legs with Arca Swiss head.
Manfrotto is great...have one for my spotting scope.
Heads cost as much as the legs though in some cases. I have Bogen 3221 legs and 3130 head...both made by Manfrotto. It's heaviesh...so consider how far you'll be hiking with it...otherwise it's very stable. I'm scoping birds a couple of miles away. Has legs that ratchet out at different angles to compensate for uneven terrain (which I never really use).
I have a Manfrotto 190 CXPRO3 Carbon Fiber
It's the lightest of the 190 series @ 2.84lbs
With the Manfrotto 322RC2 Joystick Head
I bought a $99 Manfrotto travel tripod with bag.
Works fine for me (Canon 60D with 15-85 or 70-300)
I purchased an OBEN CF tripod and head - and I am happy with the legs, light, snap tight, hold strong, backpack hook works great - but I have had issues with the head since day one, the set screw that holds the plate to the head came loose, but its like the screw is a tad long so you can't tighten it all the way - which causes some "play" in the whole head system when setting up for a shot.
so I would go with the other recommendations, and go Manfrotto.
Yea im worried what i get wont support my camera.
Im shooting with a D600. Biggest lens right now is 80-200 f/2.8 ED. I am really considering a Bogen/manfrotto 3021. I love the way you can adjust/swing the head. It seems like it would be really nice. I dont know what head i would want though. so far ive seen some decent prices on ebay and what not but im very skeptical about buying used photo gear from ebay.
Heres a Video i found of the 3021.
I had manfrotto 190xprob but after getting the sigma 70-200 OS, I didn't feel it was safe enough to have it on that with my 7D. Bought a 055xprob and very happy with it. Its heavy compared to a CF but I like my legs firm and planted. I don't travel with it much, and if I do, its just 5lbs or so... its not too bad, better safe then sorry.
My $100 Manfrotto is an aluminum tripod so it's relatively lightweight and very sturdy. The only issue I have with it is that it's not a ball head and it takes forever to set up a shot with a 3-way tilt/pan head. That's my fault for choosing this model though.
I use an old HD Vivitar I bought 35 years ago when I thought I was going to be using view cameras every day. Rock solid but NLA. I'd look for a Tilt-all or quality knock-off. It's an old design but tripods are hardly technology laden. Tilt-alls used to be very popular for good reason.
I have the manfrotto 055XPROB with the 496rc2 ball head. I love it despite it begin heavy which is why i'm thinking of getting the carbon fiber legs for it or just spend the money and get a Gitzo.
^ unless you hike with it, i wouldn't spend the extra 200 for a cf... 55 is nicely balance and firm
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^I dont necessarily hike but when I do photo walks I like to sometimes carry it but with the weight I never bring it with me unless i'm driving.
Second the mangrotto. They can be heavy though. The monopods are very good for sports and stabilizing zooms and camcorders
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Work has started on a state-of-the-art gym in Tottenham High Road to replace the one burnt out beneath Aldi during the riots of 2011.
easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou's latest venture, easyGym, is set to open a new branch in the former Fitness First premises, beneath the Aldi store which was also gutted by fire during the unrest.
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Try to avoid white foods and increase whole grains, instead of white potatoes, try yams. Instead of white rice and white bread, try brown. This can make a huge difference. Of course avoid things with sugars in them.
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Peace be with you all - Alsallam alaykum
I feel I had to post this article, because some people have made it a career to spread missinfo, lies and pure propaganda, against a religion innocent of the crimes attributed to it.
Would it be fair to attack a religion for the actions of the followers ???
With most of major media and their targeting of Muslims and Islam, we must come to think,"wow. These are some crazy people and this religion Islam must be crazy as well ). How can that be though ?? It does not make any sense for the media to act in such a fashion, when history teaches us that far greater and WORST thing were done and they get brushed on as to have no significance to the religion itself.
With the logic the right wing demonstrates, it would be completely fair and ok to start blaming Christianity for many thing, alot of things, for example we can blame Christianity for dropping the nuclear bombs on the two Japanese cities which killed not 3000, but more then 300,000 innocent people. Very tragic event that should NEVER be repeated EVER again. Hey America is known as a proud christian nation, so technically Christianity did it, right ?
Yet, to me it's irrational to blame Christianity for that, but I guess if i thought like the right wing is thinking, then those people deserved it for not being christian to begin with, never mind the Japanese attacking pearl harbor. Fundies to the max and I know they sound familiar, we have our own version of right wingers and just as they are bound to lose, so will the christian version as well.
Now I hope I'm getting my point across here. I wished to simply point out that It's wrong to blame a religion for the actions of the follower. I know for a fact such actions are actually not tolerated in the bible.
If jesus peace be with him said "you must LOVE your enemy for If you love those who love you, then what the REWARD in that". Love your enemy (we should always keep that in mind) and Islam is not even an enemy, I would consider it a close family member to Christianity.
I believe that in times of desperation, human beings do crazy things, even the smartest ones.
Now from a Technical point of view on why Islam and Christianity are innocent of these actions.
The 9/11 act was not associated with Islam, because you won't find anything in the Quran that specifically teaches to highjack planes and fly them into towers.
And the nuclear dropping was not associated with Christianity, because you won't find anything in the Bible that specifcally teaches to drop nuclear bombs on cities.
There is a significant difference, between peoples own actions and the faith they follow.
The faith can indeed have influence, but the follower almost all the times acts out of their OWN intentions.


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Jury photo call today in Cannes… Sienna Miller and Jake Gyllenhaal. They're friends, obviously. And just friends, of course. But again, once upon a time in a parallel Gossip Universe, this looks really, really good. Like great. Maybe 5 years ago. This Sienna, as we've seen, it's been a career turnaround. Full Story
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Sienna Miller, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Julianne Moore are among the long list of celebrities arriving in Nice today ahead of the Cannes Film Festival. Let's start with Jake, because we were talking about him yesterday and whether or not the photo I linked to was of him having breakfast/lunch with Ruth Wilson or Rachel McAdams – click here Full Story
Sienna's red MET tuxedo
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This was close, I have to tell you. It was close to be the Best for me. And if it were any other year, or event, sh-t, it probably would have been. But this is why Sienna Miller is so worth waiting for. I want to remember this look. I promise to remember it all year and keep coming back to her as a standard for comparison. Full Story
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Sienna Miller's name was on the list of 2015 jury members at the Cannes Film Festival released yesterday, one of the reasons why people were calling it the prettiest jury ever. Sienna is, obviously, very pretty. But inviting her to be part of the judging panel was not just motivated by her looks, especially not when you consider the year she's just had, appearing in both Foxcatcher and American Sniper and following that up with a run on Broadway in Cabaret. Full Story
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The BRIT Awards are well underway in London. FKA twigs is there for the first time. She posed on her own on the red carpet and was joined inside by boyfriend Robert Pattinson who flew out of LA yesterday to be with her at the show. No official shots of Pattinson yet but this image has been making the rounds on Twitter from inside the show: #RobertPattinson Full Story
Sienna Miller: Understated Oscar Presenter
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Let us be clear that this was not the year any of us predicted for Sienna Miller – right? When she squealed with delight at American Sniper winning, I'd forgotten that she was even in it, because I associated her with Foxcatcher. Imagine being in two such high profile films in one year? I read on Twitter tonight that @boobsradley Full Story
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As mentioned earlier, it was a big weekend for American Sniper, Bradley Cooper, and Clint Eastwood. Sienna Miller gets to enjoy that too, right? We've talked about what a ride she's had the last year or so. And now, being part of a film that just turned this into a legitimate race… it's good for her. Full Story
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This Celine sweater dress on Sienna Miller…I can't. I can't control my WANT. I would wear it every single day. I would never wear it and get into a water fight, are you f-cked? Then again, it's because for me, the sweater dress would be a major acquisition. For a celebrity, it's one of many. Full Story
Sienna Miller: Best of the deep cuts at the Globes
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There were a lot of deep cuts last night. Of varying breast sizes. My vote is for Sienna Miller in Miu Miu. Because her deep cut wasn't the dominating feature. It wasn't the main event of her entire look. The deep cut didn't take away from the beading, the detail, the art of the design. Full Story
Sienna Miller on the Motherhood Whitewash
Sienna Miller is continuing to promote American Sniper. American Sniper just received a nomination today from the Producers Guild, by the way. Ahead of both Unbroken and Selma. In addition to American Sniper, the PGAs went with Gone Girl. Foxcatcher also made the list. So of the Top 10 films of the year, according the Producers Guild, Sienna Miller is in TWO of them. Full Story
Sienna and the Boho Moment
Vogue January 2015 issue. Sienna Miller on the cover. God she has such a lovely face. And the smattering of freckles across her nose is so attractive. This is about Sienna starring in American Sniper. Really though, as the front page promises, it's about Sienna's "second act". Full Story


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PM jumps the gun in swearing in ministers
YOURSAY 'What is so difficult to accept that the government has made a mistake? Even DAP admitted they made a mistake in their party polls.'
Am I illegal? Ask Putrajaya, says Paul Low
Anonymous_40c3: Minister in the PM's Department Paul Low, please read Article 43(2)(b) Federal Constitution very carefully where it is stated clearly that ministers may only be appointed by the Agong from members of either house of Parliament.
Your appointment is therefore ultra vires the federal constitution. It's being disrespectful to the king that no reference is even being made to the attorney-general (AG) to advise on a point of law by the PM.
If such advice has been sought, the views of the AG should be made known so that this uncertainty does not become fodder for politicking.
By the way, the federal constitution is the supreme law of the nation. Procedurally, the appointment of Paul Low and others as senator by the king will come under Article 45(1) of the Federal Constitution.
To be entitled to be a member of the Senate and attend to participate in proceedings in the Senate, all those appointed as senators must first be sworn in.
So, the question to be answered is, are these newbies at this juncture a member of the Senate? Whilst the president of the Senate is clouded with the authority to preside and run proceedings in the Senate, the president cannot just put things in order by swearing in a senator to cure a defect on his appointment as a minister if the appointed minister was not a member of the Senate at that material time.
The oath before our beloved king should not have been taken as the minister's appointment is defective and arguably not curable by any subsequent action taken. Respect for the rule of law and to our king must be seen in these circumstances where a wrong has been pointed out.
It's not about politics per se, it's of national interest. If it's within the confines of the law, then it's vital for the stakeholders of our law institutions to come forward and dispel the uncertainty surrounding this issue.
Tailek: The AG as the legal adviser to the government should know the law. These individuals were not appointed as senators yet, so their appointment as ministers was illegal.
Rather than beating around the bush and passing the buck, these ministers should step down, get appointed as senators and then be re-appointed as ministers.
What is so difficult to accept that the government has made a mistake? Even DAP admitted they made a mistake in their party polls.
Abasir: Paul 'Ask Putrajaya' Low stands condemned for all time not because he was not transparent with his colleagues in TI-M (Transparency International-Malaysia) when offered a job by PM Najib Razak but because of his sheer hypocrisy and arrogance when responding to queries on the legitimacy of his position.
The only problem now is that he has not a shred of credibility left and will remain the object of ridicule forever.
Krish: Paul Low should represent what TI-M stands for. Mind you, he was TI-M president, no small position. But alas, by his very actions and responses thus far, he is a far cry from TI-M's principles.
As DAP leader Lim Kit Siang says, if he took his oath of office before being appointed senator, then his appointment is illegal.
He should do the right thing by resigning his position with immediate effect to uphold the very principles that he was supposedly fighting for when he was in TI-M.
Slumdog: This is a bad start to Najib's new administration. Umno politicians and their crony NGO organisations always lecture everyone about complying with the law and constitution and to follow the correct procedures.
But as we have come to expect, they are the ones who ignore their own advice and push the boundaries to the maximum with spin and more lies.
Bluemountains: Paul Low had agreed that it is sufficient for those holding public office to declare their assets to the prime minister.
I would urge the former TI-M president to insist on maximum transparency as it involves taxpayers' money. Why are they not willing to declare their assets to the taxpayers? Is it because they have already amassed huge amounts that cannot be accounted for?
He should insist that those who are not willing to declare their assets to the taxpayers must step down immediately. Why can't BN elected representatives do it when Pakatan elected reps had already done so?
Pahatian: Our former and respectable TI-M president is learning the trade fast. Just weeks into his present post as a minister in the PM's Department, he is already practising how to push the ball around.
Michael Soh: Paul Low, you should know yourself what is right and what is wrong. This is so clear cut. And there is no shame to correct what is wrong.
You have the opportunity to set things right with your own appointment and it is important that you clear it up before you move on.
If not, it will render your leadership ineffective. It is a flawed appointment but it can be corrected. Why so difficult to come out in the open to correct it with humility and sincerity.
Adam Adil: Saul who persecuted Christians zealously saw the light of Jesus and was converted and became Paul the Apostle and most famous missionary.
I wonder what Paul Low has seen and embraced - light or darkness?
Cocomomo: We possibly had illegal voters. Now we have illegal ministers.
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Ivy and sumac dress in colors gay,
And oak and maple mask in bright attire.
The hoarded wealth of sober autumn days
In lavish mood for motley garb is spent,
And nature for the while at folly plays,
Knowing the morrow brings a snowy Lent.
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The Redlands Elks Lodge invites the community to a Flag Day ritual and flag retirement ceremony 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday on the back patio of the Elks Club, 663 New York St., Redlands.
The Redlands Elks, Boy Scout Troop 19 and East Valley Young Marines will participate.
The event includes the Elks' Flag Day ritual, flag retirement ritual, Boy Scout ceremony and wall of trumpets.
Those attending are asked to wear uniforms or patriotic attire, if possible.
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Chris Botti began his music career after moving to New York City in 1985. Before producing his own albums, Botti got the opportunity to tour and perform with artists like Paul Simon which gave him great exposure. For two years he remained associated with Sting's backup band. In 1995 Chris Botti released his first solo album, "First Wish". He experimented with different textures and melodies and was able to create songs that were a blend of jazz and pop music. With his talent and creativity he has managed to create a distinct style for himself. Botti has been very lucky with opportunities and got a chance to work with some of the best in music such as Marc Cohn, Natalie Merchant, Joni Mitchell, Andrea Bocelli, Joshua Bell, John Mayer and Frank Sinatra.
Chris Botti has produced several albums all of which show his passion for contemporary jazz music. In 2001 he released his album, "Night Sessions" which was co-written by multi-instrumentalist Kipper. Botti worked on the album when he was on two years tour with Sting and every song on the album was composed after dark as it provided the musician more freedom and fewer distractions. Hence the album was given the name, "Night Sessions" and it became a huge hit in the contemporary jazz genre. 2002 saw the release of his holiday theme album, "December". All the songs in the album create the feeling of joy and comfort, keeping Christmas spirit alive. There is a variety in tracks, while some have slow and lush arrangements, others are fast and perky. "A Thousand Kisses Deep" was his next album and included beautifully crafted original tracks. The crossover between jazz and pop music added to its appeal and made jazz fans go crazy. Songs like, "My Funny Valentine" which included arrangements by Miles Davis, ranked in top five on every music chart and maintained that position for a long time. Chris Botti's album, "To Love Again: The Duets", showcases the talent of nine best vocalists of this era and adds depth to his music. Despite being a star studded album, Botti has managed not to be overshadowed and his unique touch is evident throughout. The album fulfilled fans expectations and has been labeled as one of the best works of Botti. "Italia", Chris Botti's another release, is a combination of different compositions and includes classical opera as well as film music. The album shows his strengths as a composer and trumpeter. The romance, the lushness and the beautifully presented skills, have made this album Botti's masterpiece.
In his music career Chris Botti has been nominated for Grammy Award several times. His album, "Night Sessions" won Album of the Year award at National Smooth Jazz Awards. In addition to this he has also won Jazz Artist of the Year award.
Chris Botti's fan following is not limited to jazz lovers only but has expanded to pop lovers as well. His live performances are a treat to watch as his improvisations and instrument mastery makes the audiences spellbound. Botti's performances bring to stage a wide range of styles, making the atmosphere magical. A crowd charmer, Chris Botti rousing performances always gets the crowd going and has helped him win many hearts. Through his brilliance as a performer, Botti maintains a connection and shares excitement with the audiences.
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Chris Botti Profession
- A Thousand Kisses Deep
- Chris Botti in Boston
- When I Fall in Love
- Night Sessions
- Impressions
Chris Botti Music groups
Incognito, Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (1998 – 2000)
Chris Botti Songs
- The Look of Love
- My Funny Valentine
- Cinema Paradiso
- Emmanuel
- To Love Again
- Good Morning Heartache
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- The Very Thought of You
- Irresistible Bliss
- What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
- All Would Envy
- Time to Say Goodbye
- Ever Since We Met
- My One and Only Love
- What a Wonderful World
- Midnight Without You
- How Love Should Be
- What'll I Do
- Lover Man
- Here's That Rainy Day
- Like I Do Now
- Back Into My Heart
- Sevdah
- En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor
- Love Gets Old
- A Thousand Kisses Deep
- Prelude No. 20 in C Minor
- Per Te
- The Steps of Positano
- Mr. Wah
- Do It in Luxury
- The Last Three Minutes
Chris Botti Schedule
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Elaine And Elaine
By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Dead, she drifted to his feet.
Tell us, Love, is Death so sweet?
Oh! the river floweth deep.
Fathoms deeper is her sleep.
Oh! the current driveth strong.
Wilder tides drive souls along.
Drifting, though he loved her not,
To the heart of Launcelot,
Let her pass; it is her place.
Death hath given her this grace.
Let her pass; she resteth well.
What her dreams are, who can tell?
Mute the steersman; why, if he
Speaketh not a word, should we?
Dead, she drifteth to his feet.
Close, her eyes keep secrets sweet.
Living, he had loved her well.
High as Heaven and deep as Hell.
Yet that voyage she stayeth not.
Wait you for her, Launcelot?
Oh! the river floweth fast.
Who is justified at last?
Locked her lips are. Hush! If she
Sayeth nothing, how should we?
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text: Hi guys..... i noticed this weekend after washing my car that i have a perfect circular wet patch under the carpet on my drivers side foot well.. about the size of a small plate.... also for about the past 4-5months i have been having to top my coolent up every 1000 miles... (asked local garage to test pressure.. and it did not lose any pressure so i wasnt so worried) could these be linked?? or totally different ? any help would be fantastic!!


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122. In Search of Tony
123. Life's a Ditch
124. In Your Dreams
125. Sam's Novel Romance
126. Tony and the Professor
127. Mother and Child Disunion
128. Sam Can Manage
129. Supermom Burnout
130. Sex, Lies and Exercise Tape
131. To Tony, with Love
132. The World Accordion to Jonathan
133. Gambling Jag
134. Sam Accelerates
135. Tony Kills
136. Dear Landlord
137. Mona & Walter & Sam & Eric
138. Micelli's Marauders
139. Her Father's Daughter
140. Take Me Back to the Ballgame
141. I Dream of Genealogy
142. Couple Trouble
143. Operation Mona
144. Road Scholar
145. Beautician Heal Thyself
146. Sit Down and be Counted
147. The All-Nighter
The family goes to a tropical island. Everyone else is having fun without
Tony and he becomes lonely. After Angela nearly drowns, they argue and
decide they are having more fun apart from each other. After they compete
in a talent contest and Tony hurts his leg, they talk "passionately"
about their future.
Charlie, Sam's girlfriend from Brooklyn, visits while Angela is preparing
for a dog food commercial. Charlie talks Sam into ditching school for
the day and going to the beach, but Tony catches them before they leave
the house. When Tony calls Charlie's mother to tell her, he learns that
her mother doesn't care about Charlie and doesn't want her in her life.
Charlie is asked to be a stand-in model for the dog food commercial
and her future changes.
Tony and Angela are apartment-sitting for Mrs. Rossini. After meeting
two couples Tony used to be friends with, Angela dreams that she and
Tony are married and living in Brooklyn with four children and another
one on the way. She learned that she has a little bit of Brooklyn in
her and Tony has left a little of Brooklyn behind.
Sam joins a book discussion group when she develops a crush on the
instructor, a young college professor, unaware that he is married.
On the spur of the moment, Tony accepts a date with a woman he meets
at a bar. Having second thoughts, he cancels the date the next day,
only to learn later that the woman is the professor of his new class.
Angela decides to merge her business with an associate company, despite
Mona's misgivings. The new associate begins to take control and
tells Angela she must get rid of her smaller clients. Mona volunteers
to work for Angela for fewer benefits if she will withdraw from the
Al and his friends are visiting from Brooklyn. They have started a
new rock band, but are in desperate need of help. Sam agrees to take
on the role of the band manager. Tony doesn't think she will be able
to handle it, and his attempts to help her only make her angry with
Angela brings the family to a psychiatrist for counseling when she
thinks Sam and Jonathan's fighting is getting to be too much. The psychiatrist
reassures them that their family is emotionally healthy. But his evaluation
of Tony's busy life prompts him to ask Tony to continue counseling with
a group of parents who risk burning out.
Angela joins a health club, where she quickly makes friends with a
group of three women. After they meet Tony, Angela tells them she and
Tony are a couple. Tony learns of Angela's lie, and she explains that,
just like in high school, she felt pressured to do it in order to fit
Tony needs an extra class to fill up his semester schedule and Sam
suggests that he become a teacher's assistant, an easy "A"
and he use the class time to do his other homework. The course puts
him in a third-grade class, where the teacher orders him to assist her
on the first day. After an initial struggle, he finds he is able to
work well with the students, and is soon considering becoming a teacher.
Some bad experiences at school, including being assigned to play the
accordion, have Jonathan's self-esteem at rock bottom. Tony helps him
overcome his discouragement by introducing him to an old friend of his,
who is now an accordion player. Jonathan soon enjoys playing the accordion,
but when Tony encourages him not to restrict himself to one activity,
Jonathan misinterprets Tony's intentions as disapproval for the accordion,
and bans Tony from his first recital.
When Mona's luck with men takes a turn for the worse, Tony, Angela,
and Mona visit Atlantic City for a weekend to help her forget her troubles.
Mona hits rock bottom and can only go up from there, when she meets
a professional gambler who begins winning things from her -- including
the keys to Angela's Jaguar.
Sam is accepted to the Accelerated Scholastic Program, which will allow
her to graduate from high school a year early. She is excited at first,
and begins looking at colleges. But soon she wonders what will happen
between Tony and Angela after she has gone away. Her fear that Tony
may end up alone prompts her to reconsider her decision.
Tony challenges an obnoxious neighbor, Fred, to a tennis match after
he makes a pass at Angela. He is devastated after Fred drops dead on
the court. Soon Fred's twin brother, Ed, shows up and takes advantage
of Tony's guilt over Fred. When he makes a pass at Angela, Tony
rashly challenges him to play tennis, then wonders if he'll kill
Ed too.
Angela buys a house to rent for profit. She and Tony choose a tenant
together, a retired gentleman. When Angela returns from a brief business
trip, she finds that Tony has instead rented it to an attractive, young,
aspiring actress.
She becomes to focus of everyone's attention, especially Tony's,
and Angela has to take control again before harmony returns.
Tony and Angela arrange a date between Mona and Walter, the grandfather
of Sam's boyfriend, Eric. Disaster strikes when it turns out Walter
and Mona knew each other long ago -- and were engaged. Mona swallows
her pride to help keep Sam and Eric together.
Angela and her friends from the health club have formed a volleyball
team, and Tony accepts the request to be their coach. The girls play
poorly at first, but after some coaching from Tony, both athletic and
personal, the team's performance improves. The one exception is Angela,
who Tony is inadvertently neglecting.
Tony and Angela are chaperones on Sam's spring break vacation to Ft.
Lauderdale Beach. Two guys hit on Sam and Bonnie, and Sam suspects the
boys plan to move too fast. When Sam tries to warn Bonnie, Bonnie accuses
her of being too motherly, and they end up fighting. Sam tells Tony
about Bonnie and the boys, and realizes Tony is right when he says she
is a lot like him when it comes to protecting her friends. Meanwhile,
back at home, Mona helps Jonathan find a date.
A client of Angela's, a baseball player, upsets Tony when he demonstrates
that he is only in baseball for the money and the fame. Tony wonders
whatever happened to pride in the game.
After researching her family tree, Sam discovers that her great-grandfather,
assumed to be deceased, is still alive in Italy. He is flown to Connecticut
to meet the family. Tony soon discovers that the man is not who they
believe he is.
Tony and Angela make friends with another couple at the country club.
The couple is about to become engaged, but their relationship with Tony
and Angela may pose a problem.
After a fire at Mona's apartment, Angela's offer to buy her a
new condo is met with hostility. Angela is angry and leaves the house.
Mona becomes ill and is rushed to the hospital, where she will need
surgery to remove her gall bladder. Mona's dead husband appears
to her and encourages her to make up with Angela. Mona tells Angela
she reacted because she wanted to stay near her little girl.
Sam has her heart set on attending Tate University, but Tony insists
she keep an open mind, so the two take a road trip to visit some schools.
Sam eventually gets a letter from Tate requesting an interview, but
things don't go as she hoped. She was as surprised as Tony at which
college she chose.
Al has graduated beauty school, and Tony helps him set up his own salon
in Brooklyn. Al's behavior to the customers upsets them, and when Tony
explains that Al will never make it unless he changes his ways, Al decides
to close the shop.
A census taker visits Tony and Angela, just as they are hoping to leave
for the movies. Using flashbacks from previous episodes, Mona gives
the man a brief run-down of the history of Tony and Angela's relationship.
Tony and his study group are cramming for exams. After everyone goes
home except for Kathleen, she and Tony sleep together. He feels somewhat
guilty, particularly when he tells Angela about it. Angela and Tony
assess their relationship and decide that they don't know exactly where
it is going, but that it is best if they let it run its course.


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Georgetown College women's basketball team starts the season almost where it ended a year ago. The then No. 11 Tigers had a terrific run at the NAIA National Women's Basketball Tournament, advancing all the way to the Fab Four for this first time. Wednesday afternoon it was announced that GC is preseason No. 6.
"Rankings are great for about the first five minutes when they come out," laughed Tiger coach Andrea McCloskey. "It is nice for our players to see that and know they have earned that respect, but now we have to go out and prove it again. No easy task inside our Mid-South Conference."
The MSC had five teams in the Top 25 and a sixth team receiving votes. Shawnee State University, which is preseason conference favorite, is second in the national poll. Georgetown, despite graduating five players, did receive the second place nod from all the league coaches as well as garnering two of the 11 first place votes. The team is the second highest in the national poll, while Campbellsville is sitting preseason No. 13. Lindsey Wilson College (17th) and University of the Cumberlands (18th) round out the Top 25 for MSC teams. Newcomer Cumberland University is receiving votes.
"It is an honor to be seen by the conference coaches as an early favorite," McCloskey said. "People see that we graduated five players and you think rebuilding year. Fortunately, for us most of our statistical production was coming from our then juniors and sophomores. Now they are our seniors and juniors ready to play again.
"The target on our back has gotten bigger and every time we step on the floor we are going to have to prove ourselves."
Offensively, the Tigers return two All-American guards in juniors Kourtney Tyra and Andrea Howard. Both put up a lot of points and have the ability to make defenses focus in on them. Another pure shooter McCloskey gets back after a season ended by a knee injury is junior Lindsay Fultz. The Anderson County native has great range on the floor as well as a sense for the basketball in rebounding. Devon Golden and Lizza Jonas provide versatility and consistency to the lineup. Both have experience from post to guard, making for a difficult match up. Jonas is also GC's best defensive player returning and can guard anyone on the floor. Devanny King provides a true post presence, and she got a lot of minutes her freshman year.
"It's exciting the group we have back," McCloskey said. "Mix those in with our transfer Olivia Coleman and our true freshman - Jessica Foster, Mykal Farris, Tena Johnson and Haley Armstrong - and we should have a very dynamic team.
"The fun part about it was we were successful with a certain style this past season, but this year, with this team, I think we will play a completely different style. It's fun as a coach to see the puzzle pieces and start deciding how they all fit together and work best together."
The Tigers have played a pair of exhibitions games this past weekend and will play one more against Eastern Kentucky University on Nov. 2 before tipping it off in the 19th Annual Habitat Classic Nov. 9-10.


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By Simon Gardner
SANTIAGO, Cuba (Reuters) - Pope Benedict arrives in Cuba on Monday for a three-day visit that has fueled aspirations for deeper economic and political change on the communist-run island and which the Roman Catholic Church hopes will spark a faith revival.
Visiting 14 years after Pope John Paul II's landmark trip to Cuba, and arriving after a stop in Mexico, Benedict will pay homage to the island's patron saint, a diminutive doll-like figurine known as the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, and say Masses in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba and in Havana.
He comes to Cuba at a time when Church-state relations have warmed after decades of hostility that followed the island's 1959 revolution.
But the pontiff fired an unexpected salvo on Friday when he told reporters that communism on the Caribbean island had failed and a new economic model was needed, adding that the Church was willing to offer its help "to avoid traumas."
The Cuban government offered a diplomatic response to the Pope's criticism, saying that Cuba would "listen with all respect" to the Pope and welcomed "the exchange of ideas."
While many Cubans complain about the failings of the socialist economy, not everyone agrees with the Pope's assessment.
"We're so happy the Pope is coming, it makes us feel as though the world is noticing us," said Alejandro Linares, a 23-year-old university student from the eastern province of Guantanamo, a small image of revolutionary icon Ernesto 'Che' Guevara dangling around his neck.
"We want him to see our Cuba. We want him to see that we live pretty well here and that we want to be socialist, not capitalist."
President Raul Castro has used the Church as an interlocutor on issues such as political prisoners and dissidents, while moving forward on reforms to Cuba's rickety Soviet-style economy. They include slashing a million government jobs and freeing up some sectors to small-scale private enterprise.
Though weakened after more than half a century of communist rule, the Church remains the largest and most socially influential institution outside of the government in Cuba.
Since the visit by Pope John Paul, the Church has sought to increase its social outreach, offering care centers for the elderly as well as limited after-school and adult education programs, though it is denied permission to compete with Cuba's state-run school system.
Raul Castro will meet Benedict at the airport in Santiago de Cuba, which is Cuba's second biggest city at the eastern end of the island, and then hold official talks with him on Tuesday in Havana.
It was not yet known if Benedict, 84, would meet former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who is 85 and Raul's older brother, or Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, 57, who arrived in the Cuban capital over the weekend for cancer treatment.
Chavez has become more publicly religious since he was operated on for cancer last summer in Cuba. Unconfirmed reports out of Venezuela said the pope would see him in Havana.
During his visit to Mexico, Benedict denounced drug violence and corruption. In Cuba, he is expected to push for a bigger role for the Church.
Many Cubans would like the pope's visit to help bring an end to the 50-year-old trade embargo the United States has imposed on the island.
"All Cubans would like the pope's visit to have repercussions that help end the embargo, but we don't need a new system," said Sergio Teyes, 40, sitting next to the frayed 1950 Chevrolet Deluxe classic car he uses to drive tourists around town, its bumpers and trim dented and blue paint flaking off.
"The economy has been improving, growing. Education and healthcare is paid for," he added. "Marxism will always be the idea, but with improvements. One thing we could do with are better salaries."
Close to the pergola where the pope will say Mass in Santiago de Cuba's main square, a placard pictures a young Fidel in fatigues thrusting a rifle into the air.
The Communist Party ended its ban on religious believers in 1991, but Cubans generally view John Paul's visit as the pivotal moment that led to improved Church-state relations.
Expectations are more muted for Benedict's visit, which coincides with the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the Virgin figurine, and was inspired by a stirring of faith the Church saw in hundreds of thousands of people who thronged to a procession of a replica around the island last year.
Found floating in a bay in 1612 by fishermen, the icon was revered by Cuba's independence heroes and sits in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra mountains from which Fidel Castro and Guevara staged the 1959 revolution.
The Virgin is an important figure for both the Church and Santeria, the Afro-Cuban religion that is a legacy of Cuba's slavery era and knows her as Ochun, the goddess of love.
The pontiff will lead a Mass in honor of the Virgin in Santiago de Cuba on Monday, and then visit the sanctuary where it is enshrined in the mountainside town of El Cobre, 12 miles outside the city, on Tuesday morning.
Church officials say his schedule has not allowed for meetings with dissidents, who say Castro's government flouts human rights and suppresses their voices.
The dissident movement Damas de Blanco, or Ladies in White, a group of Catholic women that campaigns for the release of political prisoners, said it had been told by Cuban authorities to keep clear of the pope's Mass in Santiago.
"They are going to present the pope with a facade, not with the true Cuba," said Ana Celia Rodriguez, a 42-year-old mother of three who is planning to try to attend anyway.
"I really don't expect much change from the pope's visit. He'll see a Cuba that doesn't exist. My message for the pope is that he ought to see how things really are."
More than 70 members of the Ladies in White group were detained briefly last week, fueling expectations that the government, which views opponents as mercenaries of the United States, might clamp down to prevent public demonstrations during the pope's stay.
"Cuba does not offer me a future," said 14-year-old school girl Martha Beatriz Ferrer, whose mother is one of the Ladies in White. "I would like to be a lawyer, but I won't be able to become one. The fact my parents are opponents of the regime discredits me with the authorities," she added. "What options do I have?"
(Additional reporting by Jeff Franks and Nelson Acosta; Editing by David Adams and Kieran Murray)


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ROBERT MAY IKONIC INTERACTIVE MR. MAY: I want to thank you very much for coming out to Silicon Valley and also for slipping me in unannounced. I'd expected to be out of town today and at the last moment my travel plans changed. I want to give a quick perspective on the lay of the land from Ikonic Interactive. We're a soft` developer located in San Fran- cisco. We're a multimedia developer with about nine years of ex- perience in this business. Current clients include Time Warner for whom we're designing the user interface and software for the full_service network in Orlando, Florida; Dow Jones for whom we just recently completed the redesign of the Wall Street Journal for PDAs; a variety of other projects. So we're intimately ac- quainted with some of these issues and I'd like to just give you a snapshot of some of our perspective. I spent my morning on the phone with one of our clients negotiat- ing contracts, and I should say, number one, I am not an attor- ney, and it's only through the tutelage of Kate Spellman up at Steinhart and Falconer, our IP attorney, and David Hayes down here at Fenwick and West that I know just enough to be dangerous, but notwithstanding that, I often rush in where angels fear to tread, and I wanted to discuss two key issues that we face every day, and just to give you some data with which to make sodecisions. I should also say in the spirit of full disclosure, we do have a software patent application under way, another one that we're considering, and I come here as a supporter of the notion of software patents, and more specifically, interface patents. Not- withstanding that, a single biggest problem I'd say from a busi- ness exposure standpoint is that we are often asked by our clients to indemnify them, that we have not incorporated prior art or other patents in our work. Given the way that the prior art search has to be conducted at this point it's very very dif- ficult for us to indemnify our clients to that, and I would respectfully suggest two possible solutions to that. And the first would be that in my midnight reading of patents and patent law, which I've been doing the last year or so, I've learned that things like the Compton's patent have many many many claims attached to them, and it's very very difficult to under- stand, let alone plan for the implications of those claims. Ori- ginally as I uhstand it, patent law was designed to address in- ventions that were reduced to practice, and it seems to me that it might be a useful distinction to separate claims very specifi- cally to those that are actually reduced to practice and are shown to be reduced to practice and those that are speculative and looking for future technologies. And as a nonattorney I've got a very difficult time when I'm faced with trying to judge that and then promise in a contract that I will in fact not __ not infringe on those claims. Number two, recently the FCC decided to free up 10(k)s and other public filing information and make that available on the Inter- net; previously it was available on Meade and I believe maybe Lexis and Nexis. Currently I'm not aware of a way to research pa- tent information by public, without signing onto Lexis, undergo- ing quite an expensive search process, and insofar as it is pub- lic information I'd like to urge you to make that information available on the Internet and make it available publicly. lond issue that we're confronted with very frequently, and this wraps around both patent issues and copyrights and others __ COMMISSIONER LEHMAN: Can I ask you a question. What kind of in- formation for somebody like you would be useful? You know, there's everything from the full text of prior_issue patents and all of the company technical drawings to, you know, abstracts of the patent. What kind of __ when you're talking about making things available on the Internet, what kind of information of that type would be useful to you? MR. MAY: Yes, sir. Given the example that I just gave, from a business person's perspective, I'd like to see the whole thing, because I'm being asked to indemnify my client against all claims. A helpful start would be the abstract, but lamentably, I've got to be familiar with the art to the extent that I can be. It would help me very much if there were to be drawings, et al. Does that answer your question? COMMISSIONER LEHMAN: Yes. Yes, it does. MR. MAY: Okay. The secoprea that we experience in day_to_day is again as I said, broadly a problem across both patent law, copy- right law, and I'd like to just raise it in the context of patent law here today, and that is the difficulty between what current practice is and what we'd like to see practice moved to, and that is the concept of work made for hire wherein typically a small company like ours is doing work for a larger client, who attempts to get us to engage in that work under work made for hire, which means that, as you know, they own all patent rights and copy- rights and trade drafts, et cetera. Very difficult to conduct business in this way and to grow a business in this way. So we've been successful ourselves and I urge other folks out there in our business to move to a license strategy where in fact we retain the rights to underlying key concepts and intellectual property that we develop and license that in perpetuity on a royalty_free basis to our client. One of the key problems with that approach is the ambigutin copy- right law between what's called look and what's called feel, and I would urge you and the folks you work with to turn your atten- tion to that ambiguity and try to address that, and the specific case in point is that when we're faced with producing a project for say Time News On Demand for Time Warner, it's one thing to grant them the rights to look at that program and morally and ethically and by all other business means, I'm absolutely commit- ted not to producing work for another client that copies and looks the same as the work that I do for my initial client. At the same time, in the pursuit of my business, we often enjoy the discovery of elements that help us do the job better for the next person, and the current ambiguity in copyright law makes it very difficult to parse out, to separate out what is look from what is feel, and feel, as you know, in the Apple Microsoft Case has been pulled out to mean basically menu command structures, things like that. So that's the underlying structure that wxed to have in what we call our multimedia toolbox in order to ply our trade, and to the extent that we are forced by circumstance or by the size of our business in the marketplace to give up those rights in a work_made_for_hire scenario, it's very difficult for us to ply our trade in the future. Like the carpenter being told that they can't use a particular jig that makes them drill holes faster, it cuts down on our efficiency and our ability to carry on our busi- ness. So I wanted to bring these two points to mind just to give you a snapshot of what it's like out here on the frontier of the Infor- mation Superhighway, but these are key issues for us and I'd wel- come your attention to those. COMMISSIONER LEHMAN: Part of that problem that you have, and I don't mean in any sense to suggest there isn't merit to your sub- stantive ideas about scope of copyright protection, but is part of the problem there that in your situation when you mentioned Time Warner, they're a client, you're a small company, a small entr|neur, that you just don't have the marketing power basically to avoid being, you know, strong_armed into signing work_made_for_hire agreements that would mean that you have to give away more than you'd like to give away. I mean is that one of the reasons this becomes really acute? You just __ Ideally, you know, you don't have to __ you work under conditions that you want to work under and you can say, Well, I'm sorry, I'm not go- ing to give away some of my techniques that I would otherwise give away, but you just can't do that because you don't have the market clout. Is that a problem? MR. MAY: Well, I think it's tempting to paint the big company as the bad guy and the little company as the Don Quixote. I would suggest from personal experience that large companies in point of fact, once this distinction, this difficulty is raised, they're willing to look at solutions that work for both sides. There is a reflexive tendency to turn to work made for hire as something that quote has been done in the past, it's always been good enough. Happily we've been able to negotiate positions with our clients that enables us to move forward, but yes, I think in some instances you're correct, if you're a smaller company, if you haven't been able to build your multimedia tool kit and you come in with just a hammer and saw sometimes it's easy to be bulldozed, to mix my metaphors. COMMISSIONER LEHMAN: Thank you very much. MR. MAY: Thank you. Appreciate it. COMMISSIONER LEHMAN: Next I'd like to, back on our regular schedule here, and I'd like to ask Mr. Steven Henry from Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, came all the way from Boston.Back to The San Jose Index
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