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The Calgary Chinook Lesbian and Gay Fund is an endowment fund established to provide ongoing long-term funding of Calgary organizations deserving of and in need of support. Each year the fund accrues income and a portion of this income is distributed by the Fund's advisory committee in support of charitable Gay and Lesbian causes.
All donations are deposited with and managed by The Calgary Foundation's Chinook Lesbian and Gay Endowment Fund. The Fund supports charitable organizations providing services, programming, education, and support for and about the LGBT community. Groups must be aimed at promoting tolerance and inclusiveness within Calgary.
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Aroma therapy is one of the latest fads which makes this USB air freshner a must have. This
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Want a full-sized keyboard that you can roll up and take anywhere? Than ElekTex's Smart Fabric Keyboard is just what you've been looking for, its 100% fabric, water-repellent, and very light (2.4 ounces). It uses Bluetooth technology to connect with compatible devices and even comes with a PDA stand. An embedded LED displays keyboard and Bluetooth connectivity status.
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Hammacher Schlemmer's "Multimedia Chair" just might be the ultimate gaming accessory, offering two 50-watt speakers (built into headrest), a 300-watt amp (concealed in chair base), and a sound transducer — "the same technology originally used in multimillion dollar USAF flight simulators and theme park rides" — that converts low-frequency sounds into vibrations. One drawback, it costs $799.95. Source
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f you want to combine art and technology into one device, SoundArt has the answer in its stylish canvas speakers. Just hang it on your wall, plug in your music source and enjoy the space around you. From music to movies the audio options are endless. Almost any audio source can be played through it – your Hi-Fi, iPod, DVD, CD or use the output on your AV system. Featuring one or two canvas speakers, a subwoofer, and your choice of canvas print. One potential drawback, it costs $3700. Source
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What happens if you have more than 255 albums or artists? Does it only display the first 255 in alphabetical order?
When you're in the artist category, does it list the albums, then songs within album (like the iPod hierarchy)?
Any chance you could scan & post the users manual?
If there are more than 255 Albums or Artists, it only shows the first 255. For example, I have 372 artists on my iPod, but I can only see up through "Nelly Furtado". This isn't a big deal for me (since I use playlists a lot -- I have too much music!), but the 500 songs limit is a bummer.
When you select an artist, it displays all songs for that artist, not by album like on the iPod.
Also, to clarify my earlier comment on the delay to "cache" info from the iPod: When I go to "MP3 2" (aka Artists), it takes nearly 1 minute to load the info off of my iPod and put it into the menu. However, then I can scroll quickly through the first 255 entries. However, returning to the menu after the initial load is much faster. The other display options (MP3 1 - Playlists, MP3 3 - Albums, etc) have similar load times, but returning is better. As I said, this is a LOT better than my Pioneer head unit.
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GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann is offering supporters a chance to get an early, autographed copy of her upcoming memoirs, but at a price to help fund her campaign.
The Minnesota congresswoman says in an e-mail that she'll send a personalized, autographed copy of Core of Conviction: My Story for $125. Campaign donors who want just a signed book, due out Nov. 21, are being asked for $75.
"I open up about myself, and tell the stories that shaped my goals and determination to fight for America," Bachmann says in a fundraising e-mail that includes the book offer.
"I speak from the heart," she says, adding that the book will include stories from her childhood in Iowa and Minnesota, her college and law school years, her business and family, and her "accidental" career in politics.
The list price for Bachmann's book, being published by Sentinel, is $26.95.
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TO WRITE a cutting-edge newspaper column the author must be prepared to go that extra mile - or in this case 10,496 of them.
Sure, there are some reporters who don camouflage gear and fly in military troop planes to war zones at great risk to both themselves and their duty-free booze. And we raise our bully-beef and biscuits to them.
But we also are prepared to make sacrifices in this never-ending search for the truth. Such as wearing those appalling business class pyjamas on the flight to London to observe this international sporting pageant.
And while we cannot deny we have taken a more leisurely path than the sports reporters (who have been working their Olympic rings off covering everything from the incredibly popular beach volleyball to the darkly controversial shuttlecock) we have not been exactly idle.
So after two weeks of interviewing random police, random citizens and random randoms, here are our random thoughts thus far.
Australia was, is and should remain the Lucky Country.
We are blessed with good weather, massive natural resources, a healthy economy and, by international standards, a low crime rate. We can flock to sporting events and largely take victory and defeat with good humour. Unlike England, our football fans don't have to be separated and treated as enemy tribes dressed in the colours of war.
Yet we have never quite mastered train travel - or not since Ned Kelly tried to derail one at Glenrowan. We have every reason to be embarrassed by our public transport system. During these Olympics the London Tube has handled more than 4 million passengers a day with relative ease. Not only are the stations clean and the trains on time but also passengers attempt to remain civil - even in the peak-hour crush.
People move into carriages and don't block the doors, give up their seats to older women, don't hog room by placing backpacks on spare seats, listen to loud music or carry on loud, meaningless mobile phone conversations.
The Oyster card tickets work, which makes the $1.35 billion we spent on myki even more puzzling.
And memo Police Minister Peter Ryan: despite the constant threat of terrorism, there are no armed guards on stations, which makes the government's decision to recruit 940 Protective Services Officers to stand on near-deserted platforms every night even more wooden-headed.
Like most major cities, London is full of contradictions. The average Englishman is so polite that if he doesn't apologise at least eight times a day for the slightest indiscretion he will break out in brown spots. And the Poms remain world leaders at queueing - never happier than when lining up in single file for anything from theatre tickets to mushy peas.
Yet British bobbies now wear stab-resistant vests - proof the city still has a dark edge.
During these Games the British demeanour has shifted from stiff upper lip to decidedly lippy. Every local media hack in a pinstripe suit has pointed to Australia's relative lack of success compared with ''Team GB'' (which may stand for Gloating Badly).
They love winners just as we do, but sometimes the ''England Expects'' mantra exacts too great a price - a rower reduced to sobs as he told an interviewer he was sorry he had let everyone down. He had just won a silver medal.
Having attended several Olympic venues, we can confirm the obvious. The chant Aussie, Aussie, Aussie - Oi, Oi, Oi is the lamest national battle cry since the von Trapp family slaughtered Edelweiss in The Sound of Music.
Another observation. London is filled with cheerful racists - but not of the Alf Garnett Till Death Us Do Part variety. Racial stereotypes are used in polite company as long as they never relate to skin colour. Greeks are lazy, Italians sex mad, the Frogs arrogant. And the Germans are using banks to take over Europe only because they couldn't do it with tanks. Big-bottomed, Lycra-clad Yanks should be banned from Hyde Park while Australians are crass yobs who want to make Shane Warne and his hair prime minister.
But despite years of moaning about the cost and disruption of the Games, Britain has come together for these two weeks. Just a year after London's race riots, crowds have gathered in the same areas waving Union Jacks and oozing national pride.
While walking down a London street a stern-faced woman in a grey business suit turned to ask us, ''Do you know where you are going?'' (It is a question, sadly, we have been asked all too often over the years.) She then burst into a beaming smile. ''We've won another gold - in the dressage - it's brilliant.''
Politicians hope the Games' feel-good factor will last and bring about change for the better. History suggests it won't. The 2000 Sydney Games inspired similar hopes.
As an aside, however, these Games have allowed this reporter to complete a family journey that began just before the Olympics were last here.
Ripley is a small Surrey village famous for not much other than being the birthplace of rock star Eric Clapton. As England nursed its substantial wounds following World War II, many young servicemen couldn't wait to start new lives.
My father was not one of them. As an ex-member of the Royal Navy he felt it his patriotic duty to spend as much time as possible at his local hotel, the appropriately named Jovial Sailor. This was until his father, an RAF man, suggested it might be time to get a job. This may have been partially inspired by the fact the younger Silvester had been voted by fellow drinkers the person least likely to succeed at anything. (A tad unfair, perhaps, as he carried his own war wound - a nasty scar on his top lip - delivered not by a U-boat attack, but by a village girl who knocked him off his bike for an [alleged] act of infidelity.)
In any case, when Fred Silvester took the hint, his eyes fell on an ad for the Metropolitan Police. Not that he was imbued with a desire to again serve king and country. He felt he was unlikely to get the job, but that the effort would placate his father. It was February 1947 and London was slowly preparing to host the following year's Olympics, which would be known as the Austerity Games. His hopes soared when he entered the waiting room. A slight young fellow, he was surrounded by much larger former military types and immediately thought: ''Fantastic, I've got no chance but at least this will keep the old man off my back.''
Next stop, he surmised, would be the Jovial Sailor. He was, therefore, surprised when he received a letter welcoming him to the next induction.
Then a funny thing happened. The reluctant bobby turned out to have a real nose for the job - although his first breakthrough came from plain dumb luck. While he was sheltering from the freezing wind in a shop doorway during a night shift, a burglar, arms full of loot, backed into him. It was a toss-up as to who was more surprised. But now seen as a crook catcher, Fred was given a stint with the CID at Tower Bridge. Detectives gave him strict instructions that he could take calls but under no circumstances leave the office.
Such instructions were soon forgotten when a factory owner from the bombed Docklands rang to say he had caught a thief stripping lead from the roof. The constable wandered down and made the pinch.
The detectives were livid and sent him back to the beat. The reason, later revealed, was that the detectives always expected a sling when they grabbed a crook.
Fred Silvester began to think this might not be the sort of policing that interested him. And when he was castigated on an icy night shift because one button on his tunic was not polished, that was enough. He and a colleague agreed to toss a coin. Heads was Australia and tails was a stint in the Mediterranean.
Heads it was, and as Victoria wanted young coppers he signed up to emigrate, meeting his future wife on the ship.
The accidental copper settled and retired an assistant commissioner with a Queen's Police Medal, something he would never have achieved if he had stayed at home.
What does this prove? Two things actually. We have got it very wrong trying to pressure teenagers to make career-defining subject selections while still in high school.
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Andy Whitman, my favorite writer at Paste Magazine, delivered a lecture at the Trinity Arts Conference last week.I missed it. My work schedule prevented me from attending, and it hurt to miss out. Nobody writes about music with more passion than Andy. And few can draw from such a wealth of experience in listening closely. I've discovered a great deal of excellent music from following Andy's journeys. And it is a privilege to call him a friend.God bless him, he just gave me permission to … [Read more...]
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Gearbox's Borderlands franchise has provided, for me at least, many hours of entertainment. The second installment's inclusion of additional character classes alongside new campaigns upped fan expectations for future DLC releases. Like myself, I'm sure many of us have tried to imagine what other new classes might look like. The Mechromancer and Psycho introduced some new gameplay styles that were, in many ways, very different from the initial four classes. I thought I would take a few moments to toss a few ideas for what different classes might look like.
My brother's idea was for a Druid. If I were to flesh it out, the power would be able to call a Pandoran beast to aid them. The level of the beast would be based on the player's level (e.g. Skag Pup, Adult Skag, Badass Skag). Through perks, the player would be able to imbue summoned beasts with elemental powers, increase the number of monsters you can have summoned at once, and even unlock different creature types like Spider Ants and Varkids. The Druid would also focus on defensive perks like shield recharge rate and delay as well as corrosive perks similar to the mechromancer's shock tree: for example, there might be a perk granting corrosion a chance to ignite the target and cause fire damage.
My idea was for a Bard class. This class would be tricky to develop but could prove to be a lot of fun. In keeping with the traditional Bard model, the Bard would give buffs to his teammates. The other classes already do this, to a point: the gunzerker's bullet regen and Siren's health regen come to mind. The Bard class would take that to the extreme. His power would be a stereo jambo that would play music (because ya know, it's a Bard). The Bard would gain a 25% boost to all stats: movement and bullet speed, gun damage, reload speed, maximum health, etc. Around the Bard would be a 10m circle, within which all teammates also gain certain stat boosting sets, depending on the perks selected. Higher levels would lead to deployable speakers which would provide a stationary buff zone, an increase in the stat boost percentage, better stat boost sets for your team, and debuffs for enemies. Who knows? It could be pretty fun.
The Bard would also focus on basic offensive and defensive perks but also add in areas that have been less explored, such as rare loot drop percentage, boosts for playing more passively, and amount of experienced gained.
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Submitted by pyromaster55 firstname.lastname@example.com
Disc Weights: 173
Review: My girlfriend and I both got into disk golf at the same time and we both started with a Cobra. I got a 173g and she got a 168g. Playing with just the Cobra the first time was a blast and I was amazed at how easily I could control it. I have now been playing for almost 4 months and have passed my Cobra down to my little brother. However, my girlfriend still throws her Cobra more than any other disk in her bag. Both have aged very well after 4 months of 2-3 rounds a week, and still have plenty of flight left in them.
Posted 10-15-05
Submitted by Alex firstname.lastname@example.com
Level: Beginner
Avg Drive: 275
Disc Weights: 177 g
Review: This is my favorite disc to use when i nail a tree 100 feet from the tee and need to make up some lost ground. It flies pretty straight and glides a nice distance, ending with a nice fade that can get me anywhere between 20 and 10 feet away from the basket. It's also not bad for driving.
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Submitted by Edmund Roush email@example.com
Level: Adv. Am
Avg Drive: 350
Disc Weights: 180
Review: iF I COULD PLAY WITH ONLY ONE DISC IT WOULD BE THE COBRA. I AM AN OLD ULTIMATE PLAYER AND CAN THROW A DISC MANY DIFFERENT WAYS AND PUT THE COBRA WHERE I WANT WITH ANY THROW IT WILL NOT GO AS FAR AS SOME BUT IT STILL CAN CARRY 300'+ AND CAN HIT A FLY AT 50' YOU CAN BACKHAND OR FLICK OR HAMMER IT AND BE VERY CLOSE TO THE BASKET.IT IS GOOD FOR BEGINNERS AS WELL AS PROS THE ONLY DISC TO COME CLOSE IS THE ROC YOU MUST PUT IT IN YOUR BAG AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY WITH YOUR LOWER SCORES
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Submitted by Anonymous Disc Weights: 165g-179g
Review: The classic Cobra is a very stable disc.It goes pretty far too.It has a small diameter and is stable.I would reccommend this disc to many players.
Posted: 2-09-05
Submitted by Layne D
Disc: Innova Cobra (172g)
I am an intermediate right-handed player with 10+ yrs of experience. I throw both side arm and overhand (pinch grip). I am the type of player that will go for a predictable drive and approach vs. trying for a very long drive. I have found the key to a good score isn't a super long drive but a reliable & predictable throw. I pride myself on having a reliable approach shot. Although I have a ton of approach and putt disks the ones I use most often are: DX Cobra, Champ Cobra, and Champ Stingray. This review is for the DX Cobra (172). I have had several DX Cobras (low 160's to 172) The flight characteristics are almost like the Valkyrie only a bit slower with more hover or glide. This disk is not very wind resistant even though it is fairly heavy. Next to my Stingray this is my most reached for approach driver. I have found this disk to be a good disk for trees and obstacles. It is comfortable to throw and easy to control. This disc is a fantastic roller especially now that it is beat up & ugly. I think this disk rolls as well or better than a Wolf. I have used this to roll under obstacles and have noticed that it bounces over whatever in the way. My DX Cobra has been replaced by a Champion Cobra and it doesn't fly anymore, instead it has become my goto roller disk because it rolls, and rolls, and rolls.
Posted: 7-24-04
Submitted by Steven Beasley
Throwing Style: RHBH
Disc Weight: 178g
This was my first disc, and after a year I still use this now understable disc. Most people would use it for a roller by now, but I find it more useful for those long graceful right turns that you need. Throw it with some medium power to get it to turn over a bit, and it performs the turn and flys straight to target. If you want to put some moderate D you need to anhyser it about about a 45° down angle, and it will still somewhat turn over, which is nice for those straighter shots, that aren't as far, but I'd rather use my aviar putter approach than the cobra for shots like that. For this disc I stick mainly to either a dog right, or if the fair way is somewhat short and clear to the left I'll rp it way to the left, and have it turn over and glide in that way. People have said they can't believe how consitant I can be with that shot. A good beginner disc, and one that has stayed with me.
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The Cobra is a "long" range driver by Innova. It flies right in the high speed portion of flight and slightly left in the low speed fade portion. This makes a distinctive "S" curve. I use a Cobra for my long-midrange shot. It is dependable and flies the same in most wind conditions. It flies straight if released flat, but can also be predictably anhyzered and hyzered easily. It flies more straight as it weathers. I have a weathered Cobra which flies absolutely straight and does not fade at all. The Cobra is also good for skipping near the basket if the tree canopy is low. I plop it in front of the basket and it skips in close - much more than the Roc, which stops where it lies. The Cobra will glide 20 or more feet beyond the basket if it approaches at the height of the chains and misses - this can make a long putt back. Cobra's can also make good rollers. I even use it for long putts in the wind where my Aviar would get blown off course.
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There's a disconnect in the world of mobile computing and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies in the workplace.
Only one third of CIOs say they allow employees to access corporate networks using personal devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops or other personal-technology choices, according to a survey released today by Robert Half Technology.
CIOs hesitate to allow full BYOD access because they're balancing convenience and flexibility for employees with security and logistical concerns of their employers, according to conclusions in the Robert Half study.
Even among companies that do allow BYOD hardware to connect to the network, only 28 percent offer full technical support. Two thirds of respondents offer limited support, while six percent offer none at all.
Even for those saying explicitly that they support BYOD, that's not a ringing endorsement. Other surveys rate mobile everything and BYOD as prom-queen hot among both road warrior and stay-at-home employees.
That's been true since the first iPhones came out. More recent incentives are based on business results, however, not vanity.
BYOD access points would make it easier for employees in retail stores or salespeople in the field easier access to inventory and other data that might help close a sale. They would also give customers the chance to use online shopping assistants or other digital resources that could pull them more deeply into the sales cycle, according to an April 13 study from the WSJ's CIO Journal.
A Forrester Research study showed what Forrester mobility guru Frank Gillett called eye-opening levels of mobile-device use among employees, but only a third of the devices classed as "mobile" by employees are anything but traditional laptops; even most of the smartphones and tablets are owned by the company, so they're not properly BYOD.
The picture gets a little more clear in a follow-up study blogged by Brian Hopkins that hints employees are going ahead with BYOD despite employers' lack of support:
Half of employees pay for their own smartphone data plans even then they use the phones for work;
Two-thirds of employees in their 20s choose their own tools; 40 percent do so despite company policies against it.
Eighty four percent don't even consider company policy when they choose a device;
Two thirds of older employees also pick devices without thinking about company policy; they just assume the company will support whatever they buy.
Everyone but IT seems to get why BYOD is a good idea
IT people asked about BYOD tend to grossly underestimate the number of personal devices within their infrastructures, just as they did when SaaS and cloud systems started being wheedled in without IT's permission.
That's just a little self-preserving denial according to IDC's Amy Cheah, analyst on an ANZAC study showing more companies may have to adopt BYOD programs to answer pressure from employees.
"Widely publicized and high-profile BYOD case studies are further adding to the peer pressure," Cheah told TabTimes. "One in every two organizations are intending to deploy official BYOD policies, be it pilots, or partial- to organizational-wide rollouts, in the next 18 months."
One reason is that IT still mistakes the technology for what's being done with it, according to Forrester analyst Stephen Mann, writing in December about mobile priorities for 2012.
"We all hear talk about MDM (mobile device management) as 'THE big issue,'" Mann wrote. "To me, however, this is old school IT. We are focused on securing access to the mobile device when I would prefer that we secured access to the IT service. The device is a red herring and of little interest to the customer. They want (or at least we hope that they continue to want) to access your services any which way they can and need to."
"You Need To Support The People Not The Technology," Mann wrote in a November blog whose title states the point better than the blog, because he was writing mainly about how to make a corporate help desk more effective and less despised.
The insight is the same whether you're talking about BYOD or help desk, however: IT continues to focus on its own priorities and try to box the needs of end users into structures built to make IT's job easier (or even possible).
Some of that is inescapable. You can't run group effort effectively without some coordinating principles.
IT – which earned the satiric Dilbertian sobriquet "preventer of information services," even if many won't admit it – has to start seeing the technology for which it is responsible the way the end users do: as tools to get a job done, not ends in themselves.
How to use BYOD to drastically reduce IT's workload: Keep ignoring it
The Consumerization of IT has become so undeniable a trend it has earned its own pointless and slightly provocative-sounding acronym (CoIT). It has made Apple a success, introduced SaaS and cloud into the enterprise, given business units far more control over their own work product than ever before and reputedly scared the hell out of CIOs who suddenly realized the peasants were not only revolting, they were starting a rebellion as well.
Guess what? They don't have to. If you're in IT, there is a small chance you're one of the savvy types popular with end users who already realize that users run the company you work for; they are the company you work for. Their work is the end product of all the company's effort, the thing it offers to customers and for which customers are willing to give money in exchange.
Unless you work at a computer-industry vendor company, customers do not come to you for IT services.
End users come to you, not for IT services, but to ask you to help them get their work done.
Lots of studies show end users are a lot more productive when they're able to pick tools that help do their jobs more effectively than those IT provides.
Mobile tech, especially, tends to add hours and productivity because it comes in to use when end users would otherwise be out of touch, or unable to connect to email, sales data or other sources of information that can help them accomplish something while they stand in line at Starbucks or during halftime at a kid's soccer game.
Those are extra hours, offered free to the corporation that you, as the unhelpful, uncommitted not-quite-supporter of BYOD are giving up (without telling the CEO) because you'd have to make inconvenient changes to pick what you have to admit is very low-hanging fruit.
Do BYOD anyway, even if you don't like it
So figure out how, within your own organizational structure and budget limitations, you can help them do that.
That goal used to be referred to as business-IT alignment. Now it's just "get on the stick and offer the help we need or we'll take back the stick and run you out of the company on it."
Surveys of senior-level IT managers show that a lot of them are worried cloud computing will turn into an outsourcing trend that will end up eliminating their jobs.
Best indications now are that some parts of IT's responsibilities will be outsourced to external cloud providers, but not all. Every company needs someone inside who can help make the complicated stuff work correctly so everyone can get their jobs done.
That's why IT is in no immediate danger of being completely eliminated.
That's not to say individual IT managers or departments aren't in any danger of being eliminated.
Given the overwhelming percentages of end users wanting to use their own devices to do their work, and the comparatively small number of IT departments willing to do much to help them, I'd expect a whole lot of CIOs and senior IT managers will be having very uncomfortable conversations with business-unit managers soon.
Not the kind of conversation that leads to more streamlining of your standardization and technology approval policies. The kind that leads to more standardization and alignment of IT policies with the goals of the company itself.
I'm really surprised there is still this much resistance to BYOD in IT. I know it's a big headache in terms of technology, support, standardization, security, ongoing cell-carrier data plans and all the rest of the complications involved with connecting people and computers on terms acceptable to the humans, not the computers.
It's unquestionably difficult.
Equally unquestionably, it is the future of corporate computing. Maybe not the future for IT, whose future might involve unemployment lines and a lot more free time.
But it's definitely the future of the everyday, every-minute use of technology designed to allow people to live their lives and do their work at the same time.
If you're in IT, how about doing your part to help out? Please?
For your own sakes.
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Last April, when the story was still hot that National Public Radio had deeply embarrassed itself when two of its fundraisers were caught on tape pandering to two men they thought were radical Muslim leftists eager to donate, David Margolick of the liberal glossy Vanity Fair called and interviewed me for more than an hour about NPR. Now, at this late date, the NPR-defending article appeared. I wasn't in it. But conservatives were mocked – they couldn't possibly believe what they were saying about liberal bias.
"Apart from the occasional stories about gays or Palestinians (and maybe even gay Palestinians), there's precious little on NPR these days for conservatives really to hate," he claimed. "For them, despising NPR and cutting off what amounts to the few pennies it collects from the federal budget has increasingly become more a matter of pandering, or habit, or sophomoric sport, than of conviction or serious policy." His proof was bias-denying journalist William Kristol:
The editor of the Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol, once confessed to former NPR ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin that he really didn't believe NPR was liberal; he just said so "to keep you guys on the defensive." And that still seems true.
Googling around suggests that Dvorkin gave a speech in which he recounted a conversation where Kristol talked about liberal bias in general, not about NPR specifically:
I spoke to Bill Kristol a few years ago and asked him if he really believed that there was a liberal bias in the media in general. His answer: "Of course not. But it does keep you guys on the defensive about conservatism."
One can bet almost precisely when this conversation took place: in 2000, when Brent Bozell denounced Kristol and other backers of John McCain's liberal-pleasing presidential campaign against George W. Bush, the one in which McCain cartooned Bush and conservatives as a Darth Vader "death star."
Alterman took glee in quoting Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, who told The New Yorker "The whole idea of the 'liberal media' was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures." He noted Kristol said on CNN's "Reliable Sources" that "the press isn't quite as biased and liberal. They're actually conservative sometimes." Kristol didn't have an example of that alleged conservatism, nor was he asked for one, which neatly got him off the hook.
In other words, after Margolick spent an hour-plus on the telephone in 2011 getting an earful on NPR's liberal bias (and was e-mailed NewsBusters links on egregious NPR bias), he decided instead to misquote some wink-wink conservative insider from about a decade ago. Here's the funny thing. NPR people don't believe conservatives aren't serious about bias, or about defunding them. Margolick made that clear:
Frustration with impotent, ineffectual, absentee, and alien management at NPR first festered, then boiled over after the latest bit of bloodletting in March: when the chairman of its board, Dave Edwards of WUWM in Milwaukee, came to Washington to meet with staffers, he practically needed bodyguards. Suddenly, those folks who always sound so chipper on the air—a timbre known around NPR as "Minnesota nice"—were livid. "I don't know if you realize it, but you're up against some of the sharpest political minds in the country," Peter Overby, the NPR reporter whose beat is power and money, lectured Edwards, referring to NPR's right-wing detractors, the ones who are perpetually calling to cut off its federal dollars. "They're using NPR as a fund-raising tool and a way to mobilize their base. This is a long battle, and it's not going to go away. So my question is, do you and the board think you're up to this fight?"
NPR sees itself as a liberal bastion fighting off "right-wing detractors," but Vanity Fair's writer has to pretend they're a bastion of centrism, a bland, inoffensive landmark of the establishment. It "retains a tincture" of elitism, but just a smidgen:
By all the usual yardsticks, NPR is more successful and important—more essential—than ever. As other news operations retrench or atrophy or vulgarize, NPR has grown more engaged and ubiquitous. Twenty-seven million people, urban and rural, Democrat and Republican, listen to NPR programming weekly...From an amalgam of amateurish college radio stations and stuffy classical-music redoubts, NPR has grown into a mighty journalistic juggernaut.
In the process, it's gone decidedly mainstream. True, in story selection and sound, NPR retains a tincture of elite liberalism. (Anyone seeking evidence need only listen to the insufferable "Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!") But as its critics on the left contend (yes, there are lots of them too, every bit as over-heated as those on the right), on NPR these days there's far more comforting the afflicted than afflicting the comfortable. NPR has traded much of its early edginess and eccentricity for reach and respectability, stability, and an almost compulsive inoffensiveness. (When, not long ago, Leon Panetta called Osama bin Laden a "son of a bitch," NPR felt compelled to bleep out the "bitch.")


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How Entrepreneur Payal Saha Launched a Successful Indian Fast Food Company
Best Success Story:
To date, my establishment serves close to half a million rolls per year. I was also the first person to officially bring kati rolls to the U.S., facing a double edge sword of both introducing and educating customers to this new version of Indian food.
Word caught on and soon, kati rolls where showing up on the menus of Indian restaurants throughout the country.
My company has also been awarded many accolades, including "World's Best Award: by Travel & Leisure's reader poll, Time Out New York's Best Restaurant of 2004 and 2005 and Time Out New York's Best New Eatery in 2002.
Biggest Startup Challenge:
Without any formal training in business or in running a restaurant—especially in a demanding NYC marketplace— I learned everything "on the job."
Another challenge I had faced early on: receiving an illegal eviction notice just when I had started to establish my business. But I refused to be intimated, so I took the issue to court—and won!
#1 Tip for Entrepreneurs:
I believe that basic human respect and compassion is the cornerstone to a successful business. I do not look at my employees as workers, but as part of my extended family.
Knowing firsthand how difficult it is to make it in a new country, I set aside $0.05 cents of each roll I sell to give back to my employees through fund matching for education or to start a business.
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PotBS - Servers Merge Explained @ WarCry
An interesting read is up at WarCry where CEO Russel Williams speaks about the recent merge from 11 to 4 servers in Pirates of the Burning Sea. It is difficult not to quote the entire text but here is an excerpt:
Earlier this week, Flying Lab Software made the most dreaded of announcements: server merges. Typically, this means an MMO is in trouble, but according to CEO Russell Williams, that is not the case for Pirates of the Burning Sea, which remains a healthy game, for the most part in line with their projections.
"Companies are so afraid of any negative publicity that they basically wait until the game is on life support," said Williams. "People are always nervous about change, but the fact is the game has so many interrelated systems that the game really does function better when there is a higher density of people."
Currently, Pirates of the Burning Sea has 11 servers and after the merges in 30 days, that number will be cut to four (five including Australia and a Russian one coming in June). However, the capacity of each of those four servers is double that of each of the 11 they have now, which obviously helps population density. Further, one of those servers was for their Spanish launch, a debacle Williams has yet to fully understand.
"The Spanish launch is extremely disappointing," admitted Williams. The theory seemed solid. Spain is one of the four playable nations in Pirates of the Burning Sea and often ignored by the MMO community. As such, FLS decided to put some effort into a simultaneous Spanish launch and a dedicated Spanish server. It didn't work. Williams, to this day, has absolutely no idea what went wrong. He's seen some evidence that the game did, in fact, make it to shelves in Spain, but the subscribers never materialized.
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This hybrid, by John Boggan, was made primarily to illustrate the close connection of the 'Chiapas' collection to the genus Alsobia. However, at least this seedling (one of three I have grown from the cross) produces an attractive and relatively free-flowering plant. A whole plant can be seen here.


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Science of a Cocktail Party 2014
Illinois Science Council
Saturday, November 15, 2014 from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM (CST)
Science of a Cocktail Party
There will be smart people and beautiful people and interesting people (often the same people), hors d'oeuvres, open bar with the signature pop-rock cocktail, a DNA extraction demo (see your own DNA!), plus cool neuroscience experiments you'll participate in, plus a photo booth and raffle prizes all in the name of science and fun.
You will absolutely be talking about this party afterward!
Plus, our special Guest of Honor, Dr. Marius Stan
aka "Bogdan Wolynetz," owner of the carwash and notorious eyebrows on the Emmy award-winning TV show "Breaking Bad." In real life, he holds a PhD in chemistry and is a senior scientist in the Nuclear Engineering division at Argonne National Laboratory. Really!
Special VIP reception: 7:00 - 8:30pm at D.I.R.T.T. Environmental Solutions. Guests will enjoy dinner, cocktails and photos with Dr. Stan who will discuss his scientific research and experience on the show "Breaking Bad." Access to the Cocktail Party following is, of course, included with this ticket.
Special THANKS to our sponsors:
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SCIENCE COCKTAIL FAQs
Attire - Cocktail party but weather appropriate. Meaning, if you want to wear your cute party dress or cool new shirt - fantastic. But if it's rainy cold and you can't imagine changing out of flannel-lined jeans and a wooly sweater, that's fine with us! Just no snuggies, please. Ditch boots at the door - the drinks and conversation will warm you right up!
Public Transit - Easy! Event is right across the street from southeast doors of Merchandise Mart. CTA brown line stops on 2nd level of the Mart. (Tip - there is no down escalator in the Mart; use stairs next to ATMs outside CTA turnstiles.) Or, the #156 LaSalle bus stops one block east at 320 LaSalle. Follow the narrow sidewalk on the north side of the building west toward Wells, then turn left.
Parking Discount - A real $4 deal!! For the first 100 guests, we've arranged a big discount at Mart Parc Wells Self Park garage, 1/2 block north of the building. Enter garage from either Wells or Kinzie , take your ticket and park. Bring the ticket to the party and get a discount sticker for it. Use that when you return to the garage to pay and your fee is reduced to $4.00. No driving around the area or special reservation required. Because ISC loves our friends.
This is a 21+ event.
Handicap accessible - Yes, DIRTT and Kimball are accessible.
Printed tickets - Don't print out tickets; it wastes paper. Provide your name, and guest name(s), with your ticket purchase and we'll have a complete list at the door.
Bonus Quote - "In this house, we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics! - Homer Simpson
Illinois Science Council ("ISC") is an independent 501c3 organization that engages, educates, and entertains the adult public about science, technology, engineering and math in our everyday lives. We showcase the scientists and research of those Chicago-area institutions and companies that make Chicago our nation's true "City of Science." ISC serves as the science & tech complement to the region's arts & culture offerings.
We are inspired and motivated by this Carl Sagan quote: "The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous." Sagan also observed, "We live in a society that is exquisitely dependent upon science and technology in which hardly anyone understands anything about science and technology." ISC is certainly working to change that.
ISC explores all areas of science and technology and we do it with a fun, non-stuffy approach. We don't care what's been forgotten since school (or never learned in the first place). It's simply about continuing to exercise our inexhaustible human sense of curiosity. We create engaging programs open to the public (aimed at adults and accessible to teens) such as hands on chemistry (Chemistry of... Beer, Chocolate, Coffee, Honey, etc), panel discussions on science subjects in the news (Your Brain on Happiness, on Creativity, on Addiction, on Exercise, etc.), author talks, film screenings ("The Atom Smashers"), and more.
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Nashville To Host 12 SEC Basketball Tournaments
Well, kitty-cat fans, it looks like you'll be able to cheer your Cats on a little closer to home starting in 2015! Via The Tennessean, The Southeastern Conference released a press release stating Bridgestone Arena in Nashville will be the host of 12 consecutive SEC basketball tournaments beginning in 2015.
A press conference at Bridgestone is expected Tuesday with more details on the details of the future tournaments. Nine men's and three women's tournaments will be played in Nashville beginning in 2015. The 2014 men's tournament is already scheduled in Catlanta… I mean Atlanta.
What better city than Nashville to host the SEC's tournament?!? Honky-tonks, Southern accents and basketball… goes together like blue and white, right?!?


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Musical Director: Leigh O'Hara
Blackheath Halls Orchestra was re-established in September 2006 and has gone from strength to strength. The orchestra has been involved in numerous projects, including accompanying all the Blackheath Halls Community operas. The orchestra now has over 60 members.
Orchestra members have the opportunity to take part in four projects each year; all rehearsals take place at Blackheath Halls, and projects culminate with a performance in the Great Hall.
Orchestra members comments:
"I love playing in this orchestra, and enjoy it more than any other orchestra I have ever played in!"
"I love the community feeling of the orchestra and how loyal everyone is."
"I like the relaxed and friendly atmosphere."
Movie Music Box project
Rehearsals: Sundays 23 April and 7 May between 1430 and 1730 | Sunday 14 May 1030 to 1330
Performance: Sunday 14 May at 3pm
ET Flying Theme | Pirates of the Caribbean Theme | Music from Star Wars | Beethoven 5 Movement 1 | Hall of the Mountain King | Blue Danube Waltz | William Tell Overture
Musical Director: Leigh O'Hara
Course fee: £20
Tickets on sale here.
Please contact Rose Ballantyne at [email protected] for more information.
Blackheath Halls Opera 2017: Weber's Der Freischutz, The Enchanted Bullets
Performances: 18, 19 and 21 July at 7pm, 23 July at 2.30pm
Rehearsal schedule can be donwloaded here.
Below you can see Blackheath Halls Orchestra rehearsing for Rossini's The Adventures of Count Ory with Nicholas Jenkins conducting in July 2014
Blackheath Halls Orchestra performs Mendelssohn's Elijah at St John's Smith Square under the baton of Edward Gardner OBE in March 2014.
We would particularly welcome violinists and french horn players. Anyone interested in joining the orchestra should email Rose Ballantyne at [email protected].


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Labor Day weekend is quickly approaching, along with the chance to enjoy one last coveted vacation with the family. Although school has started and things are business as usual, that doesn't mean that you can't head to the coast for a last hoorah! Labor Day weekend in Myrtle Beach offers plenty of family friendly fun for everyone. And, Beach Cove still has plenty of summer specials, from packages including breakfast to Military Discounts, meaning that a vacation is more affordable than ever. Check out our quick list of events going on that weekend and start making plans to come visit!
Pelicans Game
Nothing screams "summer!" like a baseball game and you are in luck! The Myrtle Beach Pelicans, a minor league affiliate of the Texas Rangers, have a home series over Labor Day weekend against the Carolina Wildcats. Stop by the stadium Saturday, Sunday, or Monday evening to enjoy gorgeous evening weather and a team that knows how to put on a show. Entertainers keep the crowd busy in between innings so there is never a dull moment.
BBQ Festival
This is the 8th year for the Beach, Boogie, & BBQ Festival and this three day celebration is scheduled to be bigger than ever. Hosted at the Market Common Friday – Sunday of Labor Day weekend, this family friendly event celebrates everything BBQ with tons of samples and competitions. In addition to BBQ, the weekend will feature a spectacular fireworks show on Saturday evening, a beer & wine garden for the adults, live entertainment, arts and craft vendors, and plenty of games for the kids.
Hot Summer Nights
Head to the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk to enjoy the last full week of "Hot Summer Nights" fun. The weekend will include free live entertainment in Plyler Park and on the Boardwalk each night, in addition to free, family friendly entertainment. Monday night is the Kids Carnival that features outdoor games, caricatures, street performers, face painting, and more!
It wouldn't be Labor Day weekend in Myrtle Beach without awesome free fireworks shows. Broadway at the Beach is putting on a fireworks extravaganza Saturday, Sept. 1st over Lake Broadway. You can also head to the 2nd avenue pier that night to enjoy a free show that lights up the Atlantic. Finally, if you do make it to a Pelicans game, they will finish the game Sunday and Monday evening with a free fireworks show, so be sure to stick around after they win!
You can't forget the beach! The weather in August is still perfect for plenty of lazy beach bumming. Pack a few beach games, like ladder ball and bocce ball, and a picnic to enjoy some much needed quality time with the family. And – the best part about the beach is it's free! Now you can't beat that.


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When Sakazuki killed ace, Garp was pissed and headed toward him. Sengoku restrained him and garp stated that if sengoku didn't keep holding him down, garp would kill sakazuki.
Do you think Garp could defeat Sakazuki (akainu) at his current age. I personally think he could, but I would like your feed back?
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The Chicago Bears signed a pair of defensive linemen this week: DT Andre Fluellen and DE Kyle Moore. Earlier in free agency, GM Phil Emery inked DE Turk McBride and re-signed DT Nate Collins.
Yet all of those players are journeymen on one-year deals and do not represent the future for Chicago's defensive line. Additionally, Henry Melton is playing under a one-year franchise tender and Julius Peppers' $18-million-plus contract next year may force the Bears to cut him. With last year's first-round pick Shea McClellin yet to show he's starter worthy, you see how tenuous things are along Chicago's D-line.
With that in mind, Bears brass will be considering early-round defensive tackles and defensive ends in this year's draft, looking for a young player that can serve as the team's foundation in the trenches going forward. One player who may fit that criteria is former UCLA defensive lineman Datone Jones.
Let's go to the film room to see if Jones, a first-round prospect, can fill Chicago's needs.
Datone Jones
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Height: 6-4 Weight: 283 Arms: 32 ¾ inches Hands: 10 inches
40-Yard Dash: 4.80 seconds Bench Press: 29 reps Vertical Jump: 31.5 inches Broad Jump: 112.0 inches 3-Cone Drill: 7.32 seconds 20-Yard Shuttle: 4.32 seconds (top performer)
No defensive lineman in this draft brings as much power off the ball as Jones. He has tremendous explosion at the snap and keeps his pads low to drive into opposing linemen. He's nearly impossible to move backward off the ball. He's also quick to get his hands off the ground , which allows him to violently punch the man across from him. Over and over on tape, Jones flies off the ball and rocks oppsoing blockers to their heels. He also uses his strong hands to fend off cut blocks.
His quick first step often allows him to get immediate penetration, where he's able to be disruptive in the backfield. On a number of plays, Jones is already two steps in the backfield as the running back takes the handoff.
Jones is also a playmaker as a pass rusher and has experience rushing from nearly every position along the defensive line. He has a powerful bull rush and is able to rip past offensive linemen once he has knocked them on their heels. With a full head of steam, he has the power and strength absolutely unload on opposing quarterbacks and ball carriers.
Jones uses great pad level but that often leads to him leaning over his toes, throwing him off balance. Blockers at the pro level will use that to their advantage, using his body weight to chuck him into the ground. Jones must learn to sink his hips and anchor.
His awareness against the run needs work, as he too often loses track of the ball. While his explosion allows him to get into the backfield, he has a tendency to lose control once he's there and can easily be beat by cut-back moves. In the open field, he must learn to break down better and stay in front of ball carriers.
Jones lacks a full pass-rush arsenal and is far too dependent on his bull rush. With his combination of power and quickness, developing a few more moves would do him wonders.
When locked up with opposing blockers, Jones struggles to disengage. He has a tendency to stop moving his feet after his initial burst and gives up on too many plays.
Jones burst on the scene his junior season, tallying 62 tackles, 19 for loss, and 6.5 sacks. He was also a standout at the Senior Bowl. He played both defensive tackle and end in UCLA's 3-4 scheme, yet he should have no problem switching to a 4-3 defense at either DT or DE.
The Bears have still not re-signed Isreal Idonije. The longer he stays a free agent the less likely he is to return to Chicago. It would be a big loss to the defense, as Idonije was the best run stopper on the team last year and was able to play both tackle and end.
Yet with Jones, the Bears could get a player similar to Idonije, only 10 years younger. Like Idonije, Jones has very good size and has room to add even more weight if asked to do so. And he's also positionally flexible, having played DT, NT and DE in college. In fact, Jones' burst off the ball and experience in the middle would make him a big asset in short-yardage situations, yet he's still quick enough to rush off the edge on third down. That type of versatility is rare.
Jones has a ton of potential and could end up being dominant at the next level. Yet he still lacks polish and must learn to play with a higher motor. Under the right coaching, Jones could be a Pro Bowler within a year or two.
He brings some risk but his size, athleticism and experience at multiple positions will be very attractive to the Bears in the first round. If Emery wants to solidify the defensive line and select a younger, stronger version of Idonije, then Jones is his man.
Jeremy Stoltz is Publisher of BearReport.com and a member of the Pro Football Writers of America. Follow Bear Report on Twitter and discuss this topic on our message boards. To become a subscriber to the Bear Report Web site or magazine, click here.


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LAS VEGAS (AP) Marion "Suge" Knight is facing criminal charges in Las Vegas, stemming from an incident in which police found the hip hop mogul allegedly beating his girlfriend just off a busy thoroughfare.
Knight is charged with two counts of felony drug possession and one count of misdemeanor battery, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Las Vegas Justice Court.
The complaint filed by the Clark County district attorney's office accuses Knight of striking a woman identified as Melissa Isaac. Police say they arrested Knight in August after they saw the founder of bankrupt Death Row Records beating the woman while brandishing a knife in a parking lot near the Las Vegas Strip.
Authorities said the woman wasn't stabbed, but was treated at a hospital for injuries. The complaint says Knight was carrying Ecstasy and hydrocodone when they arrested him. Knight was later released after posting $19,000 bail.
Defense attorney Richard Schonfeld said Knight planned to enter a not guilty plea at his arraignment Dec. 16.
"We're going to vigorously defend him against these charges," Schonfeld said.
Knight could face mandatory probation and up to four years in a Nevada state prison on each of the drug charges. He could be sentenced to up to six months in jail on the battery charge.
Knight's Death Row Records was known for releasing seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. It sold tens of millions of albums in the heyday of early 1990s rap.
In 2006, a federal judge ordered a bankruptcy trustee takeover of Death Row Records, saying the label had undergone gross mismanagement. Knight's decision to file for bankruptcy protection staved off a move by the court to appoint someone to take control of the record label and his assets.
The record company was auctioned in June for $24 million to New York-based Global Music Group Inc.
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Last Easter I traveled with my two sons to visit the fourth member of our nuclear family—my husband, their father—who has been assigned responsibility for his company's Jo'burg office. It was our first trip. On the plane—a night flight—we wondered as we flew south over the sleeping continent. What unexpected things would we find in a place where constellations are unfamiliar, the seasons switched, foods like springbok and biltong grace menus, man-eating sharks cruise bays, penguins waddle along beaches and townships still teem and thrive?
This is a first answer.
–Natalia Sarkissian
–Natalia Sarkissian
Natalia Sarkissian has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been a contributing editor at Numéro Cinq since 2010. Currently finishing her first novel and working on a book of interlinked short stories, Natalia divides her time between Italy, Egypt, the United States, and now, South Africa.
6 Responses to "Gauteng and the Cape Peninsula: Encountering South Africa — Natalia Sarkissian"
As always from you, these are extraordinary. Thank you for letting Numero Cinq make them available to us.
Absolutely Stunning!
Nat, these are so wonderful. The one that resonated most with me was the guarded compound in Jo'burg. I felt oppressed in Capetown by the feeling of fear and the ways I was taught to accommodate to it. So looking forward to seeing you again at BWW.


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Australian companies doing business in the United States and exporters are set to benefit as the Australian dollar declines.
Stocks which have gained since the start of April as the Aussie dollar weakened include pallet and container services group
"People are happy to own companies that have previously had the headwind of the Australian dollar," Platypus Asset Management portfolio manager Prasad Patkar said.
Shares in companies that offer higher dividend yields such as
Other beneficiaries include exporters – which gain through lower exchange rates – and companies with substantial overseas earnings.
Share registry firm
The stock gained 1.77 per cent yesterday to $2.30. But not all discretionary retailers are likely to benefit, as the other structural headwinds, including the internet and weak consumer confidence, are a major drag on the sector.
After the local sharemarket closed yesterday, the Australian dollar continued to slide lower and was buying US99.70¢, around half a per cent lower than where it was on Friday.
The prospect of lower interest rates and slower expected growth rates in China have many currency strategists betting the Australian dollar will stay below parity for a sustained period.
The Australian Financial Review


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Wow, I have only been member of this list for one day, and already I have learned a lot! Thanks for you opinions, guys. Looks like there are many diehard UNIX peops out there; One response I got dealt with a firewall that I didn't know of, Raptor Eagle for NT/UNIX. I guess that one is an application level firewall, which is, according to them anyway, the best way to go. Hm, what do you guys think? Is it really the "ultimate" in firewall protection (for NT, at least?). Are most other firewalls operating on layer 3? Regards,


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Howdy all. I am planning anothe elk hunt to Colorado this fall (last year was amazing, had a 5 point in bow range but didn't get a shot). This time I am planning on either getting a Muzzleloader tag or 1st rifle tag (many units don't require any points to draw these).
Can someone pro-con these two types of hunt? Is the muzzleloader season going to be to early for rutting activity and 1st rifle to late?


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The London Olympic Games might be on its doorstep, but
"This is an unprecedented venture in terms of having a major shopping centre and entertainment facility on the doorstep of an Olympic Games," Lowy says of the mall that sits between the public transport interchange and huge Olympic Park, meaning most spectators will pass through the shopping centre.
"The Olympics created the timing catalyst for this centre to be built, but we didn't build this centre for the Games."
Lowy stresses Stratford makes commercial sense on its own, and as the shopping mall will be standing long after the Games finish and the subsequent Paralympics take place, he needs to be right, especially given the parlous state of the British economy.
Since its opening last September an average of 700,000 to 800,000 people have visited the centre each week, a situation Lowy describes as "unprecedented in our business". Westfield Stratford is on track to have somewhere between 35 to 40 million visitors in its first full year compared with, for example Westfield Parramatta, which has an annual average of between 27 million and 28 million.
The Olympics should account for about 2 million to 2.5 million additional visitors, according to Lowy, who stresses the demographics of the area are the main reason for Westfield's investment. "It's like thinking there is no shopping centre between Sydney and Parramatta, or Melbourne city and Fountain Gate – we're talking long distances with millions of people."
On its biggest days 250,000 people have gone through the doors and Lowy says they should get a lot more during the Olympics. As with its sister site at Shepherd's Bush in the city's west, Stratford should achieve about £1 billion ($1.5 billion) in annual sales. "You're talking about sales volumes ahead of Harrods," he adds.
While Britain is in recession and there is a more advanced flight to online shopping than in Australia, Lowy is still confident his company's London malls – the two biggest urban malls in Europe (another is planned for Milan) – will continue to perform well. He says Westfield has to concentrate on major, iconic centres having moved to sell off weaker-performing malls outside London earlier this year.
"We have the human and financial capacity to do these types of projects. We are one of the very few companies in the world to be able to do that."
He believes London is defying the economic gloom. "Through the recession London has proved to be resilient. London, Paris and parts of Germany have been the beacon in what has been the weak euro zone."
One issue for Westfield Stratford is its position in one of London's poorer areas. Despite that the mall contains several high-end boutique stores and Lowy denies the strategy is a stretch.
"If you take Westfield London [in the west] . . . there is a high-end area there called the Village which is anchored by the likes of Louis Vuitton, Prada, Tiffany and so on. That's there for the long term. We have a sprinkling of it here, part of it is for the Olympics but also its part aspiration," he says.
"This might not be a demographic that is immediately appropriate for luxurious products. But we are three train stops from the city of London and there is direct access to Canary Wharf. This is the start of enormous change here, there will be offices here and more buildings. It will become a mini city."
For the next few weeks, Westfield will have huge prominence next to Olympic Park, a situation Lowy is thrilled with. "It is a unique marketing opportunity for us. There are customers who would otherwise not be here . . . so this is a big bonus from that perspective. And corporate-wise this is a huge reputational opportunity for Westfield on a global scale."
The Australian Financial Review