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Neustar was founded in 1998 for telco local number portability. In 2011 Neustar changed course and launched its telecommunications information and analytics business. Neustar used to capture less than 10% of its network data and retain it for 60 days. With Hortonworks Data Platform, they now capture 100% and retain it for two years. That means 150 times more storage while saving millions.
Neustar delivers two types of services helping clients promote and protect their businesses:
In 2011, Neustar's CEO Lisa Hook challenged her leadership team to extend their business to capture new opportunities in the burgeoning information services and analytics space. Hook knew that the immense volume of data flowing through the company's data registries was valuable, and she saw the opportunity to optimize that value for clients in a privacy-friendly manner.
Hook challenged Neustar to continue delivering trusted, neutral network services while simultaneously creating new businesses providing data analytics and real-time information services using authoritative, accurate, permissible-use data.
At the time, Neustar's data architecture was insufficient to meet the challenge. Because of storage costs and capacity limitations, the company was storing only 20 terabytes of its network data (less than 10% of the total data available). They were only retaining that for 60 days, on a rolling basis. The Neustar team took on the challenge of capturing and storing 100% of the data and to store that for at least one year.
Mike Peterson, vice president of platforms and data architecture, knew that his team needed to accomplish three things to meet the challenge. They needed to:
The Neustar data warehouse was well suited for near real-time and low latency workloads. However, for slower workloads that take between ten seconds and one day, Neustar was paying data warehouse vendors for speed that it did not need.
Neustar needed to keep their effective storage cost under $250 per terabyte. This would allow the team to meet the goal of retaining all of the network traffic data for at least one year, while minimizing operating costs.
Neustar's services for DDoS attack detection and mitigation provide an excellent example of how the high cost of data storage was holding them back. Neustar SiteProtect prevents malicious traffic from affecting its clients' Web infrastructures and defuses the largest, most complex DDoS attacks. Because Neustar was storing only a fraction of incoming DNS data, the company was unable to leverage all available attack signature data to offer the most compelling service.
The first step in a data analysis project is to extract, transform and load (ETL) the data. Neustar data scientists need to extract relevant data from a near real-time, mission critical database in Postgres or Oracle. Then they transform and pre-parse it so they can load it into another storage environment for analysis.
To manage ETL resource requirements, Neustar typically limited data retention by developing a business need hypothesis and then retaining only the data it needed to confirm or refute that hypothesis.
In other words, the company identified the data to be retained for deeper analysis based on the hypothesis rather than on insight drawn from examining the incoming raw data.
Neustar wanted to replace this approach with a parse on demand solution, which would allow them to pre-parse data only after that data had proven value. They also needed analysis on demand. Neustar data analysts needed fast access to all of the raw data, not just a subset.
Neustar also needed more of its trusted team members to have privacy-sensitive access to the data, across more departments and functions. They also wanted the data to be available for longer, to uncover subtle, long-term trends that might not surface in one or two months of data.
Neustar began its next generation data platform project with seven core beliefs for the evolution of its technology. The Hortonworks business philosophy aligned well those core beliefs. Now in its second year with Hortonworks, Neustar has seen the tangible benefits of this alignment with these core beliefs:
New data platforms can unlock innovation
Although the process of adopting a new platform requires effort, that effort is rewarded with innovation and competitive advantage.
Implementation of the platform should be a "contact sport"
Since Neustar engineers would maintain the eventual solution, they needed to participate in the initial implementation.
Open source technology motivates the team
Mike Peterson put it this way, "If you're a company that's paying attention to the next generation of engineers, going open source is what you need to do to energize that group."
Rethink assumptions
Hadoop enabled Neustar to move from limited sampling and aggregation for 45 days of data to 100% capture of detailed records for over a year. Data sources that they never dreamed of retaining are now easily ingested and queried.
Focus data teams
In the recent past, application exhaust data was only used within the confines of a single application and for the benefit of the clients of that application. With the implementation of Hadoop, insight is enriched through the mashing of data across applications.
Increase technology skills
Implementing a new platform would increase the team's technology skills, but only if the vendor's professional services and support teams shared the state of the art with the company.
Focus on Security and Privacy
As a trusted, neutral provider of insights and analytics derived from data, Neustar required that any solution and processes implemented facilitated the strictest security and "Privacy by Design" principles for clients and consumers.
Neustar-Hortonworks alignment has produced more than just good will. Neustar and its clients have already realized significant bottom-line benefits from adopting Hortonworks Data Platform and partnering with the Hortonworks team to make the most of the new architecture.
By committing to HDP in March 2012, Neustar was able to eliminate a large license refresh fee, and to dramatically decrease annual support fees.
By moving to HDP, Neustar has met the challenge of capturing and storing 100% of the raw data flowing through its networks. Hadoop's storage efficiency improved Neustar's data capacity by 150 times over its architecture before Hadoop.
The team surpassed the goal of retaining one year's data. Now they can save and retain data for up to two years in a secure, privacy compliant manner.
More data has translated to more insight. The Hadoop ecosystem enables Neustar to create products that help clients improve the effectiveness of promoting and protecting their businesses. They are now able to correlate Internet traffic patterns to consumer behavior by geography and demographics.
Data savvy product managers are thinking outside the box as more and more data is readily available in their Hadoop cluster. The newly accessible data assets are enable the company to offer its clients value added insights that were not possible before. The trend of enriching Neustar's application data with trusted, authoritative third party data is continuing to accelerate the development of increasingly innovative services.
In the coming year, Neustar will focus on making the data in HDP available for new business opportunities. Various product groups at Neustar now understand how to securely access and analyze data in Hadoop. They will use this data to identify new business opportunities that add value for clients. Those with potential will turn into new services for clients and partners using insights derived from Neustar's rich trove of data.
Neustar is an $800MM real-time, cloud based information services and analytics company based in Sterling, Virginia. The company's 1,500 employees provide trusted, real-time information and analytics to marketing, Internet, communication services and entertainment companies in the U.S. and around the world. These services help Neustar clients effectively promote and protect their businesses and insure optimal network performance.
Neustar built its business providing local number portability, first for landlines and then for cellular numbers. Having almost twenty years managing complex data registries for communications networks, Neustar is a proven expert in managing the flow of data through those networks. Today, their complete services combine that data registry management expertise with best-in-class data analytics and privacy-compliant, permissible-use information services, delivered to clients in real-time, one interaction at a time (powered by their Hadoop cluster built on Hortonworks Data Platform).


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I now built in a single file at the top of my folder tree, which
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Madison Rayne "spills dirt" on Miss Tessmacher in this week's "Knockout Blog" as she rants on the fellow former TNA Women's Knockout Champion's high-maintenance ways.
Rayne writes, "This week, you are going to get a little behind the scenes 411 on the one and only, the Knockout who is more high maintenance than anyone else on God's green earth, Miss "ass-gusting" herself, Miss Tessmacher! I'm not quite sure where to even begin with this girl.
"The beauty of feuding with just about every Knockout in the locker room is that I've seen how they act on the road, I've seen the inside of their gear bags and this girl takes the cake when it comes to needy and finicky! For starters, everywhere she goes she packs a foam roller and a rolling pin?! The roller I can understand. We all get a little beat up from time to time and need a quick fix before the next match. But a rolling pin? I don't even WANT TO KNOW! I also know that she wears the exact same under garments for every big match. I hope her pretty little brain can efficiently work a washer and dryer. Maybe she just buys stock in the same bra, socks and… never mind. Again, I don't even WANT to know!
"One thing I do want to know though, is WHY I have caught her on more than one occasion warming up for a match by "booty popping" to Baby Got Back? Really? I need to sit some of these ladies down and give them a lesson on class and elegance! Not hyping themselves up to the lyrics "you can do side bends or sit ups, but please don't lose that butt!" Thinking about all the things Tessmacher does that drives me insane is going to give me a wrinkle!"
Rayne also addresses Brooke Hogan, who she feels is making poor decisions as Knockouts division executive. To read her full column, click here.
id love to sniff her dirty underwear
You are gross.
lol ur a sick puppy
Can't wait for her to return! One of the best knockouts we have
I know Angelina and Tess got at it once too
We need her majesty back.
Possibly the best knockouts heel we've ever had
Think it may be close with Gail – hate Gail's guts so she's a good heel – love Madison lol but tbh i'm like that with Ray
Madison I have missed. Tessmecher, er, not so much. I know she has her fans her like her butt. But thats it. Have enjoyed watching Impacts lately without complaining about how useless she is at wrestling. BTW, the rolling pin Madison, is for a massage. But you knew that already, right? lol
I do remember a tna knockouts elimination match and as soon as velvet pinned tessmacher she said "bitch stinks." lol


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Rods' Goeddel notches four-hit game
Rays prospect reaches base five times, drives in three runs
By Josh Jackson / Special to MLB.com | June 11, 2013 10:59 PM ET
If you ask Tyler Goeddel, a little rain isn't always a bad thing.
Before a rain delay that lasted more than two hours Tuesday night, the Rays' No. 16 prospect struck out with a runner in scoring position. After play resumed, he went 4-for-4 with a walk, three RBIs and two runs scored to lead Class A Bowling Green to a 14-5 romp in Dayton.
"I was disappointed in my first at-bat, especially since with a runner on third with less than two outs, it's my job to get him in," Goeddel said. "In a way, it was good to have that break and clear my mind before we started playing again."
Even after the delay, Goeddel wasn't quite out of the weeds. With two down in the bottom of the second, the third baseman muffed a two-out grounder and Dayton went on to score four runs.
"It was a routine play. I thought I had it in my pocket and it bounced out," Goeddel said. "That's a play I should make every time."
After that, however, it was clear sailing for the 2011 first-round Draft pick. He earned some immediate redemption with RBI singles in the third and fourth.
"I was able to find some holes and put some strong at-bats together," he said. "Luckily, they resulted in hits."
In his next at-bat, he spotted an opportunity and seized it.
"I saw the third baseman [Tanner Rahier] was playing me back and I thought, 'I know if I can get good bunt down, I'll be able to have a hit.'"
Not only did he get a hit, he ended up on second after an errant throw by pitcher Wandy Peralta. Goeddel moved to third on a base hit by Justin O'Conner and scored on a single by Leonardo Reginatto.
The 20-year-old Californian walked in the eighth, which was a challenge, given the temptation that comes with swinging a hot bat in a high-scoring game.
"Even in a game like this, it's hard. I swung at a few pitches I know I shouldn't have swung at, but it's tough to stick with a game plan," Goeddel said. "If you can calm down just a little bit, though, it helps you to have a lot more success."
Goeddel was a Midwest League All-Star last year in his first crack at pro ball. He ended the season with a .246 average and .335 on-base percentage. Tuesday's four-hit game, his first of the season and third in the Minor Leagues, lifted his average to .237. And he's hitting .333 with 13 RBIs over his last 10 games.
Patrick Leonard, Tampa Bay's 20th-ranked prospect, chipped in two hits and two RBIs for Bowling Green. No. 13 prospect Jeff Ames pitched a 1-2-3 first inning before the rain came and Matthew Spann (1-0) picked up the win, despite allowing five unearned runs on seven hits in four frames.
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Lincoln, Miller says, was a great man who was also a good man. It is the central thrust of this ethical biography to reveal how he became both, to trace his moral and intellectual development in the context of his times and in confrontation with the leading issues of the daymost notably, of course, that of slavery.
Following the rough chronology of Lincolns life up to the crucial decisions in the winter of secession, the narrative portrays his conscious shaping of himself as a writer, speaker, moral agent, politician, and statesman. Miller shows us a man who educated himself through reading, had a mind inclined to plow down to first principles and hold to them, and combined clarity of thought with firmness of will and power of expression, a man whose conduct rose to a higher moral standard the higher his office and the greater his power. The author takes us into the pivotal moments of moral escalation in Lincolns political life, allowing us to see him come gradually to the point at which he was compelled to say, Hold fast with a chain of steel. Miller makes clear throughout that Lincoln never left behind or rose above the role of politician, but rather fulfilled the highest possibilities of this peculiarly honorable democratic vocation.
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Truck Stop 5
A Truck Photographer's Diary
by David A. Bontrager
About the Book
This book is a photo album featuring photos of trucks, most taken in the 1970s at truck stops. A wide variety of makes of trucks are represented. Truck Stop 5 is part of an ongoing Truck Stop series of photo albums featuring vintage trucks.
All of the photos were taken by well-known truck photographer Neil Sherff and were used with permission.
The photo album is a great archive of vintage trucks. The trucking industry is a constantly changing arena, and when trucking history is gone, it's gone forever. Without photos like these we would not have any history of trucking.
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- Category Arts & Photography
Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
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- Publish Date Apr 26, 2011
- Tags White Freightliner, White Western Star, Dodge Bighorn, F Model Mack, Trucks, Trucking, Kenworth, Peterbilt, Marmon, Mack, International
About the Creator
Dave drove truck in the U.S. for 40 years with over 3-million safe miles. He started taking photos of trucks as a young boy in the 1950s, inspired by his mother who took photos of his dad's trucks beginning in the late 1940s. He continues to photograph trucks today.
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The psychedelic Scottish festival finds a new location for its fourth year
The excellent not-for-profit Doune The Rabbit Hole festival has announced this year's line-up, with the Scottish event moving to a new location, at Cardross Estate near Stirling, for its fourth edition taking place from August 22-25.
The headliners are Alasdair Roberts & Friends, Clinic and July, while other highlights include Gallon Drunk and Arbouretum on Friday's bill, while Saturday brings us Robyn Hitchcock, Rozi Plain and Stealing Sheep, with Bo Ningen joining the crowd on Sunday.
"We're thrilled with our new location," said Jamie Murray, festival director. "Cardross Estate is on the boundary of Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park. It's a beautiful site which has experience of hosting outdoor events meaning we can make the production better than ever, suffice to say it's a lovely flat, oak and beech-filled pasture!"
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Despite the cancellation of the Street Party, Midsumma was able to negotiate insurance for its Carnival outdoor event, and the festival proper.
Carnival is the festival's biggest outdoor public event, a day of entertainment, in the Alexandra Gardens on February 9.
Midsumma got a $10 million public liability coverage for Carnival and the rest of the festival through Community Insurance, a Municipal Association of Victoria initiative, for $32,000.
"We had to make a decision, and we were told by the community that we had to at least save Carnival," Mr Johns said.
"But we will have to seriously consider how we will come up with $32,000 per annum insurance premium cost.
"That's a lot of money for a non-profit community organisation like ours. If we'd put the street party into that equation, that figure would have risen substantially," he said.
The Australia Council recently met state and federal government representatives in Canberra to discuss solutions to the problems associated with higher insurance premiums in what has been described as a hard market.
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Mr Johns said he was concerned for the future of community events. "There is no doubt that these insurance costs will impact on the way we as a community come together and celebrate," he said.
"Midsumma once had two separate public events that were, by their very nature, political. It takes away our opportunity to come together and show our cohesion and pride."
Midsumma 2003 runs from January 18 to February 9. Inquiries on 9415 9819 or visit www.midsumma.org.au
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Borderline personality disorderPersonality disorder - borderline
Borderline personality disorder (BPD)is a mental health condition in which a personhas long-term patterns of unstable or turbulent emotions. These inner experiences oftenresult inimpulsive actions and chaotic relationships with other people.
Cause of borderline personality disorderis unknown. Genetic, family, and social factors are thought to play roles.
Risk factors for BPD include:
- Abandonment in childhood or adolescence
- Disrupted family life
- Poor communication in the family
- Sexual, physical, or emotionalabuse
This personality disorder tends to occur more often in women and among hospitalized psychiatric patients.
Persons with BPD are often uncertain about their identity. As a result, their interests and valuescan change rapidly. Theyalso tend toview things in terms of extremes, such as either all good or all bad. Their views of other peoplecan change quickly. A person who is looked up to one day may be looked down on the next day. These suddenly shifting feelings often lead to intense and unstable relationships.
Other symptoms of BPD include:
- Intense fear of being abandoned
- Cannot tolerate being alone
- Frequent feelings of emptiness and boredom
- Frequent displays of inappropriate anger
- Impulsiveness, such as with substance abuse orsexual relationships
- Repeated crises and acts of self-injury, such as wrist cutting or overdosing
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BPD is diagnosed based on a psychological evaluationthat assessesthe history and severity of the symptoms.
Individual talk therapymay successfully treat BPD. In addition, group therapy can sometimes be helpful.
Medications have less of a role in the treatment of BPD. But in some cases, they can improve mood swings and treat depression or other disorders that may occur with this condition.
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- Depression
- Drug abuse
- Problems with work, family, and social relationships
- Suicide attempts and actual suicide
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Seeyour health care provider if you orsomeone you knowhas symptoms of borderline personality disorder. It is especially important to seek help right away if you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide.
Blais MA, Smallwood P, Groves JE, Rivas-Vazquez RA. Personality and personality disorders. In: Stern TA, Rosenbaum JF, Fava M, Biederman J, Rauch SL, eds. Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry. 1st ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Mosby; 2008:chap 39.
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THE Indiana Pacers roared into Madison Square Garden last night against the new-look Knicks, falling, 97-90, in a game whose story line was the grudge match between the teams' executives: the Pacers' Larry Bird and the Knicks' Isiah Thomas.
But the real story had more to do with the N.B.A., progress and what happens when a group that is out finally begins to claim its share of the pie. You discover that human nature -- the survival instinct -- prevails.
The latest chapter of this story began last spring, when Joe Dumars, the Pistons' president of basketball operations, fired Coach Rick Carlisle despite his leading Detroit to the Eastern Conference finals.
During the summer, Larry Bird, who had become the Pacers' president, fired Thomas as coach; Thomas had failed to take the Pacers past the first round of the playoffs for the third straight season. Bird then hired his friend and former teammate Carlisle to coach the Pacers.
The N.B.A.'s progress unfolded in December, when Thomas resurfaced -- not as a coach but as president of basketball operations for the Knicks. After trading for Stephon Marbury, Thomas finally put an end to an agonizing death watch by firing Coach Don Chaney. Dumars, a black executive, fires Carlisle, a white coach. Bird, a white executive, fires Thomas, a black coach. Then Thomas, a black executive, fires Chaney, a black coach, and hires a black coach, Lenny Wilkens, to replace him.Continue reading the main story
This, I thought, must be progress. In David Stern's N.B.A., everybody does everybody in.
For young fans, this coaching bloodletting is a natural occurrence. For someone like Bernie Bickerstaff, who joined the N.B.A. in 1973 as an assistant coach, Thomas's presence in New York signals a new juncture in the push for power by blacks in a sport they've dominated numerically for nearly 30 years. Bickerstaff is the general manager and coach of the Charlotte Bobcats, the N.B.A. franchise that begins play next season. Ed Tapscott, the former Knicks G.M., is the team president. The owner is Robert Johnson. All three are African-American.
Bickerstaff -- who has been witness to this evolution toward equal-opportunity hiring and firing that Thomas exercised when he let Chaney go -- grew up in Kentucky under strict segregation. ''When I got on the bus, I went straight to the back,'' he said. ''I didn't even think about it, because that's what my grandparents did.''
The most incredible thing for Bickerstaff was when the University of Kentucky hired a black basketball coach in 1996, after Adolph Rupp had refused to recruit black players for decades. ''I listened to that radio every night because they were my favorite team,'' he recalled. ''I didn't see color. The most amazing thing to me was that a Tubby Smith was hired. That's something, growing up, that I never envisioned.''
Bickerstaff entered the N.B.A. in 1973 as an assistant to K. C. Jones with the Bullets. The push then was more jobs, more coaching opportunities for the growing number of black players who wanted to stay in the game.
Bill Russell became the first black head coach in 1966 and Lenny Wilkens the second in 1969. Bickerstaff spent 12 years as an assistant in Washington. In 1985, he replaced Wilkens as coach in Seattle. Bickerstaff was eventually hired by Wes Unseld as coach of the Bullets and was fired by Unseld, who at the time was one of the league's few black general managers.
''Obviously, there's progress that's being made,'' Bickerstaff said from his office yesterday afternoon. ''What I like about the N.B.A. is that the opportunity has been presented.
''Back then there was the push just to try to get the opportunity. You have to get people in, in order to grow and perpetuate. You have to be in a position to make decisions. But those decisions have to be solid, because ultimately it's about having a quality environment around you and a quality situation where you can succeed.
''You have to make tough decisions. And the meek, they don't survive.''
Last night, I spoke with Jets Coach Herman Edwards. Edwards, the first African-American head football coach in New York, fired Ted Cottrell, who is also black, as his defensive coordinator. Cottrell was hired in Minnesota. The significance of Isiah Thomas's resurfacing in New York, and Cottrell's resurfacing in Minnesota, is that hiring, after years of pushing, is becoming colorblind.
''Twenty years ago, sometimes the guy that got hired wasn't the right guy; he was the most convenient guy,'' Edwards said. ''You want to make sure you're giving the right people the opportunity.
''You got to make sure that you exhaust all the avenues to give everyone an opportunity. Doesn't mean they get the job. They get a chance to have their day, to stand before you and say, 'Hey, I'm the right guy for this job.' ''
I asked Edwards, who was always active in the push to hire more black coaches, what he felt the pushing and lobbying was all about. He said learning the value of fair play and teaching that value. ''When you get in that position, you make sure that you treat people fairly,'' he said.
Dumars fires a successful white coach and replaces him with a coach, Larry Brown, who is already in the Hall of Fame. Larry Bird fires a Hall of Fame player as coach, the player is hired to run the Knicks and fires the black coach who was once Bird's teammate. Over in New Jersey with the Nets, Lawrence Frank, who never even played high school basketball and was the manager of the Indiana University team where Thomas once played, is the N.B.A.'s hottest coach.
The Knicks defeated the Pacers last night, and Thomas exacted a very small measure of revenge, but the larger lesson in Thomas's hiring and performance in his short time as the Knicks' boss is that from Dumars to Bird, winning in the N.B.A. has become colorblind.Continue reading the main story


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(Malaysian Recipes)
600g squids, small-medium
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon cooking oil
2 onions, peeled and sliced into rings
2 red chilies, seeded and sliced
Ingredients to be coarsely ground:
8 shallots, peeled
3 cloves garlic, peeled
2.5-cm knob turmeric, peeled
2.5-cm knob ginger, peeled
Wash and clean each squid, removing
entrails. Keep whole and leave eyes intact. Rub cleaned
squids with 1 teaspoon salt and leave for 15 minutes. Heat oil
in a kuali or wok and fry ground ingredients until fragrant. Add
squids and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Add all
remaining ingredients and stir-fry for 2-3 minutes. This dish
may look unappetizingly black but it is 'sedap', which is Malay for
"tasty", when eaten with hot steamed rice.
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The Spotts Dock facility, located 4.5 miles from George Town as the crow flies, is used as an alternate port when seas are too rough (according to the Associated Press, some ships also use Spotts Bay as an overflow area on particularly crowded days); cruise ships don't actually "schedule" calls there. The ban had been in place previously, but was reinstated by the Government and Port Authority of the Cayman Islands effective April 19 after officials noticed ships were anchoring again.
A spokesman for Carnival Cruise Lines says that its ships generally anchor in George Town harbor and tender at the port, but have used the alternative Spotts Bay area to anchor and operate tenders during inclement weather. Under the new ban, ships can no longer anchor in Spotts Bay -- but they can stay on engine power -- and this is what the line intends to do.
In fact, a spokesperson for Grand Cayman's Government Information Services, Ariana Rahamut, tells us that all of the cruise ships regularly calling in Cayman should have the ability to hold position with their engines alone -- and indeed use their engines to hold position to some extent even when anchored. Rahamut also told us that if a cruise line chose not to utilize the area that would be a "deliberate decision" on its part.
Why would a cruise line choose not to stay stationary when they have the capability to do so? One thought on our part is fuel costs. Holland America spokesman Erik Elvejord tells us that a ship would actually use about the same amount of fuel to hold position as to cruise, because you still have to move out in the ocean -- the ship wouldn't be completely still. However, the decision to use Spotts Bay or cancel a call would be based on safety of the guests, tender operation and the ship: "It would depend mostly on how rough the seas were and could we get guests safely ashore. I would expect it is the same for others [cruise lines]."
At this point, no cruise lines have announced or are anticipating any canceled calls due to the ban.
The once-living reefs at the George Town anchorage point are now almost completely destroyed. In Spotts, because the ships anchor much less frequently (a few times a year as opposed to multiple ships on an almost daily basis) much of the coral reef is still alive. However, every time ships anchor they add to the destruction. The ban on anchoring is intended to preserve the remaining live coral in this area.
According to Grand Cayman's government Web site, a cruise ship anchoring for one day can destroy nearly one acre of intact reef with its anchor and chains.
--by Melissa Baldwin, Senior Editor


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Sidney-by-the-Sea, or plain Sidney to the locals, is the charming booktown on the northern part of the Saanich Peninsula, a gateway to Victoria and Vancouver Island in BC, Canada.
Just 10km (6 miles) from Gazebo Bed and Breakfast it is well worth a visit, perhaps combined with visiting gardens and wineries on the Saanich Peninsula. Both the Butchart Gardens and Butterfly Gardens can be visited en route to Sidney.
The town is close to the BC Ferries and Washington State Ferries terminals and to Victoria International Airport and has numerous marinas. Consequently it is quite a busy town yet it has a slow relaxed atmosphere. Its population of under 12,000 includes many seniors who enjoy the mild climate, pedestrian-friendly Beacon Avenue with its shops, galleries and restaurants and an amble on its waterfront and fishing pier.
For visitors Sidney really does offer a wide range of activities:
Take a horse-drawn carriage tour of the town.
Glen Meadows Golf Club or Ardmore Golf Course.
Horse-back riding.
Sidney is Canada's first Booktown - about ten specialty stores close together.
Browse through gift shops and art galleries.
Watch the world go by from a coffeee shop.
Find a restaurant or pub for lunch or dinner.
Sidney Museum focusses on whales.
BC Aviation Museum - originals and replicas of the past century.
Saanich Historical Artifacts Society is an outdoor heritage museum over nearly 30 acres.
Take the 15 minute ferry trip to Sidney Spit, a small uninhabited island.
Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre, www.oceandiscovery.ca.
Mineral World and Scratch Patch - sea shells and semi-precious gems and minerals.
Marine activities
Go on a sea cruise around the nearby islands and the harbour.
Salt-water fishing, especially for salmon.
Explore the coves by kayak.
Dive to explore wrecks.
Potter around a marina.
Air activities
Go on an air tour by plane or helicopter.
Even go parachuting!
The Sidney Summer Market on Beacon Avenue each summer Thursday evening.
Music at the Centennial Bandstand on Sunday afternoons in July and August.
Victoria's Country Retreat ... serenity near the Butchart Gardens
Enjoy Sidney-by-the-Sea from our nearby Canada Select 5 Star rated B&B


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Scams Preying on the Lovelorn
Valentine's day is quickly approaching. For many people, that means buying gifts for a loved one, or finding a date.
One of the most popular gifts for Valentine's Day is flowers. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were over 18,000 florists in the United States in 2008. Be a smart consumer! The FTC has put together an alert of warning signs that the florist you're using might be a company posing as a local florist to scam you out of money.
Another popular way of celebrating the holiday is by going on a date with your spouse or partner. Millions of Americans use dating websites to look for love. If you use these sites, watch out for scams. OnGuard Online, a tip center sponsored by several U.S. agencies including the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Education, has created a list of tips to help you avoid dating scams. Requests for money or access to personal email accounts early in an online relationship could be warning signs.
You can file a complaint online against an individual or business you might suspect is deceiving customers out of money or call the FTC at 1-877-FTC-HELP.


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New FHA Loan Limits
Effective March 6th,2008, FHA began offering temporary higher loan limits. As part of the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, FHA is permitted to insure loans up to 125% of area median house prices. The increased mortgage cap for FHA loans is expected to shore up housing markets across the country. Conventional sources of funding have been drying up, and FHA financing is replacing them. Also, FHA's financing program has helped homeowners escape dubious loan products created by subprime lenders, and is expected to stem the tide of rising foreclosure rates. FHA has lost market share in the past to alternate subprime mortgages. With the subprime lending institutions imploding, FHA is stepping in with a safer, more stable product, and is focusing on fixed 30 year mortgages.
How will this affect the Minneapolis real estate market? FHA mortgage limits for the Twin Cities area has been increased from $271,050 to $365,000. This means that an additional 25% of the homes currently for sale will qualify for FHA financing. More than 77% of them can now be sold with an FHA mortgage.
The change in loan limits is effective through December 31st, 2008.
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This RabbitCore mounts directly on a user-designed motherboard with a single 0.1" (2.54 mm) 2x20 dual-row IDC header and can interface with all manner of CMOS-compatible digital devices. 33 digital I/O (shared with serial ports), power, and other signals are routed directly to the motherboard. Built-in low-EMI features, including a clock spectrum spreader, practically eliminate EMI problems, helping OEMs pass European CE and other regulatory RF emissions tests.
The RCM3600 is equipped with 5 VDC tolerant I/O, quadrature encoder inputs, PWM outputs, and pulse capture and measurement capabilities. The RCM3600 also features a battery-backable real-time clock, glueless memory and I/O interfacing, and low-power "sleepy" modes. An alternate I/O bus can be configured for 8 data lines and 6 address lines (shared with parallel I/O).
Programmed with Rabbit Semiconductor's Dynamic C®, the RCM3600 executes math, logic, and I/O exceptionally quickly. The Rabbit 3000 microprocessor, RCM3600, and Dynamic C were designed in a complementary fashion for maximum performance and ease of use in embedded systems. Rabbit Semiconductor's industry-proven Dynamic C® development system is a C language environment that includes an editor, compiler, and in-circuit debugger. User programs can be compiled, executed, and debugged using Dynamic C and a programming cable-no in-circuit emulator is required. An extensive library of drivers and sample programs is provided.
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Lele Wadi Guest House, Alibaug
Divi Parangi, Alibag, Maharashtra 402201
Ranked 41 amongst 279 hotels in Alibaug
Lele Wadi Guest House Reviews (8)
The hotel was located in the city. The check in and checkout was done on time at the hotel. There was no activity arranged by the hotel. The overall service of the hotel was very good.
"Great place to enjoy with family "
Great place for all the great people and the staff is also soooo good. A great place to chill and I travelled with family. I loved it and so did my children. My wife also enjoyed the trip I will suggest everyone to visit.
"Good home made food at reasonable rate"
Just one problem: Bookings are always full and why not, its a small guest house with lot of garden space. It totally has 5 rooms available and 2 kitchens in common. People here are very good and they provide home made food at very normal rates. 24 hours is check-in and check-out time. If you are planning for one night stay or night-over near beaches, this place is the one for you.
"Great place to stay at low price"
It is one of the nice, cheap and quiet guest house to party and stay. Our group planned to visit Alibaug beach for one of the friends bachelor party and we stayed at Lele Wadi guest house and believe me it was great place to stay. We offered the lunch over there on buffet system, that too at very reasonable price. If anyone planned to visit Alibaug then I must advice you to stay at this place.
"Awesome location; tasty food"
The place was awesome with a good staff to greet and provided the various services. The place was clean and the food was hygienic and quality taste. The location of the place adds beauty to it and makes you to capture some good pictures. All over the place was good and worth to visit.
It was a good experience. The water sport facility needs more attention. The food was good and fresh. The room service was excellent. The location is the only disadvantage. The beach view and the pool facilities are good. Overall it is a good placee to relax with friends and family for those who want to enjoy and relax away from hassels of the city.
"The cost is also very economical"
Its very comfortable and enjoyable to stay in lelewadi guesthouse cum bunglow. It is located in full of bush and near to varsoli beach which is very calm & beautiful place. The cost is also very economical if one can opt for A/c room. Its amazing experience to stay in this bunglow.
"It was nice.The place was quiet and away from rush..."
It was nice.The place was quiet and away from rush. beach was at walkable distance.
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Do you mean from the WAN to the LAN port 21 or do you mean everyone can
go outbound Port 21 to the Internet?
If you are trying to host many machine services on port 21 behind the
WAN, m0n0wall allows port redirection through the NAT rules. So you
could map port 65001 to port 21 on one computer, port 65002 to port 21
on another computer, etc.
The name resolution of the DNS Forwarder only works for the LAN. This
is useful in getting around the "can't get to NAT WAN service from LAN"
issue I often see listed. As far as using it to resolve those to
different ports on the WAN or LAN, name resolution only does IP, not the
port number, so you would not be able to use the DNS forwarder in that way.
As it stands, you don't need to run the same service on a different port
number for every machine.
Nick Smith wrote:
> is there a way to open say port 21 for my entire network, not just
> machine? then if i do ssh computer1.domain.com or computer2.domain.com
> it will actually go to each machine? as it stands now it seems i can
> only open the port per ip, so unless i run ssh on different ports on
> all the different machines which would be a real pain, now i have to
> ssh into computer1.domain.com and then from computer1 ssh into
> computer2. is it possible to open it up for the entire network and
> use host name resolution via the dns forwarder in the m0n0wall?
> thanks
> Nick
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High school notebook: Second Altmire tournament set
After raising more than $4,000 for their scholarship fund last year and having to practically turn teams away, organizers were sure to bring back the Caleb Altmire Memorial 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament.
This year's event will be May 5 at the Apollo-Ridge High School gym.
The double-elimination, open tournament will begin at 9 a.m.
This year, there is a 32-team limit.
Proceeds once again benefit the Caleb Eli Altmire Scholarship Fund.
Altmire was killed in a motorcycle accident on Sept. 29, 2010. The Apollo-Ridge basketball and track standout was 26.
Each year, a scholarship will be awarded to an Apollo-Ridge senior in May.
Cost to play in the tournament is $30 per team. Checks can be made payable to Greg Fox and mailed to: Apollo-Ridge Middle School, c/o Greg Fox, 1829 State Route 56, Spring Church, PA, 15686.
Forms should be mailed by April 20.
Contact: Fox, 724-478-6000, ext. 2124.
Rosio on the run
Cheswick Christian Academy boys basketball coach Todd Rosio ran a 5K with a friend in 2006 and has been hooked on running ever since.
Need proof?
Rosio is prepping to run the Boston Marathon next month.
"Basically, I have a deal with my wife for a three-part plan," said Rosio, 39. "Part 1: Run Pittsburgh Marathon to qualify for Boston. Part 2: Run Boston. Part 3: retire from marathoning.
"So far, so good. After Boston, I'd imagine I'll go back to running just 5k and 10k races for the foreseeable future."
New coach
Highlands' new baseball coach is Jeff Weissert.
Weissert, 40, replaces Ray Olsewski, who coached the Rams for two seasons and had a 6-27 record. Weissert was the team's junior varsity coach the past two years. He played for Highlands in the mid-1980s and Edinboro for two years at the college level.
Army of coaches
Kiski Area baseball doesn't have a coaching staff; it has an army.
The approval of six coaches pushed the program's staff total to 11, including head coach Daryl Hixenbaugh, a longtime major-league scout.
And the staff isn't short on baseball experience. Varsity assistants include former Burrell player Matt Stasko, former Kiski Area head coach and Plum assistant Zach Jankowski, and former Kiski Area player Shawn Schwarz.
The varsity even has an "advance scout" in former Springdale coach Curt Poremski.
The junior varsity staff now includes newcomer Randy Sturgill, a former star pitcher at Leechburg and California (Pa.) University.
Hairy situation
The WPIAL has a new term on its rules sheet for track and field: "Hair Control."
The league apparently is buckling down on what athletes can wear in their hair -- which could be labeled as "jewelry."
The rulesheet states; "Bobby pins, barrettes and hair clips no longer than two inches may be worn to control a competitor's hair. The adornment of body piercing of any type is considered jewelry; and therefore, not permitted during competition."
And to enforce this, the league states, "Penalty for an illegal uniform or wearing jewelry the competitor is disqualified from the event."


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Camp Discovery
For young people with chronic skin conditions, Camp Discovery offers a summer camping experience unlike any they've had before. Every year, the American Academy of Dermatology sponsors a week of fishing, boating, swimming, water skiing, arts and crafts, and just plain fun. For more information, visit www.campdiscovery.org.
Camp Mak-A-Dream
One week can change a lifetime. This is the core belief at Camp Mak-A-Dream. The organization's mission is to provide a medically supervised, cost-free Montana experience, in an intimate community setting, for children, young adults and families affected by cancer. Retreats are offered for adult cancer survivors, young adults, kids and other groups. For more information, visit www.campdream.org or call 406.549.5987.
Healing Odyssey
Healing Odyssey is a nonprofit organization providing recovery and cancer support programs for cancer survivors. Their programs offer the practical tools, skills-building and support needed to cope effectively with the life-altering effects of a cancer diagnosis and treatment. For more information, visit www.healingodyssey.org or call 949.951.3930.
Stowe Weekend of Hope
The Stowe Weekend of Hope, through a partnership of Vermont's medical community and Stowe's hospitality businesses, offers an educational and inspirational retreat weekend for cancer survivors and their families. Through the various activities and educational offerings, cancer survivors and their families are given an opportunity to gather with members of the medical community and with others in order to further their understanding of the disease affecting their lives. The goal of the Stowe Weekend of Hope is to provide this enriching experience without the financial burden. Each year, Stowe lodge/hotel owners donate hundreds of free rooms to cancer survivors and their loved ones, so the lodging and retreat are free (attendees incur meal expenses only). For more information, call 800.GO.STOWE (467.8693) or visit www.stowehope.org.
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Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, and Ashley Benson were on hand for the Berlin premiere of Spring Breakers this evening. Selena opted for a black Atelier Versace pantsuit while her costars both went with sequined gowns. The girls are currently traveling through Europe to premiere the film, which hits theaters in the US on March 22. They walked the red carpet in Paris on Monday along with their other castmate, Rachel Korine, and enjoyed downtime sightseeing around the city. Selena shared a photo of the group on her Twitter page before leaving France, writing "A perfect end to a perfect night. Goodbye Paris. . . Je'Taime."
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Here's the latest post-Hurricane Irene update from officials in Mamaroneck:
MAMARONECK VILLAGE: The village lifted its evacuation order today, but is keeping a declared state of emergency in effect through midnight.
Con Edison estimated it will take at least a day, perhaps several, to restore power village-wide. About 2,200 customers in the village were without electricity this morning, down from at least 4,000 — or more than half the village — last night. To report an outage, call 1-800-75-CON-ED or visit http://www.coned.com/.
Most if not all flooded village roads are now clear, and there's no further risk of storm-surge flooding from Long Island Sound.
Crews will be removing debris from the roads over the next one to two weeks. Due to limited staff and equipment, however, the village is not providing pump-outs, so flooded property owners will have to get those services from private contractors. There will be special pick-ups of storm-destroyed property through at least Friday, Sept. 2. All garbage and debris should be dried out as best as possible, bagged or bundled, and left at the curb. Cans of liquid paint and hazardous materials of any kind will not be picked up.
Dry ice will be distributed until 7 p.m. tonight at the Mamaroneck Metro-North train station at Mamaroneck and Halstead avenues.
Officials have asked residents to document and photograph all losses and email the information to firstname.lastname@example.com, or email@example.com. The village will give that info to the Federal Emergency Management Agency the Army Corps of Engineers as part of their flood remediation study, and will use it to seek future funding for flood mitigation improvements.
Leaf blower restrictions are suspended until 6 p.m. Sept. 3.
MAMARONECK TOWN: Con Edison has yet to give town officials a timeline for restoring power.
Garbage pickup will follow a normal schedule, though service may be spotty in storm-damaged areas. Residents may bring trash to the Maxwell Avenue facility from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays (except Wednesdays) and from 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Saturdays. Steer clear of downed power lines and trees.
Town court will be open tonight, and town center is scheduled to re-open at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.
LARCHMONT: The village is working with Con Ed to restore power, but has not provided a timeline for completing the work.
Parking regulations are back in effect in all municipal lots.
Garbage collection may be delayed due to flooded streets and fallen tree limbs. Residents should bag organic waste and leave it at the curb no sooner than the night before their second garbage collection day. The village is lifting a ban on leaf blowers until Sept. 10 to allow residents to clear debris.
PHOTO: Businesses along Mamaroneck Avenue pump out floodwater after Hurricane Irene (Ned P. Rauch/The Journal News)


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Cheswick considers 3 police proposals
Cheswick Council began weighing neighboring communities' proposals for providing police service but isn't ready to make a decision.
On Tuesday night, council discussed the proposals submitted by Springdale, Springdale Township and Harmar.
Deciding which, if any, they will choose won't happen before they tour each police department and meet with the officials in those communities.
Cheswick's police department is down to only one full-time officer, Chief Bob Scott, and several part-time officers.
Council has been pondering if it is financially feasible to continue the borough's police department or whether to shut it down.
It sought requests for proposals on police service to see if that option makes more financial sense. The 2012 borough budget allocated about $361,000 for police.
Having 24/7 police coverage with an officer stationed in the borough is key in council's consideration of the proposals as well as costs.
Harmar submitted two proposals. The one that comes closest to providing what Cheswick wants would cost $292,000 in the first year of the five-year contract. By the fifth year the cost would rise to $299,000.
The other plan, which Harmar officials characterized as more affordable, would not station an officer in Cheswick. But Harmar officials said including the borough in one of its patrol zones would still maintain the average three-minute response time.
That plan would cost $168,000 in the first year and $173,400 in the fifth year.
Councilman Frank Meledandri didn't think that secondary plan would meet the borough's needs while the cost of the other plan doesn't seem to save enough money, especially the ongoing police pension costs Cheswick has to bear are added.
"What scares me is Harmar really went into the details," Meledandri said, "and what they came up with is close to what we're spending now."
Springdale Township provided the lowest cost. Its proposal is $150,000 the first year and would rise by $1,000 per year to $154,000 in the fifth year.
The proposal from Springdale Borough would start at $218,000 in the first year then jump to $234,000 the second year, $240,000 the third year, $247,000 the fourth year and in the fifth year the cost would jump by $11,000 to $258,000.
Council seemed to favor Springdale Borough's proposal the most.
While noting that Springdale Township came in with the lowest cost, Councilman Jonathan Skedel said, "They didn't give us what we were asking for. This is more of an on-call situation."
The Springdale Borough proposal said an officer and vehicle would remain in Cheswick unless called on to assist other departments.
In addition, it said a three-member committee would be formed with two council members from Springdale and one from Cheswick, to oversee police services.
Tom Yerace is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 724-226-4675 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Dating and Looking Singles Mixer @ Penthouse 50 at FIFTY!
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Apple Aperture, the first all-in-one post production tool that provides everything photographers need after the shoot. Aperture offers an advanced and incredibly fast RAW workflow that makes working with a camera's RAW images as easy as JPEG. Built from the ground up for pros, Aperture features powerful compare and select tools, nondestructive image processing, color managed printing and custom web and book publishing. "Aperture is to professional photography what Final Cut Pro is to filmmaking," said Rob Schoeben, Apple's vice president of Applications Marketing. "Finally, an innovative post production tool that revolutionizes the pro photo workflow from compare and select to retouching to output."
Work directly with RAW files
"Until now, RAW files have taken so long to work with," said Heinz Kluetmeier, renowned sports photographer whose credits include over 100 Sports Illustrated covers. "What amazed me about Aperture is that you can work directly with RAW files, you can loupe and stack them and it's almost instantaneous - I suspect that I'm going to stop shooting JPEGs. Aperture just blew me away."
Massive photo projects
Unique compare and select tools in Aperture allow photographers to easily sift through massive photo projects and quickly identify their final selections. Aperture is the first application that automatically groups sequences of photos into easy-to-manage Stacks based on the time interval between exposures. In an industry first, Aperture allows photographers to navigate through entire projects in a full-screen workspace that can be extended to span multiple displays, tiling multiple images side-by-side for a faster, easier compare and select. With Aperture's Loupe magnifying tool, portions of images can be examined in fine detail without having to zoom and pan across large files. In addition, a virtual Light Table provides the ideal canvas for building simple photo layouts, allowing them to be arranged, resized and piled together in a free-form space.
Adobe Photoshop
RAW images are maintained natively throughout Aperture without any intermediate conversion process, and can be retouched with stunning results using a suite of adjustment tools designed especially for photographers. Aperture's nondestructive image processing engine never alters a single pixel of original photos so photographers have the power and flexibility to modify or delete changes at any point in the workflow. As Aperture allows users to create multiple versions of a single image without duplicating files, photographers can experiment without risk of overwriting the master image or using up large amounts of hard drive space. Aperture images can also be launched directly into Adobe Photoshop for compositing and layer effects.
High-quality local printing and color-managed online prints
Aperture features a complete color-managed pipeline with support for device specific ColorSync profiles and a set of high-quality output tools for photographers to showcase their work. Print options include customizable contact sheets, high-quality local printing and color-managed online prints. Aperture provides a deceptively simple layout environment where photographers can quickly create and order custom professional-caliber books and publish stunning web galleries. Aperture makes it easy to back up an entire library of images with a single click and streamline complex workflows with AppleScript® and Automator actions.
Versatile Printing and Publishing
Using Aperture, you can produce high-quality prints and contact sheets, design customized books, and create impressive websites as beautiful as the photographs you take. Best of all: you can do it all with drag-and-drop ease. The Mac prints to a wide variety of professional printers. You'll find profiles for each of them listed in the Print dialog's ColorSync Profile menu. (And don't worry if you don't see the profile for your printer. You can always download one from the printer manufacturer's website and add it to your system.) In fact, once you select the profile for your printer, you're ready to take advantage of an Aperture feature you're going to use over and over again: Softproofing onscreen in the live Preview area of the application's robust and resizable Print dialog. If the image you see isn't perfect, fine-tune your output by making Gamma adjustments or by turning on black-point compensation. Aperture even lets you save output profiles as presets. If, for example, you find yourself printing a lot of 5x7-inch prints on semi-gloss stock on your Epson 9600 with Black Point Compensation activated and a 1.00 Gamma adjustment dialed in, you can create a profile with just those specifications and save yourself some time and mouse strokes the next time you print.
Create custom-designed books with Aperture
Presenting prospective clients with a handsome, bound and printed Stock Book sends a powerful message. And Aperture makes the production of such high-quality bound books both simple and affordable. To help you put a unique stamp on them, Aperture includes a sophisticated book-layout engine that offers significant design flexibility. You can manually drag or have Aperture automatically place photographs in a layout for you. Doubleclick on any photo, and you can zoom in or pan the image until it's perfectly positioned. Aperture also lets you add both text and photo boxes; move, resize, and rotate photos; insert multi-columned text; even use your own photos as full-bleed, ghosted background images. Need another page? Add a blank one whenever you'd like or simply duplicate an existing page and replace its photos or text. With Aperture, you have total control. And when you're ready, you can print your completed book on your own printer, save it as a PDF, or take advantage of Aperture's integrated ordering service to order hard- or soft-cover books printed at 300dpi for optimal print quality.
Aperture Printing contact sheets
If you've ever tried to print contact sheets using other photo applications, you're probably familiar with the expression, "there's gotta be a better way." Now there is. Aperture lets you print contact sheets more quickly and easily than you can using just about any other photo application available today.Just tell Aperture how many pages you'd like to print, and it will resize your photos on the fly to fit. Want more customization options? Aperture lets you define the number of columns and rows, set border widths, identify the metadata (if any) to include on the contact sheets, even choose the font size you'd like Aperture to use. You can also save your presets, speeding the process the next time you want to print contact sheets using, let's say, a 4-column or auto-rotated 3x3 grid. Once you get used to printing contact sheets in Aperture, you'll never want to print them any other way.
Nondestructive Image Processing
Have you ever modified a file and instinctively hit command-S only to realize that you've just overwritten your original file? You can't Undo. You just have to live with the results. If you remembered to backup, you may have another copy of your original. But what you really need is an application that lets you freely experiment with your images while still providing you a built-in safety net. What you really need is Aperture. With Aperture, you never have to worry about retouching images or trying out different image adjustments because Aperture makes protecting your RAW images job one. Designed to protect your images from the moment they're imported, Aperture identifies your original images as digital "masters," and it has built-in safeguards to ensure that you can't accidentally overwrite or modify them. In fact, it's physically impossible to alter a single pixel of a digital master. Instead. Aperture takes a novel and completely nondestructive approach to image editing.
Aperture Essential image adjustment tools
Offering native RAW image editing and breakthrough speed, Aperture puts the most essential adjustment tools at your immediate disposal via either the Adjustments Inspector or the Adjustments Heads-Up Display (HUD).Using these tools, you can fine-tune exposure, use a Histogram to check and adjust Levels, set White Balance, or modify highlight and shadows. If you need to crop, straighten horizons, reduce noise, correct red-eye, or eliminate dust, you'll find intutive tools available to you. In fact, if you use any of the adjustment tools to modify or retouch an image, you can use Aperture's unique "Lift & Stamp" tool to apply those modifications to any number of additional images. Now, that's handy.
Metadata on display
With metadata, you have a significant amount of information about your photos available to you, and Aperture lets you see it in the Metadata Heads-Up Display, Tooltips, and wherever you view images. What's more, with Aperture you can customize the display of keywords, ratings, EXIF information, and IPTC data to fit your needs. Aperture lets you see as much or as little of your metadata as you'd like. With Aperture, you have all the tools you need to compare your photos and select the very best.
Wide support for leading Digital Cameras
Aperture supports digital cameras from a wide variety of manufacturers, including Canon, Fujifilm, Hewlett Packard, Kodak, Konica Minolta, Nikon, Olympus and Sony. It offers optimized support for the RAW formats of the following digital SLRs:
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Justice means different things to different people, so is very hard to define. Generally it means fairness and equality.
Rule of Natural Justice:
This states that we must have both sides to a story, for example having witnesses come forward.
Rule of Law:
This states that we are "All equal before the law and in order to achieve justice we must all have equal acess to the courts." i.e we are all must follow the law so it should also be there to help us. E.g. Legal aid.
We need these doctorines because before Human Rights Act we didnt have a bill of rights such as the American Constitiution.
Theories of Justice
Said we have two types of justice, distributive and corrective
Distributive - All benefits and burdens should be distributed fairly. This does NOT mean equal distribution of wealth, only that everything is fair. An example of this reflected in our laws are beifit laws etc.
Corrective - If anyone tries to upset this fair distribution then their behaviour should be corrected. For example courts, prison, compensation, injunctions etc.
Jhon Rawls
Said that the only way to achieve true justice is if we create an 'original position' This is a group of people who are behind a 'veil of ignorance' which means that they are unaware of their social status, abilities, background, place in society etc.
His point being that the people who make the laws have their own agenda, so you cant achieve true Justice.
If you get wealth legally and fairly, then it should be yours to keep. However those who don't have any wealth shouldn't be helped. The problem with this theory is that some cant afford training for a good job.
He believed that the law is made to protect the middle class and their property from the working class. He thought everyone should be equal.
The Relationship between law and justice
Formal Justice
These are mechanisms in place in order to try and underpin a just society. for example:
- Judges and Lawyers.
We have Montesque's Seperation of powers, ensuring none of the 3 groups do anything unjust.
Judges are also free from financial and political pressure.
Barristers have the Cab Rank rule, to ensure everyone is represented.
However, judges are usually from middle class backgrounds, and there is a lack of women and ethnic minorities.
- Lay people
Trial by peers means that they have local knowledge.
However due to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 judges can now sit on Juries, so is it still trial by peers?
They have no legal training and often bow to media pressure.
Lord Dennings said "The jury is a corner stone to a civilised society."
Substansive Justice
These are mechanisms we have in place to ensure a just outcome.
- Precedent
We have stare decisis (like cases treated alike) which underpins the development of the law and it is key to consistency.
House of Lords have the Practice Statement 1966 which allows them to over turn an unjust decision. However to ensure consistency, they rarely use it.
FORD (follow, overrule, reverse, distinguish) ensures that each case is treated on its own fact.
- Sentencing Guidelines
We have a varying tariffs e.g 2-5yrs which allow pre-sentence reports, mitigating and aggravating factors to be taken into account.
The victim however may argue that it is TOO fair on the defendants
Life also doesn't always mean life.
Miscarriages of Justice
Despite the attempts to ensure justice, we do still sometimes get it wrong.
Steven Downing - was wrongly imprisoned for 26 years. Although he got £250,000 compensation because he is so institutionalised he cant pick up his life again.
It is a very long, drawn out process in order to get someone released, however we do have the Criminal Cases Review committee who look at cases of those who are adamant that they are innocent.
Every legal system tries to achieve justice, so there is a relationship between the two.
We have mechanisms in place for if we get it wrong.
There is a link both historically and theoretically.
My teacher said that its not enough to learn the essay. You must also add in your own opinion and try and link with current affairs in today's society.
My teacher said that its not enough to learn the essay. You must also add in your own opinion and try and link with current affairs in today's society.
These notes are aimed at people studying for A Level Law, unit 6.


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Imperfecto de Subjuntivo - Spanish Imperfect Subjunctive
The imperfect tense of the subjunctive mood is used to express the same subjectivity as the present subjunctive, but in the past.
The imperfect subjunctive has three main uses:
Imperfect Subjunctive Conjugations
To conjugate the imperfect subjunctive, take the third person plural preterite form of any regular, irregular, or stem-changing verb, drop the -RON ending to find the radical, and add the appropriate ending:
For example...
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Ranking, Position: 3-Star Tight End
School: Westerville-South (OH) High School
Height, Weight: 6-foot-5, 228 pounds
Offers— Boston College, Bowling Green, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Minnesota, Missouri, Pittsburgh, Purdue, North Carolina, South Florida, Toledo, UCF
Bio— Long is the centerpiece of an offense which had great success last season. He also made his mark on the other side of the ball, working as a defensive end. While most schools see him as a tight end, he could also play at defensive end if so desired.
Scouting Report— There is plenty to like about Darryl Long's game. He has the build you would want in a tight end—6-foot-5 and 228 pounds—but he moves like a receiver. Long is a threat in any passing attack with his size and consistent hands. He is also dangerous in the open field. From a Purdue perspective, Long would be a great weapon in John Shoop's offense, working primarily with his hand in the ground then creating mismatches in the second level.
Quote to note— "I'll look at who my position coach will be, how long I'll be there, my chances of getting on the field and the academic standings." --Darryl Long, on what he'll use to evaluate his schools.
Why it could be Purdue—The Boilermakers have made it clear to Long that he is a priority in their recruiting plans. Linebackers coach Marcus Freeman has led a strong recruitment of Long, the primary reason why Purdue has a good chance at landing his services.
Prediction—All indications seem to show Long going to either Kentucky or Louisville. The tight end visited the two schools for their spring games and left feeling confident about both as an option. My best guess is that Long becomes a Kentucky Wildcat.
Video highlights from Darryl Long's junior season:
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So, another star has decided that calling people "[email protected]" is totally acceptable. This time, basketball player Joakim Noah, but really anti-gay slurs keep turning up from sportsman, sports coaches, musicians, in musicians lyrics, actors and just about every kind of star there is.
So hold on guys, because we're going to be riding that same old roller coaster again.
First step will be a non-pology. The words "intend" will be in their somewhere. It will likely imply that either a) nothing homophobic was meant by using an explicitly homophobic slur and b) that random passing hate aliens beamed the word into his mouth and it's not at all because he's a homophobe at all.
Second step is a gazillion straight fans leaping up and down in frothing agitation because an anti-gay slur is totally not homophobic and why are we so upset?! We may even get creative supporters using the slur repeatedly to show us how not problematic it is. If, on the off chance, there are actual CONSEQUENCES (I know, I know, doesn't usually happen, but sometimes) to said bigotry, then their hair may actually catch fire from the sheer incandescence of their rage. When not howling with rage, they may pause to slowly and painfully explain to us why anti-gay slurs are a) not homophobic b) not real slurs, c) not that bad or d) all of the above. Third step is a youtube video or PSA saying "Homophobia is baaaad, and I really mean this, I'm totally not covering my arse." It will be watched by a few people, most of whom will be either GBLT or perfectly aware that homophobia is bad. Unlike the slur in the first place which, of course, had a much much wider audience.
Fourth step, we're all expected to go "awwww he learned" and forgive and forget and pretend it never happened – except the gazillion people from step 2 who are still ranting about us being "sensitive" and "hysterical" and "looking to be offended." They're going to hang around for a while
Fifth step, buckle in while another celeb opens their mouth and takes us round the ride again.
Can you tell I'm tired of this ride by now? So let's start pulling it apart.
If you call someone a "[email protected]"or variations thereof, you're a homohobe who just said something homophobic. It doesn't matter if your target is gay or not, it doesn't matter if you "intend" to call them gay or not – the mere fact you think being gay is worthy of insult AND that you chose one of the vilest possible ways to express it shows extremely homophobia. You do not – cannot – use an anti-gay slur to insult people without expressing contempt for us.
Right, next piece – crap like this doesn't just slip out (the Mel Gibson "I was drunk" excuse). There are some words I can never see myself uttering – no matter how drunk, angry, upset, concussed or freaking drugged – because they're not part of my common dialogue, they're not even part of my internal thought processes. If they have no place on my tongue, they're not going to slip OFF my tongue. These words don't just "slip out" unless your happy to let them in and keep them around in the first place.
Ok, on to the next piece – to all the straight defenders that inevitably if you defend the use of slurs then you are defending, supporting and encouraging homophobia. And yes, that makes you a homophobe. If you downplay the severity of a slur, if you dismiss the slur, if you decide it's not a slur or not a "real" slur – then you are a homophobe. And you are the reason why hate speech against us continually raises its ugly head – because you excuse it, you say it's ok, you make it acceptable to say and you encourage it to happen again and again and again.
We don't need you to give us permission to be offended and you don't get to police when we are. You don't get to tell us how much we can be offended, you don't get to tell us when we shouldn't be offended and you don't get to tell us when we should stop being offended. Now stop it, before I have to hit you all with a wet fish.
Ok, moving to the next piece. Sorry is a word. A sorry word at that. Do you know what it actually means and what it actually changes? Sod all. However, it's a nice start – if done well, but that hardly ever happens. If you're going to apologise stop trying to excuse or justify yourself. I don't care what you "intended." You can say you don't mean to disrespect us – it doesn't matter. You did. Don't tell me you're "not homophobic" when you've just presented such stellar evidence to the contrary. Here's a tip – want to apologise? Treat it as an actual APOLOGY rather than Public Relations arse-covering. Oh, and apologies aren't like those nifty little red-light thingies in Men In Black. Your apology doesn't mean we all magically forget what you did – nor does it mean we should.
Which brings me to the PSA thing which celebs seem to like to play with. Now, your mileage may vary but people doing stuff like this to cover their arses makes me want to reach for the haddock and start slapping people. Homophobia is an important issue, it ruins lives. Fighting it is important, it's about protecting people, it's about saving people. It's not a tool to use to try to patch your shaky PR. And what's the message here? "Homophobia is wrong and hurts people, but hey, not really because 3 days ago I called someone a '[email protected]'"? Or "Make pretty speeches for the P people but you know this isn't REALLY important." Is this the message? People saying "do as I say not as I do" to try and combat homophobia? Frankly I find it as pointless and aggravating as anti-gay politicians using "It Gets Better" videos for some free campaigning.
Well, I've deconstructed the roller coaster, but it's only a matter of time before we're strapped in for another ride.


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Councilwoman Rudiak delivered these remarks at a press conference this morning, before Council.
I was talking to a teacher from Carrick High School at an education fair in Carrick last week; he was lamenting how Carrick had more students than last year, however there were fewer teachers because of the furloughs caused by cuts in state funding.
I have talked to the executive director of our local senior center, fretting about the future viability of the center in the face of human service funding cuts, a center where some seniors receive their only meal of the day.
I have talked with individuals who have been one of the 400,000 people on the waiting list for AdultBASIC medical services for years, only to see their place in line disappear because of the astonishing lack of compassion and wisdom by our state leaders.
Yet, here we are, gathered to talk about a bill that has nothing to do with serving the needs of everyday Pennsylvanians, and everything to do with lining the pocketbooks of our largest businesses.
We are here to talk about Senate Bill 4, and two things about that bill.
1) State legislature and its lack of care for public process
2) Why this bill is bad for all Pennsylvanians
Senate Bill 4 and its companion in the house are moving swiftly through the Pennsylvania legislature-- without a public hearing, without data about the impact on local communities, and without the transparency we need to fully understand the issue.
This bill passed through the finance and appropriations committees in the senate, and the finance committee in the house. This bill could be up before the entire legislature as soon as next week. There are proclamations for Eagle Scouts that have more public airing than this bill!
The Hospital Association and certain lawmakers would rather this bill pass without a single peep from teh public. We are talking about a change to the Pennsylvania Constitution-- surely this deserves some conversation.
Let's talk for a moment about the bill.
Senate Bill 4-- introduced in February-- would throw the power to determine a purely public charity to the state legislature, effectively perpetuating the trend of mega-charities reducing their payments to communities while increasing their real estate footprint.
In 1997, the legislature passed Act 55 to define what a charity was, in the process, LOWERING the threshold and allowing huge "mega-charities" to grow without the threat of losing their tax-exempt status. Now the Hospital Association and other "mega-charities" are at it again in an attempt to preserve their status and their huge revenues at the expense of middle class taxpayers.
Pittsburgh is not the only community facing this issue, and I hope that this Will of Council serves as a model for communities across the Commonwealth. We are joining the State Association of Township Commissions, the School Board Association, and the Pennsylvania Municipal League to condemn the impact this will have on the budgets of communities all across the commonwealth.
We have expectations for a purely public charity. We expect that they advance a charitable purpose. We expect that they donate a substantial portion of their services. We expect that they benefit people who are in need of charity. We expect that they relieve the government of some of its burden. And most significantly, we expect that it operates entirely free from private profit motive.
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The days are closing in, the weather is freezing and Christmas is almost here. But there's no let up for our political leaders. Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, is facing calls from the Police Federation to resign after refusing to implement a pay rise in full. Gordon Brown is spending most of the week clocking up a hefty carbon footprint as he flies to Iraq and Afganistan and then onto Lisbon, ending up in the most exciting destination of all -- Brussels.
In Politics Weekly I pick over the events of the last full week of the year in Parliament with Nick Gibb, the shadow schools minister; Polly Toynbee, the Guardian columnist, and Julian Glover, our chief leader writer.
We discuss whether Britain is on the right path in Afghanistan after the prime minister followed up his visit to Helmand Province with a statement to MPs outlining plans for a lengthy commitment to the country. We also ask whether Brown's government has at last outlined a compelling vision for the future after Ed Balls, the schools secretary who is a key ally of the prime minister, outlined his children's plan. And finally we don our bow ties and put out our Union Jacks as we recreate the atmosphere of the last night of the Proms to join the debate about the future of the United Kingdom.
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Moonrise Kingdom Short Wanders In
Animated tales from the film's books
Last week, Wes Anderson let slip that he would be putting a short film based on his latest release, Moonrise Kingdom, onto the web for us all to enjoy. The short has now arrived and can be seen over at Entertainment Weekly.
Introduced by Kingdom's narrator, played by Bob Balaban, the video brings to life passages from some of the books kept by Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward) in the suitcase she brings on her adventure with Sam (Jared Gilman).
While Anderson had originally planned to illustrate the stories using animation, he ultimately went another way, but the idea stuck. "I wrote passages for the other books that didn't have any text read aloud in the film, and we animated that too," he tells EW. "So we now have this piece where our narrator, Bob Balaban's character, takes us through these little sections of each of these books."
To get them made, Anderson turned to his Fantastic Mr Fox (and Moonrise Kingdom) producer Jeremy Dawson, who paired up the artist of each fake book's jacket with an animator. "We got the artist to do key drawings, and then someone else had to take those key drawings and animate them," he says. "One of these guys I believe was in Sweden, one in Paris, and one in LA. They were all over the world and we did it all by Internet. For instance, the one with the hydrogoblin, The Girl From Jupiter – that artist does his work in oil painting, so someone had to kind of emulate that oil painting look in the animation."
For more on bringing the books to life, head to EW. And in case you're concerned, there are no spoilers for the movie in the short.


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She is a grandniece of mine; her father died some years ago, her mother three years since, and naturally she came to me.
Mother said you were up on the Bay then at your grandniece's—pretty girl.
Being the Dean's grandniece, she considered herself unconsciously a privileged person.
The chest A. was not to be opened until the eldest son of his grandniece, Lady Laura, should attain the age of twenty-five.
My grandniece had to give up her job so she could stay home and take care of me.
Aunt Henderson wondered greatly what sudden whim or inward purpose had brought her grandniece hither.
And the girl young Kerrigan's going to marry really is a grandniece of the General's.
He turned his back upon his grandniece sharply and went out of the door.
How dare Pros Passmore's grandniece carry a bright head so high, and flash such glances of liquid fire at her questioner?
"She's the only grandniece we can possibly get on such short notice," said Dr. O'Grady.