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New Year's Eve is a few days away. Because of this, I think it's important to remind you of this tip. When driving on a four lane highway at night, try not to spend a lot of time in the left lane. Why? Drunk drivers who drive on the wrong side of the highway will usually be driving in your left lane. (They think it's their right lane). Odds are also good that they won't have their headlights on. Be careful out there!
Do you know someone who suffers from arthritis in their hands? If so, share this great tip from Karl Schneider: "When you get your prescriptions refilled the child-proof caps are hard to get off as they are not "broken in" yet. Simply take the cap from the old container that is already "broken in" and use on the new container." Let me add to Karl's tip by suggesting the Web site: www.wrightstuff.biz. My wife, who is a physical therapist, put me onto this one. WrightStuff carries a lot of great products for people whose hand strength has been greatly diminished. They have gas cap wrenches, enlarged lamp switches and door knob grippers.
If there's a younger driver in your house, make sure they know this. If you see a deer crossing the road, be prepared for other deer to follow it. I was following behind an experienced driver the other night when all of a sudden he slammed on his brakes. A deer went running across the road. The driver smartly decided to wait a few moments before taking off again. Good thing because two other deer came running out of the woods right in front of his car. An inexperienced driver would have had at least one of those two deer as a hood ornament.
If you have a cat, be sure to keep your bag of new kitty litter open and at the bottom of your clothes closet — preferably next to your dirty clothes hamper. The new litter absorbs odors. Also, having the kitty litter bag in the closet reminds you to change out the old litter. (Your cat will thank me for this tip).
My personal favorite tip of 2008: Leave a clear, glass measuring cup right-side-up in your dishwasher. If the cup is full of water, then you know that the dishes are clean. I love this tip and use it every week. Have a wonderful New Year's Eve!
Tim Thompson lives in Gainesville. E-mail Tim your ideas for tips, tools or tricks.


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This is an AWESOME tease for the new Hunger Games movie! It's going to be called 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1' and is set to be released in the fall of this year!
JV and his wife, Natasha Yi, made a new movie called 'Behind The House'
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Along the rear wall enjoy a hide-a-bed sofa for additional seating or even sleeping space at night, plus two end tables to place your things. There is also overhead storage that stretches the entire width of the unit. Adjacent in the slide opposite the door find an entertainment center, pantry with drawers, microwave, three burner range, refrigerator, and overhead cabinets. Along the interior wall there is a hutch to display your things and overhead cabinets to store your dishes. A much desired kitchen island includes a double sink for easy clean up and extra counter space for preparing the meals. This combined area allows extra family and friends to enjoy camping with you.
Up the step there is a side aisle bath and master bedroom suite that is accessible from inside the bathroom, or from the hall door. The bathroom contains a corner shower. There is also a toilet, corner vanity with sink, and a linen cabinet inside a slide out. The slide also includes a wardrobe and continues into the bedroom.
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On Friday, October 26th, I delivered a TechNet Webcast on Exchange Server 2007 Client Access and Web Services. Unfortunately, I did not have anyone helping to answer Questions on the back end, but I have had a chance to go through all the questions afterwards and answer them. I am posting the Q&A Log from that webcast here. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
Harold Wong
Question: What level of functionality will I get with OWA on platforms other than MS? On a Mac is Entourage a lot more powerfull than a built in mail client or OWA?
Answer: You will get the OWA Light capability. The Exchange team blog has a video that covers this. From my experience, the Entourage client for the MAC is not as full featured as the full Outlook client for the Windows platform.
Question: In some CAS documentation is suggest that CAS server role is not supported a DMZ network, what does not supported really mean?
Answer: Due to the nature of the communications that take place between the CAS role and AD DC / GCs as well as Mailbox Server quite a few ports need to be opened on the firewall to permit traffic flow. For this reason, it is not a secure method of deploying the CAS role so we do not support this configuration. If you run the Exchange BPA, it would identify this as an issue. If you call support, this is what we call a "non supported" configuration.
Question: In outlook the auto complete gets stored in *.NK2. Where does it store for OWA ?
Answer: The Auto Complete cache is stored as part of the user's profile on the Exchange Server.
Question: Now that OWA can open file shares, are there plans for some future Service Pack to add the greatly needed ability to open PST files?
Answer: Not that I'm aware of.
Question: Can a Small Business get access to a Combi Exchange/Cummuicator Server in Feature Richness with a SBS or a HostingService?
Answer: Currently, SBS 2003 does not include Exchange Server 2007. Also, we don't incorporate OCS into SBS either. If the company has SBS 2003 deployed, they could deploy additional servers to run Exchange 2007 and OCS 2007 to achieve this functionality. In terms of a hosting service, I know Exchange 2007 functionality is available (Full Outlook), but am not sure about OCS hosted functionality.
Question: Can I migrate my Exchange 2003 user
Answer: Assuming this user is no longer going to use his mailbox but it will be transitioned to a resource mailbox, you can use the following steps: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232195.aspx.
Question: Are SOAP requests just forwared to each site's CAS. Why not replicating FreeBusy-data, as we used to do in Exc2003 ?
Answer: The CAS will issue a new SOAP request to other CAS roles in different AD sites. Replicating Free / Busy data requires that we store that somewhere like a Public Folder and also means that the data can be out of date. If a user chooses not to publish their Free / Busy by turning that feature off in Outlook, then no one will have access to the user's Free / Busy. With the new Availability Web Service, we can get a real time view of the user's status. Not sure why you would want to continue to stay in this mode (replication of information)?
Question: What happened to the AutoAccept Agent for booking resources ?
Answer: The room resource mailbox in Exchange 2007 is much more advanced than in 2003. Here is a document that details moving a resource mailbox from 2003 to 2007 when the auto accept is on: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232130.aspx.
Question: CAS are located in the internal LAN. OWA2007 is a great client. Do we really still need Outlook-client ?
Answer: It all depends on what your needs are. Although the OWA 2007 client is very close to the full Outlook client, it is not provide 100% parity. Just as an example - If your users need to access their email in an offline mode, then Outlook is still required.
Question: Does Unified Messaging work with a traditional phone system or we need VOIP?
Answer: It can work with a traditional phone system. You need to deploy a media gateway (3rd party) for the integration to work.
Question: Have You got any Tips! on Handling Webcasts and Seminairs as a easy to Calendar them in, with Inconsistant Scheduling of Alerts to attend....What "My Events" should of been in the 1st Place! with Chornological Order of Time and Date? that works all under 1 roof on the Internet with a 24/7 access anywhere where I maybe?
Answer: Unfortunately, I don't have a good answer for you on this. When I schedule a webcast, I take advantage of the option to add it to my calendar so that I have it right then and there.
Question: What kind of hardware is necessary to set up Exchange as a FAX server? Can outbound FAXes be sent also?
Answer: There is no special hardware required on the Exchange Server for inbound fax receiving. The "special" hardware is the media gateway. We do not support outbound faxing in Exchange 2007; only inbound.
Question: do I need any special hardware for play-on-phone feature on the exchange server?
Answer: No, you do not need any special hardware for this. The Exchange Unified Messaging Server role has the necessary software (Speech Server) to provide this capability. You just need to make sure the processor and RAM are adequate.
Question: How do I make it easy on myself to find hardware to impliment UM? What is used to demo this UM functionality?
Answer: For a list of different media gateways and tested PBX interoperability, see this link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/telephony-advisor.mspx. I used my production account to demo during the webcast.
Question: Why is it often necessary to repeat one's voice command?
Answer: Since I had my laptop speaker turned up quite loud and it was feeding back into the laptop microphone, there was a lot of background noise that was causing confusion on the Autoattendant. When I dial in using my cell phone or turn down the laptop speakers to a "normal" level, the experience is much better.
Question: media gateway? Is it another computer box or just a card on the Exchange Server?
Answer: This is an additional piece of hardware.
Question: Is there any chekclist for selecting the appropriate VoiIP gateway ?
Answer: Please see this link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/telephony-advisor.mspx.
Question: When/Where will a recording of this presentation be available?
Answer: You will be able to find a recording soon at www.microsoft.com/webcasts
Question: You might want to mention that you can use OWA to do a remote wipe... no more calling the help desk!
Answer: Yes, I mentioned this in the presentation.
Question: Any new functionalities to the ActiveSync Web Administration tool ?
Answer: Yes. In fact the tool is different. You now access the interface as associated with each recipient.
Question: why a promo code?
Answer: For the $100 discount off a TechNet Plus Subscription (in the US), you do need to use the promo code I provided. If you are interested in taking advantage of this promotion, please visit my blog entry for the details: http://blogs.technet.com/haroldwong/archive/2007/10/26/save-100-on-technet-plus-direct-subscription.aspx.
Question: A bit off topic: With ISA proxing request to back-end CAS servers what is the best way to configure this when I have multiple remote offices in other AD sites running the CAS role as well? Does ISA only proxy to the default Site cas servers and they then proxy down to the other CAS servers located in remote sites?
Answer: You can expose only one CAS with the ISA rule. The CAS will proxy to CAS in remote site.
Question: What was that Blog?
Answer: blogs.technet.com/haroldwong
Question: How to replicate FreeBusy from Exchange2003' PFolders to Exchange2007 ?
Answer: Using the same method as replicating between two Exchange 2003 servers. You need to make sure you have a Public Folder store on your Exchange 2007 server as well. Then just create a replica of the Free / Busy data on the 2007 server.
Question: After rooling out from Outlook2003 to Outlook2007, will clients move automatically using CAS for accessing FreeBusy ?
Answer: Yes.


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The unmentionable C-word surfaced in the newspapers this week. Yes, "class" reared its unfashionable head in an unlikely context: to which social class did Enid Blyton's Famous Five belong? It's not the kind of talk that decent people tolerate nowadays.
So far as I could tell it started in the Times where a writer described Julian, Dick, Anne, George and that dog as "the most formidable upper middle class crime fighting squadron assembled".
The context was a spiffing wheeze whereby Twofour, an independent television company, is to develop a series in which the old team - now well into middle age - come together again to tackle a new crime. Plenty of mileage in that. Is that sensible child, Anne, now a dysfunctional adult? Is Julian still a pain? Did tomboy George turn out to be gay, as we rarely suspected in the 50s? Or a glamorous mother of four?
But back to the C-word. Discussing the issue on Radio 4's Today programme next morning, the bookish Jim Naughtie said in passing that he'd read the books. His co-presenter, Ed Stourton, sounded astonished. Why?
The Daily Mail's worldly gossip columnist, Ephraim Hardcastle, loves to tease Naughtie and Stourton, the one because he's a loquacious fellow-Scot, the other because he is the scion of an old Catholic family in the north - "Posh Ed" as Hardcastle dubs him.
As such he explained "Being posh class-conscious Ed will have remembered they were once considered 'common' by grand families" and was subtly suggesting that Jim's early reading was "effete".
You decide, as the premium phone line racketeers sometimes put it. My rusty memory of the Famous Five is that they were meant to be a version of ordinary middle-class kids of the period. Scrubbed up and idealised, but definitely not upper middle class in the sense that Nancy Mitford (an arbiter of U and non-U at the time) would have described it. For example, did Dick say "toilet", "lavatory" or 'loo"? Or didn't the Five have any bodily functions? I am sure there is a PhD student out there who can tell us.
But "common"? It's true that Blyton was looked down on by all sorts of people who didn't claim to be upper middle class, teachers for instance. Her main crime, like so many successful writers, was to be an unpretentious storyteller: you turned the page to find out what happened next. JK Rowling still gets some of this sort of grief and must chuckle all the way to the bank each morning, groaning under the royalties.
In my 1950s childhood, most children's fiction was still about what you might call respectable folk and their values, wasn't it? Keith Waterhouse once wrote that all children divide into (Arthur Ransome) Swallows and Amazons children or (Richmal Crompton) William children. Nice.
I dutifully ploughed through Swallows and Amazons because my older brother had most of the series. But I preferred William, or "Bill" as my own children called them because - being boys - they preferred him too, parody of middle class respectability though he is. Ransome's adventures never survived page one and a small voice saying: "Joe, did you hear that, one of those girls' names is Titty." Sniggers all round. Being Roald Dahl fans ( we also had a good run with CS Lewis for a while), they didn't discover the Famous Fives until they saw a re-run of the Comic Strip spoof years later.
Have things moved on? Yes and no. Philip Pullman, the darling of the (secular) upmarket crowd, is hard to categorise, but firmly rooted at the bourgeois end of things. Jacqueline Wilson writes about kids from council estates and broken homes (crime was slightly different in The Railway Children, where Daddy was fitted up) and sell by the tonne, to all classes, I imagine. She too gets looked down upon too, by the usual suspects.
My wife, who reads a lot of children's books, reports that a strand of social tension runs through the Harry Potter series, partly on account of Ron Weasley's family being large and red-headed in a public school environment. She also frets at the growth of what she sees as "mini-adult" books like Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider, teenage spy, series or Charlie Higson's young James Bond. But then, you could say the same about some Victorian children's books. And don't Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries novels - about the ordinary Manhattan teenager who's a real princess - remind you faintly of Little Lord Fauntleroy? I'd love a TV production company to tell us what happened to him when he grew up. Banker? Wastrel? Coke dealer? You can never tell with these trans-class types.


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Return to the Baltic Sea
Destination: Baltic Sea
Embarkation: Stockholm
Had an enjoyable cruise on Vision from Stockholm in July 2012.This is the oldest ship that we have sailed on in a long time so we were prepared for her to be showing her age especially as she is due for a major overhaul sometime next year.
Embarkation at Stockholm was handled smoothly and speedily and we were on board shortly after 12 noon.The public areas of the ship were in much better condition than I thought they would be.Had lunch in the buffet and explored the ship.I was pleasantly surprised when touring the spa to be told that the relaxation area could be used anytime free of charge. I was also able to sign a waiver which allowed my 14 year old to use the gym facilities.
Cabins were released at about 1pm.We had booked an inside cabin,but a week before sailing we were e mailed by RCI to say that we had been upgraded to More an outside cabin.The luggage arrived almost as soon as we went to the cabin.My husband and children went to the pool while I started to unpack.It was whilst I was doing this that I started to notice how dirty the cabin was-coffee mug rings on bedside lockers,carpet not hoovered, fingermarks on mirrors,rubbish in the bin and someones used razor in the shower cubicle.Oh well not the end of the world and I always travel with disinfectant wipes so I got to work.I thought things would be taken care of when the room was turned down for the night.After dinner I returned to the cabin and it had been set up but only for two people.We had our two children with us.I managed to pull down the two pullman berths and they both had dirty bed linen on them.I went to Guest Services and told my story.A very nice apologetic girl said she would deal with it.It took a further two hours and 3 visits from different housekeeping staff to get the cabin set up for 4 people.We have never experienced anything like this before.Housekeeping supervisor was very apologetic and arranged to have the carpet steam cleaned and assigned a fresh cabin attendant to us.
On the first sea day we were upgraded to a Junior suite by way of an apology and also offered 30% of the price that we had paid for this cruise off of a future cruise.
The Junior suite was disabled accessible and huge. It was kept very clean and I didn't need to get my wet wipes out for the rest of the cruise!
Every time we came back to the cabin something had been left for us-chocolate covered strawberries, backpacks and baseball caps, crayola things for the children.
We took all of our evening meals in the dining room and had excellent friendly service from both of our waiters.The Head Waiter(A woman) was also very attentive.We ate breakfast at both the buffet and the main dining room.The buffet was always busy but we never had any major problems finding a table.
We went to several of the theatre shows.We have been spoiled by some of the shows on bigger ships so found some of the performances a bit basic.
There is a good size library but it also doubles as a cigar lounge.I think this should be re -thought.Despite air purifying machines the smell of smoke is very evident.Also smoking is allowed in the casino.We would have donated more money here if it was a smoke free area.
Enjoyed the covered swimming pool area.The rock climbing wall did not open often due to high winds but my daughter loved this when she did get to try it.We also made good use of the table tennis tables and the shuffleboard.
My 9 year old loved the Adventure Ocean.All of the staff seemed friendly and engaged the children well.She did the usual colouring in of a pillowcase ,had her face painted a couple of evenings,enjoyed a pirate night,played lots of dodgeball and generally enjoyed herself.She also loved the Pets At Sea and is now the proud owner of a lion wearing a RCCI chefs suit.
My 14 year old went to the teen club a couple of times but was not very keen to go back.She thought the staff were nice and the lounge was a good hang out space, it was some of the teens that she did not feel comfortable with.As we are from Europe she has different references from US teenagers and she feels excluded.This is a very subjective thing and obviously can vary from sailing to sailing.There was a group who were travelling together and they seemed to dominate events.This was a shame as she has really enjoyed meeting kids from all over the world on previous cruises.She came to the shows and lounges with us in the evenings and had an enjoyable and inspirational chat with the lady Captain at the Crown & Anchor meeting.
The Captain and her officers were highly visible around the ship in the evenings.
We did our own thing in all ports except for St Petersburg where we took a ships excursion which exceeded our expectations.
Disembarkation was very smooth.After breakfast in the main dining room we walked off the ship to find our luggage waiting for us.I had prebooked a taxi for 8am to take us to Arlanda Airport at a cost of 390SEK. There was no sign of uor taxi and my husband asked adriver from the firm that we had booked with if he could help but he quoted 900SEK for the same journey.Fortunately for us the pre booked taxi arrived at 8.10am and we were at the airport with time to spare.
The weather was very pleasant and we enjoyed the Vision. For a ship of her age she is in good shape. There have been changes since we last cruised with RCCI -no individual toiletries in lower grade cabins,no chocolates on pillows,decline in food quality,having to pay extra for lobster and good steak etc but I think cruising still offers good value for money and for us it's more about the ports than the ships anyway.
We do not have any brand loyalty and have cruised with RCCI,Celebrity,Disney,NCL and MSC in the past and if the itinerary and the price suited us I would consider RCCI again.
We had a problem with our initial cabin but I felt that the way Guest Services handled things made up for it and we had a good holiday. Less
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I was shocked watching SHARKNADO 3, which premiered with much Shark Week-esque hooplah on Syfy last week, when one of the "live tweets" mentioned "the theme park worker," and not the Universal Orlando Theme Park worker, which is really doing your promotional tie-in guy wrong. Meanwhile a commercial commemorates one of the recently eaten Secret Service guys, saluting him for being free at last from his wearisome cellular contract. Hey, that's clever, taking a chummy cue from Shark Week's many tie-ins over on Discovery, a fine example of synergy and vertical integration offset by the ultra-dated cliche'd black expression "Oh hell No" white people are now so crazy about. Can using words like "clutch," and "baller" be far behind, yo? "The new ill sausage and baller bacon butter triple hog dare ya from Applebees - baby it's baller." or "Patron Blue Tequila - Clutch... simply clutch."
From the latest Corman offshoot company joint Asylum, wherein they realized they had a great high concept so decided to spend a little more money and do it better than the usual wretchedness, SHARKNADO the First delivered the same sort of kitschy but rock solid thrill vehicle Corman had been parking at drive-ins across the country all through the 50s-70s and late night cable all through the 80s, and VHS rentals all through the 90s. And lately, for Syfy, he's been in the shadows behind a new self-aware camp crap golden age if you don't take too much umbrage over crappy CGI and all the breasts staying in their bikinis. Taken as one nonstop festival of semi-conscious hot young things at the beach shouting, it's like BAYWATCH for monster movie lovers to nap to on a lazy Sunday. You know, instead of going to brunch or playing Nintendo.
And you can never have to many clever ad men tying in their lures on this big shark wrangle, because every time there's a self-aware camp 'event' like this, the self-aware metatextually hip tie-ins become closer and closer to the actual movie until the two are tangled as two fishing lines. The result makes for quite a spectacle, like watching America eat itself always is, even as it eats you from the toes up, until all that's left is a finger on the remote. This kind of faux-self deprecating product placement and tie-in integration is all over the net, and even on NBC's Saturday Night Live, which does Amex commercials in the same manner as their satiric commercial sketches, making the two impossible to separate. In other words, vertical integration is no mere Jack Donaughey 30 ROCK joke. Check out this Clickhole ad's deadpan mix of satire and straight forward advertising... where does one end and the other begin? Exactly.
And you can never have to many clever ad men tying in their lures on this big shark wrangle, because every time there's a self-aware camp 'event' like this, the self-aware metatextually hip tie-ins become closer and closer to the actual movie until the two are tangled as two fishing lines. The result makes for quite a spectacle, like watching America eat itself always is, even as it eats you from the toes up, until all that's left is a finger on the remote. This kind of faux-self deprecating product placement and tie-in integration is all over the net, and even on NBC's Saturday Night Live, which does Amex commercials in the same manner as their satiric commercial sketches, making the two impossible to separate. In other words, vertical integration is no mere Jack Donaughey 30 ROCK joke. Check out this Clickhole ad's deadpan mix of satire and straight forward advertising... where does one end and the other begin? Exactly.
That's why the second SHARKNADO was so painful: it had become fully self-aware and was just camping it up, shitshow-style, featuring a string of bloated once-familiar faces hoping to up their Twitter numbers as they're eaten near NYC landmarks and Fin's hero complex looking dangerously close to terrorism (See Micro-Manager Munchausen). This third go-round--despite the douche-chilled "Oh HELL No!" tag--makes it back to something like the first film, which worked so well because it wasn't just the tornado that was interesting, but the incoming tidal surge that flooded the drainage sewers and left the water line climbing up into the Hollywood Hills. The tornado didn't even come along until the final third, and the film worked better that way. The whole first 2/3 was one long inward motion of incoming wave, from the first bites out in the water, up to and through the boardwalk bar, stabbing sharks with your pool cue as the table felt gets soaked in blood and ocean spray; the traffic up to the Hills; the sharks in swimming pools and sliding down the highway strips, dashing up ramps in between waves.... No one but me remembers those part. Time marches on, and the flood was probably harder to animate digitally than just having airborne sharks. And this tie-in bonanza is once-in-a-lifetime. I'm sure none of the subsequent airings will have those same ads, and it's a damn shame.
But hey, Bo Derek plays Tara Reid's mom; and she's eternal like "She Who Must Be Obeyed", both of them dragging now designated sharknado expert Fin to Orlando instead of into the thick of the tornado, or helping the president prepare for the oncoming tide of inexplicable sharks. Reid's quite pregnant, their oldest son has "deployed" so isn't around and their cute daughter Claudia (Aubrey Peebles) is played by a different actress with dark hair (Ryan Newman), a subject of much small talk. Now Fin and his family are public figures, America's designated sharknado solvers, with the Oval Office quick pass. Fin doesn't like that Cassie Scerbo as Nova spent the sequel off on her own, going all storm chaser Mad Maxine in an armored shark investigation camper with radar, arsenal, and contingency plan (Frankie Muniz is her lovelorn tech guy --you always got to have a little tech guy in your crew, usually named Mouse or Jesse). Once again, she steals the show giving a great raspy voice Jersey girl realness even to her manic obsessive psychospeak and when she says that when she crawled out of the shark in the climax of the first film "it's never been the same." Scerbo, you are the heart and soul of these films and never let them tell you different! You're love for Fin, who only had eyes for his family, was the great unusual propeller that drove the first film's boat. Not having you around in the second made it fairly trite going--is there anything more unseemly than some Cali broheim lecturing us on what it means to be New Yorkers as he runs hither and yon chasing his family around like a confused maniac terrorist-tourist hybrid? You weren't there, Cassie; the only interesting aspect left was Tara Reid having her hand bit off and replaced with a bionic arm. A part I do not remember.
I don't even mind that Fin's still got the obsessive hero complex this time, because it fits the film's subliminal integration into army recruitment propaganda, and even further-around-the-curve NRA promotion. When gun nuts take the law into their own hands to save their neighborhoods from flying sharks, this movie proclaims, we all benefit. Michelle Bachman and Ann Coulter-- both of whom make cameos--especially benefit. And of course NASCAR and military build-up must be acknowledged...UFC fighter Josh Barnett blasts sharks for the military--now more than ever. In the ads, Race Car Driver #3 uses being eaten by a shark to escape his cellular contract. Cosmetics in real killer colors; the incessant car insurance barrage "I guess they don't like you driving around on three wheels." And the smug girl chiding her husband with her good driving record cash back; the new Jeep Cherokee; and the M. Night movie about creepy grandparents; Pepsi; for us in NYC a spate of local ads for: the Honda Summer Clearance Event; Broadway superstars of Magic "The Illusionists" and The Book of Mormon. Promos for Syfy's own latest hop-on, "Lavalantula," which will hopefully involve leaping from the couch to the stairs and floating around on the mattress imagining the carpet is lava, like the old days; the upcoming Syfy miniseries CHILDHOOD'S END, which is about an alien invasion that brings happiness and peace but what's the downside? What are these peacenik aliens really up to? "I would rather the world go down in flames under our control than live in prosperity and peace under their's!" we hear someone shout. Spoken like a true Republican! "Messing with Sasquatch" promotes rude near-bullying taunts of Bigfoots in the name of jerky; turkey and guacamole (flavored substance) from Subway; Captain Obvious at Hotels.com ("They won't judge your life choices"); some guy with an unbearably pandering sensitive voiceover, the kind so common now, where they talk to you like you're five years-old and just skinned your knee:"All you need to see is the next 200 feet, that's how life unfolds - and you'll get there. (1) Fuck that. The badass anti-smoking ad equates a cigarette with a vicious science class monster with smoking, and that's so clutch. Anything that kills you makes you cool first. If Bogie's life taught as anything it's that real men don't do longevity.
CHOPPING MALL (1986) on the other hand, came to me free of all commercials, liens and tie-ins, animal, vegetable, CGI, or bullshit, and seeing it (for the first time) last week after the NAD 3 was very satisfying. Why had I waited almost 30 years to get onboard the train? The poster alone (at left) kept me away back in 1986, when I was a young punk smoking his way through college. It looked like a cheap slasher film, which by 1986 was one desiccated formula. I remember imagining some bloated, mentally challenged mall cashier chopping up and eating the long pig (left). Turns out, my imagination was wrong! I found out last week that it's a Julie Corman produced joint about mall security robots run amok after freak lightning, the same night three young furniture store clerks and their dates, plus another couple, spend the night at the mall furniture store for a night of passion and drinking.
It's Corman underling Jim Wynorski's directorial debut and he'd go on to much worse things, I'd imagine --I'm too leary of snarkiness and fake breasts to travel very far in his direction; I haven't seen any of his SHARKNADO-esque Syfy monster pics like PIRHANACONDA (2012) but once the initial cringing dies down, the all-in-a-single-night momentum is pleasant, especially if you too had hair that bad and dressed like that and cut school to hang out at the mall with your first girlfriend and made super 8mm movies and knew at length how to build explosives and fire weapons because you'd been scared of Michael Myers for eight years. It has nice tracking shots, good percolating synth score and genre in-jokes enough to make Joe Dante smile wanly at Forrest Ackerman's autograph: Peckinpah's gun store delivers the Romero mall arsenal; the nerd shows his blind date ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS while everyone else gets it on (the kind of thing I used to do, alas); the dialogue quotes from the original THING ("it's gonna be real mad when it gets to me"); one character tries to dispel robot attention by saying "klaatu barada nikto" and the robot lasers borrow sound effects form the 1954 WAR OF THE WORLDS. Corman company movie posters adorn the pizza shop walls; Mary Woronov and Paul Blartel roll their eyes during the robot debut ceremony (with plenty of ROBOCOP allusions); and Corman regular Dick Miller is a cranky custodian. The acting veers all over the place, especially the half-hearted screams of the great Crampton, but that just adds to the ramshackle verite... teenagers man, who the hell knows how they'd handle being, as one character says, by way of apology for her skittishness, "I guess I'm not used to being chased around a mall in the middle of the night by killer robots."
To tie in SHARKNADO, Wynorski's currently working on something called SHARKANSAS WOMEN'S PRISON MASSACRE. Dominique Swain and Traci Lords will star. I will certainly watch it, maybe... probably not. But I'll watch CHOPPING MALL, aka KILLBOTS again, (though it could really stand a Blu-ray upgrade) for it doesn't just source from TERMINATOR but from TERMINATOR's own sources, and it achieves the rarest of all hat tricks in this genre, of being self-aware and witty without descending into campy disdain for its own genre trappings. Roger Corman's 50s sic fi films led to JAWS led to ALIEN which led to TERMINATOR which led to his daughter Julie's CHOPPING MALL, which weaves that thread to a separate strand DAWN OF THE DEAD suburbanite amok consumerist satire for a weave that's pure New World schlock.
Just as the recent masterpiece IT FOLLOWS did, CHOPPING MALL knows that great horror begins at home, not in some perfect suburban small town but in the real normal middle class suburbs, the grocery store, and at the mall, and in our TV sets. Anywhere we go to feel safe, or sated, or comforted should be used against us. America has always been and will always be slightly paranoid. It's only natural that whatever we make in our own image would try to kill us. For while nature is a monster, forever killing and eating smaller versions of itself, we're forever fighting back our natural urges because they have no place in society. Aside from swatting a fly or two we need never kill things, let alone our own food; we never need fear the dark as long as our electricity bill is paid; never go hungry for there are food stamps. People, old and diseased, who could never kill or procure their own food--whom nature would normally dispose of--have it brought to them on wheels so they can bankrupt Social Security for one more day.
Goofy but sufficiently deadpan horror movies like CHOPPING MALL and SHARKNADO tap into this need for the kill, but in the process expose that need's utter ridiculousness. They clarify the answer to why we create our own artificial calamities, and why advertisers take advantage of this to ride our fear, which is why the shark eating you will soon be financially obligated to remind you about the new Applebee's shrimp platter, and guts... glory... Ram.
1. My voiceover career stalled out when clients stopped wanting the deep Tom Waits rasp and moving towards that touchy feely "high" voiced food co-op nonsmoking smug sensitivity in my voice so I may be prejudiced, but fuck that namby-pamby shit.
2. I literally watched that movie last week, and at his age had the same shy boy trouble busting first moves, some say I still do. I'd show them weird old movies til they'd either get tired and leave or throw themselves at me. But that was before... the meds.


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And then there were two. Lodi High School came into Thursday's Masters Championships with six wrestlers, but after a grueling day of competition on the mat, only a pair — seniors Jake Holley and Daniel Frazier — made it on to the second day.
Both grapplers went 2-1 at the double-elimination tournament in Stockton Arena, losing in the quarterfinals. Frazier (195 pound class) and Holley (152) must both win their opening matches today to be in position to advance to the State Championship meet. A win gets them into the medal round, where they can finish between third and eighth. The top seven wrestlers in each class move on.


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Text by Martin Auer
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There had once been a time when no one could fly as wild and as daring as Great Lucifer. Little Luke knew that. He was sure. Even if nobody talked about it. There are things you just don't talk about. Why? Because you just don't.
Great Lucifer was always very silent and earnest. Oftentimes he sat on his throne for hours on end without uttering a word, just thinking and looking with unseeing eyes. But little Luke could sit with him on his throne when Great Lucifer was sitting and thinking. And little Luke believed that Great Lucifer was thinking of the times when he had been the swiftest and boldest flyer under the heavens. With his white wings he shot across the sky from the morning down into the evening and up again into the morning.
How Great Lucifer had lost his white wings, that was something little Luke did not know. Once he had asked his mummy, but she just smiled silently and gently stroked his head. Little Luke understood that this was something you didn't talk about.


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The devastating earthquake in February 2011 had a major impact on the city ofChristchurchandNew Zealandas a whole. Finally the rebuild is starting to begin and this major contractor is preparing for a significant workload in commercial construction. Having already increased the size of their team inChristchurchthey are now looking for additional professionals to join the team and help in the rebuild. As a Senior Quantity Surveyor you will already have established yourself in your sector over the past 8 years and will see this as an opportunity to join a company which will allow you to further your career. The successful candidate will have a background with a major contracting company specialising in commercial and institutional projects. You will focus on projects within theChristchurcharea working as part of the rebuild. Much of the work will be office based where you will be closely working with Project Managers and other members of the construction team. On a day to day basis you will retain autonomy over your work and be encouraged to show your true potential and professionalism. You will also be involved with the development of junior members of the team and any experience of this will be beneficial to your application. As an employer they can offer an excellent salary as part of a larger package that includes a company vehicle. Of course with any role of this level the need is immediate but for the right person the company is willing to wait an appropriate amount of time to secure their services. If this is a role that is of interest to you then please get in touch now and we can discuss the role further. If you are considering a move toNew Zealand it is important that you understand what such a move will involve. In fact the first question anyone will ask you at interview (recruiter or employer) will be – What research have you completed regarding your move toNew Zealand? Therefore – to make your move a success it is essential that you are as prepared as possible. Catalyst has prepared two tools to help you increase your chances of making a successful move. Our free reports are available to download from www.tinyurl.com/catalystbooklets and include: • 12 page Q&A booklet on moving to NZ • 60 page detailed report on the Christchurch Rebuild If you decide to work through Catalyst – not only will you receive the necessary information via these booklets and regular newsletters to assist you move but you will be automatically perceived by our clients as well prepared and your application will be taken more seriously.


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Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. is considering boosting production capacity of high-end sheet metal in China to meet growing demand there, Executive Vice President Katsuhiko Ota said.
The company is considering raising the capacity at a joint venture with Chinese partner Baosteel Group Corp., Ota said recently.
"We need to beef up the capacity if we want to satisfy customers and secure market share," Ota said.
But when and how the capacity will be raised remains to be decided, he said.
Some estimates show that annual automobile production in China will rise to 30 million units by 2020 from 20 million at present, Ota noted.
The company estimates its group pretax profit will jump 3.9-fold to ¥300 billion in the year ending next March from the previous year due to solid demand for steel used in construction projects and stable prices for raw materials.
In Japan, demand from the construction sector is expected to remain robust on the back of post-disaster reconstruction projects and increased public works spending, according to Ota.
Also behind the rosy forecast is expected growth in demand for housing and automobiles amid the yen's fall and ahead of the planned consumption tax hike next April, Ota pointed out.
"The business environment is healthy enough to forecast (pretax) profit of ¥150 billion for the first half and even more in the second," he said.
"I think the company has got off to a good start despite the tough business environment it had to go through," Ota said, referring to how the business has fared since it was formed through a merger of two steel producers last October.
"One of the achievements is that we made decisions on the streamlining of facilities swiftly," he said.
But Ota said the company still needs to deliver "something extra."
He cited challenges including the creation and manufacture of new steel products.


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NEW YORK (Feb. 10)
Dr. Israel Goldstain has been elected national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, it was announced here today at U.P.A. headquarters.
In accepting the post, Dr. Goldstein said that the over all program of the U.P.A. and its agencies in Palestine will entail a total expenditure of more than $85,000,000 this year. He emphasised that despite the current crises in the Middle East, "hundreds of thousands of homeless Jews in Europe are ardently looking to Palestine as the only hope of overcoming the bitter nightmare of the past and the blesk hopelessness of their present DP status."


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I tackled a thorny issue in a free-wheeling lecture for The Commonweal Project of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary last week. The full title of the 45-minute lecture (15 minutes of Q&A) was "Is Making a Ton of Money a Moral Problem for Christian Churches?" I answered, in brief, No, but it could be. This is [Read More…]
Is it Wrong for Christians to Make Lots of Money?
The Missing Link in the Poverty Debates: Fathers and Mothers
I remember being out in the back room in my home in Machias, Maine. I was a librarian's son, and so there were books in great quantities in said house. I loved it. One day, having finished my latest basketball book (I nurtured something of an obsession with fine sportswriting as a boy), I wandered [Read More…]
On "Shark Tank," Income Inequality, and the Glory of Entrepreneurship
I don't watch much TV. But I do enjoy the ABC show "Shark Tank." Recently, according to the Daily Caller, the leader of the pack got in some hot water. "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary says a new report showing that the combined wealth of the world's 85 richest people is equal to the combined [Read More…]
How Do You Solve Poverty? Make a Toy Block!
This is a marvelous 3-minute video that shows, in bite-size form, how poverty can be addressed and even overcome. The standard Western answer to the problem of poverty today is to throw scads of money at it. That's well-intentioned and perhaps may have some positive short-term effects. But it seems a far better approach in [Read More…]
So Much for Millennials Shifting Left: They Can't Afford iPhones
An Associated Press story tells an interesting, and not overly popular, story: young adults are increasingly labeling themselves using less liberal terminology than in previous years. Here's what Martha Irvine says in her noteworthy piece: Tina Wells, head of Buzz Marketing, an agency that tracks the attitudes of young people, has noticed this shift to [Read More…]
The "Immobile Class": On College and Work in the New America
The New York Times recently published a thought-provoking article on the new American economy entitled "A Mess on the Ladder of Success." Here's a snippet: Rather than dividing the country into the 1 percenters versus everyone else, the split in our economy is really between two other classes: the mobile and immobile. This is an [Read More…]
The Hard-bitten Economy
Christians differ on economic and political matters. Many are likely unified in these days, though, in a recognition that our national economy continues to struggle (to say nothing of the global economy). Matthew Continetti of the Weekly Standard has written a tough-minded piece worth reading on our present economic state. Here's a bit: [F]or almost [Read More…]
A Gripping and Sobering Tale: Ron Chernow's Biography of Rockefeller and the Lessons it Holds
About four years ago, economic historian Ron Chernow completed his multi-year work, Titan (Vintage, 2004). The book's title mirrors its heft. This is nothing short of a titanic feat. In his capstone text, Chernow has delivered a rich, engrossing, exhaustively detailed portrait of one of history's most fascinating economic figures, the oilman, John D. Rockefeller, [Read More…]


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|Assoc. Women's Soccer Head Coach
Paul Athanasiadis enters his 16th season as the Associate Women's Soccer Head Coach in 2016.
He joined the Warrior soccer program in 2001 following nine years as head coach at Marian High School. During his tenure at Marian, Athanasiadis guided the school to a 135-38-18 record and captured the 1999 Massachusetts State Championship; as a result he was named Coach of the Year by the Boston Globe, Eastern Massachusetts Coaches Association and the Metro West Daily News.
Athanasiadis is a former Massachusetts Youth Olympic Development Program state team coach, and also served as an assistant with the Boston Storm semi-professional team from 1994-95. He also led the Massachusetts Amateur State team to a regional championship in 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and a National Championship in 2001.
Athanasiadis resides in Lexington, Mass., with his wife, Danielle, and their three children – Emily, George and Nadia.


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You won't find an ocean here, but you can see Mount Agung in the background. You can't find AJ Hackett Bungee Jumping like in Double Six, but you can do a fierce white water rafting here. Yes, you're in Ubud. Don't let it fool you: despite the peaceful atmosphere it can still tire you out.
Ubud Market
If it's still between 6 and 9 AM, you can drive your scooter to Ubud Market to try Nasi Campur (literally translated as 'mixed rice'). Half of Ubud will be there to have breakfast, so be patient, you'll get your turn.
Let's head to Ayung River to do the rafting. Bali Sobek is the known organizer and they're really good. It's quite a thrilling ride but soon you'll be enjoying the breath taking view and you will have nothing but excitement. Lunch is included in the morning rafting package, so don't worry about being hungry.
Naughty Nuri's
After the packaged lunch, you should still head to Naughty Nuri's. They will mix you a great martini (FYI, Anthony Bourdain claimed that this is the best martini in the world) and the fun will still continue.
Jl. Raya Sanggingan, Sanggingan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, +62 361 977547
Do stop by at Antonio Blanco museum. Its vast size will fascinate you. And make bets among your friends who can solve Don Blanco's riddles in his paintings.
Cool yourself down by getting gelato from one of the parlours in Monkey Forest Street before doing some serious souvenir shopping in Ubud market. If you're buying for yourself, boutiques down Monkey Forest Street or Dewi Sita street and Hanoman street are perfect places to go.
Ibu Rai
Have an early dinner in Ibu Rai restaurant in Monkey Forest street and you can have more cocktails there. They're fairly cheap. Just make sure that you finish all this before 7 PM.
Monkey Forest St. 72, Ubud, Bali
End your day with a magical touch watching the Legong Balinese dance/ballet performance in Ubud palace courtyard is a must. This will last until 9 PM. If you still have some energy left, the Jazz Bar or Café Havana still open until 11 PM.


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"If he says he isn't ready for a relationship, believe him."
—Kerri Otto, 32, Traverse City, Mich.
"Guys are like subway trains. Don't run after them; another one is on its way."
—canuck, on glamour.com
"Marry someone you want to sit next to for the rest of your life."
"My grandfather had some gems: Don't be with a stupid man just to be with any man.' A real man always takes care of his family.' You don't want to be walked over, and you don't want a man you can walk over, either.' And my favorite: Don't be a fool, Michelle. You can be anything you want, but don't be a fool.'"
—Michelle Porter, 28, Charlotte, N.C.
"Don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh."
—Maya Angelou
"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
—Oscar Wilde
"The guys who were nerdy in high school make the best husbands."
—Jennifer Goldstein, 31, Brooklyn
"If he likes you, you'll know. If he doesn't, you'll be confused.'"
—sayitloud, on glamour.com
"You can tell a lot about a guy by how he treats your cab driver."
—Alanna Sobel, 25, Washington, D.C.
"Respect yourself. I said to my ex, I'm not going to make you my everything if I'm only your something.'"
"I used to be into bad boys but kept getting burned. Then I heard this: Say no to the guys you usually say yes to, and yes to the ones you normally say no to.' I did, and it totally worked. I have a great husband now."
—Laura Knudsen, 27, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
"Never marry a man who has no friends."
—Father Pat Connor, 79-year-old Catholic priest, as quoted by Maureen Dowd in her New York Times column
"Personal hygiene is part of the package."
—Jim Carrey
"Never tattoo a guy's name on your body!"
—Rebekah Rankin, 27, Scottsdale, Ariz.
"It's OK to show up at a guy's house with a dozen roses and declare your undying affection. It's OK to have too much to drink and call your ex 20 times and then to be mortally embarrassed when you realize your number must have shown up on his caller ID. It's OK, because making a fool of yourself for love is ultimately about you, how much you have to give and the distances you will travel to keep your heart wide open when everything around you makes you feel like slamming it shut and soldering it closed."
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Perfect weather for my last night out this year. Nice and cool and the breeze even died down right before we started. 3 new guys showed up with 2 weeks to go. Zack Parsell sandbagged me and landed in the C pool. He got teamed up with Spencer and they took the gold. First time in weeks Spencer didn't have a little pouty face. Matt Bailey came with the Faes clan and got teamed up with E-Mac. Lastly Jake Peters got to play with a Courbat. Clay brought out the crowds again. We had 43 people and the top spots were:
Spencer/Zack - 49 - 60$
M.Peters/Fran D. - 50 - 36$
Sweet/Bargabos - 50 - 36$
Salisbury/Z - 50 - 24$
Dylan/G-Man - 51 - 24$
Crowley/Cady - 51 - 24$
Westy/Nate - 51 - 24$
All CTPs were on hole 10;
A pool was Dylan for 13$.
B pool was Nate for 17$.
C pool was Matt Bailey for 13$.
Ace pool is up to 72$ with one week to go.
Thanks to the new guys for coming out. Big thanks to Fran for bringing out pizzas and beverages from his ace pool winnings. Not necessary, but always appreciated!
I won't be here next week. Jason G. will be running the show with help from everyone, don't give him any grief. TEE OFF WILL BE AT 5:20. If you can't make it by 5:20, sorry, but it's just too dark too early to get started later. Jason's number is 315-247-8384 if you need to get in touch with him. Do not ask him to accommodate you if you're not able to show up until 5:30 or later. Calling me will do you no good next week, my phone will be off.
Thanks all for a great season. I'll get some things together and pick a date and location for the year end final. Stay tuned.


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Startup X Foundry steals the show at Disrupt Asia 2017 - 2 days ago
Malaysia hosts Create@Alibaba Cloud Startup Contest, enables 15 ASEAN startups to go global - 2 days ago
Intuit Appoints Deborah Liu to Board of Directors - July 21, 2017
Amazon's new social network is looking a lot like Pinterest - July 21, 2017
Facebook is no longer the social network favourite for cyberbullies - July 20, 2017
Amazon launches shopping social network Spark for iOS - July 20, 2017
Fuelled by apps for on-demand services, mobile payment use rises: Visa survey - July 18, 2017
Apps to combat telemarketers - July 18, 2017
Mobile Phone technology advantages and disadvantages - July 17, 2017
Buy-Side Firms Investment in Emerging Tech: Research - July 17, 2017
New smartphones for the not-so-young
Age is just a number and smartphones are not only for the young. With this in mind, Japan's Fujitsu has allied with France Telecom-Orange to launch Android-powered smartphones in Europe specifically for elderly users.
Age is just a number and smartphones are not only for the young. With this in mind, Japan's Fujitsu has allied with France Telecom-Orange to launch Android-powered smartphones in Europe specifically for elderly users.
Instead of the high-end Arrow Android phones, they will offer the Stylistic S-01, an Android 4.0 device especially designed for seniors. This new and exciting device has friendly big icons, louder audio and a desensitized touchscreen, according to Techcrunch.
"The senior customers within our customer base are just as hungry for smartphone technology and mobile internet services as anyone else," said Yves Maitre, Senior Vice President of Device & Mobile Multimedia at France Telecom-Orange.
While the smartphone will hit tech stores in France by June, those interested can also get a peek into the phone when it is showcased at the 2013 Mobile World Congress, which will be held at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain on 25 to 28 February 2013.
Fujitsu is breaking into the smartphone market outside of its homeland Japan for the first time. Targeting elderly buyers, although it may seem strange initially, makes a lot of sense for several reasons. Consumer knowledge firm Kantar reported that smartphone penetration in some European countries has already passed the 50 per cent mark, with the UK at 61 per cent and France well on its way at 46 per cent.
Considering the stiff competition for young buyers, with Apple and Samsung cornering a huge chunk of the market, specific targeting is required. Now seems like the right time to cater to the elderly in France, which has recorded a smartphone penetration of only 20 per cent. On top of that, three-quarters of senior mobile users intend to get a smartphone in the near future, according to a recent survey.


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At 12:30 today we updated to version 12 of StatTransfer. You can use StatTransfer locally by going to the Mathematics menu, or you can run it on an RCE Powered node. There is also a command line version, to use the CLI version simply type `st` at a command prompt.
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Comment on Japanese Elementary Schoolers More Precocious Than Ever by Altair:
Jr. Idol Gravure?
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I take it if you get an autograph or take picture with them as an ordinary Idol/Fan pic will get you a Jail time in Japan. So then WTF they let them advertise these kid to be model anyway???
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"Cultural Politics and Social Movements"
In 1995 Marcy Darnovsky, Barbara Epstein and Richard Flacks edited the book "Cultural Politics and Social Movements";
- Bridging the worlds of activism and academia-social movement theory informed with the real experiences of activists-this volume of accessible essays brings together insights from European New Social Movement theorists, U.S. scholars of social movements, and activists involved in social movements from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Contributors included : Alice Echols, Barbara Epstein, Richard Cloward, Marcy Darnovsky, Jeffrey Escoffier, Ilene Rose Feinman, Richard Flacks, Cynthia Hamilton, Allen Hunter, L. A. Kauffman, Rebecca E. Klatch, Margit Mayer, Alberto Melucci, Bronislaw Misztal, Osha Neumann, Frances Fox Piven, Craig Reinarman, Roland Roth, Arlene Stein, Mindy Spatt, Andrew Szasz, Noel Sturgeon and Howard Winant.[1]
- ↑ Temple University website: Cultural Politics and Social Movements (accessed on Jan. 19, 2010)


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|Quantitative Restrictions
Article XI of the GATT generally prohibits quantitative restrictions on the importation or the exportation of any product, by stating "[n]o prohibitions or restrictions other than duties, taxes or other charges shall be instituted or maintained by any Member..." One reason for this prohibition is that quantitative restrictions are considered to have a greater protective effect than tariff measures and are more likely to distort free trade. When a trading partner uses tariffs to restrict imports, it is still possible to increase exports as long as foreign products become price competitive enough to overcome the barriers created by the tariff. When a trading partner uses quantitative restrictions, however, it is impossible to export in excess of the quota no matter how price competitive foreign products may be. Thus, quantitative restrictions are considered to have such a greater distortional effect on trade than tariffs that their prohibition is one of the fundamental principles of the GATT.
However, the GATT provides exceptions to this fundamental principle. These exceptional rules permit the imposition of quantitative measures under limited conditions and only if they are taken on policy grounds justifiable under the GATT such as critical shortages of foodstuffs (Article XI:2) and balance of payment (Article XVIII:B). As long as these exceptions are invoked formally in accordance with GATT provisions, they cannot be criticized as unfair trade measures.
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|United States
Import Restrictions under the Export and Import Act
Thailand imposes import restrictions under Article 5 and other provisions of the Export and Import Act of 1979. Restrictions are provided not only to protect national security, public order and morality, but also for the economic purpose of protecting domestic industries. Specific items are prescribed by Royal Decrees or Notifications of the Ministry of Commerce, with slight changes in the number of restricted items from year to year. The 1995 list of items requiring import licenses, prepared by the Ministry of Commerce, includes forty-three items (classification is not according to the HS system but according to the Ministry classification). However, in line with the Uruguay Round Agreement, the cabinet approved an import liberalization policy for agricultural products on 20 December 1994 which has introduced a tariff quota system for twenty-three agricultural, forestry, and fishing products before the end of 1995 and accordingly, import restrictions have been lifted at this time. Even still, restrictions remain in place for twenty items, including machinery, electrical equipment, and used automobiles, about 30 percent of which are for the protection of domestic industries. These measures taken for such purpose are likely to constitute violations of Article XI of the GATT since they have not been justified under any exception clause such as the balance of payment provisions.
|Quantitative restrictions imposed under the above-mentioned three
exceptions should be applied, in principle, in a non-discriminatory manner (Article XIII).
|See Chapter 1 for discussion of the conditions for waivers under the WTO
|Special exceptions (implementation waived for six years) to the
tariffication rule are applied to agricultural products that meet several conditions
including the three criteria below. The exceptions are conditional upon set increases in
minimum access opportunities (improving those of 3 percent and 5 percent, to those of 4
percent and 8 percent). The three criteria for special exceptions are:
|On a related subject, see the discussion in Chapter 10 of the relationship
between Eco-labelling schemes and the TBT Agreement, another major subject discussed in
the CTE (See Chapter 10 Eco-labelling and TBT for a related discussion).
|The exchange contract had to be concluded within 48 hours before the
conclusion of the transactions for import financing before the current regulations were
put in place. As of 1 April 1997 the exchange contract now is to be concluded within the
following period for import financing transactions with a term of under 360 days, as
applied to shipments occurring on or after 1 April 1997.
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12 Discs of Christmas 2011 #11
Paul Anka - Christmas in Japan (ABC-Paramount SP-401; 1960)
Sticking with a Canadian theme, Ottawa-born teen pop sensation Paul Anka didn't strike Christmas gold with his 1960 single It's Christmas Everywhere, although its B-side--a version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer--hooved its way to 104 on the chart. What is truly odd is this re-recorded version of the tune titled Christmas in Japan, presumably done for the pan-Pacific marketplace.
Sad to say, I wish I could get my mitts on a copy, it's hard to say how many were released to the public in North America, or if they even made it past the radio promo copy level. Presumably it was released in Japan itself (documentation at that link credits orchestration by Nuburo Hara & his Sharps and Flats with background vocals by Motomichi Ito & his Liliuo-Rhythm-Airs, which indicates Anka either recorded it in Japan, or sang to a Japanese-taped backing track). At any rate, Christmas in Japan is slightly more upbeat than It's Christmas Everywhere, maybe the original would have charted higher if it had been less lugubrious.
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Oban is a small town with around 8000 people but due to its tourist industry provides a variety of facilities and services that allow students to enjoy an active social life. The town has a modern leisure centre, a public library, and many pubs, shops and restaurants. The Corran Halls put on a variety of shows, plays, music performances, ballet events etc. The stunning scenery offers access to nearly all outdoor pursuits and ferries can take you easily to many Hebridean destintions. Students usually find it relatively easy to gain temporary or permanent part-time jobs.
Look at the following websites for information about Oban as a tourist destination:
The Argyll & Bute Council website has information on services such as schools, transport and leisure.
Oban has a range smaller shops and supermarkets including Tesco, Co-op, Farmfoods, Lidl and Aldi. Boots, New Look, Waterstone's, Superdrug and WHSmith are all in the centre of town. Argos, Homebase and Pets at Home are just behind Tesco. There are also Charity Shops run by Oxfam, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research and the local charity that has gone international, Mary's Meals, for all those bargain-hunters!
Most students and delegates for short courses or conferences stay in Oban. There is a regular bus service - operated by West Coast Motors - from Oban to Dunbeg, the village adjacent to the Scottish Marine Institute. Just catch the 405 from Oban and it will take you to us! Many students and staff choose to cycle to the institute and a new cycle track from Oban's Ganavan beach is a pleasant and safe way to make the three mile journey.
There is easy access to the islands through Oban's Caledonian MacBrayne ferry terminal. There are also regular buses and trains running to Fort William and Glasgow, and connections from there to the rest of the country.
For general public transport information for Scotland visit the Traveline Scotland website.
There is also a small airport in North Connel, owned by Argyll and Bute Council, with scheduled flights to the the islands of Coll, Colonsay and Tiree. The nearest international airport is Glasgow International, which is two hours by car away from the institute. Both Edinburgh and Glasgow Prestwick are three hours car journey away from Oban.
Eating and drinking out
There are a multitude of places to eat around Oban, and the following selection is just to get you started:
- Piazza (Oban's Pizza and Pasta House) - North Pier, Oban T: 01631 563628
- Waterfront Seafood Restaurant and Bar: T: 01631 563110
- Markie Dans, Victoria Crescent, Corran Esplanade, Oban T: 01631 564448
- Taj Mahal (Indian), 146 George Street, Oban T: 01631 566400
- Light of India, 43 Stevenson St , Oban T: 01631 563728
- Waypoint Bar & Grill, Oban Marina (take free ferry from N pier), Kerrera, T: 01631 565333 (1 June - 30 Sep)
- Cuan Mor Restaurant, Bar & Brewery, 60 George Street, Oban T: 01631 565078
- Kebabish Curry House, George Street, Oban T: 01631 566885/563900
- Ee-usk, North Pier, Oban T: 01631 565666 (seafood restaurant)
- Oban Steakhouse, George Street, Oban T: 01631 562954
- The Lorne Bar Oban, Stevenson Street, Oban T: 01631 570020
- The Gathering Restaurant (Scottish Banqueting) & O'Donnels Irish Bar, Breadalbane St , Oban T: 01631 564849
- Paparazzi Cafe Bar and Restaurant, Breadalbane Street, Oban T: 0163 565421
- Aulay's Bar, 8 Airds Place, Oban T: 01631 562596
- China Restaurant, 39 Stafford Street, Oban T: 01631 563575
- Manor House (Hotel and Restaurant), Gallanach Road, Oban T: 01631 562087
- There are also several fish and chip shops in town
Sports activities
Sport: you will most likely be able to do any kind of sport in Oban you never dreamt of doing, as this is "the great outdoors". At the institute there are pretty much daily lunchtime fitness classes and many students and staff go running during their lunch break. Below are just a few clubs in the area; if you are after anything else, locate one of the more fit looking people at the institute and ask who to get in contact with for doing your particular sport.
- Atlantis Leisure Centre: Oban's large sports and leisure centre with: indoor pool, fitness suite, health suite, tennis, squash, bouldering wall, basketball, Astroturf, sports hall activities (archery, basketball, badminton, 5-a-side, hockey, netball, table tennis, volleyball, aerobics, yoga, karate, kickboxing, gymnastics, athletics etc.
- Bowling: Oban Bowling Club, Dalriach Rd , Oban (next to Atlantis Leisure)
- Canoing: Oban Canoe Club (for all canoeist, sea kayaker or open boat enthusiast)
Climbing: The Ice Factor, Kinlochleven
- Diving: Scottish Sub-Aqua Club Oban branch, David Bleazard T: 01631 710801 E: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Fitness: Face West Fitness, Energie Fitness Club Oban, Atlantis Leisure Fitness classes
- Fishing: start with Anglers Corner, 114 George St , Oban - T: 01631 566374
Flying: Connel Flying Club
- Golf: Glencruitten Golf Club, Glencruitten Rd, Oban T: 01631 562868
- Horse-riding: Achnalarig Riding Centre, Glencruitten, Oban T: 01631 562745 OR Lunga Riding Stables
- Kayaking: Sea Kayak Oban OR Seafreedom
- Outdoor activities: Stramash outdoor social enterprise T: 01631 566080 E: email@example.com
- Rugby: Oban Lorne Rugby Football Club, T: 01631 570268 E: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Sailing: Oban Sailing Club T: 01631 563999 E: email@example.com OR Oban Sea School
- Shinty: Oban Celtic Shinty Club
Skiing: Glenshee OR Nevis Range
- Walking: Lochaber and Lorn Ramblers
Other clubs
- Amnesty International Oban (contact Dr Anuschka Miller)
- Bach Choir: contact Dr Bhavani Narayanaswamy
Benderloch and North Connel Amateur Dramatics Society: contact Linda Robb
- British Red Cross, Tweeddale St. , Oban T: 01631 562772
- GRAB (group for recycling in Argyll & Bute) T: 01546 604239
- Lorn Archaeological and Historical Society
- Mary's Meals, Craig Lodge, Dalmally T: 0800 6981212
- Scottish Wildlife Trust (contact Elaine Walton at SAMS)
- Taynuilt Gaelic Choir: contact Helen McNeill
- Oban Gaelic Choir:
- Bach Choir: contact Dr Bhavani Narayanaswamy
Oban used to have its own two-screen cinema but this has recently gone into administration. A community buy-out has been instigated and fundraising is underway - significantly supported by the Scottish Marine Institute.
- The Skipinnish Ceilidh House, 34-38 George Street, Oban T: 01631 569599
- Blockbuster (film and game rental), 123 George St , Oban T: 01631 565771
- Corran Halls (theatre, panto, music, ballet, conferences etc), Box office 01631 567333
- Mull Theatre, Royal Buildings , Main St , Tobermory, Mull T: 01688 302828
- Oban
Tralee Rally Karting – 18 Keil Crofts, Benderloch T: 01631 720297
- Vertical Descents (canyoning, archery, fun yakking, mountain biking, abseiling): Inchree Falls , Inchree, Onich T: 01855 821593
Emergency services
- Lorn & Islands District General Hospital , Glengallen Rd , Oban T: 01631 567500
- Oban Police: 01631 562213
- Oban Coastguard HM: 01631 562685
- Oban Mountain Rescue: in emergency 999 ask for police
General practitioners and dentists
- Lorn Medical Centre, Soroba Road, Oban, PA34 4HE. T: 01631 563175
- Taynuilt Medical Practice, Taynuilt, PA35 1JE T: 01866 822684 (surgeries in Taynuilt, Connel & Dalmally)
- Shore Street Dental Surgery, Oban T: 01631 563006
- Argyll Square Dental Practice, Oban T: 01631 562791
- West Highland Dental Studio, Oban T: 01631 565050
- Argyll Animal Aid (rescue & rehoming) Achabeag, Cuan Rd , Balvicar, By Oban, Argyll , PA34 4RA T: 01852 300362
- Oban Veterinary Surgeons, Tweedale St , Oban T: 01631 562876 / mobile: 07733 482518
- Lochandubh Kennel: 01631 720 311 (Barcaldine)
- Scottish Episcopal Church: Oban Cathedral Church of St John T: 01631 562323
- Roman Catholic: Oban St Columba's Cathedral T: 01631 562123
- Church of Scotland Centre, Glencruitten Rd , Oban T: 01631 562405
- Lorn Christian Fellowship T: 01631 710208
- Oban Free High Church , Rockfield Rd , Oban T: 01631 562154


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Hanesbrands Inc. (NYSE:HBI) Stock Rating Reaffirmed by Buckingham Research
Hanesbrands Inc. (NYSE:HBI)'s stock had its "buy" rating reissued by research analysts at Buckingham Research in a research note issued on Monday. They currently have a $30.00 price objective on the textile maker's stock. Buckingham Research's price objective indicates a potential upside of 32.22% from the company's current price.
Other equities analysts also recently issued research reports about the stock. FBR & Co reiterated a "buy" rating on shares of Hanesbrands in a report on Saturday, April 15th. Oppenheimer Holdings, Inc. set a $32.00 price target on shares of Hanesbrands and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Wednesday, April 12th. DA Davidson set a $27.00 price target on shares of Hanesbrands and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Saturday, April 8th. Vetr downgraded shares of Hanesbrands from a "strong-buy" rating to a "buy" rating and set a $23.91 target price for the company. in a report on Wednesday, April 19th. Finally, BidaskClub upgraded shares of Hanesbrands from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, June 15th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have issued a hold rating, ten have issued a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the stock. Hanesbrands has an average rating of "Buy" and a consensus price target of $27.74.
Shares of Hanesbrands (NYSE:HBI) opened at 22.69 on Monday. The stock's 50 day moving average is $21.64 and its 200-day moving average is $21.44. Hanesbrands has a 1-year low of $18.91 and a 1-year high of $28.24. The stock has a market cap of $8.26 billion, a PE ratio of 16.38 and a beta of 0.74.
Hanesbrands (NYSE:HBI) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May 2nd. The textile maker reported $0.29 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.28 by $0.01. The business had revenue of $1.38 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.39 billion. Hanesbrands had a net margin of 8.56% and a return on equity of 65.05%. On average, analysts predict that Hanesbrands will post $1.98 EPS for the current fiscal year.
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In other Hanesbrands news, CEO Gerald Evans sold 42,109 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, May 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $21.74, for a total transaction of $915,449.66. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 1,061,098 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $23,068,270.52. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, insider W Howard Upchurch, Jr. sold 55,850 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $22.90, for a total transaction of $1,278,965.00. Following the sale, the insider now directly owns 579,663 shares in the company, valued at $13,274,282.70. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 152,438 shares of company stock worth $3,450,467 over the last ninety days. 1.10% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Cascade Investment Advisors Inc. boosted its stake in Hanesbrands by 4.0% in the second quarter. Cascade Investment Advisors Inc. now owns 45,075 shares of the textile maker's stock valued at $1,044,000 after buying an additional 1,725 shares in the last quarter. Boyd Watterson Asset Management LLC OH boosted its stake in Hanesbrands by 8.5% in the second quarter. Boyd Watterson Asset Management LLC OH now owns 60,926 shares of the textile maker's stock valued at $1,411,000 after buying an additional 4,792 shares in the last quarter. Mn Services Vermogensbeheer B.V. boosted its stake in Hanesbrands by 508.7% in the second quarter. Mn Services Vermogensbeheer B.V. now owns 61,485 shares of the textile maker's stock valued at $1,424,000 after buying an additional 51,384 shares in the last quarter. Woodstock Corp boosted its stake in Hanesbrands by 1.5% in the second quarter. Woodstock Corp now owns 326,977 shares of the textile maker's stock valued at $7,573,000 after buying an additional 4,960 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Meeder Asset Management Inc. boosted its stake in Hanesbrands by 0.6% in the second quarter. Meeder Asset Management Inc. now owns 36,242 shares of the textile maker's stock valued at $840,000 after buying an additional 202 shares in the last quarter. 92.47% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Hanesbrands Company Profile
Hanesbrands Inc is a marketer of basic innerwear and activewear apparel in the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia/Pacific under apparel brands, such as Hanes, Champion, Maidenform, DIM, Bali, Playtex, Bonds, JMS/Just My Size, Nur Die/Nur Der, L'eggs, Lovable, Wonderbra, Flexees, Gear for Sports and Berlei.
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HPC 3.2: adding public domains in the search list (/etc/resolv/conf)
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By default, only the public domain as defined during the install will be added to the search in /etc/resolv.conf. kusu-net-tool can be used to define a broader search. For example, my /etc/resolv.conf file before any modification: [root@hpc32s ~]# cat...
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java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Socket operation timed out before it could be completed Module Name: PTL_TCHAN_T
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java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Socket operation timed out before it could be completed Module Name: PTL_TCHAN_T DCS.TA.LogAdapter.onLogEvent() DefaultCoreGroup at WPScell\vs18pwps1\nodeagent: "RMM Info: Failed to Establish a new...
Right click file in IBM Connections Desktop Plugin, copy link get incorrect hostname Blog de comunidad
Right click Files, Copy URL get incorrect host name Problem : Use copy URL feature in IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Windows, the host name is not same as expected. Steps to reproduce: 1. Install Connections Desktop P...
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Why speaker's names are in bold instead of different colors Blog de comunidad
Why speaker's names are in bold instead of different colors? Category Sametime Problem: When in group chat, usually the speaker's&nbs...
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