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You know you are jealous of this dirty, gross garage door. Oh..no? You aren't? Color me surprised. Let's not even mention that it didn't open or close because the tracks were living on a prayer..Well,… More
China Cabinet Makeover
In June, I was doing my normal craigslist stalking, which usually starts once I see a post over at Emily Henderson. She does these Craigslist posts in random cities every now and again and she (well, probably her team of interns/assistants) finds the most amazing furniture pieces! Our local craigslist has pretty slim pickin's most of the time, but sometimes you can find hidden gems if you stalk hard enough.
One day, I saw a posting of a "Small Antique China Cabinet" and I was pretty much sold before I even saw the picture of it. Our dining room isn't exactly massive, so size did matter & a lot of the china cabinets I saw on CL before were humongous! It was $50, so I reached out right away to try to schedule a time to see it. The seller was available the next day, so off Josh and I went to see it on the way to a friend's birthday party. Of course, I was trying not to get my hopes up, but it's been five years since our wedding and we've used our China a grand total of ONE TIME, so having it on display got me all excited (it's so preeeettttyyy!).
The cabinet was covered in cobwebs in the seller's garage, but overall, it was in pretty good shape, so we paid full price. I so wish I was a better haggler, but whatever. Since we were already half way to the party, we decided we'd keep the cabinet in the back of the truck while we were at the party and then unload it when we got home, rather than take the extra time to just drive it home. MISTAKE.
A freak thunderstorm came through the area and even though Josh went back to the truck to cover it with a tarp, the front of the cabinet already had some marks from where water started puddling. Woops. Anyway, here is the before picture after we had removed the front doors/drawers and cleaned it about a hundred times!
We pretty much went full-on pinterest for this project.
White Chalk paint (using a DIY recipe)
+ China Cabinet
+ Different Color on the inside of the cabinet
= success!
We used the original hardware mostly because we were too lazy to try to find new hardware, but we cleaned them up by soaking them in Dawn for awhile. We did manage to buy new hinges because the old ones were pretty rusty.
For those that are curious, we used this DIY Chalk Paint Recipe – There are a ton of different recipes, but Plaster of Paris is cheap, so I went with this one. Overall, it was pretty easy to use and stuck to the cabinet without having to prime! I have never used Annie Sloan Chalk Paint before, but I doubt I ever will because making it myself was easy enough and I don't have any complaints about the finish.
For paint colors, we used 1 and a half qts. of Behr Ultra Premium Plus in Painter's White (Matte) and for the backing we used 2 of the small sample sized containers of Behr Ultra Premium Plus in Fresh Day (Matte).
One thing we did to differently than most of the Pinterest projects we saw was we added LED lights to illuminate the display area of the cabinet. We used these Sylvania Mosaic LED lights which you can find at Lowe's! They even have a remote control & the lights can change colors (more on that later in the post).
Not sure if you can see it in the pictures above but where each of the shelves were had a glaringly obvious beam of light, so we used Black electrical tape to cover it up so it would look less harsh.
So..remember how I said the lights change color? Now, we have our very own dinner entertainment for our guests to enjoy 😉
We tend to go a bit overboard with our projects… we installed LED lights in our rehabbed Craigslist China cabinet because we saw a pinterest tutorial that said the one regret she had was not installing lights to highlight her pretty china. Then we found the color & strobe settings… #partyatthemcps #thewholedamnhouse
Second oopsy of this project was when we were reinstalling the painted trim around the glass door for the middle-top section of the cabinet. We broke the glass, so we are looking in to getting it replaced and then we'll be 100% done with it. 🙂 I won't hold my breath because we still haven't 100% finished the kitchen we started on two years ago.
Once we get the glass replaced, I'll have the final final total for this, but I'm pretty sure it will fall below the $150 mark! Holla.
I promise I'll be back with some more updates. Pinky swear.
Downstairs Bathroom Round 1: DONE!
Hey pals..the last in-house update was when we were starting the downstairs bathroom around Christmas time! Here are a few before photos for your viewing pleasure:
You know you're jealous of that bathroom. Just admit it.
So, we painted the room, mirror, and cabinets, installed the new light fixture, a new countertop, and a new sink/faucet! Voila!
We ended up breaking the backsplash off of the countertop when we were cutting the countertop down to size, so we installed a row of white subway tile backsplash for now. Eventually we are going to do a full renovation on this bathroom (re-work the layout, add a shower/bath, full gut job), so we didn't want to spend too much on anything that would be a temporary placeholder.
The finishing touch was the installation of my beautiful "Paint Nite/Wine & Design" paintings, too, which I am now calling my "Crappy Art Gallery." 🙂 Speaking of which, I want to add to my gallery, so anyone who wants to go drink and paint with me..holla at me!
Even though it took me 5 months to actually blog about this bad boy-it only took us a few days (and about $400) to complete, which was refreshing after months and months of working on the living room/sunroom (and still not being finished. joy!).
We got a puppy…
Lots of changes here at the Whole Damn House…that's Jimmy Dean! He's our new pup and the reason we expedited our fence building project.
We used our huge stack of wood to mask the fact that one of those posts was installed out of line to avoid a tree root. Holla!
We have only fully completed and stained the run pictured and have about 3x that amount to go. After installing the wood and staining, we are also attaching weld wire so that the dogs can't get out. YAY! I can't wait for the day I can let them out without worrying that they will run after a squirrel into neighbor's yards/the street/etc. More details soon!
When the drywall finally goes in…
Love this! So true, too!
You Know You're Living in a Construction Zone When...
you have trouble remembering to use the door and not to walk through the wall.
Starting the Downstairs Bathroom
I must be honest with you all. My sweet husband has turned me into a crazy person. Sometimes we hit points in our renovations where I feel like I can't help. Whether it is a project I don't feel comfortable doing or one that Josh has a specific vision/plan for, sometimes I find myself doing the other things that need to be done around the house like laundry, dishes, etc. This is all fine and dandy except when I get bored doing those things. That is when I start to get boo-hooey/lazy/bratty and make Josh take a brainstorming trip to Lowe's/Home Depot with me.
When we take a brainstorming trip, I create new projects for myself to do while Josh works on "his" projects. This is how our bathroom renovation started. I mentioned wanting to look at paint colors for the bathroom cabinets and walls. It then turned in to us looking at light fixtures, countertops, and sinks. We got paint swatches and left, but after brainstorming store trips, I always come back in to the house renewed and ready to work. Measurements were taken, colors were decided, and we got to work.
Here are some before pictures for you to feast your eyes on!
For the walls, we chose Behr Ultra Premium Plus in Snowy Pine:
and for the cabinets, we chose Behr Marquee Silent Film:
All of the trim is painted with the same Behr Premium Plus Ultra in Ultra Pure White that we've been using through the rest of the house.
First, we took down the upper cabinets and lights to open up the space a bit. Doing this also removed the two outlets that were housed on the bottom of the cabinets. The power was run from the light box down the inside of the cabinets. They were a bit awkward from the beginning, but we didn't want to completely lose outlets in the room. After a bit of research, we installed a new fan switch that also had an outlet below, so that I am still able to use a blow dryer/straightener in the bathroom. This made it so that we wouldn't have to completely run new power. Shortcuts that work for the win!
We ordered a gorgeous sink from Wayfair
and bought a countertop from Lowe's that we will be cutting down to size (cross your fingers we don't mess it up! We definitely have a chance of messing up the backsplash since all of the modern countertops are too deep for our bathroom. We will be cutting the back end off and trying to reuse the backsplash. If we mess it up, we will likely do a tile backsplash, but..just cross your fingers we don't mess up the countertop. 🙂
who I am; and why I am here
As a wedding professional, I've heard a lot of best man/ maid of honor speeches start out with, "For those of you who don't know me…" It is almost a joke among wedding vendors because approximately 98.74% of the speeches begin with that statement. I'm pretty sure I started my speech at my best friend's wedding with it (photo above)..and I almost started this blog post with it.
It is because introductions are awkward. When you are standing in the middle of a dance floor in front of 150 of your BFF's favorite people staring back at you it is almost as awkward as writing something on a blog that hypothetically 3 billion people in the world could read. You put yourself out there in both situations. And in both situations people could think what you are saying is stupid. So you start it off with, "For those of you who don't know me…"
Well, I'm not starting this blog post with it because I figure if someone thinks what I am saying is stupid, you can click the X up at the top of your internet-browser-of-choice window. HA. This is our corner of the internet, suckers. And mostly, this blog is for us (me).
The Whole Damn House is a home blog that is here to document our journey improving our first home. Mostly, it is so that we can see our progress and remind ourselves that living through a construction zone is worth it. Seeing before photos after progress is made is a seriously powerful motivator. This blog also gives us the opportunity to keep our families and friends updated without having to monopolize phone conversations, connect with other fixer upper or non-fixer upper homeowners, and hopefully make a few folks laugh at our expense. 🙂 We like having people laugh with us. Maybe one day we will get to the point where you might learn something about home improvement, but..we'll see. I'd need to convince Josh to write things here if you want to learn anything. 🙂
So. Hey! I'm Alison and I am the one who writes things here. Josh is my husband and he is the bossy one (haha, just kidding! That's me, too!). He's the one that has actual home improvement talent and is teaching me things everyday. In 2014, I used a nail gun for the first time and it was FUN. Our dog Tucker is along for the ride whether he likes it or not because we continue to feed him.
This is us when we were young(er) and in love. (Yes, this is from High School)
Why did we name it The Whole Damn House? Two reasons.
1. We have to re-do the whole damn house, and
2. Josh graduated from Virginia Military Institute. At VMI, one of the cheers they do during sporting events ends in "Whole Damn Team." When discussing buying this house, Josh was wearing one of his VMI shirts that had the phrase on it, and I giggled about how we were about to buy a house where we needed to renovate the whole damn thing. So…I started the blog. I hope VMI doesn't come after me with a cease and desist letter because then..See #1. (We've donated!! Love ya!)
One of my goals for 2015 is to blog more often. I signed up for Blogging101 through WordPress to learn more about this fabulous platform, get on a more frequent posting schedule and explore blogging in a new and different way. You'll be seeing you'll more posts coming through over here in our little weird corner of the internet. 🙂 Some may be random, some may be funny..I have no idea since WP is taking me (and a few thousand other bloggers) on the journey and assigning things day by day.
New Year, New Couches
On the Wednesday before Christmas, I went to Target to go shopping on my lunch break. My phone rang and it was a number I did not recognize, but I remembered the folks over at North Carolina Furniture and Mattress were going to call mid-way through our couch wait to give us a status update. I answered and they let me know the couches were in early! And they could deliver tonight, if we were available! Uh, twist my arm, whydontyou. When they arrived, we hovered over the delivery guys like nobody's business. We were SO excited and a little bit nervous to see everything since the sample couch we sat on was a turquoise patterned couch and we almost had forgotten what we ordered. Wee!
There are still some more changes to come in this room including reupholstering the red chair in the corner and getting a new chair where the rocking chair is. We'd also like to get a new rug and some curtains. 🙂 No matter what, I am so happy it no longer looks like this:
Or this:
It feels great to have "almost finished" a room just prior to the New Year-at least to the point where we are comfortable snuggling up to watch a movie! Happy 2015, ya'll! Thanks for following along in 2014 ❤
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. How fun!
Here's an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,800 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.
Couch Potatoes
If you don't follow me on instagram, you probably think we have passed the blogging responsibilities down to Tucker, who unfortunately cannot type, or completely given up on this little old house of ours, OR that we are being lazy couch potatoes. If you do follow me on instagram, you've seen this:
Truth is, our living room is 97% done. We have to do the trim around the beams and a few paint touch ups, but I've been holding out on all update photos because..we bought a sofa and a loveseat! And it will be 6 to 8 weeks until we have them. And we've been working on and blogging about this project since March so I feel like I can drag it out longer. But we are so close to having real-life adult furniture! YAY!
For local people, we went to North Carolina Furniture and Mattress and it was glorious. The brands they work with have great reputations for quality, the sales people are polite and don't hound you like the other bigger stores do, and everything is custom ordered based on your specifications. We first went in on Black Friday (in the evening-I'm not THAT crazy) wanting to walk around and see what they had. They had a sweet sale going on that ended on Sunday, but we hadn't seen what we were looking for ANYWHERE and weren't ready to commit to anything. We sat our butts in every couch they had (because literally all of them are beautiful and comfortable) and once we left, we had two major contenders in our search! We got there about 40 minutes before closing time, so we told Susan (their in-house designer) that we would likely be back on Saturday to look a bit more. She told us to measure our room so that she could put together a floor plan with our two sofa contenders and talk about traffic flow, rug sizes that would work in the room, etc. We went in on Saturday afternoon, sat in our two contenders again, discussed the floor plans Susan drew up, and took home about five fabric samples. On Sunday afternoon, we went in and ordered them! I can't speak highly enough about our experience. They made it so easy and fun and we can't wait to see our gorgeous sofa and love seat in person soon!
Since I know it is killing you not knowing what we got, we ordered the Flexsteel Westside Sofa and Loveseat in a Charcoal Gray color that has a beautiful texture that unfortunately my monitor doesn't pick up. We chose the Florentine leg color and even got to choose fabrics for pillows (the stripes and floral below)! Simple & Classic 🙂
Now we are hard at work finishing up our sunroom floor, windows, and trim so that dust is no longer flying once the couches get here. 🙂 Oh, and I seem to have started the downstairs bathroom, too. More on that soon!
This post has been a LONG.TIME.COMING. but I think it is a better post because of it, so there's that. This is a story about our first really big fail on this house. We were failures with a capital F.
Early this spring, we decided it was time to try to grow grass in our front yard. There is something to be said about a lush, thick, beautiful yard of grass. It is fun to walk barefoot in. Tucker likes eating it. It gives Josh a chance to use our lawn mower since he is usually sooooooooo so sooo bored on weekends (haha!). And…it looks better than this:
Needless to say, we wanted to give growing grass a shot, even though our lot is heavily wooded and there is a short period of real sunlight throughout the day. After testing our soil to test it's PH levels and that sort of thing, we determined our game plan. We started out with a truckload of compost from our city dump mixed with Vigoro Super Green Lawn Fertilizer and pelletized Limestone. By the way, Josh and I also know the best time to plant grass is in the fall, not the spring. We knew this when we planted grass in the spring, but we were feeling invincible after finishing our kitchen. Shut up and stop rolling your eyes.
We then spread the seed over that mixture and waited.
A few days later, we got hit with a huge thunderstorm where the rain created a stream through the middle of the yard. A few weeks later, we started seeing a bit of growth in some areas and a LOT of growth in the lower parts of the yard where the seeds all ended up at the bottom of the stream. It was a bit patchy.
So, we went and got some more seed and spread it again. This time, we covered the seeds (and the new grass) with another layer of compost to help it stay in the same place in case we got hit with another storm. We were worried it would kill the new grass, but a few days later it started popping up through the compost, so YAY! Soon, the second layer of seed started growing and it looked like this:
We put up this temporary fence so that Tucker wouldn't get in to the new grass or dig holes. And our azaleas! They are so pretty when they bloom!
With even more waiting, the grass kept growing and it was very exciting!
Then, the summer came and it turns out… our front lawn gets more sun than we thought. And we got busy and forgot to water it. The grass totally withered away and was fried. It was really brown and sad. I didn't take a picture because I was crying about it and couldn't see through the view finder.
So…we started over. This time in the fall, with a better mix of seeds that aren't Shade Blend, and making sure that we water it every single day it isn't raining.
Here's to hoping the second time is the charm! We'll keep you updated.


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Chart 1: Japanese yen is triangulating into a decision point
I've already discussed the technical setup of the Japanese yen in early October. Here we are, a few more sessions down the track, and the decision point has not yet been made as bulls and bears battle it out. For those with a shorter term horizon, a trade can be taken in either direction once the price breaks out... so keep a close eye on this one in coming days and weeks!
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Review: Sony's RX100 is a groundbreaking compact camera
The Sony RX100 needs no introduction. This powerful point-and-shoot has already received its fair share of positive press, having been declared the best compact of the year by some, the best compact of all time by others. Featuring a giant 1-inch sensor and an f/1.8 Zeiss lens, the camera certainly looks good on paper. Add to that the rotating manual control ring plus a menu system modeled after Sony SLRs, and we've got one very promising product.
Too often in the world of compact cameras, the phrase "DSLR-quality image" is bandied about on marketing materials, retail boxes, and even the written words of reviewers like us. It's paired with qualifiers like "DSLR image quality in your pocket," and most of the time, doesn't actually apply to the camera in question.
Sure, some compacts have strong image quality, but DSLR caliber? No.
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Then there are mirrorless cameras, many of which can indeed produce DSLR level images, but how many of them actually fit in your pocket with the lens attached?
Here goes…. The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 is the first compact, fixed-lens camera capable of DSLR-quality images. See? Maybe that little phrase isn't so bad, especially when it's true.
The excellence of the RX100 is two-fold: a great lens, plus a great sensor; same as every decent camera. Let's start with the lens.
Resolution test scores were astounding, and included some of the most impressive sharpness data we've ever recorded, compact camera or otherwise. Chromatic aberration is slight, plus any barrel distortion is corrected away automatically. And did we mention the aperture maxes out at f/1.8? Because it does.
But a lens alone is nothing special, every once in awhile we see a wide aperture compact. The Canon S100 goes to f/2, and the new Panasonic LX7 can manage f/1.4. The difference this time is an excellent lens working together with a large sensor. Sony's new 1-inch chip unlocks true depth of field effects, invalidating the biggest handicap of compact cameras, and producing beautiful, enthusiast-level images. In truth the sensor's performance is fairly average, with mediocre colors and noise reduction, it is simply size that makes all the difference here.
In fact, despite how much we love this camera, there's still plenty of room for improvement before the inevitable RX200, or whatever it'll be called. The large control ring surrounding the lens barrel has no tactile feedback, and isn't as useful as the one found on the Canon S100. Indeed the entire menu system is flawed: the Function menu lacks scope and versatility, while the main menu has some annoying interface quirks. We also wished for some improvements to physical handling, given the body's contemporary—but slippery—design. Sony has wisely provided neck strap adapters, and we suggest you use them.
Ultimately none of these small complaints are enough to prevent the RX100 from being one of the best cameras of the year. We like it better than last year's S100 and—bad day for Canon—think it surpasses their expensive, bulky G1 X as well. We still have a few advanced compacts left to test, but as of right now, we can think of no better solution for the discerning photographer on the go.
For a full in-depth review of the Sony RX100, head to Digitalcamerainfo.com. Digitalcamerainfo.com is a member of the Reviewed.com network, a division of USA TODAY.
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Microsoft's latest update to its emulator for the still-in-development Windows Phone 7 platform shows some ongoing refinements, and a hint that Microsoft may be nearing a "release candidate" version of the OS, after which major changes are unlikely.
And hackers unlocking the latest Windows Phone 7 emulator are trying to delve into the underlying kernel and understand a range of technical issues such as memory management.
"Microsoft knows that the emulators are typically unlocked by users," says a PR agency spokeswoman assigned to the Windows Phone group at Microsoft. "That's why they have been very clear that the emulator is based on early code and is not reflective of the final user experience. Windows Phone 7 is still under development and we don't have further information to share on new features."
The emulator program lets developers start building and testing Windows Phone applications now, since actual phones with the new OS won't be released until the "holidays" period this year, probably in the Fall. The emulator mimics on a PC screen the look, feel, and behavior of an actual Windows Phone. To do so, it includes Windows Phone 7, which is the UI layer that runs atop the underlying Windows Embedded CE kernel. Microsoft has said the radically redesigned UI, dubbed Metro, is using a new and expanded version of CE, but so far it's said almost nothing about the changes or improvements to the kernel.
The new emulator and updated Windows Phone 7 code is contained in the April refresh of the Windows Phone Developer Tools Community Technology Preview (CTP), in effect, a public beta test release. (The initial release went live just in at Microsoft's MIX Web developer conference.. One of the emulator screens, posted at PocketNow.com among other sites, has the following information: "Software: Windows Mobile 7.0 6176.WM7RC1Escrow(buildlab).20100406-1457"
What bloggers and developers have picked up on is "RC1" though many have overlooked the term "Escrow." In a statement, all Microsoft will say is "The recently refreshed Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP includes release candidate 1 code. We have no further information to share regarding when Windows Phone 7 will reach RTM [Release To Manufacturing]."
The term "escrow" has been used at Microsoft for years, writes Paul Thurrott, the news editor at Windows IT Pro, and creator of the Windows Phone Secrets blog. It "means that if it [the code] passes certain quality criteria it will be declared the actual release candidate 1 build. If not, fixes will be made and the build will be incremented, and they'll try again," he writes. But he considers the April build to be a "near-final look" at the new smartphone platform.
Thurrott has posted at his SuperSite for Windows blog nearly 70 Windows Phone screens from the refreshed emulator, often with several from each application. The images give a broad overview of the UI's look and feel, though they don't give a sense of the various "hubs" that Microsoft uses to collect and order content, or the navigation between these.
One set of three images shows the voicemail screen, the phone dialer (a minimalist set of dark gray rectangles), and settings for the voice features. Another set show screens from contacts, dubbed "people" in Windows Phone, including adding a contact, and adding online accounts such as Windows Live or Facebook.
He also has more images from the Office "hub" of Windows Phone 7 – the location of the mobile Microsoft Office applications and especially the all-important OneNote note-taking software. He shows OneNote's main screen, and an initial list of OneNote resources and features
One drawback of the current emulator is that it can't access Web-based services. "Though I was able to use the emulator to access my local domain's SharePoint document repository. I haven't figured out how to get the emulator out to the Internet, so much of what makes Windows Phone so excellent--it's seamless integration with online services--isn't available in these shots," writes Thurrott.
One of the coders at XDA-Developers, a forum moderator with the handle Da_G, has posted a thread with his analysis of what he says he's seen of the new kernel. The new kernel, which he says is "CE7," has a 4Gbyte virtual address space, split between the kernel's needs and user space for applications and data.
The new kernel handles memory allocation for running applications differently from previous kernel versions. "This should allow for much more rich apps to be developed (whenever MSFT decides to allow us to write native code, which is coming at some point...)," he writes.
Microsoft's official statement on all this: "Windows Phone 7 is based on the Windows Embedded CE kernel – the next generation of the Windows Embedded CE platform will be Windows Embedded Compact 7 when released – and the current version is Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3. Although Windows Phone 7 was built on the Windows Embedded CE kernel at its core, the Windows Phone team has incorporated innovative features and functionality on top of the platform to develop an OS specifically designed to meet the needs of mobile phone manufacturers."
But for most developers, wondering or worrying about the kernel won't be an issue, says Kevin Hoffman, creator of The .Net Addcit's Blog http://dotnetaddict.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/, author, and by day chief systems architect for Oak Leaf Waste Management in East Hartford, Conn., where he focuses on mobile and cloud application development. He's also written applications for, and written about, the Apple iPhone, and recently compared the experience of developing for both platforms.
For Windows Phone 7, all applications are "managed code" – they require a Microsoft runtime environment, either Silverlight, for most applications, or XNA Studio, for games. "The thing that is important for WP7 developers, either Silverlight or XNA, is that we no longer need to care about the kernel," Hoffman says via email. "I don't particularly care if the kernel is WindowsMobile 6.5, CE-based, or alien technology lifted from Area 51."
Both toolsets are widely used in Windows development, and these developers can almost at once become creators of Windows Phone applications. Hoffman says Silverlight is a "fast, productive, reliable, easy to use platform for building incredibly powerful applications, with a potential to re-use large amounts of code between Windows, WP7, Mac, Linux, etc."
"What's great about WP7 development, from a developers point of view, is that the level at which we work is above the "bare metal" - unlike the iPhone where we are required to manually manage our own memory and take care of lots of housecleaning details that generally slow development," he says.Bare metal programming won't be necessary for performance enhancements or to access low-level features in Windows Phone 7. "Microsoft has promised that developers will not need to drop down to the bare metal in order to get -anything- done," Hoffman says. "This is a win-win situation for developers: we get the productivity gains of a useful abstraction layer [ie, Silverlight] and the confidence of knowing we won't need to circumvent that abstraction layer to accomplish anything."
John Cox covers wireless networking and mobile computing for "Network World." Twitter: http://twitter.com/johnwcoxnwwEmail: firstname.lastname@example.com RSS feed: http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/2989/feed
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Skype today released an upgrade to the phone call and messaging service that will make it more compatible with the Android tablets that will soon be flying off the shelves for the holiday season. Here's what reviewers have to say about version 3.0:
Android Community: "Overall the new user interface looks beautiful and is easy to work with on tablets. They've also introduced an option to sign in and merge your Skype account with your Microsoft account — since they bought Skype — for those interested in that feature."
Engadget: "Skype has also updated the app with its latest SILK audio codecs, attuned specifically for human speech and — more importantly — varying internet speeds. After some initial 'robot voice' while connecting, we soon had no issues with several international video calls through WiFi."
SlashGear: "However, we noticed that the new Skype update on the Nexus 7 is landscape only, and the camera is portrait style, meaning that the camera doesn't use up as much of the screen as it could. Definitely a bummer indeed, but the update still brings a lot of new design tweaks to Android tablets, and we can't complain too much about it."
The new version of the app is optimized for Android tablets including the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, the Google Nexus 7, Acer Iconia, Asus Transformer Prime, Motorola Xoom and Sony S and is available for download on Google Play.


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Perry Cruz at Ft Worth Conservative Gathering
Two potential Republican presidential candidates in 2016 make an appearance on their home turf. Both Governor Rick Perry and Senator Ted Cruz addressed attendees at the RedState Convention, which is being held in Fort Worth through Sunday.
Perry's address opened the day's activities, while Cruz wrapped it up.
The junior Texas senator says conservatives are winning on issues like Obamacare and immigration. After his speech, Cruz told reporters "time will tell" whether he will enter the race for the GOP nomination, but added "By all accounts, there are 10, 12, 15 people who seem to be thinking about running... What I would encourage each of them to do is stand up and lead." Asked about a possible run by Perry, Cruz said he' a "friend" and a "terrific governor", but wouldn't comment further.
Both Cruz and Perry are scheduled to speak at the Family Leadership Summit at Iowa State University this weekend.


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The word at Westminster this morning was that the Damian Green affair would become a bit of a damp squib when MPs returned to the Commons after their Queen's speech lunch.
And then, on the dot of 2.30pm, the Commons speaker Michael Martin stood up and delivered what can politely be described as a nuclear missile at the Metropolitan police.
His message amounted to this: the police abused procedures when they marched into the House of Commons to search the offices of Damian Green last Thursday holding no more than a consent form.
Martin says that the police failed in two key areas when they sought the permission of Jill Pay, the serjeant at arms, for the search:
• They failed to tell Pay that she had an opportunity to refuse admission to the Commons if all they had was a consent form
• They had an obligation to say that Pay could demand that they upgrade their form to a search warrant
To cries of shame, Martin relayed a conversation he had with Pay after police telephoned her at 7.00am last Thursday morning to say they wanted to arrest Green and search his office.
Police had told Pay the previous day that an arrest was possible, though they did not disclose the identity of the MP.
"I was not told that the police did not have a warrant. I have been told that the police did not explain, as they are required to do, that the serjeant was not obliged to consent or that a warrant could have been insisted on."
So where does this leave the saga and who's in the frame? I would highlight the following:
• The Metropolitan police and Bob Quick, who is leading the investigation, will now face intense pressure as to why they did not follow proper procedures. There were calls for them to be summoned to the bar of the Commons to explain themselves. At the very least they will have to explain themselves before a committee of seven senior parliamentarians convened by the speaker
• Jill Pay will face questions about why she did not ask the police more searching questions. This will lead to questions of the Speaker - Pay, a middle ranking civil servant, secured the ancient position of serjeant at arms after the Speaker downgraded the role after clashes with the retired military officers who normally wear the serjeant's tights
• Dr Malcolm Jack, the clerk of the Commons who would normally have ruled: The speaker appeared to indicate that he had not played a role. There are suggestions that he could not be reached because the house was not sitting.
• Ministers: Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, said she did not interfere and asked to be kept out of the police investigation to uphold police independence. Old lags are saying that the affair shows the danger of the home secretary abrogating responsibility for the police; a beady eye should keep an eye on them.


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Some Christians say that O'Connor is too dark, too negative. How do you account for her work being such an effective literary apologetic to non-believers?


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The collaboration between Only The Best and Marcel Lech photography presents The 'Snowventador.' A super car that has been completely winterised for the slopes and features a custom ski box fitted to the rear, the new PUR Aventador Aero Kit by SR Auto (which includes a carbon fibre front lip, carbon fibre deck lid, and a carbon fibre rear spoiler) and PUR 4OUR rims. Lastly the Aventador is protected from the harshness of winter, the entire car has been wrapped in satin black, while the front lip, alternatively called the snowplow, has been wrapped with a clear protective film.
The car drives splendidly in the snow as one would expect with the all-wheel drive capabilities, especially in combination with the 330 wide Pirelli tires in the rear. The owner (who owns many super cars including the Ferrari FF) did note that although the Aventador has more pizaaz, the FF is very much so still a wonderful winter driver. In fact the FF is incredibly practical in the snow as it too has 4-wheel drive capabilities and does not require additional modifications to carry skis – unlike the Snowventador.
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Why Is Math Important
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Math is necessary for even the most basic of life functions. Whether you're buying groceries, determining a budget for yourself, calculating interest on investments, or carrying out a whole myriad of other life tasks, math will somehow be involved. This is a fact I don't particularly like to admit, being an English teacher, but let's face it -- the world would be just as lost without numbers as it would be without words (maybe moreso?). Granted, I was never very good at math, but it is unfortunately essential for basic survival.
"The language of Nature is Mathematics." How much or little we comprehend Math is exactly how much or little we comprehend. Comprehension is probably a function of brain wiring; some are better at it than others, but most of us have endured the poorly taught math class with a revulsion for the subject, which is a shame. Progress in commerce, science, and technology all depend upon math's comprehension; we may have had to learn calculus to do physics problems, but at the first, Newton's study of physics led him (and Leibniz) to develop calculus! George Boole in the 1800's developed a branch of algebra for logic manipulations; every computer in existence relies on them now. We've come a long way from adding and subtracting on fingers.
Math is very functional. Most of us use it without even thinking about it. Do you ever go shopping? How do you determine how much of a product to buy? You probably take into account how many will be eating, as well as how much you'd like each person to have. If you're feeding a family of eight, perhaps more than a single box of macaroni and cheese would be in order, unless, of course, everyone is on a strict diet.
How do you know if bigger is better? Lots of products come in "value sizes", usually with a higher price tag, yet with a bigger volume. Simple math helps you determine whether or not you truly are getting more for your money.
Are "combo meal deals" really a better option at restaurants? Why pay 3.99 for a so-called value meal at Mickey D's, when you can get the sandwich, fries, and drink for only $1 a piece?
Math is used all the time. The reasoning and logic behind it help us avoid getting ripped off.
I totally agree with those who talk about the everyday practical applications of math. However, those are man-made necessities. Arguably, so is music, although there is music in nature. I think the most fascinating context in which we see math is nature. Consider the fibonacci numbers. Tree branching, leaf placement, artichokes, pineapples and pine cones, the spiral of a conch shell -- all reflect fibonacci numbers. When we look to atomic structure, DNA, etc. there are more mathematical echoes. Math is part of the universe.
In response to #6--Ha! Mostly I agree with you...although you have to recognize math's significance. I saw a sweatshirt over the break that reminded me of people like us. It read: ENGLISH MAJOR: YOU DO THE MATH. Tee-hee! :)
As an English major, I honestly wish it was not so important LOL! (I am only kidding!) Beyond balancing my checkbook and for financial reasons, I would love to simply forget my years in geometry and trigonometry and calculus!!!
Do you like music? Music is heavily influenced by math--rhythms, beat, meter--all of this is math-based. Without math, music would not be as advanced and intriguing as it is today.
Watch the TV show NUMBERS sometime. It will give you some other ideas as to the importance of math in our everyday lives. Even if you don't like math or aren't good at it, we must recognize its importance in the technological advancements, measurements (cooking and elsewhere), and daily life experiences.
Without people who can do math, we would not have many of the things we take for granted. We wouldn't have cars, highways, or plane travel--math is required to design and build such things. Tall buildings? Forget it--architecture is heavily math based. Anything that requires electricity also requires many math calculations to function.
But everyone needs to be able to do some math. Would you know if someone was giving you correct change when you buy something? How would you know which item was the best buy? How would you know the nutrition per serving of food? Could you figure out the amount of carpet to re-do the living room?
Unfortunately math has a reputation as being hard to understand, and kids can decide at an early age that they are not good at it. Keep at it; one of math's strong points is that it is very logical, and can be understood if the right methods are used to teach it. You may have to look and find other explanations for some aspects, but everyone can understand basic (and not-so-basic) math.
First of all, you need to see math as an instrument, as the teaspoon is important, when you need to eat a very tasty cake in a fancy restaurant.
Since the early Greek studies concerning geometry and algebra till the nowadays theories studies about infinity and strings, math meant the progress in all fields as: computers science, medicine, architecture, economy etc.
Imagine, if the math doesn't exist, the computers science couldn't exist, and you couldn't launch the question and receive an answer from your PC or Notebook. Do you agree?
Simple math is a part of your everyday life. Whether you are calculating how much money you'll save on a clearance item, doubling a recipe, or counting how many hours of sleep you'll get if you fall asleep in the next 10 minutes, you will use math all the time with out even realizing it. Now obviously not everyone will need to know the quadratic formula for their future life and career, but simple math is always needed. If you are planning on being a financial assistant or architect, math will be more important in your life compared to some others.
Can you imagine going to the store and paying for your groceries with a $100 bill. You just stand there and wait for the change, but have no idea how much it should be, or what amount of change you should receive. This is kind of like a first grader starting to use money, isn't it. They are all excited about spending and paying although they know nothing about doing math.
Math is the one skill you need to master in your life, even if it is the only one, you will at least be able to live without being cheated, robbed or abused. You see, without math we just cannot live or survive. We need math in our everyday lives. Just doing the basic essentials is dependant on your ability to do math.
Let's take for instance time, in today's society one cannot survive without a watch. Just make an experiment and see how many times a day you use your watch. From getting up in the morning to going from one place to another, and going to bed at night, time is as essential as breathing to us. We are creatures of habit, planning every minute of our lives.
Math is very important if you never knew how to do math what else would you know how to do math is like in our everyday life if there is no math lets just say you won't now anything and you would be living on the streets
The question of why math is important usually arises when children have learned how to count, add, substract, multiply, and divide; and they come to believe they know all they need to know to function adequately in life. After all, if one understands how to keep track of his own money, figure out what it means when a scale shows two additional pounds, or cut a cake so there'll be enough pieces for everyone, what else do we need to know?
The littlest children who don't like math can usually understand the explanation that knowing how to handle money, telling time, cooking, sharing things, or knowing how many of any item will be left if some are used, all require knowing math. Younger children can usually understand why it's important to know how to measure how tall something is or how heavy it is, and they can usually understand how doing things like wallpapering or hanging window shades call for knowing how to measure.
Math is important because it is part of our live. Everything must involve in mathematics. Even though you are a philosopher, you'll still need math to see whether you are cheated in the market or not. However, if we talking about professional in math, we would notice that those math genius will have more opportunety to find jobs because math suit perfectly to everyday problems such as economic problems, engineering work or even in military serves where the professers are asked to demonstrate how to shoot missiles perfectly.
Math is critical to brain development. Every student has probably asked the question. "Why do I have to learn Algebra? I'll never use it again." Possibly, but you will use the area of your brain that it develops every day of your life. Math teaches you to take steps to find an answer. The process is every bit as important as the answer. Without mental discipline, even the smartest of people can fail at life. As you think your way through math problems, you actually build new and stronger brain circuitry that translates into solving all of life's challenges more effectively. If you are interested in building your body strength, but neglect your brain, you are only accomplishing part of what you need. Think of math as "working out" your brain!


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Bahrain is ... What is your perception? Well, I know what I see every day. I see and hear helicopters roving around my neighbourhood. There is black smoke from black tyres burning in random areas. There are protests that reflect the unhappiness of many. Then there are conversations like, "So what do you think about the stability of this country?" and "Do you think it will ever improve?"
This is the reality in Bahrain unless you are living in an unrealistic bubble.
But there is something more powerful than what we perceive with our eyes and ears. Something so powerful that the law of attraction can back it up. It is our belief.
I believe Bahrain is prospering for everyone and I know it will improve sooner than later.
I believe that I live in a country that has given me security, beauty, and joy. I know that I do not want to live anywhere else in the world. I know that this country will and is getting better in all respects. And with this thinking, what do I get?
Some will say I am living in a fool's paradise. But I know that everyday I am appreciating what I have and believe it will get better because if I don't, I am the biggest loser.
No one benefits when you cannot see goodness in the world. It doesn't matter if you live in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq or anywhere, problems exist in all areas and it will continue as long as humanity does.
So, this is my choice. I know that a united people who believe in goodness, will get goodness.
We have only two options at the end of the day, that which is wanted and that which is not. Why not focus on that which brings happiness, even if you do not have it now, it is coming, it is there, I can see it in my mind. And eventually it will come to all of Bahrain.
A person who can perceive the world as he/she wants it to be, is more powerful than a million who cannot.
Be that beacon of light who can see beyond what is, and it will be.
Subah Khawaja


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As the cities in Iraq fell, one by one, to extremists in the past week, it's hard not to imagine what must be going on in the minds of the American men and women who fought to take those cities over from extremists just a few years ago.
Thousands of lives lost, tens of thousands injured and billions of dollars were spent to rid Iraq of Saddam Hussein and extremists who want to harm America.
The results, while promising at times, now seem to be at an all time low.
We were led to believe that a free Iraq — a democratic Iraq — would blossom into a beacon of hope in the region; a shining example that other Middle Eastern countries could follow and bring peace to a part of the world where war is the norm.
It seemed a noble cause, but it's just not working the way our nation's leaders hoped it would when the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003.
Now, President Barack Obama is being tasked with coming up with a new strategy against the extremists.
In an Associated Press story Tuesday, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said the administration must act quickly to provide the Iraqi government with assistance before "every gain made by the U.S. and allied troops is lost."
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant has conquered several cities in Syria and Iraq. The administration is sending almost 300 American forces in and around Iraq to help secure U.S. assets, according to the AP. Obama is considering airstrikes and other options.
The issues are complex. The answers are not easy.
Do we intervene in the conflict? Do we hang back? Do we let them kill each other?
What's best for the future? What's best for America?
One thing is certain, though.
The whole mess is a damn shame.
All the sacrifice from our military and all the efforts to improve Iraq have amounted to a country awash in war and a danger to the region and world.
I guess there is a glimmer of hope, though. Perhaps our efforts there did plant enough seeds to defeat this most recent foe — ISIL. Perhaps the Iraqi government and its military, built by the U.S., can overcome ISIL with the training and equipment we gave them.
Our soldiers who fought there deserve that much from the Iraqis.
Jacob Brooks, a former Army tanker, is the Killeen Daily Herald's city editor. Contact him at email@example.com or 254-501-7468.


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A 20-YEAR-OLD driver who mowed down a Royal British Legion stalwart on a town centre road has been warned he will go to jail.
Michael Yeates pleaded guilty at a Preston Crown Court hearing to causing the death of Frank Fielding, 80, as he crossed Rishton's High Street at around 5pm on October 18 last year.
Yeates, of Trent Street, Longridge, has now been told by a judge that he is facing an inevitable prison sentence.
Friends of Mr Fielding said they hoped the jail sentence would go some way to helping the family find closure.
The grandad-of-five was knocked down by Yeates driving a souped-up white Vauxhall Nova at around 47mph through the 30mph zone. Mr Fielding later died in hospital.
Yeates also admitted a second offence of fraud by making a false representation as he had not notified his insurance company of changes to his vehicle, making his policy invalid.
The collision was captured on CCTV but could not be shown to the court as it was too graphic.
Former Hyndburn mayor and close friend of Frank, Paul Barton, said he hoped Yeates pleading guilty would provide some sort of closure for the family.
He said: "Pleading guilty was the right thing for him to do. If you have done something wrong, you might as well admit it. You cannot hide away.
"Both families want closure, but if anything tragic like that happens, it is never the end really.
"If it was my father, I would want answers, so this might go some way to helping them get closure.
"I knew Frank all my life. He was a true gentleman, a gentle giant.
"I just found it so, so tragic the way he died. I feel sorry for both families involved, they will be feeling it too.
"His family miss him and I miss Frank too. He was the people's champion in Rishton for so many years. He was a cracking fellow."
Mr Fielding, a long-serving member of the Royal British Legion branch in Rishton, had spent years supporting poppy campaigns.
He served in the Royal Horseguards for 10 years, based in Chelsea and Windsor, and would bear the standard at memorial day.
He also took on the maintenance of the bowling green at Rishton Conservative Club.
Husband of the late Marion, Frank was the much-loved dad of Mandy, Pamela and Mark.
The case has been adjourned to September 18 for sentencing and Yeates was remanded on bail.
He was also given an interim driving ban.
Judge Anthony Russell QC said: "I'm afraid custody is the inevitable consequence of your pleading guilty to this offence.
"The fact you pleaded guilty will undoubtedly be taken into account and will amount to a reduction in that sentence."


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Too many intoxicated skiers lead SkiCo to institute a drink limit
Because some patrons have taken imbibing to new heights at Cloud Nine Alpine Bistro at Aspen Highlands, they've been cut off.
Aspen Skiing Co. last week instituted a three-drink maximum and removed liquor from the menu, leaving beer and wine as the only alcoholic beverages available at the on-mountain restaurant situated at 10,740 feet.
That means no more shooters of Obstler Schnapps that the European restaurant was known for, along with the late-afternoon parties that often included patrons dancing on the table tops. Now, the check is dropped off at 3:30 p.m. and patrons are asked to be gone by 4 p.m.
Three-hour drinking lunches have translated into people having to be taken down the mountain by ski patrol via snowmobile because they were too drunk to ski down safely by themselves.
"Given the mid-mountain location, we've gotten to be concerned about the safety of our guests," said SkiCo spokesman Jeff Hanle. "We're up on the mountain and we have to operate it responsibly."
He added that the three-drink maximum is an internal guideline and Cloud Nine general manager Andreas Fischbacher will make the judgment call if a patron is able to handle his or her alcoholic intake beyond the new limit.
But Fischbacher said he plans to stick to the three-drink max because it's related to the number of drinks that meets the threshold of the state's legal limit to operate a motor vehicle.
"We certainly don't want people skiing intoxicated," he said.
He noted that the full bar will be offered during the evening when the restaurant serves Thursday dinners and patrons are taken up and down the mountain via snowcat.
Fischbacher said he's received mixed reactions to the curbing of the alcohol but by all appearances, people still were having fun this past weekend.
"I understand people will get upset," Hanle said, noting there were patrons on Saturday who expressed their appreciation for the lower-key atmosphere.
Since Cloud Nine opened in 1998, it's become an early aprés-ski hot spot and each year it gets closer to living up to its name, which is a term that refers to reaching "a state of total euphoria."
"It was good while it lasted," Fischbacher said of the partying nature of guests.
There was no particular incident or impetus for instituting the limit other than "it was time," according to Hanle.
"It's been discussed before," he said. "This is not about not letting people have fun," Hanle said of the new rules, but rather for their own safety.
One patron who asked not be identified and has a partner who's been taken down on snowmobile a couple of times, said "you've got to be kidding me" when he learned of the news.
"That's going to change everything," the patron said. "I'm very unhappy about this."
He added that it was standard to go to Cloud Nine, have a three-hour lunch and knock back a few. The patron joked that the Obstler Schnapps sales rep will surely take a financial hit.
He added that he might have to rethink the party of 15 Europeans he booked for late March after they had such a raucous and fun time last year.
For Fischbacher, Cloud Nine is about the gourmet food, which hasn't changed.
"It started out as having a good meal," he said. "But the reality is people were endangering themselves."
In other SkiCo-related news:
The Little Nell plans to launch "The Oasis" on Aspen Mountain with a Veuve Clicquot-branded pop-up champagne bar. Marking Veuve Clicquot's annual celebration of winter, Clicquot in the Snow, The Oasis will host guests for flutes of champagne and views of Aspen from 11,000 feet.
The bar will feature umbrellas, lounge chairs, a solar-powered sound system and other features.
To make it more interesting, guests will receive clues to find the secret location of the mobile bar. For clues to The Oasis' location, guests should follow The Little Nell on Twitter @TheLittleNell or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheLittleNellAspen [1]. A new cell phone repeater on top of Aspen Mountain will provide guests with ample service to track the bar's location from the slopes. Guests should expect the bar to "pop up" over President's Day weekend and continue throughout weekends in March.
[1] http://www.facebook.com/TheLittleNellAspen


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Discover some industrious builders on an exploratory hike
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Family-friendly afternoon of fun will consist of kite flying,
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Dodge Nitro Models and Nitro History
Spawned from a largely production-ready concept car first shown at the 2005 Chicago Auto Show, the Dodge Nitro was presented for sale during the 2007 model year. Sharing its platform with the Jeep Liberty, the Dodge Nitro was a mid-sized sport utility vehicle set for the younger vehicle consumer.
Offered with either a rear-wheel or a four-wheel drivetrain, the 2007 Nitro was offered with SXT, SLT and R/T trim levels. On the SXT and SLT variants of the Dodge Nitro, a 210-horsepower, 3.7-liter V-6 was mated to a standard six-speed manual transmission. A four-speed automatic was optional with the 3.7-liter engine.
On the 2007 Dodge Nitro R/T, a 4.0-liter V-6 engine generating 260 horsepower and 265 pound-feet of torque. With the 4.0-liter powerplant, the Nitro can tow up to 5,000 pounds of load. Inside the Dodge Nitros five-passenger cabin, standard features include air conditioning, dual 12-volt power outlets, keyless entry and an MP3-compatible sound system provided meaningful comfort.
At the rear, a system called Load n Go allowed the cargo floor to slide out by 18 inches providing more efficient loading and unloading of items. Ample to function with up to 400 pounds of weight, Load n Go was standard on the SLT and R/T trim levels for 2007. In 2010, the trim levels choices for the Dodge Nitro was reshaped by the addition of Heat, Detonator and Shock.
Retail sales of the Nitro ended after the 2011 model year with the compact sport utility vehicle offered only as a fleet vehicle through 2012.
New and Used Nitro Prices, Dodge Nitro Model Years and History
2011 Dodge Nitro
Dodge's smallest utility vehicle, the 2011 Nitro is ignited by a pair of V-6 power plants as well as a new for 2011 Heat 4.0 lifestyle package.
2010 Dodge Nitro
The 2010 Dodge Nitro is a mid-size SUV that seats five passengers and is available with 2WD or 4WD on both trim levels.
2009 Dodge Nitro
A four-door, five-passenger midsize CUV, the 2009 Dodge Nitro is quite capable both on and off the road.
2008 Dodge Nitro
A mid-sized SUV, the 2008 Dodge Nitro is available in two trims, each of which comes standard with a 3.7L V6 producing 210 hp.
2007 Dodge Nitro
The 2007 Dodge Nitro is a brand-new mid-size five-passenger SUV featuring bold styling and a choice of V6 engines and 2WD or 4WD.


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LONDON (Nov. 5)
Prime Minister Golda Meir told a press conference here today that Britain had moved toward the French and Soviet Middle East views and that only the United States among the Big Four now supported Israel's position on how a settlement should be achieved in the region. Mrs. Meir met with newsmen after meeting with Prime Minister Edward Heath and British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Mrs. Meir reportedly asked the two British leaders for a clarification of the views expressed in a speech by Sir Alec Saturday which evoked strongly negative reactions in Israel. Declaring that she assumed Sir Alec's speech to be "British policy now." she declared that Britain no longer could claim "to be a neutral member of the Big Four group." With the Soviet Union, France and Britain "holding the positions they hold, the Four Power group has lost its credibility even as an exploratory body," she said. Asked about United States-Israel relations, she said "There is a basic agreement between the United States and Israel and this is what matters. The United States does not expect Israel to withdraw from anywhere without a peace settlement." Sir Alec had called, in his speech, for Israeli withdrawal to its pre-Six-Day war boundaries and yielding by Israel of East Jerusalem. Mrs. Meir told the newsmen that "other people cannot decide for Israel, or for the Arabs for that matter, what secure, agreed, recognized borders are."
Mrs. Meir said Sir Alec was enunciating "a high moral principle about acquisition of territory but when a country is trying to destroy another country and does not succeed, a different situation is created." Asking acidly whether such an attempt to destroy Israel should be "rewarded with the Nobel prize for peace," Mrs. Meir declared it was the Arabs "who destroyed the older borders by attacking Israel. This means the old borders were not good enough." Commenting on Sir Alec's specific reference to the Golan Heights as included in an Israeli withdrawal, Mrs, Meir said that "when we think of the Golan Heights, we don't think about territorial acquisition but of the years when our settlements in the valley were subjected to murderous shelling continually from this very Golan Heights." She also asked rhetorically how East Jerusalem came under Jordanian control and added "imagine preaching to us after the history of the last two decades." She again denounced Egypt for "bad faith" in moving Soviet-made anti-aircraft missiles into the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal truce zone. She added that Arab states regularly broke agreements, "such as the 1956 one regarding the Strait of Tiran," a refer ence to the channel between the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea, which Egypt blockaded shortly before the June 1967 war. She added that the missiles "could only have been moved by the Russians. The Egyptians would not know how to do it. Russia should be faced with the responsibility and should make sure that the missiles are taken back."
Referring to the current 90-day cease-fire which expires at 6 p.m. today New York time, she said that "as long as Egypt does not shoot, we will not shoot back. Naturally, if Egypt starts shooting, Israel will react and defend herself effectively." She said that, in fact, the original 1967 Security Council cease-fire "stands. Egypt broke it. If Egypt doesn't break it now, it is in force." She called the Afro-Asian resolution adopted yesterday by the UN General Assembly one likely to introduce "new obstacles" to Middle East peace-making efforts. Discussing the question of Palestinian claims, she remarked "there is room for two states in the area of original Palestine and we don't care what the Arabs call theirs" in the occupied West Bank, which originally had been slated to be an Arab state under the 1947 UN partition recommendation. But, she added, "Israel will never become Palestine." She reiterated that the Arab guerrillas were no more than "a nuisance" to Israel but that they were endangering Lebanon. Jordan "and now even Syria." She also said she did not come to London "with a shopping basket for arms. I did no shopping at all." She was entertained at a luncheon by Prime Minister Heath with Sir Alec among those present. She described her meeting yesterday with the British leaders as involving "a frank and friendly discussion. We know each other's point of view better, but there was no meeting of minds."


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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA), Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)
Network For the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC)
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
What does this program measure?
The Bromine Oxide (BrO) monitor measures the zenith skylight between 340 and 390 nm. This instrument is also used to monitor Chlorine Dioxide (OCLO).
How does this program work?
Shown Below, the Nitrogen Dioxide and Bromine Oxide sensor covers on the Mauna Loa Sun Deck, where solar radiation is measured.
Why is this research important?
In order to carry out continuous monitoring of BrO at MLO.
Are there any trends in the data?
How does this program fit into the big picture?
What is it's role in global climate change?
Comments and References
Lead Investigator(s):
Paul V. Johnston (NIWA)
MLO Contact(s):
Paul Fukumura
808-933-6965 (x223)
Dr. John E. Barnes
808-933-6965 (x222)
Web Site(s)
Date Started
July 9, 1996


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Get Your FREE 2017 Museum Day Tickets
In 2017, Smithsonian Museum Day is Saturday, September 23rd; and tickets are available through the Smithsonian website. Minnesota always has several participating museum (not always the same museums). Some of these museums are cheap year round and many require a road trip. Each year, we lay them all out for you here, listing the museum and its address, an approximate drive-time from the Twin Cities, and the prices you would pay any other day.
This is the 2016 list. Check back in August for an updated 2017 List.
Scott County Historical Society – Stans Museum 235 Fuller Street South, Shakopee, MN, 55379 Metro Suburb – 30 minutes from Minneapolis/ 40 minutes from St. Paul Usual Admission: Adults $4.00 Students $2.00 Children under 5: FREE
Seniors/Students $3.00
Children 6 and under – Free
HHM Members – Free
Bell Museum of Natural History 10 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Minneapolis Usual Admission: Adults $8.00 Seniors: $7.00 Children 3-17: $5.00 Children under 3/Students: FREE
1 hour from the Twin Cities Usual Admission: Adult Admission: $5.00
Children 7 – 16: $3.00
Children under 6: FREE
3517 Raleigh Avenue, St. Louis Park, MN 55416 Metro Suburb Usual Admission: Adults $7.00 Children $5.00
The Pioneer Endicott, 141 E. 4th Street, St. Paul, MN 551011 In St. Paul Usual Admission: Free Everyday


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Dowser, a much admired and followed Citizen Journalist on Newsvine.com has been chosen to receive the very first Publisher's Award for her article "I Put My Money Where My Heart Lies..." Dowser is a geologist who lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband and son. Dowser has written many articles pertaining to her vocation but has also covered several widely varied subjects. Her contributions to the Newsvine Community are many not the least of which was hosting a VineMeet in Louisville that got rave revues and brought a substantial group of Newsviners together in person. It is expected that Dowser will continue to be a strong voice for knowledge and understanding within her real and on line Community.
The following statement is from The Free Press Publisher: "As I stated earlier the criteria for winning this Award will be mine and mine alone. It is not based on journalistic principals alone. In this case I chose Dowser's article because it displayed her heartfelt desire to bring facts and first hand reporting to the attention of the widest audience possible. Although the article mixes fact with opinion, including a political opinion, it also is a strong indicator of Dowsers ability to present material that people from any viewpoint can appreciate."
Dowser will receive $25 in recognition of this Award. This money is not meant as enticement for more but rather as a statement of the Publisher "Putting His Money Where His Heart Lies..."
Thanks, Dowser, you are one of the finest, best, most kindly individuals I have met at Newsvine.


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Australia's performing arts companies face double trouble with corporate sponsorship not what is was and government grants stuck on hold. Valerie Lawson charts the hard times.
You can see it at the bus stop, you can see it on Channel Seven, you can see it in the steamy publicity shots for The Blue Room. The arts world wants your dollar, and it needs to shout to get it.
Bus shelter ads gleam with a giant eye, selling the upcoming season of Bell Shakespeare's As You Like It. Seven is screening ads for the Sydney Theatre Company's The Club, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra is promoting the Electrolux Master Series, and as for the thigh and sigh Blue Room pix, they must be working, as the play is doing 100 per cent box office at the Theatre Royal, says director Kelvin McWhinnie.
But there is always another side to showbiz success. The Theatre Royal in Sydney was dark for weeks, due to the no show of The Witches of Eastwick whose broomsticks did not fly from Melbourne to Sydney. The Hungarian import The Merry Widow waltzed into oblivion, the season for Hair was cut early and Get Happy made no one happy, least of all the producers.
Some shows have worked box office magic, among them Waiting for Godot and The Underpants for Company B, Proof and Breath of Life for the Sydney Theatre Company, Hamlet for the Bell Shakespeare Company, Underland for the Sydney Dance Company, and late last year, Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake for the Australian Ballet.
But beyond the highs and lows of the box office, Australia's performing arts companies are facing two intractable problems: an increasingly tough battle for sponsorship money, and a static, and relatively small pool of money from government grants.
This combination troubles Opera Australia, which last week cut 11 staff positions, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. which last year reduced its administration staff numbers by 20 per cent, amounting to more than 10 positions.
Opera Australia is a classic example of a mature arts company, facing a major challenge at this point of its life cycle. Soon to turn 50, the company has played to more than 90 per cent capacity houses, pushed its ticket prices as high as they can go, and enjoyed significant levels of sponsorship income. Its capacity to grow its income is very limited. Russell Mitchell is a victim of that limitation.
Last week the business affairs director of Opera Australia was told by his boss, chief executive Adrian Collette, that he was retrenched after 22 years on the senior management team.
Mitchell said this week, "I'm getting used to the idea of life after Opera Australia," but he sounded subdued as he explained his participation in the "activity review" that found ways of reducing the cost base of the company. In that sense, he was part of his own fate, retrenched along with eight others, four of them annual contractors in stage management and the technical area, and four other full-timers. Two people who resigned and have not been replaced.
"The sponsorship environment is very tough at the moment," said Mitchell, "and government funding has limits on it. With single ticket sales, we had a very good Sydney season and the best Melbourne season for some time. But the extent we can increase our revenues against continuing increases in costs [such as advertising and salaries] is very limited. I don't think our buyers could sustain a ticket price increase in line with the way our costs have gone up." Already this year, ticket prices had risen 3 per cent and premium prices were charged for Lucia di Lammermoor and the Mastersingers of Nuremberg, he said.
The retrenchments, combined with a cut in programs (reduced by two in Melbourne next year, one in Sydney in 2005) would shave $1 million from Opera Australia's budget, said Collette.
"Those kind of schedule changes are worth upwards of $450,000 alone. The basic income issue we've got is that we enjoy very good box office and I can't see it growing. So if your [government] funding stays flat, and in our case our funding is 25 per cent of our income, 30 per cent if you include the orchestra, by year four or five, it really starts to bite."
A cynic might judge that the company is crying poor in the hope of more government support, yet Opera Australia does face real problems in three areas. In 2006 it has to move into the Capitol Theatre when the Opera Theatre of the Sydney Opera House closes for renovations. This will mean fewer performances, as the seating capacity of the Capitol is a third bigger than the Opera Theatre, while the Capitol will also attract fewer tourists, who account for a quarter of single ticket sales in Sydney.
Before then, the company has to navigate next year without an artistic star to guide it, following the axing of the music director Simone Young, who represented the glamorous, promotional focus of Opera Australia.
Uncertainty remains about the company's principal sponsor, Seven, which has just announced a profit slump, retrenchments and an aggressive attack on costs. Seven's Opera Australia sponsorship expires at the end of next year, but if it is to be renewed, it must commit before the end of this year.
Performing arts companies are united in their present worry about getting and keeping good sponsors.
Australia Council statistics tell the story. In June the 28 companies within the major performing arts board of the council estimated box office income and private sector income for 2003. Total box office was projected to be $126 million this year - $9 million more than last year - but private sector income, that is, sponsorship and philanthropy, is projected to total $31.5 million, only $600,000 more than last year.
Tim Cox, the chairman of Bell Shakespeare Company, concedes that for both the arts and sport, "sponsorship is very tough. It's not going anywhere." The arts were losing corporate money to causes such as medical research, Cox said.
At Sydney Dance Company, the general manager, Leigh Small, points to the spin-off from corporate failures. "If insurance goes belly up or if IT takes a knock, you're one of the first lines to be cut. No one can promise that area."
To hook a sponsor, you promise them everything, including naming rights. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, which recently signed Emirates for a five-year principal sponsorship deal, lists the Emirates Metro Series in its 2004 season guide, along with the Electrolux Master Series, the Veuve Clicquot Series and the Morgan Stanley Music series. The orchestra's new managing director, Libby Christie, talks of "program-led recovery," and "matching our audiences in terms of demographics and sponsors."
After a slump in box office last year, the company's single ticket sales are up 50 per cent as "a reflection of the work the team has done on audience segmentation, for example, [targeting] younger professional audiences with the Morgan Stanley Music series", promoted with outdoor ads, and Romeo and Juliet, which will be played against a film of Fonteyn and Nureyev dancing the lovers. Billed as "Symphonic cinema for your Valentine," Romeo and Juliet is scheduled for four nights around Valentine's Day.
Most arts company administrators are confident of achieving box office targets this year. Sydney Dance Company was buoyed by a great run for Underland which sold more than 20,000 tickets in Sydney, and broke SDC records in tougher cities for the company, Melbourne and Brisbane. During the Iraq war, Tivoli did reasonably well during a four-week run at the Capitol. "Next year," said Small, "we won't be taking a large risk like Tivoli. But it did well for the times, and it didn't hurt the company."
Rachel Healy, the general manager of Company B Belvoir, thought most arts companies were struggling during the war, "but we didn't have that experience. The Steve Martin play The Underpants did incredibly well. Maybe that's the kind of theatre that sells best when there's such a high profile international conflict."
Thanks to Martin and Waiting for Godot, Company B sold more single tickets in the first four months of this year than the whole of last year.
In contrast, the war sent the Sydney Theatre Company box office into the doldrums. It fell 30 per cent on anticipated results, said general manager, Rob Brookman. "But the demand came straight back in the following three months. Inheritance started the roll, setting a new record for one day of sales for us, then Proof set an all-time STC gross box office record, Breath of Life did wonderful business and now The Club is really steaming along." Holy Day is not doing as well, but it is a dark work that challenges an audience.
When the times are uncertain, audiences might well go for escapism. Which is why, perhaps, The Lion King is on target with advance bookings and many punters are paying a sliver less than $200 a seat to see Tony Bennett and k.d. lang at the Sydney Opera House next month.
But in the arts, as in life, there are no sure bets, as Russell Mitchell knows only too well.
They might talk happy talk, but his colleagues in other arts companies are far from confident. "They're having to look very carefully at their income and costs balance," he said. "I don't think the opera company is alone."
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Sales performance dashboards involve a lot more than technology. They are about clearly defined metrics and integration with your sales processes. Track completion of goals with analytics and self-reliant dashboards at every step of your sales process.
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