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Texas Instruments Inc. introduced two highly integrated, phase-dimmable AC/DC LED lighting drivers, LM3448 and TPS92070, for use in solid state lighting residential, architectural, commercial and industrial applications, such as retrofit bulbs, LED ballasts, downlights, spot lights and other luminaires.
The National LM3448 adaptive, constant-off time AC/DC constant current LED regulator integrates a 600-V MOSFET and is optimized for 2-W to 8-W dimmable LED lighting drivers. The TPS92070 flyback AC/DC constant current LED driver controller is optimized for 6-W to 20-W dimmable LED lighting drivers. Both products feature thermal shutdown, VCC under-voltage lockout, cycle-by-cycle peak current limit and LED open protection.
Key features of the LM3448:
- Designed for integrated LED lamp form factors that require low component count, high-performance, dimmable LED drivers.
- Includes a phase angle dimming decoder compatible with leading-edge TRIAC and trailing-edge electronic dimmers, allowing full-range LED dimming.
- Integrated 600-V avalanche-protected, high-voltage and low Rdson MOSFET reduces design complexity while improving LED driver efficiency.
- Can be used in both isolated and non-isolated solutions based on the buck, flyback or buck-boost topology, using either active or passive (valley-fill) power factor correction (PFC) circuits.
Key features of the TPS92070:
- Advanced TRIAC dimmer management circuitry accurately decodes dimmer conduction angles and produces a good exponential LED current profile to provide efficient dimming performance and uniform LED light output.
- Optimized for valley switching and tight LED current regulation (less than five percent driver-to-driver accuracy) during deep dimming.
- Innovative secondary side feedback eliminates optocouplers and error amplifiers in isolated designs, reducing size and cost while enhancing safety and reliability.
- Can be used in both isolated and non-isolated solutions based on the flyback topology and gives designers the flexibility to optimize their external component selection based on size, cost and regulatory requirements.
- Detects the presence of a TRIAC and disables the external PFC function (either valley-fill or active) for improved dimming performance.
Availability, packaging and pricing
The LM3448 is available in volume now in a 16-pin SOIC package from TI and its authorized distributors. The suggested retail price is $1.10 in quantities of 1,000.
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Died June 7, 2010
On Sunday, June 7th, an orca named Taima died while giving birth to a stillborn calf at SeaWorld Orlando. The baby was conceived by Tilikum, the angry and frustrated orca who battered a trainer to death earlier this year—the third time he has killed a human.
For Taima, death was terrifying and painful, but it was a release from a miserable life of deprivation. In nature, orcas choose their own mates, and the families stay together for life. Ripped from her ocean home, Taima's own mother, Gudrun, died in captivity after a complicated delivery in which chains were used to extract her stillborn calf. Gudrun was called mentally ill and was known to be violent. Both mother orcas and their calves met their end alone in a tank full of chemically-treated water that must have felt like a bathtub to these animals, who were meant to explore the endless fathoms of the sea.
Taima will be forever in our hearts.
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A wildebeest calf can stand, walk and run within 10 minutes of being born.
Wildebeest of any species are never going to win any beauty competitions on the savannahs and grasslands. In a world of elegant springbok and eye-catching zebras, wildebeest (also called gnus) look lumpy and clumsy.
They have short necks, beards, high shoulders, deep chests and skinny legs. But they are quite mesmerising.
In South Africa, you'll find two distinct species – blue (or brindled) wildebeest, and black wildebeest. Blue wildebeest are far more common, and can be seen in many national parks and game reserves. They are easy to recognise, their coats a dark greyish-blue, with dark stripes on their flanks, and curved horns.
They are gregarious and have no problems mixing with other savannah inhabitants like zebra.
Black wildebeest are altogether rarer, and mostly occur in the Free State and the Karoo. They almost became extinct but persisted on a few Free State farms and their numbers have been gradually built up.
Black wildebeest are even stranger looking. They have upside-down meathook horns, beards and weird bristles on their noses, and horsey white tails.
They're smaller than the blue wildebeest and favour drier areas. You'll see them in places like the Mountain Zebra National Park, Karoo National Park and Free State provincial parks like the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve. And keep a beady eye on them, because black wildebeest can offer great entertainment. They're not called the 'clowns of the veld' for nothing.
From demurely grazing, they'll suddenly flick their tails, and gallop off to the horizon, and then back for no reason at all. Or they'll dance about, whirling and cavorting in the dust. And then start grazing again.
Both species are easy to see because of their preference for wide open spaces. You'll often see territorial males on their own, aloof from the rest of their herd.
Every now and then a black wildebeest male will emit a seductive hiccuping call, just to let the females know he has his eye on them.
The blue wildebeest speaks a completely different dialect, preferring to make his presence known with a metallic 'ga-noo', repeated up to 8 times.
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How to get here
Mokala National Park near Kimberley is one of the few places you'll be able to see both species. Usually they are separated because of a tendency to interbreed. Blue wildebeest are generally found in the northern savannahs, and are easily seen in Kruger National Park, Pilanesberg and Madikwe Game Reserves, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and various KwaZulu-Natal parks. Black wildebeest can be seen at Tussen-die-Riviere and Willem Pretorius Game Reserves in the Free State, as well as the Mountain Zebra and Karoo National Parks.
Best time to visit
In early summer, wildebeest females calve within days of one another, a strategy to minimise predation. The calves are terribly dear, paler than the adults and adorably gangly.
Get around
You'll almost certainly see these animals while driving yourself around game reserves, or on guided drives or walks.
What to pack
Bring a long lens for your camera so you can get a close-up of that very odd black wildebeest profile.
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It's raising concerns about safety in the neighborhood.
The line of tire tracks leading to the pond Monday brings back bad memories for Terry White.
"It was pretty traumatic because we've had a few other times that cars have gone in, and it's pretty worrisome," White said.
This weekend, she watched as a tow truck pulled a car from the water, an eerily familiar sight in her neighborhood.
In March, another driver plunged in, narrowly escaping after he fell asleep at the wheel. And in 2007, a man drowned after his truck ended up in the pond.
"Oh, that was horrible, coming home one night, you know, with hundreds of people around the lake, and, you know, trucks and ambulances and everything," White said. "And come to find out, it was a young man that died in there."
It's the type of accident that Channel 4 safety expert Ken Jefferson believes can be prevented if there are measures in place.
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Typing Secret Word Will Kill Almost Any App in Apple's OS X Mountain Lion
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"It just works." --Apple
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The forbidden word is "File:///" (case sensitive). Type that in virtual any text input form (be it a notepad, a browser dialogue, a document editor, a calendar appointment, etc.) and the program will die. It appears that similar strings ("fILE:///" or "FILE://aa") can also trigger program crahes. In a bizarre twist, some crashes appear to be dependent on how fast you type certain variants (e.g. "File://" followed by characters). An
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Among the programs confirmed to be infected are Tweetbot, Safari, Chrome, and TextEdit. The program appears to be tied somehow to some sort of deep-rooted API embedded into OS X (it appears not to be the spell-check API as the Safari location bar has no spell check, but is still affected).
In a particularly hilarious (or awful) failure, typing the problem string into Apple's Crash Reporter UI crashes the Crash Reporter.
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The bug does not affect OS X Lion (10.7) or Snow Leopard (10.6).
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A handful of apps, such as the image-editor Gimp, appear to be immune, perhaps because they disable whatever the trouble-making interface is. Typing the string in these apps will produce no crash.
Some users suggest that going to System Preferences > Language & Text > Text, and unchecking "Correct spelling automatically" and "Use symbol and text substitution" will stop the crashes in some apps. However, commenters say the apps continue in some programs even after doing that.
One loyal Apple user comments on the bug report:
This is actually a feature. It allows you to shut down all applications before shutting down your Mac:
Crashes Finder if typed into a Finder search field (not Spotlight, though). Crashes Safari if typed into the URL bar. Crashes Mail if typed into the search field. Crashes iTunes when typed into the search field. Crashes system-generated keychain unlock prompts (typed into the "Name:" field) Crashes Reminders if typed into the search field. ...
For now the bug is merely "interesting", but it also represents a potential security flaw. If malicious users start to use it in forms-based attacks, it could become a major headache for OS X users.
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ONE of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' greatest linebackers, James West, is back in Winnipeg to pay tribute to a dear friend and bid farewell to the old stadium.
"My heart still bleeds Blue Bombers blue," said the 54-year-old West, who paid a visit to Canad Inns Stadium during Tuesday's Bombers practice. "I played in Winnipeg for nine years. For some guys, that's a career. I was fortunate to play for the Blue Bombers for nine years."
West, a two-time CFL all-star and two-time Grey Cup winner, is in Winnipeg for the CFL Hall of Fame weekend, which includes the induction of Tyrone Jones, West's former Bombers linebacking corps teammate and one of his best friends. Jones, who died of brain cancer on June 10, 2008 at 46, will be inducted into the CFL Hall of Fame this weekend.
"I'm here for Tyrone," said West, who played for the Bombers in 1985-1992. Jones played for the Bombers in 1983-87 and 1989-91. Together, the pair won the 1990 Grey Cup with the Bombers while West was also part of the 1988 Grey Cup champion Bombers.
"Tyrone was like an 111/2, man (on a one-to-10 scale). Tyrone was born for this game. He was tenacious, he was a pest, he was annoying but boy was he good!" West said, laughing. "We were synonymous with each other. If you saw one, you saw the other. If he went somewhere, I was going to have his back."
The Hall of Fame weekend will include introductions of the inductees on Saturday at halftime of the Bombers-Montreal Alouettes game and the induction dinner Saturday night at the Winnipeg Convention Centre.
West, nicknamed Wild West, and Jones were part of a Bombers defence that is legendary for its ferocious pass rush, relentless energy and gregarious personalities.
"It's so many memories. We always knew that we were going to be successful," said West, who makes his home in Atlanta where he works for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
"We had so much confidence, we were beaming with confidence. Our biggest challenge was just with each other. We were so competitive. We used to compete about everything. On and off the field. On the field when we played, it was "I got more sacks than you, I've got more tackles than you or the fans are cheering louder for me."
West said the real secret to success of the Blue Bomber teams of his time was a combination of great leadership in the general manager and coaching roles as well as veteran players.
"We had great leadership. Either it was Paul Robson and Cal Murphy or Cal Murphy and Dave Ritchie or Mike Riley or Urban Bowman," West said. "We always had a good influence of veteran players and they held everybody accountable. The people at the top pretty much just coached because we as the players, we handled everything on and off the field. We hung out together, when somebody got out of line, we handled that. We really didn't get into trouble. If we got into trouble, it was with us (each other)."
West pointed to the Bombers' locker-room door. "If we had a problem, we solved it inside those doors," West said.


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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- Some students at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business are getting a late lesson is supply and demand: They might have to buy tickets to their own graduation Friday.
University officials allowed graduating students to pick up three tickets apiece during the week of April 23rd and distributed those remaining April 30th.
The Indianapolis Star reported Wednesday (http://indy.st/IHoDsO) some students didn't pick up tickets on time and find them being sold on eBay, Craigslist and elsewhere.
Shannon Beatty of Fishers is upset the school didn't hold back tickets for those unable to pick them up for free on time. She says other students are offering to sell her tickets for $200 apiece.
School Dean Daniel Smith has asked students with extra tickets to return them rather than sell them.
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I won't let it be said that we don't move with the times, so we figured we were well overdue for the introduction of a forum focusing on mobile devices. Although we are historically a web development here at SitePoint, it is inevitable that there will be some crossover into mobile application development, so we have named the new forum Developing For Mobile Devices.
Still to early for me to develop for mobile devices. For me, it's a minimum of 2 more years. Let the war between Apple and Google settle down, and to find out which one is superior to the other. Also, another reason is because HTML5 and CSS3 is still in it's infancy. Don't get cut by the bleeding edge of technology
It came in the right moment:). Can I know if the new forum has something to do with the question about what cellphones do we use?
Perfect! Looking forward to learn more about developing for mobile devices
How much should you pay for what?
How much should I pay for this?
Thank you. Yes, mobile has came a long way. I read an article stating in 2011 smart may past desk top in sales.
One word - woot! Go SP
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Thanks for developing new mobile devices forum, make us to know more about technology news.
Perfect! this new technologies is very useful most special for those people who engage themselves in mobile devices. I hope you give some tutorial on how to use this in creating a website
Very timely! I'm looking forward to picking up some tips.
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mobile application has a great future just u ave to prodict what the people need and make it real to them to make their life easier.
Thanks. It's about time Mobile has come a LONG way....
I was actually making this point earlier to a friend of mine. I also believe it will be a minimum of 2 years before you start seeing a lot of mainstream push towards the mobile element of the web.
Although yes it is here, its almost as if we're back in 1994 developing again as it seems a lot of people have to go back to the drawing board in a lot of senses. The reason I say this is because a large amount of people who are webmasters and developers still do not have a mobile device, but this doesn't mean they are blind and don't see the trend starting and are trying to prepare for it now.
For those using Macs, you may want to take a look at Dashcode. I'm not really sure what Apple plans to do with it in the future but it is a great tool to get you started when developing mobile apps.
I think this is a great step that you guys are taking. Looking forward to learning a thing or two in the new forum. Thanks!
Just remember that as designing websites (rather than applications) for mobile devices makes use of traditional HTML and CSS (with just a few well documented conventions to make things look great) - you're more likely to get a response in the appropriate forum where our HTML and CSS guru's are likely to be hanging out


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Love is in the Air everywhere I look around.
Love is in the Air every sight and every sound.
And I don't know if I'm being foolish, don't know if I'm being wise. But it's something I must believe in, and it's there when I look in your eyes.
Tomorrow will mark the start of the Love is in the Air season event. Theoretically, from past events, it should start around 4:00 a.m. sever time. But whether or not that ends up being true, you'll have to check for yourself.
You'll need to get finish the achievement Fool for Love in order to get the ultimate seasonal achievement What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been. The thing is... you only have a few days to get Fool For Love, so hurry up. The seasonal event ends early next Monday morning.
Ideally you'll want to set aside some time tomorrow night; you don't want to be waiting until Saturday evening to do this. Unless, you know, you and your significant other are into that sort of thing. (I'm talking about playing WoW together. Jeeze... get your mind out of the gutter. You don't think I'm just going to sit here and make gratuitous Valentine's Day jokes for the rest of the week, do you?)
So what are you waiting for?
"AFK honey, need to become a fool for love."


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Eganes is the creation of Matt Cheetham, a writer and a student of Maths at Manchester University, England. It is the script for an invented language of the same name.
Va saba osáv ódu lego, gérú béran busas e.
Sedú ter sagúte áne váb tura tegen ósan e.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They
are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another
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This is actually attempt number three I think…for some reason I've gotten mixed up (I'll upload the first attempt later). So actually my second shot at another traditional subject…bamboo. This is another one that I submitted to the Adobe Tech Summit Art Show. This one definitely involves heavier use of the Mixer Brush. I threw some green in there for good measure, as my eyes were growing tired of looking at black and white during all of my practicing.
I spent a lot of time again beforehand just practicing the brush strokes – before I even tried to put a composition together. You have no idea how hard it is for me to draw a perfectly straight bamboo stem. If you look at pictures of bamboo, it is oddly straight, and for some reason my clumsy hands just can't do it on my tablet. The stems are segmented and thus require multiple brush strokes to perform…for me, it seems to go…I make one segment, then the next I seem to always go off in some wild direction. Many times I end up with these bizarre zig-zag bamboo, that look ridiculous.
For the blending…took me a while to figure out that most often times, I mostly wanted to blend all of the colors from multiple layers together. Fortunately, there is a setting for that on the mixer brush that can be toggled on/off:
With it on, I can blend from all layers including the background layer. With it off, I can only blend media within my currently selected layer…very handy sometimes, for when I don't want to pull what's underneath, but want to move around the "paint" in my current layer.
Here's the final product:
I think that I'm kind of happy with some parts of the painting, and not so happy with other parts. I did get some nice blending in places, and some nice examples of the natural media bristle tips being pulled across the virtual canvas, that looks/behaves very much like a real painting. I don't think I did a very good job in adding depth to the image though. Did not really follow the rule, "the closest, the darkest", so the image comes out with somewhat of a flattened feel. I don't care as much that it isn't super detailed. I like the idea in sumi-e that you let your mind complete the picture.
Sounds perhaps overly sentimental, but this art (dare I call it that) is definitely a form of expressionism, where reality isn't as important as the mood, and emotion being depicted. Or maybe I'm just full of baloney…either way, I enjoy sharing this.
Again, let me know what you think about my paintings, or painting in Photoshop in general.


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PARIS (Reuters) - L'Oreal (OREP.PA), the world's biggest cosmetics group, said it was still open to making an acquisition, a day after unveiling plans to return 500 million euros ($669 million) to shareholders.
Chief Executive Jean-Paul Agon said on Tuesday the French company had the "means and the guts" to do a takeover deal, helped by a 1.58-billion-euro cash pile at the end of 2012.
"We look at every business in the cosmetics industry ... but we are very selective," Agon said, adding L'Oreal did not wish to make an acquisition that would transform its business.
L'Oreal, which makes Lancome creams and Garnier shampoo, on Monday posted 2012 results at the top end of expectations and announced plans to buy back shares.
Financial advisers and analysts said there were no obvious big targets for L'Oreal as few businesses were for sale. Some said Agon made the comments to justify the group's cash pile and an absence of big acquisitions recently.
L'Oreal has rebuffed ideas about building its own retail network - unlike LVMH (LVMH.PA) which also makes cosmetics and perfume and owns retailer Sephora and duty-free shops.
Agon also said he "was glad we are not in the business" of direct selling, which involves door-to-door representatives.
Advisers said L'Oreal had, in the past, turned down pitches to acquire direct retailers such as Brazilian group Natura (NATU3.SA), Avon (AVP.N) in the United States and Oriflame ORIsdb.ST in Sweden.
Another potential candidate could be Organix Hair Care, a U.S. maker of shampoos, body washes and lotions which is up for sale in a deal that could be worth $800 million or more, according to sources familiar with the matter.
L'Oreal's recent acquisition track record has been mainly made up of small purchases.
In 2012, it acquired U.S. make-up company Urban Decay which made sales of 130 million euros, baby soap brand Cadum which had turnover of 60 million euros, and Colombian make-up brand Vogue which generated 30 million euros.
Looking ahead, Agon said he expected the global cosmetics market to achieve "growth close to that of 2012" this year after a 4.6 percent rise in 2012.
Agon said he expected sales in 2013 to benefit from strong trading in the United States, Asia and recovering demand in Russia.
He also reiterated that L'Oreal aimed to outperform the market and increase profit and sales this year.
"We feel that the management is confident about the evolution of its markets this year and about its capacity to outperform," Catherine Rolland, analyst at Kepler Capital Markets said after the group's annual results presentation.
L'Oreal shares were up 3.8 percent in afternoon trade. They have gained 3 percent so far this year and 30 percent last year.
On Monday after the market closed, L'Oreal posted 2012 operating profit of 3.70 billion euros, slightly above an average estimate of 3.66 billion in a Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S poll.
Full-year revenue of 22.5 billion euros compared with a forecast for 22.3 billion. Its operating margin rose to 16.5 percent from 16.2 percent in 2011.
"Most regions and businesses slightly over-delivered versus expectations," Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Andrew Wood said in a note, adding the luxury business had underperformed, while the buyback was a "positive surprise".
L'Oreal also spent about 500 million euros buying back its shares last year following a break since 2008.
Additional reporting by Anjuli Davies; Editing by Dan Lalor and Mark Potter


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May 2011
Happy Spaces at Baby Zilli Launch
added 27th May 2011
A little while back Happy Spaces were invited to attend the launch of Baby Zilli, the new organic baby food range from celebrity chef Aldo Zilli.
The launch was a great success. One of the highlights for me was the balloon maker. By far the best I have honestly ever seen, creating anything from colourful giant octopuses to space men with radar guns! (a great idea for a kid's party).
Happy Spaces were very proud to be there to represent our beautiful wall art for children. We also provided a unique fine art print for each of the celebrity goodie bags from our new range being released online in June (watch this space for details).
At the end of the event the kiddies looked content and full to the brim and we took home some yummy Baby Zilli food pouches to try out with our little ones.
Thanks for the invite Baby Zilli!
Outside Fun for the Kids!
added 26th May 2011
As a mum of a 3 year old boy who wants to spend every waking hour outside, I am always trying to find fun things for him to do outside to teach him about nature and keep him stimulated (and me too!). The other day I stumbled upon a little gem of a website run by The Woodland Trust and aptly named Nature Detectives. It is packed full to the brim of outdoor activities that you can download and print out, from scavenger hunts to snail racing and amazingly enough you get all this for... NOTHING!!! Yes, that's right all this for not even a penny – truly amazing these days! However, if you would rather not download and print all the activities yourself then you can just join the club for £12 per year and get printed material for 350 activities.
So there you go, summer in the garden with the little ones sorted – enjoy!
Happy Spaces Kids' Wall Art is "A Listed"
added 17th May 2011
Happy Spaces are very proud to have appeared in the Daily Telegraph "A List" this weekend (14th May 2011). Compiled by lifestyle journalist and home expert Alison Cork, the guide features 150 need-to-know names in homes and interiors and serves as an indispensable style reference for your home. For your very own copy and great discounts download the 16 page supplement here.
Win in our 'Happy Spaces Happy Kid of the Month' competition
added 3rd May 2011
Upload a photo of your little one in their favourite "HAPPY SPACE" onto our facebook page this month and they could be featured as our HAPPY SPACES HAPPY KID of the month! The chosen photo will also receive a FREE Happy Spaces fine art print from our brand new range of 11 select prints to be released this month.
Here is the first photo to get you started.
Jake, 3yrs, loving the sea at his favourite Happy Space, the beach!
How to enter
Step 1: Click 'Like' on our facebook page (if you are not a fan already)
Step 2: Upload your photo onto our facebook wall and include the name of your HAPPY KID, their age and the name of their HAPPY SPACE along with your photo.
Step 3: Send your name and e-mail address to us at email@example.com so we can get hold of you if you are the lucky winner!
The winner will be announced and their photo featured at the end of May 2011 on our Facebook page. Good Luck!
Click Here to Enter
Eating out with the kiddo's can still be a treat!
added 1st May 2011
Great news - The long respected Harden's Restaurant Guides have launched a new edition especially for parents wishing to eat out with their little ones!
The first "Harden's Eating Out With Babies and Toddlers" is now available (£5.95 at amazon.co.uk) and lists the top baby and toddler friendly restaurants and cafés in the country. The release of the guide follows a survey which revealed – along with other shocking truths – that almost a third of parents have been turned away from a restaurant or café when they arrive with their young family in tow.
Other issues highlighted by the survey that were regulary encountered by parents included a lack of entertainment in restaurants for babies and toddlers (91 %), a lack of baby-changing facilities (85%) and no high chairs (76%).
The guide names The 'chic' Wolseley, in London, as the nation's most baby-friendly independent restaurant and Giraffe as the UK's most baby-friendly restaurant chain, followed by Pizza Express and Carluccio's.
The guide lists more than 1,000 venues and is based on feedback from 8,000 restaurant-going parents.
I'm ordering one! Sounds like a great gift too.


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If you have ever considered taking a break from your daily grind to go on one of the most decadent food vacations around the globe, the South Beach Wine and Food Festival has your name all over it…
Whether you love Martha Stewart, Jamie Oliver, Giada de Laurentiis or homegrown Cooking Channel rising chefs like Nadia G from Bitchin' Kitchen and Debi Mazar & Gabriele Corcos from Extra Virgin, you can't help but bump into a food icon down here. Star sightings abound but the true stars of this festival are the unparalleled food and drink offerings.
Though shot with a crappy iPhone in mood-lit tents, you can get a sense of some of the offerings below…
Prefer parfait? Check out this tour of Sweet Street Desserts:
Hungry for more? Check out the South Beach Wine and Food Festival here.
Or follow Cooking Channel, Nadia G. of Bitchin' Kitchen, Chuck Hughes, Debi Mazar and husband Gabriele Corcos as we DEVOUR the weekend.
If money and time were no object, would you be into an entirely food-focused vacation?


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Interesting move on the part of incoming Hermès CEO/family member Axel Dumas to start off his leadership with an aggressive anti-LVMH statement. Presumably the idea was to do two things in one fell swoop: herald a new sheriff in town and demonstrate his toughness (despite his relative youth, at almost-43). I wonder, though, if it's also doing a third, perhaps less intentional – or at least, less obvious: giving Hermès , aka the ultimate in classic luxury, some street-fighter edge. And if so, is it actually good for the company's image, or a mistake? Read more
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- Collins v. Virginia Whether the Fourth Amendment's automobile exception permits a police officer, uninvited and without a warrant, to enter private property, approach a house and search a vehicle parked a few feet from the house.
- Butka v. Sessions Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit erred in this case by holding that it had no jurisdiction to review the denial of a motion to reopen by the Board of Immigration Appeals, where the review sought was limited to assessing the legal framework upon which the sua sponte request was made.
- National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra Whether the free speech clause or the free exercise clause of the First Amendment prohibits California from compelling licensed pro-life centers to post information on how to obtain a state-funded abortion and from compelling unlicensed pro-life centers to disseminate a disclaimer to clients on site and in any print and digital advertising.
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- Summer symposium on Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project and Trump v. Hawaii
- Symposium on October Term 2016's death-penalty decisions
- Symposium on the court's ruling in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer
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BLACKBURN Rovers reporter Paul Wheelock gives his ratings for yesterday's 1-1 draw at home to Derby County.
Do you agree with his ratings? Have your say using the comment facility below.
Paul Wheelock's ratings:
Paul Robinson 7: A calming presence on his return to the side, there was absolutely nothing he could do to prevent Derby's equaliser.
Adam Henley 6: After Jamie Paterson one week earlier, Simon Dawkins provided another serious examination of the young full back.
Grant Hanley 7: Captain in the absence of the absent Scott Dann, the Scotsman did all he could to keep Derby at bay.
Matt Kilgallon 7: Impressive on his return to the side, proved there will be life after Dann if a Premier League club comes calling.
Tommy Spurr 7: Kept Jamie Ward quiet but was put on the back foot after Patrick Bamford and Conor Sammon were introduced.
Tom Cairney 7: Spread the play beautifully in the first half but tired towards the end of the match, leaving Henley exposed.
Chris Taylor 7: The industrious midfielder made some intelligent runs in the first half to get on the end of Cairney's passes.
Jason Lowe 6: Full of running, he and substitute Lee Williamson could not stop Rams replacement Will Hughes from dictating the game.
Ben Marshall 6: Set up Rudy Gestede from one free kick and fired over another before going off with a suspected ankle-ligament damage.
Rudy Gestede 8: The £200,000 bargain buy dominated the Derby defence in the air and was in the right place at the right time to score.
Jordan Rhodes 7: Once again showed he has more to his game than goals, for the second home match running he set up Gestede to head in.


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A HIGH-tech American-owned company has relocated its UK office to a former brickworks in north Hampshire.
Pittsburgh-based Aerotech now has an office on a small business park called The Old Brick Kiln, just off Monk Sherborne Road in Ramsdell.
The company manufactures and distributes precision motion control products in a wide range of fields, including military, aerospace, automotive, semi-conductor, laser and medical industries.
The UK team, headed up by managing director Dr Cliff Jolliffe, were previously based at Calleva Park in Aldermaston.
Dr Jolliffe marked the move with a celebration event as around 40 customers, suppliers and neighbours were invited to a Champagne reception on Tuesday.
Among those attending was Mark Botos, president and chief executive officer of the family-owned business, who spoke of the importance of customer service and support.
"Service is a big deal for us as one of our aims is to be a world-class business," he said. "If we can make our customers successful, in turn that will come back to us."
The remarks were not lost on the 13 people employed in Ramsdell, who provide sales and customer support, not only here in the UK, but across western Europe too.
Pleased with the new location, Mr Botos was full of praise for |Dr Jolliffe and his colleagues.
"We've been in the UK for 33 years as of March this year, and we are very proud of that," he said.
Dr Jolliffe said he was delighted with the new facility, which has been fitted out to Aerotech's specifications.
He added that the new 5,000sq ft site is an improvement for staff, in addition to the added bonus of being in Hampshire where, having left West Berkshire, the business rates are lower.
He said: "We pride ourselves as being one of the highest performance motion control companies in the world. We have a lot of customers who use laser processing and we have some unique features of our equipment that allows us to move very precisely."


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Right-wing hit man James O'Keefe has deceptively attacked NPR, Planned Parenthood, ACORN, and more. Now he and his accomplices seem to have violated the law.
His fate is now in the hands of New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney and U.S. Attorney John Kacavas. Call on them to thoroughly investigate O'Keefe and his accomplices.
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Attorney General Delaney and U.S. Attorney Kacavas:
According to news reports, James O'Keefe sent undercover operatives to commit fraud in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. They went to polling stations, falsely presented themselves, and requested ballots under the names of recently deceased voters — an apparent violation of state and federal law.
O'Keefe badly wants to convince Americans that voter fraud — an extremely rare phenomenon — is a pressing threat to our democracy. So badly, in fact, that he reportedly sent his own agents out to commit fraud. The reason is simple — he wants fewer Americans to vote.
Fortunately we already have state and federal laws that prevent and punish voter fraud while allowing eligible Americans to cast their ballots. We call on you to enforce these laws and thoroughly investigate the actions of James O'Keefe and his operatives.


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Alum to Coach Final Game for the Lions against Barry on Saturday
SAINT LEO, Fla. – "The Lord will place upon your heart when it's time to go, and I now know that time has come for me."
Just as she did when stepping off the court for the final time as a Saint Leo player in 1998, Chanita Olds feels that she has given everything she can to her alma mater as she has announced that she will resign her position as women's basketball coach at the end of the 2010-11 season. The announcement came on Thursday night after Olds met with her team following practice in preparation for their Senior Day contest with Barry.
"I walk out this door, and this part of my life, just like I walked out as a player in 1998," Olds said. "I am forever grateful for what Saint Leo has given me and it really saddens me to leave. I feel like I've done so much trying to bring this program from what it was when I took over in 2005 to where it is now. I am proud that I did something many said couldn't be done when I decided to come to Saint Leo and I am thankful to (Saint Leo University President) Dr. Kirk, (Director of Athletics) Fran Reidy and those in the Athletic Department who believed in me."
After graduating from then-Saint Leo College in 1998, Olds walked back into the Marion Bowman Activities Center on August 1, 2005 where she was greeted with a dismal program that had lost its identity, along with 68 games in the three previous seasons. She spent countless hours rebuilding Saint Leo Women's Basketball from its foundation, finishing with over 60 wins during her time in the head chair.
While this season may not have panned out as many had hoped, the Lions will look to claim their fourth-straight double-digit win season as they are currently 9-17. With one game remaining at Saint Leo, Olds currently holds a 61-103 overall record.
"While the overall record may not reflect it, Coach Olds has left the program in a better position than when she took over," Athletic Director Fran Reidy said after learning of Olds' desired departure. "She matched the record for conference wins in a season three times during her six seasons. She brought a passion for Saint Leo and her job to work every day."
Facing the daunting task of taking the reins of a program that won two games in its previous two seasons, Olds was undaunted, taking the job solely on faith because of her love for the place she called home during her playing career. Starting her SLU coaching career with nine and six-win years in 2005-06 and 2006-07, Olds has broken into double-digits wins every year since, with a win over Barry on Saturday, she will become the only coach to mark four consecutive 10-plus win seasons.
"My wins, both on and off the court, outweigh my losses when you look at the big picture of what I have tried to accomplish here," Olds continued. "The hard work has been done, the foundation laid; now it's time for me to pass the baton and to move on."
"Chanita brought alumni back into the fold, improved the academic performance of the team, and raised the overall profile of the program after inheriting a team which had gone 2-53 before she arrived," Reidy said, reinforcing the transformation Olds has sparked.
Not done with coaching, the Graceville, Fla. native will rely on her faith and past experiences to help guide her to her next career stop.
Olds continued, "I have a passion for this game like no other, and coaching continues to bring me joy and peace, through the good times and the bad. It's my duty to pay it forward; taking what this place has taught me into another program. Even though I'm leaving I will always bleed Green and Gold. I will continue to visit my alma mater, support all of our teams and hold my head high as a proud alum."
Saying farewell to one of their own, Saint Leo will now begin the search for the 11th women's basketball coach in the program's 35-year history.
"We will have Alden and Associates lead the search for our new women's coach, just like we have for our men's search," Reidy said, referring to the dual openings in both basketball programs at Saint Leo, both announced this week. "We hope to begin interviews by mid-March and have a coach in place by early April."
Olds will guide the Lions one last time as their head coach on Saturday afternoon when Saint Leo plays their final game of the season on Senior Day at home against Barry University.
Olds added one final piece about her soon-to-be former program, "The future is very positive for what Saint Leo women's basketball will become."


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No change! I fear change!
Triplets! I love triplets!
GC's lovely 1-2-quad based tier system. It's clearly the best!
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I like the invisible woman the best
Just adminned a few more bits, just the following missing now -
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@ Admins - PLEASE check the fixtures when starting the season, use the (awful - damn cyanide UI) seeding mechanism to ensure the ingame fixtures match the spreadsheet fixtures.
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Chrom - PerpetuumWhen asked, he merely responded with a wry bleat followed by a swift kick to the testicles.- Rakysh
All divisions apart from E and F have started! E and F are missing JRYAN and JAMESCOOMBS still. If we don't see them shortly we may need to reshuffle a bit, so if you are in either of those divisions, keep your eyes peeled!
The rest of you, get organising your games. You have until the 5th of January to complete the first game! I've checked the fixtures and sorted them where I can, but i recommend a quick check before you play your first game, the UI stopped showing me the changes I was making after the 2nd division, because Cyanide.Steam, PSN, Xbox Live: Groovychainsaw. Speak 'RPS' and enter.
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sorry it took so long. Been a bit under the weather recently. I finished updating the spread sheet if I am missing anything please let me know.
OMFG - that was carnage.
I have never been so royally fucked by the dice. It started on Tom's first turn when his first block KILLed one of my Stormvermin (Apo-ed to Smashed Hip, i.e. 1-MV) and rapidly went downhill from there. Tom played well, and even took pity on my team in the dying turns when I was unable to field even half a team. Final 2 turns consisted of my Sure Hands Thrower failing to pickup the ball in the open field.
4-0 to Tom, 4 of my players are MNG with 2 of them permanently injured.
Cheers for the game Tom, hopefully my rats will recover some pride over the remaining matches...Admin for the RPS Divisions of Death
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Chrom - PerpetuumWhen asked, he merely responded with a wry bleat followed by a swift kick to the testicles.- Rakysh
Seaside Sirens vs Jolima's Beyond The Pale
The Vampires elect to kick, and it's all going downhills from there, with the Sirens being 20k short of hiring Zara, and instead bringing in a Wizard and a Bribe.
Liberally using their feminine wiles, the Sirens (attempt to) foul a Vampire or a thrall a turn, although their blocks are the ones which send a thrall or a vampire a turn to the doctor, while the Vampires fail at both trying to knock the Amazons down and hypnotizing them. Distracted by the Sirens, there is also an unexpectedly high amount of spirited self-inflicted casualty, as the confused Vampires failed several crucial dodges.
The Amazons wait - rather unchallenged - until the very last second of the first half-time to go up the score to 1-0, while Beyond The Pale ended the half with 2 Casualties and 7 KOs - all but three of which jumped back to action in the second half. Unfortunatley for the Pale, the three players remaining KOed until the end of the game where the only three players with Tackle.
This showed in the second half, which amusingly enough began with a Quicksnap - which the visibly shocked and scared Pales used to bring every single of their players out of the bloodthirsty Amazons' reach. Nevertheless, the Sirens successfully knock down the ball-carrying Vampire after a crucial failed dodge during the first few turns. At first, the girls appear unable to keep up their record skull-breaking, but soon find their game again. The Vampires attempt a few desperate moves, even knocking free the ball for a single turn, but this was quickly recaptured.
The game ended with the bored Wizard sending a half-hearted lightning bolt to a marking Vampire (one of the five players still left on the field), which at least knocked him down, and the Sirens walking in an unchallenged 2-0 in their first game of the Champions' League.
Thanks to Jolima, who had 25% of all rolls being 1s, and both of us having an unexpected lack of PoWs - with his tackle players taken out early, there was not much he could do against my Sirens.
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I found JamesCoombs on Steam. He told me he won't be able to play this season because of work.
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If they arent going to play, Im more than happy to jump in for them.
I'm sorry folks. The holidays are upon me and I have even more sporadic free time than I did when I barely finished one game in Division F. Gaming for the next few weeks will be spur of the moment deals where I find an hour hear and their. This is not conducive to arranging a matches, especially with folks across the pond.
Alistair Hutton's Altdorf Army (tough as nails human mans) vs President Weasel's Red Skull Reavers (chaos mans with a mean disposition)
Al noticed on setup that he had 12 mans in the pitch and asked if I wanted to restart. I said no, bring it on!
Secretly I knew some things about his team - specifically that Hob was carrying a niggling injury and would therefore break easily. I also knew I had a minotaur, and figured if I added those two facts together I had a good chance of subtracting a player from Al's team and evening the numbers.
This plan worked almost perfectly - the mino hit Hob with a three dice and gave him a severe case of the deads. Al's apoc leapt into action and "cured" him, in typical apoc style, to "still dead".
This would have evened the teams up nicely, if one of Al's human mans hadn't found a chink in one of my chaos warriors' ridiculously armoury armour. Turn 1 and we were both down a man.
Al's team scored a nicely worked touchdown, switching the play from one side of the other after I had overcommitted and dodging a catcher round my mans and over the touchline. Would have been a bit harder for him if I hadnt failed a wild animal roll on turn 3 and a go for it on turn 4, but I can't begrudge him the score.
I set off to equalise! This did not go well.
His ogre unsportingly refused to die when hit by my minotaur. Boo! My drive stalled and then a 2 dice hit knocked the ball from my ball carrier's hand and gave him a mng into the bargain. Hutton got the ball, and a handoff and dodge took him out of range of my despairing chaos mans. My first move of the next turn gave me a both down on a man without block, and with no reroll it was a very short turn indeed. AL scored to make it 2-0, and with two turns to go did an impressive job of tying up my mans and making my elfball scoring attempt almost impossible. 2-0 is how the half ended.
In the second half I brushed aside Al's defence (actually, brush sounds a tad delicate for what I should probably have described as MINOTAUR SMASH) and headed up the right of the pitch for a touchdown, but it wasn't enough to get the scores level. Despite the occasional SMASH my minotaur was proving troublingly unreliable; I may actually sack him soon. He continued his unreliable streak by failing a wild animal when I told him to go blitz his way into Al's cage, and soon once again mr Hutton's human mans were merrily gambolling around my half with the ball.
A particularly unlucky one-dice reroll (from both down when he needed push, stumble, or pow rerolled to skull) ended Al's turn as soon as it began, and I managed to knock the ball from his hands. I couldn't pick up though (and my mino did not help things by failing Wild Animal for his third successive turn.
The following turn the mino did actually succeed in his wild animal roll - then promptly failed a go for it, ending my turn with the ball still on the ground and none of my mans in scoring distance. Game to Al Hutton - and a deserved victory, too. There's no way I needed to risk the ball carrier like that in the first half, and I handed him the ball and the game.
That mino is going to get made into cow pies unless he gets a decent skill-up - STR or a double, or you're for the chop, Roy of the Reavers.
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NO, NO HE DIDN'T the game ignored the fact that I didn't want to use Hail Mary Pass and flung the ball randomly around the pitch instead.
This is true - I had already ended my writeup before this happened, because Alistair had the game sewn up as soon as my minotaur fell over in turn 15 with my planned touchdown chaos man still to move and thus out of any possible scoring range for the last turn.
However I can confirmt he game used his hail mary pass when there was really no reason to do so, and I believed him when he said it would have been an accurate one otherwise - and given the luck I had been having up until then, I believe the ogre would have caught the ball for a touchdown.
I think hail mary pass always being used is a known bug, doubleclicking on the throwers skill list while in a match and manually set it to don't use might fix it.
Twisted Claw (Necromantic, Axler) vs Dread pool (Dark Elves, me) - the rematch!
Having had the exact same match up last season, I was wary of Axler's undead but determined to not to let my usual phobia of them undermine my tactics. My new plan: Hit them first. This plan worked surprisingly well, since there was very little Block or Dodge and mainly ST 3 on both teams. Unfortunately Axler soon discovered my team's weakness - being hit in return - and of course, the elves vanish from the pitch faster than the undead.
Receiving on the first drive, I pushed up the right flank for a couple of turns before wheeling over to the left with half my squad while tying up as many of Axler's players in the wrong part of the pitch as I could. Foolishly I went for a blitz with my ball carrier which backfired, landing the ball in no-man's land on the left LoS.
Axler came in to pick up the ball, shoving my team out of the way and securing a comfortable cage around the ball's square. In came his MA 8 ghoul who easily picked up the ball, but then failed the dodge back to safety!
On the rebound my runner grabbed the ball and moved a short way out of trouble, with my other players providing an obstacle while my AG 5 runner held back for the Dump-Off. As predicted, Axler lined up a blitz from a free zombie and provoked my Dump-Off. I took it, only to fumble the ball and have it bounce around until one of my linemen caught it. Then the zombie who was blitzing failed his GFI and fell over, injuring himself. What a farce!
My new carrier broke from the pack and pushed up the field. My remaining team tried to mark the opposition to prevent a blitz. A werewolf was just in blitzing range however with 2 GFIs and he made it, knocking my lineman senseless and droping the ball on the left edge of the pitch.
I responded with a blitz of my own, KOing the wolf. My blitzer covered the ball while my AG 5 runner came up behind to scoop up the ball - no, wait - reroll - SCOOP up - no, wait. Arse. No don't go off the pitch! Aarrgh.
The throw-in placed the ball in a square adjacent to Axler's MA 8 ghoul, who promptly picked it up and stormed down the pitch. There was little my team could do without pulling some dangerous dodges to catch up to him. Those dodges all failed. The ghoul scored to finish up the extremely tense first half 1-0.
The second half was awful though. I was outnumbered against a hitty team and had to equalize. I made desperate ploy when the kick off yielded me a Blitz and moved most of my guys into the opposition half, looking to intercept the ghoul who would scoop up the ball while still close to his own end zone. It might have worked to, if my AG 5 runner didn't fail a 2+ dodge on a 1. Again.
The latter part of the second half consisted of Axler's ghoul next to my end zone while my team was divided and flat on their backs. Axler wanted to stall and maim, I didn't really want to give him that chance. So I skipped the rest of my turns and so he skipped the rest of his (aside from his last one, of course).
Final Score: 2-0
I set up to receive the final kick to give myself a quick pass for 1 SPP.... which my AG 5 runner failed to catch. Well done lad!
It was a very cowardly move, I know. But what modest offence I could have mounted would not have equalised the scores, and my team was still trying to recover manpower from the last time they fought Axler. Today I escaped with only one of my blitzers taking a niggling injury which occurred too early in the match to contemplate spending my only apothecary roll on. Axler only had that self-inflicted zombie injury, which was nothing permanent.
Axler, you're a very tough opponent, well played sir.
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Both jryan and jamescoombs have let me know theyre not available. And we have 2 newbies waiting in the wings! If both can apply to E (for simplicity!) and an admin can approve them ASAP (am AFK at the moment...), everyone will be playing!Steam, PSN, Xbox Live: Groovychainsaw. Speak 'RPS' and enter.
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Park [1] is a new dialect of Lisp, based on Paul Graham's Arc effort. Park is in fact a malicious and incompatible fork of Arc. A fork not of the code, which is still not available to the public, but of the concept and motivation.
The origin of the name is with an initial implementation for Arc that I wanted to write for Parrot, called PArc or Parc. However, then I realised I disagree with Graham about some of his language design elements. A few days ago I came with a revelation that it was hopeless waiting for Mr. Graham to actually release either a final spec to the public of Arc or a actual working code. Arc was announced at the LL1 conference at November 2001. It's been almost 5 years from now, and there's still not a working code or a coherent spec. Furthermore, Graham stopped adding the ideas people sent him to the emails collection containing them (including one that I sent a few years ago, which I know he is aware of because he responded to my message).
Thus enter Park. The name stems from "Parc" but is actually an English world. One can say that Park is a LISP that starts with "P", or that working with it is like a stroll in the Park. Park has the design goals of Arc but:
Is different and incompatible.
Has a working (albeit so far informal) spec.
Encourages participation from the community (using such web resources as a Subversion repository, a Wiki, etc.)
Encourages people to create and hack on implementations for it.
Would try to get version 0.2.0 of the SPEC (the first stable version of the language) out of the door as soon as possible, so people can create implementations that they can rely on.
One note about myself. My name is Shlomi Fish and I'm a software enthusiast and a writer. I am not the ideal person to design Park, but I believe and hope that I have the right attitude. If you happen to know better about some things, please post your corrections to the mailing lists to the mailing list. Corrections in the form of patches against the Docbook/XML source are preferable. Several of them or even just one that is accepted will get you a Subversion commit access. And naturally everyone can edit the wiki.
All language designers are arrogant. Comes with the territory.
|--Larry Wall
Why am I doing it? For several reasons:
Because it's fun. This is by itself a good reason.
Because I found that designing your own language is one of the best ways to learn more about the original languages it is based on. When I designed the Perl dialect "Rindolf", I learned that some features I suggested for it were already doable in Perl 5.
Because something good may eventually come out of it. The existing popular dialects of LISP are Common LISP, Scheme (which some people claim is not entirely Lispy) and some domain-specific Lisp dialects like Emacs Lisp and Autolisp, which are not useful for general programming.
The Common Lisp and Scheme standards still exhibit some relics of the Lisp distant past, where it was expected to run on such now obscure systems as the PDP-10 and ITS or the LISP Machine. They do not correspond to the modern's world "All the world is a VAX" and "Everything on top is a UNIX" reality. (Which has persisted for better or for worse).
The implementations themselves do little to solve this problem, as they differ in the APIs they provide for such basic mechanisms that programmers of other dynamic languages (like Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby or Tcl) take for granted like Random File I/O, Sockets, Regular Expressions, CGI Programming and Web Automation, Graphical User-interface, Database Connectivity etc.
Paul Graham explains it very well in the Arc FAQ, and in "Being Popular". Park is Arc done faster, and hopefully also better.
[1] The "Park - Park is, is not, is too, is not Arc" slogan is temporary. The permanent slogan so far seems like it would be "Park - a LISP that starts with P".