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I had my eyes dialted today and only one is still somewhat dialated. is this normal?
Several factors go into determining how long pupils remain dilated following an eye exam. The two main factors are the type of dilating drop(s) used, and how much of the dilating drop(s) got into the eye.
Several different types of drops are used for pupil dilation during eye exams. Some drops cause a dilation that lasts approximately 5 hours, others that lasts approximately 24 hours, and some that can last up to a week. It is not uncommon for a slightly larger dose of drops to get into one eye compared to the other, causing the dilation to last longer in the eye that received the higher amount of the drop (may be several hours longer, especially when longer-acting drops were used).
In most situations you will need to just "wait it out" until the pupils both return to normal size. However, if the dilated eye is also red or painful, then you should contact your eye doctor right away to report the finding.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Optometry
College of Optometry
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Money Money Money
So I hit level 40 at the weekend and found that the 2nd tier training manual is priced at 1g.
At the time, I had about 30-40s and while I try to save money, I do have to buy replacement gear as I level and general travelling tends to eat into my finances.
Now I'm at level 42 and I have about 70s to my name, so it's not a huge problem and I'll get my first gold soon. However it did make me wonder if there was something I was doing wrong, or maybe the lack of a trading post for most of my levelling had an effect.
I'm just curious how others have found their income working out for them, particularly what they can afford at the key levels like 10, 40, 60 and how much they had at 80.
Please share (your stories, not wallets)!
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For me, the lack of Trading Post had the effect that I actually had that 1g on level 40, because I was unable to buy more crafting supplies on the market ;-)
As for your questions, I found that the gear enemies drop is usually good enough, so I never buy anything on the TP / at the merchants.
I haven't run into any big troubles with money yet, although I have spent a good deal of money on gems (2400 gems in total, bought at low points of the "stock" curve). Most of that money came from area completions plus the corresponding renown heart quests which amount to quite a bit in higher level areas. I think so far I have sold two items on the Trading Post, a bunch of copper ore pieces (~125 I think it was) and a rare plant-like Greatsword, so I didn't get too much money out of that until now (I assume this will change rather soon when the TP is working reliably and I can sell the rest of my unneeded stuff there).
I also spend very little on armor or weapons and go with what drops and the odd deal at a karma merchant give me. Constant drains of copper and silver are repair costs (not too much, although it adds up), salvage kits (I salvage a lot of gear, stuff below 20-30 copper in value), and of course travel costs. I do however constantly use the shortcut through the Mists when I go to Lion's Arch and also try to find good compromises between costs and mileage when traveling larger distances. For example, I sometimes travel to the waypoint that is nearest to the area I want to get to instead of choosing the first waypoint in that are itself.
Another example would be the route LA -> Divinity's Reach -> Ebonhawke, which is a nice hub for exploring the Charr areas.Sounds Hawaiian, doesn't it?
I made good money selling jute and T1 fines on the TP and I figure if you stockpile certain mats right now you'd make a profit later. You could also consider buying cheap dye for <1s per piece and hoping to transform into a more valuable dye.
I heard mystic coins and locked lion chests sell well too.Play ArmA with us. (Competence not required.)
It's okay to not like things.
You buy replacement gear as you travel? I very occasionally spend karma on gear from the hearts, and that's it. When I bought the manual I had a little over 2g, and that's without ever selling anything on the AH. I sometimes sell blue gear to a merchant instead of salvaging it.
I am sitting at just over 2G, level 37. - Never used the Trading Post at all (like I could have, yeah...). - Never bought anything from a vendor for gold, only karma equipment updates. - Recycle everything that has cloth / leather materials, otherwise, sell it to a merchant. - Never use the waypoints (this one sucks balls). Repair equipment sparingly. So that's all the money I've earned on my character, except for the first skill book and a few silvers on repairs. I HATE waypoint travel costs, it actually impacts in a negative way my gameplay. I'd not care much for gold, but I really want to buy 3 additional character slots so I can play 1 of each profession, and there's no way in hell I'm forking about as much as full game price for the required gems.
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On a related topic, can anyone explain what the deal with the Gold-->Gems exchange rate is? I read on the RPS review that this rate is not fixed but actually dynamic.
Does this means that when people earn more money, gems are more expensive (which basically means that gems will only get more expensive the longer the game exists), of is the price actually fluctuating?
Like Zanchito, i would at least unlock the 3 additional character slots (and maybe 1 extra bank tab so i can save some decent gear for them), and at the moment i can buy 2 slots if i swap all my gold for gems now. On the other hand i could use that gold to get the training manual when i hit 40 and 60. I figure that when i reach those levels i will make more money than i do now. Choices choices.
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I've been salvaging almost everything for the first 10-15 levels before I realized it's not the way to go. Now I mostly vendor everything but some white/blue light/medium armor pieces that yield decent cloth/leather for selling (if only the TP was working...).
As for gear, I've been making weapons for myself and jewelry, but the rest of the items are from drops and rarely from karma (if there's a skin I like or a huge upgrade). All of the crafted items have been at the TP for vendor price +1c so to the vendor they went unless someone wanted them in /g.
Cut down travel costs by going through the Mists -> LA -> Asura gates as opposed to just double clicking that waypoint. The portal to Ebonhawke from DR is very handy for traveling to that eastern side for example. After going through the gates I take the waypoint to get me where I want to go though, so don't really be on the cheap side and not use them at all. After all, if you are walking you are wasting your time, which should be worth more than some virtual currency.
This strategy has netted me a comfy amount of money, I am 46ish now with around 3g after buying the second trait book.
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I've been crafting all of my own gear so far and have pretty much only spent coins on salvage kits, gathering tools and a few teleports. I have also stopped salvaging metal and wood items (those resources can be gathered easily in large quantities) and sell them to npc merchants instead. Finally I have found that salvaging high level magical gear gives no better returns than base gear so I've been selling the ones I don't use off too.
Interesting, thanks.
To clarify: I'm not buying up-to-ate gear at every armor/weaponsmith I meet but, either it's my profession (ele) or just lousy luck, because some of the items I'm wearing are 10-15 levels old because I get very few drops that are relevant. So I buy the odd item costing 1-3s if it replaces something horribly out of date.
I'll use karma vendors if they're there but I have a full karma set I'd rather transmute than buy another (and have in fact been doing this spare transmutation stones since level 15 or so). Vain of me yes, but the stones were already free. The karma will come in useful later.
I think salvaging too much might be where I went wrong, as I did that exclusively up until the early 30s. I should TP/vendor a bunch of materials I'm not using from my bank.
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Right now I'm sitting at 77s (level 53). However, when I turned 40 I had enough for the trait book and a respec of traits. Since then I spent about 2 gold on the lv 35 cultural armour for the Charr, because all leather was looking the same up till that level and I was bored of it. I regret that decision, because as soon as I bought it, the TP worked for me and I replaced the whole lot with (imo) better looking and better stated gear for a couple of silver. Since then I've spent a fair bit on repairs. Most of the money Ive gotten so far comes from WvW. You net tons of cash by doing events in a decent zerg, and the amount of loot you get from WvW is quite good, it can easily be resold/salvaged/mystic forged depending on your needs.
That said though, I've spent perhaps the last 20 levels pretty much solely in WvW, so I'm not sure if the rate I get money is fast or slow or somewhere in between. However, I am sitting on around 18k karma atm, having used 9800 on a cultural weapon at 40, and about 5k on random other stuff since I started the game. So in my experience, WvW is where the riches are.
Screwie: I was salvaging too much too until level 28 or so, then someone here recommended not to, and the money has been coming in a bit faster, although it's still not that great (for gem purposes anyway, for in-game stuff it's okay).
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Oh, I could sell my locked chests, I really really don't care for the +random PVE buffs and turn yourself into a Moa for 5 minutes crap they drop. Ty!
My 38 warrior has around 6g and my 34 mesmer has 3g. Around 2g of those come from selling chests, dyes and spare crafting materials on the TP. I think levelling two characters in parallel has made it much easier to keep spending down as I've had plenty of materials to skill up my crafting (armoursmith, weaponsmith, jeweller, cooking) in pace with my levelling and I haven't had to spend money on materials for the first three (beyond cheap lumps of tin), though cooking has been my biggest gold/karma sink so far. Armour and weaponsmithing especially seem to give a good surplus of money even when you vendor most things you make.
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I'm still very low level for my main (24) but only have about 30 silver. Having said that, I think I should have more but have a lot less, for three main reasons:
- I suck at PVP and keep getting decimated and most of my cash goes on armour repairs.
- I'm a lazy sumbitch and teleport everywhere to save time.
- As some of you will be aware because I exploded over the guild chat the other night, I accidentally blew 25s on a cow race. Really.
So yeah, that's me!
I don't normally grind either but I've found one lucrative spot in the humie lands. I camp out in the area of the centaur invasion in Queensland and I make about 5-10 silver per assault. I just sell all the blues, greens and rubbish I get. It's made me quite of cash recently.
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It's in the lands north of the Charr start area, I think. The one with the cattlepult (spelling intentional!). If you know where I mean There's a bunch of cows and you have to impersonate a cow and then- no look I'm being serious, stop!!
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Don't tell me, I spent 1g on guessing where a cow would land when being shot from the catapult. The first 50s was a mistake. The second one was because I wanted my 50s back. There will never be a third time
Got about 6g in total right now. I salvage whites and exotics (if they have a good rune). Vendor trash the rest!
Don't bother buying new gear unless it's from karma merchants or other players and therefore actually rare.
Enemies will drop stuff all the time that matches your level. Sometimes even the very first thing you kill after leveling up will drop a new weapon for your level.Virtual Pilot 3D NEVER NOT SCAM!

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St. Eia
St. Ives
Dear Sir,
I am in receipt of your letter and am very sorry you and your party did not get time to see all the pictures on Saturday.
I will bear in mind what you say for another year and try to arrange the show from 2 to 5.
I don't quite appreciate your use of the word "vexed", I suppose you mean disappointed.
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Photo Romania Festival
I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who worked so hard to make my experience at Photo Romania so memorable. I know that making a festival run smoothly is no small task and you all accomplished it with agility and grace. With every little detail taken care of, I was able to thoroughly enjoy the event, meet a whole new group of friends and bring back wonderful memories and photographs of not only Cluj-Napoca but also Bucharest, Brasov, and Sighisoara.
For now, here are a few of the images that I have posted via Instagram, I'm sure that I'll be using the rest of my images in future tips, tricks, and tutorials!
I really hope to see you at the festival again next year!


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If you have installed a patch or service pack for LiveCycle ES you may need to uninstall this at a later date, or you may have a requirement to document this process fully as part of your installation/configuration documentation.
This information is outlined in the readme file provided with each patch or service pack, and I will just expand on that giving some more detail here. In this example I will discuss uninstalling LiveCycle ES Update 1 SP4 (220.127.116.11), to go back to LiveCycle ES Update 1 SP3 (220.127.116.11) on Windows.
Before installing/uninstalling any patch you should take note of the current versions installed so you can verify your steps have been successful later. Take a screenshot of the About screen, and the Service Management screen from the AdminUI.
AdminUI > About screen (note the Patch version "SP4" and Service Pack version "8.1.5192.1.284202.47", and the Patch level of each deployed component "SP4"):
AdminUI > Services > Applications and Services > Service Management screen (note the Component Versions "8.1.5192.1.284202.47", "8.1.5193.1.279333.70", etc…):
Before running through the uninstallation process it would advisable to make a backup of your existing configuration in case any unexpected problems should arise. To do this, you should make a copy of the entire LiveCycle installation directory (excluding the MySQL folder if it exists within the LiveCycle directory).
You should also take note of the following configuration properties from AdminUI > Settings > Core System Settings > Configurations:
- Location of temp directory
- Global document storage root directory (Changing this value will result in data loss unless you also manually move the data)
- Location of the Adobe Server Fonts directory
- Location of the System Fonts directory
If you have LiveCycle Content Services ES installed, you should also have the location of the Content Services root directory which you entered during the original installation/configuration process.
1. It is possible to leave your application server running for the moment, however you should stop your application server (JBoss, WebSphere, Weblogic) if possible.
2. Delete any files listed in <LiveCycle_HOME>\patch\SP4\backup_SP4\FilesAddedDuringServicePack_RemoveOrReplaceToRevert.txt from the <LiveCycle_HOME> directory. These are new/updated files which were added with this service pack/patch. To go back to a pre-SP4 state, we need to remove these files.
3. Copy all files under <LiveCycle_HOME>\patch\SP4\backup_SP4\ and paste them into their corresponding folder under the <LiveCycle_HOME> directory. This will overwrite the files which were updated by SP4 and restore them back to the SP3 state. This can include files in the configurationManager, deploy, LiveCycle_ES_SDK, and jboss folders.
4. Goto <LiveCycle_HOME>\licenses and edit each of the xxx.properties files. You will have a .properties file for each component installed, so you will need to perform the 2 steps below for each .properties file.
i). Delete the last PatchID section from the bottom of each file (in this case the entire SP4 section highlighted):
ii). Change the PatchVersion value at the top of the file to match the last PatchID now at the bottom (in this case SP3, as we just deleted SP4):
5. As we have now restored all the files in the <LiveCycle_HOME> directory, and have a backup of the SP4 configuration, we can now delete the EAR files in the <LiveCycle_HOME>\configurationManager\export directory.
6. Run Configuration Manager (LCM) and select the LC components you wish to configure.
7. Select the following tasks on the task selection dialog:
- Configure LiveCycle ES
- Deploy LiveCycle ES EARs (optional, you can also deploy the EARs manually once they are configured in the export folder, before initializing the DB)
- Initialize LiveCycle ES database
- Deploy LiveCycle ES components
- Validate LiveCycle ES component deployment
8. Follow all the dialogs and check the values of the local folders which you noted in the preparation tasks.
9. Once LCM has successfully completed deploying the EARs and components, you should check the version numbers again in the AdminUI to ensure they now show the original version numbers (in this case SP3).
AdminUI > About screen:
AdminUI > Services > Applications and Services > Service Management screen:
Note: if you see NoSuchMethodErrors in the server log, this would indicate that the DSC components do not match the version of the EARs deployed (e.g. the components are still SP4, whereas the EARs are SP3 or vice versa). Ensure you have successfully completed the EAR and component deployment, and you may need to restart your application server and perhaps even clean the application server temp folders to resolve such exceptions that appear in the server log.
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HUNDREDS of families got close to nature when Elmstead Market's Beth Chatto Gardens hosted a two-day wildlife fair.
Activities ranged from puzzle trails around the gardens to making dream catchers using woodland materials.
The Colchester Natural History Society set up a moth trap overnight and then showed visitors what they had caught. A presentation also taught people about the work of rangers in Essex and Suffolk.
Colchester beekeepers provided the opportunity to observe bees in their hive and Suffolk Owl Sanctuary introduced visitors to their birds.
Andrea Malby, Friends of the Garden administrator, said: "It has been gone really well and we have been really busy. We had about 400 visitors each day."


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CES 2013 LTE Throughput Face-Off - AT&T versus Verizon Wirelessby Brian Klug on 1/13/2013 3:34 AM EST
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djsvetljo - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkI have always thought that LTE will bring at least better latency. Comparing to T-Mobile HSPA+ network, I don't see any advantage besides peek downstream (I've seen T-Mobile getting 35 and it does average above 10 in urban areas, latency 150-250). Latency is the biggest factor of slowing you down on a mobile phone specially when browsing.
Can anyone eloborate ? How about power consumption LTE phone vs HSPA+/UMTS ? Reply
A5 - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkSub-200ms latency on a mobile device at one of the world's busiest tradeshows isn't that bad. Reply
djsvetljo - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkI am not saying its bad, but it does not look like a big upgrade. Defenetly not worth the premium price they ask. Reply
A5 - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkWell, I also completely disagree with your premise that latency is more important than bandwidth/CPU in mobile right now. I spend way more time waiting for the page to load after the connection to the site is made than I do waiting for the load to start.
My original point was that comparing the latency of LTE at CES (pretty much the worst-case scenario) with best-cast HSPA latency is a bit silly. Reply
djsvetljo - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkWhy do you think that it is the worst case scenario? The antennas are as close as you can get + I am sure it was optimized to handle higher traffic. Reply
CZroe - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkWhen the signal travels the speed of light, distances would need to be a lot farther for that to be a factor! It's not like wired pulses travel faster than wireless. ;)
In fact, if it went farther there could be less hops and, thus, lower latency.
Congestion and number of hops contribute to latency. It's "worst case" because of these factors. Reply
A5 - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkBecause of the way wireless networks have to schedule access, it means that latency will go up as the number of users increase.
In past years, the network at the LVCC has been completely unusable due to congestion. Reply
Alexvrb - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkPersonally, as a gamer, I'm always interested in low latencies. We're getting to the point where online gaming on the go is quite viable. Better still is if the game isn't exclusively for phones, but rather the smartphone version is an extension of a PC/console game that can be played using the same account, while you're away from your PC. Reply
A5 - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkBattery life isn't nearly good enough to worry about that yet, at least on any game that I would actually want to play. Reply
name99 - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - link"I have always thought that LTE will bring at least better latency."
That's because you get your understanding of cell technology from idiots.
What is the difference between LTE and HSPA?
One uses OFDM and the other uses WCDMA to modulate the signal onto a carrier.
That is the ONLY essential difference. Everything else can be (and is) used by both technologies. 16QAM or 64 QAM. Both can use. Better FEC, or fancier HARQ. Both can use. Various MIMO or frequency combining techniques? Both can use.
And specific to this: routing of how packets get from the radio-head to the internet proper can use exactly the same techniques (eg RRH, ePC).
The difference between OFDM and WCDMA is that WCDMA is about 84% as peak efficient as LTE, and it's harder to hit peak efficiency with WCDMA because you need a fancier and fancier equalizer, whereas you can exploit the match between OFDM technology and the way physics degrades a signal to much more easily tailor an optimal signal to the path between the mobile and the tower.
THAT's what all the arguing is about: 84% and better eq's !
In future, when you read grand pronouncements about cellular (or any other technology, eg ARM vs Intel or, coming up soon, DDR3 vs DDR4) consider whether the poster gives any indication that he has a clue what he is talking about, rather than simply repeating an emotional position. Reply
djsvetljo - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkThank you for your reply. With that said, Verizon's upgrade to LTE (from EVDO) is trully justified , but I can not say the same for ATT. Is T-Mobile deploying LTE or LTEBAdvanced this year? Reply
name99 - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkIt is not reasonable to say that ATT's upgrade was unjustified.
At the business level, you have no idea of the costs involved, and the value of that extra 16% performance boost.
At the tech level, LTE is the future. Sticking with HSPA+ saves money today, but it's just going to keep you locked in an obsolete path. It won't hurt immediately, but over time you'll lag more and more as the chip vendors put their A-team on improving their LTE capabilities, while it is the B-team that maintain the HSPA+ cells and give them minor tweaks.
T-Mobile is desperate, we all know that. They delayed their LTE deployment because they don't have the cash flow, not on sound business/technical grounds.
For the poor part of the rest of the world, the situation is more nuanced. LTE requires more expensive chips which use more power (so needs more expensive batteries), it requires better RF engineering, it requires more infrastructure in the base station, etc. There's a reason WCDMA was the implementation choice 12 years or so ago, even though everyone knew about OFDM and its advantages.
So if you're a poor country, it's probably a better tradeoff, for now, to implement HSPA, and allow your citizens to use cheap phones. In ten years or so LTE will be way cheaper, and you can upgrade, buying old equipment from the US which has moved on to LTE Advanced++. Reply
djsvetljo - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkWell, what i was thinking is that it is better to stick with 16% slower network for another 2-3 years and then upgrade to LTE Adv, instead of what they are doing now and upgrading to LTE Advanced in 6-7 years.
Of course, that is my opinion and I don't know anything about cost and profit, but from consumers point, paying premium for LTE does not make any sense today - the gain you get is not enough.
Any major upgrade in the past was bringing massive increase in speed - GPRS to EDGE - ~5-6 times, EDGE to WCDMA - almost 10 times and so on. Reply
Rick83 - Monday, January 14, 2013 - linkThere's also the advantage, that LTE is a true packet switch IP network, where UMTS and its derivates where mixed networks, with some components still being circuit switched.
This should also help with latency.
Real world latency should be around 30% of most UMTS derivates - which the numbers reflect. Getting below 300 ms in crowded spectrum with HSPA can be difficult. Reply
Zink - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkThere is something to be said about the timeliness of mobile reviews. The big sites put up reviews a few days after the hardware comes out which leaves little time for measuring actual data, while you guys go to the opposite extreme and haven't posted anything for two months after Jason posted a hands on article. Even three weeks often seems like a long wait. I complain not because I want to read the DNA review, but because I hope month long review periods don't become a permanent part of Anandtech. Any content that gets posted is awesome but I think much of the value of the reviews is lost every week it get pushed back. Reply
Taristin - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkHow much of this comparison can be linked to individual phone performance? (Meaning, you didn't compare an AT&T iPhone to a VZW iPhone, but to a different device entirely.) Are they actually comparable, or could the different chipsets in both lead to different performance outcomes? Reply
Brian Klug - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkSo both are actually the same modem inside - MDM9615, which is UE Category 3. There are of course differences in filters / PAs / passive losses, but on the whole these two handsets are a pretty close comparison. I'd get two iPhones or compare with a One X+ but I forgot my One X+ at home.
-Brian Reply
Taristin - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkOk! Didnt know the specifics, which is why I asked! Reply
T2k - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - link...here in NYC (my tests easily run up to 15/5 anywhere in the city, even during busy weekday hours.) Reply
Brian Klug - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkOf course, but there's a huge difference between NYC and CES... :)
-Brian Reply
vshah - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkI'm curious if you ran any t-mobile speedtests since LV is a refarmed area. Last time I was in orlando i was getting consistent 20 down / 3 up tests. Would be interesting to see if 42mbps hspa+ could keep up with LTE downstream in the real world. Reply
Lord 666 - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkBrian, Thank you for the speed tests. However, would be more interested in seeing VZW iPhone 5 vs AT&T iPhone 5.
During my last trip to LV in the fall, coverage was challenging with my four VZW devices. Signal strength appeared strong, but connectivity even sitting on the balcony of Cosmo had frequent drops. Speed is test, but usability and consistency is more important. Reply
Brian Klug - Sunday, January 13, 2013 - linkI completely agree, and coverage profiles in the hotel rooms themselves is often horrible I've noticed, partly because most of the base stations are very close to the ground and tilted very downward to get small cell densities. That and most of the DASes in the hotels focus primarily on the first couple of levels / conference center and nothing more.
-Brian Reply
nidz109 - Thursday, January 17, 2013 - linkThese numbers are not impressive at all, and they only solidify my belief that LTE is just not worth the high cost, at this time. I have a Nexus 4 on T-Mobile's $30 plan, and I've witnessed over 22Mb down on numerous occasions over towers in different locations. By the way, all of my speed tests are done in a suburb. I'm about 35 miles away from a major urban area. I'd say I average about 10-15Mb down in my general area, and I'm very happy with T-Mobile's network. I'm sure the latency on LTE is a bit better, but I cannot justify paying over $100 a month for 2GB of data on Verizon's network. Also, I'd have to be locked into a two year contract, if I wanted to go the Verizon route. No thanks. Reply
flyguy29 - Saturday, January 19, 2013 - linkI have service on Verizon for data and ATT for smartphone w/ data. In Vegas, voice is practically unusable in certain locations with AT&T. However, LtE were faster. I had less coverage issues with Verizon overall. Reply


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Tech news from around the web:
Yahoo, the struggling internet company, is on the verge of appointing a new chief executive, writes Kara Swisher of AllThingsD, with Scott Thomson, president of eBay's PayPal business, expected to get the nod. An announcement could come as early as Wednesday. Yahoo has been without a permanent CEO since firing Carol Bartz last September. The company has been run by its board and Tim Morse, its former chief financial officer, while looking at a range of strategic options including a sale of all or part of the company. Read more


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LOS ANGELES -- Yolanda Araujo stood at the front of a crowd of May Day marchers downtown Wednesday carrying a cardboard sign bearing the words "Resident Alien."
The words represented something more than the 1,000 other demonstrators gathered with her demanded - a chance for millions of undocumented immigrants to be able to identify themselves as legal residents, and eventually, as American citizens.
"We want legalization today, without discrimination," she said in Spanish as she walked along Broadway. "We are not criminals. We are people that are fighting for a better life."
Araujo's sign was a little different from the kind of placard typically carried by marchers. A square hole cut into the cardboard made the sign resemble an oversized ID card. She carried it, her face showing through the cutaway as if it were her own card.
Araujo was not alone Wednesday. She and the hundreds of other demonstrators marched on Southern California streets Wednesday to demand the president and Congress pass legislation that would allow the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants believed to be living in the United States apply for citizenship.
Los Angeles police estimated 1,200 had arrived for the May Day demonstration when the day's march began early Wednesday. Hundreds more assembled in downtown San Bernardino, about 60 miles to the east, to deliver the same message.
At another rally, in Brea, about two dozen people gathered to insist that politicians do just the opposite - refuse citizenship to those who entered the country illegally and strictly enforce immigration laws.
"We're here to stop the Obama administration, President Obama and the 'Gang of Eight' with proposals of amnesty, which is the same old rhetoric, again," said Raymond Herrera, founder of We The People California's Crusader, which organized the Brea event.
The Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Brea events took place amid widespread expectations that Congress will act this year on major immigration reform. The Gang of Eight, a group of Democratic and Republican senators that includes speculative GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio has introduced a bill that contains proposals known as the DREAM Act. The legislation would allow people who were brought into the country illegally before reaching the age of 16 to become naturalized citizens in five years if they have a high school diploma or GED.
More controversially, the Gang of Eight's bill also provides for other otherwise law-abiding undocumented immigrants to receive provisional legal status and eventually become citizens after waiting more than a decade and paying fines and back taxes.
On the enforcement side, the Senate bill would require employers to use E-Verify, an online system, to make sure job applicants are eligible to work in this country. The bill would also require the Department of Homeland Security to draft new border fencing and security strategies, among many other provisions.
But it was the prospect of a more generous immigration policy that motivated most of the people who took to the streets on Wednesday.
Listen, Obama!
"Obama, Escucha. Estamos en la lucha," demonstrators in San Bernardino shouted during their mid-afternoon march through the city's core.
In English, the San Bernardino marchers' cries translated to "Obama, listen. We are in the fight."
Those in San Bernardino included Jose Gutierrez, now 43, who was brought to the United States illegally more than three decades ago by his mother.
"I still kind of remember being put into the trunk of a car," said Gutierrez as he walked alongside his wife, Shena Gutierrez, and their two young children.
He grew up in Southern California, where he went through school and worked in the United States most of his life while not really knowing he was in the country illegally, he said.
"I didn't really know I was illegal," he said.
Gutierrez, who has been allowed to stay in the U.S. temporarily, has been deported once before, but his family worries he will be deported again.
In Los Angeles, many of those who gathered around Broadway waved American flags as they waited for the May Day events to begin. A smaller number of demonstrators held aloft the flags of Mexico and other Latin American nations.
One man, Efrain Iniguez of Wilmington, arrived at the march with a stuffed E.T. and a pair of toy aliens wearing T-shirts, one in English, the other in Spanish, with the message "I don't want to be an alien. I want to be legal."
Some of the Los Angeles marchers danced while others chanted "Si se puede" or other phrases when the march along Broadway began shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday.
LAPD Officer Michael Liebe said an estimated 1,200 people were on the scene in the early hours of the march.
There were no reports of the kind of chaos that broke out in May Day 2007 in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park when police clashed with demonstrators.
By 6 p.m., LAPD Sgt. Rudy Lopez said no arrests had been made.
"It's been a very calm, peaceful and very well organized event," he said, adding the crowd size was less than in past years.
A different outcome?
May Day, historically associated with the labor movement and celebrated as a workers' holiday outside the United States, has evolved into a day when immigrants and their allies gather for protest rallies to demand Congress grant citizenship to undocumented migrants.
This year marks the first time since 2007 when the policies known as "comprehensive immigration reform" have risen to the top of Washington's agenda. Although President George W. Bush supported immigration reforms in his second term, proposals that then also included a path to citizenship failed in the face of stiff opposition from more conservative elements of Bush's Republican Party.
Now, the marchers and their allies hope for a different outcome.
"Congress has changed their hearts of stone," said Gloria Godoy, a Guatemalan native and founder of the group Organizacion Atescatempa. "They have realized that we Latinos are people of honor, that we work hard, and that we contribute to the economy."
Godoy, 49, of Los Angeles, held an American flag close and said she became a citizen eight years ago.
"We were once foreigners and now we're here," she said. "This is our country. This is our flag. This is the country I defend."
On the other side of the issue, one concern is about the effect reforms would have on labor markets.
Numbers USA, a group that opposes any plans to allow undocumented immigrants to become legal, estimated current proposals would allow about 33 million people to immigrate to the United States in the first decade after the reforms would be enacted.
The group's president, Roy Beck, predicted that an influx of new immigrants nearly equal to the entire population of California would flood labor markets and depress wages.
"It's going to drive people in the lower-middle class (out.) They're going to leave the middle class," Beck said.
Any undocumented immigrants who gain citizenship through the proposals being considered will not escape poverty, Beck predicted.
Latino voters' increased clout is widely perceived as a key reason immigration has risen to the top of Washington's agenda. Republican 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney's weak support from Latino voters has many pundits and politicians predicting that conservative Republicans in Congress will soften their traditional opposition to any policies that would allow those who entered the United States illegally to become citizens.
Said marcher Juan Martinez: "We put Obama in office twice."
The upshot is that although Democrats are more likely than Republican to make immigration reform a priority, Democratic supporters of the current bill are counting upon their rivals' self-preservation instincts to get the Gang of Eight's bill, or something like it, to Obama's desk.
"I think more savvy political leaders get the idea that it would probably be beneficial for them to get on board with immigration reform," Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Cerritos, said in a recent interview.
Staff writers Susan Abram, Andrew Edwards, Sandra Emerson, Liset Marquez, Mariecar Mendoza, Neil Nisperos, Beatriz Valenzuela and Zen Vuong contributed to this report.


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OTTAWA -- A while back, a Facebook friend posted a graphic with a simple message.
The woman in the graphic wondered why, instead of teaching women how not to be sexually assaulted, colleges didn't teach male students not to sexually assault.
It was one of those things that makes you cock your head to the side and go "hmmm."
Then last week, hundreds of people -- mostly women -- from around the world gathered at the United Nations in New York City for an annual gathering of the Commission on the Status of Women. It always falls in the same week as International Women's Day.
Canada's message to the world at the event was pushing programs that involve men and boys in programs to combat violence against women.
Is this a novel idea? Are we really not getting the message about combating violence against women through to half the population?
There are many countries in this world where women are still considered the inferior sex. We have witnessed tragic evidence of this in the last six months alone. There was the shooting of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by the Taliban just because she thought girls should be allowed to get an education.
There was the gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh in India, which highlighted the brutal treatment of women in that country and the rampant violence they endure.
Just two years ago, a judge in Manitoba gave a more lenient sentence to a man convicted of raping a woman, explaining the victim had been clearly sending signals she wanted to have sex. Judge Robert Dewar was lambasted and hauled before the Canadian Judicial Council, which decided not to do anything, as Dewar had already apologized and taken sensitivity training. The sentence he gave the rapist was overturned on appeal. It is clear there is still a ways to go, even in our own backyard.
Some statistics on violence against women worldwide are simply hair-raising. According to the head of the UN's Commission on the Status of Women, 40 per cent of women will be raped, beaten, abused or mutilated in their lifetime. In some countries, the figure edges to upwards of 70 per cent. And one in three girls born in developing countries are destined to become child brides.
In developed nations such as Canada, between 40 and 70 per cent of female murder victims are killed by a partner or spouse. Young women and aboriginal women are the most vulnerable. In Canada, more than half the female victims of violence are between 15 and 34. Aboriginal women in Canada are three times as likely as non-aboriginal women to be victims of violence.
Last week, as she pitched Canada's theme of involving men and boys, Status of Women Minister Rona Ambrose said most programs to address violence against women are aimed at women. But that avenue has been nearly exhausted, and as men are usually the perpetrators of the violence, are half the population and in most countries are the majority of lawmakers, why not pull them into the mix?
"It's time to turn our attention," she said.
Canada pushed the idea a year ago but was met with some resistance, Ambrose said. This year, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has jumped on board.
Perhaps it is time to take the onus off women to protect themselves and become a bit more insistent that we educate and work with men and boys to drive the message home. Women and men will always have to take precautions to stay safe, but if we are only focusing on half the population with "no means no" and anti-violence campaigns, we are missing a huge piece of the puzzle, as Ambrose said.
Some people last week took to social media to complain about the existence of International Women's Day, implying or outright saying it is no longer needed.
But as long as there are places in the world where a girl cannot safely go to school, where a young woman is unable to attend a movie, ride a bus or flag a rickshaw without fear of being attacked, where a young aboriginal woman seems as likely to be a victim of violence as to graduate from university, International Women's Day is much needed.


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SWINDON Spitfires progressed to the semi-final of the Wiltshire Cup with a 5-0 win over Marlborough Town.
After some good early pressure Spitfires took the lead in the sixth minute when Emma Skinner's shot was headed past the helpless Marlborough goalkeeper Cheri Pattie by one of her own defenders.
Natalie Haigh had several chances, hitting both bar and post, Debbie Rose fired over and Beth Turner put wide as Spitfires played out the first period almost entirely in Marlborough's half.
Former Marlborough player Emily Sparkes did put the ball in the back of the net for Spitfires after 33 minutes, only to see it ruled out for offside.
However, it took just three minutes of the second half for Spits to grab their second when Cara Costello beat Pattie.
As with the first half, Spitfires' defence coped with anything that came their way and keeper Rachel Eley had a very quiet game.
Haigh and Laura Ball forced great saves out of Pattie before Haigh finally got the better of her, netting Spitfires' third after 75 minutes. Sparkes then got her goal against her former club four minutes later after being set up by Ball.
The unfortunate Pattie had to play the final 10 minutes with a shoulder injury as Marlborough had no substitute options left, and she could do nothing to prevent Ball adding the fifth and final goal in the 83rd minute when she powered home a Haigh cut-back.
Elsewhere, Spitfires Reserves chalked up a 7-2 win at Stanford-in-the-Vale with goals from Victoria Parry (3), Jody Nicholls, Lisa Curtis, Megan Greening, and Morgan Whitaker.
Spitfires Under 16s were given a scare by bottom club Lavington Juniors before running out comfortable 8-3 winners in the Wiltshire Girls League.
Spitfires opened the scoring after four minutes when Mya McKnight broke down the right before shooting across the keeper into the far corner.
Lavington scored a soft equaliser almost straight from the restart, but McKnight restored Spitfires' advantage in the 24th minute after collecting Emma Adam's throw-in on the left and beating the keeper at her near post.
McKnight turned provider after 37 minutes when her cross was parried by the Lavington keeper to Shannon Kinsella, who couldn't miss at the far post.
Lavington pulled one back eight minutes after the break but two well-hit strikes by Hayley Shipp gave Spitfires a three-goal cushion with half an hour to play.
Georgia East was on hand to clear a Lavington attack off the line before Niamh Montague notched Spitfires' sixth after 72 minutes. Montague then set Kinsella up for her second three minutes later but a defensive mix-up allowed the visitors to claim their third goal.
Spitfires completed the scoring in the final minute when Kinsella's shot was tipped onto a post before rolling across the goal for Montague to tap home.
Finally, Spitfires Under 11s were 4-1 winners at Ashton Keynes to keep them at the top of their league. Spits' goals came from Rebecca Chitolie (3) and Shannon King.
Swindon Town Under 16s beat Derry Hill 2-1, with Chloe Brown and Hanna Donovon on the scoresheet.


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I am from Barrington, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago and currently beginning my junior year in the physics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. My interest in science goes back further than I can remember. Whether it was biology, chemistry, physics, or engineering, I wanted to read whatever I could find. My perspectives began to change when I read Gravitation and Spacetime, a popular book by John Wheeler. I was caught up in the enthusiasm and sense of beauty he found not just in the phenomenon of gravity, but the universe as a whole, an enthusiasm I still have. Still it wasn't until I took an AP Physics C class my senior year in high school that I knew, physics would be the focus of my future career.
When I arrived at MIT, I considered myself to be a prospective engineer. Yet, no matter what area of engineering interested me, it was always the physics of the field that attracted me the most. Knowing only how things worked wasn't enough; I wanted to know why things worked. Finally, it became clear for me, I would be a physicist.
I intend to continue on to graduate school to get my doctorate. Currently, I lean towards an experimental physics field, possibly solid-state or nuclear physics. But experience tells me to keep an open mind. Outside of classes, I enjoy teaching and tutoring both physics and mathematics, trying to share the excitement I have with others.


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IRVINE – A pack of new Anteaters trekked through the UC Irvine campus with family and friends Saturday, lugging furniture, laptops and duffel bags full of belongings – hunting for their new habitat: the dorm room.
Excitement was in the air at Mesa Court Student Housing for incoming freshman. Under a canopy of blue, gold and white balloons, students waited in line to get the keys to their new homes, where many would meet their roommates for the first time.
"It's a little bit nerve-wracking because I don't know what to expect," said Christopher Nugent, 18. "My roommate didn't leave any contact information. All I know about him is his name and that he bought a mini-fridge. I'm just hoping we get along. I'm excited to start fresh and meet new people."
Maruf Hossian, a 19-year-old from Los Angeles, woke up early to arrive before his roommate so he could snag his bed of choice.
"I definitely want to be next to the window," he said. "My roommate is actually my friend from high school so it makes it a lot easier. I'm sure he won't mind."
Hossian said he is most looking forward to being out on his own and making choices without the watchful eyes of his parents.
"College is like freedom," he said. "It will be nice to not have a curfew. I have to look out for myself now. There's no one telling me what to do. It's just me."
Move-in day is the embodiment of adulthood and independence for many college students. But for parents, it can be a difficult time to temporarily say goodbye.
"As long as I know she's OK I don't have any reason to worry," said Quy Vo, whose eldest daughter is a new student at UCI. "I'm happy for her but I will miss her. And if she's not busy doing homework I can always come visit."
For Tanya Patterson, helping her son move was something to celebrate.
"I'm so happy for him," she said. "There are worse things than going to UC Irvine. It's a great school and this is an awesome opportunity for him. I feel like if he's doing great things, what am I going to cry about? This is a great day."
Armed with fluffy, pink pillows, game consoles and instruments, a string of students climbed the stairs to their dorms ready to make the space their own. After saying goodbye to family and friends, the new Anteaters transformed their bare dorm rooms into personalized havens decorated with trinkets and mementos to remind them of home.
Gacia Atachian, an 18-year-old biology major from Northridge, brought a large photo collage of family and friends to hang on her wall.
"It will be my little home away from home," she said. "I've heard that everyone gets along really well at UCI and that it's like a big family. I can't wait to meet new people."
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This time last year I discovered I had a very serious illness. My life abruptly came to a halt. I stopped going to school, and took a disability leave from my job. All of a sudden I had time to watch TV.
One of the things that I love to do is cook. Suddenly I had time to watch the food network. In fact it turned into quite the obsession for me. I went to their website and downloaded recipes that I wanted to try. I even developed favorite chefs. I was delighted with my little culinary world until I noticed one LARGE glaring omission. The lack of people of color.
The chefs are dedicated to making food from across the globe. In fact in a single day it is quite possible to see dishes from Turkey, China, India etc. There seems to be a push to offer international cuisine. So here is my question….if the network is so into multiculturalism why are there so few chefs of color? On their website you will find a listing for only three shows that are hosted by people of color and two of them are hosted by the same person!
I am not satisfied with seeing white people cook "ethnic" food. I am not satisfied with the occasional traveling show focusing on events like Caribana to show racial solidarity with people of color. Bobby Flay can dance (badly at that)while he prepares Jerk Chicken, but let us not forget that this is a Jamaican dish. You know Jamaica, an Island in the Caribbean largely populated by, you guessed it BLACK people. Why should I accept these chefs as experts on dishes derived from my culture? Did they wake in the morning to the smell of fried dumplings, saltfish, fattened up corn beef, banana pancakes etc? I think not. These were the smells that emanated from my mothers kitchen.
There is a deep and abiding connection with food and culture. When we come together to share a meal, we are sharing more than just the food in front of us, we are sharing traditions, and teaching our children their history. When I stand in my kitchen, and make the same food that my grandmother made over sixty years ago I am offering my children a connection to their past, one that is specifically linked to the nurturing of my mother and her mother before her. It is a link created, and maintained by the women in my family.
My culture is more than a culinary vacation for the adventurous. It is real and meaningful to me. Part of living in a multicultural society should not mean the ownership of others, of cultural links and traditions. Show me that you respect my culture and identity by honoring people like me. Taking our recipes, and profiting from them shows an inherent disrespect. This is beyond invisibility, it is outright thievery. You have no right to take without asking. You have no right to share what is not yours. You have no right to colonize through invisibility….I am the subaltern, and I have spoken.


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Caprock Canyons Bison Herd to Become More Visible
QUITAQUE – The Wildlife Division of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has shifted management of the Caprock Canyons State Park bison herd to TPWD's State Parks Division. Park employees say the shift will bring about some exciting changes, including expanding the grazing range of the official Texas State Bison Herd from a half-section enclosure to eventually the whole state park over time and thus increasing viewing opportunities for park visitors.
"One of the major requests we've had from visitors is they'd like to be able to see the bison better and get closer to them," said park Superintendent Donald Beard. "We worked with the Wildlife Division to devise a way to do that and still keep the herd 'wild' and well-managed from a natural resource perspective. To enable better public viewing, the bison will be placed behind a new fence that will encompass the prairie around the Visitors Center and the southern portion of Lake Theo. The new enclosure will more than double the rangeland for the herd. We hope to continue to expand the range over much of the park as time and funds allow."
That means once visitors come through the main entrance, they would in effect be inside the bison enclosure. The outside boundary fence will be a standard 60-inch field fence in combination with barbed wire backing and two strands of electric fence. Interior fences will be erected to protect historic sites, day use sites, the northern portion of Lake Theo and the more ecologically sensitive areas of the 15,300-acre park that is located where the Panhandle's High Plains, or caprock, to the west collide with the Rolling Plains to the east.
"Safety for park visitors and staff is our top priority," says Beard. "Our new bison management approach uses common sense to keep people and the animals safe." To underscore his level of confidence, Beard notes his residence is located in the area where the bison will be enclosed. "I have respect for them, but I don't see cause for concern for myself or my family."
The herd, which currently numbers 78, will remain under the care of herdsman C. L. Hawkins, who transferred to the Wildlife Division when the herd came to the park in 1998 and has managed the herd ever since. Now back in the State Parks Division, Hawkins has been instrumental in seeing that new bison bulls from out of state have been incorporated into the Caprock Canyons herd to introduce new DNA in an effort to reduce a high mortality rate in newborn calves. Park officials and geneticists believe greater genetic diversity will result in a larger and healthier herd.
In addition to relocating the bison so they can be more readily viewed, park staff will increase educational signage, distribute informational brochures and present interpretive programs about the herd's history, their impact on the prairie ecosystem and how to interact safely with the shaggy animals.
The Caprock Canyons bison are descendants of the historic bison herd that Panhandle ranchers Charles and Mary Goodnight saved from extinction. In 1876, Goodnight captured some of the last of the great southern plains bison herd and placed them on his JA Ranch to preserve them for posterity. In 1997, JA Ranch owners Monte Ritchie and Ninia Bivins donated the bison to the state, and they were moved to Caprock Canyons in 1998.
The small Texas State Bison Herd is thus all that remains of the vast southern plains herd that prior to the 1870s was estimated to number between 30 to 60 million head. The American bison were almost totally wiped out when the last of the Plains Indians were driven from their homeland and the railroad brought hordes of buffalo hunters who slaughtered the animals for their meat, hides and horns.
The Goodnight Herd was one of the five foundation herds that supplied stock to save American bison from extinction and the only southern plains bison herd established. Caprock Canyons bison are the last descendants of the herd which supplied wild stock for Yellowstone National Park and some of the largest zoos and ranches in the nation. The bison brought from the JA Ranch to the park were genetically tested, and TPWD kept only those which had no cattle DNA.
Through continued study and genetic mapping of the Texas State Bison Herd, researchers have isolated three unique genetic markers in their DNA. Found only in the Goodnight Herd descendants, presence of these genes supports the claim that these animals are all that remain of the southern plains subspecies and are separate from northern plains and woods bison subspecies.
In addition to the historic bison herd, Caprock Canyons State Park offers visitors a breathtakingly beautiful place to experience geologic history than spans 250 million years and enjoy such recreational activities as camping, hiking, mountain biking, nature photography and horseback riding. Its companion Caprock Canyons Trailway State Park offer 64 miles of converted railroad beds for recreational uses and the historic Clarity Tunnel, home to a large colony of Brazilian free-tailed bats.
Caprock Canyons State Park is located about 50 miles northeast of Plainview on FM 1065 approximately 4 miles north of State Highway 86. For more information, call (806) 455-1492 or visit the TPWD Website.
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Edible favors are always a favorite choice for hostesses, and guests seem to love the idea as well. Check out these 10 easy ways to repurpose what you probably already have and package cookies creatively for any celebration!
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Berry Basket Favors
Berry baskets are a perfect container to reuse for other good things, like cookies. We made a big batch of Cowboy Cookies, slipped them in berry baskets, then tied them up with a red print bandana. We placed a basket of cookies at each place setting on our tables at the backyard barbecue. Our tables looked colorful and festive, and of course, our guests were absolutely delighted to take home their scrumptious party favors.
Cookies and Milk Party Favor
A bottle of milk, frappuccino, or latte is just the perfect place to tie a gourmet cookie. We purchased our gourmet mocha cookies from the bakery, slipped them in a little cellophane bag and tied the bag to a bottle of frappuccino with a classy striped grosgrain ribbon. Party favor, thank you gift, it's all good!
DIY Envelope Cookie Favors
These cute envelopes would make great party favors for a destination celebration or bon voyage party. They're easy to make with sturdy, 2-sided decorative scrapbook paper and the perfect size for a gourmet cookie!
DIY S'mores Cookie Kit
Here's a great way to reuse a plastic strawberry basket. Spray the berry basket with a chocolate brown paint, let dry, and then weave a striped ribbon through it. Add marshmallows, graham crackers, and a Hershey bar...that's it! It's a fun party favor for an outdoor event, or a nice little hostess gift.
DIY Decorative Cookie Sacks
Prints, polka dots, stripes... There are lots of decorative sacks in the craft stores and online that make the perfect packaging for homemade cookies. For a recent pool party, we created favors by filling a bright yellow sack with some coconut macaroons and then tucked them in a cute metal container with a bottle of lemonade.
A Scoop Filled with Cookies
Check out the treasures in the toy aisles at your stores. We created a new purpose for the colorful plastic scoops that are meant to scoop sand on the beach. We filled each scoop with miniature cookies, slipped a cellophane bag over the scoop, and tied it up with a coordinating ribbon. We added a Happy Birthday tag, and within just minutes, had a cute party favor ready to go! Another good thing? They're inexpensive ($1 each), and reusable!
Repurpose Cardboard Baskets
Small cardboard berry baskets can be reused to package up some special cookies. We baked lemon cookies, placed them in cellophane bags, and then tied them up with tulle and organza ribbon. Add a white daisy and a tag for a sweet bridal shower favor or gift.
Repurposed Cookie Containers
Look for unusual, one-of-a-kind pots or vases to serve as a vessel for a cookie gift or centerpiece. We wrapped macadamia nut cookies up in cellophane, slipped them into these inexpensive, but decorative pots and tied them with color coordinated satin ribbon. Set these on your party tables in place of flowers and the guest with a sticker on the bottom of their plate gets to take one home.
Cookies in a Can
Those tall potato chip cans are just the best place to stack some cookies up! We covered the can in some decorative paper and tied it with a beautiful ribbon. It's gorgeous just like that, but for a double layer of wrapping, we tucked the cans inside of a wine bag that we had purchased on clearance. Ahhh. So many ways to repurpose and reuse things. This is a perfect welcome gift for some new neighbors.
Repurposed Grocery Favor Boxes
Small square Kraft boxes hold three delicious cookies very comfortably. Wrap the cookies in parchment paper and stack inside the box. We embellished ours with a strip of burlap fabric, a periwinkle flower and satin ribbon. Choose colors to coordinate with a wedding or baby shower theme and these make lovely favors for your guests. Or, if you want a sweet little gift to say thank you to someone, this would be perfect!
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Alexander Chen (b. 1981) creates musical and interactive work. In 2002, he made Sonata for the Unaware, a piece which generated music from video footage of Philadelphia subway commuters. In 2011, he launched http://www.mta.me, which turned the New York subway system into a string instrument. After working with various companies such as The Barbarian Group, he joined Google Creative Lab in 2010, where he conceived the Les Paul Google doodle. As a musician, he is a multi-instrumentalist who performs live on viola under musical monikers The Consulate General and Boy in Static. Chen is currently living in Brooklyn.
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Title: Malletts Bay - Colchester, VT
- McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
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1936 summer photo of Lake Champlain as seen at Malletts Bay in Colchester, Vermont. Swimmers, sun bathers and canoes seen.
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EA, Gaiki, and streaming game demos
So has anyone heard of or even tried the beta for the Gaiki Cloud gaming...thing? So far it's running demos of various EA games, notably Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age 2, Dead Space 2, The Sims 3, Spore and Bad Company 2.
I didn't have a lot of time to try it earlier, but put in about 5 minutes into Dragon Age 2. There is some lag, but only noticeable in that you know it exists, rather than seeming to cause issue with the game. It obviously doesn't look as good as if you had the game proper, but as a means of trying out a game or demoing it, it certainly seems very serviceable.Powered by Steam. And biscuits. I'm also a twit and dabble in creative writing.
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No I've not tried it yet. Been waiting to try it out on Eurogamer - http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...rs-with-gaikai
From the article - "Imagine being able to play a demo directly, straight after you've read about it on Eurogamer. That sort of thing will soon be possible."
Awesome idea. And if it works, every gaming site will want to be a part of it.


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Harrison Taber biographical sketch
Harrison Taber was born 18 Jul 1840 in Urbana, Champaign Co. OH. He was the 3rd son of John Clay and Rebecca (DOOLITTLE) TABER. On 17 Apr 1861, he enlisted in "D Co. 13th Infantry Regiment OH". After 3 months, he then enlisted in "H Co. 26th Ohio Regiment", discharged 22 Oct 1865. While in military service, he contracted small pox and asthma, for which he received a military pension. His family moved to Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN in about 1865. Harrison and his two brothers, Uriah C and George W., operated "Taber Brothers", a horse collar and harness factory in Terre Haute, 1866-1874. When their father died, Harrison and his brothers sold out the business. He married Alice A GRAHAM 13 Oct 1870, and had a daughter, Jessica, 17 Mar 1872 in Terre Haute, Indiana. The family then moved to Madison Co., AL and had 2 more children, John Charles and Florence May, before moving to Nashville, TN, where he was again employed in the horse collar manufacturing business.


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Top 5 Free English Genealogy Websites
I was asked the other day what my top five free genealogy websites for English family history were and after some thought I came up with the following.
1. FamilySearch
This site is a gift for Family History it is hard to know how we would have all got to where we are without using FamilySearch. The LDS Church has as one of it's beliefs that their members should trace their genealogy so over many years they have been filming and indexing genealogical records all round the world. A look at the catalogue will show just how vast their holdings are and these are all available to any researcher regardless of whether you are a member of the LDS Church or not. The search engine is easy to use and they have lots of other add-ons such as Wiki's. A site well worth spending time getting to know thoroughly. Just bear in mind that the online results are an index only, there may be more on the original document. All results should be checked with the original which can be ordered for a small fee and viewed at one of the many Family History Centre's.
2. FreeBMD
This site shows what can be achieved by volunteers. I can recall when it was first mooted that the Birth, Marriage and Death indexes should be transcribed and place online. It seemed such a vast job that it was hard to imagine how it would be done, however the project is well on the way to completion. If you don't have access to subscription sites such as Ancestry and Find My Past then FreeBMD is the best way to access the civil registration birth, marriage and death indexes. Easy to use interface and a good help page if you get stuck.
I recently wrote a full description about this site so click here to read about it. http://www.madaboutgenealogy.com/online-parish-clerk/
I use this site mainly for the Victoria County Histories and as with the OPC's above I recently wrote at length about them. Click here to access that post. http://www.madaboutgenealogy.com/victoria-county-histories/
However there is much more to the site and it is well worth typing in a family name or a village or town to see what is on offer. I think this site deserves an in-depth post so will put it on my list ! In the meantime go and see what you can discover yourself.
5. National Archives Discovery
The National Archives, often referred to as the TNA, is the repository for the government generated records starting with the Domesday Book. The Discovery search engine is a new addition to the site and takes the place of the old catalogue that we all have got so used to. Once you get used to the basic and advanced search options it is a breeze to use. Working down the list you will see a description of the documents that usually is enough to identify if it is of interest to your research. Documents that have been scanned can be purchased and delivered online or if not then a quote for a copy of the document can be requested. All very smooth and easy. Of course if you can visit the TNA at Kew then these documents can be viewed free of charge. The National Archives are placing more documents online all the time so this is a resource that becomes more useful to the genealogist as time goes on.
All these sites are useful for the beginner as well as the more experienced family historian. If you have any favourites I would be pleased to hear from you using the comments option, perhaps soon I will be able to write about the top 10 sites !
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AS SCHOOLS break up for the summer holidays a warning has gone out to people about the dangers of swimming in unsupervised waters.
West Midlands Ambulance Service has launched a public safety campaign geared to educating the public unfamiliar with the hazards at disused water-filled sand and gravel quarries and other stretches of uncharted water.
With more than 400 people drowning in the UK each year including nearly 60 children and young people, ambulance bosses are urging adults and children to think about swimming in unsupervised waters this summer.
The ambulance service message 'Stay Out of the Water' follows a string of tragedies last summer which saw 17-year-old Russell O'Neill, and 22-year-old Justas Juzenas killed while swimming in Gullet Quarry, near Malvern.
John Woodhall, WMAS Hazardous Area Response Team Support Manager, said: "As schools breaks-up for the summer holidays there are more opportunities to explore the great outdoors.
"We want people to stay safe and be aware that rivers, pools, lakes and disused quarries are not recreation grounds and there are no lifeguards coming to the rescue if you get into difficulty.
"Water-filled quarries claim lives every year through drowning accidents. They have slippery slopes and unstable rock ledges. The water, which looks inviting, may conceal old machinery and sharp objects left behind after a mining operation closes.
"Even expert swimmers will encounter trouble in the dangerous and deceptively cold waters."


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Warren police: Sam's Club employee run over by theft suspect
The employee suffered minor injuries while trying to stop a theft suspect.
The employee suffered minor injuries while trying to stop a theft suspect.
Wentland says in his lawsuit he loaned her the money so she could buy a new home in Clarks Summit while trying to sell two other homes.
"This thing's still very much up in the air as far as we're concerned," said defense attorney David Grant.
Kelly Stark, 66, said Gearhart's sterling reputation swayed him to invest $175,000 in several projects; he lost it all.
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Speakers complained local workers were left out of the discussions about House Bill 70 as a way of silencing opposition to the measure.
Erin Marks is accused of using customers' credit card numbers to pay bills for cash-paying customers and then keeping the money.
The suspects tried to steal batteries from the Wal-Mart on Doral Drive in Boardman.
Sara Elizabeth Laughlin, 25, is facing charges of intimidation, harassment with bodily substance and assault.
Both men remain at the Mahoning County Jail and will be arraigned on the charges next week.
The indictment states that Darryl Hoon had sexual contact with two girls, ages 12 and 11, on multiple occasions since Jan. 1, 2014.
Although Ohio lawmakers think they may have come up with a better way to fund public education, not everyone is happy with it.
Police say the incident happened inside the Anchors Away Convenient store in Sandy Lake Township.
Ten people off the coast of North and South Carolina have been bitten by sharks.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is rejecting a Republican-backed bill to privatize the state-controlled sales of wine and liquor amid a budget st…
Ford is recalling 432,000 vehicles because of a problem that could keep their engines running after drivers try to shut them down.
The measles infection was discovered during an autopsy.
Crews have found a body in the Ohio River near where a western Pennsylvania was apparently swept away by currents while swimming.
The plane was isolated after landing and police were called to the scene.
Many stopped in their tracks once they saw the story of a homeless Sarasota man who is a prodigy on the piano.
The shooter is not in custody and no charges have been filed.
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I have just finished reading "Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty & The Mad-Doctors of Victorian England" by Sarah Wise and jolly interesting it was too. There must be something in the air because FindMyPast has today released the hospital records for Bedlam, one of the world's oldest mental health hospitals. The hospital has had a chequered history and I am sure that the release of this dataset will bring forth many stories.
FindMyPast is scanning both staff and patient records. The records released today go into detail about each patient, in many cases documenting their mental state and including photographs of the inmates once photography became available. The records also detail the reasons why they had been deemed insane, with first-hand accounts of the behaviour of the inmates and their families.
"These records provide an extraordinary level of detail about the patients of the Bethlem Royal Hospital as far back as the 17th century," said Debra Chatfield, family historian at Findmypast. "Containing letters written in their own words and handwriting, photographs at different stages of their illness, and reports on their day to day behaviour by close family members and the medical staff at the hospital, these records provide, for the very first time online, real insight into life in this infamous institution. It's hard not to empathise with the inmates as you learn about their often harrowing and tragic stories. Publishing these records online allows those stories to be told for the first time to a wider audience, and you might discover that you had an ancestor who was sent to Bedlam."
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- Check out Holly Robert's unique blend of quirky cool with work that bends the boundaries between painting and photography with Unusual Suspects: Paintings and Photographs by Holly Roberts, on view through May 6
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Dorset Blind Association's young blind club has been saved from closure thanks to a generous donation.
Basepoint Business Centres Ltd, which operates business units at Jubilee Close in Weymouth, swooped into action and offered the charity the final £3,000 it needed to hit its £12,000 total.
Dorset Blind Association is an independent charity supporting people with sight loss throughout the county.
The charity does not receive any fixed central or local government funding and relies entirely on a combination of voluntary donations, membership fees and grants.
The charity needed to raise £12,000 to save its young blind club, so launched a social media campaign asking people to post photos to social media representing what they would miss if they lost their sight, using the hash tag: #whatwouldyoumiss.
After seeing the appeal on the news, Basepoint contacted Dorset Blind and arranged the donation.
Carly Thompson, Regional Manager at Basepoint, comments: "We're owned by a charitable trust, The Act Foundation, which is dedicated to improving the quality for of life for those in need, so as soon as we heard about Dorset Blind's appeal, we wanted to help – such charities are vital for the local community.
"When I called to donate, the reaction from all at Dorset Blind was one of sheer delight – I am just so pleased we helped them hit their goal."
Dorset Blind's Fundraising Manager, Jaya Da Costa, adds: "Without the ongoing support and goodwill we receive from individuals, charitable trusts, companies and other organisations we would not be able to develop and deliver our essential range of services.
"All donations, however big or small, help us to make a real, positive difference to the lives of visually impaired people (VIPs) in Dorset so we are delighted to receive Basepoint's kind donation."
Basepoint Business Centres, who specialise in the development and operation of flexible business, innovation and enterprise centres, is owned by The ACT Foundation, a leading UK grant-making charity, dedicated to improving the quality of life of those in need.
Basepoint now operate 30 business centres across the south of England, East Anglia, the Midlands and Wales, and all of the profits that are generated by Basepoint's centres are ploughed back into charitable causes which assist societies most vulnerable.


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Velcro & elastic attachment mechanism
Compatible with your
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Written by: Farls79
02/06/2017 14:243/5
This is our third P&T Sport, the most recent one purchased in March 2017. We went with another Sport as we loved our previous two & had no issues. Unfortunately on the newest Sport the under carriage is significantly smaller (not as deep) with the back of the carriage much lower than the front resulting in things continually falling out. Also the sun cover back flap does not attach on the sides & the bottom is held on by elastic which continually comes loose & flaps around. Our previous sun cover back flap had eyelets down the side which held it in place. A much better design
Doesn't fit Navigator V2
Written by: ST91
12/07/2016 00:331/5
This product is a great idea in principle but it is poorly designed and doesn't actually fit the navigator when in lie flat mode.
Poorly designed, an aparant after thought.
Written by: Mike
08/02/2016 10:301/5
Held in place as much by luck as design, the elastic bottom barely grips the seat an a slight wind will make it flap around, the Dot v1 has loops I had expected to be used to hold the cover in place but the cover has nothing to attach it with.
Very disappointed in the item vs the price.
A big let down to the quality of the buggy.
Poorly designed, an aparant after though.
Written by: haz1
29/01/2016 13:181/5
Held in place as much by luck as design, the elastic bottom barely grips the seat an a slight wind will make it flap around.
Very dissapointed in the item vs the price.
A big let down to the quality of the buggy.
Written by: ashford70
06/12/2015 00:471/5
Why was it necessary to buy this? Already having had to buy what was described as a storm cover I found that there was a great hole over the baby's head when lying down. Customer services on the phone told me about a back flap. I thought that meant using a strap adjustment. No - buy another piece of kit.
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Written by: Jenny75
01/11/2015 05:081/5
I bought the flap to cover the big gap at the back of the buggy and it's useless the slightest breeze lifts it leaving baba exposed to draught and wind very disappointed
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18/04/2015 23:301/5
As a huge fan of P&T prams i am so disappointed with this. There is just one strip of Velcro that attaches to the hood and then it just flops down. There is a slightly shaped elasticated thing at the bottom but it does not secure it in place at all. It is fine if you put it on the pram indoors and don't go out but once outside the slightest breeze or draft from passing cars it flys up exposing baby. Completely useless and a waste of money. Older models have toggles to secure which is a much better option.
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I brought this as I wanted my baby to lay down it solved the wind problem but it's too light. need it in material.
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NZ dollar trades in narrow range, focus on Bank of Japan
Jan. 22 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand dollar was trading in a narrow range as traders waited for direction on Japanese monetary police and for US markets to gear up again after the Martin Luther King holiday.
The kiwi was at 83.63 US cents at 8am on Tuesday, little changed from 83.60 cents at 5pm on Monday.
The currency traded in a relatively narrow range overnight due to the holiday in US markets and inauguration of President Barack Obama, one dealer said.
He said statements by the Bank of Japan later today were expected to be main event in markets today.
Economists in a Bloomberg News survey expect the central bank to expand asset purchases after a two-day meeting ends today.
The kiwi was at 75.06 yen at 8am from 74.95 at 5pm on Monday.
Further stimulus in Japan may weaken the yen more but strategists say traders are holding large short yen positions and the yen could rise on profit-taking.
Otherwise equities in Europe advanced as Germany's central bank said the nation's economy is showing signs of recovery in the first quarter of the year.
The Bundesbank forecasts the German economy to grow 0.4 percent in 2013 year and 1.9 percent in 2014. Europe's largest economy contracted 0.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, data last week showed.
The kiwi was at 79.52 Australian cents from 79.50 Australian cents at 5pm on Monday.
It was 62.80 euro from 62.77 euro and 52.84
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The influence of Harun Yahya"s books on evolution, and especially his internationally renowned The Evolution Deceit, is reflected in the well-known scientific evolutionary magazine Science.
In an article in the May 18 edition by Robert Koenig, entitled "Creationism Takes Root Where Europe, Asia Meet," the author gives a lengthy account of Harun Yahya"s struggle against the deception of the theory of evolution, the international success of his book The Evolution Deceit and of the defeat of evolutionists in Turkey. The article emphasizes that this broad academic endeavor-"One of the world"s strongest anti-evolution movements outside North America"-aims to cause the collapse of the theory of evolution on the scientific front, and that it is making inroads in other Muslim countries.
Another topic dealt with in this article is the international success of The Evolution Deceit. It says that some evolutionist scientists in Turkey complain that "books by Harun Yahya such as The Evolution Deceit have become more influential than textbooks in certain parts of Turkey". In the article, the concerns of Turkish evolutionists are expressed in these words "…Many evolutionist scientists fear they are losing ground to creationists in public opinion".