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New Trafford bridge could open at end of this month
The new Trafford Veterans Memorial Bridge might reopen at the end of October — one month ahead of the most-recent project estimates.
Depending on the weather and some site factors, Mosites Construction's work on the $11-million project could wrap up before the calendar flips to November.
Though Trafford Councilwoman Rita Windsor identified Oct. 28 as the possible opening, state Department of Transportation spokeswoman Valerie Petersen declined to specify a date. But Petersen did say it's possible the project could wrap up by the end of the month.
"They're working very hard on it, and they're trying to finish as soon as possible," she said.
Construction on the bridge began in April 2012, which forces drivers who want to take Route 130 through Trafford to take a detour on Forbes Road.
Trafford officials have said they think the reopening of the bridge will be a boost to downtown businesses.
Windsor is on a committee that is planning a dedication ceremony on Nov. 9, two days before Veterans Day. The committee is inviting local veterans to cross the bridge that morning, and the borough will play host to a reception in the Manchester Room afterward.
School board members who live near the bridge have high hopes for what the bridge opening will do for the borough.
"If you own a restaurant in Trafford, watch out," said Scott Koscho, a school board member who lives in Level Green. "Dom's (Pizzeria) on the corner (of Fifth Street and Cavitt Avenue) is going to be jamming. Parente's (Ristorante) is going to be jamming."
Another school board member, Nick Petrucci, said the opening could be good timing for the borough, given the development of new nine fields by the All-American Baseball Center on a former Westinghouse industrial plant site below the bridge.
"Trafford could be in for a mini boom," said Petrucci, who also serves on the Trafford Recreation Board. "I hope so, anyway."
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Jennifer Aniston Claims She Was the Dumper
MSNBC is reporting that Jennifer Aniston gave the brush to Batman fan John Mayer and not the other way around.
"Jen will never kiss and tell, but it's she who ended the relationship," a source says. "(Mayer's) childish behavior only confirms she was right to dump him. Now he's acting like a spoiled child. Expect Jen to behave like a lady."
Mayer recently informed the paparazzi that his decision had ended their five-month-long romance.
Aniston's cheering section gave a variety of reasons why Aniston nixed the tattooed dawg.
"He has a relationship with certain paparazzi [and] bloggers," the source said. "He tips them off. He loves the attention. Jen didn't want to believe it was happening."
The source also says that Mayer was incredibly cheap and was making Aniston pay for everything.
And that Aniston will not be commenting about the end of their romance.
No one likes a boyfriend who is constantly insisting you go Dutch, Johnny.

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This weekend, April 24th, we will be celebrating not only the Easter holiday, but we will be celebrating our first wedding anniversary!
There are so many ways to make it a special day and memory that will last a lifetime;
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5. Toast the Good Life...
Before you make any plans open a bottle of champagne at home and toast to the wonderful year you have shared together.
Open your wedding album, pull out the guest book, and turn on your video from your big day and make a plan to do this every year on your anniversary.
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JERUSALEM (Nov. 21)
Although Viscount Gort, new British High Commissioner, has been in Palestine for less than a month, he has succeeded in winning the sincere admiration of the entire Jewish population because of his simplicity, democratic manners and frankness.
Despite the terroristic outbreaks which have recently taken place in Palestine, High Commissioner Viscount Gort walks around the city sight-seeing without any escort. He broke a British tradition today by being the first High Commissioner to receive representatives of the Palestine and foreign press.
In a friendly conversation with reporters, the new High Commissioner displayed remarkable knowledge concerning conditions of the press and its needs. Since his arrival he has received representatives not only of the Jewish Agency, but also of the Agudas Israel, the New Zionist Organization and other Jewish groups. Among those received this week were David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Shertok, leading members of the Jewish Agency executive.


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"A con confident artiste is something I have never been offered before and I am happy to have got this opportunity. I am very satisfied with the role and it was a challenge. But I am happy to get an opportunity to reinvent myself." The "Khiladi" actor said his director, Neeraj Pandey, had to convince him a lot to do the movie.
"There was a lot of convincing required from my director, that is very important for me. The director has to make me understand that I can do justice to the role because reading the script is not enough for me. He should help me visualise the role and let me know how I fit in it," Akshay, who was in the capital to promote the film, said. Also starring Anupam Kher and Manoj Bajpayee, the film releases on February 8.


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ORLANDO, Fla. - Internet retail giant Amazon has added wine to the long list of products it sells through its online marketplace.
Under the banner Amazon Wine, the new "store" features easy-to-use shopping tools to help customers explore wines and offers access to rich details directly from winemakers, such as tasting notes, recommended food pairings and total case production.
"Whether it's helping customers find a favorite varietal, shop for holiday pairings or expand their cellar with a special hand-crafted bottle, we're excited to provide the right tools and information needed to guide them to the perfect wine," said Peter Faricy, Vice President, Amazon Marketplace.
Amazon Wine will offer products priced from less than $10 to more than $100. The Seattle-based company says it is offering more than 1,000 wines from wineries around the U.S.
Starting today, shipping will be available to California, Connecticut, Florida, nine other states and the District of Columbia. Amazon plans to add other markets soon. Shipping costs start at $9.99 for up to six bottles.
"We're excited to connect wineries to the millions of Amazon customers who enjoy the convenience of shopping online," said Faricy.
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Former UFC Welterweight Interim Champion Carlos Condit was originally set to face off against welterweight contender Matt Brown this weekend during UFC on Fox 9. The event headlines a flyweight title bout between Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson and Joseph Benavidez in Sacramento, California.
Unfortunately, Matt Brown was forced to withdraw from his fight against "The Natural Born Killer" due to an injured back.
Brown posted on his twitter on December 7, "Thanks for the support guys. I regret to inform all that I am out of the fight with Condit. I herniated 2 discs in my lower back this week."
Brown's wife told UFC Tonight that his injury would most likely not require any surgery.
If Brown is healthy enough to fight in February the fight with Condit may be rescheduled for UFC 170.Tags: Carlos Condit, Matt brown, UFC on FOX 9


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We are visiting Italy in May 2013, and have our visit reasonably planned out. We will be visiting Venice, Florence, Amalfi Coast and Rome over a total of 15 days (2 couples traveling together).
The 5 sights which I think may require advance booking online are :
1. Galleria Accademia (Florence)
2. Uffizi Gallery (Florence)
3. Leaning Tower of Pisa (Pisa)
4. Vatican Museums (Rome)
5. Palazzo Valentini (Rome)
I understand that booking online for Uffizi and the Vatican Museums is almost a MUST to avoid long lines, even in May. The Palazzo Valentini probably requires only a telephonic booking, 1 week in advance, so should be easy. I am confused about whether advance booking is required for Galleria Accademia in Florence. Have read conflicting reports - some say that it is easy to get in later in the afternoon, when lines are virtually gone. Is that true ?
As for Leaning Tower of Pisa, I am trying their website at www.opapisa.it ; however, there appears to be some glitch on the site's Ticket Office. It offers no choice of date or time, but just asks you to enter an "Order code". What am I doing wrong, or what am I missing ? Could someone please guide me on how to book a ticket online for Leaning Tower ?
Thanks in advance, and look forward to advice and guidance.
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Help with advance bookings at select Italian sights
We are visiting Italy in May 2013, and have our visit reasonably planned out. We will be visiting Venice, Florence, Amalfi Coast and Rome over a total of 15 days (2 couples traveling together).
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The Borghese Gallery, for me a highlight of Rome, reqires advance booking:
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Last time we were in Florence (3 years ago I think) we booked the Galleria Accademia and were SO glad we did. The line went around the block - of course, we were there in the morning.
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We booked the Galleria Accademia as well online in advance for an April visit and were very glad we did. As willowjane says, the line was around the block.
I was just in Florence in early October and had hoped to do the Uffizi with a tour, the tour was cancelled at the last minute so we had no time to book online tickets and went around anyway to check out the line situation...wow, the line looked about two weeks long! Needless to say we didn't see the Uffizi. The friend I was with had been very sceptical about having to book in advance, she soon lost the scepticism.
A taxi driver in Florence told me it starts to get quiet there (in terms of the hordes of tourists) around November and maybe lasts until February or March.
Bottom line is: book everything to avoid standing in lines.
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Thanks, will heed the advice and book in advance. Can anyone help with the website for Leaning Tower ? Cannot figure out how to book the tickets.
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Booking for the Vatican may be a problem now as they no longer take credit cards due to issues with the Vatican bank.
the official box office for the leaning tower is:
you should be able to book tickets on this site.
and remember its a steep climb with uneven steps
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indiancouple, I just took a look at their site and was able to proceed to the booking process and the calendar, however, it says you can only book a maximum of 20 days ahead and a minimum of 12 days prior to your visit so you are a bit early for May.
I will go back and try and note down how I arrived there.
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Okay I just tried it again. Where you see the British flag on the left, it says Welcome..etc. Then it says Here you can...etc. The word Here is in red, click on Here and the calendar pops up, click on the day of the week you want and it goes to "choose the monument", there are 6 photos to the left, click on the tower of Pisa (it's the middle one on the Right hand side), then press "forward" and choose your time of day and how many tickets you need and then follow the prompts to check out.
The calendar is up for February with the first few days of March, so I'm assuming that at the end of April you should see the calendar and be able to book for May.
As maxima says it is a very steep climb, on the site it tells you how many stairs there are.
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Thanks raincitygirl, I had not noticed that "Here" was in a different color ! I tried as you suggested, and was able to navigate perfectly. Thanks.
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You're welcome. I hope you have a lovely trip!
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>>>Booking for the Vatican may be a problem now as they no longer take credit cards due to issues with the Vatican bank.<<<
From what I understand, that is at the Vatican. The online tickets seem to still be processing credit cards.
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Yes kybourbon, I went to the ticket online site of the Vatican, and noticed that credit cards are accepted for online booking. But they book only 60 days in advance, so I have to wait.
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If you are staying in Florence then you don't need to book Accademia. Just turn up at about 5pm and you will find the queue really short. The tour groups are all gone by then. The gallery is open until about 7pm which is ample time as the gallery is quite small.
Your trip sounds lovely.
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As it's again back at the top of this list...
... for Palazzo Valentini, I'd prebook if at all possible!
Fortunately, the revised site is much easier to use - and already offers dates through to the end of June.
Seemingly, two tours in English daily now (at 13:30 and 14:30) - except on Tuesdays, when it's shut - but, as far as I know, on each there are still only 15 places available....
We had to settle for one during which the Italian soundtrack was playing and, despite having lived here for 7 or 8 years by then, did miss out rather - although the visual effects were wonderful.
You can use the website to get an idea of how many places are left. For example, although it's possible to book up to 10 places, for a week today of the 15 there are 7 left for the awkwardly-timed 13:30 "performance", but only 1 for the more convenient later session!
In May they're likely to be even busier...
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Booking the Accademia and Uffizi online is a mistake. Use the international phone number for the two. No surcharge, and the operators are quite efficient.
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A_Brit_In_Ischia, I did call up the people at Palazzo Valentini, and they said that they are accepting bookings only for a few days in advance. Although their site shows dates through till June,we will probably not be able to make the actual booking so far ahead. They said that we should call up one week in advance, and it will be OK.
Downtownbrown, your information is great. I will certainly use the telephonic method of booking, and avoid the E 4 surcharge per ticket for each museum.
Cathies, thanks for the info. If I am able to avoid paying any booking surcharge, I will go ahead and book online for Accademia. Otherwise, I will just turn up late and go in as you suggest.
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I've always gone to the Accademia in the afternoon (after lunch - not late afternoon) and never had to wait in line more than 10 minutes.
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If you rang last month, after I'd suggested the Domus, that was perhaps before the site began accepting bookings for those extra months? Can't say I noticed, but some things certainly have changed - for instance, at that time they were still offering only 1 tour on weekdays...
But regardless of what they said over the phone then, if it were me, I'd at least check on the remaining availability every week or two... and jump in if the tickets are being snatched up!
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kybourbon, I think I will skip the Accademia booking online. We are interested in basically seeing the David statue, and we can pop in during closing hours when I am sure there will not be much of a line.
Will follow your advice Peter, about the Palazzo Valentini bookings.
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Celebrity Apprentice Episode 4
Celebrity Apprentice: A Knight on Broadway
To my surprise, I was entertained by last night's episode of Celebrity Apprentice even though Gene Simmons wasn't part of it. Phew! I thought the show would go down the tubes without witty Gene, but a couple of people stepped up their game. Or maybe the edits were so skewed to feature Gene in past episodes that we missed out on traits like Stephen Baldwin's manic giggle?
The challenge last night was to sell Broadway tickets to four shows to raise money for, of course, charity. The guest judge was none other than Vince McMahon, and Marilu Henner admitted to the camera that she thought Vince was cute. Funny, I wouldn't have pinned him as her type. Vinnie Pastore was the project manager for Hydra and Marilu was Empresario's project manager.
Empresario's record was 0-3 so they were extra motivated for this challenge. The women were all business and Nely Galan went as far as saying that her black book was better than Gene's because she had Latinos. Is it just me or does it always seem like her lipstick is freshly applied?
Everyone calls their rich friends and the candidates seem really into the challenge. David Hyde Pierce shows up to help Empresario promote the show for which he won a Tony, Nely's connections donate $5,000, Trace Adkins calles a woman that he met last week and she donates $5,000, and in a nail-biting finish two flight attendants from Virgin bring Piers Morgan a check for $10,000. Bob Sagat pays a visit to Hydra but doesn't say anything crass. Bummer.
To see a video of Piers in a special outfit and the spoiler just
I think Piers just took the cake as King Arthur and loved how many times Vinnie said "boom" in such a short time. Back in the boardroom, Vince McMahon announces that the women raised $31,757 and Ivanka broke the news that the men raised $33,300. The men won again! Hydra votes Piers as this week's MVP and I'd have to agree.
Marilu thinks the problem is that the men are always giving 100 percent and the women have a big imbalance. Jennie Finch and Carol Alt had the "garbage jobs" that nobody else wanted, and Omarosa thinks Carol should go because she "flies below the radar." Carol retorts that "Omarosa is weak because she tries to make others feel insecure by exploiting their weaknesses." Good point. Cleavage is becoming Omarosa's signature accessory.
In the judges' deliberations Ivanka says that Marilu is Empresario's only hope and I think she's right. Jennie and Carol join Marilu in the boardroom, and Jennie admits that she can't compete and isn't accustomed to such a harsh environment. Donald fires Jennie and tells her that it just isn't her world, but he likes her world better. Everyone agrees that firing Jennie was the right choice, including me.
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Remember what happened when Katrina hit the Gulf Coast? Communities became disaster areas. Local and national businesses could no longer produce. Katrina rippled through the economy across the nation! Entities in many other states with concentrations of customers and vendors in the Gulf Coast area felt the fury of her economic force.
Bank closures, economic downturns in various industries, cities and states teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, high unemployment with little recovery, investment bankers promoting risky and fraudulent schemes, out of control government spending, and businesses dying because credit lines are unavailable are all indications of what some have called "a perfect storm!" Now, an oil spill is threatening the livelihood of thousands in the Gulf Coast region again! As recent history has shown, these economic troubles often appear as quickly as a "thief in the night."
As I travel to present live seminars across the nation, CPAs from all sizes of CPA firms tell me their clients are feeling the effects of the times. Many CPAs, however, have learned to look for these "troubles" before the troubles find them. In the past year, some of my seminars and webcasts have focused on "going concern" issues, particularly in the area of audit planning. Not only are we looking at our client's operations to foresee possible going concern issues, we also should be looking at their customers and vendors. Concentrations!
We've always considered concentrations for footnote disclosures; bank deposits over insured limits, major customers and vendors, investments and key person life insurance are examples. It's time to drill deeper (no pun intended)!
Client concentrations in geographic regions, in certain industries, in city and state governments and in any organization that may be subject to current troubled economic and environmental events and circumstances should be on accountants' and auditors' "watch lists." Planning for future engagements, particularly audits and reviews, should include scrutiny and thorough investigation of any such concentrations.
Foreknowledge of significant concentrations helps accountants and auditors to ensure footnote disclosures are proper, to plan evidence collection strategies well in advance of engagements and to assist clients in taking action to resolve troubled situations before they occur. Investigation of concentrations may be one of our best defenses against the risk of material misstatement in audits and reviews. Post a comment and let us know how you're preparing for concentrations.


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text: Carmike Cinemas, Inc. (NASDAQ: CKEC), a leading DIGITAL cinema and 3-D motion picture exhibitor, is announcing the December 13 th unveiling of its newest entertainment complex in the Bradley Square Mall located at 200 Sgt. Paul Huff Parkway NW in Cleveland, TN. The new twelve-screen theatre complex will seat over 2,300 guests in luxurious comfort and features the critically acclaimed "BIGD" auditorium. "We're providing the ultimate entertainment experience that centerpieces large format Digital with bigger screens, bigger and better sound, and the finest in-theater seating for cutting- edge presentation and the definitive enjoyment of our audiences," notes David Passman, Carmike's President and CEO. The new facility is equipped with auditoriums featuring state-of-the-art stadium style seating, with comfortable high-back luxury chairs, in addition to retractable armrests and convenient cup holders. The Bradley Square 12 also contains large, wall-to-wall screens, as well as DLP DIGITAL projection and DIGITAL sound. The new theatre has an upscale lobby, multiple concession areas featuring Coca-Cola Freestyle drink centers and an indoor box office, so filmgoers can escape the elements. The Bradley Square 12 will open at 7:00 pm on Thursday December 13 th featuring a selection of recent blockbuster movies throughout the complex. This special gala charity grand opening night at the beautifully appointed theatre will feature $1 admission with $1 small popcorn and $1 small drinks, with all proceeds benefiting The Ronald McDonald House, which provides a "home away from home" for families of seriously ill children receiving treatment at nearby hospitals. The House provides a comfortable, supportive, temporary residence near the medical facility where family members can sleep, eat, relax and find support from other families in similar situations. The gala event will be promoted by area radio and television stations. Cleveland is one of the first communities in the nation to offer theatregoers the exciting new "BIGD" format recently launched by Carmike Cinemas, an industry leader in Digital projection and 3-D technology since 2006. The "BIGD" auditorium includes a wall-to-wall screen measuring 60 feet wide and nearly three stories tall, the latest in surround sound and Digital projection of both 2-D and 3-D features. In technical terms, Carmike's "BIGD" DIGITAL experience is powered by a cutting-edge Christie Brilliant 3-D flash projector. The end result is a light output of 30,000 lumens, creating a picture quality with noticeably higher resolution than HD. To further enhance the experience, the custom QSC DIGITAL audio system is tuned to a 7.1 speaker array with 16 channels and the ability to upgrade to 11.1, a revolution in surround sound technology with DIGITAL audio processing supported by quad-amplified, 4-way speakers and 21-inch subwoofers. The new, expanded configuration at the Bradley Square 12 promises a new gold standard in unparalleled picture clarity and deep resonating DIGITAL sound.


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The Los Angeles Kings acquired left wing Dan Carcillo from the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday in exchange for a sixth-round draft pick in 2015. The draft pick could become a fifth-round selection if Carcillo appears in 40 or more games with the Kings in 2013-14.
One of the Kings' main goals this offseason was to add more depth on the left side of the ice. Carcillo, who played in only 51 games over the past two seasons due to injury, will likely fit in on the third or fourth line.
At 6-0, 205 pounds, Carcillo meets the team's need for a physical left wing, and comes at a reasonably low cost. He is set to make $825,000 next season in the final year of his current contract.
The 28-year-old enforcer has tallied twice as many hits (387) than games played (184) over the past four seasons. He recorded career highs of 11 goals and 13 assists with the Phoenix Coyotes during the 2007-08 season, but had just one goal and two assists in 23 regular-season games in 2013.
While the Kings have added some help at the left wing position over the summer, they lost unrestricted free-agent Dustin Penner on Tuesday after the veteran forward signed a one-year deal to rejoin the Anaheim Ducks.
The Kings' roster is far from set, as the team still has two players (Trevor Lewis and Jordan Nolan) awaiting arbitration hearings, and another restricted free agent (Kyle Clifford) still unsigned.Tags: Chicago Blackhawks, Dan Carcillo, Hockey, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Kings, NHL


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WAUCONDA — ``Traveling Kite Tales,`` a traveling exhibit of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, will be shown through May 30 at the Lake County Museum near Wauconda.
The exhibit traces the history and dynamics of flying kites, a popular recreation this time of the year.
A special program of stunt kite flying will be presented May 9 by JC Kites of Libertyville. The 11 a.m. program will be at the museum, located in the Lakewood Forest Preserve near Wauconda.


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Student work
Wheaton students and faculty work closely together. Here are some examples.
Timothy Barker, astronomy professor, co-wrote the article "Rotation Period Determination for 247 Eukrate" in the Minor Planet Bulletin, with faculty technology liaison Gary Ahrendts and Shelby Delos '14 (2012).
Mark LeBlanc, professor of computer science and mathematics, co-authored a paper with professors Michael Kahn (statistics), and Betsey Dyer (biology) and students Emily Baldwin '13 and Kelsey Hichens '13. LeBlanc presented "Classifying Stages of Retention and Loss of DNA Acquired by Horizontal Transfer between Bacteria and Archaea" on April 23, 2012, in Xi'an, China, at World DNA and Genome Day, an international bioinformatics conference.
In this video, Daniel Demeo '12 explains the work he is doing with Yohannes Tsehay '14 and Professor John Collins.


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More than 25,000 security personnel will be deployed in Delhi to protect senior politicians and other VIPs.
The Republic Day parade features colourful marches by contingents from the army, navy, air force, paramilitary and police organisations.
The parade will be part of celebrations to mark the 56th anniversary of India's foundation as a republic.
In Delhi, extra policemen has been deployed at airports, railway stations, embassies and tourist spots.
Nearly 600 commandos from the elite National Security Guard and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police have been deployed in the capital.
The authorities say that there will also be security personnel posted on high-rise buildings, and bunkers have been set up along the parade route.
A senior police official said extensive plans have been made to counter "any eventuality".
The function in Delhi is expected to be attended by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the President, APJ Abdul Kalam and other senior leaders and foreign dignitaries.
Heavy security arrangements are also being made in the cities of Mumbai (Bombay), Calcutta and Madras (Chennai) for Wednesday's celebrations.
Security has been beefed up in Indian-administered Kashmir, particularly in Srinagar and Jammu, where official functions are scheduled to be held.
'Black Day'
In the past, militants have tried to disrupt official functions on the occasion by carrying out blasts or firing rockets.
Separatist groups have declared Republic Day a "Black Day", and have asked people to close their businesses.
Meanwhile, a leading student group in India's north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh has said it will join the separatist rebel groups of the region in boycotting Republic Day celebrations.
The All Arunachal Pradesh Students Union said the central government has not done anything to deport around 60,000 Chakma and Hajong people who they say unlawfully came to the state from what was then East Pakistan.
The students union is demanding that the Chakmas and Hajongs should be ejected from the state because they are unwelcome foreigners.
Six other separatist groups in north-east India have called for a boycott of Indian Republic Day celebrations to protest against what they describe as India's colonial control of the region.
Security arrangements throughout the area has been beefed up, particularly in the state of Assam, where rebels have set off at least seven explosions recently.


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Upon completing this tutorial, the user will be familiar with performing an optimal shape design of a 2D geometry. The initial geometry chosen for the tutorial is a NACA 0012 airfoil that is rotating at transonic speed in inviscid fluid. This tutorial is mean to be an introduction for using the components of SU2 for shape design. Consequently, the following SU2 tools will be showcased in this tutorial:
SU2_CFD - performs the direct and the adjoint flow simulations
- SU2_DOT - projects the adjoint surface sensitivities into the design space to obtain the gradient
- SU2_DEF - deforms the geometry and mesh with changes in the design variables during the shape optimization process
- shape_optimization.py - automates the entire shape design process by executing the SU2 tools and optimizer
The resources for this tutorial can be found in the TestCases/optimization_euler/rotating_naca0012 directory. You will need the configuration file (rotating_NACA0012.cfg) and the mesh file (mesh_NACA0012_rot.su2).
The following tutorial will walk you through the steps required when performing shape design for the rotating airfoil using SU2. It is assumed that you have already obtained and compiled SU2_CFD, SU2_DOT, and SU2_DEF. The design loop is driven by the shape_optimization.py script, and thus Python along with the NumPy and SciPy Python modules are required for this tutorial. If you have yet to complete these requirements, please see the Download and Installation pages.
This example uses a 2D airfoil geometry (initially the NACA 0012) which is rotating counter-clockwise in still air.
Problem Setup
This numerical experiment for the rotating airfoil was set up such that transonic shocks would appear on the upper and lower surfaces causing drag. The goal of the design process is to minimize the coefficient of drag (Cd) by changing the shape of the airfoil with a constraint on the thickness of the airfoil. In other words, we would like to eliminate the shocks along the airfoil surface. The details of the rotating airfoil experiment are given in Figure (1).
Figure (1): Details for the rotating airfoil numerical experiment.
Mesh Description
The mesh from the Quick Start Tutorial is used again here as the initial geometry. It consists of a far-field boundary and an Euler wall along the airfoil surface. The specific airfoil is the NACA 0012, and more information on this airfoil can be found in the Quick Start Tutorial. The mesh can be seen in Figure (2).
Figure (2): Far-field and zoom view of the initial computational mesh.
Configuration File Options
Several of the key configuration file options for this simulation are highlighted here. SU2 features a number of ways to compute flows on dynamic grids, including moving wall boundary conditions, calculations in a rotating frame, or unsteady flows on dynamic meshes. Specifying a simulation in a rotating frame (non-inertial) can be accomplished with the following options:
In SU2, the governing equations (Euler, Navier-Stokes, and RANS) can be solved within a rotating reference frame which offers an efficient, steady solution method for flows around rotating bodies in axisymmetric flow. A simulation can be executed in a rotating frame by choosing the ROTATING_FRAME option for GRID_MOVEMENT_KIND. Two additional pieces of data must be supplied: the location of the rotation center (x,y,z) in the coordinate system of the computational mesh, and the angular velocity (rotation rate around the x-axis, rotation rate around the y-axis, rotation rate around the z-axis). For the rotating airfoil problem, the airfoil has a chord of 1 meter and the origin of the coordinate system (0,0,0) is at the leading edge of the airfoil. We set the rotation center to be 32 chord lengths below the center of the airfoil. The angular velocity is in the z-direction (out of the page) and has the units of radians per second. Lastly, since the Mach number is 0.0 for this problem, we will use the value given in MACH_MOTION to compute the non-dimensional force coefficients.
Optimal shape design specification:
Here, we define the objective function for the optimization as drag without any constraints. The scale value of 0.01 is chosen to aid the optimizer in taking a physically appropriate first step (i.e., not too large that the subsequent calculations go unstable due to a non-physical deformation). We are imposing a constraint on the maximum thickness, but it is also possible, for instance, to add a lift constraint.
The DEFINITION_DV is the list of design variables. For the rotating airfoil problem, we want to minimize the drag by changing the surface profile shape. To do so, we define a set of Hicks-Henne bump functions. Each design variable is separated by a semicolon, although note that there is no final semicolon at the end of the list. The first value in the parentheses is the variable type, which is 1 for a Hicks-Henne bump function. The second value is the scale of the variable (typically left as 1.0). The name between the vertical bars is the marker tag where the variable deformations will be applied. Only the airfoil surface will be deformed in this problem. The final two values in the parentheses specify whether the bump function is applied to the upper (1) or lower (0) side and the x-location of the bump, respectively. Note that there are many other types of design variables available in SU2, and each has their own specific input format.
Running SU2
A continuous adjoint methodology for obtaining surface sensitivities is implemented for several equation sets within SU2. For this problem, a formulation based on the Euler equations in a rotating reference frame is used. After solving the direct flow problem, the adjoint problem is also solved which offers an efficient approach for calculating the gradient of an objective function with respect to a large set of design variables. This leads directly to a gradient-based optimization framework. With each design iteration, the direct and adjoint solutions are used to compute the objective function and gradient, and the optimizer drives the shape changes with this information in order to minimize the objective. Two other SU2 tools are used to compute the gradient from the adjoint solution (SU2_DOT) and deform the computational mesh (SU2_DEF) during the process.
To run this design case, follow these steps at a terminal command line:
- Move to the directory containing the config file (rot_NACA0012.cfg) and the mesh file (mesh_NACA0012_rot.su2). Assuming that SU2 tools were compiled, installed, and that their install location was added to your path, the shape_optimization.py script, SU2_CFD, SU2_DOT, and SU2_DEF should all be available.
- Execute the shape optimization script by entering "python shape_optimization.py -f rot_NACA0012.cfg" at the command line. Again, note that Python, NumPy, and SciPy are all required to run the script.
- The python script will drive the optimization process by executing flow solutions, adjoint solutions, gradient projection, and mesh deformation in order to drive the design toward an optimum. The optimization process will cease when certain tolerances set within the SciPy optimizer are met.
- Solution files containing the flow and surface data will be written for each flow solution and adjoint solution and can be found in the DESIGNS directory that is created. The flow solutions are in the DESIGNS/DSN_*/DIRECT/ directories. The file named history_project.plt (or history_project.csv for ParaView) will contain the functional values of interest resulting from each evaluation during the optimization.
Figure (3): Mach number contours for the airfoil rotating in still air.
Figure (5): Pressure contours showing transonic shocks on the initial design.
Figure (4): Adjoint density contours on the initial design.
Figure (6): Pressure contours around the final airfoil design with MAX_THICKNESS > 0.12.
Note that the shocks have essentially been removed during the design process.
Figure (7): Cp distribution and profile shape comparison for the initial and final airfoil designs.
Figure (8): Function evaluation history.


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IF a property deal is done in London, Lenny Cole (Wilkinson) wants in.
So when a Russian ogliarch - with shades of a certain Chelsea boss - arrives in town with a lucrative real estate plan - pound signs appear in Lenny's eyes.
The problem is other equally unscrupulous villains also spot the opportunity.
As Lenny starts the job of brokering a deal, the billionaire's accountant Stella (Newton) sees this as a chance to make herself some money and calls in a local petty criminal, One Two (Butler) to get the job done.
But in typical Ritchie fashion, nothing goes to plan for everyone involved...
Ritchie reinvigorated the British crime-genre with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, but Swept Away, which he filmed with wife Madonna, proved a massive flop. Fortunately 'RocknRolla' is a return to form, with a clever, inter-weaving story line, a colourful cast and a satisfyingly dramatic finale.
It's a fast paced story packed with high jinx, clever lines, comedy and violence and is sure to please Ritchie fans.
6/10 Not his best, but good enough.


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After the group cancels their upcoming concerts, tourmate Jeff Beck announces he'll still play three already-scheduled shows on August 29, 30 and 31.
ZZ Top has been forced to cancel the remaining dates on their co-headlining tour with Jeff Beck after bassist Dusty Hill got injured in an incident earlier this week. According to promoter Live Nation, Hill slipped and fell on his hip inside his tour bus on Tuesday night, August 26.
The 65-year-old musician sustained an injury that required "immediate attention." Following the fall, the group decided to temporarily suspend the forthcoming shows, including the one scheduled for August 27 in Clarkson, Michigan, to give him time to recover.
ZZ Top was initially scheduled to co-headline the tour with Beck until September 13. After the band canceled their upcoming appearances, Beck announced he'd still play several already-scheduled dates. He's expected to headline the shows in Salamanca, New York on August 29, in Atlantic City on August 30 and in Mashantucket, Connecticut on August 31.
"While we are very disappointed to not continue this tour with ZZ Top, our thoughts and best wishes are for Dusty to have a speedy recovery," Beck said in a release.


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I'll have more in a bit, but what a game up here in West Point. Check my Twitter timeline @LoHudInsider for all the dramatic details.
First, here's my update on today's game:
Sunday's games –
Class AA state regional final
At Christl Arena, West Point:
New Rochelle 63, Kingston 60
Class AA state regional final
New Rochelle 63, Kingston 60: In another dramatic finish, the New Rochelle boys basketball team beat Section 9's Kingston 63-60 in the Class AA state regional final at Christl Arena. The Huguenots advanced to the state final four for the first time since 2005. They will play Northport (Section 11) at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 16 at the Glens Falls Civic Center in the state semifinals.
Senior Joe Clarke led New Rochelle (15-9) with 31 points, including a three-point play with 7.0 seconds left off a pass from teammate Khalil Edney. The Huguenots had trailed 60-58 at the time after Jordan DeCicco put Kingston (18-3) ahead on a layup over Edney with 44 seconds to play.
Edney, whose 60-foot heave at the buzzer gave New Rochelle a dramatic 61-60 victory over Mount Vernon a week ago in the Section 1 final, finished with 10 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists. Junior Derek Dorn added 16 points, 12 of them in the second half.
Saturday, March 16
Class AA state regional final
At Glens Falls Civic Center:
New Rochelle vs. Northport (Section 11), 12:30 p.m.


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Social Gaming Site SCVNGR Goes Global
Google-backed social startup SCVNGR has expanded overseas using the new Google Places API, the company said on Tuesday.
SCVNGR said in blog post that client challenges can now be tied to any location on the world, in any language. The startup allows users to check in to a location like FourSquare, but allows users to accumulate points and win discounts by completing tasks and games, such as snapping a self-portrait of the user within a given location.
"Now at millions of locations across the globe, you can check-in, snap picks, do the social check-in, complete and build challenges, unlock badges and rewards, and, most importantly, have fun!" SCVNGR wrote.
SCVNGR is using the Google Places API, the API behind Google Places, a developer preview API that replaced the Google Local Business Center in April. Google also recently that it has sent photographers to many of the businesses covered by Places to allow visitors a better idea of their interiors and what they sell. The Places API allows developers to tap into the Google database of locations, down into the individual businesses.
For now, SCVNGR will use English as its common language, but challenges can be posted in any local language, the site said.
"Our goal has always been to build the game layer on top of the world. But until today, we were missing a critical component... the rest of the world," said Seth Priebatsch, SCVNGR's so-called chief ninja, in a statement. "We're excited to go live globally today, and to do so with the best location database on the planet."
In Dec. 2009, Priebatsch and SCVNGR received $4 million in funding from Google Ventures.


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"THERE has been a real identification with what people are suffering. It was, 'What can we do to help make these people's lives better?'
"We have just been through the dreadful financial crisis that is a product of greed and self-absorption. Now we can see there is goodness in our community.
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"And there is community."
In these words, Simon Gipson, the principal of St Michael's Grammar School in St Kilda, has encapsulated the generosity shown by ordinary Australians faced with the extraordinary tragedy in Victoria.
From school yards to law firms, bingo halls to boat sheds, Australians and especially Victorians are doing whatever they can to help bushfire victims.
Mr Gipson says he has been overwhelmed by his students' heartfelt but practical response to the tragedy, from senior students wanting to fund tradesmen to work on reconstruction, to the five-year-old prep student who wanted to give books to children whose schoolbooks had been lost.
"Everyone knows someone or has a relation or friend who has been directly affected," he says.
Benefit concerts, morning teas, sausage sizzles, whip-arounds, raffles, auctions, cricket matches, golf days, parma nights, every possible kind of fund-raiser has been launched by an army of volunteers to provide food, clothing, shelter and, most importantly, cash.
For many, they are the fires that were so far away, and yet so close. Everybody, it seems, has been struck by tragedy, knows somebody struck by tragedy, or knows somebody metres or minutes away from being struck by tragedy.
"Everyone around the country has just been stunned," says Denise Goldfinch, projects manager at the Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre in suburban Preston. "We just haven't seen a natural disaster of this proportion before. It's so personal.
"We've got senior citizens groups here where they've all thrown in $50. They're all pensioners who don't have a lot of money but they want to do it. They have so little themselves, but they are moved by the dire circumstances."
Kyneton small-farm owner Chris Dingle has offered to put up a family in a six-bed holiday cabin on his property. "We've been very lucky," says Mr Dingle. "The recent Malmsbury fire was fairly dramatic for us. We know if we'd had the winds that day that we had last Saturday, we'd be looking for somewhere to live."
Far from the dusty countryside, children at St James' Primary School in Gardenvale asked teachers if they could raise funds this week with a day when all the students dress in red for fire or blue for water. They want to buy toys for children who have lost everything.
Principal Maureena Tilley says the fire claimed two of the school's former students.
The children at Upfield Primary in Broadmeadows are donating fruit that is distributed each day to the bushfire victims.
"We're having a fund-raising sausage sizzle this week," says the school's business manager Helen Lusher. "The staff get the newspapers every day and they've been making it part of the daily program so that the children are aware of what's happening.
"We sent a notice home asking for clothing and children's toys. We've already collected several car-loads worth … Most of our families are on health care cards, but they know they're helping people who now have nothing."
The Frankston-based Boavida brothers were children when they fled East Timor after the Indonesian occupation in 1975, spending years as refugees in Indonesia and Portugal before settling in Victoria.
The images of so many children devastated by the bushfires has hit them hard.
Their response: their reggae-influenced band, Kore-An, will participate in a Frankston benefit concert on Friday, February 27.
"They're so affected by it," says Pam Boavida, wife of one of the brothers, Pascoal, and manager of the band. "They were just kids themselves when they had to leave everything behind. They'll be performing songs about hanging in there when you're uprooted and everything seems bleak."
Warrnambool council tourism manager Peter Abbott has been amazed by the response to a benefit concert he is organising.
"I've been swamped with offers of accommodation and holiday package prizes, we've got two popular local bands offering their services and staff are volunteering their time. Community service clubs are helping with catering, and the emails are flying around. I'm starting to get invited to my own concert!"
Even more than other events that have spurred outpourings of public grief and concern, such as September 11, the death of Princess Diana, the Bali bombings and the Asian tsunami, people feel powerful identification with the victims, says psychiatrist and trauma expert Dr Paul Valent.
Dr Valent, who led one of the first mental health teams to assist survivors after the Ash Wednesday fires, says the unprecedented deluge of donations and offers of help reflect generosity, and also elements of "survivor guilt", akin to that experienced by Ash Wednesday survivors who lost neither family nor property.
When talking to a group of survivors in a pub in Mount Macedon after Ash Wednesday, Dr Valent asked them what was the worst thing. "And one man said: 'That my house is still standing (while others are not).' Everyone around him nodded."
The swirling emotions will take many months and years to resolve, but for now there's work to be done.
The Geelong Rotary Club is holding "night ghost tours" of the Old Geelong Gaol. The Melbourne Welsh Male Choir, which lost a member, is donating all proceeds from its St David's Day concert in Ringwood. Staff at the Melbourne Children's Court are holding a morning tea on Friday to raise money.
"You feel so impotent," says court liaison officer Janet Matthew. "If you could rush up there and start serving meals, you would. But you can't go up there. So the best thing to do is give money. We were only 30 kilometres from the fires, but we didn't even see a wisp of smoke and you felt so remote.
"We were watching the fires on television — and it was only happening up the road. It was on the news all over the world. But it was our tragedy."


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Oldest known planets in Universe found
Astronomers have discovered the oldest known planets from the early days of the Universe, orbiting a star that is almost on our cosmic doorstep.
The ancient solar system is thought to have formed around 12.8 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Two newly detected exoplanets lie just 375 light-years away from the Earth, within our own Milky Way galaxy. But their host star was born when our galaxy was still forming.
European scientists used a giant telescope in Chile to detect two planets orbiting a star labelled HIP 11952 in the constellation of Cetus, the mythological sea monster. One planet, HIP 11952c, is the size of Jupiter while the other, HIP 11952b, is around three times the size of Jupiter. They orbit their own sun in 290 days and seven days. It is possible that there are smaller rocky worlds, though there is no direct evidence yet for these so they remain purely hypothetical. But if there was intelligent alien life inhabiting this planetary system, it could be far more advanced than that on Earth, having been around much longer.
The star raises fresh questions about how planets form because the star contains very little heavy elements other than hydrogen and helium. That is because there were almost no other elements around in the early universe. Usually planets form from cosmic clouds that include heavier chemical elements which have been produced over time inside stars and then blasted across space in a violent explosion called a supernova.
Johny Setiawan, who led the team that discovered the ancient planets, told Skymania News that they were around a hundred million years older than the previous record-holders found orbiting a dead supernova remnant called a pulsar. But he added: "HIP 11952 is still alive, not a dead star. It is also relatively very close at 375 light-years. We can imagine it is like finding an archeological discovery in our own backyard."
On the possibility of advanced life, Dr Setiawan added: "If there is already intelligent civilization, it will have watched how the Universe started expanding after the Big Bang and how galaxies and the first stars formed. But, I wonder what kind of "blood" they have without iron element – at the time, there were almost no heavy elements available."
A paper reporting the discovery has been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. More than 750 so-called exoplanets have been discovered orbiting other stars since the first was detected less than 20 years ago.
The new planets were discovered using a spectrograph instrument on a telescope with a 2.2-meter light-collecting mirror at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla site in Chile. They gave their presence away by causing a tiny wobble in their parent star's position as they orbited it.
The star's telephone-number name comes from its entry in the Hipparcos star catalogue, a listing of stars whose positions were measured by the Hipparcos satellite. Planets are named by adding letters to the star's catalogue number, starting with b.
Dr Setiawan's team from the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, has specialised in studying ancient, so-called metal-poor stars, meaning they are made up of just hydrogen and helium. Last year they reported finding a "hot Jupiter" in orbit around a red giant star that is thought to have been captured by our Milky Way from another galaxy.
He told us: "I'm not just looking for new planets, I'm interested in how planetary systems evolve, to find a sort of history of the life of stars and their planets. To do that, we have to look at stars which are not like the Sun and we have to search for planets around stars different from the Sun."


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It's my 14th wedding anniversary. Yay for me and Loving Husband! For those who don't know the story, I fell in love with Loving Husband To Be when I was 15. Of course, he A) didn't know who I was and B) had a girlfriend, so ours was a forbidden romance. By the time I was 17, Loving Husband knew who I was, but, given that he was (and is) a year older, he was also off to college while I was merely a senior in high school. I drew a picture of him (yes, I can draw; it's one of The Many Secrets of Jackie Kessler–I'm holding out for a Lifetime Television special) and gave it to him before he went off to school. (He still has that picture. It's framed, and on the wall in his office.) Fast forward: I'm now 24, and we get reintroduced when we're both advisors for the same youth group we used to be student members of. (And I just ended a sentence with a preposition — I am SO DARING!) We start dating. We fall in love. We get married. Fourteen years later, we're still married, with two amazing kids and a cranky old cat (although Loving Husband married into the cat; the feline and I were a package deal).
To celebrate true love, I'm giving away a copy of LOSS!
Okay, that sounded better in my head.
Anyway, I'm just about done reviewing page proofs of LOSS (the book will hit the shelves in March 2012), and I have to say, I'm really proud of this book. I think it has the best ending of all the books I've written to date (including Hotter Than Hell, and I **loved** how that book ended). Yeah, I know, I shouldn't toot my own horn, but to heck with modesty: IT'S MY ANNIVERSARY!!!
So yes, I'm going to give away an advance reading copy of LOSS to one lucky commenter! Comment about true love — your own, or your favorite from a story, be it a book, a movie, a television show, history, or what have you. I'll randomly pick a winner over the weekend; the winner will be announced next week. ARCs are due mid-October. Rah!


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The moment a new technology reaches maturity and morphs from novelty to the mainstream usually coincides with the moment when it no longer needs to be explained in relation to something else. For the smartphone industry, that moment may well have come a few days ago.
Consider the example of horsepower, which is a ridiculous unit of measurement. Like feet and Fahrenheit, it was originally calibrated using a wildly unreliable point of reference – namely, the power of a horse. Today, scientists and engineers prefer the more scientifically dignified watt as a measurement of power output, and horsepower is largely used only to describe the brawniness of car engines.
But in the eighteenth century, horsepower was absolutely necessary. Most people weren't familiar with newfangled steam engines, but they were familiar with horses. As such, it made perfect sense to explain the new technology by using the old one as a metaphor.
Earlier this month, Apple announced the launch of iOS 7, the latest iteration of the operating system that powers the company's tablets and smartphones. The new operating system marks the most significant overhaul of the software since the release of the original iPhone in 2007. But it also marks the moment Apple decided that smartphones have become ubiquitous – no longer an exotic novelty that needs explaining.
iOS 7 won't be available for public consumption until some time in the fall, at which point Apple will probably bundle it with a new iPhone and/or iPad. But the beta version is available to you now if you are a developer or know one. That's the version I've had on my phone for almost a week.
Since this is beta software, keep in mind the following caveats:
1: This isn't a traditional review. Beta versions get a free pass on any bugs and glitches.
2: Some of the features mentioned below will almost certainly change between now and when the public-consumption version comes out. This is especially true for the visuals, which are probably easier to change than the core software functionality, and which Apple designers probably never stop arguing about anyway.
Within a few hours of using iOS 7, it becomes clear that the software's most useful update is probably the new control centre. When the phone is locked or unlocked, swiping up from the bottom bezel brings up the control centre, which allows for quick access to a host of tools and settings that don't rely on personal information, such as the flashlight, calculator and camera. The control centre also allows a user to toggle WiFi, Bluetooth, Airplane Mode and various music-player controls.
Swiping down from the top bezel, on the other hand, brings up the new and improved notification screen. This offers a quick look at the calendar and the weather forecast, among other things. Between them, the control centre and notification screen make the iPhone far more efficient. If iOS 7 came with no other improvements, these alone would make it worth downloading.
Other fairly useful upgrades are littered throughout the software. The tedious business of manually updating apps is largely gone, thanks to automatic updates. Apple's maps app has been greatly upgraded, and is no longer a sad joke (although Google Maps is still better). Siri now understands a bunch of new commands, and comes with male and female voices, if for some reason you really need the talking computer in your phone to sound like a man.
Most importantly, iOS 7 now offers something that feels a lot like true multitasking. Double-tapping on the physical home button at any time brings up a scrolling list of all active apps. Flinging the apps upwards shuts them down. Just as all that swiping-from-the-bezel stuff feels like it was copied from the latest version of the BlackBerry operating system, the whole multitasking implementation feels a lot like the multitasking on the old Palm Pre.
(As an aside, it is worth mentioning that WebOS, the software that powered the Palm Pre, is perhaps the most underrated smartphone operating system ever made, and was easily two or three years ahead of its time. It is an absolute shame that Hewlett-Packard bought Palm for a truckload of money in 2010 and then proceeded to do exactly zero interesting things with the company).
There are countless new design choices throughout the operating system. Some of them are very good (the lock screen keypad; the new weather app with its subtly animated backgrounds). Others are not.
Take the lock screen. At the bottom of the screen, there's a line of text that says "slide to unlock." Directly below the text is an arrow pointing up. I doubt I'm the only person who saw those two prompts and took them to mean that you should slide your finger from the bottom up to unlock the phone. But no, these are two separate items – you slide from the arrow up to display the quick-access menu; you slide from the text to the right to show the unlock keypad. After a while, you'll undoubtedly get used to this, but on its face, it's just not the most intuitive thing in the world.
Various apps have also been given functionality makeovers. The photos app, for example, now organizes your pictures under categories called "Moments" and "Collections." Basically, these are just fancy names for tools that group your photos by location and date. The clock app icon is now a working clock, in case you don't have the time to look a dozen pixels up the screen and check the digital clock there.
Overall, iOS 7 is a vast improvement over its predecessors in terms of functionality. But it is in the superficial stuff – the way the operating system looks – that Apple's customers will see the most jarring changes.
The overall iOS 7 design scheme is a kind of hyperactive minimalism. Much has been made of Apple CEO Tim Cook's decision eight months ago to make Jon Ive, the man who designed the iPhone and iPad, the new head of Apple's software design. This meant, in effect, that Apple overhauled the look of its mobile operating system in less than a year, which is lightning fast by corporate standards.
In the world of hardware, Mr. Ive's definitive hallmark is simplicity. Before the iPhone, most cell phones were clunky and laden with dozens of buttons and switches. After the iPhone, the new normal for phone design is a single flat pane of glass. Virtually every company making smartphones today, from Nokia to Samsung to Research In Motion, should probably be paying Mr. Ive royalties.
That same minimalism is on display throughout the iOS 7 design scheme. Menu items are mostly text-based or very simple icons (a "+" to add playlists or calender items, a "<" to move back to previous menus or web pages). The result is a much cleaner operating system, but also one that's based on the assumption that you know how iPhones – and, to a certain extent, smartphones in general – work.
The minimalism works best in self-contained sections of the software. The keypad used to unlock the phone, for example, is simple and beautiful and does exactly what it's supposed to do. In more complex settings, such as when apps have to talk to one another, or when you're dealing with dozens of menus and sub-menus, the effect is harder to recreate.
Strangely, this design minimalism is paired with a colour scheme that can best be described as 80's Spandex. Almost all the app icons contain bright, high-contrast blues and reds and cyans – basically, the non-neon versions of colours you'd normally expect to see on neon signs. I happen to like this brighter, cheery look, but some users are inevitably going to find it cartoonish.
Generally, Mr. Ive and his team have opted to get rid of a lot of the minor design elements in iOS 6 icons in favour of streamlined representations of whatever an app is supposed to do. Two icons in particular stand out. The first is the photos app, which is represented by a mesh of various colours in the rough shape of a flower. In reality, the only reason I think of it as a representation of a flower at all is because the previous icon used to be a flower – it's just a bunch of coloured shapes arranged symmetrically.
The Game Center icon is even more abstract. In iOS 6, the app is represented by four shapes related to games, such as the horse from chess or the rocket ship from... some game involving rocket ships. In iOS 7, the Game Center icon is made up of four brightly coloured soap bubbles. This inexplicable icon has me convinced that somewhere in Apple's user interface design studio, there is a big red button that says, "DO A RANDOM THING," and perhaps one of the designers accidentally leaned on it during the creation of the Game Center visuals.
And so we're left looking for some kind of overriding design principle, something that explains why iOS 7 turned out looking the way it does. Minimalism doesn't quite work as an explanation, because some icons, such as the camera, are actually more visually convoluted than the iOS 6 versions. Ultra-modernism doesn't work, because the icons for apps such as Music and Videos use old-fashioned metaphors (a musical note and a clapperboard, respectively), while others, such as the camera and Newsstand, look downright retro.
The only way that the iOS 7 visual language makes sense is if its designers' overarching principle was abstraction.
A few days ago, I was talking to Matt Frehner, one of the Globe's and Mail's mobile development wizards, about skeuomorphism. This is the fancy name given to the design process by which digital things are represented visually with images of their real-world counterparts. Skeuomorphism is the reason almost every Save button on every word processor in the world has a drawing of a little floppy disk on it.
In the lead-up to the iOS 7 announcement, everyone expected Apple to ditch skeuomorphism – and, with some exceptions, the company appears to be doing just that. Matt suggested that the reason Apple's designers could leave that mode of thinking behind is because smartphones are no longer new or exotic. People know how the devices work. In much of the Western world, nobody even calls them smartphones any more – they're just phones.
Apple executives took a lot of jabs at the whole concept of skeuomorphism at the iOS 7 launch event. But in truth, making the digital world look like the physical one was necessary in the early days of the iPhone, when smartphones were still unfamiliar things. In fact, the idea of real-world metaphors has always been essential to new digital technology. Perhaps the best example of this is the most popular operating system in the world, Microsoft Windows.
But now that smartphones are on their way to becoming commodity products, and nobody's daunted by the idea of swiping a finger across the screen or asking Siri to look up the capital of Uruguay, Apple's designers can afford to speak in abstractions. Over time, other smartphone makers are going to follow suite.
For a glimpse at the future of smartphone interface design, look at the dashboard console in your car. To somebody who has never been inside a car before, almost all the icons on all the buttons will make no sense. But everybody is familiar with cars, and this allows for an efficiency of design language.
Nobody looks at the air-conditioning selector in a car and thinks, "Hey, this must be the button that fires a large arrow directly into the driver's crotch."
With iOS 7, Apple has come up with a new (and controversial) design that recognizes smartphones are no longer exotic gadgets that need to be explained with real-world metaphors. It has ditched its version of the absurd "horsepower" metric. Now the company's customers will have to wait a few more months to find out whether Apple is willing to take equally big risks with the design of its hardware.Report Typo/Error
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Stephen Lendman Infowars.com June 26, 2011 Economist Michael Hudson calls it "Replacing Economic Democracy with Financial Oligarchy" in a June 5 article by that title, saying: After being debt entrapped, or perhaps acquiescing to entrapment, the Papandreou government needs bailout help to pay bankers that entrapped them. Doing so, however, requires "initiat(ing) a class... »
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ENENews.com June 26th, 2011 Flood berm collapses at Nebraska nuclear plant, Associated Press, June 26, 2011: The had inspectors at the plant 20 miles north of Omaha when the 2,000-foot berm collapsed about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. Water surrounded the auxiliary and containment buildings at the plant, it said in a statement. ... »
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Joe Weisenthal BusinessInsider.com Jun. 26, 2011 Newsflash: The radioactive crisis near Fukushima isn't getting any better. This has been something we discussed in the last few weeks, but now there are some new disturbing details. From Japan Times: More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents... »
Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Prepper Dad? Even Robert Kiyosaki Is Warning That An Economic Collapse Is Coming
EconomicCollapseBlog.com Are you familiar with Robert Kiyosaki? He is best known for the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series of books. Over 26 million books authored by Kiyosaki have been sold and he is recognized as a financial expert by millions of people across the globe. Well, guess what? Even Robert Kiyosaki is warning that... »
Ft. Calhoun nuke plant now running on emergency generators as workers try to restore electricity — Power supply cut after water surrounded main electrical transformers
ENENews.com June 26th, 2011 Flood berm collapses at Nebraska nuclear plant, Associated Press, June 26, 2011: The berm's collapse didn't affect the reactor shutdown cooling or the spent fuel pool cooling, but the power supply was cut after water surrounded the main electrical transformers, the NRC said. Emergency generators powered the ... »
Nuclear flood threat: 1100 troops, 25,000 homes flooded, NRC chief onsite
. Deborah Dupre Examiner.com Emergency Update: At approximately 1:00am Sunday, June 26, the aqua-berm quickly constructed around Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station broke and electricity had to be cut. The plant is now reportedly running on emergency generators as workers try to restore electricity after water surrounded main electrical transformers. The auxiliary building at Ft.... »
Greek debt crisis prompts fears of EU disintegration
Toby Helm GuardianUK June 26, 2011 Norbert Schwaiger is a true veteran of EU summits. Now in his early 70s, the amiable German recalls with relish the triumphs and disasters from 34 years of service in Brussels as if they all happened yesterday. He chats about Delors, Kohl, Mitterrand, Chirac, Thatcher and the great... »
Economy Expected to Have Major Slide in Months Ahead
Motokoa Rich The New York Times June 26, 2011 A drumbeat of disappointing data about consumer behavior, factory sales and weak hiring in recent weeks has prompted economists to ratchet down their 2011 economic forecasts to as little as half what they expected at the beginning of the year. Two months ago, Goldman Sachs... »
Floodwaters Surge At Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant After Floodwall Fails
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Philips debuts the Airfryer – crispy fries without the fatView gallery - 6 images
Fried food without oil... is such a thing possible? According to Philips electronics, the answer is yes. Philips recently unveiled their Airfryer at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, where we were on hand to check the device out. It's still early to be making any sweeping statements, but this product could have a huge impact on the developed world's obesity epidemic.
Philips claims that the Airfryer uses patented Rapid Air technology to circulate hot air around a grill component. The result, we're told, is "perfect" cooked and crisped french fries, pastries, fish, you name it, with 80 percent less fat than would be present with oil frying. The cooking process takes just 12 minutes.
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Using the fryer's Food Separator accessory, users can fry several foods at once without mixing their flavors – nobody wants their apple fritters tasting like halibut. It also has an air filter, to keep the smells under control. The cooking temperature can be adjusted, up to 200C (392F).
The question, of course, is whether or not food prepared in the Airfryer tastes good. Philips reports a 75 percent approval rate in blind taste tests. We're hoping to try some air-fried french fries while at IFA and and will report back once we do.View gallery - 6 images


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One of the pictures shows little Kenneth James Carney wrapped in a knit blanket made by Demi Lovato's grandmother.
Tiffany Thornton welcomed a baby boy on August 14, and excitedly showed him off in a series of pictures posted on Twitter. "Hello world!! Meet KJ Carney born this morning at 6:52 am!" the former star of "Sonny with a Chance" tweeted on Tuesday.
The Tawni Hart depicter and her husband Christopher Carney named their little son Kenneth James Carney. The first-time mom posted pictures of the newborn with his daddy and his grandfather Kenneth Rey Carney. "Pure perfection in a mother's eyes," she gushed in one tweet.
"All of our friends and our fam are so wonderful and generous. Our hospital room is full of flowers and gifts :) #babyKJ #blessedbeyondbelief," she tweeted. "In awe of my beautiful husband @ChrisGCarney words can't even describe. He's an amazing dad! I am BEYOND blessed and so is KJ #love."
Tiffany received a lot of congratulatory messages and gifts including from Demi Lovato's grandmother. "Daddy holding KJ wrapped up in the blanket @ddlovato 's grandma made for KJ #toosweet," she wrote. "My Disney Channel family sent us flowers today #sosweet :) #lovethem."
Tiffany was engaged to Christopher back in December 2009. In November 2011, she married the court officer in Hot Springs National Park, Arizona. Her co-star Demi became one of the bridesmaids, while Wilmer Valderrama served as a groomsman.


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| Posting Summary: The University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy seeks a Director of Communications and Marketing to develop, implement, and assess a communications and marketing strategy that articulates and advances the School's mission and activities to key audiences. Reporting to the Director of Outreach and Engagement, the Director will lead consistent messaging, integrated approaches, and innovative strategies in increasing the visibility and impact of the School, and serve as the lead communications and marketing liaison with contacts both within and outside the University.
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A children's book that can help with "Clean up your room!"
Children don't like picking up after themselves. Playing is fun. Cleaning isn't.
Remember, it's parents who got their kids used to being cleaned up after! You wiped their faces and cleaned their diapers. It's parents then who have to figure out how to convey the message, "Those times are past. Now go clean up your room."
My book about picking up after yourself, How Cocoona Learned to Clean Even Better Than Her Parents, is a form of bibliotherapy. Bibliotherapy is the use of children's books to address problem behaviors.
Cocoona is the story of a little girl who just can't be bothered to clean up her room...or anything else. Nothing that Mom or Dad says or does helps in the slightest. That is, until Mom and Dad decide to become slobs too. Cocoona can't handle the chaos that results! She learns what it's like to have to live with someone else's mess.
Cocoona's story is fun with a message, but I've done something else to make sure that message really hits home.
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TEL AVIV (Jul. 9)
Labor Party leader Yitzhak Rabin signed coalition agreements Thursday with the Meretz and Shas parties, giving him a governing majority in the Knesset.
The United Torah Judaism bloc was expected to join the coalition by midday Sunday, and it looked as if Tsomet would climb aboard as well.
In any case, it is now clear that Rabin will be able to present a government to the new Knesset when it convenes for the first time Monday afternoon.
With Meretz and Shas, Labor now has a bare majority of 62 in the 120-seat Knesset. But it can also rely on tacit support from the two Arab parties, which together hold five seats.
Tsomet would give Rabin an additional eight seats, and United Torah Judaism would add four more, If both parties join, Labor will be able to govern by a comfortable 74-seat majority, ensuring no one party can bring down the government.
But Tsomet's chances of joining the coalition shifted from "definite" to only "probable" Thursday, when a major squabble erupted between Rabin and Tsomet leader Rafael Eitan over the Education portfolio.
Eitan told a television interviewer Thursday night that Rabin had specifically told him Tuesday his receiving the post would be "no problem."
But in the end, Meretz pressured Rabin to award the portfolio to its leader, Shulamit Aloni.
Shas is to retain Interior and is expected to hold two deputy ministerships: one in Education and the other in the Economic Planning Ministry.
Formal contacts with United Torah Judaism were set back because of the death Wednesday of the Gerrer rebbe. But the spiritual leader of the party's Degel HaTorah component came out strongly against Aloni holding the Education post, though other party politicians made it clear that this was not to be taken as an ultimatum.
The National Religious Party, meanwhile, reiterated Thursday that it would not join the government because of differences over settlement policy. NRP leaders Zevulun Hammer and Avner Shaki met with Rabin at noon.
Political observers cautioned, nevertheless, that this might not be the party's last word and that even if NRP does not join the coalition now, it may do so further down the road.
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THE Government is handing Thurrock £250,000 to fill pot holes on the borough's roads.
The Department for Transport reckons road bosses here will be able to fill 4,000 holes with the money.
In March, the Government handed Thurrock £211,000 to repair roads after a wet winter and invited councils across the country to bid for more money.
In total, the DfT is handing out £168million to fix local roads in the UK.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: "Potholes are the bane of all our lives and the funding announced today is an important step in ridding our roads of this menace.
"But it is only one part of a massive programme of investment to get our country up to speed as part of this Government's long term economic plan. By building, repairing and renewing our key infrastructure we will ensure the future growth and prosperity of this county."
The additional funding means that in 2014, Thurrock will have received an extra £470,000 to bring the road network up to scratch.
It had been due to receive £1.6million for road maintenance between 2014/15.


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Bristol Palin NOT getting gift from Jamie Lynn :(
It turns out Lynne Spears did not send Bristol Palin $60 pink burpcloths on behalf of Jamie Lynn. I don't see why Lynne bothered denying the report because even a cynical bastard like myself thought it was a nice gesture. Until I remembered I have a penis then went around punching everyone within eyesight in the face. TOUGH GUY! E! News reports:
"I just got off the phone with Lynne. I can tell you that she hasn't sent her any gifts, but that she does support Sarah and, of course, can empathize with their situation," Curt Handling, Spears' publicist at the Thomas Nelson publishing company, tells E! News.
It's a damn shame. No fancy burpcloths for America's favorite politically-polarizing pregnant teen. I guess Bristol Palin will have to wipe her baby's spit the old fashioned way: With moose antlers or the hull of an oil tanker.