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Michael Arrington of TechCrunch
Black and white photography emphasizes contrast, but that's not what I mean.
In my post on trolls, Hacker News, and the need for better filtering, I described myself as having a Tim Bray Problem and a Cory Doctorow Problem, but qualified that by saying it was completely different from having a problem with Tim Bray or a problem with Cory Doctorow.
I think it's possible that this could have been perceived as backpedalling or equivocating or insincere. I've heard Tim Bray even blogged a defense of some kind, although I don't know how you could defend yourself from an accusation like "I personally do not share even one of your interests." However, I'm now going to demonstrate that I was in fact speaking truthfully, and you can in fact take my words at face value.
What I said about Tim Bray was that the only thing I find interesting about him is his hat. I compared him to a glass of water when I am not thirsty. I said "Unlike Tim Bray, Cory Doctorow often annoys me" - which would imply that Tim Bray annoys other people, or rarely annoys me, or does not annoy me at all. And in fact it's the latter that is the case - the whole nature of the Tim Bray Problem is that frequent exposure to information which consistently leaves you indifferent is an inefficient phenomenon.
How Tim Bray took any of that personally, I don't know. As personal attacks go, it could certainly be more vicious. I'm hoping Cory Doctorow had a thicker skin, and/or better things to do with his time. The Cory Doctorow Problem doesn't have anything to do with Cory Doctorow the person.
The whole point of the Cory Doctorow Problem is that the fundamental assumption with Internet celebrities - that a very smart person will always be interesting - is false. Cory Doctorow doesn't annoy me because of any personal failing, but because his name identifies a source of excellent insight on social software, valuable news on copyright politics, utterly useless self-promotional posts, sometimes-valuable sci-fi posts, sometimes-valuable bookcase posts, and utterly useless posts on Disneyland, for some insane reason which I will probably never understand, or, more to the point, be very curious about. What irritates me is essentially a search failure; I can seek excellent insight on social software and end up reading pointless trivia about a corporate amusement park filled with plastic birds on plastic trees. But that's not Cory Doctorow failing as a human being; it's "Cory Doctorow" failing as a search term.
This is also why I think Doctorow's idea of Whuffie is bullshit on a pogo stick. His name fails partially as a search term because his writing covers many topics, but only some of them interest me. This is because he's a human being, human beings have many interests, and a one-dimensional variable like PageRank cannot capture that. Similarly, reputations have many dimensions, and a one-dimensional variable like Whuffie can't capture that either. I have other points of disagreement as well, but that's a whole different post. And it's still the idea - not the human being.
Bullshit on a pogo stick
Going back to the idea of whether or not I have problems with these guys, since I have problems named after them, I can assure you, I don't, and in fact I can prove it.
This is what looks like when I do have a problem with somebody:
I hope that clears a few things up. I think it makes a pretty vivid contrast when set against "this person isn't interesting in my opinion."
One other concern: apologies for the incredible negativity concerning Michael Arrington, his minions, and, to a lesser extent, Cory Doctorow's posts and book about Disneyland.
On Boing Boing, a mostly-fantastic blog which occasionally also covers Disneyland, they follow up disturbing or gross posts with a unicorn chaser. I think all this negativity deserves a unicorn chaser as well.
Feel better? Great. Now back to the seriousness.
With the negativity concerning Arrington and his army of winged monkeys, I broke two of my cardinal rules:
1. Never hate, only ever destroy.
2. Forgive everything.
Obviously, I don't hold to these rules as perfectly as I'd like. They're more perpetual goals, really. If I held to them perfectly, I'd be some strange Web 2.0 combination of Jesus Christ and Lord Shiva, a fire-breathing, forgiving, perpetually-twittering angel of death, and TechCrunch would have been brought to its merciful release many moons ago.
I'm about to redeem myself - I'm about to destroy TechCrunch, in the eyes of some of the people who read these words. For some of you, this will be the moment the shoe drops and you stop reading TechCrunch forever. But to follow my own rules, before I can do that, I have to forgive Arrington, because that's how these rules work. (And they do work.)
How Do I Hate Thee? Let Me Count The Ways
One of the things I have against Michael Arrington is that he perpetuates the lottery-ticket mythology of venture capital which makes high-tech such an imperfect world. But a more important reason to avoid Michael Arrington is that he doesn't really know about, or write about, making money per se. What he writes about is a subset of all available strategies for making money, and a subset concerned specifically with leveraging the advantages of upper-class privelege to get other people to create wealth for you.
Here's something you'll never read about on TechCrunch:
Muhammad Yunus, who developed micro-financing (and later won a Nobel prize for this invention). In Yunus' scheme a woman who owned virtually nothing could get a loan of $200 to purchase a cow. She would then sell the surplus milk of the cow to pay back the loan, earn both milk and an income for her family, and maybe buy another cow. Ordinarily, no bank would have lent her this trifling amount because she had no collateral, no education, and the costs of overseeing such a small loan with small gains would have been prohibitive. Grameen Bank, Yunus' creation, discovered that these illiterate peasants were actually more likely to repay these small loans, and were very happy to pay good interest rates, and so that in aggregate, these micro-loans were more profitable than loaning to large industrial players.
Muhammad Yunus (left), winning the Nobel Prize
This man leveraged the benefits of upper-class education to create wealth by helping other people create wealth for themselves.
If you have an interest in economics, emerging business strategies, and Web 2.0 approaches to leveraging collective action, this is news you can use. Likewise, if you have an interest in economics, emerging business strategies, and Web 2.0 approaches to leveraging collective action, TechCrunch is probably one of the places you go for news. But if you expected to find this particular news on TechCrunch, you'd be wrong, because it isn't part of the venture capital system. Everything on TechCrunch revolves around the venture capital system.
This system is almost identical to the pre-industrial patronage system for artists, where extremely rich people would give artists financial support, nominally out of the goodness of their hearts, but in practical terms, in exchange for making them look good. Landed nobles - the wealthiest people in the world at the time - would compete to see who could support the most talented artists. Today we have a system where the wealthiest people in the world compete to see who can support the most visionary engineers. It's the same system.
That's why there are so many copycat startups. If startups are basically just fashion accessories which make extremely wealthy people look good, then it makes perfect sense that whenever the new fashion strikes, everybody needs to be wearing one.
The only major difference between the two systems is the addition of a lottery ticket, the IPO. If you win this lottery, you become an investor too. You graduate from the ranks of supported artists into the ranks of the landed nobles, and you start trying on a few artists of your own, to see how they make you look.
The story of Muhammad Yunus and his economic innovations, interesting though it is, relevant though it is, and thought-provoking though it is, does not belong on TechCrunch, because Muhammad Yunus is not available in your size. You cannot buy Muhammad Yunus, and he is not looking to employ anyone either. TechCrunch is about a particular marketplace, and Yunus isn't in it. But it goes deeper than that - Yunus probably never made a blip on Arrington's radar, because there are no "power players" here. There's just a bunch of nice people who made a bunch of money together, making life better for the entire world. In the eyes of the venture capital system, that isn't interesting.
In fact Yunus' story is actually actively counter-productive to the interests of systems like the venture capital system, since that is a system which maintains class division around concentrations of wealth, and this story demonstrates that eroding or circumventing those systems can be more profitable than co-operating with them.
The real reason you won't find this stuff on TechCrunch is because TechCrunch is about power, not money; because this story is too capitalist for the world of venture capital; and because TechCrunch embodies extremely unpleasant class politics.
TechCrunch comments on Zed Shaw's rant
Another thing I have against TechCrunch is its dishonesty.
You probably never expected to see this next very improbable sentence, least of all on my blog, but: Valleywag to the rescue!
Like virtually everything else Michael Arrington says, this "journalism is evolving" statement is false, evil, and blatantly self-serving, yet close enough to the truth to be worth thinking about. In this case, the true version would actually be that marketing is evolving. Obviously, if you invest in a company and then write about how great it is, this is marketing. A child could tell the difference.
I mean if you've got a hot wife, and I advise her to sleep with me, it's not exactly marriage counseling.
I see you looking at her, buddy. I'm right here.
So we've got somebody self-serving, intelligent, and consistently dishonest, who consistently shovels the "Twitter proves Rails doesn't scale" bullshit and attacks 37 Signals' ideas on business - ideas which start with discarding the traditional reliance on venture capital. So you've got these business strategies which undermine the class politics and power relationships of the venture capital system - and Michael Arrington attacks them. And you've got these technologies which allow tiny companies to build game-changing Web apps virtually for free, again undermining the class politics and power relationships of the venture capital system - and Michael Arrington attacks them too.
You might wonder how TechCrunch could get so much wrong on the technical side of their Twitter coverage. It's not laziness or stupidity. Arrington's calculating, canny, and politically astute. He makes mistakes, but he doesn't make stupid mistakes. Rails and Getting Real both present fundamental challenges to what Arrington does and who he is. If every programmer in the world switched to Rails and Getting Real, Arrington would have to get a job.
I'm not saying there's some kind of conspiracy - I'd be surprised if there were. What I am saying is that Arrington is just so fucking evil that it's essentially impossible for him (or his minions) to accurately perceive Rails or Twitter or Getting Real. He's smart enough, and if he wanted to round up some decent technical overview of the issues and technologies involved, he could certainly find people to ask. He's got the brains and he's got the connections, but discovering and propagating the truth are both fundamentally not in his interest.
You can determine the nature of his blind spot around Rails by examining what else falls into his blind spot. Muhammad Yunus falls into his blind spot. Why? No power players. Just capitalism. Not interesting. Why does Rails fall into his blind spot? Same reason. No power players. Just capitalism. Not interesting.
Arrington's vicious and powerful, and his site is perpetuating lies about Rails that really should have died last year. But let's keep hope alive. We all have blind spots. We've all gotten negative or angry when we should have just paused to seek out the truth. We've all been tempted to stretch the truth once, or to rationalize something we did. We've all made these mistakes. Arrington's human, just like us.
I'm sure one day he'll be older and wiser.
Mike Arrington, 30 years from now
Actually, an older, wiser Arrington might not be a good thing.
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Let's hope Lord Shiva collects him soon.
Burn Palo Alto Burn
Stop reading TechCrunch. Read Getting Real instead. And ask hard questions about the venture capital system.
I addressed these issues in detail in a presentation at GoRuCo in New York this April. If you want more about this topic, including the answer for programmers - or at least my answer for programmers - check it out.


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Most of all though, I am grateful for being out of there. Here are a few of the things I've learned during the past 12 months:
- There is a life after account cancellation.
- RL is actually quite a cool game. Sure, it takes some practice, but it is virtually lag-free and has killer graphics. Plus, you get to touch things and people instead of just your mouse. And don't get me started on smells and tastes!
- An Epiphone is not a Gibson, but it is infinitely better than the best prim guitar in SL (even if that has the name Gibson on its head).
- Your relationships with people get better and better when you actually spend time with them instead of sitting in front of your computer almost all day (and pining to get back there the rest of the day).
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- Trudeau makes great sailboats, but you'll never feel any wind or spray on your face sailing Blake Sea. (Sure, you don't get any borked sim crossings sailing the Baltic either, but hilarious as they were, I think I can live with that loss.)
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We expect the best from our national teams, and got it last weekend when the Wallabies produced their most conclusive performance for some time while the All Blacks again showed off their ruthlessness.
However both Tests were almost ruined because those officiating weren't up to the required standard. Each international was marred by inconsistent refereeing and/or meddling TMOs (television match officials). So dire were they, calling them second best is almost a compliment.
First up, the outcry over England referee Luke Pearce following the All Blacks-France Test was justified. Maybe France were never going to win. But they were cruelled by Pearce wrongly sending their lock Paul Gabrillagues to the sinbin for a dangerous tackle on Ryan Crotty when the score was 11-all.
It was a poor, knee-jerk decision. Without consulting the TMO George Ayoub, Pearce immediately pointed Gabrillagues to the sideline. The replay which showed Gabrillagues not making contact with Crotty's head, confirmed how wrong Pearce's decision was. While Gabrillagues was off, the All Blacks took advantage of the extra man, scoring two tries- and thus ended what was until then an engrossing tussle.
Then two far more dangerous tackles by All Blacks Sam Cane and Ofa Tu'ungafasi on French winger Remy Grosso only led to a penalty.
Cane hit Grosso on the chin and Tu'ungafasi's shoulder crashed into his head, but both were allowed to remain on the field. No consistency there. Adding to the stupidity was World Rugby's pathetic citing commissioner report three days later which issued only 'a warning' for Tu'ungafasi's tackle, deeming it "dangerous 'just short' of red card level." The collision fractured Grosso's skull.
As diabolical was South Africa's Marius van der Westhuizen, who was merrily led down the garden path by New Zealand TMO Ben Skeen during the Australia-Ireland Test. While Skeen loved to eagle-eye every try, he was also involved in dubious decisions that understandably infuriated both teams, including when Israel Folau's second-half try was disallowed for foul play.
The supposed foul play was when Ireland played a decoy move and Wallaby lock Adam Coleman believing the ball was about to go to his opposite Iain Henderson, was committed to the tackle.
This tackle of the decoy runner, which had absolutely no effect on that Irish attacking movement, was deemed horrific enough for a try to be disallowed. When Wallabies captain Michael Hooper asked why, van der Westhuizen offered the weak reply: "It is what it is."
Gee thanks Marius. It is what it is... absolute rubbish. This is a stinker of a law that needs to be interpreted with a bit of common sense. It also enables referees to get unnecessarily finicky about non dangerous off-the-ball moments that clearly do not affect a game - that is until an over-zealous TMO who wants to remind everyone of his existence thinks otherwise.
There was a far worse moment of foul play shortly after when Hooper was dumped on his head at the breakdown by Ireland's Sean Cronin, aided by teammate James Ryan. After numerous replays, those in charge said: "There was a clear neck roll. He doesn't finish him off. Penalty only."
Doesn't finish him off? Hooper was dumped on his head. It was at least a yellow card. As infuriating was that we had to wait two minutes 55 seconds before a decision was made, and play at last resumed.
Two minutes 55 seconds of absolute nothing. During that break, they could have run four or five greyhound races around the perimeter of Suncorp Stadium. Far more interesting than listening to blundering officiators.
All further evidence that the biggest blight on the game has become the ever-increasing intrusion of TMOs. Referees are now too scared to make a decision, and TMOs want to butt in, prompting endless dead moments as we wait an eternity for a decision to be made. The TMOs should be renamed the TNOs (Tedious Nuisance Operatives), especially as we are now told they are watching replays of incidents not shown to the general public.
As if wasting almost two minutes virtually every time a scrum is set is not enough of a pain in the butt, there are the constant interruptions as referees and TMOs use any excuse to replay anything that is slightly out of the norm. Rugby is becoming one long yawn.
Compare it to rugby league. Unlike rugby, the NRL is targeting 'nit-picking' referees, realising that as they are in the entertainment business they must doing everything possible to quicken the game. They use the TMO. But it is sharp and effective. After only one or maybe two looks at the incident, they make a decision. Twenty or thirty seconds at the most, and the game moves on.
Not rugby. The TMO is another unnecessary pause in a succession of long punctuation marks.
The Mr Magoos in the rugby TMO box love nothing better than put on the slippers, place pipe in mouth while they watch something six, seven, eight times before deciding the bleedingly obvious. As minutes of sheer tedium looking at a referee look at a big screen pass, you sometimes wonder if Magoo has toddled off to put the kettle on. You've certainly gone off... your brain.
As perplexing was appointing New Zealand's Ben O'Keeffe for the first South Africa-England international at Ellis Park. O'Keeffe, who would be in the running for this year's most underwhelming Super Rugby referee, struggles to keep control and regularly bewilders with confounding decisions. Most games O'Keeffe finds himself berated by someone on the field. It's not a good look. Even New Zealand-based commentators admitted O'Keeffe 'lost it' in the second half of the Johannesburg international.
There are good referees. Angus Gardner is pretty consistent, even though in recent times he seems distracted by engaging himself with on-the-run battles with several Australian players. Since Jaco Peyper stopped palling around with the players, his refereeing has improved markedly; while the young South African referee Rasta Rasivhenge looks promising. He at least appears to have a feel for the game.
But there are many clearly out of their depth who keep getting important fixtures. Until that stops, rugby will remain among the most exasperating sport viewing experiences going around.


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Giving back, in so many different ways, is fundamental to who we are, and to whom we must be!
I introduced yesterday's Earth Day post with the sub-heading, "A fabulous example of how we reach out to others across the internet!" Today's post is another fabulous example.
Not that long ago, Sue Dreamwalker, a great friend of this place, posted an article that she introduced, thus:
I just had to share this lovely post with you all from a beautiful friend. You have to explore her blog to see all the transformations she does when she gives a new lease of life to furniture. And her home.. What is even more remarkable, and I hope Lois will not mind me mentioning this is that Lois does all of this work from the confines of a wheelchair..
I hope you visit and see just how generous a nature she has ..
Love and Blessings
Curious, I went across to Lois's blog Living in Denim and to the particular post that Sue had spoken about. Without hesitation I asked if I might republish that post here and share it with you all. Lois was delighted to offer me such permission.
Read it and you will see why I asked so quickly.
Giving Back: A Yard Sale Redo for a Deserving Child
You must apply the paint in the same direction, with the grain of the "wood" for the best results. It took 2-3 coats of paint to get the desired effect. When the dresser was dry I added two coats of polycrylic to seal the finish, but I'm getting ahead of myself a bit.
I was told flowers were important to this child. As I sanded the dresser down I contemplated the best way to add flowers to the piece. At first I thought maybe I'd sketch grass using green milk paint to the lower drawer then stems up the drawer fronts to use the knobs as the center of the flowers and sketch around them different colored flowers. This didn't feel right to me but still I played with the idea.
Then I realized I didn't have enough colors of paint to do this. I briefly considered heading to the store to purchase an assortment of different colored permanent markers, but again I dismissed this. I worked until I lost daylight on Saturday and woke with an idea.
For months now my granddaughters and I have enjoyed coloring Patricia Zapata's Flower Nook. Patricia is a well-known blogger at A Little Hut. I've already removed some of the completed pages to frame for the girl's room upstairs, now I would remove more and use them on the dresser.
I added three designs to the drawers and one to the top of the dresser.
These are the designs I used on the drawer fronts.
The most time consuming part of this was trimming the designs to remove the excess white paper. I laid them out and when I was happy with the placement decoupaged them on and sealed the entire drawer fronts with polycrylic.
In questioning the little girl I learned she liked gold over silver so I headed to my hardware stash and pulled out all the heavy substantial gold knobs. I toyed around with using two knobs on the left with one pull on the right, the way the drawers were to begin with. In the end I didn't have enough gold pulls I liked and decided to use only knobs. I used wood filler to fill in the holes from the original pulls then drilled new holes. I kept the distance from the side of the drawer for the new knobs the same as the existing knobs on the other side and then centered them on the fronts.
The top drawer I simply used a permanent marker, I have a couple in the house, and a four inch stencil to add her first initial.
By Sunday at 3pm I called to let the family know the dresser was ready to pick up. They arrived with the little girl and a friend of hers. I wish I could show you their faces, but I can't. The girls didn't miss a thing. They spotted the little girl on the middle drawer, they loved the heavy gold knobs and the white washed paint effect.
I know a little about this foster parent, I know she adopted a previous foster child and raised him as her own even though she has very little disposable income. She herself is on disability. She loves these children and has given this little child so much love that when the question arose again as to how much they owed me, I informed her the child's expression was well worth the work and I wanted to make this a gift from me to them. Thankfully, the family accepted my gift as long as I promised to call if there is ever anything they can do for me.
Tonight I am tired and even sore. I did get a bit of work done outside after all but while I thought getting more accomplished on the house would perk me up, in reality it was the dresser that made the weekend a success for me.
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I stood looking at the encapsulating rain almost lost in a sense of tranquility. All the thoughts which used to bother me earlier were themselves lost or might have found another brain worthy enough.
It was on this day 6 years back, I lost him. He who had brought me into the world of words. He who shook away everything he ever had, for me. Lived hard and brought me all that he every could.
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After the birth, this primary purpose is complete, but the placenta is still useful. As evidenced by Traditional Chinese Medicine as well as modern pharmaceutical & beauty product companies, the placenta contains components that are beneficial to the human body. And who better to benefit from this powerhouse organ than the mama and baby who worked together to grow it? There's a sweet completeness to taking the placenta and returning it to your body, where it will help you recover from pregnancy and birth, and if you are breastfeeding, it will continue to feed your baby as well!
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Yaay! We are extremely proud to announce release of 3 major updates to our planespotter timetables which will make it even more useful. We are going to publish announcements gradually during following few days not to spam you a lot 🙂
Today we are going to give you an overview of the most anticipated update of our system since quite a long while.
Flight Schedules
Before now we always aggregated flight data from various sources like airport sites providing live updates for flights. However, delivering flights for each airport is time-consuming (why?) and available time range is often limited to 24 hours ahead, so we were always looking for a way to provide better awareness of aircraft movements in more airports at lesser costs without going into usage of expensive APIs (which would certainly make us to make our service commercial).
Flight schedules as any other timetable gives you a more overall look on flights but without providing live updates.
By utilizing free-of-charge Yandex Timetable API we managed to introduce a sub-system that allows to retrieve schedules for any airport without spending enormous amounts of time on creating and maintaining individual per-airport data polling algorithms. We just add a record about airport into a database and that's it: flights are picked up automatically and become visible on a designated planespotter-timetable page as well as they did for airports with live updates!
- Adding new airport is extremely fast, henceforth allowing increasing airport coverage dramatically.
- Ability to provide much longer flight data lookup in future (currently it's 3 days, but soon we are going to gradually increase this limitation).
- Flights from schedules may be gracefully integrated with flights which are updated live, so all the airports having live updates now have automatic support of timetables. You also can see schedule flights on the same planespotter timetable page as previously for your airport – you don't have to look for them separately!
- As a consequence of previous two advantages: flight search page now able to display information about flight combining data from live and non-live sources with a lookup of up to 3 days ahead.
- Data might be not as precise as for airports with live updates and also may be obsolete as Yandex gets this data from its partners which are not always punctual on updates, so schedules might be used to estimate aircraft movements approximately, but not more than that.
- There are no live flight updates for flights retrieved from schedules: schedules are not updated according to actual flight status. Exception is only for airports which also have live updates (Flights Live) implemented. In this case, scheduled flights would be automatically updated with a live status as soon as this information appears on airport site.
- We still have to respect usage of the Yandex Timetable API as well as we should respect current performance limit of the servers, so we cannot instantly add all of the airports of the world, but we are going to gradually increase the number of airports and simultaneously optimize operationability of our system.
Airports with Flight Schedules
All the 200 of live airports we had before are now equipped with flight schedule support.
Moreover, for testing purposes we also added 36 more airports, which are listed below:
- Los Angeles (KLAX / LAX)
- San Francisco (KSFO / SFO)
- Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta (KATL / ATL)
- Chicago Chicago O'Hare (KORD / ORD)
- New York John F Kennedy (KJFK / JFK)
- Reykjavík Keflavik (BIKF / KEF)
- Düsseldorf (EDDL / DUS)
- Hannover (EDDV / HAJ)
- Tallinn Lennart Meri Tallinn (EETN / TLL)
- Maastricht Aachen (EHBK / MST)
- Groningen Eelde (EHGG / GRQ)
- Dublin (EIDW / DUB)
- Riga (EVRA / RIX)
- Vilnius (EYVI / VNO)
- Paris Charles de Gaulle (LFPG / CDG)
- Paris Paris-Orly (LFPO / ORY)
- Hurghada (HEGN / HRG)
- Tokyo (RJTT / HND)
- Athens Eleftherios Venizelos (LGAV / ATH)
- Kerkyra Island Ioannis Kapodistrias (LGKR / CFU)
- Milan Malpensa (LIMC / MXP)
- Rome Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino (LIRF / FCO)
- Istanbul Atatürk (LTBA / IST)
- Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen (LTFJ / SAW)
- Tokyo Narita (RJAA / NRT)
- Moscow Zhukovsky (UUBW / ZIA)
- Kaliningrad Khrabrovo (UMKK / KGD)
- Arkhangelsk Talagi (ULAA / ARH)
- Barnaul (UNBB / BAX)
- Yakutsk (UEEE / YKS)
- Anadyr Ugolny (UHMA / DYR)
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Yelizovo (UHPP / PKC)
- Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (UHSS / UUS)
- Abakan (UNAA / ABA)
- Omsk Central (UNOO / OMS)
- Norilsk Alykel (UOOO / NSK)
Please keep in mind that these airports have schedules only supported. Live flights updates are not available for these!
You can find you planespotting timetable in its previous location by choosing your country on the main page of SpotterLead: https://spotterlead.net.
How do I know now which timetables / flights live and which are just scheduled?
That's a good question. For distinguishing those we use a special icon: , which means that whatever content you are looking at, it has live updates. And if there is no such icon: it's a static (scheduled) data.
Although we tried to make usage of this indication as clear as possible, it might confuse you if you got used to the old look of our service. Here we would like to give some explanation of how it works on actual examples:
That's roughly it. We hove you will enjoy this new feature as soon we are going to add much more airports. Stay tuned and tomorrow we will tell about another major update we introduced to these planespotting timetables (the most attentive users might already noticed it on our screenshots).
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Traditional Thai Massage
Traditional Thai Massage is a 2500-year-old technique for relaxing the body and quietening the mind. It can help to relieve many physical problems such as back pain, tense shoulders and neck, stiffness, poor posture, indigestion and sciatica as well as more mental problems like stress and lethargy.
What is Traditional Thai Massage?
Thai Traditional medicine is in widespread use today in pretty much the same form that was used thousands of years ago and its influences include both Chinese medicine and Indian Ayurvedic and Yoga.
Thais have long recognised that most musculo-skeletal pain and lack of mobility of the joints is the result of muscles shortening under the influence of repetitive strain.
The pressing techniques of Thai massage prepare muscles for stretching by increasing their permeability to the flow of Sen energies. The manipulations are designed to stretch the muscles a little more than would be possible unaided. Even advanced yoga cannot compete with the stretching capabilities of Thai massage when applied by an expert practitioner.
What happens in a session?
The practitioner uses thumbs, palms, forearms, elbows, feet knees and even shins to press and stretch your body and to ensure the flow of vital energies through the body's tissues. Nothing is hurried; there are no sudden changes of rhythm or speed. The practitioner flows from one technique to another with a smooth rhythm.
What are the benefits of a Traditional Thai Massage?
The gentle but firm massage techniques work effectively on skin, muscle, the organs and the skeletal structure. Muscle and ligament tension is reduced and joint mobility is improved. Blood and lymph circulation are enhanced and waste substances are removed from tissues.
Benefits of regular Thai massage include relief from constipation, IBS, headaches, sciatica, back and neck pain, stress and lethargy.
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"Happy Assumption!" I said to my Eastern Orthodox employee as she sat down at her desk. Today is the Feast of the Assumption, after all, marking the date that the Virgin Mary ascended into Heaven from her house in Ephesus, Turkey. Which, according to legend, is where she moved after she retired, Ephesus being the Florida of the first-century Jewish world.
E.O. looked confused for a second, but then her brow cleared. "Oh, you mean the Dormition! Thanks! Happy Dormition to you, too!"
"Dormition?" It was my turn to look confused.
"We call it the Dormition instead of the Assumption." she explained. "Catholics believe that Mary was bodily assumed, and we believe that she… well, you know, died. But she definitely went to Heaven after that."
Yeah, not quite as romantic as the Catholic version. What I (wisely) decided not to mention is that the early Church fathers scheduled the Assumption/Dormition/Whatever on August 15 in order to replace the Nemoralia, the ancient Roman Festival of Torches held annually in honor of Diana, Great Goddess of the Moon.
Eight Sabbats and thirteen Esbats aside, the Nemoralia is my favorite holiday. I've got a little altar set up in my bedroom, featuring a framed print of Erté's Queen of the Night and a couple of Virgin Mary votive candles (La Virgen de Guadalupe y La Virgen de San Juan respectively, both easy to find when you live in South Texas), and every August 15, I rededicate it as a shrine to Diana. It's a ritual that's become a personal touchtone, and I get unreasonably giddy about it.
Granted, me huddled over a small chest of drawers in the corner of an urban apartment doesn't have the same visual impact as, say, hundreds of devotees wreathed in flowers, carrying torches, led by garlanded hounds and waiting with baited breath to be ferried across the smooth, dark waters of Lake Nemi under the bathing rays of the Full Moon. But I'll light some jasmine incense and say a few prayers, and pour an offering of willow water. And for a fleeting, lovely moment, time, space and my ugly tan carpet will be rendered irrelevant.
Buon Nemoralia, Loyal Strifemongers. Happy Assumption, Merry Dormition, and to all a good night.


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Valentine's Day
A self-described, now reformed Gummi Girl, I have recently given up my once shameful, closeted addiction to all things gummi, chewy, corn syrup based. Swedish Fish, Haribo Peaches, and yes- the juvenille taste for Sour Patch kids has all but left my sweet tooth repetoire. Good bye chew, hello chocolate.
Exquisitely dark, rich, seductive, silky, sensual, melt in my mouth, pure pleasure. How does one describe the experience of chocolate after years of never knowing, never appreciating...? What am I now? A Born Again? A Convert? A Chocolatier By Choice? Now a passion for work and play. It is my medium. I melt it, I shape it, I share it. And oooh yes... I eat it. And you? Would you consider it an appropriate day to indulge? On this, the Hallmark Holidays of all holidays (or as my husband refers to it as: an opportunity to fail if he fails to find my C-Spot)? Forgive me as I prostilitize but surely you may consider giving fine, dark chocolate a try. Think of it as a gift to yourself or someone you love. Consider it an acceptable indulgence as they (and who are"they" by the way?) tell us that in moderation, its actually good for us. 70% cocoa. Show yourself the Love. Love and chocolate everywhere today...
Husband. Love of my life. It's Valentines Day. Got chocolate?
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Eli Lake has an interesting article in today's New York Sun on the possible inauthenticity of the Zawahiri letter that John commented on last week: "Doubts are mounting on Al Qaeda letter aired by Negroponte." On the one hand:
"This does not read like an Islamist text," a terrorism analyst at the conservative-leaning Hudson Institute, Chris Brown, said in an interview yesterday. "It only uses the word 'infidel' twice and makes five references to 'crusaders.' They are talking about the U.S. military in Iraq, which all Islamists, including Al Qaeda, always refer to as the crusader nations, but in this letter Zawahiri refers to America almost exclusively." Mr. Brown added that the letter also uses references to both the Christian and Muslim calendar: "We know that Al Qaeda leaders will use the Islamic calendar in private correspondence and the Christian calendar for statements meant to be public, but never both in an internal communication."
On the other hand:
Other observers, however, say they have reason to believe the letter is real. One expert on Al Qaeda, Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation, yesterday cited Mr. al-Zawahiri's preoccupation with winning over Muslims as a reason why he suspected the July 9 letter was real. "One of Zawahiri's preoccupations is, 'We don't have the masses on our side.' In his book, 'Knights Under the Prophet's Banner,' he says two causes the masses can get behind are Palestine and the United States' intervention. These themes are in the letter. That is consistent with his thinking," Mr. Bergen said yesterday. "I don't have sufficient confidence in our intelligence agencies to think they would be able to dream up a fake like this."
Bergen's doubts would be persuasive if the hypothesis is that the CIA fabricated the letter. Is that the hypothesis? Lake's article doesn't identify a specific suspect; in one of Lake's unattributed quotes, reference is made only to "a foreign intelligence service."


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Blackwater Founder: Murderer?
Two former employees of Blackwater – the notorious military mercenary corporation, now known as XE – have filed sworn statements in federal court making shocking allegations. One of the most explosive allegations is that Erik Prince, founder and former CEO of Blackwater, murdered or facilitated the murder of people who were cooperating in a federal investigation of the company.
I urge everyone to read Jeremy Scahill's report in The Nation that broke the story, and listen to Amy Goodman's interview with Scahill on the August 5th Democracy Now for more details on this critical story.
These allegations are too disturbing to ignore. In addition to murder, these sworn statements allege:
- Blackwater executives destroyed incriminating emails, documents and videos;
- Blackwater management threatened potential whistleblowers with violence and death;
- Blackwater smuggled illegal and unlawful weapons into Iraq – sometimes in then CEO Prince's private planes, sometimes in dogfood bags, using Blackwater's canine division as cover for this crime; and
- CEO Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe."
The Iraqi government banned Blackwater from Iraq in January of this year, due to its violence toward Iraqis and repeated criminal acts. Yet the U.S. State Department still has other contracts with this company. Why?
Taxpayer money should no longer go to Blackwater. Sign the petition to demand an immediate end to all contracts with Blackwater, a Congressional investigation into these new explosive allegations, and legislation to ban the use of mercenary companies like Blackwater altogether. It's right here.
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BBC {Photos} Santi Cazorla finally arrives at Emirates Stadium Pictures
Get up to date on Arsenal transfer news, injury updates, fixtures and share your opinions on Just Arsenal Fans.
Summer signing Alexandre Lacazette's first-team chances have decreased after the arrival of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, and ESPN pundit Steve Nicol thinks his time at the Emirates is up.
When asked on whether the former Lyon hitman will stay, he said: "If you're Lacazette, do you want to stay at Arsenal?
"You've never been given a chance, they bring in Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, which pretty much tells you that you've got no future at Arsenal.
"Wenger never gave him a chance. He never started him in the big games at the beginning of the season.
"Come January, he buys Aubameyang and he is back on the bench again.
"There is no future for him at Arsenal.
"The only way for this guy to get on the field is to leave.
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Happy Valentine's Day to all! Even when you're single, there is so much to celebrate today (mostly chocolate, but also love in all forms!), but there's no denying there can be a few uncomfortable moments on a day that celebrates romantic love when you don't currently have any in your life. As such, here's a guide to handling five sticky situations that might arise today.
Awkward Scenario #1: Every woman in your office has a giant bouquet of roses or a box of delicious chocolates on her desk. You have a glaring empty spot and several month-old cups of coffee with mold growing on top.
How to deal: First of all, wash out those coffee mugs. You're not a hoarder, are you? Sheesh. Then, go out and buy yourself a big old bag of Doritos.* There's gonna be so much sugar in the office today, everyone will be desperately craving salt. Look who's jealous now, nerds.
**Or you know, something healthy. Zzzzzzz.*__Awkward Scenario #2: You want to go out for a meal, but every seat in every restaurant is booked (not to mention all the menus are prix-fixe for two). __ Single people need to eat too.
How to deal: Just don't even attempt to go out. Dining alone is generally fine, but dining on Valentine's Day is a mess, period. This is a night to shamelessly eat pizza on your couch. Or, for alternative entertainment, pack a picnic and eat it in your car parked outside of a flower shop while you watch men who've clearly just remembered the holiday frantically run in panic.
Awkward Scenario #3: The guy you've been out with a few times who isn't quite your boyfriend yet gets all weird and starts avoiding your texts and blows off any plans you suggest for the weekend.
How to deal: Go ahead and buy him a present anyway—I suggest a pacifier or a rattle. Get it? Because he is a baby. Seriously, you are a grown-up—he is supposed to be a grown-up. It's just a holiday. It doesn't need to make or break your relationship if you don't want it to.
Awkward scenario #4: A smarmy guy comes up to you at a bar and attempts to neg you with a "Why don't you have a date tonight?" opening line.
How to deal: Tell him you follow a strict religion that forbids celebrating Valentine's Day. Or taking off your chastity belt before the age of 40.
Awkward scenario #5: You run into your ex-boyfriend—and of course, his new girlfriend—while you and your bestie are carrying armfuls of flowers and heart-shaped balloons you clearly bought for yourselves.
How to deal: True story, this happened to me and my BFF a few years ago. (Her ex-boyfriend, not mine.) The only solution? Laugh it off, go home, throw an amazing party for all your single friends, and get a little bit drunk obviously.
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A group of mothers who agreed to bear children under surrogacy contracts said today that they wanted their babies returned and called on Congress and state governments to outlaw the practice, which they called ''an institutionalized form of slavery.''
The women, including Mary Beth Whitehead, a New Jersey resident who earlier this year lost custody of her daughter in the Baby M case, said they were joining a coalition to ban surrogacy, one of the most popular of the reproductive technologies developed in the last decade to enable infertile couples to have children. 'Just Not Right'
''This shouldn't be allowed to happen,'' said Mrs. Whitehead, who was paid $10,000 in 1986 by a New Jersey couple, William and Elizabeth Stern, to bear Mr. Stern's child. ''Don't let it happen to anybody else. It's just not right.''
The coalition opposing surrogacy was organized by Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, a small public policy group in Washington that has influenced the national debate on developments in biotechnology. Mr. Rifkin said today that more surrogate mothers are bringing legal action to gain custody of their children.
Criticism of surrogate contracts and other reproductive technologies is on the rise in the United States and in other nations even as infertility rates rise and the demand for surrogate arrangements increases. Studies have shown that one American couple in six is infertile or is having extreme difficulty conceiving a child. States Consider LegislationContinue reading the main story
Britain outlawed commercial surrogacy contracts last year, but continued to allow private agreements. In March, the Vatican called on governments to curb reproductive technologies, including surrogacy. A number of states are considering legislation to bar or restrict surrogate contracts.
Earlier this year, the New York State Legislature held hearings on a proposal to make surrogacy contracts legally binding. State judges have warned the Legislature that such contracts might not be enforceable. The legislation, however, has not yet been considered by the Assembly or Senate.
Less than a decade after the first birth under a surrogate contract was recorded in the United States, one estimate says that 300 babies are born each year under arrangements in which a woman is artificially inseminated, paid up to $25,000 under contract to bring a child to term, and then required to give up the baby to the natural father. Called an Unnatural Assault
Critics say surrogacy and the other new reproductive technologies, in which sperm and ova are manipulated in a number of ways inside and outside of the womb to increase the efficiency of fertilization, are an unnatural assault on human reproduction. Opponents say that surrogacy, like the other technologies, exploits women, particularly those from lower economic classes.
But scientists say the new reproductive technologies provide a new means not only for conceiving but also of insuring healthy babies. The developments have fostered a birth technology industry in the United States and elsewhere. Scientists hope to use one or a combintion of these technologies to eradicate some of the 3,000 known diseases of heredity, like Alzheimer's and muscular dystrophy.
''The rise of the surrogate industry does not take place in isolation,'' said Gena Corea, author of ''The Mother Machine,'' an influential critique of modern reproductive technologies published in 1985, and a leader of the coalition formed today. ''It's part of the industrialization of reproduction,'' Constitutional Right Asserted
Noel P. Keane, an attorney in Dearborn, Mich. and one of the country's legal authorities on surrogacy, defended the practice in an interview today. ''Most critics aren't aware of how hard infertility hits people,'' said Mr. Keane, who arranged one of the first surrogate births in the United States in 1978, and has arranged 177 others since then. ''If we have an infertile woman married to a fertile man, why can't they incorporate the use of a surrogate in the furtherance of their constitutionally protected right to procreation?''
Mrs. Whitehead, whose appeal is expected to be heard by the New Jersey Supreme Court next month, was joined at a news conference today by two other mothers. One was Patricia Foster, 32, of Detroit, who gave birth to a boy last March under a surrogate contract and is working to gain custody. The other was Allejandra Munoz, 21, from Mexico, who is trying to gain custody of a year-old daughter who is now living in the United States.
Mrs. Whitehead's attorney, Alan J. Karcher, said that he was aware of half a dozen surrogate mothers pursuing legal cases to gain custody of children.Continue reading the main story


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Million Dollar Quartet closes early at Noel Coward Theatre
The musical Million Dollar Quartet has posted early closing notices for 14 Jan 2012, at the Noel Coward Theatre (the show was originally taking bookings until Oct 2012).
Million Dollar Quartet opened at the Noel Coward Theatre 28 Feb 2011, following previews from 8 Feb, to moderate notices from the popular press. "If you're of a certain generation, it's a joy to hear once again numbers such as Hound Dog, Great Balls of Fire and I Walk the Line." (Guardian);"Anyone who loves rock and roll is almost certain to have a good time." (Telegraph).
The musical has book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux, originally conceived by Floyd Mutrux.
It is directed by Eric Schaeffer, designed by Derek McLane, lighting by Howell Binkley, sound by Kai Harada. Musical arrangements and supervision Chuck Mead
Cast includes Bill Ward (Sam Phillips), Michael Malarkey (Elvis Presley), Ben Goddard (Jerry Lee Lewis), Derek Hagen (Johnny Cash), Oliver Seymour-Marsh (Carl Perkins).
Produced in London by Relevant Theatricals, John Cossette Productions, American Pop Anthology, John Gore, Thomas B. McGrath, James L. Nederlander, Joseph Smith and Michael McCabe.
Million Dollar Quartet is inspired by the actual event that took place on 4 December 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis came together to make music and ended up making history. Features over 20 of the greatest rock 'n' roll, gospel, R&B and country hits.


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We know Startups because We were a Startup
In 2007, iConcept used to be just the IT arm of its now sister company, iBrains. By 2009, the then department has become an independent company that caters to web based digital products like website design & development. The scope of the company's capability only increased through the years.
Today, iConcept Global Advertising, Inc is a one-stop digital products and services shop in the Philippines, offering website design & development, mobile apps development, graphic design & motion graphics, SEO, search engine marketing, PPC, social media marketing, content marketing and other marketing and online advertising products.
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The Management of iBrains Technologies – a complete business solutions provider specializing in hardware peripheral and complex software development, groundwork IT and telecom contracting – earlier decided to split the unnamed department and start operating on its own after realizing that the business model taken by the department of website development had started to boom.
Driven by the determination to be the global leader in marketing and advertising, iConcept Marketing slowly penetrated the local and international market. Projects started pouring in locally and internationally, mostly from small to medium-sized enterprises including those coming from Australia and New Zealand.
In 2009, iConcept Marketing opened its office in Metro Manila and its inevitable growth is at hand. Before the year 2010 ended, the Management decided to put operations into halt as it prepares for a bigger challenge. Indeed, early 2011 saw the birth of a bigger, bolder iConcept Global Advertising Inc.
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Officially recognized as an Australian company last December 3, 2012, iConcept Global Advertising Inc. (Pty. Ltd.) was issued a certificate of registration from the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and soon, iConcept Global Australia will be ready to break through the Australian digital environment and offer quality marketing services at very competitive prices, giving every Australian business the outstanding online recognition it deserves.
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If you're against gay marriage, why aren't you in favor of gay divorce?
I happen to think gay divorce court would be compelling tv.
I'm back to designing kitchens. I mostly write about other stuff that interests me
If you're against gay marriage, why aren't you in favor of gay divorce?
I happen to think gay divorce court would be compelling tv.
Big surprise, eh?
It is the only state I've been to where the guy working the joint will pump your gas, flip your burger, pull you another draft, and get you a dozen nightcrawlers all without washing his hands.
They're probably drinking a lot up there this week, given that football game last Sunday.
Yesterday, January 20, 2015, was the 40th anniversary of the release of Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks."
Just in case you are keeping track…
This is a good time to bring up the story of my kids starting to listen to Dylan. We were in the car about 5 years ago. "Tangled Up In Blue" was playing on the radio. I told the kids that the song was about 35 years old and that I could listen to it every day. They both agreed it was a good song. We then had a nice discussion about what they were currently listening to. They didn't think much of what was popular had staying power. They both had a suggestion or two, but I couldn't begin to tell you what the songs were.
From that conversation my daughter really became a Dylan fan. She now has his entire catalog on her ipod.
Yeah, she and I are both "old school" ipod users.
It really did disappoint me that Apple pulled that product with no warning.
Expert: Invitation to Child's Party Not Enforceable – Lowering the Bar.
The five year old didn't show up to a birthday party. He has been billed a no show fee.
I don't think it necessary to comment further.
And I do not like what is coming.
I'm talking about medical care. It is going to really suck when I get to the age that I require more medical care.
I was driving the wife to various appointments this week. It was an awful experience. There is no medical care. There are only specialists performing procedures. There is no coordination between specialists (unless they think a malpractice suit is in their near future).
You will have to be your own general contractor when it comes to your healthcare.
The program is really quite simple: we insource design, outsource manufacturing, import a subsidized consumer base, and offload social costs. And we do it all selflessly for The Economy. But besides he and we, others benefit as well. Blue collar workers no longer need take dirty and dangerous work that can be performed much cheaper by Mexicans. Similarly, grueling STEM studies and pointy protractors are but shades of the past for American students, whose services are hardly now required. There are no losers here.
Whoever is behind that blog is really funny.
The Audacious Epigone has the call on the Cowboys game correct.
Maybe I'll do some more posting this year.
How's that for an overly demanding resolution?


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