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Welcome to Honeyfund's Help Center!
Below you'll find our most frequently asked questions and their answers. If you don't find an answer to your question here, please contact us and we will respond as soon as possible.
Signing Up & Publishing a Registry
Honeyfund is totally free!
How? We ALWAYS offer NO FEE options including offline payments and gift cards from popular travel, dining and retail brands. With both of these options there's never a fee to you or your wedding guests!
In addition to the free options:
1. Make your page stand out with Honeyfund Elite, the most powerful design tool on the wedding registry market. Elite includes your choice of design templates, cover photos, photo slideshow and registry items, password protection, no ads, and more. Just $39.99.
2. Opt for online cash payments via our integrated credit card solution powered by WePay (US and Canada only), or via your own PayPal account.
- WePay fees: 2.4% + $0.30/transaction*
- PayPal fees: 2.8% + $0.30/transaction*
What does Honeyfund REALLY cost compared to other sites?
Honeyfund is committed to 100% free options, so our users pay the lowest average fees in the industry!
Never any fees to givers.
|Honeyfund Free
|Honeyfund Free + PayPal/WePay
|Honeymoon Wishes
|Traveler's Joy
|Offline Gifts &
Gift Cards - 0%
|1.8% blended rate*
|5.9% + $0.99
|Typical Fee for $2,000
*Typical $2,000 Honeyfund fees of 1.8% based on a blend of offline gifts, gift cards and cash contributions via PayPal/WePay
(2.8%/2.4% + $0.30 USD). See international rates here.
Remember, our NEW gift card items are always free! You can accept credit card payments with both free and upgraded Honeyfund accounts. Honeyfund couples who accept both offline and online payments pay average fees of just 1.8%! Guests never pay a fee.
* Applies to most US-to-US payments. Fees outside the US may vary. Click here for full fee info. Payments from outside your home country may incur an additional 1% cross-border fee.
With Honeyfund, you simply receive monetary gifts from your guests to help you pay for the costs of your honeymoon, or anything you're saving for. Planning your dream honeymoon? Buying a home? Upgrading your housewares? Honeyfund is here for you. It's your big day!
With more than 12 years in the online gift industry, we know how to protect you and your guests. Whether you're receiving money via one of our trusted payment partners (Wepay/Chase or PayPal) or via the Honeyfund Balance, Honeyfund's PCI compliant and secure technology keeps your private info safe. Personal info is never sold, rented or shared.
Honeyfund has maintained an A+ grade by the Better Business Bureau since inception.
Honeyfund is available to residents of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., the U.S., Mexico, and most of Europe, as well as most of Latin America. If you live outside these countries and would like to use Honeyfund, please contact us.
Yes! Please create a free account and then you can try the Give a Gift process from your published registry page. You can walk through step-by-step what your guests will experience when they purchase a Honeyfund gift.
Note: If you've linked a PayPal account, be sure to use a credit card and e-mail address not associated with your linked PayPal account. PayPal does not allow you to pay yourself.
Make sure your registry is published, which then makes it available via the Give a Gift search. Click here to publish your Honeyfund and follow the instructions.
If you'd like to unpublish your registry to remove it from public access, or reset your Honeyfund web address and hashtag, click here, scroll to the bottom of the page, click "Reset hashtag & honeyfund address (URL)" and follow the instructions.
We can also exclude your page from search engine crawling, just visit your privacy settings.
Your Honeyfund account will be disabled if your e-mail address is invalid or if it was not confirmed within eight weeks of opening the account. Accounts also close automatically one year after your wedding date.
Or you may have closed your account on the Account Settings tab.
If you wish to reinstate your account, simply Sign In or contact us.
Wedding over, thank you notes sent and ready to start married life? You can simply unpublish your page and keep your account available to just you, as long as you wish.
Is there another reason you wish to close your account? Great! We love discerning customers like you! In fact, if you take a moment to let us now how to make Honeyfund work for you, we'll gladly upgrade your account to our Elite package for free, AND do our best to fix the issue. Just contact us here.
Still need to close your account? Here is our close account form.
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To remove the Skyhour referral link, that saves your guests 10% on air travel and earns you free hours, Contact Us.
Receiving Gifts & Payments
Honeyfund integrates with WePay and PayPal, two secure payment processors, to enable credit card payment for you and your guests. You can choose your preferred processor.
Here's how it works:
- Guests pay quickly and easily. You pay just 2.4% + $0.30 for online gifts* (offline payments are always free!)
- A few easy steps enable credit card payments.
- To withdraw, login to your WePay or PayPal account and follow the steps. There are no withdrawal fees!
Setup your Payment Settings now. Honeyfund couples who accept both offline and online payments pay average fees of just 1.8%! Guests never pay a fee.
* Applies to most US-to-US payments. Fees outside the US may vary. Click here for full fee info. Payments from outside your home country may incur an additional 1% cross-border fee.
You can now register for gift cards from popular travel, dining and retail brands right on your honeyfund! Any and all gift cards you receive are free to give and receive.
Click here to add gift cards to your honeyfund.
Here are simple instructions for getting your gift money for each available payment option:
Visit the Gifts Received page to redeem any available Gift Cards or Honeyfund Gift Card Balance funds. NOTE: This option is NOT redeemable for cash, and Honeyfund Gift Card Balance funds never expire.
WePay (Chase) payments are automatically deposited into your bank account. If you haven't received payments, you may need to add your bank account in your WePay (Chase) account. Follow the instructions for claiming your WePay (Chase) account sent to the e-mail on your Honeyfund account or Contact Us.
To withdraw gift payments from PayPal, please login to your PayPal account and click the Withdraw tab. There you will find several options for withdrawing your money. If you forgot your login e-mail address, you can find it in your Honeyfund Payment Settings.
If your gifts were pledged via cash or check, you should have received the payments directly from your gift givers (e.g. in the mail to the address you provided in your Honeyfund account, or at the shower, wedding or otherwise in person).
You can see each gift and its payment method on the Gifts Received page.
Once you've redeemed gift card funds for a partner brand, it cannot be canceled. The partner gift card can be used with that partner company per the terms of their gift card program. If you have questions, please Contact Us.
Once your gifts are given via the Honeyfund Gift Card Balance, they cannot be transferred to WePay. If you need help redeeming your funds, please Contact Us.
In addition to Honeyfund's free offline payment options, we make it possible to receive online payments for a fee of 2.4% + $0.30. Here are the complete fee details:
- Payments paid to a WePay account incur one simple fee of 2.4% + $0.30. PayPal: Most US-to-US transactions incur a rate of 2.8% + $0.30. Fees outside the US may vary. Click here for full fee info. Payments from outside your home country may incur an additional 1% cross-border fee.
Some gifts do not show up on your Gifts Received page immediately. There may be up to a two hour delay to allow the giver time to make changes before the gift pledge is revealed to you in your account.
However, WePay (Chase) and PayPal payments should show up immediately. If not, please Contact Us.
With Honeyfund, guests select a gift, and then pay according to the options you provided. Gifts are displayed on the Gifts Received page, where you can see how each gift was paid when you open the gift.
If you get payment for a "pledge" from a gift giver who paid offline, you can mark the gift as "received" by entering the date you got the payment.
If you aren't sure, please Contact Us.
Visit the Payment Settings page to remove your existing PayPal account so you can link a new one.
Note: The PayPal account linked at the time of the gift is where the money is sent for that gift. Past gifts will not change when you change your payment settings.
Edit your payment settings here. If you have more than one payment option enabled, your guests will be able to choose from those options when they select your gift.
Contact us and we will contact the gift giver on your behalf to verify the gift was intended for you.
We are not aware of couples paying taxes on their wedding gifts. However we recommend you talk to a licensed tax professional whenever you have tax questions.
Although this does not apply to most of our users, we recommend you check PayPal's site regarding the federal reporting conducted by them.
If a giver requests a refund for their payment, Contact us.
Giving a Gift
To get back to the certificate page, just click the link in your gift confirmation e-mail (check your spam folder if you didn't receive the e-mail). If you don't have it, you can recover it from the couple's registry. Select any gift, then enter your name and e-mail in the form exactly as you entered it the first time. We will automatically popup a message linking you to your existing gift.
Or, contact us and we can provide the link for you.
There are two ways to pay for a Honeyfund gift; 1) Offline, where you print a certificate and give it to the couple with cash or check, or 2) Online via a third party payment processor. (Note: Honeyfund does not handle online payments, all payments are processed by a third party.)
If you paid online, you should have received an e-mail receipt. Check your e-mail for the receipt and/or your credit card activity for the charge.
If you aren't sure which payment method you chose, check your Honeyfund gift confirmation e-mail. There you will find either a receipt or payment instructions for the payment method you selected. If you don't have the e-mail, please check your spam folder or contact us and we will resend it to you.
If your card is declined please try your transaction again, using a different credit card and/or e-mail address.
If your payment still doesn't go through, we suggest you try your gift again and select the offline payment option. This way, you can send a check in the mail directly to the couple or bring cash or check to the wedding with your gift certificate.
If you have NOT paid for your gift, please click the link in your gift confirmation e-mail from Honeyfund. There you can cancel the gift pledge. If you don't have the e-mail, contact us and we can cancel the gift pledge for you.
If you have already given the couple the funds, offline, we cannot cancel the gift payment. You will need to make arrangements directly with the couple to retrieve your funds.
If you paid online, contact us to request a refund.
Honeyfund Gift Card
The Honeyfund Gift Card is the world's first universal travel gift card! With the Honeyfund Gift Card, you are giving the gift of the world – recipients can redeem the card for unlimited experiences through major airlines, hotels, cruise lines, restaurants, retailers and more!
With the Honeyfund Gift Card, you are truly giving the gift of the world! Recipients can redeem the card for unlimited experiences through major airlines, hotels, cruise lines, restaurants, retailers and more! Givers love the gift of experiences, and recipients love the convenience and flexibility.
Recipients can use the Honeyfund gift card for travel, experiences or products of their choice via a network of Honeyfund partners. Currently, Honeyfund gift card recipients can convert their card, dollar-for-dollar, for e-gift cards from major airlines, hotels, cruise lines, restaurants, retailers and more, including these providers:
- Amazon.com
- Royal Caribbean Cruises
- Celebrity Cruises
- Princess Cruises
- Carnival Cruise Line
- Hotels.com
- Global Hotel Card by Orbitz
- Spa & Wellness by SpaWeek
- Topgolf
- Groupon
- Regal Theaters
- Landry's
- T.G.I. Fridays
- Lands' End
- Nike
- Bed Bath & Beyond
- Gap
- Barnes & Noble
- 1-800-Flowers.com
- 1-800-Baskets.com
- Athleta
- Banana Republic
- Bass Pro Shops
- Brinker International
- Go Play Golf
- Home Depot
- Old Navy
- Overstock.com
- Bertucci's
- Buca di Beppo®
- Columbia
- Wine Enthusiast
- Bloomin Brands
- AMC Theatres
- Charity Choice
- Christmas Tree Shops
- Fanatics
- Fandango
- GameStop
- Kohls
- Southwest Airlines
- Spotify
- The Cheesecake Factory
- Wine.com *note our list is subject to change at any time. Please log into your account to view the most current list of brands available.
Redeemed Honeyfund Gift Cards are non-cancellable. You may request a refund for an unredeemed card by Contacting Us.
Honeyfund Gift Cards can be purchased by Visa, MasterCard and Discover credit and debit cards. We do not accept American Express at this time.
Once a Honeyfund Gift Card is redeemed for a partner brand's gift card, it cannot be canceled. The partner gift card can be used as cash with that partner company per the terms of their gift card program. If you have questions, please Contact Us.
Once you enter your e-mail address to redeem your gift, you will be presented with all the partner brands that offer gift cards in the amount of your gift. Some partners have fixed gift card amounts. If those amounts do not match the amount of your Honeyfund gift card, the brand will not appear.


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Adjustment of Tuition for Changing Program of Study: If a student changes her program and the tuition called for is lower than the amount she has already paid, she will be credited the excess only if the change in her program is made by the last day of enrollment verification in each term (i.e. the second Friday of the semester). If the new program calls for higher tuition, the student is responsible for paying the additional charges promptly.
An applicant for admission must pay a $400 non-refundable deposit upon acceptance of the offer of admission to Barnard College.
For students and parents desiring to pay education costs in monthly payments, a semester payment plan is available from Tuition Management Systems (TMS/Nelnet). Information may be obtained directly from TMS/Nelnet at (888) 251-3597 or barnard.afford.com. The College requires you to make your first payment including a signed TMS/Nelnet electronic promissory note to TMS/Nelnet to complete the payment plan enrollment process.
Progressive late payment fees begin at $75. There is no grace period. To avoid a late payment fee, a hold on registration/housing/dining, long lines, & busy telephones, the Bursar Worksheet & payment should be received by BURSAR before the semester payment deadline.
Barnard College is not able to receive funds from students for safekeeping or to cash personal checks or traveler's checks. To cover immediate expenses, a student should have an automated teller machine (ATM) card or postal money orders. There is a Citibank ATM located on campus in Barnard Hall across from the Security Office. The Columbia University Station of the U.S. Post Office will cash postal money orders upon presentation of a validated Barnard student ID card. Validated ID cards are issued after students register and pay at the beginning of each term.
By registering for classes or completing a housing or meal plan application, a student incurs a legal obligation to pay tuition, fees, room, and board.
To protect your financial investment against the student's serious illness or accident resulting in the withdrawal of the student before a semester is completed, consider the Tuition Refund Plan. The Tuition Refund Plan is a private insurance program that supplements Barnard's refund policy for complete withdrawals. Subscribers are assured a refund throughout the term even though Barnard's refund policy may have expired at the time of withdrawal. An 80% refund applies to covered charges for medical withdrawals. For more information on this optional program, visit www.collegerefund.com.
Barnard's refund policy for complete withdrawal is as follows:
If a student withdraws prior to the start of the semester and incurs no charges, her nonrefundable tuition deposit is forfeited. If the student has incurred any charges, the deposit is applied to those charges.
If a student withdraws during the semester, her charges will be prorated if she has been enrolled for less than or equal to 60% of the term, and she completes the necessary forms with the Offices of the Dean of Studies (tuition and fees), Residential Life and Housing (complete the Housing Cancellation Form), and Bursar (meal plan cancellation). If a student has been enrolled for more than 60% of the term, she is not eligible for a reduction in charges. Depending on the date of official cancellation, withdrawal from housing may incur additional penalties; students should consult their housing contract and the Housing office policies.
The refund formula measures the actual number of days enrolled during the semester. It is determined by dividing the number of days enrolled by the number of calendar days in the semester (including weekends and holidays and excluding spring break) and then deducting that calculation from 100%. For example, if there are 106 calendar days in a semester, and a student withdraws on the 50th day of the semester, her charges and financial aid will be prorated to reflect that she's been enrolled for 52.8% of the semester [i.e. 1 minus (50 divided by 106)].
If a student is participating in a Barnard Study Abroad program for the semester, her Barnard tuition charges will be reduced by the same percentage as Barnard is refunded by the school abroad.
If a student is a recipient of Federal Title IV financial aid, refunds to those programs are required by federal regulation to be the first priority and must be returned in the following order: Unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loan, Subsidized Federal Stafford Loan, Federal Perkins Loan, Federal PLUS Loan, Federal Pell Grant, and Federal SEOG.
A student is not eligible for a refund until all Federal Title IV programs and other scholarships are reimbursed as required and all outstanding balances with the College have been cleared. To request a refund please submit a student refund request form to the Bursar's office.
The following items are not subject to the refund policy:
- Lab, course, or computer fees
- Orientation fees
- Late fees (late payment, late registration, late enrollment verification, etc.)
- Deferred payment fees
- Returned check fees
- Dormitory fines
- Finance charges

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It's 7:40 a.m. and 44º, headed to 66º. Today will be sunny and even warmer than yesterday.
According to the Chronicle, a recent report suggests that San Francisco rents have jumped so high they appear to have plateaued. Meanwhile, Oakland is hiking up rents to cash in on all of the folks moving across the bay. Its average monthly asking is up 17 percent for the year.
The San Francisco Bay Guardian tells us that Supervisor Scott Wiener is "a machine." Read more about his tireless efforts here.
Need help jumping on the Super Bowl bandwagon? The Bold Italic has a cheat sheet for you. Rule number one: "Own it."


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Virtualizing Real-World Objects in Functional Reactive Programming
Daniel Winograd-Cort
We begin with a functional reactive programming (FRP) model in which every program is viewed as a signal function that converts a stream of input values into a stream of output values. We observe that objects in the real world -- such as a keyboard or sound card -- can be thought of as signal functions as well. This leads us to a different approach to I/O -- instead of treating real-world objects as being external to the program, we expand the sphere of influence of program execution to include them. We call this "virtualizing real-world objects", and we explore how even virtual objects, such as GUI widgets, and non-local effects, such as are needed for debugging and random number generation, can be handled in the same way.
Our methodology may at first seem naive -- one may ask how we prevent a virtualized device from being copied, thus potentially introducing non-determinism as one part of a program competes for the same resource as another. To solve this problem, we introduce the idea of a resource type that assures that a virtualized object is not duplicated and that I/O and non-local effects are safe. Resource types also provide a deeper level of transparency: by inspecting the type, one can see exactly what resources are being used. We use arrows, type classes, associated types, and type families to implement our ideas in Haskell, and the result is a safe, effective, and transparent approach to stream-based I/O.


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Paul Ceglia's lawsuit against Facebook is about to cost him an additional $96,000.
A federal judge has ordered the Allegany County man to reimburse Facebook and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg for money it spent on lawyers, experts and travel.
The ruling, issued Thursday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio, nearly doubles what Ceglia has been ordered to pay in court-approved fees and sanctions since the civil case began two years ago.
The bulk of the money Ceglia is now being ordered to pay stems from his lawyer's late cancellation of depositions by several of Facebook's expert witnesses.
"Because the late notice of cancellation was insufficient to allow these experts to avoid travel and lodging expenses, [Ceglia] is responsible for paying these costs," Foschio said in his ruling.
The court-ordered reimbursement is the latest in a series of fees and sanctions Foschio has levied against Ceglia.
Until Thursday, he had been hit with about $98,000, most of it attorney fees claimed by Facebook's lawyers.
With the additional sum set Friday, Ceglia has been ordered to pay a total of about $194,000.
Ceglia, a Wellsville resident, claims he signed a contract with Zuckerberg in 2003 that entitles him to a stake in the social networking giant.
Zuckerberg acknowledges signing a contract with Ceglia while he was a student at Harvard University but claims the deal had nothing to do with Facebook.
Ceglia's case against Facebook took a new turn three weeks ago when he was charged in Manhattan federal court with orchestrating a "multibillion-dollar scheme" to defraud the company.
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Silent Running
In the world of science fiction films Douglas Trumbull is quietly a hall of famer. His special photographic effects for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey would set the standard for outer space visuals for years to come (and I, for one, still find the models more effective than CGI). As a visual effects pioneer, Trumbull would also go on to lend his expertise on films ranging from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Towering Inferno, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, and, most recently, Tree of Life. As a director himself, he helmed two movies including Brainstorm in 1983, an interesting thriller about memory science, remembered mainly as Natalie Wood's last film, and then, most importantly, the first film he directed: Silent Running, a sorta cerebral sci-fi environmentalist saga that has been a major influence on all the subsequent films of the genre.
After all plant life has been destroyed on Earth, scientist and gardener Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) works aboard a giant space freighter called Valley Forge with greenhouse domes attached that hovers in space near Saturn, housing both extinct plant life and animals. The idea is that one day these space plant abodes will be able to return to Earth and repopulate its fauna. Lowell is the Adam of this wildlife Eden, aided by his three cute little robots: Huey, Dewey, and Louie, while his yahoo human shipmates (played by Ron Rifkin, Cliff Potts and Jesse Vint) get drunk and android around on their space go-carts with no sensitivity to what he is trying to cultivate.
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It's the dead of night outside two adjoining quiet suburban houses. A 1930 Ford Model A pulls up and rattles off a warning round into some trees (a fox is struck in its tail by mistake and is forced from its dustbin restaurant whimpering). The passenger window is jerkily unwound a bit. A bid to shuffle a loud hailer out of the gap is attempted, aborted, muttered about, intermittently and mistakenly through the loud hailer, at which point a light comes on in one of the houses. The car window is finally fully cranked and Guided By Voices kingpin Bob Pollard gives his address: 'Right. Same drill as before boys.' he garbles 'And the time before that. And the time...'
Tobin Sprout: 'Dude, get on with it.'
Pollard: 'Right. Yeah. Anyway, come out with your hands up. Although we all know that we're not gonna kill you so, whatever, but we're gonna need to borrow y'all for a few days again. We'll get drunk and have fun and then y'all can stagger home to your drips, armchairs, colostomy bags and VH1 Behind The Musics. Sound good? Well, c'mon then! It's time to... kick out the jams... err... again, motherfuckers!'
Skip Spence sticks his head out of one of the many windows that are now lighted, 'Didn't we do this a few months ago?'
Pollard: 'Yep, and we're doing it again, come to think of it we'll be doing it for a third time before the year's out.'
At this point, the door of the first house (marked '63-68 West Coast') opens and out march a ragged collection of ne'er-do-wells and former visionaries, variously combing their fringes, chewing their gum, stringing up, skinning up, hopping as they struggle to pull on the second of their Cuban heeled Chelsea boots, etc etc. A similar line starts to pour forth from the house marked 'East US 67-73', straightening their wraparounds, hopping as they struggle to pull on the second of their... you get it. Every English-speaking kid in the Western world with a guitar ever to make a recognised garage-pebble, psych-nugget or even bona fide string of hits between those years files into the back of the car with the cartoonish ridiculousness of physical impossibility until the Keystone Kops of indie are satisfied with their haul.
Right. Stick em up. Your hands. Who likes Guided By Voices? You don't or don't know? Then listen and check.
You do? Well here we go. You probably know that after a five year sabbatical they returned this year with Let's Go Eat The Factory. Which was majoratively brilliant. And now look... another album. Within six months. Can you even believe it? There'll be another this year too. I know! Of course you can't believe it. Its a proper feat for any young band but these are some middle ages guys that are just having fun leasing new life towards the filtering of various Sixties rock templates through a Nineties US indie sensibility. What makes the record in any way irresistible is that you can clearly hear the merriment. They were on a Strokes-initiated game of Jeopardy and everything! If that's not a band who like having fun then I don't know what is.
'Class Clown Spots A UFO' and 'Keep It In Motion' are almost tasteless in how mercilessly catchy they are. 'Billy Wire' borrows the chorus chords from Nirvana's 'Breed', tacking a gorgeous stomper on top, replete with brief meltdown middle section. 'Starfire' bizarrely combines eighties synth strings and snare sound with barely capable musicianship over a nice little soft slice of Move-esque psychedelia. 'All Of This Will Go' is a wistful sorta Byrds-y harmony fest...
Like any GBV album there are about a million tracks over the course of about ten minutes - a characteristic that can be charmingly frustrating. There's just so much to take in. But that leads us back to the fun. Most of this record isn't the kind of total genius that can be found elsewhere in their canon but it's a fine album that shows what can be done if bands just relaxed a bit, stopped worrying about peripheral shit like whether they have the full 16 eyelets in their boots done up or plump for the more casual 14, wrote songs, rocked out and enjoyed the whole shindig.
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Here is an interview with Blanca, 76, and Luis, 77; two sponsored aging friends in the Hope for a Family program in Lima, Peru. They were married 41 years ago and have supported each other since.
What is your secret for a long life?
Blanca: To laugh when you can and to cry when you have to.
Luis: Do not complain about life, remain joyful and work hard because when working, you forget about problems.
What advice do you have for young people?
Blanca: Stay away from drugs.
Luis: Keep your mind busy doing activities that you enjoy because a free mind tends to think about bad things. Young people must make an effort to find good company, good friends.
If you could visit any place in the world, where would you go and why?
Blanca: I do not like to travel.
Luis: I would like to visit my own country first. There are places I have not visited.
Tell us something special or unique about yourself.
Blanca: For some reason I put away any gift I receive, and I hardly use it.
Luis: I am a person who avoids problems by being a tranquil person.
What's your favorite food?
Blanca: Rice with chicken.
Luis: Beans.
What do you like most about CFCA?
Blanca: I enjoy the staff members in the program and the benefits I receive. [I am] thankful for everything.
Luis: The monthly meetings because we have the chance to talk with others. At the same time, the support we all get from our sponsors.


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Much of the research within the School of Art, Design and Fashion is based on a genuine desire to tackle aspects of societal challenge facing local communities globally: the need for people to belong and to have their cultural contribution recognised; the need for cities to change to meet technological and economic shifts while taking various and varying communities with them on the journey and importantly; the need to play a central part in an ecologically sustainable strategy for the global built environment.
Research within the School is structured into four groups, each infused with a passionate belief in art and design as a tool for change.
Making Histories Visible excavates creative histories and works with major museums to connect communities with their local and international heritage to ultimately encourage a sense of belonging and contribution across both.
Silicates Research Unit addresses the pace of new building development and the ever greater amounts of waste material that end up as landfill.
In Certain Places continues to attract international artists and partnerships to work with the city such as Alfredo Jaar, Blast Theory, Jeppe Hein and others, as a result of its innovative approach to creating projects with artists which reveal, critique and provoke new understandings of a place and peoples.
Collaborative Engagements consist of a cluster of four research projects with a broad reach across several creative communities.


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MNSure CEO sys reinsurance is 'short-term fix'
BRAINERD, Minn. — MNSure CEO Allison O'Toole offered up solutions Monday, Oct. 9, to help make sure health insurance premiums stay flat.
O'Toole is traveling the state, talking to Minnesota media outlets ahead of the open enrollment period starting Nov. 1.
She said there are three crucial tips for people looking to use the MNsure online exchange this fall. They should make sure they know their password and username (one of the most popular reasons to call MNSure is to reset passwords), update their account if they've changed things like their address or income level, and schedule an appointment with an assister—MNSure navigators and brokers that can help users understand how to use the website and enroll in plans.
O'Toole also explained how two government aid programs help tamp down the amount of money Minnesotans pay for their insurance. Most people get their health insurance either from their employer or from the government directly. Fewer than 4 percent in the state pay for their insurance on the individual market—for example, farmers and self-employed workers. But their rates shot up enough in recent years to cause a crisis that spurred state government to act.
The Legislature put in a 25 percent discount for the 2017 insurance season, which helped about 112,000 people pay an average of $136 a month less this year. Lawmakers also instituted a "reinsurance" program, in which the state insures insurance companies against the risk of getting high-cost policyholders.
O'Toole said both programs have expiration dates. The 25 percent discount isn't available this year, and the reinsurance program is only guaranteed funding for a total of two years. The reinsurance program kept most of next year's premiums flat—that is, about 20 percent less from what they otherwise would have gone up to, O'Toole said.
"The reinsurance program is a really good step forward for (the state)," she said.
The 25 percent discount also helped enrollees "take the edge off," O'Toole said.
Although she encouraged MNSure customers to contact their legislators, the best thing for them to do now is prepare for this year's enrollment period, she said.
O'Toole said she traveled to Washington D.C., to advocate for a reinsurance program similar to Minnesota's, but on the federal level funded by federal dollars.
"Minnesota's law, I view it as a very short-term fix to give lawmakers time for that bigger conversation about how to stabilize the market in the longer term," she said.
"My goal is to make sure that it's part of the conversation," O'Toole said.
She said there appears to be bipartisan cooperation on health insurance between U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., who serve together on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
"The first steps may be small, but let's keep going," O'Toole said.
But she was clear-eyed on what the future will likely hold.
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Quote:That's interesting Fletch. So you don't see it as a valid or dependable response to a weapon disarm? There are some other variations from the same entries when (a botched) kote gaeshi can be turned into a kote mawashi (wrist return) or kote oroshi (wrist drop) - depending on the situation.Do you do the takedown and pins as well from kote gaeshi?
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Quote:Hello all.The Kote Gaeshi wristlock is one of the first locks I learned in Traditional JJ. For those not familiar, it is the compressing and twisting lock where your thumb(s) is on the back of their hand with your gripping fingers at the base of their wrist.The lock occurs as you rotate their own wrist up and inward. It becomes a throw when foot work is added as the lock has a way of pulling them out of balance. Of course, for SD the throw is more of a crumple as without proper ukemi, the uke just gets his wrist broken.
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I know this is of little interest since it occured 150 yrs. ago and does not mention the DELTA QUEEN, but I find it fascinating.
The Louisville Daily Courier, July 19, 1866
LAUNCH OF THE ROBERT E. LEE - "Yesterday morning the new southern packet, building for Captain Cannon, was launched from the shipyard at Lower Albany amid a vast concourse of spectators. She was laid on the stocks at right angles to the river and had to be launched stern foremost. The lashings were cut away about 9 o'clock and she darted to the water, having a good run to make, with accellerated velocity, making an imposing launch.
Owing to the low stage of the river, the launch was not as successful as it should have been. Just before the boat reached the water the "packing" (a drift pile) along the ways caught, or jammed, and the proud boat had to actually climb over the debris to reach the river. Her momentium was so great, added to the great weight, that she overcame the obstacles that she rushed into her future element like a thing of life, and she she now rides triumphantly at the wharf, the future mistress of the inland seas.
The boat, in launching, broke her main fore and aft hog chains and the hull in the strain, "jumping the packing, is somewhat out of shape. It is, however, considered wholly uninjured, and by the time the machinery is aboard she will be drawn to her proper shape and trim. The model is the keenest ever constructed and, if shes not a screamer to run, it will not be John Cannons fault."


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Keeping yields, profits and water quality high
One of the key questions facing agriculturalists in the 21st century is how to produce adequate amounts of food and farm income while protecting environmental quality. Diversified, low-external-input (LEI) farming systems offer one possible approach for maintaining adequate productivity and profitability while reducing pollution by agrichemicals and still improving water quality. LEI systems rely heavily on ecological processes for soil fertility and pest management, but can include some use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
A team of investigators based at Iowa State University conducted a multiyear field experiment in Boone County, IA, to determine whether the yield, weed suppression, and profit characteristics of LEI systems can match or exceed those of a conventional system. Results from the study were published in the May-June 2008 issue of Agronomy Journal.
The experiment included a two-year, corn-soybean rotation, a three-year corn-soybean-small grain-red clover rotation, and a four-year corn-soybean-small grain-alfalfa-alfalfa rotation. Conventional rates of synthetic fertilizers were applied in the two-year rotation, whereas composted cattle manure and reduced rates of synthetic fertilizers were applied in the three- and four-year rotations. Weed management in the two-year rotation was based on conventional rates of herbicides, whereas in the three- and four-year systems, herbicides were applied in bands in corn and soybean, greater reliance was placed on cultivation, and no herbicides were applied in small grain and forage legume crops.
Over the period of 2003-2006, both synthetic Nitrogen fertilizer and herbicide use was lower in the three- and four-year LEI systems than in the two-year conventional system. Corn and soybean yields were as high or higher in the LEI systems as in the conventional system, and matched or exceeded average yields on commercial farms in Boone County. Further, lower herbicide inputs did not lead to increased weed problems.
Without government subsidy payments, net returns were highest for the four-year LEI system, lowest for the three-year LEI system, and intermediate for the two-year conventional system. With subsidies, differences among systems in net returns were smaller, as subsidies favored the conventional system, but rank order of the systems was maintained.
"The results suggest that large reductions in agrichemical use can be compatible with high crop yields and profits," says Dr. Matt Liebman, an agronomy professor at Iowa State University.
The project was supported by the USDA National Research Initiative (Biology of Weedy and Invasive Species Panel), and the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture and the Department of Agronomy at Iowa State University. The project is continuing with additional investigations of energy use, soil quality, and weed population dynamics. Additional economic analyses will be conducted to determine the impacts of rapidly changing crop prices and input costs.
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The celebration didn't last long for Miss Teen USA Karlie Hay.
Hours after the beauty pageant contestant accepted her crown, the 18-year-old decided to acknowledge some controversial language she used a couple years back. Shortly after her win, tweets from 2013 surfaced in which Hay allegedly used racial slurs.
"Several years ago, I had many personal struggles and found myself in a place that is not representative of who I am as a person. I admit that I have used language publicly in the past which I am not proud of and that there is no excuse for," she wrote on Instagram.
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"Through hard work, education and thanks in large part to the sisterhood that I have come to know through pageants, I am proud to say that I am today a better person."
She continued: "I am honored to hold this title and I will use this platform to promote the values of The Miss Universe Organization, and my own, that recognize the confidence, beauty and perseverance of all women."
The messages have since been deleted. Officials have allowed Hay to keep her crown.
E! News has reached out to Miss Teen USA organizers for additional comment.
Pageant officials chastised Hay in a statement Sunday, but supported "her continued growth," The Associated Press reported.
Former Miss Teen USA Kamie Crawford read about the controversy and decided to speak out on Twitter.
"I can take the #missteenusa top 5 being an all white, all blonde top 5. What I can't take is - why didn't the winner clean up her page?" she wrote on social media. "If u win any pageant - first things first. Clean up ur page. Cus if ur under 21 u shouldn't b drinking&if ur WHITE the n word ain't yo word!"
This isn't the only controversy facing the pageant this weekend. While the event received plenty of praise for replacing the swimsuit portion with an athletic wear competition, many followers of the show — including Chrissy Teigen — couldn't help but also focus on the lack of diversity in the final five contestants.
"Wow how can we choose from such a diverse bunch," the supermodel wrote on Twitter. "It's fiiiiiine. Not their fault. I'm sure they are delightful women. Just funny. I'm not gonna write a think-piece on a damn pageant."
This year's telecast was streamed live on the Internet from The Venetian Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
Hay, of Tomball, Texas, says she will use her platform to advocate for those affected by drug and alcohol abuse, according to The Associated Press.
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Continuous integration (CI), the practice made popular by Agile methodologies, has seen tremendous adoption by development teams in the last few years. This wildfire-like spread of the practice has been the result of a common-sense approach to automation and information sharing. But traditional CI has been constrained so that it is localized within the lifecycle and provides only a partial picture of software quality. In this article, I examine the reason for these constraints and suggest approaches for working beyond them.
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Continuous integration is a practice made up of two components:
- Team members integrating their work frequently.
- Integration not degrading code quality.
The practice is rooted in the observation that the longer developers go without integrating their work, the more painful the eventual integration. However, frequent integration is only one part of continuous integration and is not sufficient on its own to constitute the practice. To practice continuous integration, the second part of our definition must be met: Each integration should not degrade code quality. Thus, critical to the implementation of continuous integration is being able to determine code quality. This feat is typically accomplished via testing as determining quality is not black and white, but rather comes in shades of grey. The more tests we run, the more accurate our determination of the code quality will be.
There is a force that counterbalances the desire for a clearer picture of code quality. Within continuous integration, it is important to determine quickly whether quality has been degraded. Consider what must happen when we find that the latest integration decreased the code qualitythe offending code change must be either backed out or corrected. In either case, we're talking about another integration and the longer we delay that integration, the more painful it is.
So we find that a balance is needed when practicing continuous integration. On the one hand, the more tests we run, the more accurate our determination of code quality will be. On the other hand, more tests mean longer test times and a longer wait before correcting any offending code change. Typically, the balance is struck by running unit (or fast running) tests as part of the continuous integration build process. This leaves a lot of testing on the table (functional tests, performance tests, regression tests, integration tests, and the list goes on). Can anything be done with these remaining tests?
What About the Remaining Tests?
Any tests not performed as part of the CI loop are typically performed manually or with the aid of scripts or tools. Even when scripts or tools are used, they usually perform only a portion of the work and have to be coordinated manually, leading to a semi-automated process. The end result is that there is a long delay between the time the code changes enter the additional testing stage (beyond CI) and the time that the results of those tests are available and acted upon. Presumably, the closer in time the discovery of a bug to the time of its introduction, the smaller the effort and cost required to fix it. Thus, there is value in reducing the feedback loop in the tests beyond continuous integration.
If we didn't have to worry about keeping the CI loop so tight, we could include additional tests as part of the CI process. Continuous integration has the promise of providing the automation framework that is needed to decrease the turnaround time on the longer running tests. More importantly, many teams that have started out with continuous integration and a fast CI loop have implemented automation of additional tests to provide a more thorough view of the quality of their code base. Running these additional tests is not as fast as running tests used in the tight CI loop and does take a substantial amount of time. The turnaround time can range any where from two hours to more than eight hours. In addition to running slow unit tests, some teams automate functional tests (which require that the application be deployed into a test environment), integration tests, system tests, and more. The possibilities to a large extent depend on the approach taken toward the automation and the model for automating these processes outside the tight CI loop.
In the rest of this article, I present some alternative ways in which this can be accomplished. I will cover a build-centric approach in the section about Staged CI, a process-centric approach in the section about Chaining Processes, and a lifecycle-centric approach in the section about Build and Release Pipelines.


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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Kirchmeier on The Death Penalty Abolitionist Search for a Wrongful Execution
Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier, CUNY School of Law, draws from history to contribute to the innocence debate in a new article, Dead Innocent: The Death Penalty Abolitionist Search for a Wrongful Execution. The article has been published in the Tulsa Law Review. Here's the abstract: This article examines the debate about whether or not an innocent person has been executed in the United States. The article begins by discussing several famous historical claims of wrongful execution, including Sacco & Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, and Bruno Hauptmann. Then, the article addresses some recent claims of wrongful executions, including the case of Larry Griffin and the impact of a 2006 DNA test in the Roger Coleman case. The article evaluates why some innocence claims attract more attention than others. By recognizing two obstacles in wrongful execution claims and by establishing five lessons for gaining media attention, the article uses its historical analysis to extract strategy lessons for death penalty abolitionists. Finally, the article weighs arguments regarding the pros and cons of an abolitionist strategy that focuses on proving the innocence of executed individuals. The article concludes that wrongful execution claims provide an important argument for abolitionists, but such claims should not be presented as the main or only problem with the death penalty.
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In accelerators we shoot very high momentum particles at each other to probe their structure at very small length scales. Has that anything to do with the HUP that addresses the spread of momentum and space?
Related, when we accelerate a proton at exactly, say, 1 GeV, then we know exactly its momentum. But for high momentum particles the Broglie wave length also shrinks, the particles position becomes more precise. But that would violate HUP.
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At first the two killings seem unrelated. The lonely call girl murdered on New York City's West Side had never met the prim schoolteacher slain across town in the far safer preserve of the city's Upper East Side. But someone has decapitated them both and switched their heads: a deed that is apparently its own motive, a crime as pointless as it was perfectly executed.
Detective Frank Janek immediately knows that he has entered the realm of a lethal madness. Middle-aged, divorced, a man centered solely on his work, Janek is practiced in piercing the minds of the criminals he pursues. In the absence of clues from the killer, he has only the awful symmetry of the crime to work with, only his own finely honed intuition. "This was a crime conceived in the shadows," he thinks, "There was precision in it, and passion. Concentrated rage and a love of order. A need to beautify. Even some strange, unfathomable, as yet uncatalogued species of love."
The challenge-to become as precise, as creative, as cold as his prey-begins to take its toll. The tenuous psychological thread leads Janek back into the unsettled past-- not only the killer's but his own. His own passion and rage and unresolved love. The love he bore for the man who trained him-a retired cop whose apparent suicide he has shied from investigating too closely, the passion for justice that has made him a marked man within the police fraternity. The rage he feels at ancient crimes that have finally burst into full and terrifying flower. And most of all, the new love he feels for the mysterious woman in whom all these strands of the past seem to converge. It is Janek's love for Caroline that leads him at last to a blinding vision of the purpose behind the grisly double homicide.
Too late, he realizes that the case of "Switched Heads" may only be the bait....
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- Literaryxplorer
- 27-10-11
Great reading of my novel by Jeffrey Kafer!
Kudos to Jeffrey Kafer for his superb reading! He captures perfectly the rueful middle-aged angst of my character, Frank Janek, as he goes about solving his greatest case. I'm hopeful that Mr. Kafer's will be reading the other two more books in my Janek series, "Wallflower" and "Mirror Maze" for Audible.
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Great psychological murder mystery
Would you try another book from William Bayer and/or Jeffrey Kafer?
Switch is a great psychological murder mystery. William Byers's build up thrills with detailed real detective work. Plot explores twists suspense as story developed and getting better and better. Each character's real and highly expressive. Never boring moment.
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- 01-05-15
A Good Mystery
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Well, the publishers summary is long enough to give every reader a pretty good idea of what this book is about, but it's a bit darker than I expected it to be.
The work worn, hard boiled middle aged detective, Janek, takes on a strange case, very strange indeed, it all begins at the funeral of retired detective Al DiMona. Al was Janeks' rabbi - cop slang for mentor - Al had committed suicide by "eating his gun". His death hit Janek hard, he had this feeling that he should look deeper into what drove his friend to do such a thing, especially as Lou, Als wife, had insisted to Janek that he had been working on something secretive prior to his death. At the funeral he sees a woman, she looks out of place, so he decides to introduce himself to Caroline. She tells him she was just a friend of Al, just came to say goodbye.
Before he leaves, he's told that Chief of Detectives Hart wants him to ride back with him, it's during this trip that Janek is given the "switched heads" case of the two murdered women. Seems two detectives were called out, one to each case, they got into a fight about who should investigate, so Chief Hart settled it by giving it to Janek.
This is where his head scratching begins, it's all so bizarre, everything about it just plain weird, how's a man to start? The first few chapters are compelling reading, then it gets a little dull, there's a lot of conversation, conjecture, what ifs. In truth, all probably quite realistic but it doesn't hold the attention quite so well as the first part of the story.
Then there's the mystery of Al, and this is where Caroline has the leading part, having fallen in love with her ( and pretty darned quick if you ask me) Janek discovers she has not been entirely truthful. By this time, it's all become very complicated!
Despite being a little dull in parts, the author does have a wonderful way with words, he describes a room and you are there, seeing it. There's a very poignant passage about Lou, describing her reaction when, whilst cleaning the bathroom she hears the shot, she knows, she just knows she is going to walk down the stairs and find the dead body of her husband Al.
Wonderful performance by Jeffrey Kafer, he has the perfect voice for Janek, he switches faultlessly from character to character, gender to gender and it's seamless. Easy to listen to with a good pace, there's a lot of emotion in this book, from overwrought Lou to angry, frustrated detectives. Then, of course, there's the cold, cold murderer! Jeffrey Kafer nails it.
This audiobook was gifted via Audioblast in return for this, my honest review.
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- 18-04-15
Too much strong language!!!!
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This might sound cliché and trite, but why did we wait so long to visit Tuscany? Fifteen years living just up the road and we'd never made it? It's just a hop down the road and beyond the big hills! If you like good food and wine, wandering around beautiful countryside, interesting cities, museums and historical sites, it's got to be among the best places in Europe.
We arrived in Tuscany after a three-day drive from Hamburg. That was one of our many firsts for this trip. We'd taken our ol' Swedish Tank on long road trips before, but this was the longest, and our first time driving in Italy. The drivers weren't as bad as they're reputed to be, but one caution: if you don't like being squeezed onto narrow roads with some guy less than six feet behind you all the time no matter what your speed, don't get behind the wheel there.
Our second night on the road – and first in Italy – was still far from our Tuscany tower, but if we could have stayed longer, we would have. Arriving late afternoon we managed to scrape out a room in Torno, a little town tucked into a nook on the shores of Lake Como way up north close to the border with Switzerland.
It's just 20km or so up the road from the city of Como, which makes it sound close, but it was a narrow, twisting trail cut into the side of the mountain, and full of Sunday afternoon traffic, so the going was very slow. I thought we weren't going to be able to squeeze our Swedish Tank through a couple of the tighter spots. Finding a parking spot for the beast was another trial, but we wedged into a space for the night up the hill and schlepped out gear down to the harbour once we found the room.
As we settled onto the terrace surrounded mostly by locals having an evening drink and meal in the fast-fading evening light looking out over the tiny harbour, the breeze from the placid lake like a warm bath, we felt lucky to be there, like we'd pointed a finger at the map and said: this is where it'll be perfect, if only for one night.
Another first was the number in our party: Our red-haired girl is no longer little, and getting choosy about which trips she's going to take with the rents, so it was also the first time in 15 years we'd been on a holiday as a couple for more than four days at a stretch. Just the two of us, nobody else.
That was OK with us, because we knew we'd booked a place to ourselves, and were looking forward to getting up the morning and not having to deal with anyone or anything but deciding on what to do that day.
Just how much space we'd have around us became apparent as we approached the tower, driving through rows and rows of grapevines past the last house and then further up a small incline to the top of a hill.
The booking.com reviews warned that it was small, and that there was no heating, but we thought: who cares? There's a fireplace! And, as it turned out: a gas stove, a decent fridge, a wide, comfy bed upstairs along with bathroom and shower. Fully self-contained, and stocked with wine made from the thousands of vines stretching out from our doorstep. We just let them know at the end how much we'd drunk, and they added it to the bill.
On one of our first outings a few miles away we found some firewood stacked along the side of the road and thought, naw, we can't take it, what the locals saw us loading up on it? German plates and all… We like to be good neighbours. But a few hours later we came across the same spot and said, screw it, let's just take a few chunks, so we took a few armfuls and threw them in the back of the Tank. No regrets, because late into the evenings and on the cooler mornings that fire was the best thing about the place. We bought a couple of bags of good kindling in a store down the road so even though our logs weren't quite dry, they fired up right away.
The only snag was during a bad thunderstorm the second week. We'd shut all the windows, but the driving rain seeped through the framing around them, the water running down the walls in thin rivulets onto the upper-floor tile. Luckily our host had come by the night before with fresh sheets and towels, so we used the old ones to mop up as the storm wore on. A good thing, too, that we'd decided to stay home that day, or we'd have come home to a real mess.
Small-game hunters were our only visitors, but we caught only glimpses of them as they lurked off in the bushes while their dogs sniffed their way around the vineyard. Their guns would go pop-pop-pop off in the distance, so we knew they were around, but they kept well away from the tower.
Tucked away as it was about half-way between Pisa and Florence, we did get around for a bit of exploring. More on that coming up in a while.


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Portuguese journalists are increasingly concerned by Angola's growing investment and influence in their country. Buoyed by petrodollars and diamonds, powerful Angolan interests have been indulging in a buying spree in their former colonial power. Angolan capital invested in Portugal increased 35 times in the past decade, according to news reports. In a process often acidly described in Lisbon as a form of "reverse colonization," Angolans have gobbled up not only significant chunks of Portugal's banking, telecommunications, and energy companies, but also invested in the Portuguese media sector.
One source of concern is the Newshold media group, a company owned by Pineview Overseas, a Panama-based offshore company, whose shareholders are powerful Angolan figures including tycoon Alvaro Sobrinho. Newshold controls Sol, Portugal's third largest weekly, and owns stakes in two leading magazines, Visâo and Expresso, as well as Correio da Manhâ, the largest-circulation Lisbon tabloid, and the business paper Jornal de Negocios. It has also expressed interest in case the Portuguese government eventually decides to privatize the public service broadcaster RTP (Radio e Televisâo Portuguesa).
Many Angolan investors are known to be closely linked to Angola's presidential entourage and the MPLA (People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola), which has ruled the country without interruption since independence in 1975. Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, is the top investor in the Portuguese telecommunications and multimedia company ZON.
These investments would likely raise fewer objections if Angola were a beacon of press freedom. In fact, Angola is one of Africa's worst offenders on freedom of expression. Its media are strictly controlled by the ruling party, and independent journalists are regularly harassed. Ten journalists have been killed for their work, with absolute impunity, since CPJ began keeping records in 1992.
Aware of their economic fragility, authorities in Lisbon are wary of upsetting their powerful economic partner, local journalists say. "Angola has become a taboo subject in Portugal," Raquael Freire told the French daily Libération last week. Freire was until early last year a columnist for Antena 1, a radio channel of public broadcaster RTP. Her program, "Este Tempo," was canceled after one of her colleagues, internationally acclaimed writer Pedro Rosa Mendes, lambasted the RTP for having helped the Portuguese government portray the Angolan regime in a flattering light.
"The bottom of the matter," Nicolau Santos, deputy editor of the weekly Expresso, told Libération, "is that Luanda's authorities do not accept that the Portuguese media write articles that do not please them. We do not have the same concept of freedom of expression."
The concern over Angola's intrusion comes at a time of great economic uncertainty in Portugal, where the eurozone crisis has led to a financial bailout conditioned on deep budgetary cuts. In the context of these harsh austerity measures, the media have taken a battering, leaving them potentially more vulnerable to outside pressures. "This time of profound crisis is when we need more that the media are enabled to do their work in the best conditions," Sofia Lorena, of the quality daily Publico, told Deutsche Welle. "What we have is exactly the opposite. Every newspaper in Portugal this year has lost dozens of people."
"Cash-strapped media, at least some of them, think that they can be saved by Angolan money," Rui Tavares, Portuguese Member of the European Parliament representing the Green party, told CPJ. "They have therefore an interest in keeping good relations with Angola, which leads to self-censorship," added Tavares, who is the European Parliament's rapporteur on press freedom in Hungary.
"The fact that Portuguese authorities are on their knees (before Angola's rulers) does not help," adds Expresso deputy editor Santos. However, if the Portuguese government of Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho appears ready to kowtow to Luanda's rulers, others wave the flag of resistance. In recent months, Expresso has published a series of stories exposing the corruption of powerful Angolan governmental and military figures, triggering the immediate retaliation of the official Angolan media, which have accused Portuguese "elites" of hating Angola.
And in February, Portuguese prosecutors threw out a criminal defamation suit by nine Angolan generals against Angolan writer Rafael Marques de Morais and his Portuguese publisher, Tinta-de-China, for the book Diamantes de Sangre: Tortura e Corrupçâo em Angola (Blood Diamonds: Torture and Corruption in Angola). The complainants are pursuing the case in a civil court, where they are asking for 300,000 euros (US$387,000) in punitive damages for libel and defamation.
"The Portuguese media is under major stress to stem the reporting of negative news on Angola. The main reason is that the Portuguese media has greater impact in Angola, where the state has a grip on the mainstream media," Marques told CPJ. "But it also serves the interests of the ruling elites in Portugal, for they can use some of the African attitude to their own internal political advantage. All is billed under the national interest of saving the Portuguese economy by allowing all sorts of shady Angolan investments."
The Portuguese media quandary is being followed closely in Brussels, where press freedom and media pluralism have become increasing concerns across the whole EU. MEP Tavares said he expects the European Parliament to soon discuss a resolution on the impact of the economic crisis on freedom of the press in Europe. Portugal will stand out as an emblem of a worrying drift.


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How does the home of SXSW deal with the challenges of loud music venues and constantly exploding tourist populations? By recognizing these are good problems to have.
AUSTIN, TEXAS–Austin isn't a city short on mottos. Austin officially calls itself the "Live Music Capital of the World," while bumper stickers demand to "Keep Austin Weird," an homage to the eclectic character of the city. Both sayings speak to Austin's unorthodox economic base: cultural and technological festivals.
The creative sector, and by extension, music tourism, are huge drivers in the local economy. In 2010, more than half of the tax revenue generated by Austin's creative sector came from tourism, according to a study conducted by Austin's city economist. One-in-five creative-sector jobs were in music tourism. South by Southwest—or SXSW, as its popularly known—perhaps the city's most famous festival, injected more than $190 million into the local economy in 2012, according to an economic impact analysis. Even during a recession, the creative sector grew; between 2005 and 2010, the creative sector grew by 25 percent, compared with 10 percent growth for the entire local economy.
That growth doesn't come without challenges. Austin's biggest festivals mean mass movements of people in and out of the city. Trying to run a functioning city that contracts and expands during festival weekends can be a tall order. On top of all that are the large number of new residents moving to Austin, the fifth fastest-growing large city in the country, according to 2012 U.S. Census Bureau data. National Journal recently sat down with Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell to talk about how the city juggles the demands of all these festivals—and how to keep Austin weird.
What role do large-scale festivals and events play in Austin's economy?
They play a big role. You may have noticed an article in today's paper about hotel reservations for Formula 1, which is one of our three major events. They're talking about some of these being five-digit per-night room costs, suite costs. That kind of blows my mind to even think about. I'm kind of a Motel 6 kind of guy. All those rooms are going to be rented for the duration of Formula 1, and it brings a huge impact. Last year we were estimating an economic impact of about $300 million to the Central Texas region just from that event alone.
SXSW is a 26-year-old event that began as a music festival, but now it's morphed to not only that but film and interactive media festival as well. It continues to grow and attract people from all over the world. And of course, Austin City Limits is still the pure music festival that's here. In 2010 alone, music tourism was responsible for $28 million in tax revenue and 10,000 jobs. So that's a big part of our economy.
What challenges does Austin face in accommodating such large influxes of people and one-time yearly events?
People who live here are oftentimes not too interested in having their normal routine disturbed a little bit, with additional traffic problems and so forth. Sometimes it becomes difficult to communicate the total benefit of events like this. We can sit down and quantify how much sales tax did we get, how much hotel tax, and how much car rental-tax. But the actual impacts are actually far greater than that. As these people come to town, they go out to a restaurant and eat, go to some kind of live music venue and pay an admission charge, go to a hardware store and buy a souvenir. It permeates throughout the economy. It's the total economic effect, and that's sometimes hard to explain.
You mentioned traffic, for instance, being one challenge. How do you manage something like that when you have major events?
With Formula 1 last year, there were more gloom and doom scenarios than you could count. Frankly, we were worried. I was worried. People were talking about being stuck in traffic for 12 hours. So we developed a good plan, we enlisted the county, we enlisted some military folks from the [National] Guard, brought in buses from all over the state. But I don't think anybody experienced a delay. Most of them were in the 30- to 40-minute range, or at the most an hour.
What about something like your police force? Is there a mass mobilization of all the city resources to handle the biggest events?
Pretty much. It's kind of a no-vacation time for most of the police officers. [We activate] the emergency-operations center that we have for disasters, to try and coordinate all their efforts and make sure we manage traffic right. So it isn't just something you let happen. It has to be organized.
Are there any concerns that the types of jobs created by the tourism industry are not well-paying enough or long-lasting enough to sustain Austin's economy in the long-term?
There's always been that concern—particularly, that there are so many musicians in and around Austin. But there are a lot of private-sector groups that have sprung up to help, like the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, providing health care for folks in that industry who need it. That's supported by the private sector. The city has a very minor role in that, but we try to make it easy for them to do business here.
Usually people think of the creative sector as one that suffers the most during an economic downturn. How has it been able to thrive in Austin, and is there a concern that it could be affected in the future?
It's intuitive to me that a lot of entertainment venues will do well. In hard times, people are looking for diversions. Musicians kind of roll with the punches. They're used to hard times. In many instances, they're dedicated to finding a career in that business and they will endure hardship. But it continues to flourish here in Austin, and as I said, we try to do everything we can to help that.
Does some of that have to do with regulatory environment? What can a mayor do to allow and encourage the creative sector to blossom?
We take a lot of grief for noise, frankly, from music venues. So we've tried to plan and lay out an entertainment district in Austin—which is mainly Sixth Street and Red River Street—and to try to encourage people to [realize] this is not the place to build an apartment building, this is not the place to build a high-rise condo. We also just established a fund for loans to music venues so they could insulate their performance areas and hire experts so that they won't generate noise. It has to do with what direction is the wind blowing and what direction is your stage facing and all those kinds of things. The rollover loan program will help mitigate those, because we have to be responsive to people who live here already and very upset about the noise. Musicians have a tendency to stay up really late at night and play their stuff.
We do have a music office that is part of our economic growth department, with a dedicated employee to work with music professionals and music groups all around the city.
As cities become more popular and attractive, there is sometimes a concern that the cost of living increases and it becomes too expensive for creatives to live and work in those cities. What can Austin do, and what can you do as mayor, to ensure that the unique character of Austin is intact, since that's what attracts so many people to this city?
That's a tough question, because when you look at strong economies anywhere in the country, the cost of living is going to be higher. It's just a natural phenomenon. But we do have programs for city bond money to be spent on affordable-housing complexes. We do a good bit of that, and we have another ballot initiative. Our one last year failed, voters didn't approve it, so it's going to be on the ballot again this year: $65 million, basically for housing for low-income people.
Top image: Dave Anthony (R) dances with Baily Jones in the middle of Sixth street during the last night of the 2012 South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas. (Julia Robinson/Reuters)


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Mother Nature is not always kind, but she has been kind enough to let me use her website to dump my thoughts on unsuspecting readers. I try my best to report and opine on science, politics, money and everything else that goes into defining our relationship with the natural world. I tend to bitch a lot, but in my defense, I think it's because science, politics, money, and even Mother Nature and her staunchest defenders provide a lot of stuff to bitch about.
There will be no bitching today. Spring is way cool. That's partly because it follows winter, the cruelest season. Spring has to look good compared to its predecessor, kind of like Bush and Obama. (Sorry, I know I said I wouldn't bitch….)
So, back on the positive track, what's the red stuff?
Diamorpha Smallii is the taxonomic name. It has another name, Small's Stonecrop. But in Georgia, we call it Red Stuff. The Red Stuff is an endangered species, and for about six weeks in the southern spring, it's really, really red. It's been found in only six states in the Southeastern U.S., and it thrives in only a few places, one of which is a few miles from my home.
Here's how the Red Stuff works: Sand and nutrients gather in small, erosion-based depressions in stone outcroppings, like Arabia Mountain near Atlanta and its bigger, better-known neighbor, Stone Mountain. Over thousands of years, a few oddball plants take hold. In nature, oddballs are very much like they were in your high school: They get mocked in the hallways or beaten up in gym class on a regular basis.
The Red Stuff bursts out in outrageous glory in the early spring of the Southern U.S., and it peaks in the month of March. Thousands of little depressions, a few feet in diameter, blaze bright red with the small shoots of diamorpha smallii. By the first truly hot weather in May, the red blazes are gone — first replaced by tiny white flowers, then literally burned out and replaced by barren, sundried stalks bearing the seeds of next year's crop. The Red Stuff may be an oddball, but on Arabia Mountain, it rules.
A picture can't possibly do justice to what this looks like during the peak season: Acres of scattered, screaming-red ovals of life against a bleak background of tan and gray rock. Spring could find no better way to scream.
But it screams everywhere. In Vermont, when it stills looks and feels for all the world like winter, the sap starts to run in maple trees, not completing a marathon until it's boiled, bottled and poured on our pancakes. On the shores of Delaware Bay, the Horseshoe Crabs — clawless, nearly brainless, prehistoric critters, stage their own spring break, with all the mating but minus the wet T-shirt contests.
Nearly every part of the country has a great natural spring ritual: In Delaware, horseshoe crabs drag their ugly little selves up on the beach during the full and new moons in May to recreate a 300 million year-old mating ritual. In March, thousands of sandhill cranes arrive along a 70-mile stretch of the Platte River in Nebraska. You can watch them on CraneCam. April brings out the bluebonnets, the state flower of Texas, carpeting huge swaths of the state. The caribou start migrating across Alaska's North Slope in mid-March, preceding the mosquitoes by a few months.
Up and down the East Coast, dogwoods bloom, at least in the areas where they haven't been ravaged by a fungus blight, like Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. In the Hudson and Delaware valleys, a few diehard fishermen still snag the shad that swim up the river to spawn. In Baraboo, Wisc., endangered whooping cranes arrive back north from their Texas wintering grounds. In the Northwest, salmon defy nets, hooks, and hydro dams to swim upstream, spawn, and die. In San Diego, gray whales feed a healthy tourist whale-watching industry just by swimming by on their way to their summer home in the Arctic.
Bruce Stutz is a nature writer who's penned some great pieces on the North American environment — including his past descriptions of the shad spawning and the horseshoe crab orgy in Delaware Bay. He wrote a book called Chasing Spring a few years ago. It's his journal of an effort to do precisely that, from the earliest spring in the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic spring that happens just before the Arctic autumn. Stutz writes with an enthusiasm that sprouts right out of the page as he describes his own wondrous discoveries. Go chase down the book and enjoy if you want to truly treasure spring.
There will be no whining here, nor any further mention of spring being cool because it's when baseball has Opening Day. Spring may happen in February along the battered Louisiana Gulf Coast, or in June near the Arctic Circle, but it's cool.
Peter Dykstra is the former executive producer of CNN's Science, Tech and Weather Unit. He writes three columns for MNN: Media Mayhem on Mondays, Political Habitat on Wednesdays, and Green States on Fridays. (Yes, he writes a lot.)


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TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's president on Saturday warned voters to remember the country's "ties to the world" during parliamentary elections considered a crucial test of the impoverished nation's ability to hold fair elections.
Conservative Prime Minister Sali Berisha is seeking a third term but faces a strong challenge from Socialist leader Edi Rama in Sunday's vote. Both have ambitions of closer ties and eventual membership in the European Union, which is pressing for broad reforms and an improved election record in a country once among the most isolated in the world.
As required by law, political parties ceased their one-month campaign the day before the vote. Though the month-long election contest has been relatively calm — unlike past elections that were frequently marred by violence — the West is concerned that the vote won't be fair.
The campaign season has been marked by a continuing dispute over the country's election commission after the ruling Democrats replaced a member and the opposition pulled its members out in response. That means the commission won't be able to certify election results, potentially leaving the outcome of the vote in doubt.
There have also been reports of civil servants and even school children being pressured to attend pro-government rallies. President Bujar Nishani urged voters to have "Albania and its future" uppermost in their minds.
"(We) should properly consider the importance tomorrow's vote has for our ties with the world, with which our freedom, prosperity, fate of the present and the future are closely linked." Some 3.3 million eligible voters will choose among more than 6,900 candidates from 66 political parties who run for 140 parliamentary seats. Some 400 international observers and more than 8,000 local ones will monitor the polls.
It is uncertain when results will be announced.


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Monroe Library Movie Club
I don't know about you, but I'm a poor student worker without any extra cash, so I have to manage my money. Watching and renting movies is my favorite thing to do, though! So how do I do it on a budget?
Netflix and Blockbuster Online seem too-cool-for-school, and I would love to use them! But in reality, it's yet another monthly expense that I just can't handle or keep track of. Also, if you're an on-campus student (like I was the past 3 years), I know that one's mailbox and residence can change several times per semester…and having yet another piece of mail to change the address on can be an unwanted hassle. (Just keeping your mom updated on your mail box number is stressful enough!)
So I say this to you: what could be better than a wide range of movie titles of numerous genres, all part of a catalog that is continuously expanding, and free to all Loyola students and members of the community?
That's right, ladies and gentlemen…I have discovered that The J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library Learning Commons has all of the above (and more!) When I have a specific movie in mind, I look it up in the Online Catalog (located on the library's home page.) If all I know is that I've got popcorn to pop and a hankering to escape from studying, I go in to the Learning Commons and browse the "Library DVD List" binder at the front desk or go straight to the DVD shelves (to the left of the computer cluster on the 1st floor) and peruse titles. Students (that includes you, Law, Nursing, and Grad students!) have a 3-night checkout for all the green-dotted DVDs and VHS tapes…and I don't know about you, but three nights is plenty of time to find an hour for procrastination.
Also, don't fret! The DVDs are not all "boring" educational films. The Learning Commons has indie films ("Amelie"), classic movies ("Some Like It Hot"), chick-flicks ("Pride & Predjudice"), action films ("V for Vendetta"), foreign films ("Volver"), documentaries ("Sicko"), musicals ("Chicago"), and the list goes on and on. They even have random fun DVD collections to watch, such as the complete seasons of "Six Feet Under," "30 Rock," or "Bridezillas."
The moral of this story is: "Don't pay when you don't have to." Discover the entertainment goodness the Monroe Library Learning Commons has to offer! Imagine…you can start checking out movies, and only have to pay for the popcorn and drinks! Check one out today. I'm most likely sitting at the desk, waiting to help you.


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At a panel including playwrights Tony Kushner and David Henry Hwang, Suzan-Lori Parks acknowledged this is "The Age of Obama" … "But I think we're still allowed to be angry." Photos by Tom Kimmell.
Playwrights Tony Kushner (Angels in America"), Suzan-Lori Parks ("Top Dog/Underdog") and David Henry Hwang ("M. Butterfly") joined together on Wednesday, Feb. 3, for a wide-ranging public panel discussion at Colorado College titled, "Art, Culture, Politics." The moderator was Laurence Maslon. Here are excerpts from their talk:
David Henry Hwang: One of the things I had to learn early was how to filter criticism. I was fortunate enough to have my first play accepted by the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference the year after my senior year in college. And just a few weeks later, Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival, became interested in my play. Joe took me into his office and said, "Well, you know, I like this play." And he gave me a few notes … but I didn't actually agree with them.
But, you know, it was Joe Papp, and I wanted him to do my play, and I was quite young. So he said, "OK, go away and do some rewrites, and I'll decide whether I am going to produce it." So I went back to California, where I was living at the time. I waited I think six weeks, and then I sent him back the exact same play. A couple of weeks later, I get a call, and it's Joe Papp, and he says: "The play's great now. We're going to do it!"
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Tony Kushner: American playwriting is constantly being told, and is also telling itself, "Well, basically no one was any good until this person came along, or that person came along." But there are always interesting people coming along. … There is almost always something kind of exciting happening in American playwriting, and has been at least since O'Neill, if not earlier.
Suzan-Lori Parks: No one wanted my plays at first. Not Joe Papp or the Negro Ensemble Company or you name it. I was in left field. … And while there were great people who were also in left field, my stuff was even maybe left of left. So they didn't want me. But I felt lucky somehow because there were some people out there who did look at me and go, "Hey, kiddo, you're going to make it." Like George C. Wolfe, who met me and said, "I'm gonna do your plays." And I was like, "Ah, (bleep) that." Everybody says that. But he did. And he kept doing them. And Oskar Eustis. He says, "I'm going to support you" — and he does.
Laurence Maslon: There's a shop-worn phrase that goes, "Write what you know." But at least two of you have said, "Don't write what you know."
Suzan-Lori Parks: I say, "Write." I say, "Write." You know? … "Write!"
David Henry Hwang: I don't think it's actually oppositional, "Write what you know" and, "Write what you don't know." I think you should write what you don't know about what you know. I usually start writing a play because I have a question. There's something I don't understand. And it usually involves me, to some extent, because I'm trying to find out how I really feel about something. So it's both. It's writing something I know, but the journey of the play is to discover something I don't know.


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