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TV fans on the fence about ditching their cable boxes may want to think twice after the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted 3-to-2 along party lines to propose "net neutrality" rules that could allow Internet service providers to charge content providers like Netflix
The vote came after a decision earlier this year by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., which rejected the FCC's so-called open-Internet rules, paving the way for cable companies to give some broadcast companies and video streaming services preferential treatment. The 2010 Federal Communications Act forced companies like Comcast and Verizon Communications
For his part, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler says he's still committed to an open Internet. Although the proposed new rules allow companies to strike deals with content companies for fast-tracking content, for instance, the FCC's proposed new Internet rules would still prevent broadband providers from actually blocking or slowing down websites. "There is one Internet. It must be fast, it must be robust, and it must be open," he told an FCC hearing on Thursday. "The prospect of a gatekeeper choosing winners and losers on the Internet is unacceptable."
But an end to "net neutrality" could also have unseen consequences for consumers, making life more difficult for the YouTubes and Netflixes of tomorrow. "If history is any guide, it's likely that a lot of people will be using new online services that don't exist today or really aren't on anybody's radar screen," Sohn says. "But a multi-tiered Internet service creates a whole new entry barrier." And Netflix — now one of the biggest players with 31.1 million U.S. subscribers — already works with Internet service providers to secure faster streaming speeds. "ISPs with a direct Netflix connection will continue to deliver the best Netflix experience," according to Netflix. It has a monthly "Netflix ISP Speed Index" based on service providers within the U.S. Google Fiber
This vote will be bad for cord cutters, especially if they get their broadband from a cable company, says technology analyst Yung Trang. "Cable companies and other broadband providers have an incentive to slow down the delivery of bandwidth-hungry competing services like Netflix and Hulu," he says. If net neutrality is eroded, cable companies will likely charge Netflix, Hulu and YouTube to prioritize their services and could even limit the quality of those services the same way wireless companies "throttle" heavy data users. "Netflix and Hulu could pass these costs on to the consumer if they don't want to eat into their profit and YouTube might force users to watch more ads to make up the additional cost."
The FCC's official mission to preserve "net neutrality" only goes so far. It does not apply to the recent agreement between Netlfix and Comcast, in which Netflix agreed to pay the cable company for direct access to its cable lines. The deal effectively replaces the middlemen who normally do the job already, but also paves the way for a slew of similar deals between major broadband companies and content providers. Net neutrality aims to ensure that Internet service providers like Comcast or Verizon don't discriminate against or give preferential treatment to traffic from Netflix or YouTube on the last mile of cable that connects the Internet to peoples' homes. The Netflix-Comcast deal, however, only provides direct access to that last mile of cable.
Not everyone is so sure that consumers will lose, however. "It's hard to say how aggressive broadband providers will be in trying to get content owners to pay," says Nick Del Deo, senior research associate at MoffettNathanson. Cable companies are keenly aware that video streaming services are extremely popular with the public, he says. "A plea from Internet companies — among the most beloved companies in America — to restrain big bad cable and telephone companies and demonize them as monopolists would likely find a receptive audience," Del Deo says. Indeed, video streaming companies have won over a significant number of customers over the last year: 38% of Internet users subscribed to Netflix in 2013, up from 31% in 2012 — although some of them likely have shared accounts, according to research firm Nielsen; 13% used Amazon Prime Instant Video in 2013 versus 7% in 2012; 18% used Hulu in 2013, up from 12%.
However, making sure that video streaming companies are not being "throttled" with slower speeds may not solve the long-term problem, says William Rinehart, director of technology and innovation policy at the American Action Forum, a center-right policy institute. "Cord cutting has risen in popularly because content migrated to the Internet and broadband is fast. Yet streaming does place a burden on the network, which needs to be recouped," he says. "Allowing for innovative business arrangements will ensure continued fast speeds and more content." Technology analyst Jeff Kagan agrees that consumers could be given the choice to download a movie for free at a slower speed or for a higher price at a faster speed. "It's not settled yet."
(This was updated from an earlier story.)
Other articles by Quentin Fottrell:
Here's what you'll save by ditching cable
Why cable TV bills are only going up


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I wrote an article a few months back about a fascinating artist named Michael Golland. Afterwards, I found out that it was going to be the feature cover story! I was quite excited given I'm yet to have 'write a cover story' checked off my list. An excerpt is below. You can read the whole article here. "He wants people to be captivated, to find and immerse themselves in their flow of consciousness. Michael's art is about finding the Zen within and connecting to its powerful energy. His paintings are unique and recognizable. Fluid lines dance across the canvas creating trajectory spaces filled with monochromatic colors. He aims to draw connections between the objects, the lines, the space, the spirit within and the essence of life itself. Michael was born in Yorkshire, England during the Second World War." [get all the juice]
arts & culture writer = me
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all the things i said i said i would do before the sun came out and wanted me to enjoy it
Today, I am reminded of a poem I wrote in Australia. It was 7am, I was walking with my feet in the ocean on Bondi Beach. It was my favorite time of day. Peace, bliss, energy, sunlight ; it was freedom. This untitled poem is my most favorite one I've written, I think. There are so many! I'm in the process of picking my favorites so I can have a new book out later this year. Enjoy!
As the waves crashed on the shore,
the wind washed them away.
And as I walked along the sand,
I felt I could not stray.
For I was walking towards the sun,
and it was a brand new day.
Casie Stewart 2004
the wind washed them away.
And as I walked along the sand,
I felt I could not stray.
For I was walking towards the sun,
and it was a brand new day.
Casie Stewart 2004
yeah, a real green dress. that's cool
We've been having quite lovely weather the last few days. The air feels like spring and resonates positivity through vibrant sunlight. I walked to and from work yesterday and thus far, am repeating again today. It makes my mind clear and body feel great. I can definitely feel the multiple hours of walking paying off already!
In spirit of St. Patrick's Day, I will be celebrating at Brazen Head Irish Pub in Liberty Village after work. They were setting up yesterday on my way to the office.I snapped this guy while getting lunch.
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16.10.300 Administrative Rules and Procedures.
(Amended by Ordinance Nos. 173627 and 182389, effective January 2, 2009.) Traffic and Parking management rules and procedures not specified in this Code are governed by the Bureau of Transportation Rules and Procedures Manual. It is the duty of the Bureau Director to develop and implement the Bureau of Transportation's Rules and Procedures Manual. The Commissioner-In-Charge of the Bureau of Transportation or the City Council may amend the Manual at any time.
Exceptions to the Rules in the Manual may be made only with prior approval of the City Traffic Engineer or the Bureau Director. Procedures in the Manual are intended to serve as a general outline on how to apply or implement a rule or program.


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Brennan: Phil, Tiger separated by more than five shots
- Mickelson shows class in come-from-behind victory for fifth major
- Woods finishes five shots back%2C and lets frustration bubble over into profanity
- Mickelson finishes with an all-time family hug on 18th green
He nods that delightful, goofy, big-kid smile of appreciation at least 100 times during every round of golf. When others walk away, he steps right into a gaggle of kids and parents holding programs and hats and Sharpies, and won't leave for quite some time. Even in crushing defeat, as at last month's U.S. Open at Merion, he still signs autographs for the fans who follow him off the course.
That's Phil Mickelson. We don't know everything about him. We don't know everything about anyone on the world stage in sports. Tiger Woods taught us all about that.
But we do know that the 2013 British Open was won Sunday by the most polite and courteous man in the chase, the one who handled both the good and bad of Muirfield with a shrug and a smile, the man who ended up in one of most impressive group hugs in the history of both golf and the Mickelson family.
Every now and then, nice guys still do finish first in sports.
People who follow golf will marvel for generations about Mickelson's majestic 5-under-par 66 Sunday to win his first British Open and the fifth major championship of his career. He called it "the greatest feeling" he's ever had in the game, and "probably the greatest round" of his career.
But there's another side to the story of Mickelson's day, and it might be even better than the golf he played. As you watch him play, you begin to think to yourself that this is a present-day multi-millionaire athlete who actually gets it — who understands that he gets to play golf for a living and who doesn't treat every shot as if it's heroic or a matter of life and death or any of the other overwrought rhetoric some in the game attach to an endeavor in which a person hits a dimpled ball around vast stretches of land with various sticks.
To be sure, Mickelson has made his mistakes and sounded just like any other out-of-touch, pampered athlete. In January, for instance, he complained about the new federal and state tax laws he is facing. He quickly apologized.
But in the heat of battle on a difficult golf course, amid some of the most challenging conditions any athlete will face on any given day, it was how Mickelson acted, how he behaved, that was so striking, and in such contrast with the man with whom he has been most often linked throughout his career.
Woods had a bad day, shooting 3-over 74 to drop to 2-over for the tournament and finish tied for sixth. If you didn't know Tiger was having a bad day, all you had to do was listen. Knowing of course that ESPN's microphones are always nearby, he cursed loudly on the fifth hole after a bad shot. It wasn't his only bad shot of the day, nor his only profanity.
Woods' fans and apologists will tell us that's just part of sports. Athletes swear. We need to deal with it. Then again, Woods told us after his personal scandal and fall from grace in 2009 that he was going to try to be a better person and role model. That still appears to be a work in progress.
Right after the Woods outburst on No. 5, viewers overheard Mickelson talking to his caddie, Jim "Bones" Mackay, blaming himself for a poor approach to the eighth hole in a decidely G-rated conversation.
Nearly two hours later, now squarely in the mix, Mickelson received a bad break on the par-3 16th, watching a good tee shot roll back off the green. If you were going to swear, that would have been the time to do it. Instead, Mickelson gave us a line worthy of the Disney Channel:
"Wow," Mickelson said to Mackay, "that's as good as I got."
He ended up saving par, then birdied the 17th and 18th holes to win the Open and tearfully fall into the arms of his wife Amy and their three children. At least for this day, the 21st-century game of golf had found a hero who appeared to step right out of the 1950s.


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As I was growing up, technology wasn't as big as it is nowadays. In fact, I didn't even have access to the internet until I was in my first year high school. If I remember correctly, I was 14 years old when I first had my own email address. Also, I didn't have my own personal computer, so I rented one in café shops. We were finally obligated to buy one when I went to college as it became too tedious to keep up with research, assignments as well as projects. My mama didn't have an issue with my internet usage at home as I was already at a certain age.
Except, looking back … I know for a fact that renting computers and having access online without adult supervision exposed me to a lot of risks. I could have easily connected with the wrong people and fall prey to the evil folks in IRC and Yahoo messenger (a very popular way to communicate with friends as well as classmates). Yes … the internet has its own perks, but can also have a lot of downside for those who aren't aware of what it has to offer. I have a lot of friends who already have kids, and they have shared their first-hand experience of what it's like to raise children in a generation full of technology. Mind you, it's not all positive. Frankly, I think our kids are too connected with electronics, gadget, and the internet. I understand that a lot of families are either too busy or overwhelmed with life to realize that what may seem harmless at first, can actually prove to be dangerous if not harmful to our kids.
A lot of parents are guilty of handing over a device to their children and not realizing it poses a threat. Let's get real here, 9 out 10 of my friends have kids who have their own phones or even tablet. Half of them have unsupervised access to their computers. About half have their own Facebook accounts when they're not even 10 years old. Isn't that a scary thought? No? It may seem fine to some of you. But a personal friend of mine ended up having a little one learn a particular language or way of speaking to her parents from watching videos available on facebook and youtube. Another friend's son has downloaded an app for chatting because he claims he wanted to chat with his friends about Minecraft and ended up having a pedophile in the chatroom. Creepy, scary, and most of all it makes you feel unsafe. With a little one on the way, I can only imagine how protective I will be. I'm already protective of my godkids and even nephews and nieces. What more with my own? What more with my own? Thanks to the advancement of technology in our generation, we now have the perfect device for this problem – Circle with Disney! It's the most efficient way for families to manage (as well as control) content and time across all devices.
Circle with Disney
The Circle is a device that is paired wirelessly to your internet router (Wi-Fi) and manages all devices in your home. It is straightforward to use, and set-up takes less than five minutes. It has an app that provides a complete overview of the family's online activity. The device is not limited to manage smartphones, tablets or computers as it can also connect and manage gaming systems.
What Came in the Box
What's really amazing about this device is the control it has to offer! Check out the following features that make Circle a must-have addition to your home.
» Time Limits — easily specify how much time each user can have to access specific apps and websites
» Filter Content — swiftly restrict access to specific sites and set an individual filter level categorized by age
» Bed Time Limitation — when bedtime is reached, access is automatically turned off
» Pause the Internet — with just a tap, you can pause access to the web
» Insight — see where your family (or kids) spends their time online and even monitor the total time spent daily, weekly and even monthly!
For those of you who have pre-teens or teens who are glued to their devices – this device comes in very handy to solve this problem too! You can no encourage (if not enforce) a new routine that makes them spend less time on their gadget and do more real-time entertainment, outdoor/physical activities, or even spend some family time without any technological interruption.
Wondering if this device will slow down your Wi-Fi? Not at all! As far expenses, you only have to pay a one-time fee of $99 for the device. No additional payment needed. No subscription or software to install. It does, however, require that you have internet access (Wi-Fi) and to download the app on your phone for managing the settings and control.
If you ever feel the need to monitor your children's or family's activity whenever they're not home, you can check out Circle Go – monthly subscription of $9.95 for a maximum of 10 devices. Circle Go offers the same settings for the devices you have and extends the features through 4G/LTE or when connecting to another Wi-Fi network.
Amy D
I could totally use the bed time limitations and insights. We have been talking about getting one of these.
What an awesome tool to limit the time kids spend in front of a screen! Love that it works with multiple devices too.
Okay sign me up!! I need one of these gadgets in my house ASAP. I cannot believe this is the first time I'm hearing of the Circle, I feel like this is something I should already own. Thank you for sharing, Angela, 🙂
Cindy Ingalls
Circle Disney sounds like a very helpful resource for parents. Kids are using tech and the internet a lot earlier these days and it can be a challenge to make sure they aren't being exposed to people or videos that are dangerous or beyond their comprehension.
Wow this is awesome. I will for sure have to do this with my family i have 7 kids and 4 of them have access to the internet quite often!
I would love to be able to better manage screen time. Not only does this make it easier to monitor what the kids are doing, it makes it simpler for parents.
It's so scary what kids can be exposed to, and in danger of, on the internet nowadays. Parents have so much more to worry about! I'm so glad Disney came out with this. It's definitely a product worth looking into. Thanks!
Joely Smith
I think that this has everything you could want! I have heard nothing but glowing comments from people using it. The monthly fee is nothing compared to the benefits you get with it! LOVE!
This seems like the perfect thing for me. My girls are getting older and Circle with Disney seems like it will help.
Circle looks like an awesome device to help manage screen time. I don't have kids, but it looks like so much fun that I want to use it to help with my own productivity.
Stacie @ Divine Lifestyle
YES! This is so perfect for my family. My husband and I have been having a terrible time getting our kids off of their devices lately. I love this.
robin rue
This sounds amazing. I totally want to get this for my kids. It is a great help to parents.
Karen Morse
I think this is a great app to help protect your kids and keep track of the family's schedule as well. There's a lot of things that you can choose to do with it and that's what makes it awesome!
This is such an interesting concept! My 3yo has been doing a lot of screen time lately and I've just started thinking about tracking it.
I've been reading a lot about this device and I think parents will greatly benefit from this. I love all the features in this device.
Rhian Westbury
With technology so easy to access I think it's so important to limit what kids have access to. I know when I was a teenager I'd go into chat rooms and probably exposed more about myself than I should have to strangers x
Chubskulit Rose
I would love to use this to monitor what my two darlings are doing now that they are on school break. Thanks for the recommendation.
I didn't know much about this program before! MY children would be using this all the time, and I would love the controls.
Amanda Love
I've heard so much about this and have been thinking about getting it for me and the kids. It's has a lot of great features that parents can totally take advantage of.
Karlyn Cruz
I've heard a lot about this Circle with Disney, and it would be perfect to my 6 year old son! I';m glad that I found this.
Victoria Heckstall
This is really a huge help for parents, my sister need to see this Circle with Disney to their son.
I have been seeing something about this circle thing all day. Sounds like it is going to be popular with parents.
Claudia Krusch
Circle with Disney is an amazing product. It will be so helpful this summer with the kids. I will have to share this with all my friends with kids. It can be hard to constantly monitor the internet.
I saw one of these recently and thought what a great idea. I'm not a parent myself but I can see the great value in being able to shield your kids from the nasties of the internet.
I don't have kids so I don't need the Disney Circle but I have friends who would love this!! Great post!!
HilLesha O'Nan
The internet can be beneficial in so many ways, but sadly, it comes with its fair share of pitfalls. That's why I'm glad products like this exist!
Disney is so innovative with this. Its even cute and compact that it doesnt take much space on a desk.
Jessica Joachim
This looks awesome. We really limit screen time for our daughter, but she actually broke her tablet so now she is REALLY limited lol
Jocelyn @ Hip Mama's Place
I've been hearing so much about this Circle with Disney. Honestly, I think it's amazing and it's definitely a must have for parents! It has everything that you need.
I'm glad there is something like this to help keep all that harmful stuff away. I have an 8 and 5 year old so they aren't on the internet yet, but with each passing year, younger and younger kids are getting cellphones and getting social media accounts. I'm goin to control that aspect of computer use with my kids as long as possible.
My kids are just getting to the point where they use the internet for different things. It's only going to get more next year when we homeschool. I need all the tips I can get.
Ana De- Jesus
It can be so scary allowing children to use the internet but an app like Circle could really help us feel better about their internet usage. I like that you can limit data usage x
Cassie Tucker
The Internet can be a very scary place. I'm so glad that Disney has developed a system to keep kiddos safer on the web.
Mary Edwards
This is heaven sent for real. Especially with preteens and teens in my house. I never knew parenting would be so hard.
Wow the Circle sounds awesome! I need to check out this device to keep an eye on my teenage son.
This seems like a must have for anyone with kids. And I think it's good to start using it when they're young so they don't feel like they are all of a sudden being spied on as pre-teens or teens. It is a scary world out there in the internet.
Mimi Green
Circle with Disney sounds like just what I need to manage my kid's internet use. Other things I've used weren't this detailed and I like that. I like that I can auto shut it down at a certain time.
This looks like such an incredible product! My eight year old daughter is such a good kid and follows house rules so well. But even the best kids bend rules. As she gets older screen time is tough to regulate. This will definitely make us feel better in our home.
Gabriel Bregg
This could be a really useful set of "eyes" to help monitor our kids. With 5 of them, we need all the help we can get.
How cool that it can also monitor gaming systems! My son is 12 and an avid gamer. He plays on his computer, my iPad and the XBOX. He is pretty good about behaving online, but I still would like to be able to monitor his activities. I trust him, but I don't really trust the rest of the internet, know what I mean? Like you said, there are some super scary people out there!
I've never heard of this before!! I really need to give it a try! My kids give me such a hard time about getting off of the internet!
This sounds like a really great tool to help parents. My daughter goes on these kicks where all she wants to do is be on the internet and all I want her to do is play.
Ooooo circle sounds pretty handy!!! I have a kiddo who is loving the Internet more and more. I definitely need to get one of these
Jasmine Eclipse
Circle seems like such a great tool for parents! We aren't parents yet, but I can't wait to get little tools like this for when we are!


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GDAńSK, Poland, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Divers exploring a 200-year-old shipwreck -- the F53.31 shipwreck -- in the Baltic Sea's Gulf of Gdańsk, off the coast of Poland, surfaced with a sealed stoneware bottle earlier this summer. Now, scientists at J.S. Hamilton Poland, a lab testing facility, have confirmed that the bottle contains alcohol.
The bottle is imprinted with the name "Selters," the original brand of Selters water, a natural mineral water sourced from wells in the area of Selters, near the town of Hesse in Germany's Taunus mountains. The seal on the bottle suggests it was produced in the town of Ransbach, just 25 miles from the original Selters springs. Between 1806 and 1830, local bottlers in the towns surrounding the springs produced almost a million bottles of the mineral water.
But the alcohol inside proves the mineral water (or most of it) was consumed, and the ancient sailors -- being the resourceful and environmentally conscious consumers that they were -- reused the bottled for inebriation purposes.
"They have found that the bottle contains 14 percent alcohol distillate, possibly diluted with water, whose chemical composition corresponds to that of Selters soda," Tomasz Bednarz, an archaeologist with the National Maritime Museum and the leader of the shipwreck exploration, told Polish news site PAP.
Lab technicians suggest the alcohol may be a form of genever gin, or jenever, a liquor traditionally favored in the Netherlands and Belgium. "This means, it would not cause poisoning," Bednarz told PAP, confirming that the liquor is drinkable. "Apparently, however, it does not smell particularly good."
The bottle is still to undergo more tests, which researchers hope will confirm whether the insides are indeed gin mixed with soda water or another type of liquor altogether.
The alcoholic Selters isn't the only ancient foodstuff to be pulled from the wreckage. In 2009, divers found a stoneware jar full of butter and a bottle of beer.


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ANNUAL MANUAL- Media: Listings
The Hook
Popular wisdom when the Hook started in 2002 was that Charlottesville wasn't big enough to support another weekly. Perhaps there was a smidgen of truth to that– sadly, the Observer, the city's oldest weekly, folded within the last few years after 26 years. Meanwhile, the Hook is the city's must-read paper every Thursday. Don't take our word for it. Ask our peers at the Virginia Press Association, who bestowed 21 awards upon the paper this year, in addition to the prestigious Journalistic Integrity and Community Service Award, given to only two publications annually. Check out our website, the most comprehensive in town, fully archived (well, mostly) and netting almost a million page views per month. Whatever you need to know about Charlottesville you'll find in the Hook. 295-8700
The Daily Progress
Charlottesville's only daily got a redesign in 2003, so now it looks like every other Media General newspaper. Locals have nicknamed it the "Regress," perhaps because its steady turnover of underpaid, green reporters results in gaffes that could be avoided if profitable Media General paid enough to retain its journalists once they get a little experience. For political journalism, however, it's hard to beat their veteran reporter, Bob Gibson. 978-7200
Cavalier Daily
The University of Virginia's student-published newspaper claims to be the oldest daily– at least when school is in session– in town, and its website is one of the better local sources of archived news. 924-1086
Blue Ridge Outdoors
This all-outdoors-all-the-time monthly celebrates 10 years of hiking, biking, running, climbing, and paddling in Virginia and North Carolina. 817-2755
C-ville Weekly
Home of "The Rant." Published Tuesdays. 817-2749
Charlottesville-Albemarle Tribune
Charlottesville's oldest African-American newspaper dates from 1950. Published every Thursday. Once available only by subscription, it's now at selected newsstands. 979-0373
Charlottesville Guide
A tourist guide. 817-2000
Charlottesville Arts & Entertainment
A monthly tourist guide with excellent maps. 295-9004
Charlottesville House and Home and Garden
A glossy new publication dedicated to all things shelter.
Charlottesville's oldest new-age monthly is the best source to find a feng shui consultant or a shaman. 295-3407
In the Kitchen
Charlottesville's food monthly claims an eye-popping 24,000 readers here and in Lynchburg. Food and wine news, plus a meal planner with menus and recipes to see you through the month. 973-5501
Keswick Life
Monthly tabloid that documents a sumptuous world most of us can only imagine. 242-8033
Crozet Gazette
It's been a boom time for this formerly sleepy town, and recently they got their first monthly publication. 466-8939
Nelson County Life
"Your source for everything Nelson." Started in April 2005 by a husband and wife duo of former TV reporters, the monthly avoids hard news and doesn't mind if you call its stories "fluff." 361-0104
Real Estate Weekly
A 15-year-old stitch-and-trim pub in glorious color with a distribution of 11,500. But when the housing bubble bursts, no one will know it from flipping through these pages. Published every Wednesday. 817-9330
Scottsville Monthly
If there's trouble right here in River City, you'll read about it here. 591-1000
The Light Magazine
A quarterly publication that focuses on the local African-American community. 326-5465
Local news, meta-news, and commentary hosted by Virginia Tech alum/ wunderkind Waldo Jaquith. Join the fun and sniping. Links to other media, whether their websites are viable or not.
Host of the city's oldest website, Democrat George Loper indulges his interests in politics, bird watching, and go karts. Discourse is civil, perhaps because people sign their names to their remarks– and because Loper's archives are awesome.
This mag adorns the tonier coffee tables in Charlottesville and features lifestyles of the local rich, if not famous. Available at newsstands or by subscription bimonthly for $12. 817-2000
AlbemarleFamily Living
AlbemarleFamily has grown up from a black-and-white quarterly to a slick, award-winning monthly. In fact, it's so glossy we had to move it from niche publications category to our magazine section. And its website has always been the place to go to figure out what to do with those darn kids. 984-4713
Virginia Sportsman
These folks like to fish and hunt, and they're "well educated and well-heeled," according to its website. Subscriptions for this 80-page bimonthly glossy are $20 for six issues, and it's available in Barnes & Noble. 964-1620
Virginia Living
This relatively new (founded in 2003) bimonthly statewide publication knocks readers' socks off with its bold splashes of color on each glossy cover and stories celebrating the vibrant lives in the Commonwealth– many in our neck of the woods. 804-343-7539


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Oh, and isn't the cover gorgeous? It totally fits the book IMHO!
Metal Heart is a book of two parts, well...three if you count the prologue. In the prologue we meet the Scott of 2011; we then follow him down memory lane to the 1990s (hereafter referred to as the past) and then back to 2011 (hereafter referred to as the present). I know some people aren't fans of flashbacks. (Or prologues for that matter.) Going the flashback route was definitely a gamble, but for me it pays off. Without knowing...without living through how Scott and Ash met, how and why they fell in love and what led up to their breakup I don't feel I would have completely understood where they were coming from in the present. How...reticence and...stuck they were. The flashback is from Scott's POV, whereas the present has alternating POVs. Another gamble as the reader is left overly sympathetic to Scott, but I thought by not knowing Ash's POV in the past we were able to learn it alongside Scott in the present. (And I always thought there was far more to the story than what Scott [and I as the reader] knew.)
A number of things worked for me in this book. The first is in the imagery. The author paints an amazingly clear picture of the rock scene in Australia in the 1990s. I could all but smell the cigarettes and stale beer J The second is the characters. Both primary and secondary. In fact, although I adore both Scott and Ash (although I must confess a preference to Scott J), the secondary characters were just as three-dimensional. What is more, they felt organic to the story and not just stuck in as a plot device. Also, it was nice to have one of the primary characters have a positive, long-term relationship with female characters who were not caricatures. And Scott's relationship with his sister and his niece (and theirs with him) was integral to the character. Thirdly, I loved that fault was on both sides. And that there wasn't a 'you're cured' wand wave...that Scott kept in contact with his drug counsellor, that his family worried about his potential for relapse, even 16 years later. That it wasn't all smooth sailing. Did I think it weird that Scott and Ash had waited so long? 16 years long? Well...no. It actually made sense. Sometimes things get in the way, you keep waiting for the right moment and then you realize so much time has gone past and you don't know where to start. So you don't. And I'm not sure if the people Scott and Ash were in their mid 20s had the...self awareness they did in their early 40s to sort things out.
I loved how the book came full circle in not one, but two ways. Firstly the way the prologue ended was mirrored in a scene near the end of the book, and secondly with regard to the song. And I loved that the ending was, in fact, a beginning...rather than an explicit HEA.
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A new clue to predicting pre-eclampsia
(Medical Xpress) -- An indication of whether a mother will develop pre-eclampsia, the most common and severe pregnancy-related disease, has been identified by a University of Sydney study.
As reported in The Sydney Morning Herald today the findings, published in the latest edition of the Journal of Reproductive Immunology, could allow the early detection of pre-eclampsia, which currently cannot be diagnosed by symptoms before the disease occurs.
The research also suggests the womb may have a lasting impact on a child's immune system.
"Pre-eclampsia affects an estimated 5000 to 10,000 women in Australia every year," said Professor Ralph Nanan, senior author of the study, from Sydney Medical School Nepean.
It develops in mothers out of the blue, usually in the last three months of pregnancy, causing high blood pressure, kidney and liver damage and severe blood changes. Delivering the baby as soon as possible is the only way to stop it."
In pre-eclampsia the mother's immune system appears to attack the fetus.
"Our study looked at the thymus of the fetus, a structure which sits behind the baby's breastbone and is known as the 'cradle' of an important set of white blood cells called thymus-derived lymphocytes or T cells," said Professor Nanan.
No previous study has looked at the effect of the disease on the fetal organ systems.
"Surprisingly we found the thymus of babies whose mother developed pre-eclampsia was significantly smaller than in babies of healthy pregnant women."
What further surprised the researchers was that these changes were obvious in mid-pregnancy, long before the mother developed any signs of pre-eclampsia.
"This is a very interesting finding as the thymus plays a central role in shaping the child's immune system and protecting it against the development of allergies, autoimmune disease and cancers later in life," Professor Nanan said.
The group is now conducting a prospective study with over 1200 pregnant women to confirm the findings with the long-term prospect of developing a test for pre-eclampsia. It is also conducting studies which aim to describe the short and long-term effects that early thymus changes have on the child's immune system and on the development of immune diseases.
The study was conducted by David Eviston, Ann Quinton and a team of researchers from Sydney Medical School Nepean.
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Ricoh Company, Ltd. has been named a "market leader" in enterprise Managed Print Services(MPS) in a new industry report from Quocirca entitled "Vendor Landscape: Managed Print Services."
Quocirca, headquartered in the UK, describes market leaders as vendors that "lead the market in both strategic vision and depth of service offering. Leaders have made significant investments in their service portfolio and infrastructure and are supported by strong delivery capabilities." On a one-to-five scale, with 5 signifying very strong, Ricoh scored a 4.67 in market presence and a 4.75 in completeness of offering according to the report.
Ricoh's MPS are part of its Managed Document Services (MDS) business, which goes beyond MPS to address broad information management issues such as cost control, environmental sustainability, information security and governance, business process efficiency, organizational change management, information worker (iWorker) productivity, information optimization and strategic infrastructure.
A growing number of organizations are working to improve their performance by digitizing information, streamlining workflows, and more quickly delivering the right information at the right time in the right form to the people who need it. Ricoh will provide MDS to help them achieve these goals through careful management of people, processes and technology.
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Sugar Rush: Rainbow Cookies from The Bakery on Long Island
Your daily dose of something sweet.
Rainbow cookies are the stuff of dreams. Mediocre or just plain terrible ones can be found in nearly every supermarket and deli on the corner, but good ones? Few and far in between. From my native Long Island, The Bakery (or Da Bakery as I like to call it), has been my lifelong source of rainbow cookies full of sunshine and sweet marzipan flavor. The three layers are beautifully moist and capped off at either end with a crisp, thin, chocolate coat unmarred by those chocolate sprinkles you see everywhere else. Now that I've revealed my Long Island secret, you can return the favor. Does anyone know where to find the best rainbow cookies in Manhattan?
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Buying a new house can be an exciting prospect … unfortunately, it also tends to be very expensive. If you're like most people then you're going to have to borrow the money to purchase your new home, and you're going to want to find the loan that has the lowest home loan rate that you can get.
Luckily, finding your lowest home loan rate does not have to be difficult; you simply need to have patience and be willing to shop around and compare the various rate offers that you receive. Here are a few tips to assist you in your search, as well as a few things that you should keep in mind to save yourself as much money as you can with your home loan rate.
Interest Rates Fluctuate
It has been said that nothing is certain except for death and taxes … the fluctuation of interest rates should also be added to that list. Some rates are intentionally raised or lowered at a local, national, or international level in an effort to combat inflation or to stimulate the economy. Other rates manage to creep up or down on their own, adjusting to the supply and demand of the market.
It's important to know whether rates are up or down if you're willing to get the best home loan rate that you can; this information can usually be found out rather easily from the financial section of newspapers or tabloids, or can be found by utilizing your preferred internet search engine online.
Fixed and Variable Rates
Just because the interest rates across the nation and around the world are constantly in a state of flux does not mean that your home loan rate will be constantly shifting as well. Depending upon the specifics of your loan agreement, you may end up with either a fixed interest rate for the term of your loan or a variable interest rate for the loan term.
Fixed interest rates are those loan rates that are locked in once the loan is approved and all of the paperwork has been signed and processed. Regardless of how interest rates rise or fall, individuals who have fixed interest rates on their loans pay the same interest month after month.
Variable interest rates, on the other hand, modify themselves as interest rates rise and fall. This allows individuals to roll with the changes in the financial world, although a sudden increase in rates can have people who have variable interest rate loans paying a lot more for their loans. Sudden decreases have the opposite effect.
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Before you commit to any home loan rate, it's important that you keep in mind that there may be additional fees and charges associated with your loan. Take the time to make sure you know exactly what portion of the cost you're borrowing and what portion you're having to pay out-of-pocket … you do not want to end up with additional financial problems because you were 't expecting to have to pay additional fees.
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Honey Boo Boo Wedding: Mama Shannon June and Mike Sugar Bear Thompson to Marry (VIDEO)
Honey Boo Boo Wedding: Mama Shannon June and Mike Sugar Bear Thompson to Marry (VIDEO)
Honey Boo Boo stars "Mama" Shannon June and Mike "Sugar Bear" Thompson will finally tie the knot May 5 after nine yeas of being together.
The wedding ceremony for the reality show stars will take place in McIntyre, Georgia. According to an invitation received by TMZ, the wedding will be a "taped event", meaning that fans of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" will get to see the couple's marriage share their nuptials on the small screen.
According to TMZ, no cell phones, cameras, or outside video taping is allowed for the event, and guests are required to wear "full redneck attire."
"Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" debuted on TLC last summer and has been pulling in high ratings for the channel.
The show follows the life of 6-year old beauty pageant contestant, Alana Thompson, the daughter of Mama June and Sugar Bear.
The child made her television debut on the network's hit show "Toddlers and Tiaras" and stood out with viewers due to her energetic and expressive personality.
The show also chronicles the life of the Thompson family, which includes Alana's mother June, and sisters Jessica and Anna who also appeared on "Toddlers and Tiaras" alongside the child star.
"America kind of wanted to know what our life was like outside of the pageant world, and this show will portray that," said June in an interview with CNN last year.
"We do a lot of mud bogging, four-wheel riding, going to community events," she added. "Viewers will still see the preparation for pageants, but it's mainly focused on the Thompson family and the crazy things we do to pass the time by. I think America will get the gist of who we actually are."
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Arator: Being a Series of Agricultural Essays, Practical and Political (Classic Reprint)
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Each challenge was named after a book to follow along with the fact that we were raising money for the Poynette Area Public Library. I'm going to blog about each challenge – the clue to find the challenge, the challenge itself and exactly what each team had to do at each challenge.
Once teams licked their fingers clean they received a clue to the next challenge:
"Dewey" by Vicki Myron Challenge Clue
Somewhere between the sunflowers and tomato alley, our cat friend Dewey has a challenge for you. Decide on 2 team members that will participate in this challenge.
Teams waddled to the meadow area for their next challenge:
"Dewey" by Vicki Myron Challenge
Two members of your team must organize the stack of books as they would be alphabetized at the library onto the cart. Time will be stopped when you have your books organized on the cart. The judge will then check your work. For each incorrect book a 10 second penalty will be incurred. When your work is done, checked and recorded you will receive your next clue.
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Third: Zeke's Crew
Fourth: Beauties & the Beasts
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Drawn from KAM's collection and including artwork by Sue Coe, Louise Fishman, Leon Golub, Robert Indiana, Annette Lemieux, David Park, Mark Rothko, Hedda Sterne, and Purvis Young, this exhibition features works that offer resolute statements on the physical and emotional significance of painting.
Their emphatic tones resonate despite—or because of—the artists' great ambivalence towards the representability of history, violence, and desire.
Emphatic is a preview of Art Since 1948, an upcoming reinstallation of KAM's modern and contemporary art collection opening in August 2019.
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This page contains City Racing cheats list for PC version. Now we have 2 cheats in our list, which includes 1 cheats code, 1 secret. We hope information that you'll find at this page help you in playing City Racing on PC platform. If you didn't find needed cheats put request or ask question about this at special section of the game. Also you can subscribe on all new cheats that we'll find for you in the future!
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by Unregistered Nov 26, 2010
Secret - How to escape police and get money(it works 75% of time,but also if dosen't work police stop chasing u)
While police are chasing u go into water.Before u enter water it might say the police were deactivated and gives 200 of that money.to get back to road hold r.and it does very little damage.
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SEASON FINALE - THE SCRANTON OFFICE REPRESENTS AT THE COMPANY PICNIC - OSCAR NOMINEE AMY RYAN ("Gone Baby Gone") AND IDRIS ELBA ("The Wire") GUEST STAR - It's the annual Dunder Mifflin company picnic and Michael (Golden Globe winner Steve Carell) and Holly (guest star Amy Ryan) are reunited, and Michael has some big plans for her. Meanwhile, the office competes in the picnic's volleyball tournament. Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Ed Helms, Leslie David Baker, Brian Baumgartner, Kate Flannery, Mindy Kaling, Angela Kinsey, Phyllis Smith, Oscar Nunez, Creed Bratton, Paul Lieberstein and B.J. Novak also star.


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This is a story where the antagonists are the main characters. Either that, or it flips up the romanticized notion of revolution. Wouldn't it be awesome to just go guns ablazing into Washington DC? Wouldn't it be fun to kill all the powerful people that dehumanize us, make us work in low wages and study in their jails called schools? Only we forget powerful people also bleed. Beautiful people suffer from rape, and famous actors develop anorexia.
If only we could change.
Our relationship with beauty is odd. Although political bands make money off hating rich people, beautiful people may have more power. That's thanks to the Halo Effect. If we perceive a good quality in a person, it makes all other qualities look better and the bad qualities look a little worse. Throughout the anime, we see a bunch of pretty kids/teenagers do their stuff. They fall in love, they have a lot of sex and they have fun out in nature.
Compare them to the queerats. It's not that they don't look human. They look ugly. They're desexualized, have rough voices and do manual work. Surely, such stupid and ugly creatures deserve their place. When hundreds of people die, we can't help but despise them. It's not like the people of the villages are evil. They're perfect, stick-thin intelligent people who care for the order of society.
"but they all forget somebody's gotta scrub the toilets" – BioShock.
The anime is, at its heart, about power imbalance. Its way of exploring this idea is by deliberately making the powerful people sympathetic and appealing. There are two reasons for this. Evil people don't really exist. There's a coherent theory behind the oppression of the queerats. Also that often we won't rise up against powerful people because we love them. It's easy to hate the rich fat dude, but what if it was a beautiful women who enslaved people or send them to the gas chambers?
The faction you side with tells a lot about your preferences. The story is the basic old tale of the oppressed rising against their oppressors. If you're siding with the villages, then maybe justice isn't in your priorities. The villages are more appealing, more like how we want to be. If you side with them, you just might be a victim of the Halo Effect.
If you hate the humans and relish all the death and destruction, then you also missed another point. There's no difference between dehumanizing people for being powerful and dehumanizing them for being ugly. The anime makes the villains appealing both to reveal how the Halo Effect can make forgive terrible things, but also how people who do terrible things have their reasons for doing so.
Underneath all these philosophies of power there's also an emotionally engrossing sci-fi story. Shinsekai Yori is a great argument for how sci-fi can be about human relationships and drama, not just showing off about possible technologies. Sci-Fi isn't about predicting possible technologies – how a car works isn't a story. It's about how our society might look like if a certain technology emerges.
It's about what would happen if we'd become too powerful for our own good. If I were an expert in Japanese culture, I'd say there are parallels to the atomic bomb. The Cantus is a genetic mutation that gives human beings ridiculous amounts of power, but you can replace it with any possible mutations – super-strength, super-intelligence – that will cause a power imbalance.
Every human in the villages is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. Despite the peaceful exterior, danger is ever-present. It can coming from inside – one of us loses their mind and goes berserk. It can also come from above. The masters can take you away because they consider you a danger.
We humans have a hard time building an honest society. We feed our children a lot of things they later have to unlearn – there's no tooth fairy, the people in TV aren't your friends and schools don't teach you anything. The 'growing up' the kids do is realizing that the world isn't peaceful and cannot be. The Cantus is part of human nature. Reality is hostile from every direction – your servants can rise up, one of you can go berserk and someone from above can erase you from reality. You learn similar lessons when you grow up – the job market is cruel and being a programmer isn't enough, rapists can be sexy and you might get sent off to war.
Like any other organism, we're constantly trying to remake the environment in our own image. By constructing a peaceful environment, we could ensure our survival. Utopian fiction often portrays these environments as a jungle of machinery and wires. So the main lesson we learn is that technology is evil, savages are noble and we all should be one with nature. The villages are 'one with nature'. Technology hardly exists there yet the world is still hostile. Cantus isn't just a genetic mutations. It's a physical manifestation of the power we hold over each other. Organisms by nature are dangerous. No amount of sex or being one with nature or creating a class of ugly people can solve it.
Shinsekai Yori is so good that talking about the technical side is pointless. It's fantastic in how it explores its themes and anime like this are why I put so much effort into writing reviews in the first place. Every year a thousand works of fiction come out, and books or live-action movies may seem more mature but I doubt many come close to the lows of this anime. It's at once simple, emotionally engrossing and explores its themes to the fullest. There isn't a reason for anyone to skip this.
If only we could change.
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Has anyone worked out a definitely effective way to get the toe out of seriously cambered E46? I just installed my E46 Slideworks adj. camber arms (Australian local brand), which we modified for more camber - and mind you I also have @makemerich_bitch's custom toe brackets and I'm still nowhere near straight wheeled. I actually don't have any adjustment to move the camber (we worked out they're now good for -10º to about -20º) back out without putting my old ends back in, has anyone worked out something better than the toe bracket system?
Has anyone tried to change to an E90 front end or something alike for more track? All of my camber adjustment is in the camber top and as much as it is okay, it looks strange having have a wheel hanging out at the back and no wheel hanging out at the front. Obviously wisefab is way way way too much to ask for a daily car that hard-parks. Would love to be able to have more comfort in adjustment in the front without dremelling my strut towers.
Please also note, the rear flares are front flares, cut, flipped and welded to the rear
Arms in, ZERO adjustment made.


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On Wikipedia it reads:
"A short time after the release of the Atmos machine, a modification for the Oric-1 was issued and advertised in magazines and bulletin boards. This modification enabled the Oric-1 user to add a second rom (containing the Oric Atmos system) to a spare rom socket on the Oric-1 circuit board. Then, using a basic DPST (double pole single toggle) switch, the users could then switch between the new Oric Atmos rom and the original Oric-1 rom at their leisure."
Does anyone know where I can find these instructions and also if it is possible to add a Oric-1 ROM to a Oric Atmos (The other way around).
Oric-1/Atmos ROM Switch Information
If you want to ask questions about how the machine works, peculiar details, the differences between models, here it is !
How to program the oric hardware (VIA, FDC, ...) is also welcome.
How to program the oric hardware (VIA, FDC, ...) is also welcome.
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Re: Oric-1/Atmos ROM Switch Information
it would be better to use a single 27c256 eprom and a pullup resistor (10k)
and a simpler spst switch.
and a simpler spst switch.
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The Certificate in Career Development is designed for persons working in the career development field who wish to consolidate and deepen their knowledge base. The program will provide a grounding in career development theory and practice for those wishing to enter the field. The practicum will give new entrants to the field valuable work experience and will allow existing practitioners the opportunity to reflect on and improve their practice.
Students will be required to complete a total of ten courses as follows:
Required Courses: Career Development 1000, 1100, 1200, 1210, 1220, 1300, and 3000
Three Elective Courses from the following list: Career Development 2000, 2001, 2100, 2200, or 2300
Students are required to meet UNIVERSITY REGULATIONS - Admission/Readmission to the University (Undergraduate) for entry to Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Students may receive up to three exemptions for equivalent course work completed through another program or at another institution. If students have previously obtained credit from Memorial University of Newfoundland for any of the courses on a certificate program, they are not required to repeat these courses. To receive exemptions for certificate credit courses, students must make a written request with supporting documents (transcripts and course descriptions) to the Program Developer, Certificate Programs, Division of Lifelong Learning for consideration by the Advisory Committee for the certificate.


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