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Blacks ambivalent at Oscars' snub of Davis, 'Help'
Despite torrents of debate among blacks over the merits of the segregation-era movie "The Help," most still hoped that Viola Davis, who plays a maid, would become the second black winner of the best actress Oscar.
And so there was widespread disappointment when Miss Davis lost the Academy Award to Meryl Streep on Sunday night. Still, ambivalence tinged the reaction: Besides regret that the ranks of black Oscar winners remained small, many felt relief that a role viewed as stereotypical was not honored.
"Oohhhhhhh nnnnnnooooooooooooooo," wailed Robinne Lee on Twitter.
Miss Lee, a black actress who has appeared in films such as "Seven Pounds" and "Hotel for Dogs," said in an interview that Miss Streep embodies excellence and deserved to win. "But Viola had so much hype this year, and there was so much excitement, and it conjured up so much controversy in the black community about this role. So [the loss] was disappointing."
Yet Miss Lee said she felt a mix of emotions, since she is eager to see more diverse movie casts in a wider variety of roles. Adding to the conundrum was the best supporting actress victory of Octavia Spencer, who played another maid in "The Help."
Prior to Sunday, only 13 black actors had won Hollywood's highest honor in the Oscars' 84-year history. Only Halle Berry had been chosen best actress, for playing a wounded soul who finds solace in the arms of a white man in "Monster's Ball."
In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first black actor to win an Oscar, for a supporting role as a maid called Mammy in the Dixie-glorifying "Gone With the Wind." Since then, a high percentage of black Oscar nominees and winners have played characters such as slaves, African despots, welfare recipients, dysfunctional mothers, drug-addicted musicians or drug-dealing cops.
With Miss Spencer's award, maid roles are responsible for two of the six Oscars won by black actresses. Miss Streep, meanwhile, earned the third Oscar of her transcendent career for playing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Which made Miss Lee wonder: "How inspiring would it be if we could be nominated in roles where we are playing kings, queens, politicians, writers, artists, dancers? We could soar."
The debate over "The Help" made Hollywood's racial issues a recurring theme of Oscar night.
During a skit about what actors were thinking, host Billy Crystal imagined this for Miss Davis: "I want to thank my writer and director for creating the role of a strong black woman that wasn't played by Tyler Perry." He also quipped: "When I came out of 'The Help' I wanted to hug the first black woman that I saw, which from Beverly Hills is a 45-minute drive."
Presenting an animation award, Chris Rock said the voice genre allowed fat women to play skinny or a wimp to play a gladiator. "And if you're a black man, you can play a donkey or a zebra. You can't play white, oh my God!"
Mr. Rock's observation resonated with Monika Brooks, a diversity consultant and self-described "movie dork."
"The problem is not that Davis played a maid," she said. "The problem is there's not more black people in really good roles."
Few, if any, black Hollywood executives have the power to "green-light" a film for production. Of the 5,765 people who vote on the Oscars, nearly 94 percent are white and 77 percent are male, according to a new Los Angeles Times study. The median voter age is 62.
That's why Miss Brooks was not surprised by "The Help" being made or crestfallen when Miss Davis didn't win: "Whoever writes the checks writes the rules."
As the Oscars approached, "The Help" was lambasted in some quarters of the black community. Many perceived it as another instance of black characters being "saved" by whites, or of serving only as vehicles to improve and enlighten white lives.
"Think of Will Smith in 'The Legend of Bagger Vance,' Michael Clarke Duncan in 'The Green Mile,' Anthony Mackie in 'The Adjustment Bureau' and Sir Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus in 'The Matrix,'" said Toure, the cultural commentator who uses just one name, writing in Time.
Wrote screenwriter and author James McBride: "It's the same old story: Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens."
Watching "The Help" was torture for Toure. But as a black man, he was disappointed that Miss Davis lost.
"I hated the film, but respect Viola's immense talent," he said in an interview. "I wanted her to get recognition for her talent and to get the power that comes with winning."
Oakland activist and journalist Davey D said it seemed like a contradiction for critics to slam the film but support Miss Davis and Miss Spencer.
"Y'all should be happy the maid flick didn't win," he tweeted. "The Help" was nominated for best picture, but lost to "The Artist."
"The fear was, Viola winning or 'The Help' winning would've validated keeping alive an image that many black folks found stereotypical, inaccurate and overall problematic," he said in an interview. "A win was seen as a setback."
Not for Barbara Young, who has worked for 17 years as a domestic worker and is an organizer for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Watching the film, Miss Young cried when Miss Davis' character was separated from a white child — she had endured several such partings in real life.
Miss Young traveled from New York to Los Angeles for an Oscar viewing party organized by the alliance. When Miss Streep's name was called instead of Miss Davis', the room of 50 people let out a huge groan.
"It was a very sad situation in that room," said Miss Young, an immigrant from Barbados. "I was disappointed, but I was very grateful to the producers of the movie for bringing domestic work to the forefront."
She saw a simple reason for the criticism of the maid role: "It's not recognized as real work."
Miss Davis certainly knows that it's real work — her mother and grandmother both toiled as maids.
During Oscar season, Miss Davis consistently advocated for a wider range of black roles. "I've played a lot of drug addicts," she said in an interview with Terry Gross of NPR.
And she told Tavis Smiley that black people who are ambivalent about "The Help" have a mindset that is "absolutely destroying the black artist," because it forces black actors to water down their performances — to avoid character flaws that might offend oversensitive black audiences.
"The black artist cannot live in the place — in a revisionist place," Miss Davis told Mr. Smiley. "The black artist can only tell the truth about humanity, and humanity is messy."
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Skype - which is "not a telephony replacement service and cannot be used for emergency calling" - has snaffled up two techie VoIP companies.
The eBay-owned internet telephony giant has splashed out around $27m for Sonorit Holding AS and its US subsidiary Camino Networks, Inc.
The deal buys Skype some specialists in online voice engineering who will work with its own techie to design and develop future Skype products and services.
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Get Some Action: Taking Mobile Ads from Attention-Grabbing to Actively Engaging
ADOTAS – With display ad interaction rates at an all-time low, advertisers are facing growing pressure to explore new ways to get noticed. There's the obvious trend toward audience targeting and RTB to boost campaign effectiveness, but at some point you have to ask yourself whether traditional display formats can get the job done in every case.
The answer is hiding in plain sight. Real relevance and meaningful incentives are needed to catch the eye of today's savvy consumers. And there is perhaps no incentive more appreciated by the connected consumer than connectivity itself: Wi-Fi.
Once the red headed stepchild of the technology world, the power of the Wi-Fi network as a vehicle for advertiser sponsorship, consumer incentive and engagement is growing. More than 5 billion Wi-Fi-enabled devices have shipped worldwide to date, and Cisco estimates that there will be more mobile-connected devices than people on the planet by the end of this year.
Consumers also overwhelmingly prefer to connect their mobile devices to Wi-Fi. comScore found earlier this year that a whopping 94% of tablet connections are via Wi-Fi, while 42% of smartphone connections happen on Wi-Fi networks. With network speeds and mobile device usage increasingly rapidly, the appetite for connectivity, and the addressable advertising market, are bigger than ever.
Mobile device users' voracious appetites for connectivity have made Wi-Fi networks a must-have amenity at consumer locations ranging from shopping malls to stadiums, widening the demographic playing field for advertisers – and requiring venues to keep pace with consumer data demand. The growing trend of Wi-Fi sponsorship can help venue owners offset the costs of providing Wi-Fi to their customers.
By definition, the focused range of a Wi-Fi network also allows advertisers to target their messages by location, and Wi-Fi sponsorships can also target consumers by device and daypart. But what makes Wi-Fi advertising and sponsorship the potential "silver bullet" solution to banner blindness is the combination of fresh, organic consumer engagements and the cost-per-engagement (CPE) ad sales model, which guarantees that advertising budgets are spent on an actual engagement with a member of their target audience – or advertisers don't pay.
New, action-oriented engagement tools leveraging the appeal and hyper-local targeting of Wi-Fi are allowing for truly tailored campaigns that can ensure ad effectiveness, venue fit and network cost mitigation, and maximum utility to the consumer, resulting in happy customers and better ROI for advertisers.
Rather than passively introducing consumers to a product or service through a banner, Wi-Fi sponsorship takes a "lean forward" approach, asking users to complete simple actions in exchange for free access. Recently, a travel service provider was looking to improve the install rates for their app among frequent business and leisure travelers. Travelers at eight airports with Boingo Wi-Fi networks were prompted to download the app in exchange for complimentary Wi-Fi access, resulting in tens of thousands of app installs – and confirmed opens – in a matter of weeks. This same value-exchange based approach can be used to drive email acquisition, solicit UGC, deliver video views and otherwise guarantee captive 1-on-1 engagement with every impression.
Brands looking to increase brand loyalty and generate remarketing opportunities can request consumer email addresses in exchange for Wi-Fi connectivity at participating venues, an exchange that more than 75% of consumers would be open to in return for a service they value, according to a recent McAfee/Harris Interactive study.
Even the value of the mobile video ad engagement can be increased within the context of the sponsored Wi-Fi location, without altering the connectivity experience consumers have come to expect. Starbucks, which recently selected Boingo as its advertising and sponsorship services partner for its more than 7,000 stores with Wi-Fi in the United States and Canada, will pair its existing standard IAB ad units on the Starbucks Digital Network with a full-screen captive sponsorship experience. Advertisers will receive 15-45 seconds of concentrated consumer attention that fits organically within the established Starbucks Wi-Fi experience that consumer rely on for work, study and play.
By creating a value exchange and offering consumers a service that they crave, these new Wi-Fi-based engagement modules sold on a CPE basis reach consumers in the right place, at the right time, and ensure that advertisers get some action from mobile devices users where they need it most.
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Meet Ntreev Soft, developer of free to play horse race MMO Project Alicia. Project Alice is not only a racing MMO, it's also an action and simulation MMO. Players can ride freely in the fields and command their mount to do many different tricks/skills. Also players are able to fight on horsebacks like in the Zelda games. If you like virtual pets, you can also raise your horses any way you want in the game. Interactive Selection has been tasked to recruit a Managing Director for a US MMO Publisher to be based in Lorea. We are searching for a smart, passionate, business minded Managing Director for our client's Korean Office. You would be responsible for developing the business in Korea, setting up the company culture within the Korean offices, leading and growing the Korean team and managing financial and physical resources. Full spec at http://www.jobsdbase.net/job_details.asp?ID=5476 If you know of anyone who would be interested, please ask them to make contact with David Smith at Interactive Selection. Closing date for interest is 8 April 2011. Contact KOREA from KOTRA is a global talent facilitator that promotes international competitiveness by offering one-stop service that seeks professionals, matches them with appropriate companies and helps them settle in Korea. As of the end of 2009, there are over 30,000 global professionals, ranging from engineers to researchers and scientists, working for domestic corporations in South Korea. The demands for global talent in Korean companies increases constantly every year. Within a year of its establishment, Contact KOREA has arranged for over 260 individuals to find competitive jobs at more than 120 Korean companies and institutions by using one-on-one service for Korean employers and foreign professionals. If you want to work for a games company in Korea, Interactive Selection should be your first choice. You can contact Interactive by mail on koreajobs at interactiveselection dot com. Interactive Selection have several job opportunities for international developers to work in Seoul, Korea. Please see full job specifications in our Jobs Database or contact David Smith for further information on jobs AT interactiveselection Dot Com Its no secret that many teenagers around the world are addicted to computer games. But in South Korea the lure of cyberspace has reached a new level. A third of the population is hooked on computer games, with some playing for around ten hours each day, or even more. Watch the TV report on the popularity of Online Gaming fron Russia Today. Can you think of 2 more prestigious institutions than the BBC and Edge Magazine? David Smith, MD of Interactive Selection, found himself live in front of BBC News anchors Simon McCoy and Carrie Gracie at 10.43 on September 21st for an interview about the games industry and the topic of start ups and jobs. For a full 3 minutes he fielded questions on the state of the games industry today, how it may fare providing new jobs moving forward and how the unemployed may want to find a job within computer games. For a more detailed report see the Games Job Blog. On September 21st Edge Magazine's feature Get into Games 2010 was published and David Smith again found himself the firts external recruiter to be interviewed in the history of Edge Magazine. You can click through to the full report: Get Into Games 2010: David Smith, Interactive Selection 2 questions about the role of the modern recruiter from the Edge interview are repeated here: Edge: Thanks to things like forums, modding and trade shows, the game industry gets closer to its audience by the year. 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GREEN BAY - They're known for the tricks on the basketball court, but Tuesday the Harlem Globetrotters spread a positive message in the classroom.
Kevin "Special K" Daley of the Globetrotters stopped by Tank Elementary School.
He talked about the ABCs of bullying: action, bravery and compassion.
Tank Elementary is one of the first schools in the nation to hear the message.
While bullying can happen at any school, Daley says it's important to send a positive message to students.
"We felt that it was a very positive message that the kids need to hear, you know we are sometimes looked at as role models, as athletes, and the kids listen to us so while we have their ear we want to give them something positive," said Daley.
And of course, a visit wouldn't be complete without those famous Harlem Globetrotter tricks.
Some of the students in the audience got a one-on-one lesson.
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The catch phrase for 2013 is "cautious optimism."
The office market lags, but some developers in the retail and industrial sectors, who have been busy securing their foundations, are now sniffing around for growth opportunities. As 2012 fades into the rearview mirror, commercial realty agents suggest the worst is over, and 2013 will signal the beginning of a choppy return to more normal commercial activity.
All commercial sectors are improving, but the early part of the rebound will likely be fits and starts.
The hardest-hit segment, office buildings, will likely struggle for at least the next few years. Office specialists say any significant construction, other than build-to-suit owner-occupied buildings, is probably five to seven years out. The biggest client, state government, is still consolidating and rewriting leases.
Barring an influx of jobs, the task for landlords and realty agents will be to fill vacant space. The combined suburban and downtown vacancy rate in Sacramento is north of 20 percent, and landlords are offering incentives such as reduced rents and property upgrades.
Marketing campaigns are more elaborate, too, as evidenced by a soiree thrown a few weeks ago on the 25th floor of Park Tower, 980 9th St.
Wells Fargo Financial Advisors recently exited the 15,000-square-foot space, and landlord CIM Group and the commercial realty firm of Jones Lang LaSalle hosted a "Top of the Park" event that featured musicians and food. A step up from typical open houses, the event showcased the sweeping views of downtown and beyond.
Events like this will be more common until more offices are filled. That may be a while, however.
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Keeping volunteers happy
I have been an unhappy volunteer. I have felt unappreciated and underutilized. I have also felt humiliated and used. Because of some of my earlier ministry experiences on the receiving end as a volunteer, when I began leading women's ministry at my sweet church, I vowed to be a different kind of leader.
Ephesians 4:11-12 is pretty clear. Christ gifted us to be leaders for the sole purpose of equipping "God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ."
As a leader, we are not to do the work of the ministry on our own. This means we need help. Not slaves. Not minions. Not secretaries. And certainly not mini-me's. We are to find and train women for works of service to build up the collective body of Christ together.
Ten years of leading women's ministry, organizing small groups, and hosting seeker-oriented and believer-focused events with a revolving team of gifted women taught me volumes. Nothing as true as this: volunteers are not icing on the cake…they are the cake. They aren't just a good idea—something to check off our to-do list, names to fill holes on a spreadsheet. They are essential. And if you want to keep them around, you need to keep them happy.
It's All in the Fit
I did my best to make sure upfront that I was placing women where they would fit…if not perfectly, then as close to perfectly as I could. I would ask them what they enjoyed doing. I'd test them for their spiritual gifts and areas of passion. I would move them around within the ministry until they felt at their best, and if it turned out I'd filled a niche with just a breathing body, I'd release them and help them find something they loved in another ministry. Because if they were doing something they liked to do, then burnout would be staved off.
You Can Do It!
I intentionally encouraged my team members. At the beginning of each year, I sent each one a note telling them what I was looking forward to doing together.
At one of our kick-off team meetings, I got down on my hands and knees and washed each of their feet, telling them that this would be our mindset as we served the women of our church and community this coming year.
I'd pray for them throughout the ministry season, asking them what they needed prayer for and then checking in with them on that request.
At our meetings I reminded them why we were doing what we were doing.
After events I'd thank them for what they did, being specific in my praise.
I'd occasionally get them gifts just for the heck of it.
We ended each year with a fancy dinner to celebrate all that God did through us.
Basically, I befriended the women on my team. I shared my life with them and I tried to be attuned to what was going on in their lives.
What's in Your Toolbox?
I equipped my women with resources for their areas of service. Our communications gal, for instance, had a budget for materials she could enjoy playing around with. It made her task not only easier, but also more fun.
I would take them to conferences when possible. We would read leadership books together.
When they'd learn a new skill, I'd walk alongside them, give feedback, and let them go. One of my main jobs was to make these women ready for what we felt God wanted us to accomplish.
Bottomline, as John Ghegan said, "If I had to do it all over again, I'd get help." And I'd add to that, I'd make sure my help knew how much they meant to me and keep them coming back for more.
Elisabeth K. Corcoran started and led the women's ministry at her church for ten years, then went on to other church ministry roles. She is the author of five books, including At the Corner of Broken & Love: Where God Meets Us in the Everyday (Westbow). www.elisabethcorcoran.com


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The bloodletting in the newsroom at The Enquirer is over, at least for now.
Editor Carolyn Washburn sent an email to the newspaper's editorial staff this morning, announcing the names of 12 people who have decided to accept a voluntary "early retirement" severance deal offered by The Enquirer's parent firm, The Gannett Co.
CityBeat already has reported that political columnist Howard Wilkinson, longtime photographer Michael Keating and Editorial Page Editor Ray Cooklis were among those departing the media company.
Other editorial staffers who are taking the buyout are business reporter Mike Boyer; Features Editor Dave Caudill; news reporter Steve Kemme; Copy Desk Chief Sue Lancaster; Production Manager Greg Noble; Butler/Warren Editor Jim Rohrer; sports copy editor Bill Thompson; Copy Editor Pat Tolzmann; and Copy Editor Tim Vonderbrink.
They join Assistant Managing Editor/Sports Barry Forbis and Deputy Sports Editor Rory Glynn, who announced their resignations in March.
In her email, Washburn wrote that the company will throw a party in its conference room for the departing staffers on April 12.
As one ex-Enquirer reporter said when hearing about the plans, "Some sendoff for those leaving. Washburn is throwing them a 'proper party,' whatever that is, for them on the 20th floor, no doubt in the sterile training room where staffers learn about inane new corporate initiatives. A 'proper party' for the loss of 350-plus years of experience and institutional knowledge would be an employee tavern of choice with an open bar, but what would Washburn know?"
Gannett announced the buyout offer Feb. 9 and gave employees 45 days to decide whether to apply for the deal.
At the close of the offer period, editors reviewed applications and made final decisions; some people who apply for the deal potentially could've been turned down if their position is deemed essential to the newspaper's operation.
Under the deal, newspaper employees who are age 56 or older and have at least 20 years of service with Gannett as of March 31 are eligible. Although executives said 785 employees meet the criteria, the deal only is being offered to 665 employees "due to ongoing operational needs at the company."
As part of reductions mandated by Gannett, The Enquirer has laid off about 150 workers during the past two years. Also, employees have had to take five unpaid furloughs during the past three years.
Gannett recently gave Craig Dubow, its CEO who allegedly left the company due to health reasons, a $37.1 million compensation package. The Columbia Journalism Review examined what Gannett could've bought with that money instead, including paying for the starting salaries of 1,474 staffers at The Indianapolis Star or 310,720 annual subscriptions to The Tallahassee Democrat's website.
Here is the full text of Washburn's email:
From: Washburn, Carolyn
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 8:39 AM
To: CIN-News Users; ohiodaily
Subject: saying thank you to our new retirees
It's official now. In the next couple of weeks we will say thank you and best wishes to these colleagues who have decided to take the company's early retirement offer. The complete group is, in no particular order:
Dave Caudill, Greg Noble, Jim Rohrer, Sue Lancaster, Pat Tolzmann, Tim Vonderbrink, Bill Thompson, Michael Keating, Mike Boyer, Steve Kemme, Howard Wilkinson, Ray Cooklis
Ray will be here until April 27. Greg's last day in the office was a week or so ago, before a furlough and vacation. Everyone else will have their last day next Thursday, April 12.
We will have a proper party in the 20th floor conference room on April 12 at 4pm.
I'll meet with some small groups in the next few days and we'll have a full staff meeting the week of April 16 to talk about what's next, now that we are confirmed on who chose to retire. There is a plan. :)
We will be very sad to say goodbye. But I am happy for these folks who decided this was the right thing for them.
Thanks again to Dave, Greg, JR, Sue, Pat, Tim, Bill, Michael, Mike, Steve, Howard and Ray.
As Bernadette Watson decides whether to run for Cincinnati City Council again in 2011, she's keeping busy by helping a former council member get elected to state office.
Watson has been named as campaign manager for Alicia Reece, a Democrat who is seeking to keep the Ohio House 33rd District seat. Reece, an ex-Cincinnati vice mayor, was appointed to the seat in March to replace Tyrone Yates. Yates, who was facing term limits, was appointed to a municipal judgeship.
A well-known Cincinnati philanthropist is among four people selected to receive the first-ever Women of Distinction Award by the national YWCA.
Francie Pepper is being recognized for her years of work in support of issues involving women, girls and racial justice.
Pepper has served on the board of the Cincinnati YWCA since 1996, and also served as chair of its board from 2000-04. She has played a critical role for women who have experienced domestic violence, co-chairing a YWCA capital campaign that raised $7.5 million for a larger shelter that tripled the agency's capacity to serve battered women and their children so they wouldn't have to be put on a waiting list.
Also, some campaign funds were used to restore the YWCA's historic headquarters, located on Walnut Street downtown, add a childcare center to the facility.
Further, Pepper has volunteered for numerous organizations and causes in Greater Cincinnati, and her work in support of domestic violence awareness programs has gotten national recognition. She is a major supporter of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, archives, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history, including all of the YWCA's historical files.
Francie Pepper is the wife of John Pepper, who previously served as the chairman of the board at both Procter & Gamble and The Walt Disney Co.; she is the mother of David Pepper, a former Cincinnati city councilman and Hamilton County commissioner.
The Women of Distinction Award, bestowed by the YWCA USA, honors professional women from the private and public sectors across the United States who have demonstrated excellence, leadership and integrity in their fields and in the community, serving as role models for other successful women.
Nominations from YWCAs across the United States were solicited to find leaders whose work has made an impact on women's economic empowerment and racial justice.
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A rising tide of Chinese and Australian visitors is helping to keep the tourism market afloat in New Zealand.
But many Chinese visitors on package tours are not as big a boon as they could be for local businesses, according to an industry group.
Tourism from China is booming, up 38 per cent in the year to November, hitting almost 195,000, and is expected to top 200,000 for the calendar year. That has helped offset a dive in numbers from Britain, down 17 per cent in the past year, to about 191,000, reflecting a dropoff after last year's influx for the Rugby World Cup.
China overtook Britain, becoming New Zealand's second-biggest source of visitors in the November 2012 year. Australia remains by far the largest source of tourists at 1.1 million in the past year.
Overall, tourist arrivals in November were almost flat on the same month last year, despite a great leap up in arrivals from China. The annual figures are also almost level with a year ago, despite the World Cup boost in 2011.
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Tourism Industry Association chief executive Martin Snedden said China was "booting ahead" month after month, with state forecasts suggesting visitors could double in five years or so.
"The challenge with China is not about numbers but value," he said, to get visitors to stay longer and spend more.
About 70 per cent of Chinese visitors come to New Zealand for a three-day shopping trip after visiting Australia. But there were "strong restrictions" where visitors could shop on those tours.
"The shopping trips are controlled by Chinese operators based in China or Australia . . . and the bulk of the profits [as much as half] from these trips is retained offshore," Snedden said.
The tourism sector was trying to give "viable alternatives" to those shopping trips.
"They don't get the best experience . . . and the value from them is not retained in New Zealand," Snedden said. "So the numbers look good but the value is nowhere near as good as it should be."
However, the Japanese market was "starting to turn" and improve, with Air New Zealand putting on more capacity with rising bookings, especially from people in their 20s. Japanese tourists increased 3 per cent in November compared with last year.
The United States market was also starting to lift, but numbers had dropped more than 17 per cent in the November year.
November tourism: Holiday visitor arrivals in November 2012, at 109,800, were similar to November 2011 at 110,000, but there were big differences by country.
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Australia: up 2000
Britain: down 2000
Germany and United States: both down 700
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Australia remained the biggest source of tourists, accounting for 45 per cent of all visitors to New Zealand.
China now accounts for 8 per cent of visitors.
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So here it is. I have completely burnt the via and the resistor's solder pad(see picture). Quite a mess, I know. :)
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But (fortunately) it seems that the 'via' leads to the other side of the motherboard. But it is UNDER the RS2004fs IC. :rant:
Does anyone know where the via connects to "openly"? (i.e where I can solder an extension wire.)
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SNIPPY: evidence"Blasted mug!"SNIPPY: evidence1 year ago in Personal More Like This
I looked at it hatefully.
"This is all your fault!"
I attempted to throw the mug at the Arbitrator, to smash it, to let go of it.
Nothing of the sort was possible.
I flailed left and right. The mug did not budge. I could not let it go, no matter how hard I tried. It was as if it were glued to me with a strange static-like substance. It rolled between my fingers and from one hand to the other, but it was as if I were made of iron and the mug were a powerful rare-earth magnetic bearing coated with oil.
Why can't I let go of the mug?!
Did the Arbitrator's reconstruction of my organs have anything to do with this?
Upon giving up to prying the mug out of my hands, I turned to the Arbitrator and spoke.
I made my case calmly and clearly, pressuring various facts that my DNA couldn't possibly be on the mug and that I looked nothing like Captain and that it might as well scan my memories for evidence or something of that sort.
AMBER SNIPPY'S FATE?I've had that dream again.AMBER SNIPPY'S FATE?1 year ago in Personal More Like This
That strange place, so distant, yet so close to my heart. Buildings as tall as mountains.
Dead structures, watching with dead eyes. Empty, vast and endless honeycombs of stone and steel. Air filled with gray ashes, always fluttering from the cloudy sky.
The black vortex opens up in the sky, descending down to the city. The vortex spiral rips the city apart, bending the air itself, feasting on light, feasting on time.
There is a lonely figure standing in the street.
No matter how hard I try to make out his or her expression, I cannot. Is there no face there at all? Or perhaps there is a million human faces there, intertwined and flickering in unison, as bright as the light of ten thousand suns?
The being stares into the abyss of the vortex.
It takes another step towards it, into the horizon of nothingness, into a place where nothing can exist.
The stones of the roadway beneath its feet crumble and flutter in t
Snippy: the end of the worldThe living scarf twisted around my neck, flowing back and forth.Snippy: the end of the world1 year ago in Personal More Like This
My neurons tingled, misfiring.
Was it numbing the pain of being compressed into a hexagonal cocoon that pressed tighter and tighter?
No, it was showing me what it could see and feel, what my limited human vision could not.
The aggregate virus bore into my body, feasting on my cells, borrowing me to expand itself, yet it did not take over completely.
I was here, no I was out there, I was a hundred trillion cells and they were ALL suddenly under my control.
It seems that our relationship status has been upgraded from "master controller/slave drive" to an "unlicensed symbiosis".
The Biomatrix served as my new eyes, letting me peer through my own skin, bones, flesh and organs, through my fireproof jacket, through the web of intertwining lights that bound us in a stasis field, through the thick, crystalline walls of the Arbitrator's spacecraft.
My vision intensified, expandi
BIOMATRIX 117: A TEN THOUSAND YEAR OLD ENIGMAtHeRE's SoMeThiNg iN tHe MoSt DisTanT MeMoRy Of PaSt SoMeThiNg ThaT DoeS Not BeLong, SoMeThiNg ThaT I mUsT ShOw tO ChaRleS SniPpy.BIOMATRIX 117: A TEN THOUSAND YEAR OLD ENIGMA1 year ago in Personal More Like This
CaN YoU GuESs WhaT iT iS?
POP MUSICS OF PAST?WATT IS UR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT POPULAR MUSIC CULTURE OF ZEE PRE-APOCALYPSE?POP MUSICS OF PAST?1 year ago in Personal More Like This
RA: Part of a Chain (Chapter 3/4)RA: Part of a Chain (Chapter 3/4)1 year ago in Drama More Like This
Category: Action/Suspense/Friendship
Characters: C. Snippy/Sniper & A. Gromov/Engineer & C. Hatchenson/Pilot
Words: 6,800
"Our last hope."
Chapter 3: The Chain breaks
Engie, Snippy and Pilot were on their way out of the rundown electronics store that served as a strategically functional base for the hostile wastelanders who had robbed them.
After the three of them took their stuff back, the boss of the hostile group sent in his secret weapon a group of gunners, positioned all over the building and they didn't go easy on the small group at all.
Considering that Charles was the crew's only offense against the enemy force and that the other two carried heavy backpacks that slowed them down, they had made it surprisingly far already.
However, everyone's luck ends at some point and Snippy knew that he never had much to begin with.
After almost getting himself killed and ending up with a bad gash on his side, he couldn't afford to make any more wrong steps.
SNIPPY: NO ESCAPE?How can I escape fromSNIPPY: NO ESCAPE?1 year ago in Personal More Like This
THE MONSTROUS ARBITRATOR that wants to lobotomize my brain because of my crimes as "CAPTAIN"?
EPISODE 112 FEATURES!HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THE DELICIOUS EPISODE 112 CONTEST FEATURES THAT ARE IN EPISODE 112: http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/112EPISODE 112 FEATURES!1 year ago in Personal More Like This
Arrrrr RA by ~EszitrilCellular Snippy by ~KorevissSnippy Stuck by ~CreativeDarkPeaceWWI Snippy by ~LilnannySnippy Entry by *GelibeanH20Egyptian Snippy by ~Dino-blankeySnippy as a Rock God xD by ~PurplePeople1995Coelacanth (RA entry) by *MayakaEdCaveman by ~azeeliaSnippy in Greece by *DarwinsMishapAnother life of Charles Snippy by ~Echoes-OrchestraSnippy surreal Jack the Ripper by ~TheaFlyrhhippie snippy by ~NarcoVampiranew Snippy habiles by ~jenssosaurusSnippy WWII Soldier by ~ItsMeMelodySnippy beleives by ~Kuuriketto-chansnippy the plague doctor by *Earthsoul22Zee Snippy as the plague doctor by ~annethylSnippy's Ancestor, the musketeer by ~SwiftstartVictorian Snippy [500x500] by ~FURCIFERpardalisRA Background Entry. 17th Lancer,Past Snippy. by *FlekkrSir Snippy fighting CancerDragon by ~Isreali-Freak-DeviDay 33b Snippy the Cell by ~Asmodeus317Snippy's new job by ~ValkyrieLightDragon:thumb336626489:Snippy in the future by ~keren-or50's snippy by ~Mr-Joseph-No-One
My apologies if in the final version some submissions got cut up by text bubbles.
If I missed you for some reason, poke me in this journal.
Also, following fanarts were featured in the episode!
Zee Captain and Mr. Snippy by ~Kamikazuh Mr. Snippy: Daily Stroll by *NaviiraOn the Lookout by ~dondaRomantically Apocalyptic by ~Sol4rpleXusDehydration 2 by ~Sol4rpleXus:
Musics of captain presents...Our first sexy musical album of interest!Musics of captain presents...1 year ago in Personal More Like This
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Let us know which song is your favouritest!
THE CHURCH OF GOOGLISMSTEP 1: The problem.THE CHURCH OF GOOGLISM9 months ago in Personal More Like This
You have a problem.
Don't tell me you don't have problems.
Everyone has problems.
Determine what your biggest problem is.
Don't have a big problem? Too scared to admit it?
You can start smaller- How about a small problem?
How about something that concerns/bothers/confuses you today/this week/recently?
Come up with a bunch of keywords that describe your problem.
STEP 2: Ask google for solution to your problem.
Google your question using ALL the possible keyword combinations that your problem relates to or has in it.
See if anyone already has a similar problem or has already resolved it.
Take 3 hours if you must.
Finding correct information can get tough, especially if it is obscure, hidden, answered incorrectly or has conflicting answers.
Answers without proper sources or evidence are generally incorrect and should be disregarded.
If there are too many conflicting solutions and opposing answers and you're not sure which is correct,
Use the principle of
LONDON MCM APPROACHES!PEOPLES OF LONDON,LONDON MCM APPROACHES!1 year ago in Personal More Like This
LONDON MCM http://www.londonexpo.com/
ASK SNIPPY: why are things on fire?YOU TOO CAN ASK SNIPPY QUESTIONS OF INTEREST HERE:ASK SNIPPY: why are things on fire?1 year ago in Personal More Like This
SNIPPY: QUESTIONABLE REALITYI definitely thought about killing Captain, especially after several pranks that were pulled on me like that time when I woke up with a bucket super-glued to my head and declared "iron man".SNIPPY: QUESTIONABLE REALITY1 year ago in Personal More Like This
Or that time when Captain made a soup out of my gas mask filters because the broth needed the "Smooth flavour of Snippy" and salt wasn't available... so I had to roam the decaying shopping malls for a new pair.
Or that time when Captain pushed me into a watery abyss inside a wooden barrel to celebrate "Niagara falls day".
Have my thoughts become so compounded as to finally cause schizophrenia?
...Am I a stone throw away from becoming like Pilot, talking to pet rocks and building the Bastion of Captania out of rotting shoe boxes?
And if I were to kill Captain who would I have left?
I must have been talking out loud like those crazy hobos that lived outside the protectorate dome that communicated with radioactive rain clouds via conversations of interpretive dance, until they were consumed by a famil
LATENESS OF 105 AND INTERVIEW OF DELICIOUSNESS1.LATENESS OF 105 AND INTERVIEW OF DELICIOUSNESS1 year ago in Personal More Like This
105 is finally finished, even if horribly late due to Montreal Comicon:
Next on Captain's stop is New York comicon. Expect to catch us there if you be going!
Please to enjoy this interview of interest:


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For no particular reason, Unesco made 2000 world mathematical year. Keith Moffatt, director of the Isaac Newton institute in Cambridge, passed the word on to an underwhelmed public. "There are many initiatives around the world for the public understanding of mathematics. I thought it was our responsibility to take up this challenge."
The first poster in the Maths in the Tube campaign - about the Fibonacci series that seems to apply as often to sunflower seeds or flower petals as to abstract reasoning - says that maths counts.
"The second one says that maths stirs. It's to do with the stirring of water vapour into hurricanes," Professor Moffatt said. "The third one says maths predicts; it's about weather forecasting. We'll do one on maths makes waves."
It will not be just slogans: there will be an arresting picture, sometimes a puzzle. As the institute asked irreverently when it got government funding for the initiative, if you had algebra on the underground would you end up with a tube of smarties?
"The purpose is to indicate to the public that maths has an enormous range of important practical applications," Prof Moffatt said. "I think 'maths is cool' is quite a good one: we have a poster concerned with iceberg dynamics. Every poster will have a bit of mathematics."
One deals with probabilities in the real world: the chance, for instance, that in any random group of 30 people two will have the same birthday. You would be advised to take a bet on that, Prof Moffatt said. The probability was quite high.
There won't be any obvious A-level challenges. The mathematicians want to get away from the schoolroom and show people things they never thought maths applied to.
"'Maths takes off' is one of them," he said. "That's all about aerodynamics and lift on an aircraft. We'll try to explain why it is you stay up there when you are flying across the Atlantic; it's a comfort to understand the dynamics. And then we'll have one or two on biology and the human genome project."
He is aware that maths has an image problem. When he tells people that he is a mathematician they tell him it was their worst subject at school, and the conversation lapses.
"We are trying to bring it to life, to show people it is not just this awful business of numbers and sets and diagrams. It's got all these applications."


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After pallet 1 finishes the program , when it goes to change to pallet 2.... It wants to put pallet 1 where pallet 2 is.
I can go to MDI and execute a pallet change and it works fine. Only when I let the program execute the pallet change does it try to put pallet 1 in the pallet 2 spot....
Please help!!!
I have a VF-3 SS APC and have had no problems like you are having. What might be happening is when you machine pallet 1 it thinks its machining pallet 2. When you are in current commands while running the program does it say "Pallet 1" below the code area of the screen. The way I program the APC is setting up a master program that is simply the pallet changes and subprogram calls. If "Pallet 1" isnt showing up below the code then I would start the program with a Pallet change to pallet 1 so the machine knows that pallet 1 is currently in the machine.


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Cost of hospital cardiac care on the rise
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Magic general manager Rob Hennigan said Wednesday that trade talks involving Dwight Howard with the Brooklyn Nets are "stationary," but that discussions remain open with them and other teams.
EL SEGUNDO (AP) - Steve Nash knew the scene was more than a bit surreal when he stood in the Los Angeles Lakers' training complex, grinning and holding up a gold No. 10 jersey with his name on the back.
The Miami Heat got two more shooters. The Orlando Magic, at least for now, are keeping their center.
Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan had a blazing fastball, the first ever clocked at 100 mph, during 27 seasons that included 5,714 strikeouts and seven no-hitters. Mariano Rivera has used a devastating, bat-cracking cutter for a record 608 saves to be part of five World Series championships with the New York Yankees.
There was a public outcry when R.A. Dickey did not start the All-Star game, a journeyman for the Chicago White Sox threw a perfect game and the Pittsburgh Pirates of all teams were in first place as the first half of the baseball season drew to a close.
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OAKLAND (AP) - The Golden State Warriors are getting more for Dorell Wright after all. The Warriors sent the small forward to the Philadelphia 76ers in a revised three-team trade that netted guard Jarrett Jack from the New Orleans Hornets on Wednesday night. The Hornets received the draft rights to Edin Bavcic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Sixers in a salary-slashing move that clears space in a crowded backcourt. Philadelphia also got center Darryl ...
MIAMI (AP) - Rashard Lewis has decided to join the Miami Heat, becoming yet another shooting option for the reigning NBA champions.
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Day 33 Orsieres to Saint Bernard's Pass 15 miles
... very special about climbing on your own amongst big mountains, especially snow-covered ones. A couple of interesting moments. The first was when my GPS indicated that I had wandered about 2 miles off my route. Somewhat distressing as I had been descending for quite a while. I would have to retrace my steps to where I went off-route. Luckily before I went very far I realised that the GPS was giving a ...
Day 32 Martigny to Orsieres 13 miles
... about 10 miles from Verbier, a well-known skiing area. As usual it took a ridiculously large amount of effort to get somewhere to sleep. No surprise that there was no-one in the religious house. No campsite here so I went berserk and booked into the only B and B. There something about being soaked and cold that just puts me off wild camping. Nice dinner was a bonus. Could sort of justify both by the big climb tomorrow up to the Italian border at the Great St Bernard's ...
Day 31 Aigle to Martigny 19 miles
... as it gives me a chance to get my washing dry. Usually when camping in the wet there is just no way to get anything dried out. Had a Thai meal tonight. Not much choice as its a Sunday. Not bad. Slightly concerned about tomorrow's walk. Both books describe it as the most difficult of the whole walk. Not recommended in the wet or when on your own or with a heavy rucksack. Strike three as the saying ...
In the swiss alps and Matterhorn
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For starters, the train journey was wonderful.Most Swiss trains have panoramic windows and switzerland has the best views in the world so the train journey was very enjoyable.
We checked into our hotel which was really good. We had a hige balcony with a lovely view of the matterhorn.
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I'm trying to get our app to handle different icon sets (make it sort of skinnable). I asked about the usual way to do it here. When I tried to apply the solution from the answer, I replaced all hardcoded icon paths in .resx files with paths using an environment variable. For example, I replaced...
<data name="btnDel" type="System.Resources.ResXFileRef, System.Windows.Forms">
<value>..\..\Icons\btnDel.png;System.Drawing.Bitmap, System.Drawing, Version=184.108.40.206, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a</value>
<data name="btnDel" type="System.Resources.ResXFileRef, System.Windows.Forms">
<value>$(IconsFolder)\btnDel.png;System.Drawing.Bitmap, System.Drawing, Version=126.96.36.199, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a</value>
Then, as an initial test, I defined a System-level environment variable called IconsFolder
, applied changes, restarted Visual Studio and tried to build. But I got this error:
D:\SVN.DRA.WorkingCopy\UserControl\My Project\Resources.resx(123,5): error MSB3103: Invalid Resx file. Could not find a part of the path 'D:\SVN.DRA.WorkingCopy\UserControl\My Project\$(IconsFolder)\btnDel.png'. Line 123, position 5.
It seems like .resx files don't understand environment variables. How can I avoid hardcoding those paths, then?
EDIT: Each icon can be referenced by more than one project, so the environment variable of whatever mechanism is used to configure the paths must be available on a solution-wide basis, and I should be able to set it from inside an MSBuild script.
EDIT 2: All my forms are defined in C# or VB.NET projects


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- YouTube bans Press TV's new page (PressTV, Aug 20, 2013):
YouTube has disabled Press TV's new account under pressure from the Israeli-American Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that ordered the video-sharing site to end the Iranian channel's live broadcast."On August 20, YouTube's parent company Google deactivated Press TV's new account weeks after disabling the channel's official page," said Press TV Newsroom Director Hamid Reza Emadi.
"YouTube broadcasts a variety of obscene images and provides a platform for terrorists to propagate their dangerous ideologies, but it cannot tolerate the broadcast of an alternative media channel from Iran," he said, adding that YouTube is doing what the ADL is ordering it to do.
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July 22, 2013
Prices for diesel and gasoline moved higher again over the past week as the cost of oil eased back Monday following its highest closing price on Friday since March 2012.
July 19, 2013
More signs of improvement in the U.S. economy helped drive the price of oil to above $109 a barrel on Friday, its highest price since March of 2012. Oil futures have risen more than $11 a barrel this month.
July 15, 2013
The prices for diesel and oil are all surging. A new report released Monday by the U.S. Energy Department shows the average cost of diesel has risen 3.9 cents over the past week to $3.867 per gallon.
July 8, 2013
The national average price of diesel has posted its first increase for the first time in several weeks, following a big spike in the price of oil. This is the first increase since the week of May 20 and puts the price of diesel 14.5 cents a gallon higher than the same week a year ago.
July 1, 2013
Prices for oil and gasoline turned lower over the past week, with diesel on its sixth week of falling prices in a row. Crude oil, however, is approaching the $100 per barrel level again.
June 24, 2013
The price of diesel has declined to a level not seen since late last July, according to the new weekly roundup of prices from the U.S. Energy Department. It has fallen 0.3 cents in the past week for a U.S. average of $3.838 per gallon.
June 17, 2013
Diesel has declined 0.8 cents per gallon over the past week for a U.S. average of $3.841 per gallon, it's lowest since last July. This marks the fourth straight decline, placing it just over a nickel lower than where it was the last time it moved higher, while the current price is 11.2 cents per gallon higher than the same time a year ago.
June 10, 2013
The price of diesel has fallen for the third week in a row, putting the U.S. average close to where it was just four weeks ago. In contrast, the average U.S. cost for gasoline has increased over the past week.
June 3, 2013
The prices of diesel and oil moved lower over the past week, while gasoline has barely edged higher. New figures released Monday from the U.S. Energy Department show the average cost of diesel has fallen 1.1 cents over the past week.
May 28, 2013
The average cost of diesel and gasoline in the United State has retreated slightly after some recent gains, while crude oil futures are down slightly from the week before. The average price of a gallon of diesel has fallen 1 cent to $3.88 per gallon, following two straight weekly increases totaling 4.5 cents.
May 20, 2013
The average cost of diesel has posted its second straight weekly increase.
May 13, 2013
After falling for 10 straight weeks, the average U.S. cost of diesel has done an about-face. Gasoline is higher for the second straight week but oil is slightly lower.
May 7, 2013
The new Short-Term Energy Outlook from the U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Administration says diesel fuel prices, which averaged $3.95 per gallon last summer, are projected to fall to an average of $3.88 per gallon this summer and move generally lower into 2014.
May 6, 2013
The average U.S. cost of diesel has dropped for the 10th week in a row, down 0.6 cents from last week, coming in at $3.845 per gallon, according to new figures form the U.S. Energy Department.
April 22, 2013
Another week and another decline in the price of fuel, with diesel hitting its lowest level since last August. New figures released by the U.S. Energy Department show the average retail cost is down 5.5 cents over the past week.
April 15, 2013
The average U.S. price of diesel shows no signs of stopping its recent series of declines, falling another 3.5 cents this week to $3.94.2 per gallon.
April 9, 2013
If a new U.S. Energy Department forecast holds true, diesel and gasoline prices during April through September should be the same as they were a year ago and will move lower into next year.
April 8, 2013
The average U.S. cost of diesel has moved 1.6 cents per gallon lower over the past week to $3.977. according to new figures released by the U.S. Energy Department. The decline is the sixth consecutive one and puts the fuel at its lowest point since late January.
April 1, 2013
The average U.S. cost of diesel has fallen below the $4 a gallon mark for the first time since January.
March 25, 2013
The average cost of diesel in the United State has fallen for the fourth straight week. A new U.S. Energy Department report shows it dropped 4.1 cents over the past week to $4.006 per gallon.
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