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Seigneurial Aljamas
Unfortunately, there are no seigneurial account books similar to those of the royal bailiffs from which a detailed study of seigneurial taxation of the Mudejars might be made. The few cartas pueblas studied by Miguel Gual Camarena provide some information on the various taxes demanded from Muslims who resided on seigneurial lands, but reveal nothing about the ability of the Muslims to pay them. Blanket generalizations regarding a seigneurial fiscal regime cannot be offered, since the situation seems to have varied from one barony to another. Still, on the basis of the cartas pueblas a few general comments are possible.[128]
To a large extent the seigneurial fiscal regime was quite similar to that of the Crown. Like royal vassals, seigneurial vassals were obliged to use the public utilities and workshops—ovens, mills, taverns, ironworks, saddleworks, and the like—owned by their lord, and they, too, had to pay a fee for the privilege. They were likewise liable for the rents of their homes and land, the tithe (terç de delme ), and property taxes (peyta [or almagram , as it was sometimes called on seigneurial lands]). However, there seems to be little doubt that seigneurial vassals bore a heavier tax burden. In addition to the annual rent on their land, they were also obliged to give their lord a certain percentage of their harvest (these percentages varied from seigneury to seigneury), and sometimes a certain number of chickens or a certain amount of honey each year. On some baronies vassals were required to sell agricultural and pastoral products to their lord at a price lower than the market price.
In most cases it seems that the lords exacted more from their Muslim vassals than from the Christians (in contrast to royal towns, where taxation was relatively equitable). Thus, in his efforts to attract Mudejars to his new morería in Ayora Don Rodrigo de Mendoza promised the Muslims that he would "not demand from them any tax other than those the Christians are obliged to pay."[129] And in 1526 the recently converted Moriscos specifically requested of Carlos I "that they not be pressed to pay more or less [taxes] than the Christians."[130] Sometimes the Mudejars had to give the lord a higher percentage of their harvest, but usually their heavier tax burden consisted of the sofras , a series of personal services they owed to their lord. Such services might include working in
the lord's vineyards and huerta , provisioning the lord's house with wood and charcoal, transporting crops to the lord, maintenance and repair of the lord's utilities, and weaving linen and silk for the lord. The Mudejars were paid a low daily wage for their labors.[131] That most Mudejars chose to remain on seigneurial lands despite an option to move to royal morerías suggests that the Mudejars had other noneconomic reasons for doing so, and that perhaps life there was not as difficult as the preceding list of taxes and services would indicate. In the previous chapter it was pointed out that some seigneurial Muslims were able to prosper, in part through pursuing a strategy of renting or purchasing land outside of their seigneuries, where they were not liable for the heavy seigneurial dues. In the sixteenth century the Moriscos living on seigneurial lands probably felt their lord's exactions much more keenly, since prevailing conditions deprived them of the options available to their fifteenth-century predecessors.
The picture of relative financial stability that has been drawn regarding the royal aljamas of the kingdom of Valencia cannot easily be extended to include their seigneurial counterparts. There is evidence that a number of seigneurial aljamas had financial difficulties, which in part derived from the insolvency of their lords. This royal-seigneurial dichotomy mirrors that which seems to have existed between the prosperity of the capital and perhaps of other towns and the economic stagnation of at least some rural areas. While agrarian productivity seems to have declined between 1410 and 1518, textile production and commerce in the capital experienced growth until the final decades of the fifteenth century. The agrarian decline was a consequence of the plagues that swept over the kingdom throughout the fifteenth century (1411, 1428, 1439, 1450, 1459, 1475, 1478, 1489, 1508, 1519) and left many areas seriously underpopulated. Although urban areas also suffered greatly from the plagues, their populations, or at least that of the capital, were replenished by immigration from Castile.[132] Such conditions, although allowing individual Muslim and Christian farmers to take more land under cultivation and thereby prosper, were detrimental to the finances of the landed nobility and the corporate universitates and aljamas of their Christian and Muslim vassals.
The reduction in the amount of land being farmed resulted in decreasing revenues for the nobility. Lords could not easily increase the productivity of their estates, for even when their enterprising vassals tilled idle land they tended to do so in areas outside of the seigneury. Furthermore, the progressive substitution of rents in kind for rents in cash seems to have stimulated greater expenditure on the part of the nobility, who found, however, that their diminishing monetary income was insufficient to support the lifestyle to which they had grown accus-
tomed. Thus many nobles entered into a state of indebtedness and raised more money through the sale of pensions to prosperous urban merchants or to other lords who possessed the funds to invest.
Seigneurial aljamas and universitates were implicated in the lords' debts, because when the lords sold pensions they normally mortgaged their properties and the rents they received from their vassals as security for the payment of the pensions. Consequently, if a lord defaulted on his pension payment, the creditor could initiate executions against the property and rents of the lord's vassals. Or, in what amounted to the same thing, as a lord's monetary resources dwindled he might compel his universitates and aljamas to take on ("cargasen") the responsibility of the pension payment themselves. In both cases, either through the lord's default or through formal assumption of the responsibility of payment, the vassals found themselves paying their rents to their lord's creditors. The creditors in effect replaced the lord as rent collector.[133]
As long as the pensions owed by the lord did not exceed the amount of rent the lord normally received the vassals could tolerate the demands of the creditors, for it made little difference whether the creditor or the lord's tax farmer collected the rent. However, when the rents proved insufficient to liquidate outstanding pensions, the vassals were then faced with the attempts of the creditors to confiscate and auction off the properties and possessions remaining to them, as a corporation or as individuals, after tax payment. For those vassals who barely met the fiscal demands of their lords, additional exactions on the part of the creditors might prove disastrous.
The aljamas and universitates of Benaguacil, Paterna, and la Pobla (collectively called the antich patrimoni ), whose lord was the Infante Enrique, were burdened with numerous pension obligations that, Fernando admitted, had been taken on by his royal predecessors and other lords (e.g., the 1,480s annual pension sold by the Count de Luna to a knight).[134] Because the rents were insufficient to meet all the pension payments, Fernando took measures to excuse the aljamas and universitates from all superfluous payments and expenses, and therefore relieved them of the responsibility of paying the 500s salary of the advocate of the antich patrimoni .[135] However, that such a measure would have provided only minimal relief is clear from subsequent claims against the Infante and his vassals by the Count of Oliva (1495), the Count of Trivento (1501), and Joan Ferrando, a lawyer (1502), for 5,107s, 8,400s, and 166s 8d, respectively.[136]
The powerful Duke de Cardona and his aljamas—Benicanena, Beniopa, Alcarea Nova, Benipeixcar, and el Real, all located in the huerta of Gandía, and those of the valleys of Guadalest and Confrides and the town of Ondara—were constantly engaged in legal battles with
their creditors over outstanding pensions. One document from 1486 lists no less than nineteen creditors, among whom were noblemen, urban citizens, and the Hospital of Holy Innocents in Valencia.[137] For instance, at least 180s were owed to Dona Yolant de Aragon, 8,000s to the knight Françi Crespi de Valldaura, and 500s to Luis de Vilanova.[138] It seems that during the period covered by this study only a few of these debt cases were resolved. The Duke de Cardona would argue that excessive executions against the property of his vassals would cause them to abandon their lands.[139] Or if the king actually commanded that executions be made, the Duke would see to it that they were carried out moderately and according to strict guidelines he himself had set.[140] The success of the Duke and his aljamas in evading their creditors may be attributed to the fact that the Duke was, as the knight Françi Crespi complained in frustration, a "potent person."[141]
The Infante Enrique and the Duke de Cardona certainly were not alone in endangering the financial stability of their aljamas and universitates through their own excessive borrowing. One also finds creditors harrying the Count of Cocentaina and his vassals in the town of Elda, or the lords and aljamas of Dos Aguas, Alacuás, and Novelda.[142] It is difficult todetermine from the debt litigation just how much of a threat was posed to the solvency of seigneurial aljamas by having to satisfy their lords' creditors. Presumably, some lords had the good sense not to overextend themselves to the point that their debts could not be covered by the rents they received from their vassals. The aljamas of such lords would not have been placed in any jeopardy. However, other lords were not so concerned about maintaining a balanced budget. They eventually were forced to plead with their creditors to renegotiate their pension payments, for they feared that execution against their vassals' mortgaged property—beyond the normal rent payments—would force the vassals to flee and settle elsewhere. And these fears were not exaggerated in some cases. Many Muslim vassals abandoned the seigneuries of Dos Aguas and Olocau rather than endure the confiscation of their goods by their lords' creditors.[143] In such cases the lords and the remaining vassals were left in even direr straits, for with fewer vassals less land could be cultivated, and with the consequent smaller harvests there would be even less revenue available for satisfying the creditors. And, as has been seen, new vassals were difficult to come by.
However, the financial difficulties experienced by some seigneurial aljamas cannot always be attributed to the imprudent spending of their lords, for many aljamas sold pensions to raise money on their own account. An aljarna might need to borrow money for any number of reasons, such as purchasing grain after a poor harvest or a flood, or buying materials for repairing the local irrigation system.[144] Apparently,
aljamas had been borrowing money in this fashion since the late fourteenth century. Thus Francesch Vilar, a priest beneficed in the church of Santa María del Mar in Barcelona, sued the aljamas of the Vall de Uxó for 81 pounds 10s in outstanding pensions. This pension had been sold by the aljamas in 1383 to a citizen of Barcelona, Arnau Alos, who subsequently bequeathed it to the church of Santa María.[145] The same aljamas also owed 216s 8d in pensions to the heirs of one Bartholomeu Ros.[146] The aljama of Elda sold numerous pensions in its own behalf, distinct from those which had been sold by their lord, the Count of Cocentaina. In 1497 the aljama concluded an agreement with eighteen of its creditors, among whom were noblemen, merchants, and clergymen, including the cardinal-bishop and chapter of Zaragoza and the monastery of Poblet. Realizing that the aljama's goods and rents were sufficient for little more than to pay the salaries of the officials sent to confiscate them for the payment of outstanding pensions, the creditors decided to stay the order of execution and renegotiate the aljama's debt, so that the aljama would be left with some means of paying future pensions.[147] Other aljamas involved in suits with their creditors were those of Ribarroja, Villamarchante, and Mislata, although none of these seems to have had debt burdens like that of the aljama of Elda.[148]
It is probably wise to refrain from making any general conclusions as to the widespread financial difficulties of seigneurial aljamas. The evidence is too scanty and scattered, and it is not at all clear from the documents that the creditors' claims were always valid and acted upon or that the aljamas were unable to pay the pensions. In any case, it is certain from the study of Eugenio Císcar Pallarés that the problem of seigneurial insolvency was far more serious in the latter half of the sixteenth century. At that time considerable inflation devalued the lords' cash rents (prices were, in contrast, relatively stable in the late fifteenth century) to such an extent that not even the huge population increase—50.9 percent between 1563 and 1609—and the consequent growth in agrarian production could close the gap between expenses and income and relieve the lords' financial troubles. The situation of the vassals also worsened. Unable to change vassalage because of an overabundance of labor, and left with less land to farm owing to the progressive subdivision of family properties, they were hard-pressed to meet the increasing fiscal demands of their lords.[149] Therefore, a more modest conclusion may be offered: during Fernando's reign there are evident signs of the later crisis of the seigneurial regime.


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School board candidates announced
Nearly 60 Bureau County residents are running for their school boards at the April 9 election.
Contested races are set for Bureau Valley School District 5, Cherry Grade, Hall High School, LaMoille Community School, Malden Community Consolidated School, Princeton Elementary and Spring Valley Elementary.
The candidates for those positions are as follows:
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We all tend to take maps for granted. In the 17th/18th centuries and even beyond, there were decent sized areas of the world which were just being explored and mapped for the first time. Now, the ease of access to cartographical data means we don't much give them a second thought.
I bought a couple of Ordnance Survey Explorer maps the other day, and was quite surprised at how expensive they are - £7.99 each - and started wondering if they were worth the money, when I could just go ahead and get data online for free. There's something unique about poring over a real map, though: not necessarily looking for anything, just finding out what's there. A neighbour came round at one point when I was looking through my new maps, and said that (like I did), he used to sit in the car as a passenger and study the maps around the places they were driving through. He even used to take the Atlas of the World to bed and just look at it, which I figured was a bit weird and best not discussed any further.
Thinking about how accessible mapping information has become brings a few interesting points up, though: Ordnance Survey maps are actually pretty good value given that they must cost a fair bit to print and distribute, and if you're out on a walk or cycle in the middle of the country, knowing that you could get a decent aerial view from Google Earth or Windows Live Local might not be of any use, whereas a good map in your pocket makes all the difference.
Meanwhile, I've become a big fan of Windows Live Mobile, especially after bonding my CoPilot bluetooth GPS receiver with the Smartphone (tip: it's a BTGPS3 unit, and the passkey is unfathomly set to 0183 by default).
I've also used CoPilot for Smartphone as an in-car GPS/navigation aid, and it works really well (even if you don't have a place to mount the phone properly, it can bark instructions from the passenger seat, just like a real navigator or navigatrix would). There are also lots of other fun apps (like Jason's favourite, SportsDo) which can use GPS to record where your device has been - for later analysis on your PC. Or here, a developer at MS has built a real-time GPS locator which sends his coordinates back to a web service on his PC, so his family can see where he is all the time. Spooky, maybe...
Autoroute vs online maps
I remember when the application Autoroute first came out, in the early 1990s: it was an old DOS application which shipped on floppy disks, and cost hundreds of pounds at the time. The target audience was fleet delivery managers and the likes, who would generate route plans for the drivers rather than have the trucks wandering their own route and taking longer/using more fuel than might be optimal. So even though Autoroute cost a lot of money, it could save a lot of money and was considered funds well spent.
Microsoft bought the company who made Autoroute, and released the by-now-Windows-application for a much more reasonable price. Autroute 2007 retails today for about £50, and with a USB GPS receiver, £85.
It's quite interesting now that Autoroute 2007 has direct integration with Windows Live Local - so you can find somewhere on Autoroute, then search the web for information about local businesses, or view the aerial/hybrid views from that point. It's obvious to think that future evolutions of Windows Live Local might offer more of the route planning stuff that Autoroute is so good at, though UI-wise it could be more of a challenge...
Currently, Windows Live Local doesn't offer the ability to do more than a simple "drive from here/to here" route - there's no waypoints, no "avoid this area" type functionality. Google Maps does offer some of these things but it's not quite as slick as Autoroute for now.
Rather than loading up Autoroute, though, it's often quicker to go straight to the likes of Windows Live Local and zoom to a place you're looking at (maybe you're thinking of buying a house, for example - the single most useful aspect of this technology if my experience of house hunting last year is at all typical), so the usage patterns of all these types of applications is changing as the technology gets better.
One cool and current use of mapping technology is Bikely.com, which uses Google Maps to do routes that a user can draw or import from GPS devices, then share with others. Still has a long way to go functionality-wise when it comes to smart route planning, but it's easy to use to do the basics, and is a good portent of things to come.
I came across a fascinating article on Wired which looks into some of the processes that Bungie, the developers of the Halo game series for Xbox and Xbox360, have been using to test the latest iteration, Halo 3.
Thousands of hours of testing with ordinary game players has been recorded, and the footage synchronised so the developers can replay what was on the screen, what the player's face looked like, and what buttons were being pressed, at any point. They even record details of where and how quickly the players are getting killed, so they can figure out if some bits of the game are just too hard.
There have been a series of test waves of Halo3, some of which were for MS and Bungie employees only, and one public beta phase. The public beta was itself unprecedented in scale - over 800,000 users, racking up 12 million hours of online play. Do the maths, and that's about 1,400 years of continuous play...
The internal only tests have been kept necessarily confidential ("It is not cool to talk about the alpha" was a common warning to anyone who thought about leaking screenshots or info). The final phase of testing is underway and the game is said to be very nearly complete.
I'm not going to mention any more about how the game looks, sounds, plays - except to say that you'll all be able to find out just how awesome it is, on the 26th September (in Europe - the US gets it on the 25th). Might as well book the 27th and 28th off as holidays already :)
I've been looking forward to Roundtable coming out... it's a very interesting type of hybrid between a standard conference speakerphone and a series of web-cams, all tied together by plugging it into a PC and running the new LiveMeeting 2007 client software.
The concept of Roundtable is quite simple really - put it in a room with a round table in the middle, and people who join the meeting online will see a panoramic view of what's going on in the room, with the "active speaker" being identified in software based on where the sound is originating from. Other participants not in the room can be the active speaker too, if they have a webcam attached.
I got my hands on a prototype device the other day to have a play with (so I could figure out how to talk to my customers about it), and gathered a bunch of others in the same room...
We messed about for half an hour or so, and recorded the whole meeting - resulting in a series of files about 2Mb per minute, including the surprisingly high quality video. The first picture above shows me just stretching my arm around the device, and caused great hilarity like some kind of freaky Mr Tickle was sitting in the room.
Mark Deakin (UC product manager in Microsoft UK, and also featured as the active speaker in the picture above (on the left), was trying to emulate "Brother Lee Love" from the Kenny Everett TV show from the 80s...
The quality was very good, and once we start using these things in anger, the novelty of the camera will soon wear off and it'll be useful for real business purposes... :)
I have to say, I was very prepared to be underwhelmed (ie the risk of over-promising and under-delivering seemed on the high side), but instead I was blown away by the Roundtable (even though the device itself could probably benefit from a number of physical improvements...)
I can't wait for them to be deployed around our campus now!
The Roundtable user guide & quick reference card have already been published, and the device should be available through your local Microsoft subsidiary, in the next few months.
This is a continuation of an occasional series of articles about how specific capabilities of Exchange 2007 can be mapped to business challenges. The other parts, and other related topics, can be found here.
GOAL: Lower the risk of being non-compliant
Now here's a can of worms. What is "compliance"?
There are all sorts of industry- or geography-specific rules around both data retention and data destruction, and knowing which ones apply to you and what you should do about them is pretty much a black art for many organisations.
The US Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 came to fruition to make corporate governance and accounting information more robust, in the wake of various financial scandals (such as the collapse of Enron). Although SOX is a piece of US legislation, it applies to not just American companies, but any foreign companies who have a US stock market listing or who are a subsidiary of a US parent.
The Securities Exchange Commission defines a 7-year period for retention of financial information, and for other associated information which forms part of the audit or review of that financial information. Arguably, any email or document which discusses a major issue for the company, even if it doesn't make specific reference to the impact on corporate finance, could be required to be retained.
These requirements understandably can cause IT managers and CIOs to worry that they might not be compliant with whatever rules they are expected to follow, especially since they vary hugely in different parts of the world, and for any global company, can be highly confusing.
So, for anyone worried about being non-compliant, the first thing they'll need to do is figure out what it would take for them to be compliant, and how they can measure up to that. This is far from an easy task, and a whole industry has sprung up to try to reassure the frazzled executive that if they buy this product/engage these consultants, then all will be well.
NET: Nobody can sell you out-of-the-box compliance solutions. They will sell you tools which can be used to implement a regime of compliance, but the trick is knowing what that looks like.
Now, Exchange can be used as part of the compliance toolset, and in conjunction with whatever policies and processes the business has in place to ensure appropriate data retention is put in place, and that there is a proper discovery process that can prove that something either exists or does not.
There are a few things to look out for, though...
Keeping "everything" just delays the impact of the problem, doesn't solve it
I've seen so many companies implement archiving solutions where they just keep every document or every email message. I think this is storing up big trouble for the future: it might solve an immediate problem of ticking the box to say everything is archived, but management of that archive is going to become a problem later down the line.
Any reasonable retention policy will specify that documents or other pieces of information of a particular type or topic need to be kept for a period of time. They don't say that every single piece of paper or electronic information must be kept.
NET: Keep everything you need to keep, and decide (if you can) what is not required to be kept, and throw it away. See a previous post on using Managed Folders & policy to implement this on Exchange.
Knowing where the data is kept is the only way you'll be able to find it again
It seems obvious, but if you're going to get to the point where you need to retain information, you'd better know where it's kept otherwise you'll never be able to prove that the information was indeed retained (or, sometimes even more importantly, prove that the information doesn't exist... even if it maybe did at one time).
From an email perspective, this means not keeping data squirreled away on the hard disks of users' PCs, or in the form of email archives which can only be opened via a laborious and time consuming process.
NET: PST files on users' PCs or on network shares, are bad news for any compliance regime. See my previous related post on the mailbox quota paradox of thrift.
Exchange 2007 introduced a powerful search capability which allows end user to run searches against everything in their mailbox, be it from Outlook or a web client, even a mobile device. The search technology makes it so easy for an individual to find emails and other content, that a lot of people have pretty much stopped filing emails and just let them pile up, knowing they can find the content again, quickly.
The same search technology offers an administrator (and this would likely not be the email admins: more likely a security officer or director of compliance) the ability to search across mailboxes for specific content, carrying out a discovery process.
Outsourcing the problem could be a solution
Here's something that might be of interest, even if you're not running Exchange 2007- having someone else store your compliance archive for you. Microsoft's Exchange Hosted Services came about as part of the company's acquisition of Frontbridge a few years ago.
Much attention has been paid to the Hosted Filtering service, where all inbound mail for your organisation is delivered first to the EHS datacentre, scanned for potentially malicious content, then the clean stuff delivered down to your own mail systems.
Hosted Archive is a companion technology which runs on top of the filtering: since all inbound (and outbound) email is routed through the EHS datacentre, it's a good place to keep a long-term archive of it. And if you add journaling into the mix (where every message internal to your Exchange world is also copied up to the EHS datacentre), then you could tick the box of having kept a copy of all your mail, without really having to do much. Once you've got the filtering up & running anyway, enabling archiving is a phone call away and all you need to know at your end is how to enable journaling.
NET: Using hosted filtering reduces the risk of inbound malicious email infecting your systems, and of you spreading infected email to other external parties. Hosting your archive in the same place makes a lot of sense, and is a snap to set up.
Exchange 2007 does add a little to this mix though, in the shape of per-user journaling. In this instance, you could decide you don't need to archive every email from every user, but only certain roles or levels of employee (eg HR and legal departments, plus board members & executives).
Now, using Hosted Archive does go against what I said earlier about keeping everything - except that in this instance, you don't need to worry about how to do the keeping... that's someone else's problem...
Further information on using Exchange in a compliance regime can be seen in a series of video demos, whitepapers and case studies at the Compliance with Exchange 2007 page on Microsoft.com.
... (and sometimes you probably suspect you paid too much)
A common trait in western cultures is the eye for a good deal - you know, getting two-for-the-price-of-one, or thinking that it's worth buying something because it's on sale and you'll save 25%, rather than because you really need it or wanted it beforehand.
I saw a quotation the other day which set me thinking... John Ruskin, a leading 19th-century English artist, all-round intellectual and writer on culture & politics, said:
"There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person's lawful prey. It is unwise to pay too much, but it is also unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot... It can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder it is well to add something for the risk you run. And if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better." -- John Ruskin (1819-1900)
"There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person's lawful prey.
It is unwise to pay too much, but it is also unwise to pay too little.
When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do.
The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot... It can't be done.
If you deal with the lowest bidder it is well to add something for the risk you run.
And if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better." -- John Ruskin (1819-1900)
This is something that maybe executives at Mattel toys are mulling over right now, but it's probably a valuable lesson to any consumers about the risk of going for the absolute cheapest in every sense, regardless of price point.
There's probably an economic principle to explain all this, but I've no idea what it's called
As it happens, I've been getting back into cycling recently and that's required me to spend a great deal of time and money poring over bikes & accessories, whilst learning about all the differences between manufacturers, model ranges etc.
In short, they're all much of a muchness. Just like computers, consumer electronics, or cars - is last year's model really so inferior to the all-shiny new one, that it's worth paying the premium for the up-to-date one? And how can a single manufacturer make such a huge range of related product and still retain its aspired brand values? (quality, excellence, durability, performance, blah blah blah)
I've pretty much come to the conclusion that for any individual at any point in time, there is a point where whatever it is you're looking at is just too cheap, too low-spec for your needs. Sure, I can buy a mountain bike for £50 in supermarkets or junk shops, but it'll be heavy and not as well screwed together as a more expensive one I might get from a good cycle shop.
There's a similar principle in all sorts of consumer areas - like wine, as another example. It's possible to buy wine at £3 a bottle, but it's going to be pretty ropey. £5 and up and you start getting really noticeable improvements - maybe a £6 bottle of wine could be considered 5 times better than a £3 bottle, though it's unlikely that this will carry on - at some point, you'll pay double and the more expensive product will hardly be any better to most people, but for someone, that might be the mid-point in their curve which would stretch from too cheap at one end, too expensive at the other, with a nice middle flat bit where they really want to be.
The far end of that curve would be the point where buying something too expensive will be wasted - if I only need the mountain bike to go to the shops on a Sunday morning for the newspapers, I could do without a lot of the lightweight materials or fancy suspension that a better bike would have. Ditto, if I'm an average cyclist, I won't need a top-of-the-range carbon bike since it won't make any difference to my "performance" (though try saying that to all the golfers who regularly sink their salaries into buying all the latest kit, without having any meaningful impact on their game).
Maybe it won't be "wasted", but I just won't have any way of judging compared to other products in its proximity - if I'm in the market for a MINI and yet looked at the comparative price difference of a Ferrari and an Aston Martin, I wouldn't rationally be able to say that one is better and worth the premium over the other.
So what does any of this have to do with software?
A two-fold principle I suppose: on one hand, maybe you don't need to buy the latest and greatest piece of software without knowing what it will do for you and why. Or if you do buy the new version, have you really invested any effort into making sure you're using it to its maximum potential?
Look at the new version of Microsoft Office, with the much-discussed "Ribbon" UI (actually, this link is a great training resource - it can show you the look of the Office 2003 application, you click on an icon or menu item, and it will take you to the location of the same command in the new UI). The Ribbon scares some people when they see it, as they just think "all my users will need to be re-trained", and they maybe ask "how can I make it look like the old version?". The fact that the Ribbon is so different gives us an excellent opportunity to think about what the users are doing in the first instance - rather than taking old practices and simply transplanting them into the new application, maybe it's time to look in more depth about what the new application can do, and see if the old ways are still appropriate?
Look at the new version of Microsoft Office, with the much-discussed "Ribbon" UI (actually, this link is a great training resource - it can show you the look of the Office 2003 application, you click on an icon or menu item, and it will take you to the location of the same command in the new UI).
The Ribbon scares some people when they see it, as they just think "all my users will need to be re-trained", and they maybe ask "how can I make it look like the old version?".
The fact that the Ribbon is so different gives us an excellent opportunity to think about what the users are doing in the first instance - rather than taking old practices and simply transplanting them into the new application, maybe it's time to look in more depth about what the new application can do, and see if the old ways are still appropriate?
A second point would be to be careful about buying software which is too cheap - if someone can give it away for free, or it's radically less expensive than the rest of the software in that category, are you sure it's robust enough, that it will have a good level of backup support (and not just now, but in a few years' time?) What else is the supplier going to get out of you, if they're subsidising that low-cost software?
Coming back to Ruskin: it's quite ironic that doing a quick search for that quote online reveals lots of businesses who've chosen it as a motto on their web site. Given that Ruskin was an opponent of capitalism (in fact he gave away all the money he inherited upon his father's death), I wonder how he would feel about the practice of many companies using his words as an explanation of why they aren't cheaper than their competitors?
I've been doing a little digging today, following a query from a partner company who're helping out one of their customers with some performance problems on Exchange. Said customer is running Exchange 2000, and has some frankly amazing statistics...
... 1000 or so mailboxes, some of which run to over 20Gb in size, with an average size of nearly 3Gb. To make matters even worse, some users have very large numbers of items in their mailbox folders - 60,000 or more. Oh, and all the users are running Outlook in Online mode (ie not cached).
Now, seasoned Exchange professionals the world over would either be shrugging saying that these kind of horror stories are second nature to them (or fainting at the thought of this one), but it's not really obvious to the average IT admin *why* this kind of story is bad news.
When I used to work for the Exchange product group (back when I could say I was still moderately technical), I posted on the Exchange Team blog (How does your Exchange garden grow?) with some scary stories about how people unknowingly abused their Exchange systems (like the CEO of a company who had a nice clean inbox with 37 items, totalling just over 100kb in size... but a Deleted Items folder that was 7.4Gb in size with nearly 150,000 items).
Just like it's easy to get sucked into looking at disk size/capacity when planning big Exchange deployments (in reality, it's IO performance that counts more than storage space), it's easy to blame big mailboxes for bad performance when in fact, it could be too many items that cause the trouble.
So what's too many?
Nicole Allen posted a while back on the EHLO! blog, recommending 2,500-5,000 maximum items in the "critical path" folders (Calendar, Contacts, Inbox, Sent Items) and ideally keep the Inbox to less than 1,000 items. Some more detail on the reasoning behind this comes from the Optimizing Storage for Exchange 2003 whitepaper...
Number of Items in a Folder As the number of items in the core Exchange 2003 folders increase, the physical disk cost to perform some tasks will also increase for users of Outlook in online mode. Indexes and searches are performed on the client when using Outlook in cached mode. Sorting your Inbox by size for the first time requires the creation of a new index, which will require many disk I/Os. Future sorts of the Inbox by size will be very inexpensive. There is a static number of indexes that you can have, so folks that often sort their folders in many different ways could exceed this limit and cause additional disk I/O.
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As the number of items in the core Exchange 2003 folders increase, the physical disk cost to perform some tasks will also increase for users of Outlook in online mode. Indexes and searches are performed on the client when using Outlook in cached mode. Sorting your Inbox by size for the first time requires the creation of a new index, which will require many disk I/Os. Future sorts of the Inbox by size will be very inexpensive. There is a static number of indexes that you can have, so folks that often sort their folders in many different ways could exceed this limit and cause additional disk I/O.
One potentially important point here is that any folder, when it gets really big, is going to take longer to process when it fills up with items. Sorting or any other view-related activity will take longer, and even retrieving items out of the folder will slow down (and hammer the server at the same time).
Oh, and be careful with archiving systems which leave stubs behind too - you might have reduced the mailbox size, but performance could still be negatively affected if the folders have lots of items left.
Here's a funny - it happened a while back, but I was sent a link to this story today. The author kept her laptop in the oven when she wasn't at home, since it was a high-crime area and it seemed a non-obvious place for a laptop to live...
Then one day she came home and her partner was cooking french fries... and presumably hadn't looked in the oven before switching it on :)
I suppose it makes a change that the laptop was melted by external factors, rather than the battery causing some internal pyrotechnics.
Even more amazing: the thing booted up and worked just fine!
If you want to get your hands on trial software for the recently-released Office Communications Server 2007 and its client, Office Communicator 2007, then you're in luck...
Bear in mind that these trials are for tyre-kicking and lab testing only - don't put them into full blown production. They will also expire in 180 days, though can be upgraded to the released and fully supported code.
Here's an interesting question that I was asked earlier today; I can't offer a definitive answer, but these are my thoughts. If you have any contradictory or complimentary comments, please comment or let me know.
"Can RTF/HTML Mail be as safe as plain text with regard to viruses/malware etc?"
Theoretically, I think plain text will always be safer since there's less work for the server to do, and there's no encoding of the content other than the real basics of wrapping up the envelope of the message (eg taking the various to/from/subject fields, encapsulating the blurb of body text, and turning it into an SMTP-formatted message).
Where things could get interesting is that plain text still allows for encoding of attachments (using, say, MIME or UUENCODE), which could still be infected or badly formed – so the risk level of attachments is technically the same (although in an RTF or HTML mail, the attachment can be inline with the text, which might mean the user is more likely to be lured into opening it, if it's malicious).
There may be some risks from a server perspective in handling HTML mail which mean that a badly formed message might be used to stage a denial of service on the server itself. I heard tell of a case a few years ago when a national newsletter was sent out with a badly formed HTML section, and when the Exchange server was processing the mail to receive it, the store process crashed (bringing Exchange to its knees in an instant).
The downsides with that scenario were:
This bug in Exchange was identified & fixed, but there's always the theoretical possibility that since the formatting of an HTML message is more complex, there could be glitches in handling the message (in any email system).
Plain text mail is ugly and so lowest-common-denominator, it'd be telling everyone to save their documents as .TXT rather than .DOC or .PDF.
RTF mail works OK internally, but doesn't always traverse gateways between Exchange systems, and isn't supported by anything other than Outlook (ie mailing a user in Domino, they won't see the rich text).
HTML mail may be slightly larger (ie to do the same content as you'd do with RTF takes more encoding and it's sometimes a bit bigger as a result), but it's much more compatible with other clients & servers, offers much better control of layout and traverses other email systems more smoothly.
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After going to the drupal meetup in Johannesburg (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=24383837792 ) - I always feel so inspired. Hence the blog entry and the tagadelic module running on the right hand side.
Your honor, exhibit A - the gun. Exhibit B - mother superior. I have no idea why she jumped the gun. Still. To this day.
In other conclusions and happenings - lost the POE port on my RB333 so I am having to split the network cable to hopefully still carry POE and 4 wires to carry data to another port. (yeah, sucks) - i think it was an act of God.
I think I officially prefer PS3 to xbox360. The xbox360 is pretty loud for a media center. There is a 80 gig ps3 bundle with MGS4 coming out in July to SA (according to animeworx). Will look at getting it there.
I also have a friend in the states bringing me back a new camera! (yay, last one got stone) - So im getting a Nikon D300 with 18-200VR lens. Then also an iPhone which i plan to hack to work on CellC. (well, thats the plan).
Oooh, and then just a punt for LSD - Linux System Dynamics (http://www.lsd.co.za) (gotta keep rankings up you know)


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See the highlights of the 'heart of England' on this 5-day tour from London. Traveling with an expert guide, visit famous landmarks that are dotted about England's most scenic counties -- just west of London. Explore the University City of Oxford; visit Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare lived; embrace the charms of the Cotswolds; sample cider in pretty Lacock village; discover the delights of Bath; visit Stonehenge; and tour beautiful Windsor Castle. This must-do trip includes four nights of 3- to 4-star hotel accommodation.
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Visit Oxfordshire, the Cotswolds and Wiltshire on your 5-day tour from England. Just west of London, these three counties fall into an area often called the 'heart of England' in reference to its luscious green countryside, beautifully preserved architecture and quaint towns. Your small-group tour includes four nights of accommodation: two nights at a 4-star hotel in Chipping Campden (the Cotswolds) and two nights in a 3-star hotel in the spa town of Bath.
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Day 1: London – Oxford – Cotswolds (D)Leave London by luxury coach and head northwest out of the city, passing through the beautiful English countryside. While traveling, your guide will explain your 5-day itinerary in more detail and talk through the tour's logistics. First stop is just outside of Oxford, England's world-famous university city. Take a River Thames sightseeing cruise that runs through the city, passing through Osney Lock – a traditional English canal lock that was built by inmates of Oxford Prison in the 1700s.
Hop off your boat in central Oxford and enjoy a leisurely paced stroll with your guide, admiring the city's golden-colored buildings and 'dreaming spires.' Head inside Christ Church College (part of Oxford University) and see the Great Hall and cloisters that featured in several of the famous Harry Potter films. After a break for lunch in town (own expense), head into the scenic Cotswolds by coach, stopping in the town of Chipping Campden where your overnight accommodation awaits. After dinner in your hotel, spend the rest of your evening at leisure.
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Leave after breakfast to visit Stratford-upon-Avon, a beautiful little market town famous for being the home of English playwright William Shakespeare. On a walking tour, see Shakespeare's birthplace and visit his burial site at Holy Trinity Church. After a short coach drive to the neighboring village of Shottery, take a look inside the rustic thatched cottage that once belonged to Anne Hathaway – Shakespeare's wife – and see intriguing relics from her time.
Stop for lunch (own expense) and then spend the afternoon traveling through the Cotswolds' winding roads. With plenty of stops for you to get off the coach, stretch your legs and explore, your afternoon excursion shows off the gorgeous hamlets, atmospheric churches and quintessentially English countryside for which the Cotswolds are so well known. The exact villages visited vary by tour, but you will definitely visit Lower Slaughter – a quaint limestone village known as the 'Jewel of the Cotswolds.' Return to Chipping Campden and spend your evening at leisure.
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Check out of your hotel after breakfast and then travel by coach to the picture-perfect village of Lacock in Wiltshire. Featured in countless scenes for hit British television dramas like Pride and Prejudice as well as several Harry Potter movies, the village is a bastion of 'Englishness' with its traditional cobblestoned streets and half-timbered houses. Spend time at leisure here to explore, and then meet your guide for a tour of medieval Lacock Abbey.
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Enjoy a leisurely breakfast in your hotel and then meet your guide to see the best of this vibrant Georgian city. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bath has the highest concentration of 'listed' (meaning historically significant) buildings in the British Isles. Learn about Roman life in Bath on a visit to the Roman Baths, and marvel at the city's towering 15th-century abbey – officially known as the Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. See highlights around the town center like the Georgian Royal Crescent and elegant Pulteney Bridge.
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After an early breakfast, check out of your hotel and leave Bath by coach for your final day of sightseeing. First stop is Salisbury Plan, a short distance away, to visit Stonehenge – England's UNESCO-listed stone circle. Dating back millions of years, the stone circle is shrouded in mystery with countless theories circulating as to how or why it appeared. Walk around the circle with your guide, listening to the speculation and making up your own mind about this fascinating site.
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Task force recommends complete overhaul of Ann Arbor's public art program
Ann Arbor could see sweeping changes to its taxpayer-funded public art program if a task force's recommendations are approved by the City Council.
The city's public art task force has been meeting regularly since its formation in December and it's close to finalizing a set of proposed ordinance changes to take to council.
Among the recommendations coming out of the task force: Hire a full-time public art administrator, establish a new fund for accepting private donations, engage the community more in the selection and funding of art projects, and eliminate the Percent For Art funding mechanism that automatically channels 1 percent of city capital project dollars to a pooled public art fund.
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After that, the changes to the city's controversial Percent for Art Program could end up on the City Council's agenda for first reading March 18, with a public hearing and final reading April 1.
"The issues that we particularly wanted to speak to were those consensus issues that included how and where public art should be placed, what we should use as the funding to pay for public art, and how we could change our public art ordinance in order to allow for temporary art, art that the public selects or the public helps to pay for, and performance art," Briere said.
"We're also working with language that would eliminate the so-called Percent For Art funding mechanism, but would allow capital improvement projects to have public art associated with a project and have it what we call 'baked in' as an ingredient of the project," she said.
Under a Percent For Art ordinance approved by the City Council in 2007, 1 percent of the budget for city capital projects — up to a limit of $250,000 per project — is set aside for public art.
Millions of dollars from various city funds, including the water and sewer utilities and the streets and parks millages, have been channeled into a pooled art fund as a result. The funding mechanism has left the city's Public Art Commission with its hands tied at times — legally able to spend the pooled dollars only on permanent art installations that somehow relate to the source of the funds.
The City Council voted in early December to partially suspend the Percent For Art Program while the five-member task force looked into options for taking a new approach.
The task force's formation came after city voters in November rejected a proposal that would have replaced the Percent For Art Program with a dedicated millage for public art.
The five task force members working out a new solution for public art in Ann Arbor are Briere, Sally Hart Petersen, Stephen Kunselman, Christopher Taylor and Margie Teall.
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The task force has determined the pooled Percent For Art funds place a burden on the city's staff to effectively account for each funding stream. It recommends eliminating the pooled funding and removing any reference to a specific percentage of a capital project budget for art.
Instead, the city's staff would have to work to determine whether a specific capital improvement project should have enhanced design features, including either enhanced architectural work or specific public art. And then the funding for such elements would be included in the budget for the project, and that would become part of the request for proposals process for the project.
"The biggest thing for me was making sure we weren't taking money out of our restricted funds and we're going in that direction, so I'm really pleased," Kunselman said.
"It'll be baked into capital projects where council feels it's appropriate. The reality is that's how a lot of percent for art programs actually work. They bake that art into the project itself."
Kunselman said money from restricted funds like the streets millage and the water and sewer utilities still could be used to pay for public art. It just wouldn't be channeled to a pooled fund without a specific project in mind — it would have to be planned up front.
He said the Stadium bridges project is a good example of a project that could have benefited from that approach. Instead of including public art in the project from the start, the city is now trying to figure out how to use $360,000 in pooled art funds for art of some kind on or near the new bridges.
"Rather than having art attached after the fact, art can be a part of the project at the very beginning and that's really important," Kunselman said.
Ryan J. Stanton | AnnArbor.com
The task force is recommending establishing a funding mechanism that allows members of the community to propose and raise funds for specific pieces of art, including projects in public locations with no connection to city capital improvements. Briere mentioned the idea of a bronze Adirondack chair in memory of Coleman Jewett at the Farmers Market as the type of project that could be funded through what the task force is calling an "Art in Public Places Trust Fund."
The city doesn't have a mechanism to accept tax-exempt funds, so the task force recommends working with an organization such as the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation to establish a fund into which donations for public art can be placed. The task force wants that fund to be able to accept direct donations through one or more "crowdfunding" websites such as Kickstarter.
The task force also found that good public art programs, however they are funded, rely heavily on professional staff.
The city has a part-time public art administrator right now, but the task force argues the city needs a professionally trained public art administrator employed more than 50 percent of the time.
The Percent For Art Program's pooled funds include more than $400,000 of unallocated dollars at the moment. The task force recommends those funds be placed in the proposed Art in Public Places Trust Fund, and that funding for up to two years worth of salary and benefits be paid from the fund for a full-time administrator to help reorganize the program and establish new relationships with the city's staff as needed for any capital improvement projects with artistic elements baked in.
The task force recommends the city's staff review the implementation of any changes in the ordinance after three years. The timing is based on the task force's awareness that capital improvements might take longer than two years to move from inception to completion.
Ryan J. Stanton | AnnArbor.com
Some task force members voiced a concern that if each project that includes enhanced architectural design or public art elements needs to be approved by council, future councils might not honor the consensus position that some public dollars can be used to enhance Ann Arbor's public spaces.
Some also believe the best funding mechanism remains a dedicated millage for public art, and the task force is asking that idea not be permanently shelved.
Teall, a staunch defender of public art, said there are risks as well as gains by going with the approach recommended by the task force, and she considers it a compromise.
"My own focus has been on maintaining not just public funding, but a responsibility that I think we have to help support cultural and artistic endeavors in the city," she said.
"It's my hope that we don't lose out on opportunities for actually publicly funded art," she said, expressing fears that art could be "value-engineered" out of projects by future councils that don't want the city paying for public art. "That's a risk that we're going to have to take, and hope that future councils value art as much as they value parks."
Ryan J. Stanton covers government and politics for AnnArbor.com. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 734-623-2529. You also can follow him on Twitter or subscribe to AnnArbor.com's email newsletters.


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Classic Car News
Custom VWs built in Oregon
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A company which began life in the UK producing custom built RV trailers based on classic cars, has now set up shop in its first US location.
Dub Box USA can be found on Oregon City, Oregon and their main product line involves modified versions of the VW Transporter van, which found fame in the 1960s and 70s as an icon of the counter culture movement.
Spokesperson, Heather Bauccio, spoke out about the company's move to America, explaining that there has been unprecedented demand for their customised classics since they arrived.
She said that the trailers in particular were proving to be very popular, as they provide some much needed portable accommodation for people who want a degree of retro chic when they head out camping.
The company is also expanding into the production of other trailers, including models which will serve fast food and be shipped out to Hawaii in the next few months.
The base price for a shell of a trailer, which can then be customised into your own VW Transporter paradise, is $8990, with orders taking just a month for the company to fulfil. If you double that price you can get a fully loaded Dub Box with all mod cons.
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Cloquet native dies after Duluth stabbing
Cloquet alumnus Kevin Tyman, 54, died last week after being stabbed at his duplex on East Seventh Street in Duluth late last Friday. On Sunday Duluth police identified Tyman as the victim of theBy: Andrew Krueger, Pine Journal
Cloquet alumnus Kevin Tyman, 54, died last week after being stabbed at his duplex on East Seventh Street in Duluth late last Friday.
On Sunday Duluth police identified Tyman as the victim of the stabbing at 15 E. Seventh St., which was reported just after 10 p.m. Friday. The father of two died from his wounds about 90 minutes later at a Duluth hospital. Police said Sunday that there are no suspects in custody, but investigators are pursuing several leads in the case. Anyone with information is asked to call 911.
Tyman grew up in Cloquet, the fourth of eight kids in his family, said his brother Gary Tyman. Kevin graduated from Cloquet High School, where "he could play all the sports, but he was good at (downhill) skiing," Gary said. Kevin was on the ski team, and even took a few runs down the ski jumps in Cloquet. He could make flawless runs down slopes of moguls, Gary said.
Retired teacher and ski jump coach Joe Nowak said he had Tyman in class – Nowak taught middle school science – and remembers him from skiing.
"He was a real nice kid," Nowak said.
After school, Kevin Tyman spent several years in the Marines and was proud of his service, Gary Tyman said. He married and helped raise a son and daughter. Kevin and his wife divorced years ago, and the children, now in their 20s, live elsewhere in Minnesota. Gary Tyman said his brother relished the time he was able to spend with his kids.
Kevin was self-employed in landscaping for a time, Gary Tyman said. He acquired a wide range of skills – plumbing, carpentry, electrical work – and while he may not have been an expert, he certainly knew enough to help his neighbors.
Neighbor Bill Vail recalled Tyman as someone he'd come to count on in recent years – always willing to help around his house and yard, as well as shoveling walks, mowing lawns and fixing things for the elderly and others who couldn't do the work themselves.
Kevin Tyman had lived at his duplex on East Seventh Street for about 10 to 12 years. Vail said Tyman sometimes seemed to put his neighbors' needs ahead of his own, helping with their projects at the expense of time to do work on his own home.
"He'd do anything for anybody," Vail said.
Tyman had had some scrapes in his life. Court records show a few misdemeanor convictions, the last more than six years ago.
But Gary Tyman said those rough patches did not define his brother, whom he described as a spiritual and kind-hearted man, taking after his father.
"He had a good heart. He was not a perfect person, but he would give you the shirt off his back," Gary Tyman said of his brother.
Pine Journal Editor Jana Peterson contributed to this story.
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January 11th, 2012: So I have a reader, Jon, who it turns out has decided to seek adventure on the seas for a year with his girlfriend, Marta, which in itself is awesome. And in decorating his boat he went with T-Rex in a sailor hat - and it's an even cooler hat than the one T-Rex wears on the back of my book! And since Jon is awesome, he's decided to share the vector art for Pixel T-Rex In Pixel Sailor Hat with you (pdf file)!
JON AND MARTA I AM KINDA JEALOUS OF YOUR LIFE, I WOULD LIKE TO LIVE ON THE HIGH SEAS, THERE I SAID IT To make sure the best gifts ever in time get to you when you want them, here are the HOLIDAY SHIPPING DEADLINES. Orders placed before these dates will get to you in time for Christmas! One year ago today: is it non-canon because the exhibit ACTUALLY closes in two hours – Ryan
December 5th: All shipping methods except U.S.P.S. First-Class Package International Service� are safe.
December 6th: International orders made not selecting U.S.P.S. Priority Mail Express International� shipping will likely arrive in January.
December 11th: USPS FIRST CLASS and STANDARD may not make it in time and neither will USPS EXPRESS MAIL INTERNATIONAL.
December 16th: ALMOST NOTHING IS SAFE. USPS EXPRESS is the only safe USPS option.
December 19th: A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE (IF THINGS PLACED ON OR AFTER THIS DATE ARRIVE BY THE 24TH, THAT IS)


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"Emma... Emma?!" called a gentle male voice of the hallway.
Emma closed her eyes and began to cry. She was a fool for everything, including falling in love with the wrong man. How could her senses fail her? She began to wonder where she misunderstood who this man was. She was a spy for America, and him... he was a spy for another country. They, were, spying on each other! She figured it all out, who HE was! After years of following each other, she never realized he was the enemy.
Emma stood in what was her safe home. The one place she could go and not deal with the outside world and the exasperating career. She was able to think clearly with the person she called her love. He was the one who helped solved many cases, find fugitives, and understand the world from another point of view. She looked around the room she stood in and remain quite. She didn't want to know he once lover was in the bedroom.
She looked around the violet walls of all the pictures taken of them together. Each memory filled her with doubt. Did they ever mean anything to him? She stopped for a moment and realized, did he know too? Did he know they were "spying" on each other? Did he know what his actual job was, or was he as clueless as her? She looked down at the night stand closes to his side of the bed. There laid a golden picture frame with just her. Her blue eyes beamed back, with a pearl white smile and a note saying, "My love, I love you. Since the moment I met you on the plane, I knew. Love me forever, and I won't let go of your hand!".
Tears rolling even more down her rosy cheeks. She heard him give up finding her and leave through the front door. She reached out for her keys, wallet and cell phone. She was going to leave and forget the past..
By the bedroom door was another sliver frame. Both Emma and him tightly holding each other, smiling into the camera. It was there first picture together, before they fell in love. She took down the frame and began to pull the picture out. She stopped for a moment when she heard his car leaving the property. She held onto the frame as she walked to the window, facing the drive way leading out to the wilderness. When she saw his car disappear behind trees, she began to take the frame apart again. After a few seconds, she pulled the picture out and folded it up.
She sigh and stuck it in her wallet. Emma began to make her way down the hallway, everything single picture filling her mind with memories. She made it to the front door, and did not turn back to look at the house. What was the point to continue to duel on something she had to forget. She placed her hand on the cold door knob, and closed her eyes. She took a deep breath and remembered:
"Miss. Mia! How wonderful to see you! Such a rebellious woman!" winked Dr. Lee. Emma smiled softly at him and nodded. "My last name does not mean I am rebellious, doctor. Simply means I am strong!" Both Emma the Doctor laughed gently.
"Emma, we have something for, your next assignment. This assignment will not be like the others." The doctor straighten his face and became stern. "This may take several years for you to accomplish." Emma nodded and continued to listen. "We need some information about a medical research going on in Europe. I cannot give you much information, nor names, but I can tell you is that it's possibly being tested for biological warfare. We need you to figure out what is being tested and who it is. Is this something you would wish to do, by yourself?"
Emma smiled and looked at the doctor for a moment. She was new to the force, and this was her first case, by herself. She wasn't sure if she was the person for the job, but she nodded softly. "I believe I can try. I hope I can be a big help to this case, but you said a few years?" She asked a bit confused.
"Yes, it could take a few years for you to figure this case out. We don't have much information, and we need as much as possible, before something happens here in the states." The doctor said polity. "I will be sending you to Germany first. I got a hit there. Someone knocked off some information about the research, but he won't speak to anyone but to one out our agents. We have set up a meeting place for him and you to meet in Germany."
Emma seemed uncomfortable with flying out of county, but she was willing to do it for the case. When do I leave? She replied. Well, now. The doctor replied.
She was taken back, but nodded. The doctor handed her a plane ticket. You will be flying publicly. I cant afford for something to happen to you! Please be safe my dear! The doctor put his hand on her shoulder and smiled. If you need anything, call me. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a violet cell phone. Purple, your favorite. Please dont hastate to do anything, and trust your gut. He handed her the phone and smiled. Emma reached up and gave him a hug. Thank you, Paul. She released him to began her journey.
Emma sat in the over populated plane. Well, here goes nothing. She mumbled she herself. She looked out of the plane window and closed her eyes. Please no weird person, please no weird person. I want a peaceful flight! she thought to herself. A few moments later, a man walked up and sat down. He didnt look at her, nor did he look polite. He just, sat there. Emma moved around in her seat and sighed.
I have the information. I thought it would be better to tell you now, instead of have a room full of cameras and tape recorders. He turned to her. She became speechless.
(Please make up your own male character, name too. They are spying on each other for the same purpose (the medical research). Please state what country he is from, and lead up to them meeting on the plane. That is all I ask. There are two parts, either we can continue with both parts or lead up to Emma finding out about him. If you are confused, please let me know.)


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Aneesoft Free Nokia Video Converter for Windows 220.127.116.11
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Platforms: | Homepage: visit | ||
Type: Freeware | Releases: Jun 06, 2009 | ||||
Cost: $0.00US | Developer: Aneesoft | ||||
Aneesoft Free Nokia Video Converter for Windows is an easy-to-use and totally free Nokia video converter that can convert all popular video formats to Nokia video formats. It can convert almost all video format, e.g. AVI, MPG(MPEG), WMV, MP4, MOV, VOB, FLV, ASF, RM, RMVB, 3GP, 3G2, M4V, DAT, MKV, etc to 3GP and MPEG-4 video for Nokia N90, Nokia 6205, Nokia E71, Nokia 5800, Nokia E63, Nokia E75, Nokia E71, Nokia N96 and more. |
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Platforms: | Homepage: http://www.symbianguru.com | ||
Type: Shareware | Releases: Oct 14, 2010 | ||||
Cost: $7.49US | Developer: SymbianGuru | ||||
You get many SMS messages and would like to differentiate them by sound? With SMS Alert you will know the SMS sender at once. Just assign different SMS tones to each contact and contact group. When message arrives, you will hear the individual sound that you will recognize at once! SMS alarms can change according to the active Profiles and all changes and adjustments of ringing type or volume can be made directly from the application. |
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SMSList SMS list from PC 2.9
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Cost: $233.00US | Developer: SMS&Co | ||||
SMS software to send and receive SMS from PC via GSM modem. SMS can be sent to single recipients or mailing lists. Simple usage thanks to an intuitive user interface. Features: send, receive, long sms, flash sms, status report, phone book management, incoming voice call forward, batch mode execution. Help on line available. Compatibility: Audiotel Industrial, Modex USB, Falcom A2D, Nokia 7110/6210, Siemens MC35/TC35, Wavecom... 20 sms/m |
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sms2email 126.96.36.199
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A small utility that when coupled to a old Nokia mobile phone will send any incoming sms messages to a default email address. Great for fun but even better as a cost saving utility. Now you can reply to the office computers via sms. Most people have seen the internet to sms gateways, well now this provides the other direction. We could list a huge amount of ideas but really it is only limited to your imagination. |
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SMSLibX SMS ActiveX 2.1
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SMS ActiveX component (DLL) to send SMS and receive SMS from PC using a GSM modem. Very simple usage in Visual Basic, ASP, C#(.NET), C++, Access(VBA) etc. Features: sending, receiving, status reports, long and binary sms (logo/ring/ems), validity period, class, phonebook management, call forwarding. Compatibility: Audiotel Industrial, Modex USB, Falcom A2D, Nokia 7110/6210, Siemens MC35/TC35, Wavecom... 20 sms/minute. Help online available. |
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Phone Guardian 3.0
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Type: Shareware | Releases: Feb 10, 2009 | ||||
Cost: $12.99US | Developer: SymbianGuru | ||||
Phone Guardian for Series 60 v.3 is a mobile security software that secures your mobile and all data on it. Phone Guardian has: - AutoLock on SIM change or Lock-SMS - Information about mobile is sent on every SIM change, including IMSI and Cell Info - A very loud alarm sound can be emited when lock starts - Uninstall only with password possible - Silent mode available: information about mobile is sent without locking the mobile |
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SMSCaster E-Marketer CDMA 220.127.116.111
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Type: Shareware | Releases: Aug 14, 2007 | ||||
Cost: $32.95US | Developer: SDJ Software Limited | ||||
SMS marketing software: Send bulk SMS with CDMA phone from PC! It differs from other SMS software by sending SMS with a mobile phone connected to the computer. Receive sms into the computer. 2 way SMS. No limit on SMS sent and received. No prepay, no SMS gateway required. Works with Motorola E815 and E815m; Nokia 6235, 6236, 6255, 6256, 6265, 6275, 2865, 6155, 6165, 3155 or above models with i at the end. |
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Nokia Mobile Phone Bulk SMS Software 220.127.116.11
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Platforms: | Homepage: http://www.datadoctor.biz | ||
Type: Shareware | Releases: Apr 06, 2010 | ||||
Cost: $45.00US | Developer: Data Recovery Software | ||||
Free Nokia mobile phone bulk sms software efficiently deliver bulk message to individuals or group of people with GSM mobile connected with PC. Download bulk message software for GSM supported mobile phone to create and send customize message to cell phones. New edition of bulk sms software for GSM based mobile phone support latest Nokia E series phones for instant message sending. Software does not require any technical knowledge to operate. |
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Type: Shareware | Releases: Apr 17, 2009 | ||||
Cost: $24.95US | Developer: 4Easysoft Studio | ||||
4Eaysoft Nokia Video Converter also has many advanced function and rich settings for video output. So this powerful Nokia Video Converter doubles your enjoyment of watching videos on Nokia phone. This Video to Nokia Converter Software is so easy-to-use that whether you are an experienced user or a beginner, converting all popular video formats to Nokia video is just a breeze. |
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Aiprosoft Nokia Video Converter provides perfect solution to convert your favorite video files to Nokia mobile phone format with the best quality of picture and sound. This Nokia Video Converter software could support almost all source formats, including WMV, MPEG, MPG, ASF, MOD, FLV, SWF, etc. |
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text: The scenery alone en-route to Navala is worth the trip! Some people come here on a tour for heart-stopping amounts of money, or you can catch a bus from Ba for $2 (plus $2 minivan from Lautoka, etc). If you miss the morning bus (we did) you can hire a carrier for $50 (still a bargain over a tour). Entry... More


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Pestana Casino Park Hotel Madeira
5 StarsRua Imperatriz Da Amelia Funchal Madeira PT-9004-513
It is situated on a cliff-side property that offers a spectacular view of the Atlantic. A mere 5 minutes away from the city centre, the resort provides easy access to popular destinations around Funchal such as the Laurissilva Forest (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), Quinta Magnolia gardens and the many dining and shopping spots of the Lido Promenade.
The hotel has 379 beautifully decorated, well-appointed rooms furnished with modern amenities like air conditioning, cable TV, en suite/private bathrooms, hairdryer, mini-bar, radio, telephone and Internet access.
Guests can begin the day with breakfast and a scenic view of Funchal Marina at the Panoramic Restaurant. One can also sample a wide variety of regional and international dishes in the Chez Oscar, another in-house establishment.
An outdoor swimming pool, Jacuzzi, gym, spa, conference facilities and a host of other services and amenities to make one's stay as comfortable and memorable as possible await guests at the Pestana Casino Park Hotel Madeira.
Additional Information
- 20 km to the Airport
- 5 min drive to the City Centre
Hotel Facilities
- Bar / Lounge
- Gym / Fitness Facilities
- Parking Facilities
- Room Service
- Swimming Pool - Outdoor
- Billiards
- Laundry Facilities
- Reception
- Safe Deposit Box
- Tennis Court
- Conference Facilities
- Lobby
- Restaurant
- Sauna
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- Radio
- Cable / Satellite TV
- Internet Access
- Telephone
- Ensuite / Private Bathroom
- Mini Bar
Pestana Casino Park Hotel Madeira Guest Reviews (3)
Stayed as part of group - would prefer hotel on front with better views - seemed to be full of retired teachers, so if thats you its fine :)
Anonymous wrote on September 5, 2010
Lovely hotel but many others in better location that may cost a little more (5-10%) which would be preferable. We stayed here by accident, we thought we had booked the(other hotel)which is far superior - but still had a fun time!
mark quick wrote on September 5, 2010
This is a genuine 5-star Hotel with very good facilities (Indoor Pool and Spa Centre, outdoor pool, jacuzzi, gym etc). The breakfast is a full buffet-style. Best of all is this Hotel's location. Wonderful views over the harbour and a stroll into Funchal.
Francis Dempsey wrote on December 4, 2007
Other Recommended Hotels
Quinta Da Bela Vista Hotel Funchal | 5 Stars |
Vidamar Resorts Madeira | 5 Stars |
The Cliff Bay Hotel Madeira | 5 Stars |
Royal Savoy Hotel Madeira | 5 Stars |
Pestana Carlton Madeira Ocean Resort Hotel | 5 Stars |
Madeira Regency Palace Hotel Funchal | 5 Stars |