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Covers techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, and film. Examines such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense. Offered: AWSp.
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This course examines the Black Arts/Aesthetic Movement of the late 1960s to mid 1970s. The BAM was made up of a diverse group of African-American artists, writers, and musicians committed to creating politically-charged, socially relevant art. They saw themselves as the cultural arm of Black Liberation struggles and other revolutionary movements influential at the time. We'll engage literature in its various forms through the work of novelists, poets, playwrights, cultural critics, and musicians such as Malcolm X, Amiri Baraka, Henry Dumas, Gil Scott-Heron, Ed Bullins, Ishmael Reed, Ntozake Shange, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Nina Simone, Sun Ra, Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln and more. We will situate these artists within the political, historical, and cultural context of their time to consider, among other questions, what is the relationship between art and politics? We will also watch films including the 2011 documentary The Black Power Mixtape, and Jules Dassin's 1968 film Uptight.
Required Texts: Available at UW Bookstore (please purchase the required version of the text: Amiri Baraka Dutchman and The Slave 978-0688210847 Gil Scott Heron: The Vulture 978-1847678836 Sam Greenlee: The Spook Who Sat By the Door 978-0814322468 Ishmael Reed: The Last Days of Louisiana Red 978-1564782366 Ntozake Shange for colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf 978-0553133073
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Student learning goals
write effective close readings of literary texts
situate readings of course texts in historical, political, and cultural contexts
develop more sophisticated discussion and presentation skills
expand as critical thinkers and writers who can formulate substantive arguments and explore those arguments with evidence
foster a deeper appreciation of literature
General method of instruction
This will be a discussion-based class with an emphasis on generating complex interpretation backed by close reading.
Recommended preparation
While having taken a "C" course is not a prerequisite for this course, students that have done so may feel more confident with the writing assignments. **Please note that students are expected to keep up with the weekly reading and are expected to come to class prepared to discuss and engage with the texts**
Class assignments and grading
This class counts for "W" credit, and will require students to write two 5-7 page revisable papers. Students can also expect to write semi-formal reading responses and to participate in a group presentation.


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Current Project : Partners and Support
LADC is currently focused on the design and construction of a PassivHaus (CanPhi) triplex outside of Nelson BC. The project is a joint venture between LADC and local design/build (owned by myself, my brother Max, and Patrick Zeimer), with financial support from the Province of British Columbia and Fortis BC.
The project began in 2009 while Max and I were building Skyholm, our first sustainably focused joint venture, through his company, 2-Stroke Painting and Contracting. At the time we became aware of a call put out by the province of BC for proposals to build "Super Efficient New Construction". The projects must meet EnerGuide 88 and involve partnerships with local municipalities and educational institutions. Successful proponents would be given financial support, through Fortis BC, to assist in covering the costs associated with super energy efficiency. We realized that Skyholm was really a prototype of exactly the kind of construction being requested. We submitted a proposal and were subsequently accepted. We now have a mandate to build five residential units meeting either the EnerGuide 88 rating or PassivHaus. The first three units is the current triplex we are building in Nelson. The last two will be in Dawson Creek.
LADC recently completed the PassivHaus course at UBC and it has been decided that the project will reach the required energy efficiency ratings using the PassivHaus framework. Additional support for the development of the PassivHaus technical design is being provided by Andre Harrmann, a PassivHaus Graduate.
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Roy de Vries on May 09, 2014
Good Morning Lucas
I am the owner/builder of damn near Passivehouse which John Gower spoke with you about falling rather than rising performance.
I am in Nelson today, Sunday which is out because of mothers day, Mon and Tue all day with some meetings.
May be good to have a coffee or at least cjhat on the phone. Cell 403-357-8502

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Starring: Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able
Director: Gareth Edwards
Category: IIA (English and Spanish)
After title cards which explain, in the film's parallel universe, how northern Mexico has become an 'infected zone' filled with alien life forms, Monsters begins with a sequence shot in night vision and seen from the point of view of a member of a US platoon. Driving through deserted streets, a soldier off-screen begins to hum a melody. 'Everybody needs a theme song,' his friend cheerily quips - before some gigantic thing emerges from the dark, flips everything over, and condemns the video-feed to darkness.
This three-minute opening salvo contains the key which allows for a proper understanding of Monsters - but it has nothing to do with the grainy camerawork (this is not Cloverfield) or the deadly intervention of menacing, destructive other-worldly beings (this is hardly an aliens-bring-Armageddon flick, as the literal interpretation of the film's title might suggest).
Rather, it's the tune which gives the game away. By having the soldier humming Ride of the Valkyries - the tune which famously soundtracks a US helicopter's decimation of Vietnamese villages in Apocalypse Now - director Gareth Edwards intimates his film's true colours as more an heir to Francis Ford Coppola's piece. Just as Coppola's piece uses the cover of a Vietnam War epic to reinterpret Joseph Conrad's psychological journey into the heart of human darkness, Monsters deploys sci-fi tropes to explore both the mental state of the film's two fragile protagonists and the sociopolitical circumstances which probably account for their psyche.
Not that Monsters can rival Apocalypse Now in its intensity and scope - but there's just so much Edwards probably could have done with a US$500,000 budget and a seven-strong crew he led for three weeks on location shooting across Central America and Texas. Edwards' skills are instead showcased by employing wit and inventiveness to compensate for this lack of resources, as he drives his road movie with just enough visual panache and, more importantly, sharp allegories.
Lost in Mexico are Andrew (Scoot McNairy), a cynical journalist trying to take photographs of alien-ravaged carcasses, and Sam (Whitney Able), Andrew's employer's seemingly spoiled brat of a daughter whose holiday was cut short by an impending confrontation between the US and the extra-terrestrials. Unable to return home by air or sea, the pair are forced to cross the 'infected zone' to reach the US.
Rather than a straightforward alien thriller, Monsters is more a piece of human drama, as Andrew and Sam look into themselves and at each other for comfort and insight. What hovers above in the sky and lurks in the forest serves as a backdrop for the evolution of their relationship. It's a mood piece more than anything else, and the absence of full-fledged characterisation and bombastic alien attacks are just small blots in what is essentially an engaging film.
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And now I will blather about some of the novels I'm trying to write. A lot of what I write has a tendency to come out as young adult fiction or something like Japanese light novels. I don't know how to feel about that, but if nothing else it's a genre with a definite market.
UFO Girl
UFO Girl is going to be a series of books about a teenage half-alien girl named Janet Smith. Specifically, she's half-Altairan, and in the story the people of Altair look human apart from having metal antennas a la My Favorite Martian . In the first book, UFO Girl and the End of the World , she has to find a way to stop an asteroid from destroying the Earth. Along the way Janet and her mom run into the Greys, the Men in Black, the Ro-Man, a bunch of weird ufologists, the catgirls on the moon, and fiendish agents of Planet X.
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After a long break of several years, I recently resorted again to pencil drawing as a relaxing hobby after a tiring day's work. Hope all of you who will visit my SB will enjoy at least some of my posts.
Also, any comments, constructive critics and recommendations of any sort are more than welcomed. Please only bare in mind that my drawings are based on self-learning and that I have never attended any art course other then a 4 hour class in a weekend some 10 years ago, where someone showed us how to sketch a cube


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Now we all know that MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow have reported that the Tea Party was all white.
We also know that Nancy Pelosi and much of the democrat party has constantly referred to the Tea Party racist.
Here's a video of the ALL white, and racist Tea Party members.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- More than 500 people are heading from Ohio to the Republican National Convention.
GOP state Chairman Bob Bennett says the big delegation is an indication of the excitement state party members feel about the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan ticket and the presidential election campaign. Ohio sent some 300 people to the 2008 convention.
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As I look ahead to the state of risk management in 2012, I have trouble moving beyond 2008.
I also have trouble coming up with a cohesive theme, so I'm opting for multiple choice instead. Organizational risk management practices in 2012 will be characterized by one of the following quotes:
- "Don't let yesterday use up too much of today," (Cherokee proverb cited by Will Rogers and others);
- "Enterprise risk management is a process, affected by an entity's board of directors, management, and other personnel, applied in strategy setting and across the enterprise, designed to identify potential events that may affect the entity, and manage risk to be within the risk appetite, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the achievement of entity objectives, (COSO's Enterprise Risk Management -- Integrated Framework, cited in this report); or
- "Great companies identify something larger than transactions to provide purpose and meaning," (Rosabeth Moss Kanter writing in the November 2011 Harvard Business Review).
The difficulty in looking ahead stems from the fact that the past -- namely, the fallout of the global risk management crisis whose impact struck in 2008 -- remains with us. We call it the financial crisis, but its spark consisted of risk management, decision-making and human nature.
And while I believe I know how risk management practices should evolve in 2012 (in a ways that specifically address human decision-making and human nature) I'm not sure we're ready to progress beyond our devotion to an almost entirely process- and technology-driven approach to risk management.
COSO's integrated framework and related enterprise risk management (ERM) and governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) frameworks are necessary, but not sufficient; at least not until they incorporate more human nature considerations and recommendations into their guidance. And these human issues should extend well beyond "getting tone at the top right."
The risk management blowup of 2008 remains vividly in the present thanks to excellent portrayals of the crisis, including Michael Lewis' The Big Short and writer/director J.C. Chandor's excellent Margin Call (a film innovatively released in theaters and online simultaneously last month).
In his book that examines how the financial crisis occurred, Lewis, a former Wall Streeter, quotes a source who says, "Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather than to pick a strategy that is most efficient … The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move." No wait, I'm wrong; that's actually a quote from Lewis' Moneyball, and a passage that also happens to crystallize the herd-like risk management decision-making that contributed to the financial crisis.
Here's the sort of question that Lewis asks in The Big Short -- and it is something that too few risk management programs ask: "What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions -- if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong." Try asking the same of your company and its moderate behavioral incentives.
Chandor's movie, aside from delivering excellent entertainment value (a better lit, less caustic Glengarry Glen Ross), nails the human and cultural aspects of risk management. The movie imagines the day a large investment bank -- one helmed by a character with the last name of, ahem, Tuld -- makes the crippling realization that its risk-management approach will soon wipe out the firm. There is one possible out: madly selling off all of its complex yet worthless financial products to unsuspecting customers and peers the next day. Doing so, of course, might wreck he firm's reputation and it certainly will poison the relationships all of its traders had developed over their careers.
Yet the scenario depicted in the film -- a highly concentrated narrative of the dynamics of the entire financial crisis itself -- illustrate that risk management is complicated because people are complicated.
Kevin Spacey's Sam Rogers crystallizes this complexity by packing into one character a cutthroat sales manager, an ethical businessman, a jaundiced employee (one passed over for a much more cutthroat peer in a previous succession-planning process) and, ultimately, someone who glumly accepts the notion every person has his price. Even the good guys in this account recognize that the bad guys are behaving as the system permits (yet, some of the good guys also seem to hope for behavior that rises above what is merely allowable).
Again, nothing against existing risk management frameworks, but which one of them addresses this human complexity?
As the answer "C" above suggests, a small but growing number of thought leaders appear to believe it is possible to address human complexity within our management (and risk-management) systems. Their general point, and one Kanter emphasizes, is that our organizational theories, processes and behaviors "catch up" to the way the world currently works.
On first blush, this type of thinking is not terribly cutthroat friendly (nor appetizing for folks who believe "coffee is for closers"). Kanter reasons that great companies:
- View themselves as an intrinsic part of society (like families, government or religion);
- Strive to profit but chose to do so in a way that enables them to thrive over the long-term; and
- Invest in the future while considering larger societal needs.
Can you name three companies that operate this way when push comes to global financial meltdown?
That might be the wrong questions. Here's a more constructive question: What do enduring companies with great risk management capabilities do? They certainly aim beyond what is required of them in terms of governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) regulations, standards and accepted practices.
And what does this "beyond risk" capability look like in practice? Here's hoping -- and maybe even resolving -- that 2012 gets us a heck of a lot closer to the right answers before we use up too many of our tomorrows.
Contributing editor Eric Krell reports on governance, risk management and compliance for Business Finance.


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An exciting opportunity to acquire a property set within this historic and unique building, the Former Nurses Residence of the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital Margate. A beautiful period corner property which was built as residential accommodation for Nurses working in the adjacent Royal Sea Bathing Hospital.
The building is being refurbished and will contain 29 unique apartments. The apartments offer open plan living areas and will be fitted with contemporary kitchens with integrated zanussi and whirlpool appliances and modern fitted bathrooms. The larger apartments will also benefit from en-suite to the master bedroom. Other benefits include gas central heating, lift to all floors and a dedicated parking space. Apartment fourteen is located on the first floor and is approximately 785 square foot.
The Former Nurses homes are located in the popular Westbrook area to the western side of the town and within 150 meters of the sea front and sandy beaches. Ideally situated for the commuter as Margate railway station provides a direct link to London St Pancras with a journey time of approximately 1hr 30 minutes. You are also just moments from the cafes, restaurants, bars and the charming and rejuvenated old town.
Continued regeneration program has put Margate back on the map as one of the UK's top coastal resorts and investment locations. 15 beaches are celebrated for their beauty with Margate being a popular holiday destination.
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I watched SNL on the weekend and sure enough Weekend Update was one of the funniest segments of the show.
Not surprisingly, Seth Meyers brought up the Time magazine cover that everyone is talking about right now, during his "Really?!?" segment.
Thanks to my Tivo, here's what was said (I would have loved to add the video but I was blocked by YouTube. If you're in the U.S., you can find it on Hulu).
This week Time Magazine created a controversy with a cover story of attachment parenting that used this photo (shows cover), which brings us to a segment we like to call, REALLY!?!
Really, Time Magazine? THIS is the image you went with for Mother's Day? Look I have nothing against breastfeeding, but there are more appropriate places to breastfeed your kid than the cover of Time magazine. For example, page three of Time Magazine, or you know, not in a magazine at all, I mean really. And look, it's not the act that bothers me, it's this photo. When I first glanced at the cover I didn't think, oh it's a mom breastfeeding her kid, I thought, did the kid from Modern Family sexually assault his yoga instructor. Really, this photo doesn't say I'm a loving mother feeding my son, it says I'm the crazy queen from Game of Thrones, I mean really.
And really, Mom, what's with your expression? You couldn't do a smile, you had to go with Blue Steel? Really? And really, this poor kid and the expression on his face looked like someone just flipped on the bedroom lights, "Oh Bob, you're back from your business trip, it's uh not what it looks like, uh, I assure you it's not what it looks like." And really, what's with the camouflage pants? You do realize there's not enough camouflage in the world to hide from the blow back this kid is going to experience. Also, I'm going to warn you now kid, when you get older, I got a feeling your mom isn't going to like any of your girlfriends, really. And there's still like a 95% chance you're going to end up co-managing a motel with her skeleton. Really.
Look, we all have to deal with a little hassle on Mother's Day, but when that lady's your mom, every day is going to be Mother's Day. And Time, don't get me wrong, I understand you have to do what it takes to sell magazines and it's a good cover, but if you wanted a great cover, you would have photoshopped out the chair. I mean, really.
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text: Raising Hope "I Want My Baby Back, Baby Back, Baby Back" Review April 17, 2012 Raising Hope, Reviews Well, that definitely didn't go like I thought it would! After last week's shocking cliffhanger revelation that Lucy is still alive, Raising Hope returned tonight with another long titled episode in "I Want My Baby Back, Baby Back, Baby Back". Does the season finale for the great second season of Raising Hope live up to expectations? Read on to find out! All of my questions from last week about what Lucy was doing back were quickly answered in the first scene. How she survived the electric chair, what she's been doing for the last two years, and what she wants now that she's back. I guess I could have just looked at the episode title to take a guess at what Lucy wants, but it turns out she wants custody of Hope back. Or as she's still calling her, "Princess Beyonce". One of my favorite parts of this show has always been the huge roster of recurring guest stars and bit characters, as it really helps bring Natesville to life. I honestly can't think of any other episode of television in history that had this many guest stars returning for just one episode! Bijou Phillips obviously returned as Lucy, but we also got more Nancy Grace, David Krumholtz, Ed Begley Jr., and just about the entire cast of My Name is Earl. There were plenty other characters returning who were just in one episode, such as Trevor and the Gloria Allred impersonation that was representing Lucy. Really incredible casting for this episode, and it definitely sends the season out in a bang. Even though this episode itself may not have had as many laughs as previous installments, it certainly worked perfectly as an end to this great season. Raising Hope has definitely found its groove in their second season, and I'm so glad that FOX is giving them the green light to keep us laughing when the show returns in the fall. It looks like Lucy was killed (again), and that the Chance family is back to normal. I can't wait to see what crazy adventures they have in season three, and I hope you'll all be right there with me! What did you think of the season finale? Sound off in the comment section below! Random Thoughts: – If Lucy was tried and convicted two years ago, then how did the Natesville Dozen being underground for six months affect them not hearing about her? – Did anybody actually think Virginia's "Miss South Carolina" joke was funny? A bit too old of a reference for it really to hit for me. – I loved Virginia's throwaway line in the last scene. "It seems like we learn something new every week!" That's been my main complaint with this show this season, how every episode has a moral and a lesson to be learned. Good to know that they're self aware enough to know about it. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Sheena As soon as I heard that line about the lesson every week, I thought of you. I just knew you would like that line, since I know you have taken issue with that fact. I loved the episode, although I did not see much point in bringing this Lucy character back just to kill her again. I felt like something was missing. And maybe I missed a reference to it in the show, but does surviving execution mean you can leave prison? All in all, great episode. I am looking forward to the next season. Anonymous Yeah, it's almost as if they put that line in there just for me! I liked the episode too, and they never actually technically confirmed that Lucy was dead. Although, they've already done the "Surprise, she's alive!" stunt, so I don't know if they could pull it off again. Oh, and she got to leave prison because she was brutally beaten by the guards, and I guess her release was part of the terms of her lawsuit. A bit hard to believe, but it's a comedy! Sheena Oh, well thank you for clearing that up. And no, I am also not sure they could pull off the "She is alive…again" It would seem too much like they are jerking us around. Plus, that reveal can not be beat, I don't think. HsRoseTyler5 My DVR cut off the last five minutes of the episode and I can't find any videos anywhere.. Can someone tell me everything that happened in those last 5 minutes? Thank you. Sheena2009 Spoilers ahead, Pretty much the jury came back with a choice quick and gave custody to Lucy, and then there was this really funny part (my favorite) where Virginia yells at the jury, we don't know what she is saying because a choir version of "You can't always get what you want" is dubbed over it. The judge asks Virginia to be taken out of the courtroom and when the bailiff goes over, Burt jumps on the bailiff's back. They fall over, and then a second bailiff comes in. Then there is the handover, when Hope is given to her mom, but in the background Burt and Virginia are still fighting with the bailiffs, now with three of them. Lucy says she knows Hope will miss her father, but they are going to Tibet. Jimmy gives Sabrina this knowing look, because they know that he has to leave and go to Tibet to be with his daughter. The next scene shows Jimmy, Hope, and Hope's mom in these Monk outfits on their way to Tibet. When Jimmy walks to the car, you can see Virginia and Burt looking really sad as he leaves. Virginia is crying. Then they are in the car, which passes a sad looking Sabrina on the way. Jimmy looks out the window to her. Hope's mom pulls over and says "You love her don't you?" and Jimmy says "Yeah of course I do, but I love my daughter so, this is what has to happen." Hope's mom says "What I am about to do is for my daughter, because she deserves to grow up in a happy family" (in my other favorite part) Lucy gets out of the car with a very big knife and chases Sabrina! Then, all of a sudden, Lucy is hit by an RV being joy ridden by the seeing-eye pig guy, but actually belongs to one of the other witnesses from the episode. Trevor, the Jerky kid that has a crush on Sabrina is there too. The owner of the vehicle (I forget his name) says "Okay Trevor, your turn" as if they did not just run someone over. Hope is then given back to the Chances. The judge tells them to promise her they will do a better job with her in the future, since they did not like the witnesses' accounts of them. Then Maw Maw says "I would like to confess to killing my husband" but the judge brushes it off since… well it's Maw Maw, and slams down her gavel. (although, I wonder if maybe that was a lucid moment). **** Hope that helps. Anonymous Wow, hearing you recap it makes it sound even crazier! HsRoseTyler5 Thanks so much, I'll have my mom read this as well. Sheena You're welcome. And yeah, that was a pretty crazy five minutes!


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Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 6 (ANI): Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will visit Idukki district this morning to make an on-the-spot assessment of the flood situation.
Minister for Water Resources P.J. Joseph and Electricity Minister Aryadan Mohammed are already overseeing relief operations in the district.
Chandy has convened an all-party meeting here last evening to discuss the flood situation in the State.
Meanwhile a 60 member team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and a 40 member naval team has reached Adimali in Idukki district. They will be assisted by a 150 member team of the state police.
At least fifteen persons have lost their lives in rain related incidents in Idukki district on Monday while landslides have also been reported from several places in the district.
Ernakulam, Kottayam and Pathananthitta districts also have been badly affected by incessant rains.
Several rivers in the State, including Periyar and its tributaries are in spate and several places have been inundated.
Flight operations in Kochi International Airport have been badly affected due to water logging on the runway. A number of flights were diverted to other airports. (ANI)


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Warwickshire fought back with the second new ball at Horsham after Craig Cachopa and Luke Wright had put firmly on top on the opening day of their Championship.
Wright and Cachopa put on 174 for the fourth wicket to guide Sussex to 294-3 before Warwickshire claimed four wickets for just 19 runs near the end.
Sussex had been on top for the majority of the day but those late breakthroughs brought Warwickshire right back into the contest with the score 314-7 at the close.
It was quite a turnaround after Cachopa and Wright had completely dominated since coming together with the score 120-3 soon after lunch.
Sussex had lost only lost Luke Wells in the morning session after winning the toss when the opener was superbly caught behind by Tim Ambrose for 35 off the bowling of Rikki Clarke.
But from 99-1 at lunch they found themselves in a spot of bother as Joyce was bowled on the drive by Keith Barker and then Nash was trapped lbw by the same bowler having made his third half century of the season.
Cachopa was given a reprieve on 27 when he was dropped behind the stumps by Ambrose off the bowling of Patel and took full advantage.
He reached his maiden Championship half century from 89 balls while Wright got there a few balls earlier from 72 deliveries.
The pair took Sussex to tea at 230-3 and had extended their partnership to 172 when Warwickshire took the new ball after 80 overs.
It did the trick as Cachopa fell for 84 as he edged a ball from the previously disappointing Chris Woakes to Clarke at second slip.
Wright fell 11 runs short of what would have been a third century in five innings when he chased a wide ball from Barker and edged behind.
Steffan Piolet followed in bizarre fashion as he stepped on his stumps trying to turn a short ball from Woakes to third man.
Boyd Rankin then picked up the wicket of Chris Jordan as the England man bottom edged a pull onto his own stumps.


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Violet's Got Dolla, Dolla Bills, Y'all
The fact that Violet is casually playing with a $20 bill in her stroller, while mom Jennifer Garner pushes her along the streets of Manhattan is hilarious. I mean it's not like Jen is letting Violet brazenly rip up hundreds, just funny. Also, a reminder that this one-year-old is totally rich. Maybe she should use that cash to buy her doll some clothes — give that baby some decency! Heh. Tonight is Ben's big Boston premiere of Gone Baby Gone so either his two best girls got some NYC park time in before heading north or he's making the trip alone. He's definitely seen his movie a hundred times by now, but the hometown premiere is a big one. That being said, he'll probably be listening to the Red Sox playoff game in one ear the whole time.
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At a European Union summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel characterized the reported American monitoring of her cellphone as a "severe breach of trust." Jeffrey Brown gets background from Margaret Warner and Luke Baker of Reuters about how European leaders are responding to U.S. spying allegations. Continue reading
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Millennial Media (MM) plunged in after-hours trading Monday after the company reported second-quarter earnings and issued third-quarter guidance that came up short of analysts' expectations.
The company's net loss widened year-over-year to $15.1 million, or 14 cents, from $3.1 million, or 4 cents a share. Adjusted net loss per share was 6 cents compared to net income of 2 cents in the same period one year earlier. Revenue increased 18.1% year-over-year to $67.3 million from $57 million.
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The stock was down 9.49% to $2.67 at 4:46 p.m.
Separately, TheStreet Ratings team rates MILLENNIAL MEDIA INC as a "sell" with a ratings score of D. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
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My Facebook News Feed is currently filled with gays linking to and referencing lines and scenes from CLUE to salute Eileen Brennan's death, which would lead me to think it's a beloved gay movie. However, it never seems to get discussed here on DL. Even on the couple of Eileen Brennan threads currently on the front page, it's barely mentioned.
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Dead pair: Woman's name released
A Czech tourist has been named as the female victim of the homicide near Waimate.
She is believed to be 31-year-old Dagmar Pytlickova, also known as Dasha.
"Formal identification has yet to be completed but we are confident it is Dasha," Detective Inspector Greg Williams said.
Earlier today police confirmed missing Waimate man Jason Frandi was the dead man found not far from Ms Pytlickova's body by motorcyclists on a school charity trail ride on Sunday.
Mr Williams said alcohol bottles were scattered around the scene.
"Dasha has been in New Zealand since January and recently working at a Cromwell vineyard. We don't know the name of this vineyard as yet."
Police now want to talk to anyone who may have given Ms Pytlickova a ride to the Timaru area.
"We believe Dasha left Cromwell on Saturday and was hitch-hiking to the Timaru area. It is likely that she was picked up by more than one person before she encountered Waimate man Jason Frandi, whose body was positively identified earlier today. We believe the encounter with Frandi could have been somewhere between Omarama and Kurow.
"We need to speak to any person who gave her a lift that day.
"It is also likely that Dasha went to a cafe or takeaway during her journey between Cromwell and Kurow."
She was carrying a 60 litre blue/grey packpack.
"Dasha's family in the Czech Republic have been informed and say they are shocked and devastated about what has happened. They are still coming to terms with the news and have requested privacy. They do not want to be contacted by media," Mr Williams said.
Mr Williams said Mr Frandi's BMW vehicle was discovered at 12.30pm today about 3km "as the crow flies".
"While we have made positive progress today there is still much work to be done. We need to piece together the movements of Dasha and Jason Frandi on Saturday afternoon and establish how they came into contact."
Frandi's criminal history
Police revealed more details about Mr Frandi - including a conviction for kidnapping for sex a 19-year-old Oamaru woman in 2000, for which he served 3 1/2 years.
Mr Williams said the Oamaru woman, who had name suppression, had been spoken to and was "very traumatised".
"We were in contact yesterday with this victim and her family to advise them of developments. Media should be aware that name suppression remains in place for her and she has expressly asked that she is not contacted by media and has no comment to make."
Police also confirmed they had received some complaints with respect to child molestation allegations.
The police are focused on tracing the movements of Mr Frandi since he was reported missing at 11am on Saturday morning.
"We need to know where Mr Frandi went since Saturday morning and anyone who had contact with him," Detective Inspector Greg Williams said.
"We believe Mr Frandi was travelling somewhere in the Waimate, Kurow and Cromwell area on Saturday afternoon," Mr Williams said.
Police are continuing to examine the forestry area about 30km west of Waimate where Mr Frandi and Ms Pytlickova were discovered by motorcyclists on a charity trail ride.
Mr Williams said a team of nine staff had been searching surrounding tracks in an effort to locate the BMW. A post-mortem examination on the two bodies was taking place in Christchurch today.
Residents in Waimate have spoken about Mr Frandi, saying he had a history of run-ins with the law, including a past conviction for kidnapping.
Investigators reached by phone would not confirm those reports but said more information would be released by 3pm.
Neighbour Margaret Iggo said she'd lived in her Smith Street home, across the street from the Frandi residence, for 31 years. She said Mr Frandi was a quiet neighbour and had kept to himself since he moved there about eight or nine years ago.
Another neighbour, who didnt want to be named, said Mr Frandi worked long hours and spent weekends working on cars or mowing his lawn.
"People would sometimes come around. I think he used to help people with their cars," she said. "He was absolutely fine with us. We would wave and say hello, that was it."
Waimate community grapples with violent deaths
Members of the small Waimate community south of Timaru have expressed shock and disbelief at the violent crime following the discovery, at the weekend, of two bodies in a forest behind the township.
Annette Dungey, out walking her dog before work, said she'd known Mr Frandi as a longtime resident of Waimate but who was quiet and usually kept to himself.
He lived alone in his Smith Street house and did not have a partner or girlfriend as far as anyone knew, Mrs Dungey said. He did not have children, though he had once been in a relationship with a woman who did.
''I saw them together at the beach once,'' she said. ''He was good with them.''
But Mr Frandi was known around the community as a man with a troubled past, she said.
"I know he could be violent when he was drinking," she said. "I know that because he told me himself."
Sources said Mr Frandi might have been employed by Leathwick Contracting, in Waimate. Reached by phone, a spokesman for the company said he would not comment.
Before police confirmed Mr Frandi was the male found at the plantation, Waimate residents expressed frustration at the lack of information they had received.
Donna Archbold and Alison Gillespie, both Waimate residents, bundled up against the morning chill and sipping coffee, were talking over the news this morning.
They were frustrated, they said, with the lack of information from police that's left people feeling unsafe.
"It's a retirement town, full of old people, and a lot of them live alone," Ms Gillespie said. "People are worried and want to know if there's still someone out there."
"They must know if they have (Mr Frandi) or not," Ms Archbold said. "Why wouldn't they just come out and say?"
The two women said they didn't know Mr Frandi well, but they used to see him lifting weights at a local gym.
Rainbow Dairy and Cafe staff said Mr Frandi came in for food regularly. They described him as quiet and very polite.
Waimate District mayor John Coles said he was aware there were many unanswered questions the community was asking about the deaths, but only the police could answer those.
He said it was a shocking situation and no mayor liked to have to deal with such deaths in his community.
''In the main, I think we are a very caring community. I did not know the man but many others can identify who he was and what he was about.''
Police expect to release names today
This morning Detective Inspector Greg Williams said the information would be released "sooner rather than later".
Yesterday, investigators said at least one of the two people was being considered the victim of a homicide.
The two bodies were discovered about 11am on Sunday by riders participating in a fundraiser trail ride to benefit Waimate Main School.
It appears likely the deaths occurred in the area where the bodies were found.
Both bodies were flown out by helicopter yesterday afternoon and taken to Christchurch for autopsies.
Waimate Mayor John Coles told Radio New Zealand this morning said that the "safe and caring" community was still reeling from the deaths.
"We're absolutely shocked for the community to have this sort of news come through. I just have to put my faith in the police that they will get to the bottom of what went wrong here. There's a lot of unanswered questions to me so far."
Sunday's grisly discovery brought an annual fundraiser for Waimate Main School to an abrupt halt.
More than 300 motorbike riders turned up for the school's Blakely Pacific Forestry Trail Ride on the trails beyond Pentland Hills Rd.
The event began at 9am and the track had been open for about two hours when a group of riders discovered the bodies.
"It was supposed to be a fun day for everybody and raise funds for the school. It's quite unfortunate for them all," Coles said on air today.
Police are also seeking information on the movements of missing Waimate man Jason Frandi, 43, and his car, though investigators would not say whether Frandi was the male victim or otherwise connected with the incident.
Williams also declined to say whether police were looking for any other people in connection with the homicide.
Police said they were not ruling out the possibility the body was that of Frandi, but would not know for sure until it was positively identified.
Frandi was reported missing on Sunday by a family member. He is described as European, with close-cropped hair, a solid build, and extensive tattoos on his arms and the backs of both hands.
He was last seen about 11am on Saturday, sitting outside his residence in his car, a silver 1997 BMW 328i series saloon with the registration plate ATT530.
Coles said he had seen Frandi around town but did not know him personally.


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Is there anything more forlorn than the American metropolitan newspaper? First readers began deserting in droves, then the advertisers followed. Family owners headed for the exits and then hedge funds and other financial players scooped up newspapers thinking they were buying at the bottom of the market. Greater fools came and went, each saying they could cut their way to former glory and renewed profitability. They got a haircut instead.
Many smaller community newspapers remain stable and newspapers with a large national footprint have generally done better. But quite a few of the midsize regional and metropolitan dailies that form the core of the industry have gone off a cliff: over all, the newspaper industry is half as big as it was seven years ago.
So if most newspapers are an uneconomical proposition incapable of sustaining profits, let alone pay off the debt so many buyers have larded on them, who is left to own them?
Rich guys.
Not the merely well off, but the kind of men with who long ago separated themselves from humdrum economic realities of life. Sure there are other expensive hobbies, but how many antique cars or 19th-century landscapes can you own? Newspapers may be short on profits, but they have become a new form of ostentation. How rich is he? He can afford to own a newspaper, for crying out loud.
At the end of last year, Warren E. Buffett bought The Omaha World-Herald through his company, Berkshire Hathaway. This would be the same Mr. Buffett who told his annual shareholder meeting in 2009 that newspapers faced "unending losses" and that he would not buy most of them "at any price." Yet there he was, ponying up $200 million for a relatively small regional newspaper in Berkshire Hathaway's hometown.Continue reading the main story
And he is not alone. Douglas F. Manchester, a very rich developer, bought The San Diego Union Tribune at about the same time, for a reported $110 million. At the end of last month, S. Donald Sussman, a hedge fund manager and philanthropist who is married to a congresswoman, Chellie Pingree, bought a stake in the company that owns The Portland Press Herald in Maine.
And then word came at the beginning of last week that a group of very rich, very influential Philadelphia businessmen — including George E. Norcross III, a Democratic power broker in Southern New Jersey, and Lewis Katz, the parking magnate — bought the Philadelphia Media Network, which owns The Inquirer, The Daily News and Philly.com.
Does all this smart money see something the rest of us have failed to? Some hidden, unlocked riches in these distressed assets? No. In each instance, the buyer was motivated, at least in part, by the fact that the newspapers faced an existential threat: but for the new owners and their deep pockets, they might go away.
The benefactors also stand to benefit in ways that may not go directly to the bottom line, but have significant value. We will give the Oracle of Omaha a bye here because no newspaper can touch him — newsprint spitballs against a battleship — but in San Diego, Mr. Manchester has been frank about using the paper to prosecute a pro-development, pro-new-stadium agenda.
Mr. Sussman is now wed to both a member of Congress and one of the largest newspapers in Maine, so the conflict there is manifest. And the men involved in the Philadelphia purchase have received frequent and sometimes rugged coverage from the papers there.
At this point, the media columnist is supposed to make tsk-tsk noises about editorial independence. But that moralism is a luxury that mostly belongs to another era, when newspapers had functional monopolies and everyone was dying to get their hands on them. Now selling a newspaper is akin to peddling a used Humvee, a hulking beast that has lost relevance in a changed landscape.
Besides, who is to say that it will turn out badly, at least in terms of sustaining much-needed coverage in important American cities? The Philadelphia properties have had four owners in the last five years and the recent sale price of $55 million was just 10 percent of what they were worth in 2006. One of the ownership groups was led by Brian P. Tierney, a public relations executive who was assailed for harboring all manner of agendas when he helped buy the newspapers.
At the time, a former Inquirer reporter, Ralph Cipriano, said of Mr. Tierney: "He doesn't understand what we do. He doesn't respect what we do, and he doesn't think we should be doing it." He added: "I don't see how a guy like that can run a newspaper and not just turn it into another extension of the spin machine."
It didn't turn out that way. Mr. Tierney eventually lost control of the papers for business reasons, but when he did, the staffs and many people in Philadelphia hailed him as a hero, a man who rigorously oversaw the editorial independence of a newspaper he once fought with.
One reason he got such high marks is that he hired William K. Marimow, formerly a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at The Inquirer. Mr. Marimow was quickly dismissed after Mr. Tierney lost control of the newspapers to his lenders.
Mr. Katz and Mr. Norcross faced similar skepticism in the run-up to their purchase. Just before the sale was announced, The Inquirer quoted a report by the New Jersey comptroller accusing Mr. Norcross of orchestrating an insurance payback scheme. Arriving with a big credibility gap, the new owners responded by bringing back Mr. Marimow from Arizona State, where he had been teaching, and reinstalling him as editor in chief.
If you pull back a few thousand feet, you can see newspapers coming full circle. Before World War II, newspapers were mostly owned by political and business interests who used them to push an agenda. People like William Randolph Hearst and Robert McCormick wielded their newspapers as cudgels to get their way. It was only when newspapers began making all kinds of money in the postwar era that they were professionalized and infused with editorial standards.
"We are going back to a form of ownership that dominated in an earlier era," said Alan D. Mutter, a newspaper and technology consultant. "As newspapers become less impressive businesses, people are going to buy them as trophies or bully pulpits or some other form of personal expression."
David Nasaw, a professor of history at the CUNY Graduate Center, has written extensively about the newspaper barons of old. He is skeptical about the motives of their modern descendants. "People just have to be aware that other agendas exist, and the owners should be clear about that, but any time a big city newspaper is saved, I think we should stand up and salute."
The Philly newspapers may end up being a cat toy for the new owners. Or the owners could catch the journalism bug and access the angels of their better natures.
Mr. Marimow, speaking before he had to run off to teach a class, said that it beats the alternative.
"I am coming back because I strongly believe that this ownership group, despite their connections, is interested in producing news in print and online that is going to be distinguished and will serve the public in the Philadelphia area," he said. "I also believe that over the long term, they will produce a highly profitable business."
I'm both a journalism geek and an optimist, so I'll choose to believe most of what he believes. Except that last part about "highly profitable."Continue reading the main story


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Ever wonder exactly how and why we need vitamins in our diet? Here's a little primer on how vitamins function in our bodies.
Put plainly, a vitamin is an organic compound essential for life. It is essential because it cannot be created in the body, and must be obtained through food for the body to stay alive. Vitamins are called "micronutrients" because the body only requires a small quantity of them. Macronutrients, on the other hand—such as protein, fat, carbohydrates and water—are necessary in larger quantities because the body uses them to create bodily structures and provide energy. Vitamins also work intricately with enzymes, creating action in the body like assisting in the breakdown of food and allowing assimilation.
There a few major classes of vitamins. First, vitamins are either water soluble or fat soluble. Water-soluble vitamins must be consumed daily because the body has no real way of storing them (these include the B vitamins and vitamin C). Fat-soluble vitamins like vitamin A, D, K and E, on the other hand, can be stored longer in fatty tissues and the liver.
Another distinguishing category of vitamins is whether they are synthetic or natural. Synthetic vitamins are made in laboratories, and though they appear to be identical to the vitamins found in food, they lack the complexity of natural vitamins. That's because when vitamins occur in nature they're never isolated—they're always interlaced in very complex multidimensional structures of macronutrients. And studies show that when nutrients are bonded to proteins in this way, they're better assimilated and more readily used by the body.
Most importantly, vitamins work together in a synergistic way to create the delicate balance of energy that the body needs to maintain life and to thrive. If there is an imbalance of even one nutrient—whether it's a deficiency or an excess—it can produce disease in the body and create a host of confusing symptoms. "Scientific research has proved that an excess of isolated vitamins or minerals can produce the same symptom as the deficiency… For example high doses of B-vitamins have been shown to cause the depletion of the other B-vitamins" (From Prescription for Nutritional Healing, by Phyllis Balch, CNC, and James F. Balch, MD).
Getting to know vitamin basics is an important step in taking care of our own health. Using a vitamin at the proper time can increase healing time and prevent illness. Dr. Balch gives us one important example: "The absorption of vitamin C is greatly reduced by antibiotic drugs, so a person taking antibiotics requires a higher than normal intake of this vitamin." Knowing about and having a better understanding of the intricate dance of vitamins within the body is a profound way to observe the intelligence of the body, and to increase one's quality of life.
Next we'll be exploring the different roles that vitamins play in the body. Our first exploration will be meeting the water-soluble vitamins and seeing the fascinating role they play in our health.
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The Senate debacle was caused by the Prime Minister when he appointed a former journalist from Toronto as a senator for Saskatchewan and a broadcaster from Ottawa to represent Prince Edward Island.
It's as if neither province has folks capable of keeping up with the Senate's rigorous regimen.
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The Deloitte report into Pamela Wallin's expenses gives lie to the claim that her primary residence is in Saskatchewan. It reveals that she spent 35% of the time under review (January 2009-October 2012) in Toronto, where she has a residence, compared to 27% in Saskatchewan and only 22% of her time in Ottawa. At just 298 of 1,369 days, that means the actual business of sober second thinking is more of a hobby than a real job.
Whatever her health card or driving license say, she spends the bulk of her time in Hog Town and that is part of the explanation for the enormous travel bill that now requires her to reimburse at least $121,348 (she has already paid back $38,369).
Deloitte said $90,000 of her travel was in fact to attend partisan events such as fundraising, non-Senate related events and personal business. Another $31,000 was for stopovers of one night or more in Toronto, en route to Saskatchewan from Ottawa.
The Senate committee on Internal Economy has now referred the whole affair to the RCMP for them to decide whether they think any criminality has taken place.
Ms. Wallin clearly knew she was flirting with disaster — Deloitte said that the diary information provided by the senator was inconsistent with the archived Microsoft Outlook calendar it received from the Senate's IT department. In one case in April 2009, she was the keynote speaker at a public event in Saskatchewan than included representatives from four Conservative Saskatoon ridings. The words "four riding fundraiser" were removed from her Outlook calendar but appeared in the original version.
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So this is the venerable Senate of Canada, headed towards the Fall of 2013: An ever-exploding, metastasizing mess, rippling outward in concentric rings, tainting everything it touches. With Senator Pamela Wallin now under RCMP scrutiny alongside her erstwhile Tory colleague, Mike Duffy, and with her reputation too in tatters, savaged by an audit clinical in its detail, it's difficult to see where it ends.
Certainly, any hope the Conservatives had of putting their annus horribilis behind them is now slim, to gone. Deloitte's Wallin report, released Tuesday, immediately pushes Parliamentary spending reform and broader issues of corruption back to the top of the agenda. It begins with the Senate, but won't end there.
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Ms. Wallin says she removed information she considered irrelevant or personal to streamline the audit process. Most right thinking people would probably suggest that information is neither irrelevant nor private — rather, it is extremely pertinent to any investigation looking into whether public money was being spent to help pay for partisan events. The Conservative Party riding organizers said they didn't have to pay for Ms. Wallin's flight "because she was already in town."
On another occasion in June 2009, she flew from Ottawa to Toronto, arriving at 9.05 p.m. on "Senate business." She supplied material to Deloitte claiming she spoke to the Institute of Corporate Directors' fellowship awards. But Deloitte discovered that she spoke at the awards dinner in 2008 and couldn't possibly have taken part in an event that started at 5:30 p.m. Her taxi receipt from the evening showed she travelled from "airport to home."
The 2011 election was a particularly busy time for the senator — and an expensive one for the taxpayer. In late March, she charged $1,600 to attend the Juno Awards in Toronto; followed by a further $466 to go to a Conservative Party rally in Saskatoon; and in late April, a further $438 to participate in a TV panel as a Conservative Party members as the election results came in. Deloitte said none of these claims were eligible because they did not appear to be Senate business.
The root problem is an honour system for a political class that can no longer be relied upon to act honourably. Senate travel rules say that "spending public funds on travel is a sensitive matter and sound judgment must be exercised when travel-related decisions are made." Trust and flexibility are mentioned as guiding principles but that trust has been breached by more than one errant senator.
Ms. Wallin's total travel bill is a staggering $532,508 — half a million bucks of travel in 45 months, or $11,833 a month.
Most right thinking people would probably suggest that information is neither irrelevant nor private
I looked at the cost of flying between Ottawa and Saskatoon this Wednesday, coming back a week later. A direct Air Canada flight was available, leaving at 12:20 p.m. and returning the following week at 2:25 p.m. for $5,797, flying in executive class flexible.
Yet back in steerage, the same flight cost just $1,243. True, you don't get a dedicated washroom with Fruits of Passion products but flying economy on those 94 flights (if they had all been between Ottawa and Saskatchewan) would have saved the taxpayer $415,000.
Would it kill MPs and senators to sit among the common folk who pay their wages when they fly?
One agent familiar with Senate travel told me that packs of flight passes could also reduce the cost of flights by up to 50%.
Such news, coming as it does in the news drought of summer, has provoked the usual pile-on by media and politicians of all stripes. Conservative retribution on their former colleague landed before the report was even released.
Mr. Harper must wish that all senators would just go away and never darken his towels again. He is aware that the auditor-general is now undertaking a comprehensive audit of senators' expenses.
Who would bet against other Honourable Members of the Upper House claiming momentary lapses of reason when they scribbled down their entitlements? Expense forms have made liars of more people than golf.
The delicious task of reminding Canadians who appointed Ms. Wallin fell to Stéphane Dion, who the Conservatives kicked around the playground when he was Liberal leader. The party's democratic reform critic said Mr. Harper claimed to have personally reviewed Ms. Wallin's spending and said it was within acceptable bounds. "The prime minister must explain why he misled Canadians, why he showed so poor judgment," he said, with a surprising lack of vindictiveness.
This report is disturbing on any number of levels. Its release ensures the Senate headache will be waiting for Mr. Harper, still pounding, when Parliament resumes this fall.
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You've lived with your 8GB model no for at most 8 months. Seemingly, you've come to terms with 8GB, perhaps holding on to your 30/80GB iPods for mass storage or whatever. AT&T told us we'd see a 3G model this summer. Are you upgrading before then? Good God man, why?
$100, random (often quite dumb) eBay questions on your iPhone auction, some confusion about how long you are re-hitching your wagon to AT&T all for 8GB? Seriously? For this post, I've interviewed several iPhone owners and not one even gave a second glance at upgrading. "Why?" was the response I got most oft.
For new folk finally seizing the moment to get one, maybe you pony up for the 16GB version. But really, the promise of 3G ought to be enough to hold out a few more months to see what Apple has up it's sleeve. Or at least how big these Apple-approved SDK driven applications are. Right?
Charles Starrett over at the iLounge has a nice post about Apple employees being a bit in the dark on what current iPhoners can do to upgrade and what it means to their contract. From the post, it looks like AT&T will backdate your 2 years so you don't incur another 2-years. But the comments in that post question the language used by Charles, legal contracts have a way of nitpicking.
Mark Siegel, Executive Director of Media and Analyst Relations with AT&T, told iLounge in an email, "If you upgrade from an 8 to a 16 GB iPhone, you sign a new contract. However, we automatically backdate it to the starting point of your contract on the 8 GB phone." He added that the company "will make every effort to ensure that our reps provide customers with the correct information," and clarified that customers should activate the SIM card that comes with the new model.
Anyway, I am curious (not condescending), if you are considering upgrading/have upgraded, why not wait for 3G or the next announcement? Let us know in the comments.
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Kate's Coat Doesn't Get All the Attention
Kate's Coat Doesn't Get All the Attention
Kate Moss and Jamie Hince enjoyed yet another night out on the town in London last night, not leaving the party until 4 a.m. Kate showed off another piece from her exotic coat collection, but it was the shots of her slinky jumpsuit that have people wondering. There have been rumors for a couple months that Kate Moss is pregnant and some of the photos from last night fuel the fire. Considering her nonstop partying regimen, I'm still skeptical, but if anyone could keep her energy up that much it would be Kate.
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Conscientious parents teach their children about the dangers of smoking, drinking and taking drugs, but I wonder, what do they say about the danger coming from their pantry in the form of sugar. I recently noticed that our son was coming home daily with 44 ounce size cups of soda that he bought at the corner mini-market gas station. These sodas are very inexpensive for their size and many kids, and adults, prefer it to canned soda because they get more for their money. Sure, you can tell kids that sugar is bad for them, that it could rot their teeth, make them feel cranky and irritated, cause skin problems, make them feel tired, and that it could lead to bigger problems like arthritis and diabetes, and nothing that you say will seem to impact them.
Having worked in education I know that people learn in different ways. Some people learn by hearing, others learn through touch, and some learners are visual. Here is a lesson that is auditory, visual and tactile:
One 44 oz. soda = 38 teaspoons, 152 g, or ¾ cup sugar
Three 44 oz. sodas per week = 114 teaspoons, 456 g., 2-1/4 cups, or 1 lb. sugar
12 sodas per month = 456 teaspoons, 1824 g., 9 cups, or 4 lbs. Seen below in a 2 quart measurer.
For kids who are drinking one every day, that's over 8 pounds of sugar a month. This does not even factor in the sugar from fast foods, candy bars, sweetened beverages like coffee and tea, breakfast foods, snack foods and condiments. Also, one think to mention is that drinks made with high fructose corn syrup go directly into the blood stream and make you crave for more sugar.
Considering the estimate that one-third of the American population has prediabetes or diabetes, we should think of meaningful and tangible ways to teach kids about the dangers of sugar.


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On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:23:11 +1100, Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> wrote: > > We have a frequently updated (peak > 5/sec) table with about 1000 rows. > > We run VACCUM FULL on this table every 5 minutes. Why not just use plain VACUUM? The table will reach a steady state size. You should only need to use VACUUM FULL if an event causes the table to bloat to significantly more than steady state size and you want to reduce the size again.
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White Powder Found in Letter at Governor's Mansion in St. Paul
Emergency crews were called to Gov. Mark Dayton's mansion in St. Paul Monday after staff opened an envelope containing a small amount of white powder.
The letter was opened Monday morning in a building outside of the main residence, according to Doug Neville, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety.
The two employees who opened the letter were being decontaminated Monday afternoon, said Eric Roeske, spokesperson for the state patrol.
Roeske said the substance could take three to five days to identify.
Dayton was home at the time, but wasn't near the letter, Neville said. The residence is located at 1006 Summit Ave. Neville said the content of the letter was non-threatening.
After discovering the substance, staff followed procedure and contacted the Minnesota State Patrol, who then called the St. Paul Fire Department, Neville said.
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The virtualization firm Pano Logic is one-upping Google and its Chromebook and Chromebox cloud PC devices with its own fully (read: no local OS or PC required) browser-based desktop computing platform.
John Kish, President and CEO of Pano Logic, outlined the deal with the new Pano System for Cloud and Pano Zero Client, a solid-state device that has no processor, no storage, no memory and no operating system: "For those organizations that don't require a full Windows environment, the transition is seamless with immediate benefits. The end user sees the Chrome browser interface. The IT manager sees a simple management console. The CTO sees staff spending less time managing the desktop. The CIO sees a path to the cloud. And the CFO sees savings adding up."
The company said the Pano System for Cloud starts at $5 per user, based on one $999 perpetual server license, which supports as many as 200 users. It is compatible with any Pano-powered zero client (the new G2 starts at $149) such as the award-winning zero client cube, a repurposed PC or thin client using Pano Virtual Client Software, or the Fujitsu zero client monitor, it said.
"Pano Logic is disrupting the economics of enterprise computing and providing a true cloud computing platform for organizations embracing cloud-based productivity applications," Kish said.
The company said Pano System for Cloud was an extension of the core technology in Pano System for VDI, "a complete end-to-end, hardware-and-software virtual desktop solution that independently interoperates with all three leading hypervisors (vSphere, XenServer, Hyper-V) and their management systems (VMware View, XenDesktop, Microsoft SCVMM)."
Karin Kelley, an analyst at 451 Research, said in a press release: "Desktop virtualization started the migration of computing further away from the end user and into the cloud environment," she said. "VDI is just one of many ways to do this. By extending their reach to cloud-based data and web applications, Pano Logic can support more use cases with the endpoint device acting as a mere conduit."
While Google's Chrome devices are delivering a friendlier experiences these days, per reviews, and the jury's still out on whether they deliver the post-PC era.
The bottom line in this bottom-line post-PC world: Google's Chrome devices start at $299 and $399. Pano System for Cloud is $149 (if you need a thin client) and $5 a month. And Pano's is arguably more enterprise friendly, offering access to either Office 365 or Google Apps for productivity, as well as other web-based software.
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Thomas Lockhart wrote: > However, the path to do this > isn't perfectly clear to anyone; this is the first concrete proposal we > have had which does try to address the issues we believe are already > here whether we want them or not. As someone else mentioned, why does postgresql have to break new ground? > > I think this is a bad idea for the following reasons: > > 1) It is trying to be a GPL in what it is trying to achieve without > > actually being well thought out. Any person who "submits" modifications > > must do so under the same licence. Submits to what or whom? > It is *not* trying to be GPL. GPL is essentially "You must make changes under the same licence". As far as I can see this licence is saying the same thing in a wishy-washy way. > It is trying to be BSD, while extending > liability protection to the current cast of developers, The liability exclusion clause I don't really have a problem with. It's the other bits that I'd concerned about. I ask again what does "submits" mean? Who does it mean to? The GPL has nailed down the definitions here. This language is so wide I'd defy you to get the same meaning from most people who read it. > The current license asks users to absolve the University of California > of any liability involving use of the Postgres source code. It does not > (currently) explicitly ask the same on behalf of the current developers > (including yourself ;) My guess is that if anyone is going to be sued (which I just don't believe, but anyway....), it wouldn't be based on the software, it would be based on what some developer has said on a mailing list. Given a working compiler the source code will do exactly what the source code says it should do. It's the statements the developers make in other forums which people will be relying on to know what the source code should do. > > 3) You talk about how wonderful the BSD licence is, then you really > > change the whole meaning of that licence. > > How? By changing what you are and aren't allowed to do with changes to the code. > I disagree, though we don't know UC's motivations for sure. imho the BSD > license is intended to protect UC from "deep pockets" lawsuits, while > preserving some credit for the original design team and the institution > which made it possible. If we accept the above, then why the restrictions on how you can change it? > Good point. But the USA is the demon spawning ground for lawyers, and is > at the leading edge of aggressive new legal territory. The nice thing about the simple licence with no mention of legal territory is that it can be sensibly interpreted in each independant legal jurisdiction. If Virginia passes a law saying that any developer who releases software with bugs with licencing subject to their laws, shall be hung until they are dead, then I am not affected, even if one day I want to visit Virginia. That's extreme I know, but what do I as an Australian know abouth Virginia? For all I know they are a nazi regime. I just don't want anything I have to do with be in any way subject to the laws of that state. Why would I? My final statement would be this, YOU CAN ALWAYS MAKE AN OPEN-SOURCE LICENCE STRONGER. YOU CAN NEVER MAKE IT WEAKER EVER AGAIN.
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Hard Knocks has nothing on this. If you ask me, the potential for some of the best reality TV ever to hit the small screen exists within NASCAR, inside the competitive camp of Stewart-Haas Racing. Joining three-time Cup champion owner/driver Tony "Smoke" Stewart and Indy Car star-turned-NASCAR-neophyte Danica Patrick are two more electric personalities: 2004 Cup champion Kurt Busch and perennial powerhouse Kevin Harvick, who has finished third in the standings three times, on top of two Busch Series titles. Between the two newcomers are 47 career victories (Busch 24, Harvick 23.)
NASCAR's new power quartet appeared before the media Monday, assuring the scribes this combustible combination isn't going to be what people think. Stewart says this group has the "advantage of understanding each other." Smoke acknowledges there are "four alpha drivers," and that sets in place a "great support system." He went on to explain each driver has had their own sets of battles- be it the media, other drivers, team management. Stewart opines "we all understand and relate."
Each has a hunger. Stewart returns to the track still healing from a seriously broken leg. Harvick seeks a fresh start after 13 seasons with one organization, and a chance to finally close the deal after coming oh-so-close so many times. Patrick desires to show she is more than just a marketing machine, and has the chops to run with NASCAR's big dogs after a good stretch in IRL. For Busch, becoming a consistent winner once again and a Cup contender would be the culmination of a comeback that started soon after it appeared his career was headed for the scrap heap when he unceremoniously parted company with Roger Penske at the end of the 2011 campaign. "The Outlaw" credits Haas for wanting to harness all that competitive desire to produce results for everyone back on the shop floor.
So what if maybe they clash a little out on the track. They're fighting for something. Perhaps they will fight with each other, but they will also fight for each other. It doesn't always have to be perfect. Baseball fans will tell you that the Oakland A's teams that won three consecutive World Series in the early 70's was far from one big happy family. Remember those great Chicago Bulls teams of the 90's? It was Pippen against Kukoc, and Jordan pretty much against everybody. Still, somehow those teams managed to bring out the best in each other.
Even if it doesn't it will make for good trackside drama. When Harvick was reminded that the new Knockout Qualifying format didn't necessarily mean pugilism, the former youth wrestler told Stewart "if we're fighting, I'm kicking you in the leg." Stewart replied "It's like the Karate Kid. Sweep the leg!"
Something tells me this merry band of marauders will be just fine. Alliances this formidable don't come along every day. It's not hard to see this group pushing each other towards greater successes.