text: Book Reviews Great Reads for Moms: May '12 Edition I can't believe that is already the time for summer reading. Next week I am going to try and round-up a few of my favorite beach reads for your summer enjoyment. I am running a bit behind on my May reviews, but only because I really wanted four really great books to share with you. If you are looking for a little inspiration this new year, be sure to check our MomAdvice fan page for a weekly check-in on what everyone is reading each week on our Facebook Fan Page. I hope you will swing by on Fridays and share about the books you are working on or request recommendations with one another. So far it is a huge success and I have gotten a few new ideas for my own stack! Just as a reminder, I read many more books than are just featured here, but try to feature the ones that are my absolute best picks of the month here. If you want to read more, please feel free to friend me on GoodReads! You can find me right here and I am always happy to connect with people there too! There is nothing more motivating than seeing what other people are raving about and my to-be-read pile continues to grow with all of my new friends on there! In fact, many of the books featured are ones that I have found through my friends on GoodReads. The Healing by Jonathan Odell A Mississippi plantation mistress, Amanda Satterfield, loses her daughter to cholera after her husband refuses to treat her for what he refers to as a, "slave disease." In turn of these events, Amanda begins to lose her mind and decides to take a newborn slave in as her own, taking her from her family that loves her. She renames the little girl Granada, and begins to parade her around in her daughter's clothing and allowing her to be part of family dinners, despite her husband and their friends discomfort. Troubled not only by his wife's mental illness, but by the plague that seems to be sweeping through his slave population, Master Satterfield purchases Polly Shine, a slave who is known to be a healer. When Polly sets eyes upon Granada, she knows that she has the gift and requests that Granada be removed from the home so she can shadow Polly. Seventy-five years later, Granada is now known as Gran Gran and takes in an abandoned girl in her care. To help the girl to come out of her shell, she shares with her the powerful story of learning to let go of the girl that she thought she was to be to the mistress, to the amazing road of being a healer herself. I guarantee that you will love this book if you are fans of The Kitchen House, Dry Grass of August, or The Help. The story is achingly beautiful and written in such a way that you will long remember it in your heart. I can't recommend this one enough, friends! (MomAdvice Rating- 5 Stars out of 5 Stars) The Song Remains the Same by Allison Winn Scotch If there is one author that I rely upon for really good chick lit, it is Allison Winn Scotch. I really loved her latest book a lot, but have to say that, "Time of My Life," still resides as my all-time favorite piece of literature that she has written. She delivers another strong book though that would be perfect beach reading material. In this book the author explores who we are without our memories and how much of our future seems grounded in our past. While many of her books have a magical spin to them, this one offers a more real-life slant while still exploring the, "what if's," that I think you will really enjoy. Nell Slattery awakens in a hospital without a single memory of who she is or was after being only one of two survivors in a tragic plane crash. She now must piece together her life with the help of her family and friends. What she doesn't realize is that each of the people in her life have their own agenda and have found themselves having a fresh start with Nell. Nell is constantly questioning everyone in her life whether it is her mother about where her father is, her sister and the business that they have created together, or her husband who seems overly thrilled at her attention. Nell begins to piece together her past through the bits and pieces she discovers in her home and office. What she discovers is that maybe she doesn't want to be who she was anymore, but if she isn't who she was….who is she? (MomAdvice Rating- 4 Stars out of 5 Stars) Sister by Rosamund Lupton I have never read a book by Rosamund Lupton before, but after reading this one, I immediately picked up her next book. Sister is a combination of a murder mystery, a medical thriller, and the beauty of love between two sisters. Beatrice grew up in London and has made a new life for herself in New York. She has everything that she could ever want- a fiance, her own place, and a promising career. Her life is forever changed when she receives a call and is told that her sister, Tess, has gone missing. She abruptly leaves her New York life behind to assist the police in their missing persons case. Tess has never been the responsible sister and lives her life in a small apartment as an art student. She was pregnant when she went missing and had been having an affair with an art teacher. With her history and the people she has in her life, everyone is a suspect in her murder. With a list of suspects a mile long, the writer takes you on a case that is woven with many layers and possible suspects. The reader learns all the aspects of the case through Beatrice's eyes as she assists in the murderer's trial by sharing how she figured out who he/she is. This book has a very slow build which could turn off some readers. The final twist at the end of this book though makes the building of plot worth pursuing. This would be a great book to add to your beach bag this summer! (MomAdvice Rating- 4 Stars out of 5 Stars) The Good Father by Diane Chamberlain Diane Chamberlain is one of those authors that rarely disappoints and her books are always my go-to books when I am in a reading slump. The Good Father is an amazing emotional novel about what a young father will do in order to provide for his daughter. Travis Brown is a single father in his early twenties on the verge of being homeless and is the sole provider for his beautiful daughter Bella, who is only four years old. He desperately moves to Raleigh in hopes of finding a great job as a contractor, but once he arrives, things turn out very differently. The job that he is to take as a contractor is actually a job that could put him in prison. Sadly, he has no money for food or shelter for his little girl and he decides to take the job to make some quick cash until they can get back on their feet again. Bella has never met her mother, but Robin is leading a life that is in sharp contrast to her own. She is engaged to a wealthy politician and leading a life of luxury, assisting the family with their bed & breakfast. She hasn't really thought about the daughter she gave up until recently. When the family faces their own controversial teen pregnancy, it is when she begins to reflect on her own and wonder what has happened to her daughter and to Travis. Erin and her husband have recently lost their own four year old daughter in a terrible accident on a pier. Erin spends her life on forums for parents that have suffered the loss of a child and finds herself detached from the real life. As she is chatting on her forum in a coffee shop, she meets Travis & Bella, and immediately becomes drawn to them. She has no idea what an important part she will play in Bella's future, but their lives will soon collide in an unexpected way. Told in alternating points of view, as is characteristic of Diane's novels, you get to see the story from many different angles. It is a gripping novel that I read in a mere 24 hours and promptly handed on to my girlfriend so I had someone to discuss it with. I know you will love it too! (MomAdvice Rating- 5 Stars out of 5 Stars) Not enough great reads for you? Check out our Books section of our site for monthly recommendations and ideas for making reading a priority again in your busy mom life! Books I have read in 2012 (so far): Disclosure: All of the links above are affiliate links and are provided so you can locate the books quickly and easily. Feel free to order a book, but we encourage utilizing the library system and buying me a latte instead. Then we both would be really happy and we could have our own little book club together! Wouldn't that just be so much more lovely? Happy Reading! What has been in your book stack this month? Feel free to share your book recommendations or feedback on any of the books that have been mentioned above! I love getting new suggestions for my book pile! Pin It Published June 05, 2012 by: Amy Allen Clark is the founder of MomAdvice.com. You can read all about her here. An Apron Full of Giveaways 06.05.12 Splendidly Homemade: The Perfect Mojito


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Recently while working on some node or instance automation using RightScale I needed to have some extra iptables rules created automatically when a new node booted. Initially I was just trying to do this via iptables commands which I note below but it would never work. After digging through the logs I realized that the iptables commands created by RightScale for the ServerTemplate I was using flushed iptables at the very end of the boot process and thus wiped out the iptables entries created by the RightScript I had created. To accomplish permanent iptables entries for a RackSpace node via RightScale you need to output the iptables command to a file in the location where the boot process picks them up after flushing the current ruleset. Below I describe my first attempt followed by the correct way to have iptables entries picked up by RightScale.

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Some have heard of her. Few have met her. None truly know her. Sarod wizard Ustad Ali Akbar Khan said of her, she is 'simply great'. Pandit Ravi Shankar acknowledges her genius. Yet, none have heard her play. Mysterious, intriguing, she is like our own Greta Garbo, living in her own shadows, shutting herself out from the world in the cloistered confines of a city flat, seeking peace in an instrument her father taught her. She wants nothing from the world, from society. But if she decided to give of herself, the world would be a richer place.
Six floors up the elevator in a high-rise building, in one of the posh residential localities of Mumbai, lives this woman. No one sees her, not even her immediate neighbours. The board at the entrance of the building simply spells: Annapurna Devi. Another square board is nailed next to her doorbell. It reads :
1. The door will not be opened on Mondays and Fridays.
2. Please ring the bell only thrice.
3. If no one opens the door please leave your name and address.
~ Thank you very much. Inconvenience is regretted.
Annapurna Devi, who was born as Roshanara Khan in 1926 at Maihar in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, is a maestro of Surbahar or the bass Sitar. Her father Ustad Allauddin Khan, who also happened to be her guru, was the founder of the famous Maihar Gharana or the Senia Maihar School and was regarded as one of the greatest instrumentalists of the 20th century. Sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan was her brother and she married Pandit Ravi Shankar, also a pupil of Allauddin Khan, at a very early age. Annapurna Devi emerged as a proficient Surbahar maestro of the Maihar Gharana just within few years of taking music lessons.
Soon after she even started giving music lessons to some of the students of her father like Pandit Nikhil Banerjee and Ustad Bahadur Khan. Baba, as Allauddin Khan was called by his disciples, was a very strict man and his temper was well known. There were times when the boys were so petrified that they dared not approach Baba and the only person who had access to him was Annapurna. He taught her, and she in turn often taught the boys. The trio of Annapurna Devi, Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, began a long and arduous journey, trying to plumb the depths of a 5000 year old tradition of Hindustani music.
Annapurna Devi's marriage to Ravi Shankar was arranged with the suggestion of Uday Shankar, his celebrated elder brother. Annapurna Devi, who was only 14, wedded Ravi Shankar when he was 21 years old. Though a tumultuous one, the marriage lasted for some 20 years during which the couple gave birth to a son, Shubhendra Shankar. It could have been a fairy tale or an eternal duet between two maestros, but somewhere at the height of the glory something happened and the relationship snapped like a thin thread.
There were whispers, as they were bound to be, given the fame of the two musicians and given the fact that they were husband and wife. Many say, Ravi Shankar fell in love with somebody else, a woman known as Kamala. Perhaps the affair became too big and Annapurna was definitely hurt by the entire thing. This and her father's subsequent death dealt a severe blow to her, something that she could never recover from. She became a recluse thereafter, totally cut off from the rest of the world.
During better times with Ravi Shankar :
Raga Yaman Kalyan (with Ravi Shankar on the Sitar) :
By all accounts, Annapurna Devi's only public concert was staged in the early 1950s, and no one has ever heard her play the Surbahar or Sitar in public or private ever since. Few have seen her, fewer still have heard her play. She has performed a total of 11 times in her life. Finding a recording of hers is like locating a needle in a haystack. Her students say that she imparts instructions through singing and not through playing her instrument, and she conducts her lessons only in the late hours of the night, more often after midnight. What is more, she has remained inaccessible and unapproachable even to her own students without prior consent and appointment. Neither does she make herself available on telephone, nor entertain any visitors. She is allergic to press reporters, critics and lensmen.
As a teacher, she has had many noteworthy students like Ustad Aashish Khan, renowned flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia and others. She has not recorded any music albums. But some of her performances, notably Raga Kausi Kanara, Raga Manj Khamaj and Raga Yaman with Ravi Shankar have been secretly taped from her earlier concerts, and are available but not commercially. In spite of her avoidance of media limelight, she continues to be thought of as a classical instrumentalist of the highest calibre in India. All the awards she has received, including the Padma Bhushan in 1977, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1991 and the Desikottama Award (highest honour conferred by the Vishwa Bharati University, Shantiniketan) in 1999, have been accepted in absentia.


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When: Thursday, June 10, starting at 3 p.m. CT
Where: Target Field's main media interview room
Who: Minnesota Twins players J.J. Hardy, Justin Morneau, Joe Nathan, Nick Punto and Kevin Slowey; MLBPA Executives
The jerseys, T-shirts and caps designed by the Twins players as part of the Major League Baseball Players Associations Players Choice Signature Series will go on sale for the first time that evening at Target Field during the Twins game, at Minneapolis/St. Paul-area The Sports Authority retail outlets and online at MLB.com. The players produced the products during a two-month design and manufacturing process with the MLBPA and its apparel licensees, VF/Majestic (jerseys & T-shirts) and Twins/Banner 47 (caps).
Players from the New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets also designed caps, T-shirts and jerseys as part of the Signature Series program. The Yankees unveiled their designs on Wednesday, June 2, the Phillies on June 4, and the Mets will do so on Wednesday, June 9.
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What Should You Not Do At a Networking Event?
By Sandy Jones-Kaminski, Author of I'm at a Networking Event--Now What???
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you - Dale Carnegie
Don't be a business card commando. If you are a compulsive business card collector, please stop it. Handing out your business card to 50 people you talked to for about 30 seconds each not only makes you look self-serving and desperate, it also sends off a clear message that you're most likely going to spam people with your newsletter, resume or webinar invites. This means you and your communications are likely to be considered spam and sent to a place that will get you blacklisted in more ways than one. There was a guy in Chicago who did this at practically every event in town and was on so many blacklists that I'd been warned about him repeatedly weeks before I had even encountered him.
What do you do when you encounter someone like this? If he shoves his card at you, go ahead and accept it so that you'll know to keep an eye out for him in the future, but don't feel like you need to give him a card in return. Just smile and say thank you, but if he asks for a card, and you don't want to give him one because you know nothing about him or how you might be able to collaborate with him, just say, "I'm sorry, but I'm almost out and I have another event to go to"--which at some point you will--so smile and move on.
Don't be a hit-and-run. Make an effort to stay in touch or in occasional contact with folks you meet with whom you want to stay connected. Make notes on the back of the business cards they've given you about what they need help with or what their interests are. Then try to continue to pay attention to things that matter to them. This is the way to create quality connections and trusted new contacts.
For example, after you have followed up with a new acquaintance and are now perhaps linked on LinkedIn, when you notice updates or changes in her status, go ahead and message or e-mail her to comment on the change. It might be congratulations if you notice a new job, name change (perhaps she got married) or maybe a promotion. Or, if you know she's looking for a new opportunity or hinted that she would be soon, it might be to offer a suggestion about a good job board you spotted in her field or to connect her to someone new you have met. And, if you see that a contact is traveling or moving to a new town, offer to connect her to whomever you may have a quality connection with there.
Also, be sure to reach out to people when you don't need anything. Networking is about creating, nurturing and building relationships, and they need care and feeding. The whole idea is about not waiting until you need something to build a network; it's about continually cultivating and engaging in that network. The wider your network, the more people you know whom you've worked with. This also implies that all these people know the kind of person you are and the work you do.
Action: Notice or learn something new about three of your current contacts this week. Look at their personal or company website or online activities to see what they're up to and, if you can offer encouragement or support or a congrats, do so. Be sincere though; don't just go through the motions!
Don't waste your time. Remember, have a goal or goals so you don't waste your precious time and energy. Don't go to a networking event unprepared. Try to research the types of people who will be there, and the format of the event. Also, focus on making connections of quality, not quantity. It's also just as important to disconnect from the unproductive or overly opportunistic and one-sided networking relationships you'll unfortunately come across. And, for the latter, often just by association, you could attract more unwelcome attention or unwanted perceptions.
Don't spend any more time on connections you make when you recognize that there's a suspicious or questionable agenda, or they simply aren't reciprocating or paying it forward. Just move on and, whatever you do, don't take it personally. Today's economy has many people coming from a slightly desperate position, and it's best to just forgive their tactics and practice empathy when you can, but you also don't need to let others take advantage of you. Trust your gut and move on.
Like most folks I know, I'd much rather have someone who's not interested in building a quality connection with me come right out and tell me she wants to meet my brother-in-law (BIL), the head of engineering at Motorola. It's much better than having her stalk my Connections list on LinkedIn, and then try to reach him by dropping my name during a cold call or e mail. My BIL, of course, tells me about it, and then I have that person's eyebrow-raising methods reflected on me ("Nice friends, Sandy," he says). Not to mention that they will now likely have my bad mojo out there on them.
Please don't misunderstand. I recommend being an "open networker," in that you are open to helping people get what they are looking for; they just need to tell you what it is first and at least offer a two-way street if they can. I say be happy to connect with people if they manage to build a relationship through the getting-to-knowyou process. Just don't let people "leverage" your contacts without your permission or take advantage of your generosity by trying to get for free what you actually charge others for.
Action: Identify someone who is better than you at networking, and attend an event with him or her. And if you really want a good mentor (to your wingman), offer to pay his or her way to the event. Then watch the way he or she works the room, and his or her approach. You will learn a lot by watching and listening, and you won't be any different than the other 80 percent of people in the room, who aren't totally confident in their networking skills, either.
About the Author
Sandy Jones-Kaminski is the author of "I'm at a Networking Event--Now What???" which was ranked #1 on the 2010 Inc.com Holiday Gift Guide Wish List and has been a VP of Networking for a major national professional development association. Since 1998, she's been a executive in the human capital resources and services industry and currently shares her hard-earned insights on effective networking and personal branding via webinars, panels, keynotes, one-on-one consulting, her blog and workshops. Sandy has written numerous articles for WomenEntrepreneur and The Salary Reporter on www.PayScale.com and has been featured on Fox Business News, NWJobs, Work Goes Strong, Bankrate.com, You're Hired! and My Global Career. Learn more via her website at www.belladomain.com.
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Place Bigelow® Pomegranate Pizzazz Herb Juice tea bags in a measuring cup and add boiling water. Let steep for 5 minutes. Remove tea bags and reserve ½ cup (125mL) tea. Place tofu into a large dish, pour tea over and marinate for ½ hour, turning once or twice. Preheat grill and grill tofu turning once after five minutes, cooking both sides for five minutes. Prepare sandwiches by tossing greens with vinaigrette. Spread 4 slices of bread with mayonnaise and/or mustard, 2 slices of tofu, ¼ of the greens, ¼ of the red pepper and a slice of cheese, cover with another slice of bread. Continue until you have 4 sandwiches.


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Looking at photographs: 100 pictures from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art
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Opening Weekend – Home Sweep Home
OK, so I borrowed that little cliche from the Philadelphia Inquirer, who informed us this morning that the Phils' sweep of the Astros marked the first time since 1970 that the team has begun a season with three home wins.
What a great way to start off a highly anticipated season of Phillies baseball!
Last Friday, though, I was feeling more apprehension than anticipation. First, it was April Fool's Day, which just doesn't strike me as a good day to begin the baseball season. Second, upon awakening that morning, I was greeted not with warmth and sunshine, but with the sight of snowflakes falling outside. Not just any snowflakes – giant, mutant snowflakes that began sticking to things. Third, the Phillies were facing the Astros, who are – get this! – the only NL team with a winning record against the Phils since 2004, and owners of a gaudy 16-7 record at Citizens Bank Park during that span (!). OK, so now it's 16-10, but still…
But we had Roy Halladay on the mound, while they countered with Brett Myers. This seemed like a good thing. Roy is the reigning NL Cy Young winner, and Brett Myers is, well, Brett Myers.
Halladay breezed through the first eight Astros batters, but then Brett Myers – Brett Myers! – singled for the first Astros hit of the game. Myers would get another hit in the fifth, so of the five hits Halladay surrendered, two of them were to the opposing pitcher.
As if that weren't painful enough for me to stomach, Myers was the one who looked more ace-like, needing only 85 pitches though 7 innings, while Halladay threw 101 in 6. Still, Halladay had given up only one run.
Then the bullpen got into the game, and promptly gave up three more runs. With the Astros up 4-0 in the seventh, some of those watching at home may have given in to the urge to turn off the TV, thus saving themselves from further distress.
O ye of little faith.
Make that me. Yes, it pains me to admit that I turned it off. I couldn't bear to watch anymore! I later found out that the Phillies cut the lead in half in the bottom of the seventh, and then staged a ninth inning comeback with a barrage of singles to end up winning 5-4.
Thankfully, the next two games of the series were much less stressful to watch. 🙂 Cliff Lee struck out 11 as the Phils won, 9-4; Roy Oswalt was victorious over his old team in a 7-3 win for the Phils.
Today is an off day, and tomorrow the Mets come to town, facing fourth ace Cole Hamels to start off a three-game set. C'mon, Cole, let's keep that momentum going!!


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Ruth Kraft Hamburger, a friend of MAG for many decades, died October 3, 2010.
A social worker with a passionate interest in Rochester's arts scene, died in Bloomington, Indiana, surrounded by her family. She was 94 years old. The daughter of a self-made Russian immigrant father and first-generation American mother, she was the first woman in her family to go to college, attending the University of Michigan during the Great Depression and then the University of Chicago where she earned a Masters of Social Work.
She developed a life-long interest in politics as a means of promoting greater social and economic equality working at the Henry Street Settlement House in New York, in the Rochester public schools, and during World War II she served as a social worker treating returning veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. While in Washington she met Army Captain Dr. Walter W. Hamburger Jr. After the war, the couple married and moved to Rochester, NY, where she worked as a psychiatric social worker.
It was during this period in Rochester that her interest in the visual arts took off. She became acquainted with local artists and began acquiring her own unique collection, ranging from modern art, folk art, outsider art, to her "treasures," ancient and modern artifacts of all kinds. Her passion in pursuing these and other interests allowed her to make unusually intense connections – from the staff and executives at the Memorial Art Gallery to the city's junk dealers and demolition workers from whom she sought architectural remnants.
The home in Brighton that she shared with her husband, Peter, and three boys, was filled with an eclectic collection, including large pieces of iron ornamentation from the Rochester Railroad station designed by Claude Bragdon, theater chairs from the early days of the Eastman Theatre, and large pieces of driftwood hauled from Lake Ontario.
Her husband, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester Medical School, died in 1961 leaving her to raise three sons while working as a social worker in the Rochester public schools and later at the Rochester Mental Health Center. After retirement, she remained in Rochester, active in the city's arts, political and social life. In March of 2010 she moved to Bloomington, IN, where she was quickly embraced by a new community of friends.
She is survived by three sons, John Hamburger of Palo Alto, CA, Tom Hamburger of Silver Spring. MD, and Michael Hamburger of Bloomington, IN; daughters-in-law Sandra Park, Ellie Hamburger and Jennifer Bass, as well her seven grandchildren: Naomi, David, Julia, Lily, Lara, Ben and Sarah Hamburger.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to the Gallery's Ruth Hamburger Endowment Fund.


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They look very nice..
shame they don't run Android.. or Meego.. or even at a push, symbian..
Nokia has posted snaps showing what it its first Windows Phone 7 smartphones to may look like. Well, sort of. "These are not actual products, just artist renderings of what the Nokia-Microsoft collaboration could produce," confessed the Finnish phone giant. Nokia WinPho 7 They look rather swish, so we hope these …
What a stupendously unoriginal, predictable piece of pointless commentardary.
Besides, as someone who has suffered the embarrassment of an "S60" Nokia offering for the past 9 months, putting up with its dog-slow interface and inconsistent UI control "features", I say "Bring on Windows!", something I thought I'd never write, frankly...
The current range of Symbian^3 handsets don't have a dog-slow interface at all. They've got the fastest mobile GPU in them after all. You might only have been using that phone for 9 months, but the hardware is almost certainly older than that. And if I were to use a year old Android handset, I could probably complain about it too.
At least Symbian is a smartphone OS, unlike the shiny-but-dumb WP7.
As an N8 user for some months now, I would agree that the interface is no longer "dog slow", but they really aren't making very good use of their fastest mobile GPU.
The interface really doesn't compare very well with the likes of Android or iOS devices 12-18 months older and it's mainly down to any lack of work on the underlying applications.
For example:
If you take a picture with your phone's camera and then want to show it to someone you're with you have to wait anything up to a minute for the photo app to generate thumbnails (or at least create placeholder icons) of all of your pictures before you're allowed to view the picture you've just taken. If you then zoom in on the picture, it just shows a blocky version of the "fitted to screen" image you were looking at instead of zooming in properly.
Symbian might be a great smartphone OS, but if you put a sucky UI on top of it the experience is still sucks and like it or not consumer perception is based on the UI not the underlying OS, which makes Symbian at best fourth behind (in alphabetic order) Android, iOS and WP7.
"Though if it designers can come up with a look like this, why are so many of the company's current handsets so darn unattractive?"
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - I rather like the appearance of my N8, though frankly, with everything that handset is capable of, it could look like a potato and I wouldn't care much (note: figure of speech ;-)).
More importantly: my wife loves her C7, and believe me, she wouldn't have given it houseroom if she wasn't keen on its looks. (It sounds as if she's not alone - a sales guy at our local Carphone Warehouse says the C7 is very popular with the ladies...)


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iTouch ?
It's called an iPod Touch
iTouch make home theater equipment
Apple appears to have taken its campaign against iPhone modders to a baffling new level, tweaking its new MacBooks and MacBook Pros to disable a popular software tool used to jailbreak the handset. According to discussion groups here and here, iPhone and iPod Touch users who have unlocked their devices using the Pwnage Tool …
If iTunes isn't recognising an iPhone in DFU mode - a vital troubleshooting procedure - then it's more likely accidental than deliberate, and it's probably hardware-level. That means there could be issues with USB on the new machines (and one poster referred to problems with a USB hard drive); fuck-up, not conspiracy. Which is worse?
That's just great, 'cause mine arrives in a couple of days.
If you don't like the fact that the phone is locked, don't buy one, don't buy one, spend ages fiddling around with some third party software (which you have no real idea exactly what it is doing to your phone) and then complaining when the company who made the phone, wrote the software, wrote the theme tune etc etc decides to lock it down again.
Ohh.. but I can unlock this and that phone and do what I like and they can do this that and the other... BUY ONE OF THEM!! Either the iPhones great and you want one as it is or you buy something else. Now seriously, all the hackers, iPhone haters etc etc, get a life and find something else to bitch about, its getting SOO seriously boring.
Why do people parrot stupid cliches like "no publicity is bad publicity"? What about the recent coverage of Brand and Ross? How was that good publicity for anyone involved? And how does this issue "outsource security testing to unpaid volunteers"? What security testing is being done? What are you gibbering about?
If the removal of Firewire 400 ports wasn't enough leaving the new MacBook with no Firewire at all, or the horror that is the lucent/agere chipset in the MBP that still does have one firewire 800 port rendering it useless for anything serious, or the touch pad faults, now we see this rubbish.
It's almost as if Apple don't want people to buy the new models. Or at least people who want to do more than check their email.
Having said that my MBP2.4 died this morning so perhaps it's a conspiracy.
Much as I dislike the way apple has elected to decide what I do with my own hardware (and it is mine, it's an iPod touch, so it wasn't on a subsidised contract), them locking down their hardare is not a monopoly, seeing as you could y'know...not buy an iPhone if you want that functionality. Unless you're trying to suggest that someone should sue Apple because they have a monopoly on distributing iPhone software on iPhones.
It doesn't bother me a huge amount, since, aside from theming my device, I'm not deriving a whole lot of extra functionality from having it jailbroken.
Apple should be flattered that so many people are taking an interest in their hardware!
The reason Apple are fighting this is that, in unlocking the phone or iPod Touch, Apple perceive that they are losing revenue. Remember, all these excellent devices are being viewed as downstream revenue generators by Apple management, and each device that is unlocked is one less that can contribute to Apple profits downstream. Absolute B*llocks in my view, I've only ever purchased a couple of dozen iTunes in three years, and I've paid for a couple of apps for my phone and all the other downloads are freebies.
Apple need to realise two things. One, they can't win. Two, they would sell more if, as somebody else has already said, they just unlocked the thing already!
The majority of users don't care if the phone or ipod touch is locked or unlocked, it will not significantly affect their usage profile anyway. All Apple is doing is perpetuating a stream of complaints and bad publicity.
And that from a Fanboi. Take note, Apple.
It's tied down. Boo-hoo. Burn Jobs at the stake, immediately.
If you can't buy one, accept this fact and just bloody get on with using it as designed, then here's a tip, pop-pickers - DON'T BUY ONE.
There are several other options on the market if you're too 'cool' to admit the iPhone is the nuts. If you really can't sleep at night without feeling you've done your bit to subvert a big corporation, then I'll leave you to it. Enjoy your life.
Paris, because her firmware never prevent cracks from being exploited.
I wouldn't buy an iPhone or another iPod if they came with a free dinner and "hot coffee" session with Angelina Jolly[sic]. Being told I can't use some program on a device *I* bought because someone else says so isn't my thing. By the way, doesn't this fall under Unfair Terms in Contract regulations? iPod Touch doesn't require a subscription-based contract to function, so you should be able to modify the firmware in any way you want. After all, you BOUGHT the device, you didn't rent it. You OWN it. Can you imagine
Hand me something which plays FLAC, is recognised as an external disk, and has good sound quality and battery life and i'm sold. For everything else, there's my E51.
>Jobs is as monopolisitic in his atttude as Microsoft is. They should also be investigated under >antitrust legislation ! And they will go to any lengths to protect it.
It's exactly the same sort of protection methods used by the Wii, XBox 360, PS3, PSP etc.... and yet you aren't calling for those 'consoles' to be unlocked as well?
Is it not an advantage to have vetted applications on a platform? or do you want a zillion applications which use undocumented APIs and lots of hacks to achieve their aims instead of sticking to the documented APIs? (See some of the Windows Mobile applications for examples of that).
Yes you bought the device and don't rent it, but all you've done is paid for the box in your hand and a piece of software that goes with it. It doesn't contravene unfair terms law - you have paid for a physical device and the software that makes it work by putting music and apps on it. Where is the breach of unfair terms??
Yes you can modify the firmware if you want, but Apple are under no obligation to support it. I wouldn't expect Ford to service my car if I'd put a Honda engine in it.
"I wouldn't expect Ford to service my car if I'd put a Honda engine in it". Fair enough, I'd agree with you there.
Thing is, once I've put a Honda engine in my own Ford, it's not Ford's business to go around telling all the garages not to sell me any petrol; nor to remove the Honda engine I spent time fitting while I'm asleep and replace it with a stock Ford unit.
You've saved me saying the exact same thing. I agree it would be "nice" to have them unlocked (in fact so far I've unlocked a PSP, PS2 but yet to do my iPhone as I don't have the need yet) - I'm more than aware it's not the right thing to do and will invalidate my warranty.
It's very difficult to identify the difference between hardware, firmware and software and the line is blurring quickly. Software capitalisation is a similar area (but in accounting) and in over-simplified terms means that you can count the software as an intrinsic part of the hardware, as it is essentially useless without it.
I consider unlocking, pwning, flashing the firmware etc to be akin to ignoring the sign on the back of TVs that says "no user serviceable parts inside" - p1ss about with it at your peril basically, and don't come crying if it breaks or kills you. I would doubt Apple could ever successfully sue someone for having an unlocked iPhone, but are left entirely on their own when it comes to updates etc. Where it gets interesting is trying to prevent people from developing the tools to do it (as Sony tried with Dark Alex I believe), or stepping over the line of simple reverse engineering. Sanyo may as well sue screwdriver makers...
What might be useful is if they calm down the language in the EULAs. Along the lines of "carrying out the following activities invalidates your warranty" as opposed to shouting that it's illegal, but that's not what they're trying to do - it's not illegal as such, but CAN be considered as breach of contract.
"It's exactly the same sort of protection methods used by the Wii, XBox 360, PS3, PSP etc.... and yet you aren't calling for those 'consoles' to be unlocked as well?"
Well I bloody well am. Vendor Lock-in is always a bad thing for the consumer, with no exceptions. Now this crap is most likely a bug, but deliberately damaging bought-and-paid-for products is malfeasance, pure and simple.
"Yes you can modify the firmware if you want, but Apple are under no obligation to support it. I wouldn't expect Ford to service my car if I'd put a Honda engine in it."
You would be mightily fucked off if Ford goons came round your house and put sand in your tank because you put a Honda engine in YOUR car, now wouldn't you?
Get this - people who reflash or jailbreak their phones *know* they won't get support. That's what it costs them when they buy a closed product. What they don't deserve is the vendor assaulting their physical property rights in order to "safeguard" whatever makey-uppy ones the vendor chooses.
It may even be an OS build tweak, as it is a later build which is shipped with the new Macbooks.
@FFS Apple... "Then .. even I would probably buy one, unreplaceable battery, glossy shiny (but vulnerable) screen and all.."
You can get new batteries for £8 off ebay, and new screens for £10.
Well... apart from the fact that there are emulators for NES, PSX, Mame, etc, available that Apple will never allow on the iphone/ipod touch
a) I can install lighttpd and run a pretty reasonable web stack on my iphone so that I can take stuff I develop and run it wherever I want regardless of whether I have net connectivity. Which was dead useful for me last week when I was in Germany.
b) There are plenty of visual changes ("skins") that many people think are quite fun, although that's something I don't play with that much.
c) You can download new prefs option to disable the bloody autocorrect system (this is worth the jailbreak on its own)
d) Other enhancements, for example being able to save images directly from Safari to your camera folder and sync them back to your PC
e) SSH access, you can use your ipod as a terminal and you can even SSH into it over wifi for tranferring stuff, etc (a nice 16gb wifi-enabled transfer device)
f) Another tweak allows you to keep applications (even app-store ones) running in the background when quitting. obviously memory can be an issue, but it's handy when using chat for example and needing to go check a contact name or something. You hold down the [] button a little longer to quit an app while leaving it background enabled.
g) mplayer for playing video/audio content in non-apple formats. Haven't played with this yet (too busy), but looking forward to it.
h) mxtube allows you to download and store youtube videos on your ipod/iphone. very handy.
So... for all these reasons and more, I'm not going back to an un jailbroken iphone/ipod any time soon. It's my hardware, I paid for it, so I'll be damned if Uncle Steve is going to tell me how I have to use it.
When the Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, DS came out, was there uproar because you couldnt play other consoles games on your particular choice of console, no there wasn't. When you bought your particular choice of console were miffed when you got it home and realised that you couldnt play a wii game on a 360 - No. As many a previous poster has said on this story and other stories, you dont like what Apple are doing, then dont buy Apple. Its the same with M$, you dont like what they are doing then dont buy. Everyone has they're own particular preferences, and not everyone will agree. So what if Apple dont want you to unlock your phone, i believe i'm right in saying (feel free to correct me as i know you will) it is illegal to unlock a phone during the life of a contract. Once it is out of contract you are free to do what you please with it. SO in some respects they are quite right to do what they are doing. However the ipod touch situation is a little more baffling, Personally i dont see the major attraction of jailbreaking it, what massive advantage are you going to gain, a lot of the apps are reasonably cheap anyway. Ok the films are quite expensive and so is the music, but there are ways of getting round that without needing to jailbreak it.
This is what i believe anyway, any Apple story nowadays get completely overblown and people seem to thrive on portraying Apple and lest we forget M$ as the absolute spawn of satan, and also sensationalizing any stories on the former.
I tell you what would be nice in this day and age, some nice objective journalism so that any comments on the posted story that follow, MAY also be objective.
I myself can't see it.
"When the Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, DS came out, was there uproar because you couldnt play other consoles games on your particular choice of console, no there wasn't."
Of course there wasn't, you silly man. A major problem is people aren't free to run apps written for the IPHONE on the iPhone.
If though, - as is MY choice - I succeed in flashing a linux kernel to an iPhone I would expect neither support from apple, nor the ability to run binaries written for MacOS without an emulator. Is that so difficult to grasp?
I'll just get me bleedin' coat.
You are strictly speaking perfectly entitled to do whatever you like with your iPhone, throw in the bin, set fire to it, flash it, hack it, whatever you like. You own the hardware, plain and simple. The software/firmware however is Apples and you agreed to their T&Cs when you bought it.
If you wanna be @nal and hack it, then feel free to do so, it'll work FOREVER, nothing Apple can do will ever stop you, just never upgrade it or use iTunes and stop bitching and give the rest of us peace.
You wanna be a smart @ss and hack it fine, don't then be little kids and cry when big bad Jobs comes along and breaks it again.
The new gen iPods have put some sort of cryptographic hash on one of the indexing files they use. Result - try and do anything with Amarok or any other iPod management software that's not iTunes and you get an iPod that tells you it's full but has no songs on it.
It's just not cricket I tell you.
Ok fair point (apart from the playground insults), but the basic point is, it comes down to the fact people dont want to have to pay. If an app has been written and developed and then not put on the app store its because apple have possibly rejected it. They own the software and firmware, if they dont want an app to run then they are quite within they're rights to reject it. The iphone SDK has been freely available but it has always been clear that if apple dont like it then it wont go onto the app store.
This is simply my observation and opinion, you dont like it then boo bloody hoo.
Comparing the iPhone lock-in to the PSP, PS3, Wii, XBOX lock-in is like comparing apples (no pun intended) with oranges.
The reason those devices have these protection measures is simple: PIRACY. Most of the jailbreak cracks for game consoles are not motivated by being able to run homebrew apps on your game console; it is because once you jailbreak the device, you can play pirated games. So there is a legitimate interest on Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft for locking down game consoles; and even then, Sony lets you put Linux on your PS2's and PS3's.
Apple's motivation for locking down the iPhone seems to be solely to keep the stranglehold on what can/can't run on the thing, and the app distribution channel. It would be akin to Microsoft forcing you to do all app installs from the "Microsoft App Store", and disabling all other install methods. If MS did this, it would be flamed to infinity, but when Apple does this with the iPhone, it's a "feature". Sheesh.
"They own the software and firmware, if they dont want an app to run then they are quite within they're rights to reject it."
You start with one accurate point and then make a bizarre leap of logic to make the second point which is quite simply false. They are quite within their rights to do bugger all of the sort.
FWIW, my unlocked, pwnd iPhone 2G works perfectly well on my spanking new MacBook Pro 15", so I expect this is just a load of old tosh (and this is the same MacBook Pro that has performed flawlessly since the day I bought it, has no touchpad problems, not other problems, and is, FW400 or not, quite possibly the best laptop I have owned to date). So far I haven't found the lack of FW400 to be a problem but maybe that's just me.
It's stupefying the amount of inaccurate and misguided information contained in this comments thread (not the original story). I ask each of you who have posted to re-read your comment and then check your facts (and conjectures and conclusions).
Paris bcause I'm going to ask her for tech-related information before I believe most of the above...
"When the Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, DS came out, was there uproar because you couldnt play other consoles games on your particular choice of console, no there wasn't. When you bought your particular choice of console were miffed when you got it home and realised that you couldnt play a wii game on a 360 - No."
That's because it's a hardware limitation. If the hardware made it capable to play several console games on a single console, why the f*** would anyone pay $200+ for a 360, $350+ for a PS3, AND $250+ for a Wii? EVERYONE and their Momma would be unlocking their system...and there isn't a damn thing Sony, MS, or Nintendo could say about it because the USER OWNS THE DEVICE. As a matter of fact, that's why we are called owners.
What were you smoking when you came up with this gem?
"So what if Apple dont want you to unlock your phone, i believe i'm right in saying (feel free to correct me as i know you will) it is illegal to unlock a phone during the life of a contract."
Sorry to dash your attempt at a logical argument here, but...well, sorry.
"FWIW, my unlocked, pwnd iPhone 2G works perfectly well on my spanking new MacBook Pro 15", so I expect this is just a load of old tosh (and this is the same MacBook Pro that has performed flawlessly since the day I bought it, has no touchpad problems, not other problems, and is, FW400 or not, quite possibly the best laptop I have owned to date)."
Spanking new huh? And it has performed flawlessly since you bought it? So that means you've only given it a few days, maybe a week? The post just sounds contradictory and misleading.


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This was what I was thinking of, jab we met. All the adjectives apply. And especially to the Kareena in the wardrobe I think suits her best. Enjoy the song. In the mean time, I'll dance along while hoping to present this dance by Shahid at the next wedding in my extended family ;)
A special thank you to Ms. Kapoor, who was really just a fun person to be around. Thanks are also definitely in order for the people who made this possible (perhaps the same who made this possible). You know who you are, and although you might think my obsession with Bollywood is slightly unhealthy, I truly appreciate what you did for me today.


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btw, spoilers.
- The first time you arrive in 23000 AD, there's no indication that you should advance to the Sewer before going through Lab 32. The only inkling of telling you to go to Death Peak through the Sewer is one guy that says something like "There's an old man down in the Dome to the South, but the Sewers are dangerous and Death Peak is where this whole mess started." So, it's almost like this dialogue is telling you not to go there. However, if you don't go through the Sewers at this point in the game, you have a memory later in the game that you never should have, when you're introduced to Belthazar. This isn't that big of a deal, in the long run...but it's one of the only plot inconsistencies in the game and it stands out to me because of that.
- It's fascinating that Azala and the Reptites are more advanced than prehistoric humans, including linguistically. Is this intentional, or is this a Woolsey special? I think it's intentional, though I can't check the original Japanese or anything. Either way, the fact that the Reptites are so much smarter than the Humans makes their extinction a little tragic or sympathetic, even though they're not exactly the nicest individuals. Humans didn't turn out entirely great in the long run, either.
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Marvin Friedman's Gift of Al Parker Clips
When I interviewed Marvin for the series of posts on his career, the topic of Al Parker came up. Marvin mentioned that Parker had been "a mentor" and "a very dear friend." I asked him to tell me the story of his first encounter with Al Parker...
Marvin began, "I wrote him a letter when I was in art school. A couple of us got into a convertible and drove up to Westport [CT] to see all the illustrators who lived there. We found out Al Parker liked on Mayflower Parkway. So we drove up there and stood across the street. There was this nice little house with a Chevy station wagon in the driveway. We were like, "Al Parker drives a Chevy station wagon? We were expecting a f#%@ing Rolls Royce in the driveway!" (we both laugh)
"Anyway, he came out with his family, got in the Chevy station wagon and drove away. My friend said, "Why didn't you go up and knock on the door?" But, you know, that's the kind of adulation for an illustrator you don't find anywhere today. They don't know anybody, they don't care, they don't wanna know... well, maybe just you do." (we both laugh again)
Marvin later became close friends with Parker and visited him many times at his home in Carmel after Parker moved to California.
What's really interesting about this great batch of clipped pages Marvin sent is getting to see, in a single dose, the length of Parker's career and how his style evolved with the times.
To better demonstrate what I mean, I selected an assortment of images from Marvin's collection and arranged them here chronologically, from the 1930's to the 1960's.
As always, they show not only how clever Parker was as an image designer, but what an astute observer of the changing times he was - not to mention his tremendous versatility and adaptability. Do yourself a favour and spend some time really looking at all of these pieces. Even after all these years Parker's remarkable work is as fresh and vital as the day it first appeared...
Many thanks to Marvin Friedman! I'm sure you share my feelings of gratitude for the gift of these images - and the many others I'll be presenting in the weeks and months ahead.
* My Al Parker Flickr set.
* My Marvin Friedman Flickr set.
* Marvin Friedman's website.
*AND* Be sure to take a second look at yesterday's Harry Anderson post (below). Later in the day yesterday I received a long note from TI list member Kent Steine, who knew Harry Anderson personally. Kent shed some light on Anderson's working method, his use of casein, and he even sent along a photo of Harry Anderson looking at one of Kent's sketchbooks. All of which I have now added to the end of yesterday's post.
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- Chad8:13 PM
Parker was such a restless innovator.To somehow keep on coming up with endless variations of your own style and pull it off time and again.Actually in a funny kind of a way, maybe the complete opposite of Harry Anderson who had one technique but rendered with equal virtuosity in a variety of media.ReplyDelete
Funny thing about Parker, as I recall, in his Famous Artists course book, when asked how he came up with color schemes in his illos,rather than reference color wheels,triads etc, he says he gets his ideas from swatches of fabric and pretty ribbons or something. For real?
- Charlie Allen5:35 PM
Fabulous Parker clips....and many thanks to Mr. Friedman. I've clipped dozens of Parkers....thought I'd seen most....but these I haven't seen. I am missing a clip that would be great to see again. Subject, two kids in a bedroom setting....one wall magically opening on the African veldt....lions, all kinds of animals there. Handled beautifully, as only Parker would. If anyone has a clip, please send it along to TI.ReplyDelete
I don't know if that story is true -- but it sounds like something Parker would say, imho. Thanks! :^)
I'm not famiar with that piece you describe - but I wouldn't be surprised to see it pop up here eventually.


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Latest media releases
UBS Swiss Real Estate Bubble Index displays moderate risk increase
The UBS Swiss Real Estate Bubble Index currently stands at 1.17. Although the rise was weaker than in previous quarters, the risk of a correction heightened on the residential real estate market.
Zurich/Basel, 3 May 2013 – The UBS Swiss Real Estate Bubble Index remained in the risk zone and currently stands at 1.17, representing an increase of 0.06 index points compared to the previous quarter. The rise in the index is due to continuing price increases for residential real estate and to an increase in mortgage loans alongside stagnating household incomes and consumer prices. In contrast, the slightly declining significance of the construction industry has a dampening effect on the Swiss economy. Thus the increase in building permits and the rise in the number of new construction projects are not (yet) manifested in the level of construction investment.
The largely uninterrupted rise in risks on the real estate market in the past four years goes on. At the end of 2008 the index was still in the balance zone with –0.72 points and ever since has risen on average each quarter by 0.11 index points. During this time frame, Switzerland sported the strongest price increases for residential real estate of all European countries with more than 20% in real terms.
The high number of loan applications for real estate not intended for personal use continues to give reason to be cautious. Condominium and single-family home purchases for rental purposes appears undeterred in its high interest. But in view of the unfavorable ratio of purchase to rental price and a gross yield of just 3.5% in Switzerland on average, these investments will only be profitable with continued low interest rates or if prices rise further.
The regions of Lucerne, Innerschwyz and Glattal-Furttal are now counted among the risk regions. The recent rise in the UBS Swiss Real Estate Bubble Index in the past quarter was a crucial factor. Lucerne and Innerschwyz are among the regions with the strongest growth in prices of all economic regions since 2009. The region of Glattal-Furttal reported a slightly weaker rise in prices, but is already among the 20 regions throughout the country with the highest price levels. This means that more than 2.5 million people, or around 30% of the total population, are already living in risk regions.
UBS Swiss Real Estate Bubble Index
Depending on its current value, the index falls into one of the following risk categories: slump, balance, boom, risk and bubble. These categories are specifically defined and ranked in order of risk. The UBS Swiss Real Estate Bubble Index comprises six sub-indices that track: the relationship between purchase and rental prices, the relationship between house prices and household income, the development of house prices relative to inflation, the relationship between mortgage debt and income, the relationship between construction and gross domestic product (GDP), and the ratio of loan applications filed for intended rental properties to total loan applications filed by UBS private clients.
Selecting exposed and monitoring regions
The number of risk regions grew in the first quarter of 2013. The regions of Lucerne, Innerschwyz and Glattal-Furttal are now counted among the exposed regions. The crucial factor was the recent rise in the UBS Swiss Real Estate Bubble Index in the past quarter.
Furthermore, the MS-regions of Zurich, Geneva and Lausanne remain among Switzerland's riskiest due to their national importance. Other exposed regions include the large metropolitan areas of Zug, Pfannenstiel, Limmattal, Zimmerberg, March, Unteres Baselbiet, Vevey, Morges and Nyon as well as the tourist regions of Davos, Saanen-Obersimmental and Oberengadin. Alongside Appenzell Innerrhoden and the Prättigau Valley, Nidwalden, Basel-Stadt and Knonaueramt all fall into the category of monitored regions.
Regional risk mpa: 1st quarter 2013
Claudio Saputelli, Head of CIO WM Swiss & Global Real Estate Research
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Dr. Matthias Holzhey, Economist CIO WM Swiss & Global Real Estate Research
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The UBS Swiss Real Estate Bubble Index report is available on the Internet via this link: www.ubs.com/swissrealestatebubbleindex-en.
The next date of publication for the UBS Swiss Real Estate Bubble Index is 5 August 2013.


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Hello lovelies! I apologize for taking so long to post again…I have been working a lot and generally feeling exhausted. I do have several posts I'm working on though!
What a long weekend it was for us! Andrew and I both work long hours on weekends, and this one especially full of… tedious and unpleasant extras. Riding my bike to work three days in a row was tiring, especially in the dark after working 12 hours. After attending a 60 year high school reunion. I was kinda excited, curious since I've only been out of high school 5 years. Andrew said "That sounds like it will be depressing and boring." I said "It will be fun! I get to wear a dress!" And… it was boring and depressing. And I was overdressed. As if being in a room full of people 3 to 4 times my age didn't make me feel out of place enough.
I don't mean to complain. I am really lucky to be employed at all and generally enjoy my job. Sometimes it's just lonely… I used to think I was such a loner. Not antisocial, but not especially social. But there's nothing like moving to the other side of the country away from all your friends and family and then landing one of the few jobs in which you really don't interact on a normal human level with anybody to make you realize how socially needy I am.
Monday I was completely taking it easy. I had some things that need to be done, such as returning books, mailing things, phone calls. I walked for my errands and did some light yoga. Otherwise I just did as much relaxing as possible. I worked on some jewelry and spent time with Andrew. We watched Breaking Bad and I made Mexican Lasagna. Good, lazy times. Just what we both needed!
I have made many incarnations of Mexican Lasagna and it is one of Andrew's favorite dishes. This version is vegetarian and gluten-free.
Mexican Lasagna:
*12 6 inch corn torillas
*2 cups salsa (I use cheapo brands for this, save the fancy stuff for something else)
*1 8 oz can tomato sauce
*1 tablespoon olive oil
*1 cup diced onion
*1/2 red bell pepper, diced
*1 green chile, minced (optional- leave out if you don't like it hot!)
*1 clove garlic, minced
*1.5 cups cooked pinto or black beans
*2 cups lowfat or fat free cottage cheese
*1 egg
*1-2 cups shredded pepper jack or sharp cheddar cheese
*minced fresh cilantro and green onion for garnish (optional)
1. Preheat oven to 400F. Pour 1/2 cup salsa into a large casserole dish, spreading evenly. Combine the cottage cheese with the egg, mixing thoroughly, and set aside.
2. Heat oil in large skillet over medium heat and add the onions, bell and chile pepper, and garlic. Saute until softened. Add the beans, remaining 1.5 cups salsa, and tomato sauce and cook until heated through.
3. Now you are ready to begin layering! Lay 4 torillas on the bottom of your dish, overlapping slightly. Top with 2 cups bean-vegetable mixture, then 1 cup cottage cheese mixture, then 1/2 to 1 cup shredded cheese. Repeat this layering, leaving out the shredded cheese (save it for the final topping). Layer on your last four tortillas, last bean-veggie mixture, and the remaining shredded cheese.
4. Bake uncovered for 35-40 minutes. Let stand at least 15 minutes before cutting for best (neatest!) results! Top with cilantro and sliced green onion if desired.
We ate our fill of this, kept some in the fridge, and put some in the freezer. This weekend I had two freezer meals that I had made already waiting for me to just heat up after work and it was great! I don't get home until 7:30- 7:45 pm and am covered in sweat after my uphill bike ride home. The last thing I feel like doing is cooking! This way I can get home and heat dinner up while I shower! So much better!


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Unless you're insanely rich, paid for your home with cash, and enjoy gambling with both Mother Nature and the arsonists who hang out behind the movie theater on Friday nights, you should have homeowner's insurance. In fact, if you have a mortgage, your lender requires it.
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Pay all of your bills. Insurers are increasingly checking credit scores to price insurance. If there was ever a time to return your overdue library books, it's now.
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- Bright red rubber floors and walls
- An alligator-filled moat
- Water-filled furniture (It never catches on fire.)
- An ark loaded with two of every one of his possessions
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Lindenwood University will break a new enrollment record Monday with 3,532 resident students when classes begin Monday morning.
President James D. Evans said Thursday that Lindenwood's resident population should level out at around 3,475 in late September. An estimated 700 commuter students brings Lindenwood's fall semester population to 4,232.
"It's going to be a little crowded in the cafeteria the first month or so," Evans said. "But there are going to be a lot of options. Despite the fact that we are at capacity, move-in appears to be running smoothly, and our faculty is energized and ready to start the term."
For the first time in recent history, Lindenwood invited freshman and new students to move-in early for the First-Year Experience, a five-day immersion into Lindenwood and its campus culture. The remaining resident students move in over the weekend.
Earlier this month, Evans announced plans to construct a new student commons building on the LU campus. He said it would be a 40,000-50,000 square foot building that would enhance student recreation and activity, and would house a secondary dining hall. In addition, Evans said the university plans on constructing apartment-style housing on 40 acres behind the Performance Arena off Droste Road.
The new construction will allow Lindenwood to grow at a more controlled rate over the next decade, Evans said, instead of the rapid growth Lindenwood has experienced in the past 10 years.
Since Evans has become president, Lindenwood has placed a strong focus on academics, introducing a new doctoral degree and other new programs, such as information technology at a new campus site in Weldon Spring.
In addition, the university has begun pursuing a specialized accreditation for its business programs with ACBSP, the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs. Similar specialized accreditation is being sought by Lindenwood's social work program through CSWE, the Council on Social Work Education.
Evans said Lindenwood had begun a self-study that could lead to application with the Higher Learning Commission for permission to offer a Doctor of Business Administration degree.
"It's a very exciting time to be at Lindenwood," said Evans. "We are moving in a very positive direction academically and financially, and our students and graduates appear very happy that the value of a Lindenwood degree continues to increase."