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Last weekend consisted of boho street style, Tupac's hologram, and pool monsters. And if you think all that couldn't be topped, think again. The second weekend of Coachella was just as crazy, and we sent DJ Brendan Fallis on a adventure (with his friends Hannah Bronfman and Cole Miller in tow), providing that he take pics of everything he did, ate, saw, and all the trouble he got himself into. Looks like he had one hell of a weekend! Click through his pics to see for yourself — it's like you were right there with him in all the festival's glory.
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You know what sucks? You're tearing down the road at a fun but safe 150 mph, when all of a sudden there's an estuary or a river or a pier or swimming pool or an ocean or some other sort of watery annoyance that seems like all it wants to do is make you stop having fun. I mean, come on! I know the Earth is 75% of that drippy crap, but, frankly, I'm sick of it.
Well, thankfully, there's a solution: the Sea Lion. It's a rotary-powered, sea-worthy speed vehicle and it's for sale. The first $250,000 takes it.
The Sea Lion purports to be the world's fastest amphibious vehicle and has been custom designed from the ground up for just this purpose. Incredibly, it uses a 1974 Mazda Rotary 13B engine making 174 HP (though the seller suggests replacing it with a 300-600 HP RX8 Renesis lump). For water travel, the Sea Lion uses a jet ski-like jet drive. These power plants let the beast achieve 125 mph on land and up to 60 mph on water. Not bad, especially when you think about the comparatively glacial pace of Amphicars and Schwimmwagens.
Mark Witt Applied Design built the Sea Lion out of aluminum, and it looks like a purposeful spaceship. Aerodynamic without being sleek, but in a good way. The car has a fully adjustable and articulated front spoiler, lots of exciting vents, shafts, and pods, and one of the most novel headlight/indicator arrangements I've seen on any car, inside of a round clear panel (through which you can also see the steering mechanism) at the front. It looks a bit like a tarantula face to me.
In diagrams, some other interesting details emerge. All the electronics and hydraulics seem accessible from a "25 function bus" that allows for "robotic over-ride." Also, the fighter-stick style gearshift appears to be a fly-by-wire unit, since it can be "reassigned for any functions." This thing is one costume away from making you a superhero.
As for its speed record bonafides, there are a few gaps in the description.
The addition of Rules and Requirements always diminish scientific achievement and exploration. And it just plain ruins all the fun!
If a neutral party is required to settle a performance dispute, "Guinness World Records" is available to record and bear witness to any new achievement. So at least at this time, there does not seem to be a need for any larger event organization.
Anyone want to take up a collection?
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Hi, there. Do you have a plan to get vacation? Where will you go? Do you plan to go somewhere? Or do you want to stay in a villa? Maybe it can be a best choice. You can go to Caribbean coast which present beautiful view there. There is a beautiful villa there. Are you curious? I will show you some pictures if it. Let's check these pictures.
The villa is located on the top of the hill with white theme. There are three houses in a villa. We see the facade of the house is designed with an outdoor living room here. The chic pool is placed in the courtyard of this villa. You can see there is a sunbathing area with some grey sofa beds and some grey cushions on it also.
The special house is designed for living room and a relaxing room.
As you can see here, the living room is decorated with white theme in 'L' shape of the sofa. I like some windows in this living room. With plain white window chasing and transparent glass, we can see a beautiful coast from here. The relaxing room is decorated with two chairs which made from rattan and a round wooden table.
Let's see the bedroom. We see a minimalist design on this bedroom. With white bed, some white pillows, and white blanket on it, make a natural nuance. I like the pendant lamp here. It is decorated with old-fashion style. The bathroom is located near this room. With cream theme of the bathtub, the sink, and even the floor give neutral atmosphere in this room. There is an outdoor relaxing tom with some chairs used to get relaxed to see a beautiful coast of Caribbean.Read more »


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A small dog race, free tacos and sizzling performances are a few of the things people can expect during this Cinco de Mayo holiday weekend.
Cinco de Mayo is commonly known for enjoying discount margaritas at Happy Hour while eating delicious Mexican tamales.
But did you know there are tons of Cinco de Mayo events and activities around our area for the entire family to enjoy? Local businesses are also offering plenty of specials for people to enjoy.
The Scene
The most fun things to do and places to be in D.C., Maryland and Virginia
We've compiled a list of the best events happening this weekend:
Running of the Chihuahuas: The second annual Running of the Chihuahuas is deemed "D.C.'s funniest Cinco de Mayo celebration." The race benefit's PAWS Southwest, a non-profit group building a dog park in Southwest. Besides the Chihuahua race this family friendly event will feature food trucks, contests for best-dressed dog and best trick, music, and a beer stand.
Date and Time: Saturday, May 4, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Location: Kastles Stadium, 800 Water St. SW
National Cinco de Mayo Festival: The annual free festival explores the rich history of Latin American and features children's arts and crafts workshops, live music and food. Hosted by the Maru Montero Dance Company, visitors can expect Mexican folk, salsa, and tango performances.
Date and Time: Sunday, May 5, noon-6 p.m.
Location: National Mall between 8th & 12th streets. Get off at Smithsonian Metro station.
California Tortilla (multiple locations in D.C., Maryland and Virginia): When you buy an entrée at California Tortilla May 3-5, you will get a coupon for a free taco to use on your next visit.
Wine-a-ritas at Veramar Vineyard: Close to the Shenandoah Valley? Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Veramar's famous wine-a-ritas. The $16 admission fee also includes two tacos.
Date and Time: Saturday, May 4, Noon-4 p.m.
Location: 905 Quarry Road, Berryville, Va. Reservations required.
Guacamole Festival at El Centro D.F.: Taste regional guacamoles such as the tradicional (made with avocado, tomato, onion, cilantro and chile serrano) and the Baja (with kiwi, jicama, strawberry, mango, mint, chile arbol, lime and sea salt), plus cocktail specials.
Date and Time: Now through June 30, 5-11 p.m.
Location: 1819 14th St. NW
Cinco de Mayo at Dirty Martini: Go for drink specials (including $4 tequila shots; $5 margaritas and $4 coronas), DJ-spun tunes, $3 tacos and $6 quesadillas.
Date and Time: Sunday, May 5, 5 p.m.
Location: 1223 Connecticut Ave. NW


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In Loss and Living
On Saturday afternoon, my husband received a call from a friend saying his sister-in-law died in an accident and they (he and his wife) were headed to the scene.
Our hearts dropped, and Paul left quickly to meet them.
If you read The Kitsap Sun, it is likely you read about Miriam Snyder. The Kitsap Sun published a lovely article about her on Tuesday.
My husband and I did not know Miriam, but our dear friends are her family. And right now… our friends are hurting. The afternoon of Miriam's passing, my friend's teenage daughter (Miriam's niece) updated her Facebook status:
Life and death are so interchangable. We live in a society that focuses so hard on holding on, that we forget that it is all about letting go. Why do we loose those dear to us? When all is right with the world, that's when calamity comes crashing down. If love comes softly why does death steal so roughly?
*grips chest* Profound.
Times like these seem to bring those involved – closely or peripherally – to a point of reflection. Perhaps these events even bring some to a point of reassessment – our lives, dreams, goals, motives… What seemed important suddenly seems trite. Somehow such loss highlights the true needs of our hearts… our souls.
I will speak for myself. In times like these I find greater patience with my children. I look at them and hold them longer. The joy inherent in their little beings is easier to see, to appreciate. The kisses to my husband's lips hold more… the embrace of a dear friend lingers…
The Sun article ended with a quote about Miriam Snyder by her son, Derek. I'd like to end with his words. I was moved so deeply. He paints a beautiful picture of the love a mother and child share… the impact a mother can have in her child's life. I can only pray I leave such a positively lasting impact in the lives of my own children.
Whether traveling or staying the night at grandma's house, she always taught us to leave our surroundings in better shape than you found them,' he wrote. 'How fitting that, in leaving us, she left everything at least a thousand times better than it was before.
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C# Azure Function for generating an ICS File
This is a sample HTTP trigger Azure Function that returns a ICS file that to the client. The project takes a dependency on iCal.NET, but demonstrates how a simple HTTP Trigger can be implemented.
Additional Details and History
This project originally came out a need to create an ICS file for the Azure Functions webinar. Armed with only the knowledge of what I wanted to create, below is how I started investigating how to do this with Azure Functions :
I began by taking a look at a third party library called iCal.NET. It looks like this handles all the various time zones and client. Next, I opened the Azure Portal and creating a new Azure Function application securing the name that folks would go to :
Next, I chose a language and happily picked C# and used a HttpTrigger template.
By default, the code in the template is looking for a name parameter and a POST command. Since, I didn't want to respond to a POST, but rather just a GET, I used this as my start but deleted the name parameter section.
Armed with just the online editor, I started writing code. I could have downloaded Visual Studio 2017 Preview 3 and the Azure Function tooling for a richer debugging experience, but it was getting late and I wanted to crank this out with just a browser and my C# skills.
I needed to pull in a third party library, so I noticed that you could view "Files" inside the portal and that it supports NuGet. I simply created a
project.json and added the following NuGet package reference to iCal.NET and Newtonsoft.Json :
"frameworks": {
"net46": {
"dependencies": {
"Ical.Net": "2.2.19",
"Newtonsoft.Json": "9.0.1"
When I switched back to my function, I noticed my project started pulling down the references and restarted my function.
The code is pretty self-explanatory if you've used iCal.NET before, but basically I create the file and ensure when someone visits the site that it sends down an ICS file named
During the process of working with the function, I hit the "Save" button and it would let me know if it compiled successfully or not. It finally compiled successfully as shown below :
2017-06-06T23:19:02 Welcome, you are now connected to log-streaming service.
2017-06-06T23:20:02 No new trace in the past 1 min(s).
2017-06-06T23:23:04.794 Function started (Id=xxx-1d71-4f1f-8fbd-6d1b4dcc96f0)
2017-06-06T23:23:05.921 Function completed (Success, Id=xxx-1d71-4f1f-8fbd-6d1b4dcc96f0, Duration=1137ms)
Very cool! Now to test the function, it was as simple as selecting GET from the dropbox on the Test Tab and hitting the Run button.
Now that my function was working properly, I grabbed the URL to my app and pasted it into the browser. The URL was easy to find as shown below:
Success! It downloaded the .ICS file and after opening it, the following entry appeared in my calendar :
I've recently checked the traffic using the "Monitor" section and noticed it has already received 393 downloads!
Whenever I need to update this in the future, all it will require is changing two lines. No additional servers, redeployment, etc. is needed as it will auto compile.
Btw, you can try it now at http://aka.ms/AzureFunctionsLive and be sure to follow @AzureFunctions on Twitter!
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact firstname.lastname@example.com with any additional questions or comments.


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Rushed Reaction: #24 North Carolina 105, Wake Forest 72Posted by nvr1983 on February 22nd, 2014
Here are our observations after North Carolina crushed Wake Forest, 105-72:
- UNC will be an extremely difficult out in March. This shouldn't be too much a surprise after their early season victories against Michigan State, Louisville, and Kentucky, but for much of the season the Tar Heels were dogged by the perception that they were inconsistent and for good reason. Mixed in with their big early wins the Tar Heels also had some awful losses–at home against Belmont and Miami and on the road against UAB and Wake Forest. Since their loss at Virginia on January 20, the Tar Heels have won nine straight and are starting to display the type of consistency that they will need to make a run in the NCAA Tournament. Some of their win streak can be attributed by the current weak state of the ACC, but it also includes wins against Duke and Pittsburgh. Current bracket projections have the Tar Heels being anything between a #5 and #8 seed after this week they should be somewhere near the top of that range.
- Jeff Bzdelik needs a real estate agent. I know that the Wake Forest administration showed a lot of faith in Bzdelik by firing Dino Gaudio, who had taken them to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances, to hire Bzdelik, who was 36-58 in three seasons at Colorado. With nearly three seasons in the books in Winston-Salem, Bzdelik is approaching 30 games under .500. Ron Wellman talked about culture when he hired Bzdelik, but we doubt that he was thinking of this type of culture at the time. At this point we would be shocked if Bzdelik returned next season so the question really is who will replace him. The two names that get thrown around for every power conference vacancy are Bruce Pearl and Ben Howland, but we cannot see either of them going to Wake Forest with the options they will have in front of them. Perhaps the most interesting potential candidate we have heard is Jeff Capel, who has experience at Oklahoma and knows the ACC well sitting alongside Mike Krzyzewski. We obviously have our reservations about hiring a retread who went 27-36 A.B. (after Blake Griffin departed), but he would be a relatively safe hire and one with some decent credentials.
- Roy Williams seems much more relaxed. Early in the season there were rumors that this might be Roy's last year. Those were obviously premature particularly with what appears to be an outstanding freshman class coming in. Still everybody who followed the Tar Heels could clearly tell that this team and this season was taking a toll on Roy. The turnaround in how the Tar Heels are playing has led to Roy's mood to improve significantly (shocking). Although Williams is certainly not young at 63 years old, we would be looking at some of his colleagues in the ACC to retire before we would expect Roy to do so.
- "Stars and the moon align properly" – Roy Williams explaining why his team shot so well from the free throw line (24-29 overall and 16-17 in the first half)
Sights and Sounds.
- "We want biscuits!" – North Carolina students with five minutes remaining in the second half. The game was so out of hand midway through the second half that the 100-point mark, which is the threshold where a Bojangles biscuit promotion kicked in, was all that was in doubt.
What's Next?
- UNC has three games that it should win (only a trip to North Carolina State looks like a potential stumbling block) before a rematch against Duke in Cameron on March 8.
- The season cannot end soon enough for Wake Forest and its fans. Fortunately they only have three home games (one against Duke) and a trip to Miami left before the ACC Tournament and probably one more game there before they can start looking to the future.


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Sunday, November 19, 2006
What to Drink With What You Eat & Who Needs to Know
Before you get to thinking that I'm set to disregard guidebooks, that's not where I'm going. What I am reaching for is another direction.
Last night in a new restaurant in Austin, Texas with friends and clients, we were pondering the wine list. All Italian. The first wine I ordered was cooked. The next wine was fine. The following wine gave me such a terrible headache that I spent most of the night awake with a real pounder. It wasn't from excess. Something was wrong in the winemaking. And something was more wrong in the wine buying.
I'm attuned, after some time, to look at wine from an enjoyment perspective. But deeper down there is an appreciation for a well-made wine. It can come from anywhere. But a thread of quality runs through those examples that reflect sound winemaking principles, healthy and sound wines. When wines age in warehouses or when distributors go out of business, wines that have languished in storage, especially if they aren't of the highest quality or if they have been aged beyond their potential, can produce results that are less than optimal.
When a wine buyer offers to take these products into their restaurants or retail stores and represent them as sound examples of wine, it makes me wonder about the other products in the business. Are they buying eggs on close-out or mushrooms? How about pancetta or olive oil that have passed their expiration points? Maybe the bread isn't as fresh on Sunday as it was on Friday? Or the shrimp smells a little too clean, like it has been passed over by a chlorine wash?
Maybe it's been a few too many days in contact with wine consultants who have gotten good press and believed it a little more than was good for them. And for their customers.
All this is written as a preface to a recent experience I had in Tuscany. There was no wine consultant who wrote the wine list, in fact the list was written in pencil, very simple and innocent. We were in the heart of meat country and the place specialized in sea food. And they did it very well. The restaurant in Castlenuovo Berardenga is Da Antonio. And it was a wonderful example of 1) What to eat with what you drink and 2) what to put on a wine list that works with the food.
Da Antonio - Castelnuovo Berardenga
8 courses
1st- crudo of shrimp and small lobster
2nd – salad of fresh mushrooms, gamberetti and arugula
3rd - puree of eggplant and filet of sole
4th – salad of artichoke julienne and octopus and gamberetti
5th - fried small fish ( like sardine) and tempura style white octopus
6th - pasta with garlic and parsley and julienne calamari ( flat pasta cut on diagonal, small)
7th – rombo (turbo) filet , fresh mushroom and grilled prawns
8th – crème brulee' or tortino cioccolato
- café and grappa
Wine- white blend of Zibbibo, Ansonica and Cataratto from Sicily - Donnafugata Anthilia
A Sicilian wine in Tuscany? That's what I thought. The lady of the house recommended it over Vernaccia, Galestro, Vermentino. We were not disappointed.
Too bad the last few outings back in the New World haven't been as fortuitous.
Perhaps the book, What To Drink With What You Eat, needs to be read by the young consultants who are writing today's wine lists. Or perhaps they need to get back in touch with their client base, folks who dine and have disposable income. Smart folks who travel, people who know quality. That they might have disposable income doesn't mean that they want to drink wines that should have been disposed of months, or years, ago.
Many of us already know what to drink with what we eat. We want honest wines, healthy wines, and sound wines. At fair prices. If you want us to come back, take heed. There are too many possibilities, too many choices, to waste time on "consultants" with worse taste than their already bad attitudes. We are not stupid. We will not come back. You don't have us at "hello."
And our "disposable income" is not at your disposal.
Don't disappoint us.
Tags: Italy, wine, Travel, Tuscany, italian wine, , italian-wine, italian wine guy, wine guy, On the Wine Trail in Italy,What to drink with what you eat
3 comments:
- Travel Italy said...
Caro Alfonso,
you are expecting the restraunteur to see his restaurant as something other than a way to make money by turning tables and buying cheap products while covering the natural flavors with garlic. I believe you are talking about passion, unfortunately passion cannot be franchised thus is very difficult to find.
- November 20, 2006 at 8:44 AM
in this case a good chef, with well prepared food.
but bad advise from a consultant who has gotten too much press for his own good.
- November 20, 2006 at 8:47 AM
Suggerisco il Ristorante Villa di Corliano, ubicato nei due piani dell' antica fattoria, realizzata nel 1754 dall'architetto veronese Ignazio Pellegrini, situato all'interno di un parco secolare di 2,7 ettari.
Il Ristorante si trova a San Giuliano Terme sulla statale del Brennero e Abetone, detta "del lungomonte", che da Pisa porta a Lucca attraverso San Giuliano Terme, a pochi chilometri dall'uscita del casello autostradale di Migliarino e a 7 chilometri dal centro storico di entrambe le città d'arte.
Cucina tipica regionale con un'ottima enoteca nazionale ed estera. Il locale dispone di una superficie totale di oltre 700 metri quadri con numerose sale, accoglienti ed arredate con cura; nel periodo estivo è possibile mangiare sotto un platano secolare della superficie di oltre 200 metri quadrati oppure organizzare eventi nel parco della Villa.
VILLA di CORLIANO
Statale Abetone 50 – San Giuliano Terme (Pisa - Italy)
Tel./fax: 050.815106
- November 21, 2006 at 7:07 AM


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Timarnouk necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 123 diseños de 39 diseñadores freelance.
Wilma Republic
We are a new internet company based in germany focusing on starting online services with a focus on personalization concepts. Our first product is a franchise which we acquired from a Swiss company (www.allerleimedien.ch - logo design by 99designs too) and will launch for the German market in about one month (check http://www.meinnotizbuch.ch). More personalization sites will follow.
B2B. We operate our online services under their specific brand names and not under wilma republic (wr). The B2C sites will carry a disclaimer like this: "meinnotizbuch.de is a product from Wilma Republic", wr target audience are our partner companies etc.
Wilma is the abbrevation for the founders name Willie and Marc, republic stands for the future collection of fine and high end web services we would like to launch and operate under their owen names and logos. We look for a clean, elegant style. Classic but not oldfashioned, expressing our focus on the online business. No unnecessary gimicks but edgy. You might wanne work with the initials WR or an icon or simply a font/typo logo: just be creative an inspired. No resemblance to our first product meinnotizbuch.ch necessary.
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valeriaL necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 460 diseños de 110 diseñadores freelance.
Penrith Ultrasound for Women
I am a 46 year old medical specialist, mother of 4 and I have a Sydney based medical imaging practice in specialist obstetrics and gynaecology. I see my practice as offering a warm and personal, but at the same time professional, service to women in our area. We offer a highly skilled and specialist service in this niche area.
Our practice aims to mainatin a high level of medical service while acknowledging and enjoying the excitment and happiness of expectant parents and providing a compassionate place when things go wrong.
Many of our patients are also nonpregnant women who come for investigation of gynaecological problems and expect a professional and dignified experience.
I am hoping to badge the practice with something that is distinctly feminine- not soft and frilly but warm and strong. It needs at the same time to be clear and simple in keeping with medical professionalism.
Our market is an existing referral base among general medical practitioners and specialists in Western Sydney. Though the practice is well established we have recently changed from a partnership to a solo practice and so the new logo establishes a sense of change in direction.We hope the new logo will be part of the re fit of the rooms, will revamp the stationary and front a web page soon.
Our patients are diverse and include women from teens to old age from many different walks of life.
A logo that can form the basis of a glass sign outside our rooms, be incorporated into a letter head and mark our literature and patient handouts.
I am happy to consider colour or simple tonal images and/or embossed logo.
We would like the feeling of the logo to be easily associated with the female mark of our business but also convey a sense of friendliness/happiness. This is more important than a depiction of ultrasound waves though is the two can be worked together then thats great.
I would like to avoid something too visually complex or multicoloured.
I am happy to incorporate the name or not as the designer prefers but I would like the practice name shown with the logo with a suggestion re font style. I am happy to break up the name of the practice and change font/iltalic
Ultrasound for Women, Penrith.
I have attached the websites of similar practices in other Australian cities that are examples of logos/motifs that I like
so+gi (Brisbane) http://www.sogi.net.au
and melbourne http://www.melbuswomen.com.au
Good Luck
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The Chicago Duo Piano Minifest, held February 1-3 at the Music Institute of Chicago in Evanston, was a showcase of an unusual niche in the piano repertory, highlighting pieces to be played either by two pianists on a single piano or two pianos playing simultaneously. The festival has been held since 1988, the initiative of husband-and-wife pianists Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem, MIC faculty members and long-practiced advocates of the duo piano repertoire. I must confess I approached the festival with some curiosity, for I am not overly familiar with the format of duo piano performances. The piano is a kind of perfect instrument, the only instrument that is really capable of producing by itself the full range of the musical spectrum, indeed, capable of mimicking an entire orchestra on its own. Though it is often combined with other instruments, for instance the whole orchestra in the case of a concerto, or other smaller ensembles for chamber pieces, it is, for me, a symbol of solitude, for the possibility of an uncompromising interpretation of a piece.
It may seem unusual to have two pianists playing a piece together, but as I observed the performers, I found myself fascinated by the way that the various duos worked together, unifying sometimes highly contrasting styles on such a traditionally autonomous instrument. I had the chance to attend two full-length concerts. The first was a recital by the Unison Piano Duo, composed of another husband-and-wife team, the Chinese-born Du Huang and Xiao Hu, faculty members at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. They performed the first half of the concert on the same piano, and each took their own piano during the second half. I was especially fascinated in the contrasts in their styles, with Ms. Hu clearly the more virtuoso of the two, attacking a short piece like John Corigliano's Tarantella (Gazebo Dances)with ferocity, while her husband, Mr. Huang, seemed to be a more reserved, steadying contributor. Other notable pieces included a duet Rondo by Schubert, D.608, the brief but thrilling Libertango by Astor Piazzolla, played on separate pianos, and their piece de resistance, a dual-piano transcription of several notable movements from Stravinsky's Petroushka, which made a convincing argument that a whole orchestra isn't necessary to perform this masterwork.
The second concert, on February 2, featured MIC faculty members performing various pieces. Another husband-and wife team, Mio Isoda-Hagle and Matthew Hagle, led off with a rousing performance of Schubert's Allegro in A Minor, D. 947 (Lebenssturme). Schubert was a mainstay of the performances, as Maya Brodotskaya and Irene Faliks performed his Rondo in A Major, D.951. Especially notable was when Aebersold and Neiweem took the stage and performed two works by Debussy, including a transcription of De l'aube a midi sur la mer from La Mer, which began plainly enough, but built gradually to a thrilling finish. I was not enamored of all of the pieces, particularly the selections from Samuel Barber's Souvenirs, played by Elaine Felder and Milana Pavchinskaya,
or the short pieces from Stravinsky's Sonata for Two Pianos played by Fiona Queen and Mark George, which I found to be fairly banal, chosen seemingly because they fit the format rather than for any musical brilliance. The evening concluded with a rendition of Saint-Saens' always rousing (and crowd-pleasing) Danse Macabre, performed by Inah Chiu and Sung Hoon Mo. There were also several master classes and student performances given in conjunction with the festival. The performances, as well as the long-standing popularity of the festival, demonstrates that the duo piano repertory is one that can produce satisfactory results, even when collaboration is required in what is generally the most uncompromisingly autonomous of genres.


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For the last few months, Microsoft has been working with auto shop West Coast Customs to build the ultimate Windows-powered muscle car, and have taken the design so far that even the most ostentatious rapper might say "Steady on," possibly adding a "Yo" or two.
The team of mechanics took an off-the-shelf 2012 Mustang and stripped off the body, replaced it with a replica of the classic 1967 shell, and then stuffed in as much Microsoft kit as possible.
The dashboard is entirely video-generated, and can show either a representation of the original 1969 dashboard, the 2012 version, or a Windows 8 interface for those who want Metro apps to pop up while driving.
A touchscreen dashboard – what could possibly go wring?
The windshield has a heads-up display for the driver, which can display the latest location and shopping information via Bing, while passengers can play games on the built-in Xbox system using their side of the windshield as a display. When the car is parked, the entire rear window can be used as a projection screen for watching movies or playing games, and it can also display messages to tailgaters when driving.
Inside the car, dubbed Project Detroit, there are Kinect sensors that monitor the passengers' positions and also scan outside the car to provide warnings if pedestrians get too close. The user can also use a Windows phone to monitor the car's surroundings and to broadcast messages to passers-by, such as "Stop keying my car," as well as customize the sound of the car horn.
To make sure that no one steals this Window pimpmobile, the car has the Viper Smart App, which not only acts as the keys to the vehicle, but can also add remote monitoring no matter who is driving. Jeff Sandquist, senior director of developer relations for Microsoft and self-confessed car nut, has been masterminding the project, and at last year's BUILD conference he named this app as one of his favorites, since it allows him to spy on his daughter's driving.
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The car has its own multiuser 4G wireless network, and can store telemetry data such as speed, location, RPM, and fuel level in Windows Azure, while linking in with real-time traffic updates from Ford's commercial SYNC system. It's also festooned with enough LED lighting to make headlights almost unnecessary.
Okay, so what's the point of all this, besides providing Sandquist with a new toy? Well, Microsoft is hoping the experiment will inspire designers to develop automotive systems running Redmond's code. To that end it's opening up all of the code to developers over the next few weeks.
"We started this project because we knew it would be a challenging and fun way to show what all of these technologies can do in an environment like a car," Sandquist wrote in an MSDN blog. "So now we not only have an incredible Mustang 'device' to showcase what we have done, we will be making source code for the major components of the project available on CodePlex in the coming weeks."
The car will also get a certain amount of publicity for Redmond, as it will be featured this Sunday in the reality TV show based around the mechanics at West Coast Customs. Whether Project Detroit will inspire software design remains to be seen, but at least it's an option now for "celebrities" such teenage pop star Justin Beiber, who got West Coast Customs to build him a set of unique wheels that says "I have a small ... well, you know." ®
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One can easily understand the excitement Tom Burbage has for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
One can easily understand the excitement Tom Burbage has for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
After all, he was on the ground floor with Lockheed Martin when it secured the government contract to manufacture the aircraft.
The Lockheed Martin executive brought that enthusiasm with him when he spoke at the Eastern Carolina Aviation Heritage Foundation gala at the Havelock Tourist and Event Center.
We think his presentation was informative. He did a good job explaining the history of the Joint Strike Fighter program, its many international partners, the technological advancement in the aircraft and the reason he said it would be a valuable asset in the defense of this country for generations to come.
He also mentioned that an F-35 could be landing on Cherry Point�s runway this year, giving all a glimpse of what the future holds for the base.
We understand the importantance of the aircraft in the future of Cherry Point. After all, the F-35B version of the jet is scheduled to replace the AV-8B Harriers and EA-6B Prowlers that currently make up the majority of the fleet of Marine Corps planes currently at the base.
Still, we were a bit disappointed that Burbage appeared to gloss over � or not even mention � some of the problems associated with the aircraft.
To his credit, he did mention the recent grounding of the F-35B, after a fuel leak caused an aborted take-off. The grounding does make sense. Any problem with a new aircraft should be completely examined before it�s allowed to be put in the air, risking the lives of the pilots and perhaps even those on the ground.
Burbage mentioned the high-tech display helmets pilots flying the F-35 would use, but didn�t mention video system errors and others that make pilot use of the helmets difficult. Fixes to those problems are in the works.
We also didn�t hear any solutions to the cost of the aircraft, which seems to increase on a daily basis and could threaten the program, and thus threaten the future of Marine Corps jet aviation and thus threaten the future of Cherry Point.
Anyone attending the gala got some good information about the F-35. Of that there is no doubt. Still, we would have liked to have seen a more complete picture with some of the jet�s issues addressed for the program to fully come into focus.


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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Acquired taste: City retreat looking for new artists
ADDRESS: 1310 Wellford Street
NEIGHBORHOOD: Greenleaf
SIZE: 2,747 finished square feet/ 686 unfin.
LAND: 0.224 acres
CURB APPEAL: 9 out of 10
AGENT: Sue Plaskon, Real Estate III, 984-7411
Around these parts, the phrase "artist's retreat" brings to mind certain tie-dyed areas of Nelson County. However, for people: a) working in or near Charlottesville, who: b) have managed to not let this summer's $4-a-gallon peak shock them such that they consider $3.55 gasoline "a great price," and: c) happen to be looking for a house– the answer may lie within the city limits.
With its rustic feel (exposed wooden rafters) and exuberant walls and cabinets, this all-brick Cape Cod on a quiet street in the near northside Greenleaf neighborhood is a retreat in search of an artist.
The owners certainly fit the place they've called home for the past 14 years: the Virginia Film Festival's current director– who happens to be married to the former director of UVA's Art Museum– are making like Lewis and Clark and heading west, where one half of the couple— guess which— will direct the University of Oregon's art museum in Eugene.
Eugene is located in the Willamette Valley, a name the generation that grew up playing floppy-disk computer games may recognize as the destination of the classic "Oregon Trail." Often sought but rarely attained in those days– thanks to the difficulties of hunting pixilated deer with the shift key, and unforeseeable calamities reported in matter-of-fact phrases like "Bill has died of dysentery"– the Willamette today is much easier to reach.
Lewis and Clark, the Oregon Trail, and Donner Party references aside, 1310 Wellford Street takes the über-efficient Cape design and adds more than one artistic twist. Looking ceiling-ward, the living room reveals the sky, through three large and connected skylights.
It's details like those that make this circa-1953 house seem like a contemporary inside, and not by accident. Two owners ago, an architect put his stamp on the house by exposing the rafters, adding the skylights, and turning the upstairs into a sizable loft– of late, host to many film screenings and Oscar-night parties. Though the big screen is now gone, theater lights still illuminate the loft's stairway.
Off the dining room, a spacious deck leads to a swimming pool in the small but verdant backyard. The sellers are willing to remove the pool, although such a demand would clearly be heresy in the summer of Michael Phelps. For anyone hoping to imitate that titan, the city's Crow Pool is a short walk away. Eight Olympic golds are probably a little farther (and Crow is slated for eventual demolition).
We've never seen a basement we like in houses of this era, and this one's no exception. Basements don't get enough natural light, and since we clearly have latent taphephobia (fear of being buried alive), we need a finished basement we'd want to sleep in.
While this underground level boasts new windows, a sizable family room, the fourth bedroom with full bath, and ample storage, the flooring and walls need updating. One encouraging feature down here, though, is headroom: with eight feet between the floor and rafters, even Yao Ming needn't slouch while retrieving his winter clothes for making snow angels– gigantic ones, of course.
If the old saw about "location, location, location" is true, this house has it made. A deep front yard provides protection from the road. The house is about four feet below street level, which adds to the setback effect. CTS's Route 9, with a stop nearby, links residents to UVA and the Downtown Mall. Greenleaf Park is a five-minute walk.
Charlottesville has plenty of neighborhoods whose residents have prevailed upon city planners to eliminate through streets, rendering them extraordinarily quiet. Not coincidentally, such neighborhoods tend to be wealthier and more desirable, and Greenleaf is no exception. Kids here attend Venable Elementary and Walker Upper Elementary, both within walking distance.
The house's interior in its current form is certainly an acquired taste. The bright orange wall that greets visitors– artist's milieu or Cavalier pride? Red kitchen cabinets bring to mind the warnings posted at roller coaster entrances: persons with hypertension or heart problems might not enjoy this ride. The sellers are willing to paint more neutral colors inside if a more left-brained buyer decide to ink the contract.
The agent has a hunch, though: this house, given its ownership history, may be waiting for another artistic person to fully appreciate it. If that's the case, we hope Nelson County's bohemians are reading.
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Ohio prosecutors prepared to call key eyewitnesses in their case against two high school football players charged with raping a 16-year-old girl after an alcohol-fueled party last summer.
The testimony of three teenage boys who watched the alleged attacks is a crucial part of the state's evidence, since the girl has said she has no memory of the event. Two of the boys took video and photographic images of the alleged attacks, then later deleted them.
Friday's testimony will follow evidence introduced Thursday in the form of sometimes graphic text messages in which one of the defendants, Trent Mays, gave differing accounts of what happened between him and the girl. At one point Mays appeared to enlist the help of a friend in whose basement one of the alleged attacks happened to cover up the event.
In other messages introduced by the prosecution, the girl begged a friend for information about the night, saying she had no memory of the evening and feared she might have been drugged.
"Swear to God I don't remember doing anything with them," the girl wrote to the friend who authorities say saw the assaults.
"I wasn't being a slut. They were taking advantage of me," she also wrote to the same boy.
Mays, 17, and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, are charged with digitally penetrating the West Virginia girl, first in the back seat of a moving car after a party Aug. 11 and then in the basement of a house. Mays also is charged with illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material. The two maintain their innocence.
Prosecutors insist the girl was too drunk to consent to sex, while defense attorneys have portrayed her as someone who was intoxicated but still in control of her actions. Witnesses have said she was so drunk she threw up and had trouble walking and speaking.
In one text after the alleged assault, the girl told a boy who prosecutors say watched the attack, "Wait, I think I was drugged. I know I have no memory from after I left," the party.
Special Judge Thomas Lipps is hearing the case without a jury. He told participants Thursday he would keep the trial in session well into the evening and through the weekend.
The case has riveted the small city of Steubenville amid allegations that more students should have been charged and led to questions about the influence of the local football team, a source of a pride in a community that suffered massive job losses with the collapse of the steel industry.
The texts introduced Thursday in juvenile court also included ones in which Mays admitted that he digitally penetrated the girl. In other messages, he told friends he'd participated in a different, mutual sex act with the girl.
He also sent messages to his friends to try to get them to gloss over what happened that night. In a text to a boy who lives in the house where the second attack is said to have happened, Mays wrote, "Just say she came to your house and passed out."
In another message that prosecutors said Mays sent to the girl's father, he said, "this is all a big misunderstanding."
Prosecutors also presented texts sent by Mays to friends in which he suggested Steubenville football coach Reno Saccoccia would let the players involved off lightly.
The coach "...took care of it," Mays said in one text introduced by prosecutors.
"Like he was joking about it so I'm not worried," Mays said in another text.
Saccoccia has not commented about the allegations, and Steubenville school officials have refused to make him available. Phone and email messages were left after hours for Superintendent Michael McVey. The district has promised to boost education programs about bullying, date rape and sexual harassment and add training for faculty and staff members.
Additional testimony Thursday came from Sean McGhee, a former Steubenville high school student who said he considered the girl his friend and said she was extremely drunk the night of the party. He said he was upset after hearing about the alleged assault and texted Mays.
Dissatisfied with Mays' account, he texted back: "I saw the pix, bro. Don't lie."
Walter Madison, an attorney for Richmond, challenged McGhee's account, saying he may have exaggerated in his mind the girl's intoxication because of his anger over the allegations.
Authorities said they collected 17 cellphones in their investigation. The evidence they yielded is considered crucial to prosecutors' case against the boys because of photos taken that evening.
If convicted, Mays and Richmond could be held in a juvenile jail until they turn 21.
The Associated Press normally does not identify minors charged in juvenile court, but Mays and Richmond have been widely identified in news coverage, and their names have been used in open court.
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Before he rose to notoriety as the founder of Penthouse magazine, Bob Guccione allegedly wrote letters soliciting customers to buy his dirty photos at the bargain rate of 10 photos for $2 under the pseudonym of "Robert Gucci."
That's just part of what is revealed by the more than sixty pages of FBI records on Guccione obtained by TPM through a Freedom of Information Act request. Guccione died in October at the age of 79.Until now, it was widely held that Guccione got into the business in 1964 with the founding of Penthouse. But the new information unveiled in an FBI file from 1964 shows that a "Gucci" who shared an address with Guccione had been under investigation in 1956 for "sending obscene photographs through the mail."
At the time he wrote the letters in 1956, Guccione would have been in his mid-twenties. An investigation was ended when the company "Gucci" was using voluntarily went out of business, an official at the U.S. Postal Inspector's Office in New York told the FBI.
Here's what Guccione, who said he was an artist in Europe, allegedly wrote to a prospective client sometime in 1956:
"Gucci" wrote that he had photos of "dozens of other, young, Italian girls," but he chose to send photos of one of the girls (whose name the FBI redacted) whose "voluptous [sic] and perfect beauty of her body alone, made me turn to photography." You can read the full letter here.
During that 1964 investigation, his landlord in New York (Guccione was subletting at the time) told the FBI he Guccione was immature and financially supported by his father.
Allegations of Guccione's ties to organized crime are a running theme in the file, particularly in the course of his efforts to build a casino in Atlantic City. He couldn't get a gaming license because of the investigation, which helped doom the effort, according to New York magazine, but he was ultimately vindicated.
Heavily redacted FBI records from 1983 show that an an appointee of President Ronald Reagan was investigated over allegations of ties to organized crime and Guccione. The appointee in question had worked for Penthouse in the course of a libel lawsuit. The appointee, whose name was redacted, had been an investigator for both the House of Representatives and the Senate and was nominated for the Chief Investigator of a Commission On Organized Crime, which Reagan established by executive order.
Another lawyer in the same libel lawsuit, whose name was also redacted, was interviewed about the allegations against the appointee. In the lawsuit, La Costa v. Penthouse International, it was alleged that Penthouse committed libel for publishing an article asserting that the La Costa Casino was a haven for criminals funded with money connected to the mafia. The lawyer told the FBI that the appointee "has frequent contact with organized crime members" and that he "could be had or bought." But the FBI file seems to indicate that further investigation revealed there wasn't anything to the allegations.
In a Dec. 7, 1983 letter to White House Counsel Fred F. Fielding, the FBI notes that they were unable to further investigate the ties because Richard A. Hauser, Deputy Counsel to the President, was unable to provide the name of a confidential source who may have had more information about the allegations. The FBI said it would not look into the allegation any further unless instructed to do so by the White House.
The most recent set of reports in the file date back to 1986, when the FBI investigated Guccione and Penthouse for knowingly hiring underage models. The mother of an unnamed victim from Casper, Wyoming reported to the FBI that her daughter "may have been involved in making sexually explicit films" after running away from home to Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Through interviews with the mother and the victim herself, the FBI pieced together that the victim had performed in wet T-shirt contests where she had attracted the attention of pornography producers.
While the victim was still in Florida, her mother received rosy reports from her daughter and relayed to the FBI her daughter's future plans as an adult model. "Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse Magazine, allegedly very interested in victim and wants her to do photo spread for possible use as Penthouse Pet of the Month." The victim planned on flying out to Los Angeles "to do five day location photo shot (sic)." She said she planned to "stay at local hotel as guest of Penthouse Magazine."
The reality of the situation was more grim. After returning home to Casper, the FBI interviewed the victim in person. She was showcased in bikini and wet T-shirt contests in Fort Lauderdale "in which films and photographs were made of her and other contestants in various stages of undress." "Many of the contestants were supplied with cocaine and other controlled substances." One hot location for the models was called "The Candy Store."
In addition to cocaine and other controlled substances, the victim was also asked to perform sexual services for a business associate of an acquaintance to repay a debt the acquaintance owed.
She was eventually enticed to pose for a supposed "staff photographer for Penthouse Magazine" in an all-day photoshoot. "Victim stated that she was not asked, nor did she offer any proof of age." The victim was promised that her photos would be mailed to Penthouse's headquarters in New York City, and she was told that "if selected to appear in Penthouse Magazine, … she would receive a minimum of 5,000 dollars, maximum of 450,000 dollars."
Once back in Wyoming, "Victim has heard nothing from Penthouse (redacted) to date," the FBI wrote. The FBI never pinned down any connection to Guccione directly.
That was not the first time Guccione and Penthouse ran into trouble with the FBI for not checking the ages of their models. Two years earlier Traci Lords appeared as the September 1984 centerfold. When the magazine hit newsstands, she was 16. The Lord's investigation eventually led to a Supreme Court decision, but nothing about the Lords investigation appears to have been included in the file.
What is also curious about the FBI file is that it makes no mention of Guccione's involvement with publishing the Unabomber's letter in 1995. He famously refused to cooperate with the FBI at the time.
Towards the end of his life, the changing media environment was not kind for Guccione and Penthouse. At his peak, Guccione was listed on many Forbes wealthiest lists and Penthouse sold five million copies per month. Guccione built failed hotels and casinos, and he invested in quixotic nuclear fusion energy projects. He purchased Judy Garland's piano and Picasso and Van Gogh paintings to decorate his 26-room Manhattan townhouse. His expenses combined with flagging sales led to Penthouse's publisher going bankrupt in 2003 and Guccione resigning as chairman of the board of Penthouse International, as Vanity Fair recounted.
The FBI's response to TPM's FOIA request mentions that files which may be responsive to the request were destroyed on July 2, 1977 and May 21, 1992. In addition, the records of the FBI's Los Angeles field office could not be searched, and additional records have been transferred to the National Archives on Jan. 28, 2010.
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February 10, 2008 Chichen-Itza Today we toured the ruins of Chichen-Itza.<snip>One thing that many "gringos" do not know is that the correct pronunciation is Chichén Itzá (that is to say, the accent is on the second syllable in each instance). We found that arriving at the "new" CI at its opening hour allowed us to miss the tour bus cadre, and when those folks arrived, we went to the old CI, with no tour bus people obscuring every view. Plan ahead is the rule of the day!
Decided the trip wasn't worth the cost if we couldn't see Chichen-Itza. Thanks for the photos At least we now know what some of it looks like.
We found that arriving at the "new" CI at its opening hour allowed us to miss the tour bus cadre, and when those folks arrived, we went to the old CI, with no tour bus people obscuring every view. Plan ahead is the rule of the day!
Jim,A good call on your part to cancel I think. Chichen-Itza is NOT to be missed. We did go early, right when they opened and avoided the throngs of tour busses. The people I got in my photos were from our group and I wanted to show their faces to friends and family following along. It is a big place and was relativlely uncrowded until busses arrived. The only down side to going early is that not all of the vendors were set up. But by mid day we had a huge selection of souvenir stuff from which to choose.
I enjoyed following your Yucatan/Mexican 2008 journal and plotting Terrys Datastormsuser.com coordinates for future reference. After 1,900 miles from the border of Texas to Cancun, 10 RV parks later and 21 of 46 days gone by, I have not heard of your caravan playing the Mexican Train Game.Did you get the official rules to the Mexican Train Game from the locals?
;)hey! trip well deserved, enjoy love ya's sis/sue carr
February 12, 2008Xcaret 49 miles from CancunI had never heard of the place we visited until today. It is called Xcaret ( Xs are pronounced as sh so it sounds like shiscaret. I think. It is an amusement park that I can compare to Disneyland, Wild Animal Park and Monterey Aquarium. We arrived after a 49 mile bus ride and were given maps, coupons for lunch, drinks and discounts on scuba gear. We were told to meet for the dinner show at 5:30. On your mark, get set, HAVE FUN! We played like kids all day. The first thing we did was to figure out how to get a locker, get our clothes changed, pack a wet bag, get a life jacket, get snorkel equipment and get into a river which follows an under ground tunnel for almost a mile. We floated down this large tunnel with about 15 of our closest friends. Or at least they were after all of the pushing and shoving and water banging us into each other and the side. We finally got the hang of just relaxing and letting the slow current carry us around the twists and turns of this tunnel. Occasionally a skylight would appear and we could see the sky above us. We paddled and screamed and posed for the many photo opportunities along the way. At the end we were wet, tired and very hungry so we trotted off to the seafood buffet. It overlooked the part of Cancun you see in the travel magazines. White sandy beaches, turquoise waters, then deep blue waters, Palm trees, balmy breeze and a scrumptious buffet. We went back for seconds, desserts, ordered beers and then we were set for the rest of the day to tour the park. We went off to snorkel, rest under the cabanas, hang in the hammocks and use up the free beer coupons. We saw the bats in caves, big sea turtles in ponds, manarays, rays, leopards, fish, dolphins, parrots, a tapir, and many others but Im too tired to recall them all. We managed to return our locker keys, change clothes and meet the group for the dinner show at the theatre. The theatre is a huge arena type deal that seats 4,000 people and we had VIP seats that included a 4 course dinner and wine with the show. The show depicted an historical timeline of the Mexican history through dance and music. The ancient games of Mayans were enacted and we cheered when our side got a goal. We marveled at the feathered costumes of the Mayan dancers. I wanted to boo and hiss as the Spanish soldiers came on the scene (but they were good dancers). The songs and dances went through the history and came into modern time where we saw a rendition of the Mexican hat dance. The Mariachis trumpeted and singers sang and the audience clapped. I cant begin to describe how elaborate the costumes and how precise the dancers. There were hundreds of dancers who thrilled us all evening. It was like a culmination of all that we had learned on our trip so far in a musical format. But alas the day ended and we arrived back at our motorhome at 10:15 pm. Im writing this late as I dont want to get behind in my story telling. Tomorrow is another big day in Cancun. Statistics:Motorhome Miles Driven: 0 Temperatures: High 84 Low 71 Humidity 92% .2 inches of rain during nightGPS Coordinates: N 21 12.77 W 86 48.22
February 13, 2008 - Isla Mujeres, an island just off Cancun
Anyway, just wanted to let you know we are enjoying being on this caravan with you and Terry.
When I saw the 4th picture from the left of your Isla-Mujeres-Pictures - that one with the boats on it - I saw the water and immediately I had the smell of water in my nose. Wonderful. Wish I could beam me there..
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August 3, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The fourth annual Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP11) will be held September 6-9 at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center. Hundreds of global innovators including investors, foundations, institutions and social entrepreneurs representing 75 countries are expected to gather in San Francisco to address the impact investing market – an emerging asset class that provides financial gains for investors with a social and environmental benefit.
The Global Impact Investing Network's data last year estimated current impact investments at $50 billion but expect it to increase to $500 billion, or 1% of all managed assets, by 2014. Keeping pace with the market growth, SOCAP conferences have scaled more than 200% in three years. In the Bay Area, SOCAP has grown from 600 to 1,400 people, with 20,000 following online, and 8,000 community members active in social media channels. More than 50 social entrepreneurs will attend on scholarships. In addition, the best entrepreneurs from the best accelerator programs, including the Unreasonable Institute, Echoing Green and Slow Money will be pitching their companies to impact investors.
"SOCAP is bringing together a global community of change makers who are forming partnerships and funding innovative solutions that are built to achieve positive social change and yield profits," stated Kevin Jones, SOCAP Founder. "We are passionate in supporting social entrepreneurs creating beneficial change in the world by providing access to institutions, investors and foundations that want to be their partners in this endeavor. We are dedicated to advocating this movement to the broad investing community by showcasing how they can choose to integrate money and meaning and make both a significant and valuable change for their portfolio and the people and planet around them."
Helping investors identify solid investable opportunities has been made easier with the June launch of the ImpactAssets 50, the first publicly published list of private debt and equity impact investment fund managers including leaders from microfinance, community development, fair trade, and other strategies. The IA50 represents $8.9 billion of capital invested across multiple asset classes, geographies, and impact areas.
Ron Cordes, Co-Chairman of $21 billion asset management firm Genworth Financial Wealth Management and ImpactAssets board member remarked, "We've seen a dramatic increase in impact investment products and created the IA50 to address and simplify this rapidly evolving marketplace that is bridging the gap between philanthropy and traditional investment. SOCAP is instrumental in accelerating the sector's growth and will help drive further dollars into the space by hosting and nurturing a worldwide community that aspires to educate, collaborate and partner in businesses that can solve the world's social and environmental problems."


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Man left severed fingertip behind at crime scene
Police said they have made an arrest in a vandalism case where they found a severed fingertip next to a sport utility vehicle with slashed tires, reported the Waterloo Courier newspaper.
Joseph Horak, 24, was charged with third-degree criminal mischief in connection with the case in December.
The Courier reported that Horak showed up at an emergency room with an injury to his right pinkie, similar to that of the recovered digit, according to court records.
Two others were charged in the case: Andrew James Metcalf, 23, and Haley Joanne Barkema, 21.
The Courier reported that according to court records, the SUV owner was an ex-boyfriend of Barkema, and on the morning of Dec. 15 he found his Buick Rainier with three cut tires along with the severed tip of a finger in his driveway.


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DOVER — State Sen. David H. Watters, D-Dover, intends to file legislation requiring the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services to conduct a formal rule-making process on the 2009 numeric nutrient criteria for the Great Bay Estuary and has also asked for an additional monitoring station to analyze its water.
LSR #958, which Watters will file, also directs the NHDES to perform an independent peer review.
"This is just one opportunity with the legislative process to make sure that the DES is listening to the coalition communities and making sure the science is looked over very carefully," Watters said.
The bill will be filed in response to a lawsuit filed by the Great Bay Municipal Coalition communities of Newmarket, Exeter, Portsmouth, Dover and Rochester and the permits issued by the Environmental Protection Agency to lower the nitrogen levels in the Great Bay from their current 15-20 mg/L levels to 3 mg/L. This required limit will cost these communities millions of dollars worth of upgrades to their wastewater treatment plants. The Coalition is asking the EPA to issue permits capping nitrogen at 8 mg/L, a level they believe, and have had engineers prove, is more attainable.
Since the lawsuit, stating the NHDES failed to conduct a formal rulemaking process required under the federal Clean Water Act, Newmarket and Exeter have received their National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits.
Exeter has not decided if they will accept the permit yet, while Newmarket has agreed to meet the EPA's recommended nitrogen discharge limits.
"We do not agree that EPA and (the Department of Environmental Services) have addressed all of the uncertainties about the health of Great Bay," a public statement released by Newmarket officials last month said. "However, we feel that it is in the best interest of our community to work with the EPA to protect Great Bay instead of entering into a lengthy and costly legal process."
Since Newmarket will accept the permit, state Rep. Adam Schroadter, R-Newmarket, who had made a similar bill to Watters', decided to forgo filing his piece of legislation. He met with Watters on Wednesday, where he announced his decision.
According to Watters, Schroadter sensed that since Newmarket, his town, had agreed to the nitrogen discharge permit, it might be a "little awkward" for him to file the bill.
"I can't speak for Schroadter," Watters said, "But it seemed to be a better strategy to go through the Senate. He might co-sponsor, but he has to sign off on that."
Watters is hopeful that the bill will pass, but in the meantime, he said there are officials willing to discuss the issue.
"I think there are opportunities for on going conversation. I spoke with folks at DES who are very open to talking more over with the 2009 report," he said. "I think this can be a vehicle for conversation and that may be one thing that will be helpful about it, whether it passes or not."
Additionally, Watters has written to Gov. Maggie Hassan and the NHDES Commissioner Tom Burack requesting $200,000 be included in the state budget proposal for a monitoring station to be put in the Cocheco River.
"To my understanding, there is only one operating now in the Great Bay," Watters said. "For the future, there needs to be more monitoring in different areas in the bay for better readings."
Watters said for now, he will wait to hear back from Burack who will know whether the governor will include the station in her proposal in February.


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Mormon College Seemingly Adopts 'God Hates Skinny Jeans' Mantra as They Fail Student for Wearing Them
College exams are stressful enough without having to worry about how you're dressed when you leave the house. But Rachel Vermillion, a senior at Brigham Young University-Idaho, learned that attire matters — when she showed up to take an exam, a testing center employee turned her away, claiming her pants were too tight.
The Mormon school does have a dress code dictating a ban on "form-fitting clothing," but with the rising popularity of leggings and skinny jeans, the Latter Day Saints have begun to focus on how those dress code boundaries are enforced and who bears the brunt of the enforcement.
Vermillion told Scroll, the student newspaper, "It was really frustrating because there were skinny girls who were wearing tight pants who were getting admitted, but I'm curvy so my regular-fitting pants were a little bit tighter on me and he wouldn't let me in. It was offensive and humiliating."
The controversy then became twofold — was Vermillion punished for her clothes, or her size?
On Wednesday morning, BYU-Idaho issued a statement on its Facebook page that said in part, "BYU-Idaho's longstanding dress & grooming standards promote principles of modesty and restrict formfitting clothing, but skinny jeans are not singled out or prohibited. In addition, the Testing Center issue reported in Scroll has been corrected and is no longer in force."


text: Mandalay Mandalay – the name reverberates an aura of old majestic kingdoms, despite the fact that this fairly new city was created by King Mingdon Min of Burma in 1857. Legend has it that the city was built to fulfil Lord Buddha's prophecy for it to be a metropolis of Buddhism. While much of its old grandeur has diminished since the World War II, plenty of Buddhist heritages still enjoy their well-preserved existence here, which explains why the majority of monks in Myanmar reside here. Top 5 Must Do's Mahamuni Buddha Temple Constructed after Buddha's visit to Dhanyawadi City of Arakan in 554 BC, it is one of the most cherished Buddhist temples in the world, as it is home to the Mahamuni image (also known as The Great Sage). According to the local folklore, once the image was casted, Buddha himself breathed upon it, and thereafter the image became the exact likeness of the Mahamuni. Mandalay Hill An iconic landmark of the city from which it got its name, Mandalay Hill stands tall at 230 metres above ground, with spectacular views of the nearby stupas, Ayeyarwady River, and a stunning panorama of the city. You can choose whether to climb 1729 steps of covered stairway, take the escalator or a motor vehicle to the top, where there are temples, a monastery, as well as a hall where the Peshawar Relic (the three fragments of bone of Buddha) is put on display. Kuthodaw Pagoda More than just your usual pagoda, this creation of King Mingdon has 729 marble slabs inscribed with texts of Tripitaka, a collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhism tradition. In addition to that, you can find the world's largest book – with 730 leaves and 1460 pages upon stone tablets, housed in small Sinhalese relic caskets or shrines around the central golden pagoda. Amarapura Just down south from the city centre is the township of Amarapura which has a colourful history of its own. Here you can visit the U Bein Bridge—a 1.2km wooden foot bridge which is the world's longest teak bridge, Kyawtawgi Paya—a stupa built by King Pagan in 1847, and Amarapura Palace ruins which contain the tombs of King Bodawpaya and King Bagyidaw as well as part of the old canal. You can also find Buddha's Sacred Replica Tooth Relic Pagoda here. Mandalay Marionettes Theatre A colourful and entertaining cultural show which consists of three different parts—introduction to Myanmar traditional dance and music, Myanmar puppet show, Buddha and/or Ramayana's story—the theatre offers an interesting insights into the local arts and cultural scene. To and from airport Transportation To Duration Fare Taxi City centre 1 hour Around MMK 21000 Your awesome getaway awaits you right here! Book your flights now! Quick Facts Currency Myanmar Kyat (MMK) Electricity 230-240 Volt Language Burmese, English Time zone UTC +6:30 Tel code +95 2 Religion Buddhism Want to read more? Download FREE Discover Indochina & Myanmar Travel Guide now! Weather MAY - OCT Wet Season 27°C - 37°C Your raincoat will be your best friend especially in September and October. NOV - APR Dry season 21°C - 39°C Best time to visit is during the cool January. View how you can fly in with our interactive map! Map it out Check out these other destinations! Australia Gold Coast Melbourne Sydney Cambodia Siem Reap China Changsha Hangzhou Kunming Shanghai Wuhan Xi'An Hong Kong Hong Kong India Kochi Indonesia Bali Bandung Jakarta Solo Yogyakarta Japan Osaka Tokyo Malaysia Kota Kinabalu Kuala Lumpur Kuching Langkawi Miri Penang Myanmar Mandalay Nepal Kathmandu Singapore Singapore South Korea Busan Taiwan Taipei Thailand Bangkok Chiang Mai Krabi Phuket Surat Thani Vietnam Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City


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Israeli police arrest 3 suspects in connection to killing of 2 people at Tel Aviv gay center
JERUSALEM – Israeli police say they have arrested three suspects in connection to the killing of two people at a gay youth center in Tel Aviv four years ago.
Spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said the suspects were arrested Wednesday. These were the first arrests in connection to 2009 incident in which a masked gunman shot and killed two people at the club in Tel Aviv and seriously wounded four others.
Rosenfeld said the suspects will be brought before a Tel Aviv court on Thursday.
The killings were the most serious homophobic attack in a country that is fairly gay-friendly, particularly in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.
The two killed were a 26-year-old counselor and a 17-year-old girl.
The arrests came before Tel Aviv's annual gay pride parade, set for Friday.


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Elsewhere, A.J. Burnett hits two batters in a Yankees' simulation game. Here's your evening update on the NLCS/ALCS pitching rotations.
• Assuming that Halladay starts on Saturday, and assuming that he wins the Cy Young this season, it will be the first time since 1991 "that a Game 1 in a League Championship Series has featured the reigning Cy Young winner against the soon-to-be Cy Young winner." This is too much specific speculation for me. Let's get general! This game will be "a matchup for the Ages," a NLCS classic, and also a pitching classic. Now that's a billing. No pressure, boys.
• Since it is the Year of the Pitcher, it is by association the Postseason of the Pitcher, and the remaining four teams are finalizing their pitching rotations:
• Jonathan Sanchez will start Game 2 for San Francisco; Matt Cain will pitch Game 3.
• Charlie Manuel hasn't yet released his rotation, but yes, Roy Halladay will probably pitch Game 1.
• The Rangers have tabbed C.J. Wilson, Colby Lewis, Cliff Lee, and Tommy Hunter.
• The Yankees are going with CC Sabathia, Phil Hughes, Andy Petitte, and…
• A.J. Burnett. A.J. Burnett doesn't have to watch Game 4 of the ALCS from his couch anymore. Joe Girardi named him the starter, and Burnett "took a big step forward" by hitting two batters and throwing some wild pitches in a Yankees' simulation game on Wednesday.


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The 2014 season is upon us! We'll be in Houston, Texas from May 12th - May 15th, 2014.
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Facebook users overeat and overspend, according to a new report.
While previous studies have said that the social network can boost self-esteem, researchers also say that all that time online can also mean less self-control in eating and spending, according to the New York Daily News.
"Because consumers care about the image they present to close friends, social network use enhances self-esteem in users who are focused on close friends while browsing their social network," authors Keith Wilcox of Columbia University and Andrew T. Stephen of the University of Pittsburgh,wrote in a study that will appear in the June 2013 Journal of Consumer Research.. "This momentary increase in self-esteem leads them to display less self-control after browsing a social network."
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Wilcox and Stephen studied 100 Facebook users, using a combination of surveys, self-esteem tests, and observations. Their findings showed that more time spent on Facebook was linked with a higher body-mass index, increased binge eating, a lower credit score and higher levels of credit card debt.
So does increased self-esteem lead to weight gain and credit card debt? If so, some may choose to be mired in self-doubt.


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- Declaration of Covenant by Perry Gaugh against C. W. Nuckols regarding the prior sale of Martha Ann, a slave woman sold by Nuckols to Gaugh with the assurance of having sound mind and body. Martha Ann fell ill and died soon thereafter, resulting in this lawsuit for $600. Includes attached original Bill of Sale. In Lincoln County, Kentucky.
- Two-page evaluation of the estate of Francis M. Hunt, prepared by appointed commissioners to determine the value and interest of his property, including "a negro slave named Willis worth $1,000." Signed by commissioners N. G. Tevis, Roy Stewart, and John S. Murphy. Note on back reads, "N. B. Collin, Guardian on Petition."
- Three-page letter marked 'Confidential' to Lysander Spooner of Boston [Massachusetts] requesting his participation in an Executive Committee formed to advocate for the enlistment of blacks to fight in the Civil War. Signed by George L. Stearns on behalf of the Committee. This letter is part of the Slavery collection in New-York Historical Society.
- Printed resolution from the General Anti-Slavery Convention, held in London between June 12 and June 23 in London, by the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society [later the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society] condeming the slave trade. Signed by Society President Thomas Clarkson.
- Portage bill for the Brig Othello, listing crew names, wages, and term of employment on a passage to the coast of Africa. Notes four men, George Harvey, Michael Keable, John Chace, and Ezekiel Mitchell [Mitchel] that "left the vessel at Virginia." On back, additional detail about wage payments to crew members.
- Unsigned letter with no addressee regarding charges from Captain [Thomas] Rogers [possibly on the Brig Othello] for wood, canoe hire, corn, and water. The author writes that, "if you possibly can imagine this to be a reasonable charge, pray allow it to him - but it is more than double we were ever charg'd by those that brought off twice the number of slaves."
- One-page deposition of Richard Colgate of Kent County, Delaware, regarding his runaway slave James Winham. Includes detailed description and account of Winham's escape to New York, where he "inlisted [sic] in his Majesties Service in Capt. Langdons Company in New York by the name of John Williams." Recorded and signed by New Castle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware Supreme Court Justice, Nicholas Ridgely, Esq.
- One-page printed petition completed in manuscript, submitted by John McLean of Liberty County [Georgia] for payment from Joseph Law for a female slave who he had "converted to his own proper use and involvement to the damage of the petitioner." Signed by Howly [probably Richard Howly] and Benj'n [Benjamin] Andrew.


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The other day, my wife was picking our daughter up at her bus stop and, as she waited, she saw a lady pass by, dressed in a long green coat with a belt around the waist, wearing a hand-knitted toque, and a long multi-colored scarf, but she couldn't get a look at her face. So, she was left with a troubling question:
Was she an old lady—or a hipster?
Hipsters, the über-hip group of 20-30 somethings who replaced the Emo phenomenon of the mid-2000s, can be identified easily: usually by their fashion sense, preferring vintage and thrift store inspired garb over the mass-produced consumer fashions from Walmart. (Also known as the opposite of me.)
They would resonate with Grandpa Gil from Trevin Wax's Clear Winter Nights, who "sported a pair of glasses that looked remarkably en vogue—not because they were new but because he had worn them so long they'd come back into style."
But, like any other fashion trend, they're only riffing off of what's come before.
The Christian hipsters are no different. They owe their fashion sense to several men from an earlier generation, but there's one man in particular to whom they owe an enormous debt:
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MWC 15 Special
While Samsung might received the crown for being the first manufacturer which launched the first Android 4.0/Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone - thanks to the help of Google, Chinese manufacturer Huawei definitely gets the crown for being the first manufacturer rolling-out its Ice Cream Sandwich update to an existing device. And the device in question, which has the honor is, you guess it, the Huawei Honor aka the "U8860 V100R001C00 B863"! If you speak Simplified Chinese, you can get the download of Huawei's so called "demo build" now - straight from Huawei's support site to upgrade your Android 2.3.5-powered Honor to Android 4.0. Interesting enough, the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade is only half as much as the Gingerbread update.
The Simplified Chinese 148.57 MB upgrade is now available from Huawei's Chinese Honor support site.
UPDATE [12.12.2011]: We've just received the confirmation that - even if stated as Chinese - the ROM comes with multiple language support (including English and other European language) as well as instructions how to revert back to Gingerbread.UPDATE 2 [12.12.2011]: It really looks like Huawei is taking its Honor Ice Cream Sandwich development more than serious! The company has just released two new ROM builds, one with Kernel 2.6.35 and one with Kernel 3.0.8. Just for your background, the commercially released Samsung Galaxy Nexus is only using Kernel 3.0.1! UPDATE 3 [13.12.2011]: Whatever happened, it seems that Huawei has taken down the public Ice Cream Sandwich updates, it has just released yesterday. It's unknown if this was done by purpose of by request of Google or competitors but it seems the public Android 4.0-love for the Honor is on-hold for now.
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(WIOA) delivers a full array of services to employers, job and training seekers, youth, Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants, veterans, migrant and seasonal farm workers and county residents.
Read more on our Workforce Services and Job Search pages...
Welfare-to-Work (WTW) provides services to motivate, support and prepare families and individuals receiving public assistance (CalWORKS) to achieve self-sufficiency through employment.
All eligible CalWORKs recipients will receive an orientation into the Welfare-to-Work program. During the orientation participants will learn about the program, resources available in the community, exemptions, and other imperative information. The appraisal follows the orientation with an in-depth review of the participant's education and employment background.
Upon entering the Welfare-to-Work program most participants will sign an activity agreement for job readiness assistance in order to prepare the participant to seek employment. Job readiness provides training to learn or improve upon basic job seeking skills, to understand employer expectations, and to learn life skills needed to move toward self sufficiency.
These activities may include behavioral health, life skills classes, and job skills training, including preparing a resume or job application and learning and practicing interview skills.
Supportive services:
In addition to child care, transportation, and ancillary services, welfare-to-work supportive services include mental health, substance abuse, and domestic abuse services.
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There are many things that make returning to work or new employment difficult. It is important for participants to identify and address barriers to employment and education while on the road to achieving self-sufficiency. CalWORKs recipients participating in Welfare-to-Work services are eligible to receive behavioral health services as a part of their activities, or as a job retention service. Mental health assessments, individual and group counseling, and support groups are available to Welfare-to-Work participants.
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Drug and Alcohol assessments, as well as, treatment and case management services are available to Welfare-to-Work participants. Individualized treatment and recovery plans are created to meet the needs of the client.
Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence counseling, legal and advocate services, including case management, crisis intervention and the women's shelter, are available to Welfare-to-Work participants.
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