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One quick announcement before we move on to Caponata. I am THRILLED to announce that I will be teaching a Food Photography workshop at The Pantry at Delancey in September. I'll go through my process and we'll have plenty of time to shoot together so that you walk away feeling inspired and more confident behind the lens. Please come!
Last night we made it official: It's picnic season. Roman grumpily stumbled out of bed from his nap, around 4. By then the picnic was made and the rest of us were ready to head to the park.
I can't decide what I love most about picnics. Could it be the fact that I don't have to sweep up crumbs or scrape dried food off the floor? Quite possibly. Or maybe it's the simple act of eating outside where the gleeful song of the birds provides the meal's soundtrack and the falling pink petals of the cherry blossom perfumes the air adding a sweet scent to every bite. That could be. It could also be that my favorite meal is one in which a slice of crusty bread replaces the need for a fork.
It is for this season that my minds turns to recipes that will easily pack up, can be eaten at room temperature (or in this case, outdoor temperature), and doesn't require the need for extraneous packing, i.e. utensils, plates, etc. Oh and it must also taste amazing.
Our first picnic food of the year is Caponata, a Sicilian eggplant dish that has as many variations as proud Sicilian grandmothers. The basic idea remains the same – it is loaded with eggplant and blended with sweet, sour, and savory flavors. A touch of cocoa and cinnamon gives this dish a rich brick color and a familiar sweetness that is unrecognizable as typical baking ingredients but welcomed as a way of soothing the heat and mellowing the sour. Most importantly Caponata fits perfectly onto slices of crusty baguette.
And with that I welcome you to picnic season (now I understand that many of you have already welcomed this warm weather season, but I ask you to celebrate with us Pacific North-westerners who have just recently seen our first multiple days of sunshine in a row – we are downright giddy over here).
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2 medium eggplant, cut into 1/2-inch cubes (to yield 4 cups)
¾ cup Newman's Own Balsamic Dressing
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large onion, medium diced
¼ cup pine nuts
¼ cup roughly chopped golden raisins
1 teaspoon hot chili flakes (or more if you want more heat)
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves, roughly chopped
2 tablespoons tomato paste
½ cup water
1 teaspoon salt (or more to taste)
1 baguette sliced slightly on the bias (looks prettier that way)
In a large bowl add the eggplant and ½ cup of dressing. Stir to coat and let marinate for 10 minutes. Meanwhile in a large saute pan caramelize the onion with 2 tbl olive oil until deep golden, about 10 minutes over medium heat. Reduce the heat to medium-low and add the pine nuts, chopped raisins, and chili flakes. Saute and stir to combine. The gentle heat of the chili flakes should release possibly causing a sneeze, or two. Cook that for about 3 minutes then add the eggplant, sugar, cinnamon, and cocoa and continue to saute until the eggplant starts to soften, about 5 minutes. Stir in the thyme, tomato paste, water, and remaining ¼ cup dressing. Cover the pan with a lid and reduce heat to a gentle simmer. Continue to cook, covered, for 15 minutes. The eggplant should give up some of it's moisture so that it just starts to loose it's shape. Add the salt and carefully taste for flavor.
*This post was part of an ad campaign in association with Newman's Own. But the words and recipe are mine. I wouldn't write about it if I didn't love it and think that you'd love it too.


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Canker Sores: Causes
|Canker Sore or Cold Sore?
Canker sore sufferers may confuse their symptoms with cold sores, or vice versa. Both types of sores cause pain and tingling, take a couple of days to form, and can strike several times a year. But the resemblance ends there. Canker sores only occur inside the mouth, while cold sores frequently appear on or around the outer lips. Canker sores also appear white or gray, while cold sores display blistering. Ask your dentist for an informed diagnosis.
Canker sores are nothing to smile about -- as you may already know. These small, uniformly-rounded sores can occur, several at once, on the inside of the mouth, affecting the cheeks, gums, lips, tongue and/or throat. If you've had to deal with recurring appearances by these painful intruders, you may wonder why you get them in the first place. The answer to that question is trickier than you might think.
Medical science doesn't currently have a catch-all explanation for exactly why some people are susceptible to canker sores while others are not. Research points out that there may be a combination of triggers at work; when the right combination of triggers coincide, outbreaks occur. This might be one reason why canker sores predominantly affect women between the ages of 10 and 20, since hormonal changes have been identified as a trigger. Emotional stresses can also contribute to outbreaks.
Canker sores may also appear in association with certain diseases, which has caused some speculation over whether a virus might be involved. People with suppressed or failing immune systems are known to be vulnerable to canker sores. Celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and an inflammatory condition called Behcet's disease are possible culprits.
In fact, it also appears that the old phrase "you are what you eat" may apply to canker sores. Vitamin deficiencies due to poor diet may make the body more susceptible. Food allergies or sensitivities can irritate the mouth and bring on an attack of canker sores, especially when acidic foods are involved. The presence of certain varieties of oral bacteria may prompt outbreaks. Other oral triggers may include the constant rubbing of a dental or orthodontic appliance against the tissues of the mouth. If you use toothpaste made with sodium lauryl sulfate, a reaction to this substance could turn your daily efforts at good oral hygiene into recurring canker sore episodes.
What Can You Do About Canker Sores?
While there is no preventing the sores themselves, you can eliminate some of the potential triggers. Try switching to toothpaste containing different ingredients (as long as it's still approved by your dentist). Have yourself checked for hormonal imbalances, food allergies, or nutritional deficiencies. Find techniques to reduce stress. Consult your dentist for other suggestions on how you can best manage your canker cores.
Colgate, "Canker Sores (Aphthous Stomatitis Or Recurrent Mouth Ulcers)."
Mayo Clinic, "Disease and Conditions: Canker Sore."
University of Michigan,"Cold and Canker Sores."
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Word Collect level 1953
Word Collect is an easy to play and fun word game. This game offers the classic gameplays of a word game in a new and fun way.
If you have time to kill, word games on your mobile phone are always a great option because they help to build your vocabulary as well as make you more comfortable using new words.
For this purpose, "Word Collect" is one of the best picks that you have to your disposition. It doesn't only have a pleasant and well-organized interface but it is also brain-challenging.
I understand that it is not so easy to find all the words needed to pass level 1953 of Word collect game. Do not worry, below you can find all the answers.
Word Collect level 1953 answers
Answers: Sadly, Days, Lads, Lays, Lady, Ads, Slay, Lad, Day, Sad, Lay, Sly, Say
*Some bonus words may apply, but not needed to pass the level.
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What happened to Word Addict level 1953?
Well, it is the same level as word collect 1953. Word addict changed its name to Word Collect. So word addict level 1953 is the same as word collect level 1953.
In case you are stuck on a specific chapter and are looking for our help look no further because we have just finished posting all the word collect answers for every level in our homepage.
This game was developed by "Words Puzzle Games" and is available for download on App Store or Google Play Store for your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or Android devices.


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Take from six to twelve glasses of the lemonade daily during the waking period. As you get hungry just have
another glass of lemonade. NO OTHER FOOD SHOULD BE TAKEN DURING THE FULL PERIOD OF
THE DIET. As this is a complete balance of minerals and vitamins, one does not suffer the pangs of hunger. Do not use vitamin pills.
All solid food is turned into a liquid state before it can be carried by the blood to the cells of the body.
The lemonade is already a food in liquid form.
For those who are overweight, less maple syrup may be taken. For those underweight, more maple syrup may be taken. For those who are underweight and worried about losing more weight, REMEMBER, the only things you
can possibly lose are mucus, waste, and disease. Healthy tissue will not be eliminated. Many people who need to gain weight actually do so near the end of the diet period.
Never vary the amount of lemon juice per glass. About six glasses of lemonade a day is enough for those wishing
to reduce. Extra water may be taken as desired.
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Foods you can have
Breads, Grains, Cereals, Pasta, Rice
Meat and Fish
Fruit and Fruit Juices
Vegetables and Legumes (e.g. Beans)
Dairy Products - Milk, Cheese, etc
Eggs and Egg Substitutes
Nuts and Seeds
Fats and Oils
Herbs, Spices, Sauces
Tea and Coffee
Other Beverages
Others, Snacks, Sweets, etc
Fast Foods
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Meals, Entrees, and Sidedishes
Baby Foods
Ethnic Foods
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How To Follow The Master Cleanse:
How to Make Lemonade
2 Tbsp lemon or lime juice (approx. 1/2 lemon)
2 Tbsp genuine maple syrup (not maple flavored sugar syrup)
1/10 Tsp cayenne pepper (red pepper) or to taste
Water, medium hot (spring or purified water)
Combine the juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper in a 10 oz. glass and fill with medium hot water.
(Cold water may be used if preferred.) Use fresh lemons or limes only, never canned lemon or lime juice
nor frozen lemonade or frozen juice. Use organic lemons when possible.
Helping the Cleansing Along
As this is a cleansing diet, the more you can assist Nature to eliminate poisons, the better. If your system feels upset, it is because you are not having sufficient elimination. Avoid this possibility by following the directions completely. Above all, be sure you have two, three, or more movements a day. This may seem unnecessary not eating solid food, but it is Nature's way of eliminating the waste it has loosened from the various cells and organs in the body. They must leave the body some way. It would be just the same as sweeping the floor around and around and never removing the dirt from the house if the wastes were not passed out. The better the elimination, the more rapid will be the results '
A LAXATIVE HERB TEA is found to be the best helper for most persons. It is a good practice to take a good laxative herb tea right from the beginning - the last thing at night and first thing in the morning. There are several good laxative teas. They are best taken in a liquid form. Buy them in your health food store.
Another Cleansing Aid: Internal Salt Water Bathing
As it is necessary to bathe the outside of our bodies, so it is with the inside. Do not take enemas or colonics
at any time during the cleansing diet or afterwards. They are unnecessary and can be extremely harmful.
There is a much superior method of cleansing the colonic tract with- out the harmful effects of customary
colonics and enemas. This method will cleanse the entire digestive tract while the colonics and enemas will only
reach the colon or a small part of it. Colonics can be expensive while our salt-water method is not.
DIRECTIONS: Prepare a full quart of lukewarm water and add two level (rounded for the Canadian quart) teaspoons of uniodized sea salt. Do not use ordinary iodized salt as it will not work property.
Drink the entire quart of salt and water first thing in the morning. This must be taken on an empty stomach.
The salt and water will not separate but will stay intact and quickly and thoroughly wash the entire tract in about
one hour. Several eliminations will likely occur. The salt water has the same specific gravity as the blood,
hence the kidneys cannot pick up the water and the blood cannot pick up the salt.
This may be taken as often as needed for proper washing of the entire digestive system.
If the salt water does not work the first time, try adding a little more or a little less salt until the proper balance
is found; or possibly take extra water with or without salt. This often increases the activity.
Remember, it can do no harm at any time. The colon needs a good washing, but do it the natural way -
the salt water way. It is quite advisable to take the herb laxative tea at night to loosen, then the salt water
each morning to wash it out. If for some reason the salt water cannot be taken in the morning,
then the herb laxative tea must be taken night and morning.
How to Break the Lemonade Diet
Coming off the lemonade diet properly is highly important - please follow the directions very carefully.
After living in a semi-tropical and tropical climate for many years, I find that people have increasingly turned to
a raw fruit, nut, and vegetable diet. Following is the schedule for people who normally follow such a natural vegetarian diet:
FIRST and SECOND DAY AFTER DIET:
Several 8 oz. glasses of fresh orange juice as desired during the day. The orange juice prepares the digestive system to properly digest and assimilate regular food. Drink it slowly. If there has been any digestive difficulty prior to or during the change over, extra water may be taken with the orange juice.
Orange juice in the morning. Raw fruit for lunch. Fruit or raw vegetable salad at night.
You are now ready to eat normally.
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I have to do an assignment, which means putting my car game onto a server/client. I think I am going to do it using serialization and the TCP server/client way. I've made the game, and I've practised using seralization but I don't quite know how to put the two together. For example, I will have the race track drawn onto the server but how do you put this together?
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Mendoza to be skipped after Friday's start
KANSAS CITY -- Right-hander Luis Mendoza will start on Friday night against the Toronto Blue Jays, but he'll be skipped on the next turn of the rotation because of three off-days in an eight-day period starting on Monday.
The weekend series with the Blue Jays will feature an intriguing matchup on Saturday night, when Royals' No. 1 pitcher James Shields will be opposed by R.A. Dickey, the knuckleballer who won last year's National League Cy Young Award with the Mets.
Ervin Santana will start Sunday's game against the Blue Jays and, after an open date, Jeremy Guthrie and Wade Davis will start in a two-game series at Atlanta. Then, Shields will come back after five days' rest instead of the usual four to pitch on Friday at Boston. Manager Ned Yost didn't want Shields to go after six days' rest, which would be the case if Mendoza was included.


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If there were a sixth man in the NBA who appeared in every one of the season's 82 games, but was only on the floor about half the time throughout those contests despite averaging 13/5, with .541/.707 and more than a steal every time out, the first thing you'd say is, "Adam, why all the secrecy? We all know from the title these are Thaddeus Young's stats." And before I could recover, you'd follow up with, "Oh yeah, and why is he only playing 26 minutes a contest?" There we go. That's more like it. I figured you'd lead with the minutes per game thing. Then you'd ask, "Is 'Thaddeus' a family name passed down from generation to generation? Because it really seems like an old-timey name – kinda sad, really. Or thad, if you have a speech impediment." Then I'd dumbfoundedly blink at you like I just got mule kicked by a … well, a mule, I guess. By now I've gotten the duct tape out, applied it to your mouth and have prepared to tell you why Young should be a huge fantasy basketball sleeper in 2011.
Of the more than 450 active basketball players in the league, there are exactly two players who, in a single season, have played more than 2,000 minutes, started fewer than five games, ended with a PER greater than 18.4 and were younger than 23 when they did it. Young is the first. A dozen years ago, a 19-year-old Kobe Bryant was the other. That's it. No one else. Before we go any further, no, I'm not claiming Young is or will ever be Bryant. The next year, when Bryant turned 20, he started every game and averaged 20/5/4 in the lockout-shortened season. Young won't average those numbers. The caveat in these stats isn't the exceptional PER of both players, or the age, or the minutes. There were 70 other players who fit that triplet of criteria. It's the games started. Bryant was in his sophomore year at 19. Young just finished up his fourth year at 22. This alone suggests we're comparing apples to slightly bruised plums here, but still … Young was in serious contention (statistically) for this year's Sixth Man Award and might have been a bigger part of the conversation had he appeared more often than 13 minutes a half. He was versatile all season, playing 2/3 of his time at the four and the other third as Philly's swingman and it's that versatility likely to earn Young more minutes in 2011 (this could easily happen in the following two ways: 1) Philly drops Iguodala's 37 mpg from last year in hopes of keeping him healthy, 2) Brand plays more center, leaving fewer minutes for Spencer Hawes, who couldn't score a bucket if he walked into a KFC and threw a fifty on the counter). I don't think Young plays a ton more minutes per game, probably about six. But even if his 2010 per minute averages remain locked in next year, Young would still jump from 13/5/1, with a steal to 16/6/1, with an extra steal every four games. Add in his .508/.716 career averages with almost certain upside to produce better than that, and you've got yourself a 10th round pick that a lot of people won't be looking at until after the 12th.


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Of the overall toll, eight were children and five were women, the Hamas-run health ministry said.
By far the bloodiest strike was in northern Gaza City where a missile levelled a three-storey building, killing eight members of the Al-Dallu family, four of them children, and two other people, medics said.
Health ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra named the dead as Mohammed al-Dallu (35) a policeman, Suheila al-Dallu (50) Samah al-Dallu (22) and four children: Jamal and Sara, whose ages were not immediately available, Yussef (5), and 11-month-old Ibrahim al-Dallu.
The body of another woman, from the same family, was also pulled from the rubble but her identity was not immediately clear. The other two victims, who lived next door, were named as Amina Mattar al-Muzzana (83) and Abdullah Mohammed al-Muzzana (22) he said.
The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the strike, admitting only that the air force had hit "a few targets in northern Gaza City".
Shortly afterwards, four more Palestinians were killed in three separate strikes, two in Gaza City and one on the Jabaliya refugee camp.
In Gaza City, Sami al-Ghafir was killed in a raid on the eastern Shejaiya neighbourhood, and Mohammed al-Awf was killed in the north of the city. The strike on Jabaliya killed Suheil Hamada and his son Moamin as they were driving a water delivery truck through the refugee camp. And in the early evening, a strike on Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed Aatiya Mubarak, a statement from the emergency services said.
Earlier strikes across the strip killed six more Palestinians, four of them children. At around 2am strikes on the northern town of Beit Hanun killed two toddlers, three-year-old Tamer Abu Saeyfan and his one-year-old sister Jumana.
Several hours later, 18-month-old Iyyad Abu Khusa was killed in a strike east of Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. His two brothers, aged four and five, were critically wounded in the raid, Qudra said.
Medics later reported finding the body of woman under the rubble of a house in eastern Gaza City who had been killed in a strike earlier in the morning. They named her as Nawal Abdelaal (52). And in the late morning an air strike on a small house in the beachfront Shati refugee camp in Gaza City killed 13-year-old Tasneem al-Nahal and Ahmad al-Nahal (25). Both were from the same family but the relationship between them was not immediately clear.
The attacks came as diplomatic efforts intensified to broker an end to the bloodshed which began on Wednesday and has so far killed 67 Palestinians and injured more than 600.
Since the fighting began on Wednesday with an Israeli air strike which killed a top Hamas militant, three Israelis have been killed and more than 50 injured, a spokesperson for the Magen David Adom emergency services told AFP.
The army said 10 of them were soldiers, one of whom was severely hurt. On Sunday, nine people were injured by rockets in southern Israel, one of them seriously and two moderately.
So far, the military says it has struck more than 1 132 targets in the Gaza Strip, without saying how many strikes it had carried out. In the same period, 544 rockets fired by Gaza militants have stuck southern Israel, and another 302 have been intercepted by the Iron Dome. – Sapa-AFP


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Booking School Programs FAQs
How do I book a school program?
For all booking requests and program information, please call Glenbow Museum bookings staff at (403) 268-4110, Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.
When should I book?
All programs must be booked at least two weeks in advance.
What do I need to book a school program?
Please have the following information ready at the time of booking:
- Credit card number and expiry date - The credit card will only be charged if an alternative payment is not provided upon arrival or if less than two weeks' notice is given to cancel or reschedule a program or visit.
- Title of program
- Preferred date(s) and time(s) - when planning the time required for a school program, add at least fifteen minutes for arrival and fifteen minutes for departure
- Grade, number of students, number of special needs students, number of adult supervisors, and any special requests
A confirmation letter and bookings agreement form will be faxed to the school. Please review your booking and fax the signed bookings agreement form to (403) 262-4045. Your booking will not be confirmed until we have received the signed bookings agreement form.
Please download the Educator Welcome Package for information on how to prepare for your visit.
Additional travel costs may apply to school outreach programs held outside Calgary city limits.
When should we arrive for our program?
Please arrive 15 minutes before your scheduled program. If delayed, contact (403) 268-4110 as soon as possible. If you arrive more than 30 minutes late, your program(s) will be cancelled and you will be charged $80 cancellation fee per program, unless we are notified in advanced.
How do I cancel or reschedule a program?
Any cancellations or changes to your booking(s) must be made through the Glenbow Museum Bookings Office - (403) 268-4110 - and confirmed in writing by Glenbow Museum bookings staff at least two weeks prior to your arrival date. Failure to provide two weeks' notice will result in a $80 cancellation fee per guided program or guided visit per class. This fee will be charged to the credit card provided at the time of booking.
Please limit changes to your itinerary. More than one change will result in a $25 administration fee per change.
How many students can participate in a program?
In order to ensure program quality, a maximum of 35 students per program is allowed. The credit card used at the time of booking may be charged for an additional program if the numbers exceed 35 students per program. Please do not combine classes as it compromises the program quality
What should we bring to the museum?
Please bring lunch bags and necessary supplies only. If sketching or writing, please provide students with a hard surface to write on (journals, notebooks, pencils, etc). Clipboards and pens are not allowed in the galleries. Please leave your backpacks at school. Our coat room has limited space and backpacks are not allowed on exhibit floors.
Can we visit the museum without participating in a program?
Yes! You can book a Glenbow Discovery Adventure which is guided visit led by a Museum Educator. This visit allows students to explore Glenbow's many galleries and reflect on their experiences through sketching and journaling. Souvenir sketchbooks are provided at no additional cost.
How many adult supervisors do we need?
We strongly request a ratio of one supervising adult to every five students. Participating teachers and adult supervisors are required to remain with their groups at all times. Additional adults accompanying the group are required to pay the adult group admission fee, except when required for special needs students.
What is the ARC Discovery Room?
The ARC Discovery Room is not open to school groups (unless you have booked a studio-based school program).
What do I need to prepare before our visit?
Please discuss museum rules with your students and provide them with name tags. Museum Educators like to refer to students by their names! An Educator Welcome Package detailing these rules and a name tag template is available at www.glenbow.org/programs/school/resources.cfm. Please copy these rules and distribute to your adult supervisors.
How do we pay?
Full payment is due upon arrival. The credit card used at the time of the booking will be charged if an alternate method of payment is not received on or before the day of your visit. We accept cash, cheque, debit, American Express, MasterCard and Visa.
Where can we eat lunch?
Limited lunchroom accommodations are available at Glenbow Museum and must be booked in advance. Groups may also eat lunch outdoors at Olympic Plaza or indoors at the City Hall Atrium. Hallways outside Glenbow Museum (Telus Convention Centre concourse and +15) cannot be used for eating lunches.
How do we get to the Glenbow Museum?
Glenbow Museum is located at 130 - 9th Avenue SE. There is a vehicle drop off/pick up lane on 9th Avenue between Centre Street and 1st Street SE.


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Luke Bryan's "I Don't Want This Night to End" and "Drunk on You" have both been certified double-platinum by the RIAA to signify 2 million digital downloads. Both tracks come from his 2011 platinum album, Tailgates & Tanlines.
That album's lead single, "Country Girl (Shake It for Me)," was certified double platinum in August. Bryan's current single is "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye."
Meanwhile, Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw's "Feel Like a Rock Star" and Chesney's 2003 single "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems" have struck gold for 500,000 digital downloads.
Mumford & Sons' current single "I Will Wait" has also reached gold status, while the band's 2010 single "Little Lion Man" has been certified double platinum.
In addition, Taylor Swift's "Our Song" from 2006 has climbed to triple-platinum certification, and "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" has earned double-platinum.


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Application optimized read/write heads in the industry-standard design (up to IP69K with HF), allow for optimal integration into your application. Depending on the environmental conditions, read-write ranges of up to 1 m (HF) or several meters (UHF) are possible. The radio interface for read/write heads and tags is internationally standardized (ISO 15693 and ISO 18000-6c with HF at UHF).


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Google has incrementally made things cooler, once again, for delivering germane information. OK, maybe that's a tad hyperbolic for a weather fix, but it does add one-click functionality to Maps.
Hover over your favorite Google Map's right-hand corner and select the weather layer. That's real-time weather: temps, humidity and forecast -- so if you're traveling, it's one more quick way to get your packing right (tip: think layers).


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Rep. Molchany co-sponsoring PASS Act to address bullying
Rep. Erin Molchany has announced her co-sponsorship of the Pennsylvania Safe Schools legislation, to be known as the PASS Act.
Rep. Molchany stood along with a bipartisan group of legislators in support of legislation addressing the bullying epidemic in Pennsylvania schools.
"The fact remains that students across the commonwealth are taunted, harassed and threatened at alarming rates. In particular, young members of the LGBT community (or those perceived to be) and racial minorities are at the highest risk," Ms. Molchany said. "Every study that has analyzed the impact of bullying has shown the devastating consequences to students in the school environment and further, the detrimental effects that can remain with a person for a lifetime.
"As a community of legislators, both Democrats and Republicans, we can all agree that the safety of Pennsylvania's children is a priority. No child should ever fear for her life when at school, and no parent should ever be uncertain about the safety of a school environment. Our children's well-being is our obligation as representatives."
At its core, the bill would require school districts to develop a more comprehensive policy to define bullying, establish procedures for both responding to and reporting it, and train school district employees. The legislation also would require the Pennsylvania Department of Education to create an online website for school districts to more easily track incidents of bullying and violence they are already required to report.
"With bipartisan support, I'm hopeful that this inclusive bill will become law and be a first step toward addressing bullying and discrimination in our schools," Rep. Molchany said.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 1079 diseños de 213 diseñadores freelance.
We're a start-up software consultancy also doing some product design.
Our strength and emphasis is on quality of design.
The company designs and builds software and software products including web programming and website design. Our services are offered on a consultancy basis.
http://www.NewRedo.com is currently a holding page - web design work to follow on from this.
Our current target customers are small and mid market businesses that need software consultancy.
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We've made a list of the type of logo's we like together with a few very rough sketches of an idea similar to the Linkedin logo. I've posted in on Google docs here:
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'Bothered' Boyd slams City for McIntire softball exile
After making an unprecedented decision to green-light athletic lights at Darden Towe's tennis courts last month, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors may be putting on the brakes. For Chairman Ken Boyd, the decision might have been one made without enough public input, and he now says he's "bothered" by the City's decision to exile softball from McIntire Park.
In a "community conversation" set for September 11, Boyd plans on opening the floor to his constituents to air their feelings about the potential lighting of Towe's three softball fields–- a move that would defy all previous understandings that Towe is a daytime park.
The quest to light Towe began with the City's May 19 decision to approve a master plan for McIntire Park–- a controversial concept that includes giving public land and money to the YMCA and destroying McIntire's two heavily-utilized softball fields in favor of a single artificially-turfed multi-purpose field.
In justifying the decision to oust Charlottesville's adult softball community from its longtime home at McIntire, Director of Parks and Recreation Mike Svetz proposed turning to Towe–- a regional park co-owned by the city and the county– as a replacement, asking both governments to consider lighting Towe's softball fields in order to maintain the same level of play.
In looking to light Towe, Svetz and the city began what has been a months-long struggle to decide the fate of both Towe and Charlottesville softball. Towe neighbor Clara Belle Wheeler claims that "the city and county gave an assurance to never have lights at Darden Towe Park."
Which is where Boyd's community conversation comes in. In a public meeting held August 13, the Board of Supervisors voiced support for lighting Towe's tennis courts, but the Board held off on approving the lighting resolution until its next meeting, set for tomorrow night. However, based on public feedback Boyd received after the August 13 decision, that resolution could remain unsigned.
"I'm really not sure how I'm going to go on the tennis lights," Boyd says. "There's not a lot of tennis use at Towe; there's not high activity there."
Whatever the outcome of the tennis lighting, lighting the softball fields is a completely separate ball game– which is why Boyd is pushing to hear more from the community.
"I want to discuss it with the people, rather than listen to a three-minute speech," Boyd says. "I just don't have a feel for it, so I'm hoping to get a good example from the conversation."
The one thing that puzzles Boyd and his constituents is the City's almost unilateral decision to push McIntire softball to Towe. While Towe is already used frequently by the city's softball league, the lack of lights prevents night games, a mainstay of the City's largest recreational league.
"One of the questions my constituents and I have is–- is there another alternative? Do we really have to get rid of McIntire Park?" asks Boyd. "Those are discussions that we haven't had with the City– it's something that bothers me."
Repeated calls to Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris, who led City Council's unanimous decision to overhaul McIntire, sans softball, were not returned.
Both the City and County have set up public meetings, for October 20 and October 8 respectively, to hear the public's opinion on the lighting of Towe's fields. But for Boyd, a public meeting may not be enough. He says there are still conversations that the county must have with the public–- and with the City.
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In spending millions on the YMCA and on fixing a park that doesn't need fixing, the city govt. is letting the softballers you want them out of your park and the taxpayers know that rates are on the way up, up, up!
It is my understanding Mr. McIntire donated all of the land for public use, however putting a YMCA on that land is no longer public use since you have to pay to be a member. Therefore taking away the public aspect of the land. Keep it up City of Charlottesville and see if anyone is ever generous again to donate land to you when you dont abide by their wishes. I know if I had any I wouldn't.
Glad to hear that the bad decisions are not irreversible, though I'd guess that the YMCA decision is permanent.
Please, please, please local leaders go for the "triple win:"
-keep softball at McIntire,
-don't light Towe, and
-save some money in these tight times: skip the multipurpose field.
I'm still stunned that the best use of city resources includes plowing under and paving over McIntire's softball fields.......
" 'Do we really have to get rid of McIntire Park?' asks Boyd. 'Those are discussions that we haven't had with the Cityââ?¬â?? it's something that bothers me.' " Wouldn't it seem sensible for the city to have consulted with the county on its new parks Master Plan before it essentially got rid of McIntire Park? Not, if money is no object. Or is it that there really isn't anyone at the helm who knows how to make a good decision? Good decision-makers explore the ramifications of each proposal before deciding what to do. We already know that Overrun O'Connell obviously do not otherwise we wouldn't have the school system discussing building a new central office when the city is looking for a compatible use for that old school near downtown WITH PARKING!
The Community Conversation on the issue of lights for the softball fields at Towe Park is Thursday, September 11, from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm at the Elks Lodge on Elks Drive (the road to the park).
Oh God, Isn't the meeting in Ken Boyd's own stomping ground, Elks drive? We'll see what happens. Will be interesting.
It is simply astounding to me that the city would even consider removing the softball fields at McIntire. The demand and constant use of McIntire for softball is a proven fact.You can simply drive by on any given night and see the amount of people getting together and using these fields. I just cannot believe that you will have the same atmosphere and amount of use from a "multi-purpose" field. McIntire has been a place where people from all walks of life and all parts of central Virginia have been able to get together. I can personally say that I have met many new friends from all walks of life because of those games. All I can see in the future are little gatherings of upper class soccer moms all from local upscale communities gathering for a sip of wine and socializing with their like minded friends, leaving the field abandoned in the rear view mirror of their giant SUV as they drive away to yoga class.
I would encourage all who have ever used this park to make your voice heard.
Lighting the fields at Towe, along with the increased traffic and noise will certainly be a concern to county residents close to the park. I doubt if any city residents would be so impacted.
McIntire has worked long and succesfully, don't rock the boat.
How can 3 city councilers and a mayor give away a park donated to all the citizens of ths city? Stop them Ken Boyd!!
Weren't the contracts with the YMCA signed by the city back in May?
The majority, city council are allowing the park to be ruined. They are giving away park land like candy. They gave space to the YMCA, so now they want to take back the ball fieds as they rob Peter to pay Paul. VOTE dictators OUT! These guys have made up their minds to shove a parkway down our throats, like it or not. What a pathetic legacy they will leave behind. They THINK they know what is best for us all. People are fed up!
The city council has railroaded the people of Charlottesville regarding the closing of McIntire Park softball fields and selling land to a private organization... here are the issues:
1) The land was donated for PUBLIC use by Mr. McIntire. The YMCA is a PRIVATE organization being given public land for $1.00 a year !!!??? Hello... anyone interested in discussing a lowering of our taxes?? Or in having the YMCA pay the city a more reasonable RENT PAYMENT for OUR LAND??? Say around $5,000 - $7,000. a month for rent instead of a $1.00 a year!
2) The YMCA was provided land at PVCC for their building, yet the City Council will give them the land basically for free to put up a bunch of buildings and remove the softball fields.
3) Is it extremely poor planning by the City or is it manipulation? The city dumped this problem of no softball fields into the lap of the County... almost forcing the issue / demanding the issue that lights be put up at Darden Towe. In effect, bulldozing the residents that live in the area of Darden Towe to put up lights; bulldozing over the County Administration, and bulldozing over all the hundreds of softball players who do not want to give up the fields at McIntire, er excuse me....give up public land given to the residents of the City of Charlottesville.
4) Darden Towe Neighbors DO NOT want lights at the park. Softball games do not end at 10:00... more likely 10:30-11:00 p.m. on weekends and who knows what time on weekends (tournaments). With lights there will be noise pollution, light pollution, and a huge increase in traffic congestion for the residents of Route 20 North and Key West, etc.
5) Traffic will increase tremendously at the corner of Rt. 250 and Rt. 20 (already a very, very, very high traffic congested area). Hundreds and hundreds of people will be converging in the area for 6:00 games and throughout the evenings every day during the week.
6) We need centrally located softball fields for all the people driving from the West side of C-Ville and from elsewhere. If this plan goes through the majority of fields will be in outlaying areas, i.e. at Darden and PVCC. Quite a hike for a lot of people. With gas prices as high as they are....why not keep a centrally located field so people don't have to drive as far AND sit in traffic at Rt. 250 and Rt. 20. Right now for 6:00 games at DArden Towe it sometimes takes 20-25 minutes to get through the traffic area from High Street through to Darden Towe Park. Add another several hundred cars to the mix and well.... you can imagine the scene with traffic, pollution and gas wasted trying to get to the Park.
7) The fields at McIntire Park are heavily used for tournaments, non-profit groups, city league softball, church leagues, girls softball, fast pitch tournaments and so on. In addition, the entire area of McIntire Park was completely renovated about 10 (?) years ago or so and upgraded to a beautiful park with shelters etc..... and now you are going to bulldoze it over for a bunch of buildings and only charge the renters $1.00 a year????
8) Will someone from the City Council please address the absurdity of this decision and explain to us why you voted to give away a public park to a private organization... and in doing so created a large problem for the athletes of the city and for the County Administration, and for the home owners and neighborhoods along Rt. 20 North? Better yet, why not reverse this irrational decision that everyone is against??
9) The City makes A LOT of money from softball fees.. likely well over $100,000+ a year. AND we have to buy our own balls. In other cities I have played in the fees are lower and the fees pay for a certain amount of balls given to each team. So can someone explain to me why the YMCA will be getting away with paying only $1.00 a year for rent on our public land???
I do recalled that it was a few years ago that Washington #1 softball field was bulldozed and had a "so-called" multi-purpose field put in for which it doesn't get much public use (in my opinion a waste of tax-payers money and the lost of several games per week). Softball has been a highly popular community sport in Charlottesville for many years. With the lost of one of Washington softball field (and no consulation for another field), it puts a limit on the number of teams signing up for the league each year. With the lost of the McIntire softball fields, not only it will be huge blow to City parks and Recreation, but to the community that use the park more so than just a place that plays softball. Don't forget that McIntire is the place where kids go and play, 4th of July fireworks, and other activities. To bulldozed more softball fields to put in a "so-called multi-purpose field that may not get any use out of it doesn't seem like it would be done in the community best interest.


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Once Upon a Time has cast real actors as characters from their princess movies, but one artist has tried to translate the cartoon characters directly into real life in a series of digital manipulations. Can you guess who is who?
Karen Graw used features from real people (you may recognize some celebrity features in there) to build her photo manipulations, trying to interpret the exaggerated cartoon faces as more human forms. If you're stumped, check the key on her deviantART page.
Real Disney Character Faces [Karen Graw via Neatorama]


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Costasb brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 36 Designs von 8 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
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This is a logo for a professional services company run by a PhD in engineering and mathematics. The company has been the roof of mostly freelancing activity, but i am currently turning it into a shell for larger scale contract work.
Betahat is a mathematical symbol. It consists of the greek letter beta with a "hat": ^ on the top. You can see it in my webpage
where I have a rather amateurish logo of the mathematical symbol in a blue circle.
In the new logo, I would like to have an artistic rendering of the betahat thingy (beta with ^ on top) as well as the name of the company Betahat Optimal included.
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Michelle Obama's State of the Union Style
Like it or not, people care about Michelle Obama's fashion choices. The fourth most powerful woman in the world as ranked by Forbes magazine can instantly lift the profile of fashion designers and move merchandise, which prompted Time magazine to call her "a one woman retail stimulus package."
Professor David Yermack of NYU's Stern School found in a 2010 study that the first lady's wardrobe choices could not only boost stock prices of associated companies, but, on average, a public appearance in a brand's clothing was worth about $14 million. Mrs. Obama's picks often sell out quickly—and even knockoff designs are snatched up.
So what will FLOTUS wear tonight? Back in 2009 during President Barack Obama's first congressional address, Mrs. Obama caused a stir for baring her arms in an eggplant-hued Narciso Rodriguez design. In 2010 she wore a jewel-toned Isaac Mizrahi dress, and the following year she chose a silver sheath by Rachel Roy. In 2012 it was a striking sapphire number by Barbara Tfank (who talked to Speakeasy back in 2012 about dressing the first lady), and last year she went sleeveless again in Jason Wu.


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I had a feeling these two would have chemistry before they were even cast -just hearing their two names together sounded like a dream match made in romantic comedy heaven.
I was too shy to make a header out of these – pretty sure he is advertising the clothing brand Buckaroo, but he sort of lost me when he flashed his abs. people have been wondering why I suddenly liked Kim Woo Bin so here is my answer – not only does he look this good, he can also act well and is a decent model to boot. I like that his looks change with just a grin or a scowl. diversity in the face is so hard to come by in korean actors, but he's got it. oh boy does he ever.


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Realist Roots
The Republican Party would do well to reclaim its realist roots and cast a skeptical eye at counter-insurgency and nation-building operations. But if they wish to hang the Afghan albatross around President Obama's neck, they must first ask themselves how their own president, who supposedly staffed his administration with seasoned "realists" and vowed during his first presidential campaign not to engage in nation-building, wound up leveraging American and NATO lives, money and prestige on just such an endeavor. ~Greg Scoblete
Greg makes a pretty good case that Republicans ought to turn against nation-building schemes. They have no strong postwar tradition of supporting such things, and they don't seem to be particularly good when they try to administer them. Many Republicans did attack nation-building in the 1990s, and it has become customary to marvel at the sudden conversion of most Republicans to the cause of nation-building when Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq. The change in Republican attitudes was striking, but it confirmed that the complaints against Clinton's nation-building exercises were not exactly what they appeared to be. The main objection that Republicans had to nation-building was not that it was always impossible. Many of the same people who scoffed at nation-building in the Balkans were among the first to argue in 2002-03 that "we" had "done it before" after WWII. Most skeptics of nation-building on the right back then did not say that the United States should not attempt to remake other nations after our image. They were offended by using the military for "social engineering" because the military was not trained for it and because it was a distraction from the "real" threats that loomed on the horizon (by which they meant China, Iran, Russia, Iraq, etc.).
The most significant flaw in Republican foreign policy thinking over the last twenty years has been this obsession with those so-called "real" threats. The greatest foreign policy error Republicans made in the last generation was their almost universal support for invading Iraq. Most did not support it because they actually expected regional political transformation to result from the establishment of a "beacon" of democracy in the Near East, and most did not support it because they believed that constructing a functioning Iraqi state was possible or desirable. Some of the most vocal and ardent supporters of the invasion made these arguments, but these were not the arguments that swayed most Republicans. Most Republicans backed the invasion because they believed the incredible notion that Iraq's government at the time represented an intolerable national security threat that had to be eliminated, and many of them also believed the even more incredible notion that Hussein was sheltering members of Al Qaeda, and they believed this because "the President in wartime" had told them so. It was this hysterical exaggeration of a foreign threat and the accordingly excessive reaction that made the worst foreign policy blunder of the last 30 years possible, and it was that automatic deference to executive power that stifled so much of the vital skepticism that conservatives are supposed to value so highly. In the wake of all this, some prominent Republicans and conservatives have started making some unexpected criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, and the main mistake they have identified is…nation-building! As I have tried to argue before, hostility to nation-building is a pretty shaky foundation on which to establish a different kind of conservative foreign policy. Opposing nation-building is all very well and good, and the instinct to oppose it is usually a good one, but unless Republicans sober up and begin assessing foreign threats calmly and reasonably this will simply lead to repeats of the Iraq experience: overly-ambitious missions based on irrational fears and faulty assumptions, and supported with insufficient resources.
Greg calls for the GOP to "reclaim its realist roots," but as I was discussing last week the people that Noah Millman has called militarists continue to dominate the party and the realists appear to be an increasingly marginal faction that is dying off. The division over START ratification is one example that shows the fairly sharp generational split between the older realist national security hands such as Scowcroft and Baker and the younger, rising political leaders in the party. Put simply, there are almost no Republican supporters of a basic treaty governing nuclear arms control under the age of 60. On Iran, it is once again the militarists who seem to be gaining at the expense of realists, especially when so many realists long ago bought into the idea that an Iranian nuclear weapon is "unacceptable" and when such a prominent Republican realist as Richard Haass has succumbed to regime change fever.
If all that reclaiming "realist roots" accomplished was to persuade Republicans to turn against the war in Afghanistan entirely, or to settle for George Will's preferred recipe for future blowback, what would have really been gained? It isn't going to make them less hawkish on Iran policy, and it is hardly going to make them more skeptical about using force to solve international disputes. Indeed, rejecting a nation-building role in conflict zones will make the immediate costs and risks of military action lower than they would be otherwise. Far from making them less obsessed with the "threats" from Russia and China, it will allow them to reject the one policy where the cooperation or at least tolerance of both major powers is most obviously valuable, which will give them even greater incentives to stoke tensions with one or both.
In practice, if the GOP "reclaimed its realist roots" I wonder how much would change for the better. Republican realism sounds good by comparison with what we have had for the last decade, but most actual Republican realists, especially those in elected office, did little or nothing to challenge the endless hyping of foreign threats and the frequent recourse to military intervention abroad in the '90s. Back in 1999, many of the defenders of the war against Yugoslavia were such Republican realists as Chuck Hagel and Richard Lugar. At the time, they supported yet another completely unnecessary war for the sake of the "credibility of NATO" and, of course, regional stability, which resulted in confirming the worst Russian fears about NATO expansion and significantly destabilizing the region with a massive refugee crisis and the spread of ethnic unrest into neighboring Macedonia. How many realists not affiliated with the Cato Institute expressed serious reservations about NATO expansion into Ukraine and Georgia before the August 2008 war? As sympathetic as I am to many realist arguments, and as much as I appreciate the efforts of the most sober realists to try to steer Republican foreign policy thinking in a constructive direction, until Republicans reject confrontational and aggressive foreign policy goals it will not matter very much if they adopt realist means and rhetoric.


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Ireland's history has meat on its bones. And you won't just find it in books. Crumbling castles, grand country estates and island monasteries are still standing strong today. If you like your history thick with romance, you'll adore Ireland
History in Ireland isn't just in books. It's right there for you to explore, to visit and to touch.
At a place called Mountsandel, remnants of a small cluster of houses were found on the banks of the River Bann in County Londonderry. They date back 9,000 years. The island hasn't sat still ever since.
On the East coast you'll find County Meath. Greened by patchwork fields and sliced by the Boyne River, Meath's treasure is 5,000-year-old Newgrange. Predating the pyramids, this UFO-shaped, grass-roofed passage tomb is a striking window into Ireland's pagan past and a testament to an engineering talent that was ahead of its time.
From pagan to Christian, Ireland's religious history was largely shaped by Saint Patrick. He endured life-changing experiences as a boy on County Down's Slemish Mountain, and baptised kings at the Rock of Cashel in Tipperary.
Amid the pastoral peace of a County Down field sits Saul Church. History suggests Patrick died here. A donkey and cart took him to where he now remains by the imposing Downpatrick Cathedral.
It was from a modest point on Kerry's coastline in the southwest, where another saint, Brendan the Navigator, began his journey to America. Kerry locals say he beat Columbus there.
To Ireland's east coast, and the city of Dublin still echoes with its Viking roots. Longboats, helmets and weaponry found under the city's streets hint at their time here. Dublinia museum confirms it. Across the cobbles of Trinity College, smoothed by the feet of Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett and Bram Stoker, hides a treasure: The Book of Kells. At almost 1,200 years old, its mere existence is a miracle.
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Just south of Dublin in a verdant Wicklow valley, Glendalough's round towers spear the sky, while chapels crumble beside two serene lakes. A short distance away, the vast house and gardens of Powerscourt Estate speak of total grandeur.
Back in Northern Ireland, in Derry-Londonderry city, 400-year-old walls embrace the city. Its cannons allude to a turbulent past that never saw these walls being breached.
Castles are in plentiful supply. Kilkenny's pile is a nod to a period of Norman occupation. While in Antrim, the crumbing Dunluce has hosted warring Vikings and survivors of the shipwrecked Spanish Armada. At Ireland's centre, Offaly's Leap Castle ripples with tales of murderous brothers and kidnapped brides. Locals will tell you their ghosts still reside there…
Just 160 years in the memory, Ireland's Famine, a time of ruthless landowners, death and mass emigration is still keenly felt. Roscommon's Strokestown Park and Famine Museum pays homage to a period that had such an immense impact on our diaspora.
Leaving our shores became optional, and so it was that in a Belfast shipyard, 'the ship of dreams', Titanic was born. Just another chapter in our story, and another reason why history should never be confined to books.
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Read here. Great rationale for choosing a college. Have to say, I too am a big fan of Chik-Fil-A's. Quality food (and a company with a very smart business plan.)
And you thought you'd heard it all…
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Trav Says:
February 2, 2012 at 1:14 pm |
He's just following the logic I used in 1989 to select St. Norberts. I heard they had a Taco Bell on campus. That was all it took.
Tony Says:
February 2, 2012 at 4:25 pm |
There are a million other good reasons not to go to Clemson.
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February 3, 2012 at 11:11 am |
I don't get it. $5.00 + for a piece of chicken on a bun with a pickle. I'll stick with Bojangles (especially now that I'm eligible for their Senioir discount)


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The year 2012 is all about powerful smartphones, tablets, mobile operating systems and the never-ending patent wars. Until the last few months, Apple was the market leader in the super-competitive smartphone market. However, the tables have been turned. Now, Samsung has became the market leader by shipping 42.2 million smartphones worldwide, followed by Apple, which managed to ship 35.1 million smartphones in the first quarter of 2012.
According to the new rumors floating around the Internet, Amazon is likely to launch its very own smartphone in the coming months. This rumor is definitely not surprising for most of us since we have already see the capability of the retail giant. Last year, Amazon successfully launched its very own tablet, the Kindle Fire. This tablet was powered by the Android Operating System with Amazon's heavily customized (shoptimized) UI on top of it. Thanks to the low cost and amazing specs, the Kindle Fire sold like hot cakes during the holiday season.
Bloomberg is reporting that the Seattle-based online retail company is planning to launch a smartphone which will compete with the Apple's iPhone as well as other Android superphones. Basically, it means that Amazon is planning to compete with Apple and Samsung in the competitive smartphone market. The Amazon's smartphone will run on the latest version of the Android Operating System. No prizes for guessing the user interface. It will come with the Amazon's shoptimized UI on top of the OS.
I'm sure most of you are familiar with the Foxconn International Holdings Ltd. Yes, we are talking about the same Chinese mobile-phone maker which currently manufactures the Apple's extremely popular iPhone's and iPad's. According to the rumors, the retail giant is working with Foxconn to develop its first smartphone. If these rumors turns out to be true, then you should expect yet another powerful smartphone with a stunning design.
Amazon has been already involved in five patent-related cases this year and 20 cases last year. To protect itself against potential patent infringement lawsuits from competitors claiming illegal use of technology, Amazon has already started obtaining vital patents through acquisitions. It has recently considered acquiring wireless patents from Pennsylvania based InterDigital. Sadly, the company sold its assets to Intel Corp. instead of Amazon for $375 million in June 2012.
It was not the end of the road for Amazon. The company recently hired Matt Gordon for patent acquisitions and investments at Amazon. Previously, Matt Gordon was the senior director of acquisitions at Intellectual Ventures Management LLC, which owns more than 35,000 intellectual property assets.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he finds merit in "some check" on a president's ability to order drone strikes against American al-Qaida suspects overseas, lending support to creating a special court that would review such requests.
"I think that the rules and the practices that the Obama administration has followed are quite stringent and are not being abused. But who is to say about a future president?" said Gates, Pentagon chief for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
The potential model that some lawmakers are considering for overseeing such drone attacks is a secret court of federal judges who now review requests for government surveillance in espionage and terrorism cases.
"Something that would give the American people confidence that there was, in fact, a compelling case ... to launch an attack against an American citizen, I think just as an independent confirmation or affirmation, if you will, is something worth giving serious consideration to," Gates told CNN's "State of the Union" in an interview broadcast Sunday.
The issue gained momentum in the run-up to the confirmation hearing last week for John Brennan, Obama's top counterterrorism adviser who helped managed the drone program, to be CIA director. Before the hearing, Obama directed the Justice Department to give the congressional intelligence committees access to classified legal advice providing the government's rationale for drone strikes against American citizens working with al-Qaida abroad.
Demands for such information grew after the leak early last week of an unclassified memo on how decisions are made to target U.S. citizens abroad. The memo says it is legal for the government to kill U.S. citizens abroad if it believes they are senior al-Qaida leaders continually engaged in operations aimed at killing Americans, even if there is no evidence of a specific imminent attack.
The leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, said she intended to review proposals for "legislation to ensure that drone strikes are carried out in a manner consistent with our values" and she suggested something similar to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. That special court reviews requests on government surveillance in espionage and terrorism cases.
Gates said that "this idea of being able to execute, in effect, an American citizen, no matter how awful, having some third party having a say in it or perhaps ... informing the Congress or the intelligence committees or something like that, I just think some check on the ability of the president to do this has merit, as we look to the longer term future."
A September 2011 drone strike in Yemen killed Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, both U.S. citizens. A drone strike two weeks later killed al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son, a Denver native.
The strikes came after U.S. intelligence concluded that the elder al-Awlaki was senior operational leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula plotting attacks on the U.S., including the abortive Christmas Day bombing of an airplane landing in Detroit in 2009.
In Thursday's hearing, Brennan defended drone strikes as necessary, saying they are taken only as a "last resort," but he said he had no qualms about going after Anwar al-Awlaki.
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Muntanitz Climber's Log
flow - Nov 1, 2011 11:56 am Date Climbed: Oct 31, 2011Grosser Muntanitz, 3.232m
From Sudetendeutsche hut 2.656m via Kleiner Muntanitz 3.192m.
Down via south-east ridge to Palfenscharte 3.150m and Muntanitz Kees to Kals 1.325m.
EricChu - Dec 18, 2009 6:47 am Date Climbed: Aug 17, 1991Grosser Muntanitz
I remember that date so well because it was on the same day that the Putsch had happened in Russia...I started in the afternoon of August 15th from the Landecksäge and arrived in the evening at the Sudetendeutsche hut. I had to wait a day for the weather to clear up, but the following day dawned fine and I went up the summit. I was amazed at just how easy it was technically, not more difficult than taking your dog for a walk, except for that ever so famous short descent from the Kleiner Muntanitz to the saddle over which soo much fuss is always made. In reality it's just a short scramble which is very well secured by a metal rope. I have to add though, that the Karl-Schöttner-Weg is just beautiful - "only flying is more beautiful", as the germans say. I went down by the direct path from the hut to Matrei i. O.
becquerel - Aug 19, 2007 6:44 pm Date Climbed: May 31, 2007From Sudetendeutsche hutte
Almost winter ascent in May 2007. There was a lot of new snow, so it was slightly more difficult, and we had to use crampons and ice axes. Nice and completely without people.
eza - Aug 1, 2007 6:44 am Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2007Beautiful
My friend and partner Rafa has already said everything. I would only like to add that it was a perfect mountain day, beautiful landscapes and not too crowded an area.
Rafa Bartolome - Jul 29, 2007 6:50 pm Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2007Perfect
We climbed this peak in the morning from the Sudetend.Hütte. The previous day we climbed Blauspitze and kendlspitze and with the ascent of Kleiner and Grosse Muntanitz we realized a perfect combination. The landscape was the best of the area with a great view of 360º of impressive mountains. The descent of the Kleine Muntanitz had a chimney of I+ with cable, it was the only complication of a nice route. It's a very advisable area to know the mountains of Austria (and OstTyrol) by the first time.
After this peaks we climbed the great Wildspitze (3772m) and the training and aclimatation was very good in this area. Amazing holidays in Austria!
Bor - Sep 12, 2004 8:39 amRoute Climbed: Dr. Karl Jirsch Weg and Karl Schöttner Weg Date Climbed: September 4th and 5th 2004
We decided to reach Muntanitz and Kendlspitze. We parked our car by the Felbertauernstrasse road at "Landecksäge" (ca. 1400 m) in valley Taurental. We started ascending on Dr. Karl Jirsh Weg to the Sudetendeutsche Hut, 2650m. We had a lot of rain on the route and we had to to take shelter on Kessler alm.
But then the weather became better and we successfully came to the Sudetendeutsche Hut.
I climbed to the Kendlspitze the same day..and I was watching very nice sunset.
Next day we ascended to the Muntanitz over Karl Schoettner-Weg. We was watching very nice sunrise.
From the top we ascended there where we came from.
Nice trip!
Andrzej Gibasiewicz - Mar 21, 2004 3:50 pmRoute Climbed: from Sudetendeutsche Huette Date Climbed: 21 July 2002
Marked, easy hiking trail from Sudetendeutsche Huette. The descent from Klein Muntanitz is exposed.
Mathias Zehring - Aug 30, 2003 6:50 pmRoute Climbed: normal route Date Climbed: August 19/20th 1983
it was my 2nd mountain higher than 3000 m. The first day we turned around in fog at the summit, the
second we proceeded to Grosser Muntanitz.


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Even without an RV, a generator can supply the comforts and necessities of home. Yamaha provides a few guidelines for proper generator operation:
- Never use a generator indoors or in partially enclosed areas. A portable generator uses a combustion engine just like your car, which produces toxic, poisonous carbon monoxide exhaust gases. Set it up outdoors in a well-ventilated, dry area away from any car or trailer windows, doors and other air intakes.
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If you're planning to hike in the Swiss Alps, bring your pants – cantons around the region are cracking down on nude hiking. Appenzell Inner Rhodes recently voted to outlaw the practice, and other cantons are planning to do so as well. The government said the main perpetrators have been German tourists, who hike wearing nothing but socks and shoes.
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Popular Science recently released a list of "Geek Getaway" tourist spots to hit this summer. They are:
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
- Wildlife Research Institute, Ely, Minn.
- Tsunami Research Facility, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Ore.
- Earthquake Simulators, Buffalo, N.Y., Reno, Nev., and San Diego
- Body Farms, Tennessee, Texas, North Carolina
- Alcor Life Extension Foundation (frozen cemetery), Scottsdale, Ariz
- Great Ape Trust, Des Moines, Iowa
- Soudan Underground Laboratory, Mine State Park, Northeastern Minn.
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Sunday, June 17, 2007
He was working in the yard and a bug flew right into his ear. No shit. As soon as I heard what the problem was I ran to the pyxis and got some lidocaine with epi 1%. I ran into the guys room and shot the liquid into his ear, and, immediately, out crawled an unhappy beetle who was quickly squashed under my foot.
Crazy man became nice man. Torture ended.
23 comments:
- Anonymous12:37 AM, June 17, 2007
oh, the hell with that. I'd have rather required a nice little row o' stitches than deal with a beetle playing the drums on my eardrum.ReplyDelete
if that was me i'd probably fainted from fear!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:17 AM, June 17, 2007
After the beetle's enormous adventure, you squished it?ReplyDelete
my worst nightmare, right there.ReplyDelete
911 Doc: You are my hero. If there's anything I absolutely worship and adore---it's a bug-squashin' man. (I come unglued at the sight of bugs...)ReplyDelete
How can somethng so small make us so crazy?ReplyDelete
I remeber seeing adocumentary about bugs when I was a kid,and the take-home messages was that there are millions more of them than us and they could kill us all.
- Anonymous10:13 AM, June 17, 2007
Ack! Why oh why did I read this. I'm wearing earmuffs for the rest of my life.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:18 AM, June 17, 2007
Now I'm going to be haunted the rest of the day with fear that an insect will enter my ear at any moment.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:16 AM, June 17, 2007
Gardening is what keeps me sane, so could imagine this occuring to me. Gives me the willies just thinking about it.ReplyDelete
Glad I have a vial of lido at home....
won't need to visit you in the ER.
Wonder if any liquid (eg canola oil) would have worked or if the lido was the key.
dear carioNP,ReplyDelete
mineral oil, and probably any oil will work, in my experience not as quickly though.
- Anonymous8:15 AM, June 18, 2007
That is sort of like in Star Trek: Wrath of Khan, when the crew is on Ceti Alpha V and Khan puts the Ceti eel into Chekov's ear, and then... sorry, just had a powergeek siezure.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:16 AM, June 18, 2007
You know how to open a pyxus? What a strange and mysterious er it is that you work in.ReplyDelete
dear ten out of ten,ReplyDelete
i ran to the pyxis becuase there's usually some lidocaine hanging-out on top or it. i sure as hell can't open the damn thing.
- Anonymous11:28 AM, June 18, 2007
Ah ok good, order has been restored to my universe.ReplyDelete
Ohhhhh, scary ! Lemme cover my ears for the rest of my life ! Yuck. Thank GOODESS you knew what to do.ReplyDelete
Our docs can and do get into the pyxis for certain meds, including ketamine, so its not such a strange thing. They don't allow the nurses to get some meds out.ReplyDelete
I'm beyond creeped out. Reminds me of stuff I saw in the Amazon. The doc on the medical team carved three bot fly larve out of a villager's chest. Research, schmeesearch...screw the new book. Get me home!ReplyDelete
I'm just excited that a doctor has access to a pyxis! This could be the end of ...... "Nurse, please get me some......."ReplyDelete
I just discovered your blog and added it to my favorites. I hope you don't mind.
I'm one of those people who gets excited when a patient has a good bowel movement because I know then and ONLY then will they stop saying....... "Oh my God, someone help me, I have to shit and it won't come out."
As you may have guessed, I'm an RN in the ER. Yes, I'm a little insane, but it's that insanity that keeps me sane.
My Own WomanReplyDelete
Wow. Someone else who enjoys a gigantic volleyball sized dump in a bedside commode. It really does bring a sense of closure, and you can smell it all the way across the ED, so you know you treatment worked, even while seeing the next dump-in-waiting.
- Anonymous9:27 AM, June 30, 2007
There was of course a group a group of bored residents that timed how long it took for roaches to die when exposed to various liquids. I think the conclusion was that mineral oil was the way to go since it killed them the fastest with the least squirming on the roaches part.ReplyDelete
My hearing aids keep the bugs out quite nicely.ReplyDelete
Thanks for giving me another reason to be thankful for them!
OMG! I am so creeped out! My dad had a friend who got a moth stuck in his ear. Same thing! It flew in! He had to go to the doctor to have it removed. I always thought it was a fluke!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:29 PM, May 21, 2012