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Walking down south King Street Newtown you'll get the impression that antiques and furniture shops are more at home than retail brand names. It's the strip of town that gives you a sense of Newtown nostalgia. A sense that's at its strongest when you step into Bloodworth Bellamy, a store famous for its eccentric wares.
You'll feel like you've stepped into a museum, but one where everything's for sale. Shelves are filled with antiques that somehow found their way to Newtown via the United Kingdom, France and Japan.
Shop owner Nick Cadey tells of selling a NASA space helmet that he'd bought off a friend's friend who worked for the US government. It sold almost immediately.
Adding to this sense of history is that Nick is the fifth tenant to have rented the shop since the 1880s. A fact I hear a number of times during my visit making it clear Nick likes to share the store's history.
It's this love of history and story telling that gets Nick excited about antiques. Chances are when buying an antique from Bloodworth Bellamy Nick will tell you the story about who owned it and where it came from.
Walking down the narrow aisles, you'll pass taxidermy mice clutching teddy bears or wearing aprons – the work of a British artist, furniture, books, vinyl and art. There is not one piece in the store that Nick can't tell you a story behind who owned it and why they loved it.
Visiting Newtown from the UK in 2006 Nick says he fell in love with the community because people were not afraid to be themselves or challenge the norm.
You can find Bloodworth Bellamy at 539 King Street Newtown. In the meantime checkout their Website or Instagram to see Nick's latest find!


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The list below is a record of advice the Planning Inspectorate has provided in respect of the Planning Act 2008 process.
There is a statutory duty under section 51 of the Planning Act 2008 to record the advice that is given in relation to an application or a potential application and to make this publicly available. Advice we have provided is recorded below together with the name of the person or organisation who asked for the advice and the project it relates to. The privacy of any other personal information will be protected in accordance with our Information Charter which you should view before sending information to the Planning Inspectorate.
Note that after a project page has been created for a particular application, any advice provided that relates to it will also be published under the 's51 advice' tab on the relevant project page.
Advice given between between 1 October 2009 and 14 April 2015 has been archived. View the archived advice.
East Anglia TWO Offshore Windfarm View all advice for this project
The following persons sent responses to the Applicant's 2019 statutory consultation to the Planning Inspectorate between January and April 2019: Mary Shipman, Tony Morley, Alan Bullard, Jan Bullard, Michael Shorrock, Elizabeth Clark, Josef Wondrak, Julie Tooke, Edmond Fivet, David Worrall, Nichola J Winter, Elizabeth Jarret, Nicholas Winter, Kay and Karl Moore, Jennifer Joyce, Andrew Bell, Jill Hills, John Walker and Kate Drayton.
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The applications have not yet been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate, the proposals are currently at the pre-application stage of the planning process, the developer is expecting to submit the applications in Q4 2019. Until the applications are submitted, your first point of contact should be the developer. I would therefore encourage you to contact ScottishPower Renewables directly ([email protected] and [email protected]). It is important that the developer is made aware of your comments at the pre-application stage of the process, to enable them to consider these points before finalising their proposals and submitting the applications to the Planning Inspectorate. If you would like more information about the Planning Act 2008 process, please see "Advice Note Eight: Overview of the nationally significant infrastructure planning process for members of the public and others" which can be found along with other advice notes, here: attachment 1

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By Ella Chabot
There was a swarm of people gathered around a successful guest speaker at a networking event I attended a few years ago. Although I never did manage to break through the tightly knit group surrounding this speaker, clear as a bell, I heard someone ask the key question, "To what do you attribute the success of your company?" I stood as close as I could get and strained to hear the response through the crowd.
"Actually, I've been very blessed and really haven't had to do much to promote or sell myself. I've listened carefully to others, and asked what they needed in their businesses, offered my services, and tried to help them. It's paid off very well. Business has flowed to me."
Since then, I have heard similar statements spoken and written by other successful entrepreneurs. This attitude is prevalent among leaders, faculty and staff affiliated with CEO Space of which I was blessed to become a member in 2010. CEO Space is an international business organization that combines education, networking, and trade shows, manifesting a global cooperative marketplace. https://ceospaceinternational.com/
On the other end of the spectrum:
Have you ever met someone, perhaps just getting started on some venture, had a seemingly positive conversation, exchanged business cards and looked forward to a future meeting, only to be disappointed when it happened?
During a second encounter, the person acted aloof, pretended not to recall or recognize you, or was too busy connecting with or trying to connect with people other than you. It is as if you have been sized up and deemed unessential to this person's rise to the top.
Whew! Step back. Take a breath. This isn't about you….
…this is apparent when a few months later you begin receiving weekly or even daily news blasts from the person's company sent to the e-mail on the card you handed out at that first encounter!
My father's advice, "Be nice to the kid serving you a hamburger at the drive through because that may be your boss or even a world leader down the road." (A slight variation of this advice has been a real life experience for me.)
Although being slighted or underestimated by someone may sting for a moment at the time, it is a great opportunity to reflect.
When it happened to me, not that long ago, I took it as a signal to look in the mirror and get a vivid picture of how I want to strive to manifest.
The words of the guest speaker at that networking event ring true. At the end of the day, people and relationships are true abundance.


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On a whim I decided to do a little bit of fun with Cinco de Mayo. I was inspired by this website. I set things up the night before and just decided we would do what we could with it by putting some activities in a center.
Some of the things we did today was locate Mexico on a map.
We talked about the Mexican flag and the meaning behind the symbols and colors using information from here. Then the children made flags using torn construction paper. One of my boys was insistant that he couldn't tear the paper and went to get scissors (and it wasn't the child with sensory issues!). He did manage to tear some though after some coaxing. I thought they turned out nicely.
We talked a little about the history of the holiday. I read some information, but would like to do a better job sharing this information. Here is a link some of the history.
We also did an art project using "Mexican jumping beans". We taped paper into the bottom of a box. We then dipped beans into thinned paint and dropped them on the paper. You then shake the box for 30 seconds or until you tire of it and you end up with an original and lovely picture.
Our little cutie pie just hanging out.
For dinner we of course had some mexican food. We enjoyed a Cinco de Mayo casserole, refried beans and cinnamon/sugar chips with fruit. It was delicious! I forgot to take a picture of the food, but do recommend you try this easy and yummy recipe if you like Mexican food.
Thanks to the internet and others posting their great ideas, we were able to have fun with a holiday that we don't typically enjoy. We were able to do some neat things because others were willing to share their hard work. I'm thankful for that as creativity and running on the spur of the moment as I so often do, dont' always mix.
I think we need to try this more often. Or at least try it again sometime in the next year or so. lol You know how things go sometimes.
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Hanging baskets are our signature product and definitely a trending favorite with our customers. The hook system is easily removable and many of our customers remove the hooks and use the hanging basket pot to fill standing containers for a voila! instant show of color. They are grown in a deep biodegradable fiber pot, filled with enough specially blended soil to last a summer season.
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Our hand crafted containers make gardening simple be it for your own yard, or someone else's given as gifts. We plant containers daily in our sales greenhouse to provide fresh plantings for any garden.
You may come into our retail house and order specific containers to be planted for your garden exposure, favorite flower, and color preference. You have the options of providing your own container or choosing one of ours.
Your containers can usually be completed within 2-3 days.
On the other hand, if you would like to plant your own container, you may do that in our potting area of the sales greenhouse, selecting from plant material in sales house. For disease control we would appreciate you selecting plant products from our greenhouse. Should you desire a plant from elsewhere, we ask that you tuck it in your container when you get home. We will be happy to assist you with container design or plant selection if needed or allow you to draw upon your own creative juices to craft your own signature containers.


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Russian Orthodox patriarch flies fighter jets and skydives
The head of Russia's Orthodox Church has flown fighter jets and passenger airliners and has tried to convince colleagues of the joys of parachute jumps, according to a senior cleric in Moscow.
Patriarch Kirill, enthroned as leader of the world's 160 million Russian Orthodox believers in February, spends much of his time following rituals little changed since the Middle Ages. But he has other ways to get close to the heavens.
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"He has taken the control stick of passenger planes, to which I am a witness, and of fighter jets," said Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev, quoted by Interfax news agency.
"Once he even tried to convince me to make a parachute jump," said Alfeyev, a senior cleric who oversees the church's relations with other Christian denominations. "I said I was ready so as long as I knew the date in advance so I could leave my papers in order." He said the 62-year-old patriarch had not yet set a date.
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Digging for Gold in Arizona
We are getting ready to do some hunting for gold. After all we live in southern Arizona and we know that there are areas very close to us where gold has been found. What we didn't know is that going metal detecting for gold takes some preparation. So, before we hit the road with our detector, we had to do some research and some planning.
After doing some research about finding gold in our area, I realized that we couldn't just visit the Canyon del Oro (oro means gold in Spanish) wash and expect to find gold. We needed a map. It was easy enough to buy one online that shows where all the active and abandoned gold claims are in Arizona. As I understand it, we can search in the areas where there are abandoned claims, and around the active claims, but not inside those areas.
As it turns out, there are far more gold areas to the southeast of where we live than in the CDO wash area where I expected them to be. We decided on a few areas within an hour's drive where we plan to search in the coming weeks.
Next, we did some testing with our gold metal detector, the Nokta AU Gold Finder. We haven't found any gold items in any of our previous hunts, so we didn't know how to identify the alert, or what settings to use for gold. We set up our own little test site in our yard by burying some gold jewelry a couple of inches under the ground (we put the jewelry in plastic baggies first). We did the same with some coins and miscellaneous pieces of metal, so that when we search, we would learn the difference in the signals from our detector.
After playing a while, I think we got a fairly good feel for identifying the difference in the signals. Of course, our detector makes it pretty easy because it does have a light on it that tells if the target is gold, so we should be good to go.
My next plan of attack was to read up on where exactly the good spots are to look when we're in an area that is known to have gold. I needed to know where we will be most likely to find it. Here's what I found:
- First and foremost, stay away from abandoned mines; they can be very dangerous. I looked on my map and there are a lot in the area we plan to hunt, so we will be aware.
- Look for washes where gold may have been pulled down from deposits and dropped in the dips of the bed and where the bed meets the sides of the wash.
- Check flowing streams (not a lot of those in southern Arizona) along the banks where you can get down to bedrock.
- Tailing piles (leftovers from mining) can be a source of small gold nuggets that have been overlooked because of their size or because they were inside rocks.
- Most gold nuggets that are found by metal detecting are about the same size as a grain of rice.
I'm confident that we are ready to head to the southeast and give gold digging a try. I'll let you know how it goes in my next post.


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Healthy skin should not be invaded by blemishes, infections or acne. Taking care of your skin is necessary to keep it healthy. There are many different skin treatments that you can employ, some are more serious than others. This article can help you navigate your options.
Make sure to eliminate all the stress from your life that you can. Excess stress can sometimes show up in the form of skin problems. Reduce your stress, and you will see a reduction in skin issues. In fact, your entire life will be improved by lowered levels of stress.
There is a great mask that you can make at home to keep your skin glowing beautifully. A mixture of olive oil, raw almonds and milk should be ground to make a paste. Once you have this paste, stir in some orange zest. Gently apply this to your face, and let it set for about a quarter of an hour. Once the time has passed, wash your face gently. With all of the paste off of your face, lightly taking an ice cube to your face will finish up the process.
Try the exfoliating benefits of alpha-hydroxy products to enhance your skin. Alpha-hydroxy acids can be found in various fruits, milks and wines. Alpha-hydroxy acids help break up the proteins that hold onto dead skin. By breaking these bonds, the dead skin can easily be scrubbed away gently to revel healthy skin underneath.
Do not go to sleep with your makeup on. Your skin and body require your sleep time to repair and rejuvenate from the trials of the day. Closed pores all night does not allow your skin to breathe and repair. It only takes a few moments to remove your makeup, so do your skin a favor and take care of it.
Use unscented, hypoallergenic creams and lotions because the scented kinds typically contain artificial ingredients, which can damage your skin. A common ingredient in commercial products is alcohol, which dries out your skin. Many creams and lotions contain this drying ingredient. If there is alcohol or a fragrance in the solution, pass it up.
There are items commonly found in the home, like baking soda, that can really help your skin. When mixed with water it forms a paste to treat dry skin areas or pimples, when applied overnight. Also, you can reduce some of the gunk on your scalp with this formula.
A great piece of advice is to always make sure your hands stay covered if it is cold outside. Because the skin on your hands tends to be thin, it cracks and becomes irritated more easily. Wear gloves in the winter to prevent them from drying and cracking.
This article mentioned previously that a sign of healthy skin is skin that is acne and blemish free. For truly healthy skin, a good skin care regimen is needed. By using this article's advice, you will be able to figure out what works best for you.


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Mayor Segarra Selects Development Services Director
(April 4, 2012) --- After an extensive search and interview process, Mayor Segarra today announced the selection of Thomas Deller, AICP, as the City's Development Services Director. His selection will be formally announced at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, April 9, 2012 in the City Hall Function Room, 550 Main Street.
Deller, who has more than three decades of experience in planning and urban development, was most recently Director of Planning and Development in Providence, RI. He has also served as Deputy Executive Director for the Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation, Managing Planner for Pare Engineering Corporation and Planner for the city of East Providence.
"As Connecticut's Capital City aggressively moves forward with the revitalization of its neighborhoods, place-making initiatives such as iQuilt, and the recruitment and retention of businesses, I was committed to identifying a professionally seasoned urban development manager who had the knowledge and experience to take Hartford to the next level," Mayor Segarra said. "Tom has a demonstrated record of working effectively with complex public organizations and directly with urban leaders. I am confident that he understands Hartford's short- and long-term needs, and will develop and implement the policies that not only address those needs, but also establishes a culture of continued improvement."
Deller succeeds Development Services Director David Panagore, who has been serving in that role in addition to his responsibilities as Chief Operating Officer. Segarra applauded Panagore for his leadership and dedication in that position, during which time significant progress on a number of projects has occurred including One City, One Plan, iQuilt, Capewell, Coltsville, the Sonesta Hotel and removal of numerous blighting g structures including 1161 Main Street and Capitol West.
Deller has a Bachelor's degree in Urban Studies and a Master's degree in Community Planning from the University of Rhode Island. His professional affiliations include the American Institute of Certified Planners and the American Planning Association. Pending Council confirmation, Deller will begin work on April 23, 2012.


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There's plenty of places for brunch in Fremantle, and one of the newest happens to be The Shipping Lane. You'll find it in North Fremantle, fresh with the sea breeze and close to Bib and Tucker.
You're free to take a seat and enjoy the view from the outside tables, or if you'd like a seat with a back you'll need to wait inside to be seated. You will however need to get up and place and pay for your order at the counter.
There was already a large group of people when we arrived, brunchers, beachers, singles, couples and groups all enjoying a beautiful Fremantle morning.
We decided to try coffee and juices. Our green juice was okay but it seemed to come from a bottle instead of being prepared fresh, we cannot be sure however.
Our banana smoothie was a lot better, light and creamy with a nice cinnamon sprinkling on top. The presentation in a mason jar also gets the tick of approval from us!
The coffee at the Shipping Lane was fantastic. It was a mellow, creamy brew served at a perfect drinking temperature. Two coffees down and it passes our second coffee test!
The first dish of our visit was the potato stack, this toppling tower of potato with a pumpkin pesto, sour cream and chives, crispy potato skin, quinoa salad and haloumi. This was a smaller sized stack than we expected but the flavours were spot on. I'm not that keen on pumpkin but in this dish it was sweet with a nice texture. The potato cake at the bottom has the crispy outside and soft inside that you hope for. It was hot and delicious! The potato skin at the very top of the tower had a crispy crunch, though we weren't really sure what to make of the quinoa inside, it didn't particularly add anything to the flavour or texture. The haloumi added a nice saltiness, but you really had to eat it fast as it can become rubbery as it cools! This was a tasty and well put together dish, but small for the price you pay!
We also tried the Farmhouse, the Shipping Lane's version of a big breakfast for $24. It certainly has a lot of things on the plate, haloumi, bacon, eggs, toast, potato cake, chorizo and a salad. we enjoyed the variety and the serving size was satisfying.
The Shipping Lane is a great weekend escape and another for new venue to add to your brunch list in Fremantle!
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"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular." - Tony Robbins - If what your doing doesn't bring you closer to accomplishing your primary goal, then its a distraction. This week we will learn how to get rid of the distractions, and to laser focus on our primary goals.
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When manufacturing a product using the Plastic Injection Moulding Process, it is important to have a uniform wall thickness to maintain the best form and shape.
OK….so your part is a little different and its shape is complex in order to achieve a specific function. Nybro has the ability to identify a moulding solution using computer software that analyses the plastic flow within the mould.
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This is a manufacturing process for producing parts from plastic materials. Molten plastic is forced into a steel mould and allowed to cool. The plastic sets in place and the part is removed from the mould.
Most polymers may be used, including all thermoplastics, some thermosets, and some elastomers. Common materials are Nylon, Acetal, Polyethylene, Polystyrene, Epoxy's, and PVC. Nybro can manufacture in an extensive range of materials. Food grade materials and compliance or products for medical use are available.Tooling
Standard two plate tooling in a simple split die is the most economical. Multiple parts included in the same die further reduces costs. This is called a gang die.
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Step 1: The Right Connections
Before you can watch your HDTV, you have to connect it to something that will give it a signal to display. This can be a cable or satellite receiver, an antenna, a DVD player, a game console or a combination of devices. It all depends on which electronic devices you own and how many of them you want to use with your TV.
In general, you'll need to use new, high-quality cables to carry signals from these devices to your TV. Extremely cheap or worn-out cables can lower the quality of the picture you see. You don't have to buy the most expensive cables to get the best picture, but it's generally a good idea to upgrade the ones that came with your set and with your other electronic devices.
You'll also need to connect everything using the highest-quality connection type available. Sending a high-quality signal through a low-quality connection can cause your picture to suffer. For example, if you use an analog composite video connection to connect your top-of-the-line DVD player to your HDTV, you'll lose data in the process. Similarly, if you send a high-definition signal through a connection that can't support it, you won't see a high-definition image.
Most HDTV sets have lots of places to connect cords and cables. The chart below will show you what the different connections are and what they should be used for.
Those connections can seem a little overwhelming, so here's what you should keep in mind:
- Use RF or cable connections to connect cable boxes, satellite dishes and antennas only, and only if those devices do not support a higher-quality connection. For example, if your set-top satellite or cable box will support component video, use that instead. Don't use RF connections for DVD players or other digital devices -- your picture quality will suffer.
- Use digital connections, like DVI and HDMI connections, for digital devices whenever possible. Keeping the signal in a digital format from beginning to end preserves its quality.
- If you can't use a digital connection, use a component video connection. Component video is the highest-quality analog connection available. You'll still lose a little signal quality because of digital-to-analog conversion, but you'll lose far less than with S-video or composite connections.
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Motorists in Coalisland were left scratching their heads in disbelief on Thursday after a rare sighting of a traffic warden in the town.
A strange red-coated figure was spotted walking the streets of the town in the morning, stunning passers-by who had believed the local pavements were a haven for bad parking.
The warden, who was toting a hand-held parking ticket machine, even stopped to note the number plates of several cars.
The event was considered so unusual that one man stopped to take photos.
He posted the images as proof on Facebook, creating a local social media stir as they were shared dozens of times.
For years, the town's free parking idyll has been a draw for political ire.
One Facebook user joked: "He will have a sore wrist later with all those tickets!"
Another said in disbelief: "Surely that's someone dressed up for a laugh – is that definitely the Island?"
One social media user said it was 'well overdue' - "Until recently I just assumed Coalisland had some sort of exemption from all normal parking and traffic regulations .(And most laws as well.)
A spokesperson for the Department of Infrastructure said that parking attendants are to be deployed in Coalisland one day a month, subject to review.
"There are very few parking restrictions in Coalisland and therefore the Department, up until August 2016, did not routinely deploy traffic attendants to visit the town", explained the spokeswoman.
"However, following a request from an MLA for enforcement in Coalisland, traffic attendants visited the town once in August and once today.
"On both occasions, no contraventions were found and therefore no Penalty Charge Notices were issued.
"It is proposed that traffic attendants will be deployed in the town one day per month.
"A review of the effectiveness and efficiency of this deployment will be carried out over the next few months.
"An evidence-based decision will then be taken on whether or not to continue with deployment.
"The ongoing safety of traffic attendants is paramount and is monitored on an ongoing basis."
DUP MLA Lord Morrow welcomed the move, adding that he hoped the arrival of parking attendants in Coalisland would be a "morale booster" for residents and businesses alike.
He continued: "One of my particular concerns is the abuse of disabled parking bays, a sadly regular occurrence in many areas.
"Without proper enforcement it is the vulnerable who suffer — a fact lost on those who much preferred self-regulation and were critical of my previous calls for parity for all towns and villages. The mixed message of parking infringements only being penalised in some areas and not all, must be eradicated."


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Nuclear families are families made up of mother, father and children. It is thought to be the ideal family unit to raise children in. However, just like other kinds of families it has its pros and cons.
The Pros of Nuclear Family
1. Stability And Strength
A family with two parents whether married or not normally tend to be stable compared to families with a single parent or several generational parents. The partners or spouses can cultivate a caring, supportive and loving relationship in the children. This will in turn be helpful in the kids' future as it will teach them to look for positive relationships as well as interact with others positively. Children raised in a nuclear family will also learn to be accommodative and considerate since they have seen how the mother and father work together to solve any problem, assign household duties and also be there for one another in good and in bad times.
2. More Opportunity
Since nuclear families tend to have financial stability, the kids have plenty of opportunities and luxuries in life. The children might be able to attend gymnastics, dance, music or any other type of class one wishes to. Children presented with these opportunities are likely to perform better socially and academically as well as develop time management skills and confidence.
3. Behavior Successes
Besides stability, a nuclear family provides the children with consistency. Kids with both consistency and stability are likely to behave positively, perform well in school and be more involved in extracurricular and community activities.
The Cons of Nuclear Family
1. Isolated
This kind of family isolates people from relationships and other relatives. It breaks down the extended family which is not good as relatives are beneficial especially in times of hardship.
2. Burnout
Due to the fact that sometimes it can be one partner working, the tendency of that spouse burning out is likely as he/she tries very hard to make sure everyone's needs are met. For instance, the mother can be cook, babysitters, maid and a time breadwinner. This will leave her not time to pamper and nurture herself.
3. Less Conflict Handling Skills
While the idea of less stress and conflict could be an advantage to nuclear family it can also be a disadvantage. Conflicts are part of life and skills to resolving them are beneficial in every aspect. Since people within a nuclear family tend to develop similar thinking habits this could create a problem if the person was to interact with people outside their unit particularly those with differing ideas and opinions.
Brandon Miller has a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a seasoned writer who has written over one hundred articles, which have been read by over 500,000 people. If you have any comments or concerns about this blog post, then please contact the Green Garage team here.


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Ferdinand Porsche was one of the first engineers to develop the automobile, his first vehicle registered in Austria, and took to the streets of Vienna on June 26, 1898. His namesake brand is still synonymous with style and performance, and the Volswagon which he designed for Hitler is, and probably always will be, the most numerous and recognizable car ever produced. Ferdinand was also a pioneer of motorsports , and racing remained his passion throughout his life, though the war saw him design tanks, tractors, and generators. For one of many Porsche racing adventures read my article on Bernd Rosemeyer.
n 1935, the first Volkswagen prototypes were ready for testing, internally referred to as Porsche type 60. After a few prototypes, a series of 30 Volkswagen test cars were made by Daimler-Benz AG in 1937. With the Volkswagen nearing its production, the idea of Porsche's own series production sportscar was also born. The plan was to use Volkswagen's mechanicals, but it being the government project, the agreement couldn't be settled to use the parts by a private car company. So, the Porsche family had to get creative. Motorsport was very 'in' at this time KdF could still use a competition car for marketing purposes and the NSKK (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps, National Socialist Motor Corps) started to organize the Berlin-Rome road rally to happen on September 27, 1938 .
Because of the Sudeten Crisis, the 1938 Berlin-Rome race did not happen, but as the event was planned as a new tradition, the race was scheduled also for 1939.
Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche
For the 1939 race, a project was started to create KdF's Berlin-Rome competition car. It was a car using type 60 KdF-Wagen's mechanicals with design from Porsche 114 project. The KdF Berlin-Rome car was called as type 64. The type 64 cars were built using 1938 KdF VW38 chassis and the chassis numbers therefore begun with 38. Having the powerless engine, the type 64 had to be as aerodynamic as possible. And the narrow cockpit made it look very cool. These aluminium-bodied cars were designed by Erwin Komenda.
In any case, the car was very fast, given its puny little engine. That's also because it was very light. The body, for instance, was built by Karosseriewerk Reutter from 0.5 mm thick aluminum alloy sheets that were beaten by hand to create that teardrop shape. The first car was ready on August 19, 1939, but it was to no avail as, on September 1st, 1939, the Second World War officially commenced and, as such, all racing had to be abandoned.
You may be wondering what happened to the cars since the race did not take place. Well, all three did get built (the second in December of 1939 and the third in 1940) and lived very interesting lives thereafter. The first example was gifted to Bodo Lafferentz, "a member not only of Germany's national trade union, but he was also a board member of the newly formed Volkswagenwerk," according to Porsche Road & Race. Lafferentz crashed the car, but the car was salvaged and repaired , then destroyed by allied bombers during WWII.
During the war period, the second and third chassis,used by Ferdinand Porsche himself as a daily driver(hardcore), were saved by Porsche as he fled to Gmund, Austria where he set up an impromptu headquarters at a villa in Zell-Am-See. As Americans arrived to liberate Austria, the appearance of one of the Type 64s, namely chassis #38/42, was intriguing enough to prompt them to seize it. They drove around in it for a while before chopping the roof off and driving it some more until the engine let go. At that point, the car was scrapped .
Ferry Porsche had the last existing car revamped in 1947 by Carozzeria Pininfarina in Italy.


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LPN Schools in Los Angeles, CA Located near Saint Vincent Medical Center, Temple Community Hospital, and Shriners Hospital for Children, the 30,000-square-foot Los Angeles campus of American Career College is easily accessible from the Hollywood and Santa Monica freeways and offers different parking options. The campus has 14 classrooms and 10 labs in which to study vocational nursing from qualified instructors. In addition to a quality allied health education, American Career College offers tutoring and advising services for students and placement and career services for alumni.


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Month: February 2011
Experiment With Acne Blemish Treatment To Find The One That
Experiment With Acne Blemish Treatment To Find The One That Works Best For You
Getting rid of acne can prove to be quite a difficult task and in fact without having researched the different acne blemish treatment methods you would have your hands full trying to figure a solution that works best for you. Acne is a condition that is hard to come to terms with both physically and mentally – and if you have this problem you are going to be really concerned about finding an effective acne blemish treatment.
A Painful Experience
Many people that have tried to find suitable acne blemish treatment have come away pained by their experience because not only are there so many options to choose from but the costs involved too are pretty steep. So, unless you are able to pinpoint the right acne blemish treatment you would end up experimenting with products that may or may not prove to be effective and all the time you will be spending your hard earned money in using trial and error methods.
It does not help too much to know that the best acne blemish treatment is one that will clear up your skin. The unfortunate truth is that most acne blemish treatment methods are not a single product but are many products that work in unison with one another. This means having to try out a series of acne blemish treatments to be able to get rid of the problem.
It is necessary to use acne blemish treatment that unplugs your skin s pores as well as ensures keeping the skin absolutely clean. In these simple ways you can eliminate two of the causes of acne which are bacteria, and dirt and, of course acne is also caused by accumulated dead skin cells which too are done away when you clear out the pores.
Even when you try out a series of acne blemish treatment products you will still have to use a trial and error method to see how effective the solution is. Therefore, you will often need to change your products before you can find one that is the best acne blemish treatment. Some people have suggested using a product known as 101E Acne Getaway. I guess it won t hurt to try this one out; after all, why leave any stone unturned?
For a good blemish treatment lotion why not considers using Mario Badescu s Drying Lotion that is popular and very good? It is natural and has been found to be very effective and it has never been tested on any animal.
Blemish Treatment: Keep It Simple And Natural
Teenagers are a group of people that are most prone to suffer from skin disorders that in turn lead to blemished skins. There are several reasons why skin blemishes develop including eating the wrong kinds of foods and also because of certain changes taking place in the body as too because of use of the wrong skin care products. Without a doubt, the simplest and most effective blemish treatment method is ensuring keeping your skin perfectly clean.
Do Not Pop Or Squeeze The Blemish
Before going to sleep you should ensure giving your face a good wash as this will help improve the skin s ability to heal itself while you sleep. And, during the day it pays to drink plenty of fluids while always remembering to never try and squeeze or pop the blemish for fear of developing unwanted scars.
In regard to suitable blemish treatment methods there are several that are worth trying out and the simplest would be a home remedy that anyone can try out without much fuss or bother. Simply apply a mix of honey and turmeric as well as some lime to the blemish and then cover your blemishes with some more lime and also some tomato juice and leave the application on for between twenty and twenty-five minutes after which you can rinse off the application.
Honey is useful for more than one blemish treatment method as it can also be applied as a kind of band-aid over your blemish. Once on, it will ensure sterilizing your skin and in this way removes bacteria and also helps to speed up the healing process; and, it does all this overnight.
Use of some orange juice along with a half cup full of honey can prove to be an effective blemish treatment option. Just five minutes of use of this application is enough to dry out unwanted oils and in that much time it will also heal as well as eliminates the blemishes.
For people that need a quick-fix blemish treatment method then using your toothpaste on the affected area can provide you with overnight relief and it can also eliminate blemishes once and for all. Other blemish treatment options include using egg whites and rose water mixed with cucumber paste.
Use of the right acne blemish treatment method ensures minimizing the amount of effort required to help you overcome your acne condition. Without the right blemish treatment method you would be forced into putting in much effort while results would not always be to your satisfaction. It is therefore recommended to research your options and be well informed about which treatment options promise best results.
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Getting Rid Of Blemishes With Medicated Blemish Cream
Blemishes are not something anyone wants to live with. They re painful and humiliating no matter how old you are. If you re a teenager already self-conscious about your body and if you re older, chances are you assumed that you d left your acne-filled days behind you. But blemishes affected people of all ages, and if you find yourself constantly fighting to get rid of them, you need to find a good medicated blemish cream.
Embarrassing Blemishes
Blemishes, a type of acne, are usually caused by follicles that become clogged with oil and dead skin cells. The follicle, or pore, becomes irritated and infected, causing the embarrassing, painful blemishes that occur usually somewhere on your face probably the worst possible place for them to occur.
There are lots of different blemish treatments available these days. Stores are filled with shelf after shelf of products like lotions, gels, soaps and creams. These products are meant to be used every day, sometimes more than once, so that they can clear out the clogged pores. And while they do work for some, a lot of people need something stronger than that.
However, companies have also developed what they call medicated blemish cream. These creams have added ingredients that are a little stronger than something you d find in a cream sitting on the shelf. While you can get medicated blemish creams without a prescription, you may still want to speak to your doctor about using them just in case they have special instructions for you. The good news is if that you are pregnant, you do not have to check and see if the medicated blemish cream you re using is safe for use in pregnant women there is no risk to fetuses like with other medicated creams.
Medicated blemish creams contain two main ingredients they are 2% resorcinol and 8% sulfur. Used together, these two ingredients clear out the dead skin cells clogged in pores and they also reduce the amount of oil in the skin. The best news is, not only do medicated blemish creams get rid of any blemishes you do have, they help prevent them from occurring again!
There is a long list of companies that sell medicated blemish creams: look for Clearasil Adult Care Medicated Blemish Cream or Bensulfoid Cream, for instance. There is no shortage of medicated blemish creams on the market at all, and they can start quite cheap, around $10.
Like with all creams, however, you will probably have to try out more than one medicated blemish cream before you find the perfect one, but once you do, you ll be living a blemish-free life!
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Picking A Good Anti-Blemish Cream
If you have an acne problem, you dread waking up every day to a new pimple of blemish. Nobody wants to go through their day with annoying, painful zits or big red blemishes on their face, right? Well, if you have an acne problem, you re also probably looking for a good anti-blemish cream.
Blemishes are not only extremely embarrassing; they can be painful as well, which is why people want a good anti-blemish cream. The skin becomes not only red but irritated so it ends up causing actual pain. They are generally caused by blocked follicles. These follicles, which are basically skin pores, will become clogged with oil and dead skin cells. Then the follicle will become infected, which causes the irritation and redness. Of course, other things cause blemishes as well, including fatigue or stress. Whatever is causing your acne, you ll probably be able to find an anti-blemish cream to help cope with it.
Anti-Blemish Cream Ingredients
Most types of anti-blemish cream have similar ingredients and can range in price. A common ingredient is typically salicylic acid. This helps effectively cleanse the pore, destroying the oil and dead skin cells. They can also use retinol, a pure form of vitamin-A which helps keep the skin moisturized. If you are interested in natural remedies instead of anti-blemish cream, there are some out there; for instance, you can try washing your face with tea tree oil. You probably won t get good results though, so stick with either a retail or medicated anti-blemish cream.
Most anti-blemish creams require you to use them once or twice daily after washing your face. Do not use them too often, however, because the chemicals in them can be harsh and overuse can cause irritation to your skin. There is one type of anti-blemish cream, called Acneessential, that contains all-natural ingredients, but the anti-blemish creams considered to be most effective contain chemicals that help get rid of the infection.
Now that you know what s in a good anti-blemish cream, you ll have to decide which one works the best for you. Almost every make-up company out there makes an anti-blemish cream. Godiva has their AcneClear Anti-Blemish Cream and Clinique even sells an anti-blemish cream that is a type of gel! Prices for good creams can be quite cheap but you tend to pay for quality if you start under $20, don t expect good results. Some anti-blemish creams go up quite a bit higher as well. The bottom line is you ll probably have to try some out and decide which ones are best for you.
Which is the Best Wakeboard Boat Out There Today?
So you want to go wakeboarding and now you just need to choose what the best wakeboard boat is going to be for you. This means reading a wakeboard boat review for one, but first you are going to have to get a better idea on the different makes and model of boat that are out there so that you know what you are working with.
MasterCraft X Star
No matter who you are, you can t deny that the MasterCraft X Star is one option for the best wakeboard boat out there. There are more than enough features that are impressive and which explain why this is one of the best wakeboard boat choices, such as the fact that it is so extremely comfortable. Of course you want a boat that looks great as well, and this boat definitely has the aesthetic appeal going for it, but the comfort is incredible.
When you go out wakeboarding with your friends, you are going to be spending extended periods of time in the boat. While you are driving out to the location where you are going to be wakeboarding, while there are other people wakeboarding, and on the way home, these are all points in time where you are going to be sitting in the boat and so of course you are going to want it to be comfortable.
As well this is the best wakeboard boat because it features a unique two-point hammerhead designed bow and extra special hull and once this boat gets going you are going to get some beautifully engineered wakes.
Supra Launch 24 SSV Gravity Edition
Another of the top picks for the best wakeboard boat is the Supra Launch 24 SSV Gravity Edition. This is one of the best wakeboard boats out there and for good reason. It is definitely one of the largest wakeboarding boats in terms of size and it will go through that rough water like there is no tomorrow.
Just because this boat is big though, don t think that it can t really get going because it really gains some speed that is impressive.
These are both boats that are top picks as being a couple of the best wakeboard boats out there today. Make sure that you take your time when you are browsing through the selection of boats because each offers its own features and setup and you want to choose the boat that is going to be best for you.


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You know the scene, everyone's simply wandered in, kicked off their shoes, and left them in a pile somewhere, and it looks terrible. Here's why you need a quality shoe cabinet keeping your footwear neatly, safely and readily stored away.
Keeps Your Shoes Out of the Way
You know what's not very much fun? Tripping over a pair of shoes someone's left somewhere random. It doesn't look great either, having your footwear scattered all over the place.
If you live with more than a couple of people, it quickly becomes a bit of a nightmare getting everyone to neatly put their shoes away, but that's made infinitely worse when there's not even a good place to put them. That's why you need a quality shoe cabinet UK.
Having shoes dumped randomly in any old orientation is really ugly. The individual pair of shoes can be cluttering, but a whole mess of them is inexcusable, especially in a nicely designed and put together room. We put real thought and consideration into the rest of our furniture and interior design, why not extend that to shoe storage?
Plus leaving them around is quite literally dangerous. Have you ever tripped over unexpected shoes left somewhere strange? It's a real hazard, especially in room people walk around in a lot.
Looks Neat and Stylish
One of the best elements of a quality shoe storage cabinet is how stylish they can be. No matter what the overall style and design of your home is, you can find the perfect cabinet for you. There are rustic and homely wooden ones, giving your room a warm and comforting edge.
There are glass shoe storage cabinets, allowing you to use the problem of where to store shoes to give your home an edgy stylish look. Then there's every other material you can imagine in between. No matter if you're living in a classically styled home, or the most cutting-edge, futuristic domicile, you're sure to find the right cabinet for you, especially if you look in the right places, like Furniture in Fashion.
Plus they add to the overall style of any room by simply decreasing clutter, and minimising mess, giving you a vastly starker and more Scandi looking environment. You want a room to look designed and deliberate, not haphazard. A shoe cabinet gives you that, along with sheer functionality.
Keeps Your Shoes in Good Condition
Shoes are expensive. Everyone knows that if you go for cheap shoes, you'll only wear them out, and quickly need to buy more, better ones. That's why we all typically buy the best shoes we can. Plus shoes can look fantastic and add so much to an outfit.
With all that in mind, do you really want to just be kicking your shoes into a pile? Where they'll be trodden on, kicked and mauled by pets? Nope, you need a shoe cabinet, where they'll be safe, sound and ready for whenever you next need them. It just makes sense!


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by Marcie Cuff
What began as a gift of 190 acres of pristine wilderness in 1963 has quadrupled in size over the past half-century—Teatown Lake Reservation now spans 1,000 acres in Yorktown, Cortlandt and New Castle. More than 25,000 hikers, cross-country skiers, snowshoers, and environmental educators use its 15 miles of marked and well-maintained trails annually. The trails seamlessly traverse diverse terrain and habitats, including wildflower-choked meadows, mixed hardwood forests, stunning lakes and streams, hemlock and laurel groves, and marshy wetlands. Overlooking the 33-acre Teatown Lake, the Teatown Nature Center provides conservation leadership to the Hudson Hills and Highlands. Don't be fooled by its close proximity to civilization. Teatown offers a glimpse of alpine worlds otherwise found far, far away from well-trammeled Westchester parks.
Teatown is chock full of unforgettable trails. My all-time family favorite is the 1.5-mile Lakeside Trail, which circles Teatown Lake and features a 600-ft boardwalk over the lake and easy access to a bird observation blind. Access it through the Wildflower Woods trail at the Nature Center. For hardier hikers, the 2.4-mile Hidden Valley Circuit is particularly rewarding, passing through cascading streams and vernal pools.
Nestled within the greater Teatown Preserve is Wildflower Island. Few hikes in our area offer the pure wilderness experience of this small 2-acre refuge. Home to over 230 native and endangered species of wildflowers, the island is isolated from the disturbances of people, animals and invasive species. Visitors enter through two locked wrought-iron gates and cross a slender wooden bridge leading to a narrow island path. Experienced Teatown guides lead visitors along the hiking loop, describing unique features of the island's wildflowers, most of which are native to New York. Black, red, white and scarlet oaks, sugar and red maples, flowering dogwoods and shagbark hickories tower above the trails, while stunning red trillium, fire pink, and yellow lady's slipper creep nearby among wild geranium and woodland phlox. The flora is unusually diverse on this tiny island. It packs a lot into a short walk. Guided tours are held on Saturdays at 10 am and 1 pm, and on Sundays at 1 pm from now until mid-September. Pre-registration is required for all tours. Put this little spot on the tippy top of your summer to-do list, but leave the kids at home for this short hike. The flora is delicate, so children under 12 are not permitted on the island.
Hiking is a summer essential. You don't have to be a botanist or endurance runner to appreciate the wonders of the trails. All you need is a desire to slip out your back door and explore the outdoors. Teatown's trails are open 365 days from dawn to dusk, and the Nature Center is open daily from 9 to 5. You can gain trail access to most hikes from the Nature Center at 1600 Spring Valley Road in Ossining. See you out there on the trails!
Marcie Cuff lives in Irvington, works at the NY Botanical Garden, and is the author of the book "This Book Was a Tree"(Perigee Books). For more ideas like this, look for her book at any bookstore, or visit her blog Mossy at http://mossymossy.com.


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"Who Dey" Nation Wants Answers
There's been much speculation throughout the blogosphere regarding who exactly is to blame for the colossal failure that has been the first seven games of the 2010 Bengals campaign. Joe Reedy at Cincinnati.com, Hobson at Bengals.com, our friends at Cincy Jungle, and the various discussion boards have taken up this topic and chewed over it at length over the last several days.
Some say the fault lies with Marvin Lewis. After all, he's the head coach—he calls the shots. He admitted to calling the third-down pass play that led directly to Tampa Bay's comeback win. If the Bengals win that game, (which was in the bag) who knows where they'd be now? The roster is supposedly stacked with talent, so it must be Marvin's fault. Anyone seen any "In Marvin We Trust" T-shirts lately? Me neither.
Others point to Bob Bratkowski and his sometimes overly-predictable and other times ridiculously bone-headed play calling. He was the favorite whipping boy in Bengaldom last year, and frankly he's done nothing to change perceptions in 2010. I freely admit I was so sick of "Brat" that I openly lobbied for Mike Martz to be hired in Cincinnati. Some say the offense is too complicated, leading to penalties and missed assignments. Others say it's the same thing that's been run since 2005 and everyone in the stadium knows what the next play is. Either way, despite a supposedly Pro Bowl caliber QB and two superstar WR's, not to mention two top draft picks and a former first round running back, this offense struggles mightily.
Then there's the defense. Less than six months since Mike Zimmer was canonized in Cincinnati as a conquering hero, his charges have failed to repeat 2009's successes despite having the same starters and better depth. They have shown inconsistency in run defense, and the pass rush has been non-existent—even when blitzing. What's worse, they couldn't get a stop when they knew the opposing offense was going to run to try to close out the game twice (Cleveland and Miami). Those failures allowed the opponent to run out the last two minutes and deny the offense one last gasp.
How about Carson Palmer? While flashing some brilliance at times this year, large chunks of the season have looked a lot like 2009 when he was absolutely putrid at critical moments. He looks to have lost zip on his passes, and could have about 7 or 8 more interceptions this year if not for the stone hands of opposing DB's. Whether you count yourself as pro- or anti-Palmer, no one can argue that he's just not the same guy he was in 2005 and 2006.
And when all else fails, blame Mike Brown. After all, he's the man at the top and ultimately responsible for two decades of consistent failure. Restart the "Mike Brown, Step Down" campaign! Look for mikebrownsucks.com to get restarted.
As for me, the official position of Bengals Gab is the blame lies in something more vague and ambiguous. It has nothing to do with 40-yard dash times, playbook schemes, or simple blocking and tackling. If it were something like that, it would easily be fixed.
No, the problem with the 2010 Cincinnati Bengals is something much more difficult to get a handle on.
Looking at the roster, this team should be able to compete with anyone in the league. The offense is stacked. The defense too. A team that won the division last year and swept every home-and-home got only more talented in the offseason. The coaching staff enjoyed another year of relative stability, and the Bengals spent freely—almost recklessly—in free agency to improve the roster. They did well with their nine draft picks, and had the advantage of an extra preseason game.
So what went wrong here?
I humbly submit that the problem with this team is simply a lack of heart.
I stated back in the spring that this team would have no excuses, and I still don't see any. They have simply failed to deliver. They've believed the hype surrounding them in the offseason, and become overly infatuated with the publicity and hoopla surrounding them.
They lost their focus and they lost their resolve. They forgot what the whole point of this exercise is—to win a championship. This is a lack of heart.
Heart, as defined by me, is a desire to succeed at all costs. To put team success above personal notoriety, and to be focused on the end result in all endeavors. This team does not do any of that.
They too often focus on why they "Can't" instead of why they "Can." In the immortal words of Yoda, I say to the Bengals, "That is why you fail."
Cincinnati's opponent Monday, Pittsburgh, didn't spend the kind of money Mike Brown did in the spring. They arguably didn't draft as well. They were coming off a season in which they missed the playoffs, and they had the distraction of Ben Roethlisberger's rape allegations and subsequent suspension.
They had problems in areas the Bengals did not. They had obstacles to overcome that were non-existant in Cincinnati.
But they are 5-2, and the Bengals are 2-5 for one reason: They have heart.
If the Bengals were somehow able to transplant the heart and desire found in Pittsburgh or Baltimore—or Cleveland for that matter—and put it into the talent on this roster, the Bengals could go 9-0 down the stretch and make the playoffs.
How do you coach that? How do you instill such a thing in your players? I don't know. And neither does Marvin Lewis.
Maybe Mike Tomlin and Eric Mangini know a thing or two this staff doesn't. Maybe its more a, "you have it or you don't" kind of thing. I don't know.
All I do know is that as long as the Bengals continue to search for "answers" in the tape, and talk to each other about better execution and being more "on the same page", the more they will struggle. Once they rightfully call B.S. on all of that hogwash and simply "Do Your Job" as Lewis once espoused, they can salvage something meaningful from this dreadful abortion of a season.
Who is to blame? EVERYBODY.
Just my two cents. I could be wrong.


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It's Saturday morning and we've been in our new apartment for two weeks. The place needs work- a lot of work. And the going is slow. But we'll get there, and progress is always fun to document.
In the past, I've always been a big fan of colour; and you'll see that in the pics of our first apartment. But in this place, I'm really pulled in a new direction. I've been inspired by the clean white Scandinavian esthetic. It's so European/ city/ adult/ cool, and I want us to have a bit of that now that we're living in Toronto.
The kitchen is our first project since that is where we spend the majority of our time. It's not a home until you can cook there!
Okay, here's a taste of what I am dreaming of for our new space:
Don't you just love how white and lovely these kitchens are? And I really enjoy the use of open shelving; all the visual colour interest comes from brown sugar and black cast iron, cold beautiful stainless steel and pretty pink dishes. I am completely in love and I hope that I can come somewhere close to duplicating these looks.
So what do you think? Can I turn this:
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I'll keep you posted.


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Is this the future of Windows PCs?
ZDNet's Stephen Chapman has unearthed an internal video from Microsoft's "Windows Gaming eXperience" team, showing the company's vision for PC gaming and communications. In short, it looks a lot like the current or near-term reality for Xbox Live and Xbox 360, signaling that Microsoft is increasingly aiming to blend it all together.
The company is clearly hoping to leverage the strength of the Xbox business, which has emerged as a bright spot in its consumer lineup, thanks in large part to the introduction of the Kinect motion sensor last year. At the same time, Microsoft still faces tough competition from Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii in the worldwide console market, and it could help the Xbox unit to forge closer ties with Windows.
This vision to further unite Xbox Live and Windows is not a huge surprise, but it's notable that the company is still pushing down this path. The initiative started back in 2006 with the announcement of the "Live Anywhere" strategy to connect Windows, Xbox Live and mobile games, allowing people to communicate and play against each other regardless of device or gaming platform.
"Live Anywhere" has been bogged down in part by simple gaming mechanics. In a first-person shooter, for example, somebody using a keyboard and mouse can find it easy to mow down a console gamer fumbling around with a traditional controller. That's one place where the planned extension of the Kinect controller to Windows 7 could help level the playing field.
The launch of Xbox Live on Windows Phone last year gave Microsoft new opportunities to bring mobile devices into the mix.
In addition, as noted by WinRumors this morning, there are signs that Microsoft is aiming to bring together Xbox Live and Mediaroom interactive television technologies into some sort of unified service. One Xbox executive recently acknowledged to me that this would make a lot of sense, saying that Mediaroom and Xbox Live are "like chocolate and peanut butter."
So it's easy to see all of these pieces coming together for the company … at some point.
Microsoft's Kevin Unangst talked about the situation in a recent Computer and Video Games interview: "We always had the vision it's just the platforms have started to catch up. We're delivering those pieces that we talked about years ago but it doesn't change the focus. It's a unique starting point to be able to connect all the consoles but what matters is that you can't lose sight of making great experiences on each platform."
So it makes sense that the video — from 2010, according to ZDNet's Chapman — focuses heavily on cross-platform social experiences.
"My friends and I connect and share our experiences across social networks. Our gaming experiences are not limited to a single platform or property, but extend inclusively across the Internet," reads one of the on-screen messages. Another adds, "My Avatar is my online identity. It represents my style, attitude, and character. I can see and personalize my Avatar on the web, my PC or while playing a game."
That part about personalizing an Xbox Live avatar on the web is already a reality. The only question: When will we see the rest?


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A Council of Europe committee on Wednesday called for Fifa president Sepp Blatter to be investigated over his uncontested victory in last year's Fifa presidential election.
A committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) says further light should be shone on Blatter's election success, which came after his sole rival, Mohamed bin Hammam, dropped out of the race due to bribery allegations.
Bin Hammam was later banned from the sport for life, after being found guilty of trying to buy votes from Caribbean football officials by Fifa's ethics committee.
"Football's governing body Fifa should open an internal investigation into whether the candidates in its recent election for president — and particularly the successful candidate — exploited their institutional positions to obtain unfair advantages for themselves or for potential voters," read a draft resolution released by the PACE Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media.
The resolution called for Fifa to "cast full light on the facts underlying the various scandals which, in recent years, have tarnished its image and that of international football".
There was also a recommendation that the "investigative powers of the ethics committee … should be significantly increased".
The committee went on to call for Fifa to "publish in full any judicial and other documents relating to the case of Swiss sports promoter ISL [International Sports and Leisure], whose collapse in 2001 gave rise to allegations of kickbacks to Fifa officials in return for television rights".
ISL acquired exclusive broadcasting rights at a succession of World Cups but in 2010 the BBC accused the company of giving payments to a number of Fifa officials, including Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou.
In December, Blatter said he intended to publish files that named officials implicated in the ISL affair but revealed that legal measures were being taken "by one of the parties involved".
The PACE committee was meeting in Paris to approve a report entitled Good governance and ethics in sport written by French politician Francois Rochebloine. — Sapa-AFP


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Hack the Hacker
Social engineering is social hacking - or a popular way of stealing information - manipulating the 'human being' as the weakest link. This typical social engineering attack, usually a phone scam, has been popular for years. The victims get tricked into believing their computers have been updated with security features while in reality their computers have been compromised. Many people fall for this type of scam resulting in time loss and all too often financial damage. We believe the main reason for this is because they target people who lack (deep) technical knowledge and interest of how their computer and the online world works.
The solution? We can't expect everyone to be a technical expert one day. The reason for this blog post and why we keep repeating the message is to raise security awareness, and to create an understanding in how to deal with these kinds of attacks! Use common sense, never give any kind of confidential data (passwords or otherwise) by phone or email, never install anything when you are not certain who is asking you to do so. These attackers follow written scripts that trigger an immediate panic or fear-reaction (you are in danger!) and once they have your attention, they are trained to keep you on the phone and making sure you follow their instructions, while reassuring you that you are doing the right thing.
The "Microsoft Tech scam" is a popular social engineering technique that has been around since 2008 and targets the less tech-savvy computer users in our society, aka 'the vast majority'. It originates from call centers in India, but can occur in all countries that have a strong English-speaking (business) culture.
Scammers try to convince people into giving remote access to their computer by convincing the user their computer is infected and propose a solution for a small fee.
Last week at ZIONSECURITY, we received a call from an English speaking-person with a strong Indian accent from a Dutch telephone number. He introduced himself as a Microsoft Tech Support employee.
We immediately realized the intent of the call and decided to play along. The scammer provided us with lots of valuable information to allow an in-depth analysis of the attack. Meanwhile we could waste his time to avoid making real victims.
After a short introduction, the so-called "support engineer" notified us of several security issues on our computer. We quickly setup a virtual machine and used it in our cry for help. Apparently, our local computer shop would be unable to repair our damaged computer so we turned all our attention to the "support engineer". He showed us around our computer with great patience.
First, he explains us how to open the event manager. There are several security events on our machine as shown below. It's easy to be tricked into believing that there is a real problem.
Secondly, we were asked to open the certificate manager. The scammer guides us to one specific Microsoft certificate which has been expired since 1995!!! An unsuspecting user will be convinced easily that maintenance is required to ever safely use this computer again.
This far into the conversation we have spent about half an hour following instructions only to be convinced of the problem. This shows the persistence and patience these assailants can muster.
Our 'savior' on the other end of the line reassured us that everything can be resolved but we must closely follow his instructions. We were asked to download an older version of TeamViewer and connect to his partner ID. This way he can follow our every move and take over control of the computer. Surprisingly he does not act once given control over our device. He explains that we are connected to a Microsoft secure server and asks us to write a code down. We grab pen and paper and he starts to dictate. While we look down at our paper, he quickly takes control of the computer to disable the graphics card. The support engineer explains that we might see a flicker and a black screen. The screen turns black but as we are working in a VM; the screen is resized and we have full visibility on what the attacker does next. He asks us to tell him as soon as the screen restores itself. This lets him know to stop whatever he is doing. So, we play along and tell him the screen remains dark.
Below you can find a snippet of the conversation.
Hello, this is Microsoft tech support. We see malicious events/viruses on your computer. We are going to guide you through the process of fixing your computer.
Oh no! Can you really see that my computer is infected? Please help me to get rid of the viruses.
Don't worry! I am going to show you how to clean up your computer. In the windows search bar at the bottom of your screen, please type eventvwr. Do you see a window popping up? Can you tell me how many error messages you see?
Yes sir, I typed in eventvwr in the search bar and we see many error messages as the program opened. Are you going to be able to fix them?
The command eventvwr stands for "Event Viewer". Microsoft Event viewer is a management console to display information related to system, security and setup events on your computer. Running eventvwr from the command line is just an alternative way to open it besides from the control panel.
..in the windows search bar type certmgr ... go to certificates->Microsoft Hardware compatibility -> click on open. When you see: "This certificate is expired" It means you are at high risk, we are going to fix that issue for you. Please open your browser and download TeamViewer from http://filehippo.com/download_teamviewer/
When non-technical people notice that they have errors on their computer for the first time, they start to panic and want a solution, they trust the so-called Microsoft Tech Support guy on the other end of the line with the problem. The scammers really want to show people first that their computer is at risk. By showing the errors in windows event viewer is an example and by showing old certificates that reside on your computer.
TeamViewer is a software package for remote control, desktop sharing and online meetings. In this case it is being used to take over your computer for malicious purposes.
Is this program going to fix all my viruses? Thank you so much!
It is noticeable that the scammer is speaking calmly and you even can tell that he reads it from a checklist. He really is trained trying to convince people into the scam. Social engineering is a technique used to get information from people by convincing them into performing actions that they normally wouldn't do.
When you successfully installed and executed TeamViewer., it will ask you for a password to login. This will able you to connect to our secure Microsoft Server. The password is ******. Once you see a window popping up, you are connected to the Microsoft Secure Server.
OK, we entered the password and we see a program window.
Do you see any changes to the screen? Please take pen and paper.
What do you want us to write down?
Nasty trick here! He asked us to take a pen and paper to distract us while he pokes around your computer.
The first action the scammer did was disable the monitor, so we couldn't see what was happening. He asked several times if we could see the screen again. But as a reaction to comfort people that is nothing wrong, he just says that it is automated program to check your computer for errors.
I am going to open a tool that checks your computer for malicious events/viruses and automatically removes them.
The command syskey stands for SAMLOCK tool. it's a utility that encrypts the hashed password information in a SAM database. The SAM database is a file on your computer where your system password is stored. After you enable the SAMLOCK tool with a password, the next time your computer boots up, it's going to ask you for a password, because the scammer had control over the computer and provided the SAMLOCK tool password himself, only the scammer can unlock your computer.
After playing along for over an hour we carefully let the scammer know that we were going to stop the call. We had enough information to go on.
1. Disconnect your computer
Unplug the network cable of the affected computer's network card and turn off its wireless connection. You can also put the device in airplane mode (Windows 10).
If you installed the remote admin tool as they directed, then they may have access to your personal files, even after the phone call is over. They also can install keylogger malware to record your passwords, including bank accounts. You should assume from this point that your computer is not yours anymore.
You should restore an older backup or even reinstall your computer. If you're not comfortable doing this, consider taking your computer to a repair technician or contact your local sysadmin.
2. Change your passwords
After you make sure that your system is free of malware and keylogger software, change all your important passwords. Make sure to choose strong passwords when creating new ones. Don't do this while the computer is still infected, only after it has been repaired.
We highly recommend to use a password manager like 1Password, KeePass, LastPass or Dashlane..
3. Alert and educate about this scam
Even though this scam is affecting millions of people, there is an astonishingly large number of people who are not aware of these practices and are still easy targets. Security awareness and prevention is key to avoid this type of scam. Social-share this message and spread the word to your friends and family.
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Picture this: You got the gig and you're excited about the music. You get to your first rehearsal and the bandleader wants you to play "bass" on a couple of things. You panic because you've never had to be the bass player and cover your keyboard parts at the same time. I've been fortunate to play with some of the baddest bass players on the planet, and all of them have asked me to play bass at one time or another. To help be your own bassist, here are a few examples that will strengthen your hand independence as well as add some spice to your left hand. Always remember that as a keyboardist, you already use your left hand more than you know.
1. Pop Bass
Ex. 1 has a Pop feel to it. The C major chord is syncopated and falls right before beat 1 of measures 2 and 4, but there's a lot of space in the bass part, which should make things easy. Embrace the simplicity and concentrate on making it feel good. You can practice all the examples in this article by setting up a simple "two and four" backbeat drum pattern to play over.
2. Rock Bass
Ex. 2 follows the same pattern as in Ex. 1 but now we're adding a straight eighths rock feel on measures 2 and 4. Notice how this helps propel the rhythm forward.
3. R&B Bass
Ex. 3 is another variation on the same pattern. The busier bass line here is beginning to imply a more R&B or funk kind of groove. It's a bit counterintuitive, but notice how the more syncopated the pattern becomes, the easier it is to play.
4. Syncopated Bass
Ex. 4 introduces more syncopation to the mix. Here, both hands play the first two beats of measures 1 and 3 simultaneously. Make sure to respect the staccato markings to maximize the funk factor.
5. Funk Bass
Ex. 5 is full-fledged funk. The right hand is syncopated in the style of Roger Troutman's guitar on Zapp's classic track "More Bounce to the Ounce." Notice how the bass line plays "in the cracks" of the groove, which is the key to making this pattern feel good.
6. Contemporary Jazz Bass
To practice Ex. 6 effectively, take it at a slightly slower tempo and switch up the drum pattern. All of the chords fall on beat 1 except for the last measure. If you have trouble, slow down the last bar so you can feel the displacement of the chord right after the left hand lands on beat 1.
Dig Deeper
"Skill at left-hand keyboard bass can help you break stylistic barriers at the drop of a hat, as changing up the bass part can shift the entire feel of the song" says keyboardist, composer, and producer Federico Gonzalez Peña. Peña has worked with Me'Shell N'DegeOcello, Maxwell, Chaka Kahn, Marcus Miller, and many others. He currently co-leads a band called Gaia, in which his left hand is the bass player.


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On the existence of gods
Anyhow, I'm interested in the three judges getting in touch here for two reasons. First, to see if they are interested in reprising their role as judges - and I'm talking about the SECOND Christian judge, not the first one. And second, I'd like to know if the Agnostic judge still has his notes and would like them to be included in the book.
It was very interesting to re-read the debate again, since I had forgotten most of it, after reading Umberto Eco's exchange of letters with Cardinal Martini. And frankly, I thought our debate was not only more interesting, but more intellectually demanding.
Sadly, the impact of my point about the scientific perspective being intrinsically temporally limited by the speed of light being shattered was reduced, though not at all undermined, by the discovery of the CERN researchers that a loose fiber optic cable was to blame for the neutrinos showing up faster than expected.
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You never had to pay for any of this. GOTOMYPC Is and always has been the biggest ripoff. You use a free access to a DDNS site and they'll give you software to run on your PC at home and a name like www.mypc.com, and then you set up your home firewall to redirect something like VNC to that PC. Then you connect VNC to the DDNS assigned site name and it'll connect to your home pc. If you want security there are ways to implement that too.
GoToMyPC Alternative Looks Good For Non-Corporate Use
A new PC-based remote access tool called BeAnywhere Personal, offers a great alternative to those of you needing to remotely access your PC when away form it.
In fact this new tool, may soon give serious competition to GoToMyPC wide dominance in the desktop remote access PC marketplace.
What these remote access technologies, and several other ones out there (PcAnywhere, LogMeIn, eBLVD, Netviewer and more), do, is to allow easy access to your main PC (office or home) from anywhere.
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After either starting a software or logging into a web site, you are able to see your remote PC screen as if you were in front of it, while being able to control its keyboard and mouse as if you were sitting in front of it.
The main advantage about BeAnywhere when compared with other remote desktop tools like GoToMyPC is that it's very cost-effective.
GoToMyPC somewhat pioneered and popularized PC remote access through their successfull and widely used browser-based service. But BeAnywhere is a tough contender, especially if your core use is not accessing a corporate PC.
Just like GoToMyPC, BeAnywhere is a remote desktop tool, which means that the user can access his/her computer from any other computer through an internet connection (broadband preferably).
In a similar fashion, just like its more popular competitor, BeAnywhere allows the user to invite as many guests as he/she wishes, and share specific files, folders or desktop screen with others, making this a great tool for online presentations, or online collaboration.
The main advantage about BeAnywhere when compared with other remote desktop tools like GoToMyPC is price.
For the use of GoToMyPC, you need to pay up to around 20USD/month. For BeAnywhere, a monthly subscription is available for 7,95/month, and if you decide to subscribe to a full year package, you can do so for only $ 79,50/year. So, that is less than half of the GoToMyPC price.
One great feature you are probably not aware of is that after having installed the key component of our software on the PC that needs to be accessed remotely, the BeAnywhere Viewer can be installed and setup directly on a USB flash drive. This makes it by far the ultimate portable remote access solution.
While on the road or traveling far away, when you need to access your computer, all you need to do is plug in your USB Drive on any Internet connected computer in the world, double click on the BeAnywhere Viewer icon on your Flash drive, and the screen of your remote PC will pop-up in front of you in five seconds. It's that simple. Even more interesting is the fact that you don't need to install any software on the computer you happen to be on to access your home/office PC, and no data or record of your work session is recorded on the computer you "borrowed". This means you can do all of this safely on any public computer or at any Internet café.
The moment you unplug your USB flash drive, the local computer will loose all information regarding the BeAnywhere Viewer.
The GoToMyPC viewer is downloaded and transparently installed only on user request. It is very small - approx 400k, and also will work on windows CE devices and any Java enabled computers (Mac, Linux, etc.)
BeAnywhere has also some interesting things to offer in the security department, especially when you compared it to GoToMyPC. BeAnywhere uses 256-bit RC4-compatible encryption, while GoToMyPC uses 128-bit.
In BeAnywhere, to prevent "man-in-the-middle" attacks, all communications have a digital signature that assures the data has not been changed between the Server and the Viewer.
On top of the above, all other typical security settings like blanking the remote screen during a session or automatically locking the remote computer when you logoff are all available in BeAnywhere.
Also with GoToMyPC no in-session data is stored on the local PC, and all data moving back and forth is encrypted end to end.
Remote Desktop and File Transfer
With GoToMyPC, to transfer a file you need to open a remote desktop session, and only after doing so you can transfer a file. This consumes resources on the connection, thus limiting the transfer speed. With BeAnywhere you can open a file transfer session only, and have all the connection resources allocated to the transfer of the file.
Unlimited User Accounts
With just one subscription, the user can give access to as many different users as he/she wants, and specify individual settings for each account.
And obviously you do not need to actually be sitting at your PC to allow access to the Guest user. As long as your computer is turned on and connected to the Internet, it will always be available for the Guest users to "visit" your computer, even if you are half way around the world yourself.
As for setting up the access, you can allow the Guest only to transfer files, or only to View the remote desktop screen, or to do both.
You can allow keyboard and/or mouse commands or not, or you can specify which folders you wish to share with that particular guest user, etc. And this can be done for each one of the guest user's accounts. When you decide that one of your guests should temporarily (or permanently) stop visiting, you can disable (or erase) his/her account, immediately stopping any unwanted access.
Overall Performance vs Ease of Use
GoToMyPC is a browser-based service. This makes it easier to use, and helps easy adoption of its service. On the other hand it slows considerably the screen refresh rate and the overall service performance.
While it is true that GoToMyPC uses the browser to initiate the connection, while the actual in-session remote access is handled by windows executables, the result remains sluggish performance on the end user side no matter what kind of CPU you have.
BeAnywhere is made up of two separate programs, one Server and one Viewer, which help the overall performance, though loosing ground to GoToMyPC as far as ease-of-use goes.
Networking and File Transfer Speed
GoToMyPC can work through many corporate firewalls without a problem.
BeAnywhere's uses a different technology approach (P2P), leading to having not as much freedom to go through corporate firewalls as GoToMyPC. On the other hand the P2P approach provides for much faster file transfer speed. Specifically, the transfer rate is limited by the slower connection to the internet from the two computers you will be using. By using BeAnywhere, your two computers are connected directly to each other, with no intermediate servers which, depending on the network traffic at that moment, can be faster or slower. This is definitely great advantage as you do not depend on other networks and GoToMyPC server load to have file transfers running at top speed.
In the future, BeAnywhere 2.0 will include a browser interface and integrate a new interconnection technology allowing users behind corporate firewalls to also use BeAnywhere without a problem.
System Requirements:
For the computer to be accessed remotely (Server)
Windows XP, 2000 or Server 2003
Broadband Internet connection
Pentium 450 - 128 MB RAM
For the computer needing to access your "base" computer (Viewer)
Windows XP, 2000 or Server 2003
Internet connection
Pentium 300 64MB RAM
To download an evaluation version of BeAnywhere go to:
Watch an animated introduction to BeAnywhere Personal right here.
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|2005-10-11 14:13:38
Sure -- VNC is free -- but if you want Free AND secure -- try LogMeIn.
And LogMeIn was built on a corporate platform (RemotelyAnywhere), so it stands up to corporate needs as well.
|2005-10-11 14:12:02
Sure -- VNC is free -- but if you want Free AND secure -- try LogMeIn.
And LogMeIn was built on a corporate platform (RemotelyAnywhere), so it stands up to corporate needs as well.
|2005-09-04 18:44:53
Nice comparison.
Still you can go much cheaper than that. Check out UltraVNC (http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/)
It has it all. It even allows the server to be installed as a service. It does dedicated file transfer, etc., etc.
You can watch the PC with the server from different locations simultaneously. And all locations can use the PC simultaneously.
And it costs... nada, zilch, niente.