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In case you missed it last night in the All Things D event — and frankly, given the length and general jejune of it, we wouldn’t blame you — Reed Hastings of Netflix took the stage and sat down with Peter Kafka. Here’s the takeaway: when Kafka asked him the chance of “getting on Nintendo,” Hastings replied, “our chances are excellent.” It’s not much, but after at least a year of hints and teasers, it’s by far the best confirmation we’ve got. Of course, he didn’t say which system, but let’s be honest… the only logical choice is DS, right?

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During the year your chance of becoming ill from the food you eat:

Canada 35%
USA 25%
UK 2%
France 1%

Source CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/…n6076565.shtml

The B1 Living Healthy Retreat April 10-17, 2010 Nosara, Costa Rica Blue Spirit Retreat Center

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During our retreat we employ the B1 Community Self-Care Solutions to begin to dramatically shift your relationship to your body, mind, spirit and health. During our week together, we will engage in active yoga classes, walks, meditation, coaching classes, nutrition strategy classes and more! The retreat center offers easy access to the best of Costa Rica including beautiful beaches, surfing lessons, kayaking, exploration of the rainforest canopy, and, of course, there are miles upon miles of soft, white sand beaches for long walks and gorgeous sunsets. Join us on this retreat and regain your own inner strength, reexamine your self-awareness and ability to be present for yourself and others, and learn new approaches that you can employ at work and at home. The Living Healthy Retreat is an opportunity to fully let yourself go, unwind, and heal

Whether you have been dependent on insulin for years or have been recently diagnosed this cutting-edge program is for you. For many of us living with disease can be a lonely or stressful experience, during our retreat we employ the B1 Community Self-Care Solutions™ to begin to dramatically shift your relationship to disease and your life. There is no other retreat like it!

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Porque no todas las noticias de El Salvador, son sobre homicidios de periodicos amarillistas. El país avanza:
Según los wikipedistas y con datos del banco mundial y de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, el índice de desarrollo humano del salvador para 2008 supera ya el 0.760, en comparación con el 0.747 de 2007. Recordemos que el último informe fué entregado el año pasado pero con datos de 2007, así que el informe de este año tendrá los datos de 2008.
Pero todavía podría crecer más, debido a que los datos de educación son de 2007.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:I…lo_Humano_2010

Indice de Salud…Índice de PIB….Índice de Educación……Estimación……..Posición CA
0.785……………….0.704……………..0.794………………….0.761……………3

País…………….Estimación
Costa Rica:…..0.857
Panamá:………0.846
Honduras:…….0.725
Guatemala:……0.708
Nicaragua……..0.703

Esperanza de vida 2008: http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?opt…id=308&Itemid=
Indice de educación 2007: http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_200…S_Complete.pdf
PIb per cápita: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/D…ources/POP.pdf
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/D…es/GDP_PPP.pdf

As the quaternary glaciers slowly melted, their ancient footprints remained like deep fjord-like scratches in the area just south of the alpine range in Lombardy.

Thaw and rain finished the job, leaving a broad band of lakes sweeping from the west to the east of Lombardy. This is a small trip of coastal smalltowns and villages. Far from being exhaustive and based on my wanderings alone, this is an ope thread. Feel free to add your own contributions.

Lake Iseo. Pisogne.

Lake Iseo – Sulzano

Lake Garda – Desenzano

Lake Garda – Monìga

Lake Garda – Limone

Yep, this is the setting for the tunnel chase in "Quantum of Solace"…:)

Lake Garda – Toscolano Maderno.

Lake Garda – Sirmione

I want to start another thread on an operational issue of public transit. A lot of PT systems, especially mid-to-low capacities ones, operate under an honor system, where payment is done users without any throughout control at gates/entrance points.

Of course, this leaves the road open to a variety of abuses, hence conductors and supervisors are put in place to check whether users had paid accordingly. In certain cases, like long-distance few-stoppings trains, this control is fair easy to be done: a pair of conductors can check a whole train seating 300+ withouth much hassle.

However, in case of more urban commuter systems, controlling proper ticketing is not so easy. Most subways, being closed-thight systems, put gates in place instead of honor payment collection.

Trams, buses and commuter rail have a harder time implementing either an all-gated design and throughout inspection (one that gives a high – say, >80% – probability of being inspect at any journey). As a result, fare dodging increase and put a strain on a system’s finances.

In many cities, determined cronic fare-evaders know a number of tactics to doge the farebox and avoid being caught/punished. Tourist internet forums are full of information on whether tourists can play the "out of town" card or not in different cities. In some routes/services where control is rather rare, cronic evaders can even fight or harass inspectors, like late-night bus routes that usually goes unchecked, therefore generating a falsa "entitlement" perception that cash-strapped teenagers can ride them for free to/from their hangout areas. Some racial oversensitive activist even tried to sue some transit authorities claiming that it is unfair to concentrate inspectors in routes serving mostly poor minorities.

On-spot fines seem to be one of the best remedies agains fare evasion, but in some jurisdictions (countries, states, citites) transit conductors have no legal power to demand payment for alleged infractions, and in others the allegedly offender must be given an opportunity to a hearing if he/she chooses to. Nonetheless, even high on-spot fines would not deter dodgers if the chance of being caught is slim.

In those cases (like uban buses or trams) a majority of people will comply and pay the fares, yet some groups will simple ignore it. I’ve lived in cities with such a system, and troubled/strange teens and the extremely poor used to ride buses for extreme long journeys instead of taking the subway, because there was virtually no control on the buses. For these people, some unpaid transit citations/fines will not do any difference – they will not pay and they will keep riding transit.

There are also other problems: students usually have some kind of discount or free acess on school days, but some of them don’t bother at all to use, improperly, their passes to ride transit on Sundays, or on vacation period. In one of the places I lived, inspectors paid little attention to these cases, and never bother to round up teens travelling without tickets during summer vacations (when they were supposed to pay a fare like everyone else).

With more advanced and modern controls and collection systems, such as enhanced gates, RFID card etc., wouldn’t it make sense to vastly adopt gate collection systems and scrap honor systems altogether? They are not dodge-proof, but I’d say the number of people who would be willing to jump turnstiles and gates is far lower than the number of people playing cat-and-mouse evasion with fare inspectors.

What do you think about it? It fare dodging a problem in your city? Has transit autorithies come with credible plans to curb this "free rider" (literally) behavior?

‘Emporium’ plan for iconic Milton Tennis Centre site
ELLEN LUTTON
January 10, 2010 – 6:18AM
Article

The vacant Milton Tennis Centre site today and (inset) in its heyday more than 40 years ago as a top tennis arena where some epic Davis Cup ties were played out.

The vacant Milton Tennis Centre site today and (inset) in its heyday more than 40 years ago as a top tennis arena where some epic Davis Cup ties were played out.

The rich history of Milton Tennis Centre has not been forgotten.

While international tennis superstars play the mens final at Brisbane’s new Pat Rafter Arena today, Brisbane City Council is currently assessing developer plans to take Brisbane’s original tennis site and home to eight Australian Opens from desolate to dazzling.

More than 10 years after it was closed down and sold by Tennis Queensland, the Milton Tennis Centre, together with the adjoining Milton Bowls site, has a development application on it to create a new "Emporium" style precinct, with residential, retail and commercial facilities.

The Seymour Group, owned by Queensland business identity Kevin Seymour, put in their application to the Brisbane City Council just before Christmas and although it is "extremely early days", the group are very excited about their plans for this famous parcel of land, according to a company spokesperson.

"The Milton Tennis Centre site is iconic in Brisbane and it has been vacant for so long. We’ve written into the code that we’ve submitted to council that there will certainly be a reference to the original centre somewhere in the new development," the spokesperson said.

Located at Frew Park, Milton Rd was the home of Queensland tennis from 1915. It consisted of 19 hard courts and four grass courts and hosted eight Australian Opens and 16 Davis Cup ties (including three finals).

It hosted its last Davis Cup tie in 1990, the quarterfinal win over New Zealand featuring John Fitzgerald and Wally Masur.

Lindsay Davenport won the last world tour event at Milton in 1994, after which the wooden grandstands were declared unsafe. The Milton Tennis Centre closed in 1999 when Tennis Queensland sold the property to cover more than $1 million in debts.

Doncaster Holdings sold the site to Multiplex for a reported $5.9 million in April 2002. Derelict and having suffered two fires, the stadium was demolished in May 2002. It has sat deserted and derelict since then.

It is understood the Seymour Group paid a total of $30.15 million for the tennis and the bowls sites in 2008.

It currently has approval for 174 residential apartments but the Seymour Group wants to create a whole new precinct for both plots of the land, which total about 3.2 hectares.

"We’re thinking it would be a modern version of the Emporium in the Valley," the spokeswoman said.

Apart from tennis, the Milton centre also hosted concerts featuring acts such as the Rolling Stones, Elton John and Johnny Cash and 10,000 fans witnessed Jeff White retain his national lightweight title against Lionel Rose in 1971.

The Milton courts were converted into Australia’s major tennis centre for the Davis Cup final in 1958 and were the venue for the first Australian Open in 1969.

Rod Laver’s 6-3 win in the deciding fifth set of his 1969 Australian Open semi-final against Tony Roche, having won the first two sets 7-5 and 22-20 before losing the third set 9-11 and the fourth 1-6, is one of the many memorable moments in the Centre’s history.

The Davis Cup final wins by Australia in 1962 featured Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, Neale Fraser and coach Harry Hopman and in 1967, Emerson, Hopman, Tony Roche and John Newcombe.

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We had a lot of fun hanging with the guys at the Electro Joe booth — they definitely love their crapgadgets. Our favorite was a little something called Gimme Tunes, a pair of speakers in craptastic high heeled cases. These guys are powered by USB, but the audio input is a classic headphone jack. “Gimme Tunes,” the guy in the booth asked. “It’s a pun. Do you get it?” Uh, no. “You know, like Jimmy Choo.” Right.

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You know that snotty, slimy stuff that you can get in vending machines for a quarter? The stuff that comes in the little, clear plastic bubbles and stains wallpaper and carpet instantly? Ever wonder what would happen if you gave it a refreshing lemony scent and then smeared it into your keyboard? We certainly never did, but Cyber Clean gave us the opportunity to find out anyway, handing us (and nearly everyone else at the show) a sample of the stuff. How does it work? How does it feel? How does it sound when it’s thrown at a camera and slimes the microphone? We’ve got the answers after the break.