Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Is This What the Next iPad Will Look Like?

9to5Mac has an image that shows a prototype design for the next iPad and guess what, it looks a lot like the iPad Mini. These pictures are only unconfirmed images, but if proven to be real, it looks like the big iPad might follow in the iPad Mini's footstep of lovely chamfered edges. More »


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Uniworld Goes All Inclusive in 2014 | travelling with vision - Vision ...

Looking beyond 2013, we would like to share with you personally some very exciting news. In addition to a new ship, the Super Ship, S.S. Catherine, sailing in Burgundy and Provence, and a new fabulous destination in France?s Bordeaux region, Uniworld will introduce ?true all-inclusive? luxury cruises in Europe in 2014, which means everything is included in the price of the cruise, such as:

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  • All gratuities onboard and onshore
  • Unlimited beverages onboard, including fine wine, beer, spirits, soft drinks, specialty coffee, and bottled water
  • All meals onboard, impeccably prepared by our chefs using the finest and freshest ingredients
  • All scheduled airport transfers
  • Shore excursions hosted by English-speaking local experts, with ?Choice Is Yours,? ?Gentle Walking,? and ?Go Active? options
  • Complimentary portable audio headset system used on all shore excursions
  • A variety of complimentary culinary experiences and onboard dining options
  • All entertainment and Signature Lectures onboard
  • Complimentary Internet and Wi-Fi access onboard
  • Complimentary in-stateroom Infotainment Center
  • Complimentary well equipped fitness center and exercise classes
  • Complimentary use of bicycles and Nordic walking sticks for onshore enjoyment
  • The finest riverview staterooms afloat?many with French balconies?offering deluxe signature touches including handcrafted beds from Savoir? of England
  • Award-winning service from a professionally trained, English-speaking staff on ships with an average capacity of just 130 guests and the highest guest-to-staff ratio in the river cruise industry

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?We are very pleased to provide our guests with even greater value and more convenience by offering an all-inclusive luxury cruise experience,? states Guy Young, President of Uniworld. Uniworld is the only North American river cruise line to announce they are moving to an all-inclusive experience. ?Similar to the high-end luxury ocean cruise lines, such as Crystal, Regent, and Silverseas, Uniworld is dedicated to creating the most luxurious and worry-free experience for our valued guests. By offering an all-inclusive vacation, our guests won?t need to worry about ancillary items such as tipping as everything will be included in the price, so all our guests will need to do is relax and enjoy their vacation,? furthers Young.
Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection, the world?s only authentic boutique cruise line?, is recognized among the ?World?s Best River Cruises? by Travel + Leisure. Uniworld was voted the?#1 River Cruise Line in the World? in Cond? Nast Traveler?s Readers? Choice Awards, was named to Cond? Nast Traveler?s prestigious Gold List and their Platinum Circle for having made the list consistently for the past five years, and won ?Best River Ships? in their Readers? Poll, which ranked River Queen and River Beatrice #1 and #3 of all cruise ships in the world, respectively, along with eight other highly ranked ships in the top 40 river ships category. Uniworld?s cabins and dining are also ranked among the top three in the world by Zagat Survey?, with Uniworld being the only river cruise line named in the Zagat Survey? amongst the best of the best in the cruise industry. Uniworld features luxurious boutique ships with an average capacity of 130 guests, included shore excursions fully hosted by local experts, world-class gourmet cuisine, and award-winning, personalized hospitality. Uniworld offers over 500 departures sailing on over 13 rivers in more than 20 countries throughout Europe, Russia, Egypt, China, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

Uniworld will be the only North American river cruise line to offer a ?true all-inclusive? luxury boutique experience in Europe. Uniworld?s commitment to your valued clients is to create the most luxurious and worry-free experience possible, so all they have to do is unpack, unwind, and leave all the details to us.

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The dragons of pern must rise up and kill the evil side called The Dragons of Daminish.

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Civil and labor groups: ?Let?s organize for immigration reform?

A coalition of racial, labor, and religious groups announced today they are encouraged by the Senate bipartisan plan on immigration reform, but at the same time made a call for ?action,? announcing a massive rally in Washington on April 10th in support of reform.

?We need to have the same compass, and the compass is a path to citizenship,? said labor leader Hector Figueroa, of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ, who then said ?a vessel cannot move without the wind driving it ? we want to create that wind,? urging communties to get involved in supporting reform through upcoming ?Day of Actions? and the big rally in April.

Eighteen-year-old Veronica Sarav?a, from the organization CASA de Maryland, is a DREAMER who helped organize the effort in Maryland which led to voter approval of a ?Dream Act? in the state. ?She was at the press conference accompanied by her 10-year-old sister Diana. ??I come from a typical family,? explained Sarav?a, one in which her little sister is a citizen, while she is a Dreamer who has applied for Deferred Action. ?Her mother is an undocumented nanny, her father is on temporary status and her grandmother is a citizen.

?I hope to study psychology and nursing without the fear of being deported, and I want to see my mother retired happily without a struggle,? said Sarav?a.

Another group which came out in support was the nation?s largest and oldest civil rights organization, the NAACP. ? ?Four out of five African-Americans support pushing for comprehensive immigration reform,? said the NAACP?s president, Ben Jealous.??This is an issue that black voters see as a basic humanitarian need; it does not improve for any workers for us to exploit any workers,? said Jealous, adding ? we in the black community understand what it?s like to be mistreated, and we understand the pain of migration.?

Chung-Wha Hong, Executive Director of the New York Immigration Coalition, says her group has been fighting for reform for 20 years, and they have one main concern: ?I?m here to talk about families ? the fear of being separated from their loved ones is the number one concern,? said Hong. ??Why must we see any more children whose parents are taken away in the middle of the night in shackles??

Sister Simone Campbell, Executive Director of NETWORK, said the faith community understands this is not about a special interest group; ?we all know immigrants who are suffering because of our broken system,? said Campbell, who is a Catholic nun. She said she was at a Safeway supermarket when she started talking to the young woman behind her, who said she was a Dreamer and was worried about what was going to happen.

?We the people know this is not working ?- let?s make a change,? Campbell said.

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Monday, January 28, 2013

Downton Abbey, Season 3

Jessica Brown-Findlay as Lady Sybil in Series 2 of Downton Abbey. During World War I, Lady Sybil wore the same uniform and did the same work as all the other nurses

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Killing off a character is the TV equivalent of serving fugu at a dinner party: It?s exciting at the time, but it?s probably a bad idea in the long run.

Lady Sybil Crawley was not only Downton Abbey?s kindest, most open-minded character. On a show that purports to chronicle the social forces transforming a Yorkshire village in the early 20th century, she was also the only person who did more than just talk about change. During World War I, she ignored her family?s objections and worked as a nurse?toiling the same hours and providing the same care as everyone else who wore the uniform. (Her sister Edith made herself popular with recuperating officers by writing letters and picking out books for them to read, but her contribution to the war effort was more ornamental than Sybil?s hard graft.)

Before the war, Sybil had attended political rallies, and after it she didn?t just shout slogans (or write letters to the editor); she renounced her own privilege and married a man who had once been a servant in her family home?a Catholic and an Irish nationalist to boot. They sailed off to Dublin, where they lived as Mr. and Mrs. Tom and Sybil Branson, with no domestic help and very little income. She was the least compromised, most principled person in the Crawleys? orbit?and ultimately that killed her.

Because while Sybil could make a modern marriage with Tom?one in which they loved, respected, and listened to one another?she couldn?t make her father overcome his own habits of privilege. That led Lord Grantham to ignore Tom?s pleas and Dr. Clarkson?s advice that they move Sybil to the hospital. Lord Grantham?s allegiance is to socially elevated men like Sir Philip Tapsell?chaps who socialize with earls and dukes and who dress for dinner without a quarrel?rather than to the village doctor or the former chauffeur. In the end, it all came down to money: ?Tom has not hired Sir Philip,? Lord Grantham told his family. ?He is not master here.?

And so the master sided with Sir Philip, who didn?t hesitate to make an impossible promise to the assembled crew, while Dr. Clarkson was honest enough to admit that he couldn?t guarantee a safe delivery for Sybil, even if they decamped to the hospital. (Perhaps he would have done so if his record as a diagnostician weren?t already hopelessly tainted by his declaration last season that Matthew would forever be incapable of movement below the waist.) Sadly, as we all now know, Sir Philip may be the aristocracy?s favorite ob-gyn, but he?s a terrible doctor, far too sure of himself and his status to listen to the warnings of a village physician, much less to pay attention to the symptoms of a mere patient.

Sybil?s death has stirred up the plot, driving a wedge between Cora and Robert, and opening up lots of questions about how and where Sybil and Tom?s daughter will be raised. But it?s also a depressing defeat for the possibility of social progress. Sybil died a painful death at age 24, after her father the earl overruled her commoner husband and sided with a doctor with a knighthood. On Downton Abbey, tradition always triumphs, but this loss is particularly painful.

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Olioboard Inspiration ? Lazy Sunday Afternoon with Stagetecture

Entry #2051, January 27, 2012

Are there Sunday?s that you just want to relax, kick back and not think about anything? I created this Stagetecture ?Olioboard Inspiration? showing how great it would be to kick back and relax this Sunday!

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'Argo,' Lawrence, Day-Lewis win at SAG

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The CIA thriller "Argo" continues to steamroll through awards season, winning the top honor for overall cast performance at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

SAG's lead-acting honors Sunday went to Jennifer Lawrence for her role as a troubled widow in a shaky new relationship in the lost-souls romance "Silver Linings Playbook" and Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War epic "Lincoln."

Anne Hathaway of "Les Miserables" and Tommy Lee Jones of "Lincoln" won the supporting-acting honors.

"It occurred to me ? it was an actor that murdered Abraham Lincoln," said Day-Lewis, a solid front-runner to join an exclusive list of three-time acting Oscar winners. "And therefore, somehow it is only so fitting that every now and then an actor tries to bring him back to life again."

It was a brisk, businesslike and fairly bland evening as the actors union handed out honors to a predictable lineup of winners who generally had triumphed at earlier Hollywood ceremonies or past SAG shows.

The SAG cast win came a day after "Argo" claimed the top honor from the Producers Guild of America, whose winner often goes on to claim best picture at the Academy Awards. "Argo" also was a surprise victor two weeks ago at the Golden Globes, where it won best drama and director for Ben Affleck.

The awards momentum positions "Argo" for a rare feat at the Feb. 24 Oscars, where it could become just the fourth film in 85 years to be named best picture without a nomination for its director.

"To me this has nothing to do with me, it has to do with the incredible people who were in this movie," said Affleck, who also stars in "Argo" and accepted the SAG prize alongside his cast.

Affleck plays CIA agent Tony Mendez, who masterminded the daring rescue of six U.S. embassy workers in Iran after the 1979 hostage crisis erupted. The Americans were brought out of Iran masquerading as crew members of a fake Hollywood sci-fi movie scouting locations.

A directing nomination at the Oscars usually goes hand in hand with a best-picture win. When Affleck was snubbed for a directing slot, awards analysts initially were counting "Argo" out for the best-picture Oscar, along with Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" and Tom Hooper's "Les Miserables," which also missed out on directing nominations.

Only once in modern times has a film won best picture without a directing nomination, with 1989's "Driving Miss Daisy." The other two times came in the show's early years, at the first Oscars in 1929 with "Wings" and for 1932's "Grand Hotel."

But "Argo" has proven a resilient crowd-pleaser, dominating at awards shows since then over Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," which leads the Oscars with 12 nominations.

The cast prize at SAG adds some weight to the Oscar prospects for "Argo," though the guild honor has a spotty record at forecasting eventual best-picture winners. Only eight of 17 times since the guild added the category has the cast winner gone on to take the best-picture Oscar. "The Help" won the guild's cast prize last year, while Oscar voters named "The Artist" as best picture.

The next playoff round before the Oscars is Saturday's Directors Guild of America Awards, where Affleck, Bigelow, Spielberg and Hooper all are nominated, along with Ang Lee for "Life of Pi." The winner there typically goes on to triumph with directing and best-picture Oscars, but only Spielberg and Lee are nominated for both the Directors Guild and Oscar prizes this time, throwing the awards picture into a muddle.

Sunday's acting prizes solidify those categories, though. "Silver Linings" star Lawrence won a Golden Globe and has become one of Hollywood's hottest talents, with part two of her blockbuster franchise, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," due out in November.

"Now I have this naked statue that means some of you even voted for me, and that is an indescribable feeling," Lawrence said after explaining she earned her SAG card at age 14 by filming a spot for MTV.

Hathaway won for her role as a doomed single mother forced into prostitution in the adaptation of the stage musical based on Victor Hugo's epic novel. Her win came over four past Oscar recipients ? Sally Field, Helen Hunt, Nicole Kidman and Maggie Smith.

"I'm just thrilled I have dental," Hathaway said. "I got my SAG card when I was 14. It felt like the beginning of the world. I have loved every single minute of my life as an actor. ... Thank you for nominating me alongside incredible women and incredible performances."

Jones, who was not at the show, won for his turn as abolitionist firebrand Thaddeus Stevens in the Civil War epic. The win improves his odds to become a two-time Academy Award winner. He previously won a supporting-actor Oscar for "The Fugitive."

Day-Lewis, a two-time Oscar winner for "My Left Foot" and "There Will Be Blood," could become the fifth actor to earn three Oscars, along with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Ingrid Bergman and Walter Brennan. Katharine Hepburn has the acting record with four Oscars.

Backstage at SAG, Day-Lewis was hardly ready to predict a third Oscar win.

"There's a good chance I won't. I feel the same way at all these occasions. Mostly, we're traveling as a group, the fellow nominees, give or take one here or there," Day-Lewis said. "I would happily recognize any single one person whose name is called."

On SAG's television side, with "30 Rock" ending its run, its stars Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin won the SAG awards for best comedy performers. It was Baldwin's seventh-straight win, while Fey earned her fifth SAG prize.

"Oh, my God. It's ridiculous," Baldwin said. "It's the end of our show, which is sad. Everybody is sad about that. It was the greatest experience I've ever had."

Fey gave a plug for the show's finale airing Thursday, noting that it's up against "The Big Bang Theory."

"Just tape 'The Big Bang Theory' for once, for crying out loud," Fey said.

"Modern Family" won for best overall cast in a TV comedy show. Accepting for the cast, "Modern Family" co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson offered thanks to the makers of "30 Rock" and another departing series, "The Office," saying "you all have set the comedy bar so high."

The TV drama acting awards went to Claire Danes of "Homeland" and Bryan Cranston of "Breaking Bad." ''Downton Abbey" won the TV drama cast award.

Julianne Moore's turn as Sarah Palin in "Game Change" earned her the TV prize for best actress in a movie or miniseries. Kevin Costner won for best actor in a movie or miniseries for "Hatfields & McCoys."

Receiving the guild's life-achievement award was Dick Van Dyke, who presented the same prize last year to his "The Dick Van Dyke Show" co-star, Mary Tyler Moore.

After waiting on stage for a prolonged standing ovation to end, Van Dyke said, "That does an old man a lot of good."

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Associated Press writers Beth Harris, Christy Lemire and Anthony McCartney contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/argo-lawrence-day-lewis-win-sag-030526752.html

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