tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26093152388045646792024-02-06T21:48:54.877-08:00Bellas Beads and MoreBellas Beads and MoreBloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02230419272496356376noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609315238804564679.post-65029421518074220312015-09-27T00:07:00.000-07:002015-09-27T00:07:00.316-07:00Food pilgrimage: Buffalo wings in Buffalo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px;">The scene: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">No other food has grown so far so fast as the humble Buffalo-style hot wing (in Buffalo they are simply called “wings”). Within a couple of years after it was introduced in a single Buffalo restaurant, the dish had become the city’s obsession. In less than two decades it was nationally ubiquitous, an appetizer menu and bar food staple across the country, and one major international chain had launched. Hooters built its success and several hundred outlets worldwide (plus a Vegas casino, defunct airline and former pro golf tour) on the back of the humble wing, at least from a menu perspective. Today there are several large wing-centric chains (</span><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/greatamericanbites/2013/10/31/zaxbys-chicken-wings-tenders/3315055/" style="background-color: white; color: #1990e5; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;">Zaxby’s</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">, </span><culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Buffalo Wild Wings" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 191, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #333333; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Buffalo Wild Wings</culink><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">, </span><culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Wingstop" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 191, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #333333; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Wingstop</culink><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">). Half a century after it was invented, the hot wing has gone fully global, and can be found alongside nachos, dumplings or fried calamari on menus everywhere. It’s become the de facto food of sports, and one and a quarter billion wings are eaten just during the Super Bowl. Counting the two halves, “flats” and “drumettes,” separately, as they are served, nearly 30 billion wings are consumed annually just in this country. And it all started at Frank & Teressa’s Anchor Bar in Buffalo.</span></div>
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Very few foods have as clear-cut a creation story as the wing, and while who cooked the first burger is debated, the wing can be traced directly to one night in 1964. Frank and <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Anchor Bar" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 191, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Teressa Bellissimo</culink>’s son had several friends over late to the family’s bar, opened in 1935. After regular hours they became hungry, and Teressa scrounged around looking for something to feed them. She found some wings, and wanting to cook them quickly, decided to put them in the deep fryer — as the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. The fried wings had a distinctive crispy texture and inner succulence, there was some hot sauce on hand, as well as celery and bleu cheese. Everyone loved them, they became a menu item, the people of Buffalo went mad for the new dish, and the rest is culinary history. The Anchor Bar has expanded to Vegas, ships its wings nationwide, and even supplies a restaurant in Tokyo. An outpost in the airport is the first local thing arriving visitors to Buffalo see.</div>
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Back then the Anchor Bar was a smallish mom-and-pop bar, known for pizza, which is what I had with my wings when I first visited in 1993. Today, a victim of its own success, it is cavernous, has been expanded multiple times, and feels like a theme park version of itself. You vividly smell frying wings and hot sauce in the parking lot, as soon as you open your car door. There is a massive carved statue of founder Teressa outside the front door, and upon entering, there is a bar area where motorcycles hang from the ceiling and the walls are covered in license plates from all over the country. There’s a gift shop, they now make and sell their own bottled sauce, and the large back room, the original space, is covered from floor to ceiling on all sides with framed articles about the Buffalo wing. The license plate motif is fitting because the place has become a Mecca for traveling foodies, wing central, while many locals have moved on to their own hotly debated neighborhood favorites — wings are a topic of much discussion, deeply held opinions and almost unbelievable passion in these parts. A quick look around the large parking lot finds more out-of-state plates — often far-flung — than New York versions. This makes sense, because there is no other place a traveling food lover can justify beginning a visit to Buffalo, the world capital of wings.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609315238804564679.post-83248451476387462262015-09-26T00:03:00.000-07:002015-09-26T00:03:00.665-07:00OpenTable names top 100 restaurants for foodies 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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New York is for food lovers, according to a new survey by digital reservations system <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/OpenTable" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">OpenTable</culink>. The site audited more than 5 million user reviews of 20,000 restaurants nationwide to determine the top 100 restaurants for foodies.</div>
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The <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Origin of the name "Empire State"" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Empire State</culink> has the highest number of restaurants on the list, with 12 spots spanning Manhattan hot spot Rebelle, Brooklyn boites Luksus and Maison Premiere, and southern-accented Toutant in Buffalo, N.Y. California's 11 top-reviewed eateries include Al's Place in San Francisco and <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Michael Voltaggio" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Michael Voltaggio</culink>'s perennially hip ink. in Los Angeles. Texas has nine contenders on the list, and buzzing food scenes in <a href="http://experience.usatoday.com/food-and-wine/portland/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Portland, Ore.</a> and <a href="http://experience.usatoday.com/food-and-wine/story/best-of-food-and-wine/2015/07/20/made--minneapolis-st-paul-minnesota/30138555/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Minneapolis</a> resulted in eight winners each from Oregon and Minnesota.</div>
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Newcomers dominate the list. The majority of OpenTable's winners debuted in the past five years, and 25% opened in 2015. This may be due in part to methodology: OpenTable culled reviews submitted between August 1, 2014 and July 31, 2015. Qualifying restaurants received high marks in overall quality and OpenTable's "fit for foodies" review category.</div>
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Winning cuisines canvas New American fine dining and Korean-accented street food, but a nationally ascendant theme is chef-driven, plant-centric menus. Amanda Cohen's recently relaunched veggie emporium Dirt Candy in Manhattan, Richard Landau's esteemed Vedge in Philadelphia, and James Beard Award-winner <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/David Kinch" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">David Kinch</culink>'s Manresa in <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Los Gatos, California" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Los Gatos</culink>, Calif. are all favorites among OpenTable reviewers.</div>
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Surprisingly, critical acclaim for such emerging restaurant scenes as <a href="http://experience.usatoday.com/food-and-wine/washingtondc/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Washington, D.C.</a> and<a href="http://experience.usatoday.com/food-and-wine/story/best-of-food-and-wine/2015/01/05/food-drink-only-in-nashville/21271479/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Nashville, Tenn.</a> were not enough to push those states into the top tier of OpenTable's list. Tennessee and the District of Columbia were represented by just two eateries each.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609315238804564679.post-34528545068585118782015-09-25T00:02:00.000-07:002015-09-25T00:02:00.105-07:00Cuba reopened: An island tour in photographs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">put together a gallery of their users' best Cuba photos to show U.S. citizens the bright tropical colors and breezy beaches they've been missing. Americans may be surprised to hear that tourism in Cuba generates over 3 million visitors per year, and is a major source of revenue for the island. Tourism travel to the island from the United States has been banned since the 1960s, but relations have recently improved, with </span><culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Barack Obama" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #333333; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">President Obama</culink><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> even reopening a U.S. Embassy in Havana, so let these photos prepare you for your upcoming trip.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609315238804564679.post-34633684311883088452015-09-24T00:00:00.000-07:002015-09-24T00:00:06.032-07:00Coocoo for coconuts: Delicious Caribbean recipes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After sandy beaches and sunny skies, stately coconut palm trees are about as iconic as it gets in the Caribbean. With less fat than whole milk, fewer calories than orange juice and no cholesterol, coconut water from the prized nuts is a healthy refresher. Coconut milk is a flavorful add-on in cocktails, rums, desserts and stews. As it’s full of natural sugars, salts and vitamins, savvy marketers are jumping on the coconut energy drink bandwagon. The oil is divine in massages, the cream replenishes the skin softening wrinkles in the process and the long roots of the tree weave their way through the ground to offset erosion along the shorelines. Locals use the leaves and bark for rainproof roofing. In a pinch, coconut water can even be used as the universal donor as it’s nearly identical to human blood plasma. Snag a spot on a hammock strung between two swaying coconut palms and check out our list of the best coconut-inspired confections in the Caribbean.</div>
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<strong>Anguilla</strong></div>
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<img src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/db35d577d9b182672a4f779d163ab9b7513615f9/c=0-337-3648-2398&r=x384&c=704x381/local/-/media/2015/08/31/USATODAY/ExperienceCaribbean/635766134139773503-Anguilla-Viceroy-coconut-turnovers-credit-Melanie-Reffes.JPG" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;">Deliciously simple, the golden brown crescents are packed with fresh coconut harvested at the resort with added pinches of brown sugar, cinnamon, anise and nutmeg. (Photo: Melanie Reffes)</span></div>
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As coconut-y as it gets, flaky turnovers at the fantastically fabulous <a href="http://www.viceroyhotelsandresorts.com/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Viceroy Anguilla</a> are the main attractions at the seaside breakfast buffet. Deliciously simple, the golden brown crescents are packed with fresh coconut harvested at the resort with added pinches of brown sugar, cinnamon, anise and nutmeg. Pastry Chef Jimmy at the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Aleta" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Aleta</culink> restaurant does his recipe proud, baking 100 turnovers a day with nary a leftover to be found. More coconut-inspired goodies can be found at the Sunset Lounge, where Bartender Shervin shows off his ‘Painkiller’s <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Piña colada" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Pina Colada</culink>’ made with Coco Lopez coconut puree. For the ultimate sweet treat, the ‘Chocolate and Coconut Sugar Scrub’ at The Spa is too good to miss. Delightfully aromatic, the coconut and sugar mixture exfoliates from top to bottom and with a generous layer of raw chocolate body mousse to seal deal, skin feels brand new. “Our coconut-inspired treatment," smiles spa supervisor Tristan Hazel "is so full of antioxidants and vitamins that you'll feel like a teenager again."</div>
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<strong>Jamaica</strong></div>
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<img src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/214a754517619ea5afaafe32fc116ec9df69d2e6/c=0-92-1800-1109&r=x384&c=704x381/local/-/media/2015/08/31/USATODAY/ExperienceCaribbean/635766146860711958-Jamaica-coconut-snacks-credit-www.coconutindustryboardjm.org.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;">For diehard coconut-heads, a delectable array of traditional favorites from coconut drops and macaroons to the addictive sugary Jamaican 'grater cakes' and pudding to-die-for is made fresh daily. (Photo: coconutindustryboardjm.org)</span></div>
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You've got to figure an island that has a <a href="http://www.coconutindustryboardjm.org/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Coconut Industry Board</a> is serious about the big nuts that grow on the big trees. In the capital city of Kingston, under the guidance of the Coconut Industry Control Act and monitored by the Ministry of <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Agriculture" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Agriculture</culink>, the Coconut Industry Board regulates the production, sale and exportation of products made from Jamaica's homegrown coconuts. Open to the public also on <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Waterloo Road" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Waterloo Road</culink>, the Board's aptly named Coconut Shop is chock full of goodies like chilled coconut water in gallon jugs and smaller bottles for travelers, packages of the sweet white flesh called coconut jelly, extra virgin coconut oil and grated coconut in bags ready to take home. For diehard coconut-heads, a delectable array of traditional favorites from coconut drops and macaroons to the addictive sugary Jamaican 'grater cakes' and pudding to-die-for is made fresh daily. The Coconut Industry Board’s Coconut Shop is open from 9.30 am to 5:30 pm Mondays to Saturdays.</div>
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New on the menu at <a href="http://www.rosewoodhotels.com/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Rosewood Tucker’s Point</a> overlooking Castle Harbor in Hamilton Parish, ‘Eastern Promise’ is light and summery and exquisitely crafted with coconut mousse, green tea cake, pomegranate jelly, dragon fruit sorbet, mangoes and sesame chips. Inspired by Indian pastry chef Krishna Gudla and executive chef <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Gerry Adams" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Gerry Adams</culink>, the edible art on a plate marries the flavors of the east with the tastes of the Caribbean. As delicious to look at is it is to devour, the USD$14.00 dessert that salutes the tree of the tropics is served at The Point Restaurant and Terrace.</div>
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With the coconut getting top billing, scrubs at <a href="http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/StThomas/Default.htm" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ritz-Carlton Spa in St. Thomas</a> are as indulgent as they are therapeutic. Adding a rejuvenating blend of bamboo and powdered seashells, Bamboo Coconut Signature Body Scrub is pleasantly aromatic with a whiff of lemongrass and sunburn-soothing aloe. For a pure coconut body experience, 'Coconut Body Scrub' starts with a coconut sugar scrub made with fresh sugar cane crystals and cold-pressed virgin coconut oil that gently buffs and polishes the skin. A hot coconut oil hair and scalp treatment seals the deal for the sweetest scrub under the Virgin Islands' sunny skies.</div>
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<img src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/258acf367851cc0d295205435f457cc4a038222c/c=0-1113-1836-2150&r=x384&c=704x381/local/-/media/2015/08/31/USATODAY/ExperienceCaribbean/635766160991725374-Caymans-Islands-coconut-french-toast-Coconut-Joe-s-Beach-Bar-Credit-Chef-Vincent-Logan.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;">Keeping with the theme, breakfast at nearby Coconut Joe’s is a family affair with Chef Vincent Logan’s delectable coconut French toast. (Photo: Chef Vincent Logan)</span></div>
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In Rum Point on the north coast, <a href="http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p390251" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Coconut Beach Villa</a> is named for the graceful palms guarding the sandy beach. <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Family-friendly" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Family-friendly</culink>, the five-bedroom villa has a kids table in the kitchen, a purple swing built for two, hammock on the beach, cribs for the wee ones and a freshwater pool with a wraparound deck and barbecue. The weekly rates for up to twelve people run USD $4,970.00 through December 20. Keeping with the theme, breakfast at <a href="http://www.coconutjoecayman.com/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Coconut Joe’s</a> is a family affair with Chef <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Vincent Logan" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Vincent Logan</culink>’s delectable coconut French toast. <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Open air" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Open-air</culink> under a century-old <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Poinciana" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Poinciana</culink> tree across from <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Choice Hotels" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Comfort Suites</culink> on West End Road in <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Grand Cayman" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Grand Cayman</culink>, the people-watching spot is big on portions and low on prices. Check out Friday nights for lively DJ’s, island favs like coconut shrimp and Happy Hour munchies on the house.</div>
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<img src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/b1bde6d1418b31f4fc5d7eb214079105350877bb/c=0-940-2448-2323&r=x384&c=704x381/local/-/media/2015/08/31/USATODAY/ExperienceCaribbean/635766164071301633-Aruba-cocktail-glass-Green-Iguana-credit-Hyatt-Regency-Aruba.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;">Served frozen with rum, vodka, Blue Curacao liqueur, pineapple juice and oh yes, coconut cream, the lively libation can get much headier if you ask the bartender to add a splash of coconut rum. (Photo: Hyatt Regency Aruba)</span></div>
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Named for the scaly critter that roams the grounds of the <a href="http://aruba.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Hyatt Regency Aruba</a> on Palm Beach, ‘The <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Green iguana" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Green Iguana</culink>’ is a coconut-creamy cocktail popular at the Palms Beach Bar. Served frozen with rum, vodka, Blue <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Curaçao (liqueur)" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Curacao liqueur</culink>, pineapple juice and oh yes, coconut cream, the lively libation can get much headier if you ask the bartender to add a splash of coconut rum. Cooking and pouring until midnight, the bar on the boardwalk is ideal for sunset watching, treating the gang to a second round of the reptile-inspired cocktails and a shareable bowl of Bubbling Crab Dip with Dutch Gouda and a platter of chicken-stuffed <em>arepas </em>or South American corn pockets topped with guacamole and tomato relish.</div>
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<img src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/6d56914fcee510ba6c19fd2cb84a70ff221bd2eb/c=0-284-3072-2020&r=x384&c=704x381/local/-/media/2015/08/31/USATODAY/ExperienceCaribbean/635766166278375485-St-Martin-Felix-Coconut-Man-credit-Melanie-Reffes.JPG" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;">A mainstay at the market in Marigot, St. Martin, Felix Artsen is fondly dubbed ‘The Coconut Man’ and has been hacking and slicing fresh coconuts for thirsty tourists for more than a decade. (Photo: Melanie Reffes)</span></div>
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A mainstay at the market in Marigot; capital city on the French side of the dual-country island, Felix Artsen is fondly dubbed <a href="http://www.stmartinisland.org/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">‘The Coconut Man’</a> and has been hacking and slicing fresh coconuts for thirsty tourists for more than a decade. Along with his son Jermaine, the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Dr. Luke" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Coconut Man</culink> is not only an uplifting, friendly face after an exhausting afternoon of shopping, he’s also creative with recipes like the coconut and sugar cane juice combo that he says boosts energy and cools the body. Meeting and greeting tourists every day at his stand on the perimeter of the market, Coconut Man is delighted to chat up visitors about everything from island politics and how best to haggle with the market vendors to the medicinal benefits of his beloved coconuts.</div>
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It’s a jackpot for coconut connoisseurs with every sip of a ‘Palomino Adventure' at <a href="http://www.elconresort.com/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">El Conquistador, Waldorf Astoria Resort</a> in Fajardo on the east coast of the island. Start with <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Bacardi" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Bacardi</culink> coconut rum, add a dollop of coconut cream ,splash of coconut water and the ubiquitous mint leaf or two and it’s nirvana in a glass for fans of the tropics. Harvested from the coconut palms that grow on the resort's private Palomino Island (named after a pair of Palomino horses call the island home), the cocktail is a tasty marriage between a mojito and a pina colada. You can find the sassy sipper at Iguana's Café and Mino’s Bar.</div>
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<strong>Turks & Caicos</strong></div>
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Peak elegance on Grace Bay Beach in Providenciales, <a href="http://www.thesandstc.com/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Sands at Grace Bay's Spa Tropique</a> is crazy for coconuts. You'll find them in body polishes, scrubs and packages that may keep you in the spa all day. The stand-out scrub called ‘Kookoo for <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Coconut" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Coconuts</culink>' aims to please with hydrating coconut oil and sea salts for baby-bottom-smooth skin and the antioxidant properties of kiwi for a healthy glow. With sweet suites and the island-popular beachfront Hemingway’s restaurant, 114-room resort is primetime for relaxation devotees with the add-on ‘Spoiled Rotten’ package that includes the coconut-y rubdown, scented aromatherapy massage, seaweed facial, mani and pedi.</div>
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<img src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/149cfbe7b64a9a709ab54f357027520cecfec06f/c=0-134-2679-1648&r=x384&c=704x381/local/-/media/2015/08/31/USATODAY/ExperienceCaribbean/635766177001278748-Grenada-chocolate-coconut-dessert-credit-Spice-Island-Beach-Resort.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="color: black; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;">Marrying a traditional dessert recipe with her own culinary flair, Chef Martha’s version of chocolate cake has been making menu magic for nearly 10 years and shows no signs of slowing down. (Photo: Spice Island Beach Resort)</span></div>
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Grenada isn't known as the Spice Island for nothing. With a bounty of the island's national treasures in her kitchen, Chef Marsha Mitchell at the <a href="http://www.spiceislandbeachresort.com/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Spice Island Beach Resort</a> is an artist with coconuts, chocolate and a basket of fragrant spices. Her two-layer sponge cake is a sugary dream of coconut mousse infused with a splash of Clark’s Court rum, island-grown ginger, nutmeg and vanilla. <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Decadence" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Decadent</culink> on a bed of dark chocolate made from the cocoa beans that grow in the hills and topped with <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Chantilly" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Chantilly</culink> cream, the dessert to-die-for is crowned with shaved toasted coconut, a summery fruit wedge and a jaunty mint sprig. Marrying a traditional dessert recipe with her own culinary flair, Chef Martha’s version of chocolate cake has been making menu magic for nearly 10 years and shows no signs of slowing down.</div>
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Many cities throughout the USA have an exciting selection of ethnic restaurants, enough to keep adventurous eaters happily occupied for months, if not years. But few cities can compete with LA's selection of compact ethnic neighborhoods. In addition to great dining, these neighborhoods — from <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Thai Town" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Thai Town</culink> to <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Little Tokyo" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Little Tokyo</culink> — offer a quick destination getaway in the midst of Los Angeles, complete with colorful gift shops, bars, bakeries and food markets — all reflecting the ethnic makeup of the neighborhood.</div>
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You'll know you're in Koreatown when you see a bewildering array of store signs in Korean, along with the occasional head scratcher in English, such as "Elephant Snacks" or "Tomato Wedding Dress." Dining in Koreatown is always an adventure – a favorite spot of mine is the somewhat elegant <a href="http://chosungalbee.com/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Chosun Galbee</a>. Koreans are a lot like mainstream Americans in their love of barbecued beef, which is commonly served grilled right at the table. A delicious way to prepare a bite is to take a fresh green lettuce leaf and use it almost like a tortilla, as a wrapping for beef dressed with a dollop of salty soy bean paste. Most meals start with a dozen or so small plates called <em>banchan</em> that come complimentary with the meal, such as kim chee, tiny whole fish or pickled seaweed. Koreatown is also packed with malls selling Korean goods, Korean bakeries and Korean-centric supermarkets that are a sensual and aroma-filled world unto themselves, with such goods on display as giant clams and red bean pancakes shaped like fish. After dinner, consider dipping into one of Koreatown's nightclubs, for a spirited evening of karaoke, fueled by OB beer or <em>soju</em>, a fiery spirit distilled from rice.</div>
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Thai Town's Thailand Plaza is a good place to begin, with its numerous restaurants and shops. Two particularly fine restaurants in Thai Town are Darabar Secret <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Thai cuisine" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Thai Cuisine</culink>, which serves a fried omelet with mussels, and <a href="http://www.crispyporkgangla.com/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Crispy Pork Gang</a>, where crispy pork is the star ingredient in many of the dishes. I always order green papaya salad, a dish composed of shredded green papaya, dried shrimp, green beans, tomatoes and peanuts in a spicy dressing. Don't order it extra spicy – a mistake I made, that resulted in a dish that was inedible for this westerner. After a meal, it's always a pleasure to drop into one of the stores selling Thai baked goods and food stuffs imported from Thailand – it's a way to keep the Thai vibe going once you return home.</div>
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To immerse themselves in Mexican culture and cooking, travelers can best make tracks for East LA or Boyle Heights. For tamales, the place to be is <a href="http://www.tamaleslilianas.co/Home.html" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tamales Liliana's</a>. As tasty as their beef, pork and chicken tamales are, save room for one of the dessert pineapple tamales. While traveling around LA, keep a lookout for food trucks like Crazy Tacos, Mariscos Jalisco and Guerrilla Taco, serving some of the tastiest Mexican food in the city.</div>
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While many ethnic neighborhoods have a color-outside-the-lines atmosphere, Little Tokyo has a well-ordered corporate sheen, partly due to its downtown location. One of the most famous restaurants, and the oldest sushi bar in LA, is <a href="http://www.kulausa.com/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Kula Sushi</a>. Here you dine <em>kaiten zushi</em>-style, by snagging dishes off of a conveyor belt motoring past your seat. A favorite is the Tiger Roll, crafted with organic rice, seaweed, crab meat, shrimp, avocado and jalapeño, in a sweet unagi sauce. After the hunger pangs have been allayed, consider dropping into Little Tokyo's <a href="http://www.janm.org/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Japanese American National Museum</a>, which chronicles the Japanese experience in Los Angeles. Then dip into <a href="http://www.fugetsu-do.com/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Fugetsu-Do</a>, a food shop that has been in operation since 1903, and which lays claim to inventing the fortune cookie; insisting it was a Chinese businessman who was inspired by Fugetsu-Do to mass produce the product.</div>
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As the famous lines of the movie <em>Chinatown</em> put it, "Forget it Jake; it's Chinatown." It's difficult for LA's Chinatown to compete with <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Chinatown, San Francisco" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">San Francisco's Chinatown</culink> on steroids. LA's is also surrounded by more vibrant ethnic neighborhoods, like Thai Town and even Little Tokyo. Even so, there are places to go for authentic Chinese meals that are very affordable. For Hong-Kong-style dim sum, dip into <a href="http://www.oceansf.com/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ocean Seafood</a>. It can get noisy, being surrounded by diners summoning waiters pushing dim sum trolleys, but it will be a compelling experience for dim sum newbies. Weekends can get especially crowded.</div>
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Little Ethiopia is a compact neighborhood located between Olympic and Pico on Fairfax. Here visitors will find a few blocks worth of shops and restaurants serving traditional <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Ethiopian cuisine" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Ethiopian cuisine</culink>. An Ethiopian meal is typically eaten using pieces of sourdough flatbread as a spoon to scoop up such fare as spicy stews and a variety of vegetable side dishes. Expect to taste traces of turmeric, cumin, chili pepper and clove. Vegetarians can make tracks for <a href="http://rahelvegancuisine.com/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Rahel Ethiopian Vegan Cuisine</a>. Ethiopians are passionate coffee drinkers; consider stopping into <a href="http://messob.com/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Messob</a>, where a fresh cup utilizing green coffee beans is roasted, ground and brewed right at your table. For the ultimate LA Ethiopian experience, time your visit to coincide with the annual street fair and cultural festival that takes place each September.</div>
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Little Armenia is considered to be part of East Hollywood and butts up against Thai Town. Fans of Lebanese and <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Iranian cuisine" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Iranian cuisine</culink> will love the cooking of Armenians. In fact, many of the restaurants are hyphenated: <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Armenians in Russia" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 5, 102) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Russian-Armenian</culink>, Lebanese-Armenian, etc. Traditional dishes include kabobs, stuffed grape leaves, flatbreads and hummus, accompanied by a creamy garlic sauce. <a href="http://www.carouselrestaurant.com/" style="color: #00c3c3; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Carousel Restaurant</a> is renowned for its Lebanese-Armenian food – newbies can begin with a selection from a menu of 60 mezzes, small portion dishes that give diners a chance to sample the ultimate variety of Armenian cooking.</div>
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We all know the state capitals, but what about the state capitols? Capitol buildings are some of the most beautiful examples of architecture in each state capital, yet most of us won't have the chance to visit (and marvel) at each one without taking a very long road trip. To save some time, scroll through the gallery above for a look at the seats of state government, and the beauty of their state houses.</div>
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<em>Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this gallery included a photo of the Old State Capitol of Illinois instead of the current one. </em></div>
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Which cruise line has the best ship for families? Readers, we want to hear what you have to say!</div>
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In this, the fifth of our new series of <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/cruiselog/2014/04/01/cruise-ship-smackdown-carnival-norwegian/6998809/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;">Cruise Ship Smackdowns</a>, we're pitting <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Disney Cruise Line" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 191, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Disney Cruise Line</culink>'s<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/cruiselog/2015/06/17/cruise-ship-tours-disney-magic/28852285/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;">recently revamped</a> <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Disney Magic" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 191, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Disney Magic</culink> against <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Royal Caribbean" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 191, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Royal Caribbean</culink>'s new <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/cruiselog/2015/04/24/royal-caribbean-anthem-cruise/26289339/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;">Anthem of the Seas</a>.</div>
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Unveiled in July 1998 and April 2015, respectively, the two vessels boast all the trappings of a major family resort, from deck-top fun zones with pools and water features to expansive interior children's areas and family-friendly entertainment. Still, as you can see in the photo tours, they are very different ships.</div>
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Sailing in the Caribbean and Europe, the 1,754-passenger Disney Magic is home to the recently added AquaDunk, a 37-foot-tall body slide that careens over the side of the ship, a new outdoor kiddie fun zone called the AquaLab, multiple deck-top pool areas and indoor children's zones that cover almost an entire deck. It also features a 977-seat theater that houses highly produced, Disney-themed shows that are among the best at sea and around-the-clock meet-and-greets with <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/List of Disney animated universe characters" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 191, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Disney characters</culink>.</div>
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A majority of people would like airlines to begin weighing passengers before assigning them seats on a plane, and charging obese passengers more, according to a new poll in the UK. The poll comes just a month after Uzbekistan Airways introduced <a href="http://roadwarriorvoices.com/2015/08/15/from-weight-to-gender-watch-out-for-these-unexpected-and-controversial-airline-policies/" style="border: 0px; color: #119e9e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">“preflight weighing”</a>, and it hints at a future in which the price of a ticket may be tied to the amount of space you take up.</div>
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While Uzbekistan Airways calls weighing passengers a safety procedure, the airline did admit that obese passengers may be prevented from boarding smaller, crowded flights. Samoa Air likewise expanded its own <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2015/08/12/-safety-uzbekistan-air--begin-weighing-passengers/31527425/" style="border: 0px; color: #119e9e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">controversial weighing system</a> in 2013, charging passengers by their weight, including luggage.</div>
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The British poll, conducted by Holiday Extras, revealed that 58% of people approve of weighing in at the airport. A further 45% believed that paying based on weight would not affect them personally at all, and 6% of respondents believed that a switch to weight-based fares would actually encourage them to fly more often.</div>
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Holiday Extras Communication Director Ant Clarke Cowell <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3227661/Could-UK-airlines-weigh-passengers-future-58-Britons-want-heavier-people-pay-fly.html" style="border: 0px; color: #119e9e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">weighed in on the findings</a>:</div>
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“There’s currently no initiative to weigh customers at check-in the UK. Even so, the idea has sparked some lively debate with holiday travelers. <span id="ext-gen158" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Changes in airline procedures often do receive an adverse reaction initially, so it’s pretty surprising to see that many holidaymakers appear to be tolerant to the idea of weighing passengers at check-in. </span></div>
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The social stigma of being publicly weighed aside, weight-based fares do make sense, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3227661/Could-UK-airlines-weigh-passengers-future-58-Britons-want-heavier-people-pay-fly.html" style="border: 0px; color: #119e9e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to Bob Atkinson</a>, travel expert at TravelSupermarket:</div>
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“To get a plane into the air, airlines need fuel. The heavier the aircraft, the more fuel and therefore the higher the cost – and fuel is cited as the largest cost an airline incurs.”</div>
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While no U.S. carriers have publicly revealed plans to adopt a weight-based pricing system, it is difficult to imagine our <a href="http://roadwarriorvoices.com/2015/08/11/latest-indirect-airline-fee-easyjets-standard-economy-passengers-may-not-be-allowed-to-keep-carry-ons-with-them-in-the-cabin/" style="border: 0px; color: #119e9e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">fee-crazy travel industry</a> not at least entertaining the idea. It may only be a matter of time before the scales tip in this direction.</div>
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SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter is experimenting with new features on the Web that highlight recent activity such as mentions from prominent people, part of an ongoing effort to make the social media service more user friendly and increase engagement.</div>
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Twitter is searching for a new chief executive following the resignation of <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Dick Costolo" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Dick Costolo</culink>. Twitter co-founder<culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Jack Dorsey" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Jack Dorsey</culink> is filling in on an interim basis and is also a frontrunner to fill the job on a permanent basis. One of his key initiatives is to reignite growth of the service.</div>
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Shares of Envivio more than doubled Thursday after Ericsson agreed to buy the telecom software company for $125 million.</div>
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Envivio, based in San Francisco, develops video processing and delivery software. And its products will be rolled into Ericsson’s TV and media business, a unit that develops “cloud” technology for TV-anywhere video providers.</div>
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It makes sense that smart appliances aren't selling as well as retailers and manufacturers originally hoped. When you get down to it, who wants to spend a significant premium over a traditional product, only to end up with a technology that will soon be out of date?</div>
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Well, German refrigerator manufacturer Liebherr has a novel solution: a plug-and-play device that turns almost any of the company's fridges into a smart fridge.</div>
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The Liebherr SmartDevice is about twice the size of a large USB drive, and plugs directly into a port on most of the brand's newest fridges. When connected, it will provide the user with remote alerts if the fridge door is open or the temperature drops, let the user engage the "SuperCool" function from the grocery store to rapidly chill the freezer in preparation for storing frozen foods, and contact services if any diagnostic codes pop up due to product failure or user error.</div>
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The SmartDevice will come pre-installed in high-end fridges, but users will have the option of adding it to mid-range and entry-level models after the fact. A company representative told us it will cost between €50 and €60 when it debuts in Europe—the equivalent of roughly $55 to $67.</div>
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The device itself is proprietary, but because it connects via WiFi, Liebherr said it may be compatible with open smart home systems in the future.</div>
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What's especially brilliant about the SmartDevice isn't so much its capabilities, but Liebherr's overall approach to smart home technology.</div>
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What's especially brilliant about the SmartDevice isn't so much its capabilities, but Liebherr's overall approach to smart home technology. Unlike smart home setups that force users to buy pricey hardware that can't be upgraded and may not even be necessary, SmartDevice gives consumers the option of choosing nearly any Liebherr fridge and adding connectivity only if and when they feel comfortable doing so.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609315238804564679.post-33957159681040254432015-09-16T23:44:00.000-07:002015-09-16T23:44:00.565-07:00Code.org trains 15,000 teachers in computer science<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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SAN FRANCISCO — More kids than ever are going back to school this fall to learn something that just a few years ago they would never have been taught: computer science.</div>
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Code.org estimates those teachers will reach more than 600,000 students from kindergarten to 12th grade, many of whom are frequently overlooked by the tech industry: 43% are female and 37% are either African American or Latino.</div>
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Code.org is part of a national movement in education. <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Coding" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Coding</culink> classes are popping up in high schools and in lower grades across the country. And those classes may have the potential to address unequal access to computer science education in the USA.</div>
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The growing effort to teach the basics of coding is coming from many quarters — the<culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/National Science Foundation" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">National Science Foundation</culink>, the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/College Board" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">College Board</culink>, Freada Kapor's SMASH Academy,<culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Black Girls Code" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Black Girls Code</culink>, <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Girls Who Code" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Girls Who Code</culink>, educators and major tech companies such as Google and Intel — all of which are searching for the best way to put computers in the hands of kids from all racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.</div>
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Code.org, a relative newcomer, is a non-profit group backed by the tech industry including high-profile leaders Microsoft founder <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Bill Gates" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Bill Gates</culink> and Facebook founder and chief executive <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Mark Zuckerberg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Mark Zuckerberg</culink>. It's targeting large and diverse urban school districts to address the shortage of computer scientists in the USA especially from underrepresented groups.</div>
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If these early education efforts from Code.org and others are successful, Partovi says he expects more women and minorities will explore careers in computer science and bring much needed diversity to the white-and-Asian-male-dominated tech industry.</div>
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"By far the most meaningful thing we are doing is giving these kids a pathway to being technically fluent in the new 21st century society," Partovi said. "Kids that go to a school where they do not have the option to learn computer science are so much less likely to have a chance at accessing the best paying field in the country, let alone being prepared for the 21st century."</div>
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For years, introductory courses in computer science were typically offered only in private or elite institutions, contributing to a widening gender and racial gap.</div>
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As technology has flooded our daily lives and computer science jobs proliferate, more school districts are adding coding classes and policymakers in more states have begun awarding credits for computer science classes, rather than treating them as electives, encouraging more students to take them.</div>
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The majority of states still do not award credits for computer science courses and most school districts do not offer computer science.</div>
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But momentum has begun to shift, driven in large part by growing interest from parents and educators alike. An estimated 10% of U.S. schools offered computer science in 2012. Now 25% of schools offer it, according to a Gallup poll commissioned by Google.</div>
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"We believe that access is the first step to opportunity," said Trevor Packer, senior vice president of AP and instruction at the College Board, which is partnering with Code.org.</div>
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Code.org is aiming to increase that access through teachers. Partovi predicts that by this time next year, Code.org will have trained an additional 25,000 teachers in computer science instruction.</div>
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"Two years ago when we started pitching the idea, we encountered resistance," he says. "Now it's almost understood that it is coming. The only question is when and how, not if."</div>
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Despite initial concerns about heavy involvement from the tech industry, parents and teachers are by and large welcoming the help, eager to see their kids create technology rather than just consume it, says Christy Crawford, a New York elementary school technology teacher at the Bronx Community <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Charter schools in the United States" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Charter School</culink>.</div>
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"The socioeconomic playing field will never be level as long as kids of color are just consumers," she says. "They need to be leaders in this movement and that means they need to know how to code in a number of different languages and they need to be fearless enough to try to create something new."</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609315238804564679.post-18408651078958060232015-09-15T23:42:00.000-07:002015-09-15T23:42:00.058-07:00You heard that right, John McAfee is running for president<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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John McAfee <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is</em> running for president — he just said it on TV.</div>
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Earlier this week, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Talking Points Memo</em> said it <a href="http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/09/08/report-software-millionaire-mcafee-floats-presidential-run/" style="border: 0px; color: #00a43b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">had obtained an email </a>from the sometimes-<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/19/mcafee-belize-murder/1715395/" style="border: 0px; color: #00a43b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">on-the-lam security-software</a> pioneer, purportedly that he planned to make a bid for the White House.</div>
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Publicity stunt? Red herring?</div>
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At least in terms of the latter, nope.</div>
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McAfee told CNBC he filed the papers Tuesday, has “no idea” how much money his fledgling campaign has raised, and he’s “been working 22 hours a day talking to the press and trying to understand the chaos around me.”</div>
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It’s worth watching the interview.</div>
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But here are the highlights: What’s driving him to run? In essence, he’s a viral success. “I have a very huge fan base. A funny video making fun of myself put out a year and a half ago got 6 million views. I don’t understand it myself.”</div>
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Plus, he’s an entrepreneur, quick witted (his words), and he’d make “an excellent president.” McAfee made his fortune for founding the Santa Clara-based anti-virus software maker that bears his name. After many detours, he landed in Tennessee, and founded <a href="http://future%20tense%2C%20an%20incubator%20and%20maker%20of%20security%20apps%20that%20mcafee%20co-founded%2C%20is%20his%20ticket%20to%20redemption%20in%20a%20multibillion-dollar%20market%20he%20helped%20create./" style="border: 0px; color: #00a43b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a start-up incubator</a> on the Alabama-Georgia border.</div>
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On his politics: He’s worried about the erosion of American privacy and thanks Edward Snowden.</div>
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On his time in Belize, when reporters — including USA TODAY’s Nancy Trejos — spoke to him from a hidden retreat where he tried to dodge authorities’ questions about the death of his expatriate neighbor, he notes, “There were no murder allegations.”</div>
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And on the other presidential candidates, such as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: They’re “brilliant.” Plus, “Hillary is a very gracious woman for putting up with Bill all these years.”</div>
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After Wednesday's letdown debut of new Apple products, attention turned right back to our fiasco of a presidential primary featuring a host of candidates as <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2015/09/10/apple-reinventing-world-stock-aapl/72005518/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;">disappointing as the iPhone 6S</a>.</div>
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While <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Bernie Sanders" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Bernie Sanders</culink> tries to convince America that if we just stuck with the iPhone 4, everybody could have Apple equality, <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Donald Trump" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Donald Trump</culink> promises a world where America is "Great Again" and we'll be able to skip iPhones 7 and 8 and go straight to the 9 from a time when Apple has "Great" new ideas "Again."</div>
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Like all political promises, neither is a likely scenario. But while politicians don't have much to say about the future of technology, technology firms do have a lot to say about the future of politicians.</div>
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In 2008, Sen. Barack Obama won the support of Apple employees in the unofficial "Apple primary," a race to get the most donations from the companies well-paid staff.<a href="http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/apple-inc/6fba97b1038744ad8ab27d5fac99bfd7" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;">Six-figure support helped power his victory</a> over <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Hillary Clinton" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Hillary Clinton</culink> and then <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/John McCain" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">John McCain</culink>.</div>
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So with more than 20 presidential candidates in the hunt, who has backing from<culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Cupertino, California" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Cupertino</culink>, Calif.?</div>
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Apple employees have barely given presidential candidates enough to buy a top of the line iWatch, according to the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Federal Election Commission" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Federal Election Commission</culink>'s database of donations.</div>
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NEW YORK—Even following its two-hour plus press shindig Wednesday, there are several unknowns facing Apple in the weeks and months ahead.</div>
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In some areas Apple will be facing newly competitive pressures. In others, it needs to penetrate markets others have gotten to first. Here's what to keep an eye on:</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">*Smartwatches.</span> The fact that Apple hasn't disclosed sales numbers for the Apple Watch has left many people people wondering just how well the company's prized wearable is faring. Of course, in announcing new watchbands and styles on Wednesday, and indicating that there are now some 10,000 apps, well ahead of what's available for Samsung's watches and for Android Wear devices, Apple remains firmly committed to the category.</div>
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Apple's new Watch OS2 software will be available for your wrist on Sept. 16, promising fresh watch faces, more native apps that don't require you to carry your phone, and other features with the potential to make wearing the watch more appealing. We'll see.</div>
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Competition is heating up. Samsung is about to release its own new <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2015/09/03/samsung-smartwatch---our-wrist/71640662/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;">Gear S2</a>smartwatches based on the Tizen operating system. New Android Wear watches are also in the works, with refreshed entries from Asian competitors such as Lenovo-owned Motorola (the <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/09/02/motorola-new-moto-360-2015/71567674/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;">Moto 360</a>), LG and Huawei. Meantime, the latest Android Wear watches get a boost from new Google software that will allow some models to work with the iPhone.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">*Apple Pay.</span> Expect the next few months to provide a further proving ground for Apple Pay, an area Apple will again face off against Samsung and Google. Apple Pay lets you use your phone, tablet or watch to pay for store in physical stores or and online.</div>
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that 1.5 million U.S. merchants will be Apple Pay-ready by year end. And Discover is joining American Express, MasterCard and Visa as credit companies that are compatible with Apple's system.</div>
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How big a threat Samsung will pose to Apple Pay in the U.S. is an unknown. But when Samsung Pay launches here at the end of this month on compatible Samsung flagship phones, it will claim one theoretical advantage against Apple Pay—it promises to work in more places. That's because Samsung Pay not only is compatible with the kind of NFC-type terminals where Apple Pay (and Android Pay) work, but also on most of the older older terminals that rely on so-called magnetic stripe technology.</div>
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Other competition will come from Google, which hadn't had much success with Google Wallet, but now has a renewed focus under what is now called Android Pay.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">*Apple Music.</span> It'll be three months at the end of September since Apple launched<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2015/06/30/first-look-apple-music/29498011/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;">Apple Music</a>. That means the free trial period for premium features on the streaming service will soon expire. You may like Apple Music but face a conundrum if you already pay for Spotify or another streaming competitor. Has Apple convinced you to switch and pay $9.99 for a monthly Apple Music membership or $14.99 for a family membership (of up to six)? How many people answer yes will help define the success of Apple Music.</div>
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Meantime, Apple has said that it will have a version of Apple Music for Android users too, but hasn't specified timing.</div>
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Excellus, an upstate New York health care company, says information for as many as 10 million of its clients nationwide may have been exposed in an attack dating back to 2013.</div>
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The cyber breach was first discovered on August 5, Excellus spokesman Kevin Kane said.</div>
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Criminal attacks on healthcare computer systems are up 125% since 2010 and are now the leading cause of data breaches, a study by the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Ponemon Institute" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Ponemon Institute</culink> found in March.</div>
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Health care companies are especially tempting targets for cyber attackers, as their files contain large amounts of personal information on users.</div>
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Because of the rise in attacks in the sector, earlier this year Excellus hired cyber security firm <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Mandiant" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Mandiant</culink> to conduct a forensic review of its computer system, Kane said.</div>
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Mandiant found evidence of cyber break-ins dating back to Dec. 23, 2013. The FBI was called in and the company began working to notify customers.</div>
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Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield is part of a larger parent company called Lifetime Healthcare, based in <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Rochester, New York" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Rochester, NY</culink>. It serves about 10 million clients, primarily in upstate New York but with clients across the United States, Kane said.</div>
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Members of other Blue Cross Blue Shield plans who sought treatment at one of Excellus' service area may also have been hit, he said.</div>
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The attackers may have gained access to Excellus clients' names, dates of birth,<culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Social Security number" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Social Security numbers</culink>, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, member identification numbers, financial account information and claim information, the company said.</div>
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The company so far has found no evidence of data leaving its computers or being used inappropriately, Kane said. However it is offering two years of free identity theft protection services to affected individuals.</div>
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Premera, an Alaskan Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance company, had information about as many as 11 million of its clients breached in March.</div>
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"It is becoming clear that 2015 is the year of the Health Care Hack," said Nikki Parker, with Covata, a security firm based in Australia.</div>
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Healthcare breaches especially are often worse than they initially appear, said Arun Vishwanath, a professor at the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/University at Buffalo" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">University at Buffalo</culink> and an expert on cyber deception and information technology.</div>
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"In these kinds of cases, if you have access to the network, you won't stop, you will hit as much as you can. That means it won't just be BlueCross that is impacted, it will be their vendors, physician offices connecting to them, and accessible affiliates all over the country," he said.</div>
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SAN FRANCISCO — <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Ellen Pao" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Ellen Pao</culink>, the ex-<culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Reddit" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Reddit</culink> chief executive who sued her former venture capital firm for gender discrimination, is dropping her appeal and will pay legal fees to <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(248, 98, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" title="">Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers</culink>, ending a three-year battle that captured the attention of the nation and turned the spotlight on sexism in Silicon Valley.</div>
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"Over the past three and a half years, I have pursued a legal case against Kleiner Perkins for gender discrimination and retaliation. Seeking justice in the courts has been painful for me personally and professionally, and for my family. I am now moving on, paying Kleiner Perkins’ legal costs and dropping my appeal," Pao wrote in an <a href="http://recode.net/2015/09/10/ellen-pao-speaks-i-am-now-moving-on/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;">essay</a> on Re/Code.</div>
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"My experience shows how difficult it is to address discrimination through the court system," she wrote.</div>
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A jury found that Kleiner Perkins did not discriminate against Pao. Pao had been seeking $16 million in damages, claiming the venture capital firm discriminated against her because she was a woman, denying her promotions. She was ultimately fired.</div>
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In June, Pao appealed the jury’s verdict that she failed to show Kleiner Perkins discriminated against her and then retaliated against her for complaining about it. Pao was ordered to pay $275,966.63 in legal fees plus interest to her former employer, Kleiner Perkins. Kleiner Perkins had sought $1 million in legal fees.</div>
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"We are glad to put this trial behind us. There is no question diversity in the workplace is an important issue. KPCB remains committed to supporting women and minorities in venture capital and technology both inside our firm and within our industry," Kleiner Perkins said in an emailed statement.</div>
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Pao's case intensified attention being paid to the treatment of women in Silicon Valley and trained new attention on the secretive, mostly white-male, venture capital profession.</div>
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Women, blacks and Hispanics have been largely left out of one of the world's greatest wealth-creation machines in Silicon Valley. Nowhere is that lack of diversity more evident than in venture capital firms, which control the spigot of wealth in high-tech. The profession has begun to take steps to address the lack of diversity. The National Venture Capital Association has formed a diversity task force and the trade group has taken a diversity pledge.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609315238804564679.post-78415364673647528962015-09-10T23:09:00.000-07:002015-09-10T23:09:11.312-07:00Eyeing iPhone 6S or 6S Plus? Here's how to sell your old iPhone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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IPhone update time is here again, and if you have a new iPhone 6S or 6S Plus on your wish list there’s a good chance you’re about to have an extra smartphone lying around. Assuming you don’t feel like letting that pricey little gadget sit around collecting dust, here’s how to get the most moola for your outdated handset.</div>
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Trading your phone in with Gazelle is as simple as heading to the website, selecting your phone and condition, and then waiting for the prepaid box to arrive at your door. Once you send in your old phone, Gazelle emails a confirmation that your device was received and your check is on its way. Your price is locked in for 30 days from the time you request your trade-in, so you can secure the highest value today and send your old phone when the new iPhone launches on Sept. 25.</div>
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Ever since Beats headphones became a cultural icon, nearly every company on the planet has tried to capitalize on the trend by introducing their own headphones or earbuds. Consequently, distinguishing one brand from another can be nearly impossible.</div>
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Nevertheless, three recent models I've been auditioning from Torque, Plantronics, and Motorola have managed to stand out from the crowd by offering unique features and designs.</div>
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In the past, other headphones have tried the tuning technique, but Torque's design is simpler and subtler. The earpads are magnetic, so they can be removed and turned to four different positions representing different bass tunings. Inside the earpads, the filters are color coded. Yellow delivers the most punch, black the least. You also have the option of using smaller on-ear pads or larger over-the-ear pads.</div>
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Like most serious headphones, the Torque t402v's wrap the listener in sound. I preferred the over-the-ear pads and found the headphones delivered excellent separation of instruments, as well as plenty of tight bass, no matter which filter I chose. The difference is not as dramatic as you switch between settings, but it is noticeable. Yellow makes the bass notes the roundest bringing instruments like the bass guitar to the forefront. Drums are tighter with the black setting.</div>
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Some may find that the different filters are more appropriate for different music. Stan Getz is better with less bass, while Moon Martin is better with more. I also found that the mellow yellow setting tended to take some of the rough edges off of streaming music services like Pandora and Spotify.</div>
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Whereas the Torque headphones felt heavy on my head at times, the Plantronics Backbeat Sense headphones are so light as to be almost effervescent. They also have some extra tricks of their own.</div>
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To begin with, the Backbeat Sense headphones can be used wired or wirelessly (via Bluetooth). Without a cable, they're rated for up to 18 hours of playing time. Music over the Plantronics headphones is spritely without ignoring the mid-range keyboards of pop tunes. The Backbeats couldn't match the total immersive sonic sensation of the Torque headphones, but they were certainly respectable. Moreover, even though I'm not a fan of on-ear pads, I quickly grew used to the Backbeats.</div>
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In addition to comfort, my favorite feature of the Backbeat Sense headphones is the automatic pause. If, say, a flight attendant should offer you coffee or tea, sliding the headphones down around your neck automatically pauses the music. After you've placed your order and pop the headphones back on, the music starts ups again. Not only is it polite, it helps preserve an already impressive battery life.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585801279638427560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609315238804564679.post-78700074684969025312015-08-09T21:53:00.000-07:002015-08-10T21:53:46.403-07:00A Facebook insult lands Thai man 30 years in prison<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The frequency with which we've already seen Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton insulted across various <a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">social media</a> platforms in the United States makes it difficult to believe that in some countries, this disrespect is met with severe consequences. A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/07/man-jailed-for-30-years-in-thailand-for-insulting-the-monarchy-on-facebook" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Thai man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison</a> after being found guilty of "posting messages and pictures defaming the monarchy" on Facebook. The three decade sentence is actually half of the original punishment of 60 years, which the government benevolently reduced after the naysayer, 48-year-old Pongsak Sriboonpeng, admitted to his "crime." The nation's strict <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">lse-majest</em> law, which translates literally as the "injured majesty" rule, makes any insult of the king, queen, heir, or regent an offense punishable by up to 15 years per count.</div>
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Convictions under the stifling law have apparently increased significantly since the 2014 military coup, and both the Thai government and the media take the measures extremely seriously. In fact, even when reporting these offenses, media outlets carefully choose how to convey information, as merely repeating insults and perceived offenses could be seen as illegal. More horrifying still, now that the country is operating under martial law, Sriboonpeng and others found guilty of offending the monarchy cannot appeal their sentences.</div>
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The same principle has been used multiple times in the past to imprison dissenters, including non-Thai individuals. In 2007, a Swiss man was imprisoned for a decade for his lse-majest conviction, and an American citizen of Thai descent was also arrested when he visited the country, whereupon he was forced to "confess" his crimes. Lse-majest has also been used to <a href="http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/08/man-sentenced-to-30-years-of-jail-for-insulting-the-thai-monarchy-on-facebook/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">qualify censorship and government surveillance</a> -- YouTube was blocked in the nation several years ago after a video appeared that was considered insulting to the king, and in 2014, <a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/4331" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">mass surveillance</a> "specifically targeting those producing and reading lse majest content" was justified under the law.</div>
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While international organizations have long decried the practice as " preposterous," the Thai government has shown no signs of budging. So while you're in the U.S., say what you will about your political leaders. But don't expect to be able to speak so freely, especially on the Internet, in foreign countries.</div>
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Astronauts on the International Space Station made history Monday when they munched space-grown vegetables for the first time.</div>
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Crew members, including American one-year astronaut Scott Kelly, sampled the delights of Red Romaine lettuce grown in the microgravity environment of space. The lettuce was grown on the ‘Veggie’ plant system in NASA’s orbiting lab on the space station.</div>
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“Crew tastes red romaine lettuce with oil & vinegar for <a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASAVeggie?src=hash" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">#NASAVeggie</a> study and<a data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JourneyToMars?src=hash" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">#JourneyToMars</a>,” tweeted the International Space Station’s Twitter account.</div>
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“Chomp! Our first veggies were harvested & consumed by astronauts in space!,” added NASA, tweeting an image of Kelly enjoying his historic meal.</div>
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The leafy greens were cleaned with citric acid-based, food safe sanitizing wipes, according to NASA.</div>
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The agency’s plant experiment, dubbed Veg-01, uses rooting “pillows,” which contain the seeds.</div>
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NASA sees the development of sustainable food in space as a critical part of its <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasas-journey-to-mars" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Journey to Mars</a> project, which aims to send humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s. However, the long journey to Mars, estimated to take <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/10/08/how-nasa-crews-could-sleep-for-6-months-on-journey-mars/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">six months</a>, poses a unique set of challenges to scientists.</div>
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“As NASA moves toward long-duration exploration missions farther into the solar system, Veggie will be a resource for crew food growth and consumption,” explained NASA, in a <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/meals_ready_to_eat" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">statement</a>. “It also could be used by astronauts for recreational gardening activities during deep space missions.”</div>
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The first “pillows” were activated, watered and cared for by astronaut Steve Swanson in May 2014, according to NASA. After 33 days of growth, the plants were harvested and returned to Earth in October 2014, undergoing food safety analysis at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center.</div>
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The second set of Veg-01 plant “pillows” were activated by Scott Kelly on July 8 and grew again for 33 days before being harvested. The seeds had been on the space state for 15 months before being activated, NASA said.</div>
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Hatfield and McCoy descendants came armed — with digging tools. Side by side, they worked together to help archaeologists unearth artifacts from one of the bloodiest sites in America's most famous feud.</div>
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The leader of the dig says they have pinpointed the place where Randolph McCoy's home was set ablaze in the woods of eastern Kentucky during a murderous New Year's attack by the Hatfield clan.</div>
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Two McCoys were gunned down in the 1888 ambush on Randolph McCoy's homestead. It marked a turning point in their cross-border war waged in Kentucky and West Virginia, led by family patriarchs William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield and Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy.</div>
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The 10-day excavation focused on a back corner of the homestead. Archaeologists and volunteers — including descendants from the two families — uncovered charred timber, shell casings, nails, a pulley and fragments of glass and ceramics.</div>
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Eddie McCoy had made earlier pilgrimages there, but he said sifting through his ancestral soil was especially poignant.</div>
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"When I was digging through the mud and big chunks of burned wood started coming out, it just made it so real," he said this week. "I had to actually pause for a moment. I just could not believe I was being able to literally dig into my family's past."</div>
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A 2012 dig had given excavators some understanding of the McCoy homestead.</div>
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The team decided the actual site wasn't quite where they thought it was, said Kim McBride, co-director of the Kentucky Archaeological Survey. She led the archaeological teams on both digs.</div>
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"We had some suspicions that we weren't quite in the right place at the first dig," McBride said. "With more work, we were able to confirm that suspicion. We think the house sat a little bit further back."</div>
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The back corner of the homestead was the area least disturbed by development, McBride said.</div>
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"Having this little area of materials from the original house in its burned state was very significant," she said.</div>
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In a region slammed by a slumping coal industry, better identifying the McCoy homestead could help lure visitors.</div>
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The property is owned by Hatfield descendant Bob Scott, who would like to build a replica cabin on the same spot.</div>
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"We're trying to preserve the heritage of the Hatfield-McCoy feud," he said. "People like to get off the beaten path sometimes."</div>
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A tour group from Georgia visited the site this week, he said. Visitors from Hawaii stopped by recently.</div>
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Pike County tourism officials promote tours of feud sites on their website.</div>
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The Hatfield and McCoy Heritage Days from Sept. 24-26 in Pikeville, Kentucky, will include a Hatfield-McCoy paintball tournament, music and local crafts. Across the border, West Virginia tourism officials also are trying to capitalize on interest in the feud.</div>
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A 2012 History Channel miniseries about the feud helped stir up new interest. And the National Geographic Channel series "Diggers" will focus on the feud and the most recent dig in an episode airing Monday night.</div>
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Many believe the feud was rooted in the Civil War, but the bitterness was perpetuated by disputes over timber rights and even a pig. The fighting claimed at least a dozen lives by 1888. The feud officially ended in 2003, when descendants of the families signed a truce.</div>
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The saga even included an ill-fated love affair between Johnse Hatfield and Roseanna McCoy.</div>
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"The characters are just so amazing and so complex and so human," said feud expert Bill Richardson, an extension associate professor for West Virginia University. "They have all those human faults — greed, jealousy and lust. Honestly, it's like a Shakespearean play but it's true."</div>
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The families now share a kinship, said Eddie McCoy, who lives in South Carolina. During the dig, he said, a Hatfield descendant apologized for what her family did to his ancestors.</div>
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His reply: "You can't be apologetic for what happened in the past and what your ancestor did, because my ancestor did bad things to their family, too."</div>
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The truth is out there … maybe. A mysterious woman-like shape in a picture taken by NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover is creating buzz on social media.</div>
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In a <a href="http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2015/08/alien-woman-on-mars-watching-rover-from.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">post</a> entitled “Alien Woman on Mars Watching Rover From Hill” the UFO Sightings Daily website said that the shape “looks like a woman partly cloaked.”</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Related:</b> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/08/05/from-million-miles-away-stunning-nasa-images-show-moon-crossing-earths-face/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">From a million miles away, stunning NASA images show the moon crossing Earth’s face</a></div>
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Mashable is somewhat more circumspect in its analysis of the image. “Perhaps it's a cloaked ghost Martian woman, perhaps it's a statue left over from a once great society, perhaps it's a piece of dirt,” it <a href="http://mashable.com/2015/08/06/nasa-mars-lady/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">said</a>. (For the record, we agree with the “piece of dirt” assessment).</div>
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What do you think? Here’s a link to the <a href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/01001/mcam/1001ML0044610000305331D01_DXXX.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">image</a>, which was posted by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.</div>
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A tiny aircraft could be plying Mars' skies less than a decade from now.</div>
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NASA researchers are developing a glider, called Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars (Prandtl-m), for possible inclusion on a Mars rover mission in the 2022-2024 time frame.</div>
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Prandtl-m would weigh a maximum of 2.6 lbs. here on Earth (1 lb in Mars' reduced-gravity environment) and feature a wingspan of just 24 inches, project team members said. The craft would fold up to fit inside a 3U cubesat — a spacecraft about the size of a loaf of bread — that would tag along with the rover. [<a href="http://www.space.com/16575-mars-exploration-robot-red-planet-missions-infographic.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">History of Robotic Mars Missions (Infographic)</a>]</div>
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"The aircraft would be part of the ballast that would be ejected from the aeroshell that takes the Mars rover to the planet," Prandtl-m program manager Al Bowers, the chief scientist at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/features/mars_airplane.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">said in a statement</a>.</div>
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"It would be able to deploy and fly in the Martian atmosphere and glide down and land," Bowers added. "The Prandtl-m could overfly some of the proposed landing sites for a future astronaut mission and send back to Earth very detailed high-resolution photographic map images that could tell scientists about the suitability of those landing sites."</div>
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The glider would have a flight time of 10 minutes in the Martian sky, and could cover about 20 miles, Bowers said.</div>
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Bowers and his team plan to test a Prandtl-m prototype (which will be designed and built with the help of community college students this summer) during a high-altitude balloon flight later this year, either from Tucson, Arizona, or Tillamook, Oregon.</div>
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The balloon will drop the aircraft at an altitude of about 100,000 feet, where the thin air provides a good analog of the <a href="http://www.space.com/16903-mars-atmosphere-climate-weather.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Martian atmosphere</a>.</div>
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"We could have one of two small science payloads on the Prandtl-m on that first balloon flight," Bowers said. "It might be the mapping camera, or one might be a small, high-altitude radiometer to measure radiation at very high altitudes of Earth's atmosphere. Eventually the aircraft may carry both of them at the same time."</div>
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A second balloon flight to about the same altitude is planned for 2016. In that test, Prandtl-m will be folded inside a <a href="http://www.space.com/29306-cubesats-deep-space-exploration.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">cubesat</a> container; after the drop, the glider will deploy from the container, unfold and fly away, Bowers said.</div>
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NASA's Flight Opportunities Program has agreed to fund both of these balloon-aided tests. If everything goes well, Prandtl-m may then find its way onto a sounding rocket that goes into suborbital space.</div>
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"That mission could be to 450,000 feet and the release from a cubesat at apogee. The aircraft would fall back into the Earth's atmosphere, and as it approaches the 110,000-to-115,000-feet altitude range, the glider would deploy just as though it was over the surface of Mars," Bowers said.</div>
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"If the Prandtl-m completes a 450,000-foot drop, then I think the project stands a very good chance of being able to go to NASA Headquarters and say we would like permission to ride to Mars with one of the rovers," he added.</div>
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity went out of its way to investigate a rock the likes of which it has never seen before on the Red Planet.</div>
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Measurements by Curiosity's rock-zapping ChemCam laser and another instrument revealed that the target, a chunk of bedrock dubbed Elk, contains high levels of silica and hydrogen, NASA officials said.</div>
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The abundance of silica — a silicon-oxygen compound commonly found here on Earth in the form of quartz — suggests that the bedrock may provide conditions conducive to the preservation of ancient carbon-containing organic molecules, if any exist in the area, the officials added. So Curiosity's handlers sent the rover back 151 feet to check Elk out. [<a href="http://www.space.com/18027-mars-rover-curiosity-amazing-photos-red-planet.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">Latest Amazing Mars Photos by NASA's Curiosity Rover</a>]</div>
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"One never knows what to expect on Mars, but the Elk target was interesting enough to go back and investigate," ChemCam principal investigator Roger Wiens, of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, <a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4668" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #183a52;" target="_blank">said in a statement</a>.</div>
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Elk lies near a spot on the lower reaches of the 3.4-mile-high Mount Sharp, called Marias Pass, whose rocks Curiosity had been studying. Marias Pass is a "geological contact zone" where dark sandstone meets lighter mudstone.</div>
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"We found an outcrop named Missoula where the two rock types came together, but it was quite small and close to the ground," Curiosity project scientist Ashwin Vasavada, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in the same statement. "We used the robotic arm to capture a dog's-eye view with the MAHLI [Mars Hand Lens Imager] camera, getting our nose right in there."</div>
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ChemCam had fired at the Elk bedrock from the top of a small hill close to Marias Pass, which Curiosity had summitted before taking a look at the contact zone. After looking at the Missoula outcrop, the 1-ton rover began moving on, but an analysis of ChemCam's data persuaded the team to turn Curiosity around for a closer look at Elk, mission team members said.</div>
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"ChemCam acts like eyes and ears of the rover for nearby objects," Wiens said.</div>
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As Curiosity gathers data, mission engineers continue to investigate a short circuit that cropped up in the rover's sample-collecting drill in February. No short circuits occurred during a July 18 engineering test, so the Curiosity team plans to conduct some drilling trials on rocks in the near future, NASA officials said.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;">Curiosity has been exploring Mars' 96-mile-wide Gale Crater for nearly three years now. The six-wheeled robot touched down on the night of Aug. 5, 2012, on a mission to determine if Gale could ever have supported microbial life.</span></div>
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Curiosity scientists answered this question early in the mission, finding that Gale Crater once harbored an extensive lake-and-stream system that could have supported microbial life, if such organisms had ever evolved on the Red Planet.</div>
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