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That said, this dress with a metallic warrior corset breastplate thingy is pretty hot.
More shiny. When it's not short, it's tight.
I do tend to like hot, bright, blues, pinks and purples. So the palette appeals to me.
Some pieces, like this blue jacket, seem fun and fresh.
Baby Phat swimwear: Not for the shy, or the non-thin.
Well, the kids are cute, at least!
Check out the new baby!
As humans, we always feel that we should be doing something productive. But, if we were more like our dogs, we would have no problem floppin' down to relax.
My dog knows no stranger. She is a friend to everyone, whether or not they are a friend to her in return. If people were more outwardly friendly to, maybe they would have more friends.
Dogs wait patiently and politely to be rewarded. If people were more patient and polite, maybe we would get treats, too.
Always, always, always be loyal to the person who feeds you. This is the #1 rule for a good life.
If more humans listened and kept secrets, the world would be a much better place.
Everyone needs a good cuddle buddy.
It seems like people don't get excited about anything these days, but if we appreciated the little things a little more, maybe we would.
The ability to make people laugh is one of the most powerful traits to have.
Unlike humans, dogs don't have an ounce of hate in them.
Just leave your cares behind and roll around like no one is watching.
Report: $499 iPad Costs Apple $230 to Make, Bring on the Discounts!
iSuppli has again done its trick of totaling a device’s component costs to show the kind of profits the maker can get. This time, it’s the fabled iPad…and iSuppli’s data implies there’s room for Apple to maneuver on sales price.
The screen: $80 per unit. It’s probably from LG, and its cost is about five times as much as the iPhone 3GS’s display costs.
16GB of flash-RAM: $29.50 for bottom-end machines, 64GB: $118 for top-end units.
Apple’s own A4 system-on-a-chip: $17. According to iSuppli, it’s the most interesting component, acting as the processing/graphics core of the machine but costing Apple just $2-ish more than the iPhone 3GS’s CPU. It illustrates the kind of saving that can be achieved by bringing part of a chip’s design in-house.
Add in the cost of assembly, other electronic components, buttons, cases and other bits and bobs and the entry-level 16GB Wi-fi-only iPad costs $229.35 to make. This is the least profitable model for Apple, amounting to some 46% or the retail price of $499. The most profitable unit is the 3G-equipped 32GB model, which ...
What’s all this mean? For a start, the apparently huge margin between the assembly price and the retail price shouldn’t be a surprise. Apple’s business model tends to avoid the common practice of selling some units as loss-leaders, and the real cost to Apple for each iPad will be higher once you factor in marketing, wa...
But, even having said that, there’s significant room for maneuver on the price of the iPad–even at its entry-level $500. I’ve already noted that this figure is a fabulous win for Apple right from the start, placing the iPad as a seriously disruptive influence in the e-reader, netbook and even low-end notebook markets. ...
IRISH HOUSE PRICES have increased by 13% in the twelve months to April, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
That’s the fastest pace since May 2015 and means Irish house prices are still growing at the fastest rate in Europe, which stood at 4.5% in late 2017.
The latest figures from the CSO show that the highest house price growth was in the Mid-West with house prices increasing by 18.7%, while the lowest growth was in the border region, with house prices rising 9.3%.
In Dublin, the city centre had the highest growth at 14.9%, while south Dublin was the lowest at 6.9%.
On average, house prices outside of Dublin rose by 12.9% and overall, prices for residential properties were 13.6% higher in the year to April.
However, the CSO said the national index is 21.1% lower than its highest level in 2007.
Dublin prices are 23.3% lower than their February 2007 peak, while prices in the rest of the country are 26.1% lower than their peak in May 2007.
Compared to early 2013, prices nationally have increased by 76% while Dublin residential property prices have increased 90% from their February 2012 low.
Meanwhile, UK figures released today show that the increase in British house prices slowed to 3.9% year-on-year in April, the slowest pace in 13 months.
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A wood furnace needs a steady supply of hand-delivered fuel.
1 What Is the Difference Between Downdraft and Updraft in a Furnace?
Firewood isn't always plentiful and easily accessible, but when it is, a wood-burning furnace can seem to be an attractive alternative to furnaces that burn fossil fuels. A forced-air wood furnace operates on the same principles as an oil or gas forced-air furnace, but wood furnaces have some limitations that make them...
Wood-burning indoor furnaces work much like forced-air furnaces that use other types of fuel. Wood furnaces burn wood in a firebox and use the wood fire to heat air via a heat exchanger, but the blower that circulates the air and the ductwork through which the air moves are essentially identical to those in oil or gas ...
Outdoor wood-burning furnaces are typically part of a hydronic system in which the furnace heats water and the hot water is pumped into the house, where it transmits its heat to the interior air via radiators or other radiant-heating mechanisms. However, these furnaces can also be used in a forced air system if the woo...
Unlike oil and gas furnaces, which run on a steady supply of fuel that is regulated by the system itself, most wood-burning furnaces must be fueled manually; you have to feed firewood into the firebox by hand through the combustion chamber doors in order to keep the fire going. Because the fire has to be tended, wood-b...
Combination furnaces put two different heat sources, usually an oil- or gas-fueled burner and a wood firebox, together in one unit in order to solve the problem of a wood furnace’s inability to run unattended; the oil or gas burner functions as a backup heat source for times when you are unable to keep the wood fire bu...
Gillespie, Evan. "Forced Air Wood Burning Furnaces." Home Guides \| SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/forced-air-wood-burning-furnaces-69705.html. Accessed 19 April 2019.
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., April 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Cedar Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: CDR – the "Company") announced today that it will release financial results for the three-month period ended March 31, 2019 after the market closes on May 2, 2019. The Company will host a conference call that same day at 5:00 PM (ET) t...
The conference call can also be accessed by dialing (877) 705-6003 or (1) (201) 493-6725 for international participants. A replay of the call will be available from 8:00 PM (ET) on May 2, 2019 until midnight (ET) on May 16, 2019. The replay dial-in numbers are (844) 512-2921 or (1) (412) 317-6671 for international call...
Cedar Realty Trust, Inc. is a fully-integrated real estate investment trust which focuses on the ownership, operation and redevelopment of grocery-anchored shopping centers in high-density urban markets from Washington, D.C. to Boston. The Company's portfolio (excluding properties treated as "held for sale") comprises ...
Netgear introduced at CES three new products that it hopes will simplify wireless home networking.
Netgear is launching three new wireless networking products that aim to address the problem, perennially discussed at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, of complicated home networking setup.
"Our customers in their homes or small offices should be able to utilize high-speed broadband networking for any application, including communications, information gathering or entertainment, from any corner of the house without any interruption," said Patrick Lo, chairman, CEO and founder of Netgear. Like the heating ...
Using the new devices unveiled at the conference, a Netgear executive demonstrated simultaneous wireless streaming of an HD video, live HD gaming and video downloading -- and then removed a hard drive from the storage device -- all without a glitch.
The new products include the RangeMax Dual Band Wireless N Router, which incorporates new antenna technology developed by Netgear. The router contains eight antennas, which Netgear says ensures quality streaming despite potential interference from other wireless gear including microwave ovens, cordless phones and neigh...
"It's always better to have many antennas... but densely packing them inside the unit has been historically impossibly to achieve with good performance," said Vivek Pathela, vice president of product marketing for Netgear. Netgear's new technology allows many antennas to operate inside a device, delivering good perform...
The router also includes new technology that lets users push a button to automatically set up a secure connection between the router and any other standard client. Typically, users must work through a software application to set up secure connections.
Netgear also introduced the ReadyNAS Duo, a media server designed to centrally store any digital media including videos, photos and music. In an unusual feature for a consumer device, the ReadyNAS supports hot swapping -- allowing users to remove a drive without interrupting streaming or other use of the device.
The ReadyNAS comes in several configurations, including with 500G bytes of storage for US$500 and 1G byte for $750. An optional second drive in the device automatically mirrors the content of the first to protect against potential loss of data. An even larger version of the ReadyNas can handle 4T bytes of data.
Users can connect PCs, Macs, HD TVs and IP (Internet Protocol) set-top boxes to the server. It also has a USB (Universal Serial Bus) port for connecting digital cameras to upload photos and view them on a TV.
Consumers that want to use the ReadyNas but don't want to upgrade their existing router, can buy the new HD/Gaming 5GHz Wireless-N Networking Kit. The kit comes with two units. Users attach one to their current router, which could comply with the older Wireless B or Wireless G standards. The other device connects to ot...
Netgear hopes that these new products, possibly combined with 15 others the company is introducing at CES, will address the challenges that many people face when setting up networks in their homes. For many, the variety of wired and wireless technologies, many of which don't interoperate, have made home networks too ch...
APPLE unveiled its most anticipated product in years yesterday - the Apple Watch.
The San Francisco technology giant announced the pricing, release data and features of its new high-tech wristwear. But what do Wall Street and the City make of the $700bn company's latest gambit?
"We believe Apple has the world's most valuable technology platform, which it continues to build upon with new devices and services today. We remain bullish on the Watch as developers have already built thousands of apps for new use cases.
"Tim Cook better articulated the purpose of the Watch, positioning it as (1) accurate and customizable timepiece, (2) intimate communications device, and (3) health and fitness tracker. These use cases are supplemented by other "brief interactions," such as Apple Pay or "glances" at third-party apps.
"The company plans to launch the device in China, its second largest market, in the first wave of countries which will help drive initial volume despite limited distribution early in the product cycle."
"Although management again highlighted various applications, most emphasize improved convenience over pulling the phone out-there still is not a sense of a killer app. Cook has said the breadth would surprise consumers, and perhaps that is sufficient."
"Apple held its "Spring Forward" event last night where the only spring was in its name. The event was aimed at giving more details around why users would want to buy an Apple watch and in that regard Apple has failed to answer the question.
"There already are, and will be many more, third party apps for the Apple Watch but none of them is really anything more than extensions of what already exists in the iPhone.
"I think that Apple will outsell all other wearables but it will do so on its brand and fan base alone."
"Yesterday I left the house at 5:03am - I returned at 12:34am - on Apple I would not have a working watch. I wouldn't be looking at the watch anyway. Nonetheless - the 'buy anything Apple' fraternity should ensure $10 million plus sales in year one."
"While the presentation was slick and smooth and the watch was undoubtedly impressive, it still feels very niche. The fact that you also need an iPhone for it to work is a negative, particularly with a starting price point of $349, and with 18 hours of battery life its yet another device that needs charging regularly.
"Apple Watch fans will point to the new health apps that are likely to be made available as a result of this launch, but a lot of these apps are already available on the iPhone as well, and while Apple aficionados will probably lap up the new Watch, a lot more people are likely to be more difficult to please."
U.S. and allied forces may have killed dozens of civilians in airstrikes while bombing the Islamic State. But the defense department refuses to take responsibility.
The Pentagon accepts that with many hundreds of allied bombings aimed at Islamic State targets since August, there is a “continued risk inherent in these strikes” for civilians on the ground. But that doesn’t mean the United States will offer compensation if it kills them.
The United States is not planning to grant compensation for civilians killed in airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, Foreign Policy has learned, despite claims by credible groups that at least 100 noncombatants may already have died in the 16 weeks of U.S.-led bombings.
The decision, confirmed by a senior spokesman for U.S. Central Command (Centcom), the military command organization in charge of the air war, marks a significant departure from recent conflicts, in which payments have regularly been made to those affected by U.S. military actions.
Washington also continues to insist it cannot confirm a single noncombatant death from more than 1,100 airstrikes against Islamic State targets — despite a number of apparently well-documented cases of error or collateral damage in both Iraq and Syria.
America’s 11 allies in the air war in Syria and Iraq may be no better placed to help. “If a claim of civilian casualties were found valid, that claim would be processed in accordance with the laws of the nation that conducted the strike,” a Centcom spokesman told FP. But for civilians on the ground, it is often impossi...
Eight coalition members — including Denmark, the Netherlands, and the three Arab partners — currently refuse to say publicly where in Syria or Iraq they are bombing. Although Centcom releases information on airstrikes, its statements only say whether allies participated in the strikes, not where they took place.
Centcom is now citing a 72-year-old U.S. law for its justification for not awarding compensation in Iraq and Syria. As a spokesman told FP, “For U.S. forces, claims would be processed in accordance with the Foreign Claims Act, which generally does not authorize compensation for damage or injury caused in combat operati...
Yet in other recent U.S. wars, the government has enabled a system of “no-fault” payouts for situations in which civilians were accidentally killed. It was a common-sense recognition of the damage such deaths can do to U.S. war aims, say analysts.
A U.S. Defense Department official, speaking to FP on background, claimed that the congressional authorizations that allowed for such payments in Afghanistan and during Operation Iraqi Freedom were only temporary and do not apply to Syria or Iraq today. That means the government has no choice but to cite the Foreign Cl...
Others contest this. The New York-based Center for Civilians in Conflict, an advocacy group, points, for example, to permanent legislation passed by Congress this year designed expressly to ensure that “no-fault” compensation could continue to be paid to victims of any U.S. conflict. The new law is aimed specifically a...
Despite a common enemy in the Islamic State, two different allied air wars are emerging in the Middle East. In Iraq, only Western countries are bombing. They are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government, which the air campaign is in part devoted to propping up. Indeed, both the Pentagon and Britain’s Defense Min...
In Syria, only Arab countries — Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates — have joined the United States in bombing Islamic State targets. (Qatar and Bahrain participated in the first night of bombing on Sept. 23 but have not since participated in bombing operations.) Bashar al-Assad’s regime does not consent...
So far, only the United States is attacking on both sides of the border, and it remains the dominant partner. Latest figures from Centcom show that the United States has carried out around 85 percent of coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.
Unlike United Nations-sanctioned operations in Afghanistan, the allies in the anti-Islamic State campaign are not part of any formal alliance. It is more a loose “coalition of the willing,” according to one U.S. defense official — an echo of the original Iraq invasion back in 2003. Although the United States has establ...
Instead, “each nation participating in the coalition may modify or supplement this coalition guidance, including rules of engagement, with its own ‘caveats,'” the Centcom spokesman told FP. Every one of the 12 countries involved in the air campaign operates “in accordance with its own legal requirements,” according to ...
So where does an air war leave civilians when 12 countries fly by 12 different rule books? The Pentagon insists that “no other military in the world works as hard as we do to be precise in our targeting.” And all allies “have implemented significant mitigation measures within the targeting process and during the conduc...
On Oct. 25, a “US raid on a stronghold of the IS [Islamic State] killed two civilians by mistake,” according to an Iraqi news agency, citing a medical source at a hospital in Mosul, Iraq. The airstrike, the source said, had hit the city’s southern Qayyarah district, and the bodies were taken to the hospital’s morgue.
The Mosul case — one of more than a dozen incidents in which allied aircraft are alleged to have killed Iraqi or Syrian civilians — highlights many of the challenges for advocates who record civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria and the lethal risks that the air war poses to Iraqi and Syrian civilians.
International monitors picked up on the reported civilian fatalities in Mosul via the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA), an independent Iraqi news wire. According to groups tracking civilian deaths in Iraq, NINA is a reputable source; yet monitors are finding it increasingly difficult to independently verify claims of ...
Mosul, which has been occupied by the jihadi group since June, is a case in point. One senior Baghdad-based journalist, who requested anonymity due to security concerns for the staff of the international news agency where the journalist works, told Foreign Policy that while the news agency was aware of reported civilia...
Human Rights Watch also reports significant problems in following up and confirming reports of civilian deaths. “We have heard, for example, of a family killed in Mosul by a U.S. airstrike. And we’ve tried to verify that claim. But Mosul remains completely inaccessible,” said Erin Evers, the group’s Iraq director, refe...
In these opaque circumstances, say casualty recorders, there is a particular onus on the United States and its allies to declare where and when each bombing in Iraq and Syria takes place — particularly where civilian deaths have been alleged. This is frequently not the case.
Of the 15 likely airstrikes examined for this report that allegedly caused civilian casualties, seven took place on days when U.S. forces alone carried out missions or where the United States has claimed sole responsibility for an attack. Reports from independent monitors indicate that 49 or more civilians may have die...
Three local Syrian residents, for example, have described to Human Rights Watch the deaths of seven women and children in a U.S. cruise missile strike in Syria’s Idlib province on Sept. 23, which allegedly targeted the Khorasan Group. Centcom continues to deny any confirmed civilian casualties from the attack.
The Oct. 25 strike in Mosul, which allegedly killed two civilians, clearly illustrates this problem. Almost one-third of the 600 allied bombings in Iraq to date have targeted Mosul and the surrounding area. Between Oct. 24 and 26 alone, Centcom confirms some 20 allied airstrikes in the area.
Nor can any given target location be assumed to be accurate. While Centcom places all allied airstrikes around Oct. 25 in some 45 miles northwest of Mosul, near the city’s dam, other allied reports prove otherwise. France’s Defense Ministry reported that two of its aircraft dropped four bombs “on a suburb of Mosul” at ...
Other countries might have bombed Mosul that day. Denmark will say only that its air force dropped “30 bombs” somewhere in Iraq during the week of Oct. 26 at locations unknown. The Dutch, too, say they released “dozens of bombs” during the week of Oct. 26 at locations unknown.
A particular risk for civilians in Iraq and Syria today is the low quality of pre- and post-strike intelligence. With few U.S. boots on the ground, there is a near-complete dependence on aerial intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. Yet many analysts and even U.S. officials say that U.S. forces ...

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