11.11 -11.13

11.11
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2012394910_webdisney19.html

Disney is set to open its first resort in Oahu next year.
The 800-plus-unit property, dubbed "Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa," is designed as a Polynesian village (albeit one with high-rise towers) that will include hotel rooms and two-bedroom Disney Vacation Club Villas.
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Customers will have to wait awhile to actually visit — the resort isn't going to open its doors until Aug. 29, 2011.

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A centerpriece of the Hawaii project will be a large fake volcano designed by Disney's "imagineers" to be embedded with subtle images of culturally significant Hawaiian animals and legends.It's the centerpiece of the water park portion of the propoerty.

In the video, Rohde says Aulani will be aplace where "pwopple will come back again and again."

11.12
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/20/business/la-fi-apple-data-20100720

Apple Inc. acknowledged recnetly that it collects batches of precise user location data from owners of its mobile and computer products but said that users can keep themselves from being part of the data collection.
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(X)Apple's answers came in a document released by Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe L. Barton (R- Texas), who sent the electronics maker a list of questions last month after The Times published a report pointing to the company's practice of collecting, storing and sharing the "precise," "real-time geographic location" of users' mobile devices.

Apple said user location information ...

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(X) Markey and Barton thanked Apple for sharing basic information about its use of location data but noted that industry practices in that area have been less than transparent.

(X) "The new challenges and concerns that present themselves with the collection and use of location-based information are particularly disconcerting," Barton said in a statement. "While I applaud Apple for responding to our questions, I remain concerned about privacy policies that run on for pages and pages."

When the latest version of the iPhone operating system was released in late June, ...

Observers have noted that removing a user's name from highly precise data, such as location coordinates, may not always allow for true anonymity, as individual travel and movement patterns are often unique.

11.13
http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/pets/2010-07-22-restaurantdogs22_ST_N.htm

Alfresco dining is going to the dogs.
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There are never any outbursts of canine bad behavior, says co-owner Sylvia Sharp. The dogs "seem to view (the patio) as neutral territory, kind of like Switzerland."
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"Folks know their dogs and how they'll behave in certain situations," says Chris Lynch of Sonoma County's Mutt Lynch Winery in Healdsburg, Calif., voted the wine country's most dog-friendly winery by the monthly newspaper Bay Woof in San Francisco. "We get very, very few misbehaving dogs" at the private tastings and giant charity functions, where the guests often consist of 300 humans and 100 or more dogs, he says.

It's the rare person who questions the winery's blatant dog-friendliness. "Even people who don't bring their dogs to the winery appreciate animals and enjoy having them around," Lynch says.

And those who don't? "We tell them there are a lot of other very nice wineries around."


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