This site is more about getting out there than about gear because I don't believe that getting out there is really about gear. The things we bring with us help keep us safe and comfortable but I try not to get so caught up in it that I lose track of why I go out there in the first place.
That being said I started doing gear reviews a while back as a way of returning the favor after reading so many reviews myself. The camaraderie of gear discussion is something that translates well from the campsite to a website and I have found both extensive gear info and good discussion at Trailspace.com Despite the fact that they say they are all about gear there are a lot of nice folks involved in the site both on the admin and user side so I find the experience there just as much about the people as the gear.


We'll be hearing even more about Hillary Clinton over the next few months as she aims to become the first woman president of the United States. One small detail that probably won't be mentioned, however, is her Lake District connection: how in 1973 - as Hillary Rodham - she turned down Bill Clinton's first proposal of marriage on the shores of Ennerdale Water (pictured). The couple had met three years earlier at Yale Law School and were then taking a holiday in Britain.
If Hillary Clinton does win the presidency she'll be one of a small number of American presidents with a connection to Cumbria. George Washington's paternal grandmother, Mildred Warner, is buried in the grounds of St Nicholas Church, Whitehaven - a plaque commemorates her - while two children from her first marriage to Lawrence Washington, John and Augustine (father of George Washington), went to Appleby Grammar School. This all stems from the fact that after Lawrence's death, Mildred married George Gale, a tobacco importer from Whitehaven (pictured). He was in America at the time of their marriage in 1700 but quickly brought her back to west Cumberland. After Mildred's death in 1701, George Gale sent her two boys to school in Appleby. Some 80 years later, sandstone flags from St Bees near Whitehaven were laid at George Washington's home of Mount Vernon in Virginia.
Another US president with strong connections to Cumberland was Woodrow Wilson whose mother, Janet Woodrow, was born in Carlisle (pictured) in 1826. She later moved to America with her family, marrying Joseph Ruggles Wilson. Woodrow Wilson visited Cumberland and the Lake District four times before becoming president in 1913 and then again in December, 1918 while attending the Paris peace conference.
Finally....presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, both of whom had surnames associated with the Border Reivers, the riding and raiding families who turned the border lands into one of the most lawless places in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries.
For weeks and weeks through late November, December and January it seemed as if Cumbria would never see the sun again. But in the last few days the skies have cleared, the rain's stopped, the days are brighter and we're all reminded again what a beautiful county it is. With Easter only a month away the message that #cumbriaisopen can't be overstated; visitors are welcome everywhere.
Even before Easter in March there are plenty of things to do. The Words by the Water literary festival in Keswick (4-13), the World Health Innovation Summit in Carlisle (10-11), the Northern Beer Festival in Kendal (11-13), Kendal Festival of Food (12-13), Bowness Bay Blues Weekend (18-20), the World's Original Marmalade Awards and Festival at Dalemain near Ullswater (19-20) and the Easter International Market in Carlisle (24-28) are just some of them.
The Discover Carlisle website certainly speaks for everyone in Cumbria when it says: 'We are still welcoming visitors with open arms and a friendly smile. Events go ahead. Our shops still trade. Our food and drink establishments still serve. Our attractions still offer a fantastic range of things to see and do. Our accommodation providers still provide a warm and cosy bed to rest your head'. All that and some of the best scenery in Britain.
Design, craftsmanship, community, heritage and landscape. All things close to my heart and all subjects embraced by a beautiful and moving new exhibition at Rheged near Penrith. Harris Tweed: From the Land is the culmination of ten years work by fine art photographer Ian Lawson, 'capturing the essence of the place we call home', the chairman of the Harris Tweed Authority, Norman Macdonald, told those at last night's exhibition launch. Home is Harris, Lewis and their 35 or so associated islands in the Outer Hebrides, 'some of the most remote parts of Europe'. Remoteness didn't stop 24 islanders making their way to Cumbria to celebrate Ian Lawson's talent and sensitivity, his photographs complemented by a display of bags and jackets, all marked with the 'oldest, continuous trademark in the UK' (since 1906). Bags, clothes and furniture can also be seen in Rheged's new Harris Tweed shop where Ian's photographic book Harris Tweed: From the Land is also sold. Opening the show last night, Patrick Grant, creative director of Norton & Sons in Savile Row, and judge on the BBC's Great British Sewing Bee, enthused over the way Ian had 'paired the cloth with the landscape' in numerous photographs (see pictures). The Outer Hebrides, he said, were 'one of the most beautiful places on earth'. Having seen the exhibition, heard the words, smelt the sea and felt the cloth, I'm checking the ferry times already.
This morning I had the luxury of popping out to my local butcher to buy a chicken, six sausages and two pounds of mince. I say luxury because in many parts of Britain, the habit of using a small, family butcher is 'so last century'. But this is Cumbria where family-owned shops - butchers, bakers, greengrocers, fishmongers, clothes shops and hardware stores - are still much in evidence. And thank goodness for that. Visit towns like Ambleside, Cockermouth, Kirkby Lonsdale, Penrith, Ulverston and Windermere and you'll see what I mean.
Two recent stories have raised the issue again. In Penrith, still a bastion of small independents, traders say that the increasing number of supermarkets is having a 'detrimental effect' on them. Then today, The Cumberland News reports that in its Our Cumbria survey, '41% of respondents insist that independent shops are the lifeblood of our town centres and should be protected from the arrival of further major retailers.' Considering that Carlisle, home city of that newspaper, is almost overrun with supermarkets and national chains, that is certainly encouraging. The attractions of local stores are often and loudly proclaimed but it does no harm to state them again. Well run independent shops bring variety and character to the high street - and often a different level of service - and are not always the expensive retail option that many people suppose they are. And unlike the profits of major chains which may well flow out of the county, the profits of the small, family shop will probably, and largely, stay in the community.
Pictured are More? The Artisan Bakery in Staveley, near Kendal and The Sporting Lodge at Sandside near Milnthorpe.


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CBS Films has released new images of Alex Pettyfer in the new film, Beastly, which is slated to open on July 30, 2010. Click below to take a look at the new images of Pettyfer in the film.
The Manhattan-set and modern-day take on Beauty and the Beast tells the story of a handsome rich kid with a mean streak. When he ditches a date, a curse is placed upon him, turning him into everything he hates. The grotesque transformation leaves him with the seemingly impossible task of finding true love to break the ugly spell.
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Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based conceptual framework, which aims to integrate the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters.
Visible Thinking began as an initiative to develop a research-based approach to teaching thinking dispositions. The approach emphasized three core practices: thinking routines, the documentation of student thinking, and reflective professional practice. It was originally developed at Lemshaga Akademi in Sweden as part of the Innovating with Intelligence project, and focused on developing students' thinking dispositions in such areas as truth-seeking, understanding, fairness, and imagination. It has since expanded its focus to include an emphasis on thinking through art and the role of cultural forces and has informed the development of other Project Zero Visible Thinking initiatives, including Artful Thinking, and Cultures of Thinking.


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What is an Advertising Promotions Director's Income?
by Eric Strauss
Entertainment managers can earn high wages depending on their clients.
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An advertising promotions director manages the way a company builds interest in its good and services through advertisements and giveaways. The advertising promotions director often works in conjunction with a marketing director and might be charged with creating posters for an event or determining whether to advertise in a newspaper, broadcast media or online.
Advertising promotions directors are listed under the Bureau of Labor Statistics' "Advertising and Promotions Managers" job category. The mean annual wage for advertising and promotions managers was $103,350 as of May 2011, according to the BLS. The best-paid 10 percent earned $186,630 per year or more, while the lowest-paid 10 percent earned $42,750 or less.
Most Common Industries
The largest employer of the 30,710 advertising and promotions managers in the BLS report was the advertising and public relations industry, where 9,040 were employed. They earned a mean annual wage of $126,150. The second- and third-largest employers of advertising promotions directors were corporate management and print media publication, which paid a yearly average of $105,850 and $94,200 a year, respectively.
Best-Paying Industries
Although the advertising and PR industry was the largest employer of advertising and promotions directors, it was only the second-best paying. The best-paying industry was computer systems design, which paid $131,550 on average, according to the BLS. Coming in third was medical equipment manufacturing, which paid these directors $122,620 a year on average.
Income by State
New York was the state with the most advertising promotions directors -- 5,180 -- as well as the one that paid the highest average salary, at $144,210 per year. California, the second-largest employer, paid its 3,890 directors $111,600 per year on average. New Jersey ranked second in terms of pay, at an average of $125,020 per year.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Advertising and Promotions Managers
Eric Strauss spent 12 years as a newspaper copy editor, eventually serving as a deputy business editor at "The Star-Ledger" in New Jersey before transitioning into academic communications. His byline has appeared in several newspapers and websites. Strauss holds a B.A. in creative writing/professional writing and recently earned an M.A. in English literature.
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Bethesda has long trumpeted the sheer size and scope of its upcoming RPG sequel Fallout 4, even going so far as to that the open-world title will comprise a staggering 400 hours of content. Today, though, the esteemed studio when one step further to confirm that the game won't end when the core campaign does, and that players will be free to wander the Wasteland in all of its desolate glory until their heart's content.
Taking to Twitter, here's what the game's developers had to share – and also, no level cap!
Of course, what's a gargantuan world without the content to warrant its size? Thankfully Bethesda has crammed enough side-quests and activities into Fallout 4 to sink a ship, with the base-building elements and hidden secrets all teased during the game's presence during E3. This scope would put the studio's RPG sequel in line with the likes of Skyrim and Oblivion in terms of sprawling game worlds, though we can't help but feel that the completionists among you will be biding farewell to your loved ones in time for the game's launch in November.
Bethesda will bring its Massachusetts Wasteland to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC with Fallout 4 on November 10.


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A three storylines plot, located in the Italy of the modern days. Three very different characters in search for success. "What's your wish?" says Giovanni Canton, the lead coach to success, actor and director of the movie. A path where every wish can come true, from the mud to the stars!


Search engine algorithms are the creatures lurking in the darkness. We know they're there, watching us, but we can't see them ourselves. Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice which has been invented to feed these unseen beasts and to keep them happy – and on our side. Unfortunately, these beats are always learning, so what they liked before just won't cut it now. Monster metaphors aside, yesterday's SEO may be doing you more harm than good. Here is Next Level's helpful guide to outdated SEO tactics that you should stop using now.
One of the most obvious SEO tactics that you need to avoid is keyword stuffing. In the dark ages of search engines, algorithms weren't as advanced, meaning stuffing keywords incessantly into web pages was an effective way of improving rankings. Instead of sprinkling keywords here and there in a more natural way, keywords were shoved down readers' throats – making sites unwieldy and annoying.
Fortunately, Google has caught up to these underhanded tactics. The modern algorithms employed by search engines can easily weed out sites which try to stuff keywords, meaning they are a hindrance to rankings, rather than a benefit, so cut them out! Plus, stuffing keywords makes it seem as if your team doesn't know what they're doing, which is never a good image to portray to visitors.
In the old days, creating a new webpage for every variation of a keyword was the norm. However, this way of SEO-thinking is outdated. Search engines have come a long way over the last decade, making this antiquated practice foolhardy at best.
The introduction of Google's Knowledge Graph was the first nail in the coffin of separate pages for each keyword variation. The remaining nails have since been hammered home by RankBrain. RankBrain is the trendy name given to Google's artificial intelligence system which is exceptionally good at learning and understanding user-intent.
What exactly does all of this mean? It means RankBrain understands that if a user is searching for air conditioning repair, then air conditioning servicing, air conditioning tune-up, and countless other related keyword searches are also relevant. Simply leaving the old pages there can negatively affect Google rankings, meaning it may be time to prune some of those overgrown branches on your site.
Metadata is an essential part of any successful SEO campaign. Meta descriptions are a critical factor in how search engines view your site, so the tendency to want to write to appease the search engines is all too understandable.
As we've covered previously in our blog "How to Write Meta Descriptions," Google claims that meta descriptions have no direct benefit to Page Rankings, but in reality, Google's algorithm rewards sites based on click-through rate. This means that the more people that click on your link, the better your ranking will be.
Therefore, simply writing for the search engine is a foolish idea. If the meta is optimized for Google, people may not click. Clunky, keyword-laden meta is as unattractive as it is unreadable. By optimizing meta descriptions for humans, you can entice people to click, and thus kill two birds with one stone – increased traffic and improved rankings!
Having an exact-matching domain used to be all the rage and it's easy to see why. If you were looking to rank highly, having your site be the keywords you want to rank for is pretty enticing. Unfortunately, Google quickly caught on to this trend and adjusted their algorithms accordingly.
This means that while having an exact-match domain may still seem like a worthwhile expenditure, they have a higher than average rate of being flagged by Google – or other engines – as spam. Also, they are much more difficult when it comes to branding. This can be a serious turn-off to potential visitors, who may view the website as less trustworthy than a more unique domain.
Low-quality content is a killer. Sure, having low-quality content is probably better than having no content at all, but not much better. High-quality content is the thing that will keep readers engaged – and hopefully coming back again and again.
Crafting the perfect content doesn't mean it has to be needlessly long. Long form content is great, but all too often it is full of fluff to bulk it up. People don't want filler – they want the information that is relevant to them. Crafting the perfect content is about understanding your audience and speaking to them in language that is both easy to understand and relatable. So, stop pumping out shallow, meaningless text just for the sake of it – write less and tell more!
If you're unable to create high-quality content like what was just mentioned above, you might consider filling up your website with catchy videos and images. That'll fix everything, right? Wrong. Unless your name is Buzzfeed, having a minimal amount of text may be doing a lot more harm than good.
Videos and images are great – they entice the eye and make users linger on your site for longer. But without meaningful text to help curate these items, search engines will tend to view them as unimportant. Being viewed as unimportant can seriously hamper your rankings, so make sure to cut it out!
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Q: Moving two different images with ontouchlistener and a bitmap I'm doing an android application where I have to move different images. I have done some coding, but the problem is : when I want to move ONE image, the others follow with it. Is it possible to make different an on touch listener for each images on a bitmap??
MyBringBackSurface ourSurfaceView, ourSurfaceView2;

float x, y, sX, sY, fX, fY, dX, dY, aniX, aniY, scaledX, scaledY;
Bitmap test;
Bitmap dress, dress2;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    ourSurfaceView = new MyBringBackSurface(this);
    ourSurfaceView.setOnTouchListener(this);

    x = 0;
    y = 0;
    sX = 0;
    sY = 0;
    fX = 0;
    fY = 0;
    dX = dY = aniX = aniY = scaledX = scaledY = 0;
    dress = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.dress);
    dress2 = BitmapFactory
            .decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.dress2);
    test = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),
            R.drawable.cinderelladoll);

    setContentView(ourSurfaceView);

}

@Override
protected void onPause() {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onPause();
    ourSurfaceView.pause();

}

@Override
protected void onResume() {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onResume();
    ourSurfaceView.resume();

}

@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    x = event.getX();
    y = event.getY();
    sX = event.getX();
    sY = event.getY();

    return true;
}

public class MyBringBackSurface extends SurfaceView implements Runnable {

    SurfaceHolder ourHolder;
    Thread ourThread = null;
    boolean isRunning = false;
    Bitmap back;

    public MyBringBackSurface(Context context) {
        super(context);
        ourHolder = getHolder();
        back = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),
                R.drawable.wallpaper);
    }

    public void pause() {
        isRunning = false;
        while (true) {
            try {
                ourThread.join();
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            break;
        }
        ourThread = null;
    }

    public void resume() {
        isRunning = true;
        ourThread = new Thread(this);
        ourThread.start();
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        while (isRunning) {
            if (!ourHolder.getSurface().isValid())
                continue;

            Canvas canvas = ourHolder.lockCanvas();
            canvas.drawRGB(02, 02, 150);
            canvas.drawBitmap(back, 0, 0, null);
            if (x != 0 && y != 0) {
                canvas.drawBitmap(test, 150, 150, null);
                canvas.drawBitmap(dress2, x - (dress2.getWidth() / 2), y
                        - (dress2.getHeight() / 2), null);
                canvas.drawBitmap(dress, x - (dress.getWidth() / 2), y
                        - (dress.getHeight() / 2), null);
            }

            ourHolder.unlockCanvasAndPost(canvas);
        }
    }

}

}

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The Orwellian Internet Surveillance Noose: No Privacy, No Place to Hide…
New Smartphone Spy Scandal Unwinds
By Tom Burghardt
Antifascist Calling... 24 April 2011
Theme: Police State & Civil Rights
As the United States morphs into a failed state, one unwilling and soon perhaps, unable, to provide for the common good even as it hands over trillions of dollars to a gang of financial brigands engorged like parasitic ticks on the wealth of others, keeping the lid on is more than just an imperial obsession: it's big business.
Earlier this month, New Scientist reported that "a new way of working out where you are by looking at your internet connection could pin down your current location to within a few hundred metres."
Although similar techniques are already in use, they are not very accurate in terms of closing the surveillance trap. "Every computer connected to the web has an internet protocol (IP) address, but there is no simple way to map this to a physical location," reporter Jacob Aron informs us. "The current best system can be out by as much as 35 kilometres."
However, Yong Wang, "a computer scientist at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu, and colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have used businesses and universities as landmarks to achieve much higher accuracy."
According to New Scientist, "Wang's team used Google Maps to find both the web and physical addresses of such organisations, providing them with around 76,000 landmarks. By comparison, most other geolocation methods only use a few hundred landmarks specifically set up for the purpose."
With geolocation tracking devices embedded in smartphones (and, as we'll see below, this data is stored without their users' consent), all of which is happily turned over to authorities by telecoms (for the right price, of course!), as privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian revealed in 2009, it becomes abundantly clear that sooner than most people think they'll be no escaping Big Brother's electronic dragnet.
"The new method," Aron writes, "zooms in through three stages to locate a target computer." First, the team of public-private financed research snoops measured "the time it takes to send a data packet to the target and converts it into a distance–a common geolocation technique that narrows the target's possible location to a radius of around 200 kilometres."
Wang and his cohorts then "send data packets to the known Google Maps landmark servers in this large area to find which routers they pass through." New Scientist reports that when "a landmark machine and the target computer have shared a router, the researchers can compare how long a packet takes to reach each machine from the router; converted into an estimate of distance, this time difference narrows the search down further."
"We shrink the size of the area where the target potentially is," Wang cheerfully explained.
"Finally," Aron writes, "they repeat the landmark search at this more fine-grained level: comparing delay times once more, they establish which landmark server is closest to the target."
"On average," we're told, "their method gets to within 690 metres of the target and can be as close as 100 metres–good enough to identify the target computer's location to within a few streets."
While New Scientist focused their attention on how an IP address tracking tool might be a boon to advert pimps, who else might find the method "useful in certain situations"?
Tightening the Surveillance Noose
Back in December, The Wall Street Journal reported that "few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner's real name–even a unique ID number that can never be changed or turned off."
As part of the Journal's excellent "What They Know" series, reporters Scott Thurm and Yukari Iwatani Kane revealed that an examination of more than 100 smartphone apps for Apple's iPhone and Google's Android platforms "showed that 56 transmitted the phone's unique device ID to other companies without users' awareness or consent," 47 apps "transmitted the phone's location in some way," and "five sent age, gender and other personal details to outsiders."
Like the New Scientist report above, the Journal focused their investigative lens on "intrusive effort[s] by online-tracking companies to gather personal data about people in order to flesh out detailed dossiers on them."
Without a doubt, such data is already being collected by various police intelligence agencies at the local, state and federal levels.
In all likelihood, smartphone geolocation data has now been added to the dossier creation mix, another component of the secret state's massive national security index called "Main Core" by investigative journalists Christopher Ketchum and Tim Shorrock.
As Ketchum reported in his 2008 piece, three unnamed former intelligence officials told him that "8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect" and, in the event of a national emergency, "could be subject to everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to direct questioning and even detention."
We've now learned that Apple's iPhone and iPad and Google's Android smartphone platforms "constantly track users' physical location and store the data in unencrypted files that can be read by anyone with physical access to the device," The Register disclosed.
And with technological advances far-outstripping legal remedies to protect Americans' privacy as Soghoian wrote last week, and with Congress and the Obama administration further lowering the boom, the notion that our personal communications are off-limits to advertisers and government officials is as quaint as the concept that financial institutions should be transparent when it comes to investing our hard-earned dollars.
According to researchers Pete Warden and Alasdair Allen, who first reported their findings on the iPhone Tracker blog, the geolocation file is stored on both the iOS device and "any computers that store backups of its data," and "can be used to reconstruct a detailed snapshot of the user's comings and goings, down to the second."
The researchers aver that despite Apple's refusal to even acknowledged the existence of these files, or frankly what the firm does with the data once its been downloaded to their servers, users of iPhones and iPads are put at risk that their movements are available to any and all comers with the requisite skills to access their information.
"The most immediate problem is that this data is stored in an easily-readable form on your machine," Warden and Allen wrote.
"Any other program you run or user with access to your machine can look through it. By passively logging your location without your permission, Apple have made it possible for anyone from a jealous spouse to a private investigator to get a detailed picture of your movements."
Needless to say, such information would be a boon to police agencies seeking to "terminate with extreme prejudice" the ability of protest organizers to communicate with demonstrators, as happened during the G20 protests in Pittsburgh, as Antifascist Calling reported in 2009.
Elliot Madison was arrested after he relayed a police order to disperse message via Twitter to demonstrators during the protests. A week later, his New York City home was raided by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (!) which carted off his computers and cell phone as "evidence." Madison and co-defendant Michael Wallschlaeger were criminally charged with using computers, cell phones and a police scanner to track the movements of "Pittsburgh's finest." Federal prosecutors charged the activists with "hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a communication facility, and possession of instruments of crime."
While such repressive acts may have raised eyebrows two years ago, they have now become part of the seamless panopticon spreading across the "shining city on a hill" like an invisible swarm of privacy-killing locusts.
Last week, in the wake of the smartphone tracking scandal, CNET News reported that "law enforcement agencies have known since at least last year that an iPhone or iPad surreptitiously records its owner's approximate location, and have used that geolocation data to aid criminal investigations."
Security journalist Declan McCullagh revealed that although "Apple has never publicized the undocumented feature buried deep within the software that operates iPhones and iPads," the secretive Mountain View firm acknowledged to Congress last year that "cell tower and Wi-Fi access point information" is "intermittently" collected and "transmitted to Apple" every 12 hours.
CNET reported that "phones running Google's Android OS also store location information," according to Swedish programer Magnus Eriksson. Another researcher told McCullagh that "'virtually all Android devices' send some of those coordinates back to Google."
"Among computer forensics specialists," CNET avers, "those location logs–which record nearby cell tower coordinates and time stamps and cannot easily be disabled by someone who wants to use location services–are not merely an open secret. They've become a valuable sales pitch when targeting customers in police, military, and intelligence agencies."
In other words, enterprising grifters from niche security firms servicing the secret state–or anyone willing to pay for their unique services, say a dodgy employer, a jealous spouse or a sociopathic freak for that matter–can take advantage of a smartphone's embedded location files.
CNET reported that the "U.K-based company Forensic Telecommunications Services advertises its iXAM product as able to 'extract GPS location fixes' from an iPhone 3GS including 'latitude, longitude, altitude and time'."
"Its literature boasts," McCullagh writes, that "'these are confirmed fixes–they prove that the device was definitely in that location at that time'."
"Another mobile forensics company, Cellebrite," CNET avers, even "brags that its products can pluck out geographical locations derived from both 'Wi-Fi and cell tower' signals, and a third lists Android devices as able to yield 'historical location data' too."
Just last week, The Tech Herald disclosed that the Michigan State Police have been using a handheld device and "secretly extracting information from cell phones during traffic stops," and have refused to release information on this program to the ACLU.
The Tech Herald reports that for "nearly three years, the ACLU has attempted to get the Michigan State Police (MSP) to answer questions over their use of Cellebrite's UFED Physical Pro scanner."
"The handheld device allows police to extract data from phones and SIM memory," journalist Steve Ragan writes, and that "in addition to the normal information, such as contact lists, email, and text messages, the UFED is also able to recover hidden and deleted data."
Manufactured by security outfit Cellebrite, the company boasts that their "mobile forensics products enable extraction and analysis of invaluable evidentiary data including deleted and hidden data for military, law enforcement, governments, and intelligence agencies across the world," according to a blurb on their web site.
The ACLU charges that the device is routinely used during traffic stops and that state troopers were able to access the mobile devices without their users being aware their data was being grabbed.
In their letter to the MSP, the ACLU cautioned that "The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable searches. With certain exceptions that do not apply here," the civil liberties watchdogs averred, "a search cannot occur without a warrant in which a judicial officer determines that there is probable cause to believe that the search will yield evidence of criminal activity."
"A device that allows immediate, surreptitious intrusion into private data creates enormous risks that troopers will ignore these requirements to the detriment of the constitutional rights of persons whose cell phones are searched."
Sounds reasonable, right? The MSP responded by demanding the ACLU fork over $544,680 before they'd even consider releasing these public documents!
But as Cryptohippie reported in their excellent study, The Electronic Police State, "two crucial facts about the information gathered under an electronic police state are these: 1. It is criminal evidence, ready for use in a trial. 2. It is gathered universally ('preventively') and only later organized for use in prosecutions."
"In an Electronic Police State," researchers averred, "every surveillance camera recording, every email sent, every Internet site surfed, every post made, every check written, every credit card swipe, every cell phone ping… are all criminal evidence, and all are held in searchable databases. The individual can be prosecuted whenever the government wishes."
Called a "Universal Forensic Extraction Device," Cellebrite claims their "UFED family of products is able to extract and analyze data from more than 3000 phones, including smartphones and GPS devices."
According to the firm, such tools will prove invaluable to secret state snoops. "Diving deeper into a mobile phone's memory than ever before provides them with the ability to gather data and establish connections between networks and people that is quicker and easier to arrive at."
The secret-spilling web site Cryptome has generously provided us with with Cellebrite's Smartphone PDA Spy Guide. Amongst other things, we're told that the firm's "UFED Forensics system empowers law enforcement, anti-terror and security organizations to capture critical forensic evidence from mobile phones, Smartphones and PDAs."
"UFED," we're informed, "extracts vital data such as phonebook, camera pictures, videos, audio, text messages (SMS), call logs, ESN IMEI, ICCID and IMSI information from over 1,600 handset models, including Symbian, Microsoft Mobile, Blackberry and Palm OS devices."
Think you've erased those messy call logs or text messages to your girl- or boyfriend? Better think again! With Cellebrite on the job, "the UFED can extract data from a phone, or directly from the SIM card. When extracting from phone, the UFED connects to the phone via cable, Bluetooth or infrared, and the data is read logically from the phone. It also performs a physical extraction from SIM cards, allowing extraction of additional data such as deleted SMS, ICCID, IMSI, location information and more."
We're told that the company's UFED "helps intelligence agencies widen their view and form a complete picture with access to content that can be repurposed, analyzed, and linked to information existing in databases," Main Core, or a similar national security index, perhaps?
"For us, people look like little particles…"
While digital technologies advance by leaps and bounds, the Empire's political-economic requirements are determining how new devices will be used, who has access to the data points and, once our personal details are extracted–by corporations or shadowy intel outfits (public and private) who do their bidding–what happens to it once it's been stored in giant data farms.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are conducting a study that "has tracked 60 families living in campus quarters via sensors and software on their smartphones–recording their movements, relationships, moods, health, calling habits and spending."
"In this wealth of intimate detail," reporter Robert Lee Hotz writes, MIT researcher Alex Pentland "is finding patterns of human behavior that could reveal how millions of people interact at home, work and play."
According to preliminary findings, "the data can predict with uncanny accuracy where people are likely to be at any given time in the future," and the data "can reveal subtle symptoms of mental illness, foretell movements in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and chart the spread of political ideas as they move through a community much like a contagious virus, research shows."
"Advances in statistics, psychology and the science of social networks are giving researchers the tools to find patterns of human dynamics too subtle to detect by other means," the Journal reports.
At Northeastern University in Boston for example, "network physicists discovered just how predictable people could be by studying the travel routines of 100,000 European mobile-phone users."
"After analyzing more than 16 million records of call date, time and position," Hotz reports, "the researchers determined that, taken together, people's movements appeared to follow a mathematical pattern," and that given enough information about past movements, scientists averred "they could forecast someone's future whereabouts with 93.6% accuracy."
Chillingly, Northeastern physicist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, who conducted the study, told the Journal: "For us, people look like little particles that move in space and that occasionally communicate with each other. We have turned society into a laboratory where behavior can be objectively followed."
Ruthless "objectivity" such as this have real world consequences, not that it matters to those whose butter their bread by bludgeoning our privacy and cratering our political rights.
"As a reward when the [MIT] experiment was done," the Journal laconically observed, "the students were allowed to keep the smartphones used to monitor them."
Tom Burghardt is a researcher and activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to publishing in Covert Action Quarterly and Global Research, he is a Contributing Editor with Cyrano's Journal Today. His articles can be read on Dissident Voice, The Intelligence Daily, Pacific Free Press, Uncommon Thought Journal, and the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. He is the editor of Police State America: U.S. Military "Civil Disturbance" Planning, distributed by AK Press and has contributed to the new book from Global Research, The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century.
The original source of this article is Antifascist Calling...
Copyright © Tom Burghardt, Antifascist Calling..., 2011
Articles by: Tom Burghardt
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'Super-Spreader Region' Lombardy Goes into Lockdown, as the Number of Countries with Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Passes the One Hundred Mark
7 March 2020 - 22:57
The entire region of Lombardy in Italy has been placed in lockdown following growing realisation that Italy, and Lombardy in particular as one of the world's top tourist destinations, has been acting as a 'super-spreader' region. According to Reuters, the new rules will forbid people from entering or leaving Lombardy "as well as 11 provinces in four of Italy's 19 other regions".
In 2018, the GDP of Lombardy was €388 billion, or 22% of the national GDP of €1.76 trillion. Lombardy attracts over 37 million visitors and tourists a year, which make a vital financial contribution to the economy of the region.
As of 7 March 2020, the number of countries in the world with confirmed COVID-19 cases topped the one hundred mark for the first time according to the tally on the Worldometer website. Among the countries to announce first cases were Moldova, Paraguay, the Maldives and Malta.
In Moldova, the victim was a 48-year-old lady who fell ill while on a Wizzair flight from Milan to Chișinău.
In the Paraguay case, no details had been released, but Paraguay has not been quarantining passengers arriving from Italy unlike Brazil.
In the Maldives, the two local cases are employees of a tourist resort who are believed to have contracted the virus from an Italian tourist.
Finally, in Malta, the three cases were all returning together from Milan.
According to official statistics, Iran and Italy both announced over a thousand new cases, taking their total number of cases to 5823 and 5883 respectively. In Italy, there have been 233 deaths with 36 deaths announced today, while in Iran official statistics report that there have been 145 deaths with 21 new deaths today.
Iran appears to be systematically suppressing news about the extent of the spread of the virus in the country. The Iranian elite appears to have been particularly badly hit, with our own count showing at least twelve public figures having succumbed to the coronavirus.
Also on 7 March, Nicola Zingaretti, Secretary of the Democratic Party in Italy announced that he had contracted COVID-19.
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Push for Senate inquiry into pension rates
An elderly woman in Sydney - AAP
The Greens are calling for a Senate inquiry into how the government sets the pension and welfare rates, with leading advocacy groups saying changes to the deeming rates don't go far enough.
The federal government on Sunday announced it would cut deeming rates which are used to estimate how much some pensioners earn on their financial investments.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says pensioners could now receive up to $804 more per year, with the decision to cost about $600 million without hurting the budget's bottom line.
"We're strengthening the arm of around one million welfare recipients," he told ABC's Insiders program on Sunday.
Mr Frydenberg said the rate applied to bank deposits, superannuation returns and to yields on stocks, affecting about 630,000 pensioners and nearly 350,000 people receiving other income-tested payments.
Families and Social Services Minister Anne Ruston said affected pensioners would receive up to $40.50 extra per fortnight for couples and $31 for singles.
The deeming rate on the first $51,800 of a single pensioner's financial investments - and the first $86,200 of a couple's - will drop from 1.75 per cent to 1 per cent.
The deeming rate for balances above those amounts will go from 3.25 per cent down to 3 per cent.
Senator Ruston said the rate was decided by looking at a range of financial assets and determining what the likely return would be.
But advocacy groups, including National Seniors Australia and the Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association, want the government to explain how it arrived at the new rate.
"It's too tempting to have the deeming rates controlled by governments who have been using this for too long as part of their budget balancing process," NSA's Ian Henschke said.
"Unless we have a clear understanding of the policy decision making process, this looks arbitrary and even if we do understand the process, it should be set by an independent authority."
The Greens will refer the issue to a Senate inquiry when parliament resumes next week.
But Labor's family and social services spokeswoman Linda Burney said the opposition had to consult the sector before offering support for such an inquiry.
She also said she is "agnostic" as to whether or not the rates are set by an independent authority, saying it's a decision for the government.
But Ms Burney said pensioners continued to be short-changed by the coalition.
"This lowering of the deeming rates today is far too little and far too late," she told reporters in Sydney.
"It has been four-and-a-half-years that they have been dudding pensioners by charging inflated deeming rate."
Council on the Ageing's Ian Yates said the cut was needed as interest paid on savings and term deposits have been hurt by the central bank's decision to cut the cash rate.
"We look forward to further discussions on how the deeming rate might be set in the future to remove the current level of uncertainty," he said in a statement.
Mr Yates also pointed out that deeming rates did not affect 75 per cent of pensioners.
The payments will start from the end of September, but will be backdated to July 1.
The move also affects people on the disability support pension, carer payment, the parenting payment and Newstart.
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                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-stack-overflow icon">StackOverflow</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-css3 icon">CSS3</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-youtube icon">YouTube</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-dribbble icon">Dribbble</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-google-plus icon">Google+</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-instagram icon">Instagram</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-pinterest icon">Pinterest</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-vk icon">VK</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-yahoo icon">Yahoo</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-behance icon">Behance</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-dropbox icon">Dropbox</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-reddit icon">Reddit</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-spotify icon">Spotify</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-vine icon">Vine</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-foursquare icon">Forsquare</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-vimeo icon">Vimeo</Button>

              </CardBody>
            </Card>
          </Col>

          <Col xs="12">
            <Card>
              <CardHeader>
                Social Media Button
                Only text. Usage ex.
                <button className="btn-facebook text"><span>
                  Facebook</span></Button>
              </CardHeader>
              <CardBody>

Size Small
                  Add this class .btn-sm

                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-facebook text">Facebook</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-twitter text">Twitter</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-linkedin text">LinkedIn</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-flickr text">Flickr</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-tumblr text">Tumblr</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-xing text">Xing</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-github text">Github</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-html5 text">HTML5</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-openid text">OpenID</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-stack-overflow text">StackOverflow</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-css3 text">CSS3</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-youtube text">YouTube</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-dribbble text">Dribbble</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-google-plus text">Google+</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-instagram text">Instagram</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-pinterest text">Pinterest</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-vk text">VK</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-yahoo text">Yahoo</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-behance text">Behance</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-dropbox text">Dropbox</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-reddit text">Reddit</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-spotify text">Spotify</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-vine text">Vine</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-foursquare text">Forsquare</Button>
                  <Button size="sm" className="btn-vimeo text">Vimeo</Button>

Size Normal

                  <Button className="btn-facebook text">Facebook</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-twitter text">Twitter</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-linkedin text">LinkedIn</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-flickr text">Flickr</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-tumblr text">Tumblr</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-xing text">Xing</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-github text">Github</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-html5 text">HTML5</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-openid text">OpenID</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-stack-overflow text">StackOverflow</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-css3 text">CSS3</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-youtube text">YouTube</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-dribbble text">Dribbble</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-google-plus text">Google+</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-instagram text">Instagram</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-pinterest text">Pinterest</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-vk text">VK</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-yahoo text">Yahoo</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-behance text">Behance</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-dropbox text">Dropbox</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-reddit text">Reddit</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-spotify text">Spotify</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-vine text">Vine</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-foursquare text">Forsquare</Button>
                  <Button className="btn-vimeo text">Vimeo</Button>

Size Large
                  Add this class .btn-lg

                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-facebook text">Facebook</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-twitter text">Twitter</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-linkedin text">LinkedIn</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-flickr text">Flickr</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-tumblr text">Tumblr</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-xing text">Xing</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-github text">Github</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-html5 text">HTML5</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-openid text">OpenID</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-stack-overflow text">StackOverflow</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-css3 text">CSS3</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-youtube text">YouTube</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-dribbble text">Dribbble</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-google-plus text">Google+</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-instagram text">Instagram</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-pinterest text">Pinterest</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-vk text">VK</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-yahoo text">Yahoo</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-behance text">Behance</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-dropbox text">Dropbox</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-reddit text">Reddit</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-spotify text">Spotify</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-vine text">Vine</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-foursquare text">Forsquare</Button>
                  <Button size="lg" className="btn-vimeo text">Vimeo</Button>

              </CardBody>
            </Card>
          </Col>
        </Row>

    )
  }
}

export default SocialButtons;

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A message to the gymnastics community from USA Gymnastics President and CEO Li Li Leung
© John Cheng
To the USA Gymnastics community:
Now that I have crossed the six-month mark in my tenure at USA Gymnastics, I wanted to take a moment to reflect and offer some thoughts. First and foremost, I want to thank all of you for welcoming me back into the sport that I have loved since childhood. Your support, encouragement, candid feedback and honest advice energize me every day and remind me of how fortunate I am to have the opportunity to serve you. I know we still have a lot of work to do, but I think we've made some significant strides in charting a new path for USA Gymnastics and the community as a whole.
Since joining in March, I have traveled around the country learning from all of you. More than 500 members of the community have shared their perspectives on how we can build an organization that enables our athletes at all levels to thrive, our community to heal from the horrific events from the past, and to move forward. That learning never ends and it will continue to serve as a cornerstone to our work on behalf of our members.
The last few months have been among the busiest since I started. I was thrilled to be on hand to witness some incredible performances in Gyor, Hungary (Junior World Championships); Des Moines, Iowa (USA Gymnastics Championships); Lima, Peru (Pan American Games); and Kansas City, Mo. (National Congress and Trade Show and U.S. Gymnastics Championships). It was an honor to meet and cheer on our awe-inspiring athletes throughout the competitions. And back in Indianapolis, the work never stops as we continue to implement critical changes and reforms, including the following.
To guide our daily work, I have instituted an organizational value system steeped in safety, accountability, integrity, listening, respect and transparency.
We are building a new leadership team and are actively recruiting for several senior roles. To that end, we just appointed a new chief programs officer and will soon name a vice president of safe sport and a vice president of athlete health and wellness. The position of vice president of athlete health and wellness is modeled after several professional sports leagues that support the holistic development of athletes so they are better equipped for success beyond the sport.
In late June, we rolled out the revamped Safe Sport Policy, which is our foundation for athlete safety and protection. We look to include robust educational outreach as that is an essential component for prevention.
We continue to work through the bankruptcy process as part of our efforts to reach a fair and equitable resolution with survivors, and mediation is underway..
Selection procedures for the teams that will represent the United States internationally have been expanded for more transparency and fairness. The procedures now include a new conflict of interest clause, an independent observer to monitor the selection process, and a written follow-up report that will be made available to athletes, coaches and the public. All of the selection procedures are online for each competitive discipline: acrobatic gymnastics, men's gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline and tumbling, and women's gymnastics.
While we've made significant progress, there is still much more to be done. Your continued participation will be critical to fully realizing our shared vision of a safe, positive and encouraging environment where athletes and all members alike can thrive. We owe it to our amazing athletes and the overall community to return USA Gymnastics to an organization of which we can all be proud, and I want to thank you for being a part of this journey with me.
Looking forward to working together more in the coming months!
Li Li Leung


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How Indian Women are Leading a Menstrual Health Revolution Through Micro-Entrepreneurship
Blog Girls and Women How Indian Women are Leading a Menstrual Health Revolution Through Micro-Entrepreneurship
By Guest Blogger on April 28, 2016
Editor's Note: This post is part of the blog series, "Her Goals: Our Future," which highlights the connections between girls and women and the Sustainable Development Goals. Guest blogger views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the UN Foundation.
Lakshmi, a mother of four, isn't accustomed to talking about her periods. Living in a semi-nomadic community of migrants occupied in construction labor, she focuses solely on supporting her family. Like most women within the community, she used old rags or cloth to manage her cycle. As a rule of thumb, none of them talk about their periods. Her children – three of whom are daughters – were bound to take after her. For a family of seven that lived in a makeshift tent, sanitary napkins were an urban luxury. Now, as a micro-entrepreneur with Sukhibhava, a local social enterprise, Lakshmi can afford to give her daughters the key to something she didn't have – the right to dignity and health.
The belief that menstruating women are impure, unholy, and dirty continues to negatively affect the lives of millions of Indian women. Only 12% of 350 million women between the ages of 12-45 have the means to afford sanitary towels. In urban India, around 58 million pads are thrown away each year leaving cities choked with non-biodegradable menstrual waste. Goonj, a pan-India social enterprise that recycles old, unused cloth to provide for poor women, reports that this is a growing concern.
But menstrual hygiene is more than a public health issue, the socio-economic consequences that women face is complex. Nearly 23% of girls drop out of school, some are forcefully married, and a worrying number of girls don't use public toilets in fear of staining them. What's worse, the lack of toilets hinders many from accessing sanitation when they need it most.
While many social enterprises focus on affordability and awareness, Sukhibhava is stepping in to place power in the hands of local women. After providing them with basic training, the organization buys pads from Bella, a sanitary provider, and provides stock on credit to women micro-entrepreneurs who sell it within their communities. The margin of profit they can make is motivation for many women to learn new business skills and earn a living while distributing sanitary pads in communities. The micro-entrepreneurs also use phones provided to them through which they continuously report, collect, and track progress within their own constituencies.
Through 18 micro-entrepreneurs, Sukhibhava is working directly with eight slum communities serving a population of 80,000 people in south Bangalore. So far, the organization has educated 12,000 women and reaches out to 7,200 every month. "It takes time to change behavior," says Dilip Kumar, an Acumen fellow who founded the organization in 2013, adding, "It takes two or three times for women to respond positively." In the next few years, Sukhibhava aims to scale its model to other Indian cities.
The growing trend of community-driven entrepreneurship is a positive sign for India's economy. A UN report places India at 130 out of 155 countries on the Gender Inequality Index. The solution to fixing this gap lies in empowering women and girls.
Watch a video on Sukhibhava's work here.
By Meera Vijayann, who writes on gender rights and social development in South Asia
[Photo: Sukhibhava]
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Only 400 metres from La Barra beaches and 300 metres from the main street, ISA Hostel has rooms with private bathrooms and free Wi-Fi. Guests have access to common kitchen facilities and private parking is free.
Guests at ISA Hostel can wake up to a daily continental breakfast with orange juice, milk, chocolate, toasts, butter, jams, fruits, and "dulce de leche". Common BBQ facilities are also available.
Free linen is provided to all rooms and maid services are available.
The closest bus stop is 100 metres away.
La Barra is a great choice for travellers interested in food, relaxation and tranquility.
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We are located in the best place in La Barra, just 3 blocks from the nightlife in summer, where to find the best clubs in the area. 4 blocks from one of the best beaches "La Posta del Cangrejo" (ideal for surfing) and 5 min. by bus to reach "Bikini Beach".
To move to Punta del Este is reached by bus in 15 minutes and to the other side a place well known as "Jose Ignacio", which can be reached by bus in 25 min.
Best of all, all the bus go 1 block from Isa Hostel !!!
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Check-out until 12:00 hours
Children older than 15 years are welcome.
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