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Sunday, April 8, 2012
My Easter Basket
He also came home yesterday with two new half whiskey barrels for me.
We have an 11:00 a.m. Easter potluck brunch to go to. I am making the blueberry french toast casserole that I made last year. Patti from Osage Bluff sent me the recipe--thanks again, Patti!
It is very delish with cream cheese and blueberries throughout. It sit overnight in the refrigerator so the bread can absorb all the eggs. Once I bake it, it gets topped with a thickened layer of blueberries.
You can find the recipe all over the net. Just search for "blueberry french toast" recipe.
I hope everyone has a great Easter today!
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That looks scrumptious. Have fun today. Have a happy Easter.ReplyDelete
Isn't it funny that as we age, we start looking for less stuff. Worked all those years to accumulate and then decide to let so much go.
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I did exactly the samee thing this year on my front porch, went from six pots to two large ones. I am planning on cutting down on the back patio also, just two much planting and trying to keep them alive! Have a great Easter.ReplyDelete
Happy Easter, Zoey. I like your barrels. We used to have a couple of them but "lost" them in a move from one house to another. Still too early to plant them yet but at least you have them.ReplyDelete
That is our all time favorite breakfast casserole. It was in one of the old Taste Of Homes magazines and took top prize. We had it in a little bed and breakfast in Plainsfield, WI...and asked for the recipe. YUM...What time should I be there?;>) xo Diana
Lucky girl!The new planters sounds like a good idea for easy switching of plants. Your casserole sounds yummy. Happy Easter!ReplyDelete
$29 isn't too shabby! We hardly win anything. A guy who wins a lot of lotteries and scratch offs says to buy 5 of a kind that you can afford-right in a row as it's a pretty good chance you have a winner. Your odds were good as yours were all different.ReplyDelete
I'll have to try that dish-yum!
I like what was in your Easter Basket. And you won $29.ReplyDelete
The blueberry french toast looks delicious.
When you get your plastic pots out to put in the whiskey barrels, you might want to fill in around them with dirt or mulch. If the barrel dries out too much, it will shrink and separate - when that happens it is difficult to keep it in the barrel shape and rehydrate it!ReplyDelete
But if you put something in around that will hold some moisture you will avoid this one.
Great gifts!! Yummy brunch recipe..ReplyDelete
I have downsized with flower pots..I really quite like it. I like those half barrels and your plan on what to do with them.ReplyDelete
Your breakfast dish for the potluck looks delicious.
sounds yummy....love your Easter basket...ReplyDelete
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Five amazing computers for under £100
Old-school gizmo gladhandling to cure the bank holiday bores
IBM ThinkPad X40
ThinkPad X40
If you admit you work "with computers", in whatever capacity, you'll find that you are unpaid technical support to a cast of thousands. You'll also find that you're tapped by friends-of-friends (or even complete strangers) down the pub for buying recommendations.
For years I found this quite straightforward. If you want a general purpose laptop and can afford it, for example if you've come into a small inheritance, or work in the "sustainability" sector, then get a Mac. They are very nice. If you can't afford it, get a Thinkpad. Computers are just a means to an end, anyway, I would advise.
Mind you, for a good while normal advice was suspended. The reliability of Apple's consumer laptops fell from the built-like-Volvos quality of the 1980s/1990s and became truly shocking. El Reg's San Francisco operation (of two) returned its three iBooks about eight times for repair, and I suspended making any kind of recommendation at all. Yet despite a change of owner, ThinkPads continue to get the nod, although the competition has much to offer: Dell and Samsung even employ designers nowadays – a startling development.
The ThinkPad's durability and after-market support are decisive here: it's made of high quality materials and if something goes wrong, you'll be able to find someone to fix it, with the part available on eBay. And if you're inclined, you can do it yourself: Lenovo is the only manufacturer to continue to supply hardware maintenance manuals allowing the end user to do a full tear-down.
ThinkPads had a clutch of other attractive features. They were uncompromisingly matte: matte exteriors, matte and displays, and until recently, refused to include a Windows key on their keyboards – leaving more room for the metakeys that matter.
To this day, there's no fancy I/O. The latest and greatest X-series features a VGA output because (cue Yorkshire accent), "if God intended man to display things on a great big HD telly, he'd have give us HDMI ports". ThinkPads are for real men's work. Or at least for a real middle manager's work: for displaying PowerPoints on a projector. Stuff your notebook that's an all-purpose versatile home media centre and breaks after six weeks.
Finding a ThinkPad for under £100 is a challenge, though, one really best avoided altogether by springing an extra 20 quid. (See below for details). Given the price constraint, the best for under £100 is the X40, a model that's now almost completely forgotten.
The T40 appeared in early summer 2004, and (some, but not all) featured the second-generation Pentium M Centrino chip, Dothan. It belonged to the UltraPortable lineage, in which IBM took great pride.
From the outset IBM had always made small notebooks very well, knowing people paid handsomely for the privilege. They weren't cheap, and the "sub notebook" design had barely changed since the (560) eight years earlier, only getting slightly thinner each time. Along the way it was rebranded the "X series" and had a tough act to follow: it superseded the very successful X31.
The X40 was the red-headed stepchild of the family. The X31 was (and still is) a great success, and so was the X60, a couple of years later. Corporate buyers like predictability when they're ordering laptops by the ton, and the X40 didn't offer too much over the tried-and-trusted X31. I guess it just missed out on the corporate buying cycle. You can, however, pick up an X40 for two figures on eBay.
You'll put up with the reliably gloomy screen, parallel (rather than serial) ATA, and you may well be lumbered (take time to check this) with a b-class 802.11 card inside. However with 2GB of memory and Aero turned off, it can run Windows 7 very well indeed. And you can spend three times as much for a new netbook that's slower and with 28 per cent fewer pixels.
Sadly the matte era is over. Lenovo doesn't seem to think the X-series branding is worth it anymore, and it has quietly removed it in favour of glossy finishes and odd sub-brands. If you spring for an extra 20 quid, there are plenty of second-hand X60 models around, which is probably the better bet given their serial ATA, faster memory and (most likely) dual-core CPU.
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The city of Soldotna has been recognized for its financial reporting.
The city received a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting as part of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for fiscal year 2010, which was released to the public at Wednesday's city council meeting.
An audit of the city's finances by Mikunda, Cottrell & Co. Inc., an Anchorage-based accounting and consulting firm, showed the city is in very good financial standing.
"Every department performed under budget in 2011," Soldotna Mayor Peter Micciche said. "There was not one single negative finding."
With departments coming in under budget, the city is able to successfully decrease budgets.
"We've managed to reduce our budgets — which is the opposite of most municipalities across the country," Micciche said. "In the past two years, we've reduced the general fund expenditures by 10.6 percent after transfers and 2.6 percent before transfers."
In the same amount of time, Micciche said, the operating funds expenditures are down 13.6 percent.
"Ultimately it's a pretty significant success story," he said. "I think across the board it's a testament to the financial management of the city, (city manager) Larry Semmens, (finance director) Melanie Lewis — and the Mayor/Council has had their eye on keeping costs down on the city."
Micciche said the decrease in the budget has been due to every department only purchasing the necessities.
"What we've done is not added positions — we've stayed status quo on budgeting," Micciche said. "We've reduced where we could and challenged department heads to ask for what they need instead of what would be nice to have.
"Every department head has accepted the challenge."
During the meeting, the council accepted a grant from the State of Alaska for $16,700 for the general fund for the Alaska Safe Routes to School Program. The program, Micciche said, will help determine gaps to safe routes to school in addition to other phases as the program matures.
"It also has additional phases that comes with the engineering to solve those problems," Micciche said.
The funding included in some of the phases will help improve infrastructure that are obstacles for safe travel in the city, Micciche said.
Some of the highlights, as outlined in the report show:
- Soldotna's assets exceeded liabilities on June 30 by $101,693,348 (net assets). Of that amount, $27,975,674 may be used to meet ongoing obligations to citizens and creditors. The city's total net assets increased by $2,489,888 in FY2011.
- At the close of the current fiscal year, the city's governmental funds reported combined ending fund balances of $31,264,029 which is an increase of $3,714,113 from the prior year.
In other council business:
- The council passed an ordinance increasing estimated revenue and appropriations by $32,082 in the General Fund and $58,331 in the Debt Service Fund for Debt Service on the Library Expansion General Obligation Bonds.
The next Soldotna City Council meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 6:30 p.m.


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Php Framework Interoperability Group Have you heard of these guys?
Posted 10 November 2012 - 09:32 AM
I just bumped into this : https://github.com/p...g/fig-standards .
I absolutely don't know if this is a active community, since I'm not in the mailing list (for now), but I see all the main PHP frameworks (and others too) and not Yii. I think, as a professionnal framework, and if this 'group' is actually doing something, Yii should probably take part in it.
If it is not interresting for the Yii framework community to take part in this group, at least have a look at the coding standards they have proposed : https://github.com/p...master/accepted wich can be interresting (especially the idea of havin different levels of standard) to use in Yii.
Just dropping my 2 cents here...
Posted 10 November 2012 - 04:45 PM
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 09:48 AM
In my opinion, coding standard should not be too restrictive, but must exist especially in a framework where contributor's extensions or plugins play a important role.
In that way, the PSR-0 is a very good minimal coding standard. Maybe that minimal should be enforced in the extensions to ensure a minimal quality and coherence.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 06:54 PM
samdark, on 10 November 2012 - 04:45 PM, said:
I'm interested to know how yii will differ from PSR-1, it seems pretty sensible and very minimal.
I suspect i'm almost certainly in the minority however i'd love to see yii embrace PSR-2 as well - while some of the decisions taken are perhaps not to everyones taste at least it does move towards parity with the PHP community at large.
The one thing that I hope does change in the new Yii standard is the introduction of a bit more whitespace - personally I find a lot of the current code difficult to follow with the eye.
The lack of spaces after commas in most cases being particularly irksome as it flies against the common usage in the english language
Posted 14 November 2012 - 03:23 AM
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 11:48 AM
Orteko, on 13 November 2012 - 06:54 PM, said:
I will never use brackets for single-line statements inside structures. Brackets for structures exist in order to wrap multiple lines, no multiple lines no brackets. Coding standards which use brackets for single-line statements are obtuse (this includes PSR-2).
Posted 15 November 2012 - 06:18 PM
ekerazha, on 15 November 2012 - 11:48 AM, said:
From my perspective I actually find it easier to follow simply because the brackets are applied consistently regardless of the number of statements inside the structure.
Regardless, I suspect that the thread referenced by samdark above has already done this topic to death
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Maurizio Domba Cerin, on 16 November 2012 - 03:34 AM, said:
+1 to these, also, following such standards is much easier on the eyes! especially when reading code you wrote a year ago, or someone else's code they wrote 5 years ago.
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Maryland Beats Dartmouth in OT
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Junior midfielder Robin McCullough (Covington, Ga.) scored her fifth goal of the season, and her second of the game, 5:31 into overtime to give the Maryland women's soccer team (8-5-2) a 2-1 victory over Dartmouth (6-5-2).
After a scorless first half, McCullough opened the scoring 74:45 into the game from an assist by junior forward Keri Sarver (Massillion, Ohio). Dartmouth retalliated with 4:14 remaining as sophmopre forward Melissa roth scored off an assist by freshman forward Jen Murray to send the game to overtime.
Maryland outshot Dartmouth, 24-7. The 24 shots were the most by Maryland in a game this season.
The game was played in a steady rainstorm.
Maryland will host Navy on Sunday evening at 7:00. The game will be the first ever Sunday night game at Ludwig Field. The Midshipmen have a record of 8-6.
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After struggling in a 3-4 system in '03, Kerney excelled when the Falcons switched back to a 4-3 last season. His 13 sacks ranked fourth in the NFL, and he's excellent at all phases of defensive-line play. Kerney is the key cog on a Falcons defensive line that is one of the five best in the NFL.
Chris Gamble
The Panthers acquired free-agent cornerback Ken Lucas during the offseason, which means Gamble will have to compete with Ricky Manning Jr. for the other starting spot. Early reports out of Charlotte indicate the job belongs to Gamble, who led the team with six interceptions as a rookie last season. With a year of NFL play under his belt, Gamble has a chance to be outstanding in '05.
Keary Colbert
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Colbert played well enough in his rookie season for the Panthers to feel comfortable letting WR Muhsin Muhammad leave via free agency. The USC product had 47 receptions and five TDs, averaging 16.0 yards per catch, second-best in the NFC. Carolina QB Jake Delhomme has confidence in Colbert, and the second-year receiver should be a consistent big-play threat.
Jake Delhomme
Delhomme improved statistically in '04, when he threw 29 TDs and just 15 interceptions. Entering his third season, Delhomme has a good grasp of the offense and he still has his trademark enthusiasm. He will have to make an adjustment without primary WR Muhsin Muhammad, but the return of Steve Smith, who missed all but one game last year, should make up for the loss.
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Clayton had one of the best seasons for a rookie receiver in NFL history. His 1,193 receiving yards ranked 13th in the league, and he'll be able to improve on that mark if the Bucs get consistency at the quarterback spot with Brian Griese. Clayton underwent minor offseason knee surgery, but he'll be ready to go as Tampa Bay's No. 1 receiver. With his size, speed and sure hands, Clayton could earn a trip to Honolulu this season.
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The Bucs gave Griese with a new five-year contract in the offseason and will give him every opportunity to lead this team back to the playoffs. After starting the 2004 season as the third-string QB, Griese flourished when he got his opportunity. He threw 20 TDs and 12 INTs, completed 69.3 percent of his passes and amassed a 97.5 passer rating. Griese, however, has shown promise in the past before falling hard under the weight of big expectations.
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The veteran cornerback solidified the Saints' defense after a midseason trade from the Packers in '04. After McKenzie held out during the early part of the season, Green Bay signed the cornerback and immediately shipped him to New Orleans. In 10 games with the Saints, McKenzie had five interceptions and added a little swagger to the New Orleans D.
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Hopkinton is formally asking the secretary of state's office to step in after local officials say repeated attempts to get copies of casino applications filed with the state Gaming Commission have been "stonewalled" for more than two months.
"These are supposed to be public records, and it's now been since January that we haven't gotten them," said Benjamin Palleiko, chairman of the Hopkinton Board of Selectman. "It's just wrong."
Last Monday, the town counsel, J. Raymond Miyares, sent a letter to Secretary of State William F. Galvin's office asking that a formal appeal be opened, and that a hearing be conducted on the Gaming Commission's failure to make the applications public since the first request on Jan. 16.
The first phase of the process that will determine which of the three proposals for the single casino license reserved for Eastern Massachusetts is chosen includes an investigation of the applicants' "good character, honesty, integrity and financial suitability," according to the Gaming Commission's website.
That is exactly the kind of information Palleiko said the town needs in preparing to fight the proposal by Colorado developer David Nunes for an $850 million "destination casino" off Interstate 495 in Milford, near the Hopkinton line.
"We have serious questions about both the character and financial resources of this developer, and they are preventing us from seeing any of this information," Palleiko said.
Nunes could not be reached for comment last week.
Earlier this month, state Representative Carolyn Dykema, a Democrat from Holliston, called on Nunes to address concerns raised by area residents about his plans.
Although Hopkinton is primarily concerned with the Milford proposal, it has requested copies of all 11 applications for gambling rights in Massachusetts. The 2011 casino law authorizes one slot machine parlor that could be built anywhere in the state, and up to three full casinos, with one in each of three geographical areas.
Brian McNiff, spokesman for Galvin's office, said he could not comment on specific cases, but said the request from Hopkinton would be assigned to a staff member for review. He said he had "no idea" how long the process would last.
Holliston's Board of Selectmen chairman, Jay Marsden, said his town also sent a formal request for similar information to the commission about three weeks ago. He said the town received a letter in response, but not the information sought.
Marsden said he is particularly interested in finding out exactly when Foxwoods Resort Casino got involved in the Milford proposal. The Connecticut operation's partnership with Nunes was made public in February, after the Jan. 15 application deadline.
"What's frustrating is that when this all got started we were told that in Massachusetts we can do things differently, we can do things the right way." said Marsden. "Well if that's the case, where's the transparency we were promised?"
Elaine Driscoll, spokeswoman for the Gaming Commission, said in an e-mail that the agency is working "very hard" to get the 21,000 pages of documents prepared for release.
Commission officials "share Hopkinton's and Holliston's desire to swiftly provide access to the Phase 1 applications. We look forward to providing them with that information as soon as we can feasibly do so," she wrote.
In addition, she wrote, a blog recently posted on her agency's website explains the process, and provides context "as to the magnitude of information currently being reviewed and prepared for release by Massachusetts State Troopers assigned to the Gaming Commission."
A timeline provided by Hopkinton shows it first requested the applications by telephone on Jan. 16, when the town's inquiry was not returned.
On Jan. 28, the town's timeline shows a commission representative indicated the applications would be available "in two weeks." They were not.
The town then went to Galvin's office, and was again told the applications would be provided in two weeks, and again they were not.
On March 22, according to the timeline, the town's lawyer was told that "applicants would have 10 days to make confidentiality requests for further exemptions from public records disclosures." And, the commission said, it would then have to review these requests before releasing the information, pushing the release back another two months.
Applicants are allowed to label information that might give a competing applicant an edge as "exempt from release," and the commission would then review the requests and decide whether to redact the information from the copies made public.
"It's completely skewed toward the developers, they're being given another cut at the apple," Palleiko said. "It's bad public policy. They are throwing towns into the deep end and saying, 'Go deal with these billionaires on your own.' "
Dykema said she is hearing a lot of frustration from people in Hopkinton and Holliston about the lack of information being made available about the Milford proposal.
"There is a fixed time frame," she said. "Every day that goes by is one less day available to study the impact of this proposal."
Dykema said she has asked a representative from the Gaming Commission to conduct a community forum in the Milford area at which residents can get procedural questions answered. She said a date is being worked out with the commission.
"One of my concerns is that we don't have accurate information," she said.
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British television host Piers Morgan has found an alternative use for ex-Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson's recently-released autobiography.
The 48-year-old, who has appeared as a judge on popular television shows America's Got Talent and Britain's Got Talent, posted a photo on his Twitter account of a cup of tea placed on the book which has become the fastest selling non-fiction book of all time, with the caption: "Knew I'd find a good use for it".
Morgan - who supports Arsenal - received backlash from some of his 3.7 million followers, while one Manchester United supporter responded with a particularly witty tweet, which read: "Good idea, if anyone knows how to hold cups it's definitely Sir Alex."
That response, from Ged Tarpey, ended up attracting over 4,000 Retweets and 2,646 Favourites - considerably higher figures that Morgan's original tweet, which must have come as a bitter disappointment to the former News of the World editor.
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Just five games into his NFL career, Ogletree had already been tested in the passing game by some of the game's best tight ends. The rookie proved to be up to the challenge in Week 6 in Houston, when he returned an interception 98 yards for his first career touchdown. The return was the longest in NFL history by a rookie linebacker.
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Is that I now have mp3s for CDs I gave as gifts. Unfortunately, my friends and relatives seem to have different music taste than I do, so now I have the Chicago soundtrack and Hannah Montana mp3s.
I came here to make this exact comment. Well, not so much Hannah Montana, but there's a bunch of embarrassing stuff up there...
On the plus side, you can buy CDs as presents and get the MP3 to keep for yourself.......so Amazon might still have a slight problem to fix.
if you mark the order as a gift, i.e. buy off a wishlist, it won't be added to your library
Who said you had to check the box to give it as a gift.
Because otherwise you would be depriving millions of starving record label execs of their hard-earned cash.
Why can't we get copies of our ebooks when we buy the dead-tree version?
Why can't we get copies of our ebooks when we buy the dead-tree version?
Because you they want you to buy it twice. (Unless your smart like Cory Doctorow who lets you have the ebook free to try before you buy the paper one).
Because they want you to buy it twice. [I should try the preview button
Usually I'd let this sort of thing go, but that should be "unless you're smart."
Why can't we get copies of our ebooks when we buy the dead-tree version?
Because you they want you to buy it twice. (Unless your smart like Cory Doctorow who lets you have the ebook free to try before you buy the paper one).
Also, they're just another beast altogether (if designed with any care for the user at all): many books are published with MS Office: even complex ones. It's the de facto standard for a dead-tree industry (book publishing), and writers know its features: I remember huge reviews on how
They're out to pillage your pocketbook that's why. How else can they justify selling an ebook at the same price as a paperback.
In an interview in the mid 1980s, an RIAA exec admitted that they were trying to get away from "selling" music and wanted to go to a "pay-per-listen" model. Mot even pay per format - they want pay per listen.
This was in the same article that he justified continued high prices for CDs, which were twice that of LPs (they were later found guilty of price-fixing) DESPITE the fact that CDs cost far LESS than LPs to produce.
His justification for colluding to fix prices to make a CHEAPER product to produce more EXPENSIVE to purchase was that it was a better value due to sound quality.
So apparently a massive increase in profit margin due to illegal activities = "a better value."
In short, the content cartels are scum.
Why can't we get copies of our ebooks when we buy the dead-tree version?
Well, you [technically] can.... the question should be why can't we legally get a copy of the e-book, when we pay full price for a dead tree book.
Also, why are e-books still so expensive? The amount saved by avoiding regular distribution channels should knock more than 10% off the actual book cost
Why can't we get copies of our ebooks when we buy the dead-tree version?
I bought a book on machine learning from Manning - they do the popular "In Action" computer series http://www.manning.com/catalog/by/subject/ [manning.com] and they do give you a free non-drmed ebook (includes PDF, ePub, and Kindle) with every physical copy of the book you buy. http://www.manning.com/about/ebooks.html [manning.com] "If you did not buy the pBook from manning.com, you can still get the free eBook in all available formats by setting up a Manning account, and registering your copy."
I don't think it's a fair apples to apples comparison. Making an ebook requires additional effort. There no automatic "ripping" for books, and they require specific formatting and typesetting. Similarly, a remastered version of a movie at a different resolution is technically the "same movie", but you wouldn't claim a right to the higher definition work because you probably realize that additional work went into the creation of that content.
On the other hand, if you could scan and convert your books automat
I don't think it's a fair apples to apples comparison. Making an ebook requires additional effort.
Only for books that don't already have an electronic version available.
Simlarly, some CD purchases from Amazon don't give you the free MP3s in your cloud drive. Sometimes it's a licensing issue, but sometimes the MP3 doesn't exist for sale at all (even though the CD does), and Amazon isn't allowed to just grab a CD and rip it for you.
Or, for some of my CD purchases, not every track from the CD was available as an MP3, even though most were.
"Why can't we get copies of our ebooks when we buy the dead-tree version?"
You can, if you buy from Pragmatic Programmers. It costs a little extra for both versions... but it also takes more work to produce both versions, so it's hard to bitch.
Google is attempting to do something like that now with magazines [google.com]. If successful (in the sense that it encourages more people to subscribe), I'd imagine books would be next.
I would subscribe to magazine more if the E version was not attached to a crashy nasty app AND were less than or even the SAME AS a print subscription.
Cycle World, is about $9.00 a year for a mailed to me subscription, It's $11.99 on the ipad. yeah. BITE ME Cycle World, I'll just torrent the issues from Pirate bay.
You're free to scan your own dead-tree books for your own personal use.
Why can't we get copies of our ebooks when we buy the dead-tree version?
You would be lucky if you can buy an eBook for less than a dead-tree version.
If a higher (or even comparable) eBook price does not demonstrate boundless greed, then I don't know what does.
Actually it demonstrates the flaws (from the publisher's perspective) of the traditional bookselling business model. Books (dead-tree format) are sold on consignment. They are shipped to retailers, without payment, and money comes in as retailers sell them. Unsold copies get shipped back and destroyed (which costs money). Because returns are a cost it is sometimes cheaper to discount the book just to get rid of it (even at a slight loss) without having to return it. Ebooks don't have this flaw, so there is no reason to discount them.
Not that you should be sympathetic (I'm not), but it's a little more complicated than boundless greed.
ebooks are also subject to tax in some jurisdictions, where paper books are not, the UK being one.
Ebooks don't have this flaw, so there is no reason to discount them
There is a very good reason to discount ebooks: there is very little cost involved in selling additional copies. Lets say I print 1000 copies of a book and sell them $20 a piece, I have $20,000 revenue. To sell more than that, I have to print and ship more, which will significantly increase my cost, so I only do it if I have a good reason to believe they will still sell for a good price.
With ebooks, let's say I publish an ebook, sell it fo
With ebooks, let's say I publish an ebook, sell it for $20 a piece, and sell 1000 of them during the first two weeks. Then, during the next two months, I sell 5. That means nobody is willing to pay $20 for my book anymore. But there could be another 1000 people willing to pay $10, giving me additional $10000 revenue, with only a little increase in cost. Then I can sell another 2000 of them for $5 a piece, and finally I let people name their own price and sell 1,000,000 for $1 each on average.
The problem with your scenario is a marketing/awareness one. Do sales drop off after two weeks because no one wants to pay $20, or because none of the people who want to know about it? If none of the people who want to know about it, are you really going to get those bumps in sales figures for each price drop?
Unsold copies get shipped back and destroyed (which costs money).
That may be true for hardcovers, I don't really know. But for softcovers the practice has been to rip the front cover off and send it back, while letting the retailer dump them in the trash. Same thing with magazines. I learned how it all worked as a young teenager when I discovered that once a month, the convenience store near my school bus-stop would load up the trash-bin out back with an entire month's worth of porn magazines, all missing the front covers. What they couldn't legally sell to me, I could now dumpster-dive for free.
Mass-market paperbacks are stripped and the covers returned. Hardcovers and trade paperbacks are either returned whole or they are marked as remainders and sold at a discount when publisher needs to liquidate stock.
Some publishers and authors do allow it (see David Weber and Baen)
However for the most part it's because the publishing industry is several years behind even the travesty of the Music and Movie industries. Despite the extremely public, heated battles fought and effectively lost by both the publishing industry seems bent on repeating the same mistakes step by step. The only thing working in their favor is people 'consume' far fewer books than songs. Most people won't download a few dozen books a month lik
I still tell people it was the only "digital music service" that I really ever liked. I like to buy CDs so I can transcode them into sensible bitrates for portable devices, but have a full on flac when listening at home. It was really convenient to grab a CD, toss it in the player, then have all my mp3s available instantly without waiting to transcode.
Really a shame that service got buried by the dinosaur music industry. They're slowly learning the lesson; you either adapt to the times and technologies, or you become obsolete and the only role you have is in preventing progress trying to hold on to your fiefdom. Which can't last forever.
Really a shame that service got buried by the dinosaur music industry....
Now I'm going to start worrying about the raptors of the music industry
I sense a new business opportunity: Raptor Rap.
If you look at the fact, the lesson learnt is the opposite : they were actually very able to bury a service they didn't see fit, at will, for 14 years, and they can still do so for the foreseeable future.
You may wish that their fiefdom doesn't last forever, but for now, the hard fact is : it holds.
For as long as i can remember iTunes has, by default, offered to rip any CD you insert into your computer. I'm sure the industry rattled their sabers and I'm just not remembering it; but I'm pretty sure that feature was never removed even briefly.
I realize other software also did CD ripping, but if the MPAA had truly believed they had the law on their side... Apple would've been an obvious target. It makes me wonder how Real might've fared had they'd held their ground on their personal DVD ripping software.
Sorry, acronym confusion.
For as long as i can remember iTunes has, by default, offered to rip any CD you insert into your computer. I'm sure the industry rattled their sabers and I'm just not remembering it; but I'm pretty sure that feature was never removed even briefly.
For all I know, in the UK ripping a CD to your computer is not legal. But there will be no prosecution, ever, for various reason. One, no evidence. Two, the police officer arresting you, the prosecutor, the judge, your lawyer, they all do exactly the same thing. Third, the record industry knows that iTunes allows this (and I assume Windows and Linux software as well), so if they didn't want it to happen, did they ever tell Apple or Microsoft or Redhat to prevent it?
personal DVD ripping
That was the whole point of the DMCA: to make key steps in the decoding of DVD information illegal if you didn't have a license. They were doomed.
... of anyone who "ripped" an MP3 of a CD they already owned?
In the US? Seems unlikely, since the Diamond Rio case explicitly found that to be fair use.
Auto-rip raises an interesting question about resales. It appears that Amazon is granting downloads for CD purchases (even retroactively, for CDs purchased years ago). If I've since sold the physical CD, Amazon would not know that. Furthermore, I could deliberately game the system by buying CDs and immediately reselling them.
I know, it's a stupid edge case, and I could already do this by ripping my own CDs today and subsequently selling them, but it's exactly the type of "problem" that keeps the recording industry up at night.
Good question, considering most of the music they added to my cloud account because of this was stuff I had bought as gifts but not marked as gifts when ordering.
I imagine it's a similar licensing scheme to that of their $25/year match service.
People always put for the fiction that we used to own the music. I did not own the music? if the album wore out, if the tape broke, if the CD was stolen, I was not able to get that music back for free. At best I could buy a used copy of listen to copy with generational defects. This allowed the music p
Ah, but with Amazon's service you can get the mp3's legally without having to use the disc. So you can sell the CD as "new/sealed" for a higher price.
If you are willing to game the system like that, why not just download the tracks illegally? Besides, resale price of used CDs is usually far below of what you paid for them, as with most things.
You just answered your own question - because it is *legal*, and that in itself has some value. No need to hide where you got a track from, worry about prosecution for illegal downloading or keep your collection secret - Amazon offers proof you paid for it legitimately. And it's not gaming the system because of the first sale doctrine - you have a right to sell the physical CD, but since you paid for the music, the fact that you don't own the delivery medium any longer isn't really relevant.
Hmmm... the horse has left the barn. I know: enjoy our new "free range horse" offering... because Amazon cares about what you want.
IME, you can buy used CDs from Amazon for about $4. Rip it and it sounds the same as a bought mp3 album.
That extra $6 is so that you don't have to be embarrassed by a Taylor Swift CD lying around your house.
Isn't that exactly what Google Music is doing now?
Not with CDs though, it supposedly will scan your music library, and add it to your "cloud" for free, without actually uploading anything.
I haven't tried it yet, since I'm a bit paranoid that something that I didn't obtain legally back in college might still be hiding in my library, which will magically flag me as a bad person, so the RIAA can take all my money and leave me in a cardboard box... out of the spirit of fairness, of course.
It's also what Amazon is doing now with their match/cloud player service.
What they don't have licenses for they upload from your collection.
Isn't that exactly what Google Music is doing now? Not with CDs though, it supposedly will scan your music library, and add it to your "cloud" for free, without actually uploading anything.
Right, that's Music Match. The difference with Amazon is that they're not scanning anything; they're adding to your cloud library based on what you buy.
I haven't tried it yet, since I'm a bit paranoid that something that I didn't obtain legally back in college might still be hiding in my library, which will magically f
I read about this on the BBC news website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20972027), missing the first line of the article that said it was US only, I logged into the service to see what I'd bought that was going to show up. Immediately, Beautiful South, Gaze popped up. Strange, I didn't actually remember buying it but it's possible. Then that was it. So I go through my purchases and, like others, there were heaps of popular CDs that I'd bought as gifts.
Apart from the obvious problem, I put a mess
People still buy CDs? It seems that the MP3.com idea may have saved CDs... tied the license to the CD itself, so you got to buy that to get a legit MP3 license. Instead they kept their heads up their asses for 15 years and the world moved on. Artists: I can get your music for free, at any time of the day or night, from nearly anywhere in the world. I can have your entire album in under 5min. It's easier, the quality is often better, it wont get scratched, it's free, there's no taxes, it's environmentally friendly... Think of a new business model. The universe is against you on this one. Trust me.
"Amazon just debuted a new service called Autorip, which grants you MP3 copies of music when you purchase the CD version."
Grants you? I have a program called "foobar 2000" that has been giving me that power for years.
Amazon can kiss my ass. Just send me the CD I bought and step aside. Nobody invited them.
2 clarifications for the summary, since I was the 10th engineer at MP3.com and worked there from 1999-2003:
- We lost to the record labels/publishers not because we gave people access to their music, but because we compiled the music library and streamed it without paying the labels/publishers any royalties. Our strategy was to buy a copy of the CD ourselves, rip it, then claim fair use doctrine when we streamed it to someone else who also owned it. This was a supposed grey area in the law that got cleared up REAL FAST in a media-friendly district court. Services that you see now are paying royalties on what they stream. MP3.com later sued its lawyers that gave the advice on the so-called "grey area" it tried to go through.
- We where not a Silicon Valley company, we where in San Diego. Perhaps if we where SV we would of gotten better legal advice
Are these the physical data carriers i used to buy and rip before DRM-free music stores were available?
At least for me it wont boost the cd sales.....
The problem is not that the music industry is late or that it is flip flopping on what it decides is allowable. It's their stuff and their right do whatever they want with it - copyright.
The real problem that makes this an issue is the bought legislation that grants the music (and movie and publishing) industries perpetual copyrights. This is the core issue and it must not be forgotten.
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Students in the UTeach program who are teaching STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – are integrating technology into their lesson plans, thanks to a donation of 35 Android tablets from the Verizon Foundation.
Alicia Negrón, a junior biological sciences student who is also enrolled in the UTeach program to earn a STEM teaching minor, is convinced that the technology will get her middle-school students excited about learning.
She says: "The tablets will provide much more of a visual aid prompting interaction with the students that will help them better remember and recall information."
Negrón tested the tablet in a UTeach class using an application that simulates an ecosystem. "The ecosystem app is effective in teaching concepts that cannot be shown in a laboratory experiment or through PowerPoint pictures. Interactive visual aids get students engaged in learning."
UMass Lowell was also awarded a $66,500 grant by the UTeach Institute in Austin to infuse mobile technology into the program.
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UTeach UMass Lowell allows science and engineering undergraduates to earn a STEM teaching minor along with their bachelor's degree, and obtain a Massachusetts Initial License to teach science, technology, engineering or mathematics in middle or high school.
"I've learned so much about what it takes to be an effective, respected teacher including basic lesson design and classroom management skills," says Negrón. "I recommend UTeach to prospective students because I truly think it is a worthwhile investment."
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Los Blancos waited nearly two decades for victory at the iconic wind swept stadium before finally ending that barren streak three seasons ago with a 3-1 win.
The curse threatened to rear its head again the following campaign when Madrid were held to a goal-less draw there.
However, with Depor rock bottom of the Liga table and in woeful form, William Hill make the visitors short priced favourites for the victory, offering them at just 4/11 (1.36) to claim all three points. Depor. who are on their third manager of the season, can be backed by optimistic punters at 13/2 (7.50) with the draw offered at 4/1 (5.00).
It is worth remembering that after this game Madrid enter their so-called "week of death" with a Copa del Rey semi-final leg clash at the Camp Nou, a league Clasico at the Bernabeu and the return leg of their Champions League tie at Old Trafford all sandwiched into the space of a week.
If they were facing practically any team other than Depor, backing a low-scoring tie would look appealing, yet the fact remains that the Galicians simply cannot defend to save their proverbial lives.
In 24 league games so far this season, they have conceded 54 goals, the highest number in the division by quite some number and that should continue here.
Madrid put five past them at the Bernabeu earlier in the campaign and while Blancos' away form has been patchy at best, they should be capable of getting a few at the Riazor, with the price of 8/11 (1.72) for Madrid to score in both halves looking extremely tempting with William Hill.
Depor have conceded in both halves in four of their last five matches, and while Madrid may rest some of their biggest players, whoever Jose Mourinho choses to field should be more than capable of finding the net.
For a value bet, the price of 9/1 (10.00) for a 3-1 win to Madrid looks worthy of a smaller stake, bearing in mind that Depor have enough about them going forward to score, but have conceded three goals in each of their last four matches.
|Madrid to score in both halves at 8/11 (1.72) with William Hill
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I've been wheelin n dealin ALOT lately and am feeling pretty good about some of the moves I've made.
Just wondering what some of you have landed for what seemed like a great deal.
I got a brusless emaxx for some subs an a amp, best deal I ever had
Traded a weed whacker for a summit...
1/16 E-Revo VXL off Craigslist for $65. It was rtr except for no transmitter, although it had a 2.4 link rx. It was in good shape, and even had a brand-new never run stock body.
I need R/Cers anonymous.
Wow! I thought I had some good deals.
These are spectacular in comparison.
Best deal I ever got was sending in two used vxl escs for repair and traxxas sending me two brand new ones, as a courtesy. I had already set aside money to pay for the repairs.
Dont handicap children by making life easy
Getting a 2.5 t-maxx, with a big box of all kinds of spare parts for free. The house across the street from me was forclosed on, then sit empty. Finally got bought a few months back, the guy that bought it had seen me and my son running our car, and offerd me the t-maxx he found inside and all the parts. He was just gonna throw it in the trash.
Rusty 2.5R,T-max 2.5 & 3.3,Summit VXL Nitro 4-tec
getting a set of 4 hard-anodized 7075-T6 pivot balls and 2 spools new in box for 99p on fleEbay. The balls go for £25 and the spools are £15 each.
Google search trumps Wiki. Refer to user guide.
I got two slashes, a brushless airplane, and an associated tc3 all for $70.
"I like rc cars"....."WHAT? YOU'RE KIDDING!"
Got a built Clod buster for free... he couldn't figure out why he was burning through mechanical speed controls... got frustrated and handed it to the closest person... me. lol
Whatever it is I just typed... could be wrong.
I got a erevo with a 1/10 castle sv2 setup a 2.4 link setup and reg remote setup. For a associated b3 with differential problems and no motor and a savage 25 with a blown motor and no tires
Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk 2
Have made some good vehicle purchases here and there, thats forsure, One nice score was I bought a ton of vintage Traxxas parts from a local hobby shops back room, Had maybe $200 invested and after selling everything out, collected about $700
So a sweet $500 profit was made there
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My previous sig conflicted with a forum policy.
I bought a RTR Revo 3.3 for $100. Drove it hard for 2 weeks, blew the motor and flipped it for $200 broken lol.
E-REVO MMM - Stampede 4x4 6s/3s
i think my best deal was from a old buddy of mine. he found a all aluminum 3906 e-maxx roller in the basement of this abandoned house he was hired to strip/demolish. he knew i was into rcs. freebie. i got it running with new electronics and i kept that e-maxx for almost 8 years. matter of fact i just sold it a month ago, and im missing it something fierce. it is on the e-maxx forum somwhere.
I'm not krazy. My mother had me tested.
Bought a rtr slayer for $100. Turned it into a Revo with spare parts.
One shot.....One kill, no exceptions
convinced my mom to get me a stampede.
more then a year later and its my go to truck and the truck to total the most spent on
summit /mustang /stampede-2s spc lipo
Bought a revo 3.3, slayer 3.3, Tmaxx with OS .18, and spare 3.3 motor for $250
Revo and slayer were nearly new, revo was street driven only.
I also bought a nice revo that was almost a roller for $50. Came with a new body and new traxxas red aluminum pushrods and turnbuckles.
ERBE, ERBE, Summit, Slash 4X4, Bandit,
Oh, I bought this summit a few weeks ago for $200,
ERBE, ERBE, Summit, Slash 4X4, Bandit,
i traded a onroad electric for nitro and made $400 off its parts that it came with when i only spent 100 on the onroad to begin with. I think its maybe 450 but i didnt keep track really its bought me parts for my merv, emaxx, and the nitro i sold the extra parts for not too bad. wish i can come across a deal like that again.
Living life.
I got a 3.3 t maxx , a 3.3 jato and 2 other cars o can't talk about ,and a lot of parts and a gallon of fuel and all I had to mow a yard for my neighbor. And I used his mower
Just remembered that a few years ago, a fellow racer made me the offer of a lifetime. Factory Team RC8 completely race ready. Came with a fresh .21 engine, pair of new DS1015 servos, new set of AKA City Block SS premounts, Spekturm tx/rx, new bump box with pair of 2S lipos, custom painted body. Also got a XXX-T MF2 with MMP esc and Velineon motor, another Spektrum receiver. And a Losi BK2 buggy, Duratrax Onyx 230 charger. Also a Losi XXX-NT AD2 completely race ready with high end Futaba servos, Dynamite Platinum .12, Losi bump box, Futaba tx/rx. Oh and a Traxxas Slash RTR with big bores, and a bunch of aluminum upgrades.
Along with all the vehicles and accessories I got an AMB transponder, tool box full of hand and power tools, shock oils, diff fluids, glow ignitors, pinions, shocks, springs, hub carriers, a-arms, diff rebuilds, and too many NIP spare parts and accessories to even begin to list.
Got all of it for $300 cash.
Picked these both up for $400.
Like new. Just need a bath.
I got my Brushless erevo with no radio for 425. Now I have at least 3x that into it
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Bought my bandit for $30 a couple of weeks ago, just needed a drivers side rear a arm and wheel.
Here is a pic after I fixed it and put buggy wheels on it,
I ended up putting almost $300 into it since, so it is currently the most expensive car I have, based on cash money out of my pocket.
ERBE, ERBE, Summit, Slash 4X4, Bandit,
My neighbor saw me out playing with my e-maxx for a couple weeks, bought a nitro rustler. Drove it a couple times, set it on a shelf, gave it to me a year later. Freebie! Came with year old fuel and a charger too!
Tapatalk'd from iPhone 4.
today i just picked up a summit 1/10 new!!!! i traded my slash 4x4 and my slash 2x4 for it is that a good trade? i think i did good i only paid 82$ for the 4x4 and 50$ for the 2x4 woot woot..
traded a handheld GPS for a week old wrecked nitro rusty, then I traded an extra radio for my GPS!
my e-maxx 3906 I bought was $150, it had an 80 amp brushless system that has not failed me yet in snow conditions, and I ran the motor with my mamba monster ESC on 6s lipos, I was concerned an 80A system would hold up but it hardly even gets hot. The e-maxx had e-revo axle carriers installed and traxxas CVD's front center and rear. The guy gave me 2 lipos, 2 sets of tires, a brand new body, 4 big bore aluminum shocks and a bag of spare parts. I've broken the chassis twice and gone through several plastic bulkheads but it has quality aluminum bulkheads now (won ebay auctions for $17 each set) and now the chassis seems to hold up well. 3906 e-maxxes aren't worth much because it cost a lot to update the parts but I got mine with most of the updates covered, all I'd need to add is a chassis, transmission and steering assembly from ebay and I'd have a quality built modern e-maxx, I could realistically do that for $120 and have $270 into a brushless e-maxx.
I like turtles.
Worked with a guy a couple of years ago who mentioned he had some old r/c cars and planes in his basement and wanted to know if I was interested in them. He didn't remember what they were but he wanted to get rid of them cheap. I ended up with an original Tamiya Grasshopper, Mauri Hunter, tamiya Boomerang, Clodbuster, 3 airplanes and a Traxxas Villain IV for the grand total of $100... Ended up selling everything except 1 of the planes and the Villain for well over $1000.. I would say that was a good deal..I should have kept the Clodbuster, but I was offered a crazy amount for it and couldn't say no.. All these cars were in great shape and needed nothing but a cleaning to sell them.
Maxx3.3/ rusty5700/ slash3800/ slash5700 /4tec3.3
I traded a rode hard put away wet merv (that I got in trade) straight up for a decent condition 1/10 Summit. Cleaned up the summit and traded it for a MINT CONDITION Snap on Edition Slash 4x4.
Bought 2 rc10t3's for $50. The guy called his wife to leave the trucks outside and i would go pick them up. When i got there, there was the t3's and also a losi xxx4. I called the guy to let him know his buggy was outside and he said if you want it you can have that too!
I bought a BIG box of stampede parts for $200 shipped. ended up building 5 RTR stampedes, sold 2 of them for the $200 I had invested, sold the other 2 for another $200 and kept the 3rd one, that included a 2.4 radio and a Sidewinder/4600kv combo, as my loaner truck for a while. Ended up selling it for $250. So I made $450 and had a great time putting them all back together.
I also bought an RTR ERBE (started as a brushed model and included all the brushed components, basically new) with a 2.4 radio, batteries, charger, 4 sets of wheels/tires, 3 bodies (all new) and a pile of spare parts for $325 shipped. Returned it to brushed status, Sold off all the extras for about $400 then sold the truck for $325. That same week I bought a Slash 4X4 Ultimate (when the TQI first came out) for $300 with a bunch of extras and in one day tore it down and parted the entire truck and all the parts... including having everything shipped, made $100 and kept the TQI radio with docking base... sold that 6 months later for $100. The cool part about that one was from the time I took it home to the time the last part was in the mail was about 7 hours...
On the other hand, ive lost ALOT of money on MANY of my own builds and projects. I wish I could say ive about broken even over the years but no dice on that.
Bought all this for $200...
and bought all this for $150...
Then picked up a Rally VXL for $60(completely disassembled...with everything but a tx/rx).
Last good deal was trading about an hour worth of electrical work in my LHS(I'm an Electrician)...
for a Flysky FS-GT3C TX/RX and a H911 Hero micro helicopter.
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IF FEDERAL government funding is not guaranteed to the Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES) by December 3, their chairman believes the hard decision of closing the organisation would be made.
The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), which funds the organisation, stated discussions with the AES would continue until the current contract expires on July 31, 2013.
There are 15 AES offices, including one in Dubbo, with 90 employees that find hundreds of training and job opportunities for Indigenous people in Australia.
There are currently 600 registered job seekers gaining help to find employment from the Dubbo AES office and 10 students currently engaged in school-based traineeships in the district.
AES chairman Dick Estens said the government's refusal to guarantee funding demonstrated they did not understand the disadvantage in areas the organisation covered.
"It clearly sends the message that they don't care about Aboriginal people," he said.
A DEEWR spokeswoman said the AES had eight current contracts worth more than $29 million.
"All contracts have a start and end date and any new contracts have to meet the guidelines and criteria of the Indigenous Employment Program," she said.
"Discussions on these contracts will continue prior to the contract expiry, as is the usual course."
Mr Estens said the AES would prove an expensive organisation to close down if funding was not secured, estimating it would cost in excess of $1 million to shut the doors of the offices with more than 400 people on the pay roll.
Mr Estens said all staff and Indigenous people currently engaged in the organisation's programs could do was wait for funding.
"The problem is we are not sure what is happening," he said. "We will be forced, unless we get certainty, to start shutting the offices down."


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App Description
Cupcakes Valentine's Day is a Lovely Treat for kids, and adult kids alike!
Choose from a wide variety of Cupcakes, then start mixing the batter!
Bang them in the oven, and start decorating!
Choose from a Lovely variety of Valentine's Decor, Icing, Fondant, Candy, Chocolate, Sugary treats, and More!!
Create a Valentine Cupcake for your loved one, and save it to your gallery to show off later!
Wonderful variety of icings, toppings, and sugary, and chocolatey treats galore make this the best Cupcake App for the Season of Love!!
App Changes
- January 25, 2013 Initial release
- November 05, 2016 New version 1.2


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By Reshma Kapadia
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