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Originally published Oct. 1, 2010
As a child, Diane Lane really, really wanted a horse of her own. Really.
"I was relatively obsessed," says the 45-year-old actress, "starting with my rocking horse at age 2 all the way through my painting and drawing phase."
In "Secretariat" the Oscar-nominated actress ("Unfaithful") gets up close and personal with her beloved animal as Penny Chenery, the owner of Secretariat, arguably the most notorious horse to win the Triple Crown. It also allowed Lane, a New York native currently living in L.A., to work with Chicago area-native John Malkovich. The veteran actor stars as Secretariat's trainer Lucien Laurin, and the night before our interview at the Trump Hotel, Malkovich took Lane to renowned Gold Coast steakhouse Gibsons, where he pretended it was his birthday. "I think the restaurant was happy to oblige," says Lane, then with a laugh: "I have a feeling he'd done that before."
What added challenges come from working with an actor who's not afraid to go to the bathroom in front of you?
[Laughs] Well, there is some envy there. They have a very healthy ego, these horses. And they have to do what's asked of them. Otherwise, why bother, really? What's in it for them, except there's some investment on their part, pride in what they do. I never thought about it much.
Never thought why a horse would want to act?
Yeah. What's in it for them? Carrots? I'm trying to see the upside here. But spending time with these creatures, I was really taken aback by how much personality they each have. And that they really do have an ego. It can be injured very easily. It's hanging out there for everybody to see. They have no protection of their ego. All they can do is kick or bite or pout or be reticent to obey.
Do you think they know they're in a movie?
No, but I do think they know when they're on duty. Being observed. They feel the attention and it's like polishing an apple. They perk up. Not all of them, but some more than others. Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye. And he had a relationship with his warm-up riders, certainly the groom and the trainers and Penny and everybody. I just have this great envy that they got to hang out with him. There were people who said to me, [Whispers] "You know, I met him." The royal Him, capital H. [Whispers] "I met him." I'm jealous because I can only pretend that I did.
It's like bragging, "I have his autograph" or "He kicked me in the face!"
[Laughs] Stop! That's really funny. Well, there you go. Some people would probably be very happy to have that story. I'm not quite that devoted, but I know what you mean.
Do you remember where you were when Secretariat was actually racing?
I remember him on the cover of all those magazines, which of course now I realize was the week prior to the race. I was in Europe traveling with a theater company at the time. I was only 8 years old, but that's a long story. When I saw a horse on the cover of Time and Newsweek and of course Sports Illustrated, I just felt personally vindicated. I knew that horses were superior to people. I could have told them that.
How did you know?
Just instincts. I preferred them. [Laughs] When you're a young child you pick a totem animal and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.
When can we expect horses to rise up and take over society?
"Planet of the Horses"? I want to be in that movie. I'm kidding.
But it's inevitable if they're superior.
Well, I was 8 years old.
So you don't feel that way now?
Oh, God no. No, no, no, no. I was saying with the innocence of a child I experienced Secretariat's win. To me I didn't really have a boundary of the adult world and what this all means. To me it was just, I knew that it would all come true that a horse was going to be properly appreciated.
You just thought, "Horses rule! Of course, there's one on the magazine covers."
That's right! That's what it was for me. I should have said it that way. That would be shorter and sweeter. I could make a bumper sticker out of that: "Horses rule."
How would you compare these horses on the attractiveness scale to your previous co-stars?
Attractiveness level? [Laughs] Well, I've always been partial to horses and their beauty. It's interesting what makes somebody beautiful in the end [depends on] what are you looking for. That's what makes somebody beautiful I suppose.
If a movie had Diane Lane, [your frequent co-star] Richard Gere and a horse, do you think people would even be able to handle that?
[Laughs] I don't have any comment.
A lot of people throughout your career have said nice things about your own beauty. Do you ever feel insecure? Would you call yourself beautiful?
I'm sure I have moments in certain lighting, but aside from that I try not to attach myself too much to that because inevitably there's old age and/or death, so really I'd rather age. [Laughs]
Than die?
Yeah. I'm thinking in terms of Debbie Harry. What is it? "Die young, stay pretty." These are my heroes. What can you say? It's so ephemeral. It's so passing. It's so fleeting. I mean, the fact that beauty and youth are so equated. I'm just grateful for what there is and am willing to go the rest of the way.
What goes through your head when people talk about Chicago?
Class. Architecture. 'Tude.
Yeah. You know, street smarts and attitude. It reminds me of Manhattanites or Romans. They know they hail from a tough place, and they're tough too and not taking any crap. I just think of them as the salt of the earth, Chicagoans. You gotta be tough; look at the summers and the winters you gotta endure.
Although my Roman shield doesn't help much with that.
[Laughs] I was thinking more of the women. Have you hung out with Roman woman ever? They make New York women look like peaches. Oh my gosh. And Chicago women are pretty straight ahead, I like that.
In the film you try to sell Secretariat's breeding rights for $190,000. Why don't celebrities do that? That seems like a great moneymaking opportunity.
Really? What would you do with the offspring?
To the highest bidder! How much could Brad Pitt get for that?
[Laughs] Oh my God. You know, I would love to have this conversation, but we're being tape-recorded.
Next time you're here we can have an off-the-record one.
That sounds like a lot more fun.
Diane Lane at a glance
On Secretariat's heart, which was twice the size of a normal horse heart: "He cheated! He had this oxygen machine in his chest that nobody will ever have again."
Why she didn't keep her '70s wardrobe: "As much as I loved it, by the time you're done filming in a costume or a wardrobe, it's so haunted or owned by the experience of the work that wearing it again is almost insane."
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TONASKET Tonasket High School has fired its librarian, who will be arraigned June 2 in Okanogan County Superior Court for allegedly having sex with a student.
Elizabeth Kinkade, 37, is facing charges of five counts of sexual misconduct. She was arrested Tuesday and booked into Okanogan County Jail, then released Wednesday on personal recognizance.
"The board voted to terminate Ms. Kinkade's employment effective immediately," schools Superintendent Paul Turner said Thursday about a special meeting the School Board hosted early Wednesday morning. "All other information in this matter has been turned over to the authorities."
The male student she has been accused of having sex with is 18 years old, and was 18 when the incidents began, Tonasket Police Chief Robert Burks said.
The Police Department has said the alleged incidents did not happen on school grounds.
Kinkade's preliminary hearing was yesterday, but no charges have been filed yet. Okanogan County Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Branden Platter said he has until 5 p.m. tomorrow to file paperwork asking the court to find probable cause for the charges.
Principal Jeff Hardesty and School Board Chairman Jerry Asmussen declined to comment. Board members Lloyd Caton, Ty Olson, Catherine Stangland and Ernesto Cerrillo could not be reached.
Kinkade was arrested at her home Tuesday, after Okanogan County Sheriff's deputies were called for shots fired.
Sheriff Frank Rogers said Kinkade allegedly told her husband she had an affair, and he allegedly grabbed a gun from his truck and fired it into the air.
Deputies also arrested Mark Kinkade, 43, for illegal discharge of a weapon. More information about his possible charge was not available at Okanogan County District Court this afternoon.
Rogers said Turner arrived on the scene and asked deputies to arrest Elizabeth Kinkade, but was told that would be within the jurisdiction of the Tonasket Police Department.

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Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist; pp. 125-127, 132
The premise of the entire Left Behind series is right there in the title of the first book: Left Behind. It's about separation and sorting. The children of God — the real, true Christians of the sort that God finds acceptable — are whisked off to Heaven, and everyone else is left behind.
That everyone else includes all the phony Christians, Jews, believers in every other religion and every nonbeliever. The lot of us will be given one last brief chance to convert to real, true Christianity before we will be killed by Jesus and tortured for all of eternity just as we deserve.
It seems like that should be insulting. The authors, after all, are insisting that we are all utterly wicked and depraved and irredeemably evil. And then on top of that they continually suggest that we've all deliberately chosen such wickedness just for the sake of being wicked.
Yet it's hard to take offense at any of that because whenever they try to describe our alleged wickedness it never actually sounds that bad. None of us likes being called evil, but the word loses its sting once you realize that by "evil" all our accusers actually seem to mean is that we go to the wrong church, or to a synagogue instead of a church, or that we don't go to church. Or they mean that we prefer peace to war, or that we look favorably on the idea that people in the developing world might not be quite so poor. Or … well, that's pretty much it.
The authors classify most of the world as evil, but then their definition of evil turns out to be mostly benign. Once in a while they'll spice it up a bit by suggesting that we're all marauding criminals, but even then it doesn't seem like they have much of an idea of what that means either, and they never sustain the idea for very long.
This thin notion of evil gets even stranger on the rare occasions that something actually happens in these books. Every few hundred pages or so there's an airplane crash, or a bombing. And then, invariably, we're shown a scene in which all of the "evil" people are scurrying about trying to aid the wounded or to rescue those in danger, while our virtuous heroes pass by, scarcely pausing to notice except perhaps to complain about the way this sudden outbreak of human suffering inconveniences their plans.
Given that, being classified among the evil and the wicked seems nothing at all like an insult. It seems more like a badge of honor.
I think this all flows out of the authors' misunderstanding of the idea of "worldliness." For them, to be "worldly" is to be evil. And thus to be good is to avoid "the world" — to shun it lest it's contaminating contagion of "worldliness" infect them with its evil.
For a sense of what this means, let's look at two ways of responding to this passage from the book of James:
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
For LaHaye and Jenkins, the emphasis there is on being "pure and undefiled" and "unstained by the world." That's the priority, and thus for them that other bit about "care for orphans and widows" is perilous — touch an orphan or a widow and you risk becoming "stained by the world." The orphans and widows business thus becomes, in this view, a kind of optional extra credit, something that's nice to do, but only provided that one has a chance to do so while still ensuring that one keeps pure, undefiled and unstained by their worldliness.
And thus the authors wind up with the ideal of the Christian life presented in this series, that of Irene Steele, by-stander to the world, who spends all of her time sheltered at home or in church, praying and making "knick-knacks" and shielding her undefiled purity until "Jesus comes back to get us before we die."
The alternative approach is to read James' words through the lens of his brother. If we consider this same passage in that light — in the light of Jesus' words, example and commandments — then we read it with a different emphasis. The idea then becomes something more like this:
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and thereby to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Viewed in that light, Rayford Steele and Buck Williams and Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins all seem deeply marked by the stain of the world.
For the authors, then, the whole point of life is to avoid "worldliness" and contamination from "the world." Or, in other words, the whole point of life is to avoid the world — a view that mutually reinforces the escapist eschatology of Rapture-mania.
Part of what this means is that the authors have steadfastly avoided learning about the world.
And that's unfortunate for their novel, given that the world is where it's supposed to take place.
This muddles up the section of Nicolae that we're looking at today in at least two ways. First it means that we're reading an attempt to describe a detailed agenda for the world written by two men who have scrupulously avoided learning anything about that world or how it works. And second we're reading an attempt to describe evil government written by two men who equate evil with "worldly," and thus have no basis for imagining the possibility of good government.
Don't misunderstand me — I'm not referring to the perennial ideological debate between those who favor larger or smaller government in various capacities and roles. What I mean is that government, by definition, must be worldly. It has to be concerned with the world — that's its job. Filling in potholes, maintaining traffic safety — everything the government does or is supposed to do will be worldly, no matter how mundane. (That's actually what "mundane" means — "belonging to the world.") And therefore everything a government does or is supposed to do will be self-evidently wicked.*
Thus here we're presented with a scene in which the Antichrist — purportedly the worst tyrant in the history of the world — lays out his agenda for global oppression, yet much of it seems either boring or baffling. He proposes some modest taxes and some impossibly ill-defined ones. He wants to build a second Alaskan pipeline. He offers some extremely vague and contradictory ideas about the structure of his new one-world government (tyranny administered via "bloc grants," apparently).
All of this is, to the authors, self-evidently evil because it's all so very worldly. But to readers who are better acquainted with the actual world, the few bits of it that make any sense seem unremarkable and unthreatening. The gist of the passage seems to be that Nicolae Carpathia's one-world government intends to govern.
Toward the end of the chapter, Nicolae does recommend some actual evil policies, which we'll try to make sense of next week, but let me skip ahead to the last page of the chapter just to look at Rayford's reaction after listening in on all of the Antichrist's plans:
All Rayford could do was pray. "Lord," he said silently, "I wish I was a more willing servant. Is there no other role for me? Could I not be used in some sort of active opposition or judgment against this evil one? I can only trust in your purpose. Keep my loved ones safe until we see you in all your glory."
Even Rayford Steele is frustrated by the impotent idleness of a faith that consists only of avoiding the contamination of worldliness. Even he wishes he had some "other role" besides that of feckless bystander. Even he wishes his faith demanded something more "active."
But in the end, he submits to the authors' will, trusting that it is God's purpose that he have no purpose. And praying that he and his loved ones stay safe and unsullied until Jesus comes back to get them before they die.
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* Tip-toe up to the ledge with me and take a moment to appreciate how deep and how far this goes. This is how we wound up with a subculture for which the word "secular" is a synonym for evil rather than just a necessary term for the temporal, mundane realm of the world we live in. This affects and infects a great deal of American politics. OK, careful now, let's step back from the ledge.


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New Episodes of Hit Series "Hollywood Hillbillies", "Beverly Hills Pawn" and "Hollywood Scandals"
Series Premieres for "Mansion Hunters", "Celebrity Damage Control" and "Celebrity Legacies"
(Albuquerque, NM) Monday, May 19, 2014 - ReelzChannel today announced its summer programming lineup featuring premieres for three new original series Mansion Hunters (formerly titled Mansion Matchmakers), Celebrity Damage Control and Celebrity Legacies in addition to new episodes of returning hit reality series Hollywood Hillbillies and Beverly Hills Pawn and documentary series Hollywood Scandals.
Kicking off the summer lineup on Wednesday, July 9 are new episodes of Beverly Hills Pawn with Yossi Dina and his loyal team of Dominique, Aria and Cory who are back for more outrageous pawn deals and more unbelievable movie memorabilia. Also on Wednesday, July 9 is the series premiere of Mansion Hunters. Visiting incredible locations only accessible to those with millions to spend, Mansion Hunters opens the doors to the company behind these exclusive location rentals and gives viewers a rare look at a business that keeps the movie and entertainment industry running.
Thursday, July 10 marks the premiere of new episodes of Hollywood Scandals featuring the scintillating stories behind Hollywood's most gripping controversies and enigmatic figures including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Britney Spears, O.J. Simpson and the Kennedy family. Immediately following Hollywood Scandals on Thursday, July 10 is the series premiere for Celebrity Damage Control where viewers will see how Tinseltown's brightest stars manage to claw their way back onto the big screen after being busted by the law.
Then on Tuesday, August 5 America's favorite hillbilly family is back with the premiere of new Hollywood Hillbillies episodes. The heat is on for Michael as he pushes his showbiz dream closer to reality while Mema and the rest of the family make 'Hollyweird' their home, ruffling one feather at a time. After Hollywood Hillbillies on Tuesday, August 5 it's the series premiere of Celebrity Legacies with an inside look at the drama that unfolds after a famous death and the business that continues even after the star is gone. When it comes to celebrity legacies, all is fair in love and war... over huge inheritances.
Reelz summer lineup below:
New Original Series (in order of premiere):
Mansion Hunters - Premieres Wednesday, July 9 at 10pm ET/PT
When Hollywood's hot celebrities, movie production companies and fashion photographers need exclusive access to a luxurious mansion for work or play, there's one man they call: Paul Kim. Paul started his Image Locations business with three maxed out credit cards and a single cell phone. It wasn't long before Image Locations grew into one of the leading property rental companies in America. Whether it's a specific location for a movie shoot, a sprawling yard for a million dollar wedding reception, or a three month party-pad for a wealthy heiress, Image Locations handles it all. Navigating the turbulent world of the rich and famous is tricky and alive with drama, so Paul has assembled a team of passionate and loyal experts to deal with the outlandish requests, eccentric characters and million-dollar deals they come face to face with every day. In this high stakes game, disasters loom and tempers will flare, but it's all in a day's work for the Mansion Hunters. Mansion Hunters is produced by Asylum Entertainment.
Celebrity Damage Control - Premieres Thursday, July 10 at 10pm ET/PT
One minute they're posing for the press - the next they're running from the spotlight. Celebrity Damage Control is an hour-long factual series about celebrities who were caught committing crime or something just plain wrong and embarrassing yet managed to survive the scandal with careers intact and in some cases even flourishing afterward. From driving under the influence, to shoplifting, to tax evasion, to beating up paparazzi, or being the victim of an embarrassing blackmail scam, Celebrity Damage Control unveils Hollywood's most notorious celebrity scandals and reveals what celebrities did to survive the upheaval. Robert Downey Jr., Sean Penn, Charlie Sheen, Hugh Grant, Mel Gibson, Rob Lowe and many more have all had a brush with the law and Celebrity Damage Control examines every case with commentary from public relations agents, pop culture experts and lawyers to find out why celebrities are forgiven and deemed innocent by the public - even if proven guilty. Celebrity Damage Control is produced by CMJ Productions.
Celebrity Legacies - Premieres Tuesday, August 5 at 10pm ET/PT
Can someone actually become wealthier after they die? In this revealing hour-long factual series viewers will find out how rich the famous actually were when they died and the surprising fortunes being made years after they're gone. Celebrity Legacies gives the full story on who tried to lay claim to the inheritance and who finally got it. Plus, which celebrities lived lavishly but passed on penniless and who inherited their debts? Celebrity Legacies also looks at how some celebrity's fortunes have grown since they passed and how some are still making the highest-paid lists years after their death. Celebrity Legacies will explore the stories and estates of Whitney Houston, James Gandolfini, John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Heath Ledger among others. Celebrity Legacies is produced by CMJ Productions.
Returning Original Series (in order of premiere):
Beverly Hills Pawn - New Episodes Premiere Wednesday, July 9 at 9pm ET/PT
The workplace docuseries Beverly Hills Pawn explores Yossi Dina's extraordinary pawn shop in the heart of world famous Beverly Hills where Hollywood's elite go to find a lot of cash... fast. The master businessman and former army captain runs his luxury shop with an iron fist and is known for his savvy negotiating and his superior taste. Yossi makes million dollar pawn deals at a moment's notice for masterpieces, gems, antiques and priceless Hollywood treasures only attainable by the rich and famous. In new episodes viewers will see Yossi and his loyal team Cory, Aria and Dominique putting dollars at stake for incredible collectibles including a $3 million green diamond ring, a million dollar gold guitar and an extremely rare Picasso piece. Beverly Hills Pawn is produced by Asylum Entertainment.
Hollywood Scandals - New Episodes Premiere Thursday, July 10 at 9pm ET/PT
Hollywood Scandals is an hour-long documentary series taking viewers behind the scenes of some of the most explosive celebrity headlines that have captivated the world. In Hollywood, stories of drugs, death and sex don't just sell movies and television shows, they're woven into the fabric of a town with no limits - especially when they involve celebrities. From public meltdowns to private affairs, these are the tales that have come to dominate and define Hollywood: where any vice is a headline and every star has a role to play. This is the definitive post-mortem on Hollywood's most infamous moments. New episodes of Hollywood Scandals include Chris Farley, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and the Kennedy family. Hollywood Scandals is produced by Asylum Entertainment.
Hollywood Hillbillies - New Episodes Premiere Tuesday, August 5 at 9pm ET/PT
With new episodes come new hifalutin hillbilly hijinks as Michael looks to capitalize on his record deal with R&B singer Ray J, Dee Dee and Paul plan their wild wedding and Mema gets back to making manager David Weintraub squirm as she protects her beloved grandson Michael. Even though they moved from Georgia to Los Angeles together, can the family stay together as pressure mounts on Michael to become his own man and shoot for stardom without Mema and the family in tow? Hollywood Hillbillies is produced for Reelz by Asylum Entertainment.
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Reelz is a leading independent cable and satellite general entertainment network, connecting its viewers across America with the magic, wonder and excitement of Hollywood wherever it happens. The network is home to cutting-edge reality programs, compelling television events, miniseries, movies and series featuring big stories and big stars. Programming ranges from the critically-acclaimed and award-winning The Kennedys to Hollywood Hillbillies, Steven Seagal: Lawman, Beverly Hills Pawn, OK! TV, Hollywood Scandals and much more that connects directly to the world of entertainment. Reelz also showcases top movie and entertainment experts Leonard Maltin and Richard Roeper who provide specific on-air recommendations for movies viewers can watch at home.
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vir2instruments needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 271 designs submitted by 63 freelance designers.
Big Fish Audio
We are the leading developer of music sample libraries. Our products cater to musicians, composers, sound editors, producers, and the like.
Our audience is are mainly musicians working in the entertainment industry. They are very tech-savvy and like to stay current on the latest music technology available on the market. The products are typically higher price points so the products need to look classy, expensive, and elite.
UPDATE 9/24: We're pleased with the submissions to date, but would be particularly interested in seeing submissions which are a little more on the abstract side, instead of the standard stock photo of a violin. We've got enough "concrete" designs -- now we'd like to see some more abstract ones.
The title of the product is "Masters Series String Ensembles" and the subtitle is "large ensembles and chamber strings"
The artwork should include imagery of string instrument(s) (such as violin, viola, cello, or double bass). It should look expensive, classy, and simple.
It is very important to make the title prominent and clear. Attention should be given to a nice rendering of the title.
Here are a few designs of current products we really like:
You can also see a few of our many past 99designs contests to get an idea of things we like:
The design can be created using any graphics program(s) you like, but we would like final delivery in PSD or PNG format, layered, at 300dpi. It will be used as the front cover of the DVD case. Dimensions are 5.1" x 7.2" with 0.125" (1/8") bleed. The use of stock photography is acceptable within a reasonable price range. If you choose stock photography, feel free to use the preview (watermarked) image in your mockup, and we will overlook it during the contest's duration, then will purchase it if you are the winner of the contest.


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The Blue Ridge Parkway amazes me again with the low cloud cover
The Blue Ridge Parkway amazes me again with the low cloud cover
Ol' Blue and the Blue Ridge
I departed Asheville in the dark, 39˚, rain and lousy conditions. After watching the local forecast, I knew that the farther south I got, the better the conditions.
Hwy 28 beckoned.
After awhile, I got on to my friend (so I thought) and headed south. 28 lures you into a false sense of security then cracks the whip.
Wet tarmac, 20mph switchbacks, 150lbs of gear for 100+ miles. A lot of fun, and a lot of work. Sitting here now in the comfort of a cozy couch, it was great. In real time, a bit of a struggle, and worth all of the effort. This is what makes the the trip "the trip".
As expected the farther south I traveled, the dryer the roads which opened up my confidence and my right hand. Towards the end of 28 I was working the corners aggressively instead of holding on for survival.
Eventually, I made my way to I-85 to Atlanta and reflected on 28. Traveling on the interstate, it seemed like 28 was from another lifetime.
Making my way south I was greeted with warmer and warmer temps, and bluer and bluer skies. It wasn't lost on the fact that I was bundled in long underwear which was barely enough to keep me warm in the cold, wet morning. 39˚ had transformed into 84˚ as approached the Florida border. But it sure felt good. I hadn't seen 60˚ since Colorado Springs!
Riding through Georgia and the cotton fields made me realize that, as lengthily as this trip has been, it seemed as if I was just here a brief moment ago. It felt as if I was on the return of just an ordinary weekend ride. Weird.
Pulling into Tallahassee, sweating in traffic, just as I had a month before, let me know that nothing had changed. I asked myself what it was all for; the whole adventure. Then a funny thing happened. My memory didn't default to all of the wonder that I had experienced, but to all of the difficulty. The cold rain in the U.P., the wind in ND and the fog on the PCH. The most difficult parts of the trip seemed to be the most memorable. And that's saying a lot because I saw some of the most beautiful scenery there I've ever seen.
But maybe, just maybe, the beauty lies in surviving the struggle.
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Waterfall on 28. Drove under but the ground wasn't conducive to parking the bike where I wanted for the photo.
You know you're in Georgia when......
I'm outta states, made it back to FLA
Thanks for sharing your ride/adventure. Enjoyed your pictures and account of your experiences.
Mike Horne
If in the Portland, Oregon or Seattle area let me know. Spare room and home cooking! Be safe on your wonderful journey.
Also glad your home safely manwohr. Great BRP photos. Not everyone gets to see
it like that! But you earned it... "breathing is easy...living takes effort"
That was truly a life signature trip, thanks for sharing...
"travelin john" 04r1150r
UH... marine by choice; manwohr home now.... but myself & appox 5,555.5 others
are coming through next July.... whats for dinner? I buy the beer!
Fantastic and very inspiring!
Go South Carolina
After departing Tallahassee for my final leg home, the BMW experienced its one malfunction, a burned out headlight bulb. No worries since it has two low-beam lamps. Weird that it would happen at this particular point.
Allowing it all to settle in for the last few days, for anyone interested, I went over what it was that I had accomplished.
33 days
35 U.S. states plus Canada
12,812 miles
388 miles per day average
209 hours in the saddle
61.4 mph average
47 mpg average
272 gallons of gas
4 quarts of oil
3 sets of tires
2 scheduled services
0 traffic / speeding tickets
0 animals struck
10 hours in total to clean Ol' Blue
I encountered nothing but the most friendly people.
For anybody whose considering heading out on some type of adventure, a slogan painted on the back of a motor home just a few miles from my home described it best.
"Someday is today."
Drove the four corners of America, started in Key West then to the second corner San Ysidro south of San Diego. PCH up through Redwood even toke pic's of me and my bike driving through a redwood tree, next corner was Blaine WA. Drove then southeast over Mt. Rainier to Yellow Stone, spend a halve day enjoying the park. Next Sturgis and the Black Hills then up to Canada crossing the border back to the States in Madawaska Maine as the fourth corner. Rode east to Cape Cod MA. Visited with family, continued south Skyline Drive, Blue Ridge, Highlands, Valdosta and 27 all way home to Hollywood. 11236 miles in 18 riding days.
Changed rear tire in Cape Cod after 9900 miles.
18 R1200GS, Ride Safe, Richard (K7TNT) MOA #114372, IBA #59670 2015 Be the Adventure!
"Someday is today."
Words to live by
2000 R1100RT , 2005 K1200S w/hack
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"Always look on the bright side of life" (Monte Python)


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Song Needs to Leave the VC Business
Fund: Rustic Canyon Ventures
Posted by Anonymous on 2007-11-03
Michael Song to be avoided at all costs. He wastes incredible amounts of time on drilling down into details that are irrelevant while missing the big picture altogether. I've dealt with well over 100 VCs in my career and this guy scores at the very bottom of the list in terms of how due diligence is conducted. Not a good listener and makes almost no eye contact during a meeting. Disrespectful of management team's time, like they exist purely for his exercises. Takes so many notes that he misses the big picture while capturing details that don't matter.PRIVATE: Members Only (465 Characters)


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Suitable for hatchbacks and sedans, this tyre offers good wet and dry grip with a quiet and comfortable noise. It comes with Falken's "Special eyes" feature which indicates the need for tyre rotation. This helps in even wearing of the tyres and enhances longevity.
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City of Industry, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/10/2018 -- This report studies the EPE Foam pouches market size (value and volume) by players, regions, product types and end industries, history data 2013-2017 and forecast data 2018-2025.
The global EPE Foam pouches market was million US$ in 2017 and is expected to million US$ by the end of 2025, growing at a CAGR of between 2018 and 2025.
Geographically, this report is segmented into several key regions, with sales, revenue, market share and growth Rate of EPE Foam pouches in these regions, from 2013 to 2025, covering
North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)
Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Russia and Turkey etc.)
Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam)
South America (Brazil etc.)
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The various contributors involved in the value chain of the product include manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, intermediaries, and customers. The key manufacturers in this market include
Sealed Air Corporation
3A Manufacturing
Polymer Packaging, Inc.
Foam Converting
Raghav Industries
Surmount Industries
Kamatchi Packing Works
By the product type, the market is primarily split into
High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)
Middle Density Polyethylene (MDPE)
Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE)
Linear Low Density Polyethylene (LLDPE)
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Medical Devices
Electronic Products
Cosmetic and Personal Care
Automotive Parts
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History Year: 2013-2017
Base Year: 2017
Estimated Year: 2018
Forecast Year 2018 to 2025
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Blog A recent spate of virus-ridden computers has left me feeling philosophical about the state of desktop management. Fortunately for me, these computers were not part of my corporate network, instead they were personal computers or servers maintained by other systems administrators. The cases come from all over. Family, friends, that nice shopkeep with the excellent wonton soup, or a friend of a friend in over his head with a server he maintains for charity.
If you're a sysadmin you've probably noticed the rate of serious infections is on the rise. Not piddly little spambots of keyloggers, but sophisticated rootkits that sneak in through gods only know what vector, establish themselves and then start downloading friends. Regardless of the anti malware (AM) protection you have in place, these little gems blow right past it. If you are fantastically lucky, the attack kit that the malware downloads after getting its bearings will be clumsy enough that your AM software will actually let out a plaintive bleat. Right before it is cruelly and finally silenced by the elegant and sophisticated attacker. More often than not however, the malware will install completely silently. You don't notice its there until it has connected to a command and control server and been ordered to download something annoying onto your computer. The favourite bits of accompanying downloadable malware at the moment are fraudulent anti-virus or "encrypt your data unless you pay" scams.
Malware isn't solely a Windows phenomenon either; I have recently spent my time rebuilding a set of Macs after the infamous "someone who is most definitely not me" opened (and executed) some accursed e-mail attachment. In the past two weeks alone I have been presented with no less than five Linux systems, all of which had been systematically rooted and converted into command and control nodes for botnets. The past month has seen Windows 2000 through 7, OSX Tiger and Snow Leopard, RHEL 4, and Ubuntu 8.04 all pass through my bench. Every one of them so thoroughly compromised that rebuilding the systems was just quicker.
Because of the cross-platform nature of these attacks, I think it important to set aside the nerdrage operating system jihads that form when we start talking about malware infections and systems being rooted. I want to talk about general systems security here; malware and patch management. One of three factors (or a combination thereof) led to the demise of each of these systems. "Fundamental software design flaws" are simply not among them. In this article I want to tackle the first and most pressing of these: inadequate user knowledge.
It's easy to rag on "stupid users." Forums very quickly fill up with commenters preaching "some people shouldn't be allowed on the internet." Others shrug off inadequate user knowledge as some form of Darwinism that is anyone's fault or responsibility other than our own. I challenge this notion; I will instead point the finger of blame at myself, and at every single one of you reading this article. If you are reading this article, then you have more than the average Joe's knowledge of computers. Chances are very high that you are a programmer, systems administrator, IT management or a power user. We are the people in the know about computer security. If we don't spread our knowledge, how can we expect users to ever learn?
The first and most important thing to teach our many and varied users is to stop using default configuration browsers. I don't care if it's IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera or even Bolt. If you can't throw no-script (or an equivalent) on there, jettison it right now. Remember the part where the AM scanners are all fairly worthless? Even with the most sophisticated AM scanners on the market, a single cross-site scripting attack or infected flash ad and you are hooped. In my experience, no-script is something even the densest among us can learn if the individual teaching it has the time and patience to explain how it works. (Admittedly, you may possibly be explaining its function to certain users several times.) This one single tool can virtually eliminate two of the most common attack vectors with a 15 minute usage lesson, and for this reason alone needs to be first on the list.
Next up is PDF readers. Why anyone thought it was a good idea that PDFs be even a tenth as complicated as they are is absolutely beyond me. Regardless, infected PDFs have displaced infected office files as the "new black." There are some simple and important solutions to this problem. The first is to disable as much of the plug-ins and add-ons in your PDF reader software as you feel you can get away with. Adobe Reader is by far the worst, but even Foxit or PDF Xchange can be vulnerable. If at all possible, switch to one of the two alternatives, and then disable their extra features.
If your users run Firefox, consider a plug-in called "Web Of Trust" (WOT.) It essentially allows users from across the web to "rank" sites for trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy and child safety. It conveys this information through coloured circles next to links on a webpage, as well as an icon by your address bar. The system can of course be gamed; if Anonymous decides to alter the rating of a website that irks them, then they certainly have the manpower to do so. The point isn't so much that WOT be one hundred percent reliable. Rather that its constant presence causes users to think about the fact that some websites may not be good places to go. The constant subtle reminder that there are in fact reasons to think about a website before visiting it has in my experience had the cumulative effect of raising user website paranoia. If nothing else, you'll find they stay away from links with "red circles", and this can do nothing but help keep their infection rate down.
As sadly worthless as AM scanners generally are, it is still absolutely vital to keep them around. They won't block the latest and the greatest, but they do tend to pick up the many forms of malware that have been around long enough to be classified. Even the freebies like Clamwin or Microsoft Security Essentials generally make a noise before they are nuked, and the more sophisticated ones can take quite a pummelling before the malware eventually wins. My advice regarding AM scanners is twofold: first and foremost, have more than one. You need a resident scanner, preferably something with some teeth; (ESET, Symantec, BitDefender, etc.) These full-blown suites come with hooks into your e-mail software, your browser, and usually incorporate a fairly robust application-specific firewall. You also need some non-resident scanners that you can fire up after the primary has bought the farm. Malwarebytes' anti-malware is top of my list, with Trend-Micro's Housecall a close second. A quick GooBing will bring up numerous other alternatives.
The second bit of AM scanner related advice is that the user needs to be trained in their use. AM scanners are not fire-and-forget missiles; you need to keep an eye on them otherwise one day they will be silently killed by some new piece of malware and you won't even have noticed.
The difference between various pieces of security software is critical as well. It is a rare user who understands the difference between an AM scanner and a firewall. When connected to the internet, it is critical to keep your shields up. The number of users I see running systems naked to the net (no firewall or even a home router) is absolutely appalling. Microsoft did a good thing incorporating a firewall into XP SP2, and by the time Windows 7 rolled around it was robust and reasonably impenetrable. The problem is that users have no clue how to use it. I'll lay some of the blame for that one on Microsoft's shoulders; it most certainly isn't the most intuitive interface in the world. The rest needs to be shared by the users themselves, and those who should have trained them in the basics of their computer's security. If our users disable their firewalls because they "get in the way," then a user training intervention is absolutely required.
There are other things users need to know, but which probably aren't going to get through. "Don't open attachments from strangers" is always good advice, but those infected attachments can come from trusted friends and colleagues as well. "If you get infected, pull the network cable out and call for help" would probably also be high on my list, but then how can they use myface or catch up on twitter? I don't have the answers to these ones, except to say that each user must be handled differently; their reasons for disobeying common sense need to be addressed individually. They aren't going to read a website telling them all about security, but you'd be surprised how much stock they put in a five minute conversation with the nerd working the counter at Futureshop.
Though I have covered a few points above, I have saved the most important user training item for last. If you don't remember any suggestions from this article then I want you to remember this one; teach your users not to run as the superuser. Modern operating systems can be run at hybrid privilege levels. Each task executes as an unprivileged task, but the option to run it as the superuser is little more than a right-click away.
Now I'm an old luddite; I simply abhor change for change's sake. I need a strong reason to embrace anything new, and I want you all to know I love my Windows XP. It has been a faithful old friend for a very long time, but ladies and gentlemen...its time has come. Mac OSX, Linux and Windows 7 all can be run as non-privileged users. Each of these operating systems has a mature and robust method for escalating tasks that require administrative privilege to run. XP does not. With XP, you are running as administrator or you are not. As such, depending on how poorly behaved the programs your users run are, the case can be made in XP that you actually "need" to run as administrator. If this is truly the case then it is time to bite the bullet, and upgrade to Windows 7 or Linux. There is just no longer an excuse for an ordinary user to ever be running as the superuser.
As important as user training is, there are two other very important factors to discuss in relation to malware and patch management. The first is patch management itself, both at an operating system level and an application level. The last and possibly most heartbreaking reason for system compromise is misconfiguration. Misconfiguration is something that I consider largely a server problem, but desktop administrators need to bear this burden as well. My next article will explore both of these, and try to uncover what we as systems administrators can do to harden the desktops in our care.
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Having grown up in Portland, I didn't really think anything would come as much of a surprise during my career trek to Seattle with MIT Sloan's Tech Club. After all, I had visited Seattle many times with my family over the years.
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In recent years, shooters have become homogenized. There used to be a wide range of different games to choose, from run-and-gun action titles to slow-paced tactical shooters focusing on strategy and tactics, but now most shooters follow the same model of big set pieces, regenerating health, linear levels, and "cinematic experiences." The realistic tactical shooters with in-depth planning have almost entirely disappeared in recent years.
This project, working title TAKEDOWN, aims to change that. This game, the spiritual successor to games like the original Rainbow Six and SWAT series, will focus on realistic weapons modeling, squad based play, in a close-quarters battle setting. To succeed in this game you need to take things slow, study your plans, and execute flawlessly. If you get shot, there are consequences. You won't be hiding behind a wall waiting for your health to regenerate. If a team member goes down, you will have to assess the situation and reallocate team members if necessary to complete the mission. Don't expect all of the tools and plans to be forced fed to you - it is up to the player to ensure their team is equipped and ready for the tasks at hand.
TAKEDOWN is a thinking-person's shooter. The player that takes things slow, aims carefully, and plans their moves right will overcome the player who runs in with guns blazing. Close-quarters battle brings the fight inside, as you would see SWAT teams or SOF units taking down small numbers of dangerous adversaries. Non-linear environments allow for multiple routes and tactics and add replayability. The operation to clear pirates from a hijacked oil tanker by Russian special forces in May of 2010 is a perfect example of the types of missions in TAKEDOWN.
You will plan your insertions and routes before going into the scenario, outfitting your teammates with weapons and equipment of your choosing, and then execute the mission. If one of your team members is killed, they are gone, and you have lost their valuable experience, so you have to be careful! Gameplay modes include single player, co-op, and competitive multiplayer.
If you are a fan of old school shooters where thinking meant more than running and gunning or perks, or if you are just looking for something different in your shooter games experience, this is the project for you.
What types of play are planned? How about camera view?
TAKEDOWN plans a single player campaign, co-op play, and competitive multiplayer. First Person view is planned on PC, with PS3 going Third Person. Xbox 360 view is to be determined based on feedback from the 360 community.
What is the setting of the game? Who will I be able to play?
TAKEDOWN is set in today's world, with no sci-fi or future elements. You take the role of PMC's (Private Military Corporations), taking on scenarios all over the world for a variety of employers with various objectives, including hostage rescue, asset recovery, security, and target elimination. You will have operatives from many different countries and backgrounds, and will outfit them with weapons and equipment from all over the world.
What platforms are we talking about? What platform is the lead?
TAKEDOWN will be developed on PC as the lead platform, and then brought to consoles afterwards. Linux and Mac versions are under evaluation, based on demand from those communities.
PC will have a DRM free version available.
How is TAKEDOWN different from Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Rainbow Six: Patriots, Call of Duty, Battlefield, or ARMA?
GR: FS focuses on future tech and using gadgets to reveal the locations of your enemies. R6:P looks to provide a "Jack Bauer" experience. COD emphasizes huge movie-like set pieces and perks. Battlefield and ARMA bring different variations on large battlefields with a variety of vehicles.
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Serellan LLC, led by veteran game designer and BAFTA Award winner Christian Allen, is a small indie studio made of industry veterans from studios including Red Storm Entertainment, Monolith, Surreal, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Bungie, and others, with extensive experience on games like the original Rainbow Six, Rainbow Six Rogue Spear, Ghost Recon, GR2, GRAW, F.E.A.R., Condemned, Halo: Reach, Drakan, The Suffering, World of Tanks, and more. Also included is a recently retired US SF Operator, with several tours under his belt who, along with Christian Allen's USMC experience, will bring realism and authenticity to TAKEDOWN.
We also have Rich Douglas, composer, providing the score; Charles Guan providing concept art, and Matt Corboy (of The Shield, L.A. Noir, and The Descendants) signed to voice the Commander.
How involved will the community be in the development of this game?
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Page 1 of 2Every major manufacturer and media company was exhibiting, and there were wonders to behold. Aside from the massive Las Vegas convention center, the show was spread across half a dozen hotels as well. Trying to cover it all is an exercise in futility. I focused my attention on high end audio, and even then I fell short of seeing every exhibit.
I spent most of my time in the Venetian, where the bulk of high performance audio products were displayed. There was everything from budget minded micro systems to state of the art, over the top, large scale rigs. There were many new products in the digital source component category, along with lots of new speakers. I can't think of too many major companies in the industry that did not attend. There was a number of legends from the world of audio including Bill Conrad of Conrad Johnson, Ray Kimber, Tim de Paravacini of E.A.R, Vladamir Lamm, Alon Wolf of Magico, Mike Creek, Andrew Jones of TAD, Lars Hansen, Dieter Burmester, Luke Manley of VTL, John Atkinson, MIchael Fremer, and Kalman Rubinson of Stereophile, and too many more to possibly mention!
Hey look, it's Stereophile's Michael Fremer with scotch in one hand and a USB stick in the other!
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The biggest trend at CES 2012 in high end audio was the "digital hub". These took the form one box solutions that allow for file playback via direct connection of various storage devices, IPods, as well as networked streaming, all with the ability to control via iPad or iPhone/iPod Touch. There were new DAC models everywhere as well as advanced wireless set ups. Desktop systems, active speakers, and headphone/portable audio products were also very much in display.
Of course, cost no object systems, the stuff that dreams are made of, were also on display. Set ups from MBL, YG Acoustics, Magico, dCS, Lamm, Wilson, Focal, Audio Research, Conrad Johnson, Meridian, and many others were impressive statements. There many affordable, excellent sounding exhibits as well. There has never been a better time to be an audiophile as the sheer variety of superb products at all price points is amazing.
Overall, this was a well attended CES with a record amount of square footage of exhibit space. It will take a while for my feet to recover, but it was a thrill to be part of the biggest trade show around. To see more CES equipment and audio rooms, check out our CES 2012 gallery for a bit of audio porn; we have over 60 full resolution CES photos hosted on the AVRev Facebook Page.


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NOAH'S 9/11 - a picture story
Official NIST source of ALL below images - credited to one "NOAH BAST":
http://wtcdata.nist.gov/gallery2/v/Coll ... teveMayer/
Dear kids, ladies and gentlemen,
Tonight I would like to tell you a wondrous little bedtime story. It is the story of Noah, an expert photographer who went strolling with his camera on September 11 2001, and captured a gloomy tower falling - just as a lighthouse tower was rising! Of course, we must all believe that this is a TRUE pictorial tale, since it is all officially documented and stored by the serious National Insitute of Standards and Technology. You know, those folks are trusty, academic scientists - who would never accept keeping any fake imagery in their archives. So, without further ado, here we go:
On this sad Tuesday morning of 9/11, Noah was strolling by the waterside with his camera - when, all of a sudden, all hell broke loose. New York's twin towers were ablaze, so he decided to snap pictures of them. As the story goes, a plane had crashed into WTC1, seventeen minutes before the below picture - but he missed it. Noah cursed himself for that. As a photographer, he could have made lots of money if only he had looked up in the sky a bit earlier... Then a second plane crashed into WTC2 - but Noah missed that one too!
However, Noah snapped the below picture just after that second plane crashed into WTC2. What puzzled him though, was hearing the loud and merry chant of a crane operator. Was this crane operator really still fast at work - after witnessing this apocalyptic mayhem unfolding right across the river? Did he not take a break and exit his crane cabin to watch the horrific sight of the WTC on fire?
Noah was puzzled. He kept hearing the merry chant of that crane operator, even as he went back on his steps, trying to catch a better view of the flaming Twin Towers. Was "Joe Crane" really still at work? Was he perhaps just one of those typical, hard-working New Yorkers, unflustered and unimpressed by such petty urban incidents which threatened to distract him from his daily work and professional deadlines ?
Noah stopped thinking about it for a while, as he proceeded to walk around the harbor and snap away - always making sure to frame his pictures with his favourite photo signature: a flash of sunrays at the top left of his lens:
Noah, luckily enough, snapped a picture at exactly 9:11:00 AM. He just knew that would make him famous!
About seven minutes later, Noah was up on a high-rise building - still snapping away at the NYC drama:
Here again, Noah used his special sunfilter to convey the dramatic sunrays of the day ...
But Noah was still puzzled about "Joe Crane". Was Joe actually still at work? Noah decided to return to that vantage point where he could, in fact, still hear Joe Crane chanting away and getting on with his job - even though Manhattan was exploding:
That's when Noah noticed that Joe Crane's job on 9/11 was actually to raise a lighthouse, a TWIN in fact of the one on the left!
Here we see Joe Crane tilting his crane to go and get a piece of that lighthouse under construction. The suspense builds up - and we now all share the same hopeful, uplifting thought: WILL JOE CRANE ACTUALLY SUCCEED RAISING THAT LIGHTHOUSE SOMEWHAT - BEFORE WTC1 COLLAPSES - SO AS TO COUNTERBALANCE THE EVIL TERRORIST DEEDS ?
You've got to give a tip of your hat to "Joe Crane" - a true symbol of those brave and resilient New Yorkers' unflinching dedication to their daily jobs - no matter what cataclysmic events might try and distract them from the work to be done!
Now, as the WTC1 collapses, Noah (our expert photographer hero) keeps his wits cool and readily shoots seven sequential pictures of it all: - at 2-second intervals - over a total timeframe of 14 seconds... Hey, our Noah needs a Pulitzer Prize, folks! Forget Zapruder - and any such clown you can think of! Seriously folks, you HAVE to wonder why Noah's stunning WTC1 collapse sequence hasn't been published on EVERY newspaper of the planet. Have YOU seen these images before?
Here is the exif data (as posted by NIST) of the timeline of Noah's expert sevenfold photographic sequence (as assembled in my above animated gif ):
1: 10:28:24
2: 10:28;26
3: 10:28:29
4: 10:28:31
5: 10:28:34
6: 10:28:36
7: 10:28:38
And YES! Joe Crane's twin lighthouse indeed WAS RAISED only minutes before the WTC1 CAME DOWN! Is this some kind of joke - or what? Whatever it is, ladies and gents, this is the end of Noah's entrancing fable...
Kids: I'm truly sorry if this bedtime story has no happy ending. But it really isn't my story! It is brought to you by NIST - probably the silliest storytellers of this planet. So now, sing along with me: "Heigh ho! Heigh Ho! It's home from work we go!..."


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App Review: oMaps (offline Maps) by Thomas Bonnin
by Dorothy on
June 24, 2009
Filed under Daily App Reviews, Utility
For the most part, an iPod Touch can do what an iPhone can do, especially with all of the new capabilities that the iPhone OS 3.0 gives it. You can chat with friends and receive push notifications. You can make phone calls using Skype. You can play games to your hearts content. However, at least for me, once I leave the house and the comfort of my WiFi network, my iPod becomes a lot less useful. I loose the ability to find information and communicate with others. Many of these limitations cannot be overcome without finding another network to connect to. oMaps by Thomas Bonnin does help in providing you with map information on your iPod even when you are not connected to a WiFi network.
oMaps is a simple app that allows you to search for maps of locations and then save the information to your iPod. Once the information is saved, you can access it at any time. It does not simply take a screen shot of the map, though. It saves all of the information for the area on your screen. When you pull up the saved maps, you can zoom in to get more detail. I found that I was able to zoom in easily and quickly. I did not even have to wait for the screen to refresh, it seemed. This app could be very useful when you are driving in an area with which you are not familiar.
I do see some drawbacks to the app as well. First, and most obvious, you must plan ahead. You cannot use the app to access a map if you have no WiFi connection available to you. If you know you are going somewhere, though and think a little ahead, the map is available when and if you need it. Second, I was not terribly impressed with the appearance of the map itself. Because of restrictions placed on the use of Google's maps, the developer chose a different mapping application to use. It is not quite as neat and clean in appearance as the Google maps. Third, once you leave your WiFi network, you are limited to the data within the screen that you saved. You cannot zoom out or pan to another area of the map. The data simply isn't there.
The good news is that you can save as many maps as you can fit on your iPod. The maps take a little while to download, but then the information is stored locally on your device and is always at your fingertips. You can have maps anytime, anywhere. oMaps is not perfect. However, for an iPod Touch owner, oMaps can be a very valuable tool.
oMaps is $0.99 in the iTunes App Store.
Developer's Website: http://omapsiphone.com/


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A key purpose for memory isn't to just remember the past, but to be able to imagine the future. Shirley Wang reports on Lunch Break. Photo: AP.
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In order to convert documents to the flash file that is required for use with the Pronto! Presetnations module, you must first install OpenOffice and an application we've built specific to this purpose. Instructions and the application itself can be found by following the links below:
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In a lot of programs you have to enter text. When working on the road it is sometimes awkward to enter text. In these situations it may be easier to say something. Every text field should support recording a message. If possible it should try to convert the speech to text, but the speech should always be available until a person has entered text into the text field.
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