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Monthly Archives: August 2015
The F word….(Flossing of course!)
The importance of interdental cleaning Every time you go to the dentist you a re asked about your interdental cleaning routine, what do you use? How often? Most of the time you feel guilty and lie because you don't actually have a regime. I am going to explain why interdental … Read more

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If the Brothers Osborne were boxers, they wouldn't have even been given a puncher's chance to defeat three-time defending champions Florida Georgia Line for CMA Vocal Duo of the Year. But not only did the Brothers floor FGL, they also knocked out Dan + Shay, Joey + Rory and Maddie & Tae to take home the trophy.
To put the upset in perspective, over the course of the last year (July 2015 to June 2016 for CMA voting), Florida Georgia Line has earned two Billboard No. 1 singles ("Confession" and "H.O.L.Y") as well as a No. 3 single ("Anything Goes"), released a Billboard No. 1 album (Dig Your Roots) and crushed it out on the road with their monster Dig Your Roots Tour.
Brothers Osborne put out two singles ("Stay a Little Longer" and "21 Summer," which charted at No. 2 and No. 24, respectively) from their Billboard No. 3 album (Pawn Shop). They also supported Miranda Lambert on her Keeper of the Flame Tour.
Now, I'm not saying that Billboard chart numbers and tours are the be-all and end-all of CMA voting, but it's usually a good foundation, and FGL's foundation was much sturdier than their competition. In that regard, it's an upset—not that the Brothers Osborne aren't more than deserving. They are.
In fact, during their acceptance speech, TJ Osborne said, "Man, I hate to be that person who says I didn't prepare a speech, but I honestly didn't. We sat behind Florida Gerogia Line and I thought for sure we'd be congratulating them tonight."
It turns out that Brothers Osborne deserve the congratulations.
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Driving a school bus is never an easy job. Along with watching the road for distracted motorist, a bus driver must also deal with all the distractions a load of lively students can bring. According to the National Transportation Research Board of National Academics (TRB), school bus crashes are often attributed to commonly reported causes like weather, and road conditions. But the TRB says more research is uncovering the needed to better understand the role driver distractions, caused by students, play in school buses accidents.
Jim Ellis, Director of Research & Instructional Design at the Pupil Transportation Safety Institute stated, "Driver distractions, because of on-board behavior problems, is one of the most common causes of school bus accidents and fatalities".
One Atlanta Public School bus driver, fired after pepper spraying students during a school bus fight, feels that discipline problems with students is a real safety concern.
The unidentified driver, interviewed by Channel 2 Action News, said he needed better security on his school bus. The man said he actually felt threatened by the students he transported and endured profane name calling from the students as well.
"The driver is not safe if they cannot focus on the road and they are concerned that a child is going to bust them in the head while their back is turn," said the APS bus driver.
He showed documents where he reported threats made by students, a broken bus security camera and an inoperable two-way radio.
The APS driver was fired after the district reviewed the August 6 incident where the driver used pepper spray to break up a bus fight at Atlanta's Maynard Jackson High School. Ten students and one assistant principal was treated treated at a local hospital as a result of the pepper spray.
The driver told Channel 2 that he was punched and pushed by students during the fight as he tried to get off the bus. He admitted to using the pepper spray to both defend himself and get things under control.
However, the Atlanta Public School system points out that pepper spray is not allowed on school campuses.
An Atlanta Public Schools spokesperson released a statement relating to the driver's termination:
"We take the safety of our students and drivers very seriously — it is our number one transportation concern. In direct response to the bus driver's concerns, the driver's supervisor provided a second driver on the bus on both morning and afternoon routes to help with student discipline. At the time of the incident, the bus was parked at the school, and the second driver sought help from a school administrator".
The district also stated:
"The digital video recording devices on our buses were evaluated this summer. Our transportation department is in the process of removing all inoperative camera systems with plans to purchase and install camera systems on all school buses."
Some parents and students, committing on the pepper spray story, said the problem is not necessarily poor bus drivers, but students who are simply out of control.
Every school district start the year providing students with some form of "student code of conduct" guideline. This information provides a very detailed and clear explanation of expected student behavior and the consequences faced when the rules are not followed.
So what role does student behavior play in keeping school bus riders safe? What happens when school bus drivers are unable to handle discipline problems presented by passengers?
Since this issue centers round the ability of students to maintain self-control in order that the bus driver can conduct safe transports, it's important to find out what students think about this concern.
In interviewing high school and middle school students across Metro Atlanta, one key factor stood out in their responses. Most students agree that it's usually just a few people causing the problems on school buses. Students said the reason some kids behave poorly on school buses is because they think they can get away with it. They also said the majority of their classmate are cooperative riders and willing to follow instructions.
The main solution offered by students is for the school bus drivers to waste no time putting the problem causing passengers off the bus. This response was surprisingly overwhelming among the students interviewed. Most schools' codes of conduct information already states circumstances for removing bus riding privileges from students who can't follow the rules.
By enforcing the school rules right-a-way, and not allowing students with discipline issue to return to the bus until they agree to respect the school rules, a driver creates the on-board environment needed for safe student transportation.


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The final Life-Taker comic I made ended up being the longest comic I'd ever created. At least at the time.
It wasn't because it had to be, but mostly because I was fed up with Daz Studio at the time and wanted to get back to drawing. Instead of stretching out the tale for another week I decided to cram it all in there and just end it.
Even though it was a bear to make, I was happy with the entire series overall, mostly because of reader responses.
This final episode appeared on my other site in February of 2012. Read more about it here:
So this about wraps it up for these comics. Enjoy The Return of The Life-Taker PT. 3.


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Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall is a medium-large urban snow set terrain map set in Germany with several large buildings and a "No-man's land", where indestructible automatic turrets fire at the player if they step on the territory. The "No-man's land" is highlighted in red on the mini-map to show its danger. There is also a small path in the middle of "No-man's land" which leads to both sides of the map. The map is good for camping, sniping, and long range combat. There are several windows/holes that can see great distances (such as over to the other side of the map), making this map ideal for snipers or campers. On one side of the map there is an ally checkpoint, with small security buildings, gates and tanks. The "No-man's land" is great for a quick getaway, but the player must consider it at the risk of having to face the Auto Turrets. It has now been confirmed that there is a way to get through 'No Mans Land' with out the need of perks etc. If the player throws smoke grenades and runs through the smoke, the turrets will not shoot.
Discovery is a map based around a desolate, frozen German outpost in the Arctic Circle. It also appears to be based around "Project Nova". There is a chasm in the center of the map which features a destructible ice bridge. The easiest way to destroy the bridge is with a launcher. There are also two additional ice structures that bridge the chasm that can be destroyed. It is friendly to long-range weaponry but also features a few close-quarters areas in building and at vital areas that bridge the gap between the two sides.
A player might find it useful to use a Sniper Rifle. An ideal location to snipe from the ice cave located on the south side of the map. The cave is reached by simply walking through the entrance. The Variable Zoom attachment is helpful for this map as is the Suppressor attachment. A Shotgun or Ballistic Knife may also be useful because of the map's limited close quarter action.
A player might find it useful to use a Sniper Rifle. An ideal location to snipe from the ice cave located on the south side of the map. The cave is reached by simply walking through the entrance. The Variable Zoom attachment is helpful for this map as is the Suppressor attachment. A Shotgun or Ballistic Knife may also be useful because of the map's limited close quarter action.
Kowloon is suited for all types of combat due to its high buildings and paths. There are two ziplines in the map that can let a player travel from one side to the other, but as noted above, anyone using them is completely exposed and cannot use their weapons while ziplining.In a game with twelve or more players on this map the odds of being shot and killed before finish ziplining are high. The player should be wary that there are numerous entrances to many of the buildings, so you should pay attention and watch out for other players sneaking up on your position. The map also features several high rooftops and posts from which to pick off enemies with a sniper rifle. In addition, the main zipline building can be used as a vantage point.
Stadium, also named Chance Stadium (as seen on some magazines) is a hockey rink, home to the fictional hockey team, the New York Atomics. Stadium is located in New York City, and looks to be in one of the major sections. It's a medium sized map with light cover everywhere, where Hardened may come in handy. Most people sniping will either stay in the building by the defending team's spawn in Search and Destroy, the cafeteria, where there is a scaffolding, or on top of what appears to be a fitness center. Since this map is more of a CQB map, Sub Machine Guns and Shotguns are preferred. Killstreaks such Attack Dogs and Gunship are also popular due to the CQB nature of this map. Rushers are also every common in this map.
ascension (zomBies)
Ascension takes place in an abandoned Soviet Cosmodrome. The map features Tank Dempsey, Nikolai Belinski, Takeo Masaki, and Edward Richtofen as playable characters and includes two new Wonder Special Grenades, the Gersch Device and Matryoshka Dolls(replacing the Monkey Bombs), as well as new perks such as PhD Flopper and Stamin-Up. Double Tap Root Beer does not appear. A new enemy, called Space monkeys, also appear in this map, replacing the Hellhounds and Pentagon Thief (from Shi No Numa/Der Riese/Kino der Toten and "Five" respectively). A new power-up, Random Perk Bottle is also available.


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My comment on the post itself (probably to be moderated away as merely insulting):
Are you being ironic? An "uplifting" ad? Actually followed by an exhortation to "click here"? You declare a soda vending machine "smart"? The real and virtual are "blending" somehow through purchasing? Mass consumption will end sectarian violence and war? "Techno-optimists" for Coca-Cola! Denialism and apathy isn't really the same thing as "optimism" for those of us who need a little substance with our hope! Either this piece is parody or it is an illustration of reactionary futurological ideology I criticize so condensed it makes my head explode. I mean, I'm glad you enjoyed the commercial and all, but honestly do you see how flabbergastingly uncritical and promotional this is? I know I'm the resident "unfuturist" and all, but surely those who affirm a substantial role for futurological discourse in understanding technoscientific change and policy analysis would want to pressure literally every assumption on which this little burst of enthusiasm is premised -- even if they happen to come to sunnier conclusions than I would myself after doing so.


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WePay's Week In Payments: Connected Cars, Ecommerce Platform needs, Money Laundering addiction
As the calendar year 2017 starts to gain momentum, so too things are heating up in the payments industry with two major corporations making moves to handle more payments themselves in two very different segments, cars and smartphones. There's also some analysis of data breaches in 2016 and the trends behind them including the number of exposed credit cards in these breaches. Chris Skinner has a very provocative take on banks and money laundering that is worth a read. Not too surprisingly, given the last two items, there is also a report on the global moves to regulate Fintech more closely.
Ford Planning for Connected Car Payments?
Business Insider sees Ford's investment in AutoFi, a platform to enable mobile device access to car purchases and financing, as a signal that Ford is considering the huge growth in connected cars as a precursor to offering in-car payments. Despite what Business Insider has to say, hile it is true that cars connected to online services is a huge growth area as part of the IoT movement, it does not necessarily follow that Ford will want to deal with payments itself rather than offer connection to other in-car payment service providers.
Hyperwallet study looks at what ecommerce platforms really want
The growth in opportunity in the ecommerce platform space is huge and platforms like Amazon and Etsy and many others have stepped in to meet that demand according to Hyperwallet. But there are still issues that these platforms have not fully solved, especially around payments. Problems include geographical reach, comprehensiveness of payment offerings, speed of reconciliation but the number one factor that leads to platforms having merchants switch away is around trust in the payment system and its effectiveness.
Target sets up its own smartphone payment solution
Target is going to roll out in-store payments using mobile devices later this year and it is doing so with a payment solution it designed itself. Target has apparently been working on the solution for over a year and one wrinkle is that the solution is only going to be available to customers using its own chip-enabled RedCards, perhaps as a result of the highly publicized breach Target suffered late in 2013.
Global Movement toward Fintech Regulation
Although it's too early for the new US Administration to have made a policy statement about Fintech, the previous administration had a policy position paper on the topic and it turns out there is a global movement toward government regulation in Fintech. Besides the US, India, Germany, the UK and the G20 countries have all discussed this possibility.
Chris Skinner on Laundering-as-a-Service
One of the more fascinating reads this week was finance analyst Chris Skinner's take on the widespread prevalence of money laundering in global financial systems and the continued failure of anti-money-laundering efforts. It's certainly a provocative take on the topic.
Over 800 of the data breaches in 2016 exposed credit card numbers
There were over 4000 significant data breaches reported globally in 2016 and Digital Transactions reports that RiskBased Solutions analyzed them and believes just under 20% of them involved credit card data. There was a slight drop in overall numbers of incidents from 2015 to 2016 but the amount of data reported as affected increased dramatically, primarily because of the reports of two huge data breaches at Yahoo that involved hundreds of millions of accounts.


text: 15 Things Vulnerable To HackingalexpFactTechnology0 Comments 0 CNN.com Internet-enabled devices are popping up in cars, home appliances, medical devices, and even children's toys. With them, people are able to drive handsfree on the way to work, monitor the conditions of their home while on vacation, check in with their doctors about tests, and keep an eye on newborns as they sleep. While such connectedness brings convenience, it also makes us vulnerable to hacking. The next time you use a device that connects to the internet, you ought to remember that you might not be the only one logging in. As more and more companies and brands find new ways to connect everyday items to the Internet, an increasing number of hackers are discovering ways to exploit them. Besides privacy concerns, there are thousands of safety implications for the person whose just had a personal device hacked. There are many cases where hackers hold private files on people's personal devices for ransom, traumatizing the victim. The fear of being hacked becomes all the scarier when you consider the likelihood of occurrence; recent research revealed that nearly three-quarters of all Internet-connected devices are susceptible to compromise. An awareness for what items in your possession are susceptible to a hack can make all the difference. To give you a greater understanding of the various items in your life that can expose you to an attack, here's a list of 15 devices that are vulnerable to hacking. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16


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Baptism is an outward sign of your decision to follow Christ. It is a public declaration of your faith in Christ and your decision to live for him.
Why get baptized?
Baptism is a visual and symbolic demonstration of a person's faith in Jesus Christ. It signifies that the former way of life has been put to death and depicts the raising up of a new life committed to following Christ. As part of your testimony, we ask that you fill out this form: Baptism MY STORY and return it to the church office.
Baby Baptism/Christening
Some denominations choose to christen/baptize babies. While we recognize the right of other churches to practice baby christening, we understand scripture to teach that only professing believers qualify for baptism. Baptism doesn't make you a believer; rather, it shows that you already believe. Please check out our information on child dedication.
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Christie Brinkley has called the Hamptons home for 30 years now, so it's no surprise that Hamptons Magazine should choose to honour her and her family for a very special cover. Yes, for December 2013, Brinkley is photographed alongside Sailor and Jack in their natural habitat - the Hamptons. This isn't the first time we've seen mother and daughter together, and it certainly won't be the last as they've recently signed together with a modelling agency.
Would it be rude of us to mention that Christie Brinkley is 59 years of age? Seriously, this woman has to be the best looking and most well preserved nearly-sixty-year old we've ever encountered. What does she do?! We need details.
Read more over on Hamptons Mag.


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By Ray Comfort
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Product Description
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Comfort dedicates the book to popular contemporary atheist evolutionist Richard Dawkins, who introduced the oxymoronic concept "Nothing Created Everything": "To Richard Dawkins, in the sincere hope that he looks beyond the hypocrisy of organized religion, before he goes to meet his maker."
Dawkins wrote in his 2004 book "The Ancestor's Tale": "The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved literally out of nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice."
"Nothing Created Everything" is Comfort's informative, loving and no-holds-barred response to Dawkins. "Anyone who tries to actually justify that nothing created everything has to be insane," writes Comfort. "This is a scientific impossibility." He continues, "There's no way to say it kindly, but such thoughts show that the atheist doesn't think, and proves the Bible right when it says that the fool has said in his heart that there is no God."
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About the Author
Ray Comfort is the founder/president/CEO of Living Waters Publications. After relocating from New Zealand to Southern California in the late 1980s, Comfort introduced a long line of pastors and churches to a biblical teaching which he called "Hell's Best-Kept Secret." In addition to his main ministry, he co-hosts (with Kirk Cameron) the award-winning television program "The Way of the Master," which airs in 70 countries around the world. He also co-hosts a daily radio program by the same name, airing on the Sirius Satellite Radio Network and hundreds of terrestrial stations.
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TV review: The Poison Tree gave us a delicately constructed mood of melancholy misery.
Flashbacks are tricky critters to get right. In The Poison Tree (ITV1) the timeline looped back and forth between the present and a past intended to be 12 years prior, a device designed to allow the mystery of the tragedy that had enveloped student Karen to gradually reveal its hand. But while the present was easy to buy into, the past was weirdly out of whack.
The Poison Tree is an adaptation of Erin Kelly's debut novel, in which the key flashback action occurs in 1997, when Karen encounters fellow student Biba and her classically cheek-boned brother, Rex. Karen is from a humdrum background in Warrington; Biba and Rex are not.
The names alone are enough to tell you that. So we had two worlds colliding, heads turning, that kind of caper. And it was all wrapped in a suitably opaque cloak of mystery.
The trouble was, the past felt more like 1967 than 1997.
Ophelia Lovibond's over-wrought Biba, named after the iconic Kensington boutique, appeared beamed in from the golden age of hippies – but she was not so much a free-spirited bohemian, more a deeply irritating spoiled brat disguised as a Kate Bush tribute act. Her egotistical antics, hanging on to Rex to the point of suspected incest, clung like sickly patchouli to the air, smothering The Poison Tree's delicately constructed mood of melancholy misery.
MyAnna Buring and Matthew Goode made an appealing if unlikely couple, Karen having wriggled her way between Rex and Biba's toxic sibling bond. While the story, a tangled tale of family jealousy, the meaning of true love and how secrets have a nasty way of popping up and biting you on the behind, offered plenty to chew over. The present-day setting – with Karen, Rex and their daughter attempting a new life amid the bleak seaside beauty of Dungeness – was a neat physical embodiment of how it feels to cling to the edge of society.
However, every time the mood threatened to take hold, it got Biba'd; hijacked by a character drawn on an entirely different ratio to everyone else. Still, despite all that, I'll be clinging to the branches of The Poison Tree's mystery next week.


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AUSTIN, Texas - Texas started spring practice with a quarterback duel and ended it with last season's starter, Tyrone Swoopes, entrenched as the No. 1.
For now.
Swoopes went 17-of-31 passing for 159 yards and ran for a touchdown Saturday as Texas ended spring drills with the annual Orange-White Scrimmage. Jerrod Heard was 20 of 29 for 177 yards and also ran for a score, but also threw an interception and tapered off after two early flashy drives.
Coach Charlie Strong said he hasn't seen enough yet from Heard to unseat Swoopes as the starter. Texas opens the 2015 season at Notre Dame on Sept. 5.
Texas went 6-7 and lost the Texas Bowl in Strong's first season in 2014. Swoopes started 12 games last season and took the brunt of fan criticism as Texas struggled offensively all season.
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The fail fast idiom is all about catching software errors at the earliest possible stage. The idiom is surprisingly often just neglected, as if developers loved to spend days tracking down obscure bugs which they know would just as well have been caught with a tiny bit of extra work in the first place.
Failing fast doesn't mean that the number of failures increases. Rather, it means that the failures are not neglected and ignored, but found as soon as possible. For example, suppose that we call a function that returns a value, which in our subsequent code must then be below a certain maximum value:
int value = p->FunctionCall(); if ( value > max ) { value = max; } DoStuff( value );
Here, if the returned value is greater than
max, it is set to
DoStuff() requires that the value is less or equal to
max. Now, this clamping may or may not be the intended behaviour. If setting the value to
max is just a fail-safe in order to prevent
DoStuff() from crashing if
p->FunctionCall() returns an erroneous value, it is better to make sure already at this point that the value is indeed within specified bounds by adding an assertion.
Assertions are one of the foresighted developer's best friends. There are a multitude of ways in which assertions are used, for example in Symbian code there are e.g.
__ASSERT_DEBUG() and
__ASSERT_ALWAYS() macros, for which you can provide a function to be called if the assertion fails. Then there's the good old
assert() macro from the standard C library, which is defined to write to the standard error output (prior to calling
abort()) at least the asserted expression and the file name and line number where the assertion failed.
Where to put assertions, then? Usually there are quite a few places in code where a certain invariant must hold true. For example, there may be a member variable which must have a certain value upon function invocation, or else the results of the function are undefined. As a pseudocode example, imagine that we're supposed to sell toys, and all their bells and whistles must be painted before they're ready for shipment.
void Toy::Paint() { for_each( bells_.begin(), bells_.end(), PaintFunc ); for_each( whistles_.begin(), whistles_.end(), PaintFunc ); }
Let's say that we add a new
Toy to a vector container to be shipped to a retailer but forget to call its
Paint() function. We now have a bunch of toys but, unbeknownst to us due to our negligence, one of them is missing paint from its bells and whistles. Uh oh, the delivery truck is here, and those guys don't have all day. Better call the
Offload() function to make some space in the warehouse:
void WareHouse::Offload( const std::vector<Toy>& toys ) { for_each( toys.begin(); toys.end(); ShipFunc ); }
Now we're done with the toys, but one has slipped through without all the invariants checked. A good solution here would be to check in the
Offload() function that we're shipping out kosher items. Supposing that bells and whistles derive from a common class,
Part, and that the base class contains a
IsPainted() function to check if the part in question has been painted, we can add an assert to the
Offload() function as follows:
void WareHouse::Offload( const std::vector<Toy>& toys ) { for ( std::vector<Toy>::const_iterator<Toy> iter = toys.begin(); iter != toys.end(); ++iter ) { assert( iter->IsPainted() ); } for_each( toys.begin(); toys.end(); ShipFunc ); }
Here the assert will stop program execution to prevent shipping of unpainted toys. What we're trying to achieve here is that already during development phase we are able to deal with code paths that result in unpainted toys being shipped. It's better to make the problems manifest themselves as early as possible (to fail fast) than trying to find obscure bugs during the final, often hectic stages of an imminent release.


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The Samsung Galaxy S8 is coming in the Spring and Samsung is anxious to release it to make the Galaxy Note 7 disaster forgotten. Here is everything we know about the Galaxy S8.
2017 will really be interesting for the tech world as we will witness the latest and greatest products from some of the finest tech companies in the world. Samsung Galaxy X is going to be the first ever fully flexible and folding smartphone by Samsung, which is going to be debuted next year. Apple is most likely to renew its iPhone line up and introduce an all-glass build and AMOLED displays.
Although all this might give all the fans out there a rush of adrenaline, there will be usual business as well. It has also been indicated that Samsung will launch another smartphone which is next in line to the Galaxy S7 in 2017, most probably in February or March. It will be Samsung Galaxy S8. Samsung has earned tremendously by launching Galaxy S7 and Galaxy Note 7 in 2016 and their sales will continue to provide between now and 2017.
Samsung's game plan changed when there was a defect found in Galaxy note 7, it was reported handsets had started exploding. Thus, putting users at risk. Samsung quickly looked into the matter and found out that the battery was the cause of the explosions. Samsung began a massive replacement and recall program, which is still in progress. It is expected to cost Samsung $1.5bn.
This shortfall could be picked up by Samsung Galaxy S8. The company has rather big plans for 2017. With flexible phones including Samsung S8 and the note. Apple played low with its iPhone 7 launch, which offers only some incremental update, certain upgrades and a better camera. Apparently Apples planning big changes for the next year as it will be iPhone's 10th Anniversary, this is a good opportunity for Samsung to clean up its mess. What will the new Samsung Galaxy 8 offer? There have been some rumors regarding this matter. The following outlines predictions regarding the handset according to Samsung's habits and trends.
Samsung Galaxy S8: Design
Former leaks have indicated that Samsung will follow its trend of 2015 and 2016 , with Galaxy S8 and a Galaxy S8 Edge both being launched. The curved EDGE display will prevail. Statements made by Samsung execs hint that the curved display might be extended to all the company's flagship brands in the future. Thus, in 2017 Samsung Galaxy S8 model supporting the name as such and the EDGE DISPLAY design will be launched.
Furthermore Samsung's mobile boss stated that '' Samsung has considered that it would make the edge display as the identity of the Galaxy S smartphone line up if the company can provide consumers differentiated user experience through software and user-friendly functions." Though it is not set in rock. The new handset may just bear a flat screen but my money is on the curved one. The other parts of the designs are rather tricky.
The previous two generations have sported the same metal and glass designs. The company might change this to keep the users interested. With Samsung being slow to change their designs as history depicts. The S6/S7 are not too bad on the eye and S7 being waterproof. There is not much of a need for change in my opinion, is there? The biggest question is obviously the removal battery feature. Many Samsung users say that they miss it.
LG launched the LG G5 which has a removable battery compartment. Though the sales of LG were not in the same league as those of Samsung's products. So it can be concluded that this feature is not a deal breaker for many smartphone users now. Keeping in mind Samsung's industrial trends, it is difficult to predict a major change of color or texture in the new handset. It cannot be imagined that Samsung will follow the tracks of LG and Lenovo in modular back panel accessories.
Sources indicate that the new handset is being crafted while keeping VR in mind, the venture is known as "Project Dream" which is in line with Google's Android based VR project named " Google Dream"'. This project has a set of specs that will be required and Google has them distributed to the OEMs. Though this might not affect Galaxy S8's exterior features. All and all I think that Samsung will promote Galaxy S8 as a solid product and Galaxy X will entertain the users bored of Galaxy 8's design.
Samsung Galaxy S8: Display
Seeing that if the VR rumors are true then the handset will use a 5.5in 4k resolution (3840 x 2160 pixel) display. The market already has many 4k resolutions handsets in competition, Samsung might want to push further along the trend with better resolution. It has been heard that Galaxy X will have a 4k display so it makes sense for the S8 too. This may give rise to further problems such as added battery drain.
At this point even if this does not play out as predicted it can be expected to have the QHD resolution as the Galaxy S7. Samsung is the reigning king in high quality displays, to its safe to assume that Samsung will keep to its legacy and its signature Super AMOLED with clever diamond sub-pixel layouts.
Thus Samsung Galaxy S8 can be predicted to have a better finer display. Sources state that "Now the Korean tech giant is promoting the curvy screen as its premium smartphone line up's key identity,"'.Sources said the company has already started securing display panels in two sizes — 5.1 inch and 5.5 inch — from its own display-making unit Samsung Display, the world's sole producer of double-edged screens.
Samsung Galaxy S8: Camera
It was reported earlier that Samsung has been working on a new sensor design that could make the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy Note S7's capturing capabilities even better. Samsung's new kit has an f/1.4 aperture on a 1/1.7" CMOS sensor rated at between 18MP and 24MP according to sources. Furthermore, the Galaxy S7 has 12MP camera module featuring an f/1.8 aperture and a 1/2.5" sensor size using a Sony sensor. At this time we cannot be sure if the new sensor in a part of Samsung's ISOCELL or BRITECELL technologies.
As icing on the cake, its further heard that Samsung is expected to have a dual-sensor camera and it will be engineered by Samsung Motors aka SEMCO. Hence, the firm will be making its own imaging tech. A Weibo tipster has stated that S8 will support both a 12MP Samsung S5K2L2 sensor and an as-yet unidentified Sony 13MP sensor, both of which will operate in tandem and some special feature capabilities. He also says to expect a front-facing 8MP camera and the Galaxy Note 7's iris scanner.
Samsung Galaxy S8: Hardware.
This is a little difficult to predict. Samsung has typically updated its Galaxy S flagship category immensely after every generation. However as the S8 is set to launch at MWC in early 2017, so the Qualcomm might not have much time to produce next-gen chips considering how little has been explained about the Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 and supposed Samsung Exynos 8995.
It seems that they are not in process yet and they have to be if the handset is set to be launched soon. Failing that we'd be looking at Samsung using a tweaked version of its current Exynos 8890 and/or the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820/821 and it might cause uproar among the fans and critics alike. In the case of memory, Samsung has so far offered the Galaxy S7 series in 32GB and 64GB flavors with 4GB RAM, and the Galaxy Note 7 with 64GB storage and 4GB RAM, in spite of rumors that the Note 7 would land with 128GB storage and 6GB RAM.
However, Samsung has now confirmed that the Galaxy Note 7 will have a variant released in China with this 128GB/6GB combo. Memory, Samsung has offered the Galaxy S7 series in 32GB and 64GB flavors with 4GB RAM, and the Galaxy Note 7 with 64GB storage and 4GB RAM, in spite of rumors that the Note 7 would land with 128GB storage and 6GB RAM. However, Samsung has now confirmed that the Galaxy Note 7 will have a variant released in China with this 128GB/6GB combo.
Keeping Samsung operation techniques it will want to provide higher RAM and storage in S8. So a return in the microSD card might be witnessed. The finger print scanner and the iris scanner may make a return from the Galaxy Note 7. We will have to wait and see what Samsung has in store for us and we really hope Galaxy S8 is not exploding like the Galaxy Note 7.
Samsung Galaxy S8: Home Button
We are still not over the news of Galaxy Note 7 catching fire. Nevertheless new rumors are in town regarding the hardware of Samsung Galaxy 8. The new Samsung Flagship phone is rumored to give up its present click form of the Home button and might have something to Apple's iPhone 7 non moving Home button. Samsung Galaxy 8 might not even have a home screen button at all leading to a whole screen front. Another addition also includes an arrangement of dual rear cameras. The changes are pretty impressive but yet are rumors. We still have to wait for the final release.
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The Vice President of Samsung mobile communications Lee Kyeong tae has said the S8 will have a slick design, an improved camera and most interestingly enhanced Artificial intelligent assistant.


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Spring goodies from Haus of Gloi!
I've reviewed most of the recurring Spring scents before, so I won't bother breaking these up into individual reviews. Short (…ish) thoughts on the new scents are below.
Splendiferous: "White cake, lemon zest glaze and sugared violets."
Very tart lemon and powdery violet. The cake isn't really discernable on cold sniff, which is disappointing. It's like a candy dish with Lemon Heads and those soapy-tasting French violet candies mixed up together. On my skin it's pretty much the same. It's got a very acidic quality. I expected this to be much softer. I think if the cake were more present I might like it better.
Honeybelle: "A blooming orange orchard, orange blossom honey, soft white tea and creamy white amber."
Amber and honeysuckle. Just a hint of orange. I know honeysuckle isn't actually a note here, so I'm pretty sure it's the orange blossom I'm smelling, but my brain reads it as honeysuckle. On my skin I get a hint of orange and white florals (not particularly honeysuckle anymore), but mostly the amber takes over. It's very strong and perfumey, to the point of being headache-inducing. Amber is always iffy, but white amber in particular is quickly becoming a death note for me. Pass.
Tonic #4: "Yuzu, basil, cilantro, lemongrass and raw sugar cane accord."
Fresh cilantro. Some citrus too, bright and clean, but mostly cilantro. It stays the same on skin – fresh, crisp cilantro and citrus. It smells very salad-y. I love love love cilantro, so this one was an automatic winner for me. When I made my boyfriend smell it, he thought it smelled like fresh carrots with the greens still attached. I think it would probably be awesome layered with Ploughman.
Passionfruit Custard Lip Balm: "Passionfruit blended into a rich baked custard."
Sweet, creamy tropical fruit. Yum.
Rosemilk & Caramel Lip Balm: "Our lovely rose flavor met with caramel."
Rose and caramel. Simple, light, and very nice. I'd buy either of these lip balm flavors in a hearbeat if they were offered as perfume oils.
And the recurring scents…
Ploughman (and mislabeled Imp): This was my favorite scent from last year, hands down, so I ordered a full-sized pumpkin butter and a hair oil. (I already have a bottle of the perfume oil and a bubbling scrub. All the Ploughman, I must have it.)
The hair oil is my first from HoG, and it really threw me for a loop because then I opened it it smelled extremely fruity – nothing at all like Ploughman. So I emailed HoG and it turns out that my bottle was mislabeled – what I have is actually Imp! Which is a happy accident, since that scent was on my short list when I was deciding which hair oil to order. And my for real Ploughman oil has already shipped out, because Haus of Gloi's customer service is just fantastic.
In any case, the texture is lovely and silky and it's a really good-sized bottle for the price. I love the dropper for convenience. I have very fine, fairly thin hair, so I only use oil on the very ends of my hair, lest I look like I dipped my head in a vat of Crisco. Which means that this bottle will probably last me a year, easy. Which SHOULD stop me from getting more scents, particularly since I will soon have two bottles, but I'm already anticipating getting one in The Briar Path when summer scents reappear. Because I have Problems.
Selkie: I got a sample of this last year and loved it, so I ordered a bottle and a mini pumpkin butter straight away this year. It's a great, spicy aquatic with a touch of sage. I'm not a huge fan of aquatics as a scent category, so this is one of the very few I have in my collection.
Ruth: This was my free sample. I reviewed Ruth last year and my feelings haven't changed. It's the worst.
The other scents from last year that came back are Milkmaid and Lassi.
The Spring collection is still up on Haus of Gloi for purchase as of this posting, though some items are sold out. (Including Maedwe, which appeared for a brief and glorious instant and then was gone for good. I think there were like four bottles for sale, honestly. It really bummed me out because I ordered within about 10 minutes of the collection going live, and I had a bottle in my cart, but when I went to check out it was already sold out. Super disappointing. I hope they bring it back for real next year.)


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The issue is being fought in statehouses as the gun lobby presses to arm far more citizens in far more places regardless of the risks. Gun safety groups are pushing back, blocking liberalized gun measures in Montana and Florida this year even as the number of states legalizing guns on campuses, among the safest places in the nation, rose to 10.
The Arkansas law enacted in March was particularly alarming because it initially allowed spectators to come armed to the 72,000-seat stadium where the University of Arkansas Razorbacks play football. In a matter of days, the Legislature backtracked as sports and safety groups and an aroused public imagined the mayhem that could occur if there were gunplay by fans or fanatics. They asked why spectators are forbidden to take umbrellas and diaper bags into the stadium yet could legally carry a loaded firearm on game day.
So a second law was passed to exempt the stadium from campus carry, with no apology from the Republican Legislature for its waywardness. The law would still open most publicly owned buildings to citizens with concealed handguns, including the Capitol, as well as bars and restaurants that don't post signs against gun-toting customers.
In Georgia, which passed campus carry this month, opponents hoped that Gov. Nathan Deal, a Republican, would veto the bill as he did a year ago with a forceful rejection that cited Thomas Jefferson and James Madison on the need to keep universities inviolable. But after a five-year push by the gun lobby, the governor signed it this time. He claimed the legislature, the General Assembly, had satisfactorily modified the law to ban guns in such "sensitive places" as faculty and administrative offices and preschool children's centers — as if they are more threatened than college classes.
Police and university officials, who had strongly opposed the law as dangerous, now are burdened with making it work in the face of all manner of unanswered questions. Dormitories and fraternity and sorority houses will still ban guns, but how will firearms be safely stored at night? And how will classroom life and student demonstrations be affected by the proximity of concealed guns?
The vast majority of the nation's colleges and universities ban firearms. But the gun lobby's campaign is relentless in leaning on gullible politicians who parrot fantasies about campus dangers. This, despite federal research showing that college grounds have lower homicide rates than most of America. Arming campuses is a political path of low cunning that despoils the very idea of a university.