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|Usefulnesses Amassed
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I was recently offered to exchange my Nokia E61 for a Nokia E71. As the E71 has several advantages over the E61, and almost no disadvantages, I decided to give it a try.
This is a stream-of-action journal of my transition from E61 to E71, with a few thoughts and remarks along the way.
This is also the first in a series of texts called Usefulnesses Amassed.
Usefulnesses Amassed will take the role as some kind of blog-ish thing, and honestly, what would you like to amass the most on a blog, but usefulnesses?
In the simplest case, it would just be a matter of moving the SIM card from one to the other, and be done with it. But no, I'm not that easy to please; I want my contactses! My precious contactses! And my SMSeseses! The precious! And my noteses!
Fair enough, and actually easy enough; Nokia has, in their infinite wisdom, actually included a migration application. In Swedish, it's called "Meny > Verktyg > Överföring". I only got Swedish manuals with it, and the accompanying CD seem to be unreadable by Linux. How Nokia has managed to make a CD that's unreadable in Linux (tried with Fedora 7 and Fedora 9 in two different computers) is a fascinating question, but not what I've planned writing about today.
(It seems to be some kind of hybrid CD; the strings "Apple_partition_map" and "CDEveryWhere Hybrid Volume" occur in the beginning of the disc. Anyway, never mind that now.)
http://nds1.nokia.com/phones/files/guides/Nokia_E71-1_UG_en.pdf provided me with a User Guide in English, and "Menu > Tools > Switch" is what the application is called in the rest of the world. It's easy enough to use, and will transfer your most precious data to your new phone via Bluetooth. Or IR, I presume, if you'd want that.
http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2008/07/symbian-gurus-ultimate-guide-to-switching-devices.html has a good walk-through for this part, and also goes into a few things I personally didn't have to do.
That takes care of that. We're ready to go! Or, almost. There's MilliLock, which handles all my passwords, lives in some kind of Java environment and seem to be completely invisible to anything able to access the internal file systems.
X-plore can do that. I believe it's the most polished file browser I've ever seen, and competent at that. Fully usable shareware.
Y-Browser can do it, too. Not as polished, not as many built-in functions, but Dr. Jukka hands it out for free. Just watch out; it doesn't install to the normal install folder.
The Java stuff probably lives hidden inside some heavily protected folder, somewhere. I could install a MilliLock on the new phone and manually transfer the entries, but honestly, what's the fun in that?
MilliLock is a nice application. It doesn't suit all my needs, and it has a few peculiar features, at least my older version does, but it is able to run at both the phone and my Linux computer. That's nice. It even has a way of transfering entries between the desktop and the phone. That's nice, too.
What's Not There
Sync Back to P.C.
MilliLock transfers data one way right now. This is primarily because J2ME doesn't make socket programming, except for HTTP, very easy. Data could be sent via HTTP Post, but then the Desktop would need to implement a server. I considered this approach, which would work fine for my personal use, but discarded it in favor of making it really easy for any user to control their own accounts using a cheap commodity hosting service such as through Go Daddy.
Right. I don't really use the desktop counterpart of MilliLock, I've tried it once to see what it's like, but my primary, and indeed only, input method is through the phone.
Fortunately, the above seems to be no longer true, as indicated in another page at the MilliLock site:
Sync Server Mode:
The modes are:
MilliLock can only upload to a MilliServer. But uploading is only needed if you wish to send records from the phone to your P.C.
Downloads can be of either type: Either a file from a website (uploaded via FTP from the application) or a MilliServer.
Good! And there's a downloadable MilliServer published at http://millilock.com/wordpress/?p=11, just point wget at it and download. Perfect!
Unzip, and... ".exe"? Ok, there's a "This program cannot be run in DOS mode." string in it, which mean it's a Windows binary. Sigh.
I could get the source code for it by contacting Tony, probably through a comment on his blog, and tell him about two open source projects I've been involved in. That's the easy part, but for now, I'm utterly fed up with dancing around to coax my data out of MilliLock. It's not Tony's fault, neither MilliLock's, but rather a combination of obscure limitations that prevent him from just implementing a nice bidirectional transfer function and the general stubbornness of cell phone manufacturers.
MilliLock will have to wait.
I'm using another application; Wellness Diary. I'm using it to log my weight on an irregular basis. The other modes, Exercise, Steps, Calendar, Eating, Sleep, and Working time, are either of low importance to me, or simply doesn't fit my preferences, and neither of us are willing to adjust. Weight it is, then.
Surprisingly enough, WD does not seem to contain one iota of contact or manufacturer information. Google it, and you'll find that it's part of a set of Nokia applications: http://www.nokia.com/A4384042
I'm a Fonero, and have my 3G card in the E61. Time to download ConectaFON, or Symbian Connection Manager, as it is called. I found it at https://www.fon.com/en/support/fonMaterials, along with some other stuff I'll have to investigate at a later time. The download went well, and the installation seem to have worked, too, although the installer told me this version of the connection manager isn't compatible with the E71. I'm guessing it simply isn't officially tested compatible, as I got network and all that.
With net access available, I downloaded the newest version of WD, which seem to have a few more options I'd like to have. I know how I'd built the application if I were the author, but OK, I'm not, and I'm too lazy to make my own.
WD has a handy feature; you can send a dump of a category via mail, bluetooth or a variety of other options. If I send the Weight category to the new phone, it shows up in the Inbox. WD doesn't seem to be able to import what I received, though, and messages can only be copied and organized within the message application, not saved to the file system. Oh well.
I found a simple description of what needs to be done in order to migrate data; use a third party file manager (X-plore or Y-Browser, above), copy \System\data\wfrdb.sq to a location accessible by your computer, transfer it to the computer and then to the other phone. On that phone, use the third party file manager to overwrite \System\data\wfrdb.sq. I thought these phones were supposed to be kind of intelligent...
The E61 has a special USB cable that ends in a PopPort™ connector. I knew I had it somewhere, but did I find it before I'd rummaged through my entire desk? Twice?
The E71 also has a funky USB port, but at least it's microUSB, which means I can buy a new cable at the nearest burger place (almost, anyway) if I lose or break the original one.
Well, moving the sq file to the computer and to the new phone gave me a brand new Wellness Diary with my full WD history. Well done! (I could have used a memory card as transfer medium instead of the computer, but why make things easier than necessary?)
Next item: PuTTY. Can't have a networked device without PuTTY. http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/, folks, it's a must.
Here, the smaller keyboard of the E71 shows a flaw: The combined Ctrl and Chr key is totally broken. What good is a Ctrl key that default to being a Chr key, and no longer can be used to send Ctrl-char without both being pressed simultaneously? DO NOT WANT, as the good Lord Vader exclaimed. And inside PuTTY, holding down Ctrl while repeatedly pressing, for example, o, will cycle through a list of o-like characters, but not Ctrl-o proper. Oh well, I might become used to PuTTY's
Naaahhh... There must be some way to fix that. Must, must, must!
[Update 1]: There is, of course. Just press
GMail was a quick install. No problem there.
Opera Mini is a nice browser that can do some things the built-in browser can't.
That's about everything moved. Not MilliLock, not yet, but I will beat that one, too. And I hope there is some way to make the Ctrl key sane in PuTTY.
I'm interested in Python, and there is a Symbian Python, PyS60, at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pys60. Downloading it with the phone is not the most pleasant experience I've had, not least because the built-in browser seem to crash if I scroll while it's retrieving a page.
Anyway, a bit of googling tells me the E71 is an FP1 phone, and one PythonForS60 and a PythonScriptShell later, I have Python on my phone. Now, if that isn't cool, I don't know what is! The documentation PDF just renders white in the phone's PDF viewer, though.
Update after a good night's sleep: I officially consider myself beaten by MilliLock. I took the half hour or so it took to manually copy and verify my passwords.
Why? Because I'm not sure even a MilliServer could help me. My initial tests showed that although the application does send a POST request to an HTTP server, there is no POST data sent along with it. At least not using the E61, nor the E71.
[Update 2]: POST data is being sent, just not in standard key/value format. Should have thought of that earlier.
The thing has a GPS receiver in it. Cool. I couldn't get it to lock, though. A quick search on the net told me that the "Positioning server" field often is set to a less than perfect value when the operator configure your phone. The general tip is to change it to "supl.nokia.com", which I did, and now I get GPS data, too. An interesting project could be to compare its performance to the Bluetooth GPS I got for the E61.
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HouseOfSerpent – F173 – Tickling the Sub Girl
Mistress Pip and Mistress Kali put their Sub Girl through an intense tickle torture session in this 15 minute video. Already secured to the bed, the two Mistresses start by silencing their Sub with a ball gag and a hood. At first, the sub girl tries to resist the ball gag, but that's really not an option against one experienced Mistress, let alone two. And with the ball gag in place, they move to their next task and apply some incredible toe bondage, with each toe individually stretched back to provide maximum access to the sensitive soles. A leather cuff and a short chain then secure the last ankle to the bed and… let the tickle torture commence. To begin with, the two Mistresses focus their attention on the torso and under the arms, but they soon move to the more sensitive feet. The Sub Girl struggles to escape the tickle torture, but all her attempts to escape are futile and the creative toe-bondage does its job perfectly by allowing unrestricted access to the sensitive soles. The Sub Girl simply cannot stop laughing and the constant wriggling and squirming just encourages the Mistresses to intensify their tickling. This is tickle torture at its finest by two beautiful Mistresses.
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On Thursday two weeks ago we (the Alberta World Cup Academy) embarked on what has become an annual event for the Academy: Whitefish. For those not in the know, Whitefish is our fourth training camp of the year and our final training camp to take place during the part of the training season that focuses on volume training (see "Volume" blog post). Coincidentally, Whitefish is held in Whitefish Montana, on the shores of the picturesque Whitefish lake, at the foot of Big Mountain (creative name eh?). With many hours to complete, easy access to a lake, a big mountain and ice cream the scene was set for some top-notch training!
In honour of our ten days of solid training I have uploaded and captioned 10 of my favourite pictures from the camp for your viewing pleasure! Enjoy.
|Whitefish Lake:
Water was one of the themes of our trip; starting with a jump into the Bow River right between the end of a 3.5hr rollerski from Canmore up towards Lake Louis and a 5hr van ride to our lodgings in Whitefish "Big Sky Country". Many a gainer (running back flip) was attempted off the end of this dock after a workout.
|Top of Big Mountain:
In the afternoon of day 2 we climbed Big Mountain, following a sweet gym workout in the morning. It's Big Sky Country for a reason.
"I don't usually take pictures of food, but when I do it usually tends to be almost all gone." I roomed with Mike and Chris for the camp and, I gotta say, we ate pretty well! Here you see a salad with one of the tastiest dressings I've ever had, potato wedges and hamburgers (all curtsy of Chris), set to the backdrop of Whitefish Lake, and Mike's right hand.
|Cross Country Canada Truck:
You know you're going places when the support vehicle for you workout says "CANADA" on it!! Sweeet!
|Elevation change:
On Monday the 19th we ran up the mountain again as a recovery workout in the afternoon. Both times we climbed Big Mountain we took the gondola down and promptly drove back to our condos on the lake–a total vertical drop of over 1km! I didn't open my waterbottles until I got back to the Condo and I found them looking slightly more squiggly than I remembered them to look.
|800 meters:
Tuesday was a zone3 day! As mentioned above, Big Mountain afforded us some sweet vertical. We took advantage of this fact by doing a rollerski workout on the road up to the base of the ski resort. After 5 8min reps of Z3 Yannick's watch read just over 800m. I was so stoked I set this nice looking number to the backdrop of some dead trees at the top of Big Mountain.
|Hungry Horse Dam and Swix Stars:
Wednesday's workout was a dam good time! 4hrs of skate and classic beside the reservoir of the tallest dam I've ever seen. To my excitement the road traversed the top of the damn and then along the reservoir to the right, through the burnt out forests.
|Whitefish Fun Run race shirt:
As we neared the end of the camp the day dawned that everyone had been waiting for. A day much anticipated for the legendary event which it held. The one, the only, The Whitefish Friends and Family Fun Run. Known for its spectacularly flat terrain and cotton participation shirts, I was particularly excited for this event because it was too be my first 10km running race! After psyching myself up with the help of Viking Death March by Billy Talent, and working through a solid 50ish min warm up, I was ready. Goals for the day? Stick with my team-mates as long as possible and don't get beat by a coach–Stef and Chris J. were both racing!
The starter raised her revolver into the air (seriously, it was a legit 6 shot cowboy pistol) and… bang! We were off!
To put a lot of pain into just a few words:
Jess lead off the start with 3min/km pace, which led to me getting dropped by my teammates a fair bit faster than I'd hoped. Just over a half hour after I fell off the pace I crossed the finish line in a sprint–narrowly accomplishing my other goal of not being beat by one of the coaches!
I don't think my legs have ever hurt that much in a ski race.
|Glacier National Park and Yours Truly:
Having completed a 10km running race on the previous day, one would think that running would be off the schedule for our final day of the camp. Well, one would be wrong.
To finish our awesome camp off in epic style we made our way up the Road to The Sun in Glacier National Park. I had heard from my teammates that Glacier Park was a solid setting for epic workouts, and after our annual rollerski up The Road to The Sun (which would have taken the place of the Hungry Horse Dam rollerski) was canceled due to the Girls being told off for rollerskiing there a day or two beforehand, I was really looking forward to getting a taste of the Park before our return to Canada.
The trail that we ran climbed about 700m vertical over the course of our 3hr run so that we finished up at just over 2000m altitude, and it took us through some of the most spectacular terrain that I've had a chance to run through, yielding many good opportunities to stare off majestically into the distance (see above). The only drawback of the trail was the number of other people on it! Every 500m or so I would call out another "hello!" or "thanks!" or "good day to you fine gentlemen!" to hikers who moved over to their side of the single track to let us by.
|Back in Canmore:
With our drive back home ending at the Nordic Centre, Mike gave Kevin and I a lift back to our houses. Yep, all that stuff belongs solely to Kevin, Mike and I. Nope, thankfully the back of the truck did not look like that for the 5hr ride home from the States.
Bonus Pictures:
|Burnt out trees in Glacier National Park
|Ground Squirrel shoe inspection in Glacier National Park. My Salomons past the test (duh)
|Hey, it's the Great Wall of China! We did an out and back on this tourist boardwalk thing to finish off the 3hrs in Glacier Park. It was even busier than the other trail. Can you spot Alex running by the tourists?
Well, I'm heading back east to visit my family tomorrow so I gotta get my sleep now! Until next time,
Dream Big, People!


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Saturday, April 08, 2006
Stuff of Interest - July 2006 - Usagi Yojimbo v20
by Stan Sakai
Wandering ronin Usagi Yojimbo is alone once again, having emerged from his travels with young Jotaro. His brief respite from danger was not destined to last long, for adventure in feudal Japan waits for no one! In this volume of the internationally acclaimed series, master storyteller Stan Sakai treats readers to intriguing tales of Usagi on his own and catches up with a bevy of fan-favorite characters-"whodunit" maestro Inspector Ishida has another puzzling mystery to solve, bounty hunters Gen and Stray Dog are each on the tail of the possessed swordswoman Inazuma, bodyguard Tomoe has a new political rival in Lord Noriyuki's court, and Priest Sanshobo's temple is plagued by a vile demon! Throughout these stories we follow Usagi as he is roped into a covert smuggling operation, escorts a cantankerous old woman through dangerous territory, assists an inventor with a visionary flying machine, and once again encounters a vengeful young samurai.
On sale July 12, Softcover, 184pg, b&w, 6" x 9", $15.95
On sale August 2, Hardcover w/dust jacket, 184pg, b&w, 6" x 9", $59.95
Whole lot of good stuff in this collection, with a lot of short stories. I especially liked the Ishida story, and of course anything with Gen is going to be fun. Plus the flying machine one is a good throwback to the style of the earliest era of Usagi, back when I started reading the book.
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Court rules against DVD copying / Trade secrets must be protected, justices say
The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld an order barring a Bay Area programmer from posting a program on his Web site that could be used to illegally copy DVD movies.
In a unanimous decision, the court said it is acceptable to suppress speech in order to protect trade secrets under certain conditions. However, it left it up to a lower court in San Jose to decide whether this particular posting constitutes a trade secret.
The ruling is the latest in the four-year legal tussle between the entertainment industry and computer users over DeCSS, software that circumvents copy protection on DVD movies.
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The decision doesn't have much practical effect because the DVD-copying program is widely available. Still, it represents an important step in establishing the delicate balance between intellectual property rights and individual freedoms in the digital age.
The dispute over DeCSS began in 1999, when Norwegian teenager Jon Johansen used reverse engineering to figure out the code for circumventing copy protection on DVDs and made it available on his Web site. Others, including Andrew Bunner, put copies of the code on their own sites.
Johansen faced criminal charges for his actions in Norway. He was acquitted earlier this year, but prosecutors are challenging that decision.
In 1999, the DVD Copy Control Association sued Bunner under California's trade secret law in Santa Clara County Superior Court. It won an injunction ordering him to remove the program from his site. A state appellate court set aside the injunction in 2001, saying it infringed on free speech.
In its decision Monday, the state high court said the government is not trying to suppress any point of view or opinion, but merely trying to protect the movie industry's trade secret. Since the speech is not being suppressed because of its content, the court said, the injunction to halt publication of the DVD code is valid so long as Bunner, in fact, violates trade secret law.
The movie industry has been trying to restrict the circulation of the DeCSS code ever since its 1999 release because people can use it to make unlimited copies of DVDs, which some then trade online or sell.
Pirated movies include "The Lion King," "Terminator" I and II, and "Jackass, " said Mark Ishikawa, chief executive officer of BayTSP, a Los Gatos company that tracks pirating.
Both representatives for the DVD industry and the free speech advocates representing Bunner were pleased with the ruling.
"The court's decision confirms that the First Amendment is not a shield to allow thieves to distribute stolen intellectual property," said Robert Sugarman, attorney for the plaintiff, the DVD Copy Control Association, in a statement. The association's members are companies in the movie, consumer electronics and computer industries.
"All individuals whose businesses or livelihoods depend upon the use of innovative technologies . . . can now rest more easily knowing that the courts will protect their trade secrets in DVDs and other products from theft and misuse," Sugarman said.
The Motion Picture Association of America, which supported the DVD group in the case, also praised the ruling.
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, as well as corporations including Boeing, Ford and AOL Time Warner, testified in support of the DVD group.
"This ruling makes it clear that the First Amendment may not be used as a shield for the blatant piracy and theft of trade secrets and digital control," Lockyer said in a release. "This will protect businesses that have relied on the Uniform Trade Secrets Act for 150 years from criminals who today steal computer codes and other intellectual material and post it on the Internet for instantaneous dissemination around the world."
Free speech advocates also praised the court's decision, saying it guarantees significant consideration to the First Amendment in every trade secret case. Now that the Supreme Court has instructed the Court of Appeal on what standard to use, Bunner's attorney, David Greene, said he is confident he will win in the lower court.
"We've been asking for a court that will rigorously review the facts, and that's what we're getting, but in two parts," said Greene, who works for Oakland's First Amendment Project.
The defense can argue that trade secret law was not broken for several reasons, said Cindy Cohn, legal director of San Francisco's Electronic Frontier Foundation. The likely arguments are that the information was obtained legally, that Bunner may not have known how the information was obtained and that the code is so widely available that it is no longer a secret.


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The offering is being made under the Company's base shelf prospectus dated May 25, 2011 and the debentures will be issued pursuant to the Company's trust indenture dated June 21,
2005, as supplemented. These debentures will rank pari passu with the Company's outstanding senior unsecured debentures.
The net proceeds of the offering will be used for development and redevelopment activities, acquisitions and for general corporate purposes.
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First Capital Realty is Canada's leading owner, developer and operator of supermarket and drugstore anchored neighbourhood and community shopping centres, located predominantly in growing urban markets. The Company currently owns interests in 165 properties, including eight under greenfield development, totalling approximately 23.3 million square feet of gross leasable area and three sites in the planning stage for future retail development.
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As moments go by I find myself longing. Longing to be able to rest my soul in Your presence. Longing to be able to let go. Longing to be able to just be.
Why is it such a challenge to discipline myself to merely sit in Your presence? Why is it a challenge to put aside distractions when I do?
The tears want to fall. I long for You. And when I feel like I don't, I want to long for You–and this is obvious by the shear fact that I am thinking about it. But then why is sitting in Your presence at times such a challenge?
Sometimes I think the answer is the need for rest. If I am more rested, I think I will be able to focus more, and not grow sleepy in those times. But then I think the key to being more rested is simply changing the way I live and move and breathe in this life.
I must do it in You, for in You I live and move and breathe.
My soul I must learn to quiet and subject to discipline. My thoughts I must learn to still and take captive. My mouth I must learn to guard and realize just how much I say that doesn't even need to be spoken. My attitude that sometimes hinders moments in Your presence must change somehow.
I want to be one of a gentle, quiet and beautiful spirit.
And I will be and I am. I know it is there because You are in me, Your Spirit is in me and Your Spirit is beautiful, gentle and so lovely. Beholding this, I can walk it out. So instead of focusing on all the do's or don't do's, I want to focus on You. I want to behold You in all Your glory and beauty…
I want You to fill my mind and imagination with holy thoughts, holy word pictures, holy visions of Your beauty, gentleness and grace. Sanctify my imagination, my mind! Open the eyes of my understanding!
I want to sing of Your great goodness within and flowing out. As I write this, I am nearly singing it inside my soul. I want all the hindrances gone, Lord! I want to stop choosing to follow my flesh or emotions. I'm made to follow You! I want to behold You, I want to know You, and I want to be more like You in beauty with a gentle and quiet spirit full of gratitude and grace.
Open up my eyes. Open up my mind and my imagination. I want to see You. I want to behold You. I want to see Your beauty. Give me the enabling to do my part, for I know that You always do Yours.
"[For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him, By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you…"
(Ephesians 1:17-18 AMP)
This Scripture is such a friend to me right now. Your Word is such treasure.


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Lincoln jug band plays for neighbors and others to sing along
Most neighborhood residents might dread listening to the sound of their neighbors' band practice, but that's not the case in Ian Craig's Near South neighborhood.
Craig and his band, The Root Marm Chicken Farm Jug Band, have quite the opposite effect when they serenade their Southeast Lincoln neighbors from the front porch.
The Root Marm Chicken Farm Jug Band is a band for everyone to enjoy regardless of age. Their goal is crowd participation and for everyone to have a good time singing popular songs such as "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" and "The Crawdad Song" together.
"I like to get the audience to participate as much as possible. That's the whole reason why we play the music we do," said Craig, the band's lead singer.
Friends unite for folk fun
The jug band is comprised of friends and core members Craig on vocals and guitar; Emily Wynn on banjo; Kyle Bruggerman on jug and kazoo; and Josh Kornbluh on a host of percussion and backup vocals. The band also has roughly ten others members who fill in whenever they are free to perform. They play everything from the fiddle and slide whistle to the trombone and ukulele.
Jug player Bruggerman had no prior experience but learned to play the instrument specifically for the band.
"Emily knew how to play the jug, which none of us knew how to do. We always figured you just blew into it but really it's more of a spitting technique," Bruggerman said. "There are pictures of the jug with a ton of spit at the bottom."
The friends had started out in rock bands, but found their new home in jug and roots music after they had gotten tired of rock scene. The Root Marm Chicken Farm Jug Band gets its name from an old episode of the Simpsons.
Bruggerman said the band typically gets together on Monday nights for practice, and since they have so many members it's OK if someone can't make it. They play pretty late in to the night, if weather permits.
"Whoever can make it changes each week, but that's usually when we go over new material we have been working on, or music we want to show to rest of the band," Bruggerman said.
Folk roots trump rock
Meanwhile, the group is enjoying the folk roots lifestyle.
Band members had come to dislike the complicated stage setups of rock gigs and were looking to escape from all the wires, cords and electronics.
"We were all getting into old-timey music," Craig said. "We were all coming from loud electric music, having to carry big heavy amps in to shows and getting tired of it. We wanted to simplify, man."
Craig and his band mates play old folksy covers to get people out of their chair to sing and dance. When not practicing on their front porch to an audience of neighbors out for a walk, the group can be found playing for tips and providing the music for Saturday mornings at Lincoln's Farmer's Market.
The jug band members found out quickly they were making a lot more money playing the streets compared to their old rock band gigs.
"When you are playing original music in a rock band you are never going to make a ton of money," Craig said. " The jug band plays a few original songs but we play mostly old timey tunes and covers."
Music with a message
With original songs, Craig tries to share his political views and spread a message.
The band wrote a song about Bernie Sanders called "Bernie's Tune" and have a song about Ernie Chambers that will be featured on the band's first album.
The jug band has been a part of several notable shows. In 2014, the band played a concert set up by Bold Nebraska, a group fighting the Keystone XL pipeline. Willie Nelson and Neil Young headlined the show on a farm near Neligh, Nebraska.
"It's not just about political messages. It's more about having fun and sharing good music with folks, but if you can put a message along with that there is no reason not to," Craig said. "There's just a fun, good-natured aspect of jug band music that gets people interested and intrigued."


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The set is reminiscent of a bar – who doesn't love mixing up different liquor combinations to try to create the perfect drink? The Mix*o*logie Blendable Perfume Collection is a fragrance take on that concept, with 8 tall roller ball perfumes that can be worn by themselves or layered for a seemingly endless array of fragrances.
The set comes with instruction cards that explain how to get familiar with the scents, how to use them, and suggestions for possible combinations. If you like experimenting but still want to color within the lines, the provided 'recipes' are great options. If you march to the beat of your own drummer, you'll toss aside the suggestions and go wild making your own signature fragrance.
The recipes are all inspired by drinks as well, using bar terminology like 'on the rocks' and 'with a twist'. They even have different emotional scenarios to help you figure out scent possibilities that might match your current state of mind. Ironically enough, while most perfumes have alcohol as the main ingredient – which is a skin irritant and a headache inducer – all of these scents are alcohol-free and made from high-quality concentrated oils with a gentle, longer-lasting emollient, DPG (dipropylene glycol).
The eight scents, which again can be worn alone, include:
My favorite scents by themselves are Tender, Sultry, and Tenacious. My favorite combo? Two splashes of Sultry, one splash of Free, and one splash of Electric – which also happens to the recipe entitled 'extra dirty', ha!
You've just got to put this set on your wish list for Valentine's Day. It's so much fun and you will be astonished at your creations that will become your own signature scents. – Lisa
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For The First Time, A Majority Of US Online Banking Customers Access Their Accounts On Smartphones And Tablets
John Heggestuen on the rise of mobile at the top three US banks.
"Mobile banking has overtaken desktop-only digital banking at three top banks in the US — Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase."
The Year of Fintech
Toby Young, CTO of Ebury, talks about the sharp rise of fintech.
"The fintech industry is booming. Browse through the business pages in any national daily and you'll likely hear about a fintech startup challenging convention or setting the pace with funding and investment.
Recent figures only serve to prove the rapid growth of the sector with deal volumes growing at a yearly rate of 74% since 2008. Start-ups are at the forefront, raising over $700m from investors during the same period (Accenture)."
How Banks Are Allocating Their Tech Budgets for 2015
Peggy Crosman looks forward and outlines what 2015 has in store.
"The two biggest centers of IT spending growth among North American banks for the coming year, according to Ovum, are mobile banking, which is expected to grow 7.5% next year, and online banking, which expected to rise 7%."
Marketing Must Evolve or Banks Face a 'No-Growth Death Spiral'
The Financial Brand covers a startling report from Cornerstone Advisors.
"A research report from management consulting firm Cornerstone Advisors, Inc. reveals that mid-size banks have made negligible progress on revenue growth in the past two years, and have not changed their marketing strategy to adequately address the changing landscape. The research shows that the 20th century models in place today at the majority of mid-size banks are a direct threat to their competitive futures."
The Future of Digital [Slide Deck]
BI Intelligence's deck covers all things digital in 121 slides.
We pulled the five most important slides for banks and credit unions here, but they're all worth looking at. This chart below is especially important for financial institutions, which should be asking themselves whether they're prepared for the digital revolution:
The Cool Kids Guide to Banking and Finance
John Abell on the relationship banks have with millennials.
"Have millennials sworn off banking — or are banks just particularly lousy at engaging with this tech-savvy, recession-burned group?
A bunch of recent reports make it look like the former: In a survey earlier this year, the Washington-based FINRA Financial Investor Education Foundation found that about 12% of millennials say they don't use the banking system, which is "more than any other generation, including GenX."


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Wedding After Party Services
Reception formalities, checked. Now, its time for your revellers to have a good time.
With the night still young, don't let the good times come to a close. After all, any bride will tell you that the wedding after party is where the real fun begins.
It's essential have an after-hours game plan for you to bring on the glitz and glamour and impress your guests. Not sure how to do it?
The Shake Affinity is here to get the party started.
Quench their Thirst
Depending on your budget, one option is to have an open bar or free flow bar of pre-selected drinks. Mix and match your drinks from our selection of cocktails, mocktails, Italian sodas, smoothies, milkshakes and more! Typically, an average recommended duration for our wedding after-party package is 3 hours per session for guests to completely enjoy their fill.
Our Popular Cocktails
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After hours of drinking and dancing, your guests are bound to get hungry. Whether you opt for an open bar at your after-party, you should also offer your guests something to snack on. Vary the look of reception and the after-party. If your main dish at dinner was salmon, a sushi bar at your after-party might be fish overload. Are your guests picky eaters with epicurean taste buds? The Shake Affinity is now offering a full range of sweet and savoury gourmet food catering options. Otherwise, it doesn't have to be too fancy - mini burgers, fries, and milkshakes makes a tasty supper snack.
Regardless of the number of guests, The Shake Affinity's gourmet food selections are guaranteed to satisfy. We maintain only the highest level of quality by using the freshest ingredients and providing impeccable attention to detail in every aspect of our service.
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Frontend Engineer in London
Job Description
Who said a job description had to be a one-pager?
Your time is valuable, and so is ours. And this is a huge decision for both of us.
So we've done our best to provide you with all the information you need to decide whether to pursue this opportunity – or just as importantly, not pursue it.
Table of contents
- TLDR – is this for me?
// should i read on, or move on?
- About Stepsize
// why do these people get out of bed in the morning?
- About this role
// where would i fit in? why does it matter?
- Requirements
// are we meant to be together? 💞
- Next steps
// ok i'm sold, what now?
TLDR – is this for me?
Read on if...
- You would be proud to help people create software
- You care about the quality of your work
- You want to be challenged and grow
- You are self-motivated
- You seek out different & opposing points of view
- You enjoy healthy debates and scrutinise consensus
Move on if...
- You're happy with the way you do things
- You find it difficult to move forward when some people disagree with you
- You dislike uncertainty
- You're looking for a stable job that won't change much
About Stepsize
Our mission is to make software development universally accessible.
Software fuels progress, but creating and maintaining it is hard. It's painful to think about all the ideas that never saw the light of day because of this, and how different the world could be if they had.
We want to live in a world where anyone can create software on their own, without technical knowledge.
This is a multi-decade plan. We're aware of it, but we don't shy away from it.
We can't make software development universally accessible today, but we can accelerate it. So the journey begins with software development teams.
Today we help teams access and use knowledge to create better software faster
Agile engineering teams face a really tough challenge: their codebases change constantly which means it's impossible to have accurate and up-to-date internal documentation. This is particularly problematic for teams growing rapidly or those with high turnover.
Our product solves this problem by creating self-maintaining documentation, automatically tying together data from all the tools these teams use every day. We start with the assumption that codebases are evolving constantly and generate documentation that is tailored to capture change, like a version control system. The traditional approach is to capture the state of things at a single point in time, ideally the present – this cannot work in a world of continuous delivery.
With Stepsize knowledge doesn't get lost, time isn't wasted digging it up, and teams are happier and more performant.
Tomorrow we'll help teams turn knowledge into superpowers to create better software faster
Embedded in this data are insights about how to work smarter. Certain mundane activities can be automated while others can be done better with assistance. Tomorrow's teams will get superhuman amounts of 💩 done.
This paves the way to our long term vision of universal software development.
The data software development teams generate in their day-to-day represents how human concepts become functioning software. By assisting teams in that process, we'll gradually deepen our understanding of how the sausage gets made. Eventually, Stepsize will become a sausage software factory.
About this role
As a frontend engineer, you'll be responsible for delivering great experiences through software.
You'll work on a very modern codebase and use the latest technologies to solve complex problems. Fundamentally our product is about retrieving and consuming complex and varied information, and you'll use a range of approaches to empower our users to do just that.
- On the retrieval end, you'll enable our users to define their exact information needs in simple yet rich ways.
- On the consumption end, you'll help our users quickly understand the key facts as well as dig into the details.
Although you'll spend most of your time working on our product, every now and then you'll be tasked with updating our marketing website.
As Stepsize grows, we're gradually moving towards a model of full stack micro-teams charged with defining and delivering projects from start to finish. This means that while you'll be responsible for delivering great experiences, you'll find yourself shaping these experiences by sharing your technical insights and design sensibility with the rest of the team throughout the ideation process. Prototypes you put together will play a key role in the process of converging onto a specific idea and design.
Some of the technologies you'll work with:
- TypeScript, HTML5, CSS
- React, React Router, Redux, redux-observable, recompose, styled-components
- Jest, react-testing-library, BrowserStack, Rollbar, webpack
- Storybook, Zeplin, Sketch
Work experience
Basically, using modern technologies to deliver great experiences is what you do for a living.
Relevant experience:
- Shipping products using modern JavaScript frameworks
- Prototyping ideas in high fidelity to evaluate them
- Collaborating with designers to iterate on and refine ideas
- Empowering users to retrieve or search for information
- Presenting data in visually appealing and appropriate ways
- Providing users with rich interaction models
- Optimising the performance of complex applications
- Implementing thorough user analytics that go beyond surface interactions
- Crafting smoooooth marketing websites
Technical knowledge
More than anything, you've shown an ability and hunger to pick up new technologies to get things done. Technology is a means to an end.
Relevant technologies and knowledge:
- Modern JavaScript (ES6) and TypeScript
- UI frameworks (we use React)
- CSS flavours and frameworks (we use styled-components)
- Appreciation of design systems and their implementation in code
- Application state management (we use Redux)
- Event-driven programming (we use redux-observable)
- Application routing (we use React Router)
- Testing (unit, UI, integration, etc.)
We don't require you to be familiar with all these things, but if the majority are foreign to you we'll need to see strong evidence that this has occurred in the past and wasn't a problem.
Note that these are the technologies we use today but they'll evolve over time and you'll contribute to this evolution.
We look for people who behave, communicate, and think in ways that exemplify the culture that we want to preserve and nurture as the company grows.
Something can be done better? Something doesn't look right? You take it upon yourself to bring it up and do something about it.
Your work is yours. You own the journey, the successes, and the failures.
You adapt to the situation at hand. In particular, you recognise:
- the conditions calling for hacky solutions & those calling for robust solutions
- the time for disagreement & the time to disagree and commit
- the difference between reversible & irreversible decisions
Team work
You cultivate good teamwork and understand its value. You make the most of your teammates' knowledge, and you enjoy helping them back.
You realise that being a good communicator is mostly about being a good listener.
Efficiency, clarity, and precision
You value efficiency so you're constantly solving for the shortest path solution in any exchange.
Understand > convince
You focus on understanding the other person's perspective when you have a disagreement before even considering convincing them that yours is the right one.
You have a tendency to over-communicate to build alignment with the team.
Thought process
Intellectual curiosity
You see your education as a life long project and driving it forward a priority.
Intellectual security
You see being wrong as an opportunity to learn from your peers rather than as a display of weakness or something to be ashamed of.
Intellectual honesty
You look for the best argument for and against every idea, regardless of where the idea came from, and in the end the best argument wins. Ego never gets in the way of truth.
Intellectual humility
You respect established knowledge, recognise its value, and make the most of it whenever you can...
Intellectual independence
...but ultimately you make up your own mind about things. Even about things that are widely accepted to be the case.
Next steps
- Play around with our dev app
email@example.com, password
- Drop us a line at
email@example.com tell us a bit about yourself and why you'd like to apply for this position (include some sort of CV please)
Equal opportunity
We'd hope this went without saying, but sadly it doesn't, so we want to explicitly note that we're an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Where in WDW 'Wordless' Wednesday!
Apparently the theme for this week is "September Calendar Shot"...
THIS place at Disney always reminds me of autumn...it just feels very cozy with the warm browns and perfect for fall - but do you know what place it is that I'm talking about?? Post your guess in the comments!
As for last week's trivia photo, that wavy structure can be found at Cape May Café at the Beach Club.
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Hmmm. Wilderness Lodge?ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! Is that Wilderness Lodge? LOVE the perspective!ReplyDelete
The WL reminds me so much of autumn. We have stayed there twice in the fall and each time it felt just right for the season. This is the main fireplace in the lobby, right?ReplyDelete
I love photos taken from this perspective. Beautiful!ReplyDelete
Oh.My.Gosh. I absolutely LOVE this! I love the creativity of the picture and the angle! Great shot! (I need to think of more creative pictures to take next time I go to Disney so that I'm not always taking the exact same ones over and over again!ReplyDelete
Great pic! I'd have to guess this is the lobby of the Wilderness Lodge. We've only been there to eat at Whispering Canyon. We've yet to stay there, but it's on our list! This might be a perfect place to stay for a fall visit for Food & Wine/MNSSHP!ReplyDelete


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Despite not having won a round of the series yet this season, ARR Craib MSA Scottish Rally Championship (SRC) front-runner Shaun Sinclair is not giving up on his dream of becoming the 2017 Scottish Rally Champion.
After five of seven rounds, the Subaru Impreza S14 WRC pilot sits third in the standings and just eight points behind championship leader Euan Thorburn with current drop scores taken into consideration.
"The championship is the goal," Sinclair explained. "Unfortunately it's looking as if the only way we can realistically take the title is by either Euan [Thorburn] or Jock [Armstrong] having a problem.
"I'm very frustrated that we haven't managed to win a round yet, but I'd probably put that down to our lack of testing. I don't sit in the car until the day of the rally so it takes us up until the first or second stage to get up to speed and then it's almost too late. We've only had one test this year and that was before the Border Counties. I think even the pace notes become alien to you if you don't get out frequently."
Sinclair and co-driver Jamie Edwards got their season off to a near perfect start, taking second on the Snowman Rally behind five time Scottish Champions David Bogie and Kevin Rae in their Skoda Fabia R5.
"I wasn't surprised by our strong start on the Snowman, it was the first time I actually drove stages that I remembered which certainly helps," Sinclair recalled. "A lot of this championship is down to memory given the experience my competitors have compared to me, and the car is awesome so that obviously helps!"
Since the season-opener in Inverness, his season fluctuated a little. A costly off road excursion on the Border Counties saw the Oban driver claim just three points, but he bounced back to claim fourth on the Speyside Stages before returning to the podium on both the Scottish and Argyll Rallies. But having run so highly in difficult conditions, the overwhelming feeling was of disappointment on stages he was victorious on in 2010.
"Because of the active diffs on our car, the slippery stuff doesn't play to our strengths so in a lot of cases we were very much a passenger on the Argyll," Sinclair said. "I was slightly disappointed with the final stage as I felt I had a really good stage but Euan [Thorburn] ended up taking a lot of time out of us. I wasn't too surprised though as if somebody can drive those R5's fast they are very, very hard to beat."
The next round of the SRC is the Grampian Forest Rally on Saturday 12th August.


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Thursday, January 8, 2009
New mule and observations
2 comments:
- Pete said...
First, thanks for changing the RSS feed, now I can read you much more easily!
When I was heavily into WoW, I used to scan the AH as part of my morning "get ready for work" routine. I'd start the scan just before jumping into the shower. I know that sounds really weird, but it's something I do every day and know I'll never need to use the PC while I'm doing it!! :)
- Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 6:41:00 PM GMT+2
- Copra said...
I'm doing my best to please the hc readers like you, Pete!
As a matter of fact, I used to do the same last time I was around making money to my horde toon: I logged in, started the scan, took the dogs out, made breakfast, got ready to leave for work and closed the game as the scan was ready. If lucky I could do a couple of nice snatches from the previous night's raids as people had just posted them.
True. Also proves that persistence is a virtue.
- Friday, January 9, 2009 at 8:19:00 AM GMT+2


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Manu Sporny writes: > On 02/01/10 11:47, Michael(tm) Smith wrote: > > > HTML: The Markup Language > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/ > > I asked some of the folks in our engineering team who do quite a bit of > web development, but who are fairly detached from the whole HTML5 spec > creation sausage factory, to take a look at this spec and the other > HTML5 spec, side-by-side, to find out which one they would find more > useful for day-to-day activity. Hi Manu. Out of interest, was it the 'author view' of the main HTML5 you showed them, or the full thing including all the user agent implementation requirements? Smylers -- Watch fiendish TV quiz 'Only Connect' (some questions by me) Mondays at 20:30 on BBC4, or iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lskhgReceived on Wednesday, 3 February 2010 10:07:34 UTC
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Report: Stuxnet Worm Attacks Iran, Who is Behind It?
The Stuxnet worm has already infected 30,000 IP addresses in Iran and is still mutating, according to Monday press reports.
"The attack is still ongoing and new versions of this virus are spreading," Hamid Alipour, deputy head of Iran's Information Technology Company, was quoted as saying by IRNA, Iran's official news agency, AFP reported.
Stuxnet was created for Siemens supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, which control water supplies, oil rigs, power plants, and other industrial facilities.
It also also affected India, Indonesia, and Pakistan, but Iran appears to be affected most. Iranian authorities have denied that the country's Bushehr nuclear plant was targeted, AFP said, though Computerworld reported that while some computers at the facility were infected, none were in control of crucial control systems.
Stuxnet appears to be more than just another malware attack or another targeted attack. Many believe that it is a government-sponsored attack against Iran's nuclear facilities.
Stuxnet first came to our attention as the first attack using Microsoft Windows Shortcut 'LNK/PIF' vulnerability, described first by Belorussian security firm VirusBlokAda.
The worm drops itself on the system and adds a link to that copy on any removable drives. Loading that drive on another system exploits the LNK vulnerability and loads the malware automatically on that system.
This was impressive enough when it came to light, but in fact Stuxnet uses three other zero-day vulnerabilities to spread under various circumstances. To make the programs look legitimate, at least two compromised code signing certificates of legitimate companies were used to sign the malicious code, perhaps letting it slip through other defenses.
Together, all this sets a new record of Bob Beamon caliber and definitely merits further scrutiny.
Another aspect of Stuxnet that stood out early on was that the actual purpose behind all the sophisticated penetration is to locate and take control of SCADA systems. If it finds such systems, it attempts to steal code and design projects. But wait, there's more.
Stuxnet also looks for a programming interface to PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) to inject its own code in that PLC. It also monitors access to the PLCs so that when someone attempts to view the code on them, the injected code is not viewed. This makes Stuxnet a new kind of rootkit.
All this and more produces a certain amount of admiration for Stuxnet's authors. They're very good at their work and brought their A game to this one. This is why German security firm Langner called it the "hack of the century." Roel Schouwenberg of Kaspersky also said it was groundbreaking.
Finally, it was also noticed by many that Stuxnet has an unusual geographical distribution. How would a high-quality attack such as this become so prevalent in Iran? Liam O Murchu, manager of operations with Symantec's security response team, told Computerworld that "[t]his threat was specifically targeting Iran."
"All the different circumstances, from the multiple zero-days to stolen certificates to its distribution, the most plausible scenario is a nation-state-backed group," he continued.
Experts disagree over when the attacks began, as it seems that they may have been ongoing for some time before they were discovered. Consider this report of a "serious nuclear accident" in Iran on Wikileaks from July 2009.
But even the Iranians are admitting that their nuclear agency has a computer worm problem. All manner of industrial facilities could be the target, but the most mentioned are the Bushehr nuclear reactor and the uranium centrifuge farm at Natanz.
Who has a high level of computer security sophistication and an interest in attacking Iranian industrial control systems? Some speculate it's the U.S., but other says Israel. Look for more research about Stuxnet to emege this week at the Virus Bulletin Conference in Vancouver.
Originally posted on PCMag's Security Watch blog.


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Tripwire Turns 15!
Tripwire turned 15 last week! We had quite the joyous celebration, as we commemorated the years behind us and looked with anticipation to our future. Plus, there was cake!
As a company we have seen many changes over the years, including the evolution of our product line, our rise to leadership in enterprise security, and the expansion of our exceptional personnel. Through it all, one thing has remained constant: We love Tripwire.
What do I love about Tripwire? Well, my three loyal readers, in honor of Tripwire's birthday, I have compiled a list of 15 things…
- The people: My coworkers are the most driven and talented people with whom I've ever worked. I am continually in awe of their brilliance. Sometimes I'll go half a day just staring at my cube wall, paralyzed, before someone walks by and discovers me. Most importantly, we all have a great time together. My coworkers are more than just coworkers to me; they are my friends. Even the weird ones.
- The location: Our building is in downtown Portland, mere steps from the Waterfront. I can run the loop at lunch, go shopping, or just enjoy some topless sunbathing in the grass.
- Free food: At Quarter End, Michele orders food for our exceptional Sales team and then invites others to join in the bounty. Mmm…I love Quarter End. Last week we had an ice cream social!! Damn, it's good to be here.
- Our products: We are a leader in the security industry. We have the right products at the right time, and I am proud to be a part of that. Nuff said.
- Recess: Every third Thursday of the month, from 4:00-5:00, we gather in Café One Four, a.k.a., our big kitchen, to mingle over snacks and libations. It's a time to relax, converse with coworkers and discover interesting things about each other. Last Recess I found someone else who enjoys topless sunbathing!
- Advancement opportunities: You may recall that I came on board as a temp, was hired on permanently at that position, and at the beginning of this year I was promoted into Marketing. And I am still progressing! I anticipate that my rise to CEO will take only a few short years.
- Andy.
- Free bus pass: Tripwire pays for our transportation. So, I can leave the driving to Trimet and the cycling to my kooky coworkers!
- Our Philanthropy: We are allotted eight hours per month to volunteer at a charity of our choice, through our Volunteer Time Off program (VTO). For one of those eight hour stints, Tripwire will gift $250 toward a charity of our choice. How cool is that?! I get to spend time in my community, and then I get to show them the money! Charities we support are: Schoolhouse Supplies, Head Start Holiday Gift Giving, St. Balldrick's, Candlelighters, Backpacks for Bulldogs, Laptops for lizards and more.
- Our Fashion: In late spring, I blogged about Tripwire's fashion, which runs the gamut from super casual to straight off the runway of Paris Fashion Week. Your personal style is welcome here. Just look at my outfit!
(Granted, it was Casual Friday)
- A Place to challenge oneself: I have felt challenged ever since I came to Tripwire, back in August of 2009 (I tripped off the elevator and spilled coffee on myself, which was quite challenging to get out of my skirt.). Tripwire seeks out the best people and demands the best of their people. I feel that Tripwire has brought out the best in me, much more than I even knew existed. How it was all crammed in there, I do not know.
- Amazing benefits: We have fantastic medical and dental, and our Flex Time vacation program is awesome! So, see ya, suckahs–I'm out!
- Family friendly: There are times—especially during Summer Break—that I have been strapped for childcare. Those days, I feel fortunate that I can bring my daughter into the office. She makes good use of her time, running a successful label-making business along with my coworker's daughter. Leapfrog Labels, with its revenue right on par with Tripwire's, is her ticket to college. And people here just love their personalized labels!
- Sustainability: We have an excellent recycling program, as well as composting. Many of our employees bike in to the office. We reduce our waste and use recycled products whenever possible. For instance, my cube is made entirely of recycled Occupy Portland tents!
- People here get me: At least I think they do–and that's enough for me.
For these reasons—and more—I enjoy coming to work here every day. In fact, I look forward to it. Happy Birthday, Tripwire! Here's to 15 more years—at least!


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Your element is air, and your ruler is Mercury. You're an affectionate and adaptable person, but can be nervous and inconsistent. The people of Gemini are often friendly. They are very attracted to the opposite sex too soon, and attracting them too soon. In the year 2019, your charm will take you places and help you impress people. In the beginning of the year, if you do any work with a senior's help, you are likely to gain benefits. This year you may have to accept new jobs and new challenges.
The effect of the zodiac sign of Saturn is expected to be mixed on the people of Gemini. Saturn will be at the seventh position in your zodiac, due to which you may remain in a state of confusion. Disagreements can arise with a spouse, but if you take care of your partner's feelings then their support can be obtained.
You can face many difficulties in the month of April, so be careful about everything from behavior to business. Indeed, at this time, the zodiac lord, both Mercury and Saturn, will be the same. You may also want to change your work or place. Being Saturn's Curve, you may have to work a lot to reach goals. You might also hesitate to take decisions or be in a state of confusion. A well thought out decision made at this time may reap great benefits in the future.It is advisable for you to consult the learned astrologers to find ways to avoid the negative effects of Saturn and Mercury.
If you keep working hard then you will have to be alert of the change of Rahu-Ketu in September. At this time you may suffer loss of money, competition or jealousy in the field of work, and people can also try to hurt you. But the people looking for possibilities abroad will not be disappointed. Foreign travel is in the cards. Only three days after the change of Rahu-Ketu, Jupiter will also change its zodiac sign. With the influence of Jupiter you can get some good news from your children. Jupiter's change can prove to be fortunate for your profit.
Altogether, you can say that you can spend 2019 as a wonderful year with new work, new places and new challenges.
2019 can prove to be a great year for love too. Gemini people are rich have an attractive personality. Also, this is a wonderful time for those wanting to start a romantic relationship.Love doesn't exist without conflict, however, so without separation it is difficult to understand the feeling of union and the importance of a partner.
There is a chance of getting sidelined by a partner. Especially the unmarried lover should be a little careful and not do anything that will ruin your partner's trust or hurt their feelings. With these taken care of, your beginning can be memorable. Some lovers who were unable to make any decision about relationship can take a decision to further their relationship and can also bond this year.
In April, the zodiac masters will once again be curved. At this time you may see instability in your relationship again, but after the departure of Mercury from the first weekend of May, happiness will return to your relationship. In the middle of the second week of September you may have to face temptation again in your love life, but these problems won't last long. At the same time, with the change of guru, your love life will be back on track again.If you're planning on having a child, this year might be a great time. By the end of the year, good news from children may be found.
Gemini has a strong physical structure and often a stunning smile stuck on their face. Say good health is our real wealth, so in the year 2019 this wealth is expected to be safe and secure. Your health is expected to be good in the year 2019 but on some occasions there may be circumstances in which your negligence can invite some serious disease. In the very beginning of the year, you have to be cautious. Especially avoid excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages.
In the second week of January, you will feel better, but in the end of January you may feel some tension with the amount of change in Saturn, but yoga can be practiced to get rid of it. Your health will return to wellness completely, in May.
With the change of life of Rahu-Ketu in September, you may have to worry about the health of some kin but you can recover from this crisis even after the change of Jupiter after three days. In the remaining time of the year, you can enjoy a healthy life.
Overall, in the year 2019, according to your health horoscope, it can be said that the normal illnesses that come with the change of weather won't affect you. You can spend the whole year with better health. But you have to be alert when the zodiac masters become curative.
In the case of money, the year 2019 may start from the increase in expenses, but from the second week of the new year, you can feel better about your financial situation. You can live up to this year's new work and new challenges. In that sense, it can be said that you can get plenty of opportunities to earn money but also have to take risks for it. Take a little caution in case of land related transactions, otherwise some loss may be incurred.
In the month of April, when the effects of Saturn and Mercury are inevitable, if you succeed in making some good decisions, you'll reap great benefits, but if not, you may have to face some damages. Particularly business people will need to walk with great discretion. After this, your financial situation may fall stale in September. This is a time where you'll have to be cautious and alert. Immediately after that, planets will change their position, which is going to earn you profits.
The personality of Gemini is very friendly. Careers where you have to deal with people may attract them. Gemini also takes a lot of interest in education, journalism, non-social organizations etc. Year 2019 is the year to develop new possibilities in terms of careers. You can develop your abilities as well as face new challenges and new responsibilities. Your respect for the workplace is likely to increase. Whether they are students in the field mentioned above, or are looking for jobs, they can be successful. It is also possible for business people to have a year full of progress.
At the beginning of the new year, because the zodiac lord is making a connection with the sun in the transit of Mercury, the guidance of senior colleagues or officials, or their opinion, can help you achieve success at the workplace. Advancement can be expected. At the end of January, Saturn will be in seventh place after change, whose combined effects are likely to fall on your zodiac sign.
The effect of curvature of Mercury and Saturn in April may also affect your working life. Take a little bit of time, and be patient. Be wary of enemies and follow the instructions of senior officials at the workplace. You may also have to do some extra work. But in the first week of May, due to mercury, some pressure may be relieved.
By the end of September, everything is expected to be fine again, but Rahu-Ketu's change can lead to loss in business. This time is not auspicious for the people involved in business of properties, so be careful about land deals. Any obstacles in your work at this time can be dealt with easily. By the end of the year you may be able to touch new heights.
Overall, the year 2019 can bring happiness to your career, provided you make the right decisions about appropriate opportunities at the right time.
To make sure your year goes well, and to avoid any problems tactfully, to have a peaceful and prosperous life, contact Mr.T C Sharma, a renowned astrologer and palmistry reader. It's always better to be safe than sorry.


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private and group instruction in drill team dance and technique
by Claire Smitham Filed Under: News
Online registration for Fall 2019 classes is officially OPEN! You can view the entire schedule online and register at anytime at hpdance.com/fall.
We are thrilled to announce that this summer, we are officially moving our studio to its new location in Preston Center! These past several months, God has been so gracious to provide the temporary Inwood space for us to use, and His goodness and kindness have been on display throughout this entire season of searching […]
Now accepting enrollments for ages 3-18 in Princess Camps, Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Tumbling, Drill Team, and more!


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Nathalie Baye
- Highest Rated: Détective (1995)
- Lowest Rated: Lou! Journal Infime (2015)
- Birthday: Jul 6, 1948
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One of the most celebrated and well-respected French actresses of her generation, Nathalie Baye has enjoyed a lengthy career that has included multiple César awards and work with directors ranging from François Truffaut (who cast her in her breakthrough film La Nuit Américaine [1973]) to Diane Kurys. A versatile performer who exudes both sensuality and skillful comic timing, Baye has been used to great effect in everything from serious psychological dramas to light romantic comedies. Born in Mainneville on July 6, 1948, Baye, the daughter of painters, developed a passionate love of dance at an early age. Her passion took her to New York at the age of 17, where she trained as a ballerina for two years. Upon her return to France, she became interested in acting and studied drama at the Paris Conservatoire. Over the course of her studies she gained a reputation as a talented comedienne and made her screen debut opposite Isabelle Adjani in the 1971 comedy Faustine. Two years later, Truffaut cast her in a supporting part in his acclaimed comedy La Nuit Américaine (known as Day for Night in the U.S.) and Baye subsequently landed her first starring role in Maurice Pialat's marriage drama La Guele Ouverte (1974).After working steadily throughout the remainder of the 1970s in such films as Truffaut's L'Homme Qui Aimait les Femmes (1977) and La Chambre Verte (1978), Baye began the 1980s on a very positive note, winning a Best Supporting Actress César for her role as the estranged girlfriend of the protagonist of Jean-Luc Godard's 1979 romantic drama Sauve Qui Peut (la Vie). The decade proved to be an extremely significant one in Baye's career, as it saw her do some of her most acclaimed work. Two more Césars followed, for her performances in the comedy Une Etrange Affaire (1981) and the crime drama La balance (1982), the films' disparate genres further establishing Baye's great versatility. The actress also did strong work opposite Gérard Depardieu in the internationally acclaimed La Retour de Martin Guerre (1982), the psychological drama J'ai épousé une ombre (1982), Bertrand Blier's satirical Notre Histoire (1984), which starred her as a mysterious woman who seduces Alain Delon and practically her entire neighborhood, and Godard's Détective, a 1985 mystery that featured Baye as an unhappily married woman who becomes caught up in some shady dealings.After a couple of critical and commercial missteps during the late '80s, Baye rebounded with two 1990 films, Nicole Garcia's drama Un Week-end Sur Deux and Diane Kurys' romantic comedy Baule-les-Pins. Both films featured her as a married woman experiencing some sort of crisis and set the tone for the kind of films she became predominately associated with for the remainder of the decade. Thankfully, Baye did not meet the fate of many actresses whose careers are edged out as they edge toward middle age and instead continued to portray vibrant, attractive women in thrillers, dramas, and comedies alike. Two of her more celebrated films were Une liaison pornographique (1999), which cast Baye as a woman who discovers that having an exclusively sexual affair is not as easy as she had imagined, and Vénus Beauté (Institut) (2000), a romantic comedy in which she played a beautician in search of love without commitment. She earned a Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival for the former film and her fourth César nomination for the latter, further proof that the passing of years had only strengthened her appeal, rather than diminishing it.
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The Shuswap is a meeting place – water, wilderness, people, and bikes – that's been a part of the cultural fabric of the region and is historically rooted in the Secwepemc first peoples. It's a place to meet and find a little something for everyone – quiet country roads along lakes and rivers, big hit downhill, flow, berms, old school, cross-country, in town/out of town, back country wild and close country natural, bike park features, loops, lines, descent, and distance. It's a place where you can start your day at a breathtaking interior fjord and end – no matter the trail – with your feet up at a pub or café.
With over 1500 km of quiet paved back roads and 470km of mountain bike trails and cross-country tracks, the Shuswap is a lakeside culture that has found some serious fun cruising the green hills and valleys. But it's not just one lakeside culture – it's a hub. Linked by rivers and lakes, each community brings something different to the Shuswap and its own host of narrow tire and wide tire riding opportunities. Oh, and you can access some of those communities by boat, or houseboat. Why drive back to the hotel when you can float your accommodation to the paved or unpaved trailhead?
From highlands to lakes, there's a unique feel to riding the Shuswap's quiet paved back roads and trails. Get out here and put your pedal to your mettle. Begin some revolutions of your own, one foot at a time.
For more information on epic rides, detailed trail information and how to best spend your time in the two wheeled saddle, check out www.shuswaptrails.com.
Copies of the Shuswap Trail Guide and the Cycle Touring Guide are available from local Visitor Centres or from Shuswap Tourism.
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The next date night date will held on Friday, December 13 2019 from 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Lunch Hour Special
Every Tuesday-Friday from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. pay $10 to shoot for a half hour. Bring your lunch and eat it in our classroom. No need to sign up ahead of time, just show up!
Family Day
Every Tuesday spend some quality family time at Target Sports with these great ammendities:
Ladies Day
Every Thursday All Day. ladies shoot for half price! Ladies also receive:
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The Twin Cities Chapter strives to:
Find out more information about The Well Armed Woman at: http://www.thewellarmedwoman.com/
The Well Armed Woman Twin Cities Chapter meets the second Tuesday of every month from 6-9pm at Target Sports Minnesota.


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Our plan is to bring multiple TopRank team members to SES San Jose next month and each will be blogging different sessions. This will free me up significantly to do video interviews, take photos and other more creative conference coverage. Everything will be posted here at Online Marketing Blog so be sure to tune in August 20-23rd if you're unable to attend SES San Jose.
So, my question to you dear Online Marketing Blog readers, is what search marketers would you like to see text and/or video interviews with? What are the top 2-3 questions you'd like asked?
We'd really like to get an idea of who you're most interested in hearing about. Here are links to previous interviews with search marketers we've done here at OMB to give you an idea what to expect.
I can't guarantee we'll be able to reach everyone that's suggested, but we'll do our best! It's time to flex the Rolodex. Please leave your suggested interviewees and questions in the comments.


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On October 20th, the Capsule and Recovery team spend 14 hours in the Open Jet Facility (OJF) of the TU Delft. The aim for the team was to get a more thorough understanding of the stability of cross-shaped parachutes and the shock loads that occur during deployment. To test this, the team worked tirelessly in the week before the test to create a test bench and produce 5 different parachutes.
The test bench was largely borrowed from the hybrid propulsion team and a special adapter was fitted, containing a canister for the parachute and a load cell to measure the drag and shock loads. This test bench ensured that the parachutes would be raised from the test table by 1.5m to avoid interference during testing.
The parachutes that have been tested consisted of one drogue parachute and 4 main parachutes. Two of the main parachutes were standard cross parachutes, one made out of kite material and one made out of human-rated parachute fabric. This distinction was made to compare the quality of the different fabrics. The third main parachute was shaped as a trapezoid, which meant that the outer edges were larger in size than the middle square. The final main parachute was a small adaption to the regular cross parachute but the ends of the sides were stitched together to form a box shape which vents near the middle. It was suggested that this type of configuration would be more stable than a regular cross-shaped parachute. Both the third and fourth parachutes were also constructed out of the human-rated parachute fabric.
A completely different kind of parachute shape was used for the drogue parachute. Since Aether, and afterwards Stratos III, will descend at supersonic speeds, a regular shaped parachute will not suffice. For this reason, the design of the drogue parachute was chosen to be a hemisflo ribbon parachutes. This design consists of ribbons (bands) of fabric, of horizontal and vertical direction, producing a semi-sphere when constructed. This design was made up from almost 200 individual pieces of ribbon that were cut to exact lengths and stitched together.
After several nights of hard work, the team gathered at the OJF at 7 am to start preparations. This went very smoothly and within an hour the first test run of the wind tunnel was conducted. After this successful trial run, the rest of the day was filled with a grand total of 42 parachute tests. All five parachute types were tested multiple times under different wind speeds (and thus different dynamic pressures) to get an overview of the behaviour of the parachute as complete as possible. There were some problems with the deployment of some parachutes in the start. This was due to the parachute bag closing on itself because the rim got tangled up with the parachute lines. This was easily resolved by cutting the rim of the parachute bag away.
It was observed that the two regular parachutes and the trapezoidal parachute were very unstable and moved all around the wind tunnel. This also caused the measurement of the drag to become complex. In the end, post-processing of the data did provide some measures of the forces involved. However, due to the instability, these designs were scrapped as viable for Aether. The cross parachute with ends attached (box parachute) did prove to be very stable, as predicted by theory, which can be also seen in the picture below.
The biggest problem that was spotted during the test series was the instability of the drogue parachute. This parachute started turning as soon as it deployed and this caused the lines to entangle which ultimately led to the collapse of the drogue. It was established that the swivel attaching the suspension line to the load cell didn't rotate with the drogue parachute. This problem couldn't be fixed on the spot but different ideas will be tested during the second series of wind tunnel testing on January 3rd, 2017.
The shock loads produced by all parachutes were higher than the team initially expected. It was on average twice as high as the steady drag after deployment which is due to the infinite mass scenario that occurs during the wind tunnel test. On the actual flight, the rocket will already decelerate during the deployment of the parachute and the shock will be lower in that case. Nevertheless, the shock load will still be higher than initially estimated. One test was performed with a slider attached to the parachute lines. This slider should ensure that the parachute will deploy less quickly and the shock load will be lowered in this way. This test gave the team enough confidence to keep on studying sliders in the near future.
The tests were on average successful. Some problems were identified during the testing itself, of which a few could be fixed on the spot. However, some problems required a more thorough analysis. The team will complete a second parachute test campaign in the OJF on January 3rd, 2017 during which the main parachute shape will be optimised and a new drogue parachute will be tested, to make sure that the final design will be more stable.


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Next year's Global Game Jam will be taking place on January 26 through the 28th. That may seem like quite a ways away, but it's time to start preparing!
Site registration is now live for the 2018 Global Game Jam. The only things needed to open a jam site are a dedicated organizer and a venue with internet access.
For more information about setting up a site, check out the GGJ Manual and Frequently Asked Questions. You can also email the GGJ team at email@example.com if you've got additional questions.


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A stunning Valentine's Day treat does not have to be difficult to make. Check out these white chocolate hearts easily made beautiful with a cookie cutter and fresh fruit.
By Kelli Van
This recipe was inspired by the infamous Valentine's treat- chocolate dipped strawberries except this version is way easier, less perfect and basically fail-proof. Don't be fooled, however, it's just as yummy! You can make these a few days in advance, but they should be refrigerated and consumed within a week since the berries are fresh.
Here's my secret to melting chocolate. I use the microwave version (the amateur way). I start with putting half a cup of white chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl. Heat for 40 secs. Take out and stir. Heat for another 20 secs. Take out and stir again. Repeat the process until the chocolate has fully melted. It took me about 4 cycles of microwaving. This may vary depending on your microwave. Be careful to not overheat the chocolate otherwise it will become lumpy and grainy. It this case, stir in a little bit of oil or butter and let it sit for a few minutes. This should fix the consistency.
With this, you are basically making chocolate barks so nothing needs to be perfect. Also, the ingredients can vary based on your taste. For example, you can substitute the white chocolate with dark chocolate, add dried cranberries, use different types of nuts, etc. The possibilities are endless!
It's very important to line your pan with parchment paper. This will save your life! After the chocolate sets, you can easily lift it off the paper. Also- another tip, don't allow the chocolate to harden all the way prior to cutting it with the cookie cutters. It'll be too brittle and break into pieces. You want the chocolate to be fudge-like in consistency when cutting out the heart shapes.
Other berries to consider for this recipe are raspberries and blackberries. If you prefer a longer shelve life treat, I would opt for dried fruits/berries.
- About 1 pound of white chocolate, melted
- Fresh or dried berries
- Nut, optional (I used sliced almonds)
- Line a pan with parchment and top with berries, dried fruit, nuts, or any other topping you are using.
- Pour melted chocolate on top of the berries and nuts.
- Add more berries and nuts on top of the melted chocolate.
- Allow chocolate to set, but not completely harden. Use heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut the bark into beautiful treats. Enjoy nibbling on the leftover edges!


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The world needs more power
Today is World Humanitarian Day, a United Nations (U.N.) commemoration to "celebrate the spirit that inspires humanitarian work around the world." This year, the UN's theme is "The World Needs More…"
As anyone who works in global development knows, there are many ways to answer that sentence. This year, OPIC highlights the world's need for more power. Not only does a large share of the world live without any regular access to electricity, but these shortages impact almost every aspect of life, limiting food production, education and small business activity.
The need is particularly acute in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 600 million people lack access to reliable electricity. OPIC has supported multiple projects to bring more power to the continent and is now playing a key role in President Obama's Power Africa initiative, designed to double access to power on the continent; and in the U.S. Africa Clean Energy Finance (ACEF) program, which supports small-scale African renewable energy projects in their critical early stages.
Here, a team of Rwandan workers helps to construct the 8.5 megawatt GigaWatt Global solar power project, one of the power projects that was supported by ACEF funding. GigaWatt Global will be Rwanda's first grid-connected solar project when complete.
The world needs many things, like food, education, healthcare and opportunity – but access to electricity is a catalyzer for these other needs.


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Lorena and Timothy 2015 – San Diego Wedding Officiant
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