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Fri, 27 September 2013
Kenny Ducey and Nolan Silbernagel breakdown the return of the 49ers in San Francisco's victory of the St. Louis Rams 35-11.
The guys then preview the Jets chances in their upcoming matchup with the Tennesse Titans, and debate on whether Bilal Powell has shown enough to earn the spot as the #1 man in the backfield. They also discuss Tom Coughlin's comments on whether or not this week's matchup between the Giants and the Chiefs is a must-win, and what the G-Men need to do to jumpstart their rushing attack. The Giants and Jets beat reporters Kris Venezia and Eric Mollo also gave their weekly reports.
Our Fantasy expert Bobby Gubin told us in his "Bobby's Believe It or Not" segment who he thinks will live up to their previous impress performances and who won't live up to the hype, including a couple of important offensive pieces for the Jets. He then discusses with the crew who to start and who to sit, and as always stuck around for the staff's picks segment to finsih off the show. After prodcuer Kelly Kultys was the only one to correctly pick her upset in last week's show (Colts over the 49ers) we all discuss which game we think this week's shocker will be.
2013 Staff Picks Standings:
Nolan Silbernagel 7-8 (.467)
Not Enough to Qualify (Need 15 picks)
Julian Atienza 7-7
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Fri, 20 September 2013
Kenny Ducey and Nolan Silbernagel break down the Eagles loss last night and discuss whether or not Alex Smith is a premier starting quarterback.
The guys were then joined by Paul Schwartz of the New York Post to dicuss the Giants rough start, Brandon Jacobs impact on the team, and whether or not fans should be concerned about the play of Eli Manning going forward. The guys also talk about the Giants' chances this Sunday against the Carolina Panthers, and Eric Mollo gave us his thought on Big Blue in his weekly Giants report. Kris Venezia did the same with Gang Green after Kenny and Nolan broke down the upcoming rookie QB between Geno Smith and EJ Manuel of the Bills.
Finally, our fantasy expert Bobby Gubin told us to expect great things from Martellus Bennet going forward in his "Bobby's Believe or Not" segment, told us who to start and who to sit in this week's matchups, and then stuck around for our staff picks segment to wrap up the show.
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Fri, 13 September 2013
Mack Rosenberg and Nolan Silbernagel break down the Jets tough loss in Foxboro and let Jets fans know what they should expect from Geno Smith this year. After the Giants sloppy loss to the Cowboys, the guys tell fans of Big Blue why they shouldn't hit the panic buton yet.
Fantasy Expert Bobby Gubin tells Anquan Boldin owners to temper their expectations. In his new segment, "Bobby's Believe It or Not" gives you three players to put your faith in and two to start trusting a little less. As always, the show conludes with the staff predictions segment, and we have some surprising upsets in this one.
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Fri, 6 September 2013
DJ Sixsmith and Nolan Silbernagel get you ready for football season. They tell you how the Cowboys plan to attack the Big Blue defense and what Jets fans can expect from Geno Smith in Week 1. In the Season Predictions Segment Nolan tells you why he thinks the Jets will finish at .500, despite the circus surrounding the team. Our Fantasy expert Bobby Gubin drops by with some players you don't know yet, but will by the end of the season. We end the show on a high note with the first of our weekly picks segment.
Direct download: 13NFLFRI-1.mp3
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Instabridge is for sure one of Stockholm's hottest startups – they've been featured in Economist, the Guardian and Wired UK and also won a coveted "Best International Startup" prize at the LAUNCH festival in San Francisco. If you've been living under a rock for the past year, Instabridge is a mobile application that allows users to find and share wi-fi networks in order to save battery life, reduce mobile-data usage and thus money.
Today they've announced that they are offering over 300 wi-fi hotspots in the surrounding areas of Amsterdam – which means that residents and tourists alike can have constant access to free and stable wi-fi.
It's going to be extremely interesting to watch Instabridge over the next few months – as they start to strike these strategic deals in cities all across the world – most likely partnering up with Telco companies looking to reduce the strain on the networks, but of course to lock customers in to their hotspots too.
Niklas Agevik, CEO of Instabridge commented:
Wi-Fi is available almost everywhere today, but the hassle of using it limits its real world usage. With Instabridge, users will find themselves using Wi-Fi in new situations, lowering their mobile data usage, increasing battery life, and saving money
Editors note: This post got a lot of attention over at Reddit, so head over there to read more discussions.

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Excitement is growing as D23 Expo: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event gets closer and closer. During the three-day event, guests will have the chance to experience entertainment that you can only see during D23. [Read more…]
Photos and video from Epcot's Candlelight Processional with Whoopi Goldberg
Award-winning actress and co-host on ABC's "The View," Whoopi Goldberg was the featured celebrity narrator in the Candlelight Processional from Dec. 18 to 20.
The Candlelight Processional is a holiday tradition which combines a retelling of the Christmas story accompanied by a 50-piece live orchestra and a mass choir. We were able to attend the 5 p.m. show on Dec. 18. Here's a clip and some photos from the show.


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Dolphins center Mike Pouncey's foot injury not as serious as first feared
The Dolphins will begin preparing for Baltimore with health concerns at two key positions: center and defensive tackle.
Center Mike Pouncey's foot injury, sustained in the first quarter against the Jets, isn't as serious as some feared, but his status for Sunday remains in question.
"It's better than I thought it would be," interim coach Dan Campbell said. "He's day to day. We are going to need another center in the building."
Because the Dolphins have released all of their veteran backup centers over the past four months (Sam Brenner, J.D. Walton, Jacques McClendon), rookie guard Jamil Douglas was needed to play center Sunday and repeatedly had problems snapping the ball.
Douglas said Monday he had played only three snaps at center in a game — in October against Houston. He said his snapping issues Sunday surprised him because it hadn't happened at practice.
Campbell expressed faith in Douglas but said Ryan Tannehill might play more under center, instead of the shotgun, if Pouncey is sidelined again Sunday against the Ravens.
Meanwhile, every Dolphins defensive tackle except Ndamukong Suh is injured. Campbell said Earl Mitchell and C.J. Mosley are "day to day" with calf injuries. Mosley was in a walking boot Monday.
Defensive tackle Jordan Phillips had his arm in a sling on Monday but said the injury to his AC joint will not sideline him against Baltimore.
Campbell indicated receiver Rishard Matthews is "less likely" to play Sunday because of cracked ribs.
With Matthews limited to three snaps on Sunday, DeVante Parker played 58 after logging just 117 in the first 10 games. He caught four passes for 80 yards, including his first NFL touchdown.
"He was shaky at first," Campbell said. "He did some things late in the game. Did a heck of a job on the touchdown. His technique has to be spot on. This isn't Louisville anymore. He's going to be better for it moving forward."
▪ Campbell said he's considering lineup changes but declined to elaborate.


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Terri Moran, 19, had been enjoying drinks with pals at her home ahead of a night of Halloween festivities on October 29 in Fallowfield, Manchester, when two of them were taken ill.
The Criminology and Sociology student said: "We thought it's got to be a gas leak, nothing else came to mind. We ran out of the house.
"We then saw the house behind us and another on our left that were doing the same thing.
She added: "Everyone was quite scared because chili never came to our mind and the only thought was a gas leak.
"I rang 111 and they said to ring 999.
"I said: 'We don't know what's going on, we think there's been a gas leak or maybe a burst pipe.'
"They told me to get everyone out of the house.
"We were all quite panicky and the fire-fighters helped to calm us down.
"They came out of the house coughing and had to put gas masks on before going back in.
"They got a big industrial fan to ventilate all the houses one-by-one and opened all the door and windows."
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There's no denying that the acting in "Like Dandelion Dust," an adoption drama directed by Jon Gunn from a novel by Karen Kingsbury, is superb.
Cole Hauser and Kate Levering play a well-off couple whose comfortable lives are jolted when the biological parents of their adopted son try to get the boy back. Mira Sorvino and Barry Pepper play the birth couple, down-and-outers with domestic violence in their past. The four stars, especially the men, are compelling and convincing. You can even apply that description to Maxwell Perry Cotton, the 10-year-old actor who plays the boy.
But practically every minute of this story seems like something you've seen or read before, and repeatedly. Hasn't this plotline, or some variation of it involving, say, a sperm or egg donor, been getting a thorough workout for about 25 years now on heartstrings-oriented cable channels and elsewhere?
Yes, it has, and so the performances lose some power simply because you know exactly which emotional wringer the film intends to put you through: each set of parents will have a good argument, and the child will be caught in the middle. The only wrinkle this tale has to offer is a concluding sequence set in Haiti, which feels vaguely exploitive. But for those who like this genre of film, this one executes the formula very well.
Opens on Friday nationwide.
Directed and edited by Jon Gunn; written by Stephen J. Rivele and Michael LaChance, based on the novel by Karen Kingsbury; director of photography, Reynaldo Villalobos; music by Nathan Larson; production designer, Shawn Carroll; costumes by Stephen M. Chudej; produced by Kevin Downes, Bobby Downes and Kerry David; released by Blue Collar Releasing and Downes Brothers Entertainment. In Manhattan at the AMC Empire 25, 234 West 42nd Street. Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes. This film is not rated.
WITH: Mira Sorvino (Wendy Porter), Barry Pepper (Rip Porter), Kate Levering (Molly Campbell), Maxwell Perry Cotton (Joey Campbell) and Cole Hauser (Jack Campbell).Continue reading the main story


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Carbon Offsets: "greening" your honeymoon
Today, in partnership with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, TheBigDay is pleased to add a new option for your registry:
Green Tags!
Transportation accounts for about 1/3 of global greenhouse gas emissions. But by adding green tags as gift registry options through TheBigDay, you can offset the environmental impacts of your honeymoon.
Green Tags to offset the carbon emissions from your honeymoon can be purchased in $20 increments. When you add this option to your registry, you'll see in the registry item itself a link to our green tags calculator, which will help you determine how many green tags are needed to offset your honeymoon. Then, edit the quantity for your registry, and your wedding guests can purchase one or more green tags as all or part of their wedding gift to you.
Typically for this kind of registry item, we see wedding guests combine it with an experience gift for you--i.e. they'll buy you the massage in Hawaii, and add a green tag or a charity donation on as well.
By purchasing Green Tags, you are supporting the development and operation of clean wind and solar energy projects. The emissions that you generate by driving your car or flying on a plane are offset by the delivery of environmentally-friendly power to the electricity grid.
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Hi all! I just signed up to Skillshare and wanted something fun for my first class so I figured I'd try this! For my idiom I did "with flying colors" because I got a lot of ideas for it as soon as I read it. I just did all this this morning so I want to take a break from it, get some feedback and come back to it later but I figured i'd post what I have.
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I pretty much immediately got pantone swatches but it took me a little bit to figure out how they were going to fly. I finally decided that a messenger pigeon was going to carry them.
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It was also my first time using the blob tool so I definitely need practice. I'm much more of a pen tool lady but liked how messy the blob is.


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In June of 2009 the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency proposed tariff changes to the Copyright Board of Canada that would dramatically increase fees paid by both K12 and post-secondary educational institutions.
I work for a K12 school division that still functions under the Access Copyright License. For the most part the proposed changes requested by Access Copyright [proposed tariff] have not impacted the use or expected use of this agreement. To be perfectly honest…very few pay it any attention at all. I think this is because [generally speaking] classroom teachers use the key resources that they are provided by the division [textbooks, workbooks, teacher guides, etc] and do not look to producing a great deal of additional support materials. I am sure there is a lot of searching for and finding/using content from the internet and elsewhere [resource based learning] but I don't see a lot of concern or inquiries about copyright. With an increased emphasis on the use of social media, student and teacher publishing of student created content, collaborative online work and connecting students to authentic audience I am sure this lack of or seeming lack of concern might change. From the division perspective the June 2009 application for school tariff changes could mean a 3 fold increase [5.16 to 15.00 per student] in fees paid. I would imagine that when and if the tariff increase is approved this increased cost will be a significant issue.
I do see the cancellation of the Access Copyright agreement by the University of Manitoba as a positive move. The Provost's [Joanne Keselman] comments in a letter to the university community and repeated in the Manitoban that leaving the agreement provides an opportunity to modernize both the resources and services provided by the university demonstrates a move in the right direction. Along with this new approach The Copyright Modernization Act Bill C11 and a renewed focus on fair dealing should serve to clarify copyright life for educational institutions.
I would also hope that this renewed focus on copyright [because of real or expected increases in copyright costs] would result in educational institutions taking a renewed and much deeper look at openness generally and the creation and use of OER specifically. I have said it before but educational reform [from my K12 perspective] seems to demand this. A move to inquiry learning, personalized learning, collaboration and student publishing to authentic audience requires a much more flexible content ecosystem than what is now provided by traditional publishing and licensing relationships. Simple technology and online services now provide the means for K12 institutions in particular to harness the power of OER and openness. A move to outcomes-based curricula provides additional support as outcomes don't demand a specific path for achievement. Creativity, innovation and collaboration should re-emerge as paths to student success and content creation should increase as a result.


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Richard Torchia and John Tuomey: Architectural Optics
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The Gallery of Photography is turning the world upside down during the month of August. The main gallery has been transformed into a large-scale, walk-in camera, known as a 'camera obscura' or 'darkened chamber'. Step inside the giant camera to experience live pictures of the world magically turned upside down. These views are realtime, full colour images of extraordinary beauty. It is a fascinating experience which will enchant viewers of all ages.
The camera obscura is based on the scientific principle that light passing through an aperture or pinhole into a darkened room will project an inverted image opposite the aperture. Known since ancient times, it was employed by artists such as Canaletto and Vermeer, and it remains the fundamental principle at work in today's photographic cameras, be they traditional or digital.
This special installation in the Gallery of Photography is the result of a collaboration between John Tuomey (of O'Donnell+Tuomey the architects of the Gallery building), and the American artist Richard Torchia. The collaboration brought together these leading practitioners in a creative dialogue on the subject of the camera obscura and related optical devices. Thus, in addition to the camera, Richard Torchia is exhibiting small scale optical 'sculptures', made specifically in response to the various spaces and materials in the Gallery building.
Funded under the Special Projects Initiative of the Arts Council, the collaboration also set out to explore the possibility of constructing a permanent camera obscura in the Gallery of Photography. To this end, the exhibition includes John Tuomey's drawings and a scale model of such a development. The proposed structure is situated on the roof of the present building and incorporates a camera obscura which would offer the public a fascinating new panorama of the city. In addition, the rooftop development would provide the Gallery of Photography with much needed space to expand and further develop its successful programme of activities, with the provision of rooftop 'digital lightroom' facilities to complement the chemical darkroom facilities currently available in the basement of the building.


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Having not been associated with a Stanley Cup winning team during my 39 years in the NHL, I did not know what to expect after the Kings won that treasured trophy this past June. What I found was that there is truly a mystique surrounding the oldest trophy competed for by professional athletes in North America.
When my wife, Judy, and I had the Cup for four hours on June 26, 180 people showed up at the reception. All were in awe of being in the presence of the Cup and to have the opportunity to have their photo taken. Many asked me, 'Can I touch it?' I said, 'Yes, you can touch it.' Then they would ask, 'Can I kiss it?' I would answer, 'Yes, you can kiss it…we're giving free tetanus shots in the back of the room.' I don't know which has more DNA on it…the Stanley Cup or the Blarney Stone in Ireland and I've kissed them both.
The excitement over the Kings winning the Stanley Cup went far beyond the boundaries of Southern California. Shortly after the Kings victory I heard by e-mail and telephone from friends all over the United States. I did numerous phone interviews on radio including one on a station in Australia. Someone on the station called and said, 'We want to talk with you about the Kings winning the Stanley Cup.'
On a short trip my wife and I took this past summer to the Sonoma Valley wine country of Northern California, we stopped at Armida Winery, just outside of the small town of Healdsburg. As we exited our car, a winery worker driving a small cart, stopped, looked at me and said, 'Did you bring the Stanley Cup with you?' It turned out his name is Brandon Lapides, and he is the winemaker at Armida. He said he is a huge hockey fan and watched all the Kings' playoff games. He later gave me a bottle of Armida Zinfandel and autographed the bottle with congratulations to the Kings.
Perhaps some of you heard about the charity golf tournament I attended in Glendora, California, this month. It was a fundraiser for "Sowing Seeds for Life," a regional food bank in the East San Gabriel Valley started by Vicki Brown with just $100. Now they feed 6,000 people each month. At the dinner after the golf tournament, a live auction item was up for bid and the bidding reached $2,500. The auctioneer said we need $3,000, who will give $3,000?
I was wearing a Kings golf shirt with the Stanley Cup Champions logo on it, and a man named Don Dirian said he would give $3,000 if, 'I can have Bob Miller's Stanley Cup shirt.' Since it was for a good cause, I stripped off my shirt and exchanged shirts with him. A crowd of about 150 at the dinner went wild and when I got home my wife said, 'Where did you get that shirt?' After I told her the story she said, 'Are those your pants?' I told her I would only go so far!
I hope that many of you have had your own great experience with the Stanley Cup this summer since it has truly been a summer to remember for all Kings' fans. One more note, and I have mentioned this every time I have made an appearance or a speech in front of a group this summer, and that is I am so proud of all you Kings' fans who showed the World that fans can celebrate a championship without vandalism or other destructive acts. All of you fans deserve congratulations.


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Happy European Day of Languages!
Eurostat (the statistical office of the European Union) has just published new statistics on language learning at primary level, right in time for the European Day of Languages celebrated on 26 September each year.
The latest stats show that almost 19 million primary school pupils (or 84% of all pupils at this level) in the EU study at least one foreign language, with 83.5% choosing English. French came second with 0.8 million or 4.8%, followed by German (almost 0.7 million or 3.9%), Spanish (0.1 million or 0.6%), Russian (54,000 or 0.3%) and Italian (33,000 or 0.2%).
- Link to the Eurostat press release
More about the European Day of Languages
The European Day of Languages was first organised in 2001, jointly by the Council of Europe and the European Union, with the aim of both encouraging language learning and preserving the rich cultural heritage of Europe. This year several events are being organised across Europe, including conferences, television and radio programmes, language courses, etc.
- Link to the European Day of Languages website
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I am getting awfully bad about updating this shit on time, especially considering all the free time i have lately. Fortunately, i have a Statement of Purpose to put off writing, so...hai!
What will never cease to bring me epic degrees of warm fuzzies is this one truly beautiful aspect of being in a rock band: as a vehicle for meeting wonderful new people, it is second to none. After years of building up a literally nationwide cache of awesome rocker pals, from Replicator and eastward through Bang! Bang! and the Sump Pumps all the way to Ho-Ag, it blows my mind that as we enter our 8th year as a band, we have once again struck New Rocker Buddy Gold in the awesome guys that comprise Chicago's Arks. Paul, Lanny, Glennome and Mat are some rad and hilarious dudes, and we couldn't have had a better time playing two shows with them over the first weekend of this month.
The first of these shows happened at a newish Milwaukee gallery/all-ages space called the Borg Ward, which may now be one of my favorite places to play a show in the town. A basement-sized space in a room behind the gallery portion of the Borg Ward, the room basically puts forth the vibe of a basement show with the added benefit of being above ground in a legit venue with a decent PA. Astounding. This show was our first with every other band on the bill, all of whom were fantastic. elusive Parallelograms played a ramshackle set of Shoegazer-flavored psychedelia (Think Thurston and Lee playing with the 13th Floor Elevators) featuring a drunk-off-his-ass drummer who was probably more entertaining than he bargained for. Burbank Cartel play a great shoegazey (there's that genre twice now!) brand of indie rock with electronically-flavored drumming and great songwriting. And Arks! Oh, Arks. I hate to reference their Pitchfork review, but Girls Against Boys is really a good touchpoint for them, especially with Paul's vocals reminding me so much of Scott McCloud or Mark E. Smith. All three are truly fantastic. Arks' set in particular was hilarious thanks to some drunk heckling provided by that aforementioned eP drummer, the completely sauced Corey.
Also, The Borg Ward has a kitty:
Our set was worlds better than our last show, at Cactus Club. Lots of fun slamming into crowd members, playing guitars on ceilings, the lot. The best part was that other than a few of our regulars (Dixie, Thom, etc.), the gallery crowd at the show was filled with people who i think hadn't seen us before, and they were eating it up. On top of that, after the non-Mat Arks guys gushed about how much they enjoyed us, Mat got to inform them that we were playing with them the next night in St. Paul, a fact they somehow remained ignorant of until after we played on Friday! High-larious.
After the show, we loaded up and made our way to the Church of Murray for beers and hangout hilarity. Then, a night's rest, a morning's breakfast at Ma Fischer's, and we were on our way to St. Paul, Minnesotee.
We hadn't been expecting much from the Station 4 show in St. Paul. First of all, Mat and the guys from our Edina buddies Mise en Place went through just about every Twin Cities club in the area before settling on Station 4. Triple Rock--booked. Big V's--booked. Turf Club--yup, booked. And this was back in July and August! Also, we started hearing from friends in the area that Station 4 is a metal bar that no one goes to because it's out of the way of just about everything else that a self-respecting Twin Cities indie rocker goes to. Well, shit. That's too bad because Station 4 is actually a pretty nice place. Lots of space, HUGE stage (drum riser! DRUM! RISER!), and great sound thanks to a very metal but very polite and knowledgeable sound guy. I cannot say enough nice things about the venue, despite the fact that no one was there.
Seriously--Mise en Place brought along a handful of about 5 people, and we actually pulled in three thanks to the fortunate coincidence of my new Milwaukee friend Betsy being in town for a family wedding and wanting to get away with a couple pals to see us. Unfortunately, they got there as we were playing our last song, which is too bad because we brought it pretty solidly on this night. About 80% of the set was completely different from the night before, and we made full use of the ridiculous stage. Before we started playing, i walked over to the Wizard and said, "ok, when we're noising out, i want you to take the first cymbal i pull out of my kit and place it on the floor for me." So, as we were making our usual end-of-set cacophony, he complied with my request and i followed suit by taking another cymbal and placing it on the stage in front of the riser, enabling me to complete an awesome sequence where i jumped off the riser and crashed the first cymbal, then immediately jumped off stage and crashed the second one on the floor. Ah, theatrics.
The Arks set was even more hilarious the second night because i got the brilliant idea (after a few beers and a shot) to start yelling stuff like "If you guys were a pirate band, you be YAAAAAAARKS!" "If you guys were grassy, you'd be PARKS!" "If you guys thought pro wresting was real, you'd be MARKS!" Etc. Of course, Rev.Ever chose his moment perfectly, shouting near the end of the set, "If Fonzie jumped over you, you'd be SHARKS!" And of course, they were tremendous once again, as were our pals Mise en Place, busting out their fairly unique brand of noise-pop which we enjoy very very muchly.
Let it also be known that Mise en Place are excellent hosts. We made our way to their guitarist Michael's place for Domino's Pizza, beers, and Hi-Def boxing, while we got to say hello to his dog, Juno:
You'd think that now that i have a camera with a phone, you'd see more photos of the bands we play with. Nope, nope. To further illustrate the direction this journal is probably going in, here's a photo of the canine companion of Mise en Place's drummer, Shaun. This is Paul Stanley:
We awoke the next morning at Shaun's pad and met the Arks boys and the Mise en Place dudes for lunch before bidding them good journey on their way to Omaha. We then left for Milwaukee, finally managing to tune in the Packer game as soon as we crossed the border back into our home state (dirty pool, Vikings Country--although i suppose our team took care of that with a 34-0 shutout this weekend, did they not?), just in time to hear the Pack pull one out on the road against the Kansas City Chiefs. As of this writing, our boys in Green and Gold are 8-1. GO PACK GO!


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Location: Duxbury, Massachusetts
Size: Smaller consistent cull, round cup
Farming Technique: Island Creeks are nurtured in our hatchery for 3 months, grown in floating upwellers for 3 months, then rack and bag system for 3 months. For the last 12 months of the grow-out process, they are bottom planted "free range" on the mud flats of Duxbury Bay.
Unique Factor: Duxbury Bay has drastic 12 foot tides, which brings lots of new water loaded with food (algae) into the Bay, giving the oysters their unique, complex flavor.
Salinity: We'd give these a 5.5 out of 10 with lots of brine - more "brine" than straight salt
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I am pleased to announce here that what was going to be a 5 song acoustic EP is now a 6 song acoustic EP with a brand new song called Gypsy Soul. I had a blast working with producer/engineer Kirk Smith (and taking over his engineer's seat on a few percussive parts). Everyone who has helped with this album have been great! I think you will all enjoy it when it is released this summer! So make sure you follow me on facebook and keep up with all that is going on. XOXO - Kelly Ann


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Friday, May 29, 2009
iPhone Friday - May 29, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
iPhone Friday - May 22, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Make your iPhone application famous
Recently Don turned me onto Stack Overflow a social network site designed for programmers to ask questions or to answer previously posted questions about (mostly) programming. Since I've been on it for some 21 days, I have enjoyed it greatly. I've asked questions and have had answers posted quickly, most of which concisely answering my question. I think I'm hooked. As well as asking questions I do like to scour the site looking for newly posted questions that I can answer. One such question was "How to make a program you developed get famous?" Not only did I answer it, but it was both flagged as being the correct answer as well as the highest voted answer. Here is the excerpt from that posting:
Before I start with my points I'd like to say that your application needs to have a compelling story, a value add, a niche and that it fulfills a function that is necessary. If you have just an application that is like all of the others (like your competition) with no value add, ease of use, great user experience, etc... then it will be very hard for you to be heard above the noise.
First, you need to find what sites are talking about your competition. Once that is known approach them and see if they would do a review.
Second, if you have not already, contact a PR company and do a press release, be sure to focus on the applications target audience.
Third, send out samples or request to have your application reviewed by the same people who are reviewing the competitions applications. I find that when developing applications if I can ping reviewers in the technology section of some of the popular print and online magazines and the review is published you'll get great exposure.
Fourth, once you get the ball - run with it. Consider the feature list and upgrade path and try to time it with events that are near your applications market space. When updating (significantly) contact all of the same people who you contacted before and ping them again with why the new version deserves some notoriety or at least a review.
Fifth, once you do start getting press, use it to push it into the hands of others to review and talk about. If you can work the right angle and have a good story you can create a snowball effect and have some great press in a short amount of time.
Lastly, you'll need to have media available for people to see what it is that you are offering. If you have not already set up a channel on YouTube or one of the many other video hosting sites. Post at least one video of the application featuring some of the highlights. If you want to maximize your exposure and you have a significant feature list consider making multipule videos with two or three features with better coverage. But remember people have short attention spans and want to know as much as they can about something in the shortest amount of time.
Now there are many more thing that you can do to get your app, your company, and yourself noticed but I only had enough time to go into as much detail as I did.
I hope this information helps you in your promotion of your app and please feel free to comment if you can think of any other good tips. Cheers!
Saturday, May 16, 2009
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Friday, May 15, 2009
iPhone Friday - May 15, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Clang Checker: Making your development and debugging life easier.
As someone who is relatively new to Objective-C and to hard-core OOP in general, I find that Xcode's debug tools are more than a little confusing to me. With vague or rather non-informative hints as to where a problem is or exactly what the issue pertains to, it does not help me fix the issues at hand and I find myself asking Don for more pair-programming time - or in this case pair-debugging.
As I have very much enjoyed Evan and Alan's lectures thus far and when Evan mentioned Clang I thought I should at least take a look at it and try to understand what it is and if it can help us with developing and debugging our suite of iPhone applications.
Clang is designed to be compatible with code that can be compiled today with GCC. That's very exciting for the open source software community, because it means that Clang and LLVM could some day be used as a complete replacement for the entire GCC stack.
-- Ryan Paul, Ars Technica, Things that go Clang in the night (Article)
So what does all this mean and how can I use it were my initial thought followed by and how hard will it be for me to install and implement such a tool? The answers I found were easier than I thought. But to provide you with a snapshot of our current state of things I should walk you thought the steps in which brought me to this current point.
Download and Installation
The first thing I had to do was go to the LLVM website and find the correct files to download. As the link was in Evan's presentation I simply clicked myself to the page; I will provide the link for you here. There are additional ways to download the current build of Clang Checker via outlined here; as the project is under heavy and constant development you may find new updates posted daily.
Once I downloaded the tar ball I moved it to it's new home, in my case Documents>Xcode, where I then expanded the file and renamed the folder to ClangChecker.
Creating the Path Shortcut
Now that I have the file I could follow the instructions and run it with the long command line instruction in Terminal, but since I have to use Terminal I would like the experience to be easy as possible. Evan commented on adding a "shortcut" into the .bash_profile and demonstrated his version using emacs. That was fine but I prefer pico, and you may prefer vi or any other text editor. Here is what I added to the .bash_profile file:
export PATH=~/Documents/Xcode/ClangChecker/:$PATH
Here I'm telling the terminal to look for the script to run in the directory where I unpacked the tar ball I uninstalled and renamed. This allows you to avoid typing in the path each time you'd like to run Clang Checker. Great, but to use Clang Checker I still have to "clean" the Xcode project I'm working on and navigate to the root folder in Terminal, then type the command... At this point I showed Don what I had done.
Running Clang Checker
I showed Don Clang Checker, ran the script and we immediately watched Clang Checker spew output to the Terminal window. Moments later the compiling and checking was done and Clang Checker launched Safari with our report: four errors, two 'retain/release' issues and two leaks. We click on the view link and it opened a formatted version of the source with annotations of the issues in the file. Don started to walk me through the report but I asked him to allow me to walk him through it as this was a test to see how I could use it.
Debugging Code
After walking thought the colored messages for a few minutes I had solved the issues at hand, opened Xcode and fixed the problematic code then progressed to the next issue. Within six minutes I had corrected the code and ran Clang Checker again. This time no Safari, no report, and no information. What did I do wrong I started to wonder. I looked at Clang Checker's output in Terminal and saw that no reports were generate because there were no errors in the code. I did it -- I had debugged code all by myself with the help of Clang Checker. A feeling of accomplishment washed over me for being able to download, install, run, debug and compile without error. Thank you Clang Checker... Now about that long command...
Simplifying the Running of the Script
I asked Don if there was something I could do to reduce the footprint of the command that I had to enter as it's was the same command and I was not using all of Clang Checker's switches. I wanted a alias, much like the shortcut to the path were the compiler now lives. Don suggested creating a shell script. This did not sound good, easy or fun. But it was simple. I opened pico again and typed the following:
scan-build -k -V xcodebuild -configuration Debug -sdk iphonesimulator2.2
I then saved the file as "clang" in the current directory. To run clang I just need to have that file in the current build directory, have a clean project, open Terminal to that folder and type "./clang" to run the build script.
Final Thoughts
I've only been using it for the past few days but I've already developed a fondness for it. Remember that Clang Checker is in it's infancy and is still being developed and as such is prone to erroneous message such as false positives. I have only heard this and have not experienced this but I assume that this in working on complex code implementations of the language your working on or having a very large code base for it to process.
I hope you found this information as informative as I have and that you try Clang Checker. I'd be happy to hear your thoughts or experiences on this matter so please, comment bellow. Cheers!
Friday, May 8, 2009
iPhone Friday - May 8, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
OCUnit: Integrated Unit Testing In Xcode
Kailoa's article shows you the steps to get a unit test target up and running. While it requires a couple of manual changes to the build settings, it's nearly identical to using OCUnit with plain old Cocoa. One gotcha I found was that you must build your application with Active SDK 2.2 or later -- the unit test target will fail when built for earlier iPhone OS versions. Given that the number of users still on 2.0 or 2.1 is probably very small at this point, and sure to get smaller when 3.0 is released, this isn't that bad of a limitation.
I had previously used Google Toolbox for Mac to write iPhone unit tests and that works just fine, but it's nice to find out that it's now built in to the SDK.
Friday, May 1, 2009
iPhone Friday - May 1, 2009
Also, I've found that if you want the full-size image you need to click on the image to load the original image, then follow the instructions to save the image for use on your iPhone or iPod touch.


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Kaliman Seeds was started up many years ago by a gentleman known as Rockster. Rockster was and is somewhat of a Cheese enthusiast and for many years in the 80s he was very disappointed with the Cheese clones that were readily available on the market. So he set out to create the perfect Cheese clone and, in 1989, he did it. He had created, and then manufactured into a stable seed, a Cheese clone that was completely impossible to tell from the original plant. Now, many years later, he has cultivated a wide range of hybrids, as well as the original Cheese #1, and has used his many years of breeder knowledge and experience to create a top quality product. These seeds come in many forms, one of which is regular.
The regular seed is the original, the old school seed with no genetic alterations or faffing around. They are simply seeds that will produce a certain ratio of males to females, usually roughly equal, that require certain amounts of sunlight and love in order to blossom into a beautiful crop. Many growers prefer this approach, being completely in control of their crop and tending to it as often as necessary to ensure perfection.
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Well known as the lead vocalist of the 90's R&B trio, 702, Meelah Williams was also a Season 3 cast member of R&B Divas Atlanta and is now on a mission to bring awareness to autism and developmental delays through her foundation P.R.O.U.D (Parents Reaching Out to Understand Developmental Delays) . Meelah stopped by Seen from the INside studio and spoke candidly about the traumatic birth of her only child, finding out about his autism diagnosis and focusing on her solo singing career. Meelah was born and brought up in Las Vegas and graduated from Las Vegas School of Performing Artists. After school, Michael Bivins of New Edition and Bel Biv Devoe hand-selected Meelah for 702 and introduced the trio to the music world. When we chatted about the current music scene, she admits to be "an old-head and listening to old school especially riding in the car with her son." She talks about her being "bullied for being a dark-skinned girl" and overcoming that was empowering. In honor of Father's Day, Meelah shares a special grandfather story and how gave her a special nickname, "Pig". Find out why "Pig" was what he nicknamed her by listening now!
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This 68-page pdf document demonstrates the connections between the CCSS content standards and the mathematical practice standards. It is a compilation of research, standards from several states, instructional strategies, common misconceptions, and examples for each standard at the grade 5 level. It is intended to help teachers understand what each standard means in terms of what students must know and be able to do. Additional flip books are cataloged separately for grades K-4.
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This web page provides links to resources aligned to the CCSS that guide and support fifth grade mathematics teaching and learning. Tasks developed by the Mathematics Assessment Resource Service (MARS), Problems of the Month, (POM home page is cataloged separately) and videos of public lessons and number talks developed by the Noyce Foundation are included. The tasks were designed to measure students' ability to solve non-routine problems, explain and justify their solutions, and promote high level thinking skills. They include the scoring rubric, student responses, and discussion of student understanding and misconceptions. Resources are listed for specific grade 5 standards and are also organized by progression for an alternate search route.
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This page provides examples of 5th Grade Measurement and Data activities aligned with the Common Core State Standards. A CCSS standard is stated and the possible activities are listed below and linked. All activities are suitable for use in Math Centers, small group or whole class settings and are designed to elicit a range of responses and provide opportunities for students to communicate their reasoning and mathematical thinking. Instructions for each task are typed in large print and written in child-friendly language to enable students to work on activities independently after a brief introduction to the task. All files for 5th Grade Measurement and Data Activities listed are in PDF format.
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This question and answer service for math students and their teachers offers a searchable archive all about two-dimensional geometry at the elementary level.
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This Technology Problem of the Week (tPoW) presents a two-dimensional view of a three-dimensional "house" of cubes, and asks "What is the largest number of cubes that I could have used to make my house? What is the smallest number of cubes that I could have used to make my house?" It links to the Java applet "building houses with side views." Solve and explain your solution; download hints and answer checks. Free registration is required.
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This interactive applet helps students visualize and count three-dimensional cubes by seeing animated two-dimensional perspective pictures. The cubes drop into an aggregate rectangular arrangement and must be counted accurately.
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In this activity, based on the picture book "Counting on Frank" by Rod Clement, students explore and compare the volume of different containers using standard and non-standard units of measure. Through this activity students develop an understanding of why standard units may be preferable to non-standard units. The activity includes a suggested lesson sequence with guide questions throughout.
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This interactive applet allows users to investigate the formula for the volume of a rectangular prism. In their exploration, students can change any one, two or even all three dimensions of the prism and analyze how the change affects the volume.
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This narrative document describes the progression of Geometric Measurement across the K-5 grade band. It is informed both by research on children's cognitive development and by the logical structure of mathematics. The document discusses the most important goals for elementary geometric measurement. Among those are recognizing measurable attributes, comparing, connecting with number, estimating, and differentiating linear measurement from area and volume.
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This Java interactive tool can be used to create dynamic drawings on an isometric dot grid, and to explore volume, surface area, and congruence concepts. Users can draw figures using edges, faces, or cubes and can shift, rotate, color, decompose, and view figures in 2‑D or 3‑D with this applet. Instructions on using and exploring with the tool are included on the page. A related multi-lesson unit from Illuminations for middle school students is linked to the side.
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EU Cross-Border Shopping Guide
- What Amount of Cigs/Tobacco Can I Buy?
- Do NOT Be Wrongly Branded A Smuggler
- Statement of Truth for Cross-Border Shoppers
- Personal Use Calculator for Cigs/Tobacco
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- Help Fellow Cross-Border Shoppers NOW!
- Vehicle Seizures
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- The Day We Beat and Outed the UKBA In Court!
- Shopping for Tobacco in Bulgaria? ..You NEED this!
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- **Appeals Against Seizure ... The Process**
Average of 5,500 Vehicles seized by HMRC/UKBA per year ... sold £36.80 each?
2003/4 6,848
2004/5 6,093
2005/6 6,256
2006/7 6,293
2007/8 5,697
2008/9 5,618
ln their annual accounts HMRC state that it is not practicable to show monies received from sale of these vehicles ... however ... UKBA state that it is not practicable to show the number of vehicles seized since Customs were amalgamated into the UKBA on 1st April 2008. They do however estimate it to be over 5000 per year (from Feb 2010 UKBA)
UKBA do have statistics on something else though. ln their annual accounts they DO show the monies received from sale of seized vehicles and here is where it gets interesting.
They state in their 2009/10(Section 24) report :-
The agency also seized assets at the border. Tobacco and illegal substances are
destroyed but the agency did raise £432k (2008/09: £877k) from the sale of seized
vehicles with all proceeds going to HM Treasury.
And in their 2009/10 (Section 24) report they state :-
The agency also seized assets at the border. Tobacco and illegal substances are destroyed but the agency did raise £184k (2009-10: £432k) from the sale of seized vehicles with all proceeds going to HM Treasury.
WTF? .... they seize over 5000 vehicles per year, so lets be kind and use that figure of 5000 (the extra 500 or so we'll put down to people getting their vehicles back ... yeah right.)
ln 2008/9 .......... that equates to £175 per vehicle (£877k for 5000 vehicles)
ln 2009/10............. that equates to £86.40 per vehicle (£432k for 5000 vehicles)
and their latest figures equate to .. £36.80 per vehicle (£184k for 5000 vehicles)
These figures are insane but they come from their own accounts so wtf is going on? There's got to be something else surely? .... anyone???
KARMA! >>> here!She gets no sympathy from me
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Scrap value is a bare min of a 100 quid so that'd be atleast half a million!ReplyDelete
3 very recent seizures l know of :-ReplyDelete
£20k people carrier (4 pax 3kg tobacco each)
3yr old E-Class Mercedes Saloon ( 2 pax 3kg tobacco each)
5 yr old Ford Transit (1 pax 6kg tobacco)
Wonder what cars the UKBA staff drive?
Simon at FOREST says it's not an issue! not fucking much it aint you tosser!ReplyDelete
With reference to the story you linked, I'd say at least the squatters are *honest* thieves and parasites unlike the UKBA...ReplyDelete
I still don't understand why the Treaty of Rome isn't a get you and your goods out of jail free ticket. 3 Kg each is not a sustainable business and seems quite obviously for personal use in one of the examples cited by SHReplyDelete
Chalcedon ... unfortunately UKBA and magistrates are wilfully blind to the obvious ... as are politicians, MSM etc when it come to the plight of cross-border shoppers.ReplyDelete
If the pounds per vehicle average based on the known two statistics, number of vehicles seized and estimated sold and total profit from sale realized, then it could be that not all of the profit from selling the vehicles is being accounted for in the official amount of revenue received and would thus indicate that some of the profit could be being diverted into someone's corrupt back pocket, is maybe one way to explain it. Don't officials in charge of ministries know how to do basic math and understand possible implications of the results, or is it that the culture of corruption merely extends so high up in government levels that they give it a blind eye, as long as their cut, by way of sheer money or else political support from those further down, remains unhindered in the process.ReplyDelete
Anon 16.06 ... Well the MP's expenses showed us being blind and deaf is common.ReplyDelete
ln 3 years the money from sale of seized vehicles has reduced by over 50% per year yet the seizure of vehicles has remained the same????
We've all heard of creative accounting ... but this? lt beggars belief.
A friend scrapped a car today. Not a big, heavy one. He got £145, even after I nicked his battery, which reduced its weight a fair bit. (The car didn't get used for parts, we saw them squash it.)ReplyDelete
Clearly, there is a scam going on at HMRC. I assume they'll put it down to institutional innefficiency though. The storage and handling will be "contracted out" to a tax-haven subsidiary, owned by friends of those who make the decisions.
Private Eye have been banging on for years about how Revenue and Customs sold all their buildings to an offshore company that pays no tax. Now they rent them back, for a rent that keeps going up. This is well documented, but nobody in the MSM shows any interest.
One day, they'll have enough rope to hang themselves?
- AnonymousMonday, January 09, 2012 7:14:00 pm
i know 2 polish guys buyin cars left hand drive £3500 per car so strange figures????ReplyDelete
"In the eyes of the Tribunal the review letter contained several preconceptions, prejudgments and non-sequiturs"
"the absurdity of this reason is demonstrated by simply stating it"
"We therefore find that Mr Sked misdirected himself as to the Policy in carrying out the review and his decision is therefore one that no reasonable review officer could have arrived at."
... commonly known here at N2D as 'Skeds' ... that is to say these are Judges comments regarding UKBA Review Officer Ian Sked's reasons for rejecting peoples appeals against seizures.
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Harworth Colliery used a conveyor belt to move spoil away from the mine. The mine was put on "care & maintenance" in 2005 and not much has happened since.
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Reza Aslan, a religion scholar and former CNN host who has written extensively about Islamic fundamentalism, is featured in a new Big Think video in which he asks the question of whether the followers of President Donald Trump constitute a "religious cult."
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To examine why this could be, Aslan pointed in part to the rise of the so-called "Prosperity Gospel" that was once seen as completely heretical by most Christians, but that now has garnered a significant following.
"The essential gist of [Prosperity Gospel] is, 'God wants you to drive a Bentley,'" Aslan explained. "That what Jesus really wants for you is material prosperity… Many white evangelicals looked at Donald Trump and what they saw was a wealthy man, and that wealth, as far as they were concerned, was just a sign of God's blessings."
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This is what some people think being a writer is like:
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What, you mean I'm actually supposed to leave the house??ReplyDelete
Haha. SO true! You forgot children whining in background.ReplyDelete
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Candy: Yes. And the cat hair everywhere, and the unopened mail ...ReplyDelete
Rachel: I'm doing good if I even get out of my bed. *sigh*ReplyDelete
Not enough cats, in my opinion. Every writer has a cat ;)ReplyDelete
Incidentally, if you were to take a quick picture of my living room and then quickly draw it in Microsoft Paint (and remove the bow in the hair) the likeness would be uncanny ...
Luke: Every writer NEEDS a cat! I have two. I would have six, but I have been informed that doing so would give me that final push into crazytown...ReplyDelete
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