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Trapdoor Checkers Board Game
Like regular Checkers, but with trapdoors!
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A comedian once quipped that telling someone you're good at Checkers is akin to saying you're not good at a lot of things. But regardless of whether or not you like Checkers, you're sure to love Trapdoor Checkers - a fun remix of the classic board game with an added element of chance along with super-cool trapdoors.
The Trapdoor Checkers board (like a traditional Checkers board) is an 8x8 grid, but with the added twist of eight trapdoors that can be opened and closed by a series of sliders. At the beginning of each turn, players spin their "Randomizer" which determines if they can move a piece or activate one of the four rows of trapdoors.
Designed for ages 7+. One spare checker of each color is included.
Features & specs
- Dimensions: 10" x 12.5" x 1.5"
- Includes 26 checkers (13 black, 13 white)
- One spare piece of each color is included
- Ages 7+
It's a Checkers board with trapdoors! Now that's awesome.
Honestly, regular Checkers is kind of lame because if both players play correctly, the match always ends in a draw. Unlike Chess, not much is left to chance or skill.
And that's why it was a big deal when the Deep Blue computer finally beat a human at Chess. However, when Chinook, the Checkers computer game, wiped out the competition at the 1996 USA National Checkers Tournament (apparently that exists), there certainly wasn't much of an uproar.
Enter Trapdoor Checkers. The designers of this fabulous re-hab have created a version of Checkers that requires a bit more skill and includes a dash of chance...and did we mention trapdoors?!
The "Randomizer" and trapdoors add the excitement
In our minds, Trapdoor Checkers is to regular Checkers what Major League Baseball is to fast-pitch softball. They're in different leagues.
The two additions to standard Checkers that make Trapdoor Checkers so curiously awesome are: the randomizer and, as its name implies, the trapdoors.
The randomizer determines whether you move a piece or activate one of the trapdoors. There are four rows that feature trapdoors: two green rows and two orange rows. The trapdoor sliders can be moved to either open one of the two trapdoors in its row or close an open door.
Before each turn, spin the Randomizer
At the start of each turn, you spin your Randomizer. It consists of three colors: black, orange, and green. They are not weighted evenly, so you're more likely to land on black than either green or orange.
- Black: You must move a piece.
- Green: You must move one of the two green "sliders" on the edge of the board. With the slider, you can choose which of the two trapdoors in that row to open or, if a door is already open, to close it.
- Orange: You must activate one of the two orange "sliders". Opening or closing a trap door can help you capture an opponent's piece, stop their advance, or allow you safe passage.
Capture their pieces and block advances with the trapdoors
The trapdoors add oodles of strategy to an otherwise simple game. Plus, how awesome is it to flip a switch and have your opponent's piece drop off the board? Mega awesome, that's how.
Because the trapdoors remain open until closed, you can use them for more than just dumping your enemy's pieces; they can also be used to protect your pieces from your opponent.
If you lose a checker, it's no big deal
Checkers requires twelve pieces per side. Trapdoor Checkers includes an extra of each color in case you lose one...ya' know, after you throw a little tantrum because you lost three games in a row to your significant other who is clearly cheating.
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"A group of postgraduate students from the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney created this game to educate children about rabies, a disease that kills over 55,000 people each year in Asia and Africa," said Professor Michael Ward, Chair of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety at the University.
The game is targeted at the most vulnerable age group, children younger than 15 years. The World Health Organisation reports that 40 percent of people bitten by suspected rabid animals belong to this age group because of their close relationships with dogs.
The Philippines is affected by rabies and Dog Village or Barangay Dogsville in Tagalog, a main language of the Philippines, is a role-playing game set in an imaginary Filipino village. As they navigate its streets the users learn about preventive measures against rabies, including responsible pet ownership.
Drawing, music, drama and science are all part of the multifaceted game which was conceived, designed and produced by postgraduate students Robert Barwell, Sarah Jayme, Susan Thomson and Anke Wiethoelter, during a course taught by Jürgen Oschadleus.
Sarah Jayme, who is based in the Philippines, recently trialled the game on sixth-grade students at a school in Lipa City, south of Manila. "After playing, the students exclaimed how enjoyable the game had been," said Dr Jayme. "They also showed they had learnt about rabies, for example that people should consult a doctor if bitten by a dog."
"They picked up on the game's main messages such as the importance of an annual rabies vaccination by a vet, feeding your dog good quality food and training it."
Impressed, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has expressed interest in mass production and distribution of the game.
"We are excited about the likely distribution of the game to children in developing countries and hope that it will be a useful addition to the existing rabies preventive methods," said student Anke Wiethölter.
Rabies is a significant veterinary public health problem around the globe. Australia is fortunate enough to still remain free from the disease with the benefit of its natural geographic border; however, the disease is slowly encroaching as rabies remains a persistent problem in many Asian countries and is now only 350 kilometres from northern Australia.
Dog Village was developed as part of the project management course within the Veterinary Public Health Management postgraduate program at the University, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Integrating scientific skill and leadership competence, the program has produced 63 veterinary public health graduates, many of whom have established themselves as leaders in their field.
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With the advent of another school shooting, gun control is back in the spotlight. The focus of much of the debate revolves around assault rifles and high capacity magazines. I've heard people argue that we should ban both high capacity magazines and assault rifles. The proponents of this argument reason that neither are used for hunting, but instead have the sole purpose of enabling someone to kill more people faster. While this is true, the proponents of the ban are wrong in their assumption of what the 2nd amendment was intended for. The 2nd amendment was not written for hunters, it was not written for collectors, it was written for a specific purpose. Here is a simple fact of life:
Government authority is derived from violence.
Like it or not, the government claims a monopoly on socially acceptable violence. (Whether they are justified or legitimate in doing so is another issue.) A government's laws only have weight because they are backed by the threat of violence. This threat may be very well concealed by formalities like a bureaucracy, but ultimately, if you resist a chain of laws long enough, you will come face to face with an individual with a gun acting on behalf of the government who's laws you are breaking.
Given that violence equals governmental authority, what happens to a government's people when they are relieved of their ability to use violence?
They lose ultimate authority over their government.
It is possible for people to exercise authority over their government by voting, but this is not the same as ultimate authority. People can vote about something all they want, but if other people show up with guns, the ones with the guns are going to have the final say. I realize this might sound absurd to someone living in a first world country, but the reason it sounds absurd is because first world countries, by in large, have a relatively good track record when it comes to adhering to the will of their people when the people exercise their will through voting. This track record, however, has varying degrees of length depending on the country. You only need to look at now first world countries during the various hot and cold wars of the 19th and 20th centuries to see governments repressing their people. (Franco Spain, Vichy France, DDR Germany) It can happen. It does happen. It currently is happening across the middle east. Syria, Egypt, and recently Libya are good examples of where the government swept away any illusions that ultimate authority rested on anything other than violence. It is also here that the people have attempted to reassert their ultimate authority through violence. When the 2nd amendment was written, the colonists in the newly formed United States had just thrown off an oppressor with violence. They had attempted various non-violent means previously, but fond them to be ultimately powerless. They used the last recourse available to them: violence. Having learned this lesson, they drew up the 2nd amendment to ensure that their people would never again be powerless in the face of an oppressor.
The 2nd amendment exists to ensure a people's ability to use violence against the government.
It is for this exact reason that weapons like assault rifles and their extended magazines are needed. They are designed for you to fight a war scenario and kill people. When someone argues for banning assault rifles, high capacity magazines, and other implements designed specifically for war scenarios, what they are actually arguing for is the removal of a people's final say over their government.


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Cut The World is an appropriate title for an album which spans the musical history of Antony and the Johnsons. Antony Hegarty's lyrical obsessions follow those battered and hurt by the world's brutality; having been cut so much at the hands of the world it's only natural to want to turn round and ask the question, "But when will I turn and cut the world?", as Hegarty begs on the title track (and only new song on the album). But Antony and the Johnsons' music has always been a gleaming little razor blade and sure as hell makes its mark.
This album isn't a greatest hits, it's a live album, 'a collection of symphonic live recordings' recorded with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra. The album is full of sweeping orchestral arrangements and Antony's voice rawly cuts through it all, sounding, as ever, kind of like Nina Simone.
With symphonic live arrangements, this album is a transfiguration of Antony and the Johnsons' tracks and when the new arrangements work particularly well they re-awaken old songs, breathing new life into them. 'Kiss My Name' sounds incredibly fresh, with gung-ho marching style drums and the orchestra building and building. 'I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy' begins with dramatic strings sounding like it could soundtrack a horror movie before becoming more tender in the second half, yet still resonating with such power as the despair and impossibility of love is laid bare throughout. It ends with the hanging question of "Are you a boy or are you a girl?", a question with which most transgender people, such as Antony, will undoubtedly be familiar. It is a question we get asked throughout our lives by random dudes on the bus, by doctors, for some of us even in our own heads.
I was not entirely sure about the track 'Future Feminisms', a seven minute speech Antony gave at a concert. Some bits are good, for example when Antony says deadpan: "Did you hear what the pope said at Christmas? He said the marriage of gays and lesbians was as much a threat to the future of our world as the destruction of the rainforests". However, whilst Antony is compelling to listen to, I'm not convinced by all his theories or that he's the best placed person to say how all the world's main religions should move forwards, not being of most of those religions.
How I feel about the music of Antony and the Johnsons is summed up by 'The Cripple and The Starfish' a stunning meditation on brutality and pain and light and love: "It's true I always wanted love to be heartfelt/It's true I always wanted love to be full of bruises". Maybe some of the subtlety of the original is lost in the symphonic throb of this new arrangement but it's still a stunning, gleaming celebration of endurance and life even in the midst of bruises and hurt: "I'll grow back like a starfish". Some glorious live tracks, now roll on the new stuff.
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The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal, as well as The Peace Tree, The Independent Bloggers Alliance and Worldwide Sawdust.
The "war on drugs" doesn't consume as much oxygen in the public square as it used to. In September 1989, President George Herbert Walker Bush, spoke from the Oval Office, held up a plastic bag filled with white contents and announced,
"This is crack cocaine seized a few days ago in a park across the street from the White House . . . It could easily have been heroin or PCP."
For Bush this speech was public relations homage to an issue that dominated the media and politics during the 1980s. It also impacted Bush's 1988 presidential election campaign. The near hysteria about the "crack" epidemic in particular resulted in the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. This act established The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). According to their website,
"The principal purpose of ONDCP is to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the Nation's drug control program. The goals of the program are to reduce illicit drug use, manufacturing, and trafficking, drug-related crime and violence, and drug-related health consequences. To achieve these goals, the Director of ONDCP is charged with producing the National Drug Control Strategy. The Strategy directs the Nation's anti-drug efforts and establishes a program, a budget, and guidelines for cooperation among Federal, State, and local entities."
The General Accounting Office reported that as of 2000, ONDCP's annual budget was almost $20 billion. Depending on whether one factors local incarcerations and law enforcement costs we continue to spend billions annually. So as tax payers, how are we to assess the ONDCP's performance? Are they having any success at achieving their goals? Do they have the right goals? Is ONDCP accomplishing anything useful or simply justifying its own existence and sustaining the prison industrial complex?
Understandably, we have other things on our minds these days. The "war on terror" has dwarfed the "war on drugs" in recent years and unlike 1988, receiving little attention from presidential candidates this time around. However, given the health repercussions of drugs on society as well as the impact on our justice system, foreign policy, and economy, a thorough analysis of the ONDCP's efforts are in order.
One interesting cost-benefit analysis of the drug war was posted online by Brian C. Bennett, who in 2005 concluded that,
"trying to stop people from using drugs is still costing us more than three times as much as the drug abuse itself."
Two Appalachian State University professors provide another sobering analysis: Matthew B. Robinson, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Renee G. Scherlen, Associate Professor of Political Science. Their book, Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (State University of New York Press) primarily focuses on data published by the ONDCP from 2000-2006. They also provide an instructive historical overview about America's war on drugs dating back to 1875 and illustrate the common themes of racism, media hyperbole and bureaucratic self-interest that have helped define this country's drug policies.
Robinson, an author of six books, including most recently, Death Nation: The Experts Explain Capital Punishment, agreed to a podcast interview with me about his book and the war on drugs.
This interview is just over thirty minutes and can also be accessed at no cost via the Itunes Store by searching for "Intrepid Liberal Journal." Another option is to access the media player for this interview on my blog.


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czietz wrote:New beta version 0.2.0 of YAART. Most notable new feature: A (semi-)hidden manual address entry (expert) mode in YAARTTT.TOS that allows you to test memory that is not registered with GEMDOS, e.g. on an add-on video card. See the included documentation for more info.
czietz wrote:New version 0.2.1 of YAART and YAARTTT RAM testers. You can now pause it after an error message (to better that message) by pressing and holding the SHIFT key.
alienkidmj12 wrote:would be even nicer if i ran in a nice menu'd gem app
czietz wrote:As you have already pointed out, it's always the same bit that is affected, more specifically the most significant bit, i.e. data bit 15 (D15).
The ST (usually) has an individual RAM chip for each bit of data, so the one for D15 would be my first suspect. In the schematic you posted this is U45. Note, however, that there were many revisions of the ST mainboard, so maybe this chip has another number on your board. The next suspects indeed would be the latches U22 and U26, as they are also needed for D15.
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USN-2134-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
7 March 2014
linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Software Description
- linux-ti-omap4 - Linux kernel for OMAP4
Mathy Vanhoef discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker could exploit this error to discover the original MAC address after a spoofing atack. (CVE-2013-4579)
Andrew Honig reported an error in the Linux Kernel's Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) VAPIC synchronization operation. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2013-6368)
A flaw was discovered in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel for systems that lack RDS transports. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2013-7339)
halfdog reported an error in the AMD K7 and K8 platform support in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw on AMD based systems to cause a denial of service (task kill) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application. (CVE-2014-1438)
An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's hamradio YAM driver for AX.25 packet radio. A local user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. (CVE-2014-1446)
Matthew Thode reported a denial of service vulnerability in the Linux kernel when SELinux support is enabled. A local user with the CAP_MAC_ADMIN capability (and the SELinux mac_admin permission if running in enforcing mode) could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (kernel crash). (CVE-2014-1874)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- linux-image-3.2.0-1444-omap4 - 3.2.0-1444.63
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.
ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic, linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform this as well.


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Thursday's puzzle of the day featured one of our Beatles jigsaw puzzles, and since we have many more among our huge puzzle collection, we wanted to take the opportunity to share some more with you. Embark on a trip with John, Paul, George, and Ringo in the Yellow Submarine with a 12" x 36" 1000 pieces puzzles. Get creative with the Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Album Art Puzzle or discover the joy of assembling a couple of other famous Beatles pictures. While your guitar gently weeps, your hands and your mind will be absorbed in assembling one of these wonderful puzzles. Let it be, and let yourself enjoy one your childhood pleasures with one of the world's most famous bands. Perhaps with the most famous one, the band of Paul McCartney and John Lennon, the one that took you into the Norwegian wood, introduced you to Jude and gave you the strawberry fields. With these puzzles, all of your troubles will seem so far away you will never want to give up their assembling. They will make you plunge into an idyllic past or a dreamy future, while making your present full of happiness. Beatles Jigsaw Puzzles also happen to make fabulous gifts for other fans you may know. A thousand pieces may not sound like much, but once they're assembled, these puzzles can last forever. Pick a frame and hang them on the wall once you complete them. Or, take them apart to be assembled again another day. They will never grow old, just like the songs the Beatles sang. The largest jigsaw puzzle store in the world is here to help you and we like to think we have something for everyone. Especially if you are a Beatles fan.


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(Bloomberg ) The price of Bitcoin surpassed $1,000 again after Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) said it would start accepting the virtual currency for some of its online social games, citing wider use of the digital money.
Bitcoins, which exist as software and aren't controlled by any country or banking authority, surged to about $1,045 on the Mt.Gox online exchange, one of several markets where they are traded for dollars, euros and other currencies.
Bitcoins first crossed the $1,000 threshold in late November and reached a record at $1,238 on Mt.Gox on Dec. 4, then plummeted to as low as $640 after China's largest online market for the virtual currency stopped accepting deposits. The digital currency has rebounded as more merchants accept Bitcoins for everything from Gummi bears to smartphones on the Internet. Zynga is the latest merchant to accept Bitcoins, which can be used to buy virtual items in games.
"Bitcoin has been remarkably resilient in the face of all the bad news out of China," Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx Group, wrote in an e-mail. "The strength shows a continued interest, which is a very positive sign."
Bitcoin was trading for about $13 a year ago, before wider acceptance and speculators drove prices higher. The rally gained steam in October, after regulators shut down the Silk Road Hidden Website, where people could obtain guns, drugs and other illicit goods using Bitcoins. That generated optimism the digital money would become more widely used. In November, law enforcement and securities agencies said in U.S. Senate hearings that Bitcoin could be a legitimate means of exchange.
Bitcoin Shopping
Dani Dudeck, a spokeswoman for San Francisco-based Zynga, confirmed a reddit.com community website post by the company introducing a plan to test Bitcoin payments. Players will be able to pay via the BitPay payments service for players of "FarmVille 2", "CastleVille" and other games, Zynga said.
"We look forward to hearing from our players about the Bitcoin test so we can continue in our efforts to provide the best possible gaming experience," Zynga said.
Victoria's Secret Stores LLC has signed up with Gyft, an app that lets users buy gift cards with Bitcoins. Overstock.com Inc. plans to start accepting Bitcoins next summer, Chief Executive Officer Patrick Byrne said in an interview last month.
"We think there's an underserved part of the market that wants to use Bitcoins and can't," Byrne said. The company needs time before it starts accepting Bitcoins in order to figure out how to process Bitcoin transactions and to hedge Bitcoin sales (the currency is highly volatile), he said.
Digital Money
Introduced in 2008 by a programmer or group of programmers going under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoins exist as software, which contain the rules governing their supply. New Bitcoins can only be created by solving complex problems embedded in the currency, keeping total growth limited. There are more than 12 million Bitcoins in circulation, according to Bitcoincharts, a website that tracks activity across various exchanges.
The virtual currency can also be traded without being tracked, potentially reducing banking-transaction fees and making it an attractive tender for those seeking to buy and sell via the Web or in stores.
"I think that as demand for investing in Bitcoin rises and friction in its markets is removed the price will continue to go up," Gil Luria, an analyst at Wedbush Securities Inc., said in an e-mail. "The $1,000 mark does seem to be important level because it may dissuade the skeptics that emerged when Bitcoin prices took a big step down."


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Proposal would add toll lanes to U.S. 290 and Texas 288
Commissioners will soon vote on deal to jump-start project
Projects to widen U.S. 290 and Texas 288 with a mix of free and toll lanes in an attempt to ease congestion in the traffic-choked corridors would get a jump-start under a proposed agreement between Harris County and the Texas Department of Transportation.
The deal, scheduled for a vote by Commissioners Court next Tuesday, also foresees the state building a direct connection from Texas 288 to the Texas Medical Center, as well as improving nearby Almeda and Cullen.
TxDOT spokesman Bob Kaufman said work on U.S. 290 could start early next year; he declined to say when dirt could turn on Texas 288, but said environmental work is under way.
"This is an important step that says we're going to work on this program together, we're both going to bring funding to it, the toll road authority will collect tolls to help pay for it, and it's going to address in an aggressive way the congestion on 290," said Art Storey, the county's director of public infrastructure, who oversees the Harris County Toll Road Authority.
Storey said the details of each project still need to be worked out.
2 commissioners wary
County Judge Ed Emmett called the agreement exciting, and said it was the product of months of negotiations between state officials and court members.
"It's a lot of projects at a time when everybody else is wringing their hands going, 'Gee, what are we going to be able to do?' " he said. "To finally tell people who use 290 and 288, 'Here's a definitive plan and it's going to start sooner rather than later,' I think is a big plus."
Precinct 3 Commissioner Steve Radack, through whose precinct a large part of U.S. 290 passes, was more wary. The county, he said, has not been repaid for $77 million it spent developing Segment E of the Grand Parkway before turning the job over to the state. Radack said he would like that back before the county contributes a proposed $400 million to help build U.S. 290, which is under the state's jurisdiction.
"What they're asking the county to do is participate in order to get something done," Radack said. "So, we're saying we'll look at participating, but let's look at what y'all are proposing and is it a good plan for the county. It's not Harris County's fault that the state of Texas doesn't have the money to do what is their responsibility."
Precinct 2 Commissioner Jack Morman also expressed skepticism, but for a different reason. TxDOT must not neglect Texas 146, the widening of the southeastern portion of Beltway 8, or the expansion of the Ship Channel bridge, he said.
"We need a funded plan for all major Harris County projects," Morman said. "So far the focus has been on Grand Parkway and 290. That's fine, but I won't let the east side take a back seat."
In 'striking distance'
The proposal envisions a free lane being added in each direction on U.S. 290 between the 610 Loop and the Grand Parkway, and two to three managed lanes in the center. There is disagreement about which directions those lanes should flow at what times. The plan for Texas 288, according to the agreement, would see two toll lanes added from U.S. 59 to near the Brazoria County line. TxDOT's Kaufman said it is too early to discuss details on either project.
Alan Clark, head of transportation planning for the Houston-Galveston Area Council, said the agreement puts long hoped-for improvements "within striking distance." Both stretches of U.S. 290 and Texas 288 are among TxDOT's 100 most-congested road segments.
"None of this would be possible if it weren't for our ability to use toll financing on some of these projects," he said. "The funding shortfall is still very much present when we're talking about adding or constructing lanes that would not be tolled."
Cautionary note
Citizens Transportation Coalition board chairwoman Marci Perry and advocacy chairwoman Carol Caul said they support improvements to the congested section of U.S. 290 inside Highway 6, but said population statistics do not support such an investment much beyond that point.
Precinct 4 Commissioner Jack Cagle, whose district is home to a large section of U.S. 290, said there is no question that both projects are needed.
"If we want to continue the economic growth and the prosperity that we have, we have to address mobility," Cagle said. "If this agreement is signed, it'll be a signal to everyone, not just within our region but … to the entire nation, that 'Houston is ready to do business - come on down.' "


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Revision of the OECD Corporate Governance Principles
Vincent Tophoff | November 7, 2013 |
The Corporate Governance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is about to embark a revision of its OECD Principles of Corporate Governance (the Principles) in 2014. Through its membership in the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD, IFAC is directly participating in these revisions.
Established in 1961, the OECD provides a forum for governments to work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. The OECD works with governments to understand what drives economic, social, and environmental change. It sets international standards for many industries.
Initially released in May 1999 and revised in 2004, the Principles are one of the 12 key standards for international financial stability of the Financial Stability Board. The Principles provide specific guidance for policymakers, regulators, and market participants to improve the legal, institutional, and regulatory framework that underpins corporate governance with a focus on publicly traded companies. They also provide practical suggestions for stock exchanges, investors, corporations, and other parties that have a role in the process of developing good corporate governance.
In 2010, the OECD published a set of ambitious action plans for improvements in priority areas, such as remuneration, risk management, board practices, and the exercise of shareholder rights, to address severe shortcomings in corporate governance revealed by the financial crisis. These recommendations also address how the implementation of existing standards can be improved.
IFAC believes that successful organizations have a governance structure and culture that go beyond conformance with regulations to also support the organization's efforts to improve its performance. Good governance, therefore, involves giving appropriate attention to both conformance and performance, and is the backbone of sustainable value creation, resource utilization, and accountability of an organization. These factors were set out in IFAC's International Good Practice Guidance, Evaluating and Improving Governance in Organizations. According to that guidance, "the creation and optimization of sustainable stakeholder value should be the objective of governance" and, therefore, "good governance should be fully integrated into the organization."
Reconciliation of IFAC's Good Practice Guidance and the OECD Principles
The IFAC governance guidance is designed to complement existing governance codes, such as the OECD Principles, by encouraging organizations to evaluate and further improve their already existing governance systems and to achieve a balance between conformance with rules and regulations and driving organizational performance. Additionally, the OECD principles are intended to assist governments and to provide guidance for stock exchanges, investors, corporations, and other parties. The IFAC guidance is also specifically focused on what professional accountants in business can/should do to evaluate and improve governance in their organizations.
The OECD principles are written from a more legalistic and regulatory angle and are primarily oriented on the roles and rights of the various stakeholders, to deal with the problems that result from the separation of ownership and control. Although the main causes of the financial crisis are probably not the non-existence of suitable governance codes and standards but rather poor implementation, application, and oversight, the OECD code could seize the opportunity of the upcoming revision to better demonstrate that good governance is not just about protecting shareholders' interests or a compliance exercise to satisfy the requirements of regulators. Instead, the revised OECD Principles should better support building sustainable value in organizations and society by expanding its perspectives, for example, from shareholder to stakeholder or from financial performance to building more sustainable value for society.


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I posted a call for comments last night on RSS-Public, the mailing list of the RSS Advisory Board, asking what people think the board should do in response to the ongoing effort to revise the RSSCloud Interface.
The interface has been a part of the RSS specification since the publication of RSS 0.92 in December 2000. It determines how software can use the cloud element in an RSS feed to connect to a server that offers real-time notifications when the feed has been updated. In a nutshell, here's how it works:
- A user subscribes to an RSS feed that has a cloud element which identifies its cloud server.
- The user's RSS reader contacts the cloud server, asking to be notified when the feed is updated.
- When the feed has been updated, the software publishing the feed sends a ping to the cloud server.
- The cloud server sends a notification to the IP address of all RSS readers that asked for updates.
- The RSS readers immediately request the feed.
Cloud communications can be sent using XML-RPC, SOAP or REST aside from pings, which are sent using XML-RPC.
Dave Winer recently began an effort to revise RSSCloud, persuading WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg to adopt the still-in-progress proposal on all 7.5 million blogs hosted on WordPress.Com. Winer has made three significant changes to the interface.
First, he changed the fifth parameter of a notification request on the REST interface to a series of named url parameters (url1, url2, and so on upwards), each containing the URL of a feed monitored by the cloud.
Next, he added a new ping format to contact cloud servers using REST.
Finally, he has proposed adding a sixth parameter to the notification request, but only for REST requests. The sixth parameter, called domain, identifies a server that will receive notification updates from the cloud server. It's an alternative to using the IP address for notifications.
Winer, the lead author of several versions of the RSS specification and one of the best-known authorities on syndication, is making these changes unilaterally.
Because RSSCloud has been a part of RSS for nine years, I thought it wise for the board to decide what, if anything, it should do regarding this effort. My personal belief is that it's extremely unwise to give a single developer the authority to revise this interface and author its specification.
Ideally, a group should decide what changes should be made to the next version of RSSCloud. This group could be the RSS Advisory Board, which deliberates in public and has 10 members from across the RSS development community, or it could be an ad-hoc group formed strictly to work on the effort.
As a member of the board for five years, I've had a lot of experience dealing with the consequences of a specification process that is closed to public participation and drafted with imprecise language. It leads to situations like the long-running battle over the enclosure element, which carries podcasting files and other multimedia over RSS. As described in the board's RSS Best Practices Profile, the RSS specification doesn't make clear whether an item can contain more than one enclosure. Developers disagree over what the specification means, so interoperability suffers as some allow more than one enclosure and others don't.
I realize that I'm tilting at windmills to suggest that Winer let the RSS Advisory Board get anywhere near the effort. Jon and Kate have a better chance of getting together. But as developers such as Mullenweg implement RSSCloud, they should insist that the revision process take place in public and involve a group of software developers and feed publishers who have the power to approve or reject each change. The group should write the specification together.
Letting Winer make all the decisions by fiat will just buy years of arguments over what his spec means and why no one should ever be allowed to change it.
Related post:
- According to PubSubHubbub developer Brad Fitzpatrick, Winer has said that RssCloud "is frozen and a 'done deal'."


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Raspberries and Smoke: Make Alex Ott's Despacho Cocktail for Valentine's Day
Alex Ott gets around. He's designing the drinks for Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic flights to space, and has created cocktails for bars in Bangkok, Paris, Sydney, and his native Germany. We caught up with him at Nuela in New York, where he's crafted a cocktail menu that includes the Despacho, a red wine based concoction that's perfect for Valentine's Day.
Though it's meant for dessert, this drink isn't too sweet; bittersweet chocolate is balanced with red wine and tart raspberry puree. Smoke-infused cream adds a pleasant marshmallow-like flavor (and a bit of theatrical flourish) but the Despacho is still tasty without it.
What You'll Need
- 1/2 ounce raspberry puree, strained to remove seeds
- 4 drops melted semisweet chocolate
- 2 1/2 ounces Cabernet Sauvignon
- ice
- 2 1/2 ounces heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- semisweet chocolate for grating
- 1 hickory wood chip
- cocktail glass, wine glass, and tray for serving
- Optional: organic rose petal for garnish
Follow along in the slideshow for complete instructions on how to make this vivid Valentine's Day cocktail.


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From the mind of Dave Pell, NextDraft gives you the top 10 stories of the day with a unique, witty perspective.
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NextDraft gives you a little bit of breathing room with a smart, exquisitely designed app. Pell hand-picks every story each day, after scouring the internet the stories he thinks are the gems of the day. You can share stuff via Facebook, Twitter, or SMS, send it to Instapaper, Pocket, or Readability. It's your new remedy for the overwhelming nature of the web
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Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: The Holy Trinity of Denver quarterbacking. Elway. Manning. Osweiler.
Brock Osweiler joined 92.3 The Ticket in Denver to discuss his new gig in Denver playing for John Elway and under Peyton Manning. He also touched on how high the Broncos were on his list of potential teams, whether the Broncos staff has communicated any changes they want to see from him, and the possibility that he'll be a backup for quite some time.
On joining John Elway and Peyton Manning in Denver:
"You know, I think it's a quarterback's dream. It really is. You know, I'm big into learning and that's why I made this decision to enter the draft is, I wanted to go and learn from the best. And fortunately for me, it worked out to be John Elway and Peyton Manning and Coach Fox and the rest of the guys. And I just truly feel like there's no better situation and I can promise everyone that my ears will be open every single day and I'm writing as many notes as I possibly can."
On how high Denver was on his list of desired destinations:
"I think Denver is maybe one of the best, if not the best spot for me to go right now. And like I said, I could not be any more happy with their decision. I'm excited and I just cannot wait to get up to Denver and get to grinding and get to working for the organization."
On if the Broncos staff has notified him of any changes they'd like to see from him:
"Not really. In fact, it seemed that the coaching staff was very happy with how far I had progressed since the end of the season. I gotta give a ton of credit to Noel Mazzone for working with me the past three months and improving my delivery, improving my footwork . . . And I feel like the coaching staff in Denver was very happy with the progress that I had made."
On having to wait behind Peyton Manning, maybe for several years:
"You know, my job as a quarterback right now for the Broncos is to do what's absolutely best for the football team. And if that's to sit for two years behind Peyton Manning, or 10 years, or whatever the case may be, I'm just there to do what's ever best for the football team and I just absolutely cannot wait to get started."
This post, written by Brad Gagnon, appears courtesy of Sports Radio Interviews. For the complete highlights of the interview, as well as audio, click here.
More from Sports Radio Interviews
• Bruce Irvin was as surprised the Seahawks took him as you were.
• The Warriors didn't tank, they're just bad.
• Bryce Harper isn't on a short leash.


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IDT is a leader in wireless power transmitter and receiver solutions for battery charging applications. IDT's wireless power portfolio includes the industry's first true single-chip Qi certified wireless transmitter IC, and the industry's first dual-mode (WPC and PMA compliant) wireless power receiver IC.
In addition, IDT offers powerful multi-channel power management ICs (PMICs) with advanced features and functionality for various consumer electronics, including tablet PCs, netbooks, cellular phone handsets, portable gaming devices, digital media players, and multifunction printers.


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A stored procedure contains a view which is accessed multiple times with the confines of the SP.
If the SP is executed multiple times in one query window with different parameters, e.g.
EXEC spMySP 1, 2, 3
EXEC spMySP 4, 5, 6
- If one assumes that the first call will complete execution before the second one starts and therefore the view within the SP, will it be bound by the connection, session and process?
- If we were to place each SP execution in its own query window and execute the all, roughly at the same time - we assume they would execute asynchronously?
- Can we assume that the view would within the SP be operating within a new instance (More a theoretical question)?


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Even the fashions this year were lack-luster. Where was the amazing bling? I'm a jewelry designer-that's what I'm waiting to see . There were some beautiful pieces-Amy Adams had on gorgeous emeralds & diamonds worth $1.35 million
I don't know the story of this necklace so if any knows about drop my a line
As for the dresses- few really wowed or horrified me. Some I had mixed feeling about.Here's my picks
My Favorites of the Night
Amy Adams
I loved the color and fit of this dress. I wasn't crazy about how the necklace laid on it-I don't think it flatters either the necklace or the dress. Loved the retro hair
My favorite gal, Sandy. She could have been wearing a paper bag & I would have put her with my favorites. But she wasn't and she looked damn good.


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From purchasing your first home and taking family road trips to see National Parks to spending afternoons at the ball field, life's moments (big or small) are worth celebrating.
Whether life-altering or poignantly ordinary, life's most memorable moments all have two things in common: they are over in a flash, and you treasure them. So, the question is, are you doing everything you can to protect the people and moments that matter most?
Moments Made Sweeter
You're remodeling that old house and making it into your forever home – the place where you'll raise your family and live after you retire. And you dream of one day sending your children off to college at your alma mater – debt free.
But right now you're cherishing Saturday afternoon football games with your friends, bicycle rides that end at a local pub and playing hours of Frisbee with your dog.
With life insurance, the moments that matter most – big or small – are made sweeter because you have peace of mind knowing that if you weren't there your loved ones could keep dreaming big. Your dog could still have his favorite treats, your spouse could continue to create a dream home and your children could still attend your alma mater.
Your Passion, Continued
What about your charity work with the local animal shelter or the church in your hometown? By designating a charitable organization as a beneficiary on a life insurance policy, you can ensure your passion for the organization continues beyond what might otherwise be possible.
Life is a series of moments that matter with the people, places and things you love most. Life insurance is about living those moments to their fullest potential.
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Sure, protecting those moments is important to you, but on a tight budget how will you afford one more thing? Good news, life insurance doesn't cost as much as you think. According to the 2019 Insurance Barometer Report, "over half of the population thinks the cost of a term life insurance policy is over three times the actual cost." To help you get an idea of how much life insurance you may need, check out our Life Insurance Calculator and get an estimate of your needs in less than five minutes.
Let life insurance take care of the what-ifs for you so you can enjoy those moments, memorable to mundane, that make life worth living. We want to help. Talk with your local Farm Bureau agent to learn more. Your agent will work with you to help make sure you have the right coverage.


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kaipo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 76 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
Freedom$oft Reloaded
We launched a web app in January called Freedom$oft. It helps real estate investors run their businesses. What people love about the product is that it does a LOT, but it's super easy to use!
We need a logo for the next version of our app, which will be called "Freedom$oft Reloaded". The Reloaded version adds about 7 new powerful features, and it also simplifies & streamlines the UI of the original version.
Your logo will be used in the web app itself, as well as our websites and other marketing materials.
Our users are real estate investors, currently representing all 50 U.S. states and 17 countries. They range from newbie to 30-year professional.
This new logo will provide a fresh, new, exciting look for current users, as well as helping to attract new users.
Here is our current logo:
Here's an example of where the logo currently appears inside the app:
The font is Avant Garde. What we're looking for with the new one:
- A fresh design approach for our new app version, "Freedom$oft Reloaded"
- Our branding & colors are important to us, so we don't want to deviate too far from our current logo. I think we're only looking for minor variation, but feel free to surprise us.
- Clean, simple, sexy, web 2.0 (think Apple!)
- We're using the Matrix Reloaded trailer as a model for one of our marketing videos, but I don't think we want to anchor ourselves too closely to this movie
Please read the brief overview, target audience, & requirements closely. And make it hot!
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Your Own ZUL Components
JSP technology lets you define custom tags by writing JSP fragments in a separated file. In a similar way, you can create new ZUL components by encapsulating pieces of ZUL or ZHTML code into a file. Then you can import such definitions to your own page, name them by some alias, and use them in the same way as standard ZUL components. Similar to JSP custom tags, you can pass parameters to a component defined in such a way by setting up attributes of the tag. These parameters are available in the code of the componentas variables with the same names as the attributes, but preceded by the prefix arg. Listing Twelve is a ZHTML example component, while Listing Thirteen (available online) shows its use on a ZUL page.
Integration with HTML, JSP, and JSF
ZUL code can be easily merged with HTML; for instance, to arrange ZUL controls with the help of HTML tables, or to use specific functionality such as sending e-mails from web pages. There are two methods for mixing together ZUL and HTML code. First, XHTML tags can be embedded into ZUL documents after declaring their appropriate namespace (see Listing Fourteen; available online). The second technique relies on using a special ZUL <html> tag and with a fragment of HTML pasted in as its content (Listing Fifteen, available online).
Today's applications are usually built using many different technologies. ZUL pages allow easy integration with the existing code of the view layer, created via JSP or JSF. This is possible by applying <include> tags on JSP pages, which incorporate ZUL fragments; for example:
<jsp:include page="/my/embedded.zul"/>
ZUL pages can also include other resources served by a web container, such as servlets, JSP or JSF pages, or other ZULs or richlets. This is also accomplished by applying the <include> tag:
<include src="/my/servlet"/>
Integration with External AJAX Components
Several open-source packages supporting the creation of advanced web interfaces are distributed with the ZK framework. Among them are an interface for Google Maps, JFreeChart (for generating advanced diagrams), the HTML graphic FCKEditor, and a border layout manager from the Ext JS library. They are integrated with the framework by being wrapped in ZUL tags. Listing Sixteen (available online) is an example of creating data presentations with the help of the <chart> tag, which gives access to JFreeChart functionality.
ZK seems to be one of the more interesting frameworks to come along and make web programming easier. Its strong suite includes browser interoperability, an event-handling paradigm, MDI functionality, and a set of neat standard controls. And, according to test results, its performance looks decent. Emerging features include a ZK client for mobile devices and an expected Eclipse plug-in for the graphic design of ZULs. Lastly, ZK is intuitive and easy to use.
Among the disadvantages, there is incomplete support for keyboard navigation over a GUI (for instance, for a menu component) and occasional problems with the localization of standard messages hidden in JavaScript files.


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Tour ID: 10060853
Climb the most beautiful bridge in the world, the Sydney Harbour Bridge. This will certainly be a climb of a lifetime. What a unique way to see the beautiful Sydney Opera House, from 440 feet above!
Words like, amazing, breathtaking & spectacular are just some of the comments from the climbers. Now it is your turn! Just choose the time of day and book!
Accelerate your ascent to the summit. This energetic experience is the fastest trip to the top of the Bridge. Ascend through the heart of the Bridge, a cathedral of steel, and burst through to the summit from below.
Latching on in the Climb Base below the Bradfield Highway, you will walk on catwalks past the South-East Pylon, directly over Sydney Harbour, until you meet the base of the Bridge's lower arch on the Opera House side. Here you will commence your ascent as you rise to the peak of the lower arch. At this point, you will break through to the upper arch by taking a staircase to the summit. After a summit celebration with your group, you cross the spine of the Bridge to the Darling Harbour side to make your descent to our Climb Base. This Climb has more pace and fewer stops than BridgeClimb.
Climb Facts:
- 2 ¼ hours long, max. 14 people per group.
- 1,002 steps.
- Ideal for independently-minded folk who just want to fast-track it to the top.
- With fewer stops, this climb is perfect for people with a higher level of general fitness.
Professional guide, Commemorative certificate, Cap, Printed group photo, Entry to the Pylon Lookout
Photographs, Food and Drinks, Souvenirs
2hours 15mins
9:30 AM Sat, Sun
Sydney and The Rocks
Climbs depart from 3 Cumberland St, The Rocks.
By public transport:
To get here, catch a ferry, bus or train to Circular Quay. From here, walk along George Street until you meet the corner of Argyle Street (Guylian Cafe is on the corner). Take Argyle Street and when you reach the Argyle Stairs (next to Sake Restaurant), take these to the top to reach Cumberland Street. From here, walk north along Cumberland Street. BridgeClimb is located on the western side of the street before the road snakes underneath the Bridge. Visit 131500 website for public transport services.
By car:
Park in Harrington Street, George Street or Argyle Street car parks. There is also limited metered car parking available in Cumberland Street.
Closed-toe rubber-sole shoes, Sunglasses
Children aged over 8 years and 1.2 metres (4 foot) can climb. Child prices apply to children 8 to 15 years, and must be accompanied by an adult. Maximum 3 children per adult.
* Operates in all weather conditions (with the exception of extreme weather conditions such as an electrical storm)
* If you are 75 years of age or older or have any pre-existing health conditions you must have a Bridgeclimb Certificate of Fitness completed by your GP prior to your arrival at BridgeClimb and present it to our team on the day of the climb.
* If you are less than 24 weeks pregnant, you are required to consult a medical practitioner and have a signed Bridgeclimb Certificate of Fitness form. If you are over 24 weeks pregnant, you are unable to climb.
* Alcohol should not be consumed prior to the climb. Every participant will undergo an alcohol breath test and will not be permitted to participate if their blood alcohol concentration reading is 0.05% or higher or if they are under the influence of drugs (legal or illegal)
* Cameras and mobile phone devices cannot be taken onto the climb due to safety reasons. The Climb Leader will take photos of the climbers throughout the climb and are available to customers post climb
* A reasonable level of fitness with full body control and hand-eye-foot coordination is required
* Every participant will be required to complete a BridgeClimb Declaration Form prior to climb. This will be provided on the day of the climb.
* Participants should be ready to wear a BridgeSuit over their clothing
* Please wear suitable closed-toe rubber-sole shoes such as running, sport or hiking shoes, that offer comfort, support and grip. PVC and leather soled shoes are not suitable.
* Lockers are provided, as loose objects including but not limited to cameras, video cameras, mobile phones, handbags and any other personal items cannot be taken on the bridge.
* The experience involves climbing high ladders and catwalks, prolonged stair climbing, uneven surfaces and narrow passage ways and exposure to all weather conditions
* Failure to be at the check-in point at the specified departure time or to meet any of the above requirements will result in cancellation without refund
Sydney and Sydney Harbour
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The 23-year-old daughter of Tracy and Darrell Williams of Swainsboro, Meagan earned an associate's degree in business from EGSC and a bachelor's and master's degree from Georgia Southern University.
Meagan developed a clothing line called Nuts and Bolls Clothing, based on her agricultural background.
"I just feel like God gives everybody passion, and that passion can be developed into your life work," commented Williams.
"I based my clothing line on agriculture, because farming is important to me and my family and is the backbone on our nation," concluded Williams.
She and her mother, make most of the items Nuts and Bolls sells. They screen print the tee shirts with the logos, as well as cut and sew the bowties. Also offered within her product line are koozies, tote bags, caps, and dog collars. All items carry the Nuts and Bolls logo.
Williams has pledged 10 percent of her profits to the Georgia Future Farmers Association Foundation, which promotes agricultural education and leadership through chapters in schools.


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Get organized! Conquer numbers on the go.
*** To our loyal users: We're got great news! A major Digits update is in the works! ***
We're human. We're busy. We make mistakes. So we designed a calculator for humans, from the ground up. Digits combines the edit-ability of a spreadsheet with the simplicity of calculator. Dare we say it? Digits is a calculator a human can love.
So, why do so many humans love Digits? Its uniquely correctable tape means never worrying if you entered a calculation correctly. Make a mistake? Tap any entry on the tape to correct it (or edit, insert, copy and more). Then, add a label/comment and email or print the tape.
Digits is great for:
• Adding up expenses, labeling and emailing them
• Doing a quick calculation and being able to double-check and correct entries with ease
• Entering a long series of calculations and then emailing it to yourself for import into Numbers or Excel
• Quickly calculating a couple scenarios by editing any previous entry to automatically update the total
• Easily creating a grand total from a number of previous calculations with flagging
• Keeping a series of short calculations available for later reference
• Sharing via email, printed output or by files.
• EASY: perfect for a quick calculation, powerful enough for pages of them.
• MADE FOR iPad: uses the whole iPad display to leave cramped buttons behind.
• MADE FOR iPhone: all of the iPad features on an interface designed just for iPhone.
• TAPE: never lose track of what you've entered.
• PRINT: print-quality output with AirPrint (where available).
• SHARE: Use iTunes File Sharing to backup and share .digits tape files to other Digits Calculator users and your other iOS devices.
• EMAIL: tap to email your tape.
• COMMENTING: label any item in your tape and include comments in tape emails.
• CORRECTIONS: make edits and inserts to previous calculations at any time!
• SIMPLE TAPE STRUCTURE: one calculation on each tape line means quick one-touch access for edits.
• AUTOSAVE: holds your calculations and tape in place for the next time you return.
• RUNNING TOTAL: always displays the total above so you can focus on what you're entering.
• CUSTOMIZABLE: a wide arrange of settings, including currency mode, sound and background color! ;-)
To see a video Digits in action on both iPhone and iPad, click the Shift Web Site link below!
Featured on the iTunes App Store "What's Hot" list
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I didn't intended to make jam or watch Little Miss Firecracker have her "make-up" done, but my life of unexpected blessings meanders like a stream on the forest floor. Do you remember the dreaded "What I Did This Summer" essay that began each school year? Today I'll tackle "What I Did on the 4th of July." There is equivalency here, but I'll make it wordless. You get the picture.
I'm sending these photos to the Work of the Poet: Ruby Tuesday meme.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Unexpected Blessings - Ruby Tuesday
22 comments :
- G6 said...
These photos are a joy!
- July 7, 2009 at 12:18 PM
- theUngourmet said...
Beautiful Photos for Ruby Tuesday! Glad you had a fun 4th!
- July 7, 2009 at 12:19 PM
- ~~louise~~ said...
Adorable, simply adorable...
- July 7, 2009 at 1:55 PM
- Sandra said...
Aw, what a cutie pie!
- July 7, 2009 at 2:28 PM
- Mila said...
Awww how adorable!
- July 7, 2009 at 3:47 PM
- Tom said...
Nice pictures. The picture of the jam reminded me how some of the simple things in life can be so great. A bottle of fresh jam can do wonders for my attitude.
- July 7, 2009 at 4:05 PM
- Katy ~ said...
Oh, I am so happy! You have gladdened my heart.
- July 7, 2009 at 4:08 PM
- Lori said...
"...my life of unexpected blessings meanders like a stream on the forest floor."
beautiful, Mary.
- July 7, 2009 at 4:38 PM
- SouthLakesMom said...
That jam looks so inviting! And little miss patriotic is adorable. Nice photos for RT!
- July 7, 2009 at 4:46 PM
- NKP said...
Lovely photos! I hope to try my hand at jam making this season.
- July 7, 2009 at 4:58 PM
- Bunny said...
Awe she's adorable!!
- July 7, 2009 at 5:22 PM
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
Oh Mary that is a blessing of a smile!
- July 7, 2009 at 5:55 PM
- Dreamgirl said...
What a great post! Love your pictures and your blog - only problem is that I find myself getting very hungry! And since it's usually late and everyone has gone to bed I end up finding a snack in the kitchen:)
A very delayed Happy Pink Saturday to you too... I have been without internet connection since Saturday - a very difficult experience for us bloggers! Thanks for leaving a sweet comment on my blog.
Have a wonderful week!
Greetings from Spain
P.S. Giveaway on my blog. Country Living Magazine subscription. Drawing on the 15th. Interested?
- July 7, 2009 at 6:37 PM
- Allie said...
She's so sweet how cute is that?!?!
Hope you had a wonderful 4th!!
- July 7, 2009 at 7:07 PM
- Susan Cook said...
Great shots. The jam looks delicious & she is so cute in her 4th of July outfit. Thanks for sharing.
- July 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Isn't she a doll? I smile everytime I look at her.
- July 7, 2009 at 8:39 PM
- LK- Healthy Delicious said...
how pretty is she?!
- July 7, 2009 at 10:17 PM
- noble pig said...
Simply adorable!
- July 8, 2009 at 7:49 PM
- RobinfromCA said...
Well, the jam looks delicious and Little Miss Firecracker is adorable!
- July 8, 2009 at 10:37 PM
What a darling you have there :-) She is too cute! oh too cute! :-)
- July 9, 2009 at 4:35 AM
- Teresa @ Grammy Girlfriend said...
What great photos.....I enjoyed reading your blog today. It is so much fun making new blog friends. Hope you will stop by for a visit. http://teresa-grammygirlfriend.blogspot.com/
- July 11, 2009 at 1:01 AM
- stephchows said...
HI! I'm hosting a jam exchange and was wondering if you'd like to join in?? I'm trying to gather a whole bunch of people and all it takes is being willing to mail 2 jars of jam to someone. All the info to sign up is here: http://stephchows.blogspot.com/2009/07/jam-exchange.html
Hope you can join in!
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The Central Connecticut volleyball team will host Bryant on Saturday afternoon at Detrick Gym. The Blue Devils (16-7, 7-2 NEC) are looking for their eighth consecutive victory and to remain undefeated at home. Saturday's match is scheduled for begin at 1 p.m.
Earlier this season CCSU topped the Bulldogs (8-20, 3-6 NEC) in Smithfield, RI.
The Blue Devils' current seven match winning streak matches their seven match streak from earlier this season. CCSU's last seven match winning streak, prior to this year, came in 2007. The Blue Devils last streak longer than seven was a nine contest run during the 2005 season. During that streak, CCSU did not lose a set.
In addition to winning seven straight contests, CCSU has won 14 of 16 matches. With losses at St. Francis Brooklyn and LIU Brooklyn splitting the team's two seven-match winning streaks.
CCSU is also looking to maintain a perfect home record. The Blue Devils started the season with three wins in the CCSU Blue Devil Invitational, followed by four victories in NEC play.
Following Saturday's game the Blue Devils will close the season with road games at Sacred Heart and Fairleigh Dickinson and then home contests against St. Francis Brooklyn and LIU Brooklyn.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. -- East Tennessee State women's basketball graduate assistant coach Latina Davis (Tennessee, 96) was the 50th overall selection in today's 2000 WNBA draft.
The 5'7" guard was chosen by the expansion Indiana Fever in the fourth round. She was then traded along with Renee Robinson (Virginia, 00) to the Houston Comets for the No. 48 pick, Latavia Coleman (Florida State, 00).
Davis joined the ETSU women's basketball staff this season as she worked toward her master's degree in teaching. Before coming to Johnson City, Davis played three years in the ABL. She was selected 30th overall in the 1997 ABL draft by the Columbus Quest.
In the ABL, Davis averaged 3.3 points per game and shot 44.3 percent (85-192) from the field and 75.8 percent (72-95) from the free throw line. During her collegiate career, Davis was a member of the 1996 National Championship team at Tennessee.
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BOSTON (AP) — Gas prices are down again in Massachusetts this week.
AAA Southern New England reports Monday that self-serve, regular dropped two cents to an average of $3.41 per gallon in the past week, after falling two cents the week before.
Despite dropping four cents over the last two weeks, Massachusetts prices are up one cent per gallon over the past month.
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It's never too late or too early in the New Year too appreciate the countless workers who have made the United States the country that it is and to look honestly at what workers do to survive their jobs and maintain their dignity.
This is the premise that clearly underlies the Lyric Stage Company of Boston's decision to stage "Working, A Musical." The show was adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso from Studs Terkel's "Working," a book of verbatim interviews with numerous working men and women. Spiro Veloudos, artistic director of Lyric Stage, was drawn to the musical when he realized it had been updated in the last several years to include songs, characters and stories that reflect recent trends in our economy.
The show is essentially a musical revue with spoken monologues woven between songs written by Stephen Schwartz, James Taylor and Lin-Manuel Miranda, among others. The original production had 17 actors playing 40 characters, but this production features�six actors,�three men and�three women.
Early in the show, actor Christopher Chew, dressed in the clothes and harness of an iron worker, tells of the egos iron workers develop, knowing that most people would be afraid to work at such heights. The show is packed with intriguing observations and philosophies people develop about their work, which adds considerable color and interest.
Chew talks about never having a chance to meet or talk with office workers in the building he helped to build. Suddenly fellow actors help him pull off his iron worker's clothing to reveal a business suit underneath. He instantly becomes the man he thought he'd never talk to. It's a lovely transition.
The best numbers in the production have lots of energy and humor to them. Actor Cheeyang Ng takes us into the life of a fast food delivery boy with the song "Delivery" by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Ng gives it much pep and humor. The song concludes with his singing that his favorite part is when customers say, "Keep the change." Phil Tayler is terrific singing James Taylor's song "Brother Trucker" while sitting in an easy chair that he transforms into a truck cab with his movements while hinting at the troubles he has at home. Shannon Lee Jones is fantastic playing a waitress who takes tremendous pride in her work as she sings "It's an Art" by Stephen Schwartz and whips red napkins about as if she is Carmen herself. Her singing of the number received the loudest and longest ovation at the opening performance, and deservedly so.
There are several somewhat raunchy moments, including a humorous one in which Tayler as a UPS man tells about trying to surprise sun-tanning women in their yards as he delivers packages so as to cause wardrobe malfunctions. And there are a number of very moving scenes. In one, Tiffany Chen sings "Millwork" by James Taylor, in which she tells about and mimes making luggage in 100- to 150-degree temperatures while repeating the same dangerous motions every 40 seconds. In another moving scene Tayler, dressed as a fireman, tells how he takes great pleasure in the fact that his actions have allowed some people to be born and others to grow old.
The show has its shortcomings. Without an overarching narrative, the stories and songs tend to feel rather alike, and the show feels longer than it actually is, since we have no sense of where we are in it. Director and choreographer Ilyse Robbins-she's good at helping the cast with their movements-has the show running an hour and forty minutes with no intermission.
Some of the poignant, minor-key scenes tend to drag more than they should. One can empathize with how students have changed over the years during a number sung by Chen as a third-grade teacher, but it needs more life to it. Merle Perkins is wonderful in that scene as a student wearing a hoodie and playing with its drawstring. But Perkins has similar problems with the song "Just a Housewife" by Craig Carnelia. Both songs were written with a degree of self-pity, which is hard for an actor to overcome.
The orchestra led by Jonathan Goldberg, featuring him on keyboards and others on guitars, bass, and a couple of percussion instruments, is lively. The cast harmonizes beautifully, though some of their solo numbers are stronger than others.
Rafael Jaen's costumes give a nice feel and distinction to the workers the actors are playing. A ladder on wheels is occasionally spun with an actor singing at the top in Anne Sherer's scenic design featuring platforms at various heights that allow the musical to flow.
All in all, you can't help coming away with a deeper sense of America's workers and the richness of their lives.
"Working, A Musical"
WHEN: Through Feb. 1
WHERE: Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon St., Boston
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Ok, needs some hardware folks to tell me how to fix my Oilpan. Either I've been using the USB plug too much or, due to my recent rough flying, the USB plug on my Oilpan has come off.I'm totally…Continue
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Hey guys, just kicking around a stability improvement idea in my head. Thought I'd put it out to the group and get some opinions before I got whole hog on it.A little background:Some of you may be…Continue
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Ok guys, with all the people waiting on APM2 and all the exciting new alpha and beta releases of APM firmware coming, I think many people are starting to chomp at their bits, a little. To that end,…Continue
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So, it's an actual real product and not just pretty pictures. Nice plastic wrapping around what I suspect is just a standard quad. I like the props. They look like normal airplane props.
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Well, as you can see, I've started with the arm. This puppy has reduction gears, driven by a stepper motor. I'm planning to power the forearm with metal gear servos. Of course with slight modifications to the segment ratios, this is also going to be the legs of my robot.
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well not to sure what you are asking re the use of foam - The wings on GUPPY are CNC foam cut and then vacuum bagged with Fglass, as are the horizontal stabs and vertical stab/rudder. The fuselage is 'wood' and that is the BEST medium for the rough and tough bush work we do - you can repair it anywhere, anytime, with some bits of wood, Cyno, epoxy, etc. Nice molded fuz is glamorous, great to look at, costly to make, and does not add any value to performance in the hard environment we work in. So, Foam has its place for wings - to much work to make many ribs, etc, but fuz, use wood!
By the way, KIWIT was all glass and carbon...
Hi Ellison,
I would like to ask a simple question. How do I add my Youtube video that is show the video in a frame. I only manage to get the link paste. Please help.
YEA! someone does like me HAHAH Thanks Ellison.
No no joy, still looking, I am not usually this dumb... Well most the time anyway...
Got it thanks man, I figured out how to start a group in the interim, I am good at complicated, but the easy stuff escapes me...
Noob syndrome strikes again.
It was not clear (to me) that the original post needed editing. That is done now.
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It has been a while. I was a commercial pilot from 1969 -1996 from 87 to 94 I flew nearly every day of the year a member of the EAA for 2 years I was just getting into flying helicopters when I met my first wife (should have stuck with helicopters)1n the early 90,s my boys and I had several glow engine airplanes and a spirit glider . I have had lots of practice with broken balsa c/a and epoxy. I know what it is like to "assume the position"in the EAA I designed and was building a full scale motorized glider only to find out only certain planes are allowed to be built as home builds in Canada I got plans and starting building a 2 man Helicopter a Roto way Exec. only to find out there was a petition out to let them be flown in Canada by other members of the EAA who had finished them and had them in the garage and were not allowed to fly them .(I don,t know if they are allowed yet or not) I have had a realflight simulator on my computer for a year and a half great stuff the plane crashes just push the button it comes right back
my boys bought me a radian pro for my birthday it flies great we taped my sons i pod to it and got 6 minutes of video I live on a farm and there is a large bean field to fly it in the foam in the wings are starting to soften and if you pull up from a shallow dive they flex more than they should I have been looking around on the internet for a better air frame to put the radio and engine in and came across diy drones and signed up I might just scratch build my own drone .I am not familiar with the current rules . Thank you .funny thing I ran into my my ex wife at walmart she heard I was flying again and wanted to know if I would take her for a ride!


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This year there will be more jobs available in agricultural industries, than graduates who can fill them.
In response to the decline in enrolments of agricultural programs, the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation started the Horizon Scholarship, to encourage students into the industries.
Margot Andrae, project manager for the Horizon Scholarship, says there are a number of factors contributing to the decline of agricultural graduates.
"Students didn't understand the opportunities available in agriculture," she said.
"Also mining did some great promotion in terms of career and salary opportunities, so I think there was a push to go that way."
Ms Andrae said another factor was that for many years agriculture had a poor image.
"It was seen as a very hard life and there are a lot of misconceptions," she said.
"People started to see it as a 'no win' area to go into."
Ms Andrae believes the way to get students interested in agriculture is to show them the incredible range of opportunities available.


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Manoj Tiwary didn't know much about British athlete Derek Redmond before he bumped into a Youtube clip of former British 400m runner while searching for motivational videos on the internet.
"I was searching for motivational videos on Youtube when I glanced through Redmond's clip. That was the 400m semi-final at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Redmond tore his hamstring at the midway and hopped his way to the finishing point as crowd gave him a standing ovation. That clip was an inspiration when I was cramping up with more than 20 runs to get to my ton," Tiwary told PTI in an interview.
He has been in and out of the team during the past one year but Tiwary knew that he needed one big knock.
"Let's get it straight. I felt this was my last chance to prove a point. We have three guys Rohit (Sharma), Virat (Kohli) and Suresh (Raina) playing well consistently. So, to be in the reckoning, I needed a special knock. Thankfully, I have got one and would like to continue the good work," Tiwary said referring to his maiden ODI hundred against the West Indies in Chennai last night.
The 26-year-old feels that "self belief" has been the key for him.
"I have never doubted my abilities. Not for once since my India U-19 days. Today, when I walked out there in the middle, my mind was blank. I played each and every ball on its merit and didn't want to think too much about the pitch. Often reading too much into the conditions clutter your mind," Tiwary said.
Ask him about his best shot during the innings, he was quick to point out that there were two which were his favourites.
"My first boundary off (Kemar) Roach was a shot I played well and the six that I hit off (Sunil) Narine was also pretty satisfying."
He thanked regular skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni along with stand-in-captain Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir for making him feel comfortable in the Indian dressing room.
"MS has been extremely helpful with his suggestions to improve. I am thankful to Virubhai, who came up to me and asked about which number would I prefer to bat.
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The Gaspee Days Arts and Craft Festival was the place to be over the near perfect weekend … especially if you were looking for that special accessory – whether temporary or permanent – for your personal being or just for fun for the home. Gaspee Days continues with the colonial encampment, starting June 8 at Pawtuxet Park and fireworks that night from Salter's Grove Park. The following morning kicks off with the ecumenical service at Trinity Episcopal Church at 8 and the 5K road race at 9:45. The 47th Annual Parade steps off at 10 a.m. with more activities planned for Pawtuxet Park that afternoon. Sunday brings the conclusion of the celebration commemorating the burning of the British schooner Gaspee in June 1772. Following military maneuvers and a uniform fashion show that afternoon at Pawtuxet Park, there will be the symbolic burning of the Gaspee in the cove.
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August Cellars, situated at the gateway to Oregon Wine Country, is home to multiple wineries. Located just east of Newberg Oregon at 14000 NE Quarry Rd., our tasting room is open daily from May until the end of October, 11-5 p.m.. We are open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday year round.
At August Cellars one can taste and purchase Oregon Pinot Noirs from six different winemakers, each with their own style of Pinot Noir. Or one can taste wonderful white wines from Chardonnay and Pinot Gris to Gewürztraminer and Rieslings. All of these wines are crafted with quality and value as core values. Great wines are meant to be shared with friends and family.
August Cellars believes that having multiple wineries under one roof allows the consumer to taste several different philosophies about wine with only one stop.
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August Cellars is a family owned winery situated at the bottom of our orchards. This farm land was purchased in 1942 and our family has been farming it continuously since then. Being located in Oregon, August Cellars produces, Pinot Noirs, Chardonnay, Riesling, Gewürztaminer and Maréchal Foch.
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08 February 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
The co-promotion agreement commences in April 2013
Singapore: Biosensors International, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative medical devices, is collaborating with Japanese company Terumo to promote the Nobori drug-eluting stent (DES) system at specific specialist cardiology centers in Japan.
Nobori incorporates two elements of Biosensors-developed technology: Biolimus A9 (BA9), an anti-restenotic drug developed specifically for use with stents; and a unique abluminal biodegradable polymer coating. Following an agreement with Terumo to manufacture, market and sell DES systems incorporating this technology in Japan, Terumo introduced Nobori there in May 2011.
Since this time, the DES market in Japan has become increasingly competitive. This new agreement will allow two sales forces (Terumo and Biosensors Japan) to jointly promote Nobori, highlighting its outstanding long-term efficacy and safety.
"We have established a strong partnership with Terumo over many years, and are delighted by this latest agreement, which further enhances our long-term strategic relationship," commented Mr Jeffrey B. Jump, president of Biosensors' Cardiovascular Business Unit. "Our two companies will continue to work closely together to strengthen our respective technologies and provide continued patient benefit in Japan."
The co-promotion agreement commences in April 2013, for an initial period of three years.