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'Fast and Furious 7′ Will Use Paul Walker's Brothers to Help Finish the Film
When Paul Walker tragically died last November, the world mourned an actor who was not only a welcome screen presence, but a genuinely well-liked and respected guy. It was especially hard to hear the reactions of his 'Fast and Furious' franchise co-stars. This is a series all about friendship and family, so the loss of a key member of that crew hits hard. 'Fast and Furious 7' recently resumed shooting after an extended hiatus to rework the film and fans have been wondering how the production will work around the loss of a major character. Now, Universal hinted at a strange but touching solution.
Written as an open letter to 'Fast and Furious' Facebook fans, the studio's message acts as a tribute to Walker, praising his work in the film and confirming that the bulk of his "dramatic" scenes were shot. However, it drops a fascinating tidbit that may make even the toughest fans tear up a little -- Caleb and Cody Walker have been recruited to help finish their late brother's unfinished action scenes.
We heard that Universal and director James Wan were planning to use CGI to finish Walker's remaining scenes, but the involvement of his siblings just feels right. If they are going to CGI his head onto someone's body, it should be someone close to him. There's something callous about transforming a stuntman into Walker in post-prodcution, but the thought of these two standing in for their departed brother is touching. As the letter says, this is a saga about family. It's only appropriate for that to extend beyond what's on the screen.
Here's the full release:
A Note to the Fans of FAST & FURIOUS
The FAST & FURIOUS saga is about family. The characters are connected by the bond of family, and it is how all of us who have worked together for more than thirteen years feel about each other. It certainly defines how we feel about our fans.
Our family experienced an unthinkable shock in November. We had to take time to grieve Paul, the brother we love and lost, and to figure out if we should move on with our film.
We came together and all felt the only choice was to continue. We believe our fans want that, and we believe Paul would want that too. Paul had already shot his dramatic scenes and most of his action for FAST & FURIOUS 7, and it's among the strongest work of his career.
We have resumed shooting and now welcome Paul's brothers, Caleb and Cody, into our FAST family. Caleb and Cody are helping us complete some remaining action for their brother and fill in small gaps left in production. Having them on set has made us all feel that Paul is with us too.
We are just under a year away from the release of FAST & FURIOUS 7, and this film is the most important we've ever done together. It will allow the character of Brian O'Conner to live on and let us celebrate Paul in his most defining role.
We wanted to take a moment to speak to our fans directly and thank you for the love and support you always show us as we resume our work.
'Fast and Furious 7' will hit theaters April 10, 2015.


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Eternia is set to release her full-length LP "AT LAST" with DJ Premier's production partner, MoSS, in early 2010 and this mixtape does exactly what the title suggests – it catches people up on over 10 years of music from Eternia's career.
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01. Re-Introducing… Produced by: Ant B aka Mr. Cincinnati Cuts by DJ Law
02. Dynomite (2005)
03. **Foul Child (2009) Produced by: Ant B aka Mr. Cincinatti
04. Stuck Up (2000) Produced by: Apathy
05. Spring Fever (2003) Produced by: Simahlak
06. Real Frequency (2003) Produced by: Jake One
07. God's Story (2004) Produced by: Mercilless
08. Perfection ft. Promise & Grimace Love (2004) Produced by: Amir the Terrorist
09. **Day in the Life ft. Tona & Maestro Fresh Wes (2008) Produced by: MoSS
10. Victorious feat. G. Knight (2004)Produced by: Mercilless
11. **Destiny (2007) Produced by Apathy
12. On and On (2007) Produced by: Mez
13. Balance (2004) Produced by: Kenny "Bounce" Neal Jr.
14. Everything (2004) Produced by: 9th Wonder
15. **Herstory (2008)
16. Let Go Outro Produced by: Ant B aka Mr. Cincinnati
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UTSA athletic director Lynn Hickey heard about Title IX for the first time as a young teacher and coach at Reeds Spring (Mo.) High School.
The school superintendent invited her into his office for a short, not-so-sweet message: Whatever equality was being mandated by the new initiative would not be honored in his district, and if Hickey didn't like it, she was free to leave.
"I didn't even know what he was talking about," she said. "I just said, 'Yes sir.'"
It was the early 1970s. Hickey was making $6,500 a year to teach for seven hours while coaching every girls sport at the junior high and high school, with a 15-minute break for lunch.
She considered herself lucky. Coaching was still very much the realm of men, and Hickey was thrilled to have a job in a career field she hadn't considered as a star athlete growing up in small-town Oklahoma.
"I never even thought of being a coach," she said. "I'd never seen (a female coach). You just didn't do it."
Then Hickey began working her way up the ranks.
And just as Title IX created unprecedented opportunities for female athletes, so it helped Hickey, one of two women to ever serve on the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Committee, to reach a level even more unthinkable than that first job at Reeds Spring.
"If it hadn't been for Title IX, you and I would not be sitting here talking," she said during a recent interview. "I grew up in an era that people didn't think girls were strong enough to run or physical enough to play full-court basketball.
"I grew up in an era where the first track meet I went to, the longest race for girls was a 440-yard run. People were hoping and praying you could make it to the finish line. By my senior year (in high school), we were coming out of blocks.
"So things started changing real quickly. I was just on the forefront of getting to start a lot of things. I was always put in the right place with the right people who continued to open up doors and give me ideas about what could take place."
Fortunately for Hickey, opportunity was never much of an issue during her youth in Welch, Okla. The little town was among one of the few regions in the country, along with places such as Iowa and West Texas, that emphasized girls athletics well before Title IX.
Much of the credit goes to her father Kenneth Sooter, a legendary high school coach who treated her no differently than his four sons. She vividly remembers a road trip to watch the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens, then one of the best — and only — women's college basketball teams in the country, play the Russian national team.
"It was just unbelievable," Hickey said. "(Girls) didn't think about growing up and playing basketball in college. He just did a really good job exposing me to new things and kind of helping establish the dream."
Not only did that dream take root, but Hickey was talented enough to take advantage. She averaged 40 points per game and won the state championship in the quarter-mile as a 5-foot-10 senior, drawing attention from the few colleges that sponsored women's basketball in the late 1960s.
As such, Hickey doesn't spend much time wondering how her college career would have turned out had she been born in a later era.
"It's hard to predict," she said, "but I wouldn't have had any shortage of offers. I didn't have any shortage as it was."
One of the biggest hotbeds was in neighboring Arkansas. She chose Ouachita Baptist University, where she earned All-American honors as a senior before making the U.S. national team that competed at the 1973 World Festival Tournament in Lima, Peru.
Even before the passing of Title IX in 1972, the governance of women's college sports was already transitioning from the Amateur Athletic Union to the short-lived Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.
It wasn't long after Hickey took over as the head basketball coach at Kansas State in 1979 that the NCAA took control of women's collegiate athletics. The first women's tournament was held in 1982, with Hickey leading the Wildcats to the Elite Eight.
It was there, in Manhattan, Kansas, that Hickey developed perhaps the most important relationship of her professional career. Kansas State athletic director DeLoss Dodds plucked Hickey, then an assistant at Oklahoma, from a pool of candidates that included future Basketball Hall of Famer C. Vivian Stringer.
"I looked at a lot of different people, but she stood out because she was just so competitive," said Dodds, the athletic director for the University of Texas since 1981. "I knew if we put her in the right place, she would be successful."
Hickey was fortunate to be in a department that was at the forefront of Title IX compliance, with such perks as a separate band for the women's basketball team and weekly television show for the coach. As such, Hickey said she still didn't quite grasp the full magnitude of the changes that were sweeping through women's athletics.
"I had heard horror stories about how the men's coaches would hide the basketballs from the women's coaches at other schools," she said. "But I never did really face anything harsh like that. When you're in the middle of something, and history is being made, maybe you're not as aware."
It wasn't until she moved to Texas A&M in the mid-1980s as a joint basketball coach/women's administrator that she began to fully experience the struggles facing female athletes. At one point, Hickey was forced to tell the women's soccer team, operating then on a shoestring budget as a varsity-level club, there was not enough money to sponsor its existence.
Immediately upon returning to her office from that meeting, Hickey learned that then-athletic director Wally Groff, at the insistence of the school president, had scraped together $300,000 to fund the team as a full varsity sport.
"It was either a coincidence or really bad timing, because that was a terrible meeting to have to tell those kids they couldn't compete," Hickey said.
Hickey has continued to create opportunities for women during her stint at UTSA, starting golf and soccer teams during her 13-year tenure. She was also a driving force behind the addition of football and the school's rise from a FCS school in the Southland Conference to a FBS school set to join the Western Athletic Conference for a year before shifting to Conference USA in 2013-14.
Those are reasons Dodds said she should no longer be defined by her gender.
"You can't just stick the Title IX label on her," Dodds said. "She's not just a great (female) athletic director. She's a great athletic director, period."
Such sentiments usually bring Hickey to the verge of tears, as was the case when she recounted her experience on the prestigious men's selection committee, which officially ends this summer.
"To think where I started," she said, "and the attitudes, the way the world looked at female athletes ... is pretty overwhelming. I hope I can express to those guys when I leave how important it is to give people chances. That's what Title IX is — opportunity."
One which Hickey and scores of other women have taken full advantage of.
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To suggest that the quality of the Christian life is directly proportional to the time spent reading and studying the Bible is no overstatement. One significant way that God has chosen to reveal Himself is within the Christian Scriptures and through study we gain a better understanding of God and the world around us.
Bible study is important to you, and it is Logos Bible Software's intent to provide you with the best Bible study tools imaginable. Here are a handful of ways that Logos is doing just that:
1. Logos 4
In November 2009, Logos released Logos 4, a huge step forward in Bible study software. Logos 4 provides the tools for a learning environment that caters to your needs. Whether you are new to Bible study, or are working on a doctrinal thesis in biblical studies, Logos 4 has what you need.
You might want to study the Bible's original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, or gain a greater understanding of eastern geography, or need help understanding biblical genealogies. Logos 4 can help!
Logos 4 doesn't bury you in a sea of text, there are tons of high-resolution infographics available to help you visualize the truths that you are learning. When you couple these infographics with Passage Analysis (another example), you can see that Logos 4 helps both the analytical and creative thinker get the most out of their study.
With a Logos 4 base package, you can begin your studies with some of the best resources imaginable. But that's not all, you get these resources at truly crazy prices. Scholar's Library: Platinum includes nearly 1,250 resources at 90% off of the equivalent print editions!
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For the longest time, the strength of a bound Bible was in its portability. Desktop computers introduced the ability to search and study the Bible with ease and speed, but they required Bible study to be done in the same location every day. Laptops increased the portability of Bible study software (in fact, Logos 4 syncs between multiple machines enabling you to work on your desktop PC or Mac and pick up right where you left off on your laptop whether at work or your favorite coffee shop).
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You would be hard-pressed to find a free Bible app that can do as much as the Logos app does. Even without Logos 4, the app gives you immediate access to many resources and Bibles (including the ESV and New Living Translation). Simply sign up for a free account, and you get more than thirty extra resources including Spurgeon's Morning and Evening and Easton's Bible Dictionary (over $30.00 in free resources in those two books alone).
It's when you add a base package into the mix, the app really blossoms. With a majority of your library available anywhere you have internet access and lots of great features, this is Bible study on the go.
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Logos is looking to improve Bible study by giving you one license with many options to access your content. Biblia.com is another tool to that end.
With Biblia.com you can do online Bible study anywhere! It's just that easy. Just like with the Logos app, Biblia.com will give you instant (free) access to a good number of Bibles. Sign up with a Logos.com account and add about 30 free Bible study books to that number. Already a user of Logos 4 or the iPhone app? Simply sign in with the same account.
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With Bible Study Magazine, this is almost precisely what you get—an inspirational tutor delivered right to your mailbox. The number of magazines dedicated to Christian themes is staggering, but Bible Study Magazine is the only magazine dedicated entirely to studying the Scriptures.
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It has been nearly 20 years since Logos Bible Software was started with two programmers in a basement determined to create a tool to help people study the Bible. Times have changed, and those two programmers has grown into a company of over 200 people offering nearly 14,000 resources for Bible study. The times may have changed but the objective hasn't. That goal is summed up in the Logos Bible Software mission:
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Rhododendron Dell
Rhododendron Dell is a contemplative landscape showcasing the Arboretum's core collection of hybrid and evergreen rhododendrons. An overstory of hemlock, birch, oak, maple, and pine provide ideal rhododendron habitat. In the early 1900s, Ernest Henry Wilson evaluated many of the rhododendrons in the collection and in 1917 published a list of "ironclads"—a group of hybrid rhododendrons that had proved hardy and floriferous at the Arnold Arboretum. Bred in the United Kingdom, these ironclads became the focus of regional plant introduction and breeding endeavors in New England. Many of the original ironclads, acquired in 1886 from the Woking Nursery in England, are the largest plants in the collection.
Today, rhododendron collections in Rhododendron Dell include 213 plants representing 94 taxa (kinds). Of these, 72 are cultivars which have been selected for horticultural merits including flower color and fragrance, truss (domed flower mass) size, leaf morphology, and hardiness.
Extensive renovations in Rhododendron Dell were accomplished in 1990 with funds received from the Linda J. Davison Memorial Trust. Notable features include: a path through the collection, a bridge spanning Bussey Brook, engraved stone destination signs, and a hen's tooth puddingstone wall designed by landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy. Bank erosion along Bussey Brook was also temporarily mitigated by adding stone and logs to the channel. Over subsequent years, and to the present day, new rhododendrons have been added to the collection for research and ornamental display. The most recent additions to the collection include wild sourced Rhododendron maximum (rosebay rhododendron) and R. catawbiense (Catawba rosebay), both native to North America.
- Native to China, Rhododendron fortunei was introduced to the west by British plant explorer Robert Fortune. This species and its multitude of crosses have large, heady-fragranced flowers in a range of colors. While most rhododendrons have five petals, this species typically has seven.
- Native to North America, Catawba rosebay (R. catawbiense) have purple to lavender-pink colored flowers with yellow-brown blotch. The epithet catawbiense is derived from the Catawba River of North Carolina and South Carolina. Following the description of the species by French botanist André Michaux, plant breeders began crossing R. catawbiense with other rhododendrons. Today, hundreds of sun-loving, cold hardy cultivars available in nurseries have R. catawbiense in their parentage. The Arboretum's ironclad rhododendron are examples.
- R. 'Blue Peter' (a cross of R. ponticum) flowers are held in a tight dome (truss) and are lavender-blue with a dark purple blotch. At the Arboretum, its habit is shrubby with flowers borne on erect stems.
Search our inventory for additional accessions information or access our collections using your mobile device via Arboretum Explorer!
The Arboretum's core collection of hybrid and broadleaf evergreen rhododendron are located just inside the South Street Gate along Valley Road. The collection lies about a forty minute walk from the Arborway Gate, and about ten minutes from the Bussey Street Gate and the Centre Street Gate. If driving, park at the South Street Gate.
The Linda J. Davison Rhododendron Path is bark mulched. In a few places, large stepping stones aid circulation. A bridge across Bussey Brook provides access to additional uneven paths leading to Rhododendron collections on the northeastern slopes of Hemlock Hill.
An information kiosk at the Bussey Street Gate provides seasonal updates. Map tables at the South Street Gate and the southern end of Beech Path provide Arboretum wayfinding information.
New! Link to a tour of this collection on Arboretum Explorer. Our new web application allows you to take self-guided tours of featured plants in our landscape. Follow this link and you will see colored leaf icons. Click/tap on an icon to get a plant name and image; click/tap the circled "i" on the right to get more detailed information. For more information on how to use the mobile application click/tap on "Help" in the menu.
How long should I explore?
Plan to spend about fifteen minutes exploring the Rhododendron collection in Rhododendron Dell, and longer when the plants are in bloom between May and early June.
Plan your visit to the Arboretum.
- Port, K. 2013. Rediscovering Rhododendron Dell, Part 2. Arnoldia 71(1): 15-25. [pdf]
- Port, K. 2013. Rediscovering Rhododendron Dell, Part 1. Arnoldia 70(4): 15-18. [pdf]
- Madsen, K. 2000. In pursuit of ironclads. Arnoldia 60(1): 30-32. [pdf]
- Wyman, D. 1969. Seventy-five years of growing rhododendrons in the Arnold Arboretum. Arnoldia 29(6): 33-40. [pdf]
- Sargent, C. S. 1914. [Rhododendrons.] Bulletin of Popular Information no. 57, June 5, 1914. [pdf]
- Nilsen, E. T. 1990. Why do rhododendron leaves curl? Arnoldia 50(1): 30-35. [pdf]
- Brooks, R. 2000. A Fresh Look at a Traditional Favorite: Rhododendrons. Arnoldia 60(1): 20-26. [pdf]
Culture and Care
- Fillmore, R.H. 1949. Growing Rhododendrons from Seeds. Bulletin of Popular Information no. 9, November 4, 1949. [pdf]
- Wyman, D. 1948. Pruning rhododendrons. Arnoldia 8(8): 37-44. [pdf]
Search for related articles in Arnoldia, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum.
- Azalea Border, Arnold Arboretum
- Massachusetts Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society
- American Rhododendron Society
- Azalea Society of America
- Rhododendron Gallery, Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden


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|Minnehaha Creek in the Adirondacks
Amazing late winter color can be seen in Mid March through April in the Adirondack Mountains. The reflections and ice on Minnehaha Creek in Webb, New York, make for a beautiful scene!
My Adirondack photos are the perfect way to save those cherished vacation memories. My Adirondack photography collection contains some of the more scenic areas of the Adirondack Mountains. Many of the images I capture are from the following New York locations: Old Forge, Inlet, Eagle Bay, Raquette Lake, Blue Mountain Lake, Lake George, McCauley Mountain, Big Moose Inn, Big Moose Lake,Rondaxe Road, Fly Pond, Bubb Lake, Sis Lake, Fulton Chain of Lakes, The Lock and Dam, West Lake, Sagamore Hotel, Moose River, Hudson River, Bald Mountain, Thendara, Green Bridge, and many historic buildings such as the Strand Theater, Old Forge Hardware store, The Old Mill, and the Tow Bar.
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Minnehaha Creek in the Adirondacks
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- Diana Moses Botkin said...
Oh how lovely, David! It's always a treat to see your colorful images.
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Thank you, Diana!
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According to a recent Gallup poll (http://www.worldreligionnews.com/issues/can-religion-solve-worlds-p...) article the majority of Americans still believe that religion can solve the world's problems. Just looking at the Middle East makes me wonder how in the hell that is possible. After reviewing the polling data it is obvious that the key to continued secularization of our society is education and our youth. As our younger generations continue to increase their understanding of our universe the relevance of religion will hopefully continue to diminish. My hope is that these enlightened individuals will steer our civilization away from religious thought and concentrate on stabilizing our planet environmentally and halt the bloodshed of war. One obstacle is that the religious are more prone to procreate in numbers and subsequently indoctrinate their offspring. Unfortunately the reality is that most atheists/secularists are not interested necessarily in having four or five kids, with good reason. This makes it all the more important to establish a secular educational system that teaches the value of logical thinking & reasoning skills, and to question the validity of outdated information. Today's youth seems much less willing to accept outright what their parents and grandparents told them about religion. We are becoming less gullible and naive with each succeeding generation and less willing to drink the kool-aid that is religion. I hope this trend continues for there is little time to waste.
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I tend to agree with you. I believe the trend is already evident. I am 23 years old and I find that even many of the religious people that I know around my age group have, for example, a far more accepting view of LGBT community than the older generation. They may still be religious but I believe this thing will take baby steps and the view of equality for all is certainly a byproduct of the secularization of the US.
Your generation is more open-minded about cultural issues and less prone to be critical of lifestyle choices; whereas my generation (Baby Boomer) is set in their ways and not very flexible. Personally, I have changed a great deal in the past five to ten years, hopefully in a good way, but I am in the minority here in the South. Peace.
Living in overwhelmingly Catholic Poland I have seen a surprisingly rapid change in the opinions of young people. Even with their, considerable, power and influence the church has been unable to silence the various scandals of recent years. They set themselves up as the defender of 'morals' and have now been shown to be anything but 'moral'. Those who previously just followed the church because 'it's what everyone else does/it's part of our tradition' have started to actually ask questions and, as Jim Jefferies said, 'Questions are like cancer to religion'. I guess things are slower to change in the US with so many different denominations. It's easy to just use the 'not a True Christian' argument and/or switch to a different church with more moderate views.
What are your thoughts on homeschooling? In my area there are a number of religious people (Mennonites, for instance) who teach at home. Their children still have to pass the required periodic state tests but I don't think HOW to think is at the top of there curriculum.
For me, homeschooling is not financially feasible. My wife and I need to work full-time just to make our household run. So I haven't looked too deeply into it. I have all the usual concerns about it: socialization and such. If those concerns could be addressed and it were financially possible, I might like to try it.
The handful of people I know who have done it did so because they couldn't afford xian academy tuition and even those schools were not religious enough (or the right flavor I should say) for their taste. My impression is that is the case with most home-schoolers, but I have no data to base that on other than my own experience.
I'd like to homeschool at least until highschool. I'm confident having a 1 teacher to 2 or 3 students ratio will be better than 1 teacher to 30+ students like in schools in Australia (despite the fact I have no formal training in education).
Edit to add: As Erlock68la said: it's not financially viable :(
I agree ...
I live in Egypt ...and I think religion still drives people on both sides of our mess to dignify killing and despising each other ..
Do the young people of your country grow weary with the constant unrest? Do they ever talk about a democracy that doesn't have religion at it's core?
from my point of view .. the majority of the young Egyptians " believes " in democracy .. but a few understand that democracy , science and liberal thinking oppose religion by nature ..
they got it really mixed up .. personally I blame my horrible school
Is religion taught in the school system in Egypt?


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1955 Chevy Cameo - Found in Translation
How Do You Say "Cool" in Spanish? Un Cameo Nuevo.
Most people might think Cuba is the only place hiding a huge cache of old cars, and that may be true to an extent, but good luck on importing one. South of the border can be an underrated place for turning up classics. After all, Ed Roth's Orbitron was discovered a few years ago in front of an adult bookstore in Mexico, which is just the place you'd expect to find an automotive legend, right? So when Steve Willmoth set his sights on purchasing a classic truck project to add to the list of hot rods he's owned over the years, he never thought he'd be the first American to own this 1955 Chevy Cameo.
Steve came across this truck on the Internet and it piqued his interest enough to make the 650-mile trip from Burleson, Texas, to El Paso to see it in person. Internet buys have a tendency to be good from far, but far from good. As luck would have it, Steve's prospective Cameo was in great shape for its age. It'd been built in St. Louis and shipped to Mexico in July 1955 where the "Cameo Nuevo" (as the paperwork stated) resided till it ended up on the lot where Steve found it. The paperwork was all in Spanish, but Steve knew that the language barrier wasn't going to stop him from giving it a proper Americanization. After paying the purchase price and coughing up $800 to change the title, Steve returned home with his four-wheeled immigrant and got the ball rolling on a new look.
For chassis duties, the truck now sits on an '81 Firebird front clip and rearend with 2.52 gears, all with associated brakes. In addition to the cool stance the updated suspension gives it, the 17x9 Eagle Alloys it sits on with Sumitomo rubber give it that perfect hot rod flair. Out came the original 235 and in went a crate 350 dressed up with a Holley Street Dominator intake, Holley 600 carb, Lunati cam, and Hooker headers. It's all backed by a '71 GMC pickup 350 trans.
Steve's approach to the body was pretty straightforward. During the teardown process, Steve discovered the truck had been converted to a big rear window at some point in its life. After being sodablasted, he had both bumpers tucked in and the three-piece rear bumper welded together. The gel-coated fiberglass bed panels give the truck a smoother appearance from its previously dinged-up condition and the floor was fitted with Bruce Horkey pine bed wood. The Euro-style headlights are a nice addition as well as the classic blue dots fitted to the stock rear taillights. As a fan of bright colors, Steve had the truck shod in '08 Corvette Velocity Yellow with '82 GM Almond accents on the inside. From tip to tail it looks fast standing still.
On the inside, '01 Buick LeSabre seats were stitched up with "55 Cameo" monikers. Both seats and door panels were recovered in tan Ultraleather with peanut brittle-colored faux ostrich inserts. A Lecarra wheel sits on a '78 Buick Regal column just below the Dolphin cluster. Steve can battle the muggy Texas summers with a Vintage A/C unit plumbed into the dash and crank his favorite tunes courtesy of an Alpine stereo, Xterminator amps, and a Pioneer subwoofer.
Steve's now racking up plenty of miles on his bright-yellow Cameo. So what's the moral of this story? When you're searching for a new project, don't write off the possibility of finding something in awesome shape being parted with by our Southern neighbors. Who knows, maybe James Dean's missing ill-fated Porsche Spyder is rusting away in front of a topless bar in Tijuana at this very moment with passersby being none the wiser. Stranger things have happened.


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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (hŏbz), 1588–1679, English philosopher, grad. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1608. For many years a tutor in the Cavendish family, Hobbes took great interest in mathematics, physics, and the contemporary rationalism. On journeys to the Continent he established friendly relations with many learned men, including Galileo and Gassendi. In 1640, after his political writings had brought him into disfavor with the parliamentarians, he went to France (where he was tutor to the exiled Prince Charles). His work, however, aroused the antagonism of the English group in France, and his thorough materialism offended the churchmen, so that in 1651 he felt impelled to return to England, where he was able to live peacefully. Among his important works, which appeared in several revisions under different titles (see Sir W. Molesworth's edition of the complete works, 11 vol., 1839–45, and Noel Malcom et al., ed., the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, 1983–), are De Cive (1642), Leviathan (1651), De Corpore Politico (1650), De Homine (1658), and Behemoth (1680).
In the Leviathan, Hobbes developed his political philosophy. He argued from a mechanistic view that life is simply the motions of the organism and that man is by nature a selfishly individualistic animal at constant war with all other men. In a state of nature, men are equal in their self-seeking and live out lives which are "nasty, brutish, and short." Fear of violent death is the principal motive which causes men to create a state by contracting to surrender their natural rights and to submit to the absolute authority of a sovereign. Although the power of the sovereign derived originally from the people—a challenge to the doctrine of the divine right of kings—the sovereign's power is absolute and not subject to the law. Temporal power is also always superior to ecclesiastical power. Though Hobbes favored a monarchy as the most efficient form of sovereignty, his theory could apply equally well to king or parliament. His political philosophy led to investigations by other political theorists, e.g., Locke, Spinoza, and Rousseau, who formulated their own radically different theories of the social contract.
See biographies by J. L. Stephen (1934, repr. 1968), C. H. Hinnant (1977), and T. Surrell (1986); studies by T. A. Sprague, Jr. (1973), J. W. N. Watkins (rev. ed. 1973), W. Von Leyden (1982), J. Hampton (1988), and Q. Skinner (1996, 2002, and 2008).


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According to WoW Insider , Patch 2.1.3 is out on the live realms today. It is a pretty small patch.. Here are the details:
World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.1.3
Read in-game mail will now be kept for thirty days instead of three.
The Warlock spell Incinerate has had the performance of its graphical spell effect improved.
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This video is from last June, but is still very relevant today. It helps explain some of Romdo's unique abilities including passing and his Grand Theft Rondo steals.
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Jenda says:
This is super awesome.
Haha! His wingdspan is 6 inches longer than the Fish and his hands are larger than LeQueen's! I think thats why the jump shot is his weakness, cause his hands are too big for his small size. His hands are like the size of KG's!
JR says:
Yeah I should have said Jay Bilas contributed to the report. lol
Three Toe says:
ok rondo, try and stay humble after this, i dare you.
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Rajon Rondo,will be a hero
Nice to learn about *romdos* abilities...lol sry i had to. Nice post though, fascinating video really.


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The Yankees Will Surpass A 200 Million Dollar Payroll in 2013 And Are Pinching Pennies At Catcher!
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Thursday, December.27, 2012
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As of this very moment, you are not the happiest of campers if you are a Yankees fan. Francisco Cervelli, Chris Stewart and Austin Romine look to start the year out catching for the Bronx Bombers! Really??? You are telling me that you will spend 215-225 Million Dollars on (Luxury Taxable) Payroll and you couldn't find a mere 7.5 Million for a 1 Year Deal to sign A.J. Pierzynski? The club will receive some insurance money for A-Rod's injury this year, however the Luxury Tax is not affected by that. So maybe knowing that they will pay 40% more for a guys salary (more than he really makes as a salary) is another thing stalling the franchise from plunking some serious cash down on a real quality veteran catcher. In my opinion, this is a brutal mistake that will leave the fans frustrated beyond belief if it blows up in the Yankees face. The good news is that if the team is playing well in every other department other than the Catchers position, they can always address the situation at any point next year by a trade. With no significant catchers left on the FA Market, New York will probably go this route. If you can manage to keep atop of the standings, then you may land a veteran catcher that will only have a pro-rated salary for the rest of the year.
If I were Ichiro Suzuki, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera or Andy Pettitte, I would not be happy with the club not landing a proven offensive or defensive catcher. (Boy does that Jesus Montero Trade not look so favorable right now.) These 4 veterans are in the last year or two of their contracts and possibly their careers will end once their contracts. While these guys would never panic, you only need to look what the Blue Jays are doing north of the border for real 'transaction aggression.' I just think that you have re-signed and brought in Free Agents that all point to a "Win Now" mentality, yet you are going towards one-dimensional catchers that all have limited experience. It doesn't feel right and the Yankees 'Faithful' will have a field day on Management and ownership should this position end up being a crutch on the teams success chances for 2013.


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- How to get the updates
- Photoshop 14.2.1 Update (2/18/2014) Mac: 194 MB | Win: 334 MB
- Photoshop 14.2 (1/15/2014) Mac: 157 MB | Win: 293 MB
- Photoshop 14.1.2 Update (9/25/2013) Mac: 84 MB | Win: 171 MB
- Photoshop 14.1.1 Update (9/11/2013) Mac: 84 MB | Win: 171 MB
- Photoshop 14.1.0 (9/8/2013) Mac: 84 MB | Win: 171 MB
How to get the updates
- Look for the update in the Creative Cloud application and click "Update". (Quit and restart the Creative Cloud application if you don't see the update)
- If you don't have the Creative Cloud application running, start Photoshop and choose Help > Updates.
- The Adobe Application Manager will launch. Select Adobe Photoshop CC and choose Update.
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- The version is listed in the about dialog
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Photoshop 14.2.1 Update (2/18/2014)
2/18/2014 – Today we released Photoshop CC update version 14.2.1 (for Creative Cloud members, Mac and Windows), resolving the following issues:
- Fixed issue where Smart Object is not updating correctly after going back in history with parent document
- Fixed issue with Generator and Linked Illustrator Smart Objects
- Fixed issue where bounds of layers exported via Generator are wrong
- Fixed program errors when Generator is enabled
- Fixed issue where backspace key doesn't delete last point for Polygonal Lasso, Magnetic Lasso, Magnetic Pen
- Fixed issue where Generator stops generating files in documents with a large number of layers
- Fixed coordinate incompatibility between 14.0 and 14.2 when using 3D/actions
- Improved start-up time when scanning presets
- Fixed issue where clipboard is not retaining the correct size unless the resolution is set at 72 when copied from Illustrator
- Fixed issue with Smart Object updating incorrectly after drag and drop between unsaved documents
- Fixed issue rendering PSDs with 3D content created in prior versions
- Fixed issues errors, stability, and rendering issues with Scripted Pattern Fill
- Fixed crash on quit after creating video Smart Object
- Fixed stability issue when running Camera Shake Reduction filter on new Mac Pro
- Fixed issue with context menus not working on Windows (document titlebar, unit menu on w & h during transform, etc)
- Fixed issue where New Linked Smart Object via Copy layer updates wrong Smart Object after edit
- Fixed issue with inverted bump maps
- Fixed several crashing issues using Generator
- Fixed crashing issue build 3D print for Shapeways 3D print
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- Fixed issue with merging down 3D extrusion Material
- Fixed crashing issue with 3D cross-sections
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- Fixed issue when placing 3D files using Javascript
Photoshop 14.1.2 Update (9/25/2013)
9/25/2013 – Today we released Photoshop CC update version 14.1.2 (for Creative Cloud members, Mac and Windows), resolving the following issues:
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- Crashing while editing paths
- Intermittent crash using Generator
- Issue running actions with Generate>Image Assets enabled
- OpenGL functionality disabled on some Windows systems with both NVidia and ATI cards
Photoshop 14.1.1 Update (9/11/2013)
9/11/2013 – Today we released Photoshop CC update version 14.1.1 (for Creative Cloud members, Mac and Windows), resolving the following issues:
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Because Saturdays are traditional days for marriages, thought I'd take a break from my Rochowiak obsession today and post the following photo. Per John Plenzler, this photo my be "William Grzechowiak and Helen Lakes, William is Josepine Grzechowiak (Plenzler)'s brother." There is no other identifying information. My guess is that this photo was taken sometime in the 1920s. The style of the dresses seem to be from that period and a quick bit of research on William Grezechowiak found him and Helen on the 1930 census, living at 922 Marmion. Per the census, they were married when William was 24, Helen was 16. (Age at the time of census: William 32 and Helen 24.) They had two sons: Edward, 6 and Alphonse, 5 when the census was taken. So they may have been married sometime in 1922.
This is a remarkably well preserved photo and the detail is incredible. The bride is wearing full length gloves–her watch and new wedding ring are worn outside of the glove. Her veil has beautiful embroidery and she and her female attendants have beautiful, large bouquets of roses. This was definitely a studio photo–study the background a bit and you'll notice a large painting in the center and perhaps a faux window or moveable partition to the left. Click the photo to enlarge.
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Virginia Contractor Pleads Guilty to Kickback Scheme and Failure to File Tax Return
WASHINGTON — A Virginia contractor pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to steer contracts to him for repair, maintenance and renovation work at healthcare and nursing home facilities owned by Medical Facilities of America Inc. (MFA), the Department of Justice announced today.
Edward T. Fodrey, a resident of Norfolk, Va., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Norfolk to conspiring with other individuals to steer contracts for repair, maintenance and renovation at MFA healthcare and nursing home facilities. According to the two-count felony charge filed on March 30, 2011, from about May 2006 until at least December 2006, Fodrey conspired with an MFA employee who oversaw the bidding process for repair, maintenance and renovation contracts at MFA facilities in North Carolina and Virginia. That MFA employee steered contracts to Fodrey in return for kickbacks.
According to the court document, the MFA employee created fictitious competitor bids that were higher than the quotes submitted by Fodrey and other co-conspirator venders, to create the appearance of competition. The MFA employee directed subordinates to solicit quotes only from Fodrey or other conspiring vendors. The MFA employee specified the amount Fodrey should quote to MFA as well as the amount of the kickback on each of the contracts. Fodrey paid more than $200,000 in kickbacks to the MFA employee and received contracts totaling more than $750,000. The court document states that as a result of the kickback scheme, MFA was deprived of competitive pricing to its financial detriment. Fodrey was also charged with failing to file a tax return for 2006, which is the year in which Fodrey received payment on the MFA contracts. According to the plea agreement, Fodrey has agreed to cooperate with the department's ongoing investigation.
Fodrey is charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud for the kickback scheme, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 criminal fine. Fodrey is also charged with failure to file an income tax return, which carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $100,000 criminal fine. The maximum fines for each of these charges may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victims of the crime, if either of those amounts is greater than the statutory maximums.
The charge is the first to arise out of the department's ongoing fraud investigation into the award of repair, maintenance and renovation contracts at facilities owned by MFA being conducted by the Antitrust Division's Philadelphia Field Office, the U.S. Attorney's Offices for the Eastern District of Virginia and the Western District of Virginia, the FBI in Roanoke, Va., and the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation in Roanoke, Va. Anyone with information concerning fraudulent behavior relating to the award of contracts by MFA should contact the Antitrust Division's Philadelphia Field Office at 215-597-7405 or visit www.justice.gov/atr/contact/newcase.htm.


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Chico >> A press conference on funding through the 2014 Farm Bill was brief, but for Noelle Ferdon, it was affirming and encouraging for work she has done over the past five years.
Ferdon is director of local food systems at the Northern California Regional Land Trust, and has been working diligently to organize a local food hub.
A food hub, often a cold storage unit, can help small to medium-sized growers who want to expand markets but don't have the money or need for a large facility.
For example, if a farmer grows perishable food, they have the option to sell to a large distributor. Yet, to sell locally, the supply may be needed a little at a time, and storage could stretch out the selling season.
Also, several growers of the same type of food could store their food together until a large buyer is ready for the product – a large local institution for example.
Local farmers have said they are eager to get signed up, but organization is the key. Crops are seasonal, so a producer would only need the storage until the crops sold.
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack talked with reporters Wednesday, and Ferdon was able to listen to the call.
Within the Farm Bill is money available to regional groups or individuals for programs like Ferdon has envisioned.
In the past, USDA program for farmers markets and similar activities were only given a $5 million each pot of money for which to compete. But now $30 million is available each year to support "local food systems," including food hubs.
With the work that Ferdon and her group have done over the past several years, she is hopeful that a future grant application will be successful.
"I think we have a head start," she said, with excitement.
"Our region has laid the foundation and can show we have the capacity to keep building this local food system."
What was especially exciting, Ferdon said, was to hear much of the "language and terms" used by Secretary Vilsack were the same as the words she has been using for five years.
"I was joking, but half serious – we've been shouting this from the mountaintops for years.
"For us, in this region, it's really promising."
Vilsack confirmed what Ferdon believes: that "food hubs create jobs."
A study from Michigan State University estimates that up to 20 jobs can be created through a food hub, and up to $4 million in revenue, she said.
Over the years, Ferdon has joined forces with Jacob Brimlow, in the Department of Agriculture at Chico State University. A research project took place last fall to ask local food producers what barriers kept them from selling their products locally. Brimlow is also interviewing wholesale buyers to gather more information to build local markets.
Ferdon said she is eager to continue the effort, and hopes to tap into some of that federal grant funding.
More developments will be unveiled soon, she said.
Contact reporter Heather Hacking at 896-7758.


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We kick-off with a City legend from recent times – a man who sent Maine Road into raptures in the final derby at our old home, Mr Shaun Goater.
The player…
Shaun Goater
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A key figure in the transformation of City's fortunes between 1998 and 2003, Leonard Shaun Goater actually came through the youth ranks across town although he never made an official appearance for United, leaving for Rotherham in 1989.
Goater spent seven years in Yorkshire and scored 70 league goals before he moved to Bristol City in 1996 where he enjoyed two goal-laden campaigns, attracting the interest of Joe Royle who was battling to keep City in Division One.
Sadly, the Blues couldn't beat the drop and fell to the third tier for the first time in the Club's history but Shaun was integral in the sensational rise that followed, scoring the winning goal against Wigan in the play-off semi-final to set up that unforgettable Wembley showdown with Wigan.
In 212 appearances for City, Shaun netted an incredible 103 goals and he was handed the captaincy for the final game at Maine Road and his last game for the club, against Southampton in 2003.
The Moment…
Maine Road, 9 November 2003
City supporters will never let Gary Neville forget the day he fed the Goat… Shaun's 99th goal for City could hardly have been any more memorable.
It was November 9 2003 and the final-ever derby at Maine Road when the Bermudan wrote his name into Manchester derby folklore with a double that consigned United to an emphatic 3-1 defeat.
For the first of his brace, Goater dispossessed one of City's pantomime villains in Neville on the byline and then went on to clip the ball around Fabian Barthez.
A goal so delicious in so many ways that it birthed a witty new chant from the home faithful ("Derby day, the scores were level, then the Goat was fed by Neville.")
He wasn't finished there, capping an incredible day with his 100th strike for City which made it 3-1 - a beautiful clipped chip over Barthez after he held off the challenge of Laurent Blanc.
In his own words…
Excerpts from Goater's "Feed the Goat" autobiography
It was a fast, exciting game, but when Marc Vivien Foe played a long ball up front he miscued it and it was heading out for a goal kick. As the ball rolled towards the line I thought "I could make this bad ball into a good ball".
Gary Neville seemed to be trying to shepherd the ball out as I chased him down, and I could see the ball was going out. I expected him to shield it as I challenged him, but he then decided to play it back to Fabien Barthez.
I anticipated his next move and out in a block tackle and the ball stayed in play. I edged him out of the way, took the ball in towards goal, but there was nobody for me to square the ball to. I was on my own so I went along the goal-line and tried to angle back in a little before hitting the ball low past Barthez and into the net.
We went in 2-1 up, at which point I heard "Feed The Goat!" at it's loudest ever. The fans had also come up with a new song "Who let the Goat out" and I thought "I'm having that one! I liked the tune and it reminded me of Summer in Bermuda so I was very happy with the City fans' latest release!"
We held out comfortably to win 3-1 and I walked off to an incredible rendition of "Feed the Goat" followed by "Who let the Goat out" what an amazing way to end a fantastic day. This was the first time City had beaten United in 13 years.


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If you're in the market for a new tablet, the good news is that there's a tablet for everyone, regardless of needs and budgets.
The bad news is that with everyone trying to tell you their tablet is the best, finding the right tablet for you can be tricky. So before we start talking specific products, here's what you need to consider to make a smart buying decision.
How large (or small) of a tablet do you need?
Tablet size is typically measured by the distance from corner to corner, diagonally, in inches. Most tablets have either a 7″ screen or a 10″ screen, though Amazon's Kindle Fire HD falls in the middle with an 8.9″ screen. So which one is right for you?
While all tablets are portable, smaller tablets are the lightest and most portable of the lot, sized to fit in a large pocket or small purse, making them great companions for anyone on the go. They're also easier to hold in one hand (like a paperback book), which makes them a great option if you're frequently going to use your tablet for reading. And best of all? 7″ tablets cost less than their 10″ brethren, making them the perfect option for budget shoppers.
Larger 10″ tablets are the powerhouses of the tablet world, with the ability to do just about anything you might want. Their high-resolution screens makes them especially good for watching TV or movies as well as editing your own photos or video. Gamers, too, will appreciate the extra screen size and processing power a larger tablet has. And business users, who might find 7″ tablets a bit cramped for reading email or managing spreadsheets, will also appreciate that larger tablets are more likely to have access to 4G or LTE cellular networks instead of just relying on Wi-Fi. Of course all of these extra features add to the cost—though you can still find 10″ tablets at reasonable prices if you shop around.
Just how much storage space do you need?
The amount of storage space on a tablet will limit the number of apps, photos, and videos you can store on it. You'll typically find tablets offer 8GB, 16GB, 32GB or 64GB of storage space, and that the price goes up as the storage space goes up. Some tablets will allow you to expand on their storage space with an SD or micro-SD card, but with some (like the iPad), the storage size you buy is all the storage you'll ever have.
If you plan to use your tablet to store lots of photos, videos, TV shows or movies, you'll definitely want to pay close attention to the available storage space on your tablet, as it will limit how much data you can carry with you. For a judge of how much storage space you need, high resolution photos can take over 5MB each and large games can range from 500MB to 2GB in size. However, if you're using your tablet for video, that's likely to eat most of your storage space, clocking in at 1.5GB per hour of HD video.
But if you're only interested in reading email, browsing the web, reading ebooks, streaming media, and playing with a few apps—which we think is likely for the average user—you may find the smallest storage size suits you just fine.
Do you need cellular service?
This is another choice you'll have to make up-front. Do you want a tablet that only accesses the Internet via Wi-Fi or do you want to be able to get online via cellular network if you're out of Wi-Fi coverage?
While cellular service is definitely convenient—and could be a must if you travel frequently or are a business user—it will increase the cost of the tablet up-front and have a monthly fee attached for service. Before you make the call, you may want to look to your smartphone: many will allow you to create a Wi-Fi hotspot using your phone's existing data plan. If your smartphone lets you do this, even if it's for an extra fee, it may be simpler to use your phone when you need cellular access instead of dealing with a separate bill for another mobile device.
Android or iOS?
In the world of tablets, you'll find most run either Google's Android software or Apple's iOS software—though there are options that run BlackBerry or a version of Windows. These operating systems perform all of the basic functions that make your tablet run. While there are many differences, major and minor, between them, there are two functions that are particularly important: app stores and compatibility with other devices.
App stores: Apple's devices can access apps in the iTunes App Store while Android devices accesses apps on Google Play. While you'll find plenty of apps available in both stores, your iPad won't be able to run Android apps and your Nexus 7 won't be able to download anything from the App Store. So if you're looking for a particular app, make sure you know where it's available before making a buying decision. As to variety, both stores have it: Apple's App Store boasts the world's largest collection of mobile apps with 775,000 apps (over 300,000 of them optimized for the iPad), while Google Play has over 700,000 apps (though not all of them are optimized for tablets).
Compatibility: If you have an Android phone or an iPhone, you'll want to consider a tablet that runs the same operating system. Though it's not that hard for an Apple user to pick up an Android tablet or vice versa, you'll find that like devices tend to work together seamlessly when you're trying to sync things like calendars and contacts. And if you stick with the same operating system, there's nothing new to learn when you pick up your tablet: it works just like your phone does and uses apps you're already familiar with.
Screen quality
No matter what you're doing on your tablet, a high-quality screen will be an asset. If you're just reading emails and other documents, you'll find that the crisp text is easy to read and causes less eye strain than a lower resolution screen. And if you're playing games, higher resolution screens can offer you a full HD experience with incredible detail—not bad for a portable device!
Parental controls
If you have a little one at home who might play with your tablet from time to time, you'll want to look for a tablet with parental controls to make it easy to keep them out of anything they shouldn't get into (investing in a durable case isn't a bad idea, either). Especially important is the ability to restrict app purchases andin-app purchases to keep your kid from accidentally running up your credit card bill. Different tablets will have different options, so be sure to check them out before you buy. But, in general, Android tablets running Jelly Bean (Android 4.2) support profiles, which means you can limit access for your kids.
Buying on a budget
You can get a perfectly good tablet for as low as $199 (and can find the occasional bargain even lower), but prices only go up from there. If you're on a budget, you don't have to pick up a sub-par tablet, but you'll want to:
- Look at smaller tablets: 7″ tablets are a great budget option
- Skip the bells and whistles: Avoid cellular service and don't pay for more storage space than you need
- Consider last year's model: For example, the iPad 2 is still a great tablet but sells for less than newer models
If you do purchase a new tablet and have an older one you won't be using, consider handing it down to a family member or selling it for credit or cash.
So now that we've covered the basic tenants of tablets, let's talk about which tablets to buy. We've grouped our recommendations into:
The Best 7-inch Tablets
The Best 10-inch Tablets
The Best Kid-Friendly Tablets
This article was written by Elizabeth Harper and originally appeared on Techlicious…
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IRIS - International Railway Industry Standard
In 2005, the IRIS Group was established as a UNIFE Group with the goal of securing higher quality in the railway industry. This was to enhance supranational competition by enabling any railway component supplier to meet globally recognized levels of quality for its railway components.
The aim of IRIS is to develop and implement a global system for the evaluation of companies supplying to the railway industry with uniform; language, assessment guidelines and mutual acceptance of audits, which will create a high level of transparency throughout the supply chain.
The IRIS system defines requirements in content, procedures and evaluation of audits as well as a requirement profile for the certification bodies and auditors.
The requirements for certification bodies and auditors are regulated. All certification bodies shall have an accreditation in accordance with ISO/IEC 17021:2015 and an IRIS approval. Only IRIS approved auditors who have participated in the IRIS Training and who have passed a written and oral examination can audit against the standard. The auditors can only audit against their competence in a certain product category. Finally, auditors who comply with these requirements shall only work for one IRIS approved certification body.
This IRIS portal contains an online database that provides all the important and necessary information about the audits. There is a section available for everybody, but the main part of the audit portal is not open to the public. Only railway companies who make requests and certification bodies approved by the IRIS Group can gain access. Every passed audit report with an IRIS certificate will be included in the online database. The name and address of the audited company together with the scope and validity of the certificate are published. The audited company can choose to make more details of the audit available to their customers by giving them specific access. Otherwise this information is strictly confidential.
IRIS offers an efficient and transparent System for auditing railway suppliers. The advantages for the whole supply chain are obvious. The same basic principle for all, common language and audit execution as well as high levels of transparency for all.
If you need further information about IRIS, please contact the IRIS Management Centre in Brussels:
General telephone: +32 2 626 12 60
General fax: +32 2 626 12 61
Address: 221, Avenue Louise (Bte 11)
B-1050 Brussels
Your primarily contact person at UNIFE for IRIS Group issues:
Bernard Kaufmann *
IRIS General Manager
Anish Bawa
IRIS Technical Manager
Vanessa Pereira
IRIS Technical Manager
María Romero
IRIS Manager
Artur Tänna
IRIS Communications Manager


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