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Rinne no Lagrange – OST
Written by Suzuki Saeko in collaboration with music production duo TOMISIRO, the Rinne no Lagrange OST is easily one of my favourites from the winter line-up. Neither of the two artists have worked on much that I'm familiar with – most of their work seems to be confined to the Keroro Gunsou franchise which – in my opinion – makes the quality of the LagRin OST even more impressive to behold. While not as diverse in genre as some anime soundtracks, there's still an impressive range of styles, though on the whole, the soundtrack comes across mostly as electronic interspaced with more comedic instrumental tracks.
It's impossible to talk about the soundtrack of Rinne no Lagrange without mentioning TRY UNITE!, probably my favourite OP from the winter season. From the beautiful harmonic choices (with lots of extended chords) and flowing melody to the subtle but effective builds, it's a joy to listen to. Stylisticly, it perfectly sets the tone for the series both thematically and musically. A lot of people have thrown around the word 'Europoppy' when talking about the song and, funnily enough, this is more accurate than some may have realised. Written by Saeki Kenzo (who has worked extensively with French artists in the past) and composed and arranged by Rasmus Faber, a prolific House music producer hailing from Sweden, it's no surprise that the influences of European dance music shine through. While I could easily claim this as my favourite piece from the soundtrack, I feel that it would be unfair to pick a track written by a duo who had no further involvement with the rest of the series' composition.
Taking a quick moment away from the soundtrack itself, I wanted to say something about how much I love hearing more and more of Nakajima Megumi, not just as a vocalist (it's her wonderful voice on TRY UNITE!) but also as a seiyuu. It's great to see how far she's come since her debut as Ranka Lee in Macross Frontier.
Bringing us back on track, let's talk about some of the more standout works on the soundtrack! The LagRin OST has many faces, each of which corresponds to a contrasting emotion. The first of these would be the slightly comedic side, generally present during the more playful and laid-back segments of the anime (of which there are many). Of these, the most standout track could well be Kamogawa energy with its energetic bossa nova vibe and charming blend of acoustic instruments with electronica (I'm a particular fan of the noise snare). Another track which deserves more than a passing mention (and will likely get me into a little trouble with Stereoman) is Jersey-bu no Uta, not just for its appeal as a marching song (which I must say fits the jersey club perfectly) but for the slightly above-average level singing by Madoka (Ishihara Kaori) and the endlessly entertaining frantic interjections by Lan (Seto Asami).
The latter half of the soundtrack is rife with darker tracks from the series. While there are many good tracks in this category, only one jumps out at me as needing to be talked about. Apocalypse emanates feelings of despair, emptiness and hopelessness – perfectly reflecting its name. The thick reverb helps emphasise the emptiness – the hollowness of the track – contributing to the overwhelming loneliness, while the constant background drone, when removed, provides a route to increase the effect. The acoustic noodling during the second half brings out beautiful soundscapes which also serve the added function of adding an undertone of chaos to the track.
Towards the end of the soundtrack are most of the tracks I consider to be the crowning jewels of the series. For me, one of the most notable is 4 411, the longest track on the OST and one of the better orchestral tracks used in the anime. The reason I single it out above many of the others is not because of the quality of the orchestral writing but because of the orchestrations of the Kamogawa melody which are wonderful to listen to. My only complaint is that the track ends on an extremely weak note, something that could easily have been remedied, even if only for the soundtrack release (editing for soundtrack releases is fairly common in certain industries).
There are far too many great electronic tracks on the OST to properly do justice to so I'll only mention my two favourites. The first, Lagrange, is actually a hybrid track which also includes orchestral elements. The shimmering and evolving electronic harmonies, accompanied by the Kamogawa theme, are beautiful enough to give me chills, and when placed in context within the anime make for an amazing experience. The second of these is Lock on air, a great breakbeat track with some awesome synth bends and a constantly evolving soundscape.
Throughout the soundtrack we often hear the distinctive sounds of an ondes Martenot, one of the earliest (and possibly most unique in playing technique) synthesisers ever produced. The use of the instrument alone contributes extensively to the overall sci-fi tone of the soundtrack, having been popular in the sci-fi film and TV scene since its early days. Perhaps the most notable use would be that of the lead melody in Kamogawa in A major (and its minor counterpart) which is reminiscent of all manner of alien-featuring sci-fi movies from years past.
Unsurprisingly, as a primarily electronic soundtrack, there are many elements of minimalism present throughout – something which I greatly approve of. In addition, there are many recurring musical motifs used multiple times over the course of the soundtrack. The most notable of these would once again be the melody originating from Kamogawa in A major, though there are several others such as the shared motif between BWH and Tom-boy.
Oddly enough, if I were to try and compare the OST to others of similar genre or musical style, I would find myself dipping more into video game soundtracks than I would those of recent anime. Memoria and Axion (the latter of which reminds me a lot of a track from Final Fantasy XII), for example, are extremely reminiscent of an archetypal track style from JRPGs while Apocalypse brings to mind the style of Sakuraba Motoi. While many sci-fi anime soundtracks these days are more orientated towards orchestral music, I'm still of the opinion that electronica fits sci-fi much like this pose suits Lan (that is to say, perfectly).


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Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:10 pm
Post subject: Show us your Halloween Project Contest
See the blog post about this contest here
Halloween is a great time to whip out the soldering iron to make some cool and frightening projects. We have featured tons of cool
DIY Halloween projects
over the years like the
Halloween prop
shown above, they are all inspirational! This season we want to see your creations.
To enter you will need to post your project in the Hacked Gadgets Forum, if you dont have an account you will need a password during the sign-up process, its joinhgforum. We needed to implement this to prevent the smart spammers that seem to be everywhere.
Here is what you need to do to enter:
* Make a Halloween project that has some electronic components, it doesnt need to be anything complex, for example some red LED eyes on a ghost would be enough.
* Post at least one picture of the project in this thread on the Hacked Gadgets Forum. Additional pictures and a link to some video would be welcome though.
* List the materials that were used and a short description of the project build. The description dont need to be very detailed but more detail than the bare minimum is appreciated.
* You can enter as many times as you want, place each new project in a seperate forum entry. You can only receive one of the loupe magnifiers though even if multiple projects are in the first 10 entries.
* All projects need to be your own work. The Halloween project doesnt need to be something that was made this year, you are welcome to post a project that you have built in the past.
* Enter before November 11th, 2009.
Note: The contest end date was accidentally listed as October 11th, it should have been listed as November 11th (after Halloween). It has been updated, sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
The winner of the contest will get a cell phone jammer, this device should disable most cell phones in your direct area. If you win this device and it is illegal in your country please only use it for research. The winner will be selected by a vote based on all the valid entries. The first 10 entries will get a loupe magnifier which is great for building or repairing circuit boards.
Grand Prize: Cell Phone Jammer (pictured below)
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:56 pm
Post subject: Realistic Flickering Firelight Effect Using LEDs
Suppose you want a light to mimic a flickering candle or guttering campfire. Further suppose that you aren't necessarily a soldering genius, and the idea of
sampling oscillator phase noise to randomize your output
makes your head asplode.
Then how about a handful of blinking LEDs and a battery?
How to build a Spookyfire Blob (short version):
1) Attach 3-5 blinking LEDs to a DC power source.
2) Tuck inside a pumpkin, flower pot, or otherwise unoccupied cranial space (several congressmen's names come to mind).
3) Enjoy.
The ambient light level changes randomly -and sometimes wildly- based on which LEDs in the Blob are on at any given moment. They don't blink at exactly the same rate, so they quickly go out of phase in about a second. The light will flutter, flicker, almost die out, and roar brilliantly back to life. Unless you look directly at it.
Wait ... what?
The Spookyfire effect is produced by the *reflected* light of the Blob, not the Blob itself. In other words, if you look directly at the Blob, you risk an epileptic seizure. It possibly resembles robot-sign. But if you place it in front of a tombstone and then block your view of the Blob (with a rock, some funeral flowers, a carp), its light will reflect off the tombstone in an eerie, random fashion. Stick one in a plastic skull, then add Halloween spider webs as a diffuser.
Full instructions and lots of other haunt projects at
Thanks for the invitation!
Headspook, Spookyblue.com
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:12 pm
Post subject: Bs2/vm2 controlled hidden animatronic
Here's a project journal from last years project, a Bs2 STAMP controlled animatronic hidden in a column I made that is concealed by a pneumatic powered drop panel. I think the prop journal pretty much explains it all, and I included links at the end for more detailed pictures of the skull innards. The journal also has videos of the prop in motion.
All credit due to haunt geek and talented guy, Halloween Bob, who came up with and popularized the skull design.
It was a fun project, I hope you like it.
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This is a Hocus Pocus Spell Book replica from the movie. It has a remote eye lid and eye ball.
Here is a link to the video of my book.
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:24 pm
Post subject: Strobing blacklight skull dot room
Many a haunted house uses a dot room (flourescent dots illuminated by black light) to scare the wits out of patrons with a camoflaughed actor in the same pattern outfit. I felt that dots were not scary enough and constant illumination was not disorienting enough. I used flashing LED kits and wired up 3 banks of 8 UV LEDs to all flash together.
Using a template of skulls, I sprayed flourescent spraypaint on black sheets for the walls of the dot room.
I had actors in similar black outfits with the same skull pattern able to be invisible (with hands behind your back) and jump out and scare TOTs with white glowing hands that really seemed to be detached.
Lots of fun scaring people.
Happy Haunting!
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This is a project that i did for last years Halloween, but i ended up using it for office pranks and other tricks too.
This was made from a infra red beam- break detector, (which the buzzer had broken), an amplifier, and a mp3 player (the screen had broke)
The DC output (to buzzer) from the infra red detector was connected to the mp3 players random / play button through a resistor (so it doesn't blow the mp3 player). So when the beam is broken, it will trigger the mp3 player to play some spooky sounds from its library. The headphone output was connected to a small 5w amplifier and then to a speaker.
This setup was hidden under some flowerpots last Halloween, but this year, i have used a larger 30w amplifier and a better speaker, and ive taken the output from the infra red detector and connected it to some lights which will light up a carved pumpkin (which will also house the entire project this year)
So if anyone passes by, the pumpkin will light up and play noises, all thats needed is to hide the power cables
(this will be set up completely closer to Halloween when i can get a pumpkin a few days before its needed)
the setup from the previous year (in picture) can be used all year round, not just for Halloween, even for general mischief and havoc,
as before i had put a certain song by Rick Astley onto the mp3 player to Rickroll workers at the office, (much to they're annoyance, and entertaining co-workers)
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:43 pm
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It's been years since I visited the HG website. Good thing I still have time to enter the contest.
I started a project last year but didn't finish it. Halloween isn't celebrated that much in Belgium, Europe..
Anyway I will try to finish it before the end. Must be doable.
This post will be edited.. And no, not fishing for that loupe.
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Can't wait to see it Mikey.
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If we feature on the main page again, perhaps well get more entries
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I'm not sure about the coolest, but I'm probably going to have one of the most economical projects.
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cboy2us wrote:
I'm not sure about the coolest, but I'm probably going to have one of the most economical projects.
Sounds good. I look forward to seeing your creation.
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So, who won?
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I completely missed reading the deadline
Oh well, I'm gonna get my kicks out of scaring the kids anyway.
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Can't believe I made that mistake. The end of the contest should have been listed as November. Sorry about that, I will change the details and make a comment about it.
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- Millennial Maria LaMagna says her generation isn't as "screwed" as some have argued
- Called coddled and over-stimulated, millennials are the first "plugged in" generation
- LaMagna says millennials' competitiveness and multitasking will help them creatively
- Millennials are poised to be the generation to solve the planet's ills, she says
As a generation, millennials have been called coddled, under-qualified, whiny and, recently, "screwed." Apparently, both our egos and our grade point averages are wildly inflated.
Thanks for your input, everyone. I'm listening. But there's a time for taking constructive criticism, and there's a time to take it personally.
What better time than now? It's fight or flight at this point. Some cards are stacked against us (a rough job market and poor economy, for starters), and now we can add to that a serious PR problem.
Because of all that, we've got a chip on our shoulders. We're frustrated, angry, tired and scared — the ultimate underdogs.
But I think we deserve more credit, and it's up to us to prove it.
Ours are the hands that will shape the next decade — culturally, socially and economically. So instead of thinking about being "millennial" as something that happened to us, why don't we figure out how we will define it?
Despite the headlines, we've proven to be a pretty smart, organized and resourceful generation already.
Here are some reasons to be hopeful about what millennials will do in the decades to come, and how we members of "Generation Y Me?" can make it out of our current crisis.
We're brave
There are plenty of young people accomplishing feats and pushing boundaries right now, and I'm glad they're on team millennial.
Take Alex Morse, for example. He's the 23-year-old mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the town where he grew up. Since he took office in January, Morse has focused on increasing traffic to Holyoke's downtown and created a new government position to promote local art. He also happens to be openly gay and surprised many people by getting elected at all.
Morse says he frequently speaks with other motivated young people and believes despite its sometimes bad rap, the millennial generation is ambitious.
"I wouldn't be here today if I listened to the people who told me I was too young to be mayor," he says. "Make a decision about what your goal is, and your life has to revolve around what that goal is."
The young mayor believes there's a logical place to start for millennials looking to change the world.
"People often think they have to go to a capital city or to a different city to improve their community, but what better place to improve than where you come from," he says. "If we all improve the communities we were born and raised in, that could go a long way in improving our country."
Maya Enista Smith, the chief operating officer at Mobilize.org, is another millennial all-star. And she believes in us, too.
The first-generation American is 28 now, but when she was just 17 she helped to register 30,000 voters as East Coast coordinator for the "Rock the Vote" initiative.
For the past seven years she has worked at Mobilize, an organization dedicated to empowering and investing in millennials, who Smith thinks are "uniquely positioned" to solve the challenges the United States is facing.
"What typifies this generation is they have a real idealism and hopefulness about what the future is going to look like in our hands," Smith says.
We're skilled and driven
Remember not too long ago when we were clawing each other's eyes out to get into college? Memories of that level of crazed intensity make me cringe (let's try to forget the day I cried over a bowl of tomato soup in the cafeteria about a bad quiz grade), but also suggest that as a generation, we can't be all that lazy.
Maybe the biggest source of hope is how "overscheduled" we were as children. Our parents were criticized for enrolling us in Little League, ballet class and science camp all at once. But when you think about it, we "overscheduled" kids might be the uber project managers of the future.
We're built to multitask, and we're not afraid to learn and adapt.
Though mean overall SAT scores have gone down a bit since the 1970s, math scores have actually gotten better, according to the College Board.
The percentage of students ages 14 to 17 who are enrolled in school has increased over time, from 84% in 1950 to 94% in 1970 to 97% in 2010.
Plus, many more American children are bilingual now than they were in the past. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the number of school-age children who spoke a language other than English at home increased from 4.7 million to 11.2 million between 1980 and 2009 — up from 10% to 21%.
And their English skills are increasing. Among children who don't speak English at home, the percentage who spoke English "with difficulty" dropped from 41% in 1980 to 24% in 2009.
We're the future, like it or not
I'm not denying that we're facing some huge challenges. But that's an exciting jam to be in.
It's likely that a member of our generation will solve some of the questions currently keeping us up at night: Will our government ever come together in a spirit of compromise to enact laws that will help us all? How will the music industry make money despite the overwhelming number of people downloading? What is our best source of low-cost energy? How can the journalism industry position itself to create more revenue?
Someone will eventually answer those questions or create new industries that render the problems obsolete. Millennials' time to shine comes at a precipitous moment in history.
When I was wrestling with a constraining university newspaper budget, a frustrated professor told me, "If you can figure that out, you'll have saved the journalism industry."
Why not?
It's time to stop letting other generations tell us who we are and find out for ourselves.
Are you a millennial who is tired of being counted out? Do you agree with the criticisms of millennials? Share your take in the comments section below.


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Experts say smartphones are becoming increasingly popular not only with consumers, but also with scammers.
A recent report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta says because smartphones are increasing in popularity so quickly, scammers are following suit.
One study cited by the Fed found consumers are three times more likely to respond to a phishing email on a smartphone than they are on a computer. And many phone users don't use passcode locks or antivirus software.
Phone makers are planning new security devices, like built-in fingerprint scanners, into the next generation of smartphones. But officials warn that changing consumer behavior is still critical.
They say smartphone users need to understand that their phone is really a computer and should be protected like one.


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How Will the Aerotropolis Define the Successful City of the Future?
I recently participated in a session at the 6th annual Global Competitiveness Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The overall theme of the event focused on the positive impact of competition on economic and social development around the world. More specifically, I spoke on the emergence of the aerotropolis and the opportunities it presents for the development of cities. As a concept developed by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay in their book "Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next", an aerotropolis is an urban form whose layout, infrastructure, and economy is centered on an airport, offering its businesses speedy connectivity to suppliers, customers, and enterprise partners worldwide.
Globalization lies at the root of the aerotropolis. Beginning hundreds of years ago, globalization started with the basic premise of transporting physical goods between nations. As we moved into the 1980s, we saw the emergence of global manufacturing. The 1990s then ushered in the growth of global R&D. Over the last five years or so, we have transitioned into what I call the globalization of the corporate brain. We are beginning to think and act globally about our innovation, growth and talent in the corporate space – it's all about co-creation and talent. As a global community, we have evolved from the pure transportation of physical goods to the transportation of goods and intellect.
Let's talk a little about why the aerotropolis has gained momentum. Historically, cities have built their airports on the periphery of their borders. The land area, noise and other issues that come with airports have largely been the reasons behind this. However, times have changed, and in today's (still) goods-based economy, planners are seeing that this layout is not conducive to developing the local economy.
In the aerotropolis, the goods-based economy is built on a "physical Internet" comprised of hubs and planes. Cities grow when they are able to effectively utilize technology to expand their networks and reach, creating a grid that shortens the distances between neighboring cities. This helps cities, and the businesses within them, to become more competitive as supply chains and networks become an increasingly vital part of how companies gain competitive advantage. Key to this concept is the ICT master plan, which enables holistic planning, delivery and provisioning of services over the network… a fundamental change in the way that cities are built, managed and renewed as well as the way that services are delivered.
The aerotropolis has essentially evolved the role of a traditional airport, moving it from an infrastructure provider to a service provider. The modern-day aerotropolis focuses on megacities, urban development, vertical clusters with top companies and free trade zones. The integration of the airport operations into the city ICT Master Plan becomes even more crucial with airports themselves being deemed metropolitan central cities according to the US Census Bureau's definition (50,000 'residents'). So far, there are 24 aerotropoli worldwide and 31 currently in development. The impact of this becomes very clear when we consider that one-third (or $1 trillion) of the world's physical goods travel through the air.
Let's turn to a real life example. FedEx transformed Memphis by making the city's airport the busiest cargo airport in the world. Researchers from the University of Memphis measured the impact of the Airport on the city and concluded that it was indirectly responsible for nearly half of the local economy – creating 220,154 jobs (one of every three in the region) and adding an estimated $28.6 billion to GDP. Another interesting example that brings the aerotropolis to life is the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. Considered a major hub in the region, Schiphol is Europe's second largest airport by cargo, third largest by connectivity and firth largest by passengers. Just like Memphis, Schiphol is an exceedingly successful hub with over 45 million passengers and 1.5 million tons of cargo that passes through annually. To date, the airport has generated 120,000 jobs, maintains 12.5% of GDP and has indirectly added over 1800 foreign companies.
As this shows, there is a significant opportunity for entrepreneurship and job creation in the aerotropolis. Cisco predicts that there will be 50 billion connected devices by 2020 – imagine how this can impact the aerotropolis. The real time connectivity and accessibility enabled by connected devices can effectively be used to generate an additional layer of valuable services. Cisco knows from our Smart+Connected communities that there are many benefits of utilizing the network. Airports benefit from the ability to sell personalized services to their customers, tap into revenue streams from non-aeronautical sources, generate meaningful intelligence to service customers and create additional services that enhance the overall consumer experience and provide reliable security. Major airport have already begun generating a greater share of revenue from non-aeronautical sources. Retail sales from Dubai International have been growing in excess of 20% annually while Incheon International Airport (part of the world's leading Smart+Connected City), projects nearly $3 billion in retail sales by 2017. Additionally, the Frankfurt International Airport has the world's largest airport clinic (serving more than 36,000 patients annually), and the Schiphol airport has both an art gallery and the world's first airport library.
It is estimated that by 2050, 16 billion passengers and 400 million tons of freight will be transported by air. Cities understand that the competition has shifted from nations to cities and from companies to supply chains. For cities to be successful, they must lead in industrial competitiveness, job creation, business location and citizen quality of life. And to achieve this leadership, cities require speed, agility and accessibility. The one clear way to achieve this is through a holistic ICT master plan that unites the city and airport under one umbrella to create, deliver and manage the integrated operations for these future city states. Only then can a Smart+Connected aerotropolis generate the necessary infrastructure and development opportunities needed to guide cities in attaining this leadership.
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Airport Cities World Conference & Exhibition (ACE) Denver International Airport, 25-27th April 2012- airportcities.aero
Come see what all the fuss is about! Prof Kasarda will be chairing the event alongside global exponents of the aerotropolis model
Yeah. KSA economic activity is reaching to the top that is why they keep improving their country as well as their IT services. And because of this, more IT jobs will be available soon especially on the networking field.
Very nice post. I was in Saudi Arabia not too long ago, all in all a pretty nice place..
concept of what to do to master ICT can make the Aerotropolis? and how it impacts the future? whether aerotropolis can be done in developing countries like my country Indonesian?
pertanyaan yang sama dengan gie,,,whether aerotropolis can be done in developing countries like Indonesia? if it could probably be something changing times
aerotropolis is a fascinating concept I never heard before finding this post. It certainly makes sense with the evolution of mega cities and how people centralize, notice how big cities evolve into high rise buildings
Outstanding article of how commercial, residential, and metropolitan infrastructures may look in the future based on transportation. This is a great concept! John D. Kasarda is a Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Director of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School <– very close to home for me.
I agree 100%!! The role of a traditional airport can be compared from an infrastructure provider to a service provider in today's (and future) world.
Nice topic. For a full explanation of the Aerotropolis matters in spanish, visit http://goo.gl/ZBweI and http://goo.gl/p5rss.


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The company says it reviewed other tablet options but went with iPad because its employees insisted on it.
The bank wants to use an app called "Mortgage Brain" that was developed by a bank consortium and will allow branch employees to better serve customers.
The IR reseller who handled the iPad order says that it is seeing "increased uptake" of Apple products among other corporate clients. Apple has often talked about the "consumerization of the enterprise," in which employees drive corporate purchases, as being a key trend driving its business. This trend shows no signs of slowing.
That such a large order was placed for iPads on the heels of the launch of Microsoft's Surface tablet and Windows 8 doesn't bode well for Microsoft. Microsoft now finally has a tablet in market, so when customers choose Apple or Android equipment, it's no longer simply a matter of Microsoft not having a product to sell.


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Harvard rows away with its bronze medals after finishing a strong season.
CAMDEN, N.J. —The Harvard lightweight varsity eight placed third behind Princeton and Navy at the 108th Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships Saturday morning on the Cooper River.
The Crimson battled with Princeton for much of the race. The two were even, one-third of a length up on Yale early. The Tigers took a two-seat lead at 750 meters, but Harvard hung close and the lead was even slimmer at the 1,000-meter mark.
Harvard drew even and then moved ahead in the third 500 meters, but Princeton bounced back and held on for the win and Navy snuck in ahead of the Crimson before the finish. Harvard finished in 5:38.017, less than two seconds back of the Tigers and less than one behind the Midshipmen. Princeton's time of 5:36.065 set a new event record.
"We raced well today," said head coach Charley Butt. "We went for the win and were essentially level with Princeton for 1,500 meters. We have a great crew and they deserve congratulations on a great season."
It was the second straight IRA bronze for Harvard, which earned its third national medal in the last four years. The race concluded an impressive season in which the Crimson posted a 10-0 dual record and placed second at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Sprints.
Princeton 5:36.065
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There seems to be a growing trend among schools to stage a UFO crash, and then teachstudents how to react, as well as to "properly" investigate and report on the incident.
It sounds like a lot of fun, and a great way to fire up a student's imagination as well as writing skills. Hell, I wish we would have done a staged UFO crash at my school.
The latest "UFO drill" took place Wed, Sept 29, at Sandford Primary School in the UK. The kids were treated to a full UFO crash scenario that included wreckage, police tape, and real police officers. (Perhaps it was only lacking men from the government telling the children not to talk about what was seen.)
What's interesting is that "police were on hand to show the children how to properly investigate the UFO crash site." Um, were any of the officers speaking from experience?
A news article at The Weston Mercury elaborates on the role played by the officers:
Teacher and organiser Victoria Shepherd said: "PCSO Wright and PC Church were brilliant. They helped the children secure the scene and talked about what to do in an emergency, how they gathered evidence, how to interview witnesses etc."
EDIT — Oct 27: The article at The Weston Mercury seems to have been taken down, and the link is dead. Also, there's now different article at The Mercury about another exercise that was done Oct 18. The article is titled "Pupils Investigate UFO." St Georges Primary did a writing exercise "trying to find out what caused a UFO to appear in the grounds of their school." Thanks for the heads-up, Alli :)
Are UFO drills becoming something of a routine part of the curriculum in the UK? It's certainly becoming more and more of a common event. Each time, it's a joint exercise put in place by the school and local law enforcement.
A similar drill took place in Feb of 2009 when Lanchester Endowed Parochial Primary, in County Durham, staged a surprise "crash" behind the school. In Sept 2008 "children from an Edgware school were made to believe aliens had landed in their playground by teachers and police." Again, each time it was conducted by the school system and police — teaching children what to do in event of a UFO event. Afterward, the kids are asked to write about their experience.


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Garden City pot shops among first to be granted recreational marijuana licenses
December 31, 2013
The Colorado Department of Revenue on Monday issued licenses for 136 recreational marijuana stores across the state and two of them are in Garden City.
C-Nine Caregivers and Nature's Herbs and Wellness Center — both in Garden City — were among the handful of northern Colorado pot shops to be awarded licenses in the first round.
The issuance on Monday made Colorado the first state in U.S. history to award special licenses for recreational marijuana businesses.
"It's historic," said Erica Pilch, owner of C-Nine.
Though she was happy to have cleared the latest hurdle in a lengthy process, she said there are still plenty of other designations the center must obtain before they can open their doors for recreational sales.
Businesses must get local approval before they can begin selling recreational marijuana products to adults that are more than 21 years of age, meaning stores may or may not be open on Jan. 1 — the first day they can operate under state law.
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Pot stores in Denver got 102 licenses . One went to a Fort Collins listing, and several were sent to communities in the mountains. Dispensaries across the state should receive licenses in the mail throughout the week.
In addition to the retail establishment licenses, the state mailed out licenses for 178 marijuana cultivation facilities, 31 product manufacturing facilities, and three pot testing facilities, according to a news release.


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Shapouri House or Shapouri Pavilion and Garden (Persian:خانه شاپوری) is an early 20th-century Persian building and garden in the city of Shiraz, Iran.
It has 840 square metres of underpinning and 4635 square metres of garden area. This building is in the old central region of Shiraz, known as Anvari. This mansion was registered as a national building in 2000 with registration number 2781. Shapouri mansion was designed by Abolghasem Mohandesi and built between 1930 and 1935; the owner was Abdolsaheb Shapuori. This building is unique and very innovative. The historical house of Shapouri belongs to the early Pahlavi dynasty in Persia (Iran), c. 1925. This nice house is located in city centre (Anvari Street) of Shiraz and is recorded as an Iranian national monument.
Shiraz is the fifth most populated city in Iran and the capital of Fars Province. It is located in the southwest of Iran, has a moderate climate and has been a regional trade center for more than a thousand years.The earliest reference to the city, is on Elamite clay tablets dated to 2000 BC. In the 13th century, Shiraz became a leading center of the arts and letters, thanks to the encouragement of its ruler and the presence of many Persian scholars and artists. Shiraz was the capital of Persia during the Zand dynasty from 1750 until 1781, as well as briefly during the Saffavid period.Shiraz is known as the city of poets, wine and flowers. It is also considered by many Iranians to be the city of gardens, due to the many gardens and fruit trees that can be seen in the city. Shiraz has had major Jewish and Christian communities.


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In turbulent times stability often constitutes success--and that's the case in hip-hop this year. The top 20 earners on this year's Cash Kings list racked up $300 million in earnings, the same as last year, despite a troubled world economy and a music industry thrown into flux by new technology. Artists like Jay-Z, Diddy, Ludacris and Snoop Dogg have thrived, adapting to the new world order by diversifying their revenue streams beyond recorded music... More
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The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. With their bright colours, tactile paint handling, and simple yet dynamic forms, the Group of Seven transfigured the Canadian Shield, the dense, northern boreal forest, and endless lakes, into a transcendent, spiritual force. In addition to Tom Thomson, Emily Carr and David Milne, the Group of Seven were the most important Canadian artists of the first decades of the twentieth century. Their influence has extended to artists as diverse as abstract painter Jack Bush and the Painters Eleven, as well as contemporary Scottish (and former Montréaler) figurative painter Peter Doig.
The original Group of Seven included Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald and F.H. Varley. They befriended each other in Toronto between 1911 and 1913. All except Harris, who was independently wealthy, made their living as commercial artists, and several of them even worked together in the same shop. Tom Thomson, another commercial artist, was included in this circle of friends, but since he died in 1917, he never became a member of the Group. He was important to the other artists, however, for he was an avid outdoorsman and awakened their interest in painting the rugged northern Ontario landscape.
The members of the Group were not exclusively landscape painters, and it was only after their first exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto (now the Art Gallery of Ontario) in 1920 that they began to identify themselves as a landscape school. They were initially drawn together by a common sense of frustration with the conservative quality of most Canadian art up to that point (see Canadian Painting in the 19th Century). Romantic, with mystical leanings, the Group and their spokesmen zealously, and sometimes contentiously, presented themselves as Canada's national school of painters. This provoked the ire of the artistic establishment, which hated their rhetoric even more than their paintings.
Nonetheless, Eric Brown, director of the National Gallery of Canada, always stood by them. He began buying their paintings for the gallery's collection several years before the Group was formally established, and in 1924 and 1925 he made sure they were well represented in the Canadian art shows that went to the prestigious Wembley exhibition in England. This enraged many members of the Royal Canadian Academy, who felt that the Group were given an unfair advantage, but British press reports were so favourable that both Brown and the Group felt vindicated.
Like European fin de siècle symbolists and post-impressionists such as Edvard Munch, Paul Gaugin and Émile Bernard, from whom their aesthetic largely derived, the Group rebelled against the constraints of 19th-century naturalism and tried to establish a more equitable and independent relationship between art and nature. They shifted emphasis away from similitude — the imitation of natural effects — toward the expression of their feelings for their subjects. As they often painted together, both in the bush and in the studio, their paintings developed along similar lines. The canvases exhibited in their early shows usually have heavy impasto and bright colours, and are boldly summarized with attention drawn to surface patterning.
Following a visit to the stark north shore of Lake Superior in 1921, Lawren Harris began to radically simplify the colour and layouts of his canvases. MacDonald, Carmichael and even Varley soon adopted similar methods, using thin pigment and stylized designs for many paintings. Harris went further than the others, however, and by the mid-1920s he had reduced his paintings to a few simplified and nearly monochromatic forms. Ten years later he became the only member of the Group, and one of the first Canadian artists, to turn to abstraction.
Through self-promotion and friends at the Arts and Letters Club and the Canadian Forum, as well as with the support of the National Gallery, the Group's influence steadily spread during the 1920s. In 1926, after Franz Johnston's resignation, A.J. Casson was appointed a member. The Group realized they could hardly call themselves a national school of painters as long as they all lived in Toronto, so they admitted Edwin Holgate from Montréal in 1930 and L.L. FitzGerald from Winnipeg in 1932 to give the organization a wider geographic base.
Harris and Jackson influenced and encouraged the next generation of Canadian artists, and Lismer, MacDonald and Varley all became distinguished and influential teachers. By the time the group disbanded in 1933, however, it had become as entrenched, and in some ways as conservative, as the art establishment it had overthrown. Its influence has therefore been a mixed blessing, and it is not surprising that it was in Montréal with signatories to the Refus Global — such as Jean Paul Riopelle and Paul-Émile Borduas, who did not respond to the Group's call — that the next generation of significant Canadian painters emerged.
Paintings by members of the Group of Seven can be found in most Canadian public art galleries, with notable collections at the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.


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It's World Toilet Day today (Thursday November 19) and households across Sussex are being urged to join the battle to reduce the tens of thousands of blockages clogging up our drains and sewers.
Southern Water reports that among the unusual items found in the sewers have been dead sheep, false teeth, severed fingers, teddy bears and 'adult toys'.
But none of these items came close to matching the pain in the drain caused by the thousands of wet wipes flushed down the loo, or the greasy fats and oils poured down the sink.
Steve Grebby, Consumer Council for Water's sewerage expert, said: "Sewer flooding causes misery for thousands of households every year, which is why it's in all our interests to keep our drains and sewers clear and flowing freely.
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According to CCWater research a growing number of consumers (64% in 2014 compared to 43% in 2013) can identify what items should not be flushed down the loo.3 But wet and so called 'flushable' wipes still accounted for up to a third of sewer blockages in some parts of England and Wales.
And ultimately it's customers who end up footing the bill to clear up the mess through their water and sewerage bills.
Southern Water says 12,400 sewer blockages in the past year have been caused by fats, oils, greases and other non-biodegradable items.
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Q-How would you evaluate the men's soccer team's start this season?
We have had a few early problems which is to be expected with so many new faces on the team. We're still getting our structure right which includes complete unity between the defenders, midfielders, and forwards, but in our most recent win over CSU Dominguez Hills we played extremely well as a team from the defense all the way up to our forwards. We have a very positive outlook on this season and are expecting a good run in the CCAA and even further if we maintain a hard work ethic and stay together as a cohesive unit.
Q-What are your primary responsibilities as a midfielder?
In addition to shutting down the opponent's midfield, I have to maintain possession for our team. I need to be able to distribute the ball from one side of the field to the other and create offense out of defense. There is a lot of running involved and it requires hard work by everybody on the team to play good defense and create goals.
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Q-The regional implications of the loss to
Q-What would you consider the strength of this year's squad? What is an area that you think is still something of a question mark or needs improvement?
One area that could use a little improvement is our attack. In the previous years we have had one of the best defenses in the nation but it has been hard to score goals. Therefore, this year we are trying to maintain a strong defense but work on our transition to offense so that we can keep possession of the ball and wear down the opponent's defense until we are able to put a goal in.
Q-Are there any new players that have made a particularly good impression?
Q-How would you handicap the 2006 CCAA Men's Soccer race?
Q-What's the toughest place to play in the CCAA? Why?
Q-Is there a particular team in the league that you really want to play well against? Why?
CSU Dominguez Hills is always a team that we want to play well against in league as they are our rivals and have been a mainstay in the NCAA tournament the past few years. A win against a quality team like that always helps with the NCAA selection committee when it is picking teams for the NCAA tournament.
Q-What advice would you have for new players in regard to Coach Derek Armstrong's coaching style? Are there any particular things that particularly upset him?
Also, every player has to stay positive whether on the bench or on the field as Derek is all about the team and does not like any bad-mouthing of other players as it can tear apart a good team.
Q-Did you follow the 2006 World Cup? What were your thoughts about that event and its outcome?
It is also fun to watch the lesser developed countries such as
The outcome was a little bit surprising for everyone in the world, I think. Nobody ever expected great teams like
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Q-Besides the soccer field, what are some of your favorite spots on campus?
Q-How about some personal interests---what kind of car do you drive? What is your favorite movie? What non-sports figure to you admire?
I really admire my parents because of everything they have gone through to raise me, as well as my brother and sister, to be what we've become today.
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Tony Salerno (Head Track and Field Coach) - June 8, 2006
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Whitney Johnson (Women's Track and Field) - May 1, 2006
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Brad Libuit (Men's Track and Field) - April 6, 2006
Erik Oijala (Men's Tennis) - March 30, 2006
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David Gomez (Baseball) - March 15, 2006
Hillary Hansen (Women's Basketball) - March 7, 2006
Sophie Levy (Women's Swimming) - February 25, 2006
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We are looking to build a custom skin for our vBulletin Wedding Forum. The goal is to keep the exact same Top Navigation and background, but fancy up the meat and potatoes of the forum....the center. Obviously, you have to keep the content the same, BUT, there is so many ways to make this look more inviting and classy. This is for 3 pages total. The following pages to be designed after I select an overall winner.
Basically looking for a new skin for our vBulletin forum. We happen to be in the Wedding Industry, so there is extra pressure, to have something that really stands out graphically. The skin that we have now, is very standard. The only things we changed was the background, the header..with all the tabs to match our index page (keep in mind this has to remain the same) and the colors (which I hate). Understand that functionality needs to stay the same...but the look can be SOO much nicer with custom icons, rounder borders, better color choices, etc...Basically if you can design it with we can code it. Don think that the lenths of the boxes and fields need to remain the same site..because they dont...you have full flexibility as long as it will function the same.
- There will be 2 proceeding projects following this that the winner will automaticly win (same Rate), as there are 3 pages that need to be designed. Which is why we priced this at $600 and not $200.00.
- The main page that needs redesign is THE FORUM: http://www.1weddingsource.com/forum/ and two proceeding pages that will mirror that look...THE THREAD PAGE: http://www.1weddingsource.com/forum…ng-brides/ and THE POST PAGE: http://www.1weddingsource.com/forum…event.html
- I like Rounded edges around the borders
- We want to include a right nav...similar to http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ - But don't look at their design. This is just to demonstrate some of the features we want on the right hand side.
- We want really nice custom icons relevant to the Forum category...ie (Brides helping Brides/Vendors Helping Brides, etc)
- There should be icons nest to Local Bridal Chat and Local Wedding Vendor Chat
- Looking for a Clean, Classy, and Graphically enhanced design, yet still making the forum function properly.
- We DON'T need a Username and Password or Log in...because wewill just have this tied to our Site Log in. So they must log into thesite completly, and not just the board.
- Nothing that looks like a traditional vbulletin Forum


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Greyman wrote:She's in it for what she can get, and that's a sexy new body. As matterial possessions go, that's way better than being given a new dress or some junk jewellery.
Hello Greyman and welcome to the forum! Looking at it from Arai's point of view, that sure sounds reasonable! Possessing a body is an expensive difficult endeavor. He spent alot of money trying to lure Xara in! All for Rhea! What did she do to deserve such a great guy.


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Two-time Academy Award® winner Barbra Streisand, who has sung on the Oscars® only once before, will perform on ABC's upcoming Oscar telecast on February 24. Streisand last sang the love theme from "A Star Is Born" on the March 28, 1977 show, winning the Best Original Song Oscar for "Evergreen" that same night.
"In an evening that celebrates the artistry of movies and music," said producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, "how could the telecast be complete without Barbra Streisand? We are honored that she has agreed to do a very special performance on this year's Oscars, her first time singing on the show in 36 years."
Streisand won her first Oscar for Best Actress in "Funny Girl" (1968), and was nominated again in 1973 for her lead performance in "The Way We Were." She was also nominated for producing the Best Picture nominee, "The Prince of Tides" (1991), which she also directed, and for co-writing the original song, "I Finally Found Someone," from "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (1996).
Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, February 24, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the world's preeminent movie-related organization, with a membership of more than 6,000 of the most accomplished men and women working in cinema. In addition to the annual Academy Awards – in which the members vote to select the nominees and winners – the Academy presents a diverse year-round slate of public programs, exhibitions and events; provides financial support to a wide range of other movie-related organizations and endeavors; acts as a neutral advocate in the advancement of motion picture technology; and, through its Margaret Herrick Library and Academy Film Archive, collects, preserves, restores and provides access to movies and items related to their history. Through these and other activities the Academy serves students, historians, the entertainment industry and people everywhere who love movies.


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It's been a few weeks since our last podcast so we're back to catch up on Windows Phone 7.8, Windows Phone 8, some marketplace woes and missing Xbox games.
Tune in as Jay Bennett, Rafael Rivera and Daniel Rubino discuss the latest news for Windows Phone...
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Windows Phone Central podcast, episode 152 for 30 November, 2012
The big stories
- Official: Windows Phone 7.8 Update due in early 2013
- We look at 7.8's features
- Microsoft plans fix for Windows Phone 8 rebooting issue with OTA patch
- Nokia rolls out Deadmau5 for another Lumia launch
- Microsoft announces Surface PRO pricing
- What is missing from Windows Phone 8? About 20 Xbox games that no longer work
The apps
- Microsoft quietly fixes Windows Phone Store issue for app re-purchases
- Now available: Windows Phone Central official app v3.2
- Parcel Tracker phone app becomes Package Tracker and completes Windows 8 experience
- Reddit client Baconit 2.5 for Windows Phone now available
- Nokia Maps updated, now sufficiently fast at starting
The rest
- HTC 8X vs Nokia Lumia 920: Signature vs Flagship
- VLC starts up Kickstarter for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 development funding
- Quick review – Nokia Wireless Charging Stand
- Microsoft branded Windows Phone headed to production?
- Excuse me, is that a Windows Phone?
- Steve Ballmer: Windows Phone sales up 300 percent
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Let's get a competent striker before we blame the manager. Can't polish a turd
Vlasic, lookman, Sandro.Gives you a glimpse into his mentality when these players aren't on the bench, but two centre halves are.
And in contrast, when they go forward they take 5+ to the 18yd box. This is crap.
Let's put it this way - other than Callum Wilson being better than DCL is there a position on the field that Bournemouth actually have better players than us?I don't think so, but with the players we are playing we won't create a thing.As someone said, maybe the plan is keep it tight and bring on fresh legs in attack to push them in the last 15-20 minutes.
Calvert-Lewin is a competent striker. The problem is we're bad in possession and we don't play any of our wingers who can actually beat a man.I'd argue that a creative passer in midfield is a bigger priority than a centre forward.
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After releasing the Tom Cruise-starring big-budget sci-fi action thriller Edge of Tomorrow next June, director Doug Liman will be taking on a drama about a deaf cellist involved in a low-stakes chess tournament. Just kidding! He's going right back to making another action flick, as TheWrap reports he is in early talks with 20th Century Fox to take over controls of Narco Sub, which Tony Scott was attached to direct a couple of years ago before his untimely death.
We're assuming they're sticking with the same screenplay written by Safe House scribe David Guggenheim, who developed the project with Simon Kinberg, who wrote the scripts for Liman's Jumper and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Kinberg will also be producing through his Genre Films, along with Scott Free productions.
The film sounds like it's right up Liman's alley, set in the dangerous world of drug smuggling. The title refers to the semi-submersible crafts that South American drug cartels have been using to ship cocaine into the U.S. without having to deal with land-based authorities. Granted, the subject matter was still pretty fresh when Scott was on board, and while it's still a relevant topic, I wonder if it will retain people's attention in a couple of years whenever it would probably see a release.
No other details about the script have been shared, but it was described originally as being similar to Crimson Tide and Man on Fire. I have to wonder if those comparisons were strictly meant for having Scott as a part of the project, given his frequent collaboration with Denzel Washington, who starred in both of those films. I mean, there's still a good chance Washington will end up playing someone in this one as well, since he was also in Guggenheim's Safe House. I'm just waiting for a cast full of people who don't look South American.
Liman has been busy with Edge of Tomorrow (formerly All You Need is Kill) for quite a while now, having spent some of the last few months on reshoots. He has two other proposed projects floating around out there in various states of development, including the George Mallory-centered drama Everest with Tom Hardy attached to star, and the adaptation of Jack Finney's time-shifting sci-fi novel Time and Again. It's unclear whether Narco Sub would beat either of these films to production, but it should, considering it's had a finished script for two years now.
If you're interested in the subject matter, take a peek at the National Geographic documentary concerning narcotic submarines below.


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Form Assembly is a web form and data collection service that allows users to build web forms using a simple GUI and collect customer data more efficiently. The Form Assembly APi uses REST calls and returns JSON or XML. The Form Assembly API allows users to interacting with user accounts and exporting data. An account is required with service, SSL, an API Key, and OAuth2.0 are used for authentication.


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Monster Games sequel to Excite Truck, the beastly and bug-filled stunt racer Excitebots, has won us over—even those of us who didn't particularly care for the Wii launch original game. Why? Super Sandwiches.
First shown in the debut trailer for Excitebots: Trick Racing, the Super Sandwich bonus both excited and bewildered us. What was it? How does one acquire a Super Sandwich? We found out today at GDC.
Unfortunately, we did not acquire a Super Sandwich ourselves, as the levels playable at this year's Game Developers Conference apparently did not offer the delicious prize. Therefore, we cannot give impressions on how good it feels to experience the Super Sandwich.
But we can tell you what role it plays in the Wii racer.
According to Nintendo representatives on site, players will build the Super Sandwich by picking up ingredients by driving or rail sliding into them. At a minimum, we expect those ingredients to be two slices of bread, one slice of bologna and one slice of what appears to be American cheese.
We did play one race worth of Excitebots: Trick Racing, so expect hands-on impressions coming soon.


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ABS launches most comprehensive health survey ever conducted (Media Release)
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ABS launches most comprehensive health survey ever conducted
In the next few days, the ABS will commence the first Australian Health Survey (AHS), the biggest health survey ever conducted in Australia.
The AHS builds on previous health surveys allowing comparisons of health information over time such as obesity, smoking, health conditions and how we manage our health.
The AHS will collect new information about what we eat and drink, how active we are and biomedical measures. These new biomedical measures will reveal new insights into heart and kidney disease, diabetes and other chronic conditions by examining health risk factors such as cholesterol, glucose and sodium levels. The survey will be able to compare these biomedical risk factors with aspects of our lifestyle for those that are healthy and those who are not.
While the biomedical component of the survey is voluntary, the ABS encourages participation as this information will help Australians to be more knowledgeable and healthy as a nation, through better understanding of how our lifestyles and diets impact on our health.
The survey has been planned in consultation with a wide range of health stakeholders. The new components of the survey have been made possible through additional funding from The Department of Health and Ageing and the National Heart Foundation of Australia.
The first wave of the survey will be conducted over 2011-12 with results available in late 2012 and will be used by a wide range of health researchers, public health advocates, government, clinicians and community health organisations. The information will be used to identify health issues, design and evaluate new health programs and understand what affects our health.
Further information and detailed questions and answers are available on the ABS website at www.abs.gov.au/australianhealthsurvey
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© Oct 2008 Volume 6 Issue 2, ICICKM 2007, Editor: Rembrandt Klopper, pp1 - 116
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Organisations are increasingly turning their attention to the creation and use of knowledge as a strategic resource. Too often however, knowledge management initiatives fail to deliver the competitive advantage expected from a strategic resource. The knowledge management literature is characterised by frameworks for knowledge management implementation which tend to prescribe best‑practice methods to a large range of companies. Although useful, a key weakness of these frameworks is their inability to account for contextual differences. Consequently many organisations attempt to apply a knowledge management framework that simply doesn't fit the organisational context resulting in little or no benefit from their efforts. A shift in focus from best practice to best fit is necessary to account for the difference in organisational contexts. Systems thinking emphasises context as an important element in understanding a system, and five concepts from systems theory are used to define the criteria for establishing a best‑fit approach. A social constructionist approach to the research further affords the opportunity to identify areas of significant variation in knowledge management context and practices within knowledge‑centric organisations. A multi‑method research strategy, comprising cluster analysis and case study research, is proposed to develop insight into the emergence of different configurations of knowledge management capabilities within different organisational contexts. The proposed conceptual framework forms the foundation for building a typology of knowledge‑centric organisations which will enable organisations to choose the most appropriate approach to knowledge management based on their specific context which varies along the dimensions of their knowledge‑orientation, knowledge management intent and knowledge management enactment.
Keywords: knowledge management, knowledge-centric organisations, typology, social constructionism, configurational approach, systems thinking
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2005 Investiture
Thayer School's 2005 Investiture ceremony took place in Spaulding Auditorium in the Hopkins Center on Saturday, June 11 at 10:00 a.m. The Investiture speaker was Thomas J. O'Neill '73 Th'74, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc.
Thayer School Investiture is part of the Dartmouth College Commencement Program. Dartmouth's Commencement ceremony took place on Sunday, June 12 at 9:30 a.m. on the Green.
For more information about Investiture, contact Thayer School's Academic and Student Affairs Office at (603) 646-3801 or email email@example.com.
2005 Investiture Program
- Faculty Marshal: Brian W. Pogue
- Student Marshal: Michael P. Bolger Th'05
- William Lotko, Dean
- Barry P. Scherr, Provost
2005 Robert Fletcher Award Recipient
- Thomas J. O'Neill D'73 Th'74, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc.
Remarks by Dartmouth Society of Engineers Vice President
- Jolin Salazar-Kish D'88 Th'91
Recognition of 2005 Award Recipients
- The Dartmouth Society of Engineers Prize: Robert J. Conrado, Linden T. Klein, Reginald W. Martin, Amol B. Pinge
- The Charles F. and Ruth D. Goodrich Prize: Alexander D. Streeter
- The Thayer School of Engineering Corporate Collaboration Council Engineering Design Prize: Matthew D. Hodgson, Monica J. Thomas, Colin T. Ulen
- The Thayer School Faculty Award for Academic Excellence: Matthew P. Bell, Thomas A. Zangle
- The John C. Woodhouse Engineering Design Prize: Heng Xu
- The John C. Woodhouse Environmental Engineering Prize: Magdalena E. Dale, Xi Nan, Jennifer D. Pollock, Satish Prabhakaran
- The Caroline Henderson Prize: Ryan C. Dunn
- The Brieanna S. Weinstein Engineering Design Prize: Julie A. Matteini, Rena L. Yotsu
- The Special Faculty Award for Engineering and Service to Humanity: Dartmouth Engineers Without Borders
Excellence in Teaching Award
Outstanding Service Award for Faculty
Outstanding Service Award for Staff
- Joan Levy
- Terry W. Priestley
Conferring of Hoods
- Charles E. Wyman, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Paul E. and Joan H. Queneau Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering Design
- Charles E. Hutchinson D'68A, Dean Emeritus
- Robert J. Graves, Co-Director, M.E.M. Program and John H. Krehbiel Sr. Professor for Emerging Technologies


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Although Deadspin, Notre Dame, and Manti Te'o himself are saying Lennay Kekua never existed and was a fabrication in an elaborate hoax, one NFL player claims to have met her.
Reagan Maui'a, a fullback for the Arizona Cardinals, told ESPN that he met Kekua doing charity work in American Samoa in 2011. Here's what he said:
"This was before her and Manti. I don't think Manti was even in the picture, but she and I became good friends. We would talk off and on, just checking up on each other kind of thing. I am close to her family. When she was going through the loss of her father, I was -- I offered a comforting shoulder and just someone to bounce her emotions off. That was just from meeting her in Samoa."
Maui'a said it was Ronaiah Tuiasosopo — the person who Deadspin reports invented Kekua on the Internet — who introduced the two. Troy Polamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers was allegedly there as well.
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He said it is his understanding that Kekua's mother is operating her Twitter account. He said he'd never met her mother. When told by a reporter that she apparently might not have existed, Mauia said: "No, she is real."
Deadspin reports that the evidence is overwhelming that Kekua — at least the person we taught Kekua was — did not exist. There is no death certificate, or record of her having graduating from Stanford.
So perhaps Maui'a's claim is just proof that there is a whole lot that we just don't know right now.


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