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West Virginia State Senate President Jeff Kessler, D-Marshall, thinks an upcoming trip to Taiwan "might be a golden opportunity." He is right.
Kessler and two other legislators have taken the Taiwanese government up on one of the offers it makes periodically to host state officials. The Mountain State group will spend a week in Taipei, during which they will meet with some of that country's business leaders. Stops at an energy company and some furniture manufacturers are planned.
One potential West Virginia export, natural gas, virtually sells itself. And Mountain State coal also is sought after by industries in some other countries.
The golden opportunity may involve timber and other wood products.
Wood products are a $3.2 billion-a-year industry in West Virginia, but there is room for growth in exports. While wood products worth $107.7 million were exported from the state in 2004, the value had fallen to $85 million last year.
Though abusive forestry once denuded many Mountain State hillsides, the industry has made a self-sustaining comeback. It now employs about 30,000 people, according to the state Division of Forestry.
Taiwan has "a great need for timber and hardwoods," Kessler noted. Personal contacts of the type he and other lawmakers will make could result in more sales of West Virginia timber in
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If you lost employer-sponsored health insurance, you know how tough it is to find affordable health insurance if you're not in perfect condition.
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According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, roughly 50 million Americans under age 65 are uninsured. Because most people who have insurance receive it as a job benefit, the dismal employment market has intensified the problem.
Qualifying for individual health insurance is difficult if you have a pre-existing condition – meaning a health problem diagnosed or treated before applying for insurance. In some cases, you're simply denied.
Governments and organizations have knitted together a variety of safety nets, although not all of them are equipped to catch you. Here are six nets and their potential holes.
Under COBRA -- the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 -- you can continue your employer-sponsored health insurance coverage generally for 18 months after you leave a job, as long as your employer has 20 or more workers. (Some states have passed their own COBRA laws that apply to smaller employers, too.)
The potential holes: COBRA can be expensive. Although you qualify for your employer's group rate, you have to pay the entire premium under COBRA; your employer doesn't have to chip in. During the recession, the federal government provided premium subsidies to help people afford COBRA premiums, but those are no longer available.
2. Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plans
Starting in 2014, health insurance companies won't be able to charge higher premiums or deny coverage for people who have pre-existing conditions. Until then, a Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan provides some relief. Some states operate their own PCIPs; in other states, the federal government runs the plans. Eligibility rules, annual deductibles and premiums vary slightly among states.
The plan provides a full range of benefits and does not charge a higher premium if you're unhealthy. You can qualify, regardless of income.
The potential hole: You must have gone without insurance for six months to qualify. J.P. Wieske, executive director for the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, says this might be one reason why enrollment is relatively low.
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3. State high-risk insurance pools
Like the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plans, these state plans are designed for people who are uninsurable because of health conditions. Minnesota and Connecticut set up the first such programs in 1976, and 34 states operated similar programs last year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The potential hole: Some programs require applicants to have gone without health insurance for a certain period of time to qualify. Check whether your state has a high-risk health insurance plan, and read the eligibility rules.
4. Medicaid
Medicaid is a federal program, administered by the states, that provides health coverage to children, families, pregnant women, the elderly and people with disabilities
In addition, 17 states have Health Insurance Premium Payment Programs, according to Ankeny Minoux, president of the Foundation for Health Coverage Education in San Jose, Calif. If you qualify for Medicaid and already have medical insurance coverage, this program pays the premiums so you can keep your coverage, versus using Medicaid.
Income eligibility guidelines vary among states.
The hole: Generally it's easier for children, pregnant women and elderly or disabled adults to qualify for Medicaid than for non-disabled parents. As of January 2011, 33 states limited eligibility for parents to less than the federal poverty level ($18,310 for a family of three in 2010), according to the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
5. Children's Health Insurance Program
Available in every state, this program provides free or low-cost health coverage for children of families who meet low-income guidelines. The eligibility requirements vary by state, but are more liberal than Medicaid eligibility. Generally children in families with incomes up to $44,100 a year for a family of four are eligible, but families can have higher incomes and still qualify in many states, according to the program's website, InsureKidsNow.gov.
Although the program won't cover a parent's health care, it's worth investigating for your kids.
The hole: You cannot enroll if you do not meet income eligibility requirements.
6. County and state insurance programs
Beyond the big-name programs, such as Medicaid and CHIP, states run a variety of supplement programs to help people pay for health care.
"California alone has 17 other programs that many people aren't aware of," Minoux says.
The Foundation for Health Coverage Education provides a list of programs on its website as well as other tools to find coverage.
Local counties and health systems also provide outreach programs. Check with major health systems, universities, nonprofits and public health departments.
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You might have to cobble together several options, including negotiating with health care providers for discounts and comparing prices of medical services, says Martin Rosen, co-founder of Health Advocate Inc., a company based in Plymouth Meeting, Penn., that helps clients navigate the health care system. Rosen is also coauthor with Dr. Abbie Leibowitz of "The Healthcare Survival Guide," which is available for a free look online through Health Advocate.
"Unfortunately when you look at this whole landscape, there's not a straight line to get to the end result," he says.
The hole: Ferreting out local and state programs to provide assistance will take time, and, as Rosen says, there may not be one simple answer.
The original article can be found at Insure.com:"6 health insurance safety nets for the uninsured"

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Its still alive. Planted it December 2010 and by March it looked lost, but now in August 2011 after clearing tons of vegetation out of the way I found it, and it had a couple of healthy leaves on it!!!
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As you can see, its actually putting up quite a fight to grow and has quite a few leaves considering it was completly buried.
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I made this for the first time a few months ago. It is now one of our favorites and we make it frequently. I have looked at several recipes for shepherd's pie. This seemed to me the easiest and the tastiest.
Dice and boil potatoes. Personally I don't peel them before cooking. It's the dietitian in me. If it grosses you out, then peel them.
Add veggies. Continue cooking.
Add worcestershire sauce and broth.
Sprinkle with flour. Mix well.
Mash Potatoes:
Add meat mixture to pan.
Spread mashed potatoes on top.
Yummy Shepherd's Pie
1 1/2 lbs ground round beef
1 onion chopped
1-2 cups frozen mixed vegetables
1 1/2 - 2 lbs potatoes (3 big ones)
8 tablespoons butter (1 stick)
1/2 cup beef broth
1 - 2 TBSP flour (optional)
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 C warm milk
Salt, pepper, other seasonings of choice
1/2 - 1 C shredded cheddar cheese (optional)
Peel and cube potatoes, boil in salted water until tender (about 20 minutes).
While the potatoes are cooking, melt 4 Tablespoons butter (1/2 of a stick) in large frying pan.
Sauté onions in butter until tender over medium heat (10 mins). Add ground beef and sauté until no longer pink. Drain meat if desired. Add salt and pepper. Add the vegetables. Add worcesterchire sauce. Add half a cup of beef broth and cook, uncovered, over low heat for 10 minutes, adding more beef broth as necessary to keep moist. At this point you may sprinkle this mixture with flour, if desired.
Mash potatoes in bowl with milk and remainder of butter, season to taste.
Place beef and vegetable mixture in baking dish. (At this point you may sprinkle meat mixture with cheese if desired. I sometimes so this. Most of the time I don't.) Distribute mashed potatoes on top. Rough up with a fork so that there are peaks that will brown nicely. You can use the fork to make some designs in the potatoes as well.
Cook in 400 degree oven until bubbling and brown (about 30 minutes). Broil for last few minutes if necessary to brown potatoes.
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This thread is intended as a starting point for anyone looking at this forum, and wondering "Hey, what exactly is Hero Lab?"
Hero Lab allows you to create, manage, and advance player characters and NPCs for Mutants & Masterminds.
As well as creating new heroes (including picking abilities, skills, feats, powers and equipment), Hero Lab allows you to print heroes in a variety of formats, access pre-created stock NPCs, track additional power points added through experience, track your hero on an "electronic character sheet" during play, and for GMs manage encounters and combats between the players and their opponents.
A picture tells a thousand words, so here are a couple of screenshots showing how Hero Lab displays the ability scores and powers of the Battlesuit archetype from the core rules:
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That sounds pretty swell! Where can I find out more about Hero Lab?
We published four designer diaries on the mutantsandmasterminds.com web site about Hero Lab. You can find them here:
Design Journal #1 - Power Creation and Editing
Design Journal #2 - Printed Output
Design Journal #3 - GM Support
Design Journal #4 - Ultimate Power & Mastermind's Manual
You can also check out the Hero Lab web site for more information.
Great! Where do I get it, and how much does it cost?
You can buy Hero Lab at your friendly local game store, or on our website here. It costs $29.99.
Once you own Hero Lab, you can purchase the Ultimate Power & Mastermind's Manual addon here. This is an upgrade that requires you to own Hero Lab for Mutants & Masterminds, and costs an additional $19.99.
I have other questions about Hero Lab!
Great! If they're Mutants & Masterminds related, post them in this forum, or in the M&M forum on our support web site. If you have general Hero Lab questions, you can post them in our general Hero Lab forum.
Happy gaming!
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As a Christian Praise and Worship Music leader, I am often asked "What is the best way to lead a Song Service?". Although, I am sure many of you may not agree with me I always feel that a Christian Song Service should start with Thanksgiving and Christian Praise and then move on to Christian Worship. If you have been reading my blog or ezine articles you will see that I believe that there is a distinct difference between Christian Praise and Christian Worship.
When people walk into the church service they have many things on their minds. They are usually not prepared to jump into Christian Worship right off of the street. I have seen this done in some services and you can tell that the people are trying really hard to worship, but they are just not prepared properly to just jump into it. It is extremely hard for anyone to stop what they have been doing and engage in such an intimate time with God without first getting their heads together.
The Psalmist David said "I will enter His gates with Thanksgiving in my heart; I will enter His courts with Praise." (Psalm 100:4)
Some of us may not be feeling very happy when we come into song service, although most people will prepare themselves mentally in some respect before church service starts. The problem is that if you are going through hard times, you may come into the song service with a very heavy heart.
If we start our Christian Praise and Worship Services directly with a Christian Worship song such as "I Stand in Awe of You", many people will not be mentally prepared to commune with God in this way at that moment in time.
But if we start our song service with Christian Praise songs such as "I Will Enter His Gates" or "This is the Day that the Lord Has Made", they will start to focus in on God and then we can start to lead them slowly, song by song leading up to Christian Worship. Then they will be in the proper state of mind to truly worship God in His Holiness.
You can use these simple steps also in your own private time alone with God to bring yourself from a place of hurriedness to a place where you can worship God in Spirit and Truth. I hope this little post on Christian Praise and Worship Music has helped you.


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LITIGATION RELEASE NO. 16824A / January 17, 2001
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. MICHAEL D. RICHMOND, individually, MICHAEL D. RICHMOND d/b/a LIBERTY NETWORK, ROYAL MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL BANK, MERIDIAN MONETARY SERVICES, INC., WILLIAM DUKE, MERIDIAN MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC., K. BRUCE NUCKOLS, ANTHONY GARRY, THOMAS CONNOLLY, AND AS RELIEF DEFENDANTS, ZONE PRODUCTIONS, INC., TERRY KOONTZ AND MARIANNE CLARK AND LINDA MITCHELL as Trustees for PURR TRUST (United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, C.A. No. 98CV11378-NG)
The Commission announced today that, on December 5, 2000, the Honorable Nancy Gertner, United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, issued a Final Judgment of Permanent Injunction against William Duke ("Duke"), who consented to the relief without admitting or denying the Commission's allegations. The Judgment enjoins Duke from future violations of the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws and requires him to repay all ill-gotten gains he received.
The Commission's complaint alleged that Defendant Michael D. Richmond ("Richmond"), of Orland Park, Illinois, used false information and promotional brochures to sell fictitious unregistered International Certificates of Deposit ("AICDs") issued by Defendant Royal Meridian International Bank ("RMIB"), a non-existent bank to raise at least $7.2 million from 185 investors in fourteen different states. Duke, the Commission alleged, operated Defendant Meridian Management Services, LLC, of Clearwater, Florida where RMIB investor funds were collected and processed. Duke also allegedly issued account statements to RMIB investors falsely indicating a 12% and/or 18% annual return and provided false information to sales agents and others concerning RMIB"s operations and the sale of RMIB ICDs.
The Court ordered Duke to disgorge $100,726 of ill-gotten gains, representing money and property he received from his alleged conduct. The disgorgement was partially waived based on Duke's demonstrated inability to pay. Duke was required to relinquish ownership of a 22 foot Bayliner power boat and to disgorge all funds held in bank accounts under his control and frozen by the Court at the initiation of this action in July, 1998. The Court's Judgment did not assess any civil monetary penalties based on Duke's financial condition. Duke is enjoined from violating Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder.
The litigation is continuing against Richmond, the remaining primary defendant, and two relief defendants. Additionally, on April 6, 2000 a federal grand jury indicted Richmond in connection with the alleged fraudulent scheme, and his criminal trial currently is scheduled to commence on January 22, 2001. For further information, see Litigation Release Nos. 15813, 15892, 16027, 16104 and 16512.http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr16824a.htm


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As I understood it, the law applies to all search engines located in the EU (so they could easily just leave the EU and the law wouldn't apply), it's just that Google is being focussed on because it's the most popular.
If she ever wants another book to be published by Random House, she has to sell well over $3.7m worth of books, which doesn't sound that easy to me...
The book proposal Gawker published consists of lots of details and snippets of her forthcoming book. I don't think Gawker can justify posting the full proposal as fair use, since the original post consisted primarily of insulting comments aimed at Dunham and her polarizing personality, rather than of the proposal and proposed book.
Given she has to sell way more than $3.7m worth of books, can you really blame her for attempting to pull 66 pages worth of proposed contents and samples of said contents? Also, this just gives her way more publicity and think she knows (and probably doesn't care) just how love/hate she is...
Steve Angello is also famous for anti-piracy rants on twitter, he noticabley annoys his fanbase whenever he does it though
I believe US courts work on an innocent until proven guilty base (except in certain cases)
It's probably more a case of the British Press trying to shove the blame on to someome else, to stop them looking bad
I wasn't suggesting that Mike drove her to the cliff, but merely pushed her over the edge
Allen no longer records for EMI after a spat with Mike over her campaign against piracy, which is probably more what they're going for
I think they're on about illegal live streams, not youtube videos (eg. A load of illegal BBC Sports streams popped up during the world cup, which is odd because we can watch it live on the iPlayer anyway)
I thought they were arrested because they hacked other peoples iTunes accounts to buy the tracks which is how they got caught
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Another reason could be that none of their trains run on time anyway
Another reason could be that none of their trains run on time anyway
Forgive me if I'm being stupid but...
How is sending a large amount of traffic to a website, to bring down the servers illegal? What could they be sued for, if they find who originated the attack?
Works a lot better than some very nasal guy telling me to f myself (I don't pirate but if I did the polite one would probably be more effective)
Who is Glen Beck and why does he deserve my praise, respect and sympathy? (I'm not stupid I come from the UK and have never heard of him)
When I think of Ireland I automaticly think good copyright protection...
What kind of support/allowances/procedures could facebook make for people with disabilities and how many people with disabilities would tell facebook or want them to know?
If record labels do push the bill you'll probably start to hear more unsigned acts on the radio
It was obvious I meant uninformed. Anyway, I'm sure you've never made an error in your life.


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1. Re: JMX in AS7Emanuel Muckenhuber Jul 14, 2011 8:35 AM (in response to Eduardo Martins)
JMX is not a required to run AS7, therefore apps shouldn't rely on JMX for management. Especially if you think about the managed domain mode, JMX for management wouldn't work for us any more. Although we plan to provide a mapping layer for JMX at one point, it would still be based on the native management view. So subsystems should register all their management operations as part of their extension.
It depends on what your management app is doing and whether the domain ues cases apply or not - to decide how to move forward. I wouldn't count on us providing a jmx-console or twiddle command though.
2. Re: JMX in AS7Eduardo Martins Jul 14, 2011 11:17 AM (in response to Emanuel Muckenhuber)
JMX is the standard for Java apps management, it is expected that app devs opted for JMX for real time configuration, monitoring or generic management. It's the common case to make MBeans for every management related operation, and only on top create consoles or other tools. Now not having a single tool to help with JMX management requires that app developers to do it, thus not taking advantage of a common facility (important parts of an app server).
IMHO it is a big mistake for an app server vendor, to not include JMX basic tools, specially for one that already had these tools! I can't really understand what is the big deal with porting a web app as the old jmx-console, or bundling a CLI so flexible as Twiddle, these are tools which work a spec present in any JVM, that is, these should not require that the AS includes any particular code or interface...
Anyway, where can I find info about how to register subsystems management operations, we will need this too.
3. Re: JMX in AS7Emanuel Muckenhuber Jul 14, 2011 12:06 PM (in response to Eduardo Martins)
Hmm, i think you misunderstood what i was trying to say.... let me try to explain that again. We are planning to expose more (all) management operations through JMX, so that you basically can use jconsole to administer AS. However this will be a mapping layer from JMX to our native management model and not the other way around. This is because JMX does not support all concepts we need for domain management. So you have to differentitate between a user and someone extending / integrating with JBossAS (i am referring to the later).
Here is some documentation about extending AS, which also includes how to register operation handlers: https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS7/Extending+JBoss+AS+7
4. Re: JMX in AS7Eduardo Martins Jul 14, 2011 1:04 PM (in response to Emanuel Muckenhuber)
Yes, with JConsole since JDK5 the jmx-console may not a big deal... for devices with a JDK, now just to give an example, how many new gen mobile devices, which are gtting more and more popular for management, have a JDK with JConsole? The old web app, not requiring a big effort to migrate, would be a good feature!
And what about the CLI, this is very important for remote management, one would expect that one of the very basic management ops would be to invoke an MBean...
Thanks for the link, will look at it.
5. Re: JMX in AS7Arnold Johansson Apr 16, 2012 1:31 PM (in response to Eduardo Martins)
Not an direct answer to your question, but I've created a lightweight distribution of twiddle from JBoss AS 6.1.0.Final that works for exposed JMX data in AS7. More info here https://community.jboss.org/people/arnoldjohansson/blog/2012/04/14/twiddle-standalone
and the distribution can be found here https://github.com/swesource/twiddle-standalone


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Another Horribly Tragic Shooting
As the horror of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting continues to unfold I find myself unable to turn from the no-stop reports on the TV. So many innocent little children dead. Pictures flash through my mind of attending classes at Beaver Creek Elementary School and watching my son Adam and Daughter Morgan. I can clearly see the little desks, the hand painted construction paper pictures hanging on the walls, and the A-B-C's running at the top of the front of the class room. It makes me absolutely ill to imagine some homicidal maniac opening fire on all of the innocence seated there. How could anyone do that? Why? Is it just pure evil loose on earth? How are we suppose to react? Should we ban all guns? Should we give teachers guns? Should we all carry guns!? Or is there no way we can every hope to stop some monster if they are intent on doing our kids harm? I own guns and I feel darn capable in my ability to use them. I, however, cannot say with any certainty how well I would react if forced to use a gun against another human being in a pressure situation. But if I am going to be honest, with the rage that I feel right now, I wish someone with gun training had been in that school today.


text: The other consideration to have is some kind of monitoring/alerting system for the room. A client has a dedicated cooling equipment for a beowulf cluster for 52 machines. Recently the A/C broke one morning and they did not find out till the afternoon when someone walked into the small network room and found the room was in excess of 100 degrees. I dont want to think about what could have happened if it happened on a friday evening and nobody found about it until Monday. :) Jon Mitchiner ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Drzyzgula" <bob at drzyzgula.org> To: "Robert B Heckendorn" <heckendo at cs.uidaho.edu> Cc: <beowulf at beowulf.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:54 PM Subject: Re: cooling > If the new load requires the installation of new > chillers, it could indeed cost a pile-o'-money. Even > if each node burned electricity at 100 Watts, you > are looking at 50 kW of power consumption, or about > 170,000 BTU/hr, requiring about 14 tons of cooling to > remove -- your facilities folks may well be looking > at installing something like one or more Liebert > chillers such as these: > http://www.liebert.com/dynamic/displayproduct.asp?id=545&cycles=60Hz > > There could well be additional shortfalls in external > heat exchanger capacity, pipe capacity out to the > heat exchangers, electric power for the computers > and for the chillers, etc. If you don't already > have the raised floor space, that could also add > quite a bit to the cost to cool all those nodes. > > As to how we are making the A/C for our systems "affordable", > we do it by virtue of the HVAC budget belonging to > a different division, :-) although that also means > that we don't have *control* over that budget, and > when we hit the ceiling on cooling we kind of have > to just stop installing new equipment until the whining > and begging and pleading might eventually get us > a new chiller -- and even then we might have to give > up some rack space so there'd be a place to put it. :-( > > --Bob > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:41:35PM -0700, Robert B Heckendorn wrote: > > > > We are looking at the facilities issues in installing a beowulf on the > > order of 500 nodes. What facilities is telling us is that it is going > > to almost cost us more to buy the cooling for the machine than to buy > > machine itself. How are people making the air conditioning for their > > machines affordable? Have we miscalculated the HVAC loads? Are we > > being over charged? > > > > thanks for any guidance. > > > > -- > > | Robert Heckendorn | We may not be the only > > | heckendo at cs.uidaho.edu | species on the planet but > > | http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~heckendo | we sure do act like it. > > | CS Dept, University of Idaho | > > | Moscow, Idaho, USA 83844-1010 | > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >


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M2M Scenarios
The Machine to Machine(M2M) space combines system from the embedded space and the enterprise/cloud space. This page catalogs example scenarios from the M2M space. This catalog is meant to serve as an educational tool for developers and architects who are new to M2M and as a reference during development of M2M technologies at Eclipse.
M2M Scenario Description Template
The following is the template for an M2M Scenario Description.
- M2M Scenario Number - Incremental id number from Scenario list page for easy reference in other pages/docs.
- M2M Scenario Name - Descriptive name of the scenario
- M2M Scenario Description - Description of the scenario.
- Related M2M Scenario Numbers - Numbers of other scenarios that are closely related to this one.
- Referenced M2M Problems - Numbers of M2M Problems that are specifically demonstrated by this scenario.
When creating a new M2M scenario description, please add it to the list of links below, claiming the next number in the sequence. Then add your scenario description to the descriptions section below.
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M2M Scenario Descriptions
M2M-Scenario-001 : Food Refrigeration Unit Failure
A regional office for a food store chain wants to detect increasing temperatures in their store's meat freezers. Upon detecting that the temperature has increased above a specified threshold, a group of analytic processes will access the system for additional data such as the customer activity level (indicator of the doors opening and closing a lot), on/off cycle frequency of the refrigeration compressor, and the recent history of refrigerant temperature values. Based on the outcomes of the analytic processes, a root cause will be determined and appropriate actions to remedy the situation will be started: maintenance tech dispatch, notification to store manager, etc.


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April 25
Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~ Gautama Buddha
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them. ~ Edward R. Murrow (born 25 April 1908)
- selected by Kalki
- 2006
- The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. ~ Edward R. Murrow (born 25 April 1908)
- proposed by JeffQ
- 2007
- It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. ~ Boris Yeltsin (recent death)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
- The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. ~ Edward R. Murrow
- proposed by Kalki
- 2010
- It is best to keep one's own state intact; to crush the enemy's state is only second best. ~ Sun Tzu
- proposed by Zarbon
- 2011
- What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. ~ Sun Tzu
- proposed by Zarbon
- 2012
- Reason, in fact, is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason — nothing which He has not willed should be handled and understood by reason. All, therefore, who are ignorant of God, must necessarily be ignorant also of a thing which is His, because no treasure-house at all is accessible to strangers. And thus, voyaging all the universal course of life without the rudder of reason, they know not how to shun the hurricane which is impending over the world. ~ Tertullian
- proposed by Kalki
- 2013
|Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language, yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere.
|~ Tertullian ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2014
|No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
|~ Edward R. Murrow ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2015
|Cum ergo spiritus Dei descendit, indiuidua patientia comitatur eum.
When God's Spirit descends, then Patience accompanies Him indivisibly.
|~ Tertullian ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2016
|We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
|~ Edward R. Murrow ~
- proposed by DanielTom
|Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
|~ Tertullian ~
- proposed by Zarbon
- 2018
|You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
|~ Tertullian ~
- proposed by Zarbon
Ranking system:
- 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used. (This is the utmost ranking and should be used only for one quote at a time, per person, for each date.)
- 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
- 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
- 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
- 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ~ Solomon
- 3 because to know more is to suffer more, knowledge heightens suffering, beautiful. Zarbon 16:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Out of the frying pan into the fire. ~ Tertullian
- 3 because when trying to avoid one disaster, one may fall into another one that is much worse. Beautiful imagery to go with climactic moral. Zarbon 16:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 01:11, 24 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. ~ Sun Tzu
- 3 because a smart warrior will know how to trick his enemy. Zarbon 17:33, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions. ~ Sun Tzu
- 3 because a swift victory is respected. Zarbon 17:33, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, or eventual 4.
Prorsus credibile est, quia ineptum est.
It is to be believed because it is absurd.
~ Tertullian ~
- 2 Kalki 01:11, 24 April 2009 (UTC) but leaning toward an eventual 3 or even a 4.
- 2 Zarbon 02:40, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
I don't believe it can end. Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over. ~ Cesare Pavese
- 3 because it's the day of the liberation from fascism (national holiday). Nemo 13:44, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
- 2 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:35, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Virtue has great power, but not if it is imposed – only when it is chosen. ~ Dinesh D'Souza
[M]atter poses no obstacle to a neutrino. A neutrino could pass through a hundred light years of steel without even slowing down.~ In commemoration of the 25 April 1900 birth of Wolfgang Pauli, from the sixth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).


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Photographers Back in Classby Jim Amidon • November 4, 2010 Share:
Professor Leslie Day is pacing quietly in the front of her Detchon Hall classroom as her seven students in an Introductory Greek course scribble away on sheets of paper. She says that the students have short quizzes at the start of each class period — Monday, Wednesday, and Friday — and they receive Chips Ahoy cookies when they turn in the quiz.
Professor Bob Olsen stands near a chalkboard while his organic chemistry students are busily working under hoods. He says he's teaching three organic lab sections as he completes his final year at the College — going out teaching the course he started teaching when he arrived in 1979.
Professor Gilberto Gomez charges up to greet each and every student in his Spanish class. Everything is said in Spanish and when the exchange concludes, each student hands their professor a paper. Over the next 30 minutes, hardly a word of English is uttered.
Biology Professor Eric Wetzel peers closely into slides and explains to his students in parasitology what they'll be seeing under the microscope.
Theater Professor Dwight Watson sits at the end of a group of tables and gently guides a Cultures and Traditions discussion in which every student seems to have an opinion.
This is the important, everyday work of teaching and learning at Wabash College. And the Public Affairs and Marketing Office was pleased to spend the week peering into the life of this vibrant campus.
The office tries to sneak into classes for an all-campus photo shoot every year or so. During the second week of November, the staff managed to capture life in about 40 different classrooms, labs, and studios.
Dean Gary Phillips is fond of saying, "At the heart of teaching and learning on this campus is engagement."
These photos represent the everyday, transformative work of engagement at Wabash College.
— Professor Leslie Day's Introductory Greek Course and Spanish with Professor Gilberto Gomez
— C&T with Professor Dwight Watson and Biology with Professor Eric Wetzel
— Chemistry Lab with Professors Ann Taylor and Wally Novak
— Organic Chemistry with Professor Bob Olsen and Physics Lab with Professor Jim Brown
— In the studio with Professor Doug Calisch and in class with Professor Cheryl Hughes
— Engagement with Professors David Polley, Eric Olofson, and Greg Huebner
— Pulling students into the discussion with Professors Alexandra Hoerl and Rick Warner
— Biology Lab with Professor Polley and "Fatherhood" with Eric Olofson
— 2D and 3D Art Studios with Professor Huebner and Professor Calisch
— Philosophy with Professor Hughes and Professor Gunther's Sensory and Perception class
— English with Professor Lamberton and Physics with Professor Krause
— Creative Writing with Professor Eric Freeze
— The Society of Physics Students' 2010 Physics Heptathlon
— Economics with Professor Christie Byun and Rhetoric with Professor Jennifer Abbott
— Teacher Education with Professor Butler and Science Fiction with Professor Campbell
— Calligraphy in Elementary Chinese with Visiting Instructor Ssu-Yu Chou
— Learning and Cognition with Professor Bost and Portuguese with Professor Wilson
— Philosophy with Professor Samuel Rocha and Chemistry with Professor Lon Porter
--- Discussion on Mexican film with Professor Dan Rogers
— Comparative Politics with Professor Ethan Hollander
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Created in Atlanta, Georgia on 8 May 1886, the first Coca-Cola was described as "delicious and refreshing". Not much has changed since then, and there's still nothing better than an ice-cold Coke to quench your thirst.
The Coca-Cola contour bottle, which dates back to 1915, is the most recognised packaging in the world today, and the exact formula is a famous trade secret. Over time the Coca-Cola brand has come to mean more than a drink, achieving celebrity status in many spheres of society. It represents the power of optimism and positive thinking. It is "happiness in a bottle", it connects people and it brings out the best in the human spirit.
That's why Coke is aligned with properties that embody the brand experience. In South Africa, these "feel-good" platforms include football, music, holidays, food and summer. Across a range of media channels, you'll often hear about the involvement of Coca-Cola in landmark initiatives, like Coca-Cola Football Stars, My Coke Fest, Coke & Food, and much more.
Coca-Cola is the only brand in the world to have an entire museum that showcases its history, current reality and future possibility. The New World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta is open to the public and is a "must see" if you are ever in that city. Coca-Cola contains sugar, high carbonation levels and caffeine.
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text: Power Hour: Late-Season Drought Changes Soybean/Corn Price Ratios September 13, 2013 10:00 AM Tweet The late-season drought is moving soybean prices higher. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Ed Clark Top Producer Business and Issues Editor Email The late-season drought is moving soybean prices higher relative to corn that could change crop acreages in 2014, although much can happen on prices between now and spring. For 2012, the soybean/corn price ratio was 1.99, one of only two years since 1975 that that ratio of corn prices to soybeans has been less than 2.0, meaning that soybean prices were less than twice that of corn, according to a report by Carl Zulauf, ag economist at Ohio State University. The current ratio based on the average of all 2013 marketing year soybean and corn futures has jumped to 2.75, higher than the average soybean/corn ratio since 1975 of 2.52. In contrast, the August 2013 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) ratio was 2.32, using the mid-point price estimates. The other year with a ratio of less than 2.0 was 1975, with a ratio of 1.94. "While the current focus is on U.S. production, which is reasonable and understandable, the future direction of the soybean/corn price ratio might rest more upon production outlooks in the rest of the world and the relative demand for soybeans and corn," Zulauf says. No apparent trend exists on the corn/soybean price ratio or the ratio of corn to soybean production going back to 1975, he notes. The ratio has been above 3.0 in four years: 1986 (3.19), 1996 (3.17), 1987 (3.03) and 2003 (3.03). In these years, the price of soybeans was more than triple the price of corn. If monthly prices are used, the minimum soybean/corn price ratio was 1.72 in July 1996 while the maximum was 4.11 in May 1977. In other words, the maximum soybean/corn price ratio is more than the twice the minimum monthly ratio. The increasing value of soybeans relative to corn is not lost on potential producer decisions for 2014. "This year we are 75% corn but next year we're thinking about 50% all the way to 75% beans," says Karl Duncanson, a producer from Mapleton, Minn. Back to news


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Happy Valentine's Day
Good things all around today!
In the General Goodness category, I captured this photo over the weekend. In the parking lot of Home Depot. The light is getting better. LOVE when we begin to move closer to the colors and light of Spring.
In the anxiously been waiting to tell you category, you can now take The Very Basics with me, on demand, self paced! You'll find it in the beautiful new classroom at Get It Scrapped. 6 Lessons, three videos and a forum and gallery for you to interact with me! You get me at your own pace, when you need to ask questions! I'll be in the forum for questions and in the gallery for photo feedback. Class walks you through seeing light, understanding aperture and shutter speed, and basic features of your camera. It is a great way to prep for Your Life: Captured Through The Lens.
In life is filled with surprises category, I got a little mention in IHeartFace's Photo Challenge | Hearts! Made my day. Amazing talent over there. It also means i can now proudly display this fun little icon!
In the I'm honored you love them category, my ebook and tutorials are 30% off at DesignerDigitals through tomorrow.
Am I the only silly one with categories of goodness? Must admit, I categorize most things in my life!


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Friday, March 1, 2013
Follow Friday - Favorites for March 1, 2013
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- John D. Tew said...
Heather: Thank you for the mention! Always an honor to be among the posts you enjoyed.
BTW, check out my "Saturday Serendipity" post tomorrow. There's this blog called "Leaves for Trees" that has a couple of posts worth reading -- and commenting on! :-)
- March 1, 2013 at 12:10 PM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
Always a pleasure, John! I'll have to check out "Leaves for Trees." ;)
- March 1, 2013 at 12:22 PM
- Beth Lee Southworth said...
Just wanted to say that I always look forward to your Follow Friday posts. You never fail to lead me to an interesting story or great site that is new to me. This week,I particularly enjoyed CNN's "Beautiful Cemeteries" piece. Yes, I'm one those people who love to visit cemeteries :) Thanks for the post.
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Thanks for mentioning my blog post, Heather! Look for my follow-up post on Census Sunday for a surprising outcome... :)
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Orlando's Lucky Shot USA is turning the discards of U.S. military gun and bomb ranges into household goods, jewelry and art.
Owner Doug Ingalls has crafted a business by snagging spent shells through surplus auctions and selling them as bottle openers, earrings and even kitchen tables.
"We bring in about 150,000 pounds of spent military ammunition a year," Ingalls said. "You can't just buy this stuff a few bullets at a time."
Ingalls and Lucky Shot have found a niche in America's growing love of military and gun paraphernalia.
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"My mother would have wanted me to do this," my cousin, Steve, said as he smiled up at me over his salmon at my dining room table.
When Steve, now in his 60s, emailed to say he wanted to fly out from New York to meet me and my family for the first time, I was delighted. He would be joining his sister and her husband whom we had met only two years ago.
Although they were only six months apart in age, my mom was his mom's aunt. They bonded like sisters during the three years Janet went to law school while she lived with my mom and grandmother. But afterward, their lives diverged and their children grew up in different states and never met.
"I feel like I never didn't know you," I said as we lingered over our lunch, filled with the talk of people who are easy with other. From the moment I opened my front door to his engaging smile, a comfort zone was created and throughout the day it just got, well, more comfortable.
After lunch, we visited Mom at her assisted living home. Although Steve wanted to hear stories about his late mother, I felt he was also seeking his own story — we both were — a new fabric of family woven from the threads of old cloth.
What I couldn't have known was the gift he had for my mom. As he described the love and reverence his mother had for her, I saw my mother look almost embarrassed, but very pleased. She responded softly with great emotion as Steve leaned over and took her hand. For that moment there was only the two of them in the room.
The timing of his visit couldn't have been better. At almost 98, my mother is mentally sorting through her past like a photo album, revisiting events that have the most meaning. She would later tell me how much having Janet's children in her life — and now in mine — meant to her.
Steve's mother would have wanted him to make this trip. And she would have been right.
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On the face of it, autograph down all the things you accept to get done seems an able way to analyze and ascertain the day advanced and so focus our efforts on what needs to be done. Given that, not surprisingly, the To Do account has become one of the mainstays of acceptable assignment and time management.
And so, while bigger means of assignment administration exist, like the 'next activity thinking' categorical below, too abounding of us stick with the To Do list, even admitting it doesn't plan and can in actuality accomplish us even beneath able and productive.
Here's how acceptable to do lists can, in fact, cabal adjoin aimless users:
1. Cluttering-up Your List.
It's all too simple for a To Do account to become a auctioning arena not just for what we are declared to be alive on today, but aswell for every added tasks, abstraction and anticipation that comes our way. As a result, our To Do lists bound become abounding with accidental ataxia that 'camouflages' what we absolutely should be doing.
2. Creating a Sense of 'Overwhelm'.
When we charge our To Do lists like this, we aswell reinforce our activity of 'overwhelm' that makes us anytime added afraid that we accept too abundant to do and in about-face affects our claimed achievement and productivity.
3. Encouraging Cherry-Picking.
By bushing our account with an barrage of added low amount items, we can end up 'cherry picking', in added words allotment simple to do items that at the end of the day accomplish us feel 'we've accomplished', even admitting what we've done hasn't confused us added forward.
4. Breeding Amorphous Blobs of Un-doability.
The items we about put on our To Do lists, are generally just 'project reminders' like 'Create Brochure', 'Plan Wedding', or 'Organize Conference'. But these are in actuality too big to be applied actions.
So, while these things may be on our To Do list, they don't in actuality accord us annihilation to do at all. These tasks accept no focus and are what abundance expert, David Allen, developer of the Getting Things Done System of assignment management, calls 'amorphous blobs of un-doability'.
5. Account Fatigue.
When To Do lists don't plan well, we can bound advance 'list fatigue', gradually endlessly application them until we don't even attending at them at all.
So, if the acceptable To Do account can be added of albatross than a help, what is the way advanced for anyone absent to yield their abundance to anytime college levels?
Simply by allurement one question:
'What is the Next Activity I charge to
complete to move this activity forward?'
Ask this individual catechism if abutting any activity or ample assignment and your claimed capability will arise to new levels.
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Given this, it's simple to see why the ability of Next Accomplishments helps you abstain the peril of dabbling and the activity of beat that can action if you are faced with any ample project.
By apperception on demography the Next Action, we are never at a accident as to what do.
Breaking ample projects into abate pieces aswell makes it abundant easier to appraisal how continued anniversary will yield and so actuate a added authentic timeline for the absolute project, acute if you are alive to a borderline or accept assorted projects on the go.
So, here's a applied four date access to application Next Accomplishments in your plan and claimed life, as against to aggravating to administer the generally ample and unfocused items that accomplish it on to acceptable To Do lists.
The 4-Step Plan for Application Next-Actions.
1. Brainstorm Your Next Actions.
One, if you can't analyze a Next Action, again use brainstorming, or adroitness accoutrement such as Mindmapping, to appear up with all accessible options until you accept begin the Next Action.
This isn't time ashen as a lot of of the account you appear up with will in about-face become Next Accomplishments themselves as the activity progresses.
2. Double-Check Your Selection.
Make abiding you absolutely accept articular the Next Action. 'Phone Fred to align meeting' may assume like the Next Action, but not if you don't accept his buzz number, in which case, 'Phone Karen to get Fred's buzz number', is the absolute Next Action.
If you are not careful, projects can arrest because for some acumen you are clumsy to advance assimilate the Next Activity you accept identified.
3. Use Verbs.
Write your Next Accomplishments down application an alive 'doing' verb such as phone, write, visit, speak. If your Next Activity is accounting application unfocused words like – arrange, organize, analysis – again you will apparently acquisition it's not a Next Activity at all, and it needs to be 'unpacked.'
4. Accomplish Use of 'Smart' Tools.
Maximize the abeyant of 'Next Activity thinking' by application new bearing assignment administration applications rather than 'traditional' To Do account software.
This blazon of software, including ShoutDone of course, is a above advance on acceptable To Do account software because it offers not alone a added adjustable and absorbing user experience, but aswell one that lets your adapt and administer your Next Accomplishments by assorted 'contexts'.
Though some tasks are 'universal', abounding tasks can alone be done if you are in a accurate 'context' such as the appropriate abode (home, office, town); accept the appropriate accessories (computer, phone); or are with the appropriate being (wife, husband, colleague, boss).
The New Approach: 'Living Lists'.
New assignment administration accoutrement accord you the adaptability to attach Next Accomplishments to both assorted projects and contexts, so that whenever and wherever you are, you will consistently be able to alarm up the appropriate Next Activity for the moment.
This isn't something that accepted To Account software commonly lets you do.
'Next Activity thinking' is one of a lot of able abundance acceptable accoutrement around. Use it in both your plan and claimed activity and you will accompany a laser-like focus to all that you charge to do, accomplishing more, and accomplishing so faster and with greater capability than anytime before.
About the author:
Rich Butterworth is architect of Shout Internet, makers of acute to do account software, ShoutDone.
To download your chargeless archetype of ShoutDone, and for added online writing about added abundance and assignment management, appointment ShoutDone To Do Account Software.


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I just finished posting the obligatory wedding anniversary status update on Facebook, complete with a wedding picture. Let's face it: These kinds of status updates have replaced greeting cards for a lot of people. But some people simply do not want to share their most intimate sentiments with other peoples' news feeds, which has given birth to the personal social network.
Yes, a personal social network. While some offer to link you up exclusively with only close friends or relatives, a number cater specifically to relationships. It's just you and you're significant other. But what's the point of a "social network" comprised of two people? Do these services actually bring you any closer together? I decided to find out.
It's been eight years for my wife Kathy and I, and as with any good marriage, our love has grown in response to the problems we have faced together. Communication is key, so I was more than willing to try one of these social networks built for two, an app called Tokii.
Once you and your partner have entered into a relationship (one sends an invitation that the other has to accept; no imaginary relationships with Jennifer Lawrence), you are provided a place to describe your mood using both text and a rather large collection of emoticons. There's also a bank of quizzes – called DiscoveryGames – that you can take solo, together, or in a "compete" mode where you try to guess what the other person's answers will be.
The quizzes run from groups of ten steamy questions you might come across with a sex therapist to banks of questions about parenting or religion. This is the most fun part of the process and where Tokii has its claim to fame, having started as a website that focused on these types of quizzes. Unfortunately some of the cooler ideas from the site, like the TradingPost where you can barter for certain services from your mate, haven't made it to the app yet.
The generic quizzes are great, and cover universal themes that every couple should address in their relationship. Some of the "timelier" quizzes, asking your partner's take on current events for example, are in terrible need of updating. The most recent ones cover the events that made news… in 2011. Not surprisingly, my wife was in favor of killing Osama bin Laden.
After a couple of weeks of use, I can report that we did not use the mood-entry function at all. It's a fine idea, but we found that if we were stressed or excited or wanted to flirt, we would just text like we've been doing for years. Also, texting tells you when you have a new message, whereas Tokii lacks push functionality and only sends email notifications when a quiz is completed. If you just put things out into the ether on an app I'm not used to, things get ignored.
The DiscoveryGames were fun – even if they were only multiple choice – and Kathy will be the first to tell you that she won all of those in which we "competed", but only by a question or two. I'm blaming the fact that men are irrefutably honest; therefore it was easy to guess my answers. Allowing short answers on certain questions would be a much more valuable experience for sharing, even if you couldn't play the guessing game.
As with any aspect of a relationship, the key to making Tokii work is commitment. If you and your partner really focus on using it for your interpersonal communications, it provides some value. If it's something you do on a lark, you will quickly move on to the alternatives you have already been using.
Many social networks provide a way to connect with the people, the question with Tokii is whether it can save you hundreds of dollars in couples' counseling fees. Because of the anemic messaging and lack of short-answer capability in the DiscoveryGames, the answer is no. Much more ground – and much more up-to-date topics – can be covered on the leather couch of a therapist. But does that mean that some of these other personalized social options can't work? After all, isn't one of the main features of Google+ the idea that you can form circles of specific people?
The fact that my wife – a very private person who is about as far away from an oversharer on Facebook as you can get – could not open up on Tokii says a lot. Social networking is not for everybody. We shouldn't have to design new sites and apps in an attempt to draw people out from their bubble or protect oversharers from embarrassing themselves.
While personal social networks present an interesting alternative to the wide world of Facebook, they'll will need to provide much more value and really help people along on the path of relationship building in order to shift the paradigm. Offering a more secure experience is not enough.
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not reflect the beliefs of Digital Trends.


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Nothing is ever 100% in the mixed up soup that is Windows, hardware, drivers, and applications.
So far no one has reported any problems. Rhino was obviously not developed on Win 8. That said, if we do find problems, we will dix them since that's the current version of Windows.
John Brock - Rhinoceros
I have this problem on win.8...my system is a - Asus K95VJ Laptop (Geforce GT635M, I7 3630QM, 12gb - ram,) ....after installing Rhino 5 (Evaluation) - right click does not rotate the view-port, actually I can't draw anything because the view-port are blocked or something like it - I can only access the menu and toolbars - or commands are working with a very big delay...