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I went with my buddy, Todd Imwalle, to the Memorial Golf Tournament in Dublin, Ohio. My long-time friend, Jeff Gilbert is one of the hosts at a house on the 7th Fairway. Although I'm not a real fan of golf, we had a great time drinking the suds and walking the course…
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Three strangers strike up a conversation in the airport passenger lounge in Bozeman, Montana, while awaiting their respective flights. One is an American Indian passing through from Lame Deer. Another is a Cowboy on his way to Billings for a livestock show, and the third passenger is a fundamentalist Arab student, newly arrived at Montana State University from the Middle East
Their discussion drifts to their diverse cultures. Soon, the two Westerners learn that the Arab is a devout, radical Moslem and the conversation falls into an uneasy lull. The cowboy leans back in his chair, crosses his boots on a magazine table and tips his big sweat-stained hat forward over his face. The wind outside is blowing tumbleweeds around, and the old windsock is flapping; but still no plane comes. Finally, the American Indian clears his throat and softly he speaks, 'At one time here, my people were many, but sadly, now we are few.' The Moslem student raises an eyebrow and leans forward, 'Once my people were few,' he sneers, 'and now we are many. Why do you suppose that is?'
The Montana cowboy shifts his toothpick to one side of his mouth and from the darkness beneath his Stetson says in a smooth drawl ,'That's 'cause we ain't played Cowboys and Moslems yet, but I do believe it's a-comin.'
Hat tip to Walt Wood
I grew up with the respective trilogies of Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Perhaps it's just my old age, but I didn't like any of the Star Wars prequels that were released over the last few years (they focus on cartoonish special effects instead of a real storyline and character development). Thus, I was curious about the quality of the new Indiana Jones movie… My entire family went to the theatre over the Memorial Day weekend to catch the "Crystal Skull".
Perhaps we're jaded from seeing so many similar "treasure hunting" movies (National Treasure, Sahara, Fools Gold, etc.), but my sons and I gave the movie a resounding 'C'. How many times can you watch a guy crawling through a cave to find the secret door handle, etc.?
The photo below shows the typical telephone and electrical wiring in downtown Bangalore, India… the usual source for the Microsoft technical support hot line.
Hat tip to Todd Imwalle
I've had many people ask me about my position on various political issues… Some of you may think I'm a "dyed in the wool" Republican (Au Contraire). I thought I would organize quick summaries of my positions on the top 10 (in this case, top 12) global issues:
|It should not be treated as a right or a form of birth control, but an unfortunate reality that there are occasions where abortion is necessary.
|Capital Punishment
|In the case of premeditated murder in the first degree, the use of death is essential form of punishment for those most heinous crimes.
|Right to Bear Arms
|Any instrument that can be used to cause great harm can't be shared like buying milk at the corner store, yet individual citizens have a right to own guns.
|It is not something to be outlawed or contested, but it is not some innate human right to protect and to convince others that it is something to celebrate.
|Global Warming
|The planet is a constant changing environment, as exhibited by volcanoes, earthquakes, etc. The amount that man contributes to that change is still in question.
|We must find a way to wind down our overall "world cop" role because the cost is exorbitant. We have to become more imperialistic or limit intervention.
|Health Care
|The country simply does not have the resources to provide every citizen with complete health care. We have to come to grips that not everyone has a right to unlimited support.
|War on Drugs
|Drugs such as marijuana are not necessarily more harmful that alcohol. While we should not legalize recreational drugs, there should be a reduced focus on enforcement.
|Affirmative Action
|The notion of diversity in all walks of life is very important; however the approach of favoring a group as a form of reparations only reinforces discrimination.
|Every citizen should have equal access to a reasonably priced education. However, the ability to learn is best supported by parents and the immediate community.
|Some degree of taxes are necessary to support common benefits for the population, however, it is not to be used for the purpose of income redistribution.
|Energy Policy
|It's usually a cost crisis rather than an energy shortage. As the price of petroleum increases, organizations will substitute alternative forms such as solar, nuclear, etc.
Do you think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Take a read of this email forwarded to me from BoMo:
Boy am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be ridiculous. I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the web sites for verification of all the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our southern border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from terrorist countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the southern border. Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12.. The National Policy Institute "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period." Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .." Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $338 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
Are we THAT stupid?
A little bird was flying south for the Winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field. While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him.
As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.
A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.
Morals of the story:
(1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
(2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
(3) And when you're in deep shit, it's best to keep your mouth shut!
My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table.
My wife asked, 'Do you know her?'
'Yes,' I sighed, 'She's my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since.'
'My God!' said my wife, 'Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?'
So you see, there really are two ways to look at everything.
Hat tip to Sam Greenwood
The Moslems and the Leftists of the world can use every ruse available to them, but the reality doesn't change. The conflict in the Middle East has very little to do about "Israel's settlements" or "Jewish occupation". The conflict is about Jews not willingly walking to the gas chambers. The Hamas charter quotes Mohammad as saying: "The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: 'O Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him." The simple fact is that hatred of Jews as the scapegoat is a major tenet of Moslem "culture". Charles Krauthammer had it right when he commented in the Washington Post:
Palestinian dispossession is a direct result of the Arab rejection, then and now, of a Jewish state of any size on any part of the vast lands the Arabs claim as their exclusive patrimony. That was the cause of the war 60 years ago that, in turn, caused the refugee problem. And it remains the cause of war today.
Israel's crime is not its policies but its insistence on living. On the day the Arabs — and the Palestinians in particular — make a collective decision to accept the Jewish state, there will be peace, as Israel proved with its treaties with Egypt and Jordan. Until that day, there will be nothing but war. And every "peace process," however cynical or well-meaning, will come to nothing.
Even the German magazine, Der Spiegel, recognizes the hatred spewed by all of the Moslem countries:
Adult viewers can enjoy video clips that use inspirational graphics and rousing music to glorify the act of committing a suicide bombing, while the evening lineup offers family entertainment with a series of films based on the classic anti-Semitic forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
In 2007 the German Interior Ministry published a study on the worldviews of "Muslims in Germany," the most comprehensive of its kind to date, which confirmed this trend. According to the study, "anti-Semitic attitudes were found among young Muslims far more often than among non-Muslim immigrants or domestic non-Muslims."…
During one excursion to the German Historical Museum, a group of Muslim youth gathered in front of a replica of a gas chamber in Auschwitz and applauded.
There is no reason to mince words. It's actually quite simple: Moslems would like to complete what Hitler started.
A turkey was chatting with a bull. 'I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree,' sighed the turkey, 'but I haven't got the energy.'
'Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?' replied the bull. They're packed with nutrients.'
The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, the turkey was proudly perched at the top of the tree. He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.
Moral of the story:
Bull Shit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.


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Following the last eight year's of success, the Anglo Chinese Cultural Exchange (ACCE) return to DanceEast to perform another spectacular show, celebrating the Chinese New Year 2019.
Join us in welcoming the Year of the Pig! We have an exciting line-up full of entertainment, with both professional performers, Chinese instrument and Dance & Martial Artists, together with some local talent too.
Bring the family along to enjoy the Chinese dance, music and amazing Martial Arts to get into the spirit of the Chinese New Year!

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The back door of a Defender is a problem as it tends to close on you. That gas strut assists in opening the rear door of a Defender and holding it in place when open.
This innovative solution, neatly integrated into the design of the Defender it looks like an original manufacturer equipment.
- Replaces the original door stopper
- Can be mounted with or without spare wheel carrier
- Standard door trim can be left as is
- Delivered with all required fasteners, brackets and detailed installation instructions
To mount the bracket onto the door you will need install two rivenuts. This tool will make your life easier: Front Runner Rivnut tool / M6/M8
GoodBy: Craig on 14 August 2019Would highly recommend, it is night and day in comparison to the original design
A must for Defender ownersBy: Elliot Ebeid on 11 December 2018Camping, shopping, throwing stuff in the back? You need one of these... period. I was sick of the stock mechanism never being able to hold the door open, and having to constantly prop the door open with my body to get access, especially when out on a track or even a slight hill when parked. The new gas strut is absolutely awesome, and saves untold amounts of hassle. At first I thought that the gas strut was a bit strong, however, soon realised that at extreme angles the door is still firmly held open. Conveniently, the door opens by itself now as well, and is great when you have your hands full. The guys at Expedition Centre installed this for me, and I highly recommend that if you're able, you do the same as the workmanship was great, but also saves you the trouble of purchasing the tools to install.
Good product, easy installationBy: Duncan Smith on 30 July 2018Generally happy with this as a replacement for the OEM door mechanism. The mount has bent slightly with use, but this doesn't appear to affect operation. Came with good instructions, those unfamiliar with rivnuts may need to do a bit of youtube research
door strutBy: antonios tsolakis on 29 November 2016excellent product,very easy to follow instructions made the installation a breeze


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Pole (1966), pp. 411-412. Justified this way, the Septennial Act was approved by the Parliament a short time after the war against France ended. The Act joined other measures adopted by Parliament as means for increasing its own powers. Among these measures, the most interesting were the augmentation of the property requirements needed for political rights and a ratification of the Congressional right to have secret debates. 51 See Panagopoulos (1985), pp. 192-193. 52 See, for example, Paine (1989), p.
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Animated by this fact, he immediately took part in the Middlesex elections and obtained an expected triumph, with a majority of 465 over his closest contender. Although normally insignificant, this Middlesex election became one of the most important events in eighteenth-century British history. Significant demonstrations of popular support followed the election and Wilkes appeared as the symbol of the people's will against an authoritarian government ("a patriot by accident," as he himself admitted).


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Yep, when I'm extremely bored, ya know you're gonna get a stupid blog.
And here it is from a site that posted these facts about….(see pic below)
The author of this site is Igor Derysh, and you can find him on Twitter at @igorderysh
His comments are in quotes and mine are not.
Noah's Ark
"Upwards of 60% of Americans believe in the story of Noah's Ark, word by word. Meaning that more than half of this country believes that a guy built an ark, put all of the world's animals in there (including all of the fish and sea creatures), told them not to kill each other, fed them who-knows-what during the flood, and then put each animal (and dinosaur?) in the specific climate in which they would prosper (and didn't put any apes on the north pole just to screw with people)."
Hmmm. Makes sense to me. Although I've often wondered that same thing about the fish. And animals not eating each other. HEY! Ever own a gerbil?
"More than half of Americans believe that the "prophecies of The Book of Revelations," including the idea that we will have a "rapture" and Jesus will return to take the faithful. Meanwhile, atheists pray (pun intended) that the "Faithful" are right, and that they will disappear and get out of the way of humanity's progress."
Nope……I'm NOT gonna touch this one with a ten foot pole. Only because I consistently pray to the Big Guy to hit the lottery. So jussssst in case I'm NOT gonna screw up my chances of someday hitting the big one.
"Around half of the people in the United States believe that God created earth somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. They believe this despite the fact that they receive an education (except in Kansas) that continually explains to them evolution, and the age of the earth. Why even go to school if you don't believe the multiplication table."
There's a multiplication table? Go figure.
"The juiciest part of this belief is the explanation for dinosaur bones -"God" put the dinosaur fossils in Earth to test our faith." Yup, and he put "young boys" to test his Priests celibacy."
Wonder how that worked out? Or, to quote that famous female philosopher, Sarah Palin, "How that workin' out for ya."
New Testament, Old Testament
"To put all of this in perspective, around half of Americans do not know that Judaism came before Christianity. So, despite the fact that Jesus was a Jew, nearly half of Americans believe that Christianity is older than Judeism. As Bill Maher put it, "half of Americans look at the Old Testament and the New Testament and do not know which came first."
Um, is there an in-between testament? Might be worth looking into.
"One-third of all Democrats in the United States believe that George Bush helped plan or at least knew all about the attack on the World Trade Center before September 11.
This would mean that numerous other people and the people that planned the attack also know this and are not saying anything. So countless people from within the Administration revealed the faulty Iraq intelligence and torture but not one person has disclosed the fact that the President committed the single worst crime that the United States has ever seen."
Look, Bush wasn't the brightest light bulb in the pack, but I agree with the author that this theory is BS. Now if ya told me Bush couldn't spell, I'd believe THaT before this theory. After all, he did once say he wanted to "recordificate" something.
"Similarly, one-third of Republicans believe that despite the fact that Barack Obama's birth certificate is on file in Hawaii, that he was actually born in Kenya. Really? So the The "Powers That Be" had an evil plan to set up an election, and then decided to get a guy from Kenya to become President as opposed to say simply going with someone from the United States? Odd."
Yep…the loony toons are still out there. Like the guy the other night during a Trump question and answer session stood up and made a complete buffoon out of himself. Geez….everyone know Obama is Irish for cripes sake.
Obama is a Muslim
"Ten percent of Americans, and more than 20% of Americans in Texas, as well as all the Rascists in both Texas and Florida, believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
This belief would almost be okay if those same people did not get on Obama about his radical Christian preacher whose church he attended for ten years. So what is it – Christina w/ a racist preacher or Muslim with a racist complainer?"
Again….the guy in the Trump video. Standing next to UFO aliens….I think.
"It is not officially known how many Americans believe in The Illuminati as the official "New World Order", pollsters cannot read their minds through their tin foil hats.
What we do know, is that there are millions of people who believe that a cartel of very rich and powerful people control the entire world, using world leaders as puppets. Some even believe that the Illuminati are an alien Lizard race – and that George Bush is one of them! . . .and you thought the visitors were our friends."
(checking my backyard for lizards)
"Despite the existence of these silly little things called facts, more than 30% of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was directly behind the September 11 attacks. In other news, more than 30% of Americans haven't picked up a newspaper in the last five years. . .and if they did, who knows if they could read anyway?"
HEY! I cn reed ya damn ideot….ya think I'm dumb or something. Um….what's a nudespaper?
Fake Moon Landing
"Around 10% of people believe that the moon landing was staged, and another 20% have doubts that we actually went to the moon.
Have you seen the special effects in pre-Star Wars films? Do you really think a non-George Lucas run government could have pulled something like that off?"
Hmmmm. Well Igor ol pal, I gotta challenge ya on this one. I saw that documentary on Tv a while ago and it proved we never went to the moon. And neither did Alice Cramden. Watch it and THEN tell me we went to the moon why don't ya. I dare ya.
It's called, "Capricorn One." So there smarty pants.
Just sayin.
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I'm making this post to help fix the SEO (search engine optimization) page of the HitTail site. Once I think through all the issues with this post, I'll adapt it into the SEO page. The SEO page was one of the first things I put up when creating the site and service, because the two concepts are inextricably linked.
One of the tenants of the HitTailing process, is that you are "deferring" the greater SEO discussion for later. For better or for worse, there are a series of mechanical changes you have to perform to your site to get it on equal footing with blogging software, as far as search optimization is concerned. But if you merely accept the concept of rolling out new content in blog-form, you will get 80% of this optimization secret sauce with 20% of the effort.
Blogging software is not as tweaked-out optimized as a professional SEO can make a page. For example, blogs do not calculate keyword densities and use the element tags that are most in vogue at the moment. But blogs will make every bit of content visible to search, with the extra little push of the news "pinging" that is done to alert Technorati and other services that new content has been added. And that's more than what many websites today can claim.
I won't go into an exhaustive discussion of SEO optimization mechanics, but it is fairly common knowledge that a few basics go into making your site visible to search. The first is choosing a title tag that is appropriate to each page, and precisely aligned to the concepts you are targeting. This title tag text should be reused in various places on that page, and site. It should occur in an important element such as a headline tag near the top of your page. It should be used in a "search friendly" URL, and it should be used in the anchor text of links on other pages of your site leading back to this page.
Blogging software does all this, and then almost insidiously answers the "short page vs. long page" question with its "archives". When you think about it, the archives, be they weekly or monthly, are long-page versions of the same text, and the potential random combination of words on a single page has increased a thousand-fold. The short page versions are the "permalink" pages, and the most recent are the "index", commonly turned into a site's homepage.
Further, blogging software takes advantage of the Google PageRank system by stringing sequences of pages together with keyword-rich previous/next arrows. WordPress and Movable Type both use this device, while Blogger uses a "Previous 10 Posts" which accomplishes much the same thing. If you make one tweak to the Blogger templates, it should be putting the title tag into the permalink anchor text, instead of the time-of-day that most templates use.
So, how does blogging software fit in with the corporate website? Well, this is another reason we lean towards Blogger for getting started. If you just take a subdirectory of your site and call it your blog, you can configure blog to transmit files into that directory. Your blog is therefore indistinguishably interwoven with your corporate site. Any advantage you build up in your blog is by association bestowed upon your main website. This strategy isn't for everyone, for sure, but it does help you kill 2 birds with one stone: generating more free search hits and developing a corporate blogging strategy. Once again, it's the 80/20 rule at work.
So, is that enough? No. You need to link to the blog located in that subdirectory from the homepage of your website. Links from your homepage carry greater importance than links elsewhere. Think of it as "counting clicks" off of the homepage. The more clicks it takes to get somewhere, the less important you are telling the engines that this content is. Your blog has to be deemed important within your site, and this is the most important clue.
And finally, what about the rest of the site, which in terms of SEO and search visibility terms may be hopelessly broken? Well, you should eventually fix it so that the same magic you'll be working in the blog area of your site carries over to the rest of your site. Whenever you add any content anywhere on your site, you should be engaging in HitTailing. Every page of your site should be viewed as a potential landing page for search, and as such, you should do what it takes to make it competitive.
And that's where HitTailing CAN'T help you. That's right, there's nothing we can do to automatically optimize the rest of your site if it's not doing what the search engines like. In this case, we recommend contacting Connors, or one of the other fine SEO companies out there for consulting on your site. But this process is often intimidating to many companies, and the entire natural search initiative gets shelved. And that's ultimately more damaging to the company than getting started with natural search in SOME capacity.
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The blog packages will adapt to this ever-present continental drift in search factors. The SEO industry will adapt. But the HitTail users don't need to think about these things, and the HitTail site doesn't need to shoulder this burden. And as such, SEOs and HitTailers occupy their respective niches in the marketing ecosystem, not competing for eachother's food sources. SEOs are a more specialized niche, like long-necked giraffes feeding on the leaves high in the trees, while HitTailers are a little more mainstream, like cattle grazing in the field (no offense).
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Cameras have been reading vehicle license plates for things like issuing speeding tickets, deducting tolls and conducting border surveillance.
What if we could use cameras to read license plates to identify criminal suspects and notify the nearest police in real time? This is what we set out to do at DXC Labs using machine vision.
Machine vision is a growing market, "expected to reach USD 15.46 billion by the end of 2022 with 8.18% CAGR during forecast period 2017-2022." (Source: Wikipedia)
Key differentiators
In our prototype, we are using optical character recognition (OCR), a type of machine vision, to read and digitize license plate information. We can read Australian, European Union and United States plates with 85 percent accuracy or better.
Our key differentiators are a reusable processing framework in the cloud and the ability to do real-time processing remotely.
How it works
While most cameras have built-in "detect and read" license plate processing, our prototype uses an analytics framework built on Microsoft Azure with Microsoft's Cortana Intelligence Suite. This reusable framework handles the image recognition logic (leveraging openALPR) and the relevant analytical post-processing of ingested images or video streams.
The processing logic uses Azure Stream Analytics to verify, in real-time, if the read plate is listed as a vehicle involved in a previous criminal incident in a DMV or police database. If the plate is listed, our system immediately sends an audio message that can be integrated with the local police department's (RF) transmission system.
Currently, we do not know of a system that provides real-time alerts like this to the nearest police on duty.
Other applications
We have also designed a locator system, where one can search for a specific license plate on a certain date to check the route the vehicle passed through. This system, designed in Microsoft's Power BI, can be used for investigation, as in claims analysis and other relevant verification. For example, when an automobile claim is being adjudicated, this information can help verify whether the specific vehicle was involved, along with date-time-location coordinates and a vehicle image for authentication.
A wide range of post-processing analytics and applications exist. For example, sudden changes in the volume of plates read at a certain time can be used to detect traffic patterns and provide alerts about traffic delays, potential road repair and other situations.
Transportation services companies, insurance companies, utilities and manufacturers should think about how they can use machine vision to address business challenges or open up new opportunities. Don't be short-sighted — use your imagination!
Sukanya Kuppuswamy focuses on machine learning and advanced analytics in DXC Labs in India. A data enthusiast, her experience includes consulting and developing technology solutions for multiple business situations in the insurance industry. @sukanyaswamy
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MIND – Part One
'Repeat after me, YES I CAN'
Brendon Patrick - TOTEM fITNESS
It's a simple mantra that we can live our lives by. It can also be the difference between success and failure.
How many times in your life have you looked at an obstacle, or someone else's achievements, and said "there's no way I could ever do that" without even making an attempt to prove yourself wrong?
This tiny little voice inside your head that's saying you can't, is the voice inside your head that, when faced with any sign of adversity, is the first to stand up and say "nup, we're not doing that". This voice is the negative representation of the Fixed Mindset.
We're going to call your very 'inner-critic'!
Learning to Silence Your Inner Critic
What's the first thing you realize happens when you listen to this little 'inner critic' and concede that you can't.
Does the obstacle disappear?
No, whenever we side-step to avoid the challenge, spearing off in the complete opposite direction, the obstacle still remains right where we left it.
Working in a gym as a Personal Trainer, I see people face these obstacles every day. It (the obstacle) may represent itself in the form of a dumbbell or, in extreme cases, the front door as their inner critic talks themselves out of entering the gym all together.
Learning to silence your 'inner-critic' is all about having the self awareness to acknowledge these obstacles as only a mental block.
This moment of introspect allows us to reverse the conversation from saying "No I can't" to "Yes I Can". A Positive Mindset now provides you with the power to move forward and tackle your obstacles head on.
It's as simple as that!
The Lesson That Our Failures Are Trying to Teach Us
'We learn from our failures, not our successes'
Although success is never guaranteed, we should never view any unsuccessful attempt or failure as the end of the road.
In any event, there is always a lesson to be learned if you're willing to take a step back and assess your shortfalls. Use this reflection to create your own review process for discovering areas of improvement.
Use this review process wherever necessary to highlight any possible areas of improvement and develop it as a method for learning more about yourself.
Learning How to Accept Failure is Integral to Completing Your Journey
You don't always have to be 100% successful all of the time and, as previously mentioned, failure is simply a critical learning point that can appear at any stage of your journey.
Noting that a dynamic mindset will draw motivation from this critical juncture, we need to acknowledge this as being a step forward, not back, in terms of our overall accomplishment.
Feelings of fear and trepidation will always present themselves at the beginning of any journey or action we take.
Start Doing What You Love and Prevent Fear from Obstructing You
If we're prepared to acknowledge our fears that are obstructing your goals, it becomes possible for us to overcome these emotions. This tactic now becomes empowering as our self awareness becomes a well tuned guide in forming our decision making process.
Because success can only be achieved when your inner-critic is no longer dominant within your mindset, we need to continually raise our levels of self awareness.
Acknowledge your fears; adopt a positive "Yes I Can" attitude and move straight onto doing whatever it is you need to move closer towards your goals.
With this approach, you will fall; however, because your fears no longer control you, you will be able to get straight back up again and continue to move forward with ease.
Switching Over to a Positive Mindset
The transition from a Negative to a Positive Mindset doesn't have to be difficult, as long as you're committed to putting in some time, and effort, towards shifting your way of thinking from Fixed to Growth.
Here's an easy self awareness exercise for you to begin with:
Recognize when your 'inner-critic' is doing all the talking when you're faced with an obstacle.
Write down what is being said or take note of these negative thoughts in a diary. If you want to, you can even repeat these words out loud to yourself in front of a mirror.
When reviewing this negative conversation, ask yourself this question.
"Would I speak to my closest friends like this"? If the answer is no, then it's probably not a healthy conversation with yourself.
Now that you have the responses.
Reverse this conversation by placing it into a positive context. E.g. replace the "No I can't" with a "Yes I can". When you notice negative mindless chatter appearing, acknowledge the voice as being 'wrong' and simply replace it with the positive alternative.
The Negative Mind says:
"I can't be bothered exercising today and there's no point, I'll never be skinny"
The Positive Mind says:
"Every little bit of exercise counts and if I keep going, I WILL reach my goal weight"
Repeat this exercise during your daily gym visit for at least 12 weeks.
Over time, your dynamic mindset will adopt this positive response at every obstacle that presents itself!
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Many U.S. nursing home residents with a form of dementia are being medicated without informed consent, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Feb. 5. While the American Psychiatric Association (APA) recommends antipsychotic drugs only in limited circumstances, they are regularly administered in assisted living facilities to residents with dementia in […] Read More
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A U.S. congressman recently commented that medical care was not a right. That got me to thinking. If rights are conferred only by law, then rights can both be given and taken away. However, are there rights that we have because we are human beings, and that are not subject to law? Enshrined in our […] Read More
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Hey – hope you're doing okay.
I want to take a few minutes to get you started with PowerShell, in a way that I think is less overwhelming than how I found most PowerShell material back in the day. Because you've told me you keep hearing about PowerShell, and that you can't tell how to get into it.
The first thing to know is that it feels like Command Prompt on steroids, but a lot more useful than Command Prompt. You'll see what I mean as soon as you open it. Let's do that, but let's open it using 'Run as Administrator', because that just helps for some of the demos. In real life, you'll only open it with Admin rights if you really need to.
So click on the start button and start typing PowerShell. I don't want you to open the ISE (yet), just find the "Windows PowerShell" shortcut, and right-click on it to choose 'Run as Administrator'.
Now that it's running, pin it to your Taskbar, so that you can access it more quickly next time. If you're going to try to embrace PowerShell, you should make it easy to open.
Anyway, that window… straight away it feels like you need to have a clue what to write. Yes, that's right. Things might've been a little easier in the ISE, and Aaron Nelson (@sqlvariant) has told me off for not using the ISE every time I do anything in PowerShell, but we'll be okay here.
Let's start by doing some basic things that we know from DOS. The commands
cd and
dir. Try this:
cd .. dir
You'll see that you move up to
C:\WINDOWS, and then list the contents. No surprises here, it's just like Command Prompt. Or DOS if you're old enough.
The difference with PowerShell is that this is not just text output. These things are objects. And we can do stuff with that. PowerShell is a 'typed' environment. You already deal with objects all the time, like in Object Explorer in SSMS. PowerShell objects can include all those things, as well as .Net objects. This is where PowerShell gets its power from.
A few quick things…
- PowerShell commands come in verb-noun pairs, such as
Get-ChildItem. These are known as cmdlets, so when you see the word 'cmdlet', it just means a PowerShell command.
- PowerShell command parameters use a hyphen. Like:
Get-ChildItem -Recursebut you can also abbreviate them so long as there's no ambiguity. So I could use
-recinstead of
- Variables start with a dollar sign (
$). We'll get to this later.
- We don't use
>in filters and tests, we use
<=, and so on. This is frustrating, but you'll get used to it.
- There are a bunch of abbreviations and aliases. One alias for
Get-ChildItemis also known as
dir, and
%. We'll see these as we go along too.
- You get tab-completion on almost everything, so if you've typed
Get-Chi, you can hit Tab and cycle through the options until you find what you want.
- You can use help (which is an alias for
Get-Help) by simply using:
help dir, and at the bottom of that help, you'll get a nice reminder that you could've used
help dir -examples, and that adding
-onlinewould have opened a web page with the relevant help page on it (that's really handy).
- You can pass the results of one thing into another using the pipe symbol (
|). Perhaps the most useful one is
gm(an alias for
Get-Member), which will list the Properties and Methods (the members) for whatever object you've passed in.
#will comment the line, or go between
Let's see some of this in action.
Here we can see some interesting things. Good to notice that we could use
-Exclude and
-Include. We'll do that soon. We could get more information using
-detailed, or
-examples, or
Let's explore our SQL folder. Start by typing
cd \p and then hit
Now hit M and start hitting Tab again to find 'Microsoft SQL Server'. If you go too far, press Shift-Tab to go backwards. (Oh, and if you should've been looking on
D:, then start again with
cd D:\p – but the principles are the same.)
Great. Let's hit Enter and see that we've changed directory.
But now let's type:
dir -rec -inc ConfigurationFile.ini
You could've hit Tab after each parameter and seen them expand into the more correct versions. You could've used
Get-ChildItem to be slightly stricter. I don't really care though. When you run this, you'll see some files listed. I don't know how many you'll get. Each one indicates that you ran an installation of SQL Server. But as a SQL expert, you know this. You just might not have known how easily PowerShell could list them for you.
Ok. Hopefully we're seeing some use for this.
Now let's do something with this output. I want to say 'with these files', but let's do the data thing and think of this as a dataset of files.
Suppose we want to count them. I could loop through the results using
ForEach-Object (but I'll use the shortcut
%), and increment a variable that I set up. This is a common pattern for looping – people put whole programs inside those curly brackets, across lots of lines.
This does the trick, but I'm sure there's something built-in to let me count things.
Well, I can never remember what that command, so let's do ask one of those fancy internet-search providers.
I don't even want to open these pages. I just want to notice that there's a command called
Measure-Object. Let's pipe our output into that. Hit the 'up arrow' key to go back to a previous command.
This takes a moment, and then happily tells us there are three.
It takes a moment because it's having to search through the files again. How about we store those results somewhere?
Now, I call these things brackets, but Americans call them parentheses. And what you call brackets, I call square brackets. There are curly brackets too, which you call braces I think. I'll try to call parentheses 'round brackets' to avoid confusion, but if I refer to a 'bracket', I mean a parenthesis.
I'm going to wrap my
dir command in round brackets, and assign that to a variable.
Now I can pipe
$configfilelist into
Measure-Object and it will be more responsive, because I've stored my results.
But because
$configfilelist is an array of files, I can also look at its length to see that there are three items. That's way easier. And I can access each individual one by using square brackets from 0 to 2.
This isn't exactly ground-breaking stuff yet. But those files do tell us some useful things. Let's do a
Get-Member command on our array.
Don't get put off by this. At the top we can see that we're dealing with objects that are of type
System.IO.FileInfo. This is a .Net thing and is where the power comes from. We can see that we could call the
Delete methods of these files, or
CopyTo, or
Decrypt (if they were encrypted, but they're not), and more. Down the bottom we see Properties.
This is more interesting. Let's look at
LastWriteTime. Because we might be interested in when that is.
We can use
Select-Object to show only certain properties.
As expected, nothing's written to those files since the installs were actually done. But what if I wanted to filter this, only to ones since a particular point in time?
I'm going to use
Get-Date to get the current date and time. I'm going to wrap that in round brackets and use its
AddYears method to find a year ago. In the real world I'd be more inclined to use
AddDays, but I do want to get some results.
And I'm going to filter
$configfilelist by passing into
Where-Object (except that I'm going to use a convenient shortcut which is the question-mark). My filter lives inside curly brackets ('braces', right?), and inside those curly brackets I refer to the things in
$configfilelist using
So my filter goes like this, saying that I want to list the ones that have a
LastWriteTime greater than (
-gt) a year before now:
And I only get one file. Terrific.
That's all well and good, but now I want to know what that installation was about. For that we need to look inside the file.
Get-Content is our friend here. Let's start by using
Get-Content against a file directly. It'll be easy to hook it into our proper command later.
Get-Content actually returns an array of lines, and has really useful parameters like
-TotalCount which stops after a certain number of lines, or
-Tail which gets lines at the end of the file. I love this when I'm dealing with large files – it's not like I can open them in Notepad.
Let me tell you about Select-String too. It's like
grep from Unix – you use it to get the lines you want in a file.
That output seems like a pain, but remember this is just the string representation of an object. If I pipe my command into
gm (
Get-Member), you'll see what I mean.
So now I can tell that I can access the
Path of the file, the
Line, the
LineNumber, etc., separately.
To look for multiple things, I want to pass an array of parameters to
-Pattern. I do that by simply using a comma, to discover that it was an install of Analysis Services.
Hopefully you're starting to see the power of this.
I can drop it all into the one line by using:
dir -rec -inc ConfigurationFile.ini | ? {$_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddYears(-1)} | select-string -Pattern 'FEATURES=','ACTION=' | select-object Path, Line
(Sorry, you'll likely have to scroll sideways to see all that – getting everything on a single line isn't exactly a virtue in HTML.)
When you're working things out that you like, you'll want to store the commands somewhere for later (such as in a .ps1 file that you run). For that, you want to be aware of
Get-History. It lists everything you've run in that session.
And a neat little trick is that you can use negative numbers to hook into arrays from the other end. So you can do this:
But instead of just displaying it, pipe it into
…which gets it onto the clipboard.
I'm not going to go much further with this, but you could keep push this further and further yourself, exploring the types of things that might be interesting in your job. You can dump results into files using
> and append to files using
Now consider commands like:
Get-EventLog -LogName Application -After (Get-Date).AddHours(-1) -EntryType Error
…and imagine what you could do with that.
Try doing:
Import-Module SQLServer
Which then lets you go:
cd SQLSERVER:
And browse the SQL environment as if it's a file system.
I don't tend to use PowerShell to explore SQL like this very often, I must admit. But the fact that I can certainly gives me a bunch of options. The fact that I could use PowerShell to create a Word document like they do over at https://learn-powershell.net/2014/12/31/beginning-with-powershell-and-word/, or send emails as described at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/send-mailmessage, or call web services (include Azure Machine Learning ones) as described over at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/powershell/module/Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility/Invoke-WebRequest means that with a bit of imagination, you could use PowerShell to do just about whatever you want. I love using Invoke-SqlCommand to get data out of SQL, push it into
Invoke-WebRequest to get scores from Azure ML, and then respond accordingly. PowerShell makes it really straightforward.
Oh, and to run PowerShell commands on other machines (which can be quite useful, of course), a quick 'internet search' showed me this useful-looking page: https://www.howtogeek.com/117192/how-to-run-powershell-commands-on-remote-computers/
You could have a list of computers inside a file, and loop through it like this:
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With Call of Duty: WW2, the popular game franchise returns to its roots at the end of 2017 – and when it comes to many users also on Nintendo hardware. Does the next Call of Duty actually come for the Nintendo Switch? This would be a big throw for several reasons.
On 7th November 2017, Activision announced the release of Call of Duty: WW2, the latest part of the long-lived first-person shooter series – and the rumors could also appear for the Nintendo Switch.
Already now on the official website to the series apparently again Nintendo-IDs link.
Hopeful Nintendo fans also noticed that the official release trailer for Call of Duty: WW2 is the release date of the game, but not the supported platforms. The associated press release names as expected Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC, but this does not exclude a switch version – it would not be the first time a Nintendo port would be announced later. According to rumors, a large-scale announcement could be planned within the framework of the E3.
Call of Duty on the Switch? Shut up and take my money!
Who now thinks I am a hardcore fan of the series, is wrong. I've been playing about a quarter of a day on Call of Duty in my life. I could not even tell which part it was. In any case, I had a lot of fun, even if I never lasted long without being swept through by enemy bullets.
My conclusion: Nice thing. But I would not have dreamed of the idea of adding a Playstation or an Xbox to play Call of Duty. And still: A switch version I would pre-order with speed of light. There are two good reasons for this:
First of all, Call of Duty: WW2 promises to be a strong shooter and the switch can be a good one. If you're looking for brachial, realistic action, look at Nintendo tends in the tube. Also, the fun-shooter Splatoon2, which was announced for the summer, can not be deceived. Call of Duty would be the perfect candidate to fill this gap in the game offer.
The developers had years of time to optimize the concept, control, and performance – the franchise does not run without a reason like sliced bread. In addition, the certainty that Nintendo, too, do not have to do without the flagship shooter, so some doubters of the switch convince. Call of Duty in the train? What fan could resist?
But there's another reason why I'd hit Call for Duty right away for the switch – even if I had not had a shooter in my life: it would be the first big title of a third-party installer to appear for the switch. After the previous console Wii U was dropped shortly after their weak start by most of the big developers, the support for the switch was considered questionable from the outset.
Partially, this is still so, because apart from NBA 2K18 and Fifa 18 , the really big announcements so far came almost exclusively from Nintendo itself. A timely release of the new Call of Duty would be not only a step in the right direction, but also a clear one Signal for fans, critics – and, of course, for other game developers.
Should Call of Duty: WW2 actually appear for the Switch and sell well here, we can certainly expect further AAA titles in the future. If the world war shooter on the switch, however, flop, third-party players would probably double and triple whether to bring their top titles to the Nintendo console.
That Call of Duty: WW2 failed, but I can hardly imagine – and that is precisely why I want to see it on the switch.


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This weekend Father Pete invited all parishioners to consider giving to the House of Charity. If you would like to learn more about the House of Charity, you can listen to Bishop Sullivan's talk on the House of Charity at http://www.camdendiocese.org/hoc/watch-2019-video/
The House of Charity – Bishop's Annual Appeal seeks to raise funds to provide care, respect, justice, peace and dignity for every soul in the Diocese of Camden. Support of the 2019 House of Charity – Bishop's Annual Appeal ensures the vitality of essential Diocesan ministries and programs that sustain the healing, teaching and redemptive Presence of Jesus Christ through the Diocese of Camden.
If you have decide to make a donation to the House of Charity, you can fill out a pledge card and place it in the collection basket at Mass or you can visit the Diocese website at https://16042.thankyou4caring.org/ to make a donation.
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Black-tailed prairie dogs are affectionate burrowing dwelling rodents once commonly seen in the grasslands and prairies of the Western United States. They lived in family groups and greet each other by a prairie dog kiss or nuzzle. Their burrows are intricate enginneering feats resulting in a many room structure with listening rooms, bedrooms, food caches, nursery room and toilet rooms.
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Or at least that's what I hope to eventually have when I get all my trees planted! We went by the Amish Nursery today. They have such healthy plants and at great prices compared to the nurseries in the larger towns.
Since I'm just starting to plant and make flower beds at this house, I'd like to use this blog to keep a list of all the plants I put in. I spent 9 years at our other house getting flowers beds, fish pond and plants just the way I wanted them and then we moved. It's like having a blank slate to start on.
Last year I planted:
Asiatic lilies
Tiger Lilies
Stella D'Ore lilies
Elephant Ears
Bleeding heart
Day lilies
Blackberry bushes
This property had 2 cherry trees and an apple that were all loaded in fruit last year. One of the cherry trees split in the recent ice storm and I'm not sure if it will make it. Today I bought:
1 Bartlett Pear Tree (dwarf variety)
1 Haven Peach Tree
1 Martin Peach Tree
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I also bought:
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All that for $96.00.
I would also like to get some grapevines this year.
As for the vegetable garden, I have planted:
and will plant the rest as the weather gets a little warmer.
My mom has requested chili and homemade pimento cheese sandwiches for supper. She had a great report from a stress echo she had done this morning so she wants to eat! I'll post the chili recipe as my recipe for the day in another post!
Oh and after waiting for the fish truck for an hour the guy at the store came out and told everyone that they were a no show but to call a phone number that he gave us and we would get a discount on our fish next time he decided to show up! I really wanted to get my catfish today!
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Daniel talks about NYE at DL and rages against Toy Story parking, TommyPix makes an argument for port-a-potties in Frontierland and Paul does a lot of laughing.
Leap Year 2012 Calls for 'One More Disney Day' As Walt Disney World, Disneyland Resorts Turn Feb. 29 Into 24 Hours of Nonstop Theme Park Magic.
New Main Street Loop January 9th. According to a Facebook post from Dean Mora
By the time you hear this the Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe Will be OPEN. Thursday Jan 5th.
New changes at Innoventions. A few sections of the upper area re-modeled. The X-Box area which is now basically a demo area for Kinect. And they added something called the Nanooze Zone. Plus Honda has a new display showing off the new 2012 Civic Hybrids.
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Northwest Bible has been my church home since 2000. In 2007, I transitioned out of the corporate world to focus my time fully on ministry to high school students. With my unique qualifications as an All-American football player and a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, in 2013 I locked in to a new role at Northwest as the Sports & Fitness Minister where I get to combine my love for sports and fitness with my passion for outreach and discipleship.
Without outreach, I would have never known who Jesus was and without discipleship I would have never grown in my faith. When I was 15, I was introduced to Jesus through the outreach efforts of an old man who loved Jesus so much that he wanted to share Christ with everyone around him (whether he knew them or not). And in the years that followed, God placed people in my life who have discipled me along the way and shown me how to learn about the character of God, love the ministry of Jesus, embrace the ways of the Spirit, fellowship with other believers, and serve the church. I don't know exactly where I would be without the outreach of that old man and without the discipleship of men of the faith through the years; but because of the impact they had on me in my high school years and beyond, my ministry passions revolve around outreach and discipleship. Knowing that athletes require more than just attention to their physical build, l am honored by the opportunity to address their spiritual needs as well. I strive to utilize the platform of sports and fitness to show and share the gospel and ultimately ignite the potential of athletes beyond the field of play.


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Google's biggest focus is getting next steps from those who are already interested and speeding up the deal cycle and obtaining next steps is probably where we need the most help.
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Today has been an awesome day so far. Using some of those voicemails has been a big help. I've gotten 3 responses already in just a few hours.
Also, I am using your "LinkedIn" invitation template. I am trying to add others to my network and get old leads to respond. Already gotten almost 50 responses! I suppose it's a "cold email" approach to leads that expressed interest a long time ago ~ in any event, the follow-up results have been outstanding.
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text: Mobile Phones Android The Best Android Apps You Can Use Offline Stay in touch — or even productive — without an Internet connection By Molly McLaughlin Writer, Editor Molly K. McLaughlin has been a technology writer since 2004. Her work has appeared on PCMag, Dealnews, Wirecutter, and many others. our editorial process Twitter LinkedIn Molly McLaughlin Updated March 05, 2020 Alan Graf / Getty Images Android Switching from iOS Tweet Share Email Did you know there are lots of mobile apps you can use offline? It's so rare to be without a web connection these days, but it can still happen if you visit a rural area, travel abroad, stumble upon the occasional dead spot in someone's home, or while riding public transit. There are also times when you choose to disconnect, such as if you're reaching your monthly data limit and are worried about overage charges. Luckily, there are lots of Android apps that offer either partial or full offline access so that you won't miss a podcast, favorite tune, or the latest news. Most of these apps are free, though some require you to upgrade to a premium version, which we've noted in the app write-ups below. Many of these apps even work together to create an even better offline experience. 01 of 11 Pocket by Read it Later What We Like Easily track things you want to read. Stores posts, doesn't just bookmark links. Available for many platforms and browsers. What We Don't Like Items you save can get overwhelming. Can't share multiple items with others. Pocket is a desktop and mobile app that lets you collect everything you want to read or watch later in one place. Plus, the app allows you to access your stuff when offline, perfect for when you need some airplane reading or when you're on vacation. You can save content to your Pocket account from your computer, email, web browser, and even select mobile apps. 02 of 11 Amazon Kindle by Amazon and Google Play Books by Google Westend61 / Getty Images What We Like Cheaper to buy books. Large book selection. Easy to note or flag excerpts. What We Don't Like Lacks the feel and smell of real books. Screensaver ads can be annoying. This one may be obvious, but you can download books to read offline on the Amazon Kindle and Google Play Books apps. Just be sure to remember to complete the downloads while you have an internet connection. (You don't want to realize your mistake at 30,000 feet on a plane with costly Wi-Fi.) Once you're back online, your progress with sync with any other devices you have, so you can resume reading on your Kindle device, tablet, or computer. 03 of 11 Google Maps by Google What We Like Great features like parking location and navigation. See traffic patterns. Save time while traveling. What We Don't Like Requires an internet connection. May overlook road construction. Avoids side roads even when faster. Google Maps offers full offline access to maps and turn-by-turn navigation, but it's not automatic. You have to save offline areas either to your device or an SD card if you have one, and then you can use Google Maps as you would when you're online. You can get directions (driving, walking, cycling, transit, and flight), search for places (restaurants, hotels, and other businesses) within that area, and access turn-by-turn voice navigation. Offline access is a great feature to take advantage of when traveling abroad or visiting a remote area. 04 of 11 Real Time Transit App by Transit App What We Like Easily access bus timetables. Schedules and routes available offline. Find bus share and car rentals. What We Don't Like Mostly focused on U.S. locations. Departure and arrival times are sometimes inaccurate. An alternative to Google Maps is Transit, which offers real-time updates in more than 125 cities. You can access schedules, plan trips, learn about service disruptions, and even track your bus or train — when online. If you're offline, you can still access transit times, and if you've saved your area offline on Google Maps, you can view that map in the Transit app. 05 of 11 Podcast Player by Player FM Podcasts What We Like Easily find your favorite topics. Available for web and mobile. Useful recommendations. Free to download and use. What We Don't Like Requires Gold plan for advanced features. Next episode feature sometimes inaccurate. Many podcast apps offer optional offline capabilities, but with Podcast Player by Player FM, it's baked right in. Unless you tell it otherwise, the app will download all of the podcasts you have subscribed to for offline access. The ability to download podcasts is a must-have feature for those who commute underground by subway and a great convenience for travelers. You can access podcasts on all sorts of topics, from travel to tech to comedy to riveting real-life stories. 06 of 11 FeedMe by dataegg What We Like Lots of features. Offline reading. What We Don't Like Unreliable app sync. Feeds lack images. Confusing settings. RSS feeds aggregate content about topics you're interested in, but you have to be online to get the latest. The FeedMe app connects with top RSS apps, including Feedly, InoReader, Bazqux, The Older Reader, and Feedbin, so you can access all of your updates wherever you are without a connection. You can also save content from FeedMe to your Pocket, Evernote, Instapaper, and Readability accounts. Cool! 07 of 11 TripAdvisor Hotels Restaurants by TripAdvisor What We Like Book directly from the app. Great for seeing user reviews. Very convenient while traveling. What We Don't Like Many user reviews are poorly written. Some reports of bogus positive reviews. Chances are if you've planned a trip, you've landed on TripAdvisor, which offers reviews of hotels, attractions, restaurants, and more in countries all over the world. You can now download reviews and other helpful information for more than 300 cities for viewing offline in the mobile app. No more wasting time looking for the next Wi-Fi hotspot. 08 of 11 Spotify Music by Spotify What We Like Fast music downloads. Listen anywhere while offline. What We Don't Like Need internet access to download music. Predownloading is required before going offline. Downloads take up device memory. While Spotify Music is free if you listen to ads, the premium version offers the ability to download your music for access offline so that you can bring your music everywhere, whether it's a plane, train, bus, or far-flung locale. Premium also removes ads so that you can enjoy your tunes uninterrupted. 09 of 11 Google Drive by Google What We Like Useful offline convenience. Access important files from anywhere. What We Don't Like Requires setting up syncing. Changes won't sync until online again. Need to capture notes or get work done while offline? The Google Drive app, which includes Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Google Drawings, lets you access and edit your files offline, syncing them when you reconnect. Just to be sure to mark the documents as available offline when you're still online. To do so, fire up the app, tap the "more" icon (three dots) next to a file, and then tap "Available Offline." You can also make all of your files available offline on your computer by downloading the desktop app. 10 of 11 Evernote by Evernote Corporation What We Like Easy, automatic syncing. Offline note-taking. Integrates with many third-party apps. What We Don't Like Only syncs when online. Initial sync requires internet access. We love the Evernote note-taking app. It's a perfect place to store recipes, capture notes, and even capture recordings, images, and video. Best of all, if you upgrade to a Plus or Premium plan, you can access all of your notebooks offline. Once you're back online, your data will sync with all of the devices you use. These paid plans also let you forward emails into Evernote, which is a huge time saver. 11 of 11 Kiwix by Wikimedia CH What We Like Easy access to Wikipedia even when offline. Convenient access to large database of information. What We Don't Like Syncing can be unreliable. Navigation can be tedious. As we all know, the internet was created to settle bar bets. Wikipedia and sites like it offer quick access to facts (some fact-checking required, of course). Kiwix takes all that information and gives it to you offline so that you can research to your heart's delight wherever you are. You can download content from Wikipedia as well as Ubuntu documentation, WikiLeaks, Wikisource, WikiVoyage, and the like. Be sure to download before going offline and be aware that the files are going to be massive, so consider using an SD card or freeing up space on your device before proceeding.