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Well the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid
And my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent
When this grey world crumbles like a cake
I'll be hanging from the hope
That I'll never see that recipe again
It's not my birthday, it's not today…
– They Might Be Giants, "It's Not My Birthday"-
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
-Louis L'Amour-
No, dear readers, it is NOT my birthday today. That cherished occasion lies nine months in the future. Today is auspicious, however, for at least two reasons:
A) Today was the last day of my IT career. I've left behind Very Large Corporation, Inc, and Information Technology alike in order to take up my bindle stick, pluck up my courage, and hop aboard a train bound for Creative Enterprise.
B) Today is my "rebirthday." Exactly 2 years ago today, I received the precious blessing of the state court and changed my legal identity to match my actual one. I may be only two years old, but I'm advanced for my age.
It's been a busy day, is the point.
I've been struggling for years to return to creative work, the victim of an odd (and, at times, cruel-seeming) paradox; despite having zero formal IT training or education, possessing what can only be described as mid-level technopathy led to the assumption that I was and would forever be a "techie," despite both my frequent side projects in the creative arts and my own hearty protestations to the contrary. Eventually, the time I'd spent in IT (which was, naturally, time away from design and other creative fields, at least according to my resume) reinforced this idea; "Claire must be meant for IT because Claire's in IT and Claire's in IT because Claire's meant to be there."
Not pretty.
But, the wheel of life spins under our feet regardless of our forward motion, and eventually I was able to – through a series of contacts, design projects and a stubbornness so profound that mules roll their eyes at me – procure my new position in Marketing and Social Media. My excitement is so profound that I'm pretty sure I've been levitating most of the day, which sounds fun until you stop at the grocery and can't activate the little pressure-plate door opener thing.
But I digress.
As I was packing up my few remaining possessions and saying my goodbyes, I realized how deeply IT has affected me, both as a person and an employee. Yes, there have been challenges to my patience at times – ID-10T errors and PEBKAC abound – but for the most part, even the most grievous frustrations were ameliorated by that magic moment, that singular instant, when I solved someone's problem. Money has never been a particularly strong motivator for me; my inability to manage it, coupled with the sort of disregard for material gain most people associate with terminal illness or religious mania makes it a poor carrot with which to lead me down the primrose path. However, put me in a place where I am genuinely and consistently helpful to someone, exorcising not just the demons from their Excel macros but the shadows from their workday, and I am a happy camper (provided, of course, that there is gratitude for services rendered…ingrates turn the knob of my Smitemaster 3000 to "11" ).
This has not been an ideal job – what job is, in the final analysis? – but it HAS been a useful one. It's taught me many things about myself, and the kind of work, environment and interactions I require to feel as though I'm making a positive impact every day. It's introduced me to some great friends, taught me that trust needs to be earned (not just given away like novelty tokens at a particularly cruddy fundraising carnival), and, perhaps most importantly of all, helped me to understand all the things I'm NOT as well as those I am.
And for that, I will be forever grateful.
It's been a day of lasts – last login, last cup of tea, last casual sweep of Ice Station Zebra, last hugs and tears and laughs.There will be letters to write, e-mails to exchange, lunches to coordinate; there will be attrition as bodies both peripheral and central in my personal galaxy move closer or break orbit and disappear into space beyond.
But it's also a day for beginnings. Here I stand, two years as Claire behind me, with (let us hope) many more ahead. The sun has not yet reached its apex; the future stretches before me, a road traveling through sunny heights and icy, shadowed lows. Having reached a fork, I've chosen what I hope is the right one, and focus my gaze on the horizon.
No, it's not my birthday, my friends. But somehow, I still feel as though I've been given a gift.
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I won't spend too many lines groveling before you with the standard introductions. I have a massive nerd chubby for my Slackware 13.37 system running XFCE, it's fantastic, well done.
I'm running 4.6.2 and I have the inactive windows go 50% opaque in the settings. This is the setup I have grown to love and cherish. Occasionally when I watch a video however I would like to temporarily disable the transparency on the video display window, while leaving everything else in place. This would allow me to watch the video while working in another window.
I believe I could disable the inactive window settings and then manually adjust my other windows up and down. I will be trying this for the next few days to see how it goes. However, is there a way to pull this off without disabling the inactive settings in the settings? I was hoping I could hover on the title bar of the inactive window and dial it up, but no luck. This functionality works but it would not let go higher than the 50% setting that was in the settings.
I have a somewhat similar issue, but in my case I have the problem of the Gimp main window going transparent when I'm adjusting an image from a dialog. It would be nice if there was an option to allow for all windows of an application instance to stay opaque when active.
Occasionally when I watch a video however I would like to temporarily disable the transparency on the video display window, while leaving everything else in place. This would allow me to watch the video while working in another window.
I have a decent workaround for you, after much searching and fiddling.
Try typing this command in a terminal:
xprop -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY_LOCKED 32c -set _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY_LOCKED 1
It will allow you to select any window with the mouse cursor, and that window will be ignored by the window manager for transparency.
I added a launcher to my panel which just runs this command.
I believe you could make script for launching apps that would do this automatically. But I'll leave that to better scripters - unless I get a wild hair
So ... a few year have gone by Any one come up with a script for this so I don't need to klutz around when I decide to GIMP a photo. Having the main window go transparent really inhibits adjusting colors, etc.
The words "massive nerd chubby" in the first post probably scared everyone away, lol.
It's not a script, but can you place mouse cursor on the window you wish to opaque(?), hold one of the Alt keys, and move your finger up (or to the right) along your mousepad's vertical (or horizontal) scroll-area if using a laptop mousepad, or turn the mousewheel up (if using a mouse)?
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2 problems I find with the alt mouse on the title bar thing:
1. It doesn't restore the "main" window to 100% opaque.
2. It's a pain to do this every time I call up a program like GIMP.
I think I'll probably just un-set the transparent stuff in my windows settings (a shame); unless someone has a setting/script which, in effect, says: don't do the transparency stuff for this program???

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Ordained June 4, 1981, Eaton served as assistant pastor of All Saints Lutheran Church in Worthington, Ohio; interim pastor of Good Hope Lutheran Church in Boardman, Ohio; and pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church in Ashtabula, Ohio. She was elected bishop of the ELCA Northeastern Ohio Synod in 2006 and re-elected in May 2013.
Eaton is involved in a number of boards and committees. She is a board member of Trinity Lutheran Seminary and Capital University, both based in Columbus, Ohio. She is a member of the Lutheran Episcopal Coordinating Committee and the ELCA Conference of Bishops Executive Committee. She also serves on the Conference of Bishops Domestic Ready Bench and serves in roles with the ELCA Malaria Campaign, the Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry, PORTICO Philosophy of Benefits Task Force, Ohio Council of Churches and Lutheran Planned Giving in Ohio.
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Mo'Ne Davis shares how she got started in baseball
Mo'Ne Davis has become the sensation at the Little League World Series this year after pitching a 2-hit shutout in her Philadelphia-based team's opening game win at Williamsport last week.
Davis is the star pitcher on her Taney Little League team, which is 2-0 through two games and will face Las Vegas on Wednesday with a trip to the US championship game on the line. Davis, 13, has been playing baseball less than six years. She was the subject of ESPN's Sunday Conversation and was asked by Karl Ravech how she got started playing baseball.
"I actually started playing baseball at seven. I wasn't really a big baseball fan but I had a strong arm, so then I knew I had to practice more," Davis said.
"I was playing football and I was tackling the boys and I was throwing spirals, so coach Steve (Bandura) came up to me and said you have to play baseball. So I played baseball and I was an outfielder and that was kind of how it went.
"I started pitching at like the of age 8 or 9. I wasn't the best, but I threw strikes so I would start a lot. And then my arm started getting stronger and stronger, so then I started throwing gas — like my fastball started speeding up. So that's how I got started."
In an interview with CSN Philly prior to the start of the LLWS, Bandura recalled how he discovered Davis.
"A lot of our kids were still hanging around, they were out in left field throwing a football around," he said. "There was this little girl in the group with them, and I'm watching her throw perfect spirals every single time, and throwing them a good distance. I was like, 'What is that?'"
Bandura is the coach of a youth travel team called the Anderson Monarchs. It was after one of his Monarchs practices that he spotted Davis. He also had great praise for her.
"At this age, she's the best pitcher I've ever had," Bandura told CSN Philly. "I've had pitchers that are now in the minor leagues, but at this age, no one's had the control to go with the velocity that she has and the command."
Even though Davis is 13, she says her teammates view her more as like a mother rather than sister. She believes a lot of that has to do with her calm attitude on the field.
Davis is not just comfortable on the field but also off of it. She shows some charm and humor in interviews. When asked what are some things people don't know about her, she gave a typical 13-year-old answer.
"I laugh a lot and I joke around a lot, too. I also eat and sleep a lot."
According to ESPNW, Davis dreams of playing point guard for UConn's women's basketball and has no desire to switch to softball. Why should she? The way she's going, she can continue to excel at baseball.


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I start every day with music.I have three radio stations whose early hour shows make my mornings better. I listen to either K-LOVE, The House FM or WAY FM while getting ready for my day. The music and interesting religious discussions there just help put me in a frame of mind to handle what the day has for me.
I start every day with music.
I have three radio stations whose early hour shows make my mornings better. I listen to either K-LOVE, The House FM or WAY FM while getting ready for my day. The music and interesting religious discussions there just help put me in a frame of mind to handle what the day has for me.
One discussion this week was pretty humorous and I wanted to take issue with what was said. Lisa Whelchel – Blair from the 1980s television show The Facts of Life – has been outspoken about her faith and now she is joining the cast of Survivor.
Anyone who knows the show understands that contestants are forced to deceive competitors to win. The interest in the show comes from the double-cross moments or when the deceiver gets deceived.
So what should Whelchel do? Should she lie on the show? After all, Jesus wouldn't lie.
To me, the topic was hilarious. Survivor is a game. It happens to be a game where people fool each other to play. I don't think Jesus is too worried about whether someone plays a game.
After all, no one questions Tim Tebow when he plays football. In Matthew 5:39 Jesus told his followers not to resist their enemies but, if someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to them also. But I have seen Tebow block and someone has to tackle all of those defensive backs who intercept his passes.
If Tebow is allowed to knock people to the ground in pursuit of his game, I think Whelchel is allowed to fool fellow contestants on Survivor without jeopardizing her Christian witness.
But one offhanded comment by the morning show hosts was even more off base. While they were laughing about "What Would Jesus Do" on Survivor, one host said Jesus wouldn't lie. He said he wouldn't have to. His theory was that Jesus would win Survivor in the first episode and ruin the whole series.
I don't remember things going that well for Jesus during his life. Jesus wasn't very popular. Instead of winning the game easily, something tells me Jesus would be voted out first.
Everyone who ever watched a crazy rainbow-wig-wearing fan hold a sign at a football game knows John 3:16. But how many people have read a few verses down to find out about how the world received Jesus?
In verses 19 and 20, John said, "Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed."
Jesus' honesty isn't in question. But I think that is what would lose him the game. Remember, those guys he called "whitewashed tombs" because they played the religious game of their day and looked good on the outside but inside were nothing but dead men's bones were the same ones who killed Jesus.
I don't think he would do much better on Survivor.
Regardless, I think Whelchel playing the game could be fun. I bet she finds a way to stay true to her beliefs.
I'm just glad some people still think about what Jesus would do and trying to set their own course based on the example he set.
Kent Bush is the Augusta Gazette Publisher, a columnist and blogger for the GateHouse Media Network. He can be contacted at email@example.com.


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ELECTRONIC HOUSE -Review: Elite Screens' ezFrame Screen
This screen looks and performs better than its price tag suggests.
September 16, 2010 | by Arlen Schweiger
As much as you'd love a $20,000, four-way, motorized masking, curved CinemaScope screen for your theater, that's a daydream for most. However, for less than a tenth of the cost you can still own a rock-solid projection screen.
The EZ-Frame screen products from Elite Screens look like they cost a whole lot more than they do, and their performance is on par with that. If you're debating flat-panel TV versus projection, consider that a 100-inch EZ-Frame and modest high-def projector combo costs about as much as a quality 50-inch HDTV—only the picture is quadruple the size.
To test the installation rigors and performance, Elite sent me a 92-inch EZ-Frame regular white matte, 16:9 fixed screen. You may get away with doing the install yourself; I enlisted colleague Bob Archer to make it an easier two-man job.
If you're installing it in a basic theater room like mine, screen assembly and mounting will be no sweat. Elite marketing manager David Rodgers says most custom electronics pros can zip through it in 30 minutes to an hour. Bob and I weren't that speedy, but even as novices it took us less than two hours.
After unboxing and laying the contents on the floor—most theaters will have more breathing room than mine for this—we started attaching the horizontal velour-surfaced aluminum frames, which come in two pieces, and then the vertical sides. The only knock was that in one corner not every screw hole aligned perfectly; but overall fastenings were plenty tight so leaving one screw out wouldn't hinder the installation.
It took about 35 minutes to assemble the frame, insert the tension rods and carefully unroll the screen (you want as little debris in contact as possible), and we were on to the tensioning. Attaching the fix plates into the frame slots for this task was much more difficult, but the process still only required about 40 minutes, despite our breaking a handful of the plastic pieces and feeling like our thumbs were about to fall off.
Wall hanging proved simple with the 2-inch flat strap sliding brackets, and after measuring, leveling and mounting, the screen was ready for action. At the time of this review, I'd used it with a BenQ mini LED projector and an Anthem LTX 300v D-ILA model, running the gamut at about $500 and $6,500, respectively (and I've since used another high-performance model, DreamVision's StarLight). Having projected the BenQ onto my white wall, the addition of the screen made a noticeable improvement in picture clarity and brightness, plus framing the image in black provided boost in contrast.
In handling the much higher-performance Anthem 1080p unit, this value screen has been nothing less than a champ—it looks like a really crisp, really large LCD. One of its merits as a bargain performer is that you can put that extra cash toward a better projector.
Blu-ray, HD DVD, cable, and PC content of varying resolutions was rendered smoothly and brightly, with nice color uniformity and no hot spotting.
If you're worried about not having an always-dark dedicated theater, I found that even with a can ceiling light turned on inches in front of this screen, the image was highly viewable, so higher-gain options ought to work exceedingly well under ambient light conditions—another plus for the screen side of the debate.
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Specifications, Pros, Cons
Available in white tension PVC, high 1.8 gain white, tension contrast gray
Solid or acoustically perforated material options
Black-backed screen material
Black, lightweight velour-surface aluminum frame
2-inch flat strap sliding mounting brackets
4:3, 16:9, 2.35:1 aspect ratios
Sizes from 84 to 200 diagonal inches
MSRP starting at $649 (street pricing can be found for about half)
Priced at a bargain
Easy to assemble and mount
Quality image enhancement
Looks nice even when there's no picture onscreen
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WASHINGTON – An attack on a woman in Springfield Monday night appears to be the work of a serial groper in Fairfax County.
Fairfax County Police Officer Eddy Azcarate says a woman was walking to an apartment in the Springfield area around 6 p.m. Monday night when she says a man grabbed her from behind.
When she turned around, the man ran off.
She says he was wearing a dark hoodie and blue jeans.
The incident happened in the 7200 block of Commerce Street.
Azcarate say this appears to be the 10th reported case in Fairfax County since early September.
Azcarate says the serial groper has been known to wear either a red hat or a bandana.
Officers continue to investigate the serial groping case and are asking for tips from people in the area.
Azcarate advises people to try to be aware of their surroundings when out walking and look ahead and behind frequently.
He also advises people to travel in pairs if they can and if they can't, have a cellphone ready.
The suspect is described as a Hispanic man, with a medium build and black hair. He often wears a red cap.
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This is the 7th and last post in my Visualization with React series. Previous post: Creating a React visualization web app
We can finally take the little wheels off and create a real React app.
That's what we'll make:
You can try the app for yourself here. The code is available on github.
This time, instead of loading data from a paltry CSV file, we'll go live and hit the openweathermap API and get live weather data.
The app may be more complex than anything we've done before, but it's really more of the same, so I'll be probably quicker.
First, look at the secrets.json file. As you can guess, it can't work as is – if you want to try this at home, you must get your own (free) API key from openweathermap.
Next, let's take a look at our constants.js file.
At this stage, you might ask: why not put the API key in that constants file? Well, it's good practice to never store your API keys in your code. So, I put it in a separate file.
Constants.js is pretty simple. It has: a url prefix (that of the openweathermap api). If they change it, I can just edit the constants file. The CITY_ID holds the identifier of San Francisco. You can replace it by whatever you want (it's not too difficult to find the city_id for any given city at the OWM web site).
Finally, I have a json object called KEYS where I store what I'm interested in getting from the API.
Let's move to the App.js file, which is the top-level react file.
import React, { Component } from 'react'; import './App.css'; import '../node_modules/react-vis/main.css'; import {json} from 'd3-request'; import * as CONSTANTS from './constants'; import secrets from './secrets.json'; const {API} = secrets;
Note that I can import my json file like a code file.
We start, unsurprisingly, by creating an App component, and by a constructor method.
class App extends Component { constructor(props) { super(props); this.state = { highlighted: null }; this.highlightX = this.highlightX.bind(this); this.processResults = this.processResults.bind(this); }
We initialize the state, and bind two methods. Nothing we haven't seen.
componentWillMount() { json(`${CONSTANTS.QUERY_PREFIX}?id=${CONSTANTS.CITY_ID}&appid=${API}&units=imperial`, this.processResults); }
Things get interesting with the componentWillMount method.
We use our d3-request json function to read the url in the first line, which we compose by joining the URL prefix, the city id, the api key, and I've added 'units=imperial' so that temperatures are in Farenheit. Feel free to change this to units=metric or remove it (in which case temperatures will be in Kelvin, why not).
The second argument of the json function is what is done with the request – this is our first private method, processResults, which is what comes next.
processResults(error, queryResults) { if (error) { this.setState({error}); } const data = CONSTANTS.KEYS.map(key => ({ key, values: queryResults.list.map((d, i) => ({ i, x: d.dt * 1000, y: d[key.key1] ? d[key.key1][key.key2] || 0 : 0 })) })).reduce((prev, curr) => { return {...prev, [curr.key.name]: curr.values} }, { 'city-name': ( queryResults && queryResults.city && queryResults.city.name ) || 'Unkown' }); this.setState({data}); }
If the data can't load, error will have a value, and we'll pass it to the state.
Else, we're going to process the result of the query (queryResults) according to the structure that we want (CONSTANTS.KEYS).
Here, I'm using a sequence of map and reduce.
Map turns an array into another array of the same shape. Reduce turns an array into something else, such as an object as here.
queryResults is an object which has a list property. queryResults.list is an array of nested objects. This is why each entry of CONSTANTS.KEYS specifies two keys.
To simplify, one of these objects could look like this:
{ "dt": 1471413600, "main": { "temp": 57.22, "temp_min": 53.32, "temp_max": 57.22, "pressure": 1017.57, "sea_level": 1025.63, "grnd_level": 1017.57, "humidity": 100, "temp_kf": 2.17 }, "weather": [ { "id": 500, "main": "Rain", "description": "light rain", "icon": "10n" } ], "clouds": { "all": 24 }, "wind": { "speed": 3.42, "deg": 234.501 }, "rain": { "3h": 0.02 }, "sys": { "pod": "n" }, "dt_txt": "2016-08-17 06:00:00" }
So, if I'm interested in the temperature, I have to get it from main, then temp. (two keys)
For each entry of CONSTANTS.KEYS, I'm mapping queryResults to create a time series of objects with three properties: in x, a date in timestamp format (number of milliseconds since 1970). in y, the value I'm interested in. and in i, the index of that object in the time series.
When I'm done mapping CONSTANTS.KEYS, I have an array of such time series, or more exactly: an array of objects with a name property (which comes from CONSTANTS.KEYS) and a values property (the array of objects described above).
Finally, I'm reducing it to an object using reduce.
The reduce method works like this:
myArray.reduce(function(prev, curr) { // operation involving the previous result (prev) and the current element of the array (curr) return resultOfThatOperation;}, // which becomes prev in the next loop initialValueOfReduce) // which will go into prev the first time
What mine does is turn that array into an object. The keys of that object are the name property of each element, and the values are what's behind the values property of that object (our time series).
And that final object has an extra property: city-name, the name of the city for which weather is being queried, if it exists.
When this object is created, we send it to the state.
highlightX(highlighted) { this.setState({highlighted}); }
highlightX is our other private method. What it does is send whatever it's passed to the state. But since we create it here, it will pass that to the state of App, the top level component. If that state is changed, all the children (ie everything) may be re-rendered.
Finally, we have our render method.
We'll skip on the styling – codewise, we'll see that this method calls two components, LargeChart and SmallChart, with similar properties:
<LargeChart highlighted={highlighted} highlightX={this.highlightX} series={data.Temperature} title='Temperature' /> // ... <SmallChart highlighted={highlighted} highlightX={this.highlightX} series={data.Pressure} title='Pressure' />
highlighted comes from the state of App.
highlightX is the callback method. We've seen this before – we give children components the ability to change the state of their parent, and we also pass them the result of that change.
Else, we pass to each component a part of our data object, and a different title.
Let's move on to the large chart component:
import React, { Component } from 'react'; import moment from 'moment'; import { LineSeries, makeWidthFlexible, MarkSeries, VerticalGridLines, XAxis, XYPlot, YAxis } from 'react-vis'; const HOUR_IN_MS = 60 * 60 * 1000; const DAY_IN_MS = 24 * HOUR_IN_MS; const FlexibleXYPlot = makeWidthFlexible(XYPlot);
so far, we're importing a bunch of stuff.
the two constants that we create are the numbers of milliseconds in an hour, and in a day, which will be useful in a bit.
FlexibleXYPlot is a special react-vis component that can resize (in width). By using this as opposed to XYPlot with a fixed width, we can make our app layout responsive (try resizing the window!) without having to think too hard it.
export default class LargeChart extends Component { render() { const {highlighted, highlightX, series} = this.props; const minValue = Math.min(...series.map(d => d.y)); const maxValue = Math.max(...series.map(d => d.y)); const yDomain = [0.98 * minValue, 1.02 * maxValue]; const tickValues = series.map(d => d.x); const labelValues = makeLabelValues(series);
Eh, we could have made a pure functional component, since this one only has a render method and no state.
First, we come up with the bounds of the domain. We don't have to. Note the use of the spread operator for a very concise way to write this.
We create yDomain with a little bit of margin – we start with 98% of the smallest value, and go to 102% of the maximum value.
If we don't define a domain, then react-vis will create it based on the data – it will start with exactly the smallest value and end with exactly the highest.
tickValues will be all the different x values.
labelValues will be created by a separate function (in the end). We'll write a label for every day of our time series at precisely midnight.
Now we'll create the chart proper.
<FlexibleXYPlot height={300} margin={{top: 5, bottom: 25, left: 40, right: 0}} onMouseLeave={() => this.props.highlightX(null)} yDomain={yDomain} > <VerticalGridLines values={labelValues} /> <HorizontalGridLines /> <LineSeries data={series} onNearestX={highlightX} stroke='#11939a' strokeWidth={2} /> {highlighted ? <LineSeries data={[ {x: highlighted && highlighted.x, y: yDomain[0]}, {x: highlighted && highlighted.x, y: yDomain[1]} ]} stroke='rgba(17,147,154,0.7)' strokeWidth={2} /> : null } {highlighted ? <MarkSeries data={[{ x: highlighted && highlighted.x, y: highlighted && series[highlighted.i].y }]} color='rgba(17,147,154,0.7)' /> : null } <XAxis tickSize={4} tickValues={tickValues} labelValues={labelValues} labelFormat={(d) => moment(new Date(d)).format('MM/DD')} /> <YAxis tickSize={4} /> </FlexibleXYPlot>
The first interesting thing is the onMouseLeave property of FlexibleXYPlot. If the mouse leaves the chart, we'll use our highlightX callback function to pass "null" to the state of App.
In other words, when the mouse is not on a chart, the value of highlighted is null.
A bit later, we see that the first LineSeries has an onNearestX property. What it does is that when somebody mouseovers the chart, it sends the underlying datapoint to the state of App. Remember that these datapoints are objects with three property: x, i and y.
So, at a given moment, highlighted is either null, or of the form: {x: (a date in timestamps format), y: (a value), i: (the position of that datapoint in the time series, ie 10 if that's the 10th point)}.
Let's go on.
There's an interesting construct between curly braces. Remember that in JSX, whatever is between curly braces will be evaluated. Here, we have a ternary operator (condition ? true : false). If highlighted exists, then we will create a LineSeries, else nothing.
What this means is that if there's a value for highlighted, we are going to draw a vertical line that spans the whole chart, at the level of the mouseover.
We then have a similar construction for a MarkSeries, which, likewise, draws a circle at the same position as the highlighted data point.
Finally, we create the axes. The XAxis has a few interesting properties: tickValues, which we defined above – all the possible x values, labelValues and labelFormat. labelValues determine where the labels will be drawn. Finally, labelFormat determines what will be drawn, as a function of each value in labelValues.
export function makeLabelValues(series) { const firstDate = new Date(series[0].x); const firstDateHour = firstDate.getHours(); const firstMidnight = series[0].x + (24 - firstDateHour) * HOUR_IN_MS; return [0, 1, 2, 3, 4].map(d => firstMidnight + d * DAY_IN_MS); }
the last part of this module creates those label values.
Our time series has a number of elements (normally 39), every 3 hours. But the first element is probably not the very beginning of a day. We'd like our labels to be exactly aligned with the start of a day (midnight).
So we are going to figure out what time it is on the first element of the time series, compute when exactly is the next day, and then create an array of 5 values corresponding to the time we just computed, then the time 24 hours after (start of the next day), the time 24 hours after that, etc.
As a result, we'll have a list of 5 'midnights' exactly a day apart.
Finally, let's look at SmallChart.
SmallChart is very similar to LargeChart. The styling is a bit different (these charts are, well, smaller). The Smallchart component also have an onNearestX hook that sends a datapoint to the state of App.
Unlike LargeChart, it doesn't draw a vertical line; it just draws a dot on the curve corresponding to the highlighted time.
So, since App sends the same highlighted to all chart components, mousing over any chart makes that dot appear on all charts. How do we know where to draw it?
If I mouseover on a chart, onNearestX will send to its corresponding callback function the underlying datapoint, that has an x and a y property (and possibly others). If I wanted to draw a dot on that same chart, that would be easy – I already know the x and y coordinates where I would have to draw it. But how can I draw a dot on all the other charts?
This is why I added that i property to the timeseries to begin with. When I mouseover on a point on any chart, the object I send to App's state has that i property. In other words, I can know that I've mouseovered the 10th point of the chart (or the 17th, or the 3rd, etc.). When the LargeChart and SmallChart components will draw the dot, they will draw it on top of the 10th (or 17th, or 3rd… well, the i-th) point of their own chart.
<MarkSeries data={[{ x: highlighted && highlighted.x, y: highlighted && series[highlighted.i].y }]} color='rgba(17,147,154,0.7)' size='2' />
That's what series[highlighted.i].y means.
And that's it! A complete dashboard with linked charts. You can tell that temperature is lower at night, and probably lower when there are clouds, but then again it's San Francisco so it's probably always 60 more or less.
This project could be much more complex – we could have added a tooltip like in our previous app… added extra series… and arranged info in a lot of different ways. We could also let the user change the city through a text box. Well, you can make your own version!
(if you're curious why I haven't hosted this app on github, it's because we can only access an HTTP version of the OWM API for free, and since github pages are hosted over HTTPS those requests will be blocked.)
Now, what
Congratulations for reading that far, you are awesome.
So you want to take your react game to the next level and do amazing visualizations?
You should continue exploring react-vis. I've only used a very basic case. We use it at Uber to create pretty elaborated charts and dashboards.
Our visualization team is also behind three amazing open source libraries which play well with React: React-Map-GL, to create maps with MapBox and React; Deck.gl, to create webGL layers over maps, and Luma.gl, a WebGL framework.
One of the best features of React is that it has so many existing modules. React-motion is, IMO, the best way to handle animation in React as of now, especially when SVG elements are concerned. Check out that great article by Nash Vail.
The React project page is an evident resource. React is alive, keeps adding features, and there is constantly more code out there using react and pushing the envelope.
The Airbnb style guide is a solid reference for writing good modern javascript. We don't follow it at Uber; we have slightly different rules, which are not published. Anyway, the best part of such a system is its consistency, and Airbnb style guide is definitely consistent.
React Rocks! is a great collection of examples and a source of inspiration.
Once your application become complex enough, it's difficult to handle states and callbacks everywhere. You can use a store to address this. Right now the state of the art solution is redux. The author of Redux, Dan Abramov, gives an amazing video tutorial which doubles as an excellent showcase for React and ES6.


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WESTMINSTER – Two women pleaded not guilty Friday to charges stemming from the beating death of a 23-year-old woman outside a Santa Ana nightclub.
Candace Marie Brito, 27, and Vanesa Tapia Zavala, 25, are charged with murder in the Jan. 18 beating death of Annie Kim Pham outside The Crosby.
Prosecutors added a charge of assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury against both women, plus an enhancement.
Deputy District Attorney Troy Pino rejected a defense contention that the case is altered by a witness statement to police that he was beaten by Asian gang members who were with Pham the night of the incident.
"There's no evidence supporting the fact that the altercation between the defendants and the victim was gang-related," Pino told reporters after the Friday arraignment. "There were peripheral fights that occurred away from this fight and there were some statements about maybe gang slogans being uttered there, but that has nothing to do with this particular altercation."
The other fights and gang allegations do not affect the case, said Pino outside the West Justice Center in Westminster.
"The only thing that matters is that (Zavala and Brito) kicked the victim while she was down and defenseless," Pino said.
After a contentious, two-day preliminary hearing last week, Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Borris ruled that the two women should be tried for murder in Pham's death. After the women were arraigned Friday, Borris ordered them back in court Monday for a trial-setting conference.
Police detectives testified during the preliminary hearing that Pham, a Huntington Beach resident and aspiring writer, threw the first punch in the melee. They also testified that the confrontation began when a woman – an acquaintance of one of the defendants – bumped into Pham and the two started trash talking.
"What we have here is a bunch of people that were standing in line (at The Crosby) who have affiliations with gangs, at least some of them do, that attacked somebody or a group of people for bumping into them and for the prosecution to sit in front of these cameras and say how Ms. Pham was lying on her back defenseless," Brito's attorney Michael Molfetta said, "I defy anybody to look at that video and point out where it is. … It simply didn't occur."
Parts of the melee were captured on cellphone videos, at least one of which was posted online, garnering national attention and fueling questions about apathy to public violence.
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Proper maintenance makes a big difference to performance!
The long awaited WA M4A1 CQB-R and WA M4A1 Carbine were released not that long ago, but they have already taken a good amount of wind under their wings. (Please see our review.) Despite the lack of spare magazines at that time, the first batches sold out in a record time. The magazines turned out to be a slight bit more expensive than we had hoped for, but there are some really neat features in them that warrant an article of their own.
As with any gas gun magazine, the magazines for the WA M4A1 series need proper maintenance and lubrication to keep them working at the best performance. Compared to the common pistol magazines, there are a few things we want to clarify about this new weapon type.
First of all, the high power and heavy moving parts with tremendous recoil means, that the weapon needs some "Oomph" from the power source to be able to provide all that. A lot of users outside of Japan will charge Green Gas (propane) into the gas reservoir. Even with normal gas pistols, Green Gas adds its own requirements to the maintenance. These effects are amplified with the WA M4A1, because the gas consumption is higher.
As Green Gas is released from the magazine when the WA M4A1 is fired, the dropping pressure allows the liquid green gas to "boil" and turn into gaseous form. The gas flow is so hard, that it effectively blows the plunger O-ring of the main valve dry after some time. For this reason it is necessary to keep the valve lubricated to keep the O-ring in good order. Normally you can add silicone oil directly from the gas output hole at the top of the magazine, while the magazine is emptied of any gas and the valve is locked open.
One good trick we found is to push and hold the valve lock down as you fill the magazine, to let the plunger seat better. After the gas pressure is affecting the valve, you can let go of the valve lock.
A more thorough maintenance can be done by disassembling the magazine. Before disassembly, it is absolutely mandatory to make sure that there is no gas in the magazine. After that, it's time to attack the pins with a small punch and hammer. Tap lightly! Only three of the pins at the front of the magazine need to be removed. You can leave the bottom pin in place, but remove the larger bottom pin at the same time. This means you won't get the spring and follower in your face.
The BB feed channel and base plate can be removed by gently pushing the top of the feed channel forward, and then down. At this point you can also remove the bottom plug of the gas reservoir. Tapping the main magazine body with a plastic hammer helps to pull it out by recoil force. Next we remove the top section of the magazine, which is held in place by two pins. It can also be removed most easily by the ingenious use of recoil. Please note that the valve lock can jump out, so operate in a clear plastic bag (or prepare to hit the floor looking for a small spring.
The most common problems in these areas can be remedied by taking care of the O-rings periodically. As with GBB pistol magazines, you can always tighten the fit with PFTE tape aka. "Plumber's Tape". It is wrapped into the groove to make the fit more tight, and silicone lubricant is then added as usual.
Both the gas inlet valve and the main valve should be removed with a proper tool to avoid damage. The main valve is bigger than normal, so some tools may need to have the cavity deepened. The gas inlet valve can be disassembled further by turning the brass inner tube clockwise. The injection tube will come out from the side normally facing out of the magazine, so it's a bit different than normal inlet valves.
The magazine is now disassembled for any maintenance you should need to perform. Looking at the parts separately, you can see that the magazine is not actually more complicated in terms of keeping the gas inside, compared to a regular GBB pistol magazine. The gas reservoir is a single-piece tube blocked from both ends by separate parts, and of course there are the mandatory inlet and main valves.
One of Western Arms' unique features has been the ability to fire a gas gun upside down without getting liquid into the main valve. The name of this feature is often mistaken as "R-Type", but the correct term is NLS, for Non-Liquid Siphon/System. It is not implemented in all pistols because of the volume limitation, but in an M4A1 magazine there's room to spare.
As you charge the magazine with gas, the long inlet valve controls the ratio between liquid/gaseous propellant in the magazine. This is necessary in all gas operated guns, because the BB is shot by the pressure of the gas, not the expansion rate of liquid into gas. After charging the magazine, the level of the liquid gas does not reach the intake tube, so you won't get liquid into the main valve no matter which way around you turn the magazine. This applies to any silicone as well as liquid gas, so adding silicone into the magazine with the propellant is not sufficient to keep the main valve lubricated.


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Don't forget the glassware! Serving beer in the proper glass can enhance a guest's experience. When serving beer, it's important to have glasses that are "beer clean," that is, free from any residue that will affect the beer's flavor or appearance. For this level of glassware purity, an automatic dishwasher is ideal. Be careful to wash your glassware separately from other dishes, and use a sanitizing detergent so that all you taste is the fresh and flavorful beer.
Have you ever thrown a party, and afterwards realized you were too stressed to enjoy yourself? Here are several tips on how to enjoy your party as much as your guests:
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PC P.E.A.R.L.S.®: 7 key elements of person centred care
Through its culture change initiative, the Alzheimer Society of Canada aims to improve the experience of long-term care for people with dementia and their families, and is working with others to provide useful strategies, tools and tips that can help put the principles of person centred care into practice.
Seven key elements for delivering person centred care stood out in our research. These are outlined in the information sheets below entitled PC P.E.A.R.L.S.®:Read the introduction »
Person and Family Engagement
Families and friends are involved, supported and engaged in the life of the person with dementia. Read more »
Effective care planning focuses on each resident's abilities, experimenting with various options to avoid inappropriate use of restraints. It includes routine pain assessment and management to help the person enjoy an improved quality of life. Read more »
Person centred care principles are embedded into the strategic plan and operational processes to begin and sustain culture change. Read more »
Working within current regulations and legislation, a physical and social environment is promoted to support the resident's abilities, strengths and personal interests and enhance the daily life of people with dementia. Read more »
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Each resident is engaged in stimulating and meaningful activities, with recreational plans tailored to the person's interests, preferences and abilities. Continuous assessment, review and revision of these plans is done as the person's abilities and interests change. Read more »
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Scott will probably suggest that you can ship it to his technician, which is a bit of a last resort unless you are near Reading. It depends a lot on where you are based but you might want to ask a local (decent) coffee shop who services their machines.
One way or another (plus obviously some excellent work from the Mrs) we ended up with the guy who seems to work at many of the specialist coffee shops in Manchester when we couldn't get any further on Anna's last set of problems ourselves. He was excellent and it was enjoyable meeting him.
We also found out subsequently that there is a catering supplier locally who supplies Iberital machines and they may well have been worth a shout if we had not found our guy


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Ancient city. Contemporary design practice. Jerusalem's inaugural week-long design festival foregrounds once more Israel's conceptually confident and steadily growing design scene.
Everyone's doing it. As design as a recognisable commercial and cultural activity continues to grow globally, eminently marketable and endlessly consumable, city after city seems to be launching a design week. Jerusalem is no exception. 25 November to 4 December sees the first Design Week in Jerusalem (with its interesting syntax), organised by the Jerusalem Center for Design, which features the types of events you'd expect from such a festival: a conference, an exhibition, a design competition and, naturally, the obligatory closing party.


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Killer apologizes to family of slain state game warden
Jury to decide between death, life in prison
An Adams County man convicted of killing a state game warden during a poaching investigation has apologized to the victim's family.
Christopher Johnson said he is sorry for the pain he has caused the relatives of wildlife conservation officer David Grove.
Johnson spoke Thursday during the penalty phase of his capital murder trial. After the hearing, a jury will decide whether he will be sentenced to death or life in prison.
He was convicted earlier this week of fatally shooting Grove in 2010.
Johnson lamented Thursday that there is nothing he can do to bring back Grove.
On Wednesday, jurors heard from Grove's parents and fiancee, who described how much they miss him.
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Penn State nabs first place at aircraft competition
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – A team of Penn State aerospace engineering students won first place at the 30th annual American Helicopter Society (AHS) International Student Design Competition.
The University's Griffin tiltrotor aircraft took the top honor in the contest's undergraduate category.
The competition challenges students to design a vertical lift aircraft that meets specified requirements and provides a practical exercise for collegiate engineering students around the world.
This year's task was to design a HealCopter, a helicopter aimed at rescuing victims of a natural disaster. The vehicle must be capable of rapidly reaching the scene of a disaster while carrying a large payload.
The Penn State design resembles the U.S. military's V-22 Osprey, which can hover like a helicopter and cruise like a conventional airplane.
Each of the first- and second-place winning teams is awarded a cash stipend. Two members of each first-place team are invited to AHS International's 70th annual Forum and Technology Display in Montreal in May to present the details of their proposals.


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UPDATED: James Bond remained irrepressible outside North America and is closing in on $300m after a mere 10 days. The result puts Sony Pictures Releasing International's (SPRI) total box office for the year-to-date on $2.16bn – overhauling the $2.14bn record with two months of the year to go.
According to confirmed numbers issued on Monday, Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) markets accounted for $140.7m for a $243.4m running total while MGM licensees generated $14.8m. The film is active in a combined 81 markets.
Once again the UK led the way as Skyfall generated $25.9m from 1,868 screens to reach $86.1m after two weekends. 007 swept into Germany on $21.5m from 1,265 in the biggest debut of the year so far, grossing 77% more than the launch of Quantum Of Solace and 88% higher than Casino Royale.
France added $15.3m from 825 for $30.9m after two weekends while Italy produced the biggest launch of a Hollywood release and the second biggest overall for the year-to-date on $7.9m from 623. Spain generated $4m from 639 for the second highest debut of 2012 behind The Impossible.
Skyfall added $5.4m in Russia from 951 for $16.4m while Bond pulled off the all-time biggest opening weekend in Switzerland on $5.3m. Holland produced the best of the year so far on $4.4m from 211, as did Austria on $3.4m from 98. Mexico produced 3.2m from 830.
India generated $5.1m from 1,060 for the second biggest release of the year-to-date behind SPRI's The Amazing Spider-Man and Taiwan produced the second biggest launch of the year behind The Avengers on $2.4m from 193.
Skyfall grossed $4.3m on IMAX screens from 132 locations in 36 territories, which translates to approximately $33,000 per screen and produced the company's biggest non-summer, non-holiday weekend. The IMAX running total after roughly 10 days is $10m and the UK has generated $3.6m.
Hotel Transylvania has reached $115.4m and added $13.7m at the weekend from 4,740 screens in 50 markets. The animation grossed $3.4m in Spain from 643 for $8.7m after two weekends and $2.6m in Germany from 791 for $6.4m after the same amount of time. Russia is the lead market thus far on $13.1m after three and the UK has produced $190.9m after four.
Paranormal Activity 4 brought in a further $14.3m from 4,506 cinemas in 51 territories through Paramount Pictures International (PPI) to reach $68.8m. The horror sequel arrived in six new markets led by France on $4.3m from 250 and 67% ahead of its predecessor. The Thursday launch in Japan yielded $1.1m from 156 through Sunday, while Belgium generated $1m from 48 sites.
- UPDATED: Paranormal Activity 4 brought in a further $14m from 4,177 sites in 47 countries reported through Paramount Pictures International (PPI) to reach $68.3m. The horror sequel arrived in six new markets led by France on $4.3m from 250 and 67% ahead of its predecessor. The Thursday launch in Japan yielded $1.1m from 156 through Sunday, while Belgium generated $1m from 48 sites.
The film slipped 36% in Germany on $1m from 409 sites for a $7m running total and fell 40% in Mexico on $721,000 from 530 for $5.5m.
DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar 3 added $8.1m from 2,751 cinemas in 24 countries reported as the tally climbed to $512.7m after 22 weeks. It went up 1% in the third weekend in the UK on $4.6m from 402 for $28.1m and grossed $2.3m in the fifth weekend in Germany from 687 for $36.1m.
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International reported that the number one North American release Wreck-It Ralph produced $12m from day-and-date launches in six territories.
- Argo grossed $4.1m through Warner Bros Pictures International from 1,323 screens in 17 markets as the early running total climbed to $13.4m. The rescue drama stayed top for the second weekend in Australia on $1.9m from 351 for $4.9m. Argo arrives this week in the UK, France, Germany and Italy. The Impossible added $4.6m in Spain and stands at $42.5m. The tsunami drama ranks as the third biggest release in Spain of all time behind Avatar and Titanic.
- UPDATED: Ted added $4.2m through Universal Pictures International from 1,641 sites in 36 territories for $277.5m. The Bourne Legacy brought in a further $6.7m from 5,266 in 22 for $152.4m, while Pitch Perfect stands at $3.1m, Savages $29.8m and ParaNorman $40.5m. A Perfect Plan (Un Plan Parfait) opened in France on $4m from 576 venues.
- UPDATED: Fox International reported that EuropaCorp's Taken 2 grossed $7.8m from 3,756 screens in 63 markets to reach $217.5m. Of this, roughly $3.3m came from EuropaCorp markets to push up the running total to $64.9m. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter opened in Japan on $2.1m from 405 and stands at $75.5m overall, while Ice Age 4 has reached $714.9m. Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days opened in Brazil on $211,226 from 57 and stands at $27.2m.
- UPDATED: Focus Features International reported that Cloud Atlas has grossed an early $1.3m from Turkey, South Africa and India. the Turey gross stands at $894,561 from 88 screens in two weeks.
- UPDATED: StudioCanal opened Rust & Bone in the UK on $403,890 including previews.


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Photo Booth, the application for snapping distorted and stylized shots using your Mac's web cam, was improbably but undeniably a lot of fun. Camera Sutra brings that same real-time zaniness to your iPhone 4's front facing camera.
The app takes advantage of one of iOS4's multitudinous new APIs for live image previewing, giving you a chance to see how you and your friends' faces look stretched, twirled, dented, infrareded out, and more—there are 13 effects in total—and then snap a picture of it to your camera roll.
The interface well-designed and the app works beautifully with the iPhone 4's front-facing camera, though it supports the 3G's rear camera, too. If you even occasionally are inclined to silliness, it's well worth $2. [iTunes]


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Sixty-six years old and following a musical route of his own design, Neil Young has survived a brain aneurysm, decades of stardom amid radically shifting public taste and who knows how many renditions of "Heart of Gold." In close-up, singing onstage, the northern Ontario native resembles a gnarly oak tree blessed with the ability to play guitar and harmonica and to sing of love and war. Which covers just about everything.
Director Jonathan Demme's "Neil Young Journeys" is the third in a trilogy of Young concert films. This one has two preoccupations. One is the May 2011 performance (two, actually, on two different nights) Young gave at the tail end of his solo tour, at Toronto's Massey Hall.
The other is how Young got there, literally: En route from Young's hometown of Omemee, Ontario, the singer-songwriter drove a '56 Crown Vic and along the way stopped at places he lived with his brother, Bob (also in the film).
We hear of Young's neighborhood friend from the old days, the exquisitely named Goof Whitney, who convinced Young to eat tar and insult random strangers. More importantly, in the intimate concert footage, we're treated to songs from several decades, including one of the new-ish ones, "Sign of Love" (2010), in which Young looks ahead to "when we both have silver hair/ And a little less time."
Demme remains one of our most innately musical contemporary directors, shooting and editing his footage in such a way as to complement the creative artist. He has no interest in "selling" this material, or anything about Young, to anyone who isn't receptive by nature.
The results, shot by cinematographer Declan Quinn ("Rachel Getting Married"), are sadly beautiful, to borrow a Paul Westerberg lyric from The Replacements. With its one-of-a-kind poetic lamentation, Young's voice sounds more peculiarly lovely than ever. A small picture, but good and true.
'Neil Young Journeys' -- 3 stars
MPAA rating: PG (for language including some drug references, and brief thematic material)
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Kogan slashes the price of Blu-ray players, LCD TVs and more
- 03 March, 2010 10:41
Kogan 42in Full HD 1080p LCD TV: slashed to $879.
Ruslan Kogan, founder and director of Kogan Technologies, yesterday announced a price drop across his company's consumer electronics range. The announcement was made at Kickstart Forum 2010 in Queensland, where IT journalists and vendors meet to discuss emerging trends in the industry.
"[Kogan] has had exponential growth since day one four years ago, which has given us increased buying power with our manufacturers," Kogan said during the session. "I'm proud to announce that as of right now, we have dropped prices across the board to represent this recent increase."
Some of the products to receive a price-cut include the Kogan 42in Full HD 1080p LCD TV, which has dropped to "a ridiculously low" $879; down from the original asking price of $1449. The Kogan Blu-ray player has also been slashed by $50, falling to just $199. "Our Blu-ray player comes with BD-Live, Internet connectivity and all the features you'd expect from a Blu-ray player three times the price." Kogan said.
Kogan's range of digital photo frames and video cameras have also received price cuts. For example, the Kogan Full HD 1080p Video Camera has been reduced to $239.
"We're always dropping prices from week to week, and we don't normally make a fanfare about it. But we felt the need to blow our own trumpets a bit with these huge, across the board savings." Kogan said.
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by Stephanie Meyer, KF9, Sierra Leone
I first met Santos through a mutual friend of ours, Dan, who is here in Makeni working at the orthopedic clinic in town (almost exclusively with amputees). Like many of the adult amputees here in Sierra Leone, Santos has a harrowing war-story to tell that reads like something straight out of the film "Blood Diamond". This is not what is striking about him, however.
What is amazing about Santos is his ability to thrive. He lives just outside Makeni in the Oslo Amputee Settlement. Oslo was established after the war as a place where amputees could get free housing and hopefully get put on a path back to success. Unfortunately for many of them, the placement of Oslo as an isolated settlement has been more of a hindrance than a help. Most are unable to get to town to find employment or sell wares, and are left to simply languish. But not Santos. He rides his bicycle for miles each day (and I've followed him on a motor-bike before, the guy has speed!) back and forth to town carrying a carefully-maintained folder with photographs of his work, finding buyers, going to shops, and generally making a name for himself. After losing his arm, Santos began making the most beautiful African carvings I have seen since my arrival here. He starts from scratch, purchasing large pieces of wood from the forest areas around Oslo. While the wood is too big to move, he works with it where it lies, and once the piece has started to take shape he brings it back to the make-shift woodshop he has set up on his porch. He works by holding a chisel in his left hand, and lashing a hammer to the stump of his right. Since starting work, Santos has made pieces that now grace hotel lobbies, local businesses, apotho homes (apotho means "foreigner" or "white person" in Temne, a local language used around Makeni), and even the mayor's house.
A few days ago, Santos paid a visit to SMT to inquire about a loan. He is eager to expand his workshop and purchase some new tools. He also hopes to save enough money to make a short trip to the capital city, Freetown, to try to locate more buyers there. After his meeting, Santos came back to the house, where he sat on the porch mulling over all the ins, outs, ups and downs of taking out a loan. He spent hours with our friend Dan, examining the "real cost" of the interest he would be charged, calculating the amount of increased profit he could potentially earn with added inputs such as tools and material, and listing potential new buyers he could solicit to cover himself. The opportunity to see this side of the loan process was really exciting for me. Having seen the process from the inside for so long has been a fantastic experience: watching credit officers examine business productivity, interview clients, and evaluate abilities to make payments. It never occurred to me, however, that the decision to take a loan is just as serious as the decision to offer one. A loan for the wrong individual can be more of a burden than a blessing, and it is important to be sure that you can make enough increased profit not only to be able to pay back, but also to make the loan "worth it".
To see Santos put such thought into his loan before signing the paperwork gave me a lot of hope for the process of microfinance in general. There is a lot of discussion about whether it is "right" to burden the world's "poor" with additional debt, or whether it is ethical to charge interest rates that can top 30% annually. I already knew that MFIs (or at least the ones I've had the opportunity to work with here in Sierra Leone) put a great deal of effort into finding clients who will be capable of making repayments and educating all potential clients on the full ramifications of borrowing money. It was nice to be reminded, however, that borrowers are not simply idle recipients in this process; blank slates to write financial knowledge upon. They are careful evaluators and savvy business professionals making a conscious decision to take some risk now with the hope of increased potential and profit later on.
I am planning to continue checking-in with Santos throughout his loan- from receipt to repayment- while I stay in Sierra Leone. Stay tuned for more updates, and click here to visit SMT's Kiva page, to make loans to thoughtful entrepreneurs like Santos from all over Sierra Leone!/>


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Veenendaal (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Veenendaal, a town in the Dutch province of Utrecht (coordinates: 52° 2′ 0″ N, 5° 33′ 0″ E), formerly the seat of a Mennonite congregation, which is found under different names: Veenendaal, Rijns(s)e Veen, Rhenensche Veen, Rijnse (Reense) Veer.
Concerning the founding of this congregation there is no information. It arose in the early 17th century, when the peat moors in this district were opened; many of the miners are said to have been Mennonites. The congregation, which belonged to the Flemish branch and in 1674 joined the Zonist conference, is first mentioned in 1629. Its membership was probably always very small. It was financially supported by the congregations of Utrecht, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Rotterdam, and Leiden. In the 17th century Marten Geurts, d. ca. 1685, was its elder. After his death it was served by the preachers of Utrecht and Amersfoort. In ca. 1708-1714 Claas Jacobsz was its preacher, and Petrus van Loon 1719-1753. In 1754 the congregation ceased holding meetings for lack of members, most of whom had joined the Reformed Church. But though the congregation is not found in the Naamlijst from 1766 on, it was not until May 1802 that the congregation was actually dissolved.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1863): 60, 98-101; (1916): 161; (1918): 126.
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: I, Nos. 571, 1071, 1953, 1971, 1975, 1982-85; II, Nos. 1619, 2310-36, II, 2, No. 487.
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RECEPTIONIST Vicky Steedman was already the toast of staff and managers at an Oxfordshire hotel after picking up a top award.
But the icing on the cake came when she was presented with her prize — an all expenses paid trip to the Caribbean island of Grenada — by Prime Minister and Witney MP David Cameron.
Ms Steedman, 25, had just been voted Employee of the Year at the Old Swan and Minister Mill hotel in Minster Lovell when the special guest turned up.
She said: "It was a bit of a shock but he was very nice. He had visited Grenada and said it was a beautiful island, and told me to visit the forests and plantations."
The former pupil of Wood Green School in Witney has only been working at the hotel since last February.
She had previously worked as a beauty therapist for six years but left to have son Harlen, three and when she returned to work, opted for something different.
"I really enjoy it and it is good to be recognised," she added.
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A few days ago an Android 2.3 Gingerbread firmware for the AT&T branded Samsung Captivate leaked on the Internet.
Today, Gingerbread firmware for two U.S. variants of the Galaxy S have leaked on the Internet. One of them is the T-Mobile Galaxy S 4G, and the other one is the Sprint's Epic 4G. This time also, the credit for the leak goes to the folks over at SamFirmware.com.
Galaxy S 4G owners over at XDA forums, who flashed this firmware on their phone, are reporting an improvement in performance and stability of the phone. There are also reports of huge improvement in battery life, with a little bit of tweaking like freezing all the bloat ware etc.
The Epic 4G Gingerbread leak solves most of the graphical issues which was present in the previous leaked Gingerbread firmware. There is also an improvement in performance compared to the previous leak. However, there is a lag of 2-3 seconds while rotating the phone from portrait to landscape mode or vice-versa.
Epic 4G users are also reporting an improvement in network reception, and data transfer speed. This leaked firmware also includes the latest version of Swype (v3), along with TeleNav navigation app.
Samsung Galaxy S 4G owners should head over to this link to download the leaked firmware, while Epic 4G owners need to click here.


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This disused bathroom is located on the seventh floor of Hogwarts Castle and accessible through a portrait in the reading room, as well as a door on the other side of the castle. It was unused prior to 1993, by which time Fred and George Weasley had taken up residence there and set up their own shop for Gryffindor students.[1]
Early history
The bathroom was likely created with the rest of the school by Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw in Medieval times on the seventh floor. However, the bathroom fell into disuse and was no longer used. A crawlspace in one of the walls linked this bathroom to the Gryffindor Tower reading room. At some point, a portrait of Valeria Myriadd was installed on the Gryffindor Tower side to cover the crawlspace into the bathroom and the proper entrance was locked. The password through the portrait was "Pig Snout".[2]
Fred and George's Shop
In 1993, Fred and George Weasley moved in the shop from a disused sixth floor bathroom. They placed a number of objects on trunks and shelves around the sinks and cast some sort of spell that caused only the objects that the buyer would like to purchase appear. They also used a secret passageway through a wall in the backroom to hide the Marauder's Map. They eventually told Harry Potter and Ron Weasley where it was and allowed them to keep the map.[1]
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- A number of Chocolate Frog Cards.[1]
- Chocolate Frogs.[1]
- Pumpkin Pasties.[1]
- Cauldron Cakes.[1]
- Scrolls containing portrait passwords.[1]
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (First appearance) (PC edition only)
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