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to my understanding the following is what comprises Sexual immorality.
Male homosexuality, incest, adultery, and bestiality.
I want to know if oral sex is included even if it's done in marriage?
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(Note: this answer comes from a reformed, Presbyterian perspective, YMMV)
Sexual immorality is defined pretty clearly by Jesus in Matthew 5:28 (NIV):
That puts everyone who managed to live through puberty squarely in the guilty category here. So let's start from there. We're all guilty of sexual immorality, that's the fact. That's not to say that instances of sexual immorality are not serious and shouldn't be dealt with seriously. But just to introduce some levity, we're all guilty here.
Now, you assumed that 4 things fall squarely in this category, I don't want to argue that list, but at least 3 are pretty expressly forbidden by scripture and the fourth falls squarely into lust for the most part so we'll accept the list. But the point of the first passages is that sexual immorality is even broader. It's deeply embedded in our hearts and minds.
Then of course you drop the bomb, is oral sex immoral? I'm actually going to take this a step farther and get the question you're really asking. Is it OK for married Christians to have anything but normal intercourse? But let's handle a side issue first.
Positions on sex before marriage and any kind of sexual contact outside of marriage vary. However, in my opinion (and it's one I share with a pretty wide swath of mainstream Christianity) it's both unwise and immoral to engage in sexual contact or sex prior to marriage. This is a well supported argument and it's made elsewhere on this site, so it's really not necessary to delve into it here.
The crux of this question is whether or not things that are believed to be inappropriate outside of a marriage are appropriate inside of one. For normal vaginal sex, the answer is obvious. One of the functions of marriage is to provide a home for children and well to have kids you've gotta have sex (obvious caveats for in vitro, adoption etc). But what about non-procreatory sex acts?
Let me be clear. The Bible contains no clear prohibitions on non-procreatory sex acts (in fact a couple of passages in Song of Songs may refer to oral sex specifically and in a very positive way). Although being intentional about being non-procreatory when you are culturally obligated to may have disastrous effects (see Onan.)
This makes it up to the man and the woman in the relationship to set boundaries and decide what is right and wrong in the context of their marriage. For that the guiding principal has to be Ephesians 5:5 (NIV).
This passage in Ephesians is much maligned in modern society, but the crux is that we should faithfully submit to one another. It's hinged on respect. In the case of your question that means that anything that you do that is outside of the boundaries set in your marriage can and should be considered sexual immorality.
This brings us back to the passage I mentioned at the outset. Sexual Immorality is not something that has strict definitions. If even looking at a woman with lust in your heart qualifies, then the definition is far broader than any specific act or set of acts. In the context of marriage this means that you must work and communicate with your partner to set your boundaries and decide what is welcome and what is off limits between the two of you.
Paul is very clear that sexual immorality is a condition of heart as much as body. He says in 1 Corinthinas 6:
Basically, whenever you are uniting two bodies in spirit you are having "sex." The physical intimacy is the point of sex, and the thing that can be perverted. If, simply put, you join together that which God has not already put together (i.e. in marriage), it is a misuse.
Yes it certainly does fall into the category of sexual immorality. The simple reason is that if you are participating in such an activity then you will uncertainly be thinking sexually immoral thoughts and most likely be causing the other participant to also be thinking sexually immoral thoughts.
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As for if it is immoral within marriage I am unsure, but I would leave it to the husband and wife to decide if they feel it is appropriate.
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Not entirely sure if this relating to a persons body parts but if it is then it could be an indication of whether it is right to use your body in such a way.
I tried to read the other answers but they did not seem to be specific to oral sex they just spoke generally about sex. Wax eagle in passing mentioned oral sex in a positive light but I thought it was odd no one used the s word. I should say before I go further I'm not married I'd like to be married I've never had sex might never have sex I do everything within my power to be asexual that may disqualify my answer in some people perception and thats fine.
The error of Sodom and Gomorah focused on sexual sins grouped into the words unclean, sodomy, fornication and adultery. Sodomy includes oral stimulation. Sodomy is a Bible word in 1Co 6:9 but is not translated as such in the King James Version. The root words him selves mean men in bed so its possible you could say this only applies to homosexuality.
However you still have the problem of the word Sodom being sodom from Jude 1:7. It is said that they defiled themselves with strange flesh or you could say different and improper affinity. That suggests to me many different combinations of sex not including marital combination of sexual organs. Besides strange affinity you also have the the broad word fornication from which we derive the word porn. Anything not marital relations is fornication.
Despite all the evidences you could say the Bible does not definitely speak of oral sex however your heart might. If you have doubt in your mind that such actions are sinful and you do it anyways you have sinned and must not do it while your heart doubts. The opposite also being true. Because someone says it is right does not override the conviction of your heart because the word does not expressly call it right.
Not sure how I missed out on answering such a fun question, but it's back on the radar now for some odd reason.
What I understand about the issue of oral sex within the context of the marital act is that it is perfectly ok as long as its not the end of the business. Christopher West, the North American spokesman for the Theology of the Body (teachings of Bl. John Paul II about what the the story of creation, the Gospel and the actual makeup of the human apparatus as God created us have to do with each other) writes about this in The Good News About Sex and Marriage, of which I have only skimmed the juicy parts where he explains why oral (and other) sex is licit so long as the end result could produce a child.
Now, Christopher West recently had voluntarily taken a second look at his own teachings and I don't know of he's recanted of this or not. People accused him of getting to pepped up about sex. Still, I don't see how it could be harmful, in the context of baby making to "have a time of it" as they used to say.
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In the city, however, everything from ordering food to passing people on the street will probably be accompanied by intense surliness. This is not because rural folk are inherently kinder, either: People from nonurban backgrounds tend to start acting the same way once they've been in the city for a while.
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It's because of "urban overload," the incredibly large amount of information that those in urban environments must process. In one experiment testing the theory, a man wearing a cast pretended to drop some boxes of books while hidden observers counted how many strangers would offer to help. What determined the number of people who stopped to help wasn't whether passersby were wearing business suits or Stetsons, but whether a noisy piece of machinery was audible in the background. More than five times as many people stopped to help in a quiet environment than in a noisy one.
The study didn't come right out and say that headphones turn us into soulless monsters, but it was pretty heavily implied.
According to science, it works like this: Modern city dwellers must wade through thousands of potential social interactions every day. In order to deal with this, they must be selective about what they focus on. This leads them to unconsciously ignore "unimportant" information, whether it's a flashing strip club advertisement or an injured kitten.
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The theory was first proposed in 1970 by Stanley Milgram, who observed that city dwellers try to cope by using "filtering devices." He meant it metaphorically back then, but the fact that we started stuffing real filtering devices into our ears as soon as they were invented means that his theory is holding up pretty well.
Another thing that social scientists have noted is that although most impersonal city interaction seems rude, it's actually also a form of politeness. Most of the time, people passing on the street or standing together in an elevator are not really ignoring each other.
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5 Disturbing New Ways Debt Collectors Are Getting Your Money
For an entire generation of college graduates facing a job market with nothing but tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt and frat party beer guts under their belts, the future is looking grim. Not only will your job at Bath & Body Works not be enough make your various loan payments, but now it looks like the people you owe money to are employing downright ugly strategies to get that money back from you.
#5. Social Network Shaming
Just like your brokeass cousin always looking for a handout and your disapproving grandma, debt collectors have figured out how difficult it is to hide on Facebook. And they're using it as well as other social media outlets for some old-fashioned harassin'.
Wait, what?
If you owe some money and are on Foursquare, debt collectors are tracking you. LinkedIn? Debt collectors are watching your employment status and sizing up your assets. Facebook? Those photos of you acting like a drunken idiot reminded them of how the money you're spending on those drinks could be put towards a payment plan. They'll be very glad to share those ideas with you ... on your wall.
How many of the people who "follow" you are actually following you?
Debt collectors are so stoked about their newfound stalker networks that they even had the balls to brag about it.
Melanie Beacham and Tosha Sohns know a thing or two about debt collectors infiltrating social network pages. Beacham made the mistake of getting sick, having to take a medical leave from work, falling behind on her car payments and having friends and family on Facebook who blindly accepted friend requests from a mystery man named Jeff Happenstance. After dozens of harassing phone calls in which the caller ignored her pleas that she was temporarily out of work and would resume payments as soon as possible, several of her friends and family began receiving messages on their Facebook pages from their new friend:
Was the winky smiley face really necessary?
Beacham filed a lawsuit against the collection agency.
Tosha Sohns, meanwhile, was treated to collection agency Bramacint who, despite a name that sounds like bro-speak, repeatedly used a caller ID spoofer to make it appear as though her mother-in-law was calling. The agency then used photos on her MySpace page to ascertain that she had a daughter. One of its employees proceeded to call her, claiming to be an investigator, and rhetorically asked her (presumably while doing a spot-on Hannibal Lecter impersonation), "Wouldn't it be terrible if something happened to your kids while the sheriff's department was taking you away?"
"We don't ship terrorists to Guantanamo anymore, ma'am. Only debtors."
The "investigator" and the agency soon found out how terrible it can be to get sued.
#4. Pursuing the Families of the Recently Deceased
So, let's say you're newly dead. Now let's also say you left some debt behind, the kind that legally dies when you do. Just make sure your family is in on the whole "they don't have to pay your debt after you die" secret, because plenty of people will tell them otherwise.
"Satan doesn't have the balls to be a debt collector."
Wait, what?
Companies such as DCM Services consider dead people to be the newest frontier in debt collections. One of the first things that new hires at DCM are trained in, not surprisingly, is the Kubler-Ross model, more commonly known as the Five Stages of Grief:
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
6. Drinking
If you're unlucky enough to get a call from an agency such as DCM, you'll be treated to what it terms "empathic active listening," which mixes the "comforting air of a funeral director with the nonjudgmental tones of a friend." Empathic listening is all the rage in debt-collection circles right now. You know something is very wrong with the economy when the debt collectors are all excitedly abuzz over the strategy of actually being nice.
But like a serial killer on a bad day, a lot of the times the collectors calling the bereaved don't even bother with the courtesy of niceness. One widow claimed she was called 15 times over a six-week period after her husband's death, apparently crying her way through several of the calls. Another widow claimed DCM told her that it had the authority to put a lien on her house for her husband's unpaid debts. But the kicker was the woman who was called by DCM between 45 and 50 times in the four months after her son's suicide.
Stay classy, debt collectors.
"I have to take three bars of Xanax every morning just to make it in to work."
#3. Targeting Soldiers at War
There are probably a lot of words that pop into your head when you hear "deployed soldier." Brave. Patriotic. And if you're a predatory lender or debt collector, "cash cow."
Most of us think of military personnel in the same vein that we think of public school teachers and whoever coaxes pandas into having sex: as heroic and underpaid public servants. So it takes a uniquely gifted breed of douchebag to look at a soldier in the thick of battle and see dollar signs. According to Holly Petraeus (the Mrs. to this Mr. and director of the military program of the Better Business Bureau), military personnel are easy targets for all sorts of cheating chicanery.
"If he can afford that fancy fake arm, he can afford his car payments."
Why? Because unlike the rest of us, wading our way through the recession with our boring-ass desk jobs, people in the military have guaranteed paychecks and great job stability and are subject to strict military rules concerning unpaid debts.
Also, they have the habit of being too busy getting shot at to answer their phones.
Wait, what?
Not only are collectors not sympathetic to the special financial circumstances regarding soldiers at war, they've created entire departments to take advantage of those circumstances.
"The horns are actually part of the uniform."
And this is in spite of a law created to protect these exact service members. For example, Sgt. Bernhardt Rupprecht found that his 2004 Dodge Neon had been repossessed by Bank of America after he missed a payment while he was on duty in Iraq. He actually called Bank of America on a satellite phone while in an Iraqi combat zone to haggle over his car's repossession, asking if the bank would be so kind as to deduct the late payment from his military pay. Bank of America, the same organization getting a $25 billion bailout from the U.S. government, refused to let the soldier apply his military salary to his car payments.
Meanwhile, one collection agency targeted thousands of military personnel by calling their family members and threatening arrest by military police and dishonorable discharge if they didn't pony up on old debts. Neiman, Rona & Associates didn't just call the families of military members, either -- it sometimes called their commanding officers.
Because soldiers deployed in a combat zone don't have quite enough shit to deal with.
Collectors were told to pose as members of the Department of Justice, lawyers, whatever it took to get people to pay, whether they owed it or not. All of this financial targeting of servicemen got so out of hand that the Department of Defense actually labeled the entire situation a freaking threat to national security in 2006.


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From google dictionary: /əˈkəlt/
From my textbook: ['ɔkʌlt, ɔ'kʌlt, ə-]
The difference of those two is HUGE, Could you give me an explanation ?
The difference of those two is HUGE, Could you give me an explanation ?
In practice, the distinction between /ʌ/ and /ə/ is close to nonexistent in English. They are very similar phonetically, and [ə] can only occur in unstressed syllables, while [ʌ] can only occur in stressed, closed syllables. Because of this many linguists consider them to be allophones, and many dictionaries transcribe them with the same phoneme or treat them interchangably. So the fact that your textbook has [ʌ] while google has [ə] is of little significance.
The only other difference between the two transcriptions is the treatment of the first syllable. I believe that the pronunciation with stress on the first syllable is non-standard, but if the first syllable is stressed, then the vowel is unambiguously [ɔ]. If the first syllable is unstressed, then [ɔ] will normally be reduced to [ə], which your textbook has as an alternate.
So they're not very different, after all.
[Edit: If I'm picking nits, I would point out that the second syllable in my speech has no vowel at all, but rather a syllabic /l/: [ə'kʰl̩t]. The vertical line beneath the [l] indicates syllabicity. However, I've never seen a dictionary that actually transcribes syllabic liquids as such, since it tends to freak out language learners, and linguistically naive native speakers disbelieve in them.]


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The Last Innocent Man (Mass Market Paperbound)
Defense attorney David Nash has made a career out of setting monsters free and no one does it better. Now a case has come to "the Ice Man" that could help cleanse Nash of the guilt and doubts that torment him: that rarest of all defendants, an innocent man.
A family man, a rising star in the legal profession, this new client has been accused of a heinous crime the brutal murder of an undercover vice cop. But the case that is supposed to be Nash's redemption could prove to be his downfall, dragging him into a dark and sinister world where lies and the truth are interchangeable; where the manipulator becomes the manipulated, and every answer spawns more complex and terrifying questions. And as the shadows close in around him, the final question that remains for David Nash concerns his own fate: life . . . or death?
About the Author
Phillip Margolin has written fifteen "New York Times" bestsellers, including his latest, "Supreme Justice". Each displays a unique, compelling insider's view of criminal behavior, which comes from his long background as a criminal defense attorney who has handled thirty murder cases. He lives in Portland, Oregon.


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August 24, 2010
Recognizing that a mixture of old and new buildings makes a city vibrant, New York University has launched a masters degree program in London focusing on the creative reuse of older buildings as a method for bolstering urban design. Under the Historical and Sustainable Architecture program, offered in conjunction with London's Sir John Soane Museum, students will study with British architects, designers, builders, and developers, who are leaders in the field of adaptive reuse and sustainable architecture.
"In an era when the demolition of older buildings has been recognized, not just as a loss to the urban fabric, but also as a major source of environmental pollution, retaining historic structures and using them for new purposes is increasingly desirable," said Program Director Mosette Broderick, a clinical associate professor in NYU's Department of Art History and director of its Urban Design program. "This program explores innovative ways to reconcile real estate development with historical preservation and environmental protection by recycling existing structures."
In September, the first group of students will arrive in London for an academic year studying methods to effect the adaptive re-use of older buildings. The nine-month program will concentrate on solutions in the United Kingdom, which graduates will be able to translate to their home countries.
"The program relies on professionals who have successfully reused both important and modest older buildings, adapting them to new uses and integrating them into new projects built around, over, and even under historic structures," Broderick added. "Our students will have the rare opportunity to study with these leading practitioners."
The curriculum extends sustainable practices beyond architecture and building into the realm of urban design. Students will examine successful strategies for reviving entire districts, cities, and regions around repurposed historic buildings in areas as diverse as the London Docklands and the older industrial regions of Germany.
"These examples suggest new possibilities for post-industrial, Rust Belt cities in the U.S., such as Buffalo and Cleveland, where the numerous historic buildings provide resources to be adapted for new uses, not liabilities to be demolished," Broderick observed.
The M.A. in Historical and Sustainable Architecture is the first academic program to unite the topics of sustainable architecture, adaptive reuse, and historic preservation within a single curriculum. Combining the multiple perspectives of finance, environmentalism, education, tourism, and government policy, this program will explore older buildings as assets to real estate development.
For more information on the masters program in Historical and Sustainable Architecture, go to: http://arthistory.as.nyu.edu/page/ma.
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Local anglers and other interested parties are invited to attend an upcoming public scoping meeting hosted by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Wildlife Resources Division to discuss largemouth bass management on Bear Creek Reservoir in Jackson County and potential changes to the current largemouth bass length limit.
The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23 at the Jackson EMC Headquarters building in Jefferson (850 Commerce Road, Jefferson, GA 30549).
Staff with the Wildlife Resources Division Fisheries Management Section have been monitoring the fish population at Bear Creek Reservoir since it was first stocked in 2001. Current population data will be presented at the meeting.
When the reservoir opened, a 16-22 inch protective slot limit was placed on largemouth bass to encourage the harvest of smaller fish and grow more trophy-sized bass. However, population monitoring has shown that the current slot limit is not achieving the desired results and that switching to a statewide 12-inch minimum size limit would allow local anglers to harvest fish over 16 inches and would allow tournament anglers to weigh in quality fish that currently are in the protected slot range and must be released immediately.
Options being considered:
- No change in the current regulation which is a protective slot limit of 16 to 22 inches and a bag limit of 10 fish per angler per day for largemouth bass;
- Change the regulation to the statewide minimum size limit of 12 inches and a bag limit of 10 fish per angler per day for largemouth bass.
Wildlife Resources Division encourages attendance from local sportsmen and women to gather public opinion. Anyone attending the meeting is welcome to provide statements or comments, either orally or in writing. Statements should be concise to permit everyone an opportunity to speak. Participants must register upon arrival and notify the registering official of their intent to give a statement. Those unable to attend may submit written statements, postmarked by April 26, 2013.
Written statements should be mailed or emailed to:
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Attn: Olivia McClure
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The April 23 meeting site is accessible to people with physical disabilities. To request sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids, contact Olivia McClure at (770) 535-5498 no later than April 18, 2013.
After the meeting and the public comment period, Wildlife Resources Division staff will determine if a change of the bass length limit is widely supported. If so, the Division may propose a regulation change to the Board of Natural Resources later in 2013.
For more information, contact Olivia McClure at the Gainesville Fisheries office at (770) 535-5498.


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Blue and White Diamond Drop Pendant in .925 Sterling Silver for $28 + free shipping
You know how they make blue diamonds, right? They just soak them in berry blue Kool-Aid. OH YEAH!
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It's pretty
Nice gift for teenager.
Actually, they make blue diamonds by doping them with Boron.
Good price for a pretty pendant.
Keep in mind that there are only 4 white diamonds and 2 blue diamonds on the necklace. it looks like the rest of the "diamonds" are just metal studs.


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I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my Windows 7 box using Wubi and I'm loving it so far. One feature that I love is the fact that because I used Wubi it doesn't seem to create a separate partition. Through what I can only imagine is some VM magic Windows and Ubuntu live together on the same hard drive without a partition and you can even access Windows files from within Ubuntu and visa versa. I also have a MacBook and I would love to be able to install Ubuntu on the MacBook as well but I don't want to surrender a portion of my disk space to a different operating system. Is there currently a way to do the whole Wubi VM "virtual partition" on a Mac?
This was originally planned as 'Mubi' , but I haven't seen any evidence it is being worked on.
If your Mac is reasonably fast you could try a virtualisation solution, for instance using VirtualBox - but this is unlikely to run as fast as with Wubi.
The development of a Mac Ubuntu installer is currently blocked by the lack of journalling write support in the HFS+ filesystem driver.
As Mubi obviously needs to write to the Mac filesystem, and most Macs come with HFS+ journalling turned on, this functionality needs to be present in the Linux kernel before development work on Mubi can begin in earnest.
You can certainly run Ubuntu on the Virtualbox if you have it installed on Mac or Windows. you can allow sharing of files via "virtual networking" between the host and the VM.
You can always boot to a Live CD to try it out before investing time and effort with using Boot Camp Assistant. I've used it to install before and it worked just fine. Getting rid of the partitions wasn't fun. Luckily I had Time Machine so just erased all partitions and restored from Time Machine instead of finding a resolution :)
Unfortunately, there is no Mac version as yet, but developers are still working on Mubi
Launchpad says
Means the project is not simple ,so try to install ubuntu as a dual boot or in vitualbox
I don't think there is a Wubi on Mac OS X. I have Ubuntu 11.10 on my 24" iMac and runs great. I burnt an Ubuntu CD. I installed rEFIt. I used 'Disk Utility' on my Mac to resize partition on HD. I shrunk Mac OS X to 100 gigs and made the other partition 399 gigs (type MSDOS and named LINUX) with a 1 gig swap. Or you can just resize the Mac OS X to 100 gigs and do the rest with the Ubuntu installer. I rebooted my Mac and at rEFIt menu I chose the disk to boot from. Once Ubuntu was at desktop, I did a normal install. At partition part, make sure to select your 399 gig partition, set it as '/' and continue. Don't do or change anything on any other partition. You are warned! After install, reboot into your new Ubuntu. The only problem I had was with sound and that was easily fixed here.


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Personally, I own an iPhone. However I would love to see the Android UI. I know a person who does have an Android, but never see it enough. I'd really love to have a good emulator that non-developers can use just to test out the Android UI. Is there any sort of apple app, Mac app, or non-developer tool out there to run the Android UI? Thanks!
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Try Android x86 as a virtual machine on Virtual Box. this is by far the best working android I have seen...
Android X86 ISO files: http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list
How to install it: http://dev.blogs.nuxeo.com/2011/10/speeding-up-the-android-emulator.html
Have you given the Amazon Appstore's Test Drive feature a try? Super simple, runs in most browsers - simply find an app in the store for which Amazon has Test Drive available then click the big green Test Drive button (a list of Test Drive apps is here). Once you have a Test Drive session open click the home button on the bottom of the emulator to access the homescreen then voila, Android!
FWIW I personally don't think the SDK emulator is a bad choice even though it is developer-focused. Quick and easy instructions are at How To Geek if you're interested.
Genymotion is an accelerated emulator, which may let you get a better feel for the UI and graphics applications.
I believe it paravirtualizes graphics (OpenGL) calls, using the host's graphics processor to accelerate the emulator.
There's an iOS app called Dreamboard that allows you to use the Android UI on your iphone/ipod . It's just a launcher that changes the theme so as to give you a feel of how the Android UI looks like. Please note that, inorder to download this app, you should jailbreak your iOS device. I currently have this app on my ipod touch, downloaded from AppCake(which i downloaded from Cydia after jailbreaking my device)
Here's a video link: Dreamboard in action
Hope this helps.
If you are still searching the best solution would be Bluestacks. Its vey fluent and does not lag.


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The January 2002 issue of Environment & Climate News features a special report on the economics and politics of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In other front-page news, Randal O'Toole shreds a new report issued by the SprawlWatch Clearinghouse, which urges public health officials to support smart-growth proposals in order to promote a healthy, productive population. This issue of ECN also covers EPA's decision to adopt the arsenic standard first proprosed by President Bill Clinton in the waning hours of his administration; EPA's stamp of approval for Bt corn; eco-terrorism; mining; Everglades restoration; CO2 emission controls; climate change; and private property rights. (download PDF)
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A 3-D carbon nanotube mesh enables rat spinal tissue sections to reconnect in culture.
August 1, 2014|
From bioimaging to drug delivery and therapeutics, nanotechnology is poised to change the way doctors practice medicine.
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From bioimaging to drug delivery and therapeutics, nanotechnology is poised to change the way doctors practice medicine.
August 1, 2014|
Research on the human microbiome is booming, and scientists have moved from simply taking stock of gut flora to understanding the influence of microbes throughout the body.
July 29, 2014|
Scientists identify a bacteriophage that is highly abundant in the gut bacteria of people around the world.
July 28, 2014|
Researchers use light-sheet microscopy to map central nervous system activity in zebrafish larvae.
July 25, 2014|
Blood-based Alzheimer's diagnostics; CRISPR cuts out HIV; Leishmania and the sand fly microbiome; deconstructing the lionfish science fair debacle
July 15, 2014|
Officials behind the European brain mapping effort take preliminary steps to tackle concerns voiced about the project.
July 15, 2014|
Linking a mold identified in a sample of recalled yogurt to consumer-reported illnesses may be premature, scientists say.
July 9, 2014|
An updated analysis of the gut microbiome extends the list of known bacterial genes to 9.8 million.
July 7, 2014|
More than 250 European researchers sign a letter criticizing the European Commission's $1.6 billion effort to create a computer simulation of the human brain.
July 3, 2014|
A psychedelic compound in hallucinogenic mushrooms triggers brain activity characteristic of dream states.


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How high must a 48-inch high mirror be hung if one who is six feet tall needs to see his entire image from approximately 6 feet away from the mirror?
No matter what the horizontal distance between the user and the mirror, the bottom edge of the mirror must be no higher than half the height of the user's eyes. If so, the ray of vision starting from the user's eyes and bouncing off the mirror right at the bottom edge will hit the ground just where his feet are. The horizontal distance is not important because the mirror is always exactly halfway between you and your image behind the looking-glass.
Since 48" is 121 cm, well above half of most people's height, there's a range of positions that will suffice, and you can choose among those by aesthetic preferences. I think it would would probably do well to hang the mirror such that its top edge is about a hand's width above the top of the tallest user's head. Unless that will make the bottom so high that the shortest users will have difficulty seeing themselves completely -- in which case lower it, but not more than such that the top edge is a few centimeters below the top of the tallest user's head.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Crispy Veggies in an Orange-Ginger Sauce
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- VeggieGirl said...
how funny! I'm planning on having a stir-fry dish for dinner tonight, with all those ingredients (plus some seitan, marinated in BBQ sauce; but the orange-ginger sauce that you used sounds quite intriguing as well!)
- November 14, 2007 at 10:28 AM
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I just wanted to say thank you!
We have only just become vegetarians with a tendancy to become vegan its been just under a month really. I found your site just a couple of days ago and its wonderful. I am very fussy but your recipes almost all appeal to me. You are a blessing. Thanks so much for your inventive and wonderful ideas that please very picky taste and texture buds!!
- November 14, 2007 at 4:03 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Thanks so much for the comment. Hey, if there is anyone who knows picky it is a dad of three "eeewww, what IS that?" boys. And, since my extended family is omnivorous I am sensitive to texture as well--if you are used to gnawing on flesh, then tofu just seems so mushy, doesn't it? I'll keep cooking and posting away and hope you will keep enjoying the blog.
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11 Dec 2013 9:28 AM #1
transferring project files
A person on my team just got Ext Js Designer to help me with design changes. He currently has Designer version 1.2.0. I have been doing all of our design changes on my machine which is running version 1.1.2. He has a copy of the project file on his machine. When he tries to open it he is first prompted with a message asking him to update his designer application. When he tries to update his project he gets a message saying something along the lines of update failed, Error Code 5. If he then proceeds to open the project file, it opens but certain things are messed up. We use empty text on all our form fields, but when we open the project file on his machine, the label value for each field is populated with 'Label:' so the 'Label:' is displayed all over our application. Anyone have any ideas? Is there a way I could roll back his designer version? Thanks.
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You can go to the following file location and ensure he has the same ion file as you. If there is a greater version in there go ahead and remove it. You might also have to remove that newer version from the install location otherwise it will keep trying to move in the newer ion file.
I assume all of this as Ext Designer 1.1 is super outdated and I came on during the rewrite that was 1.2 and eventually became Architect. Suggest checking out Sencha Architect. It should still upgrade your Ext Designer project.
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7 Classic Movies That Are Shameless Ripoffs
We realize that nothing is truly original -- in some way, every blockbuster you watch this summer will have elements that were "ripped off" from some older movie, or novel, or comic book. But damn it, there are times when a big-budget movie has incredibly specific similarities to some more obscure work, to the point that it's really hard to swallow that it could be coincidence. For example ...
#7. Up Closely Resembles a French Short
The film Up is about a lonely old man whose house faces demolition, as it now sits squarely in the middle of a construction zone. Served with an eviction notice, the old man ties hundreds of balloons to his house and floats away.
"Wait! I forgot my insulin!"
But It's Suspiciously Similar To ...
Above Then Beyond is an animated French short about a lonely widow whose home faces demolition by evil businessmen because it's the only house left in the middle of an urban development.
The sharply dressed bastards then show up to bully her out of her house. And after being served with an eviction notice, she turns her house into a gigantic hot air balloon and floats off into the clouds. You have to admit, that's a pretty bizarrely specific plot to have occurred to two different filmmakers. SlashFilm did this side-by-side comparison:
Aside from the fact that the protagonist of Up is an old man and not a woman, the only real difference between the films is that in Up, the old man goes on a bunch of zany jungle adventures with a fat kid and a talking dog, whereas in Above Then Beyond, the old lady dies and it's revealed to be a dream she had.
Before being murdered by skinheads.
One of the creators of the animated short was a film student who basically said that he's pretty sure somebody at Pixar got their idea from his film, but he's powerless to accuse them of anything, as the film was part of his studies and no longer technically belongs to him. So once again the minefield of copyright law miraculously comes out in favor of the giant megacorporation.
#6. The Hunger Games Is Identical to a Japanese Movie
The Hunger Games, adapted from the Suzanne Collins novel, is set in a dystopian future where children are forced to take part in a televised death match where only one can survive. The reason? To punish citizens for a past rebellion and to prevent them from rising up again.
But It's Suspiciously Similar To ...
Battle Royale is Japanese movie adapted from a Japanese novel. It's set in a dystopian future where teenagers are forced to fight each other to the death in a televised death match by a sick government to stop them from rising up in revolution. Of course, there are differences between the films, too. In Battle Royale, the kids are Japanese. And, well, no, that's it.
They go tie shopping at the same store as the guys in Reservoir Dogs.
Remember this scene in The Hunger Games, where they're introduced to the battlefield and forced to fight over backpacks and weapons?
Really, it's not all that different from graduate school.
Battle Royale had almost that exact same scene. When the combatants are thrown into the combat area, they are allotted backpacks, provisions, and random weapons, and they start fighting almost immediately. Both films contain a command center that keeps track of the combatants and reads out lists of the dead over loudspeakers.
But one of the command centers didn't secure their Wi-Fi.
And both films contain emotionally damaged previous winners acting as mentors.
Wait, they aren't both Woody Harrelson?
The author of The Hunger Games said she never heard of Battle Royale, but that when she turned in the first draft of her novel, it was mentioned to her that there were huge similarities between the two. But that was the end of it. The makers of Battle Royale have not made any claim of plagiarism against the better known American film. In fact, Battle Royale has been enjoying a resurgence of popularity ever since a bunch of Japanophiles pointed out the similarities after seeing The Hunger Games. When the Japanese movie was re-released for American audiences, they included a cheeky reference in the trailer, which almost makes it sound like The Hunger Games was a remake:
"Not to imply anything ..."
#5. RoboCop May Be a Rewritten Judge Dredd Movie
RoboCop is an incredibly '80s movie about guns, cocaine, and stop-motion robots in dystopian, crime-ridden Detroit. Its protagonist is an unstoppable, no-nonsense supercop concealed under a suit of armor and a helmet that obscures his eyes and who lives in a world where you shoot first and read Miranda rights later.
But It's Suspiciously Similar To ...
The recent surge in popularity of Judge Dredd thanks to his 2012 feature film should dredge up a few memories for the discerning '80s movie fan. Dredd is a strong, no-nonsense, no-pity cop who cleans up the street, one dirtbag at a time. He keeps his eyes hidden behind a visor and his favorite gun at his hip. His city is a sprawling ghetto, full of the worst kind of lowlifes, corruption, and sickening ultra violence.
We've always assumed Mega-City One was built over old Detroit.
The similarities between the two characters are so striking that, when the new film came out, lots of reviewers praised it or damned it for its similarity to RoboCop. Of course, no such comparisons were drawn from the 1995 Stallone attempt, but then the new version is a much more faithful adaption of the comic book that RoboCop is suggested to have ripped off. Even Karl Urban, who plays Judge Dredd, admits that the film has a lot of RoboCop references, because "RoboCop was obviously inspired by Dredd."
You can even see some direct elements from the comic that have ended up in the movie. Like RoboCop's quote "Come quietly -- or there will be trouble!" which just happened to be the quote on the cover of this copy of the Dredd comic 2000 A.D.
Ah yes, we all remember the year 2000.
It's been rumored for years that the original Judge Dredd script was passed around Hollywood from studio to studio and writer to writer, going through numerous reboots until it became RoboCop. Hell, even Paul Verhoeven said Judge Dredd was an influence on RoboCop (although you'll need to know Dutch to read that). And RoboCop's screenwriter, Ed Neumeier, has admitted that Dredd was at least a partial influence on the character.
In fact, the initial design concept for RoboCop, shown on the DVD extras, has him wearing a Dredd-style helmet at one point until someone opened a dictionary and saw the definition of the word "plagiarism" and decided they should change at least one thing.
#4. Avatar Bears a Striking Resemblance to a 1980s Comic
For all of its visual achievements, the actual plot of Avatar is fairly standard -- a group of blue-skinned natives on a distant planet are forced to fight back when interstellar humans attempt to knock over their magic tree. The main character is a human male who falls in love with one of the female blue aliens and winds up having to fight off his own people to protect her and her tribe.
But It's Suspiciously Similar To ...
Timespirits was a short-lived Marvel comic series from the '80s created by Stephen Perry, who also created ThunderCats. Timespirits is so obscure that there's not much information available on the actual plot. However, looking at the following panels, it's easy to see that Avatar doesn't just bear a passing resemblance:
The comic book characters have way better pants.
Still not convinced? Here's another comparison:
To fully enjoy, put on a pair of 3D glasses and proceed to bitch about it.
For what little can be recalled about the obscure comic, it seems that a sexy blue cat lady falls in love with a human man while being hunted by soldier types who seem to embody white guilt.
And the very best in earthling hat styles.
Although Timespirits didn't sell very well, enough people have accused Cameron of ripping it off that it should at least raise a few eyebrows. Then again, Avatar has already been accused of ripping off everything from FernGully to Dances With Wolves to other obscure science fiction novels about paraplegics who have their consciousness inserted into alien avatars. But maybe that says a lot more about Cameron's originality than it does about his deviousness.


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Stan Kroenke's moustache wrote:Decided against watching the highlights after hearing the score but it's obviously very disappointing, and infuriating.
It's time for Wenger to either part ways with the club or move upstairs, but I'm sure neither will happen.
Pokerkings wrote:Well that was actually quite sad and depressing Saturday, watching my club come to this is just awful, but very predictable. People who know me will tell you I've been banging on about the way we've been managed since the transfer window of 2008 and that this would happen, eventually our pathetic policy would catch up with us, and most Gooners where having none of it.
Of course When Wenger first arrived he had brand new ideas and made our club beautiful to watch, he added some class players to an already solid defence and he had Dennis Bergkamp to work with and he added Henry to partner him. Wenger overtook Fergie and collected doubles in the process, Fergie had to up his game and up his game he did, then Mourihio came along, brought football to another level and Ferguson was challenged again. So what did Ferguson do? stick with the policy that had been so successful in the past? or move with the times and better himself? Ferguson isn't stupid, he knows he needs help and has chopped and changed his assistants, and, as I understand it doesn't even control the training sessions anymore. He's not a control freak, he knows he needs people around him who know what there expertise are.
Now Wenger, he's stuck with his same old methods he used back in the 90's and has refused to adapt and change with the modern day football. Just look at the 8-2 defeat to Utd last season, heads where turned when he sold Fabregas, Nasri and Clichy and none of them where replaced, then, we visit Utd with Injuries and suspensions and he STILL refuses to change he game plan and we find ourselves being humiliated by one of our top rivals. I've seen this coming for ages.
Saturday we were played at our 'Own Game' by Swansea and by a manager who is relatively new to management, especially new compared to Arsene Wenger. If, after "30 years of management" you can't beat Swansea City who are under a new manager who is alien to this league at home then you have some serious issues.
What was most disappointing but not surprising was the body language of the players Saturday, couldn't be bothered to track back, stay in position, fight, work hard, take ownership, lead..etc..etc.. It just isn't good enough. The players are over played, unmotivated mainly due to the fact they are told 4th-3rd place is a trophy and I think Phil Neville summed it up well, when you have a manager who keeps telling you that you're tired then you will start to believe it as a player. This isnt right, First reaching 4th should see players kicked out, if a player plays badly he should be dropped, simple as that.
Wenger is no longer a manager, he's just a mad old father figure that takes the training sessions. All these problems point to him, if the players are tired then he should've spent that £70+ million you had and added depth and quality to the squad, it's his job to insure that! Wasn't it Mourinho who said a successful team needs two players of top quality in each position? In this league he was bang on the money.
Wenger is finished, that much is clear now to most. He showed Saturday just how clueless he is. What was his post match interview?
"We weren't good enough, i dont know why"
Now what I say to all the Wenger lovers is this, there was no hint of him being the man to get us out of this trouble. You seriously need to get your heads around that if you truly support the club. What needs to happen is change throughout... The board, the owner, the manager and half of the squad.
That money grabber Lady Nina was right, the board are incompetent and old. PHW is finished, thank god. Get Dein in. A chairmans job is to control and monitor a CEO. Dein would be perfect, the only thing he cares about is winning therefore he wouldn't accept a CEO that doen't want the club to be successful on the pitch.
Wenger is done and I am actually quite excited, he even knows it himself, he's just too embarrassed to walk. We need to start to find his replacement NOW. Ideally a young, hungry manager with ideas. If Laudrup can completely outsmart Wenger then that tells all the Wenger lover all they need to know.
The march/protest couldn't have been better timed. Now, I'm not a fan of protesting, I think it's counter productive, however last season there were 200 protesting, this season there were 1000, and I guarantee you after that final whistle there were 1000 more on top of that... every corner of the Emirates were booing that performance Saturday and they were absolutely right to do so, Norwich, Q.P.R, Fulham, Aston Villa and Swansea and we have seen extremely poor performances. Is it because we don't have the quality?? well we certainly have better players than those sides, so again, it falls down to the manager. No excuses.
Now, once he's gone when then need to ship out players like Chamakh, Gervinho, Ramsey, JD, Diaby, Squid, Arshavin...etc.. and all the other . that shouldn't be anywhere near an Arsenal shirt, then kick out all the loaned players. If they wont leave because they love milking the extremely high wages Wenger has put them on, then offer them a 'Buy out of contract' deal just wash them out of the club and start again with whatever funds that leaves you with.
Arsenal Football Club has a frightening potential to be a major force in the league and in Europe, we're financially sound, have £100million+ to play with, new commercial deals, new T.V deals and has an amazing stadium with dedicated fans, imagine a manager who could use that potential and turn us around? We have a squad of great individual talent but they are just not clicking together, I think it's because they have watched our best player and captains move onto to better things and they now know what they've signed up to..
Change is needed at Arsenal and it shouldn't be feared.
donosmith wrote:In my mind actually, Arsenal have been surprising this year due to their lack of wins. Expectations were extremely high for the club because of their major signings. Swansea did indeed deserve this win, no doubt about it, but how much longer can Arsenal fans put up with their beloved gunners playing below standards in almost every match.
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You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don't know for sure. But it doesn't matter, because we'll be together.
What's the implicit meaning of this riddle?
I don't see this explicitly as a riddle per se, but as a saying they came up with when Mal & Cobb knew they had to get out of their 50yr long dream.
The reason I say this is because they say it to each other to reassure themselves that by killing themselves in the dream, they'll wake up in the real world; portrayed as they say it while putting their heads on the tracks.
It is a sad way that they profess their love for each other because, while being stuck in the dream world for 50 years, you lose a sense for what is actually real (hence the totems) and obviously death is a scary thing for anyone to face, even if you're somewhat sure the outcome is to just wake up from a dream. They say this to each other to reassure that even if they're wrong and not actually dreaming, they'll be together in the afterlife, if not the real world.
It's not a riddle at all.
Cobb starts saying those things to suggest the trains exists to Mal. Notice that only when he starts talking to her about it, the tracks being to tremble and shake.
He is essentially causing the train to exist and Mal is conjuring it up.
There's a pretty well-known theory that the whole movie of Inception was Cobb's dream, as well as many theories about Ariadne being Cobbs therapist, etc.. but I choose to believe we, the audience were meant to believe the whole movie is Cobbs dream (I would recommend googling about this and deciding for yourself).
Anyways the quote is basically a fantastic "symbol" of 2 lovers in the midst of a midlife crisis. As long as they are together, it doesn't matter what "reality" they are in. Even after death, death is just a train taking them away together. You see this in how cobb can't get rid of Mal the whole movie. It doesn't matter where or what, Cobb and Mal will always be together. The "you know where you hope it takes you" is sort of that desire for being in a "true reality" that everyone feels. Then, the "but you don't know for sure" describes the contradiction in that we have no way of knowing what "reality" is as compared to a dream (if it were all Cobbs dream, totems wouldn't work or be a thing at all).
It makes sense once you know what the implicit question to the end of the riddle:
Why are you waiting for a train?
And the answer to the riddle is, because "you're waiting to die."
Cobb is incomplete. He's part in the dream world, part in reality. Split. The train is a metaphor for Enlightenment. To wake up from a dream but not knowing what will happen. A return to reality without description. Notice he asks Mal "Now! Tell me why?" at the end. In the now moment, it's said in true reality's now moment and there is no question. Then Mal says, "Then you'll be together!" Not "us". "Then you'll be together." One, complete, free.
It was always my opinion that Cobb is trying to convince mall that dreaming is real and life isn't so they can fully immerse themselves in the fact that dreaming is real. That's why Cobb breaks into her mind and makes the totem stop. But then he can't convince her to go under again because she thinks she's ask ray dreaming. So she kills herself to escape the "dream" and tries to blackmail Cobb into believing it also/give him no other choice. The tragedy being that they both did it out of love but that's what ended up killing mal in the process.


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WEIRTON - Jeanie Green McHenry and Kevin Neverly of Weirton announce their engagement.
The bride-elect is the daughter of the late Phyllis Stackpole Green and William E. Green Sr. She is a graduate of Weir High School and West Liberty University with a degree in nursing. She is employed in the Telephone Triage and Advice Center of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.
Her fiance is the son of the late Mildred and Charles Neverly. He is a graduate of Madonna High School. After serving in the Navy he attended Pittsburgh Technical Institute and studied electronics and obtained a second class FCC license from the Broadcasting School for the Arts, Pittsburgh. He is employed at the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant in Shippingport, Pa.
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Skrillex in Cape Town
Skrillex (real name Sonny Moore) has helped bring dubstep into the mainstream. While some characterise his music as the soundtrack to an alien invasion crossed with an army of angry robots, he has proven wildly popular in the past few years, with his latest album selling over a million copies. The genre is often characterised by the drop, when the emphasis of the track shifts to the bassline. Skrillex has become known for "dropping the bass", and his live DJ sets are already the stuff of legend.
Electronic music has been growing steadily over several years. From Donna Summer's I Feel Love to Skrillex's Bangarang, electronic instruments and samples have been a part of popular music for years. EDM, as electronic dance music is often referred to these days, has even seen recogniton from the establishment, as the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards have recently added a Dance/Electronic category to their award ceremonies (with Skrillex winning three of those Grammys last year). EDM festivals have also started sprouting up around the world, including here in Cape Town.
Tickets for Friday's concert are sold out, but visit the Electric South Africa Facebook page for updated event details.


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App Building, the Do-It-Yourself Way
Non-Techie Entrepreneurs, Seeing Specific Needs, Find Outside Resources to Help Them Create Software
As a business consultant, Mike Vichich has spent the past five years traveling the globe and racking up points on his credit cards—enough to earn the 28-year-old Detroit native free trips to Europe, Africa and the South Pacific.
Cashing in those points gave him the idea for Glyph, an iPhone app that tracks and maximizes credit-card rewards. There was only one hitch: Mr. Vichich, who studied finance and marketing at Michigan State University, didn't know the first thing about developing a mobile app.
"My business acumen was an 'A' but my technical acumen was an 'F'," he says.
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Plenty of business owners and entrepreneurs, like Mr. Vichich, are comfortable running a company in the fast-growing mobile-apps market, but lack the technical know-how to build mobile apps on their own.
Their options range from using online app-building tools, to taking crash courses in computer programming and coding languages, hiring a costly professional on contract, or recruiting a full-time developer.
A host of online tools, such as Appsme, AppMakr or Flow.net, allow just about any user to build simple apps by adding text, images and other features into a ready-made template—though some are limited in scope or require manual coding for any extra features.
Mobile-developer boot camps, which are popping up around the country, can fill in the knowledge gap with intensive do-it-yourself training. In a matter of weeks, programs like the Pragmatic Studio in Reston, Va., can help turn a novice into a proficient coder, for fees of about $2,695 for four days of training.
Mr. Vichich, who developed his own three-month crash course last summer, says he felt that knowing the basics helped him recruit the right developer.
\With a partner, he launched Glyph at the App Store in November, after attracting $500,000 in seed capital from local investors earlier in the year: "I'm by no means a developer now, but at least I can speak the language," he says.
In September, Michael Perry took 126 hours of training at CodeAcademy, a free online course that teaches a variety of programming languages. His business partner, an app developer who was working part-time on their San Francisco startup, had to devote more time to his other, full-time job.
Mr. Perry, who had been in charge of business operations, realized he needed to learn code himself in order to launch the business, an app called GVING that sought to help merchants better track and reward their customers.
The app is available at the App Store, and Mr. Perry now has a team of three developers to take over the engineering side of the business. He likes the "freedom and flexibility" of being able to code when he wants to, he says.
Keith Brown, an arborist and owner of Austin Tree Experts from Austin, Texas, combined an online app builder with training to make an app that employees and customers use to identify and record details of trees.
Codiqa, the app builder, helped with the basic HTML5 code for the app's layout and general function, he says.
Because Codiqa couldn't add a customized GPS feature to pin the location of the trees, or a photo uploading capability to capture images of the trees, Mr. Brown turned to W3Schools.org and HTML5rocks.com for online tutorials. He also asked questions on StackOverflow.com, a developer forum, when he ran into problems.
All told, it took him roughly 30 hours of work to build the app, he says.
Rather than go it alone, other entrepreneurs are tapping professional developers, who charge upwards of $15,000 to produce sophisticated, polished apps. For multiple rounds of revisions, and complex problems, the costs can run as high as $50,000.
"Say it's $100 an hour, and it's four to six weeks of work, that's already $26,000," says Don Bora, co-founder of Eight Bit Studios, a mobile app development studio in Chicago.
He warns it could take two to three months from idea to product, since much of the work is in brainstorming, not development.
The costs can continue to rise after the app is developed. Each time an operating system updates, or a new device comes out, for instance, there can be changes that impact how an app works. Developers have to constantly issue updates to apps in order to fix bugs and add features based on the phone or tablet's new capabilities.
One common way to find developers is to attend networking and recruiting events, such as Hackathons, Startup Weekends, Tech MeetUps, or by checking out up-and-coming talent at local colleges and universities.
According to Peter Bell, who has been a chief technology officer and a senior technologist at a number of startups including Skinnio and General Assembly, not all app developers are created equal.
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Just like doctors, accountants and football players, some software developers are substantially better than others, he says. And because it can take a long time to develop an app, and there are often many revisions and brainstorming sessions, it's important that business owners and developers understand each other, he adds.
"A developer needs to really understand the problems you're solving to exercise good judgment when coding the application," says Mr. Bell. "If your developer doesn't understand your vision, they'll build the wrong app."
Developers should also have a good track record, says Dan Pickett, founder of LaunchWare Inc., a mobile and software development and consulting firm in Bridgewater, Mass. "Stick to someone who has at least put a few apps on the App Store and has demonstrated success," he says.
Location is also important. Overseas developers can be less costly, but may lack a clear understanding of what an app is meant to do."Let's say you are making a health-care app," says Mr. Bora. "Problems can arise if you don't know how the health care system works in the U.S."
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