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The Industrial Internet will drive down costs and minimize system failures, while supplying vast amounts of data for operators, drivers, and facilities that result in huge operational improvements. Predictive analytics to prevent unplanned equipment failure, crash prevention technologies, speed optimization for exact distribution chain timing, and automatic traffic re-routing are just a few of the benefits the Industrial Internet will provide to transportation companies and consumers.In the future, the Industrial Internet will help to:Create transportation systems that can sense and respond to changes in real time.Increase operational efficiencies & public safety, reduce fleet down time and enable preventive maintenance of faulty and soon-to-fail parts by analyzing and reacting to data created by jet engines and sensors monitoring the surrounding environment (temperature, humidity, air pressure, etc.).Identify more efficient routes and improve fuel efficiency, through capacity analytics.View our member case study spotlighting Industrial Internet innovations in Transportation and check back as our library of case studies grows.
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teach our kids that we should be grateful everyday to
be Americans. In this country we can choose our own destination. We can be
whatever we want. I think that being a secular country brings us together and
makes us stronger.We don't have questions we can't answer. We don't hear
stories of people or things we can't prove exist. We know what we have overcome
to be where we are today, and we know what we want to plan for our future. As
quoted in Herbergs essay, "The things that make us proud to be Americans are of
the soul and of the spirit." That quote said by Mr. Eisenhower exemplifies an
American religion, or standard by which we look for guidance and reassurance.And
it is not something we should be ashamed of. Our country has survived more that
other countries can only dream of. So many have suffered for the well being of
our country. It is what makes us America.
To me it would seem that religion has become a thing of the past. It
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text: Hello guys, I've recently upgraded my wrt54gl to Tomato 1.07.1042 (thanks to roadkill) and I have this issue with my firewall when I try to execute this command: /usr/sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp -m udp -m multiport -d 255.255.255.255 --dports 68,67 -j DROP I get this error: modprobe: module ip_tables not found. modprobe: failed to load module ip_tables and i've tried to reset the nvram and even reinstall the firmware with no luck. any help will be greatly appreciated.


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Click here to listen to today's episode of Radio Or Not (runtime 35:25)
Last night, we got to hear the first interview given by Sarah Palin since she was named John McCain's running mate. And she did not disappoint, those of us who know she's a phony, that is!
First, let me say that there was not a moment of sincerity in that entire interview. She really knew, without blinking, when John McCain asked to be his running mate that she'd accept? No consideration to the fact that she supposedly just gave birth to a special needs child, and has a pregnant teenager at home-- both of whom might need extra attention in the coming years No discussion with her husband or family? Somehow, this is either quite disingenuous, or just the words of a complete opportunist who doesn't give a damn about her family.
Then, her complete lack of understanding about foreign policy was also unmistakable. She's obviously a quick study, but there's only so much learnin' a person can do in a week.
On today's program, we listen to the whole thing and, again, I let my stream of consciousness run through.
Today's show also features the first call-in to Radio Or Not! Adam from Hollywood did as I suggested (just look on the right-hand side of this page for instructions) and called in yesterday as I was working in my studio. I recorded our conversation and played it back on today's show. You can do it too... Just not today, as I'm getting out of here early to go see Joe Garcia and former Governor and Senator Bob Graham.
If you're in South Florida, come hear two of Florida's treasures beginning at 11:30 this morning at Miami Dade College Kendall Campus, Room K413. Visit http://www.joegarcia08.com/ for more info on the event, and why we need Joe to win the Congressional seat that Mario Diaz Balart has occupied for way too long.
I'll leave you with some fun for your Friday. If you scroll down a few entries, you'll see a video spoofing McCain and Palin. Here's another one, this one featuring actress Gina Gershon as the woman who wants to be VP....
Click here to listen to today's episode of Radio Or Not (runtime 35:25)
Friday, September 12, 2008
Sarah speaks, unscripted, sort of!
Click here to listen to today's episode of Radio Or Not (runtime 35:25)
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- MikeEmm said...
She doesn't presume to know what God wants but she supports a president that talks to God. Amazing! Her son going to war as a hero...she isn't sending her son anywhere but there is other motivation.
- Bryain Miami said...
Hi Nicole,
Maybe I'm being lulled into a false sense of security, but after watching these two interviews, I'm not all that afraid of Sarah Palin anymore. She's making it clearer by the day that she is woefully out of her league, and it would almost make me sad if not for the fact that:
She and her running mate are a pair of liars that think we're stupid.
On another note: John McCain recently got his fifth and sixth PANTS ON FIRE rating for comments on politifact.com. So far, Senator Obama has recieved none.
Interestingly, Biden has two PANTS ON FIRE, although I would certainly defend the truthfulness of both assertions.
Love ya Nicle!
- Anonymous said...
Bryain, I think you're right. After her interview last night - I didn't watch tonight - I think a lot of people were finally waking up to what a nightmare it would be if McCain/Palin got in. They are both pathological liars. Nothing different from Bush/Cheney in that regard. What's really disgusting to me at this point is we're basically broke and Iraq now has $79 billion in their treasury. We're spending $12 billion per month to protect the USA oil mega-corps. interests, while they've been frantically trying to work out their long-term oil deals with Iraq. Finally looked like they had them finalized - Bush announces success in Iraq, because of the surge - and now Keith Olbermann said tonight that Iraq cancelled the deals with the USA mega-corps. AND has now made a deal with CHINESE PETROLEUM. Some Bush legacy, huh? I wonder how much longer McCain will stick to his campaign crap about staying in Iraq, now that we're going to be there to protect the oil interests for CHINESE PETROLEUM. D.R.
- MikeEmm said...
I am not sure we have a choice in protecting them or not. China seems to own enough of us to be able to dictate what our military does.
- Anonymous said...
Really sickening. D.R.
- Anonymous said...
I have always owned pets and have found that there is a profound difference between pet owners and those who dislike animals. People that care for animals, without doubt, are more compassionate, than those that don't. I don't argue to be unbiased on this topic (My family includes a cat, a dog, and a parrot.
I was going to vote for Obama because I saw him as caring more about people than McCain, until I read that he doesn't own a single pet. I feel sorry for those little girls who are missing serious lessons of unrequited love and responsibility for those creatures that need our assistance for survival and happiness. I also found out that his brother in Africa is living on ONE dollar a month. I see these two facts as evidence that whatever compassion he may exude is false and manufactured for his ambition.
I also found out that "The McCain family shelters four cats, three dogs—two mini-Dobermans and a springer spaniel—three parakeets, two snakes, one rabbit, one turtle, one hamster, one mouse, one iguana, one gecko, and 13 fish. In summer 2000, the family also cared for one orphan jackrabbit and one iguana egg (courtesy of the McCain iguana, Henrietta)."( http://www.infoplease.com/spot/prespets.html)
This may seem a stupid reason for changing my vote (especially to those that don't own pets), but it has been my life's experience to expect more understanding and compassion from pet owners.
- Anonymous said...
I understand your feeling about pets, as I've personally had 2 horses, 5 dogs, 3 cats, 4 parakeets, and numerous fish over the years. They take a lot of time, love and compassion. But at the same time, even though my job has kept me pretty busy over the years, ranging from 25 to 100 or so hours per week, I imagine Barack and Michelle Obama's lives have been extremely busy with everything they've accomplished at this point in their lives and sincerely want to accomplish for the people of this country. From what I saw of their two beautiful girls, they seem to have raised them with a lot of love and compassion. It's true, they don't have pets, but I'm not so sure you should use having pets as your only yard stick, though, to show someone's true understanding and compassion. Dick Cheney has two labrador retrievers, Jackson & Dave; George W. Bush had one dog, Spot, and three cats, India, Cowboy and Ernie, when he was governor of Texas. Barney's been the White House Dog. Understanding? Compassion? I still cannot get the image of John McCain and George W. Bush and the Birthday Cake, out west, 8/29/05, while the citizens of New Orleans were suffering the aftermath of Katrina and the massive flooding, with the hundreds of corpses in the streets. Please look into the voting record of Barack Obama and John McCain to see whose compassion and understanding is real and whose is a myth. D.R.


text: So this is annoying, the same cord works on my friends iPod, not mine, and other iPods work on my computer. My cord will charge my iPod, but my MacBook won't ever recognize it's there. I've tried reseting the iPod holding down the middle and menu button, fully charging the iPod, restarting my computer a couple times, and even downloading iTunes again. Any ideas to get my mac to recognize that my ipod is attached thru the usb port?? any advice would be helpful! thanks!


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Complete Angler
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BSA Complete Angler. This patch may be worn on the right breast, in the "temporary patch" spot.
Complete Angler is not a merit badge.
The BSA Complete Angler Recognition was developed by the BSA National Fishing Task Force to honor well-rounded youth anglers. It replaces the Certified Angler Award. Unlike that previous award, the Complete Angler Recognition does not require an online test. Once a youth completes the requirements, that youth is eligible to receive the patch.
Complete Angler requirements
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- Swimming
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Ideas Using Mircosoft's Products
Microsoft has been around since 1975 and since then has always been pushing the envelope for new ideas and products. Today they have tons of products in the both the software and hardware space targeting end consumers and businesses. The Mobile Lab would love to get their hands on some of these devices in order to make new cool innovations.
Windows Phone
First and foremost we are a Mobile Research Lab. Unfortunately, I am sad to say that no one in our group has had any experience with a Windows Phone. However, I am responsible for making Android's Ice Cream Sandwich look more like this phone (check out the new favorite's layouts http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-social-apis-in-android-ics.html). This means that Microsoft must be doing something right to help influence the designs of other major manufactures.
We would love to get our hands on some of these devices and explore exactly what they are doing, how they work, and figure out how we can continue innovation on them.
Surface 2.0
The Surface is a touch screen table PC that is about to change the world as we know it. It can not only do multi-touch, but with it's Pixel Sense technology it can actually read papers. This is quickly shaping how people can collaborate on projects and exchange information. We have barley scratched the surface (no pun-intended) with ideas for this product.
- 3-D Modeling : FSU has just received funding to build a huge 3-D printer that will run off recycled materials. Check out the wiki page (currently under developement) http://mmap.artsresearch.fsu.edu. Creating a program for the surface, or perhaps a plugin, that enables you to create 3-D models with your hands and art tools rather than a mouse and keyboard is the future.
- Screen Recognition : We want to put pixel sense to the test. Will it be able to detect screens of other devices? Say a iPad or Android Phone if we put it face down? Of course we know Windows Phone will integrate nicely with this, but the truth is there are more iOS and Android devices in the wild. To make those compatible with the surface would mix up everything.
- Real World Interactions : Strapping a HD web cam (list below) to the Surface would give a new dimension of possibilities. You would be able to take a picture or video or your self in real time and then interact with it on the screen. Imagine you are having surgery and the doctor puts you in front a vision enabled surface. He can then map out exactly what he is going to do on the screen. For plastic surgery you he could modify the picture and even show you the final result before it happens.
Touch Mouse
This Touch Mouse http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/touch-mouse Highlights everything a mouse is suppose to be. This would surely come in handy while programming touch screen phones all day. I'm excited to see exactly how much so. However, I can foresee accessibility problems for those that are visually impaired. It would be great to hook this mouse up to a vibrating sensor and give feedback through the mouse depending on where the cursor is. This way those with impairments get a chance to explore the screen without being tied to keyboard and screen reader.
XBox & Kinect
There are a countless number of things that can be done with the Kinect. Just check out some of the demo videos that we created showcasing what the Kinect actually sees
The list can go on and on, but here are just a few ideas that we have for this product:
- Baby Monitor : Just go ahead and point this baby at your baby! The kinect can not only detect if your child has moved out of it's range, but it can also detect where their hands are. You are always worried about them getting into things they aren't suppose to, or scratching their face, but now you can keep note of exactly what they are dong.
- Security Monitor : When your not playing with the kinect why just have it sit there an do nothing? Using the infrared sensors we can turn this into a home security monitor. It would be even more great to integrate this with your Windows Phone to not only automatically detect when your not home but to also send alerts. And while we are at it, let's also use a Xbox Vision camera to just send a direct feed to your cell as well.
- Visual Aid : Using many of the kinects libraries, we want to attempt to make an application what helps the blind move more freely. By analyzing their surroundings we can convert this to audio feedback and help them find objects and obstacles that they may encounter. Not to mention make a video game where you don't need to see the screen in order to play.
While this isn't necessarily a hardware product, I am still very interested in this technology and a Windows Phone would help. For those of you that don't know that "TAG" is, it's basically a 2-D QR or bar code. You are used to seeing them as a bunch of little blocks, but Microsoft has pushed the envelope to make them way more visually appealing. This could be exactly what this technology needs in order to finally take-off. I would love to help break this at Florida State and start to "TAG" up everything.
This little cameras are AMAZING! With all the videos that we make at The Lab, having one of these on every computer would be great. Aside from just video conferencing, is would be beneficial to us to have to live webcams so what we can share with the rest of the world what goes on inside of The Mobile Lab.
Imagine the possibilities of teaming this little guy up with the kinect and a big screen TV to create a real virtual world in three D. Having another set of eyes never hurts. I get really excited when I think about the possibilities of this tied along with the next product, Microsoft Sync.
This is probably one of the things I get most excited about, Microsoft Sync. Sync is the technology integrated into Ford's automobiles. To have a full access pass and project in this field can help change everything. Tons of ideas from automatic crash detection, new voice commands, to daily medical monitoring can be done with the this.
- Crash Detection : One of the easiest and most straight forward ideas. Just check to see if the air bags deployed and not only contact EMS but also family and loved ones.
- Voice Commands. Texting : I know that there are already a bunch that ships with this, but hands free driving has been making a bug push. Texting while driving has major problem and this can help solve that.
- Daily Medical Monitoring : The majority of us come into contact with our vehicles on a daily basis. What kind of information can we gather but taking the driver's heart rate everytime they grab the wheel, or log their weight as soon as they sit down? We can track long term changes and mine a wealth of data over a person's lifetime.
- DUI Detection : What if DUI's weren't even a problem anymore because if you are intoxicated your car wouldn't even start? Using facial features along with alcohol sensors and contextual information this can be a reality.
About Frank Sposaro
Frank was the initial student to start the mobile lab with Dr. Tyson. After working on the first project, iFall, he and Dr. Tyson designed the Mobile Programming course as FSU. The course is used as a training base to recruit new students into the lab. His thesis researches several medical related applications, including iFall. Frank then went on to implement the redesign of the "favorite contacts" for Android's Ice Cream Sandwich at Google HQ in Mountain View, California. He currently acts as a tech lead in the lab getting infrastructure and project management tools setup. He has special focus on native Android coding and UI design.
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Old White Ladies Like The King's Speech, So You Will Too!
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, according to a press release -- a freakin' press release! -- the 84-year-old Queen of England reportedly found The King's Speech "moving" and "enjoyable." Personally, I'd rather have her hate it. Like really despise the thing to the point where we receive a press release alerting us to the fact that the Queen watched The King's Speech and then proceeded to vomit for 10 straight days. That's the kind of press that would get this film a few more views.
Heck, what 10-year-old wouldn't want to see the flick then? "Hey Mom, please take Joey and I to see the film that made that old funny-sounding lady puke for 10 days straight. Please! Please! We'll give up our allowances for, like, a year!"
Man, I should be in marketing. Oh well, maybe we'll show her The King's Speech again when it's converted to 3D. That'll make her puke.
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I know, I know would anyone really buy a tape called Abs & Pelvic Diaphragm? Well, I didn't buy it, I got it free from some deal The Firm was offering several years ago. Anyway, since I do use this tape, I thought, what the heck? I'll write a review so here goes, one thing that I really like about this cassette is that the workouts are set to some really great classical music, I mean the crunches and oblique twists follow the music exactly. Its a five-day ab program that incorporates pelvic floor exercises (I think this came out about the same time as Vol 6. which is why pelvic floorwork is included). Day 1 is approx. 7 min. long, Day 2 - 8 min. 48 sec., Day 3 - 8 min. 35 sec., Day 4 - 7 min. 50 sec., Day 5 - 7 min. 29 sec.
The tape includes a booklet which explains all the exercises as well as the infamous illustration of the pelvic floor that was in 20 Questions About Fitness.
The workouts include basic crunches, oblique twists, combo crunches, reverse crunches, and leg pulleys. Some days seem to concentrate more on the lower abs, and others more on the obliques and upper abs. Each of these workouts are pretty tough. I do this tape when I'm traveling or when I get bored with other ab videos. I don't mind the pelvic floor work, I don't feel as silly as I used to when doing it. (My husband came in one time while doing a video during pelvic floor work and wondered what on earth I was doing). I also found I concentrated more on my abs because I didn't have a TV to look at, just concentrate on my abs and enjoy the great classical music.
Instructor comments: Susan's cueing is very easy to follow but that's not surprising considering its an audio workout, and I don't think her voice is sexy on this at all.
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In Baccarat's Paris headquarters, a mirrored table by Philippe Starck catches every glimmer of the Solstice chandelier. Photo by Xavier Bejot for House & Garden.
Mirrored cocktail (never coffee) tables are a classic. This one, with its sinuous gilded base, is French, c. 1940, and was chosen by the NYC design team of Timothy Hayes and Kevin Roberts for a Park Avenue apartment. Photo by William Abranowitz for House & Garden.
The Curtis Jeré copper wall sculpture is highlighted in this shimmery cocktail table. Design and photo by your humble blogger.
Lots of mirrored surfaces in this confection of a room by Michael Simon. Photo by Simon Upton for House & Garden. But there's more...
In the same Palm Beach house, this powder room could be an homage to Versailles. But for all its excess, it is masterful in its detail and workmanship.
Thanks for reading everyone!


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IN Südtirol: Markas knows what our brain needs!
22 May 2014
On the 13th and 15th of May 2014 the Brainfood Days took place at the University Canteens of Bolzano and Bressanone. Dott.ssa Elisa Bionda, Nutritional Expert at Markas, spoke about importance, findings and components of a healthy diet.
The very positive response to the event bears witness of the increasing awareness towards the topic.
The magazine "IN Südtirol" reports about in its edition dated 22/05/2014.
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It's time to pull in the Triceratops snow measuring device for another year. We did get measurable snow this year but not much. 2 storms each about 6 inches. Spring is here, the weather is actually getting warmer and it is getting time to take the cover off the boat. We will be putting it in the first week of June. The water is still too cold in May to swim or sail and we usually get a bad storm around the middle of the month. I am working for the UPS store for 1 more week while the new owner in in training in San Diego. I will be really done on April 11. Need to find another part time job to generate some extra funds for beer making and travel during retirement. I am also running for a position on the Open Space Acquisition Committee here in Marion. This will be the first town committee that I will actually be elected to. All the others have been appointed positions.
We were in Florida from March 7 to 17 visiting Tim. Sean & Nicole found us a Time Share Unit in Pompano Beach where we stayed for 7 days and spent the other days in Tim's Condo. Did some beaching, geocaching and fishing. Picture above is of Ellen & I at the South Boca Raton Beach Webcam Geocache, communicating with Tim on whether or not our picture had been taken. Had a great time at the St. Patrick's Day parade in Del ray. The weather was beautiful, nice and warm. It was tough to come back home to the cold weather.
When we were geocaching we went to this park where they do cable Water skiing. Really neat. The cable runs in a large oval and the skiers can do jumps. The lake was very shallow because they were able to walk ashore when they fell.


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I usually prefer dividends to stock buybacks. You can bank dividends -- or, better still, reinvest them, creating nine-figure fortunes over the course of decades.
But there are times when a buyback is not only appropriate, but also smart. This is one of those times for Stock Advisor selection Biogen Idec
Biogen, a major drugmaker, announced late Tuesday that it will spend as much as $3 billion in a Dutch auction to repurchase and retire as much as 16% of its outstanding shares. Investors may opt to tender stock for between $47 and $53 a stub.
Funding will come through a combination of $1.5 billion in cash (Biogen has $2.8 billion cash and investments on hand now) and $1.5 billion in new debt.
I don't usually like to see firms go into hock to repurchase equity. Here, it makes sense for two reasons. First, there's free cash flow. Biogen produces plenty of it.
Free Cash Flow
Actual (in millions)
If history serves, it should take Biogen no more than two years to pay off the $1.5 billion it expects to owe. That's what a pair of blockbuster drugs -- Rituxan, which is sold in tandem with Genentech
Second, there's valuation. When David Gardner picked Biogen for Stock Advisor, the company was worth about $22 billion. Today, despite putting up good numbers in each of the past three quarters, Biogen is worth just $18 billion. (Amgen
Now, either David is crazy, or Biogen is trading at a discount.
If he's right -- and my experience suggests that he is -- then management is snapping up shares at exactly the right moment, when they're undervalued and able to earn a lot more than the 5% Biogen's cash would earn sitting in a bank vault.
Or, in simple English: It's a chance for management to deliver huge returns to long-suffering shareholders. I'm glad the company's doing it.
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- Take full measure of Biogen's steady growth.
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Andrew Cooper, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
In 72704 - Nearby to Lowell.
Depression will occur in most people's lives at some point, but not all of us get out of it. There are many sources of depression, including biological and environmental factors. I help identify the likely origin, and devise the best plan to see the person grow, and either manage or conquer the depression symptoms. I use a depression assessment to help me identify how much the depression is affecting the client in their life.
Depression Counselor
Vantage Point Behavioral Health
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Depression is a mood disorder that can cause a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest that can interfere with daily functioning. Reaching out for help is a step towards wellness. Symptoms of depression can vary from person to person, but it is a very treatable condition. Therapy for depression helps you overcome the feelings of hopelessness and despair and to gain control of your life.
Depression Counselor
Sandra Underwood, M.S., LMFT, LPC, DCC
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
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I frequently see clients that are struggling with depression or depressive symptoms. Often this may be due to changes in relationships, self-image, or relating to something traumatic in the past. My goal is to identify the root cause(s) of the change in mood to help the client work through this so that they can develop hope for the future. I also assist them in developing new coping skills.
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Aaron Levy, LPC, M.S.
Licensed Professional Counselor
In 72701 - Nearby to Lowell.
Finding treatment in Depression, can be hard. Sometimes we find ourselves in a very dark hole, with barely able to see the light. For other sometimes it feels like "Eeyore," the season where everything feely rainy, lonely, and full of despair. This range of emotion can be hard to tolerate, and learn how to move forward. This is important in learning as a person asks for help in finding peace even in the darkest seasons of depression.
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It has been said that a large percentage of depression may be unresolved grief. However, there also seem to be cases where there is a chemical imbalance in the brain. It is my belief that even brain chemistry can often be modified. Whether you feel you are dealing with unresolved grief or a physiological basis for your depression, I believe I can help you begin to process relevant issues and find effective ways of dealing with them.
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3 years ago
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Bird bath
Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden has just been nominated as one of the top 7 picnic destinations in the world by National Geographic. Wow. But then, I can see why. It is a truly spectacular, yet comfortable and friendly place to come to, with a host of things to do apart from look at flowers. It has an interesting history too. This is Colonel Bird's Bath, a spring of crystal clear water that bubbles up into this bird-shaped pond that was built in 1811 (200 years ago!) by one of the first owners of one of the farms that eventually became Kirstenbosch in 1913. The pool is about one and a half metres from end to end, situated in the magical shady Dell. On a hot day like today - the first really warm summer day we have had this season - it is a lovely place to come and cool down, although swimming is not allowed.
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Given his recent explosion in popularity, it's easy for one to forget that Jason Bourne has actually been in the public eye since 1980, when Robert Ludlum's "The Bourne Identity" was released to critical acclaim. There were four more books (and a miniseries!) in the years that followed, but it wasn't until 2002 that Ludlum's malfunctioning killing machine finally became a household name. Of course, it probably didn't hurt that he was being played by Hollywood heartthrob Matt Damon, who was deadly enough to bring in action fans while staying dreamy enough to pull in the ladies. Now that the film franchise is (most likely) finished, it's probably not surprising that a "Bourne" game is in the works.
Unlike many licensed game creators, however, developer High Moon Studios eschewed tradition in an attempt to carve out its own niche in the Bourne canon. Although there will probably be some fans that don't agree with the company's approach, High Moon didn't use Matt Damon's likeness for The Bourne Conspiracy, choosing instead to turn to the books in an effort to re-imagine the character. While this may not be the Jason Bourne we've all come to know and love over the last six years, make no mistake: he's still a complete and utter badass.
For the most part, The Bourne Conspiracy will mirror the events seen in the first film, in which our hero is fished out of the Mediterranean Sea with no memories of how he ended up there. You'll spend the game sorting out just what in the hell is going on, although (naturally) there aren't a lot of answers. One of the most interesting elements of the game is the fact that there are multiple flashback levels, while the film really only showed the events on Wombosi's yacht. This should help to flesh out the universe a bit, as seeing some of Jason's previous Treadstone Project will be a treat for fans of the franchise.
Our time with the game began during the embassy sequence, in which Bourne had to escape from the building with a unit of MPs hot on his trail. We were thrown directly into the action after a brief cut-scene, and we were happy to see that, as was the case with the films, the hand-to-hand combat was the game's strongest element. It's actually quite simple to get the hang of, as you'll really only need to hit the X and Y buttons (we only saw the game on the Xbox 360) to pull off a variety of combos.
As you pummel foes with blistering left and right combos, you'll gradually build up your takedown meter with adrenaline. This allows the player to occasionally unleash an instant takedown with a press of the B button. The interesting twist here is that you can take down multiple enemies depending on how full your gauge is, although it's not quite as simple as just mashing B right after you run into a room.


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WhatsApp released an update wherein it is possible to forward messages to multiple contacts at once in WhatsApp for iOS and Android. Apart from that, there are few more significant updates introduced in WhatsApp for iOS. In this article, we throw light on all the new features incorporated in latest WhatsApp update and how to forward WhatsApp messages to multiple chats/contacts/groups at once.
Let us first go ahead with the first major update which forwarding messages to multiple contacts and groups at once.
How to Forward WhatsApp messages to multiple chats
The procedure is almost similar for both iOS and Android WhatsApp app with very slight difference. Refer to the screenshots attached for iOS and Android.
Most important step is to, of course, update your WhatsApp to latest version(2.16.10 for iOS and 2.16.259 for Android) and then follow the procedure below.
1. Open WhatsApp and select the desired conversation.
2. Long tap on the message in the conversation which you wish to forward.
For iOS – Select Forward from the options presented.
For Android – select multiple messages if desired and move to the next step.
3. For iOS – Select the messages you want to forward. WhatsApp provides you the liberty to forward multiple messages at once. After selecting the messages, tap on the arrow icon at the bottom left corner.
For Android – tap on the arrow icon at the top right corner.
4. This screen is the main difference. Now you will get the option to select multiple contacts/groups to whom the message can be forwarded.
For iOS – Select the ones desired and tap Forward at the bottom right corner.
For Android – Select the right arrow icon at the bottom right as shown in the screenshot below.
With this, your message(s) is forwarded to multiple conversations at once.
Other Significant Updates
WhatsApp had to release this update close to the release of iOS 10 as with latest iOS Apple has opened up Siri to third-party apps/developers. This is one of the top iOS 10 features. Siri 3rd party app support means that now you can ask Siri to send WhatsApp messages or place WhatsApp calls. And that is what latest WhatsApp update allows you to do.
WhatsApp call now comes as a normal cellular call on iPhone which can be answered from phone's lock or home screen. Check the image below.
With this changing ringtone for WhatsApp incoming calls is not possible anymore within WhatsApp app. It will take the same ringtone set for phone contacts.
This update is for both Android and iOS. While forwarding or sharing messages contacts and groups whom you contact frequently will appear. This will be useful in saving some time. Apart from that, there is a forward button added for every photo and video that appear in the conversation to quickly forward media files.
This was all introduced in the latest WhatsApp update. Share this article with your friends to let them know about all of it. Feel free to drop a comment for any relevant query.


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The last couple game sessions we've have not been set in Karn or using the LoK system (as those who showed up know). Instead it was a post-apocalyptic survival/horror story using a very simple system we created just for the story. It went well and the system had some good points and bad points (but has certain things about I am going to expand upon).
What it did do was spark a whole new idea for a game I want to make. It will be a smaller system and setting that LoK is, so I think I may just work on this new one through to finish before LoK gets completed. This idea just really wants to come out at the moment. The darkness/horror of it really appeals to me right now.
I don't have anything to really share about right now, as it is literally just a series of notes and no form at the moment. The structure idea/feel comes from many sources (including Silent Hill, The Mist, Hellraiser, Night Breed, Cthuhlu, Nightbane, and more), but I like the idea of there being layers of reality and darkness. Evils that grow as the tension grows, culminating in an explosion of darkness when things get too bad.
The system is based on a "betting" die pool on top of base attributes. The more you bet, the greater your chance of success, but the more you risk losing if you fail. Plus there is the central group die pool that is the darkness level. Over time you add dice to it. When it is rolled you see how bad things get by how many 1s are rolled.
I think my Blog post this week (late because I have been drugged up the last couple days due to passing a kidney stone... which may also have added to my mindset with this game) will be about the birth of a game in a sudden rush of ideas like this.
No sure what else to say at the moment, just felt the need to share it.
I would like to brainstorm with some of you about this soon. Call me or perhaps we can get together at some point.
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I caught up with Jon Carolino, former drummer of the very first Raging Storm Records band Sam's the Hero, to discuss his past work with Raging Storm and what he is up to present day.
Tyler Bennett: How did you first hear about Raging Storm Records?
Jon Carolino: I heard about Raging Storm when we met Jason at a show my band was playing at. At the time we were called Son's of Noah (now called Sams's the Hero) and he told us about the label he was forming. With him being new at it and us being an upcoming band we both thought we would take the chance on each other and became each others' guinea pig.
TB: What all did you do for Raging Storm?
JC: So my work personally for Raging Storm was mainly getting the first website up, the first logo and a lot of the original marketing for him. I was a full time graphic designer at that point and gladly helped RSR out. Raging Storm really became everyone's project, both the band and J's family, and we all pitched in in some sort of capacity to help the label be successful.
TB: What impact did Raging Storm have on you and your band Sam's the Hero?
JC: I think the impact was big for both of us. None of us really knew what we were doing but we both had a lot of heart and tried really hard. I think with our bands work ethic, beliefs and attitude we were able to show J we were willing to put in the work and help him help us. I think it gave J a drive to really push us and see how far he could go in making things happen for the label. Through RSR Son's got to go on their tour. We played the Cornerstone festival and went on tour with the Extreme Tour. I believe those two first events really helped kick things off for both our band and Raging Storm Records as a brand.
TB: You stepped down from Sam's not long after touring, can you talk about that?
JC: So my departure from Sam's was a tough one. In the middle of starting to record our second album, I just felt the Lord saying "You're finished here. I want you to move onto something different". That was really hard. Those two guys (Jeff Riggs and Neil Donohue) were, and still are today, some of my best friends; my brothers. What I felt the Lord was asking me to do was to leave behind the drums and take up my guitar again and focus on worship, college, and youth ministry.
So I did. I focused really hard on being part of an upcoming college and career age ministry called common ground and I also focused most of my energy in being a youth worship leader at my church. During that time I formed a worship band called Standstill. We ended up being able to tour and put out some albums as well. That went for about 3 years.
A few years down the line from that, after everyone disbanded from that band, I did come back to Sam's as a guitar player for a short while. Being newly married, it became really hard to keep up with regular practices, talks of tour (especially as a sole provider for my household), shows and really most of all, figuring out how to be a good husband.
TB: It's easy to respect needing to be home more with your family. But you obviously still felt you had music to create. Is this where your solo project came to be?
JC: With the yearning to keep playing music, I turned to Youtube. It was a way for me to still preform in some sense but it was able to keep me at home doing music when I wanted to do it. From there a few years down the line, as I was building my viewer base, I had a daughter. Long story short, there were a few complications and we unfortunately lost her 9 days after birth. She was an amazing testament of God's power overcoming many things the doctors were telling us. While we were pregnant with my daughter Isabella, I wrote an album for her called Woven. It was all ambient post rock. In the middle of writing it was when we learned about her condition while in the womb. After she was born and then had passed, I coped with the loss with writing. Still in the same ambient post rock vein, I wrote 2 albums in my efforts to say what I needed to say with out having the words to say it. Those albums were called Ruins and Home.
In the midst of all that, Youtube was still going strong as I was very open in sharing our story with my viewers. I also found an avenue to really see my music work for me. I found Musicbed.com. For those who don't know, The Music Bed is a site that allows independent musicians to put their music out there to be licensed for film makers with very fair percentage cuts. Music Bed picked me up pretty quick and I started to see that I was able to make more money in the industry that way than I had ever seen playing out. So it was a blessing to see the fruits of the tragedy my wife and I go through turn into some that was really fulfilling of another dream.
To this day, I still write ambient post rock music, I'm still active on YouTube and am still active on Music Bed. You can find my music at carolino.bandcamp.com and any other streaming/music purchasing service you favor under the name 'Carolino'. My dream is to be able to write scores for movies. Its funny how a pop punk drummer goes from helping write songs like "We're better than Relient K" and "ants go marching" to being picked up by film makers writing documentaries that Listerine and Dell are working on.
TB: I saw you used to work for Studio Center and now work for the Parroco Production Group, what is it that you did at Studio Center and currently do at Parroco?
JC: At Studio Center I was mainly a graphic designer/web designer. It paid well and I'm a high creative so I dug the gig. I then got into food photography there as well. So by the end of my time there, I was a graphic/web designer/photographer. Then met Jim Parroco. This dude is a legend. He is basically me in about 20 years, haha. We are the same person. Jim goes to my church and is one of my great friends and mentors. He saw my passion for music and engineering so he gave me a chance and put me through one of his music engineering schools. From there, he entrusted me with a key to one of his studios.
About a year and half later (LONG story short) we found a way for him to hire me full time. So there I do literally everything. Shooting, editing, motion graphics, graphic design, web design, studio musician, audio engineer, field audio…basically if it's in the creative field I'm probably doing it. There I've had some amazing opportunities, such as tracking Jason Upton for his new upcoming album.
TB: Besides working, what else are you up to nowadays?
JC: Besides working, I'm still playing music. I'm very active in the church as a worship musician and I run the church's media team. I am still pushing hard with my music independently and I'm continuing to try and grow in the music and creative field. Learning how make sustainable models out of the things I am passionate about.
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The team managed to create so-called "DeepMasterPrints" that can fool a sensor without a sample of the real user's fingerprints.
A pair of French whistleblowers claim the FBI bought a fingerprint analysis software package built on Russian code. They allege their previous employer knew about it and lied to preserve lucrative US contracts.
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Hoping to reduce some of the "friction points" of air travel, JetBlue and Delta are testing facial and fingerprint recognition for bag checking, airport lounge access, and boarding. It's voluntary, for now.
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A new White House report has the Justice Department upset. Does it go too far in questioning the techniques behind a huge proportion of criminal convictions?
Qualcomm's new fingerprint reader tech is harder to fool and can work from behind the screen.
Google's smart lenses get even smarter, with the company filing a new patent to add a circuit board and light sensors so as to verify a user's iris fingerprint.
A member of the Chaos Computer Club has shown that it's possible to reproduce someone's fingerprint, and thus break into systems protected by biometric fingerprint scanners, using just a photo of someone's finger. In this case, the member of the CCC managed to get the fingerprint of Germany's defense minister Ursula von der Leyen from a photo taken a press conference — which, if the German government uses biometric access control systems, could be a bit of a security breach.
If you plan on trading in used games at GameStop stores in Philadelphia, be prepared to be treated like a criminal. Stores in the city of brotherly love are now requiring fingerprint scans of everyone trading in their used games. Even worse, the GameStop Corporation apparently implemented these outlandish anti-theft measures voluntarily. It's official, we're now living in the dystopian future dreamed of in 20th century sci-fi novels.
The new iPhone fingerprint sensor is a nice piece of technology, but what is Apple's contingency plan when it gets hacked? One might easily imagine lifting fingerprints from say, a beer mug, and then 3D fabbing a little finger cot that pulses with some of that mysterious "essence of life" that the sensor requires. How long till the sensor is cracked?
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Where will user interface usually reside in service items? The service object itself could be an applet. Or the service item could have methods that put up UI. Or one or more applets could be attached as attributes.
If a service has a UI that needs to be used every time the service is used, will the prefered way to organize that be to make the service object itself an applet? Or will the prefered way always be to keep UI separate from the service object, and put all applets in as attributes? Or will the prefered way be to invoke a method that puts up UI?
Or, I suppose, will there be a prefered way? It seems to me that the "community" will need to develop some guidelines on how service items should be architected, and how clients should behave when presented with different types of service objects and service items.
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In my opinion, the GUI should rarely (I'd like to say never) be an integral part of the service object. I think of the service as a protocol defined via interfaces. A default user or management GUI can be attached as an attribute, but the user of the service is free to interact with the protocol directly and avoid the download of these bundled GUI objects if they are not needed.
I imagine that a preferred approach will evolve rather quickly as device manufacturers will be burning their solutions into ROM. The difficult of changing code in consumer devices will prompt them to think through these issues early on, I would hope.
Brian's post was followed by 16 other posts discussing how to attach UI to a service. I read all of these posts and then tried to summarize them in an answer to the question, "Where in the service item should I put the UI for my service?" on the JINI-USERS FAQ. Here's a snippet from that early FAQ answer, describing my idea of how a UI object would get a reference to the Jini service object:
(For the full historical record of this first attempt to summarize how to add a UI to a service, see the answer to question 14 on this early version of the JINI-USERS FAQ.)
Your factory instantiates and returns a UI object. The [UI object] you write must accept a reference to the service object in its constructor. This reference will be stored in a local variable, so it can be used by the [UI object]. The [UI object] serves as an intermediary between the user and the service.
I posted this FAQ to the JINI-USERS mailing list and received a few comments from Brian Jeltima about my service UI answer. Among Brian's comments was this paragraph, which describes his concern about my recommending that a service object reference be passed to the UI object constructor:
The problem with passing the service object in the constructor is that if the implementor decides to actually provide the GUI as a serialized object in an attribute, then when the client deserializes the GUI the constructor won't be called [...]. So I think [passing a service object reference to] a separate init() function [of the UI object] is a bit more general [than passing a service object reference to the UI object's constructor.]
I thought Brian's comment made sense, but as I was very busy, my attention turned to other things and my FAQ answer remained relatively unchanged for the next several months.
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Dental issues need to be addressed as soon as possible. Otherwise, minor problems in the teeth set might turn into critical issues. There have been cases of small crevices and cavities in the enamel turning into cancer. So, it is always advisable to get dental treatment as soon as you feel the pain in your teeth. The issue is many people think they can cure their dental issues with the help of home remedies. No doubt, there are many home remedies which can suppress dental pain, but it is very difficult to get cured of dental issues with the help of simple remedies. As a result, the use of remedies delay the treatment of dental problems. The wisest thing would be to get regular dental check-ups. There are several dental clinics in Mumbai who provide dental check-up services. Some dental check-up services are free of cost. If you work in any corporate company, you might also get the reimbursement of the cost associated of regular dental check-up. Moreover, if you have a medical insurance plan, you can claim compensation from them too.
However, it is very less likely that you would get any kind of compensation or reimbursement if you go for cosmetic dentistry. Here it is worthy to mention that infrastructure of cosmetic dentistry has also taken shape in India. Cosmetic dentistry in general refers to the treatments and medical procedures for the restoration of the aesthetics of the oral cavity after damage. As it is a kind of beautification, it is considered as an essential treatment. Nevertheless, if you want to avail the service of cosmetic dentistry, visit any dentist in Mumbai Andheri West who would provide you good service at affordable price.
Here you should remember that all cosmetic dentists providing service in Mumbai are not good. Only a few dentists provide the kind of service they promise. So, you should be very careful while selecting your dentist. Otherwise, it would turn out to be futile to spend money on cosmetic dentistry if you do not get the desired results. If you want to visit any cosmetic dentist in Mumbai Andheri, you can go through online business directories.
There are a few online business directories which specializes in medical facilities. This means that you would find all the medical professionals in those sites. So, if you want to gather information about cosmetic dentists practicing in Mumbai suburban areas, you just need to search so in the online business directories. You would get the list of all the dentists who provide the service of cosmetic dentistry. If you know any dentist, you can review his or her service on those applications. It would be helpful for others who are searching for dentist Mumbai.


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S. Stanley Hawbaker and Sons is a hunting and trapping company that specializes in manufacturing baits and lures for different wild animals. The company has also dabbled in writing and publishing, having published a catalogue of trapping supplies entitled "Catalog of Trappers' Supplies; Traps, Lures, Bait, Books, Axes, Etc" in 1945. S. Stanley Hawbaker penned several other short books about trapping techniques, including "Trapping North American Furbearers" and "Professional Mink Trapping."
S. Stanley Hawbaker and Sons was founded by S. Stanley Hawbaker in 1936 as a supply store in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, called Hawbaker Trading Post. In 1945, he moved the business to nearby Fort Loudon and renamed the company S. Stanley Hawbaker and Sons Firm. His two sons who went into business with him were named Edwin Hawbaker and Gary Hawbaker. S. Stanley Hawbaker died in October 1983 after a logging accident at his Pennsylvania home hospitalized him with severe injuries.
The S. Stanley and Sons Firm's enduring contribution to hunting and trapping is its line of trapping lures that includes models for trapping badgers, beavers, coyotes, wolves and grey foxes. The lures are still available for as little as $6 at various outdoor stores such as the massive F&T Fur Harvester's Trading Post in Alpena, Michigan.


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Free MLB Pick: Rangers vs Astros Odds
Looking for Texas Rangers vs. Houston Astros free plays? MLB betting sees the Rangers taking on the Astros on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at the Minute Maid Park Houston, Texas. Cappers Picks provides complimentary expert handicapping picks on all MLB baseball matchups all season long so stay tuned for more FREE daily MLB predictions.
(86-59) Texas Rangers vs. Houston Astros (75-69)
Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Time: 8:10 PM ET
Venue: Minute Maid Park Houston, Texas
Projected Pitchers: A.J. Griffin vs. Brad Peacock
MLB Moneyline Odds: Rangers +113 / Astros -123
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The Rangers have won 3 of their last 4 games, including the first game in this series, and they have a comfortable lead in the AL West 9.5 games up on the Mariners and 10.5 games up on the Astros.
Houston's shot at making the playoffs have taken a big hit as of late, as they have lost five of their last 6 games including their last 2. They will not catch Texas in the division, but they are still only 3.5 games out of the 2nd AL Wild Card.
In yesterday's game the Rangers beat the Astros 4-3.
The Rangers have won 5 of their last 6 games facing the Astros in Houston.
Texas Rangers
The Rangers rank a solid 5th in the Majors in runs scored, but only 20th in team ERA.
A.J. Griffin (7-4 4.92 ERA) goes for the Rangers tonight and in his last start he had his worst of the season giving up 8 earned runs in only 4 innings in a 8-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners. Texas had won his previous 2 starts where he only combined to give up 3 earned runs.
Griffin has won his last 2 starts facing the Astros with a an ERA of 3.86 and in his career facing them he is 5-0 with an ERA of 4.54.
The Rangers are 5-2 in Griffin's last 7 starts vs. a team with a winning record.
The Rangers have won 13 of their last 18 games facing teams from the AL West.
The Rangers are 39-37 on the road this season.
Houston Astros
The Astros rank 13th in runs scored and 10th in team ERA.
Brad Peacock (0-0 3.38 ERA) gets the start for the Astros tonight and it will be his first of the season after splitting time in the minors and with the big club out of the bullpen. He is in the rotation with the injury to starter Dallas Keuchel.
In 4 career starts against the Rangers Peacock is 1-3 with an ERA of 3.76.
The Astros are 1-6 in Peacock's last 7 home starts.
Houston has only won 1 of their last 7 home games when facing a team with a winning record.
This season the Astros are 40-32 at home.
MLB Baseball Betting Trends:
- Rangers are 2-5 in their last 7 road games vs. a right-handed starter.
- Rangers are 1-4 in their last 5 vs. a team with a winning record.
- Rangers have an Over record of 16-5-1 in their last 22 games.
- Astros are 1-4 in their last 5 overall.
- Astros are 2-7 in their last 9 home games vs. a right-handed starter.
- Astros have an Under record of 5-1 in their last 6 home games.
Free Texas Rangers vs. Houston Astros MLB Prediction:
Peacock has pitched pretty well out of the bullpen this season and he will help the Astros get the win facing Griffin, who was shelled in his last start.
4* Free MLB Betting Pick: Houston and OVER the Number
the Over record in the last 4 games between these division rivals is 3-0-1, which is a trend that will continue tonight.
MLB Free Score Prediction: Houston 7 – Texas 5
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Nunsense II: The Second Coming
Book, music and lyrics by Dan Goggin
October 18 – November 9, 2013
Nunsense II: The Second Coming takes place six weeks after the sisters have staged their first benefit. The sisters are back presenting a "thank you" show for all the people who supported them in the past. But now, they're a bit slicker, having been "bitten by the theater bug." Things get off to a rousing start as the sisters sing "Nunsense, the Magic Word," but before long, chaos erupts when two Fransiscans come to claim Sister Mary Amnesia.
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Sister Mary Regina (Mother Superior)--Janna Landry
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Test your USB devices 42 x faster!
Following on from our last post on how to test 64 high powered USB devices remotely we decided to change the goalposts!
How does this change when faster testing is required or the test involves a lot of data, maybe even full OS restores?
In short its changes by quite a lot! Lets take a look at out third test scenario:
Test Option #3
2.4Amp target devices – power hungry devices such as large screen tablets.
Port control and monitoring is required and data transfer speed is of the highest priority or there is a lot of data to transfer.
In this case devices do not need to be shared over a network.
ThunderSync16 is by far the best and only solution for this scenario!
The Cambrionix ThunderSync16 is currently the worlds fastest USB 'hub' (this term is particularly loose when referring to ThunderSync16!).
This unit offers compatibility with our API for control and monitoring, provides 12W per port and extremely fast data transfer speeds!
ThunderSync16 allows you to connect your USB devices to a host computer via the Thunderbolt interface which runs at 20 Gbits.
To put this into perspective, USB2.0 (which is what your phone and tablet uses) runs at 480Mbps so Thunderbolt is just under 42 (yep, forty-two) times quicker than USB2.0!
If you are the kind of engineer who needs to transfer lots of data onto devices quickly, and a number of times per day for testing then this should be a part of your test environment.
You can save yourself a lot of time, money and not to mention impress the boss on many levels!
This is one of the primary reasons why our ThunderSync16 product is gaining so much traction within large corporations.
Is my testing 42x quicker?
Ok, that all sounds great but does this really mean your data transfers and testing will be 42x quicker?
On paper, yes but in reality there are so many factors which affect the data transfer speed.
This includes the host computer, the host computer hard-disk or SSD performance, the performance of the target device and many more factors.
In our testing we have been regularly achieving more than a x10 increase in speed vs using 'standard' hubs and tablet devices.
We also have experienced more than a x15 increase when using USB storage devices such as flash drives and solid state disks.
Great, but I need 64 ports!
That's fine, you can daisy chain ThunderSync16 products using Thunderbolt cables or use a host which offers more Thunderbolt ports and connect them directly.
Every test scenario is different but sometimes its easy to keep using the same test hardware to address this scenario with no gains in speed, functionality or cost-saving.
We challenge this approach and welcome discussion with you to streamline USB device testing hardware – just get in touch for a chat!
All of the software QA companies and mobile device testing labs around the world we work with have the same issue – Time.
They all have a finite resource, an expanding product base, ever more complicated (and sizeable!) firmware/software builds to test.
This puts pressure on various parts of the value chain.
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I have this one teacher who I think is one the best teachers I've ever had. He's just brilliant.
He challenges our small understanding and is able to direct us the right way (we're almost always on the wrong path). He not only tells us what's the right answers but he takes us through step-by-step and shows us WHY.
He's patient and knows that in order to move forward we have to get our foundations in deep. His lessons are stimulating and I learn so much. He takes all our wrong thinking and gets rid of it. He keeps his ears out during our discussions between us students and he can pick up where we go wrong. He then points it out and puts up on the right track. I didn't realise how much I thought I knew but I actually didn't.
I enjoy his lessons, although, I'm [slightly] intimidated of him. Not fearing-for-my-life intimidation, but the kind where I don't want to dissapoint him.
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did my budget for the monthOctober 6th, 2012 at 04:53 pm
Did my budget for the month. since I have 2 utilities about to be cut off, it was easy to decide what order to pay things. next payday, I pay the behind payment on ele, car insurance, cable and cell phone. my current bike payment and a credit card payment. that leaves my $300 for groceries / gas and pocket money. The week of the 17th I pay current ele, cable, cell phone, car insurance, furniture loan, medical loan, my other credit card and child support. I will have %250 for gas / groceries and pocket money. After this it starts getting a bit easier. My wife gets her first paycheck but we have a property tax bill due for our house in Ga. Her check should cover it so it'a a wash. The week of the 24th I pay my IRS bill and my car payment. I will have $525 left over so I may pay down something. The final week, I get paid, my wife gets paid again and my renter sends in his check. I will pay my rent and the mortgage payment out of those. I should have about $900 left over.
My only big conern is talking to utility companies on monday. I can pay the overdue parts on all of them prior to the cut off dates but I can't pay the current amounts till next week. Hopfully that won't be a problem. I also hope to find out about the mortgage reduction and the repayment for the overdue payments. If I have to breat down the 1700 over 4 months, I would be ok.
My only other big worry is my job, they are doing the yearly staffing budgets this month and we just got a new VP. I don't know the lady at all so I have no idea if she will have any radical ideas related to the projects I am working on. If the contract does get renewed then I should be able to get the things I have been neglecting taken care of as well as pay off a fair amount of debt. Oh, my step daughter got a job today, I will have her paying rent starting next month!!!


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Pinkel: Mizzou to stay course despite SEC flop
Like most football lifers, Missouri coach Gary Pinkel is a
creature of habit.
So rather than linger over a disappointing SEC debut that saw
the Tigers go 5-7 and break a seven-year streak of bowl
appearances, the 60-year-old coach showed up ready for work on
Monday, starting with his usual 5 a.m. weightlifting session.
"I love what I do," Pinkel told reporters Tuesday, quickly
dispelling rumors of his pending retirement or even a change by his
bosses. "I couldn't wait to get into work."
Pinkel said he has no plans to make dramatic changes to the
team's once-prolific spread offense or other schemes and will
retain his entire coaching staff, most of whom have been by his
side for years. That doesn't mean more modest modifications aren't
in order.
"I embrace the foundation of our program when things get
tough," he said. "But then, we evaluate every single thing we do
here, all the time, always. That's never changed."
The season began with high expectations for Missouri, which left
the Big 12 Conference for the Southeastern Conference in hopes of
building a national brand, gaining more long-term stability and
reaping more TV revenue riches. Instead, the coach's 12th season in
Columbia turned into one of his most trying, from lopsided losses
to SEC powers Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, to off-field
challenges such as the early season drug arrests of several
freshmen players, and Pinkel's divorce from his wife of nearly 40
Faced with a shot to salvage the season with a .500 record and
another bowl bid, Missouri fell flat in its final game, a 59-29
loss at Texas A&M – another Big 12 refugee – that saw the
Aggies open a 42-0 lead late in the first half.
Missouri's only conference wins in eight tries came against
Kentucky and Tennessee, two schools that wound up firing their
Pinkel's comments were largely measured on Tuesday, with the
coach who normally wears Mizzou workout gear instead dressed in a
suit and tie for a friend's funeral later in the day. He was more
open with his disappointment one night earlier, telling a statewide
radio audience during his final weekly coach's show that the subpar
season "just destroys me personally."
He offered qualified support for junior quarterback James
Franklin, who missed all or parts of nearly half the team's games
with shoulder and ankle injuries and a late-season concussion. His
replacement, redshirt freshman Corbin Berkstresser, was erratic,
but both played behind an offensive line wracked by injuries. The
third-string quarterback, highly touted recruit Maty Mauk, took a
redshirt and didn't play this season
"Quarterback is no different position for us than any other,"
Pinkel said. "The best player plays. There's no pecking order. …
Everybody will have an opportunity to win the job."
On defense, Pinkel seemed fairly certain that defensive tackle
Sheldon Richardson will not return for his senior season, calling
the mercurial lineman who missed a narrow home loss to Syracuse for
violating team rules a likely first-round pick in the NFL
"If I was a betting man, I'd think he's going to go," Pinkel
And while Pinkel didn't discuss next season's opponents,
Missouri has a more forgiving 2013 schedule than in its inaugural
SEC campaign, with home games against Murray State, Toledo,
Florida, South Carolina , Tennessee and Texas A&M and road
trips to Indiana, Vanderbilt, Georgia, Kentucky and
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Short Stories
In addition to his novels, Joseph has written short stories for both print and audiobooks.
FACEOFF, edited by David Baldacci, is an unprecedented collection from the thriller world's top authors, who brought their series characters together in 11 short stories.
Joseph and Lee Child teamed up for "Good and Valuable Consideration," in which Nick Heller and Jack Reacher do some good on the streets of Boston. Other matchups include Dennis Lehane's Patrick Kenzie with Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch; Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme with John Sandford's Lucas Davenport; and Heather Graham's Michael Quinn with F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack.
The book arrives in stores on June 3, but will be formally launched at an event at Thrillerfest in New York in July. For more information, visit the publisher's website.
Nuclear brinksmanship. Psychological warfare. Spies, double agents, femme fatales, and dead drops.
The Cold War–a terrifying time when nuclear war between the world's two superpowers was an ever-present threat, an all-too-real possibility that could be set off at the touch of a button–provides a chilling backdrop to this collection of all-new short stories from today's most celebrated mystery writers.
Bestselling authors Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson have joined forces to bring us twenty masterful tales of paranoia, espionage, and psychological drama. In Joseph Finder's "Police Report," the seemingly cut-and-dry case of a lunatic murderer in rural Massachusetts may have roots in Soviet-controlled Armenia. In "Miss Bianca" by Sara Paretsky, a young girl befriends a mouse in a biological warfare laboratory and finds herself unwittingly caught in an espionage drama. And Deaver's "Comrade 35" offers a unique spin on the assassination of John F. Kennedy–with a signature twist.
For more information, visit the publisher's website.
There's nothing more mysterious than a locked box. Whether it's a literal strongbox, an empty coffin, the inner workings of a scientist's mind, or an underground prison cell, there are those who will use any means necessary to unlock the secrets of…THE MYSTERY BOX.
With this anthology, bestselling author Brad Meltzer introduces twenty-one original stories from today's most prominent mystery writers.
In Joseph's "Heirloom," a scheming neighbor frightens the new couple on the block with an unnerving tale of buried treasure.
For more information, visit the publisher's website.
An original short story by Joseph.
"Plan B" finds private spy Nick Heller in Barcelona, Spain on a rescue mission. The target: a walled compound with state-of-the art-security. The object: a teenage girl, held against her will. The plan: get in and rescue the girl and then get out — without tripping an alarm or alerting the army of guards. But even the best designed plans can go wrong. Which is why Nick Heller always has a Plan B.
"Plan B" is available for download at Amazon and Kobo Books.
For the first time ever, legendary editor Otto Penzler has handpicked some of the most respected and bestselling thriller writers working today for a riveting collection of spy fiction. From first to last, AGENTS OF TREACHERY signals mission accomplished.
In Joseph's first published short story, he riffs on a Boston architect who's convinced his Persian neighbors are up to no good.
For more information, visit the publisher's website.
Two powerful novellas from International Thriller Writers, WATCHLIST is the print edition of two original audio serialized thrillers. See below for more information about THE CHOPIN MANUSCRIPT and THE COPPER BRACELET.
Joseph contributed a chapter to THE CHOPIN MANUSCRIPT and its follow-up THE COPPER BRACELET. These audio serial thrillers are a unique collaboration by some of the world's greatest thriller writers. In both editions, Jeffery Deaver conceived the characters and set the plot in motion; the other authors each wrote a chapter in turn; then Deaver completes the story with a shocking conclusion.
Visit Audible.com to learn more about THE CHOPIN MANUSCRIPT and THE COPPER BRACELET.


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Honorary Fellow Frederick Sanger dies
Professor Frederick Sanger OM, CH, CBE, FRS, FAA (1918-2013)
Honorary Fellow and double Nobel Laureate Professor Frederick Sanger died yesterday (Tuesday 19 November). He was 95.
Sanger was a Fellow of King's from 1954 until his retirement in 1983, when he was elected an Honorary Fellow.
He was born in 1918 in Rendcombe, Gloucestershire, and read science at St John's College, Cambridge. As an undergraduate, he became particularly interested in biochemistry. It was, he said, "a way to really understand living matter and to develop a more scientific basis to many medical problems."
Sanger was from a Quaker background and was a conscientious objector in the Second World War, so he was able to complete his PhD at St John's in 1943. It was during this period he began studying the structure of insulin.
He developed ground breaking methods to sequence amino acids and used them to deduce the complete sequence of insulin, an achievement that in 1958 won him his first Nobel Prize.
In 1962 Sanger moved to the new Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, which included such luminaries as Crick, Kendrew, Huxley and Klug. Here he became interested in nucleic acids and developed a rapid method of DNA sequencing.
This "dideoxy" or "Sanger" sequencing method led to Sanger receiving his second Nobel Prize in 1980. The method formed a basis for mapping the human genome, and it is still used today.
He was awarded a CBE in 1963 and was made a Companion of Honour (1981) and a member of the Order of Merit (1986). In 1992 the University of Cambridge named a new genetics research centre after him, which is now the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.


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"Here's an asset class that's basically failed on all counts...I doubt these are being pitched as an opportunity to lose 1 percent."
- Glenn Tongue, T2 Partners
Wade into the Reverse Convertible Swamp with me for a moment...
I rarely make sweeping generalizations about any products but I'll tell you right now that these things are garbage. All of 'em.
At the old brokerage firm, we had quite a few of these smarmy wholesalers (usually from LaSalle Bank) come in and pitch us "structured products". Their tutorial slideshows and "how they work" expositions were a master course in pedantry.
But brokers all over the country sitting through these "due diligence" meetings only heard the part about the 1.6% - 2% built-in concession. The other feature they liked was the fact that every few months, the note would mature - meaning they could roll the client into the next one and collect the next fee. When you work solely on commission, having a product that guarantees future transactions is manna from heaven.
From Bloomberg:
Structured note sales rose 46 percent last year to a record $49.4 billion in the U.S., Bloomberg data show. The securities fed demand from individual investors frustrated with record low rates on everything from certificates of deposit to money market funds with the Federal Reserve holding its target interest rate for overnight loans between banks in a range of zero to 0.25 percent since 2008. Banks issued $33.9 billion in 2009, according to StructuredRetailProducts.com, a database used by the industry.
For the uninitiated, with a reverse convertible you're risking 100% of your capital to eek out like a 4% gain, betting on the range of a stock over three months. They are like bonds linked to a stock's performance over a defined period of time. You get an interest payment and then either your principle back in cash or, if the stock drops, you'll be given the shares of it at a loss.
"But that 4% annualizes out to a 16% yield!" Yeah, great.
In the meanwhile, I'm at risk to be put common stock to at a loss if the price breaks plus my interest is backed only by the faith and credit of the issuer. Guess who was one of the top 3 reverse convertible issuers in 2007? Did you say Lehman Brothers? If you did, a copy of my new book "Waffles for Dinner" is on its way out to you.
Anyway, brokers and banks sold a ton of this stuff, got big underwriting fees or selling concessions and, in many cases, explained very little to their clients...
Banks sold more than $6 billion of bonds linked to the performance of stocks last year, promising returns of as much as 64 percent at a time when interest rates were at historic lows.
Instead of reaping such extraordinary gains, reverse convertibles, as the products are known, lost 1 percent on average last year...the Standard & Poor's 500 Index returned 8 percent during that period and corporate bonds gained 11.1 percent
The Law of Unintended Consequences is in full effect here - starve people of lower-risk yields long enough and they'll nudge themselves out onto the tightrope.
According to the Bloomberg story, regulators are now sniffing around in this swamp. Good.
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