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Welcome to the big screens.
Super Retina in two sizes – including the largest display ever on an iPhone. Even faster Face ID. The smartest, most powerful chip in a smartphone. And a breakthrough dual-camera system. iPhone Xs is everything you love about iPhone. Taken to the extreme.Buy now
Super Retina. In big and bigger.
The custom OLED displays on iPhone Xs deliver the most accurate color in the industry, HDR, and true blacks. And iPhone Xs Max has Apple's largest display ever on an iPhone.
All-screen makes all the difference.
See how much more room you'll have for everything you love to do.
Exceptional materials.
The most durable glass ever in a smartphone. A beautiful new gold finish, achieved with an atomic-level process. Precision-machined, surgical-grade stainless steel bands. And a new level of water and dust resistance.2
Surgical-grade stainless steel.
Apple uses a special custom-designed alloy that's precisely machined to create structural bands in three finishes.
PVD color process.
Gold and space gray finishes use an advanced physical vapor deposition process on the stainless steel bands for colors and reflectivity that beautifully complement the glass.
Wireless charging.
The glass back allows iPhone Xs to charge wirelessly.3 And it charges even faster than iPhone X.
Advanced Face ID.
Security is simple when your face is your password. You can unlock your iPhone, log in to apps, and pay for things with a glance. It's the most secure facial authentication ever in a smartphone. And now it's even faster.
Intelligent A12 Bionic.
This is the smartest, most powerful chip in a smartphone, with Apple's next-generation Neural Engine. For amazing augmented reality experiences. Incredible portraits with Depth Control. And speed and fluidity in everything you do.
Breakthrough dual-camera system.
The world's most popular camera is defining a new era of photography. Where an innovative sensor works with the ISP and Neural Engine to help you create photos like never before.
Smart HDR.
New secondary frames, a faster sensor, and the powerful A12 Bionic chip bring more highlight and shadow detail to your photos.
Larger and deeper pixels.
A new sensor creates better image fidelity, greater color accuracy, and reduced noise in low-light shots.
Enhanced bokeh effect.
Portrait mode photos look even more professional thanks to a sophisticated background blur.
All-new Depth Control.
Now you can adjust the depth of field in portraits after you shoot.
TrueDepth camera
And this.
iPhone Xs delivers Gigabit-class LTE for superfast download speeds.5 And up to 512GB of storage, making this Apple's highest-capacity iPhone yet.
No other phone is like iPhone.
Every decision that goes into iPhone makes it stand apart. From the way it's made, to the way privacy and security are built in from the start, to the way Apple responsibly recycles it.
- The display has rounded corners that follow a beautiful curved design, and these corners are within a standard rectangle. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, the screen is 5.85 inches (iPhone Xs) and 6.46 inches (iPhone Xs Max) diagonally. Actual viewable area is less.
- iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max are splash, water, and dust resistant and were tested under controlled laboratory conditions with a rating of IP68 under IEC standard 60529 (maximum depth of 2 meters up to 30 minutes). Splash, water, and dust resistance are not permanent conditions and resistance might decrease as a result of normal wear. Do not attempt to charge a wet iPhone; refer to the user guide for cleaning and drying instructions. Liquid damage not covered under warranty.
- Qi wireless chargers sold separately.
- Compared with A11 Bionic.
- Data plan required. Gigabit-class LTE, LTE Advanced, and LTE are available in select markets and through select carriers. Speeds are based on theoretical throughput and vary based on site conditions and carrier. For details on LTE support, contact your carrier and see www.apple.com/iphone/LTE.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy has contracted Northrop Grumman to support integration of its AQS-24A Side Look Sonar System onto an unmanned surface vessel.
The AQS-24A Side Look Sonar System is normally towed by a helicopter to detect mines. ON the USV it will search for bottom mines as well as surface mines.
"This is a great step forward for those who have been involved in USVs and mine hunting for as many years as the Naval Undersea Warfare Center and Northrop Grumman," said Tom Jones, vice president of Northrop Grumman's Undersea Systems business unit. "The results of this effort could apply to future USV programs, both in the U.S. Navy as well as the navies of potential coalition partners such as Australia."
Northrop said it has been testing the system, as well as its predecessors, on unmanned surface vessels since 2002.
The value of the contract and other terms, such as length, were not disclosed.

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Computer and data security is becoming a much more complex issue to manage for many businesses and consumers. Webroot hopes to simplify it, and make sure you are protected no matter what device or platform you might be using with the launch of SecureAnywhere.
Security used to amount to simply installing some anti-malware product on the PC and keeping it up to date to detect the latest threats. But, now users do more online, and connect with the world through social networks, and access data while on the go from smartphones and tablets. The old school model of security no longer applies.
"For far too long, people have endured a miserable experience with their PC security," said Dick Williams, CEO, Webroot. "Security vendors, including Webroot, have expected customers to buy, install, and manage security products by themselves. This industry has been delivering products that are less and less effective against threats from zero-day exploits, social engineering, and other sophisticated techniques we see today. Webroot is taking the misery out of security. Webroot SecureAnywhere is the fastest, lightest, and the least demanding–so people are free to do what they want online."
SecureAnywhere installs in a blazing six seconds and immediately scans for threats. . It is intelligent enough to automatically scan and detect threats for average users, yet also offers 124 customizable settings for tech gurus who want to exert more control over how the protection is configured.
All PCs, tablets, smartphones, and other mobile devices can be protected through a single Web portal. Small businesses will be able to oversee security from the Web, and techies who serve as the family security guru will appreciate being able to monitor and maintain security for everyone using the Web console.
Webroot SecureAnywhere delivers protection from the cloud. The software occupies a meager 6MB on the local hard drive–an installation that's 98 percent smaller than previous security tools, with an initial scan that is 3.5 times faster than that of the average leading antivirus product. Webroot claims that SecureAnywhere deep scan searches the entire system for rootkits and complex threats in less than two minutes.
"In our independent testing, PassMark found that Webroot used the least resources and had the least impact on system performance out of the products tested; it ranked the highest–scoring 90 points out of a possible 98 points, 38 points higher than the next best competitor–in our testing of 14 different performance metrics," said David Wren, Managing Director, PassMark Software.
Webroot SecureAnywhere offers an entire menu of options–from basic antimalware protection for a single PC, to comprehensive protection for up to three PCs and three mobile devices. Webroot has tools to protect both Android and iOS mobile devices, and a Mac OS X client is expected in early 2012.


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Industry consortium HSA Foundation intends to bring native support for parallel acceleration in Java virtual machines, which would make it easier to tap into multiple processors like graphics processors to speed up code execution.
HSA Foundation is in the process of developing an open hardware and software specification which will allow software to be written once and deployed easily across PCs, servers, gaming consoles, and mobile devices. Right now overlays are needed for Java code to reach a co-processor like a GPU.
Native support for HSA's specifications in JVMs is expected with Java 9 in 2015, and parallel algorithms will be executed natively in JVMs without extra layers of code. The JVM will recognize HSA specifications, and tap into compatible accelerators to speed up program execution, said Phil Rogers, HSA Foundation president and Advanced Micro Devices corporate fellow, in a presentation at the Hot Chips conference in Stanford, California, on Sunday.
"Ultimately the parallel acceleration belongs in the Java virtual machine, and hopefully that is where it will reside," Rogers said.
HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation was founded last year by Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm, ARM Holdings and other companies. HSA's goal is to create a basic interface around industry-standard parallel programming tools like OpenCL, and to develop tools that are compatible across architectures and operating systems.
Computing devices use different hardware to speed up computing, and HSA's goal is also to harness the joint computing power of all processing resources available for faster and more power-efficient system performance. As an example, HSA specifications enable workloads to be broken up between CPUs and graphics processors for faster and more power efficient computing. That could lead to faster performance and longer battery life in mobile devices, and code can be deployed more cost-efficiently.
Some of the world's fastest computers harness the joint computing power of GPUs and CPUs for complex math calculations, while mobile devices have multiple processors for graphics and security. Some other types of co-processors include DSPs (digital signal processors), network processors, FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) and specialized ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits).
AMD and Oracle are sponsoring an OpenJDK project called "Project Sumatra" to bring parallel acceleration to JVMs with Java 8, which will be generally available in March next year. Sumatra will repurpose Java 8's multi-core APIs called Stream or Lambda to enable both CPU or GPU computing, but it will need an extra layer of code for parallel execution.
With Java 9, support for parallel execution on HSA-compatible processors will be native, Rogers said in an interview following the presentation. A data-parallel API called APARAPI already allows Java developers to use the compute power of GPU and CPUs, but code-enablement will get easier in Java 8 and then 9.
Java is widely used in cloud deployments and big data applications. Hardware acceleration of those tasks in a virtualized environment without the extra layers of code could be more efficient, Rogers said.
HSA has already released some specifications to unify memory and lower the overhead required in dispatching jobs to hardware for execution. The HSA has introduced a new uniform memory architecture called HUMA that makes different memory types in a system accessible to all processors. Developers have access to a larger pool of shared memory in which code could be executed.
HSA Foundation members do not include Intel and Nvidia, who offer their own parallel programming tools. But the foundation's goals are loosely tied to AMD's chip strategy in which the company integrates third-party intellectual property so chips can be customized to customer needs. For example, AMD is making a customized chip for Sony's upcoming PlayStation 4 gaming console. Sony is also a member of HSA Foundation.
AMD is also expected to release next year laptop and desktop processors code-named Kaveri in which CPUs and graphics processors will be able to share memory.
Agam Shah covers PCs, tablets, servers, chips and semiconductors for IDG News Service. Follow Agam on Twitter at @agamsh. Agam's e-mail address is email@example.com


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There comes a time when you buy bananas and then leave them to sit in the fruit basket until you notice that the object that was once yellow is now a heavily spotted mess. For me, this is an every time event. It can be quite the predicament at first thought because I don't really know anyone that could eat a banana that utterly goopy and enjoy it. You would have to pretend that it's just an incredibly sweet and banana-ey tasting plate of cauliflower mash.
Gross, and that will that never ever happen. I don't suggest imagining it either. Although at this point I suppose it's inevitable that you would imagine it because I keep bringing it up. I'll stop with my incessant ripe banana escapade talk and move on to the plus side of this. The plus side is that there is a specific law set in place for those who do things like letting there bananas sit there to get ot the point of mushy ripening. That law would be that you are required to make banana bread at that point.
See you don't even have to make the decision to make it because it's required. Have you got really ripe bananas? Great now make banana bread and be a happy camper. All joking aside though I really am quite happy with the way this banana bread turned out. In the words of my mother "oh my god this tastes like actual banana bread…" Well of course it does, that was the idea mom.
I don't want to sound snooty and would like to say that this may just be the best Paleo Banana bread out there, but I'm not certain it would be right to say that. Especially seeing as I haven't tried any of the other grain free or Paleo banana breads on the internet. But believe me when I say this is incredibly delicious, it's one of the most moist, tender and satisfying baked goods I've ever had the pleasure to pull out of the oven.
I brought a loaf to school to share with my friends at lunch (which they all raved about and had no idea that it was Paleo banana bread that they were eating) but the people who didn't get any but were in the classes before lunch were searching around the room trying to figure out where the scent was aerating from. Several people actually started to become frustrated wondering and asking why it smelled so good and where it was coming from. Being the sneak I am I only smirked and let them be confused. It was quite odd though, I've never seen people get so frustrated over a good smell because they couldn't locate where it was coming from.
Maybe it was because they knew they weren't getting any. I think I'll have to bake up some more and bring it to those classes another day so they can at least taste it after having to endure that torture. Just try not to do what I did and share it with the people who might start to look around to figure out where that wonderful aroma is coming from or else you might have an outbreak of mass panic.
- ½ cup coconut flour
- ½ cup almond flour
- 1 cup very ripe banana mashed well with a fork (2-3 medium bananas)
- ½ cup butter melted + extra butter unmelted for greasing (preferably grass-fed or you could sub with coconut oil but it's way better with butter)
- ¼ cup cacao nibs
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon no additive liquid stevia or ¼ cup honey (can increase honey all the way up to ⅓ cup of honey or ½ teaspoon of liquid stevia but I wouldn't recommend going above ⅓ cup of honey or ½ teaspoon liquid stevia in terms of sweetness. In fact I actually prefer to stick to about ¼ cup of honey if you go to ⅓ cup you want to make sure you use the coconut flour I linked to above because it seems to be more absorbent otherwise just add a couple more teaspoons of coconut flour if it's too runny)
- 4 eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease a 8.5 x 4.5 loaf pan with butter and place a cut bit of parchment paper that fits in the bottom of the loaf pan inside it flat on the bottom.
- In a medium sized bowl combine the coconut flour, almond flour, cinnamon, baking soda, cacao nibs, and pinch of salt and mix with a fork to reduce any clumps until thoroughly combined.
- In a small bowl add eggs, vanilla extract, stevia or honey and whisk then add mashed banana to the egg mixture and whisk more until well combined.
- Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry and stir with a spoon until thoroughly combined then add melted butter and continue stirring until well incorporated.
- Spoon all of the bater in your greased loaf pan and spread it out evenly with a scraper and shape it in any way you want (specifically in the shape of a loaf so that it rises like that)
- Place in the oven for 40-45 minutes or until the center is pierced with a toothpick and the toothpick comes out clean.
- Pull out of the oven and let it cool slightly (only for a minute or so) then carefully run a knife along the edges to make sure nothing is sticking and cautiously invert it onto your hand or a wire rack and flip it so the bottom is laying flat on the wire rack and let it cool for 20-30 minutes. (if you can wait that long)


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Bazzite, the seal pup that was rescued as a newborn from the shores of Greater Victoria after being abandoned last month, is getting bigger and cuter by the day according to updates from the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Centre.
The alert and active seal pup is attentive and curious about his surroundings. A veterinary technician at the rescue centre says she rarely sees Bazzite sleep, he is so busy watching the world around him.
Bazzite was first noticed on a rocky outcrop near Sunny Lane in Oak Bay as a newborn. In the method prescribed by the Centre, he was under surveillance for a bit before Oak Bay police were called in to package him up on June 21 for the trip to the centre for health reasons.
Bazzite was thin and still had his umbilical cord making him fewer than three days old when he arrived.
Maternal separation, the primary reason most of the young Harbour seals are in care there, is listed as young Bazzite's official intake reason.
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A database of 309,079 records has been breached in a security attack on the University of Maryland.
Brian Voss, vice president and chief information officer at U-Md., said officials think that whoever got into the database duplicated the information, which includes names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and university identification numbers for 309,079 people affiliated with the school on its College Park and Shady Grove campuses.
The hackers did not change anything within the university's computer system, but Voss said the attackers essentially "made a Xerox of it and took off."
Voss said that what most concerns him is the sophistication of the attack: The hacker or hackers must have had a "very significant understanding" of how the school's data are designed and protected. Voss said the security breach appears to be in contrast with typical attacks, in which "someone left the door open," creating an easy opportunity for any hacker.
"That's not what happened here," Voss said. "There's no open door. These people picked through several locks to get to this data."
In a letter to the university community, President Wallace D. Loh said school officials are investigating the breach and doing what they can to prevent further intrusions.
"Appropriate state and federal law enforcement authorities are currently investigating this incident," Loh wrote. "Computer forensic investigators are examining the breached files and logs to determine how our sophisticated, multi-layered security defenses were bypassed."
Meghan Land, a staff lawyer for the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit group based in San Diego, said the U-Md. breach was large and significant because it included Social Security numbers. A list kept by the clearinghouse indicates that many colleges have faced data security problems in recent years.
Ohio State University said in 2010 that hackers had penetrated a college server that contained the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 750,000 people, exposing them to risk of identity theft. Last year, the University of Virginia said that Social Security numbers of more than 18,000 students were mistakenly printed in the address field of health insurance brochures that were mailed to their homes.
Loh said that U-Md. plans to provide free credit monitoring for a year to anyone whose information was compromised.
Dan Goff, a graduate student at the University of South Carolina who studied at U-Md. for three semesters in 2003 and 2004, said he was "more annoyed than anything" when he heard about the security breach Wednesday evening. Within an hour, he submitted fraud alerts to three credit agencies.
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By David Crane
defrev (at) gmail (dot) com
November 19, 2011
A two days ago (Thursday), DefenseReview (DR) received a heads-up from our friend Rob Silvers at AAC (Advanced Armament Corp.) about SIG SAUER offering a 300 AAC Blackout (300BLK / 7.62x35mm)-version SIG516 (also written SIG 516) gas piston/op-rod (push-type operating rod) tactical AR carbine (AR-15 carbine) for the civilian tactical shooting/commercial market sometime in 2012. As it happens, your humble correspondent just visited the SIG SAUER plant in Exeter, NH and test-fired the SIG516 Patrol tactical AR carbine at the SIG SAUER Academy tactical training (tactical shooting) range, but the folks at SIG didn't mention anything about the 300BLK 516 while I was there.
It's possible that SIG will be displaying it at their booth at SHOT Show 2012 in Las Vegas, but we're not sure.
Rob was also kind enough to send us a link to a video of him demo'ing a suppressed 300 AAC Blackout LVAW (Low-Visibility Assault Weapon) Honey Badger suppressed tactical AR SBR (Short Barreled Rifle)/sub-carbine at an indoor range. It would appear that the LVAW utilizes an integral suppressor (silencer/sound suppressor), but DR hasn't yet confirmed this. We did receive the following statement from Mr. Silvers, though, in response to some questions we asked relating the the suppressor type and dB level:
We just measured the dB level. It is as quiet as an MP5-SD but with much more range, power, penetration, and accuracy. We have never said what kind of suppressor it has as it is competition sensitive. There are others developing 300 BLK military weapons.
Anyway, here's the AAC LVAW Honey Badger video clip:
And, here are some video clips of Defense Review owner/editor-in-chief David Crane firing both a suppressed 300 AAC Blackout tactical AR SBR/sub-carbine and Mk46 Mod 1 machine gun on full-auto at the range during NDIA Infantry Small Arms Systems Symposium 2011 Range Day back in late May (2011) that DR:
Click here to read the link to the original 300 AAC Blackout SIG516 heads-up.
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June 28, 2010
Google OneBox for Sunrise and Sunset
Google says that this feature works for almost any location. "Whether you're looking to find the best time for a morning jog or trying to plan that perfect moment for a wedding proposal, knowing exactly when the sun rises or sets can always be helpful. (...) Unlike the weather, sunrises and sunsets are quite predictable, and as a result, we don't use a data source. Instead, we calculate sunrise and sunset times based on latitude, longitude and the current time. This calculation has been of interest to astronomers and mathematicians for millennia, so they've had time to get it just right. And for most locations, it's accurate to within a single minute."
You can also type [sunset] or [sunrise] and Google should show accurate information for your location. Google has similar OneBoxes for weather and time.
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- AnonymousJune 28, 2010 at 1:45 PM
It would be nice if they bundled all these OneBox applets in an API. The AJAX search API excludes these results.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2010 at 1:48 PM
Could someone please make an iGoogle gadget that displays this info?ReplyDelete
I hope it'll be customizable for the next days...ReplyDelete
morning, afternoon, evening, night, and so on...
Cool features.ReplyDelete
Sunset and Sunrise from GNU/Linux terminalReplyDelete
Example usage:
hemanth@ubuntu:/tmp$ sunrise bangalore
3 hours 44 minutes from now
hemanth@ubuntu:/tmp$ sunset bangalore
16 hours 37 minutes from now
/me knows it will work only till Google keeps the layout the same
- AnonymousJune 29, 2010 at 8:23 AM
My clock applet does this (Gnome).ReplyDelete
I was able to trigger the wheather OneBox in my locale (météo Paris), but not to get the time or the time to sunset.


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Has Google lost its magic?
Google may still be raking in the profits, but the mojo behind Gmail, Chrome, News, Translate, and Docs has started to fade in the face of stiffer competition.
Google's empire is under direct assault from Facebook. Its big weapons -- Search, AdWords, and AdSense -- are not as potent as they once were, thanks to the rise of social media.
This frightens Google immensely. Facebook is now the Web's top destination, and it's quickly becoming the platform that powers the Web. It even threatens Google's core advertising business. If Facebook were to ever launch a social version of AdSense, it could snap up advertisers and cause a serious disruption to Google's cash cow.
Google isn't taking the Facebook threat lying down, though. That's why co-founder Larry Page took over as CEO last year to clean house. Since then, Google has shuttered countless products, including Aardvark, Google Health, and one of my personal favorites, Picnik.
More importantly, Google has developed a social weapon of its own -- Google+. The company is betting the farm on its new weapon, hoping that it will make it all of the company's products more relevant and useful in the social era. The result has been the creation of products such as the +1 Button, Google+ Hangouts, and Search plus Your World (Google's attempt to socialize its search results).
At first, it looked as if Google+ would become a smashing success. It took the company only seven months to reach 90 million users, and the social site received generally positive reviews from the press. But in recent months, the media has turned against Google's social strategy and ramped up its criticism of the company as a whole.
"The problem is, I think Google has failed to understand that along the way, it has become just another big company," Marketing Land and CNET contributor Danny Sullivan stated in a recent article. "It's a big company that makes mistakes, like any big company will do. But unlike most big companies, the entire 'Don't Be Evil' mantra it created for itself years ago has given it farther to fall."
The press isn't the worst of its worries, though. Earlier this week, former Google engineer James Whittaker wrote a scathing blog post slamming his former employer:
"The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate," Whittaker writes. "The Google I left was an advertising company with a single corporate-mandated focus."
Whittaker goes on to attack Google's efforts to compete with Facebook in social. He says in his post that Google claimed that sharing was broken, and that it was up to them to fix it. "As it turned out, sharing was not broken," Whittaker states. "Sharing was working fine and dandy, Google just wasn't part of it."
It's important to note that Whittaker now works for Microsoft -- a fact that I actually learned from a Google+ post in one of my searches. It was as if Google knew I was trying to dig up dirt on it.
This is the reason I simultaneously admire and am disappointed in Google. The search giant had no choice but to create Google+ and go social -- it could not cede the battle for social to Facebook and simply fade into obscurity. It had to fight back, even if the battle was already a lost cause. Google's fighting spirit is admirable.
But I just can't make the argument that Google+ has made my Google experience better. Sure, sharing from Gmail or Google Maps is nice, but my friends simply aren't on Google+ -- they're on Facebook. And I absolutely despise Search plus Your World, because it has made my searches less relevant and less useful. It's a terrible user experience overall.
When you change leaders and restructure your management, you're going to have upset employees and a wave of departures -- it's often a necessary sacrifice that has to be made to turn a company around or, in Google's case, prevent stagnation. And overall, the Google employees I've chatted with are very happy to have Page back in the driver's seat, cutting the unnecessary fat that made Google slow to react to the social networking phenomenon in the first.
Still, it feels like the magic that helped create Gmail, Chrome, News, Translate, and Docs has vanished in the Google+ void. I fear that Google has become obsessed with chasing Facebook's success, when its resources would be better spent developing and launching bolder innovations that actually change the way we use the Web.
That magic is what made Google into one of the world's greatest companies. Without it, Google's just another stodgy company trying to protect its weakening empire.
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iFarm Record Keeper
The easy to use iFARM Field Record Keeper spreadsheet-based tool was designed to help farmers keep track of field operational records. The tool is designed to be farm specific allowing the user inputs to be specific to their operation. Drop down menus are created from user input including field names, crops, tillages, fertilizer, chemicals, landlords, and storage locations. This information needs only to be entered once. After initial setup each field will be saved as a file with the completed information. Up to four spray operations can be entered per field with the spray reports satisfying current Colorado Department of Agriculture and EPA requirements for Restricted Use Pesticide (RUP). The one page field report meets the fundamental requirements for the current Conservation Security Program (CSP) requirements for record keeping.


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Talk:Dwight D. Eisenhower
A transitional President..... Dwight Eisenhower was a bridge between the war years of WWII and the modern american society. He transited us from an era of a weak federal government to the present era of a massive federal government, though the fault for this should not be layed at his feet solely. The oft spoke military-industrial complex had grown from a wobbly kneed child to an insolent teenager bent on alienating itself from its parents, the peoples of the United States, the taxpayers. It is this behemoth of industry and government, that shaped the massive budget and personnel growth of the federal government.
The red menace, the communist conspiracy, bent on enslaving the world into one common commune, was constantly in the thoughts of all americans in this time frame. From this bias came the secret government that rules the United States and much of the commerce conducted by its partners. The black budgets, the classified projects and documents, the layer separating the governed from their government, was seeping into the american pysche to change what it was we thought a good American should be.
All wars are now undeclared, all reasons for war are merely propaganda, all dissent is disregarded and all spoils are shared among the leaders of the secret government and their coporate masters.
Is the price of a secret government, the freedom of its citizens?
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The quote "If a problem seems intractable, enlarge it" (aut sim.) is attributed to D. D. Eisenhower. Does anyone have a context for it ? Here: In the context of evacuating American citizens from cities in the event of a nuclear attack: http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=22100&lan=en&sp=0
- And when he goes to heaven, to St. Peter he will tell: One more soldier reporting, sir. I've served my time in hell.
- Peace and Justice are two sides of the same coin.
- The United States never lost a soldier or a foot of ground in my administration. We kept the peace. People asked how it happened — by God, it didn't just happen, I'll tell you that.
- Summing up his eight years in office
- "Dwight D. Eisenhower" (page 4 of 4). MSN Encarta. Microsoft. Retrieved on 2007-11-11.
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Being shot at focuses the mind wonderfully.
- This is very similar to a statement attributed to Winston Churchill: "There is nothing as exhilarating as being shot at and missed."
- Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
- Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
- I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
- If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Variant: If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. (1949)
- May be paraphrasing: If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government. Cited source: DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, president of Columbia University, speech to luncheon clubs, Galveston, Texas, December 8, 1949.The New York Times, December 9, 1949, p. 23. (From http://quotationsbook.com/quote/44827/)--Orlum (talk) 23:47, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
- Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
- The sergeant is the army.
- There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
- Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
- In his case, there seems to be no final answer to the question, "How stupid can you get?"
- Commenting on the Senate Republican leader
- God help any man who sits behind this desk who doesn't know the military like I do.
- Referring to how the military can control politicians, especially when referring military-industrial complex
- Like the export of the Spanish Inquisition, the American Inquisition too has been taken to the far flung corners of the earth.[1]
- This operation is being planned as a success, We can not afford to fail.
- Referring to to the importance of Overlord
- I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court.
- Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan. Attributed in Wall St. Journal, Coming to Order: How the Court Really Works
- The biggest damned-fool mistake I ever made.
- Referring to Earl Warren. The quote is attributed to Eisenhower in Warren's New York Times obituary, July 10, 1974.
- The hand of aggression is stayed by strength and strength alone.
- Quoted on the wall of Eisenhower Hall at the United States Military Academy
- The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.
- We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. [2]
- Pessimism never won any battle.
- "People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters." [3] [4] [5]


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Here's a fun little news item: a Utah woman named Kimberley Decker took her kids out to eat and snapped a photo of a nearby family toilet-training their kids right at the dinner table. Instead of having their kids sit on booster seats, the mother had them sitting on portable toilets, so that they could shit and piss themselves as they pleased. Now the photo has gone viral, and, like you, I'm now terrified that my next trip to P.F. Chang's will include seeing toddlers openly smearing their own feces all over a Bjorn plastic toilet seat.
Now, I have potty-trained two children. Or, more accurately, I have stood and watched as my wife has potty-trained two children. It's fucking AGONY. It takes forever, and at some point you will inevitably find yourself rinsing diarrhea out of a pair of choo-choo undies. There are hundreds of methods for teaching your children to use a toilet properly, but none of them is foolproof. Let me guide you through a handful of them:
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The Lockdown Method
This is where you throw out all the diapers and spend a weekend in the house with the kids, forcing them to either A.) use a toilet or B.) shit on your floor. I know parents who have done this, and they swear it usually ends up working. But that weekend ... oh, that weekend. That's a two-day sentence in a prison, only your prison is the bottom of a port-o-let. I never worked up the nerve to go through with this method. We tried getting rid of the diapers once, but the kids screamed and wailed and pissed themselves for hours at a time. Halfway through the weekend, I caved and rushed out for the Huggies, just to end the misery.
The "We Never Use Diapers" Method
This is a relatively new parenting trend called elimination communication, and people who practice it believe in potty-training children from birth.
This practice is followed worldwide and is known as Elimination Communication, Natural Infant Hygiene, and Infant Potty Training. The process involves observing one's baby's signs and signals, providing cue sounds and elimination-place associations, and can be done with or without any diaper use.
Now, this is fine if you live in the Third World, where diapers are scarce and your normal toilet is a river. But in a civilized society, this is fucking disgusting. No one should ever listen to a bunch of hippie parents who think their one-month-old can magically tell them when it's time to shit in an empty bathtub. I know babies. Sometimes it looks like they're shitting, but they aren't. And sometimes, they shit when it looks like they're doing nothing at all. They don't care about giving you a heads-up. They're babies. They're utterly heartless.
The Reward Method
When my daughter was 2, we bought a pink school bus and stashed it in the closet. Then we told her that if she pooped on the potty, we had a special present for her. She didn't care. Then we showed her the bus and explained that she could have it if she pooped. Again, she didn't care. In fact, all she did for the next year was yell at us to give her the bus. And we did, because we SUCK.
The "Do It When They Say They're Ready" Method
This method involves you backing off, letting the child become curious about using toilets on her own. Once she expresses interest, you gently ask if she'd like to use it, and then she gives it a shot. This is a lovely, humane way of toilet-training your child. The problem is that the kid won't express interest in using the toilet until she is 26 goddamn years old. WILL YOU HURRY UP AND JUST USE THIS THING ALREADY? ALL THE OTHER KIDS ARE GONNA LAUGH AT YOU FOR USING DIAPERS AND SO WILL I.
The Portable Toilet Method
You put a little plastic toilet in the bathroom for the kid to piss and shit in, and you have to empty it out by hand. Now, this is repulsive. And I'm always terrified that I'll get poop and pee on me when I dump this thing into the big toilet (splashback is an issue). And if the kid has soft stool, you have to wipe up the fecal matter with a wet paper towel and then rinse it in the tub or sink and GUHHHHHHHH so awful. Then you bring the little toilet with you everywhere you go, so that the kid always has a safe, familiar place to poop. That is apparently what the insane Utah people in the above news story did. Please America, don't use these toilets at the restaurant table. Go to the bathroom and have your kids sit on them there. Or in the trunk of your car. Who lets their kids use a toilet in the middle of a public eating space? HAVE WE NO SHAME AT ALL? Did you give birth in your fucking driveway? Have some good taste.
Potty-training your kid is incredibly stressful because no one wants to be the last parent to succeed. No one wants to be the parent whose kid strolls into kindergarten still wearing a fucking diaper. Your parents will give you shit for it. Other parents will give you shit for it. Teachers will give you shit for it. There is immense pressure to potty-train your children before anyone notices that they're awfully old to still be potty-training. You feel like a complete failure when that happens. Conversely, when your kid potty-trains early, you glow with a secret pride as you tell other parents, knowing that their little mongoloids are still rocking Pampers. The smugness is intoxicating. I want to rub my child's superior shitting technique right in other parents' faces.
So I understand the great lengths that people go to when they train their kids. I know how miserable you feel when you're at another person's house and you have to ask permission to change a child's diaper on a carpet or a sofa. I know how frustrating it can be to watch your kids flail and scream any time you even suggest that they use a toilet. This is one of the hardest feats to pull off in parenting, and I sympathize with most folks. Except for the people bringing portable toilets into the deli. That's wrong, and you belong in jail forever if you do this.


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Microsoft has been evolving its BitLocker-based full disk encryption technologies since its debut in Windows Vista. In Windows 8, Microsoft offers it's best ever version of BitLocker to both consumers and businesses, and you can use an related feature, called BitLocker To Go, to protect portable storage devices like USB flash drives and hard drives.
Note: BitLocker and BitLocker To Go require Windows 8 Pro or Enterprise.
BitLocker and BitLocker To Go both provide full disk encryption functionality, unlike Microsoft's older encryption feature, EFS (encrypting file system), which can be applied at the file or folder level. (EFS is still included in Windows 8 Pro and higher if you need this level of granularity.) And though they use slightly different technologies under the hood, they're managed from the same place, the BitLocker BitLocker Drive Encryption control panel.
You can find the BitLocker Drive Encryption control panel most easily with Start Search (bitlocker).
Removable storage devices that are protected with BitLocker To Go will be locked and protected by default. For this reason, you are asked how you'd like to unlock the drive when you enable this feature. For most individuals, this will involve providing a password that will later be used to unlock the device for use.
The install wizard will also ask you to save a backup of the recovery key, which is essentially a way to recover the password if you should forget it. You can save this recovery key to a file or print it out. Given the length of the key, a file may be the better choice, but either way you should consider the security ramifications of how and where the key is stored.
Note: If you lose your recovery key, it's over. There is literally no other recovery option available, and no back door, contrary to conspiracy theories. You'll have to format the disk to use it again.
New to Windows 8, BitLocker To Go (and BitLocker) can optionally encrypt a disk much more quickly than before, by encrypting only the used space. Regardless, information added to the disk after it is protected by BitLocker To Go will be automatically encrypted on the fly.
Encryption speed will vary on the size of the disk and whether you chose to encrypt only the used space.
When you plug in a BitLocker To Go-encrypted disk, you'll be prompted to unlock it using a new Metros-style UI.
The More options link provides access to two important options: A way to enter that recovery key and a way to automatically unlock this disk on this PC. Doing the latter will not prevent BitLocker To Go from asking for a password on other PCs, however. So if the disk is lost or stolen, you're still protected.
Note: BitLocker To Go-encrypted disks work identically on Windows 7, though with a legacy Explorer-based UI. On Windows XP, you will get a read-only Reader interface that lets you access the contents of the disk.
Disks protected with BitLocker To Go are visually differentiated in both File Explorer and the BitLocker Drive Encryption experiences. From that latter control panel, you can change a number of BitLocker To Go features, and of course remove the encryption if you'd like.
Secret: Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 both included a BitLocker-based full disk encryption technology that is always-on by default. This feature is not branded as BitLocker on these systems because it cannot be centrally managed via Active Directory and Group Policy as is BitLocker.


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The Yorkshire County Fish Shop in Epcot's UK pavilion is a quaint, corner counter-service eatery with a gorgeous view from the outdoor tables. Located next to the Rose and Crown Pub and Dining Room, this Chip Shop in the World Showcase offers a quick and hearty meal you can grab on the go, or snack on while waiting for Illuminations.
My husband visited the Yorkshire County Fish Shop on his own last week and gave the following review:
"The fish and chips in Epcot were a pleasant surprise. World Showcase counter service has been known to fall short of the country being represented, and while I'm sure the Brits in the crowd might disagree with me, I found I was given a reasonable facsimile of 'real, British' Fish and Chips.
The fish didn't have a terribly strong taste, but I honestly prefer it that way. I like to taste my vinegar, or ketchup (yes I use ketchup on my fish) as much as I like the taste of the fish. I thought the batter was quite tasty.
The chips were 'authentic.' They're just right for absorbing vinegar, although once again I tend to mix it up and use ketchup on some. To be fair, I'd use HP sauce if they gave me the chance, but I figured I was lucky they even had vinegar." (Psst — He also told me he liked that they served it in newsprint.)
Don't forget to head over to the kiosk outside of the Pub to grab a nice Yard of Ale to accompany your meal!
Have you had the fish and chips at the UK pavilion? Do they remind you of your days across the pond, or do they fall flat on your "British-y" scale?


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South American bloc UNASUR holds emergency meeting condemning European and U.S. actions
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DAVID DOUGHERTY, PRODUCER: President Evo Morales has returned to the Plurinational State of Bolivia after being held in Austria for more than 13 hours after his presidential plane was denied passage through the airspace of France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Morales was returning from a trip to Russia, where he participated in energy talks with President Vladimir Putin.
While in Moscow, Morales mentioned that Bolivia would be willing to debate and review an asylum request by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who is suspected to remain holed up in Moscow's international airport. It is suspected that the Bolivian President's comments raised suspicions in the United States that Snowden could possibly have been aboard the presidential plane when it departed, prompting the U.S. to call upon European allies to deny the President and his staff passage through their airspace, forcing them to land in Vienna. The U.S. has refused to comment on the incident involving President Morales's plane, but has admitted to contacting European countries over potential flights that Edward Snowden could be traveling on.
EVO MORALES, BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT(SUBTITLED TRANSL.): It's true that this is an open provocation against the continent, not just against the president. North American imperialism uses its agents to frighten us and intimidate us. I just want to say that they are never going to intimidate us and they are never going to scare us because we are a dignified and sovereign people.
DOUGHERTY: Bolivia has filed a complaint with the United Nations, alleging that the actions constitute the diplomatic kidnapping of a democratically elected head of state, violating a number of international treaties. In the international airport of El Alto, which serves the administrative capital of Bolivia, La Paz, a crowd of supporters gathered to welcome the president as he arrived on Wednesday night.
PATRICIA CASILDA ALANOCA, CENTRAL OBRERA REGIONAL, EL ALTO (SUBTITLED TRANSL.): We are outraged with these neoliberal countries that have always enslaved us, and now they have humiliated our president, Evo Morales. You can see how the social organizations and the city of El Alto are truly angered. And so, as women, men, and children we are here to receive and give our full support to our president, Evo Morales.
DOUGHERTY: A number of South American heads of state have condemned the actions of the European countries and the United States. The South American bloc UNASUR held an emergency meeting on Thursday in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba to discuss the issue. Bolivian Congresswoman Segunda Flores echoed calls around the continent that the actions constitute an open act of aggression.
SEGUNDA FLORES, BOLIVIAN CONGRESS REPRESENTATIVE, SANTA CRUZ (SUBTITLED TRANSL.): We feel this is an act of aggression against the Bolivian people, not just against the president, Evo Morales, but all of the country. We have felt very humiliated and discriminated against.
DOUGHERTY: Austrian officials have stated that Edward Snowden was not on board President Morales's plane. On Tuesday and Wednesday, protests were reported at several European embassies in La Paz.
Reporting from La Paz, Bolivia, this is David Dougherty with The Real News Network.
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SSR 63-1: SECTION 202(b). -- WIFE'S INSURANCE BENEFITS -- IN HER CARE -- CHILD OVER 18 YEARS OF AGE
20 CFR 404.331(b); 404.725
- A woman, age 58, performed the following services for her mentally retarded daughter, age 27 and entitled to child's insurance benefits: She exercised constant supervision over the daughter's meals, clothing, manners, and activities. Held, the woman had her daughter "in her care" as required for entitlement to wife's insurance benefits where a claimant is under age 62.
A worker, age 65, was entitled to old-age insurance benefits; his daughter, C, age 27 and mentally deficient since birth, became entitled to child's insurance benefits on the worker's earnings record. The worker's wife, W, age 58, filed application for wife's insurance benefits on his earnings record.
To be entitled to wife's insurance benefits under section 202(b) of the Act (besides other requirements, all of which W met), a woman must either have attained age 62 or have in her care (individually, or jointly with her husband) a child entitled to a child's insurance benefit on her husband's earnings record.
Since W was under age 62, she can be entitled to wife's benefits only if she has C in her care, individually or jointly with her husband. In this connection the following facts were established:
W, C, and the worker live together. Because of C's peculiar preferences in food, W must supervise her eating to assure that she gets adequate nourishment. Also she is unable to select clothing appropriate for the season or the occasion. She does not know the elementary rules to follow when she is ill. Her behavior and manners similarly need and receive supervision; for example, she sometimes has to be admonished about "making faces" in company or at church. C plays with small children, for she has the mentality of a child, but her strength is far greater than that of a child, and she must be watched to prevent her from harming her playmates. Also, C must be protected from cruel practical jokes and possible mistreatment.
Thus, C requires constant supervision and care because of her mental retardation. Although the worker gives such assistance as he can, the burden of such care and supervision is largely borne by W.
The question to be decided is whether, under the facts shown above, W can be considered to have C in her care.
To have "in her care" a child under the age of 18, or a mentally incompetent child age 18 or over, the claimant must exercise parental control and responsibility for the welfare and care of the child.
In the present case, the facts show that C is unable to supply her own needs and to cope with everyday needs and responsibilities, is mentally incompetent, and receives from W (jointly with her husband, the worker) constant care and supervision required, by the nature of her disability, for her own protection and welfare and for the protection of others. Thus, W is exercising parental control and responsibility sufficient for a finding that she has C in her care.
Accordingly, it is held that W has in her care a child entitled to child's insurance benefits on her husband's earnings record, as required for entitlement to wife's insurance benefits since W has not attained age 62. All other requirements being met, W is entitled to wife's insurance benefits.


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EnerGenie makes products that helps you keep track of how much electricity you are using in your home and ways to control that usage. The basic product is a socket that plugs into the wall. You can then control any device that is plugged into it by your iPad or iPhone; turning the device on or off, setting a timer for either reoccurring or single phase. It can measures how much electricity is being used by individual devices. You can use it to do a cost relationship analysis. You can also compare how much is being used in the daytime and nighttime.
They also sell a Power Management System which you can set up either via USB or wirelessly. You can program it so each plug turns off and on different times. You can also group plugs together, so for example when you turn on your TV, your blu-ray player would come on. They are also going to be selling a portable charger which handles up to 40,000 mAh. The charger will be available at the end of Q2 for $250.00. The socket and power management systems are $50.00 and $150 respectively and are available now through Amazon and the Energenie website.
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Middle Schools
Middle School Websites
LWSD has eight neighborhood middle schools. In addition, six choice middle schools provide optional schooling alternatives to serve specific needs and interests.
For school enrollment numbers, please visit the enrollment report page.
Emerson K-12
10903 NE 53rd Street, Kirkland 98033
Grades K-12
Contact school for more information.
- Maximum 350 students, grades K-12
- Partner with families who instruct their children at home
- Smaller class sizes
- Enrichment and core classes
- Full access to Running Start and WANIC skills programs for 11th & 12th graders
- Fully accredited
- Option for LWSD diploma
- Personalized learning plans are provided for each student
- Instruction provided using LWSD curriculum & state standards
Environmental & Adventure School
8040 NE 132nd Street, Kirkland 98034
Grades 6-8
- Maximum 140 students, grades 6-8
- Rigorous and challenging curriculum organized around district and state standards
- Language arts, social studies, science, and art curriculum integrated around yearly themes
- Multi-grade classes in all subject areas
- Adventure education (school excursions) and community stewardship projects connected with academic learning, personal challenge and teamwork
- Extensive parent volunteer involvement
- See school website for more information
Evergreen Middle School
6900 - 208th Avenue NE, Redmond 98053
Grades 6-8
- Exceptionally collaborative staff who design and implement challenging learning, resulting in high student achievement and strong critical thinking skills
- High impact intervention programs through classrooms, homeroom, WEB (Where Everyone Belongs) leaders, student leadership, and a wide array of activities resulting in a positive student-centered environment
- Strong emphasis on communication with students and parents, including the use of weekly email newsletters
- Wide selection of engaging and diverse elective classes including visual and performing arts, student leadership, and career and technical options
Finn Hill Middle School
8040 NE 132nd Street, Kirkland 98034
Grades 6-8
- Math acceleration available in seventh and eighth grade
- Sixth grade elective queue, which introduce students to four electives (life skills, computer literacy, art, and organization)
- Electives include state-of-the-art foods and nutrition program, photography, leadership, and the art of glass.
- Strong emphasis on personalization during Falcon Time. Twice weekly College Prep program allows student access to reteaching of skills as well as enrichment during the school day.
- AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) Elective and School Wide program. Emphasis on challenge, closing the achievement gap, college readiness, and personal success.
Inglewood Middle School
24120 NE 8th Street, Sammamish 98074
Grades 6-8
- Strong emphasis on personalization through teacher teaming
- The number of teachers students work with during their sixth grade year is limited to reduce student stress
- Students are nurtured and taught to lead within their community
- Rigorous academic program in all curriculum areas, including electives
- Honors distinction available for all students who choose to opt-in
- Core philosophy: depth of study over breadth of study
- Professional Learning Communities form our philosophical foundations of our work to improve the student experience at Inglewood.
International Community School
11133 NE 65th Street, Kirkland 98033
Grades 6-12
- Maximum 440 students, grades 6-12
- Focus on classical education with global applications in business, law, social sciences and science
- Highly integrated core content areas of international studies, humanities and art
- Four years of Spanish required
- All high school courses are offered at the Honors or AP level
- 99% of ICS graduates attend a four-year college
- Majority of graduates earn scholarships
Kamiakin Middle School
14111 - 132nd Avenue NE, Kirkland 98034
Grades 6-8
- Students representing 70+ countries worldwide
- Academic opportunities for a diverse community. Sixth grade students "teamed" with two teachers (Language Arts/Social Studies, Math/Science)
- Challenging core classes
- AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) Program for seventh and eighth graders
- Achievement guides for all students
- Personalization for students through Cougar Time
Kirkland Middle School
430 - 18th Avenue, Kirkland 98033
Grades 6-8
- Challenging academic program in all curriculum areas, including electives
- Integrated Honors option offered in English Language Arts/Social Studies block program at all grade levels. Math and science blocked in sixth grade.
- Math acceleration available in seventh grade
- Small school with strong emphasis on personalization within our Panther Pride, Peer Mentoring, and Safe School Ambassadors programs
- Electives include: World Language, Art, Pottery, Technology, Leadership, Multi-Media, Game Design, Robotics, Drama, Debate, Guitar, Band, Orchestra, Choir, Team Sports
- Transition program for those with unique needs
Northstar Middle School
10903 NE 53rd Street, Kirkland 98033
Grades 6-8
- Maximum 90 students, grades 6-8
- Challenging academic program with high-level expectations for all students
- Theme-based classes, focus on humanities and sciences
- Emphasis on academic excellence and service to the community
- Organized like a college curriculum – 7th and 8th grade students choose courses each semester, 6th grade students take required foundational classes
Redmond Middle School
10055 - 166th Avenue NE, Redmond 98052
Grades 6-8
- Strong, positive and diverse student culture through ASB, athletics, music clubs, English Language Learner (ELL) and special education programs
- Student leadership and input is valued and promoted
- AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) Program for seventh and eighth graders
- Diverse academic offerings with a wide array of student academic support services
- Personalization for all students through our PACE (homeroom period), as well as a variety of clubs, sports and other activities.
Renaissance School of Art & Reasoning
400 - 228th Ave NE, Sammamish 98074
Grades 6-8
- Maximum 96 students in grades 6-8 develop in an environment of academic rigor, using multiple approaches and perspectives
- Focus on integrating the visual and performing arts with a challenging science and mathematics curriculum
- Students are known and nurtured as important individuals who have an active concern for their community and society
- Strong parent involvement and volunteerism
- Numerous after-school enrichment programs
- RSAR is a member of the National Thespian Society and National Junior Honor Society
Rose Hill Middle School
13505 NE 75th Street, Redmond 98052
Grades 6-8
- Rigorous academic curriculum offered at all grade levels.
- Highly personalized environment for all students, including a grade-level team approach to help students needing additional strategies to meet their academic and social goals.
- Integrated curriculum taught via blocked core classes.
- Technology-rich curriculum both in core and elective offerings (including specialized courses such as Digital Media and Gateway to Technology).
- We offer a balance of fine arts programming in both performing and visual arts that nurtures and challenges artistic growth of our students.
Stella Schola
13505 NE 75th Street, Redmond 98052
Grades 6-8
- Maximum 90 students, grades 6-8
- Challenging academics based on historical themes and integrated with classic literature
- Students remain with the same teacher all day, providing strong support and a personalized learning environment
- Hands-on learning activities, projects, and field experiences
- Two years of required Latin taken by all students in grades 7 and 8
- One-to-one student mentoring at sixth grade
- Honors distinction available for students who choose to opt-in in grades 7 and 8
- Elective options including band, orchestra and fitness
Timberline Middle School
9900 Redmond Ridge Dr NE, Redmond 98053
Grades 6-8
- Commitment to supporting student growth using research-based practices
- Support of social and emotional learning
- Academic learning through real-world application
Recent Middle School News
Congratulations to Timberline Middle School's Team Alpha for competing in the Science Olympiad National Tournament held in May at Wichita State University.
Nearly 20 teams with Lake Washington School District (LWSD) students qualified for the VEX Robotics World Championship this year.
Numerous languages filled the school cafeteria as Kamiakin Middle School held their first multicultural feast on May 17, 2023.
Sixth grade science students at Kamiakin Middle School have been busy working since September on a Campus Ecological Restoration Project.
The National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) selects students who are committed to the values of scholarship, service, leadership, character and citizenship. For their dedication to these values, 11 Lake Washington School District (LWSD) students were given the Outstanding Achievement Award (OAA).


text: Gudge 59 Posted April 10, 2010 (edited) After using four different Subal housings over the last 13 years I decided it was time to make a change for my new Canon 7D. After a lot of research I ordered a Nauticam NA-7D from Scubapix in Cairns. While waiting for the Nauticam to become available, Peter Mooney from Scubapix offered me the loan of an Aquatica A7D housing to use until my housing arrived. I managed to do 10 dives with the Aquatica housing before the Nauticam arrived. Having now completed five dives with the Nauticam I thought I offer my thoughts on how the two 7D housings compare. General Impressions & External Fittings • The design and quality of manufacture of both housings is very good. • The handles on both housings are excellent( much better than either the standard issue handles on my old Subal housing or the ULCS handles that replaced them) • Both housings have three threaded holes on the bottom for attaching tripods, trays, etc. • The Aquatica has three points on top the housing for attaching strobe arms, focus lights, etc. One on top of each handle and the third is located top centre on the housing body. The Nauticam has four connection points, one on top of each handle and two located each side of the top of the housing. If you choose to use Nauticam ports (I'm using Subal ports with the Nauticam port adapter) there is a fifth connection for a focus light on their base adapter • The Aquatica has two latches for holding the housing back on while the Nauticam has three. I found the latches on both housings to be fiddly to operate compared to those I was used to on both my Subal and my wife's Seatool. The Aquatica latches irritated me more than those on the Nauticam because I couldn't seem to realease them without jamming my fingers between them and the handles. • The loan Aquatica only had the standard viewfinder but I found that as long as I held my mask up tight against the back of the housing I could see the entire viewfinder easily. The Nauticam 180° magnifying viewfinder that I ordered with my Nauticam housing is awesome. I had always thought that Subal GS180 viewfinder was excellent but the Nauticam is better, apart from a bigger view it is more tolerant of incorrect eye position than the Subal viewfinder. • Both housings have a port lock to prevent the ports from turning once they have been installed. The Aquatica has a conventional bayonet port mounting system where you push the port in before rotating it into place. The Nauticam version has a innovative system where the port is just pushed into place and an internal locking ring is rotated to lock it into place (as an ex-submariner this method bought back many old memories as it is very similar to the locking method used on the rear door of the torpedo tubes in the submarines I served in). • The Aquatica housing has lens release lever to allow the lens release button on the camera to be operated when changing lenses with the front port removed. There is no equivalent control on the Nauticam housing, it isn't needed. When the front port is removed from the housing there is more than enough room to put your finger in the housing and press the button on the camera. Left Hand Side Controls • The zoom/manual focus control on both housings is easily operated without removing your hand from the left handle. • The Mode Dial control on both housings is also easily operated without removing your hand from the left handle. This control was my most hated control on my last two Subal housings. The Subal version was a tiny little knob that you had to push in and turn simultaneously, not an easy thing to do and the source of much cursing from me. • The power switch on both housings was easily operated without having to remove your hand from the left handle. The switch on the Nauticam was very smooth while the Aquatica's was a little clunky. • The left hand row of buttons on both housings were once again very easily operated without removing your hand from the left handle. Buttons on both housings are angled to the left for easier operation. • The Nauticam does not have a control for the One Touch Raw+JPEG/Direct Print button on the camera while the Aquatica does. I don't see this as any sort of problem as I only shoot RAW and I'm never going to print direct from the camera (actually impossible to connect a printer while the camera's in the housing). I've never used this button the camera (in or out of the housing) and didn't even notice its absence on the Nauticam housing until I started writing this article and looked at photos of the housings side by side. Right Hand Side Controls • The controls on both housings to access the camera's Multi-controller are very good. I found the four distinct widely spaced buttons on the Aquatica easier to use than the Nauticam's smaller buttons arranged as quadrants of a circle. On the other hand the Set button which has to be used in conjunction with this control is much easier to access on the Nauticam than the Aquatica. This control was the second most hated control on my Subal. The Subal implementation is a single button which you point in the direction you want to move the Multi-controller and then push in. It was slow and laborious and I gave up using it after a while. It was a pleasure to be able to use this control quickly and easily on the 7D in both housings. • The controls for using the Live View/Movie Switch and Movie Start/Stop button on the Nauticam are excellent, smooth and very easy to use. By using clever design they are located on the right hand side of the housing and can be easily operated with your thumb without removing your hand from the right hand handle. On the other hand the same controls on the Aquatica are located toward the centre of the housing adjacent to the viewfinder. They are difficult to reach and were a little clunky in operation. In particular I had problems with the Live View/Movie Switch, I just could not get it to operate on the surface and shallow dives down to 6 metres despite several adjustments of the position of the control inside the housing. On deeper dives it would engage and work. • The four buttons on top of the housing for AF/Drive, Metering/White Balance, ISO/Flash Exposure Compensation and M-Fn button were located in the same position on both housings. • The AF-ON switch on the Nauticam is a small lever easily accessed with the thumb while holding on to the right hand handle. Below sit the three "piano keys" for actuating the AF point selection/magnify, * and Select buttons on the camera. All these buttons are easily accessed with the thumb without removing your hand from the handle. I found the Aquatica arrangement for these controls to be much more difficult to use. The AF-ON switch and * control is combined into a single lever that slides sideways to access each control. While this lever is easily accessed with the thumb with your hand on the right hand handle trying to use both controls at the same time (something I often do) is impossible. In addition when I had the lever in the * position it would slowly move back towards the AF-ON position each time it was used and disengage itself without warning. Both the Select and the AF point selection/magnify buttons are located away from the edge of the housing and are much more difficult to use than with the Nauticam's "Piano Keys". • I like the shutter release on the Nauticam much more than the Aquatica's. There is some mechanical feedback on the Nauticam (as there was with my Subal) where you could feel the shutter come in contact with the shutter release on the camera, I couldn't feel anything with the Aquatica. In addition I found the shutter release return spring on the Aquatica is to be a lot stiffer than I liked. • The aperture and shutter speed controls on both housings are similarly placed and easy to access and use. I liked the Aquatica controls better than those on the Nauticam because the knobs are a little larger and have a more textured surface which made them a little easier to operate. In summary, I found both housings to be very good and would have no problems recommending either to anyone. Personally, I like the Nauticam the most. The design and finish are just that little bit bette than the Aquatica and the ergonomics are much better. Finally a big thankyou to Peter Mooney for giving me the opportunity to try out the Aquatica while waiting for my Nauticam to Arrive. I'd also like to thank Ryan from Reef Photo and Video for all the early advice he provided regarding the Nauticam housing before Scubapix were appointed as the Australian agent for Nauticam. If an Australian agent hadn't been appointed I would have got mine from Reef Photo and Video. Edited April 10, 2010 by Gudge Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Unattended MSSQL 2005 Installation – Command Line Installation of MSSQL
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational model database server produced by Microsoft and it's Installation is quite Easy using GUI where a user has to selects the options which he/she needs with the database server and install it. We can automate the installation procedure and make it so simple that MSSQL can be installed using a single command.
Automating SQL server installation is made easier in MSSQL 2005 version and we can define the components which need to be installed with setup.exe via command prompt OR we can create an ini file which will contain all the information about the installation. In this post I will explain the steps to install MSSQL 2005 using command prompt with the help of single command.
Install MSSQL using Command Prompt (By Defining all modules in command)
1) Insert the MSSQL installation media into the disk drive.
2) Open Command Prompt (Start >> Run >> cmd >> Enter)
3) Execute following command
Here, ADDLOCAL is set to "All" which will install all the components and modules bundled with the MSSQL. If you want customized modules then you can declare the modules instead of "All".
Install MSSQL using .ini file
1) Open Notepad (Start >> Run >> Notepad >> Enter)
2) Insert all the "Installation Parameters" in that file. Following is the sample file which I have used to install MSSQL on my System
Here, PIDKEY will be the Product Key of the product shipped with MSSQL.
3) Save this file with extension .ini (like sqlsetup.ini)
4) Execute following command to run the setup
Points to Note:
1) While specifying the accounts like SQLACCOUNT, AGTACCOUNT and SQLBROWSERACCOUNT make sure you define proper users. Users can be
Local System Account : "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM"
Network Service Account : "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE"
Local Service Account : "NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE"
2) Microsoft provides a template.ini file in the installation media but I would strongly recommend to remove the options that you don't want.
You can refer to Microsoft tutorial for more information and component help at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144259.aspx


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Extreme weather increasing level of toxins in food, scientists warn
NAIROBI: As they struggle to deal with more extreme weather, a range of food crops are generating more chemical compounds that can cause health problems for people and livestock who eat them, scientists have warned.
A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says that crops such as wheat and maize are generating more potential toxins as a reaction to protect themselves from extreme weather.
But these chemical compounds are harmful to people and animals if consumed for a prolonged period of time, according to a report released during a United Nations Environment Assembly meeting in Nairobi.
"Crops are responding to drought conditions and increases in temperature just like humans do when faced with a stressful situation," explained Jacqueline McGlade, chief scientist and director of the Division of Early Warning and Assessment at UNEP.
Under normal conditions, for instance, plants convert nitrates they absorb into nutritious amino acids and proteins. But prolonged drought slows or prevents this conversion, leading to more potentially problematic nitrate accumulating in the plant, the report said.
If people eat too much nitrate in their diets, it can interfere with the ability of red blood cells to transport oxygen in the body, the report said.
Crops susceptible to accumulating too much nitrate in times of stress include maize, wheat, barley, soybeans, millet and sorghum, it said.
Some drought-stressed crops, when then exposed to sudden large amounts of rain that lead to rapid growth, in turn accumulate hydrogen cyanide, more commonly known as prussic acid, the report said.
Prussic acid – one of the ingredients used in some types of chemical warfare - interferes with oxygen flow in humans. Even short-term exposure can be debilitating for people, McGlade said.
Plants such as cassava, flax, maize and sorghum are most vulnerable to dangerous prussic acid accumulation, the report said.
Cases of nitrate or hydrogen cyanide poisoning in humans were reported in Kenya in 2013 and in the Philippines in 2005, McGlade said. In Kenya, two children died in coastal Kilifi after eating cassava that had raised levels of prussic acid in it following extreme rainfall, according to local media reports.
Aflatoxins that can affect plant crops and raise the risk of liver damage, cancer and blindness, as well as stunting foetuses and infants, are also spreading to more areas as a result of shifting weather patterns as a result of climate change, scientists said.
McGlade said about 4.5 billion people in developing countries are exposed to aflatoxins each year, though the amounts are largely unmonitored, and the numbers are rising.
"We are just beginning to recognise the magnitude of toxin- related issues confronting farmers in developing countries of the tropics and sub-tropics," the report noted.
"As warmer climate zones expand towards the poles, countries in more temperate regions are facing new threats," it added.
In 2004, Kenya suffered severe outbreaks of aflatoxin poisoning, which affected more than 300 people and killed more than 100 following a prolonged drought, according to the International Livestock Research Institute.
The UNEP report said Europe will be at growing risk from aflatoxins in locally grown crops if global temperatures rise by at least 2 degrees Celsius. The world is currently on a path to a more than 3 degree Celsius temperature rise, scientists believe.
An increase in toxic compounds in crops is likely to impact heavily on the world's health system, which are already struggling with the effects of food insecurity, Dorota Jarosinska of the World Health Organization's European Center for Environment and Health said in an interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Alex Ezeh, executive director of the African Population Health and Research Center, said the increase in toxins in crops was a big concern.
"Toxic crops can lead to neurological diseases among humans but the greatest challenge is the incidence of cancer," he said in an interview.
The report proposes a list of eight ideas farmers and agricultural experts can adopt to try to limit damage from more crop toxins, such as mapping contamination hotspots and building better evidence about what is happening now with the toxins in their area.
Scientists also suggest that developing crop varieties designed to cope with extreme weather could help reduce the levels of toxic chemicals in food.
"Research centers with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research are developing seeds that are suitable in various regions that have been hit by climate change," McGlade said.
(Reporting by Kagondu Njagi; editing by Laurie Goering :; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, women's rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit http://news.trust.org/climate)
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Hackerspaces are always looking for novel ways to let their members know that they are open for business, and this notifier [Angus] from Make, Hack, Void recently put together is no exception.
While dumpster diving one day, he came across a fantastic-looking lab power supply from the '70s. He gutted it, saving the variable transformer for a future project, and started constructing his notifier. When someone enters the hackerspace, they simply set the dial on the "Space Probe" to the amount of time they expect to be there. The built-in Seeduino sends the data over Bluetooth to an OpenWRT-enabled router, which uses a couple of Lua scripts to notify members via email and Twitter.
Since almost all of the processing is done on the router side, it leaves the Arduino in the probe with little more to do than flash an LED and send ASCII status messages any time the knob is turned. [Angus] is well aware that this would probably make most people's heads spin, but he hopes that other hackerspace members use that untapped potential to further enhance the notifier.
Stick around to see the Space Probe in action, and if you are interested in seeing what other hackerspaces use to keep their members in the know, check out this status switch from Hack42.