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Retrieve serial number and last coordinates with FreeFlight Pro
With FreeFlight Pro On the main page, press the name of the last connected drone to see the serial number, the latest GPS coordinates, the firmware version installed in the drone.
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Retrieve photos and videos
Photos and videos taken with Parrot Disco are saved in its internal memory. To download these pictures, do the following: To computer To a smartphone
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Share flights data with Parrot Cloud
You can share flights data using social netowrks and email. To do so, you nee to register on Parrot Cloud : Academy and using a valid internet connection. There is 2 boutons "Send Piloting" / "Share" . The data sent via email is a json file. Using third party tools like Flight Data Manager permit to process data shared.
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The drone reaches the limits of the Geofence
What happens when the drone reaches the limit of the Geofence? Geofence is a virtual barrier that restricts the drone from flying out of a designated zone set up by the pilot via the FreeFlight Pro app. When the Parrot Disco reaches the limit of the Geofence, Return-to-Home is triggered and the drone automatically navigates back to the starting point. Once there, the Parrot Disco initiates stand-by loitering mode and begins circling overhead. It is then possible to retake control of the drone and continue flying within the fixed Geofence limits. 3 settings are available for the Geofence : Maximum distance : from 200m to 2 km, the drone can't go beyond that distance and goes back on Return To Home mode. Maximum altitude : from 50 to 150 m, the drone won't go above that altitude. Minimum altitude : from 5 to 50m, the drone won't go under that altitude. Once the drone has reached the altitude limit defined by the Geofence it will: Won't go over the defined maximum altitude limit Not fly under the lowest altitude limit that has been set In this particular case, the Return to Home option is not engaged. To activate GEOFENCE: 1. Open FreeFlight Pro and go to FLY & FILM >Setting > Position. 2. Tap GEOFENCE.
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Flight Plan with Parrot Disco
You can plan your flights using the in-app Flight Plan, available in in-app purchase on FreeFlight Pro. *Note that you need to create and load your flight plan before taking off. Summary Create a Flight Plan Fly with Flight Plan Create a Flight Plan 1. Make sure your smartphone is connected to Internet and the GPS is on. 2. In FreeFlight Pro, select Flight Plan. *Note: you can also launch Flight Plan from the main menu by tapping . 3. At the PRODUCT CHOICE prompt, select Disco. >A a satellite view of your area appears. To see the satellite view in 3D, slide two fingers upwards. When in 3D mode, the control interface disappears. To display the controls again, slide two fingers downward to return to the satellite view. *Note: You need an Internet connection to display the satellite view. If you want to fly in an area without Internet connection, create and save your flight plan beforehand. **Note: Make sure your flight route is located in an area unobstructed by power lines, buildings, residences, and trees. Plan a route Place waypoints Waypoints help you create a precise, autonomous flight plan using Disco's GPS feature. *Note: Before launching Flight Plan, make sure your smart devices are connected to the internet, and turn on GPS. To place waypoints: 1. Tap on the map to create a waypoint. > The first waypoint appears. Waypoint bubbles are solid colored when first created. 2. Tap on the map again to create another waypoint. > A line connecting the two waypoints appears. The number at the center of the waypoint bubble indicates the drone's altitude in flight. The upper right-hand number indicates the order in which the waypoints were made: #1 is the first waypoint, #2 is the second way point, and so on. The number over the connecting line indicates the distance between two waypoints. S is the starting point, and the circle around the first waypoint means the drone will orbit over the starting point after launch. 3. Continue to make waypoints until you are satisfied with the route. To undo last action, tap Plan for landing After you have mapped your flight, you need to tell the Parrot Disco where and how to land. Linear landing This is the default landing pattern for the Parrot Disco, where the drone aligns itself with a "runway" and lands like a conventional aircraft. To set linear landing: 1. Press and hold on the last waypoint until the blue dialog box opens. 2. Select LINEAR LANDING (default) and the landing funnel graphic appears over the last waypoint. The landing funnel depicts the amount of distance the Parrot Disco needs to land. If necessary, zoom out to see the entire flight plan, and move the cone-by dragging the E or L bubbles-to another position on the map. (E = End point, L = Landing point) Circular landing During circular landing, the Parrot Disco will circle over the end point and descends in a spiral pattern. To set circular landing: 1. Press and hold on the E button after selecting linear landing. > The blue dialog box opens. 2. Select CIRCULAR LANDING. > The landing funnel disappears. 3. Drag the E button to relocate the landing site. The circle surrounding the button signifies the landing pattern. Circular landing requires an area of about 240 ft./80 m free of any obstacle all around. Editing Waypoints After you have created your route, you can go back and change various parameters of each waypoint. Change altitude There are two ways to change the altitude of the Parrot Disco in Flight Plan: Using the vertical slider 1. Tap a waypoint; the bubble turns solid, the blue dialog box opens, and the vertical slider becomes active. 2. Slide the button up or down to adjust the drone's altitude. *Note: the maximum altitude is limited to 492 feet. Using the keypad 1. Press and hold a waypoint until the blue dialogue box opens. 2. Tap EDIT to open the "WAYPOINT" dialogue screen. 3. Enter a new altitude and then tap OK. Insert a waypoint on a line 1. Press and hold anywhere on a line where you want to insert a waypoint, and the blue dialogue box opens (notice the arrow indicating the point of insertion). 2. Tap INSERT. > A new waypoint appears. Saving a flight plan To save a new flight plan: 1. Tap at the upper-right corner. 2. Tap Save as on the Saved flight plans screen. 3. Use the keypad to enter a name for your flight plan and then tap Save. Open a saved flight plan Launch Flight Plan. Tap At the Saved flight plans screen, tap the flight plan you want to open. Tap Open Delete a flight plan Tap At the Saved flight plans screen, tap the flight plan you want to delete, the selected file turns blue. Tap Delete. When the dialogue box opens, select OK to confirm, or Cancel to return to the previous screen. Fly with Flight Plan. Make sure your Flight Plan is created and loaded. Switch on the Parrot Disco. Wait until the light turns green, indicating the GPS location is fixed. Connect your smartphone to Parrot Disco and launch FreeFlight Pro. On the main screen, press Flight Plan. Press Start. Stand facing the wind and launch the Parrot Disco into the wind. The Parrot Disco makes its way to the first waypoint and orbits 3 revolutions before starting the route you have defined.
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How to reset the Parrot Disco?
Question How to reset the Parrot Disco? Answer Quckly press the on/off button twice , then hold the button for about 10 seconds. > The on/off button flashes orange and red before the Parrot Disco shuts down. Switch on the Parrot Disco to complete the reset process. Use this process to reset the settings and erase the memory of the Parrot Disco. This process does not erase the firmware version installed on the drone.
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For the best experience, use the combination of your smartphone and Parrot Skycontroller 2 to fly the Parrot Disco. Parrot Disco cannot be flown by using your smartphone alone. STAY CLEAR OF THE MOTOR AREA AFTER TURNING ON PARROT DISCO! When not flying, disconnect battery to prevent accidental discharge. Piloting modes Auto-assist Under auto-assist, Parrot Disco maintains its altitude and heading automatically, so you can enjoy the flying without having to worry about maintaining speed, adjusting control surfaces, etc. And in case you let go of the stick momentarily, auto-assist ensures that Parrot Disco stays airborne. Manual This feature allows you to use an RC remote (not included) to fly the Parrot Disco. However, auto-assisted flying is not available in this mode. *Note: in order to use a RC controller, you must first install a radio receiver (in Parrot Disco) specific to your controller. Piloting configurations There are three piloting configurations: 1. Flying with Parrot Skycontroller 2 only. 2. Flying with Parrot Skycontroller 2 and smartphone/tablet. 3. Flying with Parrot Skycontroller 2, smartphone/tablet, and Parrot Cockpitglasses. Familiarize yourself with no. 1 and no. 2 before advancing to no. 3. Piloting screen Control methods You can also customize the controls to your preference in FreeFlight Pro. Flat trim Flat trim resets the downward sensor to further enhance flight stability. It is recommended that you flat trim the drone prior to each flight and after a crash. 1. Place Parrot Disco on a flat, dry surface. 2. Press the On/Off switch to turn on the drone. 3. On your smartphone, connect to Parrot Disco's Wi-Fi ® : Disco_xxxxxx. 4. In the FreeFlight Pro application, go to FLY&FILM > Setting > Position, then tap FLAT TRIM. Take off Disco must take off into the wind. 1. Stand facing upwind and firmly hold the area near the nose/shoulder of the Parrot Disco with one hand. 2. Make sure Parrot Disco's propeller area is completely cleared of any obstacle. 3. On Parrot Skycontroller 2, press the TAKE OFF button . The motor runs slowly for 3 seconds before kicking into full power. *Note: DO NOT LAUNCH until AFTER the motor fully accelerates. **Note: To stop the motor, press . 4. A «Ready to take off» pop-up window is displayed on your smartphone. The drone is ready for take off. 5. Holding the drone to your side, with the arm fully extended, gently toss Parrot Disco straight and upward (without twisting at the waist) into the wind. Parrot Disco climbs to an altitude of 150 feet (45 meters) and circles over its starting position in a 180-feet-diameter orbit (55 meters). *Note: If the drone is not airborne within 10 seconds after powering on, the motor shuts off automatically . Press again to begin a new take-off sequence. **Note: DO NOT LAUNCH DISCO OVERHEAD! 6. Once Parrot Disco is in stable orbit, you can take over the controls . Return home To recall Parrot Disco to its starting point, press the return button on Parrot Skycontroller 2, or tap the Return Home icon in FreeFlight Pro. When Return Home is activated, Parrot Disco climbs (or descends) to 150 ft/50 m (default altitude) and heads for the starting position. Once there, Parrot Disco orbits overhead in a 180 ft/60 m-diameter circle at the same altitude. Landing Spiral Once spiral/circular landing is initiated, Parrot Disco automatically turns into the wind to reduce landing speed on touchdown. 1. Make sure you are in an area of at least 240 ft/80 m in diameter to accommodate the spiral pattern. 2. Push the left control of the Parrot Skycontroller 2 to the left or to the right to set your Parrot Disco to loitering mode. 3. On your Parrot Skycontroller 2 press . >>Disco descends in a spiral and lands. Linear To land Parrot Disco in a straight-a-way fashion: 1. Maneuver the Parrot Disco so it is flying into the wind. 2. On Parrot Skycontroller 2, press LANDING . >>Parrot Disco descends in a straight line, and just prior to touchdown, noses up to reduce speed and lands softly. *Note : you can still control the Parrot Disco during descent. To abort landing, press again on Parrot Skycontroller 2. Parrot Disco climbs to loitering/standby height (50 m /150 feet) and begins circling overhead. Flight Plan With Flight Plan, you can pre-plan a flight by designating specific routes for Parrot Disco, and just sit back and enjoy the scenery as it soars through the air. Flight Plan is available as an in-app purchase in FreeFlight Pro. *Note: You must create your flight plan before taking off. **Note: Parrot Disco still has to be launched MANUALLY. Creating a Flight Plan 1. Tap to enable waypoint editing. 2. On the map, tap where you want to place your first waypoint. > A bubble with two numbers appears. The big number at the center is the altitude at which Parrot Disco will fly, and the smaller number represents the order of the waypoint. 3. Continue to place your waypoints. 4. Once you have drawn your path, press and hold the last point of your journey. > A pop-up window appears. Select a landing mode (linear or spiral). Spiral landing requires an area of at least 240 feet (80m) in diameter and free of obstacles. Your flight plan is created. Flying with Flight Plan 1. Make sure your flight plan is created and loaded. 2. Turn on your Parrot Disco. 3. Wait until the Parrot Disco's warning light turns green, indicating the GPS is connected. 4. Connect your smartphone to the Parrot Disco and start the FreeFlight Pro application. 5. On the Home screen, press Flight Plan. 6. Press Start. 7. Stand facing upwind and launch Parrot Disco. > The drone begins the course you set. For more detail on Flight Plan, go to Flight Plan .
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Landing process with Parrot Disco
Landing General guidelines Locate a suitable landing spot prior to take-off. Always make sure you are in an area with at least 240 ft/80 m of clearing on all sides to accommodate landing. When you are ready to land 1. Maneuver the drone into the wind (against the wind), align it with your intended landing area and start your approach. 2. As the drone descends and gets closer to the landing area, if necessary, pull back on the left stick to reduce speed. 3. When the drone is between 20 to 30 ft.(5-10 m) off the ground, press on the Skycontroller 2 to begin auto-landing. *Note: direction control is still available during auto-landing. **Note: pressing again will ABORT auto-landing if the drone is still more than 30 ft/10 m above ground. 4. Parrot Disco reverses thrust to reduce speed, noses up right before touch down and lands. ***Note: avoid over-correcting the drone during the final stage of the auto-landing sequence.
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Pairing/Connecting to your drone
You can fly Parrot Bebop Drone, Parrot Bebop 2, and the Parrot Disco with Parrot Skycontroller 2. Before you do so, you must "pair" (connect) the drone and the controller. Pairing speeds up the time it takes to connect various devices. Once the initial connection is established, the drone and the controller will connect automatically the next time when you want to fly. Auto-pairing/connecting with your smartphone/tablet via FreeFlight Pro *Note: when connecting, always follow this order : controller > smart device > drone. 1. Connect the controller to your smartphone/tablet via a USB cable. 2. Press the ON/OFF button on Parrot Skycontroller 2 to turn it on. > When the USB icon appears next to the Parrot Skycontroller 2 icon , connection is established. 3. Press the ON/OFF button on the drone to turn it on. 4. Wait until the status light on the controller is a steady green. Parrot Skycontroller 2 is connected to the drone. *Note: when prompted to calibrate the controller, follow the on-screen instructions. Manual-pairing/connecting with your smartphone/tablet via FreeFlight Pro iOS 1. Go to Settings > Wi-Fi, under CHOOSE A NETWORK, select the name of your drone (for example, Disco-xxxxxx). 2. Open FreeFlight Pro, at the main page, you should see the drone's status as connected. If you do not see a connection, tap the Wi-Fi icon and select the drone from the drop-down list. Android 1. Go to Settings > Wi-Fi, and select your drone (for example, Disco-xxxxxx). 2. Open FreeFlight Pro, at the main page, you should see the drone's status as connected. *Note: FreeFlight Pro interface is identical in both iOS and Android. Connecting without a smartphone/tablet You can fly the Parrot Bebop Drone, Parrot Bebop 2, and Parrot Disco with the Parrot Skycontroller 2 only. You need a smartphone or a tablet to access to any feedback on telemetry, radar, battery reserve, and other information. 1. Press the ON/OFF button on Parrot Skycontroller 2 to turn it on. 2. Press the ON/OFF button on the drone to turn it on. 3. Wait until the status light on the controller is a steady green. Parrot Skycontroller 2 is connected to the drone. *Note: we recommend that you fly with a smartdevice.
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I've been thinking a lot lately about the stuff that we own—the belongings that we've acquired over time, the keepsakes that we can't part with, the detritus that we really should get rid of.
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Spaniard sentenced to 8 years for embezzling from subsidiary of Russian oil company Yukos
MOSCOW (AP) ' A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a Spanish citizen to eight years in prison after finding him guilty of embezzling $13 billion from a subsidiary of the now-defunct Yukos oil company.
The conviction and sentencing of Antonio Valdes-Garcia, who escaped from house arrest in Russia in 2007 and is now in Spain, came despite imprisoned Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky's testimony that he didn't know of any such embezzlement.
Valdes-Garcia, who has dual Russian-Spanish citizenship, headed a Yukos subsidiary called Fargoil accused of funneling $13 billion of funds raised by the export sale of Yukos' oil.
Critics say Valdes-Garcia's conviction was part of the state onslaught against Yukos and Khodorkovsky, who was arrested in 2003 and convicted of embezzlement and tax fraud in prosecutions that supporters claim were Kremlin punishment for his funding of opposition parties. Yukos assets were auctioned off, much of them going to state oil company Rosneft.
Russian news agencies confirmed the eight-year sentence, six years fewer than prosecutors had demanded.
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Fun Fact: Took first place in the 2007 Up-the-Hill bike race
You claim three divisions as home. How does that work? I'm in IIS, or Integrated Information Services, which you won't see on the UCAR organizational chart. It comprises the NCAR Library and UCP's Digital Learning Services. It just formed last year, so we're still figuring things out a bit. I also work closely with the National Science Digital Library in UCP.
You're about to celebrate your 15-year anniversary with UCAR. Tell us about your career progression. I'm trained as a meteorologist and also have a degree in instructional design. I first came to UCAR as an associate scientist in COMET. They went through some layoffs and a group of us were asked to make a small new division in UCP called PAGE—Program for Advancement of Geoscience Education—that only existed for a few years before it morphed into the DLESE Program Center, which then morphed into DLS. Next, I started working for NSDL and the NCAR Library, and then we became IIS.
And has your job also changed over the years? Yes, I went from an associate scientist to software engineer, a dramatic change. I started out working on COMET modules, and then when I became part of DLESE, my director asked me if I knew anything about metadata. I said, "No, but I could learn." For a while I was the only metadata architect at UCAR. The job involved information modeling and becoming well versed in metadata standards and protocols. Then I started learning Python programming, XSLT, and other programs, and working with XML schemas. Then I made the jump to the software engineering track.
Describe your typical day at work. Even though I'm a software engineer, right now I don't do much coding. I'm a coprincipal investigator on a brand-new grant, so I work with a lot of the sub-awardees on that, doing customer relations. I probably only spend a quarter of my day actually writing code. And our division has gone through a lot of staff changes lately, so I'm training new staff members.
Is there anything that you wouldn't be able to survive the workday without? Chocolate. Our division lives on chocolate.
Time for the fun questions. Let's hear about your life outside work. I have four-legged children: two cats, Charlie and Mona. We rescued them from a 92-year-old woman who passed away. Otherwise, they would have gone to a shelter. In my free time, I like to crochet, and I'm a Civil War history buff.
How did your interest in Civil War history start? In sixth grade, I remember looking through Mathew Brady's Civil War photographs. It stuck, and I've been interested ever since. When I worked for the American Meteorological Society in Washington, D.C., I would explore battle sites every weekend. I like to think about what happened weatherwise and how that came together with terrain to impact some of the battles.
Do you have a favorite Civil War site? Chancellorsville in Virginia. The battle was in May 1863 and is famous because Stonewall Jackson was killed. It's one of the less-visited sites, which is why I like it. It also has a lot of historical artifacts.
You mentioned that you like to crochet. I make clothes, toys, purses. I was taught by my mom when I was really young. I know how to knit, too, but I prefer to crochet. It's faster and I find it easier.
What else do you do in your free time? My husband, Tom, and I bike a lot. I like riding down Cherryvale and Baseline roads, where you don't see the cityscape but can see the mountains. I also really enjoy cooking. Soup is my forté.
One last question: Are the rumors true that NCAR Library director Mary Marlino set you up with your husband? Yes, Mary played the matchmaker. She and Tom, who is a geophysicist, were on a business trip to San Antonio. They got to talking and Mary told him she wanted to introduce him to somebody. We just celebrated our tenth anniversary.
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SpaceX Dragon Launch Slides to May 19
[/caption]SpaceX has announced that the upcoming launch of the firms Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft on the commercial COTS 2 mission has been postponed to a new target date of no earlier than May 19 with a backup launch date of May 22.
On May 19, the Falcon 9 rocket would lift off on its first night time launch at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT) from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Two launch opportunities had been available this week on May 7 and May 10, following the most recent slip from April 30.
SpaceX managers made the decision – in consultation with NASA – to delay the COTS 2 launch in order to complete further highly critical testing and verifications of all the flight software requirements for the Dragon spacecraft to safely and successfully carry its mission of rendezvousing and docking with the International Space Station (ISS).
"SpaceX and NASA are nearing completion of the software assurance process, and SpaceX is submitting a request to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for a May 19th launch target with a backup on May 22nd," said SpaceX spokesperson Kirstin Grantham.
"Thus far, no issues have been uncovered during this process, but with a mission of this complexity we want to be extremely diligent."
May 10 was the last window of opportunity this week because of the pending May 14 blast off of a new Russian Soyuz TMA-04M capsule from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with three fresh crew members bound for the ISS which will restore the outpost to a full crew complement of 6 human residents.
The Falcon 9 and Dragon can only be launched about every three days.
The purpose of Dragon is to carry supplies up to and back from the ISS. Dragon is a commercial spacecraft developed by SpaceX and designed to replace some of the cargo resupply functions previously conducted by NASA's fleet of prematurely retired Space Shuttle orbiters. At this moment the US has zero capability to launch cargo or crews to the ISS.
In response to the SpaceX announcement, NASA issued the following statement from from William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations at the agency's Headquarters in Washington:
"After additional reviews and discussions between the SpaceX and NASA teams, we are in a position to proceed toward this important launch. The teamwork provided by these teams is phenomenal. There are a few remaining open items, but we are ready to support SpaceX for its new launch date of May 19."
SpaceX is under contract with NASA to conduct twelve resupply missions to the ISS to carry cargo back and forth for a cost of some $1.6 Billion.
Dragon is loaded with nearly 1200 pounds of non-critical cargo such as food and clothing on this flight.
The COTS 2 mission has been repeatedly delayed since the originally planned target of mid-2011 when SpaceX requested that the COTS 2 and 3 flights be combined into one mission to save time. The first Dragon docking to the ISS was initially planned for the COTS 3 mission.
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Good luck with this SpaceX – hopefully the delays will soon be a distant memory as Dragon hopefully makes a flawless trip to the ISS.
There are plenty within NASA pulling for these guys.
Ken: If you think the Columbia class shuttles were retired prematurely, then you don't understand all of the issues involved in keeping them running.
Here is just one (albeit the most important one): certain critical parts of the shuttles were manufactured by companies that no longer exist. The plans for those parts exist, but the expertise to manufacture them has been lost for a long time. Many of these parts were significantly past their designed lifetimes, and were operating on borrowed time. In a few cases the failure of a single one of these parts would have led to the instantaneous loss of an orbiter (usually during the first few seconds of launch).
Could we have re-acquired the expertise necessary to manufacture more of those various components? Absolutely! But the time and expense required to do so would have been approximately the same as designing, qualifying, and building a whole fleet of new, non-Columbia class shuttles, designed and built with more modern techniques.
One of many examples: according to flight engineers, for the last decade or so of the shuttle program every time the shuttle's built in hydrogen tanks were filled everyone held their breath. They were ready to fail at any time, and it is a minor miracle that no orbiter was lost to such a failure. As I tell my boss at work: eventually it is cheaper to replace old equipment than it is to spend umpteen dollars to keep it limping along.
(As a side note, my boss didn't listen until recently, when he began replacing stuff right left and centre. Despite the upfront costs he's already saved money overall due to the fact that he isn't spending 3000 dollars a month on repair bills:P.)
wrong on all counts. the shuttle should not have been retired – Period !
No, I'm not wrong. Your arguments are filled with nostalgia for an inherently unsafe and expensive machine, not on sound reasoning.
It's always sad to run into someone who claims to be a scientist but is incapable of seeing their own overwhelming bias:(.
No, I'm not wrong. Your arguments are filled with nostalgia for an inherently unsafe and expensive machine, not on sound reasoning.
It's always sad to run into someone who claims to be a scientist but is incapable of seeing their own overwhelming bias:(.
wrong on all counts. the shuttle should not have been retired – Period !
It occurs to me that by "prematurely" you may have meant "before a replacement was up and running". If so, then I'd point out that still doesn't mean that the shuttles were retired prematurely (they were retired *late*, not early), it means that NASA's budget to create a replacement for the shuttles was unfortunately cut on several occasions. In some cases one of the houses of congress directly cancelled the replacement programs by zeroing their funding.
That isn't NASA's fault, that's congresses'.
– If the commercialization had started with the manned capsules they would have been up already, with some nominal cargo capacity up and down.
– If the cargo crafts had been allowed to dock the smaller ports instead of berthing to get to the cargo ports they would have been up already, with some lesser handling capacity up.
It is all the automation of the cargo crafts, and especially the berthing maneuver, that is most complicated. And of course they had to start with that, probably for political reasons, of spillover of the shuttle retirement and positioning of NASA's crafts as alternative manned backup at the time the commercial crew finishes. Sigh!
The Falcon 9 and Dragon can only be launched about every three days.
Just to be clear, it is this Dragon COTS 2+ that has the minimal window, in order to maximize fuel capacity for the testing.
The released cargo versions can lower the fuel buffer.
And I read the unofficial claim that there are only two more Falcon 9 in the pipeline before the extended launch version with the more powerful Merlin 1D engine takes over.
Hopefully the commercial cargo versions can be launched every day.
According to the survey, France has about 2.6 million millionaires,that is most in European countries .After the Outlander win the presidential election , Maybe the rich will fear the outbreak of the exodus. In fact, many multinational corporations before the election, one after another continued to headquarters out of Paris, the transfer tax rate is relatively low, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, even the United Kingdom. "
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This year's Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia has been in full force since designer Dion Lee kicked off at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday with an A-list crowd and an equally polished Resort' 18 collection.
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The sidewalks and steps that serve as a catwalk to some of Australian fashion's biggest names such as supermodels Montana Cox and Georgia Fowler and columnist Kate Waterhouse who wrapped up this year's fashion week in Bondi Beach for label Ten Pieces, in a Stella McCartney dress and Balenciaga heels.
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Wicca's High Holy Day
One of Satan's greatest tools is ignorance. Halloween is a holiday that thrives on ignorance, on the fact that people don't want to know what it really is. They want to have their fun. It can be hard to believe, the atrocities committed on the night of October 31st, but they happen, and no matter what people may tell you, this is real.
Wicca is all too present in today's culture, and Halloween is their high holy day. It's hard to pick a place to start, because it's not something that I really want to think about, but all of us as Christians need to be aware of what this holiday is about.
Jeremiah Films made a series called The Pagan Invasion. One volume, Halloween: Trick or Treat is a detailed documentary on Halloween, its past and presence today in our culture. To my great suprise, I discovered the full film on YouTube. The whole thing is 48 mins. Please take the time to watch it.
Warning: These videos contain mature content and are not for young viewers.
All the seemingly innocent symbolism of Halloween – blackcats, snakes, broomsticks, bonfires, "trick or treat," jack-o'-lanterns, apple dunking and costumes – has its roots in Sorcery, Witchcraft and Satanism. Parents' responsibilities are challenged to decide whether to allow their children to participate in celebrations which glorify Pagan Occultism.
This highly informative video traces the pagan origins and history of Halloween. The Pagan Occult calendar of Druids, Witches, Pagans and Satanists marks Halloween as one of their highest "holy days." This video uncovers the mystic Druidic rites and ceremonies with which "Samhain" (Halloween) was originally observed 4,000 years ago. The occult rituals seen in this video are real and not re-enactments.
The DVD features Chuck Smith, Caryl Matrisciana and Hal Lindsey, as well as a number of Witches, Satanists, and Law Enforcement Officials.
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If you can book ahead, by far the fastest option is to fly from Bath to Edinburgh. Even with the highest priced flight ticket, it is probably still worth flying in terms of convenience unless, of course, cost is your main concern. If so you may wish to consider the bus, the National Express service to Edinburgh departs from the Bath's SouthGate Travel Interchange bus stop.
There are two early morning coaches a day one involves 1 hour 40 minute transfer at Victoria Coach Station, London, and the other has two changes (at Swindon and Birmingham). The overall journey takes 14 ¾ hours. There is also an early evening coach via Victoria Coach Station in London that arrives in Edinburgh at 07:50 the next morning. A single ticket costs 54.80 GBP and a return ticket is 70-80 GBP.
After booking online, you will be issued with an e-ticket, which you need to print out and take with you, or an m-ticket, which is sent to your mobile phone. Otherwise you can get at ticket at the bus station.
If you have more time than money or fancy stopping off in London before making your way to Edinburgh you may be interested in looking at Megabus who operate value bus services to Edinburgh. Fares can be as little as 5 GBP for a single if you book far enough in advance.
If you cant find a cheap ticket to Edinburgh try looking for Glasgow which is only 30 minutes away from Edinburgh. From Glasgow you can get to Edinburgh by local bus service or by train so this could work out better value. You may have to route via London to get the best deal, but it is defintely the cheapest way to go if you can book in advance.
There are 2-3 trains per hour. All trains go via Bristol Temple Meads where you have to change trains. Most services also require a further change at Birmingham New Street, and on some trains there is yet another change at Lancaster. If you want to travel overnight, there is a sleeper service, but as you have to change three times, including a transfer across London, there is not much time for sleep. It takes 6 ½ - 8 ½ hours and costs from 62 GBP single or 132.30 GBP for off peak return.
The UK train ticketing system is notoriously complicated. It is usually cheaper to buy your tickets up to 6pm on the day before you travel than on the day. And fares are more expensive if you travel before 09:30. You get the best fares by booking up to three months in advance. You can buy your tickets online, at the station ticket counter, or from the ticket machines on the main concourse. If you book online you will need to collect your tickets from the ticket machine using the same credit card you used to book your tickets online.
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— What started out as a voter identification bill will be weakened to a study if a measure that's advancing through the
Legislature is enacted.
The Senate on Tuesday voted to go along with the House and approve the amended bill.
In its original form, the bill would have required voters to provide picture IDs in order to cast ballots. It was carried over from last year, when it was narrowly defeated following a partisan debate.
This year, the bill was weakened in committee to call for a study by state election officials into voter participation and registration issues.
Civil libertarians applauded Tuesday's final action, saying the Legislature rejected an attempt to make it harder for Mainers to vote.
The amended voter ID bill faces final House and Senate votes.
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AZ's Budget Passed Into Law
They're will be lawsuits challenging it but it's a done deal for now.
Half of the budget cuts, or $510 million, come from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, primarily by freezing enrollment of childless adults in the Medicaid program.
Hospitals have been bracing for the cuts while fiercely lobbying for an alternative plan that would tax their revenues and draw down more federal funding.
Betsey Bayless, CEO for Maricopa Integrated Health Systems, said eliminating health care for most of the childless-adult population will be devastating for Maricopa Medical Center and other safety-net hospitals.
"There's no question that this budget is going to hurt the health-care industry very badly," she said.
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from USApr 9, '11Thank you. I just turned in my application for childcare assistance while I am in school last week.Apr 30, '11The Feds reluctantly approved AZ's plan to strip medicaid services. Looks like it's the pay-down program where families could spend down savings to qualify for medicaid services.
Effective Sunday, Arizona will stop accepting enrollment in the medical-expense-deduction program and will eliminate it entirely Oct. 1 to help bridge state budget deficits.
The program now offers temporary help to about 5,700 people, including nearly 1,000 children, whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but whose medical expenses from catastrophic illness or injury cause their remaining income to fall well below the poverty line. They receive Medicaid coverage for three to six months, which is intended to allow them to regain their health and return to work.
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The roof of the RM300million Stadium Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin in Terengganu collapsed yesterday. Fortunately, nobody was killed or injured. Thank God for that. The stadium was barely a year old.
"Contractor to face music if negligence involved, says DPM"
Wah! DPM upset you know. Contractor to face music man! How about that?
Hello, this is not a clogged drain but the whole roof of a stadium collapsing. And some more the state of our ruling Yang Dipertuan Agung. And somebody is going to face the music. I think a little stronger language is needed here. I am hoping that the DPM didn't actually say that but that it was just some sub-editor's dry sense of humour.
And then the Menteri Besar of Terengganu was quoted as saying, "We are eager to know the cause of such massive destruction".
Eager to know? What's this results of Akademi Fantasia ah? Eager to know? What does that tell us? WE ARE DAMNED ANGRY! WE WANT ANSWERS! WE WILL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS! HEADS WILL ROLL! Any one of those also can use isn't it? Eager to know wor. What la!
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1: Ainara & Paula | Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. -Walt Disney
2: The most wasted of all days are the ones without laughter -EE Cummings
4: Las Chicas Picantes con su Manager! My friends are my estate. -Emily Dickinson
5: Presence is more than just being there.
7: Share our similarities, celebrate our differences!
8: Be who you are, say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. -Dr. Seuss
9: Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart walking outside your body.
10: If God is a DJ Life is a dance floor Love is the rhythm You are the music If God is a DJ Life is a dance floor You get what you're given It's all how you use it
11: Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. - Elbert Hubbard


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In Sicily the garlic is considered as cure for all of the present diseases in the modern age. Over there for improvement of their hearing they use the next recipe:
Briefly sauté several cloves of garlic with olive oil. Press each clove of garlic to squeeze the juice inside the cooking oil and proceed it after. Daily put a 3-4 drops of the oil inside your ear and put a piece of cotton on it.
Juice from garlic and onion: It is believed that this juice returns the hearing. The drink is mixture from 30ml garlic juice and 30ml onion juice. You can make different ratio but this one is quite sufficient. Consume it once daily.
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Our 14 Day program is one of our most popular and we have cut the price in half in hopes of getting more participants to come in and donate for a great cause...
Deerfield Beach, FL (PRWEB) October 11, 2013
During the entire month of October, Billy Carney, Deerfield Beach personal trainer and the owner of the BCFitness and South Florida Fit Body Boot Camp, will be hosting a 14 Day charity boot camp called "Bootcamp for Boobies".
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There are still hundreds of them advertising on Craigslist despite the fact that the website banished its controversial "adult services" section more than three years ago.
That move, estimated to have deprived Craigslist of around $40 million a year in revenue, came as the result of a highly publicized incident in which a 24-year-old engaged medical student named Philip Markoff murdered a masseuse, Julissa Brisman.
The two met when Brisman offered her rubdown services on Craigslist. Markoff killed himself before he could be brought to trial, and the murder was immortalized in a made for TV movie called "The Craigslist Killer."
The death of Brisman opened up Craigslist to scathing assaults by law enforcement across the country. In September 2010, after complaints from 17 state attorneys general, Craigslist announced that it was suspending the section in which people advertised for sex.
Where the ads used to be, Craigslist placed a "censored" label. And while this was understood to be a not-too-subtle protest by the site's unhappy management, it satisfied most people that the sex sellers were gone.
Well, the sex purveyors are back. And they aren't being censored — or censured — in the least bit.
Before you think I troll for such things, allow me to clarify. My own online shopping tends to be more Groupon than groped on, although I pretty much take the libertarian view that adults should be allowed to do whatever they want.
But since there was such a fuss when the ads were pulled, I thought it was important for people — including those 17 state AGs — to know that their victory was only temporary.
In fact, the new locations for male and female sex workers on Craigslist were pointed out to me by someone in law enforcement who asked not to be identified. It's unclear what action, if any, the authorities plan to take.
Here's the tricky part of this column: I'm going to prove to you that the sex ads exist by telling you how to find them. Yet I don't want to encourage you to actually go looking, since your computer could get messed up.
If you look on craigslist.com, you'll see a section called "personals." Most of these ads aren't your typical boy-wants-to-meet-girl advertising. In fact, that becomes pretty clear on the next page, where Craigslist warns you that the stuff you are about to read "may include adult content."
Click on the "men seeking women" link — or the "m4w" abbreviation on later pages — and you'll likely see a close-up of some woman's backside along with propositions that Julia Roberts would have been embarrassed to utter in "Pretty Woman."
I won't quote any of the ads here, because my mother reads my column. But it's fair to say that sex lives on Craigslist and probably will until someone else dies.
There was some political intrigue that went unnoticed when New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly held a press conference last week to announce the indictment of 16 members of a criminal ring that made $55 million selling untaxed cigarettes.
Sure, it was interesting that these people may have been using some of the proceeds to fund terrorist organizations. But you already knew that from reading my columns over the past few years.
The thing that caught the attention of my sources was the fact that no New York state tax enforcers were present on the podium or involved in the bust.
As I've told you in previous columns, Albany has taken a pass when it comes to enforcing cigarette-tax laws, and it's costing the city and state a lot of tax revenue. My sources are telling me that the amount of untaxed cigarettes being sold in New York City and towns along the state's borders is still enormous and that our retailers are having a hard time staying in business.
Next time, maybe the AG and the police commissioner can scrunch over a bit to make room for Gov. Cuomo and his tax enforcers, who seem clueless.
The state did do something yesterday. It issued a report criticizing Tom Stanton, the former head of tax enforcement, for running a "rogue" operation. Stanton and I know each other. I also know this: Albany had better get more rogue itself, or the crooks are going to own the state.
Gasoline prices are down, but Bankrate.com says 80 percent of Americans still have not increased their discretionary spending.
A survey found that 63 percent of Americans cut back on other spending in 2011 when gas prices were on the rise.
But only 17 percent of the drivers surveyed say their spending has increased now that gas prices have fallen.
Bon Jovi selling tickets on Groupon?! What has the world come to?
The Jersey rock group used to be able to sell seats the minute they went up for grabs. But tickets for a Saturday concert in late July at MetLife Stadium are selling for half their face value on the Internet discount site.
Sometimes bands use places like Groupon to get people's attention but then limit purchases to just one ticket. But the Bon Jovi offer's limit is eight tickets!
Is Bon Jovi now "Livin' on a Prayer"?


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Few legal matters are more emotional and hard fought than those involving family law. Whether the issue involves the division of assets in a divorce, or a modification of a custody order, the stakes are high and emotions can run strong. Call us today to set up a consultation.
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For example, Florida is an equitable distribution state. This means that assets are not divided down the middle at the conclusion of a divorce, but are divided according to what the court deems fair. In determining which spouse gets what, the court is guided by a number of factors, including:
The economic circumstances of each party;
The contribution of one spouse to the other spouse's career;
Any interruption in the career of either spouse to tend to the marital home; and
any other factors "necessary to do equity and justice between the parties.
This essentially means that Florida judges can consider almost any factor when dividing up marital assets. Interestingly, however, one thing the court will not consider is whose "fault" the divorce is. This means that an unfaithful spouse, for example, will not be "punished" by that fact when the court considers what each party deserves.
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In addition to my work as a West Palm Beach divorce lawyer, I have represented clients in all varieties of family matters, including those related to custody order modifications, child support orders, prenuptial agreements, and domestic violence orders of protection.
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2012-13 season
The suspense. The interaction. The glorious resolution. And you can be a part of it.
When Jeffrey Kahane and the 40 remarkable artists of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra take the stage, their energy is electric. That passion flows into the audience, drawing us all into the joy of their music making.
Join LACO for a fascinating exploration of the concerto and its evolution. You'll thrill to the virtuosity of the soloists, feel the suspense of dynamic musical interplay and exalt in the communion of sound when the artists play brilliantly together. The season includes masterworks by Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel and Stravinsky, as well as breathtaking soloists Augustin Hadelich, Alisa Weilerstein, Tereza Stanislav, Margaret Batjer, David Shostac and Kenneth Munday. Conductor Helmuth Rilling makes a much anticipated return to LACO stage on Mozart's birthday.
orchestral series
opening: ravel & beethoven
Oct 6 & 7, 2012
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor & piano
Augustin Hadelich, violin
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major
ANDREW NORMAN The Great Swiftness (West Coast premiere)
JAMES MATHESON True South (West Coast premiere)
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
beethoven's second
Nov 10 & 11, 2012
Benjamin Wallfisch, conductor
Tereza Stanislav, violin
ELGAR Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47
BENJAMIN WALLFISCH Violin Concerto (world premiere)
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 listen
rhapsody in blue
Dec 8 & 9, 2012
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor & piano
DVOŘÁK Serenade for Winds, Op. 44
COPLAND Appalachian Spring Suite (original 1944 version)
JOHN ADAMS Son of Chamber Symphony
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue (original 1924 version)
mozart's requiem
Jan 26 & 27, 2012
Helmuth Rilling, conductor
Stacey Tappan, soprano
Callista Hoffman, alto
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Michael Dean, bass
USC Thornton Chamber Singers, chorus
MOZART Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major
MOZART Requiem in D minor
discover beethoven's piano concerto no. 4
Feb 23, 2013
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor, piano & musical tour guide
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
mostly baroque
Mar 23 & 24, 2013
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor & keyboard
Margaret Batjer, violin
David Shostac, flute
MOZART Serenade No. 10 in B-flat major,
STRAVINSKY Concerto in E-flat major,
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
HANDEL Water Music — Selections from Suites I & II
concertos: handel & mozart
Apr 20 & 21, 2013
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Margaret Batjer, violin & leader
HANDEL Concerto Grosso in A major, Op. 6, No. 11
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major
ANDREW NORMAN Music in Circles III (world premiere)
GINASTERA Variaciones concertantes
concerto finale
May 18 & 19, 2013
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Kenneth Munday, bassoon
ANNA CLYNE Within Her Arms
HUGO GONZALEZ-PIOLI The Love of Zero (US premiere)
BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture, Op.62
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107
baroque conversations
baroque conversations 1
Jan 17, 2013
BACH Trio Sonata in C major for Oboe and Violin (orig. for Two Violins), BWV 1037
BACH Trio Sonata in G major for Two Flutes, BWV 1039
BACH Trio Sonata in C minor for Flute and Violin from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079
BACH Trio Sonata in C major for Oboe and Viola (orig. Organ Sonata), BWV 529
baroque conversations 2
Feb 14, 2013
BACH Concerto No. 2 in C major for Two Harpsichords, BWV 1061
BACH Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043
CPE BACH Concerto in E-flat major for Harpsichord and Fortepiano, H.479 (W.47)
baroque conversations 3
Mar 21, 2013
BACH French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816
BACH Selections from The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846-893
BACH Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV 828
baroque conversations 4
Apr 11, 2013
Nigel Armstrong, violin
BACH Partita No. 2 in D minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004
BACH Sonata No. 3 in C major for Solo Violin, BWV 100
baroque conversations 5
May 9, 2013
WF BACH Sinfonia in D minor, "Adagio and Fugue," FK 65
BACH Oboe d'amore Concerto in A major (orig. Harpsichord Concerto No. 4), BWV 1055
JC BACH Sinfonia in D major, Op. 3, No. 1
BACH Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV 1042
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Oct 11, 2012
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Oct 13, 2012
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Mandriva Linux is a newbie-centric distribution that has become less of a highlight in the news over the past few years. At one time, Mandriva was considered the de facto Linux distribution for anyone looking to switch from Windows to Linux. Today, Linux has evolved into a complex ecosystem, and selecting Mandriva isn't as black and white as it once was.
In this article, I'll examine where Mandriva is today, how various forks of Mandriva Linux work within the Linux space and whether or not they're something I would recommend trying out for yourself.
When the Mandriva company experienced its financial upheaval and let most of its developers go in 2010, those same developers got together and created a fork called Mageia. Development with Mageia took on a life very similar to that of LibreOffice, in that there is now a greater development speed and a renewed sense of freedom.
In various forums and blog posts, some individuals have questioned how Mageia is going to succeed where Mandriva has failed to keep up with the needs of the community. As things stand right now, there hasn't been a new release to Mandriva in quite some time. And in the fast paced world of Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSUSE, this dates Mandriva to the point of making it unreliable in the long term.
By contrast, Mageia's most recent release was last month. It's a fantastic, modern Linux distribution that, in my opinion, makes Mandriva a relic of the past.
With Mageia taking the lead as the go-to Mandriva fork alternative, a number of folks have been wondering where this leaves PCLinuxOS. Upon its inception, this distro was also a fork of Mandriva, although the bulk of its focus has been on U.S.-based users, whereas Mageia takes on a more international flair.
An interesting consideration is how PCLinuxOS came into existence. Unlike Mageia, PCLinuxOS was started largely as a one-man operation, which then grew into a small community of developers. By contrast, Mageia started off as a small community of developers. One area where the two distributions share a common goal is in the use of KDE as the primary desktop choice. Both Mageia and PCLinuxOS are available with other desktop selections; however, KDE is the default desktop when installing either distro for the first time.
One final comparison I'd like to make is that Mageia hasn't been a distribution as long, officially. PCLinuxOS however, has been offering itself to the Linux community since 2003. This certainly doesn't make one better than the other; rather it's an interesting fact to consider.
If things couldn't get more complex, now we have news of a newly developed Mandriva option called OpenMandriva. What makes this interesting is that OpenMandriva is actually based on ROSA Linux, which was forked from Mandriva proper. Confused yet? I know I was, as I studied why OpenMandriva was even a consideration since this need is already addressed by the more refined Mageia.
OpenMandriva will be supported by the OpenMandriva Foundation. Trying to find out much about the OpenMandriva Foundation has been challenging, since there seems to be very little information about them outside of a few announcements. But one thing is clear though—Mandriva (the company) is thrilled at the prospect of their work in developing OpenMandriva, the distro.
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Pray this prayer sincerely to know your saved
Jesus, I believe you came to earth, I believe you died on the Cross for my sins. I believe you rose again on the 3rd day and went back to Heaven to prepare a place for Your Children To live with You Forever . Please forgive me of my sins. Clean my heart, white as snow. Come live in my heart, make me a child of the King, a new creature in Christ, in your precious Name I ask this...amen.
Do these things after praying the Salvation Prayer:
1) Get a King James Version Bible and read it daily, it will feed your spirit and soul, the way you feed your body with food and water.
2) Pray to Jesus Everyday. He is your NEW Best Friend and He Wants to Talk with you daily.
3) Make sure you find a christian church and get water Baptized, dunked under water, if you have been sprinkle baptized in the past it does NOT count.
4) Pray to be filled with the Holy Spirit, "Sanctified". You do this by praying, reading the Bible and living for Jesus.
5) take your King James Bible to church. When the preacher speaks, make sure what he says matches your Bible, it not, get up and walk out and find a new church.
6) ***VERY IMPORTANT*** Make SURE you REPENT of EVERY SIN you do now, ask Jesus to forgive you with an honest heart and He will.
***If you would like me to pray with you or for you for ANYTHING, please message me and I will add you to my daily prayer list. May God bless you
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How to install Ubuntu 12.04 step by step
let's start ..
Put the Ubuntu CD/DVD into the CD/DVD Drive .
Please see Windows xp installation step by step screenshots for CD/DVD boot options.
Installation will start now ( Follow the Screenshots and steps ).
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Step 1 » The Setup starts now . Choose language and press Enter.
Step 2 » Choose "Install Ubuntu" and press Enter.
Step 3 » It will take some time to analyse/load something.
Step 4 » Again choose language (English) and press Continue.
Step 5 » It will analyse Disk space , power source and internet connectivity and you need choose, whether to install updates and other third-party softwares while installing OS (it may slow down the installation ). select both if you are connected to internet and press Continue.
Step 6 » Now choose first option to use Entire disk for Ubuntu and press Continue (if you choose something else option you can create partition of your own).
Step 7 » It will show the partition size used for ubuntu. press Install Now.
Step 8 » Setup will start installation in the Background , you can see the status in the bottom .
Step 9 » Choose Time zone and press Continue ( In the mean time setup will continue in the background ).
Step 10 » Now choose keyboard layout , leave as it is and press Continue.
Step 11 » Type your name , computer name , username ( for login ) and password . select "Log in Automatically" option, if you don't want to type password each time. press Continue.
Step 12 » It will proceed with the rest of the installation.
Step 13 » You can also Skip some installation/configuration during setup.
Step 14 » Press Restart now and remove installation media( CD/DVD/USB ) while rebooting.
Step 15 » Select username and type password and press Login .
Step 16 » You made it .