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One of the most interesting scenes in the life of Jesus for me is the interaction with Mary and Martha. It is so real. Having three daughters of my own, I have seen similar arguments around our house.
While Jesus and his disciples were traveling, Jesus entered a village where a woman named Martha welcomed him as a guest. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his message. By contrast, Martha was preoccupied with getting everything ready for their meal. So Martha came to him and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to prepare the table all by myself? Tell her to help me." The Lord answered, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things. One thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the better part. It won't be taken away from her."
One explanation of this I have recently seen is that Jesus is approving of Mary's rejection of traditional gender roles. This is a danger of allowing our own culture and our own perspectives to control how we approach the text. Gender roles have nothing to do with this passage.
(I should say here, however, we all bring who we are and what we have experienced to the text. And those experiences and knowledge do inform how we understand the Bible. Yet it is through the witness of the Holy Spirit down through the ages and across the churches that help us understand how to properly interpret Scripture. Otherwise we come up with radically different ideas, some of which may be valid and some of which may just be goofy.)
What Mary is doing in this passage is being a disciple, learning at the feet of Jesus. Luke has already shown that there were many women who followed Jesus (8:1-3) and the Greek in these verses say these women ministered to Jesus. None of the apostles are ever said to minister to Christ. So there is precedent for women being around Jesus in this capacity.
What Martha is doing in this passage is being the greatest among them of all. Remember, Jesus said that the greatest disciple of his will be the servant of all (see Matthew 23:11, Luke 9:48, Luke 22:24-27). Martha is being the quintessential disciple, serving all. In Chapter 22, Jesus will even mimic Martha's servanthood as an example to the disciples of how they should treat one another.
The problem in this passage is not that Martha is doing "woman's work" while Mary is broadening her mind. No, the problem is that Martha is being a disciple, but is not singularly focused on Jesus. Therefore, she is double-minded, frustrated, and angry. When those emotions creep into our service to Christ, we might as well stop what we are doing. We are no longer doing what we are doing out of love for Jesus and for the sake of his kingdom. We are no longer truly being disciples. We are focused on ourselves and how we are being wronged because of the perceived unfairness of the situation.
Mary had the better part not because she was not working, but because she was singularly focused on Jesus.
How is your service to Jesus? Are you singularly focused on him, so that all that you do is joy because it is done out of love for your Savior and Lord? Or are you bitter and angry because no one else seems to be working or helping, focusing on yourself and your situation rather than Jesus?
Serving all only leads to greatness if we do it because we know we are really serving Jesus and we are doing so with an attitude of love and joy, singularly focused on him.


text: Hermes is the Greek name for the planet Mercury, the closest planet to the sun. For the appassimento (withering) of these indigenous, aromatic grapes the sun is an indispensable element for the typicality of this wine. After the harvest in October, the grapes are allowed to wither further, followed by cold maceration. The wine then spends 3 years aging in glass lined cement tanks with a further 6 months in the bottle before release. Hermes has a rich bouquet and a taste that is sweet and soft with flavors reminiscent of dried pears and apricots and an aftertaste of amber honey and melon. This is a perfect wine to enjoy as an aperitif or with dried fruits, cheeses, sweet pastries and all types of desserts.

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Thursday, 31 July 2008
Certification for Windows Embedded Standard will be available soon
the Windows Embedded Standard team has announced the certification exam for Windows Embedded Standard developers. There is already a certification exam for Windows CE developers(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/embedded/cc294468.aspx) so this is the next logical step.
MSFT is looking for experts in device development to influence the scope and direction of this exam to make sure it is not a certification you might as well draw from a box of Kellogs Cornflakes.
If you are interessted contact the Windows Embedded Partner Team at firstname.lastname@example.com
If you are interessed in general information on the Microsoft Certification Program, then visit the following website:
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Microsoft Technical Chat on August 26, 2008
if you missed the live chat yesterday, then don't be sad. The next chance to chat with MSFT, on Windows Embedded CE and Windows Mobile is coming soon: August 26th
So don't forget to put the date in your schedule and join it.
Title: Windows Embedded CE and Windows Mobile Live Chat!
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:00 - 10:00 A.M. Pacific time (additional time zones)
Do you have tough technical questions regarding Windows Embedded CE or Windows Mobile for which you're seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Embedded Devices Group members? If so, please join us for a live chat and bring on the questions! Windows Embedded CE is the operating system that is powering the next generation of 32-bit, small-footprint and mobile devices. This chat will cover the tools and technologies used to develop devices using the CE operating system.
To join this chat, please log on via the main MSDN chat page at:
There is also an archive of previous chats available at:
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2008 Excellence Award - EMEA:
Keith & Koep GmbH - Independent Hardware Vendor
MPC Data Limited - System Integrator
BEPS Engineering - Official Training Partner
2008 Consumer Partner Excellence Award - EMEA:
Beckhoff Automation GmbH - Independent Software Vendor
2008 Registered Partner Excellence Award - EMEA:
Wechsler Consulting GmbH & Co. KG
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Having trouble finding Windows Embedded CE 6.0 info in MSDN?
As you know Live search engine enables building macros to customize search. Try this one out:
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Monday, 28 July 2008
.NET Micro Framework V3.0 SDK Beta available
They are also giving away a RicaVision VAVE100 universal remote control (running SideShow and .NET Micro Framework) as part of the beta! So be sure to check it out!
And if you would like to see the new features, check out Jan Kučera's site.
The .NET MF SDK V3.0 is planned to ship later this calendar year.
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Microsoft Technical Chat on July 29, 2008
MS is hosting a live chat tomorrow, July 29th, regarding Windows Embedded CE and Windows Mobile.
Title: Windows Embedded CE and Windows Mobile Live Chat!
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:00 - 10:00 A.M. Pacific time (additional time zones)
Do you have tough technical questions regarding Windows Embedded CE or Windows Mobile for which you're seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Embedded Devices Group members? If so, please join us for a live chat and bring on the questions! Windows Embedded CE is the operating system that is powering the next generation of 32-bit, small-footprint and mobile devices. This chat will cover the tools and technologies used to develop devices using the CE operating system.
To join this chat, please log on via the main MSDN chat page at:
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Behind the scenes of KB953311
If you read the description of KB953311 you may wonder what strange things a programmer must do to get into this trouble. If you read again carefully you will find out.
Any Windows CE driver contains the described code:
· You set up an event,
· You initialize an interrupt with this event
· You create an interrupt service thread
· and you wait for your event
But your event will (nearly) never be signaled, e. g. it's the power button or an overcurrent interrupt. You may wait an INFINITE timeout and everything is fine. Or you set up a timeout and check the return value of W4SO. Then you meet the first condition for this problem.
The second condition is very easy to achieve: Your system is simply at it's limits.
The online help says W4SO returns WAIT_OBJECT_0 or WAIT_TIMEOUT and you believe it. But sometimes it returns WAIT_FAILED which means invalid handle. After hours of perfect working your handle is now invalid? How long do you think you will need to find this bug?
Let's have a look at the interrupt processing.
If you call InterruptInitialize your event will be a special event which is handled in a different way. The scheduler must consider the change of the event's state after each interrupt. You have to wait with W4SO on an interrupt event, you cannot use WaitForMultipleObjects instead.
But what went wrong?
A thread with higher priority than our interrupt service thread blocks the system for more then your W4SO timeout time. This circumstances may lead your W4SO to return WAIT_FAILED and never come back to normal WAIT_TIMEOUT operation. But if you trigger the interrupt your interrupt service thread returns back to life. Microsoft was able to fix the problem with 6 lines of code.
With shared source installed we are very lucky to have the opportunity to look into the file schedule.c (WinCE500/Private/Winceos/Coreos/Nk/Kernel).
You may try to understand how the scheduler works. To be honest, it isn't trivial.
But you may use a driver and a stress test program to see the problem.
And what do we learn: There is never 100 percent test coverage, even in such a central OS component like the scheduler.
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Thursday, 24 July 2008
So you've had a hard time finding a book on Windows Embedded CE, have you?
In addition to Doug Bolings book Programming Windows® Embedded CE 6.0 Developer Reference, which focuses on application development, Microsoft Press has just released Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Fundamentals by Stanislav Pavlov and Pavel Belevsky. In contrast to Doug's book, Windows Embedded CE 6.0 focuses more on BSP development.
And if that isn't enough WROX Press are planning to bring out a book in autumn: Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 by Samuel Phung.
And this is what the publisher has to say:
With today's current fast paced, unforgiving technology market, rapid application
development, fast time-to-market, manageable development risk and cost are key factors contributing to the success of any project. With its long successful track record as the leading software development tool of choice for many developers, Visual Studio has a huge existing user base and growing. By using the Visual Studio 2008 development environment, programmers can accomplish development tasks for Windows CE 6.0 projects rapidly. Existing Visual Studio developers can leverage the skills they already have and adapt them to develop applications for Windows Embedded CE in a short amount of time. Windows Embedded CE provides one of the best embedded development environments from the overall cost, risk, and time-to-market perspectives. As key companies adapt and use Windows Embedded CE as their choice of platform for product development, the need for developers with Windows Embedded CE knowledge will rapidly increase.
The primary objective for this book is to provide how-to information with working examples so developers can learn the overall Windows Embedded CE development environment quickly and effectively. This book will show how different pieces of Windows Embedded CE components come together to help programmers develop and build devices.
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Support of hardware variants with one BSP
Sometimes you have one BSP that has to support slightly different hardware due to adaptions for end customers. Usually, there is a globlal compiler define which is set in sources.cmn (or somewhere in sources files) and if you later add a new variant, you have to go through all those files and add the support for the new variant.
A really simple solution which only requires re-linking of executables followed by makeimg is to build variants of a library where each variant follows a defined naming scheme. And even better, for a new variant you just add the catalog feature, add the sources/makefile for the component variant and that's it.
Let's see how that could work with a concrete example:
In my case, the BSP had to support different PCI configurations because the PCI arbiter had a bug and during data transfer to a S-ATA harddisk, the USB controller on the same bus starved. Fortunately, the use cases of the device required either S-ATA or USB and not both of them at the same time (and if USB was required, too, we did not include the EHCI driver, USB1.0 still worked fine in that configuration). So, I have two variants:
- conservative: The PCI setup is performed carefully - slow transfer rates to S-ATA HD, but reliable USB 2.0
- optimized: In case the S-ATA transfer rate is very important and the PCI setup is tuned for that use case
The kernel has to link either the optimized or the conservative variant of the pci library. And therefore the catalog file offers the features "PCI optimized" and "PCI conservative". The features either set the environment variable PCI_CTRL_CONSERVATIVE (or don't).
Now, sources.cmn sets a makefile variable depending on that user-selected catalog feature:
The two libraries (one compiled with defines for optimised and one for conservative behaviour) are built by two source/makefile projects:
SOURCES= \ ..\pcidevicecfg.c
SOURCES= \ ..\pcidevicecfg.c
As you can see, the file name of the library variants has an extension which is used by sources.cmn.
Now, the executable which calls functions in that library (here the kernel itself, because it configures the PCI bus during boot time) just links the library using a makefile variable:
... snip ...
The other advantage of this mechanism is that there's not need to re-compile the whole project. Just link and run makeimg. That's all.
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Friday, 18 July 2008
.NET Micro Framework 3.0 and native code
And don't forget to sign up for the .NET Micro Framework newsletter. Sign up here.
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Thursday, 17 July 2008
Windows CE 6.0: GWES Exception during Shell startup
Formerly, we did this in a CE5.0 project and simply took over the stuff to integrate the resources also into the components of our CE6.0 BSP - never expecting that this would cause such trouble...
Unfortunately, we got an exception in GWES when the shell started up and I myself spent quite a lot time to trace down the root of the problem.
The exception occurred in the coredll function FindTypeByName (). A closer look at the function parameters and the call stack (unfortunately, most of the functions are private-private code) indicated, that there is a misinterpretation of a resource item.
K.COREDLL!FindTypeByName(unsigned long 0x00016000, unsigned long 0x00016000, const unsigned short * 0xc02b91e4)
K.COREDLL!FindType(unsigned long 0x00016000, unsigned long 0x00016000, const unsigned short * 0xc02b91e4)
K.COREDLL!DoFindResource(const info * 0x8126ab1c, const unsigned short * 0xc02b91c8, const unsigned short * 0xc02b91e4)
K.COREDLL!FindResourceW(HINSTANCE__ * 0x00400002, const unsigned short * 0xc02b91c8, const unsigned short * 0xc02b91e4)
GWES!IsForcePixelDoublingFromManifest(HINSTANCE__ * 0x00400002)
GWES!MsgQueueMgr::GetCreateMQ(unsigned long 0x00000000)
GWES!MsgQueue::SendMessageWithOptions(HWND__ * 0x0000ffff, unsigned int 0x00000219, unsigned int 0x00008000, long 0xd0a0c490, unsigned int 0x08000002)
GWES!MsgQueue::SendNotifyMessageW_I(HWND__ * 0x0000ffff, unsigned int 0x00000219, unsigned int 0x00008000, long 0xd0a0c490)
GWES!MsgQueue::SendNotifyMessageW_IW(HWND__ * 0x0000ffff, unsigned int 0x00000219, unsigned int 0x00008000, long 0xd0a0c490)
K.COREDLL!SendNotifyMessageW(HWND__ * 0x0000ffff, unsigned int 0x00000219, unsigned int 0x00008000, long 0xd0a0c490)
DEVMGR!BroadcastDeviceChange(unsigned short * 0xd0a0d078, int 0x00000001)
DEVMGR!DeviceNotifyThread(void * 0xc05056c0)
K.COREDLL!ThreadBaseFunc(unsigned long (void *)* 0xc04f7e68, void * 0xc05056c0)
Nevertheless, we did not know, in which executable the resource lookup failed. In a next step, we removed the resource information (strings and icons) from the oal.exe and – behold – this exception was never seen again :-}
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How to reanimate a bricked iMXS Micro Framework reference board..
Fortunately the latest iMXS Development Kit contains beside the two available booters the original binary image of the shipped sideshow application. There is also a document with the flashing instructions included: "Software Used: ARM Developer Suite V1.2, Hardware Used: ARM Multi-ICE debug unit." This doesn't sound very cheap. And in fact you have to spend several thousand dollars to get this. But do we really need this equipment just for flashing?
- First of all we have to install the drivers for the JTAG adapter and OpenOCD
- OpenOCD needs some information about the connected device to talk to. For example what type of cpu and flash is used. This is provided by a simple configuration file. For the iMXS board it looks like this (save it as imxs.cfg):
- Now we connect the JTAG adapter with the board (check the JTAG wiring!) and run OpenOCD with our configuration file as a parameter:
"C:\Program Files\openocd\bin\openocd-ftd2xx.exe" -f imxs.cfg
No, that's not an error message! Everything went well when this command window appears. There is no nice GUI and you can not even type in anything. How does it work? OpenOCD runs as a server, waiting for connections from clients like telnet or GDB. In the configuration file we specified the telnet port as 4444.
- Let's try to connect: telnet 127.0.0.1 4444
As a warm up we first should try some easy commands without any risk to harm someone. For example "help". (Also take a look at the quick reference card.)
- The command "mdb address count" displays count bytes at the specified address. The flash memory of our iMXS board starts at address 0x10000000. Let's dump the first 64 bytes:
mdb 0x10000000 64
(very interesting..)
- Of course it's also possible to dump the content of the whole 8mb flash memory to a file:
dump_image MyDump.bin 0x10000000 0x800000
- Before we can write to the flash, we have to probe it (0 is the flash bank):
flash probe 0
- Some more information provides the command:
flash info 0
- Now we can erase the flash (bank 0, starting at sector 0, including last sector 63):
flash erase 0 0 63
- Again we take a look at the beginning of the flash:
mdb 0x10000000 64
voilá, only ffffffffffffffffff... The flash is erased.
- To write the data, we use the command "flash write_binary bank file offset"
flash write_binary 0 FSL_MXSdevkitImage_Flash8MB_RTM.bin 0
(Now it's time to get some coffee, this takes some time..)
- Finally we take again a look at the flash:
mdb 0x10000000 64
This looks good! There seems to be something usefull in flash and with some luck the device will be alive again :)
- The command "mdb address count" displays count bytes at the specified address. The flash memory of our iMXS board starts at address 0x10000000. Let's dump the first 64 bytes:
#daemon configuration
telnet_port 4444
gdb_port 3333
interface ft2232
ft2232_device_desc "Olimex OpenOCD JTAG A"
ft2232_layout "olimex-jtag"
ft2232_vid_pid 0x15BA 0x0003
jtag_speed 0
#use combined on interfaces or targets that can't set TRST/SRST separately
reset_config trst_and_srst
#jtag scan chain
#format L IRC IRCM IDCODE (Length, IR Capture, IR Capture Mask, IDCODE)
jtag_device 4 0x1 0xf 0xe
#target configuration
daemon_startup reset
#target type endianess reset mode
target arm9tdmi little reset_halt 0 arm920t
working_area 0 0x09FF0000 0x4000 nobackup
#run_and_halt_time 0 5000
#flash configuration
#flash bank driver base size chip_width bus_width
flash bank cfi 0x10000000 0x800000 2 2 0
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008
And the winners are ...
More about the winning Teams and the runners up of the Imagine Cup 2008 and how to participate in the Imagine Cup 2009 in Egypt can be found at http://imaginecup.com.
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Finding the cause of a Data Abort or Crash
Then take a deep look into Bruce Eitman's following blog entries (http://geekswithblogs.net/BruceEitman/archive/2008/05/19/windows-ce--finding-the-cause-of-a-data-abort.aspx and http://geekswithblogs.net/BruceEitman/archive/2008/06/02/platform-builder-find-the-source-of-a-data-abort-an.aspx).
They provide a very simple explanation about usage of MAP and COD files for crash investigation on Windows CE based systems.
Another useful source about this is the following article:
Creation of MAP files with Platform Builder depends on the value of the WINCEMAP macro in your SOURCES files. With IDE you should set the "\Fm" linker option.
For creation of COD files with PB set the environment variable WINCECOD to 1 and rebuild. When using IDE (e.g. Visual Studio) you should add the compiler option "\FAcs" or set the correct entry in the IDE (C/C++ --> Listing file type --> Assembly, Machine Code, and Source).
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008
How To enable Monte Carlo Profiler on a CE 5 to CE 6 Port
To start/stop the Monte Carlo Profiler, the Kernel calls OEMProfileTimerEnable() and OEMProfileTimerDisable(). You can find the implementation of these Functions as well as the ISR for the PXA27x platform in CE 6 under
WinCE600 calls the OEMXxx functions in a different way than WinCE500. This might be the cause of a problem when porting the profiler from WinCE500 to WinCE600.
On CE5 everything was built into one module: nk.exe. In CE6 this has been changed. The Kernel is split up into the Kernel code (Kernel.dll) and the OEM code (OAL.exe). The Kernel uses the structure OEMGlobal to get the addresses of the OEMXxx functions in OAL.exe. See the definition of the OEMGlobal structure in
PUBLIC\COMMON\OAK\INC\oemglobal.h. By default, the function addresses of the non optional components will be saved automatically. But optional components like OEMProfileTimerEnable() are not included in the OEMGlobal structure, so the Kernel can't call this function.
The OEMGlobal structure is accessed via the global variable g_pOemGlobal. To set the addresses for your OEMProfileTimerXx() functions set the members of OEMGlobal in your OEMInit() Function as follows:
g_pOemGlobal->pfnProfileTimerDisable = OEMProfileTimerDisable;
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Talking about .NET Micro Framework ...
Great stuff! Keep on the good work lads - which reminds me I still owe them a pint!
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Will the future see more .NET Micro Framework?
But, how about having map data on that watch and being able to zoom in and out and move around on that map - and all of that with good graphics and good performance!
Picture this: After arriving here in Erlangen you download a map of Erlangen into your watch and that directs you directly to the "Bergkirchweih" - Assuming you visit Erlangen between May 28 and June 8, 2009.
So to answer my question: I'm absolutely sure we will see more .NET Micro Framework in the future.
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Friday, 11 July 2008
Windows CE: USB: Considerations when using EHCI and OHCI in the same image
Since the standard EHCI and the OHCI drivers both have the same load order in the registry, either one of them can load first. Both, EHCI and OHCI drivers have their own HubStatusChangeThread, which is responsible for detecting insertion and removal of USB devices. Normally, every attach (or detach) is handled by the EHCI driver. If the EHCI driver detects that the attached device is an OHCI device it hands it over to the OHCI driver to handle the attach.
A problem occurs when the OHCI driver loads before the EHCI driver. In that case the OHCI HubStatusChangeThread will also start first. If a device is attached to the USB host controller port before the EHCI HubStatusChangeThread is loaded, the OHCI driver will handle the attach. This behavior results in a slower boot time of the device or even a crash or freeze of the device while booting depending on whether the EHCI HubStatusChangeThread is loaded during the OHCI attach or after.
One approach to solve this dilemma is to stall the start of the OHCI HubStatusChangeThread until the EHCI HubStatusChangeThread is loaded. This can be done using a named event:
1. In the OHCI CHub::HubStatusChangeThreadStub create a named, non-signaled event and wait for that event with WaitForSingleObject right before the
return ((CHub*)context)->HubStatusChangeThread(); statement.
2. In the EHCI CHub::HubStatusChangeThreadStub create the same named, non-signaled event and signal the event with SetEvent right before the
return ((CHub*)context)->HubStatusChangeThread(); statement.
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tech·ed 2008 - Super Early Bird Offer
There will be a brand new Windows Embedded Track with over 22 Sessions and hey - You never know who you might meet :-)
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Wednesday, 9 July 2008
Windows CE QFEs for month of June 2008 arrived
Windows CE 5.0Update name: Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder Monthly Update (June 2008)
Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=048D6D61-7D69-4E72-93EF-DEA63D28DF42&displaylang=en
Description: This is a set of updates for Windows CE Platform Builder released during the period of June 1 – June 30, 2008.
These Microsoft Windows CE updates are fixes for Windows CE operating system problems you run into during the development and maintenance of your custom platform.
Windows CE 6.0Update name: Windows CE 6.0 Platform Builder Monthly Update (June 2008)
Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EF595F00-FAE0-4537-A074-1DE3C2C01EF1&displaylang=en
Description: This is a set of updates for Windows CE Platform Builder released during the period of June 1 – June 30, 2008.
These Microsoft Windows CE updates are fixes for Windows CE operating system problems you run into during the development and maintenance of your custom platform.
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Tuesday, 8 July 2008
we - a team of engineers working with Windows Embedded Technologies - want to give you useful information and the latest news on Windows Embedded.
Discover the Windows Embedded experience!
If you have any questions or feedback you can reach us here: embedded-experience at gmx dot de
Ihre Fragen können Sie natürlich gerne auch in Deutsch an uns schicken.
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Company Info - AUG Electronics
To find out more about AUG Electronics simply follow the link and don't forget to come back to discover more of the Windows Embedded Experience:
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Company Info - EB (Elektrobit)
- System Integrator
- Independent Software Vendor
- Training Partner
- Windows Embedded Compact (formerly known as Windows Embedded CE)
- Windows Embedded NavReady
- Windows Embedded Standard (formerly known as Windows XP Embedded)
- Windows Embedded PosReady
- Microsoft Auto
- Windows for Automotive
- Windows Mobile
To find out more about EB simply follow the link and don't forget to come back to discover more of the Windows Embedded Experience:
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Company Info: Avnet Embedded
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Monday, 7 July 2008
About time too ...
The team hopes you will find lots of interesting information around Windows Embedded.
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Jet Set Radio from SEGA gets release on iOS, Android, PSN and Xbox
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Jet Set Radio releases on iOS and Android platforms.
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A food photographer takes pictures of food for magazine spreads, cookbooks, advertisements, and packaging. His job is to photograph each food in such a way that the resulting picture suggests its smells, textures, and tastes. In order to do this, he must arrange each dish in a visually pleasing way, position his lighting to emphasize the dish features he wishes to highlight, and get his shot before the food has degraded in any way.
Before a food photographer can capture a dish on film, he must first style it. Food styling involves arranging the food to be shot as well as all background items such as silverware, tablecloths, and glasses. Often, clients prefer an artistic shot to a straightforward image of a given dish. Thus, the food photographer is encouraged to be imaginative in his styling choices, and he may create unexpected combinations such as substituting a book or a palm frond for a plate. Clients with large budgets sometimes hire a food stylist to do this work, allowing the food photographer to concentrate on his pictures.
Bad lighting can make even the most attractive foods look unappetizing on film. Thus an important part of the food photographer's set-up work is establishing proper lighting. Generally, food is lit with soft lights that show the dish without producing a glare on the food itself or the surrounding props. The photographer must decide which elements of the dish he would like to highlight before placing his lights. An experienced food photographer can arrange his lighting in such a way that the bright areas and the shadows will work together on film, bringing out attractive features such as the curves of a strawberry or the juiciness of a hamburger.
One of the primary challenges faced by a food photographer is the rapid speed at which dishes lose their visual appeal. In a space of just minutes, freshly cut fruit can begin to brown, heavy sauces can begin to separate, and attractive wisps of steam can disappear. Preparedness is one of the photographer's most useful weapons in the battle against time. He often sets up his shot using stand-in foods, waiting until the arrangement is perfect to bring in the real dish, which he can then beautifully capture as soon as it hits the table.
Another common technique is the use of various substances to slow the degradation of certain foods and enhance their appearance. Glycerin is often sprayed on meats or vegetables to suggest juiciness or dew, for example, and hot, water-soaked cotton balls are sometimes hidden behind foods to create the appearance of steam. In some cases, mock foods are used in place of a genuine dish. This is often true with ice cream, which is replicated with a shortening and powdered sugar mixture that closely resembles the real thing but does not melt. In the US, however, the use of fake or substitute foods in photographs intended for advertising purposes is prohibited by law.
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I'm glad there are laws against faking food photos in this country. I think a talented food photographer should be able to arrange real food in an appealing way without resorting to tricks. I've heard a food stylist will go through hundreds of baked cookies just to find a dozen that will film well.
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I remember hearing stories about all the tricks a food photographer would use to make the products look better. Sometimes a bowl of soup would contain marbles so the ingredients would be more prominent. A lit cigarette or incense burner would give the illusion of steam rising from a hot dish. When photographing food like pies with whipped cream, the "whipped cream" would often be shaving cream. The lights would melt the real stuff.
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The rhythms that shape our lives, Mike Cosper writes, are often profoundly secular — and commercial. From Super Bowl Sunday to Valentine's Day and beyond, our lives are full of commodified sentiment. They have become "disenchanted."
Cosper, founder of Harbor Media and a former pastor in Louisville, Kentucky, says that for many there is "a subtle-but-strong resistance to faith and a skepticism toward anything that veers toward the supernatural. … A disenchanted world is a material world, where what you see is what you get." Religion becomes a personal take-it-or-leave-it affair.
His new book invites readers into a different set of rhythms, into a Cosmos ("an orderly creation full of meaning, … full of mystery, a place where … an unseen spiritual realm is constantly at work….").
As Christians prepare for Ash Wednesday and Lent, a time of contrition, the book's message, about rethinking the stories we tell ourselves, seems fitting. Those from different faith traditions will find much to savor as well.
"Recapturing The Wonder: Transcendent Faith In A Disenchanted World" ($17 in paperback from InterVarsity Press; also for Amazon Kindle) focuses on seven "pathways" or spiritual disciplines to aid readers in "embracing a different story and, with it, a different set of habits and practices."
Cosper notes the importance of the rhythms of the Church year and introduces "breath prayers" to mark the shorter moments of our lives. This is not a life of "spectacle and hype" (he contrasts the "glory cloud manifestations" at Bethel Church in Redding with the idea that God's presence "is often much simpler, quieter, and more subtle").
There are big moments, of course. Easter is coming. "Who needs a greater drama than death, resurrection, and scandalous grace?"
At times we need to enter into solitude with God, but then into solidarity with others. Gifts we give should reaffirm "bonds between people." There is a time of feasting and fasting (and Cosper provides practical help).
Such a life "oriented around the spiritual disciplines is not a pathway to pleasing God but a pathway to experience the joy of God that is already ours in Jesus." It is to live in an enchanted world.
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The great hockey player Mohammed Shahid has passed away. He was suffering from a serious liver and kidney illness after ignoring a bout of jaundice and was being treated at the Medanta Hospital at Gurgaon. He was 56.
Shahid, also known as the dribble wizard, was a part of the gold-winning Indian Hockey contingent at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. He received the Arjuna Award in 1981 and the Padma Shri in 1996.
Notes of grief and condolence for the deceased have been pouring in from all over.
Hockey India grieves the untimely loss of India Hockey Legend Mohammed Shahid, who passed away today, 20 July 2016. pic.twitter.com/Sh8Z8qvppe
— Hockey India (@TheHockeyIndia) 20 July 2016
Pained nd saddened by da death of Md.Shahid.Despite our best efforts,we cud nt save him.May God give his family da strength 2 bear this loss
— Suresh Prabhu (@sureshpprabhu) 20 July 2016
For the generation that wasn't around, Mohd Shahid was a dazzling forward. One of India's finest.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) 20 July 2016
In Mohammad Shahid, we have lost one of the legends of world hockey.
Condolences to his family. pic.twitter.com/KWWbq6nFwy
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) 20 July 2016
Over the last few days, Shahid's condition had deteriorated. The sports ministry and Shahid's employers, the Railways, were taking care of all his medical expenses. On Tuesday night, he slipped into coma.
Known for his artistic stickwork, Shahid was a member of the V Baskaran led Indian team that won its last gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Shahid was also a part of the team that won silver at the Delhi Asiad in 1982 and bronze in the Seoul Asiad in 1986.
During his playing days, Shahid was known for his running ability, dribbling of the ball and push which was as fast as a hard hit. His attacking partnership on the field with Zafar Iqbal was well known.
"Zafar at left-out and Shahid at right in positions penetrated the best of the defences around the world with their superb understanding and passing of the ball. Zafar also pointed that Shahid was instrumental in the V. Baskaran-led India winning the gold medal at the 1980 Olympics Games. "Shahid played a crucial role for India in that Olympics, otherwise we would have been difficulty," Zafar, who was part of that team, pointed."
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Ending Urban Sprawl
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In the past 20 years the population of Ottawa has increased at an explosive rate. In those days Kanata, Orleans, and Barrhaven were just small collections of houses tucked away outside the greenbelt. Today those areas are huge sprawling suburban neighbourhoods which have shown some of the fastest growth in the city. With new expansions […]
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SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Military Sealift Command accepted delivery of its newest dry cargo/ammunition ship, USNS Medgar Evers (T-AKE 13), during a short ceremony at the General Dynamics NASSCO Ship Yard San Diego, April 24.
The ship, which was christened Nov. 12, 2011 in San Diego, honors slain civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers, who is remembered for his efforts to end segregation at the University of Mississippi in the 1950s and for his opposition to Jim Crow laws in the 1960s. Since its launch, the ship has been undergoing a series of tests and trials in preparation for its delivery to MSC.
"As USNS Medgar Evers joins the MSC fleet of combat logistics ships today, the food, ordnance and fuel it will provide to the Navy's combatant ships at sea are critical mission enablers for our globally deployed naval forces," said Tim McCully, Military Sealift Command Pacific's deputy commander. "From supporting an aircraft carrier's 75-plus aircraft and 5,500 crew members, to transporting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief supplies, USNS Medgar Evers and more than 30 other MSC underway replenishment ships bring to life Military Sealift Command's motto: MSC Delivers."
The 689-foot long Evers, designated T-AKE 13, is the 13th of 14 new dry cargo/ammunition ships scheduled for delivery to the Navy by the end of this year. The first 11 dry cargo/ ammunition ships are currently operating as part of MSC's Combat Logistics Force, delivering vital fuel, equipment and supplies to Navy warships at sea. The remaining three of the 14-ship T-AKE class are expected to be assigned to maritime prepositioning squadrons, which strategically place combat cargo at sea for rapid delivery to warfighters ashore.
Evers has a crew of 125 civil service mariners working for MSC and 11 Navy Sailors who provide operational support and supply coordination.
T-AKEs are the newest class of Combat Logistics Force ships being built for MSC. They are replacing some of MSC's aging, single-mission supply ships such as Kilauea-class ammunition ships and Mars- and Sirius-class combat stores ships as they reach the end of their service lives.
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Happy 60th Anniversary to TA Norris Middle School
In 1956, a new school opened its doors in Peace River.
Students carried their desks from the old High School, located at the site of the current Sawridge Hotel, to the freshly-built T.A. Norris High School in the new subdivision of Parkview on what was then the far north end of Peace River.
The school had five classrooms and a science lab. Today it boasts 20 classrooms, a foods lab, music room, art room, industrial arts shop, computer lab, two-story learning commons, double gymnasium and a viewing gallery. It has evolved from a High School (1956-65) to a Junior High School (1965-2005) to a Middle School (2005-present), now with students grades 5 – 8.
On Wednesday, November 16, we invite you to come celebrate our first sixty years.
Join us at 7:00 p.m. for a special presentation by world-renowned circus arts performer "Safire" as she speaks to children and adults of all ages about finding joy and passion in one's life, understanding one's place in the world, and treating each other kindly, both in-person and online.
A special cake-cutting ceremony will follow with members of Peace River School Division and school board trustees in attendance. Refreshments have been generously donated by the Peace Country Co-op and Tim Hortons.
Come take a tour of T.A. Norris Middle School. Walk down the hallways and check out pictures of every graduating class since 1965. Perhaps your photo is on display? Or one of a parent or grandparent? Our anniversary celebration coincides with Parents Matter Week, a division-wide acknowledgement of the role parents play in their children's education.
At T.A. Norris Middle School, we Focus on Learning. And we want to thank everyone who has helped us along that journey over the past six decades. We look forward to a fun and memory-filled evening.


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I hope you are all enjoying this amazing weather, apart from the chilly mornings you honestly wouldn't know that it is winter. This weather and calm conditions has made for some great whale watching opportunities, and although we missed Migaloo as he went through at night, we have had plenty of other whale action out the front.
Thank you to Fred Perlenfein and Liam Patience for attending the Branch Awards dinner last week. It was well worth the trip with the Club winning two awards, 2nd Place for Lifesaving Club of the year and 3rd Place for Junior Club of the year. This is fantastic news and is a credit to all of our volunteers that do such a fantastic job. Go Caba!
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I had no problem installing Safari 4 on my Vista system, and the browser was up and running in short order. At 27MB, the download is bulkier than that of the smallest browser, Chrome, which is a mere half megabyte. Then again, Safari offers more features. Mac users should note that the installer requires OS 10.5.610.5.5 won't do. When you first run Safari 4, you'll see a new animated splash screen featuring the Apple logo, complete with inspirational music.
For the final release, Safari backtracked on one of the beta's distinguishing interface features, the Chrome-like "Tabs on Top," which placed page tabs above the address bar. Another change from the beta is the return of the page-load progress bar: It's in a different form now, in the right-hand side of the address bar.
The released version of Safari 4 does retain the most eye-catching trait of the Safari 4 beta, Top Sites, which shows your most-accessed Web pages in a glorious 3D view. In this and elsewhere, Safari 4 brings the added elegance and clever interface ideas we've come to expect from Apple. One example is the incorporation of Cover Flow in the browser's history list. Sure, it's mostly eye candy, but it's at the same time stylish and useful.
When you open a tab, you see the new Top Sites page, a curved, 3D grid of images of your most frequently visited Web sites. An Edit button lets you remove any of these thumbnails, and you can drag any mini-page to a spot of your choice and "pin" it to that spot. If a site in your Top Sites group has new content, a blue dog-ear with a star shows up in the page's top right corner. In some ways, I prefer Opera's approach, which adds only sites you specify to the speed-dial thumbnails. Still, I can see Chrome and Safari's rationale, that people are more likely to use the feature if it's automatically populated.
Unlike the bare-bones Chrome, Safari includes a handy sidebar, which you can show by clicking the book icon at the top left of the window. The sidebar has a variety of functions: You can choose from among History, Bookmarks, Bonjour networking, and a basic RSS reader. Any of these sidebar choices takes advantage of the scrolling Cover Flow view in the top half of the main center panel, while the bottom half offers a simple list of the links. You can scroll back and forth through the Cover Flow images via mouse wheel, or you can use a slider beneath the images.
Safari's bookmark management is adequate, but I was unable to import more than one IE bookmark at a time. Chrome has the same problem, whereas Firefox let me import a whole folder at once. Safari also lacks Firefox's ability to show recently bookmarked items and its tagging capability.
Also new for Version 4 is a native Windows look for the browser, in Classic, XP, and Vista flavors. This means that window borders (nonexistent in previous versions of Safari for Windows) now look like those of other apps. The Mac version, of course, maintains the border-free look. Windows users also now receive the standard Windows fonts they're used to seeing, instead of Apple's more minimalist standard fonts. And in the Windows version, you get the same two toolbar icons you get in Chrome, for page and general settingspossibly showing the browsers' similar WebKit roots.
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This is another in a series of articles about one of the most interesting and overlooked figures of the 20th century Monte di Monti.
We focus on his years living and working in southern California from 1968 to 1972.
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Following his misadventures in Texas during the early sixties, di Monti's whereabouts for the years 1964–68 are unknown. There are reports that he was employed at the Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas in 1967, but the evidence of this is unconfirmed. There have also been reports that he was living in Las Vegas around 1967 while under the employment of Howard Hughes. It can be speculated that di Monti's motivation for keeping a low profile during these years was his association with several known players (including Lee Harvey Oswald) in the JFK assassination conspiracy. After the assassination and throughout the rest of the decade of the sixties, many of those directly or indirectly associated with the assassination either disappeared or were found murdered. Shorty following the mysterious April 1964 murder by poisoning of Monte's close friend Syd Travanty at Houston's Tidelands Club, diMonte left Texas never to return. Public utility records show he ran out on the lease of his apartment on Hazard Street in Houston's Montrose neighborhood in May of '64.
Contrary to previous reports that place him in California as early as 1964, di Monti's next confirmed location of residence is 1968 in Studio City, California living with his on again, off again girlfriend, Lavonne St. John in a bungalow she rented.
After leaving Dallas, Texas in late 1964, St John moved to California to continue working as an exotic dancer in the west coast burlesque circuit. However as the sixties progressed, there was less and less work for burlesque dancers as America moved toward more permissive pornography laws and the audience for live burlesque shows slowly dwindled. She began to work occasionally as a nude model for men's magazines such as Swank and Titter that were published out of Los Angeles. According to di Monti's childhood friend from Brooklyn "Jewboy Al" (real name not given per request), St. John appeared in several adult films but none have ever turned up in the subsequent years. Increasingly, St. John's income was primarily earned as a waitress working at the Golden State Diner in Studio City.
We recently tracked down and spoke at length with a Los Angeles acquaintance of di Monti's from this time Andreas Fontagne. He knew di Monti and St. John socially, often spending time with the two of them at the Frolic Room Cocktail Lounge in Hollywood. He says that di Monti days in 1968 and early '69 were mostly spent at the Santa Anita Racetrack where for a time he enjoyed great success betting on horse races. Clearly Monte was planning his next move, and he was making an effort to meet all the right "players" in Los Angeles that could help him make it happen.
In the spring of 1969 di Monti met the well-known television actor Robert "Bob" Crane at the Frolic Room. Crane at that time was concluding a successful run as the lead actor in CBS television's hit comedy series "Hogan's Heroes". They soon became close friends. Later that summer Crane introduced Monte to his friend the actor Sal Mineo. Mineo is well known for his role in the James Dean film "Rebel Without a Cause", but by the late sixties his acting career had crashed and burned. The three would often go (as Crane later wrote in his letter to lawyer Stan Sotta) "tom cattin" together in Hollywood. This usually meant cruising the Hollywood bars to pick up airline stewardesses and Hollywood newcomers. Because of Crane's television star status at the time, the three men were popular among Hollywood's party and nightclub scene.
Around 1969 Crane, through his friendship with John Henry Carpenter, became one of the first people in the United States to own one of the first commercially available video cameras. Very quickly he put it to use filming videos of his and Carptenter's sexual encounters with the women they picked up in Hollywood.
Crane for several months in 1970 dated Playboy "Playmate of the Month" Catherine Lupot, and often attended parties with her and di Monti at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills. Lupot was close friends with Hef's girlfriend Barbi Benton and they often made side trips to Tijuana.
We recently tried to interview Hefner about his memories of Crane and diMonti but he declined. Lupot only recently has begun to talk candidly about her romance with Crane.
"I was absolutely crazy about Bob — he was so much fun. But he was too hard a partier for me. About the time we started dating, Bob was starting to get into hard drugs and also making these kinky home movies that I wanted no part of. Yes, I recall very well his friend Monte. He was a quiet and extremely handsome guy. One time when we were alone Bob joked about Monte's "mob friends." When I asked him about it he just laughed. Looking back now, I think there was something to that… there was something going on behind the scenes with Monte. He was not your normal Hollywood-type guy, he always seemed kind of dangerous. A nice person and a total gentleman, but he never seemed to be straight up with anyone if you know what I mean…
I was 23 at that time, and these guys were all in their forties so looking back on it now I feel like they just wanted a young girl to be with and date. One night that summer Bob tried to get me to go with him to some swinger's party his friend was hosting in the Hollywood Hills and after I told him no way, he got real angry and dropped me off on the street corner in front of the Whiskey a Go-Go. That was it — he quit calling me after that. I ran into him once at a party about five years later and lord did he look horrible…. just totally burned out. I think he was heavy into cocaine by then, but who knows? Not long after that I heard he was murdered in Arizona. I was sad to hear the news about him but he was hanging out with the wrong people. I always thought his friend Carpenter was a real creep."
There was talk among the Los Angeles acting community that Crane's home movies featured several well-known young film and television starlets of the era. We've learned from a couple of confidential sources that Crane, Monte di Monti, and Sal Mineo attempted to blackmail one of these starlets and threatened her with publicly distributing their sex video of her. It is possible that di Monti could have been involved in a criminal plan like this — his earnings in 1970–71 at the racetrack were at best sporadic, and he had no other visible source of income. We do not know for sure if this blackmail plan succeeded or failed, but a series of events indicate that somehow the plan backfired on the three men. It is possible that they chose the wrong young lady to attempt to blackmail… perhaps she had underworld connections or friends in law enforcement. We'll never know for sure as no legal charges were never filed against the three men.
In April of 1971 Mineo was hospitalized for several days at the California Hospital Medical Center as the result of a physical assault in which he suffered numerous broken bones and facial lacerations. A press release says that he was fighting an intruder during a burglary attempt at his West Hollywood home, but Fontagne says Mineo was jumped in the parking lot near his house by a couple of thugs who were working for the woman that he, di Monti, Crane, and perhaps Carpenter were attempting to blackmail. No arrests were made as a result of Mineo's beating, and the case remains unsolved.
di Monti and Crane had a falling out sometime in the summer of 1971 and were no longer friends after that. Fontagne recalls asking Monte about Crane around that time, but di Monti was reluctant to talk about him at any length and avoided those questions thereafter. di Monti and Mineo were occasionally seen together but the days of them cruising Sunset Boulevard with Crane in the early morning hours were over. di Monti by all appearances, settled down to a quiet domestic life with St. John as he largely stayed out of the Hollywood limelight. He continued to visit the Santa Anita Racetrack and was also seen at Los Alamitos Race
Much of what is known of di Monti's activities his last year or so in southern California is based on our interview with his childhood friend "Jewboy Al". Coming to visit from Brooklyn, Al arrived on the west coast in May 1971 and stayed at Monte and Lavonne's house in Studio City. According to Al, during his visit Lavonne was intimately involved with actress Deborah Paget (Lavonne and Monte shared an 'open relationship') which created some odd situations for him while staying at their house. Al also witnessed a nasty spat between di Monti and Mineo one night at the Frolic Room resulting in the two never speaking to each other again. Monte, Al, Lavonne, and Deborah made the rounds of Hollywood parties a couple of times while during his visit — Al told us that while the Los Angeles film crowd liked Monte, they kept their distance from him due to what they perceived as his "shady background."
Bob Crane was found murdered in Scottsdale, Arizona at the Winfield Apartments on June 29, 1978. His former friend John Henry Carpenter was ultimately acquitted of murder charges after being brought to trial in the mid-90s. The case remains officially unsolved. The 2002 film Auto Focus is about Crane, Carpenter, their relationship, and Crane's murder. There is no mention of Sal Mineo or Monte di Monti in the film.
Sometime in November 1972 Monte di Monti left southern California. His destination was Cannes, France and this time Lavonne St. John was with him.


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Most online sharing is subconscious. People usually don't think twice about sharing or "liking" something they find online. They see an image, or a headline, or a topic they like, and pull the trigger on the social share button so fast sometimes they don't even stop to read the article.
Those readers don't think about why they are sharing content, let alone have any idea how their social shares will impact the site supplying the content. If they did, they would realize that every time they share 'The 5 Most Disturbing Things Ever Done with Taxidermy' or '50 Hilarious Dogs in Wigs,' they are playing a part in content marketing and doing exactly what we want them to do.
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As readers move content by sharing it with their social media friends, and reposting it on other websites, it does some pretty powerful things for publishers.
- It gives the host website additional exposure. (Obvious)
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While there are hundreds of reasons why a given piece of content is shared online, two specific elements factor into the reader's subconscious desire to share a piece of content.
- They find the content valuable.
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What Does Valuable Content Provide Readers
Something They Need – Content That Provides a Solution
Readers find value in content when it provides a solution to something they need. Audiences love material that provides answers, advice, and learning tools. This type of content solves a problem and is frequently found through search.
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Readers find value in content when it provides satisfaction for something they want. Audiences love to find content that suites their interests and provides information about their passions. This type of content is often found when a reader visits a website looking for a specific type of information.
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When you smile a lot life will be more fulfilling. When you are happy and reflect that openly, others around you respond to that energy and shine positivity back towards you. In the case that your teeth are discolored you might not want to put on a big smile! Keep reading to learn about whitening of the teeth.
An overlooked, yet highly effective natural method of whitening your teeth is to treat them with lemons. Just rub a lemon peel's inner portion on your teeth each day to obtain teeth that look whiter and brighter. Lemons are not expensive, even when you use them every day. In addition, this method is quick and easy. The natural elements in the peels of a lemon can give you the white teeth you desire, without compromising your oral health by putting chemicals in your mouth.
For immediate results, visit a professional whitening of the teeth service. To get the best results and the whitest smile, a few visits are normally necessary. Dentists can use techniques not offered in over-the-counter preparations.
Orange Peel
Both, lemons and oranges, are great for Vitamin C, but also work well with whitening your smile. The inside of a lemon or orange peel rubbed on your teeth will cause them to sparkle. You can also use a little salt to see better results with the lemon or orange peel.
These products usually contain almost exactly the same ingredients as those used by cheaper brands. You should talk to your dentist and see if he or she can recommend a brand that is known to work better for most people.
You'll want to take regular visits to the dentist for cleanings if you're serious about keeping your teeth nice and clean. Optimally you want to have your teeth cleaned at the dentist every six months. Most dental insurance policies cover cleaning once or twice a year, so it's a good thing to have cleanings done on a regular basis.
Stop smoking. The nicotine and smoke gets into your mouth and causes discoloration of your teeth.
Try to rinse immediately after you finish a meal to dispose of food particles and bacteria. If you rinse thoroughly, you will get all the remaining food and drink out of your mouth preventing them from staining your teeth. This will stop your teeth getting badly stained.
Baking Soda
Use some baking soda to brush your teeth. Baking soda is an effective natural tooth whitener. Do this gently, so baking soda doesn't irritate your gums.
Although a variety of whitening products are available, some discoloration cannot be removed. Depending on how bad your teeth are, you might have to use different treatments.
Consume some cheese post-meal to add minerals back to your teeth's enamel. The high amount of calcium present in cheese is excellent to help you rebuild tooth enamel. You can have beautiful teeth if your enamel is strong and healthy, so remember to eat cheese regularly.
If you smoke, start your whitening of the teeth process by giving up smoking. By spending hard-earned cash on whitening of the teeth products and then smoking, you are just throwing your money out the window. All the benefits of this product will not matter when you are smoking.
You should understand that your crowns will never whiten like the rest of your teeth. Whitening your teeth may result in uneven coloration of your teeth if your crowns can be seen when you smile. If this is the case, talk to your dentist about how to whiten with more consistency in color.
As mentioned previously, positive energy is rewarded to you from others when you aren't afraid to smile. Since you now realize what it takes to have shiny, white teeth, start smiling a little more. Apply the tips from this article, and you will be on your way to a brighter, happier smile that you can be proud of.


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Campaigners have launched a legal challenge against Wakefield Council's decision to approve plans for 260 new homes to be built near the M1.
The Save Lupset Greenfields group are refusing to accept the prospect of development on land behind Snapethorpe Primary School, off Milton Road.
The group, which claims information about pollution levels in the area were ignored by planning officers and councillors, are seeking a judicial review of the case.
The council's planning committee were evenly split over Keepmoat Homes' proposals, with approval granted on the deciding vote of chair Coun Sandra Pickin.
Group spokesman Martin Snowdon said that the move was a "last resort" but that he was confident it would be successful.
He said: "We know that all the facts that were put forward about pollution levels have been bypassed.
"The planning advisers should never have recommended approval in the first place.
"If we are successful there is no doubt this will save lives.
"For young children the pollution will fill up their lungs in the space of a few months.
"In our view, there are more appropriate places in Wakefield to build houses."
The group is also citing noise levels in its bid to overturn the decision.
Under the plans, fences will be built between the homes and the motorway as acoustic barriers, but campaigners insist they will not be long enough to mitigate the noise.
Wakefield Council were contacted but declined to comment on the matter.


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The spirit of innovation is on display in India's agriculture sector more than anywhere else the world. With a population of over 600 million people being supported by the sector, and given the spectrum of well-known constraints challenging its performance, the successes of India's agriculture are the greatest testimony to the immense creativity and innovative and enterprising spirit of its farmers. While significant steps have been taken in the past few decades with resolute state action to address a variety of risks in agriculture, it is the resilient and adaptive attitude of its agriculturists that ensures the dynamism of India's farm sector
Modified Rice Drum Seeder for Better Crop Management and Higher Harvest Yield.
Innovator Name : Shri Laxman Baburao alias Bal Dalvi
IMPACT OF INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY : The modified drum seeder was designed during May, 2009 and put to use in his own village Vadap on an area of 3 hectares during June, 2009, besides area of 12 hectares in nearby villages viz. Sapele, Gaurkamat, Salokh, Ashivali, Dahigaon, Posari. Currently, farmers in nearby villages have sown rice with drum seeder on an area of more than 250 acres. It increases the yield of rice per acre from 15 tons to 18 tons, therefore saving Rs. 3000 per acre.
Cost Effective Shade Net House
Innovator Name : Shri Jagnnath Gangaram Tayade
Shade net house was developed by Shri Jagannath Tayade from locally available material. Total height of the shade net house is 6m from center place, the length is 36 m and it is 24 m wide. This shade net house requires wire ropes which are comparatively cheap and locally available. The design is such that there are negligible obstacles within the shade net which facilitates smooth intercultural operations and easy movement of labor as compared to the popularly used design. The material used in shade net is plastic and the towers are made up of iron.
IMPACT OF INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY This type of shade net house is suitable for growing even tall crops like capsicum, tomato, chili, etc. It can sustain wind speed up to 80 km/hr and is economically viable as the total cost required to construct is Rs. 60,000 which is 30% lesser than the recommended technology. The added advantage of this design is that rain water drains easily due to doom shape structure. About 15 farmers have adopted this type of structure on 0.10 hectares each and are producing seeds capsicum and tomato. It increases the production by 10 times and also enhances the quality of soil. In terms of time, 5 hours per day is saved by using this technique. This technique is easy to install and gives more productivity in adverse environments also.


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Michael Sturgis of Cinco has invited all Mahon About Towners to Cinco tonight for complimentary tapas prepared by chef Jean-Luc on the grill on the outdoor patio tonight, Friday (7th), from 6:30-8:30, with jazz by the Richard Sylvester Trio.
Also tonight, DJ Scott Capizzo and Billy Voss will be down at Jetties Restaurant.
Joshua Tree is at the Box Friday and Saturday nights.
A good chance to feel like the island is ours again at the County Fair this weekend, 10 to 5 on Saturday and 11 to 4 on Sunday out at Tom Nevers. All-Star softball game, pumpkin contest, live music, pet show, storyteller, flea market, records & Burpee animal shows. On Saturday, on your way out, stop at the Nantucket Farmers and Artisans Market from 9 to 12 on Nobadeer Farm Road.
The free Sunday Poetry Slam from 2 to 4 at Umass Boston Field Station features Victor D. Infante and an open mic.
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Now TV brings contract-free Sky Sports streaming to Apple TV in the UK; no Sky Movies for now
Now TV, the contract-free, pay-as-you-go television streaming service from British broadcaster Sky, is now available on Apple TV in the UK. Oddly, the service will only support the Sky Sports Day Pass, which offers 24-hours of unlimited access to Sky's six sports channels, out of the gate.
With Apple's petite set-top box, viewers are able to bill the pass – currently £9.99 – to their existing iTunes account and access the following: Sky Sports 1, 2, 3, 4, Sky Sports F1 and Sky Sports News.
Now TV was launched in March 2012 on PC, Mac and Android as a streaming service for its movie channels exclusively. In the interim, Sky has rolled out support for iOS, Roku, YouView, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, thereby covering almost all major hardware platforms in the living room.
Support for Apple TV is notable, although the omission of Sky's entertainment channels, including Sky Movies, will be a disappointment to some. We've reached out to ask whether they'll be added down the line, although a forum thread on the Now TV site suggests that it might be a long wait:
"Although we are able to offer AirPlay and HDMI mirroring for Sky Sports on NOW TV, due to our licenses, we don't currently support this for Sky Movies," a moderator said in September. "We are working on this, so please keep checking for updates on our site or on our Community."
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Updated 11:52 a.m. | Illinois Rep. Tammy Duckworth announced Monday she will run for Senate, giving Democrats a top-tier candidate in a must-win seat in 2016.
"I'm running for the United States Senate in 2016 because it's time for Washington to be held accountable, and to put Illinois families and communities first," Duckworth said in a video announcing her candidacy.
National Democrats say Duckworth's profile is the best match to take on Republican Sen. Mark S. Kirk, a moderate Republican who is running for his first re-election in the solidly Democratic state.
Duckworth is an Army veteran who lost both her legs and sustained damage to her arm when a helicopter she was co-piloting in Iraq was shot down. Kirk is also a veteran and is disabled from a stroke he suffered in January 2012.
But Duckworth may not have the Democratic field to herself. Reps. Bill Foster and Robin Kelly are also mulling bids . A contested primary in Illinois could be costly for Democrats, who must net five seats to ensure Senate control.
Sen. Richard J. Durbin, who has been a champion for Duckworth, told CQ Roll Call in January he thinks Democrats will work to avoid a messy nomination process.
Democratic Rep. Cheri Bustos, who had been considering a bid, said in a Monday statement to CQ Roll Call that a bid is unlikely. She stopped short of formally backing Duckworth, but indicated an endorsement could come at some point.
"We've got a deep bench of strong potential candidates in Illinois, many of whom are friends and colleagues," Bustos said. "I'm not making any formal endorsement at this time. But if you look at Tammy's record of standing up for American manufacturing, for working women and their families, and for our veterans, it's clear to me she fights for the things that are important to my constituents."
Kirk is top among the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's targets . He was elected to the Senate in the 2010 GOP wave, defeating a lackluster Democratic opponent by a slim margin.
But the electorate is expected to be much more favorable for Democrats in 2016. President Barack Obama carried his home state by double-digit margins in 2008 and 2012. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is expected to announce a presidential bid within weeks, could see similar support and boost down-ballot Democrats.
The race is rated a Tossup by the Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report/Roll Call. Duckworth is the fourth House member to announce a bid for Senate. (See the Roll Call Casualty List for more .)
The National Republican Senatorial Committee immediately attacked Duckworth for being a "partisan politician" who votes with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
"Senator Kirk's record of accomplishment and thoughtful independence will outshine any candidate that emerges from the Democrat primary in Illinois," NRSC Communications Director Andrea Bozek said in a statement Monday.
Duckworth's Senate bid now opens up her 8th District, located in the suburbs west of Chicago. Three Democrats are actively considering bids for the seat. They are:
- Former Illinois Deputy Treasurer Raja Krishnamoorthi, who lost to Duckworth in a 2012 primary. Though he lost that primary by a wide margin, he proved to be an adept fundraiser, bringing in more than $1 million for the contest.
- State Sen. Tom Cullerton, who won a competitive state legislative seat in 2012. Cullerton comes from a powerful Illinois political family, and has strong ties to labor — which could help him in a primary bid.
- State Sen. Mike Noland, an Elgin, Ill.,-based state legislator and veteran. A source close to Noland said he is "seriously considering" entering the race.
Obama carried the 8th District by 17 points in 2012.
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