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Free ebook: Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Second Edition (second preview)
Added April 10, 2014 – The second edition has been finalized and published. See the new blog post here.
Microsoft Press is pleased to offer the second preview of Kraig Brockschmidt's in-depth ebook on writing Windows Store apps using HTML, CSS3, and JavaScript within the Windows 8.1 platform. Here are the download links:
- Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Second Edition (second preview) [16.4 MB PDF; 12 chapters & 3 appendices; 750 pages]
- Companion content for the Second Edition (second edition) [132 MB ZIP; code samples, plus 20 videos]
Kraig's Introduction, which appears below, describes this ebook's chapters and appendices. intended audiences, and accompanying samples and other companion content.
We'll be publishing the final ebook (with 20 chapters & 4 appendices) in March/April in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI formats. In the meantime, enjoy the second preview!
In celebration of the one-year anniversary of this book's first edition, I'm delighted to offer you this second preview of Programming Windows Store Apps in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Second Edition. It's been a huge year for both the book and the platform that it supports. With the general availability of Windows 8.1 earlier this month (October 2013), the capabilities of the Windows platform have grown dramatically, which is clearly in evidence by the expanded size of this second edition! Even in this preview (12 chapters and three appendices), the book is not far from the length of the first edition, and there are still eight chapters (and one appendix) to go. Nevertheless, it's my pleasure to provide you with a comprehensive volume on Microsoft's latest operating system.
This second preview takes us through nearly all of the Windows Library for JavaScript, which includes new controls like the Hub and Nav Bar. It also delves quite a bit into core WinRT APIs, such as those for working with HTTP requests, app state, and files. The bulk of WinRT coverage is yet to come in the final edition, as the remaining chapters include media, animations, contracts, live tiles, notifications, background tasks, device access, WinRT components, accessibility, localization, and the Windows Store. Fortunately, much is still the same as it was in Windows 8, and you can refer to the first edition of this book as a basis. Then check out the session videos from //build 2013 that you can find through http://buildwindows.com. The Windows Developer Center, http://dev.windows.com, also has updated documentation that covers Windows 8.1, so you can find much more there. I can specifically recommend Windows 8.1: New APIs and features for developers.
As I mentioned in the first preview, this second edition is intended to stand alone for developers who are starting with Windows 8.1. It represents the state of Windows 8.1 rather than trying to document the delta from Windows 8. For this reason I don't explain how to migrate apps from Windows 8 nor do I highlight many changes to APIs and behaviors (I do occasionally in specific cases). Check the Developer Center for such information.
That said, here's what you'll find in this second preview:
- Chapter 1, "The Life Story of a Windows Store App," covers the core characteristics of the Windows platform. This is much the same as in Windows 8, with the biggest exception being the view model for apps where we now have a variable sizing model.
- Chapter 2, "Quickstart," builds a first complete app, Here My Am!, that is gradually improved throughout the book. One significant change in this second preview is the use of thumbnails for loading and displaying images, which is a key performance consideration that you should always keep in mind. It's very seldom that you need to load full image data.
- Chapter 3, "App Anatomy and Performance Fundamentals," is much expanded from the first edition, especially including coverage of the WinJS Scheduler API for managing work on the UI thread, and a new section on debugging and profiling. I've also changed the title to reflect the importance of performance considerations from the earliest stages of your app building.
- Chapter 4, "Web Content and Services," is a mixture of new content and networking topics from the first edition's Chapter 14. I moved these topics earlier in the book because using web content is increasingly important for apps, if not essential. This chapter covers network connectivity, hosting content (especially with the new x-ms-webview control), making HTTP requests (especially through the new Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient API), background transfers (which have been improved), authentication, and a little on Live Services.
- Chapter 5, "Controls and Control Styling," is updated from the first edition's Chapter 4 and includes the new WinJS.UI.ItemContainer control and discussed how to work with the WinJS dispose pattern.
- Chapter 6, "Data Binding, Templates, and Collections," combines material from the first edition's chapters on controls and collection controls. It's helpful to look at templates by themselves, especially given optimizations that are introduced with WinJS 2.0. This chapter also looks at collection data types both in WinRT (types like the vector) and the WinJS.Binding.List, setting us up well for Chapter 7.
- Chapter 7, "Collection Controls," focuses completely on the WinJS controls that provide UI for collections. These are the FlipView, ListView, Semantic Zoom, and Repeater controls. The ListView especially has many updates in WinJS 2.0, such as drag and drop support and better layouts (including custom layouts, see Appendix B).
- Chapter 8, "Layout and Views," is much rewritten from the first edition's chapter on layout, especially given the change from the distinct view states of Windows 8 to the variable sizing model of Windows 8.1. In addition, Windows 8.1 enables apps to have multiple views, which is a fun topic, and WinJS adds a new Hub control to support great home page experiences.
- Chapter 9, "Commanding UI," is much the same as the first edition's Chapter 7 and now includes the Nav Bar control that's new in WinJS 2.0. The App Bar control also have improvements for easier customization.
- Chapter 10, "The Story of State, Part 1: App Data and Settings," shares much of the first edition's content from Chapter 8 but tells the story of app data much more clearly. I have to admit that I wasn't wholly satisfied with the first edition's treatment of the subject, and after giving several //build talks that helped me organize the material, it was clear that I needed to cleanly separate app data (Chapter 10) and user data (Chapter 11). That opened up space in Chapter 10 here to also cover file I/O basics, as well as the matter of streams, buffers, and blobs.
- Chapter 11, "The Story of State, Part 2: User Data, Files, and SkyDrive," completes the discussion of working with files and folders, including the deep integration of SkyDrive that we have in Windows 8.1. This is another place we see the importance of using thumbnails when working with images, as it greatly helps to boost performance and reduce memory overhead, especially with collection controls.
- Chapter 12, "Input and Sensors," was one of the easier chapters to update, as there aren't many changes in these areas for Windows 8.1. The two main exceptions are the change from MSPointer* events to now-standard pointer* events, and the addition of geofencing APIs.
- Appendix A, "Demystifying Promises," completes the discussion of promises that are introduced in Chapters 2 and 3. After writing the first edition, I wanted to spend more time with promises for my own sake, but it's just my nature to leave a paper trail of my learnings! So, in this appendix we start from scratch about what promises are, see how promises are expressed in WinJS, explore how to create and source promises, and then pick apart some specific promise-heavy code.
- Appendix B, "WinJS Extras," is a collection of WinJS material that didn't fit cleanly into other chapters, including WinJS.Namespace.define, WinJS.Class.define, obscure WinJS APIs, and custom layouts for the ListView control (where we even do circular and spiral layouts!).
- Appendix C, "Additional Networking Topics," contains material that is related to Chapter 4 but didn't fit into that flow or that is more peripheral in nature. Note that WinJS.xhr is covered here because Chapter 4 emphasizes the preferred Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient API.
As you can see, in this second edition I'll be using appendices to go deeper into certain topics that would be too much of a distraction from the main flow of the chapters. Let me know what you think. Some of this material I've already posted on my blog, http://www.kraigbrockschmidt.com/blog, where I've been working on various topics since we published the first edition. I'll continue to be posting there, though a bit less frequently as I focus on completing this second edition.
Who This Book Is For
This book is about writing Windows Store apps using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Our primary focus will be on applying these web technologies within the Windows 8.1 platform, where there are unique considerations, and not on exploring the details of those web technologies themselves. For the most part, then, I'm assuming that you're already at least somewhat conversant with these standards. We will cover some of the more salient areas like the CSS grid, which is central to app layout, but otherwise I trust that you're capable of finding appropriate references for most everything else.
That said, much of this book is not specific to HTML, CSS, or JavaScript at all, because it's focused on the Windows platform and the Windows Runtime (WinRT) APIs. As such, at least half of this book will be useful to developers working in other languages (like C# or C++) who want to understand the system better. Much of Chapter 4 and Appendix C in this second preview, for example, is specific to WinRT. The subjects of app anatomy and promises in Chapter 3 and Appendix A, on the other hand, are very specific to the JavaScript option. In any case, this is a free ebook, so there's no risk, regardless of your choice of language and presentation technology!
In this book I'm assuming that your interest in Windows has at least two basic motivations. One, you probably want to come up to speed as quickly as you can, perhaps to carve out a foothold in the Windows Store sooner rather than later. Toward that end, I've front-loaded the early chapters with the most important aspects of app development that also give you experience with the tools, the API, and some core platform features. On the other hand, you probably also want to make the best app you can, one that performs really well and that takes advantage of the full extent of the platform. Toward this end, I've also endeavored to make this book comprehensive, helping you at least be aware of what's possible and where optimizations can be made.
Many insights have come to me from working directly with real-world developers on their real-world apps. As part of the Windows Ecosystem team, myself and my teammates have been on the front lines bringing those first apps to the Windows Store. This has involved writing bits of code for those apps and investigating bugs, along with conducting design, code, and performance reviews with members of the Windows engineering team. As such, one of my goals with this book is to make that deep understanding available to many more developers, including you!
What You'll Need (Can You Say "Samples"?)
To work through this book, you should have Windows 8.1 installed on your development machine, along with the Windows SDK for Windows 8.1 and the associated tools. All the tools, along with a number of other resources, are listed on the Windows 8.1 Downloads page. You'll specifically need Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows. We'll also acquire other tools along the way as we need them in this ebook. (Note that for all the screen shots in this book, I switched Visual Studio from its default "dark" color theme to the "light" theme, as the latter works better against a white page.)
Also be sure to download the whole set of Windows app samples for JavaScript. We'll be drawing from many—if not most—of these samples in the chapters ahead, pulling in bits of their source code to illustrate how many different tasks are accomplished.
I've seen some reviews of programming books that criticize authors for just pulling code samples from documentation rather than writing all their own code samples from scratch. Although I do provide a number of additional examples in this second preview's companion content, it's been one of my secondary goals to help you understand where and when to use the tremendous resources in what is clearly the best set of samples I've ever seen for any release of Windows. You'll often be able to find a piece of code in one of the samples that does exactly what you need in your app or that is easily modified to suit your purpose. In most cases these samples are the same ones I would have written myself, and I'm very glad that wasn't necessary! In a few cases I felt the samples lacked certain scenarios, so you'll see some modified and extended samples in the companion content.
I've also made it a point to personally look through every one of the JavaScript samples, understand what they demonstrate, and then refer to them in their proper context. This, I hope, will save you the trouble of having to do that level of research yourself and thus make you more productive in your development efforts.
A big part of the companion content are the many revisions of the app I call "Here My Am!" (a variant of "Hello World." We start building this in Chapter 2 and refine it throughout the course of the book. This includes localizing it into a number of different languages by the time we reach the end.
Something else I've done with this second preview is expand the use of video content. (All of the videos are also available in a folder with this preview's companion content). As in the first edition, I've made a few longer videos to demonstrate use of the Visual Studio and Blend tools. In a number of other cases, it's far easier to show dynamic effects in video than to explain them in text and screenshots. I'd also love to hear what you think about these.
Beyond all this, you'll find that the Windows samples gallery as well as the Visual Studio sample gallery also lets you search and browse additional projects that have been contributed by other developers—perhaps also you! (On the Visual Studio site, by the way, be sure to filter on Windows Store apps because the gallery covers all Microsoft platforms.) And, of course, there will be many more developers who share projects on their own.
In this book I occasionally refer to posts on the Windows App Builder Blog, which is a great resource to follow. And if you're interested in the Windows 8 backstory—that is, how Microsoft approached this whole process of reimagining the operating system—check out the Building Windows 8 blog.
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The survey is short, and we read every one of your comments and ideas. Thanks in advance for your input!
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March 13, 2009
A while ago, Elle Kirshner of Second Spaces offered us a spot in a new and cozy shopping village next to her store and club. We experimented a bit with satellite locations lately, but the results are mixed. So I was a bit reluctant. However when I TPed there, I was impressed by the beautiful look of the place.
For the upcoming St. Patrick's weekend, Elle has planned sort of an official opening event for the place. Each of the stores was asked to offer a free item, and of course GREENE concept participates as well.
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The dynamics of Dollarbies – advice for content creators
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Washu Zebrastripe, widely accepted as the inventress of prim hair, had the opening party for her "Hairspray 2" sim tonight, and asked some designers for gifts to hand out during the party. Being not exactly the target audience for a sim dedicated to hair, we decided to donate the Halloween Berlin and the Halloween clock as a gift for the opening. Washu said it can either be set for sale as a freebie at 0 L$ or to be set to sale for 1 L$ and become a "Dollarbie" – a term coined by another hair designer – Teagan Blackthorne. As both items are from our regular portfolio with retail prices of 222 L$ resp. 111 L$, I opted for the Dollarbie option, and set the boxes up. My expectations got exceeded when I saw that our boxes got bought 198 times during the event! While this only constitutes a revenue of 198 L$ (which is not to be dismissed of course), the real value is the additional exposure we got. Since most people got both boxes, we now have 100 people who know about GREENE concept who did not know about us before. And if they rez our items in their homes, friends might see them and inquire further.
From Dollarbies I have seen at other places, there are a few observations for content creators – which also apply to real freebies:
- Quality
Your Dollarbie is like a business card. If you set an outdated item as Dollarbie, or stick two prims together and paint them, then the person getting the gift will either generalize the quality of your whole range with the quality of the gift, or they will get a bad impression from the dedication you have. Both is negative.
But if you see your Dollarbie as a reference and use the same care creating it as you do with your other items, then you leave a good impression. Not only does your customer have the feeling of making a bargain, they will also have a good impression from the way you run your business.
- Psychological value
Funny enough, customers seem more reluctant to pay 1 L$ for an object with unclear content, than paying several hundreds L$ and knowing exactly what they get. So if you package your Dollarbie, dont pack it all into one prim and name it "Gift from xyz". Instead, put the items separately into the vendor prim. This applies especially for clothing, where more layers are considered more valuable.
- Dollarbies DO add up
If you have the choice of setting one Dollarbie up or two – chose the higher number. If the event or venue is attractive enough, you will get a lot of sales from the Dollarbie boxes, and a second box effectively doubles the revenue.
- Give additional information
This sounds like a no-brainer, but I saw it neglected a lot in Dollarbies and Freebies I bought. Even if you think you are a well known brand, don't forget to put a landmark to your mainshop into the box. A notecard outlining your product portfolio is certainly advisable. Adding attractive photos of your best-selling items to the box is the ultimate you can do. If the customer likes your Dollarbie, s/he is likely to look at the photos and notecards to, and will probably visit your mainstore as well.
- Provide customer service
People who bought a Dollarbie are your customers. They paid money to get one of your products. Even if it is "only" 1 L$, my advice would be to treat them like regular customers. If they come to you with an issue regarding the Dollarbie, they are not a nuisance, but they actually demonstrate that they USE your creation. And if they use it and like it, they are very likely to like other items from you as well. Denying customer service to them, simply based on the fact that they did not pay regular rates, can ruin the best impression they might have had so far. Again – they showed willingness to spend money for one of your creations. So see a customer service request as an opportunity to win a loyal repeat customer.
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With the position of our photographer having become vacant, we looked who among the people whose works we know might be suitable to ask, and very quickly decided that Trinity would be the perfect candidate. She was both excited and reluctant at that offer, due to her time constrains. But after a long time of consideration she finally agreed.
"Having been a long time supporter of the GREENE Concept, concept, I was thrilled to be asked to take over the design of product imagery. With such a range of innovative products and the appointment of a new designer, I discussed the idea of updating the product designs and taking them to the next level. The impending Halloween Specials allowed me to test a few different design treatments.
I am no stranger to the original product designs and subsequently I found it a little difficult to steer the newer designs away from that look. I decided at this stage to take a step back, speak to Peter and reassess what the brand wanted to portray.
Many issues face product images; for instance the constraints that SecondLife/ XStreetSL/ OnRez place on them. OnRez for instance forces square image listings, therefore a landscape or portrait shot appears squashed. It's a rather annoying, yet unfortunate fact of life. So at this stage I designed a square template. It will not be squashed online and is also straight 1:1 proportion in-world.
Obviously GREENE Concept prides itself on low prim sculpt furnishings, that speaks for itself in the images. I wanted to draw attention to other main key elements in the GREENE Concept range. Firstly the wonderful variation of sit poses and how these products look in situ and secondly, the amazingly detailed hand drawn textures on all of these products.
From here the new design template was confirmed and now the update of older image shots begins over the coming weeks."
Second Spaces Design Contest
August 10, 2008
Yesterday I had the pleasure to meet Elle Kirshner of Second Spaces for the first time in person. Elle is hosting the Shadowbox Design Contest right now – actually it is over as of my writing, but the exhibition ground should still be open and the winners are not announced yet.
I sent a batch of review copies to Elle a while ago, and since she wanted a meeting area she figured she could use our San Jose benches. What I like is the unique and smart idea to use a Berlin stool as a table.
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Fable 3 hit store shelves this week, and the game – which features voice work from the likes of former Monty Python stalwart John Cleese and British actor Stephen Fry – is earning solid marks from critics around the globe. For a full re-cap of the prior Fable adventures, you can get caught up here. In the meantime, let's check the scoreboards.
Over at the UK Guardian, Greg Howson gives Fable 3 a four out of five star review. "Like the other two games in the series, this is ostensibly an RPG but one that focuses on action and interaction rather than fiddling with stats," Howson writes. "Fallout fans, for example, will scoff at the simplistic weapon upgrades but they would be missing the point. Fable is much more about what you do than how you do it, and never more so than in Fable 3."
Meanwhile, the kids at Loot Ninja say Fable 3 – which like Fable and Fable 2, allows players to make a series of "moral" decisions that will directly influence the direction of the plot – looks better than ever. "Right away, you will see how good Fable III looks. By far the best graphically in the series. The character models are much improved from Fable 2 as well as their interaction," Loot Ninja notes.
At Escapist, Susan Arendt argues Fable 3 is also more emotionally complex than its predecessor. "Your exploits in Albion were never completely carefree," she writes, "but the impending evil never quite impacted the citizens the way it does in Fable 3. These problems are real, people are dying, and you are literally the only one who can save them. Time to stop playing at Hero and actually be one."
And what about the storyline? In Fable 3, you pick up about 50 years after Fable 2 left-off. Your task, if you choose to accept – and you certainly have plenty of choices – is to stage a rebellion against the evil king of Albion, who also happens to be your brother. "[Y]ou'll actually feel the weight of those choices in an unexpected and very personal way. It's almost a masterpiece. Almost," Arendt writes.
Joystiq's Christopher Grant, in a generally positive review of Fable 3, says the game does come with its share of warts, especially in the presentation department:
Get used to collision detection that has you spading your shovel straight through your loyal dog; texture pop-in that would make Unreal Engine blush; clipping that will get you stuck in the game's geometry; a breadcrumb trail that's more inconsistent than a bowl of rock pudding; a frame rate that can, on occasion, aspire to double digits; laggy minigames that have to be seen (and barely played) to be believed; and co-op load times that will challenge not only your patience but a friend's.
Still, Grant gives Fable 3 a four-star review – out of a possible five – and says that gamers shouldn't let the hiccups detract "from what remains an exceptional game. It may not be revolutionary, but it is royally fun."


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The first time I fell in love I couldn't believe what happened to the world. The sky had never been that blue before! The trees looked like works of art! The most annoying acquaintance was suddenly adorable, and the morning traffic jam became a delightful chance to sit and dream.
We've all been there, haven't we? But of course, in the years since, I've learned that it's not that the world that changed; it was my own heart. When we're in love, our hearts open up like flowers, making the whole world seem like paradise. Wouldn't it be great to live this way all of the time?
That was the question I set out to answer in my latest book, Love for No Reason. As part of my research, I found and interviewed over 150 unconditionally loving people I call "Love Luminaries"—people living with an open heart no matter what was happening in their lives. Among the key lessons I learned from them are what I call the three "love mantras," phrases that help us remember to open our hearts and feel the love everyday.
Love Mantra #1: Love is Who We Are.
Love isn't just something we feel for others, it's who we are. Though we usually think of love as a stream of emotion flowing between two people, love is more like an ocean that's inside and all around us.
Instead of walking around with a little cup, begging for a few drops of love from others, recognize that you're the huge ocean of love. Let go of the feeling, There's a limit to love and I have to get mine. When you do this, you relax, and your energy expands.
Love Mantra #2: The Purpose of Life is to Expand in Love.
Love is your job description – no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love. When you put giving and receiving love at the top of your priority list, you'll definitely experience more everyday success and raise the quality of your life.
Love Mantra #3: The Heart is the Portal to Love.
Your heart is more than a physical pump; it's your ticket to experiencing Love for No Reason. If it's open, love flows freely, both in and out. If it's closed, even with the best intentions, you'll have a hard time being loved or being loving. Try pouring water into or out of a jar if the lid is on. It's a simple case of physics.
Focus your attention on your heart. When your heart feels open, expanded and light, then you know you're on the right track for greater love. When it's shut down, tight or heavy, you know you're going in the direction of less love.
Doing this will put you on the fast-track to Love for No Reason. Then every day can be an "in love" day.
Marci Shimoff is a #1 New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned transformational teacher. Her books include the international bestsellers Love for No Reason and Happy for No Reason. She is also the woman's face of the biggest self-help book phenomenon in history, as co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul series. With book sales of more than 15 million copies worldwide in 33 languages, Marci is one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time. She is also a featured teacher in the film and book sensation The Secret. Marci is dedicated to helping people live more empowered and joy-filled lives.


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Tour de France 2019
Bigben Interactive
Full Game
The yellow jersey is yours!
The official route of the 21 stages of the 2019 Tour de France has been reproduced down to the last detail, and will take you from Belgium to the Champs-Elysées.
You can also play online for the first time in the history of the series, challenging up to 3 other players in shorter, more intense races.
Descents, sprints, team tactics... Experience the Tour from inside the peloton!
- Online multiplayer: two to four players can challenge each other on a wide variety of races.
- New challenges: Sprints – After the descents, players can challenge each other in Sprint mode.
- New race: one of the oldest cycling competitions, the Tour of Flanders.
- New 'World Championship' mode: ride to victory as team manager or leader.
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Online features require an account and are subject to terms of service (playstationnetwork.com/terms-of-service), privacy policy (playstationnetwork.com/privacy-policy), and the game publisher's privacy policy.
1-2 players
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Small Business Cyber Security Audit
It has been reported that the average small business has spent over $117,000 to recover from a cyber attack, so how do you protect your business?
As computer science professionals, we see first-hand the technical threats that can hide in plain sight. When someone talks about online security, things like phishing email and computer viruses are the more common risks that come to mind, but there are bigger threats on the rise targeting the smaller business community. For example…
- According to a study conducted in 2016 by Keeper Security and Ponemon Institute, LLC, a web-based attack was the most common type of cyber attack against small businesses. That includes attacks on your website or through your web host, or through a web-based program.
- Data tracked by Kaspersky Lab, a computer security company, reported that in 2017 the average cost for a data breach against a small-medium sized business in North America was $117,000. Those who had a recovery plan in place have a better chance to bounce back; but the reality is that so many go unprotected it may be difficult to recover from a serious attack, thus impacting their livelihood.
- According to a 2016 Internet Security Threat Report released by the security company, Symantec, 43% of all cyber attacks targeted smaller businesses. Roughly, they suggest that about 1 of every 40 small businesses are at risk of being the next victim of cybercrime. Since that number is quickly on the rise, it is important to take action now and implement a strategy for protection.
Why Cyber Criminals Target Small Businesses?
Because larger companies are more keenly aware of their value and the threats against them, they have allocated the appropriate resources to increase their defenses making it more challenging for cybercriminals to crack through, so the hackers are now applying a different strategy. Not only are these geeky crooks banning together in cybercrime rings giving themselves a massive technical advantage, they are spreading their funky junk using auto-bot programs focused on the small business community. Why? Well, there are several reasons, the more common ones include…
- Business owners often select free or inexpensive tools and resources that lack adequate protection eventually becoming vulnerable to attack.
- Most business owners are more likely to pay a ransom for a hijacked website making it a lucrative career for cybercriminals.
- They collect personal data – like credit cards and emails from an online contact form – that can be used in a larger cyber attack.
- They can be sub-contractors of larger companies or government agencies, thus providing an access point to a larger prize.
- They use services of smaller companies or freelancers whose lack of experience in managing a business can create opportunities for oversight.
- They lack adequate security protection for their computer and mobile devices.
- They are unaware or forget to monitor data collected and managed by third-party providers.
- It is much easier to get away with a cybercrime because smaller businesses are often unaware of how to report the incident nor have the financial resources to pursue tracking of those involved.
Do you have a recovery plan?
Imagine for just a moment if your computer was compromised,
your website hijacked or your client data records stolen?
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The Best Defense Starts with a Simple Conversation.
Since each business has their own unique systems for managing customer information and operational tasks; the best strategy is not the same for every business. The best defense starts with a simple conversation with a technical consultant who knows the right big-picture questions to ask. That's where we can help.
There is no cost for us to connect and have a brief conversation about your online security. Our goal will primarily be to help you identify the risks you may already face. If noteworthy, we'll then prioritize those risks and identify a detailed strategy that will help you reduce risks and limit overall liabilities in an efficient manner.
Take the Next Step to Protect Your Business and Customers.
We value your time and know you're busy, but it is an important conversation to have – especially because it can protect your ability to be successful for years to come. Our Cyber Consultant can meet with you over the phone or in-person (if you're in the St. Louis metro area) – the choice is yours. We do recommend allowing an hour for your conversation because this topic typically generates many questions.


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The Dow closes 2019 with good prospects to set new records in 2020. Yet there are still threats looming ahead that could "melt up" equities. Here are three defensive Dow stocks that offer exposure to continued bullish Dow growth, while also fortifying your portfolio against downside risks. After broaching record highs this week, the Dow […]Continue Reading


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Periodic Updates
News Articles
December 2017 Update
March 2016 Update
January 2015 Update
December 2014 Update
September 2014 Update
January 2013 Update
March 2012 Update
August 2011 Update
June 2010 Update
July 2009 Update
August 2017 Letter to BIA
BLM, NHPA and Chaco Road: 2015-2017
August 2011 Letter to BLM
Pueblo Pintado Leases
URS Denial of Conflict of Interest
Chaco Alliance Response to 2009 NPS Visitation Study
2009 Press Release About BLM oil.gas leases near Chaco
Katherine Slick, NMSHPO, Response to Cultural Resource Survey, May 2009
Chaco Alliance Response to Cultural Resource Survey, June 2009
Hopi Response to URS Transportation Analysis, May 2008
NMSHPO Response to URS Transportation Analysis, September 2008
2005 National Park Service Road Study
A summary of ongoing and planned road projects that affect Chaco Culture NHP
2008 March/April Rio Grande Sierra: Chaco Update
2007 November/December Rio Grande Sierran Article
2007 March/April Rio Grande Sierran: Chaco Update
2007 July/August Rio Grande Sierran: Chaco Update
The Road to Chaco
Improve the Road, Don't Pave it
NPS Chaco Website
San Juan's Citizen Alliance
Wild Earth Guardians
Western Environmental Law Center
The Solstice Project
August 2011 Update
There are encouraging developments in the attempt to preserve and protect Chaco Culture National Historical Park; unfortunately, there are also many negative and perplexing questions about the park's management and its overall vision. On the positive side, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has declared the Greater Chaco Landscape as one of America's 11 Most Endangered Places in 2011because of energy development. This listing will continue to focus attention on the fragile nature of the Chacoan landscape (and its viewshed), and hopefully will encourage more interaction and cooperation by the BLM with the Hopi Tribe and with preservation groups like the Chaco Alliance, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the San Juan Citizens Alliance (see August 2011 letter to BLM below). Also positive is the news that it appears that San Juan County will compromise and accept gravel, not chip-seal, on CR 7950, the main entry road to the park. The Federal Highway Administration has recommended this choice. We have as yet seen no written documentation for this, but our contacts tell us that the Environmental Assessment now underway for CR 7950 will choose gravel as the preferred alternative. We have always supported gravel as a way of improving the road, and we continue to believe it will not have a significant impact on visitation.
One would expect the political climate at the park to reflect in part these good omens. Instead, the park continues to work on a General Management Plan Amendment Environmental Assessment (EA) that we are told calls for radical changes in the managing of visitors to Chaco (mandatory visitor education, gated car-wash like entry to the loop, and severe group visit limits, to name a few). The proposed changes are predicated on a potential increase in visitation that does not appear to in any way to be probable. In fact, the park is already shutting down access to many sites by roping off areas in the campground and on the trails that have previously been accessible. The nature of the visitor experience is being impacted although there is significant disagreement within the staff about whether the changes are in fact necessary. In addition, a shiny new water tank sits on top of the mesa above the new Visitor Center construction. It can be seen from as far away as Pueblo Alto and from many other areas of the canyon. The oddly painted eyesore is just hundreds of feet above the administration offices of the park. How is it possible that the Hopi Tribe, Chaco Alliance, San Juan Citizens Alliance, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation continue to work to stop the ruining of the viewshed around the park, but the management of the park cannot protect the cultural resource in its own backyard? And the costly paperwork of the revised management plan undertaken by the park, and its regional office in Denver, is fixing a problem that doesn't exist. Perhaps it is time for all work to stop on the General Management Plan Amendment Environmental Assessment, and on the on-going changes within the park, until an outside (non-NPS) entity can access what is truly necessary if Chaco is to be properly protected.
Please review the letter from the Chaco Alliance, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the San Juan Citizens Alliance asking that the viewshed within five miles of Pueblo Pintado be protected from oil and gas development (The park signed off on this 480 acre oil and gas lease nomination without opposition. See Pueblo Pintado Leases below). Also note our response to the Evans and Associates document that continues to be used in the General Management Plan Amendment EA although it is factually incorrect (The park reviewed and accepted this $18,000 NPS study. See Chaco Alliance Response to 2009 NPS Visitation Study). Also note the denial of conflict of interest letter from the URS Corporation, the consultant on the Chaco road CR7950 project and, unbeknownst to many of the staff at Chaco, the consultant on at least part of the major Visitor Center construction (See URS Denial Of Conflict of Interest below). Please email Barbara West, Superintendent, and ask that the new water tank be reduced in height, repainted, and moved out of eyesight. It is an act of unacceptable vandalism. Ask that all work on the General Management Plan Amendment EA be halted until the staff has taken into account the very low probability that visitation will substantially increase (the purpose and need for the amendment). Also ask that all new restrictive measures within the park be revoked until a proper review of all actions that impact visitor experience is undertaken. It is our understanding that all changes that affect visitor experience, or the landscape and historic fabric of the canyon, must be reviewed by the New Mexico Historic Preservation Office for proper compliance with the National Environmental Protection Act and the National Historical Protection Act. We are in the process of determining whether this compliance has been met. Please encourage the park management to work for consensus decision-making that solicits and values the opinions from all divisions within the park as well as from concerned groups outside the park. Thanks again for all your support.
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Monday: Learning by Observing
There are two aspects to learning for those who wish to serve the Lord, and one leads to the other. First there is learning to know Jesus; then comes learning how to share Him and what He offers to the whole fallen human race.
Read about the time Jesus fed the 5,000 (Matt. 14:13–21, Mark 6:30–44, Luke 9:10–17, John 6:1–14). List the things that the disciples would have observed that would help equip them for their future ministry. What things can we safely assume they observed that are not specifically mentioned in the Gospel accounts? Read also what Ellen White adds to this story in The Desire of Ages, pp. 364–371.
How exciting not only to listen to the greatest preacher but to observe His presentation as He preached about the kingdom of God (Luke 9:11) in a way that would have created a desire for the kingdom in every heart.
The principle of learning through observation is applicable to everyone. Book learning, or listening to instruction, must always be built upon through observation and involvement. Jesus expected the disciples of John the Baptist to learn from what they had observed.
Examine Matthew 11:1–11. What had the disciples of John the Baptist observed, and what did Jesus expect them to tell John as a result of their observations? What lesson was Jesus teaching not only John but His own disciples?
John the Baptist had previously presented Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. But then John was imprisoned with no opportunity to preach, and he heard only secondhand reports of Jesus' ministry. It seems that his prison experience caused some doubts to surface in his mind regarding Jesus. When doubts arise we should go to Jesus, and this is exactly what John did. Jesus sent John's disciples back to tell him what they had heard and seen. As their reports encouraged John, we are left to wonder how the things that they had seen impacted their own witnessing and evangelistic ministry.
In most cases we can't do the kind of miracles performed by Jesus. But with a willingness to die to self and live for others, what can we do in our own sphere that reflects the kind of work that Jesus did when here?


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Music Education: the Secret Sauce to Keeping Robots off your Jobs
Last year, PWC released a report saying by the year 2030, robot automation will have replaced 800 million jobs. The report has suggested that in richer nations like the USA and Germany, up to one third of the workforce will have to retrain.
While it surely comes as no surprise that technology is shifting the skills required in the world of work, the speed and scale of this change will be startling for most. What is clear is that action to prepare for this transition is urgently needed.
Another thing pertinent about the year 2030, is it will be the year that children who've started primary school this year will be turning 16. From this age onwards they will be making decisions on their future career and life path. This means the impact primary education has on young people today will have to influence how they are able to react to this changing job market in their future years.
The Effect of Automation in the Job Market
In terms of what sectors will be impacted, it is expected that virtually every industry will be influenced on some level by artificial intelligence (some much greater than others). Taxis will be without drivers in autonomous cars and many marketing and support roles will be replaced by online bots.
A friend of mine recently told me about how the tech company he works for are embracing the pursuit of automation. The company decided to launch an internal competition offering a sizeable amount of money to any employee's initiative that could automate a proportion of the company's processes. The subtext of this, as he saw it, was, 'how can we reduce our investment in jobs by getting robots to do more of the stuff for us'.
This is just one example, but what this indicates for education is that the young people in school now will need to be able to evidence their ability to think imaginatively for any future prospective employers. In time, it's perceivable that many qualifications will become secondary in importance to this demonstrable level of creativity.
Learning Music can be the Differentiator
For a long time in schools, governments have been pushing the agenda of the STEM subjects and understandably so. Great innovation and new economic doors have been opened by the promotion of these disciplines. But now there is an increasing focus on this acronym being reworked as STEAM with the A included for the arts.
The reason for this is that music and other arts subjects like drama and visual arts, can provide this outlet for children to develop their creative skills. No longer can they be treated as a fluffy 'nice-to-have' but something instead that provides real intrinsic value and fulfilment for children in schools.
Take for instance the primary music curriculum here in Ireland. This program for learning music can be broken down into three core strands: listening, performance and composition.
In the first part, when a child is listening to music they are developing their own opinions about a piece and able to draw inspiration from the work that others have produced. Following this is performance; a child can then present their own ideas and interpretation of a piece of music. Finally, through composition, the student can take what they've learnt from others and apply it into a completely new creation.
The skills developed from these three strands, particularly when learned at an early age, can become those transferable proficiencies that young people not only need for the job market but also as they seek solutions to challenges they'll face in all areas of their lives.
How ironic that even with this rate of technological development, it's the pursuit of things like music, which has never fundamentally changed, that still gives us humans the finesse no robot could ever replicate.
What do you think are the key ways music impacts young people? Let us know in the comments below.


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The film revolves around the "Freddy Awards," a live television event in eastern PA that celebrates high school musical theater. In the vein of "Spellbound," the doc follows three teen theater troupes and their creative journeys to, what some consider, the Tony Awards for high school musicals.
The film examines the disparity between sports and the arts in our schools and is a love letter to performing arts education - which was a big part of my high school years.
The International Documentary Association (IDA) called it: "The feel good documentary of the year.
The above review is from this week's "Star Magazine."
Here's Matt Roush's review from TV GUIDE:
Sleeper of the Week: Like a real-life Glee, and possibly the most charming and disarming documentary since BBC America's The Choir last summer, the OWN Documentary Club presents Most Valuable Players (9/8c), which puts the spotlight on the "Freddy Awards," a yearly competition for high school musical theater in the Lehigh Valley (Pa.) region. This 90-minute film tracks three high schools as they put on their shows — the rivalry intensified when two schools decide to do Les Miz — then sweat out the nominations and awards. The camaraderie among the theater kids is touching and funny, and the emotion is palpable when the awards' ebullient coordinator is diagnosed with cancer but is determined to present the award for that year's outstanding musical production. I can't remember when I last enjoyed a Tony broadcast this much. A genuine treat.
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Book review: Life Among the Qallunaat, by Mini Aodla Freeman
Reviewed by Marilyn Herbert
Today I'd like to highlight an Inuit author who has seen a lifetime of change in her own family and in Canada's Inuit north. If you are not familiar with the Inuit word "qallunaat," it literally translates as "those who pamper their eyebrows," but figuratively refers to those who live in the south or in non-Inuit environments.
I have met and come to know many Qallunaat … and learned to be cautious with them. Some are nice and kind, but none want to see or understand my Native culture. Some don't want to know, some don't have time, some try but find it too deep to understand or accept. They all want to cover it up with their own ways. They always want me to be different, a novelty, and they refuse to see that I am a plain human being with feelings, aches, hatred, the desire to cheat, lie, love, adore, understanding, kindness, humanity, pain, joy, happiness, gratitude, and all the other things that every other being was capable of having, doing, thinking and acting. (p.219, 220)
Mini Aodla Freeman was born in 1936 in Canada's north, in James Bay. Her memoir Life Among the Qallunaat, first published in 1978, is a glimpse into her life as an Inuk child within a hunting family. But it is bigger than that: It compares and contrasts her rural life with the urban life of Canada's south.
Aodla Freeman and her family lived on the land, hunting and fishing and moving from winter lands to their summer lands. They were familiar with the Native Cree tribes and dealt with the Hudson's Bay Company. She grew up in tents and was in for a major culture shock when she came to southern Ontario for the first time.


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Getting Gaius Maro's Travel Schedule
Be sure not to kill Gaius Maro whilst he is on the road or in small towns. You can find the travel schedule inside a building in which you first get a quest marker to kill Gaius Maro. Be sure to check that you are at the correct place by looking ta the map and hovering the cursor over the quest marker.
Killing Gaius Maro in a City
The best way to ensure this is to get Gaius Maro's Travel Schedule, or so the game might make you think. I actually found that it was buggy and that Gaius Maro was never in the place the travel schedule said he would be in. It took me a few tries to meet him in a city. I just kept fast travelling to the town he was in until I got there whilst Gaius Maro was also there. Be sure to use a bow and arrow and be hidden whilst you kill Gaius Maro so that the guards don't attack you.


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Slam Dunk, Volume 1
Author(s): Takehiko Inoue
• To be serialized in VIZ Media's Shonen Jump magazine starting in 2008.
• From creator of Real and Vagabond, also available from VIZ Media.
• Inoue's series Slam Dunk has over 100 million copies in print worldwide.
• Vagabond has sold over 22 million copies worldwide!
• Real has over 8 million copies in print worldwide.
• Slam Dunk is widely considered to be the best sports manga ever.
• Inoue received the 2000 Media Arts award for manga from the Japanese Ministry of Culture and the Kodansha award for best manga for his work on Vagabond.
• Nominated for 2003 Eisner Award in the category for Best Writer/Artist!
• Everything Takehiko Inoue has published has hit the top ten sales list in Japan.
• An anime series for Slam Dunk was created by Toei Animation.
Basketball. The court, the ball, the hoop. The hopes, the dreams, the sweat. It takes dedication and discipline to be the best, and the Shohoku High hoops team wants to be just that--the best. They have one last year to make their captain's dream of reaching the finals come true--will they do it? Takehiko Inoue's legendary basketball manga is finally here, and the tale of a lifetime is in your hands!
Sakuragi Hanamichi's got no game with girls--none at all! It doesn't help that he's known for throwing down at a moment's notice and always coming out on top. A hopeless bruiser, he's been rejected by 50 girls in a row! All that changes when he meets the girl of his dreams, Haruko, and she's actually not afraid of him! When she introduces him to the game of basketball, his life is changed forever...
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More about Arashi's 24Hr TV specials
Jun Matsumoto is turning into a brass band conductor, Sho Sakurai a soccer player, and Kazunari Ninomiya has just finished shooting his drama on the edge of a 20 metro cliff for this year's 24 Hr TV, reports Sports Hochi, Sponichi Annex, Sankei Sports, and Nikkan Sports on June 10.
"24時間テレビ35『愛は地球を救う』(24Hr Television / Love Saves the Earth')" is being hosted by Johnny's group Arashi this year, and new details about their special programs have been revealed.
Matsumoto will conduct the brass band at a high school in Ishinomaki, a town devastated by last year's tsunami. It has been reported Matsumoto had no plans to conduct at first. The band had been invited to perform in Tokyo's Budokan, where the 24Hr TV special will be aired from, to express their gratitude to everyone who has supported their community and to tell people they are doing their best to rebuild their lives. But after Matsumoto had visited the school in June, the students invited the Arashi member to lead them as they prepared for their Tokyo performance. Having no conducting experience, Matsumoto has since been learning the fundamentals from Japanese conductor Yutaka Sado.
"He said the most important thing is to draw together all of the thoughts of each and every musician, become a part of their music-making, and to have fun. I had also heard that after the tsunami, Sado-san had been involved with organizations which had donated instruments to their school. Maybe it's fate," Matsumoto said.
Just north of Ishinomaki, a high school soccer team in Rikuzentakada had been invited by Sakurai and FIFA Women's World Player of the Year Homare Sawa to play a match in memory of their team member Shiori Koyama. It has been reported the Mizusawa UFC Princess player had a dream of becoming a World Cup soccer player but she was lost in the tsunami which hit Rikuzentakada on March 11, 2011. Despite the fact Sawa and a number of her team mates were preparing for the London Olympics, the women's soccer team INAC Kobe made time for a match against their juniors earlier this month. Sakurai joined the Tohoku team as a special member as the two sides played off in a 30 minute match.
"It was incredible. Even the heavy rain stopped while we were having the match. I think Shiori-san was watching us," Sakurai said.
It has been reported over in Shizuoka prefecture, Ninomiya had been filming the climax scene to his special drama "車イスで僕は空を飛ぶ (Kuruma-isu de Boku wa Sora wo Tobu)". In the drama, Ninomiya plays a good-for-nothing teenager who gets in a fight which leaves him paralysed from the waist down. Wanting to end his life, he drags himself and his wheelchair to the edge of a 20 metro cliff. The cliff used in the scene had bad footing even for those who could walk, and so just in case, a rescue team and coast guard team were on standby during the shoot.
"You might see it as taking too much risk, but it was a decision made by all of the production staff to bring out the real meaning of this scene," Ninomiya said.
Here's a link to where I got the screenshots: http://youtu.be/_RBvdZ0kLGw


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Margaret Lee and Matthew Higgs at The Green Gallery
Artist: Margaret Lee, Matthew Higgs
Venue: The Green Gallery, Milwaukee
Exhibition Title: MHML
Date: August 18 – September 30, 2012
Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.
Images courtesy of The Green Gallery, Milwaukee
Press Release:
You can find things or make things, it doesn't really matter.
Images and objects: grey triangle, pink semi-circle, yellow circle, silhouettes, wrong, blue, red, black, white, cucumber, eggplant, telephones, table, plant, stool, books.
Read a book, selection includes: David Robilliard's "Swallowing Helmets; Bruce Hainley's "Foul Mouth", and Paul McCarthy, Miles Varner and Carol Lingham's "Wolfgang Stoerchle."
Do not put the receiver to your ear.
Thank you.
Margaret Lee (b. 1980) founded 179 Canal in 2009 and currently runs in collaboration with Oliver Newton, 47 Canal – both in New York City. Past curatorial projects and exhibitions organized at White Columns, NY; X-Initiative, NY; Performa 09, NY; amongst others. She had her first solo show at Jack Hanley, NYC in 2011 and will be included in New Pictures of Common Objects at MoMA/Ps1 curated by Christopher Lew this fall.
Matthew Higgs (b. 1964) is a British artist, curator, writer and publisher. His contribution to UK contemporary art has included the creation of Imprint 93, a series of artists' editions featuring the work of artists such as Martin Creed and Jeremy Deller. He is currently the director and chief curator of New York City's oldest alternative non-profit space; White Columns.


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WASHINGTON—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) congratulated the Connecticut bishops, the Connecticut Catholic Conference, Catholic Mobilizing Network, and all dedicated advocates against the death penalty for their work to bring about the repeal of the death penalty in Connecticut. Governor Dan Malloy enacted the legislation April 25, making Connecticut the 17th state to repeal the death penalty.
"As Catholics we are dedicated to promoting a consistent ethic of life, which values all human life as full of dignity and inherent worth – even those convicted of the worst crimes," said Bishop Stephen E. Blaire, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. "We welcome the courageous decision by the governor and the legislature to abolish the use of the death penalty in Connecticut. We stand in solidarity with all those who work for a just and safe society that protects its citizens and upholds the sanctity and dignity of all human life."
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What Is Cut-Out Animation?
Cut-out animation is one of the oldest and simplest animation techniques and has many forms and variations. Essentially, cut-out animation involves producing animations using 2-D characters, props and scenes cut from materials, such as paper, card or fabric. Animators divide characters into smaller segments, piece together the individual cut-out shapes and move them in small steps, taking a picture -- with a film camera capable of taking single pictures -- at each step, to create the illusion of movement.
Animators typically have more difficulty controlling movement in cut-out animation than in full cel animation, in which characters and scenes are drawn or painted on transparent celluloid sheets, so they need to plan the action accordingly. Cut-out animation lends itself well to decisive, rapid movement or even frenzied, continuous action, which disguises some of the limitations of cut-out characters. Cut-out animation is also a highly personal experience; the animator essentially portrays a character, mood or idea just by moving cut-out shapes around, using only his judgment and experience to do so.
The principal advantage of cut-out animation, especially for a solo animator, is that it requires many fewer drawings than full cel animation. The animator can use a single drawing, cut into pieces, to represent movement that would otherwise require hundreds of cels. Animators can design the cut-out pieces themselves, so the range of subject matter is limited only by their imagination.
The 2-D shapes make smooth, fluid movement -- particularly movement toward or away from the camera -- difficult to achieve. Any detail applied to a cut-out shape limits the angle at which an animator can take a picture of it. Similarly, cut-out animation doesn't work well for facial close-ups, so dialogue that requires the lip movements of a character to be synchronized with recorded sound -- lip-sync -- is rare. Cut-out animation is typically used for mimed stories with duration of five minutes or less.
Modern animators often produce animation in the cut-out style using computers, by replacing physically cut-out shapes with digitized, scanned images. Cut-out animation is a popular technique because it saves production time and leads to smaller file sizes when compared to full cel animation. The Comedy Central animated series, "South Park," was originally made using physical paper cut-outs, but subsequently by computer animation, which retained the look and feel of the original episodes. In fact, the South Park animators use high-end hardware and software to create animation that looks cheap and amateurish deliberately.
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This is like Mirror! Mirror! where Captain Kirk and Spock meet their opposites. Or even worse the episode called The Alternative Factor where two enemies both named Lazarus who Spock concludes is Lazarus and an "anti-Lazarus", possibly from a parallel "antimatter" dimension. Should Lazarus and his anti-self manage to destroy each other, it could spell doom for both universes.
Fortunately, the joining of former VON employees with TMC has not destroyed the VoIP universe!
Andy said:
I was aware of what was going on between the VON heavyweights and TMC but kept it hush. I saw both Carl and Scott in TMC's main conference room a couple times over the past couple of weeks meeting with my fellow co-workers Rich Tehrani, Dave Rodriguez, and others. I was told about the negotiations but didn't sit in on the meeting since I was busy testing some VoIP products, including the new snom 820 phone.What I'm hearing is that long time VON business brain-trust, Scott Kargman, and VON Conference impresario, Carl Ford have teamed up with TMC's Rich Tehrani to produce the 4G Wireless Evolution Website and a conference in Miami next February.
Rich also got me involved with testing a cool HD streaming over coax product. More on that soon.
Ya know, I saw the demise of VON in 2006 coming when I poked fun at Jeff Pulver changing the focus from Voice on the Net (VON) to Video on the Net (VON 2.0?). My only question now is should I expect to see Jeff Pulver in TMC's conference room? Then hell will have truly frozen over!
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Peter J. King
Peter J. King and the King Family Foundation donated $3.5 million to United Family Medicine. This was the lead gift in the $14.8 million campaign that led to the building of our new facility, the Peter J. King Family Health Center. Peter J. King said, "I'm proud to support the wonderful work United Family does to provide comprehensive health services to low-income and uninsured patients from the West 7th corridor and nearby communities. This new building will help ensure that United Family can continue to fulfill its mission for many years to come."
We recognize all his generous contributions in the community and are honored to have him and his family involved with our organization.
McGough Companies
The contributions from McGough Companies are many. United Family Medicine is grateful for their financial contributions, donation of the construction of the parking ramp, generosity of their property development expertise, and volunteer time of their staff on our continued fundraising efforts. They have been involved since the early conceptual phase of the project, throughout the entire process, and as we now work to build a strong base of sustainable support for the future.
United Hospital Foundation
United Family Medicine is grateful for the support it has received as a project of the United Hospital Foundation. We would not have been successful without them. Since the project kick-off in spring of 2006, their staff and volunteers have contributed time, expertise and tangible support through past fundraising activities. We acknowledge and thank the United Hospital Foundation and its leadership for their capacity-building work with us since we achieved our independent 501(c)(3) status as a community clinic.
Thread Connected Content
United Family Medicine is grateful to Thread Connected Content, our agency of record, for its generous branding and design donations. The team at Thread created our new logo and website, as well as our stationery and collateral. They also worked closely with us as we developed our new name. Overall, Thread's work and the rebrand were an integral part of our successful move to the new facility. And, in the long term, they will help us communicate with and support our patient community, physicians, staff, contributors and supporters – and for that, we are most appreciative.


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Pella Tulip Time 2016
This was my first time to any Tulip Festivals. I grew up in Michigan near Holland Tulip Time and I thought this would be all tulips and people dressed in dutch costumes. It was worth it to go.
Here are some girls doing a Dutch dance.
And this is Iowa so there are tractors.
And purple tractors. Look up Tim Hawkings Pretty Pink Tractor when you are board.
And a huge flea market, well craft market. I miss real flee markets with old stuff. The girls wanted these chairs for their dolls. Not at $18 each darlings. We can make that. That was my issue there, most of the stuff I could make that I liked or at least knew how to make on the cheaper side of things.
Yes there were tulips. They were pretty. Height of season wat 2 weeks ago.
I have the stuff to make this but I was happy to cool off with the refills and help out the boy scouts. the tall guy in train shirt is our tour guide and Ryans brother Jeff. He made the trip really good.
Root Beer and Cream Soda were yummy. Anna lives in that UTLX hat of Daddies. She has claimed them as her own.
There was your carny food there and some authentic stuff too like fried meats and donut like things. I don't remember the names but you get the idea.
Play grounds are a good thing where kids can climb and play. Then us adults can rest and chat. This place was huge. There was also a pay play ground for little ones and bounce houses. We are dutch so we like free.
More tulips and Lilly has the cream soda. Look a tractor.
There was a parade and I am glad to see our troops. They deserve our respect.
Local bands, Anna enjoyed seeing the flute players since that is what she is playing next year in 6th grade.
Floats and windmills of course. We didn't go in the windmill, way too many people. It looked beautiful. Jon kept pointing out its flags.
More dutch people in the parade.
My way to ride...
We got to see family too, that is another post.


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Choosing how you'd like to set up your text fields is a key consideration when building your project. This article explains how to set text fields to be rich or plain text and how to switch between those options later on.
Set your text field settings
When building an item structure, you can choose to set each text field as either rich text or plain text.
- Rich text fields allow people to edit the formatting of the text, including heading styles, bold, hyperlinks and more.
- Plain text fields allow people to only write the text. You can apply formatting later on when the content is in your CMS.
1. Go into the template or structure that you want to set the text field types for. You can get here in two ways:
- Directly clicking the template name from the Templates tab
- From inside an item, by clicking the name of the template or structure currently applied, and then 'Edit this Template or Structure'
2. Once in the structure editor, locate the field you want to set to rich or plain text.
3. Underneath the field title, click the 'Settings' link.
4. Tip: All text fields are rich text by default.
If the field is currently rich text, you can flip the toggle to 'Plain text' to change the type to plain text. If the field is plain text, you'll see this appear written underneath the 'Settings' link.
Flip the toggle back to rich text if you want to update this and allow the team add add formatting to the content.


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Recently I have gone through the process of selecting a web hosting company for one of my clients. There are a lot of options out there and a number things you need to be cautious about. I will go over some of the decision points and questions you will want to ask a company before signing a contract.
The first thing you need to do is define the features that make up you site. Is it made up purely of static content or does not use a database? If that is the case then you can choose just about any hosting company that supports your favorite development platform (ASP.NET, PHP, etc.).
If you require a database for your application determining how much control over the database and how much space is required are you next tasks. Many hosting service will offer either MySQL or a limited access SQL Server. This will support small databases with simple CRUD requirements.
If you require full control over the database and need features of the server such as the operating server scheduler you are now looking at leasing a dedicated server. This will significantly increase your cost per month, but once you get to this level it is either a dedicated server or a cloud service such as Azure.
One thing that I have found is that if you are getting a dedicated server from a hosting company often your best bet is to purchase your own SQL Server license instead of paying the monthly charges for the hosting service to provide them. The average I have seen is about $275 per month. Even if you pay $4000 for a license it will pay for itself in just over a year.
In the end there aren't any easy answers, but hopefully some of the guidelines above can help you find the right solution for your hosting needs.
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Tim is a Solutions Architect for PSC Group, LLC. He has been an IT consultant since 1999 specializing in Microsoft technologies. Along with running the Chicago Information Technology Architects Group and speaking on Microsoft and architecture topics he was also contributing author on "The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library".


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With a third box set, and the second to comprise entirely full-cast adventures, the Third Doctor, bless his little bouf, is back with us again. As before, Tim Treloar presents his on-the-button interpretation of Jon Pertwee's eponymous Third Doc, ably assisted by Katy Manning's Jo Grant, in a duo of stories set late in Ms Grant's run.
First up is Nick Briggs's The Conquest of Far, which is less a sequel to and more a direct continuation of TV's Planet of the Daleks. The planet of Far is home to one of humanity's greatest feats of spatial engineering – but it has been invaded by the Daleks, and is now a mere chess piece in a deadly intergalactic game. Can the Doctor save Far from complete oblivion?
Andrew Smith's The Storm of the Horofax completes the set. A mysterious alien, apparently peaceful but with the ability to see the future, has made contact with the crew of Royal Navy destroyer. But who are the Horofax, and what are their true designs for the peoples of Earth?
It's hard to find fault with this set. There's a real sense of scale to The Conquest of Far that both complements and eclipses the aspirations of its TV precursor with its limited 70s budget. There's also a whole depth to the story that was rarely achieved on TV, for all that that was one of the show's golden eras. More than just a straight paranoid-Daleks-shoot-everything piece, this story explores the knock-on effects of the horror of invasion, and what it might actually make people do. Having said that, it never strays from good, old-fashioned Whovial adventures, and what with the fantastic sound design from David Nagel and Joe Meiners, and a score from Jamie Robertson that could have come straight from the 70s series itself, it really just delivers everything one could want from a missing Pertwee adventure.
Smith's The Storm of the Horofax similarly evokes a very familiar style of Third Doctor story, one that's been around at least since The Claws of Axos: benevolent alien may not be as benevolent as it appears. And again, quite apart from a script that fits, it just sounds the part. There must be a temptation to write for this series more contemporary stories, with more contemporary mores and values. It is to the credit of the writers and BigFinish that, instead, they have stuck with something that sounds entirely of its era.
But of course, so very much of why it sounds so right is in the performance of the lead actor. Tim Treloar, here interpreting Pertwee's Doctor for the third time, is just getting better and better. He always sounded like Three, with barely a waiver; but this time, his performance just utterly nails it. No more is one thinking "that sounds uncannily like Jon Pertwee"; rather, one actually is drawn into a world that has the real Third Doctor in it. With no disrespect to Pertwee, and for all that Treloar's is quite rightly an interpretation rather than an impersonation… well, there's only one Third Doctor. He just truly has two actors portraying him.
And, of course, that Treloar is made for the role was always to be expected: the clues were all there. 'Tim', the name of the Speaking Clock, providing services temporal to the people of Britain for years. 'Tre', the Italian word for three. And 'Loar', the time-honoured East End term for a person of nobility recognised the world over. Jumble them together, and what do you have? Tim… Loar… Tre. Time… Lord… Three. It was hidden in plain sight the whole time.
Written By: Nicholas Briggs, Andrew Smith
Directed By: Nicholas Briggs
Tim Treloar (The Doctor), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), George Watkins (Delralis), John Banks (Jickster), Amy Newton (Elaquon), Robin Weaver (Arianda), Iain Batchelor (Adam Rigg), Robert Hands (Major Hardy / Crewman), Richard Derrington (Commander Burton), Ian Cunningham (Sinko / Ronson / Lieutenant), Jake Dudman (UNIT Radio Operator) and Nicholas Briggs (The Daleks)
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Children and teenagers tend to move in groups of friends.
Thinking as parents, these are critical ages for our children to be surrounded by a healthy environment and for social relationships to influence them positively. Dancing is the prop through which our dancers are able to believe in themselves and increase their self-esteem. This allows them to express themselves and work in a group, to interact with their surroundings and occupy part of their free time by rehearsing and enjoying the company of their friends to achieve their goals.
HHS Grades is organised into 6 courses:
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It is aimed at young people aged 9* and over in order to learn and improve new Hip Hop movements, develop musical sense and creativity, foster group cohesion and strengthen self-confidence.
The level progresses throughout training. Our purpose is to achieve a commitment with the dancer, in which they achieve overall, comprehensive training and discover their style and develop their own groove. Each course works consistently on their development and is based on human values.
IF YOU WANT YOU CAN. Achieving a goal confirms their self-confidence and motivates them to continue. Improving self-esteem and group cohesion is vital in adolescence.
* Note: Age is by way of guidance. Each teacher decides the grade depending on the age, abilities of each student, etc.


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There are several terrific nurseries near Inverness, but my absolute favourite is Abriachan Nursery on Loch Ness. Not only does it have an interesting selection of Auriculas, primula and other herbaceous perennials that thrive here in the Highlands, it also has a beautiful garden that shows many of the plants in situ.
Like my back garden, Abriachan is a steeply sloping woodland garden, with both dry, sunny and cool, shady areas. It faces South (unlike my East facing slope). And whereas I am exposed to winds straight off the North Sea, Abriachan faces Loch Ness, benefiting from a remarkably mild & stable microclimate, given the latitude. So, while Abriachan may be a week or two ahead of my garden and probably doesn't get quite such heavy frost, I can be near certain that if grows there, it will grow 10 miles away on my slope (provided I plant it right!)
Saturday I popped over to the nursery with my camera and spent a hot, sunny hour pottering around their garden. I had the place pretty much to myself and was lucky enough to see one of the most delightful botanical sights I can recall.
I emerged from a shaded path into a more open, sunny border and there was a single Himalayan Blue Poppy, backlit in the bright morning light. There was no distracting planting competing with it. As a result this single plant had a far more dramatic impact than the drifts I have seen (for example at Aberdeen Botanic Garden). Not only was it absolute star of the garden yesterday – it looked like it had just arrived pristine from another planet.
Naturally I had to buy one! I already have one establishing in the back, but at just £3 for a young plant, I decided to give one a go in the front as well. They need to be kept well fed in order to really establish, apparently. Heck, mine can have sirloin steak if it wants it.
To accompany it I bought a lovely maroon and yellow Euphorbia for a newly created sunny spot in the front – and happily this divided naturally into four plants when I unpotted it. I found a lovely spotted leaved Pulmonaria for a shady spot in the back and a dark leaved creeping violet to set it off. All these plants are welcome to spread to their roots' content!
Given it was the lure of a fine display of Auricula that drew me to the nursery in the first place (courtesy of their blog and Flickr group), I couldn't leave with a choice new addition of my own. I picked up three new Auricula, including two in shades of blues. I already have a lovely red and yellow one for the same nursery, which I have divided into three over the years, so now I am well on my way to having a collection!
Arbriachan had a fine, shelved display of potted Auriculas, with a simple black cloth showing off the blooms to full effect – a traditional "Auricula Threatre." I can see why people used to part with a week's salary for a choice variety, though £4 per specimen was my limit (clearly I'm not a real addict).
So a definite shopping spree (I blame the fabulous summer-like weather) – but there is definitely enough choice plants to keep my coming back to Abriachan for a long while yet. Just as well give that the front garden has now been totally overhauled and has lots of tempting gaps that need filling!


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Hello all! It's Friday, January 10, 2014 and the weekend is almost here! Here's your morning news roundup.
- Apple will take 11 percent of the global enterprise market by 2015, according to new research from Forrester. That's not bad considering in 2009 Apple only held 1 percent of the global enterprise market and in 2012 it was just 8 percent.
- The arcade classic Pac-Man is Apple's free App of the Week. The game features the classic mazes as well as a host of new ones.
- Apple drops to fourth place in US PC shipments for Q4 2013. Apple fell one place to number four in US PC shipments last quarter, according to IDC. HP, Dell and Lenovo take the top three spots.
- The first free app of 2014 available through Apple's Apple Store app is 7 Minute Workout Challenge, an app that helps you get fit based on the latest 7-minute workout trend. Normally the app is US$1.99. If you want to download it for free, you must access it through the Apple Store app.