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VoxyPAD Inc.
("VoxyPAD" or "we" or "us" or "our" or other similar pronouns) takes your privacy matters very seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our Privacy Policy ("Policy"). This Policy details how we receive, collect and use information in connection with our website located at voxypad.com (the "Site"), the VoxyPAD VoIP software ("VoxyPAD App"), and other products and services provided on the voxypad.com website (all of the foregoing, collectively, the "Service").
By visiting this Site or using the Service, you are accepting the policies and practices described in this Policy, as such Policy may be amended from time to time. Each time you visit the Site or use the Service, you agree and expressly consent to our collection, use and disclosure of the information that you provide as described in this Policy.
To be clear about the terminology we are using, when we use the phrase "Personal Information" in this Policy, we mean information about you that is personally identifiable, like your name, address, e-mail address, billing information, or phone number, as well as other non-public information that is associated with this personal information. When we use the phrase "Anonymous Information" in this Policy, we mean information that is not personally identifiable, or linked to your Personal Information such as aggregated information, general demographic information and IP addresses. Anonymous Information does not necessarily enable identification of individual persons.
1. Collection and Use of Information VoxyPAD App
When you install the VoxyPAD App and register on the Site, you will be asked to provide us with your social network credentials and to allow us access to your friend list. A copy of the friend list (but not emails, notes or any other Personal Information in your social network account) will be stored on our servers and will only be used to:
(a) notify you when your contacts become active on VoxyPAD,
(b) indicate which of your contacts is already a VoxyPAD user,
(c) correctly display the name of each contact as it appears in your contact list when a call is received.
The copy of your friendlist(names and avatars) is stored on a live database. This database does not have a "historical backup". If you delete the address book from our servers (more about this below), it will be deleted instantly and permanently.
VoxyPAD also maintains a Call Detail Record (CDR - see http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Call_detail_record) for each call conducted on the system. These are industry standard records used by all phone companies. We maintain this information in order to better understand network behavior and trends (numbers of calls made by users, typical destinations, call lengths, network type, etc.), detect potential outages and technical issues (this helps us notice things like a drop in call volume in a certain geography, a shift in call length, a change in typical networks, etc.) and for public safety reasons. All log analysis is done in an anonymous, aggregate, non-personally identifiable manner. We may look into a specific Call Detail Record in response to a customer support request. We maintain CDRs for a period of no more than 30 months.
Audio calls by users are transmitted either directly from user to user or, if direct transmission is not possible (due to, for example, firewalls), VoxyPAD servers are used to transmit the call. In the latter scenario, the information transmitted is stored briefly in volatile memory (RAM) solely to enable the transmission of the call to the other user. WE DO NOT RECORD ANY PART OF YOUR CALL.
Other Services
In the event we make message boards and forums available to you (collectively, "Forums"), you will be solely responsible for the information and any other content you post on and through these Forums and should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose Personal Information (e.g., name, e-mail address, telephone number) on or through these Forums, such information is generally accessible to, and may be collected and used by, other users. This may result in unsolicited messages from third parties, and such messages are beyond our control. We do not exercise control over any users or Site visitors, and in no way are we responsible, nor do we have any liability whatsoever, for any collection or use of information you may disclose through the Forums. This Policy does not cover such disclosure of information. You are encouraged to exercise discretion when providing personal information about yourself in and through Forums. Please do not post any Personal Information on this Site that you expect to keep private.
Cookies, Clear GIFs and Other Automatically Collected Data
If you have permitted your computer to accept cookies, we may use cookies on the Site. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make web-surfing easier by saving preferences and browsing patterns while you are at the Site. Cookies may be used to analyze the Site usage, improve content, customize the Site's content and layout and for other customer service purposes. A cookie may enable us to relate your use of our Site to other information about you, including your Personal Information. All of these purposes serve to improve and personalize your experience on our Site. Most Web browsers can be set to inform you when a cookie has been sent to you and provide you with the opportunity to refuse that cookie. Additionally, if you have a Flash player installed on your computer, your Flash player can be set to reject or delete Flash cookies. However, refusing a cookie may, in some cases, preclude you from using, or negatively impact the display or function of, the Site or certain areas or features of the Site.
We may use "clear GIFs" (aka "Web beacons" or "pixel tags") or similar technologies, in the Site and/or in our communications with you to enable us to evaluate Site usage information about visitors to the Site, target campaigns, upgrade visitor information, and know whether you have visited a Web page or received a message. A clear GIF is typically a one-pixel, transparent image (although it can be a visible image as well), located on a Web page or in an e-mail or other type of message, which is retrieved from a remote site on the Internet enabling the verification of an individual's viewing or receipt of a Web page or message. A clear gif may enable us to relate your viewing or receipt of a Web page or message to other information about you, including your Personal Information.
Our servers may automatically collect data about your Internet address when you visit the Site. This information, known as an Internet Protocol address, or IP Address, is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider whenever you are on the Internet. When you request pages from our Site, our servers may log your IP Address and, if applicable, your domain name. Your IP Address is used to help identify you and to gather demographic information about our members and users as a whole, but does not include personally identifiable information. Our server may also record the referring page that linked you to us (e.g., another web site or a search engine); the pages you visit on this Site; the web site you visit after this Site; the ads you see and/or click on; other information about the type of Web browser, computer, platform, related software and settings you are using; any search terms you have entered on this Site or a referral site; and other Web usage activity and data logged by our servers. We use this information for internal system administration, to help diagnose problems with our servers, and to administer our Service. Such information may also be used to gather demographic information, such as country of origin and Internet Service Provider.
We will not link any Personal Information, including e-mail addresses, with aggregate data of our users.
Any or all of these activities with regard to Site usage information may be performed on our behalf by our service providers, including, for example, our analytics vendor(s) and our e-mail management partner(s).
Third-Party Sites and Privacy Practices
You may arrive at our Site and/or download the VoxyPAD App from another website. In addition, our Site may contain links that will let you leave our Site and access another website. Websites linked to or from our Site are not under the control of VoxyPAD and it is possible that these websites have a different privacy policy. Our Policy applies solely to Personal Information that is acquired on the Site or through your use of our Service, and/or your relationship with VoxyPAD. We urge you to be careful when you enter any Personal Information online. We accept no responsibility or liability for these other websites.
Analytics Collection
VoxyPAD uses Google Analytics to help us anonymously track and report user/visitor behavior information and users' standard log information to the Site and the VoxyPAD App. This information (including but not limited to: IP address, data storage, maintenance services, database management, web analytics and information processing) helps us analyze and evaluate how the VoxyPAD App and Site are used as part of our ongoing efforts to improve the Site and VoxyPAD App's features and services. No personally identifying data is included in this type of reporting. Google Analytics may have access to your information only for the purposes of performing these tasks and on behalf of VoxyPAD and under obligation similar in those in this Privacy Policy. For more information about the terms that govern Google Analytics, please visit the Google Analytics terms of service.
We will never (and will not allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any Personal Information of visitors or users. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither we nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a device user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any Personally Identifiable Information from any source, unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website.
If you do not want your information to be part of this statistical information gathering, you can disable Google Analytics using the application settings; visit the 'More' screen, tap settings, then disable Google Analytics Collect Data option.
2. Sharing and Disclosure of Information
We do not rent, sell, or share any information about the user with any third-parties, except as specifically described herein. We may disclose your Personal Information if we believe such action is necessary to:
(a) comply with the law, or legal process served on us;
(b) protect and defend our rights or property (including the enforcement of our agreements); or
(c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of our Service or members of the public.
We may provide Personal Information to trusted third-parties who work on behalf of or with us. We attempt to ensure that such companies agree to maintain confidentiality, security and integrity of the Personal Information obtained from us. These companies do not have any independent right to share the Personal Information.
We may disclose information about you if we determine that for national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance that disclosure of information is necessary.
We may from time to time ask you to provide information about your experiences which will be used to measure and improve quality. You are at no time under any obligation to provide any of such data. Any and all information which is voluntarily submitted in feedback forms on the Site or any survey that you accept to take part in is used for the purposes of reviewing this feedback and improving the VoxyPAD software, products and websites.
We may contact you to send you messages about faults and service issues. Furthermore, we reserve the right to use email, the VoxyPAD software or SMS to notify you of any eventual claims related to your use of our software, websites and/or products, including without limitation claims of violation of third party rights.
We may send you alerts via the VoxyPAD software to notify you when someone has tried to contact you. We may also use the VoxyPAD software to keep you up to date with news about our software and products that you have purchased and/or to inform you about other VoxyPAD products and related information.
3. Children's Privacy
VoxyPAD websites and software clients are not intended for or designed to attract anyone under the age of 13 and we do not intentionally or knowingly collect Personal Information on our sites from anyone under the age of 13 (or older in some jurisdictions). We encourage parents to be involved in the online activities of their children to ensure that no information is collected from a child without parental permission.
4. Security
We take reasonable precaution to protect Personal Information from misuse, loss and unauthorized access. Although we cannot guarantee that Personal Information will not be subject to unauthorized access, we have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in place to protect Personal Information. Personal Information is stored on our servers and protected by secured networks to which access is limited to a few authorized employees and personnel. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.
5. Business Transitions
In the event that we go through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, Personal Information will likely be among the assets transferred. As part of such a transaction the new entity will be required to commit to the same level of protection of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we cannot obtain such a commitment, we will not perform the business transition.
We will post a notice on this Site of any such change in ownership or control of the Personal Information we may have prior to such transfer.
6. Changes to Policy
From time to time, we may revise this Policy. We reserve the right to update or modify this Policy, or any other of our policies or practices, at any time with or without notice. However, we will not use your Personal Information in a way that is materially different than the uses described in this Policy without giving you an opportunity to opt-out of such differing uses. We will post the revised Policy on the Site, so that users can always be aware of what information we collect, how the information is used and under what circumstances such information may be disclosed. You agree to review the Policy periodically so that you are aware of any modifications. Your continued use of the Site indicates your assent to any changes and signifies your agreement to the terms of our Policy. If you do not agree with these terms, you should not use the Site, the VoxyPAD App, or any other Service.
7. Change or Removal of Information
If you provided your e-mail address to us and wish to update it, you may do so by sending an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you no longer wish to receive e-mail communication from us, such as offers, updates and newsletters, you may opt-out of receiving such communications by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication. In addition, you can remove your e-mail address at any time by sending an e-mail with the subject line of UNSUBSCRIBE to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Due to technological reasons, we do not know when and if you delete the application. Therefore, if we detect no activity from your device for 45 days, we will assume that you deleted the application and we will remove your address book from our servers. However, since we are not certain that you deleted the application (you may just be on vacation, etc.) we will not deactivate your VoxyPAD account (which is your phone number and device ID). We do not want to force you to register again in the event of non-use.
If you wish to delete your account completely, you can go to the "More" tab in the VoxyPAD App, and tap the "Deactivate Account" option. Please note that this will remove your data from VoxyPAD, and deactivate VoxyPAD on your device. If you have additional concerns and/or requests, you can contact VoxyPAD at firstname.lastname@example.com.
8. Contact Information
Please direct all questions in connection with this Policy via e-mail to email@example.com or by writing to VoxyPAD Inc., Attention: Privacy Policy Administrator, 440 N. Wolfe Rd., Sunnyvale, CA.
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Microsoft chief: In 10 years, computers will know your intent
Expect to see as much development in computing through the next 10 years as there was in the past 10, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a group of technology workers in Charlotte on Friday.
He described computer systems that can figure out what you meant to do and devices as flexible as a sheet of paper as the technologies that would change the way we live in the next few years.
Ballmer's speech and question-and-answer session kicked off the North Carolina Technology Association conference in uptown Charlotte. He discussed topics including health care costs and the future of Microsoft's new search engine, Bing.
"Nothing ever slows down," he said, highlighting the need for research and development even in a down economy. "There continues to be amazing change, and it's not just in the new things you see and read."
Read more at CharlotteObserver.com

subset: commoncrawl


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Big "Welcome Back" hug to myself here. I've been procrastinating on this post since November last year.
At first I had too much random thoughts to babble gracefully. Then I got carried away with dancing like no tomorrow at local milongas and tango festivals. When 2014 the darkest year in my life finally ended on a kinda good note, I decided to compete in ATUSA again and use the competition prep to kick off a new chapter of my life, super duper strong.
Some people knew me as a second-timer at ATUSA this year. But only very few people knew that last year I was there, but I was not there - most people was nervous about stage fear or being harshly judged, but what really occupied me was when barely getting over a ridiculously long abusive relationship, I literally got laid off the day before the competition - was I able to find a job before being forced out of this country? Or was this really my last tango ever?
I job-interviewed like crazy while competing. Either being eliminated from qualifying round or advancing into semi-final did not mean a thing to me. I had worse things to worry about - the fear of being out of legal status due to sudden job loss and visa expiration. And the sadness of leaving all of my friends and family, who sincerely cared about me, who I probably would not even have a chance to say a proper goodbye to.
Good thing was, no one, not even including my parents or myself, knew that I was tough as nails - I not only made it through all the emergency job hunting crab and visa trouble, but also I returned with a bigger heart and started dancing again, almost every night - going to local milonga, traveling to tango festivals, finding myself new competition partners, trying my hands on whole-song choreography for the very first time, training myself hard till I couldn't take it any more, and dancing my heart out every single time when I got a chance to perform.
All I wanted to show was - I survived, and I am in a better place now. And, I am so damn proud of that.
Another ATUSA competition season is finally all over now. I didn't qualify in either salon or stage this time. So What? Some people never gave a fuck about it anyways. Though some people treated it as life-or-death challenge. To me, it is just one form in the whole tango universe. I haven't stopped going out dancing regardless. Or may I say, I haven't stopped seeking my better self in tango, and in life.
I learned what I found useful to help me grow - it's LOVE - not a single title in this world can ever beat the precious friendship I received during the prep time and competition tension - the warm hugs, the bitter tears, the "special pepsi", the artistic photos, the sincere "I love you" from people I know and complete strangers...
My friends, just like every milonga you've been to, you can always find yourself somehow connected - with the music, those you danced with, the crowd, or even the venue that brought back good or bad memories... What matters the most is how much YOU value the whole experience.
Dancing is never ending. Life keeps going on. Sometimes things take a sharp turn but eventually they would slowly climb upscale. Just enjoy the ride.
"No pain no gain" rule still applies - everyone loves being in the spotlight and enjoy the audience's applause, but not everyone likes the idea of repeating the same move frame-by-frame until it looks perfect... It takes tremendous work to become that elegant lady who can not only pull off those flattering dresses and seductive stilettos, but also dance with the right attitude, energy, personality and capacity. Same to you, gentlemen.
Even the best milonga in town cannot guarantee we always see the exact same crowd show up every time. Just like those who come into or exit from your life, people constantly come and go - all at unexpected turn of events, at one point or another. Just like those fellow milongueros, dancing non-stop or people-watching a lot, experienced or newbie, known for a long time or newly met, earning dozens of thousands of salary or living off pay check, their attendance is all fragile just like one's life. They may or may not meant to cross your path, but when they do, cherish the moment together and give it all in:
Someone you just befriended are moving away because they are bored with their current life and need a new start somewhere else.
Someone you just recently got acquainted with offered you a huge favor without any hesitation but only pure sincere and commitment in his voice.
Someone you fell in love with chickened-out on a random exit because he feared himself lacking the gut and courage to conquer the world with you. All he can take is living a quiet routined life waiting to climb into the grave.
Someone you thought you are closedly tied to for lifetime no matter what (best friend, life partner, family member, etc), they might get ill, turn older, become weak, or even rest in peace.
Every now and then, we keep running into assholes or douchebags. We have all been challenged by difficult people in all kinds. Well, little by little, you learn how to deal with that by kindly telling them "fuck off" with your own graceful twist.
People who truly want to keep you in their life, they do something about it. We do the same to those we sincerely care about.
Last but not least, a pair of comfortable shoes in right size and good quality helps reduce the pain and tiredness significantly (make us ladies look beautiful too), and they are just like a well-compatible partner who accompanies us travel further in the journey, makes tough life a lot easier, and bitter/sour grape taste sweet. If you don't have it yet, keep looking. Do not settle for less. Ever.
Abrazos y besos,
Yours Xiaomin


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Aristarchus (Greek: Ἀρίσταρχος, Arístarchos; 310 BC – ca. 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in Greece. He is the first known person to present a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe. He was influenced by the Pythagorean Philolaus of Croton, but, in contrast to Philolaus, he had both identified the central fire with the Sun, as well as putting other planets in correct order from the Sun. His astronomical ideas were rejected in favor of the geocentric theories of Aristotle and Ptolemy until they were successfully revived nearly 1800 years later by Copernicus and extensively developed and built upon by Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton. The crater Aristarchus on the Moon is named in his honor.
The only work usually attributed to Aristarchus which has survived to the present time, On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, is based on a geocentric world view. It is peculiar and possibly informative that this work reckons the sun's diameter as 2 degrees, rather than the correct value, 1/2 degree. The latter diameter is known from Archimedes to have been Aristarchus's actual value.
Though the original text has been lost, a reference in Archimedes' book The Sand Reckoner (Archimedis Syracusani Arenarius & Dimensio Circuli) describes another work by Aristarchus in which he advanced an alternative hypothesis of the heliocentric model. Archimedes wrote:
You (King Gelon) are aware the 'universe' is the name given by most astronomers to the sphere the center of which is the center of the Earth, while its radius is equal to the straight line between the center of the Sun and the center of the Earth. This is the common account as you have heard from astronomers. But Aristarchus has brought out a book consisting of certain hypotheses, wherein it appears, as a consequence of the assumptions made, that the universe is many times greater than the 'universe' just mentioned. His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the Sun remain unmoved, that the Earth revolves about the Sun on the circumference of a circle, the Sun lying in the middle of the orbit, and that the sphere of the fixed stars, situated about the same center as the Sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the Earth to revolve bears such a proportion to the distance of the fixed stars as the center of the sphere bears to its surface.[1]
Aristarchus thus believed the stars to be very far away, and saw this as the reason why there was no visible parallax, that is, an observed movement of the stars relative to each other as the Earth moved around the Sun. The stars are in fact much farther away than the distance that was generally assumed in ancient times, which is why stellar parallax is only detectable with telescopes. The geocentric model, consistent with planetary parallax, was assumed to be an explanation for the unobservability of the parallel phenomenon, stellar parallax. The rejection of the heliocentric view was common, as the following passage from Plutarch suggests (On the Apparent Face in the Orb of the Moon):
Cleanthes (a contemporary of Aristarchus and head of the Stoics) thought it was the duty of the Greeks to indict Aristarchus on the charge of impiety for putting in motion the hearth of the universe … supposing the heaven to remain at rest and the earth to revolve in an oblique circle, while it rotates, at the same time, about its own axis.—Tassoul, Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics[2]
The only other astronomer from antiquity, who is known by name and who is known to have supported Aristarchus' heliocentric model was Seleucus of Seleucia, a Mesopotamian astronomer who lived a century after Aristarchus.[3]
Aristarchus claimed that at half moon (first or last quarter moon), the angle between sun and moon was 87°.[4] Possibly he proposed 87° as a lower bound since gauging the lunar terminator's deviation from linearity to 1° accuracy is beyond the unaided human ocular limit (that limit being about 3° accuracy). Aristarchus is known to have also studied light and vision.[5]
Using correct geometry, but the insufficiently accurate 87° datum, Aristarchus concluded that the Sun was between 18 to 20 times farther away than the Moon. (The true value of this angle is close to 89° 50', and the Sun's distance is actually about 400 times the Moon's.) The implicit false solar parallax of slightly under 3° was used by astronomers up to and including Tycho Brahe, ca. AD 1600 CE. Aristarchus pointed out that the Moon and Sun have nearly equal apparent angular sizes and therefore their diameters must be in proportion to their distances from Earth. He thus concluded that the diameter of the Sun was between 18 to 20 times larger than the diameter of the Moon; which, although wrong, follows logically from his data. It also leads to the conclusion that the Sun's diameter is almost seven times greater than the Earth's; the volume of Aristarchus's Sun would be almost 300 times greater than the Earth.[6] This difference in sizes may have inspired the heliocentric model.
Mentioned by Archimedes and by modern scientists for being the first to propose a heliocentric "universe", Aristarchus also proposed an ancient Greek time period, his "Great Year" of 4868 solar years, equalling exactly 270 saroi, each of 18 Callippic years plus 10 and 2/3 degrees. (Syntaxis, book 4 chapter 2.) Its empirical foundation was the 4267 month eclipse cycle, cited by Ptolemy as source of the "Babylonian" month, which was good to a fraction of a second (1 part in several million). It is found on cuneiform tablets from shortly before 200 B. C., though Ptolemy did not attribute its origin to Babylon. (Due to near integral returns in lunar and solar anomaly, eclipses 4267 months apart exceptionally never deviated by more than an hour from a mean of 126007 days plus 1 hour, the value given by Ptolemy at op. cit. Thus, estimation of the length of the month was ensured to have relative accuracy of 1 part in millions.) Embedded in the Great Year was a length of the month agreeing with the Babylonian value to 1 part in tens of millions, decades before Babylon is known to have used it. There are indications that Babylon's month was exactly that of Aristarchus, which if true renders it effectively certain that one party obtained it from the other or from a common source.
Aristarchus's lunar conception represents an advance of science in several respects. Previous estimates of the length of the month were in error by 114 seconds (Meton, 432 B. C.) and 22 seconds (Callippus, 330 B. C.). The attribution of a mean motion to such a motion as the moon's was possibly new.
The Vatican has preserved two ancient manuscripts with estimates of the length of the year. The only ancient scientist listed for two different values is Aristarchus. It is now widely suspected that these are among the earliest surviving examples of continued fraction expressions. The most obvious interpretations are precisely computable from the manuscript numbers.[7]
The results are years of 365 + 1/152 days, and 365 - 15/4868 days, representing the sidereal year and the civil, supposedly tropical year.
Both denominators are relatable to Aristarchus, whose summer solstice was 152 years after Meton's and whose Great Year was 4868 years. The difference between the sidereal and tropical years is identical to precession. The former value is accurate within a few seconds. The latter is erroneous by several minutes.
Both are close to the values later used by Hipparchus and Ptolemy, and the precession indicated is almost precisely 1 degree per century, a much-too-low value. Unfortunately, 1 degree per century precession was used by all later astronomers until the Arabs. The correct value in Aristarchus's time was about 1.38 degrees per century.


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In addition to our Top Spammer List, we also provide a personal spam list that our users can modify on their own Truecaller app. If a Truecaller user in India blocks a number – that same number will be flagged as spam if a user in England gets a call from that specific number. If it gets flagged enough times by our users, it will end up on the Top Spammer List and automatically blocked for all 100 million users.
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Numbers are shown as 'private' by default (unless publicly available already on another source). There are 3 types of privacy settings all Truecaller users should pay attention to when they set up their Truecaller. This is 'Who Can Get My Contact Details?'
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Contact requests help monitor who is trying to get in contact with you, and it is up to you to give access to your contact details, block, or take action and call the person.
Claim Your Phone Number Even with the latest technology and social media, our main source of communication that has been left unchanged for decades is the telephone number. We all have one. So why not personalize it?
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Courtesy: http://www.truecaller.com/blog/


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SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The Pirates lost to their archrival, the Trinity Tigers, 4-0 and 6-1 on Saturday afternoon.
It was scoreless through the first four innings, until Trinity scored in the bottom of the 5th inning. Clements was the first runner of the Tigers to score after he hit a single, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Wolf, advanced to third on a throwing error by the pitcher, and scored on a double by Woodruff. Later in the inning, Woodruff scored on a wild pitch. Francke followed with a single up the middle and earned 2 RBIs. The Pirates got out of the threat with a double play.
However, Southwestern could not get anything going in terms of scoring. Zachary Lynch, Cruz Luna, Colton Shea, and Colby Dutton each singled for the Pirates. Lucero earned the complete game win in game 1 and improved to 3-1, while Carl Mueller dropped to 0-4.
In game two, it was more of the same. Trinity scored in the bottom of the 2nd, when Moore had a sacrifice fly for a RBI, allowing Jewett to score. Francke later hit a double to right field and garnered 2 RBIs, as Blanchi and Griffin scored. Trinity continued to roll en route to the 6-1 win. The Trinity Tigers improved to 10-2 on the season and the Pirates moved to 1-15.
The Pirates will close out the series tomorrow at 1:00PM at Trinity.


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Many Blessings
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Love to you all during this horrifically tragic time.
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Want to know how to change guitar strings? Our step-by-step guide will show you how to change guitar strings quickly, correctly and safely.
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How to change guitar strings – Step #1: Get the right tools for the job.
If you want to learn how to change guitar strings there are a few tools you will need:
A string winder, a set of pliers and a guitar tuner. (And of course, a new set of guitar strings.)
The string winder isn't essential, but it's useful to have because it saves so much time.
Sometimes called 'pegwinders', these little gadgets are cheap and useful. Some even have pliers build in. (Handy!) This model is one of our favourites.
How to change guitar strings – step #2: Take the old strings off.
Ideally we don't want to take all the strings off at once because this sudden change in tension can upset the balance of your guitar's neck.
While learning how to change guitar strings, you are also learning some important pieces of general guitar maintenance:
- Going from holding the tension of six strings to having zero tension is a big change for a humble piece of wood!
It's ok to take all the strings off occasionally (e.g., when periodically cleaning the guitar neck and rubbing lemon oil into the wood) but this should be the exception to the rule.
Most of the time, do it one string at a time.
It doesn't matter what order you change the strings in, but if it's your first time, we strongly advise you start with the 6th string (the thickest string), as this is the easiest one to change.
The 1st string (the thinnest string) is the hardest to change because it is slippier and more likely to unravel as you attempt to wind it up.
Learning how to change guitar strings is mainly learning how to stop strings unravelling and driving you insane.
How to change guitar strings – step #3: Slacken off the old string at the neck end of the guitar.
It's very important to do this. If you try and remove a string that is still tight it will spring off the guitar and possibly cut you or catch you in the eye.
Make sure the string is slack before you try to remove it from the guitar!
All we need to do to loosen the string is detune it by turning the tuning peg until it no longer plays a note. (When it's just flapping and not making any discernible sound, it's ready to come off.
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How to change guitar strings – step #4: Uncoil the string from the tuning peg.
So now your string should be nice and slack.
- The next step is to simply uncoil it from the tuning peg.
- Slowly unravel it. It should come away fairly easily now the tension has been taken out of the string.
The final tip of the string may take a little persuasion as it is usually kinked in order to keep it in place.
If that's the case, just bend it back a little to straighten out the kink and give the string a gentle tug to free it from the tuning peg.
Important safety tip: the ends of guitar strings can be very sharp (especially if they were snipped with pliers). Handle them with the same caution you would a pin or a needle. If you have kids around, take care.
Working out how to change guitar strings is quite straightforward, but you must use some caution too. Don't forget that guitar strings are pieces of metal. Jagged and splintered metal can hurt!
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How to change guitar strings – step #5: Remove the old string from the bridge end of the guitar.
Now we've freed the string at the headstock end of the guitar, we need to free the other end, at the bridge.
This is where our approach can vary depending on the type of guitar.
With a steel string acoustic guitar, the strings are usually fixed to the bridge using 'bridge pins'. (These things are basically little pegs, with a groove running down the inside.)
To remove the bridge pin of the string you can either use pliers, or the string notch on your string winder (which is sized perfectly to help you lever out the pin).
If you don't have either of those things at hand, you can use a spoon to work out the bridge pin . Two points here:
- Take care to ensure the curved spoon back doesn't dent your guitar.
- The best way to prevent this is to put something like a cloth or towel under it while you lever the bridge pin out.
Interesting fact: Some bridge pins can be quite loose. These can be lifted out with your bare hands and won't require any tools.
Once we've worked the bridge pin free, the string should lift out of the bridge quite easily.
If you have a nylon-string guitar (a classical or flamenco guitar) then there will be no bridge pins. The strings are held onto the bridge by a loop that's been threaded through itself. Simply untie the loop.
With electric guitars, there are two main ways the strings can be threaded through the bridge: 'string-through' and 'bridge-mounted'.
If you want to know how to change guitar strings for your specific guitar you will need to pay attention here…
'String-through' is what guitars like the Fender Stratocasters use. This is where the strings are fed in through holes in the back of the guitar body and poke out through the bridge at the front. It looks like this:
Guitars like Gibson Les Pauls on the other hand are 'bridge-mounted'. This means the strings feed in straight through the bridge at the front. (No need to feed them through the back of the body.)
It's the same with bass guitars: Some are 'string-through', some are 'bridge-mounted'.
In both cases, the old string should simply slide its way through the bridge once you've taken care to ensure that it's loose and slack.
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How to change guitar strings – step #6 :Attaching the new string to the bridge.
Now the old string is out of the way, we're ready to attach the new shiny string!
Essentially what we're doing now is what we just did, but in reverse.
In the case of a steel string acoustic guitar we need to insert the ball-end of the new string into the bridge pin socket and then re-insert the bridge pin to hold it in place.
Bridge pins have a tendency to try and pop back out when we re-insert them so it's a good idea to push it in quite firmly, while also tugging on the string to ensure it's sitting in its niche.
Nylon strings don't have ball-ends, rather they have eyes on the end (for looping), so if we're restringing a nylon string guitar we need to thread the other end of the string through the bridge hole and then through the eye.
Unfortunately, not all nylon strings come 'pre-eyed'. You may have to tie one off yourself if that's the case. (Which is annoying and fiddly work!)
Important: do NOT attempt to put steel strings onto a nylon string guitar. They are not built to hold that kind of tension and the neck will snap after a few hours!
If it's an electric guitar we're re-stringing, we simply need to feed the new string either through the hole in the back of the body if it's a 'string though' model (such as a Stratocaster) or directly through the bridge if it's a 'bridge mounted' model (such as a Les Paul).
Important: make sure you are feeding the right string through the right hole. This is a common mistake made by beginner guitarists with 'string through' guitars.
How to change guitar strings – step #8: Disposing of the surplus length.
For reasons we won't go into here, 99% of the time, guitar strings are longer than they need to be.
We can save ourselves time and effort (and create a neater finish) if we snip off the excess string length that we don't require.
This is where our pliers come in handy.
Stretch the new string up to where the tuning peg is and add on a hand's width of surplus string. That is plenty!
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This extra hand's width of string is what we're going to use to wind around the tuning peg.
Anything beyond that hand's width can be trimmed off using our pliers.
If you don't have pliers then you can leave the surplus on, but it will get in the way and give you some extra work as we start winding the string on.
How to change guitar strings – step #9: Winding the new string onto the tuning peg.
Feed the end of the string through the hole in the tuning peg.
When you start wrapping the string around the peg it will want to unravel (to straighten itself out). In order to stop the string from sliding out and unravelling we need to kink the string into a 'v' shape so it will hook securely around the tuning peg.
This means it will be easier and faster to tighten the string (and far less likely to unravel, which can be maddening).
Kinking the string in this way is particularly important for the 1st and 2nd strings (the thinnest two strings) as they are slippy and the ones that are most likely to unravel.
Now wind the string around the tuning peg by hand. (You can use your string-winder in a moment, but the first couple of loops should be done by hand. Make sure the string is TIGHTLY coiled around.
It's important that you wind the string the right way. As we can see in the above image, the string should always be wound so it ends up running down the middle of the headstock. (Not on the edge of the headstock.)
With nylon string guitars, the tuning pegs are usually horizontal rather than vertical. If that's the case, the strings should wind over the pegs, not under.
If the string is wound the wrong way, every time you go to tune the string up, it will tune down and vice versa.
Once we've wound it round the tuning peg, we need to keep the tension of the string by keeping it pulled taught. If we don't, it will uncoil itself! We can't let go of the string until it's been tightened up quite a lot.
This is where the string-winder comes into play.
If you don't have a string winder you can wind by hand, but this is time consuming and can be tiring for our thumb and forefingers.
Attach the string winder to the tuning peg and wind it so the string begins to tighten.
Wind the string. Make sure the string is sitting in the correct grooves, at both ends of the guitar. Be careful! The string can easily pop out as you tighten it.
Unfortunately, some guitar bridges don't have grooves. If this is the case, just space the strings evenly from one another.
Important point: string winders tighten strings very quickly compared to using the thumb and forefinger, so be careful not to overtighten or your string or it will snap!
Over-tightening strings is the no#1 mistake that beginner guitarists make when they're learning how to change guitar strings.
Strings will snap quickly if you over-tighten them, so keep plucking as you wind and as soon as you hear that the string can make a note you should start using your guitar tuner to perfect the tuning.
How to change guitar strings – step #10: Tuning the new string in.
Now the string is tight enough to play a note, we need to tune it up so it plays the right note.
This is where our tuner comes in. We want to tune our new string up until our tuner says it's perfect.
This will take longer than it normally does to tune a string because our new string is so much further out of tune.
Whereas we might normally have to only give our tuning peg a slight tweak, with a new string it will likely take quite a few big twists!
Be careful not to overdo it. Tune up carefully, keeping a watchful eye on what the tuner says.
How to change guitar strings – step #11: Stretching the strings to ensure the guitar STAYS in tune.
Once the new string is in tune, you will find that it doesn't stay in tune for very long.
This is because it still has lots of slack left in it. You will find that every time you strum the string, you're knocking a little bit of that slack out, causing the string to go out of tune. Again and again!
Most beginner's have experienced this. Tuning up again and again. It's awful.
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To prevent this from happening, the new string needs to be stretched. We do this to remove any remaining flex in the string. This means the guitar will STAY in tune.
We need to gently but firmly pull this slack out of the string.
It's important to stress here: gently but firmly.
- Pull it too hard and it might snap.
- If you don't pull it hard enough and it won't remove the slack.
Once that's done, we can then tune the string back up. And repeat the process.
Stretch. Tune. Stretch. Tune.
You'll usually need to stretch a new string three times before you find it starts to settle and remains in tune.
Some final important tips…
Here's a few final points to bear in mind as you learn all about how to change guitar strings.
When to replace all your strings
If one of your guitar strings has broken, then obviously you need to replace that string, but the chances are the other strings are also past their best.
It can be a bit time consuming, but it's good practice to change all your strings if one of them breaks.
- New guitar strings sound better than old ones, so you don't want one really good sounding string and five dull sounding strings.
- Also, some guitar shops don't sell individual strings, so you might have to buy a full pack anyway.
If you start playing lots of shows, you will want to start re-stringing your guitar regularly, not just when strings break.
There are different string 'gauges'
There are different thicknesses of strings. We call them "gauges". The best types of strings for beginners are 'extra light gauge' strings. These are easier to play and gentler on the fingers.
How often should you change your guitar strings?
- For the gigging professional: Every day.
- For the occasional live performer: Every 4 weeks or before every gig. (Whichever happens first.)
- For the average home player: Once every 6-8 weeks is fine.
- For someone who hardly ever picks up the guitar: Once every 6 months is fine.
No one who owns a guitar should ever have the same set of strings on their guitar for more than a year. Strings corrode quickly. The sound they make becomes dull. They turn orange, then brown. Yuck!
Worst of all, it is hugely demotivating when your guitar sounds bad. It stops you wanting to play and this is terrible. Keep your strings bright and sharp, change them regularly and stay clean and sound musical!
Changing your strings is a regular and frequent piece of maintenance
When you think about how to change guitar strings, the best way to frame it in your mind is like this: A car needs fuel to work. And just as you must refuel your car regularly, your guitar needs to be refuelled too. You refuel your guitar by restringing it!
In the beginning, change your strings slowly
For the beginner, changing guitar strings takes time and patience. It's quite a chore. But you will get faster and faster.
After a little while you will be able to change all your guitar strings in around 5 minutes.
As you get better at it, you will get quicker at it, but it's important not to rush when you're first getting to grips with it, otherwise you'll make mistakes and get frustrated.
Set aside plenty of time to re-string and make sure you have any relevant tools on hand. It makes everything much easier.
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The Greens are taking aim at New Zealand's supermarket "duopoly" and have called on the Commerce Commission to investigate the sector after it's done looking into petrol companies.
This comes a day after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she "would not be surprised" if the commission conducted a market study into the supermarket sector.
Green MP Gareth Hughes said there is "long-standing" knowledge there is an issue in the supermarket sector.
He said groups such as Consumer NZ have been calling for an investigation for a while, adding that New Zealand does not have a code of conduct despite the fact one exists in Australia.
"When you look at the facts on the ground, Kiwis are paying more than our Australian cousins – in fact, more than any other developed countries on basically everything."
New Zealand's supermarket sector is largely made up of Foodstuffs, which owns New World and Pak'n'Save, and Woolworths, which owns Countdown.
He said given the years of concern around the duopoly, the supermarket sector needs to be the "next cab off the rank" after the Commerce Commission looks into petrol companies.
On Monday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the Government would prioritise the Commerce Amendment Bill so it would be passed in two weeks.
When law, it will mean the Commission will be able to undertake "market studies," which will compel companies to provide information proving they are behaving competitively.
Ardern said she will personally be nominating the petrol industry to be the first sector to be investigated.
Hughes is "urging" Commerce Minister Kris Faafoi to nominate supermarkets to be next.
"For far too long, the supermarket duopoly between Foodstuffs and Woolworths has hurt producers, growers and small business in New Zealand."
He said he is planning on meeting with Faafoi next week to relay his concerns about the sector.
He expected Faafoi to be quite open to the idea.
"Early on he signalled the possibility of working on a code of conduct, which is something the Green Party has long called for and would definitely support."
Supermarket companies "should absolutely be investigated by the Commerce Commission following an investigation of the petrol industry, this would benefit both suppliers and consumers".
Yesterday, a spokesman for the Prime Minister told the Herald that other areas around the cost of living had been raised, and she wouldn't be surprised if there were nominations in other areas or industries.
"At this stage, the Government has no plans for market studies until the Bill is passed and we have been clear the first industry to be looked at is the fuel industry. There is no commitment to look at the supermarket sector at this time."


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Making Sense of Your Social Media Metrics
Social media comes with a sea of metrics, and it can sometimes be frustrating making some sense out of it. In this post, I aim to describe how you can effectively measure the quantitative social media metrics from your owned social media channels (i.e. your typical Facebook Page, Twitter profile and Youtube channel).
We'll be focusing solely on quantitative social media metrics; ones that can be collected from each of your owned social media channels. We're not covering monitoring data or sentiment and we're not building a ROI-report. We're simply trying to consolidate all of your quantitative social media metrics into a reporting dashboard, hence making your data more legible and actionable. If you're starting out with measuring social media metrics, this post is for you!
4 categories of quantitative social media metrics (owned channels)
I've found that regardless what channel your maintaining, categorizing your metrics data into 4 groups seems to makes sense in most cases. These are:
- Activities
- Engagement
- Reach
- Network size
These are simple counts of how many times you have posted something in your channels. This could be anything from a Twitter-reply to the upload of a video. You are correct in noting that a simple tweet most often requires less effort than producing a whole video clip. One way of making the reporting somewhat more accurate would be to attribute an individual score for each channel's activity. A video may be worth 10p whilst a Tweet only 2 points. I urge you though to commence without any weighting of the metrics and see how you go along.
How your community interacts with your published activities are key metrics to measure. The Engagement category aims at consolidating metrics such as Clicks, Comments, Likes, Re-tweets and votes. Together, these interactions form your Engagement score.
Although you'll never get an accurate number on exactly how many people you're reaching, collecting the different reach metrics from each channel and benchmarking over time is very valuable. Each channel has its own ways of calculating reach. You'll look at Youtube's video and channel views, Facebook's newsfeed impressions and Twitter's mention audience. They won't tell you how many unique people that have seen your message, rather how many potential impressions there have been. And it doesn't really matter either, the purpose is to have a number that you measure the same way each day/week/month so you can benchmark yourself.
Network size
This is probably the most straight forward metric: how many Facebook fans does your page have? How many Twitter followers do you have and how many have subscribed to your Youtube channel? For blogs, we can look at RSS/E-mail subscribers; Flickr has contacts and Google+ "People that circled this page." They're all quantifiable numbers that measure the total size of your network. It's also the metric that is being mostly debated; "how can I get more fans" is a question everyone involved in social media activities has gotten at least once a week. Now, you have a measuring framework to put number of Facebook fans into a sound perspective.
Where do I get the metrics from?
The purpose of the 4 categories of quantitative social media metrics is to be able to create a consolidated report cross all owned social media channels. You can get most of these metrics straight from each channel's own reporting interface. Facebook Insights is absolutely brilliant and offers more data than what we've covered above. But Facebook will tell you that certain things are more important than others, Youtube gives you another story and Twitter has nothing for the time being. You simply have to create your own reporting interface based on what you need to know in order to take better decisions, not just measure what is possible to measure.
If you don't fancy logging in to each channel and manually collecting the metrics, there are some great tools that can do part of the job. Have a look at these:
- Twentyfeet
- Socialreport
- Bit.ly (For shortening links and tracking clicks)
- Spredfast(Spredfast is a full featured Social CRM solution)
The above tools will only do just what you need; to aggregate and consolidate your quantitative social media metrics. We're not looking into tools for sentiment, monitoring or influence measurement in this post (such as Klout, Radian6, Crimsom Hexagon, Converseon to name a few).
How do I report on the quantitative social media metrics?
If you use any of the above tools they have built in reporting functions. Though, if your activities extends beyond simply a Facebook Page and a Twitter profile I'm pretty sure you soon want to create you're own reporting score card in Excel, or why not try to build a dashboard directly in QlikView or Bime Analyticsthat connects straight to the API's of the social platforms (If you do, please ping me!).
Mindmap guide
I've built a public mindmap over the 4 categories of social media metrics in owned channelsto further illustrate the idea. Just click the nodes in the interactive map below to expand them. The channels included are just examples, you can include any channel where you have social media activities going on.
The web is constantly evolving and what we're calling social media today will just be the norm of Internet tomorrow. I'm a student of the constant ongoing change. So if you've feedback and comments on the above please jump into the comment field.
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Welcome to Dragonount 9.0! As we enter our 20th year, I wanted to commemorate that special event by putting some fresh paint on our web community.
Although it took longer than we expected, DM has been significantly upgraded with all new server hardware, fresh back-end software, and all new website features. For the first time in our history, we're mobile friendly. (I know, I know, you could argue we're almost a decade late on that.)
I'm excited about our new fresh look and hope you enjoy it, too. Our eBook store continues to be a feature I'm especially proud of. Be sure to check back in coming weeks and months. This Spring we'll be doing a major upgrade to our Gallery, just in time to share photos from JordanCon 10.
We're going to continue to work on bugs and other issues that might arise from this new site, so please bear with us. If you have an issue you need to report, please put it on our Bugs forum.
Thanks for continuing to be a part of our community!
Jason Denzel
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The MMI Women's Tennis Team finished the 2014-15 academic year with the highest team GPA at 3.346, and will be nominated for an NJCAA All-Academic Team this summer.
The Lady Tigers' softball team finished second among the scholarship programs at 3.2695, followed by baseball (3.05), men's basketball (2.865), and men's tennis (2.6221). Softball and baseball have also been nominated for the NJCAA All-Academic Team Award. To be eligible for this award, an NJCAA team must finish the academic year with a minimum grade point average of 3.00.
The overall GPA of the MMI student-athletes this year has eclipsed the 3.00 mark for the first time in several years. The overall GPA for 2014-15 was calculated at 3.03. Congratulations to the MMI coaches and student-athletes for all their hard work this past year!


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I know I've been promising you my recipe for homemade chocolate ice cream for a while now and here it is, just in time for Labor Day. It's still summer, right? But seriously, I've been saving this recipe for a special occasion and it's finally here, my bestie (since she was nine) is finally coming to visit us in Wisconsin!
We've only lived here for seven years now... (I should probably stop guilt tripping her now that she's coming for a visit.)
But seriously, I'm super excited that the whole crew is coming up from St. Louis to spend Labor Day with us. We'll be making the rounds at all of the local breweries and eating more food than a group of six probably should consume in one weekend.
I see nothing but good times in my future.
My husband did me a favor and asked everyone if they had any requests for this weekend and I was told that prime rib/lobster/most expensive wine should be on the menu. It seems my bestie has forgotten that I kinda quit breathing when I eat shellfish, so her plan was immediately struck down (although I do have two nice bottles of rosé chilled and waiting. I might be willing to share if she stops trying to kill me.) Since I prefer my food served up so I don't die, we'll be having brats, Creamy Summer Coleslaw, and beer— our traditional Labor Day menu. I've even made a few gallons worth of ice cream for dessert.
If you're looking for a sweet treat for this weekend, you'll love this recipe. Make it for a special occasion or just because, either way your mouth will thank you (just be sure to ignore what your hips are telling you.)
Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream
makes slightly more than 1 quart
6 eggs yolks
2 cups whole milk
1¼ cups heavy whipping cream
¾ cup granulated sugar
1 vanilla bean
3.5oz Chocoley Milk Chocolate - Indulgence Ultra Couverture Dipping & Enrobing Chocolate
- Before beginning separate your egg yolks, whisk until smooth, and set aside. In a saucepan, set over medium-low heat, warm milk and whipping cream. Add sugar, stirring frequently until the temperature reaches roughly 105˚F and sugar is completely dissolved.
- Trim the tips off the vanilla bean, slice down the center, and scrape the seeds into the saucepan. Add chocolate and egg yolks, then warm until the temperature reaches 160˚F. While the custard is heating, stir frequently, making sure to scrape the bottom and sides of the pan.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat, run everything through a fine-mesh strainer to catch any stray bits of egg white, and allow the custard to cool to room temperature before transferring to the refrigerator.
- Allow mixture to chill, covered, for at least 4 hours, or overnight before transferring to the ice cream maker.
- Churn according to manufacturer's instructions before transferring to the freezer. Enjoy!
If you don't have a scale to measure the chocolate don't worry. After half a dozen batches I found that 3.5oz is approximately 26 pieces.
Not sure what to do with the leftover egg whites? Don't worry, we have you covered! You can use them in a batch of Honey Walnut Granola then make these tasty breakfast bowls.
Chocoley provided chocolate to help facilitate this project. All other supplies were purchased on my own.
This post contains my Chocoley referral links and Amazon affiliate links. I try to keep advertising unobtrusive and to a minimum in order to provide you with the best experience possible. The purchases made through these links help cover my expenses in running this blog so I can continue to provide you with quality content.


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The Møller Centre
SharePoint Saturday Cambridge returns to the Moller Centre at Churchill College in Cambridge and this time it is war! Joining with our sister event (SQLSaturday Cambridge) for the 4th year running, event speakers and attendees this time will do battle with one another to show *who* is the boss -so expect lots of fun and games throughout the day to mark our special Britannia Edition -celebrating the regions Queen Boudicca's charge ag ainst the might of the Roman Empire . And don't forget, as always attendees will get full access to both event sessions!
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Saturday, November 27, 2010
Jonathan Latimer
Latimer, born in Chicago on 23 October 1906, produced only a few novels as he was in the main employed first as a journalist in the 1920s, then as a film and TV screenwriter, yet in his small canon of books there lies at least one classic: Solomon's Vineyard. It was originally considered too hot for publication in the USA It appeared in the UK uncut but had to wait 15 years before it appeared in the States in a bowdlerised version.
Latimer's movie credits began with adaptations of his own novels The Westland Case (1937; from Headed for a Hearse) and The Last Warning (1938; from The Dead Don't Care), but moved into original territory with The Long Wolf's Spy Hunt (1939). Other movies include Topper Returns (1941), The Glass Key (1942), They Won't Believe Me (1947), The Big Clock (1948), Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948), and numerous others.
In the late 1950s he switched to writing for TV, including 26 episodes of Perry Mason (1958-65), 6 episodes of Markham (1959-60) and an episode of Columbo (1972).
Latimer died of lung cancer on 23 June 1983 in La Jolla, California.
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By Melina Harris
Although I started the year praising Andy Murray's cheerful new attitude and criticizing the negativity of the British press, I cannot help but discuss how he has seemingly gone from hero to zero in a strange start to 2010 for the outspoken Scot. After endearing hearts and minds with his sunny and supportive performances with Laura Robson at the Hopman Cup in January and his subsequent impressive run to the final at the Australian Open, he's managed to obtain a rather negative image as the new 'diva' of the game, pulling out of tournaments at the last minute, 'going back on his word' and being accused of not showing enough respect to third tier tournaments, regarding them as on a par with his training.
Novak Djokovic, on the other hand, has started 2010 a little differently and is beginning to challenge his image as a one hit wonder. His hilarious impressions of other players (endearing himself to the followers of You Tube), along with his often flaky performances and flimsy excuses in post match interviews have often caused critics to write off 'The Djoker' of the tour, preferring Murray as the more serious contender to Federer's throne. However, with his continued commitment to the ATP tour and his country, Nole is beginning to dismantle the challenge of his young Scottish contemporary (they are almost exactly the same age, with their birthday's just weeks apart) at least from a PR perspective.
Unlike Murray, who has pulled out of two tournaments, Djokovic played in Rotterdam (a title that Murray won last year), won the recent Barclays Dubai Championship and is committed to representing his country in the Davis Cup next week as Serbia face the United States in the World Group, meanwhile Murray is leaving his British counterparts to drown alone in the depths of the Euro/African zone Group Two.
Indeed, it cannot be denied that Murray is starting to gain a bad reputation amongst tournament organizers, journalists and fans across the globe for his recent behavior. After pulling out of the Marseille event at the last minute, leaving the tournament without their top seed, because he claimed he hadn't yet recovered physically or mentally from his huge disappointment in Melbourne, Jean-Francois Coujolle, the tournament director retaliated stating devastatingly for Murray that, 'He can't know what it is to keep his word. A week ago, he asked me for a wildcard to play doubles with his brother Jamie and I gave him one. A few days ago he asked me for five hotel rooms and I gave him them. The number one seed of a tournament should have a sense of responsibility. If he does not respect his commitments, he should be suspended by the ATP.'
Murray's ensuing erratic performance in the second round of the Barclays Dubai Championship, where he lost to Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic unconvincingly, spraying error after error from his usually solid backhand wing and uncharacteristically charging the net and serve-volleying regularly coupled with his candid comments in his press conference have added more fuel to the fire.
Following his loss, Murray commented nonchalantly, 'I would like to have won, but it's not the end of the world. If it was a grand slam or something, my tactics and game style would have been a bit different. I was trying different things, so I made more mistakes than normal, I went for a lot. I said at the start of the year, that when you're getting ready for the big events, you need to try some things. The stuff that I was doing in the matches here are similar to what I'd be doing if I was training this week. I'd be playing practice sets and working on serve-volleying and coming forward, you know and taking more risks.'
In other words, that despite being reputed to have been paid around $250,000 to guarantee his appearance and accommodated in the seven star Burj al Arab hotel (which would cost us mere mortals an approximate £2400 per night), he had the stupidity or audacity to describe the Third tier Dubai ATP Tour 500 tournament on a par with his practice 'knock around' sets with Miles Maclaghan. It was claimed by The Times newspaper that a veteran sports journalist almost walked out in protest.
Has Mr Murray got too big for his Adidas boots? Are Adidas in fact secretly wishing they'd stayed with his nemesis Nole?
In response to Murray's words, Djokovic, a Players' representative on the ATP Council, thought Murray was wrong to use Dubai as an experiment and said diplomatically, 'You carry certain responsibility when you are in the world's top five. You cannot just go out there and practice. Every tournament is important. That's the way I accepted every tournament in my professional career. There are not just a lot of expectations from ourselves and our people that are surrounding us. It's about the tournament and people who come to watch'; in doing so cementing himself as a professional with his binary opposite Murray as unprofessional, while simultaneously showing a high level of respect for tennis fans and tournament directors alike; a sharp move more customary during a presidential election than a post match interview.
Indeed, Novak's gutsy performances in Dubai where he defended a title for the first time have added building blocks to the foundations of his exquisite public relations skills, as his last four matches went to three sets and in both the quarter and the semifinals he battled back from being a set down. He commented during the tournament, 'Today was another example of how much I believe in myself and how much I fight until the end'; fighting talk from the world No. 4.
Yet another blow to Murray's reputation came from Colm McLoughlin, managing director of Dubai Duty Free, the owners and organizers of the 18 year old tournament, who obviously already dismayed by the absence of a certain Swiss player who was sidelined with a lung infection, responded by saying, 'We are not disputing Andy's effort, but the comments he made after the match have caused concern. Many fans have come up to us and said that he seemed to have indicated Dubai was simply a warm up tournament. His management company tell us that Andy tends to be very candid but we would love to see him clarify what he meant.' He also apparently wrote a strongly worded letter to Murray's management company, 19 Entertainment, one would assume for an apology or at least an explanation.
It cannot go unnoticed of the hypocrisy involved with a tournament already embroiled in controversy after banning Israeli Shahar Peer from even competing in last year's event; it seems the lucrative event would like to pick and choose its competitors. Can a tournament expect the same level of treatment from the top stars of the game as a Grand Slam? Perhaps they haven't heard of a little concept called karma (treat others how you would want to be treated in return or face the consequences).
Perhaps the glitz and glamour of the Dubai tournament, where players are treated like royalty, feted by Sheiks, taken to all of the best parties and housed in seven star luxury was always going to be more Nole's 'thing' and computer gaming enthusiast Murray will prove wise to treat it as a warm up event? Will Novak's commitments in the Davis Cup prove costly in the long run?
It's interesting to note that Murray has played just 17 tournaments in the past year that hold ranking points, fewer than any other player in the world's top twenty but has still managed to accumulate enough points to put a comfortable gap of one thousand between himself and Del Potro at No. 5 in the ATP world rankings.
Who is getting the balance right? Does great PR win you a Grand Slam or will Murray end the year victorious over his Serbian contemporary in dismantling the domination of Federer? The battle continues to sizzle seductively on and off court.
Melina Harris is a freelance sports writer, book editor, English tutor and PTR qualified tennis coach. For more information and contact details please visit and subscribe to her website and blog at http://www.thetenniswriter.wordpress.com and follow her twitter updates via http://www.twitter.com/thetenniswriter. She is available for freelance writing, editing and one to one private teaching and coaching.


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Herald the Fergus
Death is final, right? A door closes. The light's go out. Done. Finis.
That's what Rork "The Fergus" Ferguson thinks until, grieving his gran, he meets a fantastical being and learns that death is not always so absolute.
Seventeen-year-old Rork is dealing (badly) with the loss of his beloved gran while navigating the shoals of young adulthood as a computer-obsessed misfit. One bleak morning Rork wakes up and can hear voices of the dead. Disorganized and insistent the voices lead him to a banshee. Not just any banshee. A banshee-in-training with her own family dynamic to contend with and a hereafter curriculum to complete in order to earn her all-important hood.
The banshee enlists Rork's help by promising to reconnect him with his gran. He is accompanied by Deirdre, another enlistee, with special abilities, who is haunted by a hidden past.
Helping the banshee pitches Rork and Deirdre into a whole otherworld of before-death, after-death and in-between-death.
Complete at 69,000 words, HERALD THE FERGUS is a stand-alone YA fantasy with series potential. The story will appeal to fans of parallel universes and life-not-being-how-it-always-seems as in the worlds created by Laini Taylor or Melissa Marr.
Parts of THE FERGUS earned honorable mention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Writers' Institute. An MFA graduate of Antioch International in London, I have published articles, reviews and poetry in many regional and literary magazines.
Dreamed a Dictionary
A chapbook of poems inspired by a Book of Dreams, a gift from a deceased sister, and the thinning veil between awake and not. The poems are surreal, an amalgam of conscious thought, dream images and longing.From the Preface:My sister gave me a Book of Dreams.I was present for the parade, two by two, like bookends.My grief grows old.My sister didn't always behave. Dreams, too, can be recalcitrant, showy, or taciturn.Individual poems from dreamed have been published, but the chapbook as a whole is unpublished.
What does it mean to belong to the kingdom of women? To travel the life cycle of female? What does the womb know?
The poetry collected in Wombdom attempts to capture the gradations of female, the female response to a changing/not-changing-fast-enough world.Individual poems have been published from Wombdom, but the collection as a whole is unpublished.


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Ambiguous Exposition: Mass Effect 3 and Journey
A look at the juxtaposition of the narrative designs found in two recent releases
"Oh narrative, narrative, wherefore art thou narrative?" pondered a wandering, introspective, maroon cloth shrouded silhouette as it traversed the lonely dunes of a vast desert. "Over here, pretentious!" replied the ballsy, bull-headed, N7 armour suited space marine: 'Sheeplover' Shepard (my personal commander's name). And so begins the fan fiction conversation between the protagonists of Thatgamecompany's Journey and Bioware's Mass Effect 3 within my head…
For two titles released within a week of each other, they couldn't have more opposite approaches towards weaving the delicate tapestry that is an interactive narrative. Both are action adventure titles, taking mechanics, structures and ideas from others and moulding them into their own experience. Journey integrates light platforming with visual cues to aid progression and Mass Effect 3 employs a science-fiction twist on Gears of War-style cover shooting with an abundance of dialogue. In addition, both send a central hero on a monumental task of life threatening danger and bravery, but the similarities end there when you begin to consider their diametrically opposed approaches to storytelling.
One is a hinted tale awash with ambiguity and personal interpretation, and the other a well-defined fiction of choice and consequence detailed by reams of exposition. They are both titles at the forefront of videogame narrative design, but in what dimensions are they so different? Does each succeed where the other fails? Many would undoubtedly go as far as to claim that Journey doesn't truly have a narrative beyond 'Silent traveler climbs big mountain to reach shiny thing at top', which is perhaps a valid point should you examine it solely at face value. However there are many others (including myself) who would vehemently oppose such an opinion.
Throughout its length Journey is peppered with vagueness. It is entirely wordless, the characters are expressionless puppets and its MacGuffin is an ever-present mystery looming in the distance. This is evident even within its more common narrative devices. The cutscenes depict the near past, present, and future of your adventure, like the ghosts of "A Christmas Carol" all rolled into one, while its lands are littered with 8-bit stylized cave paintings of events, though nothing is ever fully explained. Progression in Journey is never far away from a metaphor, a mythical monument, or a suggestive artifact.
Where it succeeds is in balancing this ambiguity on the teetering edge of bewilderment. Its mechanics and structure raise such a myriad of questions, that by answering them with suggestions rather than definitives, it invites your imagination to run wild. We know the goal is to reach the gleaming beam of light at the summit of this mountain, but for what purpose? We learn how to invigorate the floating cloth creatures with our voice, but what are they and why do they help us? There are so many who's, what's, where's, and why's left after Journey finishes that you cannot help but inquisitively ponder.
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CHICAGO – Playwright Hannah Ii-Epstein is a Hawaiian native who is bringing her unique point of view regarding that U.S."State of Mind" to the Chicago stage. The theater group Nothing Without a Company presents her latest, "Pakalolo Sweet." through October 5th, 2019, at the Berger Mansion in the Edgewater neighborhood. Click here for more details, including ticket information.
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Sequel Surprisingly Surpasses the First Film in 'Happy Death Day 2U'Submitted by JonHC on February 14, 2019 - 3:40pm
Rating: 4.0/5.0
CHICAGO – At some point, we've all experienced deja vu. Sure, it could just be because we lead a monotonous, predictable life, but I'd personally welcome the idea of something supernatural at play over the more practical explanation. That's exactly what "Happy Death Day" introduced, and it was a hilarious slasher take on "Groundhog Day", and luckily the sequel, "Happy Death Day 2U", adds to the experience.
No New Frights in Store for 'Happy Death Day'Submitted by PatrickMcD on October 13, 2017 - 6:22pm
Rating: 2.5/5.0
CHICAGO – "Happy Death Day" has a "Groundhog Day" gimmick, but that's about it, offering essentially an '80's style slasher flick with the hope that with a little cosmetic window dressing will help it appeal to an audience in 2017… Live, Die, Repeat. That's all this film offers with precious few improvements to justify its existence.


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Playing her first role in a melodrama film in years in "Be With You," Son Ye-jin said she has been wanting to present the audience with a quality melodrama flick for a while.
"It's not so much that I wanted to sustain my nickname 'Melodrama Queen,' as that the genre has always been something that I wanted to do," she said in a group interview in Seoul on Monday. "As a cinemagoer, I missed the beautiful images and music, and as an actor, I've been thirsty for such acting."
|Son Ye-jin (MSTeam Entertainment)
In the film, Son plays a woman who mysteriously appears before her husband and son a year after her death. The movie is a remake of the Japanese flick of the same name, but the Korean version has more lighthearted and comedic moments.
"No matter what the genre is, I want there to be some kind of humor. Of course the film has the underlying fear of saying goodbye (to loved ones), but I wanted it to be also fun," she said.
About her casting, she said that having So Ji-sub as her co-star was the main reason she took on the role.
"When I heard that he was cast (as Woo-jin), I thought we were halfway through (to success)," Son said. "Now I'm free to say it, but I never would've done this film if it weren't for him. I did it because of him."
Now in her mid-30s, Son said she sometimes feels the pressure of acting.
"I've been acting nonstop, but it's not easy. Sometimes I fear that I may lose interest, or that people may not employ me," she said. "Luckily during the process, I keep finding films that I want to work on. While I work on the films, I keep getting the urge to keep going."
Son, 36, first appeared in a supporting role in the 2000 film "Secret Tears," and rose to fame in films like "The Classic," and "A Moment to Remember."
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Thanks again Jamie and Marisa. Here are pictures of how their dresses turned out.
I am offering a coupon code for this pattern until July 3rd. Go my Etsy Shop and after adding the pattern to your shopping cart enter coupon code CHEVRON12 to get 1/2 off the pattern price.


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Posted on September 10, 2013 by Wayne Kress
The Kern Economic Development Corporation (KernEDC) is in the background of our local economy, working diligently at stimulating and diversifying a strong economy so your company can thrive. Their official mandate is to create jobs. What it takes to do that may surprise you, and their approach will impress you.
One cool example is found on their website is the slick "Salary Calculator." It allows you to compare the buying power in Bakersfield of a salary from, say, Anchorage, Alaska. Did you know that the cost of living in Bakersfield is 20% less than in Anchorage? Yep, and it's 38% less than in San Francisco and 22% less than in Los Angeles. Did you know housing costs 5% less here than in Houston? Or that healthcare costs 3% less here than in Denver? The Salary Calculator reveals all kinds of insights like these about living and working here.
KernEDC is actually a private/public partnership, meaning it is funded by a combination of public entities (like the City of Bakersfield) and private companies (like my company…and yours), although most of their funding comes from the private sector. It came into being in 1988, after our area suffered "dual recessions" in both the Ag and Oil industries. Most of our economic life before then was pretty good. When both ag and oil where buoyant, all was better than pretty good. Even when one was down and the other up, we fared well. But in the '80s we experienced a rarity: both were down at the same time…and we suffered. Leaders decided maybe we should build a more diversified economy, and they pointed at the new Frito Lay potato chip plant out near I-5 (1984) and the new Nestle ice cream plant in southwest Bakersfield (1986) as examples of what we should proactively attract. This led to the creation of KernEDC as the vehicle for marketing Kern County, responding to requests from companies canvassing areas like ours for expansion opportunities, and coordinating all the regulatory bodies into a single point of contact for them.
Results? Fast forward to today. Logistics giants Sears, IKEA, Target, and Ross Dress For Less have all located huge distribution centers here, employing thousands. Regular readers of this blog know that 41 companies have now located their west-coast distribution functions in or near our area. Other successes come from Aerospace (Mojave has become the nation's home of the private space industry—'nuf said), Healthcare (Kaiser Permanente, Bakersfield Heart Hospital, and Healthsouth's rehab center), and Value-Added Agriculture (with all the food processing and dairies popping up, mission's being accomplished).
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