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PlayStation is one of the biggest gaming platforms, with an expansive store where almost everyone could find something to suit their gaming preferences. One of the easier methods of acquiring any of the store's contents are PSN gift cards. This article breaks down how to get and use a PlayStation Network card, and provides suggestions of what can be bought for each amount of currency.
How to spend your PlayStation gift card well
PSN Cash Cards hold a predetermined amount of currency. In the case of US dollars they come in the following variants: $10, $20, $50, $60, $75, $100. When you redeem the card, your PSN Wallet will be topped up with the amount from the card you used.
The redemption process is different depending on the device you're using: PS4, PS3, PS Vita, or PC. On PS4, PS3, and PS Vita you need to visit the Store after logging in and look for "Redeem codes" or an equivalent phrase. For PC and PlayStation App you need to log in and look a similar phrase on your account page or the app menu.
Top PlayStation Gift Cards
What games can you buy for each type of cash card?
$10 price range
Shadow of the Colossus barely requires an introduction. This touching story of a young man who'll do whatever it takes to resurrect a friend from his village is punctuated by awe-inspiring battles against massive colossi which hold the magic required for the resurrection to take place.The Last of Us (PS3)
The Last of Us is one of the most critically acclaimed games of the last gen and held up very well on PS4 too. Ostensibly about the zombie-infested world, TLoU is a series of tense stealth and action sequences given context by a story about a journey of a jaded man escorting a teenage girl who has never known the world before the plague.
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Game of the Year (PS3)
Indiana Jones of the modern age, Nathan Drake is a charming smart-ass treasure hunter with the voice of veteran VA Nolan North. Drake's Deception is the third game and definitely doesn't fall short of excellence typical for the Uncharted series.
$20 price range
Although Yakuza 0 is a prequel which sets up the story which unfolded in previous Yakuza games, it stands well on its own. Thanks to vivid characters, engaging combat system, and tightly packed map, Yakuza 0 feels alive like few seemingly bigger games do.Uncharted The Nathan Drake Collection (PS4)
If Uncharted 3 is not enough for you, you can get the first three games for just below 20 dollars. It's a perfect way to catch up with the series before playing Uncharted 4, a conclusion of Nathan's story. Three excellent games for less than $20 is a steal.
Persona 5 (PS4)
Join a group of high schoolers who through mystical means battle the corruption in the minds of adults of their city. Take part in turn-based battles, help the teens figure out their lives, but be mindful of time.
$50 price range
Before Sekiro came around, Nioh was the latest trip to Sengoku-period Japan. Become a samurai called William, based on a real historical figure, mingle with the great figures of the period, and fight your way through demons and humans alike using a tight combat system.Far Cry New Dawn Deluxe Edition (PS4)
FC New Dawn takes place years after the finale of Far Cry 5, after the bombs fell and Montana was thrown into chaos. Meet some old friends who have aged a bit, solve a new crisis, have fun disrupting the daily lives of bandits and animals.
God of War Digital Deluxe Edition (PS4)
Join Kratos and his B O Y as they travel across Scandinavia to fulfill the dying wish of the B O Y's mother. God of War is a visually stunning third-person perspective battle-filled journey across Norse mythology.
$60 price range
A sequel to one of the most beloved games of the PS3 era, Red Dead Redemption 2 speaks of a time before John Marston left van der Linde's gang, and its protagonist is Arthur Morgan, one of the key people in this band of misfits. Travel across a fabulously detailed world, interact with believable NPCs, live a harsh dream about the Old West.Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (PS4)
The latest game by FromSoftware speaks of a lone shinobi who, in order to serve his young master, needs to face enemies who seek immortality in all the wrong places. Experience a tense, rapid, aggressive combat system like nowhere else.
Devil May Cry 5 (PS4)
The stunning conclusion to the saga about Sons of Sparda. DMC5 is a stylish, fast, and purposefully ridiculous spectacle fighter game where defeating an enemy isn't as important as doing it with Smokin' Sexy Style. Three characters and several difficulty levels to master make DMC5 good fun for a long time.
$75 price range
If you're starved for a more tactical and slow-paced entertainment, XCOM 2 has that in spades. Fight for humanity's liberation from alien overlords over the course of turn-based tactical skirmishes, improve your mobile headquarters, and choose which crises to address, because you can't be everywhere at once.Watch Dogs 1+2 Standard Editions OR Watch Dogs 2 Deluxe Edition (PS4)
Two urban open-world games about activist hackers. Roam around Chicago as sour Aiden Pearce, and enjoy the sunny San Francisco as energetic Marcus Holloway, as they pit their wits against the invasive ctOS city-management system.
Prey + Dishonored 2 bundle (PS4)
Two excellent stealth/action games developed by Arkane Entertainment can be yours. Explore an alien-overrun space station and your own memories in Prey, and enact your vendetta on the streets of a sunny city of Karnaka as a supernatural assassin in Dishonored 2.
$100 price range
The latest entry in the venerable Mortal Kombat series smashes together the universe's past and present due to the time-manipulating Kronika. If you ever wanted to see the modern battle-hardened Johnny Cage smash the smug face of his younger self, now it's your chance. It's a fighting game for the ages.Tekken 7 – Ultimate Edition (PS4)
If you've got a taste for the good ol' virtual fisticuffs, but MK's tone and style doesn't interest you, try the martial arts fiesta that is Tekken, with its generational conflicts, boxing kangaroos, tight mechanics, and precise hitboxes.
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 Gold Edition (PS4)
Go and restore order in Washington D.C., thrown into disarray after a pandemic ravaged the United States. As a member of The Division you are uniquely trained and equipped to deal with this, as long as you have the assistance of other agents. This multiplayer urban action RPG will keep you absorbed for long hours.
Cash cards are a gift
The list above is just a small portion of games you could buy with each cash card value, and we didn't even mention numerous themes letting you make your PlayStation screen more stylish. There is little chance of you (or the recipient of your gift) not getting the value for your money, regardless of which card you buy.


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The PM1 and PM2 pressure managers are intelligent waterworks that control your pump in accordance with consumption in domestic water supply and booster systems.
PM1 is for basic flexibility, and PM2 for all-round control if you demand more.
The PM1 is suitable for applications where start/stop of the pump according to consumption is required. It is the basic flexibility solution, offering pump start from 1.5 or 2.2 bar.
The pump is started when the start pressure is reached, and keeps running as long as there is flow. PM1 provides dry-running protection and a cycling alarm for increased safety. It features the usual Grundfos quality, which guarantees high flexibility, robust electronics and long life.
The PM2 is the all-round control solution, offering adjustable pump start from 1.5 to 5 bar. This enables customisation to different types of installation and desired comfort levels. The start pressure is set inside the unit, whereas current pressure is read on the intuitive LED display.
The PM2 starts the pump when the start pressure is reached, and keeps running as long as there is flow. It is equipped with an internal pressure tank to minimise starts and stops in the event of leakage in the installation.
In addition, the PM2 can be optimised for operation with a large external pressure tank by enabling the 1-bar differential pressure function. This significantly reduces the number of operating hours of the pump in installations with a pressure tank.
Features and benefits
- User-friendly interface
- Free choice of installation position
- Flexible power supply
- Internal pressure tank (PM 2 only)
- Power-on indication
- Pump running indication
- Alarm indication
- Dry-running protection
- Rotary outlet connection
- User-friendly interface
- Free choice of installation position
- Flexible power supply
Information and Advice:
Grundfos is a world-wide provider of pumps and related systems. We have a highly educated and trained staff of service engineers who will be able to support you during the installation phase of the pump or the solution. Grundfos supplies high-quality products, but to maintain a long life of the product or the system we have many years of experience in different kinds of installations and have achieved good practice in installation techniques.
We will be able to support you with the following elements:
- Information about a proper protection of our pump.
- Physical placement of the pump to maintain necessary service/repair.
- Physical placement of the pump to maintain proper operation.
- Correct cabling to fulfil the requirements of good practice and Electro Magnetic Compliance
Do not hesitate to contact your local Grundfos company to obtain full support for your new installation.
A Grundfos Service Agreement ensures efficient and uninterrupted operation of your pump system and gives you access to Grundfos Service Centres and authorised Service Partners worldwide, 24 hours a day.
Prevention is better and more cost effective than cure
Once you have purchased your pump, you want it functioning efficiently and reliably, and a formal Service Agreement with Grundfos gives you peace of mind. It also makes sound economic sense, giving you a firm overview of your maintenance budget and access to substantial discounts.
You simply combine a range of service to suit your needs – and let us carry out scheduled maintenance visits to prevent downtime. We offer three types of Service Agreements available for all pumps:
- Basic
- Extended
- Total
Whichever you choose, you will be serviced by specially trained staff at all times.
The cost effective choice
Well-maintained pumps can reduce your energy consumption by up to 50% and in a series of pumps working together one faulty pump can affect all the others. A Grundfos Service Agreement keeps your total cost of owning a pump at a minimum, because our careful consideration of the Life- Cycle Cost of all our products means that we have control over the real costs of ownership of our pumps.
Signing up for a Service Agreement and letting our highly skilled service technicians service your pumps is your safeguard against unforeseen expenditure. Regular servicing and maintenance of your pumps ensure that they are working with optimum efficiency.
Grundfos Service will maintain and repair your pumps and our service professionals can advise you on efficiency issues, offering suggestions for saving money in the long term.
Repair and maintenance of your existing pumps system
Of course, you can always call Grundfos for repair and maintenance of pumps you have purchased from us. Grundfos can repair your pumps to the same specifications as new pumps, but it is important to remember that an upgrade or even a replacement pump can be cheaper than repair in the long term. See Upgrades and Replacement for how this makes good business sense.
Effective service – wherever you are
Grundfos Service is always close by. Together with our local authorised service partners, we offer worldwide service, and help from qualified pump professionals is never far away, whether you need immediate assistance or you are interested in hearing about your savings possibilities.
Grundfos Remote Management is a cost-effective, secure and reliable way to monitor and manage pump installations from an Internet PC at a very low price.
Connecting pumps and people
With a secure and reliable remote management system, you can monitor and manage your pump systems from an Internet PC at a very low price.
Grundfos Remote Management is a cost-effective and straightforward way to monitor and manage pump installations in commercial buildings and in water supply and wastewater infrastructure. It reduces the need for onsite inspections, and in the event of an alarm or warning, the relevant people are notified directly.
Compared with mobile phone-based monitoring, the system offers a wider range of benefits and functionalities. For those who do not require remote process automation, Grundfos Remote Management is the ideal solution for monitoring and remote control as opposed to traditional SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems. Initial investment is minimal, and a fixed low fee covers data traffic, hosting costs and system support, including back-up of all data.
Efficient alarm management
Via its on-call schedule, this new telemetry system ensures that alarms from onsite controllers go directly to the relevant people. From a PC anywhere, the system manager can log on and plan who is to receive alarm messages from each installation at any given time of the day. Managers can plan years ahead and easily handle daily exceptions to the schedule.
Optimize service and maintenance
Changes in pump performance can be tracked using trend graphs automatically generated by the system. This can give an indication of wear or damage in the installation, and service and maintenance can be planned accordingly.
The communication interface (the CIU27 modem) enables data transmission via GPRS/SMS from your Grundfos pumps and controllers. The built-in multi-purpose I/O board allows you to connect sensors and switches.
The purpose of CAPS is to offer a complete tool that contains an extensive catalogue of Grundfos products and a sizing programme to select the most suitable pump for your application.
On top of that there is a comprehensive pump replacement function for central heating circulating, hot water pumps and the wastewater S pumps and the possibility of producing professional quotations including curves, drawings, quotation texts, wiring diagrams etc.
It is possible to export all this in the most popular file formats including gif, bmp, txt, dxf, etc.
Last but not least the programme contains the instruction and operating manuals for nearly all pumps of Grundfos in multiple languages. Service drawings, exploded views and parts lists are available for all sewage products as well as several other pump types.
CAPS is available in two versions: WinCAPS is available on a CD-ROM and the online version called WebCAPS is available at the Grundfos website. Additional features in WebCAPS include CAD Drawings and Literature.
Spare Parts
BE Responsible is one of our key drivers in Grundfos. It is therefore essential to us, that our pumps are developed with a low energy consumption and the highest possible performance throughout their life. Therefore, Grundfos Service Offerings including spare parts and replacement kits are defined already in the development phase.
Customized service offerings, online ordering and rapid response distribution centres ensure you to have the parts when you need them.
Recommended Spare Parts List.
The list specifies the parts you should have on site to service your pumps. These recommendations can be found at the product site in our WEB Caps tool.
Specially Designed Service Kits.
Service Kits include everything you need for a specific maintenance or repair task, including instructions for dismantling, replacement and reassembly.
24-hour Spare Part Delivery Service.
To be extra sure you do not have to wait, we can set aside a stock of your operation critical spare parts. This will make them available for you, whenever you need them. Link - Online order form
10-year Guarantee
Spare parts for the Grundfos pump you buy today will still be available for 10 years - this is our guarantee to you.
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Weekly Column by Sen. Lamar Alexander: Freeing Tennessee from Federal Education Mandates
Posted on June 14, 2013
Over the last decade, the U.S. Department of Education has become so congested with federal mandates that it has become, in effect, a national school board. This past week I proposed with my Senate Republican colleagues a plan that would restore responsibility for education to states, and give more freedom to parents and teachers.
The congestion of mandates we're trying to undo is caused by three things: No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and the Obama administration's use of waivers. If you remember the childhood game "Mother, May I?," then you'll have a pretty good sense of how the process works – Tennessee and other states must come to Washington to get approval for their plans.
No Child Left Behind imposed federal standards for what children had to know in reading and math, and for whether schools and teachers were succeeding or failing. Race to the Top is a competitive grant program, but the U.S. secretary of education has used it to essentially mandate things like Common Core curriculum and four "turnaround models" for failing schools.
Congress's failure to fix the problems with No Child Left Behind and restrain Race to the Top has allowed the Obama administration to turn its waiver authority – which is supposed to free up states – into a way to tell states what to do. Senate Democrats have offered a 1,150-page plan that would not only maintain these mandates, but expand them, by creating more than 25 new programs and 150 new reporting requirements for states and local school districts.
In just 220 pages, our Republican plan would help children in public schools learn what they need to know by getting decision making out of Washington. We call it "Every Child Ready for College or Career." Though Democrats with the majority on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee – of which I am the lead Republican – voted to move forward with their plan, we will continue to push our proposal.
Our plan emphasizes state and local decision-making. It takes Washington out of the business of deciding whether local schools are succeeding or failing, rejects federal mandates that effectively create a national school board and prohibits the secretary of education from prescribing standards. It also makes it easier for states to offer low-income parents more choice in finding the right public school for their children
In short, it places responsibility for helping our children learn squarely where it ought to be – on states and communities.


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CALGARY — A spectacular mating ritual is playing out in Banff these days: a harem of women gather, brought together by a male. He's exhausted, but he'll stop at nothing to protect his ladies.
It's the annual elk rut.
Each September and October, as elk return to lower elevations around the Banff townsite, the bull bugles and brings together 20 to 30 cows — called a harem. He struts around, trying to attract the females and challenging other bulls that get in the way.
Love is in the air, but Parks Canada officials warn it can be dangerous for people watching the show.
"The bulls can be quite aggressive as they try to defend their harem," said Steve Michel, human-wildlife conflict specialist with Banff National Park. "People need to keep a healthy distance from the elk."
Michel suggested people remain in their cars if they are able or stay away at least 30 metres — three bus lengths — if they are outside.
In addition, he said bull elk can feel threatened by dogs because they are seen as predators.
"Elk can respond very aggressively to dogs," he said, suggesting people keep their dogs on a leash. "Somebody out for a walk with their dog could trigger aggressive behaviour in elk."
Kim Titchener, program director at Bow Valley Wildsmart, agreed it's important to be on guard during elk mating season.
"Males are aggressive in the fall," she said. "People with dogs off leash have been chased, people's dogs have been killed.
"I have been chased myself," Titchener added.
More than a decade ago, when she worked at the Banff Springs Hotel, she was walking nearby when an elk started "looking at me weird" and started chasing her.
She ran at least two blocks before she felt safe.
"I didn't look back after awhile," she recalled.
Titchener recommended hiding behind a tree or a car if an elk charges, trying bear spray and reporting any encounters to Wildsmart and Parks Canada.
Most importantly, she said, keep a safe distance.
"You don't want to get in the crossfire of the love," Titchener said.
About 200 to 250 elk spend time around Banff in the fall.
While they are aggressive, Michel said there hasn't been any "contact incidents" in recent years.
"We're trying to keep that number at zero," he said, noting a team will respond to reports of elk around the townsite during rutting season.
The main concern is bull elk, although any group of elk could have a male nearby.
"There are no cow elk that are unattended," said Michel, explaining the bull might not be visible but could be lying down in the grass nearby. "He'll be keeping an eye on the cow elk."
Over time, however, the bulls get rundown.
"He's constantly alert and running around in circles to try and keep the harem," he explained. "It's exhausting."


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How cai i see nodes ?
How cai i see nodes ?Posted by Daniele Pellegrini at January 27. 2012
Hi i'm using salome and i have a little problem .... when i made mesh i can't see nodes so i can't select them or creat a right group ? i s there a function like "show nodes" ?
I can't node and I can't select them on display if I create for examPle a new group .... I use Salome 6.4 and windows 7
Re: How cai i see nodes ?Posted by Richard S. at January 27. 2012
I have had the same problems with node visualisation. The only possibility for me was to create a group of all nodes, when editing this group I can see all marked nodes.
As I am using Salome within CAELINUX on a Virtal Machine it could be a graphic driver issue.
THe problem is independent of the version. All versions since V5.1.3 behave similar.
my friend use salome 5.1.5 and he can see node and he can select nodes ecc...... if i can't see or select node for me it's a problem to work and to make a good mesh and then i can't give boundary condition ecc.
The strange fact is that i can select element shell and not node .... sorry for my english
Re: How cai i see nodes ?Posted by Vit Smilauer at December 21. 2018
I can confirm the same problem on Ubuntu 18.04 with native video card driver.
I had to install manually Nvidia driver according to instructions (manual download from https://www.nvidia.com), not automatic
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Have you ever wanted to start over because you screwed something up? I think it's perfectly legal to ask if you can start again. We did it as kids while playing, we'd begin something and if it didn't go as planned we'd ask if we could start over. When taking pen to paper to write a love letter, in the days of real romance, we crumpled up what wasn't just right and started from scratch, several times! How many love letters were lost because of imperfection? How many moments were given away because of the fear of being imperfect? Think about it, your first kiss, riding your bike, making love, drawing a picture. Nothing is done perfectly to start, really close maybe, but not perfect in the real world. It gives us something to strive for. When we say, 'it just doesn't get any better than this', if you really think about it, it can always get better. But what determines better? Stuff? Time? Energy of the moment?
Now that we have texting and email we just press delete and our mistakes are wiped away into thin air, never to be seen in their unperfected state. Sad don't you think. All those mistakes gone to waste. We learn from mistakes.
Lets take this a little further, do you ever wish you could do the same with life. Look around right now at who or what is in your space and imagine for a moment that you could delete the mistakes you've made with a press of the a button, and start again. 🙂 If this was possible, would you? If you did, you wouldn't be who you are today. You would be perfect! Can you imagine meeting someone perfect? It would be like a writer having only final drafts, no works in progress, nothing to improve upon. It would never work! Nobody's perfect! We need imperfection in our lives to create balance. It would be really easy but the end result would be no feeling of accomplishment. I don't like a bunch of loose ends in my life either, I like to have things tied up or at least comfortably undone. I love all the flaws and character traits someone of the opposite sex has to offer, it makes them more interesting. Its part of the story of their life.
I told Scott of my idea for this post and he took it even further. What if we could run our lives with the buttons on our keyboard. I mentioned earlier Delete, but maybe delete is too strong to start, perhaps we could first Backspace a little and re-do a moment we wish we had done differently and then decide if it was delete worthy. Esc, who hasn't wanted to escape from a moment or two or three! Control, you have it when you press the button. Enter/Return to a moment in your past, just pick one 🙂 Options, a pop down menu comes up and gives you options to pick from depending on the scenario. Volume, now were talkin, no explanation needed on this one! Fn,(function) cause sometimes we just need a little help doing it.
Would you have married the guy standing in the door frame looking at you, or have bought the desk you're sitting at just because it was on sale. Maybe the room you're sitting in wouldn't be a colour you've learnt to live with? You might have held eye contact just a little longer with the guy at the coffee shop. Talked to the elderly women a moment longer before she crossed the street. I don't think there is any particular moment I would delete in my life, but I would go back to several and not rush through them so quickly. I would enjoy every intoxicating moment. I wouldn't walk away from a kiss that touched my soul because of time or circumstance. I would try to remain in the moment as long as it allowed.
I don't think starting over is the way to go, although it sounds easy to just 'delete'. Accepting the choices we've made along the way and not taking the easy way out must have some positive force in our lives, don't you think? You have to live with no regrets and if you make mistakes along the way accept them as part of what made you who you are and focus on what really matters. At least you started…


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- 1 cup apple juice
- 4 ounces bittersweet (not unsweetend) or semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 1 tablespoon brandy
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons apple juice
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 3 whole star anise*
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 vanilla bean, (split lengthwise)
- 1/3 cup (packed) dried Bing cherries
- 1/3 cup (packed) pitted prunes, halved
- 1 1/2 Braeborn apples, peeled, cored, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1/3 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
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- 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2/3 cup hazelnuts, toasted, husked
- 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 3 tablespoons sugar
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- 9 17x12-inch sheets fresh phyllo pastry or frozen, thawed
- 1 /2 cup unsalted butter, melted
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- Vanilla ice cream
Recipe Preparation
Boil juice in small saucepan until reduced to 1/2 cup, about 6 minutes. Remove from heat. Add chocolate and let stand 1 minute; whisk until melted and smooth. Stir in brandy and vanilla. DO AHEAD: Sauce can be prepared 4 days ahead. Cover and chill. Rewarm before serving.
Combine 1 cup juice, wine, star anise, and cinnamon in large saucepan. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean; add bean. Bring to simmer. Remove from heat. Cover; let stand 10 minutes. Add cherries and prunes. Cover and simmer until fruit is plump, about 5 minutes. Discard star anise, cinnamon, and vanilla bean. Mix in apples and sugar; simmer until apples are tender but hold shape and liquid is reduced to 3 tablespoons, stirring occasionally, about 45 minutes.
Mix cornstarch and 2 tablespoons apple juice. Add to filling; stir over medium-high heat until filling thickens and boils, about 3 minutes. DO AHEAD: Can be made 3 days ahead. Cool slightly, cover, and chill.
Preheat oven to 375 °F. Lightly butter heavy large baking sheet. Blend first 3 ingredients in processor until nuts are finely ground.
Place dry kitchen towel on work surface. Place 1 phyllo sheet on towel (cover remaining phyllo with plastic wrap and damp towel). Brush phyllo lightly with melted butter. Top with second phyllo sheet; brush with butter. Sprinkle with scant 3 tablespoons nut mixture. Continue with 6 more phyllo sheets, brushing each with butter and sprinkling with scant 3 tablespoons nut mixture. Top with remaining phyllo sheet. Brush with butter. Spoon filling atop phyllo stack in 12x3-inch log, starting 2 inches from 1 long side and 2 1/2 inches from each short side. Fold short edges over filling. Using towel as aid and beginning at edge close to filling, roll up strudel jelly-roll style. Place strudel, seam side down, on prepared baking sheet. Brush strudel with butter. DO AHEAD: Can be made 4 hours ahead. Chill.
Bake strudel uncovered until golden, about 45 minutes. Let cool at least 30 minutes. Cut warm or room-temperature strudel into slices; place on plates. Serve with ice cream and warm chocolate sauce.


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The articles from scientific journals (i.a. peer-reviewed journal articles), conference papers, books and book chapters, study aids, student publications
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In the past week the Consumer Protection Unit has received several reports from consumers in the Anchorage area who received phone calls from persons claiming to be employed with a federal agency that provides grants. The callers claim that the consumer has been chosen to receive a grant, and the consumer must provide his or her bank account number in order to receive grant money. In one case the caller was purportedly from the "Federal Grants Center" and told the consumer that she was eligible for an $8,000 grant. The purpose of these calls, however, is not to award grants but to fraudulently obtain bank account and other personal information.
Also, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert warning the public about a mass email scheme where computer users receive emails that appear to be from the FBI. The email directs recipients to open an attachment to answer questions. The attachment is not from the FBI and it contains a computer virus.
The Consumer Protection Unit reminds consumers to be extremely cautious about providing any personal information in response to an unsolicited phone call, letter, or email. If you are unfamiliar with "phishing" scams we urge you to review the identity theft information available at the Consumer Protection ID Theft & Privacy Topic page. We also urge computer users to refrain from opening email attachments from unknown sources, and to review the identity theft information for tips on how to safeguard your personal information on your computer.
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The Utah myCase portal, a self-service account management system for public assistance benefits, is now in use by nearly 90 percent of eligible citizens.
Connecting constituents who are eligible for public assistance like Medicaid, food stamps and child care is a task the state of Utah has made completely electronic.
In November 2010, the state deployed Utah myCase, a self-service account management system that allows eligible recipients of public assistance to access their benefits information online. Since the original deployment, nearly 90 percent of all eligible Utah citizens have created accounts, according to state officials.
After initially submitting an application for public benefits, users may use myCase to view information like electronic notices, personal case information, and other benefits updates, said Matthew Larson, assistant director of the Eligibility Services Division for the Utah Department of Workforce Services.
MyCase, developed in-house by the state Department of Technology Services, allows access to the account holder's current financial aid balance. Accessing those funds can be done with a JPMorgan Chase electronic card, although the myCase portal itself does not serve as a bank account for accessing that aid, said Tricia Cox, IT manager for Utah's Department of Technology Services.
When users apply for assistance, the portal taps directly into the state's eligibility system to do an initial determination of eligibility. Larson said once the initial application for benefits is submitted, the myCase system walks the user through a series of questions step by step – similar to the tax filing software Turbotax – in order to create an account.
"Once people are eligible for assistance, they can start seeing things in the myCase portal, like their basic information of which programs they are eligible for," Cox said.
And so far, the portal has proven successful. Larson said in its first month of deployment, nearly 128,000 users set up accounts and the state currently has 281,000 active myCase accounts. Cox said this represents a big leap in online connectivity to public benefits information with myCase -- Utah's old online system only garnered about 30,000 users.
Like other state-provided tools that require Internet connectivity, Utah does face some challenges connecting eligible constituents who may have difficulty obtaining Internet access. While the digital divide remains in many areas across the U.S., the myCase portal addresses the issue by allowing assistance recipients to designate someone else to access benefits information on their behalf.
With myCase's third-party integration, eligible individuals can grant access to relatives, a medical provider or an advocate group to manage their cases on the myCase portal. Larson reported that 5,000 third parties are currently linked to 15,000 cases across the state.
"I, as a homeless advocate, can go in and assist a hundred different people through myCase if those customers have given me rights and access to do so," Larson said.
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The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) today approved a three-zone framework for the 2012-2015 waterfowl seasons.
In a presentation prepared by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' Waterfowl Program, the Commission heard data gathered during a recent survey conducted by the Department. Hunter comments were collected via a mail-out and an on-line survey form.
Options presented included no change in the current two-zone configuration and two, three-zone options that offered different boundaries for a revised west zone layout. The previous west zone was divided to form a new coastal zone and a west zone.
Based on hunter preferences in survey data and the Department's recommendation, the Commission approval created a third zone with a new boundary of La. Hwy. 106 from its junction with US Hwy. 167 west to Oakdale, then south from Oakdale on US Hwy. 165 to its junction with US Hwy. 190, then west on US Hwy. 190/La. Hwy. 12 to the Texas border.
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Truluck's Fort Lauderdale will celebrate its fourth anniversary at the end of June.
Looking around the packed dining room the other night, I wondered where all these diners spent their money before the restaurant arrived.
A good part of Truluck's popularity is on account of its design. Everyone looks good sitting on one of the bright-red, semicircular banquettes. Each table has its own spotlight that somehow creates instant intimacy, despite the busy restaurant all around. The front of the 325-seat dining room is open to a wide patio. Taxidermied fish temper the elegance of the room, because this is, after all, a fish house.
But why, we wondered, did it take us a few minutes to get used to the fishy smell? Why would such a gorgeous restaurant open for service when five lighting fixtures needed new bulbs? And why was our section of the dining room so warm? I hated to see so many dolled-up diners fanning themselves with their menus.
Perhaps all this sounds picky. But all kinds of small things left me feeling that Truluck's needs to up its game or lower its prices.
The problem started with the service, which you expect to be as wonderfully old-fashioned as the white jackets the servers wear. But our server opened with a nearly comical recitation about "juicy steaks." The pace of the meal was off, with big gaps between courses. When four of five entrees arrived, the food runner said he didn't have room on his tray for the fifth. Maybe they need bigger trays? Or maybe one of the smartly dressed managers could lend a hand?
And then, there's food. Some of it is outstanding. Some, not so much.
We started with a blue-crab dip ($14), served with toasted baguette rounds. It tasted more like a mixture of fat and dairy than crab. It's the kind of glop I expect from a lower-priced chain. Hot 'n' crunchy shrimp ($14) — four per order — were indeed crunchy, but we would have liked them hot instead of cool. They were such perfect specimens, however, we didn't quibble.
We didn't bother with stone-crab claws ($23/four medium, $30/three large, $23/one jumbo), which Truluck's gets fresh from its own fisheries in Naples. The Fort Lauderdale Truluck's is part of a 10-restaurant chain, with locations in Florida (Boca Raton, Miami, Naples), Texas and California. On Monday nights, it charges $69 for all-you-can-eat medium crabs, including soup, salad and a side.
The salads need work. The Knife and Fork Caesar salad ($9) and the Sonoma greens salad ($9) — with spicy pecans, goat cheese, apples, Kalamata olives and honey vinaigrette — were small and unimpressive. Neither had quite enough dressing or enough attention paid to them.
But then came some of the best seafood I've had in a very long time. Blackened grouper Pontchartrain ($38) is topped with Creole sauce mixed with crawfish tails, shrimp and blue crab. Grilled sea bass ($36) was near perfect in its simplicity. Pan-seared sea scallops ($32) had the nice caramelized edges that come from this cooking method. Seafood portions are adequate, but small. I can't decide if Truluck's wants us to adhere to current dietary guidelines or to its own profit margins.
The center-cut filet ($36/7-ounce, $46/10-ounce) was a beauty. But the $12 Bearnaise Royale accompaniment was skimpy. There might have been two tablespoons of what is billed as a "jumbo lump crab and shrimp with bearnaise." A 16-ounce rib-eye ($45) was overdone. Our server offered to replace it, but sometimes, you'd rather eat an overcooked steak than become the only person eating at the table.
Entrees are served with sides, and I loved the rice pilaf, which had a slight Indian flavor. Asparagus was nicely steamed, but what's with the Szechwan-style green beans? If you've ever been to a Chinese restaurant, you'll recognize that the version served here needs help.
Do leave room for dessert. On top of the carrot cake's ($11) moist four layers and cream-cheese frosting, our server added a drizzle of caramel sauce and a sprinkling of candied pecans. The enormous chocolate sack ($19) will sate the sweet tooth for six. A chocolate bag is filled with a mixture of pound cake, berries, whipped cream, caramel, chocolate chips and chocolate sauce. Somehow, it's not as sweet as you'd expect. I'd heartily recommend it.
There's lots to love and lots to improve on at Truluck's. I'd say it's time for a reboot.
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Cost: Expensive-very expensive
Hours: Dinner daily
Reservations: Suggested
Credit cards: All major
Bar: Full service
Sound level: Conversational
Outside smoking: No
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There is perhaps no writer better at articulating the economic way of thinking and exposing the myths that plague political debate than the Frenchman Frédéric Bastiat. During his short life (1801–1850), Bastiat wrote such classics as "The Law" and "What is Seen and What Is Not Seen" He possessed a remarkable ability to pierce the sophistry of protectionism, socialism, and other ideologies of big government. And Bastiat did this with astounding clarity and wit.


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David Director – Family Man
By Nicole Bowling, Residential Lighting Magazine
From leading the business his father founded 40 years ago to treating his employees with compassion – and vendors with tough love – this year's Residential Lighting Industry Leadership Award winner David Director of Connecticut Lighting Centers represents a true legacy.
Like many people in the lighting industry, David Director literally grew up in the business. In high school, he started working at his father's showroom, Connecticut Lighting Centers, sweeping the floors and working in the warehouse. Fast-forward 30-something years and Director is owner and President of the company, which now has two locations plus an offshoot, Restoration Lighting Gallery. He's an active member of the American Lighting Assn. (ALA) and many other non-lighting related nonprofits, a father of three, and a respected and well-known businessman.
And, although he's made some moves since his warehouse days, he still has a passion for lighting. "In college, I would drive to the store and work there on the weekends and can quite honestly say that I loved what I was doing," Director says. "And I still love what I do today."
An Industry Family
Director's father, Art, started Connecticut Lighting Centers in 1972. David's late mother, Edythe, also worked in the store after leaving her job as a teacher's aide and brought decorative accessories, table lamps and floor lamps to its inventory.
Because his father was "old school," Director was involved in all aspects of the business. Although he says he briefly considered a career as a gym teacher before realizing it wouldn't be a fruitful path, Director started full-time at the showroom in 1981 as a salesman on the showroom floor, then ventured out as an Outside Sales Manager, then came back to the store as Sales Manager. In 1994, Art officially retired and David became President.
"I'm really fortunate," Director says. "I had a father who left me a business that was debt-free. He never cared about how big we were, but instead, how profitable we were. As my father developed my business acumen over the years, it was always about the bottom line — and, equally as important as the bottom line, our people. You have to integrate the two."
This standard — to take care of your staff — still reigns supreme today. The 94 employees at Connecticut Lighting Centers and Restoration Lighting Gallery are provided with health insurance and a 401k plan, and even during the recent economic downturn, they didn't endure any pay cuts or layoffs.
"My people need me more when times are tough than when times are good," Director says. "So for me, it was even more important to stand behind them and do whatever I could do to support them so that when things come back, the feeling is mutual."
Connecticut Lighting Centers Vice President and General Manager Neil Fleisher says this is one of the reasons why he likes going to work everyday. "I admire that David is always looking out for the well-being of his employees, which he refers to as his 'extended family,'" Fleisher says. "He has built an organization where you don't feel like your job is in jeopardy."
Director has shaped his business into a successful organization and mainstay in Hartford, CT, while also making his own mark on the lighting industry. He's acquired many friends through his work and they speak highly of him, as a businessman and a friend.
Longtime buddies Jack Fleischer, owner of Hermitage Lighting, and Dean Gottesman, Executive Vice President at Shanor/Royalite Lighting Centers — both cultivated from their own family businesses — have known Director for nearly 30 years. They commend his savvy and work ethic.
"David is a very astute businessman who takes advantage of every opportunity," Fleischer says.
"He's a very dynamic person," says Gottesman. "When he gets involved in something, he goes in full force."
This proves to be true in and out of business. Described as a workaholic, Director, a Certified Lighting Consultant (CLC®), regularly works 18-hour days, six days a week. He serves on the board of Liberty Bank and several nonprofit boards including the Rushford Center, Middlesex United Way, Connecticut Retail Merchants Assn., Quinnipiac University Business School Advisory Board and the Middlesex County Community Foundation. He organizes two charity golf tournaments and tries never to miss any of his childrens' athletic games.
"There's more than just the business, and that's why I work as many hours as I do. To me, giving back to the community is really important — it's on the top of my list," Director says.
Director credits his wife, Carol, with making his success possible. "She's put up with me working seven days a week for almost 20 years, on top of all the boards and other activities I'm involved in. She's been incredibly supportive through it all."
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Director is the first to admit that sometimes he can be tough to deal with. "But, it is what it is," he says matter-of-factly. "I'm that way because my employees are number one."
Quoizel President Rick Seidman agrees. "David can be very critical at times," Seidman says. "If you don't know him well, you might take it the wrong way. But I know he's that way because he wants to take everything to the next level and better his business. Honestly, I wish I had 100 David Directors who would get on the phone and tell me when something is not right."
Fortunately, Director's industry involvement and knowledge help to make his opinion one worth listening to. He's been an ALA member since the start of his career and, since 2001, has been involved in more than 15 ALA committees, panels and groups, most recently the Membership Campaign Committee, which had recruited 121 new members this year as of September's ALA Conference.
"David always has been a supporter of ALA's numerous programs over the many years that I have known him," says Dick Upton, President/CEO of ALA. "Whether he is asked to actively recruit new members for ALA or help us grow the consumer outreach effort of the BiNational Advertising and PR Program, David always steps up to the plate."
In fact, Director's readiness to work on behalf of the greater industry good is a key reason he was nominated for this year's Industry Leadership Award. Art Langlais of the Langlais Group nominated Director, citing his recent successful efforts to get a favorable rebate for independent lighting retailers in the entire state of Connecticut — even Director's own competition.
"He did this for the benefit of the Connecticut lighting industry and paid 100 percent of the costs from his own pocket," Langlais wrote in his nomination. "I doubt his competitors have any idea what he did for them. He is truly a supporter of the lighting industry, not just of his own success."
With Connecticut Lighting Centers celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, Director is building on a solid foundation as he looks to the future. He sees the business expanding, introducing different product groups into his stores. A good example of that is the new hardware business that just opened in September as part of Connecticut Lighting Centers. He's also bringing in the next generation to his family business; his older son, Todd, began working for him full-time two years ago.
"Retail is a difficult industry, which makes it fun for me," Director says. "It's also very dynamic, which can make it exciting, but I didn't really think too much about that. The challenge of the tough industry keeps me going."
Regardless of the success of his business, however, Director said he hopes he's remembered for what he's given back. "I always tell my kids: There's only one thing people remember — your name and what kind of person you were. That's really what it's all about. If you can use your business to help your employees, make a decent living, but most importantly give back, that's what it's all about."


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MONTREAL — Bell Canada and Astral Media are set for some major changes in the wake of the Canadian broadcast regulator's surprising decision last week to nix Bell's proposed $3.4 billion take-over of Astral. It is expected that Bell will remain on the acquisitions trail while Astral will at the very least sell some of its assets.
It's unclear what Bell and Astral will do now. The only thing for sure is that Bell is already contesting the decision. On Monday, the telecom and broadcast giant sent a request to the Prime Minister's office asking the cabinet to tell the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that it has to follow its own policies. Bell argues that the regulator didn't even follow its own policies in rejecting Bell's bid.
Bell claimed that the CRTC used "never-before used criteria to deny the BCE-Astral transaction."
Bell and the CRTC have also gotten into a fight over how much market-share the combined Astral-Bell would have had if the deal had gone through. The regulator said Astral-Bell would have controlled 45% of English TV viewing and 35% of French. Bell claims those figures are way too high, that it would only have 33% of the English market and 24% of the French marketplace.
The government has not yet given an answer to Bell's request but the sense is that it is quite unlikely that Stephen Harper's Conservative government will step in and overturn the CRTC decision.
Most observers feel that Astral will still be sold either in whole or in pieces. The problem with selling Astral as one entity is that there are not many players the size of Bell ready to step in to make the acquisition. Its telecom competitor Telus might but Telus execs have always said they are not interested in moving into the broadcast biz.
Rogers might be another potential suitor for all or some part of Astral. Bell could also come back and try to buy some of the Astral assets, like perhaps the French-language TV stations, since breaking into the French-language market was one of the key reasons Bell wanted Astral in the first place.
There is also speculation that Bell might once again take a run at buying the V network, French-Canada's third-largest TV web. Bell was talking to Remstar, which owns V, just prior to the Astral sales process, but those talks broke down when Bell started looking at the much bigger acquisition of Astral.
If the deal had gone through, Bell would have had to dole out more than $200 million to the Canadian TV biz, but some in the industry, like leading actors union ACTRA, are applauding the CRTC because they believe Bell was not going to spend enough on Canadian production if the deal had been approved.


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ST. LOUIS (AP) _ A Florida woman formerly from the St. Louis area is accused of being the ringleader in an identity theft ring that tried to cheat the government out of nearly $1.5 million.
Federal prosecutors in St. Louis charged 27-year-old Tania Henderson of Wesley Chapel, Fla., on Tuesday, the same day that a search warrant was executed at her home. Authorities say they found cash, debit cards and personal identification information of several people.
The criminal complaint alleges that 191 fraudulent tax returns in the names of identity theft victims _ both living and dead _ were filed from a computer in Henderson's home. The refunds, including some already paid, amounted to nearly $1.5 million.
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Final Bill Provides Minimal Protections for Latino Homeowners
OCTOBER 8, 2008 – This past week, MALDEF worked closely with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and leading civil rights organizations on the Wall Street rescue legislation. While issues surrounding bank mergers and corporate failings dominated the news, the impact of the current economic crisis on the Latino community is underreported but strongly felt. That is why, beyond our priority issues of immigration, education, voting rights and the like, it was important for MALDEF to work with others in the civil rights community and urge Congressional leaders to address the needs of working families and homeowners.
Latinos are already feeling the pain of the economic downturn and should not have been overlooked as Congress focused on economic relief. As the Pew Hispanic Center reported earlier this year, Latino unemployment rose from 4.7% in the first quarter of 2007 to 6.5% in the first quarter of the 2008. Since then, the situation facing the community has worsened. According to Department of Labor data released Friday (with more data to be reported this week), Latino unemployment jumped from 5.6% to 7.8% from September 2007 to September 2008, including one quarter (24.9%) of Latinos aged 16 to 19. Financial troubles faced by industries, such as housing construction, and states, like California (now with the third highest unemployment rate, 7.7%, behind Rhode Island and Michigan), affect Latinos especially hard. Furthermore, Latino homeowners, many of whom were targeted with subprime loans and other predatory lending practices, remain at a high risk of foreclosure.
The civil rights community and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus issued a joint letter urging the inclusion of homeowner protections in the economic recovery legislation. MALDEF, with the National Council of La Raza, League of United Latin American Citizens, Urban League, Asian American Justice Center, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and others, also issued separate letters to the Senate and House leadership seeking assurances for the following:
- An aggressive and systematic approach to permit parties to modify the terms of loans as a prerequisite to loan purchase by federal agencies. In other words, the taxpayers should not be called upon to acquire a loan unless homeowners and borrowers are afforded relief;
- Restoring the authority of bankruptcy courts to modify loans as a last resort; and
- A mandatory moratorium on foreclosures for the limited period of time before the financial rescue plan takes effect.
While these measures were not included and Congress has adjourned without also extending unemployment benefit eligibility, there are still steps that can and must be taken. For the current mortgage crisis, these steps include holding field hearings to better understand the plight of homeowners nationwide; investing in financial counseling programs for at-risk communities; and establishing an oversight board for this recovery package that takes into account the perspective of minority communities. It will now be left to the 111th Congress to pursue an agenda that protects working families and provides the necessary economic opportunities for Latinos. MALDEF will continue to provide financial counseling programs for community members and advocate in Washington, DC and around the country to ensure that Latinos are not left behind as efforts to respond to the current economic crisis continue.


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(1) Metro Vancouver voters have rejected transit (whether they meant to or not) as a way of shaping growth.
(2) The regional vision and plan are irrelevant. It's now Motordom by Default.
(3) This will lead to demands for de-facto freeways into and through Vancouver.
For example, PT commenter Eric just added this to the post below:
The transit tax losers need to realize that they lost, quite profoundly badly too … It will now have to be the provincial government that makes the important decisions on smoothing the flow of traffic into and out of the bottlenecks to the north shore, along 1st and south down Knight and Oak.
Ah yes, "smoothing the flow of traffic." Eric's description is essentially the polite way of justifying the freeway plans that began when Vancouver city manager Gerald Sutton-Brown initiated the first regional transportation committee in the mid-1950s to plan for future freeways and that by the mid-1960s led to the plans were pretty much identical to what Eric suggests: traffic corridors parallel to East 1st, Knight and Oak, and a Third Crossing from the North Shore.
We built the red: the Expo SkyTrain, the Canada Line, the B-lines and SeaBus. Will the provincial Liberals be prepared to push through the blue as traffic congestion becomes intolerable to their suburban base and transit funding is seen to be for 'losers'?


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Looks like the good folks at Sony have decided to pick up the rights to "Predestination", a new sci-fi flick from The Spierig Brothers. The film is based on Robert A. Heinlein short story "All you Zombies" and focuses on a secret government group that sends people back in time to prevent terrorist attacks. Maybe they can go back and stop the whole Ska thing in the 90's too. Am I right?
Last week Tom Hardy said that "Mad max: Fury Road" wasn't going to be happening any time soon. But today Charlize Theron is saying that the film going into production next week. I don't know who to believe. Both of them are super hot. But in every interview Charlize Theron has annoyed the crap out of me. On the other hand Tom Hardy is a man with a penis. I'm really on the fence here.
Josh Trank made big waves with his "nobody will hug me and now I have super powers" film "Chronicle" so hopes are high now that he's been given the director role on the upcoming film adaptation of the classic video game "Shadow of the Colossus". The game tells the tale of a young chap who sets out to bring his one true love back to life by battling giant creatures who hold the power to revive her. It sounds insane but the game was awesome. Trust me. I'd never lie to you.
Word around the locker room is Mr. Gary Oldman has signed on to play the scientist who creates the great robot cop in the upcoming remake of "Robocop". Are you excited? I am.... I've run out of stupid crap to say.
Don't you dare let your kid talk during "Titanic" or this guy in Seattle will lose his shit and knock out their tooth. He'll go to jail after but still, no tooth. All the kids at school will laugh.
I have no idea whether the penis tug is actually a Kung Fu move but even if it is you sure as hell can't teach it or you'll get locked up like this old guy in New York. It can't be can it? What would be the use of something like that?


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What Black Men Should Do Now: 100 Simple Truths, Ideas, and Concepts
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Through the darkest nights of slavery to the daybreak of the civil rights movement, African-American men have been pillars of strength. Yet despite the years of progress, they may find each day has struggles to overcome in order to accomplish their goals. Unquestionably, it is easy to bow to adversity when the way is faint and help is far. Where can the black man in doubt find true assistance? In today's fast-paced world, the advice and direction that once came simply and casually from family and friends are more difficult to come by.
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The book includes 100 simple truths, ideas, and concepts, such as why one should mentor a young man, how to deal with anger (righteous or not), how to truly love a woman, how to respect one's body, and why one should be in touch with his God, issues the reader can contemplate in one sitting or at various times over the years. Each concept is introduced with anecdotes and practical advice and is accompanied by action points that can be implemented at once.
Timely, definitive, and candid, What Black Men Should Do Now is a gift that women can give their sons and husbands, brothers, and fathers; it is a resource for men to keep for years to come. What Black Men Should Do Now will encourage positive changein oneself, one's family, one's community. With a foreword by media personality Tavis Smiley, this book is a must-read for every black man -- and boy -- in America.
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Ho hum. Microsoft is going to bring back the start menu in Windows 8 – presumably in August.
That might be ok, though I've long since adapted to the start screen so I'm not sure I care at all.
What I do care about are much more real challenges when working in the 'modern' or WinRT (Windows Runtime or Windows Store) side of the operating system.
My top list:
I guess what I'm getting at is that I understand that Microsoft feels like they need to add back the Start menu to lure stubborn people into using Win8. BUT what I'm afraid will happen is that they'll lure people into the WinRT world only to have those people suffer the same day-to-day frustrations I already suffer because these core fit-and-finish capabilities aren't implemented or complete.
Personally I think it would be better to make the WinRT platform so nice and compelling and fun to use that people will _choose_ to use it over the legacy Desktop with or without cosmetic stuff like a Start menu.
The term "modern app" is starting to gain some traction in our industry, but what is a modern app?
Microsoft started using this term to describe formerly-Metro and now Windows Store apps, but then they kind of backed off because they settled on Windows Store App as the name for what they were doing.
At Magenic though, we design and build modern apps for our customers in a platform independent way. We define the term thusly:
Modern applications support all types of devices, from phones to tablets to laptops to desktop computers, on all different platforms, from Windows to iOS to Android and HTML5. They provide first-class support for touch, keyboard, and mouse scenarios. And they rely on well-considered UX design to enable your users to leverage complex back-end or cloud-based services and data in a highly productive and compelling manner.
Modern applications support all types of devices, from phones to tablets to laptops to desktop computers, on all different platforms, from Windows to iOS to Android and HTML5. They provide first-class support for touch, keyboard, and mouse scenarios. And they rely on well-considered UX design to enable your users to leverage complex back-end or cloud-based services and data in a highly productive and compelling manner.
In our view, modern applications extend beyond simple mobile apps to include enterprise realities such as the need to work on existing computing devices (mostly PCs with keyboards and mice) as well as newer devices such as ultrabooks, tablets, and phones of all shapes, sizes, and OSes. And modern apps leverage existing backend services, as well as public and/or private cloud infrastructure where appropriate.
You can imagine that this definition of modern apps isn't necessarily neat or simple, but it is meaningful. A typical modern app requires extensive development an integration on an enterprise's servers and backend systems. It probably has a substantial Windows or web client for use by employees who need deep and rich interactivity with the entire system. And in today's world it almost certainly has a meaningful subset of (or even full) functionality on tablets and phones.
At the moment enterprises are still trying to make BYOD work. As a result a typical modern app tends to have multiple client device implementations. If the BYOD trend continues it is reasonable to expect that cross-platform technologies such as Xamarin and JavaScript will become the norm rather than multiple disparate native implementations.
It is also possible that the high cost of BYOD for enterprise apps will cause enterprises to reassert control over client devices (like what happened 20 years ago as the PC and Windows emerged into the enterprise). This would likely bring out one majority client platform such as the Windows Runtime (WinRT) that enterprises would target for many internal modern business apps.
Time will tell on that front. But regardless, the high emphasis on UX, the need to support keyboard/mouse and touch equally, and the deep integration with existing enterprise and cloud systems are the cornerstones of the definition of a modern app.
Visual Studio Live! is coming to Chicago again this year. We're right downtown near the big park and the lake, so it is a great location!
Even better, we've got a great lineup of content that covers today's technologies (like WPF and ASP.NET) and emerging technologies like JavaScript single page applications (SPAs), TypeScript, mobile development for Android, iOS, and Windows.
I hope to see you there!
Update: I forgot to mention that you can save $400 on registration by clicking the link in this post!
Microsoft has substantially improved the story around side loading of Windows 8 WinRT (Windows Runtime or Windows Store) apps for the enterprise and business environments.
I've blogged pretty extensively in the past about the costs of the two steps necessary to side load apps:
Microsoft has now radically changed the cost of step 1. This blog post from Microsoft contains the following statement:
Enterprise Sideloading– In May, we will grant Enterprise Sideloading rights to organizations in certain Volume License programs, regardless of what product they purchase, at no additional cost. Other customers who want to deploy custom line-of-business Windows 8.1 apps can purchase Enterprise Sideloading rights for an unlimited number of devices through Volume Licensing at approximately $100. For additional information on sideloading licensing, review the Windows Volume Licensing Guide.
Enterprise Sideloading– In May, we will grant Enterprise Sideloading rights to organizations in certain Volume License programs, regardless of what product they purchase, at no additional cost. Other customers who want to deploy custom line-of-business Windows 8.1 apps can purchase Enterprise Sideloading rights for an unlimited number of devices through Volume Licensing at approximately $100. For additional information on sideloading licensing, review the Windows Volume Licensing Guide.
Basically what this means is the following (as I understand it):
For developers/testers things are unchanged – you still use a free dev unlock key to install apps for development and testing.
For organizations with an Enterprise Agreement (EA) you'll be able to get a side loading unlock key that you can use on all your Windows 8 Pro and Windows 8 Enterprise devices, regardless of whether they are domain joined or not. As before, you can also get 'companion device' keys to unlock Windows RT devices if you have a Windows 8 Enterprise device too.
For smaller organizations that don't have an EA you might have (or can get) one of a number of 'Open' or 'Select' license agreements with Microsoft. Once you have one of these you can buy a side loading key for around $100 that will unlock any number of Windows 8 Pro or Windows 8 Enterprise devices.
When compared to the old model of buying keys for $30/device this is a major change in the right direction. For a maximum of around $100 virtually every organization (small to huge) can get a side loading unlock key for all their devices.
Now this still doesn't address the need to actually install your apps onto your devices.
Microsoft offers InTune, which is a full MDM (mobile device management) product. If you find the value proposition of an MDM compelling then InTune is probably the right answer for you – though there's a per device/per month cost (ranging from $6/device/month to $11/device/month) so you don't get MDM for free of course.
I've been coordinating an open source project called OrgPortal that you can use to (relatively) easily create an app store for your organization.
There's another open source project called CompanyStore that is very similar.
Alternately you can have your users manually run a PowerShell to install and update each app manually over time.
I think Microsoft has taken a substantial step in the right direction with the changes to the cost and availability of side loading keys. Couple this with the increasing maturity of projects like OrgPortal and CompanyStore and I think we're getting to the point where WinRT is something to consider for business app development.
On my flight to SF for #bldwin this week I sat between two random people. All three of us were normal business travelers, all spending our time on the flight doing a mix of entertainment (videos, reading, social games) and work (spreadsheets, email, editing documents).
(yes, I know it is rude to look at what your fellow travelers have on their screens, but in the cramped quarters on an airplane how can you NOT see???)
To my left was a man, perhaps in his late 30's. He had an iPad that he used as a tablet to do some reading and watch some video. He also did some work on the iPad, for which he dug out a clamshell case that converted the iPad into a laptop with a keyboard. One device plus a laptop-sized keyboard peripheral.
To my right was a woman, maybe in her early 40's. She had an iPad that she used to play some social games and do some reading. For most of the flight she dug out a traditional big Win7 laptop so she could use Outlook, Word, and Excel. Two devices consuming about the same physical area as the guy with his iPad and clamshell, though I bet he carried less weight than she did.
I'm sure it'll be no surprise to anyone reading this blog that I was using my Surface Pro 2 the whole flight. And I too did some reading, some email, did a little social gaming, browsed the web, and did some work in Word. I am quite confident that my single device consumed less physical area than their devices in my carry-on bag. It might be that the weight of my device was comparable to the guy with his iPad/clamshell (the Surface weights more than the iPad, but perhaps less than the clamshell). Certainly we both were carrying less weight than the woman with an iPad and old-fashioned laptop.
For a long time I pleaded with Microsoft to give us (or at least me) a device that gave me the power of a laptop in the form of a tablet. It took them long enough, but I want to be clear that I think the Surface Pro 2 is exactly what I asked for way back when.
Enough battery life I don't think about it. Light enough to carry (though not as light as the smaller iPads). Powerful enough to run Visual Studio and 1-2 Hyper-V VMs so I can do my work. Compact even with the backlit type keyboard.
The only thing I really wish is that there was a WinRT version of Office. The fact that existing Office drops me into the legacy desktop, and more importantly doesn't allow me to use the Share charm or the integrated-into-WinRT DropBox and Box support is frustrating.
I'm fine with being in the legacy desktop for Visual Studio, because then I'm almost certainly connected to a bigger monitor, keyboard, and mouse setup.
(for those who are curious, here's a good example of a nice USB-based docking station for Windows tablets; dual monitor output, keyboard/mouse, and more USB ports for other peripherals; all by plugging in one USB cable to your device)
But I frequently use Office without being docked, and it would be much nicer to use a WinRT version in that scenario.
The MyVote app is a complete modern app built by Magenic as a demo for Modern Apps Live! conferences.
MyVote from Modern Apps Live! LV 2014 is available on the MyVote releases page on GitHub.
The MyVote app is available for install
Although we've made the code available on GitHub, getting the app compiled and running is non-trivial of course, because this is a complete modern app with clients for
and services that use
In GitHub the README.md file contains a list of places in the code where you'll need to insert your own encryption and service keys. Beyond that you are largely on your own. If you are looking for a more detailed walkthrough of the implementation I can only suggest that you attend Modern Apps Live! in Orlando this fall.
I just created a release of CSLA 4 version 4.5.580-Beta with preliminary support for iOS via the Xamarin tools.
You can get it via nuget (easiest), or from the release page on GitHub.
This is an exciting pre-release because it now means you can reuse the same business logic code across all modern app client platforms and the desktop and the cloud. This is a "who's who" list of supported platforms:
CSLA .NET allows you to easily create reusable business logic (authorization, validation, calculations, etc.) and to share a common app server with simple network configuration. I don't know of any other open source C# framework that makes it possible for you to reuse the exact same business logic across all these different platforms.
Because the iOS support is new we are asking for your help. If you have the Xamarin tools for iOS please help us out by building some business code using CSLA and let us know if you find any issues (either on the forum at http://forums.lhotka.net or via the CSLA GitHub page.
I few weeks ago I posted about my new Nokia Lumia 1520 "phablet": Lumia 1520- First thoughts
Tomorrow my new Lumia 1020 will replace the 1520.
Because the 1520 is just too big. Otherwise I really like it in a lot of ways – high def screen, easy to read content, very fast, slot for MicroSD card.
But it doesn't fit nicely into my pockets, and it is very awkward to hold up to my ear when talking (yes, I often use BlueTooth, but not always).
Mostly though, even with my big hands (I'm 2m tall after all) I can't use it one-handed. <insert texting while driving jokes here> In reality this has nothing to do with driving as I have a good hands-free setup in my truck. This has to do with normal everyday use of the phone, and the reality that it never works one-handed, even for basic things like pulling it out of my pocket to answer a call.
I have high hopes for the 1020. It is the size of my 920, which I loved, and has a much better camera. I don't believe it has a MicroSD slot though, which is the only real negative I can see.
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Twice a month, we ask the experts at the Museum of History and Industry for a tidbit about Seattle's history. Here's what MOHAI's Phyllis Franklin has in today's installment.
With locavore and Slow Food movements rapidly on the rise, it's little surprise that Seattle's trendiest new pet is no longer the placid lap dog or lawn-grazing goat, but the humble chicken. Indeed, chickens have long been a part of Seattle's urban landscape and the Puget Sound at large. So in this installment of Ask MOHAI, we asked Phyllis Franklin to illuminate the Golden Age of chicken ranching in Washington.
Washington had an age of chicken ranching?
Do you want to be your own boss and work on your own terms? Are you looking for a new life free from the hassles of city living and filled with fresh air? How about a new business pursuit that isn't physically demanding, requires little cash outlay, and promises high returns? Want to win over your girl with newfound financial success?
Sound like a late night infomercial? These prompts were, in fact, selling points posed to potential chicken ranchers in the early years of the twentieth century.
According to a 1909 poultry manual, The Dollar Hen, the poultry and egg crop of 1907 was worth over $600 million. The reason, wrote author Milo Hastings, was that the US was becoming a nation of chicken and egg lovers. Consumption of pork had dropped by half in the fifty years prior to 1909, while consumption of chicken and eggs doubled. Culinary tastes were changing to include more chicken as it became more affordable for the average American shopper. Plus, new, larger breeds were being produced – imagine if Hastings has seen the superchickens of today! Finally, greater transportation capabilities enabled delivery of masses of eggs to vendors.
With the demand for chicken and eggs on a steep rise, opportunists – big and small -sought their fortunes in chicken ranching. An article published in 1915 reported that an acre of land put to poultry use could yield $1,000 to $3,000 annually, a sizeable income for the day. If ranchers didn't have the initial $3,000 to $3,500 to buy outright, they could still make a decent living while growing their businesses. Two years later, in 1917, the Puget Mill Company developed Alderwood Manor (in what is now Lynnwood) selling five and ten acre lots to would-be chicken ranchers. Potential buyers visited the 30-acre Demonstration Farm, including a hatchery, gardens, and orchards, to learn how to raise chickens and grow produce. The price to own a dream "ranchette" was just $200 an acre.
While promises of bounty were many – by 1921, Alderwood Manor was the second largest egg producing community in the country – few who endeavored in chicken ranching actually met financial success. This fact is well documented by Betty McDonald's hilarious The Egg and I, which recaps her misadventures in chicken ranching on the Olympic Peninsula in the late 1920's. After four years, McDonald and her husband left the chicken ranching business, which she describes as "the common man's holy grail." She concludes, rather cynically, that "there is one thing about the chicken business: if a hen is lazy or uncooperative or disagreeable you can chop off her head and relieve the situation once and for all."
When the Depression hit in the 1930's, dropping egg prices forced many ranchers to sell out, and the Puget Mill Company's Demonstration Farm was closed by 1939. Today, the Franken-chickens produced on mega-farms with questionable animal rights practices don't resemble anything like the chickens of the early twentieth century, but our the privilege of owning three city chickens recaptures a bit of what life was like when chickens were king.
To learn more about the Golden Age of chicken ranching, read Betty McDonald's "The Egg and I."
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