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Former Louisville running back Jeremy Wright is starting to attract attention from multiple NFL teams.
Following Louisville's 2013 Sugar Bowl championship Wright decided to forgo his senior season and take a shot at the NFL. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in December, but had one more year of eligibility due to redshirting as a true freshman.
Although multiple local media outlets didn't expect him to return to Louisville, Wright's decision wasn't made official until a couple of weeks ago, which means NFL teams didn't realize he was entering the draft. Now that they know Wright is coming out, his interest level has picked up.
The Clermont, FL., native worked out with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers earlier this week and has a private workout scheduled with the Seattle Seahawks on April 10. Wright was impressive at Louisville's annual pro day last week in front of 16 NFL scouts.
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It's amazing how much money parks and recreation departments waste buying the wrong spray equipment.
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Backpack Sprayers
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Replacement parts–Are they readily available? If not, don't buy the equipment.
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The tl;dr version of this post is:
[Side note: Before I go on, I'd like to answer a question you may be asking yourself: "Why am I only writing this now, 1.5 years later?" Well, I actually wrote a glowing piece about Apportable back when Osmos first launched on Android, and they asked me not to publish it; they didn't feel ready for an onslaught of developers wanting to use their platform. Fair enough, I thought.]
A lot has happened at Apportable in 1.5 years. When we first began working with them, their platform was far from mature. (Osmos was actually Apportable's first release!) Their system worked, but it required Apportable engineers to be significantly involved in the porting process, along with shared code repositories and build servers. There were also many details that needed to be ironed out along the way, from language features that needed to be added, to niggly, device-specific issues that had to be resolved. Over time, however, their process has become smoother and smoother. And at this point they even have a "self-serve" option, allowing developers to download an SDK to try for themselves. In full disclosure I should say that we've had a unique and somewhat privileged relationship with Apportable, and I've only had an early taste of that SDK, so it's hard for me to comment on the pure, self-serve experience. In any case, it looks like they're finally ready for "the onslaught."
So, given our experience, what can I comment on? Well, here are a few items:
Code reuse
A big, obvious benefit is code reuse. With a few #ifdef statements here and there you can have a single codebase across iOS and Android. Apportable's platform extracts settings from your Xcode project and cross-compiles all your Objective-C, C++, native API calls, etc. automagically. I never had to learn a thing about the Android NDK nor write a line of Java. I'm sure I don't have to sing the praises of code reuse to developers, but here's an example: When initially porting to Android, I did a chunk of work to make the game adapt to any screen resolution. (Things were originally hard-coded for iPads and iPhones. Not ideal, but that's how it goes sometimes.) Later, when Apple increased the size of the iPhone screen from 3.5 to 4 inches, we had very little new work to do. If our Android work had been in Java, there would have been a lot of grunt work involved in bringing these changes back to iOS.
Fragmentation ignorance is bliss
It's well known: there are a ton of different Android devices and OS versions out there with varying capabilities and idiosyncrasies. As Apportable early adopters we felt some of this pain, one example being how some devices support certain pixel formats better than others (eg. RGB565 vs RGBA8888), but once the Apportable engineers had worked out these details we never had to worry about them again. Personally I'm quite happy to be ignorant on this front, leaving all the countless, ever-changing details of the Android ecosystem to Apportable's engineers.
I regularly see happy comments from players on the store about how well Osmos runs on their device in terms of stability, feature support, framerate, etc. as compared to other games. This is a testament to the technical strength of Apportable's platform. Yes, people (thankfully!) like the game, but I believe our success on Android is also significantly due to how solidly it runs across so many devices.
I'll explain this one via example. Osmos is a procedural game; all levels are generated randomly based on patterns and statistical parameters describing the difficulty of a level. In Odyssey mode, however, each level is always the same, by virtue of the fact that we always choose the same initial (hand-curated) random seed. Unfortunately, the random number generators on iOS and Android are different, and so – at first – all our Odyssey levels looked different from their iOS counterparts. We thought: Oh well, it looks like we'll have to pick new seeds for each level (27 of them) on Android so that the difficulty curve is more-or-less preserved. When we mentioned this to Apportable they returned with: Well, we can simply emulate the iOS random number generator for you so everything is transparently identical on Android. We smiled and said: Yes, please. Nice to work with people who really know what they're doing.
Before taking the plunge in 2011 we had significant concerns about porting to Android, fueled by articles like this one about the potentially large support burden it would entail. When Apportable offered to take on front-line support for the Android port, we jumped on it. This has worked out amazingly well. The volume of support email on Android is indeed way higher than on iOS (I'd say roughly 50x), and the fine folks who have handled support for us at Apportable have been nothing short of incredible: professional, friendly, prompt… their responses were often better than anything I could have mustered to be honest. So after an initial "monitoring" period – with a sweet sigh of relief – I stopped looking at them altogether, knowing that if anything required our attention they'd escalate it. Personally I find support email to be very distracting, "costing" much more than the typical minute or three it takes to reply, and so I don't think I can quite express how wonderful I have found this. (In fact I wasn't sure I should even mention this point about support, but I looked at Apportable's pricing sheet, and indeed they still offer this to developers. It isn't cheap, but I believe it to be worth every penny.)
Well, I hope this is useful to developers who are considering giving Apportable's platform a try. Feel free to poke us with questions or comments below. It'd also be great to hear about other people's experiences, especially if you've tried their new self-serve option, as we can't offer much insight on that front.
While playing Osmos he had noticed an achievement we named "Atanarjuat", earned for completing the game's "Chase" stage. This was a nod and a reference to a wonderful Canadian film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, based on an ancient Inuit legend. (yup, we're Canadian.) This one word sparked a vision in Ryan's mind. From his first email to us…
… I started thinking how amazing it would be to have a handful of quality games translated into Inuktitut for kids in Nunavut to play in their own language. It can be difficult to feel like you have a role, or a potential future in the gaming industry when no one is speaking your language. I wanted to offer my services and get involved in helping to put together an Inuktitut language version of the game.
Ryan started a not-for-profit company called Pinnguaq (which means "Play" in Inuktitut), and has been developing an app that will teach people the basics of Inuktitut through song. He's very passionate about these projects:
When you put something in people's native language, you give them a more personal experience. It kind of makes the world seem a little bit smaller.
While we had previously translated the PC versions of Osmos into German, French, Spanish and Italian, at that point the iOS version was only available in English. We were looking into localizing it, but this was the "kick in the pants" we needed to make it happen. How could we say no?
So we started the technical work, and Ryan organized a crowd-sourced translation project. He put together a "quiz", inviting Inuktitut speakers to submit suggestions online on how to adapt phrases used in the game. Apparently it was a challenge to translate many of the words in Osmos to Inuktitut ("Antimatter" for instance!), especially in such a way that they'd make sense across the territory. Ryan worked with Tommy Akulukjuk, who provided a full "baseline" translation; but they hoped to receive many different suggestions for proper terminology in order to understand how each dialect may translate a specific term or word, and how it would be pronounced and used universally. They even consulted with elders in the community to verify that the words and phrases chosen would indeed work well in all dialects.
I must admit that as I sit in my less-than-exotic home office writing this, I wish I could have been a fly on the wall in that scene, watching these Nunavut elders gathered around Osmos, weighing the words and phrases chosen to represent their language and culture in the Osmos blobiverse.
Well — that spark in Ryan's eye is now a reality. We just released Osmos 2.3 for iOS (more details here) with multi-language support, including… Inuktitut!
Enjoy and ᐃᓅᓯᖃᑦᓯᐊᖅ!
Multi-language support
You can now play Osmos in German, French, Spanish, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and… Inuktitut! The story behind the Inuktitut translation is an interesting one actually. Big thanks to Nicolas Simon (a Master's student in translation studies at the University of Brest, France) for the French translation, and the folks at U-TRAX for the other 6 languages.
Note: Osmos will "auto-detect" your device's language, though you can manually select language via Osmos's settings menu.
4 New Achievements
One in single-player ("There can be only one!"), and 3 in multiplayer (2 new ranks, and one for participating in a tie game).
Plus misc tweaks 'n' fixes.
Thanks and happy Osmoting! Oh, and don't forget to "refresh" your reviews.]]>
This is a free update, and includes 6 distinct arenas in which players can play against each other — both locally and online — in a mote-eat-mote absorption-fest of skill and strategy. This update also includes many audio/visual improvements.
Local play is supported over Wi-fi, and online multiplayer is supported via Google Play's new Game Services! (Osmos launched simultaneously with Google's announcement a couple days ago, so no one can accuse us of twiddling our thumbs! ) Players can share their achievements with their Google+ circles via this service as well.
Multiplayer details:
So what are you waiting for? Go show your friends who's boss of the Blobiverse! We sincerely hope you enjoy it!
Many thanks to the fine folks at Apportable who did most of the "heavy lifting" in bringing multiplayer to Android. We couldn't have done it without you! <3]]>
iPhone 5 support
Osmos now takes full advantage of the iPhone/iPod 5′s bigger screen! More motes, more zen.
Game progress saved in iCloud
Do you play Osmos on multiple devices, or have you migrated to a new phone or tablet? Well, your progress is now seamlessly propagated from device to device via the magic of the cloud! (Note: if you have a device with progress you want to propagate, you need to run Osmos 2.2 on it at least once to get that progress into the cloud.)
iPad – iPhone interplay
iPad players can now send Game Center invitations to iPhone players, and vice versa. We've also merged achievements and progress across the two versions.
iOS 6 support + Facebook integration
You can now give a multiplayer shout-out on your Facebook wall in addition to the existing Tweet button. We've added some other secret voodoo iOS 6 support under the hood as well.
In-Game News
We've added a simple in-game news system that'll allow us to let folks know about fun multiplayer events, tips and tricks, interesting news, etc.
Steps towards multiplayer rankings
This is another "under the hood" feature. Nothing to show yet, but we're now gathering all multiplayer session data on our server, which will allow us to authenticate tournament games, rank players in a more interesting fashion, etc. More to come on this topic in the future…
(Oh, and we'd greatly appreciate if you "refreshed" your review on the App Store. Reviews reset on every update, and we work hard on these things! )
Thanks and happy Osmoting!]]>
We've put a lot of work into Osmos multiplayer – about 3 man-years across 4 people – and (modesty aside) we're really proud of it. Technically, we feel it's a super smooth, polished experience. It also provides a really unique type of competitive play – highly skill-based – that rewards strategy and quick thinking, but not necessarily quick tapping. Individual matches last anywhere from a few seconds to perhaps a minute, and the player who plans the most rewarding route while optimizing their taps/propulsion will emerge the victor. We rarely play single player levels anymore (beyond testing), but when the multiplayer mode became solid, we had a blast playing each other.
But, as in any skill-based, multiplayer game, it's way more fun and exciting to play against someone at your level. In particular, expert vs. expert play is awesome to both play and watch. Unfortunately, those kinds of games are hard to come by.
Top Starcraft players earn six-figure incomes. Thousands of fighting-game players and fans gather each year in Las Vegas for EVO. More than 8 million people worldwide tuned in to watch the League of Legends finals two week ago. "E-sports" are big. But they haven't really penetrated phone and tablet gaming. Infrastructure such as MLG exists for PC and consoles, but not iOS nor Android. At least not yet.
Don't get me wrong; there are a significant number of solid multiplayer games on iOS, and that number is growing. But it seems like the platform, or the tastes of its players, lean more towards turn-based multiplayer games (eg. Words with Friends, Ascension, Gasketball) and casual play. And maybe that makes sense in terms of the platform's culture and affordances; most players are generally looking for bite-size gameplay — stuff that fits between the cracks. After all, serious gaming happens at your high-performance rig, with your big monitor(s), custom controllers, and comfortable chair… right?
Another aspect which shapes a platform is its infrastructure — in this context: Game Center (GC). GC is great in that it brings a ton of gamers together in a single social system, and allows developers to easily connect them via auto-matching and friend-invitations. But it's lacking in terms of powerful matchmaking and player ranking. (For instance, there's no way to lower a player's score on a GC leaderboard.) As such, all the multiplayer games that use it (and there are many, including Infinity Blade, Fruit Ninja, SpellTower, Super Stickman Golf, MetalStorm, etc. etc.) are limited to "casual" play as well, in that expert players have a hard time finding each other.
There are exceptions. Some developers have built their own infrastructure: servers to host games, rank players, and provide ladder matchmaking. Such games include Street Fighter Volt, Outwitters, Battle Nations, and Magic the Gathering. One company in particular jumps out: Gameloft, who have created a cross-platform backend called Gameloft LIVE, and who seem to be going for the hardcore multiplayer market with games like Starfront Collision (StarCraft clone), Modern Combat (Call of Duty clone), N.O.V.A. (Halo clone), and many more. An interesting note is that a number of these games are getting targeted by hackers and cheaters, similar to what happens on PC. So is Game Center for that matter.
One more exception is of special interest to us: Galcon. This "minimalist" RTS has supported cross-platform (including iOS), ranked, secure online play for years now. (ie. without Game Center.) There's even infrastructure and a community engaged in tournament play. What blows our minds is it was all developed by one man: Phil Hassey. Inspirational stuff.
Well, we don't plan on building hack-proof tournament servers anytime soon, but we would like to spark some expert Osmos play and see what happens. How can we do this? Well, as a first step, we'd simply like to see who's out there, and discover what high-level play actually looks like! We like to think we're good at the game, but it would be a real eye-opener to have our asses handed to us.
So if you're interested in playing some expert-level Osmos, come on over to the new forum we setup, where we'll be chatting, arranging some informal (at least to begin with) "tournaments", and brainstorming the future of Osmos Pro play!]]>
Then, in August, Dave and his wife Mel had a beautiful baby girl. (Congrats, Dave! ) And, finding myself more or less on my own for a while with nothing "on fire", I decided to take things down a notch and enjoy the beautiful weather with family and friends.
But It's now late October, fully into rainy shoulder season, and Dave and I are both back at it, planning what's next for Hemisphere.
On one hand, we're excited to be working on games besides Osmos, picking up some prototypes we had worked on between the cracks over the last 1.5 years, as well as hitting some new ideas we've been discussing. But at the same time we feel like there is some "undone" work on Osmos we plan on hitting over the next few months. Here's our list, broken down by platform:
Last but not least there's some blogging we want to do, mainly on the subject of multiplayer.
And with that, it's time to get back to it. We have plenty to do!!]]>
We've worked long and hard on this one, and are excited to announce a major addition to Osmos: multiplayer!
This is a free update to the iOS versions of the game, and includes 6 distinct arenas in which players can play against each other — both locally and online — in a mote-eat-mote absorption-fest of skill and strategy. This update also includes iPad Retina support, Twitter integration, and many more audio/visual improvements.
Multiplayer details:
So what are you waiting for? Go show your friends who's boss of the Blobiverse!
Get Osmos for iPad here.
Get Osmos for iPhone/iPodTouch here.
We sincerely hope you enjoy it.
Eddy, on behalf of the Hemi team
It may be OpenAL related, but we're not entirely sure to be honest. (Many more games use OpenAL than we thought at first. Apparently the list includes Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Flight Control, Bumpy Road, Bit Pilot, Flower Garden, etc.) At first we thought we had a bug in Osmos, but on testing other apps we discovered it's a fairly widespread issue.
To reproduce it, try switching back and forth (by double-tapping on the Home button) between the current store versions of Flight Control and Flower Garden. After a couple of swaps you'll find that music in Flight Control often doesn't resume. Depending on which pair of apps you choose to test you'll end up with slightly different results — like an extra-complex game of rock-paper-scissors. (Angry Birds Space has impeccable manners though. It always recovers gracefully, and any app that comes after recovers nicely as well. I knew there was a reason behind Rovio's success!)
So what's going on here? Well, on startup/resume most apps will check to see if other audio is playing (eg. music or a podcast in iTunes) via a call like
If audioIsAlreadyPlaying turns out to be true, polite games will refrain from playing their own music. Sometimes, however, audioIsAlreadyPlaying appears to be true even when it shouldn't be. Why? It seems to be a timing issue. (Warning: speculation.) It may be that the previous app hasn't "finished" moving to the background when the new app takes over, giving the new app a temporarily misleading view of the situation.
The solution? (Thanks to Eric Johnson of Semi Secret Software for this tip!) Keep re-polling the status of kAudioSessionProperty_OtherAudioIsPlaying every couple seconds after starting up. Trying a few times over the course of 10 seconds or so ought to do it! We did this for Osmos, and it's recovering very reliably now.]]>


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"Five years ago, rock was the province of largely established artists mining musical territory mapped out years beforer- country rock, blues jams, "progressive" technoflash, singer-songwriter ballads, etc. As for new bands coming up, if they didn't play the hits of the day, they didn't play; if they didn't sign with an established record label, they didn't record. Rock & roll appeared to be stagnating.
Five years later, it's a whole new ball of wax. New rock bands proliferate by the thousands, refining forgotten forms of rock & roll or devising new ones. Clubs are springing up to accommodate them; groups routinely release records on their own independent labels, and some of them get radio airplay. It's a resurgence of rock & roll fervor unmatched since the mid-sixties.
What happened? Essentially, it was a grass-roots reaction to an apparent dead-end situation. In England, bands returned to rock & roll/blues basics and played pubs. Stir in some sociological ferment and a punk-rock revolution was born. In the U.S., groups from New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and all over the nation banded together. Their musical approaches differed widely, but they were united in opposition to what they perceived as the complacency of mainstream rock. A music of a hundred disparate strains coalesced into anunwieldy but animated new scene —sometimes the strains showed, factions developed, rivalries blossomed, but the unleashed energy was unstoppable.
This record, featuring American artists working in a wide variety of styles, draws on this uprising of the past five years. It attempts to capture a musical moment in all its diversity and enthusiasm and raw, awkward, irresistible excitement. It's a distillation of the present and its links to the past and future, and a salute to the endurance of the rock & roll spirit. If there's ¡ one single most cheering lesson to be learned from this new reawakening, it's that rock & roll will stand a lot of adversity and a lot of positive and negative musical influences, but rock & roll will stand." (taken from the credit notes of the album)
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Jenson Button has highlighted the pit entry as well as the exit of Turn 8 as two areas that will need to be spoken about in the drivers' briefing.
Every Friday evening of a grand prix weekend, all 22 drivers meet with the FIA to discuss any issue that may have arisen.
This Friday, as Formula 1 returned to Austria for the first time in more than a decade, it was clear to see that the pit entry was causing problems in free practice.
Added to that, Button says they need to also look at the exit to Turn 8.
"There will probably be a couple of talking points in the drivers' briefing tonight," he revealed.
"The pit entry at Turn Eight is tricky; I tried to go round the outside of someone who was pitting, but I just went straight on because I was on the marbles. So that might need a little look.
"Additionally, the exit of Turn Eight needs looking at - it's seemingly quicker to run with all four wheels off the track, but it's a bit more dangerous because you run out of asphalt and have to get back on the track before it grasses over."
But despite his concerns, Button enjoyed the opening day of the Austrian GP weekend.
He finished FP2 in seventh place, 1.271s off the pace.
"Today was fun. It's always nice to go to a high-speed track like this - we don't have too many of them left any more - it's very relaxed, it's old-school, a good mix. We love the glamour of Monaco and the city races like Montreal and Singapore, but it's nice to have these old-school tracks, too.
"For us, it was a relatively productive day. We're still struggling with graining on the Supersoft tyre, as we did in Canada, but the Prime seemed good on both our short- and long-runs.
"Our aim will be to make progress and, at tracks that are less suited to our package, to not drop too much ground to the teams ahead of us. Eventually, it would be nice to be able to challenge the teams ahead of us in the constructors' fight.
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It's been said a million times: "You should have been there!" And now, thanks to two Tri-State tech experts, it's more possible than ever.
Mike Sarow, a former Proctor and Gamble brand marketer and engineer along with social media entrepreneur Matthew Dooley, founder and chief executive officer of Dooley Media, are the creative minds behind a wearable audio-recording device, called "Nugg-it," that captures nuggets of conversations.
Sarow was traveling around San Francisco with a friend and came up with the idea when they were sharing funny jokes and good stories, explains Dooley. "We thought it would be neat to be able to capture these quotable moments in real time." Social media covers pictures and videos well, so Nugg-it will be a breakthrough when it comes to capturing audio.
To save a memorable part of a conversation, the user touches the device to save the last minute of buffered memory. That recording can be sent to a smart phone and through an app that can be edited, saved and shared.
Nugg-it is unique in a number of ways. First, it's a wearable tech device in a new, emerging market and within this category; Nugg-it is the only product allowing people to capture unique audio content on a 60-second loop, saving them in one-minute "nuggets." The design of the product is very distinct; Nugg-it will be stylish and comfortable to wear. "We're aiming for a device that both men and women will want to wear every day, both for its functionality and its fashionable design," explains Dooley.
"Currently, we're finalizing the design of our first prototype as well as networking to attract additional investors. Plans are to deliver the final concept in March, and introduce it to the market by December," Dooley explains, adding that we've been able to secure about 40% of our seed-stage funding. We're looking for the right investors to help us close that gap. In addition to angel investors, we're hoping to secure investment via the crowd funding platform, Kickstarter.
"We are not ready to share the design concepts at this point, but we have made the design our top priority. Our product design firm, Design2Matter (D2M), has a great track record and we're excited to be partnering with them to bring this device to market in late 2013," explains Dooley. Nugg it will launch an official campaign this summer on Kickstarter.
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Please do not use any of the following terms in refering to Garret Atkins: "power hitter", "big bat", "replacement for Mike Lowell", etc.
1) Statistics for last 3 seasons combined:
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Everywhere Else: .790 OPS
2) Of the 86 position players with 225 road at-bats in the National Leauge in 2008, there were only 4 players with a worse road OPS than Garret Atkins.
3) From 2006 to 2007, his overall OPS fell .112 and from 2007 to 2007 his overall OPS fell .073 for a grand total of a .185 drop in OPS in the past 2 seasons. Horrible....sraight horrible.
4) In 40 postseason at-bats, Garret Atkins has a .175 BA and an OPS of .608.
5) His career fielding percentage at 3B is .955. There is a reason he played 61 games at 1B last year.
So what exactly does Garret Atkins bring to the table over what we already have at the corner in-field positions in Mike Lowell and KevinTony Youkilis? Is he supposed to magically improve by being traded to the American Leauge? Can anyone tell me? Tony Massarotti?
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posted at 10/23/2008 3:21 PM EDTLowell, Lugo, Buchholz, Crisp, Kottaras, Lowrie
Atkins, Helton, Iannetta, Tulo, Tavarez
This deal saves Colorado 27 million dollars...
They are currently trying to deal Atkins for a #2-3 starter so Atkins-Buch is even talent wise (Lugo makes $ even)
Crisp is an upgrade over Tavarez in CF
Lowell/Helton are both good hitting vets coming of surgery, both are ? marks, same age, etc so that is even
So the question remains is the downgrade from young possible stars Ianneta/Tulo to young serviceable starters Kottaras/Lowrie worth 27 million in financial flexibility??
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Boston - An former Needham real estate attorney was charged in federal court with wire fraud and money laundering in connection with fraudulent mortgage loans.
Marc D. Foley, 45, was indicted on 33 counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering. The indictment alleges that in December 2006 and January 2007, Foley participated in a scheme to defraud six mortgage lenders in connection with $4.9 million in real estate loans for the purchases of 24 condominium units in Dorchester. Foley, and an associate acting under his direction and supervision, allegedly closed the loans and then sent documents to the mortgage lenders falsely representing that funds ranging from $9,300 to $39,000 had been collected at the closings from the borrowers, when in fact the borrowers made no down payments and paid no funds at the closings.
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text: Public health policy has an enormous impact on national wellbeing (Delaney, Smith and McGovern 2011). A study recently published in Social Indicators Research (Blanchflower, Oswald and Stewart-Brown 2012) investigated the relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption and mental health. The study drew upon three robust, representative, cross-sectional studies of random samples of adults in three UK countries; England, Scotland, and Wales. Each of these surveys gathered self-reported intake data, measured in portions of fruit and vegetables of up to eight or more a day.


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Irbid is known as Jordan's cultural capital and is home to 10 universities. However, pockets of severe poverty exist in the city, particularly in the refugee camps that are home to more than 25,000 inhabitants.
Overcrowding and lack of access to basic facilities and employment mean that many refugee families are unable to care for and protect their children.
A hidden population living in poverty in refugee camps
Irbid is located 70 kilometres from the capital, Amman, and has a population of more than 1 million people. Irbid is considered the cultural capital of Jordan and is home to four major universities and a large number of private colleges and schools. The city's primary industry is the service sector, mostly related to the university population. There are 26 publishing companies and Irbid has the highest number of internet cafes per capita in the world.
In 2007, there were 70,000 registered students attending Irbid's 10 universities, including Jordanians and international students from 47 different countries. In spite of this boost to the local economy, many of the city's inhabitants live in poverty, compounded by overcrowding, high unemployment and lack of access to basic health care.
Approximately 25,000 Palestinian refugees are camped in Irbid and in recent years, Jordan has accepted many political refugees from Syria. Without citizenship, these people are unable to access basic social services and it is difficult to find employment. Children are particularly vulnerable, having been removed from their homes and many having been traumatised by violence.
The situation of women is improving, but more could be done
Jordan has a stable economy and is developing at a rapid pace, but in spite of this, unemployment levels are high, particularly among young people. This is due to factors including a lack of career guidance, and a lack of jobs that match young Jordanians' university qualifications. Cultural expectations are also an obstacle for women looking to gain employment. With reduced opportunities for employment, fewer than 12% of Jordanian women participate in the economic sector.
Universal primary education for boys and girls is close to 100% and secondary school enrolment is higher for girls than boys. Although well educated, Jordanian women are disadvantaged by a number of laws including the Personal Status Law which mandates that all unmarried women under the age of 40 are legal minors and must have a male relative as a guardian. Women and girls are also at risk of domestic violence, and while rape is a criminal offence, marital rape is not. Rape charges are often dropped if the perpetrator marries the victim.
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In 1999, SOS Children's Villages established its presence in Irbid, working to support vulnerable children living in the city. Several SOS families provide a loving environment for local children who are no longer able to live with their parents. An affectionate SOS Mother is the head of each family and children grow up alongside their SOS brothers and sisters.
The children from SOS families attend local nurseries and schools with children from families living in the surrounding neighbourhoods, enabling them to make connections with others in their community from an early age.
When our SOS children reach young adulthood, they are able to move into supervised girls' and boys' houses as they continue their education or vocational training through the SOS Youth Programme. They remain in close contact with their SOS Mother and siblings while being guided by a qualified SOS counsellor as they make the transition to adulthood.
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27 St Marys Drive, Sherburn Village, Durham, County Durham, DH6 1RL, United Kingdom
DDA Compliance specialists, JPS Systems N.E. Ltd supply a range of speech transfer systems, mobility products, public address systems, CCTV and more for the commercial industry. We can be your one stop shop for DDA Compliance. From initial access surveys to recommendations, supply & installation of equipment, ongoing maintenance and staff training, JPS Systems N.E. Ltd provide the whole package.
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Established specialists of electronic locking systems, access control, Status branded products, CCTVs and PACs. Planit Security was established in 1992 supplying and servicing electronic locking systems to all the major hotels including Forte, Holiday...
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Safes, & locks, access control and security solutions from Assa Abloy, providing the hospitality industry with high quality guestroom security from hotel door locks to in-room safes. We are world leaders in providing locking solutions to ...
Western House, 9 Allcock Street, Birmingham, B9 4DY, United Kingdom
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Intelligent Home Online are access control specialists. We provide excellent quality, secure video door entry equipment, doorbell CCTV and video surveillance systems at fantastic prices. Check out our comprehensive range of the latest models.
Bescot Crescent, Walsall, West Midlands, WS1 4DL, United Kingdom
Electronic and biometric access control systems; time and attendance systems; mechanical locks and portable security; Briton door closers and exit devices; steel and automatic doors; architectural hardware; and other technologies and services for globa...
Unit 24, Blackworth Trading Estate, Highworth, Wiltshire, SN6 7NA, United Kingdom
Isgus UK specialise in access control systems and time & attendance systems including biometirc access control, fingerprint recognition access control, time and attendance systems and systems software. Isgus solutions include Access control, Biometric access control, Flexitime, Job costing, Payroll, SAP comunication, Shop floor data capture, Staff planning, Staff rostering, Staff scheduling, Time and attendance, Time keeping, Time management, Time recording, Time software, Web services, Workflow and Workforce management.
56 Leasway, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK41 9DE, United Kingdom
Access control and door entry solutions from Door-wise the leading experts in automatic and swing doors. Door-wise are suppliers and installers of specialsit automated doors, video door entry systems and sliding and swing doors to numerous industries across the UK. We also offer a mainteance service if required.
Dallow Street, Burton On Trent, Staffordshire, DE14 2PQ, United Kingdom
BTS Limited was formed in May 2000. Since the beginning of the company we have always prided ourselves on excellent customer service, this has been backed by using the highest quality equipment available.We are experts in: Fire detection Fire sup...
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Capital's security services cover the counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and West Sussex. This includes the cities and towns of: Aldershot - Alton - Andover - Basingstoke - Bracknell - Camberley - Chertsey - Chichester - Dorking - Eastleigh - Eps...
Willow Bank House, 2 Bleakhey Road, Peel Hall, Manchester, M22 5ES, United Kingdom
South Manchester Gate & Barrier have 10 years experience in the security and automation industry supplying access control solutions, barriers, door entry systems, electric gates, and fencing to commercial and domestic clients.
1 Rylands Lane, Elmley Lovett, Droitwich, Worcestershire, wr9 0pt, United Kingdom
AMS solutions allow controlled access to sensitive areas without wiring or power, through the use of CyberKeys and CyberLocks. A user needs only one key - and access to all locks can be time restricted and fully audited if needed. Whenever access control is required - but wiring and the provision of power impractical - AMS can help. From Airports to Schools and from Homes to Stately Buildings - AMS Solutions are the perfect choice.
The Epps Buildings, Bridge Road, Ashford, Kent, TN23 1QA, United Kingdom
Since incorporation in 1993 Sprint Data Systems Ltd has been successfully providing high quality Time & Attendance and related solutions. Our solutions enable clients to not only run their businesses more efficiently but also more professionally....
Units 41 & 42 Bolney Grange Business Park, Stairbridge Lane, BOLNEY, West Sussex, RH17 5PB, United Kingdom
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140 Kneller Road, Whitton, Twickenham, Middlesex, TW2 7DX, United Kingdom
GD Security is a long established security company with an enviable reputation for the design, installation and maintenance of all types of security systems including CCTV, door entry, access control and more. Our considerable experience and total commitment to quality enables us to provide an outstanding level of service to all our clients for clients both in the commercial, public and home sectors.
International House, Lealand Way, Riverside Industrial Estate, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE21 7SW, United Kingdom
Alarmline Security Systems, established January 1990, have become one of the largest and most adept independent installers of electronic security systems in the Lincolnshire area. At Alarmline Security Systems we pride ourselves on a reputation that p...
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EAU CLAIRE -- "Reach for the Stars" has a double meaning as students involved with the program not only study astronomy but discover they might be potential college material.
The "Reach for the Stars" program brings about 20 ethnic students from across the state to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire to take an astronomy class, said Jim Vance, director of the American Ethnic Coordinating Office.
The program is geared for ninth- and 10th-grade high school students and has a science and English component. The English portion of the program incorporates basic computing skills, said Jesse Dixon, coordinator of the "Reach for the Stars" program.
"The most important thing is to give students a sense of accomplishment," Dixon said. "It gets students to reassess their thinking about going to college."
Many UW-Eau Claire students assist in helping the students who attend the "Reach for the Stars" program.
"This gives students an opportunity to work with younger students and develop leadership skills," Dixon said, adding that in the past former participants of the "Reach for the Stars" program have helped with the program.
The students will participate in additional activities during the program, Vance said. They will go to a science museum in Minnesota, and attend a pow wow in Hayward.
"They will get an understanding of a different culture and different perspective," Vance said of the pow wow.
The students also will have an opportunity to go to Beaver Creek and build equipment to look at the stars, he said.
The "Reach for the Stars" program began July 13 and continued through July 20. It coincided with another program called "Dimensions in Nursing," which involves high school students interested in nursing. The two programs share some activities and transportation, Vance said.
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Long-haul flights. As Bill Gates once cleverly put it (and this is a man with his own plane), 'Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.' Just the thought of that skin-drying cabin, that willful destruction of a killer blow-dry and that inevitable tightening of ones rings makes me wilt. Even worse is the general dishevelment when one alights at the other end. It's amazing how an item of clothing that looked so crisp and laundered and fresh at the beginning of a flight can emerge in such a wretched state at the end of it, whichever class one flies. Just what is it about traveling 30,000 feetCredits
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Don't talk: your cell phone may be eavesdropping. Thanks to recent developments in "spy phone" software, a do-it-yourself spook can now wirelessly transfer a wiretapping program to any mobile phone. The programs are inexpensive, and the transfer requires no special skill. The would-be spy needs to get his hands on your phone to press keys authorizing the download, but it takes just a few minutes—about the time needed to download a ringtone.


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Laser 49er | Sun, 06 Aug 2006 Posted by : Shannon Larratt
I recently got a note about a rare Laser 49er selling on eBay. I was out of town that day or I would have mentioned it here at the time. It ended up selling for a scant $700 (far less than it's worth given its importance in American automobile history)! Given that there are by my estimation three Laser 49er's on the road (maybe) out of about thirty originally made, it's quite a find.
I was happy to receive an email from Beth R, who on the insistance of her 11 year old son (who thought it was the coolest car he'd ever seen), found herself the auction winner. They're thinking about doing up this pioneering mini-van up in a Nickelodeon theme in orange with a green splash, surf board, and so on, but first they were wondering — rumor is, the car was originally painted by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, and if it was, they would rather restore the original paint. If anyone knows more about that (or Laser 49er's in general), drop a line to Beth at email@example.com.
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Laser 49er | Fri, 05 May 2006 Posted by : Shannon Larratt
….and yes, it was a kit car. Sometimes kits copy, but just as often they are the innovators. I was asked to provide a little more information on the exceedingly rare Laser 49er. Now, please keep in mind that this car predates the big car companies mini-vans by quite some time as you read this (this is part of the original brochure for the vehicle) by Elite Enterprises.
Elite works with design and engineering experts, in many phases of product planning, development, and final production. The illustrations in this brochure of the Laser 49er, as well as those of other Elite models on our stationary and envelopes, are the work of Harry Bradley, the noted California artist and automotive design instructor.
What makes the Laser 49er so different from other vans, automobiles, or kit cars? It isn't just a question of size. The Laser 49er was designed to accommodate the multi-purpose requirements of today's driver. Most automobiles offer one advantage, to the detriment of others: spaciousness versus economy, efficiency versus luxury, practicality versus styling. But the Laser 49er is the vehicle that aims at versatility. It allows you more diverse users, more overall advantages — with fewer comprimizes. The Laser 49er gives you a little more of everything, and that makes a big difference in your driving.
When you're in the driver's seat of a Laser 49er — surrounded by deep-padded adjustable seats, arm rests, padded dash, and full instrumentation — you'll think you're inside a luxury car. You are.
The Laser 49er only looks little from the outside. Inside, there's room for comforable seating (five full-sized adults!), and for plenty of storage as well.
The Laser 49er's smaller size and efficient design provide better cornering, less wind resistance, and easier handling than any conventional van. Gets you into tight spaces, without putting you inside of one.
The exceptional design of the Laser 49er features gull-wing doors, rear hatch back, and strong clean lines that combine practicality with great looks. All excecuted in tough reinforced fiberglass — so it will keep looking great without rust or corrosion. The Laser 49er is pre-gelcoated, ready to paint your favorite color. We don't think all vans should look alike — especially this one.
Overall Length . . . . 173.5"
Width. . . . . . . . . .72.0" (100" with both doors open)
Height . . . . . . . . .57.0" (80" with doors open)
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Wheelbase. . . . . . . .94.5"
Front Track. . . . . . .58.0"
Rear Track . . . . . . .57.0"
Road Clearance . . . . . 9.0"
Curb Weight . . . . . .2,200 lbs
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With our complete assembly manual and your know-how, you'll have the Laser 49er road-ready in about 120 hours. Only home tools are required, and the body comes complete with the doors pre-hung and glass installed at our factory. Most Laser 49er owners have almost as much fun building as they do driving.
You can see by the size of the Laser 49er, and by the specifications listed at the left, that the physical dimensions of the mini van are quite different from those of a conventional van. What figures can't describe, are the new "dimensions" of driving that are open to you as a Laser 49er owner. Because every person who drives one, has a different idea of what the Laser 49er is: The perfect commuter car… A convenient automobile for picking up the kids, shopping, running errands, and all the other faily driving around town… A great vehicle for family trips… A weekend camper… A business van… The list is as diverse as your driving needs.
If you thought the VW Beetle was a miser with fuel, wait till you exchange the old body for the Laser 49er! The aerodynamic design will improve your original engine's exonomy noticeably. And fuel efficienct is a number-one consideration today.
It's all there: Everything you need to transform from an old VW into a shining new Laser 49er! Seats, lighting, glass, hardware, gauges, even nuts and bolts. We make it easy! All you need to add is your choice of upholstery and carpet.


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Athletes often perceive time more slowly than others
Humans and flies experience time in different ways. The perception of time is uneven amongst different species, and it turns out that it might be uneven among different people, too, especially during sporting events. A new study shows that time can slow down for athletes at certain points throughout a game.
Those points come right before an action takes place. More specifically, we'll look at baseball. It's fairly amazing to consider that a batter can hit a small ball moving at around 100 miles per hour. Yet, batters can and do fairly often.
It's helpful that, for athletes, the perception of time slows down while the ball is hurtling toward the plate. It does this because the brain begins processing information in a new way. There's a great deal of information that needs to be processed in that moment: where the ball is, where the ball will be, where the bat needs to be, at what angle and at what precise moment, and so on.
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U.S. Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter will discuss rising college costs and the President's plan to keep college affordable and provide good value for students and families during George Washington University International Affairs Society's "A Conversation with Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter." During the "conversation," which takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 12, in Washington, D.C., Kanter also will highlight resources that provide consumers with easy-to-understand information about college costs, affordability and value, including the College Scorecard, the Financial Aid Shopping Sheet and the proposed College Ratings System.
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Rick McConnell is president of Hanley Wood Exhibitions, one of the four operating platforms of Hanley Wood, the premier media, information, and marketing services company serving the residential and commercial design and construction industry.
As president, McConnell manages the growth of and establishes the strategic direction for 13 industry-leading trade shows each year, four of which are included on the Tradeshow Week 200 list of the largest events in the country. Among those is World of Concrete, which ranks in Tradeshow Week's top 20. Prior to assuming the role of president in 2009, McConnell managed four of the platform's events, and oversaw all trade show marketing and sales efforts.
McConnell has a long history in the exhibitions industry. Before joining Hanley Wood, McConnell was vice president of show-management firm Miller Freeman's apparel group, which produced two shows and corresponding magazines. He also served as show director for the firm's 7,000-exhibit ASD/AMD Show and the Las Vegas Gift Expo. McConnell also directed sales for MAGIC International, one of the largest apparel-industry events in North America.
McConnell is a graduate of Southwest Texas State University and holds an MBA from the University of Arkansas.