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Union Pacific on Jan. 19 said fourth-quarter revenue increased 16% to $5.1 billion, operating income rose 23% to $1.6 billion and earnings per share jumped 28% to $1.99."We expect UNP to benefit from accelerating core pricing gains in 2012 given the tailwinds from legacy contract repricing, tight transportation capacity, and ongoing above-rail-inflation pricing," Deutsche Bank analysts wrote in a report on Jan. 20. Union Pacific has helped the iShares Dow Jones Transportation Average Index Fund rise about 6% in January. Union Pacific is the top holding of the fund. Shares of Union Pacific hit a 52-week high on Wednesday of $117.40. The stock's 52-week low of $77.73 was set on Oct. 4. Union Pacific gets an A+ grade from TheStreet Ratings with a $134.71 price target. The stock has risen 10.25% year to date.
Comcast The cable company is offering a chance to watch the Super Bowl live on phones for the first time in conjunction with the National Football League and Verizon (VZ), according to The Associated Press. Collins Stewart analysts raised their price target on Comcast to $36 from $32 on Jan. 25. "Should benefit from cable results & $3bn+ repurchase increase," Collins Stewart analysts wrote in a report on Jan. 25. Shares of Comcast hit a 52-week high of $25.98 on Wednesday. The stock's 52-week low of $18.74 was set on Aug. 9. TheStreet Ratings gives Comcast an A+ grade with a $33.21 price target. The stock has increased 8.87% year to date.
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|Chip's Challenge
Screenshot of the Windows version
|Chuck Sommerville
|Windows, MS-DOS, Atari Lynx, Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC
|Release date(s)
|1989 (Lynx)
|3½" floppy disk, 5¼" floppy disk, cartridge, cassette tape
|Chip's Challenge
Screenshot of the Windows version
|Chuck Sommerville
|Windows, MS-DOS, Atari Lynx, Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC
|Release date(s)
|1989 (Lynx)
|3½" floppy disk, 5¼" floppy disk, cartridge, cassette tape
Chip's Challenge is a top-down tile-based puzzle video game created in 1989 by Chuck Sommerville originally for the hand-held Atari Lynx. Chip's Challenge was then later ported to multiple formats including the Amiga, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum,[1] DOS, and Windows, included in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack and Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack (the last of which was written by Tony Krueger in 1991). Microsoft licensed Chip's Challenge from Epyx to write a DOS and Windows version of the game; while porting the game, the logic was slightly changed from the original version. It has also been converted to the TI-84+ calculator and the TI-89 Titanium.[2]
The original game was designed and coded by Chuck Sommerville, who also made about a third of the levels.[3] Most of the conversions from the Atari Lynx original to other formats were carried out by Images Software in the UK.
The premise of the game is that high-school nerd Chip McCallahan has met Melinda The Mental Marvel in the school science laboratory and must navigate through Melinda's "Clubhouse" (a series of increasingly difficult puzzles) in order to prove himself and gain membership to the very exclusive Bit Buster Club.
Chip's Challenge consists of a series of 148 two-dimensional levels (149 in Microsoft's version) which feature the player character, Nerdy Chip McCallahan,[4] often called just Chip, and various game elements such as computer chips, buttons, locked doors, water and lethal monsters. Gameplay involves using arrow keys, directional pad or mouse to move Chip about each of the levels in turn, collecting enough chips to open the chip socket at the end of each level, get to the exit, and move on to the next level.
While the same set of rules applies to each level, there are many different kinds of levels. Some are action-oriented and some are puzzle-oriented. Most levels have a time limit. Types of levels include solving a block-pushing puzzle to clear a path, dodging enemies, and moving through a maze. Levels can be skipped by entering an appropriate four-letter non-case-sensitive password. For the PC versions, game progress is automatically saved. If one is having a lot of trouble with a level, the game allows the player to skip to the next level. Progress is measured in terms of completed levels and player score, which is a sum of the scores obtained on each level. Level scores for timed levels can be improved by quickly completing the level, and scores on all levels can be improved by using fewer attempts to complete the level.
Sommerville created a sequel, Chip's Challenge 2[5] (CC2) which included new elements and levels in addition to the original ones. However, the game has never been released to the public, as Sommerville and the copyright holder of the game could not agree on terms due to the copyright holder wanting $100,000+ upfront.[6]
Sommerville is also involved in a new puzzle game called Chuck's Challenge.[6] Sommerville's company Niffler developed two other follow-ups to the game: Chuck's Challenge[7] (2012) which is available for iOS systems from the iTunes Store,[8] and Chuck's Challenge 3D (2014) which is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Steam;[9] and for Android on Google Play.[10][11] Chuck's Challenge 3D was a launch title for the Nvidia Shield.[12]
The online Chip's Challenge community has collaborated to create level packs which contain new levels for the game through a process of submissions and voting. They can be played with the original Chip's Challenge program or with an emulator such as Tile World.
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tile World.
Tile World is a game designed to emulate Chip's Challenge. It was written by Brian Raiter.[19] To avoid copyright infringement with Chip's Challenge, the game does not use the original graphics, sound, or music.[20] Tile World has two rule sets corresponding to two different implementations of Chip's Challenge: the Microsoft Windows implementation and the Atari Lynx version.[19]
Computer Gaming World called Chip's Challenge a casual game with "a set of addicting, puzzle solving levels ... a quick fix for testing the acceleration speed of one's brain".[21]
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The following definitions apply for purposes of this subpart. Any term not defined herein shall have the meaning as defined in 40 CFR 51.100.
(a) 1-hour NAAQS means the 1-hour ozone national ambient air quality standards codified at 40 CFR 50.9.
(b) 8-hour NAAQS means the 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standards codified at 40 CFR 50.10.
(c) 1-hour ozone design value is the 1-hour ozone concentration calculated according to 40 CFR part 50, Appendix H and the interpretation methodology issued by the Administrator most recently before the date of the enactment of the CAA Amendments of 1990.
(d) 8-Hour ozone design value is the 8-hour ozone concentration calculated according to 40 CFR part 50, appendix I.
(e) CAA means the Clean Air Act as codified at 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671q (2003).
(f) Applicable requirements means for an area the following requirements to the extent such requirements apply or applied to the area for the area's classification under section 181(a)(1) of the CAA for the 1-hour NAAQS at designation for the 8-hour NAAQS:
(8) Transportation Control Measures (TCMs) during heavy traffic hours as provided under section 182(e)(4) of the CAA.
(13) Attainment demonstration or an alternative as provided under § 51.905(a)(1)(ii).
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(g) Attainment year ozone season shall mean the ozone season immediately preceding a nonattainment area's attainment date.
(h) Designation for the 8-hour NAAQS shall mean the effective date of the 8-hour designation for an area.
(i) Higher classification/lower classification. For purposes of determining whether a classification is higher or lower, classifications are ranked from lowest to highest as follows: classification under subpart 1 of the CAA; marginal; moderate; serious; severe-15; severe-17; and extreme.
(j) Initially designated means the first designation that becomes effective for an area for the 8-hour NAAQS and does not include a redesignation to attainment or nonattainment for that standard.
(k) Maintenance area for the 1-hour NAAQS means an area that was designated nonattainment for the 1-hour NAAQS on or after November 15, 1990 and was redesignated to attainment for the 1-hour NAAQS subject to a maintenance plan as required by section 175A of the CAA.
(l) Nitrogen Oxides (NO X ) means the sum of nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide in the flue gas or emission point, collectively expressed as nitrogen dioxide.
(n) Ozone season means for each State, the ozone monitoring season as defined in 40 CFR Part 58, Appendix D, section 2.5 for that State.
(o) Ozone transport region means the area established by section 184(a) of the CAA or any other area established by the Administrator pursuant to section 176A of the CAA for purposes of ozone.
(p) Reasonable further progress (RFP) means for the purposes of the 8-hour NAAQS, the progress reductions required under section 172(c)(2) and section 182(b)(1) and (c)(2)(B) and (c)(2)(C) of the CAA.
(q) Rate of progress (ROP) means for purposes of the 1-hour NAAQS, the progress reductions required under section 172(c)(2) and section 182(b)(1) and (c)(2)(B) and (c)(2)(C) of the CAA.
(r) Revocation of the 1-hour NAAQS means the time at which the 1-hour NAAQS no longer apply to an area pursuant to 40 CFR 50.9(b).
(u) Attainment Area means, unless otherwise indicated, an area designated as either attainment, unclassifiable, or attainment/unclassifiable.
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So how not to miss the brightest moments and keep them not just in memories but also on your hard drive? The answer is to record a webcam video. Movavi Screen Capture Studio is a recording software for Windows enabling easy webcam capture. With our step-by-step tutorial you'll learn how to record web camera quickly and save your videos in four simple steps.
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Report: Apple to announce The Beatles on iTunes
Apple is preparing to announce the arrival of The Beatles' catalog on the iTunes Store tomorrow morning, according to a new report. Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has been in talks with the representatives of the band, as well as EMI, the band's label, as recently as last week, but that Apple could change its plans at the last minute. The report notes that an agreement would represent a watershed event in a decades-old relationship that has seen lawsuits filed against both parties, beginning in 1978 with a dispute over the "Apple" brand that wasn't fully resolved until early 2007.
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Why is having the Beatles in the iTunes store that important?
If you really wanted it, you could just buy the CD and import it into your library.
Not. That. Hard.
Posted by Beatles? on November 15, 2010 at 8:57 PM (CST)
Symbolism over substance. Symbolic having The Beatles "Apple" joining "Apple". Actual sales UNLESS they have some specific extra demo tracks or make available USA LP's like "The Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl" available on iTunes, otherwise minimal sales.
Posted by Steve on November 15, 2010 at 9:40 PM (CST)
While I agree that the Beatles catalog is readily available elsewhere, the fact that there is not one Beatles item on the iTMS has been a big deal. Arguably one of the most known bands in the world NOT on the leading digital distribution store. Imagine all the younger music fans that rely on iTunes to get individual tracks or a variety of random songs from an artist that they are becoming familiar with. This will be a pretty big deal for both sides.
But, seeing as I have the USB Apple with the entire stereo catalog, I was hoping this announcement would have been library streaming/cloud music storage. Oh well….
Posted by Mitch on November 15, 2010 at 10:37 PM (CST)
If this is the BIG announcement then I'm seriously underwhelmed. Despite The Beatles legendary status they are, after all, still just another group to many people.
I hope Apple have got something else up their sleeve otherwise they've seriously oversold this one.
Posted by Jon on November 15, 2010 at 11:09 PM (CST)
i'll believe when i see it, this rumour has been floating around too dang long! just like verizon getting the iphone rumour thats been going around for past 4 years it probally aint going to happen but you never know…...
Posted by mario83 on November 15, 2010 at 11:36 PM (CST)
the new apple logo?
Posted by jungle on November 16, 2010 at 12:06 AM (CST)
Don't be fooled—the Beatles brand has proven incredibly lucrative again and again. Just one of many examples: The Beatles' "Love", released in 2006, won two Grammies and went platinum in nine countries despite containing very little original material.
Posted by Clint on November 16, 2010 at 1:01 AM (CST)
The Beatles on iTunes will become a halo event for iTunes and Apple (much like the U2 Special Edition iPod, commercials, and music catalog several years ago). Don't get me wrong though, The Beatles will sell huge on iTunes. I would not be surprised to see a Beatles Special Edition iPod in the near future.
One major thing I would like to see happen today to coincide with The Beatles music announcement is that Apple finally offers lossless downloads.
Posted by Jim on November 16, 2010 at 7:16 AM (CST)
@8: Yep, we can get HD movies for as little as $9.99 that are several times the size of a lossless music album, and $1.99 HD rentals that use up just as much bandwidth, but evidently lossless music is somehow special. Must occupy some super limited Apple music only part of the broadband band spectrum…
Apple starts selling lossless audio at good prices and I'll never buy another CD again, but so long as they insist that we can't have the choice for our iTS sales, I'll keep on buying CDs from Amazon.
Anyhoo, The Beatles would be a huge deal if for no reason other than the decades long legal battles between the two Apples. Sure, most fans do have the music already, but there are number of choice singles that I'm sure would generate a fair amount of revenue, and the symbolism, again, is massive.
Posted by Code Monkey in Midstate New York on November 16, 2010 at 8:57 AM (CST)
I would also hope that if they're making this big of a deal about a Beatles announcement that they actually have something more up their sleeve than simply putting the standard catalogue online. I'd hope to see more special edition type items, like perhaps an iTunes LP compilation or somesuch.
As for lossless, the sad reality is that most people don't care enough about lossless audio. Apple offering it even as an option isn't really worth its time. I also suspect that Apple would see this as needlessly complicating the user experience—longer/slower downloads and files that take up considerably more space. Many users wouldn't consider the quality—they'd just see that iTunes downloads are "slower" and "bigger" than stuff from competing services.
Posted by Jesse Hollington in Toronto on November 16, 2010 at 9:27 AM (CST)
funny i just decided to check to see if any Beatles tracks (as covers) appears on iTMS and hot damn…
The Beatles are now on iTunes!!
Posted by yinyang on November 16, 2010 at 9:38 AM (CST)
Just downloaded Sgt. Pepper's. To me, this is huge.
Posted by Kent on November 16, 2010 at 9:38 AM (CST)
Yup, it's official - The Beatles on iTunes.
Posted by Farnsworth on November 16, 2010 at 10:03 AM (CST)
Beatles on iTunes. Woop di bloody doo!
When are they going to update the iPad OS?
Posted by Dan Dent on November 16, 2010 at 10:05 AM (CST)
@10 - Jesse, those arguments against offering the choice are exactly the same arguments people made against DVD, and Blu-Ray, and HD cable, etc., etc..
The truth is that no one has ever bothered to make a serious attempt at selling music online in lossless other than jam bands, and people buy the FLAC over the mp3 even when there's a price premium.
Then there's the fact that around 80% of all music sales continue to be physical albums while 90% of iTunes sales are singles. Just because Apple has become the largest single retailer doesn't mean they're all that important in the grand scheme of music sales, because they're not.
I'm sure the large percentage of people still buying CDs are those who just want something physical, and you can never capture those sales as long as the choice is there, but a major percentage of the sales are people like me who want the choice of format and future proofing lossless audio provides. Even if it turned out it was only 20% of those buying CDs who buy it primarily for the lossless source, that would nearly double Apple's sales - heck, if it were only 5%, that would still increase Apple's sales by 20%. It's a much larger market than Apple has currently that are buying lossless audio so I reject the "nobody cares" argument as mathematically silly. More people care than don't care even if they're not 100% sure why they care ;)
Posted by Code Monkey in Midstate New York on November 16, 2010 at 11:45 AM (CST)
I'm not disagreeing that there would be a market for it, but I'm looking at the way that Apple probably sees it. Remember that this is the company that took over two years to bring features like copy and paste and MMS messaging to the iPhone because it didn't expect that these were things the average consumer cared about (and the sales numbers for the iPhone would suggest that it was at least mostly right).
Further, I think the law of diminishing returns is much more present in the world of audio than it is in things like HD video. It's fair to say that almost everybody can see the difference between standard and HD video (even if they don't care), whereas a relatively minor percentage of people can hear any audible differences between a 256kbps AAC file and a lossless audio file. Most end users care about tangible benefits, not theoretical ones.
IMHO it's not that "nobody cares" but rather that "not enough people care."
I think the percentage of people buying CDs merely for the lossless source is a very small percentage. In fact, I think the people who are buying CDs to put on iPods or other digital media devices is a very small percentage compared to the total consumer base. I still run into a lot of folks who buy CDs just because they don't know any better, and lets not forget about the larger customer base out there who don't even own anything more than a CD player.
Posted by Jesse Hollington in Toronto on November 16, 2010 at 12:04 PM (CST)
I think you give Apple too much credit here. My hunch is they have every intention of offering lossless audio, but only after they believe the general demand has grown enough to entice the same sort of free cash upgrade bonanza iTunes+ did.
Of course, that's the one thing Apple could do to get me to buy their substandard offerings when price is comparable: promise of free format upgrades. I don't even encode my own music to 256 kbps, waste of space and battery life as far as me and my ABX testing are concerned, but I will not pay money to be trapped with a particular format. If Apple ran their App store the same way they run the music store, every time a dev patched a bug or upgraded to retina graphics we'd have to pay an upgrade fee. If their music store ran the same way, buy 256AAC today and lossless tomorrow, I'd be with them, but until we can at least count on that I'll buy and/or download my lossless and know I can adapt to any player now and forever more while, inevitably, many who spent $$$ on iTunes music are one day going to be feeling the same way those anti-Apple rebels who purchased all those DRM protected 128 kbps WMA files do today.
Posted by Code Monkey in Midstate New York on November 17, 2010 at 3:26 PM (CST)
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OLYMPIA – Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark today announced the appointment of Eric Wisch as manager of the Washington State Department of Natural Resources' (DNR's) Pacific Cascade Region. Wisch will oversee DNR programs throughout the region, which includes Clark, Cowlitz, Lewis, Pacific, Skamania, Thurston, and Wahkiakum counties and southeast Grays Harbor County. The region includes the cities of Olympia and Vancouver.
"Eric will do a wonderful job serving the citizens and economy in this widely diverse and resource-rich region," said Commissioner Goldmark. "Eric has shown his commitment to sustainable resource management and stewardship throughout his 26-year career with DNR, and I look forward to that continuing."
From its headquarters in Castlerock, DNR's Pacific Cascade Region manages some 480,000 acres of forest, agriculture, and urban lands that generate non-tax revenue for public schools, universities, counties, and other trust beneficiaries. The region office also implements forest practices regulations and leads wildfire protection for 3.5 million acres of state and private forestland in the state's southwest corner.
"I'm thankful for the opportunity to step into a new professional role in natural resource stewardship in the department's Pacific Cascade Region," said Wisch, who started with DNR as a Forest Technician in 1983. Since then, he has worked in the department's forestry, fire protection, forest practices, surface mining, and product sales programs.
Wisch has a Bachelor of Science in Forest Management from the University of Washington. He is a Certified Forester, an active member of the Society of American Foresters, and lives in Kalama.
The Pacific Cascade Region contains some of the most productive timberlands and shellfish-producing waters in the state. In addition to natural features such as the scenic Columbia River Gorge and Mt. St. Helens volcano, the region includes Willapa Bay, the Capitol and Yacolt Burn state forests, numerous forest resource production units, and several DNR-managed natural area preserves, natural resource conservation areas and recreation sites.
DNR is protecting our natural resources
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DNR is administered by Peter Goldmark, Washington's 13th Commissioner of Public Lands since statehood in 1889, and the first commissioner from Eastern Washington.
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The Lake Stevens School District's Food and Nutritional Services Department is pleased to announce that a Free Summer Lunch program is now available at Hillcrest Elementary School (9315 4th St. SE) and will continue through Friday, Aug. 16 (closed July 4). Food will be served Monday through Friday from 12 to 12:30 p.m. with seating available in the cafeteria.
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The problem is we're send an email to someone externally, and it'll bounce back - as they've got sender verification setup and their server has reported back to our server to verify the address, but it is not being verfiried.
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A panel at this year's South By Southwest prompted discussion about many facets of mobile location-based marketing, including relevancy, technology, privacy, and thinking beyond advertising.
Last week I participated in the Mobile Saturday event at SXSW, which Urban Airship has been putting on for the past few years. I lead a panel discussion titled "Location-Based Marketing: Beyond Advertising," where we explored a number of interesting topics.
As would be expected, the mobile sessions were some of the most crowded sessions of the week (other than the parties and really big-name speakers). More and more marketers are clearly looking to think a bit differently about mobile and how to better push their brands and serve their audiences.
The speed at which mobile is evolving as well as consumer expectations rising has lead to a number of interesting opportunities for brands and marketers. But more and more this doesn't mean advertising via mobile but rather providing value to consumers to enhance an experience around a brand, product, or location.
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I thought that @McAtoms summarized the session well in saying the following on Twitter:
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Peruse any of the widely available listening guides to or chronicles of jazz. Will you conclude, historically speaking, that jazz has been a masculinist discourse? If you are an aficionado, you might surmise the dominant discourse of male instrumentalists in the history and hagiography of performers in jazz still prevails. Varied nomenclature used within the jazz idiom such as: balladeer, canary, chanteuse, torch singer, cabaret singer, musician, siren, songstress, vocal instrumentalist, vocalist signals the historically hierarchical social organization of vocal and instrumental expression. The gendered and sexualized nature of these terms also accentuates the cultural values which inform this binary classification in jazz. This graduate seminar will consider how writers, particularly though not exclusively, poets, influenced by jazz have addressed this gender and genre divide. The seminar coheres around twentieth century African American fiction, nonfiction prose and poetry. We will explore black expressive cultural practices of poetics in literature, particularly through the lens of jazz as visual and verbal performance, as instrumental and vocal music, as symbol and structure, and as organizing trope. We will examine the ways in which the intersections of gender, race, class and sexuality impact the jazz inflected writings of African-American authors in the second half of the century. This will include a consideration of the following queries: How does the persistent portrayal of black male instrumentalists as the authentic bearers of the jazz canon and its history motivate particular modes of expression in jazz literature? What role does the canary, the gendered trope of the caged bird play as a predominate theme in African-American letters and lyrics? How does jazz-influenced performance enable readers and listeners to consider racial, gender and sexual identity both within and as performance in contemporary literature? Our seminar will also consider how various authors push the boundaries of the term, performance, in myriad theoretical and practical ways. Thus, our course will explore how performance, as a multidimensional process, is a political and aesthetic issue in varied authors and scholars work and will propose alternative methodologies for "close listening," "close reading" and "close viewing."
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An article appearing in the Wall Street Journal in late 2011 came to our attention and we thought we'd share the interesting subject matter with you in a piece of our own. The focus: What happens to letters addressed with poor handwriting?
Fortunately, sloppy scribes can thank 1,900 USPS clerks who work day and night at one of two Remote Encoding Centers (RECs).
Their mission: Try to make sense of terribly unreadable addresses.
Back in 1994, when 55 RECs employing 32,000 clerks were established, existing postal computerized sorting equipment could only read 2% of the handwritten addresses on envelopes. Since then, with new technological advances, postal computers are now able to read and process an impressive 93% of the mail electronically. Today, scanned images of any unreadable addresses end up at RECs in Salt Lake City, Utah or Wichita, Kansas.
Just how hard are the clarifying clerks of the RECs working? The USPS's desired deciphering rate is 1,100 letters per hour. The procedure basically gives a clerk 30 seconds to review an envelope. If they can't decipher it, it goes off to another clerk. While one standout clerk, Gary Oliver of the Salt Lake City facility, has been there 3 decades reviewing approximately 30 million letters, the job is not for everyone. Up to 20% of new hires quit within 5 weeks. In 2010, the diligent postal clerks at the RECs examined over 714,085,866 first-class letters that the computers couldn't read. The outcome: a significant 27% of the addresses still were unable to be read by the team of human scanners.
Those unfortunate letters get pulled out of the mail stream and are handled by one of the last "peek-and-poke clerks" at the REC. These "nixies," a word that's actually in the dictionary (referring to "a letter or parcel that is undeliverable by the post office because of a faulty or illegible address") then get looked at one final time. After that, any addresses that still can't be deciphered for delivery then head over to Atlanta's Mail Recovery Center. What exactly is the fate of the unreadable mailings? The Georgia based center is where any letters that appear to perhaps contain cash or documents are opened. The rest of the undecipherable envelopes, are then delivered… into in the shredder!
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- Mail bearing typed addresses goes to a Multiline Optical Character Reader (MLOCR) that reads the ZIP Code and address information and then prints the appropriate bar code onto the envelope.
- Mail with handwritten addresses and machine-printed ones that are not easily recognized gets scanned and then the scanned image of that mail travels on to the Remote Bar Coding System (RBCS). This system also corrects spelling errors, and, where there is an error, omission, or conflict in a written address, it identifies the most likely correct address. When the system has chosen a correct address, it prints the appropriate bar code onto the envelopes (similar to the MLOCR.)
- For any mail that the system can't decipher, the RBCS has two Remote Encoding Centers (RECs) in place. There, USPS clerks review scanned images of the mail pieces in question and enter the address data of those envelopes they can decipher.
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FMSiS is scrapped - News - Education ExecutiveMichael Gove, Secretary of State for Education announced the decision on 15 November 2010 to end the current FMSiS with immediate effect and develop a simpler standard as a replacement.
I've not seen my boss smile so much for quite some time when I told her this.
Just sent that to my boss (the business manager). We're just about to go through a FMSiS audit!
Emailed the link to our business manager
That's not going to go down well at one of my schools. The finance officer has just gone through this, with much stress too.
I've only just done my Governor's FMSiS training!
Emailed Bursar at my governor school with the link from the DfE yesterday. 'Quietly delighted' best describes the mood!
Complex school financial reporting tool scrapped - The Department for Education
That's made our Bursar a VHB (Very Happy Bunny) too!
She was just preparing for our next FMSiS in January. We were one of the first round here initially and it was an absolute nightmare to get all the paperwork together. The paperwork that was gathered filled a filing box!
That's really good news :-)
Now, if he'd scrap the school workforce census as well....
Given that one of our FMSiS action points was to implement a password system that has:
- min 8 characters
- combination of alpha/numeric & special characters
- forced password changes every 90 days
- prevent re-use of last 10 passwords
I am rather happy too and hoping that our head will scrap the action plan too! Yes I know it's good practice for password policy, but the entire county's primary schools all use the same Administrator password unless someone in the school changes it so this did seem like a bit overkill.
Problem is, for those schools still using 2003 server and on a single domain, they can't implement the above without forcing all pupils to deal with it too. And having a year 5 kid remember an 8 character password containing letters, numbers and special characters would just not work.
My bursar has the FMSiS person in right now!
He'll be shown the printout it when he next surfaces from the room full of paperwork....
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When Brian goes to the police to expose Duncan and his team, he decides against telling the truth after Burton (recurring guest star LARRY PINE) shows up and shows him evidence of Ellen and... See full summary »
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Ellen has to make another life-changing choice when she performs emergency surgery in her own home. Meanwhile, Duncan demands answers when Archer tells him that an innocent person in their plan has become a victim.
Creators: Alon Aranya, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Omri Givon, Rotem Shamir | Director: Karen Gaviola | Stars: Toni Collette, Tate Donovan, Rhys Coiro, Sandrine Holt
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After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
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37. We Made This Movie (2012)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
Five graduating high school seniors with no prospects decide to make an outrageous comedy movie, with the hope of getting famous and escaping their depressing town. Their leader and ... See full summary »
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120 min | Comedy
Writers: Chris Albers, Jon Macks | Director: Beth McCarthy-Miller | Stars: Will Arnett, Louis C.K., Jim Carrey, Johnny Carson
39. Bronx Warrants (2012 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
A comedy revolving around a group of errant warrant detectives in the Bronx assigned to arrest individuals with outstanding warrants. With bonuses paid out for each body they bring in, the ... See full summary »
Creator: Dean Lorey | Director: Scott Ellis | Stars: Josh Segarra, Maria Arcé, Godfrey, Robert Kelly
40. Hanna (2011)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.
Writers: Seth Lochhead, David Farr | Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Vicky Krieps
41. Friends with Kids (2011)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two best friends decide to have a child together while keeping their relationship platonic, so they can avoid the toll kids can take on romantic relationships.
Writer: Jennifer Westfeldt | Director: Jennifer Westfeldt | Stars: Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd
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PG | 91 min | Family
Jeremy Fink and his best friend Lizzy must search high and low throughout the streets of Manhattan for clues to unlock the mysterious box he received a month before his birthday.
Writers: Tamar Halpern, Wendy Mass | Director: Tamar Halpern | Stars: Maxwell Beer, Ryan Simpkins, Nimo Gandhi, Daniel Cosgrove
43. The 2011 Comedy Awards (2011)
The best of the year in television and movie comedy are honored.
Writers: Larry Doyle, Billy Grundfest, David Javerbaum, Joe Mande, Tom Ruprecht, Adam Schlesinger | Director: Beth McCarthy-Miller | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Ty Burrell, Louis C.K., Stephen Colbert
Rescue Me (2004–2011)
TV-MA | Drama, Comedy
With Damian confined to a chair and a new baby on the way, Sheila and Janet join forces and shake-up Tommy's family life.
Creators: Denis Leary, Peter Tolan | Director: Peter Tolan | Stars: Denis Leary, Adam Ferrara, Michael Lombardi, Steven Pasquale
Rescue Me (2004–2011)
TV-MA | Drama, Comedy
In the tradition of the Gavin family, Colleen's wedding is an emotional if not debaucherous affair. The high spirits quickly fade, however, when the guys tackle the mother of all fires.
Creators: Peter Tolan, Denis Leary | Directors: John Fortenberry, Ken Girotti, Evan T. Reilly, Peter Tolan | Stars: Denis Leary, Adam Ferrara, Michael Lombardi, Steven Pasquale
30 Rock (2006–2013)
Anna Howard Shaw Day
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy
Liz can't get anyone to give her a ride home from her oral surgery, which is scheduled for Valentine's Day. Meanwhile, Jack goes out on a date with a sexy, smart journalist, and Jenna discovers that her stalker has moved on.
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30 Rock (2006–2013)
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Jack inherits Don Geiss's prized peacock Argus, Jenna begins dating a male Jenna impersonator, and Grizz has to choose between Tracy and Dot Com as his best man for his wedding.
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30 Rock (2006–2013)
Black Light Attack!
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy
When Liz and Danny further their relationship, Jack becomes jealous and plans to break them apart. Meanwhile, Tracy recruits Sue into his entourage, and Jenna auditions for a role on "Gossip Girl."
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30 Rock (2006–2013)
Don Geiss, America and Hope
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Jack tries to save his career by getting tight with NBC's new owners, Liz cannot escape running into her "future husband" everywhere she goes, and Tracy "comes clean" about remaining faithful to his wife all these years.
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30 Rock (2006–2013)
Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land
TV-14 | Comedy
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Nearly as entertaining as Stéphane Jégo's food is his fuming, providing you know the word that unleashes his rage. I do. It is "Michelin." Jégo, one of the most prominent of the bistronomy chefs, combines the artistry of a rustic maestro with the passion of an Italian grandmother. At his restaurant, Chez l'Ami Jean, he sends out dish after dish to the lucky few able to reserve the one table per seating dedicated to his tasting menu, priced at about eighty euros per person. From the start it evokes sighs, followed several courses later by groans. The meal is presented under a chandelier, the only one in a restaurant otherwise given over to painted cartoons and Basque bric-a-brac. Absurdity is among Jégo's virtues.
His unequaled game terrine, which has the depth of a forest primeval, contains boar, red and gray partridge, duck foie gras, figs, pistachios, and Armagnac. The Old Parmesan Soup, uncharacteristically lightweight and brimming with colors, is accented with grated Parmesan, horseradish, chives, and baby croutons. It is so soulful I now believe Parmesan is wasted atop pasta, the way Italians use it. By the time I reached course four of his eight-course extravaganza, I was staggering. By the main course, sweetbreads so massive they might have been sourced from Jurassic Island, I could no more than wave my fork in feeble surrender. I did rally at the appearance of his fabled rice pudding, so spectacular that our waiter, who had previously not spoken a word of English, was moved to announce, in my language, "Here you have the best, best, best, best rice pudding all over the world." I could not dispute the point.
After lunch—yes, that was lunch—I asked Jégo what I had been told by his friends not to ask him. "Stéphane is crazy," warned Yves Camdeborde, the chef credited with inspiring bistronomy with his restaurant, La Régalade, which opened in 1992. "You shouldn't mention Michelin. He gets insane."
When I first asked Jégo how he and Michelin were getting along, he told me he had recently tossed out representatives of the guide who insisted on taking photographs of dishes he did not believe were representative of his cuisine—a piece of ham, a breast of duck. "I threatened to beat them up," he said. "They lacked respect for me, my purity of approach. I am not capable of entering into the pigeonhole of Michelin." On my next visit, I gently asked if he and Michelin were getting along better, and he told me he had figured out a new form of protest, which consisted of taking his 3-year-old daughter to the most glorious of the Michelin restaurants because "it gets on their nerves." Another of Jégo's friends, Christian Etchebest, chef-owner of the approachable, generous, and homey La Cantine du Troquet, tried to explain Jégo's dilemma to me: "He always wants to prove that his bistro does belong in Michelin, but it is not for himself. It is to show that this new generation of chefs deserves to be there."
Despite the triumphs of this grassroots resistance, the presence of Michelin still hovers over Paris. Not every chef I spoke to is contemptuous or, for that matter, conflicted, about Michelin. Rose, the American, says he hopes to get a star, and Marchand of Frenchie adds, "You can say what you want about Michelin, I don't think any chef says he doesn't want a star." In 1992, when Camdeborde, the Jeanne d'Arc of the movement, left the two-star kitchen of the Hôtel de Crillon, where he had been sous-chef since the age of 23, his dream was to someday have a three-star Michelin restaurant. "That was a goal for us French, something exceptional," he says. Certainly he seemed to be on the path. His La Régalade was at once the most exciting and desirable restaurant in Paris. It was always booked, even though it was located in the obscure Fourteenth Arrondissement, offered no parking, and had sardines on the menu. And Michelin, for unknown reasons, failed to recognize its importance, a mistake rather like the old railway companies in America failing to notice that air travel was becoming popular. I suspect La Régalade was ignored because it didn't follow Michelin's bewildering rules. As the French food writer Fabien Nègre explained to me, "Michelin is impossible to understand. It built its reputation on mystery."
Camdeborde, who subsequently sold La Régalade and now operates Le Comptoir in the Hôtel Relais Saint Germain, which he owns, said of those days, "I wanted to create a location with the same gastronomic quality of the Crillon but where the people could relax. We had bookings one year in advance. And every year Michelin came out, I expected a star. I waited one year, three, five. Then I made a decision that a star is not important."
At Marchand's Frenchie—Frenchie is the nickname he got cooking in London—I ate a sixty-euro eight-course dinner of unanticipated and unwavering stylishness that included foie gras torchon with quince paste, gravlax-style trout with cauliflower cream and shaved cauliflower, sweetbreads with Japanese pear, hake with a matchless black-rice puree, duck breast, as well as the most enthralling of the desserts I tried, cheesecake made from triple-crème Brillat-Savarin, more intense and mysteriously lighter than one made New York–style. Frenchie, despite its size, even has a sommelier, Laura Vidal, a young woman from Montreal who brilliantly paired Canadian ice wine made from apples with Saint-Nectaire cheese. This meal was Michelin two-star food, but it was decidedly not offered in a Michelin two-star setting. Frenchie is located on Rue du Nil, which is not much more than an alley, one so obscure that the two times I went there my taxi drivers denied it existed. It was also forbidding, my first impression being that anything dining there had to be eating its young. When I told Marchand how creepy his street appeared, he replied, "Not now, but 200 years ago, this was one of the most dangerous streets in Paris."
While the restaurants have the goal of democratizing the dining experience, both in price and in comfort, there does exist within them an unofficial hierarchy, established partly by supply and demand and partly by fame. The four most difficult to book are Yam'Tcha, Frenchie, Spring, and in particular Le Comptoir—Camdeborde is a legend, and hotel guests get priority. Every night, winter included, those without reservations can be found huddling at the few outdoor tables, under heat lamps if necessary. They look like refugees, but they believe themselves privileged to be eating Camdeborde's food. His fifty-euro meal was among the most lavish I sampled while visiting fourteen of these uplifted bistros. The moment you're seated, waiters reach over the heads of guests to offer baskets of gougères, and those are followed by an amuse-bouche of foie gras on toast. The set menu includes a plate of ten exquisitely ripe cheeses, not commonplace even in France. The room is bustling, the waiters are charmingly pushy, and the overall feeling is welcoming. When one of my friends told Camdeborde that several items on his set menu weren't to her taste, he leaned over and whispered to her. She later revealed the secret message: "He told me he had a daughter like me and wanted me to feel at home here." The dishes were altered to please.
Spring is run by Rose, who in 2006 opened a minuscule spot in the Ninth Arrondissement, a long way up from the Napoleonic shrines that glorify the Right Bank of the Seine and a few blocks down from the beefy prostitutes who beautify the windows of the Pigalle bars. He soon found a new location, in the more convenient First, a few blocks from the Louvre, and embarked on a two-year renovation that ended up costing, by his precise count, 1,347,256.34 euros. His staff has increased from three to fourteen, and the capacity of the main dining area is up from sixteen to twenty-six. When I mentioned that profits seemed unlikely under such a business plan, he replied, "I wish you'd told me earlier." Yet he has reason for optimism: As a chef, Rose seems to have perfect pitch, and his exquisitely accessible food is becoming more multifaceted. His unexpected combinations included red mullet paired with an oyster in veal jus, and fried sole alongside blood pudding. When I asked him if he intended to introduce surf and turf to Paris, he claimed the latter combination was purely geographic. "The sole is from Saint-Jean-de-Luz, in the Pays Basque. The boudin came up on the same truck." They were perfect together, as I would not have expected. The second reason why he is likely to survive: He gets as many as 850 requests for reservations a day.


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Paper by FiftyThree updated with innovative color mixing
Back when TUAW posted a review of Paper by FiftyThree for iPad (free, with in-app purchases for brushes and other features), one of the complaints I had was that the app worked with a limited palette of nine colors and didn't provide a way for artists to mix their own virtual paints. Well, a new upgrade to Paper available today provides a color mixing capability and other new features as well.
The new features in version 1.2.1 of Paper by FiftyThree include the Mixer, a way to create your own custom palettes. The Mixer, like many features available in the app, is an in-app purchase (US$1.99) and it uses a virtual "paint pot" to blend colors.
If you're not thrilled about mixing your own colors, there are three new palettes included with the app. One of the other great features of the new version is the addition of support for Ten One Design's Pogo Connect pressure-sensitive stylus ($79.95), which TUAW reviewed a few weeks ago. Pressure input works quite well when drawing, sketching or even painting with Paper by FiftyThree.
The upgrade, like the app, is available for free on the App Store.
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