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Will founded It's Nice That in 2007 and is now director of the company. Once one of the main contributors to the site he has stepped back from writing as the business has expanded. He is a regular guest on the Studio Audience podcast.
I don't mean to show off, but I've met quite a few Americans, and I often ask them about the creative scene in the USA. More specifically I'm interested in whether it's possible to elucidate any recurring themes or general characteristics in such a huge, diverse country. Most of them, bluntly but politely, say that no, no it's not. What a ridiculous question. Get out my car. So to study American creativity is actually to study its individual outposts, and that's where Wesley Verhoeve's One Of Many project comes in.
Since it began in 1989, record label Warp has been renowned for releasing forward-thinking, brave, and often rather terrifying electronic music, veering determinedly towards the more cerebral end of the spectrum. Its visual sensibilities, too, have always been smart, with the early releases packaged in uniform purple sleeves designed by The Designers Republic (the folk behind the brilliant Perspex packaging for the most recent Aphex Twin release, Syro).
I'd like to think that somewhere a kind critic got drunk one night and confessed to his typographer friend that "presentations of new typefaces can be kind of boring, y'know." If so, we have him to thank for the number of the innovative new projects we've seen this year, as type foundries and designers alike come up with new and ever more intriguing ways to show off new letterforms; from Commercial Type's Showcase site a couple of months back, to this cool film yesterday. Not to mention this ace new minisite by independent foundry Grilli Type.
Websites have come a long way since the days of Space Jam and the like, and in spite of the elaborate things designers are capable of now it's often just a slick scroll and some jazzy illustration that will have you coming back to a site again and again.
We love sites like these: a simple idea, executed brilliantly and contributed-to by a host of fantastic creatives. From Your Desks is a website set up by Kate Donnelly that invites people in the art world to submit photographs of their workspace, which she then accompanies with a short but sweet interview about what they do. Personally, seeing the detritus surrounding someone's desk gives me the same building curiosity as seeing inside their bedroom – it's such an important, personal space and can be surprisingly revealing. There's nearly 350 interviews on Kate's site, and below we've picked a few photographs of the desks of some of our favourite artists including Adrian Tomine, Maya Fuhr, Christoph Niemann and Nat Russell. Enjoy!
Art in Film is the kind of online resource you don't imagine is likely to come in especially handy in your life, but you find yourself scrolling through transfixed anyway. Run on a submissions basis by its curator Martin Cole, the set pulls together every imaginable example of an artwork (real or imaginary) included in film or on TV, from the famous scene at the potter's wheel in Ghost to Lisa admiring Matisse's Cut Outs in The Simpsons.
It's a sad fact of modern life that all this time spent staring at screens in order to communicate has the adverse effect of stopping us from actually communicating at all. Fortunately Miranda July has found a solution; an app which allows other people to deliver your messages face-to-face on your behalf. Sponsored by Miu Miu the app allows you to choose the deliverer of your message and to suggest the manner in which they should do so, for example, "confidently," "longingly," or with air quotes. Even better the actor, writer and artist also created a short film to illustrate just how effectively the app can work, and true to form it's chic, hilarious and actually very touching. The whole process has a hint of that 1990s board game Dream Phone about it too, which is a vibe I'm always delighted to channel.
Regardless of how much we love an epic view I imagine the majority of us will never climb Mount Everest, the 8,848 metre high mountain in the Himalayas which is home to one of the most incredible viewing points in the world. Fortunately for us there are web developers out there who can create simulations which are basically as good as the real thing. Almost.
Never a brand to risk complacency, Kenzo are pushing the boat out yet again this season to scale the parameters of the online store. They've created an elaborate narrative to accompany the online shopping destination of their pre-autumn 2014 collection, cooking up a fictional exhibition of which all but one of the featured artworks is stolen by the show's star the night before it opens. In this story the exhibition opens anyhow, and the works are replaced with film footage of the thieves – Sudanese-American model Grace Bol and her accomplice – at work, with a sack full of their booty and all.
When it comes to archives, they don't get much more impressive than that of Andrea Aranow, the designer and ethnographer who has been collecting samples of textiles that take her fancy since the late 1960s. She's made snakeskin ensembles for Jimi Hendrix, travelled through the mountains of Peru, China and Japan collecting, consulted designers from Louis Vuitton to Dries Van Noten and even curated exhibitions for the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Wise words here from Peckham design collective King Zog. They're back with a new website that will fart up the nose of your website faster than you can say "rainbow gloves." The lads – a cocktail of Ben West, Jack Slee, Josh King and Felix Heyes – have collected all their work and put it on the World Wide Web the manner of a really, really personal business card. By that I mean that one look at their new site tells you everything you need to know about this lot. They're some of the only people who can truly pull off funny design while simultaneously being eons ahead of everyone else in the ideas department. Special lads.
Five years ago Dave Tomkins uncovered a huge archive of photographs his Grandpa, Stephen Clarke had taken over the years. With his Grandpa unable to remember where he'd shot these images, Dave was determined to find out more and started reaching out to the big wide world to find out more about the places pictured and what they look like now.
It's Nice That favourite Christoph Niemann has been keeping very busy recently. Between creating a football web essay about Brazil's World Cup curse for the New York Times, and delivering an incredibly inspiring speech at our creative symposium Here last month, he's found the time to put together a sleek new website to showcase all of his spectacular work. The site is easy to navigate, and it's big and bold and bright, and we can't think of a better way to spend the afternoon hours than by browsing through all of Christoph's witty GIFs and whimsical illustrations.


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Code reviews are a necessary evil for professional developers. Anytime we finish a task we're stuck with the arduous task of enlisting another developer to take on the tedious and time consuming task of reviewing the code for future deployment.
On the flip side when other developers need code reviews we tend to avoid those people like they're plagued. Any emails requesting help are treated like spam, but we know in the back of our minds that one of us will catch it eventually. Excuses about being too busy can only get you off the hook for so long before you just have to accept the code review.
The problem with code reviews is they're just so boring. It's all the hassle of writing code without writing any, and you're putting your name to something you now have to guarantee works. There is a certain amount of liability that you're taking on when you do a code review for someone else. The moment it breaks it all comes back to the last person who worked on the code. The code reviewer gets the questions like why didn't you notice XYZ didn't work right? Why didn't you notice that closure or bla bla it goes on.
One day I had a code review that nobody seemed to take any interest in. It wasn't a terribly big review just a few classes and I sent emails to the team looking for an available reviewer. Nobody replied. A day went by and nothing. No response and no acknowledgement that anyone had even read my request. This happened often, again we avoided them at all costs.
I started to think about what would make me want to open a code review request. Cats. Not just any cat. Funny cats. In particular the LOLCat variety always amuse me so why not combine the two? I went to Google and looked for the cutest cat I could find, opened up my photo editor, and added the text "Y U NO CODE REVIEW?" over the pitiful looking cat.
I crafted a new email, attached the image, and sent it to the development group. Not two minutes went by before I heard the first series of chuckles. A few developers had ousted themselves as having read my code review request. That's typically the biggest step in enlisting someone. By knowing they know you need help it's all downhill for their willpower to resist. I had offers almost immediately to take the code review.
What I didn't expect was for it to catch on. Every developer in the company started adding funny cat pictures to their code review requests. It became fun to see the code review requests come through just to see what kind of funny pictures would be attached. There were cats with guns, adorable cats, ugly cats, and cats with bread on their heads. There was even a pony. I won't touch on that one, but in short one of the co-ops tried a coupe on the cat trend with a brony attack.
To this day nearly seven months after the first code review cat was sent it's become an official part of the code review process. In all the years I've been programming and of all the things I've built or done I can safely say the code review cat is one of the things I'm most proud of. It turned a otherwise hated task and made it fun, well, at least the first part of the process anyways. :)
Posted in: Programming
I did something a little unusual this weekend. A few friends and I decided to have a Arduino robot hacking event. The goal of the event was to use all the same hardware and sensors then put together a robot capable of performing basic line tracking. Since we all started with the same hardware we could put together robots of equivalent capability, and the challenge would be to build and program a robot that would outperform the others.
I took some pictures of the event and figured I would share what happened.
I started with a grab bag of wires and IR sensors with the Arduino Uno board. My first task was to put together the dual motor gearbox for the treaded drive system. Pictured is the assortment of parts/sensors/wires in bags, the gearbox, and the Arduino Uno.
My two friends were already hard at work piecing together their robots.
This is a post-build picture of the gearbox that is driven by dual 6V brushless motors that will power the treaded robot.
After mounting the gearbox and assembling the platform with the treads the structure of the robot is completed. At this point it all comes down to assembling the Arduino Motorshield, wiring the motors, soldering the IR sensors, running the connectors, and programming the robot.
The platform with the flip-up electronics base.
In order to power both the 6V brushless motors I first had to quickly solder together the Arduino Motorshield.
After soldering together the Arduino Motorshield I simply attached it to the Arduino Uno board.
Next came soldering the positive/negative terminals on both the 6V brushless motors, and inserting the motors into the gearbox while running the wires out to connect to the assembled Motorshield.
After getting both the platform and Arduino board configured next came soldering the connectors to the four IR sensors that would be responsible for sensing the line.
Once the IR sensors had the connectors soldered, wires connected, and were attached to the underside of the treaded robot platform.
The finished Arduino powered treaded robot!
At the end of the evening there were three equal, but very different Arduino powered treaded robots. The robot to the very right was the first prototype of the robot configuration, and has been much experimented upon with the addition of both bump sensors, speaker, and a multitude of other sensors.
The first robot to successfully complete the course and on the very first try!
Just watch it go!
It was simply awesome watching something built in a period of a few hours going from miscellaneous plastic parts to a robot functioning on its own performing actions that even we didn't know what would happen. For little under $200, a few burned fingers, and a ton of cheering we had an amazing moment where it felt as if anything was possible. We're already formulating the next challenge that will be built upon the framework we've developed for this first challenge. What an exciting night.
Posted in: Programming | Computer Hardware
Lion released somewhat recently and I was, of course, waiting on the App store to download it immediately. Well, what a cluster that was. I had Parallels setup to dock my windows in a certain workspace, and when the new multi-desktop setup took effect I no longer was able to access my open and running Windows VM. It happened to be docked to a non-existent work space. Ended up fixing that problem, but many more performance related problems started plaguing me. Mainly in the amount of RAM that Lion requires.
At the same time Parallels 7 released and was hailed as incredibly fast and tuned specifically for Lion. What a lie that was. I am told the boot times of the Windows VM decreased significantly, and for a while I thought it was an incredible update. I again upgraded as soon as possible. My Windows Performance Index actually went up by .2 in 3D graphics. I was incredibly happy until Windows Aero started continually crashing. The result was sporadic black screens as the device driver failed and Windows recovered it only to stop Aero. Then the random streaks of odd colors started to appear on the screen that would last a minute or two.
Through out all these new troubles one thing positive happened as a result of the upgrades. I haven't had a kernel panic in going on a month whereas on Snow Leopard with Parallels 6 I was crashing twice daily on average. So I've switched from system crashes to having a buggy graphics driver on a generally underpowered machine bogged down by the host OS.
I wish I could say that things settled down and smoothed out after Lion's first update became available, or even after the Parallels 7 multi-monitor bug fix came out. Sadly things have hit the wall in terms of performance since the Parallels 7 update that released two+ weeks ago. If anything the system is performing so poorly that it takes upwards of 10 minutes to compile the .Net solution that used to take three. In addition to the poor performance my Windows Performance Index has actually dropped to 2.3 because of the flaky Parallels 7 video driver.
I'm left with no other options than conceding that Lion and Parallels 7 on a MacBook Air no longer leave the device as a satisfactory development machine. At present time I am considering other device options. I will miss the Air… but I won't miss the horrendous performance.
Posted in: Mac | Hardware
I had an experience this weekend that I don't think I'll soon forget. I woke up early Saturday (5am) morning and went about my routine of trying to sleep in. I ended up giving up around 7am. I went upstairs and figured I'd check to see what was going on in the world on my desktop since I still haven't replaced my Windows Phone 7 (another story.)
I logged into the usual sites, Google+, Facebook, Yammer, and Twitter. I skim through all of them and then I noticed it. A buddy had posted a plea for help, that his dad was missing, and that he needed help searching for him at 7:30am. I looked at the clock, it was 7:15am. I sent a quick comment saying I was on my way. I didn't even shower. I grabbed my gear, cargo jeans, carhart jacket, warm socks, ball cap, and bolted from the house after getting the OK from the wife.
I made it to the search operation meeting area, and pulled in behind a parked police cruiser. I walked over to join the last search party heading into the woods and waited while the chief explained where we were going into the woods in coordination with the other groups that were searching. It's at this point Trent, the son of the missing hunter, walks over to join the group along with his wife. We all entered the woods together and split up into two groups. I went with Trent, his wife, and an EMT off into a sector close to where his father may have been hunting.
We covered a lot of ground, most of it uphill, and visibility was very poor heading up to the top of the hill. I got filled in that his father most likely was wearing cameo, no reflective material as he was bow hunting, and that we should look for blood or any tracks. His cell phone was on and that they knew that he was within two miles so he was most definitely somewhere in the 60+ acre of woods. By this point I was told that any blood would be black and hard to see but to stay vigilant.
I learned a few things during the search that still bother me. Mainly that the EMT and police rely on hard-copy printed aerial maps while Trent was using Google maps to pinpoint our position far better. The EMT we were with had a basic phone and was surprised of the availability of such technological capabilities. While I don't doubt the capability of their on-foot searching experience I can't imagine how much more effective they'd be with properly applied technology.
We kept heading towards clearings that showed signs of recent deer activity as the most likely locations where his father would have been staking out for a good shot. We'd heard some radio chatter that a single arrow was found with a few climbing spikes not far from where we were located. We were advised that it was highly likely we were in the area that he'd be found. I don't really know how much area we covered after that announcement, but we were heading into another thicket when the EMT shouted 'They found him!' We all rushed back to the EMT (we were spread out 20+ feet canvasing the area barely able to see each other).
It was silent for a moment waiting for any additional information. Very silent. We heard the news he was deceased. I looked at the EMT, back at Trent, and then his wife started crying. Trent and his wife embraced. I still can't describe the look on his face. Pain hidden behind a solemn expression. His eyes were tearing slightly but he held his composure. The EMT and I made eye contact and shared the same thought. He placed his hand out on Trent's shoulder, who was still consoling his wife, and squeezed. I did the same to the other shoulder.
We were close to where they found him. The other side of the clearing where we'd gone right instead of left. It was a while later when we exited the woods to join with the returning search parties. I splintered off to head to the back where I met with another buddy who I'd not seen in quite some time. Neither one of us had words that adequately described what we were thinking or the situation. I felt my heart jumping into my throat at the pain this must have caused the family. I waited around a while so I could get the chance to again express how truly sorry I was for his loss. I left shortly after. On the way home I called my dad and told him how much I love him.
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I successfully completed getting my MakerBot Cupcake built, and after doing a little calibration work I created my first real object. The total process took 2 hours and 10 minutes to complete and looked a little bit like this:
And finally…
With a little cleanup, minor sanding, and we have the finished product!
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After spending six weeks building a mobile site for my current employer I had the chance to really get a sense of where mobile development is and a bit where it's headed. The project itself was built with ASP.Net MVC3 along with jQuery Mobile and was meant to provide an iPhone-less experience. During the development I touched on Sench Touch, PhoneGap, and collaborated with both the Android and iPhone developers on staff to mimic the available functionality.
Unfortunately for me I happened to pick the time to develop the site using jQuery Mobile Alpha 4 and three weeks after launch the Beta was launched. In hindsight I think it would have been a better effort to develop the site using media queries to style the pages. jQuery Mobile is nice but the Ajax handling of page requests can cause some undesired effects. It's a wee bit cache happy. The experience either way was very enlightening.
The takeaway from the experience was this. Mobile sites are slow, unreliable, and are a giant cluster when it comes to developing a consistent experience across multiple mobile OS and device manufacturers. Android browsers for example on 2.0 to 2.2 experiences vary widely. Even using the same Android 2.2 OS on the Motorola Droid X and HTC Thunderbolt handle mobile sites differently. HTC Thunderbolt has a fixed large network request buffer much different than that of the Droid X causing page requests delays. HTC Desire has an interesting virtual keyboard quirk when typing secondary characters. The keyboard enters the standard key and upon selecting the secondary key deletes the original character and replaces it, but it doesn't always happen resulting in two characters being entered. Don't even get me started on Windows Phones or Blackberry OS 5 or less.
It's also difficult to get a true sense of our user experiences across different networks regardless of device. This is the biggest complaint I have against mobile development. I keep seeing newer phones released with dual-core processors, bigger screens, but they're all still neutered by the worse than dial-up bandwidth. If the mobile device is on WiFi the device may act relatively well, but if the user is out and about on the AT&T or Cricket network the experience could be drastically different. Ajax has helped web pages come a long way to feeling as responsive as desktop applications, but the moment a chatty site moves to the mobile realm the proverbial shit hits the fan. That gets into the biggest disadvantage a mobile site has versus native apps when dealing with suboptimal bandwidth. Local storage.
Local storage enables the iPhone or Android applications to retrieve data, store it, and then use it for whatever the application needs. For example maybe the application requires a list of financial transactions, and then to allow the users to sort/filter/and view individual line item transaction details. For Android and iOS the transactions can be requested, stored, and easy as pie used for their purpose. Mobile websites are not afforded this luxury. For mobile sites the list of transactions are requested and besides session, storage is limited. Even rendering a large amount of transactions in markup, regardless of latency in retrieving the data, can cause massive delays. For what could take the iOS/Android OS native applications 10 seconds to retrieve, display, and enable interaction could take upwards of a minute or more on a mobile site just to render.
Looking at it again with the new perspective, knowing full well that more smart phones are sold than PCs, it's saddening where the state of mobile development remains. The landscape is rich with a bevy of powerful mobile devices and many promising mobile operating systems. Still, each and every single one of the devices rely on a communication structure that provides the same experiences that desktop PCs had ten years ago while using dial-up. Sure, there is 3G/4G but coverage is limited, devices capable of using those connections are not as wide spread, and even device configurations (screen size/ touch capability/ browsers) are as numerous as stars in the sky.
First post in a while.
Here is a little catch up on where I've been.
Full-time Work Life
My contract ended after seven months of working for a celebrity owned financial services company. I liked the people so much, and the small office environment that it changed my heart on never working as a full-timer again. They extended an offer even though I had been very adamant about remaining a consultant, and I surprisingly accepted. I've been there for over nine months total now, and still enjoying what I'm doing.
MacBook Development Machine
MacBook Air as a development machine has been a lot of headaches. Only within the last two weeks have things stopped kernel panicing on a bi-weekly basis. I think the latest Parallels 6 update combined with continual Mac OS updates fixed the problem. Knocking on wood. Still absolutely love the hardware. To this day I still only use one monitor and no other external peripherals.
Windows Phone 7 Development
Windows Phone 7 development has been a headache. I frankly got fed up and bailed off the platform. Mango was just released recently. The only problem is Visual Studio Service Pack 1 will not install on my VM. No VS SP1, no mango.
Android Development
After getting fed up with Windows Phone 7 I started looking at Android. Another consultant with whom I work with on a daily basis happened to be a very big Android fan. Having become a moderately advanced developer on the platform over the past year he's ended up showing me the ropes. I ended up catching the bug, and have recently purchased an Eee Transformer (as of last week) that has become my new learning project. Still think Java is outdated.
Mobile Development
Within the past six months or so I've become very versed in mobile development and platforms. In particular the 'early' adoption of the jQuery Mobile library. I plan to write a few ongoing blog posts about jQuery Mobile to help spare others the same 'early' adoption headaches.
I'm hoping to set aside some time each week to catch up more on my blogging. We'll see. Till then just know MVC 3 rocks. For now I'm off to play Duke Nukem Forever.
It's been nearly two weeks since my MacBook Air arrived and I have used it almost exclusively. I bought and setup Parallels 6. I created several Windows 7 Ultimate templates with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Office 2010 Business, and used all my remaining licenses in the process. The VM template was given 60GB of hard disk, 2GB ram, and two cores.
I took it to work and setup a cloned VM as my client development machine. Everything worked better than expected. The MacBook Air built the massive client solution in two minutes and 38 seconds. The previous HP i3 machine with 4GB ram built the solution in just over four minutes. A true testament to the power of the solid state disk if I ever do say so.
Then problems started. First the machine started to freeze. From freezing it went to displaying the power sign of death. Within the first week it crashed five times. It varied from power screens of death, freezing, and even one blue screen within my Windows VM with a "Memory Management" problem. Started to suspect bad RAM at this point, but being new to both the OSX and Parallels I couldn't tell whether it was hardware or fake hardware causing the problem.
This past Sunday an upgrade was released to Parallels 6, and I'd hoped if it was Parallels maybe it'd be resolved by the update. Unfortunately the upgrade didn't help resolve the crashing. The crashes were random without being reproducible unless you count when I was in the programming groove it seemed to pick those moments to die. Luckily the MacBook Air boots in no time flat, and I can get my VM to boot relatively fast for a Windows machine.
I ended up contacting Apple support's fast lane to schedule a service call. Last night I spoke to Cody, the Apple support rep, and booted the Mac to the hardware test utility running off the reinstall thumb drive. The quick hardware test proved to have no known problems. The extended hardware test was run three times in a row. Unfortunately it showed no signs of problems either.
At this point it seems there is no hardware problem, which leads me to believe Parallels 6 is the protagonist in this hardware play. Several other developers at the client site are using MacBook Pro's with Parallels 6 without any incident. As far as I can tell it seems Parallels 6 does not play well with the MacBook Air. I've been researching any known problems (Apple rumors I should say,) and came across several kernel panic threads. The threads were related to first generation Nvidia 320M drivers on the Air. Considering that the Air doesn't have discrete graphics memory it's possible the combination of no discrete graphics memory, first gen drivers, and the strain of running Parallels causes a triangle of disaster.
For now I just have to live with the looming crashes, interrupted workflows, and the lost trust in my $1,800 development machine.
Posted in: Hardware | Programming | Mac
A few weeks ago I started the search for a new replacement laptop for the Sony I sold a few months ago. I started by going to the nearby Microcenter and testing the usability of each laptop in the store. I had several make or break criteria I would not budge on. The criteria is below for reference:
Shockingly enough only three machines passed this criteria. Asus, Acer, and Apple. Of the three A's the Asus was by far my favorite. The G series Asus machine with the flat black case, and back vent ports with luke warm bottom set it apart from the rest. The Acer unfortunately had too small of a trackpad where the mouse buttons seemed half the size of the touch area. The only problem with the Asus was the backlit keyboard from an angle shined light from the sides of the keys, and it weighed roughly 12lbs. It was 17" and wasn't available in the store in a size I felt I could use comfortably on the couch.
The MacBook Pro laptops were nice, but the edges around the laptop were sharp. It felt like it would be painful to use while resting on my lap. The MacBook Air ended up being the all-star of all the laptops I tested out. The trackpad was perfectly centered on the case, it didn't move my cursor while typing even though it was nearly twice the size of any other trackpads, and the laptop was incredibly cool to the touch. The slim profile of the device made it seem perfect for couch based use, and it weighed 2lbs compared to the 11lb Asus.
I wasn't totally sold on the specs of the MacBook Air. The low powered Core 2 Duo and lack of discrete graphics memory wasn't exactly a strong point in my opinion. Still it was the ONLY laptop that matched the majority of my requirements. I ended up checking around StackOverflow for anyone else using the MacBook Air for development, just to make sure I wasn't crazy, and found a few posts about people doing just that. It seemed for the most part to be a decent machine given it's limited resources.
I ended up ordering a MacBook Air last week. I ordered the 13" with the 2.1ghz core 2 duo, 4GB Ram, and with it came the larger 256GB flash drive. I installed Parallels and setup a development template with Windows 7 running both cores and 2gb Ram. It rated a 4.4 in the Windows Experience Index. Not too shabby considering the HP I use at work is an i3 2.4ghz with 4GB Ram and 512MB discrete graphics memory only rated 4.9.
After running Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010, and an assortment of other development tools within the Windows VPC while listening to podcasts via iTunes running on the Mac I can safely say the system holds up. Compile times on the VM were even faster than the HP running the same large solution natively. I believe the SSD had a lot to do with that fact as the hard drive rated 7.6 out of 7.9 on the experience index on the MacBook Air.
There is one thing to note though. I had a Mac screen of death earlier today after leaving the Mac for 30 minutes to attend a meeting. On returning I went to send the alt-ctrl-del command to unlock the Windows VPC, and received a giant power dialog instructing me to shut down the system. It was a bit odd, and a little disconcerting.
As I type this post from the couch on a Windows VM I have to admit this laptop is quickly growing on me. I literally have the best of both worlds, and don't seem to be sacrificing anything more than the arm and leg it took to purchase it. I'm definitely glad I had the sense to upgrade the laptop with the faster processor, maximum Ram, and larger hard drive space. I have already used more than 100gb of space after setting up XCode, iPhone/Mac SDKs, and three basic .Net development systems.
Posted in: Hardware | Mac | Programming
Last week I ended up getting up at about 3:30am and couldn't sleep. So I did what any self respecting nerd would do. I went upstairs, opened up Visual Studio, and started making my first Windows Phone 7 program. I really wanted to create a program to be able to read the Mac address and display it easily from the phone. I quickly realized that the Silverlight functionality available on the phone is incredibly limited. By incredibly it's really very pathetic. I would say it's the most closed ecosystem of any mobile phone on the market, with exception to BlackBerry, but even then I haven't dived into BlackBerry programming since the 8000 series.
It was fine enough to be able to use the emulator for phone development, but since I have a real phone I wanted to dive right into using things I create directly on my device. That's when I discovered the App Hub. It's basically like Apple's development program where you have to pay $99 plus tax to join their little programming community/marketplace. With that cost you you are entitled to exactly one year of membership, and access to using a development device. This is where Apple and Microsoft take a sharp turn away from each other. With Apple it's a one time yearly fee for complete access to the marketplace, documentation, code development environments (Xcode), SDK's, and ability use development profiles on your physical devices. Microsoft on the other hand requires a background check to even get started. Microsoft didn't mention this until AFTER I paid them.
I failed the immediate background check. This is the second time I've failed to prove that I am me. It was asking questions related to my mortgage bank, my student loan bank, and what my monthly mortgage rate is. Well, first the mortgage bank list didn't display my bank, my student loans were paid off/bank not listed, and none of the listed monthly mortgage rate range were even close to mine. Instead of a quick check it's turned into a week long wait, having to fax a copy of my drivers license, and just today was granted access to start using my device for programming.
Talk about a buzz kill. Nothing like waiting a week with NO status updates to kill my enthusiasm. First the device is incredibly limited in access to physical functionality, and then jumping through hoops even to use the device I paid hard-cash to own really just puts it over the top from being sad to pathetic. Still, I am happy to see they finally agreed I am me, and now from this day forward I actually feel the $100+ dollars I paid to get denied was at least worth _something_. I'm hoping to push out a few project ideas and at least get a bullet point on the resume that I've made Phone 7 applications.
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LEBANON JUNCTION - Not since the heady days of the Civil War, when Lebanon Junction was truly the gateway to the South, have this many Northerners come together to enjoy the Kentucky experience in Bullitt County.
SHEPHERDSVILLE - The Shepherdsville Police Department showed that their commander is a true grinder.
Col. Doug Puckett visited with local citizens during a "Coffee with the Chief" event at Cedar Grove Coffee House.
For one hour patrons received a free cup of coffee along with an opportunity to discuss issues of their choosing with Puckett or one of the other department members in attendance.
The topics ranged from specific issues within neighborhoods to overall city traffic situations.
PIONEER VILLAGE - It may have been a devastating tornado that put Pioneer Village on the national map in 1996, but the city has officially moved that event into its historical files.
Today Pioneer Village heads forward, celebrating with a 40th anniversary party that included the ceremonial burning of its tornado debt, along with the presentation of a new city flag.
The day-long celebration was highlighted by a special ceremony to raise the flag and burn the debt papers, hosted by mayor Gary Hatcher and former city police chief Rodney Hockenbury.
CLERMONT - Among those attending the recent 150th birthday celebration for James Beam was Mr. and Mrs. James Matthews.
There were a lot of people at the celebration and quite honestly, I didn't try to figure out whether they were part of the celebration or just visiting the American Stillhouse at the distillery on that particular day.
Part of the celebration was the unveiling of a statue of Beam, with his tie blowing in the wind.
It wasn't until the end of the ceremony and the crowd had dwindled when the Matthews couple approached.
MOUNT WASHINGTON--It's that time of year again.
The city of Mount Washington will have one of their annual cleanups on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the city annex, said City Utilities Superintendent.
Items that are allowed include furniture and old appliances.
The crew will not accept items that are flammable or have freon in them such as gas and propane tanks.
The city annex is located at 186 Branham Way.
CLERMONT -- Hoping to outsmart Mother Nature, the third annual WineFest has been expanded to two days this year at the Bullitt County Fairgrounds.
The event will be held on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 26-27.
Brance Gould, owner of Forest Edge Winery and one of the coordinators of the event, said they hope to avoid rain at least one day.
At the annual event, patrons can visit more than 16 wine vendors, from across the state, to taste their wares. Wine will be available by the glass and bottle for purchase.
PIONEER VILLAGE - A trip to Michigan with friends took Sharon Cheser down the long road to Kentucky State Fair success.
Cheser and her husband, Cliff, were visiting the Grand Hotel at Mackinac Island with friends on a Toby Tours trip.
Dinner at the Grand Hotel included a dessert bar with one of the best chocolate cakes they ever tasted.
"My friends said try to make it," Cheser recalled. "I tried until my husband liked it, and then a friend helped perfect it. I'd keep track of all the changes."
What do a log cabin, trip around the world and wedding ring all have in common?
Find out at the fourth annual Bluegrass Quilt Festival this year. The event will be Sept. 25 to 27 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Paroquet Springs Conference Centre in Shepherdsville.
The festival was started by Bluegrass Quilt Festival LLC owned by Bullitt County residents Jo Ann Jeffries and Pam Heyna. The Mt. Washington Quilting Bees also help to run the show.
The KIPDA Rural Diabetes Coalition held its third annual Tri-County Diabetes Walk at the Shepherdsville City Park.
MOUNT WASHINGTON--Mount Washington hopes to again draw a number of visitors hungry for barbecue.
The city will have its second annual BBQ Festival on Saturday, Sept. 27, from 2 to 9 p.m., according to Dan Kelty, one of the event coordinators.
This year the festival will be held in the ValuMarket parking lot.
Other activities will include bounce houses for children, car shows, chances to dunk some of the Mount Washington police officers and live entertainment.
This year's proceeds will go to benefit CASA of Bullitt County.


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What is social marketing and how can your company get started in this new market? The social network is indeed an ingenious concept, one that is seemingly mastered by both the experienced Internet marketing expert and the average 12-year-old girl who effortlessly befriends hundreds or even thousands of contacts. Yes, it's so easy to start a social networking page…but mastering the art of the online conversation and piquing the interest of your followers/friends with each and every post remains a psychologically complex assignment.
No wonder large companies will spend thousands of dollars in salary bringing on an experienced social network "expert"—someone who knows precisely how to manage a social media campaign. Nevertheless, what we know about social media as evidenced by many overnight "viral" success stories created by complete amateurs, is that it is a very open-ended business, and one with much room for creativity, originality and even some experimentation.
Social Marketing is Different from Social Media Networking
It may surprise you to learn that social marketing is not the same definition as social networking or social media marketing—although the two terms are often used interchangeably. Social marketing has origins in traditional marketing theory; specifically, in the achievement of specific goals for a greater social good. Social marketing by strict definition is socialistic or humanitarian; it focuses on how to help the society as a whole.
Understand that the concept behind social networking is nothing new. While the official "discovery" of this science traces back to the 1970s (where men by the name of Kotler and Zaltman laid down the foundation of social marketing principles), the actual psychological concepts date back even farther—perhaps as far back as the 1950s when G. D. Weibe asked, "Why can't you sell brotherhood and rational thinking like you can sell soap?" Actually, people take "social marketing" as its own entity quite seriously; the Shaklee Coorporation trademarked the term "Social Marketing", as distinct from social networking.
Traditional marketing believes in a system of four P's. Namely, product, price, place and promotion. These principles can be adapted within the social marketing industry online. For example, new age teachings on modern marketing (of which social media is a huge avenue) state that product does not have to be a literal item. Rather, storeowners focus on the product becoming viable and need-oriented. Customers must be told they have a problem, and the universal product (which could be a variety of individual items) is the solution. Perception of the problem is paramount here.
Social marketing "price" is not really about supply and demand, not in modern social media, but has more to do with what the customer is willing to do in exchange for the marketing product. Sometimes that price is monetary, but sometimes it has more to do with time or effort invested, or perhaps even a social sacrifice in terms of embarrassment or disapproval. You as the marketer must imagine the plight of the customer and determine if the benefits of the product will outweigh the price. When it comes to place, place merely means the distribution system chosen by the marketer, including the logistics of tangible products as well as intangible products. Lastly, promotion refers to the visibility of social media marketing, which includes the subtle promotions that you do integrate with the social club, including public relations, advertising, and other ways to create demand for the product.
The Psychology of Social Networking
Of course, even the concept of social networking (and Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and the like) predate all of the billionaire sites you know and love today. Mixing business and pleasure dates back to the beginning of capitalism and writing itself. Writers have always had to self-market their own careers, mingling with others and making connections, long before they became "best sellers." (Particularly authors who lived before the modern marketing age, and could only be published by small literary presses—or even self-funding) Meanwhile, retail companies have been investing their efforts in charity events, fundraisers and promotional giveaway for a long time. These "social" investments (sometimes commercially based, sometimes devised with social marketing and charity in mind) do actually work wonders for establishing name brand and customer loyalty for the long-term.
Social marketing is basically the fusing together of five distinct formulas for success:
- The idea of "networking", creating connections and making friends and acquaintances with as many people as possible;
- The idea of selling attitudes, behaviors and "brand" as opposed to just products;
- The idea of projecting success to others and thus attracting positive things to you
("The law of attraction" concept, an eastern philosophy stressing positive thinking as a means to control one's destiny);
- The idea of identifying the needs of your audience and giving them the incentive they want; and
- The idea of online discussions via popular social networking sites.
All of these themes are encompassed in social media networking. By strict definition, social marketing is online behavior designed to influence social behaviors and benefit the target audience. The main point of this avenue is that "hard sales" technique is forbidden; instead, all focus goes to the consumer—on creating a great customer experience, in as exactly what the customer wants without the need for "persuasion." More time is spent in research and in delivering the customer expectation. Then, instead of persuading the customer to believe the company directive, the covert salesperson simply "projects" the image of success, which in turn attracts new buyers to the product or the company.
Combining the Best of Social Marketing and Social Media
Of course, social marketing and social networking can often interact, as charity organizations must actively market their brand as a commercial company might. Without an aggressive marketing campaign, even a worthy cause (such as in social marketing) could be forgotten in the midst of intense competition.
Social marketing and social networking can and should intertwine, as these social media sites can help company owners to promote their agenda, publicize their name, and more importantly than anything else, help to "network" with the local and extended community.
You are always walking a fine line when you participate in social media marketing or social media—trying to inform or entertain the customer, and trying to put his or her needs over your own. The main point here is that it's imperative to put some thought into planning an agenda, a specific direction and a goal achievement plan so that you can build a find foundation of trust with your viewers.


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1 (144-1) <Praise, for David himself.> I will extol thee, O God my king: and I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever. | 1 I will exalt you, my God the King; I will praise your name for ever and ever. |
2 (144-2) Every day will I bless thee: and I will praise thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever. | 2 Every day I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever. |
3 (144-3) Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end. | 3 Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom. |
4 (144-4) Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power. | 4 One generation will commend your works to another; they will tell of your mighty acts. |
5 (144-5) They shall speak of the magnificence of the glory of thy holiness: and shall tell thy wondrous works. | 5 They will speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty, and I will meditate on your wonderful works. |
6 (144-6) And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and shall declare thy greatness. | 6 They will tell of the power of your awesome works, and I will proclaim your great deeds. |
7 (144-7) They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: and shall rejoice in thy justice. | 7 They will celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness. |
8 (144-8) The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in mercy. | 8 The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. |
9 (144-9) The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. | 9 The LORD is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made. |
10 (144-10) Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless thee. | 10 All you have made will praise you, O LORD; your saints will extol you. |
11 (144-11) They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: and shall tell of thy power: | 11 They will tell of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might, |
12 (144-12) To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom. | 12 so that all men may know of your mighty acts and the glorious splendor of your kingdom. |
13 (144-13) Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and holy in all his works. | 13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is faithful to all his promises and loving toward all he has made. |
14 (144-14) The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are cast down. | 14 The LORD upholds all those who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down. |
15 (144-15) The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat in due season. | 15 The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time. |
16 (144-16) Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living creature. | 16 You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing. |
17 (144-17) The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works. | 17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways and loving toward all he has made. |
18 (144-18) The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that call upon him in truth. | 18 The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. |
19 (144-19) He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear their prayer, and save them. | 19 He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them. |
20 (144-20) The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy. | 20 The LORD watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy. |
21 (144-21) My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name forever; yea, for ever and ever. | 21 My mouth will speak in praise of the LORD. Let every creature praise his holy name for ever and ever. |
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Nobel Peace Prize nominee Father John Dear brought a passionate and radical vision of global non-violence to a large and enthusiastic General Assembly crowd on Sunday afternoon. And, as one might expect from a committed Jesuit priest speaking at the invitation of the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship, he didn't stint for a moment on the God-talk.
"If you dare enter into the depths of that spiritual realization that we are all one, you can never hurt another human or creature again. Non-violence is not passivity, or a tactic or a strategy—it's a new way of life, pursuing the truth of common unity and oneness, persistently reconciling with all humanity and creation. We must allow the God of Peace to disarm our hearts and turn us into instruments of disarming love. We are not going to co-opt the culture of killing—but, like Gandhi and King, we must be willing to be killed in the service of this universal love."
That kind of talk—which flows from Dear like a rushing waterfall in spring—has gotten him into a lot of trouble over the years. In fact, he had to get written permission from the federal government to come speak to us at General Assembly (GA). He's been arrested over 75 times on various charges of civil disobedience, and spent up to eight months at a time in jail. "I'm as high on the terrorist watch list as you can get," he told he audience. "I can't vote, can't travel to most countries, and am constantly monitored by the government."
Still, Dear, now 48, got around plenty in his younger years. He embraced radical non-violence in 1982, while visiting Israel. That nation invaded Lebanon while he was there: he recalled watching bombers drop bombs on nearby towns with his own eyes, right in the place where Jesus had preached peace.
A few years later, Dear went to El Salvador, where he joined a team of Jesuit priests serving as witnesses for peace in that war-torn country. There, he absorbed the lessons of liberation theology before returning to the U.S.
The Questions of Jesus is the latest of Dear's 20 books. It's premised in the idea that, contrary to popular belief, Jesus isn't the one with all the answers. Instead, Dear noticed, his specialty was asking questions. Dear went through the Gospels and counted up over 300 questions asked by Jesus—of which he only supplied answers to two. The book looks at a selection of these questions, and their implications that call us to a non-violent life.
Dear was visibly moved by our First Principle, noting that "honoring the inherent worth and dignity of all people" is the very foundation of non-violent thinking—and the root of every religion. Violence can only occur when that Principle is somehow forgotten. And, says Dear, our culture is largely set up to make sure that we forget it.
"Many of us are racing down the road to war—it's as though we're entering Orwell's predicted era of perpetual war," declared Dear. "We're making war on the poor, the children, the earth, democracy, and even the universe as we send our weapons into space.
"We don't want a non-violent god. We've spent 2000 years wishing Jesus never said 'love your enemies,' because we want a God that will bless our wars and let us kill our enemies." As a result, says Dear, there are 35 wars going on in the world right now. Nearly half the world's people live in poverty; 900 million are starving. And this is because we've created a world of war and corporate greed that allows poverty, hunger, disease, and all these other evils to persist.
Out of this world of violence, says Dear, comes the violence we know about—racism, sexism, torture, and all the rest. We are so inured to it—or so deeply in denial—that we don't even remember that our country vaporized 200,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dear recalled ministering to the people working on The Pile in lower Manhattan while serving as the Red Cross' coordinator of chaplains in the days and weeks after 9/11. One of them told him, "This is the worst thing that's ever happened in history." Losing 2900 Americans was tragic—but it should give us some new and better perspective on the trauma we inflicted on Japan.
"This violence is in all of us now," continued Dear. "It's grown into our spirituality. Religions have thrown out their non-violent core, and come down to 'might makes right.' God's nice, we think—but he can't protect us. We need weapons."
"In early days of Christianity, they had big words for this kind of thinking: blasphemy, idolatry, heresy. We need to be using these words again."
Dear was also contemptuous of "Just War" theology. "Just War says that if you follow these seven conditions, you can bomb anybody you want to." Dear noted that Jesus set a very different example when he insisted that Peter put down his sword when the Roman soldiers came to arrest him at Gethsemane. "Peter thinks: It's my job to protect my guy. After all, if violence was ever divinely justified at any time in history, it was that moment. Peter thought that this was a Just War.
"But Jesus tells him: 'Put down your sword.' Those are the last words of Jesus to his community—and for the first time, they truly understand nonviolence. And they run off, because they know that if they can't fight back, they're going to die. So Jesus is crucified—a sacrifice that says, 'You are forgiven—but the violence stops here. There will be no more killing.'"
Dear noted that peace activists from Dorothy Day to Gandhi to Martin Luther King have reminded us, over and over, that violence doesn't work. "Violence in response to violence always leads to more violence. War never brings peace; it sows the seeds of future wars. It doesn't guarantee security or build the human family or nurture the future...War is not the will of God. And there are people who want to kill me for saying that.
Dear offered a series of steps for people seeking to cultivate non-violence.
A tall order—but if you don't know what you want and are willing to step up and demand it, you're never going to get it.
Dear concluded that the most important peace work in the world is the work that we do right here in the United States , because so much of the problem begins here. We do not have to convert others—we are the ones who will be converted by this work. He notes that two-thirds of the world's people are already engaged in non-violent resistance movements. They're well ahead of us already.
And we also need to detach ourselves from expectations and outcomes. "If you can see everything you do for peace and justice as a prayer, it brings you hope," he said. "The meaning of life is a journey to peace—making peace with myself, my friends, my neighbors, my relatives, the planet, the animals, and all of creation; living and breathing in peace, walking the road of the God of Peace."
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A Dillon teacher will appear on the long-time running game show Wheel of Fortune on Monday.
Sharmayne MacEwan and several other potential contestants were interviewed in Missoula last year in a mock game show, and Sharmayne was selected.
She is a special education teacher from Parkview Elementary School in Dillon and told us she had grown up watching the show as a child and it was a life-long dream of hers to be a contestant.
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Can you feel it? That's right, the slowing-down of our forward Christmas-planning momentum as we move into spring and brighter days! Don't let it grind to a halt! LOL
I'm not doing so well on my christmas projects - so I need to get caught up this month! Here are my goals for this month with regards to christmas planning: 1. Crochet at least two more squares for dad's afghan.
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Jamie, what kind of afghan are you making for your Dad? I finished knitting the striped stocking hat for my brother that matches the afghan I made for him last year. Now I'm sewing in the many ends and have to make a tassel. My mother even asked me, "Did you start my vest yet?" I do have more done on my daughter-in-law's Christmas present, a lacy scarf made of kid mohair, not that that's an excuse. |
Oooh, I really need to pay my GW dues, don't I? Met April's goals. I should probably keep May's easy as well. Finish sister socks, block and put away. |
Well done, ladies - moving along, slowly but surely! Wendy, the afghan will just be square blocks of black, red, and blue chenille - very soft and cozy. :-) I haven't had much time to work on it recently though - my mom needed some things made for her, so we're working on those at the moment. (Gift bags for her volunteer "end of the year" gifts) |
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North Charleston, S.C., Dec. 2, 2011 – South Carolina Electric & Gas and Boeing today officially marked the completion of one of the largest single rooftop solar installations in the United States and the largest in the Southeast, by production capacity. The dedication event signaled the start of renewable energy being generated by the 2.6-megawatt D.C. rooftop photovoltaic system, which is made up of more than 18,000 thin-film photovoltaic solar laminates that cover 10 acres on the roof of the 14-acre Boeing South Carolina 787 Final Assembly building.
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The 2.6 megawatts of electrical power generated for the site is enough to power approximately 250 homes. SCE&G began installation of the photovoltaic panels May 16, the same day Boeing teammates began moving into the building. Substantial completion was met Oct. 28.
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El dom, 04-03-2012 a las 14:06 +0100, Ulrich Mueller escribió: > >>>>> On Sun, 04 Mar 2012, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > Even if they have some people in their mail aliases, looks like > > herds are empty. > > Sorry for nitpicking, but a "herd" is a collection of packages. So the > herds are not empty, but they have no maintainers. Well, I knew what a "herd" means exactly per devmanual ;), but, in real world, that "collection of packages" is really orphan (are like maintainer-needed packages but, what is worse, out of radar as they are not listed as orphan at all) (Personally I completely disagree with that sense of "herd" but, as looks the meaning is there since the beginning...) > > > If nobody volunteers to join to them, I think we should drop that > > herds and move their packages to maintainer-needed in a week or so. > > > What do you think? > > How many packages are in these two herds? If it's only a few, then > this certainly makes sense. > > Ulrich > > Only two for net-zope, but many more for, for example, sgml and media-optical.
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TOPEKA -- Kansas legislators convened their 90-day session Monday and were expected to quickly delve into crime legislation, including efforts to modify the state's "Hard 50" prison sentence and increase the penalty for attempted capital murder.
Following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found juries, not judges, must determine whether to impose minimum sentences, the Legislature changed Kansas law last fall to comply. Juries now decide whether to impose the mandatory "Hard 50" sentence -- life without parole for 50 years -- for premeditated first-degree murder. "Hard 50" is the state's toughest penalty behind capital punishment and life without parole.
Senate Vice President Jeff King, R-Independence, said he hoped the Legislature could build on last year's momentum and go a step further on modifying the "Hard 50" law. He and two other GOP senators have proposed making a 50-year prison term the automatic penalty for first-degree murder but allowing for defense attorneys to argue mitigating factors why a defendant should serve a minimum of 25 years instead.
Another measure, sought by Attorney General Derek Schmidt, would increase the punishment for attempted capital murder. King said the change would increase the penalty to life without parole for 25 years, up from 12 years.
King said many of these proposals surfaced as legislators met during the special session but didn't have time to expand their scope.
"That's one of the reasons that we are taking it up quickly so that there are no oversights in our murder sentencing," he said.
Sen. David Haley of Kansas City, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he was pleased King also scheduled a hearing this week on a bill that would abolish the death penalty. Haley said he was optimistic the mood in the Statehouse had shifted since 2010, when the Senate deadlocked at 20-20 to repeal the law.
Seven new House members took their seats while Sen. Jay Emler, a Lindsborg Republican, began his final session before facing a confirmation committee to consider his appointment to the Kansas Corporation Commission.
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Stevenage Football Club supportersâ team is organising a football tournament early next month in memory of Mitchell Cole.
Mitchell, who played for Stevenage between 2007 and 2010, died in December from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
The Mitchell Cole Memorial Tournament will take place at the home of Ware FC at Wodson Park, Wadesmill Rd, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 0UQ on Saturday, May 4th.
The tournament will support Ben Cole, Mitchellâs brother, in his climb up Mt Kilimanjaro for the Cardiomyopathy Association.
Mitchell, who was forced to retire from professional football in 2011, became an ambassador for the Cardiomyopathy Association, raising awareness of the condition and the charity in the media.
The match will be free to watch but there will be collection buckets around the ground, with all the money raised going towards Ben's charity trek.
The first match will start at 10am and the event will end around 4pm. Taking part will be the Stevenage supporters team, affectionately known as Badgers FC, as well as fansâ teams from Cambridge, Barnet, London Carlisle and AFC Wimbledon. There will also be a Ben Cole XI, which will consist of Ben and Mitchellâs family and friends.
The tournament will have a league format with the top team being the winners of a Mitchell Cole Memorial Trophy. All are welcome to come and watch. Anyone who can help should contact Keith Bell
There will be a bar and tea bar open throughout the day.
Stevenage Football Club are also holding a match in Mitchell's memory later that week.
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