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Major William Stephen Raikes Hodson (1821-58), Hodson of Hodson's Horse, is remembered for a number of notable achievements in his lifetime and was a Victorian cavalry officer of distinction. As a result his military career won him respect and praise from many quarters. This included recognition from the Minister for India, the Prime Minister and the Sovereign.
Contemporaries described Hodson (in their letters and memoirs) as an outstanding cavalry officer. Among the descriptions recorded, the following was made by General Hugh Gough in his memoirs about Hodson: 'A finer or more gallant soldier never breathed. He had the true instincts of a leader of men; as a cavalry soldier he was perfection; a strong seat, a perfect swordsman, quick and intelligent'. Another friend and colleague General Sir Henry Daly added: 'Hodson was, as I always thought, a wondrous compound; ability high and strong; great capacity of mind; power and energy, physical and mental. He is a great loss to the service, for doubtless he had done great soldiership'.
The army's Commander-in-Chief, Lord Roberts ( in his memoirs: 'Forty-One Years in India') praised Hodson's many accomplishments and exploits (with only one reservation/exception, made with the benefit of hindsight). He also made a point of defending Hodson's reputation against the false rumours and the views of detractors.
Among Hodson's closest friends were Sir Henry Lawrence (Resident of Lahore and Chief Commissioner of Oudh, India) and fellow officer Lord Napier of Magdala. In a letter to the Rev. George Hodson (author) Lord Napier writes in 1883: 'I am much obliged for the perusal of the preface to the new edition of your memoir of your brother Major WSR Hodson. I am now - as I have always been - fully convinced of his honour and integrity'. Lord Napier was also at Hodson's bedside at the time of his friend's death in 1858, and (in a letter he later sent Mrs Hodson) recorded Hodson's last words as "I hope I have done my duty".
Added to the many tributes from his friends and colleagues, Hodson received special recognition after his death from HM Queen Victoria and her Prime Minister.
In parliamentary speeches made on 14th April 1859 the Prime Minister Earl of Derby, and the Minister for India Lord Stanley, singled-out Major Hodson for his unique services to the country. In a shortened account Lord Stanley is quoted as saying: 'Especially distinguished is Major Hodson who in his short but brilliant military career displayed every quality which an officer should possess. Nothing is more remarkable than the variety of services in which he was engaged...He crowded into the brief space of eleven years the services and adventures of a long life. He died when his reward was assured - the consciousness of duty done and the assurance of enduring military renown'.
And from the Prime Minister: 'Doubtless many have fallen who, if they had been spared, might have risen to greatest eminence and have held the highest stations in public service. I allude to Hodson a model of chiefs of irregular forces. By his valour, his rigid discipline, and careful attention to his men's real wants, comforts, desires, and even prejudices, he had obtained an influence which was all but marvellous. This enabled him to lead his troops so formed and disciplined into any danger and into any conflict as if they had been British soldiers. He has met a soldier's death. It will be long before the people lose the memory of Hodson'.
This recognition of Hodson by the Prime Minister was reflected in the special pension granted his widow by the Secretary of State for India in Council, who declared it was 'testimony of the high sense entertained of the gallant and distinguished services of the late Brevet-Major W.S.R. Hodson'.
Some months after the Prime Minister's speech Her Majesty Queen Victoria honoured Major Hodson posthumously by granting his widow private apartments at Hampton Court Palace "in consideration of the distinguished service of your late husband in India".
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Further reading, Books:
"The Life of Hodson of Hodson's Horse" by Captain Lionel J. Trotter, 1910 edition Dent & Sons;
"Hodson's Horse: 1857-1922" by Major Francis G. Cardew, 2005 edition Naval & Military Press (~ reprint of the original 1928 Blackwood & Sons edition);
"Rider on a Grey Horse: A life of Hodson of Hodson's Horse" by Barry Joynson Cork 1958 edition Cassells;
"The Companion to British History" by Charles Arnold-Baker, edition 2001, Routledge;
"The Indian Mutiny" by Saul David, edition 2002 Viking/Penguin;
"The Indian Mutiny" by Julian Spilsbury, edition 2007 Weidenfeld & Nicholson;
"Soldier Sahibs: The men who made the North West Frontier" by Charles Allen, edition 2000 John Murray;
"At All Costs: Stories of Impossible Victories" by Bryan Perrett, editions Arms & Armour Press 1993 and Cassell Military Classics 1998.
"Britain's Custer" by Ian Knight, Military Illustrated magazine, UK - November 2003;
"The Siege of Delhi" John H. Waller, Military History magazine, USA - March 1998.
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This board was bought by me from new, used about 5 times on indoor slopes only (never made it to the actual outdoors) amd then stored in my wardrobe. It's a shame such a fine board as this is doing next to nothing so I thought I would let it move on.
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I already know theres gonna be a wipe but why should I care, leveling is a piece of cake in latale anyway and I wanna go try out the instance dungeons and stuff, didn't level past 25 in the CB so couldn't really complete them
I already know theres gonna be a wipe but why should I care, leveling is a piece of cake in latale anyway and I wanna go try out the instance dungeons and stuff, didn't level past 25 in the CB so couldn't really complete them
Since people here constantly like to say "this game is a clone of that game" and it really annoys me, I'm going to do a small comparison for the 2d side scroller/platformers (MS, WS, DG, WK, LT, GO). There might be more but these 6 are the most common/I played). I'm a big fan of the 2D sidescrollers and i've have played all these games for a while. I don't see how people can say any of them are "clones"
The abbreviations i used represent as follows:
MS - MapleStory
WS - Wind Slayer
DG - Dragon Gem
WK - WonderKing (I played the JP version)
LT - LaTale
GO - Ghost Soul online a.k.a Ghost Online (played JP, NA, and MY)
The basics are pretty much the same
F2P with cash shop
Jobs with skill point allocation upon level up
Job advancements
"Cute" graphics.
Side scroll/platform environments
Boss monsters
Weapon/armor enhancement
Arrow key movement, customizable keys/quickslots
Equips with level requirements
Free market/stalls for vending player items.
Various ingame events that offer unique prizes.
More stuff I did not name
However there are a lot of differences
-PVP (LT, GO, WS have it. DG, WK, MS, do not.)
-EXP rates (from what I've experienced the order from lowest to highest goes WS, GO, MS, DG and LT and WK are about the same. This is for straight grinding no cash shop or quests involved.) Also it is to be noted that MS is the only game without "degenerating exp" upon leveling up (A monster on MS gives the same amount of exp everytime you kill it regardless of level.)
-Drop rates. When it comes to important items (such as equips, materials, pots) from what I've experienced, GO and LT have the highest, DG and WK on par, and WS then MS with the lowest.
- Job advancement. Job advancement levels vary between the games, LT is the only one where you start with your first job. GO has rebirth I believe. WS requires players to gain "Victy" which is gained from PVP.
-Faction system. GO appears to be the only game with one (don't think LT has one) that also gives players skills and bonuses based on what side they choose.
-Stats. LT I believe is the only game that auto-allocates your stats based on your class. All the rest require manual input. Some require multiple stats for equipments others do not.
-Avatars. DG, MS and WK all have characters with heads noticably larger than their bodies (it's a style people). GO, LT and WS have porportional avatars.
-LT has some interesting features, you can mob with normal attacks (and I think most/all skills attacking). Mobbing is limited to attacking skills in the others. it is also the only game where you automatically gain money upon killing monster and you have to open up a bag to collect the drops. Players can also switch between two weapon sets (unique to LT) by pressing tab. Another feature allows players to attach an element to a weapon (MS I believe has elemental weapons but they are preset).
Item harvesting for item creation - WK, LT, WS have areas you go to harvest materials used in creating various items. MS, DG and GO do not.
GO has a unique concept - Various souls can be absorbed to recover partial SP, full recovery, fill sealed items (used for enchanting weapons and armor to make them stronger) and rage from defeated enemies. all players when they reach level 10 can activate rage mode which allows the player to temporarily double their damage output. GO also has auto fishing which can be used to aquire fish for selling or consumption
Pets - they vary in features depending on the game but most for the ones that got em they all loot items for the player I believe. Some attack, speak, require feeding, etc. There are even mounts
Player shops/vending - DG allows you to vend anywhere in a safe zone, others require you to be in a specific zone (GO, WK, WS) and others require permits bought via cash shop/npc (MS, LT)
-More stuff I did not name...
There's a lot of differences between all of them (a lot more than i listed and in some places a bit more specific.) so it's incorrect to say that any of them are "clones" especially since the word implies that they are identical. How about we all use "similar" from now on because as I've previously stated, all those games have similarites.
EDIT- I believe GO has a mining area as well.
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The over/ under line is very sharp here IMO. My inclination is the over, but I think a TKO has about a 40% chance in rounds 9-12. If it does come, it will be close to the 9.5 rounds mark, so you're really flipping a coin on that bet.
I've learned from my years of betting boxing that the over/ under is often a fools bet and way more unpredictable than just betting who will win. It seems that IB has learned this lesson the hard way the other night when Malignaggi scored an unexpected TKO. Who woulda thought that would happen? The thing is, I knew that was in the realm of possibility, because a lot of **** is in boxing. Laugh if you want, but I could always tell Paulie's power was a bit underrated. Been watching him for years and I wasn't surprised that he scored a TKO. Another example - Cotto vs Foreman. I had the over in that fight for $200 (not Vcash), and that to me was an excellent bet. Every indicator pointed to a Cotto UD. Foreman is a tough guy, very motivated with a good chin that moves around a lot and is hard to hit a lot due to his movement. It was clear that Cotto was a step above, but that Cotto wasn't really gonna hurt him because Cotto had been in decision after decision in that period of time (and even now, Cotto rarely scores an early KO). And obviously Foreman with his miniscule KO number and boxing style had a very slim chance of getting an early KO. So it seemed like a great bet, and it was on the way to cashing until Foreman gets a FREAK injury to his knee and can barely move, leading to a TKO. There goes $200. And then there are always situations where a KO artist is fighting some no name guy and you think he's going to just demolish him in the first 4 rounds and then they turn out to be tougher than expected and last the whole fight. For example - Donaire/ Narvaez. So to me, it's NEVER worth betting on the over/under in boxing. Betting Vcash on it is one thing since it's all for fun, but in the long run you're gonna lose money betting on the over/ under in boxing. Don't say I didn't warn ya. Now let's cash this check tomorrow, Money May! Last edited by StreetsofRAGE; 05-05-2012 at 03:48 AM. |
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A FEDERAL court in New York has ordered Fly Guam to pay Servisair LLC, a Delaware-based fuel management company, $1.8 million in unpaid balance on the contract for services rendered to the airline.
In a Feb. 26 order, Federal Judge Arthur Spatt of the Eastern District of New York issued a default judgment against Fly Guam, which had its last regularly scheduled flight on Guam in November 2011.
Fly Guam entered into a $4.8 million contract with Servisair in February 2011 to manage fuel purchases for the airline.
Fly Guam had paid only $3.15 million and has a remaining balance of $1.67 million, according to the lawsuit filed by the Delaware company.
Fly Guam made its maiden flights to Palau, Nagoya and Taipei in August 2011, but shortly after expanding its flights to HongKong and Saipan, the airline stopped its operations for unclear reasons.


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Fluorescence monitoring of capillary electrophoresis separation of biomolecules with monolithically integrated optical waveguides
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Jimmy Fallon Did A Surprise Interview With Michael Jordan (Who Looks A Lot Like Kristen Wiig In A Bald Cap)
Last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a surprise guest showed up in the studio for an interview, and that surprise guest just happened to be NBA legend Michael Jordan. Weirdly enough, he's looking a lot like Saturday Night Live's Kristen Wiig in a bald cap these days. And he's also forgotten a lot about his illustrious career.
Gotta love those Cleveland Rockets! They're so damn fast. And Fallon's a lucky man. He got the coveted and extremely rare Michael Jordan autograph with a heart over the "i."


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ConoverŌĆÖs newest tech upgrade puts a host of city services in the palm of your hand ŌĆö for free.
The city launched its ŌĆ£Conover MobileŌĆØ application recently, giving cell phone and tablet users an all-access look at the city virtually anywhere.
The web portal has already won a state award.
Conover was notified in December it was a second quarterly winner of the Government Innovation Grant award, a program intended to reward technology-based innovation across governments through incentives.
The GIGa program, administered through the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillŌĆÖs School of Government, looks for governments engaged in innovative, repeatable endeavors that help improve citizen services by increasing efficiencies, effectiveness and possibly creating cost savings, according to GIGaŌĆÖs website.
ConoverŌĆÖs web portal was designed with free software and costs citizens nothing to use, something its creators think helped the city achieve the award.
ŌĆ£We did this for free without any additional costs to the citizen or the city,ŌĆØ said Chris Niver, ConoverŌĆÖs director of Information Technology.
ŌĆ£The idea was, ŌĆśhow can we provide the citizens a better avenue to interact with the city?ŌĆÖŌĆØ
The mobile web portal provides links to ConoverŌĆÖs community news, Facebook and Twitter feeds, city calendar and website, among other content. The mobile portal also gives users the ability to report a crime, request trash and debris removal, and call city hall.
ŌĆ£It provides an additional service and communication conduit for citizens to engage the city,ŌĆØ Niver said. ŌĆ£This puts everything right in the palm of their hand.ŌĆØ
For its award, Conover will receive a plaque to recognize the organization for its superlative technology investment, and they will be featured on the websites of NCLGISA and UNC School of Government's Center for Public Technology. The award also qualifies the city for a $10,000 grant that Conover will compete for at the end of this month.
ConoverŌĆÖs web portal is one of many mobile and online applications, portals and accessories local governments have launched recently to help citizens stay in touch.
Catawba County, for example, introduced its ŌĆ£My Catawba CountyŌĆØ mobile application last year that provides links to job openings, traffic accidents and the countyŌĆÖs ŌĆ£WhoŌĆÖs in JailŌĆØ website. The site also gives links to the countyŌĆÖs social media pages.
Catawba County Public Information Officer Dave Hardin said the countyŌĆÖs website activity has increased since the app went live.
ŌĆ£I think it gets us into a new audience and thatŌĆÖs whatŌĆÖs most important about it,ŌĆØ Hardin said. ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖre getting our information out to a broader demographic.ŌĆØ
Hardin said the county is constantly looking for new, convenient ways to connect to area residents.
ŌĆ£Our technology department has done a fantastic job keeping us on or ahead of that curve,ŌĆØ he said.
The county also launched a TV show last year entitled ŌĆ£Catawba Communities,ŌĆØ which highlights different events, news and storylines in the county as well as in its municipalities of Maiden, Catawba, Claremont, Newton and Conover.
Those municipalities are also becoming more tech-savvy.
All of Catawba CountyŌĆÖs major municipalities has a website that was recently upgraded or will be in future years.
Newton, for instance, has a new website that gives visitors access to web pages about the cityŌĆÖs history, special events, demographics, special forms and documents, city council agendas and minutes, public notices and contacts. The website has interactive videos and news stories about whatŌĆÖs going on in the city.
Newton Public Information Officer Gary Herman said the website re-design has drawn new visitors.
ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖve seen a dramatic spike in visitors and even unique visitors, which speaks volumes about the content, the quality and how user-friendly our new website is,ŌĆØ Herman said. ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs something weŌĆÖre proud of.ŌĆØ
The city does not currently have a mobile web portal, but Herman said the applications are something the city is looking at for the future.
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Members of the LSU community gathered on November 9 to hear Law Center professors discuss the constitutionality of detention, interrogation techniques, and trial of terrorism suspects. The symposium was held in conjunction with Alumni Reunion Weekend at the Law Center.
The free symposium, titled Presidential Power and Terrorism: Detention, Interrogation and Trial, featured Law Professors John Baker, Ed Richards, and John Devlin. The trio discussed the legal issues posed by detention, interrogation, and trial of terrorist suspects and how these challenge our common understanding of the rule of law.
The terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001 had profound consequences for the U.S. legal system, according to the presenters. After 9/11, these trends were suddenly reversed. Many young middle-Eastern men legally in the U.S. were seized and interrogated based on their religious status. Prisoners were captured in Iraq and Afghanistan in a conflict that did not fit the traditional definition of war recognized by the Genève Convention. The U.S. has been faced with issues regarding the legal and moral conditions for their confinement, interrogation, and trial.
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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found that a man's interest in female faces and bodies varies depending on whether he is interested in a short-term or long-term relationship. The researchers speculate that a woman's body provides hints about her current state of fertility, while her face indicates her long-term value as a mate.
Women, by contrast, didn't change their preferences according to the kind of relationship they were seeking.
In the study, Jaime Confer, a psychology graduate student, and colleagues recruited 375 college students who were told they could look at images of people described as possible short-term or long-term mates. The participants then got to choose whether they wanted to see a face or a body, but not both.
A quarter of men looked at bodies, not faces, when they were told a potential partner would be for the long term, while they did so 51 percent of the time when told the woman was a potential short-term partner, according to a university news release.
"Men's priorities shift depending on what they want in a mate, with facial features taking on more importance when a long-term relationship is the goal," Confer said in a university news release.
The study findings are published in the September issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.
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Jonah Barnett, a young boy from this small town in Georgia has become the inspiration for a runner headed to the 14th annual St. Jude Country Music Marathon & 1/2 Marathon presented by Nissan, which takes place on Saturday, April 27. Jonah, who was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor as a toddler, has motivated Eastman resident Kelly Burch to train for and complete her first marathon, a 26.2-mile endurance race she compares to Jonah's medical trials.
"I pray for him every mile," Burch said, "and I am becoming a better person because of Jonah."
Jonah, who is now 11, and his family moved from Eastman to Covington to be near St. Jude Children's Hospital where he is treated. Burch grew up with his parents – played softball in high school with his mom – and the families have always been close. Over the years, the Barnett family has helped raise funds for St. Jude's, which conducts important research to help critically ill children, and never charges its patients for care.
"Jonah and his family have always been an inspiration to everyone in town," Burch said. "Even now, while he's in a wheelchair most of the time and has trouble breathing, he is still a ray of sunshine for everyone who meets him."
Burch began distance running after losing 55 pounds. That first year she ran a 5K every month, then followed up with half marathons the next year.
This year she trained for the full marathon in Nashville as part of the St. Jude Heroes, a team of runners from around the country who raise funds to support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
"I've become a lifelong runner now," Burch said. "I've gotten to the point where I really enjoy it. Even if it's hard, I make myself run. And I keep raising the bar so it's always a challenge."
"I try to run to be appreciative of what I have. I do it for people like Jonah, who can't run," she said.
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12/05/2012, 06:15 PM | #1 (permalink) |
Well, the city of New York is having a competition to "reinvent the payphone." I've joined a project on the collab site they posted and one of the goals is to have "an intuitive interface for persons of multiple languages and / or disabilities." In addition, the creator of the project wants to open source it.
Personally, I thought Open webOS would be great for a touchscreen payphone design. Just get a few apps to run on a larger display, and voila! I mean, it's open sourced already and intuitive. It'd save us work from creating an entirely new UI and whatnot. And it wouldn't be all of webOS, obviously, for there would be no need for that. Only a few apps and Synergy connectors. Side note: since we would like to support multiple languages, I think Chinese would be a great addition (since Spanish, French, German, and Italian are already supported). "I think we would obviously like to add support for Chinese (and other languages) to the Open webOS builds. I believe the issue had to do with the lack of open source fonts (and, of course, time to test, package, deploy). This is a great area for the Open webOS community to help out." Anyhow, even without Chinese, I think this would be an interesting way to get webOS to the masses. At least the masses that would use a payphone 2.0. Any thoughts? Also, if you'd like to help out, feel free to join the project above!
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In this day and age, when almost everyone has a cell phone, a pay-phone s only good for reporting a crime or an emergency when your own phone is dead or unavailable. For these purposes, the best thing is to have a very spartan and reliable, mostly analog (as opposed to digital) device that can survive floods, power surges and withstand vandalism.
There's no need for multiple languages when the same old rotary or keypad phone has been around for decades in every country. Sorry to deflate anyone's hopes or expectations. But NYC should first vote their soda and tobacco naz*s out of office before trying to reinvent the wheel. Just a thought. |
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Reminds me of the payphones in Chinese airports. Those things run Windows and have a web browser and email client in addition to the phone. I think they're rather ugly and slow, so let's not go that way.
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As for the OP, the idea is nice... Not sure how designing the hardware would be tho |
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Any OS that can harbor malware is a bad idea, unless you are the Chinese Politburo, looking to spy on anyone and everyone. And then, outside of a well lit airport, anything with a screen will get broken in a matter of days. Hey, can you hand me that crowbar? I think i'm out of bullets |
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Any OS can "harbor malware"... so stop the **** talk. :-p
Instead of a pay phone 2.0 it would make much more sense to have micro-USB-Poweroutlets that you can rent like 15min charging for your smartphone or tablet on the go for a few bucks. That would be great. |
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Let's be positive about this opportunity!.
I was going to suggest a few things like tourist information and wireless hotspot, but following the OP's link, these obvious things have already been put forward. You may need a charging station if your battery is flat (and you could use the payphone while waiting), but it might be a bit of a wait... @Brandon: I applaud your enthusiasm. If the result is some kind of multi use kiosk, then webOS would be a great choice. I believe there is a large corporation with some interest in this technology. They are in fact, rumoured to not only be developing a version for smart televisions, but also a kiosk version that could cut you the keys to the city... If the project goes anywhere, they might want to help you out. Hmmm... government contract? Free showcase for their currently zombie OS? Why not? And I would think that the users here would want there favourite OS to gain a bit more traction - much better than a chinese windows phone! All the best! P.S. Wouldn't it be funny if HP's first successful phone was a large metal box screwed to the wall? Last edited by Preemptive; 12/06/2012 at 09:57 AM. Reason: I can't shut up |
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The Key Kiosk (Keyosk???) is a start up company. I too think webOS would be a natural for this type of use if handled correctly. I think the biggest obstacle would be security of information. It MUST be set to wipe all billing info at the local terminal after each session. Otherwise hackers will have a field day with a one stop shopping outlet for Credit and Debit Card information in bulk.
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So my point still holds. And now get this, a "smart" payphone can be programmed by a government employee to "eat" your money every once in a while, without any visible physical modification. Not so for an analog phone, which has to be messed with before you'll see it losing quarters at a rate above "pure chance". I'm still very skeptical about having a "smart" payphone on every other street corner. Maybe what they want is an info booth with phone functionality tacked on? And placed in all of the touristy areas? That i can understand, but that's an info booth first and phone second, and should be almost free to use, otherwise the tourists will not bother. |
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Yeah... info booth makes more sense for me, too... especially for tourists that usually don't have a dataplan in foreign countries (very expensive for EU people to use mobile data in US ).
I think webOS is quite good for an info both. Even if you get synergy right you can temporarily download contact infos and stuff from the cloud and let people send e-mail (or any other messages) to their people... of course you would need to be trustworthy as in the user can be sure that the credentials will never be saved. |
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Horrific Colorado shooting reminds that life is preciousThe China Post news staff July 23, 2012, 11:31 am TWN A 24-year-old man in full ballistic gear and a gas mask walked to the front of a Colorado movie theater during a midnight screening of the movie "The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20 and opened fire, killing 12 and injuring dozens more.
The shooter reportedly called himself "The Joker" after the nemesis of Batman and apparently had booby-trapped his home, which took the police more than a day to enter. According to the authorities, the shooter legally acquired the four fire arms used in the rampage (including an AK-type rifle) and bought some 6,000 rounds of ammunition months before the attack. The cruel attack, the most deadly in recent U.S. history, has triggered debates over the impact of violent movies and the thorny issues of gun control in the United States. On Friday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a gun control advocate, called on U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to give more details on their views on gun control. "Maybe it's time that the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they are going to do about it, because this is obviously a problem across the country," he said. On the other end of the gun issue spectrum, Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas said after the shooting that the violence could have been lessened if more people in that movie theater had carried weapons of their own. Some commentators, meanwhile, pointed out the difficult situation facing Obama and Romney, who have both largely avoided the hot button gun issues, which have become hard to tackle during presidential elections due to powerful gun rights lobby groups such as the National Rifle Association. The shooter reportedly left the theater about 20 minutes into the movie, went back to his car parked outside to put on his gear and arm himself, re-entered the theater from the front exit and said something to the effect of "I am the Joker" before throwing canisters of tear gas and opening fire on the moviegoers.


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A very special "country house " hotel, incomparable Etna views. Wow! Ray & Annie love "the best firework display ever". They adore Giuseppe's "slow tourism " (even though he's the most hyperactive person they know!). Alison wonders who needs a sea-view, when you can have a volcano! The Villa Sonia is magical.
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NEW YORK, NY, November 30, 2011 – The growth and potential of internet connected televisions has led advertising, marketing and entertainment executives to form a new global industry organization – the Connected Television Marketing Association (CTVMA) – with the goal of educating the industry on the commercial opportunities of connected TV platforms.
Noting that Internet connected televisions, from brands such as Samsung, Sony and LG, are predicted to make up to 90% of the global TV market by 2014, with sales reaching 123 million, the CTVMA believes that Connected TV marketing initiatives will follow.
"Connected TV's will enable marketers around the world to align their spending on video-based advertising across channels and to leverage the highly targeted opportunities that will become more available," said Doug Scott, Honorary U.S. Chair of the CTVMA, President of Ogilvy Entertainment. "Ogilvy is committed to the development of advertising and original brand funded programming on Connected TV platforms to enable a direct dialog between consumers and brands."
Connected TVs offer brands the chance to connect their offline spend with the rapidly growing online content market, with TV applications or targeted ad campaigns served by ad networks across electronic program guides. With 85% of marketers interested in advertising on internet-connected TVs, the http://www.ctvma.org been set up to inform and educate the advertising, media and entertainment sector on the commercial opportunities of Connected TV platforms.
Zachary Weiner, Co-Founder and President North America of the Connected TV Marketing Association said, "The challenges that a platform this disruptive can bring about are significant. That said, there is also amazing potential. Having an organizational and educational body to provide oversight and aid can help to realize the full power and potential of Connected Television."
At a launch event in Australia, James Grant Hay, Founder and President Asia-Pacific of the Connected TV Marketing Association said, "The CTVMA is being launched today to address these issues currently being faced, by not only advertisers, broadcasters and rights holders alike but, by the TV set makers themselves. As TV platforms are likely to compete with broadcasters to buy program content from rights holders and serve advertising against it."
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Sailing downwind can require more attention and caution to avoid the accidental gybe you describe from occurring.. however, while sailing upwind relies on sailshape and trim for lift and drive, downwind you're primarily looking to create maximum drag.. this means making your sails as "big" to the breeze as possible. That means main sheet and boom fully out, and the jib "winged" out (with a whisker pole if you have it).
This can be uncomfortable esp in sloppy conditions, but it will be fast in a breeze. You do need to pay attention and avoid slewing the boat into a gybe.
Alternatively you can set yourself up on a broad reach (wind coming over the quarter) and gybe back and forth to get downwind much as you tack back and forth to get upwind. You'll sail more distance but won't be so close to an accidental gybe, you'll have a little more apparent wind and the boat will "feel" better. It just may take you a bit longer to get there (or not, depending on wind strength, sailing angles and the type of boat you're on)
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