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Parker's General Store in Richmond, Indiana, is a rare find: a place where you can buy nuts and bolts, a root beer float, and an Italian sausage sandwich smothered with peppers and onions. Rick and Kathy Parker recently blended their former hardware business with Mama Mitrione's, a deli and market named in honor of Rick's grandmother. The unique result is an old-fashioned mercantile store with a distinctive Italian accent. Located in Richmond's Historic Depot District, Parker's General Store is just across the street from the train station. You can spend hours browsing for everything from claw hammers to clothes to penny candies, and the store even boasts an authentic 1940s soda fountain where you can treat yourself to a milkshake or float. If you have the Wayne County Chocolate Trail passport, available at the Richmond Visitor Center on Old National Road, the fountain will dip you a free scoop of locally made Smith Dairy chocolate ice cream. The ice cream reminded us of exactly of the rich and creamy ice cream we grew up eating. But we dare you to leave without eating something from Maria Mitrione's, a part of the store where the deli case and hot bar offer a veritable festa of Italian meats, cheese, pasta dishes and desserts. Mangia!


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The 5th Bellarmine-Jefferson Open Race
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Sunday, June 23, 2013 from 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PDT)
On June 23, 2013, a marathon relay will make a return to Griffith Park. Are you ready? Grab four of your closest friends, your baton and run 26.2 miles on a scenic course in the heart of Griffith Park. This race will showcase various wildlife, breathtaking views of Downtown Los Angeles, the Observatory and even Water Tank 113! Okay, so Tank 113 is not that breathtaking. Nevertheless, the sights along the way make this a one-of-a-kind race you wouldn't want to miss. The top finishing teams will receive money prizes. Division winners will receive awards. Proceeds from the race will go to benefit organizations that support Griffith Park. Teams are encouraged to register soon as the race is expected to sell out.
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Just got it. So far not bad, the main complaint everyone has is the game won't accept the physical models of your character from other games. You get to start with the levels you had in ME 2 but the faces won't import. Which annoys me as i had a great look for my renegade shep.
UPdate: turns out half of what Bioware promised isn't in the game, the endings make no sense and don't even offer closure. The game is half as long as mass effect 2. THe bioware forum is full of boycotts and even Forbes magazine is calling bioware out for the poor quality of the game.


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BREMER COUNTY, Iowa - Authorities have left the rural Bremer County park were bodies believed to be Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins were found last week.
And officials have concluded the autopsies of the remains, although the results aren't finalized.
Hunters found the bodies at 7 Bridge Wildlife Area on Wednesday, concluding the search for the two cousins who were last seen riding their bikes in Evansdale.
Officers with Evansdale police, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, FBI, Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Natural Resources and Black Hawk and Bremer county sheriff's offices blocked off the former county park while they processed the scene and gathered evidence for three days.
They left late Friday, and Capt. Rick Abben with the Black Hawk sheriff's office said the investigation is continuing.
"The evidence that was taken out there and so forth, it's all got to be processed," Abben said.
The Iowa Medical Examiner's Office in Ankeny completed the autopsies of the remains on Friday, according to Dr. Dennis Klein. He said the results remain pending the outcome of further tests.
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My little one is turning 3 soon too and is super excited for her birthday party, so we've been having pretend birthday parties as well! and She LOVES playdoh so this post is Awesome and Super timely!!! :) :) We'll do this tonight for sure!! :) :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Ky, can't wait to hear how it turned out. Thanks for the kind comments!Delete
Your daughters are precious! My grandson just turned 3 - so cute because he spent the day singing Happy Birthday to himself! Love this age. Have fun and thanks for all of your wonderful ideas. ReneeReplyDeleteReplies
Birthdays are such a big deal at that age aren't they?Delete
We love playing birthdays with play dough too :) Especially lately, with Miss almost-3's birthday coming up. I love your blog, it's so colourful and has so many great ideas.ReplyDeleteReplies
Wow, Kylie, thanks for the kind words. You totally made my day!Delete
now that is the way I love to see play dough. Great idea :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Alexis! The kids love cupcakes so it seemed like a natural.Delete
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Looks delicious. . . and fun too! I just pinned it to try with my own kids.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Gorgeous idea! My girls are 6 and 9 and they will LOVE doing this.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Oh yes, my daughter ADORES playing birthday cakes with playdough. It makes her so happy!ReplyDelete
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Fun! We actually just did play doh cupcakes too. I love the thought of making a birthday party out of it.ReplyDelete
That looks like a lot of fun! My lil guy is greatly into play dough dough these days.ReplyDelete
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Love this. I'll definitely do this for my son's 3rd birthday next year. Pinned it.ReplyDelete
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Recently I had a dream in which I asked Hemingway and four other literary luminaries to write some JavaScript for me; specifically a function that returned a fibonacci series of a given length. Interestingly each author chose to solve the problem in a different way. They did pretty well actually - as far as I can tell every solution works as advertised (yes, even Andre Breton's). Here's what I got:
Ernest Hemingway
function fibonacci(size) { var first = 0, second = 1, next, count = 2, result = [first, second]; if(size < 2) return "the request was made but it was not good" while(count++ < size) { next = first + second; first = second; second = next; result.push(next); } return result; }
William Shakespeare
function theSeriesOfFIBONACCI(theSize) { //a CALCKULATION in two acts. //employ'ng the humourous logick of JAVA-SCRIPTE //Dramatis Personae var theResult; //an ARRAY to contain THE NUMBERS var theCounter; //a NUMBER, serv'nt to the FOR LOOP //ACT I: in which a ZERO is added for INITIATION //[ENTER: theResult] //Upon the noble list bestow a zero var theResult = [0]; //ACT II: a LOOP in which the final TWO NUMBERS are QUEREED and SUMM'D //[ENTER: theCounter] //Commence at one and venture o'er the numbers for (theCounter = 1; theCounter < theSize; theCounter++) { //By divination set adjoining members theResult[theCounter] = (theResult[theCounter-1]||1) + theResult[Math.max(0, theCounter-2)]; } //'Tis done, and here's the answer. return theResult; //[Exuent] }
Andre Breton
function Colette(umbrella) { var staircase = 0, galleons = 0, brigantines = 1, armada = [galleons, brigantines], bassoon; Array.prototype.embrace = [].push; while(2 + staircase++ < umbrella) { bassoon = galleons + brigantines; armada.embrace(brigantines = (galleons = brigantines, bassoon)); } return armada; }
Roberto Bolano
function LeonardoPisanoBigollo(l) { if(l < 0) { return "I'd prefer not to respond. (Although several replies occur to me)" } /**/ //Everything is getting complicated. for (var i=2,r=[0,1].slice(0,l);i<l;r.push(r[i-1]+r[i-2]),i++) /**/ //Here are some other mathematicians. Mostly it's just nonsense. rationalTheorists = ["Archimedes of Syracuse", "Pierre de Fermat (such margins, boys!)", "Srinivasa Ramanujan", "Rene Descartes", "Leonhard Euler", "Carl Gauss", "Johann Bernoulli", "Jacob Bernoulli", "Aryabhata", "Brahmagupta", "Bhaskara II", "Nilakantha Somayaji", "Omar Khayyám", "Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī", "Bernhard Riemann", "Gottfried Leibniz", "Andrey Kolmogorov", "Euclid of Alexandria", "Jules Henri Poincaré", "Srinivasa Ramanujan", "Alexander Grothendieck (who could forget?)", "David Hilbert", "Alan Turing", "von Neumann", "Kurt Gödel", "Joseph-Louis Lagrange", "Georg Cantor", "William Rowan Hamilton", "Carl Jacobi", "Évariste Galois", "Nikolay Lobachevsky", "Rene Descartes", "Joseph Fourier", "Pierre-Simon Laplace", "Alonzo Church", "Nikolay Bogolyubov"] /**/ //I didn't understand any of this, but here it is anyway. return r /**/ //Nothing happens here and if it does I'd rather not talk about it. }
Charles Dickens
function mrFibbowicksNumbers(enormity) { var assortment = [0,1,1], tally = 3, artfulRatio = 1.61803; while(tally++ < enormity) { //here is an exceedingly clever device assortment.push(Math.round(assortment[tally-2] * artfulRatio)); } //should there be an overabundance of elements, a remedy need be applied return assortment.slice(0, enormity); }
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Linda Tschudi came before the Port St. Joe City Commission last week with a straightforward request.
Ensure that commissioners focus on the entire city, not just the south, not just the north.
Tschudi was there to express frustration with two projects, or lack of progress on such projects.
One is for streetlights and sidewalks on Dr. David Langston Drive, a cause dear to Tschudi's heart as the late Langston was her brother.
As was explained to Tschudi, the city and the Port St. Joe Redevelopment Agency are applying for grants – one it was said during last week's meeting was near approval – to put in sidelights.
The Florida Department of Transportation has sidewalks on Langston Drive – the lone connector of the north and south neighborhoods once divided by railroad tracks – among projects on its district five-year plan, though Clay Smallwood with Preble Rish Engineers said it would be at least two years before funding was available.
The other target of Tschudi's dismay was the ongoing delay on installation of water and sewer pipes in the neighborhood of North Port St. Joe.
"My water is chocolate brown," she said. "What about our tax money? What do we get for our tax money? We can only take so much."
City commissioners carved out the area of North Port St. Joe to the first phase of water pipe replacement – the city is targeting some 20 miles of aged pipes in stages – because the project in that area likely qualified for a Community Development Block Grant due to a variety of factors.
That part of the first phase was funded by CDBG – the city has a loan/grant package from the State Revolving Fund for the majority of the work – and the city has applied in the next CDBG cycle to complete the replacement of pipes in North Port St. Joe.
In addition, due to the duplication of efforts involved, the pipe replacement project was linked to another grant-funded project – this by the USDA – to replace sidewalks along Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd.
And a series of delays – governmental red tape with two agencies involved, the shutdown of the federal government, contracting bids that came in originally over grant amounts – have led to the project being moved back again and again.
Commissioner Bo Patterson had repeatedly reflected the sentiments of constituents by expressing frustration with the lack of progress, even a start date for construction, for the water line replacement.
What was originally supposed to be accomplished in the summer was pushed back to November and now will likely not begin before the first of the year.
The delays have come while much of the city residential proper on the south side has had pipes replaced as commissioners and staff express that the water and solving the issues are priority one.
"Our streets are caving in and our water is bad," Tschudi said. "Let's be fair and equal to everybody. Let's beautify the whole city.
"We are always going to be separate because of this north and south thinking."
Mayor Mel Magidson said commissioners had hoped that pipe replacement might alleviate much of the issues with discolored water, which studies indicate is a combination of iron and manganese in the distribution system.
"We don't have our hands around this problem," Magidson said.
Staff from the city and contractor CDM Smith, which designed the city's new surface water plant, are waiting on the final round of preliminary testing by Virginia Tech University to determine if there is a short-term solution to discoloration issues.
Once that phase of testing is complete, commissioners expect to hold a workshop with David Kozan of CDM Smith to discuss potential tweaks to the treatment of water in the system.
Virginia Tech is in the midst of a broader pilot study of the distribution system.
On another front Larry McClamma, supervisor at the water plant, said that after a thorough review of various guides to the systems that operate the plant, staff found it was possibly injecting a certain chemical in the wrong place in the process, impacting manganese levels.
He said staff would change injection sites this week with hopes of seeing some impact on water color.
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DESTIN — Kathi McGowan was not happy when her husband decided to buy a motel in town.
"I thought I died and went to hell," she deadpanned.
After years of family vacations in Destin, Bob McGowan decided to buy the small motel. His wife hadn't even seen it before she arrived.
"He said, 'If I can sell our home in Iowa, would you agree to move down there and live?' " she recalled.
It was the early 1980s and the local economy was down, McGowan said. By answering yes she thought she was calling his bluff. But he sold the house and set his eyes on a quaint motel on Pompano Street.
"I was 48. We had a really nice house and I belonged to every local organization," McGowan said in her home that doubles as the office at the Old Pier Motel. "The hardest part was leaving my mother, who was in a nursing home. But it was Bob's turn. He moved to Iowa for me."
With their kids grown and scattered across the country, they headed south.
The motel wasn't exactly a paradise.
"It looked like Bates Motel," said McGowan's daughter, Molly Tietgen. "There wasn't even a No. 3 unit. It just went, 1, 2, 4, 5."
"I called my husband Norman," added McGowan, referring to the Norman Bates character in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho."
The motel had gold cement walls and carpet. The units were worse, Tietgen said.
Bob named the motel after the Old Crystal Beach Pier, which was destroyed by Hurricane Eloise in 1975. The pilings still jut out of the sand just across the street.
Tietgen and her husband, Steve, moved from Orlando to Destin in 1997 and bought a home on Tarpon Street. Bob McGowan died a year later.
But his wife never abandoned the motel, despite the hurricanes over the years.
"Both Hurricane Opal and Ivan took us out, but I'm not a quitter," McGowan said. "Now, we have hurricane season down to a science."
At 75 years old, McGowan still manages the motel, saying, "You can only play bingo for so long."
After her father passed away, Tietgen signed on to help her mother by cleaning the units and managing the books.
"I couldn't do it without Molly," McGowan said.
As always, service is still the key to running the motel.
"People come here as renters and leave as friends," she said. "If they need a cup of sugar, I got it. We're like family."
Outside under the carport are plenty of beach chairs and umbrellas for renters to use.
"They can use everything but the lawn mower and the Cadillac," McGowan said.
Many of the Old Pier renters visit every year. Some even send Christmas cards.
"It's nice to see the families grow, but it makes me feel old," McGowan said. "They call me Gram."
She's not particularly fond of the spring break crowd. McGowan says her ideal renter is "over 35 and lives with their mother."
She does have a few spring break stories but her favorites are those with happy endings, like a few weeks ago.
"The guy wanted to propose to his girlfriend but didn't know where to do it, so I suggested the Henderson Beach Park," she said. "He proposed and emailed back saying they would be lifelong Old Pier guests."


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- bar , notts, 04/3/2013 10:09
If Terry wishes to end his life that is entirely a matter for him alone. I just wish he would stop banging on about it in public - we are not interested and we are very concerned that it might, if it has not done so already, get the Government thinking about euthanasia, probably compulsory, for everyone else - incurably ill, NHS patients needing treatment, pensioners etc.
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The long and unhappy saga of the Local Sustainability Fund
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Following a visit to the theatre Martin Farrell ponders how much information trustees need to have.
'Mummy what's happening?' The child's incredulous voice filled the vast dark theatre space. All we could see were coloured shapes of light moving gracefully in the blackness, apparently of their own volition. The child had spoken for everyone.
Only when the final curtain went up, was the illusion revealed by actors clothed in black who had disappeared in the darkness, leaving visible only the balls of light they were carrying.
We spend much of our time not knowing what's going on behind the scenes. We know we have engaged skilled performers who are working well together and are content to focus on the outcomes of their efforts. Quite right too.
So far so good – except that in the theatre, I was not responsible for the quality of the production. But around the board table I am – and that can make me nervous. And that nervousness can drive me to make too many demands for information to reassure myself that everything is working well.
One of the case studies at this year's Trustee Exchange conference focused on a well-run charity in which a new and keen trustee was asking for ever more information, placing an increasing burden on senior staff. This culminated in strongly-worded letters flying about and upset all round. Oh dear.
So when is enough information enough? The very helpful and authoritative The rights of charity trustees to information concerning their charity paper by the Charity Law Association lays out the law on the matter – which broadly is that trustees have the right to receive the information which they reasonably need to govern the organisation. But (and this is an important 'but') this right is not absolute. It is constrained in several ways:
If you are so inclined you can study the detail in the full paper. While you do so, have in mind some good old-fashioned common sense.
The child was moved to wonder at what she saw. Let us too allow ourselves to be so moved – and only ask for information about what's going on behind the scenes when we're sure we really need it.
Martin Farrell is the chairman of Read International
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I'd very much agree with these well judged comments. In particular, we find that many trustees can find it difficult not to stray into operational matters, and that too much information can tempt them further down this road.
On the other hand, engaged trustees with a holistic understanding of their charity, are crucial for good governance. Perhaps the way to go is exploring a more creative range of ways for trustees to learn about their charity and its performance, perhaps including the occasional away day or event which put trustees in direct contact with the charity's work....
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Matt Lowton returns to the side in place of Eric Lichaj, Andreas Weimann replaces Marc Albrighton, Gabby Agbonlahor comes in for Jordan Bowery and Christian Benteke returns in place of Darren Bent.
Ciaran Clark is skipper for the clash.
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Dabney S. Lancaster Community College is committed to meeting the need for well-trained employees in the criminal justice field. Carefully chosen content-specific courses are balanced with appropriate general education course requirements.
Students may select from a variety of options at the certificate and associate degree level. Students who wish to continue on to earn a bachelors degree may wish to discuss their plans with an academic advisor or the program head when they are selecting the courses in which to enroll each semester.
Detailed descriptions of courses in the ADJ programs may be found in the DSLCC Catalog and Student Handbook.
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To get back to the car for just one second, it's being built as a dual-purpose vehicle built to carve the tightest canyon corners and cruise with the top down. When deciding what to build next, the car's owner, who asked not to be mentioned until the car is completed, already has an 11-second street-strip car, so he definitely didn't need another one of those. No, this time he's building a true all-in-one machine. Fitted with a transplanted '84 Corvette chassis- both front and rear-and some wide-by-huge rolling stock with powerful Baer binders to slow it down, the drop-top F-Body would need some serious motivation to live up to its pre-fabricated reputation. Brothers Jim and Jeff Lirones, themselves NHRA Super Gas racers and canyon carvers who've set up shop in Tujunga, California, were called on to build a stout and reliable 406-cid small-block for this machine.
Rock SolidTo be able to assure the car's owner that his engine will never let him down, the Lirones brothers chose to build a completely new engine, instead of simply rebuilding a worn out old stocker. To that effect they started with an iron GMPP Bow-Tie block and bored the cylinders out to 4.155 inch. In went a 3.75-inch-stroke 4340-forged Cola crankshaft swinging 10.4:1 JE pistons on 5.7-inch Oliver steel rods. To give the Camaro road-course worthiness, Lirones also added a Canton road-racing pan and Melling high-volume oil system.
Up top the engine's owner was sure he wanted fuel injection but had no idea how much torque or horsepower would be needed to keep him carving the canyons with the best of them. So Lirones built what amounted to two different engines: one for max torque (490-plus lb-ft at 3,000 rpm) in case the car ended up a little on the heavy side and one for maximum power (475 hp at 5,600 rpm). Then, they thoroughly tested each combination on Westech's dyno before making the final decision on which engine to run in the car. It turns out that the car will be reasonably light, so the higher horsepower package won.
Since both motor combinations were going to be fuel injected, the selection of parts under the manifold was fairly straightforward. An off-the-shelf COMP Cams solid roller camshaft (PN CS-280HER-2/288HER-4) with a streetable 236/243 duration (at 0.050) and 0.552 lift and 112-degree lobe separation was used for both systems. For the torque series of dyno tests, Lirones installed an Arizona Speed & Marine TPI-style EFI system consisting of a modified long-runner intake manifold and a two-barrel throttle body.
To ensure an adequate air supply for engine, Lirones also installed a set of Air Flow Research 210cc CNC cylinder heads that they knew would help make this stroker a torque monster. This combo made big-block-style torque numbers even down where some big-blocks can't compete. How's 492 lb-ft of torque at only 3,000 rpm grab you? True, this combination peaked out fairly early with only 416 total hp at 5,000 rpm, but that much low-end torque would be enough to yank a locomotive off its tracks! And talk about towing power...if you've got a truck or very heavy street car, (4,000-plus lbs), this package would make it very fun to drive indeed.


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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Anaheim Ducks have got winning at home down to a science. It's picking up victories on the road that has given the club trouble lately.
The Ducks look to solve those road issues on Saturday night as they visit the San Jose Sharks in a battle for first place in the Pacific Division.
Anaheim is tied atop the division standings with San Jose, with both teams having notched 39 points on the season. The Ducks could be well ahead if not for an 8-7-2 road mark compared to a 10-0-1 record as the hosting club.
The Ducks remained the only team left in the NHL with a regulation defeat at home when they bested the Calgary Flames 5-2 on Friday night. Dustin Penner scored twice, while Andrew Cogliano and Corey Perry notched a goal and an assist each.
Sami Vatanen also scored and Frederik Anderson improved to 7-1-0 in eight games this season after making 19 saves. Saku Koivu had an assist in his return from a 15-game absence caused by a concussion.
"We want to get some confidence to take into next week because we've got some pretty stiff competition," said Penner. "We're going to need the team feeling as confident as possible."
Penner was referring to an upcoming four-game stretch that begins tonight. After taking on the Sharks, the Ducks return home to face the Los Angeles Kings, who are three points back of Anaheim in the division, on Tuesday before visiting Western Conference powerhouses Chicago and St. Louis on back-to-back nights starting on Friday.
Getting on track as the road club will be key. While the Ducks are off to their best home start in franchise history, they have lost five of their last six on the road.
Things don't get any easier tonight as the Sharks are looking to complete a five-game homestand perfect after besting the Blues 6-3 on Friday night. Brent Burns keyed his club's seventh victory in eight games with his first career hat trick.
Burns lit the lamp twice as part of a four-goal first period for San Jose and added a power-play goal in the third.
"We knew it was going to be a big game against these guys," said Burns. "Two teams that we both feel were at the top of our game, so it was big. It was pretty special."
Joe Thornton, Tommy Wingels and Tomas Hertl also scored in the victory while Antti Niemi stopped 21-of-24 shots he faced in net. Thornton and Joe Pavelski also had two assists, while Logan Couture notched three helpers.
San Jose improved to 9-1-2 as the hosting club this season and has won its past two at home versus Anaheim.
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Awsome! I'm loving it.
- Aug 8, 2006, 7:25:00 AM
"More Details..."? Does that imply that there was an earlier post with preliminary details?
Has there been any guidance on how NXT and RCX are supposed to be able to compete on a level playing field during the 2006 FLL Competition? With the advances in accuracy and new sensors, it would seem that NXT-based robots will have an advantage.
- Aug 8, 2006, 11:32:00 AM
some info on RCX / NXT
- Aug 8, 2006, 11:51:00 AM
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My $.02 on NXT vs RCX in FLL:
NXT teams that rely primarily on odometry for navigation should have an advantage over RCX odometry teams, due to increased rotation sensor resolution and servo motor control.
The 2006 FLL Challenge provides lots of opportunity for skilled teams that use landmark navigation because the mat has lines and other markings that contrast with the background and can be used for line-following and positioning via light sensors. However, the tests I've run comparing the NXT and RCX line-following capability show no advantage in performance for the NXT over the RCX when using NXT-G and the current firmware. I've tried creating an efficient line-following program with NBC, but was able to achieve only about the same performance as with NXT-G. I haven't tried RoboLab 2.9 yet (uses different firmware). FLL allows only NXT-G or RoboLab.
I'd like to hear what others have experienced with NXT line-following performance. Maybe someone knows how to take advantage of the NXT where I don't.
I would expect that less-skilled NXT teams will obtain better scores than less-skilled RCX teams because the NXT performs better in dead-reckoning navigation, but that expert NXT and RCX teams will score about the same, since the NXT and RCX seem to offer about the same landmark-navigation performance.
In the long run - post RCX - I think this is a good thing because we should see less-skilled teams do better score-wise than in the past. I hate to see teams getting scores of 10 or 20 or 30.
- Aug 8, 2006, 9:46:00 PM
If memory serves, RIS does not allow the creation of user defined variables. Using variables, I have created a line follower program for the RCX using NQC. I was not able to create such a program in RIS. I have been able to create such a program in NXT-G. Using the Tribot as my base, I have tested the program, and I believe the NXT line follower performs superior to the RCX. There are two significant reasons: first, as mentioned earlier, the built in rotation sensors; second, the NXT-G sensor calibration feature. The sensor calibration feature greatly simplifies the matter of adjusting for varying mat reflectivity and ambient lighting conditions. Click on my name to follow a link to a NXT-G line follower program.
- Aug 10, 2006, 3:09:00 AM
- Danny Diaz said...
This doesn't look official - have these been publicly released? If not, I would really hate to be Dave right now, someone is going to have a cow. It's one thing to be shown a mission mat in a closed-door session, it's another to take pictures and post them online when the missions aren't supposed to be released until this time next month!
- Aug 16, 2006, 4:32:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
I know some teams have received theirs... so it must be in the open.
- Aug 16, 2006, 4:38:00 AM
The FLL field kits ship in August. They come with a CD showing how to assemble each object. Teams may assemble the field objects and speculate about what the missions might be. In mid-September (Sept. 15 this year), FLL posts on the web instructions on where to place the objects on the field mat, and where to use DuoLock (similar to Velcro) to attach the objects to the mat. The missions are described, including the points earned for each mission. So teams could try some programming for having the robot interact with an object before Sept. 15, but they will not know if they guessed right about the actual mission instructions until after the challenge is announced.
I think the field kit is shipped early to make sure all registered teams get theirs before Sept. 15, and to give teams a chance to check for problems with the kit. Last year, I had a defective mat, and I was able to get a replacement before the challenge was announced.
My school district began classes on Aug. 10, so I have already had 2 FLL meetings with my team. The students have almost finished putting together all the field objects, and are eagerly speculating about how each works. I have one object that does not seem to work the way the students think it should. I know that questions like this will be answered by FLL after the challenge is announced in Sept., but I would really like to check with another team to see if their object acts the same as ours. Can you ask Dave a question for me?
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The Starkville Yellowjackets are taking momentum to Canton today for the Class 5A, Region 3 Tournameht.
Winners of four-straight games, the Jackets believe they are playing their best basketball of the season.
"The last couple of weeks we've been playing pretty well," SHS boys coach Greg Carter said. "Sometimes it doesn't always equate to a win, but we have been able to pull out some good wins.
"We have gotten better in the last couple of weeks. We talked about in January that once we got the football players in and had a whole team, we wanted to make some improvements. We've tinkered with different lineups and things and have finally gotten to the point where we've put it together a little bit."
The Jackets, who sport a 9-13 overall record, have wins against Neshoba Central, Noxubee County, Canton and Aberdeen in the last four outings.
Carter likes the effort his team has given all season long, but has noticed the defense and rebounding getting better.
"We're not very big, but we talk about all of them having to rebound even the smallest of the guards," Carter said. "It's about gang-rebounding and we are doing that real well. When we throw the ball inside, we're diving down with the guards. When they put it on the floor, we've been able to get some steals that way. We've been able to force teams into shooting jump shots and then we rebound. If you do that, you can win a lot of games."
Starkville faces Canton on its home floor in the first round of the region tournament at 7:30 p.m.
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A lot of conservative pundits said this health care summit was a trap for Republicans and that they shouldn't do it. I reserved my comments because I didn't think it was right to pontificate on an event that had not happened yet.
That said, I couldn't really watch the summit because I have to work to make a living for my
family government, so admittedly I'm going to go on the general sense that absolutely nothing got done because there were no sitings of Satan coming up to the earth's surface to find warmth.
One interesting moment came when Obama blasted Rep. Eric Cantor for piling on the Senates 2400 page bill in front of him, calling it in the linked Breitbart article (in red) a political stunt, which I thought was a bit premature on Obama's part...because the real stunt came when Cantor jumped off the top of the stack of paper and proceeded to give the summit a lesson in skydiving.
Then there was Pelosi claiming the reform would created 400,000 jobs almost immediately, but she appears to not know how many of those jobs will actually be for American business and how many will be for moving companies helping Americans high tail it out of here...
The only substantive thing I actually got out of all of this was that for those that kept score the Democrats got more than twice as much time to speak than the GOP....yet this in no way disrupted the bipartisan spirit of the summit because....
According the the Washington Times article linked above (in red...again) the Democrats spoke for 114 minutes, the GOP for 110 minutes, and Obama spoke for 119 minutes!!! Giving the Democrats a total of 233 minutes.
Hey! Remember when this understudy of a president said health care reform wasn't about him? Thats because theres not enough room in his ego for both health care and EVERYTHING....which incidentally includes health care, so he's telling the truth on a technicality....on that note lets check the scoreboard:
I know I know, how does Team Truth get two points?!? Keep in mind that in the video he said he was the president....and unfortunately, pending the emergence of a birth certificate, this too is true.
I guess if the deciding factor for you is how much more time the
Bolshevik-- liberals- progressives- Ahmadinejad panty hurlers - olympic curling rejects- Democrats got to speak then I guess it was a debacle for the GOP...but in reality I'm pretty sure this exercise in mental masturbation for Obama changes nothing in the PR war for universal health care.
Its been quite a while since I've posted something I've come across in the wild west of the blogosphere that caught my fancy.
This was sent to me by the fellas over at The Daily Zing, a conservative leaning humor blog. They actually do the same kind of stuff I do here, but this video takes a lot of extra time and effort I don't have because I have to go to a day job to pay my bills, the govnerments bills, and after I'm done doing that I pay the governments bills some more...not necessarily in that order either.
Its called Scandalous Politician...which to me is a title that is probably twice as long in word count than necessary.....but then again maybe its just trying to capture the spirit of redundancy that is government.
In any case, enjoy the video. Both sides get skewered, if you don't like seeing Republicans get theirs the video starts blasting the Dems around the halfway point and ends on that high note. Hope it gives you a little bit of a chuckle like it did for me.
In a rare moment of humor leveled by the GOP that didn't involve them lecturing the country about fiscal responsibility Senator Jim DeMint quipped that the record breaking snow all over the world would continue until Al Gore cried uncle.
It seems that liberals suffer from some strange form of munchausen by proxy where they constanly accuse conservatives of being fascist dictators bringing about the Fourth Reich any day now. Then when they campaign they openly cheer, like in 2008, for majorties that would make any opposition to their policies irrelevant and powerless....aka one-party rule...not to be confused with the iron grip of evil authoritarian dictatorship suffered under Bush before his
refusal to give up being president ending in a military coup peaceful transfer of power to Obama.
The moral of the story is if liberals accuse conservatives of being guilty of something, you can take it to the TARP inflated bank that those same liberals are WAY more guilty of whatever that something is.
For years now the "skeptics" of global warming have been branded as having "declared war on science" by people who have been colluding to "hide the decline" in global temperatures over the last decade. Now we get admissions that there has been no 'statistically significant' warming. for the last 15 years and the evidence that sea levels are rising due to global warming has been deemed unreliable.
These "scientists" are being discredited at a pace that would make President Obama's growing unpopularity get whiplash envy. More and more it is finally being realized that they are what us laymen have known them to be all along, political eco-priests who have declared an actual WAR on SCIENCE and have formed an unholy alliance with liberal policy makers to build up a public cult of global warming.
This cult has been stirring the public into a frenzy to believe that while the governments of the world can't do something simple, like not spend money it doesn't have, they can certainly control the temperature of the world with some magical golden thermostat they thought was first in Kyoto before they thought it was in Copenhagen.
Now, in spite of all this new evidence that the whole thing a is a fraud burried under a global blanket of snow the New York Times is now implying the skeptics are being opportunists, while others suggest this record breaking cold is actually part of the warming.
Look liberals, either the globe is warming or it isn't....but you don't get to play this game where the earth says "I'm a popsicle because I have a fever." That doesn't make sense!
If the earth is getting warmer then when I turn on the Vancouver 2010 Olympics I want to see Lindsey Vonn doing the slalom on grass in a bikini...thats a promise that shouldn't be made unless it can be kept damn it!
Seriously though, I can't be the only one who is wondering why Al Gore has all of a sudden made himself more scarce than an MSNBC viewer. Maybe he's snowed in and trapped inside his energy guzzling Nashville mansion.
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This is my haiku to say so, which is great because haiku's are short and to the point and I'm tired this false reputation I have that I'm some kind of motormouth gaffe factory. So I'm glad I finally get to say my piece in a way that is creative and artistic and really drives home the point that I'm not dum and werdy like my critics paint me. I am thoughtful, I do choose my words good carefully and this haiku says it perfectly...
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So Keith Olbermann...the Butthead to Chris Matthews's Beavis...came to a startling epiphany about the Tea Party on Monday during the "Special Comment." portion of his show. I wonder how this got designated special over the rest of the show, to me its a miracle he gets a chance to say anything with the number of viewers he has.
I'm actually reasonably sure more people prefer to watch Nigerians competing in olympic curling than watch Countdown
The video below runs a bit over 9 minutes...and isn't for the faint of heart, and by that I mean if you get a heart attack from laughing too much you should probably skip to the most relevant portion of why this post exists and go to about the 5:50 point, because thats where it gets really good.
When I told my wife about this video she managed, in one single solitary sentence, to rebut all 10 minutes of a rant that Olbermann probably spent his entire weekend writing when he was taking a break from looking at himself in the mirror. She didn't say anything groundbreaking that has never been realized before, but its brevity highlights a brilliance that contrasts how hard Keith had to work to be so stupid. She said:
"You can never simply disagree without being called a racist."
Its not about spending trillions of dollars we don't have, its not about socialist programs that have created inferior economies in the countries that institute them, its not about a health care system that even the leaders of Canada don't want for themselves (much less our own politicians), or about the fact that Obama its trying to channel Neville Chaimberlain in trying to "negotiate" with intractibly insane nuke seeking radical Mus-....ahhrm...."violent extremeists".
We just hate black people? Wow, for a long time now I thought I hated crappy leadership...what a revelation!
I could launch into the formidable list of black leaders who are conservative, or point out the fact that many Republicans/conservatives gave Obama a chance to prove himself over pulling the lever for McCain....or I can let Olbermann's idiocy, and my wife's brilliantly astute response speak for themselves.
That said, I wonder when MSNBC is going to start paying kickback money with their profits for all the free attention their shows get on sites like News Busters and YouTube.
For my part...you're welcome Keith, just doing what I can to let people know morons like you get television shows.
Its a double edged sword for them, if they were ever able to get rid of the conservative sites that blast them they lose their opposition, but they'd also lose about half of their viewership.
In this case for Olbermann what we don't know can't hurt him.
As for his question "where are they?" Maybe he needs to fire his optomotrist because his glasses are clearly not working properly for him. (Roll over glasses-less Keith to see what I mean)
Someone needs to tell Keith that the problem with trying to monologue people into submission is they can change the channel...
And as long as you continue to insult their intelligence they will continue to do so...Add a comment
Here are the latest additions to the 2010 Satire Headline Archive...
IRAN CONFESSES PURSUIT OF NUKES IS REALLY JUST AN EFFORT TO BEAT OUT SARAH PALIN FOR MEDIA ATTENTION" - February 10
NEW POLL FINDS DEMS IS EXPECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN WAR ON CHILDHOOD OBESITY FOR "OBVIOUS REASONS" - February 10
OBAMA SAYS HE WASN'T AWARE OF PALIN USING NOTES ON HAND UNTIL BEING FULLY BRIEFED BY HIS TELEPROMPTER - February 9
MSNBC TELEPROMPTERS BREAK DOWN, CUE CARD BOY OUT SICK, OLBERMAN FORGETS TO BLAST PALIN FOR HAND NOTES - February 9
DEMS REMAIN CRYPTIC ON REASON FEDERAL DEBT LIMIT NEEDS TO BE DOUBLED THE DAY AFTER SUPER BOWL - February 8
CANADA THANKS COLTS AS WAGER WITH OBAMA OVER SUPER BOWL WILL BRING HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS TRADE WITH U.S. - February 8
AFTER PICK OF COLTS TO WIN SUPER BOWL, OBAMA LAMENTS THAT IF FECES WERE LIKE GOLD HE'D BE KING MIDAS - February 8
OBAMA NOT ABLE TO FINISH STATEMENT WISHING HE COULD "HAND JOBS OUT" WHEN BARNEY FRANK SHOUTS "ME FIRST!" - February 5
NEW POLL SHOWS HALF OF THOSE WHO DISAPPROVE OF TEA PARTIES ARE DEMOCRATS, THE OTHER HALF IS OBAMA'S EGO - February 5
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO GO AFTER TOYOTA FOR BAD CARS BECAUSE ONLY VOTERS ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE MISTAKES - February 4
LAS VEGAS UNVEILS NEW SLOGAN: WHAT HAPPENS HERE IS MONEY WELL SPENT COMPARED TO OBAMA'S BUDGET - February 3
LAS VEGAS UNVEILS NEW SLOGAN: WHAT HAPPENS HERE IS MONEY WELL SPENT COMPARED TO OBAMA'S BUDGET - February 3
AFTER "NO SPENDING IN VEGAS" COMMENT, OBAMA PLEDGES NOT TO "BLOW MONEY ON BONUS PAY FOR TELEPROMPTERS" - February 3
CLIMATEGATE SCIENTISTS ADMIT SKEWED WARMING DATA MAY BE DUE TO MELTING ICE MAKING THEM SEXUALLY AROUSED - February 3
RAHM EMANUEL EXPLAINS SAYING "RETARDED" NOT MEANT TO DEGRADE, HE IS ACTUALLY STATING WHAT HE ASPIRES TO BE - February 1
DNC CONSIDERS HOLDING 2012 CONVENTION IN FOREIGN NATION, AWAITS PERMISSION FROM CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO - February 1
$3.8 TRILLION DEFICIT HIKING BUDGET HAS GOP CONCERNED OBAMA HAS ONE OF TOYOTA'S STICKY GAS PEDALS - February 1
AS HUGO CHAVEZ APPLAUDS OBAMA PROPOSAL TO END PARTISAN RANCOR IN DC GOP REFUSES VOTE TO DISBAND ITSELF - January 29
HAZMAT TEAM CLEARS BOTOX SPILL FROM ACCUPUNTURE FACILITY AFTER PROCEDURE IS APPLIED TO PELOSI'S FACE - January 29
OBAMA EXPERIENCES SEVERE NECK PAIN AFTER REBUKE OF SUPREME COURT, CAN NO LONGER SUPPORT WEIGHT OF HEAD - January 28
CRITICS HAIL OBAMA'S FIRST STATE OF THE UNION AS THE FEEL GOOD COMEDY EVENT OF THE 2010 CAMPAIGN SEASON - January 28
OBAMA'S TELEPROMPTER BREAKS DOWN AT STATE OF THE UNION PREP, KEEPS FLASHING "I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE" - January 27
WANTING A STATE OF THE UNION ABOUT BETTER TIMES OBAMA WARNS SPEECHWRITERS TO NOT PLAGIARIZE GEORGE W BUSH - January 27
BARNEY FRANK INFORMS BIDEN THE MASSACHUSETTS MANDATE WITH SCOTT BROWN WAS ABOUT VOTING, NOT ROMANCE - January 26
OBAMA SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER MAKING APPROVAL RATINGS WORK LIKE GOLF SCORES, TOUTS RISING POPULARITY - January 26Add a comment
Hey! Did you know that Iran gave the world a nuclear middle finger yesterday!!! Now that we got that meaningless crap out of the way....lets talk about a more serious mainstream media headline...
Now that liberals are in full control of the country it appears that we now live in a world where a 40 minute speech guided by this
Is the EXACT SAME THING as this
and this
and this
and this
Somehow, in some bizarro world where Rosie O'donnell is a difficult dodgeball target and Rachel Maddow has a sex change operation so his name actually makes sense....Sarah Palin's 5 words written on her hand in ink to outline a 40 minute speech is tantamount to hypocrisy when criticizing Obama for using a machine that spoon feeds him like the political baby he is 100% of the words in his speeches.
Liberals, I forget, how dumb is Sarah Palin again?
The way the media has been treating this you would think they found some sort of smoking gun, which proves they wouldn't know a smoking gun if it shot them in the ass.
I know, I know....ALL politicians use teleprompters. This is true, but do they all RELY on them as heavily as Obama does?
Probably not....right?
I'm glad Obama likes to honor the Marine Corpse, the corpse does do fine work.
I'm sorry, did we have to hear for ONLY 8 years about how that little Hitler wearing a George W. Bush mask that came before Obama couldn't say "nuclear" correctly?
I know liberals have wet dreams about how the military is populated with a bunch of dumb uneducated rednecks who couldn't spell "gun" better than they can shoot one, but they know how to properly say they belong to the marine corps (which is to be read as "CORE" for the liberal readers and certain pinko presidents).
Maybe its just me, but I think they probably deserve a commander-in-chief that can do the same, because "what would Biden do" is not a good game to play when you're stuck on a word in which you should've been given a heads up.
May I suggest writing a reminder on your hand, Mr. President?Add a comment
Here is the latest addition to the Poetry section. Starting here I'm going to try something new where I'm going to try to design the poem more....I kind of did it once before, here is an example, and I kind of already do it with the way I structure my stanzas(if you can call them that, hehe), font sizes, and colors, etc...
I don't know...we'll see....
All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?"
-Benjamin Franklin at the Constitutional Convention
Oh of course not!
He favors equally
The philosophy
Of the political party
That "progressive"ly moves
Away from His light
And derides His way
As "not necessarily" right
So how dare the
Right write
The story that
God only blesses those
Who bother to give Him glory?
What a cynic I am!
God doesn't care
If taxpayer fare
Goes to Tom Dick and Harry
Who CHOOSE to gay marry
At some abortion clinic?
If only we teach these values
to our kids
I'm the Democratic Party
and I approve this message
America's problems aren't political
It is literally
Biblically becoming
To Morality
It's time for believers
To take the Stand
And not be afraid
To bring up the One who made
us, and
God provides a footstool
To give us that lift
As we pull
Up and out
Of the darkness mess
brought on by those who
shut off The Light
and then crown themselves
But beware of asserting
A certain
moral authoriity that
will use Him
As a marketing tool
Least of all Him
who can tell the difference
Yes He can
My friends
In the end
God may indeed
not be Republican
But it is a fact
He's definitely no Democrat
As always this can be found in the Poetry Section. This was inspired by the Toyota recalls.
Our president has
Problems with his fiscal brakes
Recall Obama
I know its a week late, but I'm going to rant about the state of the union....its not like I'm commenting on the war in Afghanistan, in which case this post would've been made 2 months and 3 weeks from now.
Anyway, last week amateur hour went prime time as what passes for a president these days gave his first State of the Union address. I'm guessing the starting line-up teleprompters Obama took to the elementary school must've been given a much deserved day off because those B-listers doubling as vanity mirrors for Biden and Pelosi seemed to be reversing what were supposed to be applause and laugh lines the entire night. At least as far as the Democrats were concerned.
I swear during the Dems standing ovations if Chuck Schumer acted like any more of a smug arrogant schmuck pants he'd be exactly like....Chuck Schumer
Now that we've all had our first go of it I vote that we take away the teleprompters-in-chief and offically draft an amendment to the constitution that prevents him or any president from using the State of the Union as an opportunity to publicly berate the Supreme Court of the United States.
I know the constitution isn't something the other two branches are terribly fond of but the judicial branch is still SEPARATE AND EQUAL to them. If they don't want a justice like Sam Alito wants to have the temerity to show displeasure in being attacked then Obama shouldn't be doing the attacking in the first place.
How condescending! How arrogant! How can the Supreme Court not defend itself when the President tries to assert superiority over it with a verbal horsewhipping on national television.
If Obama's act goes any more amateurish he'll have to start broadcasting his addresses from the Apollo....
Oh man I can hear the cries of racism now...telling the president to go to the Apollo Theater of all places...fine, any open mic night at a local DC chuckle hut where he'll draw more tears than laughter works just as well....I don't care at this point....
At least I'm not the idiot implying that black equals some kind of inferior. I swear, talk radio is the biggest ratings blessing for Chris Matthews, if it weren't for them nobody would even know that after the State of the Union last week Chris Matthews "forgot" Obama was black.
Too bad Obama can't make the country forget his administration is on crack.
Told you this was going to be a rant...because I when I say I'm going to do something, I don't get everyone to sign on to it and then do the exact opposite....unlike certain sitting presidents who were the subject of this blog and after....Obama....now.... shall remain nameless.
I'm telling you people......me for president. I've already got my campaign button ready to go!


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Hello E-wrestling news readers.
Just wanted to comment on the fine-line that seems to be what is and what isn't deemed to PG.
I think WWE made the decision to go PG for good reasons even though it doesn't really suit are viewing pleasure. The PG era has obviously created more sales in products and encourages a much wider wrestling audience which is brilliant. It just annoys us,


text: Totally spot on, the only real Attitude Era marks left are the ones that were either very young at the time or not there at all. It's very easy to call something classic in retrospect, when you get to edit out all the boring flawed bits from your memory. Sure as hell noone fondly recalls countless Savio Vega matches each week on Raw. Or the "great" matches featuring The Oddities. Or Marc Mero interviews. But they were all there and more - by the truckload.


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Wonderful news indeed! Such inspiration!
Wow - that is so great!
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- AmandaBe the change you wish to see in the world...
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Well, this is interesting: NBC Universal is working on a comedy video subscription service, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The service, which could launch later this year, would include full episodes of shows like the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live, as well as other clips and online-exclusive programming, and possibly cost $2.50 to $3.50. Lots of details still seem up in the air, but it looks like NBC is determined to join the unbundling crowd to finally make money from cord cutters.
BitTorrent officially launched Sync 2.0 Tuesday, taking the next step toward turning the P2P-based file backup and synchronization tool into a real business. Sync 2.0 comes with a pro tier that offers users more fine-grained access control for folders and other advanced features for $39.99 a year. Users can test the pro features for a month for free, or still use basic Sync functionality without the need to pay anything. BitTorrent first announced and previewed the Pro tier of Sync last November.
Open Whisper Systems has released version 2 of its Signal secure calling app for iPhone. This is an important iteration, as it introduces secure text messaging that's compatible with the outfit's TextSecure app for Android — for now, Open Whisper Systems' secure voice app for Android, RedPhone, remains separate from that, though everything will come together later this year in a Signal app that works across iOS, Android and the desktop. As secure communications operations go, Open Whisper Systems has good credibility, offering end-to-end crypto, auditable open-source code and decent identity verification. The TextSecure protocol has also found its way into WhatsApp, which is why Android-toting users of that Facebook-owned messaging app enjoy extra security these days.
Citizenfour, the acclaimed Edward Snowden-centric documentary (and recent Academy Award winner), is now available to watch online for free at Thought Maybe. The film traces the origins of how Edward Snowden leaked numerous top-secret NSA documents and his meetings with filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, whose work on the leaked files would eventually lead to a Pulitzer prize for public service. The filmmakers and Snowden recently participated in a Reddit AMA in which Snowden said he wished he could have leaked the documents sooner.
UPDATE: Well, that didn't last long. Looks like the site that posted the documentary did so under dubious circumstances. If you still want to watch it, you'll have to head to the filmmaker's website and scan for a screening, head over to HBO Go or watch it on Channel 4 where it will be up for a few more days.