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The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from the administration of President Barack Obama that will address the issue of whether someone employed by the federal government has a right to go public with their whistleblower claims, such as evidence of misconduct by an agency.
The case involves Robert J. MacLean, a former TSA air marshal who served fourteen years in government, spoke out about how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was risking the safety of air marshals.
In July 2003, according to the brief filed by MacLean, "DHS issued an emergency, non-public notice of a specific and imminent terrorist threat focused on long-distance flights—a more ambitious, broader-scale version of the 9/11 plot." All air marshals were given secret briefings on the threat, and then forty-eight hours, much to MacLean's surprise he received an unencrypted text message on his unsecure phone that indicated "all overnight missions" were canceled for several days.
MacLean went to his supervisor, who informed him this was a result of budget shortfalls and there was nothing that could be done. He decided to take his complaint to the Office of the Inspector General. But "his call was transferred from one OIG field office to another" until he was "ultimately advised to think about the 'years left in [his] career' and simply 'walk away.'"
Going through proper channels had not worked. He knew a reporter with MSNBC who had a "history of responsible reporting on TSA and connections with Congress." He wanted to "get Congress's attention." He informed the reporter about the text message and the reporter promised to contact Congress members and publish a story.
Later, he "appeared anonymously on a television news broadcast," which "prompted a congressional committee report and an investigation by the Office of Special Counsel."
DHS was able to recognize his voice and launched an internal investigation. He was forthright with DHS investigators and told them he made the disclosure, believing he had done nothing wrong. By September 2005, DHS moved to remove him from his job because his news appearance had not been authorized, "other media communications" were not authorized and DHS claimed the text message contained sensitive security information. (Essentially, DHS retroactively classified the message so the agency could get rid of him.)
The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals on April 26, 2013, vacated a prior ruling by the Merit Systems Protection Board, which hears cases involving government employees who allege retaliation for making whistleblower claims. While the court agreed with the MSPB that it was within DHS' authority to fire MacLean, the court found he was covered under the Whistleblower Protection Act when he made his public disclosures.
The Justice Department believes if the court's ruling is allowed to stand it will invite "individual federal employees to make disclosures that will threaten public safety." And that it "effectively permits individual federal employees to override the TSA's judgments about the dangers of public disclosure."
The government is terribly concerned that MacLean's victory in the courts (so far) affirms that a path exists for employees to "go public with an internal disagreement about how best to allocate finite security resources."
Government attorneys believe that debating this issue of "finite security resources" in public puts lives in danger—the government's fallback whenever they want to justify excessive secrecy—and that they should be able to terminate employees who speak out, even if they are silenced by management within an agency and their subsequent whistleblower claims do not involve classified information.
More significantly, the text message was not SSI until an order was issued by TSA "three years after the text message was sent."
What this is about for the Obama administration is being able to control government employees and ensure they do not have discretion to share details with the public when proper channels that are supposed to work for whistleblowers completely break down. The government wants all discretion and authority to be in the hands of power and not personnel.
As such, this is a very important case because the Supreme Court has an opportunity to decide whether the Whistleblower Protection Act permits government employees to make whistleblower disclosures to the press in order to ignite investigations by Congress. It also will determine whether the government can get away with abusing its authority to retroactively classify information in order to silence whistleblowers.
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1. When learning new words, what strategies will produce long term memorization?
1. When learning new words, what strategies will produce long term memorization?
2. What are context clues and why do you use context words? Be able to identify and
name the context clues listed in Ch. 2. Be able to use context clues to unlock the
meaning of words.
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5. What is a thesaurus, and who uses a thesaurus?
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HexChat 2.9.6 released
After a bit of delay 2.9.6 is finally released.
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We have also done some work on the plugin api like adding more information to the various lists, and the aforementioned server-time is accessable to all plugins and Python scripts. As well as that we have fixed many bugs, and introduced some new ones, to the Python interface including finally Python 3 support! If Python isn't your thing somebody also wrote a nifty JavaScript Interface.
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Design technology students at Sutton Valence School are about to start a two-year project to make a replica of a Fokker Eindecker – a First World War plane built by the Germans in 1915.
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Head of design technology Dan Keep said: "The enthusiasm for the project has become infectious.
"We are trying to show our students, in a practical way, just how far aviation technology has advanced in 100 years.
"It is almost unbelievable to think that these planes were built for war, but they were to prove to be an inspiration to future generations of aircraft builders."
The Royal Aeronautical Society has provided links to engineers for advice and support.
Sutton Valence pupils will tackle the wings, while Year 7 and 8 children at St Ronan's Prep School at Hawkhurst will be working on the fuselage.
The engine is made off-site and is added later.
The £20,000 project has been funded by donations from the Froud family and companies, but the school is also looking to local businesses for support.
Those involved are aiming high, with the Fokker forming the first part of a four-year plan.
The North Street school plans to follow it up with the building of a replica Sopwith Camel – a British single-seater plane introduced on the Western Front in 1917.
The ultimate dream is for pupils to exhibit the Fokker nationally and to fly the two planes as part of a flypast at the Armistice Centenary in 2018.
The British Microlight Aircraft Association will inspect the aircraft to industry standards and Headcorn Aerodrome has offered to store it when it outgrows the school workshops.
Headmaster Bruce Grindlay said: "It is tremendously exciting to be the first school in Britain to be involved in this sort of project."
Inventor: Anthony Fokker
Models built: 420
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Phased out: During 1916, when rival planes bought the dominance of the Eindecker to an end
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Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest: Jib Jig
Jib Jig is one of the many great songs from the Donkey Kong Country 2 soundtrack. Its main melody is a catchy jig that feels perfect for the lighthearted pirate setting that defines the game's early stages. I can easily imagine a group of pirates gathering on deck for such a tune, and the added wind and rain effects only add to the atmosphere. I've always loved this soundtrack for featuring a wide variety of songs that do a great job at matching each level's distinct setting, and Jib Jig remains a personal favorite among them.
Aquaria: The Traveller
I have a huge appreciation for Aquaria as a game about exploration as much as anything else, and its beautiful soundtrack couldn't support this goal any better. Songs like The Traveller really showcase what the game is all about, with its low key nature, steady drums and peaceful flutes and horns it seems to embrace the mystery and wonder that comes with venturing into the unknown. In addition, something about the notes and chords make me think, appropriately, of the ocean. It's just a great example of a game with a singular vision being supported by an equally dedicated soundtrack.
Mass Effect 2: Suicide Mission
Mass Effect 2's final mission is one of my favorite closing acts of any game out there, and I love that it has such a bombastic song to accompany it. Like the rest of the game's soundtrack, the sci-fi vibe is awesome, and I've always been a sucker for drums, horns and vocals. Suicide Mission has all three in spades, and they combine in highly epic fashion. The pacing of the song also does a wonderful job at building up to a well timed climax before trailing off, rising and falling at all the right moments. I can't think of a better punctuation to one of gaming's most intense final missions, making Suicide Mission one of my most memorable video game songs.
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The following is an archive of a post made to our
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Quoting Bob Scofield (firstname.lastname@example.com):
> If a person uses a WiFi connection at an airport, hotel, coffee house, etc.
> clearly the connection is not encrypted.
At the level of IP transport, no.
When I have my laptop at such a place, I make sure anything
security-sensitive goes over an SSL-wrapped session (https, SMTP-TLS,
IMAP-SSL, whatever) or a my SSH tunnel to my server at home --
encryption higher up the stack, implemented by me rather than someone
else's infrastructure. There's no reason to trust the network.
> I have been told that if you use an open connection, someone can get
> into your hard drive. That is, a hacker could read your files.
To discuss this fruitfully, one must discuss _process_. The above
doesn't get into process at all: This might be on account of the
speaker (the fellow you quoted, _not_ you) regarding all of this as
When I connect my laptop to a LAN -- even my own -- it doesn't have any
network daemons running, whatsoever. (I occasionally double-check this,
by scanning it using nmap, from a test host.) So, consider what an
attacker, trying to probe my machine, would see: Just a TCP/IP stack,
giving some signs of being based on a Linux kernel. That's a pretty
darned hard target.
Of course, the attacker is rather more likely to want to intercept and
misuse information going to and from my laptop, instead. That's where
careful use of encryption comes in, plus my trait of not trusting the
local LAN, the local DNS, etc.
> 1) One computer professional told me that the solution to the problem
> is to have firewall software on your laptop.
This is, in general terms, the "perimeter security" model, which has
strong appeal to people who don't want to think process. ;-> I.e.,
build a wall around your machnine, so you don't have to think about
threat models and vulnerabilities. It's also known as the "hard shell
and soft centre" model -- and people who rely too much on the hard shell
are frequently unpleasantly surprised by various types of badness that
are out of scope for their "firewalls" (IP/port filters), against which
their filtering is simply ineffective, meaning the soft centre is
potentially toast.
A different idea: Concentrate on not being vulnerable in the first
place. See Marcus Ranum's "Six Dumbust Ideas in Computer Security"
essay, especially "#3) Penetrate and Patch":
> My first question is: Is there a firewall package for Debian?
How many do you need? ;->
See "Firewall Builders" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Security .
Substantively all of those are packaged in Debian.
> 2) The second question is whether there is *any* merit in the
> following idea I thought of. Suppose you had a laptop that had a
> major Windows partition, and a major Linux partition on it. Suppose
> you also put a second very small Linux partition on it. The small
> Linux partition would be used exclusively for e-mail and web surfing
> at open WiFi connections.
> Fstab would be configured on the small partition so that the major
> Linux partition could *not* be mounted.
Not very feasible, really -- unless the major Linux partition uses
on-disk encryption, which intruduces its own problems.
But I think this is trying to solve the wrong problem, fundamentally.
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Mr. and Mrs. David Coles would like to announce the upcoming marriage of their daughter, Dana Coles, to Mr. Keith Gingerich.
Dana is the daughter of David and Joy Coles of Ellery. She is a 2008 graduate of Edwards County High School and a 2011 graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a Bachelor's Degree in Agribusiness Economics. She is currently employed by Software Solutions in Shelbyville. Dana is the granddaughter of Ina Lee Sample, and the late Delmar Sample, and the late Glenn and Helen Coles.
Keith is the son of Steve and Karen Gingerich of Sullivan. He is a 2007 graduate of Arthur Christian School, 2009 graduate of Lake Land College's John Deere Tech Program, and a 2011 graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a Bachelor's Degree in Agricultural System Technology. He is currently employed by Gingerich Farms in Lovington. Keith is the grandson of Elva and Sovilla Gingerich and Sam and Dorothy Herschberger.
A November 17th wedding is planned in Sullivan, formal invitations have been sent.
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Welcome to the third match in the Blog Wars KOTR tournament. Sorry to overload on you guys but I am trying to space it out. I know you guys must be sick of this topic. For the third tournament match we will have newcomers Rick Starr and timfeyenoord battle it out.
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3. TNA Destination X
John Cena has no match at TLC. That's highly surprising as it feels like he's been on every PPV possible (barring injury) fighting at least one other person. But this PPV might break that run. But I know the perfect role for John Cena at this PPV and it's NOT sitting in the back watching like a good man.
John Cena should be the Special Guest Referee in the Ziggler vs. Ryder title match.
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What a joke. None of the matches were all that great except the Fatal 4 Way between, Ziggler, Bryant, Ryder and Rhodes. If you haven't seen it, watch it. It was really good. But honestly the biggest joke of all wasn't who got the Awards or the matches. It was the lack of crowd reaction to some of the legends who made their opinions.
Seriously, the crowd should
Over the years, Kane has gone through many transformations. He started out as a monster, and gradually evolved from a supernatural character into a more human one. That said, it was high time he evolved again, which he did. He came back this past Monday sporting two new masks, and -GASP- hair! We know why the WWE brought the mask back, but let's look into how this could affect his upcoming angle.
Hey Splashers! In my last blog, I stated that I would give a full review of TNA's Final Resolution, but to be honest there was nothing great to write home about, so I'm going to keep this one short and sweet.
Challenge Match: RVD Def. Christopher Daniels
This was your run of the mill
I have been a WWE fan for many years now, and in my eyes it has gone downhill over the last few years, they continue to do things right when it suits them, but they repeatedly fail to live up to many fans expectations. I will dive right in there and start off with what they are doing right.
What they are doing right.
-For some time, the WWE failed to listen to their fan
Updated 12-14-2011 at 06:08 PM by kylos
Hello people Destruction here with my 1st blog which is how I would make the matches WWE Final PPV of the year, Tables, Ladders and Chairs. Let's get started
I would delay Booker T's return to the ring until RR, then matches at Elimination Chamber and Wrestlemania, instead of having his return to the ring at a B-Level
Updated 12-15-2011 at 09:38 AM by Destruction
This will be my third blog, In which I would like to point out the gimmicks of the WWE.
CM Punk:
The social anarchist who hates authority, sound familiar? I enjoy CM Punks promos and matches much more than Stone Cold, but this is another example of WWE ripping off themselves.
John Cena:
Cena's gimmick has taken a downslope over the past few years, but i
Updated 12-14-2011 at 10:05 PM by The Peep
Match 1:Orton vs. Barrett review
Interesting match, I'm LOVING this feud. Unfortunately, Otunga ran out for the save and pretty much just got DESTROYED by Randy Orton.
Winner:Randy Orton by DQ
Match 2:Ryder vs. Swagger
Just a match to keep putting Ryder over. I do wonder about Dolph accompanying Swagger instead of Vickie AND Dolph, but thats just me..It was nice
Updated 12-14-2011 at 08:21 PM by Corwo
Corwo here and this is my 5th blog since joining EWN! This blog will be highlighting some ways to rebuild the Tag Division and how to make AirBoom look good as a Face Team.
Obviously they have great teams to start rebuilding, it just doesn't seem like a priority to them at the moment despite the fact that HHH wants to rebuild the Tag Division. Why not start having
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The 28th General Assembly of the Liberian Council of Churches has elected a new corps of officers to steer the affairs of the council for a 2-year term.
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The Direct Entry Nursing student enters the Accelerated Master's program as a graduate student. The first 16 months (4 semesters) of the program consist of intensive, sequential classes and clinical with combined undergraduate and graduate level courses. Students are then prepared to take the National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX-RN) upon completion of 64 program semester hours. Students earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) after this part of the program. Financial Aid will be granted on an undergraduate basis during the Pre-Licensure phase of the program.
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The Direct Entry Masters' program offers a student with a bachelor's degree in another field to leverage that education and experience and enter as a graduate student Nursing. The program consists of two portions. The first 16 months is devoted to nursing-specific classes (undergraduate and graduate levels) including clinical rotations to meet the requirements for a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN). During this initial phase of the program, financial aid will be awarded on an undergraduate level. Once the BSN is completed, the student is eligible to sit for the nursing licensure exam or NCLEX. Successful completion of this examination results in a Registered Nurse or RN license.
1 year of full-time experience as a Registered Nurse (RN) is required prior to clinical NP rotations in primary care. The acute care pediatric and adult programs require 2 years of FT experience. A DE student in the RN portion of the program will be required to maintain a "B" or better in all clinical didactic and practicum courses to transition seamlessly into their specialty track. However, if a student receives < than a 3.0 in one of these courses, the student should contact the Director who will determine whether the student should continue in their track.
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The first segment of the program (RN pre-licensure) is 64 credit hours and prepares you to take the registered nurse licensure exam. The Master's segment requires approximately 43 credit hours, and may require more credits depending on the specialty track you choose. For example, a dual-degree specialty such as MS/MBA requires approximately 67 credits and a certification as Family Nurse Practitioner requires approximately 54 credits.
Yes, students completing the prelicensure segment (first 16 months) of the program are awarded a BSN degree.
After completing the first part of the program and becoming licensed RNs, students choose to continue to work part-time or full-time as a RN and take courses in the Master's segment of the program.
Students may choose from the following specializations:
No. Nurse Anesthesia is not one of the graduate specialty options at this time.
Is a thesis required or optional during the Master's portion?
The Direct Entry program enrolls once a year, in the fall semester. There is a December 1 application deadline. The application is for entry into the program that following September.
No, students are not admitted to a specific specialization track. Selection of specilaty track is decided by the 4th semester in the pre-licensure segment of the program. Speciality tracks are competitive and open to all Direct Entry Nursing students.
No, GRE's are NOT required.
The following prerequisites must be completed as a semester course at an accredited college or university (including accredited community colleges) with satisfactory grades of a "C" or better.
*If an applicant plans to take the prerequisite courses through Northeastern University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (CPS) please see the FAQ below for further details on course requirements.
YES. Northeastern University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (CPS) offers some prerequisite courses. CPS is on a quarter system rather than a semester system. The required prerequisite courses to fulfill the Direct Entry Nursing Program prerequisites through CPS are:
You can contact CPS at website, www.cps.neu.edu.
We require a "B" grade or better in prerequisite courses for credits to be accepted from an accredited institution.
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Yes, your Direct Entry Nursing Program Advisor can provide you further information on this process.
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Next Generation, Double RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Superior Triple Room, 3 Single BedsMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 1 infant)
Next Generation, Twin RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Get an overview of this hotelSuburban hotel with restaurant and fitness center
Situated in the suburbs, this hotel is 1.4 mi (2.2 km) from Museum of Air and Space and 1.6 mi (2.6 km) from Paris-Le-Bourget. Stade de France and Usines Centre Outlet Shopping Mall are also within 6 mi (10 km).
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A restaurant, a fitness center, and a bar/lounge are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a sauna, meeting rooms, and dry cleaning.
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All 128 soundproofed rooms feature free WiFi and room service. For a bit of entertainment, guests will find LCD TVs with satellite channels, and other amenities include premium bedding and coffee makers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Campanile Le Blanc Mesnil features a sauna and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
3 meeting rooms are available. This Le Blanc-Mesnil hotel also offers a terrace, multilingual staff, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Campanile Le Blanc Mesnil is a smoke-free property.
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Fitness facilities
- Sauna
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Meeting rooms
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Multilingual staff
- Terrace
- Television in lobby
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Elevator/lift
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of floors - 9
- Total number of rooms - 128
- Year Built 1993
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Free WiFi
- Room service (limited hours)
- Satellite TV service
- Premium bedding
- Shower/tub combination
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Free toiletries
- Phone
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Soundproofed rooms
- Air conditioning
- Private bathroom
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.
La Rose des Vents - This restaurant specializes in French cuisine. A children's menu is available.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a sauna and a fitness center.
- Golfing nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
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Check-in time starts at 4 PM
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- Children are welcome.
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- A city/local tax will be charged
- Pet fee: EUR 5 per pet, per night
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This hotel has received its official star rating from the French Tourism Development Agency, ATOUT France.


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Time to get politically active folks… the Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009 was introduced in Congress on June 11 by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR). So what will the bill do? Here's Maloney's press release:
"This bill will bring breastfeeding mothers under the protection of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, require employers with over 50 employees to provide a private space and unpaid time off during the workday for mothers to express milk, and sets standards for breast pump manufacture. It also provides for tax incentives for employers that establish private lactation areas in the workplace and tax credits for nursing mothers," said Maloney.
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Time to get politically active folks… the Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009 was introduced in Congress on June 11 by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR). So what will the bill do? Here's Maloney's press release:
Sign a Petition to Support the Breastfeeding Promotion Act
You might remember a while back the story about a woman who wanted to be able to take pumping breaks while taking her medical licensing exam. The National Board of Medical Examiners wasn't going to give her the time she requested.
Well now the advocacy group Moms Rising is circulating a petition to let the Board know it was wrong, and to gather support for the Breastfeeding Promotion Act which is before Congress.
Click here to sign the petition. Here's the text of the petition:
Sign this Statement of Support for breastfeeding moms everywhere now: "Healthcare professionals inform us that breastfeeding is the best possible way to ensure that babies thrive. In turn, we must ensure that breastfeeding mothers are able to breastfeed, and given the time and environment to pump at work or during other professional obligations." Congress and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) need to hear that breastfeeding must be supported for all moms, and that we support the Breastfeeding Promotion Act, which is currently before Congress.


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Wideroe Airlines 'grandpa's magic trick' by McCann Oslo
McCann Oslo is continuing its award-winning work for the Norwegian carrier Widerøe Airlines with the launch of a cross-media campaign that introduces a new creative concept and tagline.
The line, "Hele Norge. Hele tiden", which roughly translates as "All over Norway. All the time", celebrates the airline's frequent flights to small towns across the country.


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Four distant stars may be the remains of a globular star cluster that was torn apart when it passed through the disc of the Milky Way. If this result is confirmed, it means that our Galaxy may have looked different in the past with more globular clusters - tightly packed conglomerations of hundreds of thousands of old stars - than the 150 to 200 that it has today. The stars in such clusters are 10 to 15 billion years old, which is as old as the Galaxy itself.
Richard Arnold of Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands and Gerard Gilmore of the Institute for Astronomy in Cambridge, England, have identified four old stars which are roughly the same distance away from us and which have approximately the same velocities. These similarities strongly suggest that the stars formed together.
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GLM Displays, a leading provider of trade show displays, has seen a direct and obvious increase in trade show display sales in 2014, especially with new product lines; Timberline Modular Displays and Wave Tube Fabric Displays. Recently, GLM Displays added new product lines which have increased overall sales by embracing ecommerce and proper SEO practices. The increase in sales derives mainly from organic searches without one dollar spent in pay per click advertising.
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Braid is an independent game that was initially released on XBLA, and shortly afterwards ported to PC. In all fairness, the game is fun to play, but it's incredibly obvious that the developers grew up on the original Mario Bros. Games.
The structure of each level will bring back memories of Mario, but only at the end of the levels. The 'Princess in another castle' phrase comes up a lot more than I expected, and I can only guess that Jonathan Blow's team of developers were attempting to pay tribute to Nintendo's seminal IP. The rest of the story is a tale of love and loss, with the main protagonist searching for his love interest in a typical knight-princess rescue epic.
Gameplay-wise, the platforming is simple and intuitive, and the time-manipulation is used in interesting ways. You can stay in place in space-time, rewind time to the beginning of the entire level, slow down time in a specific area of a level, and record your actions before rewinding. Getting the knack for these different powers takes a bit of practice and thought, but finally completing the puzzles that the powers are used for is very, very, very satisfying.
Artistically, Braid is 2D, the best method of platforming (despite how much I prefer it in 3D). The sprites are simple, but beautifully drawn, the environments are gorgeous, and the soundtrack is quiet and serene, something I would expect more of an MMO, but works very nicely.
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Textfree so far since all i do is text my friends from my ipod and this app does what its suppose to ^_^
Google Mobile App, Palm Pre (Ahem!), SBSettings, Nikon D90, Return to Mysterious Island, Tweetie - TiPb Picks of the Week
Every week a few of us from team TiPb, bloggers and forum crew alike, will bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they're iPhone (or iPod touch) related, they're fair game.
So who's on deck this week and what are our picks? Find out after the break!
Chad's Pick: Google Mobile App.
This application allows you to "ask" Google a search. The app will then translate your voice to text and search your question. The latest version of this app literally fixed the accuracy errors of it's earlier self and so far has translated my queries flawlessly. If you haven't given this app a spin yet you should! Hey, and it's free! [Free - iTunes link]
Dieter's Pick: Palm Pre
Okay, Rene I picked for him, since he lined up, so to speak. Dieter's Palm Pre review has pretty much taken on a life of its own anyway, as has his video Q&A chat. But don't worry, Apple takes the stage back on Monday -- so enjoy it while it last fellas! [$199-ish - Web site]
James' Pick: SBSettings (Jailbreak)
I am constantly toggling bluetooth and wifi on my iPhone. It is a hassle that Apple decided to bury the on/off switches deep within the Settings App. I like the quick access this to these and other toggles (3G, backlight brightness, airplane mode, KeepAwake, processes, iPod and even a quick calculator). Other features that make this a standout jailbreak app is the ability to hide icons, add a quick dock for apps and quickly respring/reboot the iPhone. Best of all its free! [Free - Get it via Cydia]
Leanna's Pick: Nikon D90
I pick Nikon D90 because then I can sync beautiful photos onto my iPhone... [More $$$ than an iPhone - Web link]
[Ed: Um, yeah, okay. Enjoy the vacation Leanna!]
Matt's Pick: Return to Mysterious Island
Myst & Zork fans rejoice! This awesome puzzle adventure combines the ideas of Zork and Myst together and is based on the "Return to Mysterious Island" novel by Jules Verne. The game is a combination of 360 degree panoramas that fade into each other as you move around the island (Myst part) You also have the ability to go abround the island picking up different items and interacting with objects & using them to get around the island or even using them in conjunction with other to do one task (zork part). The graphics in this game are very good and completely worth the price. Highly recommended! [$4.99 - iTunes link]
Rene's Pick: Tweetie
I use other Twitter clients. Some for very specific tasks, some just for fun. But I always come back to Tweetie. It just fits what I want to do, a powerhouse for browsing and responding to tweets. And it works the way I imagine an Apple-built Twitter client would. Totally iPhone-like. [$2.99 - iTunes link]
Your Pick?
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Google Mobile App, Palm Pre (Ahem!), SBSettings, Nikon D90, Return to Mysterious Island, Tweetie - TiPb Picks of the Week
qTweeter for updates to Facebook & Twitter when the need arises, & Pkt Weather from Shifty Jelly, for accurate updates on the weather here in Oztralia! :-)
ditto on textPlus. Now I can text message on the iTouch WITHOUT a cell phone plan! and its FREE! Why would anyone use anything else?
Adrian, I'd love to hear about the problems you're hearing with textPlus, and hopefully we can get it all worked out for you. Feel free to drop me a line any time at drew at gogii dot net.
I have tried both textfree and textplus and they both worked fine for me.