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A blog post represents our entry into a conversation. Nothing could be more true when it comes to blogging by lawyers and other professionals.
Dave Winer, an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer who is widely known for his contributions to blogging, established over a decade ago that a blog represents the unedited voice of a person.
Law firms and other organizations don't edit what their professionals are saying when engaging others face-to-face. Nor should they do so with blog posts.
During last week's Business Development Institute's Social Media Summit for Law Firms, I asked the members of the panel I was moderating: do your firms vet or edit lawyers' blog posts before publishing?
A chief marketing officer from an Am Law 100 firm and the director of communications from an Am Law 25 law firm both said they do not. They trusted their lawyers to say and do the right thing. Both, in large part, understood the essence of blogging.
They did not want to demoralize their lawyers by, in effect, saying they do not trust them. Editing and vetting their lawyers' blog posts while the lawyers' peers in other firms were blogging without review could get pretty ugly. Doing so could alienate their lawyers, as opposed to endearing the firm to the potential rainmakers.
These marketers understood that there is an ebb and flow to blogging. When the "conversation" is active or there is a timely legal development, lawyers need to be able to blog. A blog post that may take 35 minutes to write ought not be delayed by a day or even an hour because of someone else's insecurity.
Another marketing representative from an Am Law 25 firm whose lawyers are not blogging yet said she could not see how a law firm could empower unedited social media commentary. Her argument, a legitimate one, was that one partner may unknowingly reference the client or prospective client of another partner in a negative way.
Those with similar desires to vet blog posts ought to heed to what Winer penned in his 2003 blog post, "What Makes a Weblog a Weblog," while serving as resident fellow at the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet Society. Weblog had yet to be abbreviated to blog. Winer's wisdom in this day of content marketing, ghostwriters, and vetted blog posts is more timely than ever:
On my weblog no one can change what I wrote. In contrast, having written for professional publications, pros have to prepare for their writing being interfered with. Sometimes you submit right at the copy-edit deadline. Or you write exactly the required number of words so nothing can be cut. But in the end, the words that appear are an amalgam of what your organization thought should be said on the subject you're addressing.
Weblogs are unique in that only a weblog gives you a publication where your ideas can stand alone without interference. It gives the public writer a kind of relaxation not available in other forms. That might mean that in some sense the "quality" of the writing is different, but I would not say lower, assuming the purpose of writing is to inform, not to impress. I would choose a few spelling or grammatical errors over factual errors. Like the child's game of telephone, stories that are passed from department to department in a professional organization can morph into something that bears no resemblance to the facts, or to the original author's point of view.
Marketers and general counsel ought not view blogs as a press release or an article. Blogging is a conversation. We listen to what others are saying (writing) and respond in an engaging fashion.
Bloggers don't "produce content" for blogs, we build social relationships with our readers, with other bloggers, and the mainstream media. We do it in a real and authentic way.
Digital communities, including Usenet, Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), CompuServe, and AOL were the precursor to blogs. Their threaded conversations, never vetted, shared information and insight. Genuine relationships and reputations were built as a result.
Look at the widely known bloggers of the late 90s and early 2000s for this unedited conversation. Dave Winer, Shel Israel (@shelisrael), Rebecca Blood (@rebeccablood), or Robert Scoble (@scobleizer). In the law, it was Rick Klau (@rklau), Denise Howell (@dhowell), and Ernie Svenson (@ernieattorney).
These individuals achieved much of what they have by bringing an unedited voice of a person to the internet. They've built national and international reputations and relationships with tens, and in some cases, hundreds of thousands of people in their fields.
Certainly lawyers ought to check for conflicts when blogging just as they would before meeting people face-to-face regarding legal work. And of course lawyers need to be cognizant of the stature they hold as a professional and the fact they have partners with varying interests.
This is just being smart. Just like you need to be smart when presenting at a conference or mingling over cocktails at a networking event.
Tim Corcoran (@tcorcoran), the law firm marketing, management, and tech consultant, said it well in a Facebook discussion on this point:
If a lawyer writes something that tarnishes the firm's reputation, remind the writer of the firm's standards and policies. If it happens again, fire the lawyer. If law firm leaders are perpetually worried that unsupervised lawyer-bloggers may tarnish the firm's reputation, then these leaders should recognize their own incompetence for hiring the wrong people.
Even a typo here or there (easy to avoid with spellcheck and a little self-proofing) is not going to kill anyone. It's what makes us humans, something many firms seek to avoid.
I'll confess I rely on my readers to let me know when I have made a grammatical gaffe. I'll get a quick tweet, email, or even a comment to set me straight.
There is of course some risk to offending someone somewhere, inside or outside the organization. More than once over the last eleven years someone has said they wish I didn't blog something, or that I put my foot in my mouth.
But in eleven years of working with law firms, I have yet to hear of problems caused by un-vetted law blog posts.
Blogging, unlike an article, is personal in nature. My followers get to know me and what I am passionate about through blogging.
Though the vast majority of my posts are business-related, I bleed my personal life into blogging. My kids, my wife, my parents — God rest Mom's soul and Dad, whose Alzheimer's has robbed his counsel — and sports all make my blog.
All of us may not discuss personal matters in blog posts, but I do. It's who I am. It's the person my followers want to get to know. It's my unedited voice.
Law firms can't turn a blog post into an article or firm-branded communications anymore than they can turn a conversation in a pub into a Word document. Blogs are a new medium.
A medium that builds relationships and a reputation because of the unedited voice.
Kevin O'Keefe is the CEO and founder of LexBlog, which empowers lawyers to increase their visibility and accelerate business relationships online. With LexBlog's help, legal professionals use their subject matter expertise to drive powerful business development through blogging and social media. Visit LexBlog.com.
LexBlog also hosts LXBN, the world's largest network of professional blogs. With more than 8,000 authors, LXBN is the only media source featuring the latest lawyer-generated commentary on news and issues from around the globe. Visit lxbn.com now.
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Checking For Forged Endorsements
I just read the first question in your Questions & Answers section of Volume XI, Number 5 of your newsletter. The question is about returning a check, which contains an incorrect endorsement. At the end of your answer you ask a question about why the bank is checking endorsements on anything except bank checks. We have debated this issue and done some research of other banks and their practices and can't come up with a consensus. What is "industry standard" practice for reviewing endorsements? Do you have any recommendations? What do other banks do? I can see a court case coming back to haunt us if we are not following standard practice but it seems like everybody does something different.
With the passing of the new Uniform Commercial Code, drawee banks are so well protected now against forged endorsement claims that almost all who are informed and up-to-speed are no longer checking endorsements. The liability on a forged endorsement is all on the negotiating bank, which guarantees that the endorsement is genuine. If there is any claim on that endorsement, according to the Code (law) it is the problem of the cashing (or negotiating) bank. There is NO liability on you for checks drawn on your customer's account, cashed or negotiated by anyone but you, where a claim is made for a forged endorsement. So why check the endorsement? In essence, it only helps to protect other financial institutions. Endorsements on checks drawn on you, sent through the work to you for payment, are their problems.
The only exception are those accounts that request endorsement review for exact or complete endorsements. Those accounts, such as insurance or health care companies, are on referral to review endorsements
Realize, of course, the other side of the coin says that when YOU accept a check drawn on another bank, payable to someone that you cash or negotiate the check for, YOU are then liable for that endorsement that goes through the work to the drawee bank for payment. If their customer says the payee didn't get it, and the payee says they didn't cash it - they will look to you to make them whole, because you guaranteed the endorsement was genuine.
In the case of bank checks - they're checks drawn on "your" account. Those endorsements you do want to check, to be sure the checks are endorsed by the payee, and as drawn. Bank checks are often in large amounts, and those endorsements - just as you would check endorsements on your personal account - should be checked, not for verification the endorsement is genuine, but for correct and complete endorsement, and to be sure the item is not altered.
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1,334, 154. Patented Mar. 16, 1920.
EEEM E 51m/vanto@ I l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MARK nAnntsoN', or iomvvnn, COLORADO.
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Application filed January 20, 1919. Serial No. 272,042.
l such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.
This invention relates to improvements in socket wrenches.
One object of the invention is to provide an improved means whereby sockets of dif ferent sizes may be quickly and easily attached to and removed from the handle.
Another object is to provide a universal joint connection between the sockets and handle whereby the latter may be operated at an angle to the sockets.
A further object is to provide a 'wrench of this character which will be. simple and inexpensive in construction, strongand durable in operation, and well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed.`
' Withthe foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists inthe construction, combination and arrangement of parts herein described and claimed.
In the accompanying drawings:
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved wrench;
Fig. 2y is a central vertical longitudinal section of the wrench; l
Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view taken on theplane indicated by the broken line 3-3 of Fig. 2;
Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view similar to Fig. 2 showing the position of the parts when the handle is operated at an angle to the socket; and
Fig. 5 is a detailside view of the cross pin by means of which the sockets are operatively and removably attached to the handle.
Referring more -particularly to the drawings, 1 denotes the handle of my improved wrench which is preferably in the form of a straight metal rod of suitable size and length. One end of the handle is enlarged and has formed therein a transverse passage 2 with which is loosely and removably engaged a cross bar or hand grip 3. OnV the opposite end of the handle is also formed a substantially spherical enlargement or head al having a transverse passage 5. This enlarged end of the handle has also formed therein a longitudinalV cavity 6 which extends inwardly a suitable distancefrom the 'transverse passage 5 and has seated in its inner end a coil spring 7 between which and the transverse passage 5 is a spherical detent orball 8 a 'lportionof which ,projects into the transverse passage 5 as shown. The detent 8 is held in operative position against the pressure of the spring V by upsetting or crimping the outer edges of the longitudinal cavity 6 where the. same opens into or intersects the transverse passage-J 5. This upsetting of the ,edges ofthe passage -5 at the place indicated is effected by a suitable, in-
strument inserted through the4 outer portion v of the cavity 6 in the end of the handle.
Adapted to be inserted through the transverse passage 5 and to be removably held in position therein by the detent 8 is a cross kpin 9 having therein midway betweenfits ends` cross pin 9`is of suiiicient 'length to permit the v opposite end thereof to project fa suitable distance beyond the sidesof the head or enlargement 4- and the outer ends of the pin are rounded so that when thelatter is pushed throughthe passage 5 theengagement of one of the rounded ends will 'force the detent 8 inwardly against'the pressure of its `spring until the groove l0 is opposite to the detent at which time lthe springwill forcethe detcnt outwardly and into .yieldingenf gagement with the' groove l0 in the pin, The walls of the groove 10 are beveled so that the detent does not positively lock the pin and when sufficient pressure is applied to either end of the pin to overcome the pressure ofthe spring 7 the detent will be forced inwardly thus permitting the cross pin to be readily removed while at the same time the pin will be held against accidental removal in the use of the tool.
Any number of nut engaging or socket members of various sizes may be provided for use with the .handle herein described, all of which are of substantially the same construction,r therefore only one socket is shown. in the drawing. The sockets consist of a tubular member 11, the outer portion of which kis preferably of hexagonal shape for engagement to a similar shape nut, while the inner portion thereof is preferably cy1indrical. At diametrically opposite positions in the sides of the inner cylindrical portion of the sockets are formed alined longitudinally disposed slots l2 which when the socket is in place on the handle receive the projecting ends of the cross pin 9 which thus loosely attach the socket to the handle. The Wall of the passage at the inner end of the cylindrical portion of the socket is beveled as at 13. This construction and the slots l2 in the walls of the socket with which the proj ecting ends of the pin 9 are loosely engaged provide for a rocking movement of the handle in all directions or a universal joint connection between the handle and the socket so that when necessary the handle may be operated at an angle to the socket.
By providing the detachable connection between the cross pin 9 and the end ot the handle as herein shown and described the pin may be readily disengaged from the handle to permit quick and easy removal and replacing or' the interchangeable socket members of the Wrench. At the same time a strong, durable and reliable connection between these parts is provided for eiiecting the turning' or' the socket by the handle When the latter is in line with the s ocket or at an angle thereto.
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l. A Wrench comprising a handle member having on one end an enlarged substantially cylindrical head provided with a transverse passage and having a longitudinal cavity reduced in size at its point or intersection with the inner side of the transverse passage, a spring projected spherical detent arranged in the inner end ot said cavity and held in operative p osition therein by the reduced portion of the cavity, a socket member having therein slot-s, a cross pin detachably engaged with the transverse passage in said handle member and having its projecting end loosely engaged with the slots in saidsocket member, said cross p-in having therein a beveled Vcircumierential groove to receive said spring projected detent whereby said pin is operatively held in place.
2. A Wrench comprising a handle having on one end an enlarged substantially cylindrical head provided with a transverse passage and having a longitudinal cavity, 'a spring projected detent arranged in the inner end of said cavity, means for operatively holding said detent in said cavity, a socket member having a. central passage extending entirely therethrough and shaped at one end to engage a nut and having the inner Walls of its inner end beveled or flared outwardly, said socket member also having therein oppositely disposed slots, a cross pin detachabl engaged With the transverse passage in said7 handle member and having its projecting end loosely engaged with the slots in said socket member, said cross pin having therein a circumferential V shaped groove adapted to receive the spring projected det-ent in the cavity of the handle member whereby said pin is operatively held in 'place but may be readily removed to permit the disengagement from the socket member from the handle member. l l
3. A Wrench comprising a handle member having in one end atransverse passage and a longitudinal cavity, a spring projected detent held in operative position in the inner endjoi' said cavity, a socket member having therein oppositely disposed longitudinal slots, a cross pin having beveled or rounded ends and a. centrally disposed circumferential V shaped groove, said pin being adapted to be removably engaged With the transverse passage in said member and to be operatively held in position by said spring projected detent, the ends of said pin engaging the slots in said socket member whereby a universal connection is formed between said socket member and handle.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.
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Develop cross-platform mobile games with Corona using the Lua programming language! Corona is experiencing explosive growth among mobile game developers, and this book gets you up to speed on how to use this versatile platform. You'll use the Corona SDK to simplify game programming and take a fun, no-nonsense approach to write and add must-have gameplay features. You'll find out how to create all the gaming necessities: menus, sprites, movement, perspective and sound effects, levels, loading and saving, and game physics. Along the way, you'll learn about Corona's API functions and build three common kinds of mobile games from scratch that can run on the iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, Nook Color, and all other Android smartphones and tablets.
The book is now compatible with Corona versions 2013.2076 or greater. The current public release, 2013.2100, is also compatible with the book.
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Get a crash course in cross-platform mobile game programming using the Corona SDK. Corona, one of the easiest to use mobile gaming platforms, makes this often-difficult process both quick and easy to master.
If you're familiar with programming but new to game development, you'll feel comfortable as we begin with fundamentals before building examples of the most common kinds of games on the market today. You'll develop arcade, side scroller, and tower defense games from start to finish, and Corona will automatically turn them into apps that can run on both iOS and Android devices. These finished apps can be used as ready-to-go frameworks for your own future projects. You'll learn how to write clean, easily maintainable, and easily expandable game code. You'll also find out how to make money with games: enabling in-app purchases and in-game ads as well as how to get apps into the iTunes App Store, Google Play, and the Amazon Android Marketplace.
This book focuses on getting quick and effective results. Every page teaches by example and explanation, not with abstract lists of functions and variables. By the time you're done, you'll have learned most of what there is to know about mobile game programming and about the Corona SDK.
Q&A with Silvia Domenech, author of Create Mobile Games with Corona
Why did you write Create Mobile Games with Corona?
When I started programming, I had access to lots of books for traditional programmers that taught the basics (loops, classes, etc.), but then they moved on to topics that aren't really necessary for game development. I wanted to make games, so learning how to code yet another phone agenda or scheduling application wasn't really interesting to me.
I did read game programming books, but many of them felt like university lectures: Here's a detailed description of the theory; learn to apply it by yourself. Good luck. That was really frustrating, and it made learning slower than reading online forums that had applied examples. Many years later, I stumbled upon a Pragmatic book, and I instantly fell in love with it. I thought, "If somebody uses this style to write about game programming, everyone will be able to learn!"
I waited, and waited, and waited, but no Pragmatic game programming books appeared. During my wait, a few friends and acquaintances asked me how they could learn to make games, and I couldn't point them to a hands-on resource. I decided to write the book then, in order to help my friends and anyone else who wanted to learn to code games with Corona.
Mobile games are really popular right now, so it is great to be able to teach how to code games using an easy-to-learn engine like the Corona SDK.
What does Corona offer mobile developers that other systems don't offer?
First of all, Corona makes coding very quick and easy. Many programming languages require you to use extra libraries (or write your own code) to handle common game-related functions such as sprite management or collision detection. Coders can write one or two lines of code to get many game-related things done in Corona, so it really reduces development time.
Corona also comes with lots of resources: documentation, tutorials, and even forums. This is great, because it means that you won't be alone when coding. Have you found a bug in the Corona compiler? Somebody may have posted about it in the forums. Do you want to code something but it doesn't work? See if there's a walkthrough for it. Other languages don't have so many resources.
Apart from those two advantages, Corona makes it easy to port an iOS game to Android or vice versa. Writing game code twice to use it on two platforms can be boring, and Corona solves this by giving us developers an environment that builds on both iOS and Android.
What kind of games would I be able to make with this book?
Ideally, this book will teach you the basics of Corona so that you can move on to make any game you like. Since we're making games from the start, we'll learn how to load and draw images, make them move, and interact with them. Then we'll move on to more complex topics, like making units find their way around the screen, adding sound effects, and loading and saving data.
The book is divided into several projects so that you can work on more than one game from scratch. You can make a planet defense game, a vertical-scrolling shooter, a tower defense game with pathfinding algorithms, and a physics-based app with advertising and in-app purchase options. That's roughly the core toolset that any aspiring game programmer will need.
What do you suggest I look at next after this book?
I suggest looking at furniture catalogues to find a comfortable chair to sit on! Oh, you already have one of those? Great! Then you're ready to learn some advanced game development topics, such as advanced physics, multiplayer games, and even game balancing.
To learn physics, you can take a look at the Box2D documentation (it's the physics engine used in Corona). You can learn about gravity, velocities, different types of collision handling, constraints, and many other topics that can let you make complex physics-based games. Once you start making games, if you haven't already made games in other languages, you might also need to get used to game balancing. It's important to make games challenging but not too challenging, and learning how to balance your games will help you along the way.
If you want to take your learning to the next level, you can look for books or resources on multiplayer game programming. The good part about multiplayer programming is that you can code the server using any language. I personally code many of my multiplayer servers using Java, which makes it quick and easy to code a server from scratch. Corona lets you open sockets to communicate with a server, so it can be lots of fun to make anything ranging from a multiplayer version of tic-tac-toe to a complex MMO. I'd suggest starting with tic-tac-toe or another simple game, though!
What You Need
You need either a Windows or Mac development environment and the downloadable free starter edition of the Corona SDK.
Contents and Extracts
- Getting Started
- Hello Corona!
- Introduction
- A Word on Game Development
- Getting Started
- Building Our First App
- What We've Learned
- Hello Corona!
- Planet Defender
- The Game Loop excerpt
- In this Chapter
- A Crash Course in Corona Programming
- Designing Our First Game: Planet Defender
- Creating the Project
- Coding the Game Loop
- What We've Learned
- Sprites and Movement
- What We'll Learn
- Displaying Images
- Animated Sprites
- Handling Many Images
- Moving Images
- Adding Spaceships to the Game
- Exercises
- What We've Learned
- Input and Menus excerpt
- What We'll Learn
- Touch-Based Input
- Displaying Scenes Using the Storyboard API
- Adding Buttons
- Adding Lives and Difficulty
- What We've Learned
- Expansion Options
- The Game Loop excerpt
- Vertical-Scrolling Shooter
- Representing Movement and Perspective
- What We'll Learn
- Designing a Basic Scroller
- Adding Menus and the Basic Framework
- Adding and Removing Units
- Displaying Scrolling Backgrounds and Parallax Effects
- Generating Random Backgrounds
- What We've Learned
- Exercises and Expansion Options
- Adding Shooting, Collisions, and Power-Ups
- In this Chapter
- Shooting
- Checking for Collisions
- Adding Animated Explosions
- Adding Power-Ups
- Ending the Game
- What We've Learned
- Exercises and Expansion Options
- Adding Sound excerpt
- What We'll Learn
- Finding Game Sounds
- Understanding the Corona Sound API
- Adding Sound Effects
- Playing Background Music
- What We've Learned
- Exercises and Expansion Options
- Representing Movement and Perspective
- Tower Defense
- Displaying Maps and Sorting Depths
- What We'll Learn
- Designing a Tower Defense Game
- Defining Tile-Based Maps
- Building Towers
- Sorting Depths in Corona
- What We've Learned
- Exercises and Expansion Options
- Adding Movement and Artificial Intelligence
- What We'll Learn
- Adding Enemies
- Implementing Enemy Movement
- Adding Tower AI
- What We've Learned
- Exercises and Expansion Options
- Loading and Saving
- What We'll Learn
- Loading Levels
- Loading and Saving the Game
- What We've Learned
- Exercises and Expansion Options
- Displaying Maps and Sorting Depths
- Physics and Distribution
- Physics and the Accelerometer
- What We'll Learn
- Defining The Project
- Adding User Input
- Adding Physics
- Using the Accelerometer
- Debugging
- What We've Learned
- Expansion Options
- Physics and the Accelerometer
- Appendices
- Corona Resources
- Corona Development Tools
- Art Resources
- Game Sounds
- Corona Resources
Comments and Reviews
—Brent Sorrentino developer liaison Corona Labs
It's straightforward, it's thorough, and it walks new users through all of the basics. I especially like how the book explains full game templates for popular genres in an easy-to-understand way.
—Stephen Orr, lead developer Made Media
I've wanted to make an iPhone game since the launch of the App Store, and now I feel like I'm closer to my goal. The Corona SDK is a powerful tool, but good tutorials are hard to find; I feel much more prepared having read Silvia's book!
—Stephen Wolff Django developer
Looking for a way into programming mobile devices? What could be more fun than making a game (or three)? Create Mobile Games with Corona inspired me to get a little further with an idea I had for a mobile app, and Corona offers lots of speed and versatility for creating such things.
—Brian Schau developer coach at TechTalk, creator of SpecFlow Rovsing Applications
Do you want to develop games for the Android platform? Look no further. This book teaches you to create ready-to-distribute games in Lua in no time. Highly recommended!


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There were two Japanese, 19 Filipinos and three Vietnamese on board and not an Australian in sight but they were a welcome growing dot on the horizon when the two sailors on the yacht Mehitable put out a distress call this week 170 nautical miles off Brisbane. The merchant sailors were on their way to Newcastle on the bulk carrier Yahagi Maru when they heard the call of the drifting yacht.
Mehitable's rather large rescue vessel Yahagi Maru
They were 40 miles from the distressed vessel and immediately changed course towards the given waypoint. At the same time they were contacted by the Australian Coast Guard, who get their information from AMVER, the organisation that coordinates the voluntary band of ships who respond to emergency calls on the high seas.
Yahagi Maru, measuring 249m and weighing more than 55,500 tons, reached the disabled yacht in a few hours and rescued the two crew, then resumed their course towards Newcastle. The following morning, the coastguard met with the Yahagi Maru mid-ocean off the coast of Brisbane and the unfortunate sailors, who had had to abandon their boat, were transferred.
Ships mostly reach the world press when they spill oil or hit reefs, so it's good to be able to say thank you for the dozens of passage-making sailors who are rescued by ships that depart from their course each year to rescue them, and thanks to www.amver.com!AMVER.


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ACT members step up advocacy and aid in DRC
Friday, November 23, 2012
ACT members have been working around the clock to craft a unified strategy to address the deepening humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since the strategically critical eastern town of Goma fell to rebels on Tuesday, November 20th.
Several ACT members have taken significant steps both to expand aid efforts on the ground and to speak out on the political dynamics that have hampered the creation of a sustainable peace in the region, which could go a long way to mitigate the large-scale humanitarian suffering.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) estimates that an additional 140,000 people have been displaced in and around Goma in recent days. Since April of this year alone, 750,000 Congolese have been uprooted by fighting between government forces and the splinter rebel group, M23.
Earlier this week The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), one of ACT's founding members, deployed additional staff from its Nairobi-based regional emergency hub to help scale-up its coordinated humanitarian efforts with other ACT members in the DRC. Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) has announced that it will provide water and sanitation assistance as part of a coordinated ACT response to the worsening crisis.
LWF is currently working in the areas of water, sanitation, hygiene and food security in the Rwamwanja refugee camp in Uganda, with monitoring, assessment and communications assistance from Dan Church Aid (DCA) and financial support from FinnChurchAid, the Inter-Church Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO), Church of Sweden and DCA.
Members are assisting more than 30,000 refugees in the camp and in host communities in Uganda. Diakonia Sweden is also supporting the Church of Uganda and the Uganda Joint Christian Council's conflict mitigation efforts between the refugee and national populations.
On the advocacy front
ACT members have also been active on the advocacy front this week. LWF General Secretary Rev. Martin Junge issued a statement on Wednesday, November 21st, calling for humanitarian aid agencies to be granted safe access inside Goma and throughout the DRC.
The same day Christian Aid called on the British government to step up its efforts to help resolve the conflict. Chantal Daniels, Christian Aid's policy and advocacy advisor for Central Africa, expressed "a desperate need for the UK government to clearly position itself and to actively push for solutions for the current military and humanitarian crisis in the DRC."
As part of the European Network for Central Africa, ACT members Christian Aid, ICCO, Diakonia Sweden and NCA, urged the European Union to increase pressure on countries supporting the M23 rebels in a statement issued on Tuesday, November 20th. The final version of a UN report by an independent panel of experts outlining Rwanda's financial support for the M23 forces was released the same day.
The Network's statement, among other points, urged the appointment of a special envoy under the auspices of the African Union and the UN to launch a political process to end the violence.
"ACT members have a long, committed history to working with the people of central Africa," said Rev. Dr. Rebecca Larson, ACT's deputy general secretary and director of programmes.
"We're monitoring the DRC situation on several fronts – on the humanitarian level and in terms of ongoing international and regional efforts to resolve the political crisis – with an eye to how a coordinated response among our members can be most efficiently and expediently executed."


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Glad he decided to hang em up. The last three fights he looked like a absolute zombie out there
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Glad he decided to hang em up. The last three fights he looked like a absolute zombie out there
He's definitely a MMA Hall Of Fame inductee. he's right up there with Tank Abbott and Don Frye. He brought it every time and left nothing in the cage. Kill or be killed. So many fighters nowadays play it safe and "smart", just get the decision, control position, circle and peck. Chris Leban was a REAL fighter. Yeah he had his demons, but he fought those too and will continue that fight. He's an example of a flawed man fighting to be something better and I hope he continues to make his fans and loved ones proud. One of the ultimate tough guys, Chris "The Crippler" Leban. Good luck and thanks for all the years of pure excitement!
Leben's one of those guys who I worry about down the line and he's only 33 now, so I'm glad to hear this, especially given how poorly he's looked in those five losses out of his last six and how slow he'd looked since coming back from the last failed drug test.
The Simpson/Akiyama turnaround was an awesome run though.
Lets call a spade a spade and a heart a heart - leben was mediocre at best. Not saying he didnt provide us with some entertaining fights but lets get a grip.
The cat has finally been smashed. I always loved watching Leben fight. Such an entertaining guy and fighter but its definitely time to hang up the gloves. WAR LEBEN!!!
Also whoever said he is definitely a hall of fame inductee, he definitely shouldn't be but it is entirely possible because its not a real hall of fame its whoever the fuck Dana wants. For example Stephan Bonnar had a mediocre at est career and got caught juicing multiple times yet is still in.
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A 570 Ultra intended for 1 graphics card
Subject: Cases and Cooling | June 13, 2006 - 03:15 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
The HardwareZone reivews MSI's K9N Platinum, an nForce 570 based motherboard. It has most of the extras you would expect from that chipset, with a little trimming, especially on the PCI-E side, making it cheaper while still having some extras, and staying rock solid.
Ten 14' widescreen notebooks
Subject: Mobile | June 13, 2006 - 01:31 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
X-bit Labs gets busy testing Acer's TravelMate 3222WXMi & 2423NWXMi, the ASUS W3H00V, LG's LW40 and T1, the MSI MegaBook S425, Samsung's X1 & X11 the Sony VGN-FJ1SR
and the Toshiba Tecra A6-S513. Not a review to miss if you are shopping for laptops!
Merom and Conroe Hit PC Perspective
Subject: Processors | June 13, 2006 - 12:42 PM | Ryan Shrout
Well, after a successful trip to Taipei for Computex last week, a couple of items made their way to my house.
That is a Merom core processor, model T7400 running at 2.16 GHz with a 667 MHz FSB and 4MB of L2 cache on the left. On the right, a Conroe core E6700 processor running at 2.67 GHz with a 1066 MHz FSB and 4MB of L2 cache. Hmmm....??
Keep checking back as we await a couple of BIOS updates to help our testing begin!
How to Upgrade the RAM on the Asus A7J
Subject: Mobile | June 13, 2006 - 12:32 PM | Jonathan Hung
2 weeks ago, we published our review of the 17" Asus A7J laptop. In that review I stated that the primary SODIMM isn't upgradable, even though Asus' product page states it.
Well it turns out you can uprgade that RAM, but it's not a clear procedure and it's very tricky to do! With the help from Asus' A7J Service Manual, I've added a short guide on how to upgrade the RAM on your A7J.
Computex isn't the only show going on right now
Subject: Shows and Expos | June 13, 2006 - 12:00 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Drop by VIA Arena for a look at what VIA has been up to, and what plans they have for the future. They are hanging out at the VIA Technology forum in Taipei.
Ease to install home security
Subject: General Tech | June 13, 2006 - 11:52 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Easy to install, and little or no configuration, the AlphaSheild Pro is perfect for anyone who doesn't have a router, or isn't sure if they have properly configured it. Drop by 3dGameMan for a look at this hardware firewall.
It's toxic and watercooled
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 12, 2006 - 06:17 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
The cost is certainly affected, but does the built in watercooling on the Sapphire Toxic X1900 XTX make it worth your money? Drop by ExtremeTech to see if the overclocking potential makes it a contender against nVIDIA's newest.
It's got a 140mm fan!!
Subject: Cases and Cooling | June 12, 2006 - 04:12 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
The AeroCool Dominator CPU Cooler is huge, and also much quieter than you would expect. Moving 68.37 CFM at 20.87 dBA, it will perform well, if you're motherboard can fit it. Drop by ThinkComputers to find out how well it works.
Recordable XM to go
Subject: General Tech | June 12, 2006 - 03:16 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
XYZ Reviews the newest in XM radio, the Helix XM2go YX-M1Z. It has MP3 capabilities, in that you can record radio show for later listening as well as being able to perform as an MP3 player. Check it out.
"Portable audio has quickly become one of the most innovative segments in today's electronics
industry. The rapid growth of digital music and the tremendous potential of satellite radio has made
this segment particularly interesting and the advances have been rapid.
Skipping out of Computex to hang out with Intel Product Managers
Subject: Processors | June 12, 2006 - 01:53 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
HotHardware might not have been at Computex, but they weren't being lazy either. They have been testing the 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo and the 2.93GHz Core 2 Extreme against an FX-60, so drop by to see how the Core series performs.
ABIT, BioStar and Thermaltake at Computex
Subject: Shows and Expos | June 12, 2006 - 12:44 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
AnandTech was very impressed by ABIT and BioStar's motherboard offerings at Computex, and the thermal management tools and more offered by Thermaltake. Drop by to see what caught their eye.
Abandoned again, this time for good
Subject: General Tech | June 12, 2006 - 12:21 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Well, it looks like Microsoft has well and truly abandoned Win98 and ME, as they have been threatening to do for about 4 years according to CNET. Guess it's finally time to upgrade to Win2K, eh?
New and improved power calculator
Subject: Cases and Cooling | June 9, 2006 - 06:04 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
PC Apex has rethought their PSU calculator, and updated it to include some of the newer components that have come out. Pick it up as a quick way to judge if the PSU that comes with the case you have in mind is enough to power the peices you want to put inside.
Backup to external hard drives the easy way
Subject: Storage | June 9, 2006 - 03:09 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Bjorn3D reviews the Eksitdata Easy ATA and Easy SATA USB adaptors. Plug in a SATA drive on the fly for backup, or reboot to attach a PATA drive, with no external enclosure. Cheap and easy to use, though will notice a speed decrease when transferring over USB to SATA.
Best of the 7600's
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 9, 2006 - 02:31 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
nVIDIA's new replacment for the sub-$200 6600 series is the 7600s, and The Tech Report grabbed 5 different cards to test out. Everythinf from performance to warranty is reviewed, so give them a minute of your time.
What's up Doc? Computex edition
Subject: Shows and Expos | June 9, 2006 - 12:25 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Join motherboards.org at Computex as they tour through the displays. Corsair, ECS and Gigabyte are all thoroughly investigated, so drop by and see what they found.
As well, Ryan is keeping himself cool, checking out the newest in cooling equipment, and checking out the new cases and power supplies as well.
Tune in next week for the exiting continuation of ...
Subject: General Tech | June 9, 2006 - 12:16 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Steam has revived an old radio show and T.V. technique, episodic content. With Episode One finally available over Steam, Elite Bastards ran through it so that they can tell you all about it. Read on to find out if they will revive another old technique, the cliff-hanger.
"It is thankful therefore, that the advent of their Steam distribution system has helped to persuade Valve to move away from producing major new games every half dozen years or so, and rather to make use of their existing (and ever improving Source engine) to work on episodic content, which can be released as small chunks of gameplay (typically five or six hours or so) as and when it is ready."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
Tech Talk
- Half-Life 2 Episode 2 Teaser 1 @ Bjorn3D
- Half-Life 2: Episode 1 Review @ WhoDigs
- Battlefield 2142 Captures (76) @ Cutting the Edge Network
- 81 High Res. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Video Captures @ Cutting the Edge Network
- New Super Mario Bros. @ Ars Technica
- Oblivion Tips & Tricks from the Developers @ OCModShop
- WoW Report: Fun in Ironforge @ ThinkGaming.org
- The Future of Gaming: Paper, Plastic and Cardboard? @ ExtremeTech
- Great Games for Cheap Bastards! @ OCModShop
Is it a bug if it's tough to exploit?
Subject: General Tech | June 9, 2006 - 12:02 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
There is a java exploit recently discovered; reported by CNET. It is very difficult to exploit, in order to get at your files, a malicious webpage has to trick you into typing in the full path of the file it wants to try to upload. On the other hand, this flaw affects Firefox, Mozilla SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer, so it could be a problem for anyone.
VIA Technology Forum 2006
Subject: Shows and Expos | June 9, 2006 - 02:09 AM | Ryan Shrout
As has become a staple, the VIA Technology Forum is going on during the week of Computex at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Taipei. Wednesday it started off with a keynote from the President of the VIA Technologies, Wenchi Chen, which focused on the continued miniaturization PC circuitry. (Large quote below.)
Also speaking was the CTO of AMD, Phil Hester, discussing much about the continued
NVIDIA PureVideo HD For HD-DVD and BluRay
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 9, 2006 - 01:59 AM | Ryan Shrout
NVIDIA officially unvieled their new PureVideo HD technology at Computex this week that enables the viewing of HD-DVD and BluRay content (and other HD content) seamlessly on your PC.
PureVideo HD allows the user to fully utilize the high resolution content of HD-DVD and BluRay. By integrating HDCP support into the G71 GPU and adding CrytpROM and HDCP support to the physcial graphics card, NVIDIA is preparing users for the next-generation optical discs.&n
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Evan Premo, Seasonal Song Cycle for soprano and bass
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The high flare Letus AnamorphX Adapter with Built-In Matte Box provides a 1.33 anamorphic squeeze to normal video/photography with a strong level of anamorphic flare. The adapter includes a matte box that attaches using four screws. This adapter paired with your existing non-anamorphic lenses, produces an image with a 2.39 aspect ratio when used on a camera with a 16 x 9 sensor. The adapter works with prime lenses and zoom lenses, and its optics are suitable for productions shooting video at resolutions from HD up to 4K. This AnamorphX adapter provides a strong anamorphic flare effect in addition to expanding the aspect ratio by 1.33x.
The adapter features a clip-on design for lenses with a 114mm front barrel diameter, which allows you to use one adapter with many different lenses. The AnamorphX incorporates a focusing mechanism/focus ring that, in conjunction with your lens' focus ring, allows you to fine-tune your focus for a sharp image. The focus ring is indexed, which may help save you time resetting the adapter after switching between lenses. It features a front opening of 138mm, and includes a matte box that you can remove easily via four Allen screws. The included top flag features a hinge that allows you to adjust the position to protect the AnamorphX adapter from unwanted glare and flare. Removing the attached matte box allows you to mount available 138mm clip-on matte boxes of your choice.
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Secret documents collected by a Norwegian spy during the Second World War have been discovered hidden in a UK garage.
Norwegian resistance spy Sven Sømme escaped 200 miles across mountains to Sweden pursued by 900 German soldiers before eventually fleeing to BritainSven Sømme portrait
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Sven Sømme was a member of the Norwegian resistance when he was captured in 1944 but escaped before he could be executed.
900 German soldiers tracked him for 200 miles with dogs, and he swung from tree to tree to avoid leaving footprints in the snow.
He fled eastwards from western Norway's Molde through Eikesdalen, both in Møre og Romsdal County, over the Rondane mountains in Hedmark and Oppland Counties, to Engerdal (Oppland), then to Sweden.
His daughter, Hertfordshire resident 60-year-old Ellie Targett, found the documents from his time in the resistance while clearing out the garage.
Items included envelopes with maps and reports hidden beneath the stamps and the Nazi warrant issued for his arrest.
"I scanned one onto my computer and blew it up and it was instructions from the resistance movement to photograph the German U-boat bases that led to him being captured," The Daily Mail was told.
Sømme sent the Allies microfilms with pictures he took hidden under postage stamps on letters.
Talking of his capture in 1944, she said to NRK, "My father hid his camera and got the Germans to believe that he was looking at birds. But the Germans were waiting for him when he was leaving. They had found the camera and there was no doubt that he would be executed."
Sven's brother Iacob, a leader of resistance movement Milorg, was executed in 1943 for his involvement in the sabotage of the Vemork hydroelectric heavy water plant at Rjukan in Telemark. He was later exposed, arrested, and sentenced to death for his work for the Resistance.
Other brother Knut was also a member of the resistance, but fled abroad some two months later.
Sven Sømme eventually arrived in Britain after his dramatic escape. He was given a private audience with HRH King Haakon VII of Norway who was in exile in London.
The Norwegian resistance member later met and married his wife Primrose. In addition to Ellie, the couple had children Yule and Bertie.
Sven Sømme died of cancer in 1961, aged 58.
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FORT WORTH, Texas - TCU topped the Lobo volleyball team (6-13, 2-6 MWC) in three games tonight, extended New Mexico's losing streak to four matches, which ties for the season long. The Horned Frogs' victory was their first in the series, having lost the previous four contests.
The Lobos hung with TCU early in game one, playing to an 11-11 tie. The Horned Frogs broke away with a 7-3 run that was ended with a kill from senior Kelly Therkelsen. New Mexico pulled within two three times but a 5-0 TCU run at 25-23 clinched the game, 30-23.
In game two, sophomore Jeanne Fairchild recorded two straight kills to cut a four-point deficit (10-6) in half and spark a 4-1 Lobo run. The Horned Frogs retaliated with a 10-5 run en route to the 30-21 win.
Therkelsen ignited the Lobos to start game three with a kill and two blocks, helping the team build a four-point lead (7-3). New Mexico held its biggest lead at 18-10 when TCU came alive, converting on nearly every attack and taking full advantage of the youthful Lobos' mistakes. TCU tied the game at 25 then won the match 30-27 on two kills and three Lobo errors.
Fairchild notched a match-leading 13 kills, hitting .360 (13K-4E-25TA). Freshman Allison Suiter hit a team-high .583 on eight kills, one error and 12 attacks. Therkelsen and freshman Rose Morris added 10 kills apiece.
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
Hate it or Love it, Korea turns to a sauna during the hot and humid season of Summer.
For me, I dread summer for the humidity. However, it is also the chance for me to really enjoy some of the cold and refreshing food that summer offers in Korea.
Patbingsu 팥빙수
Shaved ice! Topped with delicious azuki beans and other toppings of your choice! Such as Strawberries, ice-cream, tteoks or cereal flakes! You may also opt for Matcha green tea or coffee flavor! Definitely the best bet for the season!
Kongguksu 콩국수
Kongguksu is served cold in a soy bean broth. It is then usually topped with hard-boiled egg and julienned cucumber. Simply ma-shi-eo-yo (맛있어요)!
Chogyeguksu 초계국수
Craving for something cold and a bit sour-flavor? Try Chogyeguksu! This Northern Korea dish is not very common in South Korea.
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Wassup 2008
As seen more or less seen everywhere on the blogosphere (micro/SocNet or otherwise) here's a film guaranteed to make you smile:
I almost had a tear in my eye in the last frame. The US people have got such an opportunity. Surely in 20, even 10 years time this will be seen as a turning point. I hope that it's upwards, but it still could be towards darkness. The Human race is on the real cusp of a new age. It's an extremely exciting time to be alive, but we've got so many tough decisions to take. To use an apt financial metaphor for these times of troubled financial institutions, as a race we must realise that we are morally, financially and environmentally overdrawn. There's just too many of us. The Earth is way past being a finite resource to plunder and a plughole to wash away our crap. The bottom 10% are getting poorer, yet the top 10% are indecently rich. The only way to maintain this is to remove people's rights. But what examples do we set to poorer people who see the rich West ruining their own countries.
Somehow I cannot see a continuation of the Bush regime being of help in our future. I hope that in 9 days time I will be happy to go live in the US (not that I plan to mind you!). I've never had that feeling before, but I envy the Americans now. I really hope the American people realise that they really do hold a lot more than just their people's fates in their hands. They could truly have a leader to be proud of (something that as a UK citizen I've never felt).
Codeweavers says cheap gas = free software tomorrow
A free copy of Codeweavers software tomorrow! I've used this on Linux and I quite liked it. However, I cannot think of ANY Windows software I want to run on my Mac!
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By JOVE those dry protocols are all fancy!
As spotted on Sandra Porter's never less than interesting blog here's a wonderful idea to help you understand the science. A website devoted to visualising experiments/publications in video.
Journal of Visualized Experiments
I think you would do the site a great disservice if you described it as Youtube for the bench scientist, but in a way that's exactly what it is. Except instead of inane comments (who reads Youtube comments?), it's the publication, with enough information to repeat the protocol. Sometimes when reading a protocol, nevermind the sparse methods and materials of a paper, it's hard to come to grips with some parts in enough details to do this yourself. Watching somebody do that is surely almost as good as visiting the lab, and surely a lot cheaper!
A Prepaid Broadband SIM without an APN
Here's a very good idea from the ever interesting WirelessMoves blog. This is one of the 10 blogs I read on a daily basis (well check on a daily basis, and read when there's a new post!)
A Prepaid Broadband SIM without an APN: "
In an ideal world you take your notebook wherever you want and that built in 3G modem or USB dongle gives you access anywhere. That pretty much works today while you stay in the country of the network operator you are with. As soon as you move out of the country, however, hyper expensive roaming charges spell the end of the fun. Mrs. Reding will surely improve the situation over time but it won't come quickly, especially for notebook access.
The practical solution today is to buy a prepaid broadband SIM, now available in many countries , and replace the home operators SIM while staying abroad, if the 3G device is not locked. The main issue for most users, however, comes afterwards. Usually, each network operator uses it's own access point name (APN) and sometimes even a username and password that has to be set on the notebook. This is an action that most people are not really very comfortable doing.
The thing is that this is totally unnecessary. O2 in Germany for example has recently introduced a feature in their network to accept any APN. As a consequence no matter what the user configures or even if he leaves the APN blank the connection will be established. While I don't like O2′s approch to do it for all SIM cards, it would have benefit when being used in combination with prepaid broadband SIMs. Add to that a big fat note on the sales package that no configuration is required beyond putting the SIM in your already existing open 3G device and you've got a sure winner.
A simple thing to be done and I would not be surprised if operators in countries such as Austria, where you can buy prepaid SIM cards for Internet access in any supermarket for a couple of euros, would start to implement this feature soon to make it easy to switch to them. Switching to them, that's the incentive for them to do it! And a strong one at that.
So this is the practical scenario: You arrive at the airport in another country and after baggage claim you head straight for the next 'I sell everything and nothing' shop at the airport to get such a SIM. You put it into your dongle or notebook and that's it. Or even better, it's sold by the plane's cabin crew on the flight.
The only thing that stands in the way of this in many countries is the requirement to identify yourself when buying a SIM card. But in countries such as Austria and the U.K. where this is not required, it's totally feasible and operators have the will to think about it. And in countries were identification is required, how about identifying the user via a landing page where he has to type in his name, address and maybe credit card information that can be checked? In some countries like Germany, name, address and passport number is all that is required and SIM cards are activated by some prepaid vendors like that over the Internet.
I think many travelers wouldn't think twice about paying 20 euros for a gigabyte or so even if they are just in the country for a couple of days. And it's likely that most of them wouldn't fully use the 1GB anyway. A good deal I would say for everyone involved!
(Via WirelessMoves.)
Introducing Nokia Map Loader for Mac
Wahey. Nokia are really putting effort into supporting Macs for their phones. The Nokia Beta Lab has just announced a Map loader for the Mac (Nokia Maps). OK Nokia Maps is not a great app, but it's not bad, and it's free, and beats Google Maps on minimising data usage, since you can download all the maps via this app!
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Guest writer: Steve A, the product manager of Map Loader for Mac
I am pleased to announce the beta-release of Map Loader for Mac 1.0. It allows you to load Maps to your device via your Mac, rather than over the air. Particularly useful if you are planning on travelling to a new area you are unfamiliar with. Save on that phone bill.
We get a lot of feedback through the existing application, Nokia Multimedia Transfer, for all sorts of features and one of the requested items has been a Map Loader for the Mac. So we have worked away to bring out version 1.0. In terms of functionality it is similar to the Map Loader for PC 1.0 but with a definite Mac look and feel. We also wanted to give our Mac users, something extra, so we have added one feature we are hope you will find useful, a history feature.
You will need a device that can run Nokia Maps. See maps.nokia.com for more information. You can also check the compatibility list for Map Loader for Mac. You will also need to install Nokia Multimedia Transfer if you haven't already www.nokia.com/mac/multimediatransfer.
Getting started
Firstly make sure you have a memory card installed in your device, unless it is a product like N95-8GB with built in memory. Run the Maps application on your device. Once you have done this, you can connect your device to your internet connected Mac using your USB cable. If you are using Nokia Multimedia Transfer to transfer music etc, it is best to wait for this to finish transferring. Then launch Map Loader for Mac. You can then drag and drop various maps elements such as countries to your device. And the history feature? Well not groundbreaking, but it lets you see what you have transferred, and you can use it to reload the same set of maps as a later date.
Giving feedback
You can send feedback via the application itself, or Nokia Multimedia Transfer, or add a comment to this blog post. We look forward to hearing what you think. Ideas may not make the final 1.0 version, but could appear in a future update. Also fairly soon we will have an update to Nokia Multimedia Transfer which should improve the performance of the Nokia Map Loader for Mac.
One more thing…
I am sure there is another Steve who uses that phrase. Please keep all the Mac feedback coming. We do listen and hope to offer more solutions in the future
Enjoy – Steve and all who have contributed in the development of this product.
(Via Nokia Beta Labs blog.)
Linux RAID Wiki
A lot of people keep coming back to a post from 2006 I wrote about expanding a raid5 array. Although that post is still very much relevant 2 years is a looong time in the Linux kernel world, and things have moved on. Rather than use the information here you're better off going to the Linux Raid wiki. This is very much an active and up to date resource for playing/creating and using Linux software raid and MDADM. It's contains the thoughts and the resources of many people from the very interesting Linux Kernel raid mailing list.
Phone blogging!
Here is my first phone written blog. Not the rubbish email ones i did ages ago but honest proper ones using scribe. Apparently the best Symbian based one. It seems to be good, although any such phone tool that does not allow you to see the state of the t7 spelling seems flawed to me. lets see how this looks!
OO.org for the Mac… natively and no X11 needed, Awesome!
So we have a native OSX version of Open Office. How awesome is that? I've spent many years using Open Office. From StarOffice 3.0 on OS/2 (I vaguely remember paying for that), the earlier versions of the free OpenOffice and even writing my Ph.D thesis using OpenOffice 1.0 on Linux. Since moving to using a Mac a lot, not being able to share documents between Mac and Linux has made me use Office 2008 in the main. The lack of integration of the X11 based previous versions was too painful to use really. I'm so pleased that this version has come out. Let's give the servers a while to cool down from the pummeling they're currently getting, and let's give it a ride!
Major update for Nokia Email service
Nokia Beta labs have released an update for Nokia (push) email. Sounds very promising! I'm especially pleased by deleting email on the server, and also able to add more than a single email account. Both of these I'd sent in feedback about. Cool!
Major update for Nokia Email service: see your suggestions coming to life: "
Guest writer: Davis Fields, Nokia Email service team
Hello Beta Labs!
Today, the Nokia Email service team is proud to announce the first updated beta release. Nokia Email service is designed for Nokia device owners to make mobile email easily discovered and intuitive. Since we launched on August 8th, we've received thousands of questions, suggestions and positive feedback about Nokia Email service. We're pleased to say that we've taken four of the most popular feedback requests from our users and implemented them in this release.
- Localization. We're now localized into six different languages, including full support for international characters, which has been a very popular request from our beta testers from all around the world. This release localized in English, Finnish, German, Dutch, Latin American Spanish and Iberian Spanish.
- More email addresses. Now Nokia Email lets you get mail from up to 6 email addresses, each in its own mailbox yet all in one place, and makes composing from any account seamless.
- More phones. Nokia Email service is available on more of the most popular Nokia S60 devices, including many of the latest S60 3.2 devices like the N96 and the N78.
- Better mailbox management. When you delete an email on your Nokia phone, it will be deleted from your email account. We've enabled this for both IMAP and POP accounts.
If your request is not on this list, that doesn't mean we're not working on it. For instance, the bug where messages didn't appear in the sent folder has been fixed (messages will now appear in the sent folder after they have been sent). One area I want to highlight that we're working on is Google-Apps hosted email. The setup is currently not working correctly for Google Apps and similarly hosted domains (where the email address domain is different than the mail server domains). We are aware of this and are working diligently to implement those accounts in future releases.
Again, keep the feedback coming in, and we hope you enjoy this new version.
- Davis Fields
(Via Nokia Beta Labs blog.)
Battlestar Galactica season 4 on DVD – yeah right
So BG season 4 is being advertised as being on DVD release now. It's in the supermarkets, Amazon and probably the newsagent. It's all so exciting, especially the big boxset with all four seasons. Just imagine more or less 2 days of some of the best TV and best SciFi for ages.. Except what happens when you get to the last episode of season 4 and you feel slightly unfufilled….. I think it's a real cheat to advertise this as being the proper season 4. OK the writers strike did affect many series, and let's not go into whether they were right (the writers probably have the moral highground here), but why hide it? BG series 4 part 2 has not even been filmed yet. Most viewers and fans know this. Except their relatives do not. I hope some fans grannies do not spend their pension on what they think is the best present ever for their precious nephew/niece only to make their nephew/niece have to fake their happiness whilst hiding their intense disatisfaction at not knowing yet whether Adama, Starbuck et al reach Earth.


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Happy Trailsby Sammy Slabbinck
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I love this!!! Great work :)
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Terrific piece!!!!! :)
Thank you Kurt, Josrick, Pigboom, Noblackcolor, Pegeen, Bruce & Gwenola !!! Happy trails to you !
Admirable work! Love the humor.
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thx Matt!
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75 staff at Barnstaple's Leaderflush Shapland to be made redundant
Posted: September 18, 2012|
AROUND 75 employees at one of Barnstaple's best known factories will be made redundant in November.
Leaderflush Shapland, which was purchased by Laidlaw Interiors Group (LIG) in August last year, announced this afternoon (Tuesday) that the manufacturing arm of its Barnstaple site will cease work at the end of November.
The firm said it had been carrying out a comprehensive review of its door manufacturing operations in Barnstaple over the past year.
The Raleigh Works site had been sold for development and previously scheduled for closure by its former owners.
The firm said the closure would result in the loss of around 75 jobs.
A spokesman for the firm said: "We have commenced appropriate dialogue with the Employee Representatives as part of a consultation process with employees affected by this decision.
"This will include opportunities for alternative employment at other sites within the group.
"We will continue to have a commercial office in Barnstaple to support our wider business and look forward to continuing to be an employer in North Devon.
"LIG has agreed to acquire Mansfield based door manufacturer Timbmet Door Solutions Ltd (TDSL).
"Following a voluntary submission to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to ensure that there were no competition issues arising from this merger, the transaction has now been cleared by the OFT and the acquisition of TDSL was completed on Monday, September 17corr.
"LIG intends to continue to invest in its door business at its sites in Nottingham, Sheffield, Mansfield and India."
Laidlaw Interiors Group CEO, John Jefferies said: "Following the sale of the Raleigh Works site, we have looked at all options to maintain door manufacturing in Barnstaple.
"Unfortunately, we have been unable to find a commercially viable solution and are now consulting with our employees over the potential closure of the factory and the transfer of manufacturing to our other sites.
"We will however continue to have a commercial office in Barnstaple to support our wider business and look forward to continuing to be an employer in North Devon.
"I would like to personally thank our employees in Barnstaple for their pride, loyalty, professionalism and commitment during this difficult period."
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Joseph King Murnazi Ghana
About the Artist
Joseph and his family come from the northern region of Ghana, and as his name suggests, is linked to tribal royalty. Joseph's tribe has a long history, and regularly organizes a number of festivals throughout the year including the "festival of lights." While Joseph's tribe is known for handmade crafts, his family is known for painting, and it was through his father's instruction that Joe learned to paint. While his father specializes in intricate portraits, Joseph prefers to depict people engaged in craft and in celebration. He aims to create excitement and movement in his paintings, in part, by choosing pastels combined with bold, bright colors.