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Secure and Private Messaging With Anyone, Anywhere!
"Unsene currently offers encrypted web messaging, video calls, and file sharing — essentially, an alternative to Skype."
- TechCrunch
Unsene is a secure, and private communication platform.
- Secure Chat
- Email-Like Messaging
- Voice and Video Calls
- Photo and File Sharing
- Content Delivery
For Web, Desktop, and Mobile
Contribute now to secure your lifetime Unsene account, while supporting free speech!
The lifetime Unsene standard account will include secure chat, messaging, voice and video calls, and photo and file sharing.
The lifetime Unsene Premium edition will include all the features plus unlimited message storage, higher file size limits, larger groups for video calling, and higher level of encryption. Once we launch we plan to charge $47 a year, but during our Indiegogo campaign, it is only $47 for life! Plus, for the first 1,000 people it will be only $37!
Note: The queue for username reservations will be from highest priced pledges to lowest.
How will this help me?
Unlike email, text messages, and Facebook messages, which are sent in the clear and can be easily hacked, we use military grade encryption to protect your messages from hackers. And we protect your privacy. We don't hand over information to the NSA like many big Internet companies do.
What is the advantage of this over Skype?
We will be offering a higher level of encryption and security and we don't keep your key (to unocking your data), you do. We don't participate in the NSA's PRISM program. We don't eat up your computer and Internet bandwith. We have a web-based version, which is super convenient.
What is the advantage over Facebook messages?
All messages on Facebook are sent in the clear so anyone can intercept them. Facebook keeps all your messages. On Unsene all your messages are encrypted with military grade encyrption and we will be offering an even higher level of encryption and security. We don't keep your key (to unocking your data), you do. We don't participate in the NSA's PRISM program.
What is the advantage of this over Tor?
Tor is for anonymous Internet browsing. Unsene isn't for browsing the Internet or anonymizing. This is for securely communicating with others and creating your own secure, private networks.
Do you keep log files of calls?
No. We don't keep log files on calls. The history is purged within 7 days.
Do you keep an archive of my messages?
No. Everything is purged in 7 days. In the premium version, you can store them longer if you want to.
How do I know I can trust you?
Check us out under our team at end of the description. You can talk to people who have done business with us and they will tell you our track record.
Will you share my info with anyone and how do I know you won't?
No, we won't share it. Privacy is at the heart of our business. You can read our privacy policy and terms of service. Also, we don't keep your keys, so we couldn't access your messages even if we wanted to.
Does this have secure email?
Currently, it does not have a regular email address, but there will be an email gateway in the not too distant future. Email is incredibly insecure, which mean it's not only read, but it's blocked and can even be altered in mid stream and you don't know it. We've got a Secure Email area in the web site that allows you to send an encrypted message to someone who has email, but doesn't have unsene yet. It's an email with a link to a page on our site with the encrypted message, which is revealed once they enter the correct password. The future email gateway will allow people
to send and receive and respond to these secure emails and you'll even
have your own unsene email account if you'd like. We're still working
out those details, but that's the direction we're headed.
Is there a way to send messages to several people in a group?
Yes, we have group functions. You can text message to a group and share
files with groups. We're hoping to have publish / subscribe working
this week. That'll mean you can replace your listserve emails with
Unsene. No more "spam filters" by ISP's or others...
Can it be used for group skype-type calls?
Not yet, but we're working on this as we speak. Today, we have one to
one Skype type audio calls. I think we'll have something this week or
next. We've also got video calls in the works, which work for one to
one today and we hope to have them working for groups shortly after we
have the audio group calls.
Is file-sharing like an email attachment? (obviously i have never used any file-sharing program)
It works a lot like Skype, but it's also like email, because it uses our
central server to store and forward your file. You just choose the
person you want to send it to from your contacts and click "Share", then
choose the file you want to send. The file is encrypted, then sent to
our server and picked up by your recipient anywhere from immediately
(it's real time) or whenever they come back online. We'll even send
them an email to remind them they have a file waiting to be picked up.
There's a 100MB limit we've artificially imposed, but we expect to get
that raised quite a bit, once we also have peer to peer. In the near
future, with publish / subscribe, you'll be able to put a file to a
group and anyone in the group will have access to it. Fully encrypted
of course.
What's the developer version for?
The $97 level is for developers, that would be someone who wants to eventually develop applications using an API.
Secure Chat
You can chat with anyone on Unsene securely.
Click on the "Show Encrypted" button to see the encrypted version of your chat.
- Secure Email-Like Messaging
- Secure Voice Calls
- Secure Video Calls
Great image resolution for video sharing, even full screen on a 30" monitor!
- Secure Photo and File Sharing
Encrypted file sharing.
- Secure HTML and media sharing
Paste in a YouTube video link and it shows up right in the chat!
Secure Content Delivery
The web-based version of Unsene is nearly completed and the Indiegogo campaign will help fund the completion of mobile and desktop clients.
It will be available on the Web, Windows, iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod), and Android.
Support our Indiegogo to secure freedom around the world!
What Unsene can't do.
That being said, here's what Unsene can't do:
- It can't make your insecure emails secure. Email is inherently insecure because it travels through many servers. Also, even if you were to encrypt your email, the headers such as to, from, and subject line would still be sent in the clear. In contrast, Unsene was designed from the ground up as an end-to-end encrypted and secure service that can deliver messages in real time.
- It can't protect you if you are breaking the law: If we are notified by authorities that you are using Unsene to a commit criminal act, then your account could be terminated.
How It Works
- Military-grade security protects your important private messages, photos and videos, everywhere. It's so strong that we can't export it to Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and North Korea.
- Unlimited messages to anyone, even if they're aren't on Unsene yet.
- Nothing to Install (unless you want to)
- It will be virtually unblockable on the peer-to-peer desktop version.
Contribute now to secure your privacy and freedom!
Encryption, Security, and Privacy
- Takes your message and mixes it up, that is, encrypts it, so no one else can read it.
- Use the same level of encryption that the military uses for top secret information
- Encrypts each individual message separately.
- Only you have the key; we don't keep it.
- Applications for private businesses, medical, legal, financial, journalism... Well, everyone.
Why Unsene Is A Necessity Now
"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself." —Salman Rushdie, author
Over the years, people's personal rights, privacy, and freedom have slowly been eroding. And now, with the recent revelations about the NSA, more than ever, personal privacy and security are at the forefront of people's minds here in the U.S.
Plus, in places around the world, where people's lives depend ability to communicate on the Internet, where it could finally secure freedom, the government has tried to shut down social media and search engines.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if suddenly people everywhere in the world could communicate securely without being monitored and get uncensored information?
Well, a few of us did and we thought it might lead to the fastest expansion of freedom of speech and human rights the world has ever seen! A world where people would no longer have to live in fear.
Egyptian women use their mobile phone to record celebrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square. (AFP/Getty Images)
So we decided to do something about it...
Introducing Unsene:
It's an encrypted, web-based, desktop, and mobile service for messaging, voice and video calls, and file sharing!
Secure, web-based chat with all the functionality of a desktop client, yet nothing to install.
There's no back door. You keep the keys; we don't. Everything is securely encrypted, so you retain your privacy.
Here are the state of the art features and benefits of Unsene that protect your privacy:
- Secure: Military-grade security protects your important and private messages, photos and videos. Uses 256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) for messaging, which is a standard for military grade communications. And if you want stronger encryption, you can buy our premium version which will include xAES, with up to 4096-bit encryption, which goes far beyond AES 256-bit. You can even see the encrypted version of the text!
- Works everywhere: Web-based, desktop, and mobile. Use anywhere you have access to the Internet: on your computer, a friend's or in Internet café. We already have the web version in pre-beta. Mac, Windows, and Linux desktop versions as well as Android and iPhone versions are in the works.
- Unlimited: Unlimited message to anyone, even if they aren't on Unsene yet (includes most features). No mailbox size caps and no advertising. And with the premium version you can keep the messages for as long as your premium is active.
- Easy: Works just like web mail. Nothing to install unless you want to, so you can just login and start using it.
- Unlimited sharing: Unlimited photo and file sharing. Yes, that's right, send as many photos and files as you want.
- Developer environment: In the near future, will have open platform for developing new secure applications and adding security to your existing ones.
- Affiliate program: Earn a living or grow your existing business by helping people protect their privacy. Imagine if when you invite people to Unsene and they had upgrade to premium, you actually had gotten a cut of that instead keeping it all to themselves.
- Content delivery: There will also be an edition where people will be able to subscribe to your feed like an email list or microblogging service and you can build a subscriber base. So you could use it instead of your existing email list, where the delivery rate is low. With Unsene, you'll get way better delivery rate compared to email, because it can't be being blocked by ISPs or spam filters like email can.
- And more coming soon: Mission: Impossible-style self-destructing messages, so your messages won't be copied or archived after they are read.
Take back your privacy and secure freedom in the world by backing our Indiegogo campaign!
Our Story
Frustrated with the spying on or hacking into our text messages, emails, and calls, our team at Unsene wanted a way where we could communicate freely, where what you said or wrote was only sent to the person you addressed it to. Where you don't have to worry about being censored -- because if someone in the middle could read your message, they could also block it. Where you could say what you wanted, when you wanted, where you wanted, without any repercussions. Where you had privacy. Where you had security. Where you had freedom.
That's not the reality of life on the Internet today. Instead, it seems that everything we use and trust has serious privacy issues, be it texting on our cell phone,using webmail, sending messages on social media, or chatting on instant messaging services. If it isn't Russian hackers, it's the companies themselves, business competitors, even the NSA and governments.
Even worse, in some countries, social media and major Internet services are completely blocked. It isn't just the Internet that is shut down, but freedom of speech is squelched altogether.
Our team looked, but we couldn't find any consumer-friendly secure chat, messaging, voice, and photo sharing app. And there certainly wasn't a mainstream messaging app with good security.
Things that were supposed to be secure ended up not being so. Many companies have been forced to turn over information to the government. Many articles spoke about certain internet chat and voice calling servicespossibly having a backdoor in the U.S. just as it did already in China. Then, the news hit of the big technology's company's participation in NSA's surveillance program and it became clear that humungous amounts of communications were being turned over to the NSA.
On the other hand, the low cost options were way too complicated. Some services took hours to set up, and still it never worked correctly, before it got shelved when it was acquired by a big company. The rest were like tech toys, not made for regular people.
There needed to be something secure where we you could just login to to the websitewithout having to install anything, like webmail and online social media services.Something that was so simple that even our parents or grandparents could use it without an instruction manual.
Unsene uses 256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) for messaging, which is a standard for many corporate and military grade communications. Plus, for our premium version, we're utilizing even more powerful encryption known as xAES, which will be up to 4096-bit encryption.
We want to make Unsene a platform. Our dream is to empower developers to build build amazing things that right now can only be imagined, in communications, social media, payments and more. We also want to make this a platform that people can use to make money, to make a living.
The cool thing about the desktop, and hopefully mobile versions, too is that not only are they encrypted like the web version, but they are also completely peer-to-peer(P2P), so the message goes from you to the person you're talking to. It's only unencrypted on your computer and theirs, and you get notification of delivery! That means there's no fear of a message intercepted or blocked, or a website getting shut down or your email just disappearing.
We're in This Together
So we're turning to you, our community and future users, to help support something that really can change the world. We believe that the future of free speech and the internet in general and all over the world, depends on the ability for everyone to have free and open communications. Without that, people don't have an opportunity to learn what is true.
The platform for Unsene will be built from the ground up to serve society and our community of users and developers come first. Our vision to provide an open development environment that becomes the backbone for any kind of secure communications or transactions that visionaries like you want to develop. We want people to be able express their creativity with complementary applications without having to compromise security. And we'll appreciate your support along the way, be it in form of development ideas or to bug reporting.
The Time is Now
Never has there been a time in history when privacy around the world has been so critical and yet so compromised. Just turning on the news, we hear more and more about the encroachment on our freedom, be it internet censorship or the shutdown of the Internet in different parts of the world, or the right here in own backyards in the United States with the NSA's constant monitoring of our messages by the government's PRISM program with no oversight.
The world is changing. People desperately want to be able to speak their minds. To have a voice. To blaze a path of their own choosing and to hear unfiltered news and information to learn the truth. We believe that to get there, we need privacy. We need security. We need freedom.
Our Team
Based in San Francisco, we have an international team of developers (20 in Asia) and marketing professionals, and we're always looking for new talent to join. Here's our background:
Chris Kitze, CEO
Chris founded and ran some of the Internet's top properties. He was VP of Lycos at its IPO, founder of Xoom.com(the largest chat network and 13th most popular site on the web at the time of its IPO), the CEO of NBCi (7th most popular site on the web at the time), Yaga (an early P2P content delivery company), and Wine.com.
Vinh Vo, CTO
Vinh has worked in high tech at startups and large companies for over ten years. He was on the 4Home team when it was sold to Motorola, where he worked on residential automation technology. At Symantec, he worked on security products such as the HIDS (Host Intrusion Detection System) and IDS (Intrusion Detection System). He worked for 2wire Inc. on scaling large networks for the high volume traffic backend infrastructure for AT&T DSL network services.
Simon Thomas, Director of Product and Marketing
Simon has run marketing, CRM, and/or product for large companies such as United Way of America (the largest non-profit salesforce CRM implentation), startups like AskSunday (a Time magazine top ten website of the year) and internet marketing wunderkinds such as StomperNet (largest launch in Internet history: $18.3 million dollars in orders in 24 hours).
Our Technology
Our truly secure communications platform is a big feat and there are many components we'll need to develop to create a truly end-to-end secure system for message and content delivery.
Application Layers
- PubSub - XMPP PubSub is a protocol extension for generic publish-subscribe functionality. PubSub allows us to create each End or Client as a Node of the entire network.
- XMPP is one of the standard streaming XML protocol for exchanging messages.
Encryption consists of multiple layers.
a. SSL and TLS for Tunnel Security Layer.
b. RSA-2048 bits for Exchange Private information among the peers
c. AES-256bits and xAES-4048bits for Chat and File Sharing.
- Flexible One Time Pad System with Advanced Random Function.
- Signaling Process allows each node to establish P2P connection.
- WebRTC for P2P direct communications
Unsene Service Cluster – Bootstrap servers, Signaling Servers, Supernode Servers, Storage Servers, Relay Servers, and Web Servers. This is a fallback mechanism for the P2P network and it will enhance the performance. If any routing node or path is incomplete due to firewall or other form of blockage, this fallback service will help maintain a node's connection.
Relay/Routing Node – With your permission, this extension to the Unsene Client allows other friends you are connected with to use your computer to relay their communications to other nodes. This creates the shared Unsene P2P Network. A relay node acts as a virtual router for different nodes. It is also a dynamic supernode on the private P2P Network. This capability of relay/routing node will create a Distributed P2P Network and creates redundancy if the Unsene super-nodes are unavailable.
Regular Node – This is the Unsene client on Desktop, Web Browser, and Mobile Device. It will provide Instant Chat, Media, and File Sharing.
Unsene and "Secure Your Freedom" are trademarks of Unsene, Inc. Viber, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Gmail, YouTube, Skype, PalTalk, Yahoo!, PGP, Apple, Mac, iMessages, iPhone, AOL, AOL Mail, Microsoft, Hotmail, PGP, Android, Windows, Linux, Motorola, and AT&T are trademarks of their respective owners, and in no way are affiliated or associated with Unsene, Inc.
Risks and challenges
There are two main risk factors to this project, beside the usual difficulties of developing software for the first time with a virtual team who are in different parts of the world.
1. Scaling. Communications services that work and provide significant value that are freely available are extremely viral. The existence of many other social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and others are leveraged in the service to rapidly make connections. Sending messages to non-Unsene users encourages others to join and use this kind of service.
To deal with this problem, we will be installing our first cluster during July. This will provide redundancy in the event of a single computer failure and usually allow updating of the site and service without interruption to the user. In the future, if our growth warrants, we will have multiple data centers in different locations.
Another way to make scaling more effective is to drive more usage of the peer to peer nature of the network. This pushes the hardware and bandwidth consumption to the place where it can most efficiently be used; the edge of the network (your computer).
2. Security. Because we're running a site that makes security claims, Unsene is a target for hacking. Our experience is that quite a bit of this is friendly hacking and we definitely want to hear if you've discovered any weaknesses in the system so we can rectify them before anyone suffers losses.
For the unfriendly hacking, the best we can do is to use state of the art techniques to defeat these attacks. We start with our security model. We won't store any keys or passwords on our site; they will all be retained by the user. This has the advantage of not having a centralized place for someone to gain access to everyone's keys and account info. It also has the advantage of protecting our users from unreasonable search and seizure. Any messages stored on our server are encrypted (in the event the user has chosen that approach for convenience) and the key needed to decrypt them is retained by the user only. There will be many other security features implemented in our software, hardware and network design.
Help us build the future of security and privacy by making a pledge now


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I had a soyfruit shake veggie burger whole grain bun TADA!!!fool yourself instead of a fattening burger and shake. I figured this out as Friday used to be my fav night to hit a fast food restaurant as a get started to the weekend. Now I plan ahead with healthy fast food alternatives like AMYS burritos YUM.
Don't fool yourself. Your body counts every calorie you put into it. Be honest with yourself and learn how to get control over those problem areas we all have.
Don`t be tempted by bringing junk food into the house,and fooling yourself by thinking you'll beable to eat it in moderation. 29
Don't just estimate your food portions. Use measuring cups and spoons, or even better, buy a digital scale. It is so surprising to find that what you thought was a 'serving' of cereal is really two or three! Same with any calorie dense food - you will be amazed at how you have been fooling yourself!


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East Africa Looks for Strength in Numbers
Gale, Sarah Fister, PM Network
More than three decades after its first attempt fizzled, the East African Community (EAQ is once again positioning itself as an economic powerhouse in Africa. By combining forces, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi and Uganda aim to pull in investment to support and sustain economie growth- and projects- across the region.
The EAC was first founded in 1967, but disbanded 10 years later due to intense political infighting. It was revived in 2000, and in recent years, the consortium has seen steady economic growth. Combined real GDP increased 5,9 percent in 2010, compared to a 4.9 percent global rate. In 2012, the Word Bank predicts EAC economies will expand between 5 and 7.6 percent, with Rwanda and Tanzania leading the pack.
That kind of growth is a powerful step toward the EACs goal of establishing a common currency this year and forming a political federation in 2015. A single currency- patterned after the eurocould ease regional companies' concerns about exchange rates and spur project activity.
The group has already opened up borders of all member states for labor and capital and has a customs union, common market, legislative assembly, bank and court There are even calls to let South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo join the bloc.
As things stand, the efforts have sparked a jump in intraregional trade from US$LS billion in 2005 to US$2.7 billion in 2008, according to a report in Financial Times. "The EAC is the iastestgrowing of all the Africa regional economic communities," Donald Deya, CEO of the Pan African Lawyers Union, told the UK, financial newspaper.
The potential for even more growth is significant The EAC nations have more taan 133 million people, with a combined GDP of US$80 billion.
"We want to make business easier for the business community and, to also make life easier for East Africans," Owora Richard Othieno, head of the EACs Department of Corporate Communication and Public ASairs, told Public Radio International.
Not everyone is quite so bullish on the prospects of the EAC becoming a new project hot spotespecially within the hoped-for schedule.
The EAC leadership's timeline for regional integration is highly unrealistic, says Mark Bohlund, senior economist Sub-Saharan Africa at IHS Global Insight, London, England. "The East African Common Market Protocol is nowhere near implemented, and when the leadership set those targets, they took little notice of their ability to meet them," he explains.
The European Union took close to 50 years to achieve similar results, he says, "and they had superior capacity during that time."
The EAC region is also under renewed pressure to deal with rising security issues, including piracy, cyber crime, terrorism, human trafficking and money laundering. …


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Re: stuff that is plugged in with 13 amp plugs draw less than 300mA anyway.
>Or did you have something else in mind?
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I meant energy lost in the cabling between the end device and the step-down transformer.
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>Or did you have something else in mind?
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I meant energy lost in the cabling between the end device and the step-down transformer.
Eleanor Shaw of Bristol, whose husband is a Maplin regular, said: "I knew he couldn't need that many external hard drives. Deep down, I knew it.
"It even has pulsing disco lights in the window."
>No-one has too many adaptors and never will until someone standardised a low voltage home rail circuit
You do realise that the lower the voltage the larger amount of energy is lost as heat?
At least a good number of my 'wall-warts' are USB-based these days, so phones, mice, tablets, ereaders etc are catered for. Half the time you don't need the wall-wart because there will be a device (PC, TV, stero etc) near by that has a USB socket.
A 12v standard would be nice, but to be honest I don't have much in the way of 12v kit... and in any case, I guess 12v kit might vary too much in the amount of current it draws.
I spent an hour wandering around Maplins last week - again, I didn't actually need anything. After inspecting spray cleaners and lubricants (IPA yes, acetone no, alas), flashlights, something called Sugru, and some self-adhesive magnetic tape, I came away with a USB-OTG cable, three little keyring screw cannisters for storing small things, and a microSD card which was, amazingly, very reasonably priced.
I did notice that they were selling microHDMI > HDMI cables for £45, whereas an independent computer shop near me sells them for £6.00.
Still, being able to get parts for a project the same day is often invaluable.
>Applying updates with no description of what the update is supposed to be doing. And with no idea if these are the final, official updates, or some kind of beta or internal rc release. And no idea if they have any impact on your drivers.
Well, there is only one way to find out, hey?
Seriously though - the sort of people who are keen for these updates would make an image of C:, and just restore it if things go pear-shaped. No problem.
If you want a Chorded Keyboard case for smartphones with Bluetooth, throw some money at this lad - or encourage him to get on Kickstarter:
Maybe Qwerty keyboard are inherently unsuitable for writing text on the hoof? [Discuss! : D]
Chorded typing, a la Microwriter, is fairly quick with one hand, or so I have been led to believe. Has anyone here any experience of it?
This lad has knocked together an Arduino prototype of a chorded keyboard case for smartphones:
>someday I'll be able to e-mail a file to my local 3D fabbing shop for either pick-up or delivery.
You can today, just as you have been able to do so for years.
In the last couple of years we have seen websites such as Ponoko.com aimed at 'hobbyists', whereas previously such services were aimed at, though not exclusive to, commercial users.
Alternatively, search the web for your local 'maker group' and negotiate a price.
3D CAD software has had 'File'> 'Print to...'> [3D printing bureau] for a few years now. Otherwise, STL files usually come in at under the max size allowed by most email services.
Hell, even my local timber yard offers CNC cut materials at around £100 per hour (but their machine is so fast that in reality this service only adds around 20% to the cost of 4' x 8' plywood or MDF).
You're right, most phones have gyroscopes these days. What many phones don't have, but the Moto X does, is a dedicated low power co-processor that can constantly monitor the gyroscopes and microphones for input... if it validates a signal as a deliberate human input it can wake the main CPU.
> [ Shaking the phone ] a surprisingly quick and easy way to fire the camera up. It's not a feature I recall coming across on a mobile phone before which, on reflection, I find surprising.
I would have thought that this feature was a by-product of the same low power chip that also monitors the microphone for 'touchless voice commands', and so is not seen on other phones because they lack the hardware. I might be wrong, but if you are going to include an always-on chip to wake up the main CPU in response to sensor input, this seems a good use of it.
Apple have implemented an always-on low power chip for similar purposes - capturing accelerometer data without waking up the rest of the (new) iPhone.
Rubbish In, Rubbish out.
He covered this in his first post... to stabilise digitally would require a lot of cropping.
I'm not sure that a hub exists that will be let you use MHL and USB-OTG at the same time. Maybe a Bluetooth keyboard is your best bet: (scroll to near the bottom of the thread)
>Really why would a manufacturer design a dash around what seems basically to be a screen that will work only with one type of phone?
It is only being offered as an 'option' on cars - the buyer pays their money, they take their choice. Honda and GM are part of both Apple's 'Carplay' *and* Google's ' Open Automotive Alliance' efforts.
Google is working on a rival system, but one that doesn't require a phone - all the 'brains' are integrated into the car. One can imagine just plugging a Android 'black box' into this Apple-led system to turn it into a Google system.
I've met/known a few very wealthy individuals... one of them, worth billions, comes into work everyday at the engineering company he founded. Before Christmas each year, he spends two weeks travelling to all his sites and greeting every employee - and he listens. He asked one junior assembly worker who didn't recognise him, if anything could be better, and the reply was "Yeah, the f$%king computers are a bit shite". The middle managers, who had failed to escalate the issue, squirmed where they stood, and IT services were in that assembly cell a day later, installing new kit.
The code will remain available, so in essence all this news means is that PrimeSense are no longer supply staff and hosting for the website. It was already known that they would stop selling their sensors.
The Kinect 2.0 already uses a different technology, as does Creative, Intel and others. I don't know what that 3D sensing Google phone (for developers) uses.
Its a little unfair to use this example to compare Taiwan and Texas, since the manufacturing processes are different.
Assuming that delay is not due to component suppliers like Intel or AMD, my guess would be that it is the deep-drawn aluminium enclosure that is causing the delay, only because it is a manufacturing process that takes some fine tuning.
Whilst we're all geeking out on things deep:
It's just assumed that the Rolex in the books is an Oyster Perpetual, since the first book was published a year before the Submariner was released.
Come the first Connery film, Rolex wouldn't lend the production a watch, so they used a Submariner belonging to the film's producer, Cubby Broccoli.
Bond had a few Seikos in the 1980s, between his Rolex and Omega periods. One of them printed out messages, another had a camera and a display - which 007 uses to snap a picture of a lady's décolletage. Looking at the Seiko G757 Sports 100 (device for tracking Fabergé eggs not included), I'm reminded of the Samsung Galaxy Gear watch - especially the four crosshead bolts on the face.
Looks more like the Operation Hennessey Underwater SeaLab from the film the Life Aquatic.
> Apple asks you to buy new hardware for its whole cost because your six years old one is no longer supported, quite not as bad as MS.... ooooh, Apple is so nice to customers....
You're talking about hardware that struggles to play back HD video, FFS... most people have moved on by now.
The only vendor of laptops with 16:10 screens is Apple.
If I'm wrong, PLEASE do include a link!
Eh? The Moto G already runs stock Android, KitKat.
You must have missed Lord Lawson on BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme, then.
>You can always rely on a sculptor to be so arrogantly fixated on their own idea of 'Art' that the subject matter gets completely ignored.
That's not really a problem if you have lots of sculptors submitting proposals for the same commission... it is then the selection panel that chooses the final piece.
Infact, one would use a sculptor *because* they have their own idea of art (you wouldn't expect them to fixate on somebody else's idea of art, surely? It's not as if there is a public consensus on what art is, either); otherwise you'd just use a 3D scanner and a 3D printer to create a mold for casting.
A prison in space?
"Lock Out" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592525/
A rather fun 'Futuristic prison in Spaaaaace' film, written by Luc Besson wearing his competent 'B-movie' hat (so its more comparable to 'Transporter' or 'Taxi' than it is to 'Leon', 'The 5th Element' or 'Angel A')
Not so much in the Chinese domestic market. And who knows, maybe Samsung will continue its bet-hedging strategy and collaborate with others on providing an alternative to Google's proprietry bits of Android - app store, map service, APIs etc.
That said, Google have recently smoothed some ruffled feathers by selling Motorola.
Goto (1971) reports that native speakers of Japanese who have learned English as adults have difficulty perceiving the acoustic differences between English /r/ and /l/, even if the speakers are comfortable with conversational English, have lived in an English-speaking country for extended periods, and can articulate the two sounds when speaking English.
Japanese speakers can, however, perceive the difference between English /r/ and /l/ when these sounds are not mentally processed as speech sounds. Miyawaki et al (1975) found that Japanese speakers could distinguish /r/ and /l/ just as well as native English speakers if the sounds were acoustically manipulated in a way that made them sound less like speech (by removal of all acoustic information except the F3 component). Lively et al. (1994) found that speakers' ability to distinguish between the two sounds depended on where the sound occurred
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0028393271900273 (Abstract)
>You tease, you. So how do you say it?
Probably in a way that can't be expressed using the English alphabet. There are symbols for expressing things like rising tones - see http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/IPA_suprasegmentals_2005.png - but it might just be easier if you find an audio clip on the interwebs.
Even then, there is never any guarantee that hear an audio clip in the same way as a native speaker, specifically if your ears were exposed to the difference between 'rip' and 'lip' during a short period in your infanthood, you will never be able to distinguish them in adulthood (hence many racist jokes about Japanese pronunciation of European words).
If anyone else here was wondering, as I was, what the heck 'nano injection moulding' was:
The grain structure of conventional steel tools has placed a lower limit on the size of features than can be injection moulded. Using metallic glasses to make injection molding tools, one can cheaply produce plastic objects on the centimetre scale, with sub-micron surface features.
"Micro-injection molding is widely used to form plastic components rapidly and precisely. Current tools for injection molding rely largely on steels for their strength and durability. The finite grain size in traditional crystalline metals means it is challenging to produce tools with features < 10 μm (Fig. 1b). However, the need for plastic components with increasingly smaller features is recognized, particularly for information storage and bio-analytical applications.
"Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs), having no limiting microstructure, can be machined or thermoplastically-formed with sub-micron precision while still retaining often-desirable metallic properties such as high compressive strength. These novel materials thus have enormous potential for use as multi-scale tools for high-volume manufacturing of polymeric MEMS and information storage devices. Here we show the manufacture of a prototype BMG injection molding tool capable of producing centimeter long polymeric components, with sub-micron surface features."
Casio used to be fairly clear about their definitions... water resist didn't mean waterproof. Most of their watches (the calculator model aside) were at a minimum 30m water-resistant, and the manual said not to use the buttons whilst it was under water. Then come the 50m models - using the buttons underwater us just fine, apparently - then 100m and 200m waterproof G-Shocks. Of the G-Shocks, some were advertised as being specifically mud-proof, which always puzzled me (maybe mud can get stuck behind the buttons and stop them working?).
There used to be a range of G-Shock phones about ten years ago, but they seemed to for be Japan only.
To be honest, the new features in the S5 (waterproofing) seem less gimmicky than the new features that the S4 introduced (er, Eyeball tracking for pausing videos).
>I really like that to make the battery last longer they restrict it's usage to just basic phone + text - bit of an admission that they do not have the power efficiency that Apple have.
Its not really an admission of anything other than human nature. No matter how big our fuel tanks, some of us will sometimes find ourselves driving along with the needle in the red, trying to cruise at 50mph in 5th in the hope we spot a fuel station soon.
Sony phones have had this sort of feature for a couple of years now.
1. Android is open source, though the app store, maps and many APIs (location services, in-app purchasing etc) are Google's own propriety parts (and Google are encouraging more 3rd party app developers to hook into the proprietry APIs). Samsung would rather do without the closed Google bits, and has a Plan B (its own app store and its own equivalents to Google's mail, maps, notes etc apps) up its sleeve, but so far it hasn't taken the plunge as Amazon have done. Samsung also have a Plan C - Tizen - but its Open Source status is a bit fuzzy.
2. Battery life is a function of two things - the capacity of the battery, and the power draw of the rest of the phone. The newer Qualcomm chipsets, built on a smaller process, have been found to be more frugal than previous generations. True, some users would benefit from bigger batteries (some Motorola phones offered model variations with bigger batteries) but that obviously carries a size penalty. Personally, I get on quite well with little Li-ion battery packs.
3. Durability? They've made it waterproof! Other people here can give you an idea of how scratch/chip-proof the screens on previous Galaxy phones are. As for drop-resistance, this varies from user to user. If a phone is designed to be used by people who spend most of their day in carpeted rooms, yet you work on a building site - stick a case on it. It's physics- there is no escaping that protection against drops means adding thickness to the device, so it's better to let users add the level of protection that suits their situation.
I would imagine that it works much the 'Stamina Mode' on some rivals phones... calls and SMS texts still come through, but not emails etc because the WiFi, GPS and data connections are turned off when the screen is on standby. You can also set the level of battery at which the phone will take certain actions (reduce screen brightness, turn off WiFi etc).
Reviews of the LG G2 - that uses the same chipset as this S4 - highlight its better than normal battery life, and in part attribute this to the Snapdragon 800 process.
The first of the waterproof Xperia phones, the Xperia Go, featured a removable back and battery. I don't know what the seal was made of, but it felt like silicone. Materials technology has moved on, so the days of seals rotting after a few years is largely behind us.
True, wristwatches have to reassembled with great care after a battery change, but then they are rated to 50m submersion (though in practice they rarely see more than a couple of metres of submersion in a swimming pool) and the seals tend to be very thin and delicate.
There are Android phones available in a range of sizes, but most of the smaller (think 'iPhone' sized) models aren't as powerful as their 5" stable-mates. However, Sony make a 4.3" phone with the same quad-core (Snapdragon 800) chipset as this Samsung S5 (as well as the LG G2 and Nexus 5), waterproof and sporting a microSD card port. I'm not recommending it because I haven't used it, but on paper it ticks all the right boxes for some people.
I have used a couple of phones with the Snapdragon 800 chipset, and they are lovely and fast. The £300 Nexus 5 I recommended to my techno-curious old man, and the sheer fluidity of its UI has made it far easier for him to use it without getting frustrated. The one fly in the ointment is that Google have seen fit to make the KitKat phone dialler app 'smarter' than it needs to be, which can cause him confusion.
Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of shaving in this country. The Gillette Mach3 was the razor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-blade razor. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Mach3Turbo. That's three blades and an aloe strip. For moisture. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened—the bastards went to four blades. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling three blades and a strip. Moisture or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to five blades.
- http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades,11056/
>A better question though is, how do we know that this wont be used to spy on....well everyone, who has a device with one of these embedded in it?
Because this system requires either contact with a probe, or close proximity to it.
We citizens already often carry non-contact chips that can identify us - passports, some bankcards, Oyster cards etc, NFC tags - so I'm not sure why this article concerns you so.
There was nothing in the article that suggest that the electronics would suddenly stop working the moment there is a problem with the authentication process. It sounds in principle to be more like an anti-counterfeiting hologram on a piece of branded clothing than it does DRM
It would of course be at the discretion of the engineer (or the guidelines to which he/she is working to) to ground the aircraft if the authenticity of a chip cannot be verified.
>Ask yourself why Skype is very little interested in a Linux client... do you believe FB/Whatspp would be more interested?
Er, because a) Skype is owned by MS, who make money from Windows, a competitor to Windows, and b) Linux doesn't enjoy the desktop market share either of WinXYZ or OSX, according to any of the fuzzy metrics available. As far as I know, a Facebook video chat session could be implemented in an HTML 5 browser.
What'sApp doesn't have a desktop client for any platform AFAIK... though might it work on an Android emulator on a laptop with a SIM? I dunno.
(I may be wrong, i haven't played with Linux for a while)
> Man can't live on data alone.
No, but data means that a farmer can find out what the market price for his produce is, and so not get ripped-off by middlemen.
Basic data services - based on WAP or SMS - have already made a big difference to the lives of people in the developing world. Some people just have their own SIM, and share a phone with other people in their community.
For sure we are data-fat in the developed world, so maybe we forget that a little data can go a long way.
It's not that email is 'too complex' for teenagers, but that it is less efficient (in terms of user interaction) for the sort of messages that people use What'sApp for.
WhatsApp presents a better interface than (the default) email client on Android for exchanging a few quick messages back and forth. If you were to conduct a time and motion study, you'd find it a better tool for the job. You don't need click on 'expand all', for starters.
In addition, SnapChat notifcations result in a different noise and notification-LED colour to emails, so you know that it a message written for you, from someone you know well enough to have your telephone number, and probably relates to something that is happening soon. An incoming email could be from work, SPAM, marketing, or something else that doesn't need your attention.
The lock-in is small compared to some other services, since your friends' unique identifiers - their mobile telephone numbers - is independent of SnapChat. Also, people don't tend to go back over old messages, since it tends to be used for 'conversations' about what time to meet up that afternoon, i.e the messages are of no interest or value six months later.
A few commentards here have expressed a desire in these forums for an Android handset with a smaller screen but still retaining high-end internals. It now looks like the 4.2" Sony Z1 Compact is now available in the UK. Unlike 'mini' variants of the Galaxy S4 or HTC One, the Z1 Compact shares the same chipset (Qualcomm Snapdragon 800), 2GB RAM and camera as its bigger brother. It also has a microSD card slot and is waterproof.
Manufacturing Engineers would be the boys and girls who transform the work of the Industrial Designers into products. The Product Design for Manufacture course was created as an attempt to bridge the traditional gap between the disciplines, by making the designer more aware of the manufacturing processes available - if not to make them an expert in the process, then to at least give them grounding enough that they can communicate with someone who is an expert.
And yet Tom Karen himself didn't like the whole 'fastback' car concept, like the Scimitar and the Ford Capri:
"nothing good to be said for them except that some people think they look all right. Aerodynamically they're lousy, headroom in the back is lousy, for visibility they're lousy, with a lot of glass they're lousy from a weight point of view and they give no boot access"
Still, as you say, though he didn't like the concept he just did his job.
If the designer has their heart set on some unmanufacturable design, they might merely be a frustrated sculptor. Design is the process of satisfying the constraints of cost, function, appearance, ergonomics etc. and some designers take satisfaction from satisfying these constraints in an elegant way. To do so requires a good knowledge of the manufacturing process that will be used.
Still, some designers will end up spending ten years designing the rear of television sets. Glamorous it isn't.
Yet both sold. They were successful designs.
The Robin was a solution to a real problem - people who only had motorcycle licences who wanted to stay warm, especially in the North East of England.
The Chopper was just dead cool, if you were a boy. It stayed in production for over ten years, and is credited with saving Raleigh. In fact it was updated and released a couple of years ago.
>I'm at a loss to think of something a phone's screen will encounter that will scratch sapphire but not diamond.
Two things for starters:
The diamonds on rings and other jewellery.
Diamond particles in the dust created when one uses a diamond circular saw blade.
Hehe! None of my iPhone-owning friends use Siri that much, so I'm not sure how much of a draw a similar system might be for WinPho users. I find the voice recognition system on Android phone surprisingly accurate, yet for some reason it rarely occurs to me to actually use it.
I do like the life-imitates-art aspect of this, though. The fictional Cortana was an AI companion in the game HALO, who acts as a PA and guide to the protagonist (the player), an enhanced 'super soldier'. A lot of the research, later picked up and integrated into Siri and similar systems, was actually conducted by the US military with a view to helping its military commanders make sense of the flood of information that can come their way.
Also, the idea of using a video game to introduce users to a concept is rather fun. After all, the Motorola StarTac wasn't that strange to people who had seen a StarTrek Communicator on the small screen some decades previous.


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And an LA Weekly blogger suggests Wallace will be old news by the end of the week, but says her quote - "bimbo sensibilities" have led to some good in the meantime...
"...one clever responder to the vid that quaked a nation nabbed the best domain name ever...www.ohhhchingchonglinglongtingtong.com, plastered Wallace's own ridiculousness across a plain white T and put it up for sale, with all proceeds directed toward Red Cross Japan."
As for Wallace's education at UCLA, KTLA reports if the school finds she violated school rules, she could be expelled. But some classmates don't think that's necessary.
"The students we talked to aren't pushing for punishment. They think public humiliation which has sent Alexandra into hiding might be exactly what she deserves."
The Asian Pacific Coalition at UCLA told the Daily Bruin the campus should respond with civility- not ignorance- and asks the university to punish Wallace according to the school's conduct code.
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This eight-week summer program, supported by the National Science Foundation, aims to give its participants a clear understanding of the world of mathematics, primarily through firsthand experience. The 2015 program will not be held due to NSF funding issues. Participants are grouped into research teams, led by a graduate student, the program directors, and given added training by a visiting expert. Teams engage in original research, of significant interest and potential impact. Participants receive a generous stipend ($5000 for undergraduates), room and partial board.
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Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy three years ago today. Marketplace's Heidi Moore takes a look back at what happened, and how it's still affecting the economy today.
Europe's economic crisis has deep roots
Sep 13, 2011
The Obama administration is increasingly concerned about the debt crisis in the eurozone. But some of its roots stem from American shores.
Can Bank of America's CEO salvage the company?
Sep 13, 2011
Bank of America announced massive layoffs this week, but the nation's largest bank by assets can't be compared to Lehman Brothers just yet. Still, CEO Brian Moynihan faces tough challenges ahead.
Bank of America's woes hit home
Sep 12, 2011
Again. A report from BofA headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.
Bank of America to cut about 30,000 jobs
Sep 12, 2011
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Sep 9, 2011
The bank, still digging itself out of the financial crisis, plans to cut thousands of workers as it struggles to regain investor confidence.
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Bank of America sells stake in Chinese bank
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Wall Street firms began preparing last week for backup plans in the case of disaster during Hurricane Irene. As the markets open this morning, it seems they avoided catastrophe.
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Infinite Naolin Gold
When you are on the carrier near the end of the game and where you fight Eugene, enter the door with the first-aid symbol (red cross) and search the medicine cabinet for a Naolin Gold. You can search it an infinite number of times and get unlimited Naolin Golds, which you can either use for heals or to sell and get lots of cash.
Extra money ($300,000)
Complete the game once and thensave it. When you load the saved game, you will start with $300,000.
Save money
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Alternate costumes
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November 28, 2015
Geneva County, AL - Each Saturday this summer you can hit the farm trail in Geneva County for what growers call "real food."
Along Route 52, several small family owned farms are opening up so you can skip the middle man and buy directly from the farmer.
They offer everything from organic milk, fresh produce, canned and baked goods.
All of the farms on the trail use environmentally friendly and sustainable farming methods.
They say these are the freshest and highest quality goods you can get.
"It's a little bit different experience. You get to actually come to the farm. You get to see where your food is grown. It's even a little bit different than a farmer's market because you actually get to look at the produce in the field. It's fresh picked. It's more of an experience I guess," said Paula Hennig of Waterberry Farms.
The trail is open each Saturday through July from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Farms on The Route 52 Farm Trail 2012:
Gaucho Farms 1808 S. Watford Rd. Slocomb, AL 36375 www.gauchofarms.com http://www.gauchofarms.com (334) 886 9736
Waterberry Farm 1521 N. Morris St. Slocomb, AL 36375 www.waterberryfarm.blogspot.com (334) 886 2454
Sunset Hill Farm 1779 N. Morris St. Slocomb, AL 36375 1 (334) 886-2800
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In The Evasion you once again take control of Adrian Shephard set shortly after the nuclear bomb that devastated the Black Mesa Research Facility. The Evasion is a small map pack for Half-Life. Development started in July 2011 and thus far is going slow but surely. Despite some hiatuses I plan on finishing it this year.
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very good 10/10 but i am new in desura take 8
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No review.
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Great mod, it actually feels like I'm playing something done by Valve or Gearbox. Only thing different though, was the cutscene at the begining. I've never seen a Half-life game with a cutscene. I would give this a 9/10, but it was too short for a 9/10. But... I'll give you a 10/10 on the level design. Great work!
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First off, the mapping in this mod is exquisite. Looks kind of like something Valve could make, and that's good.
The gameplay is good, although I came across some glitches during my playtime of the mod.
Not really else much to say (because I am sleepy as I am writing this review)
But yeah, I recommend this mod, and you should give it a try.
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The only reason I gave 9/10 because it's short. :D
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this is awesome
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Although this mod was very short and I found 2 glitches while playing through it, I still really like it. The idea of the mod itself is neat, and the mapping is very well done (Everything is very detailed and it didn't feel very linear to me at all.).
One other thing that no one seemed to mention was the ambient music. 2spooky4me.
Anyway, this is definitely worth checking out if you don't mind that it's short.


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Bernhard Alexander
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Bernhard Alexander was a Hungarian/Jewish writer and professor of philosophy and esthetics. He was born in Budapest on April 13, 1850, was educated in his native town, and later attended German universities, pursuing studies in the areas of philosophy, aesthetics and pedagogy. Upon his return to Hungary he was appointed to a professorship in a realschule of Budapest, and in 1878 was admitted as a docent into the faculty of philosophy at the University of Budapest, where he eventually became professor in 1895. Beginning in 1892 he lectured on dramaturgy and esthetics at the National Theater Academy, and on the latter science and the history of civilization at the Francis Joseph Polytechnicum. He was a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Science and a member of the Kisfaludy Society. His chief works are A Filosafia Történetének Eszméje Tekintettel a Történetre Általában (Budapest, 1878); Kant Élete, Fejlödése és Filosofiája (crowned by the Academy of Science, 1889); A XIX. Ázszad Pessimismusa, Schopenhauer és Hartmann (Budapest, 1884, prize essay). Alexander, together with Prof. Józef Bánóczi, later edited the Filosofiai Irók Tára series. Among its volumes were his popular translations, to which he has added annotations, of René Descartes, David Hume, and the Prolegomena to Immanuel Kant. Conjointly with Bánóczi he translated Kant's Kritik der Reinen Vernunft. He was a very active writer on pedagogical subjects. From 1882 to 1886 Alexander edited the pedagogical journal Magyar Tanügy, and in 1891 the review Országos Közepiskolai Tanárok Közlönye.
Alexander died in Budapest in 1927.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jewish Encyclopedia. 1901–1906.
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The country may not have dramatic regional accents, but variants in vocabulary abound.
In opposing Syrian refugees, the Republican presidential hopeful reimagines the Northeast.
If the city seems hardwired for racial strife and segregation, that's partly because the banks have programmed it that way, finds a new study.
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A designer relies on exploration and the knowledge of locals to create a unique series of maps.
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This NOAA map comes with a friendly reminder: It's time to start dreading snow!
There's a headless horseman standing in a pumpkin-spice blood puddle in France.
A new World Health Organization interactive shows where laws are protecting drivers, cyclists, and walkers—and where they're not.
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Nearly half of the city's housing stock is. A new tool will help you find out.
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I have a section in my homepage that shows an "Important Links" section. Links that show up here are the ones that I add through wordpress interface (Write | Links). I am trying to do the same I did with the post section in which I just modify the category in the code
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A night to support the Ohio Herb Education Center
110 Mill St, Gahanna
Friday, May 8, 7-9pm
Herbal Infusions of Food, Beverage & Dessert
Featuring tastings by Wyandotte Winery, Pigskin Brewery & Brothers Drake Meadery
Plant Sale Preview
Only $30/person by Wednesday, May 6, 2015 ($35 at the door)
Space is limited
To Register Click Here
Herb Day Schedule of Events
-Plant sale by the Ohio Herb Education Center featuring over 100 varieties & 3000 plants
-Over 30 vendors with a variety of products and services
-The Herb Center Gift Shop will feature herbal and Ohio-made products
-Herbal, garden-related, and artisan vendors
-Herbal Trail self guided Tours
-Special promotions and offerings at Olde Gahanna businesses
-Paddle Boat rides on Big Walnut Creek, weather permitting
-Herb Day visitors will be treated to the sounds of Casey Redmond from 9 a.m. -12:30 p.m. and the Shaw Brothers from 1-3 p.m. on the Rotary Stage while exploring the hand crafts of regional vendors.
The festival is free and will feature the Franklin County Master Gardeners, keynote speakers and herbal demonstrations, and an herb walk around Creekside Park.
Speakers & Demonstrations
9:30 a.m.
Celebrate Spring with Container Gardening & Herbs
Jennifer Schneller, Ohio Herb Education Center
Spring is here! If you have limited time and space to grow plants, but long for fresh herbs at your fingertips, this class is for you. Join Jennifer Schneller, a landscape architect and Ohio Herb Center staff member. Find out the best combinations of herbs to start in outdoor pots, and what mixture of soil, water and fertilizer will allow them to continue to grow so you can enjoy them all summer long. Take home recipes and start your own container herb garden this spring.
If space is your issue, why not go high rather than wide? Come learn the basics of putting together a vertical container garden that will keep you in the green right through the heat of the summer.
Jennifer is especially interested in the relationship between people and plants, and loves to plan edible landscapes. Her interest in herbs developed out of years of helping people grow useful plants in beautiful ways.
10:30 a.m.
Gardening with Medicinal Plants
Erika Galentin, Medicinal Gardener
Learn proper habitat, soil and light conditions, for growing from seed versus bare root or seedlings and the increased wildlife value the plants will bring to your property as Erika Galentin discusses how to incorporate medicinal plants into a garden or landscape. Erika will be focusing predominantly on native medicinal species such as Echinacea, Butterfly weed, Black Cohosh, and Goldenseal, but will be available for questions regarding non-native species such as Rosemary, Calendula, Hyssop, and Motherwort.
Erika is a Medical Herbalist and ITEC certified Clinical Aromatherapist, who holds a degree in Herbal Medicine from the University of Wales, Cardiff, UK and Scottish School of Herbal Medicine, Glasgow, UK. She is a professional member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (UK) and Pi Alpha Xi National Honor Society in Horticulture (USA). She is former Outreach Coordinator for United Plant Savers and Goldenseal Botanical Sanctuary based in Meigs County, Ohio. Her current vitae includes: Assistant Director of Course Development for the Herbal Academy of New England, Faculty at Mockingbird Meadows Eclectic Herbal Institute and visiting Faculty at Ohio Herb Education Center.
11:30 a.m.
Using Herbs to Create Culinary Magic
Gahanna CVB with Chef Justin Boehme of DaLevee
Meet Chef Justin Boehme, owner of Da Levee, and discover how herbs inspire his cooking. Justin has been in the creole business for 12+ years, is an Army/War veteran and moved to Columbus in 2010--opening DaLevee in the Short North and then the Gahanna location in 2014. He'll be demonstrating how to make a fresh herb butter, fresh herb grilled chicken and a creole sauce.
12:30 p.m.
Introduction to Herbal Brewing: Magic, Medicine & Art
Tara Wetly, L.Ac
For many centuries, we literally drank our medicine- ales brewed with local seasonal medicinal plants. Join Tara Welty, L.Ac. for an elucidating and educational meander through herbal brewing, its history and health benefits. If you can make herbal teas, you can make herbal beers just as easily. Come rediscover a long-forgotten branch of herbal lore!
Tara practices classical acupuncture in Parkersburg, WV. Herbs were her first love and she began her study with them as a child. Her adult education includes training with Eliot Cowan as a Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner as well as study with Kathleen Maier, David Winston and Stephen Buhner.
1:30 p.m.
Herb Walk
Dawn Combs, Mockingbird Meadows
Accompany Dawn Combs on an Herb Walk through Creekside Park. Learn the importance of backyard herbs and why we should rely on homegrown herbs rather than the exotic, more popular herbs. Meet on the upper plaza. Dawn is an ethnobotanist with over 20 years of experience in women's health issues. After resolving her own infertility diagnosis through whole foods and natural herbal remedies, she chose to specialize in helping women rebalance their bodies for fertility.
Dawn is an educator, a contributor to several national magazines, co-owner of Mockingbird Meadows and Director of its Eclectic Herbal Institute. Mockingbird Meadows farm was recently recognized by Mother Earth News as one of their 2013 Homesteaders of the Year, and she is the author of Conceiving Healthy Babies: An Herbal Guide to Support Preconception, Pregnancy and Lactation and new in new this Spring, Heal Local.
2:30 p.m.
Crafting Fresh Tea Wreaths
Janell Baran, Blue Owl Garden Emporium Herb Farm


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CIA-Style Hide and Seek: Exploding Notebooks, Suicide Needles, Rectal Tool Kits and More
The freakiest thing about reading CIA gadget lore is that it's all real. The nerds working for the agency's Office of Technical Services were always devising and building gadgets to get people out of—or into—difficult situations. Here's a rundown of crazy stuff from the Spytech book, not necessarily stuff you'd carry… »


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Judah's King Ahaz
1In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, #2Ch 28:1-4 Ahaz #Is 1:1|NoBook| 7:1 son of Jotham became king of Judah. 2Ahaz was 20 years old when he became king and reigned 16 years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God like his ancestor David #1Kg 14:8 3but walked in the way of the kings of Israel. #2Kg 17:9-10 He even made his son pass through the fire, # Either a Canaanite cult practice or child sacrifice imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites. #Dt 18:102Kg 21:62Ch 33:6 4He sacrificed and burned incense #1Kg 22:17 on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. #Dt 12:2
5Then #2Ch 28:5-6Is 7:1-9 Aram's King Rezin and Israel's King Pekah son of Remaliah came to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but were not able to conquer him. #2Kg 15:37Is 7:1 6At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram and expelled the Judahites from Elath. #1Kg 9:26 Then the Arameans came to Elath, and they live there until today. #2Ch 26:2
7So Ahaz sent messengers #2Ch 28:16 to Tiglath-pileser #2Kg 15:291Ch 5:26 king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son. March up and save me from the power of the king of Aram and of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me." 8Ahaz also took the silver and gold found in the Lord's temple and in the treasuries of the king's palace and sent them to the king of Assyria as a gift. #1Kg 15:192Kg 12:17-18|NoBook| 18:15 9So the king of Assyria listened to him #2Ch 28:21 and marched up to Damascus and captured it. #Am 1:3-5 He deported its people to Kir #Is 22:6Am 9:7 but put Rezin to death.
Ahaz's Idolatry
10King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser #2Kg 15:29 king of Assyria. When he saw the altar that was in Damascus, King Ahaz sent a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction to Uriah the priest. #Is 8:2 11Uriah built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz sent from Damascus. Therefore, by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus, Uriah the priest had completed it. 12When the king came back from Damascus, he saw the altar. Then he approached the altar #2Ch 26:16 and ascended it. 13He offered his burnt offering #Ex 29:40 and his grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his fellowship offerings #Lv 7:11-21 on the altar. 14He took the bronze altar #Ex 40:24 that was before the Lord in front of the temple between his altar and the Lord's temple, and put it on the north side of his altar.
15Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, "Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king's burnt offering and his grain offering. Also offer the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their drink offerings. Sprinkle on the altar all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of sacrifice. The bronze altar will be for me to seek guidance." # Hb obscure 16Uriah the priest did everything King Ahaz commanded.
17Then King Ahaz cut off the frames of the water carts # Lit the stands #1Kg 7:27-28 and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took the reservoir # Lit sea #1Kg 7:23-25 from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pavement. 18To satisfy the king of Assyria, he removed from the Lord's temple the Sabbath canopy they had built in the palace, and he closed the outer entrance for the king.
Ahaz's Death
19The rest #2Ch 28:26-27 of the events of Ahaz's reign, along with his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah's Kings. #2Kg 15:36 20Ahaz rested with his fathers #Is 14:28 and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and his son Hezekiah became king in his place.
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