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Imagine this picture...you turn on your PC, use Google Desktop to find a document, open it in Word 2003 and then print it to your Windows-only printer. A normal Windows users day right? Did I mention this person's OS is free software, is developed by a community and is in active development now?
That's right, there is a Windows replacement in the works (and now partially working!) that plans binary compatibility with Windows XP. That means you can use the same applications, the same drivers and have an easy UI. Talk about having your cake and eating it too!
So what is this free software miracle? It's ReactOS, "providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system." ReactOS is participating in the Google Summer of Code, so it should be getting even better as those projects are handed in.
ReactOS also has a range of screenshots available of the ReactOS shell working with Win32 programs. This is an excellent opportunity for the open source community to band together and get more projects available in this OS. (or maybe get this interoperable with Linux too)
It is an interesting effort
I wrote a little about ReactOS in a blog entry earlier this year. But yes, I agree it is an interesting effort, and has a useful place for those that do develop for Microsoft Windows, in much the same way that the original idea of having a free software based implimentation of Posix did for the Unix/Posix community.
ReactOS 0.3 RC1 is out!
It should include a complete TCP/IP stack, it works with some patched Nvidia drivers, it should include an ext2 driver... And if you can run it, it works well.
Unfortunately, I can't: it doesn't detect SATA drives yet - and all my drives now are SATA :p


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Super potential for super power
Graphene, only one atom thick, has lots of amazing properties. But many of them are proving elusive for real world applications. Shu-jen Han, an IBM researcher, tells how his team has demonstrated a graphene circuit that could vastly improve cell phones. Read more (US).
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Working with more than gut instinct
As the pace of change accelerates and data increases exponentially, gut instinct is no longer enough for good decisions. Brenda Dietrich, an IBM Fellow and vice president, talks about how analytics is helping to make decisions in almost all aspects of modern business and why that's important. Read more (US).
Watson cooks up computational creativity
The cognitive computing system Watson went to work developing new recipes. But its contributions won't stop with food. Lead software engineer Florian Pinel says "computational creativity" can be applied to such diverse industries as travel, financial management and manufacturing. Read more (US).
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Customer expectations for software design have changed drastically over the past few years, and satisfying a list of desired features is no longer enough to gain loyal customers. Phil Gilbert, general manager of IBM Design, says everyone in the development process should make the user their "north star."
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As computers and the Internet become more and more central to daily life, the need for accessibility becomes increasingly important. IBM Fellow and research scientist Chieko Asakawa, herself blind since the age of 14, talks about this vital need.
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Rajasekar Krishnamurthy on finding water's real cost
Around the world there is a backlog of some $1 trillion worth of water projects. One reason for that log jam is the difficulty in obtaining financing for water projects, in part because no one knows the real cost of water in a given area. Developed by IBM, the Water Cost Index is designed to fill that gap. Rajasekar Krishnamurthy explains how it works and why it's important. Read more (US).
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Mobile technology is already transforming the way we work, shop and socialise. That trend will only accelerate; soon connected devices will outnumber Earth's population. Matt Berry, director, Demand Generation and Client Experience for IBM MobileFirst, tells what else to expect. Read more (US).
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Friday 9th September 2016
- Saturday 10th September 2016
Quentin Collins - trumpet/flugelhornJim Watson - piano/keyboards
Moyses Dos Santos - electric bass
Jamie Murray - drums
Click The Video Below For A Taster Of The Late Late Show (actual band on the night varies!)
"We haven't had anything like this in New York for over twenty years". Wynton Marsalis
The Ronnie Scott's Late Late Show!
MONDAY - THURSDAY 11pm-3am
FRIDAY - SATURDAY 1am-3am
£10 in advance, £12 on the door, £6 Students (with ID), FREE entry to MU, Club members and main show ticket holders
In 1959, saxophonist Ronnie Scott opened the door to a small basement club in London's west end where local musicians could jam. Today, it is one of the world's most famous jazz clubs attracting packed houses and the biggest names in jazz and popular music and Ronnie Scott's welcoming, stylish setting is also home to London's coolest late night hang.
Each night Monday to Saturday, after the main act, Ronnie Scott's presents the Late Late Show, where some of the UK's finest jazz talents take to the stage for a late night blowing session.
Quentin Collins – Trumpet & Flugelhorn
"A Trumpeter whose style is a sizzling update
of the Morgan/Hubbard approach."
-MOJO Magazine
Brought up around the sounds of jazz by a music-loving father, Quentin had seen many of the greats by a young age, including Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton & Dave Brubeck. This had a profound influence upon his decision to become a professional musician.
In 20 years as a professional, Quentin has established himself as one of the UK's top Jazz/Commercial trumpeters, having performed, toured and recorded with a plethora of internationally renowned artists across many genres. These include Fred Wesley, Gregory Porter, Mark Ronson, Kyle Eastwood, Omar, Basement Jaxx, Roy Ayers, Alicia Keys, Dennis Rollins and Mulatu Astatke.
Quentin released his debut solo album, 'If Not Now, Then When?', on SunlightSquare Records in 2007. It received much critical acclaim:
"Proving that Collins knows a thing or two about good
song writing, 'If Not Now, Then When?' is an impressively intense debut."
-Jazzwise Magazine
"This debut album by England's top young trumpet master is breathtaking
from start to finish, and is sure to catapult Quentin
to stardom and yet more critical acclaim."
-HMV Magazine
MOJO magazine voted 'If Not Now, Then When?' one of its top jazz albums of 2007.
Quentin currently co-leads QC/BA, a Hammond-organ quartet with tenor sax titan Brandon Allen. QC/BA released their latest album, 'Beauty in Quiet Places', in September 2015 on Ubuntu Music. Some of the comments by the critics are below:
"It's so damn infectious, it's almost impossible to resist!"
-Blues & Soul Magazine
"Provides the listener with a dazzling array of solos from all four musicians,
especially the two leaders."
-UK Vibe Magazine
"From the up-tempo flavour of 'Fuerteventura' through the foot stomping 'Handshake' to
the full-on workout of 'Modal Tranesition', the listener is instantly gripped by
QC/BA's thrilling slant on the post-bop tradition."
-UK Vibe Magazine
"Superb album...absolutely contemporary and of the moment."
-Jazz Views
QC/BA's debut album, 'What's It Gonna Be?', released in May 2011 on Sunlightsquare Records, was greatly acclaimed by the critics.
"This talented quartet get the full five stars, not only for performing brilliantly
here but also for playing the type of jazz few can master - namely bright,
tuneful neo-bop originals that swing from start to finish."
-Jack Massarik, Evening Standard
For the past five years, Quentin has toured the world extensively with the Kyle Eastwood Band. Their latest album, 'Time Pieces', was released worldwide on JazzVillage in April 2015. 'Time Pieces' was the follow-up to 2013's highly acclaimed release, 'The View From Here'. Quentin is prominently featured as a performer and a composer on these two recordings.
Presently, Quentin hosts a twice monthly residency at London's prestigious Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club with his current quartet, featuring Andrew McCormack on piano and Gene Calderazzo on drums. He will be recording a new album during 2016 on Ubuntu Music with this line-up.
Tell us what you think of Quentin Collins Quartet below..


text: For fruit farmers, the sight of birds in the fields doesn't evoke warm fuzzy feelings. Sparrows, starlings, and more can destroy a crop by eating indiscriminately as well as trashing vines and shrubs. Many farmers have explored a variety of techniques for controlling unwanted visitors, incuding firing specialized weapons to scare them, ringing bicycle bells, playing recorded bird alarm calls, and more. See full article.


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Phish played 6 times in February of 87, the first show where good (...) tapes exist was 2/13 at Johnson St. College. Johnson State is about an hour from both Goddard and Burlington, and served as an early show location for Phish gigs. This show came as Phish was transitioning from Hunt's to Nectars and the band is trying hard to please, even bringing the Dude of Life on stage.
Nothing unusual about the Sneaking, Possum opening combo. The Golgi>Slave>Quinn is interesting in that this is probably the shortest Slave ever. The band aborts the lyrics and hard rock middle section and moves straight from the intro to the outro. Golgi>Slave was a common pairing in this era of Phish, but this is a true segue where the band moves into a funky Quinn with some nice work by Page. A pre-degree'd Alumni>LTJP>Alumni has some inspired playing by Trey.
The following Suzy, the first ever, features lyrics by the Dude of Life, who adds an enormously different take on the current vocals. The version goes on for about 9 minutes or so, and it's clear why the band shortened it later. It really sounds like a lovestruck Dude gets his frustrations out, yelling, and ranting. The following Sanity only gives the audience more of the Dude, who just goes crazy, screaming on the top of his lungs. No 'cold and lonely night' part, just the band fading out as the audience hardly applauds out of pure bewilderment.
GTBT is nice, Wilson seems to get the crowd back into the show after the unusual Dude songs. The highlight of this show, however, is the wonderful Melt the Guns> DEG. For those who haven't heard Melt the Guns, you should really give it a listen. It's interesting to note the influence that XTC had over early Phish compositions. The band takes some time to improvise in the center of the song, much akin to Timber Ho, and eventually returns to the theme, while moving into DEG. A chaotic DEG ensues, although I always thought we might as well tag this song as 'Discipline', since it is almost the exact same song (imo).
Fluffhead has the Dude on vocals, and contains the 'Fluff's Travels' section which is played twice underneath the Dude singing about how 'no one really knows what a genius you really are'. After the 2x Fluff's Travels, we return to the Fluffhead signature ending with the Dude yelling and screaming but little Trey solo.
Hood is, at this point, pretty solidified in its song structure and the band moves through it very similarly to how it does today, albeit with the longer 90's style ending.
Sound quality for this show suffers, so it's pretty hard to listen to it without some experience dealing with bad audio. Check out the Melt the Guns> DEG, the highlight of the show for sure. The Dude's songs are also an interesting novelty; he's really quite animated.


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CONCORD -- The principal of Carondelet High School has apologized for a "racially insensitive" menu of fried chicken, watermelon and cornbread planned in honor of Black History Month.
"I'd like to apologize for this announcement and any hurt this caused students, parents or community members," Nancy Libby, principal of the girls' Catholic school, said in a letter issued Tuesday. "Please know that at no time at Carondelet do we wish to perpetrate racial stereotypes, and we indeed work diligently to do just the opposite."
In a second letter that went home with Carondelet students Wednesday, Libby said she was sorry about the "very unfortunate incident" she said prompted difficult discussions with some parents.
Announcement of the lunch menu over the school's public address system on Monday immediately upset teachers and students, Christina Ditzel, Carondelet's communications director, said Thursday.
"We're absolutely very upset that this happened," she said. "It never should have because it does not go along with what we teach here and who we are; and it never would have been approved by any of the administration or teachers."
The Black Student Union, which is run through De La Salle High School -- the neighboring boys' Catholic school -- and includes members from both campuses, wanted to do something to celebrate Black History Month, according to Ditzel.
Libby's letter was not specific about how the menu decision was made but mentioned that "adults made mistakes causing this situation and that we were doing our best to learn from those mistakes and to bring that knowledge to the CHS experience."
The dishes are no longer on Friday's lunch menu, said Libby, who added that administrators hope to hold a diversity assembly for faculty and students later this month. She also said student and faculty leaders will ensure future cultural celebrations are about "more than food," and include history, tradition, music and dance.
"We are addressing the communication breakdown and using this incident to raise awareness about cultural sensitivity and diversity, so such incidents never again occur in the Carondelet community," Ditzel said in a written statement Thursday.
Lisa P. White covers Concord and Pleasant Hill. Contact her at 925-943-8011. Follow her at Twitter.com/lisa_p_white.


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The business notebook you can rely on
The Samsung Series 4 Business Notebook is the perfect professional laptop. With features such as the impressive next generation Intel® Processor, new PowerPlus battery life, the SuperBright LED display, it's ready to transform your workday. Samsung has also added extra protective features to ensure that you work is given the security it deserves; it combines a robust Duracase Pro chassis with a biometric fingerprint scanner for total assurance. And with a new easy-to-use ComfortErgo-Plus keyboard, work will never have seemed so efficient or enjoyable.
- With its outstandingly rugged design, advanced power efficiency and sophisticated security, the Series 4 notebook has everything you need to protect your valuable business information from the risks of everyday worklife.
- The Series 4 notebook is the ideal choice if you like to play things safe, as it is designed to meet the highest quality standards - ensuring you get the maximum long-term return on your investment.
- The Series 4 notebook's high performance technology, antireflective screen and rapid startup make it the ideal choice for any workforce that needs to get things done fast - anytime and anywhere.
- The Series 4 notebook is designed to increase productivity and simplify life on the move with its effortless usability and advanced connectivity and communication capabilities.
Engineered to last
Protect productivity and reduce costs with a robust Duracase Pro chassis, which incorporates a solid metal hinge and spill-resistant keyboard. They're proven to protect the notebook against drops of 76cm, up to 500kg force on the display enclosure, and minor spills on the device. And the anti-shock HDD with free fall sensor can also survive drops over 76cm.
PowerPlus battery
Samsung's intelligent battery charging technology enables the battery to keep 70% of its original capacity for up to 1000 recharges - that's up to 3x longer than a typical battery, which is normally just over 300 cycles. Making our batteries more economical and environmentally friendly as fewer batteries need to be replaced over the lifecycle.
SuperBright* LED Display
The anti-reflective LED display has no mirror effect and produces the sharpest images with 300nit brightness, which is up to 40% brighter than normal laptops. Get outstanding picture quality and text readability, even when you're outdoors. And that means you can work longer without straining your eyes.
Powered to perform
Get things done faster with blistering processing power and graphics performance - using the latest Intel® Core™ processor technology and powerful NVIDIA graphics card* or Intel HD* graphics. Experience faster office tasks and web browsing, even for the most demanding applications, and enjoy a more productive and a happier workforce. * Factory option. * 12" supports Intel HD only
Always protected
Enjoy complete peace of mind with a secure biometric Fingerprint Reader that protects your data without passwords and a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) that encrypts files and folders. Even if the notebook is lost or stolen powerful anti-theft software* lets you remotely track, control and lock the device. * All security features are factory options. * Anti-theft service fee applies.
Fast Start
Instant on - get started within a few seconds of opening the display or pressing the power button. An innovative hybrid sleep mode combines the fast start-up of sleep with the stability of hibernation, so you don't have to wait 30 - 60 seconds for the notebook to boot-up.
Ergonomic assurance
Enjoy easier typing and fewer errors using a responsive ComfortErgo- Plus keyboard, ergonomically designed with optimised key sizes and spacing so it feels as comfortable as using a desktop keyboard. It also features a larger touchpad, that's bigger than other notebooks, and an integrated TrackPoint so you can work even faster and smarter.
Quick and simple expansion
Save time and connect a range of other devices, such as a larger monitor, regular keyboard and mouse, printer and extra ports, with one simple click using the integrated docking station connector*. There's no mess of cables, so when you need to move just grab the notebook - and go! * Optional full docking solution.
Connecting your business
You can rapidly backup and share information using a high-speed USB 3.0* connection that's 10x faster than USB 2.0. Or quickly access data from other devices with the integrated Express Card 34mm slot.
Quality you can trust
Samsung manufactures up to 75% of our notebook components, using stringent quality control to ensure maximum performance and reliability. We've been voted "What Laptop" Best Laptop Manufacturer of the year, No.1 in "PC Pro" UK Customer Satisfaction (2007 - 2010), No.1 for Service & Support in Germany (2008 - 10) and No.1 for Service in China.
- Product Description
- Samsung Series 4 400B5C-A01 - 15.6" - Core i3 3110M - 4 GB RAM - 500 GB HDD
- Product Type
- Notebook
- Operating System
- Win 7 Pro 64-bit
- Processor
- Intel Core i3 (3rd Gen) 3110M / 2.4 GHz / 3 MB Cache
- Memory
- Storage
- 500 GB HDD / 5400 rpm
- Optical Drive
- DVD SuperMulti
- Display
- 15.6" LED backlight 1366 x 768 / HD
- Graphics
- Intel HD Graphics 4000
- Networking
- 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1 , Gigabit Ethernet
- Battery
- 6-cell - up to 6.4 hours
- Dockable
- Yes
- Security
- Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Security Chip , fingerprint reader
- Colour
- Matte black
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 37 cm x 24.83 cm x 3.53 cm
- Weight
- 2.5 kg
- Microsoft Office Preloaded
- Includes a pre-loaded image of select Microsoft Office 2010 suites. Purchase an Office 2010 Product Key Card or disc to activate preloaded software on this PC.
- Localisation
- United Kingdom
- Environmental Standards
- ENERGY STAR Qualified EPEAT Gold
- Manufacturer Warranty
- 1 year warranty
- Product Type
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- Operating System
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Processor / Chipset
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- Number of Cores
- Dual-Core
- Cache
- 64-bit Computing
- Yes
- Chipset
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- 4 GB ( 1 x 4 GB )
- Max RAM Supported
- Technology
- Speed
- 1600 MHz
- Main Storage
- 500 GB HDD / 5400 rpm
- Interface
- SATA 3 Gb/s
- Optical Drive
- DVD±RW (+R double layer) / DVD-RAM
- Type
- 15.6"
- LCD Backlight Technology
- LED backlight
- Resolution
- 1366 x 768 ( HD )
- Widescreen
- Yes
- Features
- SuperBright, anti-reflective
Audio & Video
- Graphics Processor
- Intel HD Graphics 4000
- Memory Allocation Technology
- Dynamic Video Memory Technology
- Camera
- Integrated webcam
- Resolution (MP)
- 1.3 Megapixel
- Sound
- Stereo speakers , microphone
- Type
- Keyboard, touchpad, pointing stick
- Wireless
- 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1
- Network Interface
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Technology
- 6-cell
- Capacity
- 66 Wh
- Run Time
- Up to 6.4 hours
Connections & Expansion
- Slots
- 1 x PC Card ( 1 free )
- Interfaces
- VGA , HDMI , Headphone output , Microphone input , 2 x USB 3.0 , 2 x USB 2.0 , Dock , LAN
- Memory Card Reader
- 7 in 1 ( SD Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, MultiMediaCard, xD-Picture Card, MMCplus, SDHC Card )
- Microsoft Office Preloaded
- Includes a pre-loaded image of select Microsoft Office 2010 suites. Purchase an Office 2010 Product Key Card or disc to activate preloaded software on this PC.
- Colour
- Matte black
- Dockable
- Yes
- Security
- Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Security Chip , fingerprint reader
- Localization
- United Kingdom
Dimensions & Weight
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 37 cm x 24.83 cm x 3.53 cm
- Weight
- 2.5 kg
Environmental Standards
- EPEAT Compliant
- EPEAT Gold
- ENERGY STAR Qualified
- Yes
Manufacturer Warranty
- Service & Support
- 1 year warranty
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Download Master is an easy-to-use and effective download manager. It uses intellectual multi-section download to provide the best possible performance for all connection types. The acceleration is achieved by splitting a file being downloaded into several parts and downloading these parts at the same time.


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but Psst seems to have broken with 10.5.5 (or atleast my computer has some issues with the chime with this update)
poobums. these links just produce a bunch of germanic type 404 errors. anyone able to upload or email me this software? tnx.
this app is definitely great for students like myself. after installing, it has saved me many awkward moments in class - i just wish i had found it sooner!
Thanx cavygnaw - I just corrected it!
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PHOENIX -- A woman charged with killing her lover in Arizona is set to continue testifying for a fifth day Tuesday, a day after she broke down in tears describing how her relationship with the victim included satisfying his "deviant" sexual urges and how he once beat her, kicked her in the ribs and broke her finger.
Jodi Arias, 32, also claimed Monday that Travis Alexander was a pedophile, and said she once caught him masturbating with pictures of boys, including one of a 5- or 6-year-old boy in his underwear. She said he gave her little boy's Spider-Man underwear on Valentine's Day.
"He wanted me to wear boys' underwear and have sex," Arias said. "He just said it was 'hot.'"
Investigators were expected to testify that no evidence of child pornography was found on Alexander's home or computer. Alexander's friends and family glared at Arias while she testified and said afterward that she was lying.
Arias has spent four days on the witness stand recounting her troubled childhood marred by abuse at the hands of her parents, a string of bad relationships, and how Alexander belittled her, cheated on her, called her derogatory names and used her to fulfill his sexual fantasies.
Arias told jurors Monday that she continued to date Alexander, even while believing he was cheating on her, because she had low "self-esteem."
"I was kind of a doormat," Arias said, staring sheepishly at jurors.
She later explained how Alexander once beat her, pushed her to the ground, kicked her in the ribs and broke her finger, then in a theatrical moment for the jury, raised her hand to display her crooked digit.
Arias testified she never sought medical treatment because she was worried authorities would get involved, and that Alexander instead made a split for her hand at his home. She said she was later ashamed of herself.
"I used to think that women in situations like that, that it was partially, if not equally, their fault because they kept staying there," Arias said. "I went home and was disgusted with myself. I thought, 'Great, now I'm one of those people.'"
She also described how she once awoke from sleeping in his bed to find the victim having sex with her, an incident for which she felt responsible.
"I went to sleep next to him. I was wearing a T-shirt, cute shorts," Arias said.
She has repeated throughout her testimony that Alexander made her feel like a prostitute, and how she fulfilled his fantasies, including wearing boy's underwear and having sex in public.
Julie Haslem, a friend of Alexander's who has been watching the trial, called Arias' testimony "ridiculous."
"She can say whatever she wants, but Travis isn't here to speak for himself," Haslem said outside the court. "It's bad enough that she took his life. Now she's trying to take his reputation, too."
During previous testimony, Arias described for jurors how Alexander made repeated sexual advances while converting her into the Mormon faith during their initial courtship. She said she didn't tell him to stop, but the sex made her uncomfortable because she felt it violated the teachings of Mormonism.
She said she first met him in Las Vegas in late 2006, and that they stayed together for about five months before she broke it off, but they continued to see each other for sex.
Arias claims she went to Alexander's home on June 4, 2008, the day of the killing, at his urging. Alexander's friends said she stalked him and became possessive and jealous.
Authorities said they found Arias' hair and bloody palm print at the scene, along with time-stamped photographs in a camera discovered inside Alexander's washing machine. Investigators also say Alexander was shot in the head with a .25 caliber gun, the same caliber Arias' grandparents reported stolen from their Northern California home.
Arias faces the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder.


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Dividers & CompassesDividers
These objects include "plain" dividers, which consist of just the legs, and "wing" or "bow" dividers, which have a crosspiece that may be used to adjust the precision of the instrument and fix its width in place. Most of the oldest instruments in the overall group are dividers.
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Wing Dividers
- Description
- These brass and steel dividers are joined by a ball-shaped hinge. The steel pointed tips of each leg are approximately 3-1/2" long. The brass portions continue for nearly another 9". A brass arc, or wing, with a circumference of approximately 8-1/2", joins the legs. A butterfly screw allows the arc to be removed. A wing nut tightens the adjustable leg so that the dividers are set in position. On the outsides of the legs, below the two screws, the dividers are stamped with wheels that have six spokes and a small circle at the center. According to a note in the accession file, this mark represents the heraldic symbol of the city of Osnabrück, Germany.
- Dividers are alternatively called (non-drawing) compasses, or Zirkel in German. Draftsmen used them to measure distances and to create circles. This pair was probably manufactured in the 18th century.
- Reference: Maya Hambly, Drawing Instruments: 1580–1980 (London: Sotheby's Publications, 1988), 69–79.
- date made
- 1700s
- ID Number
- accession number
- 248674
- catalog number
- 322756
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center


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The Lightning's Blade clan was one of the many that inhabited Draenor, and was left behind by the Horde during its conquest of Azeroth. After the war, Ner'zhul attempted to reforge the Horde with a promise of new worlds, and managed to attain the partial loyalty of the Lightning's Blade.[1] It has strong ties to both the Blackrock and Thunderlord clans.[2] (W2Man 91)
In World of WarcraftEditThis section concerns content exclusive to World of Warcraft.
There are two servers called Lightning's Blade:
The game manual for Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal refers to the Lightning's Blade clan as an ally of the Thunderlord clan. Nothing more was known about the clan besides this. Some fans believed that the clan's name was simply a mistake, and that the intended reference was to either the Twilight's Hammer clan or Burning Blade clan. However, one of the World of Warcraft realms is named Lightning's Blade, clearly implying that the clan does exist or existed at one time. In recent Warcraft novels such as Beyond the Dark Portal, however, the Lightning's Blade is confirmed to exist, and served Ner'zhul's Horde.


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VARESE, Italy – Every day during the Islanders men's basketball team's overseas tour in Italy, GoIslanders.com will bring you Postcards from Italy – a combination of photos from the day's activities and a brief recap on the events from members of the men's basketball team.
In today's installment, we check in with junior James King to get his thoughts on the team's first game and a day in Varese.
Yesterday after practice we got to hang out in downtown Varese at their square - like a marketplace. It was full of clothing stores, restaurants, and cafés. It was a different experience because the roads we walked on were actually streets and cars would just roll down the road without warning. It was just a different experience than what I was used to.
After lunch downtown, we had a considerable amount of time to rest before our game. I spent much of my time reading and relishing the view I had out of my bedroom balcony, which overlooks the town of Varese and a range of the Alps, a beautiful sight.
The game's atmosphere was very optimistic even though we were a visiting team, the crowded packed the stadium and there wasn't even standing room left in the gym! I expected that we wouldn't have any fans when we played, but to my surprise many Italians were cheering for us after our good plays.
After the game, fans wanted pictures, autographs, handshakes, etc. It was really comforting knowing they enjoyed our presence on the court just as much as we enjoyed being in their country. I came into the country two days ago with no preconceptions of how I would be treated, but now, other than the occasional "Look, It's an American!" stare, I believe I am in the country of great people.
-James King
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In today's fairly straightforward episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur Froid wonders why so many people have a problem with linear gameplay.
Why do so many people dislike linear gameplay? If I'm going to buy a game, then I want for it to have a good story as well as good gameplay. Movies are linear, books are linear...why can't games be linear, too?
A lot of the time people use the map of one of the DOOM games juxtaposed against a fake map of a modern FPS, showing the mass amounts of corridors and walkways next to a single path cut up with cutscenes. This picture is used more often than not to poke fun at the 'problem' with modern FPS games. Why is it a problem, though?! I enjoy these games *because* they are action-packed stories with pretty visuals. Yes, it's linear...but that's not a dirty word. It just means that there is a story that the developers made for you. Take the time to enjoy it, I say.


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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that's working on Thanksgiving so all our peeps here on the Summit will have something fresh to peruse this morning with their morning coffee.
In honor of this here traditional holiday, we thought we'd give y'all a few fun Turkey Day facts. Ahem, here it goes.
> In the U.S., roughly 280 million turkeys are sold for the annual celebration. Dang, that's a heck of a lot of bird.
> Each year, the average American eats somewhere between 16-18 pounds of turkey.
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News 12 First at Five / Wednesday, March 6, 2013
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WRDW) -- The news has spread, and it doesn't look good for North Augusta.
"We knew it was going to be real close with the school board. That's where we thought the fight was," said Mayor Lark Jones. "Then, when the county voted against doing it last night, that's put us on life support."
On Tuesday night, the financing plan to bring the Augusta GreenJackets to North Augusta, along with a hotel and restaurants, was shot down by the Aiken County Council.
Councilwoman Kathy Rawls moved to deny it, and it was seconded by Councilwoman Lawana McKenzie. Councilman Scott Singer and Willar Hightower later joined them in the vote to deny it.
Councilman Chuck Smith strongly supported the TIF. He said the jobs are needed after the announcements of furloughs and possible layoffs at Savannah River Site. Chairman Ronnie Young and Sandy Haskell joined him in support.
Newly-elected Councilman Andrew Siders abstained. He told Chairman Young that he did not know enough about the TIF to vote on it properly.
News 12 asked Mayor Jones what the next steps are.
"The overwhelming majority of the community supported it," Jones said. "The sad thing about the whole thing is that this was a huge project for North Augusta."
Councilman Singer and others said they'd be willing to support the proposal if tax rates for property inside the TIF would be frozen at current levels. Right now, they're frozen at 1996 levels, which is when the Hammond's Ferry TIF was originally established.
Mayor Jones says City Manager Todd Glover has been in talks with the developer, Atlanta-based Greenstone Properties.
"I've talked to Todd this morning, and he's already heard from them. Basically, he called them, I think, to tell them the vote did not go as anticipated," Jones said.
Glover told News 12 there's still no plan, and they haven't decided on anything right now.
However, Mayor Jones says the ultimate goal still stands.
"The ultimate goal is large-scale development down there, and hopefully, that will still happen," he said.
And he says that'll happen even if a ball park isn't included.
"I would say everything's on the table. At this point, everything may be off the table," Jones said.
In a release late Wednesday afternoon, the developer for project says he is very frustrated by the vote. He says the project is not dead and that the vote to deny is just a setback. He says the company will get with North Augusta to amend the proposal and move forward. However, the TIF would still need approval from Aiken County Council, the Aiken County Public School District and the City of North Augusta.


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VAIL, Colorado - The Vail International Hockey team travels two directions, far east and farther east.
They left Wednesday morning for their latest adventure, this one in China. Once in China they'll travel about the same distance as Florida to Alaska and play six games along the way. The hockey is nice, but the travel is better.
Merv Lapin started the whole thing in 1985. More than 600 people have come along for the 10 trips to either to China or Eastern Europe. This one is his last, he said, but the trips will continue. Eric Eves took over the program.
"The purpose is to show the kids there's another world out there," Lapin said.
The kids learn a little history, some culture, and how China's culture goes back 5,000 years.
"It opens their eyes to how good we have it here," Lapin said.
Merv started it because he loves to travel, he said.
The players and chaperones will visit Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Terracotta soldiers, take a Li River cruise and visit some small farming towns.
Then there's the hockey. Each team plays six games along the way, facing off in cities like Beijing, Harbin and Qiqihar.
In each one of those cities the Vail Valley kids spend time with the Chinese hockey players they're playing against, going to their homes and getting a first-hand look at life in China.
Jackson Sandell will head home with Chinese player Ni Tianyu. So far, plans include lunch and some sight-seeing by bicycle around Beijing.
"It will be such an eye-opening experience for these kids," said Harry Sandell, Jackson's dad.
Eric Eves took the trip when he was a high school player. He's going back to China with this group as a coach and chaperone.
"For me the exchange is the best part of the trip. I very much enjoy seeing the youth break down cultural barriers and step out of their comfort level. For me at 14 years old it was a life-changing experience," Eves said.
Vail International Hockey is one of the only groups that has the Chinese government's permission for home visits. In the 1980s, Lapin helped the Chinese government set up their youth hockey programs. Chinese officials were grateful and the local kids are the benefactors.
Kids have to write a paper about one part of their trip.
"When they go to the site they'll be better educated about it," Lapin said.
It takes three years to raise the $4,200 each kid needs, and they have to raise it themselves. The parents are not allowed to pay for it.
They sold bedding plants in the spring, poinsettias at Christmas, sold themselves as day laborers for the Hire a Hockey Player program, skated hundreds of laps in skate-a-thons, they worked the community rummage sale.
They'll return Jan. 4.
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Indonesian Oil and Gas is Going Local
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By Faisal Maliki Baskoro
Indonesia is becoming slightly less dependent on foreign investment in developing its oil and gas sector, as shown by the increasing number of local investors.
According to SKMigas, a temporary oil and gas regulatory body at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, the total committed procurement value in the oil and gas sector reached $13.74 billion.
"Around $8.5 billion, or 63 percent, from that procurement is using local content. We are committed to increasing the use of domestic products to develop our oil and gas sector," Gerhard Rumeser, deputy general affairs director at SKMigas, said in a statement on Tuesday.
The committed procurement value in 2011 was $11.81 billion, with local content accounting for 61 percent.
The increased local content is partly contributed by state companies as they are engaging more and more in Indonesia's oil and gas exploration and production. Gerhard said that this year, state-owned enterprises accounted for $1.69 billion of procurement value, up from $630 million last year.
"In order to protect national interests and to promote domestic participation in the oil and gas sector, we have issued a regulation stating that foreign companies must partner with a national-scale local company to participate in procurement tenders. This regulation is proven to be effective," he said.
Local banks are also encouraged to participate in the oil and gas sector. The government has also made a regulation saying that all procurement transactions use local banks.
According to SKMigas data, in 2009 local banks booked a transaction of $3.97 billion related to oil and gas procurement. Local banks have booked a total transaction of $22.15 billion cumulatively through November.
SKMigas is also looking into ways to make costly procurement less expensive. The government regulatory body claimed it has saved $123.97 million in the first half of this year by arranging joint procurement and asset optimization.
"Last year, we managed to save $103.5 million. We are optimistic that we can exceed our target of $125 million this year," said Hadi Prasetyo, SKMigas head of public relations, security and formality.
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Food marketing to kids is a very controversial subject. There have been many different studies done that do show that all the characters and computer games and TV commercials influence kids to beg their parents for foods we'd probably rather they not eat. And there have been many "agreements" between food companies that have them pledging to change their marketing strategies when it comes to bad food and kids. Most of those pledges aren't technically broken, as food companies find different ways to get their messages across to the youngest among us. Fast food companies make attempts at making their children's meals healthier, but somehow or another those fries seem to sneak back into that Happy Meal. Are the food companies intentionally sidestepping responsibility? And what about that Happy Meal anyway?
When Ronald McDonald was first introduced to America in the 1960s, he wore a magic belt that dispensed an endless supply of hamburgers.
But today, according to both food advocates and McDonald's CEO Don Thompson, America's most recognizable clown won't go near a Big Mac.
"You don't see Ronald McDonald in schools. You don't see him eating food," Thompson said Thursday at the company's annual shareholder meeting, according to multiple reports.
This, health activists say, is so McDonald's can deflect criticism that it willfully markets the unhealthy food to children.
"They think that by not having him consume the food, it's not encouraging kids to patronize the brand," said Jesse Bragg of Corporate Accountability International, a food advocacy group that has been pushing for Ronald's retirement for years.
In the past, said Bragg, McDonald's has been criticized for having Ronald visit schools to teach phys ed and appear in connection with charities that work on behalf of sick children.
The company has kept Ronald at arm's length from its food for years now, nutrition advocates say.
"At least since they joined the Better Business Bureau program in 2006, they've been saying they wouldn't use Ronald McDonald to sell food," said Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a group that says it helped persuade McDonald's to join an inititative run by the BBB that sets nutrition standards for advertising food to children under 12.
And Ronald's abstemious habits may go back much further than that. Geoffrey Giuliano, who portrayed Ronald in public appearances in the late 1970s and early 1980s and is today an outspoken critic of the company, once said in an interview that he "was never allowed to eat the food" while in character because it would have been "unseemly."
In 2007, Jim Skinner, then CEO of McDonald's, told Reuters that "Ronald McDonald has never sold food to kids in the history of his existence."
When asked if it was official policy to keep Ronald McDonald away from the food he was created to promote, McDonald's spokeswoman Becca Hary said only that "when Ronald McDonald appears in public, he is focused on spreading joy and smiles." Hary declined to comment on how long this has been the case.
Marketing experts say it doesn't really matter whether Ronald is ever actually seen eating in public: Kids will still associate him with Big Macs and Happy Meals.
"Kids are hardwired to think that he equals McDonald's," said branding strategist Adam Hanft, founder of the marketing firm Hanft Projects.
"There's a test in marketing where they put people under a full magnetic resonance imaging machine, like a brain scan essentially, and they show people images, and different parts of the brain light up," Hanft said. "If you showed kids Ronald McDonald, all the reward centers of the brain would go crazy like July 4th. Because he equals the hamburger."
Ronald McDonald doesn't sell food? His sole purpose is to spread joy and smiles? FoodFacts.com doesn't remember Toucan Sam eating Froot Loops. Snap, Crackle and Pop never ate Rice Krispies. They still sold products. Ronald McDonald isn't an ambassador of goodwill — he's the mascot for McDonald's hamburgers. That's not a smiley face embroidered on his pocket — he wears the golden arches on his jumpsuit.
Come on McDonald's, we may be gullible, but we are smart enough to understand why the big guy exists. And even if the kids don't realize it, when they see him they ask their moms for a hamburger.


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By Jens Hansegard
The Swedish fashion giant H&M today threw open the doors to its new "& Other Stories" store in Stockholm. The store, which has been described by some as the most Swedish of H&M's home-built brands, is the latest addition to the retailer's growing portfolio of brands that kicked off with the launch of COS in 2007.
Pernilla Wohlfahrt, Head of New Business at H&M, said Friday that "& Other Stories" started out as a beauty products brief some two and half years ago. But as the team worked on the beauty brief, they couldn't help but add new items to the concept. They added accessories, then shoes and finally clothing as well. Finally it was decided to simply make a brand new chain of stores.
The project has been surrounded by a lot of secrecy and even more curiosity, and people involved with it say they have signed non-disclosure agreements under threat of astronomical fines.
But earlier this year, the details of the new concept were finally revealed, and the stores have begun opening.
The basic rationale for multi-branding is that a broader brand portfolio cuts risk by diversifying and that new concepts reach new shoppers. "I believe the H&M customer will shop at & Other Stories—but I also think we'll reach new customers, just like we did with COS," Ms. Wohlfahrt said.
Building new brands is a tactic employed by H&M's big rival Spanish Inditex, which has seven chains beyond its main chain Zara, including Massimo Dutti. But analysts say that new concepts divert attention and that H&M's leadership should focus on making the H&M stores work instead, a point that has become extra poignant after five consecutive months of declining comparable sales.
Also, there are questions just how much value the new chains add. Massimo Dutti, which has been around for 20 years and has some 500 stores, only contributes about 7% to Inditex's sales. So it will take many years for H&M's new chains to add more than a blip. On the other hand, there is the public attention that new brands attract, attention that can spill over to raise awareness about H&M in general.
& Other Stories, which has two design teams based in Stockholm and Paris, has been billed as a more upmarket destination, and picks up price-wise where H&M ends off.
Store openings now await in Paris, Barcelona, Milan and Berlin in coming weeks. And Ms. Wohlfarth doesn't rule out that & Other stories will open U.S. stores in the future. "I definitely think this concept would work very well in the US […] I think there are women who want to have this shopping experience on all markets," she said.
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AVON, Colorado-- At least 20 people gathered around a crab apple tree in Avon Wednesday afternoon to get a closer look at a young bear who stopped for a meal.
The bear was in the area behind Avon Plaza and 51 Beaver Creek Place, where employees and owners at surrounding businesses had seen him Tuesday afternoon around the same time. He climbed a crab apple tree in front of Domino's Pizza and was eating the fruit, seemingly unfazed by the gawkers who gathered at the intersection of East Beaver Creek Boulevard and Beaver Creek Place to take photos and stare.
One woman drove by in an Audi wagon and yelled at a woman who was taking a photo of the bear.
"You're the reason why they get put down," the woman yelled as she slowly drove by. "You should be ashamed of yourself."
Avon police officer Avon Police Officer Jonathan Lovins arrived and dispersed the crowd just before the bear came down from the tree and climbed up another tree nearby, he said. The bear then scurried off behind Avon Plaza, and then behind Buck Creek Plaza.
"I lost sight of it - I was trying to follow it," Lovins said.
The bear had been seen on a roof at Avon Plaza earlier before it attracted a crowd around the crab apple tree.
"He's just sitting in the tree, munching," said Jon Beckman, who works at Domino's Pizza.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife was called but an officer didn't make it out in time before officers lost his trail, Lovins said, adding that the bear looked in an open back door of a business and an employee inside shooed it away.
The bear didn't appear to be tagged, Lovins said.
"If they get trapped, they get tagged - they only get so many chances," he said. "No one wants to see a bear put down."
Lovins is referring to the two-strike policy. Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Mike Porras said the policy means that a bear that is relocated one time gets tagged. If that same bear ends up in that same situation again, then it's euthanized.
'A bear is just being a bear'
Porras said the department doesn't always respond to every bear call because there are many times "when a bear is just being a bear."
"A bear eating fruit out of a crab apple tree is generally not something we would be concerned about," Porras said, adding that if that bear gets aggressive or gets into trash consistently, officials become more concerned about its threat to public safety.
The worst thing people can do when they see a bear is to crowd around it and make it nervous, Porras said. Unfortunately, that's exactly what many of the people checking out the bear Wednesday were doing.
"It's usually not a threat unless it feels cornered or threatened, or if they've become habituated to human food," Porras said.
Basically, if bears start to associate humans as sources for food, the danger increases.
"The best thing people can do is leave it alone," he said. "Bears are nomadic; they move - they won't stay in one spot too long."
Bears who do hang around for a long time and cause problems are concerning, though, which is why some local employees were worried about the Avon bear's fate Wednesday.
"He's not ferocious - he just must have no food," said Kathy Martin, who works at the UPS Store.
Tracy Sample, a manager at Venture Sports, said the bear "wasn't bothering anyone at all." She was sad at the thought that the bear's quest for food could get him killed.
Sample said she called Colorado Parks and Wildlife and an officer told her that if the bear isn't bothering anyone, than there's no need to act. She feared all the attention the bear was getting would seal its fate, though.
As of Wednesday evening, however, the bear had left the area and didn't appear to be tagged. That means if the bear does return and ends up captured, it would have one more chance before wildlife officials would have to put it down.
Porras added that relocation isn't always as effective as people might think.
"Once it learns where an easy source of a meal is, it doesn't matter where you take them - it's likely they'll resume that behavior there," Porras said. "It's critical that people remember the more they can do to prevent these conflicts, the better off everyone is. ... A fed bear is a dead bear."
Assistant Managing Editor Lauren Glendenning can be reached at 970-748-2983 or email@example.com.


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Meet Your Islanders: Baseball's Bobby Buckner
The 2012 baseball season will be senior Bobby Buckner's third year with the Islanders. The native of Boise, Idaho, brought a wealth of talent to the team when he transferred from Navarro Junior College in 2009, where he averaged .320 with 27 runs batted in his one season.
Prior to NJC, Buckner redshirted for the University of Texas and played for the Anchorage Bucs of the Alaskan League during the summer of 2008.
In Buckner's first season with the Islanders, he started 39 games and had a .278 batting average with five home runs. Buckner was third on the team with 30 RBI and tied for team lead with four triples. As a junior, he hit .298 and garnered All-Southland Tournament honors, where he delivered the game-winning walk-off home run in the SLC tourney against UTSA.
Perhaps Buckner's baseball inspiration was drawn from his father, Bill Buckner. Bill Buckner is a former Major League Baseball star that played in the major leagues for 22 seasons with the Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, California Angels and Kansas City Royals and was the 1980 National League batting champion.
Buckner is next up in the "Meet Your Islanders" features for GoIslanders.com, a unique way to get to truly know your Islander athletes. Media Relations Intern Amy Carrizales conducts the weekly in-depth feature on Islanders athletes that help them connect with their fans.
Amy Carrizales: What has been your greatest baseball accomplishment so far?
Bobby Buckner: Winning 37 games last year.
AC: Who on the team has the wildest personality?
BB: Drew "Droopy Drawers" Vest, aka Little V., because he dresses like a retired old man and thinks Texas A & M could beat Boise State in football.
AC: How did your father's career influence your passion for baseball while growing up?
BB: My father played the game harder than anyone; he was extremely humble and was a great Christian man on and off the field.
AC: What is one of the greatest memories that you will never forget?
BB: When Matt Holland got stuck in the fence during a practice after someone hit a ball to right field. Also, when Caleb Marx hit a home run in the conference tournament and came back in the dugout like a fired up silver back gorilla.
AC: People would be surprised to know that you….
BB: Love to fly fish and wakeboard.
AC: What is your favorite thing about Coach Malone?
BB: His sense of humor and passion for the game.
AC: What is one thing about you that most people don't know?
BB: I am a borderline professional ping-pong player.
AC: What are you most looking forward to this season?
BB: Winning the conference tournament.
AC: Do you have any game day routines or superstitions?
BB: Yes, I eat two Crispito's and drink chocolate milk from Stripes.
AC: Last season you helped beat your former team and NCAA D1 powerhouse, University of Texas. How big of a win was it for the ball club?
BB: It was a great win and it felt amazing beating my old team. It is great to see our program getting better and better each year.
AC: How did you feel during your walk-off at bat in the Southland Conference Tournament last season?
BB: I was down 0-2 so I was just trying to put the ball in play and get on base for J Mar (Jeramie Marek). When I saw the ball clear the fence it was one of the greatest feelings I have ever felt.
AC: What is the best piece of advice that your father has given you, life-wise?
BB: Approach every pitch, every at bat, every second on the field like it's your last because you never know when it will be. Life-wise, to stay grounded, remain humble and when you're in trouble go to God.
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Google's map app isn't perfect either
January 3, 2013 - Art Smith
A lot has been written lately about mobile map apps. A while back I even wrote that the Apple Map app, which is part of OS on iPhones, iPads and iPods, was getting an unfair bad rap.
I'm not so sure now.
After writing about the app I continued to test it. When I helped drive a group of media students from Marietta College to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland I used it and promptly got sent down the wrong road.
Finding the Rock Hall from Marietta is pretty easy. Follow I-77 north until you see Jacobs Field, get off the road and drive until you hit Lake Erie.
For some reason I blindly followed the directions of the iPhone and promptly found my self heading south toward the airport. I really don't mind getting lost, in fact, it happens to me all the time, it was just a little embarrassing with a van full of college students AND another van full of students following me. Of course they all got the same lame instructions from their iPhones. We ended up in a Wal-Mart parking lot and sorted things out with the help of some students who call Cleveland home.
Shortly after that Google released its new iPhone apps. Millions, including me, downloaded it overnight.
The free app is very well done. For those with Google accounts, you can add locations on a computer and the location will show up in your list on your phone. Finding business is easy with the app since it has the power of the Google search engine behind. When it is available, it also displays the Google Street Level photos of your destination.
I've tested it for a few weeks. The maps it generates are crisp and easy to read — As long as you have a data connection. If you look at your phone you will see the normal bars indicating the strength of your signal. This tells you if you will be able to talk or not. Next to it you will normally see "3G" or "4G", this is your data connection, if you see an "E" you don't have a connection and it's here that things start to fall apart a little.
Google maps will continue to track your location with the GPS that is built into the phone, but the image behind the track will start to degrade pretty quickly, turning into what looks like a tie-dyed mess. Something I haven't noticed with the Apple Map.
The Parkersburg-Marietta area is not exactly the center of the data universe. We have a lot of dead spots — parts of Ohio 676 and large sections of U.S. 50 are two spots where you cannot even get a voice connection, let alone a data one. With no data connection the Google Map app becomes fairly useless. The Apple map seems to maintain its composure a little better.
So if you are taking a trip, remember, no map app or GPS device is perfect, no matter what you have read. Apps tend to fail when you need them most, so it's probably still a good idea to have a printed map in your glove box somewhere; at least it is in mine.
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Per Diem Mobile App
This app allows travelers to look up Federal government per diem rates by city/state and ZIP code in locations throughout the United States and its territories. Per diem is the daily allowance for lodging (excluding taxes), meals and incidental expenses.
These rates are established by the General Services Administration for destinations in the lower 48 contiguous United States, and by the U.S. Department of Defense for locations in Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. territories. The U.S. Department of State sets rates for foreign travel locations.
Note: Blackberry users must have Blackberry App World installed to download the app.
From your BlackBerry smartphone, visit www.blackberry.com/appworld/download. Also see notes below*
Download restrictions? Visit our Mobile App Download page.
* Blackberry users, if the App World icon appears on your phone, but it has not been installed:
1. Click on "Application Center" icon, find and install "BlackBerry App World" App.
2. Reboot your Blackberry device.
3. Click on "BlackBerry App World" icon to open App world from your Blackberry home screen.
4. Search for "per diem" or click Category and navigate to Travel Planning and scroll to find GSA per diem app.
5. Select and install per diem app.
6. After successful installation, per diem app will be available in download folder of your blackberry device.


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Rouge River Watershed – Biochemical Water Quality Testing
Phil Lucus – Senior Project in Chemical Biology
Research on the watershed is of particular importance to Lawrence Technological University, since the university is placing large efforts into creating "green zones" for our runoffs to help clean up the Great Lakes. Testing the watershed's water quality may help determine "hot" points of pollution discharging into the river.
Date: February 29, 2012
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A potential need to change the location for solar panels at Summit Middle School was brought to the notice of the Summit School District Board of Education at its meeting Tuesday.
The proposed solar panels are part of a project approved by the board in November to partner with Syndicated Solar and the Summit County-based Innovative Energy to build solar panel arrays in several locations across the district. According to the original plan, solar panels at the middle school would be placed on the roof of the school and the adjacent facilities building.
However, in the midst of the engineering process, it was found that the building roofs in question were not structurally strong enough to support the weight of the proposed solar arrays. The company is now proposing that the solar array be placed on the ground, on the open space between the middle school and the facilities building. It is up to the board to decide whether or not to approve this change of location.
In the new location, the solar panels will be about 6 feet tall with an additional 2 feet added to keep the panels free from snow on the ground. There will be five rows of panels taking up an area of 143 feet by 179 feet. This array will deliver 103 kilowatts of solar energy in total.
"We don't have any plans to build anything there, it is just open space," said director of business services Mark Rydberg of the proposed location.
While the district can say yes or no to the proposed relocation, the difficulty lies in the fact that, according to the agreement, Syndicated Solar can decide to pull out of the project at any point up until the panels begin producing electricity, the deadline for which is late June.
"If the project gets scaled back, it might not be as attractive to the investors and they might not fund it," Rydberg said. "It does have potential to affect the other sites."
"We'd like for the plan to work out," said superintendent Heidi Pace, "but we have to make sure that that works, that it's environmentally sound, who is line of sight of it, what impact does that have, all of those things."
Because of the June deadline, the board needs to make a decision in order to keep construction on schedule. The issue will be discussed at the next board of education meeting on March 26. The meeting is open to the public.
At the work session before the meeting Tuesday, the board members interviewed two candidates to fill in the remaining empty board position. Boardmember Sheila Groneman retired in early February, leaving a position open.
The ideal board member, said board president Margaret Carlson, is "somebody who is an open-minded person and willing to look at problem solving from all directions. Somebody who is knowledge about the community and the school district and who can collaborate well within a group."
Summit County locals Cindy Bargell and Marilyn Taylor both applied for the position.
Cindy Bargell has lived in Summit County for 15 years and currently has two children enrolled in the middle school.
"There's nothing that matters more to me, at this point in my life, than education," Bargell said in her interview.
Marilyn Taylor has worked with the Summit School District in the past. Her three children graduated from the high school and now her grandchildren are also going through the system.
"I've looked at education from lots of different angles," Taylor said, who was most recently a professor at the University of Hawaii. "I'm a vested stakeholder in a personal and professional way."
The board decided to wait until the next meeting to make a final decision.
"We've got two outstanding candidates," Carlson said. "We wanted some time to give it some consideration because it is a tough decision. ... I think what we need to do in the next two weeks is really examine which of these two people will best round out the board that we have."
The chosen candidate will maintain their position on the board until November, when the term sentence finishes. At that point, the candidate will be able to choose whether or not to officially run for the position.


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Central Mass Thunder 18U will be hosting an 18u tournament the weekend of September 28-30. 2012 at the PAL complex in Plainville, MA.
The cost is $275 - teams pay umpires as you play. We are going to play 3 pool games seeded into single elimination on Sunday.
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SAN JOSE -- Todd McLellan could relate only too well to the frightening events Monday night in Dallas that saw the NHL cancel a game after Dallas Stars forward Rich Peverley collapse on his team's bench early in the first period.
"I've lived through that situation with Jiri Fischer in Detroit," said McLellan, who was an assistant with the Red Wings on Nov. 21, 2005 when Fischer, a defenseman, had a similar health problem during a game. "It's a scary thing. It jolts a lot of people."
Both players were taken to the hospital with cardiac concerns; Fischer, now 33, never played again, but holds a front office job with the Red Wings.
Reports said Peverley was resting in a Dallas hospital, undergoing tests to determine what caused the problem.
The two incidents go beyond any injuries during the course of action, McLellan said after his team's morning skate in preparation for Tuesday night's game against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
"As athletes, the players are viewed as almost immortal," he said. "They're tough, they're rugged, they're supposed to fight through things. They get stitched up, they get freight-trained by a hard body check and they're right back out there. Players playing on broken legs, there's stories like that. This is different. This is life or death. It can leave a lasting impact on a lot of people."
Monday night's game between the Stars and Columbus Blue Jackets came to a halt at 6:21 of the first period after Peverley, who did have a history of heart problems, slumped over. About 30 minutes later, the game was postponed — just as it was the night Fischer passed out.
"Nobody wanted to be there anymore," McLellan said. "The players didn't, the coaches didn't. I'm sure the officials didn't, and maybe just as importantly, the fans. I was watching some of that game, and you could see the fans in the stands in Dallas were shook.
"You don't buy a ticket and bring your family to a hockey game to go through that," he said. "That's the last thing you expect."
McLellan indicated the details of that night in 2005 stick with anyone who was there.
"At that moment, when he went limp, everybody realized that something was not right and we needed to get the game stopped, so the guys were throwing bottles and jumping out while the play was going on," McLellan said.
The officials were unaware of what had happened because they were not near the bench, McLellan said, but they did get the message.
"And then immediately the doctors were there, and it was just like last night, the trainers and the doctors that we're exposed to," McLellan said. "They're so good at what they do, they have the ability to save individuals in that situation, and Detroit was the exact same scenario."
Sharks players agreed that ending the game at that point was the thing to do.
"There's bigger things than hockey," said Adam Burish, who played two seasons in Dallas before coming to San Jose, but not with Peverley. "This is fun, this is cool, we have a neat job that we do, but there's a lot more important things going on than hockey. Obviously somebody's life it absolutely more important than any game on a Monday night. The NHL handled it well, too."
Players said the stakes are just too high to start focusing on hockey again the same night.
"I saw Trevor Daley on the bench with his head down, crying," Burish said, referring to a Dallas defenseman. "They're a close bunch of guys there too, and they all care about each other."