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Grady has definitely become a really picky eater these last few months. I'm sure it's just a stage, but it's so frustrating when he turns down a lot of the food that's offered to him. I think the words he says the most are, "I don't like that." Frustrating, right? Thankfully he's got a few foods that he likes that are still healthy. And I can always get him to eat "snacks" over "meals." I'm not sure why, but he turns his nose up at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, even if it's the same foods that I would offer as snacks. Weird. Below are our 5 go to snacks that he'll eat and that get some healthy stuff in him!
5 Easy and Healthy Toddler Snacks
- Apple Slices and Peanut Butter – This is always a hit with Grady. Sometimes he'll say no to the peanut butter, but he'll always eat an apple.
- Cheese Slices – Grady's not a fan of string cheese, but he'll happily gobble down slices of cheddar cheese. And he loves to dip them in mustard.
- Yogurt – Most kids love yogurt in the tube, but Grady's doesn't. He does really like yogurt in a pouch and will even eat just yogurt in a cup. We're partial to coconut milk yogurt so Haley can eat it, too.
- Granola Bars – He's not too picky about flavors or brands when it comes to granola bars. He'll even eat my super healthy Lara Bars – actually prefers them.
- Fruit Snacks – We don't buy conventional fruit snacks, but we do buy the healthier alternatives, like the Sprout Organic Toddler Snacks we were sent to review. Always a hit!
Sprout Organic Toddler Snacks Review
Sprout Foods is a line of baby and toddler organic foods that taste great…….and are healthy, too! They just recently came out with a few new products for toddlers and we were super lucky to get to try them out. Grady got to try the Fruit and Veggie Crispy Chews and the Fruity Yogurt Bites. He loved them both – although he always choose the Crispy Chews first.
I love that instead of just a fruit snack, they've got little bits of whole grain rice inside. It's a neat little twist on the classic fruit snack. The flavor combinations are unique, too. And I love that there's no added sugar, preservatives, or artificial colors.
The yogurt bites remind me of freeze dried fruit. Haley and I couldn't try them since they contain milk, but Grady ate them all up. It's not a substantial snack – Grady always wanted more or something else after, but he enjoyed them.
What are your choices for easy and healthy toddler snacks? Have you tried Sprout Organic yet?
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Definition of amorous in English:
Showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire: she rejected his amorous advances
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- Enchanted by the warmth of her smile, Brian suddenly felt confused by an unexpected rush of amorous desire.
- US women who initially reject his amorous advances often have a change of heart when they run his name through a search engine.
lustful, sexual, erotic, amatory, ardent;
passionate, impassioned;
affectionate, fond, loving, tender, doting;
in love, enamoured, lovesick
informal lovey-dovey, spoony, kissy, smoochy, goo-goo, hot
British informal randy
archaic sportive
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- If I'm behaving amorously, I've definitely got serious intent in my head.
- We might know Paul as a showman, but there is much more to him than amusing stage shows with people being hypnotised to behave amorously towards a broom or act like a sea lion.
- The film has a young, amoral couple living amorously in Montreal and Toronto, unable to make ends meet.
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- Upon hearing her voice on my machine, I was torn between amorousness and horror, especially because the growing anger in her voice was astonishing.
- 'There remained only those rare periods of amorousness, which still came to them at times but did not last long.'
- A fatal disease - tuberculosis, also called consumption - provided a favorite metaphor to represent the destructiveness of feverish emotions, such as pining or amorousness.
Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin amorosus, from Latin amor 'love'.
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Currently all approved accounts have API permissions to create users, create trips, and upload photos to trips. Here are a few of the things you can do using the EveryTrail API:
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30 Days with IntelliJ IDEA. Version Control Basics
It's hard to imagine today's development process without the use of version control. Whether you work for a big company, or pursue your own hobby project, version control is essential for team collaboration and product delivery. That's why the today's … Continue reading
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Better Line Endings Managing in IntelliJ IDEA 12
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Git Branches for Multi-root Projects
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Perforce integration enhancements in IntelliJ IDEA 11.1
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Start using SVN 1.7 with IntelliJ IDEA 11.1, EAP build 116.32
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New in 11: Git log gets more power
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New in 11: Changes digest for easier pre-commit review
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Control your Perforce connection
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Chip Maker Cuts Deal for Second Form of Flash
Spansion, which pioneered one kind of flash memory, is accelerating plans to sell another.
The Silicon Valley company on Monday announced an agreement with Hynix Semiconductor to sell the data storage chips known as NAND flash memory–the kind known to most users of smartphones and tablets–for more specialized applications in products like cars, videogame systems and TVs.
Hynix, a major player in the NAND market, will fabricate the chips. Spansion will package and test them and sell them along with its own software, says John Kispert, Spansion's president and chief executive.
Spansion has been on a long crusade to restore profitable growth. The company, originally a joint venture of Advanced Micro Devices and Fujitsu, was spun off from AMD in 2005. There have been bumps in the road since then, Kispert acknowledges.
That buyout saddled the company with a heavy debt load, contributing to factors that led to a bankruptcy-court filing. Spansion emerged from Chapter 11 proceedings in May 2010, Kispert says, stating the company has made plenty of progress since then.
Spansion gets nearly all of its revenue from the other kind of flash technology, known as NOR, which has gradually been overshadowed by sales of NAND chips for mobile devices. (NAND is used to store larger quantities of data, while NOR is better for storing software code).
But Spansion has been working on home-grown NAND technology for years, Kispert says, focusing specifically on a different way to store data known by the phrase charge-trapping. That approach still looks promising in the future when further miniaturization of chip circuitry makes conventional NAND designs less viable, he says.
"We will continue to invest there," Kispert says.
But reselling chips fabricated by Hynix now will help Spansion gain a foothold in the NAND business sooner, Kispert contends. "It is a time-to-market decision, he says.
Spansion expects chips that result from the alliance with Hynix to go on sale in the second quarter. The companies also plan to enter into a patent cross-licensing arrangement.


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When a company goes public and gets incorporated, they change legal status. Part of it means having lots of meetings and signing more paperwork than most of us see in a lifetime. One of those pieces of paperwork is a charter, which outlines a bunch of rules—including the total number of shares a company can issue. This number of shares is called authorized stock, 'cause it's the total number of shares the company is authorized by its charter to issue.
Let's say Company XXX wants to buy Company Y. Company XXX has an authorized limit of 100 million shares. It currently has 85 million shares and 5 million options, yet unvested, outstanding. Technically it has 90 million shares outstanding. It wants to print shares to buy Company Y. But company Y wants 20% of the primary shares of Company XXX or 17 million shares. Company XXX cannot print the shares to buy Y. Why? Because it needs to get approval to change the charter—doable only by a majority vote of the outstanding shares at the time.


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Dang this is a long one. I don't even know if anyone is going to get through the whole comic and read this little blurb.
I hope the little abstract part in the middle makes some sort of sense. The indigo square can represent a whole lot of things. Like the idea that homeopathic medicine cures things. Or whatever the heck people were told to get them to spend money on bottled water. I could probably illustrate that better, but I refuse to.
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Opened 9 years ago
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#3812 closed (fixed)
Update cheeseshop settings to 0.96 so easy_install works
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$ easy_install Django Searching for Django Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Django/ Reading http://www.djangoproject.com/ Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Django/0.91 No local packages or download links found for Django error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('Django')
There are two ways to fix it:
- Upload Django tarball to cheeseshop
- Make tarball available for easy_install/setuptools at djangoproject.com
- Change metadata at cheeseshop: specify "Download URL" to http://www.djangoproject.com/download/
- Change link to tarball from "/download/%(VERSION)s/tarball/" to "/download/Django-%(VERSION)s.tar.gz"
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comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by Simon G. <dev@…>
- Needs documentation unset
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- Patch needs improvement unset
- Summary changed from easy_install can't find Django distribution to Update cheeseshop settings to 0.96 so easy_install works
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comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by Gary Wilson <gary.wilson@…>
- Owner changed from jacob to adrian
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It looks like Adrian is the owner of the Django cheeseshop entry. I assume that only the owner can make changes to the entry? If so, this should be marked as ready for checkin as nobody but Adrian could go any further on this ticket. FYI, it looks like someone couldn't wait and created a Django096 entry.
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Thanks, Gary; that'll do for now.
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Definition of jarl in English:
A Norse or Danish chief.
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- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests that the Viking armies were led by jarls as often as kings.
- From the hill folk, I had heard Cyneric was begotten to a Danish woman by a famous jarl named Sigólfr, a name Cyneric bore whether or not the tale was false.
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Tablet PC's - Summary (long)
Thank you for the wonderful responses and input to my
question on buying a Tablet PC (see immediate, below).
I received a lot of e-mails back-channel as well on
the list; I've tried to preserve the thread, below (to
varying degrees of success). Apologies for anything
I've mangled.
Worth noting a lot of discussion about form factors,
ergonomics, usability, software pros/cons, etc. vs.
favorite brand, etc. Per the latter, seems the Toshiba
M100(x) line comes out on top, as well as Alias
software . . .
Please write me at aschechterman @ yahoo com with any
other thoughts or requests. Happy to respond.
Andy Schechterman, Ph.D.
I'm exploring the purchase of a tablet-based PC for
doing sketching, prototyping, and more. A range of
models are out there such as:
Initial impression is the hardware/software technology
is still new (e.g., difficulties in saving free-hand
drawings to other formats? converting? other glitches?
Can anyone advise me on this? A good experience with a
certain model(s)? Software? Other impressions?
Feel free to backchannel or post, and I'll summarize
for the group. Thank you in advance for your thoughts!
I've been using an NEC tablet, the versa T400 for
about 8 months now,
as it's the target platform for the system I'm
designing and building.
The downside of the NEC is the antenna for the wifi
can stick up from
the main body of the machine. It's just begging to get
broken off. So
far I've not broken one but that's probably partly
cause I stuck the
antenna down with double sided sticky tape ;-) Also
the NEC has a
Compact Flash slot, the eject button for which has a
tendency to pop
out a bit to easily - again a breakage risk. Also the
stand that comes
with the NEC is basically useless. I collapses really
easily. The
keyboard that comes with this is just a small USB
keyboard. Nothing
fancy - but it works fine. But the NEC is only 1kg,
which for my
project is really important. So that's what I got.
I reviewed a Motion tablet and they seemed pretty
decent. The only
downside for my application was they were a bit heavy,
but I'm working
with elderly users, so I doubt that's an issue for
you. The docking
system seemed pretty good to, the best of the three
machines I checked
out. Not sure about the keyboard with this one.
I also tried a Compaq machine, a slate version (tc1100
I think), but
found that while the undocked machine was ok, the
docking station that
came with it was a real pain to attach, as was the
keyboard. To dock
first you had to attach the keyboard (which unlike the
models is a separate unit), then dock it - really bad
design - and
really heavy too. I personally would steer well clear
of this, just on
the basis of the physical design. Also the stylus felt
a bit dodgy -
the nib had a tendency to wiggle a bit.
You should bear in mind though that I was looking at
machines a little
while ago now, in January, so I imagine the models
have changed a bit
since then, hopefully for the better ;-). Also the
selection of
machines was a bit thin then! I had a very hard time
getting demo
models to try out.
As for saving sketches in standard formats, since they
run WinXP tablet
edition, you can run any software you'd run on any
other windows
machine. The stylus on the NEC is as capable as a
typical Wacom
graphics tablet in terms of pressure sensitivity etc,
so using it with
something like Photoshop would be great I'd think. I'm
pretty sure
other tablets are also pressure sensitive in the same
way. Getting
drawings out of the journal software would be harder,
but you can get
the journal reader for WinXP non-tablet edition.
WinXP tablet edition is a superset of WinXP, the
recognition, and now with XPSP2 some speech
recognition too, so there's
no loss of capability there.
The only thing I've found is that while the
handwriting recog is pretty
good once you've been using it a while (it adapts to
your writing
eventually), I still find I work much faster on a
keyboard for text
entry. If that's important for you too I'd recommend
you at least try
out one of the convertible models. They are heavier,
but might be worth
it, if that's an issue.
Hope that's of some use.
I'm curious; if stand-up use were not an issue,
specifically for design
work, what can't you do with a notebook plus a small,
inexpensive Wacom
you can with a TabletPC?
Technically, apart from the handwriting recognition,
nothing really.
However, being a small Wacom tablet user myself for a
long time too I
would say that it's easier to draw on a tablet than
the Wacom. I've
tried both systems on my brother, who is a talented
artist (but a
novice computer user), and he found the Wacom tablet
unsatisfying and awkward, and significantly preferred
the tablet.
Another member of my family, who's an architect, and
also a talented
artist also found the tablet quite usable to draw on,
although he
didn't try the wacom out. It would be interesting to
see what everyone
else thinks.
Of course, I've not done anything like a formal study
on that, but one
of my colleagues has been designing an application for
the platform I'm
building, and the users response to that, and the
tablet have been very
positive. This has been with older users. I very much
doubt whether
they would have been anywhere near as positive about a
wacom and laptop
system. The tablet PC has the advantage of being
familiar to them, in
that everyone knows how to use a pen! (I'm avoiding
using the term
intuitive ;-) ). Writing in one place, and having it
appear somewhere
else, is clearly not as good.
In terms of personal preference too, the next laptop
buy will certainly
be a convertible laptop/tablet machine. Pretty much
everyone else on
the project here who's used them is saying the same
The diff between a tablet PC vs. a Wacom tablet and a
Isn't it about level of separation? When I draw on the
wacom, it is
using a mouse, where I am moving something and have to
assume a
between the object I am moving and the screen I am
looking at.
When I am using a Tablet PC, I am drawing on object
that I'm working
directly. There is not level of separation that has to
be communicated
the user.
Now, is the cost differential AND the difference in
the "quality" of
total box worth that experience? That's a different
question. ;)
I'm curious; if stand-up use were not an issue,
specifically for
Design work, what can't you do with a notebook plus a
small, inexpensive Wacom that you can with a
You can encourage a definite lack of RSI!
I've used a tablet on my machine for eight years, as
I'm prone to pain
from mice. This is one of the numerous reasons why
I find working on company standard equipment
intolerable, which
relates to the other thread on personal interfaces....
Regarding text recognition:
The text-recognition isn't 100%. That worried me a bit
at first (what
keyboards only typed the key you pressed 95% of the
time?) but in
practice it wasn't that big a deal, and was certainly
easier than
transcribing paper notes. Turns out that most of the
benefit for me is
in *taking* the notes. Once they're in memory, I
rarely go back to them
or repurpose them for something else.
For the cases where you need to enter correct text
(URLs, Text Fields)
correcting text was pretty easy. I set up the
digitizer to recognize
both Palm Graffiti and regular text. Whenever I had a
problem with
I just substituted a graffiti gesture, and it cleared
right up.
Regarding a Laptop+Wacom combo:
The major difference is between true mobility and mere
If you're mainly working at a single desk, the
laptop+wacom is
But you can't easily bring your laptop and a wacom
into a meeting and
take notes. It's too much work. With a tablet, it's as
easy as bringing
a notebook with you around the office. Setup time is
virtually nil.
Even without the Wacom, a laptop is only
transportable. That is, you
transport it from place to place, but you have to sit
down somewhere to
use it. Conversely, you can stand and take notes with
the Tablet
anywhere. Even outside in fairly bright sunlight. It
also docks with a
keyboard and track pad for higher efficiency text
generation tasks when
you're at your desk. If you don't need that kind of
mobility/transportability combo, there's no reason to
pay the premium.
Regarding software:
Far and away the best drawing software I've seen is
Alias Sketchbook.
With the TablePC's digitizer, it was amazing. The
closest thing to
drawing on paper I've seen.
Another novelty was 3D journal out of Cornell. It
allows you to sketch a wire frame of something, then
rotate it as if it were a three dimensional object.
I was also impressed by some software that emulates a
Franklin Planner.
There's a lot of shockingly bad software for the
Tablet. Demo before
I've been using Tablet PC (Toshiba - portege 3505) for
about 2 years
If you are getting Tablet PC - I really recommend
getting a hybrid
(basically it's a laptop but if you swivel the screen,
it becomes a tablet
Battery power on Toshiba and tablet PCs are not that
great, hopefully
newer models are better.
As for softwares, there are not many choices out
Most of the times, I use MS Windows Journal for my
sketching, but I
have used sketching software from Corel and Alias. But
for designing flow
diagrams and simple wire frames, windows journal will
do the job (plus
it's free).
I have tried using Tablet PC as replacement for
building prototypes in
paper. However, there were some problems during the
usability testing.
It was hard for me to share the same table pc screen
with the user -
unless you are directly in front of the screen, it
will cause a major
Another software I could recommend is Microsoft
OneNote ( I believe
Toshiba bundles this software when your purchase new
Tablet PC). OneNote
is a note taking tool, but it has capability of
recording audio and
synchronizing it with the notes you take. I found this
software very useful
when I'm interviewing users.
Hope this helps.
You can encourage a definite lack of RSI!
I've used a tablet on my machine for eight years, as
I'm prone to
from mice. This is one of the numerous reasons why
I find working on company standard equipment
intolerable, which
relates to the other thread on personal
Interesting that you should say that, it's the same
reason I started
using a wacom tablet a few years ago. So I'm in favour
of tablets for
that reason too, it makes a better pointing device for
computers (by which I mean the class of device which
includes laptops
and tablet PCs) in particular.
I'm curious; if stand-up use were not an issue,
specifically for design
work, what can't you do with a notebook plus a small,
inexpensive Wacom
you can with a TabletPC?
As mentioned, it's the separation. Learning a wacom is
a device like the mouse. I had to train myself all
over again,
drawing basic stick figures before I could get back to
normal use. I
could get used to using it as the main input device
though, only drawing.
I now use a Toshiba Portege M200 and love the laptop +
tablet because
lets me have the best of both worlds. I can discuss
specific models I
considered and their pros and cons off list. Here I'll
quickly talk
what it's good for and what it's not good for:
- drawing. Tablet manufacturers seem to NEVER focus on
this market in
advertising. I don't know why. Regardless, I find it
great and use it
as my
tool for OK/C.
- note taking. IF you are not a 70wpm typist which I
am. I end up
notes at conferences instead and just popping the pen
to draw diagrams
the same time (without flipping screen over). Many
people I know prefer
writing and so this IS a better form for them.
- navigating. Remember Fitts's law? That's irrelevant
in tablets. In
corners are the WORST place for tablets which makes it
when apps aren't built specifically for tablets. There
needs to be a
overhaul in paradigms for this way of working to reach
its potential.
- regular surf machine. People think "I'll get a
tablet for my living
web surf machine." Sounds strange but more than one
have asked me with
in mind. There are better, cheaper solutions that are
lighter too. You
a keyboard for typing urls, trust me.
Learning a wacom is like relearning a device like the
I've been using a digital tablet for over a decade
now, so I can't
personally remember what it was like to pick it up for
the first time.
for drawing, does TabletPC provide high pointing
accuracy, pen angle
control, pen tip replacement for simulating soft/hard
or two-handed control of scrolling, modifier keys,
macros a la Intuos
I dont think so. Fitt's works just fine on a mac with
a tablet. It's
only the certain lack of 'proper edges' within the
environment that makes the less grid-oriented movement
of the tablet
input more imprecise. Mac Fitts. Though with time
you could likely train your hand to jump to the right
spot in any
interface with any input every time.
What about the track pad and trackball, are they
''funner"? Or are they
less accurate? I know there's test results, but what
people actually like overall?
Perhaps I wasn't clear. Obviously, larger target areas
are still
quicker to
acquire but the basic principle of the five easiest
points to hit being
where your cursor is and 2-4) where the corners are is
false in a
tablet PC
(NOT tablet input device because that essentially is
still a mouse).
Because the areas are not infinite anymore. I can't
wave my pen off the
screen and click, I have to precisely hit the corner.
In addition, the
precision for corners on tablet PCs are currently the
worst areas. You
Mac with Tablet so I can only assume you're not
referring to Tablet PCs
all but rather a PC with a peripheral tablet input
device (i.e., the
pointing isn't directly on the screen).
I maintain: apps need to be fundamentally designed
differently to make
most use of the tablet PC form factor.
Personally remember what it was like to pick it up for
the first time.
for drawing, does TabletPC provide high pointing
accuracy, pen angle
control, pen tip replacement for simulating soft/hard
or two-handed control of scrolling, modifier keys,
macros a la Intuos
This was my complaint about them never marketing to
artists. It is
difficult to find out from each manufacturer if the
levels of pressure
sensitivity each product had and other features you
For the most part, tablet PCs are licensing technology
from Wacom and
at a minimum now support a high level of pressure
sensitivity (enough
that I
couldn't tell the difference between that and my
Intuos 2). I never
used the
two handed nav in Intuos so I can't comment on that.
Accuracy is good
for me - no complaints except around edges at times.
done pen tip replacement for my Intuos (didn't even
know you could) but
that different tablet PCs use different surfaces.
HP/Compaq TC1100 uses
glass display whilst my Toshiba M200 is just a coated
TFT. People like
glass because there's no distortion when you press
down. I actually
find no
noticeable issues on the M200 either and like the
slight give that the
screen has to give a softer feel.
Modifier buttons and eraser tips on the other end are
all dependent on
vendor. Toshiba's comes with both, just like the
Intuos series. Also,
worthwhile to note that I often draw in laptop form
(instead of
flipping the
screen) and use the keyboard shortcuts concurrently.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. Obviously, larger target areas
are still
quicker to
acquire but the basic principle of the five easiest
points to hit
being 1)
where your cursor is and 2-4) where the corners are
is false in a
tablet PC
(NOT tablet input device because that essentially is
still a mouse).
Because the areas are not infinite anymore. I can't
wave my pen off
screen and click, I have to precisely hit the corner.
In addition,
precision for corners on tablet PCs are currently the
worst areas.
It depends on the physical design of the tablet. If
there are raised
edges, then the corners remain fast to point to. Time
to point, to a
first order of approximation, is proportional to the
log (base 2) of
one plus the ratio of the distance of the target and
the length of the
target in the direction of motion. Some sources have a
formulation, but this form has a strong information
foundation, and good empirical behavior. If a display
has a raised
bezel then your target can be very large as the edges
will guide the
pointer to the corner if the interface allows you to
slide there before
clicking to indicate the desired point. The size of
the target is never
infinite, by the way, but to get the effective size
for Fitts's law you
need to do some testing to see the range of where the
person is aiming
There is another factor besides those mentioned:
tablets are absolute pointing devices. Mice and
trackballs are relative. This means that one uses two
very different motions to acquire a corner, depending
on the device. With a mouse, you flick your wrist or
scrub the mouse a few times. Acceleration, combined
with the relative motion of the pointer mean that you
never have to move your hand very far. With a tablet,
you have to move your hand to the corner--probably
engaging your arm and shoulder in the process. Raised
corners and edges will help with target acquisition,
but won't change the fact that you are probably making
larger motions.
But the hand-eye cooridnation is absolute and not
relative or calculated. I know exactly how far I have
to move. Also, tablets themselves are an
absolute predictable size.
I would love to see a series of comparative tests
around overall pointing device success w/ a mouse (not
just corners) and a pen on tablet (w/ edges
and w/o).
A problem I see w/ tablets is that using a "pen"
relies heavily on the
steadiness supplied by having the arm at rest. The
problem is that
there is
not a predictability of a secured flat surface to
place under the hard.
unsteadiness is something I see that would cause a
problem in
using a tabletPC.
It depends on the physical design of the tablet. If
there are raised
edges, then the corners remain fast to point to. Time
to point, to a
Good point. I was speaking in response to the original
poster asking
opinions on Tablet PCs and under current designs, this
to me has been a
noticeable problem. The start menu in Windows is now
rather cumbersome
and I
see many possibilities with gestural shortcuts that
are applications
only scratching the surface of at the moment.
If a display has a raised
bezel then your target can be very large as the edges
will guide the
pointer to the corner if the interface allows you to
slide there
clicking to indicate the desired point. The size of
the target is
infinite, by the way, but to get the effective size
for Fitts's law
need to do some testing to see the range of where the
person is aiming
Perhaps I should have said the "infinite like" size of
the target that
mousse get in corners from never overshooting the
corner target. Click
the wrist and all that. Even with bevels, the motion
must be more
than a mouse needs to be to reach corners. I will
however rephrase what
said. Fitts's law of course, does still apply, but the
common first
application of Fitts's law that people use (thanks to
Tog) is the idea
screen edges and corners providing an effectively
larger virtual target
the mouse doesn't overshoot. This particular
application of the law, on
current tablet PCs that I'm aware of, is not only not
applicable but
actually slightly cumbersome for me.
To avoid sounding like a broken record on the topic,
I'll try to push
forward somewhat and offer what I feel might be
improvements for an
tablet OS/application.
Apps like ArtRage and Sketchbook are using radial
style menus and
to great effect. I think context sensitive radial
menus (seen in
incarnations with mouse interfaces before including
LogiTech bundled
s/w) is
particularly effective for a tablet PC. Even more so
are the stroke
interfaces like those used in Sketchbook. These menus
involve the user
initiating at a certain point in the menu and making a
quick stroke in
certain direction to indicate the action. Which is
slightly different
gestural interfaces (specific motions to signify a
command) - but both
useful for tablets.
One of my first PC programs (circa 1985) was AutoCad.
It was set up
two monitors (one for commands, one for the drawing)
and a tablet with
of commands surrounding the screen area. The tablet
used a puck rather
a pen. The menus were programmable, so we had one for
one for mechanical drawings and so on. We were pretty
careful to put
commands that were common to all in the same location.
When I was drafting, I worked pretty intensely with
the program, so
was a lot of chance for "muscle memory" to build up.
When I was really
the flow, I could not only hit specific menu commands
without looking
at my hand, but could often return the cursor to a
precise location on
screen when I moved back into the pointing area.
We often underestimate the power of kinesthetic
memory, and under-use
it in
interaction design. The relative positioning of most
pointing devices
it difficult to use effectively, and we have (mostly)
taken for granted
that the pointer should be relative. I've often
wondered how much that
because "we" work with mice/trackballs all day long
and find them a
familiar way of working, and how much because it's
really optimal.
On the question of what you can do with a tablet PC
that you can't do
a tablet pointer device: There's a whole raft of tasks
and work
for which a tablet PC would be a revelation. Anyone
who does a lot of
interviewing/facilitating usability tests, has to
read, edit or comment
documents (of any kind or content), or needs to take
notes/sketch in
situations other than a comfortable desk
I haven't yet worked myself up to NEEDING one, but I
sure love the idea
HAVING one.
On the question of what you can do with a tablet PC
that you can't do
a tablet pointer device:
My question was focused on design not general
computing, ignoring
The revelations you cite *in this context* assume that
TabletPC is
easier to
write on than a digital tablet, but the rest is really
a matter of
not of the form factor.
My question was focused on design not general
computing, ignoring
The revelations you cite *in this context* assume
that TabletPC is
easier to
write on than a digital tablet, but the rest is
really a matter of
not of the form factor.
I was thinking of cases where having the writing and
pointing surface
the same would be an advantage, and where a
traditional screen+desk
would not be available or optimal.
My examples are mostly from "our world," but think of
nurses and other
healthcare professionals, people inspecting things
(checking off
doing inventory (writing in a few numbers), and a
whole range of
I've already seen some early applications that used a
Vadim (touch
twisted around the way a tablet does) used for home
applications, so
patients could track diet, medications etc. The
visiting healthcare
could pick up the data via something like a USB memory
stick and bring
back to the central records. This was about 5 years
ago, but it was a
clever solution to bringing a simple data gathering
application to
who did not have computers, modems or sometimes even
their own phones.
My examples are mostly from "our world," but think of
nurses and
healthcare professionals, people inspecting things
(checking off
doing inventory (writing in a few numbers), and a
whole range of
Sure, there's a market for pen-based interfaces. We
just don't quite
how large/lucrative yet. I know MS invented the
TabletPC :-) but we
some early data/experience with a
smaller-than-TabletPC form factor; we
go back to 1993 for that, when Newton was released.
Newton had a ton of vertical apps, like the ones you
One of the most popular fields was healthcare:
Incidentally, bunch of drawing apps also:
Newton didn't benefit from a lot of technology we take
for granted
But proved incredibly useful in what it could do.
Apparently, there are
still more than 20,000 Newton users.
TabletPC seems to principally target two types of
note-taking/editing/form-filling and design/drawing. I
think it's
over-priced for the former group and underdeveloped
for the latter.
why I was wondering, for the latter group, what it
could offer
notwithstanding) over a PC+Wacom.
Absolutely. I have a Toshiba M200 and wouldn't want to
use anything
else. This is a SOLID, stable machine that has a
higher resolution
display than any other Tablet PC of the same size.
That means more
screen real estate. The motion Tablet is a slate, and
has no built-in
keyboard. I find I use the keyboard on my M200
probably 95% of the
When I fly or am in the car, I will use the pen. In
meetings, I use the
pen and/or keyboard.
Yes, Motion just announced a "portable" Bluetooth
keyboard, but it's
still an extra thing to lug. The M200 has 3.5 hour
battery life, a
keyboard, high-res screen, 2 USB 2.0 ports, and a good
display adapter
that provides high resolution for a second display as
well. I usually
use an external display in addition to the built-in
for more screen
Anyway, if it were between the Motion and the Toshiba
for me, there
would be no contest. Toshiba is a better machine. Hope
this helps.
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[Tamsui Line] [Zhonghe Line] [Xindian Line] [Nangang Line] [Banqiao Line] [Tucheng Line]
[Nangang Eastern Extension] [Wenshan-Neihu Line] [Xinzhuang Line] [Luzhou Line]
Platform, Stage
Artist: Ching-Ling Huang
Dimensions (cm): H800 x L360
Medium: Stainless steel pipes, color-baked boxes
Completion Date: November 1998
Location: Upper platform
Selection Method: Invitational competition (organized by Taipei Fine Arts Museum)
Cost: NT$3,180,000
"Stage" is a colosseum for performing arts, a place to show the different aspects of life. "Platform" is a transitory point for passers-by, a place for waiting, departure, farewell and reunion, where the plot of human drama is revealed.
The costumes and facial make-up of Taiwanese folk arts and Chinese traditional opera, with their rich colors and various forms, represent special roles and complex characters. These colors and forms are transformed into abstract elements, and then minimized into two curtains of lines and flat surfaces.
Musical Skies
Artist: Pu Tsong & An Yang
Medium: Metal, light box, film & fiber optic
Completion Date: November 1998
Location: Wall and ceiling of Exit 7
Selection Method: Invitational competition (organized by Taipei Fine Arts Museum)
Cost: NT$3,198,300
The traditional essences of poetry and music are applied to this artwork. Many light boxes show swirling clouds in a vibrant blue sky, lighting up the murky tunnel with vivid indigenous memories. Furthermore, the artists wish to bring nature to the urban world by installing music notes which seem to jump out and to infuse the viewer with the spirit of music. Hopefully, the artwork will alleviate all the urban pressures one feels on a daily basis and allow the enjoyment of nature's peaceful rhythms with a poetic touch. As the poet Lo-men put it: "The sky is always for the birds."
Artist: Shu-Ming Lin
Dimensions (cm): H54 x L786
Medium: Glass, light
Completion Date: November 1998
Location: Exit 3
Selection Method: Invitational competition (organized by Taipei Fine Arts Museum)
Cost: NT$3,199,000
A population, indigenous to one place, one cohesive city perhaps, is likely to experience similar growth experiences. Such a populace would tend to develop values that are much the same concerning world views, cultural mores and societal behavior. Coming from such a unified formative environment, this type of population could even be seen as chasing the same kinds of dreams and having many of the same desires.
From the different stages of desire to the flight trajectory of a simple paper airplane, a common childhood device used to playfully fulfill the universal wish to fly, the focused passage of the indigenous populace is demonstrated.
Chance of Meeting
( Metropolitan Types of Facial Make-Up )
Artist: Chang-Fa Lee & Ying-Tung Tseng
Dimensions (cm): About H195 x L170 x D140 each
Medium: Resin, fire paint
Completion Date: November 1998
Location: Concourse
Selection Method: Invitational competition (organized by the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University)
Cost: NT$4,999,000
12 facial masks hinting at leaving and returning, day and night, time and space, separation and reunion, man and woman, love and sex, old and young, thick and thin, etc. provide passengers with the pleasure of contemplation of art from the standpoint of mood.
|Old person--Child
|Homeland--Foreign Land
|Meeting and Separation
Artist: Shu-Ying Tsai & Chien Chen
Medium: FRP, cameras, screens and projectors
Completion Date: October 1999
Location: Platform and square in front of Exit 7
Selection Method: Open competition
Cost: NT$3,950,000
This work which connects the street level with the underground area turns the "peepers" at the street level into both observer and the object of observation by the passengers on the platform. The mixed relationships of visual control express the complexity of modern people's roles.
Heaven, Earth and Man
Artist: Takeshi Tanabe (Japan)
Dimensions (cm): H970 x L1200
Medium: Granite, boulser-stone, aluminum, xenon-light
Completion Date: October 1999
Location: Square in front of the exit
Selection Method: Open competition
Cost: NT$6,700,000
Heaven and earth face each other, and man, one of many creatures, is born between them. This monument links heaven and earth and sends a message of hope that man's activities can be in harmony with other creatures on earth.
The Way to the Very Joyance
Artist: Very experi-site
Completion Date: October 2005
The speed of modernization is the drumbeat of the
city. Every minute, streams of busy travelers fill up the wide spaces at
the stations. The network of trains, through the images of the passing
platforms, divides the landscapes--as well as the mindscapes--of the
various destinations.
The columns inside the station portray rising clouds, which depict in slender lines the soft hands of mothers from our embedded memory. It warmly receives each traveler in a fixed standing pose. Gracefully brimming over from the apathetic modern-architecture structure, the happy globs seem to coagulate memorable moments. Moreover, the benches show proud moxie with their firm spines joyfully accepting their duties, carrying sweet weight for the passenger. The strength they provide serves the travelers day and night.
Then, leaving the platforms, there in the Westside Square stand white open wings that seem to be about to fly off into the sky at any second. Already ready, they propel people's thoughts further forward. The friendly signs alongside the benches also provide people with an imaginary map to wonderland.
On the quiet eastside of the station, the crystalline, organic design symbolizes the sweet taste of wonderful life experiences, and further consolidates the tranquil moment before taking off. Simultaneously, the surrounding glass lattice interweaves a bewildering aura, imprinting travelers' silent memories on the glass with both lucid and vague drops. As it turns into the night, the hazy blue breath in the air gently deliberates a soft call taking form. Passengers still walk to and fro, a relaxed beat, and perceive beauty in each frozen moment.
Knitting various stops and trips, the tracks seem to take passengers for just another common trip. Nevertheless, the experience of Xiaobitan Station's "The Way to the Very Joyance" will become a transit of wonder. The shortcut, happiness as a destination is opened beyond the lineal speed and always wholeheartedly welcomes people who step into this fantasy journey of happiness.
Time Jelly
Dimensions (cm):
(Max) H460 x L670 x D93
(Min) H32 x L97 x D50
Medium: Bronze
The architectural wall seems to brim over as "metal cream," softening all the definition and stiffness in space. It also creates an amazing visual impact. Shaped as melting toffee, it brings a sweet sense of happiness to our minds, spreading over passengers from all directions. Metaphors of happiness are placed in all rounded corners, easing the coldness and loneliness of every passing soul with a warming attitude.
The Dancing Cloud
Dimensions (cm):
(Max) H145 x L450 x W300
(Min) H100 x L380 x W320
Medium: Fiberglass reinforced plastics, stainless steel, LED
The cloud that climbs up the columns creates different overhead scenery in a free-curving form. Tracing the waves of cloud, people will be able to sense a cheerful change of heart and momentarily forget the fast-paced life they have to keep up with in reality. The rising light not only offers a soothing aura, but also calls for the steps to come and go further.
Forecast of Happiness
Location: Westside square
Dimensions (m): L43.2 x W40 (Square area)
Medium: Southern yellow pine, stainless steel, LED (light emitting diode), glass
As we imagine there are talking trees and colorful corals in an unknown oasis far away, happiness transforms into giant wings, which become a protective force, and warmly turns all the rest into sound. The open air installation of the white cover and seats in the Westside Square does not only provide passengers with loving protection, but also creates a secret place for fantasies and promises of the coming happiness.
The Sweeties
Location: Eastside square
Dimensions (m): L25.5 x W51 (Square area)
Medium: Southern yellow pine, stainless steel, LED (light emitting diode), glass
Time is like a storage box, silently saving people's memory in pursuit of eternity and happiness. As multi-layered light shines through the darkness, drops that symbolize joyful tears and sweat from work reflect their glow in the evening sky, and give off brightness that never goes dark. The organic lively lines on the ground recall the sweetness in memory, also taking the form of seats to carry the weight of people's life. Passengers thus bathe in a great comfort.
Benches: Happiness No. 1
Dimensions (cm): H45 x L250 x W150
Medium: Wood, stainless steel
Benches: Happiness No. 2
Dimensions (cm): H45 x L207 x W85
Medium: Fiberglass reinforced plastics, stainless steel, bronze
Here Comes the Next Stop
Dimensions (cm): H200 x L50 x D5
Medium: Stainless steel, glass
We Are One Family
Medium: Stainless steel, color LED monitor, computer, video capture card, glass
Dimensions (cm):
Monitor - H185 x L390 x D45
Camera - H50 x L80 x D70 (each one)
A cluster of happiness is initiated from connections between individuals. The strength of life, held by love and harmony, engraves the image of happiness.
Run by technological sensors and programs, the artwork shifts the setting of a family photo from a traditional photograph studio into the Xiaobitan MRT Station, where is surrounded with the natural landscape and sunshine providing a blueprint of never-ending happiness.
Here, in front of your eyes is a plastic figure as the blueprint to symbolize the cluster of values for family happiness. On the other end, visitors can store their own images in the monitor with an easy controller on the handle of the vehicle driving on the way to happiness. Everyone can take part in this happy band. All of us are elements of one family. We, all, are the everlasting one in the happy land.


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What's New in Oracle GoldenGate 12c for Teradata
By Jinyu Wang-Oracle on Apr 25, 2014
Oracle GoldenGate 12c (22.214.171.124.1) for Teradata was released on April 24, 2014; it is currently available for download at eDelivery (https://edelivery.oracle.com). In this release, the following new features are available:
- Capture and delivery support for Teradata 14.10. The support is based on Teradata Access Module (TAM) 13.10 with no support for the capture of the NUMBER or VARRAY datatypes.
- Delivery support for Teradata 15.0.
- Coordinated delivery (replicat): provides the ability to spawn multiple Oracle GoldenGate replicat processes from one parameter file.
Oracle GoldenGate for Teradata's statement of direction has been updated in the Oracle GoldenGate Statement of Direction document.
The Oracle GoldenGate for Teradata Best Practice Document is updated at:
- Oracle GoldenGate Best Practice: Configuring Oracle GoldenGate for Teradata Databases (Doc ID 1323119.1)
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Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express Part 3, Chapter 9 Summary
Poirot Propounds Two Solutions
- Everyone gathers in the train car and Poirot gives two scenarios. Why two? You'll see. M. Bouc and Dr. Constantine will give their judgments concerning which is right. (They are the jury, in a sense.)
- The first solution:
- The murderer entered the train at either Belgrade or Vincovi dressed as a valet, murdered Ratchett and then left the train in plain clothes before it took off from the station.
- But what of the watch? Poirot's stroke of genius: "Mr. Ratchett had omitted to put his watch back an hour as he should have done at Tzaribrod" (3.9.19). So the watch was ahead! Which means he died at 12:15.
- M. Bouc doesn't know if he buys this: what about the voice in the compartment? Poirot explains: it was someone who came in and found Ratchett dead but was afraid to be implicated.
- And Mrs. Hubbard? She was having a nightmare and got the time wrong.
- And the maid? She did run into the man, but earlier, and had lied to give her lady an airtight alibi.
- Dr. Constantine is mad and jumps up and says this does not hold water. What the heck? (The stab wounds, for example.)
- Okay, okay, fine. Poirot gives the second solution:
- Everyone on the train car was in on it. Where else would you find such a mix of classes and nationalities except in America? And that's what the Armstrong household was.
- In other words, it was an elaborate scheme by all these people – all members of the Armstrong family or people affiliated with the Armstrongs – to bring justice to Daisy Armstrong.
- The case included many red herrings: for example, MacQueen's suggestion that Ratchett couldn't speak French.
- Then there were Mr. Hardman's methods. He only watched the hallway, which is not a good way to guard anyone, but it would keep an outsider from being implicated.
- Also, the Colonel called Miss Debenham Mary, which means they were intimately acquainted.
- Plus, Mrs. Hubbard's bolt on her door had not actually been covered by the sponge-bag. In odd number compartments, the bolt is above the handle.
- The whole thing was a "comedy played for my benefit" (3.9.50), says Poirot.
- They were all in on it, like a jury of twelve. And they all stabbed him, so as not to know who actually killed him.
- The clues were dropped as red herrings to confuse matters and incriminate people who had airtight alibis.
- The scarlet kimono? Probably the Countess's. That's another red herring.
- The Countess was innocent, and her husband did the stabbing for her.
- The conductor, Pierre Michel, was also in on it: his daughter was the nursemaid who threw herself out of the window.
- Hardman was the one in love with the girl. (How sad!)
- And Mrs. Hubbard? Why, she's none other than the famous actress Linda Arden herself.
- At this, Mrs. Hubbard admits to it, and details the plot. They were, in fact, all in on it together. And they would have succeeded if it weren't for the accident – and Poirot!
- Conclusion? The second solution is the one that is obviously correct. It matches up with the evidence. But has justice been served? M. Bouc and Dr. Constantine agree that it has, by choosing to present the first, false solution to the authorities.
- Poirot retires from the case.


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Captain America: Civil War
Starring: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Languages: English,German,French,Castilian Spanish,Audio Description,Korean,Brazilian Portuguese,Italian,Latin Spanish
Genre: Action, Adventure
Subtitles: English,Arabic,Chinese - Traditional
Chris Evans returns for another action packed outing as Marvel's First Avenger.
Money Monster
Starring: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell
Director: Jodie Foster
Languages: English,Castilian Spanish,French,German
Genre: Crime, Drama
Subtitles: Arabic
A TV host and his producer find themselves in a dangerous situation when an armed investor takes the studio hostage.
The Meddler
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, J.K. Simmons
Director: Lorene Scafaria
Languages: English,Latin Spanish,Japanese,Italian,French,Brazilian Portuguese,Castilian Spanish,German
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Subtitles: Arabic,Chinese - Traditional
After her husband dies, Marnie suddenly finds herself with lots of time on her hands and decides to follow her daughter to L.A.
Elvis & Nixon
Starring: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Colin Hanks
Director: Liza Johnson
Languages: English
Genre: Comedy
The untold, but true story of the meeting between President Nixon and the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Languages: English,Latin Spanish,German,French,Japanese,Brazilian Portuguese
Genre: Drama
Struggling to come to terms with his wife's death, Davis makes an unlikely connection with a vending machine sales rep.
Our Kind of Traitor
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard, Naomie Harris
Director: Susanna White
Languages: English,French,Italian,German
Genre: Action, Thriller
An oligarch's plan leaves an unsuspecting couple caught between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service.
Born to be Blue
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Keith Rennie
Director: Robert Budreau
Genre: Drama, Biography
An artistic reimagining of jazz musician Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late 1960s.
Ratchet and Clank
Voices of: Voice's of: Paul Giamatti, John Goodman, Bella Thorne
Director: Kevin Munroe
Languages: English,Castilian Spanish,German,French,Latin Spanish,Russian
Genre: Animation, Adventure
Two unlikely heroes band together to save the universe from destruction at the hands of evil Chairman Drek.
Starring: Julia Stiles, Anthony Hopkins, Alexander Ludwig
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Languages: English,Latin Spanish
Genre: Thriller
A young woman recruits two ruthless men to help her track down the violent ex-cop who attacked her.
Mia Madre
Starring: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini
Director: Nanni Moretti
Languages: Italian
Subtitles: English
Successful film director Margherita attempts to come to terms with the inevitable loss of her dying mother.
Sing Street
Starring: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Director: John Carney
Languages: English,German,Latin Spanish,Brazilian Portuguese,Korean,Castilian Spanish
Genre: Drama/ Music
Set in Dublin in the 1980s, this coming-of-age drama follows schoolboy Conor, who forms a band to impress a mysterious girl.
All the Way
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Anthony Mackie, Melissa Leo
Director: Jay Roach
Genre: Biography, Drama
President Lyndon B. Johnson attempts to pass the Civil Rights Act in the aftermath of the of John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Voices of: Evan Tramel, Jesse Baget
Director: Evan Tramel
Genre: Animation
Three buddies set out on an underwater quest to find their missing friend and meet lots of fantastic creatures along the way.
Miles Ahead
Starring: Don Cheadle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Ewan McGregor
Director: Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle ('Hotel Rwanda', 'Iron Man 2') writes, stars and directs this biopic based on the life of jazz musician, Miles Davis.
Mother's Day
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts
Director: Garry Marshall
Languages: English,Latin Spanish,French,Russian,Castilian Spanish
Several generations come together to celebrate Mother's Day in this comedy drama with an all-star cast.
Be Somebody
Starring: Sarah Jeffery, Allison Paige, LaMonica Garrett
Director: Joshua Caldwell
Genre: Romance, Drama
A chance encounter with pizza delivery girl Emily gives pop star Jordan Jaye the chance to experience life as a normal teenager.
High Strung
Starring: Keenan Kampa, Nicholas Galitzine, Paul Freeman
Director: Jane Seymour
Passion brews between a classical dancer and a hip hop violinist as they prepare for a competition that could change their lives.
Band of Robbers
Starring: Melissa Benoist, Kyle Gallner, Adam Nee
Director: Aaron Nee, Adam Nee
A reimagining of the lives of Mark Twain's beloved literary characters Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer as adults.
James White
Starring: Christopher Abbott, Cynthia Nixon, Scott Mescudi
Director: Josh Mond
Hedonistic New Yorker James has to take control of his destructive lifestyle when his mother becomes seriously ill.
Hitchcock Truffaut
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Wes Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich
Director: Kent Jones
Genre: Documentary
Documentary exploring the lasting influence of Francois Truffaut's 1966 book 'Cinema According to Hitchcock'.
Love Arcadia
Starring: Anthony Ma, Michelle Farrah Huang, Arvin Lee
Director: Lawrence Gan
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Teenager Jake has to come to terms with the prospect of losing his family's shop to a beautiful real estate mogul.
The Boss
Starring: Kathy Bates, Melissa McCarthy, Annie Mumolo
Director: Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone
Languages: English,Brazilian Portuguese,Korean,French,German,Italian,Latin Spanish
Subtitles: Chinese - Traditional
Having been charged for insider trading, mogul Michelle emerges from prison determined to rebrand herself.
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Director: Peter Atencio
Languages: English,Latin Spanish,French,German
Rell and his cousin Clarence try to rescue their abducted kitten from a ruthless gangster.
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Director: Paul Dalio
Two patients in a psychiatric hospital discover their intense relationship brings out the extremes of their condition.


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The Boys and Girls Clubs of the Big Bend are trying to help out with childcare expenses
On any given day, 100 kids pour into the Orange Avenue Boys and Girls Club. Homework comes first then there are plenty of activities and time to play.
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Orchha is often used only as a refill point by people heading for Khajuraho. It's beautiful temples and rivers are given a miss by tourists who are eager to head for the more famous Khajuraho.
An independent visit to this medieval town is highly recommended. There are enough to keep one busy over the weekend in this sleepy temple town — the fort complex, the Chaturbhuj temple, the Ram Raja Mandir, Dinman Hardaul's Palace...or one could simply laze around on the banks of the Betwa river.


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About the Book
In the tradition of the New York Times bestselling I Dream a World and Crowns comes this full-color companion volume to the acclaimed NAACP Award–nominated documentary Dark Girls—an inspiring and breathtaking photo book that celebrates dark-skinned women.
Black has never been more beautiful, witnessed by this magnificent collection featuring accomplished dark skinned-women from all walks of life. In Dark Girls, celebrities such as Lupita Nyong'o, Vanessa Williams, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Judge Mablean Ephriam, Brandi and Karli Harvey, and over seventy-five other outstanding women share intimate insights into what their dark skin means to them.
Filled with gorgeous photographs, this thoughtful, sophisticated, alluring, and uplifting collection captures the elegance of dark skin—joyfully showcasing that we truly are beautiful for who we are.
From the director of the NAACP Award–nominated documentary comes this gorgeous companion book to celebrate dark-skinned women.
Black has never been more beautiful. Dark Girls is a testament to the strength and grace of women everywhere, no matter their skin tone, upbringing, or education. Featuring such celebrities as Lupita Nyong'o, Vanessa Williams, Sheryl Underwood, Judge Mablean, and Loretta Devine, Dark Girls presents outstanding women from all walks of life, sharing intimate insights into what their dark skin means to them.
Combining Barron Claiborne's brilliant photography, Shelia Moses's touching narrative, and Bill Duke's extraordinary vision, Dark Girls is a beautiful and empowering work to be treasured by women of all ages. This thoughtful, sophisticated, and uplifting collection captures the elegance of dark skin—joyfully showcasing that we truly are beautiful for who we are.
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In collaboration with famed Swiss frame enginer Andreas Walser – who designed Jan Ullrich's personal time trial machine – the German manufacturer brings to the US market a sleek and simple design yet a stiff and aggressive fitting ride. The aero frame is complemented by a 3T Ventus Team aero bar, a 3T Fundra Carbon fork, Zipp 808 wheels, a Fizik Arione Tri 2 saddle, Continental Grand Prix tires, and a Sram Red groupset. Focus-bikes.com
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Game Rush: Flames vs. Blackhawks
Notes, quotes, stats and more from the Flames-Hawks contest
CHICAGO, IL. -- The Flames came into Chicago this afternoon full of emotion, committment, and an intense desire to win. Unfortunately, they came up short and without a single point.The Flames came out hungry in the first period but could not find a way past the Finnish fortress goaltender Antti Niemi.
"The first period we never put enough traffic around the net, "said head coach Brent Sutter. "He saw every shot that was taken on him. We never did enough around the net to allow it to be tough on the opposing goalie."
The Blackhawks opened the scoring early in the game when Niklas Hjalmarsson wired a shot from the blue line that just missed the net. Slovakian Olympian, Tomas Kopecky picked up the rebound and banked one home past Miikka Kiprusoff at just 2:56 into the opening frame. The Hawks kept coming and with under one minute to play in the opening period, Troy Brouwer widened the gap to 2-0 on a backhander from a Brent Seabrook shot from the blue line.
"It was an uphill battle after that one," said Brent Sutter. "Obviously when you're playing a team with the skill level and speed that they have, it was a battle all night. We couldn't seem to get over that hump."
The Flames had a fairly weak second period, managing just six shots on net. With under five minutes to play in the second, Antti Niemi assisted on the Hawks third goal of the night that appeared to seal the deal for the Hawks. Niemi handed the puck off to Brent Seabrook who passed up to Patrick Kane. Kane raced up centre ice with speed and momentum and fired a rocket top shelf under the bar on the blocker side of Kipper making it 3-0.
Just 1:02 later, Ian White answered back for the Flames, picking up his 12th of the season and the lone goal for his team. White sped down the right side of the ice, stick-handled his way around d-man Jordan Hendry and let a hard snap shot go that fools Niemi closing the Hawks gap 3-1.
In the third period, the Flames had more than enough chances but simply were not getting the bounces. They pressured for much of the final 20 minutes and managed 11 shots on net. However, with 2:46 to play in the game, Marian Hossa set up Dustin Byfuglien who fired a wrister through a screen past Kiprusoff to give the Hawks a 4-1 lead and put the game out of reach.
The Flames will head home to face the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night at the Saddledome in Calgary. Game time is 7:30 PM MST on TSN & The FAN 960.
|The Flames just didn't create enough traffic in front of Niemi and did not throw enough on him to get anything going. With that said, Troy Brouwer had the game winner. Brent Seabrook started the play by firing a hard slap shot from the point that was steered aside by Kipper but Brouwer was there to scoop up the rebound to find the back of the net making it 2-0 with just under a minute to play in the first period.
|With under five minutes to play in the second period, Patrick Kane gets his 29th goal of the season. He raced up centre ice with speed and momentum into the offensive zone, fired a rocket top shelf under the bar on the blocker side of Kipper making it 3-0. The hole was then too big for the Flames to dig themselves out of.
|Sitting out for Calgary was D Adam Pardy, F Brian McGrattan, F Christopher Higgins, F Curtis Glencross and F Daymond Langkow. The Blackhawks scratched D Kim Johnsson, D Nick Boynton, F Adam Burish, D Brian Campbell.
|17 - The Hawks have clinched the Central Division title for the first time in 17 years with the Detroit loss in Philidelphia earlier today.
16- Chicago is 16th in the league on the PP but 5th on the PK.
23-Marian Hossa leads the Hawks in +/- with 23
350- Iginla goals since 2001, 32 this season.
|"We just have to forget about it. It sucks right now, it's a tough loss but you just have to forget about it. We need two points and those two points have become the biggest points of the season." - Flames Mark Giordano.
"We kept it simple. They came out with a lot of energy. We put a lot of pucks at the net and our powerplay was doing well. We just kept it simple, came out with a good first twenty and just had to keep working from there."- Blackhawks forward Dustin Byfuglien.
"We're going to have to get help. Today it's not too hard to figure out the mathematics. We have to be able to run the table, they can only get five points out of ten."- Head Coach Brent Sutter
|Ian White
Gets the lone goal for the Flames, had three shots and three blocked shots today.
|Niklas Hagman
A couple great chances, three shots and two blocked shots today.
|Miikka Kiprusoff
Stopped 27 of 31 shots on net and played 4:47 SH minutes.
Author: Kristi Hennessy


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Beautiful book,
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This is a beautiful book.
First of all - at only 170 pages it is short. Even though some of the key points are repeated through the book it's dense with information. You don't need any JavaScript experience, but it's not a "beginning programming" book so if you haven't been programming before this is not the right book for you.
Reading this book a couple of times will give you an appreciation for the JavaScript language that you almost certainly didn't have before. It'll give you tools to write better programs that you and others will actually be able to maintain over time.
I've learned lots of little things that I maybe knew from experience, but now I _know_ and I know why.
This book will help you battle with JavaScript rather than against it.
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I agree that it's great that it's short (brief); and that it's right to the point. I wish more computer books were written this way. I think of this book as a great set of daily javascript koans to meditate on. The currying example had me meditating for like 2 days because I'm just not that smart. Finally it clicked though and it was glorious. The thing I don't find useful in this book are the subway diagrams of what's happening. Maybe round 2 will be meditating on those.
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SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- The stunning collapse of one of the West Coast's biggest wild salmon runs has prompted even cash-strapped fishermen to call for an unprecedented shutdown of salmon fishing off the coasts of California and Oregon.
"There's likely no fish, so what are you going to be fishing for?" asked Duncan MacLean, a fisherman from Half Moon Bay. "I have no problem sitting out to rebuild this resource if that's what's necessary."
The Pacific Fishery Management Council meets in Seattle this week and will likely vote to impose the most severe restrictions ever on West Coast salmon fishing to protect California's dwindling chinook stocks.
The Sacramento River chinook run is usually one of the most productive on the Pacific Coast, providing the bulk of the salmon caught by sport and commercial trollers off California and Oregon.
But only about 90,000 adult chinook returned to the Central Valley last fall -- the second lowest number on record and well below the number needed to maintain a healthy fishery. That number is projected to fall to a record low of 58,000 this year. By contrast, 775,000 adults were counted in the Sacramento River and its tributaries as recently as 2002.
"This stock got off-the-charts bad very suddenly," said Donald McIsaac, the council's executive director. "It's a very, very severe situation."
The council, which regulates Pacific Coast fisheries, will choose between three management options: a total ban on salmon fishing off the coast of California and Oregon; extremely limited fishing in select areas; or catch-and-release fishing for scientific research.
The council also is expected to set strict limits on salmon fishing off the coast of Washington to protect that state's declining chinook and coho stocks.
The council's final decision is expected Thursday. The National Marine Fisheries Service will then decide whether to implement the regulations by May 1.
The Central Valley collapse is a blow to fishermen, tackle shops, charter boat operators and other businesses that depend on commercial and recreational salmon fishing.
For consumers, it will be hard to find any chinook, also known as king salmon, which are prized by anglers, seafood connoisseurs and upscale restaurants. There should still be abundant supplies of farm-raised salmon and wild sockeye from Alaska, but prices could be higher.
"It's going to be devastating to the marketplace to have no California king salmon at all," said David Goldenberg, CEO of the California Salmon Council. "For people who want high-quality salmon, they're not going to have that choice."
Biologists and others are trying to figure out what caused the salmon collapse so they can make sure California's chinook populations rebound.
There are many potential factors, because wild salmon are born in streams and rivers, migrate to the ocean when they're juveniles and spend two to four years there before returning to spawn in the areas where they were born. In between they have to navigate the often treacherous waters of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay.
The council has asked state and federal scientists to research 46 possible causes, including water diversions, habitat destruction, dam operations, agricultural pollution, marine predators and ocean conditions.
Many scientists point to unusual weather patterns that disrupted the marine food chain along the Pacific Coast in 2005, when thousands of seabirds washed up dead or starving because they couldn't find enough to eat.
Researchers believe those poor ocean conditions also devastated the juvenile salmon that would have returned to the Central Valley last year. Young chinook couldn't find the tiny shrimp and fish they depend on to survive.
"The fish went to the ocean in 2005 and found nothing to eat when they got there. They either starved to death or got so weak from not eating enough that they got eaten by predators," said Bill Peterson, an oceanographer with the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Peterson said ocean conditions have improved since then, which could help revive West Coast salmon populations.
Many fishermen and environmentalists believe the main problem lies in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. They say too much water is being diverted to farms and water districts in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California.
They want the state and federal government to limit pumping from the delta, which disorients migrating salmon and kills young fish that get sucked into the powerful pumps. They're also calling for a reduction in agricultural runoff and the restoration of salmon habitat in the rivers.
"We did have some poor ocean conditions, but that doesn't explain why the Central Valley stocks took such a severe hit," said Zeke Grader, who heads the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations.
But state water officials believe the ocean is the chief culprit. The water pumps continue to meet stringent operating standards, and while more water has been diverted in recent years, there's also been more water available to export, said Jerry Johns, deputy director of the California Department of Water Resources.
"Ocean conditions are the most likely cause here," Johns said. "The requirements that we have to abide by to protect these fish haven't changed in the last several years."


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Due to the forecast of continued wintry weather to begin the work week for a widespread area of Mississippi, Monday night's scheduled basketball doubleheader between home-standing East Mississippi Community College and visiting Mississippi Delta Community College has been postponed.
The MACJC North Division hoops twin bill between EMCC and MDCC has been re-scheduled for this Saturday (Jan. 19) afternoon on the Scooba campus. A 2 p.m. women's game will be followed by a 4 p.m. men's contest at EMCC's Keyes T. Currie Coliseum.
With the postponed start to this week's hoops schedule, the EMCC basketball teams will now turn their immediate attention to Thursday's road doubleheader against division foe Northeast Mississippi Community College in Booneville. Tip-off times at NEMCC's Bonner Arnold Coliseum are set for 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.
All EMCC basketball games this week and throughout the 2012-13 season are slated to be video-streamed live on the school's Ustream channel at www.ustream.tv/channel/emcc-basketball, which can be easily accessed through the school's newly launched athletics website, www.EMCCAthletics.com.


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Health-Care Technology Will Survive if ObamaCare is Overturned
As the Supreme Court prepares to rule on the Affordable Care Act – also known as ObamaCare – many hospital CIOs say their plans for implementing technology won't be affected by the outcome, even though some aspects of the Act incentivize the use of new applications. In fact, the increasing use of electronic health records has led to a rise in influence of a specific breed of CIO — chief medical information officers.
"We're well into our electronic health record implementation," said Jackie Lucas, vice president and CIO of Baptist Healthcare System in Louisville, Kentucky. The incentives to install electronic systems to handle patient records were covered in the HITECH Act that was part of the 2009 federal economic stimulus package. "It won't impact our plans," she said.
The ACA doesn't directly address technology, although some of the Medicare programs in the Act give preference to providers that have installed electronic health records. "In order to participate in some of the programs, having electronic health records would be advantageous," said Judy Hanover, research director of IDC Health Insights.
While the part of the Act that has received the most attention has to do with the individual mandate, it's actually a much broader piece of legislation. Most of the Act is about reforms in the health-care delivery system, such as increasing physician efficiency and improving care and outcomes for patients. "The controversial part is a really small part," said Zeynep Sumer, vice president of regulatory and professional affairs at the Greater New York Hospital Association. The initiatives funded in the ACA, such as the bundled payments initiative, do contain a significant technology component. Under that initiative, Medicare will pay for services delivered across an episode of care such as heart bypass or hip replacement. The idea is to give doctors and hospitals new incentives to coordinate care, eliminate duplication of services, lower preventable medical errors and lower costs. "It can't be achieved without the implementation of technology," said Sumer.
As technology plays a greater role in coordinating and managing patient care, CIOs need to be able to connect the dots between technology and how technology can facilitate that care, said Sumer.
That has led to an increase in both the number and influence of CMIOs, typically physicians or nurses who are also IT leaders. In fact, 93.9% IT leaders in health care believe a CMIO is critical to the successful deployment of an electronic health record system, according to a recent survey by health technology executive search firm SSi-SEARCH. The number of CMIOs increased by 6% in 2012 from a year earlier, according to a February survey conducted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
John Halamka, MD, is officially called chief information officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, but he also serves as chief medical information officer. In his CIO job, he's responsible for the strategy, structure, staffing and processes for a 300 person IT organization. But as CMIO, he's responsible for the adoption of the applications by clinicians, and optimizing quality, safety, and efficiency in their workflows. "It's challenging for one person to perform all these tasks," he wrote in a January blog post.
Still, it's a crucial role because technology adoption in the health-care industry is being hampered by poorly designed and hard to use systems. In 2011, only about 57% of office-based physicians used electronic health records, although the government has shelled out an estimated $5.58 billion to encourage providers to use them.
With the ACA, the government is essentially saying that in order to realize the benefits or outcomes of these initiatives, providers need to have technology in place, said Sumer. "Otherwise, it won't work."
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