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With nearly sixty hospitals nationwide, they perform more complex surgery than any other private healthcare provider in the country. They have a committment to quality and value, providing facilities for advanced surgical procedures along with friendly, professional care.
The Priory Hospital has 118 beds. All their rooms offer the privacy and comfort of en-suite facilities, satellite TV and telephone. The hospital also has sixtheatres and a Level III Critcal Care Unit that has six ITU (Intensive Treatment Units) beds. Additionally, they have a fertility and cardiac cath lab theatre.
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The Priory Oncology Centre has state-of-the-art equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of the full range of malignant diseases.
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Just wanted to let people know to be careful with their Transmutation Crystals. Don't expect support to help you if something outrageously strange happens to your items in-game.
Last night, I used a Transmutation Crystal to take the skin of my Norn Tier 2 Cultural Gloves and but that onto my Honor of the Waves Gloves to have Tier 2 skin but exotic Soldier's stats. Before I clicked Transmute, the window showed the Tier 2 gloves on the left and HotW gloves on the right. I chose the right stats and skin, double checked, clicked Transmute. The item it showed after was NOT what was supposed to result. Somehow, my Tier 3 gloves (the ones I am always wearing, black and blue with Berserker stats) were replaced by the HotW gloves so I ended up with level 80 exotic Eagle Gauntlets (Tier 2 skin) with Berserker stats and no more Tier 3 gloves at all.
Befuddled, I looked through my inventory to see what went wrong and could not figure out what happened. So I e-mailed support and explained the situation and my confusion as to how an item that was not involved in the transmutation window at all somehow got used and their response was essentially "Not my problem, bro. Deal with it" despite the fact that this was a major error on the game itself instead of me making a mistake.
They refuse to help, which means that my options are to either buy all new Tier 2 and Tier 3 gloves and use two more transmutation crystals to set everything the way it is supposed to be (which I only have about 5g right now out of the 13g I would need and only 1 transmutation crystal left so I would have to buy more) or to use a Transmutation Splitter, which costs 300 Gems (but I only have 40 Gems at the moment and no money to add more). So if something really weird happens and your items do not behave as they are supposed to, don't expect support to help.
So good luck and hope nothing extreme happens. I'm now out of 13g and at least another $10 to fix something that I had no control over in the first place.
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Affluent African-Americans Live in Poorer Neighborhoods Than Middle-Class Whites
A new study finds that African-American and Hispanic Americans are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods — even if they're affluent.
The study of 2010 census data by John Logan, a sociology professor at Brown University, found that the average white household that earns less than $40,000 is in a more affluent, resource-rich neighborhood than a black or Hispanic household that earns more than $75,000.
Asians are the least likely to live in poor neighborhoods, regardless of their income. On average, affluent Asians live in neighborhoods that are 8.7% poor, while affluent whites live in neighborhoods that are 8.9% poor. Affluent Hispanics live in neighborhoods that are 13% poor, and affluent blacks live in neighborhoods that are 13.9% poor. (Affluent is defined in the study as household income of more than $75,000 while "poor" is defined as income of less than $40,000).
What explains the disparities?
Some say it's simple discrimination.
"White middle-class families have the option to live in a community that matches their own credentials," Mr. Logan told USA Today. "If you're African-American and want to live with people like you in social class, you have to live in a community where you are in the minority."
Some say social and cultural affinity may trump incomes when it comes to neighborhood choices.
"Customs, language, notions of prior national identity are what influence the decisions of people to live where they do," said Roger Pilon, vice president for legal affairs at the conservative Cato Institute.
Either way, the Pew Research Center recently released a survey showing that the the wealth gap whites and minorities is at a historic high due to the fall in housing prices.
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Friday, April 9, 2010
48 Hour Film Project Plans and Black Hole
I've been preparing for this year's 48 Hour Film Project. This is my third year running a team and I've decided to go for the nuclear option. What is this nuclear option, you may ask.
I'm glad you did.
It is a Sadie a border collie. Sadie is the equivalent to a hydrogen bomb of cute. Melissa McCue is her owner as well as an actress in the upcoming short film. Yes, it is a bit risky working with a dog, but this dog has been on camera before and Melissa is a professional dog trainer. My strategy is that people will ignore the slipshod writing and directing (done mostly by me of course) and focus on the cuteness of Sadie.
That's just part of my fiendish plan. I will do a few more posts as the event approaches (April 30th-May 2nd). Black Hole is the short we did two years ago for the 48. There's a world of difference between Black Hole and last year's short Silent Night.
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Definition of glimmer in English:
verb[no object]
Shine faintly with a wavering light: the moonlight glimmered on the lawn (as adjective glimmering) pools of glimmering light
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- It was sundown, the skies were dark orange, the temple and its worshippers glimmered in pools of light and dark.
- His short blond hair glimmered in the light which shone into the walkways and halls.
- Her spectacles caught the light from somewhere and glimmered under the straight blonde of her hair.
1A faint or wavering light.
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- The desolate plains seemed to end and, I could've sworn I had imagined it, but there seemed to be a faint glimmer of light on the horizon.
- Even in what seems to be the darkest hour, there's a faint glimmer of light.
- Ahead in the tunnel he could see a faint glimmer of light against the water, and could smell the air freshening.
1.1A faint sign of a feeling or quality, especially a desirable one: there is one glimmer of hope for Becky
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- Yesterday, there was a small glimmer of hope when there was a sign that his liver function may have started to come back but it is still well below the levels needed to pull him through.
- There are glimmers, small indicators and little signs that our country might be starting to find its feet again and our policies making an impact.
- The spirit of the holiday may be getting lost in all this back and forth, but there may be a faint glimmer of hope.
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If i want to assign attribute for "country" only to territories such that the territories can be searched on basis of the defined countries(E.g i have created two sales org units in ppoca_crm wherein i want one for country DE and one for country BE); then how exactly and where do i have to define the attributes???
Whether it is in ppoca_crm transaction or crmm_terrman directly or how???
Thanks in advance.
HI Sumitha,
U can assign the attributes for both ie to ORG model as well as Territory hierarchy.
For organisations u can assign country in the attribues tab page for the two sales organizations,
and for the terrirtory u can assign in areas level.
And one thing Org model defines the company' internal structure where as the territory defines Market view of ur organization.
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Hi Sumita,
I got what you are requiring,For Achieving the Territory search via Country You may need to Maintain Organisational Attributes for the Sales Organisation with their Respective Countries in the Organisationa Model and further to the that you need to map the Organisational Units in
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For which you shall require to assign Territorial attribute Country for both the Organisational Unit and then you can define Search on basis of Country as required.
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In X-15, the exciting story of the X-15 - the iconic rocket plane of the Cold War space race - is recounted by John Anderson, curator of aerodynamics at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. This experimental space plane was on the cutting edge of hypersonic aerodynamics, and its winged reentry from space foreshadowed the development of the Space Shuttle decades later. Launched from the wing of a modified B-52 bomber - again foretelling a concept that would be used decades later, in this case by Space Ship One and Space Ship Two - the ship rocketed higher and faster than any manned aircraft of the time. Designed to approach seven times the speed of sound, it was the first hypersonic aircraft ever created and was engineered to function both in the Earth's atmosphere and at the edge of space. Illustrated with period NASA and USAF photographs, as well as exclusive Smithsonian photography of the first of three X-15s built, X-15 captures the risks and dangers of the X-15 program as Anderson follows the test pilots (including Neil Armstrong) who pushed the very limits of their piloting skills to master groundbreaking experimental technology. Even with the fatal crash of the third X-15, the overall success of the program helped pave the way for NASA to continue to the Moon - and this is the definitive, expertly curated, and beautifully illustrated account of its development.
"This book offers a very thorough history of the X-15 program...a concise, yet detailed, introduction to the X-15. As rocket-powered aircraft take to the skies again this year above the Mojave Desert, this book reminds us of another era of such vehicles—and, perhaps, what might have been." - TheSpaceReview.com
"Authors John Anderson and Richard Passman's X-15: The World's Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age lays out the case for why the X-15 was and continues to be such an important aircraft. This book makes the reader want to visit the National Air and Space Museum and view the X-15 up-close in a whole new light, in which its aerospace accomplishments rank alongside other distinguished aircraft on display at the museum." - DefenseMediaNetwork.com
"The authors have crafted an excellent introductory story for this aircraft. This book is a good read and I can highly recommend it to anyone who wants to start to learn about this most remarkable airplane." - International Plastic Modelers Society
"Like the X-15 itself, this book is spectacular. John Anderson and Richard Passman treat readers to an insightful and accessible description of the famous rocket plane from its inception. Fabulous photographs punctuate the text. This handsome volume excels in telling the story from start to finish. Anyone interested in the glory years of research flight will want a copy." - Aviation History
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Shopping for evening wear can be incredibly frustrating and there was a point I didn't own a single dress that was flattering. A friend of mine then "educated" me about the different cuts and how to choose the right cut for me. Now, I don't fear the prospect of shopping for an evening dress as much as I used to!
When you're buying a formal dress, you need to look for a style that's going to perfectly flatter your figure. So let's start by figuring out our body shapes. Once you're done, you can start to choose the right cut for you dress.
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- The A Line
If you need to emphasise your waist, an A Line gown is your best bet. While the gown is fitted around the waist, it flares out waist downwards. This concentrates the attention on your waist, creating the illusion of your waist
- The Princess Cut
The Princess cut dress is a dramatized version of the A-line. The dress is created using vertical panels that run from the neckline down to the waist or sometimes the hem line. These panels work well by elongating your silhouette and ultimately slimming it because the focus is shifted to the lines created by the seams.
- The Ball Gown Cut
The Ball Gown is made up of a fitted bodice and a flowing skirt. These can be separates or one piece. This cut especially suits pear-shaped bodies as it accentuates the upper torso and does a good job of hiding the lower body. It also looks good with almost any neckline so take your pick!
- The Empire Cut
The Empire Cut dress has a high waistline that sits just below the bust. Funnily enough this is great for ladies with both big and small busts. For a smaller bust, it attracts attention to the neckline and if you add further embellishments like beadwork or full sleeves, it will work wonders. For a larger bust, it helps to conceal and the square neckline will work perfectly.
- The Mermaid Cut
The Mermaid Cut dress is very well fitted from the chest to the knee and then flares out, sort of like a mermaid's tail. This is the perfect cut for you if you love to show off your curves. Carry off the mermaid cut with a confident posture and you're all set.
- The Sheath or the Column Cut
This silhouette pretty much flows from the neckline to the hemline in a straight column, hence the name. However, this doesn't mean its shapeless because the column is usually narrow and clings to your curves. This is perfect for you if you're shorter as the silhouette has an elongating effect.
Other Tips to Consider:
- If you don't want to show your arms, use a wrap or a bolero jacket that goes with your dress.
- Try it on and see how it looks on you. Don't just buy something because it looks good on the rack.
- Learn about fabrics because each fabric can create a different look and can also end up making a dress fit you differently.
- If you don't like what's on the racks, hire a seamstress and get a dress tailored to perfection.
So there you go, hopefully these tips will make it easier for you to choose formal evening wear that's right for you.
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Die Heinzelmännchen, Op.14 (Pfitzner, Hans)
It is very unlikely that this work is public domain in the EU, or in any country where the copyright term is life-plus-70 years. However, it is in the public domain in Canada (where IMSLP is hosted) and other countries where the term is life-plus-50 years (such as China, Japan, Korea and many others worldwide). As this work was first published before 1923 or failed to meet notice or renewal requirements to secure statutory copyright with no "restoration" under the GATT amendments, it is very likely to be public domain in the USA as well.
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IT Skills for Successful Study
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These days, most students arrive at university with some IT skills. Most have surfed the Internet, used email and word processing applications, but few have used spreadsheets or presentation software. Even where students are able to use applications, many are unaware of the extent to which they can be used to aid their studies. Taking account of students' existing skills, IT Skills for Successful Study will help students to develop intermediate or advanced IT skills in those areas most relevant to studying, and to use IT for maximum benefit.


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2009 Child Advocate of the Year Awarded to Barbara Higgins
The Prevent Child Abuse Utah Organization has awarded Barbara Higgins of the Sandy Police Department with the 2009 Child Advocate of the Year Award.
Ms. Higgins has been instrumental in developing a program for the police department titled, "Children At Risk Intervention (CARI)."
This program was established under a federal grant received in 2008. The goal of the program is to identify children at risk in order to decrease violence and abuse in the lives of children, adolescents and families by finding alternatives to violence that can be developed in Sandy City. The program helps to stimulate interests, provide choices and promotes action. Several problems that negatively affect families that are being addressed in this program are suicidal/homicidal, drugs/alcohol, violent/aggressive behavior and mental illness.
Barbara co-wrote and produced a video in 2006 titled, "Stop the Violence, A Look at Teen Dating." Approximately 14,000 videos have been distributed to the Sandy community, schools, other law enforcement agencies, as well as private organizations. Additionally, Barbara was instrumental in starting the Youth Court Program for the police department.
Barbara currently serves on the Governors Office Teen Dating Violence Task Force, Utah Youth Court Association and Dating Violence Awareness Week Committee.
Congratulations to Barbara on her accomplishments and her contribution to Sandy residents!


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In his "Campaign'n 2013″ vlog, Young Jeezy performs at shows in Ohio and Tampa before heading to Washington for inauguration weekend. He gives a performance at Echostage and surprises the crowd by bringing out 50 Cent to do 'Major Distribution'.
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Monthly Accounting Checklist for Sage One
Part of the Sage One For Dummies Cheat Sheet (UK Edition)
Good online accounting needs good house-keeping, but Sage One really does make it easy for you. Every month, check that you have done the following to ensure your business finances are in tip-top condition:
Create sales invoices.
Enter purchase invoices.
Enter cheque payments from cheque book stubs.
Enter receipts from paying in book stubs.
Reconcile the bank accounts.
Run the Aged Debtor report.
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Denton singer-songwriter Sarah Jaffe has toured in support of her debut album, Suburban Nature, since the summer, picking up favorable and glowing reviews along the way.
Jaffe plays in her own backyard at 8 p.m. Sunday at Dan's Silverleaf, 103 Industrial St.
What Suburban Nature delivers as a recording - reflections on relationships past and present - Jaffe intensifies live. "Clementine," an off-the-cuff ditty about an inconstant woman, has won over many a fan, but Jaffe has other gems, too, like "Pretender."
If acoustic music or folk-rock is your cup of tea, Jaffe's a good bet this weekend. The New Roman Times open for Jaffe at 8 p.m. Cover is $10.
If Thanksgiving has you feeling more traditional, trombone player Steve Wiest joins Foo McBubba, the jazz band of First United Methodist Church, at 4 p.m. Sunday at the church, 201 S. Locust St.
Wiest is the director of the University of North Texas One O'clock Lab Band, the College of Music's premier jazz ensemble. Expect big band sounds and Wiest's charisma.
The concert is free, but any donations will help pay for the church's apportionments, which are annual dues to the United Methodist Church. Those dues pay for international and stateside United Methodist missions.
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Carl Lavin moves from launching startups to overseeing CNN's homepage. Tues., March 26, 2012.
By Carl Straumsheim Carl Straumsheim (@cfstraumsheim) is a graduate student at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
No, that quote wasn't ripped from some J-school's recruitment brochure, but rather from Carl Lavin's personal Web site. And his Twitter profile. Lavin, who much earlier in his 30-year career recast himself as a pioneer of online journalism, has joined CNN as lead homepage editor.
Maybe that's why he's so optimistic?
"You run into some pessimism at times when you talk to journalists. I understand that. Change can be traumatic," says Lavin, who started work on Monday. "But there are incredible tools and opportunities that just did not exist before.... We're on the verge of something much, much bigger."
Lavin, 55, left his last full-time gig--managing editor of Forbes.com--in October 2010 and has since focused on helping launch startups. Asked why he is returning to work for a large news outlet, Lavin replies simply that his new employer "is a terrific organization with great leadership and fantastic reach.
"The home page of CNN.com is one of the most popular news pages out on the Web, and the people who are managing it now are doing a terrific job," he says. "I hope I can help them make it even a little better and draw an even larger audience."
Meredith Artley, managing editor of CNN Digital, says her organization wanted to hire both a stellar editor and an amiable leader. "And we found him in Carl Lavin," she says. "We joke internally that having this job makes you simultaneously the most popular and the most detested person in the building, because everyone wants a piece of the home page."
Artley pointed to Lavin's performance at Forbes as one of the main reasons that elevated him above other candidates. "Forbes is a strong site, and they did a lot under Carl's leadership," Artley says. "In my view, the pace and relevancy of Forbes expanded while he was there."
Lavin bet on the Internet in the 1990s while working in the New York Times' Washington bureau, where he helped establish a continuous video newsdesk. "It started as the Web started," he says.
Since that first foray into online journalism, Lavin has, in his words, taken "evangelist" positions at other news organizations―including the Philadelphia Inquirer and Forbes―to train journalists and demonstrate to them the reporting power of social media.
Lavin and his wife, Lauren, have spent the last few weeks preparing for their move to Atlanta. Their four children are not joining them ("They're all invited!" Lavin points out), but they have joined their father on social media. Case in point: When Lavin asked his Twitter followers to contribute to this profile, Austin, Seth, Carter and Celeste pounced on opportunity, lauding their father's mentorship. "Man, do I have stories!" Austin Lavin said.
Michael Oreskes, senior managing editor of the Associated Press and a colleague of Lavin's at the New York Times, says Lavin's successful transformation has been the driving force behind his career in journalism. "The genius of Carl Lavin is that he's both a really terrific journalist and a really great guy, so he really inspires people to work with him and do even better journalism," Oreskes says.
Recently, Lavin's online savvy helped found Main Street Connect, a network of local news sites. Shrugging off comparisons to sites like Patch, Lavin says "local news―news that helps people navigate their local life―is essential and hard to find for anyone in any community. The goal of any news organization has got to be to provide unique, relevant news to a community."
Lavin did exactly that while at the University of Chicago, banding together with a group of friends to launch a weekly newspaper on the south side of the city. He graduated with a degree in biology, and connects journalists' search for the truth to the established steps of the scientific method. "The result should be the same, and it should be replicable," he says.
Lavin's academic background inspired his most recent project: ClearHealthCosts.com, a site meant to educate consumers on buying health insurance, which Lavin describes as "the one thing all of us buy without knowing the cost or being able to research the cost.
"In any market, when pricing is opaque, there's very little pressure to keep pricing down. Transparency is important in keeping prices down."
ClearHealthCosts.com's CEO (and another of Lavin's coworkers at the Times), Jeanne Pinder, called Lavin's work on the startup "enormously helpful."
"He's got an unusual knack to understand what the readers want," Pinder says. "He's got a very analytic mind in approach to the news."
Although Pinder admits to having tried to lure Lavin into accepting a full-time position at ClearHealthCosts.com, she expects he will thrive at CNN. "He embraces innovation," she says, and he "puts the reader first."


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Gay marriage violates natural law
A chemistry prof at Vanderbilt University named Dr. Breckenridge introduced me to the natural law as a freshman engineering student in 1947.
He lectured that the Periodic Table of the Elements helped explain the orderliness of the universe. He also said that the table was not especially aligned with religion, but it did help to explain the biblical story of creation.
He went on to explain that as science expanded, the natural law appeared to define a path to learning and explaining all the vast fields of just how things were put together. He also explained that it was not possible to violate the natural law that had been set in motion in the universe.
This would explain that same sex marriage was not in accord with the natural law. Marriage of the female and male was key to reproduction. Male-male and female-female relations could not reproduce naturally.
Just a thought to ponder for all who believe in the natural law.
It would appear that the founders of this great nation had some idea of the natural law and its place in society.
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** I should add: I think everything that is non Sandy related (meaning the pork that others may have showed into it that has nothing to do with Hurricane Sandy) that is in this Sandy Relief Bill should be stripped from the bill for the vote. Get Sandy bill (minus non Sandy stuff) a vote. **
I think the Sandy Relief Bill should have been brought to the floor last night and voted on…..just as I think Senator Harry Reid should have brought a budget to the Senate Floor for vote. Senator Harry Reid's failure to do so has blocked the possibility of national budget.
How politicians vote on any particular issue is their business (and their constituents) — but there should be a vote. The process should not be blocked – either with the Budget or Sandy or any other important issue.
One other thing…traditionally, we Americans join together and help each other when something catastrophic happens. That has been a good thing for our nation.


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LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Democrats in the Michigan Legislature have begun a tough battle over funding the state's main college scholarship program.
The Democratic-led House Appropriations Committee on Thursday voted along party lines to come up with $120 million to pay for the Promise scholarship in the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. A specific revenue source was not identified, making Thursday's vote merely symbolic.
A joint House-Senate panel voted to eliminate the Promise grant on Wednesday as part of a strategy to eliminate the state's projected $2.8 billion shortfall for the next fiscal year.
The House could vote on the proposal to scrap the scholarship program later Thursday.
Democrats say they won't put the proposal to fund the scholarship up for a final vote until a specific revenue source is identified.


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"We are happy to state that Vaughan is certainly not the person concerned and are very sorry a situation like this has arisen."
"Vaughan is a very good player who has done a great job as Test captain but he has always got injury concerns."
"To beat Australia the opposing captain has to be prepared to attack and use his initiative, as Michael Vaughan so expertly displayed in the recent Ashes series, and on what I have seen so far, this is beyond Smith,"
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RadioShack Earnings Jump, Doubters Remain
RadioShack has its doubters, many of whom have mystified memories of the electronic retailer's former tag line "A Tandy Company." As though we all knew Tandy, and that would help us understand RadioShack.
This morning, the erstwhile sponsor of Lance Armstrong's cycling team, reported stronger-than-expected profits and strong revenue gains. It seems that RadioShack has figured out that expensive phones do better than bales of wiring, replacement wall sockets and other electronic do-dads that used to stock the shelves. RadioShack sell Apple's iPhone 3G and 3GS and iPhone 4.
Despite the seemingly strong figures, RadioShack shares haven't done much in the pre-market. It may be that some still have doubts about RadioShack's ability to thrive in a fast-moving tech world. That's understandable since such doubts have dogged the firm for years. And yet…the RadioShack is still there, operating out of nearly every mall known to humankind.
You can read the full earnings report here.
Cocktail party factoid: RadioShack IS the Tandy Company. Tandy Corp. was a Fort Worth, Tex., leather goods that bought RadioShack in the early 1960s. In 2000, RadioShack replaced Tandy as the parent corporate name.


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DECISION DAY: Voters cast ballots in the presidential election at Alexander High School in Albany, Ohio, Tuesday. Republican Mitt Romney added last-minute stops in Ohio and Pennsylvania. President Barack Obama was in Chicago and planned to make a final pitch to battleground states with radio and television interviews. (Ty Wright/Bloomberg)
MOVING ON: A woman carried belongings in a basket in New Dorp, on Staten Island, N.Y., Monday. Although many areas of the metropolitan area are returning to normal, some parts of Staten Island remain devastated by Superstorm Sandy. (John Minchillo/Associated Press)
CHECKING OUT: A hotel doorman checked a street outside the hotel as police sat and waited during a general strike in Athens Tuesday. Greeks poured into the streets over another austerity bill aimed at securing international aid. (Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg)
REVEALED: A virtually unknown painting by Salvador Dalí was unveiled in Montreal Monday. (Michel Viatteau/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
SECTARIAN UPROAR: Police on a motorbike rode past a burning truck that was torched by a mob after a sectarian killing in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday. Gunmen shot dead three Shiite Muslims and wounded two others. (Rizwan Tabassum/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
HORSE TO WATER: A Palestinian man washed a horse in the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City Tuesday. (Oliver Weiken/European Pressphoto Agency)
CHRISTMAS BLING: A Christmas tree was displayed on the ground floor of the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris Tuesday. (Etienne Laurent/European Pressphoto Agency)


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A Quote by Ken Wilber on wilber, one taste, ego, kosmos, and unborn
As Hubert Benoit said, it is not the identification with the ego that is the problem, but the exclusive nature of the identification. When our self-identity expands beyond the ego, into the deeper psychic, then even into the Unborn and One Taste, the ego is simply taken up and subsumed in a grander identity. But the ego itself remains as the functional self in the gross realm, and it might even appropriately be intensified and made more powerful, simply because it is now plugged into the entire Kosmos.
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- Aug 26:
- Napa earthquake: Aftershocks rattle North Bay, damages highways
- Martinez: Quake-related flood drenches DA's office
- Aug 25:
- Napa earthquake shines light on Bay Area's hazardous old masonry buildings
- Vast majority of Californians shun earthquake insurance
- Napa earthquake stressed other faults
- Napa earthquake: Power mostly restored, schools closed Monday morning
- Aug 24:
- Baby with 'guardian angel' not harmed in earthquake
- Napa: Crashing bottles, barrels sow doubt about wine country travels
- Quinn: #napaquake hijacking shows flaws in social media as our town center in crisis
- How big was the Napa earthquake? Here's where it ranks among California quakes
- Napa earthquake: California's early-warning system worked
- Napa earthquake tourism: Should you stay or should you go?
- Napa earthquake: Vallejo officials report minor damage, two dozen injuries
- Napa earthquake: UC-Berkeley ShakeAlert system gave 10 second warning of 'light' shaking
- Napa earthquake: Winemakers, sellers assessing damage; some wineries closed
- Napa earthquake: 49ers game on, but ACE and Capital Corridor trains canceled
- Napa earthquake: No damage at Sonoma Raceway, IndyCar race is on
- 6.0 quake hits Bay Area: Did you feel it?
- Marin jolted by 6.0-magnitude quake in North Bay
- Napa earthquake: Hundreds hurt, dozens of buildings condemned after 6.0 jolt
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- Barnidge: L.A. earthquakes are a reminder of what's still to come
NAPA -- Nola Rawlins, 84, managed to escape her unit at the Napa Valley Mobile Home Park when a magnitude-6.0 quake struck early Sunday morning despite her bad eyesight. She was jolted awake as her TV toppled into her bed, then slowly made her way out of the home only to see a fire beginning to spread.
"I saw the house in back of me burning and then I heard an explosion," Rawlins said.
She thought her house was safe and evacuated, but learned later the home had burned to the ground, destroying her glasses, medicine, photos of granddaughters; everything.
"I think I'm just kind of in shock," Rawlins said as she waited for her daughter to come from Cobb Mountain to pick her up. It's devastating when you lose everything, but I'm OK."
Three other mobile homes were completely destroyed at the park, and another half-dozen were damaged by a blaze that firefighters could not tackle directly for almost a half-hour because of broken water mains.
"If there had been any kind of wind there would have been no way to stop it," said Napa fire Capt. Steve Becker.
The first water was put on the fire 20 to 30 minutes after the firefighters arrived, when relief water tenders arrived. By then three adjacent mobile homes were destroyed, along with a fourth about two blocks away. The park's general manager shut off gas to all units to prevent any further fires.
Fire crews remained on scene throughout the morning, dousing hot spots and watching over the smoldering remains of the units, which stood just 100 feet from the first rows of a vineyard, as a steady stream of muddy water gushed in front of the park entrance. Dozens of homes showing outward signs of foundation damage, some with caution tape barring owners from entering.
Jean Moore, 68, lives across the street from the burned units and while the exterior of her unit showed little damage, the inside was another matter. Bookcases toppled or arched in skewed angles, her refrigerator and stove moved feet from their original spots with broken glass throughout her kitchen. In every room furniture toppled.
Fortunately for Moore, a 10-year resident at the park, she was asleep at her private nursing job in Menlo Park when she awoke to the quake. She turned on the TV news and saw the scrawling news feed on the bottom say there was a mobile home fire in Napa. She eventually realized it was her park and headed home.
"This is unbelievable," Moore said, standing in her damaged living room as one of her three cats struggled to venture out from behind the refrigerator, "but it's standing and not burned to the ground."
Howard Hornsby, 70, lived a few houses down from the fire on Mark Way and awoke to a gigantic jolt and then 20 to 25 seconds of side-to-side shaking.
"Everything came down. Every book came down, The shelves were empty," he said. "It was like emptying a box."
Hornsby and his wife crawled out of their mobile home to escape and saw the beginnings of the fire. The fire quickly grew to 15 to 30 feet above the roof line, he said, as residents frantically ran from their homes yelling.
Wearing a T-shirt, shorts and a blanket like a poncho, Hornsby spoke from the community center, displaying the only belongings rescued by firefighters from his structurally damaged house: his glasses, hearing aides, medicine, and a hip sack. His house was not damaged by the fire, but was tilting and dangerous to enter, he said.
"If my time comes, my time comes," Hornsby said, calling himself a "kinda like a Buddhist type. ... Everything you have is replaceable."
Staff writer Robert Salonga contributed to this report.


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A 26-year-old flight student is dead after a propeller accident Saturday on the runway of Castle Airport in Merced.
Merced County sheriff's spokesman Tom MacKenzie said the Sierra Academy of Aeronautics student, a Chinese national, was killed when the propeller of a single-engine Cessna struck his head. The student's identity isn't being released until his family and the Chinese Consulate are notified, MacKenzie said.
The student was pronounced dead shortly after investigators arrived at the scene.
The accident happened at around 6:30 p.m. after the victim and another student returned from a flight to Visalia. MacKenzie said the students were certified to fly either solo or with an instructor -- but they were not supposed to be flying together.
When the students landed the two-seat aircraft at Castle, investigators believe they saw a fuel truck and knew their violation would be reported to the flight school, if they were seen by the truck's driver.
One student left on foot, while the victim got out of the co-pilot's seat and went around the front of the plane. MacKenzie said investigators speculate that the victim was trying to get back into the primary pilot's seat when he was struck in the head by the propeller.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board have launched investigations into the death. Sierra Academy of Aeronautics officials didn't comment Monday on how the accident may have happened, saying they are awaiting the outcome of the investigations.
Rashid Yahya, the school's director of flight operations, said the death was the first of its kind in the school's 44 years of operation. "It's very unfortunate that this thing has happened," Yahya said. "We are all very sad because we've never experienced this type of fatality."
Yahya said the victim was a "good student," but didn't say how long he'd been flying. "He had no problems with his training," Yahya said. Sierra Academy of Aeronautics has about 200 students, Yahya said.
Reporter Victor A. Patton can be reached at (209) 385-2431 or email@example.com.


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The United Way of East Mississippi has announced that John Anderson has been elected Chairman of the United Way Board of Directors for the 2012- 2013 season.
John Anderson joined the staff of Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center in 1990, and was recently named Administrator of Anderson Regional Medical Center South (formerly Riley Hospital). Before being named Administrator at Anderson South, Anderson served as Vice President of Clinical Operations at Anderson Regional Medical Center. Anderson is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), the nation's leading professional society for healthcare leaders.
Previously, Anderson served as United Way's Pacesetter Chairman, and Campaign Chairman. Anderson is President of the MIDD Board of Directors and is a member of First Baptist Church. John and his wife, Debra are the proud parents of four adult children and four grandchildren.
Executive Director, Thad Quarles said, "United Way is extremely grateful for the outstanding leadership John has brought to the Board, and we look forward with great anticipation to his tenure as Chairman."
In addition, the following serve as members of United Way Board of Directors:
Alan Lamar, Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
Alphe Wells, Anderson Regional Medical Center
Becky Glover, Parents for Public Schools
Bill Patterson, Alliance Health Center
Brian Henson, Kemper County Economic Development Authority
Campbell Helveston, Citizens National Bank
Cecil Johnson, Retired
Chad Vaughn, The Service Company of Mississippi
Cynthia Harris, Regions Bank
Damon Wise, Hospice Compassus
Daryl Brown, Mississippi Power
Debbie Young, Bank Plus
Derron Radcliff, MSU Riley Center
Elisa Mayo, Quitman School District
Greg Bott, Bott Inc.
Jay Howell, Rush Health Systems
John Mayo, Fair & Mayo, PLLC
Linda Waters, Atmos Energy
Marilyn James, MSU-Meridian Campus
Roger Burke, Graham Transfer & Storage
Scott Stevens, Mississippi Broadcasters
Susie Broadhead, East Mississippi State Hospital
Vern Lund, North American Coal Corporation
Wade Phillips, WTOK-TV


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Farming Review of the Year 2013
Published 18/12/2013 | 02:30
The year 2013 will go down in history as one of record highs and extreme lows. The farming sector was gripped by a spring fodder crisis that tested farmers' mettle in the most punishing way possible but buoyant demand for agricultural produce saw record milk prices and strong demand for beef help the recovery. Here, we take a look at the stories that shaped the past 12 months.
January 2013 opened with good news for Irish farmers, with the announcement that the live export trade to Libya was to resume.
In Munster, disgruntled Dairygold suppliers began a campaign of opposition to the co-op's milk supply agreement which included a heated meeting where the co-op's chief executive Jim Woulfe was shouted down by close to 1,000 suppliers.
But Dairygold's troubles paled in comparison to the can of worms that was opened up by the Food Safety Authority on January 15, when it announced that tests had found horsemeat in burgers.
With traces of horsemeat found in burgers on sale in Tesco, Dunnes Stores, Lidl, Aldi and Iceland, consumers recoiled from beef and the scandal threatened the future of Ireland's €9bn food export industry.
News of the findings spread to key Irish food markets all over the world and a complicated international web of meat trading was revealed.
The Silvercrest plant in Co Monaghan, which was owned by ABP at the time, was found to have imported blocks of frozen meat from Poland that contained 20pc horsemeat. ABP later blamed on intermediaries in the meat supply chain.
CAP reform dominated the farming headlines in February as European heads of state agreed to slash €65bn off the cost of running the European Union.
The move translated into a €93m cut to Ireland's national envelope for CAP funding, taking €42m out of farmers' single farm payments (SFP) and a similar amount out of Pillar II schemes like AEOS, DAS and LEADER.
Farmers in the west called for more radical distribution of the single farm payment, insisting that farmers with low SFP entitlements were entitled to more money.
Leitrim Macra caused waves when it suggested that Commissioner Ciolos in Brussels cared more about family farms in Ireland than the Government and farm organisations.
Fodder shortages became a serious issue in parts of the country, with some farms holding 100 animals or more admitting to having less than a week's supply of fodder.
The price of silage soared to €50/bale as farmers struggled to source fodder for their animals.
AIMS figures confirmed what many had feared, that animals were dying on farms due to hunger-related issues.
The number of on-farm deaths in January and February was up almost 9,000hd on the previous year.
The IFA faced a revolt from within its own ranks as farmers with low SFP entitlements called for a fairer redistribution of the national fund.
A letter, signed by 23 prominent IFA members, including branch chairmen and secretaries, called for the IFA to end its "continued insistence on minimising any redistribution of the SFP".
Meanwhile, talk of 2015 becoming a reference year for payments threatened to push an already overheated land rental market into overdrive.
Hundreds of farmers with spare hay, silage and straw responded to a Teagasc call to help those struggling with a shortage. Demand for concentrate feed soared, with feed mills working 24/7 to meet farmer requirements.
However, as April progressed and there was no sign of the weather improving enough to allow animals out to graze, the situation became so desperate that Irish farmers were forced to scour Europe for fodder.
Co-ops, marts and farm organisations frantically searched for suppliers of hay at up to €135/bale in an attempt to stave off an animal welfare catastrophe. More than 22,000 additional animals had died on farms as a result of the fodder crisis.
Articulated lorry-loads of hay, subsidised by a Department of Agriculture €1m emergency fund, arrived daily into Ireland and were instantly devoured. Grass was harvested and donated from unusual locations, including Shannon and Dublin airports and the median of motorways.
Minister Simon Coveney announced a doubling of the fodder transport scheme to €2m as the crisis deepened. The fodder crisis was estimated to cost farmers €900m by the ICMSA.
The bill was calculated based on a 30pc increase in concentrate feeding, a 40cp hike in the cost of fodder, more than €32m worth of animals dead and a drop in farm output of milk and beef.
While some farmers were lucky enough to be able to harvest some silage in May, many were still reliant on imported fodder. The stress and emotional cost of the crisis took a savage toll on some farmers and reports of suicide rose.
Meanwhile, the impact of the earlier horsemeat scandal was felt in a positive way as factory demand for prime beef cattle grew by the week.
Glanbia announced its plans for a €150m plant at Belview Port.
As the weather finally improved so too did the national mood among farmers. Milk supplies soared as co-ops pushed milk price towards 38c/l and bigger milk cheques went some way towards easing concerns about crippling feed bills on farms.
However, banks and co-ops warned that the agricultural industry was creaking under the mountain of debt from the fodder and weather crisis.
CAP negotiations continued apace, with Minister Simon Coveney in the hot seat as president of the Council of Farm Ministers for the final trialogue negotiations between the European Commission, European Parliament and the European Council.
The end result for farmers is a minimum payment of €146/ha for every hectare of eligible land in the EU farm payment system.
With the €1.6bn CAP budget allocated to Ireland, the real fight began at home over how the money should be redistributed among farmers. The level of redistribution from one farmer to another is an area of major contention as farmers with low entitlements battled to increase their payments and farmers with high entitlements clung to the status quo.
The lamb trade was given a boost in July as 5,000 ram lambs and hoggets were included in a shipment to Libya.
And in a remarkable turnaround, farmers went from cursing Ireland's miserable and wet weather to worrying about drought as a heatwave gripped the country.
The first of many 'clawback' letters were sent to farmers who, the Department of Agriculture said, had overclaimed on their SFP and DAS payments.
Harvesting began on tillage farms all over Ireland with some record yields achieved. The total harvest topped 2.12m tonnes and the average winter barley yield was the highest ever at 9.5t/ha. However a bumper maize harvest in the United States kept a lid on grain prices in Europe, limiting the potential profits for growers.
Dairy farmers were given a sharp reminder of how food safety issues had the potential to damage their business when New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra was forced to issue a recall for whey powder.
Sales of Fonterra product in China fell by 50pc in the days following the recall.
But rising milk prices in Ireland lured more beef farmers to consider switching to dairy ahead of the 2015 planned expansion.
More than 100,000 tractor owners scrambled to get their motor tax affairs in order as the Gardai took a tougher stance on untaxed machines.
The move caused consternation in local tax offices as farmers joined the scramble to become compliant.
As debate over coupled payment raged between the farm organisations, Minister Coveney hinted at a new 'quality-based' payment for suckler producers. Milk price moved ever higher, reaching 39c/l and northern dairies began to court milk suppliers south of the border.
Tillage growers splashed out €20m on new combines and the National Ploughing Championships attracted a record attendance of 230,000 people to Ratheniska, Co Laois.
Beef producers raged against the ever-widening gap between Irish and British beef prices.
While British producers enjoyed a 16c/kg price rise for R-grade steers, their Irish counterparts suffered a drop of 43c/kg during the same period.
Ash dieback was discovered in a native ash tree for the first time, despite every attempt to limit the spread of the costly disease.
Despite the threat of a €20m superlevy, dairy farmers continued to milk their cows to cash in on high milk prices that helped clear some merchant credit.
Department inspectors examined the curious case of Holstein cows grazing on moorland 560m above sea level as sheep farmers protest against the requirement to fence in mountain land.
Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney led a trade mission to the Gulf States with the aim of securing €500m food and drink contracts.
Accompanied by meat processors ABP, Dawn Meat and Kepak, the Irish Dairy Board and Bord Bia and almost 30 other companies, the event saw Irish food and drink promoted to buyers in several oil-rich Gulf States.
Opposition to Eirgrid's plan to erect a network of 45m-high electrical pylons began to grow, with hundreds of concerned people attending local meetings.
The livestock sector and marts in particular were rocked when TLT International went into receivership, owing marts and farmers over €3m for cattle. Grant Thornton receiver Gearoid Costelloe described the level of trust and credit in the trade as "a fundamental flaw".
Minister Coveney and the IFA went head-to-head on the issue of 50:50 co-funding for CAP Pillar II schemes, with the Minister warning the farm organisation to be "realistic" about the chances of securing maximum exchequer funding.
The total bill for farmers under the controversial land parcel review was pegged at between €15m and €20m.
As we went to press, the IFA was poised to announce its new president -- Laois man Jer Bergin or Meath's Eddie Downey will lead the farm organisation in 2014.
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With a win tonight, in their fourth meeting of the season against the Penguins, the Devils can take a step out of last place in the division (7:30 p.m., FSN NY, WFAN 660 AM). The teams own identical 8-10-2 records.
Everything fell into place for the Devils on Saturday in a 6-2 win at Philadelphia. After being denied his 500th victory on three occasions, Martin Brodeur picked up the milestone win by making 26 saves to join Patrick Roy as the only goaltenders to reach that mark.
"I don't see myself as that big of a deal," said Brodeur, who needs 51 victories to match Roy's all-time mark of 551.
Six different Devils scored a goal in the game, a feat New Jersey hadn't accomplished since Feb. 7, 2006.
While the Devils had lost three of four before beating the Flyers, Pittsburgh has lost seven of nine entering Wednesday's matchup. The Penguins stopped a four-game losing streak with a win over the New York Islanders on Thursday, but squandered a 2-0 lead against the New York Rangers in a 4-3 overtime loss Saturday.
One of the Penguins' strengths had been the power play, where they had scored at least one goal in their first 14 games and have converted 21 percent overall. But they went 0-for-7 with the man advantage against Philadelphia on Nov. 7, and have gone 4-for-30 their last six games with the man advantage.
"We had a two-goal lead early and weren't able to build on it," Crosby said. "(Rangers goalie Henrik) Lundqvist held them in the game. We get that third goal, we bury them."
Marc-Andre Fleury (3.47 GAA) made 22 saves in the loss, and Dany Sabourin may get the start for this game. Sabourin had 20 saves in a 5-0 shutout Nov. 5 and has split two starts versus the Devils this season.
Brodeur is 1-1 against the Penguins this season, and 31-20-1 with four ties against them lifetime.
For the Devils, tonight's game is the second of a four-game roadtrip that will continue Friday evening at Atlanta (7:30 PM, FSN NY, WFAN 660 AM). New Jersey returns to Prudential Center Wednesday, November 28 vs. Dallas (7:00 PM, MSG, WFAN).
For the Devils, defenseman Paul Martin (lower body soreness, suffered Nov. 14 vs. NYR, 2 gms missed) is day-to-day. Defenseman Colin White (puck to the eye area, suffered Sept. 19, 5 pre-season & 20 reg.-seas. gms missed) and right wing Cam Janssen (separated shoulder, suffered Sept. 17 vs. Phi., 5 & 20 gms missed) remain sidelined.
On Monday, New Jersey re-assigned defenseman Olli Malmivaara to Lowell (AHL). He had been called-up on Saturday.
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Address system 'what3words' can pinpoint any spot on Earth with a three word code
- From: news.com.au
- July 04, 2013
FORGET about postcodes and street numbers. A new mapping system called 'what3words' can find any searchable spot on the globe with a three-word code.
The London-based start-up has divided Earth into 57 trillion squares, each of them three square metres large. Every individual square has been assigned a unique three-word code.
With a simple, map-based search, you can pinpoint any location and find its code in a matter of seconds. It sure beats writing down a full address.
For instance, say you were meeting friends at the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney. Traditionally, you would tell people the address: 455 George St, Sydney NSW 2000. A what3words search would yield a simple result: input.fines.bonus. It's much easier to remember.
"With GPS and smartphones, we have at our fingertips the ability to pinpoint precise locations," said what3words CEO Chris Sheldrick.
"However, until what3words we haven't had a simple, memorable universal system to easily describe locations with any degree of precision."
The system is certainly more precise than conventional mapping. The three word codes apply to spaces just three square metres large, allowing you to direct people to something as specific as a particular tent in your campsite.
If you feel like shelling out a dollar or so, you can even reduce your address to a single word.
We played around with what3words and came up with a few examples:
The Eiffel Tower: ship.vocal.launched
An escalator in Tokyo: tooth.develops.landings
The White House: engine.doors.cubs
Big Ben: lease.ensure.paused
A tree in New Zealand: trains.rally.feared
Christ the Redeemer: familiar.system.mule
Tahrir Square: publish.digesting.woven
A mailbox in Los Angeles: jump.union.blade
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Jerry Posted at 12:46 PM July 05, 2013
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Greg Wallace Posted at 8:27 AM July 05, 2013
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Hugh Jorgen Posted at 6:54 AM July 05, 2013
So my house will have 20 different meaningless names. Absolutely ridiculous. I hope this is not the result of public research monies!
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Neil of Australia Posted at 9:32 PM July 04, 2013
Great idea but should have only used four letter words. Some of the words are harder to remember than the actual address.
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Alex Martin of http://www.activ8me.net.au/ Posted at 6:40 PM July 04, 2013
It's ridiculous but I would probably try what3words app does work--accurately! Well, I need to test it using a high-speed internet connection.
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Steve of Melb Posted at 6:23 PM July 04, 2013
April first has passed.........this has to be a joke......find me at coswallop.of.load
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Mugwumpyu of Sydney Posted at 5:14 PM July 04, 2013
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Miles of Adelaide Posted at 4:38 PM July 04, 2013
And here we see the faults of the technology driven generation... Trying to think up some unique and technologically driven unique way of performing a task that is already perfectly executed by methods used for years. Too much focus on the used of technology and not enough focus on the actual problem at hand. Please explain how this is any different or better than current Longitude / Latitude co-ordinates?
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Noobs! Posted at 4:22 PM July 04, 2013
for those that have commented the 3 words are just random. They have nothing to do with the location! DERR!!
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Bowl of Coogee Posted at 4:12 PM July 04, 2013
How does it uniquely identify where people live in blocks of units ? Myself, the people living directly upstairs and below of me will all have the same 3 words of where we are, even though we are not physically at the "same" place. Need a system to cater for teh Z-axis
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Myles of Gold Coast Posted at 4:11 PM July 04, 2013
The White House = engine.doors.cubs. hmmm, was the.white.house that much harder to remember?
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AG Posted at 4:04 PM July 04, 2013
Stupid. The other person has to have the app or it is just three random words. And then they have to translate it into a normal address via the app. The words carry no meaning - is cared.stroke.glad near sage.total.park? Can we get between them in less than an hour? Let me put them through the app........... Oh, it's Myer and Zara in Bourke Street Mall. Easy to remember? Can anyone remember the address of the eiffel tower without looking back at the article?
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Lenny of Brisbane Posted at 3:47 PM July 04, 2013
Someone let Gen Y out of their box again...Oye veh!
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John of Brisbane Posted at 3:45 PM July 04, 2013
Just.Plain.Stoopid Waste.Of.Time Never.Gonna.Remember Get.A.Life Over.It.Fast Please.Try.Again Etc.Etc.Etc
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TB of NSW Posted at 3:42 PM July 04, 2013
WOW Jane, you must be really excited to have grown up with all this great technology.......you must be also excited to see most of the young ones indoors now as well with no social lives or skills as they are too busy with technology.
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Knee Jerk of Sydney Posted at 3:35 PM July 04, 2013
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Grame Weston Posted at 3:32 PM July 04, 2013
I think this is a good idea. If you want to meet up with someone in an area that's complicated to find a single spot like a large boulevard or university campus, it's easier to bash in three words into a text (which auto-correct even has a chance of fixing up) for them to find on a map rather than a long description or a complicated string of numbers for lat/long. Plus its hilarious.
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mropodu of Darwinofcourse Posted at 3:30 PM July 04, 2013
And what if we object to the description... ? Darwin for eg. is "trap.offroad.outdated". We may be offroad to the southerners, but we certainly are not outdated. In fact we are on track to being a oil/ gas hub and the food bowl for this part of the world. So there.
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BillyBob of really.stupid.idea Posted at 3:28 PM July 04, 2013
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patty of Sydney Posted at 3:21 PM July 04, 2013
I agree with LongLat. This is pathetic and lacks no sense of memorability... how is this meant to be a system society is meant to adopt? whatever happened to Longitude/Latitude... does it just need sprucing up; LetterNumber^2?
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Viola Wilkins of 3058 Posted at 3:10 PM July 04, 2013
As Longlat was not accurate enough (?) for some in this digital age was it the military that developed this for use by drones (pilotless aircraft) - remote control surveillance and or bombing of enemies of the State.
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Dallas of Adelaide Posted at 3:09 PM July 04, 2013
Try giving someone directions: turn left at No.Left.Turn then when you get to No. Stopping.Allowed turn right into Right.Way.Up Of course, that assumes the person you're asking knows where Where.Is.That
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Daniel Posted at 3:03 PM July 04, 2013
Because when I think of the Eiffel Tower, the words that come to mind are "ship", "vocal", and "launched". How silly.
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Jane Holloway of Sydney Posted at 2:43 PM July 04, 2013
Wow just wow. I am 45 years old. I was alive for the invent of computer games, personal computers .the internet, email, tweeting, Facebook and you tube, from records to cds to mp3's From video recorders, dvd, blue ray and digital downloads. Google earth to what 3 words. I have lived in an age that has been more transformational for the human race than any other in the history of planet earth. If this is what humans can create in less than 50 years what will I see between now and my passing. In 10 years time what3words could be as normal as googleing an address is now. Just like opening the yellow pages was in my youth. We have only just begun in the scheme of things what is possible with computers and the Internet. Sometimes you just have to sit back and say Wow
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Joe's Plumbing of canterbury Posted at 2:35 PM July 04, 2013
What a useless piece of technology.
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LongLat Posted at 2:29 PM July 04, 2013
Have people not heard of the universally accepted and used notion of Longitude and Latitude?
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Ralph of West Perth Posted at 2:26 PM July 04, 2013
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- Reviewing the box model
- Calculating em and percentage values
- Controlling how elements display
- Creating fixed, fluid, and responsive layouts
- Structuring content with HTML5
- Floating elements
- Using relative, absolute, or fixed positioning
- Defining column spacing
- Creating grid-based assets and layouts
- Considering mobile-design-specific issues
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- Enhancing page design CSS Sprites
Skill Level Beginner
Resource management is becoming increasingly more important in web design, especially when designing for mobile devices. One of the ways that we can improve the mobile performance of our sites is to make fewer HTTP requests. CSS sprites, which is one way of having multiple icons or images in a single file, is one of the ways that we can do this. So I'm previewing the page that we are going to be working on. I am previewing the finished version of that page in a browser right now. We have got a menu right over here with these different icons in it. And I'm guessing that unless you had seen CSS sprites before or worked with them before, you would probably think that those are four separate icons that you're looking at, but they are not.
They are actually one single file. If I switch over to Photoshop with that file open, you can see that each of these icons is part of a single file. They don't look great right now, partly because I drew them, and partly because I am zoomed up on them, but I zoomed up on them so that you could see in terms of how I was positioning these icons. So if I measure from like the middle point of one to the midpoint of what another, it's right around 100 pixels. So I designed them to be about 100 pixels apart from each other, just to make it a little bit easier for me to position these.
So essentially what you do with CSS sprites is you take this and you position it using background images, and then you change the background position for each separate individual item that you want to display a different icon for. And you can use that for icons. You can do interface elements with this. There are a lot of different things that you can use sprites for. And there are sprite files out there that are huge. This is a very are small one. Now if you are wondering, well, why did you put them closer together? Well, there are two reasons for that actually. One, is that you can do some very easy math now, because they are 100 pixels apart from each other, so it's very easy for me to understand the offsets that I need to do.
And the second thing is this particular set of sprites is used in both a horizontal and a vertical menu, and if you use this, say, in a vertical menu and there's too much spacing between elements, if these icons are close together, you would actually see multiple icons at a time. So that's why I have little bit extra space there too, to keep those elements away from each other when I using them within a menu structure. I am going to go into our file that we are going to be working on for this exercise, and this is the sprites.htm file. You can find this in your exercise files, in the 08_07 directory.
If we scroll down into the code here, we have an unordered list with some links inside of it. Notice they all have class attributes of Gallery, Gear, Contact, and Shop. You can see just above that we have some anti-selectors, and then we have the link selector inside the section, and that's what I am going to start with. So currently right now the only background declaration we have is the color. So what I'm going to do is I am going to add--remember, we can do multiple backgrounds--so I am going to add a sprite to this. So I am going to go to the existing background declaration and right after the color, I am going to add a url, and the image that I am going to add to this is _images/icon_sprites/25.png.
Now the same rules that we were working with with multiple backgrounds before don't necessarily apply here. You notice we don't need a comma because we are not separating different background images, and anytime you have a color declaration within a background, it's always painted at the very bottom of the stacking order, so the images are going to show up on top of this. Now, I don't want this background graphic to repeat, so I am going to do no-repeat. Save that and preview that in my browser. There we go. We are getting our icons showing up, and right now we only have the first icon in there, but one thing at a time.
The other thing I notice is it's not exactly lined up exactly where I want that, and that has more to do with the fact that it's lining up in its default position of the top left-hand corner. Anytime you are going to build a menu structure like this, typically you are going to add padding or line height to make your text sit in the middle of that link, and then you are probably going to put a little padding obviously on left-hand side to keep it away from the icon. So there's always that little bit of adjustment that you have to do. Typically, I'll just do that visually. I will just come in and I will just type in some offsets until I get it where I want it. In this case if I go back into my code, directly after the no-repeat declaration, I am just going to do a quick little offset here.
I am going to 5 pixels for horizontal. That's going to move it over away from the left edge of the link. And then after that I am going to do 7 pixels' worth of vertical offset. So if I save that and go back in and test it, you can see that that just snugs it right into where we want that. I didn't just come up with those numbers magically; obviously as I was developing the exercise, I just kind of messed with those values until I got it where I wanted to. I had an idea, sort of what it was going to be, but you always have to sort of mess with them a little bit, especially depending upon the icons themselves.
You know, you'll probably end up having to do the same. What we want to do is we want to show each of the individual icons for the different links. Galleries is correct, but Gear, Contact, and Shop need to change. So I am going to go back into my code and I am just going to take this offset off. I am just going to cut those values, because you'll notice we have some individual declarations for each of those links. And what I am going to do is instead of declaring a new background every single time, I am just going to do background-position.
So I am going to use that stand-alone property, and I am just going to paste in the offset for gallery, because we know that offset works. Now I am going to copy this property, because I am going to use it over and over again, and for Gear I am just going to paste that in. The horizontal offset is not going to change, but the vertical offset will. Here's what you need to know about moving items up and down. A positive value, a vertical value is going to move you down. It's going to move your image down. You can see it was at the very top of it, but because we did positive 7, it's now moved down a little bit. So if you remember from looking in the Photoshop file, these icons are actually down. So if I took my CSS sprite and I moved it in this direction, we wouldn't see anything.
So in order to show off these icons, I am going to need to move it in the opposite direction, which means I am going to have to go to the negative. Now remember, these icons are about 100 pixels apart from each other. If I come in and if I were just to do a -100-pixel offset, I would see it, but it wouldn't be centered the same way the previous one is. So what I have to do is I basically just have to subtract 7 from each of my offsets in order to get everything to line up precisely where I need it. And typically you are going to have to do a little bit of tweaking like that.
So I am going to go ahead and paste those for each of these, and for every single one of them, I am just going to add 100 to the offset, so that will be -193, and the last offset will be -293. So now if I save this, go back in my browser and refresh, you can see the icons that we wanted to have in place are now in place. It's the same file. It limits the amount of requests we are making. And by just moving the background-position property, again, we are saving a little bit overhead doing that as well. Now there are plenty of people that will change the background-position property based on somebody hovering over something.
So if you want to make the icon change or animator or move based on hovering, you certainly have that capability as well. This example in this sprite file is a fairly simple example, but the sprite themselves can get really, really complex. So if you're interested in this, if you just go out to Google and you do a search for Amazon or Yahoo sprites, those are two that I would recommend you go look at. Go look for Amazon sprites or Yahoo sprites and you can just do the Google image search and you'll find them. And they have just an incredible array of UI elements and icons and all that stuff crammed into one little file.
So they are very impressive, but I would hate to see the math behind positioning all those little icons wherever they need to. Theoretically, really there is no limit to the size that you can make your CSS sprites and how many objects you want to put in it, but it is worth noting that it seems like anything over 5000 pixels and dimensions seems to have a slight blurring problem on Android devices, so that's something that's good to remember if you're targeting mobile devices with your sprites.


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World War II veteran Charles Stoker of Benton, Ky., unveils the part of the Scott County War Memorial plaque where William O. Welty's name was added during a special ceremony Tuesday. Stoker is a family friend of Welty's survivors in Benton, Ky.
(Photo by Scott Welton, Staff)
(Photo by Scott Welton, Staff)
Name is added to memorial
BENTON -- It was as if the space on the Scott County War Memorial had been reserved, just waiting for a name to be added.
A special ceremony was conducted Tuesday at the memorial on the Scott County Courthouse's front lawn to unveil the recently-added name of Pvt. William O. "Bill" Welty to the memorial.
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