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COOL GEAR ALERT: Gibson SG Standard 24
I was just cruising around Gibson.com and I came across this: the Gibson SG Standard 24 for American Music Supply. Look at this thing! Just LOOK AT IT! Argh, how cool! It bums me out that this is an exclusive model that I guess won't find its way to Australia. I love mini humbuckers (I used to have a Firebird with Seymour Duncan mini humbuckers which sounded awesome), I love SGs (I'm Australian – we're genetically predisposed to like SGs because of Angus Young), and 24 frets are ear-shredding fun. From a tonal perspective a mini humbucker in the neck makes a lot of sense: it focuses the pickup on a narrower area of the string, giving you a tighter and more focused sound. I'd love to get my hands on one of these, but alas, I fear I am doomed to miss out. Still, phwoar.
COOL GEAR ALERT: PRS Guitars "Stripped" 58
Today I had the huge honour of spending about an hour with Paul Reed Smith himself for a huge interview which will be posted on I Heart Guitar soon. We talked about a lot of very interesting stuff – various PRS pickups, signature artists, the growth of the SE division, PRS's wood stocks, and much more. One thing I wish we'd touched on but didn't was this beauty: the PRS Guitars "Stripped" 58 model. Originally offered as a limited run for Experience PRS in 2011, this guitar is based on the popular SC 58, but with some changes which make it more affordable but no less desirable. It has a 24.5″ scale length, 22 frets on a rosewood fretboard, moon inlays (with bird option), mahogany neck and body, plus a curly maple top (with a 10-top option). The pickups are a set of 57/08 humbuckers (which sound amazing) and there's an individual volume and tone control for each pickup. The guitar also has PRS's two-piece bridge, which is machined rather than cast, for greater resonance. Just look at that thing. That tailpiece is so chunky that I think I can hear it making my computer monitor more resonant just by being displayed on it.
COOL GEAR ALERT: DigiTech Whammy V
Here's something incredibly interesting that I just saw on the excellent Effects Database: the latest DigiTech Whammy V Pedal. And get this: it's finally operated by a 9V DC adaptor (rather than AC). That feature alone is bound to sway some on-the-fencers, but the Whammy V also offers True Bypass (a popular aftermarket mod) and a new chordal shifting mode.
Here's the press release.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – HARMAN's DigiTech today introduced its next-generation Whammy pedal, building upon one of the most iconic guitar pedals recognized by guitarists around the world. The new Whammy features the classic Whammy sound that guitarists have embraced for over 20 years, and moves to the next level by introducing chordal Whammy pitch-shifting, additional Whammy intervals, and true bypass.
For over two decades the Whammy pedal has been known as the ultimate pitch-shifting pedal in the world, used by everyone from Jimmy Page to Tom Morello and heard on songs like "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes and the Black Keys' recent hit, "Lonely Boy." The introduction of new possibilities with the Whammy pedal reinforces its legendary status of the pitch-shifting realm.
COOL GEAR ALERT: Strymon Flint
Check out this great video of the new Strymon Flint Tremolo & Reverb pedal. This video features several audio examples of the '65 Photocell Tremolo and Reverbs within Flint. Go here for more info.
COOL GEAR ALERT: Line 6 StageSource L3t
I just received a press release from Line 6 about their new StageSource L3t powered loudspeaker, which is now shipping. At first glance this looks like a great PA-type speaker – and I'm sure it is – but it also offers some very interesting applications for the guitarist. It can serve as an acoustic guitar amp, which is handy, but it can also be used with Line 6 POD gear as a speaker system. So if you're really attached to your 'in the box' POD settings and would like to use them onstage without running through a conventional amp, pair your POD with one of these and you're ready to go.
Line 6 Ships StageSource L3t, the World's Most Versatile High-powered Loudspeaker for Musicians
- Now available, StageSource L3t combines multi-function design with Smart Speaker modes, integrated mixer and digital networking for the widest variety of live sound applications -
CALABASAS, Calif. – April 10, 2012 – Line 6, Inc. proudly announces the availability of StageSource™ L3t. StageSource loudspeaker systems are built on a powerful new technology platform that enables a single enclosure to provide best-of-class performance in multiple live sound functions.
StageSource L3t is the most flexible loudspeaker available for musicians. Using six innovative Smart Speaker modes, the L3t optimizes its output for a variety of performance scenarios: front-of-house PA, floor monitor, personal PA, keyboard and acoustic guitar backline or with Line 6 POD® multi-effect processors as a high-performance electric guitar speaker system. Smart Speaker modes can be set manually or automatically via built-in orientation sensors that detect whether the speaker has been pole-mounted or rotated and tilted for use as a monitor.
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COOL GEAR ALERT: ADA APP-1 preamp
A/DA relaunched a few years ago (in fact, that was one of the first ever news items on I Heart Guitar) with a brilliant reissue of their classic flanger. The company was already highly respected for their flangers and phasers when they released the classic MP-1 tube preamp, and I've been waiting to see the latest on their next big preamp statement Well, here it is! The APP-1 Pedal Preamp is now ready to go. This sounds like an incredible piece of kit. It's designed to be extremely reactive to the input signal, which sounds like a very good thing to me – I'm kinda tired of everyone using the same ultra-compressed, ultra-distorted tone at the expense of good old fashioned playing dynamics, and the APP-1 goes out of its way to take your tone to expressive new dimensions.
What's it sound like? Well check out this batch of demos, particularly the second one, where you'll hear how the APP-1 goes from sparkly clean to roaring overdrive simply with harder pick attack. Y'know, just how it's meant to be.
Here's the press release:
A/DA Launches New APP-1 PEDAL PREAMP With Groundbreaking D-TORSION CORETM Technology
WALNUT CREEK, CA – MARCH 20, 2012 — A/DA announces the release of the new APP-1 Pedal Preamp, a guitar preamplifier built around A/DA's new patent-pending player-responsive D-TORTION CORE technology, which reacts to the signal level of the strings to deliver more volume, dynamics, timbre, faster transients and richer harmonics than any amplifier available today. The APP-1 is A/DA's first product based on the newly invented D TORSION CORE technology, which features user-adjustable dynamic range and threshold levels for signal limiting, compression, distortion and harmonic expansion. The APP-1 allows the guitarist to express, through his or her fingers, dynamics and tone like never before, going from ultraclean to overdrive to heavy distortion without turning a single knob on any amp, signal processor, recording console, stomp box or guitar.
New pedals from Dwarfcraft
Check out these new goodies from Dwarfcraft. First up is the Zhago, a lean boost with a toggle to introduce a tight, gritty distortion with a strong gate.
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Then there's the Total Spack Vibes, created for Daniel Spack, member of Collections Of Colonies Of Bees, Volcano Choir, and Group of the Altos. It's a weaponized overdrive began as a tricked-out version of Dwarfcraft's popular "The Internet" overdrive pedal, but with an added tone knob and a gain control for the foot switchable gain boost, labeled "harder." Sounds cool on paper, but according to Dwarfcraft's Ben and Louise, "HOLY MOLEY. When it came together and hit the testing table, it's true nature was revealed. EVIL. True, you can get familiar overdrive sounds, and a handy dandy boost, just like you would with The Internet. But in addition to these, you can conjure up a plethora of scratchy harsh treble blasting noise distortion."
COOL GEAR ALERT: Roger Mayer Vibe TC
One of my favourite pedals ever is the Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe. It's one of those pedals that has the uncanny ability to simply make everything sound better, and once you turn it on it's hard to turn it off. Well the latest evolution of the Voodoo Vibe is the new Vibe TC, and it's a very stylish little unit too. The press release is below, and make sure you check out Roger's website and Facebook page.
Fender Johnny Marr signature Jaguar
Highly distinctive variation on classic model honors modern-era U.K. guitar great
Marr is best known, of course, as the strikingly dynamic and influential anti-hero guitarist-arranger-all-around-musical-wunderkind behind Manchester quartet the Smiths, which virtually redefined and ruled U.K. pop throughout the 1980s. A master of melody, layering and texture, Marr has always brought his own instantly identifiable ringing, jangling genius to the proceedings, as he has done in post-Smiths stints with The The, Electronic, the Pretenders and Johnny Marr and the Healers, and right up to the present with Modest Mouse, the Cribs and innumerable guest appearances.


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BATON ROUGE, La., (KNOE 8 News) - Gov. Bobby Jindal on Wednesday has again issued a partial hiring freeze on executive branch agencies in state government.
State Commissioner of Administration Paul Rainwater is expected to set a number of vacant positions that the offices can't fill. If they want to add new workers who will shrink the number of vacancies below that benchmark, the agencies will need Rainwater's permission.
The hiring freeze comes in a budget that cuts nearly 6,200 jobs this year.
This is similar to what has been done in previous fiscal years, in attempts to control state government costs. The goal announced in this year's executive order is to save $13 million in the state's general fund.

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text: December Is McCarthy's MonthBy By Jay SorgiNext game: Sunday, December 7th vs. Houston December in Green Bay, Wisconsin usually means falling temperatures and rising winning percentages. In a season where four consecutive December wins are critical for the Packers to have any chance to play in January, a home game like Friday's against warm-climated Houston brings a chance to increase Packers Coach Mike McCarthy's already outstanding 7-2 December mark as the head man. "This time of year, you want to take advantage of playing in cold weather," said McCarthy on 620WTMJ's "Wisconsin's Morning News." It's also especially important now, with any loss in December all but guaranteeing the Packers will stay in their warm homes in January and not be on the gridiron playing in the 12-team tournament for the Vince Lombardi trophy. But it's not like, according to McCarthy, the team hasn't played with a heightened level of intensity all year." "You hate to think you have to get to this point to get a sense of urgency. I think the football team has played physical, has played with energy. There is a heightened sense of urgency, no doubt. It's something that we're hitting on, on a daily basis. We need to come out and win this football game, period." To McCarthy, punter Jeremy Kapinos to succeed, period, in an area that has been both a point of failure for Green Bay this year and a task that proves especially challenging in cold weather, regardless of how simple the task may seem to be: kicking a football far and high. "He's just to trust himself, and stroke the football," states McCarthy. "He does have a strong leg. He has been impressive in a short time here." The punting issue is just one of many symptoms of the disease of failure in special teams that has doomed Green Bay in many situations, including Sunday's loss vs. Carolina. A kick return to the Panthers' 45 gave the Panthers life in the final two minutes after the Packers took the lead, and Carolina took advantage to produce the score that beat the Packers, 35-31. "It's been a problem the last two weeks," admits McCarthy. "That's been the primary focus on special teams, because of the loss of field position that we have played with of late." New Roster Moves from Practice Squad Give Entire Team Emotional Boost Coach McCarthy has given two guys who toiled on the team's practice squad an opportunity, as defensive tackle Alfred Malone and cornerback Joe Porter find themselves on the active roster for Sunday's contest. "It's always great as a football team that we were able to have members of your practice squads come up to your 53 (man roster)," says McCarthy. "It's really a credit to Alfred Malone, Joe Porter, Danny Lansanah. It proves that young players that were given an opportunity to improve are given an opportunity to compete. "Hopefully, they can contribute on Sunday." Just their presence, and the chance to give them a spot on the roster, often gives the entire team an emotional jolt for the positive. "There's not a better feeling when you stand up there on Wednesday morning and we have a segment of our team meeting that's called 'Team Business" and you're able to acknowledge the fact that these men have moved up on the 53 (man roster)," explains McCarthy. "It's great respect from their teammates. Everybody feels good because they know how hard these guys have worked, and they earned their opportunity." |


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I absolutely fell in LOVE with this wooden bowling set, and just had to carry it! I think I am going to start collecting wooden bowling sets.
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Regina Ukrainian Fall Fest (RUFF) is coming to Victoria Park 10am - 11pm. Come for the food and entertainment and be surprised by the fun and plentiful children's activities, fascinating cultural workshops, and interesting displays. Bring your lawn chair and be sure to bring your appetite.
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At Janaagraha, we believe in the power of citizen participation. When we collectively take charge of our quality of life, we can make a real difference. Over the years, we have been able to consistently demonstrate this through our work with a range of citizen groups, community volunteers and engaged citizens in the city of Bangalore.
One of our recent successes in engaging with citizens is our B.E.S.T project. The Bangalore Electoral Systems Transformation project resulted out of an M.O.U that we signed with the Election Commission. We promised that we would get citizens involved in cleaning up the electoral rolls in one constituency of Bangalore – Shantinagar. Once this is done, the Election Commission agreed to replicate our model across Bangalore city, and consequently, in other cities as well.
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To those of us who persist in seeing children as the citizens of 'tomorrow,' Bala Janaagraha offers a different point of view. We believe that children have the capacity to make real change in our neighbourhoods right from a young age! Armed with this philosophy, Bala Janaagraha and the ipaidabribe.com team kicked off the new year with a session on Corruption. Held at Ramanashree English School in Bangalore, it marks the first of the many sessions that Bala Janaagraha hopes to do over the course of the year.
And the kids loved it! Through the interactive format of the presentation and the use of videos and cartoons, the session covered all the important facets of corruption in India today.
The teams received a range of questions, covering the payment of re-exam fees, replacing corrupt officials by non-corrupt ones and different ways by which we can spread awareness on corruption.
Bala Janaagraha and ipaidabribe.com shows the way to educate our junior citizens.
Comments and Suggestions appreciated!
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To StopSeven50. It was not the homosexuals that caused ALL the problems in the Catholic Church. It was those in the church who had no problem with priests being child abusers. If you throw out all homosexuals in the Catholic church ,who will be left.? The current pope was a NAZI in his youth. Christ was a progressive ,don't you understand that? If us unbelievers burn in hell sorry to say we will be in the company of popes, priests ,nuns and Catholics hypocrites like yourself.
Those child abusers abused those of the same sex making them Homosexuals . If there were no homosexuals there would be no child abuse at the Catholic church . Progressive are communist . Communist and progressive are Killers who belive in population control something Christ wouldnt approve . Everything progressive stand for goes against Christ teachings . Christ wouldnt approve of abortion or homosexuality .
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"I am so proud of this team. You only had to see the wild celebrations among their lads to realise what a magnificent performance we produced," he said.
"It was great to see the amount of respect the Biarritz players gave us - but losing is losing."
The match could have been a lot closer had Dan Parks not seen his drop-goal blocked, allowing Vahafolau to complete his late double.
"I suppose we were only a drop-goal away from a magnificent win and no doubt the experience will stand us in good stead," added Lineen.
"Everyone produced the goods but I have to pick out John Barclay, Fergus Thomson and Johnnie Beattie for special mention - Beattie earning the man of the match award for the second time in five days.
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Use Bio Oil for a Hydrating Facial Treatment
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You may already know that Bio Oil can help keep your skin looking healthy and strong when your skin is growing and stretching from pregnancy. Some people also find it is very effective for softening scars and other types of damaged skin. However, this unique product also can be a great addition to your daily facial regimen. You can treat your skin to a hydrating facial treatment at home using this oil and other skin-rejuvenating products for a healthy, radiant glow.
Here are some tips for using this skin product as part of a hydrating facial treatment.
- Use a good facial scrub to buff away dead skin cells. You'll need to remove the layer of dead skin cells sitting on the top of your skin if you want any topical products to actually sink into the pores. Use an enzyme scrub that contains papaya or pumpkin to break down those skin cells and create a smooth surface for any products you apply during your facial treatment. One of my all-time favorite products is the glotherapeutics Pumpkin Enzyme Scrub. This scrub always leaves my skin super soft, and you can really feel it working to break down those cells on the top of the skin.
- Nourish skin with a "mask." Dip a clean facial towel into a small bowl of warm Bio Oil mixed with water--about five or six drops of the oil with about ½ cup of warm water should be enough. Apply it all over your face and neck area. Be generous with this application because you want it to go on just like a facial mask. Next, warm up the cloth in the microwave and leave it on your face so that the oil can sink into your pores.
- Wipe away excess oil. Your skin will have absorbed most of the oil from this treatment and will feel very soft. You can remove excess oil by dabbing the skin with a clean washcloth and just leave the oil on your skin as a moisturizer.
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Mortgage Rates were broadly unchanged today as some lenders' rates improved while others moved higher, not to mention the many who held close enough to yesterday's levels to be considered 'unchanged.' Thus rates continue to operate very close to all-time lows with only 2 days on record with a lower average rate. Today's 30yr Fixed Conventional Best-Execution remains firmly at 3.5% with some lenders arguably at 3.375%. To be clear, lower rates are available and viable in some cases, but in general, 3.5% is still the best combination of rate and fee at most lenders (assuming 100% ideal scenarios)
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The underlying motivations for markets evolved today as new variables were added to the mix. European considerations remained as the president of Europe's central bank, Mario Draghi was out with forceful rhetoric about doing whatever was necessary to save the Euro. But today also saw something that had heretofore been absent in this trading week: a noticeable reaction to domestic economic data. Just as markets were getting over Draghi, stronger than expected domestic data put upward pressure on rates, resulting in some slightly weaker trading levels in the secondary mortgage market.
By the end of the day, however, bond markets reiterated their determination to hold relatively flat in a relatively narrow range. In other words, whether we've been gaining ground or losing ground this week, everything has happened in fairly narrow trading ranges at fairly slow speeds, hence the relative lack of movement in mortgage rates since hitting new all-time lows on Monday.
If today was any indication that markets are more attuned to domestic economic data then it bears consideration that tomorrow brings the release of the "Final" reading of GDP for the 2nd quarter. Granted, the "stuff" that happened in the economy though June 30th is largely a thing of the past, but we feel like markets are willing to infer a slightly greater-than-normal amount of significance in the economic data leading up to next week's important FOMC Announcement.
Long Term Guidance: We'd continue to advocate against trying to "get ahead" of current market movements due to the high degree of uncertainty. In the past, we would have interpreted that advice as a suggestion to lock, but in the recently "low and sideways" environment, it's probably better-read as a suggestion to go with the flow of gradually lower rates until we see the pattern definitively break. It's a reasonably safe assumption that European concerns will generally continue to apply downward pressure on rates although there are no guarantees that the right piece of news or economic event couldn't mark "the turning point" at which rates bottom out. On any given day, rates have been at or near all-time lows and in the grand scheme of things, unable to move lower as quickly as Treasuries for example. So although there is potential gain from floating, it's still a historically excellent time to lock if you'd prefer to take the risk off the table.
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Ira Selwin - Vice President of Secondary Marketing - US Mortgage Corporation
Float with caution. The last two days have seen rates/pricing get a bit worse than days past. I still recommend floating, but be ready to lock.
Victor Burek at Benchmark Mortgage
Rates continue to hold near record lows. I see no reason to panic lock at this time. Rates will hold steady but eventually move lower. Same advice, lock if you are within 15 days of closing. Don't hold out for a lower rate. If you are refinancing your mortgage, make sure you ask your LO about a no cost loan.
Matt Hodges, Loan Officer, Presidential Mortgage Group
Draghi, Greece, Spain all in the news over the past day. With each subsequent proclamation that they will avert the major catastrophe in Europe, the less credibility they possess. An analyst this morning argued that the US and the UK are both racing towards 1% on the 10 year treasury. Where does this leave us? Seemingly we should go lower - much lower in rates. It's possible, but I think any positive news coming out of the US will nudge rates up. Safe to float - probably, but I'd rather my clients be sure of their mid 3% rate than gamble for low 3's.
Mike Owens, Partner with HorizonFinancial, Inc.
I continue to favor locking because as I've said before, we're 1 day closer to a big move up. Lock and then wait to close. No sense looking at rates every day either to see if you could have done better. Just relax and know that you're safely locked. Many floaters will get burned when there is a turn and locking is your insurance against that. As busy as everyone is, it will be impossible to lock everyone when the panic button is pressed.
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What is it and where is it formed? Opal is a gemstone and the birthstone for October. Opals can form anywhere but are mostly found in places where there hot springs. It is sedimentary and is fluorescent a lot of times. It is a very easy stone to break.
How and where is it mined? Opals are mined using open pit surface mining. Sometimes opal mining areas are rented for the day. People can come in, mine the open pits, and take what they find. Opals are found in: Mexico, Australia, England, Czech Republic, and Western United States.
What is it used for? Opals are used in jewelry even though the stones crack easily. They are also used for collections of gemstones.
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What Companies Need to Know To Deploy Tablets Effectively
So your IT department just bought a boatload of tablets and is ready to join the ranks of some of the most tech-savvy companies in the world. Unfortunately, the process isn't quite so simple. It may seem cut-and-dry, but enterprise mobility management for tablets remains a new beast for many organizations, and one that beckons for a lot of help.
The modern tablet remains several months shy of its second birthday, which means that experts on the issue of deploying the devices remain few and far between. But a recent Network World report detailed several areas that all companies should think about when beginning to lend support to tablets under an enterprise mobility platform.
The news provider's recommendations were pulled from interviews conducted with officials at three companies that have implemented tablets: Bayada Nurses of Moorestown, New Jersey; Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals of Madison, Wisconsin; and the Ottawa Hospital in Canada.
1. How will they be managed?
The best solution for this issue, in most cases, is enterprise mobility management software, which provide organizations with oversight of an entire tablet deployment, including who has what device and which version of an operating system they are working on.
Also, such capabilities allow the IT department to track and govern the downloads conducted on a device, ensuring that employees are spending their time with enterprise apps and not games.
What's more, mobility management solutions can aide a company in pushing a mobility policy out to users. That's important to keep tablet use in line with enterprise goals and strategies.
2. Think about the apps
Figuring out how the IT department is going to push out apps and updates to tablets is among the first things an organization will want to consider, according to the report. With today's mobile professionals leveraging apps for everything from business intelligence to videoconferencing, the company will want to ensure it has a full stable available.
Again, that can be easier said than done, now that the one-company, one-device model is all but extinct. While it's likely most employees will have an iPad, there's still the chance that several Android-based devices and BlackBerry PlayBooks are sprinkled in.
Some organizations have turned to cloud computing to deal with this issue, according to experts. That's because, accessing apps from a central location will make them available to all employees, regardless of their tablet's platform.
For some companies, enterprise mobility management remains fluid as they work their way through deployments of both smartphones and tablets. IT departments are trying out certain methods and seeing what works best for supporting the devices.
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LiveWallpaper 0.3 adds full appindicator support, fixes and handy how-to-write-animated-walls documentation
LiveWallpaper is an interesting utility, that presents the user an animated OpenGL desktop wallpaper, animated wall designed with replacing the "flat" desktop image with an eyecandy animation in mind.
Launching LiveWallpaper pushes its appindicator on the Unity panel (top bar), appindicator housing relevant actions and preferences.
LiveWallpaper 0.3 has been released, further refining its offered features, including the ability to enable/disable the animated wall (by checking/unchecking LiveWallpaper appindicator-->LiveWallpaper
), as well as directly changing the running animated walls (by simply selecting a desired wallpaper under its appinidcator menu), thus bringing a highly-relevant (as opposed to the "old" approach of changing walls from its preferences dialog) functionality to the fancy animated utility.
LiveWallpaper comes with numerous tweakable configuration options, meaning, along with an overall tweakability (applicable to both Galaxy and Nexus), the user is able to in-depth set the wall:
Galaxy features
Number of stars
(the number of all stars displayed on the screen, the lower the number, the better the performance, approach usable for low-spec computers)Galaxy Light
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Move, Rotate and Zoom
is to be used for properly fitting the wall into the screen (especially on higher resolution screens, where Galaxy may look small-sized)
Nexus features
Number of pulses
represents the number of all the rendered lines, aspect that can be paired with tweaking their size, length, delayAppearance
presents itself as a category containing used colors (including glow types, such as radial, square, spiral)
LiveWallpaper 0.3 features (at the moment) two default wallpapers, yet, the LiveWallpaper developers have created an in-depth documentation, suitable for both creating and understanding LiveWallpaper's "internals".
How do we install LiveWallpaper 0.3?
Add the following stable PPA (Precise, Quantal)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fyrmir/livewallpaper-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install livewallpaper livewallpaper-config livewallpaper-indicator
in order to install the mentioned documentation
sudo apt-get install devhelp livewallpaper-doc
Accessing the how-to-write-a-livewallpaper-wallpaper is as simple as opening DevHelp (via the Dash, by typing devhelp
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Katgabby said: "I called Ragsdale office and it is truthfully out of the mayor's jurisdiction according to law if I am understanding the law correctly."
Kat, neither the county mayor nor the commission can *force* Lockett's resignation.
However, EITHER the county mayor or the commission may request a Specially Called Meeting at which to discuss the Lockett situation and/or to *request* his resignation. See below--
Members of the County Commission:
Regarding the procedures that govern Specially Called Meetings of the County Commission, please be advised Tennessee Law provide as follows:(1) The county mayor has the power to convene the legislative body in special session when, in the county mayor's opinion, the public necessities require it.
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it should be mentioned that this response was obtained by dr. briggs who requested it from jerret kast week when he called for the speical meeting.
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The author addresses the problem of generating persistently exciting trajectories for parameter estimation. To achieve this, he proposes an algorithm that categorizes the dynamics parameters of a manipulator into three classes: uniquely identifiable, identifiable in linear combinations only, and unidentifiable. Since the proposed algorithm categorizes the parameters only on the basis of the kinematic configuration of the manipulator, it makes it possible to determine if a chosen trajectory (for estimation) is persistently exciting. The categorization procedure also helps in making the estimation procedure more robust. Based on the proposed algorithm, the parameters of the CMU DD (Carnegie-Mellon University Direct-Drive) Arm II were categorized
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Feb 17 2007, 21:02
How do you make it so that the player can respawn as an ally on the mission editor?
Feb 17 2007, 22:36
make all units on the side your on playable http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/tounge2.gif then teamswitch
Feb 18 2007, 11:27
That only works in SP mode, how do u make it so that u can respawn in MP?
Feb 18 2007, 14:30
You should be able to respawn as any unit that is set as playable, so long as you specify the correct respawn type in in the the description.ext (http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Description.ext)
Feb 18 2007, 21:37
That Wiki page isn't very specific. In what syntax and location do you have to place the respawn command in the description file?
Feb 19 2007, 00:29
I would also like to know how to set respawn in multiplayer. I did it before in an operation flashpoint map but that was years ago and I cant seem to find any description.ext files anywhere.
Feb 19 2007, 01:37
Quote[/b] ]That Wiki page isn't very specific. In what syntax and location do you have to place the respawn command in the description file?
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The description.ext in fact uses the same syntax as all config files, therefore each line should be terminated with ;
Location within the file does not matter, so long as you do not place the definition within another class.
Quote[/b] ] I would also like to know how to set respawn in multiplayer. I did it before in an operation flashpoint map but that was years ago and I cant seem to find any description.ext files anywhere.
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Quote[/b] ]The description.ext is a text file located in the root of the mission folder A description.ext may not exist unless you create it. I do not have the full version of ArmA, but each of the demo missions has a description.ext, take a look at them for a reference.
Feb 19 2007, 04:09
respawn = "group";
Feb 19 2007, 10:05
Yup, that works!
Feb 19 2007, 19:00
Sorry for getting confused but this description.ext where does it go exactly because I have files to do with my map in my documents and in the actual program folder.
Feb 19 2007, 19:33
Could anyone please add an example of what and how is written for MP games only or an upload of a discription.ext file be put here to study it so we can use it as an example...please. I have added respawn = "group"; and so on...but it seems not to follow. I must have missed something to add.
I have read the wiki, I am new to the game myself but trying. My problem is which of the codes should be added to make my coop games and mp work. Thankyou.
Feb 19 2007, 20:41
Ok this are the steps I made...please correct me and guide me if I am wronge in anyone of them...
STEP 1; I put the file in my USER NAME folder MP mission folder.
STEP 2; I know open my mission.
STEP 3; The 2 files, the mission SQM file and the Discription.ext file.
STEP 4; I opened word pad and added just 2 CODES...
respawn = "group";
respawndelay= "3";
Now...since I noticed that an ext file was needed and not word pad (correct me here if I am wronge), I archived the discription file to ext... Now when I open the discription file after changing its format... you get this...
When I start the game...it crashes giving me this...
I feel I am so out of track and gone to far getting my thinking all mixed up now. http://forums.bistudio.com/oldsmileys/confused_o.gif
Help in guiding me is what I need now... I am sorry for this noobish questions but I am only 4 days old with ARMA. Never played the former games before and know I have a lot to learn to enjoy this game. Thankyou for any help you give me.
Feb 19 2007, 23:51
Alright, I got it fixed and working. So no need to reply. Thanks.
Feb 19 2007, 23:57
The last steps is where you went wrong! It looks like you zipped (archived) the file before editing it.
description.ext is a TEXT file, open it with notepad. Don't change it's filename.
For an example, refer to the wiki page. Every single possible entry is listed!
Feb 20 2007, 01:24
Moving to ME & Scripting.
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The Washington Post this week did a nice piece about how my late father helped beat the Russians in the space race:
There's a video, too, from one of the old 8 mm cameras he used to shoot our home movies with.
--Ted Slowik
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Our Android Astronaut
A Nearly Forgotten Test Dummy Helped the U.S. Put Men in Space
Thursday, June 26, 2008; Page C14
"It was lying around in one of the warehouses. Nobody knew what it was," says Paul Ceruzzi, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum. "Someone said to me, 'Find out what it is or we're going to get rid of it.' " The "it" in question looked like the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz. Ceruzzi would later learn that this tin man played an important role in the design of spacesuits for U.S. astronauts.
In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy committed the nation to sending men to the moon before the end of the decade, the space agency, NASA, had to figure out how that would be done. One important task was to make spacesuits that could hold up in the brutal environment of space.
"Spacesuits were very new at the time, and no one knew how to make them," Ceruzzi says. "Some early designs were heavy and hard to move in."
Testing different models meant doing experiments that might be painful, tiring and possibly dangerous for a person. The space agency needed a stand-in.
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NASA turned to a team of engineers led by Jozef Slowik at the Illinois Institute of Technology. They built an android for the job. (An android is a machine that looks like a person.)
"NASA builds robots all the time," Ceruzzi says, "but this is the only robot that NASA ever built that looks like a human being. In reality, they look like whatever they have to look like to do a job. This one, it had to replace a human being inside a spacesuit."
Slowik's android copied many of the joint motions of the human body. With each spacesuit design, the engineers put the android through its paces: bending, kneeling, swinging its limbs, grasping heavy tools.
The android had sensors that measured force, "so it gave you feedback to let you know how hard it [was] to do certain things: how much strength [was] needed to turn your head, for example," Ceruzzi says.
Many fabrics and materials were tried. "In the vacuum of space, you need air pressure," he says. "If you didn't design it right, the spacesuit inflated."
That's what happened to Soviet cosmonaut Alexi Leonov in 1965. Leonov was the first person to walk in space outside a spacecraft. But when he tried to reenter the craft after 12 minutes spent floating outside, he couldn't fit through the entrance because his spacesuit had inflated. He had to release some of the air first.
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NASA's test dummy was helpful, but not without its flaws.
The android was not a complex robot. It could not operate on its own. Instead, "it was remotely controlled by someone who twiddled a lot of knobs," Ceruzzi says.
In addition, it was bulky and needed lots of tubing. It used hydraulic fluid, the same substance that operates the brakes and other mechanical parts of a car. The android's fluid tended to leak; it was messy and even a little distressing to the engineers to see their creation "bleeding" after a particularly difficult test.
Slowik's widow, Clare, remembers her husband's intensity during the project. "I know that there were things they were concerned about," she says. "It had never been done before."
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Apple's next major version of iOS will sport deep integration with Facebook, according to a report from TechCrunch.
The next major version of iOS will be getting a lot more social, according to a new report.
TechCrunch says it's heard Apple's iOS 6 — which is expected to be unveiled at Apple's annual developers conference in a little less than a week and a half — will have built-in connections to Facebook.
According to the report, the integration will give app makers an easier way to let users log in with their Facebook account, presumably without kicking them out to Facebook's app, which is how the behavior is presently treated.
What's not mentioned is whether Facebook will get included in the sharing options alongside Twitter, which was added as part of iOS 5 last year, and set to be a built into OS X Mountain Lion when it's released this summer.
This is not the first such time Facebook has been rumored to be headed to iOS. Earlier this year, tech site iMore claimed iOS 5.1 — a supplemental update to last October's iOS 5 — would add connections to the social network. That evidence came from a beta version of the software delivered to developers. Pre-dating that, a report from Business Insider in early 2010 claimed Facebook contact syncing would make it into iOS 4.0.
Of note, Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said to "stay tuned" on the company's relationship with Facebook. During an interview at the D10 conference on Tuesday, Cook said he has "great respect" for the social networking giant, and that "I think we can do more with them."
Apple famously yanked planned support for Facebook in Ping, the company's lackluster social music sharing network built into iTunes, at the very last minute. According to an interview with then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Facebook had demanded "onerous terms."
Facebook itself has since said one of its biggest weaknesses is mobile advertising, something it could hope to bolster by getting more users signed up, and making it easier to integrate on other platforms, including Apple's.
Apple is expected to fully detail iOS 6 at WWDC, which kicks off on June 11 at 10 a.m. Pacific. CNET will be there to bring you all the news, as it happens. Stay tuned for more details on that.
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Moonwalk Launch Party
The launch 40 years ago of Apollo 11, which put a man on the moon, brought Americans together during a time of nationwide unrest
- By David Burnett
- Smithsonian magazine, July 2009, Subscribe
In the summer of 1969, all eyes turned to a spit of land on Florida's Atlantic coast—the site of the Kennedy Space Center, named for the president who had challenged the nation to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. That July, the Apollo 11 mission would attempt just that. I was 22, a year out of Colorado College and working as a photographer at Time magazine's Miami bureau. In the days before the launch, thousands of people drove from all over the country to see it firsthand, converging on Titusville, across the Indian River from NASA Launch Complex 39-A. I asked my superiors if I could cover these witnesses to history. The previous year had been one of division over the Vietnam War and trauma over the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, but now a sense of common purpose pervaded the beach. At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, the rocket's engines ignited amid a plume of smoke and flame. I didn't see it. I was looking into the faces of my proud, expectant countrymen.
People brought their children, their folding chairs and their binoculars. The previous Christmas Eve, the Apollo 8 astronauts had read from the Book of Genesis as they orbited the moon; that hopeful mood translated into the selling of Apollo 11 souvenirs even before the flight. At takeoff, as the noise and the shock waves rippled across the water toward us, I told myself, "I'm not going to come all this way and not see the rocket." So I turned around and made one frame of it clearing the gantry before turning back to my assigned subject, the crowd.
The day before the launch was like an exodus in reverse. Local officials expected nearly a million visitors, and it seemed as if their expectations would be met. Early arrivals staked out campsites on the Indian River across from the launch site or took rooms in motels, where space-related pastimes prevailed. As I sought spots from which I could shoot crowds on the beach, it dawned on me that I'd have to wade into the water; I made a mental note to look out for broken glass. that evening I headed over to a square dance at the local mall and was surprised to see a lot of people there. I couldn't say why, but a square dance seemed like a fitting send-off for the astronauts.
Around dusk the lights went up on the launchpad, and the vigil seemed to begin in earnest. Late into the night I photographed people sleeping in, on or beneath their cars, though I thought many of them were too excited to sleep. Women stood in a long file outside a gas station restroom without detectable annoyance, almost as if the wait were a badge of honor. Even after launch day dawned, hours passed before liftoff. It was so long in coming and so quickly gone, yet it remains burned into my memory like a slow-motion movie.
David Burnett returned to Florida this past May to shoot the launch of the mission to repair the Hubble space telescope.
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big event
I was born after but my father told me how exciting it was to observe the event.
And as a peruvian i am proud to mention this comment:
In his book World History of Aeronautics (co-authored with Fred Ordway), Wernher von Braun, former head of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and director of the Saturn V rocket that took men to the Moon, states: "Pedro Paulet (peruvian) was in Paris in those years (1900), experimenting with his tiny two-and-a-half kilogram motor, and achieved 100 kg of force. By this act, Paulet should be considered the pioneer of the liquid fuel propulsion motor." Further, in his History of Rocketry and Space Travel, von Braun recognizes that "by his efforts, Paulet helped man reach the Moon.
Posted by victor meneses on July 6,2010 | 11:29 PM
Hey, that's us, younger 40 years ago, of course. I'm in the green shirt and my wife to my right in blue. We came from California to see the launch. We had a picture of David Burnett, the photographer, taking pictures that day and sent it to him.
Steve Robb
Posted by Stephen and Lillah Robb on August 15,2009 | 01:32 PM
My family including our 5 daughters lived in Titusville during this time; I had worked for McDonnell Aircraft on the Gemini program. The evening before the launch we drove around town and the girls kept track of the license plates to see how many states were represented. We all swear that we counted 50. It was quite a time, especially following the moving event of Christmas Eve the year before with Apollo 8 circling the moon.
Posted by andrew workum on July 31,2009 | 07:52 PM
For Rick re poster of earth in the moon sky:
Poster is available at
Posted by Reader Services on July 27,2009 | 03:12 PM
This is a memorable day! Having been there to witness this historic event your article has brought back wonderful memories. The most incredible thing about the article in this month's magazine came when my daughter called me from New Mexico to tell me about a photo of three boys on page 54. I came to your web site and much to my surprise two of the three boys are my sons. At the time they were 6 and 3. The boy with them is Michael Smith (not David) Michael's father, Tilghman Smith, was a good friend of mine who invited our family to go with him to see the Apollo 11 launch. My older son Dayl, who lives in AZ, said "who would ever think that of the 1000's of photos there would be one with 3 boys from a small town in PA." As my son Gregg commented above, my husband and I had privileges that few others have had. We did have an extensive tour of the VAB, saw Apollo 12 and 13 in various stages of assembly and attended a press party where we met Eugene Cernan and Apollo 12 astronaut Ron Evans. My husband being in the press box was able to take some wonderful pictures of the launch that have never been published. The boys and I were 20 miles away to witness this historic event. As the rocket launched skyward it was framed on both sides by 2 palm trees that I still picture in my mind's eye. The windows in the motel shook and the water in the pool rippled. This once in a life-time event will never be forgotten. Thank you for this article.
Posted by Bertha Seigfried on July 20,2009 | 10:14 AM
The whole Apollo mission adventure was our shining achievment at the C.S. Draper Lab where the Guidance syastem was developed. So having played a small role in that venture I was particularly proud on the 20th of July to be at at the Red sox ball game that day with my son.
The game was stopped--- the announcement "The Eagle has Landed" was broadcast over the speaker system---They played our national anthem, and the crowd (and the players) at Fenway Park sang, saluted,clapped, and some of us cried for about 10 minutes before the game resumed. A moment my son and I will cherish forever!
Posted by Bob Price on July 12,2009 | 07:37 AM
I was 7 in 1969 and my only memory of Apollo 11 was the comment from one of the astronauts that the moon did not appear to be made out of cheese but that it looked more like a chocolate milk shake.
Posted by Matt on July 9,2009 | 05:44 PM
Mom parents, sister, Aunt and Uncle and two cousins all drove down from Ontario in a big station wagon to watch the launch. The beach was a giant party, people from all over the US and Canada. My dad and his brother had built a big wooden box for our luggage on top of the car and my sister and cousins and I staked claim to it for our night's sleep
I have told this tale to my sons as they grew up in Maine, how the world changed that day. We came together as a planet, not just a nation or a political genre. The awe and optimism I felt that day returns to me whenever I think back to the launch. I felt that same optimism watching President Obama's inaguration. A feeling that, maybe, our best was ahead of us, not behind.
Posted by Julie Green on July 9,2009 | 11:43 AM
My memory of the walk on the moon...I was working at the telephone company as an operator between my sophomore and junior year of college. I answered a "light" which was someone calling the operator to make a long distance call. The person in a very excited voice said, "He is walking on the moon!" I guess she had no one else to call so she called the operator. I was so pleased to hear the news.
Posted by Marilynn Gholston Shaw on July 9,2009 | 08:33 AM
I will never forget being 11 years of age and my mother having us crowd around the t.v. to watch the landing on the moon. I was excited about it. We all need to thank our mothers for making us watch it. To answer REM's question, I believe there was a man on the moon.
Posted by Jean Tatum on July 8,2009 | 01:32 AM
Regarding your promotion of the story on the moon landing, I was wondering do you have a picture of the earth in the moon sky that has been taking from the moon with an astronaut in the foreground. Would you please send it to me.
Posted by Rick on July 8,2009 | 01:13 AM
I was about 9-month old in July of 69, and I've said to my parents that I vividly remember sitting in my dad's lap in our living room late at night when Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon. I guess the importance and excitement of the moment stuck with me and made me remember such event.
Posted by Alonso Martinez on July 8,2009 | 10:34 PM
My husband, now deceased, worked with Dr. Werner von Braun's team to put the men on the moon. It was a very exciting time in Huntsville, Alabama.
Posted by Kathryn Hamilton Willis on July 8,2009 | 05:54 PM
As a small boy I've always looked to the heavens, facinated with airplanes and space. I promised myself I will be there when our astronauts leave for the moon, and I was on Cocoa beach that morning when Armstrong, Aldren and Collins lifted off. Of all of my life's experiences, that was my second most memorable. My first, was when I soloed as a student pilot. I spent my entire life in love with airplanes, and I am so happy I picked aviation as a career. I still look up each and every time an airplanes flies over, and I still marvel.
Posted by Al Cenci on July 1,2009 | 01:28 PM
No matter which way you put it, it was an exciting historical time, and one I'm proud to live in!
I must take umbrage to something I saw in the article. That being the insertion of the letter "a" in the announcement " That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind"
It didn't refer to a single human, what it referred to is all of us, as a people. It also didn't refer to just the male populus alone but the word "man" in regard to all of us collectively, male and female. The comment in itself is grammarically correct, except to people who think that everything need be feminised, or shared betweeen genders.
Mankind refers to all of us from past into future, Mankind being the biologial nomenclature for Homo sapiens, so both parts of the comment are correct without the use of that letter "a", which makes the comment less personal. HE was making comment to all mankind that MAN had set foot on the moon, but MANKIND was the benefactor...not "A" man, but MAN himself! He depersonalised it because all of the people involved in getting him there were represented in that single first important historical step!
Posted by Robert Jones on June 30,2009 | 02:35 PM
Posted by PAT ELLIOTT on June 30,2009 | 11:33 AM
When I was 16, my friend Mack Reid and I hitch-hiked from Texas to Florida to see the launch of Apollo 11. It took us three days to reach Cape Kennedy. When we got there, there were thousands of people from all over. We made friends with a guy from Manchester England. We slept on the beach. We bummed food. Everybody was excited on the morning of the launch, which only lasted a minute. My one vivid memory was a few moments after the rocket was out of sight. The shape of the smoke coming up from the launch pad formed a perfect question mark. After that, some of the young people we met were heading up to New York for some music festival near Woodstock. We headed back to Texas and got home in time to see Armstrong set foot on the moon on TV. Thanks for recalling this special time.
Posted by James Rader on June 28,2009 | 11:51 AM
This is so cool. I got a call the other night from my sister who subscribes to Smithsonian and she told me I had to come here look at these pictures. When I got to the third one I was shocked. It is the picture of the three boys. Well the little one on the left is me and the one with his arm around my neck is my brother. I was three and he was six. My family was friends with a man named Tillman Smith, his son David is the other kid in the picture. Tillman worked for a radio station at the time and he was sent to take pictures of the moon shot for them.Imagine that, taking pictures for a radio station!! He was one of only a handful of press people who had unlimited access to the whole event. He was allowed to take one person with him and he took my father. Even though I was only three years old I have many memories of that trip. I remember going through the VAB and seeing Apollo 13 up close and personal, my brother told me that he actually touched it. I also remember the launch. We were with my mom at a motel almost 20 miles away. I remember watching the contrail and my brother said that the windows shook and it even caused the water to ripple in the pool. My father was only one mile away with all of the VIP's at the time and he has some amazing pictures that he took. I can't tell you how amazing it is to see my picture in Smithsonian magazine. I grew up in Pennsylvania and every year we would take a trip to the institute and it has always been one of my favorite places on earth. I still have my Apollo 11 t-shirt and a lot more items that my father was able to collect from all of the press events he was able to attend. Thank you Smithsonian for including this picture in your article.
Posted by Gregg Seigfried on June 24,2009 | 10:14 PM
This is so fun, my parents are in that photo! They are the standing couple in the light blue shirt and the green plaid shirt.
Posted by Rebecca Robb on June 24,2009 | 07:33 PM
Been in, and still in Aero Space since April of 1960. Was in the control room for the Launch of all of the Saturns and there is no feeling that you describe when that 365 foot awakened with 7.5 million pounds of thrust. The size of the rocket (a 36 story building) slowly lifting off of the Pad.
Happy Birthday Apollo!!!!!!!
A comitment was MADE for all America and the World, and in 1969 we were on the MOON.
Posted by Richard Milton on June 24,2009 | 06:23 AM
I attended the launch with a group of teachers from Abington, PA and because we were staying in Daytona we knew we would have to spend the night outside in Cocoa Beach. We parked at a school and settled in for the night of waiting for the launch in the morning. I can still picture the rocket on the launch pad lighted up at night like a great monument eight miles away. At one point I remember removing myself from the group to try to catch some sleep in the grass some distance away from all the others. I was wakened sometime later by the loud noise of a car and excited voices of others asking if I was OK. Unknown to me, a car had turned around in the grass and I almost didn't make it through the night to see the dawn of the next morning.
I still remember the countdown time of 9:32 to this day and the strange sensation of silence for the 40 seconds until the sound of the launch reached us. (Made even stranger with the rocket's sound coming from portable TV's nearby.) We had waited all night for that moment that lasted only a few minutes, but it was one of the most memorable times of my life. And we made it home before they reached the moon!
Posted by Art Drescher on June 23,2009 | 03:41 PM
I will never forget where I was on July 20, 1969 when Neil and Buzz took those first steps. My mother was yelling at me to go to bed because I was only 7 years old at the time. My dad told her to settle down and let me watch this historic event. We were the first on our block to have a color TV. Not that it really mattered, but it was very cool watching the simulations in color. Watched Walter on Channel 2 (CBS) in Pittsburgh. This was truly the greatest technological achievement of my lifetime. I only hope that my kids will get to see us go to Mars and beyond. Heck, I would even take "back to the moon". Happy 40th Mike, Neil, Buzz and the other 400,000 who made it possible.
Posted by Jay Graham on June 22,2009 | 09:02 PM
It's too bad that what everyone saw was just the external face of the space missions. The real missions have been visiting Mars since the 50's.
Posted by James on June 22,2009 | 04:21 PM
I will never forget being mad at my Mother for making me come in from my back yard baseball game to watch the launch of Apollo 11. "This is history" she told me. At the time baseball seemed much more important! I have since forgiven and thanked her many times.
Posted by Pete Iseppi on June 19,2009 | 11:25 AM


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Recipe: Pumpkin Chia Seed Pudding
This recipe and photo were created by contributor Kelli Dunn of The Corner Kitchen. Learn more about Kelli and this recipe by checking out her accompanying post, and check out her Greatist bio on our About Page!
Chia seeds are packed with a laundry list of amazing health benefits, and when soaked in liquid they expand to more than four times their original size, giving them a tapioca-like consistency. Yum! Whether you're trying chia pudding for the first time, or are already as addicted to it as I am, add a few spoonfuls of canned pumpkin to your next batch for a great seasonal variation. Throw in a few spices, and it's a perfect healthy substitute for pumpkin pie! (Well, almost.)
Recipe: Pumpkin Chia Seed Pudding
Serves 2
What You'll Need:
1/4 cup chia seeds
1 cup almond (or skim) milk
1/4 cup canned pumpkin
1 tablespoon agave syrup
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 pinch nutmeg
What to Do:
- Combine all ingredients in a bowl.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least 3 hours, or up to overnight (or even a few days!)
- Scoop it, garnish, and enjoy!
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Is there something you can swap pumpkin out for if you don't have it on hand?
If you want to keep the pumpkin flavor, but don't have canned pumpkin - add 1/4 cup Greek yogurt and 1/2 teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice. Alternatively, in place of the canned pumpkin, try adding 1/4 cup of coconut milk and top with fresh berries.


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We ordered the mixed grill and there was a lot of very salty meaty, If would have been lovely if it wasn't so salty.
Situated in the port area of Ios. I ate here twice on my stay in Ios. Very good food, lovely fresh fish and good value for money. Staff were friendly and service was good. A very good athmosphere also, as there was a table of local gentlemen who chatted and argued good naturadly among themselves (they were there both nights... More
I say this as my friend had calamari to start, followed by meatballs He,s was good ..however mine was a bit of cold greasy lamb which was cold, had to be reheated It was vile... Service poor...owner not interested Lots of better places to eat here...been here a week...
Magnificent view at the natural port of Ios, one of the best in Cyclades. Well-cooked tradition Greek specialities. Fresh fish at very good prices. Clean and friendly environment. Good value for money.
From breakfast to dinner we find it hard to,look beyond Akrogiali. Wonderful, freshly cooked food whether daily specials, traditional Greek dishes or the odd touristy dish, with genuinely friendly service and low prices. Highly recommended.
I think, it is one of the best restaurants in IOS. The food is fresh and tasty. There you can taste fish soup. Also some traditional meals (such as mousaka, stuffed tomatos, soutzoukakia (I'm not sure if wrote it correct), tzatziki..). When you sitting in this reastaurant, you can feel you are on holydays in Greece because there always you... More
Im doing my vacation in Ios for 30 years and Akrogiali is one of the best restaurants in Ios.They have fantastic home made dishes,the best fresh fish in Ios and some dishes which you can eat only there like "Salatouri" and "Fisherman's Saganaki"
Very good restaurant with good food and SERVICE. with various food and nice atmosphere in the beautiful port
is the best restaurnt in the port of ios,the have excellent food and service
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