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'Fedora Bandit' gets nine years in prison
SACRAMENTO — The former Carson City man dubbed the Fedora Bandit was sentenced to nine years in California federal prison Friday.
David Osborne, 75, who admitted committing a series of bank robberies including two at Lake Tahoe and one in Carson City, pleaded guilty to three of the seven crimes.
He earned his moniker because in each of the robberies, Osborne wore a hat, sunglasses, a fake mustache and a goatee.
He pleaded guilty Jan. 11 to robbing a Bank of the West branch in Gridley, Calif., in April 2010; an American River Bank in Rancho Cordova, Calif., in June 2010; and a Chase Bank in Paradise, Calif., also in June 2010.
He admitted to four other bank robberies and has been ordered to pay $55,929 in restitution for all seven robberies.
Osborne robbed a Bank of the West branch in South Lake Tahoe in February 2010, telling the teller it was a "hold-up" while putting his hand on a silver starter pistol in his waistband. He left with $5,450 in cash. Less than a month later, he robbed the Bank of the West branch in Kings Beach and took $5,634 in cash. He also robbed a Bank of the West branch in Grass Valley, Calif., in December 2009 and again in March 2010.
He also admitted to robbing the Bank of the West at 2976 N. Carson St.
Osborne was identified through surveillance video from the banks and DNA obtained from an abandoned bicycle used to flee one of the banks.
When the arrest warrant was issued, Osborne already was serving three years in the Federal Correctional Institution in Lompoc, Calif., on drug-trafficking charges.
The judge could have sentenced Osborne to as much as 25 years on each count. He must serve nine years in prison followed by three years of supervised release, according to U.S. Attorney Ben Wagner.


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TORONTO (Oct. 26) — First, the good news for hockey fans in this city: The Leafs are only two points out of Wild Card playoff territory in the Eastern Conference with 76 games left. The mathematical possibilities are endless. Not so good are the early–season indicators. Until the Leafs adopt a shred of defensive acumen, improving on last year's 30th–place finish will never be as easy as 1–2–3 — which happens to mirror the club's ominous record after six games. We are likely (and predictably) in for another bumpy ride.
During the telecast of Tuesday night's 7–3 shellacking of the Maple Leafs by Tampa Bay at the Air Canada Centre, the forever–optimistic Greg Millen told viewers (and, I'm paraphrasing): "This has been another rough night for the young Leafs. But, there will be many more good nights ahead for the team this season, I can assure you." Greg hardly came out of left field with his comment, though "rough" was a rather polite way to characterize the lop–sided result. Yes, the Leafs will have shining moments as the schedule moves along, when their off–the–charts skill overwhelms the opposition. Goaltending clearly has to improve by many lengths, and it likely will get better. Where the Leafs, however, cannot compare to Tampa Bay is on the blue line; a common theme in this corner through the years. In Victor Hedman, the Lightning has what Toronto sorely lacks — a big, domineering horse on the back end. The Leafs have a couple of No. 2 guys and a whole bunch of 3's and 4's in front of beleaguered stopper Frederik Andersen. His life will not drastically improve — nor will the club contend for anything of substance — until this age–old deficit is conquered.
Though Steven Stamkos battered the Leafs on the score–sheet with a career record–tying four points, it was Hedman that controlled the tempo of Tuesday night's match. The Leafs haven't possessed a blue–liner of such capacity since Borje Salming in the mid–to–late–1970's. That's a long, long time ago. The good Leaf teams under Pat Burns and Pat Quinn had some reasonable facsimiles — Dave Ellett, Bryan McCabe, Tomas Kaberle — but neither a true Norris Trophy candidate (though McCabe was close) nor an assertive physical presence. Hedman is equally comfortable with the puck in the attacking zone and without the puck while thwarting opposition shooters. Players of such ilk are hardly plentiful, yet mandatory for Cup contention.
This is not breaking news to the Maple Leafs' hierarchy. Brendan Shanahan won three Stanley Cup titles as a Hall–of–Fame power–forward with Detroit (1997–98–2002) while a teammate of arguably the greatest European–born NHLer of all time: Nicklas Lidstrom. Mike Babcock was coach of the Red Wings on June 4, 2008 when Lidstrom — at the old Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh — became the first captain from Europe to raise the silver mug. Lou Lamoriello generally managed a trio of Stanley Cup teams at New Jersey with Hall–of–Famers Scott Stevens and Scott Niedermayer manning the blue line. Rarely, has there been a more efficient one–two punch: Stevens decimating opponents with bone–jarring hits and Niedermayer, among the most naturally–gifted skaters in the game, moving the puck with remarkable quickness and accuracy.
During his years as captain of the Leafs, Dion Phaneuf had physical attributes to become the missing link on the back end. He still ranks, while toiling for Ottawa, among the best in hockey at stepping up and delivering an open–ice wallop. But, Dion has never been accomplished at reading play in the defensive zone. He was frequently out of position and slow to react with the puck. The truly elite defenders — Hedman, Erik Karlsson, Duncan Keith, Drew Doughty — are instinctive behind the blue line; not foolproof, but overwhelmingly smooth and competent. For decades, this has been a shortfall with the Maple Leafs.
I cannot say for certain, but my instinct tells me Babcock is not enamored of Morgan Rielly — the Leafs' most–skilled defenseman. Rielly doesn't consume the powerplay time of a legitimate No. 1 blue–liner and was famously coined last season — by his coach — as a "real good No. 2" [defenseman]. Though Rielly is a terrific skater and has shown steady improvement while handling the puck, there is virtually no physical element to his game. That would be fine, providing the Leafs were able to pair him with a head–basher. Lidstrom was also rather passive, though he knew how and when to lean on an opponent. During his Stanley Cup years in Detroit, however, the Swedish–born star was accompanied by a fair amount of elite sandpaper — be it Vladimir Konstantinov (before his debilitating car accident), Chris Chelios or Niklas Kronwall. In order to maximize Rielly, the Maple Leafs need to acquire an identical presence on the blue line.
At the moment (as for countless years), the club is terribly soft in its own zone.
Millen is a student of the game and a truly perceptive analyst. During regional Leaf telecasts, he goes a little overboard for the "home" team, which is commonplace and understandable. But, not to the exclusion of informing his audience. If you watched Tuesday night's telecast from the ACC, you noticed how frequently Millen isolated Hedman (who scored his first goal of the season, in the second period, to give Tampa Bay a 4–0 lead). Stamkos got noisy raves for his four–point night, but big No. 77 worked flawlessly at both ends of the ice. A quick study between the benches, Millen pointed to Hedman's command throughout the game.
Somewhere down the line, Greg will need to point to a similar player with the Leafs.
Otherwise, Toronto's Stanley Cup drought will continue unabated.

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Try Cube by Dexetra
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July 20, 2010
Filed under App DB, Games, Productivity, iPad Apps, iPhone Apps
TryCube is a unique brain twisting puzzle-strategy game with hours of endless fun.
The aim the game is to match [3x3] 3D Cube to a reference 2D pattern. The game involves 2 colored cubelets and you have to rotate around the planes to match the pattern.
TryCube has 30 puzzles to solve in 3 different levels of difficulty, effectively giving you 90 levels to complete.
The game helps you build sharper memory and better visual perception skills.
This game can interest both a 3-year old and a 60-year old alike. With simple beginning levels you can build competency to play tougher and a more challenging levels.
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Youtube link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-FQgaCiC_k
Developer Website: http://www.dexetra.com/products.htm#trycube


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The History and Conncetion of Certainteed, Simonton, and Wincore:
Going back to the early 1990's; we were selling Certainteed windows. These Windows were rated number one by Consumer Reports in the October 1993 issue. Even though they were rated number one they still had many issues. These issues actually appeared in the test results of Consumer Reports. Foot notes E, and F, noted that the glass seal failed and the sashes bowed allowing water and air to infiltrate. We were noticing the same issues when customers called us asking for help to resolve their problems. This became very apparent when the same problems were occurring continually. The interesting thing is that Certainteed windows were not fabricated by Certainteed. All they manufactured were the parts; these parts were then shipped to other licensed manufacturers to do the final assembly. Simonton Windows at the time was the largest of these fabricators, located in West Virginia. They knew of the problems and presented improvements to be made to Certainteed. Certainteed declined and the two companies parted ways. Soon after we were approached by Simonton Windows, at first we declined their offer. Then we later brought their product line on. We saw that they had fixed all the problems the Certainteed windows were having. When customers came in asking for Certainteed windows we explained the problems we had with the Certainteed's products. We then showed them the new and improved Simonton. We also explained, that we were trying to help them to avoid having unhappy customers. This was the correct decision for us, as we became the single largest Simonton dealer in the country. Along with us and the help of other customers, Simonton Windows grew from around 30 million in sales to over 500 million by 2006. Unfortunately Simonton was sold to Fortune Brands in 2006. Fortune Brands is a publicly owned company, they are a conglomerate of many companies, such as Therma Tru doors, Moen faucets, Jim beam liquor, Pinnacle Golf etc. After the acquisition, Fortune brands brought in their own management team, and in turn laid off all the key executives that ran Simonton Windows. These key executives teamed up with Mr. Simonton himself and formed Wincore Windows. Wincore Windows approached us to switch our sales to them. We declined at first. We stayed with Simonton for three more years. During this time we saw a very large increase in service calls we had to fix. Three main areas continuously came up. Windows leaking air, leaking water and not locking. We tried working with them to make changes that would fix the problems; little did we know that Wincore already had this figured out. By 2009 it became to much for us to handle, we had 5 service team members devoting all there time to fixing Simonton windows. We also noticed that there were many previous Simonton customers switching to Wincore, such as Sears. They switched because of service call problems, and were much happier with Wincore. We finally made the switch to Wincore Windows and haven't looked back. We are now down to two service teams members, and all the problems we were having with Simonton are now gone. We experenced the same situation we had with Certainteed and Simonton as we now have with Simonton and Wincore. Certainteed had design problems they were unwilling to fix, and Simonton fixed them, Simonton after being sold had design flaws (also being unwilling to fix their problems) and Wincore fixed them. Please understand that we have always sold other companies and still do today. This letter is written to explain the decision we made to sell Wincore Windows instead of Simonton Windows and why. I hope you can understand that we have your best interest in mind, and that we want to provide you with the best quality we can. To hold true to our integrity we had to switch to Wincore over Simonton. Wincore products have more added features and benefits, and better warranties. Since Simonton was sold to Fortune brands they have been opening new customers at an alarming rate. Now you can find them almost everywhere. Which doesn't help differentiate you from your competition. Be unique, and stand out, your customers will thank you for offering them a better product. We have the Simonton side by side to the Wincore at our large showroom in Farmingdale, come down or send your customer to see a comparison. This way you can see for yourself why the Wincore is better.
Morningstar Doors and Windows
215 Adams Blvd.
Farmingdale, NY 11735
Phone: 631-465-9960
Fax: 631-465-9961
Monday-Friday: 8:00am-5:00pm
Saturday: 8:00am-12:00pm
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At Benson Baptist, Sunday School is a central piece of our vision to connect with God, each other, and the world. Through focused time on Bible study and discipleship, we connect to God. Through spiritual discussion and socialization we connect with each other. And through embracing opportunities to serve God outside of the church walls, we connect to the world. All of that connecting makes our Sunday School classrooms pretty exciting places—the only thing they're missing is you!
Learn more about Sunday School for your age group by exploring the classes below:
Younger Adult
Class name: YAMS (Young Adult Marrieds and Singles)
Taught by: Chris and Renee Underwood
Location: Classroom on the back left side of the sanctuary
Gender: Mixed
What members say: The YAMS class offers a tremendous opportunity for people on the front-end of adulthood to journey together in connecting to God, each other, and the world. We're more than a class; we're a collection of friends, fellow pilgrims sharing life with one another as we travel the path of faith.
Class name: Cornerstone
Material used: FaithElement
Location: Fellowship Hall
Gender: Mixed
What members say: We love the eclectic nature of our class. On an average Sunday, we can have people aged anywhere from their 30s to their 80s; we have males and females, marrieds and singles, theologically conservatives and theologically not-so-conservatives. We value the contributions and journeys of every member, knowing that through each of our experiences, God can make all of us stronger.
Class name: Friends Bible Class
Taught by: Carolyn Auman and Hubert Worthington
Material used: Uniform (published by NextSunday Resources)
Location: Upstairs, first room on right when coming up sanctuary stairwell
Gender: Mixed
What members say: We are a class that's true to our name. Individually, we're all sorts of people—we're singles and couples, widows and widowers, workin' folk and retirees. But through the love of Christ which brings us together, we're so much more than the sum of our parts—we're fellow pilgrims on the journey; we're brothers and sisters in faith; we are, in a word, friends!
Older Adult
Class name: Sue Price/Fidelis
Taught by: J.H. Langdon, Jr. and Miriam Rose (Eloise Bonds is a substitute)
Material used: Uniform (published by NextSunday Resources)
Location: Classroom on the back right side of the sanctuary
Gender: Female
What members say: Each Sunday when we gather, it's more than just a class—it's a blessed time of fellowship. Not only does each participant grow individually in her own faith, but we all grow together in our collective faith as we share with one another the joys and sorrows along life's journey.
Class name: Baraka
Taught by: Don Johnson
Material used: Uniform (published by NextSunday Resources)
Location: Classroom on the back left side of the sanctuary
Gender: Male
What members say: We enjoy the opportunity this class offers for genuine fellowship with one another. Our time together is relaxed and comfortable, which creates an environment that facilitates organic spiritual conversation.


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Most movie critics are completely at odds with the general public in their analysis of movies, so we want to give you the opportunity to review films from the perspective of the real movie-goer…a Reel Review.
Here's how it works:
- Submit a 1 minute video or 250 word text review of a recent theatre or dvd release to email@example.com
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- The movie premiere Reel Reviews will be posted to NBCSanDiego.com and may also be shown on the NBC 7/39 4pm news.
- Send your review today to firstname.lastname@example.com
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DC United 3, Chivas USA 1 | MLS Match Recap
WASHINGTON – Two of the hottest teams in MLS took the pitch at RFK Stadium on Saturday evening, with Chivas USA riding a four-game winning streak and D.C. United having won three of four.
The hosts found the right formula for cooling off Chivas, riding an Eddie Johnson penalty kick, a Perry Kitchen strike and Luis Silva insurance tally to a 3-1 victory in front of 13,732.
Neither team seemed particularly eager to get on board in the game's opening quarter of an hour, and it was only a defensive mistake that opened up the floodgates. United's Chris Rolfe found himself at the top of the box and pivoted, badly fooling Ecuadorian international Oswaldo Minda, who awkwardly took Rolfe down.
Referee Fotis Bazakos pointed to the spot without hesitation, and Johnson smashed the ensuing penalty to Dan Kennedy's right for the opener.
The goal seemed to energize United, and Johnson nearly doubled his side's lead minutes from the whistle. His thumping header in the 43rd minute would miss by inches, caroming off the underside of the crossbar.
In the 60th minute, United doubled their lead on a restart. Rolfe struck a bending ball into the area from 30 yards out which Johnson coolly nodded into the path of an onrushing Kitchen, who laced his effort low and towards the near post to leave Kennedy no chance.
The Goats were punished further in the 70th minute when United outside back Chris Korb played former TFC man Silva in for United's third, a curling effort struck across the face of goal and into the far side netting coming at the end of a 14-pass movement.
Chivas found their only goal five minutes from time after United center back Steve Birnbaum brought down midfielder Mauro Rosales in the box. Erick "Cubo" Torres calmly converted the ensuing penalty – his 14th goal of the year – but Chivas simply never looked able to mount a comeback.
D.C. will travel to Jacksonville, Fla., for a friendly against English side Fulham on Saturday evening before returning home to face Toronto FC the following Wednesday. Chivas USA will regroup before facing Colorado on Saturday evening.
MLSsoccer.com Men of the Match
|What We Saw
|Eddie Johnson
|Got the PK goal and generally terrorized the Chivas defense all day. His hold-up play was stellar as well.
|Perry Kitchen
|Even without the goal he'd be on this list. Bossed the central midfield and looks the part of a future US international.
|Chris Rolfe
|His playmaking from the flank has changed this season for D.C. Was involved in everything until coming off late.


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Map Your City helps you tell your stories at all the places that matter to your community by providing you a cloud-based complete suite of applications that enables you and your community to build, integrate and manage branded localized experiences.
Among the top 3 best rated Project Management apps in the Podio® app market, this practical Project Coalition Suite is provided under Creative Commons license. Three canvasses as action based hands on tools to build your project with others that help you in your future collaborations.
A co-creation platform for urban development challenges. Called "The Dutch company that is bringing the art of listening back into the city planning process" by Fastcompany's FastCoExist – The Magazine that inspires readers to think beyond traditional boundaries.
Teams change - get used to it In my experience working with many teams over the years – the only
Why did we decide for a remote team? When I started our first software projects with ANDRS, we
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January 2019 – Featured in the first issue of the Hare A.C. Digest by Tracksmith.
March 2018 – I wrote about my favorite running spots + why training through the winter here can be brutal but very rewarding on the FASTZach: Run Like A Local blog.
November 2017 – Mario Fraioli of the Morning Shakeout interviewed me for part of his "Going Long" series, featuring longform interviews with runners with unique perspectives.
August 2017 – Feature on the cover of Competitor Magazine! Read: How Running and Music Intersect for RAC's Liz Anjos.
March 2017 – I joined Nathan Freeburg live on the Brewery Run Series channel!
January 2017 – I got to chat with Lindsey Hein on her podcast I'll Have Another!
January 2017 – Oiselle Winter Sale
October 2016 – Interview with Emily Polachek of Competitor Magazine on all things running & music.
August 2016 – Worlds collide! I released a cover of the song "Running" by No Doubt under my artist name Pink Feathers. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, and SoundCloud.
July 2016 – My friends and I answering some difficult questions for Derek Call and Kit Fox of Runner's World at the Olympic Track & Field Trials in Eugene, OR
April 2016 – Q & A with Flotrack's Giovanni Reyes on his blog Gio Runs
February 2016 – Stance Run Spring '16 Campaign
February 2016 – Oiselle Spring '16 Campaign
October 2015 – I sat down with Sarah "Mac" Robinson of Oiselle to talk about life as a professional musician, competitive runner, and how to train for a marathon while touring. I also picked out out my favorite fall looks and curated a fall playlist on Spotify!
November 2015 – Oiselle Winter '15 campaign
October 2015 – Oiselle Fall '15 campaign
October 2015 – I had the honor of joining Julia Hanlon in her podcast, Running On Om! We discussed the performative experience in both running and music.
July 2015 – Rebecca Trachsel and I talked all things running, music, and cupcakes on her blog, Running With Music.
February 2015 – Oiselle Spring '15 campaign, appearance in 10 Oscar-Inspired Products on ESPN W.
December 2014 – I wrote a travel guide for my home city Portland, OR for Culture Collide! I talk about my favorite spots for running, music, and most importantly, FOOD!
November 2014 – Song premiere for one of my Pink Feathers tracks on Vice's music site, Noisey! In an interview with Ilana Kaplan, we talk a bit about my roots in running and an encounter I had on a run which inspired my first EP.


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We all love it when a guy does those sweet things and goes out of his way to make us feel loved and adored. I think the Americans (compared to the Aussie boys, no offence guys) as a general rule, have this down (or maybe this is only stereotypical?). Anyway, I think Jacob (my husband) was one example of how to court a lady really well. I love him for that! I don't mean that your men don't do a great job either, but I think he did key things really well!
These are some of the things he did:
- went out of his way to track me down and ask me out
- invited me out to do something fun - go hiking!
- always opened the car door and other doors for me - he still does!
- observed how the evening went, suggested a new fun idea for a date and asked me out again
- offered to pay for things, but let me pay every now and again too!
- when we went on a group date he would spend time with me and look out for me but also give me space to come back to him
- always gives me the bigger half of anything
- always think of new fun date ideas to take me on
- listen to my concerns and talk to me about everything
- encouraged me to do scary things, I normally wouldn't do - like bridge jumping!
Maybe I am biased but I loved being courted, and especially by Jacob :) I love it when a guy goes out of their way to make you feel special. I am sure you all have ways you loved to be treated by guys or things you love that they do for you. You know, it doesn't hurt to tell them! They may be wondering :)


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The West Coast's $56 billion ocean economy supports 500,000 jobs in hotels, restaurants, charter boats, gas stations, guide businesses, and gear shops.
Polling shows strong opposition to opening the coast to new drilling:
69% of Californians oppose new drilling.
70% of SD and Orange County residents oppose offshore drilling.
64% of inland Californians residents oppose offshore drilling.
95% agree that the condition of the ocean is important to their quality of life.
Coastal recreation in Oregon generates $2.4 billion per year, with 80% of residents visiting the beach at least once annually.
Commercial fishing and seafood processing contribute more than $350,000,000 annually to California's GDP.
Washington has the largest commercial fishing and seafood processing sector in the country, worth $1.5 billion.


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How We Partner
We have learned over the years that the most important support that people and organizations can provide for HEH is prayer. We believe that without God helping us in these endeavors, we are going to fail. We are asking that people help us by praying for the following areas:
Thank you for remembering us! Please make it a point to pray for us daily


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The band is back together
Last night we had a pictorial at Pioneer Studios and I'm so glad to announce that we're back!
Here's a video that I uploaded on Youtube, a special behind the scenes footage of our pictorial!
I'll keep you posted on this website on our new home and timeslot, The untraditional show is back!


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Tune is the recently rebranded company that runs HasOffers and Mobile App Tracking, two tools that help people create their own ad networks and measure their mobile marketing performance. Last month the Seattle-based firm decided to expand into App Store Optimization and unpaid user acquisition with the buyout of MobileDevHQ. We caught up with MobileDevHQ's founder – and now Tune's head of inbound – Ian Sefferman to find out more on the strategy behind his company's acquisition.
Tune Q&A: Unpaid user acquisition and MobileDevHQ buyout
Ian Sefferman, head of inbound, Tune
Why branch out into ASO and unpaid acquisition, is this something Tune's existing customer base was calling for?
Yes. App marketers are continually bemoaning having multiple dashboards for different channels and stages of the user lifecycle. They see the virtuous impact that ASO/inbound acquisition and paid acquisition have on each other, and want a way to be able to manage both simultaneously and in a single dashboard, increasing their ROI and their efficiency as a marketer.
What kind of interplay is there between paid and unpaid acquisition that Tune can now start taking advantage of?
We're already doing analysis on how paid and inbound/organic acquisition work together in the app store and it's very, very clear that if a marketer focuses on both, they are able to dramatically increase the overall number and quality of installs of their marketing campaigns.
Paid acquisition is becoming more and more costly, so do you see more opportunity in organic when it comes to smaller devs and will you now be focusing efforts on attracting more devs on a budget?
No matter how you slice it, both paid and inbound are important channels for app marketers large and small. We think both sets of marketers (small, indie developers, and large enterprises) need tools for app marketing, and that's why we offer plans that are free for indie developers and plans that are catered towards large developers.
There seems to be a lot of consolidation going on in the app analytics space recently, do you think this will continue? And do you think it's becoming more difficult for analytics platforms to really stand-out?
The app ecosystem is growing quickly, the tools are getting better, and the marketers are getting more sophisticated. As this happens, it's natural for a nascent industry to consolidate into a few winners. At TUNE, our goal is to help app marketers be as great as they can possibly be, and we'll continue to offer the best solution in the ecosystem for those marketers, whether that means through building it ourselves or acquiring it where possible.
Will you guys try integrating some kind of monetisation services into your offerings in the future, like the PlayHaven/Kontagent merger Upsight?
The simple answer is no. We believe there is a very real and substantial need for an unbiased software provider for mobile marketers, and our mission is to help the whole ecosystem to work better together. That said, we will work hard to improve the ways marketers can work with inventory and partners, but we do not plan to move into a position of taking part in monetization directly. We will continue to charge for our products as software as a service and not as part of ad spend.
You can find out more about Tune by visiting the website. Though for the time being MobileDevHQ has a separate site here.


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The meeting brought together more than 25 international participants-members of the Working Group from across the region, including representatives of the central banks, other financial regulators, ministries and educational authorities, as well as more than 40 local stakeholders interested in advancing financial education and financial inclusion agenda in Kosovo.
Participants discussed trends and developments in advancing financial education and financial inclusion national agendas and policy, specific programmes and initiatives targeting children and youth in the countries of the region, plans for the future, and exchanged the experience and best practices in targeting the youth segment.
The CYFI Secretariat as also presented the publications, work and regional research from the field, including the joint CYFI & EFSE DF publication on "Insights into Financial Behavior and Knowledge of Children and Youth in Selected Countries of South-Eastern Europe". The study was conducted in the second quarter of 2016 and included in-depth focus groups and interviews with children and youth between 10 and 24 years old, as well as wide quantitative study of more than 2,000 children and youth people across 7 countries of the region. The full report of the research is available here.
Mastercard representatives participated as guest speakers to the Working Group meeting, and presented the recently launched by CYFI & Mastercard Guidelines on Safer Payment Products for Minors, as well as opened the discussion on the role of both private and public sectors in promoting youth financial literacy by facilitating the access to digital financial products in a safe and responsible way.
The meeting also saw the Launch and Inauguration of the National Financial Literacy and Training Center of the Central Bank of Kosovo, the new facility that was recently renovated and re-opened in the ancient city of Prizren, with the support of EFSE. The Working Group members also had a chance to visit and have a tour around the Center's facilities on October 6th.
The Central Bank of Kosovo (CBK) has also awarded a special recognition to Child & Youth Finance International for outstanding contribution in the advancement of financial education agenda in Kosovo. CBK's contribution to bringing the national stakeholders together and promoting financial education for children and youth was recognized by Ms. Shkendije Himaj, Coordinator for General Function in CBK, as well as an important role that the Working Group plays in promoting the best practices in the field across the countries of the region, and how they can learn from each other's experiences.
About the Working Group
The Regional Working Group for Youth Financial Education and Financial Inclusion serves as the place for sharing best practices, exchanging experiences, identifying technical assistance opportunities to support action plans development and implementation by CYFI Secretariat and its network. As of June 2017 more than 24 governmental institutions from 10 countries of the region (central banks, financial regulators, ministries of finance and education) are members of the Working Group.


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The world was saddened today to learn of the death of Katherine Dunn, who is best known for her spectacular 1989 cult classic Geek Love. She was 70-years-old.
According to her son, Dunn passed away on May 11 due to complications with lung cancer.
In addition to her seminal novel about a family of carnival oddities, Dunn was also an avid boxing fan who took up the sport and wrote about it on the web for the Cyber Boxing Zone and in a column for the Willamette Week.
Her son revealed that despite being "a very private person" she read every single letter from fans expressing their adoration for Geek Love.
(via Jezebel)


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the afp content being displayed in google news is normally only provided online to websites through a paid subscription. according to the afp, it currently has 600 online clients.
besides the monetary damages, afp is also seeking a court order that would bar google from continuing to display its copyrighted content.
read more from the afp and reuters articles.
brian's opinion
i completely understand afp's beef. google is basically re-displaying content from other websites for free while those websites are having to actually pay a subscription to afp.
it will be interesting to see how all of this plays out in court considering that google�s technology is automated. an order barring the company from displaying afp content on its google news website would probably require some technical tweaking by google's staff.
google news is, of course, not the only website that lists links and headlines of afp articles. that being said, the outcome of this lawsuit may have far reaching implications for websites that act as news portals for users. because of the filing of this lawsuit against google, some of those websites may now choose to remove any afp content to avoid any legal trouble.
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|je suis france! (12:54pm est mon mar 21 2005)
sue the bitches! – by lawyer
|google sucks (1:18pm est mon mar 21 2005)
they love to post news that puts liberals in good light. – by oh ya
|re: lawyer (1:26pm est mon mar 21 2005)
you are france?
lol – by rbmusician
|google news bias (1:34pm est mon mar 21 2005)
google news is so biased to the left it is almost useless to thinking people.
as if carrying the lies of afp wasn't enough, they have now added the ultra-leftist national vanguard as a news source.
national vanguard. afp. something smells vichy! – by wimbles
|google alerts (1:56pm est mon mar 21 2005)
google alerts are better than their news page. though, you can search google news to find things that you might think are absent, such as right-leaning analysis. but alerts allow someone to get briefs from any (essentially) search query.
– by jd
|biased?! (2:02pm est mon mar 21 2005)
yeah. i hate it when the news is biased.
that's why i love cnn. they are the least biased news company around!
– by captain sarcasm
|the grass is greener on this side… (2:09pm est mon mar 21 2005)
an what's wrong with the left? where i live, a left government rules.
where i live, i will live longer.
yeah those leftist and their moral approach is terrible. fuck people, business deserve more than the people. – by lefty mcleft
|hey lefty mcleft (2:25pm est mon mar 21 2005)
businesses are made of people!
they're people!
|ha (2:25pm est mon mar 21 2005)
there is no such thing as right and left, there is only right and wrong!
at least i'm on the right side of the fence, are you?
go bush!
serve em up hot – by spotted owl eater
|are the french really that clueless (2:26pm est mon mar 21 2005)
or is it one misguided organization? while the rest of the world drools at links and click-throughs from google these guys miss out on the way the web works!
the security blog at – by stiennon
|hey chuckles mcheston (2:41pm est mon mar 21 2005)
you don't take care of the people, business will fail because the people are sick all of the time.
think it through man, businesses care about their bottom line, not the customers. you put the lives in the hands of business, the people loose out.
want an example? hmos. – by lefty mcleft
|lefty (3:00pm est mon mar 21 2005)
ever hear of enlightened self-interest. business realize that healthy employees are more producive than sick ones. therefor it is in the best interest of the bottom line for business to take care of it's employees in the long run. my employer offers great benifits because they understand that. they could offer really crappy health insurance but the don't. heck, my health insurance preimums when down this year with no reall decrease in coverage (only significant change was increase in co-pay for er visits)
admittadly, there are some businesses that only seem to be able to think in the short run and have been trully screwed after screwing their employees, but the vast majority of businesses are not that way. for every enron or worldcom there are thousands of businesses that do right by their employees. – by biz not allways bad
|google screwed up (4:00pm est mon mar 21 2005)
that's what it sounds like to me. even so, i wonder if the froggies ever attempted to settle this before going to court. and about those damages, have they really suffered $17.5 mil as a result? their on-line content must be really, really successful and popular. does it contain porn or something? – by jqp
|crappy service (4:44pm est mon mar 21 2005)
if goverment health care was so good people from canada wouldn't be coming to the usa for services. (ie: 7 week waiting list for an mri) – by to lefty
|to lefty (5:46pm est mon mar 21 2005)
oh, our bad… its just that we had a right wing party in power in our most populated province for 8 years…. – by karmek
|re: to lefty (5:49pm est mon mar 21 2005)
and if yours wasn't, your elderly people wouldn't be coming to canada for their meds.
the volume of spam that reads "cheap meds n canada" in my inbox is staggering.
europe, and canada benefit from a more left-wing government, and so do its people.
ps: don't forget about the arms companies in the states who specifically higher people on social assistance to build their right wing "weapons of mass destruction" for peanuts for hour.
i don't see that happening in france… – by lefty mcleft
|think! it's afp's fault! (7:16pm est mon mar 21 2005)
if afp didn't want this stuff on google news, its afp's fault in the first damn place!
obviously afp has no configured it's service correctly to prevent paid-for content from being picked up by non-subscribers. they screwed up. google just works as a non-aware engine to index everything it finds. if you set the proper rules and security on your site, google won't index those things.
afp will lose this and be laughed out of court for being so stupid. – by learn site security!
|bigamy champion (8:39pm est mon mar 21 2005)
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on a sour note -> google is becoming an advertising giant. it has to do nothing with inovation – its pure marketing play.
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|yup, it's afp's fault! (9:28pm est mon mar 21 2005)
it's afp's fault that they didn't take any measurers to prevent their sites to be able to be search by the crawler.
google news is not bias. fox news on the other hand is bias.
– by doug
|hmmmm (10:14pm est mon mar 21 2005)
you think google news is bias? try the news on yahoo.com.au then! nothing by bloody irrelevant yank news all the damn time.
– by headley
|just (11:04pm est mon mar 21 2005)
ask – by jeves
|how is google bias? (9:00am est tue mar 22 2005)
google is the best source of news i've seen on the net. they cover multiple viewppoints. of course, most "elites" would probably exclusively prefer something like bbc, fox, cnn, reuters etc instead of opening their eyes to what the rest of the world has to say.
the afp, like the french, are just whining. the fools are getting free advertising from google linking them to their pages and they whine about. the way i see it, the afp had a free meal ticket having google link them to potential new customers that would be willing to 1.subscribe and 2.click on any of their websites advertisements. – by nerfherder
|bias (2:21pm est tue mar 22 2005)
you dolts…
all news is biased!
live with it. – by truth
|google is biased… (2:35pm est tue mar 22 2005)
…because they cover almost entirely liberal viewpoints. they may have the token conservative-leaning opinion here and there, but the vast majority of their stories are from the leftist viewpoint.
as far tv news in the us, fox is by far the least biased network. cnn's idea of a debate is an argument between a left-wing nut-job and a moderate democrat (the left-wing nut-job is usually portrayed as being correct). the networks (cbs, abc, nbc) are even worse they haven�t agreed with a single conservative viewpoint in 30 years. fox may be slightly biased to the right, but at least they have hosts that lean both directions (bill and shawn to the right, allen and greta to the left). when they discuss a subject they always have guests from both sides (with the exception of greta vansustren, who like most liberals, can only stand to hear her own viewpoint). – by fox = cnn antidote
|the news sucks (12:24pm est wed mar 23 2005)
any "news" organization that has an opinion, is no longer news. news is not opinion. its facts. all of the channels that have debate shows and the talking heads programs are biased. it's all entertainment that is based on ratings. that's what has become of the news.
i am not a democrat or republican. i am an american. there is a difference. – by the wrong
|american arrogance! (5:26pm est wed mar 23 2005)
lol, you americans should take a look at your news sources… they are beyond bullshit, which ultimately reflects your incompetents. just look at your freaking president, i wouldn�t be surprised if he had difficulty spelling his own name – by get real
|idiots (6:30am est thu apr 21 2005)
if you don't want to get "spidered" then get your friggin' content off of the web. or at least have a subscriber-based site where subscribers log on. google is hands-off that one.
well sue for publicity, why not? wise move, frenchie.
google has been crawling afp content since they started. what's their beef now? :) – by dave
|alert] google says no (10:51pm est tue may 03 2005)
alert] google says no to conservative ads!
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Circa 1913 (calendar), Hans Jepson at the Brunswick Balke Collender front bar. This bar remains there today. Note the stuffed animals as period decorations.
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An excursion into contemporary Czech fine art started in times when the right political commitment was the general criterion for an artist's recognition, more than the quality of his or her work. But this dictate of the right opinion, on the other hand, may be the reason why Czech fine art introduced works of the highest quality - always a step ahead and never influenced by passing trends.
A post-modern concept of creative work began to assert itself in the Czech milieu sometime around 1984. Tvrdohlaví (The Stubborn Ones) became the first distinct grouping. Tvrdohlaví was what a group of several young artists called themselves in 1987 (František Skála, Jiří David, Michal Gabriel, Petr Nikl, Jaroslav Róna and others).
The appreciation of the Czech pavilion at the EXPO '58 world exhibition in Brussels also meant a relaxation of the scope that a young generation of artists had to implement their work. The work of Josef Svoboda caused a significant shift in the development of scenography. He constructed a stage whose main staging idea creatively symbolizes a distinctive scenic style through the use of lights, slide projection and architectural design. We can encounter his creative manipulation of the stage to this day at Prague's Laterna Magika theater.
Mikuláš Medek (1926 - 1974, the grandson of Antonín Slavíček) was often a silenced figure of Czech abstract art with great artistic feeling.
Jan Kotík (1916) is associated with lyrical abstraction. Zdeněk Sklenář (1910 - 1986) was inspired by Oriental calligraphy in his work. A group of graphic artists from the 1950s and 1960s whose work was linked with abstract expressionism account for a peculiar chapter in Czech art, e.g. Vladimír Boudník (1924 - 1968), who found beauty in the most commonplace things, often in an experimental manner.
The painter Jiří John (1923 - 1979) stands detached from all movements. All we can find in his non-figurative pictures is a greater degree of communicativeness.
The more radical Art Informel also came to the fore thanks to its initiator, Václav Hejna (1914 - 1985). Mikuláš Medek and Vladimír Boudnik became other dominant figures in this field.
The work of the painter and graphic artist Vladimír Komárek (1928-2002) is poetic in nature. He was ranked among the older artists who had been "vetted." The home environment had a strong influence on his work.
Karel Nepras (1932 - 2002) invoked a sense of humor in figurative sculpture. The work of Eva Kmentová (1928 - 1980) also moved from abstraction to arrive at simplicity of form.
The sisters Jitka (1922) and Květa (1922 - 1998) Válová are also figurative painters, as are Jiří Anderle and Jiří Načeradský .
Advertising, comic-book series and other elements of mass culture spread to art. Pop-art actually seeks contact with human life in the real world. It is primarily Jiří Balcár who deserves credit for the arrival of this trend in the Czech milieu. He visited America, the place of pop-art´s genesis, in 1966. The poet and translator Jiří Kolář (1914 - 2002) devised several methods for the production of collages. At the end of the 1950s, he came up with the decomposition of natural poetry and the creation of typograms, assemblages and collages in which he used fragments of the most varied types of script and above all used reproductions of celebrated works of art.
A related phenomenon of pop-art is the so-called "happening", or a method of artistic production, which counted on the active participation of the audience in attendance, which took place in a state of constant improvisation. This was primarily popularized in the Czech lands by Milan Knížák (1940), who is the current general director of the National Gallery in Prague.
In the Czech milieu, the work of Theodor Pištěk (1932) approached that of the hyperrealists. He has also excelled as a film designer in František Vláčil's movies Markéta Lazarová and Údolí včel (Valley of the Bees). He won an Oscar, the most prestigious award from the American Film Academy, for designing the costumes for the Miloš Forman film Amadeus.
At the end of the 1970s, minimalist tendencies and conceptual expressions gained momentum, particularly in the field of body-art. Petr Štembera (1945) first exhibited his own body in an extreme situation (Spani na strome – "Sleeping on a Tree," 1979). He then cut his hand and inserted tree grafts into the wound for several days (Stepováni – "Grafting," 1979).
There are many ways to professionally categorize Jan Švankmajer (1934). We wouldn't be making a mistake regardless of whether we described him as a Czech film director, screenwriter, animator or designer. He has worked at the Semafor Theater and at Laterna Magika. At the same time he has also made surrealist films.
One of the most famous contemporary artists is indisputably Jaroslav Róna (1957). He is one of the most outstanding figures from the Tvrdohlaví group. One of his most famous sculptures in a public space is the original statue of Franz Kafka, which is located in Prague on the historic boundary between the Old Town and the former Jewish Quarter.
One of the most original artists, who has essentially moved away from the established clichés of standard creative output, is František Skála (1956). His pictures, objects and installations demonstrate a peculiar poeticism, which is based on the "magical" manipulation of things.
In his early pictures, Petr Nikl (1960) returned to a pre-natal state. He created images of young animals, insect larvae, cocoons and hatching birds. Nikl is the author of the Czech exhibit at the EXPO exposition in the Japanese prefecture of Aichi in 2005.
The artist and photographer Veronika Bromová (1966) operates on the border between the exterior and interior. Her adapted "anatomical" photographs are well-known. In creating these, she was inspired by anatomical museum exhibits and pathology textbooks. She represented the Czech Republic at the 48th Vienna Biennale in 1999.
The best-known Czech photographer and artist of international caliber to date is without doubt Josef Sudek (1896-1976). He took his most important photographs from the 1940s onward. Besides panoramic vistas with Prague as their theme, these primarily comprise portraits and unusually lyrical still lifes, which include a cycle known as "The Window of My Studio" (Okno mého ateliéru) or a cycle on the Malá Strana cemetery (Malostranský hřbitov).
František Drtikol (1883–1961) was not only an important Czech photographer, but also a painter and philosopher. He won world renown, however, for his dramatically conceived female nudes in a decorative setting with elements of the constructivism and Art Déco of the 1920s.
The name of the photographer, theorist and publicist Jaromír Funke (1896-1945) is also associated with the inter-war avant-garde. He was one of the first on the Czech scene to introduce new values to photographic work, corresponding to the art of the period (surrealism, functionalism).
Jan Saudek (1935) is a world-renowned contemporary Czech photographer. His adapted and colored photographs that deal with the confrontation of male and female nude figures in tense erotic situations have, among other things, been exhibited at the Art Institute in Chicago (1976) and the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris (1987).
Josef Koudelka (1938) is another internationally recognized Czech photographer. Koudelka, who lives in France, has for the last twenty years devoted himself primarily to landscape photography.
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Club Class
First Class or Club passengers on AVE trains will benefit from extra touches such as access to AVE lounges for some snacks, newspapers and internet access before boarding the train.
Lounges are available at Sala Club in Alacant Términal, Albacete Los Llanos, Barcelona-Sants, Camp de Tarragona, Castellón, Córdoba Central, Lleida-Pirineus, Málaga María Zambrano, Madrid Chamartín, Madrid Puerta de Atocha, Murcia El Carmen, Sevilla Sta. Justa, Valencia Joaquín Sorolla, Valladolid Campo Grande and Zaragoza Delicias.
Any Club Class passengers who are driving to the station can also benefit from free parking when travelling on a Renfe AVE train.
Club Class passengers get 24 hours free parking for single journeys and 48 hours free parking for return journeys.
Onboard Club Class passengers will enjoy an in-seat dining service and refreshments.
Preferente Class
As well as spacious comfortable cabins, Preferente Class passengers can choose to upgrade for access to the a la carte restaurant served in-seat meal. They also will receive a Welcome drink and snack
Tourist Class
Standard Class passengers will enjoy the bar buffet car which has light refreshments and snacks as well as the AVE TV and radio service on board.


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Frequently Asked Questions
Here you will find a list of popular questions most commonly asked by our customers.
All furniture items are padded and wrapped (or banded with large rubber bands, it depends on the piece) before we ever pick it up or move it. That means that there will always be a layer of padding between your furniture and any walls, railings, or door jams that the furniture will be moved through.
Thus, by protecting the furniture, we also protect the home the furniture is being moved around in.
We protect floors that are easily damaged by laying pads in high traffic areas and spots where we will be dropping off boxes.
Bad weather happens and the majority of the time we keep moving during minor storms. All furniture items are protected (padded and wrapped/banded) before they leave your house so they dont get exposed to the elements. Usually there is not much of a walk in between the house to the truck so a little rain is rarely an issue.
If it is raining very hard we can either wait for the rain to pass or reschedule the move. It really depends on the situation.
As always, we will never move anything if you feel the environment isn't right.
We are insured. In fact, all moving companies are required by the Texas Department of Motor of Vehicles to carry insurance and offer liability for damaged or lost goods. You can go online to the Texas DMV database and enter our USDOT# to see that we are legit. Our number is 2193963. You can follow the link below to go to the database and enter our number. You will see that our status is active.
If a company is operating legally and is registered with the DMV then they automatically provide "valuation" at $.60 per pound. This means that we, and any other moving company for that matter, are liable for any items broken, lost, or damaged at $.60 per pound of the item. This type of movers liability is regulated by the TxDMV and the Texas Department of Insurance.
As for a "total loss" we are not legally liable for that (although there has never been an instance in which we have not completely covered a damaged item). You can, of course, buy transit insurance which could provide you with complete coverage on everything rather than a declared value per pound. Transit insurance is not regulated by the TxDMV or the Texas Department of Insurance so be sure to carefully read the policy and understand the coverage and deductibles.
Currently, we are not capable of providing transit insurance directly through our company. There are many trusted companies that can provide this for you if you so desire. If other moving companies are offering complete coverage of everything you are moving then this may also factor into the price difference we discussed previously (although they probably are not).
One thing to remember as well is that often your homeowner insurance policy covers about 10% of the value of your personal property. This includes coverage for breakage and theft in transit. That might be something to look into as well. Obviously, its not 100% but it's additional coverage you may not have known about.
We move things into storage all the time and there are a number of ways to protect your items. Like our website says, we do shrink wrap almost all furniture items but the shrink wrap is applied over and around our moving blankets to make sure they stay on. Shrink wrap is almost never used as a sole means of protection and definitely not for items stored long term in storage as it has a tendency to trap moisture which can damage wood furniture.
Paper pads work as well as inexpensive cloth pads. If you have some sheets, extra towels, blankets, or comforters that you don't mind using that can be an option as well (the most inexpensive one).
We can bring pads (either cloth or paper) for you and will add the cost of the items onto the final bill.
Adding multiple destinations is not an issue at all. There are no additional charges but, obviously, driving around to multiple locations will take extra time. Since we operate on a per hour basis, that means the cost will be higher. We do not stop the clock while driving from one place to another.
We would be happy to break up the move into multiple components if that is something you prefer. We do have a 2 1/2 hour minimum on all of our moves so it may be better to do it all at once or at least in large blocks.
Also, our ability to break up the job into different days depend on our availability. If you decide you would prefer to do that, let us know as soon as possible so we can work to make the dates you request available.
We offer complete packing services and all of our movers are trained and fully capable of packing everything from records and books to fine china and artwork.
Other than completely emptying the fridge there is one more step to make sure the fridge is ready for storage.
We just need to make sure that we defrost the fridge before it gets into storage or, at the very least, be sure the leave the fridge doors slightly cracked so it can dry properly and we can avoid any mold building up.
Due to liability concerns we cannot load or unload things from an attic. The flooring in most attics makes moving in them unsafe.
We only use 24 and 26 foot box trucks. Every truck is outfitted with professional moving pads, dollies, toolkits, bungies, and everything else necessary to get you from point A to point B in the same condition you left in (if not better!).
All of our trucks are equipped with a heavy duty loading ramp and a number of trucks in our fleets have lift gates as well (especially useful in certain circumstances)


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"As a Member of the Advisory Board to the prestigious Florida Association of Private Investigators, I am proud to announce that I have been honored with the designation "Life Member". FAPI is a very active and revered professional organization comprised of some of the country's best investigators and security professionals. I will continue to do my best to uphold the professional standards, integrity, and quality of this superior group of professionals and I thank them for this honor."


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In this braised cauliflower and squash penne pasta recipe, we cook the pasta and vegetables in broth rather than water to make this warming vegetarian pasta extra flavorful. The starch from the pasta and vegetables combines with the broth as it simmers and creates a silky sauce. And you can make the whole dish in just one pot, so cleanup is a breeze.
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This article was posted on The Huffington Post 9/6/11. To read it on HuffPo click on the link.
Nearly everyone agrees — the deficit is a problem and must be fixed.
Fixing this recessionary deficit will take time. Lots of time… and sacrifice. Lots of sacrifice!
There is no agreement in Congress on how deficit reduction can be fairly accomplished but, honest discourse is an absolute necessity. A few reasonable adjustments could put deficit reduction on a positive path in the short-term. There is much more involved in developing a long-term solution, but it's also easily achievable.
Short-term, seven key elements must be considered including raising taxes and closing loopholes to increase revenues. Anyone who tells you we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem, and refuses to raise taxes is either ignoring the truth or stupid.
What will it take to restore fiscal responsibility?


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I recently bought an iView 777TPCII 7" Allwinner A20 tablet running Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 and it has USB OTG support, but sadly no native joystick support! So naturally, I thought, I need to compile the necessary kernel modules to enable joysticks/gamepads. I'm no expert on compiling kernels for Android, but this method seems to work. You need to have a Linux or cygwin environment to compile your kernel. I've used VirtualBox on Windows 7 and installed Ubuntu 13.10 32-bit to setup my Linux build environment. I'm assuming you can install Linux in a virtual machine. It's fairly straight forward. After you have installed Ubuntu, you need to install the toolchain for building the kernel:
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf build-essential git u-boot-tools libncurses5-dev
Then you need to clone the linux-sunxi repository so you can build it:
git clone -b sunxi-3.4 https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi.git
After you have cloned the repository, change to the linux-sunxi directoy:
cd linux-sunxi
Then you need to setup the configuration for the A20 using this command:
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- sun7i_defconfig
Now you can configure your kernel options by running:
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- menuconfig
Proceed to building your kernel and modules
make -j4 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- uImage modules
The -j4 option runs 4 make instances at the same time. Adjust to your CPUs available.
Finally, you need to create a full module tree:
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- INSTALL_MOD_PATH=output modules_install
Git, created by Linus Torvalds, is a very high quality version control system. It was created with the task to manage the source tree of the Linux kernel. Torvalds didn't believe that pre-existing version control systems could give justice to the Linux kernel's source code given its massive size and collaborators so Torvalds created Git. If you are using other version control systems for your projects, consider reading this: http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/
This website explains the advantages in full of why Git is better than other version control systems available.
Git is free and open source and is available for all platforms: Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris, you name it
First, be sure to install git for your platform and then you can start playing around with different commands. Once you've installed git, here are a few references to get you started:
Setting Up Git
In order to setup your environment for using a remote git repository, be sure to run these commands:
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "firstname.lastname@example.com"
This command creates a public/private key pair for SSH. SSH is used by git to encrypt the connection to remote servers. When asked to where to save your public key, press enter. Then, when asked for a passphrase, leave it empty. Your screen should look like this:
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/cameron/.ssh/id_rsa):
Created directory '/home/cameron/.ssh'.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/cameron/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/cameron/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
After your public/private key have been setup, add your global user information:
$ git config --global user.name "Firstname Lastname"
$ git config --global user.email "email@example.com"
Now you are ready to clone a repository. If you run:
$ git clone firstname.lastname@example.com:test.git
A new directory will be created for the git repository, test, and all of the remote files in the repository will be downloaded into that directory.
Git Command Basics
A few common commands to git are cloning repositories, committing to repositories, pushing to repositories, and pulling from repositories. If you've worked with subversion before, "git clone" is like subversion checkout. It literally clones the remote repository in its current state to your local repository. However, "git commit" is not like subversion commit. When you commit to a git repository, you are only committing to your local repository until you push to the remote repository. Using "git push" is like subversion commit and will push your changes to the remote repository. On the first push, you need to run the command "git push origin <branch name>". This tells git to push the origin to the branch that you specify. After that first push, you can run "git push" thereafter. If you choose to switch branches later on, you simply need to run the original command and specify your origin branch. Similarly, "git pull" behaves like subversion update and pulls down changes from your remote repository into your locally cloned repository. The same applies to the first "git pull" as does the first "git push". Git needs to know which branch to pull from.
One thing about pushing and pulling is that if you are working in a team and multiple people are pushing and pulling to the remote repository, you may be required to pull before you push out your changes. Don't worry though. If you have a conflict with your changes, your code will not be overwritten. Git has a conflict resolution tool where you can choose which changes to accept. Another thing that is good practice is to always run "git status" before committing and pushing to your repository. This will allow you to confirm that you are indeed committing files that should be committed to your repository. Also, whatever shows up in a commit log will be pushed to your remote repository when you push our your changes. Be sure to only push out working code and not break the build for your team.
A few advanced commands include "git branch <branch name>" (branches the repository at its current state), "git merge -s ours <branch>" (merges a branch with current branch), and "git checkout <branch name>" (changes current working branch). Please be sure to read up on these commands so that you know how to use them correctly. In a project repository, you don't want to create unnecessary branches, merge branches incorrectly, or lose changes when switching branches. Another advanced topic is to create a .gitignore file for your repository and put all files that git should ignore into this file. Each file should be on a separate line. This can be helpful if you don't want files such as database configurations to be pushed to your remote repository.
For more information about git, be sure to read the references I listed above and also check out some books on git for a more in depth discussion.


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Dr Karen Fisher
BA/MSocSc (Waikato), PhD (ANU)
Research | Current
I am a Human Geographer interested in society-environment interactions. My research programme is organised under the general theme: environmental governance and politics of resource use. My research interests fall broadly under the following areas:
- Māori co-governance and indigenous knowledge
- Environmental governance and development
- Political economy and political ecology
- Science, knowledge and policy
I have conducted research in the Philippines focused on the sociopolitical dimensions of water governance and development with a particular interest in the role of local government in mediating the needs of local communities with national objectives. Since 2012, I have been involved in collaborative transdisciplinary research projects that focus on knowledge production for sustainability in the context of marine environments and urban water. I also conduct research using feminist and critical theories to explore knowledge production and methodologies. I am also part of the Auckland-based Puāwai Writing Collective, which performs feminist research focused on slow scholarship, care, and the neoliberal university.
Teaching | Current
My teaching reflects my interest in environmental management and governance more broadly and draws on cases from a range of different contexts within the Asia-Pacific Region, including New Zealand and Australia.
At undergraduate level I teach on GEOG324 Critical Perspectives on Sustainable Development and GEOG205(S2C) Environment and Society.
At postgraduate level I coordinate ENVMGT744 Resource Management.
Postgraduate supervision
Completed PhD students
- Barbara Hock (2018) - The role of visualisations in eliciting attitudes in sustainable forestry, and the attitudes elicited (Primary supervisor; Co-supervisor Dr Tim Payn, SCION)
- Stephen FitzHerbert (2016) - Geographies of economy-making: the articulation of Taewa Maori across Aotearoa New Zealand (Co-supervisor; Primary supervisor Dr Nick Lewis)
- Bizhan Rahnama (2016) - Negotiating Co-governance of the Waikato River: Political projects at work (Co-supervisor; Primary supervisor Dr Nick Lewis)
- Kathryn Davies (2015) - Many voices of the Manukau: participatory modelling, ecosystem services and decision making in New Zealand (Primay supervisor; Co-supervisors Dr Mark Dickson Prof. Richard Le Heron, Prof. Simon Thrush)
- Roger Baars (2015) - The Good Citizen: Citizenship Education and Youth in Singapore (Primary supervisor; Co-Supervisor Dr David Hayward)
- Claire Gregory (2013) - Enabling sustainable river futures: exploring institutional interventions (Co-supervisor; Primary supervisor Prof. Gary Brierley, Co-supervisor Prof. Richard Le Heron)
Current PhD students
- Andrew Allison - Identifying the controlling dynamics within social-ecological coastal systes (Co-supervisor; Primary supervisor Dr Mark Dickson, Co-supervisor Prof. Simon Thrush)
- Claudia Gonelli -The social construction of wind energy in China and New Zealand: Development and perceptions in the political culture context (Co-supervisor; Primary supervisor A/Prof. Hong-Key Yoon)
- Danielle Johnson - Exploring indigenous health, wellbeing and climate change adaptation in the Kaipara Catchment of Aotearoa New Zealand (Primay supervisor; co-supervisor Dr Meg Parsons)
- Victoria Jollands - Fisheries governance and food security (Co-supervisor; Primary supervisor Prof. Simon Thrush)
- Leane Makey - Integrated Catchment-Coastal Management: an ecofeminist autoethnography from the Kaipara Harbour (Primary supervisor; co-supervisor Dr Meg Parsons)
- Gabby O'Connor - Engaging Communities in Issues of Environmental Complexity through the Art-Science Nexus: The Unseen – an art, science and community project
Committees/Professional groups/Services
New Zealand Geographical Society
- Fellow
- Chair of the Auckland Branch
- Membership Officer, National Executive
eSocSci Network Co-convenor: Women and Gender Geographies Research Network
Royal Society of New Zealand, Professional Member
Institute of Australia Geographers, Member
Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)
- Parsons, M., Nalau, J., Fisher, K., & Brown, C. (2019). Disrupting path dependency: Making room for Indigenous knowledge in river management. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS, 56, 95-113. 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.03.008
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Meg Parsons
- Davies, K., Collective, P., Fisher, K., Le Heron, E., Sharp, E., & Spiers, R. (2019). Assembling disruptive practice in the neoliberal university: an ethics of care. GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES B-HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 101 (1), 33-43. 10.1080/04353684.2019.1568201
- Driver, E., Parsons, M., & Fisher, K. (2018). Technically political: The post-politics(?) of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme. GEOFORUM, 97, 253-267. 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.09.023
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Meg Parsons
- Davies, K., Fisher, K., Foley, M., Greenaway, A., Hewitt, J., Le Heron, R., ... Lundquist, C. (2018). Navigating collaborative networks and cumulative effects for Sustainable Seas. Environmental Science & Policy, 83, 22-32. 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.01.013
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Carolyn Lundquist, Judi Hewitt, Richard Le Heron
- Jollands, V., & Fisher, K. T. (2018). Don't forget the fish! Transnational collaboration in governing tuna fisheries in the Pacific. In M. C. Dawson, C. Rosin, N. Wald (Eds.) Global resource scarcity: Catalyst for conflict or cooperation? (pp. 184-202). London, UK: Routledge.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/41832
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Victoria Jollands
- Allison, A. E. F., Dickson, M. E., Fisher, K. T., & Thrush, S. F. (2018). Dilemmas of modelling and decision-making in environmental research. Environmental Modelling and Software, 99, 147-155. 10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.09.015
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/42961
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Andrew Allison, Mark Dickson, Simon Thrush
- Trowsdale, S., Golder, C., Fisher, K., & Brierley, G. (2017). Water demand management and the quest for sustainability. New Zealand Geographer, 73 (3), 192-204. 10.1111/nzg.12165
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/40550
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Sam Trowsdale, Gary Brierley
- Parsons, M., Nalau, J., & Fisher, K. (2017). Alternative perspectives on sustainability: Indigenous knowledge and methodologies. Challenges in Sustainability, 5 (1), 7-14. 10.12924/cis2017.05010007
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/39889
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Meg Parsons
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ASTON, Pa.- The Salisbury University men's soccer team went on the road to take on Neumann University in non-conference play and fell 2-1 in overtime for their first loss of the season on Saturday afternoon.
The first half featured a slow brand of soccer with neither team putting a shot on goal until Jake McDevitt struck for Neumann to put them on the board. Bill Swontek crossed the ball over to Christian Cortese who dished it to McDevitt, who finished to put the Knights up, 1-0 in the 22nd minute.
Salisbury got to work from there however.
Ryan Spadin got Salisbury's first shot on net in the 30th minute before putting himself and Leslie Umunna in a two-way tie for the team lead in goals.
Colby Fell found himself with an open shot that just missed, ringing off the post. The rebound found Spadin, who knocked it home for his third of the season to equalize the score in the 37th minute.
The Gulls closed out the opening stanza with a pair of corner kicks as they kept up the pressure following the Spadin marker.
Salisbury stayed on the front foot in the beginning of the second half. In the opening 10 minutes of the latter half, the Gulls outshot the Knights, 5-1 and started to test keeper Shane Smith.
As the Gulls kept pressing in the second half, they worked up to a 16-6 lead in shots as regulation came to an end, with the Gulls putting seven of their shots on net, to the Knight's one.
Also at the end of regulation, Salisbury held a 6-0 advantage in corner kicks.
While they dominated the stat sheet, the Gulls found themselves in the loss column for the first time this season as Cortese buried a free kick for the Knights in the first overtime period (95th minute) to sink the Gulls.
Fell led the offense in the contest with four shots, while Dolph Hegewisch and Brad Martinelli each took three.
Robert Fiackos took the loss in net, moving his record to 2-1-1, while Smith got the win between-the-pipes for Neumann with six saves on the afternoon.
The Gulls are back in action with a mid-week road match against Eastern University on Tuesday, September 20.


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As Nepalese struggle to recover from the devastation of last week's 7.9-magnitude earthquake, art therapy is helping children cope with the traumatic experience.
Children are especially vulnerable during emergencies. Over the years, art therapy has been used in disaster relief as a highly feasible means of reaching out to traumatized children and victims of natural catastrophes and war. Children put on paper the unspeakable – their fears, their emotions, their mourning. The creative process allows them to reveal their suffering, thereby relieving themselves of their psycho-emotional burden.
Sneha Shrestha, founder of Nepal's first Children's Art Museum is collecting funds to provide art therapy to children affected by the earthquake.
"We know that our role is going to be so vital over the next several years helping children cope with the disaster," Shrestha said.
Several organizations have been delivering tonnes of humanitarian supplies to Nepal as part of ongoing efforts to reach at least 1.7 million children living in areas hardest hit by the earthquake.
"The spaces we have set up in informal camps offer children a chance to have fun and continue learning when going to school is no longer an option – while providing them with psychosocial support," Rupha Joshi, an emergencies communication officer for UNICEF, said.
Children need stimulation and play on a regular basis. Child friendly spaces are widely used in emergencies as a first response to children's needs and an entry point for working with affected communities. According to the International Child Art Foundation research shows that earthquakes increase the rates of mental health problems in the communities they strike. Art therapy services were found to be instrumental in accessing young victims' internal processes and helping children be children again.
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