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The Samsung WB250F ($249.99 direct)($325.00 at Amazon) is a compact camera with a long 18x zoom lens, built-in Wi-Fi, a 14-megapixel CMOS image sensor, and a responsive touch screen. It doesn't skimp on the physical controls, so you don't have to navigate by touch, and it doesn't sacrifice wide-angle coverage in order to achieve its powerful zoom factor. We found image quality to be a little lacking, especially at higher ISO settings, and still recommend the 20x Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX30V($399.95 at Amazon) as our Editors' Choice superzoom. But if you're budget doesn't extend toward the $300 range, and you want a pocket shooter with Wi-Fi connectivity, the WB250F is worth a look.
Design and Features
The WB250F is small when you consider that its lens covers a 24-432mm (35mm equivalent) field of view. It measures 2.4 by 4.2 by 0.9 inches and weighs about 6.9 ounces. It takes many of its design cues from the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy Camera($399.95 at Amazon), especially if you happen to pick one up in white; although the lines are still similar when looking at the red, gun metal, and cobalt black versions. The WB250F is a lot smaller than the 2.8-by-5.1-by-0.75 inch, 11-ounce Galaxy Camera, though.
One of the reasons that the Galaxy Camera dwarfs the WB250F is its touch screen. The Galaxy has a huge 4.8-inch display with a 921k-dot resolution, just like you would expect to see on an Android phone. The WB250F also has a touch-screen LCD, but at 3 inches and 460k dots, it's not nearly as big or sharp. The camera's interface certainly takes some cues from Android, especially when you turn the Mode Dial to the Wi-Fi setting. There you are greeted with big touch-sensitive icons that give you direct access to the various wireless features.
The WB250F uses Samsung's latest Smart Camera Wi-Fi interface. It allows you to connect to a Wi-Fi network and upload photos and videos directly to Facebook, Picasa, YouTube, and SkyDrive. You can also transfer images directly to your smartphone via a free app for iOS and Android, or use the same phone (or tablet) as a wireless remote control—complete with a Live View feed of what the WB250F's lens is seeing. Photos can also be directly sent to your PC, shared via email, or the camera can communicate with other devices that support the Samsung AllShare Play system.
You don't get the always-on 3G/4G that you do with the Galaxy Camera, but it's easy and quick enough to transfer photos directly to your iOS or Android device for those times when you're away from Wi-Fi. The Sony HX30V also has Wi-Fi support, but it's not quite as robust—you can transfer photos to your phone or home computer, but you can't post directly to social networking sites from the camera. The HX30V does have a sharper 921k-dot LCD, although it doesn't support touch input, it has a built-in GPS—which the WB250F lacks.
There are a number of physical controls packed into the WB250F's small frame, including a top-mounted mode dial, Power button, Direct Link Wi-Fi button, and a mechanical release that raises the pop-up flash. On the rear you'll find a Movie button, as well as controls for the self timer and drive mode, macro shooting, and flash output. There are Menu and Back buttons if you prefer not to use touch input, and you get the typical Play and Delete buttons. Exposure Compensation, which lets you quickly adjust the brightness of your photos, is accessible via the software menu. If it's dark and you need to use the flash, you can tilt it back to bounce its output off of a ceiling for softer, even illumination—this is a feature that you don't often see in compact cameras.
Performance and Conclusions
The WB250F starts and shoots in about 1.6 seconds and records a very reasonable 0.2-second shutter lag. It can fire off a burst of six shots at 7.1 frames per second, but requires a long 11.3-second recovery time after a full burst. During that interim you can't take a photo. There's also a 3fps burst mode, but it's also limited to six shots and requires the same recovery time. Speed tests were performed using a SanDisk 95MBps memory card. The Canon PowerShot SX260 HS is a bit slower to start and shoot at 1.8 seconds, and matches the 0.2-second shutter lag. It doesn't offer a high speed burst mode like the WB250F, but it can fire continuously at 2 frames per second.
I used Imatest to check image sharpness. We use a center-weighted score of 1,800 lines per picture height to mark a sharp photo. The WB250F did just better than that, recording 1,822 lines. But photos are noticeably soft towards the edges of the frame—the outer two columns of our tightly framed 9-column test chart showed a good deal of softness and color fringing when the camera was set to 24mm. This isn't the case with either the Canon SX260 HS or the Sony HX30V; both cameras score higher on the test and, although they aren't extremely sharp at the edges of the frame, do a better job than the WB250F.
In terms of noise, Imatest tells us that the WB250F keeps it below 1.5 percent through its top ISO setting of 3200. Noise can make a photo appear grainy, and can also hurt image detail. Many compact cameras keep grain low by applying digital noise reduction, which delivers a better score in Imatest at the cost of photo quality. It's clear that the WB250F is applying this type of noise reduction—and doing it aggressively. Noise is higher at ISO 200 than it is at ISO 400, and higher at ISO 400 than at ISO 800; Samsung is trading detail for a cleaner image with this image processing approach. Detail starts to vanish at ISO 800, and is basically gone at ISO 1600. Both the Sony HX30V and Canon SX260 HS keep noise below 1.5 percent through a comparatively meager ISO 800, but do a much better job resolving detail at that setting. They also hold an edge at ISO 1600, although none of the cameras are outstanding at that high sensitivity setting.
Video is recorded in MP4 format at 1080p30 or 720p30 quality. The footage looks quite good, and the camera can zoom and focus when recording. And the sound of the lens zooming is not audible on the audio track. There's a micro USB port, which doubles as a power input for the included AC adapter; like many other recent compact cameras, a dedicated external battery charger is not included. You won't find an HDMI port for HDTV connectivity. Standard SD, SHDC, and SDXC memory cards are supported.
The Samsung WB250F squeezes a lot of functionality into a compact camera, its Wi-Fi implementation is impressive, and the price is very reasonable. But you'll get better image quality and GPS from our Editors' Choice superzoom, the Sony HX30V, at the expense of a less refined Wi-Fi experience. That camera debuted at $420, but is now selling for around $300, only $50 more than the WB250F. If bells and whistles aren't a major concern, the 20x Canon SX260 HS delivers impressive images, and is now selling for a little bit less than the Samsung. And, if you can't live without always-on Internet connectivity, the Samsung Galaxy Camera is available with AT&T and Verizon data service in the U.S. It's much more expensive at $500, and you'll have to use a touch screen to control shooting settings.
The Samsung WB250F has a long 18x zoom lens and a top-notch Wi-Fi implementation, but image quality isn't the best we've seen in its class.
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In this review, we are asking anyone involved or interested in the adult care home sector to let us know their views and experiences on how current enforcement of regulation in this sector is working. This is part of an initiative to drive up standards and enable providers to achieve the highest standards of care, while removing confusing bureaucratic requirements that divert carers from meeting the needs of residents.
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'Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home -- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person... Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.' Eleanor Roosevelt, 1958
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Monday 26 November 2012
Improving Enforcement in Adult Care Homes
Another week, another consultation. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (DBIS) are holding a review of regulatory enforcement in the adult social care sector. The website says:
Pigs in clover
I am happy as a pig in clover this morning, as those lovely folks at Emerald Journals let me have a peek at the latest edition of The Journal of Adult Protection, which is entirely given over to discussing the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA).
Friday 23 November 2012
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Tuesday 13 November 2012
Liberty call for overarching inquiry into the adequacy of safeguards under the Mental Capacity Act 2005
A while back I had a little whinge about how few disability and human rights NGO's were campaigning about the paucity of safeguards under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) and the shocking problems with the deprivation of liberty safeguards (DOLS) in particular. Behind the scenes, I think there is growing concern about the MCA and the risk of unchecked decision making powers it affords under the 'general authority' (now called the 'general defence'). I only just spotted this, so apologies for the delayed response, but Liberty have written to the Joint Committee on Human Rights and called upon them to open an 'overarching inquiry' into the MCA - and in particular to its paucity of safeguards. They have also drawn attention to the direction of travel of DOLS case law, and expressed concern at the narrowing of the definition of deprivation of liberty. I fervently hope that the JCHR will consider taking up this call, and would encourage other individuals and organisations who are concerned about the inadequacy of safeguards for decisions made under the MCA and the serious problems with the DoLS to consider writing letters in support of Liberty's proposal.
Monday 12 November 2012
We were right to be worried about Worcestershire
I'm afraid this is a rather short, but depressing, post to bring to your attention the decision of Worcestershire County Council to pass its maximum expenditure policy (MEP). I wrote about the policy previously here, the grass roots Spartacus campaign produced a report on the proposal called Past Caring, available here. Following the publication of Past Caring Worcestershire decided to extend the consultation, and information which the report criticised Worcestershire for not putting on the consultation website was subsequently added.* Worcestershire's response to Past Caring does not address the concerns about human rights at all, although it's recent cabinet documents (here) state that they see no conflict with Article 8 (Article 5 is simply not discussed). The response also says that the Council will provide more details on what 'exceptional circumstances' it will depart from the policy in, but I can't see anything on the consultation portal which mentions this. I've tried to find this policy for older adults online elsewhere on their website, but with no success, so we're still none the wiser as to what kinds of exceptional circumstances WCC might increase expenditure above the value of a residential care placement. In any case, this information was not presented as part of the consultation.
Friday 9 November 2012
The Great Escape (a schematic)
Greetings from deepest, darkest, thesis land. I am in the thick of "writing up", and barely have time to get dressed let alone write a blog post. But here is small offering in lieu of a proper post - an attempt to schematise how you might try to get out of detention using Schedule A1 of the Mental Capacity Act, otherwise known as the dreaded DOLS (Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards). It includes a few other regulations and bits and bobs that tie up some (but not all) of the loose ends in the Great Escape. Obviously my reasons for posting it here are entirely selfish - this figure (or a jiggled around version of it) will be going in the thesis as an appendix, so if you spot any mistakes please let me know! You can download the pdf from here.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A lawyer targeted in an investigation of the settlement program for compensating victims of BP's 2010 Gulf oil spill has asked a federal judge to disqualify former FBI director Louis Freeh from reviewing and acting on any allegations involving the attorney.
In a court filing Wednesday, attorney Jon Andry argues that Freeh can't be impartial because he and his firms have "direct financial and legal alliances" with two of the law firms representing BP.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier appointed Freeh last year to investigate alleged misconduct by Lionel Sutton III, a lawyer who worked on the staff of court-appointed claims administrator Patrick Juneau.
In September, Freeh issued a report that accused Andry and another lawyer, Glen Lerner, of using Sutton's position in the settlement program to benefit their clients' claims. In return, Freeh's report said, Sutton received more than $40,000 in fees for referring a claimant to Andry and Lerner's law firm before joining Juneau's staff.
In a follow-up report earlier this month, Freeh concluded that the claimant, Casey Thonn, was awarded more than $357,000 based on fraudulent information. He recommended that Barbier rescind the award and order any lawyer who profited from it to pay restitution.
Before his appointment by Barbier, Freeh disclosed that he is a partner at a law firm that is working on an unrelated case with lawyers for Kirkland & Ellis, a firm that represents BP in spill-related civil litigation.
Freeh is a partner and chairman of the executive committee of Pepper Hamilton LLP, a law firm that also owns his consulting company, Freeh Group International Solutions. Andry's lawyers said Pepper Hamilton is working with Kirkland & Ellis on class-action litigation over the diabetes drug Avandia.
Andry's lawyers started questioning Freeh's impartiality late last year, arguing they need more information about Freeh's business relationships to determine whether to seek his disqualification. At the time, Freeh said in a statement that Andry's lawyers' "belated and rambling motion to recuse" him "is without merit in law and fact."
In a letter to Barbier earlier this month, Freeh disclosed that Williams & Connolly — another law firm representing BP — also represents a client that has hired Freeh's consulting firm to work on civil litigation unrelated to BP.
"If Freeh lives by the Code he wants to enforce on others, he should recuse himself," Andry's lawyers wrote Wednesday. "His business connections to BP's attorneys meet the requirement of the 'appearance of impropriety.'"
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Reading Group Guide
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The Moon in the Mango Tree
1. Barbara Perkins has trained for years to sing grand opera. A former suffragette, she's beautiful, talented, and smart. Twice during The Moon in the Mango Tree --- at the beginning and the end --- Barbara is forced to choose between pursuing a singing career and her love for Harvey. What factors do you think most influence her decision in each case?
2. Barbara travels to Siam with Harvey in 1919 and arrives at the mission near the ancient walled city of Nan, wary but optimistic. Immediately she clashes with Amalie and Emory Breeden. Reverend Breeden tells her that it is "fear, not joy, that leads us." How does this perspective influence Barbara? How does Joshua Smithers argue against this view of Christianity with the Potter's Tale in chapter 19?
3. Barbara visits the deserted Buddhist temple Wat Phumin despite warnings from the missionaries. There she meets an elderly monk who describes life as a rainbow. What does he mean by that? How does this contrast with Barbara's view of life? with the Siam mission's view of life? What does Harvey's reaction when he learns of her visit to the temple reveal about his relationship with Barbara?
4. What does Barbara mean when she says that her father was her "listener"? Do you have a listener in your life?
5. During the monsoon, Harvey leaves Barbara to tend a village ravaged by jungle fever. Barbara's feelings of abandonment lead to resentment and simmering anger. If she had learned what happened in the village at this point in the story, how do you think that might have changed the course of Barbara's life?
6. What does Joshua Smithers mean when he warns Barbara that she must define what she means by the word "religious" before she rejects it.
7. Toward the end of Part I, seeking comfort, Barbara compares Christian and Buddhist thought and comes to a startling conclusion. What conclusion does she reach? How does this change her own view of the mission at Nan and her own view of life?
8. Stars are mentioned several times throughout the book. What is the significance of this statement by Barbara in chapter 21: "False stars? That too?"
9. When, in 1926, Harvey and Barbara are asked to return to Siam, to Bangkok, she agrees to go, but resolves that things will be different this time. What does she mean by her statement that she was riding a glimmering chariot and forgot altogether the sun god's warning: "Keep to the middle course"?
10. On her way to Rome in Chapter 29, Barbara concludes that for Harvey, duty and his work will always come first. Do you believe Harvey feels this way? Why did Barbara feel like a hatchling that's just spotted the first crack in the shell?
11. In Rome, her new friend, Ted Jordan, tells her of stallion races that the Romans held thousands of years ago in Piazza Navonne. The winner's head was lopped off at the finish line, he says, just at the moment of triumph. Barbara comments that the race was won, and we only remember the winners. The others are dust, gone and forgotten. What does she mean by that and how does it apply to her own life at that moment?
12. In Lausanne, Barbara finds herself crying as she watches her daughters sleep at night. What is the conflict that she's facing? What does she mean when she muses that, "It is not a matter of love.... True love requires strength, not weakness as a partner."
13. During one of her singing lessons in Rome, the Maestro says to Barbara: "Free the music. It is inside of you. Let it flow from within. You are the instrument." When faced with the choice between Harvey and the new life that Rome offers, Barbara thinks of these words. What do they mean to her as she makes this final choice?
14. Many women today still struggle with the excruciating choice that Barbara was forced to make between family and a career. Do you believe that women today are able to give 100 percent to both? Do women have to choose between the two, or do you think there's a way to compromise? What do you think of Barbara's belief that when you choose between two things you love, one of them is lost? Have you ever had to make that choice?
15. The priest in Rome tells Barbara that Harvey's work in Siam was no abstract ideal. What did he mean by that? He reminded Barbara of the words of the Apostle, Paul…of faith, hope, and love, the greatest of these is love. What do you think Paul means by these words --- wouldn't it seem that faith would hold the higher value to the apostle?


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TRUMBULL, Conn., June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Oce, a Canon Group company and an international leader in digital document management, announces the new Oce JetStream® 4300 printing system, further extending the Oce continuous feed inkjet portfolio. The Oce JetStream 4300 press is the high-speed workhorse of the Oce JetStream Wide series, giving the print provider new economies of scale and helping improve profitability.
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Higher productivity
The new Oce JetStream 4300 inkjet press is a 656 fpm full-color production press with a 30" wide paper transport and therefore is an ideal solution for book, magazine, newspaper and transaction printing. Trade books, for example in the 6" x 9" format, can be printed 4-up, producing up to 1800 256-page books per hour. This range of productivity drives down the cost per book or newspaper produced, thereby helping increase the economies of scale in favor of the print provider.
Based on field-proven Oce technologies
With the experience gained from over 300 inkjet presses ordered and installed in the market, Oce continually improves its technology to ensure maximum productivity. In addition, the company aims at reducing the time required for maintenance due to the ingenious simplification of several mechanical processes. For example, the automated head cleaning unit with fewer moving components is just one of the several improvements that increases stability and promotes higher productivity.
Industry-proven Oce DigiDot® inkjet technology generates continuous high quality printing with 1200 dpi perceived image quality at top speed with either dye or pigment-based ink.
"The Oce JetStream 4300 press opens up a whole new range of business opportunities," said Scott Robertz, Oce product marketing manager, Production Printing Systems division of Oce North America. "Never before has it been so attractive for book printers to move short and medium run lengths from offset to digital production. This press also introduces the opportunity to digitally print broadsheet newspapers in small runs for localized production."
New opportunities also extend to direct mail, commercial applications, and transactional applications according to Kris Albee, Oce product marketing director. "Commercial applications and direct mail print service providers can more effectively meet the challenge of tight production windows and also improve time to market delivery."
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Oce PRISMAproduction® Software Suite, a leading output management system solution for digital web-fed production presses, coupled with the unrivaled performance of the Oce SRA® MP controller, drives full-color variable data at an uninterrupted production speed of 656 fpm on a 30" wide web. Oce, a charter member of the AFP Color Consortium, supports the most recent AFP IS/3 standards. The SRA MP controller, processing the IPDS datastream, drives the press at full speed with correct and consistent color reproduction for transactional and direct mail applications.
A compelling feature for the book and newspaper printing industry is the support of the native PDF (Adobe® PDF Print Engine 2.5) format that is ripped directly on the press controller, eliminating the costly and time-consuming intermediate process. Finally, the PCL 6 datastream is also supported by the Oce SRA MP controller.
First implementations are taking place
The strategic alliance between Oce and manroland web systems has already led to the initiation of several projects, one of these being the implementation of two Oce JetStream 4300 presses at Rivet Presse Edition in France for the production of national and regional newspapers. The manroland® newspaper folder and finishing device will be integrated in line with the Oce JetStream 4300 press and can produce up to 40,000 newspapers in variable formats in five hours.
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Oce is one of the leading providers of document management and printing for professionals. The Oce offering includes office printing and copying systems, high speed digital production presses and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and color display graphics. Oce is also a foremost supplier of document management outsourcing. Many of the Fortune Global 500 companies and leading commercial printers are Oce customers. The company was founded in 1877. With headquarters in Venlo, The Netherlands, Oce is active in over 100 countries and employs more than 20,000 people worldwide. Oce North America is headquartered in Trumbull, CT, with additional business units in Chicago, IL and Boca Raton, FL. For more information visit www.oce.com.
Oce and Canon: Stronger together
In 2010 Oce joined the Canon Group of companies with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, to create the global leader in the printing industry. Canon develops, manufactures and markets a growing line-up of copying machines, printers, cameras, optical and other products that meet a diverse range of customer needs. The Canon Group comprises over 198,000 employees worldwide. Global net sales in 2011 totaled USD 45.6 billion. Visit the Canon Inc. website at www.canon.com.
About Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions. With more than $45 billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), ranks fourth overall in patent holdings in the U.S. in 2010* and is one of Fortune Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies in 2011. Canon U.S.A. is committed to the highest levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 percent U.S.-based consumer service and support for all of the products it distributes. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/rss.
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As we push through the garden gate of the old homestead, we are surprised at how much smaller things are than we remembered them, and how much work needs to be done. -The Hummer-
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Just When We Think We Are Done
I felt like the sewer who had thought she was able to lean back after her afghan was crocheted and relax. I thought most of the work on my Hughes family was done. I was down to figuring out when and from where they came from the United States. Not so, today as I was trying to find a living Hughes from that line, I came across research that conflicts with mine. That tells me I need to review and reconsider as well as research any new material that has come to light since I last worked on this line. I will have to make time to go the Clayton Genealogy Library in Houston to do some serious book reading and researching. (Not that I have to have my arm twisted or anything.) I love going there, now I have to.
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text: Pesticide Action Network Updates Service (PANUPS) Resource Pointer #349 (Pesticide Impacts and Policy Change) For copies of the following resources, please contact the appropriate publishers or organizations directly. *Northern Lights Against POPs: Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic, 2003* David Leonard Downey and Terry Fenge (editors). An extensive examination of the development of the Stockholm Convention, a legally binding agreement among 111 nations to limit or eliminate pesticide emissions and other products of industrial pollution. Presents environmental and health impacts of Persistent Organic Pesticide (POP) use, especially those affecting the Artic environment and its indigenous inhabitants. Also addresses the scientific and advocacy work supporting the Stockholm Convention. 347 pages. US $24.95. Contact McGill-Queen's University Press, 3430 McTavish Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1X9, Canada; phone (514) 398-3750; fax (514) 398-4333; email email@example.com; Web site http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/. *Pesticides: Problems, Improvements, and Alternatives, 2003* F. Den Hond, P. Groenewegen, and N.M. Van Staalen (editors). A compilation of proposed strategies and theories to reduce adverse environmental impacts of pesticides within conventional agricultural models. Presents academic, institutional, non-profit, and policy think tank perspectives. Includes a background on pesticide development and use, regulatory science, biotechnology, organic farming, food industry initiatives. Discusses recent technological developments in agriculture and policy issues. 256 pages. US $128.99. Contact Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148; phone (781) 388-8200; fax (781) 388-8210; email firstname.lastname@example.com; Web site http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/. *Avian Effects Assessment: A Framework for Contaminants Studies, 2001* Andy Hart, et al. (editors), The Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC). Presents the results of a September, 1999 workshop addressing procedures to determine pesticide impacts on birds and potential implications for policy development and risk assessment. Includes six hypothetical case studies for pesticide applications. 193 pages. US $30 for members, students, and nonprofits and $50 for non-members. Contact SETAC North America, 1010 North 12th Avenue, Pensacola, FL 32501-3367; phone (850) 469-1500; fax (850) 469-9778; email email@example.com; Web site http://www.setac.org/. *Organophosphates and Health, 2001* Lakshman Karalliedde, Stanly Feldman, John Henry, and Timothy Marrs (editors). A compilation of toxicity research from institutional and academic settings. Addresses health impacts of organophosphate insecticides in developing countries and related social, economic, environmental, and agricultural impacts. 485 pages. US $79. Contact Imperial College Press, 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9HE, UK; phone (44 02 07) 836-0888; fax (44 02 07) 836-2020; email firstname.lastname@example.com; Web site http://www.icpress.co.uk/. *Impacts of Low-Dose, High-Potency Herbicides on Nontarget and Unintended Plant Species, 2001* Susan A. Ferenc (editor), SETAC. Presents methods to detect pesticide impacts on sensitive plants within and beyond the intended range of application and urges the development of improved methods. Discusses application of this research to inform risk assessment and policy related to pesticide drift. 177 pages. US $24 for members, students, and nonprofits and $50 for non-members. Contact SETAC North America, 1010 North 12th Avenue, Pensacola, FL 32501-3367; phone (850) 469-1500; fax (850) 469-9778; email firstname.lastname@example.com; Web site http://www.setac.org/. We encourage those interested in having resources listed in the PANUPS Resource Pointer to send review copies of publications, videos or other resources to our office. PANUPS is a weekly email news service providing resource guides and reporting on pesticide issues that don't always get coverage by the mainstream media. It's produced by Pesticide Action Network North America, a non-profit and non-governmental organization working to advance sustainable alternatives to pesticides worldwide. You can join our efforts! We gladly accept donations for our work and all contributions are tax deductible in the United States. Visit http://www.panna.org/donate. |


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Agriculture Department clearly states in article "Rescue groups are not authorized to impound animals unless they are contracted by a government agency in Georgia to provide Animal Control Services.
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Laurens County Animal Control does not accept Owner Relinquishes. You will need to contact rescues.
Dogs that are not marked such as collar or tag are held for five days, dogs that have collar or tag are held for ten days. Laurens County Animal Control scans all animals for micro-chip.
Laurens County Animal Control DOES NOT euthanize any animals. All Euthanasia is done by a licensed professional. Each dog is held between 5-10 days if not longer. We strive to find the rightful owner and if no owner is found, ANY Georgia licensed rescue may pull from our facility..
We are two different entities. Dublin Laurens Humane Society does not have a phone.
Our kennel is open for ANY STATE LICENSED RESCUE to pull from. Laurens County Animal Control kennel is not open to the public and does not have an adoption policy. All adoptions are through rescues. If you are intrested in any dog in our facility, reach out to any Georgia Licensed Rescue, and have them pull from us, then you may adopt from said rescue.
Laurens County Animal Control will not check personally owned traps. It will be the responsibility of the person(s) that set trap because they assume liability for animal.
Call our office Monday -- Friday between 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. or leave a voice mail after hours and we will return all calls next business day. 478-277-2943
No. Laurens County Animal Control will only accept animals of a Laurens County resident.
Only in an emergency. All wildlife related calls are forwarded to the Department of Natural Resources 229-426-5267.
It would be better if the animal is left alone for your safety and theirs. It is also illegal. Rescues are not able to pick up animals unless authorized. (Animal Protocol Rule) However if picked up Laurens County Animal Control must be contacted as soon as possible in attempt to avoid any legal matters that may occur. You may also check out our Stray Hold policy.
A Stray Hold is when Laurens County Animal Control permits aLaurens County citizen to hold or foster an animal for a period of 10 days in order to find the animals' owner. Some restrictions may apply.
Animal Control does not board animals for the public. Onlystate licensed boarders, groomers and vets that office that service. We only quarantinebite cases as well as strays.
No. Only animals tested are the ones that have bitten or blood/saliva transfer to a pet or person. The animal is turned over to the Laurens County Health Department / Environmental Division.
Yes, a lot of restrictions apply. Environmental Division as well as Laurens County Animal Control will supervise.
Contact Laurens County Animal Control, send a picture,advertise in local couriers and on social media sites as well all local vets.Report to Sheriffs' office if possible stolen.
Yes. Agriculture Department issues license to qualified people. Rescues can only receive from other rescues or owner surrenders. It is illegal to pick up animals at random and rescue/foster without going through the proper channels. Fosters generally work under the rescues license.
Magistrate Court of Laurens County with the Honorable Judge Colby Crabb presiding, located at Laurens County Courthouse Downtown Dublin.
Seek medical attention first. Laurens County Animal Controlneeds to be contacted as well as Laurens County Health Department/EnvironmentalDivision. Animal needs to be held for 10 days and checked to see if it iscurrent or at least had a rabies shot. Description of animal, location and owner of animal will be needed.
Rabies is the only one required by law and may only be givenby a licensed veterinarian.
Call Department of Agriculture, you will need to go online and follow directions.
Yes. Laurens County Animal Control will check welfare as well as livestock at large. Most livestock calls will need to be directed to Agriculture Department http://agr.georgia.gov/ Laurens County Animal Control is not equipped to transport or hold some livestock. We use "livestockhandlers" much like our sheriffs' office uses wrecker services. Contact us ifinterested in ( livestock handling ) * restrictions may apply


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Jonathan Chait offers a cutting reply to Sally Quinn's now almost universally derided column on the decline of the Washington dinner party:
It's certainly true that the Washington power structure no longer exists in quite the same way it once did, identifiable by its attendance at fashionable Georgetown dinner parties. But it's also probably true that if such an identifiable elite did exist, they probably — to be perfectly brutal about it — wouldn't be having dinner at Sally Quinn's home all the time. People who make their social engagements solely on the basis of career advancement aren't going to spend that much time currying favor with a man who retired two decades ago from the executive editorship of a newspaper that no longer carries the same cachet.
As Mrs. Chait has been known to say, "Ow, that's mean!"
Let's stipulate that the fate of the Republic does not turn on the state of Sally Quinn's social life. Stipulate too that there is something off-putting about the combination of entitlement and cluelessness that shoots through Quinn's essay. OK? OK.
That said:
The woman is perceiving something true. Over half a human lifetime, Washington has shifted from a city whose status hierarchy was dominated by official rank to one whose status hierarchy is determined almost entirely by money. A US senator is a smaller deal in the Washington of 2012 than his or her predecessor of 1972; a visiting billionaire a much bigger deal. Not that the senator has sunk to zero; not that the billionaire would not have been important in 1972; but the ratios have changed—and changed really quite dramatically. Sally Quinn may not be the most sympathetic observer of the trend, but she is surely one of the most authoritative. You don't have to like her piece to hear her message.


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Titan Portable Toilet Rentals is the premier choice for porta potty rental service in Prescott, AZ. We specialize in providing high-quality and reliable portable toilet rentals for all types of events and construction projects. Our clean and well-maintained porta potties are designed to offer comfort and convenience to all users. With our prompt delivery and exceptional customer service, we ensure a seamless experience for our clients. Whether you're hosting a wedding, organizing a festival, or managing a construction site, choose Titan Portable Toilet Rentals for all your portable toilet rental needs in Prescott, AZ.
Prescott ( PRESS-kət) is a city in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2020 Census, the city's population was 45,827. The city is the county seat of Yavapai County.In 1864, Prescott was designated as the capital of the Arizona Territory, replacing the temporary capital of Fort Whipple. The Territorial Capital was moved to Tucson in 1867. Prescott again became the Territorial Capital in 1877, until Phoenix became the capital in 1889.
Creekside of Prescott, Granville, Juniper Heights, Mingus West, Pinon Oaks Subdivision, Prescott Highlands, Pronghorn Ranch, Victorian Estates, Viewpoint, Yavapai Hills


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Linux chief challenges Microsoft to pony up on patents
No-fly-zone for operating systems
Microsoft's earned the respect of certain sections of the open-source community for its engineering work around open-source and Linux.
Specifically, its support for MySQL, PHP and JBoss on Windows and its involvement with Eclipse and Apache have been welcomed by developers and various community leaders in and around these technologies and projects.
Yet, there remain many more skeptical and even suspicious of Microsoft and its motives, especially when it comes to statements and legal actions on patents.
When it comes to winning over these doubters, Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin - who welcomed Microsoft's work with Linux and criticized its stance on patents - thinks there's one big step Microsoft should take.
Sign a patent license agreement for Windows with the Open Invention Network (OIN). This would see Microsoft forfeit its right to prosecute those involved in open-source and Linux over claimed violations of its patents in their software.
Zemlin told The Reg during a recent interview such an agreement would create a "slew" of goodwill, and: "Send a message to the developer community that cares about this that Microsoft is a company that will compete on how will they innovate and not on a patent portfolio."
Zemlin spoke after Microsoft released thousands of lines of code under the GPL, code designed to improve performance and management of Linux running inside Microsoft's Hyper-V.
It later turned out a Microsoft Hyper-V driver had been in violation of the GPL, although Microsoft denied this was why it decided to release the code - to head off a potential legal action.
Zemlin, with Linux daddy Linus Torvalds, welcomed the code no matter what the reason. Zemlin at the time called it "good behavior we want to encourage" and Torvalds called on people to get over their disease of hating Microsoft.
Zemlin, though, thinks Microsoft can and should go further by ending any claim to patents in Windows that may or may not be present in Linux.
"They should take a patent license out with the OIN - put their money where their mouth is to make sure patents don't get in the way of operating systems, make operating systems a no fly zone when it comes to patents," Zemlin said. "That sends a clear message Linux is solid, and we validate this collective development model and we want to interoperate."
OIN, launched in 2005, buys and holds patents so they are made safe to use in Linux. The kind of patent agreement Zemlin was talking about is typically called a defensive patent, and is registered to provide protection from litigation and not to enforce.
OIN members include Google, IBM, NEC, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony
Separately, the group's chief executive Keith Bergelt has predicted companies renowned for being patent factories would become more selective in the patents they obtain with an anticipated increase in defensive patents. Speaking at the recent O'Reilly Open-Source Conference (OSCON), Bergelt said IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, Motorola, Nokia and Philips would move from sheer numbers of patents to focus more on quality.
"Defensive publications are going to be done contemporaneously. It's cheaper, you get just as much protection and don't get to develop a family over three to five years. Defensive publications are being promoted by us and others in the open-source community," he said.
He noted, too, companies considered patent trolls - those who simply buy up patents - are now actually offloading their patents as it's proved hard to make money from them.
Rather than going soft, though, it seems the trolls are selling patents because their investors expect a return on investment and patents they've purchased have failed to make the money expected. When it comes to Linux, Bergelt said most of the patents they'd bought do not affect the core but "behaviors that affect the way Linux works."
He cited Intellectual Ventures, who he said had become a "net seller" of partners in the last six months and is now culling its portfolio. Intellectual Ventures was founded by Microsoft's former chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold.
An Intellectual Ventures spokesperson told The Reg: "As part of our portfolio management responsibilities, we do regularly sort through our inventions to ensure the assets we hold apply to our primary areas of business." ®


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These are a few bits of my uni submission back in June for my course at LCC. You can see more on my website.
The first was a exploration of six typefaces, analysing their anatomy. The next was a book of my research from my sketchbooks, designed to be almost like an annual report I suppose. Lastly are a few invitations I designed for a fictional event.


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Venus Global Geography
This is a map of the surface of Venus (turned sideways!). Lowlands in the map are similar to an ocean bottom, and highlands resemble continents.
As can be seen in the image, the surface of Venus consists of 2 large continents with mountain ranges, and a few large islands. There are many craters, mixed with evidence that liquid once flowed.
There is no continental drift as is seen on Earth. Nevertheless, the surface of Venus is very unusual and shows many signs of a surface which is in motion.
Compare this active surface with that of Earth, Mars, or Europa.


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[Andy] had a fairly large problem on his hands. For the last 15 years, he's been collecting DVDs, and since he began, he's run out of space on his shelves for these miraculous plastic discs. Everything's going to the cloud now, so he decided to build a media server, replete with rips of all his DVDs. As anyone who has ever tried to rip a movie knows, this can be a very long and tedious process. His solution to this should be something near and dear to all of us – he decided to build a robot to rip all his DVDs automatically.
With a brand new 3D printer, [Andy] set to work on designing Jack the Ripper Bot. The design has two trays mounted to a standard computer DVD drive, an 'in' tray and an 'out' tray. The frame of the machine bolts directly to the drive, and the entire contraption is driven by only three standard hobby servos.
The robot is driven by a Raspberry Pi, but the ripping actually takes place on an old laptop. [Andy] says it takes about an hour and a quarter to rip a DVD, so a full 'in' tray of 24 discs means about 28 hours of ripping time. Feeding the machine once a day is a lot better than returning to the computer every hour or so, we think.
All the STLs for the printed parts and the software for the Raspi and computer are up on [Andy]'s github, should anyone want to upgrade this to a Blu Ray ripper.
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Learn how to use free tools to publish an e-book, and then list and sell your e-books in the world's largest online bookstores.
E-books are blazing through the publishing world like a speeding comet, with thousands of previously undiscovered authors as the bright glowing lights in its tail. Independent—indie—authors are becoming overnight sensations in the New York Times and USA Today, on Amazon, and well, everywhere e-books are sold. In this course, you'll see how you can join their ranks by learning how to publish and sell your own e-book.
It's no secret that e-books now regularly outsell traditionally published books in online bookstores around the world. This is great news for authors, who no longer need a large budget to self-publish and promote their books. In fact, in this course, you'll learn step by step how to use free tools to turn your manuscript into a professionally published e-book ready for distribution. Or, if you don't consider yourself a "techie," this course will give you the information you need to select the right publishing services to help you as you convert your manuscript so you're ready to sell it as an e-book.
Whether you're a first-timer or have already put out an e-book or two, this course puts you inside the publishing industry, sharing the tricks of the trade used by traditional publishers to make sure their books are in the best position to be found by readers. You'll learn how to target your reading audience, select bookstores, get your book distributed around the world, and even have your book added to your local library's virtual shelves. By the end of this course, you can have your publishing dreams come true by selling an e-book. Make it happen today!
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Hi all,
This year one of my goals is to write a book such as a guide to teach recommender systems for programmers. I know there are several textbooks that focus on providing a theorical foundation for recommender systems, and as result, may seem difficult to understand. For programmers that want to learn how to start to use or understand the components of a recommender system, this book is what they are looking for.
This guide follows a learn-by-doing approach. Therefore, I will use theory and apply it through the exercises and experiment with Python code. I hope when you complete the book you will be able to understand how to build a recommender system and give you the first steps to apply them at your own systems. The textbook is laid out as a series of small steps that will guide you for undestanding the recommender system techniques.
This book is available for download for free under a Creative Commons license. This project is also leaded by my colleague Ricardo Caspirro, who will review and translate it to portuguese language.
Below I provide the table of contents of the book.
Guide to Recommender Systems |
The link for the online guide is available here.
Table of Contents
Chapter 01: Introduction to Recommender Systems
Finding out what recommender system is and what problems it solves. And a fast review of what you will be able to do when you finish this book.
Chapter 02: Collaborative Filtering
This chapter focus on how you can use the state-of-the-art techniques of collaborative filtering that makes automatic predictions (filtering) about the interests of a user by collecting preferences or taste information from similar users (user-based) or similar items( item-based).
Chapter 03: Content Based Filtering
Recommender systems that suggest an item to a user based upon a description of the item and a profile of the user's interests. Although thedetails of various systems differ, content-based recommendation systems share in common a means for describing the items that may be recommended, a means for creating a profile of the user that describes the types of items the user likes, and a means of comparing items to the user profile to determine what to recommend.
Chapter 04: Hybrid Based Filtering
This chapter will focus how to pick the best features of collaborative and of content and mix them to build hybrid recommender systems. It will present the current work on this field and an example of how it works and how you can decide the best strategy to select.
Chapter 05: Model - Based Recommenders
Techniques that will include memory-based techniques or data mining techniques such as association analysis, symbolic data analysis and classification/clustering techniques will be covered in this chapter.
Chapter 06: Evaluation of Recommender Systems
This chapter starts with a short description on how to evaluate the recommender systems and the commonly used metrics for compare the recommender algorithms in the development and deployment stages.
Chapter 07: Recommender Systems and Distributed-Computing
Recommender Systems suffer with sparse matrices where the user x items preferences are sparsed (lots of missing values - preferences). It results on large datasets with millions of items, users and preferences. For this task it is considered to use distributed computing techniques such as map-reduce to distribute the recommendations. This chapter will cover those topics.
Chapter 08: Study Case
It will present a study case of a mobile recommender system for recommend users to another users using several techniques showed above and how we tested and deployed it.
Chapter 09: Recommender Systems the Next Generation
This chapter brings the next generation of recommender systems, describing what the research is going after in several fields such as ubiquity, semmantics, etc.
Chapter 10: Meeting Python-RecSys Framework
It will present the Python-RecSys framework for building recommender systems with Python in a easy way. It will describe how to build or test already implemented techniques or develop new ones and deploy them with frameworks Web and REST.
This book is under development, please let me know if there are any suggestions or corrections to make over one of those chapters. If you see that there is a topic that needs an extra chapter or a topic that I am missing, please also let me know and comment.
I hope you enjoy this work, specially the developers!
Marcel Caraciolo


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Fake Food: Removing Food Toxins
Written by Rachel, Contributing Writer
This month at Keeper of the Home, we are all focusing on Spring Cleaning the Toxins. This is something my family has been working on over the past several years. Late last year, I wrote this post about 9 toxins to remove from your life, they are everywhere so we really have to be mindful if we want to raise healthy families and kids!
Most people think about the environment, household cleaners, personal care products, upholstery and carpet and even prescription and over-the-counter drugs that have left people more toxic than ever before in history, but toxins are also found in our food.Did you know that utterly tons of chemicals are added to our food? More than 3,000 to our food supply and over 10,000 in processing, preserving and the storage the food is put into. That is a lot of toxins we are eating without even knowing about it.
"In the last 20 years, we've seen a 400 percent increase in food allergies. It's not just about milk or nuts anymore. Dyes, chemicals and synthetic hormones are causing serious health problems. And these reactions can be anything from physical, like a rash or upset stomach, to emotional or behavioral issues." –The Chicago Tribune
We literally are what we eat! If we are feeding our kids junk, it should be no surprise they are sick all-of-the-time. It is critical we become aware of toxins in our lives so we can eliminate them and as I always say, take baby steps, start with removing one toxin and then add another once you've mastered the first one.
Here's a list of 4 food toxins to begin removing immediately!
If you simply begin to read the food labels, you will be making a step in the right direction, you will get familiar with "fake food" and be able to start choosing real food, which probably many of you are already doing… great job by the way!
1. MSG or monosodium glutamate
Potato chips, Chinese food, frozen meals and many pre-packages foods usually contain msg. Msg is natural in origin but is a stimulator for free radical production in the body and is an excitotoxin, which simply means to excite the cells causing damage or even death of cells. Often (more often than not) we find msg on food labels because it is a flavor enhancer, making the food taste better, leaving us wanting more.
Food manufacturers have caught on that people are avoiding msg, however, they have become creative with labeling msg with different names including: yeast extract, anything "hydrolyzed" and any "hydrolyzed protein" and several other names you can check out here.
The Mayo Clinic says that ingesting msg can cause all kinds of problems including headaches, numbness, heart palpitations, weakness among others. Since we have eliminated msg, if I have anything food with msg, I get headaches almost immediately after I eat.
2. Artificial flavors
Flavors that have been made to mimic foods are what artificial flavors are and yes, most people would say they are tasty but that doesn't mean they are good for you. Confession, once in a blue moon, I might eat a couple skittles, I'm not perfect, but for the most part we do not buy anything with the word artificial on the package, it clearly is fake food and we are a real food family. Artificial flavors are man-made chemicals, chemicals that are hazardous to our health!
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3. Artificial colors
Beautifully frosted cupcakes, the skittles I mentioned earlier, bright red fruit juice, we know this stuff has artificial colors but some things we don't even think that would have artificial colors, actually do!
I came across some dill relish a couple of weeks ago that had yellow 5 and found out last year that some blueberry muffins don't even contain blueberries at all.
Artificial colors are linked to ADHD, hyperactivity, behavioral problems, eczema, allergies, and even cancer. Artificial colors are added not only to make the product look more appealing but also to slow spoilage and to help food from becoming rancid. Start looking at food labels and simply do not buy it if it has the word artificial on the label, look for natural food dye alternatives.
4. Artificial sweeteners
Splenda, Equal, Sweet'N Low, are just a couple choices people have when choosing a low calories sweetener. These sweeteners are also found in protein powders, granola bars, diet sodas and many products labeled sugar free.
I do believe lowering sugar in our diets is very important, however, study after study shows how dangerous artificial sweeteners are. See the movies Sweet Misery and Sweet remedy these are tools to spread the word about artificial sweetener dangers. A few alternatives to artificial sweeteners are stevia, xylitol, raw honey and even maple syrup.
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We vote by how we spend our money at the grocery store, the more we stop buying fake food, the more the toxins will be removed and healthier alternatives will be made. God gave us our bodies and we need to be good stewards with them, one way to so this is by choosing to eat real food and making steps to live a healthier life!
My husband (a wellness physician) has a newer feature on my blog called "Ask Dr. Jake", he would be happy to answer any of your health related questions or at least direct your path to some better options.


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Applicant Screening
What's Required?
Any rental licensee in the City of Hopkins must conduct criminal background checks on all prospective tenants. The criminal background check must include the following:
- A statewide (MN) criminal history check of all prospective tenants covering at least three years. The check must be done utilizing the most recent update of the state criminal history files.
- A statewide criminal history check from the prospective tenant's previous state of residence, if available, if the tenant is moving directly from the previous state.
- A criminal history check of any prospective tenant in their previous states of residence, if available, covering the last three years if they have not resided in Minnesota for three years or longer.
- A criminal history check of any prospective tenant must be conducted in all seven counties in the metro Twin Cities area (Hennepin, Ramsey, Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Scott and Washington) covering at least the last three years including all misdemeanor, gross misdemeanor, and felony convictions.
Tips for Criminal Background Checks
- Use a professional screening company, like those listed to the right.
- Obtain a signed release form from all adults.
- You must have the full name of each applicant (with the correct spelling of first, middle, and last name) along with the accurate date of birth to obtain accurate information.
- Be prepared to check all cities, counties, and state where applicant has lived.
- Rejections for criminal behavior should be based on convictions, not just police contacts.
Additional Resources
- Minnesota Public Criminal History (from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension)
- Access to Public Court Case Records (from the Minnesota Judicial Branch)
What Else Should I Check for?
In addition to the required background check, be certain to do the following for all persons who may potentially reside at your property.
- Check for a valid photo ID/resident alien visa and social security number
- Run a credit check
- Contact previous landlords
- Verify income sources
Tips for Applicant Screening
- Thoroughly screen each applicant using the same process for all prospective residents.
- Never discriminate based on someone's race, gender, creed, disability, nationality, marital status, familial status, source of income, or sexual preference.
- Establish rejection criteria in writing and be prepared to apply it equally to all applicants.
- You may charge a reasonable fee to cover the costs associated with conducting a background check.
- Consult your attorney for legal advice regarding all policies/procedures.
- Make certain that all applications are completed on site or in your presence. (It is much more difficult for criminals to make up a story or falsify information!)
- Be prepared to assist other property owners and managers with truthful references on residents you would not allow to apply or would not rent to.
Maria Jimenez
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Professional Screening Company
Using a professional screening company helps protect you.
- You may simply state that "based on the information from your screening report, the application does not meet the posted screening criteria."
- Refer applicant back to screening company if they feel there is an error.
- Inform applicant that they are free to re-apply if the error can be corrected!
Reputable Screening Agencies
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TechRadar Verdict
A simple phone that suffers from a slightly high price tag for what's inside.
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Nokia's dogged commitment to producing a wide range of handsets for a wide range of budgets and types of interest continues with the 6700 Slide.
The slider format is one that has slipped in popularity with the rise of large screened handsets of varying degrees of smartphone capability. But it is a format that still has lots of fans.
Sliders tend to be small, their number pads are hidden away until needed, and you can perform lots of activities without bothering to slip them out of their hiding place behind the front facia.
Quick, easy, one-click access to features via buttons rather than a touchscreen are the order of the day.
The 6700 Slide has a cousin, the Nokia 6700 Classic which appeared in the latter half of last year. As the name suggests, that handset was a candybar design, but it shared the same aim of delivering a solid range of features at an attractive price. Nothing too fancy, nothing too expensive.
So, what you don't get here are the likes of Wi-Fi, a high resolution screen suitable for lots of multimedia playback, touchscreen capability or oodles of internal memory.
Instead the Nokia 6700 Slide is small. It measures 95.2 x 46.1 x 15.9mm and it weighs 110g. With the slide opened, we measured it at 122mm tall.
The screen is small by today's standards at just 2.2-inches. Some would describe the resolution as pitiful at 320 x 240 pixels.
Really, when we've just seen RIM's BlackBerry Pearl 3G pack a 2.2-inch 360 x 400 pixel display, it does seem rather paltry. But in everyday use it isn't actually as bad as it sounds. Honest.
Internal memory tops out at 60MB, but you get a 2GB microSD card to boost that, and the handset supports up to 16GB cards, so you can give it a huge memory boost if you feel the urge.
One point of note here: the microSD card does not pop out of its slot as readily as many do. The spring loading is not all that well sprung. We found we needed a fingernail to prise the card out of its slot.
Still, many of the specs make this handset look pretty good value for its sub-£200 price. It runs Symbian S60 3rd Edition with Feature Pack 2. Old Faithful if you're a previous Nokia fan. Or have ever seen one.
It has HSDPA with download speeds up to 10.2Mbps and uploads to 2Mbps.
You'll be extremely hard pushed to find the Nokia 6700 Slide in a situation where its data capabilities can't match what the network can offer.
There is a 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics and a dual-LED flash. This is accompanied by a front VGA (640 x 480 pixel) camera for two-way video calling, so the iPhone 4 isn't the only new handset with video calling.
The Nokia 6700 Slide fees like a quality device, too. The chassis is solid, the slide mechanism is smooth and gives a good, loud click when you open and close the phone.
The D-pad is large, and the Home and Clear buttons are small but slightly raised from their surroundings so they're easy to hit accurately.
The flat soft menu buttons and Call and End buttons are all nicely spaced from each other. Nothing feels cramped; everything is easy to use at speed.
We do have a major gripe about the design that is likely to affect everyone. To get the back plate off and access the battery, SIM and, most importantly, the microSD card slot, you have to lift a very fiddly cover on the top-mounted micro-USB connector then press a small release catch.
You don't have to do the job too often, but it is pesky.
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Rogers Road Neighborhood Projects
The Historic Rogers Road area of northwest Chapel Hill and northern Carrboro is a legacy community with settlement dating back to the 1700's. Extending from Homestead Road to Eubanks Road and covering about ¾ of a square mile, the historic character of the community consists of black-owned family farms and sawmills alongside surrounding forest. From 1972 through 2013, the Orange County Regional Landfill was sited adjacent to the Rogers Road Community, leading over time to adverse environmental and health impacts. The Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association[1] was established in 2007 as a community-organizing group to advocate for environmental justice and improvements to the area.
This included the establishment of a Rogers Road Community Center. As a result of advocacy, the landfill was closed. The governments of Orange County, Carrboro, and Chapel Hill then initiated a sewer construction project[2], currently ongoing, with the intent of providing better public services to the community. In addition, the Neighborhood Association partnered with the Jackson Center on an intensive 9-month, community-first planning effort for the future of the Rogers Road community. The result was a compilation released in May 2016, Rogers Road: Mapping Our Community's Future. The document recommended that development should retain long-term residents, create connections with the larger community, preserve socioeconomic and cultural diversity for the future, and respect the physical/natural character of the neighborhood.
Beginning in 2017, consideration of the future use of the Greene Tract has been underway. See https://www.orangecountync.gov/3070/Greene-Tract for more information.
Rogers Road Sewer Connection
In 2019, a new sewer line through the historically underserved neighborhood of Rogers Road was completed. Property owners in the area can begin the process for connecting to the new public sewer system upon request.
Are you eligible for a new sewer connection?
Eligible lots can be located using the map below. Across both jurisdictions of Chapel Hill and Carrboro there are 84 serviceable lots with the physical ability to connect to the line. The program provides public assistance to eligible owners of heritage lots (green and yellow) in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Yellow lots are lots with pre-existing dwellings. These lots can be served and the cost of connecting may be fully or partially covered by the sewer connection program (applicant is subject to income verification process). Green lots are Heritage Lots without pre-existing dwellings. These lots can be served and the cost may be covered through a low interest loan. Blue lots can be served, but the cost of the connection will fall on the homeowners. Residents can apply for the program until June 30, 2025.
Contact: Information on how to apply is available by contacting Anne-Marie Vanaman at 919-918-7321 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Historic Rogers Road Sidewalk Project
Construction on the Rogers Road Sidewalk Project is complete.Rogers Road Neighborhood Zoning Initiative
The Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro have partnered on a project to establish a zoning framework for the Rogers Road community that reflects the interests of the community and implements the recommendations of Rogers Road: Mapping Our Community's Future. The zoning standards for the Rogers Road community should encourage a type and pattern of development that fits into its surrounding context and that also provides new opportunities for the community such as jobs, services and housing. In a review of planning efforts to date, an initial set of interests have been identified that may be accomplished through zoning, which include:•Identify access and infrastructure needs associated with development which can be met through zoning standards.•Allow home occupations and identify appropriate criteria/restrictions for them, which may vary within the community (eg based on lot size).
•Determine appropriate strategies for making new housing compatible with existing housing, eg by regulating house size.
•Ensure that land area zoned for commercial/mixed use is sized for the amount of development the community can support (to be informed by market analysis).
•Ensure that property zoned for commercial/mixed use can accommodate a variety of uses that are appropriate to the community, which may include flex or maker space, civic functions, health facilities, arts and culture, etc.
•Incorporate measures that preserve the heritage and character of the community.
•Create standards for both jurisdictions (Carrboro and Chapel Hill) that follow a similar framework and allow consistency throughout the Rogers Road community.
•Create standards that are consistent with each jurisdiction's larger zoning framework, and/or clearly communicate how the new zoning diverges from approaches taken in other parts of Chapel Hill and Carrboro
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Shoppers have dropped tens of billions of dollars in stores and online over the last five days. What does such an impressive outpouring tell us about today's consumer mentality, and the state of the economy as a whole?
There are still nearly four prime shopping weeks to go before Christmas, but now that the Black Friday-Cyber Monday consumer bonanza is over, some observations seem in order:
Consumers like the idea of shopping at midnight on Thanksgiving. Though considered controversial, family un-friendly, and even unpatriotic in certain circles, the decision by many retailers to open stores at midnight (or even earlier) on Thanksgiving night is being viewed as a success. Mere hours after finishing turkey dinners, millions of shoppers showed up at stores and eagerly opened their wallets, leading the biggest day for Black Friday sales ever. Because the midnight openings have been deemed successful—"well worth it for both retailers and shoppers," according to the National Retail Federation—the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, among others, speculates that Thanksgiving night openings won't be a passing fad. Going forward, expect the late night Turkey Day store openings to be standard practice.
Consumers like shopping (from home) on Thanksgiving Day too. The market research firm ComScore reports that online retail sales totaled $479 million on Thanksgiving Day 2011, up 18% from last year's Turkey Day e-commerce tally. The rise in e-commerce on Black Friday was even greater, hitting $816 million compared to $648 million on Black Friday of 2010—a 26% increase.
(MORE: Attention Online Shoppers: No Reason to Pay for Shipping This Holiday Season)
Younger consumers and men are more likely to shop late at night. The early pre-morning Black Friday shopping adventure has traditionally been a mostly female phenomenon, dominated by moms checking off their holiday shopping lists. This isn't the case for late-night store openings on Thanksgiving evening. The New York Times reports that 18- to 34-year-olds who went shopping on Black Friday were far more likely than 35- to 54-year-olds to be in stores by midnight—36.7% vs. 23.5%, respectively. Men were also more likely to shop on Thanksgiving night as opposed to the pre-dawn of Black Friday:
"Men really aren't willing to pull themselves out of bed at 4 a.m. for a bargain, but they will go" late at night, [NRF vice president Ellen] Davis said. "Men are increasingly budget-focused, and like the idea of looking for good deals."
Even after splurging in stores, consumers will splurge online. After shoppers turned out in full force over the Thanksgiving weekend, a slight lull in Cyber Monday spending would have been understandable. Instead, according to a MarketWatch report, early online sales for Cyber Monday were booming—up 30% compared to the year before.
Credit card use appears to be on the rise. Oh, so that's how consumers are paying for all of their Black Friday-Cyber Monday purchases! A Javelin Strategy & Research study indicates that, after several years of declining credit card use among consumers, traditional plastic is poised for a comeback. Beth Robertson, Javelin's director of payments research, says: "Despite the nation's very rocky economic recovery, consumers appear to have halted their belt-tightening and bank incentives to use credit cards rather than debit are gaining appeal." Over the next five years, credit card use for online purchases is expected to rise by 63%, compared to an increase of just 2% for debit cards.
(MORE: Weirdest Cyber Monday Deal Ever: Homes Marked Down By $80,000)
Black Friday shoppers are capable of pretty horrendous behavior. Another Black Friday weekend, another series of ugly shopping incidents. The rundown this year includes a Walmart shopper pepper-spraying other customers during a scrum over Xbox gaming consoles, and mobs of shoppers who stepped over a dying man who collapsed in a Target store in West Virginia.
The "Occupy" protesters can protest shoppers too. Plenty of the 99 percent demonstrated over the weekend that they have no qualms about shopping and supporting capitalism to their heart's content. This opened shoppers up to being the subject of protests, right alongside Wall Street fat cats. Protesters gathered outside stores in San Francisco's Union Square, for example, where a boy held a sign reading: "What is in your bag that's more important than my education?"
Big sales numbers don't necessarily mean good things for the economy. The weekend's monster sales figures have been welcomed as an indicator of consumer confidence, but, as a USA Today column points out, "The previous top weekend was in the depths of the recession in 2008." As in 2008, 2011 shoppers could have turned out in huge numbers in an attempt to stretch their already-stretched budgets and secure the absolute best prices on the few gifts they can afford this year.
(MORE: Think Black Friday Has the Best Prices? Think Again)
According to a new Bankrate poll, 42% of Americans (including 49% of parents) intend to spend less than last year on holiday purchases, while only 10% plan on spending more. The Washington Post reports that, despite strong early season sales numbers, retailers aren't adjusting projections for overall holiday sales—which are still expected to experience meager (not robust) growth this year.
Brad Tuttle is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @bradrtuttle. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.


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This blog was created as a learning-through-teaching experiment and now functions as a web development and design blog focusing mainly on Expression Web, CSS and WordPress customization.
Morten is also the co-creator of several startups, a co-organizer of the Vancouver WordPress Meetup Group and WordCamp Vancouver, and the creator of the 12×12 Vancouver Photo Marathon.
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pstat - display system data structures
pstat [-fknsTtv] [-M core] [-N system]
pstat displays open file entry, swap space utilization, terminal state, and vnode data structure information. If corefile is given, the information is sought there, otherwise in the running kernel via /dev/kmem. The required namelist is taken from the running kernel unless system is specified. The options are as follows: -f Print the open file table with these headings: LOC The core location of this table entry. TYPE The type of object the file table entry points to. FLG Miscellaneous state variables encoded thus: R open for reading W open for writing A open for appending L exclusive or shared lock present I signal pgrp when data ready CNT Number of processes that know this open file. MSG Number of messages outstanding for this file. DATA The location of the vnode table entry or socket structure for this file. OFFSET The file offset (see lseek(2)). -k Use 1K-byte blocks. -M core Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core instead of the running kernel. -N system Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the running kernel. -n Print devices by major/minor number rather than by name. -s Print information about swap space usage on all the swap areas compiled into the kernel. The first column is the device name of the partition. The next column is the total space available in the partition. The Used column indicates the total blocks used so far; the Available column indicates how much space is remaining on each partition. The Capacity reports the percentage of space used. If more than one partition is configured into the system, totals for all of the statistics will be reported in the final line of the report. -T Prints the number of used and free slots for open files, used vnodes, and swap space. It is useful for checking to see how large system tables become if the system is under heavy load. -t Print table for terminals with these headings: LINE Physical device name. RAW Number of characters in raw input queue. CAN Number of characters in canonicalized input queue. OUT Number of characters in output queue. HWT High water mark for output. LWT Low water mark for output. COL Calculated column position of terminal. STATE Miscellaneous state variables encoded thus: W waiting for open to complete O open C carrier is on T delay timeout in progress F outq has been flushed during DMA B busy doing output A process is awaiting output X open for exclusive use S output stopped K further input blocked Y tty in async I/O mode D next character is escaped lowercase special E printing erase sequence L next character is literal P retyping suspended input N counting tab width, ignoring output flush SESS Enclosing session. PGID Process group for which this is controlling terminal. DISC Line discipline; `term' for TTYDISC (see termios(4)), `tab' for TABLDISC (see tb(4)), `slip' for SLIPDISC (see sl(4)), `ppp' for PPPDISC (see ppp(4)), `strip' for STRIPDISC (see strip(4)). -v Print the active vnodes. Each group of vnodes corresponding to a particular filesystem is preceded by a two line header. The first line consists of the following: *** MOUNT fstype from on on fsflags where fstype is one of adosfs, afs, cd9660, ext2fs, fdesc, ffs, kernfs, lfs, lofs, mfs, msdos, nfs, null, portal, procfs, umap, union; from is the partition the filesystem is mounted from; on is the directory the filesystem is mounted on; and fsflags is a list of optional flags applied to the mount (see mount(8)). The second line is a header for the individual fields, the first part of which are fixed, and the second part are filesystem type specific. The headers common to all vnodes are: ADDR Location of this vnode. TYP File type. VFLAG A list of letters representing vnode flags: R VROOT root of its file system. T VTEXT pure text prototype. S VSYSTEM vnode being used by kernel. I VISTTY vnode represents a tty. L VXLOCK locked to change underlying type. W VXWANT process is waiting for vnode. B VBWAIT waiting for output to complete. A VALIASED vnode has an alias. D VDIROP lfs vnode involved in directory op. F VONFREELIST vnode is on a free list. l VLOCKSWORK FS supports locking discipline. s VONSYNCLIST vnode is on syncer worklist. USE The number of references to this vnode. HOLD The number of I/O buffers held by this vnode. FILEID The vnode fileid. In the case of ffs this is the inode number. IFLAG Miscellaneous filesystem specific state variables encoded thus: For ffs: A access time must be corrected C changed time must be corrected U update time (fs(5)) must be corrected R has a rename in progress M contains modifications S shared lock applied E exclusive lock applied For nfs: W waiting for I/O buffer flush to complete P I/O buffers being flushed M locally modified data exists E an earlier write failed X non-cacheable lease (nqnfs) O write lease (nqnfs) G lease was evicted (nqnfs) A special file accessed U special file updated C special file times changed SIZ/RDEV Number of bytes in an ordinary file, or major and minor device of special file.
BLOCKSIZE If the environment variable BLOCKSIZE is set, and the -k option is not specified, the block counts will be displayed in units of that size block.
fstat(1), procmap(1), ps(1), systat(1), stat(2), fs(5), iostat(8), vmstat(8) K. Thompson, UNIX Implementation.
The pstat command appeared in 4.0BSD.
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The Embassy Singers is a Berlin-based chamber choir specialising in music by English-speaking composers. Our repertoire covers everything from 16th century madrigals and motets to spirituals and songs from the shows. We draw our members from the international diplomatic community in Berlin and other English-speaking residents of the city.
The choir has a busy and lively schedule of performances. It puts on several major concerts a year and participates in church services and other high-profile events. The venues for its performances are as varied as its repertoire: it has sung in many of the major churches in Berlin, such as the Berliner Dom and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche, as well as in the embassies and the Schauspielhaus; it has taken anthems to Tegel Prison and Christmas carols to Bellevue Palace; and it gave a midnight welcome to the ten new EU member states with folksongs and "Ode to Joy" at the Brandenburg Gate in May 2004. It has since featured on BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme and on Hungary's Kossuth Rádió.
We also venture outside Berlin: for example, we have sung concerts and services in Hamburg, Erfurt, Dresden (annually in the Frauenkirche), Quedlinburg, Leipzig and Uelzen; our trips abroad have taken us to Vienna (St. Stephen's Cathedral), Zurich, Budapest (Mátyás-templom), Bristol Cathedral and Rome (S. Maria dell' Anima). In October 2010, we had the honour of singing as Queen Eadgyth (910-946) was re-interred in Magdeburg Cathedral.
If you would like further information about the choir or wish to be included on our mailing list to receive details of future events, please contact us.


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All in the Family
All in the Family was the top-rated program on American TV in the early- to mid-1970s. Ostensibly a slapstick-based sitcom about a pair of misfit aliens ("Meathead" and "Dingbat") sent from the planet Ork to study the "crazy habits" of Earthlings, the show masked a darker subtext: the Orkians had come to Earth not to study it, but to conquer it by starting a race war. The aliens' efforts were continually stymied by "Archie," a CIA operative who befriended "Dingbat," and "Jefferson," an android sent from the future to save the human race.
After a successful run of nine years atop the ratings (including five consecutive years as the most-watched show in the U.S.), the show was revamped when actress Mae West died after the 1979-80 season. West's "Dingbat" character was killed off (the victim of a chimpanzee attack), "Meathead" was recalled to Ork (taking his Earth bride, "Gloria," with him), and "Archie" was assigned to a new position running a counter-terrorism commando squad from a corner bar in Queens, New York. The controversial new show, retitled The CIA Team, enjoyed a modest four-year run before CBS President Winston Churchill finally pulled the plug on it in 1983 due to complaints over its excessive depictions of violence and actor Dead George Peppard's naked butt.
All in the Family spawned several spin-off series, including Oh, Maude! a Christian-themed program starring Michael Landon as the Virgin Mary returned to the modern world in the guise of a nun who can fly, Jefferson Drums, a Western centering on a time-traveling, dark-skinned android who battles prejudice as a gunfighter-turned-newspaper-editor in an 1850s mining town, and Call to Gloria, a Cold War drama about the U.S. Air Force's first female test pilot.
All in the Family also spawned a spin-off of Oh, Maude! called It Be Good Times, Jive Turkey, about an albino family triumphing over adversity in a normally-pigmented world.
Lastly, ten years after the cancellation of All in the Family, Charles Manson funded his own show called All in The Family (notice the capital T, that was the main difference). If you read the inside of the brackets, you would know that the shows main differences were a capital T. The other difference was the random acts of violence against people Manson viewed as "phonies", these people included John Lennon, Sir Lancelot, and Master Chef Master Chief. These acts of violence (sometimes called "murders" by main character Maddox) were carried out by a motley crew of ex-Mötley Crüe members. The show went off the air when Charles Manson was elected Pope, and as a Pope he was forced to become Amish, and thus couldn't fund his amazing show.
All in the Family was loosely based upon "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," a 1960 Rod Serling-penned episode of the TV sitcom The Twilight Zone; Helter Skelter, prosecutor Joseph Bugliosi's 1971 account of the Marilyn Manson Family murders; and Bartlett's Thesaurus, a 1923 documentary by director Charles Dickens about the discovery of a live dinosaur in California's Death Valley by former U.S. President Jebediah Bartlett.
The All in the Family theme song, "Those Were the Days" (music and lyrics by the Broadway team of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb), was a #3 hit for Tony Orlando and Dawn in 1974. A disco/rap remix version by the Beach Boys with Tupac Shakur briefly charted on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1998, two years following Tupac's "death".
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One of the most controversial and most popular episodes was "A Visit From A Heroin-Addicted Pre-Op Transvestite Hooker," guest starring Curly Howard of The Three Stooges and Ron Palillo from Welcome Back Kotter. An audio clip of this ground-breaking piece of television theatre can be heard here.
- Dead George Peppard as Agent Race Bannon (aka "Archie Bunker")
- Rudolf Heidler as Whitey Amsterdam SuPerior (aka "the second Archie Bunker")
- Mae West as Dingbat (aka "Edith Bunker")
- Michael Moore as Meathead (aka "Michael Stivik")
- Kate Mulgrew as Skinny Gloria (ages 21-24)
- Kirstie Alley as Fat Gloria (ages 25-30)
- substituting was Sarah Palin as Pregnant Gloria (age 24-25)
- Wilt Chamberlain as George Jefferson (aka "Jefferson")
- Cicely Tyson as Louise Jefferson (aka "Weezy")
- Robert Urich as Lionel Jefferson (aka "Tickle Me Elmo")
- John Cena as himself (aka "Jughead")
- and Jerry Mathers as The Beaver


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More thoughts about Google and projects
| -UncategorizedI'll keep Google internships in mind, as I really have AJAX and other
fun Web stuff on my to-learn list. I mainly work with slightly-marked
up plain text, though, so my "strong visual design sense"
is… err… somewhat skewed.
I'm particularly interested in taking blogging beyond the browser and
embedding it into people's everyday applications, because the people
using the personal information manager I maintain tell me they're
absolutely addicted to that ability. We're seeing people do really
cool things because they can hyperlink tasks and notes to e-mail
messages, files, web pages, chats, even BiBTeX entries… anything
they felt like writing a plugin for. 'Course, all of this lives inside
the wonderful little world of Emacs.
I'm curious about what would happen if someone brought this into the
mainstream. If Google Desktop's done the heavy lifting of getting
metadata from various applications, and if there's a way to recreate
that state when someone follows a link, then tada! personal knowledge
blogging becomes part of every application Google Desktop knows about,
allowing people to richly annotate the stuff on their hard disk. With
another set of rules for controlling the publishing of data, people
can even share their notes on the Net. Even more fun.
IBM (T.J. Watson center) seems to be doing something similar with
personal chronicling tools for enhancing information archival and collaboration in enterprises. They hooked into Microsoft Windows, too.
Possible hiccups:
– Google Desktop is still a Windows-only thing. I'm on Mac OS 10.3, so
no Spotlight for me! Beagle / Dashboard on Linux looks promising, though,
as I think that also exposes the event stream for GNOME applications and
allows people to write stuff that acts on the content.
– I have no HCI background to speak of yet. But hey, that's why I'm
taking a master's! (It's a wonder I got into U of T at all, but I
guess my research supervisor took a chance on the fact that I enjoy
learning and sharing what I've learned)… I like working with
users, and it would be good to learn how to formally analyze a
– I'm one of those weird people! I use Linux. To be more precise: I
use Emacs and Firefox, and whatever runs underneath those two
applications. I can't stand shell scripting in Windows, though,
(even with Cygwin!) and the Mac feels different enough to be
strange. Maybe if I focus on web stuff… (Yes, we're back in the
browser. Fun Web 2.0 stuff is happening in the browser, though.)
And to think I asked for a Mac Mini because I wanted to try out crazy
experiments like Quicksilver and Onlife… I'll need another
computer—Windows, this time—just to cover all the bases!


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We're going to India.
As guests of the 4th Annual Indian Comic Con, we'll be in New Delhi from February 6th till February 9th, and we'll be at the festival at various times all three days. Come say hi, bring your copy of our favourite book, or find us at the festival to buy from us some of the exclusive stuff we'll bring along with us. It's an incredible opportunity to cross the world and discover a new culture. We figured Daytripper and Umbrella Academy, being our most popular books, are more well known, so we'll be bringing with us a few copies of our independent comic Atelier, along with a few copies of our books Ursula and De:TALES. We'll have a few copies of our favourite posters to sell as well: Daytripper, Umbrella Academy, Killjoys and Weapon X.
On Saturday, February 8th at 4PM, we'll have a panel to talk to the fans, tell a little bit about our journey, our passion for comics, how we ended up doing the books we did, and to answer questions from the audience.
Time Out Delhi interviewed us last week. You can also read our answers in the image below.
After the festival, we'll dive into the heart of India for a week before getting back to work.
See you in a bit, I hope.
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
We're going to India
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