A crisp white Vine Butterfly strikes a contrast over a watercolored Wrapped Stitch Rectangle background. It's another quick card for another busy summer weekend. Add a trio of glittered Mini Butterflies and a greeting...that's it!
Hi, Jean Okimoto here with a simple design that's easy to customize in your favorite colors.
Paint a watercolored background of Kaleidacolor dye ink refills. Air-dry it for a few minutes while you diecut a white Vine Butterfly and some glittered Mini Butterflies. Lightly spritz the background to create little spots and specks - then heat-set it.
Cut it with the 2" x 3-¼" Wrapped Stitch Rectangle.
Stamp the greeting - from the Bird Sanctuary Clear Stamps Set - on a white A-2 card with Verdant VersaFine Clair.
Attach the diecuts - and there's your card!
Thanks for stopping by - hope you'll have a chance to create a few cards this weekend! Please join us again on Sunday for Penny's great design.
The new Long Dachshund - and his mirror-image buddy - contemplate life on a simple little card today. The washi tape background from Birch Press Design gets a quick trim with the Wrapped Stitch Rectangle die. Hello, Jean Okimoto here with a greeting for someone needing a bit of encouragement and support during a tough time.
Attach adhesive label paper or a sticker sheet to tan and dark brown felt. It will stabilize the felt and keep adhesives from saturating the fabric. Cut Long Dachshund from dark brown felt. Cut him again from the reverse side of the tan felt to create a left-facing dachshund. Switch their ears.
Attach lime and turquoise duct tape to lightweight cardstock and cut the collars.
Attach strips of washi tape (about 3" long) to white cardstock and diecut the cardstock with the 2-¾" x 4" Wrapped Stitch Rectangles die.
Stamp the greeting - from the new Dog Gone Clear Stamps Set - with Verdant VersaFine Clair.
Attach the diecuts to a side-folded A-2 card of textured green cardstock. Add green gem stickers.
Simple strips of washi tape can add so much to a quick card. See the great patterns and beautiful colors featured on the Birch Press Design site.
Big thanks to everyone who joined us for last weekend's THOUGHTS + THANKS class at Impress! It's always nice to have a stash of thank you and thinking-of-you cards ready - hope you liked the designs that we stamped, folded and layered. Thanks too - Ann, Erin and Laura - for helping everyone fill their baskets!
The Impress Annual Spring Sale starts today - and runs through Sunday April 22nd. Bring your wishlist of Memory Box and Poppystamps items - and enjoy a 20% discount on the great designs you've been waiting for! Stock up on VersaFine Clair inkpads too - they're my favorite inks for classes and here on Outside the Box.
Hope you'll have a chance to take advantage of the 4-day sale - and join us for the GREEN GREETINGS class on Earth Day, April 22nd from 11:30-1:30. Green - the color and the concept - is the class theme. Lots of green - papers, inks, accents, recycled items - and great techniques. Everyone receives a bonus pack of some items from my stash to make more class cards at home later.
Hexagons are everywhere on today's card--inside and out!
For this card, I started with a Memory Box Licorice Notecard and die cut into the front of it with HEX DRIFT 99991 and HEX COLLAGE 99990.
I stamped "keep calm and bee happy" and a small bee from the BEE YOURSELF CLEAR STAMP SET CL5222 on a 3/4" X 3 1/4" strip of Memory Box Squash Dot Paper using Jet Black Archival Ink. I then rounded the corners and attached it at an angle to the card front.
To fill in the holes left from cutting the hexies, I cut two pieces of the squash dot paper 5 1/4" X 4", glued them together with the dot sides out, and then adhered them to the inside of the card front. One dotted side filled in the hexies and the other dotted side lines the inside of the card front.
Here's the inside. I love that there is a surprise when you open the card and find the bee inside!
For the righthand side of the notecard, I die cut a hexagon from the STUDIO HEXAGON LAYERS 30073 using more of the squash dot paper and glued it to the card.
I die cut the INTRICATE BEE 99920 from black cardstock and adhered it to the hexagon.
I stamped "bee yourself" from the Bee Yourself Clear Stamp Set on one edge of the hexagon.
I still have plenty of room to write a message or I can add a white box for a longer message over the dot paper that lines the inside front.
The new Right Hutton Gate and Right Gate Background create a colorful setting for the new Vine Butterfly here today. Hi there, Jean Okimoto here with a mirror-image version of my earlier Hutton Gate design.
I knew I needed the Hutton Gates and Backgrounds when I saw them during the design team preview - but I didn't know what to do with them when they arrived. Now I can't stop using them - they've worked their way to the front of the stash! Hope your favorite retailer has ordered them - I know Impress has!
Find some pretty spritzy, watercolored paper in your stash and cut with the Right Gate Background. Cut a piece with the 2-½" Circle Basics die too. These pieces were painted with diluted layers of Imagine Crafts Kaleidacolor Dye Ink Refills and set aside to dry before cutting.
Cut Right Hutton Gate and Vine Butterfly from white cardstock.
Cut the 2-¾" Wrapped Stitched Circle Frame from white cardstock - we're using just the outer frame here.
Layer the watercolored circle over the frame, then attach the Vine Butterfly.
Attach the Right Hutton Gate to the Right Gate Background.
Attach the right edge of the circles under the gates.
Score, cut and fold a white A-6 card (4-½" x 6-¼"). Stamp the greeting - from the Birch Press Time to Celebrate Clear Stamp Set - with Starlite Black Brilliance. Air-dry it, then stamp the tiny hexagons over it with Rose Gold Delicata. Heat-set the inks.
Attach the diecuts to the card.
There are so many ways to use the Hutton Gates and the Gate Backgrounds throughout the year. Pair them with pretty colors for spring, then with bright summer colors. Imagine them in orange+black for Halloween - and festive reds with glitter for the holidays.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the PAPER AND INKOLLAGE class at Impress this Saturday! We're using artpapers - and accents from my stash - with great dies and inks on artsy, layered designs. Everyone gets a packet of "extras" from my stash too - to make a few more class cards at home.
Watercolors and the new Left Gate Background create a vibrant background for the Left Hutton Gate on today's spring card. The Poppy Stitched Circle Frame, stamps from the Birch Press Time to Celebrate set and Honeycomb Square's glittered hexagons add the finishing touches.
Hello, Jean Okimoto here with a colorful design for any occasion. The Left Gate Background and Hutton Gate create a semi-circle that's perfect for many of our Circle Frames. Pair them with the right-sided designs for a more formal symmetrical design. They're also great with the circular designs from the Birch Press Time to Celebrate stamp and die sets.
Cut a 6" square of watercolor paper - it's more than you'll need here, but you'll be able to chose the prettiest sections for the card. Lightly spritz a large acrylic block with water. Dribble Imagine Crafts Dye Ink Refills onto separate areas of the spritzed block. Tilt the block and let the colors begin to mix.
Spritz it lightly with water, then dry it with a heat-tool. Diecut it with the Left Gate Background and the 2-½" Circle Basics die.
Diecut the Poppy Stitched Circle Frame (and the bonus flower layer) from white cardstock.
Diecut the Left Hutton Gate from white cardstock.
Stamp the greeting - from the Birch Press Time to Celebrate Clear Stamps - onto a white A-6 card with Pearlescent Jade Brilliance. Birch Press is an online shop featuring an upscale collection of papercrafting products, gifts and items for your home.
Stamp the tiny scattered hexagons onto the circle with Pearlescent Lavender Brilliance.
Assemble the card. Diecut purple glittered cardstock with the Honeycomb Square to create sparkly little hexagons to match the stamped design.
The detailed Left and Right Hutton Gates - and solid Left and Right Gate Backgrounds can be used in so many ways. Dry-emboss the Huttons too - for an elegant textured look. Use the Backgrounds horizontally as a giftcard pocket. I'll be using them often here and in classes too.


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"Official" vs "garages": how to choose the perfect service for your car
August 20, 2017 IMMEconomics
Car repair for the motorist can be compared to going to the hospital: painful, expensive, and a lot of hassle. Well, if there is "their" proven a HUNDRED, which you know cars and mechanics you can trust, and will do for themselves: without replacement of spare parts to earn. Unfortunately, such luxury is not at all. And many motorists have to wander between different STO in search of treasured "price-quality". Moreover, the repair of foreign cars, of which Ukraine lacks, the fun today is not cheap: order parts from American or European currency.
To diagnose or "treat" his "iron horse" motorist may have official dealers or their legal representatives, even if the car is not brand new and not bought in Ukraine. However, you can turn to the private STO, popularly called "garages" — that are less than "officials".
That wins and loses the motorist, serving from official dealers, we were told the Director of SRT Anatoly Balousha, chief mechanic fleet Alexander Ivanenko and mechanic station of the official dealer of Sergei Danko.
ANYONE WITHOUT OFFICIAL BAD
To maintain warranty service after buying a new car, you need the entire warranty period (usually 100 thousand km or 3 years) to be served on the official STO. The same applies to a car loan: typically, such a vehicle need to be serviced only at the official station. By the way, some of the insurance from which you buy the hull, is also required. Of course, in the first case, you can immediately refuse, but then the car will be more difficult to sell: the advantage of the sale — first owner serviced only at the official. Under warranty the owner pays only for the consumables (oil, filters). With a loan to "get out" of the official will not work with the insurance — you can select more loyal to SK. After assurances from officials refuse 90% of motorists.
Guarantee — to the "official"
FAT PLUS: SERVICE
The main and very important advantage of the service the official is service. You're on the record, "complaining" for a problem, hand over the keys and either wait a couple of hours in the waiting room, sipping coffee or tea, using the wifi and all the benefits of comfort expectations. Or, if the repair is long, many services call a cab that the client will not experience discomfort, and sometimes (prolonged fixation) give another car to replace it. After repair at the official service stations, you can complain or praise their customer service definitely finds out what we liked and what not.
Another plus — "service campaign": many manufacturers are free to change the "problem" of which you complain in the world. Well-known Japanese brand replaced the clutch in all cars of a certain year and specific model. To learn about these "campaigns" can only be serving the official. By the way, to get to the profile stations can be anyone, even before colliding with him.
THE ISSUE PRICE: DETAILS AND INSTALLATION
The main argument of motorists — maintenance of the official honey. Thus, the average cost of man-hours to profile a HUNDRED — 300 UAH/hour, depending on the service. At the garage, the price starts from 150 UAH/hour. Further — details. The official will not put aftermarket or bought on dismantling the item on your car, and any new original part will cost many times more expensive. For example, original side glass will cost 6-12 thousand UAH, about a thousand will cost the work to install it. The same glass, bought on the market, even Chinese or from a car involved in an accident, can be bought for 1,5—3 thousand UAH, and your master will install it for 500 UAH, simultaneously correcting a couple of details.
On the roads of Ukraine are increasingly rare cars
But the official is a plus: guarantee. Besides, the sale of original spare part, mounted on the official service must be indicated in the service book, which will play a positive role. In the case of poor maintenance of the official your bugs will fix faster than the private owner uncle Bob. In other words, to prove wrong the official is easier than brawling with private traders.
ALL I NEED: LISTEN TO
Almost everyone who served on the official service, faced with the offer to replace parts that can not be changed. "I have something knocking in the engine — from Kiev says Lera Litovchenko, serving your KIA only on the official service since 2010. Went to official service, though car without warranty already. Counted 40 674 UAH (!) — replacement of the cylinder head. I don't understand, but the amount scared. Friends recommended "another opinion" — from private owners. The owner Oleg listened to the engine and immediately said that it is not in the engine, and it was necessary to change 1 bearing, 2 saltblock, and 2 "some zhelezyachki". In the end, all with integer, cost me 4600 UAH".
Unfortunately, this situation is very common, especially for the uninitiated motorists. The official can replace an entire node, not to bother with disassembling it, of course, at the expense of the client. Of course, to guarantee that the same will not make the traders was impossible, but private HUNDRED opportunities to "turn around", and they stick up for each client. Experts recommend that if there is no desire to abandon the official, in any case, to conduct an "independent diagnosis". And if the diagnosis match the official and private owners — to fix. That's just to monitor the repair of the official station are not allowed: you take your friend and get back. Privateers are also particularly scrupulous motorists will be able to be present during the repair.
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I needed a cam lock device to assist tying my canoe up to the river bank nice and tight so that it wont move when I get out and in. It can work both ways and can be locked by rotating the thumb wheel in the required direction. The device is attached to the canoe within reach. The rope is connected to one end of the canoe the other end of the canoe has the rope slide through a carabiner. After the rope/cord is thrown over a bollard or similar the loose end is located as shown in the photos and pulled tight.
Because even my basic 3D modeling skills are feeble I desgned this to be cut with a laser. Cut in 5mm acrylic which is plenty strong enough for its intended use.
Assembled with one M4 screw and two M3 screws.


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Husqvarna K960 Air Filter Kit No. 506-23-19-01 and 506-34-70-02. This is a replacement air filter and pre-filter for the Husqvarna K960 concrete saws and power saws. Replaces Husqvarna part number 506-34-70-02 and 506-23-19-01.
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Pick up a copy and see why it's been called, "A poetic, profound, and masterly crafted collection of stories."
You Won't Remember This by Kate Blackwell
The twelve stories in Kate Blackwell's debut collection illuminate the lives of men and women who appear as unremarkable as your next-door-neighbor until their lives explode quietly on the page. Her wry, often darkly funny voice describes the repressed underside of a range of middle-class characters living in the South. Kate's focus is elemental—on marriage, birth, death, and the entanglements of love at all ages—but her gift is to shine a light on these universal situations with such lucidity, it is as if one has never seen them before.
Available May 1st in paperback and ebook.
What reviewers and readers are saying about You Won't Remember This:
"Kate Blackwell is a wonderful and very perceptive writer who knows more about love, and more about loss, than most of us ever will. These stories about all sorts of Southern men and women are both funny and sad, and always subtly but deeply sympathetic." - Alison Lurie, author of Foreign Affairs
"In these remarkably intelligent and quirky stories Kate Blackwell sweeps the reader into a tableau as vivid as a Dutch painting, both startling and alive. These are harshly honest and generous stories embroidered with humor." - The Sheltering Sky
"These stories reveal an exceptional, well-crafted talent that invites us into places and the lives of characters the reader would not otherwise have access. These are edgy lives filled with conflict and tension, stories that span decades. This book is a real treat for anyone who loves good writing." -Bookviews
". . . the kind of truth that fiction gets at best." -Raleigh (NC) News & Observer
"Author Kate Blackwell has a gift for shining a spotlight on the complexities of mundane people and places. In her debut work of fiction - a collection of short stories called you won't remember this - she introduces her readers to the seemingly ordinary and gives "forgettable" characters emotional depth and mystery.' - Interview with Frank Stasio, The State of Things, WUNC
KATE BLACKWELL worked as a journalist and editor before turning full-time to fiction. Her first collection, YOU WON'T REMEMBER THIS, was published in hardback in 2007 by Southern Methodist University Press. Her stories have appeared in numerous journals, including Agni, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, Carve, The Literary Review, The Greensboro Review, Sojourner, and So To Speak. She lives in Washington, DC.
To learn more about Kate, visit her website.


I-fish port sampling (http://ifish.id/?q=id/content/about) has been ongoing in various MDPI sites for > 4 years and has always been a paper-based system… until this week! Charles from Point 97 (http://www.pointnineseven.com/) has been on site in Larantuka and Kupang helping to train the MDPI team who will be using the newly developed "dock" application (http://www.pointnineseven.com/dock) to collect data using android phones (replacing their 5 page data collection form!). Dock is a product being developed by P97 and MDPI is piloting it in 2 of its tuna port sampling sites for the coming months, under the scope of the IFITT project and in collaboration with AP2HI.
The app aims to create efficiencies in the data collection process, decrease on errors and free up some enumerator time to either increase sampling coverage or to engage deeper with the communities where the data collection of MDPI occurs.
MDPI and P97 have been working together for some months to build the app and to insure the deployment process and uptake by the enumerators goes smoothly. By the reactions of Nelly (Enumerator Kupang) , Rui (Supervisor Kupang), Mei (Site Supervisor Seram) and Hendri (Site supervisor Larantuka) in the field, the background work has paid off… the teams will use the app and continue to give feedback for improvements over the coming weeks.
MDPI is excited about what this can mean for expansion of data collection sites. Will efficiencies be obvious? Will the data quality improve? Can this speed up processes to help maintain relationships in the field with supply chain partners? Is this the future of I-Fish? Research being done by University of Bogor, Wageningen University and Washington University students will give us these answers and more in the coming months but until then check back in at www.mdpi.or.id for regular updates on the progress of "Dock" and the teams in Kupang and Larantuka!


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Q: Uniform convexity This is a segment of a proof to a theorem from PDE Evans, 2nd edition, page 156:

THEOREM 5 (Asymptotics in $L^\infty$ norm). There exists a constant $C$ such that $$|U(x,t)| \le \frac{C}{t^{\frac 12}}$$ for all $x \in \mathbb{R}, t>0$.
Proof. Set $$\sigma:=F'(0); \tag{58}$$ then $$G(\sigma)=(F')^{-1}(\sigma)=0,\tag{59}$$ and therefore $$L(\sigma)=\sigma G(\sigma)-F(G(\sigma))=0, L'(\sigma)=0.\tag{60}$$
In view of $(60)$ and the uniform convexity of $L$,
  \begin{align}
tL (\frac{x-y}{t} ) &= tL \left(\frac{x-y-\sigma t}{t}+\sigma \right) \\
&\ge t \left[\require{cancel} \cancelto{0}{L(\sigma)}+\cancelto{0}{L'(\sigma)}\left(\frac{x-y-\sigma t}{t} \right) + \theta\left(\frac{x-y-\sigma t}{t} \right)^2 \right]\\
&= \theta \frac{|x-y-\sigma t|^2}{t}
\end{align}

The proof continues on in the text but I stopped here as my question is regarding the second-to-last step shown above here.
I strongly think that the uniform convexity of $L$ is used to assert this inequality: $$tL \left(\frac{x-y-\sigma t}{t}+\sigma \right)
\ge t \left[ \require{cancel} \cancelto{0}{L(\sigma)}+\cancelto{0}{L'(\sigma)}\left(\frac{x-y-\sigma t}{t} \right) + \theta\left(\frac{x-y-\sigma t}{t} \right)^2 \right]$$
But my question is how so exactly?

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Q: $watch fires on focus lost I have a textarea tag with jquery.nicescroll pluggin and ng-model attached to it.
<textarea id="paper" ng-model="paper"></textarea>

In my code I apply a $watch on this ng-model variable.
$scope.$watch("paper", onTextChange);

Everything is good except that onTextChange is fired not only when I type something, but when I click away from textareaб and also when I switch to another tab.
How can I prevent it so that onTextChange is fired only when the text is changed, meaning when I type in something or delete chars?
Demo with instructions: plunker

A: here's a fix:
http://plnkr.co/edit/kycmUrthYU38Ukdz0jJG?p=preview
setTimeout(
function() {
    $scope.$watch("paper", function(newtext, oldtext) {
      if (newtext !== oldtext) {
        onTextChange();
      }
    });
  }, 100)

So the issue is that watch fires the function whenever angularjs tells the app to digest. What you did was tell it to call the 'change' function EVERY time, when you should have passed in a checker function to check the change happened. It's about 'watching', not about 'watching for changes' - the function argument is supposed to see if you need to do something.
Extra note:
AngularJS sets up watchers for all kinds of things on various elements - here's a bit more info. I believe the blur corresponds to ng-touched which triggers the digest What gets added to $scope.$$watchers by default in Angular? And what triggers $digests?

A: It is a bad idea to use setTimeout. Instead, you could use ng-model-options="{ getterSetter: true }" and write a method to get/set the value (Modified get/set Plunk) and handle the text change condition within this method.


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Retro Computer Badge For Hackaday Belgrade Has Everything You Wished For Back In The Day
Mike Szczys
The hardware badge for the Hackaday Belgrade conference is a Retro Computer that you wear around your neck. I have one in my hands and it's truly a work of art. It's beautiful, it's fun to play with, and it will be an epic platform for a glorious weekend of badge hacking! Check out the first look video, then join me below as I drill down into the details.
Get your ticket now for Hackaday Belgrade, our premier European hardware conference at the end of this month. It's a day filled with talks, works, food, fun, and of course everyone through the door gets one of these incredible badges. The best part is the community that turns out for this event and that includes the Hacker Village that takes hold in the evening. We'll be hacking the badges until the wee hours of the morning alongside hardware demos, presentations, lightning talks, and live IDM and DJ sets.
Sweet Hardware
This badge feels incredible. The concept and hardware design are the work of Voja Antonic who is already in Belgrade making sure the manufacturing process goes smoothly. Since everyone who attends the conference will get a badge there's a lot of hardware to produce!
Voja is a master at including artful choices in his designs. I love the shape of this badge, with the lanyard hole to one side. But the opposite corner having a slight bevel pulls the shape in a very interesting direction, along with the gently rounded bottom corners. The angled switches are mesmerizing in a way that a straight grid would not have been, and Voja's choice of a cross-hatched ground pour in the top copper gives a pleasing texture that you might not have noticed, but would miss if it were taken away. This badge is gorgeous.
When I think of a retro computer the things that come to mind are a clicky keyboard, and a green (or amber) monochrome display. This badge easily satisfies keyboard lovers with 55 momentary push buttons. The screen itself is full color so it can do monochrome, and at 320×240 it has the feel of a low-res CRT, operating in 40×20 character VT100 mode by default (more on this in the software section).
The surprise that will bring a smile to your face is the PCB mounted speaker on the back. It can be driven with three voices and sounds just great! You'll find one RGB LED module on the front, as well as an expansion header for programming, serial, I2C, and some GPIO. All of this is driven by the PIC32MX370F512H, along with a two megabyte flash chip for storing programs. If this was all available as a computer back in the day it would have dominated the industry: 48 MHz, 512 kB flash storage, and 128 kB of RAM.
The badge I have is one of 5 'mark 2' prototypes — the originals didn't have the speaker, were based on a PIC24 chip, and this version steps up from AAA to AA. The production badges have black solder mask and an acrylic bezel for the back, but everything else remains the same. Learn more on the page project page.
Delightful Software
Music scripting in the basic interpreter… this badge sounds great!
To hold it in your hands is something special, but the software is what makes it come alive. Voja's original idea was a badge that has a BASIC interpreter but we have so much more than that. Having found a very old post on the Microchip forums from him about BASIC for PIC, we reached out to Jaromir Sukuba — well known on Hackaday.io and winner of the Coin Cell Challenge earlier this year. Jaromir agreed to come on board and write the software for the project. Please take the time to thank Jaromir for this, it has turned into a huge project!
For those that want purity in their Retro Computing experience, Jaromir has a couple of things for you. Notably, the badge is running CP/M on a Z80 emulator. CP/M is a very popular operating system for computers of the Z80 vintage, and to proof out the system we've been running Zork! But this is certainly not limited to games. The badge as a ROM drive for CP/M that includes xmodem. Using a USB to TTL serial cable you can transfer programs onto one of the three 512 kB drives which use that Flash chip for storage. Of course you can also transfer badge to badge.
Also a huge throwback is a copy of Tiny BASIC that is running in an unaltered form. This is not the main BASIC interpreter on the badge, but dating back to the 1970's it's fun to challenge yourself to do something really interesting with the barebones interpreter. For those that want a refresher, here's the Tiny BASIC manual dating back to 1979.
The main event on the badge is the Hackaday BASIC interpreter that has been customized to make full use of all the badge functions. It has the ability to save and load programs from 16 storage slots, but it can also transfer programs onto and off of the badge over serial. It drives the music on the badge using a simple scripting language. There are words for controlling the LEDs, twiddling GPIO on the pin header, and taking more direct control of the display by changing colors, moving the cursor, controlling screen refresh, and using the extended ASCII character set. You can check out the software for yourself by visiting this repository.
Random colors of Hackaday
Simple code
All of this truly does make it a retro computer in your hands. I can't wait to see hundreds of these being typed on and bringing joy to a conference full of hardware geeks!
Incredible Demoscene
The badge hacking ceremonies will be at midnight, giving everyone around 14 hours to do something special with the badge. We want to see all levels of hacking, from people who have never programmed making the LEDs blink, to veterans of the demoscene blowing the stock firmware away with their custom code.
Start dreaming up your hacks now. If you have them, bring along a USB-to-serial cable and/or PIC programmer (we'll have some on hand, but the more the better). There are awards for the best music, best demo, best BASIC, best CP/M, and a few other categories of hacks. But it isn't the awards that make this fun, it's showing off your creativity for others who will truly appreciate it. These are your people, you need to be at Hackaday Belgrade.
Get your ticket and come make some memories with us!
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57 thoughts on "Retro Computer Badge For Hackaday Belgrade Has Everything You Wished For Back In The Day"
deshipu says:
So, um, where do I put my name on it so that other people will know who I am?
Bring along to the event an adhesive backed paper badge that says "Hello, my name is (state your name)" and apply it to the LCD.
Steven-X says:
Elliot Williams says:
I'm going to have to do that now. Or maybe just make another badge with my name on it. It'd be easier. :)
That's another question I have. Will there be actual badges, with names on them, or should we bring our own?
Mike Szczys says:
Program it into the badge!
Also, there's white silk screen on the back to write you name on.
Neither the screen nor the silkscreen (strategically placed on the back) are large enough for it to be seen. Why is this called a badge? I understand it's a cool homebrew computer gadget included in the ticket price, that's fine, it's awesome even. I can't wait to play with it myself. But carrying it on your neck is kinda useless.
Voja Antonic says:
Why is this called a badge? It just evolved from the badge.
Same as when you "dial" or "hang up" the phone.
Except I just call a number and end the call.
Someone is going to add dailup internet to this. Or maybe a PS2 keyboard port. Or a baby SDR. Or neural networks. Or CAN bus talking
Congrats on some really awesome hardware design Voja!
MacSimski says:
bring your SHA2017 badge from last year. if you have put it away with your name on the screen, it will probably even bee there. No need to charge the lipo
Sebastius says:
I will bring several SHA badges for those in badge need :)
Chris Dent says:
10 PRINT "Hello, I'm deshipu"
20 GOTO 10
Ricardo Bánffy (@rbanffy) says:
Sorry for not seeing your answer before. I made a small improvement on it.
10 input n$
20 print "My name is", n$
Jac Goudsmit says:
So I guess if you guys want to out-batch your batch at every conference, you're going to end up giving away FPGA boards next time?
*Out-badge your badge. Wake up Jac.
I understood it as producing more than needed, but then I also interpreted it as going beyond what was needed…
Which I think is the point!
B^)
I don't look forward to a year when "improvements" will be difficult (e.g. war, zombie apocalypse, parts shortages, …)
But the hacking and the stories of how people got there will be amazing. For the badge "I found 10 tubes of Soviet 4 bit micros in an abandoned factory". Seminars will include "the effects of ultrasonics on the undead", "small scale electricity production", "sneaky ways to sneak past army patrols" and "Digital data transmissions over shortwave"
"But the hacking and the stories of how people got there will be amazing."
"Scars are like tattoos, but with better stories."
That was proposed by Miodrag and a few others. He turned the idea into a workshop and will lead FPGA 101 with a custom add-on board he designed for an FPGA Dev board.
Can it play…
If it had included RF, the lanyard hole could have doubled as a loop antenna.
(just saying)
krrrkwwr says:
interesting but … WHY not FPGA!!!
48Mhz Fpga is equivalent 130-250Mhz in cp/m machine.
second trouble is USB. Sorry but today we need power and communication of usb
Because a $20 FPGA is equivalent to a $2 microcontroller
Black Mage says:
There's also the eZ80 chip which has on-board flash and ram and can run CP/M plus has a lot of useful features such as ethernet support etc.
snowbell says:
So, where do those of us who cannot travel to Serbia pick one up?
If we have extra we'll likely sell them on Tindie. But tickets are getting close to sold out and we didn't do a big overrun on this one so I can't say for sure that will end up happening.
Kevin Harrelson says:
I assume that the gerbers, BOM, and code is going to be open-sourced…
Sure they will
BastetFurry says:
+1 :D
'Sure they will' would be interpreted very differently, depending on tone, where I come from
At this moment, there are there are three files on the project page: PCB (CS), production Gerbers (panel with 3 PCBs) and BOM (xlsx).
Code is not finished yet, but you can pick the current version at https://github.com/Hack-a-Day/basic-badge
TERRA Operative says:
+1 Pleeeaassseeeeeeee!
Hared to get across to the con from Japan….
Vinalon says:
It looks like an ILI9341 display; you can get modules between 2.2-3.5″ for about $5-10 from ebay/amazon/aliexpress/taobao/etc, and the SPI communication protocol is well-documented in a handful of libraries including some from Adafruit.
Although, they do support a parallel interface as well if you get one of the panels with 30-40 pins on the ribbon cable – I haven't seen as much public work on those.
RunnerPack says:
Why does the headline animation read "XACKADAY BELGRADE"?
Well, you figured out Belgrade, which stumped me…
That's not an "X", that's the Jolly Wrencher!
That's the Greek letter Chi, like in TeX.
So it's pronounced "Kackaday"? I've been saying it wrong for *years*! :P
Caca-a-day
tillorly says:
It's in Belgrad, so yeah, Chi fits pretty well.
Aleksandar Bradic says:
Two reasons: (1) It is the "low res" Jolly Wrencher (2) "Hackaday" in Cyrillic is spelled with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kha_(Cyrillic) So it's a little in-joke.
I see. What if you made the extra two pixels that would make it an "H" flicker on/off randomly? Might be a cool effect…
freebsDerek says:
Can't believe I've never heard of XMODEM. Admittedly I'm not old enough to have used dial up (etc), but I do remember it (23). Looked it up–exactly what I needed for my Unix serial hacking project.
Doc Oct says:
Zmodem was the best. I used it to download files from several Wildcat and Spitfire BBSes back in the day.
Ostracus says:
Some calculator's used it as well.
nuttx would be a nice fit on this hardware
Stringdriven says:
I'd *LOVE* one of these! Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to be in Belgrade… Any idea how much they'd cost if there are extras?
Mind that selling extra ultracool badges would help fund the conference.
George Carlson says:
If you want a Retro Badge, why not make a miniature Sinclair ZX80, and program it in integer Basic. You would have to design it such that the display blanks whenever you make a keystroke.
It's amazing how simple the schematic is for this.
Mark McCumber says:
Some one requested that they sell them. "They are porn." To Geeks, Nerds, and hackers. Of course they are.
Can I buy one even if I'm not going to the conf?
Out of curiosity. Do they intend to make another run of these and sell them on Tindie.com for about $50.00 or so?
They are cool and a fun way to introduce programming to young STEM students. Not to mention a neat way to fund your conferences. I bought a Wyolum BADGr v4.0 from seeedstudio.com for $50.00 and I use it for many different things and it is still available.
pax says:
any plans for an updated 2019 badge with esp32?
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Recently, my brother-in-law came to visit us. One particular day we had NO plans, and could not think of anything to do. We decided to visit our local aquarium (I know, exciting). I really wasn't into it, it was very small, and quite frankly it looked lame from the outside. Boy were we surprised when we walked in. Yes, it was small, but I could not believe the number of tanks and displays they had, or the diversity in species. I especially think it was designed for children. Many of the exhibits were at eye level and very interesting. The colors were magnificent. Not expecting to have fun or see anything photo worthy, I did not bring my dSLR. I brought my little point n shoot camera and took a few handheld, flashless shots in low light. Not as sharp as I would have liked, but flash photography would not have captured anything special. Here they are, enjoy.
I forget there is an entire world under the sea. Allah truly is amazing.
The photos are beautiful. Seems like you and I had a similar experience. Sharjah, where I live, just opened up an aquarium a few months ago and my family and I finally went. It was very disappointing. My younger children were excited but I was wanting something like Baltimore's aquarium.
Masha'Allah the ocean can be so amazingly beautiful!!!!
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The Eastern Partnership (EaP) is a joint initiative involving the EU, its Member States and six Eastern European Partner countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) is a joint initiative of the EU, its Member States and Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine ('the partner countries').
Launched in 2009, the EaP is a strategic and ambitious partnership based on common values and rules, mutual interests and commitments, as well as shared ownership and responsibility. It aims to strengthen and deepen the political and economic relations between the EU, its Member States and the partner countries, as well as supports sustainable reform processes in countries of Eastern Partnership.
As a specific Eastern dimension of the European Neighourhood Policy , the Eastern Partnership combines bilateral and multilateral tracks.
The Eastern Partnership contributes to the overall goal of increasing the stability, prosperity and resilience of the EU's neighbours in line with the EU policies. It supports the delivery of key global policy objectives, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the UN 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development goals.
Background and Key Developments
Launched at the Prague Summit in 2009, the Eastern Partnership has evolved; the substance of the policy has broadened, deepened and been adapted to changing realities. The partnership is based on shared ownership, differentiation and inclusivity.
The Association Agreements and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas (AA/DCFTAs ), concluded in 2014, have brought the relations between the EU and Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine to a new level. The agreements are the most ambitious bilateral agreements signed by the EU. They aim at strengthened political association and economic integration. They represent the equivalent of around 70% of the EU acquis and they entail significant reforms that aim to bring the Partner Countries closer to the EU by aligning their legislation and standards to the EU ones. Most importantly, they have the objective of improving the lives of citizens in a tangible way. A notable example is the Visa liberalisation that entered into force for Georgia and with Ukraine in 2017 – in addition to the Republic of Moldova in 2014.
A Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the EU and Armenia entered into force on 1 March, 2021. The EU is also negotiating a new Framework Agreement with Azerbaijan, Belarus has participated actively in the multilateral formats since the beginning of the Eastern Partnership, but unilaterally suspended its participation. The current EU-Belarus relations are guided by the October 2020 Council Conclusions. The EU will maintain cooperation with Belarus within the Eastern Partnership multilateral framework at non-political level and intensify cooperation with key non-state Belarusian stakeholders, which represent Belarusian people and its democratic aspirations such as civil society, independent media and representatives of the opposition.
Over the years, the EaP has been instrumental in bringing the EU and the partner countries closer together. The EaP Summit in November 2017 marked a new approach with the adoption of a common reform agenda titled '20 deliverables for 2020'. This ambitious work plan focused on delivering tangible results on the ground and improving the lives of people in four main policy areas: (1) stronger economy; (2) stronger governance; (3) stronger connectivity and (4) stronger society, together with targets for the cross-cutting issues of gender, civil society and strategic communication.
Discussions in the framework of the EaP multilateral architecture, where all six partners and EU Member states participate, help exchange best practices across these areas and develop regional cooperation.
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In 2019, the Eastern Partnership celebrated its 10th anniversary. In this context, the President of the European Commission launched a structured consultation on the future of the Eastern Partnership. The European Council endorsed this approach in June and tasked the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the Commission to develop a new set of long-term policy objectives beyond 2020.
During the broad and inclusive consultations in autumn 2019, over 200 contributions were submitted from EU Member States, partner countries as well as other stakeholders including the United Nations, international financial institutions, youth representatives, civil society and individual citizens.
Building on the current agenda of 20 deliverables for 2020 and the outcomes of the extensive consultation, a new set of long-term policy objectives was presented in the Joint Communication "Reinforcing Resilience - an Eastern Partnership that delivers for all", adopted on 18 March 2020.
This document outlines a proposal for long-term policy objectives for the Eastern Partnership beyond 2020 and sets out the measures that aim to strengthen resilience, foster sustainable development and deliver tangible results for society. Together with the Joint Communication, a Joint Staff Working Document contains a summary of the Structured Consultations as well as the last monitoring report of the 20 deliverables for 2020.
The Joint Communication was acknowledged by the Council in its Council Conclusions on 11 May 2020.
To mark the strategic importance of the Partnership, also in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, a video conference with the leaders of the EU Member States and EaP partner countries was organised on 18 June 2020, preceded by a Foreign Affairs Ministerial call on 11 June 2020.
In both calls the EU Member States and EaP Partner Countries expressed their mutual support and solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic. They reconfirmed their commitment to the EaP as well as its fundamentals.
Looking to the future, participants welcomed the five policy objectives outlined in the Joint Communication and Council Conclusions as well as the overarching focus on resilience, as basis for the post 2020 policy framework. Furthermore, the Leaders video conference provided the groundwork to develop a new set of deliverables to be endorsed at the 6th Eastern Partnership Summit in December, 2021.
On 2 July, 2021, the European Commission and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy outlined a proposal on how to take forward priorities for cooperation with Eastern partners for years to come in the Joint Staff Working Document: Recovery, Resilience and Reform: post-2020 Eastern Partnership priorities, underpinned by an Economic and Investment Plan. The comprehensive agenda structured according to two pillars: investment and governance.
The EU, its Member States and the partner countries will work together on the following Eastern Partnership objectives:
together for resilient, sustainable and integrated economies;
together for accountable institutions, the rule of law and security;
together towards environmental and climate resilience;
together for a resilient digital transformation;
together for resilient, fair and inclusive societies.
Multilateral architecture
The current multilateral architecture was revised and officially adopted at the 2017 EaP Summit (along with the '20 deliverables for 2020'), and it has been operational since 2018.
The 2019 consultation on the future of the EaP showed a clear consensus that the current structures were functional and fit for purpose, as well as the importance of the multilateral dimension of the EaP cooperation.
However, to accommodate the new priorities outlined in the Joint Communication of 18 March 2020 and the targets in Joint staff working document of 2 July 2021 as well as improve further streamlining, operational arrangements and flexibility, some adjustments are required. It is expected that these proposals will be further discussed with EU Member States and partner countries in view of the EaP Summit in 2021.
In the Eastern neighbourhood, as part of its global response to the coronavirus outbreak, the EU, together with the European Investment Bank, mobilised EUR 2,5 billion to support Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine in tackling the coronavirus health crisis and socio-economic recovery. Tailor-made COVID-19 response funding is being mobilised in each of the six partner countries.
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Spain knocked out Iberian rivals Portugal on penalties after they played out a 0-0 draw in the first semi-final of Euro 2012, as Joao Moutinho and Bruno Alves missed.
Earlier, Cristiano Ronaldo had missed a good chance to put Portugal through in the last minute of normal time while Portugal keeper Rui Patricio made superb saves to deny Jesus Navas and Andres Iniesta in extra-time.
who rolled the ball onto his right foot before floating a shot inches over Rui Patricio's goal.
Within two minutes, Portugal had responded with an even better chance, Joao Moutinho's persistence paying off on the edge of the box as he set free Ronaldo to drill a low shot just wide of Casillas left hand post. Portugal's control continued into the second half, with Nani almost picking out the head of Hugo Almeida from a dangerous right wing cross, and it proved enough for Vicente Del Bosque, who replaced Negredo with Fabregas up front.
Almeida wasted a good chance in the 58th minute when he fired ambitiously over the Spanish bar instead of picking out Ronaldo or Nani, who were unmarked to his left and right respectively. Belatedly, Spain started to show signs of stirring, Xabi drilling a shot straight at Patricio from long range, but despite beginning to edge possession, chances continued to be few and far between.
Then came a glorious chance for Ronaldo in the last minute of normal time, when a Portuguese counter-attack saw Raul Meireles feed the Real Madrid man who fired over the bar from the left side of the box. The introduction of Pedro lent some urgency to the Spanish attack in extra-time, and his run set up a chance for Iniesta in the seventh minute of the extra half hour, but his low shot was blocked in the box.
The Portuguese were plainly tiring, and Spain had an even better chance in the 104th minute, when Jordi Alba's cross found Iniesta in front of goal but Patricio managed to flap his shot wide from six yards. Sergio Ramos slammed a long-range free-kick just over the bar before the end of the first period of extra-time, and Ramos was soon in critical action at the other end when cutting out a Fabio Coentrao ball meant for Ronaldo.
Substitute Jesus Navas was next to get the chance to break the deadlock in the 22nd minute of extra-time, picking up a ball from Arbeloa in the box and hitting a shot which Patricio did well to save down low. As Spain kept pressing, Pedro briefly burst clear before being caught by Fabio Coentrao, but by then there was a certain inevitability about a match that promised much but offered little heading to penalties.
Alonso had the first spot-kick saved by Patricio but Casillas evened things up by saving the first Portuguese penalty from Moutinho. Iniesta, Pepe, Pique, Nani and Sergio Ramos (who calmly copied Andrea Pirlo's 'Panenka' style spot-kick) all put away their penalties before Alves - who had inadvertently stepped up for the previous penalty which was eventually converted by Nani - hit the bar, leaving Fabregas to put Spain through.


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Special Olympics was founded in 1941 to provide opportunities for athletes with intellectual disabilities and their families to achieve their personal best by developing skills and confidence. Its mission is to promote acceptance for all and inspire compassion and understanding. Every year, the Special Olympics organization reaches over 4 million people worldwide through its global movement of athletes. In 2008, Special Olympics had 2 million athletes and 10 million volunteers worldwide.
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The Special Olympics is one of the world's largest nonprofit organizations dedicated to promoting acceptance and inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities. While the organization was initially started by a group of sports enthusiasts who wanted to promote sport among the disabled population, they have grown to include hundreds of thousands of volunteers. They now organize athletic competitions that help thousands of athletes improve their lives and achieve their dreams. They do this by providing opportunities for athletes to compete in various sports, and their success rate is astonishing. The average winning athlete has been on the team for only four years, but more than half have won at least once.
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Frequently asked questions about Special Olympics.
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Every year, the Special Olympics organization reaches over 4 million people worldwide through its global movement of athletes. The campaign started in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver after she learned her son, Tim, had Down Syndrome. Since then, the organization has grown to include a global movement of over 1.5 million athletes from 165 countries and the world's largest sports training programs. Tim Shriver, also the Special Olympics founder, once said, "The Special Olympics movement has become an integral part of our culture, and it is an inspiration for everyone." The following are eight reasons why the Special Olympics is one of the most successful nonprofits in the country.
Whether you are participating in the 2018 games in Arlington, Texas, or watching from home, it's time to start preparing for your 2018 Special Olympics. It's an important time for the movement as the athletes and volunteers prepare for their journey. They are preparing for their trip but also need to prepare for theirs. The Special Olympics movement is one of the world's most successful and longest-running nonprofit movements. There are several reasons why the Special Olympics movement works so well, but the first is that it focuses on athletes rather than volunteers. When you're talking about athletes, you're talking about people who are trained in sports but who ma haveabilities. They are the most important part of the movement.
The Special Olympics movement is the largest sports organization in the world. The movement's mission is to promote respect for people with intellectual disabilities, inspire acceptance for people with intellectual disabilities and enable all people with intellectual disabilities to participate in a full range of sports and recreational activities. The Special Olympics movement has become a cultural icon by making sports accessible to people with intellectual disabilities, offering sports as a platform for social and cultural change, and providing opportunities for education and self-improvement. According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Special Olympics movement is the most successful nonprofit in the United States.
You don't need to be a part of the Special Olympics movement to appreciate its impact. I'm sure most people are familiar with the event and how it has changed lives. Special Olympics gives children and adults with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to participate in sports, and it provides a platform for personal growth. These athletes and coaches represent the greatest triumph of humanity. In recent years, Special Olympics has become an international phenomenon.
They have reached over 10 million athletes, coaches, and volunteers in 170 countries. And they do it all without government funding. But how does a nonprofit organization that has never received a dime of government funding grow to such a large scale? Many factors contribute to this success. First of all, Special Olympics is an incredible leader in the disability community. They have long embraced diversity and inclusion, ensuring every athlete is valued and appreciated. Through their leadership, they have been able to recruit so many coaches and athletes from across the globe.
I am a huge supporter of the Special Olympics. They are truly a great organization, and I believe that anyone attending a Special Olympics event will agree. The Special Olympics movement has become an international phenomenon. Every year, they reach over 4 million people worldwide through their global campaign of athletes. You can get involved in the Special Olympics movement by volunteering or fundraising. There are many ways that you can contribute to the cause.
Q: What are some things you would like to accomplish as part of your job with Special Olympics?
A: I would like to help raise money for the Special Olympics. My mom and I are going to the Winter Games in Canada this year. It will be my first time there.
Q: What do you think the Special Olympics means to the rest of the world?
A: For me, it means everything. I feel like the Special Olympics represents all of us. Some people are deaf, people with disabilities, people with mental illness, and people who need a break. The Special Olympics allows people to take a break and have fun.
Q: What was the most important lesson you learned at the Special Olympics?
A: That everyone has something to offer the world.
1. The Special Olympics is not a disease.
2. The Special Olympics does not need money.
3. The Special Olympics is a place for everyone.
4. The Special Olympics is a cure for everything.
If you care about children and want to make a difference, I recommend checking out the Special Olympics movement. Special Olympics is one of the most successful nonprofits in America. They're an organization that benefits millions of people every year. They also have a proven track record of delivering results that have exceeded expectations. This video shows the true potential of what an organization like the Special Olympics can do.
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MMM United Review – How it works, and how you can make money from it
MMM United
The rate of increase in popularity of MMM United is almost unreal, you can barely have a discussion now without having it pop up and lasting for hours as a topic of conversation. Thus, for the benefit of the few that do not know about it yet and are curious, I decided to write about this to enlighten us about it and how to become a participant.
1 The History of MMM United
2 How Does MMM United Work?
2.1 How to create a bitcoin wallet:
3 Benefits of MMM United
3.1 MMM United – Risks and Criticisms
4 MMM United Review – Conclusion
I would like to quickly offer an overview of MMM United before I make a deep dive into what they do, and how anyone can make money through this system.
First and foremost, there is a difference between MMM United and MMM Global; MMM United is a splinter Ponzi scheme based on the same movement with claims of drawing their inspiration directly from MMM Global founder Mr Sergey Mavrodi. MMM United, according to their website are;
"The International community of Mavrodians is looking for a reliable, stable system with a promising future. The main goal of MMM United is to unite global leadership to erect an ideal system that can fulfil this mass requirement."
From the above message, it is clear that MMM United attempts to humanise their marketing, to make it more about its members and minimising the significance of themselves.
However, there are concerns that exist around the fact that the MMM united website does not reveal details about the owners of the company; it obviously questions the legitimacy of the scheme and can be cause for doubts around whether or not to join it.
The History of MMM United
MMM United is said to be a spinoff of MMM Global; the bitcoin-based Ponzi scheme that went up in smokes early in 2016. But from its ashes arose MMM United with a vision to make monthly 100% returns for its members.
MMM United is operated by, in their own words "no other than a team of MMM participants from our respective national structures of MMM".
The platform's website has over 80% of its global traffic from India (in accordance with Alexa.com analysis), hence this points to a presumption that it is based in India (though this has not been yet confirmed).
How Does MMM United Work?
MMM United is a globally positioned social network for donation. Members place money in a common storage where it can be called upon when needed. MMM United will grant a 100% return on every help you provide within a month; help is only provided in Bitcoins and when you receive help, it is also in Bitcoins. Now I will go into a brief description about Bitcoins and how to get a bitcoin wallet, get help and convert it to cash in your local currency.
Bitcoin is a global form of digital currency that is decentralised (not controlled by any financial institution) and is used to trade and make purchases online. You will need to set up a bitcoin wallet in order to join MMM United; to get a bitcoin wallet, quickly follow the instructions below.
How to create a bitcoin wallet:
Visit https://blockchain.info/wallet
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Click on 'create a new wallet'.
Enter your details as specified in the form.
You will receive an activation email to confirm your registration.
Click the link in the email to confirm your registration.
Click on 'receive'.
You will see a long alphanumeric character, this is your bitcoin wallet ID, you need to copy it.
Paste it in a text editor (notepad or anyone else) and save, you will need it at a later time.
Voila, you have a bitcoin wallet and can now join MMM United.
Now, after you have set up your bitcoin wallet, it is time to complete your registration to MMM United. Go to their website and click on register, you will need to accurately fill in the information as requested on the form and then hit 'Send Activation Link' in order to receive an activation link to your email (Just like with bitcoin, you need to click this link to confirm your email and complete your registration process.
Now, all you need to do is log in" to your personal office (PO) and then declare your willingness to give help, after you do that you will be awarded a Mavro (Mavro is a kind of currency in MMM United that is used to measure your help) equivalent of the help you give. This very Mavro grows at 100% monthly and upon maturity, you can 'Request Help' and have the bitcoin equivalent of your Mavro value sent to your wallet by another MMM United participant who has 'Pledged to give help'.
Note that you have total control over the amount of help you give, but your 100% monthly ROI depends on how much you have given. Also note that there is no central bank account where money is collected, and which represents a risk of being stolen. You may visit their website to learn a lot more about how it works and then get started.
With a scheme like MMM United comes a lot of buzz and craziness, and also a lot of criticism and scepticism, let us examine some of the benefits and doubts that have polarised opinions about it since it surfaced.
Benefits of MMM United
MMM United presents quite a number of attractive points that seem to pull in thousands of active users on a daily basis. These are;
100% ROI: Well, who wouldn't like to see their net worth multiply by a factor of two every month?
5% Referral Bonus: You get 5% of monthly income of every participant you invited to MMM United through your referral link.
Guider's Bonus: A Guider is a higher ranked participant who creates his own multi-level structure of other participants. As Guider, you will earn a bonus for any donation made by anyone" in your network.
MMM United – Risks and Criticisms
On the low side, these are the areas of risk in participating in MMM United scheme;
Anonymous ID; For a company that refuse to declare their ownership identity, it is believed that results from unwillingness to accept responsibility for anything that becomes of the scheme Mid to Long-term, including loss of money on the platform by participants, and a complete shutdown of the scheme.
100% ROI; What? Well yes, it is a fact, a 100% ROI means that MMM United needs to keep growing doubly month over month, without this, it will become more difficult to source for the returns and that could lead to a meltdown of the scheme when debts owed are far too much to be paid by the members available.
MMM United Review – Conclusion
While I am not a promoter or marketer for MMM United, it is obviously no complete scam, however, one must go into it with caution and do not put too much in it for starters, because the more you pledge, the harder it is to source for your ROI among other participants. All in all, it is an opportunity to exponentially grow your funds, and while it remains, it will be a worthy point of attraction.
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Just how hated are the pirates of Somalia? This much: China's top general is suggesting that the rest of the world put aside their differences, and team up to launch amphibious assaults on the pirates' onshore havens.
In comments at the National Defense University yesterday, General Chen Bingde, the chief of general staff of China's People's Liberation Army, called for military action against Somali pirate bosses on land, not just against their minions at sea.
"For counter-piracy campaigns to be effective, we should probably move beyond the ocean and crash their bases on the land," Reuters quoted Gen Bingde as saying.
That's a much more aggressive take on piracy than we heard out of China in March. At that time, its permanent representative to the United Nations used a much more anodyne phrasing of the land-based approach, arguing for addressing it with "political, economic and judicial means."
It's also not the kind of statement the world is used to hearing from China in general.
Ever conscious of "national sovereignty," China is often heard condemning military attacks rather than gunning for them. It has criticized the attacks on Libya (although they chose to abstain from a UN Security Council vote permitting them), the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden and the war in Iraq.
But piracy has a way of annoying countries into action. Like other rising economic and naval powers, China has been prompted to take on increasingly aggressive military measures as Somali pirates have menaced its merchant fleet in the Indian Ocean. In 2008, it sent a task force of warships to the waters off the Somali coast, marking its first deployment of naval power far away from its shores. Since then, China has conducted convoys to protect its shipping. Attacks still happen, though and Somali pirates are currently holding a number of Chinese nationals captured in various hijackings.
Attacks on land ports come with risks, however. Direct strikes could complicate Somalia's battle against Islamist militants. And attempts to use private security-backed militias as proxies against pirates haven't produced much results, either.
Whether or not it's a good idea, China's certainly not alone in floating the idea of attacking pirate hangouts on land, as the Wall Street Journal's (and Danger Room alum) Nathan Hodge notes. French commandos have chased down and captured on land some of the pirates responsible for the hijacking of the Le Ponant. And the U.S. seems to be keen on the idea, too. In March, testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unloaded her frustration with the current state of counter-piracy operations. Urging more military action, she said "its hard to imagine that we're going to be able to resolve this until we go after their land-based ports."


Does former Barack Obama CIA director John Brennan, who this week accused President Trump of treason for comments at a news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, still have a top-secret security clearance?
If so, as "knowledgeable sources" say, that's cause for alarm, contends Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
"If he has top-secret clearance as unhinged as he is now, he's calling the president treasonous, saying he is for the death penalty of the president, this is alarming," Paul said Thursday night in an interview with the Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson, as reported by BizPacReview.
Such permission would allow Brennan to view classified government documents and personal information on American citizens as well as discuss classified issues with intelligence officials.
On Wednesday, former U.S. Attorney for Washington Joe diGenova told the Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity Brennan is responsible for the sharing of false information about Trump and Russia with American intelligence agencies.
DiGenova isn't the only one to react to Brennan's treason charge.
Democrats and other critics had demanded Trump call off his Finland meeting with Putin, claiming the indictment last Friday of 12 Russian intelligence officers for interference in the 2016 election further implicates the Trump campaign in an alleged scheme to collude with the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton.


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Will an MAT degree qualify me to teach studio art at the college level?
I attended the Maryland Institute College of Art for the first year of my undergrad. Unfortunately, I was unable to continue there, due to financial hardship, and ended up graduating from my local state university with a BA in Studio Art: Drawing.
I took a year off to save money and prepare my portfolio, and applied to both RISD and MICA's MAT programs for Fall 2017. I was admitted to both (MICA awarded me their highest scholarship) and initially thought that receiving my MAT and starting out in a high school teaching environment would allow for a few years of experience before possibly later pursuing a teaching position at the college level.
I'm beginning to realize more and more that I feel most passionate about maintaining a balance between teaching at an advanced level and developing a professional studio practice, which seems to make college-level teaching the best fit. This leads me to believe that I've had the wrong plan all along and should truly be pursuing an MFA (especially after reading some of your insightful blog posts about the bias present in the competitive college teaching climate).
Is there any opportunity, that you can speak of, to utilize an MAT degree at the college level? Or am I better off waiting/preparing another year in pursuit of an MFA program? If it is more appropriately the latter, could you recommend any prestigious MFA programs that offer drawing as a concentration? Thank you so much for your time and I truly appreciate your input.
Unfortunately, an MAT will not qualify you to teach studio art at the college level. Today, pretty much across the board, all colleges are requiring candidates to have an MFA degree. I think if you are totally committed to teaching at the college level, your best bet is to do whatever is necessary to enroll at an MFA program.
The only MFA program I know of that offers a concentration in drawing is the New York Academy of Art, and their curriculum is extremely specific and geared towards students who want to work with the human figure as their primary subject in a representational style. I'm not sure what your drawings are like, that school would only be a good fit if you want to pursue representational figure drawing. It's possible there are other programs out there that offer drawing, but I'm not aware of them.
Most MFA programs offer concentrations in painting, printmaking, sculpture, new media. I don't know if you have any experience in printmaking, but that might be a good concentration for you since it's so closely related to drawing. Keep in mind that your major in an MFA program does not necessarily need to be exactly what you end up doing.
I applied for MFA programs thinking I was going to be a painter; I ended up doing my MFA in sculpture, and now I primarily work in printmaking and drawing! So I think no matter what you choose as a major, there is a way for every experience to be fruitful and applicable to your future work.
Keep in mind that MFA programs are terribly competitive, simply because thousands of people apply every year for very few spots. For many people it can take them several rounds of applying before they're accepted into the school they want to go to, so don't be discouraged if you don't get in right away. Hope this helps!
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Solomon was one of the wisest men who ever lived. He is credited with writing three books of the Bible - Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon. The stories of his wisdom transcend faith traditions as he is respected beyond Jews and Christians. However, his life serves as more of a cautionary tale for those of us who want to skip the transformational journey and jump right into prosperity.
God does bless Solomon beyond measure. One estimate puts the current value of Solomon's riches at $2.1 trillion - double that of the combined estimates of John D. Rockerfeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Henry Ford (take that "men who built America"). However, Solomon's life doesn't end well. He turns his heart from God, and worships at the feet of the idols brought to him by his 1,000 wives. He's removed from the throne by God. How could this happen?
Solomon's father, David, walked an incredible journey with God. So incredible was David's journey that he is still known as a man after God's own heart. David's life is marked by many ups and downs, and his life is marked by a journey of transformation. Solomon, however, was granted wisdom by God without a journey and then given even more. His prayer was wise and we are the beneficiaries of that prayer. However, Solomon's life ends without a completed journey of transformation, one where his heart is clearly drawn back to the Lord.
Why does this matter? Our relationship with God is cemented during a transformational journey. In those moments of incredible difficulty where wisdom is earned, we have the opportunity to align our hearts with our loving God forever. Solomon was granted wisdom and prosperity, the level of which every man dreams. His prayer ended up circumventing the opportunity for lifelong relationship with God and his heart is drawn away late in life. May we all embrace the struggles on and off the baseball field so that our relationship with the Lord never drifts as Solomon's did. Avoid prayers of early prosperity as they may not bear the long-term fruit God desires for each of us.


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BookTrust gifts every reception aged child in England with picture book The Bumblebear. 700,000 copies to be exact, are to be gifted to school starters in England as part of BookTrust's Time to Read campaign!
Families across the country will be following Norman the bear's adventure at Bee School this Autumn when BookTrust, the UK's largest children's reading charity, delivers 700,000 copies of children's picture book The Bumblebear (Random House) to every reception age child in England.
This amusing and colourful picture book, written by Nadia Shireen, is being delivered to schools throughout the Autumn term as part of BookTrust's Time to Read campaign. Time to Read originally launched in September 2016, encouraging parents and carers of primary school aged children to keep reading with their children - even once they've learned to read.
BookTrust Chief Executive Diana Gerald said: "Finding the time to read together as a family can have dramatic effects on a child's wellbeing and development. Children are more likely to read if they love books, and they're more likely to love books if families have fun reading together anytime and anywhere.
The Bumblebear was selected for BookTrust by an independent panel of experts and practitioners, who work with reception-aged children. It was the unanimous favourite with the panel for its quality of storytelling, relatable school setting and its ability to be read aloud in a lively manner. But most importantly, it sends a lovely message of inclusivity with a well-resolved fallible element.
Children across England will start to get The Bumblebear at school from September onwards. The book will be delivered inside a special Time to Read package to take home. Inside the pack is a helpful message for parents and carers about the importance of shared reading.


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I have Installed Composer Globally. I am trying to create a Laravel project using composer command 'composer create-project laravel/laravel'. After a while PHP CLI stops working. Screen shot is below.

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A Trail of Lies
Scooter forgets his promise to Liz and Lucille and tells a lie to cover up, but one lie isn't enough.
Theme: One lie leads to another
1. Proverbs 19:5 says that those who lie "will not go free." How do lies generally lead to more lies and more problems?
2. In Luke 22:54-62, Peter told a series of lies that made him miserable. Jesus had said that Peter would deny knowing him three times before morning. Peter was sure it wouldn't happen. But then Jesus was arrested by an angry crowd and led off to the high priest. Peter followed, but he didn't want anyone to know that he was one of Jesus' apostles. He thought he might be arrested too. A servant girl saw him and told everyone he knew Jesus. Peter said, "I don't know him." A little later, another person made the same claim, that Peter was one of Jesus' followers. Peter said, "I am not!" And then a third person said they'd seen Peter with Jesus. Peter replied, "I don't know what you're talking about." Just then, a rooster crowed, and Jesus turned and looked at Peter. This made Peter miserable. He went outside alone and cried because of his lies. As you listen to this episode, think about how lies can lead to more lies and more troubles.
"A false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever pours out lies will not go free"
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1. Why did Scooter leave Liz and Lucille's table unattended?
A: He was invited to play kickball at recess.
2. What happened to Liz and Lucille's baked goods?
A: The teachers ate them.
3. What was the first lie that Scooter told? Why?
A: That Spike took all the baked goods.
4. What other lies did he have to tell to cover up the first lie?
A: He blamed Skink and then Liz and Lucille.
5. How did Scooter get free from all the lies?
A: He told the truth.
In this episode, Scooter learns that lies lead to more lies which leads to more trouble. The only way to avoid the trouble is to tell the truth.
God gave Adam and Eve one rule in the Garden of Eden. He told them not to eat the fruit from one tree. He said that if they ate the fruit, they would die. But Satan told Eve a lie (Genesis 3:4). He told her she would not die, but instead would be like God. Eve believed the lie and ate the fruit. Immediately, she began to die. The very first lie caused sin to come into the world. It's because of that sin that all of us have to die. Satan's lie might not seem like much, but it led to a world of problems.
Want to dig deeper and learn what God says about lying? Read Proverbs 12:22, John 8:44, and Colossians 3:9.
Ask your parents or other trusted adults about a time when they told a lie that led to more lies that led to a lot of problems. How did it end? What lesson did they learn as a result? Talk with them about how much easier it is to tell the truth at the first opportunity.
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