Sony's pint sized mascot, and his creators Media Molecule seem to be going from strength to strength since the release of the first Little Big Planet game in 2008.
Sackboy's latest outing, Little Big Planet Karting, takes the universe created by the team at Media Molecule and cross-breeds it with United Front Games original and somewhat under-rated title, Modnation Racers.
Once again putting you in the role of the mannequin of sackcloth, which you can style and decorate to put on your own personal stamp, you are introduced to what equates to a plot in the LBP world. Taking on the Hoard, a gang of unruly racers who collect the worlds prize bubbles, not to share and create, but to "hoard". You are given access to a basic kart when one of the horde crashes, allowing you to venture through the previously established worlds reclaiming the bubbles for the inhabitants.
All of this introduction and all of the voice-over work is once again undertaken by the inimitable Stephen Fry with his quintessential aplomb and dry wit which will make those Little Big Planet fans feel right at home.
From the outset those who have had any interaction with Little Big Planet will be familiar with your Pod, a cardboard, customisable environment which is your gateway to the Karting world. From here you can redesign your Sackboy, choose or modify your Kart, connect to the story mode, set up multi-player games, access the community or store, and even jump to your "Moon" which acts as a platform where you can create your own racetracks or arena's.
Unlike most karting games, there are no immediately accessible cups or leagues, and all levels and planets are unlocked through the "wooly" story mode which alongside the standard circuit races are checkpoint rallies, battle arenas where you face off against multiple opponents and try to get the most kills and points in the arena, top-down RC events in a similar vein to the classic micro machines and even boss battles. Incorporated into this smorgasbord is a full gambit of mini games primed to put your karting skills to the test.
Controls are simple, as expected from a game built to cater to all demographics, and picking up the basics takes mere minutes, but mastering the controls is sufficiently challenging. Drifting has become a staple of the karting genre since made fashionable back on the SNES, but LBP places its own spin on the mechanic. Drifting for an extended period of time ignites your tires and when the drift button is released you are given a burst of acceleration. As the flames grow on your tires so too does the strength of the boost, so the longer you drift the bigger your speed. To counter this, any impact with the environment or other players automatically disables your existing drift, so finding the balance between risk and reward is a must to make the most of the boost system.
Weapons make an appearance with the "Weaponater" power-up scattered throughout the courses, which will issue you with a random weapon that can not only be used for offense, but works equally well in defence. Impacts from incoming fire will either slow you down by knocking you off course, or will despawn your Sackboy completely. As such an indicator will display approaching fire. In the last few seconds, this icon will change to a shield, and firing off your weapon will intercept these attacks.
Regrettably, the requirement to complete each level in single player before you are allowed to undertake that particular course in Multiplayer is a decision that is detrimental to the games strength, which is obviously to play with others. The single player is enjoyable but playing competitively against friends and strangers is the true highlight. To that end, the AI in the single player is deceptively competent, perhaps too much so, as you can find yourself playing a level several times over as the AI will undertake to pummel you into submission on every lap. The reliance on pickups to defend yourself is easily countered by the multiple NPC's all gunning for you at the same time, and you only able to defend against one at a time. Frustration can boil through and spoil the entertainment to be found in this mode.
Each level is littered with collectables, which will require you to utilise every inch of the course for those of you who enjoy that OCD aspect of games. Prize bubbles collected on each run will unlock new items to use or decorate your POD, character and vehicles just like the other games allowing a level of customisation for which LBP is famed.
The dogma Play, Create, Share is alive and well in this latest outing with a full complement of creation tools available at your disposal. Entering your moon allows you to create a plethora of courses and arena's to share, and once again the tools made available are more than sufficient to create your perfect race visions. All of the worlds available to unlock in the game are there for you to utilise from the outset. Setting out a basic course, you can modify every part, from the tightness of the corners, to adding multiple routes and varying the height of the course are all easily achieved with a couple of clicks of the button.
Overall, Little Big Planet Karting is an enjoyable romp, but it fails to find the balance required to make this a must have title. As such, fans of Little Big Planet, or those that are looking for an enjoyable, if somewhat frustrating, karting game in the current vacuum could do worse than to pick this game up.
Disclosure: Midlife Gamer were provided with a copy of Little Big Planet Karting for review purposes by the promoter. The title was reviewed over the course of 2 weeks on a PS3. For more information on what our scores mean, plus details of our reviews policy, click here.
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Like many businesses, global child car seat and stroller manufacturer Britax Group sees advantages in exploiting lean manufacturing techniques. The problem: how best to reflect lean processes such as kanbans and pull-based scheduling within its ERP system.
"We have some lean processes in place within our Australian and European operations, but there's no real support for them within our existing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 system, which limits our ability to leverage what lean manufacturing might deliver for us," explains Ben Hancock, the company's Fort Mill, South Carolina-based group head of ERP.
And yet, he adds, he and his team had become aware that a more recent version of Microsoft Dynamics AX—Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012—did indeed contain support for lean manufacturing.
But how exactly did that support work? Would it be compatible with how Britax envisaged using lean manufacturing? How adaptable and configurable was it? What lean-specific reporting options were available? And how would it help Britax's manufacturing management to roll out lean techniques across the company's global operations?
As it turned out, a meeting with eBECS at Microsoft's Dynamics user conference, Convergence, which took place during March 2015, was to provide a way forward.
eBECS, it transpired, was not only intimately acquainted with the lean functionality that was built into Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, but also offered a two-day 'lean assessment' consulting engagement, where eBECS personnel visited a manufacturer's plant, and built a lean-enabled proof-of-concept, using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, that the manufacturer could use as a reference point when deciding if—and how—to adopt lean manufacturing.
And even though Britax had had no prior commercial relationship with eBECS, Hancock was very clear as to why the eBECS proof-of-concept was the way to go.
In short, he concludes, the decision was very straightforward.
"We needed answers—and it looked like eBECS was where to go to get them," he sums up.
Accordingly, in late April, McCormick and an eBECS lean manufacturing consultant arrived at Britax for an intensive two days of discovery, training, and process mapping, culminating in the building of a small proof-of-concept demonstration system, using Britax's own products, modelled with its own data.
"The first morning, we worked backwards through the manufacturing process, understanding what was going on, and talking to Britax manufacturing people, and exploring how pull-based processes might work—which was the reason we were moving through the manufacturing process backwards, of course," explains McCormick.
Then came an afternoon of brainstorming and education, mapping the Britax manufacturing process onto hypothetical lean transactions, and exploring how Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 might reflect those transactions.
Finally, working collaboratively together, the team built a small Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 test system, highlighting how representative order flows could be handled.
"We think of it as a 'scale model'—something that we could use to further our own thinking, once the eBECS experts had finished and gone home," explains Hancock.
So where is Britax now on its lean manufacturing journey?
eBECS' McCormick concurs, emphasizing that the purpose of such lean assessment projects isn't to sell lean manufacturing, but to simply point out how it might work, and where it might deliver benefits.
Britax has been the leader in car seat safety technology for more than 70 years. From Europe's best-selling car seat brand to one of the brands most trusted by American families, Britax offer a full line of child safety seats including infant car seats, convertible car seats, combination seats and booster seats.
"Importantly, for instance, it was eBECS' own lean functionality that Microsoft had built into Dynamics AX 2012. So fairly obviously, as the original developer, no one would know it better. Plus, as might be expected, eBECS had an extensive track record of implementing lean manufacturing within Dynamics ERP environments. In short, he concludes, the decision was very straightforward. We needed answers—and it looked like eBECS was where to go to get them."


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No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger Preview-Martinsville
Photo courtesy of Autostock
No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger
Goody's Fast Relief 500
Martinsville Speedway
TV: FOX at 12:30 PM ET Radio: MRN/Sirius Channel 90
No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger News and Notes
• This Week's Charger… The No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger team will race chassis PRS-818 during Sunday's Goody's Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway. This is a new chassis to the No. 2 fleet.
• No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger in 2012… After five points-paying events, Keselowski and the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger team are ranked 16th in the 2012 driver point standings and 17th in the owner point standings. The team is coming off an 18th-place finish in the rain-shortened Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway last Sunday.
• Shot At Redemption… In the last Cup Series race at Martinsville in October of 2011, Keselowski was poised to pick up his career-best finish at the half-mile oval. Running solidly inside the top 10 with two laps remaining, Keselowski was an innocent bystander in an incident with the No. 88 car of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the No. 11 machine of Denny Hamlin. As a result, he lost nine positions and hurt his chances to stay in the running for the Cup Series championship. He will look for redemption this weekend as the most recent winner of a short-track race (Bristol) in the Cup Series.
• Going For Another 100 Wins… Keselowski's win two weeks ago at Bristol Motor Speedway marked the 101st stock car victory for Penske Racing. The first win for the organization came in 1973 at Riverside International Raceway with driver Mark Donohue.
• Have A Miller Lite With That Dog… The featured tag line on the rear bumper of the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge this weekend in Martinsville is "Have a Miller Lite With That Dog." One of the most well-known traditions in NASCAR is the Martinsville Speedway hot dog. What goes better with a hot dog than a Miller Lite?
• The Rest is History... Martinsville Speedway is a track where Penske Racing has enjoyed its share of success over the years. In 88 starts, the organization has picked up six wins (all by Rusty Wallace), five poles, 19 top-five and 33 top-10 finishes at Martinsville. Wallace made Martinsville his personal playground in the Miller Lite car as he did not finish outside of the top-three in eight consecutive races from September of 1992 through April of 1996.
Brad Keselowski on racing at Martinsville Speedway
"Martinsville is a place that I've learned to enjoy. Bristol is a place that I took to immediately, but Martinsville requires finesse that can only be learned with track time. I never considered myself a great short-track driver, but one thing that helped me when I got to this level was that my dad made me travel around to different tracks when I was growing up. I raced a lot of different short tracks in the Midwest and that made me comfortable when I got into the upper levels of NASCAR. We had a good race with the Miller Lite Dodge here last fall, but got caught up in a wreck late in the race. I know (crew chief) Paul (Wolfe) will give me an even better car this weekend and, hopefully, we can get a grandfather clock (trophy)."
Brad Keselowski on the importance of good brakes when racing at Martinsville Speedway
"Martinsville will always be a track that is hard on brakes. Yes, the braking systems have come a long way over the last 10 years or so. But if you give us more brakes or better brakes, we are going to use more brakes to the point that we will damage the sidewall of the tire. Overheating the brakes is something that is easy to do because you are going so hard every lap as passing is difficult at Martinsville. Managing your brakes is part of being a successful short-track racer."
Crew chief Paul Wolfe on Martinsville Speedway
"We have a brand-new Miller Lite Dodge this weekend and I'm excited about its potential. We took it to the short track at Rockingham and came away very pleased. One key for me is that we are racing on the same tire as last fall. The left-rear tire is very important for forward bite at Martinsville so it's nice to know we can use some of last year's notes. Track position is paramount, so we'll place some added attention to qualifying on Saturday. It's still Martinsville so anything can happen, but Brad likes racing there so we are a confident team heading into this weekend."

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1989 Scientia Ltd was founded to develop artificial intelligence resource scheduling solutions for education, defence, and industry. Syllabus timetabling system for schools was launched in December 1989, in the presence of HRH Prince Michael of Kent and Scientia's Chairman, Baron Bentinck. Syllabus contained the first version of Scientia's GENIE scheduling engine.
1990 Syllabus Plus for universities and colleges was pioneered for Macintosh computers. This product contained a more advances version of GENIE which was need to support the complexity of timetabling in higher education.
1991 Scientia acquire Procyon Research Ltd who have developed the Procyon Common Lisp environment which is used to further develop Scientia's products.
1993 Scientia pioneered the development of a new GENIE engine which improved performance. Extending the functionality to multiple users, Scientia also developed a scheduling database to allow schedulers to work on the same schedule at the same time.
1994 Syllabus Plus 2 is released bringing with it a multi-user scheduling system into the academic timetabling world. It used a client-server architecture and provided both advisory and automatic scheduling.
1996 Scientia release Exam Scheduler a scheduling system that ensures individual students have a clash-free exam period and to ease pressure on the exam staff by controlling the amount of exams scheduled in one day. Scientia receives the green light by the Australian Government for the Syllabus Plus product suite to be sold to Australian universities.
2002 Syllabus Plus Data Adapter is released allowing exchange of data between Syllabus Plus and other systems.
2004 This year saw the release of Web Room Booking, a system that allows both student and staff to book an available space.
2005 Student Allocator is released. This web portal is able to model programmes and modules rules for the most complex curriculum, allowing staff to save time and improve the selection process.
2006 A move into a new platform era with Enterprise Foundation which retain the GENIE scheduling engine written in Lisp and a new GENIE engine written in .Net.
2007 The first of the new platform products are released including Enterprise Timetabler and Staff Workload Planner. SWP was the first system to fully integrate with planning and timetabling and helps give universities greater visibility of the activities of staff.
2009 Enterprise Foundation is released.
2011 The next generation of Exam Scheduler is released. Scientia acquire DataVisibility Ltd and with it the Imprest solution. Imprest offers a highly configurable system to mirror an organisation's process whilst identify overspend and underspend at the same time.
2013 The company is shortlisted for the Education Investors Award in the category of Use of Educational Technology.
2015 Scientia launches two new Cloud products: Publish and Resource Booker. Resource Booker, enables both students and institution staff to book rooms and resources from any device. Publish allows personalised timetables to be viewed on any device through a range of calendar clients.
2016 Exam Management System – our Cloud-based exam management tool – is released.
2017 Scientia annouces Syllabus Plus Anywhere – a brand new integrated Cloud platform which supports Scientia's timetabling and resource management applications.
Established in Cambridge, UK in 1989, Scientia is an international company with a global perspective and a highly diverse workforce. Our longevity and continuous progression is testament to the skills, dedication and professionalism of our employees.


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Runaway Horses by Alfred Silver
Runaway Horses, A novel
By Alfred Silver
Pottersfield Press (2013)
Did you know that in 1849, there was a Nova Scotia Pony Express?
Pony Express seems quite a silly name (although that was also the moniker for the Wild West's famous horseback delivery service) as some of the province's fittest and fastest horses were employed.
For approximately nine months, riders galloped the 144 miles from Halifax to Grandville Point (now called Victoria Beach), carrying news that arrived from England. They raced against the clock, and the rival Barnaby company, to arrive at the Bay of Fundy dock. From there a steam boat couriered the bulletins to Saint John, where they were telegraphed to the Associated Press in New York.
Alfred Silver's Runaway Horses brings this little known historical gem to life as he invites readers to explore life in Annapolis Royal, Kentville, Windsor, Halifax and the communities in between, from over a century and a half ago. He also adds emotional depth to contemporaneous events like the Irish Potato Famine and the Mexican-American War, while fusing in cultural parallels, such as between the Gypsies of Western Europe and the regional Mi'kmaq population.
Some readers will be most engrossed with the bond formed between two teenagers who find refuge in the Halifax Express, and each other. Each bears a secret that, if found out, could cost them their jobs with the courier service, returning them to their troubled pasts.
Others will be absorbed by Silver's trilling descriptions of the express riders modus operandi, such as, passing on their news satchels, in relay fashion, without slowing their horse's speed or, at designated transfer sites, switching animals in mere seconds .
Runaway Horses' alluring story makes it almost difficult not to read in one continuous run. But you will find it satisfying to pull on the reins from time to time and take in much of Silver's personality and precision.
Silver wrote this historical novel from his rural Nova Scotia home where out his back window he can see remnants of the 1849 route. Rather than being simply "inspired by actual events," it seems like Silver's stimulating imagination has filled in the gaps where historical records are missing. ~ MB
Leon Cole


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Q: PHP - SQL - Update Data on Button Click This Question was created as my previous question contained 2 question instead of narrowing it down to 1
Aim
When the user selects three variables to access a data, the user will then be able to click on a button to change one of the particulars of that data.
SQL - Database Table (SchoolData)
+-----+--------+------------+------------+----------------+-----------+
|  ID |  Class |   Teacher  |  YearMonth |   Description  |   Status  |
+-----+--------+------------+------------+----------------+-----------+
|  1  |  Alpha |    Sara    |  2017/01   |  Good & Clean  |  Pending  |
+-----+--------+------------+------------+----------------+-----------+
|  2  |  Alpha |    Sara    |  2017/01   |  Has 30 Chairs |  Pending  |
+-----+--------+------------+------------+----------------+-----------+
|  3  |  Alpha |    Sara    |  2017/01   |  Has 30 Tables |  Pending  |
+-----+--------+------------+------------+----------------+-----------+
|  4  |  Alpha |    Sara    |  2017/01   |   5 Subjects   |  Pending  |
+-----+--------+------------+------------+----------------+-----------+
|  5  |  Beta  |    John    |  2016/11   |   Big & Clean  |  Official |
+-----+--------+------------+------------+----------------+-----------+
|  6  |  Beta  |    John    |  2016/11   |   New Student  |  Official |
+-----+--------+------------+------------+----------------+-----------+
|  7  |  Beta  |    John    |  2016/11   | Injured Student|  Official |
+-----+--------+------------+------------+----------------+-----------+
|  8  |  Beta  |    John    |  2016/11   |   6 Subjects   |  Official |
+-----+--------+------------+------------+----------------+-----------+

Webpage
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                               |
| |>Select Class<|   |>Select Teacher<|   |>Select Year/Month<| |
|                                                               |
|                         (Search)                              |
|                                                               |
|                                                               |
|>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INPUT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<|
|                                                               |
|      {Class}           {Teacher}           {Description}      |
|                                                               |
|                                                               |
|                        (Update)                               |
|                                                               |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+

*

*Legend
Drop down List - |><|
Button         - ()
Text Input     - {}

Webpage Description
The Update button will change the "Status" of the selected data to "Pending". So if lets say the user searches for |  Beta  |    John    |  2016/11   | and clicks on the Update button, the "Status' for that Data will be changed from "Official" to "Pending"
But if the staff searches for a data which "Status' is already "Pending" for example, |  Alpha |    Sara    |  2017/01   |, the Update button will be disabled.

HTML Table
<!--Those data are setting for checking data existance in the database -->
<input type="hidden" name="class" value=" <?php echo $class;  ?>" >
<input type="hidden" name="date" value=" <?php echo  $getDate;  ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="teacher" value=" <?php echo  $teacher;  ?>" >
<input type="hidden" id="inputStatus" name="status" value="">

Update Button (HTML)
<td colspan="1" valign="bottom" align="left">
    <button type="button" class="btn btn-lg update" id="btnUpdate" name="update"> Enable Re-Submit </button>
</td>

Update Button Function(JavaScript)
$(function (){
    $("button#btnUpdate").on('click', function (e){
        e.preventDefault();
        $("#inputStatus").val("update");
        $.ajax({
            type: 'post',
            url: 'changeClassStatus.php'
        });
    }
}

changeClassStatus.php (PHP)
<?php
  $class  = trim($_POST['calss']);
  $teacher = trim($_POST['teacher']);
  $date   = $_POST['date'];
  $date   = $date."/01";
  $status = $_POST['status'];
  $empId = $_POST['empId'];

    if($status == 'update'])){
        $sqlUpdate = mysqli_query($conn,"UPDATE SchoolData SET Status='Pending' WHERE (Class=$class AND Teacher=$teacher AND ID='".$id[$i]."' AND YEAR(MonthYear)= YEAR('$date') AND MONTH(MonthYear)= MONTH('$date'));";
        $sqlExecute=$conn->query($sqlUpdate)or exit("Error code ({$conn->errno}): {$conn->error}");

        echo "Data Status Changed";
    }
?>

Problem Description
I have implemented the codes but they are not updating the status of the searched data. When I do click on the Update button, the data is not updated and nothing happens (No Changes and No Echo Message)
Additional Notes
This question is linked to PHP - SQL - Disable, Hide or Enable Button based on Data. If there are any lacking or inaccurate information or problems with my question, please let me know. Thank you

A: In your If statement lets start but trying to see if all of your variables are being passed into your query correctly you can do this by writing.
echo $class;
echo $teacher;
etc ....

Inside of your if statement before your query.
I noticed $class  = trim($_POST['calss']); is it supposed to be 'class'? or calss?

A: Let me explain to you with your code itself
$("button#btnUpdate").on('click', function (e){
        e.preventDefault();
        $("#inputStatus").val("update");
        $.ajax({
            type: 'post',
            url: 'changeClassStatus.php'
        });
    }

In server-side, PHP expecting the below variables from the AJAX post request
$class  = trim($_POST['calss']);
  $teacher = trim($_POST['teacher']);
  $date   = $_POST['date'];
  $date   = $date."/01";
  $status = $_POST['status'];
  $empId = $_POST['empId'];

So your AJAX request should be rewrtitten in the below given syntax.
The above AJAX request does not contain any post parameters. You should add data attribute to it. See the example below
$.ajax({
    url: 'url',
    type: 'GET',
    data: { field1: "hello", field2 : "hello2"} ,
    contentType: 'application/json;
    charset=utf-8'
});

A: In jQuery ajax call, pass the field variables to data property in JSON format as your php script gets the field variable values using $_POST, use type as post.
$.ajax({
    url: 'changeClassStatus.php',
    type: 'POST',
    data: { calss: "hello", teacher : "hello2", date : "01/01/2017", status: "Active", empId : 12 },
    contentType: 'application/json; charset=UTF-8',
    success: function (response) {
        console.log(response.status);
    },
    error: function () {
        alert("error");
    }
});

Here, your php script will get values if passed in data property in ajax call. In if condition, check for empty variables and update only if values are not empty.
 <?php
      $class  = trim($_POST['calss']);
      $teacher = trim($_POST['teacher']);
      $date   = $_POST['date'];
      $date   = $date."/01";
      $status = $_POST['status'];
      $empId = $_POST['empId'];

if((!empty($status) && $status == 'update') && !empty($class) && !empty($teacher) && !empty($date) && !empty($empId)){
        $sqlUpdate = mysqli_query($conn,"UPDATE SchoolData SET Status='Pending' WHERE (Class=$class AND Teacher=$teacher AND ID='".$id[$i]."' AND YEAR(MonthYear)= YEAR('$date') AND MONTH(MonthYear)= MONTH('$date'));";
        $sqlExecute=$conn->query($sqlUpdate)or exit("Error code ({$conn->errno}): {$conn->error}");

        echo "Data Status Changed";
    }

    ?>

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We never make mistakes. Our endeavors have flawless execution. That is how many of us secretly hope to be perceived in a professional environment. It's not easy to admit flaws and mistakes, but in this article, I'm going to share the top 10 engineering mistakes I made with ComeHike.com.
The errors I'll discuss may not be the most glamorous and may be only anecdotal, but they are real mistakes I made. They were often influenced by business factors, difficult decisions involving complicated trade-offs, and sometimes my own lack of discipline due to over-excitement and impatience or -- dare I admit -- lack of experience in various aspects of building a company.
Mind you, for a long time this company was just me, and I had to quickly gain proficiency in every aspect of running a company, including marketing, PR, engineering, strategy, and figuring out how to actually have the site make money. The last thing I wanted was to end up with a failed startup.
The Web community has been involved in a consistent and ongoing debate over the importance of design on a website. This debate is almost as old as the Internet itself. Nearly everyone recognizes the value of having amazing design, but there also seem to be never ending arguments citing Craigslist or EBay, which are stark examples of sites that defied the apparent need for great design, and have found success by simply being useful websites.
This ongoing debate is all theory. In practice, I originally hoped that simply having OK design would be enough in at least the beginning. That was a mistake. The success stories of sites with unimpressive designs are not applicable today for a number of reasons. First, those sites got started mostly during the early days of the Web. Second, good design is simply the "price of admission" for a legitimate and trustworthy consumer website.
From the original, pretty terrible design of the ComeHike site to what now can be said to be at least decent design, users complained about the design at every step of the way. People are still often unhappy about various aspects of design and usability. The original poor design of the ComeHike site surely drove away many users who could have otherwise been more inclined to try out the site. Those users could have given the site a stronger initial-user foundation, which would have resulted in better feedback. Instead, the site immediately lost credibility in the eyes of new visitors by being so poorly designed, and the lack of design probably drove away many people who never came back.
One particular security flaw the site had in its early days came as a result of my being new to PHP. Whatever language you are learning, make sure you "neutralize" the input, in particular strings that come into your site from various forms or other inputs.
Every language has its equivalent method of neutralizing strings. If you do not do this, the most basic hack script can insert and read data into your database, or even delete your database entirely.
During the early days of the site, this type of a hack attack happened to me. Luckily, the hacker just wrote "hello :)" in one of the tables in my database, and helped me realize just how exposed the site really was.
A general rule of thumb for protecting your site is to not trust any input. If the input is supposed to be numeric, make sure it is. If it is supposed to be of certain length, make sure it isn't longer than that length.
One thing that really damaged the growth of the site was being overly cautious and allowing people to stay logged on only for periods of under one hour at a time. After one hour, the sessions expired and people had to log in again. While such a short session time helped protect users from having their accounts compromised by people using the same computer if they forgot to log out, it also annoyed many users. I received complaints about having to re-log in all the time. After numerous requests to "keep me logged in forever like Facebook does," I gave in and extended the default session time.
After I extended the user session time to be much longer, I noticed an increase of repeat users as it became easier for people to keep using the site. I only wish I had extended the session time earlier as it would have helped adoption.
One problem I created for myself was building way too many features. On one hand, the early stage of a site is when you are supposed to do the most experimenting. Mistakes are cheaper to correct and you have to try out many different things to see what works. Most experiments won't work, but a few will.
That sounds like reasonable theory, and I find myself still agreeing with it more than ever, but there is much more to be said about the kind of experiments an early-stage Web company should undertake. A big mistake I made was creating features that were a decent but not great compliment to the overall product. Features that do not compliment the core product tend to defocus the product.
One such feature that was not a great compliment to the core product was a tool that allowed hikers to indicate which wildlife or plants they saw and where. The tool sounds interesting, but that was a bit of a failed feature since it didn't add to the core product and was not completely trivial to build. The ComeHike site is for hikers. Many hikers don't really care about wildlife.
An example of an experiment that worked out is something that actually helped hikers like the maps of the hike route and carpool to get to the hike, both of which you can see in action on this hike page.
This is a start-up and there are no testers. But there are a number of things that can be done to help automate testing such as unit testing or simply devoting more time and care to testing manually. While I manually test for bugs and user experience (UX) problems as much as I can, I am embarrassed to admit that there are still no unit or automated tests.
I constantly get bug reports from the users of the site. Sometimes thanking the users for letting me know about the problems on the site and quickly fixing the problem can help forge better relationships with those users. Unfortunately, I have no way to measure just how many potential users of the site were driven away by poor design or confusing UX. That is something that can only be gauged by measuring the conversion difference between older and newer designs of the same page.
If you do have an under-tested site, one shortcut and common sense practical approach I recommend is to make a list of all the pages your users see when they come to your site. These are pages people land on from search, social traffic, or links you post on other sites. Make sure that at least the subset of your site made up by those pages are tested as much as possible. That way you significantly limit the number of bugs your users may find because the remaining bugs will be in deeper pages that fewer users will ever get to and the pages your users do see will be more polished.
Additionally, repeat the same tactic for all your "conversion" funnels. For example, one of the goals of ComeHike.com is for people to find hikes and hiking groups as easily as possible, and register for them. For that reason, the home page has a search area above the fold. The search area serves up hikes and hiking groups. It isn't perfect yet, but it is what the large majority of the site's users try out. So before I test any deep pages, I always try to test the search area. In fact, by now I know some bug may have crept into the search area if there is a drop in signups to the hikes.
But all this does not make up for not having unit tests and other automated tests. Not having these is something that has definitely hurt the site and was a big mistake on my part not to have spent sufficient time on it. It is something I will be addressing in the very near future.


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On 26th and 27th November 2018, the Competence Centre Building Envelope of Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts will once again host the international conference FACADE 2018 at the KKL Lucerne. This year's event is also the closing conference of the COST Action TU1403 "Adaptive Facades Network", which was initiated by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts four years ago.
On the two days, renowned international representatives from practice and research will discuss research, design and manufacturing of high-performance building envelopes. On the first day, international speakers will present innovative examples and visions with focus on implementation and practice. The second day will be dedicated to the results of the COST network, with topics on digital design innovations or novel test methods.
Multidisciplinary Approach Towards Design of Kinetic Lightweight Sun Shading Facade.
The conference aims at creative and innovative professionals and researchers active in the field of facade design with focus on adaptive facades. Participants will gain new perspectives and enhanced insights into innovative developments and research in future facade systems.


We're taking a momentary break from all the book publicity to celebrate the first year of our son's life. No big deal! Psyyyyych. It's a huge deal. I love this kid soooooooo much.
Basically, I took three different recipes and put them together to make a layer cake. Teddy loves citrus, so I put a few dollops of lemon curd in between each cake layer, and then I iced it all with the vanilla frosting (which I obviously dyed with food coloring). Also, I used Meyer lemons for the curd because we have a Meyer lemon tree (God bless, Southern California!), but you could definitely use regular lemons.
Preheat the oven to 350F. Butter the cake pans and line the bottom of each with parchment paper. Butter the paper and dust the pans with flour, tapping out the excess. Separate your eggs. Measure the milk.
Sift and measure the flour. [I always skip the step of sifting flour, though I'm sure my cake would be somewhat lighter if I didn't.] Stir in the baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat the softened butter until light and fluffy. Add the sugar. Cream until it's also light and fluffy. Beat in the egg yolks, one at a time. Add the vanilla.
When well mixed, add the flour mixture and milk alternately, starting and ending with the one third of the flour. Stir just until the flour is incorporated. In another bowl, whisk the egg whites to soft peaks. Stir one third of the egg whites into the batter, then gently fold in the rest. Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 30 to 40 minutes if using two cake pans and more like 20 to 30 minutes if using three cake pans.
Note: This recipe makes about two cups of curd, which is more than enough for the cake. Maybe use the rest on top of toast for a special breakfast? Or on top of zucchini bread? I don't know!
Grate the zest of one lemon and set aside. Juice the lemons; you want about 1/2 cup juice. Beat the eggs, egg yolks, milk, sugar and salt together until just mixed. Stir in the lemon juice and the lemon zest. Add the butter.
Pour into a bowl or clean glass jars to cool. Cover and refrigerate for up to two weeks.
Beat together butter and cream cheese with a mixer on medium-high sped until pale and creamy, about 1 minute. Reduce speed to low. Add confectioner's sugar, about 1 cup at a time, beating well after reach addition.
Add salt and vanilla and beat until fluffy, about 3 minutes.
So much cute packed into one year. Congrats!
Aww Tedddyyyy! Isn't video so incredible? I always wish I had more, especially in the early months when I wasn't thinking proactively. I've never made a decorated cake before but my daughter's first birthday will be my gateway (excited!). I wonder if I'll cry?
This is so cute! Happy birthday, Teddy! I love the Mavis interactions and the pure bliss while he eats his birthday cake.
You're so lucky to have Matt with that video camera! This was great (especially the Mavis bit.) Happy Birthday to your Teddy!
I love that smiley little dude. Happy Birthday Teddy!
He is gorgeous! I love that you have recorded him, I think it's such a lovely thing to do & look back on! Plus this cake sounds to die for and I really like that you put a citrus twist in it especially for him :) Best mum award!!
I LOVE TEDDY SO MUCH!!! Omg, seriously. It hurts. Happy birthday, adorable boy!
You guys made one adorable tiny human. Way to go.
This video is the perfect cure for any kind of blues. It makes us smile every time we watch it. We love Teddy!!!
Am I the only one here who just wants to comment on the cake? Solid cake.
Omg. That video is amazing and Teddy is one happy/lucky little guy! Molly and I made the cake today... YUUMMMM!!!
Bruce would love that video. I do, too! happy birthday to all of you!
re: Matt, I know!! Beyond lucky.
Teddy is looking forward to Malcolm's!!
Thanks, MARE. It came out a little Hunger Games-esque. Not intentional!
What a sweet video. Every parent should have a video of all the first year cuteness. You'll need it when he hits three.
do they really start walking so early? we're at 4 1/2 months and i am in no way ready!


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AutoNation lists amongst its competitive advantages, the efficiency, accuracy, consistency, and controls the shared service environment brings to our organization.
Over the last several years, we've worked to develop our offerings and roll in all of our retail organizations into the shared service environment.
Our next big focus is continuous improvement.
We're working very hard to find opportunities to do what we do, both more efficiently and effectively to add to our value proposition within the organization.
We've partnered with Brookhaven College and the Dallas Community College system to help us with this continuous improvement effort both in the form of the Lean Six Sigma training, as well as tuition assistance program for our associates to advance their own educations.
And a lot of the fact finding that we've done though the Lean Six Sigma, you find that you don't know what you don't know.
And as we've dug deeper and deeper into our own metrics into our own analysis into our own information, we've learned about inefficiencies in areas where we have duplicated processes, we repeat things that we don't need to repeat.
Just because over time, you build your processes and you don't realize that you're doing something, more than once in multiple places.
So, we've found a lot of opportunities to become more efficient and redirect those resources, the people that were doing things multiple times, to enhancing the quality of the work that they do and the accuracy.
First of all the, the questions came up through Lean Six Sigma what data are out there and we didn't exactly know.
In some cases, it just caused us to ask for stuff we didn't know we even had.
It's amazing that, as I said, a little bit ago, you don't know what you don't know until you start digging.
And the Lean Six Sigma process has forced us to dig deeper into our own information than we've ever done before.
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See the moment the Wellington man got caught in the 7.8 magnitude earthquake while playing World Of Warcraft.
A Kiwi gamer has gone viral after he accidentally livestreamed the moment the New Zealand earthquakes hit the city of Wellington.
Delrio Sierra was busy playing World Of Warcraft with his online friends when his the walls began to shake. Unfortunately his cyber buddies weren't quite as concerned as they should have been.
WARNING: This video contains explicit language and very unsympathetic friends.
And yes, he does carry on playing.
The 26-year-old gamer said of the event: "I am fine after the 'quake, was a little excited by it, also the the guys that were on the stream were just having some banter and there is no hard feelings at all, we are all still mates.
He added: "I did hit my knee pretty hard and got some gnarly cat scratches when trying to catch my cats to evacuate for the tsunami warnings."
We suppose all's well that ends well, but a 7.8 magnitude is definitely no joke.


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* Bridge was a Stretch Assignment at Cisco Systems designed to track employee experience. Through the portal users have the opportunity to repeatedly "check-in" - elaborate on what they've done and interact with other user content. The site also provides a suite of analytics and user engagement functionality designed to maintain a consistent user-base.

## Technical Details
* InternCorner is written in Python's tornado framework
* API Endpoints are designated by \*Endpoint classes while classes designated to rendering HTML files are designated by \*Handler
* All user data is securely stored in a postgres management portal
* The website is hosted on heroku at https://internbridge.herokuapp.com

## Check out our Chrome Extension
* As a tool to expand ease of use InternCorner also has a designated Chrome Extension (InternCorner) on the Chrome app store. This application allows users to quickly check-in.

## Running Locally
* Clone the github repo
> git clone https://github.com/Sharabesh/InternCorner.git
* Install the requirements
> pip install -r requirements.txt
* Run the webapp
> cd InternCorner &&
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Finland's premier melodic rock/metal combo Charon makes a triumphant return with "Songs for the Sinners" out soon on Spinefarm Records. Years of fine-tuning their style has now resulted in a heavier edged album than heard from Charon previously, without losing any of their characteristic knack for killer guitar melodies and memorable vocal lines. A sterling production/mixing job by Mikko Karmila (renowned for his work with Nightwish & countless other perennial metal favourites from Finland) completes the picture.
Charon, consisting of Antti Karihtala (drums), Teemu Hautamäki (bass), Pasi Sipilä (guitar), J-P Leppäluoto (vocals), and the newcomer Lauri Tuohimaa (guitar, replacing long-time member Jasse Hast), was formed already in 1992. After two demos, they found the current frontman J-P and recorded the "Sorrowburn" album for Danish Emanzipation Productions label. The tentative foray into death metal territory evident on "Sorrowburn" was not to last and the band soon found their sound naturally transforming into more contemporary rock-metal style.
In support of their second album "Tearstained" Charon toured with Sentenced, and finally caught the attention of Spinefarm Records. The hard work of the band finally started paying off with the release of "Downhearted" album in 2001, which showcased a band bringing a style to near-perfection with little genre favourites such as "Little Angel", the promo video of which (directed by Tuukka Temonen) eventually rose to the number one position position on Nordiska Videolistan (Nordic Video List). The actual album was #3 on the Finnish album charts, with the single "In Trust of No-one" even reaching the coveted #1 position!"The Dying Daylights" album was released in 2003, and again hit the charts taking the band on the road for some intense touring, including shows in St Petersburg and Moscow. "Songs for the Sinners" can do no worse, for Charon are now, with the fifth album, at the top of their game. Guest appearances include Sande and Tomi from Amorphis (keyboards and sitar) and XXXXKUKALIESENYT from the Finnish cult act Alamaailman vasarat (cello).
"Songs for the Sinners" is duet out in Europe through Spinefarm Records and Universal Music this September.


As media companies continue to grapple with the challenges of migrating away from proprietary hardware models and toward IT-centric, software-based operations, they need integrated solutions that will deliver the highest rate of return.
At IBC2016, ChyronHego will showcase the solutions and workflows that are easing the path to all-IP operations for its broadcast customers. The spotlight will be on end-to-end workflows for news and sports production, channel branding and tickers, and weather production, all of which integrate ChyronHego's core product family as well as new and recently acquired technologies. One example is the company's newly announced acquisition of Sound & Video Creations Inc., maker of the Click Effects product family for live stadium presentations.
At IBC2016, ChyronHego's CAMIO Universe will make its European debut. The CAMIO Universe is a comprehensive software-based newsroom production ecosystem that empowers producers and journalists to create compelling news stories and deliver them rapidly to air.
CAMIO not only controls ChyronHego's industry-leading Lyric® graphics creation environment but also offers powerful template-based tools within a significantly expanded production ecosystem, including the company's Hybrid virtual graphics solution, the Metacast weather graphics solution, the PowerClips multiformat production clip server, the GS2 Multi-Touch touch-screen-generation platform, as well as the VidiGo Live Compositor video-switching solution. CAMIO gives producers, journalists, and video editors instant desktop access to all of these tools.
ChyronHego will demonstrate a fully integrated end-to-end news production workflow powered by the award-winning CAMIO asset and data management solution. With CAMIO as the newsroom control center, the workflow integrates ChyronHego's world-leading Lyric® graphics creation and playout system, Live Compositor for multicamera TV production, Metacast weather graphics solution, and Hybrid virtual studio and robotic camera-head technologies. The result is a comprehensive solution by which anyone in the entire newsroom environment can create, control, and play out a full newscast, including broadcast graphics, virtual studio and augmented graphics, and weather graphics, all using templates.
This scenario narrows the gap between complex technology and the journalists who are doing the actual storytelling. With the CAMIO integration, working with advanced virtual graphics and augmented reality is just as easy as typing a prompter text. Naturally this streamlined workflow reduces operating expenses, but the template-based approach also gives journalists unprecedented control and flexibility over the graphic elements of the story.
With the acquisition of Sound & Video Creations Inc., a leading developer of digital content management and delivery solutions for sports stadium presentations and broadcasts, ChyronHego now offers the Click Effects family of products for live A/V entertainment production. Click Effects solutions are known for their power and reliability in high-pressure live sports and broadcast presentation environments, while also providing cost-effective and operator-friendly capabilities ranging from video playback and replay to data delivery, graphics generation, and audio content delivery. When paired with the graphics, playout, and real-time data management solutions in ChyronHego's product family, the Click Effects products offer a full solution in an end-to-end broadcast content creation, management, and delivery workflow.
For live sports broadcasting, ChyronHego will showcase a full 4K production workflow based on the industry-leading Paint telestration and analysis solution, the award-winning Virtual Placement family of products, and the world's most popular solution for broadcast graphics, LyricX.
In addition, ChyronHego will introduce Live Arena for end-to-end sports arena productions. Running on standard hardware, this all-software solution integrates the Live Compositor, ChyronHego's Lyric® graphics, SHOUT social media editor, and Hybrid robotic camera-head control system. The result is the industry's most integrated solution for producing an entire arena show, including camera cuts, digital video effects, and social media tie-ins. The resolution-agnostic features of the ChyronHego tools are particularly valuable in an arena setting, which must be able to support any resolution, including the unusual aspect ratios of large video boards.
ChyronHego will demonstrate a state-of-the-art deployment for election graphics based on the NewsTicker Elections system from one of the company's latest acquisitions, Newsroom Solutions. With NewsTicker Elections, news productions are able to deploy accurate, data-driven, real-time ticker graphics for complete confidence in live reporting of election results. In addition, the company proudly introduces its latest channel branding and playout system, Channel Box PRIME, to the European market. PRIME is the company's most versatile offering ever to the channel-branding market, with an all-new dedicated rendering engine and scene designer.
ChyronHego will feature the newest version of Metacast, the company's industry-leading professional weather data analysis and live-to-air weather graphics presentation solution. One of the highlights of Metacast at the show will be its seamless integration into the CAMIO Universe, allowing anyone in the newsroom to utilize the expertise from the meteorologists in creating everything from weather-based news illustrations to full weather graphics rundown.
ChyronHego, a portfolio company of Vector Capital, is a global leader in products, services, and solutions for the broadcast and sports industries. Specializing in live television, news, and sports production, ChyronHego offers some of the industry's most widely deployed solutions — including Lyric®, the world's most popular broadcast graphics creation and playout offering; the all-new CAMIO Universe newsroom workflow; and TRACAB™, the global leader in optical sports tracking systems as well as ClickEffects, the most proven and versatile stadium broadcast family of graphics products. Headquartered in Melville, New York, ChyronHego also has offices in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.


HELLO AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU! Your Planet Sauna family had a wonderful Holiday Season full of food, fun, love, and laughter. But we are back in full force so we can get you on your way to a healthier and more relaxed you.
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Paris is a vibrant city,rich in tradition, culture and history. As I spent time, not nearly enough, in the city, I felt the stories, written in the walls, stones and walkways. I couldn't help looking through my lens to capture, not what I saw, but what I felt. High dynamic range photography seemed to be the only way I could bridge the gap between my dreams and my abilities. HDR images provided some relief from the need to capture the singular light of this marvelous city on canvas. I have no skill with the brush. I must rely on pixels to form the images I can only imagine amidst the landmarks which call to me in my sleep.
At the tip of the Chanps-Élysées, Napoléon's arch is still the center of any Parisian parade.
This castle served as one of the earliest homes for French royalty.
With the bridge across the Seine visible in the distance, this castle served as one of the earliest homes for French royalty.
Quasimodo may still live in these imposing towers.
A view of the Cathedral of Notre Dame form the rear.
View from the River Seine.
Scenic apartments contribute to the Paris sensibility.
Not far from Notre Dame, Sainte-Chapelle was built by order of King Saint-Louis.
Thanks for your kind words, Milena.


Completed several books this week: Misquoting Jesus, Boots on the Ground by Dusk and Where men win glory (War and Pat Tillman), Eight World Cups and The World is a Ball (Soccer), Several Short Sentences About Writing and Bookmark Now, Coaching Youth Football, and something called the Janus report which was not what I thought it would be (it is just a collection of anonymous yes/no surveys about sexual behavior).
Pat Tillman. I had heard about the name way back when but never knew any details. The authors make some damning revelations – General McCrystal's memo to Rumsfeld saying "If the story gets out", Rumsfeld denying getting it; the commander in Afghanistan flying to Iraq for one day, the day of Tillman's death, and then saying he wasn't there. Commanders denying giving orders that their subordinates insisted they did. Testimony changing after a commander asks the interviewer to 'step out of the room for a minute'. The guy who first opened fire on Tillman (Thus causing the rest of his team to follow his lead) getting a field promotion. The initial investigation disappearing. The lull in fire where Tillman came out behind the rock (He was screaming how he was on their side), where his own squad resumed firing, killing him.
The craziness that they document is almost beyond belief. The commander in question assigning himself to lead the investigation. Another commander calling Tillman "Worm Food" and not investigating because Tillman wasn't Christian. Yet another commander surveying the canyon where they got ambushed one day earlier, then ordering Tillman's squad to travel in daylight and separate the squad, both which were against regulations. The team leader ultimately got blamed – except he was retired! Tillman's diary was burned. His armor stripped and destroyed despite orders to keep the armor. Hospital records saying they 'attempted CPR' when Tillman was missing most of his head. Dates changed, memos redacted, reports lost – It's a mass of incompetence. Those who say it's a conspiracy are wrong – conspiracies are organized.
The books also have some non-Pat Tillman stuff. Did you know the first US Soldier's deaths of the Afghanistan war were self-inflicted? Someone called in an air strike, but instead of dictating the enemy coordinates, he instead misread his instruments and reported his own GPS location. It also injured the Afghani we were planning to put in charge of Afghanistan. Oops.
Oh and Jessica Lynch, supposedly captured by the enemy, turns out the 'enemy' was actually trying to save her. Her injuries were from a car crash, not from enemy fire. She wasn't in prison, she was in a hospital. The Iraqis tried to drive her to an American base but were fired on at the gate. A thousand troops were assembled to 'save' Lynch, instead they just marched into the hospital, took her out easily, and ignored the four other American 'captives' because they weren't cute 19-year-old blond females.
I didn't know any of that. I thought she really was captured. Now I know better. It's depressing how badly the media screws things up, reporting the first thing they hear from someone who couldn't know the facts.
The other books were meh. The soccer related ones were okay – well written, occasionally humorous, but mostly describing soccer games that happened long ago, which just doesn't work well on paper. I miss the World Cup. Bookmark Now was a bunch of clever short stories about writing by writers. Several Short Sentences About Writing I had already read years ago and forgotten I had read it. It's kind of a stream-of-consciousness thing about the mystery of self-expression. It reminds me of Pascal's Penses. Teaching youth football was about American football and was full of jargon and code words I didn't understand (I was hoping to study other sports' tactics for my book). And the Janus Report, well, the only thing I remember that stands out was that over 20% of men say they have 'had a homosexual experience', whatever that means (it was never defined). I find that hard to believe, which is why I remember it.


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The evaluation of ratio_divide<Period2, period>::den could make ratio_divide<Period2, period>::num overflow.
This occur for example when we try to create a millisecond (period=ratio<1,1000>) from an exa-second (Period2=ratio<1018>).
ratio_divide<ratio<1018>, ratio<1,1000>>::num is 1021 which overflows which makes the compiler error.
The following fails to compile.
While the conversion to seconds work, the conversion to milliseconds make the program fail at compile time. In my opinion, this program should be well formed and the constructor from duration<int,exa> to milliseconds shouldn't participate in overload resolution as the result can not be represented.
I think the wording of the standard can be improved so no misinterpretations are possible by adding that "no overflow is induced by the conversion".
Pete: The wording is not right.
Howard: Will implement this to be sure it works.
Jeffrey: If ratio needs a new hook, should it be exposed to users for their own uses?
Move to Review, Howard to implement in a way that mere mortals can understand.


Strong hips protect our knees as well as it will reduce IT band issues, Trochanteric bursitis, Piriformis syndrome just to name a few. Here are a few exercises that I have found to be helpful hip strengtheners.
The Bridge Lie on your back with your arms at your sides and your knees bent; squeeze your glutes and slowly lift your bottom off the floor. From your shoulders to your knees should be straight line. Hold at the top 2-3 seconds and lower.
Single Leg Bridge (advanced) Same start position as the above movement, bend one knee and straighten the opposite leg straight up, squeezing your buttocks muscles and raising your bottom off the floor. Hold for 2-3 seconds, lower and repeat.
Straight Leg Hip Extension Lie face down with your legs extended, tighten your buttocks muscles and lift one leg, hold for 2-3 seconds.
Bent Knee Hip Extension Same position as above, but bend one knee, foot flexed and the opposite leg straight. Squeeze your buttocks muscles and lift leg upward. Hold for 2-3 seconds and lower and repeat.
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Side to Side Band Walks (these burn but they work) Loop an exercise band under both your feet, with your feet about 12 inches apart. Cross the band so it forms an X, hold the handles in each hand. Keep your chest up and shoulders back, maintain tension on the band throughout. Start taking small lateral steps (side to side). Perform 2-3 Sets, 15-20 steps in each direction.
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HSN Community / Forums / Electronics / T-MOBILE INFO MISSING FROM EVIANT 10.1 inch tablet – Can anyone help????
T-MOBILE INFO MISSING FROM EVIANT 10.1 inch tablet – Can anyone help????
I was so excited to receive my Eviant 10.1 inch Connected Tablet. I took it out of the box and plugged it in to charge it! Beautiful screen, so excited to set it up!! Imagine my disappointment when there was NO T-MOBILE information for me to access the 200 mg of data that comes with no additional charge for the life of this tablet. Customer Service has been contacted and they say I must wait 2 to 3 weeks to receive it in THE MAIL!!! I asked why they cannot email it to me and they say they just cannot. I am so disappointed and angry that I have to wait this long to set this tablet up. And the tablet is sold out so I cannot return it and reorder another one. If ANYONE would like to share their T-MOBILE information that they received with this tablet I would be SO GRATEFUL!!!
I bought 2 of these tablets recently and can't believe the hassle to get 1 of the tablets activated.
Once the activation dept answers tell them the name of the tablet and you bought from HSN. Tell them the tablet has free date for life and that you get 200MB EVERY month FREE from T-Mobile.
They will need the sim card number from the tablet. Its on the side push in on the sim card and it will release. The number they need is 19 digits, The sim card shows 2 lines of numbers, both numbers total 19 digits. MAKE SURE THE TABLET IS OFF BEFORE REMOVING SIM CARD !!
I talked with 4 individuals before they got it right. They will ask for a credit card !! Tell the NO !! Tell them again that this is a tablet with FREE data for life and 200 MB EVERY month from T-mobile.
They will ask for your birthdate, tell them NO again. They will say ok on both questions regarding credit card and birthdate.
They will give you a phone number, yes for a tablet. Don't worry about that let them give you a phone number.
Have you set up the tablet for wifi yet ? If not, go ahead and set it up with wifi. Within 30 minutes you should get something from T-Mobile regarding 200 MB free each month.
I don't know yet if I will keep both tablets. I haven't even opened the other box containing the tablet.
A person shouldn't have to spend 95 minutes trying to get something done correctly from T-mobile.
I purchased from HSN. I used my wifi with this tablet and it kept on going off if wifi and using the data without my knowledge and before I knew it I get an email from T-Mobile that I used 97% of my 200mb and if wanted to purchase more data. That's why I bought this for the free data. The sound on this tablet is awful. I was transferred 4 times with T-Mobile before I hung up.
I too bought one of these in January. Thought it would be great, especially the mobile addition because sometimes you just aren't near a hotspot. What a disappointment this tablet is to me. And it has gone past the month return policy. I've still three more payments to go and I can't use it. As usual, the charger broke, which I wish they would send something that would last more than a couple of charges, the silver end that goes into the tablet always snaps, no matter how delicately I treat it. Secondly, it is slow as molasses. I'm so disappointed, it is sitting in the box, wiped clean of everything I tried to use on it. And on top of it I took out the extra insurance in case something went wrong. So that's another bunch of money down the drain. I won't buy another tablet from HSN that's for sure.
I had order another tablet from another shopping channel. It is only a slip of paper….no booklet.


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Beijing to let gray rhinos loose again?
Last year, the People's Daily began warning about "gray rhinoceroses" (灰犀牛 huī xīniú), as regulators started to scrutinize overseas spending sprees by some of China's largest companies, like Wanda, HNA, Fosun, and Anbang.


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The National Quilt Collection
The National Quilt Collection, part of the Division of Home and Community Life's Textile Collection at the National Museum of American History, had its beginnings in the 1890s. Three quilts were included in a larger collection of 18th- and 19th- century household and costume items from one Stonington, Connecticut family. From this early beginning, the Collection has grown to more than 400 quilts and quilt-related items, mainly of American origin. Most of the contributions have come to the Museum as gifts, many from the quilt-makers' families. The quilts are part of a lasting material record of the American experience, and are preserved in perpetuity for all Americans. As few of the quilts are on exhibition at any given time, this film provides an overview, in quilt storage, of the behind-the-scenes activities of the staff and volunteers as they work with this rich and interesting collection.
Quilts were made primarily by women, and have played a large part in revealing evidence of the circumstances of their lives: economic levels, the goods available to them and their increasing consumerism, their thrift and extravagance, the opportunity for self-expression in an acceptable activity, their schooling and family education and instruction, their group activities, personal identity and reward, and skills.
Some of the quilts reflect very personal interests and concerns; others express political and societal concerns such as patriotism, anti-slavery sentiments, war and peace. Many quilts in the collection have inscriptions that leave us a textile record expressing the interests and feelings of the makers. Others provided the makers an opportunity for artistic expression in a practical endeavor. Many examples from the collection can be seen on this website.
Altogether, the collection shows the progression and notable phases in American quilt-making; provides a history of materials available to the quilt makers and of the techniques practiced; illustrates many social, cultural, technological, and economic influences affecting quilts made and used in America; and contributes to the illumination of American life, family, community, and country.
The Division of Home and Community Life continues its long term mission to maintain and develop research-based collections that document and preserve American stories through family, community, biographical/individual oral histories and other materials. The quilt collection, for the most part, represents the middle class and affluent of the eastern half of the country, rather than a potpourri of the widely diverse population of the nation. We should like to encourage viewers to come forward with quilts and other needlework, to donate or to be recorded, with histories that contribute to our awareness of the rich diversity of the people who came to live here, the traditions they brought and carry on, and the ways in which they adopted the endeavors already here.
This virtual tour was made possible by a grant from Patty Stonesifer and Michael Kinsley through The Seattle Foundation. The gift was made in honor of Mrs. Frances Quigley.
The National Quilt Collection: An Overview
Quilt Scene Investigation
In the Textile Analysis Lab, Kathy Dirks demonstrates how technical analyses of quilts with scientific equipment is used for identification and verification
Quilt Care
Kathy Dirks shows the quilt storage room, and the cabinets and materials used in housing the collection.
Barbara Janssen shows the patent model of a Grover & Baker sewing machine and explains how the stitch it produced helped to determine the probable date of a quilt in the collection.
Civil War Sunday School Quilt
Virginia Eisemon discusses the history of a quilt made by a Maine Sunday school class for the benefit of hospitalized Union soldiers.
Lydia Finnell's Star Quilt
Sheryl DeJong identifies the techniques and stitches in a late 19th-century crazypatch quilt and discusses the availability of materials, patterns, and instructions at the time.


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Ryan Gosling on robbing banks for The Place Beyond The Pines
By Total Film 2013-03-23T17:00:00.81Z News
Exclusive: "I'd always wanted to rob banks but was too scared of jail"
In issue 205 of Total Film magazine , we chat to The Place Beyond The Pines stars Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper.
You can read the full feature inside the issue (available for just £1.99 on your iPad ), but here's a snippet of what Gosling - who will soon be quitting acting for a while - had to say about getting into character as a stunt biker turned bank robber.
"Before Blue Valentine , I told Derek [ Cianfrance, director ] how I'd always wanted to rob banks but was too scared of jail," said the actor with a smile. "But if I was going to do it, I would do it on a motorcycle and drive into a U-Haul [ trailer ] at the end."
Gosling even admitted that he picked up some pointers on TPBTP : "I learned that you just have to ask for the money; they have to give it to you. I'm not promoting it but I would say don't use a weapon if you're going to do it because nice bank robbers spend less time in jail."
For more from Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper, pick up the brand-new issue 205 of Total Film magazine, which is on sale now.


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Spend Mother Dick on THE WALKING DEAD
"Spend," tonight's WALKING DEAD, continued some of the better work from last week, and was somewhat hobbled by some of TWD's usual problems.
It kicked off with Noah suddenly being given some focus. He says he's in it (the Safe Zone) for the long haul, wants to be an architect and begins a journal to record all the things he's going to learn. Everyone knows what that means on TWD and, indeed, before the end he's zombie chow.[1]
Noah's death is an ugly affair, graphic, protracted and gruesome, and it didn't even win the title in any of those departments. That honor belonged to Aiden, who has proven himself to be a Grade-A Dumbass in virtually every scene in which he's appeared. Tonight, his dumbassery caught up to him and he became a gory feast for a gaggle of deads. Before his end though, he confessed that the people on his previous crew had died because, when trouble descended, he and his sidekick ran off and left them.
This isn't the only such revelation. Abraham is working on a construction crew building an extension of the Safe Zone's wall. A herd of zombies comes through the site, one of the workers on lookout ends up falling in the midst of them and the rest of the crew just back away, giving up the fallen woman for dead. It's subsequently revealed that the Alexandrians' have a general policy of leaving behind anyone who ends up in such a situation.[2] As usual, everything on TWD has to be ludicrously exaggerated, every point a hammer to the face, and showing that the Alexandrians have this policy is meant to emphasize in this way their cowardice, weakness and incompetence. To note the obvious, this isn't even remotely credible--if they were this dumb they never would have survived so long, much less thrived. On the other side of the coin, both Abraham and Glenn are suddenly given ESP powers they've never previously demonstrated--both have a moment of pause wherein they realize zombies are coming before the presence of the dead is apparent. Again, an over-the-top exaggeration intended to portray our heroes as being, in contrast to those worthless and horrible Alexandrians, uber-competent and indispensable. Deanna, who oversees the Safe Zone, is concerned about so many of Rick's gang being placed in leadership positions. The godawful Father Gabriel, who had overstayed his welcome on the series about 3 minutes after he was introduced, decides to turn up at her door and even further inflame her anxieties. He locked his own congregation out of his church and let them be killed (which suggests he'll fit in well with the Alexandrians) but he tells her the new arrivals are not good people, that they're dangerous and untrustworthy and that they've committed "unspeakable" acts (the worst one, I would suggest, was keeping Father Gabriel alive and with them). Her apparent concern about the new arrivals is hardly credible given the very poor light the ep casts on the Alexandrians, but what can you do? It's THE WALKING DEAD.
"Spend" was, for TWD, another pretty good ep, but this time around I can't help but feel that judgment emphasizes the gap between "pretty good" for TWD and pretty good.
[1] Noah finally breaks TWD's black-guy-in/black-guy-out cycle; now, it seems, the writers just want to reduce the number of black guys, period.
[2] Abraham, for his part, charges into the midst of the dead, rescues her and ends up the crew foreman as a consequence.
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The Joesen One March 16, 2015 at 8:51 AM
I figured the pre-Rick Alexandria stuff would be better for TWD, because that storyline was probably the borderline-soapy arc of the comics, so i figured TWD knows how to scrub it hard. I got to hand it to them, though - compared to the prison arc, they've been mostly faithful to the comics, sometimes adapting specific lines and scenes from the books.
A few (probably spoiler-y) notes:
1) Abraham and Fr. Gabriel's storylines are from the comics, so I'm not surprised about them, and I've given them a pass (even though Fr. Gabriel sucks in whatever adaptation he is in). Tobin was understandable, but Nicholas somehow degraded from the paranoid guy from the books to the first-rate jackass here. I hope they don't waste the rich storylines involving the character in the future by killing him off this season.
1a) I'm thankful Fr. Gabriel is a background character in recent storylines in the comics.
2) At this rate I'm expecting the end of the season to be either the Scavengers or the "No Way Out" storyline.
3) I knew Noah's death was coming since Tyler James Williams was cast as a regular in the Criminal Minds spinoff. That seems to be the third death signal: give a character importance, be the black guy, and be announced prematurely as being cast in a new show. Chad Coleman (Tyreese) and David Morrissey (Governor) were examples of the latter signal.
3a) No new black guy yet. One problem replaced by another.
3b) The first and third problem seems to sadly be in many shows I've watched as well. The only exception for me is Lost, since each episode requires a centric character, and it makes sense if they die at the episode centered on them (and most of the time they, unlike many shows I've watched, do it well).
4) I liked the Bee Gees song in the end of last week's episode. I'm a sucker for that kind of thing. Kind reminded me of "30 Days..." back in season 4.
5) This is probably Matthew Negrete's best episode, although it's not saying much, because his resume is inconsistent ("Indifference", "Inmates", "Slabtown", "Consumed"), all coated with soap. No offense to the guy, though; I don't like calling writers "bad" just because I didn't like stuff they wrote.
5a) Off-topics, but the writer of last week's episode, Corey Reed, is one of the newbies this season, and it's his first solo episode after "Four Walls and a Roof" and "Consumed". Not a bad debut. Unlike you, I sincerely believe that all the writers have potential to be great. They just don't have the best vision sometimes.
More notes:
1) Tara was brought into the spotlight after months into the background, yet she survives the episode, albeit injured.
2) The music in Eugene's van has the lyrics "You're gonna die soon." I chuckled a bit. Closest thing to humor the show has.
cinemarchaeologist March 16, 2015 at 10:38 AM
TV TWD degrades everything it takes from the comic. The comic construction crew was made up of strong backs who aren't so bright (which, there, is a plot-point), but they had an actual defensive procedure in the event of trouble. The "procedure" of the tv Alexandrians, revealed in two separate incidents, is simply to leave for dead anyone who gets in a jam. "Retreat 'til we're safe in the trucks!"
TV "Nicholas" is just an entirely new and different character on which they've slapped the name. It's impossible to believe Glenn would take him back to the Safe Zone after he murdered Noah. What in hell are they going to do with him?
Any time one discusses the writing of a tv series, one is describing a process that takes place via committee, which is why I usually refer to "the writers" collectively and, when discussing individual writers on individual eps, always note someone is the "writer of record" for that ep. The plot for an ep, the events that occur in it, even at least some of the dialogue is typically hammered out by the group before individual scripts are assigned; you're never seeing the product of just the mind of whoever's name is on it. I won't call shit writing anything other than shit writing but with tv it is a collective process.
The warehouse was also the prison set dressed up different. Thats such a copout they need to film in virginia and get the hell out of georgia.
crow March 16, 2015 at 9:41 PM
The way black men go on this show, the priest's days are numbered.
I think it was a mediocre thing, but as u say, it was pretty good for TWD.
I wouldn't say thatNoah broke the cycle of the one-out-one-in-thing yet. Morgan seems to be on his way in.
No thoughts on Rick and Carols screen time this week?
The Joesen One March 17, 2015 at 11:06 PM
Before this episode, I was fully expecting Morgan to show up when Noah inevitably dies.
Probably the "black-in, black-out" thing was delayed.
Also, I was at least hoping for Heath & Denise, which are some of my favorite characters from the books. No such luck. :(
THE WALKING DEAD Stretch To Conquer
When THE WALKING DEAD Try, It Works
Forget THE WALKING DEAD


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In addition, John & Susan Hatton and Doug Cantrell will attend the reunion, but will not be staying at one of our houses.
On May 25th I sent out an e-mail notice to each of you, indicating how much you owe and the deadline for full payment. I am somewhat concerned because only 5 persons/couples have paid in full. Are you really coming, folks? Then let me know that you received my e-mail and that the check will be on its way soon. Or, let me know immediately if you are NOT coming, so that we can offer your space to others.
If you think you are coming to the reunion, but did not send me the required non-refundable $50 deposit, THINK AGAIN—We cannot guarantee you a bed if you did not send us a deposit! Hummingbird Cabins requires the number of persons staying in a house to be stated up-front, & they do not allow extras. The houses we have reserved are full at this point, so unless we have a cancellation, you would have to find your own accommodations (which would not be difficult in Ruidoso in October).
If you are planning to "drop in," BEWARE—We may not be there because we scatter during the day. On the peak days, we should be at the reunion site in the evenings; however, there is the possibility that one of those nights we would be at a restaurant, so please maintain contact with us.
If you end up staying at a motel or elsewhere, you need to pay us ahead of time for meals/beer on the peak days, at the rate of $26 a day.
I know that you probably have questions about exactly where we will be in Ruidoso & directions for getting there. Unfortunately, it is the policy of Hummingbird Cabins not to release addresses/directions until payment has been made in full. However, I can tell you that the subdivision is called Black Forest, if you want to Google/Map it.
I am sorry to write that we lost a friend yesterday. Gary passed away about noon on Tuesday June 23rd following a massive heart attack with no previous warning.
We know that this site and computer auctions were a big part of his life and so wanted to let anyone out there know what had happened.
The Funeral is Sat. June 27th at Stennes Funeral Home in East Grand Forks, MN with visitation starting at noon and also Friday from 5:00 to 7:00pm. The Obituary will be in the Grand Forks Herald Thursday June 25th.
Thank you for any part you may have played in Gary's life.
I'm Gary and Gayle Hendrickson's daughter, Tracy. After much searching for your Bad Aibling website that we had heard so much about, my brother Mike (who some may remember) and I finally found you.
Just wanted to let you all know that Dad passed away yesterday (Tues, June 23rd) from an extremely unexpected massive heart attack.
Over the last year or so we had heard quite a bit about the website. I believe he missed the reunion, but was looking forward to the possibility of another one and getting the chance to catch up with old drinking buddies. We have also heard a few tales of the shenanigans of those days. He held very fond memories of the "lawn tennis association". Thank you all for the role you played in his life.
And a special note to Steve Trask–Your name goes on. Not only was Mike named after you, but our cousin named his son Trask after Mike!
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Brooke Anderson (BA 1960 – 62) reported that at least part of the station is being converted into a hotel (as of March 09). He also reported that the Chiemsee Hotel (the old R&R site just off the Autobahn) is closed, supposedly to be re-opened as a health clinic.
I'm Bill Nippert (BA: Aug 70 – Feb 72): Not sure how many Baltans also are involved with the ASA Alpiners, but here's a neat note from their May, 2009 Newsletter. I checked out the link & thought gee, why didn't they do this when I lived there!
"Brooke Anderson (Bad Aibling 60-62) writes: Here's an update on Bad Aibling Station: It is being turned into a park hotel, in which the old barracks are being converted to hotel rooms, with much more to come. I just returned from there and witnessed the activity leading to the opening of this venture. Check out http://www.bo-parkhotel.de for the latest. Time has dimmed the old memory, but I think the initial buildings already turned into rooms were the EM club facilities.


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Jack Webster Foundation Co-Chair Debora Sweeney today announced more than $14,000 in funding for 2010 recipients of the JWF Fellowships.
The recipients will participate in educational opportunities including attending the Poynter Institute in Florida taking such courses TV Power Reporting, Narrative Writing on Deadline, or Backpack journalism. One recipient will enroll in an online course offered by the London School of Journalism and another will be applying for the Knight Digital Media Center in Berkeley, California.
"To date, the Jack Webster Foundation has supported 47 BC journalists with professional development programs and 25 additional BC journalists who have participated in our CIDA-sponsored Seeing the World through New Eyes program," Sweeney said. "It's a privilege to support BC journalists in Jack Webster's name and to provide unique opportunities to enhance their education and experiences."
"We are very pleased this year to offer an additional fellowship award made available for a BC-born journalist by funding received from the estate of the late Don Matheson, a former BC reporter."
Deadline for entries to the 2011 fellowships is January 31, 2011.
The work of the Foundation is made possible by the generous sponsorship of Bell, BCLC, CGA, CN, HSBC Bank Canada, Labatt Breweries, Terasen Gas, Port Metro Vancouver and WorkSafe BC.