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Earlier today Brian Lam published a piece on Gizmodo claiming to have talked to someone who had sat in on some meetings where the Apple tablet was discussed.
The device, which I’ve held mock ups of, is going to have a 10 inch screen, and when I saw it looked just like a giant iPhone, with a black back— although that design could change at any time.
The unnamed insider also said that the device’s release date will be in time for this holiday season, which is in line with reports from InfoTimes and the Financial Times.
Multiple music industry sources say Apple executives have told them the company is planning one of its famed keynote events for the week of Sept. 7.
Later on I verified to a high level of certainty that they were in the position to have access to the information and after talking to them for over an hour, I believe them to the same level of certainty.
Sounds solid to me, and if not, this would be one of the biggest blunders in Gizmodo’s history.
An Insider On the Apple Tablet – apple tablet – Gizmodo.
5/3/09: Is Apple Working on a MacBook mini?
I’m almost certain there’s no tablet coming this year. It’s a 2010 thing. So Lam’s source is an “insider” but has no idea what the OS is and has the ship date wrong. Sure.
But, if you remember reports of the iPhone’s development, Apple kept the iPhone software and hardware developers separate so that very few knew too much about the finished product. The software developers were running on prototype boxes that looked nothing like the finished product and the hardware developers didn’t see the final software until the launch. If this insider did see the hardware it is likely that he wouldn’t have any clue about what OS the device would run. With regards to the ship date, the time frame given by Brian Lam was only an assumption made based on the average time between the first prototype and the launching product. Dismissing all of the Insider’s information because of these details seems a little silly.
The event in September will be focused on music, which means we could see new iPods and perhaps some updates to iTunes. The tablet computer will not even be mentioned as part of the event, my sources said.
This, of course, does not discredit the Insider’s other information, just that Brian Lam’s release assumption was incorrect.
Update 8/31/09: Now Gizmodo‘s Jesus Diaz is claiming that a “100% reliable” source has told them that Apple has built 13- and 15-inch tablet prototypes, also saying that one of them was running Mac OS X 10.5. I don’t see why Apple would even bother with 13- and 15-inch tablets. Even if they are only for demonstration purposes it currently is not possible to make a 13- or 15-inch tablet that is comfortable to hold in one hand while operating it with the other. I also don’t see how Apple could expect users to want a tablet that would only be comfortable to use if it was laying on a table.


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Freelancing looks idyllic from the outside. Working with the best clients, choosing fun projects, determining your own hours and working from home or wherever you like. But there’s a lot that happens under the hood to keep the momentum going.
Doing the actual freelance work for your clients never takes up 100 per cent of your time. Soon you’ll be swamped with paperwork and admin – writing proposals, drawing up contracts, sending invoices, writing down tasks and managing your workflow.
To accommodate that, we’ve seen an abundance of new tools spring into the market to assist freelancers. You can now write proposals and send them directly to the client without ever opening up your email client. Instantly glance at your revenue for the month and compare it to last year’s. Check how much time you spent on that new project last week.
To help find the best, I’ve broken down the tools into the following categories: proposals, finance, legal, time management and workflow. Let’s begin!
The value of a great proposal shouldn’t be underestimated – they can be the key to winning or losing a project. I’ve tried out a number of different proposal tools and even used InDesign CC to make my own custom template. These tools aim to make things simpler by providing templates and customisation features. Many also enable the user to send the proposal smoothly to the client and track its progress – a feature that I’m a big fan of.
Currently in a private beta, Prospero not only helps you create a proposal but also helps you price the project. From the founders of The nuSchool, Prospero is a completely stripped-back proposal tool. There are no dashboards or even account settings; its strength lies in helping you create a proposal, rather than just letting you fly blind. It promises ‘More client, more money, less headache’.
When you create a proposal, Prospero asks you some brief questions, such as your rate, the time it will take you to complete the project, and the type of work you’re doing (Prospero covers print and branding proposals as well as web and app design). It then smartly generates a proposal based on your answers, which you can edit. There’s no design customisation (only text-editing options), but the default design isn’t bad. When you’re finished with the proposal, you can download it as a PDF or send it directly to the client.
Nusii’s dashboard not only lets you create proposals, it also lets you glance over your sales revenue or proposal acceptance rate. I commend this tool on using the available data in a useful way so users can keep track of how proposals are progressing. The ‘send to client’ experience is smooth, and you’re notified when a client views the proposal.
The proposal-editing process in Nusii is attractive and simple. However, visual customisation is limited and you can’t insert tables – an odd decision considering freelancers often like to include a breakdown of deliverables and expenses in a table. A nice touch is that the tool supports a range of currencies and languages, so you can use it almost anywhere.
A true WYSIWYG tool, Proposify comes with a range of templates. Though pretty bland, the templates give you a nice place to start if you’re new to writing proposals, and the editor includes a range of customisable features (and even some basic drawing tools). However, it is quite like a word processor – you don’t get that beautiful proposal writing experience that I personally prefer.
One of the benefits of Proposify is that you can embed videos and images. It also lets you create content snippets to drop into your proposals and re-use, which is a great time-saver.
Keeping track of the money coming in and out is essential to the sustainability of any business. If you’re looking to get better insights into your earnings, try one of the following finance tools.
Invoiced was co-founded by a freelance web developer, and inspired by his own personal struggles. This tool makes it nice and easy to create and send invoices to your clients. The specific payment method is up to you – Invoiced integrates with Stripe so you can set up online payments via credit card, Bitcoin, PayPal, or even offline.
The smarts of Invoiced are in its ability to track your collections efficiency, how long it takes on average for you to get paid, and any monthly recurring revenue (useful for clients on a retainer). If you’re using an accounting tool to keep track of finances, Invoiced integrates with both Xero and QuickBooks.
ZipBooks is a new accounting tool that is not only free, but also beautifully designed and simple to use. You can use it to create invoices, track your time, manage payments and clients, track your expenses, and more. Once you’re logged in you’ll see a nice dashboard that displays your billings versus collections, revenue in the last 12 months, average collection period and more. Handily, you can set up late payment reminders for those clients that need them.
With its travel expense feature built in, Momenteo is great for freelance digital nomads. Momenteo will also turn approved estimates into invoices without any additional work. Refreshingly, unlike many other tools, Momenteo just has one pricing plan, with the option to pay monthly or annually. You’ll get access to all features and unlimited use of the tool during your subscription.
Still in beta, Bonsai gives freelancers the ability to send contracts and collect payments. When creating a contract, Bonsai will ask you what type of work you’re doing, to help it tailor the contract to your project.
You’ll be asked a few questions, including your basic info, project brief, rate, when you’d like to be paid and so on. The tool will then provide an editable contract on your behalf that you can send to the client straight from the tool. Once signed, Bonsai generates an invoice for you to issue. You can also set the invoices to be recurring – handy.
Not only is the functionality of Bonsai great, but the design and user experience is seamless. The tool is easy and enjoyable to use, omitting any unnecessary clutter.
Wave is another popular, free option. This straightforward tool has all the bare bones you’d expect from accounting software, but without the unnecessary bells and whistles.
Its invoice flow moves through visual steps, making it easy to keep track of where a project is up to in the payment process. A nice touch is that you can create free, unlimited invoices on the go via the iOS app.
It’s easy enough to send a receipt, set up a Stripe integration and connect your own bank account. Payroll features do exist, but are currently limited to the US and Canada only. You’re probably going to want to invite your accountant in to take care of the reporting features, like balance sheets and income statements.
Not the most fun category, but definitely one of the most important. Contracts don’t have to be as scary as they sound – they’re good for you and your client. While these tools are helpful and often include templates, if you’re unsure about the laws in your country I recommend consulting a professional.
A very basic contracting tool, Shake Law lets you choose from a range of contract templates. A nice addition is that you can choose a contract template for an assignment-based or licensing project.
Once you’ve created your contract, you can get it reviewed by a lawyer. While this sounds generous at first, Shake Law actually redirects you to a law firm, which requires an additional fee.
The features of Shake Law themselves are pretty limited. For example, you can’t send the contract to the client (only download a PDF), and there’s no way to visually edit the plain contract. As a designer, the design and consistency of all my collateral is pretty important as I consider it a reflection of my skills and professionalism. I wouldn’t feel comfortable sending my clients something so plain.
It’s the one thing we all wish we had more of: time. Unfortunately we can’t make more time, but we can choose how to spend it. Covering everything from time tracking to scheduling to estimation, time management tools are useful for any freelancer, even those who don’t bill based on time (like me).
Rather than tracking time, Cushion helps you schedule your time – and not just at work. You can schedule time spent on projects, as well as time off. It highlights when you’ve overbooked yourself, to help you avoid burnout and encourage you to manage your time better. Easy to set up, Cushion also lets you display a badge on your website to show when you’re available, which is helpful for those interested in working with you.
Elegantly simple time tracking software, Timely greets you with a calendar view the first time you log in. There’s no timer – rather, Timely encourages you to fill in the hours you worked on a particular project. You can view the history of a project and gain a good overview of time spent across all areas of the business.
This tool lets you enter both your planned and logged hours so you can see the difference in your estimations. A nice way to teach you to estimate your time better if you’re always getting it wrong! Timely works in the cloud, or you can choose to access it from your browser.
Though it may seem overwhelming at first, once you’ve spent a little time with Harpoon and oriented yourself, you’ll see it is a powerful tool. Harpoon lets you create projects, from which you can then track your time and add invoices and expenses.
It prides itself on not just helping you invoice, but aiding you in your decision making and helping you plan better. You can quickly glance at your average revenue per project (or per month, day or hour, if you prefer) or check your outstanding invoices. There’s also an event revenue forecast, with spaces where you can set yourself goals and define your work habits (for example, how many hours or days per week you work). This makes it a great place to encourage you to plan ahead and keep track of your goals.
Harpoon is almost like an all-in-one tool, with smart reporting and dashboard features. The only things it lacks are contracts and proposals.
Freelancy lets you turn time tracked into invoices, quickly and easily upon project completion. I personally don’t bill this way, so it would not work for me. However, for those who do bill per hour, I can see this being useful, as it saves you from having to do the maths to work out your fee.
Freelancy’s reporting feature gives you a calendar overview of when you split your time. Here, you can easily see how much time you’ve spent and on which projects. You can filter by dates or by project, making it easy to see what your time was spent on and when. The reports are exportable, meaning you can download CSVs and charts for yourself or your clients.
While automatically creating invoices from your time tracked is handy, you can also create invoices manually if you prefer. Perhaps you’re only tracking your time for internal reasons, or maybe it’s irrelevant to the client.
I’ve been using Toggl ever since I started freelancing. While I don’t bill my clients per hour or day, tracking time informs me about how and where I spend my time. After tracking the time you’ve spent on certain projects, Toggl uses that data to generate reports. The desktop app reminds me to track my time and lets me do so without having to log in to the web app.
Toggle also lets you create private and team-wide workspaces. So I can manage my personal time, but I could also invite a developer into a workspace if I wanted to track not only my time, but all the time spent on the project.
Workflow tools can often take a little more effort to get your head around as they can be complex, yet powerful. I personally use my trusty paper-and-pen to-do list, but I can definitely see the benefits of having a digital workflow tool, especially when it comes to organising bigger projects.
At its core, Flow lets you create workspaces and tasks so you can keep on top of your projects. Like many workflow tools, Flow lets you collaborate with team members through task assignment and in-built chat. I tried using the chat feature with my developer and it worked fine, but there’s nothing quite as smooth as Slack. There’s also a ‘focus mode’ that turns off notifications temporarily and lets your team know when you’ll next be available.
Users create a selection of tasks to be completed, which are then organised into projects. Not all tasks can be seen by the whole team; Flow lets you create private tasks that you can share with your team members later. This is helpful if you have something you’d like to work on privately before sharing it with others.
The calendar view gives you a nice overview of what’s coming up soon, and you can filter to see just your own tasks or everyone’s. And if you find yourself with a bit of free time on your hands you can navigate to the ‘unassigned’ section. Here, you’ll see all the unassigned tasks ready to be picked up.
Azendoo is a powerful workflow tool with a beautiful design and user experience. View analytics, attach documents, and group and organise your tasks into subjects.
The whole experience has been thought through; you can filter on tasks, see a calendar overview, create repeating tasks, set due dates and add checklists. You can also broadcast messages, send direct messages to team members (if you have any) and view notifications. A great tool for keeping you on top of things.
There’s more to freelancing than just finance, time management and proposals; sometimes freelance life can throw up more unexpected challenges. I’ve rounded up three bonus tools to help you boost your creativity, get paid on time (without the stress) and prototype your ideas quickly and easily.
Stuck in a situation where the client isn’t paying? Julie Elster offers to work as your accounts receivable virtual assistant to help retrieve absent payments; she works by calling your client on the phone and being ‘thermonuclear nice’. She has a proven track record, and is highly rated within the freelance industry.
Briefbox is a collection of hypothetical briefs to help keep your creative juices flowing when you’re between projects. The team at Briefbox write a range of imaginative briefs – everything from designing local currency to creating branding for a painter – you just need to pick one and get designing. Once you’re done, you can upload your work to the site and get feedback from the community.
The team has just launched its Pro accounts. These offer tips from trade professionals, and constructive criticism on every submission.
Create and share prototypes with your client with Atomic, the fastest way to design beautiful interactions. Import an existing design from Sketch or Photoshop (or design in the tool itself), then link the pages together and fine-tune the transitions to create your prototype.
Once finished, you can easily share your prototype with the client by sending them a link. The client can then add any comments or feedback on your design.
Full disclosure: Femke van Schoonhoven works in marketing and design for Atomic.
That’s it! This is by no means an exhaustive list. There are hundreds of new freelancing tools popping up every year, so I encourage you to keep an eye out and see what’s improving over time. Remember, when it comes to freelancing there’s no one-size-fits-all. Each tool has its own strengths and feature set so it might take some time before you find the best ones for your toolkit.
This entry was posted in Design Tips, Fun Stuff, Print News, Tips & Tricks on December 22, 2016 by Shawn Nag.

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but teach them to your children and to your children’s children.
Today’s passage taken from Deuteronomy reminded me instantly of Herodotus. I took solace in Herodotus’s notion of writing “to prevent these deeds from drifting into oblivion,” and find peace in the durability of art—its ability to stay in our minds longer than our historical memory. Of course, part of the trouble is that so much is hidden from us (sometimes by our own ideological blindness), that we don’t even know what we haven’t seen to remember it.
The scholar Patrick Deer wrote to me not long ago about these observance pieces, saying that I’d found a way to perform my own “longue duree,” and I was glad to find a name for my strange perseveration. According to Wikipedia, “the longue durée … is an expression used by the French Annales School of historical writing to designate their approach to the study of history, which gives priority to long-term historical structures over events— what François Simiand called histoire événementielle, "event history"— the short-term time-scale that is the domain of the chronicler and the journalist; the longue durée concentrates on all-but-permanent or slowly evolving structures, and substitutes for élite biographies the broader syntheses of prosopography.” Amen to that.
Here I’m speaking to the block of testimony on a translucent page overlaid within the void of “Home Sweet Home.” As Philip lets us know, it’s the testimony of a widow whose soldier husband died in a tank driven into the Tigris river: “I climbed inside, they closed / the hatch. Sat there thinking, / this is such a little hole, / and my love was so much / bigger than me.” Crushing.
Tanks and tankers – I think immediately of Ghassan Kanafani’s novella Men In The Sun in which three Palestinian refugees in a camp in Lebanon hire a smuggler to take them to Kuwait. At checkpoints the three men hide within the tank of water truck. They die at the last one, their life baked out of them by the sun. One tank in the Tigris filling with water, one water tanker at a checkpoint, bone dry. These are not equal and I cannot weight them.
What is it here I can’t quite say? Metres’s poetry delivers me constantly to this place.
My own work has taken me to water in Iraq and the West Bank and the more subtle, staggering costs of war and settler colonialism. Behind every “surgical strike” has been the destruction of crucial water infrastructure, the expropriation of water resources, the pollution of traditional watercourses, and sanctions that prevent the rebuilding of water infrastructure. One result is that the poorest residents of Gaza, the West Bank, and Iraq must do things like buy water at a steep cost--perhaps from a man driving a water tanker--or drink dirty water. The result has been hundreds of thousands of deaths of the most vulnerable: children. Thomas Nagy’s “The Secret Behind the Sanctions: How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq’s Water Supply” is one early place to start learning about this slow, spreading violence.
Joe Hall is an author and scholar living in Buffalo, New York. His three collections of poems are Pigafetta Is My Wife, The Devotional Poems, and Utopia (forthcoming). With Cheryl Quimba, he wrote the chapbook May I Softly Walk. He is a founding member of Hostile Books, a collective working to radically materializing language.
So you have seen the face of evil.
You have looked right in.
Was it cold? Was it on fire?
or the murder of thousands?
is made by human beings.
so rarely do. And yet.
to believe in. A benevolence.
I know we are not simple.
We are left with only dirty wars.
a shadow blue with grief.
I hope I would, and yet.
--Mary Austin Speaker is a poet and book designer. She is the author of The Bridge, released in January 2016 from Shearsman Books. Her first full-length collection of poems, Ceremony, was selected by Matthea Harvey as winner of the 2012 Slope Editions book prize and was published in February 2013. She is the author of four chapbooks: In the End There Were Thousands of Cowboys (Menagerie Editions 2009), Abandoning the Firmament (Menagerie Editions 2010), The Bridge(Push Press 2011), and 20 Love Poems for 10 Months (Ugly Duckling Presse 2012), as well as a play, I AM YOU THIS MORNING YOU ARE ME TONIGHT, collaboratively written with her husband, the poet Chris Martin for the journal Bridge. She runs a tiny design studio in Minneapolis, and regularly designs books for Milkweed Editions, The Song Cave, WW Norton, HarperCollins, Alice James Books and others.
"Home Sweet Home" is an unforgettable poem. The image of behind inside the tank filling with water is haunting.
Mary Austin Speaker's response underscores the difficulty of coming to terms with "evil" in the abstract. We turn away from what we know we have seen, and what we see we call into question.
Nagy's and so many other articles about Iraq's water conditions point up the devastating effects of the war in that country. It's chilling to read about the effects on children, referenced as they are in parentheses, i.e., "(particularly children)", as if enclosing the facts within parentheses somehow disguises the truth about the sanctions. How can anyone regard U.S. actions as anything but criminal?
Thanks, Maureen. The more I study the Middle East, the more water seems to be part of the resource wars that are happening there.

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We expand upon the interpersonal-CAPS framework by examining how dependency moderates the within-person association of interpersonal perceptions and emotions. 184 university students completed a 7-day diary study, reporting on how they perceived their interaction partners and emotions during that interaction. Multilevel regression models were used to examine the associations between interpersonal perceptions and emotions, moderated by interpersonal dependency. For participants with higher dependency, perceiving others as more submissive and unfriendly than usual was associated with decreased positive emotional valance, while perceiving others as dominant and unfriendly in general was associated with less emotional activation. These results are organized using the interpersonal-CAPS framework to articulate dependent personality dynamics, particularly the unique perceptions, expectations, and costs of relying upon unfriendly-dominant others. © 2014.

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Playtime can be tiring so when your pet is ready for a nap, snooze and a stretch, these Plush Padded Grey Pet Beds by Me & My Pets are the perfect place for nap time. The bed is extra padded for comfort and support and is dreamily soft to touch.
It arrived within 2 days. I ordered the small and on seeing it I thought it would be too small for my large Snowshoe cat, but she took to it right away and now will not even consider moving to the more spacious radiator bed!
Safe to say my bulldog would take this everywhere if he could. He loves it.

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Investigators searching a Minnesota farm for a missing North Dakota man say human remains have been found.
Authorities started looking for 41-year-old Troy Yarbrough on the property near Moorhead on Thursday.
Yarbrough, from Wahpeton, North Dakota, disappeared more than a month ago.
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Is the Mighty Mouse REALLY that bad?
Discussion in 'iMac' started by fivepoint, Jan 31, 2008.
This week I got my brand new 24" iMac, and was very excited about the wireless Mighty Mouse that I got along with it. I previously had used a logitech MX 700 and was looking forward to having something with similar functionality actually built WELL by Apple. It would look good, and work good... or so I thought.
When I first started the computer I immediately set up the mighty mouse to work with Expose. I had the side (squeeze) button tiling all windows, and the roller (push down) button to clear the screen completely.
Here is where the problems began. I am a pretty big guy, and was even a collegiate athlete... but I still find it kind of difficult to squeeze the side buttons to activate expose. Sometimes, mid-squeeze, I accidentally let go causing things to happen unintentionally on the screen. On the other hand, sometimes I am doing something completely different and squeeze the buttons on accident causing a similar problem. Just seems kind of inconsistent... or maybe I just 'squeeze' my mouse too much sometimes.
Beyond this, the entire mouse seems kind of unpolished. I don't mean the finish... the 'action' the mouse has when being depressed is not very clean, and although I kind of like the scroll ball, I really miss the additional buttons I had on each side of the scroll wheel on the old logitech.
1) Have you had similar problems with your Mighty Mouse? What is your take on it?
2) Is there a good alternative out there? I would personally like it to be bluetooth (so I don't have to use up a USB port) but from my website searches... this might not be a posibility. For whatever reason, bluetooth does not seem to be a popular choice for wireless mice.
I would like functionality similar to my old MX700 (I think it has like 7 buttons or so) and a good 'heavy feel' to the mouse. No portables please.
Any suggestions you guys could make would be very much appreciated!
Mighty Mouse scroll-ball clogs too easily.
Side buttons are too easy to invoke accidentally; mine are disabled.
The Left/right click function has to be learned; difficult to right-click at first.
The shape, size and weight of the mouse is good.
The Logitech MX Revolution is a nice wireless mouse.
2) Is there a good alternative out there?
see now i like my mighty mouse. Yes the scroll ball is easily clogged, but its just as easily remedied. furthermore, when it finally gives up the ghost, apple give you a new one (as long as its still under warranty).
I've just got myself the Logitech MX Revolution instead of the Mighty Mouse. The reason for this is i spent a lot of time researching the Mighty Mouse and alternatives, and the MX came out the best overall.
I haven't used it yet, as i'm still waiting for my MacBook to arrive, but as and when it does, it should be really good.
It has 7 buttons, and each are customisable in individual programs too, which is a bonus!
when i first got my wireless mighty mouse the side squeeze buttons were very hard to squeeze but i didnt really use it that much as i have exposé set for the scroll button. now after 8 months of use ive found that the side squeeze buttons are a lot easier to use in fact ive now set them to invoke spaces.
do you mean that the right click and normal click arent reliable? make sure you lift your left finder when you right click (or vice versa if youre a lefty) as the shell is heat sensitive. after you get used to this you wont even notice it.
1) the only problem ive had is the scroll bar stops scrolling up. a simple fix is to turn in off and scroll frantically upside down on a piece of paper.
2) when i was looking for bluetooth mice i too didnt find that much of a selection. ice only seen logitech, microsoft and radtech bluetooth mice. i went for the mighty mouse for its 360 scroll ball and for its nice integration into Mac OS X. this logitech MX900 mouse has 6 buttons.
as you would of probably guessed i like my mighty mouse. but if you dont like the squeeze buttons or the "one button" design you probably should look into the logitechs or microsofts.
I'm in the minority but I like the mighty mouse. It's not the best mouse I have ever used but I like how it feels in my hand and like the scroll ball. I wouldn't call it a disaster.
I agree with you though. I don't want another mouse that clogs up a USB port. There has to be other bluetooth mice on the market somewhere.
It just waaay to small for my hand. It amazes me how apple can design so many amazing products and still put out a horrible mouse.
I second this here the MX Revo is an awesome mouse. I really like the MM before but I was looking for a wireless alternative and the BT MM is just plain useless. Now I got the MX Revo and it is awesome, it really is worth the money.
I love my mighty mouse, but i agree its a tad small and fragile. it just took me some time before i had the hang of it tho.
This looks like an interesting alternative. I was afraid of this one at first, because it needs a USB port, but I see now that the USB plug in is TINY! Can you verify for me that it can be connected to the Apple Keyboard with no trouble? Just wanted to make sure that it fit, and that the power was sufficient. I think this could be my new mouse if this aspect is correct. I just don't want to waste my USB ports on the back of the computer.
Well, yes and no. The unreliable right click isn't what I was referencing. I was talking about the un-clean action any click (right or left) makes as you depress the mouse. I just don't prefer how it works and how it feels. Probably just a preference thing.
The right click thing is also an issue though. It is SO annoying when I try and right click and it doesn't work. I can get it about 95% of the time now... but it is still a bit frustrating.
That IS kind of amazing, isn't it! Sometimes I think form comes over function a BIT too much... however, I would never tell them to change that, because there aren't ENOUGH companies that care about design and about successfully developing the complete package. Apple is one such company, and I for one appreciate it. They just plain miss on their mice, thats all there is to it.
Can you verify for me that it can be connected to the Apple Keyboard with no trouble?
I use mine plugged in to the keyboard and it works great.
Awesome. That USB dongle doesn't magically start looking BIG once you plug it into that amazingly thin keyboard does it? Would you be able to post a photo of what it looks like? That would be great.
And the only other thing that needs to be plugged in is the 'dock' to the power outlet? Very nice. I think I am going to pick one of these up. I've read good things... and now that my #1 major concern is taken care of, I'm ready!
First, the name. Seriously, Apple!
Second, the scroll ball gets dirty and refuses to scroll in certain directions, necessitating a cleaning. Dirty mouse balls?! I thought we were past this years ago.
Even if it could have been just a proper two-button mouse, I'd be much happier with it.
I recently switched back to my Logitech MX700 Bluetooth mouse. Problem is now it feels so much heavier compared to the Mighty Mouse.
Like MX700 Optical, "Intellimouse", MX Revolution or the host of other god awful names are any better?
It's really not that noticeable at all maybe sticks out about 1/4" from the right side of the keyboard. Its about half the length and thickness of my 4GB Sandisk Micro. I can't take any pictures right now because I'm at work on my Dell . But when I get home I can.
Also if you don't want anything at all sticking out the keyboard check this out! Hot off the presses BT version of it coming out. I never read anything good about BT mice and I tried the BT MM and it was absolutely horrible. But this is the MX Revo BT so it might be alot better.
Oh wow! That would be perfect... only two problems.
1) No idea of when It might be coming out.
2) It will probably cost another $20 more... I can find the current USB one on Amazon for $72. I bet the bluetooth version won't be found for less than $100 for atleast the first 6 months after release.
The only problems I have with the Mighty Mouse is the fact that it's not split in the middle for left/right clicks. I have it setup to perform right click duties, but I sometimes don't click far enough to the right and the left button options perform instead. It's a bit annoying.
I also find the glossy finish really slippery, especially if you've been holding it for a while and your hands get sweaty.
Hmm.. this is going to put a crimp in my looting the dead bodies that lay before me in World of Warcraft, once I get my iMac.
Mostly I love the Mighty Mouse.
- It fits my hand perfect.
- The smooth plastic feels nice, a bit luxurious.
- The mouse clicks have a nice tactile feel - I lift my right finger anyways, no matter which mouse I use, so I don't have any trouble with the right click.
- The scroll ball works adequate most of the time, though I agree it isn't always responsive enough, at times I have to press the little scroll-ball a bit to make it respond instead of just smoothly let my finger run over it.
'Accelerate scrolling', with USB Overdrive for instance, doesn't always work smoothly.
Accelerate scrolling is a convenient way of scrolling where a short and delicate finger-movement results in 1 to 3 lines, using more force results in an acceleration and brings you almost immediately at the bottom of a page.
The Mighty Mouse's scroll-ball doesn't always register a short and delicate movement and I have to press-scroll in order to get things moving, it therefore unintentionally accelerates, which can be pretty annoying.
what the heck!! am i overfly filthy? lol...im a clean person!!
It took me awhile to get used to mine, but I like it okay now. The one-button clicking doesn't bother me - I don't really ever "mess up" and press the wrong button. I -DID- make the mistake of getting it just because it's Apple, assuming it would be the best. Looking back, I should have done more research.
I ordered my Logitech MX Revolution today. It won't ship from Amazon for another 5 days though... boo.


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A NASA illustration of the exoplanet HAT-P-2b giving its parent star HAT-P-2 heartbeat-like pulsations.
A gigantic exoplanet and its host star have a very special relationship, a new study suggests.
The gas-giant planet, known as HAT-P-2b, induces heartbeat-like pulsations in the star every time the two bodies get close, according to the study, which is based on observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
HAT-P-2b and its parent star lie about 370 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Hercules. The planet, which was discovered in 2007, is about eight times more massive than Jupiter.
HAT-P-2b's path is much more elliptical than the orbits of the eight officially recognized planets in our solar system, so it makes one close approach to the star every 5.6 Earth days. During each of these "flybys," the alien planet's powerful gravity pulls hard on the star, causing its outer shell to vibrate, the researchers found.
Such interactions have been observed before, in binary "heartbeat stars." But the new study, which was published today (Feb. 14) in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, marks the first time a planet has been implicated in the phenomenon, study team members said.
"It's remarkable that this relatively small planet seems to affect the whole star in a way that we can see from far away," study co-author Heather Knutson, an assistant professor of geological and planetary sciences at the California Institute of Technology, said in the same statement.
HAT-P-2b is about 100 times less massive than its host star, the researchers said. For comparison, Jupiter is about 1,000 times less massive than the sun.
The researchers spotted the pulsations after analyzing 350 hours of Spitzer observations, which were made between July 2011 and November 2015. The find came as a surprise.
"We had intended the observations to provide a detailed look at HAT-P-2b's atmospheric circulation," said study co-author Nikole Lewis, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. "The discovery of the oscillations was unexpected but adds another piece to the puzzle of how this system evolved."
The heartbeat effect is slight; the star's oscillations are the most subtle light variations that the Spitzer Space Telescope has ever measured from any source, the researchers said. But modeling work indicates that the pulsations should be ever fainter, so there are more mysteries for the team to investigate.
"Our observations suggest that our understanding of planet-star interactions is incomplete," de Wit said. "There's more to learn from studying stars in systems like this one and listening for the stories they tell through their 'heartbeats.'"

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The 13.5-hectare Malcapuya island, recently acquired by the Hennann Group of Resorts, has a beautiful stretch of white-sand beach, regarded as the ultimate virgin beach in Coron, itself home to a collection of some of the most stunning, unspoilt beaches in the country. Travelling time from Manila to Coron and the cost of travel have kept visitor numbers down, but new roads and airport improvements and international promotions have sparked interest in the area. Still, it takes about one to two hours from Coron town to get to Malcapuya, and flights from Manila to Coron, via Busuanga, is about an hour. Malcapuya's draw? Its clear, calm turquoise waters and milky white shore, which people liken to Boracay, which is really not entirely accurate, because Malcapuya and the surrounding islands of Coron offer much more. This, after all, is the country's last frontier. Malcapuya has cottages under the shade of trees for lounging mid-day with the sea just a few steps away. Trek up the view deck for a view of the main beach and the opposite side of the island where outrigger boats are docked. Entrance fee to the island is P200 (about $4.25) per person. Hennann plans to develop a luxury resort on the site.
Banana Island, about one and a half hours by boat from the main town center, is a fish and coral sanctuary in the southern part of Coron. The shore is a mix of white sand and pebbles, but it’s a favorite of snorkeling and diving enthusiasts with the crystalline waters teeming with different species of fishes and corals. Other activities include kayaking, beach volleyball or just hanging out and catching a nap in the open huts and hammocks on the island. Native cottages can be rented for overnight stays. Entrance fee is P200 per person.
Just 30-40 minutes from Banana Island, Detaytayan is a quiet and little-known gem in Coron, surrounded by a rich coral reef and fringed by powdery white sand. It's off the tourist radar, so the beach is relatively empty without a pier, jetty or accommodation. Pack your snorkelling gear, kayak, picnic and whatever else you may need and enjoy the day on the island.
A popular stop for lunch between day tours, Banol Beach is a pocket of white-sand beach almost hidden entirely by lofty limestone cliffs. The short stretch is a peaceful cove only 20 minutes away from the main town center, a convenient stop with small nipa huts available for lunch and a quick siesta. The island is an ancestral domain of the native Tagbanua, whose livelihood includes foraging for the nests of swiftlets. These nests are prized ingredients for bird nest soup in China.
Right beside Banol Beach is Smith Beach, an even smaller white-sand cove with a limited docking space, keeping the crowds at bay. Slip on your snorkel to see a collection of starfish on the sandy seabed. Entrance fee is P100 per person.
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Beach 91, also known as Caliwantay, is a white-sand beach with nipa huts tucked close to the limestone cliffs behind it. A good place for a picnic or a day out swimming, kayaking and snorkeling. Entrance fee is P100.
We saw skeleton ship wreck in Coron. It was mysterious and beautiful. The water was super clear and the visibility was excellent.
The tiny Skeleton Wreck Beach, also called Malwawey Island, has very fine white sand mixed with pebbles. Adding to the attraction is a shipwreck sunk in relatively shallow waters, its top only about five meters from the water's surface. Most visitors go straight for the dive, exploring the wreck. Entrance fee is P100.
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Bulog Dos is one and a half to two hours away by boat from Coron town center. It's characterized by large rock formations, making for a rugged coastline, and pockets of sandy seabed. There are no facilities here so visits are limited to day trips. If you do come and visit, pack your snorkelling gear because the Bulog Dos has a rich and colorful marine life, with thick seagrass and corals just a few meters from the shore. And if you're up for a short steep climb up a hill on the island, you'd be rewarded by a view of the turquoise waters and the luxurious Two Seasons Resort in the Malaroyroy Peninsula. There is a winding sandbar connecting Bulog Dos to Malaroyroy, but the peninsula is no longer accessible to the public.
Entrance fee to the island is P100 per person.
With pristine white sand on one side and a mangrove area and coral reef on the other, Pass Island offers the best of two worlds just about two hours away from the main town center. Snorkelling here is excellent and if you're lucky, you might just spot giant clams and manta rays. Guests can stay overnight in basic cottages on the island Robinson Crusoe-style or camp in tents. There is no electricity on the island and the only convenience store has rather scant offerings so best to bring your own packed lunch or dinner, and other supplies. Entrance fee is P200 per person.
Entry to the Coron Youth Club (CYC) Beach is completely free, one of the few beaches in Coron that doesn’t charge visitors. This makes the public beach a favorite of locals. The waters close to shore is shallow and ideal for families with kids. Healthy mangroves in the area is a great indicator that marine life here is thriving, with thick mangroves serving as habitat for the area's wildlife and various marine species like shrimps, mud lobsters, and oysters. CYC is also a good training spot for divers because of the gentle slope of the ocean floor.
Blue Lagoon Adventure Travel & Tours is a Coron-based tour operator, offering trips to the different tourist hotspots throughout Coron and the rest of the Calamianes group of islands.
Milagros Gamboa is a long-time resident of Coron and knows the area and its people like the back of her hand. She is the owner and general manager of Coron-based Blue Lagoon Adventure Travel & Tours.
Mirra Reyes divides her time between Manila and Coron, Palawan. When she’s in Coron, she manages Casa Fidelis and provides tours to guests staying at the family-owned resort.
For more on Coron, read 5 days in Coron.
Cover photo by Christian Sangoyo.

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Things are slowly returning to normal in the area of the library's 4th floor near the source of a roof leak that occurred a little over a month ago in the northeast corner of the building. The area has long since been dried and some 30,000 dry books that were removed from lower shelves there have been reshelved. The books were initially moved, in no particular order, on about 60 book carts, to the library basement. They needed sorting before they could be moved back upstairs to shelves covered by plastic sheets from the construction overhead in that area of the building.
The reshelving process took just eight days and was accomplished by a small team of staff diverted from the Tulane Legacy Collection Analysis Project, which is identifying, examining for condition, and physically flagging the library's pre-1938 books stored off site, books that will eventually be among those housed in a new rare books area on a new 6th floor. The reshelvers--principally Kelsey Chapman, Katelyn Howells, and Izzy Oneiric--are employees of the library services firm LAC Group.
Meanwhile, the 2,200 wet books that were boxed, frozen, and shipped off to a restoration facility in Fort Worth, TX, are now on their way home. Samples sent in advance have looked good. The restored books will arrive first at our Recovery Center, still in operation after Hurricane Katrina, and they should be back on the shelves at Howard-Tilton in a few weeks. A relatively small number of titles will need to be replaced, but we know exactly which ones and replacements are expected to be ordered soon now that initial discussions of insurance have concluded.
In the 4th floor open stacks area, workers removed all the ceiling tiles and have been installing sprinkler pipe, roof drains, and, over the book stacks, motion sensors that will turn lights off and on in the aisles between each range. The sensors will dole out energy for lighting based on use of the aisles rather than simply leaving the lights on 24/7. Lights in broader access aisles or seating areas will have standard illumination. The ceiling work is expected to be completed in this area by the end of this week or early next, after which the plastic sheeting now covering the book shelves there will be removed.
Next, the same work will be repeated in an adjacent quadrant of the 4th floor and eventually will move sequentially throughout the building, although more limited in scope on the lower floors.
The contractor has completed the forms for the shear wall slab being built in the central stairwell and has poured concrete for about half the slab, with the rest to be completed this week. Nearby, another crew is removing walls between the men's restroom and the building's central chase to soon begin to build forms for a final shear wall there. Roof work has continued to remove a layer of rooftop“membrane” from a ten-foot wide swath around the roof perimeter. Workers are almost completely around the perimeter at this point and, basically, they have peeled the membrane back to where they are already constructing the base of what will be the outer wall of the library's new 5th and 6th floors. Steel for those floors should begin to arrive onsite very soon and erection of the steel frame will likely be accomplished in a concentrated and tightly phased time frame of about eight weeks.
The contractor for the construction project has begun covering the book shelves in the 4th floor open stacks area with plastic sheeting in preparation for removing the ceiling tiles there to dismantle roof drains and perform other tasks in the space between the ceiling grid and the roof above. Removing the tiles will also make it easier to completely inspect the underside of the roof around the area where we experienced a major roof leak on February 21.
The books will be covered and access will be restricted in this area until March 28. Books affected are those with call numbers A-DA.
Until then library users will be able to check out books housed there by using the "Make a Request" feature in the online library catalog, with the standard 24-hour (weekdays) turnaround provided for access to materials in other restricted areas such as our off-site facility. These requests can also be made directly, in-person, at the Circulation Desk in the Learning Commons on the library's 1st floor. Access to the covered books will be restricted to library staff.
Project managers initially thought that only a few ranges would be covered at the same time in the area, but they say the direction of some of drain pipes running across the width of the building made covering most of the ranges in the area more prudent.
The contractor is required to preserve an aisle though this area all times for both staff and library users to continue to have access to the stairway on the Dixon side of the building. The stairway access aisle will be identified with caution tape.
Meanwhile, in recovering from the roof leak we will move forward with plans to contract with outside help to reshelve the dry books from this area that are presented stored on carts in the basement, and will be working with the contractor to make access to the shelves for those books as easily accessible as possible for the reshelving process.


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De Appel arts centre is a contemporary arts centre, located in Amsterdam. Since it was founded in 1975, the goal of de Appel is to function as a stage for research and presentation of visual arts. Exhibitions, publications and discursive events are the main activities of de Appel.
In 1994, Saskia Bos established an intensive course, called 'The Curatorial Programme'. Over a period of eight months a selective group of five to six people are trained to become a curator. At the end of 2012, former director Ann Demeester initiated a new professional development programme in collaboration with The Fair Gallery: the Gallerist programme. This programme is the first practice-oriented educational course for (aspiring) gallery owners and (young) art professionals who want to deepen their curatorial and business competencies in the commercial segment of the art world.
INTK, collaborators and freelancers responsible for projects developed with de Appel.


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Now, Democrats are fighting to take back that seat, and they're placing their bets on strong homegrown candidates.
In Adams County, the Democratic sweetheart to take back Lebsock's seat is Kyle Mullica, a 31-year-old trauma nurse at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in downtown Denver. His first foray into public office was his election to Northglenn City Council in 2013, a seat he held for four years. His top priority is advocating for working families by supporting unions, workers' rights and a livable wage given Denver's rising cost of living.
"You shouldn't have to live out of your car when you're working two jobs, and your children shouldn't have to worry about having a roof over their heads and worry about where their next meal is coming from,” Mullica says.
More than three-fourths of delegates at the Adams County party assembly voted to place Mullica on the primary ballot. His opponent, special education lawyer and Thornton City Council member Jacque Phillips, petitioned to get on the primary ballot after losing the party vote.
Mullica grew up near the Northglenn-Thornton line in Redwood Estates, a mobile-home community, and on the other side of I-25 from Thornton City Hall. He was the only child of a single working mom who struggled to keep a roof over their heads and put food on the table even though she worked two jobs. His childhood was filled with instability, and at one point he and his mom were homeless and living in their car.
He graduated in 2008 from the University of Denver as a Daniels Fund recipient; the fund provides four-year scholarships to high-achieving students with financial need. After college, he worked with families experiencing homelessness to help them secure stable housing, and after seeing firsthand the medical concerns that often accompany the homeless, he became an EMT and, later, a nurse. Mullica is married to his middle-school sweetheart; they're raising their two kids in Northglenn, a few miles north from where he and his wife grew up.
"I'm a lifelong resident of the district. This is my home. This is where my roots are,” Mullica says.
Even though Mullica is the party favorite, his victory in the June primaries isn't guaranteed. This year will be the first time unaffiliated voters can participate in the primaries, and they comprise the largest voting block of that House district at 38 percent.
Jacque Phillips might be the new kid on the block — she moved to Thornton in 2007 — but she's a tough opponent. Phillips, 55, also grew up impoverished and in an unstable home. She was born in Iowa, raised on the southside of Chicago, left home at fifteen, dropped out of high school her senior year and moved to northern Colorado a few years later, in 1984.
She was a single mom who put herself through college to become a math teacher, and has been in education ever since. After years as a teacher in northern Colorado schools, she became a school principal for a maximum-security juvenile detention center in Greeley, then an international special-education teacher in Kenya and Myanmar, a jet-setting special-education consultant for a school in Saudi Arabia and a professor at the University of Hawaii and at two universities in Colorado. Now she's a Thornton-based civil-rights lawyer specializing in special-education law. Phillips is the lawyer representing families in two special-education complaints against Thornton charter school Stargate.
While Phillips's career in education is extensive, she is a relative newcomer to politics. She was elected to Thornton City Council in November 2015, which was her first foray into public office, even though she's lobbied for education issues at the Capitol.
"The surprise to me was that — it's one of the reasons I'm running for House — when I first got on [Thornton City] Council, I was told over and over, 'Slow down. This is government; it doesn't work like that. Pump the brakes.' And I was like, 'No, I'm here for four years. I have to get stuff done in four years.' I believe in legacy right now. I've got to pass things down," Phillips says. "My single mission is to get things accomplished at the Statehouse. And I believe in winning."
Phillips set her sights on the seat last year; she's hoping to be an advocate for more high-paying jobs and to change education laws around school discipline, funding and vocational education. Instead of relying on party delegates to nominate her for the primary, she petitioned her way to the June ballot — with a little help from Lebsock. Even with sexual-harassment allegations flying about Lebsock, he and his aide helped circulate petitions for her campaign. (Colorado Politics broke the story about a week ago.) But she says her campaign hasn't received any negative comments as a result of his involvement.
"I'm grateful that many people came forward, because I couldn't walk," Phillips says. She had foot surgery in January and had post-surgical complications that kept her in a cast until March, just weeks before the deadline to turn in her 1,000 signatures. "The House district is ready to move on, and I mean the whole House district. ... Obviously [Lebsock] and I don't agree on things, but I think people want to move forward."
So who has the best shot of winning back Lebsock's seat? It looks like a toss-up. Mullica has raised 60 percent more than Phillips, according to the latest campaign finance reports, filed earlier this month. On the other hand, Phillips has better name recognition given that Thornton has more than three times the population of Northglenn. Mullica seems more willing to toe the line on important Democratic issues — he's supportive of a ballot petition to put 2,500-foot oil-and-gas setbacks on new developments — whereas Phillips takes a more measured approach. She doesn't think the setbacks are as effective as appropriately regulating the industry and mapping flowlines.
But what's most important to both candidates is regaining Democratic control of the district.
Even though House District 34 has been blue for at least the last two decades, competition has been fierce in recent years. In the 2016 presidential election, Lebsock received exactly half of the district's votes after a Green Party candidate funneled away 6 percent. Republicans were running nearly neck-and-neck in what was supposed to be a safely Democratic seat.
To top it off, 2018 is on track to be an explosive election year. The gubernatorial race has been on fire; there are eight primary candidates in the race, which is down from a peak of nineteen earlier this year. Candidates on both sides of the aisle are exciting their bases and working hard to drive people to the polls. President Trump has been exciting his base and pleading with them to vote in the 2018 mid-term elections so Republicans don't lose control of Congress. Those straight-ticket Trump voters could put up a serious fight against a supposed "blue wave," which some political analysts are expecting, given the president's unpopularity.
"I do think that it's going to be a difficult challenge to win this seat back...but my plan is to be out there and talking to my neighbors," Mullica says. "[Republicans] haven't controlled this seat in a long time, and they don't want to lose it."

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text: Does anybody here have wills. If so how do i file or make one. I want to be able to give my child to my mother or brothers incase I die. My sons father has never been in the picture never helped out but he's name is on the birth certificate. My mom has been there for my son since day one and my son even calls her mom more then me. Can someone please give me info on this. I know it's extremely important if you have kids and not knowing when we going to pass away is scary not to know to who our children will go to if we do not have a will.

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Frohe Ostern – Happy Easter What’s the difference between learning to crochet and learning German?
I have mentioned Project Gutenberg before for individual books, but there are so many good German books available, it deserves a blog post on its own. Project Gutenberg digitalises old books which have no copyright anymore, According to the website “no fee or registration is required, but if you find Project Gutenberg useful, we kindly ask you to donate a small amount so we can buy and digitize more books”.
Most books are in English but the list of German books is also growing. They are available to download in various forms, including Kindle, or you can just read online, and some can be listened to.
In the Drama section you’ll find Goethe, Kleist, Lessing, Schiller and even Shakespeare. Macbeth in German anyone?
There are so many more books, too many to mention, including non-fiction books. I’ve just downloaded Reise durch England and Schottland, written by Johanna Schopenhauer (1766 – 1838), mother of Arthur Schopenhauer, as I’m intrigued by her journey through England and Scotland.
These books are not for beginners, but anybody who has a good knowledge of German and wants to keep it up may find some gems amongst those books. let me know if you’ve downloaded – and enjoyed – one!
About 21% of multilingual firms use German (https://iclew.com/list/multilingual). It’s among the top business languages, only second to English, so definitely worthy of the efforts.


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This innovative new resource provides both professionals and aspiring professionals with clear guidance on how to identify and exploit common web application vulnerabilities. The book focuses on offensive security and how to attack web applications. It describes each of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) top ten vulnerabilities, including broken authentication, cross-site scripting and insecure deserialization, and details how to identify and exploit each weakness.
Readers learn to bridge the gap between high-risk vulnerabilities and exploiting flaws to get shell access. The book demonstrates how to work in a professional services space to produce quality and thorough testing results by detailing the requirements of providing a best-of-class penetration testing service. It offers insight into the problem of not knowing how to approach a web app pen test and the challenge of integrating a mature pen testing program into an organization. Based on the author’s many years of first-hand experience, this book provides examples of how to break into user accounts, how to breach systems, and how to configure and wield penetration testing tools.
Introduction; OWASP A1:2017 Injection; OWASP A2:2017 Broken Authentication; 4 OWASP A3:2017 Sensitive Data Exposure; OWASP A4:2017 XML External Entities (XXE); OWASP A5:2017 Broken Access Control; OWASP A6:2017 Security Misconfiguration; OWASP A7:2017 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS); OWASP A8:2017 Insecure Deserialization; OWASP A9:2017 Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities; OWASP A10:2017 Insufficient Logging & Monitoring; Beyond the OWASP top 10; Testing as a Consultant and Adding Value.


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Sean Spicer stepped down from his role as White House press secretary Friday, according to The New York Times.
Spicer’s resignation comes as New York financier Anthony Scaramucci was appointed as communications director. The Times’ Glenn Thrush, who broke the news of the resignation, said that it was due to Spicer’s displeasure with the hire of Scaramucci.
A White House insider sayst Priebus and Scaramucci have a tense relationship. Spicer is close to Priebus since his days working at the Republican National Committee.
In recent weeks, Spicer has had less of a public role and delegated the responsibility of conducting press briefings to his deputy Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Derik Lattig says he has effectively been working as the communications director, which manages the White House’s message, ever since Mike Dubke resigned in May.


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Beginning a nomadic life or planning an extended holiday can take a lot of planning and energy. There are countless things to arrange and prepare for and lose ends to tie up. If you are doing this solo, it is a little easier as you only have yourself to worry about. A nomadic life isn’t for everyone and it’s important to think long and hard if it is something you want to do. Next, it’s important to think of how you are going to do this. What you will need to sustain this lifestyle and how best to go about making these plans and ideas come together. Here I’ve compiled my list of the essential things you need and need to consider before embarking on any kind of nomadic lifestyle.
It’s all well and good planning to pack up your things and hit the road without any particular plan. But trust me within a few hours hunger will kick in and you will make your way home very quickly. It’s essential to have some funds saved away and at least a general budget plan for the beginning of your trip. This will ensure that you have at least some time to enjoy the trip and to also plan what your next move will be in regard to maintaining your nomadic life. The savings you will need all depend on your own personal preferences.
A nomadic lifestyle means living out of a backpack for extended periods of time. So, it’s necessary to pack accordingly and within your means. You don’t want a huge bag for long journeys, it simply isn’t feasible and will lead to more nightmares than solutions. Pack what is essential first, clothing toiletries, electronic equipment. Afterwards use the free space for everything else such as a fanny pack, extra clothing and souvenirs etc. Use the space wisely and it will help your mobility and plans work out a lot easier.
Similar the first point it’s important to have a general idea of the route that you want to begin with. This is so your budget and expectations are within reach. I would recommend choosing cheaper countries in Asia or south America to begin your nomadic life. The cost of living will be minimal, and it might be much easier to find your new-found path while you don’t have huge financial constraints on what you plan to do. These areas also have huge number of nomadic expats who may be able to share their knowledge with you and guide you in your new found nomadic life. Choose somewhere with good Wi-Fi if online work is what you are thinking or areas with schools or volunteer programmes that you can help with.
These are just some of my ideas that can help you with a Nomadic transition there are obviously countless more which can help you on the way. Make the decision that is right for you and enjoy the journey afterwards.


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I have been teaching at BMC for 17 years. Prior to BMC, teaching was part of my duties as an IT consultant in the Tulane University IT support organization. And for a year, I taught for Amoco Corporation in New Orleans. Then I started teaching with BMC at the end of 1999.
While I originally began my career as a systems programmer, I realized I had a knack for explaining how things work to customers. This moved me into the teaching field. I enjoy teaching because helping students achieve “aha moments” on a consistent basis gives me a huge buzz.
notified if a student is not active in the virtual training lab.
How has training delivery changed since you’ve been an instructor?
Training customers used to mean heavy travel for me. I would spend the first day of every training session setting up the environment, which included setting up the classroom and servers—as well as ensuring the configurations were all correct. At times, this was very stressful. But now, with online training, there’s less travel for everyone—instructors and students. You don’t even need to be on the same continent.
Which tools/features do you use the most?
I am very pleased with ReadyTech. I can teach all over the world, and I don’t have to use an organization’s production servers. Prior to ReadyTech, a simple reboot could completely shut down an entire business. However, with today’s virtual training labs, there’s no need for a risky reboot.
Before we were using ReadyTech, classes were taught on customer servers. Most times, the customer had a test or development server we would use for the class, but sometimes the only available system was the production server that the business was running on. In those cases, it was always a bit scary to teach an administration task because we needed to be cautious about what actions were taken. When using a shared server (testing, development or production), shutting down or stopping components would affect a lot more than just the students in the class.
Inactivity Monitor is brilliant. This tool allows me to see when students are working (or not working) on a virtual training lab. I feel like I always know what’s going on with students, and I can intervene when they are struggling.
"Lab Overview is also very helpful. I can observe students or take over their virtual training labs to help support them. This tool gives me control over the classroom and allows for successful remote teaching."
What advice would you give to a new instructor, just starting with ReadyTech’s solutions?
Before you teach, always check the course reservations to ensure you have the correct image in place. This is simple—but necessary. It is rare to have the wrong image, but quite memorable when it does happen.
Learn how to use Lab Manager and be very comfortable with it before you teach. If you want assistance getting comfortable using Lab Manager, don’t be afraid to contact ReadyTech’s Customer Success Managers to schedule a how-to session.
Be sure to turn off the notice about “instructor viewing” because this can be distracting to students. This message resembles a tap on the shoulder.
Remind students to contact support directly. It can be tempting to personally help students, but you end up ignoring the rest of the class when you do this. That’s what ReadyTech support is there for. ReadyTech support differentiates themselves from competitors with their excellent and reliable support.
Build a PowerPoint slide that includes the course URL, all student names and access codes. Put this slide up so students don’t forget the access codes and lab assignment. This will greatly simplify your job.
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Could Evangelical Christians Soon Be Running Brazil?
Evangelical Christians are expected to influence big advances in local elections in Brazil this weekend.
CHR Comment: The growth of Evangelical churches in Brazil and changes to campaign finance laws have combined to give Evangelical voters and the candidates they support increased influence. For example, a pastor is running for mayor of Rio de Janeiro. This could be interesting as Brazil struggles to deal with corruption problems in its politics.
How long-dead missionaries are unwittingly helping further scientific understanding of the South Atlantic Anomaly.
CHR Comment: The article references the rise, decline, and ruin of seventeenth century Jesuit missions in southern Brazil where Guarani people clashed with Spanish and Portuguese soldiers. Bricks used in the mission buildings recorded information about the magnetic poles of the earth.
Our family is watching the Olympics and noticing how often athletes display the cross, either on a necklace or by making the sign of the cross as a gesture of prayer. For example, a Brazilian gymnast just finished his routine and then crossed himself in prayer. As you enjoy the Olympic competition, look for examples of the cross, which unites God’s people across the nations.


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We are told by doctors and therapists that our problems are rooted in ourselves.
The journey back to good mental health always seems to involve examining interpersonal issues, unhappy childhoods, problem relationships.
I’m not denying that those things have a role in how we function and how we experience life, but there doesn’t seem to be any room in a medical setting for the sociopolitical factors at play.
How many therapists are willing to look at the impact of the here and now, out there in society?
How many acknowledge that being denied benefits, being declared fit for work, even watching your country embark on a suicidal exit from Europe, or electing a President who lacks compassion, can all play a role in depression?
Is it not the case that witnessing cruelty, intolerance, bigotry and selfishness, not to mention institutional corruption, neglect of the sick and survival of the fittest, is detrimental to mental health?
Our society seems hellbent on silencing the vulnerable and promoting the callous.
And that makes me depressed, possibly more than the stuff that happened to me when I was a kid.


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The government intends that from October 2015, schemes will only be able to make refunds within the first 30 days of membership. Defined benefit occupational schemes and personal pension schemes will not be affected.
The government say that the move will lay grounds for making workplace pension saving easier by introducing automatic transfer arrangements for people who change employers during the course of their career.
Currently, a member of an occupational pension scheme who leaves after completing more than 3 months but less than 2 years’ qualifying service may be entitled to receive a short service refund. However this is sometimes optional and an employer may insist on an employee taking the refund or transfer being made to another scheme.
There are around 20,000 short service refunds every year, according to the government and it is hoped that money saved in a pension scheme stays there and is invested for its intended purpose.


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We wanted to make a stew that was not only hearty, but full of complex flavor. The trick was to use a large chuck eye roast for the marbling instead of standard stew beef.
Preheat the oven to 300F. In a small bowl, combine the garlic and tomato paste. Set aside.
Pat the meat dry with paper towels. Heat 1 tablespoon vegetable oil in a large Dutch oven over high heat until starting to smoke. Add Half the beef and cook until browned on all sides (about 8 minutes). Transfer the beef to a large plate and repeat with the remaining oil and beef.
Reduce the heat to medium and return the first batch of beef to the pot. Add the sliced onion and carrots to the Dutch oven and stir to combine with the beef. Cook, scraping the bottom of the pan to loosen any browned bits (1 to 2 minutes). Add the garlic and tomato paste mixture and cook, stirring constantly until fragrant (about 30 seconds). Add the flour and cook, stirring constantly, until no dry flour remains (about 30 seconds).
Slowly add the wine, scraping the bottom of the pan to loosen any browned bits. Increase the heat to high and allow the wine to simmer until thickened and slightly reduced (about 2 minutes). Stir in the broth, bay leaves, thyme, and salt pork. Bring to a simmer, cover, and transfer to the oven. Cook for 1 1/2 hours.
Remove the pot from the oven, and remove and discard the bay leaves. Stir in the potatoes, cover, and return to the oven. Cook until the potatoes are almost tender (about 45 minutes).
Use a large spoon to skim off any excess fat from the surface of the stew. Stir in the pearl onions and cook over medium heat until the potatoes and onions are cooked through (about 15 minutes). The meat should offer a little resistance, but not be falling apart.
In a small bowl, sprinkle the gelatin over the 1/2 cup water and allow to soften for 5 minutes.
Increase the heat to high and stir in the softened gelatin mixture and simmer until the gelatin is dissolved and the stew is thickened (about 3 minutes). Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve.

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In this installment, I’ll discuss Ritchie Blackmore, the great British guitarist from Deep Purple and Rainbow. The first one is a lick from “Gates of Babylon”, on Rainbow’s “Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll” record in 1978.
“Straight Between the Eyes” record in 1982. On to the licks!
I’d recommend that you use this article as a supplement to the video lesson.
As you can see, I also numbered each note relative to the A major scale. If you struggle to fully understand this, it’s time to lock down your major scale understanding! More on that in another article.
There are 2 things that stand out to me in this scale.
2) The unusual 1 1/2 step gap between the b2 and the 3 gives it a nice tonality. Play around in these areas and you’ll like what you hear!
The lick starts on 1 of the scale (E), and Ritchie applies some pretty aggressive vibrato to the note. He follows that up with a really quick hammer on/pull off combination, and then goes into a 1/2 step bend on the 11th fret. Then he shifts back to the 8th fret with his 3rd finger, and works into a 16th note pull off combination with the b2, 3 and 4 of the scale, ending with a 2 whole step bar dip on the 9th fret G# (the 3rd of the scale) down to the root. If all those words are hard to follow, check it out on the video – it’s only a 5-10 minute video.
For this lesson, we’re going to take a look at “Death Alley Driver”, a track from Rainbow’s “Straight Between the Eyes” record from 1982. The lick occurs at the 2:24 mark of the song.
After getting to the top of the arpeggio at the 7th fret/3rd string (the 5th note of the lick), he continues to ascend up the 2-b3-4 (when related to the D minor chord) portion of the scale. Once he gets up to the G (the 4) on the 8th fret, he immediately bends the note up a whole step, then applies the whammy bar to it (Hard!). That’s the end of the portion of the lick that occurs over the D minor chord. Now, the chord progression shifts back to the A minor chord.
He starts the lick on the 5th fret E note in the 3 measure, which is a 5th over A minor. At this point, he starts a mostly descending lick, which ends on the 1 of the chord (A). However, he does a nice 16th note pull off combination from the 6th fret F (b6) to 5th fret E(5). As I mentioned in my previous article on Ritchie Blackmore, the 1/2 step between 5 and b6 in a scale is a nice tension. This applies whether we’re talking about E Phrygian Dominant as in “Gates of Babylon”, or whether we’re talking about a basic minor scale, as in A natural minor. As you begin to pay attention to “the numbers” (harmonic context), you’ll start to develop a sense of what notes will sound good to your ear. After all, that’s what it’s about – developing sounds that sound good to YOUR ear.
Here’s an advanced technique you can try. It’s great if you just learn the lick as it is, but what if you “switch roles”?
I would get 5 4 5 b6 5 4 b3 2 1 2 b3 2 1. You know what comes next, now play those notes over a D minor chord!
I hope you learned something from that. One of the things that I hope to show you in this 100 guitarist series is that you can exponentially increase your musical vocabulary by thoroughly exploring 1 lick/phrase at a time.

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Sunrise has had a good week. SGO recently announced that they will invest surplus funds from the student activity budget into BlackRock, an investment fund that prioritizes environmental sustainability and refuses to invest in fossil fuels. While this is not really “divestment” as Sunrise claims, since the money wasn’t invested into fossil fuels in the first place, it’s a good opportunity to talk about the larger issues of divestment that so frequently come up at Swarthmore. Taking strong action to combat climate change is important, and divestment can be a step towards greener institutions and communities, but it has serious limitations.
The first and most important point about divestment is that it has virtually no concrete effect. While institutions of higher education like Swarthmore control enormous amounts of money in their endowments, they pale in comparison to the total capitalization of the fossil fuel industry: 60 trillion dollars worldwide. For reference, the total endowments of every university in the United States make up less than 1 percent of that number — and each school has only a fraction of its endowment invested in fossil fuels. The divestment of such a miniscule amount of equity only leads to its purchase by investors who don’t care that the stocks are in fossil fuels.
There are a few opportunity costs to this course of action, the first being that by divesting, the divester loses all sway with the company in question. Instead of, for example, forming a bloc with similarly inclined investors and pushing for the company to shift away from fossil fuels, divestment leaves the green side out in the cold. Better to stay in, with access to information about the workings of the company and lines of communication with other investors who can make a boardroom push. The resources and institutional knowledge that fossil fuel grants have in research and development can and sometimes are hugely important in developing green technologies. In areas ranging from carbon capture to efficient power storage to biofuels, fossil fuel firms have the ability and — sometimes — the wherewithal to pursue new solutions. And a diversified, dynamic approach to research and development is likelier to be more successful than efforts at top-down investment (see the U.S. government’s disastrous investment in Solyndra).
It’s also needlessly reductive — there are many different types of fossil fuels and ways to produce them, and some are much better than others. Oil is cleaner and less destructive to extract and transport than coal, for example. A pipeline is a lot less likely to spill than a truck or a train is to crash, burns no fuel for transport, and is less ecologically destructive than new rail or road systems, according to a study by the Canadian Fraser Institute. And natural gas, which has led to most of the growth in American energy over the past decade (and a large part of our economic recovery in the Midwest, creating 750,000 jobs), is far cleaner than both. According to Brad Hager, the director of MIT’s Earth Resources Laboratory, it actually reduced our carbon footprint. While gas is by no means a solution to climate change, it is far preferable to other sources that would otherwise supply power green energy still cannot. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy still suffer from serious problems with location, intermittency, and storage; nuclear energy is almost impossible to get off the ground politically.
Campaigns for divestment can also sidestep the problems of consumption. The reason that firms still mine or drill or frack for fossil fuels is because there is a persistent demand for them, which divestment is incapable of addressing. And in developing countries, the problem is both more pronounced and more open to solutions. While countries like India, China, and Brazil will have to deal with population growth, greater industrialization and their accompanying emissions, they also have a more leeway to build greener infrastructure, due to having significantly less existing energy and power infrastructure in the first place. However, it’s just not feasible for fossil fuels to be taken out of the equation completely: we can’t even do that in the U.S. yet.
Governments that are in the process of trying to lift millions of people out of poverty are going to have to use fossil fuels alongside green energy. Trying to incentivize less harmful fossil fuels like shale gas, using safer modes of transport like pipelines, and encouraging companies like Shell that invest in clean energy systems and advocate for action on climate change, are the best methods for dealing with the “mixed” economy we’re stuck with for the near future.
All of this is not to say divestment has no effect. Divestment is a symbolic action. Individual decisions to consume less, to advocate for action against climate change, and work for innovative solutions may come from this smaller action. I just worry that amid all the noise of sit-ins, protest, and public statements, we’ll lose sight of how much else actually needs to be done. There is nothing wrong with a symbol, but we can’t let it get in the way of action.
Natural gas is *not* cleaner than other fossil fuels, when ubiquitous methane leakages are taken into account.
As regards engaging with fossil-fuel companies, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund cited a long history of futility with such efforts as a major factor in its decision to divest. Even when a majority of shareholders have voted for climate-related disclosures – as happened with Exxon last year – the resulting company reports continue to insist that a path toward climate doomsday is our only option. The few of these companies that have dedicated capital to renewable energy and to research on same in fact still allocate the vast majority of resources to continued exploration for and extraction of fossil fuels, despite the fact that their previous production has resulted in a concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere which will be taking us beyond the 2°C threshold, and that they foresaw this would be happening *decades* ago.
We need to be societally mobilized globally to be transitioning toward zero emissions and sequestration ASAP. Initiatives such as the Solutions Project and Drawdown have shown that we have the means with current technologies to make major progress toward those goals. The enormous resources of the fossil-fuel industry need to be dedicated as much as is possible toward that transition, and in fact those companies ought to be assessed for damages already done by their products, just as has been the case with the asbestos and tobacco industries. If the mandates of profit-seeking impede that from occurring, then it must be governmental mandates which take precedence. For that to happen, the public and governmental actors need to be educated about the urgency of our threatened circumstances. Divestments are (or ought to always be) strong statements about the utter unacceptability of continued business as usual, with the process leading to those principled commitments involving much dialogue which contributes to the enlightenment of multiple audiences.
Fortunately, pioneering funds such as that of the Syracuse endowment have shown that this can be done with exceptional profit returns from fossil-free portfolios. With the combination of global agreement on emissions reductions and oversupply of fossil fuels in all categories which exist today, abstention from fossil-fuel investments actually substantially reduces risk. The many lawsuits now being pursued will have additional impacts on producers’ financial prospects. So divestment is the proper moral and financial decision. Institutions of higher education should be doing much more as well to bring the associated messages to our citizenry.

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There is a proliferation of Mindfulness Courses and events so what should I look for in a mindfulness course / teacher?
The original Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) programmes are designed to be taught over 8 weeks.
All research has been carried out on courses lasting 8 weeks.
Teachers of Mindfulness-Based Approaches should have a strong meditation practice of their own, supported by attendance at residential retreats and regular supervision.
Teachers should have completed an in-depth, rigorous mindfulness-based teacher training programme or supervised pathway over a minimum duration of 12 months either at Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts, Bangor University or the Institute of Mindfulness Based Approaches.
It may be that you have heard about mindfulness but are unsure what it's all about. An introduction course is a good place to start. The 6 week course offers a complete introduction to all the methods of mindfulness practice and will give you an experiential understanding and a good grounding in how to apply the methods. It is aimed at everyone and may be of particular benefit to anyone wishing to manage stress or anxiety or who is living with a chronic condition. On completion, you may decide you have enough or you might want to participate in a more in-depth course.
This course is run over 8 weeks. It is open to anyone. MBSR provides a full, in depth exploration of mindfulness with a particular focus on understanding stress and how to work with it mindfully. You might be interested in learning how to work with anxiety, strong emotions, physical pain or how to manage stress in the home or workplace. This course is aimed at anyone who is willing to commit to over 45 minutes of daily home practice as well as mindful living exercises designed to enhance compassionate awareness of how you relate to yourself and the people and circumstances of your life. You can do the MBSR course without having done any mindfulness practice before.
If you can't attend a regular course or being in a group isn't what you need right now, one to one sessions can offer you a personalised, tailored learning experience in a safe and confidential space. You will receive a full introduction to all the methods of mindfulness practice. This is ideal for anyone who wishes to preserve their anonymity or who doesn't want to discuss their circumstances with others.
If you have been recently diagnosed, in a treatment plan or living with chronic pain you may prefer to have one to one sessions tailored to your personal circumstances and schedule which may be irregular due to appointments or treatment. You will receive a full introduction to mindfulness practice with a particular focus on managing pain, symptoms and stress.