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With continuing advances in digital health, we are interested in identifying how digital health may support patients to self-manage their condition(s) and improve their outcomes.

Before joining the University of Oxford, I was at Loughborough University where I did my PhD. My PhD looked at how information (feedback) is presented via digital health technologies and whether the provision of both behavioural and physiological feedback could be more ‘persuasive’ for lifestyle behaviour change; in particular changes in physical activity.


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1145 User Guide

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Getting Started

Welcome to the 1145 user guide! In order to get started, make sure you have the following hardware on hand:

Next, you will need to connect the pieces:

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  1. Connect the ±12V sensor to the 1145.
  2. Connect the 1145 to the HUB0000 with the Phidget cable.
  3. Connect the HUB0000 to your computer with the USB cable.

Now that you have everything together, let's start using the 1145!

Using the 1145

Phidget Control Panel

In order to demonstrate the functionality of the 1145, we will connect it to the HUB0000, and then run an example using the Phidget Control Panel on a Windows machine.

The Phidget Control Panel is available for use on both macOS and Windows machines. If you would like to follow along, first take a look at the getting started guide for your operating system:

Linux users can follow the getting started with Linux guide and continue reading here for more information about the 1145.

First Look

After plugging in the 1145 into the HUB0000, and the HUB0000 into your computer, open the Phidget Control Panel. You will see something like this:

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The Phidget Control Panel will list all connected Phidgets and associated objects, as well as the following information:

  • Serial number: allows you to differentiate between similar Phidgets.
  • Channel: allows you to differentiate between similar objects on a Phidget.
  • Version number: corresponds to the firmware version your Phidget is running. If your Phidget is listed in red, your firmware is out of date. Update the firmware by double-clicking the entry.

The Phidget Control Panel can also be used to test your device. Double-clicking on an object will open an example.

Voltage Input

Double-click on a Voltage Input object in order to run the example:

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General information about the selected object will be displayed at the top of the window. You can also experiment with the following functionality:

  • Modify the change trigger and/or data interval value by dragging the sliders. For more information on these settings, see the data interval/change trigger page.
  • To find out how to convert your Voltage value into a useful quantity, check out the formulas section below.

Technical Details

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The 1145 uses a four-pin side mounted XH connector as its input.

In order to convert from the return voltage of the 1145 into the actual reported value of your sensor, check you specific sensor's data sheet or user guide for the formula.

Phidget Cable

The Phidget Cable is a 3-pin, 0.100 inch pitch locking connector. Pictured here is a plug with the connections labelled. The connectors are commonly available - refer to the Analog Input Primer for manufacturer part numbers.

What to do Next

  • Programming Languages - Find your preferred programming language here and learn how to write your own code with Phidgets!
  • Phidget Programming Basics - Once you have set up Phidgets to work with your programming environment, we recommend you read our page on to learn the fundamentals of programming with Phidgets.

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Sex worker's freedom bid lands madam in jail

Sex worker's freedom bid lands madam in jail

A SEX worker was badly injured in a dramatic bid for freedom earlier this month,

but her injuries have led to the arrest and detention of the woman who allegedly

trafficked and kept her prisoner.

The Vietnamese woman, Tui (not her real name), jumped from a second-storey window

above a popular expatriate restaurant on Sisowath Quay, after she realized that two

younger sex workers, for whom she was responsible, had managed to flee the building

where they were all being held captive.

According to Eva Galabru of Licadho, the woman, who suffered back injuries and a

broken heel, had been bought from a brothel in Svay Pak, along with two other women,

and imprisoned in the riverside building.

On September 3, two of the sex workers asked to buy cakes on the street below, but

were refused permission by their trafficker, Leang Sokheng.

After Tui promised that they would return, Sokheng let them go, but when Tui realized

sometime later that her two co-captives were not coming back, she threw herself out

of the window in an attempt to avoid punishment from Sokheng.

Human rights workers from several organizations were called to the scene and the

woman was taken to Calmette Hospital, according to Yean Kimlian, Deputy Chief of

Police at Psar Chas (Old Market), who was also called to the scene of the accident.

"We thought at first that she owed money to Leang Sokheng," said Kimlian,

"but later we realized that she had been bought by Sokheng and was trying to

escape. She was then taken to hospital."

According to rights workers, however, doctors at Calmette did not examine the victim

thoroughly, and when Sokheng arrived at the hospital shortly after, doctors let her

remove the victim, who was then taken to a house on Street 144.

"We had to go to the house to find the victim," said Kimlian. "When

I got there I found the woman sleeping on the floor and I told them that I was going

to arrest the woman [Sokheng]."

The victim was later examined by doctors provided by rights workers, and was found

to have abrasions to two vertebrae, a twisted spine and a broken heel. Although she

was offered refuge at a local shelter, Tui chose to go back to Svay Pak with her

mother, where she is recuperating.

Sokheng is now in T3 awaiting trial, having been charged with trafficking.

The case is unusual, say rights workers, because of the co-operation of the police

and the speed with which the trafficker was arrested and charged.

Traffickers are notoriously difficult to prosecute; one of the rights workers called

the case "a bit of a coup".

However, one element of the case remains unsolved: a mysterious Chinese man, Li Ming,

whose name appears on a business card that was given by Leang Sokheng to the owner

of the brothel in Svay Pak where she purchased the three women.

The card describes the services offered as "providing and supply the nice ladies

guide service center" - a very thinly disguised trafficking outfit, say rights

Witnesses at the scene described Leang Sokheng as the wife of the Chinese man, but

Kimlian said that he did not know about any such connection, or indeed how the man

was connected.

"I cannot tell you that there is a Chinese person involved in this case, only

Leang Sokheng," he said, despite the fact that the address of the brothel owned

by Leang Sokheng appears on Li Ming's business card.

According to Galabru, the three women told Licadho that they had been given Chinese

lessons while they were captive, and that passports were being prepared for them.

She added that Licadho were still pushing for the Chinese man to be arrested.

Repeated attempts by the Post to contact Li Ming were unsuccessful.

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    A survey has found that over 70 per cent of Cambodian youths and adults approve of the direction the country is headed in, with the majority of respondents saying they had been doing better financially over the past five years. However, more than half said they

  • Drugs raid on Miami Night Club, 50 held

    Anti-drugs police raided a club in Chamkarmon district’s Boeung Keng Kang I commune in Phnom Penh early on Thursday, arresting some 50 people and confiscating drug-producing equipment and suspected illegal substances. Deputy National Police chief Mok Chito said on Thursday that police conducted the raid

  • Phnom Penh: The street food you adore, but given a refined twist

    There is no shortage of street food vendors scattered across Phnom Penh, but what is far rarer is finding a place that also has comfortable seating, good hygiene and parking. This is where Jing Ling and her five friends step in. With the concept of

  • Battambang court releases minor who shot boy

    The Battambang provincial court on Thursday released a 14-year-old boy who had been detained for accidentally firing a home-made gun and killing a nine-year-old boy in Samlot district on Tuesday, provincial court spokesman Tieng Sambor said. Sambor told The Post on Thursday that following the


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My Nippon Skin Care Duo (and more!)

I just received a big, black box in the mail and I can't wait to unbox it! Nippon Esthetic (aka. Nippon) is celebrating their 9th anniversary this month with more curated kits and unique finds for its loyal hair & makeup artists and beauty enthusiasts. I've tried, tested, and abused some of their products and I can't wait to see for myself what they cooked up this time. :)

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Putting my beauty treats to a neat flat lay, I can just stare and swoon at them for hours. *giddy*

I was gifted the following:
  • BohkToh False Eyelashes from Thailand -  One of the lightest full bands I've tried to date! A box of 10 pairs is only Php 350 making it really economical for those who frequently sport falsies. They're also very neatly bonded and comes in hues of brown (like mine which is P-065). Lovettt.
  • Nippon Eyelash Applicator - This stainless steel applicator is heaven sent for anyone who wants to apply falsies in a flash esp. on clients. I never had to use something similar when I was doing pro makeup because well, it wasn't easily available then. Lucky chicas today can get this sturdy tool for Php 300 a piece.
  • Makeup Remover Lotion in 60ml and 300ml - I'd like to call this underrated product a trade secret (well not anymore!). It feels as mild as Cetaphil but works wayyy harder. It can even get Estee Lauder's Double Wear (original variant) foundation out with minimal massaging on the skin.
    ps. Is the 60ml bottle perfect for my frequent #whereisfibi affairs or what???
  • Facial Cotton Cloth x 10 - Dermatologist tested and hypoallergenic, this tool is perfect for those with really sensitive skin or right about anyone who wants to get rid of all the day's troubles completely. I like using it with the Nippon Makeup Remover Lotion because it gets everything out in just two wipes. Such a good buy for only Php 50 a pack!
  • Facial Patting Cloth - This box of 100 pads work perfectly with my luxurious cleansers and toners. It's significantly softer than cheaper alternatives (a box will set you back by Php 100) yet takes forever to shred and break.
Nippon Esthetic offer so much more than the roster above! Shop from now until July 31 to avail great finds online as they celebrate their anniversary. :) They also have FREE SHIPPING (within PH only) on orders worth Php 3000 -- just use the coupon code 3000FREE.
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How to Do Data Transfer between Android and BlackBerry

How to Switch from Android Phone to BlackBerry Smartphone?

The science and technology have made a lot of contributions for people’s convenient life. For example, the mobile phones, at present, can be regarded as the mini and portable computers, which we can carry around and use them for work or study or just for entertainment. As we know, there are so many data files on the phone, like the text messages, contacts, calendars, photos, audio files, videos and all kinds of apps. It is said that most people can’t leave the phone for a whole day, or his life will become a mess. In fact, I totally agree with that. When we are used to the life with a phone, it is hard to stop it.

And the phones are upgrading rapidly nowadays. There are more and more phones getting released and they are of more and more powerful functions. So, it is unavoidable to switch to a new phone from an old one. In this article, I would like to share you my experience on transfer data files from the old Android phone to a new BlackBerry. Let’s see how it goes in the following passages.

Part 1. Before Android to BlackBerry data transfer you need to know

The first thing is that, the Android and the BlackBerry are running with different operation systems, and it is a bit hard to transfer data files cross-platform. Then you should know that the Bluetooth tool and is not workable. And it is hard to find a correct third-party tool to help you. So the common way is to transfer data by manual. In this way, you need to transfer the data files you want to transfer to your computer with USB cable and then, from your computer to do transfer again. But it is really boring, cumbersome and time-costing. And if you want to transfer the apps, you should just forget it. It is impossible to so cross-platform.

So how can we do this successfully? Don’t worry! Here is a good way for you. The developers of BlackBerry have realized this serious problem and gave a simpler solution. Just read on.

Part 2. A free solution to sync Android data with BlackBerry

With this method, you need to download an app first. And then, with the app, you can transfer the contacts, photos, audios, and videos between the Android phone and the BlackBerry directly without a computer. The only thing you need to do is to connect your phones to the same network. The app you need to download is the “Device Switch“. Let’s start it!

Step 1. Download and install the said app on both of your phones. You can get it from the Google Store on the Android phone. And on your BlackBerry, you can click on the BlackBerry World, and then search for the tool by inputting the name of it. While installation, you may see a message asking you to log in the BlackBerry ID account.

Step 2. And then on the BlackBerry first, launch this app. Then, read the article on the screen of this app on your phone. After you read all the passages, check the options you need and click on OK.

Step 3. After you have done with the last step, you will see the next screen, where you can choose the phone you want to transfer data files from. In this article, we need to tap on the option “Android”.

Step 4. Then turn to your Android phone. This time, you need to check the options of items you want to transfer just like the action you did on your BlackBerry. And you need to pair your two phones with a PIN number.

Step 5. After that, you will find two phones have connected to the same network, and it starts to transfer the data you chose automatically.

Step 6. The waiting time depends on the scale of the data files you chose. You can just take a break until it prompts that it has finished the transfer process. And then, click on “Finish” and check the results of transfer on your new BlackBerry phone.

Part 3. To sum up

This “Device Switch” app is safe and reliable. But the biggest weak point it that, you can not transfer all the data files you want with this app. For example, the call logs, the calendar cannot be transferred by the app. And the wireless connection is not steady enough, so it may cost you a lot of time and sometimes it may be interrupted.

To cover the shortage, I have another good tool for you, which is called the dr.fone – Switch. It is a professional tool for data transfer in just 1-Click, so you can use it to transfer data files between any phones, not just between the Android phone and the BlackBerry phone. The phones and tablets it supports are over 3000 kinds. Besides the Android phone and the BlackBerry Android phone, it is also compatible with the iPhone, Nokia and so on.

The operation of it is also easy to master. Because all you need to do is to connect your phones to the computer equipped with this application and click for several times. There are step-by-step instructions all along the operation on the screen. What’s more, the interface is intuitive and user-friendly, making itself understood.

As for the main function of this app, it is surely data transfer. The data files it can transfer are inclusive of the text messages, call logs, contacts, photos, music, videos and some other documents. And within the same operation, you can also transfer the apps.

In a word, the dr.fone – Switch is a sure card for all phones. To protect the data files on your phone, you can back up all of them with this app. And there are two different versions for Windows computer and Mac computer.

How about choosing one method to help you switch your phones?

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Views over Eastern Latvia (Latgale) forests from the highest observation platform in Latvia - Lielais Liepu hill tower
View from Lielais Liepu hill tower

Lielais Liepu kalns (Great Linden hill) observation tower is the highest sightseeing wooden tower in Latvia. The tower itself is 34 metres high but it's absolute height above sea level reaches 323 metres as it's built on the top of 3rd highest hill in Latvia (289 m).

View to highest hill and largest lake

Feelings there, well above the treetops, with green forests surrounding from all sides, are quite dizzy. The scene isn't between the most diverse but also not too monotonous - in between the forest tracts you can see the backs of Latgale heights hills, they appears like molehills over the green sea. One of them is the "shameless" neighbour of Lielais Liepu hill - Dzerkaļu hill (see it in 5th photo). Although it is 3 metres lower than Lielais Liepu hill by absolute height, it's the highest hill in Latvia by relative height (89,2 metres).

In the distance one can see (4th photo) also one of largest lakes in Latvia (largest by water volume, second largest by area) - Rāznas lake. There are also some other eye-catching landscape elements.

The edge of European Union

Emotions are heightened by the feeling of wilderness - it seems as you are quite far from any civilisation, around only forests, any populated places almost invisible except for a few farmsteads. It's said that in good weather conditions it's possible to see even up to the border of Belarus. This area is one of the edges of European Union - Russian and Belarussian borders are just a couple of tens of kilometres to the east and south-east, respectively.

Visit to Lielais Liepu hill observation tower is also a good physyical activity because to reach it you have to walk almost  kilometer long path leading uphills from the car parking.

View from Lielais Liepu hill observation tower

View from Lielais Liepu hill observation tower
View to Russia side

View from Lielais Liepu hill observation tower

View from Lielais Liepu hill observation tower
Razna lake in the distance

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June 18 @ 9:00 am - 4:30 pm

A one-day introduction to tenancy laws for community workers who assist or advocate for clients about housing.

Learn how to help your clients with their tenancy and housing issues with up-to-date and thorough information from the experts at the Tenants’ Union of NSW. This one-day workshop will help to clarify the complicated field of tenancy law and give you knowledge, skills, and confidence in this area.

Presenter: Grant Arbuthnot, Principal Legal Officer, Tenants’ Union of NSW

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Level 5, 175 Liverpool St
Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia
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Tenancy Law for Non-Lawyers - June 2019$250.00 inc. GST

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If you cannot register online, and for all other inquiries, please call Lena Lowe on 02 8898 6503.

Registrations are processed in order of receipt. After you have registered and paid, an acknowledgement email, with venue and course times, will be sent to your email address. An invoice / receipt will then be emailed to you.

Payment is due 14 days after registration. If payment is not received within 14 days, your registration may be cancelled to make way for those waiting for a place.

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Please let us know as soon as possible if you need to cancel, transfer to another date or nominate a substitute. (Substitute delegates are always welcome at no extra cost.)

For cancellations more than 7 days before the training, fees will be refunded minus a $22 (incl GST) administrative fee.  Alternatively, you can be transferred to a workshop on another date within 6 months (if places are available) for no cost, provided at least 7 days’ notice is given.  Refunds and transfers cannot be made for cancellations less than 7 days before the training or if you do not attend the course on the day.

NOTE: you may need to check you junk or spam folders for the email confirmation of your online signup. If you do not receive a confirmation email after signing up, please contact PIAC 02 8898 6500 to confirm your registration.

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PIAC adheres to principles of access and equity in order to maximise outcomes for training participants.

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No publishing services provider (vanity publisher) wants you to know that in this day and age there is absolutely no need to pay a publisher to publish your book. The Pickawoowoo Publishing Group was the first self-publishing company in Australia to help authors set up as the publisher, giving them full autonomy and profits. Other companies said they did it, but they retained the ISBN – meaning they owned the book. After completion of our author services, the Pickawoowoo Publishing Group doesn’t take a dollar. We set you up so that you can manage sales from your chosen platform, view website sales in real time and all sales income goes directly into your account.

  1. You own everything we create for you.

Any and every file, interior, book covers, 3D images, sell sheets, web banners, press release, and absolutely anything else you ask us to create for your book is yours. You never have to buy these from us on completion of your book project, you own it all. Many self-publishing companies make you pay to get your source files or don’t provide them at all. Unfortunately this ties you into their service for life, whereas we know you will come back if you need help or a second edition.

  1. Print at cost for any size book or book order.

Traditional publishers are competitive on price and self publishers need to be too. We want you to have a chance to compete and to do this it needs to have a retail price close to that of other published books in the same genre. So you need to buy your own stock at print price direct /wholesale price Other self-publishing companies see this as an opportunity to mark up printing prices (by an average 50 to 150 percent) and make more money from authors than actual sales. If your printing is marked up so high to start, then the retail price of your book will be artificially exaggerated … and it will not be competitive in the marketplace nor can you make a profit on your personal book sales.

  1. A professional team.

The Pickawoowoo Publishing Groups proven approach to outsourcing achieves tight integration of people and processes across their publishing journey. With more than 30 globally deployed professionals that we call our ‘Reality Team’ and a dedicated ‘Australian team’ (with over 20+ years experience) we work to each Author/Publishers best interest, with rigorous attention to publication integrity whilst ensuring all rights and royalties are maintained. The Self Publishing model delivers the most successful and cost-effective customer/publisher collaboration possible.

  1. Our Gift – We provide more than what you pay for.
  2. We won’t sell you what you don’t need or can’t use.

We are not a self-publishing cookie cutter machine or boiler room. We don’t have a script or use any hard sell techniques and nor do we contact you relentlessly. That is a sign of a vanity publisher. We are not a one size fits all publishing services provider and we certainly don’t sell you products and services that won’t help your book. Our integrity, honesty and reputation are important to us and we’ve been known to talk you out of services if not required – just ask our authors). Our publishing and marketing services are professional, innovative and supportive to your needs. Of course we would love your business, but we won’t pester you to get it.

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We give each and every author our award winning pdf book on ‘How to Create an Author Platform’ as our gift. This gives you important information to start your marketing, for free. If your budget allows we can coach you or undertake a number of efficient and cost-effective online marketing tools and strategies to help launch and promote your book to the world.

  1. We customise our quotes based on your needs … and allow you to then make choices.

Everything is upfront. We tell you what we can do based on your conversation with us, we then quote, then allow you to select the publishing services you require and we can coach you on the other aspects of the publishing process (i.e. such as admin tasks like ISBN or Catalogue in Publication). We allow you to control your budget and every fee you could ever incur working with us is disclosed on our publishing agreement with you. You don’t sign a book contract, you have a service agreement that is fully disclosed upfront and we are happy to explain if you have questions. Essentially, we offer a ‘Fee for Service’ arrangement.

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Our publishing motto is ‘ publishing with joy love and ease and a willingness to please’. Don’t just believe what we say, we are happy to provide you with a list of authors who will provide testimonials for us. You can even speak with our previous authors and get first-hand knowledge from them. Let us know your location and we’ll put some authors in touch with you.

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The Pickawoowoo Publishing Group operates globally and creates many book formats and styles across various genres and is particularly passionate with Mind Body Spirit books. As an award winning company recognised for business and publishing expertise we are also well placed to facilitate ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING… books/ebooks as part of a businesseses content marketing strategy.

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The Show/Fancy Pigeon

Show Pigeons

Raising and showing various breeds of show type pigeons for show competition is a wonderful hobby enjoyed by thousands of people around the world. When you raise pigeons for show, you are in the ‘fancy’. The fancy was being developed in various parts of Europe even before the United States became a country.

The first domestic pigeons were used for utility. Utility pigeons were raised in dove cotes (tall, rounded pigeon lofts with an open center), often for the single purpose of providing fertilizer high in nitrogen, utilized for farming and gardening. Squab and egg production came later.

The dove cotes gave utility pigeons the shelter, protection and nesting space they required. Water was provided. But the flock would need to ‘fly-out’ each day in search of food, scavenging the local countryside.

The next stage of development in utility pigeons was to breed for fast growth and size of squabs for food consumption. Commercial value of the birds was based upon how fast and how large a squab could be raised for market. Good breeding stock was the goal, driven by the value to the market place.

It was during this time that some pigeon breeders began experimenting with ‘show’ type characteristics, developing for physical appearance instead of utility. These first birds were called ‘fancy pigeons’. They were developed as exhibition birds.

Today [note: at time of writing] there are over 190 fancy show type varieties, each with a standard for appearance and color variation. Pigeon clubs group together to sponsor various types of show pigeon competitions. Some of the larger pigeon shows in Europe will have up to 10,000 birds; the United States shows are somewhat smaller, up to 5000 birds.

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Spring Veggie and Ham Pasta

Ham and peas were some early favorites in our house when our oldest kiddo transitioned to solid foods. Surprisingly, ham still outranks the chicken tender in our house! This quick pasta dish combines two classic toddler foods in a way that mom and dad can be happy about eating, too.

Here's how I make it my own:

  • Swap in fun bowtie noodles for the hard-to-twirl linguini.
  • Add shallots or green onion, whatever is in the fridge, when sautéing the ham and peas for slightly more flavor.
  • Make dinner a little more special by serving Stuffed Mozzarella Garlic Bread on the side.


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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Why Should We Bother with Science?

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Wanna know how I got to "magically" levitate this can for breakfast?

Friday, January 3, 2014

Happy New Year!

I know this is a bit late, I was out of town so I wasn't able to update my blog.
I'd just like to greet all my readers a Happy New Year!
I hope this year will be a lot better than it was last 2013.
Seriously, 2013 was a really bad year for me.
Just wishing everyone there is safe and all of their fingers still in place. Lol

Here are some of the pictures I took of fireworks during New Year's Eve! Enjoy!

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I recently took a little trip, okay, it was a big trip, I went to Africa. I managed to hit up South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana and Zimbabwe while there. I saw a lot of animals--ALOT--sometimes on the game reserves, sometimes just wandering along the side of the road and sometimes staring at me through my lodge window when I woke up in the morning. The food there isn't really any different than you'd find anywhere here in the states. I mean they still do things like casseroles, but the difference comes in what ingredients they may decide to use. Since they have a plethora of some animals just hanging out in large herds, some of those animals make their way into the food. Kind of the way we eat  deer or trout or quail. Except their animals seem more exotic to us like antelope, wildebeest, warthog and kudu. This is a kudu..... is the largest species of antelope and roams in herds and the random loners across Eastern and Southern Africa. It is a highly hunted animal by both humans and other wildlife. It's a vegetarian animal, leaves and shoots, and basically a free range kind of animal. During a break from one of our game drives in Krueger National Park we stopped at a small spot offering up food and one of the choices was kudu sausage, and well, why not.

Kudu sausage with pap covered in a 'gravy' of cooked onions and tomatoes. Visually it was actually pretty appealing considering they were serving it right off the outdoor fire pit grill it was cooking on. Overall it was pretty tasty. The meat is similar to venison but has only a slight hint of a gaminess to it. I thought it tasted more like a beef, almost like pot roast in a sausage. The meat was ground up with what I thought were hints of coriander and garlic. It was tender and lean, not salty, again, like a beef sausage. The pap is basically ground hominy meal made into a dense mass--think of it as African polenta but white. It looks thick but it tastes wet, if that makes any sense. By itself it doesn't have much flavor and that's why it has the sauce, they call it a gravy, on top. It's a stewed mixture of onions, tomatoes, salt, sugar and a few peppers to give it a mild kick. I liked it, kind of reminded me of a firmer version of grits and the sauce was a nice compliment. Pap is a side dish eaten by the poor in many areas of Africa, it's a heavy starch that is cheap to make and filling, an alternative to potatoes. This dish is simple but the ingredients were fresh and that's how it tasted. It's food for the masses and there is a reason the masses eat it--it's good. At first I was dubious about trying it, but our guide said it was worth it and in the end it was. And then I got to wash it all down with a Tab--YES A TAB!

It's not your mother's 70's Tab anymore, here it is caffeine and sugar free, yeah I know, what's the point, but it was cold and fizzy. Well, time to get back in the Jeep, more animals to shoot---with my camera that is.


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May 25, 2016, 5am PDT
A Pew Research Center analysis of Census Data reveals a fundamental shift in the way U.S. residents are living—last true in a time closer to the Civil War than the 20th century.
Pew Research Center
December 2, 2015, 12pm PST
A revealing examination of demographic data shows a country that bears little resemblance to the 1950s era that bequeathed its housing and transportation models to current generations.
Stat Chat
November 11, 2014, 2pm PST
Jason Segedy has published a long, brutally frank look at blight and vacant properties, especially at the underappreciated culprit for the woes of so many shrinking cities around the Rust Belt: household decline.
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December 18, 2013, 3pm PST
While there's no denying the fact that the number of children in many American cities has declined, it's untrue that urban life is incompatible with raising a family, or that families in cities are being replaced by singles and childless couples.
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops II

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Immerse yourself in a near future, 21st century cold war.

  • Release Date: Out Now
  • Genre: Shooter
  • Publisher: Activision
  • Developer: Treyarch
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    Like father, like son

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    Switching continents and eras in a blur, you’ll fight a war on several fronts, with each mission appearing more suicidal than the last. Charging through the Afghan desert on horseback, for instance, you suddenly see a long barrel appear over the crest of a hill, followed by the hulking form of a gigantic Russian tank. Your only option is to head straight for it; the odds aren’t exactly in your favour, but then, in this game, they never are.

    Special perks and customisable weapons – new additions to the single player story – let you access secret ammo stores, reload faster or even adjust your rifle’s camouflage. And in the new, optional Strike Force missions, you can take a step back from the front line and order infantry squads and hi-tech combat machinery to assault critical targets. Success in these could even help you out later in the game.

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    Grave danger

    Zombies are back with a bang in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, as three different modes bring a dash of blind panic to traditional online running and gunning. Gather up your last reserves of courage and prepare to storm PlayStation Network in the following modes:

    • Tranzit: Pile into a battered bus with up to three heavily armed friends and blast zombie hordes to pieces as you drive from one map to the next. When the bus judders to a halt, everybody rushes into the surrounding town to look for clues that’ll tell you what to do to survive until the next bus pulls up.
    • Survival: Traditional this mode may be, simple it isn’t. Based on the Zombie modes from both Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Black Ops, this drops you into one multiplayer map and asks you to face down wave after wave of bloodthirsty walking corpses.
    • Grief: Trouble comes at you from beneath and above the grave. Team up with three mates and take on a group of four zombies, as well as another group of four players. Trap your human opponents in the crossfire or lure the zombies towards them – just make sure you stay out of the way.
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• PS4
  • Release Date: TBC
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Publisher: SCEA
  • Developer: Wild Sheep Studio
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Use your instincts and intuition to thrive in an incredibly hostile environment. Learn how to control living creatures, and venture into your friends’ game worlds to help them survive.

Experiment with your surroundings in your quest for survival – a simple plant could just as easily save your life… or bring about a swift death.

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From the masters of mid-side processing, bx_rooMS is a breathtaking reverb and the next frontier in simulation of acoustic spaces and mechanical plates.

At its core, it features tons of realism, superb sound quality, and a huge collection of virtual rooms, halls, churches, plates and ambience. But bx_rooMS also empowers you to shape your virtual spaces in unusual and extremely powerful ways, adding mid-side parametric filtering, center-image panning and width control of the reverb's stereo field.

The key to bx_rooMS' realism and versatility lies in its embedded TrueSpace technology, which explodes the number of included reverb algorithms to create a virtually infinite number of room sizes and shapes. While currently available reverb technologies emulate a fixed set of space types, such as Room, Hall, Church etc. (often called algorithms) and then offer a limited range of possible sizes for each of them, TrueSpace provides a continuous range of unique space types (or algorithms) while always making available the full range of possible sizes.

With bx_rooMS, you control the reverb's stereo image. Crank the Stereo Width control for more spacious reverb and bigger-sounding mixes than simple panning can achieve.

With almost 200 outstanding presets to get you started - including patches contributed by expert mix engineers - bx_rooMS offers unique reverbs suited to every music production and genre.

Mid-side processing is unequaled in its ability to transform stereo signals. This reverb is easy enough on CPU usage for you to insert (!) it on many stereo signals and busses, so give your mixes that finishing M/S touch.

  • Stunning simulations of rooms, halls, churches, plates and ambience
  • Quick Select buttons easily produce settings for five different environments
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    One of the best, most realistic reverbs available. A wide assortment of parameters makes this reverb unit extremely customizable.

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Highway, Street, Tunnel & Bridge Construction (Infrastructure) Revenues Market Size Forecasts Benchmarks Analysis (NAIC 237310)

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Latest Year in Millions of $
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Profits, U.S.EBITDA, U.S.Employment, U.S.

This Market Research & Benchmarks Report Was Published on 11/25/2018 and Includes:

  • Highway, Street, Tunnel & Bridge Construction (Infrastructure) Revenues Market Size Forecasts Benchmarks Analysis industry’s financial results, ratios, statistics, metrics, historic financials and forecast growth rates in one package, 60 to 70 pages.
  • Comparisons and benchmarks of all financial statement items for the leading companies within the Highway, Street, Tunnel & Bridge Construction (Infrastructure) Revenues Market Size Forecasts Benchmarks Analysis industry, both current year and historical comparisons. This includes deep financial analysis and comparisons of top companies in this business sector.
  • Historical financial analysis and data going back several years for key business figures including revenues, enterprises and sales per employee.
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Highway, Street, Tunnel & Bridge Construction (Infrastructure) Industry (U.S.): Analytics, Extensive Financial Benchmarks, Metrics and Revenue Forecasts to 2025, NAIC 237310 Vital industry-specific data including metrics, benchmarks, historic numbers, growth rates and forecasts that will save countless hours of research. Key Findings: – Highway, Street, Tunnel & Bridge Construction (Infrastructure) Industry (U.S.) to reach $119,313 million by 2025. – Highway, Street, Tunnel & Bridge Construction (Infrastructure) Industry, including Average EBITDA, Operating Ratios and Sales per Employee. Core Benefits to Customer: 1) Comprehensive overview of an industry’s financial results, ratios, vital statistics and metrics in one package 2) Complete benchmarking of the industry and its top companies 3) Deep industry and company financials This Plunkett Analytics Report Features: 1) Historical data 2) Revenue forecasts, growth rates and CAGR 3) Operating ratios 4)

Includes Details on the Following Companies, as well as Benchmarks for the Entire Industry:

  • Kiewit Corporation
  • Tutor Perini Corporation
  • Granite Construction Incorporated
  • India Globalization Capital Inc

Table of Contents

I. Introduction
A. Core Benefits to Customer:
- Comprehensive overview of an industry's financial results, ratios and vital metrics in one package (U.S. data)
- Benchmarking of:
1. Deep financials of each of the leading companies in the industry
2. Multi-year financial averages for all companies in the industry
3. This industry's financial ratios compared to all other industries.
- Historical revenues
- Enterprise population
- Multi-year employee count and sales per employee
- Current and forecast revenues and CAGR to 2025
- Profiles of the industry's leading firms, with multi-year financial histories

II. Industry Description for this NAIC Code
- Types of business activities

III. Industry Summary, Current Year (U.S. Data)
- Revenues and CAGR 2017
- Revenue forecast to 2025 with CAGR
- Historical revenues
- Historical CAGR
- Top U.S. companies, by revenues
- Employment within the industry, 2017 and historic

IV. Employment and Establishment Count (U.S. Data)
- Number of firms and establishments, 2010-2017
- Employees, 2010-2017, with growth rates
- Average annual sales per firm and per establishment, 2010-2017
- Annual sales per employee, 2010-2017

V. This Industry's Financial Data, U.S., With Revenue Projections to 2025

A. Revenues, Historical and Projected
- Historical revenues & CAGR growth rates, 2010-2017
- Projected revenues & CAGR growth rates, 2017-2025

B. Average Annual Operating Ratio Estimates and Benchmarks for Current Year
- Income items, expenses, profits and taxes as a percent of total revenues for this industry

C. This Industry Compared to All Industries, Benchmarks for Current Year

- Comparison of revenues for this industry to total revenues for all industries
- Comparison of EBITDA, profits and income taxes for this industry to the same items in total for all industries

D. Table of Companies Used in Creating Industry Averages
- Detailed, alphabetical listing of companies, with revenues, location, ticker symbol and exchange

E. Industry Results and Benchmarks for Publicly-Held Companies
- Income statement averages, 2012-2017
- All income statement items, including, cost of sales, SGA, R&D, salaries and wages, and EBITDA, with ratios
- Chart showing key expenses as a percent of revenues
- Balance sheet averages, 2012-2017
- All items, including property plant and equipment, accumulated depreciation, goodwill, and long term debt, including ratios
- Cash flow averages, 2012-2017
- All cash flow items

VI. Top Companies Profiled & Ranked
- In-depth profiles, financial reports, ranks & executive lists for up to 10 top U.S.-based corporations

A. Top Companies Ranked for Key Items:
- Approximate market capitalization
- Employees
- Revenues
- Net income
- 3-Year revenue growth (%)
- 3-Year income growth (%)
- Return on assets (%)
- Return on equity (%)
- Return on invested capital (%)

B. Benchmarking of the Industry's Top Companies, to Each Other and to their Industry's Averages for All Metrics
- Income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements for each of the top companies compared to the industry's overall average

C. Corporate Profiles (Descriptions of the Top Companies Within the Industry, Including Executive Listings and Multi-Year Financial Results)
- Contact information, executive lists
- Business descriptions
- Key financial data for 6 years
- Brands and divisions
- Top salaries
- Corporate culture
- Charts comparing revenues vs. net income

VII. Appendix: Assumptions
- U.S. GDP Growth and Forecasts, 2014-2025

VIII. Data Description and Sources

This Industry Compared to All Industries
   - Comparison of revenues, EBITDA, profits & income taxes for all companies within this industry to all industries

Industry Results, for Publicly-Held Companies, 6-Year History
   - All income statement items, including, COGS, SGA, R&D, & EBITDA, with ratios
   - All balance sheet items
   - All cash flow items

Top Companies Profiled
   - In-depth rankings and profiles, financial reports and executive lists for up to 10 top U.S.-based corporations

Top Companies Ranked
   - Company ranks for: market capitalization, employees, revenues, net income, income growth, ROI, ROA, and ROIC

Comparison of Top Publicly-Held Companies to Industry Averages, Latest Year
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text: RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Paleocene Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) from India with implications for an East Gondwana origin of Convolvulaceae JF Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences JO Proc Natl Acad Sci USA FD National Academy of Sciences SP 6028 OP 6033 DO 10.1073/pnas.1800626115 VO 115 IS 23 A1 Srivastava, Gaurav A1 Mehrotra, Rakesh C. A1 Dilcher, David L. YR 2018 UL http://www.pnas.org/content/115/23/6028.abstract AB The origin of the worldwide-distributed morning glory family (Convolvulaceae) has been a matter of debate. The fossil record from late Eocene sediments of North America argues for a Laurasian origin that is in contrast to a molecular phylogenetic study that favors an East Gondwana origin. This report of fossil Ipomoea from the late Paleocene of India supports the current molecular phylogenetic conclusions of an East Gondwana origin for Convolvulaceae.The morning glory family, Convolvulaceae, is globally important in medicine and food crops. The family has worldwide distribution in a variety of habitats; however, its fossil record is very poorly documented. The current fossil record suggests an origin in North America, which is in contrast to molecular data that indicate an East Gondwana origin. We report Ipomoea leaves from the late Paleocene (Thanetian; 58.7–55.8 million years ago) of India, which was a part of East Gondwana during this time. This is the earliest fossil record for both the family Convolvulaceae and the order Solanales. This suggests that the sister families Convolvulaceae and Solanaceae diverged before the Eocene in Gondwana-derived continents. The evidence presented here supports the conclusion from molecular phylogenetic analysis of an East Gondwana origin of Convolvulaceae.


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Samsung surprised many at CES 2018 by not really announcing any new products. There was talk at the annual press conference about connectivity and a vision of a connected world, but aside from 14 new models of the Family Hub fridge, very little was said about new product.

This is a huge break with tradition for Samsung, who typically uses CES to announce the latest must-have TVs and technologies for the year. Instead we were briefly shown the MicroLED prototype dubbed "The Wall" and teased about how you could set-up Samsung's 2018 TVs using your smartphone.

What was missing from this equation was any detail about what these 2018 TVs might actually be - unless you're seriously considering investing in an 8K QLED later in the year.

Samsung has now confirmed to Pocket-lint that it's not going to be talking about its new line-up of televisions until March 2018, so if Samsung was on your radar for a new World Cup TV, you'll have to wait.

That gives Sony, Panasonic and LG a couple of months lead, with those big rivals announcing some of its models for the year.

Sony has padded out the full range, with a new flagship OLED TV, the A8F, backed up by a portfolio of LED TVs with the XF90 leading the charge. For Panasonic, the skills of 2017's excellent EZ1002 are dropping into the new OLED FZ950, with a boost to picture quality, while LG has a full range of OLEDs and nano cell LEDs too

For Samsung we're expecting an update to the excellent QLED TVs. The launch of the QLED name was slightly mired in 2017 as people confused the technology with OLED; however, the quantum dot TVs are great performers, not just in terms of performance and design, but connectivity and ease of use too.

All we know at the moment is that you'll be able to control more of your home as SmartThings and Bixby move for domination within your home.

Oh, and you'll be able to set it up with your smartphone, of course.

We'll bring you all the details of Samsung's 2018 QLED TV plans in March, so stay tuned.


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Written By: PokerNet.com | April 17, 2012 | Posted In Poker News

Nigel Morrison, the chief executive of Sky City Hotel Auckland has publicly stated that he believes the national lotteries are causing more harm to the general public and their pockets than his own casino establishment and the gambling devices found within.

He continued to state that whilst his hotel establishment Sky City plans to implement more machines, this will not result in more gambling related problems and addictions, due to the problematic public transport system. It is his belief that the difficulty in reaching the hotel casino via a troubling public transport system will be more of deterrence for prospective gamblers.

Currently the hotel casino has almost 1,650 pokies machines available on its premises, and in a deal with the government officials of New Zealand, is set to increase this number beyond that of 200 in exchange for the production of a convention centre.

Many anti-gambling organisations have become outraged over the proposal by increased machines and prospective gambling pokies machines within the city as well as the use of government funds to help provide an easy access to this proposal. Alongside those who are upset with this decision includes the Opposition party, whom says that the Government is selling the country’s laws and that the increase in machines will simply lead to a rise in problematic gambling and have further repercussions than predicted or stated initially.

Mr Morrision of Sky City Hotel & Casino has rebutted arguments against this proposal, stating that the lottery and “mums in South Auckland” that use pokies machines are causing more harm to the country and its funds than his casino and pokies machines do as a whole.

“There is no doubt the incidence of harm is through pokie machines in the community, scattered throughout the community,” says Mr Morrison.

“The reality is public transport in Auckland isn’t that great. You don’t just arrive at SkyCity. You make a deliberate decision to go to SkyCity.

“The incidence of harm cited from Lotto is greater than that from pokie machines in casinos. Getting those facts across is difficult.”

Whilst Sky City makes a strong profit from the dealings of its patrons using its machines, they still deliver 2.5% of their earnings and net profit to charitable trusts. In comparison however, pokies machines in clubs and bars pay back over 37% of their earnings to charitable trusts.

‘There is a very clear correlation between availability of machines and the number of machines and the number of problems,” Problem Gambling Foundation chief executive Graeme Ramsey told Auckland Now last week.

”Research shows for every gaming machine you put in you get 0.8 of a problem gambler, so it’s almost one for one.”

The PG Foundation also says that casinos are a greater influence of gambling problems rather than other methods of gambling.

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Max Jowitt scored Wakefield's winning try.
Max Jowitt scored Wakefield's winning try.

Full-back Max Jowitt grabbed the winning try five minutes from time as Wakefield Wildcats recovered from 18-6 down to pip Featherstone Rovers 22-18 in Sunday’s pre-season game at Big Fellas Stadium.

Championship outfit Rovers were the best side for 60 minutes in the heavy conditions but Super Leaguers Wakefield finished the stronger to bag their second pre-season win following a Boxing Day victory at Leeds Rhinos.

In the end, both teams scored four tries and Featherstone were also unlucky to have a 57th minute effort by Anthony Thackeray controversially disallowed.

Jordan Tansey scored two tries and kicked three goals for the Wildcats.

Reece Lyne was Wakefield’s other scorer with a superb 35-yard individual effort.

John Davies, who had an outstanding game, put Rovers ahead with an eighth minute try.

Wakefield hit back but Rovers then took charge with three tries in six minutes from Ian Hardman, Jack Ormnondroyd and debutant Misi Taulapapa.

Lyne’s try put Wakefield only 18-10 behind at the break and they gradually wore down Rovers in the second-half with Craig Hall setting up Jowitt’s late winner.

Both coaches were pleased with the run-out.

Wakefield coach Brian Smith said: “We did finish the game strongly which we should do as full-time players. We came back with 16 unanswered points to win it and those things were all encouraging.”

Rovers boss Jon Sharp said: “I thought we made some steps forward from our first pre-season game at Castleford.

“I thought it was a really good work out for both teams.”

Featherstone: Hardman; Johnson, Channing, Taulapapa, Turner; Milner, Thackeray; Bostock, Wildie, Ormondroyd, Snitch, Spears, Davies. Subs: Day, Cording, Tagg, Cooper, Hill, Joynt, Roche.

Wakefield: Jowitt; Johnstone, Gibson, Walton, Lyne; Hall, Tansey; England, Howarth, Arona, A Topou, Crowther, Annakin. Subs: Miller, Arundel, Molloy, Sio, Walker, Yates, Shulver. Subs unused: B Tupou, Mazive.

Half-time: 18-10.

Referee: James Child.

Attendance: 2,194.


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Pisoni announces music and industry opportunities

David Pisoni, the minister for Industry and Skills, visited Port Lincoln on April 10 to announce new programs for local live music, meet with business owners to discuss skilled workforce requirements, and talk to students about future careers.

VISIT: Minister for Industry and Skills David Pisoni with Member for Flinders Peter Treloar at one of the roundtables.

VISIT: Minister for Industry and Skills David Pisoni with Member for Flinders Peter Treloar at one of the roundtables.

His announcement of new program RAMP, or the Regional Accelerator Music Program, will provide a grant fund of $100,000 for regional music needs.

"There are great things happening across the South Australian regional music sector...and that's why RAMP is being developed," he said.

"Port Lincoln is no stranger to live music, whether that's through gigs at the Port Lincoln Hotel, Sound City, the Nautilus Arts Centre, at the annual SALT Festival or as active participants of last year's Guitars in Bars tour."

Minister Pisoni launched the round table event, which is one of many occurring in regional areas across the state.

"We want to identify any barriers, and identify any enablers for regional live music," he said.

"We will tailor to each region's needs, and there will be a small pool of money to enable that to happen."

He said Liquor Licensing reforms had also given more avenues for live music to thrive, and also announced a 'clip combat' competition, a 'battle of the bands' style competition that considered both the music and the video clip produced.

He said the boost to live music would have a "two-pronged" outcome, giving tourists more reasons to visit the area, and providing locals with experiences that might otherwise only be available in metro areas.

"We want our regions to be vibrant," he said.

"It's about quality of life, and opportunities for young people."

Minister Pisoni also held a round table for people in industries that employed apprentices and trainees, who put forward questions to the minister about concerns they have locally.

The Minister said state apprentice numbers had dropped by 55 percent since 2014, but said over the last 12 months the government had "revitalised" the Training and Skills Commission, and were looking to further identify where holes and shortages were.

One local employer said that his biggest issue is retaining apprentices he has trained from bigger businesses in the mining industry, who were then employing the skilled workers he had.

Mr Pisoni said he'd like to review ratios of employees versus apprentices compared to other states, and look at adjusting them.

"The best way not to lose workers is to have more tradespeople," he said.

"We don't have the ability to compel businesses to employ people, but we can make it easier to employ apprentices."


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Facebook lost more than $130 billion in market value in just two hours, its steepest stock decline ever, after warning of slowing sales growth for the rest of the year.

The stock plunged as much as 24% in after-hours trading Wednesday, causing competitors Snap and Twitter to drop, too.

Traders are bracing for a decline in tech stocks when the markets open Thursday.

Chief financial officer David Wehner triggered the selloff when he said sales growth would continue to slow through the rest of the year.

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Shares, which had already declined 7 percent after hours, then as much as 24 percent after the comments on a conference call with analysts.

The personal wealth of Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg took a major hit.

He lost $16.8 billion in extended trading.

If that loss holds through Thursday’s close, he will slip to sixth place from third in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Facebook had already been walloped after reporting weaker-than-expected revenue growth in the second quarter.

Facebook said it had sales of $13.23 billion for the three months ended in June instead of the $13.3 billion Wall Street expected — the first such miss since 2015.

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Also concerning to investors: Facebook’s growth is slowing with users in some of its most lucrative markets. Facebook reported its slowest growth rate ever, with 2.23 billion people logging in at least once a month in June, below the 2.25 billion analysts expected.

The number of users who logged each day fell short, too, up 11 percent year-over-year at 1.47 billion but still less than the 1.49 billion anticipated.

Daily usage was unchanged in its biggest market, the United States and Canada, at 185 million daily users. But Facebook saw a decline in Europe to 279 million daily users.

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Facebook reported net income of $5.11 billion, or $1.74 a share, beating analysts’ estimate of $1.71 a share.

Shares, which hit a record high Wednesday, plunged as much as 11% after Facebook posted the results.

Even in the midst of one of the darkest periods in its 14-year history, Facebook had seemed to shrug off Russian election interference, the mishandling of millions of Americans’ personal information by Cambridge Analytica and the unchecked spread of fabricated news.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was hauled in front of lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke in March. Federal agencies began to probe Facebook, prompting calls for increased regulation.

And yet investors and advertisers were undeterred, propelling the stock to new highs. On Wednesday the fallout appeared in its latest results and in its outlook.

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Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser, who has a sell rating on the stock, says digital advertising has limits to growth.

“Deceleration such as management guided towards suggests that, while the company is still growing at a fast clip, the days of 30% plus growth are numbered,” Wieser wrote in a research note.

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Intel Announces Development of Wireless Charging Solutions

Intel announced its plans to roll out wireless power solutions at silicon level for the purpose of charging notebooks, tablets, smartphones and other portable electronics. Intel is a board member of the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) and intends to provide chipset solutions using A4WP "Rezence"-branded magnetic resonance technology to OEMs and developers.

Intel demonstrated the technology embedded into a prototype notebook, tablet, smartphone and wireless headset. Each was lowered on to a table top which had an A4WP "Rezence" wireless charger fixed underneath it and began charging when it came within range (close to or on top of the table). This not only demonstrated that each could be charged by the technology, but also that multiple devices could be charged simultaneously and without having to be aligned in a very specific position.

Many of the wireless charging solutions we've seen commercially available to date have been based on tightly coupled solutions. In a typical solution, power is transferred between two coils, one of which sits in the wireless power receiver (e.g. in a mobile phone case or built into a mobile phone) and one of which sits in a compatible transmitter (wireless charger).  The two coils must be closely aligned for power to pass from the charger to the receiver in order to charge the device. In some implementations, alignment can sometimes be difficult to achieve (e.g., in designs where the device to be charged can easily slip out of charging position). Greater freedom of movement and alignment can be achieved using a multi-coil solution but these solutions often still restrict implementations where the user wishes to charge through the thickness of a desk or table.

The solution Intel demonstrated uses a loosely coupled technology called magnetic resonance which offers freedom of movement and more flexibility in the distance the transmitter and receiver can be apart (so power can be transmitted through the thickness of a desk for example). The AW4P has been working on this magnetic resonance approach for a number of years and in December last year announced the availability of certification to its "Rezence" specification.

What Intel has demonstrated is also a push towards and the potential of higher power wireless charging for notebooks, potentially opening up opportunities in the office environment. Other solutions that use magnetic resonance technology exist and are being developed. The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) has also announced it is working on a magnetic resonance specification, which will be compatible with its low-power Qi specification.

IHS published its latest forecast on wireless power in February which showed projections for loosely coupled wireless power solutions to grow rapidly from 2014 and to overtake tightly coupled solutions in 2016. These developments support these assumptions.

If Intel's developments go to plan, we could see commercially available notebooks with its wireless charging enabling technology built-in by 2015.

The office environment is one which certainly makes good sense to have wireless charging available. Adoption of wireless charging in notebooks is not likely to drive mass adoption of wireless power on its own (fewer than 200 million notebooks were shipped in 2013), but may well drive adoption in other office-related electronics such as PC peripherals (e.g. the wireless keyboard and wireless mouse), desk phones, and even desk monitors in the future. It will also raise the general awareness of wireless charging and get consumers used to using it in different environments.

Having an infrastructure in place is critical for mass adoption of wireless power. For consumers to really benefit from wireless power, they need to have access to multiple "charging stations" throughout their typical day; for many their desk at work is an important one.

IHS forecasts that the total number of devices shipped annually that are enabled to charge wirelessly will increase to over 50 million in 2014 and accelerate to 900 million in 2018. This is projected to drive a combined market for wireless power receivers and transmitters worth $8.5 billion in 2018.

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The Andrews Labor Government’s upgrade to the historic Queenscliff Station building is now complete, preserving it for the future and ongoing use by tourist heritage group, the Bellarine Railway.

Minister for Public Transport Melissa Horne and Member for Bellarine Lisa Neville joined staff and volunteers from the Bellarine Railway today to celebrate the completion of the works on one of the state’s most historically significant railway stations.

Built in 1881, the heritage listed station is the oldest station building in Victoria principally designed to cater for tourists. The station was built with a large waiting area to cater for high numbers of tourists who would visit during the holiday season.

The Bellarine Railway, who continue to operate heritage train rides, have used the Queenscliff Station building for around forty years and these works mean the station can continue to support heritage rail in the state for years to come.

The $600,000 of upgrades included repairing the station building, including restumping, re-roofing and painting, replacing and repairing timber, and fitting a new kitchen and toilet.

The works were completed under VicTrack’s heritage program, which protects significant buildings and structures to preserve Victoria’s rail history.

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“Victoria’s heritage railways are a huge attraction for tourists in the state, and these upgrade works have preserved one of our most historically important station buildings.”

“The staff and volunteers of the Bellarine Railway make sure visitors to Queenscliff Station have a great day out, we’re ensuring they can do this for years to come.”

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“The Bellarine Railway and the trains that run from Queenscliff Station not only provide jobs and volunteering opportunities for the people of Bellarine, they also connect us with the history of our area.”

“These vital refurbishment works mean the station can continue to attract tourists to the best part of our state.”


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The radiation levels at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are now at "unimaginable" levels.

Adam Housley, who reported from the area in 2011 following the catastrophic triple-meltdown, said this morning that new fuel leaks have been discovered.

He said the radiation levels - as high as 530 sieverts per hour - are now the highest they've been since 2011 when a tsunami hit the coastal reactor.

"To put this in very simple terms. Four sieverts can kill a handful of people," he explained.

He said that critics, including the U.S. military in 2011, have long questioned whether Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) and officials have been providing accurate information on the severity of the radiation.

TEPCO maintains that the radiation is confined to the site and not a risk to the public. It's expected to take at least $300 billion and four decades to fix it.

Housley said small levels of radiation are still being detected off the coasts of California and Oregon and scientists fear it could get worse.

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BOSTON — During a week in which the eyes of the nation were focused on NASA’s first moon landing, a tragic drama played out on a tiny Massachusetts island that would have political ramifications for decades to follow.

The late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s actions, explanations and motives in the hours and days after a car he was driving slipped off Chappaquiddick’s Dike Bridge on July 18, 1969, killing Mary Jo Kopechne, have been explored in numerous articles, books and documentaries. Now, the groundwork is being laid for an independent feature film that will perhaps rekindle questions lingering for nearly a half-century.

Australian-born “Zero Dark Thirty” star Jason Clarke will portray Kennedy in “Chappaquiddick” – the film’s working title – and John Curran, whose credits include “The Painted Veil,” will direct, said the movie’s co-producer and Apex Entertainment president and chief executive Mark Ciardi. Production is slated to begin around Labor Day with a tentative release in late 2017.

“In some parts it will be educational, that, wow, in 1969 this happened, with the moon landing in the backdrop, this event happened and how everything kind of played out after that,” said Ciardi, noting that younger generations may know little about the story.

Concentrating on the immediate aftermath of the accident, the film will contain elements of political and legal intrigue, but Ciardi adds: “I certainly wouldn’t characterize it as just a political movie at all.”

Kennedy went to Martha’s Vineyard to race in the Edgartown Regatta and that evening attended a party at a rented house on serene and picturesque Chappaquiddick, which is separated from the Vineyard by a narrow strait and accessed by a small, barge-like ferry. Guests included Kennedy friends and several women, including Kopechne, who had worked on the presidential campaign of his brother Robert F. Kennedy, assassinated a year earlier.

Kennedy and Kopechne, 28, left the party together and a short time later the car plunged into Poucha Pond. Kennedy escaped from the submerged vehicle and said he made several futile attempts to rescue Kopechne, who was trapped inside.

Kennedy, who later described his failure to report the incident to police for nine hours as “indefensible,” pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and was given a two-month suspended sentence. A grand jury was convened but no indictments were returned.

Chappaquiddick would cast a long shadow over Kennedy’s storied U.S. Senate career and likely helped thwart the Democrat’s hopes of winning the presidency.

In his memoir, “True Compass,” published shortly after his death from brain cancer in 2009, Kennedy acknowledged that many people remained skeptical and others “contemptuous” of his explanations surrounding the accident.

“I’ve had to live with that guilt for forty years,” Kennedy wrote. “But my burden is nothing compared to her (Kopechne) loss and the suffering her family had to endure.”

Producers are currently scouting locations for filming, according to Ciardi, who would not say if Chappaquiddick itself was a possible site.

Local officials say no request has been made to film on the island, which has changed little over time. The only vague reminder of the long-ago events are guardrails added to Dike Bridge to help prevent similar tragedies.

Kennedy’s widow, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, did not return a call seeking comment on the film.

Ciardi said he has not reached out to the Kennedy family and isn’t concerned about any potential backlash.

“What you try to do is have a portrayal of a story that, you know, feels fair and accurate,” he said.


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1. Ward off an unsightly bruise
Ouch! You banged your knee on the coffee table, and you just know it'll result in a nasty bruise. To minimize the mark, soak a black tea bag in water and hold it against the area for 5 minutes. The tannins in tea constrict blood vessels, which reduces swelling and inflammation. If you do end up with a bruise, it will be smaller and will heal faster.

2. Soothe a minor sunburn for pennies
The sun was more intense than you realized, and now you have splotches of pink skin. What can help: dip black tea bags in cold water and place on burned spots. Tea's polyphenols and tannic acid will relieve the burn and speed healing. (For widespread sunburn, place 10 tea bags under the faucet while filling the tub, then slip in for a soothing soak.)

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3. Get pans sparkling—without scrubbing

Rather than spending precious time scrubbing off thoese stubborn casserole bits, fill the pan with hot water, toss in two black tea bags, and let sit overnight. The hot water works with the tea's tannic acid to soften and lift stubborn food particles. The next morning, a quick rinse will be all it takes to get your pan gleaming.

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During the heat of midsummer, it's easy to assure decomposition in a compost pile. But as temperatures start to dip in September, the bacteria that create compost become less active. As a result, your pile may need a helping hand. To do: toss a few used black tea bags into the heap. Tea is rich in nitrogen, which supplies bacteria with the energy they need to dial up decomposition.

5. Heal dry, chapped lips
Keep your pucker kissably soft by pressing a moistened black tea bag to your lips for 30 seconds. Tea's antioxidant polyphenols will help repair damaged skin cells and speed cell renewal. Repeat three to five times a week, or as needed.

6. Rustproof a cast-iron skillet
Guarantee your trusty skillet stays rust-free by wiping it with a damp, used black tea bag after every cooking session. The tea's tannins will coat the pan with an invisible protective layer that prevents rust-causing oxidation.

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7. Fast fix for mirror spots
For a chemical-free way to rid your bathroom mirror of toothpaste splatters and the like, simply save the damp black tea bag from your morning brew and rub it over the spots, then dry with a soft cloth. The tea's tannic acids will gently break down the grime, ensuring that your glass is crystal clear.

8. Freshen up an area rug in no time

Do your rugs smell a little funky even after you've vacuumed them? Grab a dry, used black tea bag, split it open, and sprinkle the leaves over the rugs. Let sit for 10 minutes before vacuuming the tea away. The leaves will absorb smells and odor-causing moisture, so when you vacuum them up, the rugs will look and smell refreshed.

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9. Relieve bleeding gums instantly
If you've ever had damage to your gums, especially after having a tooth extracted, you can relieve the tender area by placing a dampened black tea bag over the area and gently biting down. The tea's healing tannins have astringent qualities that will dull the ache and stop any bleeding fast. The tea will also form a protective layer over the exposed tissue, which will help keep infections out.

10. Soothe your pup's salt-cracked paws
Salt sprinkled on the sidewalk after a snowstorm irritated poor Sparky's paws, and now he's chewing on the red spots in an effort to get relief. What can help: press a damp black tea bag against his footpads for 1 minute twice a day. Tea's plant polyphenols ease irritation and speed cell renewal, so he'll be feeling better within a week.

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How do I use this site?

At present the only way to navigate this site is through search. Ideally you will know exactly what you're searching for after having navigated through Newegg to find it. You can search for anything within the title of the item, or by entering the Newegg product id directly into the search field you can go directly to the priceTrackr page for that item.

Finding the Newegg product id is as simple as copying part of the Newegg url when looking at a particular item. If you are on the product page for "Crucial 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory", then the url in the browser will be:

That last part colored in blue is the Newegg product id. Copying and pasting N82E16820148246 into the search box will take you directly to the product's page. Give it a try.

priceTrackr News

2009-10-15 - priceTrackr is back after two years of inactivity.