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Erin F, New York
- 12/31/2014
About Me
I'm a former research librarian turned stay-at-home mom. In addition to taking care of my girls, I spend much of my time in community volunteer activities at my daughters' school and at our church. I also love the theater and arts – we see several Broadway shows each month. I've never been much of an athlete, but the enthusiasm of the runDisney community pushed me outside my comfort zone to become a runner. I now have three runDisney half marathons and several 5Ks under my belt. I'm thrilled to have been a part of the Disney Parks Moms Panel since the very beginning. One of my biggest loves is writing and I can't think of anything better than helping guests by writing about Disney travel. I grew up in Maryland and Maine and have spent the past 25 years in the New York metro area, but I truly feel that Walt Disney World is "home."
About My Family
My husband and I have been married for 20 years and recently had our anniversary dinner at our favorite restaurant in the world, Victoria & Albert's at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa. We met working on our college newspaper. He was the Publisher and I was the Arts & Entertainment Editor. He still works on the business end of publishing and I'm still writing, so we've definitely found a formula that works. We have three spirited teenage daughters. They are all active on the national speech and debate circuit. (They can't out-argue Mom yet, but it's close :-).) My girls also take piano and voice lessons and are part of several choruses and a cappella groups. It's a rare weekend when we don't have at least one recital to attend.
About My Disney Experience
My family is obsessed with Disney travel. We've been Disney Vacation Club members for more than a decade. I've lost count of the number of times I've traveled to Walt Disney World. I've stayed at almost every Walt Disney World resort hotel several times; our favorite is Disney's Beach Club Villas. In addition to Walt Disney World, I've also visited Disneyland Resort in California, Disneyland Paris (great food!), Hong Kong Disneyland and the Disney Vacation Club resorts at Vero Beach, Hilton Head and Hawaii. Beyond the parks, I've taken Caribbean and Mediterranean voyages on Disney Cruise Line and have taken six trips with Adventures by Disney: Costa Rica, Barcelona Escape, Mediterranean Magic, Quest for the West, Germany and China. I can't wait for our next Adventures by Disney trip, Peru. There is absolutely no better way to see the world!


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Microsoft's Flash-challenger Silverlight 3 hits web
Ready to "light up" online Office apps
The next version of Microsoft's Flash-challenger media player has hit the web, ahead of Friday's official launch.
The final Silverlight 3 runtime for users and software development kit (SDK) for programmers have been published to the web and were available for download as of Thursday afternoon. You can get the SDK here and player here.
The player comes in a package that Microsoft promised would download in 10 seconds, but it seems to take a little longer judging from my experiences.
Microsoft's plans a formal launch of Silverlight 3 at a San Francisco, California event Friday morning.
The release comes ahead of Microsoft's massive Worldwide Partner Conference, where the company will evangelize Silverlight 3 against Adobe Systems' Flash and creative tools.
Download and install Silverlight 3 to the Mac
Version three closes many gaps in Microsoft's player that have held it back against Flash. Features include integration with a browser's forward and back button, ClearType for Windows and Mac, hardware acceleration, the ability to work offline and run outside the browser without an additional download. Plus there's support for touch-based input.
Partners also get a set of controls for charting and layout along with the (expected) integration with Visual Studio and the Expression Suite. While partners may be excited by Expression Suite, users of Flash - which dominates the media and interface market - will not be impressed.
Overall, however, version three should finally provide an alternative for Microsoft's design partners who are tired of handing off media and interface work to Flash experts.
Silverlight is also an important part of Microsoft's online services. The player will enable a web-based version of Microsoft's Office suite called Office Web applications, unveiled last October.
Office Web applications are now expected to be released for testing at Microsoft's partner conference next Monday in New Orleans, Louisiana, following the report of some blatant Web 2.0 self-promotion by a Rackspace employee and Twittery hints from a Microsoft evangelist.
Office Web applications are part of the planned Office 2010 suite, and they're intended by Microsoft to answer Google Apps, which come with competing word, spreadsheet, and presentation tools.
Microsoft has said in the past that Silverlight would "light up" features in Office Web applications. It'll provide sharp images, integration with Office Live Workspace to upload multiple files, and also the ability to share and edit documents simultaneously in real time.
Microsoft was unable to comment on the release of Office Web applications at the time of writing. ®

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New designs and a new post! I am excited to share My Mom's Junk new look with you in my latest post!!! It's been quiet on the blog but behind the scenes, it has been a whirlwind of activity. It seems like if I'm blogging about something, I don't have time to get the project done. For my sanity, that's just not an option anymore. That being said, I'm working around the clock to prepare for my ... Read More about My Mom's Junk New Look!
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About Nation:
Nation brings together a crew of mountain men, legends, rookies, contest kids, and street shredders from around the world. The goal: to showcase all aspects of snowboarding and put a time stamp on the current state of the nation.
Featuring: Austin Hironaka, Austen Sweetin, Chris Brewster, Dan Brisse, DCP, Dylan Thompson, Eiki Helgason,Forest Bailey, Gulli Gudmundsson, Jonah Owen, Stale Sandbech, and Xavier De Le Rue.
Nation is supported by GoPro, Adidas, Oakley, Bataleon, Ride, Monster, Zeal, Yes, DWD, The North Face, Sabotage, Rome, Capita, and Volcom.
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You come to io9 for a lot of reasons. You want to escape with science fiction and fantasy, but you also want to learn about what's possible in the real world using science and technology. You want to know what's coming next, and what it will take to get there. What other stories do you want to see?
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Let's get meta and talk about io9 itself. Are there story topics you'd like us to tackle more often? Areas of science we should explore — or areas of science fiction? Are there people you'd love for us to bring in for a Q/A, or whose lives you'd love to know more about?
At io9 we live with at least one limb stuck in the future, and that requires us to be flexible. I'm sure you have a really weird image in your head now, and that's good. We like to put strange ideas in your brain. But I was actually talking about cognitive flexibility. If there are new things out there we aren't talking about — you should tell us. We are always excited to change and try new things.
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Well, I usually have a good horror story, or two, dealing with sales associates and reps around the Christmas holidays. Surprisingly, this year went much better than prior years - I am not complaining. I do, however, want to relate a quick story with an on-line merchant (well known name that shall remain nameless).
I visited their web site and ordered something for my grandson, on Dec 2. I received the order confirmation by email on Dec 3 and was told the product had shipped and to expect the product before Dec 12. Plenty of time to wrap it for Christmas, right? Well,... On Dec 10, around 10 am, I received an email that they run out of stock, the product was back-ordered and it would be 3-4 weeks before I got it. Panicked I called their customer service. "Sorry, we don't have that product in stock", But, wait, on Dec 3 you emailed me and told me the product was shipped and was on its way! "Sorry, there must have been some misunderstanding, the product never shipped". Why did you wait a week to let me know it was out of stock? "Sorry, I don't know why you were not contacted earlier". Is there any way to get it from one of your stores? Is it possible that you'll get stock in the next few days? "No, I'm sorry, we don't have any in our stores and we will not get new stick until early January". &^$#$&^&@ I hang up so frustrated, trying to figure out what to do and thinking of possible alternative gifts.
About 10:30, the door bell rang. It was UPS, delivering the product I had ordered, which I was told it was out of stock and back-ordered. What?? I felt like calling them back and telling them off, but I wasn't sure I'd even get the same customer rep. I just shook my head and was relieved that my grandson would be happy on Christmas Eve - He was


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"We are here to do the work that ensures no other family members have to lose a loved one to a terrorist who turns a plane into a missile, a terrorist who straps a bomb around her waist and climbs aboard a bus, a terrorist who figures out how to set off a dirty bomb in one of our cities. This is why we are here: to make our country safer and make sure the nearly 3,000 who were taken from us did not die in vain; that their legacy will be a more safe and secure Nation." — Barack Obama, Speech in the U.S. Senate, March 6, 2007
The first responsibility of any president is to protect the American people. As president, Barack Obama will provide the leadership and strategies to strengthen our security at home.
The Obama-Biden Plan
Barack Obama and Joe Biden's strategy for securing the homeland against 21st century threats is focused on preventing terrorist attacks on our homeland, preparing and planning for emergencies and investing in strong response and recovery capabilities. Obama and Biden will strengthen our homeland against all hazards — including natural or accidental disasters and terrorist threats — and ensure that the federal government works with states, localities, and the private sector as a true partner in prevention, mitigation, and response.
Defeat Terrorism Worldwide
- Find, Disrupt, and Destroy Al Qaeda: Responsibly end the war in Iraq and focus on the right battlefield in Afghanistan. Work with other nations to strengthen their capacity to eliminate shared enemies.
- New Capabilities to Aggressively Defeat Terrorists: Improve the American intelligence apparatus by investing in its capacity to collect and analyze information, share information with other agencies and carry out operations to disrupt terrorist networks.
- Prepare the Military to Meet 21st Century Threats: Ensure that our military becomes more stealthy, agile, and lethal in its ability to capture or kill terrorists. Bolster our military's ability to speak different languages, navigate different cultures, and coordinate complex missions with our civilian agencies.
- Win the Battle of Ideas: Defeat al Qaeda in the battle of ideas by returning to an American foreign policy consistent with America's traditional values, and work with moderates within the Islamic world to counter al Qaeda propaganda. Establish a $2 billion Global Education Fund to work to eliminate the global education deficit and offer an alternative to extremist schools.
- Restore American Influence and Restore Our Values: Stop shuttering consulates and start opening them in the tough and hopeless corners of the world. Expand our foreign service, and develop the capacity of our civilian aid workers to work alongside the military.
Prevent Nuclear Terrorism
Barack Obama and Joe Biden have a comprehensive strategy for nuclear security that will reduce the danger of nuclear terrorism, prevent the spread of nuclear weapons capabilities, and strengthen the nuclear nonproliferation regime. They will:
- Secure Nuclear Weapons Materials in Four Years and End Nuclear Smuggling: Lead a global effort to secure all nuclear weapons materials at vulnerable sites within four years — the most effective way to prevent terrorists from acquiring a nuclear bomb. Fully implement the Lugar-Obama legislation to help our allies detect and stop the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction.
- Strengthen Policing and Interdiction Efforts: Institutionalize the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), a global initiative aimed at stopping shipments of weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems, and related materials worldwide.
- Convene a Summit on Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Convene a summit in 2009 (and regularly thereafter) of leaders of Permanent Members of the UN Security Council and other key countries to agree on preventing nuclear terrorism.
- Eliminate Iran's and North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Programs Through Tough, Direct Diplomacy: Use tough diplomacy — backed by real incentives and real pressures — to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and to eliminate fully and verifiably North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
- Strengthen the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Seek to ensure that the Agency gets the authority, information, people, and technology it needs to do its job.
- Control Fissile Materials: Lead a global effort to negotiate a verifiable treaty ending the production of fissile materials for weapons purposes.
- Prevent Nuclear Fuel from Becoming Nuclear Bombs: Work with other interested governments to establish a new international nuclear energy architecture — including an international nuclear fuel bank, international nuclear fuel cycle centers, and reliable fuel supply assurances — to meet growing demands for nuclear power without contributing to proliferation.
- Set the Goal of a Nuclear-Free World: Show the world that America believes in its existing commitment under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to work to ultimately eliminate all nuclear weapons. America will not disarm unilaterally.
- Seek Real, Verifiable Reductions in Nuclear Stockpiles: Seek deep, verifiable reductions in all U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons and work with other nuclear powers to reduce global stockpiles dramatically.
- Work with Russia to Increase Warning and Decision Time: Work with Russia to end dangerous Cold War policies like keeping nuclear weapons ready to launch on a moment's notice, in a mutual and verifiable manner.
- Appoint White House Coordinator for Nuclear Security: Appoint a deputy national security advisor to be in charge of coordinating all U.S. programs aimed at reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism and weapons proliferation.
- Strengthen Nuclear Risk Reduction Work at Defense, State, and Energy Departments: Expand our foreign service, and develop the capacity of our civilian aid workers to work alongside the military. Thwarting terrorist networks requires international partnerships in military, intelligence, law enforcement, financial transactions, border controls, and transportation security.
Strengthen American Biosecurity
Biological weapons pose a serious and increasing national security risk. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will work to prevent bioterror attacks and mitigate consequences. They will:
- Prevent Bioterror Attacks: Strengthen U.S. intelligence collection overseas to identify and interdict would-be bioterrorists before they strike.
- Build Capacity to Mitigate the Consequences of Bioterror Attacks: Ensure that decision-makers have the information and communication tools they need to manage disease outbreaks by linking health care providers, hospitals, and public health agencies. A well-planned, well-rehearsed, and rapidly executed epidemic response can dramatically diminish the consequences of biological attacks.
- Accelerate the Development of New Medicines, Vaccines, and Production Capabilities: Build on America's unparalleled talent to create new drugs, vaccines, and diagnostic tests and to manufacture them more quickly and efficiently.
- Lead an International Effort to Diminish Impact of Major Infectious Disease Epidemics: Promote international efforts to develop new diagnostics, vaccines, and medicines that will be available and affordable in all parts of the world.
Protect Our Information Networks
Barack Obama and Joe Biden — working with private industry, the research community and our citizens — will lead an effort to build a trustworthy and accountable cyber infrastructure that is resilient, protects America's competitive advantage, and advances our national and homeland security. They will:
- Strengthen Federal Leadership on Cyber Security: Declare the cyber infrastructure a strategic asset and establish the position of national cyber advisor who will report directly to the president and will be responsible for coordinating federal agency efforts and development of national cyber policy.
- Initiate a Safe Computing R&D Effort and Harden our Nation's Cyber Infrastructure: Support an initiative to develop next-generation secure computers and networking for national security applications. Work with industry and academia to develop and deploy a new generation of secure hardware and software for our critical cyber infrastructure.
- Protect the IT Infrastructure That Keeps America's Economy Safe: Work with the private sector to establish tough new standards for cyber security and physical resilience.
- Prevent Corporate Cyber-Espionage: Work with industry to develop the systems necessary to protect our nation's trade secrets and our research and development. Innovations in software, engineering, pharmaceuticals and other fields are being stolen online from U.S. businesses at an alarming rate.
- Develop a Cyber Crime Strategy to Minimize the Opportunities for Criminal Profit: Shut down the mechanisms used to transmit criminal profits by shutting down untraceable Internet payment schemes. Initiate a grant and training program to provide federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies the tools they need to detect and prosecute cyber crime.
- Mandate Standards for Securing Personal Data and Require Companies to Disclose Personal Information Data Breaches: Partner with industry and our citizens to secure personal data stored on government and private systems. Institute a common standard for securing such data across industries and protect the rights of individuals in the information age.
Improve Intelligence Capacity and Protect Civil Liberties
- Improve Information Sharing and Analysis: Improve our intelligence system by creating a senior position to coordinate domestic intelligence gathering, establishing a grant program to support thousands more state and local level intelligence analysts, and increasing our capacity to share intelligence across all levels of government.
- Give Real Authority to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board: Support efforts to strengthen the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board with subpoena powers and reporting responsibilities. Give the Board a robust mandate designed to protect American civil liberties and demand transparency from the Board to ensure accountability.
- Strengthen Institutions to Fight Terrorism: Establish a Shared Security Partnership Program overseas to invest $5 billion over three years to improve cooperation between U.S. and foreign intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
Protect Americans from Terrorist Attacks and Natural Disasters
- Allocate Funds Based on Risk: Allocate our precious homeland security dollars according to risk, not as pork-barrel spending or a form of general revenue sharing. Eliminate waste, fraud and abuse that cost the nation billions of Department of Homeland Security dollars.
- Prepare Effective Emergency Response Plans: Further improve coordination between all levels of government, create better evacuation plan guidelines, ensure prompt federal assistance to emergency zones, and increase medical surge capacity.
- Support First Responders: Increase federal resources and logistic support to local emergency planning efforts.
- Improve Interoperable Communications Systems: Support efforts to provide greater technical assistance to local and state first responders and dramatically increase funding for reliable, interoperable communications systems. Appoint a National Chief Technology Officer to ensure that the current non-interoperable plans at the federal, state, and local levels are combined, funded, implemented and effective.
- Working with State and Local Governments and the Private Sector: Make the federal government a better partner to states and localities, one that listens to local concerns and considers local priorities. Reach out to the private sector to leverage its expertise and assets to protect our homeland security.
Protect Critical Infrastructure
- Create a National Infrastructure Protection Plan: Develop an effective critical infrastructure protection and resiliency plan for the nation and work with the private sector to ensure that targets are protected against all hazards.
- Secure our Chemical Plants: Work with all stakeholders to enact permanent federal chemical plant security regulations.
- Improve Airline Security: Redouble our efforts to adequately address the threats our nation continues to face from airplane-based terrorism.
- Monitor our Ports: Redouble our efforts to develop technology that can detect radiation and work with the maritime transportation industry to deploy this technology to maximize security without causing economic disruption.
- Safeguard Public Transportation: Work to protect the public transportation systems Americans use to get to work, school and beyond every day.
- Improve Border Security: Support the virtual and physical infrastructure and manpower necessary to secure our borders and keep our nation safe.
Modernize America's Aging Infrastructure
- Build-in Security: Ensure that security is considered and built into the design of new infrastructure, so that our critical assets are protected from the start and more resilient to naturally-occurring and deliberate threats throughout their life-cycle.
- Create a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank: Address the infrastructure challenge by creating a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank of $60 billion over 10 years, to expand and enhance, not supplant, existing federal transportation investments. This independent entity will be directed to invest in our nation's most challenging transportation infrastructure needs, without the influence of special interests.
- Invest in Critical Infrastructure Projects: Invest in our nation's most pressing short and long-term infrastructure needs, including modernizing our electrical grid and upgrading our highway, rail, ports, water, and aviation infrastructure. Establish a Grid Modernization Commission to facilitate adoption of Smart Grid practices to improve efficiency and security of our electricity grid.
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Some time ago, I watched a tournament here in Hawaii. Students of various styles competed in kumite. I thought to myself, "this should be interesting to see Shotokan, Shorin, Goju, Wado, and other stylists compete."
Amazingly, at least to me, everyone sparred just about the same. The Goju people looked like the Shotokan people who looked like all the others. Why was this?
My suspicion is that the rules shape the performance. If people can only do certain things, they will all tend to do those things. The Goju people probably would prefer to grapple and counter, but that was not allowed. Again, when everyone has to play by the same rules, they will all tend to look the same.
Think about dinosaurs. There used to be a dinosaur that looked a lot like a porpoise. The porpoise form is a good one, whether the animal is a dinosaur, reptile, or mammal. In this case, the rules of nature favor a certain form.
Kumite rules, however written, will favor certain forms. One of my friends is a Kenpo instructor. He mentioned to me that in certain tournaments, boxing type punches would never be scored -- only clean reverse punches. The Kenpo student could knock down his opponent with a clean jab or cross but no point would be scored. The Kenpo student either had to learn to punch the way that the judges wanted or find another tournament.
Of course, there are good reasons for rules in kumite competitions. Safety is always the most important concern. But as the rules become more and more rigid, the kumite becomes less and less effective as a method of practicing for self defense. Kumite become its own thing rather than a tool. Students train to win at kumite rather than practicing to survive an attack.
I was first exposed to kumite in a Kenpo Karate dojo. As such, we were allowed to takedown and a light punch or kick would not end the match. The idea actually, was not to win the match, but to practice realistic techniques. We also learned to take and slip a hit.
In Kenpo, we also practiced many pairing off drills. These were practical, self defense oriented sets for grabs, punches, club attacks, knife attacks, etc. This emphasis influenced our kumite. We realized that "scoring" meant very little if the punch or kick could not have "dropped" the opponent (if we had deepened our focus).
Kumite should give us practice in spontaneous self defense.
Charles C. Goodin
Kumite -- All The Same
Some time ago, I watched a tournament here in Hawaii. Students of various styles competed in kumite. I thought to myself, "this should be interesting to see Shotokan, Shorin, Goju, Wado, and other stylists compete."
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Suspect arrested in shooting death at posh Las Vegas resort
LAS VEGAS - A man who turned himself in to police after an aspiring rapper was shot and killed during a music video shoot at a Las Vegas resort told a friend he dropped his gun and it went off accidentally.
Jim Edward Johnson, 25, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of murder in the death of 25-year-old Evan Plunkett. The victim, a Henderson resident who served in the Marines and rapped under the name "Hollywood Will," was one of about 50 people partying in a posh suite at the Palms Casino Resort on Thursday night when he was shot near the suite's private pool, according to a police report.
Johnson's lawyer, William Terry, did not immediately return messages seeking comment Monday morning.
Plunkett's brother told officers he and Evan Plunkett were fighting with another guest on the patio when a shot rang out and his brother fell to the ground. Some partygoers, including the suspect, ran for the doors and left the building through the stairwell, police said.
Plunkett was taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest and succumbed to his injuries a few hours later.
The man who was fighting with the Plunkett brothers later flagged down an officer and said he wasn't involved in the shooting, naming a man he thought was the suspect, according to the report.
Detectives used that information to contact another witness, who told them Johnson said his gun went off by accident and he planned to turn himself in.
The witness told police that he, the victim and the suspect were all friends.
The Palms is home to some of the most extravagant party suites in Las Vegas, including the 9,000-square-foot Sky Villa where the shooting occurred that rents for $40,000 a night and is nicknamed the Hugh Hefner Sky Villa after the Playboy founder.
Resort officials said they were cooperating with police on the investigation.
"We are saddened by this unfortunate, isolated incident, and our thoughts are with the victim's friends and family," they said in a statement last week. "The safety and security of our guests and team members are always our number one priority."


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The vibrant jewel-toned colours of magenta beets, golden chickpeas, bright green arugula and tangy chèvre play off each other deliciously in this fabulous Mediterranean-inspired salad. The bolt of colour from sweet earthy roasted beets and the chunks of creamy chèvre balance perfectly with the nutty flavour and buttery texture of the chickpeas, nestled on a bed of peppery wild arugula and dressed with a simple vinaigrette. This wildly flavourful and nutritious salad is great on its own or served alongside some simply grilled fish or seafood.
Roasted Beet, Chickpea & Arugula Salad with Chèvre
Serves 6
4 small beets, washed & leafy tops removed
3 cups arugula
2 1/2 cups canned chickpeas, drained & rinsed
8 oz goat cheese or chèvre, crumbled
Maldon sea salt, for garnish
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 tsp Dijon mustard
1 large garlic clove, minced
Fresh cracked black pepper, to taste
Preheat the oven to 475°F. Wrap each of the beets in aluminum foil and bake for at least an hour, or until a knife passes easily through the beets. Allow them to cool then using plastic gloves, peel the skins off. Cut the beets into small wedges and place in a bowl. To make the vinaigrette, add the olive oil, vinegar, Dijon and minced garlic together in a small bowl and whisk until well combined. Season with fresh cracked black pepper to taste. To serve, arrange the arugula, beets, chèvre and chickpeas on a serving dish and drizzle with the remaining dressing. Garnish with some Maldon sea salt for a little extra zing.


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mbroyles necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 75 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
Intelligent Web Pay
We are four entrepreneurs who want to bring efficiency, choice, and comfort to the process of collections. Nobody likes being harrassed on the telephone during dinner. Our technology harnesses the power of the web, an intelligent decisioning engine, and a virtual agent avatar, to guide customers through a personalized plan to settle their financial obligations. The avatar is a computer generated virtual personna. It replaces the role of a human collector and allows the customer to transact on the web instead of over the telephone or mail. Collectors benefit by collecting more money, lowering their cost per account, and leading debtors down the path of self-resolution.
Broadly, we are targeting any company challenged with collecting past due accounts receivables. More specifically, we serve industries such as collection agencies, health care providers, retailers, utility companies, debt buyers, collection attorneys, and many more. These companies tend to be conservative and view themselves in the financial services marketspace. Many of them are familly and privately owned. Using the web to acquire payment from customers is a new concept for most of them.
We are looking for a logo to visually represent our company, Intelligent Web Pay. The logo should incorporate the company name and have a conservative yet web savvy look. The logo will be used on the company's web page (currently under construction), direct marketing material, corporate communications, e-mail signature, etc.
Attributes to consider while creating a design include: The web, on-line bill payment, computer, mouse, intelligence, avatar (animated virtual personna that replaces a human collector on the web) money, easy, pleasant, non-threatening, conservative.
Attributes to avoid include: Telephone, mail, email, cartoon characters,
To see a demo, go to http://www.IWPPayment.com.
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Automatic Adaptation of C-based Objects
Again, the plugin framework supports both C and C++ plugins. C and C++ plugin objects implement different interfaces. The main innovation I present in the next installment is how to design and implement a dual C/C++ object model. That unified object model can be transparently accessed and manipulated by both C and C++ objects. However, if the application had to deal with each plugin using its native interface, it would be highly inconvenient. The application code would be peppered with if statements and every argument would have to be converted to the proper data type, which is also very inefficient. The plugin framework uses two techniques to overcome these obstacles.
- First, the object model consists of objects that implement both the C and C++.
- Second, C objects are wrapped by a special adapter that exposes a C++ facade that implements the corresponding C++ interface. The end result is that the application can be blissfully ignorant of the fact that there are C plugins at all. It can treat all plugin objects as C++ objects, since they will all implement the C++ interface.
The actual adaptation is done using an object adapter. This is an object provided by the application (just a specialization of the ObjectAdapter template provided by the plugin framework) that implements the IObjectAdapter interface.
Listing Three contains the IObjectAdapter interface and the ObjectAdapter template.
#ifndef OBJECT_ADAPTER_H #define OBJECT_ADAPTER_H #include "plugin_framework/plugin.h" // This interface is used to adapt C plugin objects to C++ plugin objects. // It must be passed to the PluginManager::createObject() function. struct IObjectAdapter { virtual ~IObjectAdapter() {} virtual void * adapt(void * object, PF_DestroyFunc df) = 0; }; // This template should be used if the object model implements the // dual C/C++ object design pattern. Otherwise you need to provide // your own object adapter class that implements IObjectAdapter template<typename T, typename U> struct ObjectAdapter : public IObjectAdapter { virtual void * adapt(void * object, PF_DestroyFunc df) { return new T((U *)object, df); } }; #endif // OBJECT_ADAPTER_H
The PluginManager uses it to adapt a C object to a C++ object. I explain the process in detail when I go over the various components of generic plugin framework later in this article.
The important thing to take home is that the plugin framework provides all the necessary infrastructure necessary to adapt a C object to a C++ object, but it needs the application's help because it doesn't know the types of objects it needs to adapt.
Interaction Between the Application and Plugin Objects
The application simply calls C++ member functions on the C++ interfaces of plugin objects (possibly adapted C objects) it created. In addition to dutifully returning results from their member functions, the plugin objects may also invoke callback functions through the PF_InvokeService function of the PF_PlatformServices struct. These services can be used for diverse purposes like logging, error reporting, progress notifications of long running operations, and event propagation. Again, these callbacks are part of the protocol between the application and plugins and must be designed as part of the entire application interfaces and object model design.
Destruction of Plugin Objects by the Application
The best practice in managing object lifetime is that the creator is also the destroyer. This is especially important in a language like C++ where you are responsible for memory allocation and deallocation. There are many ways to allocate and deallocate memory: malloc/free, new/delete, array new/delete, OS specific APIs that allocate/deallocate from different heaps, etc. It is often very important to deallocate using the deallocation method that corresponds to the allocation method. The creator is in the best position to know how resources where allocated. In the plugin framework every object type is registered with both a create function and a destroy function (PF_CreateFunc and PF_DestroyFunc). Plugin objects are created using PF_CreateFunc and should be destroyed using PF_DestroyFunc. Each plugin is responsible for implementing both properly so all resources are cleaned up properly. The plugin is free to implement any memory scheme it wants. All the plugin objects may be allocated statically and PF_DestroyFunc may do nothing or there could be a pool of pre-created instances and PF_DestroyFunc may just return an object to the pool. The application just creates objects using PF_CreateFunc and releases them when its done with them using PF_DestroyFunc. The destructor of C++ plugin objects does the right thing, so the application doesn't have to deal with calling PF_DestroyFunc directly and can dispose of plugin objects using the standard delete operator. This works for adapted C objects too, because the object adapter makes sure to call the proper PF_DestroyFunc in its destructor.
Plugin System Cleanup When Applications Shut Down
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Brussels, 4 August 2009
Digital economy can lift Europe out of crisis, says Commission report
The European Commission's Digital Competitiveness report published today shows that Europe's digital sector has made strong progress since 2005: 56% of Europeans now regularly use the internet, 80% of them via a high-speed connection (compared to only one third in 2004), making Europe the world leader in broadband internet. Europe is the world's first truly mobile continent with more mobile subscribers than citizens (a take up rate of 119%). Europe can advance even further as a generation of "digitally savvy" young Europeans becomes a strong market driver for growth and innovation. Building on the potential of the digital economy is essential for Europe's sustainable recovery from the economic crisis. Today the Commission has asked the public what future strategy the EU should adopt to make the digital economy run at full speed.
"Europe's digital economy has tremendous potential to generate huge revenues across all sectors, but to turn this advantage into sustainable growth and new jobs, governments must show leadership by adopting coordinated policies that dismantle existing barriers to new services," said Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media. "We should seize the opportunity of a new generation of Europeans who will soon be calling the shots in the European market place. These young people are intensive internet users and are also highly demanding consumers. To release the economic potential of these 'digital natives', we must make access to digital content an easy and fair game."
The report published today outlines the results of five years of EU policy under the Barroso Commission promoting the latest communication technologies, new networks and services and creative media content. By 2008, 56% of Europeans had become regular internet users, a leap of one third since 2004. Half of households and more than 80% of businesses now have a broadband connection. A new generation of Europeans mastering the web and ready to apply its innovations is coming on stage. These "digital natives" hold great potential for Europe's growth.
People aged 16 to 24 are the most active internet users: 73% of them regularly use advanced services to create and share online content, twice the EU population average (35%) (see annex). 66% of all Europeans under 24 use the internet every day, compared to the EU average of 43%. They also have more advanced internet skills than the rest of the population, according to a Commission study on digital literacy, also released today.
Although the "digital generation" seems reluctant to pay to download or view online content like videos or music (33% say that they are not willing to pay anything at all, which is twice the EU average), in reality twice as many of them have paid for these services compared to the rest of the population (10% of young users, compared to an EU average of 5%). They are also more willing to pay for offers of better service and quality.
Internet use will soar as Europe's "digital natives" begin their professional lives, increasingly shaping and dominating market trends. As traditional business models stall, companies will have to offer services attractive to the next generation of users, while legislators should create the right conditions to facilitate access to new online content while also ensuring remuneration for the creators.
Europe also needs to act more to compete globally. Despite progress, a third of EU citizens have never used the internet. Only 7% of consumers have shopped online in another Member State. Europe is still behind the US and Japan in R&D investments in information and communication technologies (ICT), high-speed broadband communications, and developing innovative markets like online advertising.
Pro-active policy making across the EU must ensure that everyone has a high-speed internet connection and that there is an online single market, where people can easily use online services across borders.
Upcoming challenges for Digital Europe are raised in a public consultation launched by the Commission today, open until 9 October 2009. This is the first step towards a new European ICT strategy which the Commission aims to present in 2010 as part of the next wave of the Lisbon Agenda.
The EU's "i2010" strategy to boost Europe's lead in ICT and unlock the benefits of the information society for European growth and jobs, adopted by the Commission in July 2005 ( IP/05/643 ) comes to a close this year. Endorsed by all EU Member States and the European Parliament, the strategy aimed to strengthen the single market for businesses and users and to stimulate ICT research and innovation. This policy of stimulating competition and empowering consumers has delivered on concrete issues and has engendered a wealth of innovative policies across the EU.
Commissioner Reding called, on 9 July ( SPEECH/09/336) , for a new "Digital Europe" strategy as policy approach for a single and consumer-friendly market for online content where ICT will be driving innovation, full connectivity, and a greener economy.
The Digital Competitiveness report, factsheets, and the public consultation can be found at:
Study "Public policies and stakeholders initiatives in support of Digital Literacy":
Results of five years of EU ICT policy under the Barroso Commission:
Nine questions on the future of the Information Society identified for the public consultation:
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I first saw this some years ago at uni. It demonstrates the sequence of events during various cardiac episodes. It is the badgers nadgers!
The professor uses his arms to simulate the two top chambers of the heart…the Atria. He uses his legs to simulate the two lower chambers of the heart…the Ventricles.
So the atria contract together followed by the ventricles contracting together and blood is pumped around the body.
When seen on an ECG (electrocardiogram…EKG in the USA) the contractions of the heart are shown as the electrical impulses that generate the cardiac muscle to move. These are the different complexes shown on an ECG recording…normally the PQRST complex.
The vid is just over 4 minutes long but stay with it…all those other medical bods out there will see the correlation between the 'dance' and what it represents in the cardiac cycle.
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I think the way that I've come to think about mathematics is becoming problematic and I'm wondering if I should abandon it. When I study mathematics, I find myself trying to compare the mathematical constructs, operations, entities, and even the basic terminology (which I have come to understand is incredibly elegant, precise, and deliberate) to real world, physical, even visible phenomena. I think under the pretense that the things I do in the mathematical world represent real, fundamental structures in this Universe. For example, the fact that terms can 'cancel' out in an equation has profound implications on the workings of the Universe and should be heeded and studied as such.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve confirmed that the security system for its electronic data banks had been breached, but did not say how much data had been accessed.
"The Federal Reserve System is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product," the central bank said in a statement.
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Police ignored call to help abused dog
Police ignored call to help abused dog
Dispatcher made an error, Gatineau police say
Patti Edgar
The Ottawa Citizen
Friday, May 31, 2002
Witnesses who say they saw a man throw his small dog into the air and let it crash to the asphalt, charge that Gatineau police did not respond to their request for help.
The man, who frequently walks by the Hertz Rent a Car parking lot on St. Joseph Boulevard in Hull, appeared to lose his temper yesterday afternoon, said Hertz employee Robert Joncas.
According to Mr. Joncas, the shirtless man threw the black mixed-breed dog three metres into the air and let it land on the pavement.
"The dog was squealing. That's what caught my attention," said Eric Burke, a manger at the rental agency. "I ran out and said 'What are you doing? I'm going to call the police.'"
When police were called, the dispatcher connected them to the local animal control officer. The animal control officer said the incident was a police matter. By then the man had disappeared.
Police say it was a dispatching error.
"Somebody made a mistake when they took the call," said Capt. Serge Lamoureux of the Gatineau police. "The dispatcher is being reprimanded."
But the reprimand does little to help the dog. Witnesses said the dog appeared to have a broken leg. After the man threw it into the air, the dog scrambled under a parked car, but the man dragged it out.
Neither Mr. Burke or Mr. Joncas saw what happened next. "I just saw him walk away with that dog, lifeless in his arms," said Mr. Joncas.
Capt. Lamoureux said police will do everything possible to find the man and determine the condition of the injured animal.
Police will meet with Hertz employees tomorrow morning to get a detailed account of what happened.
Capt. Lamoureux said police usually respond to reports of animal cruelty and yesterday's misdirected call was an unfortunate mistake.
Mr. Joncas said he was disappointed in police for not quickly attending the scene and interviewing witnesses that may be hard to track down today. "It's a little late now, isn't it?" said Mr. Joncas.
He doubts the man will walk by the store again because angry witnesses are on the lookout. "I think it's terrible that he could kill this dog, but it's worse that the police wouldn't do anything about it."
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what i would have done
i would have went over when he threw the dog out the window and picked it up, if he came over i`d tell him to back off, if he didn`t, push him down, get in a car and take the poor dog to the vet.
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ABU DHABI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Joule today announced the closing of a $70 million third round of funding, supporting its aggressive timeline to commercialization and bringing its total to $110+ million raised to date. The round included investments from both new and prior undisclosed institutional and private sources that joined Flagship Ventures, Joule's founding venture capital investor. The news was released in conjunction with Joule's participation at the World Future Energy Summit, where President and CEO William J. Sims will present on the company's behalf.
The proceeds will be applied towards the build-out and operation of a Joule facility located in Hobbs, New Mexico and slated for commissioning in the summer of 2012. The facility is designed to test and optimize Joule's Helioculture™ process and SolarConverter® system at incrementally larger scales, with the potential to expand to 1,000 acres for initial commercial production. This will also show the ease with which Joule's process can scale from hundreds to thousands of acres, advantaged by a modular system design and lack of feedstock or resource constraints. Proceeds from the round will also support Joule's global expansion plans and on-going technology development.
"2011 was a year of milestones for Joule, including the groundbreaking at our first production site, the expansion of our pilot plant, the issuance of additional patents; now totaling 11, the transition to our new world-class headquarters and labs, and the successful close of our largest funding round to date," said Mr. Sims. "Our goal since inception has been to enable large-scale, renewable fuel production at unprecedented costs and volumes in the near term, without the obstacles and slow pace of biofuel progress. On the heels of our latest funding round and technology advancement, we're in a very strong position to make it happen as planned."
"Joule is among the most innovative and transformative companies to have emerged from our VentureLabs unit, encompassing numerous breakthroughs in a highly-efficient, scalable process that represents a new paradigm for liquid fuel production," said Noubar Afeyan, Founder and Chairman of Joule and Managing Partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures. "Joule has now successfully moved beyond the research phase to prove the industrial viability of its approach, with a clear path to global implementation."
The World Future Energy Summit is one of the world's foremost annual meetings dedicated to advancing future energy, energy efficiency and clean technologies by engaging political, business, finance, academic and industry leaders to drive innovation, business and investment opportunities. Mr. Sims will present during the Technology Leaders in Future Energy session taking place on Wednesday, January 18. Additional information about the event is available at http://www.worldfutureenergysummit.com/ .
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A Knife in the Dark
Back at Frodos new "home" in Crickhollow, Black Riders accost Fatty Bolger. Fatty escapes and the horn call of Buck is blown, announcing the invasion. The Black Riders flee, but now they know that Frodo and the ring are not there.
Meanwhile, at the Prancing Pony, Strider discovers that the Hobbit rooms have been broken into and the rooms have been ransacked. All the horses have been stolen from the stables and the Hobbits have no means by which to travel, except for one pony.
The Hobbits load the pony with supplies and set off, creating a stir in Breeland. Their journey begins on the road and continues along paths and woods through bogs and marshes. By the sixth day, they are almost near the place they have been hoping to meet Gandalf, who left a sign scratched on a stone signifying that he was there three days back.
Sam and Pippin find traces of a recent and hasty camping site on the mountaintop. It could have been left by rangers or perhaps by Gandalf. Strider is concerned that it was a mistake for the Hobbits to stay on the mountaintop, because Black Riders can smell the blood of living things. The crusaders make a fire, beside which they sit listening to stories of Elves and Gil-Galad the Elven King and other tales of Middle-earth.
The Hobbits notice strange shadows and they realize that the enemy is approaching. Frodo gives in to the desperation of wearing the Ring and as soon as he does he sees the riders clearly. There are five of them, one wearing a crown. Though Frodo is invisible, that Black Rider springs forward with his knife. Frodo manages to strike at the enemys feet but is himself injured in the shoulder. He manages to slip the Ring off his finger before losing consciousness.
Once again the influence of the Ring on Frodo is powerful. The Hobbit cannot seem to resist wearing the ring, though he has been warned not to. And every time he puts the ring on, he gets into trouble.
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Director, Center for Patient Partnership (CPP); Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law
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J.D. 1983, University of Wisconsin Law School
LL.M. 1993, University of Wisconsin Law School
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Martha E. (Meg) Gaines is a 1983 cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she received the Wisconsin Law Alumni Award for outstanding contribution to the community. After law school, Meg clerked for the late Judge Thomas Tang of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Phoenix, Arizona (1983), worked as a trial attorney for the Milwaukee office of the State Public Defender (1985-1987), and returned to the Law School's Remington Center where she taught until becoming Assistant Dean for Student and Academic Affairs (1998-2000). Meg was the 1995 recipient of the campus-wide Chancellor's Hilldale Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Meg received her B.A. in Religion in 1977 from Vassar College and her LL.M in 1993 from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Her master's thesis is titled "I do make house calls--Effective Legal Representation From Our Clients' Perspective." Meg is on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College in Macon, Georgia and the New York State Defender's Association in Albany, New York.
In September 2000, Meg and several colleagues founded The Center for Patient Partnerships at the University of Wisconsin. Begun with generous pilot grants from alumna Linda B. Stern, '61 and The Wallis Foundation, the Center trains students from the schools of Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Social Work to provide advocacy to cancer patients. In collaboration with colleagues from those departments, Meg teaches a Patient Advocacy course where students are joined in interdisciplinary teams that help cancer patients understand their diagnoses, get the information necessary to make critical treatment decisions, and support patient's efforts to get the treatment they need.
The Center also conducts research about issues relevant to patient care and health care delivery - from the patient's perspective. The Center is a national model of excellence in the education of health care and legal professionals.