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Q: Processing html partials using gulp in Angular project -client/
     index.html
     node_modules/
       ..
       ..
     js/
       -controllers/
       -directives/
       -services/
         app.js
     partials/
         someHTML.html
         anotherHTML.html
     build/
        -app.js
        -custom.css
        ...

-server
   server.js

All my partial html templates which are used by Angular directives, controllers etc reside in the build folder. I use gulp to build the project, which does all the usual tasks like clean the destination folder, compile stylus and place it in build folder, move bootstrap.css to build folder, browserify the .js files and mvoe to build folder. So far so good.. but how does one deal with the html templates that in the partials folder ?
Are these simply to be copied over to build folder ?
As per @JimL suggestion .. i am using browserify currently where my main app.js looks like this
/*jshint globalstrict: true*/
'use strict';

require('es5-shim');
require('es5-sham');
require('jquery');
require('angular');

var app = angular.module('app', [require('angular-ui-router')]);

require('./controllers');
require('./directives');
require('./services');

Now, how does template cache fit in the above equation ? the template.js file is created and placed in the build folder.. this is not available to browserify yet.

A: You should try using a tool such as Gulp Angular Templatecache, which will bundle templates directly in your application using the $templateCache service.
var templateCache = require('gulp-angular-templatecache');

gulp.task('html', function () {
    gulp.src('templates/**/*.html')
        .pipe(templateCache())
        .pipe(gulp.dest('public'));
});

https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-angular-templatecache


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Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State Yesterday Tuesday said that he washed dead bodies as a youth to pay his tuition fees while schooling abroad.
Ajimobi said this at a South-West Youths Regional Summit in Osogbo.
The governor, while urging the youth to have a positive mindset toward hard work, said he spent eight years abroad washing dead bodies to survive.
"My boss at work then said I should not be afraid or fear, adding that such feeling is normal for first comers.
"He encouraged me to always see those dead bodies as iced fish.
"But against all odds, I survived and that is why I am urging youths to see hard work as the only way to success.
"I am saying this to challenge the youth of our next generation not to give up.


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Кубок Першого каналу 2020 — 53-й міжнародний хокейний турнір у Росії, пройшов 17—20 грудня 2020 року в Москві у рамках Єврохокейтуру.

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The headline sounds bigger than the actual news. Relenza now has the official indication for prevention of influenza.
Health Canada has given pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline permission to market its flu drug Relenza for the prevention of influenza, not merely the treatment of the illness.
The Canadian approval, announced by GSK on Thursday, follows in the footsteps of similar approvals by regulators in the United States and 15 European Union countries.


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Seahawks Offense "Focused On The Moment," Not Past Struggles
The stats show a struggling Seahawks offense, but players and coaches are focused on what lies ahead, not on what hasn't gone well through 10 games. John Boyle
The numbers paint a pretty bleak picture when it comes to the 2021 Seahawks offense. Through 10 games, the Seahawks rank 30th in total offense, 24th in points scored, and they're 31st in third-down offense, a big factor in Seattle having run the fewest offensive plays and had the lowest time of possession in the NFL.
But as rough as things have been so far, players and coaches look at the talent Seattle has on that side of the ball, and at some of the better games Seattle has played earlier in the season, and they see an offense capable of being much more than those number might suggest.
"What our offense needs to do is forget about the past," quarterback Russell Wilson said. "Stay focused on the present. Stay focused on what we're doing right now. All the talk, all this and that. We've got great players, we've got a great line, we've got great playmakers. We've got a great play caller in Shane (Waldron). We've got a pretty decent quarterback. We can make plays. We don't need to do anything else but forget about the past and stay focused on the moment. We get to go on the road, a tough environment in Washington, I'm looking forward to it. It'll be my birthday too, so that'll be fun. Just go play ball. This game is a gift. It's a gift. We can't let all the distractions and anything else be a hindrance to the gift. I think that's where our focus is right now."
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Tight end Gerald Everett, who is in his first year with the Seahawks after beginning his career with the Rams, hasn't been around for a long time, but he has seen enough from the likes of Wilson and DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett to know that the offense can and will be better down the stretch than it has been so far this season.
"Our production hasn't really matched up to our capabilities and our expectations," he said. "For me personally, it kind of rubs me the wrong way because I know of all the great guys that we have, the leaders on this team and what they are capable of doing, whether it be running back, quarterback, receivers, or O-line. Playing against the Seahawks for years and years since I've been in the league, I've never seen this type of production, so ironically, I'm on the team now and we've haven't gotten the return that we wanted or expected. It's just a matter of staying with it and rolling with the punches."
The Seahawks came into this season with high expectations on offense, both because of the talent on the roster and also because of what people had seen out of first-year offensive coordinator during the offseason and in training camp. Even so, some growing pains with a new offense were probably inevitable, and those issues were only compounded by Wilson missing three games-the first he has missed in his 10-year career-as well as a season-ending injury to running back Chris Carson.
"It's been a challenging year for us," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said. "We haven't been as consistent as we wanted to be. We have a lot of things that we can do on our offense, a lot of stuff that we really like, but we have to be able to reap the benefits of those opportunities by completing our drives. That goes back to the third down stuff as well as our efficiency on first and second down, but the easy focus for us is to look at third down and see if we can make two or three more a game, it gives us two or three more drives. That's what we need. I think it's been a real challenge for (Waldron) in the quarterback moving out and the tailbacks being available and all that as we had planned it. I think he's doing a really good job. I love the work and approach and the style and what we're trying to get done. I'm very hopeful that you're going to see us take off in the last seven weeks here."
At the root of so many issues has been the Seahawks' inability to stay on the field on third down. After going 2 for 10 on third down last week, the Seahawks are converting at a 32.4 percent rate this season, which ranks 31st in the NFL. Not sustaining drives obviously limits chances for the offense to score, and it also puts more burden on the defense, which has been on the field for 70 or more plays in 8 of 10 games this season, compared to a Seahawks offense that has run 60 or more plays only twice, with a high of 64.
"We haven't converted," Carroll said. "It's one reason or another. Whether it's the opportunity, the throw, the route, that's what we've intended to do the whole time. I'm disappointed that I can't tell you we're getting it done... We work on it every week. That's not the part we can change a whole lot. We're already getting the reps and all. We need to execute better and hit it. Got to get Russ in the groove, and we've got to get those guys in the groove too so that we're really counting on each other to come through when the time calls for it."
As Carroll has noted on a few occasions this season, the difference between being where the Seahawks are on third down and near the league lead is only a couple of conversions a game, so it wouldn't take a huge shift for the Seahawks to get better there. And with Wilson's finger getting heathier every week, and with the firepower Seattle has on offense, players are confident the turn is coming for that group.
"I'm still very confident," said left tackle Duane Brown. "We are somewhat healthy, we have guys that can produce, and have a lot of talent to still be a very explosive offense. It's just about executing, we have to execute. We have to be able to start out faster, we kind of start the game slowly and have flashes, but we have to start fast. We have to continue to play with confidence and just do what we can do. We know what we are capable of, but we have to go and do it. We haven't been able to do that the last couple of weeks, but there's no better week to put it together than this one."
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An Island Of Books
Observer News Service | May 21, 2016
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Sitting on an island in the idyllic Dal Lake, drinking your favourite coffee and reading your favourite book away from the hustle and bustle of a chaotic city- What more can a book lover ask for?
Books and coffee have always been the perfect combination but add to it the mesmerising view of Dal Lake and it becomes every reader's paradise. Spread over an area of 900 sq feet, Gulshan Books' Dal Lake bookshop and café cum reading room has fulfilled every reader's wish.
The café cum reading room which was inaugurated by the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on May 11, is the first of its kind in the region. Set up on an island, named as Nehru Park and surrounded by an enchanting view of Koh-e-Suleiman, Zabarwan range and of course the famous Dal Lake, the store offers a wide range of books on Kashmir's history, heritage, travelogues, Sufism followed by English classics and current affairs.
The Gulshan Book store is accredited with having first traced, located, consolidated and subsequently published the scattered historical literature on Kashmir, thus making available a variety of rare books and pieces of literature to scholars, intellectuals, academicians as well as common book lovers.
Beginning its journey in 1950's, under the name of Sheikh Mohammad Usman and Sons, Gulshan Books was first located at Maharaj Gunj Srinagar, then considered as the heart of city.
The book store, under the dynamic leadership of its present day owner, Mr Sheikh Aijaz, is already running a chain of stores in three commercial zones, Residency Road, Gaw Kadal and Srinagar airport, of Srinagar city.
"At present we have around 80,000 books available but we will soon be making more books available to our readers. The intricately designed Reading Room cum Cafe houses nearly 1,500 books in English and Urdu, mostly on Kashmir's history, culture, poetry, tourism and Sufism. Mirza Waheed's novel Collaborator and a collection of poems The Veiled Suite by another Kashmiri-American poet late Agha Shahid Ali – each with a 'not for sale' tag on it can be seen on the shelves.
"In this Dal Lake area, I don't think anyone has ever opened a bookshop, though the lake has remained a focal point in almost every book that is written on Kashmir, whether by foreigners or local authors," Ajaz said.
"We will also be making professional cameras available for our selfie loving generation," Ajaz said.
The coffee prices have been kept at minimum with the starting price at just Rs 20. The book store cum café also has a free, although erratic, Wi-Fi connection.
"Our main aim to open a book shop here is to increase the reading habits among our youth. With its beautiful and serene view, this place will attract younger people as well as tourists to read about our history, heritage and literature. Even though most people prefer reading e-books today, I believe that a view like this will definitely attract readers and will help to revive the traditional reading culture once again", Mr Ajaz said.
"Even if people don't buy books, they can still enjoy a little bit of free time reading some of the best books on Kashmir here. I will also be keeping shikaras which will ferry the visitors to the shop for free", he added.
Chief Minister, who was clearly impressed by the décor and ambience of the bookstore cum café, had also expressed her desire to see more and more people reading about Kashmir's history and heritage. While inaugurating the store, the Chief Minister in her opening speech had also mentioned the need for such a place to cater to the youth. "We don't have any healthy activities available for the youth of our valley, so this platform will engage them in book reading and other healthy discussions", she said.


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About Aboriginal Exhibitions Gallery at Rutherglen Estates
Aboriginal Exhibitions Gallery at Rutherglen Estates is a unique joint venture between Rutherglen Estates winery and fine Aboriginal art gallery Aboriginal Exhibitions Pty Ltd, operated by Director and art collector Hans Sip.
Through the joint venture Rutherglen Estates gains access to the entire Hans Sip collection of Aboriginal art and artefacts comprising over six hundred pieces. Collected works include paintings and artefacts from: Victoria; Cape York and Arnhem Land, NT; Northern Queensland; Kimberley and Fitzroy River, WA; Central and Western Deserts; Tiwi Islands and South Australia.
Representing a broad and mostly contemporary view of Australian Aboriginal art, the collection offers a visually powerful experience. Significant cultural works convey ancestral stories and depict large scale maps of Country together with sacred sites. As the pieces have been sourced from many parts of Australia they clearly demonstrate the richness and diversity of Aboriginal art and culture.
Craig Charles Sacred Tree of Knowledge, 2008
158 x 192cm, Acrylic on linen
About Gallery Curator Jamie Durrant
Aboriginal Exhibitions Gallery at Rutherglen Estates aims to present sensitively curated exhibitions that celebrate and respectfully acknowledge Australian aboriginal people, their lands, sacred sights, tribal and family groups and collective nations and cultures. Each exhibition will include appropriate written information explaining the artist's works in cases where the information is deemed 'non private' and approved for publishing. This will allow the gallery to offer a strong educational message and a constructive cultural learning experience, directly relating to artists' homelands, sacred sights, tribal laws and cultural activities. Quarterly exhibitions will be curated by Jamie Durrant; locally well known for his photographic arts and culture-based Australian publishing business Essentials Magazine.
Jamie Durrant is the son of prolific photorealist Australian painter Ivan Durrant. Since birth he has been surrounded by art, artists, exhibitions and industry professionals. In recent years he has curated aboriginal exhibitions for The Benalla Art Gallery; also aiding the gallery in marketing services.
In 2010 he photographed and help to collate more than 350 aboriginal art works for the international touring exhibition and published book: Dreamtime – Lo Spirito Dell'Arte Aborigena. This joint Australian and Sardinian project culminated in the largest non commercial exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art works and cultural items to be shown in a foreign museum. It was shown at MAN Museum, Nuoro Sardinia, Italy during 2011 in two parts over a six months period. Over three hundred items were donated to the show by Hans Sip and many of the exhibits are now available for sale from Aboriginal Exhibitions at Rutherglen Estates.
Over the past 11 years, Durrant has edited more than 180 articles on Australian and international art, published within Essentials Magazine. He is an Aboriginal art collector in his own right and has a personal and very passionate connection to the paintings and the messages that they represent. He has a respectful view towards both the learning of, and sharing of Australian Aboriginal culture and tribal customs.
In 2016 Durrant initiated the concept of Aboriginal Exhibitions Gallery at Rutherglen Estates, connecting the Directors of Rutherglen Estates winery with art collector Hans Sip (owner of Aboriginal Exhibitions Pty Ltd). Durrant acted as a representative bridge between the two parties. Over a series of creative meetings a joint venture agreement was reached and entered into enabling the partners to begin design and construction. The end result is destined to become a must-visit gallery for both domestic and international visitors, bringing greater numbers overall to the tourist regions of The Murray and High Country Victoria.
Maureen Thomson, Hunting Land, 2003
55 x 117cm, Acrylic on canvas
About the Hans Sip Collection
Hans has been an art collector for most of his life, his journey starting with the collecting of early Chinese ceramics and wood carvings from his mid teens. While always holding an interest in Australian Aboriginal art and culture, serious collecting in that area did not commence until he met artist Clifford Possum in 1996. The first work purchased was by Clifford who is Australia's best known and highly priced artist with his Warlugulong work purchased by the National Gallery of Australia at for $2,400,000. The Sip collection now holds nine Clifford paintings. Clifford's daughter Gabriella soon followed with a growing number of works purchased by Hans building his collection and in turn leading to an enduring friendship. In 1999 a series of limited edition serigraphs on canvas were produced based on three paintings commissioned by Hans and painted by Gabriella. The large scale works are the same size as the originals and represent a 'tour de force' of silk screen printing.
From 2000 onward Hans has represented Northern Queensland artists Luke Cummins, his brother John, Billy Doolan and Russell Butler through his company Aboriginal Exhibitions Pty Ltd. Fitzroy Crossing, WA artist Jack Macale and Ngukurr, NT artist Wendy Espie are also represented by Hans. Sustained financial support given to Victorian artists Trevor 'Turbo' Brown and Craig Charles led to substantial holdings of their works by Aboriginal Exhibitions Pty Ltd.
Institutions such as the Queensland Art Gallery have long drawn from Aboriginal Exhibitions's rich cultural resource. In 2003 works were loaned to QAG for their landmark exhibition Story Place – Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest. In 2011 over 300 items were loaned to MAN Museum, Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy for the Dreamtime – Lo Spirito Dell'Arte Aborigena exhibition and this was followed in 2013 by Turbo Brown's All Animals Running Free exhibition at the Benalla Art Gallery, curated by Jamie Durrant. The Bright Art Gallery of which Hans is a life member has had multiple exhibitions with pieces drawn from the private collection of Hans; the most recent exhibition being: Turbo featuring the works of Turbo Brown, in 2014. Three of Turbo Brown's paintings have recently been donated by Hans to the NGV from his private collection. Hans Sip is a Foundation Member of the National Gallery of Victoria.
Faith Thompson Nelson, Coming of the Wet, 2004
53.5 x 145cm, Acrylic on canvas


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Dit is een lijst met de koningen, voor zover bekend, van het koninkrijk Champa. Voor zover bekend zijn de jaartallen vermeld. Tussen haakjes staan de alternatieve namen of spellingen van de koningen vermeld:
Bhadravarman I (5e eeuw)
Gangaraja (5e eeuw)
Manorathavarman (5e eeuw)
Rudravarman I (6e eeuw)
Sambhuvarman (6e eeuw–629)
Kandarpadharma (629–640)
Prabhasadharma (640–645)
Bhadresvaravarman (645–646, 647–653 sec.)
Isanavarman (653)
Prakāśadharma (653–687)
Naravahanavarman (687–700?)
Vikrantavarman II (700?–741)
Prithindravarman
Satyavarman
Indravarman I
Harivarman I
Vikrantavarman III
Indravarman II
Jaya Simhavarman I
Saktivarman
Bhavavarman II
Indravarman III
Jaya Indravarman I
Paramesvaravarman I
Lưu Kế Tông
Harivarman II
Yang Pu Ku Vijaya Sri (?)
Harivarman III
Yang Pu Ku Sri (?)
Pílándéjiābámádié (?)
Zhíxīngxiáfú (?)
Jaya Paramesvaravarman I
Bhadravarman III
Rudravarman III (Che Chu)
Harivarman IV
Paramabhodhisatva
Jaya Indravarman II
Harivarman V
Jaya Indravarman III
Rudravarman IV
Jaya Harivarman I
Jaya Harivarman II
Jaya Indravarman IV
Jaya Indravarman V
Suryavarman
Jaya Paramesvaravarman II
Jaya Indravarman VI
Indravarman V
Jaya Sinhavarman III (Che Man)
Jaya Simhavarman IV (Che Chi)
Jaya Simhavarman V (Che Nang)
Che A Nan (?)
Tra Hoa (?)
1360 - 1382 Che Bong Nga (?)
Jaya Simhavarman VI
Indravarman VI
Virabhadravarman
Bi Cai (?)
Quy Lai (?)
Quy Do (?)
Tra Duyet (?)
Tra Toan (?)

Laatste koningen van Champa volgens de koninklijke kronieken van Pangdarang (in het Pali Panduranga) dat beweert dat de entiteit onder deze naam de laatste voortzetting was van het oude koninkrijk; er bestaat bewijs in andere geschriften dat dit inderdaad het geval was. In 1822 werd ook dit laatste restant geannexeerd:
1695 - 1728 Po Saktirai da putih
1728 - 1730 Po Ganvuh da putih
1731 - 1732 Po Thuttirai
1732 - 1735 geen heerser
1735 - 1763 Po Rattirai
1763 - 1765 Po Tathun da moh-rai
1765 - 1780 Po Tithuntirai da paguh
1780 - 1781 Po Tithuntirai da parang
1781 - 1783 geen heerser
1783 - 1786 Chei Krei Brei
1786 - 1793 Po Tithun da parang
1793 - 1799 Po Lathun da paguh
1799 - 1822 Po Chong Chan

Champa
Champa


Gene expression profiling and genetic markers in glioblastoma survival.
Despite the strikingly grave prognosis for older patients with glioblastomas, significant variability in patient outcome is experienced. To explore the potential for developing improved prognostic capabilities based on the elucidation of potential biological relationships, we did analyses of genes commonly mutated, amplified, or deleted in glioblastomas and DNA microarray gene expression data from tumors of glioblastoma patients of age >50 for whom survival is known. No prognostic significance was associated with genetic changes in epidermal growth factor receptor (amplified in 17 of 41 patients), TP53 (mutated in 11 of 41 patients), p16INK4A (deleted in 15 of 33 patients), or phosphatase and tensin homologue (mutated in 15 of 41 patients). Statistical analysis of the gene expression data in connection with survival involved exploration of regression models on small subsets of genes, based on computational search over multiple regression models with cross-validation to assess predictive validity. The analysis generated a set of regression models that, when weighted and combined according to posterior probabilities implied by the statistical analysis, identify patterns in expression of a small subset of genes that are associated with survival and have value in assessing survival risks. The dominant genes across such multiple regression models involve three key genes-SPARC (Osteonectin), Doublecortex, and Semaphorin3B-which play key roles in cellular migration processes. Additional analysis, based on statistical graphical association models constructed using similar computational analysis methods, reveals other genes which support the view that multiple mediators of tumor invasion may be important prognostic factor in glioblastomas in older patients.


I've been a part of the remodeling industry for many years. I graduated from Pennsylvania College of Technology in 1983. After that, I moved to Fredericksburg, Va., where I entered the workforce as a framing carpenter. In the '90s, subcontracting interior trim work for residential home builders became my forte. I enjoy woodworking, windsurfing, biking and hydroponic gardening. And, I'm an active member in my church, Fairview at River Club on Tidewater Trail.


For nearly twenty centuries the Western nations have been building up the notion of a separate I--of meum and tuum --and it is hard for them to accept any system which goes against those notions.
There is nothing but the SELF --using the word as Max Müller does to designate the Supreme Soul and its environment. The Aryans for the latter use the word Kosams or sheaths. So that there is only this Self and the various sheaths by which it is clothed, beginning with the most intangible and coming down to the body, while outside of that and common to all is what is commonly known as environment, whereas the word should be held to include all that is not The Self.


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Don't Mess from Texas: disturbing Privacy International report indicates Uhuruto re-election campaign bought Texas-based negative propaganda campaign (updated)
Posted on December 17, 2017 by Ken
Read the important report here: "Texas media company hired by Trump created Kenyan president's viral 'anonymous' attack campaign against rival, new investigation reveals".
I am a native Texan myself, so I do not think that Texans are less likely to understand the moral, spiritual or foreign relations repercussions of aggressive tribalist propaganda on behalf of William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta than Americans in Idaho or Arkansas, say. The problem is that the operation seems to have been conducted by a United States-based firm, staffed by Americans, orchestrating a digitized propaganda campaign directed against both Kenyan voters and those Americans such as myself and other amateur or professional "Kenya watchers" or U.S. government personnel who would conduct internet activity touching on Kenya politics and government.
The firm in question, Harris Media, based on this report but also their associated social media, seems to have affinity for what I think of as the "White Right"–the National Front, AfD, UKIP, Roy Moore, etc., aside from Trump. I have noted the Uhuruto government courting these folks in the United States over the years — I won't elaborate here but it has always troubled me as an American Southerner. Some of these people also use Christian symbolism as part of their personal branding which is that much more troubling for me.
Unfortunately the Americans involved as of this writing have not filed a Foreign Agent Registration Act registration and made the associated disclosures to the Justice Department and the American public.
The Privacy International report appears to to reveal that the American firm was an "agent for a foreign principle" in conducting a propaganda campaign for Kenyatta and Ruto's re-election, in substantial part through generating fear and loathing of the opposition. I do know that some of my friends in Washington wrongly predicted violent behavior on the part of the opposition in the context of the botched August 8 election. Could they have been influenced by this propaganda campaign, and/or by others that have not yet been uncovered by outside investigation?
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Andrew J Franklin on December 17, 2017 at 10:53 pm said:
Between the alt right ("White Right") and the Uhuruto American War On Terror crowd including serving and former US State Dept officials Kenya's 2017 General Elections were subjected to unprecedented interference and malignant neglect.
Since late August 2016 and throughout the first six months of 2017 all of the risks to conducting fair, credible and free elections were identified and reported to the US Embassy, media houses, civil society organizations, foreign missions, multilateral agencies and foreign observers; it was business as usual all around even as the Harris and CA organizations were misshaping the social media environment,
$600 million and sixteen months later the botched elections resolved nothing and Kenya's constitutional order is unravelling in plain sight. Meanwhile the malevolent influence of alt rightists not only from Texas but elsewhere in the West goes unchecked.
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Services for Steve Bolton
Steve Bolton, publisher of The Comanche Times, died Oct. 15, 2018. He was 59.
A memorial service will be held at 1:00 p.m. Monday, October 22nd, at the Comanche High School Gymnasium, 1030 Ash Ave., Comanche, Oklahoma.
The family will be receiving friends on Sunday afternoon, October 21st, from 2:00-4:00 at the Comanche Funeral Home.
Bolton was born November 3, 1958, in Marlow. He was a 1977 graduate of Marlow High School and attended Oklahoma State University.
In 1992, Bolton purchased The Comanche Times newspaper. He was the biggest and most vocal supporter of Comanche and proudly told everyone that Comanche was his adopted hometown.
He and Kelli were married on July 28, 2000, in Fort Worth, Texas. From that day forward, they were rarely apart.
Bolton was a member of the Duncan Jaycees, served on the national steering committee of the March of Dimes, and was active in the Comanche Chamber of Commerce. He also was the former chairman of the Stephens County Democratic Party and was an active member of Providence Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife Kelli, of the home; children Ben Graham and wife Holly of Fate, Texas; Veronica Graham and Brandon LeJeune of Lawton; Zach Bolton and Jonathan Bolton of Georgia; and one grandson, Cole Bennett LeJeune.
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Q: using different storage engines per partition I have a large amount of historic 'closed' rows - three months of data, likely to be one or two terabytes - and a smaller amount of high-churn 'open' rows - upto 3 days of data, but most rows are likely to transition to the 'closed' state after  just a few minutes.
Ideally I want these presented to SELECT queries as a single conceptual table.
But under the hood, I'm keen for the 'closed' rows to be partitioned by customer_id and to be aggressively compressed and so on.  For the 'open' rows, I may have to update them several times in quick succession before I finally move them to the 'closed' state.
How can I divide my data up?

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*MERGE tables seem to be myISAM only

*SPIDER and CONNECT mean multiple servers?

*PARTITION doesn't let you specify engines and compression per partition,

*and SUBPARTITION cannot be specified on a PARTITION basis?

*and 'closed' boolean would have to be in the primary key?

*if I had two tables UNIONed by a VIEW, would the query planner understand how to avoid running against all tables?

*do partitions speed up SELECTs that touch multiple partitions e.g. workers in parallel?

Or could this be done efficiently in a different DBMS instead e.g. PostgreSQL?

A: I would suggest having two separate tables, one for your archives and one for your working set. I don't think MySQL views are smart enough to optimize this.  It would also give you complete control over the schema but puts the burden on your application.

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install ubuntu alongisde osx

boot into osx and paritition the disk
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   1. applications --> utilities --> disk utility
   2. partition disk as fat

Install rEFInd
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   1. Download it
      cd ~/Downloads
      https://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/
      unzip refind-bin-0.10.8.zip

   2. Power off
   3. Hold down Command+R as the chime sounds
   4. When the OS has booted, select Utilities->Terminal
   5. cd  /Volumes/my_mac/Users/adam/Downloads/refind-bin-0.10.8
   6. sudo ./refind-install

   you should see 'Installation has completed successfully'
   when you reboot it should show refind at boot

troubleshooting
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   * mount it to efi partition
      diskutil list
      mount /dev/disk0s1        # or whatever the device and partition
      sudo ./refind-instal

   * sometimes when a new version of osx is installed you will need to repeat this process

palm detection
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you can change the sensitivity of what is considered a touch with

   $ synclient PalmMinZ=100

funny key mapping
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https://askubuntu.com/questions/530325/tilde-key-on-mac-air-with-ubuntu

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FiiO X3 Audio Player: Audiophile Quality Minus the Buyer's Remorse
January 29, 2015 Pedro Rafael Rosado	Leave a comment
Talk about sticker shock.
The most buzzed about product at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show was by far the new Sony Walkman NW-ZX2. It replaces the Japanese electronics giant's flagship media player, the ZX1, and will carry a very hefty price tag.
The retail price here in the U.S. is in the 1200 dollar range, depending on the retailer of course. Sony spared no expense in the design and hardware of the ZX2 but I can't wrap my brain around spending that kind of scratch for a portable media player. The OS is Jellybean for heaven's sake!
This is absolutely a niche product.
I KNOW there are folks out there already yelling "Shut up, Sony, and take my money" but I am not one of them. Sure, the new Walkman can play all the uncompressed and "better than CD quality" resolutions you can think of but DANG, I just can't get past the 1200 samolians.
If I'm going to enjoy a DSD master of some fantastically performed and engineered piece of music I will do it in the comfort of my home, on my Hi Fi, and NOT on a portable media player that I'll schlep with me on the subway, a plane, or connect to my car stereo. All far from ideal listening spots.
However, I wouldn't mind listening to my Apple Lossless files and FLAC files on a relatively inexpensive device that I can toss in my bag and that can power a decent pair of full sized headphones.
That's where the FiiO X3 Digital Audio Player comes in.
It sells for $199 dollars and plays back all the popular lossless formats at up to 24 bits and 192 KHz sample rates. And yes, it sounds damn good.
Every in-ear monitor and headphone played well with the X3 but for some power hungry cans you'll have to switch the gain controller to high and expect a significant hit to your battery level.
The bass response is very good and well controlled with pleasant mids and highs.
Chinese electronics manufacturers FiiO has a reputation for producing reasonably priced, high-quality audio devices that even so-called audiophiles find appealing. The X3 audio player is their mid-priced player as the X1 covers the low end and the X5 carries the flag.
Files are transferred via micro-USB interface and the X3 features 8GB of built-in memory with the option of adding up to 128 GB of additional storage with a microSD card.
The player itself has a fairly sturdy metallic shell and is small and light but I found my self wishing it sported a touch screen. Coming from the click wheel and iOS displays of the iPod, the button layout takes some getting used to.
One killer feature I especially like on the FiiO X3 is the asynchronous USB DAC functionality with PCs and Macs. I can leave my portable DAC at home, use the X3 to drive a decent set of headphones and just worry about which ones will pair to up nicely with my laptop that day.
Several companies like iRiver subsidiary Astell & Kern and QLS offer alternatives to the FiiO but none can match the pure bang for the buck quality of the FiiO X3. Oh, and before I forget, the FiiO X5 plays the same "better than CD" formats that the SONY NW-ZX2 does. For about $800 dollars less.
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PTJ 127: The SnowBound Edition
Did you honestly think a few feet of snow would keep us from recording our shenanigans for your listening pleasure? Neither rain, sleet, snow, yadda, yadda. You know the rest…
On this episode J.D. gives us a rundown on last week's big Microsoft announcement where they unveiled the Windows 10 Consumer Preview and their new Windows Holographic headset.
Of course we have a slew of the latest tech news and Pedro reviews the FiiO X3 high resolution digital music player.
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PTJ 127 News: Waze and Means
January 29, 2015 J.D. Biersdorfer	Leave a comment
Microsoft reported its quarterly earnings this week and things were better than expected, thanks to big sales in cloud computing software, Nokia Lumia phones and Surface tablets — all that primetime product placement on network television finally paid off! While this was all good news, the company's stock did drop 4 percent in after-hours trading that day, due to that big multicolored elephant in the room — Windows for the PC, which continues to lose ground in a mobile world. (Meanwhile, Apple's earnings call revealed that the company sold a ton of new iPhone 6 models and that the Apple Watch is supposed to ship in April.)
Facebook and its sister site Instagram had a major outage this week, going offline Tuesday morning for about an hour. Facebook said the faceplant was due to an internal glitch and not the Lizard Squad hacking group, which posted vague claims of responsibility on Twitter. The sites for Tinder and Hipchat were also down around the same time, but came back without incident.
The Facebook mobile app can be a bit of a space and resource hog, but the company is slimming things down for that new crop of inexpensive Android smartphones aimed at emerging markets overseas. Facebook Lite, as it's known, is less than one megabyte in size and designed to work even on slow 2G cellular connections.
The merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable still looms. While many advocates on either side of the deal have shared their views with the Federal Communications Commission, some of those views seem a little…familiar. As The Verge blog revealed after examining public records, several politicians who have sent in personally supportive letters praising Comcast's business practices were actually sending in letters ghostwritten by Comcast communications specialists. Comcast said it was just helping to provide information on the pending deal.
Google's new wireless service in partnership with Sprint and T-Mobile may let your connection bounce around between WiFi or whichever wireless carrier has the strongest signal at the time. It won't be ready for several months, though, but is said to be similar to a WiFi-heavy phone service called Freewheel from Cablevision,
Google also continues its push into high-speed fiber optic networks for residential use. In a post on the Google Fiber blog, the company announced that Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham would be joining Kansas City, Austin and Provo in the Gigabit Internet Club, which as we know, as speeds about 100 times faster than most normal broadband.
Snapchat and Twitter are trying to swim deeper in the revenue stream. Snapchat has begun to integrate content (with advertisements) from media companies like CNN, the Food Network and People magazine as part of the app's Discover section. And Twitter's blog announced this week that group Direct Messages and mobile video were rolling out. The new video feature — which is available in the Android and iOS apps — can record, edit and post short clips to your Twitter feed so all your followers can share the experience when 140 characters just aren't enough.
If you've ever used the Waze traffic app to note the location of police cars on the highway, note that officials in the Los Angeles Police Department would like to shut down that part of the program. The LAPD fear the feature could be "misused by those with criminal intent to endanger police officers and the community." No response from Waze-owner Google yet on the fate of the po-po button.
And finally, the Federal Trade Commission just released a 71-page report that says companies making smart appliances and gadgets should monitor connected devices throughout the product's entire life cycle, patch security holes, and grab the reins on how much personal data a device collects from the user. The FTC, which has filed complaints against companies before for things like lax security, also calls on Congress to pass new legislation like broader privacy protections for consumers and a National Data Breach Notification Law. Some industry think-tanks and at least two Republican lawmakers have raised issues with the report, saying basically that overregulation smothers innovation and jobs. Still, with reports of hacked baby monitors and other connencted devices becoming more frequent, forcing companies to secure their hardware and software doesn't sound like too much to ask, y'know?
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Ten Forward
Technical preview versions of Windows 10 have been out there for months and have already started to get reviews from testers, but Microsoft had a big Windows 10 event last week anyway. Part progress report and part consumer preview, the event also served as a reminder than the much-maligned Windows 8.1 is not long for this world.
One thing that got immediate attention: Microsoft announced that for the first year, Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users. Windows Phone 8 users also get the free update.
To recap previous peeks, yes, the Start Menu — or a variation thereof — is back into the system, no add-on software required. Also, instead of having the old familiar Windows Control Panel in the Desktop Mode and the colorful "Change PC Settings" world of Windows 8 off the Charms bar, Windows 10 brings all the system settings into one place.
And speaking of that frustrating hybrid of desktop and Modern UI, there's a Continuum feature that automatically switches the interface between the more desktop-y mode with floating windows to the full-screen app style of the touch interface. The Notifications Center, or Action Center, will let you adjust settings with one click.
That new streamlined "Project Spartan" browser (still a code name) has been confirmed for the Windows 10 mix. Among other things, it's got markup and a reading list function built in so you can spend more quality time with your webpages.
As previously leaked to Windows Watchers, Cortana, the voice-activated personal assistant from Windows Phone is coming to Windows 10. You can verbally command Cortona to pull up files and photos, just like those computers do in the movies. The Xbox and Windows X, er 10, are also going to be getting a lot closer.
However, it was the HoloLens headset and its gesture-based holographic projection system that got most of the attention at the Microsoft event. These augmented-reality goggles were demoed (and some journalists got to try them out) for the first time in front of an audience, and earned a number of predictable ooohs and aaahs.
Microsoft managed to cram in quite a bit into the event (check out the video supercut from The Verge to see the highlights) and the company's shift into a more nimble, less-tied-to-selling-boxed-copies-of-Windows way of life has gotten praise. But it may be the HoloLens that got developers and other techies excited about Microsoft again — after the high-tech goggles were unveiled, tickets for Microsoft's 2015 Build Conference sold out in less than an hour. Game on, Apple and Google.
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Put Your Hands in The Air and Wave Them Like You Just Want to Close an App
This is the scene that sparked my interest in gesture recognition technology. It's a clip from the mostly forgettable mid-90's Sci-Fi clunker Johnny Mnemonic adapted from a story by William Gibson. Keanu Reeves plays the title character, a man with a cybernetic brain implant designed to store data, allowing him to act as a courier of information deemed too sensitive to transfer across a souped-up virtual reality version of the Internet dubbed "The Net".
Here's a factoid for you: Dolph Lundgren played the villain and was stuck in Direct-to-video Purgatory, not acting in a film with a theatrical release until 2010's The Expendables. That's how good it was.
Nevertheless, watching Keanu hacking is way into a Yakuza account by flailing and flapping his hands and wearing totally funky fresh VR goggles absolutely blew me away. You have to understand, the Internet was a relatively new phenomenon back then—AOL ruled the landscape when this film premiered—and virtual reality was strictly a Star Trek: Next Generation plot device.
Over the next decade Hollywood blockbusters Minority Report and the Iron Man series pushed gesture technology even closer to reality by inspiring scientists and programmers who took on the challenge of creating the "spatial operating environments" and "holotables" depicted in the films.
Gesture recognition is described as interacting with computers by using gestures of the human body, typically hand movements. In gesture technology, a camera reads the movements of the human body and communicates the data to a computer that uses the gestures as input to control devices or applications.
Even onscreen the tech evolved in the few short years between releases. Tony Stark ditched the gloves John Anderton was forced to wear and was able to build his armor with barehanded computing abandon. As fanciful and mind-blowing as the gesture tech appeared on the silver screen, the introduction of gesture recognition tech to those of us living in the real world was more modest.
Hello Nintendo Wii…
The Wii console controllers and Microsoft's Kinect for the Xbox, introduced gesture tech directly into our living rooms. Now we can all gesticulate and prance about like the narcissistic billionaire arms dealer with a weak heart we were destined to be.
On a related note, Kaisernet Industries is developing its own gesture-based product. The working title is the Palm-Back V but we're open to suggestions…
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PTJ 126: Winter Is Coming? Nope, Winter Is Here.
Admit it, you want a Holotable like the one in Tony Stark's lab just as badly as El Kaiser does. Those fantastical computers Tom Cruise's character in Minority Report controlled by waving his hands are not just Hollywood movie magic.You may already have a gesture controlled interface sitting in your living room.
This week Pedro breaks down gesture recognition technology in his Tech Term and J.D. helps us prepare for the brutal winter condition witha (Hopefully) Helpful Hint.
We also have a ton of tech news and shenanigans so pop on those headphones and get ready to have some fun!
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PTJ 126 News: Dawn of a New Day
The Federal Communications Commission's new rules for Net Neutrality are scheduled for a vote on February 26th, but that has not stopped Congress from doing something in the meantime. Republican leaders put out draft legislation this week that prohibits the FCC from reclassifying broadband service as regulated public utility like radio, television and telephone, as President Obama proposed last year. The proposed bill does ban throttling or blocking, but has a "network management" loophole for the telecom companies. Several Internet activists like Free Press have already taken up the call to protest, so this issue certainly isn't going to fade into the background anytime soon.
Remember when the United States government blamed North Korea for the massive hack on Sony Pictures last year and some security experts questioned how officials could be so sure North Korea did the deed? As reported in The New York Times, it turns out that the National Security Agency itself had totally pwned, er, infiltrated North Korea's networks back in 2010 so they were familiar with some of that territory.
Closer to home, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a list of apps and services that do and do not protect you from Verizon Wireless's user-tracking perma-cookie that was discovered by researchers last fall. The ProPublica site published a story last week about how the online ad company Turn was using Verizon's tracking numbers to regenerate deleted cookies and keep tabs on the users who thought they deleted them. Once busted by ProPublica, Turn said it would suspend its use of these back-from-the-dead Zombie Cookie IDs — pending further evaluation.
Bloomberg News reports that like everybody else, Taiwanese electronics maker HTC is working on its own smartwatch, as well as a new flagship smartphone with a 20-megapixel rear camera and Dolby 5.1 audio. Both products are expected to be announced at the Mobile World Congress expo in Barcelona the first week of March.
Google Glass, which made a couple year-end lists of Biggest Flops of 2014, is getting discontinued (the original version, anyway). Microsoft, however, has Project HoloLens in the works, so people who want to compute while wearing strips of see-through plastic on their faces have a fresh new option. The company's holographic goggles will arrive around the same time as its new Windows 10 system; both got some event love this week.
One little wearables flop isn't slowing down Google, though. The company, which took out a lease from NASA last year for the historic Hangar One in California, is doing business with other space firms as well. The Big G (and Fidelity) are making a billion-dollar investment in SpaceX for a project that would use about 700 small satellites to provide Internet access to parts of the world that don't have it.
We have yet another NASA mission to follow this year. This March, the space agency's Dawn spacecraft will arrive for its assignment at Ceres, a 600-mile wide asteroid in the belt of flying space rocks between between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn, which launched in 2007, has previously orbited Vesta. The Dawn spacecraft combines state-of-the-art technologies tested by other recent space experiments with off-the-shelf components and spare parts and instrumentation left over from previous missions. The spacecraft will make a study of Ceres, which NASA considers to be a dwarf planet, and has already beamed back some images from about 238,000 miles away.
And one more NASA item of note: the agency says the Earth is due to get buzzed by an asteroid later this month. The big rock should be visible to those in the Americas, Africa and Europe the night of January 26th and the Virtual Telescope site also plans to track the asteroid starting at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time that day for those who pref to stargaze from inside the house.
Facebook wants to help you further cut down on the amount of floating garbage on your News Feed. In a company blog post this week, two Facebook staffers described an update to the News Feed mix that reduces the distribution of posted stories that have been reported as hoaxes or deleted by other users. (While this could help declutter News Feeds around Facebook, the tool does have the potential for abuse from organized campaigns to discredit, say, an environmental issue. Let's hope Facebook has thought of this, too.)
Amazon announced this week that it has plans to develop its own original theatrical films that will also be available quite early on its Amazon Prime Instant Video service. This move comes a few months after Netflix announced it was producing a sequel to the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for both IMAX theaters and its own streaming customers that will premiere this August 28th.
The new movie Blackhat opened in theaters this past weekend, and although the hacking action thrilled starring Chris Hemsworth got blown away at the box office by American Sniper, it did get a little cred from the Ars Technica site for not having completely illogical, implausible and just plain stupid technology scenes. The film's creators hired not one, but two hacking consultants. Judging by the movie's poor reception from critics, perhaps the producers should have sprung for a script consultant or two as well.
And finally, over at the University of Tübingen in Germany, a group of researchers in the area of cognitive modeling have developed an artificial intelligence system that allows the videogame character Mario the plumber to experience emotions and respond to voice commands. Mario AI is also aware of his environment, makes decisions in the game on gathered data or "learning." Yes, there's a video demonstrating the experiment. Maybe for the next experiment, the researchers can get the Angry Birds to talk through their feelings so they're not quite so outraged all the time.
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(Hopefully) Helpful Hint: Anti-Freeze
Winter has slammed into most of the United States, bringing with it the inevitable bouts of bad weather and hazardous travel. Just look at the massive ice-related highway pile-ups we've seen already this season in New York state, Michigan, Oregon — and even closer to home just this past weekend in the Philadelphia area due to a flash-freeze on the roads.
If you have a preferred weather or traffic app on your phone, this is the season to fire up those notifications because Mother Nature has a way of throwing a hissy fit and disrupting your plans. If there's a storm on the way, a highway closed or a train line suspended, odds are you'd like to know about it ahead of time, right? Most specialized apps can be configured to push out alerts to warn you of impending events, so have them ping you when something's up. Most major mobile platforms — Android, iOS and Windows Phone — let you configure notifications so you can turn them on and when you want.
On the weather side, apps include AccuWeather and Weather Undeground for most platforms, DarkSky or NOAA Weather Radar for iOS and dozens of others. Seriously, there are a ton of weather apps for every kind of phone out there and your mobile platform of choice may have even included one. Don't have a smartphone? The National Weather Service's mobile site and sign-up page for third-party email and SMS text alert services can keep you in the loop.
As for traffic and transit, popular cross-platform apps like Inrix and Waze are good sources of highway and road information. If you do have to be out driving in bad weather, make sure you have an emergency kit in the trunk. The professional winter states of Wisconsin and Minnesota have especially good advice on this topic, and you can buy pre-made collections, like the AAA's own Severe Weather Travel Kit. If you don't have one already, it's a good idea to get a car charger for your phone — just in case.
Weather emergencies can seriously affect mass-transit systems as well, and some more than others. (Seriously, have you ever tried to get around the DC Metro during a snow storm?) If you're riding the rails, the iTrans app for iOS is available for several cities and offers service alerts. There's also the Transit app for Android and iOS. If you're a New Yorker, the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority has a whole page of mobile apps for various phone platforms to check out.
Other information sources, like Google Now (if it has your commute in its list of info cards) and Twitter's emergency alerts can also be useful. And don't forget, if you're trying to fly out for a nice vacation in a warm place, get your airline's app and sign up for alerts that may affect your flight.
It's winter and in much of the country, that means the roads are a giant asphalt Slushee out there, so let's be careful. In fact, let's just stay home and watch some more Agent Carter.
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PTJ 125: CES Wrapup and iRig Reviews
The annual electronics shindig in the Nevada desert comes to a close and JD takes a look at what new products featured at CES 2015 brought us closer to a Star Trek. Also on the show, El Kaiser reviews new microphones and audio interfaces from IK Multimedia. Yes, we do discuss the latest tech news but we made this a shenanigans free episode.
Nah, just kidding! We couldn't do that if we tried…
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PTJ 125 News: Borrowers and Lenders
Forget the Drama Llama — the Irony Rhino went charging through the room this week. The same day President Barack Obama gave a big speech on the importance of, you know, cybersecurity , the Twitter and YouTube accounts for the US military's Central Command were hacked by supporters of Islamic State. Wired magazine was among those who dismissed the hack as a stunt and not a deep security breach, and some experts are theorizing that the person in charge of those social media accounts got jacked, which led to the official accounts being compromised.
Other government leaders are also concerned about security, terrorist activity and other dirty deeds done dirt cheap online. In a speech this week, United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron said he would try to ban apps like Snapchat and WhatsApp in Britain if intelligence services did not have a key to the back door. And the Federal trial of the Dread Pirate Roberts, also known as Ross Ulbrict of the Silk Road site, started this week in Lower Manhattan.
Microsoft is just not having it from Google. In a post on the Microsoft Security Response Center site, senior director Chris Betz blasted the Big G for releasing information about some Windows 8.1 bugs before Microsoft could roll out its monthly Patch Tuesday fixes. Google made the Windows cracks known in posts on its Project Zero site for security engineers, which tracks holes in Google's (and other companies') software. As an incentive for the fixing, Project Zero typically has a 90-day trigger of automatic disclosure of unpatched bugs after the vendor has been notified.
Microsoft has started the slow countdown to the official demise of Windows 7: The company's Product Lifecycle database notes that mainstream support for Windows 7 ended this week. Extended product support, which provides regular security updates, goes until January 14, 2020. (Windows 7 still has more than 50 percent of the Windows market at the moment, according to Net Applications.)
You've seen those Amber Alert notices on the news and even on electronic highway signs. Now Facebook is partnering with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to bring geographically relevant alerts to user news feeds.
The old try-before-you-buy philosophy isn't just for demoware. Luminoid.com, which rents out cameras, tablets and other gadgets, has just started a new Home Try-On program for wearable electronics. You can borrow five health and fitness tracking devices and try them all out for seven days. If you like a model, you send back the demos and buy a new one from Luminoid. If you don't buy, you just send them $20 for their lending and shipping efforts.
In iOS news, Google released a free iOS version of its Chrome Remote Desktop app this week. With the app on your iPhone or iPad, an extension to the Google Chrome browser on your computer and a Google account, you can log in and control your computer over the Internet. (An Android version of the Chrome Remote Desktop app was previously available.) And Apple is giving confused parents a hand with new age-appropriate subsections to the Games for Kids area of the App Store.
Although unmanned drones are mostly banned for commercial use, CNN has worked out an agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration that would let the channel test camera equipped drones for video journalism and news-gathering. Several media companies have previously complained about the FAA's ban on drones saying it restricts the First Amendment rights of journalists to gather news. The FAA is currently working on a new set of drone rules, so stay tuned — maybe the drone rules will land before the Federal Communications Commission gets its Net Neutrality ducks in a row.
If you've ever dreamed of having your own personal robot, there's a Kickstarter campaign awaiting you. A startup called Robotbase is gathering funds for a product called Personal Robot, which looks to be the artificial intelligence of personal assistant software married to a motorized robotic rolling platform. As Sam Maggs over on The Mary Sue blog points out in her post titled "Now You Can Have Your Very Own A.I. Personal Robot Lady Friend," the Cylon race also started out as robot butlers in the Caprica series.
And finally, the New York Public Library is leading out more than just books and videos. As part of the new Library HotSpot program, that fine institution is also making 10,000 free Wi-Fi hot spots available for six-month loans to families who have no broadband access at home. The Library HotSpot project is also receiving major support from Google, the Knight News Challenge, Open Society Foundations and New York's Robin Hood Foundation. Both the nonprofit Internet access company Mobile Beacon and Sprint are working to get the hot spot hardware distributed to library branches around the five boroughs. And remember hot-spot recipients: security.
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