The Aurora teacher accused of hitting an East High School student with her car and driving off is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.
Reported by Denver Post 2 days ago.
Aurora teacher accused in hit-and-run expected in court
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Media Advisory: Registration Is Open for the 2013 Colorado Women Veterans Conference
The Women Veterans of Colorado and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will co-host the 3rd Annual Colorado Women Veterans Conference at The Potter’s House-Denver in Aurora, CO, on Saturday September 14, 2013, starting at 8:00 a.m.
Aurora, CO (PRWEB) August 06, 2013
The Women Veterans of Colorado and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will co-host the 3rd Annual Colorado Women Veterans Conference at The Potter’s House-Denver in Aurora, CO, on Saturday September 14, 2013, starting at 8:00 a.m. This year’s theme is "Moving Forward: Transition, Education and Employment."
WHO: Women Military Veterans
WHAT: 3rd Annual Colorado Women Veterans Conference
WHERE: The Potter's House-Denver in Aurora, Colorado (9495 E. Florida Ave., Aurora, CO 80427)
WHEN: Saturday, September 14, 2013 from 8:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Key Note Speaker: Mary Miller, Colonel, US Army (Ret)
CLICK HERE for event details and registration information.
For more information on this media advisory, please contact Rebecca Sawyer Smith, 303-914-5984, Rebecca(dot)smith1(at)va(dot)gov, or Brenda Smull, 303-301-4429, Brenda(at)vfwpost1(dot)org. Reported by PRWeb 1 day ago.
Aurora, CO (PRWEB) August 06, 2013
The Women Veterans of Colorado and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will co-host the 3rd Annual Colorado Women Veterans Conference at The Potter’s House-Denver in Aurora, CO, on Saturday September 14, 2013, starting at 8:00 a.m. This year’s theme is "Moving Forward: Transition, Education and Employment."
WHO: Women Military Veterans
WHAT: 3rd Annual Colorado Women Veterans Conference
WHERE: The Potter's House-Denver in Aurora, Colorado (9495 E. Florida Ave., Aurora, CO 80427)
WHEN: Saturday, September 14, 2013 from 8:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Key Note Speaker: Mary Miller, Colonel, US Army (Ret)
CLICK HERE for event details and registration information.
For more information on this media advisory, please contact Rebecca Sawyer Smith, 303-914-5984, Rebecca(dot)smith1(at)va(dot)gov, or Brenda Smull, 303-301-4429, Brenda(at)vfwpost1(dot)org. Reported by PRWeb 1 day ago.
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The Luxury Train Club Announces Its Holiday Programme of Christmas and New Year Journeys
The Luxury Train Club has announced details of its wide range of luxury train journeys and rail holidays over the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Chippenham, Wiltshire (PRWEB) August 06, 2013
The Luxury Train Club has announced details of its wide range of luxury train journeys and rail holidays over the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Members of the Club (it’s free to join; simply subscribe to the newsletter) benefit from discounts on all the featured journeys on the website, as well as a thank-you gift for each booking. Club offers are in addition to any available from the trains.
The Calendar of Luxury Train Journeys is a useful tool for planning holidays on luxury trains. It shows there are 10 luxury rail holidays underway on Christmas Day, and 7 luxury trains running overnight at the New Year.
Some journeys are day trips, such as on the Orient Express British Pullman or Northern Belle in the UK, or the Majestic Train de Luxe in Austria. The British Pullman is running Christmas luncheon specials from London, as well as going to English cities for Christmas carols, whilst the Northern Belle has a programme of Christmas lunches across England and a New Year Dinner.
The Majestic Train de Luxe has a journey to an Austrian Christmas market in a castle in the mountains, as well as a New Year spectacular – celebrate while circling Vienna, dancing on board to live music.
Rail holidays are operating all around the globe, such as the Northern Lights Voyage, that incorporates St. Petersburg, the Aurora Borealis, Christmas and New Year; the expected Solar Maximum will add intensity to the display of northern lights when the train is in the Murmansk region.
The Eastern & Oriental Express, from the Orient Express stable, has a New Year journey from Singapore to Bangkok. The 4-night special itinerary has a mix of formal dining - a sublime New Year’s Dinner - with a beach party clad in sarongs and flip-flops, featuring live music, champagne and fireworks.
A gift idea for Christmas - the Club offers Ticket To Ride travel vouchers, available to members, which are valid for any luxury train journey listed on the Club website.
Simon Pielow, of the Luxury Train Club, says “The Luxury Train Club has some great options for the holidays whether as day trips or multi-day rail cruises - a pre-Christmas journey to introduce the festivities, a special New Year experience or a luxury get-away holiday.”
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About the Luxury Train Club:
Contact: Simon Pielow, http://www.luxurytrainclub.com, infoATluxurytrainclub.com, +44 (0)1249 890 205
The Club website has details of offers from trains around the world, including Early Bird Booking Offers, some specifically for Members.
MEMBER BENEFITS
Discounts:
· 2.5% discount off the price of any journey on the Club website
· Additional 2.5% for more than one booking, valid for new reservations made between 20 June – 30 September 2013;
· Discounts are per suite and may be applied on final or full payment.
· Club discounts are in addition to offers from the train companies.
Thank You Gift – the Club values every booking made by a member, sending a thank-you gift, which varies from time to time, to the leading passenger for every reservation. Current gifts include one of the following:
· Gift from Osprey London, something from their range of small leather goods;
· Gift from Noble Isles, a travel item from their range of bath and body products;
The Calendar of Luxury Train Journeys is a useful resource, unique on the web. It is linked from every train information page. Reported by PRWeb 1 day ago.
Chippenham, Wiltshire (PRWEB) August 06, 2013
The Luxury Train Club has announced details of its wide range of luxury train journeys and rail holidays over the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Members of the Club (it’s free to join; simply subscribe to the newsletter) benefit from discounts on all the featured journeys on the website, as well as a thank-you gift for each booking. Club offers are in addition to any available from the trains.
The Calendar of Luxury Train Journeys is a useful tool for planning holidays on luxury trains. It shows there are 10 luxury rail holidays underway on Christmas Day, and 7 luxury trains running overnight at the New Year.
Some journeys are day trips, such as on the Orient Express British Pullman or Northern Belle in the UK, or the Majestic Train de Luxe in Austria. The British Pullman is running Christmas luncheon specials from London, as well as going to English cities for Christmas carols, whilst the Northern Belle has a programme of Christmas lunches across England and a New Year Dinner.
The Majestic Train de Luxe has a journey to an Austrian Christmas market in a castle in the mountains, as well as a New Year spectacular – celebrate while circling Vienna, dancing on board to live music.
Rail holidays are operating all around the globe, such as the Northern Lights Voyage, that incorporates St. Petersburg, the Aurora Borealis, Christmas and New Year; the expected Solar Maximum will add intensity to the display of northern lights when the train is in the Murmansk region.
The Eastern & Oriental Express, from the Orient Express stable, has a New Year journey from Singapore to Bangkok. The 4-night special itinerary has a mix of formal dining - a sublime New Year’s Dinner - with a beach party clad in sarongs and flip-flops, featuring live music, champagne and fireworks.
A gift idea for Christmas - the Club offers Ticket To Ride travel vouchers, available to members, which are valid for any luxury train journey listed on the Club website.
Simon Pielow, of the Luxury Train Club, says “The Luxury Train Club has some great options for the holidays whether as day trips or multi-day rail cruises - a pre-Christmas journey to introduce the festivities, a special New Year experience or a luxury get-away holiday.”
ENDS
About the Luxury Train Club:
Contact: Simon Pielow, http://www.luxurytrainclub.com, infoATluxurytrainclub.com, +44 (0)1249 890 205
The Club website has details of offers from trains around the world, including Early Bird Booking Offers, some specifically for Members.
MEMBER BENEFITS
Discounts:
· 2.5% discount off the price of any journey on the Club website
· Additional 2.5% for more than one booking, valid for new reservations made between 20 June – 30 September 2013;
· Discounts are per suite and may be applied on final or full payment.
· Club discounts are in addition to offers from the train companies.
Thank You Gift – the Club values every booking made by a member, sending a thank-you gift, which varies from time to time, to the leading passenger for every reservation. Current gifts include one of the following:
· Gift from Osprey London, something from their range of small leather goods;
· Gift from Noble Isles, a travel item from their range of bath and body products;
The Calendar of Luxury Train Journeys is a useful resource, unique on the web. It is linked from every train information page. Reported by PRWeb 1 day ago.
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McAuliffe: 'Gun Violence Going Down' is 'Not the Issue'
Virgnia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McCauliffe did not want to tell reporters if he supports the passage of an "assault weapons" ban (AWB) in the commonwealth of Virginia. When asked by Breitbart News, he replied, "What I said in Virginia, what we ought to do--and I'm a strong supporter of the second amendment--I'm a gun owner. I take two of my sons hunting and skeet shooting. I think there are reasonable things we can do."
When asked what those things would be, McCauliffe only mentioned background checks.
"I think that anyone that purchases a gun should have a background check. I've gone through it myself. It's a very simple process. It only takes a couple of minutes to do it. There are certain people that should not own guns and with all the issues we've had, and the comparison of Newtown and Aurora, and gun violence going down--that's not the issue. I think I speak for every Virginia parent, when you drive your child off to school, you want to know that your child is going to be safe. And I think a practical, mainstream idea is that anyone who purchases a gun should go through a background check. I think that's reasonable. That's my opinion."
The National Rifle Association has given McCauliffe an "F" rating and endorsed his Republican opponent Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, to whom it gave an "A" rating. McCauliffe did not answer the NRA's state candidate questionnaire. The NRA called McCauliffe's refusal to do so a "sign of indifference if not outright hostility to the rights of gun owners and sportsmen."
In January of 2013, the Washington Examiner reported that McCauliffe, the former Democratic National Committee Chair, bought his first firearm. McCauliffe reiterated his support for the Assault Weapons Ban and his commitment to roll back pro-gun legislation that would reinstate Virgnia's one gun a month law.
After the shootings, McAuliffe issued a statement calling for a new assault-weapons ban, a rule to curb gun purchases by Virginians to one gun a month and a closer look at the mental health of gun buyers. "First, we must prioritize the diagnosis, treatment, and awareness of mental health issues by recognizing that individuals with psychological and emotional disorders need our help instead of stigmatization. Second, I've said in the past and I continue to believe that there are mainstream restrictions on dangerous weapons that we can agree on including: renewal of the Assault Weapons Ban, passage of bipartisan legislation to strengthen background checks, and re-implementation of Virginia's one-gun-a-month rule," he said.
The NRA notes that McCauliffe also supports a ban on commonly owned semi-automatic firearms and standard capacity magazines. The NRA says McCauliffe wants to criminalize private firearms transfers. The transfer ban McCauliffe wants, according to the NRA, would include between friends and family members.
When asked again if he would support AWB legislation in Virginia McCauliffe said, "What I have always said is as governor, what I would like to get done is to have background checks. That would be my first important step in that process."
Reported by Breitbart 22 hours ago.
When asked what those things would be, McCauliffe only mentioned background checks.
"I think that anyone that purchases a gun should have a background check. I've gone through it myself. It's a very simple process. It only takes a couple of minutes to do it. There are certain people that should not own guns and with all the issues we've had, and the comparison of Newtown and Aurora, and gun violence going down--that's not the issue. I think I speak for every Virginia parent, when you drive your child off to school, you want to know that your child is going to be safe. And I think a practical, mainstream idea is that anyone who purchases a gun should go through a background check. I think that's reasonable. That's my opinion."
The National Rifle Association has given McCauliffe an "F" rating and endorsed his Republican opponent Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, to whom it gave an "A" rating. McCauliffe did not answer the NRA's state candidate questionnaire. The NRA called McCauliffe's refusal to do so a "sign of indifference if not outright hostility to the rights of gun owners and sportsmen."
In January of 2013, the Washington Examiner reported that McCauliffe, the former Democratic National Committee Chair, bought his first firearm. McCauliffe reiterated his support for the Assault Weapons Ban and his commitment to roll back pro-gun legislation that would reinstate Virgnia's one gun a month law.
After the shootings, McAuliffe issued a statement calling for a new assault-weapons ban, a rule to curb gun purchases by Virginians to one gun a month and a closer look at the mental health of gun buyers. "First, we must prioritize the diagnosis, treatment, and awareness of mental health issues by recognizing that individuals with psychological and emotional disorders need our help instead of stigmatization. Second, I've said in the past and I continue to believe that there are mainstream restrictions on dangerous weapons that we can agree on including: renewal of the Assault Weapons Ban, passage of bipartisan legislation to strengthen background checks, and re-implementation of Virginia's one-gun-a-month rule," he said.
The NRA notes that McCauliffe also supports a ban on commonly owned semi-automatic firearms and standard capacity magazines. The NRA says McCauliffe wants to criminalize private firearms transfers. The transfer ban McCauliffe wants, according to the NRA, would include between friends and family members.
When asked again if he would support AWB legislation in Virginia McCauliffe said, "What I have always said is as governor, what I would like to get done is to have background checks. That would be my first important step in that process."
Reported by Breitbart 22 hours ago.
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Origin Stories: Steve Sande
I certainly didn't start my career with plans to become a blogger and editor at one of the world's most active Apple websites. When I was a child dreaming about a future career path, computer science barely registered on the "What I want to do when I grow up" list since only corporations owned room-sized mainframes at that time and there was no such thing as a home computer.The first time I had any physical contact with a computer was in 8th grade in Aurora, Colorado in the Apollo moon landing year of 1969. The Aurora Public Schools had purchased a Data General Nova (see console photo of a similar model at top of this post) in that year for accounting and scheduling purposes, and some brilliant person came up with the idea of buying some Teletypes that could be used as dialup terminals to allow personnel at the schools to access the main computer remotely.
Well, the administrators and teachers at the school weren't all that interested in computers, so guess who started using the Teletypes and Nova to learn how to program in BASIC? The students. Since they wouldn't let us save our programs to paper tape (that would come in about two or three years), any programs we ran were usually quite short out of necessity - we'd type 'em in, run them, try to figure out what the TOO MANY NESTED GOSUBS error meant, and then start all over again. It was fun, but frustrating with no real way to store the programs permanently.
In 9th and 10th grade, I was only able to play rarely with the Nova or whatever computer they may have purchased as an upgrade. But when the school announced in 11th grade that the regular algebra class would also be offered in a "computer algebra" version providing access to the school system's minicomputer, I jumped on the opportunity to have a full semester of working with ... the future!
Things were a little better at that point. We could save our programs out on paper tape, kind of the "floppy disk" of the era. I think part of the reason we wanted to save to paper tape was that the tape punch created some very good confetti for high school football games...
About this time I became very interested in two things; transportation engineering and writing. I had a wonderful high school English teacher by the name of David Faull (still alive and kicking) who really taught me how to write, something I'd need to do in college in those pesky elective courses. I had decided to go into Civil Engineering, and was accepted at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Every engineering student at the time had to take an introductory computer class - CS 101 - in which they were introduced to two things: punch card input and FORTRAN IV. There was nothing worse than sitting down at a keypunch machine with a handwritten FORTRAN coding form, typing in several hundred cards, all of which needed to be read by a machine in order and without typos for your program to run. I can recall hearing of several computer science grad students who had nearly committed suicide after having ultra-long programs scattered to the wind when they accidentally dropped boxes of punch cards...
One of my best high school buddies, Rick Brownson, was a student at CU at the same time in the Electrical Engineering department, and I recall that in 1976 he introduced me to an amazing game -- Lunar Lander -- that displayed vector graphics in real time onto a round green-screen terminal. We wasted many a weekend hour playing that game in one of the EE computer labs. Rick also introduced me to the nascent world of personal computing around that time, as he and I soldered chips into a MITS Altair 8800 kit in late 1975.
I really wasn't all that impressed with the Altair, since when we finished it there was no way for us to connect it to a display (usually an old TV), and we had no keyboard for it. So we flipped switches on the front of the device to enter 8080 opcodes and then looked at the LEDs to see the results. I remember taking a weekend drive to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1976 to go to a Altair convention of some sorts; the highlight was getting a pirated copy of Bill Gates' Altair BASIC on paper tape from another attendee.
At the time I graduated from engineering school in 1978, word was getting out about Apple, but at the time I really didn't see any reason to buy a computer. Even while I was working in my first job and going to grad school, I refused to buy a computer. When I was able to get a Commodore VIC-20 for about $300 I bought one, then when Commodore reduced the price on the C-64 to about $250 the next week, I returned the VIC-20, got a refund, and picked up a Commodore 64.
After a short amount of time I found myself hooked. I bought an Epson printer, got the cassette tape drive, and bought the height of communications technology at the time - a 300 baud modem. I quickly found myself on some of the early bulletin board systems of the time.
But the Commodore 64 wasn't a "real computer", so when IBM compatible devices started hitting the market I went out and bought a Sanyo MBC-555 PC clone complete with two floppy drives (a Sanyo MBC-550 with only one floppy is shown below)! This is where I got my first introduction to business software, with WordStar as a word processor and CalcStar as a spreadsheet.
At this time, I was working for a natural gas pipeline company called WestGas. The company was a subsidiary of a larger electric and gas utility (Public Service Company of Colorado, now part of Xcel Energy), and as a subsidiary we had of control over our destiny. In the fall of 1983, the Vice President of our company came to me to see if I would perform a study of possible uses for personal computers in our company and create a five-year plan to budget the introduction of those devices, so I jumped to the task.
Everything was based on costs and benefits, and a calculated rate of return on the investment in IT. In retrospect, a lot of my numbers were probably quite suspect, as they were based on estimates of time savings that most likely never occurred... The final study saw a need for no more than about 15 PCs over the next five years as well as a handful of dedicated IBM DisplayWriter word processors.
About the time that my study was completed, there was a lot of speculation in the computer world about Apple's forthcoming Macintosh. I was interested in seeing one, so a few days after they were introduced my boss and I went over to a Nynex Business Center store to take a look. While the mouse, the bitmapped display, and the 3.5" floppy drive were all amazing, the lack of memory (128K) was a real turnoff. Still, I felt as if I had seen the future, and I vowed to get myself a Mac if they ever built a model with more RAM.
Towards the end of the year Apple introduced the 512K "Fat Mac", and the company was doing a "Test Drive A Mac" promotion where you filled out loan paperwork, took a Mac home to use for about three days, and if you decided you wanted to keep it they processed the loan. Having the Mac at home really made me fall in love with it, so in December of 1984 I bought my first Mac.
Being enthralled with the Mac, I started lugging it with me to work. By this point I was the supervisor of a group called "Special Projects", and my team was charged with a number of things: regulatory compliance, studies, project management, and now IT. Pretty quickly, my co-workers got began to turn into Mac fans, and I started tweaking the five year plan to buy fewer PCs and more Macs.
I was also going to a lot of Mac User Group meetings in those days; that was the place to really try out software, as most everyone would bring boxes of floppies as well as the original disks for new applications they had purchased. Copying was rampant, but I don't remember anyone doing outright pirating; if you tried a program and liked it, you'd end up buying it.
That was the case for me in 1985 when I tried out a copy of Aldus Pagemaker (the first "professional" page layout application) and then bought the application. At one point, I bragged to our financial manager that I could use the app to lay out our subsidiary's annual report at a much lower cost than sending it out to a traditional printshop; he called my bluff and for the next month I worked with the very buggy 1.0 software to create the report. In the end, I was successful and the finance department decided to get Macs for everyone.
In a few more years, the engineering role ended for me and I was a full-time IT manager. Starting in 1987 and through 1994, I attended Macworld Expo in San Francisco. From about 1990 to 1994, I also went to the Apple WorldWide Developer Conference, which was held in San Jose at that point. These were the years of trying to get a new Mac OS off the ground, the intro of the Newton MessagePad, the MPW vs. CodeWarrior battles, and extremely boring keynotes by such luminaries as Michael Spindler and Gil Amelio.
I also spent a lot of time using Pagemaker to create printed newsletters for WestGas and for a number of groups I was a member of. While that was a bit of work that I never really ended up getting paid for, it taught me a lot about design, layout, printing, and writing.
From 1986 to 1994, I also ran a Mac bulletin board system known as MAGIC (Mac And [Apple II] GS Information Center). This started off on my original Mac 512, and by the time I quit running the BBS and moved to a website, it was a three-phone-line setup running on two networked Macs Including my favorite Mac of all time, a Mac IIcx. The BBS was the "official site" for the MacinTech Users Group, a MUG that's still going strong to this day.
My first website was PDAntic.com, a play on John Sculley's acronym for the Newton - Personal Digital Assistant - and the fact that my wife often refers to me as being pedantic. I chose to run the site with news posts written in a reverse chronological order, which means that I was essentially doing blogging in 1994! I was doing some half-hearted development for the Newton at the time, and still have a working MessagePad 2100.
1995 was the start of a bad period for me personally - our pipeline company was swallowed back into our parent company, and then all of us who had any dealings in information technology were outsourced to IBM's ISSC services group (later IBM Global Services). While I won't go into details, it was the worst part of my career, with incompetent and occasionally unethical managers, a strategy that consisted of trying to do more and more work with fewer employees (with predictable bad results), and the most demoralized staff I've ever seen. I survived for nine years, after which I chose to go out on my own. At the beginning of my time with IBM our client (the company I worked for) had a total of over 1,200 Macs company-wide; by the time I left we were down to a handful in the corporate communications department. One of my first IBM projects in 1996 was to move all of the Mac users to Windows 95 -- I should have quit when I was ordered to do that.
One bright spot during the years 1999 through 2006 was my participation in a number of Microsoft's Mobius conferences. These were meetings of those of us who ran mobile-oriented websites, with Microsoft showing off concepts and picking our brains for ideas about UI, built-in applications, and the direction of the mobile world. I also met a number of the top bloggers in the mobile space, including Ryan Block and Peter Rojas, who were both instrumental in starting up Engadget. Peter was one of the co-founders of Weblogs, Inc., the blog network that TUAW was a part of before being purchased by our current owner -- AOL.
In 2005 I started my own consulting firm, Raven Solutions, to do Mac consulting and support. I became a member of the Apple Consultant Network (ACN), which helped my business to grow quite quickly. I also started writing books at about this time, creating a book called "Take Control of your iPod: Beyond the Music" that is still for sale from Adam and Tonya Engst's Take Control Books.
One top moment about this time was seeing Steve Jobs introduce the iPhone at the 2007 Macworld Expo. That was something I'll never forget, and I have a Nitrozac painting of the event within my field of view in my office.
In late 2007 I was on a weekend trip to Vegas with my wife when a friend pointed out that one of my favorite Apple sites -- TUAW -- was accepting applications for freelance writers. I turned in my requisite three sample articles, but didn't hear anything ... until April of 2008. I was on a business trip when I received a call from former TUAWite Scott McNulty, who wondered if I was still interested in being a TUAW blogger. He gave me a test that I remember quite well; I had one hour (sitting in an airport waiting for a flight) to write a news post about a new and completely hypothetical Apple product. I zapped it to him via email with time to spare and was offered the job.
Since that time I've become a full-time employee of TUAW parent company AOL, I've met thousands of TUAW readers at Macworld/iWorld and other events, written a number of books (many with fellow TUAW blogger Erica Sadun), and published almost 1.8 million words of blog posts. I love sharing time with TUAW fans every Wednesday afternoon on TUAW TV Live, as well as delivering the daily Apple news on the Daily Update podcast. And when I get to join with my teammates for one of the Sunday night Talkcasts, that's like getting together with family.
The only way to describe my life right now is as "blessed." I work with a great team of professionals doing what I love to do the most, writing about a company that has had such a huge effect on the course of my career and my life. I don't know how long this ride will last, but I sincerely hope it's for a long, long time.
Origin Stories: Steve Sande originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Armed robber of Aurora theater sentenced to 102 years in prison
A man who robbed an Aurora movie theater in January 2012 was sentenced to 102 years in prison on Friday, according to a news release from the 18th Judicial District Attorney's Office.
Reported by Denver Post 18 hours ago.
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Meet Local Police, Firefighters on National Night Out
Patch Montgomery, IL --Montgomery, Sugar Grove, Oswego Bristol Kendall and Aurora Township firefighters will greet residents across the area. Reported by Patch 17 hours ago.
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Body Recovered From Fox River in Downtown Aurora
Patch Oswego, IL --The body of a 50-year-old man was found in the Fox River near Hollywood Casino, according to reports by The Beacon-News and the Chicago Tribune. Reported by Patch 12 hours ago.
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Lawyers for James Holmes can test Aurora theater shooting evidence
Lawyers for James Holmes will be able independently to inspect all the physical evidence collected in the Aurora movie theater shooting case, but they'll have to follow strict conditions, according to a judge's order issued Tuesday.
Reported by Denver Post 13 hours ago.
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DBJ Special Report: GE pulls the plug on Aurora solar plant
In 2011, Colorado officials and General Electric Co. announced with much fanfare that Aurora would be the site of a new GE manufacturing plant for thin-film solar-power panels, the nation's largest, employing hundreds. Colorado beat out several other states to win the factory. But on Aug. 6, 2013, GE said it was canceling plans for the facility. Here is a roundup of DBJ coverage. Most recent articles appear first. 2013 > Aug. 6 GE abandons plans for Aurora solar plant 2012 > July 13: GE puts…
Reported by bizjournals 12 hours ago.
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GE scraps nations largest solar panel plant
AURORA, Colo.
Reported by MyNorthwest.com 13 hours ago.
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GE scraps nation's largest solar panel plant
AURORA, Colo.—General Electric Co. is permanently scrapping plans to build the largest solar factory in the U.S. near Denver.
Reported by TwinCities.com 12 hours ago.
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Montgomery Man Charged in Mill Street Stabbing
Patch Montgomery, IL --Victim was a 43-year-old Aurora resident. Reported by Patch 11 hours ago.
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Many questions surrounding Aurora mayor's desire for a police monitor
AURORA — Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan's proposal to create an independent police monitor received a cool reception Tuesday from a City Council committee.
Reported by Denver Post 10 hours ago.
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Longmont police capture suspect after car crash in Aurora
A multiple-month narcotics investigation took a turn in Aurora Tuesday night when a suspected drug dealer crashed into several cars before he was arrested.
Reported by Denver Post 7 hours ago.
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New Firefox 26 Arrives on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS
Mozilla has just made the first Alpha release in the Firefox 26.x branch available for download and testing. The Mozilla Firefox 26.x branch is called Aurora and it's considered to incorporate all the new features and changes available for the browser. The Linux binaries for Mozilla Firefox 26.0 Alpha 1 have been released and you can download and run them now, without having to install anything. There is no information about what specific features have be...
Reported by Softpedia 3 hours ago.
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Sikhs fight vs. gun violence
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Vigil at Sikh temple one year after murders brings people from all faiths hurt by gun violence Valarie Kaur: Most people know Aurora or Newtown
Reported by CapitalBay 22 hours ago.
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SurveyMy Maximizes Mobile Feedback with Confirmit
Lifestyle studies provide unique insight into consumer trends in Southeast Asia.
New York, NY and Oslo, Norway and London, UK (PRWEB) August 07, 2013
Confirmit, the leading global solutions provider for Customer Experience, Employee Engagement and Market Research is pleased to announce that SurveyMy, one of the leading online and mobile Market Research companies working across Asia Pacific, is spearheading the use of Confirmit’s customizable mobile research solutions to build in-depth profiles of consumer life in the region.
SurveyMy has successfully completed a series of lifestyle studies in Myanmar, Vietnam, China, Indonesia and most recently in Cambodia. The company uses the Confirmit Mobile app, based on Confirmit’s SODA solution, to gather multimedia images and sounds that document consumer buying preferences, living and working conditions. In highly targeted samples of 10-15 people, respondents either use personal smartphones or tablets, or mobile devices provided by the panel as an incentive, to complete a daily diary. They answer short 15 question surveys, carry out demonstrations and photograph main living spaces or favorite objects in the home that make them particularly happy.
Established in 2009 by a group of online fieldwork experts, SurveyMy has more than 10 years experience in building online panels in Asia Pacific and regards itself as a pioneer in the implementation and use of Confirmit for online surveys and mobile surveys in the region.
Mizuno Toshisada, Managing Partner at SurveyMy, explains: “Southeast Asia is a hugely diverse geographical area, with many different cultures, customers, political and social ecosystems. As a result it is extremely difficult to build a picture of lifestyle drivers and choices, and for brands to identify the best way to market products and services in this region. The ability to carry out lifestyle studies in the format of a multimedia diary that also uses GPS to gather location-based data to map critical variations in geographical data is very important. It has dramatically improved our ability to capture relevant and immediate ‘in the moment’ data. We are able to create highly accurate, real-time profiles of consumer buying habits which are extremely useful for brands that want to increase their presence in the area.”
“Confirmit’s mobile solution has enabled us to solve very specific Market Research challenges and, quite simply, our decision to invest in Confirmit was the only logical choice to make,” he adds.
Confirmit’s support for more than 17 languages on the Confirmit Mobile app – specifically the availability of Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese and Malay - was a huge advantage and something that other mobile solutions could not match. The breadth of mobile phone operating systems supported was also vital. Android, iOS, Symbian and Windows smartphones are growing in popularity in the area but the market for Blackberry is still very strong in Indonesia so the ability to offer surveys in a multi-OS environment was essential.
Since the internet connection is not reliable across all territories in Southeast Asia, the mobile environment and support for offline access to the Confirmit Mobile app, enables lifestyle diaries to be completed anytime, anywhere. Respondents can successfully answer a questionnaire, regardless of any disruptions to internet connection, which has improved respondent experience and increased response rates.
“Confirmit is a reliable and proven Market Research solution that is recognized and used by the major Market Research companies around the world. Our online and mobile surveys benefit from the combination of this market-leading solution and our experienced team of multi-lingual programmers who have in-depth knowledge of Confirmit. We expect this winning combination to lead to continued growth and success for SurveyMy in Southeast Asia and in Myanmar and Indonesia in particular,” says Mizuno.
Dave King, Executive Vice President of Mobile Solutions at Confirmit added: “There is no doubt that the mobile channel has the potential to dramatically increase the speed, accuracy and depth of ‘in the moment’ feedback from previously hard to reach demographics or geographical regions. We are delighted to be supporting SurveyMy with its deployment of such dynamic and illuminating online and mobile lifestyle studies.”
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About Confirmit
Confirmit is the world’s leading SaaS vendor for multichannel Voice of the Customer, Employee Feedback, and Market Research applications. The company has offices in Oslo (headquarters), Cologne, Guildford, London, Moscow, New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, and Yaroslavl. Confirmit's software is also distributed through partner resellers in Madrid, Milan, Salvador, Sydney, and Tokyo.
Confirmit targets Global 5000 companies and Market Research agencies worldwide with a wide range of software products for feedback / data collection, panel management, data processing, analysis, and reporting. Customers include A&N Media, Aurora, British Airways, Cross-Tab, Dow Chemical, Farmers Insurance, GfK, GlaxoSmithKline, GMO Research, JTN Research, Keep Factor, Morehead Associates, Nielsen, Research Now, Swapit, Swisscom, Symantec and The Wellcome Trust. Visit http://www.confirmit.com for more information. Reported by PRWeb 23 hours ago.
New York, NY and Oslo, Norway and London, UK (PRWEB) August 07, 2013
Confirmit, the leading global solutions provider for Customer Experience, Employee Engagement and Market Research is pleased to announce that SurveyMy, one of the leading online and mobile Market Research companies working across Asia Pacific, is spearheading the use of Confirmit’s customizable mobile research solutions to build in-depth profiles of consumer life in the region.
SurveyMy has successfully completed a series of lifestyle studies in Myanmar, Vietnam, China, Indonesia and most recently in Cambodia. The company uses the Confirmit Mobile app, based on Confirmit’s SODA solution, to gather multimedia images and sounds that document consumer buying preferences, living and working conditions. In highly targeted samples of 10-15 people, respondents either use personal smartphones or tablets, or mobile devices provided by the panel as an incentive, to complete a daily diary. They answer short 15 question surveys, carry out demonstrations and photograph main living spaces or favorite objects in the home that make them particularly happy.
Established in 2009 by a group of online fieldwork experts, SurveyMy has more than 10 years experience in building online panels in Asia Pacific and regards itself as a pioneer in the implementation and use of Confirmit for online surveys and mobile surveys in the region.
Mizuno Toshisada, Managing Partner at SurveyMy, explains: “Southeast Asia is a hugely diverse geographical area, with many different cultures, customers, political and social ecosystems. As a result it is extremely difficult to build a picture of lifestyle drivers and choices, and for brands to identify the best way to market products and services in this region. The ability to carry out lifestyle studies in the format of a multimedia diary that also uses GPS to gather location-based data to map critical variations in geographical data is very important. It has dramatically improved our ability to capture relevant and immediate ‘in the moment’ data. We are able to create highly accurate, real-time profiles of consumer buying habits which are extremely useful for brands that want to increase their presence in the area.”
“Confirmit’s mobile solution has enabled us to solve very specific Market Research challenges and, quite simply, our decision to invest in Confirmit was the only logical choice to make,” he adds.
Confirmit’s support for more than 17 languages on the Confirmit Mobile app – specifically the availability of Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese and Malay - was a huge advantage and something that other mobile solutions could not match. The breadth of mobile phone operating systems supported was also vital. Android, iOS, Symbian and Windows smartphones are growing in popularity in the area but the market for Blackberry is still very strong in Indonesia so the ability to offer surveys in a multi-OS environment was essential.
Since the internet connection is not reliable across all territories in Southeast Asia, the mobile environment and support for offline access to the Confirmit Mobile app, enables lifestyle diaries to be completed anytime, anywhere. Respondents can successfully answer a questionnaire, regardless of any disruptions to internet connection, which has improved respondent experience and increased response rates.
“Confirmit is a reliable and proven Market Research solution that is recognized and used by the major Market Research companies around the world. Our online and mobile surveys benefit from the combination of this market-leading solution and our experienced team of multi-lingual programmers who have in-depth knowledge of Confirmit. We expect this winning combination to lead to continued growth and success for SurveyMy in Southeast Asia and in Myanmar and Indonesia in particular,” says Mizuno.
Dave King, Executive Vice President of Mobile Solutions at Confirmit added: “There is no doubt that the mobile channel has the potential to dramatically increase the speed, accuracy and depth of ‘in the moment’ feedback from previously hard to reach demographics or geographical regions. We are delighted to be supporting SurveyMy with its deployment of such dynamic and illuminating online and mobile lifestyle studies.”
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About Confirmit
Confirmit is the world’s leading SaaS vendor for multichannel Voice of the Customer, Employee Feedback, and Market Research applications. The company has offices in Oslo (headquarters), Cologne, Guildford, London, Moscow, New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, and Yaroslavl. Confirmit's software is also distributed through partner resellers in Madrid, Milan, Salvador, Sydney, and Tokyo.
Confirmit targets Global 5000 companies and Market Research agencies worldwide with a wide range of software products for feedback / data collection, panel management, data processing, analysis, and reporting. Customers include A&N Media, Aurora, British Airways, Cross-Tab, Dow Chemical, Farmers Insurance, GfK, GlaxoSmithKline, GMO Research, JTN Research, Keep Factor, Morehead Associates, Nielsen, Research Now, Swapit, Swisscom, Symantec and The Wellcome Trust. Visit http://www.confirmit.com for more information. Reported by PRWeb 23 hours ago.
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The Sun's Magnetic Field Is About To Flip
The sun is gearing up for a major solar flip, NASA says.In an event that occurs once every 11 years, the magnetic field of the sun will change its polarity in a matter of months, according new observations by NASA-supported observatories.
The flipping of the sun's magnetic field marks the peak of the star's 11-year solar cycle and the halfway point in the sun's "solar maximum"— the peak of its solar weather cycle. NASA released a new video describing the sun's magnetic flip on Monday (Aug. 5).
"It looks like we're no more than three to four months away from a complete field reversal," Todd Hoeksema, the director of Stanford University's Wilcox Solar Observatory, said in a statement. "This change will have ripple effects throughout the solar system."
As the field shifts, the "current sheet"— a surface that radiates billions of kilometers outward from the sun's equator — becomes very wavy, NASA officials said. Earth orbits the sun, dipping in and out of the waves of the current sheet. The transition from a wave to a dip can create stormy space weather around Earth, NASA officials said.
"The sun's polar magnetic fields weaken, go to zero, and then emerge again with the opposite polarity," Stanford solar physicist Phil Scherrer said in a statement. "This is a regular part of the solar cycle."
While the polarity shift can stir up some stormy weather, it also provides extra shielding from dangerous cosmic rays. These high-energy particles, which are accelerated by events like supernova explosions, zip through the universe at nearly the speed of light. They can harm satellites and astronauts in space, and the wrinkled current sheet better protects the planet from these particles.
The effects of the rippled sheet can also be felt throughout the solar system, far beyond Pluto and even touching the Voyager probes near the barrier of interstellar space.
"The sun's north pole has already changed sign, while the south pole is racing to catch up," Scherrer said. "Soon, however, both poles will be reversed, and the second half of solar max will be underway."
The current solar maximum is the weakest in 100 years, experts have said. Usually, at the height of a solar cycle, sunspot activity increases. These dark regions on the sun's surface can give birth to solar flares and ejections, but there have been fewer observed sunspots this year than in the maximums of previous cycles.
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Benefit of mobile apps for toddlers questioned
Not according to an advocacy group that filed a complaint Wednesday with the Federal Trade Commission alleging that two popular baby app developers — Fisher-Price Inc. and Open Solutions — are trying to dupe parents into thinking their online games make infant and toddlers smarter. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, the Boston-based group whose allegations against "Baby Einstein" videos eventually led to nationwide consumer refunds, is urging federal investigators to examine the marketing practices of Fisher-Price's "Laugh & Learn" mobile apps and Open Solutions' games such as "Baby Hear and Read" and "Baby First Puzzle." [...] Fisher-Price of East Aurora, N.Y., claims that its Laugh & Learn "Where's Puppy's Nose?" app can teach a baby about body parts and language, while its "Learning Letters Puppy" app educates babies on the alphabet and counting to 10. Open Solutions, a developer based in Bratislava, Slovakia, says its mobile apps offer a "new and innovative form of education" by allowing babies to "practice logic and motor skills." According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, more than half of American adults own a smartphone while about a third of adults own a tablet.
Reported by SeattlePI.com 20 hours ago.
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