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Hulu raises the bar again, releases 4 awesome Video Badge Widgets

July 28th, 2008 by Avatar X Leave a reply »

Hulu does it again. first they launched a service that managed to overcome all the bad rep it first had in anticipation and released very fine video player widgets. then they went with a â€œin your faceâ€ moment to Google`s YouTube and made their Video embeddables searchable within the widget and took video widgets to other level. now they went for video badge Widgets.

It is not that they are super customizable or super good looking. They are not. is the fact that none of the big video services had done it this well and much less YouTube.

The Widgets released by Hulu are just incredibly well executed. just like i had been telling Widgets should be in 2008.

Hulu released a slew of Widgets, and they can be separated in two kinds:

1.- Low End Video Badge Widget with Embedded Player

2.-High End Video Badge Widget without Embedded Player

When i say Low End i only say that when compared to the High End video Badge Widget from Hulu. in terms of other video services, the low end ones are as good if not better than the widgets from most services.

Lets start with the High End one. that truly blows away the competition up to now.

I.-Video Badge Widget with Embedded Player

This is a Video Badge Widget that got it all. it even resembles a Desktop app or could even pass as a extremely well designed iPhone app for that matter.

Why?. well what other Video Widget badge got the following things?:

  • *Search          (full search of hulu programming like in the hulu embeddable video players)
  • *Browsing       ( you can navigate the pages like in a website)
  • *Sorting         (choose the parameter of the kind of content as clip, tv show or movie)
  • *Sections     (featured, most popular recently added, queue)
  • *Loggable       (you can load into your hulu account from it and use it for your common hulu use)
  • *Preferences   (you can set your widget directly within it)
  • *Quick Embed option    ( copy and paste embed code)
  • *High Spread Sharing module    ( Vista sidebar,  iGoogle, Netvibes and Facebook )
  • *Quick Viewing Embedded Video Player (that comes with its own full set of Options and info)

That makes it the most advanced widget of its kind i had seen up to now. there is of course a simple trade off. it is a Widgetized of Hulu Web Service fitted for iframe. i would not be surprised if this Widget ends up being the direct inspiration of Mobile Hulu and hulu iphone app (or viceverza).

The form also makes it a admirable Vista Sidebar Gadget and Widget for a Startpage or Facebook.

Even then it is truly admirable as a Widget and makes the Hulu service portable since it is completely Widgetized. it well deserves to be embedded here.

II.-Video Badge Widgets Without Embedded Player

A set of  simple to use Video Badge Widgets done in Flash  that can show your favorite clips in Hulu and take you to them but that you not only can get the code via a direct copy embed button click (a clever approach to the now old copy and paste) . something that is appreciated.

There are 3 of them and they comes they follow:

1.- Seasonal Video Badge (in this case summer)

This is a widget without customization, it shows you a set of featured hulu videos that are scheduled from the site every week. this could be seen as the most common Video Badge Widget like the one in any other service

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2.-Sorted Picks Video Badge

This a Video Badges that lets you Sort Videos in it from a set of parameters:

  • *Most Popular Today
  • *Highest Rated Today
  • *Recently Added

Then you can choose the kind of content to be sorted:

  • *All Videos
  • *All TV
  • *TV episodes
  • *TV clips
  • *All movies
  • *Featured Films
  • *Movie clips

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3.-Specific Show or Movie Widget

My favorite from the low end. you get to show the videos you want because you can sort and set your video widget badge from the widget because it counts with ALL of Hulu Programming in it for you to do it. that is a very simple idea, but yet brilliant because it is not common to see yet.

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Still. for a first version of their Video Badge Widgets it is a very impressive and well executed first version set  and a must have set of widgets for any Hulu user or even not yet hulu users.. if you are out of the usa. you are then out of luck unless you know of that certain thing you can get to be able to watch the videos. just like me that i am in Mexico.

The release of the widgets was broke by Techcrunch and they also got a video interview  with hulu CTO where the widget is also shown.

Hulu Widgets

via Techcrunch

  1. speedy says:

    Hulu really provides such a good function. However this is my first time know about hulu and try it when I know it from your blog. Thanks

  2. Avatar says:

    @speedy: glad you liked it. and yes. they are great widgets. take it from me. i happen to know a little thing or two about them.. 😉 . hope you have liked the blog. don`t forget to subscribe! 😀

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Method 1 of 2: Removing the Old Handle

Before the new handle can be installed, the old handle needs to be removed from the tank properly.

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If you are looking to get up to speed on Pentaho Analytics very quickly, I highly recommend this book!

willgorman http://www.willgorman.com <![CDATA[Mondrian 4, OSGi in Pentaho 5.1 CE]]> http://www.willgorman.com/?p=58 2014-06-30T04:17:57Z 2014-06-30T04:12:38Z During the development of 5.1, Pentaho has taken steps to integrate Mondrian 4 into our business analytics platform.  This article goes over what we have accomplished so far, where we are headed, and also instructions for getting Mondrian 4 working with Pentaho 5.1 Community Edition.

Pentaho Enterprise Edition has Mondrian 4 bundled for a specific reason - we’ve now introduced native MongoDB support as a plugin to Mondrian 4.  This use case allows customers to slice and dice data from MongoDB collections in Pentaho Analyzer.  You can learn more about the capability here:  http://www.pentaho.com/request-analyzer-mongodb

As we continue to evolve the Pentaho Platform, we need a more flexible plugin architecture for driving innovation.  To allow both Mondrian 3 and Mondrian 4 runtime environments, we’ve introduced OSGi as a core part of the platform.  Mondrian 4 is our first use case, but we’ll be introducing many others in future versions.

Once Mondrian 4 is installed as an OSGi bundle, it is available as an OLAP4J resource to the platform via Pentaho’s proxy system Driver aptly named “PentahoSystemDriver”.  The following steps below walk you through getting Pentaho Mondrian up and running within Pentaho CE 5.1.  Note that these instructions won’t work against previous versions of Pentaho, and these instructions are not necessary in Pentaho EE 5.1, as Mondrian 4 is already configured and installed.

Download Pentaho 5.1 CE

You can download Pentaho 5.1 from sourceforge here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Business%20Intelligence%20Server/5.1/

Make sure it is working normally before continuing with these instructions.

Deploy Mondrian 4’s required OSGi bundles

We first need to add Mondrian 4 and its dependencies as OSGi Bundles.  Copy the following JARs, which are now OSGi compatible, to pentaho-solutions/system/osgi/bundles:

Also, you may copy the Mondrian properties file to “mondrian.cfg” in the same folder to customize various Mondrian 4 properties.

Install the CDA Plugin via the Marketplace

Go to the Marketplace perspective and install Community Data Access, this plugin allows you to query various data sources including Mondrian 4 via OLAP4J.

Setup a Mondrian 4 Database and Schema

I already had Foodmart installed in a local MySQL instance, I also deployed the Mondrian 4 FoodMart.mondrian.xml schema (https://github.com/pentaho/mondrian/blob/lagunitas/demo/FoodMart.mondrian.xml) to the BA Server by uploading the file in the /public/Foodmart folder.

Create a new CDA file that queries Foodmart

I copied the olap4j example that comes with CDA.  Here are the important parts:

<Connection id=”1″ type=”olap4j”>
<Property name=”JdbcUser”>foodmart</Property>
<Property name=”JdbcPassword”>foodmart</Property>
<Property name=”Jdbc”>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/foodmart_mondrian_4</Property>
<Property name=”JdbcDrivers”>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</Property>
<Property name=”Catalog”>solution:/public/Foodmart/FoodMart.mondrian.xml</Property>

select {[Measures].[Unit Sales]} ON COLUMNS,
NON EMPTY [Time].[Time].[1997].Children ON ROWS
from [Sales]
where ([Product].[${productfamily}])

You can download the full CDA file I used here: mondrian4.cda

Upload the CDA file in the /public/Foodmart folder.

You can now run the CDA file and see the results come back from Mondrian 4!

Additional Info

For developers wanting to access Mondrian 4 metadata like they can access Mondrian 3 schemas by schema name in the Pentaho Platform, we’ve done some low level plumbing to get folks started.  If you define a Mondrian 4 connection in pentaho-solutions/system/olap4j.properties, you can gain access to that programmatically through code like the following:

import org.pentaho.platform.plugin.services.connections.mondrian.MDXOlap4jConnection;
import org.pentaho.platform.plugin.services.importexport.legacy.MondrianCatalogRepositoryHelper;
import org.pentaho.platform.plugin.services.importexport.legacy.MondrianCatalogRepositoryHelper.Olap4jServerInfo;
final MondrianCatalogRepositoryHelper helper = new MondrianCatalogRepositoryHelper( repo );
if ( helper.getOlap4jServers().contains( catalogName ) ) {
final Olap4jServerInfo serverInfo = helper.getOlap4jServerInfo( catalogName );
properties.setProperty( “url”, serverInfo.URL );
properties.setProperty( “driver”, serverInfo.className );
if ( serverInfo.user != null ) {
properties.setProperty( “user”, serverInfo.user );
if ( serverInfo.password != null ) {
properties.setProperty( “password”, serverInfo.password );
MDXOlap4jConnection connection =
(MDXOlap4jConnection) PentahoConnectionFactory.getConnection( IPentahoConnection.MDX_OLAP4J_DATASOURCE,
properties, PentahoSessionHolder.getSession(), null );

Using this utility code is nice because the MDXOlap4jConnection will manage mapping Pentaho’s roles to Mondrian’s.

So how does all of this work?

Pentaho has bundled Apache Felix into the Pentaho Platform.  Felix is an OSGi container which now manages Mondrian 4 and its dependencies.  The core bundles that make up Pentaho’s OSGi container can be found in pentaho-solutions/system/osgi/core_bundles, here you’ll find a number of utility OSGi jars including Gemini’s Blueprint, which we use for wiring OSGi components.  Blueprint is similar to the Spring Framework.  Also, the Mondrian 4 jar contains some metadata that registers it with the Pentaho platform as an available OLAP4J driver with the JDBC prefix name of “mondrian4″.  You can check out the metadata file OSGI-INF/blueprint/beans.xml to see the specific XML to declare the driver.  To see how the internal wiring is done, and how PentahoSystemDriver is involved, you can check out the pentaho-platform package org.pentaho.platform.osgi.

There is still a lot of work to do!

Here are some of the areas we will need to complete in future versions to make this a seamless experience:

  • Ship the Mondrian 4 binaries with the release!
  • Update Pentaho’s Datasource Manager to easily manage Mondrian 4 connections instead of editing olap4j.properties
  • Enable Mondrian 4 to access Pentaho Database Connections
  • Create an easy to use Mondrian 4 Schema Editor - Maybe Ivy Information System’s work will move in that direction?
  • Have projects such as Pivot4J and Saiku support Mondrian 4 connections via OSGi

If any of this work is of interest to you, folks in the Mondrian mailing list and at Pentaho would be happy to help point the way!

willgorman http://www.willgorman.com <![CDATA[Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner’s Guide]]> http://www.willgorman.com/?p=57 2013-11-25T23:00:58Z 2013-11-25T23:00:58Z It’s been four years since I published Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers.  A lot has changed in Pentaho Reporting since then, so it’s great to see a new book now available from Packt, Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner’s Guide, co-authored by Mariano Mattio and Dario Bernabeu.  This book has a different purpose than the Java Developer book, it’s focus is a deeper dive into examples to quickly bring folks up to speed on the various capabilities of Pentaho Reporting.

For those who already are familiar with the basics of Pentaho Reporting, I would still recommend this book for a couple of reasons.  First, Chapter 12 covers both content linking and sparklines, very useful features for your every day reports.  Second, one of the newest features in Pentaho Reporting 5.0 is stylesheets.  In Chapter 13, this book does a great job at an initial introduction to get you started on this powerful capability.

Thanks Mariano and Dario for this great contribution!

willgorman http://www.willgorman.com <![CDATA[Pentaho’s move to GitHub]]> http://www.willgorman.com/?p=56 2013-01-07T04:50:06Z 2013-01-07T04:50:06Z Last week,  Nick Baker lead the effort to transition the Pentaho Platform and many of our open source commons and plugin projects over to GitHub.  Check out his forum post about the transition here:

While SVN was a great tool to work with, GitHub offers a number of capabilities that we consider important to us as an open source engineering organization.

Over the next few months, we’ll be transitioning the remaining open source projects Pentaho hosts over to GitHub, next up is Pentaho Reporting!

So go ahead and fork, have fun!

willgorman http://www.willgorman.com <![CDATA[Pentaho Marketplace is Here!]]> http://www.willgorman.com/?p=55 2012-11-30T06:55:46Z 2012-11-30T06:55:46Z I’m proud to announce that included in our release of Pentaho BA Server 4.8 and Pentaho Data Integration 4.4 to SourceForge today, we’ve bundled as a plugin our first version of the Pentaho Marketplace!  With the Marketplace, it is now easy to download and install cool plugins developed by the community.

To get started with the BA Server Marketplace, log in as an administrator, and click the Marketplace toolbar icon or select Tools -> Marketplace.  In Spoon, click the Help -> Marketplace.  Find the plugin you want to install or upgrade, and click!

I would like to say thank you to all the hard work done by the many folks who participated in making this project reach 1.0!  The Pedros @ WebDetails have worked around the clock to deliver the BA Server Marketplace, their team has done a great job with the UI experience as well as a telemetry capability so the community can see what plugins are popular and how the marketplace is used (More on that in a future blog!).   Also, Wes Brown, Pentaho’s head of pixel management, provided a lot of great feedback and ideas for the UI, helping make the user experience fantastic!  On the PDI side, Matt Casters did a great job putting together a first version of the Marketplace within Spoon, followed by assistance from Sean Flatley and Matt Burgess, two of our core Kettle developers at Pentaho.  I hear Matt B. is also brewing up a number of new plugins, go check out more about them on his blog :-).

It’s great to see so many helping hands on a project like this, all done out of passion for the product, and the goal of opening up the product to even more capabilities and contributions!!

If you do find any issues with the Marketplace, please let us know.  We already have many plans for future versions, so keep an eye out … in the Marketplace … for Marketplace updates :-).

Finally, are you a plugin developer and would like to see your plugin appear in the Marketplace?  Go check out https://github.com/pentaho/marketplace-metadata for more details.  We want to get as many plugins listed as possible!

willgorman http://www.willgorman.com <![CDATA[Announcing Pentaho Developer IRC Office Hours]]> http://www.willgorman.com/?p=54 2012-04-16T04:56:45Z 2012-04-16T04:56:45Z I’m pleased to announce that Pentaho’s Engineering Team will be hosting IRC Office Hours each week.  IRC is a great place to go and chat with Pentaho’s developers, but sometimes we’re too busy traveling the world or hacking away at the next release to catch up with folks in the irc.freenode.net ##pentaho channel.  We’re hoping that hosting office hours will allow for more collaboration, so as a community we can continue to expand and build on the #1 open source business analytics and data integration platform.

Check out the wiki for full details:

willgorman http://www.willgorman.com <![CDATA[Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook: Get your swiss army knife out]]> http://www.willgorman.com/?p=53 2011-07-25T05:14:05Z 2011-07-25T05:14:05Z This weekend I had the pleasure of reading Maria Roldan and Adrian Pulvirenti’s Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook, published by Packt Publishing.  I was one of the reviewers for Maria’s first Packt book, Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner’s Guide, as well as a Packt author myself, so when I was asked if I’d be willing to write about the most recent addition to the Pentaho collection of books, I happily obliged.

I highly recommend this book to all those out there looking to learn more about PDI.  The book has many great recipes for specific situations, but also throughout the book you learn many important swiss-army-knife-type skills that will aid you in your daily use of Pentaho Data Integration.  The book includes everything from dealing with unstructured text files to working with fuzzy logic.  As a Java developer, I especially appreciate the many uses of the User Defined Java step for the more advanced scenarios.  The book also introduces the many uses of Pentaho Data Integration within Pentaho’s BI Suite, allowing power BI Developers to create a flow of information from a transformation to a report or dashboard.

Chapter 6, Understanding Data Flows, may be the most important chapter in this book.  Managing the merging and splitting of data within a transformation requires key insights that this book covers in detail.  Having this information will allow you to take your transformation building skills to the next level.

Thanks Maria and Adrian on the wonderful piece of work!  The copy I received will reside in the bullpen at Pentaho’s Headquarters here in Orlando, I’m sure many of the Engineers here will use and learn from it!  Now don’t waste any more time, get your own copy today!

willgorman http://www.willgorman.com <![CDATA[Recent Pentaho Tech Tips]]> http://www.willgorman.com/?p=52 2011-06-13T05:06:20Z 2011-06-13T05:06:20Z Hi Folks,

I wanted to share a couple of the technical articles I’ve written in the last month:

Mondrian Cache Priming and Cache Control in the BI Server - This article covers how to take control of your Mondrian cache via action sequences, including priming the cache with MDX Queries as well as using Mondrian’s CacheControl API to flush specific segments of the cache.

Customizing your Pentaho Metadata Query in Pentaho Reporting - This article describes how to customize Pentaho’s Metadata Query Language (MQL) in a significant way before execution, allowing reports to respond to user input through prompting in ways that weren’t possible before.

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Check out the PDF and HTML rendering of the report.  Feel free to use the PRPT as a template for your own reports.

Here are my top 5 recommendations for folks when designing reports like this:

  1. Don’t be tempted to use the lines and rectangles.  Instead, use padding and borders of bands and elements.
  2. Inline Subreports allow you to pretty much layout anything, use them!
  3. The message-field report element is very powerful, you can specify number and date formats as part of the message: $(field, date, MMM yyyy).
  4. Make sure to test rendering in the output formats that you care about.  HTML renders as a set of tables, so you can’t have overlapping objects in your report.
  5. Take advantage of the “Paste Formatting” option, this allows you to copy colors, font sizes, etc, and will save you a lot of time.

And of course don’t forget to get a copy of Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers :-).  The book covers many topics, you can learn a lot about formula functions, chart options, shortcut keys, and much more.

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This js file should contain your CDF Component implementation, a static method on the component called newInstance() for initial construction of the dashboard widget, along with a call to the dashboard designer to register the component:

 PentahoDashboardController.registerComponentForFileType("mytype", MyComponent);

See Analyzer’s plugin.xml and AnalyzerDashboardWidget.js for an example of the implementation.

Starting with the 3.8.0 release, it is easy to add your own embedded content into Dashboard Designer as well.   The three available embedded widget types, Chart, Data Table, and URL, have been converted over to plugins, so it’s easy to see how this can be done.

First, in a similar manner to repository content, you need to implement a CDF Component.  In addition to the basic component implementation, you also need to provide the following javascript attributes and methods to your component:

iconImgSrc - The location of the icon image to appear in the new widget drop down list and editor panel.

localizedName - The name of the widget that will appear in the new widget drop down list and editor panel.

createWidget()  - This method is called when a user selects the widget from the new widget drop down list as seen in the image above.  This method should present the user with a UI for creating a new widget, and then create the widget, wiring it up to the dashboard after creation.

editWidget() - This method is called when a user clicks the edit icon within the widget panel.  This method does practically the same thing as the createWidget(), but also has access to the currentWidget javascript object that contains a pointer to the widget being edited.

Once you’ve defined the component you also need to register the widget type with the dashboard.  Make this call at the end of your javascript file:

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Finally, register this javascript file the same way as we did above within your settings.xml file.

With just a few lines of javascript, you can create your own component for Pentaho Dashboard Designer!


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Today, Will Cox points me to Sony Ericsson Clicker a handy program that let's you use a Bluetooth phone to control a powerpoint slideshow, iTunes, or any applescriptable application. Being relatively new to the Mac, I'm not that familiar with AppleScript, but presuming that iChat has AppleScript hooks, my dream could become a reality.

I downloaded the preview release of the software (which is going to stop working on Mar 1, 2003 according to the web site) and installed it on my PowerBook. The instructions are clear and work great. One note: you may not have a PreferencePanes folder in your personal library (~/Library/PreferencePanes); just create it. I fired it up and in minutes was controlling a PowerPoint presentation. This is way cooler than the KeySpan device I currently use to control PowerPoint remotely for one simple reason: Convergence!

The next little experiment was really too cool. Clicker can take action based on presence, so I set it up to pause iTunes when I leave the room and start playing when I return. Worked like a charm. My computer now senses my presence and takes the action I've selected. This is totally the right thing. Apple needs to make this part of OSX.

Now for the bad news. iChat is apparently not scriptable. I was able to activate it from AppleScript, but not set my status. This program can set the status using an internal, undocumented API. Ugh. I installed it and now the title of whatever's playing in iTune is displayed as my "status" in iChat. So, with both programs, you get presence in iChat from a T68i phone: if my status is "Quiet in iTunes" then my phone is not near my computer. :-)

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PopCap Games may be best known for their sublime Plants vs. Zombies (on sale for $2.99 this week!), but they actually produce a number of stellar franchises like Peggle and Zuma. We interviewed PopCap about those two series coming to Windows Phone last year, and we’ll continue to ask about them whenever we can. PopCap seems to work on one game for one platform at a time, and they’ve just completed a new Xbox Live Arcade release: Zuma’s Revenge. It just came out yesterday, but I’ve been playing the game for a week now in order to bring you this review.

The original Zuma Deluxe was an XBLA launch title way back in 2006. Basically an enhanced clone of classic arcade game Puzz Loop (aka Magnetica), the Zuma games put players in control of a stationary frog who can rotate in any direction and shoot colored balls from his mouth. In each level, more balls roll on-screen along one or more paths. The frog’s job is to stop them from reaching the goal at the path’s end by quickly making as many colored matches as possible. It’s sort of like Bubble Town 2 but much, much better and more varied.

Head past the break for our full impressions and more screenshots.

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Zuma’s Revenge enhances the formula with two new types of levels: lily pad and rail levels. Lily pads allow the frog to jump between two different spots at will. This gives players more freedom, but also adds to the challenge since you’ll need to manage both spots effectively. Rail levels let the frog slide up/down or left/right along a rail, firing only at a right angle rather than the usual 360 degrees. The frog slides a bit too fast for my tastes, but I still enjoyed the diversion.

Adventure Mode starts out with an amusing 360-exclusive intro depicting the heroic, unnamed frog’s journey 2 a mysterious island. He’ll need to explore all six regions of the island, each consisting of 10 levels and a boss battle. These bosses have their own unique abilities, such as shields that can only be penetrated with Bomb power-ups or guardian idols who must be knocked out before you can get a hit in. They also crack a few jokes before and after battle, bolstering the lighthearted atmosphere.

The original XBLA Zuma was a fun but overly challenging game with several nigh impossible Achievements (I only got 70 GamerScore from it). Thankfully Zuma’s Revenge is far more approachable and fair to players. First off, you only need to beat one Adventure Mode level at a time instead of five in a row. Individual stages can be replayed at any time for higher scores and better completion times, unlocking special Spirit Badges. As if that didn’t boost replay value enough, the game displays a level’s online leaderboard whenever you select or complete it, greatly enticing me to go after higher scores (seriously, look for EastX).

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The aforementioned Spirit Badges tie into another of Revenge’s XBLA-exclusive improvements: Spirit Animals! See, one reason the first Zuma was so tough is that when the porting team brought the game from PC to XBLA, they didn’t rebalance the difficulty to accommodate for controllers being less accurate than mice. The higher levels basically expected faster and more precise reactions than most gamers could consistently make.

This time however, you’ll unlock four companion creatures as you play through Adventure Mode. They provide useful score and gameplay modifiers like increasing firing speed or power-up spawn rate. Give the animals Badges and their powers increase; you can even remove the badges from one animal to pump up another or just increase the challenge.

Zuma’s Revenge offers three additional modes on top of its lengthy Adventure. Weekly Challenges ask players to post their best scores on a specific level, whereas Boss Rush is a marathon  of seven boss battles (and its own leaderboard). Iron Frog Mode recalls the steep challenge of the original Zuma, for better or worse. Its 10 levels must be completed in a row without dying. Starting with the sixth level it gets pretty frustrating, even for an experienced Zuma player like yours truly. Still, the associated Achievement will certainly look impressive on a select few gamers’ profiles. Check out my Achievement Guide for more details.

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PopCap Games shows an amazing ability to produce games that are simple enough for casual audiences and yet vast enough to attract the hardcore crowd. Zuma’s Revenge is no different: the welcoming graphics, absolutely perfect sound effects, and quickly-learnable puzzle mechanics will endear the game to your significant other. Meanwhile, you’ll be busy replaying dozens of stages and multiple modes as you hunt for more Badges and better scores. Simply put, Zuma’s Revenge is one of the best puzzle games I’ve played on any console. Let’s hope PopCap brings us the Windows Phone version we deserve – until then, I’ll be happily blasting balls on the 360.

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    Nov. 5, 2013 – An investigative reporter who uncovered criminal records of school bus drivers in Milwaukee and highlighted one driver's prior prostitution conviction in a news broadcast did not violate her privacy rights, a state appeals court has ruled.

    Investigative reporter Robert Koebel was working for TMJ-4’s “I-team” when he obtained a list of bus drivers working for the Milwaukee Public School District.

    Then, the “I-team” began digging into their backgrounds, searching for details that may lead to an explosive news broadcast about children’s safety. Eventually, the “I-team” highlighted three bus drivers with criminal records, including bus driver Melissa Dumas.

    Koebel uncovered details from police reports that highlighted her previous misdemeanor prostitution conviction, and confronted and questioned her on camera about it.

    The report noted that Dumas had been fired after Koebel confronted MPS officials about her prior conviction. After the broadcast, Dumas filed suit for invasion of privacy, infliction of emotional distress, and interference with a contractual relationship.

    Koebel and his employer, Journal Communications Inc., argued that the privacy claim should be dismissed because the information highlighted was public record.

    Dumas’s other claims should be barred, they argued, because the First Amendment right to free speech allows individuals to make true statements on public matters.

    The trial court, after allowing limited discovery on the issue of whether Koebel obtained the information through public records, granted summary judgment in favor of Koebel.

    In Dumas v. Koebel, 2013AP365 (Nov. 5, 2013), a three-judge panel for the District I Court of Appeals affirmed. The panel concluded that discovery was properly limited, the information was public record and Koebel’s report was a “matter of public concern.”

    Dumas’s counsel wanted to depose Koebel on issues related to “editorial judgment,” including the use of so-called “ambush journalism” in investigative reporting. Koebel had successfully limited discovery to the issue of whether Koebel used public records.

    The appeals panel concluded the trial court properly limited discovery, in part because Dumas did not provide examples of what she might find if discovery was not limited.

    The invasion of privacy claim failed, the panel ruled, because “Dumas’ name was a matter of public record.” The panel rejected Dumas’s argument that MPS had a duty to keep her name confidential under state statute protecting certain employee information.

    The appeals panel also agreed that Dumas’ emotional distress and contract interference claims were barred by the First Amendment right to free speech, which can serve as a defense to tort suits if the speech at issue was a matter of public concern.

    “In the broadcast, details of Dumas’ misdemeanor conviction and other arrests appeared as part of a story about individuals with convictions being entrusted with the safe transport of children,” wrote Judge Patricia Curley for the three-judge panel.

    “While the information aired about Dumas was undoubtedly embarrassing, we conclude that it was a matter of public concern,” wrote Judge Patricia Curley. “[W]hether public school bus drivers have criminal histories is a matter of public concern.”

    The appeals panel found support for its conclusion in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Snyder v. Phelps, 131 S. Ct. 1207 (2011), the high-profile case involving Baptist picketers with provocative anti-gay signs who rallied near a U.S. Marine’s funeral.

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20 Household Uses for Pantyhose

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Have extra pantyhose or stockings lying around your closet? If you’re anything like my fiancée, you have at least 30 pairs of unworn nylon stockings clogging up your drawer. Here are 20 great ways to use them around the house. (See also: 17 Ways to Use Old Newspaper)

1. Remove Nail Polish

Cut your pantyhose into small strips and substitute for cotton balls.

2. Find Lost Small Objects

Cut one leg of the stockings off, and place it over the nozzle of the vacuum. Turn the vacuum on and carefully clean the carpet. The small objects will be trapped in the nylon filter that you have created.

3. Make a Citrus-Scented Bath

Dry and grind up lemon or orange peels, and pour them into the foot of a nylon stocking. Make a knot so the peels can’t escape. Place the pouch into the bath and let the aroma soothe you.

4. Keep Your Hairbrush Clean

Stretch a strip of stocking over your brush, poking the bristles through. Remove pantyhose strip when brush fills up with hair and lint, and replace it with a clean stocking strip to collect future build up.

5. Hold Potpourri

Fill the foot of the pantyhose with potpourri, tying a knot to keep the contents inside. Store in dresser drawers to make your sheets and clothes smell great.

6. Dust

Use pantyhose to dust in hard-to-reach places. Tie pantyhose to a coat hanger or long object, and the dust will cling to the pantyhose and can easily be cleaned off.

7. Buff Shoes

Pantyhose are great for shining shoes! Just cut a strip off your old pair of stockings and begin to buff.

8. Replace Loose Stuffing

Stuffing in animals and dolls that have lost their fluff can be replaced with balls of old pantyhose.

9. Store Flower Bulbs

Place bulbs in the foot of stockings, cut, and tie a knot to keep the bulbs from falling out. The nylon material will let air circulate, keeping mold and mildew from growing on the bulb. Keep the bulbs in a dry, but cool space until you are ready to plant them.

10. Clean Your Pool

Cut and fit the leg of a pair of pantyhose over a bucket and skim the top of your pool. The stockings will catch debris and tiny dirt particles that clog your pool drainer.

11. Paint Strainer

Similar to the pool strainer, cut and fit the leg of your old stockings over a bucket. The pantyhose serve as a great way to remove lumps from paint. Pour the paint into your pantyhose strainer, remove the pantyhose once you have finished, and begin painting with lump-free paint!

12. Prevent Erosion in Potted Plants

Put a piece of nylon stocking at the bottom of a pot, which will let water flow out without draining the soil.

13. Scrub Dishes

Just scrunch part of the stockings, add water and soap, and scrub away!

14. Prevent a Rolling Pin From Sticking

Rather than using water or flour to prevent dough from sticking to your rolling pin, wrap part of a nylon stocking around a rolling pin and roll out your dough. The dough won't stick to the nylon.

15. Tie Trash Bags

Cut up strips of your pantyhose, and use them to tie your trash bags.

16. Make Bungee Cords

Stockings are very elastic and can be used as straps to tie objects down. If you get a couple "S" hooks from a hardware store, you have your very own bungee cord.

17. Protect Growing Vegetables

Don't like using pesticides in the garden? Put stockings over growing vegetables to prevent pest damage without the harmful chemicals.

18. Make Your Own Loofah — and Save Soap

Save those last bits of soap from your bars, put them in the foot of your pantyhose, and scrub out those bubbles!

19. Scrub Floors and Metals Without Scratching

Whether you're applying polish to your silver or gold or simply scrubbing your kitchen tiles, try using a pair of stockings instead of sponges that could harm your valuables.

20. Save Money on Heating

Fill one leg of a nylon stocking with sand, and tie it shut. Put it at the bottom of your door during the winter to prevent the cold air from getting inside.

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Don't laugh - if a belt snaps in your vehicle far from any services people have been known to use pantyhose to limp their car back to civilization. Not a recommended method, for sure, but a pretty funny one!


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A triquetra is a three cornered shape that is used as a symbol in many cultures, ranging from traditional Christianity to pagan Celtic traditions. People may be most familiar with the shape in Celtic art, where it appears extensively in a wide array of situations, from carved headstones to motifs in Celtic paintings. This design can be utilitarian and very simple, or incredibly ornate and quite beautiful, in the case of complex Celtic knotwork.

Typically, a triquetra is formed by interlocking three identical shapes to create a distinctive three-cornered pattern. Archaeological evidence suggests that it has been an important symbol in Celtic art for centuries, and it was also extensively used in Germanic paganism. Triquetras can be found on many rune stones, for example, and they also appear in wooden and stone carvings found throughout Northern Europe.

People who follow pagan and New Age traditions which are said to be rooted in ancient Celtic practices often use the triquetra as an expression of faith. Some say that it represents the Triple Goddess in her roles as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, for example, while others suggest that it reflects fertility, unity, and other ideas that are important to New Pagan practices. Because of the pagan associations of this symbol, it often shows up in works of art and jewelry that are meant to appeal to this community.

In Christianity, the triquetra is often used as a metaphor for the Holy Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The three shapes symbolize the individual members of the Trinity, with their unification symbolizing the unity of the Trinity. It is common for a Christian triquetra to be made with three interlocking mandorlas, almond shapes formed by the vesica piscis symbol, another ancient symbol.

There are a number of variants on the triquetra. Some, for example, are interlaced with other symbols so that the shape acquires additional personal meaning. People may also see motifs with symbols or text inside the voids formed by the interlocking shapes. It also appears in the Trinity Knot, which is closely associated with Christian beliefs about the Holy Trinity.

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I've never really been aware of this symbol before. until lately its popped up in my dreams quite often. so i looked it up and here i am. can anybody give me any insight on why i might be having these dreams?

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EarlyForest: A triquetra and a pentagram are not at all the same. A pentagram is an inverted pentacle. (A pentacle is most representative of Pagan/Wiccan practices; each of the five points representing an element (spirit, water, wind, earth, fire) which are all interconnected, representing overall peace, balance, etc.) A pentagram is a Satanic symbol. Triquetras are not Satanic.

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So in Wiccan beliefs, what is the difference between a triquetra and a pentagram? I always see a lot of triquetra pendants and pentagram pendants, so I assume they're kind of the same -- am I right?

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I really appreciate that this article focussed on a lot of different triquetra meanings, not just the triquetra of the trinity or the Wiccan triquetra or the Celtic triquetra.

I think it's great that you included many different traditions and interpretations.

Well done, wisegeek, for doing your research and being open-minded.

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The triquetra also shows up a lot in jewelry -- many people like to wear triquetra knot jewelry as a symbol of their faith, their beliefs and hope in the world, or simply because it looks pretty.

Of course, not everybody is aware of all the triquetra meanings, but the symbol is so attractive that they wear it anyway.

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The first thing to look for when buying a new laptop battery is compatibility with your computer. Most are made to work with specific models of computers, and have this information listed in their product descriptions. To make sure that one will work with your computer, you'll need to know the make and model number of your laptop; if you don't know this offhand or don't have the necessary paperwork, check the inside of your laptop's battery compartment while it is off and unplugged. You may also find the part number of the battery, located on its casing.

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Generally speaking, LiON and Li-Poly batteries are the best choice, as long as they're compatible with your laptop, since they are light, last longer than NiMHs, and are about a third lighter. They also charge more quickly, and are also more environmentally friendly. Regardless of which type of laptop battery you end up getting, you should make sure that the cells are manufactured in such a way that they meet international standards of laptop battery safety, like those designated by Underwriters Laboratories (UL).

The capacity, or power rating is another important consideration. This is the amount of power that the battery can produce, and is usually written in milliamperes (mAh). The greater the capacity, the longer the battery can run before it needs to be recharged, so look for the highest mAh number. Most new ones are rated to at least 5,000 mAh.

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Like other technological products, laptop batteries have a designated service life — the length of time that they're expected to work optimally. This is usually written in terms of cycles, with one cycle consisting of completely running the battery out, and then completely charging it again. Most are are able to go through between 300 and 1,500 charging cycles, and can be used after the maximum cycle count is reached, but may not hold a charge as well. Some computers come with a cycle counter built in, but there is free cycle counting software is also available online for download.

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You may additionally want to consider whether you want to buy a brand name laptop battery, like the one your laptop came with, or a generic replacement one. Many brand companies and companies that make generic batteries get their components from the same manufacturers, so it may not make a huge difference, but some brand name versions meet more rigorous safety standards than generic ones, and some do use different, higher quality components. Also, some brand name versions come with better warranties than generic ones. Branded batteries do tend to be more expensive than generic ones though, so if you compare a brand name laptop battery and a generic one and find them to be largely similar, then you may want to go with the generic one.

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Besides the issue of branding, you should also think about whether you want a new laptop battery or a refurbished one. Though some refurbished ones are very good and are often much cheaper than new ones, it's a little risky to buy refurbished, since you don't really know how old the battery is, and it may die suddenly. Also, many refurbished batteries don't come with very good warranties, so it may be worth it to just get a new one, especially if you use your laptop a lot.

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I work for Max Capacity (Brand of laptop battery) and an online laptop battery retail outlet. We are basically a newer company located in the US that specializes in building very high end replacement laptop batteries designed to compete with and outperform OEM.

I'll share a bit about what some of the main differences in quality are, and what to possibly to look for when evaluating different batteries.

About capacity and service life: A typical generic 6 cell laptop battery only holds about 4400mAh of power, which is quite low when compared to the newer generation of cells which store 5600mAh or even 5800mAh in a 6 cell battery. For example, a 5800mAh battery can power your laptop for

40-50 percent longer on a single charge.

And with respect to service life, most generics only last about 300 charging cycles, compared to 600 to 900 charging cycles for the newer generation of cells. This 300 charging cycles typically means an average service life of a little over one year, while 900 gets over three years before a new replacement is needed.

The result is you wind up paying $35 per year for replacement batteries that offer very low power capacities when one could buy a high capacity battery that lasts about three years and have the latest safety features incorporated into them.

So in the long run over a two to three year period, lower cost batteries tend to cost the same as as a 5800mAh battery that performs better and incorporates the latest safety innovations.

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Because the battery needs more capacity to be used for much longer, and also the quality is also very important. I recommend a good supplier to you. My laptop is made in China, and the original battery 3E01 is only 2200mAh, is too short to use. So I needed to buy a longer used battery. I asked more suppliers and finally I got one 4400mAh battery of my own, and it only cost me $60.

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I bought my IBM laptop battery online. So far it is good. I also bought an extra charger for my laptop from them.

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I bought one made by Microdigital. So lucky, it's so good so far.

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When buying a laptop battery, you will probably only have one or two choices that fit your computer. Choose the battery with the longest life available for your computer. I agree with it.

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I needed a battery quickly to continue my web design and ordered it online It was there in under 24 hours. They had a large variety as well.

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I fully agree with the li-ion comment. I'm also looking for a new battery for the same reason.

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Who ever said you don't need to condition "li-ion" batteries is full of it. I am searching for a new battery as we speak because of that reason- totally shot my battery after I started leaving it plugged in at work.

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I learned much from above articles. what i am interested in is whether it is safe or not when buy laptop battery from an online shop. I want to buy a battery for my IMAC and found a website where all the laptop batteries were much more cheaper than items elsewhere. I am so excited but also worried about the quality, so can anyone give me some advice? Many thanks!

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What should I consider when buying an emergency battery jump starter? Three characteristics that are advertised are amps/hour, peak amps, and cranking or continuous amps. These are factors to consider when purchasing an emergency auto battery jump starter and it would be useful to understand what they mean so you purchase the best jump starter for your money.

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