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When it comes to the weather, there is no lack of applications to choose from to get your information. But there is very little diversity when it comes to those apps. A new startup, called Sunshine, is looking to change all that. Using information delivered from the barometer sensor in the phone, as well as user-generated reports of local weather, the app is trying to change the way we… Read More
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Sunshine, A Crowd-Sourced Weather App, Goes Live
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve been surprised many times to discover the hidden messages of faith in my favorite movies. Don’t be deceived by the lack of overt themes of Christianity. As Ralph Wood explains in in The Gospel According to Tolkien, his treatise on Tolkien’s deeply Christian fantasy world, the subtle infusion of theology is […]
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Christian Allegory in Tron
You’ve heard that bringing your own lunch to work can save you money, but how much does it really save? According to personal finance site Money Crashers, it’s a lot.
Money Crashers broke down various categories of food and drink that many of us tend to buy from a store each day. They compared the cost of homemade items to typical store bought prices. Even with fairly generous comparisons (the site assumes a daily coffee from the store costs $2, for example), the amount saved per year easily reaches the thousands:
By bringing in your own coffee, breakfast, lunch, snacks, and beverages every day, you can save anywhere from $2,000 to $4,200 or more over the span of an entire year. And taking your own food to work is not just economical – in many cases, it’s also the more health-conscious option. When you prepare your own meals, you can use healthier, more natural ingredients and reduce your chances of overeating due to better portion control.
You can find the full breakdown at the source below. Depending on how much you actually eat at or on the way to work, you may see a lower savings rate (after all, many of us skip breakfast). Of course, this is a guideline. How much have you saved by bringing your own food to work?
How Much Can You Save by Bringing Your Own Lunch Food to Work? | Money Crashers
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How Much Bringing Your Own Lunch to Work Can Really Save
No doubt NBC‘s editors charged their researchers with researching the U.S. firearms industry to prove that the lack of gun control is all about the money – seeing as its filed under “Oregon College Shooting” and all. The New … Read More
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Reasons to Be Cheerful: NBC Reveals U.S. Gun Biz Stats
SOLS, a company taking advantage of 3D-printing techniques to custom print shoe insoles that help alleviate foot and back pain, among other ailments, is today making its product available directly to consumers with the launch of SOLS Flex, a modern-day alternative to Dr. Scholl’s inserts which are personalized to the individual customer. SOLS previously worked with doctor’s offices… Read More
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SOLS Lets You Buy 3D-Printed Insoles, Customized To Your Feet, Right From An iPhone App
As with iOS, the Photos app in OS X El Capitan now supports third-party extensions: That means other apps can plug directly into the Photos interface to give you quicker access to more effects and tools. Here’s how to get started with the new feature.
First and foremost you need to install an app or two that supports the new feature—right now there aren’t too many that have been given the necessary upgrade, but Affinity, Tonality and BeFunky Express are three apps that offer Photos integration already (we’re using the latter here).
With your photo editing app of choice installed on your Mac, open up the System Preferences from the Apple menu then click Extensions and Photos. Put a tick next to all the apps you want to use inside the Photos interface. Next, open up the Photos app to get at your pictures.
Double-click on an image to select it, then choose Edit and Extensions. Pick your app and the tools available inside it are now available right from the Photos app — the options listed will vary from program to program but you should be able to use them as you normally would.
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How To Use Extensions to Enhance Your Photos in OS X El Capitan
“A witness called police saying that someone had just shot their wife in the middle of the street,” reuters.com reports, “and that he was trying to get into the house across the street. The homeowner heard the shots and grabbed … Read More
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Guns for Beginners: Castle Doctrine and The Duty to Retreat
Earlier this week, NASA uploaded an incredible treasure trove of images to a new gallery on Flickr: unprocessed photographs from all of the manned Apollo missions. They represent an incredible look into what the astronauts saw on their missions to the moon.
NASA’s astronauts are known for taking some of the world’s best pictures, but this gallery is a chance to see the raw results: untouched and unprocessed pictures of space. They’re high-resolution images that are perfect for reprocessing.
You can check out the entire gallery here, but we’ve pulled out some of our favorites from the over 8,400 images:
S-IVB stage during rendezvous maneuvers.
Rendezvous with the S-IVB stage.
Looking down into the clouds.
Earthrise.
Lunar Surface.
Looking back on the way home.
Lunar Lander rendezvous and extraction.
Russell Schweickart’s EVA.
The lunar surface.
Command Module Charlie Brown.
Buzz Aldrin on the ride out.
Neil Armstrong, shortly after landing.
Buzz Aldrin carrying sensors.
LEM returning home.
Astronaut on the lunar surface.
Lunar surface
Research
Astronaut Alan Bean.
Earth on the ride out.
Lunar Module landing
Damaged parts.
Lunar Lander, unused.
Apollo 14
Lunar EVA
Commander Alan Shepherd Jr.
Lunar experiments
LEM
Experiments
Lunar mountains
Astronaut and Lunar Rover
Astronaut, LEM and Lunar Rover
Astronaut Thomas Mattingly
Commander John Young
Mattingly
Young
Commander Gene Cernan
Commander Eugene Cernan during Lunar EVA
Pilot Ron Evans retrieving film canisters.
Command Module
Cernan, post EVA.
Photo Credits: NASA
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Our Favorite Images From NASA’s Incredible New Apollo Gallery
WASHINGTON—Researchers at the Urban Institute published a study Friday confirming that a sharp increase in gun sales nationwide would be the most concrete result of the impassioned pro-gun-control speech that President Obama delivered following yesterday’s mass shooting in Oregon. “According to our analysis, by far the most tangible impact of the president emotionally urging the nation to consider how their votes can prevent mass shootings like this will be a 17 percent spike in revenue for firearm vendors across the U.S.,” said report co-author Kyle Bieler, who found a direct link between the estimated $58 million uptick in gun sales over the next month and Obama’s use of the phrases “common-sense legislation,” “only advanced country,” and “not enough.” “The portion of the president’s remarks in which he asked for support from state legislatures and governors will, based on our projections, nearly double the number of …
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News in Brief: Report: Increase In Gun Sales To Be Most Concrete Result Of Obama’s Pro-Gun-Control Speech