Good morning! Yesterday started out nice, I chatted w/ Pete on the phone for a while, got the mail, texted w/ our Ass. Chief, hand knit, talked to Pete again, grabbed breakfast at McDonald's, picked Kyle up in Princeton, cleaned the toilet, changed the bedding, dusted the dining room lights, cleaned the stove, dusted the Wii system, mopped the dining room, dusted my desk chair, checked the shed & found my rather expensive photograph from the original Dallas series that's mounted on a very nice plaque with a metal plate that says "The Ewings" ... brought it in, cleaned it up, & hung it on my office wall. I also found a Trapper Keeper from '92 w/ all my BBS info in it along with a ham radio operator certificate that I got back in June of '93 after taking & passing the test that's now displayed in my bookshelf, & finally an OLD science book of Pete's that was too old to leave out there. Once the treasure hunt was over, I fed the pets & swept the bathroom. I checked the daily deals & FINALLY something new! Problem is, it's from the same company the last item was from & after shipping in & out in addition to the eBay & PayPal fees, I wouldn't be able to flip it for a profit. I chatted with Pete on the phone again & Kyle made mac & cheese for himself & I for lunch. I turned
my TV on & let Grey's Anatomy play in the background while I surfed eBay. I took the dogs out & spent a few minutes working on my business & got a sold item packaged up & shipped. Right about then Pete got home & we did our nighttime routine. Yesterday's Sim, Tony the Nectar Maker spent time w/ Quinn (5th pic), sat down to read up on the handiness skill (4th pic), searched the town & found a garden in the park to harvest,
spent more time with Quinn, sat down & read the handiness book some more, collected seeds in his back yard to plant later, made autumn salad for dinner, & headed to bed. The next morning he showered, made waffles for breakfast, tended the garden ALL day until it was time to make mac & cheese for dinner, & headed to bed again. He was so busy tending the garden all day that poor Quinn got lonely & he had to get up in the middle of the night to spend some time with him & then go back to bed. When he woke up the next morning he showered & that's were we leave off. This morning I took the dogs out & worked on my bead banner for a bit. I loaded up Sims & opened the Lakeside Mansion game, another beautiful home by Curtis Paradis (3rd pic). We picked up where Nikki Schmidt was sleeping for the night (2nd pic) but had to get up in the middle of the night to tend to their baby, Harry Schmidt & then went back to bed. Having a baby & getting up in the middle of the night really throws off Nikki's schedule. By the time she got up she was hungry already & it was dinnertime, so she made herself mac & cheese for breakner. Back IRL, Milligan Water meeting Monday evening @ 7:30p.
As of today - & since 1929 - 2,622 Oscars have been awarded! That's an army of little gold guys!
Award-winning actresses from 2000 - 2009 top 10:
- Julia Roberts
- Halle Berry
- Nicole Kidman
- Charlize Theron
- Hilary Swank
- Reese Witherspoon
- Helen Mirren
- Marion Cotillard
- Kate Winslet
- Sandra Bullock
Business Card Reader:
Multi-feature contact data management application that supports export to Salesforce CRM (available by subscription).
With ABBYY Business Card Reader you can:
- Instantly transfer business card data in 21 languages right onto your iPhone "Contacts"
- Export new contacts to the Salesforce CRM
- Save contacts in the CardHolder, a special archive with convenient search, sorting and grouping functionality
- Share contact data via e-mail or SMS
- Transfer contacts to another iPhone or computer
★★★★★ by Neozenith
Clearly a lot of work has gone into making this app simple and easy to use. The OCR works well. 80-90% of what was scanned came through without a problem. So that is 80-90% of a business card I don't have to enter for myself but they go to the effort of highlighting parts in red that the OCR was unsure of. Smart. I can see why these guys are industry leaders in OCR technology.
The app is compatible with all iPhones starting from 3GS.
iOS 5.0 or higher is required.
MAIN FEATURES:
✓ Forget having to manually enter contact details into your iPhone. Unsurpassed data recognition and speed, eliminate having to correct or re-key data, making creating new contacts easy and automatic.
✓ Save captured data as a new Lead directly to the Salesforce cloud CRM. Available as monthly and yearly subscriptions.
✓ Quickly find the contact you need. So CardHolder, the app's archive, provides convenient business card search, sorting and grouping functionality. So you can quickly and easily find the information you need.
✓ Always have your contacts secured. Archive and restore data from saved business cards to transfer to another iPhone or computer.
✓ Share contacts with others on the fly. Exchange recognized business cards via e-mail or SMS in convenient formats: text, image or *.vcf.
✓ Find your colleagues and friends in social networks. Find out more about your new contact on the most popular social networks such as Linkedln. Facebook and Twitter instantly!
✓ Recognize your contact and instantly find the addresses. Search in iPhone Maps for the address of your contact with just one tap, directly in Business Card Reader.
✓ Quickly verify recognition results. Insecure characters are highlighted to help you quickly check the recognition results.
✓ It recognizes business cards in 21 languages, including multilingual cards:
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Korean
- Norwegian (both Bokmal and Nynorsk)
- Polish
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
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With ABBYY Business Card Reader you can:
- Instantly transfer business card data in 21 languages right onto your iPhone "Contacts"
- Export new contacts to the Salesforce CRM
- Save contacts in the CardHolder, a special archive with convenient search, sorting and grouping functionality
- Share contact data via e-mail or SMS
- Transfer contacts to another iPhone or computer
★★★★★ by Neozenith
Clearly a lot of work has gone into making this app simple and easy to use. The OCR works well. 80-90% of what was scanned came through without a problem. So that is 80-90% of a business card I don't have to enter for myself but they go to the effort of highlighting parts in red that the OCR was unsure of. Smart. I can see why these guys are industry leaders in OCR technology.
The app is compatible with all iPhones starting from 3GS.
iOS 5.0 or higher is required.
MAIN FEATURES:
✓ Forget having to manually enter contact details into your iPhone. Unsurpassed data recognition and speed, eliminate having to correct or re-key data, making creating new contacts easy and automatic.
✓ Save captured data as a new Lead directly to the Salesforce cloud CRM. Available as monthly and yearly subscriptions.
✓ Quickly find the contact you need. So CardHolder, the app's archive, provides convenient business card search, sorting and grouping functionality. So you can quickly and easily find the information you need.
✓ Always have your contacts secured. Archive and restore data from saved business cards to transfer to another iPhone or computer.
✓ Share contacts with others on the fly. Exchange recognized business cards via e-mail or SMS in convenient formats: text, image or *.vcf.
✓ Find your colleagues and friends in social networks. Find out more about your new contact on the most popular social networks such as Linkedln. Facebook and Twitter instantly!
✓ Recognize your contact and instantly find the addresses. Search in iPhone Maps for the address of your contact with just one tap, directly in Business Card Reader.
✓ Quickly verify recognition results. Insecure characters are highlighted to help you quickly check the recognition results.
✓ It recognizes business cards in 21 languages, including multilingual cards:
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Korean
- Norwegian (both Bokmal and Nynorsk)
- Polish
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
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FOLLOW US on Twitter @ABBYY_Mobile
ABBYY Mobile on Facebook: facebook.com/AbbyyMobile
Best known in his later years as the outspoken
president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), the actor Charlton
Heston first earned a reputation in Hollywood for playing
larger-than-life figures in epic movies such as The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur. He died on this day in 2008, at the age of 84.
Born on October 4, 1923, and raised in the Midwest, Heston caught the
acting bug in high school; he later attended Northwestern University.
He landed his first major role in a 1947 production of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra on Broadway, and three years later made his film debut in Dark City.
Impressed with the young actor’s screen presence, the legendary
director Cecil B. DeMille cast Heston as the manager of a circus in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952). Four years later, DeMille gave Heston the role that would make him famous--that of the biblical hero Moses in The Ten Commandments.
With his leading-man status confirmed, Heston went on to star in
other notable films for Hollywood’s best directors. In 1958, he played a
Mexican narcotics detective in Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, appearing opposite Welles himself. Another biblical epic, Ben-Hur (1959), directed by William Wyler, won a then-record 11 Academy Awards (a mark that was later tied by Titanic in 1998 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2004). Heston took home an Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of a rebellious young aristocrat in ancient Judea.
In all, Heston would appear in some 100 movies on the big and small
screens over the course of his lengthy career. He played the title
character in the Spanish medieval epic El Cid (1961), opposite Sophia Loren, and was panned by critics for his turn as Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965). He portrayed Mark Antony in both Julius Caesar (1970) and Antony and Cleopatra (1973); he also directed the latter film. Heston also made forays into the Western genre (1968’s Willy Penny), science fiction (the 1968 hit The Planet of the Apes and its 1970 sequel, 1971’s Omega Man and 1973’s Soylent Green), and highbrow literary adaptations (1972’s The Call of the Wild and 1973’s The Three Musketeers). His later work for cable television included A Man for All Seasons (1988) and The Avenging Angel (1995).
Long active in political and social causes, Heston publicly supported the civil rights movement and participated in the historic march on Washington with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963. In 1966, Heston succeeded his friend and fellow actor Ronald Reagan
as president of the Screen Actors Guild, a post he would hold until
1971. He also served as chairman of the American Film Institute from
1973 to 1983. After Reagan won the U.S. presidency in 1980, he appointed
Heston as the co-chairman of a task force on arts and humanities. In
this role, Heston defended National Endowment for the Arts and proved to
be an effective speaker and public figure.
According to his obituary in The New York Times, Heston
switched his political affiliation from Democrat to Republican in 1987,
after the Democrats blocked the Supreme Court appointment of Robert
Bork, a conservative whom Heston supported. Over the next decade, Heston
began increasingly to speak out about what he saw as a decline of
morality in American popular culture and entertainment. In 1996, he
campaigned on behalf of various Republican candidates. He began focusing
specifically on the opposition to gun control. After being elected vice
president of the NRA in 1997, he became president the following year.
Heston parlayed his rugged onscreen persona into a forceful role at
the head of the NRA’s campaign against what it saw as the federal
government’s attempts to encroach on the constitutional right to bear
arms. In 2000, he made a memorable speech at the NRA’s annual
convention, bringing his audience to their feet with the rousing claim
that gun-control advocates would have to pry his gun “from my cold, dead
hands!” Meanwhile, Heston continued acting through the 1990s, making
one of his final film appearances (uncredited) in Tim Burton’s 2001
remake of Planet of the Apes.
Forget cheese! A dollop of peanut butter is actually better bait for mousetraps.
Google Translate:
Translate words and phrases between more than 60 languages using Google
Translate for iOS. For most languages, you can speak your phrases and
hear the corresponding translations.
With Google Translate you can:
• Translate text between 64 languages
• Translate by speaking the text instead of typing it (17 languages)
• Listen to your translations spoken aloud (24 languages)
• Display translations in full screen mode to make it easier for others nearby to read
• Star your favorite translations for quick access even when you’re offline
• Access your translation history even when you’re offline
• Spell out the translation of non-Latin script languages (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, etc..) in Latin characters to read it phonetically (e.g. Pinyin, Romaji)
Translations between the following languages are supported:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish
With Google Translate you can:
• Translate text between 64 languages
• Translate by speaking the text instead of typing it (17 languages)
• Listen to your translations spoken aloud (24 languages)
• Display translations in full screen mode to make it easier for others nearby to read
• Star your favorite translations for quick access even when you’re offline
• Access your translation history even when you’re offline
• Spell out the translation of non-Latin script languages (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, etc..) in Latin characters to read it phonetically (e.g. Pinyin, Romaji)
Translations between the following languages are supported:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish
Make faces at the security camera on the elevator.
Practice listening. Sitting in a quiet spot, try to identify all the sounds around you & the direction each comes from. (Most people can detect more sounds coming from in front than from behind.)
This weekend marks the debut of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories, & Ed is 1 of those stories. It's the 1 where he's trying to explain to the IRS why he claimed 6 bartenders as dependents. That was an amazing story. -Johnny Carson 1985
We aren't our feelings. We aren't our moods. We're not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about things separates us from them & from the animal world.
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