 The result is very sharp prints, easily the equal of conventional photographic 4x6 photos of the sort you'd get from your film camera. The 6000 prints one image to a page, or as many as twenty small thumbnails on a single "index" page, printing as many index pages as needed to accommodate all the photos in the camera. A nice touch on the index prints is that the printer overlays red rectangles on full-frame images (as opposed to those shot using the camera's 3:2 aspect ratio mode), showing how the pictures will be cropped when printed. The maximum printable area is 4x6 inches (102 x 152 millimeters) without borders. Paper size is 4x7 inches (102 x 181 millimeters), which includes two 0.6-inch (14.5 millimeter) perforated tabs on either side. Prints are waterproof and seemed to be quite durable.
Kodak EasyShare Printer Dock 6000.
Universal camera insert.
Kodak EasyShare NiMH rechargeable battery pack.
10-picture sample color cartridge.
10-piece sample paper pack.
Print head cleaning tool.
Kodak EasyShare Software CD.
User guide and registration card.
Versatile, compact, and easy to use, the Kodak EasyShare Printer Dock 6000 is definitely worth considering by anyone who owns a Kodak CX/DX 6000 or LS600 series digital camera. The ability to print directly from the camera in just a couple of minutes can't be beat, especially considering the high quality print output. Plus, the dock's instant image transfer capabilities makes downloading images quick and easy, just as the EasyShare name implies. Finally, the built-in battery charger and included rechargeable battery pack substitute for the separate battery/charger set you'd need to buy anyway. Perfect for novices or anyone who wants to print their photos right now, and without the hassle of using a computer, the Printer Dock 6000 should be a best-seller.Any residents who are on the point of making a planning application might want to do so next week before the prices go up!
It has been announced on the 16th November that The government’s increase of planning fees have been agreed in both Houses of Parliament and will come into force on 22nd November 2012. The fee increases will affect all types of planning applications, including full applications, certificates of lawfulness, non-material amendments and discharges of conditions.
Apparently the fee increase, approx 15% represents the rate of inflation since 2008 when the fees were last changed.
Please note that the above is the draft version of the final signed version of the Statutory Instrument will be available to be downloaded from the http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ from the 22 November 2012.Why does *anything* need a story?  If you care about the characters, it's only natural for you to want to see more about them.  Also, it's super easy to take elements out of anything and make it sound silly.  Like, your description of Mario sounds no weirder than me saying "A tunic wearing elf boy travels with his enchanted sword to defeat a giant pig wizard while living off of disembodied hearts and meeting talking trees and fish along the way."  It's very easy to do that, let's not resort to those clichés.

The Mario series has a very unique aesthetic which, I think, allows for weirder and more abstract stories.  We can believe there's a princess of star children roaming the universe in a giant spaceship in Mario, whereas that would be a bigger hurdle to jump in a world like Zelda (let alone get us to actually care about those characters). 

Miyamoto is a legend.  I totally get that.  I have a lot of respect for his past work.  But he's proven he's not perfect, he can very well make some poor choices that lead to things like the controversial Star Fox Zero.  Just because he doesn't think Mario shouldn't have story doesn't necessarily mean it shouldn't.Get the highlights in your inbox every week.
Testing Small Scale Scrum in the real world
Testing Small Scale Scrum in the real world
We plan to test the Small Scale Scrum framework in real-world projects involving small teams.
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We plan to implement Small Scale Scrum in several upcoming projects. Our test candidates are customers with real projects where teams of one to three people will undertake short-lived projects (ranging from a few weeks to three months) with an emphasis on quality and outputs. Individual projects, such as final-year projects (over 24 weeks) that are a capstone project after four years in a degree program, are almost exclusively completed by a single person. In projects of this nature, there is an emphasis on the project plan and structure and on maximizing the outputs that a single person can achieve.
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We plan to metricize and publish the results of these projects and hold several retrospectives with the teams involved. We are particularly interested in metrics centered around quality, with a particular emphasis on quality in a software engineering context and management, both project management through the lifecycle with a customer and management of the day-to-day team activities and the delivery, release, handover, and signoff process.
Ultimately, we will retrospectively analyze the overall framework and principles and see if the Manifesto we envisioned holds up to the reality of executing a project with small numbers. From this data, we will produce the second version of Small Scale Scrum and begin a cyclic pattern of inspecting the model in new projects and adapting it again.
We want to do all of this transparently. This series of articles is one window into the data, the insights, the experiences, and the reality of running scrum for small teams whose everyday challenges include context switching, communication, and the need for a quality delivery. A follow-up series of articles is planned to examine the outputs and help develop the second edition of Small Scale Scrum entirely in the community.
We also plan to attend conferences and share our knowledge with the Agile community. Our first conference will be Agile 2019 where the evolution of Small Scale Scrum will be further explored as an Experience Report. We are advising colleges and sharing our structure and approach to managing and executing final-year projects. All our outputs will be freely available in the open source way.
Given the changes to recommended team sizes in the Scrum Guide, our long-term goal and vision is to have the Scrum Guide reflect that teams of one or more people occupying one or more roles within a project are capable of following scrum.
Leigh Griffin will present Small Scale Scrum at Agile 2019 in Washington, August 5-9, 2019 as an Experience Report. An expanded paper will be published on Agile Alliance to accompany this.
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At this moment, the U.S. government is signalling in its budget that it is in an accelerated retreat from aid and soft power influences, and a further retreat from international allegiances of any sort: the U.N., NATO, NAFTA. The U.S. proposed budget will shrink the power of its state as never before.
And on the other hand, the Chinese political and business leadership are in town.
In such a moment, New Zealand bears some similarity to Singapore.
Singapore has long had an outsize influence and strategic importance because it controls a vital access point through the Malaccan Straits for the maritime trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and Asia. The U.S. valued Singapore’s first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, because among other things he was an ardent Cold War warrior determined like Holyoake and Muldoon to stop the spread of Communism in the region. While in political terms Lee verged towards authoritarian, Singapore would never become a Chinese ally. China harbours no illusions about Singapore’s allegiances.
New Zealand is no threat to anyone’s shipping trade. But by being the first to sign a Free Trade Deal with China, it signalled to the United States and to its other traditional allies like Australia that it was still prepared to be ‘turnable’ in its international allegiances. In a different way to Singapore, New Zealand is an axial point in China’s place in the world.
It’s worth reflecting for a moment on what New Zealand would be buying into with truly deepening ties into China. In recent years, China has taken a leading role in the establishment of a new set of international economic institutions, including the New Development Bank, the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement, the AIIB, and the Silk Road Fund. Together these are counterweight entities to the Western-led International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and the European Central Bank, which have dominated the global financial order since after the Second World War.
China is arguably the only country in history, after Britain and the United States, with the capacity to shape and lead a global system of finance and trade. China is not (yet) proposing global financial dominance – it has consistently promoted the AIIB and other organisations as complements, not competitors, of the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. But their strength will accelerate.
The Chinese and New Zealand governments share a spirit of utopian capitalism, both driven by the belief that as long as state-owned enterprises continually withdraw or dissolve and are replaced by private firms, they