Grabavoys wonder strike wins AT&T Goal of the Week | Major League Soccer.

Congrats Ned, brilliant strike.

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Just a report on my blackberry pearl.  It’s still going strong after two years. I previously report about it here when I first got it.

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At the MAX conference yesterday, Adobe announced that designers and developers will be able to use Adobe Flash Professional CS5 to create rich, interactive applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

This is NOT Flash Player running on the iPhone. There is no new information about Flash Player on the iPhone. This announcement means that Flash designers and developers can use Flash Professional CS5 and ActionScript 3 to build native applications that can be distributed and downloaded via the Apple App Store.

This new feature was demonstrated in a sneak peak of Flash Professional CS5. The new features of Flash Professional CS5 also include a new text engine for creative freedom and control with text, XML based FLAs to boost team collaboration on projects, prebuilt code snippets for rapidly adding interactivity, as well as integrations with Adobe Flash Builder to improve ActionScript editing. A beta of Flash Professional CS5 will be available later this year via Adobe Labs.

Adobe announces ability to publish ActionScript 3 projects to run as native iPhone apps. More info at http://www.adobe.com/go/iphone

Adobe Flash Pro CS5 beta coming, supporting native iPhone apps. Sign up and more info at http://www.adobe.com/go/flashprobeta

You can learn more about this announcement in the FAQ below as well as in the following places • Adobe News Room (http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/) •

Information about apps for iPhone on Adobe Labs (http://www.adobe.com/go/iphone) • Information about Flash Professional CS5 on Adobe Labs (http://www.adobe.com/go/flashprobeta)

More about Flash Professional CS5

What did Adobe announce at MAX regarding Flash Professional?
Adobe previewed an early version of the next major version of Flash, Adobe Flash Professional CS5. Adobe also announced that a public beta of Flash Professional CS5 will be available for download from Adobe Labs later this year. That beta will include support for the ability to compile ActionScript 3® projects in Adobe Flash Professional to run as applications for iPhone. Interested designers and developers can go to Adobe Labs to sign up and to be notified when the beta is available.

What are the new features of Flash Professional CS5?
There are many new and exciting features in Flash Professional CS5. These include
• New text capabilities via the Text Layout Framework (TLF). Get unprecedented control and creativity with text in Flash projects. Advanced styling and layout, including right to left text, columns, threaded text blocks let you work with text in Flash like never before.
• XML based FLA files let you manage and modify project assets using source control systems, and enable teams to easily collaborate on files.
• Code Snippets panel provides pre-built code that can be injected into projects for greater interactivity and also reduces the ActionScript 3 learning curve. The panel includes code for timeline navigation (ie: click to go to the next scene) actions (ie: drag and drop), animation (ie: move with keyboard arrows), audio and video, event handlers (ie: mouse events) and loading and unloading of assets.
• Flash Builder integration. Use Flash Builder to write ActionScript code within Flash projects.
• Improved ActionScript editor, including custom class code-hinting and completion

When will the Flash Professional CS5 beta be available for download?
The beta will be available for download from Adobe Labs before the end of 2009. How much will Flash Professional CS5 or Creative Suite cost? We are not announcing any pricing at this time. Where can customers go to be notified when the beta is available? You can sign up to be notified: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmfor/index.cfm?name=fpcs5_notify

More information about applications for iPhone
Q: When will Adobe Flash Platform tooling support building applications for iPhone?
A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 including support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year. Sign up to be notified when the beta is available.: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=fpcs5_notify

Q: How does the Flash Platform tooling update help developers?

The tooling update allows developers to use Flash technologies to develop content for iPhone and iPod touch, devices that were previously closed to them. Developers can write new code or reuse existing web content to build applications for iPhone. Because the source code and assets are reusable across the Flash Platform runtimes,—Adobe AIR and Flash Player—it also gives developers a way to more easily target other mobile and desktop environments.

Q: How is this different from Adobe Flash Player 10 coming to iPhone? Will iPhone users be able to view web content built with Flash technology in the iPhone browser?

The new support for iPhone applications in the Flash Platform tooling will not allow iPhone users to browse web content built with Flash technology on iPhone, but it may allow developers to repackage existing web content as applications for iPhone if they choose to do so. Flash Player uses a just-in-time compiler and virtual machine within a browser plug-in to play back content on websites. Those technologies are not allowed on the iPhone at this time, so a Flash Player for iPhone is not being made available today. Flash Professional CS5 will enable developers to build applications for iPhone that are installed as native applications. Users will be able to access the apps after downloading them from Apple’s App Store and installing them on iPhone or iPod touch.

Q: Can applications for iPhone built with Flash Platform tooling be delivered through Apple’s App Store?

Yes. Developers can deliver applications built with Flash Platform tooling just like any other iPhone application. This will require the developer to be a member of the iPhone Developer Program and follow the program guidelines.

Q: Do developers need to participate in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program in order to develop or deploy applications for iPhone using the Flash Platform tools?

Yes. A developer certificate from Apple is required in order to test and deploy applications to iPhone. Apple provides information on its developer programs at http://developer.apple.com/iphone/.

Q: Are applications for iPhone built with Flash Platform tools interpreted at runtime?

No. iPhone applications built with Flash Platform tools are compiled into standard, native iPhone executables, just like any other iPhone application.

Q: Can applications load SWF files or other code at runtime, such as a module from a website?

No. iPhone applications built with Flash Platform tools are compiled into standard, native iPhone executable packages and there is no runtime interpreter that could be used to run ActionScript bytecode within the application.

Q: Which version of the iPhone SDK/operating system is supported by the applications?

Applications can be built targeting iPhone OS 3.0 and later.

Q: Will applications built with Flash Platform tools work on iPod touch? iPhone 1.0? iPhone 3G? iPhone 3GS?

Applications should work on all iPhone and iPod touch devices. However, as the hardware specifications of the devices are widely divergent, content performance may vary between devices and device generations.

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Looking for Adobe Flash actionscript 3 helps? Check out: http://dsmith.tv/

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Testing some new logos. Here’s one.

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Here is video of when Lebron James got dunked on in summer league. I guess that even the best get dunked on…even if it is just a summer league game.

Click here

Lebron James is a great NBA player and dunks like crazy. One of the best all time. Lebron dunks with the best dunkers in the world. Even the new guys in the league at summer camp know how to dunk.

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I had a security assignment this morning at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house. As I was patrolling the grounds I took some snapshots with my cell of the temple. Here they are:

0245 – arrived for duty. wow it’s early.

0345 – Just finished reading the 109th section of D&C as I watched the West entrance. Great read.

0410 – Making the rounds after a walkie-talkie check.

0530 – In the cart now. Patrolling the parking lots.  Here comes the sun.

0535 – other side.

0545 – front

0600 – Sun makes its first appearance over the Wasatch.

0800 – Shift is over. Time to go to the day job.

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One thing that we enjoy doing as a family is camping.  We had a Coleman tent-trailer for like 5-6 years and last year we finally decided that we had out grown it.  So we thought that we’d do our part in helping the economy and invest in a new(er) trailer for camping (and despite what Kyality might think…this does not make me a redneck )…OK, the economy wasn’t the real reason…we mostly just wanted to spend more time as a family doing things we loved.

Here are some photos:

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Some of my earliest memories are of my grandpa. When we’d go over and visit them for Sunday dinner or to participate in some kind of service project grandpa would always greet us with a smile and then he’d say to me, “Arms out straight Daniel…OK, turn”, then we would both turn our arms as far as we could attempting to swivel them so the palms of our hands would be facing upwards. Both grandpa and I were born with a slight deformity of the bone in our elbows which prohibited the proper swiveling of the arm. It is called Congential Radioulnar Synostosis (CRS). My brother Andrew also was born with this inability.

As I would twist and turn my arms at grandpa’s request, I some how thought and got the impression that one day, if I tried hard enough and kept practicing as grandpa instructed, my arms would be “normal.” What grandpa was teaching me was a lesson I will never forget.

You might think that this physical limitation seems somewhat minor and insignificant in the grand scheme of life. I want to ask you to think of all the daily tasks you perform in every aspect and count how many times you need to turn your palms upwards to perform a simple task…it’s really quite amazing. Think about playing sports: baseball, using the glove to pick up a ground ball; opening a car door; taking change from a cashier. All of these tasks can be a challenge.

Every time grandpa and I met he would show me another trick he had learned that helped him overcome his simple daily challenges. We’d talk and smile and share ideas. Grandpa was teaching me and I felt a special bond knowing that he truly knew and felt what I was going through each and everyday.

Later in life when I was 19 years old, grandpa taught me one of the most important principles in life. We were serving side-by-side in a church related setting. The service required using our arms in away that grandpa and I were not able to perform as had been instructed. A man that was unaware of our challenges noticed grandpa and quickly came over to try and instruct him on the correct manner. Grandpa replied to him, “this is the best I can do.” The man smiled and returned to his place. During similar service and throughout my life when people have nudged me or approached me, I have replied with what grandpa taught me that day: “this is the best I can do”.

Grandpa always did his best in every area and aspect in his life no matter what the calling or position. Whether it be in family, church, community or business grandpa did his best. This principle and the lessons I have learned from him, along with the challenges that we shared with our arms, are some of the greatest blessings of my life.

Arms out straight grandpa…

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* Born 1921 Salt Lake City, Utah
* Baptized as a child at 8 years old; Aaronic Priesthood as a youth; Melchizedek Priesthood as a young man
* Married Barbara Bradshaw 1941; seven children
* Elders Quorum President, Bishop, Stake President, Regional Representative, Temple Sealer
* First Quorum of Seventy 1987-1989
* Second Quorum of Seventy 1989-1992
* Honorably released from Second Quorum 1992

The following biographical sketch is adapted from the “News of the Church: Elder Douglas H. Smith of the First Quorum of the Seventy” published in the Ensign for May 1987 on the occasion of Elder Smith’s call to the First Quorum of the Seventy.

When President Spencer W. Kimball called Barbara B. Smith to serve as general president of the Relief Society in October 1974, he turned to her husband and asked: “Will you be able to support your wife in this assignment?”

Douglas H. Smith replied, “Yes. She has supported me for over thirty years in the positions I’ve held, and I’ll certainly be happy to support her.” And he did.

With his recent call to the First Quorum of the Seventy, Elder Smith, sixty-five, now has need of his family’s support. And there is no doubt that he has it.

Ready support for family members seems to come naturally to the Smiths. All seven children now have families of their own, but they still live near each other and Elder Smith calls them almost every day. They have frequent family dinners. The monthly Smith Family News, including articles from each family, is “a wonderful way to keep in touch and to keep a history of what’s happening in the family,” Sister Smith says. Every summer they get together for a two- to three-day activity. And for the past five years, they’ve held an annual family conference for everyone twelve and older.

Support is extended to others as well. Elder Smith had lunch with his mother once a week as long as she lived. And for years the Smiths have had someone living with them: her father, her aunt (who lived with them for twenty years until she was in her nineties), a boy from Taiwan, a girl from South Africa, and several others needing a place to live for an extended period of time.

Douglas H. Smith was born 11 May 1921 in Salt Lake City to Virgil H. and Winifred Pearl Hill Smith. “Our lives were built around the Church,” he says, “And I’ve always had a strong testimony.” The closest he came to choosing another path came one Sunday when, as a deacon, he felt baseball’s beckoning call and decided to skip Sunday School. Sitting in the bleachers at the ball park, he heard a voice next to him:

“Great game, isn’t it?”

When he turned to reply, he was stunned to find his dad sitting there; the father had missed his son at church and had come to find him.

Elder Smith is well known in his family for his motto: “Choose you this day whom ye will serve; … but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Josh. 24:15). After marriage in the temple in 1941, he became an Aaronic Priesthood adviser, then elders quorum president, bishop’s counselor, and bishop. Later he served as high councilor, stake president’s counselor, stake president, and regional representative. Most recently he has served as a temple sealer and, with his wife, has team-taught the Gospel Doctrine class.

The day after graduating from the University of Utah in 1942, he got a job at Utah Home Fire Insurance Company. Sixteen years later, he was president of the company. And after another fourteen years, in 1972, he also became president of Beneficial Life Insurance Company, a position his father had held. He has also served as executive vice-president and general manager of Deseret Management Corporation and as chairman or member of the board of several other banking and insurance organizations. Active in community circles as well, he served for over nine years as chairman of the Salt Lake LDS Hospital Board and has also served with such organizations as Freedom Foundation of Valley Forge, American Cancer Society, and Boy Scouts of America.

“When President [Ezra Taft] Benson called me,” says Elder Smith, “I told him that a long time ago we made commitments to the Lord and we intend to keep them. Now we’re simply being asked if we meant it. The answer is yes.”
Elder Smith seved but two years of his five-year call in the First Council of the Seventy. On April 1, 1989, he was called into the newly organized Second Quorum of the Seventy where he faithfully completed the remainder of his calling. Elder Douglas Hill Smith was honorably released October 3, 1992.

Bibliography
“News of the Church: Elder Douglas H. Smith…,” Ensign May 1987 (principal source)
“The Sustaining of Church Officers,” Ensign, May 1989, p.17
“The Sustaining of Church Officers,” Ensign, Nov. 1992, p.20
2005 Church Almanac, 84

More Links:

http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/56542/Elder-Douglas-H-Smith-former-member-of-Seventy-passes-away-at-age-87.html

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705281545,00.html

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Life In-Between is the latest CD from Royal Bliss set to be release January 13th.  Having close ties to Royal Bliss, I was privileged  enough to have listened to the new CD before its release, Life In-Between.  Here’s my take: Solid. It’s the best Royal Bliss CD to date. These guys are really talented and have come a long way since back in 1997 when Bliss played their first show in the basement of DV8 and now they are releasing Life In-Between.  Congrats boys!

I strongly suggest that you get your own copy of Life In-Between by Royal Bliss.  You can get it online at Amazon Here.

Royal Bliss is modern rock with equal parts beauty and tragedy. The band has already been through enough to justify their own VH1 Behind The Music episode complete with addiction, near death experiences, car crashes, and lawsuits. The elements of life lie in the process and the adventure, this album is the result of that journey, a place where tragedy and beauty can exist side by side, where every emotion is valid and every emotion is needed. Such is the essence of Royal Bliss.

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Today I had a pointless chat with the online help folks of a hosting company. I wanted to find out why my connection to a MySQL database using MySQL Administrator wasn’t working. As you can see I would’ve been better off just trying to figure it out on my own.

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***Waiting for an agent to respond***
*** Chat Session Opened ***
You are chatting with Support_Person.
Support_Person: Hello, Dan . You have successfully connected to your technical services operator. Please wait one moment while I verify and review your information.

Dan: Hello…
Support_Person: Hello, in order to make a backup, please use connection below:
Support_Person: mysqldump -h hostmane -u usermane -ppassword databasename > mZe.sql
Dan: uhhh, what?
Support_Person: It is connection string that creates backup of database
Support_Person: But I suggest you to use special software MyqlYOG
Support_Person: It is easy client that allows you to make backups and restore databases from that backups
Dan: so I can’t use MySQL Administrator?
Support_Person: Generally, you can use any tool, but unfortunately, we do not provide support for third party software, like MySQL Administrator
Dan: well it has always worked in the past and now it says that was an error connecting. so, is there any other way to make a back-up other than a dump?
Support_Person: No. it is the only way
Dan: I’ve tried to use phpmyadmin and then restore the file and it says that there is an error in the file
Support_Person: What is the size of your file?
Dan: about 5 and a half mb
Support_Person: That’s why you’ve got that error, phpmyadmin allows you to upload files less then 2Mb
Support_Person: So I suggest you to use MyqlYOG, it does not have size limitation
Dan: yeah but it costs money for the full version
Dan: ok here is the error I see when I try using MySQL Administrator: Access denied; you need the SHOW DATABASES privilege for this operation
Dan: can you give me those privileges?
Support_Person: No, unfortunately this option is protected on our system due to security reasons
Dan: so basically I cannot make a backup or restore my database…
Dan: this is unaccetpable
Support_Person: You can, but via another tools, it seems your MySQL Administrator tool are not able to make a backup without this option
Dan: but this tool costs money…when in the past the free tool from MySql has always worked
Dan: why now are you forcing me to pay for something that was working in the past?
Support_Person: It seems the size of your backups were less then 2 Mb
Dan: wrong
Dan: I need this to happen today
Dan: can I talk with your manager?
Dan: can we allow the privlege for just a few minutes so I can do a backup?
Support_Person: Unfortunately, it is not possible
Dan: thats not an option
Dan: you’re telling me that something you offered before was possible and now it has changed
Dan: I need this to happen
Support_Person: I apologize, it is a sql command that is protected on our server
Dan: its a simple SHOW DATABASES setting
Dan: can you ask your manager for me?
Support_Person: Unfortunately, it is not simple settings, we are using shared hosting structure, so this command will allow you to have access to all databases of all our clients
Support_Person: Unfortunately, it is not possible
Dan: well then the way you have it set up with usernames isn’t correctly configured
Dan: if you had it setup by usernames…I should be able to see all of my databases
Dan: and not everyone else’s
Support_Person: I apologize, but unfortunately, we can not enable this command for your domain due to security reasons
Dan: unacceptable
Dan: please consider changing your Mysql security structure as it is incorrectly configured
Support_Person: Dan, I apologize, but our structure can not be changed by your request
Dan: please be advised that it is flawed
Support_Person: Ok, Dan, we will take your opinion into our consideration
Dan: thanks
Support_Person: Is there anything else you would like me to help you with today?
Dan: nope…just have a nice day!

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The good times are over.

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Hey, I’m on Twitter…have been for like a year: http://www.twitter.com/dmode

Follow me.

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If you are on the web, chances are you’ve heard of woot.com.

Woot.com is a company that offers to sell one item per day. Once they sale out of that item…you have to wait until the next day for the next deal. Once in awhile they have a woot off. A Woot-Off is an event when woot sells limited quantities of products, back to back. Each product can sellout between 1 minute and like 12 hours.

So here’s the idea: offer two products a day instead of just one. Yeah I know that would change the whole cliche of “one day one deal”, but you’d probably increase revenue 100%. Just an idea.

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David Archuleta’s Mormon Girl…Heh, found this pic on ksl.com

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