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As Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry scored big wins in a seven-state contest Tuesday, three of Nevada's seven Democratic superdelegates said they've changed from uncommitted to Kerry "leaners."
National Committeewoman Dina Titus, a state senator from Las Vegas, said she's tentatively supporting Sen. Kerry, D-Mass., although she won't make a firm commitment until the Nevada Democratic caucuses Feb. 14.
"I'm leaning toward a Kerry-Edwards ticket," said Titus. "It would be good for Nevada and good for Democrats in general."
"John Kerry really fits," Titus added. "He's right on the economic issues and on social issues. He's been in war, he has experience. He has Senate votes on the record showing his opposition to the nuclear dump" that the federal government wants to open at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
State Democratic Party chairwoman and superdelegate Adriana Martinez has been uncommitted but said Tuesday she's also leaning toward Kerry, followed by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.
"John Kerry and his stance on the issues has always appealed to me," said Martinez. "But it's a close, close second for Dean, very close ... I love what he has done for the party, the energy he has created. I like him, and Edwards too."
Superdelegate and national committeeman Steven Horsford of Las Vegas said he also hasn't taken a formal position but tends to favor Kerry.
"Kerry definitely has the edge," said Horsford. "He considers himself the front-runner and I think that's true." He added that Edwards and Wesley Clark still have some support, but "it seems that Dean's momentum is running out."
Superdelegate Yvonne Atkinson Gates, a Clark County commissioner who's chairing Dean's campaign in Nevada, said she's sticking with Dean for now.
"When I say I support you, I support you until pretty much the end, until I can see it's doubtful," Atkinson Gates said. "That's just the way I am."
Atkinson Gates said she wanted to wait until after more caucuses this weekend because Dean "is back in the game" if he can some of the big states that are up.
"I'm not going to switch over now just because everything looks bad."
Of the three other Nevada superdelegates, Rep. Shelley Berkley and Sen. Harry Reid remain undecided and the party's vice chairman, Brian Wallace, favors Clark.
"Wesley Clark has demonstrated the most openness and willingness to embrace a native agenda," said Wallace, Washoe tribal chairman. "He's worked very closely on serious issues that affect the dreams of our community."
Berkley has said key factors in the Nevada caucuses will be the candidates' position on issues such as gambling and Yucca Mountain. She said both Kerry and Wesley Clark have pro-Nevada positions on Yucca Mountain and Kerry also has a stance on gambling issues that's OK for Nevada.
Reid questioned whether any delegate can emerge from the primaries and caucuses with enough support for the nomination prior to the party's national convention. A presidential candidate needs 2,162 delegates to secure the nomination.
Nevada will send a total of 32 delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Boston in July. The seven superdelegates have no more power than the other delegates except that they are elected or party officials. Three pledged delegates will be determined at the state convention in April.
In related action, Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, D-Henderson, became the highest-ranking Democratic official in the state to endorse Kerry. Perkins called Kerry "the best fit for Nevada. He was a war hero, and he is an absolute no on Yucca Mountain."
Kerry's campaign in Nevada is led by former Rep. Jim Bilbray of Las Vegas and by state Sen. Terry Care, D-Las Vegas, the former state party chairman. The Kerry team hopes to boost their candidate's chances in Nevada with a visit before the Feb. 14 Democratic precinct caucuses.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe said Nevada Democrats can expect to have visits from "two, maybe three" viable presidential candidates by Feb. 14.


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Golden State announced starting center Andrew Bogut will not return after he sprained his left ankle. Yes, the same ankle that casued him to miss 38 games between November and January.
He is not receiving X-rays, but according to a team official he apparently sprained the ankle in the last game. After trying to play on it the first 9 minutes, 5 seconds, he was shut down for the night.

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Release date: Aug. 9 Director Neill Blomkamp burst out onto the scene with his 2009 debut film "District 9," so it's no surprise that his next original sci-fi project, "Elysium," has earned plenty of buzz. The movie is set in a dystopian future where the wealthy live in a space station called Elysium -- described as "Bel Air in space" -- and the rest of humanity is forced to live in the slums on Earth. Beyond its intriguing storyline and beautiful special effects, the cast of the film is incredibly impressive. Matt Damon plays a down-on-his-luck ex-con who needs to get to Elysium to save his life, while Jodie Foster plays the woman in Elysium whose job it is to prevent him. "District 9's" lead Sharlto Copley also appears in this movie as Kruger, a spec ops soldier who is tasked with stopping Damon's character from reaching Elysium. -- Terri Schwartz, Zap2it
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I'm interested in acquiring a Nikonos Sea & Sea 12mm lens. Don't need the viewfinder, just the lens. Anyone have one collecting dust?
located in the US...
WTB Sea & Sea 12mm Nikonos Wide Angle
Started by jmauricio, Jan 24 2013 12:05 PM
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Posted 26 January 2013 - 04:54 AM
Have a 16 mm screw on wide angle Sea and Sea, but not 12 mm lens.
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Hi, I don't have the S&S 12mm but do have a Nikon 15mm f2.8 Version I for Nikonos. And a viewfinder. Let me know if that could do the job for you.


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North Korea To Enable Mobile Internet Access — For Visitors Only 114
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports that the reclusive country of North Korea is planning to enable 3G mobile internet access. It will not be available to the country's estimated one million mobile users, however. The service will be available only to international visitors, who have been allowed to bring their own mobile devices into the country since January of this year. The decision comes shortly after Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said enabling 3G internet in the country would be 'very easy' during his recent visit there. Currently, North Korean citizens can only access a small number of state-controlled sites. Might this decision open the door for some of them to surreptitiously access the open net?"


text: It is no secret that the world is facing a food epidemic. There are more overweight and obese children and adults than ever before. But beyond that, there are so many other concerns that are tied into the food epidemic that need to be addressed and every one of us is responsible to ourselves and our families to understand better what we are putting into our mouths and work on putting the right foods into our bodies. I hear parents complain all of the time, "my child will not eat this veggie or that fruit," or "my child is so picky, she will only eat a few foods." I think those comments are just ways to get out of making food an important part of our lives. I have 3 young children and I know that it does take work to keep my kids trying new foods and embracing healthy choices but with a little knowledge, the right groceries and the right dialogue we can eat healthier and our kids will grow up making healthier choices for themselves. I believe everyone needs to eat better, no matter your age, and that the younger we start serving our kids healthy food and talking about the importance of healthy food the easier and healthier it is for our kids. Here are my recommendations for getting your family to eat healthy. 1. Understand why you need to eat vegetables, fruits, healthy protein, grains, etc… 2. Start thinking about food from the right perspective. I am eating these veggies or fruit, because it fuels my body, it strengthens my body; it helps my body work well and helps my brain function and makes me smarter. 3. Start talking out loud, to your family, about the benefits of a healthy snack or healthy vegetable or meal. All day long in my house we talk about and use these words to describe foods: "It is healthy, it is good for your body, it helps you grow big and strong, it helps you see better, have energy, etc." 4. Limit the Amount of Fast Food or Prepared Meals 4. Limit the Amount of Fast Food or Prepared Meals I am not saying there is not a place for an occasional treat or opportunity to go out for ice cream. What I am saying is you have to lay the groundwork for yourself and your family to eat the foods your body needs every day. In regards to Fast Food, stop eating it on a regular basis. Most of it is very unhealthy. If you do need to occasionally eat at a fast food restaurant or any restaurant, research ahead of time what items are fairly healthy and always stick to those items for yourself and your kids. For examples, I occasionally eat at Chick-Fil-A and I always order the Chargrilled Chicken Sandwich (it has a whole wheat bun, lettuce, tomato, no sauce and it is high in protein and low in fat, although a little high in sodium. If there is not a Chick-Fil-A around I may go to McDonald's. They have several healthy salad options (just choose your dressing wisely) or the Grilled Snack Wrap is only 9grams of Fat, so one of those will usually work well for me. For my kids, I order a snack wrap or a 4 piece nuggets (not the best, but ok when paired with fruit option and low fat milk). Most restaurant sites and fast food restaurants publish the nutritional information on their websites or go to www.calories.net or a similar site where you can search for the nutritional information on food you may get from the grocery store or a fast food or chain restaurant. Get your kids involved in your meals. Let them help make dinner Let them help make their lunch. Let them pick out a new fruit or veggie to try while grocery shopping. Let them help assemble a healthy, but fun, meal. Even my 3 year old helps put sauce, the veggies and lowfat cheese on a whole wheat pizza crust. Let your child help come up with fun dinner ideas- like lets eat yellow and green veggies and fruits today (banana, salad, pepper, grapefruit, etc…) Try to take your kids on some food-related field trips. Take them to a farm or farmer's market one afternoon or weekend. Let them discover their own new, favorite fruit or vegetable. Have your Kids Try a New Food< Don't give in- be positive, talk about how much you like eating the fruit, vegetables, and other healthy foods. I request my children take one bite of a food but that is all. Usually they like the food but not always. And I keep trying to give it to them but I may introduce it mixed in with something or prepared differently the next time. For example, my 5 year old son said he did not like peppers that were on the pizza. I told him to try one small piece of pepper. He ended up liking them so much, he asked for extras and asked for peppers every night. Now that same son does not like apples. But he likes almost every other fruit I give him so I do not push the apples. I do request he try a bite of an apple every once in a while so when he is ready to eat it he realizes they are tasty. All of my kids love salad. In my house it is usually baby spinach leaves. As long as it has a tasty dressing on it, or with it, they will eat the salad. Most days my kids have spinach salad at either lunch or dinner or both meals. Even my 16-month-old son has started eating the spinach from my plate. Why? Because he sees everyone eating it and wants to eat what we are eating. If you are not eating healthy fruits and vegetables, and making it fun, your kids will not want to eat them. I am not saying the first time you try to offer something it will always be a success or that your kids will eat all of their fruits and veggies. But if you get them involved and give them a choice of 2 different veggies and 2 different fruits (before you prepare it), then I make the one they choose. I do not let them chose every time but I do for most meals because it is more important for me to get them to eat fruits and veggies than trying to control what they are eating. Of course, I do serve only 1 main dish for everyone but I do feel offering choices helps them to enjoy fruits and veggies. Sometimes I tell them we are having asparagus, or salad, because that is what we have or need to use but usually those are the fruits and veggies I know everyone likes and it is not a problem. Avoid kid-favorite foods that are prepackaged as much as possible. Okay, as far as I know, the well-known brands of frozen chicken nuggets and pizza are not very healthy choices for your kids. Believe me, my kids love chicken nuggets as much as the next kid but I do not serve them regularly. Instead, I pick foods they really enjoy that are super healthy and even easy. Cedar Farms makes these amazing bean burritos that are super-low in fat, high in protein and fiber, even dairy free. They can be microwaved and everyone in my family loves them. I do, as well as my 1 ½ year old, 3 year old, 5 year old and husband. They make a perfect meal when paired with a fruit and salad. I also make wraps quite often. I put in many combinations. But, basically, always have low-fat whole wheat wraps/burrito tortillas on hand. The ones I buy are only 2 grams of fat and 110 calories for the tortilla. In it, I put seasoned, cut-up, cooked chicken or vegetarian refried beans, lettuce, cut-up veggies, a little low-fat cheese and a little low-fat dressing (honey mustard, or some other type). My kids eat these up. Read up on food and Pay Attention to the Health Headlines 1.Did you know there are some concerns about microwave popcorn, about an additive, diacetyl, when heated in the microwave, that gives off dangerous fumes? 2.Are you aware that food manufacturers do not have to list over 200 additives or ingredients on the food labels- I think that is out right deceitful and they should be required to list every single thing on the label or what is the point of having labels? 3.How about transfat- did you know a manufacturer can say no transfat per serving if it is under a certain amount of transfats?- but if you eat a serving and a half or 2 serving it would be enough to mention? In other words some foods still have transfats but are tricking you with their wording- no trans fat per serving usually means there is still transfat but in small quantities. 4. Chicken Nuggets 5. French Fries 6. Pizza 7. 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The capacity in pounds of the lift used by a roofing company to place roofing shingles and buckets of
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Pick A Secure Cloud Service, Emphasize Security
One reason some businesses are hesitant to move to the cloud is because they remain wary of potential security and availability problems. That means solution providers must keep security in mind when choosing a cloud service provider to work with.
"You've got to look at the security. You've got to look at the availability. Public or private, science project, pictures or critical business, you've got to make the decision on what's the best cloud, but it should be reliable," said Verizon's Schijns.


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From 12 October 2013 to 16 March 2014 the Linden Museum in Stuttgart will be hosting the major regional exhibition – 'Inca'. Visitors of every age are invited to join an incredible adventure exploring the mysterious culture of the Incas. A diverse array of exhibits illustrates the history of this indigenous empire right up to colonial times, bringing to life this important South American culture. There's also lots to interest younger guests on a circuit designed especially for children.
Germany has plenty to offer culturally minded visitors, with fascinating towns & cities and more than 4,000 museums just waiting to be discovered.


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The American Monument. Photographs by Lee Friedlander. Cover and typography designed by Lance Hidy. Eakins Press, New York, 1976. 77 pp. Hand-numbered edition of 150 copies. Dark red cloth with gilt-stamped black leather spine. With an original photo housed in mat compartment in rear of the book (SHOWN AT RIGHT--12 x 17 in./30.5 x 43.2 cm.;, SIGNED, titled, numbered on recto). 213 halftone reproductions meticulously printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. In the original numbered blue board box with the original padding.
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"In an environment dominated by menacing speed, instability, advertising and television, the American monument plays a meditative role. A grace of intention shines through the ofttimes awkward alliance of efforts that produced them. They are redeemed by the confidence they express in the worth of the act memorialized. In this album the viewer and the viewed hold each other in balance. A world buried alive in our midst is unearthed to us. The photographer has brought it to us to see.
All doctrines, all politics and civilization, exurge from you,
All sculpture and monuments, and anything inscribed anywhere, are tallied in you,
The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach, is in you this hour, and myths and tales the same,
If you were not breathing and walking here, where would they all be?
–Walt Whitman
But I think we are moved more deeply by Friedlander's intuitions concerning the nature of America's relationship to its past, concerning the vernacular materials out of which with attention we might fashion a culture, concerning the evidence of these countless attempts to preserve and nourish the idea of community. I am still astonished and heartened by the deep affection in those pictures, by the photographer's tolerant equanimity in the face of the facts, by the generosity of sprit, the freedom from pomposity and rhetoric. One might call this work an act of high artistic patriotism, an achievement that might help us reclaim that work from ideologues and expediters. His work, in sum, constitutes a conversation among the symbols that we live among and that to some degree we live by. It reminds us of the strength of an alternative American tradition to that of Thoreau and Whitman and Stieglitz, with its constant insistence on the big I. His work recalls Thomas Eakins, the painter; and Walker Evans, the photographer; and Wallace Stevens, who said, 'It is important to believe that the visible is the equivalent of the invisible....'"-- –John Szarkowski
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Automotive telematics likely will undergo many changes, including a reduction in the number of companies participating in the industry and methods for auto makers to monetize their technologies.
Covisint's David Miller says cloud-based data services will become the norm in telematics.
NOVI, MI – Automotive telematics, an industry still in its infancy, has many questions facing its future, including how auto makers can monetize the cutting-edge technology and who will seize control of the emerging field.
How to turn a profit with telematics technology such as in-vehicle infotainment systems was a key topic of discussion during the recent Telematics Detroit 2013 conference here. Auto makers currently charge customers an upfront fee for the technology, but there is potential to turn infotainment systems into an ongoing revenue stream.
Experts warn monetization is a slippery slope, as many of the strategies being considered potentially could fray relationships between auto makers and customers.
David Miller, chief security officer-Covisint, says auto makers, telecommunication firms and other companies looking to cash in on telematics are considering selling consumer data collected by the vehicle systems to third-party entities.
With the technology gleaned from in-vehicle telematics systems, auto makers know consumer driving patterns and could use that information to offer targeted applications from local businesses, Miller says.
"They know what restaurants you like because you drive your car there, so they can recommend restaurants as you're driving and the restaurants will pay (the auto makers)," he says of the potential revenue strategy.
Such a strategy likely would require customer approval to access their personal data. Doing so without permission would violate the trust established between auto makers and their consumers, he says.
Despite the revenue potential, other experts believe auto makers might not implement the strategy outlined by Miller.
Mark Concannon, president-Concannon Business Consulting, says auto makers are reluctant to essentially put coupons in a car.
"It just feels inappropriate for the brand they're trying to create," he tells WardsAuto. "But that doesn't mean it's not coming."
Another revenue-generating possibility would be to sell vehicle diagnostic data to dealerships that could use it to target consumers with maintenance and other offers.
"The valuable commodity is the data," says Rohit Puri, senior manager of advisory services-Ernst and Young. "The question is who derives the value from that data, and will they pay for it. The key question is are car makers, or anybody, targeting the right group of people to monetize?"
Miller says it could go a step further, with auto makers themselves harvesting the information to engineer and produce better vehicles. "They could monitor the error codes that come off the vehicle to be able to make better engineering decisions," he says. "That makes vehicles with a better quality experience, which saves them money."
In addition to monetization, the telematics industry remains fractured, with auto makers, tech firms and telecommunication and insurance companies all vying for position. Experts say the number of players likely will thin out within a matter of years.
Most agree auto makers ultimately will dictate the direction of automotive telematics, but telecommunication companies such as AT&T and Verizon are making a big push.
"Telecom players ultimately will move up the value chain and become Tier 1 suppliers," Jean-Francois Tremblay, advanced mobility group leader for the Global Automotive Center-Ernst & Young," tells WardsAuto.
Tremblay says telecom companies are well-positioned to manage customer satisfaction, call-center needs and the back office, and know how to interact directly with customers, while auto makers lack that capability. "I think car makers are very nervous about that."
Another possibility is the continued involvement in the telematics industry of a wide variety of companies, all providing a particular service or role.
Covisint's Miller says like the telecommunications industry today, telematics will continue having many players that will have to learn to work together. The remaining entities will be "pushed to have more standard interfaces, which will create more competition."
Forging relationships in the telematics industry is tricky due to its fast-moving nature. While a partnership may seem beneficial at the time, several years down the road it could be detrimental, and breaking up collaborations can be difficult due to the technological complexity of the industry.
Tremblay says getting "divorced in an elegant" way has yet to be accomplished, and a partnership gone wrong could lead to brand damage.
"I think there are players ready to get divorced and don't know how to because they are too embedded," he says. "Can they cut the house in two? Not really, so who takes what?"
Tremblay says how partnerships are formed and how companies move on with other partners when the relationship fails will be a critical issue.
Auto makers likely will continue to forge their own telematics identity, partnering with suppliers who can provide critical expertise.
Forging a brand identity is key, and having a strong telematics system that reflects the auto maker's value could become a major selling point with consumers, Concannon says.
Rather than focus on replicating the features of a smartphone, for example, auto makers should concentrate on building their own consumer experience, he says. "When you to get in your Audi it should be your Audi experience, vs. your Samsung and your Audi."
While auto makers will control the look and feel of their telematics systems, they likely will apply much of the same technology to deliver features to consumers.
Miller says cloud-based data services will become the norm in telematics, with auto makers sharing much of the same data to stream into their vehicles. "There will be a convergence of capabilities, but each (auto maker) will probably have something unique," he says.
Selecting what applications to offer consumers also will be left to auto makers, who should be careful to only offer apps that matter to consumers, experts agree. While companies such as Apple and Google offer millions of apps to their smartphone customers, only a thousand or so actually are considered useful.
Developing a successful app strategy will be important going forward, but experts don't see eye to eye on the best way to address the challenge.
Miller agrees only a few of the millions of smartphone apps are helpful, but says it's because so many were developed that the valuable ones emerged.
"Nobody is smart enough to say 'Why didn't you just write the thousand that were good?'" he says. "I think there will be a plethora of apps that run in your car, and 10 of them will be valuable and consumers will figure out which 10 are."
Concannon suggests a different approach to app offerings, arguing auto makers should be selective in what they put into a vehicle.
Some auto makers already have strayed from this path, resulting in poor-quality apps that frustrate consumers. Others, such as Toyota, have been more selective and have stressed creating quality apps that benefit consumers.
"We're going to see each OEM make a decision (on apps) based on their brand, priority and marketing experience," he says. "Automotive-grade is a real standard at some level and what consumers expect."
While nobody can predict exactly what a mature telematics industry will look like, experts agree an ideal solution would be an in-car system that blends seamlessly with a consumer's life.
For example, subscription-based services such as satellite radio would recognize you no matter what vehicle you were in, be it your own, your spouse's or a rental car. And with the ongoing development of in-home telematics, your refrigerator could tell you when you're out of a particular item and transit the information to your vehicle, which in turn would automatically provide you with a route to the nearest grocery store.
"The car becomes just one more piece of the ecosystem of an individual," Concannon says. "It knows me and helps my experience in driving and becomes a seamless experience."


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Ajax midfielder Christian Eriksen has hinted at a summer exit from the Eredivisie giants, insisting he has not been offered an extension on his expiring contract.
The 20-year-old, who has scored 10 and assisted 17 goals for his side this season, has previously stated his unwillingness to pen new terms on his current deal according to club technical director Marc Overmars.
Goal.com exclusively revealed last year that Tottenham were keen on the midfielder, with Eriksen reportedly interesting a number of other European sides - and he has now admitted his future at Amsterdam ArenA is in doubt.
"I have not got a definite offer of an extension, but my agent has had some talks with the club about it," Eriksen told Sporten.
"How it's going to look after the summer, I do not know. I do not know if I'm playing at Ajax after the summer."
Eriksen came through the ranks at Ajax, and has since gone on the mark over 100 caps despite his tender age.


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A college education can be an investment in your future. But if you can't land a decent-paying job, that investment can leave you saddled with debt.
So a small Christian university in Michigan, Spring Arbor University, is offering a sort of money-back guarantee. "Money-back" as in you won't have to give all the money back if you don't get a good gig.
The school's program guarantees that students and their parents will receive help in repaying loans if a graduate's income fails to meet certain benchmarks. The assistance will continue until the grad's income rises enough or the loan is paid off.
To qualify, a graduate of the school must work at least 30 hours a week.
Spring Arbor's president, Charles Webb, told the Associated Press that the school wants to provide "students and their families with peace of mind" in an uncertain job market.
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Locally, many health providers now have to take a look at ways to save money. That could hurt the services that many depend on.
Medicare pays for staffing and supplies, components that are needing in order to provide adequate care to those needing short term and long term care. At Provena St. Anne Center two out of three residents depend on Medicare or Medicaid. Just recently, Medicare reimbursements dropped by about $32 per resident.
Administrators say they are going to have to look and see where they can reduce in order to accommodate decreased payments from the government. Now St. Anne has activated an advocacy program so no one feels abandoned when they need Medicare coverage.
St. Anne Center is asking that you stop by and sign a pre-written form opposing these cuts. Advocating in the past, they've managed to gather about seven hundred faxes. They hope state legislatures will receive even more this time.


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Mary Esther Wofford Swicegood, 88, of Carolina House, formerly of Swicegood Road, died Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at Carolina House.
Mary Esther Wofford Swicegood, 88, of Carolina House, formerly of Swicegood Road, died Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at Carolina House.
A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Tyro United Methodist Church by the Rev. Randy Foster. Burial will follow in Bethel Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. prior to the service at the church and other times at the home of the daughter on Swicegood Road.
Mrs. Swicegood was born Oct. 13, 1924, in Davidson County to Samuel N. Wofford and Lucy Adams Wofford. She was a member of Tyro United Methodist Church and retired from Duracell. Mary was a very caring mother and grandmother and a caregiver for many of people in the community. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lee Carl Swicegood, in 1964; two brothers, Charlie Wofford and Roy Wofford; and sister Pauline Sink.
Surviving are a son, Richard Wayne (Buddy) Swicegood of Linwood; daughter Judith Swicegood Shook of Linwood; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; brother Claude Wofford of Roanoke, Va.
The family would like to express our sincere thanks to her caregivers: Donna Jean Bivens and Doris Connell, and the special staff of Carolina House for taking such good care of our mother and memaw.
Memorials may be directed to Tyro United Methodist Church, 4484 S. N.C. Highway 150, Lexington, NC 27292.
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Census Data for Planning and Service Areas, 1980: United States and Puerto Rico (ICPSR 8004)
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This file contains 1980 Census data for the 679 Planning and Service Areas (PSAs) in the United States and Puerto Rico. Data for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and for each of the approximately 4,000 counties and county equivalents in the United States and Puerto Rico were subsetted from the 1980 Census of Population and Housing, Summary Tape File 1 (STF 1) and aggregated to the PSA level. The file contains 312 substantive data variables organized in the form of 53 "tables", as well as geographic codes for region, state code, PSA, and land area. The remaining STF 1 geographic codes and the six tables representing median values are not included. Data for each PSA include ethnicity and age of residents, housing units, and units rented.
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Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
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This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.


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Iris Schelske, 63
Iris Schelske, 63, of Aberdeen returned to her Heavenly Father as she passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on Sunday Sept. 2, 2012, after a courageous battle with cancer.
She is the first child of Douglas and Maurine Driscoll, born on Feb 6, 1949. She was raised in the Sterling/Aberdeen area with her three sisters and two brothers. She graduated from Aberdeen High School in 1967 and then went on to attend Utah State and Idaho State University. On Jan. 25, 1969 she married her loving husband, Richard Schelske. Together they had two daughters, Chana and Amber. She was an amazing wife and mother who created a loving home for her family.
In 1985 Iris continued her education at Idaho State University, graduating on the dean's list in 1988 with her bachelor of arts degree in Elementary Education. She started her teaching career in the fall of 1988 for the Aberdeen sixth grade. She blessed the lives of many students for 23 years. She had a great love for reading and playing the piano, her beautiful flowers, cooking, spending time with her family and attending her grandchildren's activities.
Iris is survived by her husband. Richard Schelske, of Aberdeen; Her daughters, Chana (Jeff Duffin) and grandchildren Jake, Bo and Sophia of Aberdeen; Amber (Rick Giesbrecht) and grandchildren ,Gabrielle and Hannah of Meridian; mother, Maurine Driscoll of Aberdeen; sisters Andrea Myler, Nancy George, Shelley Driscoll and brothers Jeff and Mart Driscoll.
She was preceded in death by her father Douglas Driscoll of American Falls.
Funeral services will be conducted at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, at the Aberdeen Middle School. A viewing will be from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. at Wilks Funeral Home 211 W. Chubbuck Road.
Interment will follow services on Thursday in the Aberdeen Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made in her name to the Aberdeen Middle School Library, c/o Connie Cornforth, P.O. Box 610 Aberdeen, Idaho 83210.
Arrangements are under the care and direction of Wilks Funeral Home 238-8000.
Condolences may be sent to the family online at www.wilksfuneralhome.com.


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|Mark Loughridge of IBM
IBM solution providers are applauding the potential sale of the computer giant's low-end x86 based System x server line to Lenovo.
The potential sale of a "low-margin" System x server line would be positive for both IBM and its partners, said David Stone, vice president of business development at Solutions-II, a Littleton, Colo.-based IBM partner.
"The IBM channel is more value-oriented," said Stone, noting that rumors of a possible sale of IBM's x86-based server business have been circulating for the past 45 days. "Volume players will move to the Lenovo level. Value players will move to [IBM] PureFlex."
CRN Thursday reported that IBM is in active negotiations to sell its x86-based server business, with Lenovo emerging as the front-runner to buy the business.
Responding to a CRN report that Lenovo has emerged as the top candidate to buy IBM's x86 server hardware business, Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing said the China-based computer giant is in "preliminary negotiations with a third party in connection with a potential acquisition."
Aaron Rakers, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus Equity Research, wrote in response to IBM's first-quarter 2013 results and the CRN report of a possible IBM-Lenovo deal that a "sale of IBM's x86 server division would certainly be viewed as an indication that the industry is rapidly evolving toward margin compression."
Lenovo is currently the only company in negotiations to purchase IBM's x86 server business, according to one high-ranking executive tracking the deal, who spoke to CRN on condition of anonymity earlier this week. The deal would likely encompass IBM's System x line, which includes Intel- and AMD-based tower, rack and blade servers. IBM is reportedly seeking $5 billion to $6 billion for its x86 server business, the executive said.
IBM CFO Mark Loughridge Thursday declined to comment on the CRN report when asked about it by a financial analyst on the company's first-quarter earnings call.
Loughridge, however, confirmed the divestiture of poorly performing businesses is planned for the current quarter.
"There are parts of our business that are in transition or have been underperforming, like elements of our Power, [System] x and storage product lines that showed disappointing performance in the first quarter," Loughridge said. "Here we're going to take substantial actions," he said, without offering details.
IBM Thursday reported that total systems revenue for its first fiscal quarter of 2013 dropped 13 percent, after adjusting for currency.
NEXT: IBM Server Sales Down, But Numbers Aren't Everything


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Nice to know that the editors are doing their job.
would they ever give the protein folding gamers a Nobel prize? Probably not - but they did make a significant contribution to science.
As far as I know they have not awarded a hard science prize merely for being donors. Otherwise I'm sure over the past century or two the humble lab rat would have earned a prize by now.
Also engineering achievements, at least solely with respect to being an engineering achievement, never win a prize.
For example, the politicians who paid for CERN have never won a prize (at least not for donating CERN funds). The engineers who design particle detectors never win a prize (design as in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, not design as in basic concept of operation). However the '92 physics prize was awarded to the inventor of the multiwire proportional chamber (a gross simplification is its kinda like a 3-d geiger counter instead of being a 0-d scalar detector, sorta)
The Foldit gamers weren't "merely" donors. They made an actual discovery.
They looked at the shape of a protein, thought, discussed and experimented in how they could fold it properly, and in the end they found a novel solution to a problem that hadn't been solved before.
That is not "donation", that is a scientific discovery.
Hmmm maybe the best
A more scientific analogy is the guy who donates his stellar light magnitude measurements to the AAVSO is not gonna win the prize, even if an astrophysicist analyzes the donor's data and writes a very important variable star paper that depended on those measurements.
You're still missing the point.
Your second analogy actually describes the foldit situation perfectly, just that its the other way around. It would be more fitting to describe the foldit gamers as the astrophysicists who analyses data and makes a discovery. To go through the analogy step by step, the magnitude measurements would in this case be the foldit program itself and the data about the protein in question that was known in beforehand. The gamers use of a program is not analogous to them using a measur
"Also engineering achievements, at least solely with respect to being an engineering achievement, never win a prize."
Surely true in general, but wasn't there a guy with the fiber optics who won it not long ago?
I would say that the invention of the sun valve (Gustaf Dalen, Nobel prize for physics in 1912) was a pure engineering achievement.
There are already a few more examples on the thread. Add there the scanning tunnel microscope. (Aren't there also other microscope and telescope inventions?)
If you don't consider your and those other examples engineering, what is it? In fact, lots physics nobels are over the very fuzzy line that separates science from engineering.
Dude, the protein folding gamers were a slightly better stochastic cog. Significant, not so much.
No, but whoever turned folding into a game should deserve honorable credit
AP says Steinman died September 30th (will get link after posting). Nobel prize not awarded posthumously, apparently.
Here's a link: http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Late+Canadian+scientist+Ralph+Steinman+shares+Nobel+prize+medicine/5493302/story.html
Although it looks like the prize will remain awarded.
Only if the receiver dies between announcement and ceremony. In all other cases, the deceased are excluded. This one is problematic, because he died before the announcement, but it was unknown to the committee...
Because the rules say that it's no longer awarded posthumously, unless the winner died after it was announced. What's the point of having a rule if it is just ignored?
In this case, I think there is some gray area. The actual rule states
Work produced by a person since deceased shall not be considered for an award. If, however, a prizewinner dies before he has received the prize, then the prize may be presented.
Since he was alive while it was being considered, that portion has been met. When was it actuall
This is what Nobel prize should be about - not about politics and non-sciences, like Keynesian witch craft of one solution.
Giving a prize for figuring out how the immune system works? Good.
Giving out a 'war is peace' prize to Obama or 'print till you run out of trees' Krugman? Well, that's just a political statement and I am not sure what good it is at all.
I am not sure what good it is at all.
Some of the most important historical physics experiments were negative result or "failure". Michealson-Morley aether / speed of light interferometer which stubbornly refused to show light goes faster pointed ahead of earths orbit as compared to pointed behind earths orbit. The noise level in that giant microwave horn antenna is too blasted high to be useful for communications when pointed at the sky, celestial noise, WTF is it? I'm trying to think of some more good examples... Trying to detect high inte
Uhh, nothing's changed. There are different categories for the Nobel Prizes: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Economics, and Peace.
The three science prizes will always be about science, and the others will always be contentious and to varying degrees political.
And the Nobel Prize in Semantics goes to...
What is the importance of the Nobel Prize itself?
Yes, it is important to the winners. But, for the rest of the world? Does it give focus to something we need to recognize, also today, 110 year after the start?
I think it is still important, but sometimes you people complaining about it, which made me wonder.
What do you think?
I've just learned that one of the three, Mr. Ralf Steinman, has died last Friday; ironically, he has died of cancer of the pancreas (not sure of my medical English, here) although his life had apparently been extended by a treatment based on his own research work. The committee is pondering what to do: the rules state that no-one can receive the Nobel prize posthumously, although an exception is made when a winner dies between the official announcement and the ceremony. Here, the winner has died just before
the regulations of the Nobel committee do NOT state that the prize can be awarded after the announcement. There is no mention whatsoever of an announcement in the regulations. They state, clearly, that the work of a dead scientist cannot be considered by the committee, implying the scientist has to be living while he is being considered. Unless a significant part of the "consideration" of the nobel committee was carried out during the weekend, Ralph should "keep" his prize. Given that Ralph had been a shoo-in for the prize for years already I'd say the committee did consider him enough while alive.
a grieving colleague of Ralph.
Perhaps Steinman wasn't certainly dead until the committee was informed of which world they were now in (the world where Steinman died on Friday), and therefore the normal rules of the award don't need to be broken to give him the prize. That is, when the committee made the announcement, Steinman was both dead and alive? I'm conflating theories, I know, but please understand I have no idea what I'm talking about.
It is quite amusing how educational and research institutions try to immediately flaunt their affiliations with the Nobel Laureates. Bruce A. Beutler is a particularly intriguing case. The University of Chicago chalks this up as laureate number 86 as he attended medical school there. The Scripps Research Institute where he was a professor until recently is hailing him as their own. This is despite that as of Septermber 1, 2011, Prof. Beutler is now Director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at
It is quite amusing how educational and research institutions try to immediately flaunt their affiliations with the Nobel Laureates
Sometimes this gets downright embarrassing. Nearly a decade ago a former chemistry professor at the university where I worked won a Nobel, which the school lost no time in bragging about. What they didn't mention was that he was forced into mandatory retirement not long after he made the discovery for which the prize was awarded.
"I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'" -- Robert G. Ingersoll


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I read the article but somehow missed the point. Is this some sort of preemptive strike against a supposed iPad takeover of corporate IT?
iPads are for content consumers, not creators.
More likely against Android tablets.
iPads are for content consumers, not creators.
Really? So who are things like iMovie, GarageBand, Pages, Keynote, Sketchbook Pro, Create Apps Without Programming, iCreate, Creative Book Builder, Touch App Creator, Adobe Ideas, Learn To Draw, Video Editor, Auryn Ink, Scratch Card, QR Code Generator, Story Buddy, App Craft HD, DoInk, Caster, Sketchpad Pro HD, Heavy Metal Music Creator, Crayola, Build-a-Story, AutoCAD WS, Dollhouse Creator, RPG Cartographer, PHYZIOS Sculptor Pro, Forms Central, App Designer HD, Christmas Card Maker, Fractal Maker, Robot Ma
Nah what he's saying is the reason they are pushing iPads is because they don't lock them down and if they would give the users a teeny tiny bit of freedom on the PC instead of being total BOFH about everything you'd see more work getting done.
Sadly I have to agree. While AD and GPOs are nice I've seen too many BOFH get addicted to GPOs and end up locking the machines down to almost the point of unusability. The reason you don't see innovation at corps on the PC is because the IT guys first lock the living
The reason you don't see innovation at corps on the PC is because the IT guys first lock the living shit out of it THEN put some really shitty AV that sucks resources like Norton. What you have is a machine that is painful to use that just screams drudgery.
Trust me, if you're talking about Windows, even when IT guys DO NOT lock the living shit out of it, you still end up with the same thing... a machine that is painful to use and barely works.
I have to completely disagree with the premise, that IT locking down the machine is causing the issue. I believe that IT choosing an architecture that is general purpose, and then removing most of its general purpose functionality, is a part of the problem. Has anyone noticed that 90% of corp workers use their computer for only company email and browser-based Corp apps? What is wrong with the idea of ditching the general purpose boat anchor and choosing an extremely limited architecture that does everything those 90% need... making THAT the defacto standard for new employees, and then giving the general purpose machine to the other 10% that need to do heavier (real computer necessary) stuff?
I think big IT issue in most corporations is not the lowly IT tech guys, but their management, especially the corporate architects, the directors and veeps, that have their head shoved so far up their asses they have no idea that they are allowed to and even required to innovate. Instead, they concentrate on doing the same thing today that they did yesterday, i.e. maintaining status quo, and keeping Microsoft in business. After all, if everything just worked all the time, what would be the point of even having an IT department? No, they must build "broken" into the infrastructure.
I've read most of this thread (119 post already) and without exception, everyone making the case of PC is better than iPad (or visa versa) case is completely missing the point of either and both. These are TOOLS. Arguing over iPad over PC is like arguing that a phillips screwdriver is better than a boxed end wrench. Both are used to turn something (screw, nut) but other than that, they aren't the same tool.
There is no need for such a pissing contest.
They are both tools, however one is a full toolchest, and the other is an eyelash curler.
Pretty much, I've noticed a resurgence of the trend in the last couple of months. But as attempts go this one seemed pretty lame. iPad unstable? really? My mom has one and she doesn't even know how to turn it off or reboot it. She uses it constantly. (Several hours a day on a typical day).
Now, my iPad is pretty unstable, but it's running beta software all the time. Hardly conclusive. And, even with its instability I don't have to reboot it.
Most of the statements in the article have some truth to them, but the implications are wildly out of wack. (Implying a stability equivalent to PCs for instance, while PCs have greatly improved in recent years they still often have issues waking from sleep for example.)
The article is pure FUD in the truest sense. Fear, Uncertainty, Disbelief. While I'd be somewhat hard pressed to accuse the author of directly being in Microsofts pocket, I think it's obvious that Microsoft had a influence in some manner. (Even if it was just a quiet little request made to an editor for a more 'balanced' perspective).
1.) iPads are not replacements for PCs.
2.) If PC operating systems weren't so fragile then IT departments would not have had to lock them down.
To expand on #1, touch tablets are decent for information consumption, but not content creation. And even in information consumption, tablets are only applicable where the information can be consumed on a small, low-resolution display. I don't think, for instance, that day traders with their arrays of cheap monitors will want to limit themselves to an iPad.
Touch is a reasonably nice interface for many info browsing traversal mechanisms, though.
I see a lot more iPads on the commuter trains than laptops. A lot more. They're usually people reviewing documents, some are typing on them (obviously creating something), some reading the morning news, more than half are standing up. The odd duck luzer with the laptop isn't getting anything done with his aircraft carrier sized HP concrete slab. He can't even open the screen far enough to see it. The average iPad user is probably thinking "fuck the IT department, this thing rocks". Actually, I've been told
I see a lot more iPads on the commuter trains than laptops. A lot more. They're usually people reviewing documents, some are typing on them (obviously creating something), some reading the morning news, more than half are standing up. The odd duck luzer with the laptop isn't getting anything done with his aircraft carrier sized HP concrete slab.
Personally I don't work outside office time unless I'm being paid for it. I find that much preferable to being given an iPad to work on the train.
Some of us have jobs we actually like, where we're treated like adults. For example, I consider my on-the-bus time part of my work day. Other people could be working on hobbies or reading for enjoyment.
I may be being naive, but sure the killer application for iPads in a corporate envirnonment is where the user needs to be mobile and use a reasonably constrained set of functions - e.g. looking up a patient's records and prescribing a course of treatment on a hopsital ward.
PCs are for operating in a fixed envirnonment with a highly varied task load?
Real work gets done with a real keyboard
Depends on the real work. If it's directly computer-related, then sure. On the other hand, a lot of real work gets done by people interacting with things in the real world and using the computer mainly to access relevant information. This kind of use can be easier on something like a tablet than on a real computer. For example, consider a doctor wanting to check a patient's medical history, see their X-rays, and what has been prescribed to them in the past. None of this requires a keyboard, but I'd cla
First: The iPad is generally a media consumption machine. I thought we'd already agreed on that.
Second: You're preaching to the choir. Or is this just an article meant to reassure us about our opinion?
First: The iPad is generally a media consumption machine. I thought we'd already agreed on that.
Only Apple Haters agreed on promoting that talking point.
In reality it's quite wrong; Even ignoring the obvious creation tools such as Garage Band, a billion drawing programs and things like iMovie, there are so many word processors and note taking apps that people make heavy use of every day... when you can easily work on screen as it is, with a stylus, or with any USB or bluetooth keyboard why would the iPad n
It doesn't require less IT staff. It requires the same amount, if not more.
The iPad doesn't exist in a vacuum. It still has to be managed, which isn't particularly simple since it's so locked down. And since basically NO custom business apps run on it, that means that most iPad users are going to be using Terminal Services (or similar) to get anything done. Unless apps are written to run on the iPad, or run via a web page. But that's unlikely in most businesses.
So..considering all that, what's the real advantage of an iPad for business? Well, it's light and the battery lasts forever, and it's easier to carry than a laptop. That's ALL. In every other way, it's inferior.
That's why IT departments hate it. It's basically a big iPhone, but people want to use it to replace their notebook. Ugh.
It still has to be managed, which isn't particularly simple since it's so locked down.
I can tell you are in IT because only an IT person would insist locking down only counts if THEY locked it down.
In reality the iPad is made for people who have to get by with NO IT DEPARTMENT, Which means it has to be as secure as IT would make it with no user intervention.
Well, it's light and the battery lasts forever, and it's easier to carry than a laptop. That's ALL.
That's All?
That's EVERYTHING.
But you also left out far greater degree of security than any laptop, with far more secure internal storage than most laptops.
That's why IT departments hate it. It's basically a big iPhone, but people want to use it to replace their notebook. Ugh.
IT: Screwing over the needs of the business since the dawn of time for sometimes marginal and often negative gain.
When IT gains power, get ready for the company to ossify rapidly and proceed to get nothing done.
Not only is the iPad and content machine (licence fee based) it is only a 2nd rate content machine.
Screen real estate limits it severely as does processing power. The more screen real estate you have go to work with, the easier creativity is. Working within fifteen inches is tight, 17 is easier and guess what keeps the desktop going 24 inches and up.
Only real fanbois think you work on spreadsheets, documents and drawings, on an iPad, compared to the ease of a full keyboard, mouse, generally 50% bigger
when you can easily work on screen as it is, with a stylus, or with any USB or bluetooth keyboard why would the iPad not be a good solution for day to day note taking?
As a heavy Tablet PC user (you know, the tablets we had before tablets were cool) I thoroughly disagree with this, at least for an academic scenario. I take all my notes on my Latitude XT. Now THAT is a great note taking computer. Write with the stylus in one note, flip the screen around and type just as easily. It has robust and full featured note taking applications like OneNote, which is pretty much the killer app for tablets.
I tried to use my iPad to do the same, but it's really just awful. Without an active digitizer, any stylus you buy is as accurate as writing with your thumb. So you end up writing super large, which isn't really isn't great for the intricate diagrams I like to draw. The apps are pretty anemic as well. Apps like UPAD are nice, but they don't have all the features of something like OneNote. Then there's the issue of multitasking, which is something the iPad really doesn't do even with the iOS4. I'm talking voice recording, cutting images from textbooks, pasting in notes, browsing the internet. It can do these things... but it's just way too slow compared to how I work on my tablet PC. And trying to do these things on the iPad 1 is just painfully slow and unstable sometimes.
In all it's an okay device, but I can't use it for what I wanted to. I usually just end up reading books and browsing web pages with it. Content consumption
In reality it's quite wrong; Even ignoring the obvious creation tools such as Garage Band, a billion drawing programs and things like iMovie, there are so many word processors and note taking apps that people make heavy use of every day... when you can easily work on screen as it is, with a stylus, or with any USB or bluetooth keyboard why would the iPad not be a good solution for day to day note taking?
Speaking as an iPad owner and a content creator I really cannot say I agree. While true I have seen people create drawings and do some writing with iPads, I've yet to run across anybody who has really elevated that to a level of productivity.
I am happy with my iPad, it's useful to me (i.e. I'm more productive with it at work), but it is primarily a content consumption device.
Hey, it isn't easy to make "media" on an iPad!
There are a lot of other useful things that can be done other than writing a blog nobody reads.
(No, I didn't RTFA.)
Being a "mainframe guy", I can't help but laugh at how PCs were brought in to break the IT stranglehold, and now after uncountabillions have been spent on virus protection and remediation (with companies still not blocking most web sites), the pendulum is now swinging back in the direction of centralized control.
(No, I didn't RTFA.)
Being a "mainframe guy", I can't help but laugh at how PCs were brought in to break the IT stranglehold, and now after uncountabillions have been spent on virus protection and remediation (with companies still not blocking most web sites), the pendulum is now swinging back in the direction of centralized control.
I can't help but smile at how the iPads (or any mobile devices offered on "a data plan" by telecoms) are considered as "not locked down"; also smile in the anticipation of the moment in which the only choice will be "there is a cloud supported App for that". (what is the WebOS for? why wouldn't the corporations attempt to feed you strictly via a controlled channel?).
(No, I didn't RTFA.)
with companies still not blocking most web sites
Umm. Right. Do you know why most companies don't block most websites? It's because: a) it's a form of centralized control and stifles employee creativity, research and, as the article states it, employee innovation; b) IT people don't know what websites need to be blocked vs those that don't. If you block every website and have a whitelist then the IT people are deciding what the employees doing unrelated need to research and look at. I don't think the IT people have any idea what the employees using their
don't block most websites? It's because: a) it's a form of centralized control and stifles employee creativity, research and, as the article states it, employee innovation
What innovation is there in watching
I don't think the IT people have any idea what the employees using their network have to do in their day-to-day work
You're not hanging around the same kind of IT people I do then. Most of the IT people I know, have to know at least something about the job someone is doing, in order to recommend, support, show and otherwise train people how IT can enhance their job performance and productivity with technology. We may not be intimate with the details of their job, but we know way more about what they do, than they know about we do.
What we IT people do is pure magic* to these people. They have NO clue what it takes to keep 4500 computers, across 19 sites, running everyday with a staff of only 11. All they know is that it has something to do with boxes sitting under desks and flashing lights in a rack.
*Any sufficient level of technology is indistinguishable from magic. We type magical incantations into computers, and the ghosts in the machine obey us. Magic.
Most of the IT people I know, have to know at least something about the job someone is doing, in order to recommend, support, show and otherwise train people how IT can enhance their job performance and productivity with technology. We may not be intimate with the details of their job, but we know way more about what they do, than they know about we do.
Beyond the good points you have already made, IT knows how the entire organization works. We work with everyone in the organization, from the C level executives down to the personal assistants and everyone in between. We know what systems people use and we know why people use those systems. When people need new functionality, we understand the business needs that drive the requirements. In most organizations, the head of IT is probably one of the most clued in people in the organization by the simple virtue of needing to be in order to do their job. (Jokes about IT being the last to know aside)
[...] end-users can't install software they might find helpful in their day-to-day work or might increase efficiency in their departments.
I, personally, don't know a single IT professional that would not allow someone to install a piece of software like that. It would have to be vetted first, of course, but that would mostly be to ensure it gets installed properly and doesn't expose any backdoors. The problem is that most end-users want to install games or silly system doodads that will compromise a machine, bog it down or otherwise be inappropriate for the work place.
I do take issue with the capability argument. Sure, the current generation of tablets (I am gonna lump Androids and others in with the iPad as the hardware is almost all the same) aren't as capable as a modern, mature desktop or laptop platform. But, the rate at which these devices are evolving is significant, and I do see a very near future where a tablet is to a laptop what a laptop was to a desktop as far as a step in capability goes. I may dare say the laptop days may be numbered. It might take 10 years, but it might happen. Depends on what hardware advances come to market between then and now.
PC have bigger screens and multi screen
Now try to take a work flow that is good on a big / more then 1 screen and try to take it to the ipad.
Pc's have better multi tasking then Ipad.
Like for 1 thing BEING ABLE HAVE MORE THEN 1 APP on screen at the same Time.
the Ipad does not have Ethernet and PC have bigger HDD's as well.
and in some places Wifi does not work that well or is a security issue. 3g is high cost and slow speed at times.
Also for big work loads with big files you want to do work locally or have a good fast link to the sever.
For laptop uses having a big HDD makes it easy to keep big files with out having to be tied to the cloud over the world of WIFI on the go / 3g / 4g data cards with cost at $50+ for 5GB + $10 per GB after that.
... and several other vendors deliver desktops and apps to end-user devices remotely and increasingly efficiently. TFA is on the wrong side of history - IT will own and control the apps "locked down" and delivered remotely, device-independently. Administration of the endpoint device is a nightmare, and through VDI and app delivery endpoint management is becoming nearly irrelevant as these technologies improve. In fact, the end point becomes irrelevant - the always-on, use anywhere application service is
It will include IE so the CIOs can work with their intranet activeX sites and can be locked down by I.T. It will fill the disadvantages of the IPAD.
I have a feeling it will take a large hit out of the IPAD market and hard Android. It wont kill it but it will make it very popular for business executives
If by innovation, you mean playing Angry Birds, then I'm with you.
Where I come from, innovation means coming up with something new. Which, by definition, means that there isn't something available at the App Store to do what you want.
When I can install gcc (or Eclipse) on an iPad and build a native custom app to do exactly what I need, call me.
I've used Textastic to do some development on the iPad, sending the source up to a server for compilation. I wouldn't want to use it as a daily machine, but given the constraints (working while travelling in a car), I actually found the iPad to be more comfortable than my laptop in this case. Development on the iPad certainly isn't out of the question.
I know that's not exactly what you want, but assuming you are a developer in the eyes of Apple, there is technically nothing stopping you from installing gcc
First, it's a sunk cost.
Just because you've dumped money into it doesn't mean you should continue. Bad money after good and all that.
Second, it's more capable.
Define capable. Can it run more programs, and is generally better for content creation type activities as opposed to simply consuming (reading email, reading web pages, etc.), well sort of. On the other hand my iPad is so small and light, has instant on, has WiFi and 3G connectivity and the battery life is such that it lives in my bag and I just pull it out to use it quickly more than I ever did when
Once again the "apples and oranges" comparison of PCs and Ipads rears it's head. True wisdom comes from understanding that they're tools that serve different needs; any comparison of a tablet (of any stripe) to a PC (of any kind) is nothing more than some idiot making noises to drive up clicks to the website.
I own one of each - and a laptop, too. Which one am I using right now? You can't tell. For short posts to a website or making notes, any one of them will serve the need. Each offers advantages and drawbacks and it's always best to choose what works for you and your tasks, not what some random commenter on this site insists is the "one true way.
Would I try to write Klines of code on the Ipad? No. Can I go mobile with the PC? No. Am I going to be away for a whole day with no chance to recharge? Notebook won't do, but an Ipad would.
What's right for you might not be right for someone else; no matter what PC you're talking about or what tablet you're talking about - they're not intended for or capable of the same tasks.
Stop allowing Apple to cloud up the argument by making you think that the form factor and interface is bound by definition to the UI design and feature list of the OS it runs.
Argument 1: What if the iPad could run, say, Win7 or Linux or some other OS? It adds wide-open capability, and gives way to content creation. But the form factor and UI frustrate.
Argument 2: What if there were a PC out there with a huge 32" touchscreen display and gesture UI, and it ran iOS. Could a stockbroker be happy with it?
Argument 4: What would be gained by mouse-enabling an iPad? Who uses an iPad with mouse to access a PC via Remote Desktop? How is that working out for you?
I know people who do and it works just fine. Linux admins get SSH. Windows admins get RDP or Powershell. RDP works fine on an iPad / iPhone. Obviously it is not a full blown interface but for quick tasks where you don't want to fire up a full blown VPN connection on a laptop / netbook, it works fine.
Bob Lewis has obviously not heard of Citrix, or if he has he conveniently ignores it. I am by no means an Apple fanboy and I do not own an iPad, but a few people in my organization do. I can present all of their apps to them via Citrix, from RDP to our Line of Business applications. Now obviously anything that is input intensive would be better done with a keyboard. Having said that, a Citrix session is just a Terminal Services session so for all intents and purposes, their applications is running on Wi
I didn't read TFA, that would be blasphemy, but as a long-time PC advocate and a more recent iPad user, I do agree with a lot of the comments here. The iPad is a relatively good tool for consumption and as an organizing aid. It's great to take to meetings and have access to my calendar and contacts and it's reasonably ok to take notes on. For light email use it's ok, but the mail client is missing a LOT of features compared to a full-featured mail client like Outlook, Thunderbird or Evolution.
For any real creation work it becomes tedious very quickly. Also, if text entry requires anything more than the normal A-Z, it is EXTREMELY tedious, especially if you need to enter special characters. Just entering the paragraph end tag requires an ungodly number of taps and finger dancing (it's 10, I just checked). The available special characters are also quite limited, for example there is no degree symbol.
Given a choice between a normal laptop and the iPad, if I was forced to take one over the other, it would be a laptop. But used in combination with a laptop the iPad is a useful tool for some tasks.
Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing. -- Thomas Tusser


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Submission + - AMD Releases UVD Engine Source Code (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Years of desire by AMD Linux users to have open source video playback support by their graphics driver is now over. AMD has released open-source UVD support for their Linux driver so users can have hardware-accelerated video playback of H.264, VC-1, and MPEG video formats. Support for this UVD support on years old graphics cards was delayed because AMD feared open-source support could kill their Digital Rights Management abilities for other platforms.


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I'm linking these up to the following parties:
Lots of papercrafting. Stamping, Cricut, Silhouette, and more. Video tutorials and all kinds of fun ideas.
Friday, February 10, 2012
I Sewed Some Makeup Bags
I'm linking these up to the following parties:
14 comments:
- Margie said...
AWESOME, Amber! They are beautiful...love the fabric and the colors are wonderful!
- February 10, 2012 at 9:51 AM
- Jayne said...
These are gorgeous Amber,love the zipper pulls you made as well.Somebody is going to be really lucky to receive them!
Jayne x
- February 10, 2012 at 10:02 AM
- Scrappin Rabbit Designs said...
Love your makeup bags! What a great gift idea. TFS. -Tami
- February 10, 2012 at 11:36 AM
- DeAnna said...
These are absolutely beautiful!
- February 10, 2012 at 12:22 PM
- Missy said...
Amber these look great! The fabric you chose is so pretty, I love the zipper pulls and the matching box---brilliant!!
- February 10, 2012 at 8:09 PM
- girlia said...
Awesome job
- February 11, 2012 at 5:58 AM
- Michelle said...
These are lovely Amber, you are becoming quite the seamstress.
- February 11, 2012 at 11:55 AM
- Cindy said...
Hi Amber,WOW you are AWESOME!These are sooo BEAUTIFUL,I LOVE the pretty fabric,Have a great weekend my friend!:)
- February 11, 2012 at 7:06 PM
- Audrey Frelx said...
Hi, sweetie! Your bags are beautiful!!! Love how they turned out -- you did a wonderful job on them!!!
Wanted to drop by to say "hi" since my absence. I'll be in and out to see what I've missed as I can!
Hugs, my friend!
- February 12, 2012 at 10:50 PM
- Angi Barrs said...
Your makeup bags are fabulous! Love the fabric. :)
- February 13, 2012 at 8:39 AM
- Drama queens mum (Kimberly) said...
Great stuff. Just found your blog. I wish I was more creative. I mostly just scrapbook.
- February 13, 2012 at 2:04 PM
- Hani@Craftionary said...
what a wonderful idea.. Love the fabric choice and bead zipper pulls.. Great gift idea for someone dear..
- February 13, 2012 at 3:49 PM
- cricutalltime said...
wow you did a great job on these bags.love the colors and charms.tfs
- February 15, 2012 at 3:29 PM
- AmyJRockstar said...
OMGoodness! These are gorgeous! I don't know how you find the time to stay as creative as you do! Saw your comment on Cindy's blog and just had to pop in to say hi! Hopefully we can meet up in March, lovely lady! I'd love to see you again!
Big Hugs,
XO ~ Amy Jo
amyjrockstar at gmail dot com
- February 22, 2012 at 6:48 PM


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Story highlights
- Another passenger describes the turbulence as feeling like a fall
- Five people were taken to hospitals
- The captain declared a medical emergency on United Flight 1676
- There were 114 passengers and five crew members on board
In a split second and without warning, the plane began shaking violently in the sky.
Passengers panicked and screamed. One woman called out for her baby.
Another, they said, hit the ceiling so hard that she cracked the panel above her head.
United Airlines Flight 1676, carrying 114 passengers and five crew members, was headed from Denver to Billings, Montana.
Just as it was about to land, turbulence struck. The plane started convulsing.
"There was a lot of screaming, a lot of hollering," Bill Dahlin told CNN affiliate KTVQ.
Three crew members and two passengers were taken to local hospitals.
All were treated and released except one flight attendant, the airline said.
Dahlin said the turbulence apparently took the flight crew by surprise.
"I think they were trying to assess things themselves, so they really didn't offer any explanation because of what happened so quickly," he told KTVQ.
Another passenger, Laurel Linde, told CNN the sudden turbulence felt like a fall.
"It almost felt like an impact from below the plane. It was so sharp, and then things and people were flying everywhere," she said.
Some folks weren't strapped into their seats, like a man sitting just a row or two in front of Linde.
"He flew up out of his seat, hit the roof of the plane and ended up on the other side of the aisle on top of a woman on that side," she said.
United Airlines said its flight safety team will review what happened.
"Our primary focus is assisting our employees and passengers who were injured," United spokeswoman Christen David said.
Last month, a United flight returned to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey after turbulence injured five flight attendants.
The Beijing-bound United Flight 89 hit "severe turbulence" about 45 minutes into the flight, officials said.
According to the FAA, turbulence can be unexpected and can happen even when the sky appears to be clear.


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Information in Police Reports is obtained from the West Chicago Police Department. Individuals listed in Police Reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.
• A window of a business was reported broken and $400 in cash taken at 4:33 a.m. Dec. 8 in the 300 block of South Neltnor Boulevard.
• A wallet containing $100 in cash was reported taken from an unlocked vehicle at 8 p.m. Dec. 13 in the 200 block of Woodside Drive.
• A theft of gas incident was reported at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 8 in the 100 block of West Washington Street.
• A PNC Bank checkbook was reported stolen from an unlocked motor vehicle at 7:30 a.m. Dec. 13 in the 400 block of Post Oak Circle.
• A kitten was reported taken at 8 p.m. Dec. 14 in the 200 block of Ann Street.
Driving under the influence
• Elias Garcia-Duran, 28, 29W361 Brown St., was charged with driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol and illegal transportation of alcoholic liquor at 6:47 p.m. Dec. 8 in the 1100 block of Bishop Street.
• Elizabeth Hahn, 58, 1715 S. 7th Ave., St. Charles, was charged with driving under the influence at 5:14 p.m. Dec. 10 at Roosevelt Road and Commerce Drive.
Car fire
A vehicle was reported to have caught on fire at 11:12 p.m. Dec. 13 in the 1300 block of South Neltnor Boulevard. No one was reported injured.
Missing person
A man aged 17 or older was reported missing at 12:04 p.m. Dec. 13 in the 1100 block of North Harvester Road.
A credit card fraud incident was reported at 8 a.m. Dec. 9 at the West Chicago Police Department, 325 Spencer St.
Criminal damage to property
• A mailbox was reported damaged at 8 a.m. Dec. 12 at Industrial and Downs drives.
• Adam Wezeman, 38, 15W500 Lexington St., Elmhurst, was charged with criminal damage to property at 8:58 p.m. Dec. 12 in the 500 block of Main Street.
Criminal damage to motor vehicle
The rear driver's side window of a vehicle was reported broken at 11:30 p.m. Dec. 9 in the 1200 block of Kings Circle.
Criminal trespass to motor vehicle
The interior of an unlocked motor vehicle was reported ransacked but nothing was taken at 5 p.m Dec. 13 in the 1000 block of Lakeside Drive.
Warrant arrest
• Raul Ortiz, 57, 221 Norris Ave., was arrested on an in-state warrant at 12:06 p.m. Dec. 10 at the West Chicago Police Department, 325 Spencer St.
• Vanessa Daniels, 41, 435 Carriage Drive, was served with a warrant at 6:19 p.m. Dec. 14 at the West Chicago Police Department, 325 Spencer St.
Traffic violations
• Daniel Pani, 18, 710 Church St., was charged with operating a motor vehicle with a suspended or revoked driver's license and failure to yield at a stop sign at 3 p.m. Dec. 8 at Town Road and Forest Avenue.
• Imelda Tecuatl, 24, 1603 Windsor Court, was charged with operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident at 8:59 p.m. Dec. 12 at Neltnor Boulevard and Joliet Street.
Dog bite
• A dog bite and dog at large incident was reported at 4:19 p.m. Dec. 8 in the 1000 block of Aster Lane.
• A dog bite and dog at large incident was reported at 5 p.m. Dec. 9 in the 700 block of Lyman Street.
Suspicious circumstances
A suspicious circumstances incident was reported at 2:30 p.m. Dec. 12 in the 200 block of East Hazel Street.
Lost items
A carry-on bag containing a wallet, with $3,000 in cash inside, and an iPad 2 was reported lost at 4 p.m. Dec. 9 at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.


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ok, longest streak of punts without a return TD. I guess all good things come to an end. Good job.
Kerley threw our best pass of the season, and in Jets form, horribly underthrown
Sparano will be throwing Tebow in there too soon. This is a pot-luck quarterback game plan so far. lol!
I hate Sparano.
LET McELROY get the experience he needs, moron!!
None of this Wildcat crap!
Nice throw/duck by Kerley though.
Now we have gone completely crazy...
Calm down mac n cheese
You can't break up a quarterback's rhythm like that!
Biggest passing threat is our biggest receiving threat.
Can't make this stuff up, folks.
Yeah mac swagga son son
McElroy makes Mark look like he is running in cement
No TD, but nice instincts by the kid for the 1st.
Challenge that crap
Why the **** is Rex challenging this? It's first and goal from the 1, just run it 4 times you fat ****.
Way to go MAC that's a TD


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I'm thinking of doing a Wiki project that will be a sort of quick reference guide for cross-browser functionality. Users will be able to search for a function, and the guide will show them the best methods and examples for working with all browsers.
I would like to collaborate the efforts of all the programmers out there that post on blogs, forums, and articles about JavaScript. It's going to be similar to Rosetta Code, but with for JavaScript only, and possibly with links back to the corresponding Rosetta Code page. I will also hope to provide links back to Webdeveloper.com articles and discussions.
My focus will be on browser compatibility, rather than linguistics.
Am I way off by trying to do something like this?
Do you think people will participate?
Would WD be offended by my cross linking and recruiting participants here?
My purpose here is that it will hopefully reduce the amount of searching and reading to be done when someone needs to figure something out, and they can further their reading by reading the references and related articles linked right from the page. Perhaps it will encourage people to participate as well.


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el chapulín wrote:You installed fglrx, so now you need to remove it as follows:
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# aptitude purge ~nfglrx
fglrx overwrites some core xserver files, in testing/unstable there are special packages which handle this, I can't remember if this has been implemented in squeeze. To be certain just reinstall the xserver, mesa and drm:
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# apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-dri libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2
Did you install the firmware? Check
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# apt-cache policy firmware-linux-nonfree
It should say "installed" and show you the version, if it says "(none)", install it.
Create an xorg.conf but first move any existing one to a backup file
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# mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak
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# nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
With these contents:
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Section "Device"
Identifier "card0"
Driver "radeon"
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
That last part will ensure users have permissions to access the DRI.
OK, from the above:
Uninstalled fglrx as instructed
Reinstalled the packages mentioned as described
The firmware was still installed
Made an xorg.conf (there was no existing xorg.conf)
Rebooted. Machine went straight into Debian desktop
Went to user terminal from desktop
result of 'glxinfo | grep render' from your earlier post is now
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direct rendering: yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5964)
20090101 x86/MMX+/3Dnow!+/ SSE TCL DRI2
glxgears also worked, reporting a rather ludicrous 400+ frames per second whilst rendering the gear animation in the default small window. When I expanded the window to full screen, it fell to a surprisingly consistent 60fps, which is the refresh rate of my screen, so there would be no point in exceeding that anyway.
All looked good - so I ran Oolite and noticed an immediate, enormous improvement. The only slowdown now is when the screen is entirely filled with planet surface and even then it's still more than 10-12 fps - not bad for a card which came out in the early noughties and a non-proprietary driver. Of course it helps that the 3D output from Oolite is authentically simple, just as in the game which inspired it.
So thanks for that, much appreciated - but I'd like to understand now what went wrong initially? I take it that installing fglrx (which no longer supports my card) also broke something that the Xorg driver needed in order to work? And would it never have worked anyway without the presence of an xorg.conf file? I wasn't aware I needed one until you brought it up.


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Saturday, March 9, 2013
bacteria .....
[pl. of bacterium], microscopic unicellular prokaryotic organisms characterized by the lack of a membrane-bound nucleus and membrane-bound organelles. Once considered a part of the plant kingdom, bacteria were eventually placed in a separate kingdom, Monera. Bacteria fall into one of two groups, Archaebacteria (ancient forms thought to have evolved separately from other bacteria) and Eubacteria. A recently proposed system classifies the Archaebacteria, or archaea, and the Eubacteria as major groupings (sometimes called domains) above the kingdom level.
Bacteria were the only form of life on earth for 2 billion years. They were first observed by Antony van Leeuwenhoek in the 17th cent.; bacteriology as an applied science began to develop in the late 19th cent. as a result of research in medicine and in fermentation processes, especially by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch.
Bacteria are remarkably adaptable to diverse environmental conditions: they are found in the bodies of all living organisms and on all parts of the earthin land terrains and ocean depths, in arctic ice and glaciers, in hot springs, and even in the stratosphere. Our understanding of bacteria and their metabolic processes has been expanded by the discovery of species that can live only deep below the earth's surface and by species that thrive without sunlight in the high temperature and pressure near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor. There are more bacteria, as separate individuals, than any other type of organism; there can be as many as 2.5 billion bacteria in one gram of fertile soil.
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Cloudy skies and cold, crisp air kept cars and car lovers to a minimum Saturday at the Blue Ridge Community College's annual car show
Cloudy skies and cold, crisp air kept cars and car lovers to a minimum Saturday at the Blue Ridge Community College's annual car show.
But even in those conditions, there were some people out early to support the Skills USA automotive club at the college. The event is sponsored by the club and the Great Smokey Mountain Region of the Antique Auto Club.
"It was good," Matt Rieger, an event organizer, said. "It was for a good cause. It was real chilly, but we had fun."
The proceeds that are made every year from the show go directly to the nonprofit club, which competes in automotive tournaments at the state and national level.
The group has 27 members and has been in existence since 2004. It's won four state championships in that span.
While there weren't many cars out in in the early part of the morning, the ones that showed got lots of attention. Folks in attendance gathered around a 1955 Chevy owned by Chris English. There were Volkswagens, BMWs, and all sorts of foreign cars.
There was even a bike on display.
Mark Allard found a 1949 Western Flyer bicycle two years ago hanging on a fence at a Harley Davidson shop.
"They were using it as yard art," he said. The story is reminiscent of a popular TV show called "American Pickers," he joked.
He bought it and put a motorbike kit on it.
The show lasted from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. In the end, 35 cars showed, along with support from companies like Harry's and Boyd Cadillac Chevrolet.
In the morning, however, the weather was playing a definite role.
"This will probably be the smallest turnout we've ever had," he said.
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