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THE Young Dairy Development Program (YDDP) south-west team needed little training for their winning effort in yesterday's Farmers Challenge at the Sungold Field Days.
The team of four were raised on farms, which they said meant they had been in training for yesterday's event for most of their lives.
The YDDP team defeated two other teams in the fun challenge that required them to quickly and proficiently complete tasks such as erecting an electric fence, cutting and joining poly pipe and finding ear tags in a hay bale.
The team's on-the-job training came in handy because it was thrown together only just before the challenge's start yesterday.
The team comprised Laura O'Connell, of Warrnambool, Jarrod Meade, of Cobden, Phillip Meade, of Garvoc, all of whom are YDDP members, and Matt Child, of Tamworth.
Team spokeswoman Ms O'Connell said one of the job skills it stumbled at in the challenge was treating a snake bite.
Its proficiency in that skill was judged as less than adequate by a panel of emergency care experts from South West Healthcare.
Taking a light-hearted dig at the other teams, Ms O'Connell said one of the reasons why her team had won was that it had not cheated.
Ms O'Connell said the team enjoyed the contest and would consider taking up the opportunity to show off its skills at a national level at this year's Royal Easter Show in Sydney.
The YDDP's Colac team won the national farmers challenge at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney in 2011.
However, Ms O'Connell said her team had already achieved its main aim of promoting the YDDP that aims to encourage young people to pursue careers in the dairy industry.
YDDP south-west coordinator Liza Fahey said that apart from showing the diverse range of skills that farmers had, the challenge was a great way of bringing farmers together.
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Hey so i had a baby 5 months ago and i have been on the pill since and thats the only protection me and my man uses. I usally at least spot when on pill. Last month in october i didnt spot nothing happened. I am currently really tired..major lower back pain and kinda bitchy. and stil no period. I was like that for my daughter and i kno this sounds nasty but i alway have to go poop alot,that was another thing i did alot when i was pregnant, when i found out i was pregnant for my daughter at 5 weeks thats when the sign started..idk wht to do..should i wait alittle longer to take a test?
by gypsy_roseNovember 14, 2012 at 7:20 PM
I have to poop alot when my period is about to start....honestly the way you discribe how you feel sounds JUST like me before my period.
by gacgbakerNovember 15, 2012 at 9:41 AM
by LancesMomNovember 15, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Nice to meet you. I would talk to your OB the pill takes a awhile to regulate. Or may not be the right one for you.
November 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Sometimes it's your birth control because I get those symptoms before my period and I use to always think I was pregnant because my period wouldn't come and then it would come late really late lol! so it's probably your birth control and the the fact that you just had a baby probably doesn't help because your mind is so fresh on pregnancy symptoms! when this would happen to me i would buy the test with 2 tests and I would take one now and then take one about a month later if I still felt the symptoms but it always turns out I'm not. Hope this helped!
November 15, 2012 at 6:46 PM
took a test..im not.yahoo
by jin1210November 16, 2012 at 9:16 AM
It does sound like you are about to start but it also sounds like symptoms of pregnancy. Personally, I would be taking a test because I always had to know right away. Is this a good thing or a bad thing for you? I got pregnant with my last baby (my 7th!) when my baby was 5 weeks old...though it wasn't the end of the world, I didn't want anymore children. It took a few days for it to sink and of course, now she is 7 months old and a true gift!

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A couple of months before the launch of the Wii U, we had Game Informer's Ben Reeves take to the streets to see what people knew about the new console. Now that we are months away from the launch of two new consoles, we wanted to walk the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota once again to find out what people knew about the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4. Who will win the console war this fall? Watch the video below to get a completely unscientific glimpse into the public's opinion of the great battle between Sony and Microsoft.
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In the seven years that my sons were in child care—a period that began when my oldest was three months old and ended when my youngest hit kindergarten—I shelled out upwards of $80,000.
It was worth every penny.
Handing over that last check, I felt as if there should be champagne, or at least balloons falling from the ceiling. Because child care will remain one of the best investments I ever made.
Moms who work from home and use child care often get judged: Can't she work around the baby's schedule? Isn't she throwing her money away? Isn't it a teeny bit selfish?!
For me, child care was never an indulgence but an investment in my business, no different from a decent computer and reliable Wi-Fi.
And it also made me a more relaxed mother. For his first five months, my youngest son was home with me as I launched my freelance career. I had to work—that wasn't an option. But did I have to work with my baby in a swing, ticking like a metronome behind me?
That $80,000 sounds steep, but I wonder: How much less money might I have earned if I hadn't spent it? It's worth pondering…over a glass of champagne.
Denise Schipani blogs at Confessions of a Mean Mommy. She is the author of Mean Moms Rule: Why Doing the Hard Stuff Now Creates Good Kids Later.


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At John Deere, we believe that it's not enough to have a product to sell. As technology brings our global community closer together, we believe that everything we do must serve a larger purpose; it must serve the life of our planet and the needs of the people who live there.
Quality, innovation, integrity and commitment - these four pillars of the John Deere business model have carried the company through 167 years of change, growth and diversification, making it a Fortune 500 company and one of the nation's longest corporate success stories. Deere & Company does business around the world and employs approximately 47,000 people.
John Deere's eleven divisions serve the Agricultural, Construction, Forestry, Landscaping, Financial Services, and Health Care industries. We are the worlds leading manufacturer of Agricultural and Forestry equipment, a leader in Construction equipment and a major supplier of Commercial and Consumer Landscaping equipment. Our Parts, Power Systems and Technology divisions provide innovation and support. And through our financial and health care divisions, we provide support and services to employees and customers.
A focus on high technology is the foundation of them all. From our toughest equipment to our information services, John Deere is committed to harnessing the brightest ideas to make every product work better.
And we know it all comes down to people. So we work hard to get the very best and give them what they need to stay here. John Deere offers excellent compensation and outstanding benefits, including medical and dental coverage, life insurance, 401(k) and tuition assistance. We work hard to maintain the John Deere culture of respect and opportunity for all employees.
And every day, with everything we do, our work feeds people, builds homes, creates beauty, and serves the needs of families all around the world.
Now wouldn't you like to be a part of that?
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Ric Schmidt, General Manager Emeritus
Ric grew up in the Willamette Valley community of Albany, Oregon, where he attended grade school at St. Mary's and graduated from Albany Union High School. While attending the University of Oregon he directed and co-produced award winning TV and Radio Commercials, and in 1979 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in speech telecommunications.
Ric first arrived in Nome as a radio volunteer in the summer of 1984. Ric met his future wife, Lynette, while they were both KNOM volunteers. At the time, Lynette was KNOM's volunteer News Director; today, she's on staff as Business Manager.
In 1986, Ric and Lynette moved to Portland, Oregon, where Ric became the General Manager of Metro Catholic Broadcasting and founded and operated the Catholic radio station KBVM-FM. After seven years in the Pacific Northwest, Ric returned to Nome and KNOM. He became KNOM's Program Director in 1995 and was promoted to General Manager in 2005. Ric retired from active service as GM on June 30, 2017, but he continues to serve the mission as a mentor and advisor.
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I tend to get bored with competitive multiplayer games over time, but I have found it difficult to put Uncharted 3 down over the last few weeks. The combination of gunplay Naughty Dog tweaked in Uncharted 2 and the traversal options throughout the well crafted maps offered in Uncharted 3 make the beta a lot of fun to keep coming back to. Each area breaks into multiple paths, sometimes venturing above or below ground. It never feels like you need to take the same path to get from one area to the next because there are so many routes at your disposal. A few things need work, though. Melee battles often end in each opponent killing each other. Bungie used to have this issue with Halo and tweaked it by adding additional power to the first strike, perhaps that could help. I also found it difficult to assassinate some players. I'd run up behind a player and initiate a melee strike when I should have landed a one-hit kill animation. I also found some issues with player spacing when trying to land these strikes, often swinging wildly in some instances but landing a shot from far away in others. These problems may be due to latency issues. Traversal throughout the environments works well for the most part but still feels a little too sticky in certain situations. When trying to roll into a room and out of the way of enemy fire, I often stuck to cover facing my enemy. As someone who prefers to survive enemy fire, this is not a good situation to be in. Some of the traversal in levels needs work too. Airstrip has a few choice spots where grabbing onto certain objects can be finicky, often leading to me being shot in the back while I try to scale an area. Embarrassing! I've also come to really enjoy the (just added) co-op adventure mission: Syria. It's a combination of surviving waves of enemies while attempting to complete objectives. The key to the fun for me, however, is playing with people I know. Too often I was paired with fools that were more concerned with hitting the taunt button to thrust into my player's personal space than complete the mission. The reason I like co-op is because it allows me to play with my friends and not deal with unknown riffraff. For this reason, I'm not a fan of the game's Co-Op Hunter mode. Here, two teams are formed: two player-controlled heroes versus two player-controlled enemies and a wave of fodder. BOOM video 9255 Though the mode attempts to balance things by making it impossible for enemy players to pick up weapons in the environment, it begs for balance fixes and better indication of who is AI and who is not. There's a certain strategy that you can employ with AI that is not possible with human players. Not being able to clearly discern who is "real" and who is computer-controlled makes the mode--which combines the treasure capturing of Plunder--a battle of inches. Mostly, enemy players would hover around objectives, waiting for the distraction of their AI teammates to attack from above. It just wasn't fun. I've only played half a dozen matches in Yemen, but it's probably my favorite map. The entire experience takes place in a town with tall buildings, ziplines, underground walkways, back alleys and more. It's huge and impressive, though you can sometimes run around without finding an enemy to attack. When Naughty Dog announced multiplayer was being added to Uncharted 2, I was one of the skeptical ones. To me the "bread and butter" of the franchise is Naughty Dog's ability to tell a great, action-movie caliber single-player story. Uncharted 2 proved that Naughty Dog could easily tackle both modes--single- and multiplayer--with the same level of quality. Playing the Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception multiplayer beta just makes me want November 1, 2011, to hurry up and arrive. Uncharted stands as one of the best franchises of this generation and, as proven by its previous releases on the PS3, Naughty Dog offers an exceptional level of quality to gamers. My hope is that the final version of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception lives up to and exceeds that standard. The Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception multiplayer beta ends on July 14.
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I originally found this post from Google but it seems it's gone now so I will start a new one. http://www.filtersfast.com/forums/re....html#post2114
I have white powder crap in my tray. I'm pretty sure it's coming from the ice cubes because after I empty all the ice cubes after about 12 hours the tray below the water/ice dispenser is covered with this powdery stuff.
Also the ice cubes feel sorta rough like they have this white powdery stuff on them as well.
Here's a picture of the tray. Another creepy thing I just noticed after I took the picture is there is a tiny little bug in the tray on the right side. Damn I don't think I'm drinking anything but bottled water for awhile.
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A review of state records shows Attorney General Pet Lautenschlager's self-imposed punishment for drunken driving is in line with what other state employees have received for the same type of offense.
The Associated Press reviewed more than a dozen letters of reprimand against state workers for drunken driving in a state car since 1990.
The review found that seven employees received five-day suspensions; two got ten-day suspensions; two got a 30-day suspension; and three were fired. Since she's an elected official, she can't be suspended. Instead, she paid the state $3, 250, which is equivalent to a ten-day suspension, although she's still working.


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Hi Rick: Of course but squeeze bottles are plastic. Yuck! There's nothing like ketchup out of a glass bottle.
Is this another symptom of the "NOW" generation? Contrast this with the opening lines of Robert Browning's poem :Rabbi Ben Era: "Grow old along with me, The best is yet to be The last of life for which the first was made." James 5:7,8 urges us to be "patient, therefore, brethren" --- not just for the ketchup to flow faster, but to "bear patiently the cross of grief or pain" and trust that the Lord always has something better in store for us ( certainly, better than a few drops of ketchup!!) "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ" (Titus 2:13) Sincerely, Yours in the Master's service, Chris Ederesinghe
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Somewhere between when the birthing process begins and when the long-legged foal takes his first wobbly steps, he transitions from an unconscious fetus to a conscious horse. And while owners might just be happy to see their new arrival waking up to the world, researchers now believe that the fetal consciousness transition could have a significant impact on neonatal health.
John Madigan, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVIM, ACAW, professor in the Department of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, presented a lecture entitled "Why Foals Don't Gallop in Utero: Studies in Transitions of Fetal Consciousness with Implications for Neonatal Health," at the 2013 American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum, held June 12-15 in Seattle, Wash.
For many years, Madigan said, veterinarians and researchers believed neonatal maladjustment syndrome (or NMS, also known as dummy foal syndrome) to be caused by pre-, intra-, or postnatal hypoxia (lack of oxygen). This oxygen deprivation results in neurologic deficits, behavioral abnormalities, and sometimes death.
Madigan said common clinical signs are consistent with brain hypoxia and include:
- Altered states of consciousness, ranging from mild mental deficits to coma;
- Abnormal behavior, including lack of affinity for the mare, not nursing, excessive vocalizations, and wandering;
- Blindness; and
- Paroxysmal (spasmodic or seizurelike) behaviors.
"Histopathologic (microscopic) evidence of cerebral hemorrhage and hypoxia has been detected in some severely affected foals in the mid-1970s," Madigan said. "However, many foals in recent studies do not have histological evidence of hypoxia, edema, or hemorrhage." Additionally, he noted, about 80% of foals with NMS fully recover, unlike hypoxic human infants who retain neurologic deficits.
These disparities prompted Madigan and colleagues to take a closer look at what else might cause NMS.
Recent Research
Madigan and colleagues began by looking at steroids with important neuromodulatory roles, called 5?-reduced pregnanes (such as progestogens), which are often referred to as neurosteroids. He explained that foals are subjected to high levels of progestogens while in the dam's uterus; these steroids essentially keep the foal in a quiet state to prevent damage to the mare.
"Neonatal foals have high concentrations of pregnanes at birth, which begin to decrease rapidly within an hour of birth and continue to decline over the first 24-48 hours of life," Madigan said.
"Compared to healthy age-matched neonatal foals, NMS foals show significant ongoing elevation of plasma pregnant concentrations."
He noted that his team's research has shown that other ill neonatal foals with weakness and lethargy believed to be associated with conditions such as sepsis also have elevated plasma pregnane levels, although not has elevated as that of NMS foals.
Madigan and colleagues administered a pregnane called allopregnanolone to healthy equine neonates in the experimental setting to produce clinical signs consistent with NMS (e.g., the foals don't want to nurse, don't recognize the dam, etc.). These effects were short-lasting, and foals returned to normal after administration ceased, he said.
Madigan said that while the team administered allopregnanolone, Monica Aleman, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, used an electroencephalogram to evaluate electrical impulses in the foals' brains. He said the readings were consistent with slow wave sleep while the foals were standing.
"These data suggest that these steroids can cross the blood-brain barrier and exert neuromodulatory effects, which at high concentrations may have a dampening effect in the central nervous system with resulting alterations in states of consciousness, altered behavior, and responsiveness to stimuli, such as observed in NMS cases," Madigan said.
Madigan hypothesized that a possible reason neurosteroids might persist and prompt NMS-like signs in some foals is that normal signaling events during the birthing process don't take place properly. For instance, he said, if a foal passes rapidly through the birth canal or is delivered via cesarean section, normal transition signals that prompt a reduction in fetal pregnane levels might not take place, leaving the foal with elevated neurosteroid levels.
"There must be a clear and reliable signal that it is safe for the foal to wake up, to transition the consciousness," Madigan said.
Another theory, he said, is that some neonates revert to fetal-like brain status in response to adverse effects after birth.
Possible Treatments
"Based on these findings, the concept of reducing post-birth circulating plasma pregnanes would seem to offer a potential new therapeutic option for NMS foals and perhaps other ill foals which appear weak and are not nursing," Madigan said. He noted future studies will evaluate this more closely.
Additionally, he said, his team is evaluating the possible use of a technique he and his colleagues developed called squeeze-induced somnolence, which is believed to mimic passage through the birth canal. Madigan said this method might signal to the foal that he is outside the uterus and that it's time for pregnane production to decrease, allowing him to stand, nurse, and run. Squeeze-induced somnolence involves applying pressure to the thoracic (chest) area in healthy foals to induce recumbency, non-rapid eye movement sleep, muscle relaxation, and increased β-endorphin levels. It does not appear to have any adverse effects.
During their studies the team noted a unique hormone surge after 20 minutes of squeezing, which is about the normal amount of time a foal is squeezed in the birth canal during a normal delivery, Madigan said. The internal signal for the foal to "wake up" involves the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis, which they believe down regulates the pregnane secretion so the foal can transition to birth consciousness.
Also during his presentation Madigan speculated that this new concept might have important human neonatal health implications. He said there have been several reports of premature human babies pronounced dead by doctors that begin breathing and awaken while being held and squeezed by their mothers. Madigan said this practice—termed "kangaroo care"—has been shown to arouse infants better than an incubator.
Take-Home Message
Madigan and colleagues are continuing research on the mechanisms behind NMS and possible treatments. A better understanding of this phenomenon could lead to rapid treatments in the field and less need for intensive care of the dummy or ill foal.
Disclaimer: Seek the advice of a qualified veterinarian before proceeding with any diagnosis, treatment, or therapy.


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Kinston police today released surveillance pictures inside the Rightway convenience store on U.S. 70. Police say around 7:45 p.m. last Wednesday, a woman parked a pickup truck behind the Bojangles while two men went into the Rightway.
One man distracted the clerk, while the other went into the office and got cash from the safe.
Pictures show the two men in the store, while another captured the truck with a woman waiting. The dark truck has extensive commercial lettering on it, and it appears to say "K & M". The rest of the writing can't be read.
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TDP = Thermal Design Power, as in the maximal power usage it is designed for.
Your T61 might have a power usage of 15W, but the cpu TDP for various T61 is around 35 W
The nit: TDP = thermal design POINT. There are many things that need to be considered at this point: power, performance, temperature, current...
The biggie: TDP power isn't maximum power, that is the entire reason why Intel started specing TDP values in 1995: the maximum power required a monster heatsink, and only a tiny %age of applications even get close to max power. Why force chassis designers to handle a huge theoretical peak
That's good mileage! As for standard CPU TDP, who knows. Are you sarcastic? TDP is the wattage ceiling, and I am sure what they said is some marketing drone speak. It probably means a CPU with 15 watts of TDP, period. Your Intel Core Duo Txxxx has probably 25 watts TDP, for comparison.
Actually, (most?) T-Series Core2Duo (like the T7100/7300 and so on in the Thinkpad T61) are 35W CPUs. The newer P-XXXX Core2Duos are 25W...
As for 15W total power consumption during light usage... the ones with Intel integrated graphics drop that down to below 10W.
So... to help filter past the marketing filters:
laptop - dvd drive = netbook
netbook - plastic case + fiberglass case = ultrabook
"general public" who ignore the marketing materials, like my wife and sister in law, continue to refer to any clamshell design with a keyboard as a "laptop".
laptop - dvd drive = netbook
that i don't agree with, netbook in my idea is a sub class of laptop that has enough processing power to consume but not enough to effectively create.
aka you can browse the web and watch video - but really comping,encoding, or in general heavy work just isn't going to be exceptable.
to me
laptop - dvd drive = most "ultra light" laptop/notebooks
you can get an i7 in a 2.2lbs x220, there is no optical drive, and it surly isn't a "netbook"
has enough processing power to consume but not enough to effectively create
Why? Anyone in the biz for more than 2 years was using less "power" to create 2 years ago, perfectly acceptably. And certainly nothing has changed since then.
Anyone with a longer than, say, 2 years upgrade cycle, would find the netbook specs to be an upgrade over their present full size laptop...
I've done 3D modeling and photo editing using a 1.2gHz Athlon, 384MB of RAM and a CRT heavier than some UPS units. It's slow, but definitely possible.
1.2gHz? Luxury.
My first copy of 3D Studio ran on a 33MHz 486 (which was one of the fastest PCs available at the time).
1.2gHz? Luxury.
My first copy of 3D Studio ran on a 33MHz 486 (which was one of the fastest PCs available at the time).
Yeah, and it's still probably trying to render that 480 x 320 8 bit 45 second movie that you had been working on in 1995...
Hell im using some older Dell D series laptops as cheap servers.
I'm just connecting up an Arduino as a web server so I'm getting a kick out of this thread.
There's a huge performance difference even for consumption though. I have both netbook class hardware (Pentium M Banias/Dothan, and Atoms in both N270 and N280 flavors) and notebook class hardware (typing this from a Core2Duo machine with 2+Ghz and 8 gigs of RAM), and the performance difference, even with just Chrome or Firefox open, is HUGE. Opening and closing tabs, loading web pages (especially reopening an entire browser session), loading Flash video... the netbooks and older hardware have absolutely no
even though they're all running XP (Win7 is another little bit slower)
One thing I noticed is that XP has gotten *MUCH* slower with the latest updates. Granted I only keep XP around for Publisher and Yahoo Messenger (on the rare occasions I need photo sharing & webcam) so my Kubuntu partition gets the most attention, but still something to keep in mind.
I also definitely have issues with the OP saying that older hardware can't do the job. My Sempron EOLed in late 2006 and it's STILL doing what I need. And for the record it's a stock 1.6 Ghz.
Of course the old hardware still works just fine, as long as you use the same old software. My experience has been that most mainstream software, like (especially!) browsers, is becoming quite bloated and doesn't run well on older hardware any more. FF4 gave me a nice boost over FF3 on my older Pentium M hardware, but unfortunately it's been downhill from there
Hell, even Slashdot is noticeably faster on current hardware
OK, maybe it's just on Windows...
Given that they've got 2Gb RAM I bet Win7 would speed them up. A lot.
XP has a terrible memory manager which constantly hammers the swap file even when there's plenty of RAM available.
That's ridiculous, you don't measure yourself with regard to 5 year old technology and call it good when you're comparing present price. You measure it with regards to current technology when dividing these things into various tiers.
And no, a genuine netbook is not going to be faster than even a 5 year old laptop. My last netbook isn't going to outclass anything made since about a decade ago. Back before netbooks were run out of the market by MS, they were typically sporting processors that were cutting edg
And no, a genuine netbook is not going to be faster than even a 5 year old laptop.
My atom-powered was faster than my 5 year old laptop when I bought i (it also had a higher resolution, though smaller, display.) What distinguished it was no optical drive.
Its pretty much what distinguishes the class. I can create with it (creating doesn't actually take more power than consuming), it doesn't handle heavy multitasking as well as my two-year-older Core2Duo laptop, but "creating" and "heavy multitasking" aren't t
you'd have to have an impossibly long upgrade cycle before it would be an upgrade over their present full sized laptop.
I've seen a lot of households with children and working-class income that have what some more well-off geeks might call impossibly long upgrade cycles. They use something until it breaks, and then they buy a used product to replace it.
Anyone with a longer than, say, 2 years upgrade cycle, would find the netbook specs to be an upgrade over their present full size laptop...
Hardly. Atom is slow. That's not to say you can't do work with them: many people who work with computers use them for the most trivial of tasks, light word processing, email, stuff like that. But beyond that, you'll hit the limits of a what a netbook can do very quickly, both because of the agonizing speeds and because of the limited resolution. The latter might be the b
but doing work in such a cramped environment seems almost impossible after using a large display (or even multiple).
Netbooks will generally drive external displays up to 2560x1920 (maximum spec of the intel chipset). For on the road use, there is a fairly direct correlation between screensize and weight.
You can get a computer weighing as much as a heavy netbook with much more speed and slightly larger screen, but you will pay a lot for it and it will still be heavier than an old eee 900.
Well, obviously I was talking about standalone use, whether on-the-road, on the couch or at the desktop. But a netbook with a big screen attached still doesn't make for a good workstation, certainly not if you try to use modern software.
Note that it's not just the display size, but really the resolution. I'm more or less fine with 10", though I think I slightly prefer the 12" my previous subnotebook had, but it's the right ball park. Anything much bigger than 12" simply isn't mobile anymore, IMO, it's too h
But I'd like at least 1440xSomething on a 10-12" display. Having a higher resolution doesn't really drive up the weight or the power requirements, either, though obviously it does increase the prize.
Well, let me know if you find one. I've been looking for that for a while. They're now stuck on 1366x768. Even the otherwise really nice thinkpad x220s. I would gladly pay a decent premium for a 1600x900 screen in a 12" laptop. Or a 1366x768 screen on a 9" netbook. But the netbooks with those screens are 12" and
Well if you allow 13.3in, Sony will sell you a Vaio Z with a fairly impressive 1920 x 1080... for a price.
your right - we where but now i can get more done in the same amount of time..
I'm all for using what is appropriate for the job.. but as someone who has to compile/encode/model/texture/VM's an Intel Atom or equivalent just doesn't work - yes it can do it.. but you know what.. it is a hell of a lot faster on an i7 - in fact you could do all of it on a 386 (minus VM) if you wanted to.. but why would you on a regular basis?
Use the right tool for the job to get it done effectively..
as someone who has to compile/encode/model/texture/VM's an Intel Atom or equivalent just doesn't work
Maybe you're not the target market for Netbooks but that doesn't mean they're useless. For what most people do with their computers an Atom works just fine.
i never said that a "netbook" was useless. (i love them - use them as thin clients and also for family members)
i only objected to calling any laptop without an optical drive a "netbook"
netbook in my idea is a sub class of laptop that has enough processing power to consume but not enough to effectively create.
Speak for yourself. I have a netbook. It's fine for running many things, such as the GIMP, document processing programs, presentation producing programs, compilers, drawing packages, etc. It probably would be a little slow for some of the newest video editing techniques, but I never do any video editing anyway.
you can get an i7 in a 2.2lbs x220, there is no optical drive, and it surly
netbook in my idea is a sub class of laptop that has enough processing power to consume but not enough to effectively create.
I have a Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 with a dual-core Atom CPU, 1 GB of RAM, and Ubuntu 11.04, and I can do plenty of creating on it. Apart from the 10.1" internal monitor (which can be fixed with a VGA cable and an HDTV), this is comparable to a P4 of a few years ago. I've never had a problem running GIMP on a netbook, though it needs a bit of rearrangement of tool palettes to make everything fit on a 1024x600 pixel screen. Nor have I had a problem running Modplug Tracker to compose music. It runs GCC to comp
I agree with you - and the Dual core Atoms are very nice - I use one for an HTPC, and if you get the right one you can get them with VT/VD on it and make life easier on it (in my work usage) - Very very few "netbooks" have that - but rather the slower N270 or something equivalent.
Unfortunately for Intel, ARM is better at low power than their Atom offering.
Unfortunately for ARM, Intel is better at marketing its architecture to developers of proprietary applications designed for machines with keyboards.
The way I understand it:
Desktop Replacement Laptop = 17"+ screen, 500+GB hdd, DVD drive (likely blu-ray), processor does not belong to manufacturer's "portable" lines, often has high-power graphics option. Price varies with components.
Notebook/Laptop: 15"+ screen, 200+GB hdd, processor is likely one of the mfg's "portable" processors, some sort of optical drive (likely DVD-RW). Price varies with components.
Ultra-portable Laptop: up to 15" screen, SSD of some amount of GB or up to 320GB HDD, mfg's "portable"
An Ultrabook is an old Ultrasparc II based laptop. Way to be creative, Intel.
Atom sales have fallen off sharply in the past year, thanks to a recovering economy
Erm... whose economy are we taking about here?
Erm... whose economy are we taking about here?
It doesn't matter. If they delude you the reader into thinking the economy is recovering, then maybe you'll click the Shop link and, you know, shop.
OK, you go first...
Status-quo for PCs as of lately - the entire lazy uninspiring market just trails Apple, who, as much as I dislike the whole flashy iDesign, have been the only true innovators for years now.
As much as I like my Thinkpad, it often amazes me why if it's thin and light, has everything you need, then it has to run that iOS thing.
It looks like Apple are thinking, while everyone else just tries to profit riding the wave. Like rich estate owners who cannot be bothered to actually work anymore, because it's been so long they did, they have no understanding nor desire to do so, but they do want the money they lay claim to.
We are sold "business" laptops that are supposed to be our road warriors, that have gamer graphics cards in them for some idiotic reason, that get not just warm but burning hot in our laps (while we thought we could actually use them as well LAPtops you know), that come with a shitload of software crap someone either thinks we need or doesn't give a damn about, and on top we have Microsoft aggressively pushing Windows to us, which is at best a patch on a suit full of holes and stains. My point is: the PC industry as a whole is a mess, there is no direction and definitely no respect for the multititude of jobs people who work with computers these days do - it's like we are sold toys that we are supposed to use and throw out after a year. Everybody sings their tune, software is pushed to interpreted languages and the cloud which negatively affect one of the most important usability factors out there - latency. It's amazing we are not told that we shouldn't multitask because the new JavaScript OS is too slow to do that on todays Intel Core CPU.
All the while Apple at least is innovating. Maybe because that's what they long wanted to get away from - the messy juggernaut of the PC industry that is like a landfill of throwouts someone somewhere tries to fit together to give us the next best thing, for their 15 minutes of fame.
Gee, Intel, is it a coincidence you thought of finally shaving off a centimeter off the average laptop height 2 years after Apple, and probably half a decade after it began to be possible and the users began wanting it really badly after complaining of carrying five pounds of machine on average with them every working day?
I've got a Thinkpad and my only complaint is that it came bundled with Windows. Other than that, it's great hardware and beats the crap out of my mother's Atom based netbook. Personally, I was shocked to find out how much more the school paid for it than what I paid for my much more responsive Thinkpad.
Status-quo for PCs as of lately - the entire lazy uninspiring market just trails Apple, who, as much as I dislike the whole flashy iDesign, have been the only true innovators for years now.
The netbook was a good innovation IMHO (small, light and cheap, with just enough power for daily needs), and it certainly didn't come from Apple.
A it does not use IOS it uses OS/X IOS is related to OS/X but it is not the same thing.
Really take a look at a Macbook Air and then look at other light notebooks in the same class. It is actually priced very well for an ultra light notebook. Apples doesn't make any low end notebooks but the ones that they do make are competitively priced.
I use OS/X, Windows, and Linux. For a workstation my favorites are OS/X, Linux, and Windows in that order. OS/X really does work very well and frankly the only thing I miss
It's unfortunate, yes. Even among Thinkpads, I had to search for quite a while until I found the right balance of battery life, performance and heat... it's gotten a bit easier with the latest *20 series (Mainly because nVidia Optimus eliminates the battery life problem in most models - even the W520 gets 7+ hours now), but there are still pitfalls like the T420s, with its absolutely abysmal battery life.
I just got a T420s and I really like it. It only gets 3-6 hours on a charge (with an Intel SSD), but that's not surprising--it's a full-power laptop with half the battery, which is why it weighs a full pound less than the T420. It suits me just fine--when I'm using it heavily, the larger battery wouldn't actually help much. I have lots of power adapters (slim AC/DC, plus one at home and work), so I rarely need the battery for more than an hour. I don't do a lot of traveling, and take the train when I do
The 9-cell on the regular T420 has a capacity of 94Wh - with an average power consumption of 10W (idle is 7W, more or less the same as your T420s, most likely), that's a runtime of 9 hours and more - 12h+ if you're just reading PDFs. 3-6h vs. 9-12h is pretty much the difference between taking a charger everywhere and just leaving the charger at home... the latter is very comfortable.
hm we have macbook pro's at work, they have gamer cards and run hot as balls, heck the ones a few years ago ran so hot they would desolder their own nvidia GPU
IMO it just sounds like you dont know how to shop for what you want, they make cute thin light cool stinkpads, and apple makes multicore portable mainfame furnaces, its not a companies or markets fault you dont know what your looking for.
We are sold "business" laptops that are supposed to be our road warriors, that have gamer graphics cards in them for some idiotic reason
Because PC makers want to sell you games through their online store to play on break. Or because a lot of businesses rely on 3D design. Or because more and more applications benefit from GPU acceleration, such as Adobe Photoshop since CS4 [adobe.com].
software is pushed to interpreted languages
Because except for mass-market software, developer time is more expensive than runtime.
Ah, how beautiful it is to observe market space competition, falling prices relative to dollars, (which are also falling BTW.). Just how much would all and any of this cost to the end consumer if there was no inflation caused by government money printing? How much electronics would cost today without any government regulations, taxes, subsidies altogether I wonder? 100 bucks for a fully loaded top quality laptop? One can only dream of a world where there is more competition in everything else, from healthc
Ah, how beautiful it is to observe market space competition, falling prices relative to dollars, (which are also falling BTW.). Just how much would all and any of this cost to the end consumer if there was no inflation caused by government money printing? How much electronics would cost today without any government regulations, taxes, subsidies altogether I wonder? 100 bucks for a fully loaded top quality laptop? One can only dream of a world where there is more competition in everything else, from healthcare, to education, to insurance, to travel, to energy, to food, etc.etc. arrrgh.
The blatantly political thread is ---> that way.
Must be odd to see the world through your libertarian colored glasses. Your field of view must be rather limited given the blinders that are inherent to that philosophy. I'll be it hurts to be walking into reality so much.
Fiberglass cases ? Double-punishment if you drop your "Ultrabook":
- Fiberglass breaks easily;
- If will spread a fine cloud of fiberglass shards after the impact - breathe those and your lungs are fubar.
Fiberglass cases ? Double-punishment if you drop your "Ultrabook":
- Fiberglass breaks easily;
- If will spread a fine cloud of fiberglass shards after the impact - breathe those and your lungs are fubar.
Well, duh, then a year after the fiberglass cased models are released we'll be "permitted" to "upgrade" to a "new plastic case" which fortunately only costs $200 more.
See coke, new coke, classic coke, repeat...
Not recently (i.e. the last 15 years).
If you know of any recent technology improvements made to fiberglass, please share them with us.
And remember, this is the cheap fiberglass+epoxy we are talking about, not carbon fiber or other stronger materials.
I take it you have never heard of the LongEZ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Long-EZ [wikipedia.org]
Fiberglass fishing rods? Fiberglass tent poles. They are all pretty tough and can take a good amount of abuse. Fiber glass is even used in motorcycle helmets. depending on the epoxy and the layup they can be very strong and light. Not as light as say CF but still really light.
I would rather see AL since it is more recyclable but fiberglass will be better than standard plastics for strength.
Sorry to see this new form factor requires lots of pieces built into place instead of modulized or componentized. It means when your SSD goes bad or the network card fries you will have to replace the whole thing, or at least send it in to the manufacturer for replacement. The days of replacing the card or the drive are over. More potential avenues for profit for the manufacturer, but not so good for us measly consumers!
The old segment isn't going away because there are more air-clones, just like notebooks weren't replaced by netbooks. More product segments actually offers more choice which is usually good for us measly consumers!
Actually on the Air the SSD is replaceable.
It is a trade off for the user. Lighter, longer battery life, thinner vs easy to repair.
It is what people want.
I need a few hundred gigs of disk space on a laptop. That'll still require a harddrive. Does that mean I can't use an Ultrabook ?
so it takes 700 bucks to gather the materials, add in marketing, management, packaging, wholesale, retail + extended warranty and your going to have a total shit 3000$ laptop that wont be able to do anything cause its only burning off 15 watts out of a celphone battery
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SEARHC Honors National Influenza Vaccination Week
SITKA, Jan. 6, 2010 — National Influenza Vaccination Week is Jan. 10-16, and it comes at a critical time in the fight against this year's novel H1N1 (swine) flu breakout. Since the first case was diagnosed in April, there have been approximately 47 million cases of H1N1 in the United States, with more than 200,000 hospitalizations and nearly 10,000 deaths. While flu activity has dropped in recent weeks, flu experts warn that we should be prepared for a third wave of H1N1 flu. The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) is honoring National Influenza Vaccination Week by encouraging its patients who haven't already received an H1N1 vaccination to call their local clinic and schedule a flu shot appointment. A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows American Indians and Alaska Natives have a much higher rate of hospitalization and deaths due to H1N1 flu complications than the general population, and the best way to prevent the flu is through vaccination. When supplies are in stock, SEARHC now is making H1N1 (swine) flu vaccine available for all of its patients. Previously, SEARHC clinics had very limited supplies of the vaccine and the vaccine only was available to patients who were on priority lists established by the CDC for times of limited vaccine availability. The Alaska Division of Public Health relaxed those restrictions statewide on Dec. 1, but most SEARHC clinics still had very limited supplies until mid-December. Now that SEARHC has received additional supplies, we are able to offer the vaccine to all patients who want it, when we have it available. SEARHC patients who want the H1N1 flu vaccine should schedule a flu shot appointment with their local clinic, or check to see if it plans to hold a special flu shot clinic. Also, many community emergency preparedness groups are scheduling community-wide flu shot clinics at local fire stations or other community buildings. SEARHC continues to have very limited supplies of the seasonal flu vaccine, which is different than the H1N1 vaccine, so we still are targeting the CDC priority lists for those people with a higher risk for seasonal flu complications. The seasonal flu priority group list and other flu information can be found on the SEARHC flu page online at http://www.searhc.org/flu/. You can call your local clinic for more information, or you can call the SEARHC flu hotline at 1-877-966-8549 (toll-free in Alaska) for a recorded message about flu vaccine availability. Additional information on the flu can be found online at http://www.pandemicflu.alaska.gov (state site), or at http://www.flu.gov/ or http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/ (national sites). For info about the CDC study on the H1N1 flu's effects on American Indians and Alaska Natives, go to http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5848a1.htm?s_cid=mm5848a1_e.


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2007 Baseball
Bluffton at Transylvania
Transylvania completes sweep of Beavers, 7-3 and 11-5
May 5, 2007
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The HCAC leading Pioneers of Transylvania proved to be too much for the Beavers in the final series of 2007. Transy completed the sweep of Bluffton with a pair of victories on Saturday, May 5, by the scores of 7-3 and 11-5 in a game that was shortened due to rain. Bluffton ended its season with a 5-19 overall record, including a 4-15 mark in the Heartland Conference. Transy can finish no lower than second in the conference as the Pioneers completed their HCAC contests with a 16-6 mark.
Game 1 - Transylvania 7, Bluffton 3
The Pioneers' first six batters reached safely and Eaton followed with a sacrifice fly to right before Tolliver drove home Lawson, giving Transylvania a 5-0 lead when the dust settled from inning one.
In the top of the fourth, Bluffton rallied to cut the deficit to two runs. Cody McPherson (Northwood/Lake) was hit to lead off the inning. One out later, Curtis Schroeder (Shelby/Shelby) ripped an RBI double to center. Ryan Baightel (Wapakoneta/Wapakoneta) followed suit with a run-scoring two-bagger down the left field line. First baseman Steve Roberts (West Salem/Mapleton) plated Baightel with his single to right before Transy got out of the jam with an inning-ending double play.
Transy tacked on a run in both the fifth and sixth innings and the Pioneers' pitchers mowed down the Bluffton hitters, allowing only two baserunners over the final three innings for a 7-3 victory in the first game.
Sophomore Matt Perkins (Convoy/Crestview) took the loss, giving up seven runs on nine hits with two strikeouts in six innings. He fell to 1-4 on the year despite holding the Pioneers to only four singles over the final five innings of the game.
Schroeder, Baightel and Roberts all drove in runs for the Beavers.
Game 2 - Transylvania 11, Bluffton 5
Through the first six innings of game two, the visitors mustered only four hits while Transylvania was taking advantage of four Bluffton errors and timely hitting to take an 11-0 lead before the Beavers came to the plate in the top of the seventh.
Consecutive singles by Darek Zook (Bellefontaine/Riverside) and Greg Sigg (Maumee/Maumee) after David Riddle (Milford/Milford) was hit by a pitch led to Bluffton's first run of the game. Austin Gray's (Lewisburg/Tri-County North) two-bagger to right center brought home Zook and Sigg, making the score 11-3. One out later with Gray and Allen Slabaugh (Dalton/Dalton) both in scoring position, McPherson laced a two-RBI single to right center. Transy ended the threat with a strikeout and rain forced the contest to be called midway through the seventh with the Pioneers on top by a score of 11-5.
Corey Conn (London/London) ended the contest 2-for-2. McPherson and Gray both knocked in two runs in the second game.
Tim Kay (Alpharetta, Ga./Blessed Trinity) fell to 2-3 as he gave up eight runs, only two earned, on eight hits in 3.2 innings of work on the mound.
Bluffton's 2007 baseball season is complete following the three-game series at Transylvania.


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The Raceland American Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 349's regular monthly meeting was held recently at the post home. The club's president, Rosalie Knobloch, presided over the meeting.
The Raceland American Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 349's regular monthly meeting was held recently at the post home. The club's president, Rosalie Knobloch, presided over the meeting.
The unit held a bingo party for the residents of Raceland Manor Nursing Home and donated $30 for prizes. Several members of the local unit volunteered.
The local group furnished the treats distributed to the participants of the oratorical contest held at the post home.
The local unit donated $100 to the American Cancer Society for its Relay for Life program.
The unit also donated $40 to the American Legion Auxiliary's state department for poppies.
The unit purchased a $100 ad in the Third District Spring Conference booklet. Raceland Post No. 349 will hold the conference April 12-14 at the Quality Hotel, 310 S. Hollywood Drive, Houma. The memorial service is scheduled for 7 p.m. April 12. The national commander and the Southern Regional vice commander will attend. Post and Auxiliary members are getting ready to host the function.
The local post's birthday party is scheduled for 7 p.m. today at the post home, 238 Bowie Road, Raceland. All Post, Auxiliary, Jr. Auxiliary and Sons of the American Legion members are invited.
A Good Friday bake sale to raise money for activities for the home's residents is scheduled for March 29 at Raceland Manor Nursing Home, 4302 La. 1. Goodies are needed for the bake sale.
Messages of sympathy are extended to the friends and family of Agnes Rodrigue who died recently. She will be missed by Raceland Manor Nursing Home residents and staff.
Jerry Iccelland and Cindy Guidry celebrated Valentine's Day as family and friends gathered to watch the couple crowned the 2013 Valentine's Day couple. Roy Brug congratulated the couple with words of best wishes. The couple had a special cake made for two, while residents and guests were served Valentine's Day cookies and punch.
Volunteers are needed for activities at Raceland Manor Nursing Home. If you are interested in volunteering, call the center's activity coordinator, Amaryllis, at 537-3569 or 413-4557.
A party for residents who have birthdays in March is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. The party includes cake, ice cream and live music.
An Easter hat decorating activity was scheduled Thursday. Residents will wear their hats for the Easter parade scheduled for 10 a.m. March 25.
The 2013 Mardi Gras Ball was held Feb. 8 at Raceland Manor Nursing Home. The mistress of the ceremony was Dot Gulliot, who introduced the members of the 2013 Mardi Gras Court. First duke, Mike Griffin, and first maid, Joyce Davis, sparkled in a gorgeous black, sequined cocktail dress. Second duke, Robert "Pancake" Bellanger, and second maid, Gail Benoit, wore a deep plum long flowing A-line dress. The festivities king and queen of Mardi Gras, Jasper Courteaux and Marie Guidroz, wore an aquamarine long jacket dress. The dukes were dressed in black tuxedos with Mardi Gras-colored ties provided by Norman's Tuxedos. For refreshments, volunteers helped serve guests king cake donated from the local Wal-Mart bakery.
Traveling chalice: Sylvia Estay and her mother received the traveling chalice at the 8 a.m. Mass on Sunday at St. Mary's Nativity Catholic Church, 3500 La. 1, Raceland.
It will remain in their home for one week as they pray for vocations.
If you are interested in having the traveling chalice in your home for one week, call Ronnie Danos at 537-7806.
New families: Clint and Leslie Martin and family, Hope Oliver and family, and Tyler and Dodie Templet and family are St. Mary's Nativity Catholic Church's newest members.
Altar: Blessing of St. Mary's Nativity Catholic Church's St. Joseph's Altar is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in the church's community center. Altar viewing is scheduled from after the 8:30 a.m. Mass to 5 p.m.
Praise: A night of praise for adults 21 and older is scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. March 22 in the Cotillion Ballroom on the Nicholls State University campus in Thibodaux. The cost is $15 per person. Steve Angrisano is the night of praise's special guest. Registration forms are in the back of church. For information, call Betty in the church's administration office at 537-3204.
Palms: If you would like to donate palms to St. Mary's Nativity Catholic Church for Palm Sunday, you may bring them before 11 a.m. March 21 and 22 to the church and place them in the wagon in front of church.


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Virtualization for Cisco MediaSense
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Revision as of 22:36, 2 February 2011
Updates to this Page
The following is a list of significant updates to this page:
|November 2010
|Virtualization of Cisco MediaSense on UCS C Series hardware.
|December 2010
|Updated OVA template download link.
Information for Partners about Cisco MediaSense Deployments
See High-level Checklist for Design and Implementation.
VM-Specific Cisco MediaSense Hardware Requirements
See Unified Computing System Hardware.
Before you install the Cisco MediaSense software in any server, you must address the following requirements:
- Only Cisco MediaSense must be running on this VM host. No other product can be installed on this server.
- If you are performing a fresh install of Cisco MediaSense in any deployment, be sure to verify that the virtual machine is also fresh (no previously-installed OS is present in the VM).
Cisco MediaSense-Specific Details for VMware Requirements
See Unified Communications VMWare Requirements
Cisco UCS C-Series Servers, Cisco MediaSense ISO, ESXi 4.0 must be installed prior to the Cisco MediaSense installation.
Cisco MediaSense, Release 8.5(1)
All Cisco MediaSense servers run on VMs using the Unified Communications Operating System (Unified OS or UCOS).
|If you are using ESXi 4.1, be sure to disable Large Receive Offload (LRO) on the ESXi 4.1 host.
To disable LRO, follow this procedure:
- Log into the ESXi host or its vCenter with vSphere Client.
- Select the host > Configuration > Advanced Settings.
- Select Net and scroll down slightly more than half way.
- Set the following parameters from 1 to 0:
- Net.VmxnetSwLROSL
- Net.Vmxnet3SwLRO
- Net.Vmxnet3HwLRO
- Net.Vmxnet2SwLRO
- Net.Vmxnet2HwLRO
- Reboot the ESXi host to activate these changes.
VM-Specific Cisco MediaSense Software Requirements
See Unified Communications VMWare Requirements.
The following software requirements apply specifically to Cisco MediaSense:
- For other third-party software requirements and for a list of approved UCS servers, see the server requirements and version compatibility with Unified CM sections in the Hardware & System Software Specification (Bill of Materials) for Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise Guide available at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/custcosw/ps1844/products_user_guide_list.html.
VM-Specific Cisco MediaSense Hardware Requirements
See Unified Computing System Hardware.
Cisco MediaSense only supports UCS C210 M1 and M2 servers for Release 8.5(1).
Cisco MediaSense-Specific Information for OVA Templates
See Unified Communications Virtualization Downloads (including OVA/OVF Templates).
Cisco MediaSense OVA Templates
Cisco MediaSense-Specific Information for Sizing Guidelines
The VM-specific sizing information required for Cisco MediaSense is additional virtual disks for media storage. See the SRND for Cisco MediaSense for further information.
SRND for Cisco MediaSense, Release 8.5(1)


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Release Notes: This release adds various magic additions and updates and minor bugfixes.
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Release Notes: The detection of zip files was fixed. Other minor magic enhancements were made. The MIME types of filesystem objects were renamed for consistency with xdg-utils. MingW compilation was fixed.
Release Notes: Several regressions in magic were fixed. A buffer overflow was corrected. The program version is now recorded in only one place. Several documentation improvements were made.
Release Notes: The Python bindings were updated and fixed. Magic support for OCF (EPUB) files and for lrzip files was added. Zip file magic was adapted for files with unsupported special types. Many more magic updates and fixes were made. Several minor bugs were fixed.
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You're a recently senior government official and you're looking forward to a drive in the country. France, maybe.
What is your choice? What car would you choose if you were on the run, in Europe, with two federal pensions and about, oh, a month or two to kill? For the sake of the hypothetical and purely as a matter of speculation, assume you are not alone, you old dog.
Me? My answer is always the Hennessey Cadillac CTS-V wagon with a six-speed stick. Duh. However, I recognize there are other good candidates. They are both named Porsche.
For serious people, the absolute best road-trip car will always come down to either the 911 Carrera, that ageless rear-engine Mephisto, recently sleekified and even more insanely fast, just an orgy of driver satisfaction; or the midengine Boxster S, which is by my reckoning exactly three-quarters the car that the 911 is, for exactly three-quarters the price. But it's a convertible.
Why these two? Stay with me. First, it has to be Porsche POAHY, +0.00% , PAH3, +1.34% right? For a million reasons. Out there in the real world, far from safe harbor, high-performance cars break down with surprising regularity and when they do, it's a pain. Let me tell you, when you're standing outside the hotel watching your scissor-door death machine get dragged up onto a flatbed, nobody feels sorry for you.
So you're going to want to privilege reliability. Porsches are bulletproof.
Second, it has to be a convertible, especially this time of year, when a dry, cold crown of air settles on the Dolomites. The place is a fantasyland of cliff-wrapping cutbacks and hairpins amid immortal ramparts and see-forever vistas. Here these Porsches' flat-six songs can be best heard, ricocheting off the snowy massifs and going maximally quadraphonic in long alpine tunnels. Your whole Italian Alps region is pretty happening, driving-wise.
What about a 911 4S Cabriolet? I'm sorry, no. Lopping off the roof of a 911 is design sacrilege. The root note in the 911's symphony of design, going back to Ferdinand Porsche's explorations of aerodynamics in the 1920s, was and is the functionally streamlined roof. As per Ledwinka, as per Ganz, as per Komenda, as per Rumpler. Sure, a ragtop 911 is sweet to drive, but it's a philistine's choice, not worthy of a connoisseur.
From a multitude of options, you see how easy it is to narrow to one: the Boxster S. I'll have it brought round for you, General.
The 2013 redesign of the Boxster (code-named internally the 981), in brief: a 2.3-inch-longer wheelbase under a body stretched 1.3 inches; front overhang is trimmed an inch and front/rear track is wider by around 1.7/0.7 inches, depending on tires; torsional rigidity is up 40% while curb weight is down, 55 pounds for the base Boxster (2.7-liter flat six, 265 horsepower, a claimed 2,888 pounds, zero to 60 miles per hour in less than 5.5 seconds) and 77 pounds for the Boxster S (3.4-liter flat six, 315 hp, 2,910 pounds, <4.8 seconds). In terms of handling and dynamics, all the arrows are pointing in the right direction.
The 2013 interior redesign pulls the Boxster into step with other Porsche offerings, installing the company's distinctive banked center console, multifunction navi-touch and full-color LCD graphics into the instrument panel. Porsche's crisp, perfectly weighted switchgear is worthy of Swiss gunsmiths. Our test car's optional Carrera Red leather upholstery was worthy of Italian fetishists.
Note, however, that the Boxster is not a car for the sedentary. The seats are low and the door opening fairly tight, making entry and exit a little challenging if the door isn't swung wide. I jumped over the door a couple of times.
The new Boxster's exterior styling is appreciably tougher, harder, with more lean muscle defined in subtle chamfering at the hood, fender wells, and front and rear bumper clips. There's more drama in the windshield rake. The whole thing seems to be clenching its jaw. Behind the integrated roll hoops, the convertible top folds Z-style, with the canvas forming the tonneau (an operation that takes 10 seconds at speeds up to 31 mph). Aft of the tonneau, the rear deck follows a lazy rainbow curve toward the integrated spoiler lip, a lapidary flourish edged in elegant chrome trim.
With every option Porsche could devise (how about adaptive magnetorheological transmission mounts—not even engine mounts, transmission mounts!) our silver metallic Boxster S test car went out the door for $88,720, a full $26,870 over the base sticker. Oof. Must be the altitude.
The 2013 engines are mildly revised versions of the previous flat-six powerplants. The base engine (2.7 liters) loses 0.2 liters of displacement yet gains 10 additional horsepower and 15%-better fuel economy. The Boxster S uses a rather unstressed version of the 3.4-liter used in the 911 Carrera, where it makes an additional 35 hp. The Boxster S's engine is nonetheless pretty fantastic. At low speeds, the engine is muzzled by its efficiency-minded electronic mapping. But when the revs rise and the variable intake and exhaust plumbing opens up, the car's sound gets big and emotional, a pristine, oiled-steel sibilance, a cavalry charge in silver horseshoes.
Unfortunately, the Boxster will not be available with the 911's unique seven-speed manual transmission. Because, cannibalism. The gearbox choices are the six-speed manual or the PDK seven-speed automated transmission, both impeccable. If we're talking about a three-year lease, I'd opt for the PDK transmission, which is both quicker and more livable. If it's just a month or two of Tyrolean misbehavior with my biographer, I'd prefer traditional stick-and-clutch biomechanics.
The take-away for 2013 is that, while the Boxster S isn't notably quicker in a straight line than before, the car stretches the metrics in several dynamic categories. The g-meter integrated into the instrument panel showed my test car was cornering comfortably at nearly 1-g on the 20-inch Pirellis. Thanks to larger brakes backed up with more-evolved smart-brake software, the car's stopping distances are shorter. The Boxster S slows up wondrously hard when it wants to.
On the other side of any particular corner, the car's computer-enhanced transaxle (mechanically locking rear differential with optional brake-based torque vectoring) allows drivers to get on the gas earlier, lightening the steering effort as cornering-exiting acceleration comes on line. With a feel like the electric-power-assist steering of the 911, the Boxster S's helming is light and a touch synthetic, but you can't question the results. The car just rips.
So bug out. Evac. Fall back. A driving vacation does a body a world of good. I won't tell. Your secret is safe with me.


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|Regional Recruiter; Assistant Coach
Richard Damraur is regional recruiter and assistant coach for the Southern Virginia University men's lacrosse team.
Currently Damraur serves as regional recruiter for men's lacrosse and will join the team as assistant beginning the fall of 2013. He also holds a fulltime position as director of outreach for Zinch.
Prior to Southern Virginia, Damraur was the head coach of the Spartan Lacrosse Club from 2010-11 while also teaching physical education and health at the Harmony School of Excellence in Houston, Texas.
He also served as assistant coach from 2008-10 for the Sky View High School boy's lacrosse team in Smithfield, Utah.
A defensive captain his junior and senior years, Damraur was a four-year starter for the Utah State University men's lacrosse team earning MCLA Division I All-Conference honors in 2009.
He served a fulltime mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Buenos Aires, Argentina speaking Spanish.
Damraur graduated from Utah State University with a bachelor's degree in movement science.


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Saline Memorial launches study to evaluate community needs
Saline Memorial Hospital, in collaboration from other local health professionals and stakeholders, is working on a "road map to health" for the people of Saline County, identifying public health needs, goals, objectives and priorities.
The hospital reportedly has launched a comprehensive Community Health Needs Assessment that is intended to provide the foundation for improving and promoting the health of each community member.
According to Rebecca Jones, the hospital's director of marketing and community relations, this is a systematic collection, assembly, analysis and dissemination of information about the health of the community. Its role reportedly is to identify factors that affect the health of a population and determine the availability of resources with the community to adequately address those factors.
These assessments are required for not-for-profit hospitals as part of the health-care reform legislation, Jones noted. The assessment is expected to be finalized by the end of July.
A report of the results will be presented to the community, she said.
"Guided by the results of this important community survey, we can have a more complete understanding of the health needs of this community which will help us focus our resources on how to improve health," said Bob Trautman, chief executive officer at Saline Memorial.
The survey will use both existing and new data to assess local health needs and recommend possible improvement methods. Some of the data already has been collected through previous local, state and federal public health organizations. Saline Memorial is using outside firms, Stratasan and Catalyst Healthcare Research, to collect, quantify, and interpret the data.
After that, a community survey will be conducted to seek input from numerous local residents throughout this process. Jones said local residents will be asked what they think about various aspects of their local healthcare delivery system and what changes they would like to see. That insight, along with the data, will be used to set priorities for local public health.
"The survey will be looking at what the concerns are as seen through the eyes of the residents of Saline County," Trautman said.
The information and data is being gathered by Stratasan and Catalyst Healthcare Research to ensure confidentiality and anonymity of the participants. The results will be shared with Saline Memorial Hospital's Board of Directors and Management Team to help them develop and refine the hospital's programs and services to ensure they target the community's healthcare needs.
Once the survey is complete, a community health summit will be scheduled later in June or early July.
"Our community assessment is not meant to produce a document that gets shoved onto a shelf to gather dust," Trautman said. "It is meant to create the foundation of an action plan to help us truly improve the lives of the people in our community."
For more information about the services offered at SMH, visit www.salinememorial.org.


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Breaking News from Miami Florida
Posted by Pat, Thursday, August 30, 2012 11:24 AM
Brad Cromer won skateboarding! It's official, we have a winner. First, he drops eight minutes of "bonus" footage. Yes, eight minutes. Eight minutes of raw footage that rivals anyone else's best footage. That's amazing and all, but the real kicker is the photo to the left. The triangle monument is located right in downtown Miami, which means every pro that's ever been to Miami has been there. Which means it's impossible for me to explain how ridiculous this kickflip is. If you've been there, you know. Well done Brad.
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In my first blog, I introduced the term "ecosystem services", which has become a popular way to refer to the value of ecosystems. This is an important concept as it provides a counter-argument to the often narrow-minded and short-eyed approach of economics.
The traditional economic focus on "How much can I earn today?" neglects the long-term consequences of short-term profits. For example, the initial earnings from fish ponds erected in pristine mangrove forests are enormous, and apparently much larger than income from, for instance, the production of wood. However, many fish ponds collapse after some time, as they become poisoned by the large quantities of pesticides and antibiotics used in fish farming. Fish ponds also often or breach due to coastal erosion, as frequently happens in Indonesia.
Ecosystem services quantify other values besides economic gains, such as coastal protection or carbon sequestration. The term became very popular after the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, in which over 3000 ecologists worldwide were asked to identify the status of the world's ecosystems. These ecologists highlighted the dangers associated with losing the services that we humans gain from the healthy functioning of ecosystems. These services are numerous and vary from food provisioning to recreation and tourism.
The ecosystem services concept is helpful to illustrate the costs and benefits of different approaches to natural resource management. Human designs, on the one hand, are often optimized for single functions: for example, a levee is mainly designed to provide flood protection. Ecosystems, on the other hand, naturally provide a whole range of services or functions. For instance, if we decide to conserve ecosystems for coastal protection we get a whole suit of other services for free, such as an attractive area for tourists, increasing fishery yields and possibilities for fire-wood harvesting.
A practical example of the diversity of services derived from natural flood defense solutions is constituted by the beach and dune system on the Dutch west coast. Beaches and dunes along this coastline are adaptively managed through artificial sediment nourishment for coastal protection. Additionally, the beach and dune area form the largest natural recreation area for around 10 million people living in the west of the Netherlands. Furthermore, the dunes are used for filtration of drinking water. After purification this water is sold to millions of households. Finally, the beach and dunes directly create jobs and revenue, as yearly around 15 million tourists stay overnight in the Dutch coastal area.
Similarly, mangrove-mud coasts also provide a wide range of ecosystem services. Mangrove forests serve as the natural bank accounts and insurance policies of tens of millions of people throughout the tropics. For many centuries they have provided coastal communities with rich fisheries resources: many species, including shellfish, crustaceans and fish, spend critical phases of their life cycle inside the mangrove forest and associated river systems, sea grass beds and coral reefs. Mangroves in South-East Asian countries have been found to support 30 percent of fish catch and almost 100 percent of shrimp catch, while mangroves and associated habitats in Queensland, Australia, support 75 percent of commercial fisheries species.
Mangrove trees are renowned for the high quality fuel wood and timber resources they provide. They have a key role to play in the regulation of atmospheric carbon levels. With living biomass typically ranging between 100-400 tonnes/ha, and significant quantities of organic matter being stored in sediments, mangroves rival the sequestration potential of rainforests. Mangroves offer protection to extreme events, such as storms and more gradual processes such as salt water intrusion and erosion. These regulating services become increasingly important in the face of climate change, specifically increases in sea level.
By taking all these factors into account, the ecosystem services approach demonstrated that the annual total economic value of mangroves is substantial. Estimates range between 100 and 22.500 USD per hectare per year. This entails direct values in the form of harvestable products that have a market value, as well as more indirect values such as erosion reduction and storm protection.
This is why Deltares and Wetlands International are working together to apply engineering solutions to eroding mangrove mud coasts that simultaneously deliver coastal protection as well as a variety of other ecosystem services. We call this "hybrid engineering" – but we'll explain more about this approach in a future blog, so watch this space!


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The Army Career and Alumni Program is scheduled to a host a Hiring Fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday at Nutter Field House here.
The Army Career and Alumni Program is scheduled to a host a Hiring Fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday at Nutter Field House here.
The event is free and open to the public and employers.
"Hiring fairs assist transitioners in meeting with potential employers and preparing for interviews," said Beverly Rowe, transitions services manager. "They're a great opportunity to meet with employers at a convenient location."
The event will help job seekers receive information about general career opportunities and learn more about opportunities and specific details on current openings.
More than 55 employers will be represented with a potential of more than 2,600 employment opportunities.
According to Rowe, new employers coming to this event include: Dollar General, Gamestop, Baxter Health Care, Express Scripts, Great Circle, Houston Texas Police Department, Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, Mervis Industries, Phelps County Regional Medical Center, Piney Ridge, and area colleges and universities.
"A wide variety of companies will be participating. This is an excellent (chance) to explore different options. This is a perfect opportunity to perfect your networking and interviewing skills," Rowe said.
Rowe encourages participants to plan ahead for the fair.
"Be prepared to do a quick summary of your skills and experience so that you can promote yourself to prospective employers and have some relevant questions prepared," she said.
Rowe said participants should also dress professionally, bring extra copies of their resume and prepare a one-minute commercial.
"Be prepared to discuss your career goals, show initiative, be enthusiastic, and network with others attending the job fair," Rowe said.
The ACAP Office provides job assistance services to service members and their Families who have selflessly served their nation.
For more information on this hiring fair or ACAP services, call (573) 596-0175.


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European Commission
Olli REHN
Vice-President of the European Commission and member of the Commission responsible for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro
Blueprint for a Deep and Genuine EMU
Press Conference on the Blueprint for EMU/Brussels
28 November 2012
Thank you Jose Manuel.
For over three years already we have been simultaneously pursuing both immediate crisis management and rebuilding the architecture of the economic and monetary union. This week has been an important point in time in this regard. As you know, we reached an important decision on Greece on Monday, or actually Tuesday morning. And today in the Commission we have adopted the blueprint that outlines the short, medium and long-term plan for rebuilding the economic and monetary union. I want to say about the decision concerning Greece that it is a major milestone which includes both concrete measures to reduce the debt burden of Greece to 124% by 2020, and a clear commitment to of further reduction of debt burden substantially lower than 110%. This shows that the euro area is practising what it is preaching when we say that we will do whatever it takes to ensure the sustainability and irreversibility of the euro. I know that for some years, for some time, some people have blamed us, blamed the European Union, the euro area for being behind the curve. Well, I want to say that those who still predict a Grexit or bank on it, are themselves badly behind the curve.
This blueprint aims at creating not only a sketch of the final architecture of the economic and monetary union, but it also provides a credible, realistic building plan for completing the construction. The sequencing of the various steps is an essential aspect of the blueprint, as President Barroso explained, and we have taken into account in a balanced way the economic theory of an economic and monetary union, the political reality we operate under, as well as the legal requirements within the Treaties and beyond. But we are firmly leaning on the Community method and on the existing institutions.
The guiding principle of this blueprint is that steps toward further mutualisation of economic risk and solidarity need to be combined with deeper integration of decision-making and responsibility.
Let me highlight three concrete elements quite briefly concerning this blueprint. We have in mind in the short term several concrete proposals within the current Treaties and based on secondary legislation. In order to improve the functioning of the EMU, the existing framework of the economic governance for the euro area should be further strengthened through ensuring ex ante coordination of major economic reforms and following the decision of the next Multi Annual Financial Framework through the creation of a Convergence and Competitiveness instrument to provide support for the timely implementation of structural reforms.
My second point is indeed the Convergence and Competitiveness Instrument, which would support reforms that are recommended in the country specific recommendations so that they are in reality implemented even when they are politically and economically difficult in the short term, especially in more vulnerable member States. This instrument would combine deepening integration of economic policy with financial support and thereby respect the principle according to which steps towards more solidarity have to be combined with responsibility and economic rigour.
And third, the intent to pursue a strengthening and consolidation of external representation of the euro area. We see that this is essentially in fact necessary to ensure that the euro area is represented in such a manner that is commensurate with its economic weight and the strengthening of its internal economic governance. In our view the euro area must be able to deliver a single message on issues of economic and fiscal policy, macroeconomic surveillance, exchange rate policies and financial stability, be it in the G20, in the IMF, G7 or G8, in multilateral economic institutions and with our strategic partners bilaterally. And ultimately we would aim for a single seat for the EU or for at least the euro area in the International Monetary Fund.
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JERUSALEM – Palestinians rallying in support of four hunger striking prisoners have clashed with Israeli forces in the West Bank and at a holy site in Jerusalem.
Israel's military said hundreds of Palestinians in Hebron and elsewhere in the West Bank threw rocks at soldiers who responded with tear gas. Palestinian emergency services said dozens were treated for tear gas inhalation and rubber bullet wounds.
In Jerusalem, dozens of Palestinians emerging from Friday prayers threw rocks at officers who responded with stun grenades, police said. That clash was at a key holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.
Protests have been ongoing for about a week. Israel holds a few thousand Palestinians on charges ranging from rock throwing to deadly attacks.


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Meet Jesse Heiman, the Go Daddy Nerd Who Got to Kiss Bar Refaeli
If the guy swapping spit with Bar Refaeli in that GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial looked familiar, it's because you've seen him before. Dozens of times. His name is Jesse Heiman, and he plays a nerd in basically everything.


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Bangkok, Thailand, Jun 20, 2013 / 02:15 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Local Catholic children in Bangkok participated in fellowship with other faith groups to foster inter-religious dialogue and peaceful relationships among different communities.
The group contained members of diverse faith backgrounds, including Buddhists, Muslims and Catholics, as well as their religious leaders.
The encounter program was organized under the leadership of Fr. Anucha Chaowpraeknoi, chaplain of the Catholic Office for Emergency Relief and Emergency Thailand, in collaboration with the Moral Promotion Center of the Royal Thai Government.
Fr. Chaowpraeknoi told CNA that "through this, we aim to explore the ethics of traditions in other religion and impress on the young minds a sense of common good, thus developing their moral values of fidelity and honesty."
These activities cannot be a "substitute to Catechism," he stressed, but rather, they "reinforce" the understanding of Catholic doctrine and how it is incorporated into practical living.
Inter-faith dialogue "empowers" the faithful "to live and to love their neighbor," striving to create a "peaceful society," he added.
He pointed to Pope Francis, who has urged Church leaders to engage in "fighting poverty, both material and spiritual, building peace and constructing bridges between communities."
Sister Kannikar Eamtaisong, director of Sacred Heart Orphanage, told CNA that Catholics must "live out the teachings of Jesus Christ," which include the commandment to love and live in union as brothers and sisters.
"This program unwinds prejudiced mind to know other faiths," she explained, and this in turn "reaffirms" the understanding and belief of one's own faith.
Starting at Santa Cruz Church, the children walked to a local temple and mosque, dialoguing with the religious leaders and learning about their beliefs and prayer.
At the Buddhist temple Wat Thewarat Chakunshonvoraviahan, the Superior monk discussed "the importance of honesty" in life.
He encouraged the children to practice "honesty of personality, of time, of the word, of responsibility, of piety and finally honesty of self."
One student participant told CNA after the event that while she often finds such talks boring, the inter-religious visit and discussions with leaders were interesting and the students now "feel committed."


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This weekend, a bugfix for R_2_5_0_94 was committed. The commit has been retagged so that a checkout of R_2_5_0_94 will give the fixed code. This is still the version that we recommend for new installs of Slash -- see previous story for details of how to install _94.
This fixes the issue that had been reported months ago that we never got around to fixing, namely, of the stray punctuation in slashschema_create.sql:
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ dkid TINYINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, name VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', PRIMARY KEY (dkid), - UNIQUE name (name), + UNIQUE name (name) ) TYPE=InnoDB; #
We apologize for this solution taking much, much longer than we'd initially thought. This has been a particularly persistent bug. But we are confident that when the final history of Slash 2.5 is written, it will look like just a comma.
As you may know, Slash development for the past several years has all been in CVS, with no tarball releases. We may do a tarball at some point, but for now, we recommend installing the most recent R_ tagged code from CVS.
We tag the code with T_ for our own use (on Slashdot, slashcode.com and use.perl.org) and when we feel one of those weekly test builds is stable enough, we also slap an R_ tag on it. A complete list of tags can always be found on sourceforge.net (in the "Show files using tag" menu).
If you are running a site on a very old version of Slash pre-2.2.6, we still recommend that you upgrade to 2.2.6, but the upgrade path beyond that to a recent CVS version will be long and difficult. We recommend you research whether you want to do that.
On the other hand, if you have not already invested a lot of time into a Slash site, we strongly recommend that you begin with the most recent R_ tag.
Today we made a new R_ tag, our version of Slash from January 11, 2006: R_2_5_0_94. This is the most recent since R_2_5_0_74, which dates from June 2005.
The biggest change is CSS, which was implemented just a few weeks after _74. Other changes include reskeys (which largely replace formkeys), and public logtokens (which improve security).
So the current recommended process to build Slash is:
cvs -d:pserver:firstname.lastname@example.com:/cvsroot/slashcode login
(password is blank)
cvs -d:pserver:email@example.com:/cvsroot/slashcode co -P -r R_2_5_0_94 slash
In the slash directory created, read the INSTALL file (the entire file, especially REQUIREMENTS). Then, if you still want to install Slash, follow the instructions in that file carefully!