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LAKE IN THE HILLS – Jersey Mike's Subs in Lake in the Hills was named as Business of the Year by at the Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Chamber of Commerce's Awards Dinner at Boulder Ridge Country Club in Lake in the Hills.
All Star Taxi & Transport in Lake in the Hills received the award for New Business of the Year, and Denise Benages of HR Midwest was named as Volunteer of the Year.
Also nominated for Business of the Year were Diamond Physical Therapy in Algonquin and VanderWeit Chiropractic in Algonquin. Nominees for New Business of the Year included Intrigue Fitness in Lake in the HIlls and Sparrow's Nest Thrift Store and Donation Center in Algonquin. Nominees for Volunteer of the Year included Viki Hettinger of Wintrust Mortgage and Roberta Wajrowski of RCW Tax Services.
More than 120 chamber members and guests attended the Feb. 1 event. A live auction raised more than $2,400 to benefit the chamber's Foundation, and a silent auction raised more than $1,400 to benefit chamber programs and services.
"It is through the efforts of the Dinner Committee and our sponsors that our chamber continues to host such incredible events," said Theresa Sakas, board chair and owner of Total Wellness a Shalkee Distributor. Members of the Dinner Committee included Nicole Prihoda of Kumon & Dream Getaways by Nicole, Sue Bazdor of Algonquin/Lake In the Hills Jaycees, Mary Caporale of Algonquin Bank & Trust, Donna Johnson of Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, Toni Savadel of Toni's Serendipity Party & Event Planning, and Roberta Wajrowski of RCW Tax Services.
Sponsors were Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital (Event Sponsor), RCW Tax Services, Algonquin Bank & Trust, Castle Bank, Centegra Health System, and Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle.
For more information about the Algonquin/Lake in the Hills chamber and events, call 847-658-5300 or visit www.ALChamber.com.


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The Lancaster Public Library, 5466 Broadway in Lancaster, will be closed from Monday, March 19 through Sunday, April 1 for electrical updates and installation of new carpeting. The drop boxes at the Lancaster Public Library will remain open for book and other material returns. Patrons may also return library materials to any other Buffalo & Erie County Public Library branch.
For more information, contact: Jim Stelzle, director, Lancaster Public Library at 716-683-1120.

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Jeff Rowe
Jeffrey Rowe has more than 40 years of experience in all aspects of industrial design, mechanical engineering, and manufacturing. On the publishing side, he has written well over 1,000 articles for CAD, CAM, CAE, and other technical publications, as well as consulting in many capacities in the … More »
Additive and Subtractive Processes Equal Manufacturing Innovation
August 20th, 2015 by Jeff Rowe
With multitasking an increasing fact of life for us all, it's no surprise that machine tools continue to evolve into increasingly multifunction machine platforms, as well.
Let's be honest, though, multifunction machines are not exactly new. For example, machines with processes that work together providing several functions, such as milling, turning, drilling, tapping, measurement, and EDM have been around for a number of years as requirements have changed.
I've also seen a number of interesting things on the exhibit floors at manufacturing trade shows, such as RAPID and IMTS, that employ traditional multifunctional capabilities, but have been most intrigued by a new emerging class of hybrid 3D printers that employ both additive manufacturing (AM) and subtractive (conventional machining) methods. Some of these innovative hybrid machines follow.
Hybrid (Additive & Subtractive Manufacturing) Machine by DMG Mori
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Machine Research and Spatial Partner to Develop Cloud-Based App
August 13th, 2015 by Jeff Rowe
Wow, it's still summer, but what a week for cloud-based CAD apps. First, Onshape for Android, and now this development from Spatial and Machine Research.
Spatial Corp., a provider of 3D software development toolkits announced that Machine Research, a software provider that helps manufacturers increase efficiency and profitability, has leveraged Spatial's 3D InterOp and 3D ACIS to launch the first Machine Research app for manufacturers, providing them with the ability to view, measure, collaborate, and translate virtually any CAD file type to any other file type on a secured cloud-based platform. Customers also can manage projects, utilize a visual search engine to find legacy projects of similar geometry, and customize and standardize the quotation process across their organization.
The Machine Research Multi-Purpose App
The Machine Research App provides two levels of service:
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Onshape Launches Android CAD App
August 11th, 2015 by Jeff Rowe
Today, Onshape for Android, claimed to be the first 3D CAD system to run on Android phones and tablets, was released. The new mobile release comes just five months after the launch of Onshape Beta, a full-cloud 3D CAD system that lets design teams simultaneously work together on the same model using a web browser, phone, or tablet.
This is big news because, as far as I know, Onshape for Android is the first 3D CAD app that lets you create designs on Android platforms, whereas other CAD companies have only a viewer.
"We founded Onshape with a vision to make CAD accessible on any device, anywhere," says Onshape founder and Chairman of the Board, Jon Hirschtick. "We're proud to be the first in the industry to run on Android. And by 'run,' I mean really run. You're not just viewing models. You're able to sketch, extrude, fillet, shell, create 3D models, edit their shape and size, and put them into assemblies."
Editing An Assembly On A Nexus Android Tablet
3D CAD users are no longer restricted to one primary workstation, as their data is now readily available on practically any device. In addition to Android, Onshape also runs on iPhones and iPads – and in a web browser on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
"When we first started, a lot of people were skeptical that CAD could be done on such a small device," explains Ravi Reddy, team lead for Onshape Mobile. "We solved the precision selection problem and made sketching easy with touch-based finger offset tools. We added intuitive lock and unlock modes to help with pan, zoom, and rotate operations for sketching and assemblies."
"We rejected the standard notion of providing a view-only version of CAD on mobile or choosing a subset of features," he adds. "We were determined to build a full CAD product that can be used anywhere and from any device."
Keep in mind, though, the mobile app is not intended to replace Onshape's use on desktops and laptops – it is meant to expand a CAD user's access to their work outside the home or office.
Onshape for Android is available now for free in the Google Play store.
Additive Manufacturing's Next Frontiers – 4D Printing and Self-Assembly
August 6th, 2015 by Jeff Rowe
Today, 3D printing is relatively well established, with an ever-increasing selection of printers available, ranging from low-cost personal/desktop 3D units for home to the larger and much more capable industrial-strength printers.
The technology itself has also evolved and is now being implemented in a wide range of industries from automotive to aerospace, construction, health, food, and many others.
By now most of us are familiar with 3D, but for the past couple of years there has been increasing chatter about 4D printing. So what is 4D printing?
A couple of years ago 4D-printing was introduced at a TED Conference in 2013 by Skylar Tibbits, director of MIT's Self-Assembly Lab.
The Emergence of 4D Printing
He described 4D printed objects as 3D-printed objects that reshape themselves or self-assemble over time, depending on the environment they're in. In other words, the 4th dimension is time and/or environmental conditions.
Tibbits is said to be working with GEOSyntec to design 4D printed water pipes. As the scale and reach of the technology increases, applications in the military (no surprise here) and construction industries are likely to materialize.
Shapeshifting: 3D printed materials that change shape over time.
Dr Dan Raviv, postdoctoral fellow at MIT, believes that 4D printing may be used in a wide range of applications such as home appliances, childcare products, or even clothes and footwear that optimize their form and function by reacting to changes in the environment.
New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) recently acquired a 4D-printed dress which designers were able to print using a powder-based nylon material, and made the dress out of thousands of interlocking pieces.
The pace at which 3D printing has evolved in various industries is impressive, but the technology is still too slow for mass manufacturing, and precision and repeatability must still improve for fabrication of structural components.
The power to offer customized products that are manufactured closer to their point of consumption certainly makes the technology appealing to both providers and consumers. It's a growing market, but there's still a lot work to be done – particularly around process speed, product size, and the variety of materials that can be used with the technology.
In the near future, 4D printing could be used in space. For example, an improved 3D printing process using materials that could self-assemble (the next topic below) was used to fabricate components on-site and on-demand for astronauts during a space mission.
Self-Assembling 3D Printing
A recent study reported in The Conversation has shown that high frequency vibrations can cause bricks to self-assemble into a larger 3D object, a finding that may one day help reduce the need for factory assembly lines.
The findings, published recently in the journal, Scientific Reports, signal a key advancement in programmable self-assembly, which was previously thought to only be possible using one-dimensional or two-dimensional objects.
Self-Assembly Demonstration
The research team, led by Dr Ido Bachelet from the Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, used an algorithm from the Computational Geometry Algorithm Library (CGAL) as part of a design that allowed 18 tetrahedral bricks to self-assemble into a larger 3D cylinder.
The following video shows blocks in the self-assembly process. Two sets of the object (36 bricks) were inserted in the chamber and after 2.5 hours in a constant speed of 320 rpm one set was assembled. The video doesn't contain the whole, but portions of it.
The Basic Self-Assembly Process
"Assembly rules are encoded by topographic cues imprinted on brick faces while attraction between bricks is provided by embedded magnets," the researchers said in their paper. "The bricks can then be mixed in a container and agitated, leading to properly assembled objects at high yields and zero errors.
"Improved designs inspired by our system could lead to successful implementation of self-assembly at the macro-scale, allowing rapid, on-demand fabrication of objects without the need for assembly lines."
The ability for life to self-assemble is something that continues to puzzle scientists. For example, proteins, viruses, living cells and multi-cellular organisms are all examples of systems in which parts are bonded to each other through attraction to form a structure or pattern.
Hamza Bendemra, a Research Engineer at the Australian National University, who was not involved in the study, said the research of 3D printed assemblies is remarkable.
"The algorithm was inspired by the molecular assembly of the DNA," he said. But he added that more research was needed to address challenges of time, space and safety for the model to be more efficient at forming and remaining together.
"In the study, a two-brick assembly took less than a minute to self-assemble. However, an 18-piece assembly required over two hours to perform the same feat."
"The components are subject to high vibrations and collide over and over again until they fit in the right combination. It would be a challenge to implement such a method with materials with low strength and poor impact tolerance without causing damage."
The next step in developing this concept for construction and manufacturing industries is to use both magnetic forces and adhesives to ensure the assembly stays in place.
Bendemra agreed, saying that "the researchers did a great job at adding topographic cues to ensure a unique combination only would lead to the pieces locking in. Their footage clearly shows that pieces that collide in a non-desired formation detach until they lock-in as planned."
"The number of pieces involved in the assembly and the nature of the materials being used (including the magnet) in more complex assemblies could limit the use of such a method."
This self-assembly effort is not entirely unique, as the Self-Assembly Lab is collaborating with Autodesk and Stratasys for 4D printing.
So, there you have it: 4D printing and self-assembly. There is certainly a long way to go to commercial viability, but these demonstrations point the way to some fascinating possibilities.
Boeing Patenting Controversial Aircraft Engine Powered By Fusion Explosions
August 4th, 2015 by Jeff Rowe
Boeing has had a patent approved for an aircraft engine that employs laser-generated nuclear fusion as a power source, according to a recent story in Business Insider. The controversial idea is generating some attention from organizations, such as Counter Punch.
So, why the controversy?
The patent has generated fears (founded and unfounded) of what could happen if an aircraft containing radioactive fuel were to crash, spreading the fuel across the crash site. All in all, though, an understandable concern.
New Patent From Boeing Reveals That Tiny Nuclear Explosions Will Power Aircraft
The engine works by laser beams focused on a series of deuterium or tritium (radioactive isotopes of hydrogen). The result is a miniature nuclear explosion that "sprays" hydrogen and/or helium through a nozzle, thus creating massive amounts of thrust.
The explosions also create neutrons that bombard an inner wall of the combustion chamber coated with Uranium 238, creating heat that is harnessed by coolant on the other side of the inner wall that runs a turbine and a generator that powers the lasers. This bombardment of the Uranium 238 has an unfortunate side effect of transforming part of it into Uranium 239, a fissile material.
This idea is really nothing new, and is actually derived from an old idea to create a laser-generated fusion rocket for providing relatively quick flights to destinations throughout our solar system, and possibly interstellar voyages. That concept is based on an even older idea called Orion (not to be confused with the NASA spaceship being developed), that would have used the force generated by "small" nuclear bomb explosions to propel spacecraft.
Again, the concept is currently still in the patent stage, and is a long way from becoming a real design, much less a prototype.
Realistically, considering the real danger of using fissile material as fuel, it is highly doubtful that it will ever be used as an aircraft engine.
However, the idea has real merit for propelling spacecraft. These possibilities are especially interesting, given the recently renewed interest in deep space exploration.
Hardware Review: GoBOXX G1980 Mobile Workstation
July 23rd, 2015 by Jeff Rowe
For a number of reasons, I have been a fan of mobile workstations, so I was very interested in taking a quick look at a new machine from BOXX that is truly mobile .
The GoBOXX 15 G1980 is relatively thin. It's the thinnest and lightest laptop BOXX has ever offered, weighing in at 4.36 pounds and 0.78 inches thick.
The backlit keyboard is nicely laid out with large wrist rest and trackpad areas. However, the letters on the keys takes a little getting used to, as the font on them looks a little like something from the movie, The Matrix.
As with all BOXX mobile workstations we have reviewed in the past, screen resolution and color were very good with the GoBOXX 15 G1980.
GoBOXX 15 G1980
Its fan runs when the system gets taxed, but does not run all of the time, and is fairly quiet with no obnoxious whining sound frequency.
With programs running and WiFi on and operating, I averaged about 4.25 hours of battery life. Not bad, but also not great compared to some other mobile workstations I've used lately.
While smaller (thinner profile) than previous BOXX mobile workstations we have evaluated, the AC adapter is still quite large. I know to a great extent this can't be helped, but it just gets a bit annoying to have to lug something this big around to work as part of a "mobile" package.
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Transforming CAE With MSC Apex Cheetah Release: Modeler and Structures
July 16th, 2015 by Jeff Rowe
MSC Software Corp. recently announced a new release of MSC Apex, the company's newest CAE platform. The MSC Apex Cheetah release introduces:
Both MSC Apex products, Modeler and Structures are complementary to Patran and MSC Nastran, if you feel the need to go a step further in CAE. If you need this additional capability, the Apex products do not expose you intellectual property (IP) to those who have no business being exposed to it.
According to the company, the new release enhances workflow and daily productivity with several modeling and analysis capabilities, and gives you the ability to perform design analysis more comprehensively and easily.
To get a better feel for these claims, we spoke with said Hugues Jeancolas, MSC Apex Product Manager who said, "Cheetah is a milestone release for MSC Apex, now delivering its first solver integrated solution for interactive and incremental structural analysis. Modeling, validating, solving, and exploring designs has never been this efficient and easy. MSC Apex helps users to crush the amount of time that it normally takes to build and validate models, a task that does not add any value to the design process. This frees our users to focus on delivering not just acceptable designs but ones that are optimal – in an environment that is fun to use."
CAE, fun to use? That may be a bit of a stretch, but the demos we have seen make the claim a bit easier to swallow.
PDM For SMBs
July 9th, 2015 by Jeff Rowe
For many years all of the major CAD vendors have been touting the importance of managing the mountains of design, engineering, and manufacturing data created using their software. Conversely, most manufacturing organizations, large and small, have made the transition from 2D to 3D and are finally investigating how to best manage these mountains of CAD and associated product development data beyond files, folders, Excel spreadsheets, Window Explorer, and FTP servers.
It is estimated that approximately 70% of commercial CAD seats today still are not connected to any product data management (PDM) system, and the CAD/PDM/PLM companies are very aware of this situation and are doing everything possible to change it. It has come down to an aggressive SMB-marketing of existing "scaled down" or "right-sized" PLM solutions, as well as introducing of new opportunities by leveraging cloud and open source solutions.
The biggest challenge in the SMB space is promoting an answer to the question, "Why change?" At the end of the day, if a company can get things done by using Excel, Office and email, a very compelling alternative solution to change is needed. Small doesn't necessarily mean simple. Small- and medium-sized business is complicated and competitive. Cost and implementation challenges are still two key elements that every vendor struggles with when trying to provide a viable PDM solution for SMBs.
Various sources claim the following benefits of PDM, including:
While these are impressive figures, many SMBs are still not convinced of the benefits of PDM and remain on the fence as to whether to implement it or not. This indecision presents both a challenge and an opportunity for making believers of SMBs in PDM.
Generic Product Data Management Overview (From Wikipedia)
Organizations implement PDM for many different reasons, but virtually all implement with common goals, including:
The two biggest words and phrases that resonate with SMBs regarding PDM are "preconfigured process workflow" and "design reuse."
Desktop 3D Printers Grow Beyond Trinkets, Tchotchkes, and Toys
July 2nd, 2015 by Jeff Rowe
Without a doubt, one of the biggest developments in the MCAD world in the past few years has been 3D printing (also known as additive manufacturing). Until relatively recently, though, the cost of the 3D printing machines was cost prohibitive for all but large companies. To a large extent, costs have been plummeting, but there are machines that cost more than a million dollars. However, that is changing with the advent of relatively low-cost desktop 3D printers.
3D printers sound cool, and to a large extent they are. But, before running out to buy one, there are a few things to keep in mind. Currently, a machine will set you back $500 to $5,000, plus $40 to $100 for a roll of plastic filament (think Weed Wacker) for producing parts. Also keep in mind that producing one small object could take hours, and end up costing much more than buying it. Don't forget, too, that you need some technical know-how to make it all work, including how to create a solid model with a CAD tool. As I have maintained for some time, with all the online 3D printing services that are available, why buy when you can rent. Check out my blog post on this sentiment from last year entitled, "3D Printing Goes Retail: Why Buy When You Can Rent?"
Being the smiling skeptic that I am, I also wrote a blog entitled "Is 3D Printing Really A Miracle?" My short answers are "Yes" and "No."
That's why I have said that the first low-cost devices were more fun than functional, and appealed to DIYers, hobbyists, and early adopters. All that is changing as the technology matures, prices come down, more materials become available, and part quality vastly improves.
Desktop 3D Printers
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The Dolphins picked up a linebacker and tight end with their two fourth round picks today.
The Dolphins spent a lot of money revamping their linebacker corps in free agency but with their first pick of the fourth round (104 overall) the team picked linebacker Jelani Jenkins.
With the (160th pick the team picked TE Dion Sims of Michigan State.
Jenkins is a WLB. He's very similar to Josh Kaddu who the team drafted last season and is hoping to use more as a pass rusher.
Jenkins missed four games due to multiple injuries in 2012. Durability is a big issue with this player.
Jenkins was a fine cover linebacker in college. He had one interception last season.
"I hope to be able to help out as fast as I can," Jenkins said. "However I can do that, I'll do whatever the coaches ask me to."
Sims, 6-4 and 265 pounds, is a classic tight end type. He's burly. He's lumbering.
He does, however, seem to have good hands.
"I'm an all-around tight end and I can do everything," Sims said. "I came a long way. I've been putting a lot of work in. Blocking and catching is my specialty. I'm a versatile tight end."
In 2010, Sims was suspended from the team for his participation in a theft ring. So there's that.
"It's pretty much in the past and it's behind me," Sims said. "I learned a lot from that situation and not be so naive."
Sims said all the teams he spoke to asked him about the incident and he "told them the truth and the whole story."


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Host 1: [Camera zooms in on the two hosts] Welcome back to Money Quest. [Kyle looks at the show] In just over two weeks, young financial genius Eric Cartman [his picture appears on the screen behind the hosts] has managed to turn a theme park that was seeing less than a hundred attendees a day into a thriving park with attendance in the thousands.
Host 2: And the way he did it is with the brilliant "You Can't Come" technique. For the first several days, the young businessman saturated the market with the claim that nobody could get into his park. It made the public crazy. So then, weeks later, when he opened the doors, they were lining up around the block. Simply amazing.
Host 1: Well, ahah I thnk we should point out that this technique is already being applied by businesses all over the country.
'Nobody has succeeded in building a social network that can offer those kinds of privacy protections yet. And nobody ever will.' - Networked computer will do everything but protect privacy. It can't be done any more than you can protect a radio broadcast. Even the best encryption depends on trust.
'Nobody has succeeded in building a social network that can offer those kinds of privacy protections yet.'
Yes, but do people in general care enough for it to actually matter?
A social network is for sharing. I find it just so odd that people expect that what they post on a social network would be private. I find that idea as dumb as a candy bar that will protect you from over eating.
Do not consider digital communications from your perspective, consider them from the technologically inept's perspective, not to be discriminatory let's just say the sub 110, that's nominally 75%.
The KISS principle has to apply to security. Of course Google has yet to make any great claims about keeping your content private from their professional marketdroids and psychologically targeted advertising or from government intrusion or from for profit rentals and buys or from their own staff and management (
'Nobody has succeeded in building a social network that can offer those kinds of privacy protections yet. And nobody ever will.'
1. "Nobody has succeeded...yet" and "nobody ever will" are kind of mutually-exclusive conclusions, yes?
2. If it's impossible to pull off, why are they even bothering? If they're just doing it for the money/marketshare, I wish they would stop trying to make it sound like a noble enterprise or some such bullshit.
Or is your use of a quote confusing me? I'm not sure whether you meant the "and nobody ever will" as a response or if it's in the actual article (obviously haven't RTFA). If the former is the case, ki
'Nobody has succeeded in building a social network that can offer those kinds of privacy protections yet. And nobody ever will.' - Networked computer will do everything but protect privacy. It can't be done any more than you can protect a radio broadcast. Even the best encryption depends on trust.
Your italicized statement is correct, but not quite for the reason you describe. It is possible to build secure computer networks: banks do it all the time. The problem is that social networking sites are all about sharing personal information. They would hardly be successful otherwise! Asking for a social network site that didn't compromise anyone's privacy is like asking for a non-flammable fire starter.
While I accept that I'm not a social person and thus have little use for social networks. My biggest beef with it is the matter of centralisation and control.
No matter how much they insist that you are in control of your privacy, Google/Facebook are ultimately in control, your information is their for use or abuse as they, their business partners, their disgruntled employees, lulsec intruders, unsanctioned and sanctioned government officer and divorce or SLAPP lawyers see fit.
I don't think it's so much privacy per-se that people want out of this systems, it's merely the ability to know and control what vectors there are to access you information.
Google+ attempts to achieve this by making it explicit who you're sharing what with but Facebook never has, worse Facebook masks certain vectors, for example most people don't realise that just because their profile is private to everyone but their friends, this doesn't mean that their friends can't grant permission for apps to see their friends profiles bypassing any settings about "friends only" that their friends may have set- if you don't set all the options right "friends only" actually means "friends, and any app my friends use", which is quite different to friends only- it's a stealthy vector for your data to leak out to people you never wanted to be able to access it which can catch you unawares. Worse, Facebook when introducing this feature originally actually enabled it without telling anyone so that it applied retroactively- you may have thought you'd set things to friends only, but Facebook can change that when and how they want, even though doing so is a clear breach of at least the UK's data protection act, if not many other similar acts in other countries. Yet still they get away with it.
Most people realise to use these things you have to lose some privacy, but just as I only give my e-mail address to select people to minimise that chance its gets into the hands of spammers, I'd like to be certain that my personal information is only going to who I've said it's going to- sure it may leak out if my friends get a virus, but at least I've minimised the vectors, and can narrow down where and how it happened just as I can tell that it was some forum that gave my e-mail away to spammers if I used a special forums account for all forum activity separate from my main e-mail account.
Again, this is where Facebook fails- they let your data leak out left, right, and centre, and you have no idea to whom, where, or how- the only option is to not use it- Google+ is trying to do better than that, it can't guarantee perfect privacy, but at least it helps you understand and manage the vectors for data leakage better. and that's a good enough compromise between not using social networking at all, and your data goes everywhere to anyone who asks type wild-west of Facebook for many people.
This is true. One of the best features Google+ has is the ability to disable re-sharing of your posts. This way when you post an update you can disable your friends from attributing it back to you.
Nope. If it is on the internet, it can be shared, and attributed back to you. Screenshots do this marvelously, and there is nothing you can do to stop someone from screen scraping.
Certainly, if they INTEND on re-sharing it and attributing it to you for some purpose. If they're going to do that they probably don't belong in the circle you're posting that particular message to.
The point of the "disable reshare" option is to stop clueless people from mindlessly re-broadcasting every last thing that they read to the entire world.
Nothing is perfect, but this certainly beats the "Default spew to EVERYONE" model that facepalmbook uses.
I prefer the Google+ method, because it tends to keep what you're spewing contained better. But I still wouldn't post something to my "friends" that could be used against me should I look for employment again.
That being said, we need to educate people that their life on the internet is open for the world to see, and that is kind of the point here. Circles and other things are just another form of "security through obscurity" that we all know is broken.
I would phrase it more in terms of betrayal.
When you are sharing with a circle of friends, anyone who betrays trust can be found out, and then not trusted again. But in some ways, the "betrayal" of facebook is the obtuse settings; if a human being were as pedantic and unforgiving, you would consider them a huge jerk. UIs always have that problem; they're interacting intelligently, but they're not intelligent. Every time you scream at your computer because "it's being stupid", it's the same. In this case
You do not have to go that far. The solution is not that hard. Just don't put anything on a social networking site that is private. The problem really seems to be that people don't know the difference between public and private. What you do in the privacy of your own home is private. Other things like medical and banking are private. What you do outside those areas is public. You funnel a beer naked at a party and you are doing it in public. The idea of a "private party" is a mistake because just because ev
Allowing people to specify who can see their information alongside inputting that information itself is a big plus (pun intended). In Facebook you have to trawl through confusing menus, and are left not knowing if you've really set the privacy settings you intended.
Wouldn't I have to sign up to the service to discover what they're doing with my non-Google+ profile? I hear that if you have a public Google Profile then you can be added to the "circle" of a Google+ user. I have no idea if others can see that someone has added my profile to their circle. So far as I'm aware, Facebook has never done anything like this.. pulled in profile information from other services to add to their social network. I expect the inevitable result of this will be an automated service t
I heard that Google employees rifle through your stuff while you're sleeping and then post the information they find onto your Google+ profile even if you haven't created one.
Wouldn't I have to sign up to the service to discover what they're doing with my non-Google+ profile? I hear that if you have a public Google Profile then you can be added to the "circle" of a Google+ user.
Any email address can be added to a "circle". When I joined, the suggestions were all taken from my Google (GMail) address book, split into people already in Google+ and others. Either public Google Profiles are in with the others, or none of my contacts have one.
I have no idea if others can see that someone has added my profile to their circle.
The contents of circles is private. That was made quite clear while setting up the account.
So far as I'm aware, Facebook has never done anything like this.. pulled in profile information from other services to add to their social network. I expect the inevitable result of this will be an automated service to badger me to join.. or just an attractive slippery slope of integration.
AIUI you can opt out completely.
I have no idea if others can see that someone has added my profile to their circle.
The contents of circles is private. That was made quite clear while setting up the account.
That's not entirely true. You can generally see if someone has been added to someone else's circle, but you can't see which circle they have been added to.
I just can't see Facebook following suit. Their entire system is based on the fact that wall posts get shared with everyone. It's really easy to share because you don't have to think who gets to see it. Everyone does. Games post messages to everyone, third-party apps post
When I was gaming regularly on Facebook, I would have -loved- to restrict game posts to only fellow game-players. That was most of my list, but I knew certain people would never play the games and didn't want to bother them.
When I was gaming regularly on Facebook, I would have -loved- to restrict game posts to only fellow game-players.
You actually can, although the process is a bit convoluted.
Say your game gives you some popup to share something (perhaps a request to help in the game, or some bonus to share). You can click the little lock that lists the options, Everyone, Friends Only, Friends of Friends, etc. Pick "Customize" Then from the customize menu select "Specific People". Then you can type in individual people or whatever groupings you've created. For instance, I created a "Game Friends" list that I add people to when they bec
Then I think I have just given away how long it's been since I played a game on Facebook. I have never seen that option.
Let's say you want to invent the Next Facebook Killer But This Time With Privacy.
Your system needs to allow:
- People to make just enough information public to identify themselves (so friends can find them).
- People to send messages and make photos and other media available to others with whom they may not have connected but may have a legitimate interest in seeing it (that's pretty much the point).
- Assuming you're planning on monetizing this by selling ads, some sort of network effect to encourage more and more people to get into it. Facebook has this in spades with things like tagging; LinkedIn gets it by essentially asking its users to spam on its behalf.
- While at the same time ensuring that the above information doesn't end up in the "wrong" hands. The wrong hands doesn't have to be just advertisers - the most common example is if you have your colleagues as friends on facebook and they get to see all the drunken photos of you going back years. We all have something in the past that we'd rather stayed there; the only way a lot of people can function in society is because by and large it does stay there.
Ah, but there's your problem: step #3.
You cannot expect private interests to be respected in a commercial undertaking.
Giving people tools that make it easier to keep private things from being seen by prospective employers, parents, the world at large is a good thing. However, the centralized nature still means that Google gets to see everything -- as well as anybody else Google lets in on it.
Giving people tools that make it easier to keep private things from being seen by prospective employers, parents, the world at large is a good thing. However, the centralized nature still means that Google gets to see everything -- as well as anybody else Google lets in on it.
The problem is, once it can be seen by someone, it can be seen by everyone. Privacy doesn't exist, and the old maxim of "don't put online what you don't want the world to know" is still true today.
Post big news about some (marriage, di
'Nobody has succeeded in building a social network that can offer those kinds of privacy protections yet.'
I can't believe that at all. Diaspora has clearly become a huge success. That's why all of my friends, neighbors, and even my frail old aunt and uncle are using it.
Diaspora has also shown the power of Ruby on Rails, and how easy it is to use Rails to create web sites that are bug-free and totally without security issues.
Diaspora is where it's at. Diaspora is the future. Once Diaspora and Bitcoin are integrated, it'll be an unstoppable force of social change.
Diaspora is a great example of nerds marketing to other nerds...
It was entirely designed to be attractive to the sorts of people who would put up Diaspora nodes, and not the people who would actually populate those nodes. Google+ is designed to cater to actual users, not administrators.
Diaspora had the right idea, but at no point did it ever look like a well done implementation to me....
Really? With an install process that requires an advanced sysadmin and half a day? And a digital money system that's already having leakage troubles?
I wanted to like diaspora. It has great ideas. But to have any chance against Google+ and Checkout, Diaspora better have a 2-minute install process and close to a million user by tomorrow. I'm in the trial. Half my friends are now too. It's _nice_. I wrote a review:
Bitcoin's time window will last u
> Once Diaspora and Bitcoin are integrated, it'll be an unstoppable force of social change.
Dude, that's harsh on Bitcoin!
(Not, admittedly, very harsh...)
All that yammering about privacy that can't be provided by Google+ but no actual references. Here is the full excerpt from TFA:
"Google Plus is clearly designed to give people better control over their privacy with respect to their family, co-workers and friends, [but] there are other types of privacy that it simply can't provide. If you want a communications tool where the information you're sharing can't be read by Google, or by governments or lawyers in western countries, Google Plus isn't the service to use. Nobody has succeeded in building a social network that can offer those kinds of privacy protections yet," [Peter Eckersley] said.
With that clarified: I thought that some of the distributed social networking projects offered exactly that (superb privacy capabilities). Regardless, Google+ seems to be a step in the right direction. Maybe not what everyone wants or needs, but a decent start.
With that clarified: I thought that some of the distributed social networking projects offered exactly that (superb privacy capabilities). Regardless, Google+ seems to be a step in the right direction. Maybe not what everyone wants or needs, but a decent start.
I couldn't agree more. But we're not the press, so we're not allowed to form independent opinion. Or at least, that's what I've been told
I've been largely assembling circles these past couple days and was undecided about uploading an actual picture of me because there's no way to suppress that from being visible to people outside my circles. Sure, Google's put out an informative privacy center but I'm pretty sure in Facebook there is a way to hide nearly everything from people searching for you on the site.
One of the nice features of Facebook is that if you go to Account > Privacy Settings > Customise Settings [facebook.com] then you can find a butto
Yes, and Google+ has the same feature.
One of the nice features of Facebook is that if you go to Account > Privacy Settings > Customise Settings [facebook.com] then you can find a button labelled "Preview my Profile"
Google+ has a similar option (while editing your profile you can choose to see the profile as any circle/user/anonymous user would see it).
Then I remembered that I prefer to make people work for this sort of data, so I killed my Google+ account and public profile.
Then the next morning I was still getting e-mail from the service because someone had added me to their circle.
I really wasn't impressed with having my circle suggestions pre-populated with people I've exchanged messages with through gmail. I was even less impressed when I tried to change some settings to 'only me' and they consistently reset to the 'circle' and 'global' level.
Then I remembered that I prefer to make people work for this sort of data, so I killed my Google+ account and public profile.
Why not send them feedback instead? After all, it is a limited field trial, and you were notified at the beginning that it would still have kinks. For me, the settings didn't revert from "only me" to anything else so it seems like a bug. And I am happy to see suggested contacts based on my Gmail contacts. What else should they be based on?
There's no real reason for that functionality. It's easier to simply select both circles when you're sharing something. Your previous selection is set as the default for your next post, so you don't get frustrated with having to click the same buttons over and over.
An extra step every time you post something you want to share with a larger group is easier than a single one time step to set up the group you want to use?
would be to have the ability to drop a circle into another. IOW, the ability to create friends, family, and then 'friends & family'. So, it still requires work.
I don't think that's necessary, mostly because if you want to share something with 'friends & family' then you share it with 'friends' & 'family' - which is simple enough; note the 2 circles.
What I would actually like is Circles* + Rating ("how well do you know..." or like) the way Orkut had it. Have ratings from 1 to 5**. In the sense of social circles, there are those you prefer more than others or rather, those you share more with than others. Example: Colleagues can know about work things but no
... it is rough around the edges. But hey, a week old and already better privacy than my years on facebook, and far more addicting.
it is very rough around the edges. As well, I'm still working out the whole 'sparks' thing.
Really, until more of my friends are on it (I have exactly one) it's about as useful as Diaspora. And even then, maybe. My biggest thing is that any new social networking profile will be minimized from here on out. No wild party photos, no divisive status updates or posts. Even with Plus' security features, this is Google weren't talking about and the info will be seachable at some point. I don't need one crazy night
That is true, but that is also true in the real world. The first thing I did was invite everyone I could. And I treat it more like Twitter, and immediately followed about half a dozen people who post regularly... MG Siegler, Leo Laporte, Gina Trapani, Jeff Jarvis, Marc Andreesen, Tom Anderson, and Kevin Rose.
I have two invitations in my inbox. None accepted. All this exclusivity BS is IMO BS. Everybody who wanted to connect to each other electronically already do it in Facebook or one of its clones.
Main question to me is: Why would I want (potentially) ruin my main e-mail account? by linking it to a social network??
Google's Reader shared items are already more than I need. I do not see the need to broadcast my occasional musings to even more people. If nothing else, I want to have the reaction of my friends on the news item or funny picture - not jerk off comment from some strangers. If I want reaction of a particular person I would rather send it via the e-mail or the Google Talk.
You, though, aren't a good fit for a social network. Freedom's a beautiful thing, isn't it?
I have two invitations in my inbox. None accepted. All this exclusivity BS is IMO BS.
Agreed. The first time I got a "Google+" ad, I wrote back to the person who sent it asking if they knew Google was spamming using their name.
I know that you want me to be appalled but, instead, I find that damn funny!
What did you expect? Lol @ you!
"I'm a minor"
*click, account locked because you're a minor*
"Google is evil because when I intentionally lied to them they reacted by requiring me to prove what was true!"
I put in a fake one a usual only this time I made the mistake of making myself too young.
You are the first person I've ever known to do that.
Everyone I know picks the maximum setting, which is why all of my friends are like 108 years old according to the computer. I thought that was pretty much the standard thing when asked for a birthdate?
everyone knows when giving a fake birthday to make it at least 21 years ago. now you know too.
The "Buzz fiasco" wasn't a fiasco because they rolled out Buzz too quickly. It was a fiasco because someone who is out of touch with people enough to think people wouldn't mind having everyone who ever emailed them privy to their web doings also had enough authority at Google to release Buzz that way.
From the article:
'Google Plus is clearly designed to give people better control over their privacy with respect to their family, co-workers and friends, [but] there are other types of privacy that it simply can't provide,'
Well, it could provide those other types of privacy, but that would defeat the whole purpose which is to make money by exposing people's information.
The circle thing is something Facebook really should have implemented. Right now I have LinkedIn for my professional contacts and FB for friends and acquaintances. I put nothing on there that I'd be embarrassed for the world to know because I assume there's zero security.
Google+ seems even more interested in getting all of that information aggregated and out there. There's a minority backlash against this sort of thing and I know of a few people who have opted out of social media entirely. It remains to be
(posted on my G+ wall last week, but I thought it might be worth pasting over here also)
There's something creepy about Google+. It's not so much what is seen on the surface. You have the power to manage your own user profile, the people you add to your circles, and what you want see. What you don't have control over are the circles you are placed into by everyone else.
As users become more familiar with Google+, they will begin to create more specialized circles. For example, a sampling of circles I have currently have configured are "friends, family, acquaintances, following, paraglider pilots, hackers, makers, the press, ceo's." Someone else might have me classified in their circles under "pilot" or "robot hacker" or "exboyfriends" or "high school buddies". Whenever someone adds you to a circle, they are essentially profiling you, and the more people who add you to their circles, the more detail the profile about you will become. This is not something visible to you nor I. It's visible only to the wizard behind the curtain (Google) and whoever they wish (or are forced) to share this information.
In the near future, ads may be served which relate to you, yet have nothing to do with anything you ever posted or mentioned on the internet. Your Google+ friends have inadvertently ratted you out.
So, who is really in control of your profile?
If someone put you in their "BFF" circle, and you put them in your "Acquaintances" circle, do you really want them to see that and potentially move you into their "People to Stalk" circle?
At the moment, they can't see it. People don't know what circles you've placed them in.
I think he's complaining that people who are describing you are describing you.
What you don't have control over are the circles you are placed into by everyone else.
The flip side of this is you have total control over what circles you put other people in - which then follows naturally as that then allows you very fine-grained control as to what you want to share with who. It is a far better way of managing what other people see about you than the
I think google can do a hell of a lot more behavioural profiling if they choose
When attempting to sign up for G+, I received a query about whether I wanted to join G+ and change my Picasa settings or leave them as is and not join. Here is what it said:
Linking Google+ with Picasa Web Albums
When you join Google+:
Your albums' visibility settings aren't changed, but people they're shared with can now share them with others.
So invite-only albums would now allow re-sharing, which makes them no longer invite-only. This alone made me decide to not join G+.
G+ will automatically link your Picassa account to your G+ account, yes. But it WON'T go and change the settings on all your albums to automatically share them. Those that are currently private will remain so; those that are currently public will remain so, but also be visible via G+.
Now go take off that tin-foil hat before pictures of you wearing it appear all over Google+.
OK, let's break it down.
Option 1: You want nobody to see your pictures. So, you make them private.
Option 2: You want anyone to be able to see your pictures who would want to. So, you make them public. If you're on Google+, maybe they get re-shared.
Option 3: You want your friends to be able to see your pictures, but no one else. Even if you use Google+, you use the Picassa "only those with the URL" privacy setting, and don't post the link to Google+.
Option 4: You want to share your photos with only your frie
No, there were three privacy settings on the old picasa:
1. public and searchable
2. limited access - only those with the URL auth code can view (pass around the URL to your friends)
3. invite-only access - only specific google accounts can access.
The problem is that users of #3 could now re-share pictures they have access to. This breaks the invite-only capability.
From the summary:
"The slow rollout of Google+ has led some to wonder whether Google was trying to create demand through scarcity, but it might just be that the company learned its lesson from the privacy fiasco that was the launch of Google Buzz.
No. I don't think Google is trying to create demand through scarcity. If they are, it's likely to backfire on them, social networks aren't like Gmail. The value of an email system varies with the 'buzz' and is independent of the number of users. The value of a s
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The calculation in this article is correct.
However it did not work immediately in my version 10.6 with my own panorama.
Reason: the rotation was more than 180° and the value was ignored. I've found out that the angle must be transformed to range [-180;+180], i.e. if calculation result is greater than 180° you have tu put "-(360° - calculation result)" into the .ini file, this works fine.


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Beginning next fall, a new clinical offering at the University of Wisconsin Law School will provide six law students with in-depth experience in appellate advocacy.
The Federal Appeals Project, an expansion of UW Law School's existing Oxford Federal Project, combines coursework on federal appellate procedure with work on a criminal case before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
According to Adam Stevenson, assistant clinical professor at the Law School, "Through classroom instruction and hands-on experience, the Federal Appeals Project will address a full spectrum of federal criminal law and legal issues, so that students get a broad, yet deep view of the issues defendants face."
Working in pairs, clinic students manage all aspects of a criminal appeal assigned by the 7th Circuit—including investigation, briefing, and possibly even arguing before the court. Besides interaction with real clients, students may also meet with other attorneys, government counsel, and members of the district courts and 7th Circuit.
The project not only enriches students' legal education through professional training, but it also meets a public need by serving defendants from Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana who cannot afford an attorney.
"Our goal is to instill in our students an ethic of high-quality, client-centered representation at a critical stage in a defendant's case," says Stevenson.
The Federal Appeals Project will accept six students for the upcoming fall semester and requires a two-semester commitment. Second- and third-year law students who wish to be considered should apply by April 2, 2013.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Penn State men's and women's swimming and diving programs will join Swim Across America in the fight against cancer by hosting the Ellen Perry Penn State/State College Community Swim Challenge on Friday, Sept. 19, from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at McCoy Natatorium/Outdoor Pool. The event kicks off Penn State's 50th Anniversary of Women in Sports celebration.
Swim Across America events unite recreational swimmers, competitive swimmers, masters swimmers, triathletes, kayakers, boaters, hundreds of volunteers, and now the Penn State community, all committed to pursuing a cure for this devastating disease.
This year's inaugural event will include a combination of relay and individual straight swims to allow all interested an opportunity to participate. Participants can register as a team or individual in the event and are asked to raise as much money towards the cause as possible. All funds raised by this event will be donated back to the Mount Nittany Health Cancer Program in honor of John Ford, MD for his dedication and care shown towards Ellen Perry in her courageous battle.
The Nittany Lions are hosting the event in honor of Ellen Perry, former Penn State Associate Athletic Director, Senior Woman Administrator and Penn State's inaugural women's swimming and diving head coach. Perry played a significant role in the growth of women's athletics on campus and nationally. Under her tutelage, the Nittany Lions' women's programs won 14 national championships in six sports, 17 Big Ten regular season championships and nine Big Ten tournament titles. Ellen raised the bar for women in athletics at Penn State as well as being respected nationally for her dedication and tireless pursuit of providing opportunities for women in athletics.
Perry started the women's club swimming program and, in 1970, became Penn State's first women's swimming and diving coach. At the helm from 1970-1981, she guided the program to a .790 winning percentage in 124 dual meets and her swimmers earned seven All-America honors and an American record. Perry passed away in March 2014 after a heroic battle with cancer.
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BLACKFOOT — Bingham County Prosecuting Attorney Cleve Colson announced Thursday that after careful consideration of the facts that led to the death of a hunting dog in Bingham County, there is no current law in Idaho that would make the events leading up to the dog's death a crime.
The hunting dog was named Gunner.
According to reports, a hunting dog was shot and killed on Dec. 8, 2013, in the Springfield area in Bingham County.
Colson said, "In Idaho, we have a cruelty to animals law (Idaho Code §25-3504), that makes it a crime to maliciously kill an animal."
The mere death of an animal at the hand of a human is not criminal unless it is done in malicious and intentional manner.
"In this case," Colson said, "We do not have evidence that would indicate that this animal was killed in a malicious and intentional manner—the dog was running through tall, thick sagebrush and wearing a brown camouflage vest—he was mistaken for a coyote."
Some of the sagebrush in the area is four to five feet tall, Colson said. The area also has depths and swells.
The shooter did not see the people [in the hunting party], said Colson.
The Bingham County Prosecutor's office has requested that the shooter's hunting license be revoked for two years for improper handling of a weapon. The request was made to the Idaho Fish & Game. The shooter has also agreed to the revocation of his hunting license for two years.
"This is a very unfortunate case of mistaken identity and improper handling of a weapon while hunting," said Colson. "The Bingham County Prosecutor's office does not excuse the shooter's irresponsibility and carelessness in identifying his target."
"The Bingham County Prosecutor's office expresses our deepest sympathies to the family for the loss of their dog," said Colson.


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Impressive used to work some time ago(about a week ago or so),
and today I got a message like:
Welcome to Impressive version 0.10.3
/usr/bin/xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Detected screen size: 1366x768 pixels
Warning: The input file `abc.pdf' could not be analyzed.
The presentation doesn't have any pages, quitting.
Furthermore, I can still use it with some pdfs that's compiled long time ago, but when I recompiled it now I'll once again get the message above.
Hi, I guess i don't have a solution for you, but I can tell you that you are not alone. In mi case some pdf's work, others don't.
With jpg files it allways work, but I have to disable fullscreen with the -f switch, otherwise the behaviour is erratic: sometimes it works, sometimes not (all I get is a black screen)
I think there are two problems:
1) Impressive fails to read some pdf files (results in a message like the following):
Warning: The input file `TDT-en-LINUX.pdf' could not be analyzed.
The presentation doesn't have any pages, quitting.
2) There are difficulties with fullscreen mode (gives something like this):
/usr/bin/xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Detected screen size: 1680x1050 pixels
The second problem might be related to window manager (in mi case dwm), because a run some tests in twm and it seemed to work.
I hope that someone has a solution, it's a shame to have such a great piece of software working so badly.
To miguecosa:
I think I might have temporarily sovled the problem.
I editted /etc/texmf/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx.conf
and replaced
"V 5" to "V 4"
and it seems to work for now.
I have the same problem. Any solution? Is it safe to make the suggested change?
I hope I didn't violate any rule of the forum since impressive version has not changed for a while.
Solution here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=109995
"Necrobumping" is ill advised, though I can understand the motivation if this was your problem. Searching is, in contrast advised and might have turned up the other linked thread which has a solution.
EDIT: as of recent texliv-bin update setting the pdf minor version is no longer required and this problem should be resolved.
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I'm not using arch, but in both openSUSE and Windows cases this problem seems to be caused by a bug in pdftk. Specifically, 1.45 version has this bug. If you downgrade pdftk to 1.44, the problem should go away. (Verified in both openSUSE and Windows)
seriously joon, Trilby said in the last post of this thread (nearly a year ago) that you shouldn't necrobump, so you necrobump this thread?
seriously joon, Trilby said in the last post of this thread (nearly a year ago) that you shouldn't necrobump, so you necrobump this thread?
Generally that's the case, but in this case he's not looking for additional help, just posting a supposed solution (not using any of the software involved I can't comment).
In any case, I'll just close this thread as non-useful anymore.
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jasonwryan-Installing Arch is a measure of your literacy. Maintaining Arch is a measure of your diligence. Contributing to Arch is a measure of your competence.
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What Is Geronimo?by Kunal Jaggi
- Geronimo
- Geronimo is the newest Apache-initiated, open source application server. Licensed under the Apache license (version 2.0), Geronimo is a Java EE 1.4 certified app server.
In This Article:
- Why Geronimo?
- A Look Under the Hood
- Get Started with Geronimo
- Sample Application
- Deployment Plans
- Code Your First Geronimo App
- Build the App
- Deploy the App
- Test the App
Based in an integration of best-of-breed open source technologies, and with a vibrant and thriving community backing a certified open source server, Geronimo is set to take the enterprise market by storm. This article will introduce you to Geronimo and give you the basics you need for developing and deploying a simple Java EE web application on Geronimo.
Why Geronimo?
Geronimo is not the only open source app server available in the market. There are other open source Java EE app servers out there as well, such as JOnAS from ObjectWeb. However, Geronimo fills a need that other application servers do not. With Geronimo, components can be easily integrated. Its key aim is to support custom builds, geared to the needs of specific applications. Geronimo offers choices. For instance, if you don't want transaction management, you can go for a web-tier container such as Tomcat or Jetty. Geronimo supports the assembly of custom components pretty easily. In short, you can make it whatever you need it to be. This means Geronimo is much more than simply an app server; it offers a framework that can be used to glue together different components.
Geronimo doesn't try to reinvent the wheel, and it's not a rip-off of any of the existing open source frameworks or tools. Rather, Geronimo is an integration of several open source projects, some of which are shown below:
|Open source project
|Web tier
|Reference implementation for Java Servlet 2.4 and JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.0.
|A web-tier servlet container that supports Servlets and JSPs.
|Business tier
|An open source Enterprise JavaBeans container that also supports Container Managed Persistence 2 (CMP2) and EJB Query Language (EJBQL).
|EIS tier
|Open source Java Message Service (JMS) applications provider and supporter of message driven beans (MDBs).
|Distributed transactions and support for transaction logging.
One of the most elegant features of Geronimo is that it doesn't require a restart. Unlike other web- and business-tier containers, which require restarting the container for any configuration change, Geronimo is tailored from the ground up to support dynamic class loading, and keeps running as an uninterrupted service.
A Look Under the Hood
Geronimo is a loose integration of components called Geronimo Beans or simply GBeans. GBeans, which are the building blocks of Geronimo, are managed beans based around an IoC container concept, and they're used to add services to the Geronimo kernel. Almost everything in Geronimo is a GBean.
It's easy to extend Geronimo by deploying new GBeans. GBeans define the capabilities of the server and are registered with the kernel as they are deployed. The GBean components follow a particular life cycle as the kernel creates them, injects dependencies, notifies events, and calls their methods. Each GBean can maintain a state, depend on other GBeans, and contain logic that defines its functionality. The GBean architecture is a Dependency Injection (DI) configuration and management system. A GBean is plugged to the kernel through a plan, which is an XML-based configuration file. Further, components can be easily removed by editing the configuration files. For more information on Geronimo GBean architecture and IoC containers, refer to the Resources section.
Get Started with Geronimo
Geronimo requires Java SE 1.4 (or higher, but earlier than SE 5). The latest milestone release available as of this writing is M5. Unzip the Geronimo with Tomcat container zip at some location, and set the GERONIMO_HOME environment variable to this location.
Start Geronimo by booting its kernel. Once started, Geronimo will load all predefined modules along with any other application modules as shown below (for brevity, not all fields are shown here):
D:\>cd %GERONIMO_HOME%
D:\geronimo-1.0>java -jar bin/server.jar
Booting Geronimo Kernel (in Java 1.4.2_08)...
Starting Geronimo Application Server
[********************] 100% 44s Startup complete
Listening on Ports:
1527 0.0.0.0 Derby Connector
8080 0.0.0.0 Tomcat Connector HTTP
8443 0.0.0.0 Tomcat Connector HTTPS
Started Application Modules:
EAR: geronimo/daytrader-derby-tomcat/1.0/car
EAR: geronimo/uddi-tomcat/1.0/car
WAR: geronimo/welcome-tomcat/1.0/car
Web Applications:
Geronimo Application Server started
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December 7, 2009
Beyond HD
Super- and ultra-high definition resolutions are one way future television might go beyond HDTV, but there are other technological innovations. Sharpness can be increased independently of resolution. High-dynamic-range cameras and displays can go beyond common HDTV's contrast capabilities. Other systems move beyond HDTV's color palette, aspect ratio, and sound imaging. And then there's stereoscopic 3-D. Please join our very special guest speaker, multiple-Emmy-award-winning SMPTE Fellow Mark Schubin, as he shares what he sees over the technology horizon.
File-based Workflows in Broadcast & Production: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
February 9, 2010
This program will discuss the differences between baseband television production processes and more contemporary techniques using file based approaches.
The conference will present a sound foundation in Information Technology (IT) concepts and principles as they relate to real time media and non real time production techniques. This will support material presented on file-based workflows in the context of broadcast television operations, television news, file-based content distribution networks, episodic program production and corporate video post production. Sessions will also provide practical guidance on conversion from production using baseband audio & video to file-based processes. Finally, the use of metadata, archives, and asset management will be discussed.
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Users of vertical ancillary space (VANC) data (TV stations, networks, studios, other facilities) and also manufacturers of associated equipment are requested to take part in an industry survey regarding the location of data packets carried in the VANC space of serial digital video signals. This involves data such as AFD/Bar Data (for aspect ratio control), closed captions, time code, program description, audio metadata, film transfer data, and many others.
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Jeanne D. Ballenger, 86
Jeanne D. Ballenger, 86, of St. Marys, died Friday, September 2, 2011, at Otterbein Saint Marys Retirement Community.
She was born February 22, 1925, in Akron, the daughter of Charles "Pop" and Pauline (Junkins) Cain
She married Richard Ballenger on July 21, 1946, and he preceded her in death on December 12, 2001.
She is survived by her son, Robert Ballenger of Tampa, Fla.
Funeral rites will be held 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, September 7, 2011, in the Meyer Community Chapel on the campus of Otterbein Saint Marys Retirement Community, with the Rev. Carol Sainey, who will officiate. Burial will follow at Elm Grove Cemetery.
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The Cubs claimed right-handed pitcher Zach Putnam off waivers Friday from the Colorado Rockies.
Putnam, 25, is 19-12 with 26 saves and a 3.90 ERA (128 ER/295.2 IP) in 171 career minor league games, all but 15 as a reliever. He has surrendered just 18 home runs in 295 innings pitched, walking 94 while striking out 270. He was originally selected by Cleveland in the fifth round of the 2008 draft before Colorado acquired him in January of this year for pitcher Kevin Slowey.
The 6-foot-1, 225-pound righthander has a 1-1 record and a 4.82 ERA (5 ER/9.1 IP) in 10 major league relief appearances since making his debut with Cleveland in September of 2011. Last season, he had 2 scoreless appearances for the Rockies (2.0 IP) in two stints with the major league club.
Putnam spent the majority of 2012 with Triple-A Colorado Springs, going 3-4 with 12 saves and a 4.15 ERA (28 ER/60.2 IP) in 49 relief appearances. He converted 12 of his first 15 save opportunities and struck out 49 with 27 walks in 60 innings pitched. Putnam recorded a 0.96 ERA (1 ER/9 IP) in his first seven games through April 30. In his final 13 outings from August 1 through the end of the season, he posted a 2.00 ERA (4 ER/18.0 IP).
Putnam, a native of Ann Arbor, Mich., played baseball for three seasons at the University of Michigan, earning 2008 Big Ten Pitcher of the Year honors.


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EMPORIA — The Newton High School gymnastics team ended the regular season with a win over Emporia in a dual meet Monday in Emporia.
Newton won the meet 97.875-83.1.
"Our girls showed some improvement in many areas and they are ready to peak," Newton coach JoAnne Thaw said. "We are looking forward to a good showing at state this weekend. Kailey (Naysmith) has been sick and we took her off bars and watered down her routines a little, but she has come back strong and is looking great. I know they will pull together and make a strong effort toward one of those trophies. It's been a fairly consistent year so we are looking forward to a great finale!"
Newton's Carlye Anderson won the all-around competition at 32.875, followed by teammates Anna Casper in second at 30.425 and Naomi Epp in third at 29.525. Emmaleah Smet scored a 29.2.
In the vault, Naysmith won at 8.8, followed by Anderson in second at 8.4 and Smith in third at 8.3. Emily Kuhn and Casper both scored an 8.1. Epp had a season high 8.0.
On the uneven parallel bars, Anderson won at 8.625, a season high. Casper was second at 8.0. Epp was third at 7.275, a season high. Smet and Kuhn both had season highs of 7.0.
On the balance beam, Naysmith won at 8.9, followed by Anderson in second at 7.7. Epp scored a 7.1, followed by Alexandra Glann at 7.0, Smet at 6.7, Casper at 6.5, Kuhn at 6.0 and Johanne Gustavsen at 4.8.
On the floor exercises, Glann took second at 8.525, followed bt Anderson in third at 8.15. Naysmith scored an 8.1, followed by Casper at 7.825, Smet at 7.2, Epp at 7.15 and Gustavsen at 6.75.
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UH Manoa Counseling and Student Development Center Presents a Course on Shintani DietUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Counseling & Student Development Center presents "Eat More, Weigh Less On the Good Carbohydrate Diet" with Dr. Terry Shintani on Monday, July 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the UH Mānoa Queen Liliʻuokalani Center for Student Services, Room 412.
The course, based on his book "Eat More, Weigh Less® Diet," will teach participants how to stay slim and still eat carbohydrates. Participants will learn how to improve their health and incorporate Shintani's diet into household meal plans. In addition, participants can sample Shintani approved Zippy's menu items.
Shintani started the Waianae Diet Program in 1998 as a method to help improve the health of the Hawaiian people. In 1993, his program won the highest national award from the U.S. Secretary of Health.
Shintani currently serves as the director of integrative medicine at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center and is on the clinical faculty of the University of Hawai'i John A. Burns School of Medicine.
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Last year 2,361 Americans had buttock augmentation surgery, almost four times as many as in 2002, the first year that the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery kept statistics on the procedure. The operation typically costs about $20,000....Presumably, the mother put up the money for all of this. What kind of a culture does this girl live in that she fretted that no one was talking about her ass?
Some women over 50 get the surgery to bulk up deflating derrières, while younger patients say they want larger buttocks to complement prominent busts. "I always got compliments for my front but never for my back," said Natalie Del Rio, 18, a high school student in Miami who had the procedure last month with Dr. Mendieta. "Now my mom says I look like a Coca-Cola bottle."
Go to the link to read about the elaborate procedure that involves relocating two pounds of your own fat and that requires you to wear a "surgical girdle" and to avoid sitting down for weeks. All of this is supposed to make you more sexually attractive, but you have to be extremely pleasure-denying to go through with it. Well, what's the point of sex without irony?
And then there's the whole question of what the ideal ass is:
Two Mexican plastic surgeons, Dr. Ramón Cuenca-Guerra and Dr. Jorge Quezada, examined 132 patients and more than 1,000 photos and concluded that a beautiful bottom has four features: slight hollows on each side, a curved fold where the buttocks meet the thighs, a V-shape crease that looks like cleavage at the top and two dimples in the lower back. Dr. [Constantino] Mendieta also examined hundreds of photos but came to a different conclusion: that the overall shape of the buttocks is most important. He proposed that female buttocks come in four basic configurations: square, round, V-shape and A-shape.Yes, it sounds ridiculous, the doctor who collects $20,000 for injecting a small bucket of fat into your ass had damned well better have done a lot of hard thinking about what shape he's after. And you'd better think it through carefully before going through the ordeal.


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Arrest for anti-gay Twitter threat in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - An FBI spokesman says a man has been arrested in Puerto Rico for making a threat on Twitter to a well-known gay rights activist.
Special Agent Moises Quniones says the suspect was taken into custody at home in San Juan on a cyberbullying charge. Joseph Morales Serrano is accused of using the micro-blogging site to post a threatening message directed at activist Pedro Julio Serrano ahead of gay rights demonstration. The two men aren't related.
The message in Spanish said "watch out during the demonstration, it can end like in Boston," an apparent reference to the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing.
The suspect is scheduled to appear before a judge Monday and does not yet have a lawyer. The charge carries up to five years in prison.


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NatureSpace has an exciting new display – monarch butterfly caterpillars! Watch them grow from a caterpillar to a butterfly.
We need your help. The caterpillars don't have a name! What should we call them? Put your suggestions in the comments, tweet them to @tepapa or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
We'll pick the best two names and let you know what you've named them.
Send in your pics!
There's a community display in NatureSpace where we're putting up your images of New Zealand monarch butterflies from egg to adult. We'd love to see your pictures!
You can email them to firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll put them in the display so everyone can see them.
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Monarch butterflies in America and Canada migrate over 3,000 kilometres each year. It's the longest insect migration.
In New Zealand, monarch butterflies don't migrate. Perhaps they're lazy!
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The elegant Homestead blends the traditional Queenslander style with a federation charm. It offers a sumptuous style from a bygone era, where guests can indulge in dressing up for a candlelit silver service dinner or a 'themed' dinner served with stunning food and wine - or just relax.
In this peaceful and restorative setting, the hosts also offer life coaching and residential life focus retreats.
Breakfast is provided and served for all guests and casual dining options are also available indoors. Al fresco dining is available in the French provincial courtyard or in the tranquil gardens.
At Thistledown Country Retreat you are offered options such as gourmet meals and picnic hampers, cooking class packages, body massage, scented spa, local wine and inspiring country walks, and much more.
Thistledown Country Retreat is a perfect getaway for that romantic occasion, honeymoon, friend and family reunions or simply recharging your batteries.
Sumptuous Federation style bedrooms featuring old world furniture, comfortable beds fitted with high quality linen, towels, bath robes, toiletries and decanter of port and chocolate, water decanter and glasses, and reading lights. Additional upgrade to Country Breakfast is available. Mouth watering evening meals are available. Please discuss prior to your stay.
Cosy old world cottage style bedrooms, featuring an option of a double or twin share facility. Old world furniture, comfortable beds fitted with high quality linen, towels, bath robes, toiletries, water decanter and glasses, and reading lights. Additional upgrade to Country Breakfast is available. If you want some time away from cooking, delicious and mouth watering meals can be prepared and delivered to your cottage. Please discuss this prior to your arrival.
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"Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ Worldwide Satellite Trailer to Broadcast Thursday 7pm EST (Updates)
Jun 15, 2011
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Update: WB has just informed us that the new "Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ trailer will be posted on Apple Movies at 4:00pm EST, Thursday, June 16, with streaming links available shortly after.
A press release on Business Wire has confirmed our previous report of a new "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ trailer schedule to be released later this week. The release lists the debut of the trailer for 7:00pm – 7:15pm EST (4:00pm – 4:15pm PST) Thursday, June 16, 2011. Satellite coordinates are as follows:
Galaxy 3C, Transponder 6, KU Digital Slot A
Downlink Frequency: 11801.000 H
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We suspect that the trailer will appear online soon after; stay close to Leaky for full updates.
The full press release reads:
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ' Part 2′ is the final adventure in the Harry Potter film series. The much-anticipated motion picture event is the second of two full-length parts. In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry Potter who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort. It all ends here.
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ' Part 2″ stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, reprising their roles as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. The film's ensemble cast also includes Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Ciarán Hinds, John Hurt, Jason Isaacs, Matthew Lewis, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, David Thewlis, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters and Bonnie Wright.
The film was directed by David Yates, who also helmed the blockbusters "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ' Part 1." David Heyman, the producer of all of the Harry Potter films, produced the film, together with David Barron and J.K. Rowling. Screenwriter Steve Kloves adapted the screenplay, based on the book by J.K. Rowling. Lionel Wigram is the executive producer.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Heyday Films production, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ' Part 2′ which marks the last installment in the most successful film franchise of all time.


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"It's more than a little strange for a blog that is hypersensitive to perceived racial or ethnic slights to resort to denigration of other personal characteristics"and
"Wells [has] outlasted 98% of his thinner contemporaries, plus an awful lot of the "fit" starters much his junior. He won 15 game at age 41 last year ... How can you question his conditioning? Obviously, however he looks, what he's been doing has worked ... when he says he knows his body, the record says he's right."First, I admit that my post-game comments were more pejorative than informative. But Wells is overweight -- and I believe that his refusal to lose any excess pounds (and general casual attitude towards training) has impacted his performance for the Red Sox.
Knowing his own body? Perhaps. But I also recall Wells joking with the media during the 2003 World Series about how he rarely worked out -- then the next night, he had to leave Game 5 after only one inning with a bad back, possibly costing the Yankees a shot at beating the Marlins.
By contrast, a player's skin colour or place of birth does not affect his game for better or worse. None of us (I hope) say "Player X pitched poorly because he's black" or "Hitter Y is worthless because he was born in Country Z". However, most fans do make wisecracks about players' physical imperfections, things they cannot change about themselves. Maybe it's frustration at slow runners like Millar or Mirabelli, noodle arms like Damon, unattractive players or players with various personality quirks. Yelling at Wells through the TV screen to "have another jelly doughnut" is right in line with that.
It is impressive that Wells has pitched for so long -- at any weight -- and his body size may have aided him through the years in some way. We can both name other successful heavy pitchers. But I also think Wells took a very lazy approach to getting into shape this spring. He meandered through camp (after knee surgery), called his manager an idiot for not naming him the #2 starter, got battered in AAA, and threw several innings of BP in Fenway. Simply, I don't think he's ready for the big leagues this year.
And so I got pissed -- both at Wells and at the front office for giving him an undeserved start -- and made a crack about his weight as short hand for my annoyance. It wasn't very analytical, but I don't think it was on par with a racial or ethnic slur, either.
And while Wells was credited with 15 wins last year, he also led the AL in run support. The fact is Wells was a below average pitcher in 2005 -- his ERA+ was 99, his worst season since 1996.
A clarification on Teflon Trot: All I wanted to say was that I knew Wily Mo Pena's fumble would get a lot of attention, but that Nixon's attempted catch earlier in the game was a much dumber play. And I knew no one in the press would make a big deal about it. That's all. Pena at least got his glove on the ball, while Nixon gave away an extra base and took his bat out of the team's lineup for about a week because of a completely pointless dive.
My point wasn't that this discrepancy in reporting was race-related, but that Nixon simply seems impervious to media criticism. Plenty of white guys get hammered by the Boston press also, but Trot just skates on by. ... I note that Pena is taking extra fielding practice in right field.