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Christmas is soon approaching and I'm sure you're really wanting to knock it out of the park with when it comes to gift giving, but you're just not sure what exactly to for some people. Well you can't go wrong with a good comic book and thankfully Don't Hate the Geek is here to help you out with a few great gift ideas. Here are some books you can hand out to those among your family and friends so they can explore some fascinating new stories.
We're splitting this list up into three choices by DC, Marvel, and indie publishers and from least to most expensive in each category.
Doctor Strange Vol. 1: The Way of the Weird
This goes out to those who want a little bit more of Doctor Strange after seeing his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This is a collection of the first five issues from the recent run of Doctor Strange and it honestly serves as a great introduction into the Sorcerer Supreme and really goes into how important he is to the defense of Earth itself and what magic is and does exactly in the Marvel Universe. Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo are a dynamic team who perfectly compliment each other very well to make an exciting mystical superhero adventure that can really be enjoyed by anyone be they new to Doctor Strange or very familiar with the character.
Black Panther by Christoper Priest: The Complete Collection Vol. 1
Christopher Priest's time on Black Panther truly changed everything about the character. His 1998-2003 run shaped it from not just being a superhero adventure books, but also a sharp political satire as well, which is perfect given that aside from being Black Panther, T'Challa is the king of Wakanda. The emphasis of his role as king is a key factor as to why this is such a great read throughout and it even helped add to and shape the Black Panther mythology going forward from the introduction of Everett K. Ross and the Dora Milaje, T'Challa's all female bodyguards/warriors. The balance of adventure and political intrigue make for one great read and given it's influence has already touched upon the MCU from Captain America: Civil War, its a great time for Marvel to recollect and reprint this amazing book. You can't go wrong with this at all.
Ms. Marvel Omnibus Vol. 1
No hero has made quite the impact in his or her debut as much as Kamala Khan did when she became Ms. Marvel. Kamala's adventures as a teenage superhero is a great throwback to the earlier days of Peter Parker's teenage misadventures as Spider-Man, but very much wrapped in its modern setting very well and this book never gets boring. Kamala is firmly planted into the Marvel Universe perfectly and feels at home right away and guest appearances from the likes of Spider-Man, Wolverine, and former Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers AKA Captain Marvel AKA Kamala's personal hero, help to really add more. Also this has one of the finer examples of a regular book suddenly becoming a tie-in to a major crossover event and not at all feel out of place with the overall tone of the issues before. What's so great about this selection is that not only is this book so perfectly suitable for anyone at any age, but it collects all nineteen issues of Kamala's first series and the sections of her appearances in other books, all together in a neat little package.
The Flash by Mark Waid Vol. 1
Barry Allen may be the one headlining the films and TV shows for the Crimson Comet, but former Kid Flash and the one to take up the mantle after Barry's sacrifice in Crisis on Infinite Earths, Wally West has been and most likely will remain the huge fan favorite Flash and this book shows why. Mark Waid already has a lot of accomplishments to him in the industry, but his 90s run on The Flash remains immensely loved. Waid's run did so much for the character in further defining Wally as his own hero and making sure the legacy of Barry Allen was well respected. Not only did Wally strive under Waid, but as did everyone else around him. Finally being recollected, I find this book to be one of the finest examples of superhero storytelling ever. It's exciting, adventurous, emotion, and above all us, fun. This is one book not to miss.
Gotham Central Omnibus
Some of the best Batman stories don't even feature Batman and I'd like to present to you, Gotham Central. The book is more or less Law & Order: Gotham, but man it's a deeply engrossing book. Featuring the men and women of the Gotham City Police Department, Gotham Central shows the other side of the fight against crime and supervillains from old school detective instinct and police work, how some of the force feels about relying on Batman for crimesolving, and the personal lives of the officers themselves, one story in particular being the catalyst for Renee Montoya to be a prominent figure in the DC Universe. Industry favorites Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka helped add more depth and personality to world of the Dark Knight and the simple, yet invoking and captivating artwork of Michael Lark really drove home what a breathe of fresh air this book was. Every single issue is collected here and for those with any interest in crime stories, this absolutely perfect.
Absolute Preacher Vol. 1
Okay so this is from Vertigo, but that's a DC imprint so it counts and this is also the heftiest priced of any book on this list, but it is worth it. DC's Absolute Editions are incredible. They are oversized slipcase editions of select works from DC and Vertigo printed on gorgeous glossy paper and they stacked. Not only are you getting classic stories in a new format, but also loads and loads of bonus features that can range from original scripts and art and sketches to creator commentary and sometimes, additional pages not included in the original release. This year finally saw Preacher get its long awaited Absolute treatment and the wait was worth it. The production of the first volume is outstanding and also packed to the gills with bonuses. There are numerous reasons as to why Preacher is revered as one of the finest comics ever created and if you want to know why, this first Absolute collection is where you should start.
One-Punch Man Vol. 1
No exaggeration, One-Punch Man is one of the best superhero stories out there today and I really can't get enough of it. The story here is of Saitama AKA Caped Baldy who has gotten bored being a superhero due to the lack of a challenge in fighting because he is incredibly overpowered and well you can guess why by the title of this. This is one of the absolute send-ups of the superhero genre in sometime. Originally created by One as a parody webcomic, the series immediately took off and if you read this or even happen to catch the anime adaptation, you'll see why. This is one of the best send-ups of the superhero genre in a while and it utterly hilarious. Seriously, this book is fun and outrageous in all the best ways while providing great character as well and a fully fleshed out world. The art is wonderful as well and really helps compliment the craziness of this entire premise. Oh man, One-Punch Man is seriously a great alternative from the offerings of DC and Marvel.
Paper Girls Vol. 1
Anyone who needs their itch for Stranger Things scratched since they're so impatient for season 2, then might I suggest the excellent, and dare I say superior, Paper Girls? Paper Girls is the tale of well, four paper girls, out delivering papers together the morning after Halloween in 1988 when they come across an out of this world discovery and then everything they about their world and what they think they know is suddenly turned upside down in this amazing and weird sci-fi adventure. The combined superstar talents of Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang help give this book a great personality from its standout characters to the wonderfully designed art that will thrill and delight. Given this is the first trade collection of an Image book, it's only $9.99 so you can pick it up if your curious and believe me, with how this book ends you're going to want to read more Paper Girls.
Harrow County Vol. 1: Countless Haints
Harrow County is a coming-of-age witch story that right now sits as the crown jewel of Dark Horse's current publishing line. The reason I say that is because of how much this book can turn on a dime. Cullen Bunn's scripting, but more so Tyler Crook's beautifully done watercolor art can take this from being a sweet, innocent, and charming story to a terrifying, haunting, and dark one quickly. It's a deeply engaging horror drama that really gets after the heart and can evoke so many different emotions as you read it. The shifts in tone and scene transitions are so seamless. Despite only collecting the first four issues, you get plenty of action here and some pretty good extras that include original sketches and parts of the original prose story by Bunn that he later turned into this very comic. You're not gonna be sorry about picking this up.
Once your done here, be sure to checkout our other gift guides on here for great ideas for your loved ones this season.


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Love grows best in little houses makes a most beautiful choice for wall words. This sweet wall decal will remind you of the most important thing in life.
Perfect for your little home:
"Love grows best in little houses just like this"
Wherever you place this love grows best in little houses - in an entry way, mudroom, kitchen or stairwell - this wall decal will put a smile on your face.
Our vinyl wall decals are made of a high quality, thin, matte vinyl so these wise wall words will look like they are hand-painted on your surface.
Vinyl words can be removed, making them a wonderful decorating tool if you live in an apartment.
These wall words will come pre-spaced and laid out just as shown in our photo. You do not have to put each letter on individually!
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Hostal ByBSiglo
- Free WiFi
- Collect nights
Hostal ByBSiglofrom €37
- Twin Room, with private Bathroom outsite the room
- Double Room, Private Bathroom
- Suite, 1 King Bed
More great choices
What's around Hostal ByBSiglo
Top spots nearby
Recommended by this property
- San Francisco Colonial Museum (2-minute walk)
- San Francisco Church (2-minute walk)
- University of Chile (3-minute walk)
- National Archive (5-minute walk)
- Templo de San Agustin (5-minute walk)
- Municipal Theatre of Santiago (5-minute walk)
- Palacio de la Moneda (6-minute walk)
Getting around
- Santiago (SCL-Arturo Merino Benitez) - 25 min drive
- Santiago Central Station - 15 min drive
- University of Chile Station - 5 min walk
- Santa Lucia Station - 7 min walk
- La Moneda Station - 10 min walk
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
At a glance
Key facts
- 7 rooms
- Arranged over 2 floors
- Check-in time 3:00 PM-midnight
- Check-out time is 12:30 PM
- Express check-in/out
24-hour airport shuttle service is available on request. Fees may apply. Contact the property in advance to make arrangements.
Required at check-in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Pets allowed *
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- No parking
Payment types at the property
Other information
- Smoke-free property
At the property
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Laundry facilities
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built - 1931
- Elevator
- Garden
- Terrace
- English
- Portuguese
- Spanish
In the room
- Premium bedding
- Pillowtop mattress
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- 32-inch flat-screen TV
- Free WiFi
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Stovetop
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Dishwasher
- Free bottled water
- Housekeeping - once per stay
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Hostal ByBSiglo's small print
Also known as
- B&B Siglo Santiago
- B B Siglo
- Hostal ByBSiglo Santiago
- Hostal ByBSiglo Bed & breakfast
- Hostal ByBSiglo Bed & breakfast Santiago
- B&B Siglo
- Hostal ByBSiglo B&B Santiago
- Hostal ByBSiglo B&B
- Hostal ByBSiglo Santiago
- Bed & breakfast Hostal ByBSiglo Santiago
- Santiago Hostal ByBSiglo Bed & breakfast
- Bed & breakfast Hostal ByBSiglo
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check-in or check-out:
- The national sales tax (19%) is charged upon check-out to citizens of Chile regardless of length of stay and to foreigners staying in the country for 60 consecutive days or more. To qualify for a tax exemption, foreigners must pay for their stay in foreign currency (not in Chilean pesos) and present a valid passport along with the migration card they received upon arrival in the country at check-in. Furthermore, the tax may apply per room when the room is shared by a taxable and a nontaxable guest.
Optional extras
Credit card charges are subject to an extra charge
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of USD 9 per pet, per stay
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of USD 13.00 per person (roundtrip)
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
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Wedding Photographer in North Lincolnshire and Wedding Stationery Designer
Welcome to The Jasmine Cottage Studio!
My name is Lindsay – thank you for visiting me here in my studio. Crafting beautiful stationery and getting out and about capturing memories is what I enjoy most, and I would love to help make your wedding day come to life! I am a wedding photographer in North Lincolnshire who covers nearby areas, as well as UK-wide, and also a wedding stationery designer for all those couples-to-be.
Organising a wedding can be an exciting but still a daunting time for us all and that is why I feel it is right to find people that you wish to work with who are relaxed, fun (I hope that is how you will find me) and who will just be there to help you create your dream vision for your special day, stress-free and with ease – but with a giggle and a glass of vino (or two) along the way.
The Jasmine Cottage Studio is here to do that for you and to make your wedding, from start to finish, be the day you always pictured it to be; from telling your friends and family the happy news with a Save the Date card all the way through to you snuggling up on the sofa with your partner in crime, flicking through your Classic Album recounting all those happy memories from that special occasion – now as husband and wife!
"Excellent service and wonderful quality. Lindsay goes the extra mile to make sure her clients are satisfied."
– Freda from Worcestershire
"Absolutely lovely lady who brought our ideas to life! Our invites are beautiful and just what we wanted. Lindsay made the process easy and enjoyable and cannot recommend or thank her enough!"
– Ellis from Sheffield
"We hired Lindsay for our wedding and she was amazing the whole day; very friendly, bubbly and professional. She was with us the whole day and always on point for whatever we needed and vice versa. The photos came out amazing with a mixture of serious poses and very natural photos, which is what we wanted!"
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"OAME not only made NWR Construction, but revitalized and saved us. Everyone I've met, from contacts and customers to employees and clients are the result of my connection with OAME. It's unbelievable to think that I almost started looking for a job when the recession hit and now here we are with 13 employees."
-Ron Downey, Owner of NWR Construction, Inc.
"OAME has helped my business tremendously because of the networking. These meetings are where I've met a lot of the folks that ultimately became clients. It's the best place to gain access to people important to your success and an easy way to follow up with them."
-Rajiv Ali, Owner of RhinoOne Geotechnical
"We love OAME; everyone is equal and gets an opportunity to present their business at the meetings. Through OAME, we've gotten SBA loans to help sustain cash flow and also take advantage of great trainings provided by local agencies in their building. We have been helped tremendously through our membership with OAME."
-Elee Jen, Marketing Manager for Energy Performance Engineering
"OAME's meetings are some of the most uplifting and positive events you can attend, they are meant for networking and are a great way to connect with people."
-Kaye Kloster, Division Vice President of ARC Document Solutions
"OAME has mastered the art of bridging the gap that can exist for small businesses trying to work with public agencies and large companies. Without OAME, we probably wouldnt have met the people we needed for each phase of our development."
-Alando Simpson, Vice President of City of Roses Disposal and Recycling
"The OAME networking meetings are open, down to earth and very helpful in connecting us with all of the right folks in Portland."
–Jennie Rodriguez, President and Founder of Twirl Advertising & Design, LLC
"OAME has helped me gain visibility with larger clients. Being a member has solidified my vision, increased my focus and turned me into a marketing machine. OAME teaches small businesses to become more successful."
-Neil Lee, owner of LEEKA Architecture and Planning
"OAME really opened my eyes to the business opportunities out there. I know I wouldnt be where I am today or even know a fraction of the valuable contacts I have now without being a member.
The OAME networking meetings feel like one family all in a large room."
-Debbie Rockway, owner of Allsource Construction Supply
"OAME takes the weight of doubt from your shoulders that all entrepreneurs experience. Their meetings give me the confidence of knowing that possibilities are out there. During their last Contractors meeting, I made notes of who I wanted to network with after the meeting. To my surprise, I barely got out of the chair and I had 3-4 people approaching me for potential business."
-Tyrone Bailey, owner of Bailey's Construction Unlimited
"OAME has given my business excellent exposure by providing a venue to meet potential customers. The format of the OAME meetings helps keep me informed about whats going on in the government, business and educational sectors. The atmosphere amongst members cant be found anywhere else.
-Dimas Diaz, owner of Maxximo Insurance
"I credit about 75% of my work opportunities to relationships I've built at OAME. I consider OAME meetings as my workplace and the people I meet are my coworkers. There is such a great sense of community within the membership."
-Suzanne Donaldson, owner of Donaldson Enterprises
"My experience with OAME has been tremendous. Even after working in New York and Mumbai, rarely have I encountered an organization such as OAME, which offers a nurturing environment for small businesses, and I really enjoy the camaraderie seen through its networking events."
-Vijay Deodhar, owner of 3D InFusion
"Since I've joined OAME, I've gotten quite a bit of business exposure, met influential guest speakers and made excellent relationships."
– Quincy Whitfield, owner of QJW Consulting Services
"OAME is one of the main reasons that I'm in business today. From the beginning, they taught me the principles of business and have been an excellent resource for small business loans and affordable office space."
-Laurence Rivera, owner of Pronto Staffing Services, LLC
"Through our association with OAME, we started getting more office cleaning jobs. When you come to the OAME meetings, you hear about upcoming projects and find out what other contractors are doing."
-Natalia Lifanov, co-owner of JRV Janitorial
"As a member of OAME I get the chance to be in a room that is full of my ideal client base. That type of opportunity isn't available anywhere else. The networking during meetings, references and advice from OAME team members (including Sam Brooks, Jorge Guerra and Matt Rutter) have been priceless. I credit my success so far to their help and the OAME community."
-Christine Schlicker, Owner of NicJac Communications
"OAME gives us good exposure to upcoming projects and helps us build relationships with numerous general contractors. The monthly networking meeting are very helpful."
-Rosa Martinez, co-Owner of PMG Demolition & Abatement
"OAME's loan program has been important in my financial support and Sam Brooks has been instrumental in mentoring me how to run a business."
-James Faison, Owner of Faison Construction
"Being a member of OAME has given me exposure to many of my business clients and the meetings are very dynamic. When Sam Brooks talks, everyone listens."
-Rudy Trujillo, Owner of Island Landscape
"OAME connected me with vital businesses sooner than I could have on my own and also introduced me to new clients I never would have met."
-Kay Newell, Owner of Sunlan Lighting, Inc.
"OAME has created a tremendous number of relationships for us that we wouldn't have been exposed to if we were not a member. The networking meetings are a very positive and productive environment."
-Andrew Colas, President of Colas Construction, Inc.
"OAME's meetings are a great place to network my business and meet potential clients. Hearing Sam Brooks speak at the events is also a great experience for businesses to learn and hear about the challenges that others face."
-Venky Ramakrishnan, Director of Sigma Consultants Group, Inc.
"I'd just like to say that becoming a member of OAME this last year has been such a wonderful experience, both for myself and for our engineering/surveying firm. Being new to the Portland area and newly certified by the state as a WBE firm (for civil engineering only), the organization has provided for us enumerable contacts, support for our various questions and an avenue to better understand both the Portland area and the many great companies that exist in the area. I look forward to another year of professional growth and understanding, as a member of OAME."
-Janet Spriggs, Assoc. Principal of Balzhiser & Hubbard Engineers, Inc.
"Being involved with OAME has helped us grow our business tremendously. We started our restaurant in one room and have expanded several times. This was only possible with the support and flexibility that OAME has given us.
OAME has been a very supportive business partner and has helped us with their moral and strategic support."
-Dibabu Gurmu, co-owner of Dalo's Ethiopian Restaurant
"OAME gives me the opportunity to have face to face meetings with the general contractors, which is important when so much of business today is relationship based. OAME has made us aware of great opportunities over the years and has been an important part of our growth in the commercial flooring business."
-Judith Huck, owner of Classique Floors, Inc.
"As OAME members for the past 10 years, we appreciate the opportunity to network with and support Minority, Women and Emerging Small Businesses,"
-Seth Pierce, Sales Representative of MARCO Ideas Unlimited, Inc.
"I love OAME because of the diversity, opportunities, and relationships I've been exposed to through introductions at the meetings. OAME is an excellent resource for all businesses to come and select specific opportunities within the room that they find appealing."
-Eric Ufer, owner of Pest Solutions, LLC.
"I think OAME provides the perfect incubator space for small businesses because of the flexibility to meet someone's needs as they grow. OAME's monthly meetings are also the best networking opportunities in the state for attracting a broad range of decision makers and small businesses."
-Lois D. Cohen, owner of Lois D. Cohen & Associates.
"Being a member of OAME exposed me to many business people and leaders in the community, I can talk directly with them and make one-on-one connections."
-Sam Gollah, owner of Gollah Consulting, LLC.
"Becoming a member of OAME and coming to the meetings has laid the foundation for making more contacts in the city. I am meeting decision makers in person rather than trying to cold call them over several months time."
-Justin Hopkins, owner of Cortez Creative's Portland division.
"Our involvement with OAME has increased our community visibility. It has also been an excellent place to rent office space and meeting rooms. The Contractors meetings are valuable to any business and we have met potential clients there."
-Laquanna Peoples, co-owner of Ace Event Services.
"My involvement with OAME has helped me a great deal getting to this point, especially in networking, small business loans and using the plan center."
-Joe Tshribi, owner of Pacific Innovations, LLC.
"It's been a privelege to be part of OAME, I was raised in the San Francisco Bay area and it feels like home to be here around such collaborative diversity."
-Herb Yamamoto, owner of CADD Connection, LLC.
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MINECON 2016 is over! Finished! Done! Thanks for being part of it!
What a couple of days! There've been celebs, surprise reveals, intense tournaments, amazing costumes, talks by clever-clogs, manic panel shows, comedians and more. Best of all, there's been you: the coolest, smartest and friendliest gaming community on Earth. We love you, and it was great meeting so many of you! The Mojang team are happily exhausted - how about you lot?
Here are just a few of the cool things that happened…
We announced a novel!
Written by mega-author Max Brooks, no less. He's a big fan of Minecraft, and we're a big fan of him. What a match! Read more about it here.
We launched a site all about Add-Ons!
Add-Ons are the first step on our journey towards bringing even greater levels of customisation to all editions of Minecraft - starting with Pocket and Windows 10. Read more here!
Awesome costumes abounded!
These three cosplay geniuses were the finalists in our costume competition - Vera in the batsuit, Autumn as the White Pumpkin and Ruthie in the incredible expanding Magma Cube costume. Ruthie just edged a very close competition to be crowned the winner. We had OVER TEN THOUSAND votes! OMG!
Good things coming with the Boss Update on Oct 18
- The previously-mentioned Add-Ons!
- Importing and exporting worlds on Realms!
- Slash commands! Summon things, set the time, teleport to places & more!
- Xbox Wireless controller support for Gear VR Edition and Windows 10!
- Oculus Touch support for VR mode on Windows 10 Edition! [UPDATE: Oops. This isn't true. It is coming - but later this year.]
Cobalt gets a total conversion, mod support and WASD/mouse controls
The Cobalt team revealed a Counter-Strike-style team-based bomb defusal gametype. And not only that: cool modding tools, mouse-aim, WASD controls, and more - all to be released in one awesome package on Steam soon. Read (and watch) more here!
We ran some amazing tournaments!
Look at this incredible arena! many thanks to Hypixel and Twitch for their sterling work here. We also had contests between big-name crafters Stampy and Squid (which saw poor Stampy forced to plunge his face into cake) and defeat for Console Edition devs, 4J Studios, as they came second place to Youtuber talent. Finally, four fearless Mojangstas chased down intrepid contestants in Hypixel's Creeper Carts compo.
The Chinese Mythology Mash-Up pack is most auspicious (and gorgeous)
Just look at this thing. I think it might be the most beautiful mash-up pack we've released. It comes on Oct 4 with a hand-crafted map the evokes the mystic East, 41 new skins and 13 themed music tracks and a special Battle map. Read and see more here.
I rode a horse!
Pretty incredible. In fact there was all kinds of cool stuff on the Expo Hall floor - punchable trees, touchable cakes, flyable ghasts, lovely rubber toys, indie games and loads more. Thanks to all our amazing exhibitors and partners! Here are a few more snaps:
The last shot is of Bandai's super-cute constructible erasers, "Mine-keshi". I love them. They're coming to stores in the US next year. Watch out!
Console Edition update gets bears, banners and more!
There's loads of good stuff coming in the next free update to Console Edition, which should roll out across our various platforms over Oct 4 and 5. It's got bears, beetroots and banners. Read a more expansive bullet-point list here!
1.11 for PC / Mac brings Illagers, mansions, maps and… LLAMAS
Jens revealed some amazing stuff coming to PC / Mac. You'll see much of it in the snapshot arriving on Wednesday, but in the meantime, here's a sneak peek.
There was a Block By Block charity drive!
Build a better world with Minecraft! Block By Block is a supercool partnership between Mojang and UN-Habitat. We use Minecraft to help urban communities participate in the redesign of their public spaces, making them friendlier, prettier, safer and more useful! It's an amazing programme. Check out our work, and donate today to help transform communities all around the globe: blockbyblock.org
Phew! This post could be eight times as long and still not cover all the amazing stuff that happened. Suffice to say, we're all off for a nice cup of cocoa and an early night. Thanks for coming and/or watching everyone! See you again next year!
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Just before the Bank Holiday weekend, Relisys unveiled a batch of new products in the wilds of Coventry, and we were there to see it.
When I was first told that I was "being sent to Coventry", I did at first wonder what I had done wrong. As it turned out I wasn't being ostracised by my colleagues, – it was just the location of major launch event by display company Relisys.
Relisys is part of the Teco group, one of Taiwan's largest conglomerates. Teco has its UK offices based in Manchester rather than London, which is why it chose the relatively nearby Mariott Arden Hotel in Coventry for its launch.
Relisys gathered together a large number of its industry partners to show off a whole host of new products, including a few surprises. It also invited journalists from a select few titles and TrustedReviews was the only online publication to be invited.
Before showing off its new products, we were given a presentation that revealed some interesting facts about the industry and made some predictions for the future.
Relisys is one of many companies that hopes to move from being seen purely as an IT brand to become a consumer electronics brand. The reason for this desire is quite is simple – home entertainment is a huge business worldwide, and is one where the channel enjoys margins of around 30 per cent, compared to the one to three per cent common in the IT industry. However, as convergence of IT and consumer electronics is happening, albeit in fits and starts, the IT companies will be in a great position to take advantage of their expertise and move into this market.
We were also told how LCD technology is growing apace with worldwide investment outstripping that or DRAM (memory) by two to one. This is because all the major players are building large factories in the race to establish the next generation of silicon wafer production. Sony and Samsung are currently ahead of pack with their joint effort and have created a seventh generation facility. Sharp is next with a sixth generation factory. Each generation is differentiated by how large the substrates of glass are. The more glass the more panels can be cut from a single piece. This is a similar situation to microprocessors with larger wafers delivering higher yields and lowering costs.
As for future predictions the likelihood is that we will see widescreen displays for the desktop becoming more common during 2005, as the larger latest generation factories come online and yields start to go up.
LCDs will also improve in quality in order to compete with traditional TV manufacturers – in particular offering improved colour performance with an enhanced gamut of colours providing a richer picture.
As processes become more efficient we will also see more super-high resolution displays such as the nine megapixel Viewsonic.
These developments will be bolstered by Microsoft's next operating system after Windows XP, codenamed Longhorn, which will have built in support for high quality, high resolution, widescreen displays.
Projection technology is also set to improve. Sony is very interested in research by the University of Weimar, which enables images to be displayed at high quality on almost any surface such as a pair of curtains and still obtain fantastic results.
But casting our gaze away from the future and back to the present we should now take a look at all the new products Relisys was displaying to the gathered industry partners and journalists.


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Ford's European arm has released yet another video of its upcoming Focus ST sport hatch that's expected to hit the market early next year. There's nothing new to see per se as the company has already published numerous teaser films in the months following the car's introduction at the 2010 Paris Motor Show.
As a reminder, the hottest version of the new generation Focus (that is, until Ford decides to resurrect the RS nameplate in the near future) will be propelled by a force-fed 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine cranking out 250 ponies and 360 Nm / 265 lb ft of torque. The show car was equipped with a six-speed manual gearbox driving the front wheels, but there's a good chance the production model will also be offered with a dual clutch transmission. Hit the jump for the video.


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Hi Chris, all, (I've replied to Chris's other post separately) Am 14.09.2012 18:04, schrieb Chris Wilson: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:52 AM, James Ingram <email@example.com > <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>> wrote: > > Yes, I understand that, but think that the data structures > underlying Tracks and Sequences are so basic that it would be hard > to see them becoming restrictive. > > > The real question would be "what is the value of codifying those data > structures into a standard?". Well, they would not really need to be "coded into the standard", their implementation could be hidden behind the relevant parts of the API. To recap a little more precisely, I think that the Web MIDI API should include support for the following abstractions: Sequence: a collection of Tracks Track: a collection of MIDIMoments MIDIMoment: a collection of MIDIMessages having the same timestamp I'm not sure, but maybe a MIDIMoment is what the current spec is calling a MIDIEvent. These are simple, intuitively graspable concepts, which every MIDI programmer can understand, and I don't think they are going to change over time. It would be up to the implementation to decide how to implement the collections. I could well imagine a Sequence containing a simple array of Tracks, and Tracks being kept as sorted, linked lists. MIDIMoments could be defined to play "as fast as possible" in order of the message index. Implementations are then in control of what "as fast as possible" means (apropos "throttling")... Hiding things like that from MIDI programmers is a bit of unexpected extra value... :-) The main reason I want to nail these abstractions down is that I think that trying to play Sequences in the user thread is a mistake. Player threads really need to sleep between sending messages, and sleeping is something the user thread is not allowed to do. Also, MIDI programmers should always expect maximum accuracy, and should not have to fiddle with variables to get it. Accuracy should be the system's problem, not the MIDI programmers'. A sequence.play() function would initiate one or more worker threads (I'd be inclined to have one thread per track), and play the tracks back using ordinary sleep() functions. That would be much less hassle, and much more accurate, than forcing MIDI programmers to use setInterval() or setTimeout() in the user thread. The sequence.play() function needs to know exactly how the data structures are organised, but the MIDI programmers don't. Perhaps it would help if I outline what I think ought to be in the API. These details would need discussing, of course, but I think the following list is pretty complete: Constructors (empty objects): Sequence() Track() MIDIMoment() Populators: sequence.addTrack(track); track.addMIDIMoment(midiMoment) midiMoment.appendMIDIMessage(MIDIMessage) // returns false if the timestamp is wrong Player functions: sequence.playSection(fromTimestamp, toNotIncludingTimestamp); sequence.play() // shorthand for sequence.playSection(0, infinity); sequence.stop() // stop and rewind to the current fromTimestamp sequence.pause() // stops without rewinding sequence.resume() // play from the current timestamp up to the current toNotIncludingTimestamp I'd also like to have a way of filtering the tracks, so that not all of them are actually played. Perhaps like this: track.plays(boolean) // default is true That's all! :-) best, James -- www.james-ingram-act-two.deReceived on Saturday, 15 September 2012 12:47:46 UTC
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For our honeymoon we went to Greece for two weeks. We flew via Athens to Thessaloniki. There was a rental car waiting for us at the airport. The first ten days we stayed in an appartment on the "Olympic riviera", which is the area along the coast, near Mount Olympus.
During these ten days, we made some walks, swam in the sea, visited a castle and a nice old Greek village.
We visited Dion, the ancient city of Zeus, at the foot of the Olympus, with the ruins of an ancient village.
We made one very long and very tiring walk up Mount Olympus, from the starting point at about 1100 meters up to a cabin at 2100 meters. You could stay there for the night and walk to the summit (at 2917 meters) the next day. We returned to the car, however; it took us about 7 hours in total.
We visited the spectacular rock formations at Meteora. These rock formations are famous for the monasteries that are built on top. These are hundreds of years old. There used to be about twenty, now there are only six left, but they're all open to the public. The rocks are really amazing, but the fact that monks decided to build monasteries on top, is just incredible!
At the end of the ten days, we returned (by car) to Thessaloniki, flew back to Athens and stayed there for another five days. We stayed in a hotel near Omonia Square, very close to the center of the city. We could walk to the Acropolis, which, of course, we did quite a few times. We've seen all the main tourist attractions: the Acropolis, the Tempel of Zeus, the Ancient Agora, the Roman Forum, but also the National Archaelogical Museum. The last day we went to Piraeus, to visit the (three, all natural) harbours.
Last Sunday, we got up very early, to get back to the airport. We had a good trip home, after two weeks of great weather in a beautiful country… it was a perfect honeymoon!
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What's new at the W3C
The W3C continues to be the main organization for creation of internationally recognized standards for XML, WSDL, and HTML. At any given time, a large number of related standards are working their way through the standardization process in various states of finality. W3C publications occur in a bewildering variety of flavors: notes, drafts, candidate recommendation, proposed recommendation and finally W3C Recommendation, essentially a standard.
It has been a while since my article on standards related to web services so I think it is time to take a look at recent activity by some of the significant standards publishing organizations, starting with the W3C. The W3C continues to be the main organization for creation of internationally recognized standards for XML, WSDL, and HTML. At any given time, a large number of related standards are working their way through the standardization process in various states of finality. W3C publications occur in a bewildering variety of flavors: notes, drafts, candidate recommendation, proposed recommendation and finally W3C Recommendation, essentially a standard.
The current version of the XML 1.0 standard is the fourth edition. This edition of the recommendation reached final form in August 2006. XML version 1.1 recommendation (2nd edition) was also published at the same time but does not seem to have been adopted widely. In fact, Microsoft has chosen not to support 1.1 since it is not backwards compatible with 1.0.
The fifth edition of XML 1.0 is currently in the form of a "proposed recommendation" draft published in Feruary 2008. It includes some changes defining the characters not allowed in element and attribute names which first appeared in XML 1.1. The fifth edition might be regarded as an attempt to save these XML 1.1 improvements from obscurity. You may need to pay attention to this edition if you need to make use of some foreign language character sets and other special characters.
WSDL, the Web Services Description Language, version 1, has been sucessfully utilized in a variety of SOAP toolkits for a variety of computer languages to automate creation of basic client and server code. The current edition, version 1.1, was published published as a W3C "note" in March 2001, before interest in RESTful style web services really got started.
Workers on the next version of WSDL, originally called 1.2, made so many modifications that it became version 2.0, reaching W3C "recommendation" status in June 2007. Version 2.0 makes major changes in the approach to describing a web service, but continues to emphasize SOAP. The published standard does not give any example of RESTful service description, but this article at the IBM developerworks site shows how to use WSDL 2.0 for that purpose. I also found this wikipedia article giving an example WSDL describing a REST style web service implementing GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE methods.
XQuery and XPath
The W3C groups several standards for manipulating XML documents in the Extensible Stylesheet Language Family (XSL). The complex interactions of various XML related standards mean that none of these standards evolves in isolation and the requirements of one frequently suggest improvements to others. Here is an abbreviated list of some of these interacting standards:
- XSLT The language for transforming XML documents, typically for presentation. The most mature standard, dating from 1999.
- XPath The language for access to selected parts of an XML document, used in both XSLT and XQuery.
- XQuery The language for expressing database query style operations on XML documents.
- XML Schema The language used to define data types used in XML, dating from 2004.
- XDM The Data Model used by XPath and XQuery.
The original (1999) XPath 1.0 specification has stood up well, but as with so many W3C recommendations, work on a 2.0 version continued, resulting in a formal 2.0 recommendation in January 2007. XQuery, XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 share a common "Data Model" also published in January 2007. The data model refines the basic XML standard to describe the representation of all legal values in XML document nodes, and how expressions evaluate them, but it is not tied to any particular computer language representation. As an example of how standards evolve and interact, the Data Model working group found it necessary to add additional types to the XML Schema language list of allowed primitive types. Presumably the XML Schema Datatypes recommendation will eventually catch up.
XQuery provides a simplified toolkit to extract data from XML formatted data sources with a specially formatted query statement. These statements are similar to SQL statements used with relational databases and will look quite familiar to SQL programmers. XQuery depends on the syntax of XPath 2.0 expressions to locate XML items. An XQuery/XPath expression can replace many lines of Java code but this convenience comes at a performance cost. This is not surprising since an XPath tool has to both interpret the expression and navigate through the XML document.
The W3C has released several important draft standards related to XQuery in 2008. XQuery version 1.1 reached working draft status in July. At the present time this version extends 1.0 with a "small number of new features" related to grouping search results.
What is the significance of these standards?
That is a really good question! Some W3C standardization efforts have had a great impact on the development of the web and web services, while others, such as XML 1.1, are generally ignored. In some cases, publications which never reached the formal "W3C Recommendation" stage, such as WSDL 1.1, have been accepted as standards without question by the industry. In my opinion, the developments in the XQuery and XPath are going to be the most significant since they vastly simplify working with the world's ever increasing volume of XML formatted data.
Summary page for current W3C activity related to web services.
An extended discussion of encoding problems in XML versions 1.0 and 1.1.
The W3C "note" defining WSDL 1.1 - March 2001.
The W3C "recommendation" defining WSDL 2.0 core language - June 2007.
The W3C recommendation for XPath 2.0 - January 2007.
The Data Model used by XPath 2.0, XQuery and XSLT2.0.
Working Draft for XQuery 1.1 - July 2008.


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Four thousand cattle on five properties infected with the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis are to be culled.
The cattle are on five of seven properties found to be infected with the disease, following tens of thousands of tests on the infected, neighbouring and trace properties as well as district-wide testing in Waimate and Waitaki, and nationwide testing of bulk milk.
The Ministry for Primary Industries' Director of Response, Geoff Gwyn, said today the move was necessary to stop the disease spreading.
"Around 4000 cattle on five of the seven infected properties will need to be culled and a programme put in place to decontaminate the properties and then re-populate the farms. The two other properties have had a small number of animals culled already and no cattle remain.
"The only positive results for the disease have been on seven infected properties, leading us to be cautiously optimistic that we are dealing with a very localised area of infection around Oamaru.
"This whole operation is about managing the disease while keeping our future options open. We want to minimise the risk of further spread of the disease. Moving ahead with de-population of the affected farms will allow them to get back to normal business as soon as it is safe to do so."
There was no need to remove animals from other farms in the Van Leeuwen group that were under restrictions. Testing of animals on those farms continued and should infection be found, they would be subject to the same measures.
In the coming weeks MPI would work closely with the animal industry bodies, the Rural Support Trust and others to support the affected farmers.
DairyNZ, Federated Farmers and Beef+Lamb New Zealand supported MPI's actions, while at the same time recognising it was a difficult time for the farmers involved.
The industry bodies believed the measures are necessary to protect New Zealand cattle farms against this disease, Gwyn said.
New Zealand was one of the few countries in the world where Mycoplasma bovis is not endemic, which is why the industry groups supported such significant measures to keep it that way.
"The coming weeks will present new challenges and will be tough for these affected farmers. MPI will work with those affected to make the process as straight forward as possible. I'd like to particularly thank the owners, sharemilkers and farm workers involved for their ongoing support, recognising this is a very difficult time for them."
"I want to be very clear that this isn't something that's going to start tomorrow. This is a big logistical exercise, it needs to be thoroughly planned and co-ordinated and we will be doing it with the farmers who know their businesses best."
MPI anticipated the first stage of the process - removing the animals - would start after consultation with affected parties. Most of the cattle would be sent for slaughter in accordance with standard practice.
All premises, transportation vehicles and equipment involved in culling would follow a strict decontamination and disinfection protocol to mitigate the risk of spreading the disease.
Once de-population was completed, there would be at least a 60 day stand-down period where no cattle would be permitted on the farms. During this time the infected properties would be cleaned and disinfected.
Following this work, the aim would be to get cattle back on the farms as quickly as possible. Surveillance, monitoring and testing will to remain in place for a period as a further safeguard.
The affected farmers could apply for compensation for verifiable losses relating to MPI exercising legal powers under the Biosecurity Act.
Federated Farmers said destroying the stock was the only logical move.
President Katie Milne said the decision to destroy stock which had been in contact with affected animal was the only option which would ensure peace of mind for the rest of New Zealand's dairy and beef farmers.
"We also support the continuation of strict movement controls on the remaining 13 properties that have been placed under Restricted Place Notices.
"These restrictions have significant implications for the people concerned, and all other farmers, so this action is essential to keep the option of eradication on the table.
"We recognise the disease has come at a significant emotional cost to the affected farming families and their animals. The process of culling whole herds will be very stressful for the people concerned.
"But the disease does not respond to treatment and cannot be vaccinated against. Culling is the only logical option to prevent ongoing suffering of the animals."
From a national perspective, our size, relatively low population and geographic isolation gives us the ability to manage and attempt to eradicate biosecurity incursions, when other countries cannot.
"M. bovis is found in most countries, including Australia, this is a disease that we definitely don't want and we should seek to eradicate it, if feasible.
"We've remained free of many pest animals and pest plants (weeds) and diseases that have decimated other country's livestock industries. For the sake of our livestock industries and the economy, it's crucial we act now to ensure this remains the case," she said.


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Making A Pilgrimage
In 2009 Amy and I became pilgrims, and pilgrimage changed us.
With our boys, 12 and 10 at the time, we flew to Madrid, Spain, and took a bus to a little town called Sarria, which is 111.5 kilometers from the Cathedral of St. James. The number keeps rising, and last year over a quarter of a million people walked some portion of the well-worn trail, El Camino de Santiago. That path tethers Saint Jean Pied de Port, France to Santiago de Compostela by 500 miles of yearning steps and 1,000 years of prayers.
Most people who walk the Camino these days are affluent tourists or adventurous travelers, secular in their pursuit of the Cathedral. When the masses started walking to that cathedral to venerate the bones of Jesus's brother, James, however, most were poor, and none walked because they'd seen a picture in a glitzy travel magazine. Say what you will about a theology bound up in worshiping bones or currying favors from the pope, there's something to be said for taking a pilgrimage.
Ironically, even most of the secular walkers find that vacation becomes pilgrimage, and pilgrimage is vocation: walking to tend the soul.
The experience was so significant that when we were asked last year to perform a wedding in Scotland (next week), we could hardly get "We will" out of our mouths before Googling "pilgrimages in Scotland." I'm typing these words from the Scottish village of Leven, on the banks of the River Forth. We arrived this afternoon, three days and 41 miles from Edinburgh. We're walking The Way of St. Andrews.
Our particular route to the venerated Scottish sanctuary is called St. Margaret's Way, which starts at St. Mary's Cathedral in the heart of the city. After a picture and a prayer the way took us by pubs and shops, through Edinburgh's "Botanic Garden," in and out of neighborhoods, some quaint, some posh, through patches of open field and hardwood forest, past numerous villages and down the 121 steps past the Dalmeny Rail Station into South Queensferry.
Rising early yesterday we put in 16 more miles, crossing the 1.5-mile-long Forth River Bridge, and following the Fife Coastal Path the diversity of terrain and sights and smells of which are too varied and numerous to name – but "spectacular" fits all of them. Again today we followed the coast, each turn opening us to a new "wow" moment, with forests and glades of amazing wildflower, lush pastureland and breathtaking overlooks, caves and coves and cafes, all under an incredible 68-degree Scottish-blue sky.
Today will take us another ten miles to Kilconquhar. (And try pronouncing "Kinahcher" with the right Sottish brogue if you're a boy from SC!) We'll put in 14 miles on Saturday before the Cathedral at St. Andrews comes into view. All of that, and for what? The venerated bones of Jesus's disciple are no longer even held there. The church is in ruins. But pilgrimage never has been about the destination, as much as the discipline.
In Spain every cathedral, church and chapel along the way is open for business, which means open to receive pilgrims who stop to light a candle or say a prayer, or, in our family's case, to sing a song and continue reading through our church directory as a means of praying for all our church family. In Scotland, dishearteningly, we've not found any churches open, and some we've passed are ancient, crumbling ruins. These stone ghosts, rising roofless into the Scottish sky, husks of history are, yet, a praise to their sacred past, reminders of a Church which called the faithful to acts of penance and prayer and pilgrimage, not mostly to dogmatic certainty and partisan politics masquerading as orthodoxy, which have become the vocation and preoccupation of the modern church.
Entering several of these crumbling sanctuaries, we felt the silent stones reverberate their sacred calling, and we took out our three-times-a-day prayer guide, read scripture or a poem, sang a song, called more names, winding through our church membership (lifting nouns as prayers). In those moments of discipline we also paused to wonder about a church whose only message is the headstone it has become -- a beautifully dead reminder of the life it once lived.
Those pregnant moments gave us pause as we reflected honestly and humbly about our own calling, and the vocation, mission, and future of The Christian Church. But then the road called us on.
The questions remain, and St. Andrews is still 20 miles ahead of us, so for tomorrow we'll patch our blistered soles, load our aching packs, turn the next page in our prayer book, and sing a song as we take the next step.
(Dr. Russ Dean is a graduate of Clinton High School. He and his wife, Rev. Amy Jacks Dean, also a CHS graduate, are co-pastors of Park Road Baptist Church.)


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Intarsia is how you get an island of color in a field of another color. In the sweater at right from Knitty, Spring 2006, the cheerful sleeves are stripes, but the focal point of the sweater is the ice cream cone. Assuming the project was knit from the bottom up on straight needles, how did they get the cone in there?
|Right side of intarsia work
OK, knit across your swatch to the middle (this is color A). Drop your working yarn (do not cut). Pick up a separate color yarn (B), and continue the knitting from where you stopped. Finish your row.
Turn your work.
Purl back towards the middle, stopping at the last stitch of B. Drop your working yarn (do not cut.) Right now, facing you on the back of your work, you should have a loose end of B, a strand of B attached to a ball, and a strand of A attached to a ball. If you have this, you're all set. If not, rip back and start again.
Pick up yarn A again, and before starting to purl with it, wrap it under loose strand of B, then, with loose B trapped in that little wrap, begin purling with A. (This twist should have the same tension to it as the rest of your knitting!) Purl across.
|Wrong side of intarsia work
Now we're back to a knit row, knit across until you reach color B. Drop A without cutting, and pick up B from under A. Again, mind your tension as you twist the yarns and keep it even with the rest of the work. Finish knitting across.
Continue from where it says "turn your work" above for another dozen rows or so. If the front of your work looks like the Right Side photo above, and the back of your work looks like the Wrong Side photo, you've got it! If not, keep practicing, and you'll get it soon.
Every time you work intarsia, you'll be working in separate columns of color. That means that in the Ice Cream Cone sweater above, there were three balls of yarn working during the knitting of the cone - one cream, one cone-colored, and another one cream. No yarns are carried behind stitches. If there are several islands of color, each one will represent its own ball of yarn. You may want to start with patterns containing only two or three columns at a time until you're comfortable managing several working yarns at once.


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Organizations spend lots of money on a variety of security products but they are frustrated because they are still getting compromised. Why? The threats organizations face have changed in the past year or two, but the way we approach security hasn't.
"When you're dealing with the common cold, you wait for the first symptom to appear," says Cole, who will lead a panel discussion on emerging security threats and trends at the upcoming SANS Security West conference (May 10-18, 2012). "Once you have a fever, sore throat or runny nose, you go to the doctor. The doctor gives you medicine to treat the symptoms, and in a few days you feel better. This is how companies traditionally approach information security. They wait for something visible to occur, react to that visible sign, and in a few days or weeks, the organization is better prepared to fight that kind of attack."
The problem is that, in recent years, the threat has changed from the cyber common cold to cyber cancer. If you wait until cancer symptoms emerge, it may be too late for successful treatment.
"Doctors will tell you that prevention as well as early detection is most important," says Cole. "Unfortunately, organizations are treating cyber cancer like a cyber cold and waiting for visible signs to do reactive security."
We need to switch to new proactive and adaptive ways to deal with new threats he says A few interesting examples make a lot of sense.
Two of the biggest threat vectors are web browsers and email clients, the "sources of evil." Organizations counter the threats by seeking ways to block attachments or blacklist websites. These measures don't always work. Instead, Cole suggests that organizations run their web browsers and email clients in separate virtual machines on the local client devices. This is a twist on traditional virtualization.
"Users can click away all day," says Cole. "They can open attachments and get infected, but it can all be contained to that virtual machine, and the overall damage level can be controlled. If necessary, that virtual machine can easily be wiped clean and rebuilt."
Another problem is that companies put a lot of effort into perimeter security measures to try to stop attackers from getting into the network. Once an attacker is in, however, the network is pretty flat, and information all too accessible. Cole suggests aggressive network segmentation to protect high-risk clients and limit exposure to attack. If a client system is compromised, you can contain and control the damage.
Cloud computing security is a major concern, but a risk-based approach will enable companies to make good business decisions about moving to the cloud.
"A lot of people pull back in fear when they think of the cloud," says Cole, "but automatically saying 'no' is no way to deal with security issues. If someone asks if they can do something in the cloud to save the business money, and the security people say no, then security won't get invited to the meetings anymore, and the business unit will go ahead and do what it wants anyway."
It's better to categorize applications by risk:
Category 1: Applications that are cloud-ready.
Category 2: Applications that might be cloud-ready if certain measures are put in place.
Category 3: Applications that should never go to the cloud based on their risk factors.
Cole recommends encrypting all data that goes into a public cloud. "Encrypt it and manage the keys in such a way that no one but you has access to the keys," according to Cole.
And finally, Cole's panel of experts will talking about the hot issue: BYOD. Most organizations think in terms of the technology to secure the devices and the data that goes on them. Cole recommends working with your legal department first.
"Get an attorney to help you set your policies and documentation, and get workers to sign off explicitly on the issue of ownership of data on the device and the liability for it," he says. "Have a policy that states that the organization can go into the device at any time – even after an employee's termination – and delete or modify the corporate data on the device."
This is a huge issue because the implied ownership of the information gets transferred to the employee once the information is downloaded to the worker's personally owned device. However, the company still has all the liability for the information in the event that something happens to it.
On the technology side, organizations should look at ways to sandbox or segment corporate data that makes its way onto workers' personal devices. Cole recommends automatically going into the device every day (or every few days) and wiping the company data. Then, if a device is lost or stolen, only recently downloaded data is compromised.
"Losing one day's worth of information is far better than losing several months' worth," explains Cole. "Since most people only use their smart phones or tablets for temporary access to the corporate network, it won't matter if data is deleted at the end of each day. This isn't intended to be their primary device for work."
These all sound like practical approaches to improving security. Sometimes, all it takes to solve a problem is to have a different perspective on what you're trying to achieve.
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, in the Bible, local divinity (the Baal) of Peor. According to the Book of Numbers, the Hebrews stayed at Shittim during the wilderness wanderings. While there, Hebrew men had sexual relationships with the local Moabite women.
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fiend turned man; henpecked by wife. [Ital. Lit.: Belphegor, Walsh Classical, 53]
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Podcasts, blogs and Dave Barry
Dave Barry is one funny guy. His column, which has run in the Miami Herald for more than 20 years, has appeared in more than 500 newspapers. He's written more than 20 books, all of them big sellers.
So when he came to town last Friday to promote his latest effort, "Dave Barry's Money Secrets -- Like: Why is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar?", and to speak at the Commonwealth Club, I made an appointment to chat with him at his downtown hotel. I figured I'd write down his clever quips, repeat them in a column and make it appear that I am witty. Barry, who is 58, could not have been nicer and was happy to talk.
"Newspapers," he said right off the bat, "are dead."
Uh, to be honest, I was hoping for something a little funnier. But, the more he talked about it, the clearer it became that it is a worthwhile topic for discussion. And Barry may even be right.
Everyone has heard about cutbacks in the newspaper business, from the big names on the East Coast to the papers in your driveway. And if there is anyone who typifies the rapid pace of change in the business and its effect on how you get your news, it is Barry.
Barry has taken his place at the Herald and parlayed it into a national soapbox. He's a household name -- or as close to one as you'll find in the newspaper business -- from a time, not so long ago, when newspapers featured personalities and marketed them.
"The era of the writer in the newspaper was in the '70s and '80s," Barry said, "when newspapers were making money no matter what. They'd send somebody off to Fiji for a story. If you knew you had somebody good, you'd just send them. You knew they'd come up with something."
Barry is a good example of how the dynamic has changed. When I arrived for the interview, he was finishing a session with a local podcaster. Frankly, Barry wasn't exactly sure where that podcast was headed, but it seemed like a good idea.
For the technologically clueless, a podcast is a recorded file -- an interview, a news story read aloud, whatever -- that can be downloaded to your computer, an iPod or other MP3 player. Although podcasts seem mysterious and offbeat to the technologically challenged, my sense is -- and reports from The Chronicle's popular podcast site confirm -- that they have entered the mainstream and are becoming more popular all the time.
Podcasts could be a perfect place for a writer with some flair to show some individuality. Of course, they must be used correctly. Barry suggests the best use of a podcast is targeting people with a specific interest in a relatively narrow topic -- say, an interview with a popular humor columnist.
On the other hand, Barry says his wife, Michelle Kaufman, a sportswriter at the Miami Herald, is covering the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. She's been asked to podcast the Games. That doesn't seem like a bright idea.
"Explain it to them," Barry remembered telling his wife. "THE OLYMPICS WILL BE ON TELEVISION! You've got people saying, 'Let's see, I can watch this on my 57-inch TV in living color, or I can download this thing from the speed-skating rink."
Or take blogs. Barry certainly has.
Again, for the technologically clueless, a blog -- shorthand for Web log -- is something of an online diary where people write pretty much anything they want and provide links to interesting topics, Web sites or stories.
Several years ago, Barry created the blog www.davebarry.com. It features typical "Barryisms," odd news stories sent in by ubiquitous "alert readers," columns, and a recurring feature called "A Fine Name for a Rock Band." (Most recent submission: Loincloth Outrage.)
"About five years ago, I went to the Herald and I told them, 'I've got this blog and maybe you'd like to run it,' " Barry said. "And they said, 'It's a what?' But then they had a committee meeting or something and now they want everybody to have a blog. They want the security guard to have a blog."
Barry's blog has taken off like gangbusters, and like podcasts, blogs are the Next Big Thing in journalism. More and more newspapers are offering blogs covering everything from the local sports scene to the business world. (See The Chronicle's "culture blog" and others at sfgate.com.)
So it's clear that although there may be doubts about the future of the newspaper industry, there are directions in which it can expand and thrive. The future is digital.
It has to be said, however, that Barry is not optimistic. A little more than a year ago, he announced that he was taking a sabbatical from his column, and has now decided to make the break permanent. The reason, he stresses, was not that he had a lack of faith in the industry, but that he was ready to move on. Still, he has grave doubts about the future of newspapers.
"It has to start with the kids," he said. "My son is 25. He's been around newspaper people all of his life. He doesn't get the paper. That's the first problem. The second problem is: We can no longer compel people to pay attention. We used to be able to say, there's this really important story in Poland. You should read this. Now people say, I just look up what I'm interested in on the Internet."
Meanwhile, for those of us in the newspaper business, Barry provides an easy step-by-step plan of action for surviving in the new world of journalism. It is simple, really. Write a column, win the Pulitzer Prize (his was in 1988, for commentary), write 25 best-sellers, have a television sit-com based on your life ("Dave's World" on CBS) and then move into blogs and podcasting.
I plan to start immediately.


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Woo it's the weekend!! I am late with my post again this week. Sorry! It was my first week at work, and I was exhausted when I got home yesterday. I stayed late at work to sit it on a family meeting. One of the tougher, but very important, parts of my job will be participating in meetings with families to discuss changing the goals of care from cure or recovery to comfort. The social worker and team of physicians I shadowed yesterday did a wonderful job in the meeting. They explained everything in a way that was easy to understand, and they really took their time and encouraged the family to ask questions and express concerns. The whole week made me excited about working alongside such compassionate people and caring for veterans and their families.
Enough about work, on to this weeks' fun Friday (technically Saturday) post!
During the summer between my junior and senior year of college I interned at the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina. I helped coordinate all kinds of wishes, which was an amazing experience. MAW is such a special organization to me, and I loved a wish story that I saw this week. Hailey Bretzius, 9, decided that her wish was to have author R.J. Palacio visit her school. Palacio wrote the novel Wonder. Wonder is about a fifth grade boy who has a facial deformity. The novel's message centers on choosing kindness. Hailey, who has a benign tumor that's been growing between the muscles on the left side of her face, identified with the main character. Though Hailey originally considered going to New York to meet her favorite author, she decided to share her wish with her classmates by inviting Palacio to come to her school. If your interested in reading more about the wish or seeing pictures, follow this link to the article.
The video below is so sweet! When the son in this video was 8 years old, he promised his father he would get him a 57 Chevy on his 57th birthday. Many years later, the son followed through on his promise and surprised his father with the car.
Do you ever have trouble waking up in the morning? This Great Dane puppy has some serious issues with waking up early. The video is adorable and pitiful in the best way.
I tend to post a lot of dog videos, but I decided to wrap things up with a goat video. It's a whopping 7 seconds long. Give it all you got!
Have a fun and relaxing weekend!!


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Free Fire
Dir. Ben Wheatley
2016, 90 mins, France/UK
Starring: Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer
Showing Times
- Fri 28 Apr: 2.30pm & 6.30pm
- Sat 29 Apr: 6.30pm
- Thu 4 May: 6pm & 8pm
Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace, Kill List, A Field in England, High-Rise, Sightseers) is one of the UK's most exciting and prolific cinematic talents. Hot on the heels of last year's High-Rise, he returns with action thriller Free Fire.
Sharp-witted Justine (Brie Larson) brokers a deal on behalf of two Irishmen setting them up to buy a stash of guns from seedy gangsters. But when shots are fired during the handover, complete pandemonium ensues. Dripping with blood, sweat and irony, this heart-stopping game of survival is not to be missed.
Steeped in 1970s Americana, the crackling script and knockout cast have as much fun with character and dialogue as we do with the fact that there are no mobile phones to save the day.
Wheatley's virtuoso filmmaking filmmaking pays knowing tribute to the kinetic cinema of directors such as Sam Peckinpah and Ringo Lam. With the self-confessed Wheatley fan Martin Scorsese as one of the film's executive producers and a pulsating score from Geoff Barrow (Portishead) and Ben Salisbury, this is a masterclass in bravura filmmaking.
'Crosses the irreverent cheekiness of Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" with the ruthless spirit of 1970s B-movies.'
'Wheatley continues an unbroken run of quality, helped by a great cast and a startlingly effective premise.'
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"In a historic move, the National Union of Students (NUS) in the UK has thrown its weight behind campaigns targeting companies complicit in Israel's occupation and breaches of international law.
A new page on the NUS website that went online today calls on students to campaign against the campus presence of Eden Springs and Veolia. In the preamble, NUS notes:
In a similar move to the South African Anti-Apartheid movement, activists in Palestine - from Students' Unions to LGBTQ organisations - have asked international supporters to refrain from supporting companies and institutions that profit from or maintain the occupation.
For both Eden Springs and Veolia, NUS acknowledges the work already done on a number of campuses, and offers "resources and support" to any students wishing to organise their own campaign."
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