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The news always seems to be carrying some story about a cyclist and a driver getting into a fight or of a cyclist being struck by a car while they are riding. When these stories are discussed in the comments section of a news site tempers flare and heated arguments about sharing the road break out. The pattern is so consistent that you can predict it pretty accurately: … [Read more...]
An open letter from a cyclist to 99% of drivers
Restore from backup – bringing a Mac back with Time Capsule
My brother called and told me my mom was in the hospital. At 80 her health has been declining pretty rapidly so I immediately booked a flight to California, planning to spend a week there to help my brother with both her and my father. Needless to say I had a lot on my mind as I rushed to the airport in the wee hours of a Tuesday morning last week. Back at home my wife's MacBook sat at her desk, left on overnight like she often did so that when she woke up in the morning a quick shake of the … [Read more...]
The Accidental iPad and How I Use It
When Steve Jobs announced the iPad a few months ago I didn't think "Wow, I gotta have me one of those...". Though I was intrigued by the form factor and slightly motivated by Steve Jobs' demonstration of the device, it didn't scream out at me as something I needed. I was actually more amused with all the criticism surrounding the choice of iPad as the name for the device. I yawned and went on with my life. Nearly a month ago I walked in to our local Apple store with my family. We weren't … [Read more...]
Macs and Failing Hard Disks – an early detection tool
The other day I was sitting at my desk when I started to hear a faint clicking sound. I pushed the noise out of my mind for a while and continued to work on the task at hand. Before long the clicking started to get louder and louder; it was clearly a consistent mechanical noise and was coming from under my desk, right where my Mac Pro is parked. I popped my head down there and sure enough, it sounded like one of my 4 hard drives was starting to go. Usually if you hear a clicking sound coming … [Read more...]
Switching to Mac – Two Years Later
It's now the two year mark for my switch from Windows to Mac. Over the last two years I've gone from a Windows developer exploring the Mac as a compliment to my Windows and Linux machines to a full time Mac user that spends the vast majority of my time in OS X. I didn't wake up one day and say "Wow, I hate Windows. I'm going to switch to Mac". I bought a little white MacBook, put it on the desk next to my primary Windows machine and started playing with it. Though technically underpowered … [Read more...]
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I generally like to put up blog posts that talk about cool things I've discovered on my Mac, or problems I've overcome and how I did that. This time it's about a pet peeve I have with my Mac: quickly viewing a group of images. I believe there is a tiny change Apple can make that would have a huge impact on usability, especially for non-technical users. Preview is a very cool part of OS X. Small and light, I can load lots of different files and off I go, scanning through them quickly. As a … [Read more...]
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After finding that my MacBook Pro's battery required service and would no longer hold a charge I made an appointment with the Genius Bar at my local Apple store in Reston, VA. After a short wait Vilma (the Genius) called me up and asked what the trouble was. After I filled her in on the issue she reached into a drawer and grabbed an iPod Nano that was labeled "Battery Diagnostics": Once that was plugged in and she rebooted the machine she loaded up a diagnostic … [Read more...]
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Tahoe ski resorts work around lack of natural snow
A lack of snow this season is forcing two South Shore resorts to lean on their snowmaking systems, while a third is covering portions of its trails by hand.
Thanks to continuously cold temperatures and some snowstorms at the beginning of the season, Sierra-at-Tahoe Ski Resort has opened 50 percent of its mountain without assistance from snowmaking guns.
However, an absence of recent snowfall has led some resort staff to walk into the woods, grab a bucket of snow and dump it on unlocked ski terrain, Sierra-at-Tahoe spokesperson Steven Hemphill said.
The method is just one way Sierra-at-Tahoe has coped with the drier-than-normal weather.
"Let it snow. Do your rain dances. Wash your car," he said. "We're doing it all up here."
Despite the scarcity of natural snow, all three ski resorts in the South Shore area — Sierra-at-Tahoe, Kirkwood Mountain Resort and Heavenly Mountain Resort — reported great ski conditions this week.
Sierra-at-Tahoe has terrain open that's great for families and beginners, Hemphill said.
"We are really proud of the product we do have out," he said.
Kirkwood had to close down the Timber Creek area this season because of the drier weather, spokesperson Kevin Cooper said. The resort has about 9 percent of its total terrain open, but conditions are still better than they were two years ago.
"We still have some great skiing," he said.
Things get "a little tough" at the resort when Mother Nature doesn't deliver much-needed snowfall, Cooper said. People are a little more cautious when they come to visit Kirkwood this season, but what they end up finding are good ski conditions.
"We're seeing good numbers," he said of the number of visitors, "and we're confident we'll push through the season."
Kirkwood has been using its snowmaking system whenever possible to continue improving terrain, officials reported, and Heavenly has done the same.
Heavenly spokesperson Sally Gunter said the resort had put in about 750 hours of snowmaking as of Tuesday. That's about the same as the resort's snowmaking usage two years ago, when South Shore experienced another shortage of snowfall at the beginning of the season.
With the machines' help, Heavenly plans to open more terrain this weekend.
"We've been very fortunate because of the West Coast's largest snowmaking system and the cooler temperatures we've had," she said.
Working with what it has, Heavenly is still focused on providing a quality product to guests this season, Gunter said.
"Heavenly is open," she said. "We do have snow."

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Earlier this month I finally got a chance to go to Lagos, Nigeria. It left an indelible mark in my mind. Lagos is a gorgeous city, intoxicating and yes, a little gritty but all in all completely intriguing. Intriguing in its scale, its people, and its location. Free flow of thoughts below on what I learned and observed.
You can either experience the Lagos of possibility or of gridlock. It depends on your mental frame. One of the hosts told me that you can attract your own Lagos. You just need to bring an effortless and authentic personality.
You can either be an Afro-pessimist or an Afro-optimist. Either way, you'd better be hustling. I see several newcomers in Kenya putting down entrepreneurs and regurgitating old stereotypes, even referring to friends in co-working spaces like iHub as 'monkeys'. (Whole other story that I won't even get into right now.)
Being in Lagos, I was quite encouraged and happy to see the forward momentum in service provision, infrastructure and even waste management.
I was part of a small group that was given a tour of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system complete with NFC technology for easy payment. The BRT system moves Lagosians quickly through the city in a very efficient manner. The fleet I saw was impressive, not in the shiny super new kind of way…more so in a functional, well maintained somewhat old fleet, yet orderly kind of way. The investment in infrastructure is continuing, with a new light rail system that is on course to be opened in 2016.
As you make your way around the city, there are people with orange coats emblazoned with LAWMA. This stands for Lagos Waste Management Authority, which is ensuring that the city is cleaned up and waste is processed. Clearly there is order from the chaos you thought Lagos was wrought and overrun with.
The infrastructure of the mind: This is a key idea that I encountered when Moji Rhodes gave an overview of the efforts by the state of Lagos to not only improve the lives of Lagosians, but to empower them. As is similar in most parts of Africa, there is no escaping the colonial baggage that saddles culture, inefficient legacy systems, land allocation problems…the list can go on and on. The infrastructure of the mind alludes to the cultural renaissance that I think needs to be fostered even more. It is as essential as economic growth in the betterment of African cities. Lagos is ahead in this regard.
What remained in my mind most of all is the immense potential to leverage technology in the service of citizens. EIE – Enough is Enough Nigeria, Sahara Reporters, CCHub, Wennovation, and so many other examples of initiatives that will be integral to helping Lagos youth to engage, have a say and to give back.
I am reminded of the seminal quote for 2012
The role of citizen does not end with a vote – President Barack Obama during his acceptance speech.
How can we set up end to end systems that help citizens beyond elections?
In the case of Lagos, there is potential of impacting almost 8 million people with information services. I am awe struck by the immense opportunity and hats of to the people already investing their time and energy to doing this.
The larger question that I think many cities are trying to answer is how can cities provide services in order to draw the creative, maker, entrepreneurial class? Small and medium sized businesses still power many economies. In Africa, it becomes even more important to invest in growing this segment of the economy. I saw many MTN Mobile money ads, this is likely to be a major growth area for Lagos.
I am curious about culture based design in African cities. From architecture of technology systems that can provide utility and help tackle the unique problem sets of Lagos and Nairobi. Perhaps just effective design in a global sense needs to be applied to the many problems of a complex, growing, vibrant city like Lagos. There is lots to learn, but more so, I think there is so much more to do to connect innovators globally to the important problem sets on the ground. The hard work is of course the end to end workflow of making sure we do not just think of the tech, but the Technium and the ecosystems of the future. The most famous example of a truly unique, effective and Lagosian ecosystem is ofcourse Nollywood.
Through music and fashion I saw glimpses of even more ecosystems being redefined right now in Lagos.
Pictures: Lagos on Africa Knows
Follow: Moji Rhodes, Teju Cole
Read: Omoluwabi 2.0 A Code of Transformation in 21st Century Nigeria by Adewale Ajadi
Monopoly Game: City of Lagos Edition
Jam to: Davido – Dami Duro
Chidinma: Kedike,
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Soul Bleeds - The Poetry, Melodies, and Other Wanderings of Karen Wiesner
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Every poem ever written shows us the eyes of the poet. Looking without. As love mirrors the heart, poetry mirrors personality. Many poets write about things outside of themselves. This mirrors their personal character and the way they look at the world. Looking within. Other poets take the outside world into themselves and use the intimate emotions to reveal their own hearts. Just looking. Then there are poets like me, who do a little of both...or a lot of neither. If you're looking for flowery observations on nature, rhyming pieces with any type of standard or pattern, seemingly meaningless verses that you have to know the "code" to understand, you won't find it here. The 39 poems included a combination of honesty, raw emotion, vivid imagery, gritty reality, story metaphors, introspection, depression, and even "song-like" verses. Great poetry is something I can relate to, that moves me, that takes the human condition and makes it both frail and somehow beautiful... More > in its starkness.< Less
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B: Dog poop?
C: Hold the poop.
B: (calling out) Got a stormwater runoff here.
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Translation by Karl Hoffman, Margaret Aman Freeman and Harold
Published by the Document Publishing Center, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 1998, 24 pages, softcover.
Government Archive from Kherson District, Fond 22, Writing
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Revision list for the Glückstal Colony, Tiraspol Area for the year 1858. Started 13 May 1858 and finished 1858.
1858 Glückstal Colony Census
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Kershaw 1555G10 Cryo Assisted Flipper Knife 2.75" Plain Stonewash Blade, G10 and Stainless Steel Handles
KS1555G10: 1555G10 Cryo G10
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This Cryo not only looks good, it also offers the extra grip some of you have been asking for. The G10 scale also lightens the overall weight of this very practical knife.
The Cryo was the result of collaboration between Rick Hinderer and the design and production engineers at Kershaw. It's designed to satisfy users' craving for a Hinderer knife, but at a price that meets the demands of their wallets. The original Cryo (model 1555TI) was selected as a BLADE Show "Best Buy" and as Men's Journal Approved Gear.
Like all Cryos, the G10-handled Cryo is equipped with SpeedSafe assisted opening for smooth and easy one-handed opening. Access it with the built-in flipper or thumb studs. The blade steel is heat treated to Kershaw's exacting standards. The handle has a G10 front scale with a stainless steel back. A sturdy frame lock secures the blade open during use and a Hinderer lockbar stabilizer ensures the lock doesn't over-extend.
The Cryo G10 is equipped with a 2-position deep-carry pocket clip for carry flexibility and discretion.
- Flipper - May be used on either manual or assisted opening knives. The "flipper" is a protrusion on the back of the blade that the user can pull back on, or flip, in order to move the blade easily out of the handle.
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Apple acquired Topsy Labs, a company that analyzes Twitter conversations, for $200 million, according to a report.
Topsy looks at global conversation on Twitter and logs how often a term is used, who are influential people and can measure event or campaign exposure, according to the Wall Street Journal using an unnamed source. Topsy is "one of a handful" of Twitter partners with access to its archives.
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The deal likely was sealed without Twitter approval, according to industry experts. Twitter declined to comment on the deal. Apple confirmed the acquisition, but a spokeswoman declined to give details. "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans," she said.
Unlike other companies which gave Apple Siri or a fingerprint authentication system, it's not clear how Topsy's information could help Apple create a gadget or app. However, perhaps that's not what this acquisition is about. Topsy gives information on Twitter influencers and conversation, and perhaps Apple is simply working on better social media campaigns, or as one analyst suggested, using the information to recommend songs, movies or TV shows to users.


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After a decadelong slide, pulltabs, bingo and other forms of charitable gambling are bouncing back in Minnesota, with gross receipts up 8.6 percent statewide this fiscal year and expected to top $1.1 billion, according to the Minnesota Gambling Control Board.
That's the biggest percentage increase in more than 20 years and the third straight year-to-year rise.
"It's just clear to us the economy has rebounded," said Al Lund, executive director of Allied Charities of Minnesota, which represents the nearly 1,200 nonprofit groups running charitable gambling operations in the state. "People are back out enjoying themselves and are willing to donate to their local charities."
That appears to be especially so in Anoka County. The 29 nonprofits based there eclipsed $101 million in gambling receipts in 2013, a 14 percent jump from 2012, according to Gambling Control Board data. That works out to roughly $300 in charitable gambling by every man, woman and child in the county, compared with about $200 per person for the state as a whole.
"Anecdotally [Anoka County] is a very strong area for charities," Lund said. "The charities that are up there are very active. People know what they do in their community and they are willing to donate."
Data for other counties aren't yet available; the Gambling Control Board will issue statewide numbers later this month.
When gross revenue from charitable gambling dipped below $1 billion in 2010 — the lowest it had been in two decades — some theorized that a generation gap might be a factor. But Lund of Allied Charities said the younger generations are buying in, fueling a resurgence in bar bingo in particular.
"Paper bingo is enjoying a resurgence with young people. It's an interesting development we didn't see coming," he said.
Although some nonprofits are dabbling in the new electronic games, more than 90 percent of statewide charitable gambling revenue still comes from paper pulltabs, Lund said. E-gambling accounts for only about 1 percent, he said. The failure of electronic games to catch on sent state officials scrambling earlier this year to find alternate funding for the new Minnesota Vikings stadium that the games were supposed to underwrite.
Playing the games
Paper pulltabs, bingo, meat raffles and electronic games are played at places like the Ole Piper Inn in Blaine, one of six sites where the Blaine Youth Hockey Association conducts charitable gambling.
On a recent night, patron Tricia Sandberg was one of those trying her luck. She and her husband typically buy pulltabs when they stop for dinner and drinks once a week, she said.
"If you are winning, we keep playing. If you are not winning, you keep playing," said Sandberg, who works for the state health department. "I love the pulltab lady. She's my friend's mom."
The pulltab lady, Teri Nichols, has worked charitable gambling booths for 26 years, the past 10 for Blaine Youth Hockey. Most of her business comes from regulars who don't hesitate to drop a few hundred bucks over the course of a night, she said.
Blaine Youth Hockey was the highest-grossing charity in Minnesota in 2012 (the most recent year for which statewide data are available), bringing in $13 million in gambling receipts. The total dipped to $12 million this year, after a fire temporarily closed one of the sites where the group operates, but it still expects to top the 2013 state list, according to its gambling manager, Suzanne Slawson.
Asked about the secret to the association's success, Nichols said: "It's run right. Friendly to customers. There's high percent payout games."
Friendly service goes a long way, she says. She chit-chats and jokes with customers. "You know how many times I hear, 'One more time,' " she jokes with one.
The Centennial Youth Hockey Association in Lino Lakes has also fared well. It had gross charitable gambling receipts of $9.3 million in fiscal 2013, up from $7.8 million in 2012, when it was fourth in the state.
A new nonprofit, Blaine's Blazin' Fourth, affiliated with Blaine Jaycees, recently joined the charitable gambling scene and grossed $4.4 million at two sites in fiscal 2013, its first full year.
"Many of our customers are tired of thinking the world is going to fall apart. We want to enjoy ourselves again," said Linda Brausen, gambling manager for Blaine's Blazin' Fourth, who has been in the pulltab business for 23 years.
Nonprofits cite strong locations as a factor in success, and Anoka County had four of the state's top 10-grossing gambling sites in fiscal 2013: a pair of restaurants in Blaine, one in Fridley and one in Ramsey.
Payouts, expenses, proceeds
Of the $101 million in gross gambling receipts in Anoka County this fiscal year, about $85 million was paid out in prizes and $3.1 million went to the nonprofits, according to Gambling Control Board data. The rest covered taxes, fees and expenses.
Blaine Youth Hockey paid out about $10 million of the $12 million it brought in, and after expenses, taxes and fees, about $780,000 went to the nonprofit. The association shares the wealth, donating to youth baseball and Blaine High School hockey. For Blaine Blazin' Fourth, the net is about $162,000, some of which will pay for the Blaine midsummer festival.
The uptick in gambling means some cities have more money to play with, too. Blaine is one of 63 Minnesota cities that take a 10 percent cut of gambling proceeds (after payouts and expenses), as allowed by state law. The city will collect $92,000 in 2013. It will give $40,000 to the homeless shelter Alexandra House, $27,500 to local food shelves, $10,000 to the Blaine Historical Society and lesser amounts to other nonprofits.
Blaine officials say its fund has grown faster than expected and the city is happy to share the money with charities.
"People just have more spendable incomes," said the city's finance director, Joe Huss. "It seems to run so hand in hand with the economy and unemployment numbers."


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This is so incredible that I think I've seen this in a movie before.* And if I didn't, it should be put in a movie immediately. Genius bank robbers dug a 100 foot tunnel from a parking garage across the street to the bank's safe deposit room and walked away with over £11,000,000 in goods.
Police were only notified of the robbery when a security guard noticed smoke coming out of the vault. When police stormed the room, they didn't find bank robbers but discovered the tunnel the robbers used to escape. Turns out, the smoke was coming from a fire the bank robbers set to cover their tracks.
The bank, which is located in Berlin, Germany, is still trying to figure out what was stolen from the safe deposit boxes. I imagine the bank robbers are in some Latin American beach trying to figure out which paradise destination to visit next. You go guys. [Telegraph, Neatorama]
*The Bank Job was a movie based on a true story about a 1971 bank robbery that used a tunnel. So there's that.


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From: Business To: Business
This story appears in the June 2000 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
It was in late 1998 that Walt Geer, a partner in an Atlanta promotional-products company, faced up to reality. His little business--which sold logo merchandise such as pens and coffee mugs (a.k.a. "trash and trinkets") to companies for handouts to employees and customers-was chugging along OK, but it was just one of about 19,000 promotional-products companies in the country. Plainly put, the 32-year-old's company was lost in that mob. So he decided to take the plunge: He cut the cord on his traditional company, dumped his existing customers and--whoosh!--put his business on the Web as eCompanystore.com.
How did it work out? Well, there were a couple months when things looked grim: "We had no revenues coming in," recalls Geer, "but we had to focus our energies on the Internet, because we didn't have the resources to do it and run our traditional business. Of course, there were scary moments." But business eventually turned around for Geer. "In just a few months, the Internet let us move from being a small company to a national player," he says. "Before, we serviced lots of little accounts. Now we have AutoNation, the country's biggest car dealership, and we're going after more big accounts. The Internet is what let us do that."
Geer's eCompanyStore isn't alone. Dotcom companies winning the most press buzz may be those consumer-oriented, high-advertising businesses like Amazon.com and eToys, but the real buzz in big money circles solidly centers on business-to-business (b2b) players like eCompanyStore. Forrester Research predicts the b2b sector will explode from an estimated $43 billion on the Internet in '98 to a jaw-dropping $1.8 trillion in 2003. Meantime, Forrester predicts that online retail (the business-to-consumer market) will also grow, but those numbers are piddly in comparison. In '99, reports Forrester, business-to-consumer e-commerce reached $20.2 billion, and, by 2004, it should hit an estimated $184 billion. Do the math, and you'll see b2b is expected to involve 10 times more cash--and that's a multiple that demands attention.
Just why the rush of businesses wanting to purchase on the Internet? Simple, says Ben Smith, a consultant in the Santa Clara, California, office of A. T. Kearney, a global management consulting firm. "This represents a fundamental change in how companies purchase, and they're using the Internet to drive out costs."
"B2b e-commerce is about streamlining processes in order to do business more efficiently," adds Tarun Sharma, chief e-business architect at EC Cubed, a Westborough, Massachusetts, provider of b2b e-commerce solutions, and coauthor of Enterprise E-Commerce (Meghan Kiffer Press).
How much value? "Shift purchasing to the Web, and a business can eliminate 90 percent of transaction costs," says Dean Whitlock, vice president and general manager of consulting firm ICL's eBusiness Services group in Dallas.
Another estimate comes from Chris Cogan, 40, CEO of GoCo-op, a Maitland, Florida-based Internet purchasing solution for hotels, restaurants and health-care businesses. "We estimate the average cost of executing a paper purchase order is $115," he says. "We get that cost down to $10. When companies buy through our system, they'll see immediate savings."
But cost savings aren't the only reason Internet b2b trade has been mushrooming, says eCompanyStore's Geer. Although he claims he provides customers with savings--"our prices are 5 to 15 percent lower than traditional solutions"--the real drivers are speed and efficiency. "And besides," he explains, "our Web store is always open. These advantages are as attractive to our customers as are the savings. The Internet is a better and faster way for businesses to shop."
The Many Faces of B2B
Just who is making it in b2b e-commerce? The gold rush has just begun, and sure winners have yet to emerge, but there are players illustrating the breadth of this marketplace. That's because b2b e-commerce offers diverse opportunities. Some Netpreneurs seek to establish their businesses as exchanges where buyers and sellers meet to do deals while others position their start-ups to provide services and products to business customers in a new, Web-based way. The bottom line: B2b e-commerce entrepreneurs are limited only by their own imaginations, because there are plentiful possibilities in this exploding space.
Check out this sampling of the strategies that b2b businesses are pursuing online:
BizBuyer.com. When now 35-year-old Bernard Louvat was hired to set up Disney's The Disney Store in his native France, it seemed like a relatively simple job. In reality, it took innumerable hours to identify sellers of the products and services he needed, from computers to telecommunications, and then get bids, compare them and make deals. There had to be a better way, thought Louvat, and that's why a few years later he founded Santa Monica, California, BizBuyer.com, a Web-based marketplace established with a mission to streamline buying--and selling--on the part of small and midsized businesses in particular. "The Web will allow everyone, buyers and sellers alike, to achieve more efficient pricing. We help vendors reach new buyers, and buyers hear from new suppliers, and we estimate that our system will save buyers 25 percent," says Louvat.
The model is simple: A buyer logs on to the site and says he or she wants to make a purchase--say, a wireless telephone plan and a new company car. BizBuyer.com then submits that request to suppliers, and those who want to bid pay "a nominal amount," says Louvat. The buyer gets the bids, and if one seems good, he makes a deal. "BizBuyer.com collects a commission from the seller on the transaction," says Louvat, who adds that even after paying that commission, a vendor's costs are lower because the Web creates slick efficiencies.
Sound good? More than 20,000 vendors are already enrolled in BizBuyer.com, and Louvat anticipates strong growth. "Web-based procurement benefits everybody," he says. "Everybody wins with this system."
ProduceOnline. What do you do with a few tons of butter lettuce and no buyer? That's just the type of dilemma Chuck James, 42, CEO of Pasadena, California-based, ProduceOnline, wants to solve by creating a more narrowly focused online exchange that brings buyers and sellers of produce together. "In this business, you sell it or you smell it," says James, who last year shut down his family's 116-year-old brick-and-mortar produce distribution business in order to build his Web site. According to James, "This is an opportunity to reinvent the produce industry."
That industry today is little changed from how business was conducted when James' ancestors set up shop in the 1800s. It's a business that revolves around scraps of paper and "many small players," says James, who points out that while grains and livestock are increasingly in the hands of large corporations, "produce remains a business of small farmers."
At ProduceOnline, sellers list their available fruits and vegetables, and buyers use search tools to hack through the mountains of broccoli and rutabagas in search of the cherries they desire. Neither pays any subscription fee, with ProduceOnline's profits resulting from an up to 1 percent fee on completed deals. In the process, buyers may get lower prices and sellers still may reap higher margins, because "our system cuts transaction-processing costs by 70 percent," says James.
Will farmers take to this model? You bet, says James: "Farmers are already very entrepreneurial, and they're eager to find ways to increase their returns."
Ubrandit.com. Who would be nuts enough to go head-to-head against giants like Amazon.com and CDNow, which are fast on their way to devouring the online market for books and music? Meet Jeff Phillips, 32, CEO of San Diego's Ubrandit.com. But Phillips, who intends to make his profits selling those same books and CDs, just may not be nuts at all. His target audience is composed not of readers and music fans, but of media properties such as radio stations and local newspapers. Huh? Phillips explains: "They want to participate in e-commerce, but most don't have the resources to mount a fully functioning site. We offer them a turnkey site that doesn't cost them a dime. In fact, they'll get revenues from it."
The Ubrandit.com pitch: Pretty much any business (although the company focuses on media) can take the Ubrandit.com storefront, slap on its own logo, and, in a matter of minutes, be in the business of selling books, music and videos. On every sale, the radio station or newspaper gets 5 percent of the gross, while the rest goes to Ubrandit.com for handling the transaction.
Even so, don't e-tailers like Amazon.com offer affiliates--who bring in sales by posting, say, Amazon.com logos on their sites--commissions of up to 5 percent? Yep, acknowledges Phillips, but "our key difference--what we sell our customers--is that the site features their brand, not ours. When a radio station sends a customer to Amazon.com, it gets a commission, but Amazon.com owns the customer. With our service, the station's name is up front and they're earning money."
So far, 100 newspaper, radio and television outlets have signed up to use Ubrandit.com's service, but Phillips is expecting many more. "With our model, we're not competing against Amazon.com--our partners are, and in their markets they have well-recognized brands," says Phillips. "When you hear a radio interview with an author, why wouldn't you buy the book from the station's site? That's why we believe this model will work, for our partners and for our company."
SeminarSource.com. Each day around the world, hundreds of seminars, conventions and workshops are aimed at businesses. For potential attendees, the problem is finding the right ones. For seminar producers, the problem is getting the word out to target audiences. That's where 39-year-old Kim Folsom enters. "We list more than 25,000 seminars and meetings," says Folsom, CEO of San Diego-based SeminarSource.com, "and we're getting more than 250,000 page views per month from potential seminar attendees."
SeminarSource.com lets seminar producers list for free and charges attendees nothing. Revenues are based on services offered to meeting planners--from online registration to Webcasting programs--and selling advertising on the site. "We're not profitable yet," admits Folsom, who points out the company has raised more than $3 million to date, from angel and institutional investors. "The size of this market is $35 billion annually, and the Web is the perfect solution, both for meeting organizers and attendees. It's low-cost and efficient. This market will take off. Our only obstacle is getting enough people--attendees in particular--aware of what we're offering. As more people learn the advantages of online booking, more will look to us."
Want yet more for-instances? Surf the Web. Nowadays, new b2b businesses are popping up everywhere. "We hear VCs are investing $100 million each week in new b2b properties," says Smith. "There's a lot of excitement about the potential here."
The Future of B2B
You're not alone if the preceding b2b accounts sound too enticing to ignore. But the news gets better. "There will be thousands and thousands of successful b2b sites," says Smith. "There will be many fewer b2c sites that succeed."
A crucial reason: "Customer loyalty will be higher in b2b e-commerce," says Smith. Why? Consumers shopping on the Internet are proving to be price-driven. They'll switch vendors in the click of a mouse to save a few bucks. Businesses won't be so fickle. "Once you lock in a b2b customer, he'll be less likely to switch sites, because, as the b2b site integrates into the customer's way of doing business, it simply becomes difficult to switch."
That's why "first-mover advantage will be very important in b2b," says Phillips. "The players that establish early market dominance will retain it."
Marketplace Turbulence
Get ready to hold on, though. The sailing for early entrants won't be entirely smooth. In key respects, the bar may be higher in b2b e-commerce than it is in b2c. Case in point: "To succeed in this [arena], you'll need deep domain knowledge," says John Sviokla, a vice chairman with Chicago e-commerce consulting firm Diamond Technology Partners Inc. In other words, to successfully peddle peaches to consumers, you don't have to know much about farming, but to build an exchange for farmers, you've got to grasp the fundamental drivers in the industry.
"B2b e-commerce requires much more than technology skills," adds Sharma. "You have to really understand the domain, the underlying businesses."
Another hitch: B2b involves long selling cycles, and, before big deals are nailed down, "You'll need to do face-to-face selling," says Sharma. It's one thing to buy a $10 book with a mouse click. It's an entirely different thing to buy $100,000 worth of coffee mugs.
"A Web site won't close deals for you," stresses Geer. "You can't rely on a Web site. To make b2b deals, often, you've still got to put feet on the street."
And although b2b e-commerce is expected to detonate soon, that fast growth won't hit until the future. For now, few b2b sites report profitability. But Mark Hoffman, former vice president of management and technology consulting firm Booz-Allen & Hamilton's office in San Francisco, says that's all about to change, "We're just now seeing the tip of this iceberg. Mainstream big businesses had been skeptical about the Web, but no more. They're now jumping on the Internet. We'll be seeing many successful b2b sites. There is every reason to be optimistic about this market."
Robert McGarvey is Entrepreneur's "Web Smarts" columnist.


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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – The San Jose Earthquakes held the defending La Liga champions scoreless through 90 minutes before falling 4-3 in penalty kicks in the 2014 Copa Euroamericana on Sunday, July 27 at Candlestick Park, the final sporting event in the venue's storied history.
In the penalty kick shootout, Khari Stephenson sent the first penalty over the crossbar for San Jose. Guillherme Siqueira buried his spot kick to give Atletico a 1-0 lead. After conversions from Sam Cronin and Gabi, both Billy Schuler and Miranda missed their team's third shot attempt. Goals from Shaun Francis and Brandon Barklage were matched by Mario Suarez and Saul to seal the win for Atletico.
Early in the match, Stephenson attempted the Earthquakes' first shot on goal in the 20th minute after receiving a nifty back-heel from Mike Fucito at the top of the box. Atletico responded in the 22nd minute with an attempt by Koke, who watched his strike trickle past an outstretched Bryan Meredith.
Atletico got their best chance in the 41st minute after Brandon Barklage was whistled for a penalty kick for his challenge on Mario Suarez. The post denied Raul Garcia's spot kick, and a follow up attempt by Koke was turned away by Meredith to keep the game scoreless heading into halftime.
Tommy Thomspon nearly netted his first goal in an Earthquakes uniform in the 48th minute after coming on as a halftime substitute. Billy Schuler fed Thompson on the run, but the rookie attacker couldn't direct his shot past a collapsing Miguel Moya in a one-on-one situation.
Both sides exchanged a flurry of chances in the games' waning moments, none more threatening than a snapping header from Sam Cronin in the 91st minute. Cronin sprayed a ball ahead of a darting Cordell Cato and continued his run into the six-yard box, where he was unable to redirect Cato's service past Moya for a stoppage-time goal.
The Earthquakes return to MLS action on Saturday, August 2 against Western Conference rivals Seattle Sounders FC at the first event at Levi's Stadium, presented by BMW. The game kicks off at 7:30 p.m. PT on NBC Sports, 1590 KLIV and 1370 KZSF.


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1 Vision Part I 10:54
2 Powerminers 8:18
3 Vision Part II 12:43
4 Vision Part III 13:30
Vanderson is part of this invasion of Polish musicians who embellish the EM scene for the biggest pleasure of our ears. Influenced by Berlin School, both vintage and new, Maciej Wierzchowski composes a music which oscillates constantly between these two universes, caressing sometimes the cosmic meanders and its tones so metallic as heterogeneous established by Jarre, at least on Visions, in conformity with what would be completely suited to call today; the Poland School style. Visions is his 7th work and his very first on the label of his native land; Generator Pl. An album which will please undoubtedly the fans of old good Berlin School.
Sounds of gongs cross the ages, resounding among fine cosmic streaks and its winds which blow to scatter a cosmic silence. Fine sequences drum. Their delicate and feverish palpitations draw the souvenirs of a distant musical world furnished by the art of Klaus Schulze to modulate silk rhythms. A soft celestial flute covers this fragile poetic tempo which quietly goes towards an atmospheric passage where solitary chords roam among the singings of crickets and threatening reverberations. We are a little after the 6th minute and "Vision Part I" escapes with sequences which skip with more ardour. Sequences to crisscrossed strikes which intertwine in the doubloons of their hasty succession, moulding these nervous and hypnotic rhythmic which made the delights of vintage Berlin School of the Schulze's years that Maciej Wierzchowski sprays with copious synth solos and heterogeneous electronic tones. This rhythm at the same time soft and nervous fed the skeleton of "Powerminers" which begins with drops falling from a cave walls. Slow synthesized waves sunk into violined stratas are rocking there, waiting for these sequences with a soft chaotic and repetitive pace which team up to fine percussions while the exhilarating minimalist rhythm of "Powerminers" flows under a thick cloud of cosmic tones and soft flutes which sing under pleasant orchestral arrangements. Very musical, "Powerminers" ends its lyrical journey in the jingles of an intra-ground station and its trains which fit into each other, a little as in the universe of Jean Michel Jarre and his Magnetic Fields.
These tones of trains continue beyond "Vision Part II" whose rhythm is drummed by sequences to arrhythmic pulsations which spawn in the shade of discreet reverberations. Clouds of mist cover this rhythm which accelerates subtly its pace, while cymbals and percussions are framing a soft semi frenzied ascent which binds itself in percussions to tones of anvils wrapped in wadding to burst in a heavy and boosted ambiance. A very electronic ambiance filled by fragrances of Tangerine Dream and Air Sculpture with furious synth solos. The intro of "Vision Part III" reminds me a lot of the essays of Adelbert Von Deyen on his very beautiful Atmospheres (1980). The mood is as well poetic as cosmic with its clouds of spatial dusts which enfold the warm winds of lyrical synths. This is superb vintage years cosmic Berlin School we are hearing here with all this panoply of analog electronic tones which become entangled in a perfect atmospheric symbiosis. We feel a life inside these organic instabilities which implode of an oniric slowness, waiting for the smallest space of freedom to explode of a progressive rhythm. And the opening occurs a little before the 5th minute with sequences which alternate in a perfect symmetry, drawing a rhythm limping on cyclic and crisscrossed chords which waddle by following the movement of a more harmonious synth line. This hypnotic rhythm set by carillons and reverberations hangs on to wonderful solos which enlace and coil on a minimalist tangent a bit evolutive.
I adored Vanderson's Visions. It's a splendid return in time when vintage Berlin School had this capacity to seduce with its soft minimalist sequences which fed long hypnotic movements where the modifications in structures were as perceptible as a blinking of lash. Evolutive rhythms which were of use as assizes to long and languishing synth solos or musical canvas to atmospheric sound paintings where the imagination rocked our dreams and transcends our fantasies. It's very beautiful and too short! And this gives me the taste to go off to explore the world of Vanderson.
Sylvain Lupari (2012)
Cet article est disponible en Français sur le site de Guts of Darkness, dont je suis chroniqueur sous le nom de Phaedream: http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/god/objet.php?objet=14936
Cet article est disponible en Français sur le site de Guts of Darkness, dont je suis chroniqueur sous le nom de Phaedream: http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/god/objet.php?objet=14936
* You can also watch nice videos with extracts of Visions on YouTube with these links:
Vision Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr94lBklFvk
Vision Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhhibbbCM4I


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The summer shows are over, and it's hard to believe it but the industry is already ramping up for Christmas and winter shows. Where did 2016 go?
Consolidating. Canvas Corp has announced that the 7 Gypsies and Tattered Angels brands have been consolidated under the single company of Canvas Corp. The three brands were previously separate companies. All of the brands will continue to be marketed, but can now be ordered together from one company.
Expanding. Project Life founder Becky Higgins has announced the launch of a new brand called "HOME by Becky Higgins". The lifestyle brand is launching with an initial product offering of four designs of all-occasion premium wrapping paper. Although she's known professionally for her work in the scrapbooking industry, Becky's popular blog often features her home and her style is frequently the subject of admiring comments and questions from readers. Higgins' move is not unprecedented – it takes place against a backdrop of a changing scrapbook market in recent years that has sent many of the major scrapbook segment companies (such as My Minds Eye, Teresa Collins, Heidi Swapp, and American Crafts) looking for new markets in markets like stationery, party goods, and lifestyle products.
Launching. Ali Edwards will be launching pre-orders for 2016 December Daily kits on September 1st. The designer reveal will begin next Monday, on August 22nd. (Hmm, maybe I should finally finish that 2013 album….)
Mobilizing. Pantone has launched a new iOS app called PANTONE Studio. The app takes mobile the ability to build and share color palettes using Pantone color tools, and apply colors to various designs and surfaces as a visualization tool. Users can also access Pantone trend information. A free limited version of the app is available, or the full version can be purchased for $7.99/month or $59.99 for an entire year.
Linking. Etsy is partnering with Intuit to offer a special Etsy version of Quickbooks Self-employed. Etsy storeowners will be able to download their Etsy sales, as well as transactions from other providers such as Square and Paypal, directly into the accounting software. The software will be available the first year for $5/month, or for $12/month with a TurboTax bundle.
Curating. Pinterest announced some feature changes to its site design today, including a new preferences setting that will allow users to stop the presence of "Picked for You" pins in their feeds. Pinterest, in their announcement, said this feature was added at the request of users. Personally I find the "Picked for You" pins to be a great way to find interesting content, but it seems that a vocal segment of Pinterest users disagree. If a large portion of Pinterest users take advantage of this new feature, it could impact site traffic and account growth for users whose pins are favored by the Picked for You engine.
Changing. Instagram's new Stories feature has a lot of users wondering what to make of it. Abby Glassenberg of While She Naps has an interesting perspective on exactly how disruptive Stories is to the direction of Instagram.
Sharing. I'm pleased to announce that I will be serving another term on the design team at the Layout-A-Week blog run by Jennifer Priest. My first layout of the new term is a summer garden layout featuring Simple Stories and Quick Quotes products.
Events, part 1. Registration is open for the Designer Day portion of Bella Blvd's event in Milwaukee on October 20th. Workshops may be purchased ala carte from a schedule that includes Shanna Noel, Jill from Jillibean Soup, and Julie Johnson.
Events, part 2. Prima is launching a planner line, and they are having an event in Temecula, California to celebrate. Tickets are $120 per person for the October 15th event, and include a goodie bag with a planner, a workshop, lunch, demos, and more.
Events, part 3. Altitude Summit, the popular social media and blogger conference for creatives, has a call for speakers out for its 2017 event. The conference will take place in Palm Springs, California from January 31st to February 3rd, 2017, a week after Creativation (and overlapping with Creativeworld).
Returning. The Craft & Hobby Association is advertising a list of previous exhibitors that will be returning to the winter show (now named Creativation) after a break that includes Darice, Walnut Hollow, Coats and Clark, Springs Creative, TrimCraft, Modern Store Fixtures, Prym Consumer USA, and Crescent Cardboard.
Jobs. The following craft industry positions are currently advertised as available:
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Category:LSL List
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A list is a special kind of data type which can contain zero or more elements.
Lists are signified by square brackets surrounding their elements; the elements inside are separated by commas.
[0,1,2,3,4] ["Yes","No","Perhaps"]
(Note: to be clear for those who have other programming backgrounds, there are no arrays in LSL: only lists.)
Diverse Data Types
Not all elements in a list need to be the same type of element. In the same list, you can store strings, integers, floats, vectors, etc, right side by side.
Example: //a list with an integer, a float, a string, and a vector.
[1,14.154,"Isn't this fun?",<0,0,0>]
However, a list may not contain another list (i.e. you can't nest them.)
[1, "one", 2, "two"] + [3, "three"] returns [1, "one", 2, "two", 3, "three"]
[1, "one", 2, "two", [3, "three"]]
When you add an element to a list, the list remembers automatically what data type the value was.
Generally, because you're the one adding something to a list, you know what datatype is in what place in the list, and you retrieve it out of the list with the appropriate llList2<type> function such as: llList2String, llList2Vector, etc. (more on this later.)
If for some reason, though, you need to test what data type an element is in a list, you can use the llGetListEntryType function.
Tip! When adding a float to a list, always add it with a decimal point (e.g 1.0 as opposed to 1) to ensure that it is preserved as a float.
Counting place in a list vs list length
It's important at the outset to note the following (which can trip up even experienced minds when they are battle-weary):
The length of this list is 3, because it has 3 elements in it. The length of a list is returned by the llGetListLength() function:
integer length = llGetListLength(mylist);
BUT, counting to determine an element's place in its list (aka "indexing") starts at 0 -- NOT 1.
The position of "Yes" in the above list is 0, "No" is at position 1, and "Perhaps" is at position 2.
Consequently, if you have 7 elements in a list, the last item in the list will be at position 6.
Thus to retrieve the last element in a list, without having to know in advance what position it is at, you can just go:
integer length = llGetListLength(mylist); string item = llList2String(myList,length - 1);
List Limits
While a script is running, a list can grow dynamically as large as needed, limited only by the amount of memory that is available in the script.
However, at compile (aka save) time, there is a 72 element limit to pre-defined lists hardcoded in the script. Such long, predefined lists are common, for example, when someone is offering the user a plethora of colour choices.
Tip! If you really need 72 or more such choices in a pre-defined list, just make 2 (or more) lists that don't upset the compiler, and join them together in state_entry() or wherever appropriate:
biggerlist = biglist01 + biglist02;
Adding an Element to a list
There are three ways used to append an element to an existing list:
1) myList = myList + [new_item]; 2) myList += [new_item]; 3) myList = (myList=[]) + myList + "new_item";
The third way saves memory. SL Psyke Phaeton has reported that when adding around 90 elements to a list, 3-4KB of memory can be saved. Why it works continues to be the topic of some discussion. It was invented, possibly, by Strife Onizuka.
Joining Lists (aka Concatenation)
Lists can be joined simply by using the + sign:
newlist = list01 + list02; newlist = list01 + ["red","brown",<0,0,0>];
Note: The above example actually creates 3 lists in memory while the command runs, even though just one is returned. This can affect memory usage.
Clearing a List
To clear a list, set it equal to two square, empty brackets like this:
myList = [];
Strided lists
One common use of lists is to duplicate the functionality of structured collections of data (aka structs). Such collections, available in many programming languages, are absent from LSL.
In-world in SL, (still as of July 2008), a strided list is the closest you can get to storing limited amounts of data in some kind of structure that you can access and manipulate in a few, limited ways.
Strided lists allow you to store related data pieces grouped (aka "strided") in sets. You can determine how many pieces of data in each "grouping."
An example is best at this point. You might use a strided list to track the names, gender and rez dates of a group of avatars:
list demographics = ["John Adams", "male", "2007-06-22", "Shirley Bassey", "female", "2005-11-02", "Matt Damon", "male", "2008-05-19"];
This example has a stride of three, because each grouping (or stride) has three data elements. Index 0 ("John Adams") is the start of the first instance (because list counting starts a 0), index 3 ("Shirley Bassey") is the start of the second instance, and so on.
It is important that the pieces of information in each grouping are always entered in the same sequence for every instance of the grouping in the list! In the example above, this means that the name needs to be always the first of the three related elements. You should consider carefully the order in which you record information because the function to sort a list, llListSort, will only sort on the first element of the instances. In other words, if the avatar's rez date were the most important attribute for your script, then you would need to record it first, and the name second. If you wish to be able to sort by avatar last name rather than first name, the name should be added to the list in Lastname FirstName format (avoiding a comma, though, of course, unless you wanted LastName and FirstName treated as separate elements in the list.)
To add another person to the above list, you would do this:
demographics += ["Dorthy Lamour", "female", "2010-01-22"];
You cannot do any kind of fancy data analysis or manipulation with strided lists, as you can in off-world databases or spreadsheets, but they can meet some limited, in-world needs, if you don't have the resources to tie-in off-world tools.
Here are the tools we do have for strided lists:
The following three (as of July 2008) native LSL functions can be used with strided lists:
Here are some additional, user-created functions for working with strided lists:
|Moves something in a strided list to another place in the strided list.
|Removes part of a strided list.
|Updates part of a strided list.
Extended List Operations
These functions have been created and contributed by LSL users to perform operations not covered by built-in LSL functions.
|Removes one element from a list.
|Given a list of floats, converts them all to whole numbers (aka integers.)
|Join two lists to make one new combined list, while also eliminating any resulting duplicates in the new list.
|This function examines two lists, and returns a new list composed of the elements that both lists have in common.
|Show what x list has that y list is missing.
|Returns a new list, composed of elements that were in either original script, but not both. Note: This is not the same as getting rid duplicates by preserving just one of each duplicated item. It goes further, and removes both items.
|Answers the question: is list X identical to list Y?
|Answers the question: is list X different from list Y?
|Replaces a single occurrence of something in a list with something else that you specify.
|Replace All
|Replaces all occurrences of 'from list' with those in 'to list' in 'src list'. Not as concise as the replace function above, but will handle multiple items at the same time.
|Given a list of elements, returns a list of only the unique individual elements in that list.
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
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Downstairs bathroom ideas
Sorry I haven't posted an update on here in a long time. After the push of getting things painted and ready for our house blessing party, we took a long break from projects. Aside from when my parents were here and my mom and mother-in-law gardened and my dad cut and primed the quarter round for the living and dining room floor trim, we haven't done much. I think we may finally be coming out of our project hiatus now. Last weekend, Kelly started to caulk the molding in the living room to get ready to add a second coat of paint to a few walls (which we skimped on in order to finish before the party…) and in order to paint the trim. I also got busy on a furniture refinishing project which I had been meaning to do for several months as well. (Before and after pics of that to come in a future blog post.)
I've got a ton of pictures to upload from off of my camera, but my home laptop is poorly at the moment, and I don't want to upload all those pics to my work laptop just to have to transfer them all over to the other one at another time.
Anyway. To the subject of today's post: you may know that we have a downstairs "half" bathroom. Although, it's not really a half bathroom, because basically, it's just a toilet under the stairs. A very cramped little room with barely enough room to turn around in. If someone goes up the stairs when you're in there, it sounds like a herd of buffalo just went up the stairs. But cramped and noisy space aside, it's very nice to have a bathroom on the first floor of our house.
We really would like to put a sink in the bathroom, but it's a really tiny space! So I started looking around online for some small sink solutions. In my hunting, I did find some really cute sinks for small spaces, and some of them were pretty affordable. But since we don't really have a budget for plumbing and construction at this time, I filed them away until we could afford it. Until I found this beauty: Sink Positive.
How cool is this? You replace your tank lid with it and hook it into the existing plumbing line. Then when you flush, the tank refills and sends the water through the tap on top and the gray water from washing your hands fills up the bowl! Kelly was very excited to discover a solution to the sink needs in this bathroom that don't require construction!
Now, I'm still not 100% convinced that it will work for us. The contraption is adjustable to fit several sizes of toilets, and I'm a bit afraid to measure ours, thinking it might be too small (it is a very small toilet…) But I hope to do so soon because if we were able to get ourselves a sink in that bathroom, I'm sure it would inspire me to renovate the rest of the space too.
Renovation ideas: pulling off the paneling and replacing it with beadboard, painting the whole space a crisp white – maybe painting a subtle tone-on-tone stripe on every other slat of exposed planking – putting up a shelf for soap, hanging a towel rack, putting up some kind of natural element curtain (bamboo?) to replace the vinyl shutters and if I can squeeze it in, some kind of a mirror. What do you think?


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A young executive from a brokerage
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How to analyze Postfix mail logs
Do you use Postfix for your mail processing? The Postfix engine will send logging information to the maillog file, typically located in the /var/log directory. Understanding how to read the logs will help if problems ever arise. This process is great for analyzing the mail queues as well as digging for details when mail service isn't working as expected.
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Before understanding the records in the log file, it is important to know that you can configure the amount of information logged. By default, the logging level is set of normal. You can modify the master.cf file to increase the logigng level. Adding -v, -vv, or -vvv to the startup command will increase the logging level to verbose, very verbose, and very very verbose, respectively. If your mail server is heavily used, you won't want to leave these configuration options in place for long without fear of using up enormous amounts of disk space.
There are four daemons, and thus four record formats, you'll find in the file:
The postfix/qmgr records represent messages moving within Postfix's internal queues. If removed is part of the record, the log record contains when a message was removed from the mail queue. The other type of record includes from, size, and nrcpt information, where nrcpt stands for number of recipients.
The postfix/smtp entries record information related to mail delivery. The relay attribute represents if a message was inbound or outbound. A relay value of localhost or 127.0.0.1 means the message was inbound as it identifies the MTA server that received the message. The other important bits of information are the identity of the sender and recipient. The delay field indicates the total amount of time Postfix spent processing the message, whereas delays is the time each daemon spent processing the message. There are four values for delays, in order they represent the smtpd, cleanup, qmgr, and smtp daemons.
Your postfix/smtpd records identify the host or ip address that connected to the SMTP daemon. For outgoing mail, the host specified will be localhost or 127.0.0.1, With inbound mail, it is the connected client.
The final daemon record is for postfix/cleanup. Here you'll just find the identity of the message just processed. 1234567890A represents message id and is also used as the temporary filename while the message is being processed.
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1. Re: Problems Installing JDK 7u2 Windows 64-bit906428 Dec 20, 2011 10:31 AM (in response to 906308)I have exactly the same problem. 7u1 install cleanly. 7u4 preview and 8 preview do not install. Windows XP SP3/x86.
It is also weird that Oracle does not give a .zip installation for windows. But the strangest of all is that jre 7u2 installs without problems.
Using windows sysinternals I see that the package extracts everything in my Documents and setting folders. But after Java FX extraction something happens and it rolls back.
Please add a .zip file for jdk on windows like you do on Linux.
Edited by: 903425 on Dec 20, 2011 2:31 AM
2. Re: Problems Installing JDK 7u2 Windows 64-bit906836 Dec 21, 2011 5:40 PM (in response to 906428)I am having the exact same problem...
I didn't quite understand what you meant by adding the .zip!!
Do you mean, add .zip to the end of the jdk-7u2-windows-x64.exe?
Could you explain please?
Many thanks BenH
3. Re: Problems Installing JDK 7u2 Windows 64-bit906428 Dec 24, 2011 11:50 AM (in response to 906836)Sorry for my phrasing. I would like to have jdk not as an install only but also as a zip file. Just un-zip and ready to go (e.g. configure the path to netbeans). For example Google's go is offered with an installer but also as a .zip file.
4. Re: Problems Installing JDK 7u2 Windows 64-bit908103 Dec 29, 2011 8:46 PM (in response to 906428)Same issue.
I've downloaded jdk-7u2-windows-x64.exe a number of times.
The windows 7 security warning appears asking me if it is OK to run the file.
I click OK and then the window closes and no installation occurs.
I've tried uninstalling the JRE 6 that was on my system and no help.
I also tried installing jre-7u2 for windows 64bit and that didn't change anything either.
I've tried disabling all of my antivirus components (AVG).
I've tried running the program as administrator as well as trying to run from command prompt.
When attempting to run as admin the security warning does not appear but nothing at all happens...
It would be indeed nice if this was available as a ZIP file so we could do a manual install.
Not sure what the issue is, seems if the actual installer has a flaw then there would be a lot more comments than I'm finding out there...
5. Re: Problems Installing JDK 7u2 Windows 64-bit906428 Jan 3, 2012 11:35 AM (in response to 906428)Same problems on another WINXP/SP3 x86 PC.
6. Re: Problems Installing JDK 7u2 Windows 64-bitgimbal2 Jan 3, 2012 12:59 PM (in response to 906428)About the zip: Sun used to do that, but ever since U10 I believe this practice was stopped for whatever reason.
Of course without the installer you'll miss the following:
- browser plugin(s)
- jar content type is not tied to javaw (so executable jars don't run)
- no webstart support (jnlp content type not configured)
- no "default java" (so java.exe is not copied to the system folder)
- no JavaFX runtime (I believe the bundling of JavaFX is what gives people the most problems)
- no automatic updates
Still I'd say that the option should be given to devs to miss all that. I personally don't give a hoot about any of them on my development machine.
I believe Oracle should follow in the footsteps of Adobe. If you can't use the Windows Installer to deliver a reliable installation package (either through personal failure or limitations of the tool), roll your own!
7. Re: Problems Installing JDK 7u2 Windows 64-bit909218 Jan 5, 2012 5:00 PM (in response to 906308)We're having exactly the same problem. The installer works on XP development machines, but not on Windows 2003 SP2 server. 7u1 does work on the server. Anyone have any ideas?
8. Re: Problems Installing JDK 7u2 Windows 64-bit909218 Jan 6, 2012 9:34 AM (in response to 909218)Also tried with the early access release of 7u4 (jdk-7u4-ea-bin-b06-windows-x64-28_dec_2011.exe) and get the same problem.
This seems like an obvious regression. Is it time to submit a bug report?
9. Re: Problems Installing JDK 7u2 Windows 64-bit910495 Jan 11, 2012 10:59 PM (in response to 909218)I am having the same trouble on Win 7 Pro 64 bit with all current updates. I double click or right-click/open or execute the exe from a command prompt and nothing happens. It acts like I didn't even click it. I need to get development started on a new android project so this is very frustrating having this kind of problem just getting my dev machine set up.
Is there any workaround?
10. Re: Problems Installing JDK 7u2 Windows 64-bit912526 Jan 22, 2012 5:27 PM (in response to 906308)The problem of installation of JDK 7u2 on Windows x64 is coming for both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of JDK.... However, i have tried installing them on Windows x86 (specifically Win XP SP3 x86 on VirtualBox 4.1.8) and the 32 bit version of JDK seems to be installing just fine on 32 bit Windows.
I might be wrong here but maybe the problem is that the 32 bit code on the JDK 7u2 may contain some 16bit code and so the Windows x64 is not able to run it (x64 OS not backwards compatible with 16 bit code). However the chances of this is slim since this is an update and the JDK 7u1 both 32 and 64 bit versions were fine.
However if this might have happened, then it is also possible that the 16bit code is also present in the 64 bit version of JDK 7u2 and thats why both the versions are not running on Windows x64.
Hoping they fix the issue soon. I need to do some testing and programming on Java 7.
11. Re: Problems Installing JDK 7u2 Windows 64-bitEJP Jan 22, 2012 7:47 PM (in response to 912526)The 32 bit JVM runs perfectly on a 64 bit OS so all this idle speculation is futile. The part about the 64 bit version not running at all implies that the 64 bit release was entirely untested: a particularly bizarre suggestion.
12. Re: Problems Installing JDK 7u2 Windows 64-bitgimbal2 Jan 23, 2012 9:13 AM (in response to EJP)I believe it is not the actual JDK installation that is failing but the JavaFX runtime installation - since U2 this is bundled with the JDK installer.
The only thing I can say for sure is that the number of people reporting installation failures has risen sharply since U2, mostly the 64 bits version. There is something going on there.
13. Re: Problems Installing JDK 7u2 Windows 64-bitdsh33782 Jan 23, 2012 3:39 PM (in response to gimbal2)I would like to add my name to those reporting failure of J2SE JDK 7u2 both 32 and 64 bit versions. I had no problems with the original version 7 32 and 64 bit JDK. This needs to be fixed, tested on Windows 7 32 and 64 bit systems and released as replacement for 7u2.
Don Higgins
14. Re: Problems Installing JDK 7u2 Windows 64-bit912526 Jan 23, 2012 9:39 PM (in response to 906308)Ok Looks like they have fixed the problem.... installed it recently and properly on my laptop...
Thank you Oracle.


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