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Top Items:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again. — When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase.
Discussion: The Social, Mark Evans, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, Traffick, p2pnet, Valleywag, All Facebook, Data Center Knowledge and F**kedStartups
Caroline McCarthy / The Social: Facebook's financials: Not looking so hot?
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider: Why Is Facebook Burning So Much Cash? They Keep Hiring
Andrew Goodman / Traffick: Is Facebook the Next Geocities?
Owen Thomas / Valleywag: Facebook CFO's excellent Middle East adventure
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook: Facebook is An Expensive Business, Perhaps Too Expensive
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: Facebook: $1 Million A Month in Power Costs
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
What we know and what we don't know about Facebook's finances — Is Facebook desperate for cash because its growth has caused costs to far outpace revenue, as TechCrunch suggests? Not necessarily. Revenue will be in the hundreds of millions, and will greatly exceed the $150 million …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
Eee PC 1000H Runs Windows 7 Well — Here is a confession: I am getting pretty tired of netbooks running Windows XP. So when we got our Windows 7 Beta disc at PDC earlier this week, I couldn't wait to get it running on a netbook. — This morning we loaded Windows 7 Ultimate (Pre-Beta) on an ASUS Eee PC 1000H.
Discussion: Computerworld Blogs, Redmond Pie, jkOnTheRun, CrunchGear, Liliputing, GottaBeMobile.com, Engadget and dailywireless.org
Preston Gralla / Computerworld Blogs: Windows 7: Microsoft's Linux killer?
Imran Hussain / Redmond Pie: I can haz Windows 7 Netbook?
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: Windows 7 on a netbook: looks good so far
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear: Wow, Windows 7 runs really well on an Eee PC 1000H
Warner Crocker / GottaBeMobile.com: Windows 7 on the Asus Eee PC
Sam Churchill / dailywireless.org: Netbooks Run Windows 7
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Sprint, Cogent in Peering Feud - Sprint disconnects from Cogent network, impacting customers — Cogent is no stranger to peering disputes, fighting with Level3 back in 2005 and AOL back in 2002. While most peering arrangements involve carriers trading equal amounts of bandwidth …
Todd Underwood / Renesys Blog:
Wrestling With the Zombie: Sprint Depeers Cogent, Internet Partitioned
Wrestling With the Zombie: Sprint Depeers Cogent, Internet Partitioned
Discussion: Ars Technica, Data Center Knowledge and O'Reilly Radar
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica: Cogent picks peering fight with "zombie" Sprint
Jesse Robbins / O'Reilly Radar: Sprint blocking Cogent network traffic...
PR Newswire:
Sprint-Nextel Severs Its Internet Connection to Cogent Communications
Sprint-Nextel Severs Its Internet Connection to Cogent Communications
Discussion: GigaOM, Data Center Knowledge, Slashdot and Arbor Networks Security
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: Peering Dispute Between Cogent, Sprint
Timothy / Slashdot: Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet
Craig Labovitz / Arbor Networks Security: Trick or Treat: A Halloween Peering Surprise
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Yahoo! Video Streams Surge 56% in September to Claim Second Spot to YouTube which has broken 5 Billion Monthly Videos Serve, Nielsen Online — Video streams on Yahoo! dramatically increased in September to 265 million, up 56 percent from August's 169 million.
Discussion: TechCrunch, CNET News, Epicenter, WebProNews and fierceonlinevideo.com …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Yahoo Does Something Right: Leapfrogs To No. 2 Spot In Web Video
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Nielsen: Yahoo Video Jumps To Near-Lead
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Microsoft parks "I'm a PC" recording booth outside Apple Store — Microsoft Corp., engrossed in multi-million dollar marketing blitz to counter anti-Vista propaganda from rival Apple, Inc., is now using a portion of its budget to fuel guerilla retail tactics near the Mac maker's stores.
Discussion: CNET News, VentureBeat, Gearlog, Gizmodo, MacDailyNews, Pulse 2.0, Redmond Pie, Electronista and Engadget
Tom Krazit / CNET News: Microsoft sets up ad kiosk outside U.K. Apple store
Brian Heater / Gearlog: "I'm a PC" Kiosk Opens in front of Apple Store.
Sean 'Satan Spew' Fallon / Gizmodo: Microsoft Parks "I'm a PC" Recording Kiosks Outside Apple Stores
Imran Hussain / Redmond Pie: I'm a PC, outside an Apple Store!
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Is Google Playing Chicken With the Justice Department? — Are Google and Yahoo thinking of walking of away from their controversial search advertising deal, as reported in an amusingly hedged report in The Wall Street Journal last night? — How's this for covering your bases in a story …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News: Yahoo, Google under pressure to make next move
Jordan Golson / Industry Standard: Yahoo and AOL compare notes on merger, Yahoo and Google quit search deal?
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Why I Believe Google Had No Intention of Partnering with Yahoo
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch: Regulators to Prevent Google from Bailing Out Yahoo?
Nicole Ferraro / Contentinople: News Bits: Terror in Silicon Valley
Heidi N. Moore / Deal Journal: Google and Yahoo: The Trouble with Trusting Frenemies
Joseph Tartakoff / The Microsoft Blog: Google-Yahoo deal might collapse
K.C. Jones / InformationWeek: Google-Yahoo Deal May Be In Jeopardy
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: Yahoo - Google Search Deal Not Looking Too Good
Laura Rich / Portfolio: Google, Yahoo Might Ditch Their Ad Deal
Douglas McIntyre / BloggingStocks: Yahoo and Google may dump their deal
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: Google, Yahoo Prepare To Abandon Paid Search Deal?
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Mission accomplished: Google's ad deal with Yahoo has already worked
Paul Thomasch / MediaFile: Google-Yahoo vs. Department of Justice
Meghan Keane / Epicenter: Google Yahoo Deal Crumbling, Report
Michael Masnick / Techdirt: Google And Yahoo May End Deal; Not Worth An Antitrust Lawsuit
Yahoo, Google May Walk Away from Search Deal: Report
Yahoo, Google May Walk Away from Search Deal: Report
Discussion: InfoWorld, WebProNews and Wall Street Journal
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews: Google, Yahoo Ad Deal Unlikely
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal: Talks Over Google-Yahoo Search Deal Fail to Progress
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Would You Pay $162 a Year for All the Music You Can Eat? — That's the offer, sort of, being made by something called Datz Music Lounge. — The details, from MusicWeek (via Coolfer): You give the company 100 British pounds, and for the next year you can download all the music you want.
Discussion: paidContent, CNET News, hypebot, p2pnet and Coolfer
Greg Sandoval / CNET News: Source: EMI talks to rivals about giving up U.S. distribution
Bruce Houghton / hypebot: Datz Music: Downloader's Dream, Artist's Nightmare
Ben Cardew / Music Week:
Datz launches unlimited download store
Datz launches unlimited download store
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and The Register
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: Datz Music Lounge: Gimmick or the Future of Digital Music?
Andrew Orlowski / The Register: Sainsbury's to sell £99 DRM-free unlimited music
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek expects to ship US$200 Eee PC in 2009, says president — Asustek Computer has announced consolidated revenues of NT$78.26 billion (US$2.39 billion) for the third quarter this year, while net profit after tax was NT$6.38 billion, an increase of 13% on quarter, but a drop of 14.2% on year.
Discussion: Gadget Lab, CrunchGear, LAPTOP Magazine, Liliputing, CostPerNews, The Tech Report, TechSpot, I4U News, jkOnTheRun, Maximum PC all, CloudAve, GottaBeMobile.com and Gizmodo
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab: Asus Plans a $200 Eee PC for 2009
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear: Want a $200 Eee PC? You only have to wait till next year
K. T. Bradford / LAPTOP Magazine: ASUS 3rd Quarter Numbers Revealed and Yet Another Promise of a $200 Eee PC
Brad / Liliputing: $200 Eee PC coming in 2009
Sam Harrelson / CostPerNews: Cheap eee's Coming But Get A 7″ While You Can
Cyril Kowaliski / The Tech Report: Asus prepares $200 Eee PCs for next year
Jose Vilches / TechSpot: Asus to sell $200 Eee PC in 2009?
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Asus expects $200 Eee PC Netbook in 2009
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: Asus plans a $200 Eee PC in 2009
Paul Lilly / Maximum PC all: Rumor: Asus to Ship a $200 Eee PC in 2009?
Zoli Erdos / CloudAve: Netbook or Notebook? It's Not Only About Size.
Warner Crocker / GottaBeMobile.com: Asus Aiming for $200 Netbook in 2009
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo: Ooohhhh: $200 Eee PCs Next Year?
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
BlackBerry Curve 8900 First Impressions (Kills the Original) — RIM excels at many things, but keeping secrets ain't one of 'em, so we'd eyeballed the BlackBerry Curve 8900 (nee Javelin) quite a bit before this AT&T-branded one dropped in our laps. It's a Bolder version of the current Curve …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report: BlackBerry Curve 8900 hands on
Dave Rosenberg / Negative Approach: How Blackberry can beat iPhone: stop giving the cool phones to AT&T first
Simon Sage / IntoMobile: More BlackBerry 8900 hands-on pictures
Joey Sanders / BlackBerryNews.com: AT&T begins field testing the 8900 Curve (Javelin)
Ronen Halevy / BerryReview.com: Gizmodo Gets Hands On With AT&T Curve/Javelin 8900
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs: Gizmodo Reviews the AT&T BlackBerry Curve 8900!
Sam Mcloughln / PalmAddicts: Gizmodo gets it's hands on the Blackberry Curve 8900
Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast:
One Sinowal Trojan + One Gang = Hundreds of Thousands of Compromised Accounts — The RSA FraudAction Research Lab would like to share its startling findings based on its tracking and research of the Sinowal Trojan, also known as Torpig and Mebroot. Our findings based on the data we have collected …
Discussion: The Register, CircleID, Washington Post and SC Magazine US
Brian Krebs / Washington Post: Virtual Heist Nets 500,000+ Bank, Credit Accounts
Angela Moscaritolo / SC Magazine US: Sinowal data-stealing trojan has infected half million PCs
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Trojan virus steals bank info
Trojan virus steals bank info
Discussion: MacDailyNews
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft faces uncertain financial future as it looks to the cloud — LOS ANGELES — The Ray Ozzie Era at Microsoft has begun. — The man who assumed Bill Gates' role of chief software architect unveiled a new blueprint for the company here this week, detailing plans …
Discussion: TechFlash
Jack Schofield / Guardian:
Microsoft's Azure is not Hailstorm, but what's the point of it?
Microsoft's Azure is not Hailstorm, but what's the point of it?
Discussion: Jon Udell, Rough Type, InfoWorld and Data Center Strategies
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft's other new platform: Live Framework — LOS ANGELES—While it was Windows Azure that got much of the attention, Microsoft also released another important platform at this week's Professional Developers Conference. — Microsoft's Live Framework is essentially the developer piece of Live Mesh.
Discussion: TechCrunchIT
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT: Microsoft's Treadwell and Bryant: Mesh and Office on Azure
Live Mesh:
Update on installation of Live Mesh for Mobile - FIXED!
Update on installation of Live Mesh for Mobile - FIXED!
Discussion: Channel 10, jkOnTheRun and wmpoweruser.com
Sarahintampa / Channel 10: A Big Day For Live Mesh: Here's What's New
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: Live Mesh for Mobile: available on limited basis in U.S., U.K.
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft's Mac unit gets new boss — Microsoft said Friday that it is changing the leadership of its Macintosh Business Unit, the group responsible for Office for Mac. — Eric Wilfrid, a product unit manager in the division, will succeed Craig Eisler, who is moving to a role elsewhere …
Discussion: The Microsoft Blog
Joseph Tartakoff / The Microsoft Blog: New GM for Microsoft's Macintosh unit
Tesla sees new financing, founder offers support — Tesla Motors Inc expects to close a financing round of over $20 million from existing investors as soon as next week to bolster a cash balance now at $9 million, said Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of the electric car start-up.
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider: Tesla Motors Getting Some Cash
Martin LaMonica / CNET News: Tesla Motors seeks cash to keep moving forward
Chris Morrison / VentureBeat: Electric car maker Tesla low on cash, but won't go bust (yet)
Katie Fehrenbacher / Earth2Tech: Cash Strapped Tesla Looks To Raise $20M Internal Round
Michael W. Jones / TECH.BLORGE.com: Tesla Motors seeks cash infusion
Chris Douvos / PE Hub News: Tesla Nears New Funding
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
The New Xbox Experience with Netflix — Netflix Week continues (and we're not even done yet)... This morning, the New Xbox Experience (NXE) was delivered to my console. After quickly creating a non-representative (i.e. slender) avatar, I jumped right into Netflix.
Discussion: VentureBeat, Hacking NetFlix, Engadget and CrunchGear
MG Siegler / VentureBeat: Video: Netflix on the Xbox 360 looks slick
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Economists Realizing That Current Music Industry Structure Leads To 'Sub-Optimal Outcomes' — from the you-noticed? dept — The music collection society MCPS PRS in the UK apparently had three economists coming from different viewpoints work together on a paper concerning the economics of the music industry on the internet today.
Discussion: The Register
Andrew Orlowski / The Register: A new economics of P2P file sharing
Glenn Fleishman / Ars Technica:
WiFi thermostat puts power (and cooling) at your fingertips — In an age where we can put WiFi into a plastic bunny that wiggles its ears in response to commands over the Internet, why not stick the same wireless networking into a thermostat that allows remote monitoring and schedule changes?
Discussion: Venture Chronicles and The Pondering Primate
Scott P. Shaffer / The Pondering Primate: WiFi Thermostats Eliminate Need For Smart Grid
Peter Bright / One Microsoft Way:
Ars@PDC: Windows 7 Libraries under the microscope — After using the PDC Windows 7 build for a few days now, one feature I have already grown to appreciate is Libraries. The Libraries provide a view of the filesystem that is tailored to specific content types.
Discussion: Computerworld Blogs and Ars Technica
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Experimental Monkeys Now Available — We often talk about the growing number of interesting SearchMonkey applications that have been built by developers. Many of the applications live in the Yahoo! Search Gallery, but quite a few aren't accepted for various reasons.
Discussion: Search Engine Watch and WebProNews
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch: SearchMonkey Allows Apps to Go Experimental
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Yahoo Creates Experimental Status For SearchMonkey Apps
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Is There Still A Big Loophole For Software And Business Method Patents? — I've been talking to plenty of people (mostly lawyers) about the Bilski ruling on software and business method patents while also having more time to reread the discussion in detail, and I'm going to backtrack on my original assessment.
Discussion: eWeek, The Prior Art and Computerworld Blogs
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
No Opera Mini for the iPhone — It seems that the engineers at Opera developed a version of Opera Mini that would run on the iPhone (and the iPod touch), but this browser will never see light of day because Apple rejected it from the App Store. … Well that sucks.
Discussion: Scripting News, Infinite Loop, Unwired View, Pulse 2.0 and Gizmodo
Dave Winer / Scripting News: Apple's web — Yesterday I read that Apple rejected the Opera browser for the iPhone.
Erica Sadun / Infinite Loop: Apple says "no" to iPhone Opera Browser
David Gonzales / Unwired View: Opera Mini for iPhone rejected by Apple from App Store
Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0: Apple Rejects Opera Browser From iPhone
Martin 'Ichabod' Crane / Gizmodo: Opera for iPhone Ready To Go, If Not For Apple's App Store Policies


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Calendar: Galas galore in Denver on Saturday night
What's happening in Denver on Saturday? Plenty.
In previous blogs we've talked about Denver Health's $500-a-ticket NightShine Gala starring Earth, Wind & Fire, and the Colorado Symphony Ball that Walt DeHaven and Wendy Aiello are chairing at the Sheraton Denver Downtown.
Here are a few others to consider:
TOTALLY TENNYSON: This 1980s-themed pub crawl begins at 4 p.m. on Tennyson Street, between W. 38th and W. 46th avenues in Denver's Berkeley neighborhood, and offers participants "tastes of everything Tennyson Street has to offer, including food, drink, merchandise, discounts, live music and fun and games along the way." Tickets are $25; $30 if purchased the day of.
The volunteers who are organizing Totally Tennyson II: The Return of Pac Man say the goal is to bring 2,000 people to Tennyson Street and raise $36,000 for 12 schools in the area: Academia Ana Marie Sandoval, Brown International Academy, Bryant-Webster, Centennial, Cheltenham, Colfax, Edison, Escuela Tlatelolco, North High, Skinner Middle, Trevista at Horace Mann, and Valdez.
Approximately 30 Tennyson Street businesses are participating, including Parisi Restaurant and Empanada Grill. The final stop is a 10 p.m. after-party at the Oriental Theater that will feature a costume contest and concert by The Cure tribute band, The Cured.
Learn more by visiting www.TotallyTennyson.com
AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE: The Denver Urban Spectrum celebrates its 25th anniversary by hosting a four-day celebration of people of color, culminating with a black-tie awards dinner on Saturday that honors 25 Timeless Legends.
The honorees include Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves; the Little Rock Nine's Carlotta LaNier; former Denver City Council president and 2008 Democratic National Convention chair Elbra Wedgeworth; internationally-known choreographer Cleo Parker Robinson; and Wilma Webb, a former state legislator who also was first lady of Denver.
Attorney Terrance Carroll, a former Speaker of the State House of Representatives, will serve as master of ceremonies for the gala. Mayor Michael Hancock and first lady Mary Louise Lee are the honorary chairs; entertainment will be provided by The Julius Show and sculptor Ed Dwight has been commissioned to design the awards presented to the honorees.
For details, call 303-292-6446.
CSU GREEN & GOLD GALA: Four hundred Colorado State University alumni are expected to gather at the Marriott City Center on Saturday for the CSU Green & Gold Gala. The event is a benefit for the Metro Denver Scholarship that is given annually to CSU upperclassmen from the metro Denver area who demonstrate financial need.
Recipients Kevin Fleming, a senior majoring in sociology, and Kimberly Worth, a junior majoring in business administration will speak at the gala about the impact the scholarship has had on their education.
9News sports anchor Susie Wargin, a 1992 CSU graduate, will emcee the event that also features music by the Cheza Quartet, a professional group of CSU alumni and student musicians, and the Nacho Men, who played at the first Green & Gold Gala.
Artist Brian Olsen from the Class of 1997 will use his Brian Olsen's Art In Action, a colorful display of paint, energy, music and passion that incorporates fingertips, palms, elbows and up to three brushes in each hand, to paint a picture of CSU's mascot, CAM the Ram.
Tickets are $95 and $110 and can be purchased online or by calling 1-877-498-7787.
WILD FOR A CURE: The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation invites its friends to don their jungle best and head to the Hyatt Regency Convention Center on Saturday for a night of dinner and dancing to the music of Funkiphino.
Rose and Tom Robeson are chairing this annual dinner-dance and say they hope to raise $650,000 for research, education and patient services. Fox-31 news anchor Libby Weaver will be the mistress of ceremonies and the Terry Gallagher family will be honored.
For tickets, call 303-770-2873.
Joanne Davidson: 303-809-1314, firstname.lastname@example.com and @GetItWrite

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The day before Israeli Independence Day, the TV stations in Israel screen the name of every soldier who has fallen for the country. A name flashes on the screen for a second or two, then the next name appears. You go to bed, you get up, the names are still flashing. It takes 24 hours. That's how they observe Memorial Day.
Leo McGarry (John Spencer) – The West Wing s05e22
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RIP uncle Private First Class Moshe Wiskowski (1950-1969).
We'll see you again, next year…


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Northern Maine man goes on trial in death of woman who disappeared in 1998
HOULTON, Maine (AP) � A 76-year-old northern Maine pawn shop owner is going on trial for murder for allegedly killing a woman in 1998 whose body has never been found.
George Jaime (JAY'-mee) Sr. of Presque Isle goes on trial Tuesday in Houlton in the death of 38-year-old Starlett "Star" Vining, who was in a relationship with Jaime when she was last seen. Jury selection was last week.
Jaime's been held without bail since his arrest last year.
Police say Vining worked at a grocery store in Presque Isle in October 1998 when she simply stopped coming to work, not even to pick up her paycheck. Family members didn't officially report her as missing until 2006, saying she was known to often relocate and sometimes be out of touch for years at a time.


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Not on Exhibit
Animal Facts
Scientific Name
Sepia pharaonis
Animal Type
small shrimps, fish and crabs
to 18 inches (50 cm) including tentacles. Males are usually larger than females.
octopuses, squid, other cuttlefish; Class: Cephalopoda; Order: Sepioida; Family: Sepiidae
Natural History
Pharaoh cuttlefish are cephalopods related to cuttlefish, squid, octopus and chambered nautilus. They have eight short arms and two long tentacles that are usually tucked neatly into their arms. The tentacles are deployed to catch prey. The cuttlefish's flat body allows it to live and hover near the ocean bottom where it finds its favorite food. An outer shell once covered the cuttlefish's body but has since evolved into a porous internal shell called a cuttlebone. The cuttlefish varies its buoyancy by varying the amount gas and liquid held in the holes of the shell.
A cuttlefish moves by undulating a delicate fringe that runs along its entire body, but for a quick getaway it expels a forceful stream of water through its siphon. When threatened, cuttlefish can produce a covering cloud of ink called sepia. Long ago, this dark-brown ink was used for writing and drawing.
Sharks, rays, dolphins sea birds and larger fish prey on cuttlefish. As with other sea life, overfishing and pollution are serious threats.
Cool Facts
Males fight for choice mating dens. Most fights end without major injuries. After the males win their territory, female cuttlefish appear at the dens and mate with resident males. Fertilization is internal. Face to face the cuttlefish embrace and the male uses a special arm to transfer a sperm packet into the female's mantle cavity. After mating, the female retreats deep within the den where she lays her eggs one at a time. She coats the eggs with a protective sheath and carefully cements them to the roof of the den. She leaves the eggs unattended to develop and to hatch on their own. The female dies shortly thereafter.
Like their fellow cephalopods, pharaoh cuttlefish are master color changers. Known for their bright coloration and iridescent blue bands that run along the fringe of their mantle, they can rapidly change to ornate colors including metallic blues, greens golds and silvers. They also create skin patterns such as stripes, and spots. Cuttlefish and other cephalopods use color to communicate warnings, mood changes, courtship displays or for camouflage.
Cuttlebone is composed of calcium. This calcareous cuttlebone is often fed to birds to whet their beaks or as calcium supplements.


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WHEN Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima received its first body in 1808, the best plots went to the elite, unless the noble had been dishonored or disgraced.
Thus were the Marquis Torre Tagle and his wife relegated to niches in a wall of crypts.
He had attempted to betray independence leader Simon Bolivar and died of scurvy after living on rats for 13 months in a military fort near the Pacific Ocean.
Visitors to the 54-acre cemetery just 20 blocks from Lima's presidential palace, one of Latin America's oldest, are treated to such tales in a three-hour, nighttime guided tour run by its owner, Beneficiencia de Lima, a charity administered by the city.
''There have been 220,000 burials since the 19th century. Are there tormented souls?'' asks tour guide Guben Chaparro.
''Yes, there are souls, above all at night.''
Some visitors shudder. They turn the lights of their cellphones on a parade of tombs, crosses and statues of angels.
''I want to get a fright, listen to stories and walk without light,'' says Julia Lopez, a 33-year-old store clerk who came with friends for the weekly walk.
As visitors enter, the grim reaper - OK, an actress in a costume - stands cloaked and holding a scythe at the entrance. Photos are snapped.
Guides then tell Peru's history through the tombs of presidents, prelates, poets, potentates and war heroes.
There are also tombs of popular saints the Vatican doesn't recognise.
The most popular is Ricardo Espiell, a child who died 119 years ago at age six after supposedly performing miracles. Devotees hang neckties around his white marble statue.
''Women wash the child's statue with shampoo and brushes. They bring flowers, gifts, notes. They perfume it and give thanks,'' says Chaparro.
The cemetery, created by one of the last Spanish viceroys, was established outside the walls of old Lima.
It has a special wall of niches for the obese, another wall for people who have taken their own lives.
In one niche, a poet was buried feet first, at his own request.
The press director for the cemetery, Yvette Sierra, says more than 10,000 people have taken the tour in the decade it's been offered. It is only offered in Spanish.
There are no more burials anymore, unless a family owns a mausoleum.
The relative peace of the place can make it eerie, but also contemplative.
''The fear you can feel at the start goes away,'' said visitor Rafael Vargas, ''and you are left thinking, philosophizing about what your life will be after death.''
For details see www.sblm.gob.pe
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Upload Your Photos in an Instant with Kflickr
Uploading pictures to Flickr via its Web-based interface can be a hassle, particularly if you have dozens of shots to upload. Linux users have a better choice, though, in the form of Kflickr, a simple application for uploading shots to Flickr that will have your family photos online in no time.
Why not integrate with digikam?
Why not integrate such apps with digikam? It makes sense to have the user download his photographs and then upload it using the same software and interface.
By Amit at Wed, 2007/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why not integrate with digikam?
If you read the article, you'll see they mention that digiKam already includes this functionality :-)
By Antonio at Wed, 2007/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why not integrate with digikam?
Doesn't work, though. Gives eternal invalid token errors, and there seems to be no workaround I could find. So I use send2kflickr instead.
No, I did not file a bug report because I just found out about it (I had never imagined this would be under File->Export :-)
By Roberto Alsina at Wed, 2007/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why not integrate with digikam?
The digikam "export to flickr" plugin works fine for me. I've had situations where it was not loaded at startup a few times and had to restart digikam but apart from that, it's working fine here. It would be nice to know why it does not work for you.
PS: there is a cosmetic but annoying problem with the "flickr export" being in the background though.
By JP Renaud at Wed, 2007/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why not integrate with digikam?
Honestly? No idea. Tells me my token is invalid, sends me to the page, it's authorized, I click ok, then back to "the token is invalid".
I can't find where the token is supposed to be stored, so no clue as to how to cjeck the token.
By Roberto Alsina at Wed, 2007/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why not integrate with digikam?
Its a problem with your kipi-plugins package. The older version has some problems. Just update it and you'll be all set.
By Sarath at Thu, 2007/06/07 - 5:00am
Re: Why not integrate with digikam?
The digikam flickr plugin is as basic as it gets. Kflickr is much more convenient, especially for large batches where you want to name and tag all the photos.
By Guillaume Laurent at Wed, 2007/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why not integrate with digikam?
It is!! KFlickr is implemented as a KPart allowing this to happen. It is known as Send2KFlickr. There are limitations which I would love to get around, mostly the ability to pass tags from digikam to kflickr. The limitations are due to the plugin structure provided by digikam. With some collaboration with the digikam folks this can be addressed, however, having just had a second child I just don't have time to do this at the moment.
By TundraMan at Fri, 2007/06/08 - 5:00am
Re: Why not integrate with digikam?
Congratulations !
By physos at Sat, 2007/06/09 - 5:00am
PicasaWeb ?
Is there a similar KDE solution for PicasaWeb ?
By François at Wed, 2007/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: PicasaWeb ?
F-Spot works perfectly for me... I guess you should file a bug on why it doesn't work for you. And digiKam should just re-use the F-Spot backend code for the picasaWeb uploeding!! :)
By Guga at Wed, 2007/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: PicasaWeb ?
I did a small script in python it is very very ugly but at least it works. Feel free to improve it...
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[Desktop Action uplarge]
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By Andrea Rizzi at Wed, 2007/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: PicasaWeb ?
PicasaWeb has API now. Flock is working on integrating this in same way as Flickr ( http://erwan.jp/2007/05/16/flock-photo-interfaces/ ). So it is possible.
By Dolphin-fanatic :) at Thu, 2007/06/07 - 5:00am
photo album ripper
I'd love an application that does the reverse; rips pictures from an album in various web album sites. Often I and some friends go on a trip, agreeing to share the pictures we take afterwards. But then they put theirs on a web album where they will only live for a short while, since you pay for the storage space and they will want to put up new pictures after some time. My generous offer to use the various means to upload to my Gallery server (I even offer FTP and SFTP) are met with blank stares.
Is anyone aware of such an application? Or what would be the best framework for writing this? It would require a semi-smart crawler to navigate the different pages of an album, go to the highest resolution version of each picture and download that. If I get a choice of language, it would be Ruby. Integration into Digikam comes next, I suppose.
By Martin at Wed, 2007/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: photo album ripper
right tool for the job; use wget ;)
By Thomas Zander at Thu, 2007/06/07 - 5:00am
Re: photo album ripper
It seems that you are joking... Of course the problem is not to download the page, but to parse the HTML and crawl. Oh -- and in many cases, I will have to log on to the site (and accept the resulting cookie) before being able to access an album that was shared by a friend. So starting from some web robot toolkit would be the way to go.
Any such toolkit that you could recommend?
By Martin at Thu, 2007/06/07 - 5:00am
Re: photo album ripper
Ahem. I'll repeat his decidedly non-joking recommendation. Try wget. Read the documentation. You might be surprised, but it can do exactly what you're talking about, including intelligently parse and crawl html. It will fetch but not parse css and javascript (unless it's been added since last I checked).
By Evan "JabberWok... at Fri, 2007/06/08 - 5:00am
Re: photo album ripper
I see. I was vaguely aware that wget had some power built into it, but it seems that it had a bit more than I knew of.
Also, please understand that it is decidedly hard to parse both the mood and the technical content from a comment that contains seven words + a smiley :-)
By Martin at Fri, 2007/06/08 - 5:00am
Re: photo album ripper
Python + BeautifulSoup
By Mitchell Mebane at Sun, 2007/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: photo album ripper
Check out Box.net. It's free. Your friends upload pictures there and invite you to share or even download the pictures you want from the share folder. You do the same and everyone is happy. Hope this works until an album ripper comes along. GerryB
By GerryB at Sun, 2007/06/10 - 5:00am
KOffice 1.6.3
Found it in openSUSE backports.
Am I the only one wondering why it didn't make it on to the frontpage of KDE?
By Gerry at Sat, 2007/06/09 - 5:00am
PicasaWeb exporter for Linux
Hi guys,
Incidently I am responsible for the complaints to flickr plugin :) I have recently applied a fix to make it work better than it did currently as far as token handling was concerned.
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Sometimes it's difficult to find a good out-of-the-box network-attached storage (NAS) clustering solution. That's the situation that Todd Moore from Dynamic Graphics Group found himself in. "We needed a cluster of NAS servers that could share with CIFS, NFS and HTTP, provide both availability and scalability and would integrate with our legacy applications," says Moore. He wasn't satisfied with available out-of-the-box products, so his team rolled their own, leveraging PolyServe's Matrix Server, a SAN file system.
Dynamic Graphics' solution consists of a four-node Linux cluster sharing 11TB of StorageTek storage area network (SAN) storage with Matrix Server. Two nodes act as NAS servers using open-source Samba software, while another serves a legacy application. The last is a dedicated backup and administration host. Matrix Server allows applications on all four hosts to see the same storage at the same time--at SAN speeds--and share it with a variety of protocols.
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SAN file systems, on the other hand, allow multiple SAN-attached servers to read and write to the same file system on the same LUNs. In other words, every server "sees" the storage and the file system on top of it as its own, and reads and writes are arbitrated by the SAN file system software, functioning as a traffic cop for storage blocks. The benefits are different, mainly in terms of performance and scalability of individual applications. Most SAN file systems serve a clustered application like Oracle 9i RAC, allowing all cluster members to access the same data at the same time over high-performance Fibre Channel (FC).
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The proliferation of NAS systems leads to the proliferation of mount points. In other words, if each file server has four shares, and each NAS filer has four more and there is four of each type, then there are 32 independent mountable entities on the network. The problem grows if you need to add another NAS server because you would have to make sure everyone was mounting the new share in addition to the old one. Many Windows environments have run out of drive letters because Windows only supports 24 shares. Although Windows 2000 and above allows shares to be mounted without drive letters, users are so accustomed to referring to "the N drive" that they start getting confused by other mounting methods.
Unix environments have turned to the automount daemon, a network service that allows an administrator to push out a map of network shares and their mount points. This lets Unix users adapt to an ever-changing landscape of network shares, but puts even more burden on administrators to keep everything in order.
Another problem related to NAS is that systems are so easy to set up that users think they are also easy to manage. Many businesses have NAS boxes that are owned and managed by user departments, rather than central IT. These boxes tend to be huge, unmanaged repositories of random files, seldom backed up and constantly out of space.
Aggregating NAS
There are two key solutions for NAS aggregation: First, some aggregation products offer a global namespace--consolidating all files into a single huge tree. And second, some offer clustering.
The scalability solution is attained by breaking the hard link between the file's network name and its actual location. For instance, NetApp's SpinServer allows files and whole directory trees to be moved between nodes in the background, even while clients are actively accessing them. This allows a SpinServer cluster to be scaled seamlessly to add new storage and redistribute current storage with no availability outages. By contrast, OnStor Inc.'s SAN Filer creates a number of virtual NAS servers containing all of the shares on the network.
If files and directories are no longer linked to their actual "homes," a single large virtual tree of directories can be created and maintained. Global namespaces combine independent file servers into a single virtual one. Even if users don't need a single namespace (see "Roll Your Own NAS cluster"), a virtual namespace can still allow scalability and availability. Most importantly, it allows the NAS directory tree to look how you want it to look, whether that means a single corporate tree or a number of departmental ones.
Global namespace
Global namespace is a type of meta-directory of NAS namespaces that allows storage administrators to automatically move and manage data across heterogeneous NAS environments as if they were a single filer.
An interesting global namespace product is NuView Inc.'s StorageX. It manipulates the Windows Active Directory to make any CIFS-based NAS servers--including Windows servers, NetApp Filers and anything else--appear to be a single tree. NAS clients just see a single huge NAS server, and can mount any part of the combined directory tree.
StorageX is software that leverages the Windows DFS technology, which is analogous to DNS for IP addressing. When a Windows host requests access to a file, StorageX transparently redirects the request to the NAS system that hosts the directory containing the file. For this reason, StorageX currently works only for Windows clients, but NuView promises an NFS implementation around September of this year. However, the NFS version might require a remount when the network address of the NAS system changes. And even some Windows applications, including Microsoft Exchange (the ever-present monster of the data center), can't handle the retries needed when the storage topology changes, so it requires a remount as well.
Another product in the global namespace party is Z-force's ZX-1000 File Switch. Rather than leveraging network services or building their own NAS filer, Z-force offers a file switch that sits between NAS clients and servers. The box combines the NAS resources behind them into a single namespace, enabling high availability and flexibility. Z-force File Switches can be installed in groups, allowing their performance to scale with user demands. These systems, too, are Windows only.
Not every global namespace exists outside the NAS filer, though. NetApp's SpinServer implements the namespace within a cluster of NAS servers so it can support any protocol, and client retries are not required. But a complete "forklift upgrade" of the NAS environment isn't desirable, so NetApp also re-sells NuView's StorageX, calling it Virtual File Manager (VFM).
But do you really want a global namespace? "Some customers want to see everything as a single tree, and others don't," says NetApp product manager Ravi Parthasarathy. So these products also allow the global namespace to be split into a few smaller ones while preserving the benefits of virtualization.
"Once you have a virtual namespace, you can implement policy-based intelligence," says NuView founder Rahul Mehta. "For example, in the event of a disaster, your remote offices can be redirected to NAS server A in the data center, while your corporate users would be redirected to NAS server B." But make sure your solution supports locking of open files; without locking, two clients at different sites could try to write to the same file at the same time, leading to data corruption.
|Comparing NAS products
|Clustered file system options
The key difference between the two clustered file system options (NAS aggregation and SAN file systems) is the location of the cluster and the file system. NAS aggregation clusters NAS servers, while SAN file systems cluster host servers.
Clustered NAS
Small NAS filers have another glaring fault--single points of failure. The availability problem has long been met by clustered NAS systems like EMC's Celerra. This system breaks the link between an IP address and the "data movers" that serve client requests. Celerra acts like a traditional NAS system in most respects, but its ability to fail over one data mover to another in the event of a failure brought it credibility in the enterprise. Today, most NAS makers, including BlueArc Corp.,
NetApp, OnStor and others offer similar clustering abilities for high availability.
BlueArc's Titan NAS server is the standard-bearer for monolithic NAS. Rather than clustering small NAS arrays with a single namespace, BlueArc seeks to scale a single box to handle all of an enterprise's NAS needs, though it does include an internal cluster for high availability. "It will always be easier to manage one array than many small ones," contends Geoff Barrall, BlueArc's CTO.
By contrast, OnStor's SAN Filer is an integrated hardware and software platform that consolidates file services on open SAN storage.
Jon Toor, director of marketing for OnStor, notes that "workloads tend to be concentrated on a few cluster members." So OnStor's Filer uses virtual NAS servers that can be shifted to other physical filers on the fly to balance the load. All of the state information for each virtual filer is stored on the SAN disk, so the physical filers can be added and removed at will. Although this approach is likely to lead to a proliferation of virtual NAS servers and shares, it scales extremely well in terms of performance and availability. For a company that needs extremely high availability and wants to leverage SAN storage, but doesn't need a single client-side view of NAS shares, OnStor's SAN Filer is compelling.
Nearly all recent NetApp filers support clustered failover; however NetApp's SpinServer provides more than basic clustering. Although SpinServer is currently targeted at high-performance Linux clusters, SpinServer can also support general business needs. SpinServer shares files with traditional protocols like NFS and CIFS, and the entire cluster appears as a single system to both clients and managers.
What to choose?
Most NAS filers today offer high availability with failover pairs. But the ability to scale an environment requires much more than this. Considerations include scalability demands, dispersed storage and the difficulty of managing a multitude of files, shares and servers.
Almost all solutions can scale, both in terms of performance and capacity, with the addition of more hardware. But not all can seamlessly integrate this new equipment into the existing environment. This is the key challenge for products that do not offer a virtual namespace--new hardware appears as new network shares and users must change their behavior to use it.
To avoid this problem, consider a global namespace product such as NuView's StorageX or Z-force's File Switch; but remember, these are Windows only. The only way to implement a cross-platform global namespace is to replace your NAS infrastructure with, for example, NetApp's SpinServer or Panasas' ActiveScale. If Oracle 10 on a Linux cluster is in your future, then the NetApp and Panasas solutions should be on your short list.
Many of these solutions may simplify your users' view of storage, but they won't necessarily make your life easier. The router-style solutions from NuView and Z-force still require management of the underlying storage infrastructure. And the integrated solutions from BlueArc, NetApp, OnStor and Panasas are entirely new storage architectures with their own learning curve. Once you have mastered these technologies, though, management should be simple since they are all controlled through a single application.
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A reader recently wrote and asked if I would please share some ideas and inspiration on how to decorate a round coffee table.
There are no set of rules as to what is a right or wrong way to decorate. Many times it only requires patience and plenty of trial and error to get it right. As with any other decorating rule to make a space inviting and beautiful, always take the rest of the room into consideration as well as the size of your table. For example, if you are working with a small coffee table:
You would not want to overwhelm the top with too large or too tall of an accessory that would throw off the balance. And the opposite holds true for decorating a large round coffee table- keep your accessories on the larger size. But the most important key in decorating your table is that you like the look.
Everyone has different tastes and styles (thank goodness!). Someone might love one decorated tabletop when another person will think it is not so great. Who cares?
Here is my coffee table right now:
But it can easily be changed. Start with a clean, empty tabletop. Then I begin with my tall item first(be sure it does not block view of tv):
And I always like to use a couple books to add height and dimension to the arrangement:
Then I start to add accessories with different heights and interest:
And then I always add an accessory that I love and that means something to me, (mine is a favorite bird I picked up from a vacation in Cabo, Mexico) :
That's it! I love the finished look and that is what is most important!
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I love to see trays being used to decorate tabletops:
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Addicted To Love
9 comments:
- Cal said...
So cool!!! I wish I could see you better but that's just SO rad! How long have you danced?
I can't wait to visit your city! =)
- May 04, 2011
- Molly said...
Well my Mom and sister both danced when I was too young to take classes so they say I danced in the aisles of their performances. I officially started when I was 4 and went all the way through until about 27. I didn't dance for the last few years, but I'm back at it now that I'm up in Seattle again.
- May 04, 2011
- Marthaamay O_o said...
Really great use of the lights! And then you left your shoes!! It's very striking as a visual piece and I love the swaying movements! Never heard this version by Florence before either.
- May 04, 2011
- Heather Marie said...
I love everything about this! The lighting is awesome! Makes me miss dancing so much. Great job!
- May 05, 2011
- kelly ann said...
This made me SMILE! Florence Welch is one of my heroes, and I was a dancer for most of my life. I still consider myself one, but I haven't actually danced in shows in quite a long time. Watching videos like this makes me want to get back to that... it's SO fun. :)
- May 07, 2011
- sbort said...
this dance was FANTASTIC and what great lights and fantastic video quality!!! i love this version as well, but the original is by ROBERT palmer... arnold palmer is a golfer. i just about died laughing... THIS WAS GREAT! <3
- May 09, 2011
- Molly said...
@sbort haha! I've said Arnold Palmer a few times now in the last couple of months knowing full well it's Robert! Can't believe I didn't catch it in my post though! Whoops - I guess the delicious ice tea and lemonade drink that was named after him is always top of mind ;)
- May 10, 2011
- *Trisha* said...
Wow. This was really good (: I liked the lighting choice for the set and how the contrasts between dark and light flowed into the dancers too. And you whipped this out in a couple hours?! That's pretty awesome :D
- May 18, 2011
It´s so so so cool
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As much as I love America, there is one thing food-wise, that I haven't gotten used to in almost twenty years: salad dressings! Besides the fact that most store-bought dressings include a lot of processed ingredients, I find that most of these concoctions (even when home-made) combine so many different flavors that they hide, rather than enhance, that of the salad itself. Another issue is texture: most dressings are so thick that, rather than enveloping the leaves, they sit on them. In Italy, we dress salads very simply with oil and vinegar, or oil and lemon,and in some cases just oil and salt, in a similar way to the French. The proportions are simple: one part of vinegar or lemon to 4 of oil for a milder dressing, or one part of vinegar or lemon to 3 parts of oil (and some salt) if you like tart flavors. Most Italians don't actually measure, but you should calculate about 1 1/2 to 2 tablespoons oil per person, or just 1 if you are on a diet. Skipping oil altogether and going fat-free is not as healthy as it sounds, because some of the vitamins in vegetables are lipo-soluble and can only be absorbed when accompanied by a fat. Choosea nice extra-virgin olive oil, and not the cheaper, "light" varieties. As for vinegar, balsamic is very popular these days, but its complex flavor works only with very flavorful vegetables and can be overpowering on simpler types of lettuce. Simple white or red wine vinegar is much more versatile, as is lemon juice. Other great options are apple cider vinegar, and rice vinegar. I must confess that most of us don't even bother to blend the ingredients for our everyday meal. Right before eating the salad, we just sprinkle with salt, and pour some oil and then vinegar straight from their bottles. But this is not necessarily the best method, and you should blend the ingredients first for a better result.Everybody knows that vinegar and oil do not emulsify well and tend to separate. The best way to combine them, reducing them into micro-droplets, is in a blender. Honestly, I only do this if I have guests. For everyday, I just put the salt in a stainless or glass bowl, add the vinegar or lemon (do not add the salt after the oil, or it won't dissolve), and combine well with a whisk or simply a fork. Gradually add the oil, whisking well, and use immediately to dress a salad. The ingredients should be at room temperature, and never cold, or they won't blend well. Remember that you should never dress salads in advance, except for very "resistant" vegetables such as cucumber or radicchio – delicate salad leaves tend to react to vinaigrette and wither. Sometimes, when I want my salad to be really special, or if I need to plate it for a picture, I add a touch of honey to the dressing: honey stabilizes the emulsion for a long time, so that the oil and vinegar will not separate all over the plate.If you do use your blender and add honey, it's actually best to let the vinaigrette rest for a few minutes or even an hour before using it, so that all the flavors can meld; but don't refrigerate it!Last, but not least: even if you are using bagged salad, always rinse it first – not only because… you never know!!! but also because if the salad is too dry you will end up using way to much dressing.
Buon appetito, and let me know how it goes!


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No doubt Valentine's Day is a day formally known, when people show their feelings of love and affection and friendship to their beloved ones. Valentine's Day is celebrated in many awesome ways worldwide and falls on February 14 each year.
Love is the most wonderful of feelings on the planet. Valentine's Day 2016 and what could be a best time to let your beloved ones know that you love them so much. And make them feel something special by sending them some beautiful gifts of your loving words blended with just perfect emotions. Send them our happy Valentine's Day love cards to express your love to your beloved and dear ones.
Here are some suggestion that how you can make your valentine's day more special
- Be engage in an extended conversation about why you love each other.
- Just write your lover a note with three things you admire most about him or her.
- On Valentine's Day treat her like a princess for a day – treat him like a king for a day.
- You can also enjoy the warm pulsating water of a shower with your mate.
- Most of all write an email to your lover telling what you believe to be their greatest strength.
- Especially cook a special healthy dinner and serve it by candlelight.
- A healthy conversation about your dreams for your spouse and your marriage.
- Go to take a long walk with your lover for Valentine's Day.
- Most likely to turn on romantic music and go dancing in the kitchen.
- Be careful about to go to the movies; make your own romantic movie together.
- Completely forget about the $60 bouquet of roses, in fact instead of all doing this write a love note to your lover.
- ON HAPPY VALENTINS DAY LOVE you can take along walk by holding hands of your beloved one.
- On Valentine's Day make time for romance and intimacy on Valentine's Day.
- You can also read a romantic bedtime story to your lover.
- Remember to shut off all electronics for Valentine's Day – no phones, no cell phones, no computers, no PDA, no television – just the two of you.


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Jets get strong QB play against sluggish Falcons, win 17-0
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Sam Darnold sparkled in his NFL debut, Teddy Bridgewater looked sharp and healthy, and the New York Jets earned the franchise's first preseason home shutout by beating the sluggish Atlanta Falcons 17-0 on Friday night.
Darnold, the No. 3 overall draft pick in April, was the Jets' third quarterback of the game, following Josh McCown and Bridgewater. The former USC star was greeted by loud cheers and a standing ovation as he jogged onto the field at MetLife Stadium with 8:41 in the first half.
Darnold's first series ended in a punt and his non-throwing left hand was checked out by trainers on the sideline after it was stepped on — but he was fine and wore a glove in the second half.
He got the crowd on its feet again just before halftime, throwing a 14-yard touchdown pass to Charles Johnson that gave New York a 17-0 lead.
The 21-year-old Darnold showed the poise of a veteran on the drive while completing six straight passes to get to the Falcons 3. He would've had a seventh consecutive completion, but his throw into the end zone was dropped by Johnson. Darnold went right back to Johnson on the next play, and the receiver caught a 3-yard pass for a TD — but was called for offensive pass interference. On third-and-14, Darnold again threw to Johnson while rolling to his right and zipping in a pass to his receiver for the score.
Darnold, who finished 13 of 18 for 96 yards, missed the first three days of training camp before his representatives and the Jets agreed on details of his fully guaranteed four-year, $30.25 million deal that included a $20 million signing bonus. He quickly made up for the missed time, and is being given every opportunity to win the starting job.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Coach Jon Gruden was a winner in his return to the sideline for Oakland when the Raiders got a touchdown pass from Connor Cook.
in a 16-10 victory over the Detroit Lions on Friday night.
Gruden was welcomed back warmly to the Coliseum for his first game here as Raiders coach since beating the Jets in a playoff game Jan. 12, 2001. Gruden was traded to Tampa Bay after that season and has spent the past nine years as an ESPN analyst.
Raiders owner Mark Davis lured Gruden back to the sideline with a 10-year contract worth a reported $100 million following a disappointing six-win season under Jack Del Rio.
The Gruden era appeared to get off to a rousing start when Marshawn Lynch ran 60 yards for a TD on the third snap, but the score was called back on a holding penalty by rookie tackle Kolton Miller.
Oakland settled for a punt on the only drive with starting quarterback Derek Carr, but scored three times in five drives with Cook at the helm. Cook threw a 7-yard TD pass to Ryan Switzer in the second quarter and led Oakland to a pair of field goals by rookie Eddy Pineiro. Cook finished 11 for 19 for 141 yards.
The Lions also welcomed a new coach in Matt Patricia, who opted to rest star quarterback Matthew Stafford. Matt Cassel got the start and went 5 for 10 for 46 yards, leading Detroit to one score on three drives, with Ameer Abdullah capping it with a 1-yard TD run .
Lynch once again sat during the national anthem. Lynch also sat for the anthem all of last season but never gave a reason for his decision. No other players on either team demonstrated during the anthem, with the Lions all standing together with locked arms.
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Bearings for hydrogen-rich gas application
SKF helps compressors handle hydrogen-rich process gases
As part of an initiative to boost production, enhance performance and meet new environmental standards, a 75 000 bpd, US-based refinery planned to put seven single screw oil-flooded screw compressors into service. The compressors were to handle hydrogen-rich process gases.
Based on past experience, refinery operators anticipated condensation-related problems with the bearing arrangements. To help ensure high reliability despite the hydrogen-rich process gases, the refinery looked to SKF for help.
The SKF solution
SKF engineers suggested the installation of rolling bearings with super-tough stainless steel rings, ceramic rolling elements, glass fiber reinforced PEEK cages and the selection of a special lubricant to further resist corrosion. Begun in 2006, these custom upgrades were completed by 2008.
The results
These advanced SKF bearing arrangements proved to extremely reliable, running in excess of 14 000 hours and 3 and ½ years, at the time of this writing.


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I have an int[60 million] and a long [240 million] and i want to save them to a file.
I need a bulk write like FileOutputStream.write(byte[] b, int off, int len).
All bulk writes seem to require byte [] or ByteBuffer.
There seems to be no way to convert an int[] to a byte[] or ByteBuffer.
Failed attempts:
I tried allocating my arrays with ByteBuffer.allocate() and then using ByteBuffer.asLongBuffer.array(), but that function is not supported.
I tried staying with a LongBuffer instead, however, LongBuffer.put() is also optional and not supported.
I tried to use ByteBuffer.wrap(new byte[]).asLongBuffer.array(), but the function is still not supported.
Converting my longs to byte[] via bitshifting will take ages, and it is a time-critical application.
Possible solutions:
Find a bulk write that accepts int[] and long[].
Find an intermediate type that can be backed by int[] and long[] which is supported by a bulk write.
I come from C and am very frustrated to not be able to just say FileOutputStream.write((byte [])int[]).
Yes, I used google and could not find anything useful.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Im on Win7x64
java version "1.6.0_29"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_29-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.4-b02, mixed mode)


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Without going into any great sociological tracts, it's fair to say that Harry Hill is a popular fellow, and well-loved across the entire nation. He's also a funny sort of bloke and has been for a while. Much of the press surrounding this release had been about The Beatles "preventing" Hill using the original intended title (Sgt. Pepper's 2) and that Johnny Marr blocked the Smiths medley that was due to feature at the end of it all. On Marr, you end up jumping, rightly, to the conclusion that he was given a promo copy beforehand and probably didn't even get to the Morrissey-aping finale.
There are several problems with this album. The first is that it's absolute shite. The second is related to the first and is that Hill is, or was, up there in a select group of comedians that it's OK for everyone to like. Not that people should be selective in what they find funny, but they often are. There are many different strands to this record's sheer horridness and all of them are in abundance from the start. We are drowned in something unpleasant on track two, with 'I Want A Baby' which , remarkably, was chosen as a single. The lyrics "And when I'm 15 / I'll take my boob job / on my trampoline" hang like a sodden, shitty sock on a winter washing line. At this point – and this point is little more than three minutes into the whole album – it's not sure who's having the piss taken out of them or who is meant to be taking the piss out of who. It is clear, however, where the piss is coming from.
The track about ever-present Coronation Street character Ken Barlow ('Ken!') is more what you'd expect given the whole TV Burp thing, and keeps firmly away from the fairly pointless attempts, ironic or otherwise, at social commentary. It is, however, mainly samples of Barlow's voice. The mind does keep wandering back to 'I Want A Baby' though, almost incessantly. It's a bewildering experience all-round and pretty much every ten seconds you'll end up asking yourself 'Why Harry, why?'. As time goes on – and it moves very slowly in the world of Harry Hill's Funny Times – you stop searching for answers.
Much of the baffling nature comes through because it's hard to understand not so much why this album was recorded, but why and how it actually got to the stage of release. Harry Hill's not an idiot. I'm sure he hasn't got a Ryan Adams-like contempt for any sort of quality control, otherwise he'd have had several autobiographies and appearances on more than one of those popular TV entertainment panel shows. You'd like to think of him as the comedian who does things on his own terms but it's hard to believe that Funny Times would have seen the light of day without someone holding a gun to someone else's head or Harry's testicles in a vice. Yes, it is unnecessary – it always would have been – but a sprinkling of humour here and there would have been nice. That said, Adam & Joe's Song Wars: Volume 2 is also available, so just hang on and get that instead.
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We wanted to monitor our MS infrastructure (servers, SQL) and apps (C#) to understand performance issues and be able to rectify. We also want to be able to do long-term trending. And we wanted to go from nothing to live in a short time.
Installing the Datadog agent on the servers was a breeze and enabling the integrations for SQL and Windows trivial.
Using the StatsD based API was also very easy - no worrying about JSON or UDP calls. The ability to add tags to all metrics is also a key benefit. We run multiple (100+) instances of a single application and being able to distinguish events from each one via tagging, or to see aggregates, is extremely useful.
In all it took 2 days R&D to instrument our key applications sufficiently for production deployment. Deploying the agent to our production servers took 30 mins, giving our Ops team complete visibility for the 1st time.
What have we learned
Since we've been live Datadog has given us numerous insights into the way our system behaves, from uneven server loadings and sporadic memory usage to performance tuning a key application that resulted in a 50% increase in throughput. Knowing what's taking the time has been a boon.
Continuous evolution
The other nice surprise has been the evolving nature of Datadog. It seems like every couple of weeks there's a new feature on the site.
Other points
- I like the transparent pricing. Services that won't show me the price without having to talk to a sales person are really annoying.
- Support has been good. We've contacted them several times with questions and always had a quick response (time zone considered...we're in London) and a helpful answer.
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Probably the weakest aspect at the moment is the long term trending of data. Whilst you can wind the time bar back to see what happened last week you can't ask questions like "show me the peak period each day for the last x months". The "get data" API is also fairly weak. Neither are concerns at the moment, and I'm sure they're on the to-do list.
I've been a systems administrator most of my career. Everywhere I went, I'd have to rebuild the same monitoring + graphing system. And then make sure that every machine wrote to that system and every application handed up the proper metrics through whatever mechanism seemed good at the time.
Then, as CTO of SimpleReach, single-handedly managing over 200 servers in addition to everything else, I found Datadog. We were already using statsd to instrument our applications, now it was just a matter of getting that data to Datadog. We use Chef, so I installed the Datadog agent on every machine in about 10 minutes and we were up and running.
The best part was that we had a deploy problem the next day with one of our main applications and troubleshooting took minutes instead of hours (and Datadog immediately paid for itself). Now no new features go out without instrumentation and no machine gets created without being monitored.
Datadog just scales with us. Great service and I highly recommend it to anyone not looking to reinvent the wheel with monitoring and instrumentation.
We were looking for application performance management solution (APM) for our .net. We were using New Relic's free version but it wasn't cutting it and we were missing some capabilities. Stackify's solution is great and as a bonus we got their log management and exception aggregation tools that are integrated with the APM. Plus the team at Stackify was very helpful
Datadog makes running a service with 800,000 unique users a month possible as a single developer/maintainer. I bought a separate monitor just to keep my datadog dashboards always visible and rely on triggers to keep watch over 20+ servers.
Highly recommended.
Stackify does a great job at providing lots of useful information without it becoming overwhelming. All of the features are well thought out and it has proven very helpful at diagnosing and preventing bugs in our application.
We use datadog to monitor our servers and some application metrics. Easy to get started and scale to many servers. Datadog support engineers are always quick to respond to bugs and other challenges.
We just started looking into Datadog, but from what we see, it's like New Relic meets Loggly. It's really easy to plugin different services (like the one on this list) and get detailed analysis of what is happening on your servers and services. It makes tracking down sparse and difficult to understand problems possible.
Monitoring day-to-day operations of multiple high-performance computing assets distributed across several networks. Monitoring vendor provided data and setting up alerts when things do not show up on time.
Datadog was used as an agent for monitoring and as for the statsd daemon included. This way we are able to have automated system stats and include whatever other metrics we want to track.
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Datadog is used because it has a great free tier and it provides us with great insights and integrations into our infrastructure and tools.