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The guys I'm working with are fucking geniuses and I fucking love them! I've been doing some maintenance on their PHP apps at work, and their coding standards are so advanced that Vim can't even support them out of the box! Luckily, I'm pro at vimscript and was able to write a plugin to help me!
<blink>Whitespace2.0! Now available on github! Get it here!</blink>
The making of Whitespace2.0 - A documentary
Right. First things first: we will need a random number generator. For this, we will nick some code from here.Secondly, we will need to modify the behaviour of the tab key with this code:
Additionally, we need trailing whitespace to occasionally appear.
Sweet, that should do it.
PHP devs are blithering retards because Jesus made them that way
The other day a programmer at my work hacked on some PHP that I had written and, when I pulled the changes, I saw my code was now riddled with mixed indenting. I felt like he had just been in my bedroom and knocked all my transformers off the shelf and then just left them there. On the floor! That FUCK! I was going through Rapid Cyclic Weapon Escalation Syndrome1 and was in danger of rage-crapping my pants when I was reminded of that old bible story from primary school.You know the one I'm talking about.
What are you? Stupid!? OK, here's an except:
... Jesus is on the assembly line putting together the final prototypes of all the programmers. He's bored as fuck and this shit has been dragging out all day - who knew there were so many fucking languages! All he wants is to be at home sucking on a beer and watching the tube, but instead he is stuck on the line putting the nerds together for daddy.
Poor Jesus...
So when the next head comes down the line, he pops the lid off and, instead of ramming in the corresponding brain, he hoists up his skirts and takes a giant shit right in there and snaps the lid back on ...
And thus explains why most PHP programmers are either:
A. too stupid to indent properly
B. completely ignorant about tabs, spaces and good indenting
C. don't know how to use their editors
(1). A mental disorder in which the subject fantasizes about killing someone with progressively larger and larger weapons until they have exhausted all possibilities, whereupon they begin combining weapons together into super-weapons. The ultimate culmination of which is a giant mega weapon made up of all known weapons in the universe.


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- Ladysmith Black Mambazo were founded in Durban, South Africa in 1960s
- The male choral group started to win international recognition after working with Paul Simon
- The group has been hailed by Nelson Mandela as "South Africa's cultural ambassadors"
- The singing group is now passing the tradition on to the younger generations
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(CNN) -- With their soulful voices and traditional Zulu dance moves, South African acappella singing sensation Ladysmith Black Mambazo have been blending vocal harmonies to take audiences on a musical journey for nearly half a century.
The legendary male choral group has sold millions of albums worldwide, collaborated with music icons such as Paul Simon and counts Nelson Mandela as one of their faithful fans -- the venerable Nobel Peace Prize winner has described the group as "South Africa's cultural ambassadors."
It's all a far cry from when young farmer-turned-factory worker Joseph Shabalala formed the band in 1964, hoping to use music as a vehicle to unite people in a country suffering from social divide and conflict.
"The music is for the people, we must take this music to the people," recalls Shabalala, one of the two remaining original members of the nine-piece group.
Already successful in their homeland, the band's international breakthrough came in 1986, when American singer and songwriter Paul Simon featured them on his album "Graceland." Simon also took them on tour with him and produced the band's "Shaka Zulu" album, which won the 1988 Grammy Award for best traditional folk album.
Since then, Ladysmith Black Mambazo have won two other Grammys and have received a total of 16 nominations.
See also: South African comic duo stir up stereotypes
But, apart from years of successful touring and international recognition, it is the relationship with Nelson Mandela that has come to play a big part in the band's career.
The group first met South Africa's first black president at his birthday party in 1990, not long after he was freed after spending 27 years in jail.
"We were on stage and we sang a song and he stood up and he danced with us and he shook our hands and he said keep up the good work... your music has been great inspiration for me," says Albert Mazibuko, one of the original members of the band. "After that he never wanted to do anything without Ladysmith Black Mambazo -- we have been with him all over the place."
Joseph Shabalala, musician
In 1993, at Mandela's request, the group accompanied the future president to the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway, and one year later they sang again for him at his inauguration. In 2003, Mandela recruited them again as ambassadors for his HIV/Aids global awareness campaign, 46664, named after his prison number.
Like the anti-apartheid icon, the awardwinning ensemble carry a message of peace and hope in their music.
"Ladysmith Black Mambazo music is about inspiration," says Mazibuko. "We are encouraging people to not lose hope in anything. We try to give people the hope that there is a tomorrow, there is a better thing that is waiting for us in the future and that there is a solution for every problem in the world."
Shabalala named the group after his hometown, Ladysmith, a farming town in the foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains -- "black" refers to "oxen," the strongest of all farm animals, and "Mambazo" -- the Zulu word for "axe" -- refers to "chopping down" the local competition.
See also: Recycled hotel soap saves children's lives
The roots of the group's music extend back some 100 hundred years, in the gold and diamond mines of South Africa when black workers would entertain themselves in labor camps by composing music and dances. But they had to dance softly "on tip toes" so they would not disturb the white guards.
Shabalala's vision was to keep this rich musical tradition -- known as "isicathamiya" -- alive by combining it with what he heard in churches. His brothers and cousins joined him and since then the acappella band has very much remained a family affair -- to this day, Ladysmith Black Mambazo's band is comprised of Shabalala's friends and family members, including his sons and cousins, with an age span ranging from septuagenarians to those in their 20s.
See also: Master storyteller brings folk tales to life
Their 2011 release, "Songs from a Zulu farm," has also received a Grammy nomination for best world music album -- the band say it is their most personal work to date, featuring traditional Zulu tunes that recreate the world they grew up in.
See also: Africa's popstars
With Shabalala and Mazibuko being today the only two remaining original members of the group, the band's old guard is now passing down their message of hope and peace onto the younger generation.
"Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a family, in my group I have four sons, the next generation of Mambazo, they are our future," Shabalala recently announced at a concert while introducing his sons.
"My father is now passing this on to us, he wants us to carry on his music, he doesn't want to die with his music, he says this music is not for him, it is for the people," says Shabalala's son Thamsaqa, who is expected to replace his father as the group's leading singer of the group.
For him and many others, the legend started by his father, almost half a century ago, will remain resilient and timeless for generations.
Beibei Yin contributed to this article.


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B.C. Labour Minister Harry Bains has quietly released his independent panel's report on "modernizing" the Labour Relations Code.
This being an NDP government, the key question is whether they try to recreate the 1990s or go back farther to the disco era, where what's good for unions was believed to be good for everybody.
Reality has moved the other way, with a steep decline in private sector unionization. The disco ball still glitters mostly for B.C. public sector employees, who remain 65 per cent unionized even as private sector union participation has fallen below one quarter.
It will go lower. In addition to disco, the 1980s was notable for the rise of globalization. Outsourcing business services, dismantling barriers to movement of goods, capital and people, and round-the-clock competition among global business creates a need for more work flexibility.
Bains didn't have much to say about the Labour Code recommendations. His staff cancelled a scheduled interview, and when I stopped him in the corridor, he talked about needing yet more consultation before commenting. This is after three labour lawyers took submissions for months from the various interest groups.
They made a couple of contentious recommendations. One is to remove essential service restrictions on public school strikes, except for delivery of provincial exams to grads. (Hands up everyone who thinks teacher unions don't have enough power or attention.)
Two of the three panelists recommend keeping the secret ballot in union certifications. The third, representing unions, said the sign-up of union cards is enough. There's no evidence that "some employees join trade unions due to peer pressure," she wrote.
It wasn't so much "peer pressure" as thinly veiled threats that greeted me when I first joined an industrial union back in 1979, and was instructed not to work too fast. Since then I've never seen employer coercion, just lots of union thuggery, from the bombing of replacement mine workers to teachers putting up illegal pickets to block unaffected government employees from going to work.
The return to a 1990s-style union monopoly on public construction was the main topic in the B.C. legislature last week. The B.C. Liberal opposition invited members of excluded unions and the contractors who work with them, and don't want to be forced to submit to restrictive terms imposed by U.S.-based building trades.
A young woman spoke about getting the chance to become a welder. A superintendent, carpenter by trade, talked about the restrictive "craft lines" that famously ran up the labour costs on the Island Highway when he worked on it. These kinds of featherbedding, overtime-padding tactics are what the NDP is determined to bring back.
Tom Sigurdson of the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades assures me that requiring a labourer to run a concrete vibrator for five minutes while carpenters stand and wait is for safety. Sorry, but I've run one of those on a non-union site. Safety is a concern there too, along with efficiency.
Sigurdson, Premier John Horgan and Transportation Minister Claire Trevena insist that the building trades monopoly is necessary because that's the only way to increase the number of apprentices. Members of the Christian Labour Association of Canada, the main target of the NDP exclusion policy, say they are in the top three in apprenticeship training.
This defence of inefficiency extends only to projects funded by taxpayers. In the rest of the world, competition will make short work of anyone who tries it.
Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press Media. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Dycom Industries, Inc. Announces Release Of Fiscal 2014 Fourth Quarter Results And Conference Call Schedule
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Aug. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Dycom Industries, Inc. (NYSE: DY) will release its fiscal 2014 fourth quarter results on Tuesday, August 26, 2014, after the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
Dycom has scheduled a conference call for Wednesday, August 27, 2014, at 9:00 a.m. (ET). To participate in the conference call, dial (800) 230-1074 (United States) or (612) 288-0329 (International) ten minutes before the conference call begins and ask for the "Dycom Results" conference call. A live webcast of the conference call, along with related materials, will be available at http://www.dycomind.com under the heading "Events." If you are unable to attend the conference call at the scheduled time, a replay of the live webcast and the related materials will be available at http://www.dycomind.com until Saturday, September 27, 2014.
Dycom is a leading provider of specialty contracting services throughout the United States and in Canada. These services include engineering, construction, maintenance and installation services to telecommunications providers, underground facility locating services to various utilities, including telecommunications providers, and other construction and maintenance services to electric and gas utilities and others.
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Dr. Evil had one simple request to properly arm his lair – he wanted "sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads." While his right-hand man Number Two couldn't deliver on this rather simple setup (instead, he offered ill-tempered sea bass), Australian marine biologist-turned-TV host Luke Tipple was able to turn it into reality.
To be sure, this lemon shark with a laser clamped to its dorsal fin won't be zapping any evildoers into a fiery pile of rubble, but it fulfills a fantasy of movie buffs – and of course, evil doctors – everywhere.
Tipple, working with the Hong Kong-based company Wicked Lasers, skillfully attached the high-tech laser gadgetry to the ocean's most feared predator by using a special, non-invasive clamp on the shark's dorsal fin. The result: a shark with a laser beam attached to its head. It sounds like such a popular yet simple concept, so why had this never been attempted before? Well, simply because of the danger of working with such untrained and potentially dangerous actors.
(LIST: Top 10 Unforgettable Shark Moments)
That's why Wicked Lasers recruited Tipple, an experienced biologist and perennial Shark Week guest, for the project. He's spent much of his career working around great white sharks, the species that has most often attacked humans. "Sharks respect predatory behavior," he tells TIME. "If you know how to behave, they'll respect you as either a predator or a competitor."
While on a diving trip in the Bahamas in April, Tipple took the opportunity to test out a shark fin attachment he's been developing, a piece of hardware that he hopes to mount a camera on to capture footage from a shark's-eye view. But at Wicked Lasers' request, he fit a laser onto the device and took it under the Caribbean for a test drive. "As I lurched toward him, he naturally floated away," Tipple says, explaining that's what any animal – and probably any human, too – would do if approached. But he easily clipped the laser onto the shark's dorsal fin and flipped on the laser. Dr. Evil's long-dreamt predatory double-threat was officially a reality.
And it was all in the name of science, though with a bit of a promotional spin for the modified 150mW S3 Krypton laser that protruded from the shark's head. Better still, no sharks were hurt, not even a little, in the making of the ad. Tipple, who has been working on the clip-on device for many months, says it was a "coincidence" that he was able to test now. It doesn't pierce the shark's skin and can be easily removed; even if the shark swam away, the clip's spring would rust and break apart within weeks. And the dorsal fin is just a mass of cartilage, Tipple explains. "It probably felt a slight bit of pressure, but realistically, not much." The shark, which they affectionately named Mr. Bigglesworth after Dr. Evil's diabolic yet loveable cat, swam around unfazed.
Which may have come as a bit of a surprise to Tipple. In addition to his biology credits, he's also the director of the Humane Society's Shark-Free Marina Initiative seeking to stop shark hunting and cruelty, which is why at first he declined Wicked Lasers' request. "Everything I'm involved with has to be ethical and justifiable," Tipple notes. But once he realized the project was meant in good fun and had scientific implications, too, he decided to round up the necessary manpower. "It casts sharks in exactly the right light," he notes. "I haven't seen news pieces like these in years, if ever." And we've never seen sharks look quite so awesome.


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The second winner of America's £367 million Powerball lottery is a married man in his 30s from a wealthy Arizona suburb who wants to keep working.
The man remained anonymous and his 587.5 million-dollar prize was announced by officials who said he bought 10 dollars' worth of tickets and kept the winning slip in the visor of his car before coming forward.
The man opted to take the pre-tax cash option of 192 million dollars (£120m). Lottery chiefs said his wife would own half the prize because Arizona is a community property state. "He and his wife couldn't believe it," lottery spokesman Karen Bach said. "They checked the numbers over and over again - absolutely shocked."
Ms Bach said the man wanted to take time to make a solid financial plan and set up a charitable entity to help causes that he and his wife support. And they told lottery officials they would probably keep working.
The ticket was sold at a convenience store in Fountain Hills, north-east of Phoenix.
Lottery bosses said the man has a job as a professional, lived in Pennsylvania until about a year ago, and played the lotto only twice since moving to Arizona.
He quickly decided to claim the money this year - as opposed to waiting until 2013 for tax reasons - because "he did have concern with the uncertainty with the fiscal cliff in 2013", Ms Bach said. She was referring to a combination of automatic tax increases and spending cuts that will take effect in January unless Washington and a divided Congress can strike a deal to avert them.
The unidentified winner later issued a statement that said: "It is difficult to express just how thankful we are for this wonderful gift. We are extremely grateful and feel fortunate to now have an increased ability to support our charities and causes. Obviously, this has been incredibly overwhelming and we have always cherished our privacy."
Mechanic Mark Hill and his wife Cindy, of Dearborn, Missouri, have already claimed their half of the multi-state Powerball prize.
The jackpot was the second-largest in US history and set off a nationwide buying frenzy. At one point, tickets were selling at nearly 130,000 a minute. Before the November 28 draw, the jackpot had rolled over 16 consecutive times without any winners. In a Mega Millions draw in March, three ticket buyers shared a 656 million-dollar (£410 million) jackpot, the largest lottery payout of all time.


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Analysts circle HP with CEO's hammer expected to come down
Easy on the pink or blood red?
Wall Street has started salivating as it awaits word on new HP CEO Mark Hurd's plans for the company. Rumor has it that Hurd will hand down his proclamations any day now. The only move seen as certain? Mass layoffs.
The prospect of job cuts isn't a terribly fresh notion. Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst Toni Sacconaghi in May speculated that HP would slash between 5 and 10 per cent of its workforce - or 7,500 to 15,000 staff - and in a new note issued this week, the analyst stuck by this prediction. Such cuts could save HP between $750m and $1.5bn per year.
"Given that CEO Mark Hurd is expected to announce his plans to improve HP's profitability and performance within the next month, we examined the potential levels available to Hurd," Sacconaghi wrote this week. "The primary source of cost-cutting is likely to come from headcount reductions acorss HP's business."
Numerous analysts share many of Sacconaghi's forecasts with some of them backing up the 15,000 mark. Such tremors stem from a promise Hurd made earlier this year to reduce the break-even point of HP's business units. The CEO - Carly "The Pink" Fiorina's replacement - told analysts to await his grand, sweeping plan for a revamp. Based on the various research notes and press quotations arriving this week, the pundits clearly think Hurd is about to preach.
Sacconaghi sees HP's Enterprise Systems Group and Services business units as particularly vulnerable to Hurd's axe. Combined, the two groups account for 70 per cent of HP's 150,000 workforce. Despite such strength in numbers, the units have been pounded by Dell and IBM. Along with the jobs cuts, the analyst expects HP to trim research and development spending, to cut advertising and to make use of pension and options programs to lessen the burden of pricey staffers - a tactic employed when Hurd ran NCR.
Such maneuvers do little to inspire employees in the short-term. HP staffers have faced the largest technology merger in history, eating a Compaq that had already been through huge, uncomfortable unions of its own. They then watched as Fiorina fired thousands, struggled to find her form and paid more attention to branding than delivering consistent results. Not the ideal recipe for high morale.
Several analysts, however, have no fear about the mental state of staffers and see the cost-cuttings moves as Hurd's obvious next step. Sacconaghi has HP with an "outperform" rating and pegged to hit $25 per share. Moors & Cabot today initiated coverage on HP with a "Buy" rating and a $29 price target. HP's shares closed at $24.50 - way up from a 52-week low of $16.08 posted under Fiorina and just pennies from the $24.70 52-week high.
First Albany stands out as the only analyst firm exhibiting any signs of immediate worry, downgrading HP to "Neutral" from "Buy."
"The way (First Albany) sees it, HP is heading into a tumultuous time where the company could lay off 10,000 to 15,000 employees, potentially creating near-term disruptions, decreasing employee morale and perhaps resulting in revenue losses," the Wall Street Journal reported.
So far, Hurd has been the pragmatic CEO many expected. He allowed an existing voluntary severance plan to move forward, cutting down on HP's Printing and Imaging unit. Then, he undid one of Fiorina's last actions by splitting up the PC and Printing and Imaging businesses and placing a new executive in charge of PCs.
Who is to say that Hurd won't be equally pragmatic with the job cuts and simply trim instead of cleave? While leading NCR, Hurd reduced the workforce by close to 5 per cent via the gradual culling of support staff, veterans and middle managers. Some part of him must know that a huge round of layoffs would crush worker spirit and make him nothing more than a penis-enabled Fiorina.
Here's hoping that some of the HP Way still runs through Palo Alto and that the frat boy will go easy on the pink. ®
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Irrational or deranged behaviour or thought on, or about, a specific subject or subjects, resulting from the influence of the Reactive Mind upon the individual in relationship to that subject or subjects.
Degree of liking or affection or lack of it. (This is often expressed as an emotion/enthusiasm towards a person betokens more affinity than apathy.)
(analyser) This mind consists of visual pictures, either of the past or the physical universe, monitored and presided over by the knowingness of a thetan. The keynote of the analytical mind is awareness; one knows what one is concluding and doing. It combines perceptions of the immediate environment, of the past (via pictures) and estimations of the future into conclusions which are based upon the realities of situations.
An abbreviation of "analytical attenuation" meaning a diminution or weakening of the analytical awareness of an individual for a brief or extensive period of time. If sufficiently great, it can result in unconsciousness. (It stems from the restimulation of an engram which contains pain and unconsciousness.)
Advanced Organisation United Kingdom.
A word made from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality and Communication which together equate to understanding.(These are the three things necessary to the understanding of something - one has to have some affinity for it, it has to be real to him to some degree and he needs some communication with it before he can understand it.)
To view anything exactly as it is, without any distortions or lies, at which mornent it will vanish and cease to exist.
A listener or one who listens carefully to what people have to say. An auditor is a person trained and qualified in applying Scientology processes to others for their betterment.
The individual, the personality.
A colloquial name for the Reactive Mind. (This is what the procedures of Scientology are devoted to disposing of, for it is only a burden to an individual and he is much better off without it. A Clear has no bank.)
The first incident, such as an engram or overt act, of a chain of similar incidents.
The assumption or choosing of a category of identity. Beingness is assumed by oneself or given to oneself, or is attained. Examples of beingness would be one's own name, one's profession, one's physical characteristics, one's role in a game - each and all of these things could be called one's beingness. TO GRANT BEINGNESS means to grant life to something: to permit or allow other people to have beingness.
A colloquialism for a sudden departure. It is usually used to describe either the sudden dissipation of mass in the mind with an accompanying feeling of relief, or someone leaving, ceasing to be where he should really be, or just ceasing to be audited.
A state of lessened awareness to the point of unconsciousness.
Items, words, phrases, subjects or areas that are easily restimulatable in an individual by the words or actions of other people, and which causes him discomfort, embarrassment or upset, or make him laugh uncontrollably.
Full effect.
Central files.
Harmful energy or force accumulated and stored within the Reactive Mind, resulting from the conflicts and unpleasant experiences that a person has had. (Auditing discharges this charge so that it is no longer there to affect the individual.)
A part of an individual's bank that behaves as though it were someone or something separate from him and that either talks to him or goes into action of its own accord, and may even, if severe enough, take control of him while it operates. (A tune that keeps going around in someone's head is an example of a circuit).
A person who has completed Grade VII by erasing his whole bank. He no longer has a Reactive Mind or time track, and he is again wholly himself and can follow his own basic purposes.
COMMITTEE OF EVIDENCE (Comm Ev)
Part of the Ethics system of a Scientology Organization, being a fact finding group appointed and empowered to impartially investigate and recommend upon Scientology matters of a fairly severe ethical nature.
COMM LAG (Communication Lag)
The time it takes for a preclear to give an answer to a question that the auditor has asked him, regardless of whether he is silent until he gives the answer, or has been talking in the interim. Also applies to the delay between the giving of an auditing command by the auditor and the execution of that command by the preclear.
The interchange of ideas or objects between two people or terminals.
The ability to start, change and stop things at one's own choice.
A by-pass circuit in the mind. Probably an electronic mechanism.
Developed and unnecessary traffic in any organization or between organizations, consisting of off-line, off policy or off-origin despatches or other communications.
The action of a dynamic ol purpose meeting an engram.
The urge, thrust and purpose of life - SURVIVE! - in its eight manifestations.
Executive Director.
A mental image picture of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness, and a real or fancied threat to survival; it is a recording in the Reactive Mind of something which actually happened to an individual in the past and which contained pain and unconsciousness, both of which are recorded in the mental image picture called an engram.
Means enturbulated theta (thought or life): especially refers to communications, which, based on lies and confusions, are slanderous, choppy or destructive in an attempt to overwhelm or suppress a person or group.
Cause to be turbulent or agitated and disturbed.
Rationality toward the highest level of survival for the individual, the future race, the group and mankind, and the other dynamics taken collectively. Ethics are reason and the contemplation of optimum survival.
A mental copy of one's perceptions of the physical universe sometime in the past, and also known as a mental image picture.
Printed promotional pieces advertising books, tapes, etc.
FREE NEEDLE (FLOATING NEEDLE): This is a needle manifestation of the E-Meter of great importance, as it indicates the preclear has reached a state of Release and is the end point of any process. A free needle moves in an idle uninfluenced motion. It appears to float.
A composite of all the cellular experience recorded along the genetic line of the organism to the present body. It has the mainfestation of a single identity. It is not the theta being or "I".
Means Goals Problem Mass. A GPM is composed of mental masses and significances which have an exact pattern, unvarying from person to person, whose significance dictate a certain type of behavior and whose masses, when pulled in on the individual, cause psychosomatic effects, such as illnesses, pains or feelings of heaviness and tiredness.
An award made to a preclear in the form of a certificate for having attained one of the eight states of Release or the state of Clear.
Hubbard Association of Scientologists International.
Slang for the title and work of a post in Scientology Organization.
Hubbard Communications Office.
Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin.
Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter.
Hubbard Dianetic Auditor.
Hubbard Guidance Centre.
The moment an earlier upset or painful incident has been restimulated.
A mental image picture of a non-painful but disturbing experience the person has experienced and which depends for its force on an earlier secondary and engram which the experience has restimulated.
The physical universe. A word coined from the initial letters of Matter, Energy, Space and Time, which are the component parts of the physical universe. Also used as an adjective, in the same sense to mean physical as in 'mest universe', meaning the 'physical universe'.
Emotion which is irrational and inappropriate to the present time situation. Misemotion is also emotion which has been suppressed and which remains part of an individual's locks and secondaries unless he is audited.
The auditor's action in saying items from a list to a preclear and noting the reaction of the preclear's bank by thc use of an E-Meter.
Observation of the obvious. The only way one sees anything is by observing the obvious: one looks at the is-ness of something, at what is actually there. Fortunately, the ability to obnose is not in any sense "inborn" or mystical. It is easily regained and improved through Scientology.
A Clear who has been familiarized with his environment to a point of total cause over matter, energy, space, time and thought, and who is not in a body.
Harmful or contra-survival act. Precisely, it is an act of commission or omission that harms the greater number of dynamics. Therefore, a failure to eradicate something or stop.
A neologism for any sense message such as a sight, sound, smell, etc.
This term covers anyone who is not a clear; however it is principally used to describe a person who, through Scientology processing, is finding out more about himself and life.
That action or actions, governed by the technical disciplines and codes of Scientology, of administering a process to a preclear in order to release or free him.
(Potential Trouble Source.) Any person who, while active in Scientology or a preclear, remains connected to a suppressive person or group. (A person or preclear roller-coasters, i.e. gets better, then worse, only when he is connected to a suppressive person or group, and he must, in order to make his gains from Scientology permanent, either handle the source of suppression or disconnect from it.
That portion of a person's mind which works on a stimulus-response basis (given a certain stimulus, it gives a certain response) which is not under his volitional control and which exerts force and the power of command over his awareness, purposes, thoughts, body and actions.
A person whose Reactive Mind is keyed out and is not influencing him. There are eight grades of Release - they are, from the lowest to the highest, Grade 0 - Communications Release, Grade I - Problems Release, Grade II - Relief Release, Grade III - Freedom Release, Grade IV - Ability Release, Grade V - Power Release, Grade VA - Power Plus Release, Grade VI - Whole Track Release. Each is a distinct and definite step toward greater levels of awareness and ability.
In Dianetics the state achieved by withdrawing the attention from present time and turning it into the recalling of past experiences, facilitated by closing one's eyes.
A crazy, unequal, jerky motion of the E-Meter needle.
Persons who Rock Slam on Scientology or associated items are Security Risks.
Start, change, stop. (The anatomy of control).
Saint Hill.
Physical pain or discomfort of any kind, especially painful or uncomfortable physical perceptions stemming from the Reactive Mind.
The genetic entity plus the brain system of the body.
The ability to recall a sound so that one can hear it again as one originally heard it, in full tone and volume.
(Suppressive Person or Group.) One who actively seeks to suppress or damage Scientology or a Scientologist by suppressive acts.
The action of altering Scientology; off-beat practices.
The exact processes and auditing actions laid down and used for the invariable resolution of cases, taught and used without variation by all Scientology auditors.
The process of questioning by which a preclear, while remaining in present time, is enabled to recover and compute past data. (Straight line memory technique).
(Technology). The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself.
Energy peculiar to life or a thetan which acts upon material in the physical universe and animates it, mobilizes it changes it; natural creative energy of a thetan which he has free to direct toward survival goals, especially when it manifests itself as high tone, constructive comrnunications.
The person himself - not his body or name, the physical universe, his mind, or anything else - that which is aware of being aware; the identity that IS the individual. (From Theta, the Greek symbol for 'thought' or perhaps 'spirit'.)
A scale measuring and relating the various factors of behaviour, emotion and thought to levels on the scale. (The book, Science of Survival, by L. Ron Hubbard contains a full description of the tone scale and its applications in life).
Intention without reservation or limit.
Up-going statistic.
The unwitting assumption by one individual of the characteristics of another individual.
Ability to see in facsimile form something one has seen earlier so that one sees it again in the same colour, dimension scale, brightness and detail as it was originally viewed.
Man off the street.
World Wide.
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Michael Hsiung continues his travels for Color Magazine's traveling skate-centric art shows up and down the west coast. Meant to add this blog up awhile ago, but moving servers slowed us down. Anyway, enjoy his travels through word and photo form.
I don't think at this point it needs to be written since the last update to Fecal Face was a long time ago, but...
I, John Trippe, have put this baby Fecal Face to bed. I'm now focusing my efforts on running ECommerce at DLX which I'm very excited about... I guess you can't take skateboarding out of a skateboarder.
It was a great 15 years, and most of that effort can still be found within the site. Click around. There's a lot of content to explore.
Hit me up if you have any ECommerce related questions. - trippe.io


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Welcome to this meditation video called 'Be the change' - the result of our Selfies for Peace meditation project.
Over Christmas 2014 we invited you as a Dru Yoga online member to send in a meditation or Christmas image of yourself - or selfie - as a way of contributing to peace. You have responded with an incredible bunch of images, and it's clear from the positivity oozing out of these pics that you are an amazing group of people!
We've stitched your** images together into a short meditation which we hope you'll really enjoy as a calming and inspiring break in the midst of a busy day... as well as a way to add to your relationships with people and the whole world around you.
The meditation invites you to turn the tables a little, and explore the world from another's point of view - and to discover the places in which their life is strong, loving, patient, kind and wise. By discovering the highest in the people around us we are more likely to experience these very qualities in our own life - and make a great contribution to our world along the way.
So, sit back, relax and enjoy this very uplifting meditation with Andrew Wells, as you take on your inner power to 'be the change' in your life!
** PS: We have done our very best to include everyone, but there were a few images with a resolution that was just too low to work on a video. So if you don't see yourself in this video, it's only for this reason - we are still totally grateful for your input!!! You can see all the pics we received here.


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1940s Civilian Aviator's B-2 flight jacket
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Nursery School in Pamplona
The impressive potential acquired by a child in its first years of life leads us to think deeply about the responsibility of designing an elementary school. We firmly believe in the pedagogical value of architecture and in its capability to generate spaces where, in combination with a proper educational task children can both grow and develop themselves in a stimulating, appealing and safe way during their first three years.
The building is located at the NW side of the new neighborhood of Buztintxuri (Pamplona) within an area including three additional public buildings.
The main axis of the plot is on a north-south direction. West orientation, where the main entrance is placed, is disturbed by the loud traffic noise generated in the nearby heavily used outer ring. The west façade acts as a boundary with the adjacent plot.
Based upon these circumstances we decided to organize the building as a series of four parallel bodies in which fully built and empty areas are alternated.
A first body, accommodating administration and services, is placed at the outer public west side, and it accomplishes a filtering role against external noise. Access to the building through the main entrance takes place at one of the edges of this first body; a roofed conservatory and a small garden are sited in this area for the purpose of dignifying the way in.
The empty central space has an intense natural illumination through a skylight clearly emerging over the rest of the building. This generates a double height space that vertebrates the building as a whole: the corridor or meeting point that provides access to the various learning modules. Linearity of this space is interrupted by the kitchen and the central workshop that will try to catch the attention of the children.
A third body contents the infantile areas, grouped into four modules according to the children's ages. In each module, optimum integration between classroom, workshops, refectories, toilettes and bedrooms is searched in order to guarantee both proper and natural ventilation and illumination in every room.
Lastly, the external backyard is thought as a prolongation of the space of the classrooms through the opening of large windows. A two meters eaves allows the covered circulation at the same time that it protects the classrooms from the summer sun. The orientation of the backyard guarantees not only the presence of the sun inside the building but also the desired privacy trying to avoid the external traffic. The use of different colours and textures (concrete, rubber, rolling stones, grass and wooded area) lets us create suggestive and varied playing spaces for children.
Double Scale
The organization of the inner space of the classrooms as well as the design of the furniture has been planned taking into account both children's and their educators' different perceptions of spaces.
On one hand, children's activities are organized based upon several series of thematic 'corners' perfectly adapted to their scale where they can develop different activities in a flexible way. As a result of this, massive and maladjusted spaces to work by groups of different sizes are avoided.
On the other hand, educators must have children under visual control from any point of the classroom.
Structural Lattice
West façade is protected against the direct evening sun through a structural lattice composed by vertical slats which are basically created by steel rhombus-shaped section pillars.


text: In a nondescript hotel ballroom last month at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, Andras Forgacs offered a rare glimpse at the sci-fi future of food. Before an audience of tech-industry types, Forgacs produced a plate of small pink wafers – "steak chips," he called them – and invited people up for a taste. But these were no ordinary snacks: Instead of being harvested from a steer, they had been grown in a laboratory from tiny samples of animal tissue. One taster's verdict on this Frankenmeat? Not bad, actually. "It was delicious. It tasted like a thin piece of beef jerky," said Michael Wang, a program manager in Washington. "I would have never thought it wasn't real meat." Forgacs is co-founder and CEO of Modern Meadow, a young company that is developing lab-engineered meat and leather products, known as cultured meat. He is among a new breed of youthful entrepreneurs who are applying tech-startup principles – innovation, efficiency, data-driven processes – to address the growing challenges of global food production. "Once you start to see food as technology, as a form of hardware, you start to ask, why can't food get better?" asked Rob Rhinehart, CEO of Rosa Labs, a nutritional-science startup based in Los Angeles. "But there's a lot of disagreement about what our products are. Is it fake? Is it real?" For those reasons, these biotech food entrepreneurs may face an uphill climb. To an eating public increasingly focused on organic, farm-to-table food, cultured meat – also known as "in vitro" or "test-tube" meat – sounds unnatural and unappealing. A recent Pew survey found that 80% of Americans would not eat meat that was grown in a lab, although younger and college-educated people are more willing to try it. "Cultured meat is so new and such a radically different way of making meat to what has gone before," said Neil Stephens, a research scientist at the University of Cardiff in Wales who has been studying lab-engineered food products. "There is an empirical question to answer about whether people will accept it as meat, and what criteria we use to define cultured meat as meat." Problem … and solution? As these entrepreneurs see it, our current large-scale methods of raising meat are wasteful and harmful to the environment. Research supports this: Raising livestock, for example, requires massive amounts of water, pollutes rivers with manure and, according to the United Nations, produces an estimated 14.5% of global human greenhouse-gas emissions. On top of that, global demand for meat is expected to double over the next 40 years, placing further strain on the planet's natural resources. By comparison, lab-grown meat would leave a much lighter footprint and might eventually help alleviate food shortages in some parts of the world, advocates say. They also say that cultured meat is more humane because no animals are slaughtered. "It's the future," said entrepreneur Biz Stone, a vegan and co-founder of Twitter and Jelly. "We can't sustain the current model of raising enough animals to feed 7 billion people." Spotting an opportunity, a handful of biotechnology startups have begun developing alternative food products. Using a formula developed at the University of Missouri, Beyond Meat takes plant protein from soy and peas and applies heating, cooling and pressure to realign it so that its structure resembles meat tissue. The company's fake chicken strips are in 4,000 stores across the United States and have fooled people in blind taste tests. Hampton Creek Foods has received $30 million in funding for its business model, which revolves around a plant-based substitute for eggs. Its first product, a vegan mayonnaise called Just Mayo, hit stores in California last fall. And after a $2 million crowdfunding campaign Rosa Labs recently began mass-producing Soylent, a drink supplement aimed at meeting all the human body's nutritional needs. "There's such a wide-open space for innovations if you're starting (a company) around food," said Hampton Creek Foods CEO Josh Tetrick. But the most fascinating, and polarizing, startup in this emerging space is Modern Meadow. Launched in 2011 by Forgacs and his father Gabor Forgacs, a biophysicist, the company plans to make cultured leather products before tackling the thornier process of growing meat. "You don't waste as much material (with cultured leather) because animals don't come in the shape of a couch or a handbag," said Andras Forgacs at the SXSW panel discussion in Austin, Texas. To make cultured beef, Modern Meadow takes muscle cells from a steer and places them in a liquid or gel containing amino acids, vitamins, minerals and sugars – ingredients that cells feed on – to stimulate tissue growth. Scientists flavor the Modern Meadow steak chips by adding sauces, like teriyaki or barbecue, before cooking them in a food dehydrator. The process takes about a week. "We basically have a team of scientists who developed this," said Andras Forgacs, adding that each chip can be made for less than $100. Costs will go down as production ramps up, he said. That's still a lot cheaper than the world's first lab-grown burger, which was engineered by a scientist in the Netherlands and served to food critics at a news conference last August in London. (Reviews of the burger were mixed.) The project, funded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, cost some $325,000. A cultural challenge Manufacturing and cost barriers, plus the pokey federal regulatory process, mean that test-tube steaks won't be coming to your neighborhood supermarket anytime soon. But they are coming, entrepreneurs say. "We're in for a real revolution in the next decade or two," Forgacs said. Added Tetrick, "By 2030 we're going to see a drastic shift." They and their fellow biotech entrepreneurs still face plenty of stumbling blocks. There's the issue of health: While lab-grown meat would likely be freer of bacteria and pesticides, its production also may require the use of artificial growth hormones. Then there's the challenge of making consumers comfortable with eating meat that comes from a laboratory. And if cultured meat doesn't taste good, nobody will try it more than once. "It's not the science that's the most difficult part. The hardest part is our culture. We've been eating meat for 2 million years," said Ethan Brown, CEO of Beyond Meat. But, he added, "You can see the change coming when you sit down and talk to a child. No child wants to hurt an animal." Not surprisingly, the U.S. beef industry is not excited by the prospect of lab-grown meat. "We feel confident that consumers will continue to trust and prefer traditionally raised (not lab-engineered) beef. No laboratory product will ever be able to take the place of cattlemen and women or the dedication they have to the customer, the consumer, or to rural America," said Chase Adams, spokesman for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. "Regardless of market, I do not foresee engineered beef as a viable or attractive option for consumers." Stephens, the University of Cardiff researcher, believes the idea of cultured meat is still too new for most people to wrap their heads around. Is it really meat, or is it something else? "If you ask the biologists working on it … many of them will tell you it will be meat when the material composition of the cultured meat is sufficiently similar to traditional meat," he said. "I am a sociologist, so to me the meaning of something is not defined by its material properties but by how society more broadly makes sense of … (it). "Cultured meat is still very new in the public imagination, and I think many people are still working out what they think about it."


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It was inevitable, I suppose. We've been poring over the year-end financials for this website, and the end result is that increased expenses have us operating slightly cash-flow negative. At this rate, sort of like Jose Offerman's managerial career, it doesn't look like we're going to make it to March. We have no choice, then, but to downsize the SoSG staff.
Put another way, one of the seven Sons is going to get iced.
But rather than pick numbers out of a hat or play Russian roulette, we decided to make sport of it; why not take the humiliation public, and get our readers involved in the downsizing?
Here's the rules, then:
1. The campaign period starts today. Each Son can campaign on his behalf through publishing posts why he deserves to be spared. The campaign period will run roughly one week, until Monday, January 25, 2010.
2. Readers can get involved campaigning for or against a Son. Any reader can email us with a quick post about why a certain Son deserves to stay on staff, or why a certain Son has to go. Either way, we'll take a look at the post, and if it's fit to print, we'll run it. Some of you readers may not know as much about all the Sons, so feel free to use this and this as reference material.
3. On Monday, January 25, 2010, we'll run a poll and keep it up for 24 hours. Reader vote will determine which Son has his flame extinguished. And then, there will be six.
I know this is a really emotional time for us all, and I just ask that you all be sensitive here. It's not personal. Well, except for toward one of us.


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MIA Awards 2013: Computer Music Music Software of the Year Award
The contenders
Having gathered your votes on our long list of nominations last month, we're pleased to present - in alphabetical order - the final shortlist of the 10 products competing for the Computer Music Music Software of the Year Award.
The final winner will be announced at the prestigious MIA Awards bash at the Park Plaza Riverbank hotel in London on 4 December.
Run in conjunction with the UK's Music Industries Associaton (MIA), this award is designed to celebrate the very best in performance, quality, value for money and retail success. The shortlist recognises the finest products to have come to market since November 2012, but is in alphabetical rather than ranked order. Browse the gallery to see the hardware that made the final list!
Ableton Live 9
Our verdict
"A fantastic update that refines and builds upon the creative features that Live is best at."
FULL REVIEW: Ableton Live 9
(Reviewed in Future Music)
Apple Logic Pro X
Our verdict
"X marks the sweet spot for Logic Pro, being accessible enough not to offend GarageBand graduates while pulling enough new tricks to keep the faithful satisfied without compromising its heritage in the process."
FULL REVIEW: Apple Logic Pro X
Cakewalk Sonar X2
Our verdict
"Evolution rather than revolution, X2 is a worthy upgrade for X1 users and a great PC DAW option for everyone else."
FULL REVIEW: Cakewalk Sonar X2
(Reviewed in Computer Music)
D16 Group LuSH-101
Our verdict
"An absolute classic taken to dazzling new heights, LuSH-101 proves to be well worth the wait, despite a few flaws."
FULL REVIEW: D16 Group LuSH-101
(Reviewed in Computer Music)
DMG Audio EQuilibrium
Our verdict
"This could well be the greatest EQ ever made - it's certainly the most versatile and it's definitely revolutionary. Utterly essential."
FULL REVIEW: DMG Audio EQuilibrium
(Reviewed in Computer Music)
Image-Line FL Studio 11
Our verdict
"FL Studio continues to age gracefully, still with its own identity but adding features that bring it into line with current music making paradigms."
FULL REVIEW: Image-Line FL Studio 11
(Reviewed in Computer Music)
Propellerheads Reason 7
Our verdict
"Thanks to some well-placed tweaks and deeper features, this is the most refined and powerful version of Reason we've seen yet."
FULL REVIEW: Propellerheads Reason 7
Slate Digital Virtual Bus Compressors
Our verdict
"Three great buss compressor emulations with some welcome enhancements and a staggeringly convincing 'analogue' sound."
FULL REVIEW: Slate Digital Virtual Bus Compressors
(Reviewed in Computer Music)
Sonic Charge Permut8
Our verdict
"With its 'vintage' layout and crazy, inspirational sound, this is a true one-off. Don't let it pass you by."
FULL REVIEW: Sonic Charge Permut8
(Reviewed in Future Music)
Steinberg Cubase 7
Our verdict
"An excellent update, bringing yet more power, quality and innovation to Cubase."
FULL REVIEW: Steinberg Cubase 7
(Reviewed in Computer Music)


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Al's Hidden Valley Tree Farm
2023 Season Hours:
Open 9 am to 4 pm Nov 25/26,
Dec 2/3, and Dec 9/10.
A family owned farm that has been providing the best-grown and cared for Christmas trees to the Eugene and surrounding areas for over 30 years. You won't have a better time finding your Christmas tree than at our farm. Take a free hay wagon ride through the fields while searching out your tree or warm up with a free cup of hot cocoa, apple cider or coffee while enjoying our covered campfire.
We pride ourselves on providing the best trees possible in a family-friendly environment to help you and your family make the most of your Christmas season.


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August 4, 2009
Effective August 1, 2009, Goodman Conveyor Company and Hewitt-Robins united to create Goodman-Hewitt Conveyors & Components.
"This new company is based on the premise that we are here to get you what you want, when you want it," explained Doug Markham, president, Goodman-Hewitt. "To accomplish this, we have real people answering the phones and increased inventories. For example, we have both ball and roller type components, plus the choice of regreasable or sealed bearings. Plus, we have knowledgeable experts available to help our customers select the right conveyor components to meet their specific conveying challenges. It's simple: we are organized to put the customer first. Period. End of story."
In 1877, Jeffrey Manufacturing was founded. In 1891, Thomas Robins, founder of Hewitt-Robins, developed the first practical conveyor system for moving heavy abrasive materials utilizing steel idler rolls and rubber covered belting. In 1898, Goodman Equipment was created. Goodman Conveyor was formed in 1984 with the merging of the conveyor divisions of Jeffrey and Goodman.
Goodman-Hewitt Conveyors & Components is headquartered in Belton, SC and provides CEMA B-, C-, D-, and E-rated conveyors and components.
For more information, visit www.goodman-hewitt.com.
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There is no space in time quite as lonely as that after a nightmare. The house has quieted back down, after being rudely awakened by screams and it is eerily peaceful.
Eerily, I say, because it seems so unnatural that the world could continue on--that people could sleep, no less--after having their world so violently and shockingly torn apart.
But, they don't see the scenes replayed on the screens of their eyelids everytime they drift closed. They don't hear the sickening thud that brought an ending to every good and perfect thing in their life.
There is no time when I pray quite as fervently--almost feverishly--as in these hours as I sit and watch my treasures sleeping, praying to a God I had all but convinced myself was done listening to me years ago, a God I now choose daily to put my hope in, to spare me from my (thankfully imagined) tragedy.
The morning comes, the sun comes up and hope dawns anew. A new day, and I hold those I love close and vow to treasure every. single. moment. that I am given.
Nothing says "hope anew" like tiny dahlias from the garden in a little silver cream pitcher.
(Today's post is something new I'm trying--I'm linking up with Heather at The Extraordinary Ordinary for Just Write, an exercise in "free writing your ordinary and extraordinary moments." Still finding my blog-gy footing, so thanks for letting me "try it out" on you!)


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23 February 2017 | ||
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The cultural association "L'Arte dei Mascareri" organizes and promotes the third edition of the Ballad of the Masks, this year with 2 parades.
This will be an interpretation of the legend of "Giovedì Grasso" of the year 1162, the day of the celebration of the victory upon the Patriarch Ulrico of Aquileia and his twelve rebel lords. To remember the attempting rebellion, every year the successors of Ulrico must send to the Doge of Venice a bull, twelve breads and twelve pigs. The bull is a symbol for the Patriarch and the pigs for the lords. They were shown to the people in the square, mocked and then the bull was beheaded. This is the origin of the Venetian proverb "To cut the bull's head" (Tagliar la testa al toro). Then the animals were butchered and cooked, and all the Venetians could eat their meat.
"L'Arte dei Mascareri" invite you to participate, possibly dressed up with a traditional artisanal mask, to the celebration that will start February Thursday the 23th.
The meeting will be in San Giacometto, Rialto, at 2.30pm.
- Campo San Bartolomeo
- Campo San Luca
- Campo Sant'Angelo
- Campo Santo Stefano
- La Fenice Opera Theatre
The Celebration will last until 5.00pm, with the great conclusion in Piazza San Marco with the "Beheading of the Bull".


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Fila had its stable of players flaunt the company's spring offerings. We already showed you some of the women's gear (Karin Knapp wore pink from the Center Court Group) but there are more bits. Unfortunately for the Fila, their men didn't do so hot, so the collection was out of the picture by middle of week 1.
Svetlana Kuznetsova is being considered alongside Dinara Safina as the Russian who'll take the final spot from that top half of the draw. (Check out who's left in the Round of 16.)
The fourth seeded Russian will face Victoria Azarenka in the fourth round. She wears the bubble-patterned sleeveless top from the Spring Baseline collection.
Agnes Szavay wore the white version of the Baseline Sleeveless Top during her loss to Petra Kvitova 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 2-6 in the third round. We don't have a picture of it here, but I can tell you that Agi's shoes, which are also from Fila (a claycourt version of the Alfa), has her name embroidered onto the shoe.
Thanks to Tennishead for this photo of Agi…
Janko Tipsarevic, Marin Cilic, and Dmitry Tursunov all wore the key piece for the company's men's spring Centre Court collection. The Fila team came up with the yellow thumbprint pattern based on what the players wanted for spring — something fun and with more color.
The pattern also appears as more muted detail in a white polo, but none of the players wore this to their matches.
I got to see Dima's customized shoes, too. (His name's on them.)
Janko fell to Nicolas Lapentti 4-6, 6-4, 1-6, 6-7 (7) in the first round. Cilic lost to ninth seed Stanislas Wawrinka 6-7 (3), 6-7 (4), 1-6. (How did he get to No. 9?!) And Tursunov bowed out to Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-7 (1), 3-6, 4-6 in the third round.
Andreas Seppi wears a perfomrance polo as he falls to Mario Ancic 2-6, 6-7 (1), 2-6 in the first round.
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"iParty With VICTORiOUS" Premieres to 7.3 Million Viewers
via Nickelodeon press release:
NICKELODEON'S "iPARTY WITH VICTORIOUS" TV EVENT DRAWS 7.3 MILLION VIEWERS
Telecast Ranks as Number-One Entertainment Program in 2011 with Kids and Tweens
NEW YORK–June 13, 2011–Nickelodeon kicked off the summer with the hot TV event, "iParty with Victorious" (Saturday, June 11, 2011, at 8 p.m. ET/PT), which drew 7.3 million total viewers. The 90-minute original, which unites the casts of Nick's mega-hit iCarly and ratings smash Victorious, has also taken the top spot, ranking as the number-one entertainment telecast of 2011 across all TV with kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14.
"iParty with Victorious," which guest starred Nick alum Kenan Thompson, posted huge triple-digit gains over last year's like time period and averaged a 9.8/3.5 million K2-11 (+188%), 13.3/2.9 million K6-11 (+136%) and 13.7/2.9 million T9-14 (+234%). The primetime premiere also led its direct competitor in the same time period by huge triple and quadruple-digits, with total viewers and all kid and tween demos.
In "iParty with Victorious," Carly is dating a boy named Stephen who divides his time between parents living in Seattle and Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Tori is also spending time with her new boyfriend who, unbeknownst to her, is the very same boy Carly is dating! Elsewhere at Hollywood Arts, Andre is psyched because Kenan Thompson has offered to let him throw a small party in his awesome new house but the party spirals out of control when Rex tweets a mass invite. Back in Seattle, Carly suspects that Stephen is cheating on her after seeing a photo of him and Tori together and plans a trip to Los Angeles to catch him in the act. After convincing Tori that Stephen is cheating on both of them, Carly and Tori come together to plot their revenge at the party.
Nickelodeon, now in its 32nd year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in more than 100 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 16 consecutive years. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B).


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says the U.S. economy grew at a much faster pace last year than previously estimated. The revised growth figures signal a more sustainable economic recovery and help explain why job growth has accelerated this year.
The economy expanded at a 2.8 percent annual rate in 2012, up from a previous estimate of 2.2 percent. Consumers and businesses spent more and governments cut back on their spending less.
The updated growth figures reported Wednesday by the Commerce Department are part of comprehensive revisions going back several decades.
The upgrade to 2012 growth helps resolve a disparity that has puzzled economists. Hiring picked up late last year and has remained solid this year. The economy has created more than 200,000 jobs a month on average since last fall.
Yet the government had said that economic growth was tepid last year. Faster growth typically drives more hiring. The previously reported growth figures had economists worried that employers would eventually have to slow hiring.
But growth is now closer in line with the job gains, a sign that the more robust hiring may endure.
The revisions are part of comprehensive changes, made roughly every five years, to the nation's gross domestic product. GDP is the broadest measure of the output of goods and services and includes everything from restaurant meals to television production to steel manufacturing. The revisions alter the data all the way back to 1929, though the largest changes were made to the past five years.
Still, the economy's broad trends are roughly the same as before. The government now says the economy shrank 4.3 percent during the recession, which lasted from December 2007 through June 2009. That's better than the previous estimate of a 4.7 percent decline. But it still remains the deepest downturn since the Great Depression.
And the recovery is still subpar. The economy expanded 8.2 percent from June 2009 through the end of last year, up from 7.6 percent, but still the weakest recovery since World War II.
Most of the change in growth rates stems from newly available and updated data from agencies such as the Census Bureau and Internal Revenue Service. Many monthly surveys of manufacturing, retail and other businesses are updated with more comprehensive annual reports.
The department has also made substantial alterations in how it defines GDP. Those changes have increased the size of the economy, through 2012, by 3 percent, or $560 billion. They include:
— Research and development spending is counted as an investment, rather than an expense. That's because it is similar to other investments, such as factories, industrial machinery and housing, Commerce officials say. R&D can have long-lasting benefits and be used in the production of other items.
— Spending on entertainment and the development of movies, books, music and TV shows are counted as investments. That's because they can generate sales and profits for years after they've been produced. Only long-lasting TV shows, such as sitcoms and dramas, are counted as investment. Reality shows and game shows, which have shorter shelf lives, aren't.
— Future pension benefits promised by governments and private companies are counted as income. Previously, only cash payments by companies and government agencies into their pension plans counted as income. This change boosted Americans' savings rate by about 1.5 percentage points in 2011 and 2012 — to 5.6 percent and 5.7 percent, respectively. The government says the change better reflects the retirement plans of those Americans with pensions and is less subject to manipulation than the cash payments.
Economists say that treating R&D spending as investment recognizes the critical role that intangible assets, such as patents or other intellectual property, now play in the U.S. economy.
"It brings the GDP accounts out of the dark ages and into the 21st century," says Joe Carson, an economist at AllianceBernstein. Carson notes that much of the value of a smartphone is in the design, rather than the manufacture of the product, and that wasn't fully captured under previous calculations.


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The ZENworks Endpoint Security Management components can be deployed in a consolidated (single server) configuration or a distributed (multiple server) configuration. In addition, a non-directory-service configuration is available that you can use if you do not have a supported directory system (Microsoft Active Directory or Novell® eDirectory™) or if you want to evaluate the product without installing all of the components.
In a consolidated configuration, you install both the Management Service and the Policy Distribution Service to the same server inside your corporate firewall. The Management Console can be installed on the server or on another machine that has access to the server. Likewise, the SQL database engine can be on the same server or on a dedicated SQL server.
Because the server is inside the firewall, users receive policy updates only when they are inside the firewall or connected via a VPN.
For functional, performance, and security reasons, this configuration is not supported on a Primary Domain Controller (PDC).
To create this configuration, complete the tasks in the following sections:
In a multi-server configuration, you install the Management Service and Policy Distribution Service to different servers. The benefits of this configuration include distributing workload between the servers and supporting external users without requiring a VPN.
You install the Management Service to a server on your internal network so that it is protected by your firewall. This enables it to securely communicate with the directory service and SQL database engine.
Where you install the Policy Distribution Service depends on the location of your users and the security requirements for your network. In the following scenario, the Policy Distribution Service is located outside of the internal network in the DMZ (demilitarized zone). This allows external users to access it without using a VPN. At the same time, internal users can still access it.
If you don't have external users, or if your external users frequently use VPN to connect to your internal network, you can place the Policy Distribution Service on a server inside your internal network, as shown in the following diagram:
To create this configuration, complete the tasks in the following sections:
ZENworks Endpoint Security Management requires Microsoft Active Directory or Novell eDirectory as its directory service. If you don't use one of these directory services, or if you want to evaluate the product without installing all of the ZENworks Endpoint Security Management components, you can use a non-directory service configuration.
The non-directory service configuration, as shown below, employs a standalone Management Console that writes security policies directly to the SQL databases. The SQL engine and databases must be located on the same machine as the Management Console.
The Management Service and Policy Distribution Service are not used in a non-directory service configuration. This means that:
Automated distribution of security policies to devices is not possible. Instead, to distribute security policies, you export the policies from the Management Console and copy them to the device.
Compliance reporting (reporting from the Security Client to the Management Console) is not available.
To create this configuration, complete the tasks in the following sections:


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The role of the Business Intelligence (BI) function within the organization has become critical to thriving in today's evolving business environment. The ultimate purpose of Business Intelligence is to provide management with analytical insights that can be used to improve business performance and competitive position. Analytics provided by the BI department while intended to focus the organization on their core operations and progress toward aligning to their strategic objectives, increasingly can be the impetus for transformational change.
A review of top companies in their industries clearly shows that they all mange their performance using some sort of BI techniques. The standard tools of BI are based upon gathering actionable metrics that can be used to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their operations. This data is analyzed and compiled into reports including dashboards, scorecards, and predictive models. As an added service in more evolved companies, the BI team generally provides consulting on metrics to propose ways to help make better decisions about operations and suggest improvement initiatives.
Often the development of these insights is closely guarded within the company to ensure at least a temporary advantage in the marketplace. The intent is that analytical capabilities will provide them the edge of a first mover as they develop new markets or approaches for their business.
The Problem
This advantage does not last for long in today's connected world.
The basic analytical tools of BI however are well known in the public domain. Implementing basic BI has become not a luxury but a standard cost of doing business. Books such as Competing on Analytics give many examples of the types of analytics that can be collected and analyzed. There is also a tremendous amount of open information on BI and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on the web. Companies can use this information to identify enhancements to their current analysis through their own review of wikis and blogs and even competitors websites.
The Dilemma
The dilemma of what to hold close and what to open up is increasingly becoming a key decision point in a BI project's lifecycle. The discussions weigh the pros and cons of when it is best to foster creativity through opening up their research to collaboration and when Intellectual Property (IP) should be preserved. Often the decisions are not clear cut and there may be lively discussions between the BI team and the executive team around what is the best approach for this situation. At the heart of these discussions is whether competitive advantage would be better served by keeping their intent secret, for the short term, or whether in the interest of speed and expertise it would be better to tap into the wiki community.
The overall purpose of Wikis is to provide a place to share content, ideas, links, and collaborate on information, technical documentation, or the development of new ideas. The Wiki world in contrast to the traditional BI world thrives on openness and transparency. Some of the key advantages of the wiki approach are:
- The potential to leverage the talents within the wider community;
- A reduction in the time to innovation; and
- The ability to incorporate social purposes that may go beyond the core competency of the company. An example is using external assistance in developing approaches to help the organization move into to being "green".
Clearly there are compelling advantages to be gained by developing analytic dimensions with the help of the larger wiki community. Precedents for using this approach are also becoming more common. Some well-known examples of advances made by opening up IP include: the development of Linux; Netflix's contest to develop an algorithm for customer preferences; and Google's opening up application development for the Android. In each case the advantages of using the wiki world to enhance what may have been considered to be IP was outweighed by the benefits of collaboration.
Final Thoughts…
Secrecy in all areas of analytical review is no longer possible or even preferable in a world that is increasingly transparent with the pervasive use of social media by today's employees who are mobile, connected, and less likely than previous generations to remain in one job for long periods. There are significant advantages to a business in tapping into the networked intelligence to speed up problem solving or make breakthroughs. These benefits may in some cases outweigh the potential risk of the competition using the same information or approach. The final decision however cannot be rote but must rest with the complexity of the use and the expertise of internal resources to meet that need.