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411 Games Fact or Fiction 11.01.12: iPad Mini, Ace Attorney 5, Zynga, and More
Hello everyone and welcome to this week's edition of Fact or Fiction. As always, I am Daniel Anderson and I hope everyone has had a good week. I just got settled in my new apartment and at my new job and was looking forward to getting back to doing this column. So what happens? A hurricane is headed my way and I am getting told I could lose power for several days. Joy. Anyway, this week we have 411's Stephen Randle going up against Vince Osorio. Let's see what they have to say, before the power goes out, shall we?
1.) With all the layoffs and game cancellations, we are seeing the start of the death of Zynga.
Vince Osorio – Fact: I'm not going to proclaim that Zynga's time is up in this industry, but it's obvious that their lucrative business model isn't paying off as handsomely as it had at previous times. Zynga will be around for a while, I can say that. In what form? I don't exactly know, but I do know that something's gotta give at some point. The "Ville" model has obviously grown stagnant, repelling potential customers, and if Zynga doesn't keep up, they'll go the way of the dodo (or in video game terms, the way of Acclaim).
Stephen Randle – Fact: If Zynga even manages to limp into the New Year, I can't imagine it will survive to see the end of 2013, unless it's as a subsidiary of a larger company that snaps it up for whatever licenses they have left. Gee, Facebook games have a limited shelf life. Who knew?
Score: 1 for 1 – Does anyone still think that appealing solely to casual gamers is a way to build a long term successful company anymore? All of Zynga's games, looking back, seem to just have been fads that people got into just because one of their friends got into it. Now the audience has moved on and Zynga can't replicate their previous success. I will be shocked if Zynga still exists at the end of 2013.
2.) You are surprised about the dismissal of most of the class action lawsuit against Sony for the Playstation Network hack.
Vince Osorio – Fiction: I'm not particularly surprised at all that the lawsuit was dismissed. The Privacy Policy that we all sign when joining PSN more or less gives Sony a free pass when it comes to potential security disasters involving the service- we acknowledge the risk of adding our personal information to the service. That's what it's there for- to save Sony's behind in case someone wants to file a lawsuit against them for any number of reasons. It's one of those cases where it was kind of obvious that "the man" was going to win one over the little guy.
Stephen Randle – Fiction: don't know much of the legal stuff going on, but I'd wager that since Sony gave out free games and PS Plus subscriptions and some other stuff as compensation, there's not much chance that any lawsuit would receive much else in damages. Plus, apparently the lawsuits were dismissed because the people suing were using the free PSN, as opposed to Playstation Plus, where they could that they were paying for a service that they weren't receiving, and thus were ineligible in the terms of the original suit. The option to re-file under different terms is still there, but I'd imagine most of the fire has gone out of people since the initial suit was filed.
Score: 2 for 2 – I'm not surprised. This seemed like pretty obvious money grab when first filed, and it deserved a rapid dismissal.
3.) You are interested in the iPad Mini.
Vince Osorio – Fiction: I just don't really enjoy using 7″ tablets all that much. They're in a weird middle ground where it's too big to be truly mobile but too small to give you the real estate advantage of having an actual 10″ tablet, which leads to wonky text wrapping & other compromises made to fit the screen. The iPad Mini specs are pretty solid (comparable to an iPad 2) but the $329 price tag is off-putting. I'm sure it'll sell like gangbusters- there's an audience for it & Apple products sell regardless, but why would I get an underwhelming 7″ tablet for $329 when I can get the real deal for $170 more, or way more promising & customizable 7″ tablets like the Kindle Fire HD, Nexus 7 & the Nook HD for $120 less?
Stephen Randle – Fiction: I have a laptop and an iPhone. Why would I want some mutant thing that's somewhere between the two? And don't say, "As an e-reader". Screw Kindle, I love books. Actual, physical books. I have shelves of books. I have so many books they qualify as a significant portion of my asset portfolio.
Score: 3 for 3 – I haven't spoken to anyone that can come up with a reason for wanting an expensive but smaller iPad. Doesn't mean it won't sell like crazy because it has Apple's name (well logo) on it though. Also Randle, try packing, loading, and unloading all your books yourself and tell me there is no need for an e-reader. I buy some physical books even with having an e-reader, but only ones to complete a set (like buying hardback versions of Dresden Files – Nov. 27th can't get here fast enough), but also buy e-versions of the books for convenience.
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4.) Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse is going to be a decent game.
Stephen Randle – Fact: It's pretty much looking like a formula platformer with a popular license, so I'd imagine it'll be decent, if unspectacular. Actually, the original Family Guy game had some unique ideas and the Multiverse episode is one of the few Family Guy episodes from the last several years that hasn't made me want to rip out my eyeballs and go on a killing spree to attempt to ensure that some people might be spared having to watch them. What was I talking about? Oh, yeah, I'm sure it'll be fine
Vince Osorio – Fiction: I had this running joke back when I was running the Bytes & Flops feature on the site about Activision taking one slightly-promising game on their release schedule & dumping it on retail shelves with little to no promotion just weeks out from the release of the next Call of Duty game. Remember X-Men: Destiny? How about Singularity? or Blood Stone: James Bond 007? Activision obviously has no confidence in Back to the Multiverse, sending it out to die a week after Black Ops 2 dominates the sales charts. Activision smelled a stinker in both X-Men & Blood Stone, that has to be the case here. Best case scenario: The game is a largely playable (though boring & generic) platformer that has moments of humor, like The Simpsons Game. I'm not willing to be on that happening, however.
Score: 3 for 4 – I can't argue or add to anything Randle said in regards to Family Guy. Either the TV show or the game.
5.) You like the idea of Ace Attorney 5 using full voiceover.
Stephen Randle – Fact: I'm generally a fan of full voice-over in any game. In fact, it's half the reason I want so many of my favorite old games to have full HD remakes. Reading text is for suckers!
Vince Osorio – Fact: Yes, hell yes, I will gladly take a fully voice-acted Ace Attorney game. The writing in that series is already stellar, I can only imagine the over-the-top voices they'll find for Phoenix, Miles & the rest of the crew.
Score: 4 for 5 – It would be very difficult to screw up a full voice over Ace Attorney game. Not impossible, but you would have to try to screw it up.
6.) You have hope that the Assassin's Creed movie with Michael Fassbender will be a decent movie.
Stephen Randle – Fact: I fail to see how it could be anything else. Uwe Boll isn't directing, right? I love the Assassin's Creed games, but I'm so far behind in my backlog that I'll never get through them all, and this way I'll hopefully get to watch the story, which is half the reason I like the franchise in the first place. Assuming they don't, you know, fuck it up like so many video game movies before this one.
Vince Osorio – Fiction: I'm definitely more interested in the Assassin's Creed movie with Fassbender attached, but I'm still way too skeptical. It'll take much more than Fassbender's involvement to make this a successful video game to film adaptation. If one great actor directly corresponded to a film's quality, then Prince of Persia starring Academy-Award Winner Sir Ben Kingsley should've been a smash hit. Let's revisit this topic when a worthy director, screenwriter & producer is attached to the product.
Score: 4 for 6 – I think the key word is decent. As long as Uwe Boll stays away from this there is a good chance it will be decent. Not great necessarily, but at least decent.
Bonus Question: Out of the games yet to be released this year, which will have the best sales?
Stephen Randle – I suppose that the game packaged with the Wii U doesn't count? Because that one's probably going to move a few copies. Well then, although I won't be one of those salivating dogs lined up to get it, I'd imagine Black Ops 2 will pretty much be the highest-selling title for the rest of the year.
Vince Osorio – Black Ops 2 and it won't be a close race. As crazy as this sounds, I think Assassin's Creed 3 has the potential to outsell Halo 4, not just though combined platform sales, but also just on the 360 platform. If it happens, remember who said it first.
That wraps up this week's edition of Fact or Fiction. Vince and Stephen went 4 for 6 agreeing more then disagreeing. I hope everyone enjoys the busy release schedule in the next few weeks, and until next week, happy gaming.


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Ruger 10/22 is probably the best semi-auto out there. Sorry missed the bolt gun reference.
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I'm looking to pick up a 22 rifle. My only experiance is with an old marlin my great-uncle had. Who nowadays makes a decent 22 rifle? I'm looking for something bolt action, wood stock, and under 200 dollars. Thanks and take care!
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Ruger 10/22 is probably the best semi-auto out there. Sorry missed the bolt gun reference.
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ruger 10/22 in a semi auto
but since you asked for a bolt gun a CZ452 is very nice
I have been looking too, I really, really like the trigger on the new Savages, go to thier web site, both them and Marlin have some available for under $200 you should like. Crexrun
Both brands are quite accurate for the money. :)
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I just nudged this rifle for sale
Price currently is higher than your budget but this rifle is a classic and quite collectible. Take a peek.
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Have to go with the 10/22 also, bolt action ok, but semi auto with banana clip fun
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Ruger also makes a bolt gun 22. 77/22 I think.
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CZ...no doubt ! For grins...go pickup a Henry lever action (either the plain or yellow boy) and see how smooth that is. Just might make you change your mind.
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Springfield, Ohio — A year after introducing its groundbreaking Center for Civic and Urban Engagement, Wittenberg will welcome urban policy expert and author David Rusk as the featured speaker for the Witt Series-sponsored Opening Convocation of the university's 165th academic year. The event, which kicks off two days of innovative educational opportunities centered on urban issues, is scheduled to begin with pre-service music at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, in Wittenberg's historic Weaver Chapel.
Rusk, an independent consultant on urban and suburban policy who has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the "hottest urban expert in the nation today," will speak about the critical importance of hospitals and universities to communities. Not coincidentally, Springfield is in the midst of a landscape-altering downtown construction project that will merge the city's two hospitals into one regional medical campus.
The Springfield Regional Medical Center project will effectively create a campus on each side of Buck Creek, with Wittenberg situated opposite the medical facility. Recently, Rusk has been documenting the critical role that college campuses and medical campuses play in anchoring urban cores, especially in Ohio. Rusk will also evaluate just how well Springfield and Clark County have done in implementing the recommendations he made in his previous Witt Series presentation in April 1997.
Wittenberg's Center for Civic and Urban Engagement is playing host to Rusk and is organizing additional activities, including classroom appearances and participation in a community luncheon, which will be followed by breakout sessions on various contemporary developments in the Springfield area and a dinner with community leaders.
"I think this will be a great chance for the Wittenberg community to come together with the Springfield community on a topic near and dear to both," said Stephanie McCuistion, director of the Center for Civic and Urban Engagement.
Rusk is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where he was the Phi Beta Kappa outstanding undergraduate student in economics in 1962. After working with the Washington Urban League and the United States Department of Labor, he moved to Albuquerque, N.M., where he became a state legislator and then the city's mayor from 1977-81.
Since 1993, Rusk has spoken and consulted in more than 120 U.S. communities, and he has lectured on urban problems in England, Germany and Canada. In addition, he served as an adviser to the government of South Africa on metropolitan governance in the nation's three largest cities in 1997, and he was a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam and Delft Technical University in The Netherlands in 2000.
Rusk has authored numerous articles in newspapers and periodicals, and he also spent 1992 as a guest scholar on urban affairs with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He has authored three successful books: Cities Without Suburbs (1993), Baltimore Unbound (1995) and Inside Game/Outside Game (1999).
Warren Copeland, faculty director Wittenberg's Center for Civic and Urban Engagement, professor of religion, director of urban studies and mayor of the City of Springfield, sees Rusk's visit as key to connecting the Wittenberg community to Springfield at a crucial turning point in Springfield's history.
"David Rusk is a master at turning data into an analysis of the future of cities that citizens can understand," he said. "That is why he is so respected as an urban expert. Our students and our community will have the opportunity to learn from the best."
The Witt Series is a selection of cultural activities annually presented by Wittenberg University. All Series events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Jeannine Fox, Series coordinator, at (937) 327-7470 or via e-mail.
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We've all heard how people perceive governance: It slows down processes, stifles innovation, and adds unnecessary bureaucracy. It's time to get over those perceptions. You need governance, and policies and processes don't need to be roadblocks. Instead, they can enable better customer experiences using governance models that bridge the gap between IT and the business, unify digital experiences across customer touchpoints, reduce time-to-market, and foster a culture of customer-centric innovation.
But right now many organizations we speak with haven't given enough thought to their governance model. We identified five main areas of digital customer experience governance that application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals should pay attention to:
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This past year was an exciting one for digital asset management (DAM). In 2012, DAM became an important part of the customer experience management (CXM) ecosystem, especially in providing content and data services and acting as a repository for rich media content. In other words, DAM helps enable marketers and information workers to create and manage digital experiences and they're associated content. Although many vendors I speak with have trouble articulating this vision to customers — many still think of DAM in terms of its traditional roots with creative professionals and niche verticals like publishing and media and entertainment — I've also seen a shift in other vendors to embrace this trend. This is smart, as based on the client questions I get, CXM is where DAM will find the most traction.
But as we're now officially one month into 2013, I've started to ask myself what's ahead for DAM this year and beyond:


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It seems the 1970s can't come back around quickly enough. In Milan at least, where the likes of Gucci brought back tunic silhouettes with trumpet sleeves and plenty of fanfare. Of course it's a modern interpretation of the era, and one that plays upon the refined, glamorous side. This isn't Woodstock. It's high society, slick up dos and impeccable grooming, the woman who gazes down at the world through long lashes and moves with a languid grace. It's hard to imagine clothes like these worn in any other way.
The '70s mood shone through in the colour palette – a set of block colours spanning from coral pink to aquamarine to sunshine yellow – as well as the silhouettes. But where featureless sweeps of fabric felt modern and minimal, creative director Frida Giannini contrasted them with thick and complex embellishments. And let's not forget the ruffles: as big as they were beautiful, Giannini's flouncing frills were the star of the show.
You can see all of the Gucci spring / summer 2013 runway collection by clicking on a thumbnail on the left. From there you can browse through each of the pictures from the fashion show.
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"Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest" (John 4:35).
Soon after beginning his public ministry, Jesus turns to his small band of disciples and speaks these words. He goes out of his way to grab the attention of his listeners before making a simple statement.
"Behold. I'm telling you. Lift up your eyes. Look." Why all this prelude to making his point?
Because Jesus knows his disciples, and we still today, will have trouble perceiving the reality he is describing!
It is hard for us to see and believe sometimes that the fields of Christian service are full and ripe, when we feel tired, empty, and barren.
There's a reason we find similarly pointed encouragements throughout Scripture. Discouragement and doubt are common experiences for disciples of Christ. Thus, in the Old Testament we are reminded, "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy" (Psalm 126:5). And in the New Testament Paul encourages with these words, "Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not" (Galatians 6:9).
It is precisely because the fields do not always look ripe that Jesus tells us, "Believe me, they are!"
So, weary and disheartened mother – trying to train your children in the way of the Lord and yet not seeing the heart-fruit you'd like to – behold! Jesus is speaking to you, telling you something! Lift up your eyes! Look! The field of your family is ripe for harvesting. So do not be weary in well doing, do not stop sowing gospel-seed in your children's hearts, even though sometimes it will be with tears and weeping.
Likewise, if you are a spouse with an unbelieving mate, a pastor in a small congregation, or an evangelistic co-worker who doesn't see any converts in the workplace – do not grow weary in your worthy labor.
Jesus says, "Behold, lift up your eyes, look. Because I am telling you myself that the fields are ripe for harvesting, no matter how challenging or discouraging things may seem to your natural eyes right now." The fields are white to harvest because this world is full of fatally sick people, and yet Jesus is able to heal even our greatest sickness. He is able to forgive our sins and cleanse our souls.
The harvest is ripe because Jesus is Lord.
May we marvel ourselves, then, at the power and authority of Jesus over the sickness, and sin, and Satanic influences in this world; and may we then take the good news of Jesus Christ to the world, seeing with eyes of faith that the harvest is ripe even now.
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UnityPoint Health - Des Moines understands that working together, we can do more and be more. This year we are working together with the Downtown Des Moines Farmers' Market to help spread the spirit of well-being through health and enjoyment. We'll be on-site every Saturday to offer special programs and activities that focus on living well, eating healthy, child safety, and weight loss. We will be located at our blue tent on the corner of 3rd & Court.
With over 200 vendors and an average of 20,000 visitors on any given Saturday, it can be difficult to decide what to do, what to eat, and where to go. We'll be sharing healthy recipes weekly that feature fresh, seasonal ingredients that you can buy locally at The Market as well as other "hidden gems" that you can find at the Downtown Farmers' Market.
In the spirit of summer and Des Moines, come be a part of the celebration of our local farmers and artists, and make sure to stop by our tent to learn more about having a healthy lifestyle that can start with eating fresh, local food! We look forward to meeting you!
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The most famous theory of the action of the inner ear is the "piano theory" of Helmholtz.
It is of that finer sort which the inner ear alone can estimate.
The last of these presses against an opening in the inner ear, a cavity surrounded by the bones of the head.
The inner ear also has to do with balancing the body as it has in fishes and other vertebrates.
A physical examination would show immediately that he was born without eardrums and that the inner ear bones are fused.
His lips did not move, yet McGuire heard the words as in some inner ear.
The organs of the inner ear, however, are well developed, and birds undoubtedly have excellent hearing.
In the higher vertebrates it is divided into the outer, middle, and inner ear.
It is now the "inner ear," which is symbolic of a higher type of musical art.
That is, it must be overheard by the inner ear, which statement rather puts a damper on Flaubert's contention.
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The portion of the ear within the temporal bone that is involved in hearing and balance and includes the semicircular canals, vestibule, and cochlea. Also called internal ear, labyrinth.
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The innermost part of the ear in many vertebrate animals, consisting of the cochlea, the semicircular canals, and the vestibule. Sound vibrations are transmitted from the cochlea of the inner ear to the brain by the auditory nerve. The semicircular canals and the vestibule are the body's organs of balance. See more at ear1.
The part of the ear, located deep within the skull, where sound vibrations are converted to electrical signals and sent to the brain via the auditory nerve to produce the sensation of hearing. Organs related to balance are also located in the inner ear.


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Pickering, Ontario native Brayden Schnur enrolled in January and immediately began playing #1 singles for the Tar Heels. Typically, a student-athlete who enrolls in January (in football, for example) has come to Carolina after graduating high school early. But not Schnur, who finished high school in Ontario last June and then began playing tennis in Futures tournaments.
Schnur accepted no money, retaining his amateur status while playing among the best young tennis players from around the world. Schnur was ranked as high as 26th in the junior world rankings, was the singles champion at the Canada F5 Futures and 2013 Canadian Open Junior Championships and also competed in the Junior U.S. Open, Junior Australian Open, Junior French Open and Junior Wimbledon. He's on the path to making a living as a professional tennis player. So why play college tennis?
"I just felt like mentally and physically, I had to mature," Schnur said last week. "I really wasn't strong enough day in and day out to compete at such a level. I felt like if I came to college and gave myself time, I'd be able to focus on getting bigger, mentally stronger and physically getting tough, that my chances when I'm older are going to be a lot better to go up in the rankings a lot faster."
Former Tar Heel Jose Hernandez helped initiate contact between Schnur and the Carolina coaching staff. "I was really interested, because I knew him really well, and he said what a great school it was, academics and athletics are amazing, top in the country, and I figured North Carolina was a warm place, so I was obviously interested in coming here to play tennis," he said. "As soon as I got here, I met the coaches and saw the facilities and I met the team, I fell in love with it. I knew this was going to be the place to continue my training."
Schnur's coming to Carolina has been mutually beneficial to the team and the individual. He is part of a loaded freshman class that has helped Carolina to a ranking of 12th nationally as of last weekend, and Schnur himself is ranked 19th in singles with a record of 9-0. In those nine complete matches, he has dropped just one set. On Friday, Carolina lost 4-1 at No. 1 Ohio State, but Schnur led No. 9 Peter Kobelt 7-6 (8-6), 5-6 when the Buckeyes clinched the match.
Coming in as a freshman and playing No. 1 singles does not afford Schnur any special treatment, however. He'd scheduled an interview for last Wednesday ahead of the team's trip to Columbus. After warm-ups, he began to run off the court. "Tell him you'll have to re-schedule," Tar Heel head coach Sam Paul said to Schnur. "You're playing doubles." Two days later, Schnur and freshman classmate Ronnie Schneider prevailed in their match with Ohio State's Herkko Pollanen and Hunter Callahan.
Schnur said there is more quality depth in professional tennis than in college, at least early in his career. Some schools have better tennis programs than others, whereas on the tour, everyone is playing for his own career. "I have to stay focused. I have to give everything I have to win, and it's definitely not a breeze," Schnur said. "I'm sure there are some guys that are going to push me even harder coming up, and I'm looking forward to the challenge."
He himself has had to adjust from playing tennis all day, every day to balancing athletics, and academics. "I was thinking tennis, tennis, tennis, tennis, tennis, and now I have to think about school, also," he said.
The last two and a half years of his high school education were completed online, so Schnur has had to get used to classroom learning again as well. He's not sure about his major just yet but enjoying learning from live instructors. "Maybe if a teacher were to teach me, I would engage myself a little more, I'd be interested in a subject as opposed to just reading off a screen," he said. "I'm just going to give myself the opportunity to just take a bunch of classes different classes, test everything out, and then pick (a major) from there."
There's also the social aspect of being a college student. Schnur said he has been welcomed to campus and has already engaged in at least one time-honored ritual for Carolina students. "Rushing Franklin Street the other day was just out of this world," he said. "That probably was one of the best nights I've ever had in my life. It was an unbelievable feeling just to be a part of that and feel like, 'Yeah, you know what? I am a normal student.'"
Over at Cone-Kenfield, Schnur is enjoying playing with a team, a group of individuals wearing the same colors and reaching for a common goal. "It's unbelievable. It's almost exactly like Davis Cup," he said. Schnur has said some of his favorite tournaments were when he played with a team, like at the Summer Canada Games (where he led Team Ontario to a gold medal). "To be able to do that for the next four years in a team atmosphere is unbelievable," he said. "There's a lot more energy, the team's focused, they pump you up, and it's nice to have someone on the sideline that you know you can count on to get you through matches and support you all the way."Carolina returns to Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center on Monday, March 10 for matches against Texas and Longwood at noon and 6 p.m., respectively.


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Kylie Minogue has revealed that plans to produce a West End musical based on her songs have been put on ice, but it is still her "dream" to make the project happen.
The 44-year-old singer has completed a synopsis with her creative director and stylist William Baker, and had hoped to have the musical ready this year. But she has been busy with her K25 celebrations, a year-long series of events and releases to mark her 25 years in pop music.
She said: "It actually took a bit of a back seat because so many other things are happening. But it's lurking. I think it's going to happen one way or another. It won't happen until I have got another album done. I was warned it would take a long time and now I'm understanding that.
"You can't present a musical which is going to cost however much to do, and then go, 'Actually, forget that one, here's a new improved one'. You've got to take your time and get it right."
Minogue said she had no plans to appear in the musical and it is not based on her life — her songs merely provide the backdrop.
Speaking at the launch of her new album The Abbey Road Sessions at the Savoy hotel, she added: "We've got the material, and maybe by the time it happens I'll have more material. My friend William and I have done the synopsis. The aim would be to do it in the West End. I love to see great musicals, so I wouldn't say it's a pipe dream, but it is a dream and it's going to take a while."
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Dancer2::Plugin::REST - A plugin for writing RESTful apps with Dancer2
version 0.27
This plugin helps you write a RESTful webservice with Dancer2.
package MyWebService; use Dancer2; use Dancer2::Plugin::REST; prepare_serializer_for_format; get '/user/:id.:format' => sub { User->find(params->{id}); }; get qr{^/user/(?<id>\d+)\.(?<format>\w+)} => sub { User->find(captures->{id}); }; # curl http://mywebservice/user/42.json { "id": 42, "name": "John Foo", email: "email@example.com"} # curl http://mywebservice/user/42.yml -- id: 42 name: "John Foo" email: "email@example.com"
The default format serializer hash which maps a given
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Dancer2::Serializer::* serializer. Unless overriden in the configuration, it defaults to:
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When this pragma is used, a before filter is set by the plugin to automatically change the serializer when a format is detected in the URI.
That means that each route you define with a :format param or captures token will trigger a serializer definition, if the format is known.
This lets you define all the REST actions you like as regular Dancer2 route handlers, without explicitly handling the outgoing data format.
Regexp routes will use the file-extension from captures->{'format'} to determine the serialization format.
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resource user => get => sub { # return user where id = params->{id} }, create => sub { # create a new user with params->{user} }, delete => sub { # delete user where id = params->{id} }, update => sub { # update user with params->{user} }; # this defines the following routes: # GET /user/:id # GET /user/:id.:format # POST /user # POST /user.:format # DELETE /user/:id # DELETE /user/:id.:format # PUT /user/:id # PUT /user/:id.:format
Some helpers are available. This helper will set an appropriate HTTP status for you.
status_ok({users => {...}});
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Unlike the official Facebook application, Friendly has been optimized to save space on your device, and preserve your battery. With Friendly, you only need one app for all your Facebook, Instagram and Facebook messenger needs.
For users with multiple Facebook or Instagram Accounts, or families sharing a device, Friendly makes it easy to switch between accounts.
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Am a healthy fit 38y male. Had vaser lipo on chin minor fat issues. Whole procedure lasted about 15 mins. Local anaesthetic 2 incisions then straight... READ MORE
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Well Mum finally gave up on the Citronella collar. I knew she would if I just kept barking, but I didn't think it would take her this long. Thank god she would rather spend her money buying herself new shoes.
It felt great to have that thing gone from around my neck and freedom was mine..well for a few brief moments anyway. Next thing out comes Mum with my brand new bright orange collar. As if the colour wasn't horrible enough, when she put it on me I felt these two prongy things in my neck I had no idea what they were for...until I barked. Man what a shocking experience, but it sure did shut me up quick smart.
Mum is very happy because I have barked only a few very short barks in the past day so she thinks she has won. We'll see..after all they don't call me Lucyfer for nothing :)
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C1 happening or being done at exactly the same time:
There were several simultaneous explosions in different cities.
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- There was a simultaneous trial taking place in the next building.
- There were simultaneous cheers from several parts of the crowd.
- A simultaneous translation was available through our headphones.
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Former Natrona fire hall packed with marijuana-growing equipment
Harrison police confiscated thousands of dollars worth of equipment on Sunday from a marijuana-growing operation in the former Natrona fire hall.
The building's owner, James Kubla, 35, of Harrison, will be arraigned Monday on drug-related charges in connection to the hydroponic operation along River Avenue, police said.
Kubla has been in the Allegheny County Jail since Saturday, when police arrested him for a domestic dispute in his River Avenue home.
Patrolman Floyd "Bucky" Taraszewski said police received information following Kubla's arrest that he was using the fire hall to grow "large amounts" of marijuana.
After obtaining a search warrant through District Judge Carolyn Bengel's office, police searched the fire hall at about 4 p.m. Sunday. A small bag of marijuana and a garbage bag full of the plant's leaves were discovered among hundreds of items used for a "flow grow" operation, Taraszewski said.
"It was a very elaborate and sophisticated irrigation system," he said. "It's the largest one I've ever seen."
Among the items that police confiscated from the fire hall were a 425-gallon plastic water tanker, two 55-gallon aluminum cylinders, about 150 fence posts used to stake the marijuana plants, eight 16-inch PVC pipes with built-in irrigation systems and 10 metal haloid lamps, commonly used to grow marijuana, Taraszewski said.
Police said they believe large amounts of marijuana had been removed from the building recently.
Taraszewski said he couldn't give a precise estimate of the inventory's worth beyond thousands of dollars, and didn't know how much marijuana the system could produce or at what rate.
Crews from Hilltop Hose Company of Harrison loaded the inventory onto two flatbed trucks and a pickup from 6 to 7 p.m. while traffic was shut down from Chestnut to Sycamore streets.
It was unknown what charges Kubla might face in connection with the growing operation. He was being detained on Sunday on simple assault, harassment and disorderly conduct charges stemming from Saturday afternoon's domestic dispute. His preliminary hearing for those charges is scheduled for Jan. 29.
The building hasn't been used as a fire hall in more than 20 years, according to Hilltop Captain Mike Krzeminski.
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Camp Directors - Update this ListingCamp Location: 146 Red Hill Road, Ottsville, Pennsylvania, 18942, United States
Ages: 9-16
Gender: Male and Female
Camp type:Overnight
Session dates: June 24-August 13, June 24-July 8, June 24-July 22, July 24-August 13
Cost (range): $1,675-$4,575
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Camp Galil is "The Spirit of Kibbutz Close to Home". Located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Camp Galil is a co-ed Jewish summer overnight Camp for ages 9-16. We offer 2, 3, 4 & 7 week sessions and are ACA accredited. Founded in 1946, Camp Galil is the local representative of the 7 Habonim Dror Camps. We provide Jewish Youth with a community and experience they will treasure their entire lives. In addition, we have an Israel trip program for 10th graders, a junior counselor program for 11th graders and a year-long youth movement for all our campers.
In addition to our sports, swimming, and arts & crafts programming, we have a variety of unique features: a high and low ropes course, out-of-camp trips, Hebrew language, informal education and Shabbat observance. We are kosher. Each summer our campers do tikkun olam (social service) projects such as packaging food for the Jewish Relief Agency and working with the Urban Tree Connection.


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STTR Phase I: Feasibility of Generating Electricity Using Thermal Energy Extracted From Existing Underground Coal & Waste Bank Fires
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AbstractThis Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is to develop an innovative, cost-effective, real time biosensor system that uses plants to monitor water and soil quality. Monitoring heavy metal contaminants in the environment, particularly in large or remote areas, is often cost-prohibitive due to the expense of the extensive sampling required to adequately assess heterogeneous distribution of the contaminants. The development of plant biosensors that indicate the presence of heavy metals could offer high spatial resolution, standoff reporting, ready scaling to large treatment areas, and continuous operation of an in-situ monitoring approach. The system could be used to detect and monitor metal concentrations in contaminated soil, water, or landfill leachate, before, during and after remedial activities, and used for risk assessment by monitoring the levels of bioavailable metals in the environment. This Phase I project seeks to take advantage of recent discoveries of a metal responsive promoter in Brassica juncea and link it to overexpression of anthocyanin production. The production of anthocyanins in response to metal uptake by the plant will create a visible (i.e., purple coloration) indicator of metal accumulation. By transforming plants with the anthocyanin regulatory gene, B, which activates anthocyanin production under the control of a metal responsive promoter (MRP) element, this project will develop plants that express high levels of anthocyanins only in the presence of certain metal ions. Such plants could then be used to monitor the concentration of pollutant metal ions. The development would also provide a valuable research tool for studying heavy metal accumulation in plants. The commercial application of this project is in the area of detection of heavy metal contaminants in soil. Improving the ability to accurately monitor and assess heavy metal contamination will improve awareness of contaminated areas and provide a low cost assessment of private sites by homeowners, farmers, and industry. Of particular usefulness would be the ability of farmers to detect the potential bioavailability of heavy metals to food crops.
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Chester Zoo is the place to visit if your child loves animals and learning about them. There are about twenty thousand animals which reside at the zoo on 125 acres of gardens which have been considered to be award winning. About 1.6 million people visit the zoo every single year. Families have enjoyed the zoo for years. The staff cares a great deal about every animal which lives in the exhibits and ensures that they are well taken care of and that all of their needs are met. The staff works hard because of the general love for animals and care for nature. They want to be the best charity for conservation in the entire world!
The staff at Chester Zoo is passionate about you and your family having an incredible experience just as much as they are passionate about what they do. They also work with the endangered wildlife that exist around the world. The zoo is open daily year round at 10am. The only exceptions being Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Chester Zoo offers a variety of things to do varying from beautiful animals to habitats. Explore their website to find out more information on the habitats and wonderful and happy wildlife that exist in the zoo currently.
The mammals which live in the zoo include the following: big cats, elephants, hoofed animals, monkeys and apes, meerkats, mongeese, and otters, horses and rhinos, bears, and dogs. The birds which reside in the zoo include: songbirds, penguins, parrots, ratites, flamingos, rollers, hornbills, owls, cranes, pigeons and doves. The zoo houses over 1,000 different types of birds. The zoo also houses reptiles! What zoo would be complete without them? The Chester Zoo has crocodiles, snakes and lizards, and turtles and tortoises. The amphibians of the zoo include frogs and toads. There are also marine fish as well as fresh water fish. The zoo also has invertebrates on display including: butterflies, moths, leaf and stick insects.
The Chester Zoo customer service team is available to provide information on the zoo location, hours of operation, ticket costs, and more. Information on exhibits and special events is available to those who wish to attend. Call the Chester Zoo phone number to request assistance with purchasing a yearly membership. Feel free to visit TheContactNumber for more information on how to contact the Chester Zoo support team.
The zoo exists primarily to the devotion, protection, and welfare of the wildlife and nature as a whole. The zoo has protected the biodiversity and fight against species extinction for over eighty years. The vision is for a diversely thriving natural world which is also sustainable. The mission of the zoo is the one of the major forces which is working towards conserving the world.
There are many zoos however none quite compare to the Chester Zoo. This zoo offers a unique experience to families. Children love visiting the zoo. They are able to see all of their favorite animals as well as learn about new animals each time they visit. Parents can appreciate the fact the museum is so dedicated to the conservation of the wildlife and nature of the zoo as well as that which exists outside of it. The staff of the zoo strive to create a happy and healthy environment for the animals in which it houses as well as a fun and wonderful experience for those visiting.
If you would like to visit the zoo, call the Chester Zoo contact number which can be found on directories such as Flaptor to book tickets. The website also offers a detailed list of each type of animal in its respective category. It also provides a brief history of that type of animal and why it is relevant to the wildlife existence today. This zoo is unique from other zoos because of the intense passion the staff has for nature. It is the mission of this zoo to conserve as much wildlife and nature as humanly possible, and even then some. Chester Zoo is a wonderful location to take your family for a fun filled and educational afternoon.


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The mace adds meaning and dignity to the commencement ritual. It reminds both participants and spectators that education is one of the most cherished attributes of a free and democratic society.
The Texas State University mace is made of bronze and walnut and displays the university seal in maroon and gold relief.
Beneath the seal is a metal base inscribed with the words Auctoritas, Gravitas, Humanitas and Veritas. These words come down to us from antiquity and represent the following shared academic values:


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Jim and Jeannette Murphy are pleased to announce the engagement of their son, Dillon Murphy, to Kristin Maidt, daughter of Michelle Maidt and the late Robert Maidt, of Charlotte, N.C. Dillon received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Washington and a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, in New York City. He is currently an associate at the intellectual property firm of Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper and Scinto. Kristin received her B.A. from American University and is working towards a masters of public administration at NYU's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. She expects to graduate in May 2013. The couple reside in New York City and are planning a spring wedding.


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NBC's venerable "Today Show" unveiled a new set and tried to unveil a new attitude on Monday morning, but the orange-tinged hues looked more than a little desperate.
"Today" has fallen and it can't get back up ... to No. 1 in the ratings. The show has carved out a spot at No. 2 behind ABC's "Good Morning America" in recent months.
"Today's" answer? Add Carson Daly to the mix and put him in something called the Orange Room, a new feature in the new "Today" set, unveiled on Monday mornng.
Matt Lauer was reporting about the floods from Colorado, but the rest of the "Today" team wandered awkwardly over to the Orange Room during Monday morning's telecast. Once there, they interacted awkwardly with "regular people" - with viewers, via social media.<


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I just saw what I thought was a great deal on a new marlin 336 in .30-30. It was $349 and it comes with a mounted scope (3-9x40). Usually $399, but Dicks sporting goods had a sale for $349. Guess what I have at home now? 3 guesses and the first 2 don't count.
It is a 336A. Looking at marlinfirearms, I see the C is positioned as better than the A in their literature. The only difference I can see is the stock, buttpad, marshield finish and a fluted comb.
Is there any difference between the models that is more than just cosmetics? I really don't want a cheaper firing mechanism or less accurate rifle. The furniture is no problem, that can be updated if I ever feel the need.
So, what differences are there? And what is the functionality of fluting the comb on a stock. I'm guessing it is aesthetics only, but I have been known to be wrong before.
And not related to the differences, but I'll ask anyway. I plan on using this exclusively for short distance deer hunting. Some property I hunt is very limited acreage and I would be shooting at most, 80 yards. I am thinking about removing the scope and putting some type of hi-viz fiber optics on the gun. Any recommendations?


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The division of labor at most companies is clear: Business development divines the big ideas, and IT toils to turn these concepts into workable software. And yet as far as IT's stature in the organization is concerned, this flow of ideas can no longer be in one direction and one direction only. In fact, the IT department that willfully assumes the role of order-taker is increasingly at risk of being outsourced.
Luckily for IT, being on the front lines of new technologies has its privileges. Marry this with an entrepreneurial spirit, and IT can assert a new relationship with the business by launching new, low-cost experiments geared toward exposing opportunities that those less familiar with today's technologies can't foresee.
[ Also on InfoWorld: Keep your IT organization humming by avoiding the 7 deadly sins of IT management and IT's 20 most common mistakes. ]
But to be taken seriously by the suits, IT must move beyond mere tinkering; instead, purpose-driven testing and proven results, when brought back to the business team to help develop a plan that scales appropriately, is the key to shedding the "operations only" stigma and making the organization take notice of the ingenuity of IT.
Of course, developing a meaningful prototype requires more than just an understanding of the underlying technology. It takes a level of cost-benefit analysis and insight into new revenue outlets that may not be as easy as the IT department would like to believe. After all, balancing the competing interests of customers and suppliers is just as tricky as balancing the load of a server farm. Here is where ambition can get the best of you. To avoid getting burned, a small-scale, low-risk approach to experimentation is key.
Here are five technical areas where experimentation can help IT improve its stature with the business development team. These are just a few examples of how IT can grow beyond keeping the server LEDs on and show the suits IT is a valuable partner when it comes to initiating revenue-minded projects.
Find out what options may be open for your enterprise:
Low-risk IT experiment No. 1: APIsLow-risk IT experiment No. 2: Social networksLow-risk IT experiment No. 3: Mobile appsLow-risk IT experiment No. 4: GeocodingLow-risk IT experiment No. 5: NoSQL
Low-risk IT experiment No. 1: APIs While some data must be kept secret, most information gets richer the more it is spread around. In fact, many Web companies trumpet the fact that they share some of their best data with others, even competitors. All it takes is the right call to their APIs.
Even the stodgiest 19th-century holdovers can benefit from releasing the right mixture of information through an API. All it takes is the ability to identify the information customers seek most and to build an API that reveals the right data to the right people at the right time.
In most cases, this information is already being delivered through a Web interface. An API would amount to the same information packaged in a programmer-friendly format such as XML or JSON. For example, a form on your Website can be recast as an API call to post data. Such an API would allow your business partners to automate the process of completing and submitting this form, thereby providing a deeper link between your Website and theirs.
Let's say your company requires registration for new customers. Turning this registration form into an API would enable your partners to register customers automatically. These clients can then gain access to the services of both companies, while both companies stand to greatly increase their customer base by working together through the use of this API.
Opening functions such as registration is easy; other data sources, however, require some care, as automation ceases to be a big help when it opens doors to spammers, bots, and other mixtures of minor and major fraud. Many APIs limit the number of times a partner can submit requests each day -- a simple barrier that can help ensure a mutually beneficial relationship. Companies such as Mashery.com aim to simplify many of the problems that can arise when you expose information in the form of APIs by offering simple throttling and authentication.
Finding the best way to work with other organizations via APIs is where the business development team can help. After the IT department has vetted possible features for the API, the business team can analyze the impact of the project, helping to guarantee that the company will gain maximum payback from this mode of opening data stores to partners.
An API, for instance, might save the company significant development costs if bundling information that way offloads meaningful development work onto its partners. Moreover, if the organization depends on the network effect to drive revenue through increased participation, for example, then the company can maximize its reach by pulling in as many new users as possible through the API. Opening up registration makes it easier for partners to share customers. If the goal is user-driven revenue, then the API should aim to convert users into paying customers by, say, limiting how much free information is available.
The side benefit is that API calls themselves produce plenty of worthwhile data that can be mined to support the bottom line. Even if the API calls are free, the patterns of requests could prove very valuable. Coupled with a NoSQL initiative (see "Low-risk IT experiment No. 5: NoSQL"), the data collected from API calls could surface unforeseen revenue opportunities.
All of these interactions begin with the tech team and end with polish from the business group. One opens up the data stream; the other decides how much to open the doors.
Check out low-risk IT experiment No. 2: Social networks
Low-risk IT experiment No. 2: Social networks Most business managers are already racking their brains trying to think of ways to unlock the power of social networks. More likely than not, your organization is no exception. Often the plans these business folks come up with are tricky and involve extensive programming -- but they don't need to. Some of the simplest solutions can be crafted with just a few extra HTML tags.
Twitter, for instance, makes it easy to link your content to Twitter posts with a simple URL: http://www.twitter.com/home?status=MESSAGE. Any message can be added to this URL, making it simple to add a button that allows visitors to share your Website's content or announce, say, their recent purchase of your goods to their followers.
Facebook offers a similar option for URLs that look like http://www.facebooks.com/sharer.php?u=URL= MESSAGE. Replacing the URL and MESSAGE will link up your site with Facebook.
These tricks help you avoid some of the more complex options offered by the social networks. When a user clicks on these links, they'll be taken to the respective social networking site to see if they're logged in. If they aren't, the site asks them to log in before letting them edit their message. In other words, the site handles the authentication, freeing you from the responsibility.
More sophisticated options, such as verifying the user's identity with a protocol called Oauth, offer more detailed integration and may be right for complete buildouts. At the beginning, though, they're not necessary. If the first round of experimentation proves useful, then the extras make sense. Again, start small, prove the sample case, and invite business development to contribute ideas once the results look promising.
After you've added these simple sharing buttons to existing Web pages, it may be worthwhile to analyze the propagation of these messages through your users' social networks. Such analysis can prove useful in planning for loads, designing marketing campaigns, and more. By understanding how users cluster around particular content, goods, or services rendered on your Website, your company will be better positioned to leverage these clusters to increase the exposure of your content, goods, or services to a broader audience, or to deepen the affinity existing users have for your company's offerings.
Unfortunately, using the simple links shown above won't leave you with any data for how the URLs move throughout the social networks. You can get around this limitation for the Facebook example by adding unique parameters to each URL before passing to Facebook. Then your log files will track the unique URL.
Check out low-risk IT experiment No. 3: Mobile apps
Low-cost IT experiment No. 3: Mobile apps The smartphone is now the dominant platform for roving users, and a well-tuned smartphone app can be both an advertisement and a real service to customers and end-users.
Creating smartphone apps, however, can be a headache. The demand for experienced mobile app developers is high, and some manufacturers, like Apple, are increasingly picky about what they allow on their devices.
A simple solution is to build a mobile-ready Website. Basic frameworks such as jQTouch make it easy to put together a site that displays information on Webkit browsers, such as those in use on iPhone and Android devices. All it takes is rewriting some HTML, and users will be able to search through your data conveniently on their phones.
This Web approach works well with APIs and doesn't require manufacturer approval of the content or the app. The user simply creates a bookmark to your smartphone Web page and the content does the rest. The jQTouch framework, for instance, lets you specify an icon that will appear on the user's phone just like an app from the app store. People who use their phone to visit your Web page can store the bookmark with this icon on their front page. It's another channel for distributing apps.
This approach will reward some businesses more than others. If your workers are on the go, then easy access to the company's Website from a smartphone will be popular. The key is to identify the data and transactions that matter most to these workers or to knowledge workers who frequently work away from their desks. Small-screen UI design is tricky, so it makes little sense to offer much beyond the most essential options.
In many cases, the IT department may not know what transactions are the best targets for the company's users. It may be valuable to confer with the sales force and business development team to help establish a game plan for exposing the appropriate data and services to users once you get your smartphone-friendly prototype in place.
Check out low-risk IT experiment No. 4: Geocoding
Low-risk IT experiment No. 4: Geocoding Every IT department has a database filled with tables, and every table could easily carry two extra columns. Latitude and longitude data are becoming increasingly easier to gather these days, thanks to smartphones and browsers that report users' locations. Why not use this information to enrich your company's data store by adding two columns to your most important tables?
Adding geographic data can be surprisingly useful for illuminating trends. Are more of your customers on the East Coast or the West Coast? Are there clusters? A quick glance at any of the maps that can be constructed as a result of this simple data gathering can often reveal more insight than a room full of statisticians.
Consider these maps just the beginning, as location information can help you recognize how clients, requests, contracts, and other revenue opportunities are clustered -- data that can then be mined for relevance. Did a marketing campaign in one region pay off? Is one sales team succeeding? Is one advertising deal worth renewing? Many of these answers can be found by analyzing geographic information, which prior to geocoding was considerably more labor-intensive.
And remember: Not every data point requires asking the customer to approve revealing their location through their browser. Google, Yahoo, and others offer geocoding solutions that convert street addresses into coordinates. Useful maps can be generated with just a ZIP code and a table that lists the geographic center of each ZIP code.
Check out low-risk IT experiment No. 5: NoSQL
Low-risk IT experiment No. 5: NoSQL Just 10 months ago, NoSQL was of interest to just a few IT speed freaks who sought to build the most efficient data storage engines ever. These engineers looked at the SQL databases and realized that JOINs slowed performance and made it difficult, if not impossible, to spread data over multiple machines. Sure, they could have denormalized the tables and investigated some automatic sharding tools, but it's much more fun to spark a revolution.
[ For an in-depth InfoWorld Test Center look at the new revolution in databases, see "Databases primed for social networks" and "Slacker databases break all the old rules." ]
Many of the resulting open source NoSQL tools -- Cassandra, MongoDB, and CouchDB, to name a few -- require a fair amount of experimentation and a willingness to put up with rough edges. Add the fact that they're not yet ready for mission-critical projects, and you can see why your experience with NoSQL may vary.


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For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second one. But he finds fault with them and says:
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord,
when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathersthe day I took them by the hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt;
for they did not stand by my covenant
and I ignored them, says the Lord.
But this is the covenant I will establish with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their minds
and I will write them upon their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.h
And they shall not teach, each one his fellow citizen
and kinsman, saying, Know the Lord,
for all shall know me,
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For I will forgive their evildoing
and remember their sins no more.
When he speaks of a new covenant, he declares the first one obsolete. And what has become obsolete and has grown old is close to disappearing.
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Police say victim well known in area
A homeless man is hospitalized in critical condition after being stabbed early Saturday morning in Northwest Portland.
Police did not release the man's name but said he is well known in the area.
A suspect has not been identified or arrested. Police say he might be a Native American male.
According to police, at 3:16 a.m. on Dec. 8, Central Precinct officers responded to the report of a stabbing at Northwest 20th Avenue and Northwest Glisan Street.
When they arrived, the officers located a 54-year-old male suffering from multiple stab wounds. Medical personnel transported the man to a Portland hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The officers conducted a neighborhood canvass but did not locate anyone matching this limited suspect description.
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MILLBURN, N.J. (Stockpickr) -- Recently I took a look at stocks that have outperformed this summer that I think will continue to outperform. Now I want to look at the opposite end of the performance spectrum: down-and-out stocks.
Very often, a stock that is down big is down for very good reasons -- usually because of fundamental problems associated with its business model or financial condition. But that's not always the case, and sometimes hard-hit stocks present buying opportunities. With that in mind, I want to highlight several stocks poised to rebound from huge declines so far this year.
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To find these stocks, I began by looking at the S&P 500 from the beginning of the year through the close of business Sept. 12. Of the 500 stocks in the large-capitalization index, 314 have declined.
The worst performer was employment solutions company Monster Worldwide (MWW), down 65.8% -- and for good reason. It will take a long time for this company, whose Web sites match up job seekers and employers, to recover. I still believe that 2012 analysts' estimates may be too high.
Also among the biggest losers of 2011 are U.S. Steel (X), Hudson City Bancorp (HCBK), American International Group (AIG), Janus Capital (JNS) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), but they have not made my list of potential rebounds either. I am not confident that these stocks have a positive risk/reward profile in the near future.
So which stocks do have the potential to rebound? Let's take a closer look at five of 2011's worst performers with upside potential.
Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies (AKAM), a leading provider of solutions for Internet content delivery and security protection, Akamai is certain to benefit from the cloud computing boom, which is still in its early stages and is expected to growth at an estimated 25% annual rate for several years to come. But this year, Akamai has stumbled a bit as a 12% rise in revenue was barely brought to the bottom line.
Akamai delivers string cash flow from operations, and it reinvests that cash flow in research and development, strategic investments and cash buybacks. Akamai will be getting back on its horse in 2012 and should produce low-teen-percentage earnings growth. The stock's performance has more than reflected the poor 2011 results, but Akamai is due for a bounce in the fourth quarter and has the potential for solid appreciation in 2012 to as much as $30.
Akamai, which is frequently the source of takeover rumors, could fetch an even higher price if it is indeed acquired.
Akamai shows up on a recent list of 10 Stocks That May Outperform Through 2011.
AK Steel
AK Steel (AKS) was cruising along until it reported second-quarter results. Then the bottom fell out of the stock after the company reported a significantly disappointing EPS of 32 cents vs. consensus expectations of 50 cents. Profits per ton were $46 vs. expectations of $60. Input costs were also higher than expected. It seems that everything that could have gone wrong for AK Steel did go wrong.
Yet, as you can see from the chart below, the price has stabilized since the dramatic post-earnings drop. Expectations are very low and may already be priced in. Carbon steel prices have declined by 4% to 5% since June 2011 but remain about 15% higher year over year. A third-quarter report that is less dire than expected could give AK Steel the impetus it needs for a rebound.
If the stocks gets to $10, that would be just fine. It could even get back to $14. I would be inclined to take a speculative position here and sell half at $10 and then scale the rest out every point higher on the way to $14.
One final point is worth mentioning: U.S. Steel fared even worse than AK Steel so far this year -- in fact, it was the year's third-worst performer. AK Steel is on my list instead because it has a better balance sheet.
AK Steel shows up on a recent list of 5 Steel Stocks Heating Up on Jobs Plan.
Bank of America
There is no doubt that Bank of America (BAC) is still in deep due to its mortgage woes. CEO Brian Moynihan, though not totally without blame, was left to clean up problems that his predecessor, Ken Lewis, left in the wake of the financial crisis.
As it turns out, one of those problems may be the company's saving grace. The once-maligned purchase of Merrill Lynch may now be the crown jewel of Bank of America. The value of Merrill Lynch is well over the current price of the stock. Bank of America, unlike in 2008, has an ample amount of liquidity and will not face Lehman Brothers-like short-term funding and potential default problems. Warren Buffett thought enough about the company that he made a $5 billion investment in it several weeks ago.
I waited patiently to buy shares of Bank of America and did so at around $6.25. There is potential for the stock to rebound to as much as $10 if the financials see some daylight, especially if there is a resolution to the European debt crisis.
Bank of America shows up on recent lists of 12 Banks Slashing Jobs and 6 Banks Set for a Third-Quarter Earnings Implosion. It was also highlighted in "2 Pair Trades for a Stagnant Economy."
Ford Motor
Ford Motor (F) is the strongest of the domestic automakers. The company has bettered consensus estimates for both the first and second quarters this year. Each time management has provided a tepid outlook, yet earnings are still expected to rise 3% this year and sales to jump 14%. Ford did not have to file bankruptcy or go hat in hand for financing to the U.S. taxpayer during the financial crisis.
I believe there are two issues weighing on this stock. First is the pending labor negotiation with the United Auto Workers. Since General Motors (GM) and Chrysler workers are prohibited from striking, Ford Motor is a great strategic target for the labor union. The union has already voted to authorize a strike if talks between the company and the union break down. This appears to be standard operating procedure for the UAL. I believe that Ford CEO Alan Mulally will do what he can to prevent a strike. In the meantime, Ford's Focus and Fusion are two of the hottest selling cars in the U.S.
The second issue comes from Europe. With a slow European economy and lack of bank financing available to consumers, sales of all cars in Europe are on the decline.
I have traded in and out of the Ford warrants over the past two years and currently have a long position.
Ford, one of TheStreet Ratings' top-rated automobile stocks, was featured recently in "5 Big Stocks to Trade for Gains."
Genworth Financial
Financial security company Genworth Financial (GNW), which provides insurance, wealth management, investment and other financial solutions, came public in an IPO from General Electric (GE) in 2004. The company reported a net loss of 15 cents per share in its most recent quarter as a result of increasing its reserves in the its U.S. mortgage insurance business -- but this masks the strength in the company's wealth management, retirement and insurance businesses, which all delivered solid year-over-year growth in earnings and other business specific metrics.
I see upside for GNW to $10 per share, and I think the downside risk is limited. I certainly don't see the stock reaching its lows from the depths of the financial crisis. The best way to play GNW might be with long term call options struck at $4 or $5.
To see these stocks in action, check out the Worst-Performing Stocks of 2011 With Upside Potential portfolio.
-- Written by Scott Rothbort in Millburn, N.J.
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Scott Rothbort has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. He is the founder and president of LakeView Asset Management, a registered investment advisor specializing in customized separate account management for high net worth individuals. In addition, he is the founder of TheFinanceProfessor.com, an educational social networking site, and publisher of The LakeView Restaurant & Food Chain Report. Rothbort is also a professor of finance at Seton Hall University's Stillman School of Business.


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I'm on the 8th day still waiting, that's at least about 5 days of potential money lost. Hope it gets approved!! This didn't happen last year, the longest time I ever waited since I been here was 4 days. I thought it was supposed to be a week or less.
@Toivio Hahaha… i wish we had some kind of security against scorpions at this time of year where i live in Africa. I think they like gingerbread cookies.
This is not cool at all…. may be thats why December is being a bad mouth in sales, we (Authors) are doing our part I think reviewers has to do their.
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So many threads about unusually slow review time, and there is no staff answering why this thing happens. If one staff can say something, I believe no one will create a new thread about the same thing again. I feel the same as other authors as one of my items has been sitting in the queue line for 8 days now!
Yeah spot on Kinzi21!I was just about to create a thread for one of my items that's in the queue! Do you think its the amount of items that is slowing it down or is it just the fact that staff are having time off for the holiday season?
I have 15 items in the Que. By the end of the day I should have 16 or 17 (which might be extreme fro some authors). Some Authors that I know personally have 3 to 5 items in the que. Now, multiply all the new authors, and authors that upload regularly with any arbitrary moderate number, and you'll see that no one can compare this winter season with the last winter season.
Last winter season went very smoothly, so I think it's a bit of vacations mixed with a bloated que this winter season. Constantine hinted at this (the amount of files) in the first thread.
Perhaps GraphicRiver staff works with reduced team for the holiday season!!!
Yes, it is due to the holidays – a lot of authors now have extra time to submit more files than usual. During times like these we continue to give the same amount of review time and attention to each item uploaded. For these reasons current review times are slightly longer than normal.
I'm with you brother. I made the brutal mistake of uploading my latest template in the "Graphics" category as opposed to the "Template" category:((( A 5 day wait then a hard rejection. They were very nice about it, simply asked me to resubmit it to the proper category. But, for a New Years Eve template like mine is, that's the death sentence. No time for any real good sales. My mistake, but yeah man, I feel your pain. I almost feel like deleting it and resubmitting it as something else:(( Hope your's gets approved soon my bro!!!
I am a new author on GR. I uploaded an item for reviewing two weeks ago and still got no answer. I had info about this item on my Author Dashbord page since day 5 or 6 and then this block disappeared. For me there is no problem to wait few more days / weeks but I wonder is this a normal situation or should I do something else – upload item again or try to contact Envato stuff?
Well, Im new to the author section. I do have items in the review section, however I just started a couple of days ago, so I don't have anything to complain about yet.
However, I might have a suggestion for envato itself, which is;
Since there is active members that are in the lookout for copyright infringements and so on, and also got special badges for it. If the case being of an overloaded review system and holiday season combined, why not giving special powers to those exceptional members to make the review work more fluid?
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Halloween fan or not, I can still bring you guys the cuteness.
First, stop on over to Everyday Celebrating. She has really easy directions on how to make these adorable ghost cookies. Basically take nutter butters, dip them into melted white chocolate, and use tiny chocolate chips for the eyes. Cuteness!
Also featured on Everyday Celebrating are cupcake covers from Etsy shop SugarRobot. Hello, these are freaking brilliant. Make your cupcakes, add frosting and then stick these fondant characters on top. Another, why didn't I think of that? Well, not really. I would just rather buy these.
Next stop: Celebrations at Home. Today she has a montage of adorable pumpkin ideas. I love these with the vinyl stickers. So clever.
Mom, wouldn't these be such a fun project? I love the ones with the ribbon and sequins. I would have the most glam pumpkins ever.
glitter paint web pumpkin, glitter pumpkins, sequin trim pumpkin
pumpkins in fireplace, pumpkin place setting, mini pumpkins wrapped with ribbon
pumpkins in fireplace, pumpkin place setting, mini pumpkins wrapped with ribbon
I found these adorable pumpkins embellished with upholstery tacks on Let's Entertain. Find full directions at My Home Ideas.
Lastly, check out Not Martha for some very clever (and easy) Halloween treats that are sure to trick any kid! She gives full directions on her site on how to make these!