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Ler em Portugues
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A citi in romana
General View
Inside the CC world, mostly in English, it appears the idea from some groups making international tournaments between people with the "same" language. We realize that more or less we can understand each other. The challenge is to make a big Championship. The volume of participation we are looking for is so big that it is not possible to be assumed by only one person.
The realization of several tournaments of all Latin derived languages, each one in its own language and giving qualify to the Interlingua phase.
We are trying to start the so awaited international Tournament LATINO.
All Spanish, Portuguese and others understandable languages coming from Latin are welcome, do you think we forgot the Italian? How? If they taught us to speak, but even now their support to that project is essential. I am just going to name another language the French, but I know the world of Latin languages is so wider as you can see in the map below.
Since you are reading this information, press "Post Replay" to join and leave some comments about your idea. Please PM all your friends to be able to do it in a big scale.
We hope to become a group of friends cooperating to enjoy the game in our language.
We have divided the championship work in parts for tournaments organizers to ensure its continuity. Also we can find some collaboration that we deeply appreciate. We need to spread as much as possible trying that this project should be successful. Of course there are a lot of things to improve.... but this is just a start. Please help us to improve and WELCOME.
1. Each language Championship/Play-offs monolingual
Starting planned date: September 2nd .
Freemium should begin to plan SOME free slot for the event.
2. Structure of tournament organization
you ca see CCNEWS ISSUE 11 gracias a thenobodies80
a. Participants
Somebody who ask to be included in the game is going to be reported any Latino forum where this person wrote, they should tell that want to participate. The data we need to take note are 'name', CC-country, language …. to have only one list, and divide it.
b. Types of games
By now, only single (while it is possible against their country opponents).
Later we will develop for doubles, triples and quadruples and other asked types, if it is possible.
c. Games
SINGLE: Standard, Map depending on the speakers zone, sequential, flat rate, chained, no fog, casual.
Round 1: 1 vs 1. (winner 11 points)
Round 2: 3 players (winner 12 points)
Round 3: 4 players (winer 13 points)
d. Rounds
While possible, players will be separate by country.
First round: All players 1 vs 1
Second round: All players in 3 players games.
Third round: All players in 4 players games.
e. Champion and knocked out
Second SET: After 1st SET of 3 games, we are going to look what player is exactly in the middle of the classification. The players with less punctuation than him, are eliminated, and we begin the second SET.
When at the end of one set, we can determine by punctuation who is the 1st and who is the 2nd, the national tournament will finish.
f. Partial tournaments
Following the tournaments structure, each tournament is going to be finished as normally, but keeping in mind the order and quantity of qualification, so from them we are going to make the Interlingua phase.
3. "Interlingua"
Classifications and representatives for every country.
It is clear that this is just a first step to reach our aim
It wouldn't be consider an International Tournament if in the final phase only we can find representatives from one country, so it will be made some classify rounds to choose the representatives from each country before than the previous phase.


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Journal Maserati's Journal: Thoughts on Sony's 10-year PS3 plan
I have had a revelation. Sony isn't trying for 1st place in the console market, they're just trying to get a lot of BluRay players out there. The Cell processor is complicated enough that we'll see the capabilities of games grow over time much as we did with the PS2. First-gen PS2 games don't compare well to, say God of War and FF XII in terms of graphics.
By the time Microsoft and Nintendo are thinking about launching their next consoles, they'll have all the problems a console always has at launch (high price, few games). And the PS3 will be out there with a large installed base, dozens of good titles in the value packaging and their third generation games announced and being marketed if not actually sold. XBox 720 games will be up against MGS5, FF XV and God of War 5. They'll pump advertising into the games, not the console and sell as well against the next gen as the PS2 did (and is) against the 360 and Wii.
They're going to win the next console war and tide themselves over with BluRay dominance. Not a bad strategy.

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State's Rural Communities Work To Block Marijuana Farms [AUDIO]
Officials in New Jersey's rural farming communities of western Ocean and Monmouth Counties consider ordinances that would block Medical Marijuana Farms.
30th District State Assemblyman and Plumsted Township Mayor Ron Dancer says the new ordinance is being considered in Plumsted and Upper Freehold Townships. He says it requires "If there's an application before a planning board or zoning board, whatever the type of business that it is, it must be in compliance with Federal Law."
Dancer says New Jersey's Medical Marijuana Law has a one-size-fits-all security standard in place for marijuana cultivating centers that may not work for towns with little to no police presence.
"So the concern is, while we are sensitive to the compassionate medical use for patients because they need and deserve all the legal and pharmaceutical prescription drugs that can give them a better quality of life; On the other hand, our quality of life in these rural farming communities needs to be maintained that we will not be in a position to have the resources to provide for additional security measures with the medical crops being farmed in our areas."
Dancer has also introduced a bill in the State Assembly (A-4411) that amends New Jersey's Medical Marijuana Act. He says it "is to provide the statutory authority to any municipality in the State of New Jersey to require safety measures and standards greater than in the State Act."
Upper Freehold and Millstone Townships have no local police departments. They rely on the New Jersey State Police.


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Faith Temple Preparing for Thursday's Big Bread Blowout!
Faith Temple Church volunteers are putting together a Big Bread Blowout in the church parking lot on Thursday morning.
Josh Hayes of Faith Temple Church says over 6 thousand pounds of bread (and sweet corn) will be distributed around 9 a.m. Thursday.
Josh says everyone is invited to participate in the giveaway. If you don't need the food for your family, Josh encourages you to pick up the bread and sweet corn for struggling families and residents in the community.
Faith Temple Church is located at 33rd and Western Ave. in Sioux Falls.


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The lights are on
Things in life are often better when you have a friend in tow, and gaming is no different. Come find someone to watch your back.
For me it's a toss up between Borderlands and Champions of Norrath. (fond memories)
Either Eragon or Lord of the Rings: Conquest. And I just realized how ridiculous that sounded. Conquest is actually really fun with a few people splitscreen, though I never play it alone.
I think Eragon is a good hack and slash game. Plus it had PC co-op on the same screen and computer, which is incredibly rare. The characters differentiated in their abilities as well, which was a nice touch.
Sa kyr'am Nau tracyn kad, Vode an.


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GLEN ELLYN – From breakdancing to the foxtrot, Luis Arturo Dance Academy will have something for everyone at its new location in downtown Glen Ellyn.
The academy opened Oct. 16 at 462 N. Park Blvd., Suite 122, in the Glen Ellyn Crossing shopping center, next door to Bistro Monet.
Owner Luis Santillan and general manager Veronika Roth previously operated a home studio in Lombard, but decided to make the move to Glen Ellyn to expand to include offerings for children.
"Really, I think the excitement on this new dance studio is that it's so focused on the professional dancer and on adults, as well as children," said Carol White, executive director of the Alliance of Downtown Glen Ellyn.
In the past, the duo largely focused on adult students looking to reach professional levels and participate in dance competitions through its "From Prime to Shine" program.
Now, the Luis Arturo Dance Academy will offer an "Ultimate Dancer" program for children that is designed to give them a strong foundation to pursue a potential performing arts education or career.
"We're really trying to get a very diverse education and dancing for the kids as possible so that if they pursue something more professional afterwards, they have a really, really good ground and foundation to go for instead of starting from scratch," Santillan said.
Students in the program will learn a variety of types of dance, including smooth ballroom, Latin ballroom, Latin club, American club and street dance.
Children also will have the opportunity to opt out of the program and instead choose a specific style of dance on which to focus.
The academy will prioritize professionalism and fun, offering competition opportunities for both children and adults, Santillan said.
Additionally, the studio has expanded a more casual, social dancing program for adults called "Everyone Should Dance" that the academy previously offered at the Lisle Park District.
The dance studio is looking to offer parent-infant and senior classes in January.
Also expected to begin in the new year are fitness programs, such as zumba.
Roth and Santillan had plenty of work cut out for them when they first moved into their new space, which had previously been a seafood market. But now, with wooden floors and floor-length mirrors, it's hard to imagine the academy space was ever anything but a dance studio.
Both Roth and Santillan said they hope to build a strong relationship with the village of Glen Ellyn to offer community events outside of the studio in the future.
"That's one of the reasons why we liked Glen Ellyn so much," Roth said. "Because there is just so many opportunities for people who live in this community to come out and do something socially,"


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Changes to Lot 129, as well as parking underneath the Convocation Center, are now in effect for faculty, staff and student commuters.
Aug 16, 2013
From staff reports
Changes to parking under and around Ohio University's Convocation Center are now in effect for faculty, staff and student commuters.
Parking Lot 129, which forms a ring around the Convocation Center, now includes the lot underneath the building which formerly offered long-term parking. All of Lot 129 is designated as daily parking available to permit holders with access to purple lots. Signs will be posted in the area notifying the University community of the change.
Drivers should note that Ohio University police may clear the lot for special events on a case-by-case basis throughout the year.
"Best practices for public safety at special events include closely controlling vehicular access around event venues. Converting Lot 129 to daily parking will allow OUPD to more easily clear the area of vehicles if it is deemed appropriate to do so for specific events," said Ohio University Police Chief Andrew Powers.
Powers noted that the decision to remove vehicles from the area will be based on the total circumstances of each event at the Convocation Center. Adequate notice will be provided to ensure people have ample time to move their cars.
The change to daily parking for Lot 129 is also in response to the closing of more than 60 spaces in Lot 111 near Bob Wren Stadium. These spaces will be taken offline during baseball and softball seasons in an effort to protect vehicles in the area. The unavailable spaces will be blocked off.
For parking updates, follow @ohiouparking and @OHIO_Compass on Twitter.


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US And Europe Move On To TAFTA: Yet Another Chance To Push Through ACTA/SOPA Style IP Maximalism
from the it-never-ends dept
More details are starting to come out as the main EU negotiator for ACTA, Karel de Gucht, came to DC to see about getting things kicked off, on an agreement that's being called TAFTA -- the Trans Atlantic "Free Trade" Agreement. Of course, instead of recognizing the lessons from previous failed efforts to push for broken maximalist policies, it appears that the plan is to try, try again. Some are already saying that this is "the opportunity to try to set the gold standard" in copyright, patent and trademark protection. The goal, as with ACTA and TPP is to ratchet up the laws, and then put tons of pressure on China and India to "respect" those laws. To put it mildly: this is stupid. Both of those countries recognize how protectionism works. We've already seen that China is becoming exceptionally good at using patent laws to basically punish foreign companies, while helping domestic Chinese companies. It seems downright idiotic to provide them with even more tools to do so.
Of course, the real questions are why do we keep letting our governments negotiate these kinds of deals, and why do we let them do so in secret?


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Very nice light french red last night. About $14.
Oh, I thought this is where everyone was coming to ***** about the Tebus trade....carry on...oh, before I go, any recommendations for boxed wines?
I have not tried their white wines.
Had a bottle of this Bridlewood Blend 175 over the weekend.
By God, it SUCKS. Do NOT buy this crap. It's a blend of Syrah, Cab Sauv, and Zinfandel. How they managed to take all the flavor and robustness out of those three varities is truely amazing. Maybe they should be commended, then. Wine Advocate gave it an 89, so don't trust any rating by those hacks. I choked down two glasses of this flavorless ****, and had a pounding headache for 12 hours.
Chambolle Musigny 2003
I brought both the Bota Old Vine Zin and this Black Box cab on the last crusie i went on... both were pretty good.
Think I prefered the black box, though...
Had a bottle of this over the weekend. Not bad at all, and about $15 a bottle. Almost like an Apothic Red 2010, but a bit more subtle.
Just got back from taking my wife on a 9 day trip to San Fran/Napa/Sonoma for her 40th birthday. We visited 9 wineries in 6 days and drank some of the most iconic wines in the California.
Here's where we hit...all were awesome.
-St. Supery
-Joseph Phelps
-Grgich Hills
This is what I meant to post - The Apothic Red 2010 is a pretty decent wine. Over the weekend, I saw Apothic White 2010. Picked it up to try it, and let me just say it is AWFUL. Like they threw in 6 tablespoons of sugar in the bottle. Nasty. Do not drink.
Had a bottle of this last night. Not bad at all. Kind of a cross of crisp sauvignon blanc with some of the oak from a chardonney. A medium bodies white, I would say. Less than $15, saw it in a Shaws in VT for $10.
Had a bottle of this on Saturday night, along with filet mignon. Delicious.
Duckhorn Paraduxx 2009. Wine is very good, a bit on the sweet side, but balanced from start to finish. If I remember correctly, its 65% zinfandel, although it tastes like it's 65% cabernet.


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For a long time Cornelius has been working at the local comic books stand shop. For about as long, he's been daydreaming about how somehow, someday, he'd become a Hero. After all, wasn't what the fortune cookie was saying, right? ... right?Fortunately the Aliens invasion would come just in time to provide with this opportunity...
Anyway, what more can you ask for than running with a plasma sword, slicing up invading aliens?
Main Features
- 4 environments: City, Factory, Mother
What's New
- Fixed a weak-linking problem wich prevented the game to run on OS below 10.8
- Fixed a save game bug when using cmd-q
- Added optional IAP, for those who would like to support us.
- OS X 10.6 or later


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LONDON: The Wallabies spring tour has taken a double hit overnight with centre Pat McCabe ruled out of the Test against England and lock Rob Simmons banned for eight weeks.
McCabe reported stiffness in his neck after the Wallabies loss to France last week, which worsened in training and requires further scans.
Coach Robbie Deans said the "best case scenario" was a one-match rest for the centre, who was one of the few consistent presences in the back line recently.
His loss will force yet another reshuffle, with Mike Harris or Ben Tapuai possible replacements. In the latter instance, Adam Ashley-Cooper could move to outside centre, with Berrick Barnes starting at fullback and Digby Ioane and Nick Cummins on the wings.
Deans is due to name the side to face England on Thursday morning local time.
There is also a looming locks crisis in the Wallabies after the IRB handed Reds lock Simmons an eight-week ban for a lifting tackle on France flanker Yannick Nyanga. Deans said the ARU had not decided whether it would appeal.
"We're disappointed in the decision but I haven't had the opportunity to read the decision yet and obviously we'll do that before we settle on [whether] that's the end of the matter or not," he said.
In its decision, the IRB judicial officer deemed Simmons's tackle to be at the "high end" of the scale, so gave an entry point of 12 weeks. Two weeks was added as a "deterrent" before six weeks was taken off the penalty for Simmons's "exemplary previous disciplinary record".
With a second lock, Kane Douglas, already ruled out of Saturday's Test with a knee injury, Simmons's suspension increases the likelihood that Scott Higginbotham will be called into the squad following the end of his two-Test ban this weekend.
"We've maintained contact with Scotty, he continues to train and from the outset was hopeful that it wouldn't be the end of his tour prospects," Deans said.
"He's obviously a bloke who would have been here if he hadn't had that setback so he's high on our list."
Deans did not rule out calling for two replacements but said it would hinge on Douglas's recovery.
"If the medical staff believe it's marginal that he'll be available to us next week we'll probably have to act," he said.
For Saturday's Test, versatile forward Dave Dennis, who is likely to start in the back row, could be moved to lock to replace Sitaleki Timani or Nathan Sharpe, should the need arise, with Radike Samo to come off the bench at blindside.


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Business Insurance opens 2014 Women to Watch nominationsReprints
Business Insurance has opened nominations for the 2014 Women to Watch program, which identifies the 25 most influential and inspiring women in commercial insurance, reinsurance, risk management, employee benefits and related fields such as law and consulting.
Each year's honorees are selected by a panel of senior editors at Business Insurance based on various criteria that include recent professional achievements, influence on the marketplace and contributions to the advancement of women in business.
This year marks the ninth year of Business Insurance's Women to Watch program. Since its inception in 2006, 280 women have joined this elite group, which has served as a professional springboard for many.
This year's nominees will be profiled in the Dec. 8 issue of Business Insurance and recognized at the 2014 Women to Watch Leadership Workshop and Awards Luncheon, to be held Dec. 9 in New York.
The event, which is open to the public, will feature educational sessions and panel discussions on facilitating women's career advancement. It also provides a networking opportunity for past and present honorees and others who attend.
Readers are encouraged to nominate candidates for Women to Watch using this form.
Submit completed forms, along with a photo of each nominee, via email to Joanne Wojcik, senior editor, at email@example.com. Past honorees are not eligible for this once-in-a-lifetime achievement award. The deadline for submitting nominations is midnight July 11.
For information on attending the event, contact Martha Donato, Business Insurance's director of events and brand marketing, at email@example.com. For sponsorship opportunities, contact Mary Pemberton, director of conference sales, at email@example.com.


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ok so this might be better in the PHP section because it has to do with my php scripts trying to write files to directories.
My FTP account (and major user account) is piagency. All my files and folders in my /var/www/ is set to piagency as owner and of the www-data group
the user account piagency is part of the www-data group
my php script first creates a directory (if it doesnt exist) then uploads the file to that folder.....or is supposed to.
[code=php]mkdir("/uploads/" . $_REQUEST['clientID'] . '/video/', 0777);[/code]
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['vidfile']['tmp_name'], $filename)
I get mkdir(): No such file or directory
failed to open stream: No such file or directory
Weird thing is that i cant delete the video folder and try again. Filezilla says folder is not empty
But it will create the folder
and it will upload the smaller file (there are actually 2 files that get uploaded to same folder)
but the folder says its owner is www-data and group www-data.
But from FTP i cant delete it.
Any ideas?


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Archives for: July 2008, 01
Flying and building muscleJuly 1st, 2008 , by Suzanne
Finding beneficial food when traveling is always an adventure. Today we left on a 10-day trip to visit our Strong Son and do some sightseeing in Kentucky. The first challenge was making sure we would have food to eat on the airplane.
Last summer we didn't take a vacation because we were moving. The three previous summers we had driven to our destination. So I hadn't been on an airplane since 2003. I went on the internet to see what kind of food I could and couldn't take on the plane. The big prohibitions were liquids, gels, and oils. There was little about food per se.
I fixed turkey and soy cheese on Ezekiel bread for my husband. That seemed totally safe. For DD I fixed peanut butter and pineapple on Ezekiel bread. I worried a little about whether security would question the peanut butter. However, it was my bowl of leftover chicken and vegetables that concerned me the most. There was nothing on the TSA website prohibiting meat, greens, or beans. But I knew that if they opened the container and poked around in it with gloved fingers, that I'd throw it away. I packed the homemade power bars in luggage I checked. They are chewy, and I had to admit they looked suspicious. For the flight we would eat packaged protein bars and apple slices
All of our carry on luggage sailed through the x-ray machines with ease. We ate a beneficial lunch in the gate waiting area.
SS e-mailed directions to a restaurant called Ramseys. All he told us was that it was typical Kentucky cooking. The entrees came with three vegetables, and there were lots of good choices. I had pot roast, which was tender and delicious. With it I had kale (I've never seen kale in a restaurant before), honey-mustard carrots, and yellow squash with onions. Of the three, the kale was my favorite.
Our son is learning things in PT school that are useful to the Blood Type lifestyle. Tonight we talked about exercises my Dad could do to strengthen the muscles in his legs. SS said that when you first start exercising, your body adjusts to the increased activity by compensating with existing strengths. It takes about six weeks before muscle fibers start breaking down, and new muscle starts building.
How many people have I known who exercised faithfully for a month, then quit because they couldn't see any results? I've known a few who became discouraged after a week! According to SS, they haven't even started building muscle yet. Exercise isn't a short term quick fix; it is a lifetime commitment.


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35 Brian Asher
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|St. Albans
Brian's commitment and resolve magnetizes his teammates towards him. It is easy to see why he is a captain and leader. In his quiet, stoic manner, no one can doubt his enduring work ethic or the confidence he promotes in all of us. As a junior, Brian was a pillar of the defensive effort as he completely understood and helped run the multiple schemes. He also became an effective takeaway defender with a short stick. Brian will again focus on the defensive end of the field and may be able to showcase his emerging offensive skills while taking the wings of face-offs...2007: Registered four assists, playing all 14 games...Also picked-up 32 ground balls, second best on the Brown team...2006: Saw action in eight games for the Bears...Picked-up eight ground balls...2005: Saw action against Hartford, scoring his first career goal...Also picked up two ground balls...Secondary School Background: A graduate of St. Alban's School where he lettered in lacrosse (4), ice hockey (4) and football (2)... Lacrosse and ice hockey team captains as a senior...All-IAC in lacrosse and hockey his senior year...Honorable mention All-Met in lacrosse as a senior...Participated in the STX Blue-Chip Lacrosse Camp...National Merit Semifinalist...Personal: The son of Norman and Jeanne Asher of Chevy Chase...Has a brother, Eric...Enjoys playing the guitar...Commerce, Organization and Entrepreneurship concentrator.


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"Swyper no swyping"!
Two generations, actually: those who watch Dora, and those who have kids who watch Dora.
first swipe
Touchscreen keyboards to me have always been hard to use.
I"mm tesdinbv one now and iys no top bnaf.
All these virtual keyboards are hard-coded for QWERTY, which makes even less sense for that kind of device than for a modern keyboard!
Dvorak should be an option, along with alphabetical order.
Actually for this thing, there's probably a whole new layout that's optimal. (That's an exercise for the reader to invent.)
say what? Dvorak keyboards are great if you want to type in what amounts to two different languages, and it's designed to accommodate speed and efficiency for ten fingers, not one finger and two thumbs.
If you are going to break away from the standard qwerty keyboard, why not try to do something that makes sense for two thumbs and a finger? Understanding that you would have two circular areas for common keys, and best to have them arranged so that you get best efficiency switching between thumbs on alternating letters.
T9 is meant for touch tone keypads, this swipe is designed for efficiency on soft keyboards. If you want to maximize efficiency for thumbs, start all over again please.
I like the number-pad thingy, but I don't like having to press the same key 6 times.
1-2 should give a capital "A" while 3-2 should give a capital "C" and 6-2 should give a lower-case "c"; 7-2 would just give a "2".
Also, the iPhone's prediction algorithm is f'ed.
The Storm does something like that. In portrait mode, it defaults to SureType (2 letters per "key" in a QWERTY-like layout), and in landscape it goes to full QWERTY.
Optimization for two fingers may be similar to the one stylus optimization done for the Palm desktop a while ago. : http://www.fitaly.com/palm/palmfitaly.htm [fitaly.com]
The Sidekick allows you to use both hands to hold the device, two thumbs typing, and also has two buttons for fingers much the same way that nintendo game controllers do. It is possible to use more than thumbs with the two hands holding the device posture.
Actually for this thing, there's probably a whole new layout that's optimal. (That's an exercise for the reader to invent.)
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ARGH! The inner Grammar Nazi within me screams in a bloodied rage.
copywriting [wikipedia.org] is completely different from copyrighting [wikipedia.org].
Having been in mixed Dvorak, Qwerty, and Abcdefg environments, and having been on a quest for the ultimate keyboard for the past 10 years, I'm pretty confident that Qwerty is *good enough* until something truly different comes along.
Dvorak *can* run a little faster than Qwerty for typing, but not so much that you'd see an appreciably speed increase for nomal use. And as Dvorak has been around for about 80 years now [earthlink.net], I don't think anyone is getting in on the wave of the future by using it. Similarly, you'd be surprised how hard it is to use an alphabetized keyboard after years of Qwerty or Dvorak usage. The brain just doesn't change over that easily.
Unless an alternative layout increased speeds 100% or so, I'd keep things accessible. Just use Qwerty, and move on.
The point of dvorak is not typing speed, but keeping your hands on the home row as much as possible. I typed on Dvorak exclusively the last few years, it's made my wrists feel a lot better. But I don't type faster, perhaps a bit more accurate.
Also, with the ease of changing it in most OSes, I don't think it's anything but personal choice anymore.
If you want something that may be better, try the Neo layout though. It's for the german language, but it may be good for english as well:
http://de.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
I typed on Dvorak exclusively the last few years, it's made my wrists feel a lot better. But I don't type faster, perhaps a bit more accurate.
do you have some numbers? on a QWERTY layout I seem to have about a 2% error rate (assuming a backspace press counts as one error -- probably more like 0.2-0.5%, because I tend to smash the backspace key multiple times when fixing errors). my sample size is ~20M keypresses.
other interesting numbers would be:
I doubt Dvorak would help with speed or accuracy in my case. and the QWERTY layout has never given me any hand trouble, while I do ge
Nah, I don't have the numbers you want. Most analysis goes towards words. For instance, I would recognized that Dvorak generally isn't optimal for coding c and c style langages either although I use lisp mostly and in that, Qwerty & Dvorak are identical, as it would be for the space, a, enter, and keypad keys.
I found the English Neo layout site, it has more numbers scrolling down, but it's generally considering words, as well:
http://pebbles.schattenlauf.de/layout/index_us.html [schattenlauf.de]
Sure, just ignore many keyboard layouts [wikipedia.org] out there.
but onscreen QWERTY will always have the advantage that people are used to the layout.
Only for hunt-and-peckers.
I touch-type, and I have to search the keys in the virtual keyboard of my cell. That's because when I type I don't think in the keys but in the whole word and it then appears in the screen.
For people like me, an alphabetical order is way more natural. I totally know that order.
Try Fitaly ( http://www.fitaly.com/palm/palmfitaly.htm [fitaly.com] ). I've used it on the Palm, and it really is quite nice, once you get used to it.
It also uses a swipe method to determine capitol letters, so no shift key is needed.
Dvorak is designed for efficient touch typing. Virtual keyboards are inherently poor for touch typing (you can't feel which "keys" your fingers are hitting), and most are too small to even attempt it. If you could convince me there is a significant proportion of people who known Dvorak but can't even type one- or two-fingered on a QWERTY I might believe that there is a real need, but I suspect that group of users is vanishingly small.
Actually for this thing, there's probably a whole new layout that's optimal. (That's an exercise for the reader to invent.)
The guys over at ShapeWriter have already beaten you (me?) to it.
They call it the ATOMIK keyboard layout, and there's a short demo here [shapewriter.com]. The learning curve is probably a little steep, but I would guess that it's less than learning QWERTY, partly because you're allowed to look at the keyboard the entire time.
Well, when I was a wannabe Palm hacker, I always saw the need for an onscreen keyboard that didn't follow the QWERTY layout. (I always believed that there was a more speedy way to input things than drawing each letter one at a time) This layout is anything but optimized for one-finger-or-pen-point-swiped-input. So in my own search for perfection, I collided with the ATOMIK keyboard and relevant thesis from IBM research ( 1 [ibm.com], 2 [ibm.com], 3 [ibm.com]) Unfortunately, English is just my second language so anything optimized for Eng
I would think that, since this input method is based on moving a finger between letters in a continuous motion, it would probably be a Good Thing if commonly used letters were far apart, or far enough apart to make each character entered a long enough "swipe" to feel natural and ergonomic.
I am a bit curious about how you were to type a word like "letter," where you need to make 2 "Ts" at once. Maybe after you enter the first T, you do a little loop and end up where you started.
You can, by the way, get a
Google's ad engine selected "WI Portable Restrooms -- We Offer Portable Restrooms in Every Configuration & Price Range" for this page.
OK, back to the drawing board on product name.
Already exists. I think it was out the first week the iPhone App Store was open. Works pretty decently.
What does the government have to do with T9 keyboards?
The government granted a monopoly on T9 input to Tegic (now part of Nuance).
The difference from the usual method of typing in the letters is that a finger or stylus is used to slide in the first letter, then without lifting the finger, the user continues writing the entire word. Only once the word is completed can the finger be lifted off.
That's kind of like how a Ouija board is operated, isn't it? More proof that Cliff Kushler is Satan, I guess.
The internet has ruined it for all of us. I can't even get a stiffy anymore unless it involves a girl shitting into a cup.
Is this anything like Dasher?
I thought so by reading the post, but the linked articles shows that it's not the case.
I still think a Dasher-like system may be a viable input system for keyboard-less devices, though. Modulo some fine tuning, of course...
Like, everyone needs caps lock don't we? ffs!
How does it handle double letters?
For example, would it type my username as Goobermunch or Gobermunch? How would it know the difference? How does Swyping accommodate the William Wallaces of the world? Are they doomed to being Wiliam Walaces?
The press release leaves the question open. The ability to detect a repeated input seems to be an advantage of keypad type input. Perhaps, if you dwell for a sufficiently long period of time, it will count the character beneath the stylus twice.
I got to try out Swype last fall at the TC50. It's pretty great technology, as I remember to do a double letter you just needed to loop around the letter.
For example, would it type my username as Goobermunch or Gobermunch? How would it know the difference? How does Swyping accommodate the William Wallaces of the world? Are they doomed to being Wiliam Walaces?
I don't know about Swype, but when using Shapewriter [shapewriter.com], an iPhone notepad application that works (suspiciously) similar as other have pointed out, you just ignore double letters. I just tried "William Wallace" on ShapeWriter by tracing "Wiliam Walace" and it came out just fine. If there is an ambiguity
I had a similar idea, character's aranged in rings growing from the center.
! @ # $ % ^ & *
( l f k p r z )
- b g a o v =
[ c h e * u w ]
; d n i y x '
\ , . ? !
Where A, E, I, O, and U form the center most ring. Inside that ring is a double, shift, space, and backspace buttons. Consinants would have to be arranged meaningfully (I just tossed them up alphabetically and swapped the vowels)
I'm highly tempted to try writtin
Only once the word is completed can the finger be lifted off.
Better not be dyslexic around devices of this kind, or it'll stick to your finger indefinitely.
It sure lends the term "StickyKeys" a new meaning!
I was thinking about on-screen keyboards just yesterday. I usually avoid them, preferring real keyboards, but I was thinking, if your only choice is on screen, how would you want it to work?
My real keyboard is optimized to minimize hand and finger movement, by placing the keys I use most commonly near where my hands are supposed to be. However, it is limited by the medium: the keys have to be in the same place all the time. An on-screen keyboard doesn't have this limitation: you can put the "keys" wherever
GNOME has better virtual-keyboard. You just type wanted letter and then you start moving mouse towards other letters. It needs and dictionary to know what words you are wanting to type and it predicts the needed letters bigger ones. So you can hit them more easily. You should find it from usability-menu.
This looks like the Shark typing method [ibm.com] created for IBM a few years back.
I really liked the Shark idea when it first came out, so it's good to see something similar again. (Plus Shark worked on non-QWERTY 'boards as well, you just changed the settings on its initialisation)
I don't know about this dragging from letter to letter system. It'd feel too much like I'm risking waking the dead [wikipedia.org].
I've lived with RSI since 1993 - you get used to recognising things that do not help ergonomically. This looks like one of those things.
One of the major problems with RSI is that prolonged activation of muscle groups leads to fatigue. The term for this is static loading.
This is why click and release mouse behaviour (to activate menus, then click again to choose) is better for your health than the alternative method (click and hold, release to choose) because the alterna
As one of the many poor typists out there, I don't see why we still have to choose between looking at the keyboard and learning to touch type. A touch keyboard, detecting my finger positions, could coordinate with a translucent virtual kbd on screen that also displayed my finger positions. The virtual kbd would be made to appear and disappear with appropriate gestures. Addional feedback would include haptic, sound, & 'hover' keys. And, as the whole thing is virtual, it would reconfigure on the fly to cope with any language, which simplifies life for the PC manufacturer. The touch keyboard would still need some kind of display but it could be pretty basic. Oh dear - I hope I haven't described this in too much detail. I wouldn't want some poor patent troll to starve...
It is called "rocker" keyboard. I got a P1i here myself and I believe T9 is involved in the word completion. We are a bit cheating on P1 since the device shows the words on top beginning with the letters we typed. I heard Blackberry was first to use that keyboard variant.
BTW If you don't know already, the word completion trick is in Settings/Device/Text Input/Predictive Text.
Of course most P1 users mix keyboard,scroll wheel and even handwriting recognition.
Really sad thing that UIQ died in hands of Sony and
It sounds ok for every day English use, but what about other languages?
And what if a word is not found? how is the word then typed?
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Canobolas Family Pet Hospital veterinarian Lisa Brisbane told the Central Western Daily while the malicious poisoning of pets was rare, the clinic treats at least one pet a week that has accidentally ingested poison found around the home or yard.
Dr Brisbane said she received an emergency call on Monday night to treat a dog whose owners had seen it eat rat bait.
While the dog appeared in good health when it was brought into the clinic, Dr Brisbane immediately began treating it by making it vomit, giving it rat poisoning antidote and running blood tests.
"The dog had eaten rat bait before so they knew what to do," Dr Brisbane said.
Dr Brisbane said people needed to ensure they placed bait in areas dogs couldn't access, although at time rodents can dislodge the bait to an area that's more accessible.
"There are also lots of accidental poisonings that happen because people aren't aware things such as grapes, raisons, lilies, anti-freeze and paracetamol are poisonous," she said.
"If a dog eats these things it can be fatal."
Dr Brisbane said anyone who suspects their dog has eaten poison should seek treatment immediately.
"Don't take the wait-and-see approach if you're unsure if the dog has eaten the poison," she said.
Dr Brisbane said pet owners needed to be aware of the dangers of snail baits that claim to be pet friendly.
"Last weekend I treated a dog that had eaten too much pet-friendly bait and it ended up dying," she said.
Orange Veterinary Hospital veterinarian John Mason said it was important people using snail or rat bait were mindful of the dangers.
"Most of the poisonings happen in people's own backyards when they haven't been careful with baits," he said.
"People also need to use pet-safe bait stations."
Dr Mason said he was concerned to hear snail baits had been found in public parks recently and reminded people to be careful when walking their dogs.
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All maize uniforms confirmed for OSU, this time with shoes!
these are the worst alternates I've seen M wear in any sport, and it's not even about the aesthetics. I'm about 99.9% sure there's an NCAA rule in effect prohibiting this jersey. Article 5)b)6 of the basketball rulebook, specifically.
Good call
The number shall be one single solid color that contrasts the neutralzone and may be bordered by no more than a ½-inch border of anycolor(s).
Did we get a special dispensation? Also iirc (and I probably don't) Stanford used to rock striped numbers.
Actually no, wearing these is breaking NCAA rules. It's just that the NCAA hasn't bothered enforcing it all season
Let's use a little reason here.
Do you think it's more likely that the NCAA has forgotten about basic uniform rules or that teams asked for and received permission to wear these?
ADs want crazy uniforms to sell, NCAA says "sure, fuck the rules if we can make a few bucks" and we get unreadable uniforms.
I bet if it came up, Adidas/Michigan would tell you to look closely and see that the shades of yellow are slightly different between the jersey background and the number. So, technically, these probably dont break the rules.
Good Lord. I think some junior high girl from 1987 is missing her pastel Reebok high tops. I hope it is just the color on my browser.
Marketing guy at Adidas: Art design guy, give us a totally neato jersey for Michigan basketball.
Art design guy at Adidas: Super duper, how about yellow?
Marketing guy at Adidas: Yellow? Just yellow? Nothing else? How about the shoes?
Art design guy at Adidas: Yellow too. Just yellow!
Marketing guy at Adidas: Radical! Let's do it!
Art design guy at Adidsas: I'll have my 6th grade kid whip something up in power point and we'll send it to print!
Marketing guy at Adidas: Done and done, and I mean done.
laces make for some fly kicks.
Never. Ugliest shoes I have ever seen.
Stauskas gives us another look at them:
Those are awful.
If Adidas was really interested in designing uniforms that put as much "maize" on these as possible, they would've treated their precious three stripes just as they did "Michigan" on the front of the jersey.
New mantra: it's not the name on the front of the jersey, it's the logo on the back of the shoes???
If the kids like them, whatever...
At least they're not neon green shoes. I don't hate the shoes, although I prefer either all white or all blue unis.
I actually kinda like them
...but with affection.
I assume we're trying to blind the Ohio players. Maybe woth the aesthetic travesty...
If it makes our team play better I'm all for it.
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Im sorry but are those MAIZE or YELLOW? Becuase Ive always wanted the 3rd jersey to be a maize one, and maize being closer to the orange side, as in DARK YELLOW, like when the sun sets. This jersey looks like YELLOW, like our football helmets.
Maize!=dark yellow
This is technically "maize", however, it's pretty different than the maize we use in our uniforms.
Alright Adidas, I was a fan when we signed that contract, but by now...
Or perhaps you would prefer Under Armour?
Unlike Adidas, Nike only messes with uniforms for programs that need publicity to be more relevent.
For example, these are from the "Pro Combat" series, but they're pretty damn close to classic Alabama:
Umm have you seen the terrible osu nike uniforms they wear against us? I don't think ohio needs the publicity/
I think that's Alabama. Only OSU fans confuse themselves with Alabama.
You've clearly never watched Florida or Florida State play. Either that, or you feel that they're programs in need of publicity.
I am only a fuddy-duddy when it comes to home football unis. I think these are neat.
and they all said:
"I'm a BANANA!"
or corn, as it were
Who gives a shit, it's basketball
I've always liked our Maize uniforms the best, and while I would prefer our normal ones these are not THAT much worse.
Best hoops jersey hands down:
Agreed, our maize uni's are truly unique and I like them the most.
Agreed, but bring back the big bold block M. Then we have the best uni's in all of college football and in all of college basketball.
Agreed. I like the regular maize jerseys. Aren't our regular maize jerseys maize enough? Apparently not for adidas and DB. Ugh. I don't think the home football jerseys are far off. I hope I'm wrong.
Why put that irrelevant design on the pants. Just keep it simple and put a block M somewhere.
Not my favorite, but not the worst.
Bad. Shoes are worse. It's getting difficult to defend Adidas. 89 throwbacks were on
very reminiscent of the NBA Christmas jerseys, given that they're all made by Adidas. Anyone happen to watch the Pacers play in their alternates and recall how difficult it was to see the numbers/names? Not as big a deal with basketball as with football, as you can actually see people's faces and bodies, unless you're not familiar with all the players. Meaning, WE shouldn't have a problem identifying players, but osu fans probably will (but who cares about them anyway amiright?)
Legibility be damned, these are awesome for a one-off thing. UMichBball twitter also says that they'll have maize socks.
I'm not going to throw a hissy fit over something relatively minor like this. I will throw a hissy fit if I ever see those bumble bee uniforms we had in the trash tornado game.
Hopefully they already tested the number thing after the bowl game debacle.
And thought this post was talking about busting out all maize uniforms for the football team vs. Ohio, not the basketball team. The thought of 300 lb behemoths dressed in an all maize football gear ensemble is grounds for immediate arrest and physical brutality by the Fashion Police. Unless of course, you're an Oregon fan, in which case you happily refer to it as "Awesome Nike Alternative Combat Uniform #7."
I wish we would go back to wearing blue jerseys at home like in football. I don't know why basketball went to whites at home in the first place and I hate those shoes.
Kansas has already worn them this season in all blue if anyone missed that game. I don't mind the jersey when you look at it in a picture, but I have a feeling I'm going to dislike them for the same reason that I disliked our bowl uniforms: you can't tell who the hell is doing things because the numbers are invisible on TV. That said, probably not as big of a deal with basketball.
And why is no one asking the important question? Is Burke going to play with his shoelaces untied? (/s in case that is necessary)
Meh. These could be worse and I like having uniform variety in basketball. They really need to pick themselves up and beat Ohio to gather momentum for a couple tough road games.
Don't try to fool me. I can tell that Denard is modeling those shoes.
of the football team alternates. Clearly Michigan, clean design, and the kicks are just. . . brash.
The uniforms are ok but the maize shoes are downright ugly!
Those shoes are not only ugly as F but they appear to have the same level of support as the moccasins I wore in high school.
But they are the ones who are going to be dominating Craft tomorrow.
Go Blue!!
I'll decide if I like them if we beat Ohio.
Shoes... Meh. Jerseys... Not bad actually, but our original maize are way better. All that matters to me, though, is some revenge. And I'm not talking typical revenge, I'm talking 20 blowout tomorrow... LET'S GO BLUE... BEAT OHIO
but at least they havent changed the winged helmet......yet
Not true, matte finish in the Outback Bowl this year.
Because we lost the first game, I wasn't surprised to hear of this.
If we win in them, I wouldn't be shocked to see them come out again vs. IU.
I mean, the whole thing is yellow, man. Even the shoes.
some kid had shoes of a different color and decided to spray paint them. Phew. Oh well, first world problems and so on yada yada tradition yada yada.
Why are the socks white?
Shame on you. Ask me trice, shame on me.
Why are the socks white?
Why are the socks white?
I dragged you on a three-week expedition through the Himalayas just so we could see the Great and All Knowing Swami of Samibhanjyanchandranekasar and get answers to the most important questions in life, and you ask
Why are the socks white?
Why are the socks white?
Why are the socks white?
Cannot believe you burned all 3 of the questions. I hope you're happy.
I don't like the shoes.
I really wish we could just one time, one season, have Maize uniform components that actually match. Just once.
Ok. Thanks DB.
I wish, just once uninformed message board posters and bloggers would stop blaming Dave Brandon for uniforms.
He's an athletics director. This doesn't fall under his job description. Just because he's the only person you can name in the entire athletics department doesn't mean it's his fault.
For the record. Uniforms have A LOT more to do with the teams and coaches than they EVER do with the AD.
Mr. Brandon is the only one who can get us a new contract, not players or coaches. It most certainly is under his job description, maybe delegated to someone else to handle, but still in his wheelhouse.
Thanks for calling me uninformed though.
Look terrible IMO. Next thing you know, they'll do shirts vs. skins with a temporary Adidas tattoo applied to each player's chest.
...Burke on the court with those jerseys as we will on tv!
but the majority of you have to stop getting your panties in a bunch. The only difference between these jerseys and our normal maize ones (which are amazing btw) is that the Michigan and number are not filled in with blue. Is that really the end of the world?
Stauskas and a couple other players have already voiced their opinion on the shoes, calling them "cold" (that means he approves of them). If the players like them and are excited to wear them, what's the big deal? Beat Ohio!
Especially because the jerseys and shoes are the same color!
Whatever your opinion of the Fab Five, this remains the best style, hands down.
...the best.
Want those uniforms every game.
I do hope the irony of the Fab 5 turning tradition on its head when it came to BB uniforms is not lost on you. If MGoBlog had been around when they came on the scene, the reaction from the board would be apoplectic.
I'll take a pair of those shorts in XL. Love that look.
but I still have those shorts.
As bad without the shoes. How often do you look at a man's shoes?
On the other hand, the guys wear different shoes from each other each game. hopefully, some do not wear these
Did you see MSU and their gold shoes? That was awful. Shoes matter, sometimes. I bet these will look a lot better in person than TV though, without all the glare.
Nope that's not a big enough departure to be upset. Now if we get those Nike jerseys with the stupid barely visible designs on the back then I'll be angry (Duke, OSU etc).
by Sharpie Highlighters.
So, what do the shorts look like for tomorrow? Anyone know?
I hate this uniform, good thing I know who all the players are so that i won't have to struggle with that tomorrow night.
Adidas sucks
Am I the only one that loves everything about this uniform???
I'd say the answer is no, but not by much. Personally, for some reason I can't see the pics of the uniforms on my work computer, but I would second the opinion of the person who voice their love for the old fab five maize uniforms. Personally, those are my favorite of all basketball uniforms.
I do like the current maize uniforms though, so I can't see myself having an issue with these ones if they are similar.
Was given tickets today to the game, section 220! Can any one tell me if these tickets are good, bad, or ok? Thanks!
But where does the B1G patch go? Is it yellow too?
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Advisory Opinions
Reporting Compensation Paid to Employees Who Lobby
Indiana Lobby Registration Commission
(Ratification vote taken at public meeting of June 2, 1998)
Chairman Bepko - yes
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Commissioner Hicks - yes
Questions and written comments may be directed to:
Indiana Lobby Registration Commission,
115 W. Washington, Suite 1375, Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 232-9860
The statute requires that a lobbyist employer must report the salary it pays its employee when lobbying services are performed in exchange for that salary. Historically, the Commission has required that the hourly, salary, bonus and other reportable employee benefits (as recognized by Final Advisory Opinion 97-04) of such employees be pro-rated, based on the percentage of time spent performing lobbying services. In Example A, the lobby firm would report $7,500.00 as a lobbying expenditure. In Example B, the corporation would report $40,000 as a lobbying expenditure.
NOTE: The Commission has not been presented with the issue of how to reflect expenditures made to partners who perform lobbying services for entities which lobby. Thus, the determination of this Proposed Advisory Opinion is restricted to the facts surrounding non-partner employee lobbyists of lobby / law firms and non-partner employee lobbyists of entities otherwise registered as employer lobbyists.
Example (A):
Lobby firm "A" hires an employee to lobby for A's clients. The employee is paid $10,000 annually and spends 75% of her time performing lobbying services. The lobby firm must report $7,500 of the employee's salary as a lobbying expenditure.
Example (B):
Corporation "C" is already registered as an employer lobbyist and hires two employees to lobby on behalf of C. The first employee is employed as corporate counsel, is paid $100,000, and spends only 10% of her time lobbying for C. The second employee is paid $30,000 and spends 100% of his time lobbying for C. C would report a $10,000 lobbying expenditure with regard to the first employee and a $30,000 lobbying expenditure with regard to the second employee.
I.C. 2-7-3-3(a)(2)(A) states that "the activity reports of each lobbyist shall include the following: total expenditure on lobbying (pro-rated, if necessary) broken down to include at least the following categories: Compensation to others who perform lobbying services." This section of the statute requires each lobbyist to report such an expenditure, which means that both compensated and employer lobbyists must report how much they pay others to perform lobbying services.
There are two types of scenarios wherein this query becomes relevant.
In the first scenario, as depicted by Example (A), the employee lobbyist is lobbying for the lobby firm's clients, and not for the lobby firm. The Commission determined in Proposed Advisory Opinion (PAO) 97-08, that such an employee lobbyist would list the lobby firm, and not the lobby firm's clients, as the employer lobbyist. The Commission recognized that the lobby firm is not lobbying for itself and that the employee and contract lobbyists the lobby firm hires are not lobbying for the lobby firm. They are lobbying for the clients of the lobby firm, yet the statute requires only that the employee and contract lobbyists disclose who directy compensates them for their lobbying efforts. Consistent with that determination would be a determination that any compensation paid to the employee lobbyist by the lobby firm would be reportable as "compensation paid to others." Many lobby firms hire independent contractor lobbyists and report the compensation paid to those independent contractors as "compensation paid to others."
Whether a lobbyist who works for a lobby firm is an employee or an independent contractor is not a material distinction, in terms of the reportability of the compensation paid. Both the employee and the independent contractor are performing the same task of lobbying for the lobby firm's clients, though the employee's time may be pro-rated if the employee performs other, non-lobbying duties for the employer.
If a lobby firm is currently registered as an employer lobbyist, it must report on its employer lobbyist activity report the compensation it paid to its employees to perform lobbying services. This includes expenditures made to compensate employees who perform non-lobbying activities, but who, nonetheless, perform non-statutorily exempt lobbying services.
In the second scenario, as depicted in Example (B), the Commission has determined whether a corporation which engages in lobbying through its employees must report the compensation to the employee who lobbies on behalf of the corporation.
The distinction from the first scenario is that a corporation which is registered as an employer lobbyist and which employs certain individuals (in-house) to perform lobbying services on behalf of the corporation is, in essence, lobbying for itself.
Accordingly, an examination of certain statutory exemptions under the lobby disclosure law is necessary. However, because this POA presumes the corporation is already a registered lobbyist, we analyze the statutory exemptions to determine only whether certain expenditures made by the corporation employer lobbyist are reportable, and not whether the corporation has a duty to register as an employer lobbyist.
Indiana Code § 2-7-2-6 (c ) states that "[t]he provisions of this chapter are not applicable to an individual invited, by any member of the general assembly, to testify before the general assembly or a legislative commitee at the time the individual is testifying." Thus, to the extent the employee has been invited by a member of the general assembly to testify, any expenditures related to providing said testimony is not reportable as a lobbying activity, regardless of whether the individ ual testifies as to the facts and circumstances of the employer.
Indiana Code § 2-7-2-6 (f) states that "notwithstanding the definition of "lobbying" as specified in IC 2-7-1-9, in no instance shall the language of this chapter be construed to prohibit in any way free and open communication between any citizen of this state and members of the general assembly." A corporation, though considered to be a "person", is not a "citizen" and, therefore, would not receive this exemption. Moreover, mere disclosure of said communication activities does not pr ohibit in any way the communication. The communication is not what is disclosed, but rather, disclosure of the expenditures made pursuant to the communication is what is required by Indiana's lobby disclosure statute.
Indiana Code § 2-7-2-6 (e) states that "[t]his chapter does not apply to a person whose lobbying services are performed without compensation." For purposes of this opinion, the "person" in question is the employee who is compensated for lobbying.
The threshold question is whether an employee can be a "person" separate from the employer for purposes of lobby disclosure requirements. In other words, is a corporation merely paying itself to lobby when it pays its employee to lobby o n behalf of the corporation and are such expenditures reportable under the lobby disclosure statute?
The Commission determined in Final Advisory Opinion (FAO) 97-01, that "only the corporate entity which hires the lobbyist or incurs the lobbying expenditure must report and register." Because it is the employer-corporation which has hire d the lobbyist, and not the employee, the Commission's determination might be read to support having only the employer-corporation register.
However, the issue before the Commission when it reached its determination in FAO 97-01, was whether a parent or a subsidiary must register as an employer lobbyist. The issue before the Commission in this PAO is not whether a corporation must register as an employer lobbyist, but whether expenditures paid to an employee-lobbyist are reportable lobbying expenditures and, hence, whether said employee-lobbyist must therefore register as a compensated lobbyist. To that extent, the Commissio n determination in FAO 97-01 is not dispositive on this issue, or in any issue before the Commission wherein the question relates to the reporting requirements of a lobbyist whose [potential] status is that of a compensated lobbyist.
The issue is whether, when the legislature included the term "to others", it meant for that term to include an employee who lobbies on behalf of his/her employer. If the employer lobbyist is not required to disclose compensation expendit ures related to the in-house lobbying efforts of its employees, then disclosure of compensation as a lobbying expenditure could be avoided altogether in Indiana by conducting all employer lobbyist activities in-house. It is doubtful that the legislature intended that there be no duty to disclose compensation as a lobbying expenditure, simply by virtue of the fact that the lobbyist is in-house.


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Boselli finished as top scorer in the tournament with eight goals and he impressed a host of scouts as he scored the winner in the final against Cruzeiro of Brazil, with Manchester City even linked with a move earlier this year.
Boselli has an Italian passport which means he does not need a work permit to play in England, and that has seen him attract a great deal of attention.
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Griffiths was suspended last night after a review of an incident in Sydney's loss to Melbourne Victory by a reconvened A-League match review panel.
The incident happened in the 89th minute of the match, and Griffiths was charged with ''use of offensive, insulting or abusive language and/or gestures against a match official''.
The 33-year-old faces a three-match suspension. He will serve a mandatory match suspension against the Jets and can appeal against the additional two-game ban.
Sydney FC chief executive Tony Pignata condemned Griffiths's behaviour.
''Sydney FC is disappointed with what happened late in the game last weekend against Melbourne Victory that has led to Joel Griffiths receiving a three-match suspension,'' Pignata said in a statement.
''Sydney FC prides itself on setting standards in community behaviour and we expect our players to uphold those standards and set a good example. Joel has shown remorse for what happened and Sydney FC will consider its options in relation to appealing the severity of the suspension.''
The A-League's match review panel usually convenes earlier in the week, but it is understood the incident was not in the referees' match report. An FFA source said an ''independent'' person had brought the matter to light.
It's not the first time Griffiths has been involved in a controversy involving match officials.
He appeared to punch a linesman in the groin when playing for Newcastle in 2007 but escaped further sanction on a technicality because he received a yellow card at the time.
The suspension denies Griffiths the opportunity to play alongside brother Adam and against his other brother, Ryan, in what would have been the first time three brothers had played together in an A-League fixture.
Griffiths is the seventh change forced on Sydney coach Frank Farina for the match against the fifth-placed Jets, who sit two points above the Sky Blues on the A-League ladder.
Brett Emerton (back) has been ruled out, Yairo Yau has been lost to international duty with Panama, while Fabio and Tiago are serving one-match suspensions.
Goalkeeper Ivan Necevski returns from an ankle injury to take Matthew Nash's place on the bench.
Another former Jet, Jason Culina, also pulled out late yesterday with a knee injury.
''It's certainly had its moments [this season],'' Farina said.
''We are probably five or six down from last week, but that is the reality of it – we have to live with it and just get on with it. Every day in football is a challenge.
''When you are on a bit of a roller-coaster ride like we have been, it tends to stay that way.
''We have to continue to keep working hard, take what we have got and keep battling away.''
Sydney have managed a clean sheet only three times this season and Farina said that was the main focus of his depleted side as they attempt to keep their finals hopes alive.
''It has been a problem for us. If we can get a clean sheet, that would be fantastic. That means we would pick up points.''


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Posted: January 9, 2013 at 5 a.m.
Aldermen approved a new title Tuesday for the financial officer of the city and Mayor Greg Hines introduced the new director of finance.
At A Glance
Council Action
Rogers' City Council met Tuesday and passed:
• A $9,395 contract with Radiophone for a computer upgrade in the dispatch center
• A $3,694 grant for the Arkansas Fire Prevention Commission
• A $48,600 contract with FTN & Associates for work on the Blossom Way Creek trail project
• Amended Chapter 14 of the city code, changing some wording in the design standards for driveways and sidewalks.
• Moved a $232,969 Homeland Security grant into several payroll accounts to allow the Fire Department to hire six firefighters.
• A $7,000 amendment to the Morrison Shipley Engineer contract to add a left turn lane to Locust Street west of the Second Street
• A $200,000 contact with the Rogers-Lowell Industrial Development Corporation, which will handle economic development services Rogers in 2013.
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Great hire by the city. Casey will do a great job with the highest level of integrity.
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"Municipal accounting is my first love and my passion." Mine, too.
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Happy Birthday Galileo!
Apparently a number of smart people were born around the middle of February. After noting Darwin and Lincoln's 200th birthdays, I almost missed Galileo Galilei's 445th birthday, on February 15.
It's interesting to note the difference between the anniversaries of the two scientists. The Vatican last week said, no, we're not going to do anything special for Darwin's birthday or offer an apology because, well, the church didn't do anything to Darwin.
For Galileo, though, the church held a solemn Mass in his honor last Sunday at the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and Martyrs in Rome, Zenit reports [1]. In a message read at the Mass, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said Galileo was a model who "knew how to read and study science through the eyes of faith." A statue honoring Galileo will be erected in the basilica.
Perhaps the church feels guilty about Galileo?
I'm no expert in church history, but here are a couple of interesting commentaries on the Galileo controversy that says the church shouldn't feel so guilty. Read [2] or listen [3] to learn more about how the church wasn't really against the idea that Earth rotated around the sun (though they wanted more proof than Galileo could provide). Rather the church was threatened by Galileo's desire to reinterpret scripture. Bertone's comments about Galileo being a model of reconciling science and faith make sense in this context.
What's most valuable here is the conclusion from EWTN's The Catholic Church: Builder of Civilization [3]:
"My purpose here is not to say there was no wrong done or that this episode is something to celebrate, but at the same time, I think we can understand that what actually happened here was the fruit of not any mythical Catholic hostility to science but merely the unfortunate convergence of a variety of factors happening at the same time. ... Galileo case or no Galileo case...the church provides the framework in which science was possible. It made us believe that the universe could be understood by our minds and encouraged us to engage in this type of undertaking. And finally even beyond that, the church encouraged--yes, believe it or not--the free interchange of ideas."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2188963/David-Caminer.html [telegraph.co.uk]
Yeah, just skip the story instead of using bugmenot. That'll show them!
Not sure why, but I got into TFA without any nags.
Furthermore, the other article isn't the same; for instance you missed this great quote:
"Let it be remembered that throughout almost 14 years of life he worked a 24-hour shift on one dreary problem after another without complaining and spent, at the most, only a few hours off sick," the computer's obituary said.
Except for the "without complaining" part, I'd think they must be talking about Marvin.
And I'll say it again. The British take their tea very seriously. It should surprise nobody that a tea company would be working on microcomputers. After all, these are the same companies that started wars and colonized new lands.
...And redeem her for a valuable prize.
Down with the queen!
Sorry,you can't possibly love English tea, at least not the real stuff. English tea cannot be drunk black. It is stewed in a teapot for 30 minutes specifically to turn the stomach lining to leather.
As the AC that responded to you (with Score:0) earlier said, the report suggests that drinking hot tea increases the cancer risk, as does drinking too much tea.
"The water should be actually boiling at the moment of impact, which means that one should keep it on the flame while one pours. Some people add that one should only use water that has been freshly brought to the boil, but I have never noticed that it makes any difference." -- George Orwell [theorwellprize.co.uk]
So 98.2'c sounds about right.
as some from derbyshire we're renaming them to freedom puddings...
bloody plantagenets
Yes precisely this seriously:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA [youtube.com]
And never managed to maintain the loyalty of their colonies and ended up losing them all.
Another nitpick: LEOs were not exactly mini. See the pictures on this enthusiasts web site [leo-computers.org.uk].
And we've been here before [slashdot.org].
According to Douglas Adams, in the future, computers will be making beverages for us that are "almost but not quite, entirely unlike tea"
The British take their tea very seriously.
I guess this is why they were mad about a certain tea party in Boston a few hundred years ago. The English tea was thrown overboard into the water, making it unsuitable for drinking -- even for Americans.
(with apologies to George Banks)
My guess is because he was on the commercial side of the business (though the FT referred to him as a "systems analyst" in their obit. yesterday). From the little I know of academic teachings, it's not considered trendy to focus on such areas - particularly as he didn't program in Java
From the little I know of academic teachings, it's not considered trendy to focus on such areas - particularly as he didn't program in Java
Yeah, he probably programmed in T.
Hahah, I was *so* going to make that comment, if you hadn't preceded me - you bastard
Seriously though: what's the point dragging Java in this discussion? These facts happened three decades before Java even appeared.
These facts happened three decades before Java even appeared.
Four decades, I would say. And three decades before T [wikipedia.org] appeared. Of course, true hackers drink T instead of Java.
I learned about this guy during my Computer Studies degree course. Really interesting chap, it's amazing how few people have heard of LEO compared to Colossus... but then I guess that an accounting computer for a chain of cafes is a lot less interesting than WW2 code breaking!
Interesting (sort of) related fact - the Lyons Tea Houses which were a fixture of pretty much every English town became Wimpey, the British burger chain, now confined to run down shopping centres. And another (on a roll here): The An
I came to this thread hoping to find puns involving Big MAC addresses.
You have failed me for the last time, Slashdot! *laughs evilly and writes mean things about CmdrTaco on Wikipedia*
âoeAmericans canâ(TM)t believe this,â Paul Ceruzzi, a historian of computing and curator at the National Air and Space Museum, said in an interview last week. âoeThey think youâ(TM)re making it up. It really was true.â
And we don't! AS our manufacturing and the rest of our economy is rotting away (Thanks for nothing corp America), we are constantly reassured that our talent as a country is creativity (at least that's what the economists say - everything is for the better!). Th
What isn't funny is that the United States manufactures more goods today than it did in 1980. It's fantastic.
McDonalds do food now?
I don't think you actually understood that comparison.
They're not saying that it's like McDonald's inventing the McNugget. They're saying that it would be like McDonald's, the fast food company, inventing a computer from scratch.
Glidden, the paint company, used to be involved in making medicines as a significant side business. Think about that if you ever spread enamel on your wall or pop a prescription.
Think about that if you ever spread enamel on your wall or pop a prescription.
You can do both at once and come out with a screwed up mess of a wall.
Well - why?
An undertaker, after all, invented the automatic telephone exchange.
The first output was something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
The best solutions don't come from engineers sitting around brainstorming. It's almost exclusively domain-specific knowledge that only practitioners have that makes good systems good. Lyons needed account tracking software for their tea and bakery business, and it's likely that there was simply no idea at IBM or any other "computer" shop that such a need existed.
Engineers are pretty much replaceable cogs in software development. It's the people who have real world needs that require real world solutions that bring these things into existence.
Engineers are pretty much replaceable cogs in software development. It's the people who have real world needs that require real world solutions that bring these things into existence.
That's what I've been telling mom for years about me living in the basement. Think of all the innovations we'd lose if I moved out!
While I recognize and agree with the point you're trying to make, I think it's a bit overstating the case to call engineers replaceable cogs. If you're working withing a relatively solved problem domain, and we're talking about a certain minimal level of skill, then this is true.
But in _this_ case we're talking about a completely nascent problem space. Caminer's brilliance was recognizing that computers could solve the problem. Yet it still took John Pinkerton with heaps of assistance from the Math Lab at Cambridge to design and build a computer with operating system sufficient to the task.
Engineers are pretty much replaceable cogs in software development. It's the people who have real world needs that require real world solutions that bring these things into existence.
Try looking at a real mechanical machine with a broken cog. Not only does it tend to bring the machine to a halt, it can also do permanent damage. Yes, you can replace good cogs with other good cogs but try replacing good cogs with poor cogs and see how far you'll get. Sure all requirements come from the "real world", I'd just like to point out that often the requirements have been there, the money/manhours to it has been there and yet it's spectacularly failed at bringing things into existance.
It's a widel
Just to throw out an example, take Dell. "Sell low-cost custom-assembled computers directly over the Internet" basicly sums up the whole original business idea
Not to be pedantic, but Dell have been around since 1984, and their original business model revolved around selling custom-build high-end machines through the mail (at reduced costs, due to the low overhead associated with such a model, as well as the fact that it was the only way they could compete with IBM and Compaq). The shift to selling low-end machines via the Internet didn't come until the mid to late 90s.
Your point does still hold, however, as Dell were the first company to actually make that busi
Eh, maybe. But my experience has been that it is a certain personality that brings new ideas to life. Don't pick on engineers, the poor little dears have feelings to you know. And you know how they get when they are upset. They go talk to their Engineer boss, and the Engineering fraternity with the rings that have cut off the circulation to that part of the brain that made them interesting people. Its really not their fault. They were made that way, or maybe they were that way before they became Engineers.
Programming computers has always been about solving problems. Computers are machines.
They move signals and data and return pay checks and nuclear plant control rod down commands.
Most of my life consists of developing systems that move data and large, dangerous chunks of machinery.
Some of the best and worst engineers I have worked with had a BS or MS, MA and BA usually caught on.
... McDonald's had invented the Internet
In the Al Gore sense of "invent the Internet", perhaps. They commercialized someone else's invention.
Super-size your internet, drive-thru downloads, I'm lovin' it.
Super-size your internet, drive-thru downloads, I'm lovin' it.
Didn't MS already do that? I mean your browser has to look rather super-sized with all those spyware toolbars, and drie-thru downloads are a lot like the drive-by downloads that IE has....
I think I would count the number of extensions that weight down the typical Firefox browser before I began pointing fingers.
I think I would count the number of extensions that weight down the typical Firefox browser before I began pointing fingers.
Well lets see... On my Firefox 3.0 install on my EEE... I have one extension, Tiny Menu. As for greasemonkey, I have little need of it, AdBlock Plus? I have a configured
Actually McDonald's partnered up with AT&T to provide Wifi Internet access from local McDonald's restaurants and yes you can access their Wifi via the drive-thru line and outside of the building. AT&T customers can pay a small fee per month for access to various Wifi hotspots in McDonald's, Starbuck's, etc without paying them an extra fee.
Some McDonald's also have flat screen LCD TV sets on their wall with Fox News or CNN playing on them with the sound turned off and CC captions playing.
The article said the company owned tea shops not that it was a tea company.
In addition to running the tea shops
... tea plantations
Tea plantations and tea shops. Not a tea company? Is there a portion of the industry left other than growing, refining, distributing, and retailing tea?
Drinking? surely they must be paying someone to drink the stuff.
It also owned Tea plantations and flour mills.
In further trivia, Nigella Lawson, the TV chef is the daughter of the Lyons Heiress Vanessa Salmon
And about Nigella, she always seemed out of touch with reality.... I'd still do'er though. I bet she'd be a right good shag eh?! (No, I'm Canadian).
like hearing that Pizza Hut had developed a new generation of microprocessor
You didn't see that commercial yet? It's the one where they also introduced the Extreme Cheesy-Cheesy Extreme Pepperoni Pizza. The microprocessor is in the crust!
Why do Americans have this urge to claim the credit for everything?
To create a overwhelming sense of national pride.
As far as I recall the history, they didn't ask Americans anything. They were examining business methods round the world, and had discussions with other businessmen - both in America and Europe - as a matter of course. Computers (or Electronic Brains!) were being thought about at the time, and Lyons staff wrote a report saying that they should be investigated.
So a meeting was held with Maurice Wilkes of Cambridge, and the upshot was that Lyons sponsored the manufacture of the first commercially designed computer (and, more importantly, the first Business and System Analysts). There was no particular pressure or direction from any other company or country.
Oh, and another error - Lyons was NOT a tea company. It was a chain of restaurants, placed in city centres; they were called 'Lyons Corner Houses' because Joe Lyons, the owner, figured that a corner position got trade from two streets simultaneously. They typically served the office lunchtime trade - their waitresses were known as 'Nippies', because of their fabled speed of service. Tea would have been served, or coffee, and cakes, sandwiches or light meals. It's like calling McDonalds a Dairy Farmer because they serve milk shakes....
There's a damn fine history of the LEO computers, written with input from Caminer himself: A Computer Called Leo [amazon.com], by Georgina Ferry.
I just dug out my copy to get all the names right
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Konrad Zuse (pronounced [ËkÉ"nÊat ËtsuËzÉ(TM)]; June 22, 1910 Berlin - December 18, 1995 Hünfeld) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, in 1941 (the program was stored on a punched tape)."
Point taken, but FYI:
"J. Lyons and Co., one of the UK's leading catering and food manufacturing companies in the first half of the 20th century, sent two of its senior managers to the USA in 1947 to look at new business methods developed during the Second World War. During their visit they came across digital computers then used exclusively for engineering and mathematical computations. They saw the potential of computers to help solve the problem of administering a major business enterprise."
http://en.wiki [wikipedia.org]
Why do Americans have this urge to claim the credit for everything?
People in most nations seem to have this urge. Brazilians claim the airplane was invented by a Brazilian [wikipedia.org] and Italians claim the telephone was invented by an Italian. [wikipedia.org]
When you consider a "computer" as a generic machine capable of performing calculations, maybe it could be claimed the Greeks [wikipedia.org] did it, but if you limit your definition to an electronic equipment doing calculations by binary logic, then it's true, an American [wikipedia.org] has the earliest claim.
An 'electronic machine doing binary logic' is the WORST definition of a computer I ever heard of. You might almost think it was specified simply in order to shoe-horn and American (/Bulgarian!) into the frame!
Atanasoff simply re-created Babbage's Difference Engine in electronics. So I would still go with the British as the first 'computer' inventors - Babbage and Turing between them defined the concept of the first general purpose machine which worked numerically. Adding electronics is not really an 'invent
Atanasoff simply re-created Babbage's Difference Engine in electronics
Well, if you think Babbage predated Atanasoff, then certainly the Antikythera mechanism predated Babbage -- by 2000 years -- with one difference: it was actually built. What Babbage invented the technology of his age couldn't build.
Why do Americans have this urge to claim the credit for everything?
I'm not sure it really was an issue of "credit", such as "firsts". They were looking for practical solutions and the US was one of the top countries for emerging computer technology, perhaps because our large military budget was funding the most computer projects. The internet and microchips were largely pushed forward by military contracts (existing or hoped-for), for example. It's still this way to this day more or less.
What kind of tasks could be worth the expense of building one?
To calculate taxes. Or you could just throw your tea in the harbor.
Not only did Lyons build the first industrial computer, they even had a bureau service running as soon as the machine was ready to take on the extra work.
What sort of calculations could possibly be worth the expense of building an early computer to do them with? That's one thing I have wondered about : these machines had about as much memory as a sheet of notebook paper, and were glacially slow at calculations. What kind of tasks could be worth the expense of building one?
FTFA: millions of daily transactions
glacially slow by what standard? the mechanical adding machine? you could have half your office staff performing routine calculations with all the opportunities for error that implied.
What sort of calculations could possibly be worth the expense of building an early computer to do them with? That's one thing I have wondered about : these machines had about as much memory as a sheet of notebook paper, and were glacially slow at calculations. What kind of tasks could be worth the expense of building one?
Not sure for this one, but most of the early computers had to do mathematics. You have to remember that there were no calculators then. To calculate anything from a business perspective you would have to lay it all out and do the math manually - a time consuming and error prone process. With the computer they could input all the raw data and get the right result out the other side.
I think most of us can't imagine living in a world where math had to be done by hand, logarithms had to be looked up in a
Finally, the company was seen as a very progressive concern - from the way it treated its workers (many of whom were women), through to adopting the latest business techniques - often from the US.
One of the o
From TFA
"The finished LEO, which had less than 100,000th the power of a current PC, could calculate an employeeâ(TM)s pay in 1.5 seconds, a job that took an experienced clerk eight minutes."
Thats a 320 times increase in speed. Plus less likely to have manual processing errors. And that is for every pay run.
Well the first ones in the US where used to calculate ballistics tables. The first ones in the UK where used to break the German code in WWII.
The computer that sent men to the moon was probably in the same league as a cell phone.
You can do a lot with a little if you don't have to make it idiot proof and don't have to have little pictures for every command.
And each bomb was perfectly brewed with milk added just as it left the bomb bay.
Later versions even came with biscuits !
I guess if you ignore Charles Babbage and Ada Augusta Lovelace? They too invented their own software and hardware long before 1951 aka the Analytical Engine, etc. While it didn't actually work right, IBM fixed the problems and made a working version later, and they can be considered Systems Analysts before that term was phrased.
First the historian says,
"Americans can't believe this," Paul Ceruzzi, a historian of computing and curator at the National Air and Space Museum, said in an interview last week. "They think you're making it up. It really was true."
Then the article says,
Seems like the historian doesn't know the history and reveal
Ya learn something new every day.
Ok , you wouldn't find a tea company today building its own hardware , but you may well find them writing their own software. Many many non tech companies still do this - banks, insurance , market research to name but a few. Possibly even McDonalds and pizza hut do too but I'm just guessing.
I actually work in a market research company and we DO design our own set top box and handheld hardware though obviously the actual manufacturing is outsourced because the functionality we need from it is simply not avai
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