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"combines VP8 video with Vorbis audio in a Matroshka container"
Yeah, I ordered that in a bar once and got really wasted.
Actually, I can't seem to use Youtube in Chrome or Chromium. Specifically, if I log in, I always get "An error occurred..." If I clear cache and cookies I can use Youtube. Everything works fine in Firefox, except apparently I just lost sound recently. I haven't checked cables though. It didn't work in chrome either.
Well your problem then, I use chrome on windows and linux and can watch youtube, even the html 5 stuff. Don't hate.
I forgot to mention that it works fine on Windows 7 but fails on Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick.
Well, whatever is going wrong, it doesn't go wrong in Firefox, where I have even more extensions than I had in Chrome.
Have they managed to improve the quality of the VP8 codec? Last time I saw a comparison, VP8 was way behind H.264 [multimedia.cx].
And don't even give me that crap about "it's free, it doesn't have to be as good" or "it's only a web codec so who cares". If there's a number of big companies supporting the project and they plan on making WebM some kind of industry standard, anything less than state of the art is unacceptable. We'll be using this for years to come, so doing it right is in everyone's best interest.
VP8 can improve over time, after adoption. H.264 can't be freed from the claws of MPEG-LA.
How does the sound and image quality of the WebM videos compare to the versions in other formats?
flash with H.264 has not been working great. It is hell to work with, both as a user and as a developer, and it don't work on mobile phones.
For variable definitions of "works". Flash is not a great performer on low power hardware, especially on the battery.
For variable definitions of "works". Flash is not a great performer on low power hardware, especially on the battery.
While it doesn't change the existing speed/stability/security/battery-munching problems of most of the Flash content out there, the performance situation should be somewhat better for Flash content that uses h.264 on hardware with h.264 acceleration. (upgrade to current software, if possible, probably required)
The people that say Flash works fine and those that say it's awful can both be rig
What about Linux? Flash on Linux sucks and this is entirely Adobe's fault.
I have a modern quad core machine, and fullscreen flash videos take up a whole core still with occasional stutter or tearing.
Also I have had the npviewer.bin process (flash) use up to 40% of my systems memory (6 gig total, so 2.4gig in use) that, is just crazy, there is no justification for it.
Easy solution is to just download the flv's automatically from firefox (things like DownloadHeler will do this) and then use mplayer or some other decent media player to play it back.
Windows 64-bit works perfectly, looks fantastic, and plays all the media I want (including Flash) without shitting the bed like Ubuntu 64-bit does.
Does anything else besides flash bugger up for you? if so what. I find general media playback far better on linux than to windows. But flash is nasty.
I find most tiny distro installs like ubuntu severely wanting in many ways, but usually they are ok for people who just want to watch movies and use firefox.
To be honest, I've been plagued by issues. VLC's video tears all the time, alt-tabbing takes seconds, FireFox freezes for seconds (sometimes never recovering, requiring killing from the command line), the desktop environment is poorly-designed and sometimes incredibly unresponsive (menus don't appear immediately, requiring mouse-out before mousing over again before they will show). VLC plays everything I can throw at it, but then I'm used to that as I use it exclusively on Windows, but it just does so whi
I think it's important to mention that the so-called "Flash codec" that so many people are complaining about is nearly always On2's VP6, an ancestor of WebM.
There is no phone but iPhone and no god but Jobs! The luminous one has decreed no Flash and so there is no Flash on the one true mobile phone.
It hardly makes sense to attack Google for using this new system because the old system is popular on phones. Google is *owning* phones right now, and is on target to be behind the leading OS in the next year or so. (They're also going to be pushing their new Chromium OS pretty hard soon, so they'll have an interest there too). And Chrome isn't doing too badly at the mo either.
Apparently you don't understand that there are/were already 10x as many iPhones on the market before Android started to take off, but also that iPhones sold more units than Android last quarter. So I wouldn't say google is *owning*. They are far far behind, and they are falling even further behind. That said, #2 in smart phones is still a nice place to be.
Android was outselling iPhone worldwide last quarter. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/8125725/Google-Android-becomes-second-most-popular-smartphone-operating-system.html [telegraph.co.uk] From the article:
Google's Android operating system now has a market share of 25.5 per cent worldwide, up from 3.5 per cent in the same period a year ago, according to the latest figures from Gartner. That means the smartphone platform is now second only to Symbian, which enjoys a 36.6 per cent share, down from 44.6 per
Your statistics imply that Apple is losing on some metric, and they are therefore invalid. Any facts contradicting the ultimate supremacy of Apple in all things are obviously and unquestionably flawed... the deranged lies of pathetic astroturfers.
Now if you would be so kind as to report to the nearest Apple Store and Re-Education Center, such unworthy ideas can be swiftly removed.
flash with H.264 has not been working great.
Rubbish. Flash with H.264 is fucking fantastic. That's because H.264 is fantastic. Flash is just a set players (just like VLC or QuickTime), which can suck or not depending on the specific player, just like with any media player.
It is hell to work with, both as a user and as a developer
How so? The only way it seems to be "hell to work with" is if you let ideology get in the way.
and it don't work on mobile phones.
The Flash H.264 players don't work on most phones (and the ones it does work on, tends to not work very well), but that's why they come with their own players. H.264 on iOS is the most seam
Rubbish. Flash with H.264 is fucking fantastic.
Bullshit [adobe.com] flash has severe overhead it can't get around by default. Playing videos in a regular program is far more efficient.
As for h264 itself, most of the animosity to it would be gone the moment software patents are deemed invalid in the US (that whole, you shouldn't be able to patent math business).
That has not been my experience. I work at a large-ish video sharing website, and I've not noticed the problems you are claiming. Maybe on Linux h.264 video doesn't work very well in Flash, but on Windows (even 64-bit) & OS X it's pretty much flawless. As for mobile phones without flash, simply offering up HTTP or RT(S)P links solves all those problems. The only reason to move to WebM is an ideological one, and comes at a distinct price - WebM is not as good as h.264 (quality/bitrate-wise), and is n
The problem with H.264 isn't Mozilla. It's patents. The Mozilla guys are just being cautious (remember Unisys' GIF patent [wikipedia.org]?)
The problem with H.264 isn't Mozilla.
No, it's entirely Mozilla. They could support H.264 with absolutely no problem whatsoever, but they won't because they mistook the reason they are so popular in the first place. Firefox gained market share because it was better than IE, not because it was patent-free (I was going to write "Free Software", but it's actually not. Hence Iceweasel).
H.264 is superior to WebM and Theora. By not supporting the best solution, Mozilla is giving up the very thing that made them great. Isn't one of the ideas behind Op
Isn't one of the ideas behind Open Source is that it tends towards technical superiority?
Free software (sometimes called open source software) tends toward technical superiority in the absence of government interference. In its presence, on the other hand, free software routes around it even if the route is suboptimal.
In other words, it tends to be superior, except for when it isn't. "Government interference" is only one such cause for exception. I'm unaware of any government interference that explains X11.
Also, Mozilla can support H.264 in Firefox, so it's not any government that is holding Firefox back, it's the ideology of those in charge of such decisions at Mozilla.
In fact, I'd wager ideology hinders Open Source more than any law does. On the other hand, ideology is one the greatest motive forces behind Open Source
Mozilla can support H.264 in Firefox
In order to qualify for an H.264 license, Mozilla would have to make its browser non-redistributable to third parties. For example, the EULA of Google Chrome states the following: "you may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof".
In order to qualify for an H.264 license, Mozilla would have to make its browser non-redistributable to third parties.
First off, so what? They own the code, they can do that. So the idea that they can't include H.264 is complete bullshit. Also, Firefox isn't completely redistributable as it is. Google "iceweasel" for more info. They could easily make a non-free version that natively supports H.264 in addition to the mostly-free version they have now.
Second, they can support H.264 very easily. They can buy a license for it and distribute it as an add-on.
Third, they can use the codecs installed on people's computers. All Mac
They can buy a license for it and distribute it as an add-on.
End users wouldn't be able to redistribute the AVC add-on to one another.
Linux is just an apt-get (or similar) away from it
On Ubuntu, trying to install any package containing an AVC decoder using apt-get front-ends such as Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Center puts up a big scary warning about patents. Clicking OK is an infringement in those jurisdictions where AVC patents controlled by MPEG-LA are valid.
H.264 is freely available for older versions of Windows.
Apart from the AVC decoder embedded in Flash Player, which AVC decoder for Windows XP, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Business, or Windows 7 Starter
End users wouldn't be able to redistribute the AVC add-on to one another.
Which is entirely orthogonal to whether or not Mozilla can support H.264 in Firefox.
On Ubuntu, trying to install any package containing an AVC decoder using apt-get front-ends such as Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Center puts up a big scary warning about patents. Clicking OK is an infringement in those jurisdictions where AVC patents controlled by MPEG-LA are valid.
Then they can buy a fucking codec. A bunch of assholes who will only run free software should not be allowed to hold back the web.
Apart from the AVC decoder embedded in Flash Player, which AVC decoder for Windows XP, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Business, or Windows 7 Starter is freely available from a U.S. source?
Mozilla doesn't consider it "making the web better" to encourage web developers to make pages that show I'm sorry, you need Frobozz Viewer 3.0 to view this file. It's only $19.99, please have your credit card ready. [fedoraproject.org]
Again, entirely orthogonal to whether or not they can support it. In fact, this is exactly what I've said multiple times. That Mozilla is doing this out of ideology and not due to technological or legal requirements.
This idea that they can't is an outright lie. They just won't. It's as simple as that. What's your motive for continually promoting this lie?
And I could seed hundreds of illegal movies, just because I can do something doesn't make it legal (and distributing something that can decode it freely would be illegal).
The whole point of the mozilla project is to make an open source browser that is freely distributable. Saying 'oh they could if they went back on the projects goals, they just don't want to' is like saying ferrari could make an enzo with a bull bar. Sure they COULD, but it defeats the purpose and aims of the thing entirely (in ferrari's ca
When I moved from Windows 7 to Ubuntu, the UAC prompts were replaced by prompts telling me how evil certain bits of software are and how Ubuntu can't talk with them
When I moved from Windows to Ubuntu, the UAC prompts were replaced by gksudo prompts with the same purpose, and after a couple years in, the gksudo prompts were replaced by similar-looking PolicyKit prompts. Windows has its own dialog boxes about "how evil certain bits of software are" whenever a user tries to run downloaded software that is not published by a Authenticode certificate holder.
Yes, it's extremely clear that I don't understand the web. In fact, I understand it so poorly that the H.264 codec that I suggest as being superior to WebM is not the most widely supported format on the Internet...
Oh wait, H.264 *is* more widely supported than WebM and Theora combined? Maybe I *do* understand things...
Makes me wonder, oh master of all things Internet, what open video format is the one that "drives the web forward"? Please enlighten me, AC.
H.264's patent licensing fees make it a dealbreaker for law-abiding indies, open source advocates and small hardware makers who don't want to pay.
WebM is free
It wasn't a deal breaker for Canonical and its OEM partners.
This is big-league ball:
There are about 30 H.264 licensors and 900 licensees. These include global giants in manufacturing:
Fujitsu. JVC. Mitsubishi. NTT. Panasonic. Philips. Samsung. Sony. Toshiba... Theatrical production. Home video. Broadcast, cable and satellite distribution. Mobile. Indu
The maximum fee is 20 cents a unit - and the first 100,000 units you produce each year are royalty free.
Yet even big camera makers pass on a proper license with their products...
H.264's patent licensing fees make it a dealbreaker for law-abiding indies, open source advocates and small hardware makers who don't want to pay.
Every single one of those groups can pay. As a web distribution format, H.264 is 100% free if you are non-commercial. If you are commercial, the licensing fees are low enough that you should have no problem recovering the costs. You might as well say something like, "having to pay to run a web site makes it a dealbreaker for
As for hardware, the licensing fees must not be that much because pretty much every single video-playing device out there supports H.264.
WebM is free.
Is claimed to be free. The MPEG-LA seems to
open-source advocates [...] Every single one of those groups can pay.
From the GNU General Public License:
If, pursuant to or in connection with a single transaction or arrangement, you convey, or propagate by procuring conveyance of, a covered work, and grant a patent license to some of the parties receiving the covered work authorizing them to use, propagate, modify or convey a specific copy of the covered work, then the patent license you grant is automatically extended to all recipients of the covered work and works based on it.
In other words, the GPL requires that the pa
open-source advocates [...] Every single one of those groups can pay.
From the GNU General Public
I was unaware that the GPL stated that "open-source advocates" can never buy non-free software!
Sarcasm aside, even if we narrow it down to open source developers, who use the GPLv3, and taken solely in the context of their specific GPLv3 projects, they can still support codecs like H.264, just not compiled directly into their program (and depending on how you want to look at it, either bundled with the binary and/or directly linked at compile time and then distributed). Firefox, for example (which is most d
Firefox, for example (which is most definitely *not* under the GPL, but let's pretend that it is for a moment)
But it is under a license allowing free redistribution of exact copies of Firefox Setup, and a version compiled from the same source tree with trademarks turned off is under the Mozilla tri-license, which includes the GPL.
could and can fully and legally support H.264 via a proprietary plug-in
Under MPEG-LA's license terms as I understand them, users would not be able to redistribute this plug-in to one another the same way they can currently redistribute Firefox Setup. They would have to obtain it directly from Mozilla, much as with Chrome. Mozilla is unwilling to do things tha
So what if users can't redistribute it? Quit acting like this is something that is being imposed on Mozilla. It's Mozilla who is choosing not to support H.264 even though they can do so 100% legally and can do it without changing the terms under which they distribute Firefox.
They won't because they won't, not because they can't.
It's Mozilla who is choosing not to support H.264 even though they can do so 100% legally and can do it without changing the terms under which they distribute Firefox.
"[T]he terms under which they distribute Firefox" include permitting redistribution to any third party. So yes, adding an AVC decoder would involve "changing the terms under which they distribute Firefox". Mozilla chooses not to make this change because its leaders feel that this change would not make the web better. You're right that this is Mozilla's choice; feel free to buy an AVC license and distribute your customized iceweasel.
It's Mozilla who is choosing not to support H.264 even though they can do so 100% legally and can do it without changing the terms under which they distribute Firefox.
"[T]he terms under which they distribute Firefox" include permitting redistribution to any third party. So yes, adding an AVC decoder would involve "changing the terms under which they distribute Firefox".
Reading comprehension fail on your part. I did not say "adding an AVC [or H.264] decoder". I said "supporting H.264. Why must you constantly lie about this? Firefox can support H.264 with nary a licensing change. WebKit is Open Source, including the right to redistribute binaries and source, and *it* supports H.264. Is Mozilla less technologically capable than Apple? (actually, the answer to that is yes, be even Mozilla has the ability to make an H.264 compatible version of Firefox)
WebKit is Open Source, including the right to redistribute binaries and source, and *it* supports H.264.
How does WebKit support H.264? Is the decoder in the source tree of WebKit itself (not necessarily Safari or Chrome), or does it rely on operating system components? According to this page [webkit.org], it relies on QuickTime on Mac and Windows, and the Linux version relies on gstreamer [webkit.org]. Ubuntu does not ship the H.264 decoder for gstreamer in the default install, and it presents a scary legal notice (to the effect "if you live in the USA click Cancel") when installing it from the repository.
How does WebKit support H.264? Is the decoder in the source tree of WebKit itself (not necessarily Safari or Chrome), or does it rely on operating system components?
It uses the system-provided decoder. Firefox does not do this. This is exactly my point.
WebKit-based browsers, like Safari, automatically get H.264 support if the system supports it, and 99+% of users have an operating system that either supports or can be made to easily support H.264.
Again, Firefox does not do this. It's not because it can't, it's not because it's open source, it's not because it would stop it from being redistributable. It's 100% because those in charge at Mozilla have explicitly decided
Did you even read your link? You only have to pay for content if you are charging your subscribers, or have over 100,000 subscribers per year. If you have that many subscribers, either you can easily afford to pay for the license, or your business model sucks. If you release software that has an h.264 encoder, again, if you ship more than 100,000 units per year, you have to pay. Oh, and streaming video is entirely royalty-free until December 2015, regardless of the number of subscribers.
FUD is not cool.
The question is do any go the other way?
My bet is the VP8 folks must have some from older versions that MPEG-LA infringes on.
Realistically there's no way there are patents out there that cover h264 and not VP8.
Back in actual, as opposed to perceived, reality On2 has been avoiding patent problems for well over a decade. This was made by a company that did nothing but video codecs, if they didn't know what they were doing in regards to patents, they wouldn't have survived.
Here's a better and less ranty writeup if you want to look into the arguments: http://carlodaffara.conecta.it/?p=420 [conecta.it]
It plays in IE9 and Safari if you install the codec on your system.
You can't install the Matroska, Vorbis, and VP8 components if you aren't root. You aren't root if you're using the PC in the break room. You aren't root if you're using a handheld media player. You aren't root if you're using a mobile phone (unless it's an N900 or an Android phone with CyanogenMod, but neither is mainstream in the United States).
Worry not. I've installed Firefox 4 for you on the PC in the break room.
My employer uses Chrome and Firefox, but some companies' IT departments won't be so cooperative. A lot of them are stuck on IE 6, which runs the intranet apps, and won't let anything else through the proxy.
Firefox 4 on your N900
A lot of Slashdot users praise this Nokia phone, but it's not available to try in major U.S. electronics chains. (Buying before trying in my experience usually leads to returning, and e-tailers charge shipping, return shipping, and a 15% restocking fee.) Nor is it available to use in areas where
Buddhism has four genders - man, woman, ladyboy and hermafrodites
a person or animal having both male and female sex organs, plus giant frizzy hair
H.264 is the codec, flash is just the wrapper of choice these days. H.264 encoded video should be playable on any machine that can decode it and read the wrapper/container format. What makes H.264 so great is that I can encode the video once and place into whatever container I want and have it read on almost any device these days. It doesn't have to be flash, it could be MOV, M4V, MP4, whatever container. Flash is the current favourite because you can put DRM into the wrapper and make it a bit harder to
yeay put the problem with buddhism is that it's almost hippies only.
Hundreds of millions of Asians would like to disagree with that characterization, you ignorant hick.
Lucky for you, they're Buddhists who honor the precept of doing no harm to others, or they'd probably kick your ass.
There are a lot of Buddhists who seem to have forgotten that, just like a lot of Christians seem to have missed thou shalt not kill (it doesn't say murder in my bible ta very much). But yes the GP should stick to playing the banjo and screwing his relatives.
Perhaps the specific word can mean both "kill" and "murder", but only the "murder" interpretation avoids obvious contradictions with other passages in which individuals are specifically directed to kill others (e.g. to enforce the law itself, since many offenses require the death penalty).
Given two possible interpretations, one of which leads to a contradiction, the rule-of-thumb is always to pick the non-contradictory version. I'll leave the question of whether that is a reasonable interpretation of the or
Reincarnation as you've described it—that one being lives a cycle of lives along a hierarchy of beings, some better positioned to achieve enlightenment—isn't necessarily Buddhist (though it may be found among some Buddhists, as that conception is found in Hinduism, from which Buddhism originally derived). The Buddhist concept of rebirth (which varies between traditions, and even between individuals) is a bit more subtle, suggesting that when a given consciousness passes from life to death, it wi
The "problem" is the great hammer of the Troll God also known as MPEG-LA and H.264. Have you looked at their patents? There are something like 2000 plus patents tied to H.264, and it would probably be pretty fair to say there isn't ANY way to make a codec that doesn't infringe on a dozen or so. Now add to this the fact that just about every device released in the last 4 years supports hardware H.264 and NOT WebM, and if it can be made to easily support WebM without changing hardware I'm sure that would be a
If you think MPEG-LA, which includes such heavyweights as Apple, MSFT, and IIRC IBM, is just gonna sulk in the corner while you snatch marketshare away from them you got another thing coming.
What do you think MPEG-LA is? They aren't primarily a profit source for it's members. For them, it's a way to get a legal codec out there for everyone to use. Companies like Apple and Microsoft have patents licensed to MPEG-LA, and in return they get a codec they can license that would otherwise be far too legally impractical (the exact sort of problem both WebM and Theora face, actually).
I'm sure if WebM gets any real traction outside of Google properties then MPEG-LA will break out their mighty Troll God hammer and lay the lawsuits of doom upon thee.
Probably, but that first requires the improbable event of WebM gaining sufficient traction.
...and most of what you got two years ago was Flash, until Steve started his war on Flash.
Somebody's just trying to get the 'standard' fixed on a codec that you can write players for without paying through the nose for.
Adobe started the war with Apple by writing shitty code for Flash on the Mac.
Secondly, there's no point in wrapping H.264 video inside a Flash player when the hardware can play H.264 by itself.
Putting H.264 video inside Flash is as stupid as putting a JPEG inside a Microsoft Word document.
Adobe started the war with Apple by writing shitty code for Flash on the Mac.
As opposed to shitty code on Windows. Flash is pretty processor intensive on anything.
Secondly, there's no point in wrapping H.264 video inside a Flash player when the hardware can play H.264 by itself.
DRM. Flash is great for DRM. Don't forget that little 'feature'.
Putting H.264 video inside Flash is as stupid as putting a JPEG inside a Microsoft Word document.
Hasn't stopped anybody I work with yet...
As opposed to shitty code on Windows. Flash is pretty processor intensive on anything.
But it's significantly worse on Mac, and always has been. For Linux it's even worse, there Flash is almost unusable.
Thank you, this sort of informative post is the reason I still read slashdot comments.
With Chrome 7.0.517.44 (latest at the time of writing), I get WebM. Looks pretty good at 720p!
Safari supports H.264 and yet it's free.
And if it supports H.264 by using the H.264 decoder of the OS, then Firefox can do it too.
This whole H.264 vs WebM mess is only harming the adoption of the HTML5 video tag, not to mention that Flash is currently used for playing... H.264 files.
Safari supports H.264 and yet it's free.
But it isn't FREE!
And Mozilla isn't just about making a browser, its about making the web better.
And Mozilla isn't just about making a browser, its about making the web better.
Ahh but if it is about strategic decisions to try to change the shape of the Web, maybe they need better strategists... since all they're doing right now is keeping Flash alive.
Fail. Chrome already supports h.264.
Copy paste from google owned youtube:
* Firefox 4 (WebM, Beta available here)
* Google Chrome (WebM and h.264)
* Opera 10.6+ (WebM, Available here)
* Apple Safari (h.264, version 4+)
* Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (h.264, Beta available here)
* Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8 with Google Chrome Fram
Double fail even.
Not only can google's chrome browser decode h.264, but google's youtube site already has 100% of all their videos encoded to it as well. So in short, I can guarantee you that many free browswers already include it, and google has already paid the extremely small licensing fee. As has Microsoft and apple. The only significant hold out, Mozilla, and they are holding back progress on the web (as usual lately).
Funny that I keep finding videos on YouTube that won't work in HTML5. They display "You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video". So even if it's true that all the videos are in H.264, YouTube's doing a really bad job at using them.
Then they should put the ads in a separate Flash and let the browser play the video file.
Sure thing. Oh wait, Microsoft already paid it for anyone running a Windows OS. Too bad, so sad... for you.
That's the reason why I allow youtube to store cookies on my machine.
I get h264 content by doing that.
That's the main problem (I believe) that webm has right now. The most popular browser "brand" (Mozilla Firefox) that will support it easily out of the virtual box has been mired in an ever-slower beta cycle for quite some time now, at least by internet standards, and will take probably another 3-6 months to finally hit release.
If Android "Gingerbread" really does have support for webm when it comes out, that will help. Until then, it seems only the about 5%-8% of the intern
Wrong, 80% of videos are available as WebM. Most of the html5 beta videos are served as h264, because very few people have WebM support.
Ok, I did that. I still get nothing but flash. Firefox 4.0b8 on debian.
Not all videos are available in non-Flash.
I'm in the HTML5 beta myself (for H.264, not WebM) and there's a LOT of videos that aren't available in HTML5.
geeks like me who don't know everything
Hand in your geek card!
While I do agree with you because nerds news have lots of specialized fields, the WebM video CODEC has been the subject of at least half a dozen Slashdot articles and the topic itself is more than five months old.
I do agree that the summary should have at least included a link to WebM [wikipedia.org].
The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The haves get more, the have-nots die.


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Those Who Surf Facebook And YouTube At Work Are Often More Productive
from the this-again? dept
Since all those studies came out in the earlier part of the decade, we had hoped that these issues had been put to rest. But... no, of course not. With new online services like Facebook and YouTube, suddenly companies started freaking out again -- with hyped up claims from internet filtering companies (it always comes from internet filtering companies) about just how much productivity is lost via Facebook and YouTube. And, of course, they have a simple solution: buy our filter and block access to these sites.
And the fear mongering certainly works. Every time we mention any such story, we're inundated with comments from people insisting that there is simply no reason why anyone should ever access Facebook from work. Well, yet another study suggests that's incorrect again. As with the earlier studies, this one found that people who do a little personal surfing of sites like Facebook and YouTube at work, tend to be more productive.
The study found exactly what previous studies had found:
People who do surf the internet for fun at work - within a reasonable limit of less than 20 per cent of their total time in the office - are more productive by about nine per cent than those who don't.... People need to zone out for a bit to get back their concentration. Think back to when you were in class listening to a lecture - after about 20 minutes your concentration probably went right down, yet after a break your concentration was restored.Now, of course, there are some people who will abuse the privilege -- and there's nothing wrong with finding out who's doing that and dealing with them properly. But a flat-out blanket ban on such things may actually be reducing productivity for most workers, rather than increasing it. Rather than assuming such personal surfing decreases productivity, why not focus on just those who abuse the privilege.
It's the same in the workplace.
Short and unobtrusive breaks, such as a quick surf of the internet, enables the mind to rest itself, leading to a higher total net concentration for a day's work, and as a result, increased productivity.

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The shutdown of the federal government could delay the governor's twin tunnels plan for the Delta, a state official said Tuesday.
The shutdown of the federal government could delay the governor's twin tunnels plan for the Delta, a state official said Tuesday.
The plan, said to be close to 25,000 pages in length, is supposed to be released for public comment Nov. 15.
But the plan must first be reviewed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service, both of which were closed Tuesday.
Richard Stapler, a spokesman for the California Natural Resources Agency, said every day the federal government is shut down will likely amount to a day's delay in releasing the plan, which has been in the works for seven years.
Each day that the plan is delayed equals a cost of about $100,000 to the state Department of Water Resources and to the public water agencies expected to pay for the bulk of the tunnels project, Stapler said. That's because those agencies must maintain a staff of biologists, planners and other experts working to finish the complex document.
"It's real time and it's real money," Stapler said.
About $176 million has already been spent preparing the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, the Legislative Analyst's Office reported in August. Building the tunnels to divert water past the Delta while also restoring large tracts of wetland habitat for fish and wildlife is expected to cost $24.5 billion overall.
Another large project relying on the federal government is the restoration of the San Joaquin River upstream from Stockton. A senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group involved in the restoration, said Tuesday it was still uncertain what impact the shutdown might have on that project.
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Universal background checks for gun buyers are at the center of President Obama's proposed gun-control agenda. This is a valuable reform that closes gaping loopholes in our current partial background check system. Yet, to be both effective at reducing crime and respectful of Americans' 2nd Amendment rights, the president's proposal falls short in two ways.
Backgrounds checks should be truly universal. And they should be free.
Under current law, a gun purchaser must submit to a background check whenever he or she buys a gun from a federally licensed gun dealer. The process is simple. The gun dealer runs the buyer's information through a computer database maintained by the federal government, which usually returns an answer within minutes, if not sooner. It's not a significant burden on buyers, save for the felons and people adjudicated to be mentally ill ("prohibited purchasers") who are rejected.
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You don't need to be a gun dealer, however, to sell a gun. Unlicensed (or private) sellers — people who aren't ordinarily in the business of selling firearms — can sell firearms without having to conduct background checks. This is the source of the so-called gun show loophole, which is a misnomer; there are no special rules for gun shows, but they are handy places for people who don't want to submit to a background check to buy guns.


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"It's a very simple game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Sometimes it rains." (Bull Durham)
Thursday, July 10, 2008
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy...
Maholm went eight strong innings, scattering 7 hits. He threw 108 pitches on the night, 73 for strikes, and walked one. Maholm's only glitch was in the seventh, when with two outs he let the 8-9 guys single, plunked Jeter, and gave up a two run knock to Bobby Abreu.
McLouth answered quickly with a two run shot in the bottom half of the inning, his 18th. Wilson scored ahead of him. He had two hits and a walk, and scored twice for the Bucs.
Damaso Marte came on to net his fourth save, and the third of this homestand. He hit 97 and 96 on the gun, and his heater was consistently clocked at 93 MPH. All three Bombers were retired on off-speed stuff, though. No need to K everyone - just get their butts back in the dugout.
Marte's value skyrockets every outing. That $6M option might look like a deal to the Bucs in a couple of months. If not, the Yankees might think of sweetening their offer to meet the Pirate's demands. Nice situation to be in, hey?
As for Maholm, he continues to ride his hot streak. Seven of his past eight outings have been quality starts, and his overall record now sits at 6-5 with a 3.93 ERA. Maholm went 4-0 with a 2.66 ERA in those eight starts, and twice left games with the lead only to have the pen give them away.
On the Pirate front: The Pirates called up RHP Luis Munoz from Altoona to replace JVB last night, trading last night's starter for a long reliever for the weekend.
The Pirate rotation is set through the All-Star break. If needed, Van Benschoten can be recalled within 10 days of his demotion and take his next turn after the hiatus. So we'll see soon enough if he gets another chance.
Munoz, 26, was 3-3 with a 5.45 ERA for Class AAA Indianapolis before being demoted to Altoona, where he went 1-2 with a 5.09 ERA. The Bucs said he's here just in case a long arm is needed. Munoz is on the 40-man roster, so no move was necessary there, and is rested.
"If it gets to a situation we're we have to pitch him, then we will," manager John Russell said, in a rather understated vote of confidence.
> The Pirate's starting outfield of Nate McLouth, Jason Bay and Xavier Nady have better total offensive numbers across the board than the three starting NL All-Star outfielders. Imagine if they played in New York or Chicago.
On the hot stove front: Jayson Stark of ESPN says that the Braves still haven't made the buy/sell decision. If they buy, Xavier Nady is the top target.
On the minor league front: The Cleveland Indians claimed RHP Bryan Bullington off waivers from the Pirates. That ended the Pirate career of the No. 1 overall pick of 2002, who compiled an 0-3 record and 5.89 ERA in six MLB appearances.
Bullington will report to the Indians' AAA Buffalo affiliate. He was 4-6 with a 5.52 ERA at Indy and was overdue for a change of scenery. "It's a great thing for Bryan," Russell said. "It's just another opportunity for him to pitch somewhere else." It sounds like not too many tears are being shed over BB's loss.
> The Pirates sent first baseman Craig Wilson to the Seattle Mariners for a player to be named later. Wilson hit .223 with 10 home runs for Indy.
> They acquired RHP Dan Reichert and IF/OF Ryan Mulhern from Cleveland, also for a player to be named later. Reichert, 32, was 1-3 with a 4.40 ERA for Buffalo. Mulhern, 27, was batting .250 with seven home runs for Buffalo. They went to Indianapolis.
> Franquelis Osoria has pitched 3 scoreless innings in two outings at Indy. Nyjer Morgan went 5 for 8 in the doubleheader with an RBI to extend his hitting streak to 12 games and jumping his average to .267.
> At Hickory, 3B Matt Hague hit his 4th home run and went 5 for 7 with a double and two RBIs. He's batting .400.
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- WilliamJPellas said...
So much for Nate's recent mini-slump. I'll tell you, he is really some kind of ballplayer. It's all the more gratifying to see a guy who came up through our own system do so well---which is another reason why the bonehead previous administration deserves to be drawn and quartered to a man. But I digress.
More to the point re: Nate The Great, if he can maintain this power production or anything close to it, we are really looking good going forward, because 1) it means McLouth can almost certainly hold down a corner spot in terms of his offense relative to other corner OFs, and 2) with that (more or less) settled, it means we can go ahead and deal Nady and a few other veterans without worrying about too much of a dropoff before the kids we get back in trade can become productive. In other words, it means that Nady is basically an asset that can be easily and productively liquidated without the team's entire future riding on the outcome.
I like it! Amazing what a little bit of depth will do for your organization, eh? ;-)
- July 11, 2008 at 3:03 PM
- Ron said...
It does look like he'll fit in nicely as a corner OF'er, Will. He is the kinda hitter PNC was made for, a lefty with some pop. If he can hold up at .280-.285 for the rest of the year and keep his power and RBI numbers respectable - and it seems he should - I'll gladly eat crow for being a latecomer to the bandwagon.
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Body armor tech: Looking at the future of personal protection equipment
Some of the new developments on the horizon include heat-resistant face paint, sponge-based body armor, and a new carrier design
Personal protective equipment — PPE — isn't an especially sexy topic because most of us hate to wear it.
Gloves are cumbersome, face masks get in the way and make it difficult to be understood, and body armor is hot, heavy and uncomfortable.
There are some developments in the area of PPE that might make wearing this unfortunately necessary gear a little easier to manage.
Burn Protection
Burns are usually more of a worry for firefighters, but cops have to take precautions to protect themselves, too. The "pyro" part of pyrotechnics can blow up in your hands or face and ruin your day — or your career.
Serving a warrant on a meth lab can also have its high-temperature surprises. Police uniforms are typically not fire-retardant, and there is usually not much you can do about protecting exposed skin on the face, neck and hands.
Research at the University of Southern Mississippi — funded by the U.S. Dept. of Defense — has produced a camouflage face paint that also protects skin from thermal injury. The camouflage makeup/paint most commonly used by troops has a carbon base.
By replacing the carbon with silicone, the paint can protect skin from the heat blast of an IED for the two seconds it takes it to pass, and will protect hands and feet for 15 seconds before mild, first-degree burns appear. The silicone is non-flammable, as it absorbs heat outside of the spectrum given off by flame. This gives soldiers more time to move out of the blast zone before they suffer crippling burns.
A short video on the New Scientist website shows application of a butane torch to two side-by-side panels, one with the new coating, one without. The temperature rises to 95° C on the protected panel, 401° C on the unprotected version.
I know which one I would want to be.
The university is working on a clear version of the face paint for use by firefighters. Hopefully, they'll share it with the cops.
Ballistic Protection
Traditional body armor has been made from synthetic fibers like Kevlar, Dyneema, and Spectra, or from heavy ceramic plates. It's improved markedly since its introduction in the early 1970s, but some cops don't wear armor because of the perceived discomfort factor. There may be some improvement in the ballistic material that is the foundation of these vests, and it could come from sea sponges.
The framework of a sea sponge is formed of needle-like "spicules" made mainly of calcium carbonate, held together by a protein mesh. The sponge is flexible because the mesh allows the framework to bend, although the spicules remain hard and intact.
Taking their design from the sponge, some German materials scientists have produced a structure composed of calcite and a protein called silicatein-ά (pronounced "sill-leh-KATE-tee-in alfa"). Nanobricks, made of calcite and substituting for the spicules, are stacked like bricks in a chimney and held together with a matrix of silicatein-ά.
The resulting material is pliable because the silicatein-ά flexes as needed, although the nanoparticles remain intact. The synthetic material is about ten times as flexible as a like quantity of sponge, and incredibly strong. It has tensile strength enough that it might be a substitute for the multiple layers of synthetic fiber used in police body armor. The research is described in the March 13, 2013 issue of Science.
Finally, KDH Defense Systems is producing a body armor package that uses the traditional ballistic material for protection, but has an innovative method for wrapping it around the wearer's body.
The Transformer Armor System starts with a concealable harness that connects directly to the ballistic inserts, instead of carrying the panels in a vest. The manufacturer says this provides for far more adjustability than traditional body armor systems. The "Speed Plate Carrier Strapping System" is augmented by additional carrier sleeves that allow for insertion of a spacer to provide air circulation and/or a wicking material to carry perspiration away from the skin.
Another sleeve is designed to be worn over the uniform shirt and mimic the appearance of the shirt without the carrier. Two more carriers feature gear pockets to move gear off your Sam Browne belt and onto the upper body, and MOLLE anchors to custom-modify your setup with the many MOLLE-type accessories available on the market. There are additional armor panels available to adjust the threat level of the armor as needed.
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IT WAS near midnight, high in the Tost Mountains of the wild South Gobi region, Mongolia.
Australian vet Carol Esson was barely conscious of the cold, for in her hands was a snow leopard.
''Really,'' she thought to herself, ''How much better can it be?''
Then life improved. That transformative moment with a sedated adult on Dr Esson's first volunteer stint was capped last month when she returned to the Tosts and handled the species' future - its cubs.
The snow leopard is top predator and wildlife icon of central Asia's high mountain ranges. Listed as endangered for 40 years, its numbers are believed to be still dwindling. As few as 4000 survive in the wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
In the Tosts, this alpine rock climbing specialist preys chiefly on the goat-like ibex, but it also eats domestic goats, a recent study in the journal PLoS One found.
Retaliatory killing by local herders is endangering the cat they call ''mountain ghost'', as is poaching for body parts.
In a landmark study, US-based wild cat conservation organisation Panthera and the Snow Leopard Trust achieved a breakthrough by tracking down, and entering, two active snow leopard dens.
The big cat's secretive and elusive nature, coupled with the treacherous landscape, make dens extremely difficult to locate, according to Panthera.
''We have spent years trying to determine when and where snow leopards give birth, the size of their litters, and the chances a cub has of surviving into adulthood,'' said Panthera's Tom McCarthy. ''This is one of those exceptional moments in conservation where after years of effort, we get a glimpse into the life of an animal that needs our help to survive.''
Dr Esson, 42, from Cairns, joined a small team who spent days watching the mountainsides to pinpoint the dens used by two females previously fitted with satellite/VHS tracker collars. When the mothers left to hunt, the team moved in.
''I wished I'd done more training for mountain climbing,'' Dr Esson told The Age.
''We found one cub in a disused rocky hide that was probably used by hunters. The other [hiding place] was high in a rocky cleft, where there were two cubs, well protected.''
While other team members kept lookout for the return of the mothers, Dr Esson did quick health assessments.
''I took hair samples for DNA, microchipped them for future identification, weighed and measured them. They all looked in brilliant condition.''
Knowledge of the first weeks of life is vital to understanding how big cat populations work, according to Panthera.
Field scientist Orjan Johansson also managed to achieve a first - shooting short videos of a mother and cubs in their den using a camera fixed to a long pole. One clip shows a watchful mother raising her grey-green eyes towards the pole while her cubs huddle close. In another, two cubs sprawl on the den floor, panting in the heat of day.
Dr Esson said the privations of the journey to the Tosts counted for little compared to its rewards.
''It's hard physically as well as mentally, as the area is so remote. You are out there for weeks or, in Orjan's case, months at a time without any sort of break. It sort of consumes you.''
She hopes to get back there, though. ''It'll be great being able to follow the cubs and see what happens to them until they disperse from their mothers.''
See video at www.panthera.org/programs/snow-leopard/videos-snow-leopard-mother-and-cubs-dens-recorded-mongolia


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RI Bar Foundation seeks applicants for two $20,000 scholarships
The Rhode Island Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the non-profit Rhode Island Bar Association, is seeking applications for its Thomas F. Black Jr. Memorial Scholarship. The foundation intends to award two scholarships of $20,000 each to Rhode Island residents who enroll as first-year students in an American Bar Association accredited law school for the academic year beginning September 2013.
The scholarship is for the first year of law school only and non-renewable. Each scholarship award is made on the basis of demonstrated financial need, superior academic performance, community and public service and demonstrated contacts with and commitment to the state of Rhode Island.
The Scholarship Committee seeks applications from candidates without regard to race, color, religion, country of ancestral origin, handicap, age, sex, or sexual orientation. Since 1984, this fund has awarded 50 scholarships to promising law students from Rhode Island. The scholarship program receives substantial funding from the Horace A. Kimball and S. Ella Kimball Foundation, and the Champlin Foundations in honor of the late Thomas F. Black Jr., who was known for his impressive ability as a lawyer and banker, his deeply rooted legal scholarship, and his notable participation in civic and charitable causes.
The application deadline is March 18. For application forms, telephone: 421-6541 or write: Rhode Island Bar Foundation Scholarship, 115 Cedar St., Providence, RI 02903. Information and application forms are also available on the Rhode Island Bar Association website: www.ribar.com in the Rhode Island Bar Foundation section.


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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A new sentencing date has been set for a former Internal Revenue Service agent who admitted receiving payments for meetings with taxpayers that never occurred.
Court records show a hearing for Becky L. Book of Pittsburg is now scheduled for May 21.
She pleaded guilty in February to receiving more than $26,000 in salary and mileage payments she didn't earn.
Prosecutors say Book claimed she worked 744 hours between March 2010 and April 2011, but she actually used those hours as unauthorized personal time.
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil will decide whether to accept the government's recommendation of a sentence of probation.
Book has agreed to pay $13,000 in partial payment of restitution at her sentencing.


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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Keeneland Barn Notes
Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence's Sum of the Parts, winner of the Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix (G3) on October 5, capped his major preparations for a start in next Saturday's $1.5 million Xpressbet Breeders Cup Sprint (G1) by working a half-mile in :47.60 under jockey Julien Leparoux on Saturday morning at Keeneland.
Working on his own on a drizzly, foggy morning with temperatures in the mid 40s, Sum of the Parts covered the first quarter-mile in :24 and galloped out five furlongs in 1:00.
"I have probably worked 10 horses this morning and he's just different," trainer Tom Amoss said. "He is quicker to the wire than the rest and he is in hand doing it. He has always been a good work horse and I like where he is."
It was the third work on the Polytrack for Sum of the Parts, a 3-year-old Speightstown colt, since his opening-day victory as he prepares for a return to dirt at Santa Anita.
"Obviously, he likes it," Amoss said of the Polytrack. "I felt better leaving him here and on a morning like this after all the rain, if we were at Churchill you could forget it. Here you don't have to adjust your training schedule. It's business as usual."
Leparoux, who has ridden Sum of the Parts to three victories and a second-place finish the four times he has been aboard, will have the mount at Santa Anita.
Prior to working Sum of the Parts, Leparoux guided Luch Racing Stable's Global Power through a half-mile in :50.
Global Power, who is pre-entered in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1) on Saturday, is the first horse on the preference list for the Turf Sprint and would need one defection from the pre-entries to make the 14-horse field. Amoss said Pat Valenzuela would have the mount should Global Power, a 4-year-old colt by Pulpit, make the Turf Sprint field.
Since joining Amoss' barn in late spring, Global Power has three victories and a third-place finish in four two-turn grass races with stakes victories at Delaware Park and Louisiana Downs. This year's Turf Sprint is 6½ furlongs down the hillside course at Santa Anita as compared to the five-furlong distance last year at Churchill Downs.
"If it was five-eighths, no way he'd run," Amoss said of Global Power, who has had three main-track works here since finishing third in the Remington Green on September 30 at Remington Park.
The two horses are scheduled to ship to California on Monday. Amoss said both colts would receive gate and paddock schooling as part of their Santa Anita preparations.
Multiple graded stakes winner Willcox Inn, pre-entered in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Mile (G1) next Saturday, worked Saturday for the second time since his runner-up finish to Wise Dan in the Shadwell Turf Mile (G1) on October 6. With assistant Hilary Pridham aboard for trainer Mike Stidham, the colt worked five furlongs in 1:00.80 in company with Every Way, a 2-year-old City Zip filly who was third in the Mazarine (G3) at Woodbine on October 6.
Clockers caught Willcox Inn in splits of :12.60, :24.20, :35.80, :48.20, 1:00.80 and out six furlongs in 1:14.80.
"The work went just like what we had planned," Stidham said. "Sit off of her and then come to her down the lane. He inched by her in the last part. We weren't looking for anything too serious because he's a fit horse, but that work was just what I was looking for."
Stidham said James Graham will ride Willcox Inn in the Mile in which he will face Wise Dan and other rivals, including 2011 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Animal Kingdom.
"Our horse traditionally – especially going a mile when there's going to be pace in front of us – he'll be sitting back," Stidham said. "I'm not sure how far back, depending on how fast they're going up front. He's always got a really good kick like he showed in the Shadwell. We're just hoping the kick that he has is good enough."
Stidham said Willcox Inn, a 4-year-old Harlan's Holiday colt who races for Lael Stables and All In Stable, will ship to California on Sunday.
The fourth Breeders' Cup pre-entrant to work on Saturday was James Covello's Oscar Party, fourth just beaten a neck in the JPMorgan Chase Jessamine (G3) on October 11. The 2-year-old Dixie Union filly worked five furlongs in 1:00.60 and galloped out six furlongs in 1:13.80 under jockey Kent Desormeaux for trainer Wayne Catalano.
"She was out in the middle of the track and she was just flying out there,"' Catalano said of Oscar Party, who is scheduled to leave Tuesday for a run in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) on Friday. Desormeaux, who has ridden the filly in her past two starts, retains the mount.
A total of 30 horses that raced and/or trained at Keeneland in October were pre-entered in the 29th Breeders' Cup World Championships to be held Friday and Saturday at Santa Anita. The event, which consists of 15 races with purses totaling more than $25 million, drew a total of 180 pre-entries.
Wise Dan, winner of the Shadwell Turf Mile (G1) on October 6, leads the group with Keeneland connections. Based here with trainer Charlie Lopresti, the 5-year-old Wiseman's Ferry gelding was pre-entered in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Mile (G1).
Wise Dan, who has won four of five starts and earned more than $1.5 million this year, worked five furlongs here in 1:00.40 on October 20. He is scheduled to fly to California on Tuesday.
Among the pre-entered horses that were successful at Keeneland this month are Groupie Doll, who won the Thoroughbred Club of America (G2) on October 6, and In Lingerie, who won the Juddmonte Spinster (G1) on October 7. Groupie Doll was pre-entered in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1). In Lingerie has first preference in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1) and second preference in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic (G1).
Training at Keeneland in October was 2011 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Animal Kingdom, who was pre-entered in the Mile. The race will mark the first start since February for Animal Kingdom, who arrived at Keeneland on Monday and worked on the turf course Friday morning.
The 30 Breeders' Cup pre-entered horses that raced and/or trained at Keeneland in October are:
$3 million Breeders' Cup Turf (G1)
Sycamore (G3) winner Kindergarden Kid
$2 million Breeders' Cup Mile (G1)
Shadwell Turf Mile (G1) winner Wise Dan, runner-up Willcox Inn and fourth-place finisher Doubles Partner; Animal Kingdom (worked)
$2 million Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic (G1)
Juddmonte Spinster (G1) winner In Lingerie
$2 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1)
Juddmonte Spinster winner In Lingerie
$2 million Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1)
Dixiana Breeders' Futurity (G1) runner-up Dynamic Sky and 11th-place finisher He's Had Enough
$2 million Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1)
Darley Alcibiades (G1) winner Spring in the Air, runner-up Broken Spell and sixth-place finisher Almost an Angel
$1.5 million Xpressbet Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1)
Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix (G3) winner Sum of the Parts
$1 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1)
Thoroughbred Club of America (G2) winner Groupie Doll and runner-up Strike the Moon
$1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1)
Dixiana Breeders' Futurity winner Joha; Bourbon (G3) winner Balance the Books, runner-up Brown Almighty and fourth-place finisher Summit County
$1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1)
JPMorgan Chase Jessamine (G3) winner Moonwalk, runner-up Kitten's Point, third-place finisher Summer of Fun and fourth-place finisher Oscar Party; Darley Alcibiades fourth-place finisher Tara From the Cape
$1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1)
Woodford presented by Keeneland Select (G3) winner Bridgetown and runner-up Great Mills; Shadwell Turf Mile seventh-place finisher Corporate Jungle; Global Power (worked); Great Attack (worked)
$500,000 Breeders' Cup Marathon (G2)
Atigun (worked)
$500,000 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Sprint
Darley Alcibiades sixth-place finisher Almost an Angel; Dixiana Breeders' Futurity sixth-place finisher Hightail
Going into the final day of the 17-day meet, Mike Maker owns a 10-9 advantage over Wesley Ward in the race for leading trainer. Ward narrowed the deficit Friday when he saddled Murphys Covert to win the 10th race.
Maker, who won the 2008 Fall training title, has seven entrants this afternoon. Ward, winner of the 2012 Spring title, has five entrants. …
Two Triple Crown-winning jockeys were in the winner's circle after the third race on Friday to celebrate Red Vixen's come-from-behind nose victory. The winner is owned by Steve Cauthen, who rode 1978 Triple Crown winner Affirmed and was joined in the winner's circle by Jean Cruguet, who won the Triple Crown the year before on Seattle Slew. Red Vixen, who was ridden by Leandro Goncalves, won the six-furlong maiden claiming race in 1:11.60.
(Stats Through Friday, October 26)
Current Meet Leading Jockeys
Name Sts 1st 2nd 3rd Purses
Julien Leparoux 102 25 12 10 $1,011,681
Corey Lanerie 94 14 7 13 $537,591
James Graham 102 10 10 22 $742,435
Shaun Bridgmohan 74 10 8 12 $532,219
Jon Court 66 7 5 7 $283,011
Gabriel Saez 52 7 2 6 $225,622
Rosie Napravnik 70 6 9 8 $294,158
Brian Hernandez Jr. 66 6 7 2 $216,944
Victor Lebron 58 6 6 1 $175,255
Julio Garcia 17 6 6 0 $171,600
Marcelino Pedroza Jr. 45 5 12 3 $191,977
Jesus Castanon 35 5 7 3 $154,663
John Velazquez 29 5 5 2 $656,877
Javier Castellano 21 5 1 1 $486,365
Current Meet Leading Trainers
Name Sts 1st 2nd 3rd Purses
Michael Maker 53 10 9 4 $482,168
Wesley Ward 30 9 6 3 $356,485
Todd Pletcher 40 7 2 3 $691,232
H. Graham Motion 28 5 3 3 $201,491
Wayne Catalano 41 5 2 3 $226,615
Jonathan Sheppard 14 4 1 2 $187,060
Bill Mott 16 3 3 1 $154,069
Eddie Kenneally 13 3 2 2 $103,652
Michael Stidham 23 3 1 7 $318,344
Al Stall Jr. 11 3 1 2 $157,143
Charles Lopresti 12 3 0 3 $516,796
Tevis Q. McCauley 10 3 0 1 $ 60,542
Current Meet Leading Owners
Name Wins
Ken and Sarah Ramsey 10
Klaravich Stables (Seth Klarman) & William H. Lawrence 3
Augustin Stable (George Strawbridge Jr.) 2
Claiborne Farm (Seth Hancock) & Adele Dilschneider 2
E. Paul Robsham Stable (Mrs. E. Paul Robsham) 2
G. Watts Humphrey Jr. & St. George Farm (Ian Banwell) 2
Ice Wine Stable (Dave Reid) 2
John Chandler 2
John C. Oxley 2
Lothenbach Stables Inc. (Robert J. Lothenbach) 2
Namcook Stables (Terrence Murray) 2
Richard, Elaine & Bertram Klein 2
Ripplewood Farm (Chris Duff) 2
Wesley Ward 2
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WILMINGTON, Mass. — If the Bruins as a team want to adhere to the old adage about never letting your opponent see you sweat, Tuukka Rask will have to work harder on his poker face.
The second-year NHL goaltender has come a long way since his milk-crate-throwing nights with the Providence (AHL) farm club, but he sometimes tips his hand too much with outward displays of anger after the opposing team lights the lamp. To his credit, the 24-year-old Rask, who took some heat for his body language after goals in Nashville and Toronto, realizes he needs to lean toward stoicism more in the future.
"Yeah, I have to," Rask told TheBruinsBlog.net when asked after today's practice if he's going to try to better corral his emotions going forward. "I don't want to be looking stupid like I did. I guess I have to control it a little bit more."
Rask's gesturing and yelling at Dennis Seidenberg Saturday in Toronto, after the defenseman screened the goaltender on a goal against, got a lot of play on the CBC during the Bruins' 5-2 loss. He also looked angry at rookie defenseman Steven Kampfer after the game-tying goal and ticked off at the world after the overtime-losing goal in Nashville last Thursday.
In acknowledging he doesn't want to show anyone up, Rask — who noted that he and Seidenberg cleared the air and made a joke about the incident — wanted to stress that his actions are never directed toward a teammate but more a sign of anger toward the result of the play.
"You get pissed off when you get scored on and when it's a tie game [like in Nashville], we're a good team and that usually doesn't happen to us. It's not about getting frustrated [with teammates], it's about getting mad because you get scored on," he said. "It's tough to not show it because you try to put up a great effort to stop the puck and then shitty goals go by. It sucks. It's tough sometimes to not to show it."
Bruins head coach Claude Julien sounds like a man hoping that Rask continues to mature and keep more of his feelings to himself.
"I don't support that. And I don't think anybody supports that, including him," said the coach. "Sometimes frustration sets in. You see players breaking their sticks after a goal against, you see them putting their heads up in the air after they miss an open net, there's a frustration part. So I'm certainly not going to stand here and start accusing him of that. But I think it's something that you don't want to see from anybody because it has a big impact on your team.
"So having said that, I think Tuukka's aware of that. And if anything, he's been playing some of his best hockey lately. So I don't think there's any need for that. And I think, it's just sometimes you've just got to control those emotions. He's frustrated with his first half of the year and he wants to help this hockey club and sometimes his emotions run a little too high."
With Rask seemingly near the top of his game again, all the Bruins need to do is support him better to avoid any reason for a negative reaction. But if they don't come to his aid, at least he's not going to provide the opposition with some mental ammunition.
"Maybe when a goalie does that, he might give the other team some sense of frustration, but obviously you don't want that to happen," admitted Rask.


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Okay, allow this Cav newbie to gush a bit about my lovely Charlie. He's wonderful! I called his breeder and asked her if all Cav puppies were this calm! Shih Tzus aren't what I would have considered an "active" breed. They're not hyper or anything, but Tzu puppies are just plain wiggly! Tzus in general, when they are on your lap, just want to be up giving you kisses and just wiggling that fluffy tail! Charlie just snuggles up under my chin when I'm holding him and goes to sleep. Or curls up on my lap and sleeps. He does run and play and thinks Shih Tzu tails and ears are the coolest toys there is! But I'm seeing differences in overall temperament and activity level. Charlie is calm in comparison. Are your Cavs calm too?
I can definitely see that Cavs are not stubborn like Tzus. Oh my goodness - Shih Tzus can be stubborn. Of course Charlie is only not quite 9 weeks old. But if he's attempting to chew something he shouldn't, or piddle where he shouldn't, or whining in the middle of the night... I just tell him No; and he stops. Amazing! You tell a Shih Tzu no, and they look at you as if you've just challenged them with a dare or something!
Now don't get me wrong, I love my Tzus - but I'm most definitely IN LOVE with Cavaliers!!
Here's my little guy with my hubby (who is also in love with Cavaliers!)


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Hi Guys,
Great site by the way. This is my first post.
I am looking for advice on buying a Mac.
I really really love the look and feel of the 20" Mac and am thinking of purchasing one. However, this is where I need your help. I work in financial advice and all the software I use is windows based only.
I have read loads of stuff about dual boot with Boot Camp so I am fine in that respect but is it possible to go with a complete install of Vista or is the best option to dual boot and give most of the partition to vista? Also which version of vista is best to go with? Business, Enterprise or Ultimate?
I also need to be able to use dual view with a mac cinema display. Is this possible? Will it exactly replicate what is on screen on the mac? And are there any adaptors that would need to be purchased?
A freind of mine has a MacBook booting with XP and has issues with the video out not working under XP. It works perfectly under Lepoard, but in XP it sort of detects the display then disconnects and keeps doing that without actually working. You just keep hearing the windows ping pong noise to indicate the display is connected then immediatly disconnected! Will I have the same problems with the 20" Mac and Vista?
I look forward to some help on these matters and thank you in advance.
Kind Regards,
Paul Pitchford.
I had that same issue with XP not displaying on a external but Vista does it perfectly. I run Vista Ultimate on just a 20gb partition and it runs great. If your going to be using it a lot I would run a 50gb partition or bigger depending on how much space you need. Also make sure you have a good bit of RAM, 2gb+. Good luck!Macbook 2.16/2gb/160gb
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Running Vista Business here and it runs very fast on my MBP with 2G RAM - I use mostly windows as well (for business) so I gave Vista a larger partition than OSX. I haven't had a need for the video out yet so I haven't tried it. I know there are a lot of Vista haters out there, but I really can't say I have had any bad experiences with it. It's never crashed in the six months or so that I've been using it and it does have a much nicer GUI than XP. It also supports more memory than XP.
how about VMware or Parallels? (although vmware is more powerful)
this means you can run windows in a window while using your mac. (or even fullscreen!)
and the cool thing (for parallels anyway) is that you can use something called coherence mode to seamlessly integrate your windows apps with your mac, meaning you won't always have to run/see the windows desktop
however this may not be for you...
what kind of programs are you using? are they major memory consumers?
correct me if i'm wrong ppls
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I've used both Parallels and VMWare for both Windows XP/Vista and Linux Fedora 8/Knoppix installs. To be honest I am leaning towards VMWare at the moment just due to the fact that it handles my desktop resolution setting in linux better.
VMWare has the ability to use your boot camp partition as a VM though and that sounds pretty cool.
Since using these two products I no longer have a need to run a dual boot system.
OK, so Parallels has Cohesion to match VMWare Fusion's Unity mode. That's cool.
If all you are using the Windows OS for is a few business-only, with no need for high-end graphics, I'd suggest going with VMWare or Parallels only, without using Bootcamp. Why? Because you'll waste time rebooting from one side to the other.
If you use Fusion, you can literally drag and drop files from your Windows desktop to your OS-X one. I can't tell you how much more productive I am this way. And I typically have XP on the left screen, OS-X on the right when I am at my desk.
One thing: Just because it's running on Mac hardware doesn't mean XP or Vista is any less vulnerable to malware. Get a good AV for both sides. I'm rapidly becoming a Kaspersky fan, and if they decide to release an OS-X version, I'm so ditching every other one out there.
Good luck!
PPerry M Lynch, CISSP CISA
Mac Newbie, Security not-so-newbie
cohesion or coherence? i 4get... :S
u can also drag and drop files in parralels, not sure about vm...
i would strongly recommend you use the virtualization method, saves time
as for the virus issue, the viruses u contract while running windows will not affect mac (obviously)
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This ISN'T the new BMW M4…
…but crikey, we really wish it was. Stunning render of BMW's halo coupe surfaces
Ruddy hell, would you look at that? This, ladies and gentlemen of our internet, is what the new BMW M4 could look like. Because believe it or not, it's a fake.
Repeat: this is NOT the new BMW M4. It's a design rendering by a chap who goes by the username 'E92alpine328i', on Bimmerpost.com. He decided to give web junkies a taste of how he thinks BMW should style the next halo M-Division coupe. And it looks astonishingly good.
He very expertly photoshopped in the front bumper vents from the 1-Series M Coupe, flared out the arches and added in the wheels from the M6 Gran Coupe. See that bonnet louvre? A lovely touch, as is the carbon-fibre roof. This chap has been paying attention. The result, as you will attest to, is ruddy marvellous.
The original picture is of course, from BMW's stand at the Detroit Motor Show, and it's actually just a regular 4-Series concept underneath; the car that effectively rung the death knell for the BMW 3-Series Coupe. You can read all about that car here.
BMW, are you paying attention? Make the M4 look like this, and we'll forgive you for killing off one of your finest coupe badges. No word on what will power the new M4, but of course, we welcome your suggestions below - and indeed, feedback for this lightly awesome render...
Photo courtesy of Bimmerpost.com
Tags: bmw, m3, 3 series, 1 series, 3 series coupe, m4, 4 series, 4 series concept


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IGN reports that the downloadable platformer will be priced at $15 (1200 Microsoft Points, 1500 Wii Points), zipping onto Wii on October 11 before bouncing onto the PlayStation Network on October 12 then rolling into the Xbox Love Arcade on October 13. Sega has yet to reveal the price for the iPhone edition, which is due out on October 7.
Sonic 4 is co-developed by Sonic Team and Sonic Rush dev Dimps. To see it in motion, watch this recent trailer showcasing the ubiquitous casino zone, Casino Streets.
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