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An anonymous reader asks: "Our department used to use a Cedar Technologies Desktop CD-R Publisher for fully automated backup of data (~2 CDs per day) controlled by a Linux PC. The publisher just broke and we are looking into a new backup solution to automatically burn and print CDs or DVDs. Solutions for CD/DVD duplication are available for Windows and Mac (for example: Primera and Rimage [which acquired Cedar in 2000]) but not for Linux. While a Mac would be OK, none of the manufacturers seems to offer scriptability or a command line interface which is essential for our task. Tape and HD backup are not an option - the data is already mirrored on RAIDs. Has anyone set up a similar archival system using Linux?"


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The Republican Party in the past has had a close relationship with Wall Street and big business. But lately there's growing tension and disagreement as some Republicans in Congress consider a possible government shutdown. The Tea Party seems to have the strongest criticism of big business.
Not All Republicans Embrace Big Business All The Time
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Workshop for K-12 Educators, November 16, 2013
Workshop for K-12 Educators
"Picture Perfect: Nineteenth-Century Women in Words and Images"
With Laura Smith, University of New Hampshire
Saturday, November 16, 2013 - 9:00am to 3:00pm
This one-day interdisciplinary workshop will guide analysis and discussion of historic visual materials in conjunction with selected texts by nineteenth-century women authors. Through this juxtaposition of words and images, we will explore notions of gender, reform, and women's roles.
During the workshop, teachers will:
- practice strategies for interpreting historical images
- analyze specific passages of frequently-read novels and poems to gain a better understanding of women's various roles and depictions in nineteenth-century America
- discuss classroom strategies and activities for using these materials with students
Teachers of history, English language arts, and visual arts will find the texts and images helpful as they address topics such as anti-slavery reform, women's roles and the domestic environment, Indian removal, and westward migration.
Part of the day will be reserved for teachers to examine, first-hand, materials from the American Antiquarian Society's rich trove of historic images and materials including engravings, lithographs, photographs, and early editions of famous novels. Possible authors and speakers for discussion – many cited specifically in curriculum frameworks – include: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Alice Callahan, considered one of the first American Indian novelists.
Please complete the form below to register for the workshop "Picture Perfect: Nineteenth-Century Women in Words and Images" to be held on Saturday, November 16, 2013.


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Relationships are a part of our lives. Sometimes, we love people that come into our lives when we least expect. Sad to say but it is the reality; it is also hard to know when and why he will leave you. his departure is always painful. It causes sleepless nights and disorientation. Sometimes it becomes hard to live without him. Our feelings make us to yearn that we can have another day with him. After such breakups we try to seek ways and modalities that we can use gain their audience. This is not easy but this does not mean that it cannot be done. It has been done before. Nonetheless, it calls for patience and utmost precision and exactitude. Miscalculation of any step in the process can cause new pain. There are several steps and tips on how to get your ex boyfriend back. You could try one after the other depending on the success of the previous step.
First: Do a Self Assessment Then Get Him Back
The most significant question that should never escape your mind is the reasons that make you want them back. Is it because you are lonely? Is it because you cannot find someone else? Is it because of pressure from your children or family?
It is because you truly love him? If the sole reason is because you love him, it is justified. At this stage, you should be absolutely honest with yourself. Additionally, you should assess the reasons that led to the breakup. If you feel that they are within your capacity to find a solution, it is then wise to give it a try.
2) Stay Away for Sometime
This is the most critical but important stage of a possible makeup. Relationship experts call it non-contact period. It is during this stage that healing from the pain that caused the breakup happens. Here, both of you will be silently assessing the possibility of a comeback. Many psychologists agree unanimously that the first goodbye does not always mean that it is over. They believe that what happens after the initial breakup determines what follows. Staying away helps both of you to think clearly and settle the frayed emotions. The period depends on the strength of the parties involved. It can vary from weeks to months or years. Healing has no a definitive period.
3)Work on Yourself
At this stage, you are sure about what your ex boyfriend wanted for a partner. Perhaps he wanted a certain level of education that you did not have but you accepted you hoping that you would further it. This is the most appropriate time to join college. This is advantageous to you because it will not only occupy your mind thus aiding in healing but also add your bargaining power. At this stage, it is important to work on your appearance so that you can become more appealing in his eyes. Remember that you are marketing yourself again.
4) Start by Saying a Simple Hi
At the start, ensure that your greetings are not laced with emotions. Try to be platonic and mature. If he replies to a text or answers your call, do not make the conversation length. Choose each and every response carefully to ensure that your intentions are not misconstrued. Show respect and utmost decorum.
Remember that the rights you had over him are limited and all you are trying is redeeming them. If his replies are harsh, that is when you give them more time. A harsh tone signifies that they are not yet healed.
5) Start Reaching out Through Trusted Allies
When doing this, you must be sure of what it is that you want and why you need to get him back. You must also be careful to ensure that your ally, who should be a common friend that you both trusted before, has the interests of you and your ex boyfriend at heart. This is a sensitive step because he can misread it for stalking. The information that you seek or give should be very limited. If it works well at this stage, it signifies that you have learnt how to get your ex boyfriend back using his close friends.
6) Invite him to your Events or attend His
At this stage, you can casually invite him to your birthday or graduation ceremony. If he is kind enough to attend, it means that his door for friendship is open. If he approaches you, perhaps to offer a congratulatory message, show appreciation but with a lot of composure. If it is his event, buy him gifts that you are sure he loved. This will arouse memories and it can influence his consideration.
7) Invite Him for a Personalized Talk
If there has been cooperation in the above stages, it is then wise to invite him for a cup of coffee like you did before. Your proposal of the location should be a restaurant. This is to ensure that there is no suspicion between both of you. The environment should be favorable for both of you and not too intimate. None of you should feel out of place.
However, if he proposes a different venue, accept his bid and show comfort. Rigidity might work against you. If he wants a friend to tag along, just allow it. During this step, seeking to know how he has been is in order.
8) Assess His Feelings towards You
Given that it is somebody that you have been with for sometimes, it is easy for you to read his attitude. This should guide you on whether you should give things more time or increase your efforts. Here you should be able to know how far he has gone into healing. If he is healed, his moods and attitude towards you should be positive.
9) Break the News
If his moods and feelings towards you are positive, you should now tell them what you think about getting back together. You should however be open minded in case the answer is not positive. You should ensure that the conversational mood is high enough to accommodate the news. If he accepts your offer embrace it and assure him that he will be safe with you. If the answer is not what you expected, you can restart the process again. If you are the cause of the breakup, apologizing is allowed. Show remorse about your actions and be genuine.
10) Plan Together
If you are allowed back into his life, show him gratitude by asking him to join you in planning how you should forge ahead as a team. Being the lady, you should allow him to take the mantle of leadership of the relationship like he did before. At this stage, you should have timeframes that will fit both of you.
11) Know When to Stop the Process
In the whole process, you should be very keen to know when to stop and perhaps restart again. The entry and exit tactics should be premeditated and well planned to ensure that they do not backfire.
Tactics of how to get your ex boyfriend back should never viewed as impossible. It depends on so many factors some of which are not within your control but what matters is how you handle them all. The whole process should be gradual and incremental. Patience and maturity is the rule of the game. The process can take years. It is however wise for you to show some degrees of conservativeness. Don't show like you are throwing yourself to him.


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Gainesville, FL---The Florida Gators basketball team is getting set to open play at the SEC Tournament Friday in Nashville.
As the regular season champs of the SEC, they get a bye into the quarterfinals of their conference tourney. They'll face LSU at noon Friday.
Florida you could say limping into the postseason, having lost three of 6, those three losses on the road in games where they held big leads, only to lose by committing turnovers down the stretch and missing easy and open shots.
They led by 7 at Kentucky Saturday, but failed to score in the final 7 minutes.
Head coach Billy Donovan says they're always working on the turnover problem, have been since preseason.
"But we've gotta get better. And I would say this, if you look at the numbers, it's not like we're turning the ball over 20 times a game. But in some of those stretches where we've got the lead some of those things are coming back and we're not giving ourselves the chance to shoot the basketball. But I'm not saying that, with the way we shot the ball closing the game out against Kentucky, I mean I don't know what the solution is to layups, runners and those things. They've gotta do a better job of finishing."
As for match up with LSU , the Gators won their only match up this season, by 22 in Baton Rouge, 74-52.
If the Gators win three straight and the SEC tourney, they could conceivably work themselves back as high as a two seed for the NCAA tournament.


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Dear teachers,
Would you please have a look at my answers?
Turn the following sentences into reported speech adding link-words when necessary.
1. "Do you think anything's gone wrong?"
Elsie asked asked if I thought that anything had gone wrong.
2. "Your mother's been wonderful".
Harold answered that my mother had been wonderful.
3. "I know. Mother is a great fighter. She'll never sit down under defeat".
Elsie went on saying she knew that my mother was a great fighter and that she would never sit down under defeat.
4. "Don't think of it."
He told me not to think of it.
5. She said to him: You dont understand. Miss Aldridge didnt come home last night, thats why Im so worried.
She told him that he didnt understand and if she was worried it was because Miss Aldridge hadnt come home the night before. (????)
6. He told her: I dont think shes here. Ill go and have a look. Wait a moment.
He retorted that he didnt think she was there and that he would go and have a look. He told her to wait a moment. (????)
Best regards,
2 I'd use 'replied', but you're using 'my mother'- shouldn't it be 'her' (Elsie's)?
3 went on to say
5 and if she was worried it was- and that she was worried .
6- retorted- I don't see this as a retort


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Ultra luxurious 100% pure French DOUBLE SIDED linen quilt cover in Natural / Stripes
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- Shop King, Queen, Double, King Single and Single Size
- A rustic natural shade offset with chic charcoal stripes.
- As seen in Vogue Living, Real Living, Inside Out and Home Beautiful magazines.
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This stunning duvet cover features a double-sided design in a serene natural linen set against an oh-so-stylish charcoal ticking stripe. It means you have two duvet cover designs and can swap it around depending on your mood or the look you want to achieve in your bedroom.
Don't forget you can also bundle and save by adding natural pillowcases to this set, by checking the box above!
Note: Natural linen is woven from 100% naturally undyed French flax. Depending on the season in which it has grown, there will always be variations in the shade. Also, note that Natural linen is slightly thicker and textured compared to dyed linen fabric.
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Please note due to the variation in photography and light, there are slight differences in the colour of linen. For colour accurate images, please use the photos at the top of the webpage or those just below. Alternatively, feel free to request a free style consultation and we'd be happy to send swatches out to you.
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Please note that with every shipment of linen, there can be a 6% variance in the colour and size of linen. This is because the raw flax may be slightly different season to season and will react to dyes differently, in addition to each piece being made by hand.
Why would I invest in pure linen instead of cotton?
Linen is woven from the flax plant and is different to cotton because the fibrous strands of flax are much larger, hollow grass-like stalks. It's because of these hollow stalks that woven linen has an amazing ability to cope with moisture and because of the air in the centre, release moisture to dry very quickly. For you as the lucky linen sleeper, you luxuriate on bedding that allows cool, dry air to pass freely, keeping your body the right temperature as you sleep.
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This is not to say that cotton is without merit, and indeed the cotton range we also sell is just beautiful, but it's like comparing apples and oranges. Ultimately it's the texture of linen to sleep on that makes it a worthwhile investment.
Any last words on this luxury linen?
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Care instructions
Linen is a delicate fibre, so treat it with respect!
- Gentle cycle cold or warm wash
- We suggest placing your pillowcases in a delicates bag to ensure they do not snag in the washing machine
- Gentle warm tumble dry is ok but we all suggest line drying if you can
- Do not bleach, and do not dry clean
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Linked by David Adams on Tue 20th Dec 2011 06:06 UTC
2011 will go down in the history books as a great year for tablets mostly for Apple's iPad however, not all tablet vendors fared as well as Apple. It's not for lack of products that prevented Android tablets from taking any market share away from Apple this year. By our calculation, over 100 tablets were introduced since the iPad however, we defy even the most tech-savvy of you to name more than a few of them. What was so wrong with the competition that it failed to make any inroads in the tablet market, at least until the Amazon Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble Nook came along?
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People having to think is good exercise for the brain.
Good UI design means that the app works intuitively, so that the user is able to accomplish what he/she is trying to do without wasting time wondering why your app isn't doing what they want.
Basically, when they are working, are they thinking about your application, or are they thinking about their work? The less they need to think about your app, the more focus they can give to their own work.


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Men's basketball adds home-and-home series with George Washington
Men's basketball adds home-and-home series with George Washington
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Penn State men's basketball team will begin a home-and-home series with George Washington by hosting the Colonials in 2014-15, head coach Patrick Chambers announced.
GW will travel to University Park to face the Lions at the Bryce Jordan Center Dec. 14, 2014 with a return date at the Charles E. Smith Center to be determined for the 2015-16 campaign.
"We are excited to have a NCAA tournament team in George Washington coming to Happy Valley this upcoming season," Chambers said. Coach Lonergan has done a great job, and their style of play will help us prepare for conference play."
Four Penn State starters return from the 2013-14 season, accounting for more than 70 percent of scoring and 80 percent of rebounding for the team who swept Top 25 Ohio State en route to making its 20th postseason appearance. The Lions posted win totals, both overall (16) and in the Big Ten (6), among the highest in the last 15 years and had a total of 12 games decided by five or fewer points.
The Colonials posted the second-most wins in program history with 24 in 2013-14 and made their first NCAA tournament appearance since 2007. GW finished the regular season with the third-seed in the conference and advanced to the A-10 Championship semifinals.
"Pat [Chambers] and his staff have done a great job improving the program at Penn State and we look forward to having another quality opponent from the Big Ten on our schedule for the next two years," Mike Lonergan, fourth-year GW head coach, said.
Lonergan spent six seasons as head coach at Vermont, facing Chambers' Boston University team five times from 2009-11 with Terriers taking both meetings in 2010-11.
Penn State is 19-11 all-time against its former Atlantic 10 rival George Washington with the last meeting coming in a 71-57 neutral-site, non-conference win by the Colonials in the 1991 Palm Beach Classic in Florida, Penn State's first season in the Big Ten. The two teams final meetings as league foes was in the 1991 A-10 Championship game with the Nittany Lions topping the Colonials, 81-75, in Rec Hall for their first conference title.
Penn State is 111-77 all-time against teams in the current Atlantic 10 Conference, following a 68-59 win over Duquesne Dec. 11 last season in the CONSOL Energy Center. The Nittany Lions were a member of the A-10 in 1976-1979 and 1982-91.
The news of the GW series adds to previously announced information regarding Penn State's 2014-15 schedule, Chambers' fourth season in University Park, with the Lions poised to host Virginia Tech Dec. 3 in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge and compete in the 2014 Charleston Classic in Charleston, S.C., Nov. 20-23.


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If you have read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up but can't figure out where to start, I have created a Konmari checklist that may help! It contains all of the broad categories that you will need to work on such as clothing, books, and Komono. Then, it breaks the categories down into smaller categories. I modified this from another list I found online by combining some categories and adding in others that were not represented at all – like furniture.
You will notice that the Konmari checklist has categories that appear to be rooms and Marie Kondo says we should not go room by room. The reason I separated the categories like this was to make it easier to remember where these items may be found. Don't forget to check other rooms before you move onto the next checklist item!
Hopefully you will find this list helpful as you go through Konmari.
The Konmari checklist is colorful (which sparks joy for me) but you can print it on a black & white printer if that's all you have. There are check boxes beside each category so you can mark as completed as you move through the list. The checklist is in PDF format so you will need Adobe Reader (free) or an alternative PDF reader to access the file. If you have any problems, let me know! So without further ado, here is the download! You can click the picture or the Download Now link below:
If you prefer black text, you may download a B&W version here.
If you cannot get the PDF to download, please try the Word file version. You will need Microsoft Word or a Word viewer/editor such as Open Office (Open Office is a FREE alternative to Microsoft Office).
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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Are you tired of storing your old college textbooks in the garage but you don't want to toss them in the trash?
You can donate them to Bucknell University's campus book drive Dec. 2 to 15 to benefit Worldfund, a non-profit organization working to transform lives in Latin America through high quality education.
Bucknell's Office of Service Learning, Alpha Chi Omega co-ed service fraternity, and Chi Omega sorority are organizing the book drive.
Collection bins on campus
"Persons interested in donating used college-level textbooks may place them in collection bins located at several easy-to-reach locations around Bucknell," said Doug Maynard, a Bucknell sophomore who's organizing the book drive.
"We'll have green-and-white "Book Drive" collection bins in two places in the Elaine Langone Center – the upper-level lobby and in front of the Bookstore in the lower-level lobby; in the Bertrand Library; and at the Seventh Street Café," he said.
According to an assessment by the U.S Agency for International Development, children in the region attend school an average of only 5.4 years, and the inferior quality of education impedes the ability of Latin America to move forward economically.
"By donating your books to benefit Worldfund, you will help individuals gain the education they need to lift themselves out of poverty," said Worldfund Founder Luanne Zurlo. Books collected for Worldfund by Better World Books will be sold online to generate a sustainable stream of unrestricted funding for the organization. Nationwide book drives since fall 2006 have raised $15,000 for Worldfund's programs.
About Worldfund
The mission of Worldfund is to transform lives and reduce poverty in Latin America by supporting high-quality education for impoverished communities. Founded in 2003, Worldfund forms partnerships with schools that operate in poor communities throughout Latin America. It provides infrastructure and operating budget grants, as well as links to management and technical assistance. Based in New York, Worldfund has provided nearly $3,000,000 to educational programs and schools serving 30,000 students in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. For more information, visit worldfund.org.
About Better World Books
Better World Books capitalizes on the value of the book to fund and support literacy initiatives locally, nationally, and around the world. Organized as a for-profit social venture, Better World Books measures its success in terms of social, environmental, and economic impact. Since its founding in 2003, Better World Books has raised more than $2.3 million in funding for its non-profit literacy partners, provided more than 570,000 books for direct use, diverted in excess of 5,250 tons of books from landfills, and created more than 100 full-time jobs with full benefits at its northern Indiana warehouse. Visit www.betterworldbooks.com
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Some things seem like a good idea at the time, but just don't work out.
Add Richard Hamilton joining the Bulls to that list. He seemed like a perfect fit, taking a buyout in Detroit and jumping to Chicago to fill the Bulls' void at shooting guard in time for the 2011-12 season.
Hamilton brought plenty of playoff experience from his Pistons years and the Bulls were anxious to replace Keith Bogans, the convenient scapegoat of the 2011 playoffs.
Hamilton's uneventful Bulls' career ended Wednesday when he was released. The move has been widely expected for a year or more.
The 6-foot-7 shooting guard essentially signed a two-year deal with the Bulls for $5 million each season. But because of competition for Hamilton's services, the Bulls were compelled to add a third season to seal the deal. The third year was not fully guaranteed and the Bulls still owe him $1 million.
During his two seasons with the Bulls, Hamilton averaged 10.5 points per game and had trouble staying healthy. He missed 38 games in 2011-12 and 32 games last season because of injuries.
The playoffs were never a factor after Derrick Rose suffered a torn ACL in Game 1 of the first round in 2012. That was the one and only time Hamilton and Rose shared the court in a postseason game.
Hamilton played very little in this year's playoffs because the Bulls felt he wasn't fully recovered from a back injury. He finally got a chance in the final two games of the Miami series and played well.
In the Game 5 loss at Miami that ended the Bulls' season, Hamilton scored 15 points in 35 minutes. If nothing else, that performance might show teams he's still got something left in the tank.
Hamilton, 35, told reporters late last season that he'd like to keep playing. He didn't find one last moment of playoff glory with the Bulls, but is now free to keep looking.
• The Bulls signed rookies Tony Snell and Erik Murphy on Wednesday. Both players are expected to debut at the Las Vegas summer league on Saturday when the Bulls face Memphis.


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Paul Della Bitta, former global head of e-sports and community at Blizzard, Jungwon Hahn former head of Blizzard's Korean office, and Blaine Smith, who has a history in the Company of Heroes and God of War franchises, have come together to create Molten Games.
The new studio doesn't have any game announcements just yet, but it will be experimenting with the free-to-play model, and is committed to putting, "gameplay first and foremost."
The studio has already received a large investment from NCSoft, but it will not serve as a publisher of its games. Molten will own all of the rights to its original intellectual properties. NCSoft's investment awards the company assorted stock allocations.
You can find out more about the studio, you can check out its official website, as well the full press release announcing the studio and page two.
Our TakeIt's hard to get too excited about a new studio that has no games to show. That being said, there is an impressive pedigree of video game industry veterans here who certainly have the capacity to do something cool. We'll just have to wait and see.
Email the author Kyle Hilliard, or follow on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and Game Informer.
Free to play focused...not sure I care too much but I'll keep them in mind.


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Ohio court wants new trial over Native American tablet
Associated Press
A state appeals court says there should be a new trial to determine who should get ownership of a prehistoric Native American tablet.
The Franklin County Court of Appeals overruled a decision that awarded ownership of the tablet to the Ohio Historical Society rather than to the estate of a man who discovered it as a boy.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that the Adena tablet dates to between 500 B.C. and A.D. 100.
It has been displayed at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus since 1971 when the society acquired it from Edward Low.
Low asked for the tablet's return in 2007, saying he lent it to the Historical Society. He sued after they denied his request.
He died in 2010, but his widow is continuing the legal fight.
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Ex-Liverpool striker John Aldridge has urged the club to consider a summer move for West Ham United midfielder Mohamed Diame.
The 25-year-old Senegalese international impressed against the Reds at Anfield on Sunday, building on his reputation as one of the best defensive midfielders in the Premier League.
And, Aldridge is convinced the former Wigan Athletic star could add plenty to the Merseyside outfit next season if they can lure him to the club.
"One player I would urge Liverpool to keep tabs on is a brute of a midfielder we saw in action at Anfield this weekend," he wrote in his column for the Liverpool Echo.
"Mohamed Diame is a tremendous player and so strong and powerful in that central role.
"He is exactly what the Reds need in there and in the two games between Liverpool and West Ham United this season he has been the best player."
Diame was heavily linked with a move away from the Hammers in the January transfer window, with reports claiming the former Lens youth team player had a £3.5million minimum fee release clause in his contract.
However, Sam Allardyce managed to keep the powerhouse at Upton Park throughout the transfer window. But, questions still persist on Diame's future, with the Hammers chief questioned on the issue after the 0-0 draw at Liverpool.
"His future will bubble up in the summer again so it`s up to us to give Mo our best offer," he revealed post-match.
"If we can't keep him then we'll use the money to try and get a better player than him. There is still a buy-out clause, but no-one triggered that in January."
Arsenal were the front-runners to land the player back in January, and it remains to be seen if Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers will follow the advice of Aldridge and pursue Diame's signature at the end of the season.
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The new safety regulatory authority in MAP-21(Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century), the new two-year transportation authorization signed into law by President Obama on July 6, is the culmination of a concerted effort by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) that began in December 2009, when Secretary LaHood formally transmitted to Congress a legislative proposal to establish and enforce minimum federal safety standards for rail transit systems. Many of the safety provisions included in MAP-21, which take effect on October 1, 2012, are reflected in the administration's proposal.
"Safety is our highest priority, and I am enormously pleased that we now have the authority to impose strong safety regulations that are long overdue," said U.S. Transportation Deputy Secretary John Porcari.
"This is an important win for the safety of tens of millions of Americans who use transit each day and for the well-being of transit workers on the front lines as conductors and track inspectors," said Administrator Rogoff. "I'm deeply gratified that for the first time, we are ushering in an era where in every state and transit agency safety will be a real priority."
MAP-21 requires, among other things, that FTA define and establish a State Safety Oversight program to ensure that rail transit systems are meeting stringent safety requirements. FTA will implement the new law in consultation with the transit community and the DOT Transit Rail Advisory Committee for Safety, which has been working since September of 2010 to help guide this effort.
Under current law, FTA, which finances nearly half of the capital expenditures for transit systems nationwide, is not authorized to issue basic safety standards to protect rail transit passengers and rail workers. The result, according to the FTA, is a patchwork of state laws that do not provide seamless or consistent safety coverage. The transit safety provisions in MAP-21 will help to remedy these long-standing shortcomings.


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I've always wanted to cream the Blue Team in Paintball. From home. I wonder when this tech will be available for toy companies. Especially when the 2012 Geneva Convention on Laws of Armed Robots in Combat declares them unfit, thereby resulting in a blackmarket for jailbroken drones.
Same thing as cars that drive themselves. People die on the road every day due to human error, bu the moment a car with no driver crashes into something / hurts someone all hell will break loose.
This thing could be way more effective than any man at doing it's job. One mistake and it'd be dead.
There is this misconception that humans can fail, but machines can't. What they forget is that the men who built the machine were human too, so, it'll never be perfect.
That's all well and good, but I am more concerned about our robotic overlords commanded by the one or few who need killers without conscience and without any sense of right or wrong.
We already have a government in the US who felt it was necessary to use contractors to perform acts which exceed that which the military service members should do. But that's not good enough. They want killers who will kill, ask no questions and tell no one about it.
Landmines do automated killing every day!
Which is why civilised countries [wikipedia.org] have already outlawed them. No decent human could encourage the spread of the things which kill many civilians, animals and for the most case mine clearers for every attacking soldier they kill.
N.B. the treaty still allows anti-tank mines and even remote triggered claymore mines so it's still possible to do area denial against serious military forces. I will give Koreans a small out in this case in that this was the way that there border was divided long before the treat
Just politically correct. The US already has policies in place that effectively meet and exceed the goals of the Ottawa treaty.
We stopped selling mines, we destroyed old stockpiles. we have spent over a billion dollars clearing mines and helping victims (usually not our mines). Our new mines are self-destructing or self-disarming, and policy is to not place one without its position being recorded, and that it be removed from any battlefield after its need has passed.
Even with that, the only place we actually use them is in the Korean DMZ. The last time we used them in combat was the Gulf War, in limited use. These were scatterable mines, fired or dropped to a specific grid coordinate to deny use of that small area to the enemy. Since this was their first use we did make mistakes, as apparently not every shot was recorded and reported for later easy cleanup. Rules for their use have since been changed, and by now they should be converted to self-destructing or self-dearming anyway.
Just politically correct. The US already has policies in place that effectively meet and exceed the goals of the Ottawa treaty.
Beyond that, the US has offered to sign the Ottawa treaty if an exemption for land mines in the Korean DMZ were allowed.
Bingo. The US has spent years phasing out land mines, and if it wasn't for the Korean DMZ, it would be a signatory to the Ottawa Treaty. It would be a backwards step if they built new weapons where humans do not make the targeting decision.
The word is, with the hightech drones they hope one day to get a better ratio of collaterals/enemies than with landmines.
And they are a pestilence in the areas where they are unleashed on. Their main victims post ware usually are children which while playing accidentally step on them.
When these are combat ready, there will be many unemployed soldiers.
Move all violence to online simulations.
Camouflaged tanks in a forest shouldn't be too hard. Telling the difference between a soldier and a civilian - now that's a challenge.
Even humans find that hard, so if they can get the accuracy level up it might rival what we can do despite being imperfect.
Not really, a soldier is a true hit and a civilian is colateral damage, easy solution, aint it?
...it would have a field day at a picnic party.
Science fiction writer Cordwainer Smith called them "manshonyaggers" in a story published back in the 1950's. The word was supposed to be a far-future corruption of "menschen" and "jager", or "manhunter".
It looks like his future is going to get here a lot faster than he thought.
It probably won't be the Mark Elf and the Vom Acht's though, it'll be the MQ-35 Wrath-bringer and it'll only respond to commands prefaced with "God Bless America"
Why don't we, instead of perfecting our killing methods, simply stop initiating economy destroying pointless wars?
I'm excited about all the trickle-down technology that'll eventually become consumer grade fare, and I appreciate the advancement in various technology that war brings, but I would much prefer it if the US stopped economically destroying itself (while giving the Middle East a "Great Satan" to fight) and instead let them get back to killing each other over tiny differences in interpretation of fundamentalist Islam.
Not even Bob the Builder can fix the Middle East at the moment. Not when you have God handing out the real estate titles and commanding the thousands of various splinter cells to annihilate everything that's not exactly identical to themselves, as trillions of dollars of oil money pour into the region to feed and fund it all.
What's bad for one part of the economy may be good for another part. What's 'good' for the economy is a matter of debate. I know it's a tiredly overused example, but if you owned stock in Halliburton in 2000 and hung onto it I'm sure you'd think that these pointless wars are pretty good for the economy.
Overall, I agree with your comments, but I don't think the pointless wars were a major drag on our economy. If anything, they probably helped. Lowering taxes during wartime - now that's a classic economic no-
Why don't we, instead of perfecting our killing methods, simply stop initiating economy destroying pointless wars?
Because war is a fantastically good way to seriously sort your country out. All you need to do is have a great big war and lose it.
Sure, it takes a few years but look at, say, Germany or Japan today versus where they were in 1945.
I reckon that's what the US is doing. Starting all these wars with a view to losing one.
Someone should make a movie about this. . .
...of a whatcouldgowrong tag, this would be it.
As long as the soldier who pushes the button to activate the drones is equally responsible as the one who pushes the button to drop a dumb bomb then I don't really see the issue.
As long as someone mucking and and causing friendly fire or collateral damage is equally liable then I think this is just an arms race that has the potential to avoid casualties.
When you can start shoving blame around so soldier blames the programmer and vice versa is where this becomes dangerous I think. If the soldier can blame so
Yep, autonomous machines are certain to make mistakes and kill people who aren't the target, who are innocent, don't really deserve to die, etc.
So what?
Humans make those mistakes now, in abundance: friendly fire, massacres, genocide, innocent bystanders... you name it. What difference does it make whether it's a human or some artificial pseudo-intelligence that makes the mistakes?
I'll tell you what the difference is: one less human on the battlefield, and thus at the least one less human that can die from
Could it kill 9 people and wound 14?
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki/ [wired.com]
the purpose of attackwatch.com [barackobama.com]
But they forgot to leave a way to upload pictures of the targets to be terminated. Oops.
Between globalization and robots it appears the golden age of leisure* is closer than ever.
* Where golden age of leisure = mass unemployment and food riots
There is no way that the military is going to permit autonomous combatant units. At least, not without having a stake put through its brain.
For starters, the PR would be through the floor if even one of these things killed a civilian (though I guess with how callous the US has been towards civilian collateral casualties for the past ten years, that might not be a big deal.)
The other main reason is that there's no way a manly man is ever going to give up on the idea of manly soldiers charging manly into bat
The US doesn't need autonomous killing machines. Sure, the US will develop them, but so long as the Americans are busy busting on sheep herders armed with AK47s, they wont use them. You might get to the point where drones are doing everything but pull the trigger, but having a human in the loop approving all death and destruction is cheap and easy. You don't gain anything when you are fighting peasants with shitty guns by having a fully autonomous killing machines.
The US will develop the technology thoug
"There is no way that the military is going to permit autonomous combatant units. At least, not without having a stake put through its brain."
You are implicitly assuming that the USA will be fighting inferior enemies in the future and thus will be more concerned about bad PR than coming out on top. A potential future conventional conflict with a heavily armed opponent capable of inflicting millions of casualties will change that (most likely China but there are also other potential candidates). And in such
IF a target is a unique type of vehicle that can be easily identified by target recognition software that _already_ does this for normal pilots AND said target is within a set of coordinates that are known to only contain hostile vehicles of that type, THEN kill it, otherwise seek human double-check and weapons release confirmation.
If a target is in an area known to not contain friendlies and is detected firing a missile or weapon (like an AA gun for example), then kill it.
If there are friendlies o
If ever there was an appropriate time for the "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag, this is it.
Does this (concern|scare|disgust) any of you?
Why am I limited to these choices? Groupthink much?
We're quite likely to see systems that kill anybody who is shooting at friendly troops. The U.S. Army has had artillery radar systems [fas.org] for years which detect incoming shells and accurately return fire. There have been attempts to scale that down to man-portable size, but so far the systems have been too heavy.
Sooner or later, probably sooner, someone will put something like that on a combat robot.
The most dangerous thing is about this is that now when a glitch or bug or malware causes a plane to blow up a wedding, it means no one is responsible. No one ordered it, and no one can be punished for it.
What bothers me is these things make war easier to wage. When Americans aren't coming home in coffins, it's a lot easier for the public and politicians to accept war, therefore we're more likely to start wars.
If we're risking our own soldiers and pilots, at least we might think twice and look for other solutions before starting a war. However, once you've made war palatable to your own public, too often it becomes the first resort especially amongst the hawkish (and religious right versus non-Christian enemies)
President Merkin Muffley: General Turgidson, I find this very difficult to understand. I was under the impression that I was the only one in authority to order the use of nuclear weapons.
This sounds like a bad idea to me as far as fighting wars go.
War is supposed to be up close, personal, and horrific. Letting machines handle the dirty work removes a large amount of the deterrance that should be inherent in pursuing a war. Knowing the horrors of war should be a big motivator in seeking alternatives to war.
What's next? Just have computers simulate attacks, calculate damage and casualties, and then those on the casualty list report to a termination center?
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JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jaisal Noor in Baltimore.
Twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden has come forward as the man responsible for the largest leak in NSA history.
Now joining us is Ray McGovern. He was a CIA analyst for 27 years and prepared the president's daily brief under the Nixon and Ford administrations from 1981 to 1985. Ray now works for Tell the World, a publishing extension of the Church of the Savior in Washington, D.C.
Thank you for joining us, Ray.
RAY MCGOVERN, RETIRED CIA ANALYST: Most welcome.
Noor: So, Ray, what's your reaction to the news that it's 29-year-old Edward Snowden, an NSA analyst working for a private contractor making $200,000 a year, living in Hawaii with his girlfriend, is the man behind this, one of the greatest leaks in the NSA's history?
McGovern: Well, all I can say, really, is that this time today I'm feeling much more hopeful for our democracy that I was feeling this time yesterday. This morning I spent up at Fort Meade where Bradley Manning is being court-martialed for giving us the information necessary for our people to know what's going on. Similarly, Snowden did the same thing.
It's so encouraging. It really is encouraging that a 29-year-old, or now Bradley Manning is 25, but he was 22 when he decided to--that it was his courage that would be necessary to follow his conscience and reveal those documents. It's very, very encouraging to see that young people like that have been able to do some of the things that have been very difficult for people of my generation to do because we have been so hidebound behind secrecy strictures. And some, like myself, feel great remorse that we didn't step up to the plate and do precisely the kinds of things that Snowden, Bradley Manning, and of course Daniel Ellsberg did in their day.
Noor: Now, speaking of Daniel Ellsberg, in a piece in The Guardian today, Daniel Ellsberg, the man responsible for the Pentagon Papers leak to The New York Times, he says that this leak by Edward Snowden is the greatest leak in--is the most important leak in U.S. history. What's your response to that?
McGovern: Well, I think Dan is absolutely right. If you look at how our civil liberties have been eroded, how we have a president who actually says--you know, the president swore to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, but now he's editing that. Hello? You know, it's sort of weird. This is what he said last Friday--I want to read it so don't misquote him: "When I came into this office, I made two commitments ... number one, to keep the American people safe; and number two, to uphold the Constitution."
Well, hello, Mr. President, you swore one oath, and that was to uphold the Constitution. It's possible to keep Americans safe by adhering to the principles of the Constitution and not playing fast and loose with the First, the Fourth, the Fifth, and other amendments. You know, it's really indicative of how he really comes at this thing that he edits his own oath of office. And that's what's been going on around here, because you know the slogan: after 9/11, everything changed.
Noor: So government officials, congresspeople, pundits on TV, they've all defended this NSA program and have said no laws have been broken and that these measures are necessary to protect security, just like President Obama argued when he defended these programs last week. What's your response? Are these programs necessary to defend America's security and national interests?
McGovern: Well, that's the right question. No, they are not necessary. The real question is why they sing the same song. It's because they're all complicit. Congress either doesn't want to be informed about this or is and keeps mum. The judges are out to lunch. When they're asked to decide something, they always go with the government.
And so what we have here is a situation that I've never seen before, where the president himself thinks that he can get away with--well, he can get away with murder with respect to the drone strikes on American citizens, and he can also do these kinds of incredibly intrusive surveillance techniques that we had been warned about, but now we have the documents. And I have to say that Dan Ellsberg, to his great credit, he and I, but he much longer, have been calling for people to speak out with the documents. Okay? Now, Bradley Manning did that to a fare thee well, right, and so did Snowden.
And the interesting thing here, as I learned today, that The Washington Post, would only maybe publish a couple of them. You know. And that's why he finally went to The Guardian and got The Guardian to publish maybe all--I'm not sure, but certainly more. So it's all hanging out there.
And the interesting thing to me is that when Snowden was asked, you know, what would disappoint you about what you did, you seemed to be enthusiastic about what you did, and he says, yeah, I think I did the right thing, I'm proud of it, I followed my conscience. Well, what would make you disappointed? And he said, if nothing happens. And there you go. You know, what he's worried about is, like, a two-week furor in the press and then nothing happens.
And that's where we come in. If we can't follow the example of courageous people like Snowden, who sticks his neck out, people like Bradley Manning--they knew exactly what the risk was. You know, it's all really nice to have principles and values, but if there's nothing for which you will risk yourself for those values, you know, if you're not willing to stick your neck out as those two gentlemen have--. I've been accused of having something against necks. I don't. I think necks are really nice. They're a nice connection between head and torso. But if there's nothing for which you will risk that neck, then your neck has become your idol. And necks are not--they're not worthy of idol worship. These gentlemen risk their necks. And that's what we have to do in terms of following their example.
I just think that Snowden has uncommon courage, uncommon devotion to the Constitution and to the reality that without the information Americans need, we're on our way to tyranny. Yeah, he used the term "turnkey tyranny" at the end of one of those interviews. Well, you know, the capabilities that exist in NSA right now--and we've known for a long time that they gather everything up, a big vacuum cleaner up. Okay? Now, those capabilities are a turnkey tyrannical capability. And when people like Snowden see that, if they have a conscience and if they're willing to risk--you know, if they're--they're not going to just stand on their values or their principles [incompr.] risk and incur danger and maybe have to suffer for this--you know, compassion. Compassion means to suffer with. And they're willing to suffer with those of us who are deprived of the nourishment that comes from the free flow of information.
Now, are they up against it? They sure are. Not only do we have the government security services, but we have a complicit mainstream media. Let's face it. The fourth estate is dead. The only good news is that we have a fifth estate. And that's--I don't know. It's in the ether, okay? It comes down into my computer. And the sooner that people get accustomed to getting real news from their computer, from the fifth estate, then they'll be educated on these things. And Snowden and Bradley Manning and Dan Ellsberg and others have done a yeoman's service in trying to make those things available so Americans can wake up and see that we really don't want turnkey tyranny in this country.
Noor: And I wanted to get your reaction to the response Snowden's release has elicited from Congress. It would appear--you hear congresspeople calling for his prosecution, for him to be brought back to the U.S. to face charges. But I haven't heard of any congresspeople that have actually called for an inquiry to be made about these revelations.
McGovern: No, that's what I mean by complicity. You know, my friend--my friend. Lindsey Graham from South Carolina told Esquire magazine ten months ago this, and I quote: What senator or representative is going to hold a hearing to find out if the administration is doing enough in the war on terror? I'll tell you who's going to do that. Nobody's going to do that. And that's why Congress is AWOL--absent without leave. End quote.
So, you know, when Obama talks about congressional oversight, well, you know, maybe before 9/11 there was oversight. After 9/11, when everything changed, you have Congressional overlook. They don't want to know. And to the degree they know, they won't tell the rest of us. So complicity is the name of the game here.
You know, it's very similar to what happened in 1933 in a country called Germany, which had an active parliament, but they all kept their mouths shut. And we know what happened.
Noor: So, Ray, you spent 27 years as a CIA analyst. It would appear that the full brunt of the CIA is likely going to be bearing down on Snowden, and his whereabouts are unknown right now. But what can, you know, citizens do that want to support Snowden and help perhaps protect him? What can they do today?
McGovern: Well, that's a thorny question. I think we need to speak out. We need to show exactly what he was doing, and we need to counter the propaganda that always arises in situations like this. Some of the pundits and some of the congresspeople are calling him narcissist. Narcissist. Well, if I were a narcissist, the last thing I'd do is what Snowden has done and with great [s{NqwA] says, well, you know, I know that probably this is going to come to a no-good end, as the Chinese say. But that's not narcissism. Narcissism is what obtains in Congress and the judiciary, and most of all, in a president and administration that, let's face it, thinks themselves above the law and above the Constitution. I never thought that things could get worse than they were under George W. Bush, but now I've seen it.
Noor: And do you think that Snowden has made some space for change for people to challenge this status quo, this surveillance state that we live in today?
McGovern: You know, I'd be really interested in talking to Snowden and asking him what he thought of Bradley Manning and what he thought about other people, like Thomas Drake, who had the courage to speak out when they saw fraud and abuse and misuse of intelligence and misuse of weaponry, because in my view this kind of courage is contagious.
And what we, Dan Ellsberg and I and several others, appealed for in 2004 is for people to rise up to the occasion. And, now, we don't claim that Truth-Telling Coalition memo explicitly caused these revelations, but they're of the same tenor. And there were some truth-tellers then. There are more now.
And I'm just hoping that Snowden, who styles himself as not an extraordinary person at all--well, he is. He's got extraordinary courage and an extraordinary conscience. And I dare say that there must be some other extraordinary people out there. And if they are, I hope they follow his example.
Noor: Thank you for joining us, Ray.
McGovern: You're most welcome.
Noor: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.


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Just a tip for anyone who is trying to use MacBeth Software "Digger", Genealogy titles with Linux. These titles are things like "Edwardian Index for Victoria", "Federation Index for Victoria", etc. They are only usable in Windows unfortunately and so as you have probably already worked out, you will have luck if you go to a Virtual copy of Windows BUT unfortunately if you try and run them in VirtualBox the system will reboot, over and over.
You can overcome this by installing VMWare Player which now also allows you to setup a Virtual Copy of Windows as well as play appliances. VMWare Player runs the Digger titles without a hassle.
Another hint are the instructions at this link below which tell you what changes you need to make to the ini files in Digger to enable you to load the CD's to the hard drive and read the data from there instead of having to load the CD each time.
http://www.barossa-region.org/Australia ... e-249.html
Hope this is of some help to other people out there chasing their ancestry.


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Google partners say the company's Compute Engine cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service can be an effective platform to deliver Google products and services, and it can evolve to support enterprise-level workloads.
Google Compute Engine public cloud service, announced Thursday at the company's I/O developer conference in San Francisco, takes advantage of massively scalable computing resources, low prices and Linux-based virtual machines, similar in scope to Amazon Web Services, which Google said it is targeting.
David Hoff, co-founder and senior vice president of operations and technology of Cloud Sherpas, an Atlanta, Ga.-based solution provider and Google partner, said Google has been evolving its cloud-based model of delivering its products and services for more than a year and will continue on that path.
[Related: This Week In The Cloud: Eucalyptus, CliQr, Terremark]
A key part of the cloud-based model is Google App Engine, a Platform-as-a-Service to develop and host Web applications, which came out of preview in September 2011. Google Compute Engine is an extension of App Engine, he said.
"We see [Google Compute Engine] as a natural evolution," Hoff said. "We've been early supporters and adopters of Google App Engine, Google's SaaS offering. Just as Chromebooks have started to round out the desktop end of the Google stack, Google Compute Engine brings the bare-metal services capacity to our set of offerings."
Google partners have been using other public cloud providers such as Amazon and Rackspace. But Shashank Agrawal, a partner with Pasadena, Calif.-based Acumor, which offers Google and Microsoft products, said he will begin to shift some workloads to Google Compute Engine.
"We are already using Google App Engine for ourselves and for our customers," Agrawal said. "We'll start using [Compute Engine] for some of our work."
Allen Falcon, CEO of Cumulus Global, a Westborough, Mass.-based cloud provider that sells Google Apps, added that Compute Engine is a "natural progression for Google Apps for Business and Google Apps Engine."
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Growing into 777 production posed as possible South Carolina role
Boeing says it is "in the middle of a process" that might take at least part of the assembly of its most successful widebody twin-engine aircraft out of Washington state to a South Carolina plant where it recently pledged $1 billion in infrastructure investments and 2,000 new jobs.
"We have figured out by-and-large what airplane to build," Chairman James McNerney said of the proposed Boeing 777X, an update of the 17-year-old family that dominates large widebody sales. But the company continues "to evaluate [which] design and production locations" to assign to it, he says.
His comments during a first-quarter earnings call are further evidence of how willing Boeing is to shake up its standard procedures. The company's expansion pledge at its North Charleston, S.C., campus covers the next eight years. Its facility are currently the sole integration factory for the 787's composite aft and center fuselage and a secondary site for final assembly. But the pledge has not been accompanied by any specifics.
Instead McNerney emphasized the company's confidence in using a light-weight composite wing and more fuel-efficient General Electric GE9X engines for the 777X as Boeing girds for the challenge posed by the Airbus A350-1000, which is due in three years.
While praising the main 777 factory in Everett, Wash., for the smooth ramp-up to an 8.3-aircraft-per-month build rate, McNerney made clear that Everett is not the only option on the table for the increased workload that will flow from developing and producing the 777X and its major assemblies. "The bigger a composite wing gets, the more efficient it becomes—and this is a big composite wing," he says. But Boeing still "has to think through" where the wing is to be developed and produced. Over the next few months the company will talk "in a granular way what makes sense" about the program's work placement.
North Charleston already is moving beyond its initial 787-only role. It has been selected to produce inner composite linings for the 737 MAX's engine nacelle, part of a broader move to increase in-house component production. Last week, Boeing said it will expand its Winnipeg, Manitoba, facility to 665,000 sq. ft.—a 22% gain—mainly to construct one-piece composite acoustic inner barrels for the MAX's new nacelle inlet. Winnipeg is one of Boeing's composite structures specialists that normally ships to Seattle, but in this case it is a supplier to North Charleston.
Workloads are influencing the launch timing of Boeing's other big program expansion, as well. There is significant customer interest in the 787-10X, which will be launched this year, he says. "The cost is not high [and] the technical risk is not high" to undertake the fuselage stretch that will provide seating for about 300 passengers. "I think we are feeling very good about all of those issues."
But McNerney says there is ongoing monitoring of the stability of the 787 production system—particularly the supply chain—as it pushes production to 10 aircraft per month by year-end. Add in caution about returning to normality once recovery from the battery issue that has grounded the world's 787-8 fleet is complete. "When that all comes together—and I anticipate it sooner rather than later—we're going to be making a call" to launch, he says.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) has essentially completed engineering work on the 787-9 and remains on schedule for a first flight in the second half of this year and first delivery early next year, McNerney says.
Despite the battery drama, the rest of the 787 production flow is in its best-ever shape, says Greg Smith, executive vice president and chief financial officer. The supply chain is flowing properly and rework is no longer an issue. Current unit costs, on Line No. 100, are 60% less than in early production at Line No. 8.
"So, good progress in Everett and South Carolina," says Smith. Boeing expects to pass the program's break-even point in about two years—1.5 years after it reaches the maximum build rate of 10 per month.
But improvements are prompting a thinning of the BCA ranks. Since last October, it has cut 700 contract employees, an effort that will continue "where appropriate," says chief engineer Mike Delaney. In March, the company announced that 800 machinists will be laid off by year-end, mostly because post-production change incorporation work, which was labor intensive, is drying up on the 787 and 747-8 programs.
On April 19, BCA handed out 60-day warning notices in the first round of what are expected to be 1,500-1,700 layoffs of engineers and technical workers by year-end. A slowdown in non-recurring development work on the 747-8, 787-9 and KC-46 tanker programs is blamed.
Normally, new development absorbs workers shifting off older programs, but Delaney says launches of potential saviors, the 777X and 787-10X, will not come soon enough. Even if the aircraft were approved this summer, the time lag between program launch and hands-on work is too long to sustain the jobs, a Boeing official explains.
As of March 31, BCA employed 84,085, down nearly 670 from Dec. 31, 2012. The layoffs mark the unit's first jobs downturn since it began ramping-up production rates in 2010.
While production on the main commercial programs—737, 777 and 787—has been increasing to meet demand, 747-8 orders are in a slump and its monthly rates will be adjusted downward to 1.75 aircraft from two. First delivery at the new rate will not be until next year, but BCA is not saying just when the lower rate is to begin. Two years of a weak cargo market and a slow intake of passenger orders are hitting the 747 hard. The company received three orders in March—the first since last July. Of 110 total orders taken, 70 are for freighters.
Although the 787 battery-related groundings have kept Boeing in the headlines for three months, the company is gaining, not losing, 787 orders and its stock has risen 14% since January. Smith says the full cost to the company of the 100,000 engineering hours devoted to developing and testing the battery fix is "minor" compared to overall R&D expenditures, although he declined to put a price on it.
While first-quarter revenues were off 3% at $18.9 billion, earnings per share rose 18% to $1.44 and net income is up 20% at $1.1 billion. BCA accounts for most of that, but Boeing Defense, Space and Security saw its operating margins increase 1.3 points to 10.3% and earnings from operations rise 12% to $832 million.


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(Provencal flatbread
with olives)
Makes 5 or enough to serve 15
Fougasse, a yeast flatbread something like focaccia or pizza dough, is rolled out and sprinkled with chopped green and black olives, dried thyme, and rosemary in the French Consul General's home. Chef Etienne Jaulin bakes the bread in a 500-degree oven. It is best the same day it is made.
|Cornmeal (for dusting)
|cups warm water
|teaspoon active dry yeast
|teaspoon sugar
|tablespoons olive oil
|cups flour
|Extra flour (for sprinkling)
1. Sprinkle cornmeal on 3 large baking sheets.
2. In a large bowl, pour in the water. Sprinkle the yeast and sugar on top. Set aside for 10 minutes, or until the mixture is foamy.
3. Add the olive oil and flour to the yeast mixture. Using a wooden spoon, stir until the dough comes away from the sides of the bowl.
4. Dust a counter with flour. Turn the dough out and knead 6 minutes or until the dough is smooth.
5. Scrape out the bowl and pour a little oil into it. Add the dough and turn to coat the dough all over with oil. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside at room temperature for 2 hours.
6. Lightly compress the dough with your fingers and turn the dough onto a lightly floured counter.
7. Cut the dough into 5 triangular pieces. You will be baking 2 breads at time. Take 1 triangle and with a floured rolling pin, gently roll and stretch the dough to a triangle shape that is 8 inches on a side. Set on a baking sheet.
8. With the tip of a knife make 1 slit down the middle leaving about 2 inches at the top and 1½ inches at the bottom. Make 2 more slits on either side and gently separate the dough, creating a space between the strips of dough. Repeat with remaining dough. Cover lightly with plastic wrap and set aside for 30 minutes.
9. Set the oven at 500 degrees.
|cup pitted black olives, finely chopped
|cup pitted green olives, finely chopped
|tablespoon dried thyme leaves
|tablespoon dried rosemary leaves, crushed
|Olive oil (for brushing)
|Sea salt and pepper, to taste
1. In a bowl combine the black and green olives, thyme, and rosemary.
2. Remove the plastic wrap from the breads. Brush the tops with olive oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. With a small spoon, distribute the olive and herb mixture on top.
3. Bake the breads for 10 to 12 minutes or until the tops are golden. Transfer to wire racks to cool. Adapted from Saveur


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Martinez approves of cup switch
Everton manager Roberto Martinez believes his Wigan side were punished for reaching - and winning - the FA Cup final last season.
The Latics beat Manchester City to record a historic victory on the penultimate weekend of the campaign last May but then were relegated from the Premier League three days later with defeat in a rearranged match at Arsenal.
This season the FA Cup final has been moved back to its traditional place after the last week of the Premier League season and Martinez believes that is the correct decision, even if it came too late to help the Latics.
"The final got in the way of the final week," said the Spaniard, who is looking to win the trophy in back-to-back years with his Everton side facing Swansea at home in the fifth round on Sunday.
"Obviously you shouldn't rely on going into the final week to achieve your aim in the league.
"For any club going into the final week of the season, whatever your aim is in the league, you shouldn't get punished for playing in the FA Cup final, it should be the opposite - it should be a moment to treasure and enjoy.
"I don't think it was a really helpful issue when you had to play the FA Cup final the weekend before the final games of the season, which meant we had to play three games in the final week.
"I think that (making the final the last match of the season) is the right thing for every club involved in both competitions."
Wednesday's postponement of their league match with Crystal Palace because of high winds around Goodison Park throws up the potential for fixture congestion further down the line if the Toffees continue their cup progress.
Martinez, however, does not necessarily see that as a negative.
"While you are progressing through the fifth, sixth rounds and semi-final you build momentum and expands the squad because youngsters get an opportunity to show that they can do," he said of his experience with Wigan.
"It makes you stronger as a squad as you progress. Success in the cup can really help in the league and the other way around.
"It is just finding enough strength in the squad to face both competitions if you are going to get a fixture pile-up."
After Swansea, Everton travel to current league leaders Chelsea the following weekend but Martinez refuses to see the next fortnight as season-defining for his sixth-placed side.
"The longer you get involved in a cup competition is always a defining moment because every round you are fighting to stay in the competition," he said.
"Staying in the competition further than the fifth round is always significant but there is nothing different because we want to finish the season as strong as we can.
"It is not just doing well over the next two weeks, that is not good enough for our standards.
"The work we have done in the last eight months has got this squad ready with an incredible competition for places."
Swansea winger Nathan Dyer believes new head coach Garry Monk has already shown he shares some managerial expertise with former boss Roberto Martinez.
Monk has seen his side pick up four points from a possible six in the league since succeeding Michael Laudrup, and he has the chance to test himself against mentor Martinez on Sunday.
Martinez is widely credited with putting in place the passing philosophy which has served Swansea so well in their climb through the leagues, and Monk has readily expressed his admiration for the Spaniard and current Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers.
Dyer, 26, was signed by Martinez, who he credits with helping his career take off after leaving Southampton, and can already see signs Monk has learned from the Toffees' boss.
"Managers like Roberto and Brendan Rodgers have that man management skill which is key, it's massive for players," he said.
"There are always going to be players who are not playing and they need to believe they're still good players and it's about getting them to work for you.
"Roberto did that for me when I first came here. He made me feel that I was Cristiano Ronaldo, I was on cloud nine and worked as hard as possible.
"Garry is similar. I have played with him for so many years and he'll always say to me what my qualities are and that I should keep going.
"He made me believe in myself and I am sure he will do that for other players too."
If Swansea are to reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup at Goodison Park they will need to create history.
The Swans have never beaten Everton in their 18 previous meetings dating back to 1931.
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Ahead of Mobile World Congress, the GSMA today released new research that forecasts total global Machine-to-Machine (M2M) connections will hit a quarter of a billion this year.
The study found that global M2M connections reached 195 million in 2013, growing at nearly 40 percent per year between 2010 and 2013.
The GSMA said M2M accounted for 2.8 percent of all global mobile connections at the end of 2013, double the 1.4 percent share recorded in 2010.
"We are now living in a world where every device, machine or appliance can be wirelessly connected to the internet, providing a wealth of real-time information that can transform how people live and work," said said Hyunmi Yang, chief strategy officer for GSMA. "For mobile operators, connecting 'machines' to their networks is now a major focus area."
According to the study, around 428 mobile operators currently offer M2M services across 187 countries. That's equivalent to 40 percent of the world's mobile operators.
Operators surveyed in the report are now undertaking real commercial M2M deployments, indicating that the market has moved from an early-stage to mass-market delivery phase. Many operators also commented that they are adapting their organisational structures and business models in order to serve a range of vertical industries with M2M solutions.
According to the report, the automotive industry was one of the fastest-growing M2M markets.


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July 9, 2006 - 4:20am
Storing Fresh Bread
Hi! New member from North Central PA. I been baking bread weekley for about 2 years. My baby (as my husband calls it - sour dough starter from grapes)is a year and 2 months old As I was getting my starter going, I took it everywhere with me "even on vacation with my real kids!". Anyways, I've been looking for an informative site for baking breads and this is the one I chose to stay with. Any ideas on storing fresh bread through the week? Best way to freeze it?? Any help thanks!


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30 fps is just *not enough* to have good action and feel on most pc first person shooters.
The bulb in the projector doesn't turn on and off continuously.
of course not. my bad i didn't mention the shutter, but the effect is the same (light on and off).
The School was the Polytechnical University for Media Technology and Design in Hagenberg, Upper Austria, and while i think howstuffworks is a great resource, i'm sure what i learned there is correct.
if you check the first few paragraphs of this [grand-illusions.com], you'll see that the concept isn't new either:
For much of the 'silent' period, films were shot at
The projector does open the shutter twice for each frame to reduce the sensation of flicker.
This is the Visual Cortex adding motion blur to perceived imagery so that rather than seeing everything in great detail, we are still able to perceive the effect of motion and direction as we ride by. The imagery is smoothly flowing from one point to the next and there are no jumps or flickering to be seen. If
the eye wasn't to add this motion blur, we would get to see all of the details still but the illusion of moving imagery would be lost on us, with the brick wall sort of fading in and out to different points. It's pretty simple to test this.
This is idiotically wrong. This entire paragraph is predicated on the false assumption that our eye somehow has a "framerate" itself. (Either that, or the false assumption that our eye is basically a CCD with infinite discrimination, also wrong.) It does not. Our eye is fully analog. (Go figure.) You get motion blur because the nerves and the chemical receptors can only react so quickly, and because nerves fire as light accumlates on the
receptors. Since the receptors are moving quickly relative to the transmitting object, light rays from a given point are smeared across several cones/rods before the full processing of the image can take place. (Now, I'm simplifying because this isn't the place for a
textbook on vision, but at least I know I'm simplifying.) In fact, there's nothing the visual cortex could do to remove the motion blur coming from our eyes, because the motion blur causes actual information loss! (It can (and does) do some reconstruction, but you can't fill in details that don't exist.)
(Note in the portion I italized how he jumps from the "vision cortex" to "the eye"; the two are NOT the same and can't be lumped together like that in this context.)
This simple error renders the entire second page actively wrong.
Here's another, referring to interlacing:
Using a succession of moving images, the two refreshes per frame fool us into believing there is two frames for every one frame. With the motion blur the eye believes we are watching a smoothly flowing picture.
Uh, wrong wrong wrong. Interlacing was a cheap hack to save bandwidth. "Progressive scan" is universally considered superior to interlacing (in terms of quality alone), and many (such as myself) consider keeping interlaced video modes in HDTV to be a serious
long-term mistake. It has nothing to do with convincing you you are seeing motion, in fact it has a strongly deleterious effect because you can frequently see the "combing"; that's why TVs have "anti-comb" filters. You don't see it as "motion", you see it as wierd "tearing".
Like the TV, your Computer Monitor (if it's a Cathode Ray Tube) refreshes by drawing the screen line by line horizontally, but unlike the TV, a Monitor and Video Card doesn't add extra frames. If your screen draws at 30 fps, you will GET 30 fps.
ALSO wrong. The computer monitor and video card will pump out X frames per second, period. It has to. If the CRT is going at 60 fps and the video card (as in the 3D hardware) is only pumping at 30 fps, every frame will be shown for two CRT cycles. What else is the video card (as in the rasterizer) going to display? You'd notice if the screen were blank every other cycle!
CRT Monitors are considered 'Flicker Free' at about 72Hz for a reason, and simply put it's to compensate for the lack of motion blur, afterimages and other trickery we live with every day in TV and Films.
Wrong again. CRTs at that frequency are "flicker free" because they pass the frequency the parts of our eyes more sensitive to motion (actually the peripheral vision, not the "primary" vision we're us
This was the next big thing for 3dfx; their 'T-buffer' was designed to do things like motion blur.
The idea being, of course, that yes, thirty or sixty FPS really is all you need *so long as you get the same blurring effects you get from film/video.*
Having 200 frames per second merely means that the jump from position to position gets smaller and smaller, in effect building in motion blur.
As an example, roll a ball across a table, at a speed that it takes one second. Film that with a film camera at fi
I tried to RTFA, but I fainted mid-way during the first paragraph.
(They're all from the one paragraph introduction...)
Off the top of my head, I don't know where he's getting this "displayed twice" business. The closest thing I could think of the to that is the technique of interlacing frames used for displaying images on a TV screen. But when a series of images are interlaced, they're definitely not being displayed "twice"...more like one half at a time.
Also, motion blur is not "added" in the visual corte
I THINK MAN INVENTED THE CAR by instinct. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.


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Latos, Cueto, Leake, Arroyo, Chapman, Francis, Bailey
Francis is a fringe starting pitcher who lacks velocity on his fastball.
Chapman has had a good ST, but probably needs to work on stuff at Louisville, namely his third pitch.
Bailey continues to be erratic.
Also, with all the off days in April, does a 5th starter really matter much at this point?


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Ask Director Daniel Knight About Filming Terry Pratchett's "Troll Bridge" 35
Daniel Knight, besides being an actor, D&D fanatic, and collector of He-Man figurines, is the director of a film version of Terry Pratchett's Discworld story Troll Bridge that's been enabled by a massive Kickstarter campaign. Filming has finished (you can see some of the raw and intermediate footage linked from that story) and now all the rest of the work that goes into the finishing and releasing the movie is underway. Why this film? Knight says he "ended up acting a small role in a short film called Star Wars: Broken Allegiance. My performance was terrible. But that introduced me to the world of fan films, and I started wondering if it would be possible to do a Discworld one." The project is clearly a labor of love — it's a massive undertaking on a shoestring budget, with a tough goal: "Troll Bridge aims to be the largest scale short film in history. Using resources garnered over eight solid years of dedication, love, sweat, and tears – Troll Bridge has already begun exceeding expectations as to what should be anticipated from a short form production." The cast and crew (even the caterers) are all volunteers, but it still takes money to construct sets, create costumes, and buy time with needed equipment. Daniel has graciously agreed to answer your questions about the process; as with other Slashdot interviews, you're invited to ask as many questions as you'd like, but please ask them in separate posts.


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Friday, October 05, 2007
According to the USC site, "Smelley, a 6-2, 216-pound redshirt freshman made his just second career start on Saturday and led the Gamecocks to a 38-21 win over Mississippi State. While celebrating his 21st birthday, Smelley completed 19-of-37 passes for 279 yards and two touchdowns, all career highs."
And since his selection, the most popular t-shirt on campus is this one...
Uh, I have one question though: a 21 year old freshman? Seriously?
21 comments:
- MGoBlue93 said...
Maybe he did a tour in the Army, got his GI Bill, honorably discharged, and enrolled as USC? That may explain his age.
- October 04, 2007 12:45 AM
- srudoff said...
Ohio State's kicker, Ryan Pretorius, is a 28 yr old Junior. I think he came here late in life from South Africa after working with former NFL kicker and fellow South African Gary Anderson
on a similar note regarding players with funny names - i saw a volleyball player on espn tonight (probably the ocho) named Destinee Hooker....
- October 04, 2007 1:28 AM
- MGoBlue93 said...
HA... as an aside, Harry Colon, former Detroit Lions DB, will always be my fave messed up name.
- October 04, 2007 1:33 AM
- Dezzi said...
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- October 04, 2007 4:09 AM
- Dezzi said...
I knew a horse race jockey that was named Harry Peter... It was childishly funny, but I laughed each time.
- October 04, 2007 8:31 AM
- MonkeyWrench32 said...
You can't top former Detroit Tiger Rusty Kuntz in the name category. He was on the 1984 World Series winning team.
- October 04, 2007 8:34 AM
- Da Braylon said...
Hey Yost. I think I heard the announcer last night at the Rice game say that their true freshman QB is 23 years old!!!! WTF?
- October 04, 2007 9:04 AM
- MGoBlue93 said...
da braylon... the player from Rice played minor league baseball for four years aftr high school. When the baseball gig didn't work out, he decided to go to college.
Did you see the highlights from that game? He lined up at TE, DE, QB, and WR last night.
- October 04, 2007 9:08 AM
- Hemlock Philosopher said...
The Rice QB-RB-TE-WR-DE super-every-man was a minor league baseball player who decided to switch to football, which explains his age.
- October 04, 2007 9:09 AM
- Katie said...
You guys heard about the guy who went back to college and got on the football team right? He was a grandfather! He was also a trainer in his life, so he was in great shape. But he had said that was one of his biggest regrets in life, something about not getting to play football in college or something. Anyway, anything is possible!
- October 04, 2007 9:19 AM
- Killing My Liver said...
The WR from South Carolina was, I believe 37. Retired army that used his GI Bill. Great story.
- October 04, 2007 9:46 AM
- intellidouche said...
Dick Trickle
- October 04, 2007 9:48 AM
- Mr. Parker said...
I think he went to a pre-kindergarden. So he is a year behind everyone.
- October 04, 2007 11:59 AM
- san francisco values said...
We always liked the name Olitide Ogunfiditimi, a former Arizona LB or DL. As for aged players, I always thought your freshman year had to commence within five years of HS graduation. could be wrong.
- October 04, 2007 2:17 PM
- TitleIX said...
for old time Detroiters....nothing tops Dexter Bussey!
My mom used to ride the Dexter Bus to and from grade school
- October 04, 2007 6:10 PM
- beast in 'bama said...
I'm just so pleased that any of you were watching the Rice game. Up 31-7 going into the 4th quarter? Win 31-29. I just knew they were going to overtime and they were going to blow all of that big lead. Such is the life of a Rice Owl fan...
- October 04, 2007 7:34 PM
- MGoBlue93 said...
There was also a 40-something fella who played hockey while he was in grad school... I forget where but it was some small liberal arts school in New England. There's hope for me yet! Although, I hope that doesn't turn me into that creepy old guy hanging around campus and staring at coeds.
- October 04, 2007 9:06 PM
- Katie said...
Yeah, I am the creepy old lady hanging around campus staring at young studs....hee hee. 46 year old in doctoral school at the UofM......but seriously, these cute little things remind me of my sons (who are in college too), that is just......ewwwwww....
- October 04, 2007 9:45 PM
- MGoBlue93 said...
Good for you Katie!!! What are you studying? How much further to go?
- October 04, 2007 11:55 PM
- Katie said...
Thanks Mgoblue93 :o) I am in the nursing program. The number one best perk of being a student.......season tickets!!!!! Depending on my research, I am planning on 4-5 years to complete my degree. This is my first year.
- October 05, 2007 6:25 AM
- marynell & thomas said...
- October 05, 2007 6:42 PM