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Nokia Siemens "Phantom DSL" reaches 825 Mbps Over Copper Lines.
#Nokia Siemens Networks "#PhantomDSL" reaches 825 Mbps Over Copper Lines.http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Yes it is 825Mbps over copper, even thought it was for a mere distance of 400 M (about 1312 feet) still it would be good news for the telephony carriers. At least they will be to over come the limits listed by cable companies like Comcast. During the same test Nokia, achieved 750 Mbps over a distance of 500 Meters (about 1650 feet), which is about how far away I am from the AT&T DSLAM switch.
There are few other players playing with the Phantom DSL, Bell Labs and Assia Inc, and bay area startup planing to take DSL to Gigabit speeds.
Nokia Siemens Press Release;
Nokia Siemens Networks has successfully tested a technology that could drastically increase the data carrying capacity of standard copper wires. The company achieved data transmission speeds of 825 megabits per second (Mbps) over 400 meters of bonded copper lines and 750 Mbps over 500 meters. At these speeds, network operators could optimize existing, widely deployed copper infrastructure to provide bandwidth-intensive services for years to come.
Nokia Siemens Networks used circuits that involve the creation of a virtual - or 'phantom' - channel to supplement the two physical wires that are the standard configuration for copper transmission lines. The approach, known as Phantom DSL is also being showcased during Broadband World Forum 2010 in Paris,
October 26 - 28.
"Laying down new optical fiber to the home remains costly, though it is capable of delivering very high speeds and is a definite solution for long-term bandwidth requirements," said Eduard Scheiterer, head of broadband access business line, Nokia Siemens Networks. "However, the innovative use of technologies such as phantom circuits helps operators provide an efficient last mile connectivity with existing copper wires."
Phantom DSL promises a bandwidth increase of 50-75% over existing bonded copper lines. This prolongs the life of copper networks, delaying the need for fiber rollout and protecting operator's existing capital investments. The promised high speeds will enable a whole new range of end-user services and open up new revenue opportunities for operators. The technology could be used to test initial demand for very high bandwidth services.
Nokia Siemens Networks' Phantom DSL will become an integral part of the company's DSLAM* products hiX 562x/3x.


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BBRY: Z10 Debut at Verizon Evinces Improved Promotion
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This afternoon I swung by Verizon Communiations's (VZ) flagship store on 42nd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Manhattan to see the roll-out of retail availability of BlackBerry's (BBRY) Z10 smartphone. I had been contacted by the media firm of Verizon to come and take a look.
The store manager, Alfredo Bethune, gave me a walk-through of the phone that showed he had a good working knowledge of the Z10. He demonstrated the "Hub" feature that collects your communications in one screen, and the "Peek" gesture that lets you swipe your thumb to reveal those communications. I would say it was the kind of demo that would give an individual some idea of what's different with this device. Bethune described the capability known as "Balance," whereby the phone can securely separate work-related contents from personal contents, although the capability was not set up on the unit being demonstrated. Bethune indicated the capability would be set up in future and concurred when I expressed the view that it was important to be able to see such a feature in operation, not merely to have it described.
Some, but not all, Verizon staffers have been given Z10s, he said. Others had been given training sessions such as a Webinar.
When I asked about turnout today, Bethune said that the store had reached out to its existing BlackBerry subscriber base in the neighborhood, which includes prominent firms such as Ernst & Young and Condé Nast. "A lot of people came in today, and a lot of people bought one," said Bethune, though he declined to specify when I asked how many was a lot. As expected, the white case version of the Z10, which is only available at Verizon currently, proved to be popular, said Bethune.
The store was not filled with BlackBerry promotional materials, but at the back there was a brightly lit, large sign above a row of smartphones that showed the image of the Z10. Bethune said that earlier in the day, BlackBerry reps had set up temporary displays near the front of the store to make their presence known. Still, the store, as with most wireless stores, is dominated by a mix of large displays and signs either touting individual brands, such as Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and iPad, or talking up in a general fashion the breadth of Verizon's offerings. BlackBerry materials don't yet match this kind of in-store presence.
All in all then, it seems BlackBerry is having a better time establishing a presence at Verizon stores than was the case at AT&T (T) stores last Friday, with Verizon making the debut a priority. It seems BlackBerry needs much more in the way of in-store promotional materials. Hopefully, that will come with time, as BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heinssaid this morning the company plans to spend half again as much this quarter as it did last quarter on marketing.
BlackBerry shares today fell 12 cents, or 0.8%, to close at $14.45.
Update: Verizon's New York regional public relations representative, Esmeralda Cameron Diaz, provided the following official statement about the Z10 debut:
We are excited to launch the First 4G LTE BlackBerry in our stores today! The Blackberry 10 is the latest 4G LTE smartphone to join our lineup and it's another great choice for our customers who will be able to choose the Blackberry Z10 in the colors of Black or White, with White being a Verizon Wireless exclusive! We're also excited that our customers who purchase this new smartphone will be able to experience the lighting speed of our 4G LTE network which is the largest and most reliable network in the country!

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Myspace Masterpieces: Memoirs of A Yeast Infection
Yesterday I wrote about the current Amber Alert for my missing creativity and its fraternal twin Ambition, and it spawned a little idea for the blog. Why not utilize other people's creativity and/or stupidity for our own entertainment through the easily-accessible, public means of MySpace blogs? So, all you electronically networked readers, start forwarding the wild and crazy MySpace blogs you read while you're bored at work. email@example.com is always open for business.
Here's the debut blog – not responsible for the continuous misspellings of prescription and hygiene as well as the chronic homophone misuse- isle instead of aisle.
Author's Vitals:
Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 27
Title: I have a YEAST INFECTION
Confused about the subject title? Think it's for shock value? No . . . I really do have a yeast infection!
For the past 3 months or so, I've had a strange irritation on my chest below my right pectoral. I thought it was a rash, or an allergic reaction, so I applied steroid cream to it. After a few months of this, it only seemed to be making the condition worse. I went to the doctor today in fear that this growth might completely cover my body and eat me alive, and he stated that I have a skin fungus. I thought, "cool, it'll be easy to get rid of it. Thank God it's not some rare skin eating bacteria or ebola or something." He proceeded to write me a perscription for "Miconazole." (ladies, you already know where this is going).
Upon arriving to the pharmacy, I handed the woman behind the counter my perscription. She looks at me funny as if I was about to give her a punch line, then after an uncomfortable moment of silence, she says "I'll be right back." She goes over to what appears to be the "head pharmacist" and proceeds to point at me. She returns saying "it's an over the counter drug" and points in the general direction of all the over the counter drug isles. So, I head over to the isle with the cortizone and cortizade itching cream, but "miconazole" is nowhere to be found. I ask the pharmacist again, which isle? She says check in the foot section (makes sense, fungus and feet). So I check in the foot isle . . . no "miconazole." Upon returning the pharmacist one last time, she says "Check the feminine hygene section." I said, "feminine hygene?!?" So she escorts me over to the feminine hygene section and hands me a box of Monistat (or otherwise stated on the box:
"yeast infection relief
nitrate vaginal cream
Vaginal antifungal
cures most vaginal yeast infections
+ external vulvar cream")
I stared at her, then back at the box, and back at her. She shrugs her shoulders silently, smirks and walks away back to her pharmacist batcave. I stared at the box, then back at my percription. Miconazole. It says it both on the box and on my percription. After a few minutes of deciding whether or not the doctor was making a mockery of me for the delight of his coworkers, I got it just in case. Upon purchasing the "miconazole" the asian cashier at the front of the store seemed to be pretty confused and failed to look at me.
So, after talking to my doctor, it turns out my exgirlfriend gave me a yeast infection . . . ON MY CHEST!! How it's possible, I don't know. Just a lingering side effect of my ex girlfriend. A departing gift I suppose. So, I'm gunna go apply some monistat yeast infection relief vaginal antifungal cream on my CHEST! What did you guys do tonight? HA


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Nuts & Bolts - March 2014Posted in How To: Tech Qa on February 3, 2014
Towing Flat
Q: I closely read the Dec. '13 Nuts & Bolts column about tying down a tow vehicle, as I have been searching for a trailer for my '76 Toyota FJ-40 for quite a while. But then I realized I need another trailer like I need a hole in my head. My problem is that all my trailers are for my masonry business and seem to never get unloaded for other things. Then I saw the "Splitting the Atom" article with a fine picture of an FJ with a tow bar. I know very little about using these tow bars and the pros or cons of them. I have an '05 Cummins, so the tow vehicle is not a problem. I mainly would like to tow my rig up to my cabin 70 miles one way on weekends to use for coyote hunting. School me on this subject if you would.
Phil Kendall
Shiocton, WI
A: Tow bars and flat towing have been around for a very long time. Lots of people do it every day, often behind motorhomes. It's an efficient way to get a vehicle from one place to another because you don't have to mess with loading and unloading the vehicle from a trailer and you're not lugging around the extra weight of the trailer itself. However, flat-towing does take a bit of preparation and extra equipment on your rig.
The first thing you'll need is a tow bar, and they come in a bewildering number of shapes and sizes. Most of the ones you see these days cater to retirees and their motorhome "dinghies" and have all sorts of features like being collapsible. All you really need is a basic tow bar and the brackets to attach it to the bumper. Fortunately the bumper on an FJ is usually flat and strong enough to tow with, so basic angle brackets should be all you need to make a secure connection. Stick to a reputable name-brand tow bar manufacturer, and be sure to use quality hardware to attach the tow bar to the front of your FJ-40. Don't forget the safety chains, which are required to make a legal connection to any towed vehicle, whether it's a trailer or a 4x4.
Next up is wiring. You will need to either wire a pigtail into your FJ taillights so that they'll work when connected to the trailer plug on your truck, or you'll need some magnetic taillights that you can mount on the Toyota when it's being towed. Wiring a pigtail into the factory taillights is a much cleaner and easier option in the long run. All you need is a universal flat-four trailer harness (available at any parts store) and some diodes to splice into the Toyota's taillight harness. Diodes are basically one-way valves for electricity, and they're necessary to prevent the tow vehicle's stop/turn/park circuits from backfeeding into the Toyota's wiring and causing problems. These diodes are available at any store that specializes in RVs and are inexpensive. It will be up to you to identify each of the circuits you need to tap into on the Toyota, but there should be some instructions with the diodes, and the whole procedure is pretty straightforward.
Now we can turn to the mechanical stuff. You didn't mention what drivetrain is in the vehicle, but we'll assume stock axles and transfer case. If the vehicle is equipped with a locking steering column, you'll need to make absolutely sure it's unlocked when you flat-tow. This can be done by simply using a spare key and clicking the ignition switch to the position where the column is unlocked but not turning on any power to other vehicle systems or accessories. Unlocking the column is necessary so that the front tires will follow the truck when turning; if you forget to unlock the column, you'll know fairly quickly when the front tires on the towed vehicle start squealing around the first corner.
Perhaps most important of all is figuring out what gear you need to position the transmission or transfer case in when towing. Because the tires of your FJ will be rotating when flat-towed, they will also be driving the axles, driveshafts, and transfer case. The answer to the transfer case/transmission question varies from vehicle to vehicle, but it's a critical because getting it wrong can cause oil starvation to vital moving components and major drivetrain carnage. For newer vehicles, I recommend consulting the factory service manual or even contacting a dealer. Since that's not really a good option in your case, we turned to the Toyota transfer case experts at Marlin Crawler (www.marlincrawler.com). A representative there said that the safest bet is to unbolt the driveshaft from the rear axle and use a bungee cord to tie it up and out of the way. While placing the transmission and transfer case in neutral would not theoretically cause any damage in your case, Marlin Crawler says that flat towing tends to be hard on transfer cases, and since the driveshaft is held on by just four bolts, it's the safest bet. I agree. I've heard a few horror stories of something going wrong while flat towing and taking out the entire drivetrain of a vehicle. The 10 minutes it takes to unbolt the driveline are worth it when you consider the potential consequences.
One last thing is to observe the behavior of your FJ the first few times you flat-tow it. If it sways back and forth or wants to lock the front tires in one direction when going around a corner, most likely there a caster problem that needs to be addressed. You should also be sure that the tires are all at the same pressure and that the steering components and kingpin bearings are all up to snuff. Sometimes adjusting the toe slightly in or out can calm down a fidgety flat-towed rig. Don't forget that because your towed vehicle is touching the ground when flat towing, it must be properly registered just like any trailer in most states.
Bump It
Q: I have an '03 Ford F-250 4x4 with a 3-inch suspension lift and 315/75R16 tires. The question I had was regarding extending the bumpstops and how much to extend them. I like the idea of a low center of gravity while still running a decently tall tire, so I don't want to lift it anymore. The truck sees moderate trail wheeling and is not a rockcrawler obviously, but I would like to maximize trail performance. I have seen guys extend their bumpstops down until they are very close to touching, or should I just extend them 3 inches to match the lift?
Duane McHenry
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A: Conservative lifts with big tires are a popular trend right now, and I wholeheartedly approve! Sticking with a mild lift kit has all kinds of advantages, including easier vehicle entry and egress, better ride and handling, and less complicated lift modifications.
You are right to be concerned about the bumpstops, however, even with the relatively mild lift on your truck. It has always been a pet peeve of mine that lift kit companies often don't address bumpstop clearance with their lift kits, whether it's replacing the factory bumpstops with longer ones or simply relocating the existing ones to work effectively with the amount of lift in question. It leaves the suspension unfinished and customers such as you scratching their head. Addressing the bumpstops is one of the indicators of a quality lift kit, and it's exactly the kind of stuff I look for when comparing one lift kit to another.
Bumpstops serve two functions: They keep tires from contacting fenders under suspension compression, and they serve as a cushion to slow down the suspension as it reaches the limit of its compression travel. In some suspension designs they take an even more active role and almost act like a supplemental spring, but on your truck they're pretty straightforward. A lift will increase the distance between the bumpstops and their landing pads, which means the suspension has to travel farther before the bumpstop becomes effective. If you've added larger tires to match the lift height, it can mean wrinkled sheetmetal if the bumpstops are left in factory configuration.
There are a couple of different ways you can address the bumpstops on your truck. As you mentioned, you could simply lower the factory ones on the frame the same amount as your lift via simple spacer brackets and call it a day. Or you could install extended aftermarket bumpstops. If you want to be a little more scientific about it, however, you can figure out exactly how much to move the bumpstops by cycling the suspension in a controlled environment. To do this, you'll need a ramp (loading docks are often handy for this depending on their design) or a similar type of terrain that will allow you to flex the suspension a little bit at a time. Forklifts work great for this if you have access to one. Flex out the suspension until either the tires are about to make contact with fenders or the suspension has reached the limit of its uptravel and things are starting to bind up. With the truck flexed out, measure the distance between the end of the bump top and its landing pad. Voilà! You have the measurement you need to make the bumpstops work with your specific vehicle, lift, tire, and wheel combination.
As you make your calculations, don't forget to take into account that the bumpstop will compress somewhat depending on the material it's made out of, and that you may need a little more room for the front tires when they're turned. Universal and application-specific aftermarket bumpstops are widely available, but we're a fan of using the factory ones if they're made out of rubber or microcellular foam. Foam bumpstops are especially desirable because they're very progressive (they get firmer as they compress) and they can withstand impacts for a long time without degrading.
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Q: I'm swapping a late-model fuel-injected engine in my truck, but I'm not sure where I should place the computer. Should I put it somewhere that will keep it protected from the elements, such as inside the cab, or is it OK to put it under the hood? I've done a lot of searching, but there's not really a clear answer.
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A: Where you need to put the computer depends a lot on the computer itself. While you are somewhat limited by the length of the harness you're using, the determining factor is whether or not the computer is weatherproof. If the computer doesn't appear to have a sealed case, such as the computers used with TBI Chevys, then it should be placed in the safest place possible. Usually this means inside the cab, but if you have an open-air vehicle like a Jeep, then we'd recommend putting it up high somewhere under the cowl or in the center console. This will keep it protected from the elements and reduce the chance of its taking a dip if you decide to dive off in a big mud hole one day.
Conversely, if the computer case appears to be well sealed and the connectors have O-rings as well as other weatherproofing features built in, like late-model Chevy LS computers, then under the hood is just fine. While mounting the computer to the bottom of the oil pan probably isn't a good idea, anywhere reasonably high on the firewall would be fine.
We like to use the donor vehicle's computer location as a rule of thumb. If the original location was inside somewhere, then that's where you should put it on your rig. If it's under the hood, then anywhere in the engine compartment would work. In underhood situations, I still recommend a location that's going to be reasonably clean and dry. Avoid if possible mounting it in a location where it's going to be subject to heavy spray from the front tires or down low where it could be submerged.
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Lit to the gills on the 12, got a couple of [shadow=red]little[/shadow] boosts in for you guys as well-- Ollie knows the kind I mean. Fully inverted UFO weighing in at a svelte 260! Gotta' love power like that.
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russellp needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 312 designs submitted by 79 freelance designers.
Looking for a clean, professional (but fun), and catchy logo for a literature resources site aimed mostly at students.
Literature.com will be a resource site mostly targeted at students or people in the academic field, along with people interested in literature as a hobby.
It will contain online versions of classic books, poetry, and various other forms of literature. The site will provide study guides, discussion forums, and other interactive features to help people learn and enjoy literature.
I will try my best to provide feedback to all entries that recieve 3 or more stars. If it receives below 3, that means it is not really what we are looking for.
- Fun and catchy logo
- Contains "Literature.com" (L may be lowercase if you wish)
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L. C. (Candy) Revis
L.C. (Candy) Revis, 90, of Benton died Wednesday, Jan. 9. He was born March 11, 1922, in Scott. L.C. was retired from Reynolds Mining.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Sam and Mattie Wright Revis; wife Vera Mae Revis; four brothers; and two sisters.
He is survived by his son, Jerry Revis of Alexander; daughters Janis Stith and Lynda Shelton, both of Benton; five grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday, Jan 14, at Ashby Funeral Home Chapel, with burial to follow at Lee Cemetery.
Visitation will be held 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, at Ashby's.
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Zombies invade the UK! A new TV show!!!
It was only a matter of time before zombie shows started popping up in places other than AMC.
In a few weeks, the BBC will debut In The Flesh, a zombie show with a twist. Set in the aftermath of a zombie outbreak in the U.K., the series will follow Kieren (Luke Newberry), a dead teenager who was resurrected as a zombie and has since been rehabilitated somehow by the British government (they apparently call his condition "Partially Deceased Syndrome"). As Kieren attempts to re-enter society (while surrounded by people whose friends and relatives he just ate), he continues to struggle with the old urges that come with being a shambling undead cannibal.
Check out the trailer below. The show is set to debut on BBC Three starting Sunday, March 17. No word on when (or if) it'll hit the States.
Personally I am excited. The British produced one of my favorite Zombie mini-series ever, Dead Set, so I shall watch this.


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This week we have a 2006 Nidecker Angel 152 up for grabs. Board features sandwich construction, full wood core and an Isospeed 4400 base. All ladies report to TWS and send in your best riding shots, include your name and where the photo was taken. Send photos to firstname.lastname@example.com right now. Best photo wins. Deadline is Friday June 9th.
Last weeks winner for the best slam was James Sievers from Garrison, New York, for completely destroying himself on a backside 270 front lip attempt on a down flat down. Watch the video he so graciously sent in and be all like "Oh my god! The Runner-ups lovingly dubbed the Big Almosts photos are linked up in a slideshow as well.
For his tribulations, James won a World Wide Weapon from K2. The WWW is one of K2's most popular team boards, built for handling the rails and the jumps that the kids love so much. The board has a shorter nose and tail combined with a longer effective edge, allowing you to drop about 5cm in board size, i.e. the 147 we sent off should ride like a 152 with the maneuverability of a board 5 cm it's junior.


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If all went well, you've got the combine parked and you're already well on your way to planning 2014, which can include lining up key educational meetings to attend or perusing your data with your trusted agronomist. One key area ahead is sitting down with your tax planner to minimize that bill - no reason to pay more in that you need to, even as all levels of government scramble for income sources.
Last week, I mentioned the Section 179 depreciation, which requires that you take delivery of the purchased item at your place of business before year end. Time is running out there. But tax planning is more than about buying new gear to cut your bill. Word came out of the Wall Street Journal recently that Congress is moving slow with renewal of popular tax provision, and while they MAY be renewed in 2014, there's no word on them now. That doesn't bode well for a surprise reinstatement of Section 179 - though with this Congress anything can happen.
With USDA reporting another solid income year for farmers, that means you've got cash on hand that's taxable. Time spent with an ag-focused accountant can help you legally reduce that burden as low as possible. Of course, having income to be taxed is a good thing, and the last few years I'm sure there a few you you dear readers who are not happy over your tax bills.
Long run is that given the potential reduced income ahead, planning now could help. Deferring income into 2014 may make sense (again, that's for your accountant to say). Maximizing Section 179 might make sense, if you have the debt capacity.
The last five years have been an opportunity for crop farmers and a challenge for livestock producers, but each of you has stuck with it and many have done it by thinking creatively. As you look ahead to 2014, managing the tax bill is important too.
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A winner was selected from 299 designs submitted by 45 freelance designers.
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Champions English is going to be a sports based English language course. We are going to focus on a few sports so the logo doesn't have to represent a particular discipline as such.
People who don't speak English who are into sports and want to improve their sport skills or level of English
Looking for something like a medal, cup, trophy, wreath, or something else that denotes sporting achievement without focussing on a particular sport
Needs to look fresh and modern, dynamic and professional. No clipart or difficult to read fonts/gradients please.
I'm open to suggestions and ideas on this one in terms of concept and colours, I'll give as much feedback as I can...
On a personal note, I don't really like when designs are on a gradient background, it makes it harder to visualise on a solid colour background but if you have templates that present it like this already that's ok.
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RECORD: [Darwin, C. R.] 1856-7. [Announcement of the award of a Royal Medal to Sir John Richardson.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 8: 257-8.
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Your Council have awarded one of the Royal Medals to Sir John Richardson.1 His claims to that honour as a most distinguished naturalist and scientific traveller, will I am sure be generally admitted. Sir J. Richardson's earliest work on Zoology appeared about the year 1823, but his first great work was published in 1829, namely the 'Fauna Boreali-Americana,'2 in which he has described the Quadrupeds and Fishes of the Arctic Regions, and with Mr. Swainson's3 aid, the Birds; the merits of this work, in the very accurate descriptions of the species, in the great amount of information on their habits and ranges, are admitted to be of the highest order. Since that period Sir J. Richardson has published largely on various branches of zoology, physical geography, and meteorology. His Reports to the British Association, on the Fishes of New Zealand and of China, are extremely interesting under many points of view. Another Report to the same body on the General Zoology of North America, is a most valuable contribution to science. His later works, which here must be more particularly considered, are the 'Zoology of the Voyages of the Terror and of the Herald,'4 in which he has described the Fishes and Reptiles collected during those expeditions, and given an account of some of the great extinct mammifers of the Arctic countries, with very interesting observations on their ancient relations and ranges. He has also lately contributed to the Geolo-
1 John Richardson (1787-1865), arctic explorer and naturalist. Darwin, as a member of the Council, nominated Richardson for a Royal Medal and wrote this announcement of the award. See Correspondence vol. 6, p. 86.
3 William Swainson (1789-1855), naturalist and illustrator.
4 Richardson 1844-1875 and 1852.
gical Journal a valuable paper, in which he has made known the presence of tertiary strata abounding with vegetable remains, in districts now rendered sterile by the extreme cold. Altogether I think there can be no doubt that the merits of Sir John Richardson, as a philosophical naturalist, are of a very high order.
It is not within our province to reward his other claims to distinction; but all will rejoice, that in the conscientious discharge of a delicate and important duty, the Council have been able to bestow a Medal on one, who has earned the applause of all who have watched his career, for his patient endurance and fortitude under incredible hardships in his first Arctic Expedition in company with Franklin, and again for his chivalrous self-devotion in the cause of friendship and science combined, at a period of life when most men resolve to rest from their labours, or at least would hesitate to encounter the fatigues and dangers of a Polar Expedition, the anticipation of which must have been more appalling to one, who had bitter experience of their painful reality.
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Personal Archiving
As a cinephile who spends considerable time on the Internet, I accumulate, without realizing it, a staggering number of bookmarks. (I discovered recently that I've filed away over 2500 links in the last 2 years!) I manage to read only a small fraction of the pieces I bookmark, so I've always longed for a good archiving tool that would allow me to call up and work with this material efficiently.
Of late I've been using a free service called Diigo to build an archive of bookmarks, and have been appreciating its convenience and its features. Diigo is what they call a "cloud-based database management system". It allows you to store all your bookmarks on the web (and off your computer). You can tag them anyway you like, and you can even "highlight" passages that you find particularly important or worthy. I've begun to chip away slowly at archiving (or disposing of) those 2500 links in the past few weeks.
In the last few months, I've begun another process of archiving: I've been recording, in a personal film journal, a couple of pages of notes and thoughts about every single film I see, within 24 hours of seeing it.
I'm shocked by the discrepancy between how forcefully a film and its elements can sometimes register with me immediately after I've seen it, and how quickly these impressions (so vivid and strong the day of the viewing) can evaporate from memory. Flipping through my journal today, my eyes randomly alight on a note I made a few weeks ago: that two Italian films of the early 1960s, Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto and Mario Monicelli's The Organizer, both begin with rural Italian mothers rousing their teenage sons from sleep very early in the morning because the world of work calls. It turns out that by chance, the two films contain several correspondences, alignments and oppositions which struck me only because I happened to watch them back to back one evening by coincidence. If I had not made note of these details, I honestly know that I would have little memory of them today. This is more than disconcerting: I find this aspect of the film experience — a movement from strong registration and impact to fogginess and oblivion in just a few days or weeks — to be positively frightening. I suppose that recording and archiving my immediate impressions is a small gesture against this terrifying ephemerality.
I would love to hear from cinephiles about personal archiving practices — both traditional (paper) and online. What kinds of material do you archive? Do you have any system or regimen for recording and storing cinema-related materials, e.g. a personal journal? How do you manage the incredible amount of material that a cinephile encounters — especially in this Internet/DVD era? I'm curious to hear your thoughts and accounts.
-- David Hudson rounds up the Cannes award winners.
-- Kevin Lee has made a short video of Jonathan Rosenbaum speaking about Satantango, one the films on his Sight & Sound list of greatest films.
-- Catherine Grant posts a tribute to recently deceased film scholar Paul Willemen; and a collection of Antonioni links to mark the centenary of the filmmaker's birth.
-- Nicole Brenez's essay "Ultra-Modern: Jean Epstein, or Cinema "Serving the Forces of Transgression and Revolt"" in the recent collection published by Amsterdam University Press has now appeared at MUBI. An Epstein retrospective starts up soon at Anthology Film Archives.
-- Brooklyn-based Punctum Books has released a new "small book" by the filmmaker Milcho Manchevski called Truth and Fiction: Notes on (Exceptional) Faith in Art, with an afterword by Adrian Martin. The book is available for free download and for purchase at this page. Adrian himself has a book coming out soon in the same series; it's titled Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez.
-- At the blog Beyond the Canon, an international group of cinephiles and critics lists films that deserve wider attention. (Lots of obscure and interesting titles here.)
-- I revisited an old post by Miriam Bale at MUBI on Resnais, Rivette and games; and a Matthew Flanagan post that excerpts from interviews with James M. Cain, Thomas Bernhard and Godard.
-- Jaime Christley has a post comparing Netflix and Hulu streaming services, ending with an informative list of movies available to stream at Netflix.
-- The Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo has died. (I'm reminded by Aaron Gerow that he was also a film historian and the author of several books on Japanese cinema.)
-- The late Carlos Fuentes on Buñuel's The Milky Way.
-- Just discovered that the great film scholar Francesco Casetti has a website.
-- There are several articles from back issues of the Canadian film journal CineAction available to read online, including Peter Harcourt's "Analogical Thinking: Organizational Strategies Within the Films of Jean-Luc Godard".
-- Michael Koresky is writing a weekly blog column called Here & Now & Then.
-- At the Frieze blog: "Who Do You Write For? A Survey of Art Critics in the Media".
-- Patrick Keiller has curated an exhibit called "The Robinson Institute" at the Tate Gallery.
-- Imogen Smith on Erich von Stroheim at Alt Screen.
-- Dennis Lim rounding up Cannes at Artforum: "All told it was hard not to read the jury's conclusions as polemical. In picking Haneke's Amour over Carax's amour fou, Moretti and company opted for an allegory of the death of the art film (and its audience) over a glimpse of its possible future reanimation. Maybe this isn't such a bad fate for Carax, a cinéaste maudit in his youth and clearly no more assimilable in middle age. He gave no interviews in Cannes and, at his press conference, was asked one inane question after another about the meaning of his film and the wisdom of making something so strange for a movie-going public. With one terse, haunting response he captured the moribund gloom of this year's festival: "I don't know who is the public. All I know is it's a bunch of people who will be dead very soon.""
-- J. Hoberman on 16 mm: "The colors in 16mm movies are denser and more concentrated while black and white 16mm seems more ethereal (yet at the same time, rawer and more material). There's a sense in which 16mm, which is naturally more impressionistic or even pointillist than 35mm, photographs atmosphere. The pronounced film grain makes the image softer and more forgiving—not only of faces but mistakes which, as retakes are limited, cannot but be accepted."
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For the present day (Feb 29th, 2008) HP LoadRunner 9.1 (9.10) is not published yet for downloading.
So, we have to wait for HP LoadRunner 9.1 (9.10) release or beta announcement...
Well, what's new in the future LoadRunner?
Please, see excerpts from HP LoadRunner 9.1 'What's new' file:
- Version 9.1 expands support for Web 2.0 applications by adding protocol support for Adobe's popular AMF flash. This, alongside existing support for AJAX makes LoadRunner the solution of choice for Web 2.0 performance validation.
- In addition, LoadRunner 9.1 has enhanced testing capabilities for SOA and web services, as well as improved reporting for SOA performance metrics.
- Version 9.1 also adds support for Microsoft RDP, Vista, and VMWare powered platforms.
Features are very interesting and appetizing! :)
When I have a possibility to download LoadRunner 9.1 (9.10) and evaluate it, I'ii share my impressions, dear readers.
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Apple's iPad Mini With IGZO 7.85 Display For $200-$300 Arriving In Summer
With Apple there are always rumors before the release of every new product or occurence of any event. This time it is for iPad Mini. It has been rumored that since Google has launched a 7 inch Nexu7 tablet to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire, its seems pretty reasonable that Apple might launch one too. To gain more control over tablet market, Apple might launch a mini iPad version to attract those consumers who are willing to spend less on a tablet.
MyDrivers.com has confirmed that Apple will indeed launch a 7.85 inch iPad later this year with a IGZO Display - Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide that will give a thinner and brighter display. The thinkness of the mini iPad is likely to be of the same thinkness as iPad 2 and the new iPad. Earlier, it was rumored that Apple would be using these IGZO displyas in The New iPad3 but apprently these were not ready by that time.
Digitimes also reports that Apple might replac the current iPad display with IGZO but have considered that the news to be unreliable. Don't put your hope on this one until you hear more about it. If at all Apple launches an iPad with smaller display, will it be supporting GSM carrier ? Nothing can be said right now and even if its going to be a GSM iPad then its very likely to be locked on specific carriers like AT&T.
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Customer self-service can make small companies seem bigger, and big companies more personal.
Amid the wreckage of countless failed CRM rollouts, a bright spot is emerging. Companies that grossly underestimated, by orders of magnitude, the cost, complexity and wrenching change required to realize the benefits promised by CRM, are finding one aspect of the plan that actually works: customer self-service. By 2010, Gartner Inc. projects that self-service interactions will account for 58 percent of all service interactions, up from 35 percent in 2005. The self-service trend is real, and getting more real all the time.
According to Elizabeth Herrell, a Forrester Inc. vice president, self-service applications are now "an essential component of any CRM strategy. Customers are demanding it as a choice. They want to be able to interact with a company using self-service, assisted service, or a combination of the two." And, she adds, companies need self-service to remain competitive: "While many customers may prefer them, fully assisted services are the most expensive services to provide, and they really aren't necessary for many basic interactions," Herrell says.
Utility Service Company Inc., based in Perry, Ga., services and maintains the large water storage tanks that dot the U.S. landscape from coast to coast. The 300-employee firm has over 4,000 customers, including municipalities and industrial firms. In 2005, USCI launched a customer self-service portal, dubbed Util-Link, "to differentiate us from our competitors," according to IT director David Alkhazraji. "During the sales cycle, some of the largest customers, those with 500 or 600 tanks in their systems, expressed concern about our ability to satisfy their 'large-company requirements' for updated account and asset-management information, online bill payment and the like. So we initially sold the portal as a concept to address that concern," he says.
Alkhazraji cites American Water Co., USCI's largest customer, as an example. "American Water wanted to make sure we could provide transparency and accountability, especially with respect to billing," he explains. The company also wanted access to information about tank maintenance to continually manage its budget and monitor cash flow. USCI now provides those capabilities, along with many others, over Util-Link, which is free and available 24/7. Customers can access all components of their accounts and pay bills online. They can access Web sites that discuss water quality or provide Environmental Protection Agency information, and download "asset detail reports" used for internal auditing purposes. They can also place requests for service and check the status of work in progress, due to tight integration between the customer portal and USCI's backend systems.
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Babylon Arts Council applauds local filmmaker
The Babylon Arts Council (BACCA) announced that local film-maker Stephen Frederick has achieved recognition as a finalist in the I Love NY Short Film Competition. Frederick, an Amityville resident, is a freelance graphic artist and filmmaker.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
"The M.S. Conspiracy"
A HoseMaster of Wine Pulp Fiction Classic
Chapter 4 Some Look Better--Dead
It seems like I'm always the dick that gets caught in the zipper. I'm alone in a ritzy hotel room with a sexy brunette who's deader than a Matt Kramer opinion and the Chief of Police walks in. She doesn't say anything at first, she's just surveying the room, taking it all in, like I wished Lorna had. My head was still pounding and I kept hearing a high-pitched noise that sounded like Julia Child having an orgasm. I knew enough not to talk or move until Chief Jokes was done checking out the crime scene. Besides, I love Chief Jokes, I always have. I just wanted to watch her for a while.
Jessica Jokes and I had gone to high school together, so, of course, I'm quite a bit older. Jessica had always been an overachiever. She had been Head Cheerleader, Prom Queen, Valedictorian, and a semi-professional sword swallower. She'd started out on pocket knives and worked her way up. I'd been in love with her since the eleventh grade, but she wouldn't give me the time of day.
"Hey, Jessica," I said when I thought she was done eyeballing Lorna, "you have any idea what time it is?"
"None of your fucking business." See.
Jessica gave me a contemptuous glance, and then slowly walked over to where Lorna lay on the cushy Les Mars mattress. Jessica flipped back the bedspread, squatted down, the pants of her cop uniform clinging tightly to her pear-shaped buttocks like Saran Wrap on a new French oak barrel, and examined the mattress tag. "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law," she read out loud. "Well, at least they weren't scofflaws."
"Did you happen to see a really ugly midget leaving the hotel when you arrived, Chief?"
"I'm going to ask the questions here, HoseMaster. What the hell are you doing in Les Mars Hotel with a dead M.S. candidate?" Just like high school, Jessica had done her homework. Though it turned out the hotel was filled to capacity with candidates for M.S., the exams were coming up. Where did these morons get the money to stay at Les Mars? This whole thing was starting to stink. Or else someone's intestinal cuvee was having sulfur issues, and it wasn't the Prom Queen with a badge.
"So you don't think I killed her?"
"You?" she said scornfully. "You can see that someone broke her neck, and a wimp like you can barely unscrew a Stelvin much less unscrew a woman's neck."
"OK, you're close. But I wasn't trying to unscrew her." The patter was getting a little snappy for my taste, like it had been written by some amateur comedy writer.
"You didn't answer my question, Hoseapoppin.' What are you doing with her, who is she and what the hell did you have for lunch?"
So I told Jessica the whole story, beginning with Veronica and ending with the ugly midget, exit stage left. Jessica seemed intrigued by the midget, thought he might be an ex-cop in a small town, but then she remembered this was a murder investigation. She had called Healdsburg Forensics, which was a winery lab rat with a tape measure, a bad yeast infection and a refractometer. Lorna was dead at 17 Brix. Not very sweet.
"So," Jessica mused, "give me one good reason why I shouldn't arrest you, Hosescum."
The thought of her putting me in handcuffs got me kind of hot and didn't help my sulfur emergency, but I needed Veronica's money, I wanted to find Fugly, and whoever had hit me on my Melon I wanted to kick square in the Baga. "Because, Chief Jokes, this case is somehow about wine, about the thugs at the M.S. Society, and I know a lot about wine and you don't. You're going to need me. I can get to these guys, I know how they think, I know how they take advantage of the young people who come to them, I know how they make shit up about wine in order to steal their money. And Veronica is somehow part of this and she trusts me. You know I'm not leaving town, I'll be around if you want to arrest me later. Just give me some time."
"Bite me, Hosebanger."
"Not give me the time, give me some time. Sheesh. To work on this case." Man, she'd become hardnosed since she'd become Chief of Police. Her nose was harder than a Dunn Howell Mountain Cabernet. I could see the gears working as she thought about letting me go. She knew I was right, but she didn't want to admit it.
"So, if the midget didn't snap her neck, and my little Hosepussy didn't snap the victim's neck, who did?"
I finally got up from the floor of the Les Mars hotel room, my cheap suit covered in "Service Animal" fur and the stink of money. I walked over to take one last look at Lorna, shoving aside the Forensics guy, who for some reason had his pruning shears out, looked down at her young, beautiful, deathly still face, a face that had puckered and spit more times than a Congressional page, a face that had turned more than a few heads and ended up with a turned head of its own, and oddly, she looked more beautiful than when I had met her in the Healdsburg Square. But, then, I'd learned, some look better dead. I swore that I'd find the midget, whoever had murdered Lorna and the sonofabitch who clobbered my Melon.
"I don't know who killed her, Chief, but I do know one thing."
"Yeah, what's that?"
"Your ass got a lot bigger since high school."
4 comments:
- Marcia Macomber said...
Dear HMW:
Why do I get the feeling we'll be hearing more about the chief's 'semi-professional sword swallower' career in a later chapter?...
Seems you've created a new genre: wine blog noir.
- October 26, 2009 at 8:07 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Jessica Jokes sounds like my kind of girl, gotta love a lippy chick with nice curves right? Sounds like you may have met your match there Mr. HoseMaster Sir.
- October 26, 2009 at 7:00 PM
- Charlie Olken said...
I'm laughing out loud. If this were Twitter, I would be LOL, but you know me, I don't like computer birds. Or dead ones, if it comes to that.
- October 26, 2009 at 9:56 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hey Marcia Baby,
You're a mind reader--not easy when mine's fairly blank.
My Gorgeous Samantha,
Don't confuse me with the fictional HoseMaster. He may have met his match in Jessica. I met my match when I met you.
I adore you
Hey Puff Daddy,
Glad somebody's laughing. But what's wrong with dead birds. Thanksgiving is coming!
- October 27, 2009 at 6:58 PM


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ChrisV wrote:[b] (But another one of PWG's problems is that the title belts are hot potatoes. Seriously, how many teams held the tag titles this year in PWG?)
Mac Machine wrote:IHOP! The infamous IHOP!
Dude really, for anyone that bitches about anything like the intros....go to the live shows, they edit them there. I used to not like the idea. But, now, I love how the live shows have the extra added flare and everyone watching the DVD's get shortchanged.
Live Shows > DVD's
ChrisV wrote:I'm not sure why SoCalAndy chooses to call them "pointless criticisms."
ChrisV wrote:They are indeed, valid criticisms, and I know many wrestling fans who have the same issues I do. They wish the music was on the releases (and again, I understand why PWG cuts it), and they wish the commentary was better.
ChrisV wrote:You talk about the "charm" of PWG commentary. Well, I am not alone in choosing to never listen to PWG commentary, that distracts from the show. (And that's why I have no problem purchasing a tape that doesn't even have the option of commentary.) Excalibur & Disco Machine would rather tell random jokes than tell us why Wrestler A is fighting Wrestler B, and what led to this fight.
ChrisV wrote:I think my critique on title changes also is not a "pointless criticism." I've seen about half of the PWG shows available from 2005, and it seems like the titles are constantly changing hands. From June through October, four different teams were tag champs!
Rish To The Rosh wrote:The only time entrance music would add to something would be when someone making a surprise appearance is about to come out. Take Uncanny X-Mas with Daniels/Stradlin. Paul T just said "Hit The Music" and then Chris Daniels was in the ring. Showing his entrance would have made the moment so much better.
Still, that's the ONLY time I can think of in PWG that entrance music would have added to something.
ChrisV wrote:
SoCalAndy... obviously, I am not alone in my 'pointless criticism' of PWG shows... that tells me many people agree with me about the commentary... whether you think it's a valid concern or not.
What do you say to people who don't think PWG is funny, and watch your DVD
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Proclaimed the "sexiest job of the 21st Century," by Harvard Business Review, fledgling data scientists may soon need to show they know how to apply what they're learning before hordes of additional students flood the field. That's exactly what four students at the University of Albany College of Computing and Information did when they undertook a data visualization project for the state's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA).
The team worked out of U Albany's Center for Technology in Government (CTG) to create a prototype design of a new dashboard for MTA decision-makers. When the new reporting interface was done, the students had the opportunity to present it in MTA's corporate offices.
The students converted sample MTA reports and datasets with tens of millions of records into more "usable visualizations," that provided at-a-glance comparisons across yearly, monthly and daily periods to help the viewers see trends and make projections. During the work they had the opportunity to interact with MTA personnel via online conferencing. The resulting reporting system allows the user to interact with the reports by choosing different parameters and changing chart display types.
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Added graduate student Ping Li, "The most valuable aspect is that we created real value, for real enterprise. At the same time, we practiced skills we learned at school. I can sum up my experience as: team work, communication skills and passion!"
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A large crowd gathered Saturday evening for the St. Marys Area Chamber of Commerce's Annual Dinner in which two local businesses and one organization were honored for their achievements throughout the past year. The 2014 recipients were GKN with the Business Achievement Award, the Keystone Elk Country Alliance (KECA) with the Community Achievement Award, and the St. Marys Rotary Club with the Community Spirit Award.The Highlands, formerly the St. Marys Country Club, hosted the Hollywood-themed event "A Night with the Stars." Ashley O'Dell, Chamber outreach coordinator, presented opening comments by acknowledging those in attendance for their year round continued support of the Chamber."One of the things I am most proud of when I think of St. Marys is how despite our size we are still a close knit community and come together," O'Dell said.
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February 13, 2011
Mubarak on Twitter
It's Day Two of the post-Hosni Mubarak era in Egypt, and all indications are that life is slowly regaining its normal rhythms here. Traffic on the Kasr El Nil bridge, workers walking purposefully to downtown, business meetings in my hotel lobby.
Taking advantage of a quiet moment, then, to chuckle at Hosni Mubarak's new (fake) Twitter account:
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February 11, 2011
A new day in Egypt
What a difference 24 hours makes.
Last night I was in Tahrir Square watching a people deflate. Tens of thousands who had gathered for what they thought would be President Hosni Mubarak's farewell address were stunned and saddened when what they heard was an opaque and often rambling message that lacked the words so many Egyptians wanted to hear: "Goodbye."
Tonight, Egyptians heard it, though not from Mubarak himself. He decamped to Sharm El Sheikh, the Red Sea resort town, and left his ashen-faced vice president Omar Suleiman to announce the end of his era. I watched on CNN, and the translator could barely contain himself. When Suleiman said Mubarak was stepping down, the translator's voice jumped an octave.
The streets immediately erupted into a cacophony of car horns, screams, songs and cheers that hasn't stopped for nine hours, and may not stop for days.
After I returned from the square and was working on this story, I called Ahmed Salah, who was among those who organized the first day of protests on Jan. 25. I met Ahmed just a few weeks before the uprising, when he told me, "Something is in the works." I'd be lying if I didn't say that I was skeptical -- how many protests had been quashed by Egyptian security forces before, how many demonstrations where there were more police than demonstrators?
Obviously, I had no idea how big it would be. And Ahmed had no idea either. By the time we saw each other again, in Tahrir Square several days into the revolt, he said that the whole thing had surpassed his wildest expectations.
He suffered a broken nose and received a rubber bullet to the skull during the police crackdown on protesters Jan. 28. He was left with a big bandage on his nose, which made it difficult for him to travel to and from the square. The bandage identified himself as someone involved in the protests, a target for pro-Mubarak thugs or security forces. He stopped coming to Tahrir every day.
He was there Thursday night when many thought Mubarak was leaving. He'd taken the bandage off, and he warned that even if Mubarak were to leave it would be far from over. "We want a transition to a new type of state -- a parliamentary republic," he said.
When I finally reached him Friday night, after we'd both returned from Tahrir, Ahmed was in tears. I could bear to interview him for only a minute. Finally I told him, "Mabrouk." Congratulations. He and millions of Egyptians will wake up tomorrow in a new country, one that they created.
Assuming they go to sleep.
Update: Here's my account of covering the Egyptian uprising, for Playboy magazine.
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February 09, 2011
What's next for the Republic of Tahrir?
The latest from Tahrir Square: Early this morning, a popular Egyptian actor and singer, Tamir Hosni, tried to address the crowd. Al Jazeera reported that "people shouted him down and the army had to intervene, firing warning shots in the air."
Hosni was quickly whisked away. Why? Al Jaz's excellent live-blog of the protests explains:
this came after (Hosni) spoke on national television, urging protesters to go home. It is not clear whether he came to the square to say the same thing, or if he had changed his views.
The square hasn't taken kindly to opposing views. I've seen people suspected of being regime supporters dealt with pretty harshly, dragged away by mobs threatening beatings, only to have cooler heads persuade the protesters to spare him. It's youthful exuberance, but also an understandable response to the violence they were subjected to in the early days of the protests, first by police two weeks ago and then by pro-Mubarak gangs last Wednesday.
Still, as Hannah and I reported in Tuesday's stories from Tahrir Square, there's an unmistakable disjunction between the protests in the street, which have transfixed the world, and the halls of Egyptian political power, where establishment figures are negotiating to reshape the old order. Whether the protesters ever see their views represented in those backrooms, where decisions are getting made, will determine the true impact of this uprising.
So far, the protesters are much more concerned with remaining in the street, which they've done enormously well. Responding to claims by the ruling NDP that they're trying to institute reforms, one Tahririte told Hannah:
"They can't be trusted," said Mohamed Zakaria, 47, a civil engineer who was in Tahrir Square. "There's no millionth chance. They've had 30 years and did nothing."
Or, as a young man told me:
"We don't believe in negotiation," said Youssef Hesham, a 25-year-old filmmaker. "When it's a revolution, you're not supposed to negotiate."
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February 03, 2011
Vodafone: Egypt forced us to send pro-government texts
In all the chaos of yesterday, I forgot to follow up on the strange texts I received last evening on by Vodafone cellphone here in Egypt. The AP has the story today, quoting Vodafone officials in London as saying that that Egyptian authorities forced them to broadcast pro-government text messages starting a few days ago.
Our McClatchy colleague in Cairo, Miret El Naggar, said her husband also received three messages in quick succession late yesterday afternoon. They read:
"O Egypt's youth, beware of the rumors and listen to the sounds of reason. Egypt is above all, so keep it safe."
"To every mother, father, sister and brother, to every honorable citizen, protect the country because the nation remains forever."
"The armed forces is keen for your safety and will not use force against this great people."
All the texts were addressed from "Vodafone." AP has a statement from Vodafone PLC, saying the messages were drafted by Egyptian authorities and that it couldn't change them:
Vodafone Group has protested to the authorities that the current situation regarding these messages is unacceptable. We have made clear that all messages should be transparent and clearly attributable to the originator.
Another way the Egyptian government has tried to portray the pro-democracy protesters as bent on chaos and destruction.
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The battle for Liberation Square
A supporter of President Mubarak crosses out "Leave" and writes "We love you"
The battle for Liberation Square didn't start out so bad.
I was down on the street when it began, and I saw a young man in glasses, a pro-democracy protester, sitting on the curb having an impassioned discussion with an elderly man in a tattered sportscoat. I could make out just a bit of what they were saying - the younger man was complaining about a lack of money, the older man was railing against opposition figure Mohammed ElBaradei, whom he called "the American." They argued for a few minutes, but when it was over the older man grabbed the other and kissed him on the cheek. Both went their separate ways.
It was one of the rare moments of conciliation today in Tahrir ("Liberation") Square. Moments later, I saw a mob of pro-regime elements set upon two young women and their male friend as they tried to exit the square occupied by pro-democracy protesters. I went up to one of the women to ask her name and for an interview, but then she returned an insult shouted to her by an angry Mubarak supporter and the mob turned on them, chasing them down one of the side streets near the Egyptian Museum.
Sweat poured off the man's face; the women had real fear in their eyes. They pounded on the door of a hotel before someone let them in, but the crowd continued to bang on the door for several minutes, shouting, "Get out!" and "God is great!"
The fighting devolved quickly from there, of course. At midnight, after writing and watching the clashes for hours from my hotel balcony, I walked back down to the square, to the overpass where dozens of people were standing. Down below the pro-democracy group had set two cars ablaze and lined themselves up in a human barricade near the Egyptian Museum. They were holding some sort of makeshift shields, looking like citizen riot police.
I walked up to the bridge, trying to keep my head down, knowing these guys didn't like journalists, and saw some young guys carrying rocks bigger than their heads. One had a machete, several had sticks. They were perched on the overpass and exchanging petrol bombs with the pro-democracy group down below. The two sides were barely 100 yards apart, the guys on the bridge egging their opponents on. The mood seemed almost playful, like a bloody game of Capture the Flag. Suddenly the guys on the bridge turned and ran in my direction, back down the bridge. A petrol bomb had landed near them and something had caught fire. Suddenly well aware of my camera and American passport in my pocket, I turned and ran too, down the bridge and back toward my hotel.
At 5:30 a.m. I awoke to a call from my editor in Washington and went back onto my balcony to see the vehicles still smoldering, the protesters still banging on metal barriers, defiantly holding their ground. Bursts of automatic gunfire could be heard, and the occasional single shot. It was hard to tell where they were coming from, but wires were reporting that snipers were firing from rooftops. I suddenly decided the balcony was not the place to be.
This was the scene at about 9 a.m. this morning - the protesters holding onto corrugated tin shields, tanks having moved in to separate them from pro-Mubarak forces. You can hear the chants, they seem louder today. Friends in other parts of Cairo say that both sides are busing in reinforcements.
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- What's next for the Republic of Tahrir?
- Vodafone: Egypt forced us to send pro-government texts
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== Native ==
== Native ==
Install {{
Install {{|steam}} from the [[AUR]].
== Preparation ==
== Preparation ==
Revision as of 01:11, 7 November 2012
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See the projet Wiki page and the page in the Application Database for more info.
Install steamAUR from the AUR.
Install wine from the official repositories and follow the instructions provided in the article.
Install the required Microsoft fonts ttf-microsoft-tahomaAUR and ttf-ms-fontsAUR from the AUR or through winetricks-svnAUR.
If you have an old Wine prefix (
~/.wine), you should remove it and let Wine create a new one to avoid problems (you can transfer over anything you want to keep to the new Wine prefix).
Download and run the Steam installer from steampowered.com. It is no longer an
.exe file so you have to start it with
$ msiexec /i SteamInstall.msi
Starting Steam
On x86:
$ wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/Steam.exe
On x86_64 (with steam installed to a clean wine prefix):
$ wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Steam/Steam.exe
Alternatively, you may use this method:
$ wine "C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steam.exe"
You should consider making an alias to easily start steam (and put it in your shell's rc file), example:
alias steam='wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Steam/Steam.exe >/dev/null 2>&1 &'
Consider disabling wine debugging output by adding this to your shell rc file:
export WINEDEBUG=-all
or, just add it to your steam alias to only disable it for steam:
alias steam='WINEDEBUG=-all wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Steam/Steam.exe >/dev/null 2>&1 &'
Additionally, Source games rely on a paged pool memory size specification for audio, and WINE by default does not have this set. To set it:
wine reg add "HKLM\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session Manager\\Memory Management\\" /v PagedPoolSize /t REG_DWORD /d 402653184 /f
Application Launch Options
Go to "Properties" -> "Set Launch Options", e.g.:
-console -dxlevel 90 -width 1280 -height 1024
Activate the console in the application to change detailed applications settings.
Set the application's DirectX level, e.g. 90 for DirectX Version 9.0. It is recommended to use the video card's DirectX version to prevent crashes. See the official Valve Software Wiki http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/DirectX_Versions for details.
Set the screen resolution. In some cases the graphic settings are not saved in the application and the applications always starts in the default resolution. Please refer to http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Launch_options for a complete list of launch options.
Using a Pre-Existing Steam Install
If you have a shared drive with Windows, or already have a Steam installation somewhere else, you can simply symlink the Steam directory to
~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/ . However, be sure to do all the previous steps in this wiki. Confirm Steam launches and logs into your account, then do this:
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/ mv Steam/ Steam.backup/ (or you can just delete the directory) ln -s /mnt/windows_partition/Program\ Files/Steam/
steamapps subdirectory in your existing wine steam folder instead.
Running Steam in a second X Server
Assuming you are using the script above to start Steam, make a new script, called
x.steam.sh. You should run this when you want to start Steam in a new X server, and
steam.sh if you want Steam to start in the current X server.
If due to misconfiguration a black screen is shown, you could always close down the second X server by pressing Template:Keypress + Template:Keypress + Template:Keypress.
#!/bin/bash DISPLAY=:1.0 xinit $HOME/steam.sh $* -- :1
Now you can use Template:Keypress + Template:Keypress + Template:Keypress to get to your first X server with your normal desktop, and Template:Keypress + Template:Keypress + Template:Keypress to go back to your game.
Because the second X server is only running the game and the first X server with all your programs is backgrounded, performance should increase. In addition, it is much more convenient to switch X servers while in game to access other resources, rather than having to exit the game completely or Template:Keypress-Template:Keypress out. Finally, it is useful for when Steam or WINE goes haywire and leaves a bunch of processes in memory after Steam crashes. Simply Template:Keypress + Template:Keypress + Template:Keypress on the second X server to kill that X and all processes on that desktop will terminate as well.
If you get errors that look like "Xlib: connection to ":1.0" refused by server" when starting the second X: You will need to adjust your X permissions.
If you lose the ability to use the keyboard while using Steam: This is an odd bug that does not happen with other games. A solution is to use a WM in the second X as well. Thankfully, you do not need to run a large WM. Openbox and icewm have been confirmed to fix this bug (evilwm, pekwm, lwm do not work), but the icewm taskbar shows up on the bottom of the game, thus it's recommended to use Openbox. Install openbox from the official repositories, then add
openbox & to the top of your
steam.sh file. Note you can run other programs (ex. Teamspeak &) or set X settings (ex. xset, xmodmap) before the WINE call as well.
Steam Links in Firefox, Chrome, Etc
To make steam:// urls in your browser connect with steam in wine, there are several things you can do. One involves making steam url-handler keys in gconf, another involves making protocol files for kde, others involve tinkering with desktop files or the Local State file for chromium. These seem to only work in firefox or under certain desktop configurations. One way to do it that works more globally is using mimeo, a tool made by Xyne (an Arch TU) which follows. For another working and less invasive (but firefox-only) way, see the first post here .
- Make
/usr/bin/steamwith your favorite editor and paste:
#!/bin/sh # # Steam wrapper script # exec wine "c:\\program files\\steam\\steam.exe" "$@"
- Make it executable.
# chmod +x /usr/bin/steam
- Install mimeoAUR and xdg-utils-mimeoAUR from AUR. You will need to replace the existing xdg-utils if installed. In XFCE, you will also need xorg-utils.
- Make
$HOME/.config/mimeo.confwith your favorite editor and paste:
/usr/bin/steam %u ^steam://
- Lastly, open
/usr/bin/xdg-openin your favorite editor. Go to the
detectDE()section and change it to look as follows:
detectDE() { #if [ x"$KDE_FULL_SESSION" = x"true" ]; then DE=kde; #elif [ x"$GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID" != x"" ]; then DE=gnome; #elif `dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.GetNameOwner string:org.gnome.SessionManager > /dev/null 2>&1` ; then DE=gnome; #elif xprop -root _DT_SAVE_MODE 2> /dev/null | grep ' = \"xfce4\"$' >/dev/null 2>&1; then DE=xfce; #elif [ x"$DESKTOP_SESSION" == x"LXDE" ]; then DE=lxde; #else DE="" #fi DE="" }
- Restart the browser and you should be good to go. In chromium, you cannot enter a
steam://link in the url box like you can with firefox. The forum link above has a
steam://open/friendslink to try if needed.
No text rendered problem
If there is no text/font rendered when starting steam you should try to start steam with the parameter
-no-dwrite. Read more in the forum thread about it.
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Steam/Steam.exe -no-dwrite


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… and, if you care about innovation, you shouldn't either.
Just over two years ago, I wrote an entry for BerkeleyLUG in which I tried to explain to the sometimes baffled people in my life why I so strongly oppose Apple – http://goo.gl/xhc5. While the ultra-closed nature of their devices (see the above article for a small subset of examples illustrating Apple's closed nature) is a major reason why I don't personally use Apple products, it was their recent (at the time) litigation against competing open-source products that really got my goat.
I am writing today, with great sadness, because matters have only gotten worse. In the United States alone, in the past few months, Apple has taken advantage of the broken patent system to ban multiple competing products from consumers' hands:
Apple succeeded in blocking all HTC Android devices from entering the country, forcing HTC to remove common features from its phones and now continues to pursue further litigation against the modified devices – http://goo.gl/j6zrR. In this case, Apple is using a dubious patent that gives them the sole right to detect text strings like phone numbers in documents and to allow users to press on them to perform actions.
Apple has succeeded in getting an injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab because they have apparently patented the rectangle with curved edges despite the obviously large amounts of prior art. http://goo.gl/sqRD5
Most disturbingly, in the last week, Apple has succeeded in banning a stock Android device, the Galaxy Nexus, for basic functionality in the Android OS itself. The particular patent in question gives Apple the sole right to perform searches across multiple sources and to show the results in one interface. That is right, according to the patent, Apple is the only company in the world allowed to perform basic search. http://goo.gl/YuWHZ
I started BerkeleyLUG three years ago because I believe in the ability of technology to revolutionize the world. More specifically, I believe that open access to technology breeds future innovation and that this innovation literally defines us as a culture. As evidence, I believe the success of the most important innovation of our time, the open internet, is a direct result of the availability of the open-source standards such as html/javascript and open platforms like Linux, Apache, MySQL and other open projects.
This is a sad state of affairs. But, I, for one, am not done fighting. Which is why I ask all of you reading this to join me and the EFF in fighting patent trolls like Apple by fixing the broken patent system. Please start by signing your name to the EFF's effort defendinnovation.org.
And, for our future's sake, don't buy Apple products…
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Buildings can also be primary sources. They can tell stories about their purpose, location, and the people who used it. The history of the Magazine in Williamsburg has many twists and turns.
In 1714, the General Assembly had asked Governor Alexander Spotswood to build "a good substantial house of brick" to protect the colony's arms and munitions. The occasion was the shipment of powder and muskets from Queen Anne's government in England. The city's 17th-century magazine, if it still stood, seems to have been inadequate. Spotswood was authorized to spend £200 from taxes collected on the import of liquor and slaves.
Spotswood's Magazine safeguarded shot, powder, flints, tents, tools, swords, pikes, canteens, cooking utensils, and as many as 3,000 Brown Bess flintlocks—equipment needed for defense against Indians, slave revolts, local riots, and pirate raids. So many munitions arrived from 1754 to 1763 in the course of the French and Indian War that the additions of a high perimeter wall and Guardhouse were necessary. But with the departure of the government for Richmond during the Revolution, the Magazine saw less service as a powder horn, as it was sometimes called.
During the night of April 20–21, 1775, British sailors acting on royal governor Lord Dunmore's orders removed gunpowder from the Magazine. Although violence was averted, the Gunpowder Incident helped move Virginians toward revolution.
After the Revolution, an arsenal at Williamsburg was no longer needed, although Confederate forces did store powder in the magazine during the Civil War. At various times, the building was used as a market, a Baptist meetinghouse, a dancing school, and finally a livery stable.
Builders tore down its perimeter wall in 1856 and used the bricks for the foundation of a nearby church. A wall of the Magazine itself collapsed February 6, 1888, and one-half of another the next day. September 9, 1889, the Magazine's roof burned, with only its finial escaping the flames. Repaired, the building became a museum, and the front and back windows were replaced with larger stained-glass panes. Colonial Williamsburg restored the structure in 1934 and 1935, rebuilding the brick wall and Guardhouse. In 1946, Colonial Williamsburg leased the Magazine and began its restoration. It reopened as an exhibition July 4, 1949, and the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities sold the building to Colonial Williamsburg in 1986.


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It's been a hot second, huh?? I know, I know... a 6-month hot second. I would say I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry. This little face has been keeping me busy.
Anyway, I could gush and go on and on about how life has changed and how wonderful it is to be a mom, but we'd be here all day. Maybe tomorrow too. I did actually just post a 6 month "mom" update on Youtube a week ago so you can check that out here!
I'm just so super happy that you guys have been so supportive and I can't tell you how warm n' fuzzy I feel when you guys have such sweet things to say about Olivia. I mean, how could you not? ;)
So really I had a few moments today and decided to just go ahead and give the abandoned blog a little update and say "hi". I know I've never posted on here super regularly or had a big schedule here. It's just really been a place for sharing whenever I get some extra time or get in a particularly "bloggy" mood, but I really hate that I let it sit for so long. Thanks for sticking around!
As you guys know, I always keep up with my YouTube channel regularly, so I always make it a priority to post at least 2 videos per week there (so definitely subscribe and check that out so you don't miss any updates). Since lil' bit came along, all my spare time is spent playing and feeding and cuddling and being mom. Love that.
Just wanted to let you guys know that the blog hasn't been abandoned and that I have a few plans in the works for upcoming posts! I still want to share Olivia's "official" nursery reveal... SO many beautiful photos I'd love to post and share. Also, I have some home updates! The home/decor posts really became my favorite types of posts to share here.
So I'm thinking I'll continue to do beauty videos over on YouTube (as always), and keep the blog for more personal posts, home stuff, and general whatever-ness.
Sound like a plan?
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In the previous post I said that the city's de facto taking of the "Made in Oregon" sign was "eminent domain by other means." That's not quite right. It's actually worse than that. If the city had taken the sign through eminent domain it would have had to pay Ramsay Signs fair market value for the property, estimated in this Oregonian article at $500,000. Under the new deal Ramsay gets $200,000 to change the sign and a 10 year, 2,000/month contract to maintain it, for a total of just $440,000; with discounting for the present value the actual amount is even less than that. Under eminent domain, Ramsay would have received more money and been free of the sign. With this deal they're receiving far less and will have to pay for the redesign, electricity, and upkeep for a decade.
For those of you needing a refresher, the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution protects property rights with a clause limiting the power of eminent domain: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." I think the argument that the sign needed to be protected as a public good was dubious, but even if you disagree you should still want the owners to be fairly compensated for the taking. That so many people are glibly applauding the railroading of a private Portland business is very disappointing.


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Cyril Schmidt needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 87 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Alluve produces software for sophisticated modelling of stochastic (i.e. random) processes.
If one draws multiple realisations of a stochastic process on the same diagram, the graph (see http://i707.photobucket.com/albums/…rocess.jpg ) will look like a river delta or alluvial fan seen from above. This is where the name "Alluve" comes from.
As inspiration for the logo, one could use the real-world alluvial fans and braided rivers. This aerial photograph of the Waimakariri river in New Zealand shows particularly beautiful structure of a meandering stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nevrar/2286192280/ .
For an example of the style that we are looking for, one could look at the logo of Microsoft Silverlight (trademark of Microsoft) at http://www.microsoft.com/SILVERLIGH…s/logo.png .
Alluve targets business customers, such as risk analysts and risk managers of financial institutions (asset managers, hedge funds, banks etc.)
The logo should remind of a system of braided streams oriented as in http://i707.photobucket.com/albums/…rocess.jpg. The logo should convey elegance, sophistication, innovation and dynamics. The logo should look well on its own and with the name "Alluve." Needless to say, it must be unique and original.
The result must be delivered in a vector format which is understood by Inkscape.
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