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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Water logged
14 comments:
- Larry said...
- 7:25 AM, March 26, 2008
- Tom said...
Whoooaaaa! That is cool!
- 9:39 PM, March 26, 2008
- welch said...
Probably, not sure about dragging the canoe to NW Iowa though.
On a related topic, would requiring people to get to an island make it unfair to people that either don't have boats?
- 10:08 PM, March 26, 2008
- welch said...
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- 10:09 PM, March 26, 2008
- juliecache said...
[putting on ridiculously oversized hunting cap] Hmmmm. I might Rabbit, I might.
- 12:19 AM, March 28, 2008
- juliecache said...
Welch, you can swim or use a floatie to paddle out if you don't have a boat!
- 8:49 PM, March 29, 2008
- welch said...
Julie I have two canoes and a jonboat, swim fine too. My question wasn't really about me, but island events in general.
Don't get me wrong, I think its sounds like a neat get together idea :). It's just I was given the impression at one point that (the MoHo wedding not withstanding) events were generally supposed to be open to everyone, and about geocaching. This seems to be limited to only some people and mostly about getting the watercraft wet.
- 6:50 PM, March 30, 2008
- schnider said...
Just a suggestion. Set a time that they have to be on the island to be eligible to win. Then draw names for the coins. That way for people like myself that would not have a motorized craft (people power) would have a chance too.
- 11:05 PM, March 30, 2008
- IowaAdmin said...
Thanks for your feedback. To clarify some points: the lake that I'm thinking of does not have any islands. The coordinates would be offshore at a designated point in the water. I don't think this would be considered "unfair" because as an event, it's open to all geocachers -- be they man, woman, experienced or newbie. You just have to figure out how to get there and you may need to bring or borrow special equipment to do so, which is part of the hunt for any 5-star-rated geocache.
- 8:22 AM, March 31, 2008
- IowaAdmin said...
welch, I think you may be referring to a canoe event that you submitted in 2005 that was not allowed to be listed as a geocaching event. I can see how you may be questioning my event, since I didn't allow yours to be listed. Yours is a point well taken. Keep in mind that I haven't listed mine as an event yet because I'm asking for feedback from geocachers. But please let me explain how I feel my event would be different.
Looking back at your archived submission, the description suggested that it was a group going canoeing down a river and you were going to leave at a certain time from a certain place, but there was no log book involved for the event. At that time I quoted from the guidelines:
"While a music concert, a garage sale, a ham radio field day or town's fireworks display might be of interest to a large percentage of geocachers, such events are not suitable for submission as event caches because the organizers and the primary attendees are not geocachers. In addition, an event cache should not be set up for the sole purpose of drawing together cachers for an organized hunt of another cache or caches. Such group hunts are best organized using the forums or an email distribution list."
At that time, I recommended that you post your canoe trip in the IGO and Groundspeak forums and list it at paddling.net.
In hindsight, I could have recommended that you change your event description to make it a geocaching event at the canoe launch, and include a log book for attendees to sign. However, that change didn't occur to me at the time because back then, geocaching events were generally described as longer-lasting gatherings -- usually a couple of hours or more. Since then, the phenomenon known as geocaching flash mob events has emerged, and so Groundspeak has decided that geocaching events can be as brief as 15 minutes and still qualify as an event cache.
So the event I envision is in the spirit of a flash mob event, but it would be on the water so you'd would need a boat or other means of flotation to attend. The twist of offering the coins to some attendees is merely to provide incentive, and is not the sole reason for hosting the event.
As always, I welcome your feedback.
- 8:50 AM, March 31, 2008
- Weaky6 said...
knowing you are a diver, this is a cool concept. I dig the idea of grabbing a cache under water. Sweet, and more importantly, I would be up for the challenge but would be interested in seeing it close enough to the surface that a grab might, just might, be possible without equipment. Know what I mean Vern? Perhaps a good swim off the beach, lots and lots of air and try to unhook. Maybe viewing the code and posting in log via email is good to prove. ( i think I read a story on one of those recently) Lets not bring in the old, bring in the new. by the way, about that slider cache...... :-)
- 9:01 AM, March 31, 2008
- IowaAdmin said...
Weaky, while it's true that I am a diver, that's not what I have in mind. I was thinking of using my kayak and remaining on the surface to welcome my fellow geocachers that way.
- 9:05 AM, March 31, 2008
- welch said...
Yes Ken my previously declined event is part of how I came to my thinking of events.
"In hindsight, I could have recommended that you change your event description to make it a geocaching event at the canoe launch, and include a log book for attendees to sign. However, that change didn't occur to me at the time because back then, geocaching events were generally described as longer-lasting gatherings -- usually a couple of hours or more. Since then, the phenomenon known as geocaching flash mob events has emerged, and so Groundspeak has decided that geocaching events can be as brief as 15 minutes and still qualify as an event cache."
I'm glad you bring that up, because IIRC at the time I had asked about changing the event to being on an island at a certain time and place (like say the location of 'Abby's Treasure Island' cache if anyone around CR that knows the area). I remember your reply email saying something like you wouldn't be comfortable with listing that because it was unnecessarily excluding people.
My next email was 3-4 scenarios mixing events and boats/canoes trying to see what would be ok, including one idea to put the event on an island and offer to shuttle people to the island from the nearest launch if they didn't have a way to get to the island themselves. You never did explain what would pass, just sent me an emailing saying like, stop looking for the fine line to push. And so ended that line of questioning.
But that is the past, getting back to current events. To me an event and a five start cache are not easy to compare because of exisiting norms for each.
When someone asks about 'hard' caches or ones they otherwise can't complete, it seems normal that they're told things like "not every cache is for everyone", "only do the ones your comfortable with" and "just ignore the ones you don't like / or can't do"? On the other hand, events are more "Come as you are, Do what you want". Even if an event has a timed 'be the fastest to find all the caches deathmarch' course, generally doing the competion is not a REQUIRED part of an event. People CAN: compete, or just freestyle, or go seek exisiting nearby caches, or just plain enjoy the fellowship of the 'campfire'.
Of course that is just my perception of the norms, I'm sure you know what the guidelines actually prohibit or not :D
- 9:50 PM, March 31, 2008
- IowaAdmin said...
welch, you raise an interesting point. What if I would arrange it so the event would be held in two stages? The first would be the meeting on the water (and the coin give-away). From there, the second stage would be to paddle, motor or swim -- depending on how you got there -- to a nearby boat launch and park area. At that time the non-floating geocachers could also attend the event and everyone could sign the log.
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American men once wore hats, and then they stopped rather abruptly somewhere around 1960. When Kennedy neglected to wear one to his inauguration, it's said, everyone knew it was all over for hats. I'm sure milliners everywhere mourn the death of the hat, and those invested in the men's fashion industry probably try to periodically instigate their return, but in truth, it is the fashion for public individuation, as expressed through statement making clothes that ended the hat. That and the rise of youth culture -- the hat seemed to mark entrence into adult culture, an adult way of life. Now everyone repudiates that, no matter how old they are. Out west, people even wear their short pants and their golf shirts to work. (Is that too elitist?)
The hat (and its corollaries, the overcoat and the suit) accomplishes one thing above all else, and that is anonymity. It makes men in general look the same in public. The prevelance of the hat enforced certain boundaries, it ensured that your personality was reserved for truly intimate moments and allowed one to adopt a kind of generic public persona suitable for conducted civic business. You weren't expected to look young, or anally fastidious. You were expected simply to look like everyone else, so that level of interaction could be swiftly set aside. Of course, in the sixties, as Thomas Frank documented in The Conquest of Cool, conformity was made anaethema by ad campaigns making it a personal duty to evade conformity and publicize how effective you are at "becoming who you are," which is, of course, absoutely unique in every possible way, from the cereal you eat to the car you drive to the slogans you choose to emblazon on your clothing. With conformity out, it was only a matter of time before the hat, which disguises identity, would be out as well, and the theatricalization of public space, in which everyone is perpetually acting themselves out, would be moving ahead full steam.
Now, hats likely connoted their own subtle shades of meaning, and people of those times likely could have read a man by his hat the way we might read a man by his hair cut. But the hat always functioned as an overt sign, it never pretended to be a mark of one's authentic being. I'm guessing it always projected a discrete role in the public sphere. Today, as Richard Sennett argues in The Fall of Public Man, (and to whom I owe much of this line of reasoning) one is obliged to seem authentic in public, to be one's most intimate self at all times, eroding the boundary that defines public and private space. The result is that privacy disappears, as surely as the hat did. We don't mind this, because we are conditioned to think that the more we are on display, the more our authentic being is getting validated -- which explains the mania for self-exposure (i.e. this blog). Privacy invasion becomes the most austere form of self-validation.
I'm probably not alone in my nostalgia for the uniform, but it's a phony nostalgia, because I've never been asked to wear one. I've tried to adopt the voluntary uniform, and wear essentially the same outfit to work everyday, but it's tough to do this without becoming even more self-conscious, and the beauty of the uniform was that it freed you from self-consciousness, it allowed you to reserve your "self" for home. You certainly can't go back to wearing hats. Hats now are always affectations unless they are explicitly keeping your ears warm.
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I got the DOSEMU working in Puppy. It is still a work in progress but it looks good so far.
I wonder if it would be worthwhile making a dotpup package, meaning I wonder how many people would want to be able to run DOS in Puppy. I guess the best way to find out is do a survey.
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I'm not sure what I'd use it for, but why not? The more capabilities Puppy has, the better.
Can someone (or several someones) give a few examples of the DOS programs they would be able to run with an emulator? No hurry, just curious.
Now that you point it out to me, the answer seems painfully obvious.
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I am still reeling over being able to run Vector Linux programs from inside Puppy - Now we may have FreeDOS and all sorts? (knew all those 5 1/4" programs I kept would come in useful)
I am wondering what Jon Murga is doing with WIne? I would ask but I feel he is busy . . . (I am sure he will get around to it . . .) Will this be simpler/ easier? I would like to see it - for sure . . .
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i was experimenting with dosemu just yesterday
pic of dosshell running in Puppy:
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QuickBooks for dos, or would it also be able to run Win3.11 and then I could run QB for windows.
Please make a DotPup!
G2, did you have any problem running dos programs!
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Earl, you can't run Windows 3.11 on FreeDOS.
There is an opendos emulator you can find on FTP search, it should be able to run Windows.
Also, you could make an MS-DOS setup version 5.00 thru 7.00 which should be able to run Windows 3.11
I've never done it but, I've read that it can be done. In order to do it, you will have to
and learn from others, there is nothing intuitive about it.
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So far everything is looking good on this one, still some tuning to do, to make it just right. Also, I'd like to update and add some software.
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Post subject: How is DosEmu with DOS games?
I'd be interested since I still have lots of DOS and Win 3.11 software. I've been searching the Web for Linux games. I'm surprised no one has done a GinRummy or Rummy 500 so far. Maybe someone will make an extension for Firefox for other games soon.
If I ever get my finances together, maybe I can get a machine that can have Virtual Systems for my various operating systems. I used to use Vcom Partition Commander with System Commander built-in, but having to shutdown to switch is a pain.
Since Novell has released Zen into OpenSuse perhaps in the not too distant future virtual systems maybe affordable for more of us. Then we could switch from DOS to Linux to any Windows, or anything else the hardware could handle.
Thanks for your hard work guys,
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Hi Bruce. This is a great project - I like fiddling around with dos, particularly in regard to the Arachne web browser http://browser.arachne.cz/ . There is a bunch of guys here: http://www.geocities.com/arachne_os/ looking at making Arachne a stand-alone OS, and if you want to try it running in ram, you can get the boot floppy here: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=402046 It's super-fast, even on my p133 32mb ram craptop.
So I'd like to not have to boot into my Win95 partition to do this dos stuff, and I think the power and minimalism of the Arachne OS idea would appeal to a lot of Pupsters...
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I used Arachne but thought it was no longer supported. Thank you for the links.
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there's a yahoo group for arachne OS at :-
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The last time I used this browser I was amazed at how good it is. A DOS based browser OS is a great idea. The problem for me was internet connection (which I could not fathom in the time I alloted).
SCO bought rights to the code? What have they done with it?
Glad to see that someone with real potential is trying to implement it.
Good luck
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Re: SCO bought rights to the code? What have they done with it?
--- Arachne has been gpl-ed now, last year some time. The latest release is 1.83, only a month or so ago, the second open-source one.
It's had a neat modem auto-detector for quite a while. As long as it's a standard external hardware modem. I found it didn't like the modem being on "com2" even though it says it's scanning all ports.
The Yahoo group for Arachneos is pretty quiet, but newcomers poke their head in every now and then, and we're just going to see what happens I guess.
I like the idea of an os that runs entirely in ram, it makes sense to me. It just needs an unbloated system. Arachne is already quite versatile, and can read text documents from any drive on your pc without having to mount manually. Plus there's a way of getting external packages that I haven't quite worked out yet.
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I've not been posting much on this thread I started, but I've been doing a lot. I've been impressed with the Bochs Emulator (open source and free). Some people like the qemu because it's faster, but it was lacking some keystrokes I don't want to lose. Otherwise, I expect for the most part the disk images made with one or the other would be interchangeable. Also, the BOCHS runs respectably well in Puppy, much better than I thought it would.
In my tests it has supported all DOSes I've tried very well (MS-DOS, DR DOS, and FreeDOS).
I've come up with techniques to
mount the disk images from within Puppy and read and write to them without problems, using ROX, the commandline or Midnight Commander.
Yesterday I installed Puppy in the emulator from within Puppy. I've not yet determined if there is any practical advantage to running Puppy on Puppy.
View the 1024x768 screen shot if you want to see Puppy running Puppy.
If I could remember where my Windows 3.1 and 3.11 disks are I'll test it. I guess my next test is to see how well Windows 95 will run in Puppy.
I'll report back with results, but so far things are looking good.
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|Guests included members of The Colonial Dames of America, which owns and operates the Museum, professional colleagues, and friends. Among the silent auction highlights were private excursions, behind-the-scenes tours of New York's galleries and art museums, fabulous hand-crafted jewelry and accessories and much more, all drawing enthusiastic bidding.
Guests included Committee Co-Chairs Beverley Sherrid and Heather Speas, Gloria and Nelson Harper, Sandra Pearl, Charles Neuhauser, Brantley Knowles, Kathleen Springhorn, Peter Wyer, Maria Ann Conelli and Kim Hartswick, and Mary Anne Hunting. Sharon Vaino, President General of The Colonial Dames of America, accompanied by Past Presidents General Charlotte Armstrong, Audrey Svensson, and Nancy Shackelford Jones, as well as Mary Anne Caton, Director of The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum, and Allison Coliskey, Executive Director of The Colonial Dames of America, also joined the festivities.
To learn more about the museum, visit www.mvhm.org.
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|Audrey Svensson, Sharon Vaino, and Nancy Shackelford Jones
|Mark Sherrid, Beverley Sherrid, and Martha Foley
|Kathleen Elizabeth Springhorn, Audrey Svensson, and Deirdre Bay
|Lila Kerns, and Heather and Wade Speas
|Helen Evans, Esther "Faity" Tuttle, and Arax Simsarian
|Lindsey Mullholland and Charlotte Squarcy
|Laura Kirkman Evans, John Evans, Kim Hartswick, and Maria Ann Conelli
|Polly Guerin, Carol Lynch, and Kathleen Elizabeth Springhorn
|On Monday, October 22nd Ice Theatre of New York (ITNY), the nation's premier ice dancing ensemble founded by Moira North, hosted the company's annual Benefit Gala honoring Richard "Mr. Debonair" Dwyer of Ice Follies and Ice Capades fame. Festivities included a performance featuring Mr. Debonair and his "Dwyer Girls" – Tai Babilonia, Dorothy Hamill, Linda Fratianne, Jojo Starbuck all dressed in Nicole Miller.
Dick Button was Honorary Chairman and Co-Chairs included Natalie Carey, Aja Zanova and Tom Collins; attendees included Missy Van Buren, Joan Erdheim, the new Chairman of the Board, Sarah Hughes and family, John MacColl, Debbie Gordon (recipient of the Ice Angel award), Charles Pavarini III, Randall Tarasuk, Michel Mercure, Brigitte Altenhaus, Nadine Ahmed.
Ice Theatre of New York, the nation's premier ice dance ensemble, challenges conventional definitions of figure skating by creating works that integrate the sensibilities of contemporary dance, music and art. In addition to building and performing works of the highest artistic merit, ITNY reaches out to the next generation of skaters and audiences through its exemplary education, community outreach and training programs. ITNY was the first ice dance company to receive dance program funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
|Photographs by AnnieWatt.com (McCarton, Manhattan School); PatrickMcMullan.com (Career Transition); Kenny Jacobson (Ice Theatre).


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Lesson #3: Wheels
Remember the freedom you felt the first time you sailed through the neighbourhood on your two-wheel bike? Maybe you were one of those kids lucky enough to have built a soapbox racer or a gocart. Did you rush right out and get your driver's licence as soon as you were old enough?
That's because you understood that man was meant to move about the earth on wheels.
Boys' Life's advertisers understood that too and made sure to start building brand loyalty at an early age. Today's 11 year old soapbox racer is tomorrow's Chevy owner.
The two "Race of Champions" ads are almost certainly from Johnstone & Cushing, the art services agency that specialized in comic strip-style advertising, as is the "Science of Cars" ad. The style is, to me, always reminiscent of comic artist Neal Adams - but I've learned in recent years that it was comic strip artists like Stan Drake and Lou Fine who's styles other artists tried to match.
It might be hard for modern generations to appreciate what an effective way of advertising the comic strip ad was. Today's newspapers have shrunk the average comic strip in size and importance but during the fifties comic strips, especially those done in "realistic" styles featuring adventure, romance, detectives, etc. were read by millions of Americans of all ages - the storylines discussed around office watercoolers and the creators considered important celebrities.
Comic strip ads like these targeted every demographic and could be found in every kind of magazine and newspaper, not just the publications perused by children.
You can find more examples of these kinds of ads in my Comicstrip Advertising Flickr set.


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Sculpture unveiling set for Friday
Mayor Don Wesely and organizers of the Pennies for Lincoln campaign today announced that the goal of the penny drive has been reached. The announcement came as workers installed "The Rail Joiner," a new sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, at the east entrance of the new Justice and Law Enforcement Center, 575 South 10th Street. The goal of the Pennies for Lincoln public art campaign was to raise $17,500 to help fund the new sculpture.
"This was a true community-wide effort involving businesses, organizations and individuals from all parts of Lincoln," Mayor Wesely said. "I want to thank all the donors, especially the many young people who got involved in raising pennies through their schools. I hope they all learned important lessons about the value of public art and how we all can participate."
Margaret Berry of the Lincoln Arts Council (LAC), a major partner in the project, said about $17,000 has come in so far, and many penny collectors remain throughout the community. She said volunteers will pick up those collectors from sponsoring businesses and organizations this week, and those donations should put the campaign over its goal.
"The Rail Joiner" is scheduled to be unveiled at the grand opening ceremonies of the County-City Government Center at 1:30 p.m., Friday May 5. A formal dedication will be scheduled this summer to allow for the attendance of Lawrence Slobodkin, son of the artist Louis Slobodkin.
Slobodkin, who passed away in 1975, finished "The Rail Joiner" in the 1930s, and the original is now on display at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. In 1996, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery received a plaster cast of the sculpture and the right to reproduce it. The reproduction was cast in bronze by Omaha artist Les Bruning, and the Sheldon is loaning the reproduction to the city for permanent public display.
In addition to the Mayor's Office, LAC and Sheldon, partners in the project include the County- City Public Building Commission, Lincoln Federal Savings Bank, the Lincoln Journal Star, the Lincoln Public Schools, JCPenney, the Mill, Big K-Mart, Russ's Markets, U-Stop Convenience Shops, Valentino's of Lincoln Restaurants, Broadcast House, Clocktower Merchants and People's Natural Gas. Other major donations have come from the Rubendall Foundation and the University of Nebraska Foundation


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Dropbox says it knows how to avoid the type of outage that struck its service Friday: In the future, it will check the state of its servers before making additions to their code.
That will prevent an operating system update from being applied to a running production server, a process that usually results in the server shutting down. Enterprise users who rely on Dropbox for offsite storage already understand the principle. Some may be wondering whether Dropbox has the operational smarts to be relied upon for the long term.
Dropbox was trying to upgrade some servers' operating systems Friday evening in "a routine maintenance episode" when a buggy script caused some of the updates to be applied to production servers, a move that resulted in the maintenance effort being anything but routine. Dropbox customers experienced a 2.5-hour loss of access to the service, with some services out for much of the weekend.
Dropbox uses thousands of database servers to store pictures, documents, and other complex user data. Each database system includes a master database server and two slaves, an approach that leaves two copies of the data intact in case of a server hardware failure. The maintenance script appears to have launched new servers on running database servers.
"A subtle bug in the script caused the command to reinstall a small number of active machines. Unfortunately, some master-slave pairs were impacted which resulted in the site going down," wrote Akhil Gupta, head of infrastructure, in a post-mortem blog Sunday.
[Some cloud customers are getting fed up with outages. See Amazon Cloud Outage Causes Customer To Leave.]
Dropbox went off the air abruptly Friday between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m. Pacific time. For two hours, Dropbox's site remained dark, then reappeared at 8:00 p.m., according to user observations posted to Twitter and other sites. Users were able to log in again starting about 8:30 p.m. PT.
It wasn't clear from Gupta's post mortem how many servers had been directly affected; at one point he referred to "a handful." Gupta assured customers, "Your files were never at risk during the outage. These databases do not contain file data. We use them to provide some of our features (for example, photo album sharing, camera uploads, and some API features)."
On the other hand, operation of some of the paired master/slave database systems appear to have been entirely lost, something that a cloud operation tries at all times to avoid. Normally, if a master system is lost, its operations are taken offline long enough for the two slaves to create a third copy of the data and appoint one of the three as the new master.
Gupta explained in the blog, "To restore service as fast as possible, we performed the recovery from our backups." This suggests that Dropbox had to load stored copies of database systems to get its production systems running again.
"We were able to restore most functionality within 3 hours," he wrote, "but the large size of some of our databases slowed recovery, and it took until 4:40 p.m. PT [Sunday] for core service to fully return," Gupta wrote. This was at least 46 hours and 40 minutes after the outage began. Dropbox Photo Lab service was still being worked on after 48 hours.
Two-and-a-half hours into the outage, Dropbox responded to rumors and denied that its site had been hacked. At 8:30 p.m. Friday, the company tweeted: "Dropbox site is back up! Claims of leaked user info are a hoax. The outage was caused during internal maintenance. Thanks for your patience!"
One Twitter user agreed: "Dropbox not hacked, just stupid."
Gupta's post mortem took forthright responsibility for the outage, admitting Dropbox caused it with the faulty operating system upgrade script. It reassured users about their data, while explaining why it had taken so long to bring all services back online. But the fact that master/slave systems seem to have gone down together in "a routine maintenance episode" is not fully explained. If the operating system upgrade were staged so that only one of three database servers was changed at a time, two systems would have remained intact and recovery would have been faster.


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This homestay offers panoramic view of the Western Ghats and surrounding plantations. This home is a recently built house with striking architecture and modern interiors. This is home to Mr. Babu Chandran and his wife. Babu built the house here to enjoy the fabulous views and he has many acres of spice plantation, growing pepper, vanilla, coffee, fruits, and much more. Guests are constantly provided with produce from the plantation (especially the superb coffee!), and organically grown food always features in the abundant meals cooked by Mrs. Chandran. Eating with the family is usually a feast of rice, vegetables and exotic curries served on freshly cut banana leaf.
The house is centrally located so that most attractions, such as the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, the Edakkal Caves, and Pookot Lake can be easily reached. In immediate proximity to the house, treks to the nearby Meenmuthy waterfall (where you can swim in the pool below), and to the Sunrise Valley provide breathtaking views. Chembra Peak, visible from the balconies of the house, is a more ambitious but exhilarating trek and can be attempted with a guide. In the evening you can watch the stars shimmer in the unpolluted skies. Mr. Babu is happy to answer any queries regarding the constellations. He is a fascinating person to talk to with great knowledge of history and geography. What's more, every morning an ethereal mist covers the plantations which stretch out from the house, a sight worth waking up early for. An incredible place, enhanced even further by the warm hospitality of the hosts.
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Feature and Follow is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read and connects bloggers all over the world...which is amazing. I'm currently waiting for my exam results to be published in about 30 minutes so it's a good way for me to keep my mind off them.
Right then, today's question is an activity...
Now I would take a picture except I have a really bad camera, I might be able to get one later if I can persuade Hols to lend me hers. But as a description...I like to sit on my bed with my back against the wall...or when my bum goes numb from sitting in the same place for too long I'll head downstairs and lounge on the sofa. Though I do prefer my room because it's quieter, sometimes I'll put some classical music on too (yeah, I know...my housemates always tell me that a normal 20 year old doesn't listen to classical)...but it soothes me.
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2010 Tony Award-winning Play RED premieres in the Philippines, 2/22
Joaquin Pedro Valdes and Bart Guingona star in Actor's Actors Inc. - The Necessary Theatre's Philippine premiere of Tony Award-winning play RED
Manila, Philippines, January 27, 2013 -- American playwright and screenwriter John Logan's ("Any Given Sunday," "Aviator") Tony Award-winning play "Red," which won six awards at the 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Play, and Best Featured Actor in a Play for Eddie Redmayne, best known as the actor who played Marius in the Oscar-nominated film "Les Miserables," will run at College of Saint Benilde-School of Design and Arts (CSB-SDA) Theatre for four days only, February 22-23 and March 1-2.
"Red," produced by Actor's Actors Inc.'s The Necessary Theatre, stars veteran stage actor and director Bart Guingona ("Next Fall," "Hedda Gabler") and filmmaker and thespian Joaquin Pedro Valdes ("Dagim," "Into the Woods").
"Red" is a bio-drama about Mark Rothko (1903-1970), an American abstract painter of Jewish descent.
In the late '50s, Rothko (Guingona; Alfred Molina on Broadway) is in Bowery, New York painting murals for the elite Four Seasons restaurant. Rothko gives orders to his fictional assistant, Ken (Valdes; Redmayne on Broadway), as Rothko mixes the paints, makes the frames, and paints the canvases.
Ken brashly questions Rothko's theories of art, and the painter's acceptance of commercial projects.
"[RED] unfolds as a combative Socratic dialogue between teacher and pupil, a master class of questions and answers about the methods and purpose of Rothko's art. 'I am not your teacher,' Rothko says, shortly after meeting Ken. But he sure sounds like it," wrote Ben Brantley, the chief critic of The New York Times.
The play "turns out to be more a study in artist appreciation, a portrait of an angry and brilliant mind that asks you to feel the shape and texture of thoughts," Brantley added.
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Delle Donne-led Blue Hens are Delaware's darlings
The entire population of Delaware was not nestled inside the Bob Carpenter Center on a historic night for Blue Hens' basketball despite what you might hear now or in years to come.
Tina Martin swears the bandwagon has grown far too large and too wide to settle at a mere 4,653 fans, which happened to include Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday night, when Delaware stunned the University of North Carolina in the second round of the NCAA tournament to reach its first Sweet 16 in women's basketball.
"There's a love affair going on between the state of Delaware and this team, and that's what has been so terrific and wonderful," said Martin, who has been the program's head coach for 17 seasons. "This community and this team are enjoying something special right now."
The magic ride's next stop is Bridgeport's Webster Bank Arena where the Blue Hens (32-3) -- winners of 27 straight -- play Kentucky (29-5) at noon Saturday for a spot in the Elite Eight. The 32 wins are a program record as are the five sellouts this season at the "Bob."
"They don't want it to end," Martin added in a telephone interview Thursday.
The fans of the UConn women's team should appreciate what has taken place in Newark, Del., this winter, even if they still continue to secretly yearn for All-American senior Elena Delle Donne to have remained a Husky five years ago.
Because a similar love affair had state-spreading impact back in 1995 when the Rebecca Lobo-led Huskies captured everyone's heart on the way to the first of Geno Auriemma's seven national championships.
Martin, who was an assistant at Seton Hall during the Huskies' rise to power, is quick to credit the Kerry Bascom-led UConn team that went to the program's first Final Four in 1991 for getting the ball rolling. However, it was the Nutmeg State's sweatheart, Lobo, who fans truly came to embrace as the face of the program, which, in a similar fashion, has happened with Delle Donne at Delaware.
The biggest difference between the schools, though, is the Blue Hens are enjoying their historic March with the further endearing "mid-major" tag affixed to them as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association.
"We're not a Big East school, or in the No. 1 or No. 2 conference in the country," Martin said. "We know what we have here -- the best mid-major team in the country."
The Blue Hens have accomplished it with more than just Delle Donne, who ranks second in the nation in scoring at 25.9 points per game and is a three-time CAA Player of the Year.
Delaware has seven seniors, including Florida transfer Trumae Lucas, forward Danielle Parker (8.9 ppg, 8.7 rpg) and second-leading scorer Lauren Carra (10.7 ppg), who all got a taste of the Big Dance experience last season when the team won its first tournament game and advanced to the Round of 32 before losing to Kansas.
"There was a lot of excitement going on (last year)," Martin said. "This year is a much more comfortable setting."
The opportunity to play at home surely helped relax the Blue Hens, but Martin is not concerned with her players getting out of their comfort zones on the road now.
"We are playing as hard and as well as a team," she said. "To get to the Sweet 16 is a huge accomplishment, but we're not looking ahead.
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Faculty Profile - Karen Guntherby Tom Runge • February 6, 2013 Share:
Name: Karen L. Gunther
Your background: I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Berkeley for 6 years, then Palo Alto – my parents still live in the area. I went to Oberlin for undergrad, then worked 3 years at Abbott Labs north of Chicago. I moved back to California for grad school at UC San Diego (overlapping with Ethan Hollander of Poli Sci, but we didn't know it). From there I moved to Milwaukee for my post-doctoral fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin. One day my first winter there, Milwaukee was at about 30 below zero with windchill, and San Diego was at 80 above due to Santa Ana winds, which meant they were 110 degrees warmer than us!! I taught one year in neuroscience at Oberlin and one year in psychology at St. Mary's College of Maryland before coming to Wabash. A week and a half before interviewing at Wabash I met my husband, Nestor Matthews, while interviewing to be his sabbatical replacement at Denison. We each live walking distance from our respective campuses, and get together on the weekends.
Department and specialty at Wabash: Psychology Department. I study color vision – what our eyes and brains do with light to allow us to see color. I teach Sensation & Perception, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Introduction to Neuroscience, plus our core courses of Introduction to Psychology, Statistics & Research Methods, Literature Review, and Capstone. My husband teaches almost exactly these courses, but at Denison.
Favorite part of Wabash: Both the small classes where I can get to know my students, and the faculty/staff colleague friends I've made.
Favorite place on the campus: The arboretum – it is quiet and peaceful, cool in the summer, colorful in the fall.
Favorite food: Any type of Asian (especially sushi), Indian, Ethiopian, Mediterranean.
Something most people don't know about you: 1) My cat Hippocampus is older than about half of our students (20 human years and still feisty). 2) My alma mater has the potential to beat Wabash in football. (This was the first time since 1945 – let me brag a little this year, because this might be the only time in my life that I get to!)


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Summer Internship
When Freshman Advantage was over at the end of June, it meant that I was to go on to the next adventure in my life - being an intern at Fox 2 news in St. Louis.
I've had internships before, but this one felt....different. I was excited and nervous (of course) but more than ready to prove myself at a place where I knew I was going to learn and grow so much.
Side-note: I may or may not have driven to Chicago after FA to visit a friend before I started my internship. I may or may not have done it because I was so
nervous excited about starting. And it may or may not have been planned less than a week before I went. Hey, I'm a college student...road trips are to be expected!
I'm lucky enough to have family in St. Louis who graciously housed me during my internship, which lasted until I came back to school for Community Adviser (CA) training. That was about six weeks of having another adult (that's not a word I associate myself with just yet - eek) living with and wreaking havoc on your normal routine, even though I promised they wouldn't even notice me. Kind of hard to hide in your room when your adorable niece and nephew are yelling up the stairs at you to come down and play (just saying). But I digress. My sister and her family were awesome in letting me interrupt their lives for the summer and I really appreciated it (still do).
My sister is also the reason I was even able to have an internship to begin with - she has worked at Fox 2 for quite a few years now as a producer/writer/director and I am in no way ashamed of the fact that she helped me land the internship - thanks Peggy! If there is any advice that I can give someone, it is to not feel bad about networking with someone! As long as you put your best efforts forward and work hard, people will not mind putting a good word in for you.
The experience was amazing and I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. I was able to work with so many different people and personalities, gain knowledge in news broadcasting, and network. I worked with producers, directors, editors, writers, reporters, and pretty much every other job one could have at a news station; the one area I spent most of my time in however, was with the web crew.
I learned how to upload content, updated all of the social media sites, and learned new media aspects - it was an invaluable experience. Definitely showed me that I would love a job doing interactive web media or something along those lines. I now also get this awesome internship to put on my resume which I'm hopeful will prove useful in the (very near) future.
So that was basically my summer, in two blog posts! What did you do over the summer? Make sure to comment down below!
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2. Can Crump chose the Florida county where he can file a civil suit or must it be in Seminole?
1. If Zimmerman is going to sue NBC, ABC, etc. is the suit best filed in New York or somewhere in Florida?2. Can Crump chose the Florida county where he can file a civil suit or must it be in Seminole?3. Will Zimmerman have to testify in any civil suit regardless of whether he is a plaintiff or defendant?4. Can Crump base his civil suit on Zimmermans negligence in getting out of the car and not identifying himself to Martin?
He is suing NBC and it's in Florida because JDN is in the rotation to be the judge.
Would that be a good thing, though? It seems like it'd be just more of the same from JDN-- refusing to allow the libelous edited material to be admitted, because it can't be authenticated and the relevance to a defamation suit is too vague.Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I thought you could take legal action against media in any venue where the libelous material was disseminated.
How long do the Martins have to file a civil claim of wrongful death against GZ? A basic read of the FL statute says 2 years from the time of the event and its been known since Feb 26, 2012 that GZ killed TM, so does that mean the Martins have about 6 months to file? I believe Sybrina filed and received some money from the state for the death of TM and obviously there is the HOA lawsuit that was settled. I can understand not filing a claim against GZ until the criminal trial is over, but is it odd that they haven't done so now that the trial is over?


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Short Sale Fraud
May 20, 2013
With so many homes in foreclosure and homeowners eager to end their mortgage obligation, fraudsters have become ingenious at finding ways to pocket cash from short sales.
Short sale fraud is on the rise for several reasons, says Tim McCallum, director of short sales in Fannie Mae's Real Estate Asset Management division. "The short sale process is a lengthy one compared to a normal real estate transaction, taking anywhere from 2 to 6 months—the long timeline and multiple parties involved have made short sales an attractive target to fraudsters."
Sellers and buyers involved in short sales can protect themselves by choosing their representation carefully and watching for questionable activities, such as those described below.
Going Off the Books
For a real estate transaction to be completed, all lien holders must sign off. In this fraud, one party (real estate agents involved, first mortgage lenders, second lien holders) might make certain demands outside of the escrow transaction before signing off, such as asking that real estate agents to reduce their commissions or other parties (short sale negotiators, attorneys, etc.) get reduced pay or no pay.
While these arrangements sound innocent enough, they are actually "off the books" transactions, meaning they are not being recorded on the HUD-1 Settlement Statement. Someone will profit from that hidden cash.
Reverse Staging
In reverse staging, the home is stripped down, making it appear "distressed." The home then appraises at a lower value than it would have. After the appraisal, it's offered on the market at a low price and is purchased at a low price by an accomplice. Once the fixtures and appliances are restored, the home is put back on the market at a higher price.
As a purchaser, be on the lookout for reverse staging, which can happen in conjunction with flopping. This is when the fraudster (such as a real estate broker) might have a second escrow in the works that is opened and closed simultaneously with the purchase described above, or soon afterward.
The perpetrator of the fraud buys low, sells high, and keeps the difference between the two sale prices.
Hired Help (You Don't Need)
Another common scenario involves short sale "negotiators" (also called processors, coordinators, expeditors or foreclosure rescue negotiators) who offer to sell your home for a flat fee or percentage of the sale price. Often, the negotiator collects a fee but does nothing or little in return.
It's advisable to contact your mortgage servicer or a HUD-certified counselor with any questions you might have. Be sure to read documents carefully and ask questions before hiring anyone to help you—California, Washington, and Oregon license short sale negotiators. If you live in one of these states, contact the state agency responsible for licensing and regulating real estate agents and find out if the negotiator is licensed and, if so, check that they are in good standing.
Stay Alert
According to Fannie Mae's McCallum, the one constant with mortgage fraud is that perpetrators adapt quickly to change in economic conditions and in lending practices. "Be wary of mortgage fraud throughout the short sale transaction and if you have questions reach out to a HUD-certified housing counselor for help," he suggests.
If you suspect fraud, call your lawyer or one of the organizations below:
- Your state Attorney General's office
- The FBI
- Fannie Mae at 800-2-FANNIE (if the loan is owned by Fannie Mae).


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Fowl Fuel
by Ruth Tenzer Feldman
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that our nation's farms generate more than 95 million tons of animal waste per year. One big contributor is the chicken industry. Chicken manure contains nitrogen and phosphorus that can pollute drinking water and damage our environment.
To cut down on pollution, some chicken manure is collected and processed into fertilizer or cattle feed. Now, it looks like we've found another use: fuel. "Biodiesel," they call it at West Virginia University (WVU), where researchers Eric Johnson, Richard Russell, Al Stiller, and others teamed up with Northco Corporation (an equipment builder) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory.
The Agricultural Waste Biodiesel Team heats and pressurizes a mixture of chicken litter (manure plus bedding material) and water. The resulting tarlike substance has more energy value than chicken manure alone, so some of the energy used in creating it is recovered. The substance has the right properties to blend with diesel, and can be added to it to create up to about 35 percent more fuel without lessening engine performance.
About 3,500 to 5,000 years ago, humans started taming a type of wild chicken in Southeast Asia. Now, there are many varieties of chickens, each with a distinctive comb (reddish flesh) on its head. Some chickens are gorgeous!
But whether raised for meat, eggs, or as a hobby, chickens all produce waste that needn't go to…waste.
- In addition to oil, natural gas, wind, water, and solar energy, there are many other kinds of energy resources available. Think of another kind of energy source that we use. The energy source might be an organic resource, such as chicken litter, or it might be an inorganic resource, such as solar energy. Write a short paragraph about this energy resource. Include details about how it used, and what the potential benefits and drawbacks are to using this energy resource.
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Senior captains and representatives of varsity teams at Harvard contributed viewpoints based on personal experience from both their senior seasons and full varsity careers at Harvard. Each year the Senior Perspectives are compiled into a book and handed out at the Senior Letterwinner's Dinner.
Senior Perspectives thus forms a valuable portion of each team's legacy to sport at Harvard and to the permanent record built here by our varsity athletes. Throughout the summer, these senior essays will be posted to GoCrimson.com for all to see.
"… And I grew strong," four small words that mean big things when I think about my last four years on the Harvard women's soccer team. Our assistant coach, Tracey Leone, always stressed that the BIG little things make the difference in a game; as it turns out, the little things are what matter in any experience. Those four small words were among many that we screamed as we crossed the path of the historic Harvard Stadium on our way to Ohiri Field. We sang "I Will Survive" before every home game. It was our tradition. At first I thought it was silly but came to realize that it was just one of the many big little things that made my experience what it was.
We did grow strong over the past four years. My freshman season was tough. We lost almost every game, lost our coaches and felt defeated. During that spring we looked to each other and recognized that we were the only people we could rely on, but that was a lot. We trained hard that first spring when we didn't have a coach, even harder when no one was watching us. We met our new coaching staff, and they saw the potential in us; they recognized a strong foundation and then helped us build a successful and resilient team.
This season, we hung a sign on the door of our locker room that read: ALL IN. These five letters truly meant that we were all in it together, all of us, putting everything we had into the team, into whatever task we had to do that day. We knew that we individually and collectively — all 26 of us —were in. We trusted each other, depended on each other. I touched that sign every time that I stepped over the threshold of the locker room. It was a small reminder of a big promise. And, because of the things that I have learned on this team, that promise will not end with the season or my soccer career. I will try to commit all of myself to everything that I do.
Because we were all in, we were able to grow strong together—26 strong. It wasn't always fun, growing strong. There were travel squads, playing time, injuries, fitness tests, disappointment, hang cleans, bad days. These are the little things that make you stronger and prepare you for the big moments, the real challenges. It was the people whom we were with, our teammates, on the field and off, who got us through those challenges, big or small. Winning the Ivy League two years in a row took a lot of mental toughness. This season, most of our games were within a goal, and in many of the games that we won, we were down a goal at some point. We were resilient even in the final minutes of a match. Of course, the big moments on the field will always be the great stories that we created together, but what I will remember most is how this team has changed me through the little moments and the small traditions. Our team traditions have taught me respect, pride and determination, and have shown me how to be dependable, how to be fearless. I now know that what is important are the people next to you and that what you do and say makes you who you are. But, in the end, those little things also taught me how to have fun, even when I was all business.


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Jobless Claims Fall Further, Enlivening Futures
MoneyBeat's Steven Russolillo reports on strong pre-market activity on Wall Street after positive jobless claims figures were announced. Photo: Getty Images.
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moppity needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Moppity Vineyards
Moppity Vineyards is a premium Australian wine producer that comenced operation in 2004. Our vineyard is in the Hilltops region of NSW; a small, little recognised region that is rapidly emerging a source of some of Australia's truly great wines. In 2006 we made a wine that won a major award at the London International Wine Competition in 2008, which has been followed by a string of other awards. In the last 12 months, we've been the subject of increasing trade focus and media praise. The 2010 edition of The Big Red Wine Book stated that Moppity Vineyards is "a rising star of top-end Australian wine". Our range of wines varies in price from $50 to $10.
Our wines are made for premium wine consumers. We are targeting the top echelon; educated wine drinkers who aren't afraid to try something new.
We have used an "MV" logo on our wines since our first wines were released in 2005. It can be seen at http://www.moppity.com.au. We're looking to update the logo above to give it a fresher, more contemporary look.
The new logo needs to be simple enough to reproduce in a variety of formats (embossing, screen printing, embroidery etc) so try and stick to a maximum of three colours (plus white) with no 3d/shading etc. It also needs to tie in with our existing labelling; in particular the Reserve wine (again, check the website). It doesn't necessarily need to have both M and V.
Best to avoid stereotypical images of vines, leaves, grapes etc.
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M Stands For All-Wheel Drive
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We appear to be in a serious situation here. Scientists tell us carbon emissions have hijacked the atmosphere and that global temperatures are going up. Raging storms assault unprepared coastal locales with alarming ferocity. The American Midwest remains frozen solid even as the polar ice caps melt and the seas rise.
The reason for this calamity? Apparently someone's been having a little too much fun driving. Gone, some say, are the days of the 500-hp V8; from here on out, the EPA will relegate us all to driving 80-hp electric shitboxes so that the flowers may again bloom in spring.
BMW obviously didn't get the memo. The company's high performance division has just released two new M cars, each equipped with a 550-hp turbocharged V8. And both of them are SUVs. (Or, in BMW-speak, SAVs.) Put that in your pipe, Sacramento.
The X5 M at least has been a long time coming, the platform having existed since 1999. And technically speaking, both of these vehicles are virtually identical by the numbers. The X6 M differs in that it deletes a passenger seat at the rear, is almost an inch longer and nearly half an inch narrower, and gives up about 3 inches of height due to the swooping "coupe profile." Everything else is identical-front and rear track, wheelbase, power output and performance, even weight.
Standard equipment is the same too. Topping the list is the M powerplant, in this case the new twin-turbo V8. This engine concept isn't all new, having been introduced last year in the original X6 and the latest 7 Series. This version, though, called the M TwinPower Turbo, has been through the M Technik wringer. And that of course means even more power. It employs what's called Twin Scroll Twin Turbo Technology, along with a joint exhaust manifold serving both rows of cylinders, enabled by placing the turbochargers and catalysts inside the cylinder bank vee. It serves to shorten the length of the pipes and manifolds and increase their cross section to increase the forced induction system's efficiency.
Max power is 408 kW-555 DIN hp, or 547 in SAE terms. More impressive is the torque curve, which really is more of a plateau: 501 lb-ft delivered on a peak ranging from 1500 to 5650 rpm. And all joking aside, it isn't as grossly inefficient as it might sound, meeting the EU5 emission standards and returning a combined economy average equivalent to about 20 mpg.
Besides being the first turbocharged M cars, these models mark a number of other firsts. They are the first M models with all-wheel drive, as well as the first to be equipped with a true automatic transmission. Called the M Sports Automatic, it offers three shift modes: D, S, and M, the latter requiring you to row through the gears yourself. In full manual mode it uses a torque-reducing function wherein individual cylinders are switched off by canceling out the fuel injection and ignition in order to achieve shorter, more satisfying gearshift times. Gear selection comes by way of the central gear lever or steering wheel paddles sculpted from aluminum.
M mode also allows access to the Launch Control function, activated by pressing the brake pedal and pushing the throttle past 60 percent, which places the system in standby. Once the brakes are released, the SAV accelerates with full power; in the process, the transmission automatically shifts gears at optimized points within the rev range, with the fastest possible shift times and optimum slip control.
The dynamic portion of our test drive took place at the Road Atlanta raceway. Slinging this beast around those high-speed bends, I quickly gave up on full manual gear selection. As with most modern "smart" trannies, the automatic's sporting S mode gives an almost clairvoyant insight into your driving mindset; in this case, it facilitates maximum performance while allowing more concentration on following your line than on flailing for gear levers or slapping at aluminum paddles cranked at unaccommodating angles.
Power goes to the ground through BMW's proprietary four-wheel xDrive system. In this case, xDrive uses what they call optimum dynamics; essentially, it's been set up for a greater power bias toward the rear. But the variable power distribution remains programmed to read driving conditions and direct power fore or aft, even before wheels start to slip, in order to preclude both under- and oversteer and pre-empt stability control interference.
With such prodigious levels of power, mass, and grip, it's frightening to imagine things going horribly out of shape. An out-of-control X6 M would seem to constitute an astounding release of energy, something on the order of splitting atoms. That's where you come to appreciate the inherent safety and driver-aid systems: DSC stability electronics, the M-tuned air suspension, Adaptive Drive with electronically adjustable dampers (EDC), and active anti-roll.
And in case you like to tempt fate, M Dynamic Mode (activated by the DSC button) raises the intervention thresholds of the aforementioned systems. Your inner hoodlum will likely approve.
Did the world need a 550-hp SUV, much less two of them? Probably not, but the idea remains a compelling one. And in spite of this apocalyptic age, these are two of the most powerful yet. Priced just south of $90,000, they look to be wholly competitive in the ML63/Cayenne Turbo landscape. Whether or not the market will continue to embrace such vehicles is another question. But in terms of sheer audacity, each must receive our seal of approval.
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Length/Width/Height (in.): 192.0/78.1/66.3
Wheelbase: 115.5 in.
Curb Weight: 5,326 lb
Peak Power: 547 hp @ 6000 rpm
Peak Torque: 500 lb-ft @ 1500 rpm
0-60 mph: 4.5 sec.
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This Is How You Make a Startup Settlement In the Jungle Sound Legit
The question to ask about vaguely startup-y summer camps like Summit Series is not what are they, but rather why they exist. This Utah glamping trip, for example, helped entice rich techies to pay for a plot of land on a mountain. In the case of TEDx Adventure: The Jungle, it's a sales pitch for a time share (of sorts) in the Panamanian rainforest.
Only you'll need a decoder ring to figure that out from The Next Web's Kool-aid soaked dispatch.
Our journey to Central America is narrated by Courtney Boyd Myers, who fits right in on the globe-trotting-thinkfluencers-with-iterating-job-descriptions circuit.
Myers says that "100 entrepreneurs, artists, environmentalists, and yogis" made the trip to learn more about founder Jimmy Stice and his plan to turn Kalu Yalu, a settlement in the Pananamian rainforest, "into a real community." Can one be the "founder" of 555 acres of jungle? I guess if you've got investors, throw in some startup jargon, and have the blessing of TEDx:
"We are a community that is always in beta, that's how you get things done," says Kalu Yala's founder Jimmy Stice. [...]
With $3.5 million raised in private investment from friends and family, Stice plans to scale Kalu Yalu into a a town big enough to host a population of over 10,000. [...]
Stice purchased the land in 2008, and accepted his last investment check in 2010. Since then, Kalu Yalu has developed Panama's most popular internship program, regularly welcoming students each semester who help build up the tiny town.
Those 100 or so "movers and shakers" only paid $600 for this trip to Panama, which was sponsored by a bunch of companies you've never heard (except Patagonia). Did they actually help "build up the tiny town"? You won't find any answers in the video above, which feels more like a Kashi commercial.
But turn down the worldpop soundtrack and blur out the Burning Man references and Stice's mission suddenly becomes clear:
Construction on the first home will begin in May of this year and is expected to reach completion by the end of the year. The team will then continue to build 20 houses per year starting in 2015.
All investors in Kalu Yalu must also be homeowners in the Founder's Village, something Stice calls "Citizen Equity."
"We're doing this to prevent people from investing on the belief they'll be able to extract money from the community without being part of that community," he says. The Founder's Village will hold up to 180 homes, small cottages on 1/10th of an acre.
When asked who Stice wants as part of the Kalu Yala community, he says it's all about "radical inclusivity" with "high levels of self selection."
"I want to make Kalu Yala as accessible as possible to absolutely anyone without compromising quality, and by quality I mean the ethics of my supply chain, and environmental and social impact," he says.
At the moment, you can bring your own tent and pay $8 per night to camp, but eventually you'll be able to purchase a 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom house for $250,000, all in.
There you have it. Videos of good-looking young people under waterfalls and a headline like "In the heart of the Panamanian jungle, a startup village grows," is what you need to put
butts citizens in the seats.
"This is why entrepreneurship is so important to us," says Stice. "It's not just about a 12 year old boy's dreams, getting my friends jobs in the jungle and offering great tourism for the families from Wall Street. It's about creating a place to develop solutions to our tropical world's issues, and creating a place that will thrive for many centuries to come."
I dunno, the jobs in the jungle/Wall Street line sounded more convincing to me. Maybe try it on the secessionists?
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