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Viacom, DirecTV Mend Fences - but at What Cost?
Jul 20, 2012 1:20 PM PT
DirecTV subscribers will soon be able to get their MTV, as well as their daily fix of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, plus Nickelodeon and the 14 channels owned by Viacom, under a new agreement the two companies announced on Friday.
While terms of the deal were not disclosed, it appears that Viacom will receive more than US$600 million a year in programming fees from satellite operator DirecTV under a 7-year agreement, according to published reports. But can either company actually claim victory?
"It is interesting, because now that they settled, it isn't clear who came out ahead," said Pete Moran, VP of sales at General Sentiment. "I don't know if anyone did."
The only winners maybe the viewers -- at least for now.
"The people who get the most frustrated are the ones who are paying for the service and want to watch their shows," Moran told the E-Commerce times.
DirecTV declined to provide further details.
Will Customers Cut the Cord?
The blackouts of certain channels on pay-TV -- even basic broadcast channels that are free to watch over-the-air -- is nothing new, but it is becoming more common. While the Viacom and DirecTV battle has garnered much of the press, southern Maine Time Warner customers saw their local ABC affiliate blacked out this week as the two parties battled over fees.
Is this type of conflict enough to get customers to cut the cord?
"Consumers today have other options," said Tom Adams, director and principal analyst for U.S. media at IHS Screen Digest. "This is especially true of the younger households, which are opting for pay-TV subscriptions at a lower rate. At this point 20-somethings are thinking twice about it."
In other words, the younger generation may want their MTV, but they have alternative ways of seeing the content -- and this in turn is actually why this type of conflict is heating up.
"DirecTV and all operators have concerns about content that is increasingly being made available online, while still sticking to usual business model of asking for hefty fees for content," said Adams. "When the content was somewhat exclusive and not available to be seen other ways, this was a much more straightforward deal."
Content at a Premium
Consumers, even those who are sticking to the so-called basic channels, could end up feeling as if they are paying a premium for the channels they receive.
"In the end, the consumers are, of course, the ones that will pay for this deal," said Adams. "Consumers pay for the advertising as the products cost more, but they'll also pay more as rates go up. In other words, the consumer is paying for the whole shooting match."
However, because content is now available from other sources -- notably the Internet -- it could actually cap how much DirecTV or even cable companies can charge.
"Rates are going up less quickly than they have historically, because there are other ways to get the content," Adams told the E-Commerce Times. "Whenever there is lessening of demand, the prices can't go up like they did."
Changing Industry Like Changing Channels
The higher costs associated could have wider implications for the industry. Consumers have more options today, but that is only likely to increase as the industry sees increased methods of delivery of content.
"The television and entertainment industry is about to go through a major reinvention with new competitors like Google and Apple, and new technologies like the Internet," said telecommunications analyst Jeff Kagan. "The stakes for these companies are high. Customers have choice today and can leave."
However, those customers can only go so far, especially as many cable providers are also Internet service providers (ISPs). Instead, the industry could adopt a pick-and-choose model based on viewer preferences.
"You're not alone with the frustrating feeling of paying for channels you don't watch," said General Sentiment's Moran. "Deals like this reenergize the discussion of a la carte instead of bundles. This could result in consumers being able to pick and choose the channels they want to see."
Bundling was originally a way to solve technological problems -- such as making all the HD channels available as a package -- but today it has become an economic issue, he added.
"The other thing is that there are other ways to watch TV," noted Moran. "The whole notion of viewing TV is going to become more multiscreen-oriented, where some content is viewed on other devices."
In the meantime, consumers are left in the middle, and if they want to continue to see their shows, they'll pay more -- and in a few years, likely even more.
"This is another bandage that will have to be fought about once again when this deal expires," added Kagan. "Consumers can continue to expect the price of services to go up year after year until something is done. The price of carrying networks goes up year after year. It doubles every 10 years for the customer. That should be a crime."
Viacom did not respond to our request to comment for this story.


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Meryl Tankard's THE ORACLE Performs at NYU Skirball, Now thru 2/9
Australian choreographer Meryl Tankard returns to New York with one of her most gripping works to date. The Oracle is set to Stravinsky's seminal composition for the infamous 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring, which caused riots at its Paris premiere. The Oracleexplores the conflicting forces of nature and man, masculinity and femininity, violence and nurturing, strength and vulnerability. An intense solo for virtuosic performer Paul White, one of Australia's greatest dancers and incoming member of Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal, The Oracle includes haunting visual and set designer by Régis Lansac. The U.S. premiere took place on February 5 at 7:30pm at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ, as part of a seven-city U.S. tour.
Performances of The Oracle will take place tonight, February 7-9 at 8pm at the NYU Skirball Center. The running time is 50 minutes with no intermission. The NYU SKirball center is located at 566 LaGuardia Place in Manhattan. Tickets, which are $30-$49, are available online at nyuskirball.org or by phone at 212.352.3101.
Meryl Tankard is one of Australia's finest contemporary artists. Having leapt to fame in Europe as a member of Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal, Tankard returned to her country to create a dance theatre aesthetic all her own. She has created work for some of the world's finest companies, and her large-scale commissions, such as the opening ceremony for the Sydney Olympics in 2000, are a testament to her imaginative range. In 2010, The Oracle was honored with the Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography.

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2. What can determine the maximum vertices number in one batch? How can I figure it out? (The art designer needs to know before optimization).
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European Commission
Janez Potočnik
European Commissioner for Environment
Planet, people and profits: How to deliver a sustainable exit from the crisis
Keynote speech at the European Resource Efficiency Forum "Vision 2020 – the role of resource efficiency for Europe's future"
Berlin, 13 November 2012
Ladies and Gentlemen, Minister, Mr. (Jochen) Flasbarth,
Today I see before me so many familiar and influential faces from the world of resource efficiency. I must congratulate Minister Altmaier and the German Federal Environment Agency on this initiative of launching the First European Resources Forum.
I know that it is not necessary for me today to "preach to the converted". Indeed I would not dream of preaching anything to such an impressive array of experts. And I don't think I need to go into great detail on what the Commission has already done to establish resource efficiency as a policy priority at European level. I think most of you know the story so far.
No, what I want to focus on today is firstly how we start to deliver on those policy priorities and visions. And secondly, how do we transmit clear messages to the wider world, outside of this room?
I took a conscious decision when I took over the environment portfolio nearly three years ago to make resource efficiency the core and guiding principle of my mandate. It was a risk.
Despite these risks it was clear to me that we had to bring environment from the margins and put it at the very centre of the policies that influence our behaviour as producers and consumers.
In the immediate context of financial and economic crisis we had to explain that there are jobs in green growth; and in the medium term context of 3 billion new middle class consumers by 2030, we had also had to explain that resource efficiency could be the basis for future competitiveness.
This was pragmatism, not selling out. It was pro-business, not business as usual.
So far I think that we are already being proven right. Looking at the short term, employment in eco-industries has been growing by around 3 % per annum over recent years. In the UK the CBI reckons that one third of economic growth during the crisis period can be attributed to green sectors. With a global market for eco-industries estimated at more than a trillion Euros, and forecast to almost double over the next 10 years this is encouraging. We are doing particularly well in certain subsectors, with a 50 % share globally in recycling, and 35 % in energy efficiency, so we are well-placed to benefit from this growth in global demand.
For the medium term it is perhaps too early to say, but some of the challenges we predicted are already there. Prices of key resources are rising and becoming more volatile. Competition for resources among nations and economic sectors is increasing.
The shorter and medium term benefits of resource efficiency are of course closely linked. It is those eco-industries, so strong here in Germany, that are the enablers for the rest of the economy to perform more efficiently; they are the catalyst to greening our entire economy and making it more competitive moving forward.
Our estimations show that a reduction of the total material requirements of the economy by 17 % could boost GDP by more than 3 % and employment in the EU by around 2-and-a-half million. Today in Germany, as we see heated debate on the influence of higher energy prices on company competitiveness, it is worth bearing in mind that more than 40% of the input costs of manufacturing companies are from materials. Materials that mostly come from abroad and that are increasingly in demand.
Let me move on to my two main themes; the two big challenges: delivery and communication.
First, Delivery
We have already made good progress.
But I think that most of you know all this already. Let me explain more about what our plans are for more concrete deliverables over the next two years.
We intend to use the potential of the Single Market – one of our greatest achievements in the EU. Early next year we will explain in a communication how we can create a single market for green products, boosting supply and demand for more resource-efficient goods and services and encouraging companies to improve their environmental performance and reduce resource use.
Both business and consumers are asking us for good tools to enable them to recognise the genuine green products and companies on the market. We are already developing common environmental footprinting methods to calculate the sustainability of products and of organisations based on life-cycle assessment. Such a common approach will not only cut costs for business it will also help consumers understand environmental claims and make informed choices.
Eco-design and energy labelling are key in this respect and I will be working already in the next two years on developing approaches to integrating material efficiency and water efficiency into eco-design for those product categories where we identify the highest potential benefits, ensuring durability, water efficiency and recyclability.
Later in 2013 we will come with two communications tackling food and buildings, two of the three areas we identified in our Roadmap as having the greatest impact on resource use. In both of these, we will take a holistic approach, addressing the key resources and the potential for efficiency gains along the whole value chain - from production, processing and distribution, to use, reuse, recycling and disposal. Our real test here will be to convert that holistic and cyclical approach into the right instruments at the right stages in those cycles, as these often depend on very different stakeholders and tools.
The waste stage of that cycle is an obvious area for action. We still have 10 Member States that are landfilling more than 70 % of their municipal waste. This is not just a waste of resources; it is a missed opportunity for jobs. Eliminating such landfilling and meeting higher recycling rates could create additional 130,000 jobs and € 15 billion turnover for the waste sector. Full implementation of the waste legislation could create as many as 400,000 jobs in Europe and increase the turnover by more than € 40 billion.
It is against this background that we will review the existing targets in our waste legislation in 2014, and I would encourage you to participate in the consultation process on this next year.
Water is a precious resource with very specific characteristics, and I am pleased to announce that tomorrow the Commission will adopt the Blueprint to Safeguard Europe's Water Resources, with proposals including:
In the spring of 2013 we will be rolling out the activities of the European Innovation Partnership on Water which I launched a couple of months ago, based on a strategic implementation plan which is now being developed by stakeholders. This will support not only research and technological innovation, but also innovative applications of existing technologies, innovative governance, systems and business models, as well as financing mechanisms to bring existing solutions to the market.
So as you can see we are not sitting still.
Is all of this really enough on its own? Of course not. And I can already identify three main challenges that we must tackle if we are to deliver resource efficiency on the scale that we need to meet the milestones and the vision we set out in our roadmap.
First, it is essential that national governments play their role. The majority of the relevant policy tools are based in the 27 national capitals. The Commission is trying to push the capitals in the right direction. We have already started to integrate resource efficiency into the governance mechanism of Europe 2020 – the European Semester.
This year using this mechanism we recommended to 12 Member States that they should shift from labour to environmental taxation, we also made extensive recommendations on energy efficiency and transport. We will continue to push for phasing out environmentally harmful subsidies.
But we need to use this governance system to drive further environmental improvements. For example to exploit the growth and jobs potential in waste and water management, or green public procurement. We expect Member States to report back on the progress in resource efficiency in the updates of their National Reform Programmes, as Germany already does.
That brings me to the second challenge, which is investment.
Some might call me a "techno-optimist", but although I have great hope in technological progress to deal with the pressures on our planet, I would be one of the first to admit that technology cannot provide all the answers. I would call myself more of an "innovation optimist", for it is innovation – through the application of existing and new technologies, through new business and market systems, new behaviour and through design – that has the possibility to break us out of our locked in ways: to move us onto a different growth paradigm.
I have every confidence in the private sector to drive the kind of improvements we saw in the last century on labour productivity in the field of resource productivity in this century. Unfortunately I don't think that the warnings of an enlightened few will do enough to persuade a critical mass of economic actors to invest in resource efficiency. That is why we need to work at the macro level to provide the right incentives, to get the prices right and to use public instruments to leverage private investment.
Our challenge is to mobilise the investment to make that innovation happen on a big enough scale to make a difference. I will be launching a round table of investors early next year to look at how we can address the obstacles to public and private investment in resource efficiency.
Encouraging investment in areas with highest potential for our future competitiveness is the logic behind the revised industrial Policy that the Commission adopted a few weeks ago, and we put the circular economy and resource efficiency at the heart of it.
As policy-makers we must provide the framework conditions and predictability for the transition to a resource-efficient and low-carbon economy to take place in a less disruptive and less costly way, whilst creating a level playing field that will reward the best performers and put European companies in the lead.
The third challenge I see is that resource efficiency alone –getting more value from fewer resources – will not be enough. The McKinsey report which I imagine most of you know, estimated that the key improvements in resource efficiency it identified could provide for about 30% of the increased demand we can expect by 2030.
So it is clear that we need more than just increases in resource productivity, we must also use those same resources again and again. I am sure that this is evident to most of you, but we have to explain that resource efficiency also means creating a closed loop economy. This means designing for recyclability, repair and re-use; developing industrial symbiosis, new business models, better markets for secondary raw materials, and sustainable sourcing. In short, seeking inspiration from the way that nature works to drive a system change in our economies and societies.
So delivery is subject to important challenges, but I said at the beginning that I wanted to raise a second theme – Communication.
Second, Communication
How do we communicate to the consumer, who cares about the environment but for who it's number ten on their list of priorities this morning? Or to the small entrepreneur who is looking to sell products and pay the bills? Or to the journalist who wants the story that will sell newspapers? How do we get our message into to the mainstream?
The problem is that, on the one hand we have to convert a very complex subject into simple, accessible and compelling messages. And, on the other hand we have to convert a gloomy message about the constraints, boundaries, shocks and higher prices, into a positive story.
I have no doubt about the best medium for the message. It is clear that social media will be the game changer. It is the message itself that I think we need to work on. This problem was perfectly set out in an article entitled "Building the New Environmentalism" I read a couple of weeks ago in the British newspaper The Guardian. It argued that all social and economic transformations – civil rights, neo liberalism, social democracy, international development – have needed an accessible and compelling message to present to the public that resonates with its concerns.
So we need to distil our vision into four or five core messages. And those messages need to be positive. They need to set out the potential for green jobs, celebrate the human capacity for innovation and progress, and make it clear that protecting our planet is actually about improving our wider quality of life.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I hope I have convinced you that we are really not standing still. We have created a momentum. With the help of the European Resource Efficiency Platform - including Minister Altmaier in its high level members - we are setting out the direction in which we want to carry on that momentum.
Today our focus, especially in Europe, is on growth and jobs, on exit from the crisis. And rightly so. But I'm convinced that even if we would successfully manage financial and debt crisis we would still face serious challenges connected to our competitiveness. At least in the majority of Europe. These emerge predominantly from globalisation and the necessary adaptation to the new global reality and challenges we face together. A recent article in Nature concludes that all of those challenges are in one or another way basically connected to two things: the growth of population and the growth of per capita consumption. As you know, there are no simple answers and there are no silver bullets. The only answer I know is working in the direction of knowledge based, low carbon, resource efficient economy. Not as a nice, compelling political slogan, but as a reality. Why? Because knowledge and innovation are our strength here in Europe, and because transition to the sustainable future is simply inevitable.
Resource efficiency is for us, in import dependant Europe, not only the question of environmental preservation, it is also the central question of our future competitiveness. Germany is at the forefront, driving that momentum with a target to double raw materials productivity by 2020. Your experience in supporting businesses, particularly SMEs, to become more efficient, to improve products and production processes, can serve as an inspiration to many other Member States. I welcome the engagement of Germany to fuel the discussion on resource efficiency, including with the numerous events taking place this week.
Thank you for your attention.
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The Georgia Southwestern men's tennis team was unable to defeat its second-straight ranked team and lost 9-0 to NCAA Division II No. 10 Lander on Friday. The Hurricanes defeated the 10th-ranked NAIA program, Shorter University, on Tuesday.
Yvan Ruelle and Valentin Demande from GSW took the 11th-ranked doubles team of Oscar Axelsson and Adam Jonsson to a tiebreak at No. 1, eventually falling 9-8.
On the singles side, Ryan Bartz at No. 4 had the closest match, playing Samuel Poutignat to a score of 6-7, 3-6.
|Singles competition
|1. #15 Paul-Henri Arrigoni (LUM) def. Stephen Moore (GSW-M) 6-3, 6-1
|2. Vincent Verpeaux (LUM) def. Joseph Bjerregaard (GSW-M) 6-2, 6-1
|3. Adam Jonsson (LUM) def. Yvan Ruelle (GSW-M) 6-1, 6-4
|4. Samuel Poutignat (LUM) def. Ryan Bartz (GSW-M) 7-6, 6-3
|5. Diego Zegarra (LUM) def. Jake Koonce (GSW-M) 6-2, 6-2
|6. Ross Armstrong (LUM) def. Matt Vansant (GSW-M) 6-3, 6-4
|Doubles competition
|1. #11 Oscar Axelsson/Adam Jonsson (LUM) def. Yvan Ruelle/Valentin Demande (GSW-M) 9-8
|2. Paul-Henri Arrigoni/Maxime Desmars (LUM) def. Ryan Bartz/Joseph Bjerregaard (GSW-M) 8-4
|3. Vincent Verpeaux/Samuel Poutignat (LUM) def. Stephen Moore/Chris Eastwood (GSW-M) 8-2
Lander improves to 9-1 overall and 2-0 in the PBC. GSW is drops to 3-4 overall and 0-2 in PBC play. The Hurricanes travel to Atlanta on Sunday to meet Division I Georgia State in a non-conference affair at 6 p.m.
The Georgia Southwestern women's tennis team suffered 9-0 defeat at the hands of Lander (5-4, 2-1 PBC) on Friday afternoon.
The Lady Hurricanes' (3-4, 1-2 PBC) best opportunity for a point against the Lady Bearcats, came at No. 5 singles where Mollie McGowan dropped a 7-5, 7-5 decision to Eliza Adusumilli. Kalie Douberly lost a first-set tiebreak to Brandi Cordell at No. 2 singles for GSW before dropping the second set 6-3.
In doubles action, Carly Cangelosi and Ginny Jones had a strong showing at No. 1 for GSW, but came up short in an 8-6 loss.
|Singles competition
|1. Aurelia Ruffat (LUW2) def. Carly Cangelosi (GSW-W) 6-0, 6-0
|2. Brandi Cordell (LUW2) def. Kalie Douberly (GSW-W) 7-6, 6-3
|3. Eliza Adusumilli (LUW2) def. Mollie McGowan (GSW-W) 7-5, 7-5
|4. Cayce Bradley (LUW2) def. Ginny Jones (GSW-W) 6-3, 6-1
|5. Lori Flick (LUW2) def. Melinda Vansant (GSW-W) 6-2, 6-3
|6. Raissa Adusumilli (LUW2) def. Jessica Rigdon (GSW-W) 6-0, 6-1
|Doubles competition
|1. Aurelia Ruffat/Eliza Adusumilli (LUW2) def. Carly Cangelosi/Ginny Jones (GSW-W) 8-6
|2. Brandi Cordell/Cayce Bradley (LUW2) def. Mollie McGowan/Kalie Douberly (GSW-W) 8-3
|3. Nicola James/Raissa Adusumilli (LUW2) def. Melinda Vansant/Holly Craig (GSW-W) 8-4
Both GSW squads resume Peach Belt Conference play on Tuesday with 1 p.m. matches at perennial power Armstrong Atlantic.


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Posted: Thu 14 May 2009, 22:34
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Sorry about that, I must have forgotten to update the linux kernel PET package after making changes in it.
There is now an "alpha8", broken into 5 small files which is great for those on dialup who would like to play with this new pup:
This "alpha8" fixes some bugs.
But not rerwin's 3G modem stuff, you still need the PET package he posted earlier in this thread.
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Posted: Thu 14 May 2009, 23:53
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The sound problem is fixed. Burniso2cd burned alpha 7 to my multisession DVD+RW. Then I rebooted, saving the settings from alpha 6. Sound works on my computer now. No new problems found - yet. Good job!
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Joined: 26 Mar 2009
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Posted: Sat 16 May 2009, 00:20
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Don't know if this is a bug or not, but it was strange.
Going to install alpha 7 on an old P3 733mhz, 256 mb ram machine. Booted the live cd and went to Gparted to partition the hard drive.The main partition went fine but Gparted kept having errors when creating the swap.
No problem, out comes the Gparted cd, partition the drive and then install Puppy.After completing the full installation, I tried Gparted again and it would just continuously run without detecting anything.
Earlier tonight, after adding Pets and Ubuntu packages, Gparted decides to work correctly.
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Location: merriam, kansas
Posted: Sat 16 May 2009, 00:34
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Also noticed gparted not working when I did a frugal and
full install.
Wonder if Ubuntu gparted inode size will cause any problems.
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
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Location: Vienna Austria
Posted: Sat 16 May 2009, 02:09
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No charting in Gnumeric. Comes up with an error about missing glade library
Life is too short to spend it in front of a computer
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Posts: 159
Location: California
Posted: Sat 16 May 2009, 20:03
Post subject: libs
Subject description: libs
hey guys,
I built with a?-a5 and now a7. The major issue i've had has been the lack of libs post build. this is in every build (slack,deb,etc.) my a5 deb build has been stable enough for regular use.
@barryk- have you thought about keeping ppm just for puppy, and instead having the build specs call out for the appropriate command line pkg manager? i installed dpkg comline, no deps, runs fine. If this was done, then a small script could be designed for each type of build and be fed into the comline to build appropriately for each one, right?
also, anyone building with the scripts, you DO know to just use the package files from previous woof builds right?(most of you do im sure) forget dl time over and over.
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Posted: Sat 16 May 2009, 20:04
Post subject: libs
Subject description: libs
hey guys,
I built with a?-a5 and now a7. The major issue i've had has been the lack of libs post build. this is in every build (slack,deb,etc.) my a5 deb build has been stable enough for regular use.
@barryk- have you thought about keeping ppm just for puppy, and instead having the build specs call out for the appropriate command line pkg manager? i installed dpkg comline, no deps, runs fine. If this was done, then a small script could be designed for each type of build and be fed into the comline to build appropriately for each one, right?
also, anyone building with the scripts, you DO know to just use the package files from previous woof builds right?(most of you do im sure) forget dl time over and over.
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Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 17:13
Post subject: Wireless on laptops
Subject description: New version lets me use wireless
I had an older laptop but I upgraded to a Toshiba M305D. Since then, about 6 or 9 months ago maybe a year, I haven't been able to get wireless to work. I tried all the drivers, I had the patience to try but no dice. Finally with this 4.71 release it's working. I rather liked the new wireless start up function better. I'm using WPA protection and it was a breeze.
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Posts: 1922
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 18:28
Post subject: Correction to Intel536 initialzation script
Subject description: Affects multiple-modem configurations
I discovered a typo in the Intel 536 modem initialization script and have attached a replacement firmware tarball, to go into /lib/modules/all-firmware. The impact of the typo is that an already-selected modem is not respected.
Place this tarball in /lib/modules/all-firmware.
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Location: California
Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 21:18
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Subject description: ntfs3g fails
odd, a5 deb build of ntfs3g-fuse was fine, a7 deb build fails? not sure here. I wont get more specific yet. Hey Barry, i haven't seen many posts, so im pretty sure you are getting overwhelmed with input on woof. I know you were choosing to go upup for your own reasons, but at beta1 are you going to try to build each version?
I understand you have bandwidth issues. I have built each very quick(-3 hours), and would be willing to help with the compile time, by building the base iso and devx, then uploading, etc if it would expidite your efforts in any way. This would at least give you a starting environment to work with instead of having to dl and build each. Maybe im crazy?
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Joined: 09 May 2005
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 22:37
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I have very limited Internet access right now. I am responding to all problems on my blog.
yes, I would like to do other builds -- I want to build Karmic Puppy soon. When I get good Internet access.
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Location: UK
Posted: Mon 18 May 2009, 09:33
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I downloaded the 5 files and concatenated them.
I stll get locked out of a few computers with a
loading.isolinux drive error 20, ax=4800 , drives EF.
or slight variations - so whats the problem here?.
I really would like to try this new woof pup but wow is it hard going.
Thanks for thinking of us dial up users.
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Posts: 60
Posted: Mon 18 May 2009, 17:03
Post subject: woof build system
Subject description: some errors
i have built (tried to build) a few spups with woof alpha7, i normally do not watch my terminal scroll. but this time i did during createpackages script i noticed these
processing glibc-2.7-i486-17.tgz
./hack-install.sh: line 82: chroot: command not found
./hack-install.sh: line 192: cd: bin: No such file or directory
./hack-install.sh: line 193: cd: bin: No such file or directory
Processing glibc
processing glibc-solibs-2.7-i486-17.tgz
processing glibc-zoneinfo-2.7-noarch-17.tgz
Postprocessing with packages-templates/glibc
./hack-install.sh: line 2: ldconfig: command not found
./hack-install.sh: line 12: chroot: command not found
./hack-install.sh: line 20: chroot: command not found
heres some trminal output showing chroot and uname
# chroot
BusyBox v1.8.2 (2007-11-30 09:20:42 GMT-8) multi-call binary
Usage: chroot NEWROOT [COMMAND...]
Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT
# uname -a
Linux puppypc 18.104.22.168 #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 13:32:01 Local time zone must be set--see zic i686 GNU/Linux
ive run the script a few times and made a few tiny isos with no sfs but that was because of mksquashfs4 missing.
heres a few more errors i found during ./2createpackages
processing binutils-184.108.40.206.9-i486-1.tgz
tar: A lone zero block at 20600
about 20 of these tar errors
processing cyrus-sasl-2.1.23-i486-1cf.tgz
cat: etc/rc.d/rc.saslauthd.new: No such file or directory
and a similar number of these type of no dir errors
processing xf86-video-vesa-1.3.0-i486-2.tgz
...excluding ./packages-tgz/xf86-video-vga-4.1.0-i486-2.tgz
a few packages were excluded but im assuming this is normal operation
there is a slackware puppy with smp in my near future
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Joined: 05 Feb 2008
Posts: 776
Location: UK
Posted: Mon 18 May 2009, 18:14
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big_bass has made a 4.1.2slaxer_pup 12.2 k18.104.22.168 SMP enabled puppy, it's in derivitives section.
Load Htop and/or pwidgets and it displays multicore readout nicely.
Wow's un-named 4.11 puplet k184.108.40.206 is also SMP enabled, as is aragon's 4.2smp pup k220.127.116.11 and MU's newyear pup.
If memory serves me correctly FatDog is also SMP enabled.
Hope that is useful.
Best regards - Ray
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and surrounding region.
The Outer Banks are a narrow chain of barrier islands stretching more than 175 miles along North Carolina's coast. Separated from the mainland by sounds up to 30 miles wide, the area is subject to severe storms and high winds. At the time the Wrights were looking for a site for their experiments, Kitty Hawk consisted of a few houses, a post office, a U.S. Lifesaving station to aid shipwreck victims, and a U.S. Weather Bureau station. According to Weather Bureau records obtained by the Wrights, Kitty Hawk was the sixth-windiest station in the country. After receiving assurance from local residents that the surrounding area offered wide flat beaches, tall sand dunes, and privacy, the brothers decided that this would be the best place to test their glider.
Wilbur left Dayton, Ohio, on September 6, 1900, with some basic supplies and crates containing parts of the glider. He traveled by train to Old Point Comfort, Virginia, and then took a steamer to Norfolk. From there he boarded a train to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and finally a small fishing boat to Kitty Hawk. That first journey took seven days. Orville joined Wilbur after finding someone to look after the bicycle shop.
1. Using an atlas in your classroom or school library, locate Dayton, Ohio, and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on a map of the United States. How would you describe the location of each? How did the Wright brothers decide to test their glider on the Outer Banks?
2. Describe Wilbur Wright's first trip from Dayton to Kitty Hawk. Based on Map 1, why do you think there were so many "legs" on the journey? Why didn't the brothers travel together?
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Rossellini & India
Cinematheque Ontario has mounted a huge Roberto Rossellini retrospective.
Man [sic] goes through four stages of life in the Hindu, Vedic tradition: (1) Brahmachari, ends at age 25: study, devotion, veneration of your teacher, celibacy; (2) Grihastha, ends at age 50: marriage, becoming a parent and householder; (3) Vanaprastha, ends at age 75: begin to move away from worldly attachments; and finally, (4) Sanyasa: Renouncing the material life, leaving home, devoting oneself to meditation and prayer and "the eternal life," until death.
Along with Renoir's The River, Rossellini's 1958 documentary India, Matri Bhumi ("India, Motherland") is probably the best film I've seen about India made by a Western filmmaker. The former is readily available on a plush Criterion DVD, while the latter is mystifyingly difficult to see. Who knows if I'll ever get a chance to see it again? So I thought I'd set down, affix, the memory of my first—and perhaps, last—date with this film.
While Renoir adapted Rumer Godden's novel for his film, Rossellini traveled to India with the barest outline of what he wanted to do. He was fascinated, he said, by India's "simultaneity of history" in which past and present, traditional and modern, seemed to coexist in harmony. Rather than create an impersonal, 'objective' documentary portrait of the country, he structured the film in the form of four highly fictionalized episodes, flanked by an overtly documentary—although still highly personal—beginning and ending.
The film begins in Bombay: "Upon arrival, one immediately feels euphoric," the voiceover declares. Witty outsider observations about India and Indians follow, assembled in a fast-cutting, playful fashion. But before you know it, the film quickly leaves the city behind for the countryside, where it stays until the closing minute or so. The fast cutting is gone, replaced by (mostly) long takes and measured camera movements.
Rossellini has always had a great, deep feeling for place, and you can tell that he's discovered a whole other realm with India. Before he gets to the stories, he first seizes an interlude to film and speak of temples and ancient Indian architecture, which calls to mind the antiquities of the museum scene in Voyage In Italy. The first episode relates the story of a young mahout (elephant handler) who works his charges in the jungle; how patient and saintly these elephants seem as they use their trunks to load trees onto a truck with composure. Then, in the film's most lyrical scene, the men wash and scrub and minister to the elephants in a lake for hours under the hot sun. The two scenes (men work elephants, then pamper them) depict a wonderful give and take between animals and humans; there are animals galore in this film. Later, the mahout woos, proposes to, and marries a young woman he has only seen, never spoken to.
In the second episode, an engineer finds out that he's been transferred out of his current assignment at the Hirakud hydroelectric project, on the Mahanadi river. (We lived right on the banks of this river in Orissa when I was a kid.) He spends a day visiting the vast work area for the last time, bidding farewell to the fruits of his labors, and those of thousands of other workers. His voiceover celebrates the miracle of electricity. He takes a ritual, prayerful dip in the dam reservoir; it's a great gesture of connection between tradition and technology. With chalk, he writes on a wall the story of his emigration from East Bengal during the Partition. (Echoes of Jia Zhang-ke's Still Life, with messages on buildings and walls soon to be submerged by a large hydro project.) He has a small altercation with his wife; they argue and he pushes her away roughly in a moment of frustration and sorrow over their leaving. I flashed back to Rossellini's trilogy—Stromboli, Europa '51, Voyage In Italy—the greatest films about marriage I've ever seen.
The last two segments deal with old age and death. An old man finds that the tiger in a forest might have been unsettled by the arrival of iron prospectors, and tries to chase the tiger away to a safe place. In the final episode, a monkey's master dies during a heat wave and the monkey frees herself, wanders about hungry and then manages to find work as a trapeze artist at a circus. The film returns from the countryside to the city (Bombay) for a coda. The four fictional episodes, it seems to me, mirror roughly the four stages of the cycle of life in the Vedic tradition.
I think what I admire most about India is its wonderfully 'messy' collision of documentary and fiction, and its shaky relationship to neo-realism. The early neo-realist films (e.g. by De Sica) have a certain 'seamlessness of reality.' Yes, I agree that they are socially purposeful films, set among the working class, using nonprofessional actors, actual locations, etc. But in place of the Hollywood classical cinema the neo-realist films were opposing, they substituted a 'reality' that is internally consistent and unruffling, with few overt and visible signs of personal mediation between 'reality' and the artwork. One might even argue that neo-realist films, like classical Hollywood films, aimed for a certain 'invisibility of form.' And they used traditional story structures, touches of melodrama and even, occasionally, some sentimentality that made a play for the viewer's sympathies.
By contrast, Rossellini's India is a (wonderfully) uneasy admixture of real and fictional elements; the 'reality' that he found in India combines both lyrically and jarringly with the multiple subjectivities that course through the film. For starters, the framing segments in Bombay are narrated in booming Western third-person voiceover. Within each fictional segment, there are usually two voiceover tracks, one an external observer (presumably a stand-in for Rossellini) and the other the lead (Indian) character in the segment. All the characters (whether they are Bengali, South Indian, etc) speak their voiceover, oddly, in Italian! (Like Fritz Lang's The Tiger of Eschnapur/The Indian Tomb, in which Rajasthani kshatriyas speak flawless German!)
Why do I admire these dissonances? Because Rossellini's intense passion for his subject, India—not to mention his greatness as an artist—leads him to confidently, with conviction, place in full view the constructedness of the work. Not for him the 'invisibility of form' in service of 'reality without artifice' (is there such a thing?) that the early neo-realist films seemed to value so much. The four fictional stories are brazenly made-up, and although they use nonprofessional actors and location shooting, the film variously mocks the very idea of a documentary without deep subjective intervention and mediation. The best thing about this film is that it's not a distanced, pretend-'objective' view of the country and its culture; it's India completely filtered through Rossellini's subjective lens.
One of the interesting things about art is the way it resists rules and prescriptions. Key scenes (e.g. the tiger in the forest; the vultures circling the monkey and its dead master) are shot using inserts and cuts rather than deep-focus long takes, which Bazin might have maintained would have surely enhanced their impact. And yet, they work here even though we know that they involve camera trickery and props like fake blood. The intensity of intent and feeling that underpins these scenes gives them (to steal a phrase) a "truth beyond appearance" that is overpowering, one that is paradoxically enhanced when the 'seams' of subjectivity appear all the more prominently like tears in the tapestry of the film.


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Porsche launched the Porsche 928 for the 1978 model year as a potential replacement for the Porsche 911. The concept behind the Porsche 928 was to produce a model that combined a sports coupe with a luxury sedan. The new car would have the power and handling of a sports car, but could also be driven over long distances in comfort. Porsche felt that this type of vehicle would have a wider appeal than the Porsche 911 sports car, which was seeing a decrease in sales at the time. As a result, the front-engine Porsche 928 was developed.
The Porsche 928 was unveiled at the 1977 Geneva Motor Show in preparation for the 1978 model year sales. It was a two-door coupe in the grand tourer category that had a front-engine, rear drive layout. The goal of Porsche was to have long-running sales of the Porsche 928, so the design and style had to be such that they wouldn't become dated over time. Also, with competitors like BMW and Mercedes, the Porsche 928 had to not only be more comfortable than previous Porsche models, but its design and interior had to be more refined and luxurious as well.
Since Porsche began creating cars in the late 1940s, the company only produced six models that have had the engine mounted at the front of the vehicle. Four of these models were coupes and included the Porsche 928. Additionally, it's the only model that has a front-mounted V-8 engine. It was also the first mass-produced Porsche vehicle to contain a V-8 engine. The front-mounted engine layout was chosen to reduce noise produced by a rear-engine layout and to also provide adequate passenger space that would be lost if a mid-engine layout was adopted.
The first Porsche 928 to hit the roads in 1977 was equipped with a 4.5-liter, water-cooled, V-8 engine that produced 219 horsepower. As well as being the first Porsche equipped with a V-8 engine, it was also the first to feature a water-cooled engine instead of the air-cooled engines used in all previous Porsche models. To provide a 50/50 front/rear weight balance and better handling, Porsche included a transaxle in the Porsche 928. The first models were equipped with either a five-speed manual transmission or a three-speed automatic transmission. The engines in U.S. models were upgraded to include electronic fuel injectors instead of mechanical ones. The automatic transmission was upgraded to a four-speed during 1983 for North American models.
Most of the body was built from steel, but the aluminum was used for the front fenders, hood, and doors to reduce the weight of the car. The bumpers were made from polyurethane and integrated into the body to improve visibility from within the car, as well as reduce the amount of drag. They were covered with plastic that was the same color of the car, which was unusual at that time. By moving the engine to the front of the car, the Porsche 928 had a luggage area at the rear, which was accessed through a hatchback-style door. The two seats in the rear of the car could be folded down to provide more cargo space, if needed.
The Porsche 928S was introduced to the European market for the 1979 model year, but this design did not reach the North American market until 1982. In 1980, front and rear spoilers were added to the S models with the rear spoiler integrated as part of the hatchback. The spoilers remained this way until 1987, when the front spoiler was integrated into the nose, and the rear spoiler became a separate wing with added side skirts. The 928S model was fitted with a 4.7-liter, V-8 engine that had a power rating of 234 horsepower in the U.S.
In 1986, an improved Porsche 928 was released, denoting the 928S 4 for the fourth series of the car. It was equipped with an updated five-liter, V-8 engine with 316 horsepower and 317 lb-ft of torque. Instead of the dual-disc clutch unit, the Porsche 928S 4 had a new single-disc unit. As well as modifying the mechanical parts of the car to provide more power, Porsche also redesigned the car to reduce drag.
For the 1990 model, Porsche changed the name back to the Porsche 928S from the 928S 4. Changes included the addition of dual airbags, a tire pressure monitoring system, and a limited-slip rear differential. Porsche became the first to manufacture a car with airbags for both the driver and the passenger. The engine was modified so that it now produced 326 horsepower with a five-speed manual transmission. Model designations were GT for the manual transmission and S for the automatic. These were cut for the 1993 model year in the U.S. when it became the Porsche 928 GTS. Production ceased in 1995.
1995 Porsche 928
Coupe, Sports
The 1995 Porsche 928 is one of the lesser-known models from the high performance manufacturer.


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Sunday, March 7, 2010
Comics Reviews: DISNEY'S HERO SQUAD #2 and WIZARDS OF MICKEY #2 (Boom! Kids, February 2010)
For much of its Ultraheroes-themed length, HERO SQUAD #2 seems like a rehash of the battles of issue #1: Fethry "The Red Bat" and The Phantom Blot continue their tiff over Ultrapod-5, while John D. "Roller Dollar" Rockerduck strains to get some sort of reaction out of a slumbering Iron Gus (even resorting to cybertronic solicitors and collection agents!) as he hunts for Pod-6. Writer Giorgio Salati's characterization of the shape-shifting Blot -- that of a supercilious wordsmith and lint-picker -- is the highlight of the affair and one of the funnier takes on The Blot that I've seen to date. Example: as The Blot attempts to escape with Pod-5, he hectors Fethry for still calling himself "The Red Bat" even though he's wearing the Ultraheroes' standard-issue blue costume. The 12-page installment ends with the Ultraheroes holding the short end of the lollipop, though a battle in the sewers between Duck Avenger and The Blot looms. DA and The Blot are styled "the two team champions" -- though a couple of the Ultra's (especially Super Daisy, despite her recent warming-up to Donald's heroic i.d.) might debate the former point -- so I'm figuring that the end of the Ultramachine story arc may finally be upon us. The fact that the first HERO SQUAD reprint book, SAVE THE WORLD, is being solicited for next week also suggests that we're getting close to some sort of "end." But where is Mickey, and will the Beagle Boys ever let Scrooge escape from prison? So many subplots, so little time... The conclusion of "The Thief of Zanzipar" from SUPER GOOF #1 rounds out the issue, and my guess is that we'll be getting the origin of Duck Avenger next, unless Boom! decides to devote the entire length of #3 to wrapping up the Ultramachine saga.
WIZARDS OF MICKEY #2 has a fair amount going for it. The artwork, by Marco Mazzarello and Vitale Mangiatordi, is some of the series' best -- and, in the wrap-up to part #5, both "The Lord of Deception" and Mickey's erstwhile master, Nereus, appear to meet a "final fate" of sorts. Unfortunately, one of these characters is apparently slated for another one of those "we were only kiddin', folks!" comebacks that DC and Marvel fans know so well. Sigh. At least "Team Diamond Moon" (Minnie, Daisy, and Clarabelle) make their comeback at the beginning of part #6, "Witches at the Palace" (sounds like a sequel to Wicked to me), as they join "Wizards of Mickey" in the "Great Flower City" of Arborea for the next stage of the sorcery tournament. A new threat soon emerges in the person(s) of "Team Jinx," a trio of evil female magicks that features Magica De Spell (about time the writers went there, don't you think?). The next battle, the biggest one yet, will feature "team captains" only. Mickey (who's now received the official blessing of his "dearly departed" master to go for the tournament title) and Princess Minnie (who's still trying to bring her stone subjects back to life) are locks for the honor, but the squabbling "Team Jinx" may have a spot of trouble picking a champion...
3 comments:
- Aaron said...
Hi Chris,
Glad you liked the Phantom Blot's dialogue...just wanted to let you know it wasn't present in the original Italian script, but a decision to punch up this version of the character up by Christopher Burns and myself. Disney liked the idea, and from the initial feedback we've received it seems to have pleased fans as well.
- March 8, 2010 at 7:14 PM
- Joe Torcivia said...
As for the Blot's hectoring of Feathry… You, of all people, must know "He's mean, Mean, MEAN! Know what I mean?"
- March 8, 2010 at 10:10 PM
- Chris Barat said...
I do acknowledge the ULTRAHEROES Blot's resemblance to the DUCKTALES Blot, but the former is very much his own character as well -- more of a Felix Unger type than an over-the-top ranter. In my column for THFT! I referred to him as a "shape-shifting metrosexual"!
- March 9, 2010 at 7:56 PM


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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
New York Times on Estonian Christmas Sausages
Photo: Pille by Nami-Nami
Yesterday's New York Times ran an article about making verivorst aka black pudding, the traditional Estonian Christmas sausage, in the Estonian House in New York. You can read the article here: Without Blood Sausage, It Just Wouldn't Be Christmas.
Enjoy :)
2 comments:
- Lynda said...
Great article. I didn't know verivorst called for allspice. I remember my mother adding marjoram but not allspice.
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Who's Your Daddy?
The perils of personal genomics.
First Jackie learned her brother Alex was her uncle. Then things got a little weird.
In the spring of 2012, the 34-year-old and her older sibling (their names have been changed) spit a few milliliters of saliva into plastic tubes and shipped them off to 23andMe, a personal genomics company, for consumer-grade scans of their DNA. Their family has a long history of cancer, alcoholism, and bipolar disorder, and Jackie, who happens to work for a biomedical research lab, wanted to learn all she could about her health risks and propensities.
Alex wasn't quite so into it. Jackie is curious by nature, the kind of person who's always asking questions. ("You never, ever, ever know anything for sure," she tells me. "As a kid, I was always saying, 'How do I know the sky is really blue?' ") Her brother's just the opposite: a military man with little time for facts that don't bear directly on his mission goals. Growing up, she called him "Robot," because he's so even-keeled and self-sufficient. When they both got emails saying that their genome data could be viewed online, Alex didn't open his.
The two agreed to look over their reports together, though. Meeting at their mother's place, they logged into 23andMe.com and checked the hints about their health and heritage that had been extracted from their genomes. None of what they found was so surprising or distressing, at least until they reached a screen that promised access to "close relatives" who might be in the system. Opting in, the siblings learned a fact about themselves that would have been disturbing, were it not so obviously in error: Jackie had an uncle, the software told them—an Uncle Alex.
When Jackie wrote about the glitch on the 23andMe message board, she got a quick reply: That's not an error, another user wrote; it means that you and Alex are more distantly related than you think. The scientists in Jackie's lab agreed: Full siblings have about one-half their DNA in common, as do parents and their children. But the genome scan must have showed that she and Alex share one-fourth of their DNA instead. That proportion could imply that two samples came from a niece and her uncle, or from a girl and her grandfather. But it could also mean that Jackie and Alex were half-siblings—that they shared one parent but not the other.
Alex, who is eight years older than his sister, refused to believe the news. When Jackie called him to explain what the "uncle" thing was all about, he snapped at her. She'd never seen the "Robot" so angry or distraught. "Mom did not cheat on Dad," he said. "It's a data-entry mistake. You're crazy!" But for Jackie, something had begun to click. She and her brother had never looked that much alike, and their personalities were opposite. Their parents had been separated for 20 years, and Jackie was never close with the man she'd always called her dad. Though he lived just 10 minutes down the road, they rarely talked at all. When she had a baby last year, he didn't even come to visit.
Jackie had sent in her DNA to learn something new about herself but ended up more confused than ever. That night, she went to her mother's house and heard about a one-night stand with a much older man, her biological father, now dead for many years. When she got home that night she went to the bathroom to wash off her makeup. "I didn't recognize myself," she says. "I looked in the mirror and thought, who is this person?"
Last December, 23andMe announced that it would be cutting prices for its genome scans. The 7-year-old company reduced the cost from $299 to $99, in the hopes of building a database of 1 million users by the end of 2013. (They're one-quarter of the way there.) If that happens, how many of those clients will find themselves in the same dismaying situation as Jackie and her brother?
The study of false fatherhood, or nonpaternity, has turned up a wide variety of answers. University of Oklahoma anthropologist Kermyt Anderson says that measured rates of nonpaternity vary quite dramatically depending on the group of people being tested. Among those men who are quite confident of their status as biological fathers—the ones who volunteer their families for genetic studies of inheritance, for example—Anderson found a rate of nonpaternity of roughly 1.7 percent. At minimum, he says, 1 in 60 dads raises children that don't belong to him.
Anderson also went through data from companies that make their money testing for paternity. The men who send off DNA for these commercial tests presumably have cause to be suspicious. These men should have the highest incidence of nonpaternity, Anderson says. When he checked the research on this population, he found a median rate of close to 30 percent.
The true number across the U.S. population likely falls between these two extremes, but while it's often said that 10 percent of fathers are raising someone else's child, this interpolation isn't quite supported by the facts. The best summations of the data figure an overall prevalence of nonpaternity at more like 2 or 3 percent. One analysis from 2008 looked at several dozen studies going back to the 1890s and found an average rate of 3.1 percent, but also hinted that the numbers might be declining over time (possibly in concert with increasing contraceptive use).
Which is all to say that the expanded 23andMe database may include as many as 30,000 customers like Jackie (3 percent of 1 million) who have gone their whole lives without knowing that their father doesn't share their genes. Even now, among the 250,000 people who have already been genotyped by the company, one might expect that 6,000 or 7,000 were unwittingly involved in cases of nonpaternity. Some of these people have sent off their saliva and gotten back a secret that changed their families forever, for better or for worse.
The rise of personal genomics has not created this phenomenon, of course. Nonpaternity results can arise even in the course of routine medical testing. What happens if a doctor sees that a baby's blood type could not have come from its father? (If the baby's is AB and the father's turns up O, the doctor knows that something is amiss.) In the last few decades, the medical establishment has decided that these findings should be concealed, to protect the mother's privacy and avoid unnecessary harm.
Those who seek that information can get it elsewhere. As of 2011, you can buy an over-the-counter, mail-in paternity test in every state. (The kit costs about $30, plus $129 for analysis.) But these customers know exactly what they're getting into. When people sign up for a service such as 23andMe, they may have no idea that a family secret is about to be exposed.
23andMe does take some steps to warn its users of the risks. The top question on the company FAQ is "What unexpected things might I learn?" and the answer mentions that "genetic information can also reveal that someone you thought you were related to is not your biological kin. This happens most frequently in the case of paternity." The terms of service specify that "once you obtain your Genetic Information, the knowledge is irrevocable," and that "you may learn information about yourself that you do not anticipate" and "may provoke strong emotion."
Yet it's also true that the chances of discovering a case of nonpaternity through 23andMe, and the relative significance of that discovery, far outweigh almost every other finding that the service can provide. Much of what the scan can tell you is perfectly trivial. Do you have the genes for blue eyes or red hair? (For a first approximation, try looking in the mirror.) Do you have the genes for tasting bitterness in Brussels sprouts? (Maybe, but who cares?) After Steven Pinker signed up for 23andMe, he wrote in the New York Times Magazine, "For all the narcissistic pleasure that comes from poring over clues to my inner makeup, I soon realized that I was using my knowledge of myself to make sense of the genetic readout, not the other way around."
Other data points from your personal genomic scan will be more suggestive than deterministic. The test might tell you that you're at a somewhat heightened risk for diabetes or arthritis, but it can be hard to know which bullet points are based on solid science, and which are based on single studies with unconvincing correlations. I asked the company's senior research director Joanna Mountain which genome data would have the most real-world significance for customers, and she named four: Major risk factors for Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, a form of heart disease called TTR-related cardiac amyloidosis, and breast and ovarian cancer. (The latter are similar to the risk factor discovered by Angelina Jolie. 23andMe reports on three well-studied variants of the BRCA gene, but there are hundreds of others that may be associated with cancer.)
These are serious conditions, and the risks conferred by certain gene variants appear to be severe. With breast cancer, for example, the relevant mutations may increase the risk of getting the disease from about 13 percent to 60 percent. In Parkinson's, the risk goes up from about 1 or 2 percent to 74 percent. The gene for cardiac amyloidosis can increase the risk of heart failure among elderly African-Americans from 15 percent to 38 percent. Having two copies of the Alzheimer's gene might boost your risk of that disease by a factor of 11.
Given the stakes, 23andMe tries to protect its users. To check your status as a carrier for the genes in question, you must confirm that you're prepared to know the truth and understand the consequences. Even so, the actual risk of carrying these genes is very low. Just 0.013 percent of the population carries the relevant mutations predisposing them to breast and ovarian cancer, for example. (Among Ashkenazi Jews, it's 2 or 3 percent.) One or 2 percent of people will turn out to have the major risk factor for Alzheimer's, and the gene for cardiac amyloidosis matters most to African-Americans, among whom the rate is still just a few percent.
So the chances that you're carrying these genes—the risk that you're at a heightened risk for one of these diseases—tops out at 2 or 3 percent, even in the ethnic groups that are most heavily afflicted. That's directly comparable to the risk of nonpaternity, except when it comes to nonpaternity, we're not talking about people who are merely "carriers" of a twisted gene. If your father's not your father, that's the end of the story. It's not a risk factor; it's a fact.
23andMe asks for two layers of consent before it shows family relationships. First, users are given the chance to turn off the "relative finder" function, which shows relations as close as second cousins. Less than 1 percent of the site's customers choose to opt out. The rest are given the chance to click through to see their "close relatives," and about 40 percent proceed. It's the people in this latter group who may uncover a case of nonpaternity.
This quirky system shows the difficulties that arise in managing genomic data. It used to be that people chose to learn about themselves or not, and doctors helped determine which bits of information were appropriate for each of us to know. Now we're heading for a place where secrets flow more freely, where wise consumers must play defense with the facts.
A certain gene might increase the risk for a certain kind of cancer; that's easy to assimilate. But what about the data points that tell us how we fit in with our families? And how does this relate to our changing sense of what it means to have a family at all? "We are living in an awkward interval where our ability to capture the information often exceeds our ability to know what to do with it," said NIH director Francis Collins last summer, in an interview with Gina Kolata of the New York Times. Science is getting personal. Medicine is getting personal. Information is getting personal. That means each of us will have to figure out a personal approach to the swelling stream of data. At some point, all of us may have to decide: Do I want to know the truth or not? Am I a Jackie or an Alex?
As time went by, Jackie found some satisfaction in her newfound knowledge. Her lack of closeness with her father wasn't from some failing on his part or on hers, she thought; it wasn't cause for guilt or shame or disappointment. It was only nature. Their relationship had been doomed by mismatched nucleic acids. "I didn't connect with my dad, and now it makes sense," she says. "It's fine. It is what it is."
Jackie doesn't plan to tell her father what she knows. There's no point in hurting him, she says. If they were closer, maybe they would need to have a conversation; but then again, if they were closer, the truth might be more painful still. For now, she's decided not to bring it up, and she won't mention it again to her brother Alex or her mom.
She's been searching for descendants of her biological father, though, and reaching out to his relatives on Facebook and Ancestry.com. A distant cousin passed along a family history that her grandfather, Emmet, typed out in 1964, after five years spent sifting through state archives and church registers. The painstaking document traces Jackie's ancestors back to Norway across 17 generations—an early analog to her own project of self-discovery done through spit analysis and social media. "His attitudes sound just like mine," she says, referring to Emmet's urge to look into his background. "I can tell you that before this whole experience, I would have told you that I believed more in nurture than nature, but since then I've seen how strong nature is."
Some people seem to have this inborn curiosity, a need to dig into their pasts. (A future version of 23andMe might tell you if you're the type of person who would be interested in 23andMe!) Now those people have a better tool for excavation—and when 1 million customers start to pick away, they're sure to tap a heavy vein of secrets.
If this is good or bad it's hard to say. Near the bottom of his history, Emmet jotted down some thoughts that Jackie says she shares exactly: "Many people when discussing genealogy comment that we should let the sleeping dead lie," he wrote almost 40 years ago, "and the other cliché heard so frequently is the warning to be careful lest you turn up a horse thief. The trouble with the first saying is that the sleeping dead just don't lie; something of them is with each of us, dormant or dominant."


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Nobody seems quite sure what the immigrant-returning immigrant ratio might be today, but I suspect it is higher than most people might think. Labor is following the lead of capitalit is fickle, it follows the market, and it is decidedly unsentimental. To cite just one example: thousands of Irish immigrants who came to America in the 1980s are going back to Ireland to share in their native lands astonishing prosperity. Few would begrudge them, or perhaps it would be better to say that few should begrudge them. After all, we are bombarded with New Economy propaganda asserting the virtues of borderless capitalism, by which the propagandists generally mean the free movement of money from nation to nation and market to market.
If we applaud those smart enough to move their money and investments from nation to nation in pursuit of double-digit returns, well, why shouldnt we admire those who move themselves and their families in pursuit of riches? Should they be rigidly loyal to one nation, one home, while the market celebrates the shifting loyalty known as pure self-interest? Is not immigration simply labors way of contributing to our new, borderless century?
Immigration is about to become a hot-button issue again, for two reasons. First, the economy is destined to plunge into recession (notwithstanding Alan Greenspans dramatic interest-rate cut earlier this month), meaning that those glittering unemployment figures of the mid- and late 1990s are about to lose their shine. If the jobless rate begins to approach 8 or 9 percent, a backlash against immigrants is, sadly, inevitable. The argument will be distressingly familiar. Immigrants, it will be said, are taking jobs that ought to go to real Americans; immigrants are driving down salaries because they are happy to work for less money than real Americans.
Second, the U.S. Census Bureau has reported that there are some 281 million of us, an increase of 13 percent over 1990. Some parts of the country, especially California, have grown by 20 percent or more. States with more modest growth rates, like poor old New York with its 5 percent increase, find themselves losing U.S. Representativesand thus political cloutbecause their growth hasnt kept up with other states. Population experts reckon that the U.S. population will double in the next 70 years. This means that there will more than a half-billion of us within the lifetime of todays elementary-school students.
Immigrants are to blame for this startling increase, and thus our ever-sprawling sprawl, our crowded highways, our teeming urban neighborhoods, our standing-room-only public schools. So say an increasing number of gate-shutters, who have begun to use the census figures as evidence of immigrations dire effect on all that we hold dear: pristine woodlands, clean drinking water and the occasional parking spot.
Wishing for a reasonable debate over immigration would seem akin to insisting that Republicans and Democrats stop playing partisan games and instead work for the common good. Its a nice thought, but not terribly realistic. Still, this generally pro-immigration observer is prepared to concede that some immigration critics can, and do, make salient points, and this without resorting to the racially charged language that seems so much a part of this debate. For example, some anti-immigration commentators rightly insist that pro-immigrants must do more than simply cite the open door of the 19th century to justify immigration policies in the 21st century. When Ellis Island was open for business, America still had vast open spaces in the plains and the West. The nations population in 1880 was only 50 million, and America was still very much in the process of nation-building. The frontier had not yet closed.
Twenty-five million immigrants came here between 1880 and 1925, when new restrictions were imposed. Another 25 million have come since the immigration reforms of 1965. The time has come, say several respected commentators, to take a page from the 1920s. They would impose new restrictions while we assimilate the millions we have taken in over the last 35 years.
Thats an honorable argument (although the citation of the racist immigration restrictions of the 1920s is not the best tactic in the world). Still, it does not provide a satisfactory answer to the ultimate new economy question: If capital can move, indeed, if it is encouraged to move from market to market, why cant labor? Or is this new borderless economy designed only for money, not for people?
I suspect that the anti-immigration forces will dominate the debate over the next few years, and their seemingly reasonable arguments will strike many native-born Americans, and perhaps even a few immigrants, as acceptable and even in keeping with the American tradition of immigrant ebb and flow.
Ultimately, though, these rational, nonideological arguments have to be squared with our much-celebrated dogma of free trade, open markets and borderless capitalism. And that will be no easy assignment.


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We're a marketing company working on a package design for a unique beverage that contains antioxidants from the seeds and skins of grapes.
The name of the product is - OH3. The 3 should be smaller and lower such as usually shown in H2O. The OH can have an exclamation point if the designer chooses - OH!3.
The overall goal is to develop a bottle package design that highlights the name and conveys an upscale image of fun and health. It can contain images related to grapes or heart.
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- 1½ cups whole wheat flour
- ½ cup almond meal
- ½ cup flaxseed meal
- ¼ cup flaxseeds
- 1 cup sugar
- 3½ tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- 3 Tblsp. oil
- ¾ cup milk
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 cup walnuts or pecans halves or chopped
- 1 cup banana chopped
- Mix the dry ingredients. Mix the moist ingredients.
- Mix the moist into the dry and blend, just until it's all mixed together.
- Lightly grease a loaf pan or fill foil lined muffin cups 2/3 of the way full.
- Makes one loaf of bread or 18 regular muffins/12 large.
- Bake at 350 degrees.
- Bread bakes for one hour, until toothpick comes out clean.
- Bake muffins for 20-25 minutes, until done to the touch.
Terri's Notes
- I baked the recipe as is and loved it! Wendy says she sometimes mixes a little more flour and flaxseed meal together to replace the almond meal and it works well too.
- I prefer muffins, they bake faster and so are always moist all the way through ~ and it helps measure portion control!
12 servings: 300 calories, 7g fiber, 8g protein, 14 g fat (all mono and poly - the good ones)
18 servings: 200 calories, 4.7g fiber, 5.5g protein, 9g fat
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