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The Dynamo Academy U-18s, presented by Statoil, advanced to the Dallas Cup semifinals with a dramatic 5-4 victory over Central California Blues on Friday afternoon. Houston will take on California based club PAC Tigres who advanced to the semifinals after defeating Knowsley Youth 5-4. PAC Tigres knocked the Dynamo U-16s out of last year's Dallas Cup, scoring a late goal to earn a 2-2 draw in their final group stage match.
The Dynamo got off to a strong start on Friday taking a 4-0 lead into halftime against Central California Blues. Dynamo homegrown signing Bryan Salazar (pictured, above) scored three goals in the first half to up his tournament goal scoring total to seven. Carlos Ibarra add another for his fourth goal in four games.
Unfortunately for Houston, the match was a tale of two halves. After dominating the first half and controlling the run of play, Central California Blues responded to the tune of four unanswered goals including the equalizer in the 86th minute.
Houston would get the last laugh, however, as Irvin Ramirez beat a pair of defenders and was taken down in the penalty box in the 90th minute. Ramirez converted the penalty kick and the Dynamo defended a last-second free kick to advance with a 5-4 victory. The win gives the Dynamo their first Dallas Cup semifinal berth since 2011.
In Houston's other quarterfinal match, the Dynamo U-14s fell to Chicago Magic PSG on penalty kicks. Roberto Marquez gave the Dynamo a 1-0 lead before Chicago Magic equalized in the second half. After a scoreless overtime, the two teams went to a penalty shootout. Each team made their first five shots, but after Chicago made their sixth attempt, Houston could not convert. Marquez led the Dynamo U-14s with three goals in the tournament.


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Stark's steely comeback penetrates the fog of excessively 3-D laden battle
"Iron Man 3"
Rating: PG-13
When: Opens Friday
Where: Wide release
Running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
did you know?
According to Reuters, When "Iron Man 3" makes its Chinese debut, it will include top Chinese actress Fan Bingbing and some footage shot inside China — additions aimed at tapping into the country's lucrative and booming cinema market. It's also hoped the changes will help ease the film past China's strict censors.
The end credits of "Iron Man 3" reveal a lot more than the people behind the scenes. The hundreds — perhaps thousands — of names represent the dozens of special effects companies that brought the latest Marvel installment to life and take an excruciatingly long time to scroll up the screen. Densely packed in tiny white text, the credits are almost as dizzying as the over-caffeinated, 3-D action sequences that warrant them.
More telling is the quiet patience with which the previously pumped-up preview audience sat through this endless list. While I'm sure they were appreciative of the whiz-bang dazzle that filled the previous two hours, this bunch wasn't watching out of gratitude; they were eagerly expecting the short bit of fan bait that was sure to come once the credits petered out. This devotion, perhaps even more so than the films themselves, is what makes the modern-day Marvel universe such a marketing juggernaut (for the record, the addendum is cute, but not worth the wait).
In his third go-round as a solo superhero, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), aka Iron Man, is undergoing an identity crisis as he grapples with the consequence of his brash, carelessness 15 years prior — the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), a culturally ambiguous terrorist dead set on teaching the president of the United States (William Sadler) some very public and lethal lessons. It's a battle of good old-fashioned American machinery and ingenuity against rogue science as the mechanically enhanced Stark faces off with the Mandarin's genetically enhanced, nearly indestructible army of veteran soldiers. Exactly why the Mandarin is so furious with America is intentionally muddled within the theatrical taunts he delivers through hijacked satellite transmissions, but he does hit upon a few raw nerves from America's past, as well as the country's fondness for empty commercialism (irony noted).
While some of the mysterious villain's attacks are indeed horrific, particularly the attack aboard Air Force One, director Shane Black ("Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"), taking over the franchise's directorial duties from Jon Favreau (who reprises his role as Stark's head of security), contains the threat entirely within Iron Man's immediate sphere. We never see or hear of the nationwide panic or strain on foreign relations that such attacks most certainly would trigger. The Mandarin is entirely Iron Man's problem. While this choice lessens the sense of danger, it gives Black and his co-writer Drew Pearce ample opportunity to showcase the natural ease with which Downey creates America's snarkiest of flawed heroes.
The star gets some worthwhile talent to banter with, including Guy Pearce as a malicious entrepreneur with a crush on Stark's now live-in girlfriend, Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow, who gets a too brief opportunity to show off her fierce side), Rebecca Hall as a former flame tied to the Mandarin's rise, and Don Cheadle as Colonel James Rhodes, who proves himself to be an action hero without the aid of an iron suit, or enough screen time (as always seems to be the case with this fine actor).
When Stark is paired with a precocious boy (Ty Simpkins) who helps him rebuild his suit — and his identity — the film veers awfully close to precocious hero worship, but it is deliciously fun to watch the man-child Stark try his rapid-fire sarcasm on an actual child. And then there is Kingsley, in a surprising turn that cannot be elaborated upon but is worth the price of admission alone.
Not worth the cost is the film's use of 3-D. There is something whipping across the screen every few seconds in "Iron Man 3," be it pieces of Iron Man's armor zooming across the sky in search of their rightful owner, or concussive explosions triggered by an overheated genetic mutant that propel debris in every direction. The added dimension is overkill for a film that already hits its limit on visual and aural stimulation, and the muddy quality it brings makes Black's lengthy and chaotic action sequences even more difficult to track.
Tony Stark may be going through an identity crisis in "Iron Man 3," but the actor who portrays him never wavers. Downey lives up to his character's signature "I am Iron Man" claim by creating a ceaselessly charming but flawed protagonist that carries the film, even when he's stripped of the gadgets and the confidence that made him a superhero in the first place.


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I'm not trying to sound appreciative because I am more appreciative than you know. However, you pros could help us newbies if you would just finish your sentences.
It so happens I am using an external USB enclosure. Thanks to Jamie's detailed instructions to Svenn I actually used Tivopart and have Linux recognizing my drive as sdb. Man was I proud of that and thought I was in the home stretch until I got to this part of the instructions. Now I know to you pros this is an obvious statement but to a newbie like me you might as well have written the instructions in Russian because I preceded to spend 3 hours googling in an attempt to unravel this brain teaser of a mystery.
My best guess is this was the line he changed "for dspec in /dev/sd?;"One user employed a USB - SATA adapter that caused Linux to think it was a floppy, causing the script to fail. Modifying the check in line 9 at the top of the script fixed the issue for him.
Now for the big question, what did he change the line to?
I can mount the different partitions and do just about anything else but I can't figure out how to modify the script to make it run with my external USB drive. I even replaced all the $dspec with /dev/sdb and still can't get it to run.
Short story... I do customer service and when placing a certain order in one of our systems you hit F4 to advance to the next screen. At the second to the last screen you have to hit F9 or you'll be in a continual loop. I asked the instructor why F9 isn't in the instructions and he responded, "because everyone knows you hit F9 at that screen". So I said "except anyone who needs to read the instructions". He said, "right, that's how you learn" and walked away.
There is no F9 in the instructions to this day...


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A besieged government and its supporters retaliated fiercely against journalists covering the months of popular protests that sought an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule. Authorities detained local journalists, expelled international reporters, and confiscated newspapers in an effort to silence coverage, while government supporters and plainclothes agents assaulted media workers in the field. Two journalists covering anti-government protests were killed by gunfire, one by security forces who fired live ammunition to disperse a demonstration, the other by a sniper suspected to have been acting on behalf of the government. The government singled out Al-Jazeera in a months-long effort to silence its coverage. In March, plainclothes agents raided the station's Sana'a bureau, confiscating equipment. The raid followed the expulsion of two Al-Jazeera correspondents. Days later, authorities ordered Al-Jazeera's offices shut and its journalists stripped of accreditation. Other newsrooms were under direct fire. Armed men in civilian clothes tried to storm the offices of the independent daily Al-Oula, seriously wounding an editorial trainee, while military forces shelled the Yemeni satellite broadcaster Suhail TV, whose staff endured numerous other threats and detentions. In a rebuke to the regime, the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to renowned Yemeni press freedom activist Tawakul Karman, chairwoman of Women Journalists Without Chains, along with two female African leaders.
Jamal al-Sharaabi, a photojournalist for the independent weekly Al-Masdar, was shot by security forces dispersing demonstrations in March. Hassan al-Wadhaf, a cameraman for the Arabic Media Agency, died of injuries sustained when he was shot by a sniper at an anti-government protest in Sana'a.
Several journalists were expelled for their coverage of the popular uprising. CPJ recorded eight expulsions between March 14 and 19, a period of particularly intense public protests:
2 on March 13: Reporter Patrick Symmes and photographer Marco Di Lauro, on assignment
for Outside, a U.S.-based travel and
adventure magazine
4 on March 14: Oliver Holmes, a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and Time magazine; Haley Sweetland Edwards, a contributor to the Los Angeles Times; Joshua Maricish, a photographer; and Portia Walker, a contributor to The Washington Post
2 on March 19: Al-Jazeera correspondents Ahmad Zeidan and Abdel Haq Sadah
In May, security forces seized 12,000 copies of Al-Oula, an independent daily, and burned them at a military checkpoint. Authorities used newspaper seizures as a tactic to silence coverage of anti-government demonstrations.
CPJ recorded numerous assaults against journalists covering anti-government demonstrations. Many journalists also saw their equipment confiscated or destroyed.
Victims were from a variety of outlets:
5: Al-Arabiya
5: BBC Arabic
5: Freelance
4: Al-Oula (local newspaper)
3: Suhail TV (local)
2: Al-Jazeera
2: Al-Nidaa (local independent weekly)
2: Al-Thawra (state-owned publication)
1: Agence France-Presse
1: Al-Alam TV (Iranian Arabic station)
1: Al-Masdar (local newspaper)
1: The Guardian
1: Qatar TV
1: Al-Sahwa (local news website)
1: Reuters
1: Swiss Info
1: European Pressphoto Agency
In October, security forces arrested Abd al-Karim Thail, editor of the news website 3feb, which focused on coverage of the country's unrest. No charges had been disclosed by late year.Abdulelah Hider Shaea, a frequent Al-Jazeera commentator and critic of the government's counterterrorist tactics, continued serving a five-year prison term on antistate charges. Antistate charges are commonly used against critical journalists worldwide.
Charges used to imprison journalists worldwide:
79: Antistate charges
65: No charge disclosed
14: Violations of censorship rules
11: Retaliatory charges unrelated to journalism
5: Criminal defamation
3: Engaging in ethnic or religious "insult"
2: Reporting "false" news


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Top Items:
Tom Neumayr / Apple:
100 Million iPods Sold — Apple® today announced that the 100 millionth iPod® has been sold, making the iPod the fastest selling music player in history. The first iPod was sold five and a half years ago, in November 2001, and since then Apple has introduced more than 10 new iPod models …
Discussion: PC World: Techlog, Engadget, Startup Meme, Gizmodo, dailywireless.org, MacUser, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Howard Lindzon, TechSpot News, Guardian Unlimited, I4U News, TechCrunch, CrunchGear, Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus, Graceful Flavor, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Paul Colligan's …, Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer, MacMinute, Mark Evans, Podcasting News, Slashdot and geektechnique.org
Harry McCracken / PC World: Techlog: A Hundred Million iPods!
Bilal Hameed / Startup Meme: iPod Empire Hits Milestone, 100 million iPods Sold
Dan Moren / MacUser: Apple: Over 100 million iPods served
Erik Orejuela / TechSpot News: Apple sells its 100 millionth iPod
Charles Arthur / Guardian Unlimited: iPod sales hit 100m - helped by good Christmases in its six years
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Wow, That's A Lot of iPods
Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear: Holy Cow! Apple Sells 100 Millionth iPod
Jeff Ventura / Graceful Flavor: The undisputable arrival of a modern music icon.
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Apple announces 100 million iPods sold
Paul Colligan / Paul Colligan's Profitable Podcasting: 100 Million IPods Sold - On Demand Media Not Going Away
Shelly Palmer / Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer: MediaBytes - Monday — Apple announced the sale of the 100 …
Mark Hoekstra / geektechnique.org: 100 million iPods sold
Georges Yared / BloggingStocks:
Apple is a Phenomenon — Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) …
Apple is a Phenomenon — Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) …
Discussion: Macsimum News and 24/7 Wall St.
Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News: Apple is a 'phenomenon'
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
No twinkie badges here. — I was doing my best to ignore Tim O'Reilly's misguided effort to play hall monitor to the blogosphere, wishing it would just go away. But unfortunately the New York Times did not ignore it. How could it pass up a juicy opportunity to make us all look like the louts they all too often think we are?
Discussion: Scobleizer, mathewingram.com/work, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Joe Duck, Things That, B.L. Ochman's weblog, InformationWeek Weblog, Bob Stepno's …, Andrew Lark, Connected Internet, rexblog.com, Scripting News, Deep Jive Interests, [Geeks Are Sexy] …, gapingvoid, i-boy, Guardian Unlimited, Alfred Thompson …, The Adventures …, Weblogg-ed, WebProNews, New York Times, O'Reilly Radar, Roam4free, Smalltalk Tidbits …, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Life On the Wicked Stage, Paul Mooney, 901am, duncanriley.com, IP Democracy, Digital Common Sense, John Furrier, The Intuitive Life …, confused of calcutta, Enterprise Web 2.0, Burningbird, A VC and the Constant Observer
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer: Code of conduct or not? — Tim O'Reilly just posted the draft …
TDavid / Things That: Blogger code of conduct, meh
BL Ochman / B.L. Ochman's weblog: NY Times: Cool Kids Wannabes
By Alice LaPlante / InformationWeek Weblog: Can't We Just All Get Along?
Bob Stepno / Bob Stepno's Other Journalism Weblog: Blogstorm civility debate offers research opportunities
Dave Winer / Scripting News: O'Reilly's code of conduct
George Nimeh / i-boy: Code of conduct for the blogosphere
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: The Blogger code — can people at least be polite?
Joey deVilla / The Adventures of Accordion Guy …: The Blogger's Code of Conduct, and Those Steenking Badges
Will Richardson / Weblogg-ed: "A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs"-NY Times
David A. Utter / WebProNews: O'Reilly Draws Up Blogging Code Policy
Brad Stone / New York Times: A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar: Draft Blogger's Code of Conduct
James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants: The downside of owning comments
Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage: A License To Blog? — The fracas over the recent incident …
Duncan / duncanriley.com: Blogging Code of Conduct
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy: Blogging Guidelines Could Help Protect Free Speech
Dave Taylor / The Intuitive Life Business Blog: Why I'll never sign up for any Blogger Code of Conduct
Jerry Bowles / Enterprise Web 2.0: Just Say No to the Blogging Code of Conduct
Mike / CrunchNotes:
My Thoughts On O'Reilly's Code of Conduct
My Thoughts On O'Reilly's Code of Conduct
Discussion: Computerworld, Deep Jive Interests, down the avenue, Download Squad, Ars Technica, Worker Bees Blog, Valleywag, Bloggers Blog, The Blog Herald, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, kottke.org, Rough Type, Invisible Inkling, Jim Kukral Online …, Boing Boing, Rational rants, Better Living through Software, Zoli's Blog, the j. botter weblog, Center for Citizen Media, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, Silicon Valley Watcher, Not Quite a Blog 2.0, robhyndman.com, Search Engine Roundtable, The TNL.network, Social Media Club, Glass House, Mark Evans and Newsome.Org
Heather Havenstein / Computerworld: Civility or censorship? O'Reilly proposes blogging code of conduct
Dolores Parker / Download Squad: Blogging code of conduct - or anything goes?
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: Blogger Code of Conduct: the tyranny of good intentions
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband: What Web 2. silliness and blog code of behavior silliness …
Nick / Rough Type: Thanks, Tim and Jimbo!
Ryan / Invisible Inkling: Keep your code of conduct out of my communication medium, thank you kindly
Jim Kukral / Jim Kukral Online Marketing …: O'Reilly's Blogging Code Of Conduct Puts Blogs Back In The Dark Ages
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: Blogger "code of conduct" trades freedom for politeness
Mitch Ratcliffe / Rational rants: Thank you for the blogging guidelines, but no thanks
Zoli Erdos / Zoli's Blog: Bloggers' Code of Conduct vs. Free Market
Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media: In Blogosphere, Honor Should Rule
J. LeRoy / J. LeRoy's Evolving Web: Don't Blog Stupid — I have a long standing rule never to blog angry.
Jason Chervokas / Social Media Club: Social Media Now: Blogger Code of Conduct is DOA
Frank Shaw / Glass House: No to the Blogging Code of Conduct
PC World:
Google Admits Using Outside Source for Chinese App — Software updated, but Sohu.com still wants apology and compensation. — Faced with mounting questions over similarities with a rival's software, Google Sunday acknowledged that a dictionary of Chinese words used with one of its recently …
Discussion: Startup Meme
Bilal Hameed / Startup Meme: Google Caught Stealing
Google Blogoscoped:
Google's IME Caught Plagiarizing
Google's IME Caught Plagiarizing
Discussion: Googling Google and Ars Technica
Garett Rogers / Googling Google: Google's input method editor under fire
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica: Google caught using third-party software, apologizes
Antony Bruno / Reuters:
New WiMAX broadband technology a boon for labels — LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - If you've never heard the term "WiMAX" before, don't sweat it. You're probably not alone. — But in the hyper-wonk, tech-speak jargon of the wireless industry, WiMAX is the latest thing making its way through …
Discussion: MobileCrunch and Gizmodo
Matt Hickey / MobileCrunch: Music Labels Looking Forward to WiMax, Profits
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo: The Cutest Darn Dustbusters Ever
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Yahoo! and SanDisk roll out hopeful iPod competitor — Yahoo!, SanDisk, and tech startup Zing have decided to jump into the pool of hopeful iPod competitors with the new Sansa Connect music player, which hit the shelves on Friday. The digital music player and its ecosystem comes …
Discussion: ComputerShopper.com's …, David Card, eHomeUpgrade and Gadget Lab
Erin Kandel / ComputerShopper.com's Shoptalk Blog: SanDisk Sansa Connect MP3 Player Works with Yahoo Music
Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab: Sansa Connect Makes Most of WiFi
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
A New Wireless Player Hopes to Challenge iPod
A New Wireless Player Hopes to Challenge iPod
Discussion: Yahoo! Music Blog, Apple 2.0, GigaOM, Good Morning Silicon Valley, WebProNews and Traffick
Om Malik / GigaOM: And now Yahoo wants a piece of iPod
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley: Apple to SanDisk: Yeah, that "9 percent market share against …
Joe Lewis / WebProNews: Yahoo & Friends to Challenge iPod
Andrew Goodman / Traffick: Yahoo's New Wireless MP3 Player
Michael White / Bloomberg:
Electronic Arts Plays Catch-Up After Shrug-Off of Wii (Update1) — Video-game designer Nick Earl spent eight months holed up with his development team rushing to adapt ``The Godfather'' for Nintendo Co.'s Wii. — The reason for the long hours: Earl's employer, Electronic Arts Inc. …
Discussion: Kotaku, Joystiq, Go Nintendo and Game | Life
Tony Carnevale / Joystiq: EA struggles to meet demand for Wii games
Chris Kohler / Game | Life: Bloomberg: EA, T2 Playing Wii Catchup
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
How to win in the Twitter vs. Jaiku battle — Over the weekend, a weird thing happened on the nanoblogging service Twitter (review; how-to): Its most popular contributor, Leo Laporte, announced that he was leaving Twitter for a competing service, Jaiku (review). And that he was taking his fans with him.
Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
AT&T: Free calls may cost $250 M — How much could the so-called Free Calling schemes cost AT&T this year? More than $250 million, if you are to believe a letter AT&T chief lobbyist Jim Cicconi sent to FCC chairman Kevin Martin last week. — As the phone giant's latest move …
Discussion: Alec Saunders .LOG and Valleywag
Johnporcaro / Gamerscore Blog:
Pictures of the New Text Input Device — Okay, I'm no product shot expert, but I was able to get a few pictures of the new Text Input Device this morning. There have been some questions about how it attaches, and how comfortable the controller would be with the keyboard attached.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Joystiq, Gear Live, Engadget, 1P Start, MyGamerCard.net News, CrunchGear, Xbox 360 Fanboy, Microsoft News Tracker and Kotaku
Christopher Grant / Joystiq: Hands-on pics of the Xbox 360 QWERTY keyboard
Andru Edwards / Gear Live: Gallery: Xbox 360 QWERTY Keyboard Attachment
Ryan Block / Engadget: Xbox 360 QWERTY thumb keyboard is official
Sherveen Mashayekhi / MyGamerCard.net News: Xbox 360 Mini-Keyboard Controller Attachment Pictures [Update]
Matt Hickey / CrunchGear: Real Pix of Real Xbox TID For Real
Dustin Burg / Xbox 360 Fanboy: Xbox 360 controller keyboard out in the wild
David Hunter / Microsoft News Tracker: Xbox adds Windows Live Messeneger
Rick Broida / Lifehacker:
Alpha Geek: Useful Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets — Windows Vista's Sidebar gets no respect - and that's a shame. With the right gadgets, the Sidebar can help you get things done, especially if you have enough screen estate to keep it running in the foreground (like on a widescreen monitor).
Discussion: DailyTechRag
Chris Leckness / Mobility Site:
RIP - Dell Axim — It's with great sadness that I bring you the news that the last of the Dell Axim X51v line has gone out the doors of Dell and puts an end of a great run of Pocket PCs from Dell. — In late 2002, Dell released the Dell Axim X5. The Dell Axim X5 shook up the Pocket PC world offering …
Discussion: Engadget, Skype Journal, Daggle, Crave and InformationWeek Weblog
Evan Blass / Engadget: Dell Axim, RIP: 2002 - 2007
Danny Sullivan / Daggle: I Caused Dell To Kill The Axim
Ina Fried / Crave: The gadget blog: Dell axes Axim
By Stephen Wellman / InformationWeek Weblog: Dell Kills The Axim PDA
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
iTunes streamed to your phone? Possibly — The release of Apple TV a few weeks ago has opened up an intriguing new possibility: streaming music from iTunes on your home computer to your cell phone. — No, Apple TV does not stream over the Internet or across a cellular phone network, but the SlingBox does.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Macsimum News
Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News: iTunes streamed to your phone?
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
You Grew Up Playing Shoot'em-Up Games. Why Can't Your Kids? — I was playing a round of Gears of War, trying to redo a level on "insane" mode, and the walls were painted with guts. I slaughtered my way to the boss, revved up my chainsaw, and sliced into his chest — releasing a fractal fountain of gore.
Discussion: Deep Jive Interests, Kotaku, Joystiq and GamePolitics.com
Fvogelstein / Epicenter:
My other interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt — Eighteen months ago, in November 2005, I interviewed Google CEO Eric Schmidt for a story I was working on for Fortune Magazine. I left the magazine before I finished the piece, and in a classic case of old media thinking, I didn't publish the interview.
Discussion: Google Operating System and Paul Kedrosky's …
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System: Eric Schmidt's Confessions
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Yahoo Snags TellMe Execs — The ink on the Microsoft-TellMe Networks deal isn't even dry, and we are already seeing some key executives leaving the company. Gary Clayton, the chief creative officer of TellMe and the man who helped develop the critically acclaimed mobile search application …
Discussion: Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog and MoCoNews
Akimbo Lets Consumers Download Thousands of Videos for Viewing on Their Computers — Largest Internet VOD Service Available for TV and PC — Akimbo™ Systems today announced that its Internet video-on-demand service will be available next week in beta release for Windows XP and Vista-based PCs.
Discussion: CrunchGear, Joseph Laszlo, paidContent.org, Hollywood Reporter and NewTeeVee
Josh Goldman / CrunchGear: Akimbo Courts PC Users, NHL Fans
Alex Woodson / Hollywood Reporter: Akimbo VOD doing Windows
Paul Kapustka / NewTeeVee: Akimbo... for the Small Screen?


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1. baseball games. go rockies!
(let it be known that i have a special place in my heart for concession stand food)
2. mason jars. i find an excuse to use them for anything. glasses, vases, cupcake holders, storage, candle holders, and at the wedding this past weekend they were hung from trees with sand and candles inside. adorable!
3. when my items make the front page of etsy! if only i hadn't been at a bootcamp and disconnected from the internet. i didn't get to see it in all it's front page glory! the myetsy tab on facebook featured it on my page for me. awesome! :)
4. when anna maria fabric goes on sale. head on over to the fabric worm to check it out.
5. Geninne's Art Blog. Chase gave me one of her prints for our anniversary (the one with two birds wearing winter hats) and i just found her blog last week and subscribed to it. She is so DANG creative & just flat out talented....and she mostly paints birds! whoop haha
(photo property of geninne's etsy shop)
6. multi-strand necklaces. they're so fun! get some bright colors and pair with a white tank and some linen pants...perfect for summer!
(this is one is by R.J. Graziano and can be purchased here in some wonderful colors)
that's all!! what are some of your favorite things this week? :)


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27 December 2012 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Hope for ischemic stroke and systemic embolism patients - Japanese health ministry approves Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer's Eliquis (apixaban)
Singapore: Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has approved Eliquis (apixaban) for the prevention of ischemic stroke and systemic embolism in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF).
Eliquis is a novel anticoagulant that has demonstrated risk reductions versus warfarin in three important outcomes of stroke, major bleeding and all-cause death. Eliquis is an oral direct factor Xa inhibitor, part of a novel therapeutic class. This is the third approval for Eliquis for the prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation, following approvals in the European Union and Canada.
"Today's approval of Eliquis is the result of our shared vision with Pfizer to introduce a differentiated treatment option to reduce the burden of stroke in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation," said Mr Charles Bancroft, executive vice president, intercontinental region and Japan, and CFO, Bristol-Myers Squibb. "We are confident in the clinical profile of Eliquis and look forward to making this important medicine available to patients in Japan."
"The approval in Japan marks the third regulatory approval for Eliquis within six weeks," said Mr John Young, president and managing director, Pfizer primary care business unit. "We are excited by this momentum and confident that our combined cardiovascular leadership and expertise with BMS will lead to a successful introduction of this important medicine to patients and physicians in Japan."
The approval of Eliquis in Japan is supported by the pivotal phase III trial, Aristotle, which evaluated the safety and efficacy of Eliquis versus warfarin in 18,201 patients with NVAF, including 336 patients from Japan. Additionally, the safety and efficacy of Eliquis in Japanese patients were evaluated in a subanalysis of the Aristotle study, which demonstrated results consistent with the overall study. The application for Eliquis for the prevention of ischemic stroke and systemic embolism was submitted in Japan on December 21, 2011.


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A British woman was fined after she was told she couldn't bring her pony through the drive-thru at McDonalds and took the horse inside the fast-food restaurant instead.
The horse "ended up doing his business on the floor" inside the Whitefield, Greater Manchester McDonald's location on Saturday.
Chistine McGrail later admitted she acted "rashly" when the drive-thru employees said she and her daughter could not ride their horses through the drive-thru, but could come inside.
"When she said: 'You can't go through the drive through but you can come into the store', I thought 'okay, we will'," McGrail said.
Her daughter, Olivia, went inside with her pony, Minnie, while McGrail and her stallion Dancer waited outside. Olivia stood with Minnie in line for several minutes, but police were only called after Minnie relieved herself on the floor.
"I think over the last couple years, we've been to that McDonalds at least a half a dozen times on the horses," McGrail said. "I didn't see anyone in there who was terrified. Everyone saw the funny side."
But the police didn't see it that way.
"The sight and smell of this caused obvious distress and upset to customers trying to eat, as well as staff members," police said in a statement.
McGrail was fined £90 for causing "alarm and distress" and was banned from returning.
Other riders in the neighborhood sided with McGrail, complaining over the inconsistency in the McDonald's policy.
"I've been through loads of times," said another rider. "There are quite a few riding schools and stables nearby. The staff have always served me."


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'Twenty Feet from Stardom' steps into Sundance spotlight
PARK CITY, Utah — The rousing documentary Twenty Feet from Stardom, about the world of backup singers in popular music, was the first film to be snatched up by a distributor at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
The Weinstein Co. bought the North American rights to the work, which premiered Thursday night to a standing ovation at the Eccles Theater. The showing also included several impromptu performances from three of the singers featured in this film.
Twenty, directed by Morgan Neville, profiles six singers who perform in the shadows of stars such as Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones and Bette Midler.
The film is expected to be released in theaters this summer.
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Grid control is one of the most frequently used containers in WPF. It allows to layout elements easily in rows and columns. Unfortunately the code to declare it, while simple to write, is made quite awkward by the use of the property element syntax:
<Grid> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/> <RowDefinition Height="5"/> <RowDefinition Height="*"/> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="60" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="*" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <Label Content="Name" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" /> <TextBox Text="Hello world" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1"/> <Rectangle Fill="Black" Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="2"/> <Label Content="Image" Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0" /> <Image Source="Resources/Desert.jpg" Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="1" /> </Grid>
In that example, more than half the code is made of the grid definition ! Even though this syntax offers a great flexibility and a precise control of the layout, in mot cases we just need to define the height of rows and the width of columns… so it would be much simpler if we could declare the grid using the attribute syntax, as follows:
<Grid Rows="Auto,5,*" Columns="60,*"> ... </Grid>
This article shows how to reach that goal, by creating a
SimpleGrid class derived from
First of all, our class needs two new properties:
Rows and
Columns. These properties define the heights and widths of rows and columns, respectively. These dimensions are not just numbers: values such as
"2*" ou
"Auto" are valid dimensions for grid bands. WPF has a specific type to represent these values: the
GridLength structure. So our new properties will be collections of
GridLength objects. Here's the signature of the
SimpleGrid class:
public class SimpleGrid : Grid { public IList<GridLength> Rows { get; set; } public IList<GridLength> Columns { get; set; } }
Since these properties are in charge of defining the grid's rows and columns, they have to modify the
RowDefinitions and
ColumnDefinitions properties of the base class. Here's how to implement them to get the desired result :
private IList<GridLength> _rows; public IList<GridLength> Rows { get { return _rows; } set { _rows = value; RowDefinitions.Clear(); if (_rows == null) return; foreach (var length in _rows) { RowDefinitions.Add(new RowDefinition { Height = length }); } } } private IList<GridLength> _columns; public IList<GridLength> Columns { get { return _columns; } set { _columns = value; ColumnDefinitions.Clear(); if (_columns == null) return; foreach (var length in _columns) { ColumnDefinitions.Add(new ColumnDefinition { Width = length }); } } }
At this point, our
SimpleGrid is already usable… from C# code, which doesn't really help us since we're trying to make the XAML code simpler. So we need to find a way to declare the values of these properties in XAML attributes, which isn't obvious since they are collections…
In XAML, all attributes are written in the form of strings. To convert these strings to values of the required type, WPF makes use of converters, which are classes derived from
TypeConverter, associated with each type which supports conversion to and from other types. For instance, the converter for the
GridLength structure is the
GridLengthConverter class, which can convert numbers and strings to
GridLength objects, and back. The conversion mechanism is described in more detail in this MSDN article.
So we need to create a converter and associate it to the type of the
Rows and
Columns properties. Since we don't have control over the
IList<T> type, we'll start by creating a specific
GridLengthCollection type to be used instead of
IList<GridLength>, and we'll associate a custom converter with it (
[TypeConverter(typeof(GridLengthCollectionConverter))] public class GridLengthCollection : ReadOnlyCollection<GridLength> { public GridLengthCollection(IList<GridLength> lengths) : base(lengths) { } }
Why is that collection read-only ? That just because allowing to add or remove rows and columns would make the implementation more complex, and it wouldn't bring any benefit for our objective, which is to make it easier to define a
Grid in XAML. So, let's keep it simple, at least for now… The
ReadOnlyCollection<T> does exactly what we need, so we just inherit from it, rather than reinventing the wheel.
Notice the use of the
TypeConverter attribute: that's how we tell the framework which converter should be used with the
GridLengthCollection type. Now, all we need to do is to implement that converter :
public class GridLengthCollectionConverter : TypeConverter { public override bool CanConvertFrom(ITypeDescriptorContext context, Type sourceType) { if (sourceType == typeof(string)) return true; return base.CanConvertFrom(context, sourceType); } public override bool CanConvertTo(ITypeDescriptorContext context, Type destinationType) { if (destinationType == typeof(string)) return true; return base.CanConvertTo(context, destinationType); } public override object ConvertFrom(ITypeDescriptorContext context, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture, object value) { string s = value as string; if (s != null) return ParseString(s, culture); return base.ConvertFrom(context, culture, value); } public override object ConvertTo(ITypeDescriptorContext context, CultureInfo culture, object value, Type destinationType) { if (destinationType == typeof(string) && value is GridLengthCollection) return ToString((GridLengthCollection)value, culture); return base.ConvertTo(context, culture, value, destinationType); } private string ToString(GridLengthCollection value, CultureInfo culture) { var converter = new GridLengthConverter(); return string.Join(",", value.Select(v => converter.ConvertToString(v))); } private GridLengthCollection ParseString(string s, CultureInfo culture) { var converter = new GridLengthConverter(); var lengths = s.Split(',').Select(p => (GridLength)converter.ConvertFromString(p.Trim())); return new GridLengthCollection(lengths.ToArray()); } }
This class can converte a
GridLengthCollection to and from a string, in which individual dimensions are separated by commas. Notice the use of the
GridLengthConverter: since there already is a converter for the elements of the collections, we'd better use it rather than try to reimplement the logic to parse a
Now that all pieces are ready, we can try our new simple grid:
<my:SimpleGrid Rows="Auto,5,*" Columns="60,*"> <Label Content="Name" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" /> <TextBox Text="Hello world" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1"/> <Rectangle Fill="Black" Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="2"/> <Label Content="Image" Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0" /> <Image Source="Resources/Desert.jpg" Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="1" /> </my:SimpleGrid>
We end up with a much shorter and more readable code than with a normal
Grid, and the result is the same: mission complete 🙂
Of course, we could improve this class in a number of ways: implement
Rows and
Columns as dependency properties in order to allow binding, handle addition and removal of rows and columns… However, this grid is intended for very simple scenarios, where the grid is defined once and for all, and is not modified at runtime (which is presumably the most frequent use case), so it seems sensible to keep it as simple as possible. For more specific needs, like specifying a minimum/maximum width or a shared sized group, we'll stick to the standard
For reference, here's the final code of the
SimpleGrid class:
public class SimpleGrid : Grid { private GridLengthCollection _rows; public GridLengthCollection Rows { get { return _rows; } set { _rows = value; RowDefinitions.Clear(); if (_rows == null) return; foreach (var length in _rows) { RowDefinitions.Add(new RowDefinition { Height = length }); } } } private GridLengthCollection _columns; public GridLengthCollection Columns { get { return _columns; } set { _columns = value; if (_columns == null) return; ColumnDefinitions.Clear(); foreach (var length in _columns) { ColumnDefinitions.Add(new ColumnDefinition { Width = length }); } } } }


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From Castle Point to Antarctica, Stevens Professor Mo Mansouri, Tackles Logistics
The researchers who live and work in Antarctica face one of the most difficult logistical challenges anywhere in the world. They survive in a remote, cold and dangerous location and have to rely on receiving supplies from a long international chain while also sending volumes of complex data in the other direction. And because the researchers want to preserve the wild continent's pristine environment, they really do make sure to keep every single supply stored and counted.
That's a logistics challenge a team of Stevens students and professors is looking to tackle. The team, led by School of Systems and Enterprises professor Mo Mansouri, is working on its Virtual Antarctica project to help the ice continent's researchers track their resources.
"The project is to model all processes and activities that happen in a huge inter chain of logistics," Mansouri said. "How we can make everything more efficient and effective is the question."
The project combines databases, models, simulations, sensors, crowdsourcing and other metrics to create dashboards, apps and other tools that enable researchers and their suppliers to make better decisions, a vital skill in such a harsh environment. "We want to create a system that gives us all the information that we need by collecting data," Mansouri said.
Mansouri said anywhere from 800 to 1200 American researchers spend time in Antarctica during a year, and that around 150 stay year-round. Most arrive and stay from October to April, which is the "best" time of year to visit Antarctica because of when the southern hemisphere enjoys the spring and summer seasons.
The United States maintains three permanent stations in Antarctica, including the McMurdo Station, the continent's largest. Over thirty other countries maintain either a permanent or summer base on the continent. All of the inhabitants rely on a long supply chain involving special ships, planes and other vehicles coming from thousands of miles away with hundreds of tons of stuff.
Besides minding the need to track their supplies to survive and the rationale that a smart organization would in any situation, the researchers are also conscientious about preserving the Antarctic environment. They can't just dump broken parts in the nearest landfill, for example, a constraint that adds to the logistical challenge. "The researchers don't want to leave any trace, so everything that goes has to come back," Mansouri said.
The Stevens team is working on the Antarctica Project alongside Lockheed Martin, which operates under a contract from the National Science Foundation. The team began planning the project in May and has been operational since July, working out of the Center for Complex Systems and Enterprises. The SSE has matched Lockheed's financial grant.
Almost a dozen Stevens students are contributing to the project, including five undergraduate seniors, one underclassman, two graduate students and two doctoral students.
"I've been learning a lot about applying model simulation towards real-life decision making problems," senior Matthew Chang said. "I like that I'm able to apply my systems knowledge to an important cause."
Mansouri said he thinks the project will give the students experience tackling large, real-world problems. "Hopefully what we see is that it's going to be a fantastic platform for education for our students to be involved in a real project and try to solve a hard problem using real data," he said.
Mansouri said he envisions the Antarctica project feeding into a larger Lockheed project lasting several years. "We'll continue the research," he said. "There a lot of little details to work out, and we'll need many people, but so far this has been a really successful project."


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Jeffrey Lepsch sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole
LA CROSSE, WI — The man convicted of killing Paul and A.J. Petras in their downtown La Crosse photo shop on September 15, 2012, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Tuesday morning in La Crosse County Court.
Judge Ramona Gonzalez made the decision to withhold the chance of parole for Jeffrey Lepsch.
"I think you have demonstrated that you are a danger to society, that you have no qualms about lying to the people you love, and that you have no qualms about taking a life for something so small," Gonzalez said to Lepsch.
Lepsch killed Paul and A.J. Petras in May's Photo and then stole $17,000 worth of camera equipment last year. A jury found Lepsch guilty on July 30 of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, armed robbery and possession of a firearm as a felon.
Both homicide convictions carry with them mandatory life sentences. Tuesday, Gonzalez ruled Lepsch would serve those sentences consecutively without parole after hearing one last time from Paul Petras's wife, Sherry.
"He shouldn't have taken our family away from us," Sherry Petras told the courtroom. "I do not want him to have any chance for parole."21765548
Lepsch was also sentenced to 25 years initial confinement and 15 years extended supervision for the Class C felony of armed robbery with use of force. Lepsch was sentenced to 5 years initial confinement and 15 years extended supervision for Class G felony of felon possess firearm.
Gonzalez said Lepsch "did a really good job of lying" to his mother and wife. "To say [the killings] were cold-blooded in my mind is an understatement," Judge Gonzalez said. "Within a breath of committing the crimes, he continues to live his life as though nothing has changed."
Before the formal sentencing, Gonzalez read several letters on behalf of the Petras family and members of the community who have been affected by the death of Paul and A.J. Petras and the Lepsch trial.
One letter written by A.J.'s girlfriend, Alycia, read, "The pain this crime caused me is something I wouldn't wish on anyone. A.J. was the most generous and caring person I've ever known, and it kills me that I'll never get to tell him I love him."
Another letter read, "It feels like photography has died in La Crosse since these murders."
Allison Petras, Paul's daughter and A.J.'s sister, wrote, "Honestly, words cannot begin to explain what this tragedy has put me and my family through. Every day is a struggle."
Allison continued, "I will never have a father-daughter dance, or a dad to walk me down the aisle at my wedding." She wrote family was number one to her and they had a small one to begin with. "I would give anything to have them both back."
Judge Gonzalez said she "shed many tears" while reading letters during her consideration for the Lepsch sentencing.
Lepsch's defense attorney Vincent Rust said he will likely appeal the sentencing decision.
"This is a horrible tragedy for the Petras family. My client understands that. This is also a horrible tragedy for my client's family," Rust said.
District Attorney Tim Gruenke said the Petras family was satisfied with Tuesday's outcome, but would struggle with the loss of their loved ones for years to come.
"I'm not sure if there ever is closure," Gruenke said. "I think the sadness goes on. They're glad they got this part done, but they'll go on missing their family."


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TOKYO — Sonics Inc., a vendor of on-chip interconnect technology based in Milpitas, Calif., has developed a new hardware-based IP block, a so-called "Intelligent Power Controller," intended to help chip designers develop low-power SoCs.
The technology is designed to deliver power savings by the intelligent control of power to cores. The ability to keep cores switched off for longer periods of time, along with the ability to turn devices on and off more rapidly, will enable power savings over current solutions, according to Sonics.
The company revealed last week the issuance of patent 8,601,288 from the US Patent Office. Based on the patent, the Intelligent Power Controller enables SoC designers "to partition power domains and turn them on and off without software intervention for the most energy efficient chip implementation."
The Intelligent Power Controller is a hardware-based IP, designed to sit in the middle of a system-on-chip architecture. Its function is to control power distribution and manage consumption problems in complex SoC designs.
In a phone interview with EE Times, Ray Brinks, senior vice president of operations at Sonics, said, "Power is always on top the list" of all the headaches for chip designers. "Every designer is scared to death of power problems."
In pursuit of lower-power SoCs, chip designers have been taking various approaches.
They include adopting cutting-edge process technology (e.g., finer geometries, low-leakage memory. SOI), leveraging software (e.g., the use of power-aware operating system and apps, and power-aware memory allocation), developing new architecture that takes advantage of parallelism and memory architecture, and embracing designs built for high-level optimizations (power and clock gating, etc.).
Sonics says that its Intelligent Power Controller, fundamentally different from those known approaches, will complement them.
Brinks explained that the new hardware-based power management IP "operates independent of operating system and applications," while it is also "adaptable" to chip loads, and is "visible" to chip mode. Further, it is "fundamentally reactive in single-digit clocks."
Noting that today's complex SoCs consist of many blocks, Brinks says a conventional SoC needs to wake up many on-chip blocks to ensure, for example, that it's OK to change the voltage slew-rate. In contrast, Sonics' Intelligent Power Controller can make the intelligent decision of awakening only one block — as quickly as a nanosecond, he explained.
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Researchers say the low rate of contraception among sexually active 18- to 25-year-olds needs to be addressed – and not just among Latino populations. Research has shown many young adults from all backgrounds eschew contraception for many reasons including the mistaken belief that they or their partners cannot get pregnant.
"The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy calls this 'magical thinking,'" said Jocelyn Warren, a public health postdoctoral fellow at OSU. "There is this tendency to believe that if you have unprotected sex once and nothing happens, somehow you are incapable of getting pregnant. It is a widespread issue and certainly not just applicable to our study of rural Latinos."
Widening the scope of earlier work on the contraceptive practices of rural Latinos, the researchers asked questions about cultural and relationship characteristics whose possible links to contraceptive use had not been previously explored within this population.
The OSU study of 450 sexually active Latino men and women found that more involvement in sexual decision-making was important in contraception use – and increased the likelihood of using male condoms, rather than birth control pills or no method at all. While effective at preventing pregnancy, birth control pills don't prevent sexually transmitted diseases, the researchers point out.
"People who reported being active decision-makers in their relationship tended to use male condoms, which makes sense because using a condom means that both partners have to agree," said Warren, lead author on the study. "The importance of including men in delivering contraception services and family planning may strengthen effective use because women do not make these decisions alone."
Another important finding from the study, which was published in the December issue of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, showed that the less acculturated participants were, the more likely they were to use an effective female method rather than no effective method
Marie Harvey, professor of public health at OSU and one of the study's co-authors, said this study adds to the growing body of research that points to the need for sexual health research and interventions to be couple-oriented.
"Isolating and targeting women only is not entirely effective," she said. "Programs and services aimed at preventing unintended pregnancy need to include men because we repeatedly find that women do not make decisions about contraception use on their own, and they do not always have the power in a relationship and this needs to be taken into account."
Marit Bovbjerg, a postdoctoral fellow at OSU, also contributed to this study, which was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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Hello, I'm Luna, and I'd like to welcome you to "Kisses from Kairo,"* my blog about living and working as an American belly dancer in Cairo.
Life in Cairo isn't easy for dancers, foreigners, women, or even Egyptians. It is, however, always exciting. That's why after living here for seven years, I've decided to share my experiences with the world. From being contracted at the Semiramis Hotel to almost being deported, not a day has gone by without something odd or magical happening. I will therefore fill these pages with bits of my history in Cairo—my experiences, successes, mistakes, and observations. Admittedly, my time here has been rather unique, so I want to stress that while everything I write is true, my experiences do not necessarily reflect the lives of other dancers.
In addition to my life as a belly dancer, I will write about developments in costuming, performances, festivals, and, of course, the dance itself. I will also make frequent references to Egyptian culture. I should note that I have a love/hate relationship with Egypt. If I make any criticisms about the country, please keep in mind that I do so with the utmost love, respect, and most of all, honesty. Egypt has become my home, so I want to avoid romanticizing and apologizing for social maladies, as most foreigners tend to do. Nothing could be more misguided, patronizing, or insulting.
I hope you find this blog informative, insightful and entertaining, and that we can make this as interactive as possible. That means I'd love to hear from you. Send me your comments, questions, complaints, suggestions, pics, doctoral dissertations, money, etc., and I will get back to you. Promise. :)~
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We would like to thank you for such a nice experience. We had a wonderful time, the organization was great, our guide is a wonderful person. Thank you.
Bratislava Music Agency
Záhumenská 3/A
841 06 Bratislava 4
Словацкая Республика
We would like to thank you for such a nice experience. We had a wonderful time, the organization was great, our guide is a wonderful person. Thank you.
Barbara Kovačič
Otroški pevski zbor OŠ Franceta Bevka Tolmin, Slovenia
Ďakujeme veľmi pekne, že ste nám umožnili zúčastniť sa tohto festivalu. Bolo pre nás veľkou cťou, vystúpiť na takomto podujatí. Nezabudnuteľná zostane pre nás atmosféra z vystúpeni súborov na Hlavnom námestí na Vianočných trhoch. Ešte raz - srdečná vďaka. Prajem Vám veľa osobných i umeleckých úspechov.
Veronika Pavlovičová
OZ Cantabile
Milí priatelia, poďakovanie patrí Vám, agentúre, pánovi Kolenovi, že nás povzbudil a dodal odvahu. Cítili sme sa na festivale veľmi dobre, príjemne a zostávajú nám krásne spomienky.
Anna Ližbetinová
Spevácky zbor pri Rímskokatolíckom kostole v Krupine
Velmi Vám děkuji za vlídné přijetí na Vašem festivale a nádherné zážitky, které jsme si od Vás odvezli.
Dana Kozárková
Carmina bona, Zlín
We would like to thank you for the opportunities to be participated in this prestigious festival. We will take the appreciation we get from the festival as motivation to our further steps in developing angklung as Indonesian traditional instrument and also in promoting angklung as one of the world's heritage.
Nadhira Putri Adriana
Keluarga Paduan Angklung SMA Negeri 3 Bandung, Indonesia
Ešte raz sa Vám v mene nášho zboru chcem poďakovať za perfektne zorganizované podujatie, za príjemnú atmosféru, za úsilie a námahu, ktorú ste do toho vložili a v neposlednom rade za príležitosť vystupovať, bez ktorej by zbory dlho neprežili. Prajem Vám veľa úspešných podujatí a tešíme sa na ďalšie stretnutie.
Margaréta Žňavová
Voce Eufonico, Slovensko
On behalf of the choir ELTE Pro Musica I would like to thank you very much the wonderful weekend in Namestovo. That was for me the third time when I could participated in a competition organised by Bratislava Music Agency- second time in Namestovo. When I was there in the first time with my female Choir Musica Nostra, I immediately felt that it is more then a competition- it is about love music, love together, and sing to the Holy God. There is no rival, everybody is winner, because we had the possibility to sing in a wonderful church, in very good acustic, we could listen to each other, we could be happy with the special repertoire of various choirs from many countries. Especially we appreciated, that every choir sang at the Holy Mass and at the Gala concert. So, we think that nobody felt ignored. The whole organiser team was always polite, patient and kind. Many thanks for all of this.
Accomodation and food was excellent too.
Dear friends, so we had again a wonderful eperience with you! We were happy with the result, and were happy, that we could be together with so many excellent choirs, especially like the Riga chorus.They performed really on very high level!
Hereby I send you all warm greetings, and wish you many sucsess to your work!
God bless you!
Zsuzsanna Mindszenty
and ELTE Pro Musica Mixed Choir
On behalf of our conductor and choir I would like to thank you once again for the great festival and wonderful hospitality. We really enjoyed the festival, nice atmosphere, good organization and the hotel we stayed. I wish you good luck in the next editions! :)
Grzegorz Kozlowski
Choir of Maritime University of Szczecin, Poland
Thank you for everything! We enjoyed our staying very much!
Janja Dragan Gombač
Vokalna skupina Aurora, Slovenia
We would like to thank for welcoming us in Bratislava and for great organization of the festival. We met with kindness and courtesy at every step so we brought good memories from your beautiful city. We would like also to thank the staff for organization. We keep you in our mind and heart.
Anna and Wiktor Bramski
Pueri et Puellae Cantores Plocenses, Poland
I would like to thank you for a wonderful time in Bratislava and a beautiful competition...one of the best festivals the choir ever attended.We love your town and will certainly like to return.Thank you for everything you have done for the choir. It was an honor to be part of your festival.
Catharina Combrinck
Highveld Ridge Regional Choir,
South Africa
Thank you so much for the wonderful days in Bratislava! We are really grateful for your effort and patience organizing this event. It was nice to meet you and pleasure to be a part of this festival.
A Cappella, Lithuania
Thank you for your great and perfect organization! We enjoyed our stay very much.
Felicitas Moser
Unerhort, Austria
Thank you for helping to coordinate Sunrise String Orchestra. We were very impressed and next year will be back again.
Poonchok Kularbwong
Sunrise String Orchestra, Thailand
Thank you for your hospitality during our stay in Bratislava. Furthermore, I would like to congratulate on your great organisation of the competition and to express our gratitude for your invitation, as well as for us to participate.
We all are looking forward to any kind of future cooperation and we sincerely hope that we will have more opportunities, like this one in Bratislava, to colaborate. You realy did a great job!
Best regards,
Nemanja Savic and choir Jedinstvo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
It was pleasure to perform in your beautiful city, again thank you very much for your hospitality and everything else, hope see you soon.
MKD Ohidski biseri
Dobrý deň, ďakujem za krásne slová, ktorými ste nás obdarili. Predovšetkým my sa musíme poďakovať za pozvanie na tak nádherné podujatie. Ani vo sne by ma nebolo napadlo, že s naším súborom sa zúčastníme na takomto festivale a že v takej konkurencii na svetovej úrovni sa umiestnime v bronzovom pásme. Budú to pre nás nezabudnuteľné zážitky a spomienky. Srdečná vďaka za všetko.
Veronika Pavlovičová
OZ Cantabile
We are all full of great impressions of Bratislava and competition. First of all thank you for the hotel which you gave us - it was in the very city center and gave us freedom to explore old town like never before. Also thank you very very much for meeting with all our requests, of which there were many from our side. Please thank also Mr Kolena for great experience of singing in holly mass with other choirs - it was new experience for most of us and we liked it very much. Please thank also Monika who was our sheppard during whole stay. I probably forgot a million little things that made our stay in Bratislava great, so thank you for those as well.
Ante Pupacic
Schola Cantorum Split
Mali sme skvelý zážitok. Veľmi pekne ďakujeme za všetko a určite sa na nejaký festival ešte vrátime :)
Vokálna skupina Harmony
I would like to thank you on behalf of our сhoir for everything that you'd done to organise the International Festival of Advent and Choral Music in Bratislava. We highly appreciate your help during the preparation to this wonderful Christmas event. We express our distinct gratefulness to Mr. Kolena for his devotion to music and ambition to organise choral competitions. We express our gratitude to everybody who assisted us in Bratislava and made our stay during the Festival really wonderful! We would be very glad to take part in your upcoming events!
Andrey Kuznetsov
Choir of the Creativity School
Moscow, Russia
Thank you, thank you, thank you for such a wonderful weekend of music and friendship. We loved Bratislava and had such an amazing time listening to and meeting other choirs. Thank you for your warm welcome, your hospitality and your hard work in the planning and organisation of our trip. And we love the photos!!!
Elmbridge Choir
United Kingdom
We are very thankful for the opportunity to participate in International choir competition "Bratislava Cantat II" which was held in Slovakia. We highly evaluate the Agency which has organized a competition and would like to thank You for a professional and friendly attitude. We have gained memorable experience and unforgettable emotions.
Ms Skaidrīte Baltace
Choir "Medicus",
Rēzekne, Latvia
On behalf of the Scala and Arcato ensembles I would like to thank you and all the others involved in the organization of the festival last week for a wonderful musical experience and a very pleasant stay in your beautiful city. Thank you so much for all your hard work!
Elske Boerwinkel
Arcato and Scala ensembles,
Thank you for all your care and attention earlier this month when the Wadham Chapel Choir visited Bratislava. We had such a wonderful time, and it was a great pleasure to meet you and everyone else. Your organisation was superb, too, which made it all the better for us. Thank you so much again for everything.
Katharine Pardee
Wadham College Chapel Choir
United Kingdom
Ďakujeme že sme mohli vystupovať na vašom podujatí.Bolo to krásne podujatie a tiež velmi zaujímavé.Ďakujeme za krásne zážitky.
Paulína Nováková
DFS Fertuška
It was a great pleasure to visit your country and to participate in the festival.
Everything was organized perfectly.
Best regards,
Koshkina Natalia
Thank you very much for your kindly words and the photo gallery.
Spending some days in your beautiful country was a great pleasure for us, we could meet there many wonderful people.
Thank you very much for your kindly hospitlity.
Dr. Ágnes Fazekas
Pataky Female Choir
Oгромное СПАСИБО за конкурс !
Он дал шанс нашим детям послушать как звучит, поёт мир! Спасибо за прекрасные залы,компетентное жюри!Конкурс дал возможность познакомиться с красавицей Братиславой, также мы побывали в Вене и Будапеште! Спасибо за прекрасную организацию выступлений, питания детей, экскурсионной программы!
СПАСИБО от преподавателей, детей и их родителей!
С уважением и благодарностью Елена Глебина.
Elena Glebina,
Vivat & Flamingo Choir,
Thanks for everythings who were there your country and your choir festival organization. It was wonderful time and have new friendships.
Bulent Halvasi
Marmara Polifonic Choir
От чистого сердца хотелось бы Вас поблагодарить за великолепный праздник хоровой музыки. Вы собрали замечательные певческие коллективы разных стран. Вся Братислава в эти дни пела. Мои девочки стали петь ещё больше...везде...в метро, на улице, в поезде это что то....Мы очень полюбили Ваш чистый, красивый, уютный город и Ваших жителей . Все дети мечтают приехать к Вам ещё много - много раз.
Огромное Вам спасибо за приём! Апрель 2014 года останется в наших сердцах на всю жизнь!
С уважением, руководитель хора "Небесные ласточки" ,
Лариса Гайда,
Velmi děkujeme za milý festival, moc jsme si to u vás užili :-)
Eva Hudcová
Česká republika
Thanks for the wonderful hospitality and experience for my girls.
We loved the hotel stay and the atmosphere in Bratislava.
Ban Sheng Toh
Crescent Gilrs´ School Choir,
Thank you very much for your perfect organisation! We really loved our stay in the beautiful city of Bratislava!
Felicitas Moser
От всей души хочу Вас поблагодарить за праздник высокого хорового искусства,который Вы подарили Российским детям!
Мы рады,что в Вашем чудесном городе Братислава встречаются настоящие любители,профессионалы,единомышленники прекрасной хоровой музыки!Я и мои девочки хора "Классика"влюблены в Вас и в Вашу страну,в Вашу культуру ,в Ваш народ.Вы другие.Вы особенные.Вы очень тактичные.И поэтому к Вам тянется очень много людей из разных стран.И неважно ,что мы говорим на разных языках,мы все друг друга понимали,а Ваш Рождественский фестиваль нас всех объединил и дал много силы и энергии для взятия следующих "вершин"в хоровом искусстве.
С большим уважением руководитель хора "Классика" .
Лариса Гайда,
Dovolte mi,abych Vám jménem paní sbormistryně a všech členů PS Slavík Pacov poděkovala za uspořádání překrásného festivalu BRATISLAVA CANTAT 2013. Byl to pro nás opravdu nevšední zážitek, na který budeme dlouho a s láskou vzpomínat!!!
Za všechny SLAVÍKY z Pacova srdečně zdraví
Marie Davidová
jednatelka sboru
Dobrý den,
moc děkujeme za milé přijetí..., jsme moc rádi, že jsme u vás byli a že jsme mohli načerpat novou inspiraci...
Štepán Policer
We had an absolute great time in Bratislava during the festival. Everything was well organized and the city was surprisingly beautiful. We aim for joining the festival in the future again!
Sander de Bruijn
de Kickers and the Classic Frogs
Dear Milan and Martina
On behalf of everyone in our group we would like to thank you so much for the wonderful time we had in Bratislava. We enjoyed participating in your Festival very much and loved the atmosphere there.
Thank you very much for all the arrangements.
Winning the Grand Prix was such a blessing more than we could have hoped for and Rose-Anne's special award is very special indeed.
We would like to keep contact with you for the future and would love to come again!
With kind regards
Stefan and Brigitte
Дорогие Милан и Мартина, еще раз хочу выразить вам благодарность за хорошую организацию фестиваля, все было четко, вовремя, без проблем, мы получили много впечатлений и очень довольны результатами.
Успехов вам!!!
Злата Козловская
Добрый день!
Мы только добрались до дома.
Спасибо за диплом.
Рады были побывать у Вас!
Клара Мусакаева
Dear frineds,
we have realy nice and warm memories to Musica sacra. Thank you for all.
We hope we see you again.
Katja Gruber
and MPZ OŠ Nazarje
Dear Milan,
We have arrived to Debrecen and we would like to tell you thanks for your hospitality.
Best regards,
Ágnes Török
Dear Martina,
We are now safe back in Norway and everyone in Bæringen was absolutely delighted over the wonderful festival and the beauty of Bratislava.
Personally, I will once again thank you for friendly, prompt and precise communication. The preparations have been a pleasure thanks to you. If you any time come to Norway we would like to return your hospitality.
Kind regards,
Anders Fongen
It was pleasure for us to stay a few days in Bratislava. Thank you for outstanding organization.
Nizhny Novgorod State University Choir,
Уважаемый Милан,
От души благодарим Вас за прекрасный праздник хорового искусства, за тёплую и доброжелательную атмосферу, заботу о нас.
И за прекрасную весну в Братиславе!!!
С наилучшими пожеланиями,
Xор "Радость" и "Волшебная флейта"
Dear organizators,
We're already at home..We cannot find words to express mind after the festival. It was a good experience for everyone. We cannot stop share our feelings with friends and colleagues.
I cannot tell you how thankful I am for your kindness, understanding and good mood during all time in Bratislava.
Before travel we couldn't imagine how looks summer, because in Lithuania is cold spring.. So we are happy that we could enjoy summer..:)
Thank you competition Commission !! Thank you for assessment. We are so happy.
Thank you for everyone who listened our songs..thank you who applauded..
I hope someday we meet again..maybe in Bratislava or maybe in Lithuania, in celebrations of songs.
One more time thank you for everything.
Best wishes,
Your festival is every choir's holiday. We were excited to perform
in beautiful spring Bratislava. Thank you for the excellent organization,
professionalism,highly qualified jury and their just decisions.
We value your great traditions of professional singing.
We were just overwhelmed and we are dreaming about coming back again.
Szanowny Panie Dyrektorze,
Dziękujemy za wspaniałe przyjęcie w Bratysławie - za świetną organizację festiwalu i bardzo miłą panią przewodnik Dominikę Brolovą, która opiekowała się nami nie licząc czasu. Na każdym kroku spotykaliśmy się z życzliwością i uprzejmością, więc przywieźliśmy dobre wspomnienia z waszego pięknego miasta.
Bardzo dziękujemy za warsztaty z profesorem Waldemarem Górskim, które na pewno przyniosą owoce.
Również serdecznie dziękujemy panu Karelowi Kasakowi za błyskawiczne przysłanie zdjęć oraz Pani Martinie Vselkovej.
Zachowujemy Was w pamięci i w sercu
Z wyrazami szacunku
Anna i Wiktor Bramscy wraz z Chórem
Hello Milan Kolena, hello Martina,
thanks for all the work you put into organizing this wonderful event and into making our stay a pleasant one.
My girls had a great time.
Dear organizers,
My choir had a great stay in your city.
Haderslev Domkirkes Pigekor,
Dear Milan and staff The Cantare children's choir would like to thank you for the wonderful time we had in Bratislava. We really enjoyed the tour very much. The organisation of the whole event was wonderful and we really enjoyed the hotel where we stayed.
All the best for 2013
Ida Strydom
Dear Milan!
Alavuden Kaksiriviset wants to thank you and all the organization committee for the nice festival we could participate in!
All the best,
Alavuden Kaksiriviset
Dear Milan Kolena,
I am writing to thank you for sending me the link of the photos that were taken during the 4th International Youth Music Festival in Bratislava.
Once again thank you for all and congratulations for a very well organized festival!
With musical regards,
Aldona Slusarz,
teacher of TRIO FLETOWE, PL
Hello Yana! Thanks a lot for possibility to visit Bratislava to participate in such remarkable competition, its magnificent organization. We went to Russia with unforgettable impressions.
If it is possible, send photos of ensemble which were removed by your photographer during competitive listening. We very much would like to leave them for memory of competition as it was not possible to make the photos to us.
With sincere sympathy.
Margarita Krevsun,
Vocal ensemble Amorilis, Russia
Dear Milan,
Thank you for the photos of the festival. I think we had the most wonderful time in Bratislava. The choir KORITSIA and I are very happy for the fine and inspiring days, and I think this festival will be a good memory for all of us. Thank you!
Best regards from Koritsia in Lund,
Karin Fagius
Dear organizers of festival Slovakia Cantat 2012!
Choir "Likova" (Russia) thanks you for excellent carrying out of festival, for warm reception and wonderful creative atmosphere! Thanks to Jana Viktoriuszova for the help, patience and understanding, for attention to all problems of choristers! We thank our guide Maria Stefanicakova for interesting pastime in Bratislava, for her responsiveness, affability, good mood and smiles!
All children remember a trip on festival with delight and warmth and regret that it has quickly ended.
With huge gratitude and best regards,
Choir "Likova"
Dear Martina,
Please find our thanks for a wonderfull organization of the festival and our stay in Bratislava.
We will keep our rememberings in our souls for ever.
A very special thanks to Helga for her mothercare.
Thank you for the fine photoes.
Best regards
from St.Petersburg Female Choir of Zarinskaja
and from myself
Nina Panteleeva
Большое спасибо! Было приятно с Вами работать! Замечательная организация и хороший конкурс!
Всего доброго! Ural'skaja rjabinushka,
Dear Jana,
I want to thank you for the wonderful festival in Bratislava. We have such a great time! Enjoyed singing and competition. Me and my choir still have a crazy smile on our face when we talk about all the things we experienced during our stay in Bratislava. We are happy how we sung and presented to jury, and we are proud for our three "gold". Everything was well organized and thank you for your time and patient, you always find solution for every problem.
Sincerely yours,
Zorica Kozlovacki
Youth mixed choir of the music school "Josif Marinkovic", Zrenjanin, Serbia
Good day, Dr. Milan Kolena.
We came back home. Thank you very much of the wonderful festival, hospitable meeting and professional jury. We were glad to visit Bratislava, sing in the Festival and during the Messa at Saturday? the meeting and conversation with jury, we talked about our choir problems - it is very useful for us. We hope that we will visit Slovak Republic and Bratislava again.
Our best wishes and gratitude for you.
Anna Moskovchuk,
Children choir Raduga
Dear Mr. Milan Kolena!
On behalf of all the members of our choir and from myself personally, allow me to thank you for a perfectly organized a festival and wish you further creative successes!
Best wishes,
Natalia Nikonova
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First off, I hope everyone who stayed behind in the path of Hurricane Ike is OK this morning. Second, we know what we knew about Ike due in part to the guys, gals and tech shown in these storm chaser photographs. The photo above shows a "Smurf," or the Stepped-Frequency Microwave Radiometer, which has adorned the wings of hurricane hunting WC-130J aircraft since 2007. The device, and the 24/7 missions run by the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, have helped increase the National Hurricane Center's accuracy rate by 30%.
The Smurf works by measuring wind speed at the surface of the ocean, and then combines that information with rainfall rates from within the storm system (in case you didn't know, these guys fly into the hurricanes we flee from). As the incredible 100+ mph winds whip around the outside of the plane, they create foam, which the Smurf sniffs for microwave radiation. From that radiation, the storm chasers can calculate wind speed. It sure beats the hell out of the Loftus Method, which involves a wet finger, an open window, and a steady wind. Accuracy rate? Slightly less than the Smurf. Slightly. [CNET]