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Pronunciation: MET oh KLOE pra mide
Brand: Metozolv ODT, Reglan
Metoclopramide 10 mg-APH
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Metoclopramide 10 mg-TEV
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What is the most important information I should know about metoclopramide?
NEVER TAKE METOCLOPRAMIDE IN LARGER AMOUNTS THAN RECOMMENDED, OR FOR LONGER THAN 12 WEEKS. High doses or long-term use of metoclopramide can cause a serious movement disorder that may not be reversible. Symptoms of this disorder include uncontrollable muscle movements of your lips, tongue, eyes, face, arms, or legs. The longer you take metoclopramide, the more likely you are to develop a serious movement disorder. The risk of this side effect is higher in women, diabetics, and older adults.
You should not take this medication if you are allergic to metoclopramide, or if you have bleeding or blockage in your stomach or intestines, epilepsy or other seizure disorder, or an adrenal gland tumor (pheochromocytoma).
Before you take metoclopramide, tell your doctor if you have kidney or liver disease, congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, or a history of depression.
Do not drink alcohol. It can increase some of the side effects of metoclopramide.
There are many other medicines that can interact with metoclopramide. Tell your doctor about all medications you use. This includes prescription, over-the-counter, vitamin, and herbal products. Do not start a new medication without telling your doctor. Keep a list of all your medicines and show it to any healthcare provider who treats you.
Stop using metoclopramide and call your doctor at once if you have tremors or uncontrolled muscle movements, fever, stiff muscles, confusion, sweating, fast or uneven heartbeats, rapid breathing, depressed mood, thoughts of suicide or hurting yourself, hallucinations, anxiety, agitation, seizure, or jaundice (yellowing of your skin or eyes).
What is metoclopramide?
Metoclopramide increases muscle contractions in the upper digestive tract. This speeds up the rate at which the stomach empties into the intestines.
Metoclopramide is used short-term to treat heartburn caused by gastroesophageal reflux in people who have used other medications without relief of symptoms.
Metoclopramide is also used to treat slow gastric emptying in people with diabetes (also called diabetic gastroparesis), which can cause nausea, vomiting, heartburn, loss of appetite, and a feeling of fullness after meals.
Metoclopramide may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
What should I discuss with my healthcare provider before taking metoclopramide?
You should not take this medication if you are allergic to metoclopramide, or if you have:
- bleeding or blockage in your stomach or intestines;
- a perforation (hole) in your stomach or intestines;
- epilepsy or other seizure disorder; or
- an adrenal gland tumor (pheochromocytoma).
To make sure you can safely take metoclopramide, tell your doctor if you have any of these other conditions:
- kidney disease;
- liver disease (especially cirrhosis);
- congestive heart failure, a heart rhythm disorder;
- high blood pressure;
- breast cancer;
- Parkinson's disease;
- diabetes (your insulin dose may need adjusting); or
- depression or mental illness.
FDA pregnancy category B. This medication is not expected to be harmful to an unborn baby. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant during treatment.
Metoclopramide can pass into breast milk and may harm a nursing baby. Do not use this medication without telling your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.
The metoclopramide orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) may contain phenylalanine. Talk to your doctor before using this form of metoclopramide if you have phenylketonuria (PKU).
Metoclopramide should not be given to a child.
How should I take metoclopramide?
Take exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Metoclopramide is usually taken for only 4 to 12 weeks. Follow the directions on your prescription label.
NEVER TAKE METOCLOPRAMIDE IN LARGER AMOUNTS THAN RECOMMENDED, OR FOR LONGER THAN 12 WEEKS. High doses or long-term use of metoclopramide can cause a serious movement disorder that may not be reversible. Symptoms of this disorder include uncontrollable muscle movements of your lips, tongue, eyes, face, arms, or legs. The longer you take metoclopramide, the more likely you are to develop a serious movement disorder. The risk of this side effect is higher in women, diabetics, and older adults.
Take metoclopramide 30 minutes before eating. Metoclopramide is usually taken before meals and at bedtime. Your doctor may want you to take the medication as needed only with meals that usually cause heartburn. Follow your doctor's instructions.
Measure the liquid medicine with a special dose-measuring spoon or cup, not a regular table spoon. If you do not have a dose-measuring device, ask your pharmacist for one.
To take metoclopramide orally disintegrating tablet (ODT):
- Keep the tablet in its bottle or blister pack until you are ready to take the medicine. Make sure your hands are dry before handling a tablet. If the tablet breaks or melts in your hand, throw it away and use a new tablet.
- Place the tablet on your tongue. It will begin to melt right away. Do not swallow the tablet whole. Allow it to melt in your mouth without chewing.
- Swallow several times as the tablet melt. You do not need to drink liquid to help the tablet melt.
Do not take two different forms of metoclopramide (such as tablets and oral syrup) at the same time.
Store at room temperature away from moisture and heat. Keep the bottle tightly closed when not in use.
After you stop taking metoclopramide, you may have unpleasant withdrawal symptoms such as headache, dizziness, or nervousness. Talk to your doctor about how to avoid withdrawal symptoms when stopping the medication.
What happens if I miss a dose?
Take the missed dose as soon as you remember. Skip the missed dose if it is almost time for your next scheduled dose. Do not take extra medicine to make up the missed dose.
What happens if I overdose?
Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222. Overdose symptoms may include drowsiness, confusion, tremors or uncontrolled muscle movements in your face or neck, or seizure (convulsions).
What should I avoid while taking metoclopramide?
Avoid drinking alcohol. It can increase some of the side effects of metoclopramide.
Metoclopramide may impair your thinking or reactions. Be careful if you drive or do anything that requires you to be alert.
What are the possible side effects of metoclopramide?
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Stop taking metoclopramide and call your doctor at once if you have any of these SIGNS OF A SERIOUS MOVEMENT DISORDER, which may occur within the first 2 days of treatment:
- tremors or shaking in your arms or legs;
- uncontrolled muscle movements in your face (chewing, lip smacking, frowning, tongue movement, blinking or eye movement); or
- any new or unusual muscle movements you cannot control.
Stop taking metoclopramide and call your doctor at once if you have any of these other serious side effects:
- slow or jerky muscle movements, problems with balance or walking;
- mask-like appearance in your face;
- very stiff (rigid) muscles, high fever, sweating, confusion, fast or uneven heartbeats, tremors, feeling like you might pass out;
- depressed mood, thoughts of suicide or hurting yourself;
- hallucinations, anxiety, agitation, jittery feeling, trouble staying still;
- swelling, feeling short of breath, rapid weight gain;
- jaundice (yellowing of your skin or eyes); or
- seizure (convulsions).
Less serious side effects may include:
- feeling restless, drowsy, tired, or dizzy;
- headache, sleep problems (insomnia);
- nausea, vomiting, diarrhea;
- breast tenderness or swelling;
- changes in your menstrual periods; or
- urinating more than usual.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
What other drugs will affect metoclopramide?
Before using metoclopramide, tell your doctor if you regularly use other medicines that make you sleepy (such as cold or allergy medicine, sedatives, narcotic pain medicine, sleeping pills, muscle relaxers, and medicine for seizures, depression, or anxiety). They can add to sleepiness caused by metoclopramide.
Tell your doctor about all other medications you use, especially:
- acetaminophen (Tylenol);
- cyclosporine (Gengraf, Neoral, Sandimmune);
- digoxin (digitalis, Lanoxin);
- glycopyrrolate (Robinul);
- insulin;
- levodopa (Larodopa, Atamet, Parcopa, Sinemet);
- mepenzolate (Cantil);
- tetracycline (Ala-Tet, Brodspec, Panmycin, Sumycin, Tetracap);
- atropine (Donnatal, and others), benztropine (Cogentin), dimenhydrinate (Dramamine), methscopolamine (Pamine), or scopolamine (Transderm-Scop);
- bladder or urinary medications such as darifenacin (Enablex), flavoxate (Urispas), oxybutynin (Ditropan, Oxytrol), tolterodine (Detrol), or solifenacin (Vesicare);
- blood pressure medications;
- bronchodilators such as ipratroprium (Atrovent) or tiotropium (Spiriva);
- irritable bowel medications such as dicyclomine (Bentyl), hyoscyamine (Anaspaz, Cystospaz, Levsin), or propantheline (Pro-Banthine);
- an MAO inhibitor such as furazolidone (Furoxone), isocarboxazid (Marplan), phenelzine (Nardil), rasagiline (Azilect), selegiline (Eldepryl, Emsam, Zelapar), or tranylcypromine (Parnate); or
- medicines to treat psychiatric disorders, such as chlorpromazine (Thorazine), clozapine (Clozaril, FazaClo), haloperidol (Haldol), olanzapine (Zyprexa, Symbyax), prochlorperazine (Compazine), risperidone (Risperdal), thiothixene (Navane), and others.
This list is not complete and there are many other drugs that can interact with metoclopramide. Tell your doctor about all medications you use. This includes prescription, over-the-counter, vitamin, and herbal products. Do not start a new medication without telling your doctor. Keep a list of all your medicines and show it to any healthcare provider who treats you.
Where can I get more information?
Your pharmacist can provide more information about metoclopramide.
Remember, keep this and all other medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medication only for the indication prescribed.
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How to avoid phishing hooks: A checklist for your end users
Checklist of basic recommendations to share with your end users to teach them how to avoid phishing schemes.
Phishing attacks are on the rise and becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex. According to a 2004 Gartner Inc. study, phishing attacks have tricked at least 1.8 million consumers into revealing sensitive information. On average, victims lose $1200 when their bank account is compromised via a phishing attack.
So, how do you stop these attacks? Educating your users is the first step. Here is a checklist of basic recommendations to share with your end users to teach them how to avoid phishing schemes.
|How to avoid phishing hooks
|If you receive an unsolicited or unexpected email, pop-up message or instant message requesting personal or financial information, do not reply or click on the link in the message. Legitimate companies will never ask for your personal or financial information via email or instant messenger. If you are concerned about your
account(s), contact the organization in the email using a telephone number you know is genuine, or by opening a new browser session and typing in the company's correct Web address. Do not cut and paste the link that came in the email message.
|Regularly update and patch your Web browser(s). Recent browser vulnerabilities have been used as part of phishing attacks.
|Never email personal or financial information. If you have to enter your information into an organization's Web site, make sure the site is secure. Check for a lock symbol in the browser bar or make sure the URL starts with "https." Unfortunately, phishers have found ways to duplicate such security indicators and therefore it's best to minimize online transactions as much as possible.
|Install a Web browser tool bar to help protect you from known phishing Web sites. For example, EarthLink's ScamBlocker (http://www.earthlink.net/earthlinktoolbar) is a free browser toolbar that alerts a user when they visit a fraudulent Web page.
|Install SpoofStick (http://www.corestreet.com/spoofstick), a browser extension that helps users detect spoofed Web sites. SpoofStick makes it easy to spot a spoofed Web site by prominently displaying the site's URL.
|Use antivirus software on your workstation and regularly update it. Some phishing emails contain malicious software that can harm your computer or track your activities on the Internet without your knowledge. Antivirus software will prevent this type of software from being installed on your computer.
|Send all phishing emails you receive to the following groups:
Phishing attacks are likely to become even more convincing and dangerous. Follow the above steps and you'll avoid getting hooked by an attack.
About the author
Steven Weil, CISSP, CISA, CBCP is senior security consultant with Seitel Leeds & Associates, a full service consulting firm based in Seattle, Washington. Mr. Weil specializes in the areas of security policy development, HIPAA compliance, disaster recovery planning, security assessments, and information security management. He can be reached at email@example.com.

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Born in Maidenhead, England, Dave McKean is one of the leading comic authors active today. Not only does he excel in the graphic side of the medium, designing virtuoso mixed media images, but also he has many fine stories to tell. It is a perfect combination that is not encountered very often.
Black Orchid (1991)
In the early days of his career, after finishing art school, McKean started out like any young artist. Hungry to prove himself, he showed off his baroque painting techniques in the eco-thriller 'Black Orchid' (1988) and the Batman comic 'Arkham Asylum' (1989) to immediate effect: both books proved to be instant best-sellers. The young man who just left art school in no time found himself to be one of the main fan favorites in comics.
Besides the production of his spectacular mainstream comics, McKean ambitiously kept busy with loads of other projects. Best-known of these are his legendary covers for the 'Sandman' comics (1989-1996), written by his friend Neil Gaiman. After the completion of this best-selling fantasy series, McKean's covers, digitally manipulated images of painting with scraps of ripped-up lace and over-exposed photographs, were collected in the volume 'Sandman Dust Covers'. In addition to digitally manipulating these 'Sandman' covers, McKean experimented with more personal comics stories scripted by Gaiman. These range from the early meditation on human memory-cum-mafia story 'Violent Cases' (1987) to later stories on the death of a film director (in 'Signal to Noise') and the imagination of childhood years ('Mr. Punch').
Cages (1992)
The turning point in McKean's career is the hefty 500-page comic 'Cages', in which he elaborated his views on art, life and recipes for ratatouille. Besides being one of the greatest achievements in comics history, 'Cages' marked the divide between the driven graphic artist who does not seem to be hindered by any technical limitations and the thoughtful, self-conscious artist who knows that restraining his capabilities leads to the finest work. In 'Cages' McKean used no more than two colors and an efficient brush line to tell the bulk of the story. Only occasionally did his trademark wild color work come in to add visual emphasis to key moments in the story. McKean serialized 'Cages' in 10 issues between 1990 and 1996.
After the publication of a single volume 'Cages' book by Kitchen Sink Press in 1998, McKean took a lengthy break from comics. Touching on photography, painting, film and graphic design, the man proved himself to be a full-fledged visual artist, happy to put any medium to his hand. He continued to work with Gaiman by illustrating his delightful children's picture books'The Day I Swapped My Dad for a Goldfish' (1998), and 'The Wolves in the Walls' (2003), as well as the children's novels Coraline (2002) and The Graveyard Book (2008). They also collaborated on the screenplay of McKean's 2005 film 'MirrorMask' and on the TV mini-series 'Neverwhere' (1996).
A jazz musican himself, Dave McKean has designed CD covers for a variety of artists, including Tori Amos, Alice Cooper, Buckethead, John Cale and Dream Theater. His art and designs have graced stamps, book covers, posters, and Heston Blumenthal's cook book 'Fat Duck Cookbook'. He was a concept artist on two 'Harry Potter' films, and the director of a number of music videos, TV intro's and short films.
Postcards from Brussels
McKean has also created a few books documenting his travels using only illustrations. These include 'Postcards from Vienna', 'Postcards from Barcelona', 'Postcards from Paris' (2008), and 'Postcards from Brussels' (2009). By 2011, McKean ventured in the territory of erotica with the graphic novel 'Celluloid', published by Fantagraphics.
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TAMPA, Fla. >> The Buccaneers say Lovie Smith is the ideal man to coach Tampa Bay.
The team made it official Thursday, announcing the one-time Tony Dungy protege who led the Chicago Bears to the Super Bowl seven years ago finalized a five-year contract that he had reportedly agreed to on Wednesday. He will be formally introduced at a news conference next Monday.
The 55-year-old Smith replaces Greg Schiano, who was fired Monday following a 4-12 finish. The Bucs also dismissed general manager Mark Dominik, and the search for his successor continues.
Bucs co-chairman Bryan Glazer called it an "exciting day" for the organization.
"We knew from the start of our search that he was the ideal man to lead our team into a new era. ... Lovie is an accomplished and very well-respected head coach who has enjoyed success at every level of his 30-year career," Glazer said.
In hiring someone with a proven track record as a NFL head coach, ownership departed from the route taken for two other coaching changes over the past five years.
The Glazer family promoted Raheem Morris from defensive coordinator to replace Jon Gruden after the Bucs missed the playoffs in 2008. They opted for another candidate with no previous NFL head coaching experience when they lured Schiano from Rutgers, where he had turned a struggling college program into a winner.
Schiano was fired after going 11-21 in two seasons. The Bucs lost the first eight games of this season and played played poorly in the four losses during the 4-4 stretch the team put together to close out the Schiano era.
Smith is a defensive-minded coach who could bring back a version of the Tampa 2 system that the Bucs popularized during a successful run under Dungy in the late 1990's and Gruden in the early 2000's, when Tampa Bay won its only Super Bowl title.
The 55-year-old Smith was Dungy's linebackers coach with the Bucs from 1996-2000, then spent three seasons as the St. Louis Rams' defensive coordinator on Mike Martz's staff.
"I think the fit is going to be tremendous," Dungy said. "Number one he knows the area, he knows how the team got built into a Super Bowl winner, he knows how to win in the NFL. But more than that, I think he is going to build just a chemistry and camaraderie in that locker room and in the whole organization that's going to resemble what we had before."
Smith was 81-63 in nine seasons with Chicago, earning three playoff berths and leading the 2006 team to the Super Bowl, where the Bears lost to the Dungy- and Peyton Manning-led Indianapolis Colts.
The coach's tenure in Chicago came to an abrupt halt a year ago, when Smith was fired after finishing 10-6 but missing the playoffs for the fifth time in six seasons.
Smith has a 3-3 post-season record, including a loss to Green Bay in the NFC championship game during the 2010 season.
"I don't think they could've chosen a better guy — not just him as a coach, but as a person," Pro Bowl defensive tackle Gerald McCoy said.
"How he treats his players, and just being a player's coach and his whole philosophy, he's changed a lot of people's lives," McCoy added. "I've talked to a bunch of people who've said I'm going to love playing for this guy."
The Bucs, going through their third coaching change in five years, haven't made the playoffs since 2007. They haven't won a playoff game since their 2002 Super Bowl run under Gruden.
Smith inherits a better situation than either of his two predecessors, Raheem Morris and Schiano, who took over a team that dropped its final 10 games under Morris in 2011.
Tampa Bay was 17th in the NFL in total defense this season, making significant strides following the acquisition of cornerback Darrelle Revis and safety Dashon Goldson last spring.
But the offense was a major disappointment, sinking to the bottom of the league ranking after finishing in the top 10 in 2012, when Josh Freeman became Tampa Bay's first 4,000-yard passer.
Schiano's grip on his job began to slip away with the messy benching and subsequent release of Freeman. In addition to not receiving any compensation for the former first-round draft pick, the Bucs suffered a public relations hit amid allegations that Schiano or someone else in the organization leaked confidential information about Freeman's voluntary involvement in the NFL drug testing program.
Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera was among those reaching out to congratulate Smith. He served a stint as Chicago's defensive coordinator, while Smith was with the Bears.
He exchanged text messages with his former boss, who in turn wished the Panthers good luck in the playoffs. As members of the NFC South, their teams will face each other twice a year.
"They are a good football team and I always felt like they are a good football team," Rivera said. "He has been to the big stage and knows what it takes. I think he makes their football team better already."
AP Sports Writer Steve Reed in Charlotte contributed to this report.


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The 2016 Heritage Awards were announced on Thursday 26 May. About 120 excited people gathered in the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum to find out who had won nine awards. The full list of awards in each category is listed below. For more information on each nomination and the judge's statements please see the Mount Alexander Heritage Awards website.
Creative reuse and contemporary design in a heritage placeCommercial Award to Public INNCommunity Award to Newstead Railway Arts Hub
Specialist heritage trade skillsAwarded to L.Ward Carpentry
Jury's award for innovative excellenceVictorian Goldfields Railway
Heritage AdvocacyPublications Award to Granite Houses of Harcourt and FaradayAward to Maldon Museum and Archives Association
Restoration of a heritage placeAwarded to Chewton Town HallHighly commended to London House, Guildford
Adaptation and conservation of historic commercial spacesAwarded to Das Kaffeehaus rosterei
The next heritage awards will be held in 2018. Council will begin the call for nominations in mid 2017. If you know of someone or somewhere that should be nominated, contact usand let us know.


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We also own the largest collection of original British Lobby cards (known as Front of House FOH in UK), which date from the 1930's through 1980's. These were used to advertise the movie and were displayed in glass boxes outside the movie theatre (cinema) and are highly collectible. We have over 250,000 authentic lobby cards in our collection, which also includes original 11x14 US Lobby Cards, German, French and other International releases.
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"More than just another tragic story of the American Indian, more than a story of victory and defeat, of good and evil. . . . A powerful human story, as necessary today as ever."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"An eloquent account of a massacre's legacies as well as its history."
—The New York Times Book Review
"By focusing on one tribe's historic struggle, Kluger shines a light on our nation's deplorable treatment of its native people."
—The Seattle Times
"Meticulously researched, elegantly written and sophisticated, the book uses this all but forgotten episode in American history to give a human face to the injustices visited on Indians in treaty-making, on the battlefield and, surprisingly, in the courtroom."
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A close and fascinating look at one treaty. . . . With precision and vigor, Kluger examines the circumstances of the crime and trials." —The Oregonian
"Colorful. . . . Kluger's recitation of these events can be seen as an upbeat refusal to treat a historical tragedy as irredeemable. . . . He's canny enough to realize what's lost in a one-sided telling, and compassionate enough to make sense of the doings on all sides."
—The New York Times Book Review
"The Puget Sound used to belong to a handful of small tribes including the Nisqually, whose chief in the 1850s welcomed the arrival of whites who wanted to fish, farm, and cut timber. What happened next is the harrowing story told by Richard Kluger in The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek, named after the one-sided treaty that stole the homeland of the Indians. Kluger is a careful researcher and skilled narrator who confronts the injustice of this land-theft head-on, but ends his tale on a note that cannot be called sad."
—Thomas Powers, author of The Killing of Crazy Horse
"Kluger's aim in providing the particulars of this tragedy [is] to help readers conceive the depth of the pain visited upon American Indians by white conquest. . . . This account's chief value is in its vivid illustration of an important but overlooked chapter in our region's history."
—Tacoma News Tribune
"It's probably politically incorrect to say so, but Richard Kluger's exquisite recreation of this little known case of historical injustice against the Native American Nisqually tribe and their chief, Leschi, is as gripping as the bloodiest tale of cowboys and Indians. What's more, along the way, this investigative history raises and profoundly illuminates the critical moral, political, and legal issues involved."
—Victor Navasky, author of Kennedy Justice
"Kluger's solidly sourced narrative and its tenor of indignation will captivate readers of frontier and American Indian history."
"A vivid portrait of the tragic patterns that defined white settlement and Indian resistance across the American continent. Trust betrayed, white mendacity and vainglory, brutality on both sides—all make for a deeply moving and unforgettable story."
—Kate Buford, author of Native American Son
"Well-researched and beautifully written. . . . Valuable for those interested in how the final stages of the concept of Manifest Destiny played out."
—Library Journal
"Richard Kluger relates how the West was won—that is, the ongoing white conquest of Native America—in a book of extraordinary scholarship, insight, and sensitivity. This is a tragic narrative, replete with unfulfilled promises, forced removals (ethnic cleansing), betrayals, judicial murders, and the sham of treaty making. Vividly told, it is an engrossing read, and the voice of the losers is omnipresent and eloquent."
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5 Words East Texans Can't Say Correctly [AUDIO]
I want to start this post off with this little disclaimer: I am not making fun or mocking anyone and I definitely do not want to hurt anyone's feelings with the topic of this post! There were several of us at dinner the other night and the conversation, as with any dinner was varied, but someone brought up the subject of words that are usually pronounced wrong here in East Texas.
I didn't grow up in East Texas, but close, though, in the Dallas metroplex, I know Texas and East Texans have a special and distinct way of pronouncing our words. Heck, we're known throughout the world because of our southern accents!
Here are some of the words that came up on our short list and how they were described:
oil – many people say it like the word 'all'
espresso – somehow an 'x' gets in this word
jewelry – the 'l' often gets left out of this word
realtor – we sometimes make this a 3 syllable word and add an extra 'a' in the middle
sherbet – this cold word gets an extra 'r' placed in it
Also during that dinner conversation a lot of us noticed that a lot of people have added a stray "S" to Walmart, making it Walmarts!
To help us all out with the proper pronunciation of these words, I've recorded them from the web with some help from Dictionary.com!
Now what other words can you think of that we as East Texans improperly pronounce? Let me know by leaving them in the comment section below.


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Pair of Jens Risom Side Tables
- CreatorJens Risom (Designer),Harvey Probber (Maker)
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- Date of Manufacture1950s
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- DimensionsH 25.75 in. x W 24 in. x D 17.88 in.H 65.41 cm x W 60.96 cm x D 45.42 cm
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About Jens Risom (Designer)
The Danish-born Jens Risom brought the Scandinavian design sensibility to a wide audience in the United States. As the first designer for Knoll Inc., Risom introduced American buyers to the region's enduring design values of simplicity, grace and craftsmanship.
Risom trained in furniture making at the Copenhagen School of Industrial Arts and Design under Ole Wanscher, alongside classmates Hans Wegner and Borge Mogensen. In 1939, a year after graduating from business school, Risom decided to move to the U.S. While working for an interior designer in New York in 1941, he met Hans Knoll, and the businessman and the designer hit it off. They brought out their first line the next year, despite wartime materials restrictions. The signature piece — now a design icon — was a lounge chair with a striking, undulant birch frame and a seat made of webbed sub-military grade parachute straps. Risom was drafted into the army, and served as a translator under General George Patton. When he returned from the war, Risom clashed over furniture design ideals with his business partner's new bride, Florence Knoll, who was schooled in the Bauhaus method, which favored furniture with strict, geometric metal frames. Risom then started his own company, Jens Risom Design.
In the course of his long career, Risom developed a stylistic vocabulary that was a reflection of the life of the man himself: his furniture has Danish warmth coupled with an American air of crisp efficiency. A Risom chair is almost instantly recognizable — the arms and seat backs are set at a distinctive angle that seems to invite people to sit back and relax, yet they know they can hop up in an instant, ready to go. As you will see from these pages, Jens Risom is one of the great men of American modern design, who made furniture that is unique and timeless. Read more about Jens Risom in Introspective magazine.
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Smart TV Exploit Means Hackers Can Watch You Watch TV
from the i-spy-with-my-little-eye deptRemember all the hubbub (now there's a word I never thought I'd use; thanks a lot, aging process) over Comcast's kind of, maybe plan to spy on subscribers through their cable box as they watch TV, fold their laundry, or engage in coitus? There was quite an outcry at the time, even as Comcast said that the plan was only to have the cameras be able to recognize when different types or numbers of people were watching the tube. People just didn't feel comfortable with corporations being able to spy on them. As a result, Comcast backed away from the plan -- the people had defeated the corporation.
All, apparently, so that hackers could spy on them instead. At least, that's what some reports are saying about Samsung Smart TVs and an exploit that would allow hackers to snatch social media credentials, access any files or devices connected to the smart TV...oh, and to use the built in cameras to spy the hell out of people as they do whatever they do while watching television.
In an e-mail exchange with Security Ledger, the Malta-based firm said that the previously unknown ("zero day") hole affects Samsung Smart TVs running the latest version of the company's Linux-based firmware. It could give an attacker the ability to access any file available on the remote device, as well as external devices (such as USB drives) connected to the TV. And, in a Orwellian twist, the hole could be used to access cameras and microphones attached to the Smart TVs, giving remote attacker the ability to spy on those viewing a compromised set.The group that reportedly discovered the vulnerability, ReVuln, proudly stated that they would not publish any information about what they'd uncovered except to paying subscribers because screw everyone else (not an actual quote). They also have a company policy, apparently, that would prevent them from working with Samsung directly on a fix or even to disclose the hole, leading me to reach the logical conclusion that Dr. Evil is apparently running that company.
Even more fun, thanks to how Samsung designed the product, chances are any fix that could be produced would be difficult to implement.
Currently, the Smart TVs offer no native security features, such as a firewall, user authentication or application whitelisting. More critically: there is no independent software update capability, meaning that, barring a firmware update from Samsung, the exploitable hole can't be patched without "voiding the device's warranty and using other exploits," ReVuln said.In other words, customers get to wait around until Samsung can figure this thing out on their own, since ReVuln won't help them out by company policy, or risk voiding their warranty on their smart TV that has a complete lack of security features. Nicely done, everyone involved.
The company posted a video of an attack on a Samsung TV LED 3D Smart TV online. It shows an attacker gaining shell access to the TV, copying the contents of its hard drive to an external device and mounting them on a local drive, providing access to photos, documents and other content. ReVuln said an attacker would also be able to lift credentials from any social networks or other online services accessed from the device.
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Dinosaur Annex concert unites music and science
The Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble will bring together composers, scientists and performers from Brandeis and beyond for a unique multimedia concert at the MIT Museum April 14.
Hi-Fi-Sci, part of the Cambridge Science Festival, will feature the world premieres of five pieces that illuminate and interpret scientific animations. In addition to Dinosaur Annex artistic director Yu-Hui Chang Ph.D. '01, a Brandeis associate professor of composition, the concert will showcase the work of several Brandeis faculty, alumni and friends, including composer and MIT professor Peter Child Ph.D. '81; John Millia Ph.D. '03, composer and director of the New England Conservatory of Music's Electronic Music Studio; Kurt Rohde, University of California at Davis professor and winner of the Lydian String Quartet's Commission Prize; Irving Epstein, senior advisor to the provost for research and Henry F. Fischbach Professor of Chemistry; Zvonimir Dogic, associate physics professor; Daniel Stepner, Lydian String Quartet violinist and music professor; and cellist David Russell '97, Wellesley College music professor.
Admission is free. Tickets will be distributed to the first 125 people beginning at 7 p.m.
Dinosaur Annex, a leading presenter of chamber music, is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Summer Star Foundation, The Ditson Fund for Contemporary Music and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
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Office of Readings for Good Friday
Morning Prayer for Good Friday
Evening Prayer for Good Friday
We are starting to provide audio of our own, accessible directly from the Universalis apps. It doesn't need any Internet access and has many other good features. You can read about it here.
A few months ago we received the following letter from a member of the Rosminians:
Having noticed the recent introduction of audio options into your Divine Office I am wondering if the enclosed would be of any interest to you.
Some years ago a member of our community began to lose his sight and was unable to read the Office. As a result I undertook to record the offices of Readings, Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer. I also purchased an application to to render these recordings in 'Daisy' format so that he could use his RNIB machine to listen to them.
Some time later it occurred to me that they might be welcomed by others with impaired sight and would be a useful extension of the hundreds of hours I spent in their recording! Accordingly I wrote in the publishers, Harper Collins, and got permission to distribute a limited number of copies, on a non-commercial basis, to others registered blind. With this in view I published an advert in the Catholic Herald and produced a simple website - see http://www.advent.cd2.com.
It seems to me that, with the advent of Universalis, and its extension into audio you may be in a position to help a wider spread of people, especially those with sight difficulties.
The enclosed memory card has all the mp3 recordings that were used in the production of the seven CD's and I am hoping that you can further extend their usefulness.
Br.Robin IC
We are happy to provide day-by-day access to Brother Robin's recordings through the Universalis web site. As he says, the publishers' permission is "on a non-commercial basis" and therefore we in our turn are making the access free.
The recordings are based on the English calendar for the diocese of Westminster. If you are using some other calendar then they may therefore be out of step with what you see in the rest of Universalis. For instance, the Epiphany, the Ascension etc will be celebrated on Sunday and not on their proper days. Moreover, the recordings were made before 2015, so they do not include the feast of St Mary Magdalen, because her celebration was, at the time of recording, only a memorial and not a feast.
Nevertheless, with all these discrepancies we hope that these recordings will be useful, and we present them in that spirit.
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Quanzhou university of Information Engineering is a full-time applied undergraduate university approved by the China Education Ministry. It is the advanced unit of Chinese professional education, the reform pilot unit of China education, a unit achieving the second prize of China Teaching Achievement Award, the first pilot unit of Chinese Education informatization , the cooperated college as ICT innovation base of the integration of manufacture and education for China Education Ministry and ZTE .
It is located in the center of the Quanzhou city in Fujian province, surrounded by beautiful scenery like Qingyuan Mountaion(5A level), Fujian-Taiwan Kinship Museum, Quanzhou museum and West Lake Park. The school covers an area of 891.99 mu, with a total area of 29.33 million square meters.
The school was established in 2002 and was promoted to an undergraduate college in 2014. It majors in engineering, featured by advanced manufacturing, electronic information and software engineering. There are seven main teaching units: Electronics & Communication Engineering College, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering College, Software College, Creative Design College, Economy &Management College, Civil Engineering College and General Education Center.There are 8,269 full-time students and 389 full-time teachers, including 137 professors and 249 teachers with master's degree.
It adheres to the mission of non-profit, adheres to the motto of "Knowledge and action are one ", adheres to the principle of "moral makes a man and quality makes a school". The school follows the law of cultivating applied talents and strives to build the innovative talent training platform to carry out the combination of learning and practicing by taking CDIO as the main model. Working with the standards of Accreditation of Engineering Education and the requirements of excellent engineer training, it works hard to develop suitable training programs, reconstruct curriculum system, strengthen the quality management of training process, innovate the mode of talent training and strengthen ability training with the cooperation between school and enterprise, then finally to cultivate applied talents with solid theory foundation, strong practice ability, good sense of innovation and high personal quality.
There are more that 50,000 square meters for experiment and training.There are four training centers with the central financial support; four Fujian productive training bases; two training centers with the financial support from Fujian Province;one demonstration center as Fujian provincial experimental teaching demonstration center;8000 square meters of College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park. In 2016, it was identified as one of the first batch of college students innovation park by the Education Department of Fujian Province, and it was regarded as the business incubator in Fujian by Human Resources and Social Security Department of Fujian province. There are also several training centers built with the multiparty cooperation like German BOSCH Rexroth (Chinese) Co., Ltd. and other 118 well-known enterprises. There are also some self-built training centers in Quanzhou Jiangnan high tech Industrial Park, Xiamen software park and technology park.
It works hard to strengthen the construction of scientific research innovation platform, processing an ICT production and education innovation base with the cooperation between Ministry of education and ZTE. There are three innovation platforms and two key laboratories: Fujian engineering research center of the industrial robot and intelligent manufacturing, technology engineering center of numerical control equipment application, the international business university research center of Fujian province, the key laboratory of 3D printing equipment and manufacturing, the key laboratory of cloud computing and Internet of thins.
It attaches great importance to international exchanges and cooperation between Fujian and Taiwan. It is the first batch of colleges and universities in Fujian to carry out the cooperation with Taiwan and is discussing the cooperation of founding an institute of Fujian and Taiwan industries. It has signed the agreement of cooperation with the Rheinland-Pfalz Education College in German to build a training base for education teachers in China and Germany. And it has reached a memorandum of the education cooperation with the Ukrainian National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture.
It has achieved greatly in education. Since 2009, there have been 591 people (students and teachers) taking part in 232 kinds of national skill competitions held in Fujian or other places. Among them, there are 72 people getting national rewards. In the past two years, our students' creative works have gotten great success in the relative competitions, and there are 60 projects awarded as Fujian province projects or national projects. The education quality has been sanctioned by society and companies. The employment rate of graduates has remained 98% during the past six years, and it was awarded the title of "Fujian Advanced Collective in Graduate Employment".
The majors in the college are electronic information engineering, communication engineering, photo-electronic information science & engineering, mechanical design and manufacturing & automation, electrical engineering & automation, material forming and control engineering, software engineering, network engineering, network engineering, digital media art, product design, environmental design, civil engineering, engineering cost, construction of electrical and intelligent, e-commerce, international business, financial engineering, logistics management.
Quanzhou, located in Fujian province, the southeast coast of China, the west of the Taiwan strait, with an area of 11,015 square kilometers and a population of 8.51 million (permanent population at the end of 2015).
Quanzhou is the first national historical and cultural city, the city of East Asian Culture, the starting point of Maritime Silk Road, the world multicultural exhibition center.
Quanzhou was one of the four great ports of the world during the Tang dynasty and was the first great port in the east in Song dynasty and Yuan dynasty. Quanzhou is regarded as the city of international garden , the city of Chinese garden, the excellent tourist city, the city awarded the best model of improving people's living environment by Dubai. There are 18 places of interest, 31 national key cultural relics protection units, 37 scenic areas with AAA (even more), 2 national geological park and 1 national key scenic place.
In the "One Belt and One Road" strategy advocated by China, Quanzhou is listed as "the leading area for the construction of the 21st century maritime silk road" and "the strategic pivot of maritime cooperation". Quanzhou is the manufacturing city, is a typical Chinese manufacturing city, is the first pilot of the strategy of "made in China 2025" . At the end of 2016, there were 100 listed companies in Quanzhou and 148 China's famous trademarks, accounting for one-third of the total in Fujian province and being hailed as the "Brand Capital". In 2016, the total value of the city's GDP was 664.66 billion yuan, constantly remaining the first one in Fujian province for 18 years.


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Less than a week ago, we posted this photo of Dwayne Johnson and Gina Cararno posing like the badasses they are on the set of Fast and Furious 6. Not to be outdone, stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker posed for another image, along with director Justin Lin. All we really know so far is that production has started and the plot of the film appears to center around dueling heist teams.
The movie also stars Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Joe Taslim, and Luke Evans. The film is slated to open May 24, 2013. Hit the jump to check out the new image.
Check out the image below, courtesy of the Fast and Furious 6 official Twitter account:


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Baby food is really fun to make... For the first couple of weeks. Then it becomes one of those, "Um, what is Emma going to have for dinner tonight... pureed pears it is. Again!" I would make big batches of pureed fruits and vegetables (ok, basically just pears and sweet potatoes) and freeze them in ice cube trays. We'd be good for a couple of weeks, then I'd run out.
The truth is, making your own baby food can be really easy if you are organized and have a little extra time. Which I was and did. Until we moved. During the transition, we resorted to store-bought baby food. I found myself only wanting to buy the fruits, knowing that she would like those and not being sure how good the vegetables would taste to her... or me.
Now that Emma is a little older, it is now my goal to be able to feed her from what I've fixed for our own dinner. Modified of course. I think this will help her to be an adventurous eater, and so I'm not cooking macaroni and cheese or chicken strips along with every meal in the future.
She had a little cold over the weekend - we all have. So this week I made us chicken noodle soup. I found it to be the perfect combination for her - vegetables she can eat (cooked carrots and peas, cut up), tiny bits of chicken and noodles. I made her her own version with diluted chicken broth, as I though our broth would be too seasoned. I cut her vegetables up extra small and over cooked them. I even used smaller egg noodles that I cut up to make it easier for her to chew. While I did actually make two separate batches of soup for us, it was easy and done at the same time. I made a big batch for her (and us) and put them in individual freezer containers to get out next time we have something not so Emma friendly for dinner.
In this recipe, I start by making the broth from scratch, but if you'd prefer, you can just use store-bought chicken stock. Starting from scratch is a lot easier and quicker than you might think - it is just boiling chicken in water with a bunch of vegetables for about 20 minutes. The entire thing can be made in 30 minutes.
Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
3 split chicken breast halves, bone-in (about 3 pounds)
For the stock :
8 cups of water
1 small white onion, quartered
1 carrot cut into chunks
1 head of garlic, cut in half exposing the cloves
1 small bunch of fresh parsley
2 tablespoons of sea salt (more or less, per your taste)
1/2 teaspoon of pepper (more or less, per your taste)
4 carrots, diced
2 tablespoons of fresh parsley
1 cup of frozen peas
1/2 bag of egg noodles
salt and pepper to taste
Begin by placing the bone-in chicken breasts in a large stock pot with 8 cups of water. Add onion, 1 carrot cut into large chunks, garlic head, parsley, salt and pepper. Cook for 20 minutes on medium until the chicken breasts are fully cooked.
Remove the chicken breasts and put them in a bowl while the stock continues to simmer.
Let the chicken set until they are cool enough to handle, then remove the chicken meat from the bone and skin, then shred it with a fork. Put the chicken bones and skin back into the stock and let it continue to simmer for 15-30 more minutes, or until you're ready to make the soup.
If you're making the stock in advance, strain and discard the bones, skin, vegetables and herbs, then put the stock in freezer containers.
|The mini version and the big version cooking away at the same time.
If you are ready to make the soup, strain and discard the bones, skin, vegetables and herbs. Add in diced carrots and bring the soup to a boil. Then add noodles and cook for 5-8 minutes until the noodles are tender. Reduce the heat and add in chicken, peas and fresh parsley. Season with more salt and pepper, if necessary.


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It's impossible to determine exactly what Yankees centerfielder Curtis Granderson and the Oriole Bird were discussing during pregame calisthenics.
But, these stills taken from the Yes Network's dialogue-less video of the conversation seem to indicate some sort of deal was brokered.
Whatever it was, though, it worked out for the Oriole Bird.
His guys won 5-4 in 10 innings, with Granderson going 0-for-3 with a strikeout.
Granderson and the Oriole Bird [Yes Network] (H/T Jack M.)


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For those who don't know, it's basically a site that lets you chat with a stranger that you are randomly assigned. It's an interesting idea and has sparked an infinite number of funny conversations.
Everything that I'm about to say has been worked out simply by reading the source, packet sniffing and just generally prodding around. There may be errors in it and if you notice one, please correct me.
Omegle is one big ball of AJAX, running from a single page (and receiving data from a number of others) and using the Moo Tools JavaScript library (http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/mootools/1.2.1/mootools-yui-compressed.js). The code that powers Omegle can be found at http://omegle.com/static/omegle.js
First things first, when you go to omegle.com you see a big button with "Start a chat" on it. Clicking it brings up a conversation window. However behind the scenes we are making our first AJAX request (minus the /count one, I'll mention that later). This request is a HTTP POST to http://omegle.com/start. The post request actually contains nothing but the result is what is interesting - the stranger ID. This is a 6 digit code such as "8Ekxwo" consisting of the characters a-z A-Z 0-9 _ -. This seems to be randomly generated. Right now I don't know whether your stranger will always have that ID, or just for your conversation and when disconnected will be generated a new one.
Each page corresponds to http://omegle.com/[page] so /events would be http://omegle.com/events
These pages accept post requests only. I have included HTML and PHP code at the bottom for posting to these URLs.
Here are the various bits of information that /events will send out:
- "waiting" - This is the first bit of information that /events will send to the client, indicating that the stranger has not yet connected.
- "connected" - This simply shows that the stranger has connected and is ready to receive messages.
- "typing" - This is shown each time the user starts typing and is used to display the message "Stranger is typing"
- "gotMessage","data" - This is a message sent by the stranger (note that data would be replaced by the stranger's message. Your messages do not appear here.
- "strangerDisconnected" - Pretty self-explanatory.
This is where your messages are sent to and through it, are routed to the /events belonging to the stranger. This is where a nice vulnerability seems to lie in Omegle, though I haven't tested it myself. It would seem that you can send a message to whoever the hell you want, as long as you have their 6 character ID. In fact, it would seem that you can do whatever the hell you want to them - including disconnecting them.
Now in fairness, it's just a bit of fun - there shouldn't be any personal information being shared and besides, if you're sharing some data with one stranger - what does it matter if another stranger takes a look? Course, if it does extend to disconnects then things could get kinda annoying for Omeglers.
The HTTP looks like this:
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POST /send HTTP/1.1
Host: omegle.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:220.127.116.11) Gecko/2009060308 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.11
Accept: text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
Referer: http://omegle.com/
Content-Length: 18
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
You send the stranger ID to this to indicate you are typing and again to indicate that you stopped. Again you may be able to spoof the stranger ID, though why you'd want to I don't know.
This is something I stumbled across and it made me chuckle at their cheekiness. Notice that "XXXX users online" thing? It's a randomly generated number gathered from /count. It's requested with the GET argument 'rand', which is a random number generated by javascript. A seemingly random number is then generated from this.
Displays a "Your conversational partner has disconnected." message to the stranger who's ID has been passed to it.
Some code and some more explanation..
Now, if you're interesting in writing a client or an Omegle bot (and if you succeed please tell me about it), here's some python code that might help:
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import socket # Whilst I first attempted to use urllib2, there were some really strange problems with it so turned to sockets.
def post(where, what):
...s = socket.socket() # implicit, i know ;)
...s.connect(("22.214.171.124",80)) # 220.127.116.11 is the Omegle IP
...s.send("POST /%s HTTP/1.1\r\n" % where)
...s.send("Host: omegle.com\r\n")
...s.send("Content-Length: %s\r\n" % str(len(what)))
...ret = s.recv(1024)
...return ret
data = post("start","").split("\r\n")
StrangerID = data[-1][1:-1]
print "Stranger ID:",StrangerID
Okay, yeah.. I admit that code is horrible - but it gets you your stranger ID.
Now Omegle posts that stranger ID, under the name 'id', to http://omegle.com/events - again using AJAX. For this I wrote a quick HTML form:
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<form method='post' action='http://omegle.com/events'>
<input type='text' name='id' value='[stranger ID]' />
<input type='submit' value=''/>
If you try that you'll probably be asked whether you want to download a file. Try downloading it and opening it in a text editor. This is what mine looked like:
[["waiting"], ["connected"], ["typing"], ["gotMessage", "hi"], ["strangerDisconnected"]]
Yeah.. they said hi to me and I ignored them.. whoops :p
But this little snippet has told us all we really need to know about the events protocol and it's pretty self-explanatory too.
Now let's go through this step by step.
When the user starts to type something, the client detects this and sends the stranger ID to /typing. If they stop typing, they repeat this. If they then decide to send the message, it is posted to /send as msg=hello%20world&id=aj23SV, for example.
The /events page for your stranger will then show the message that you sent as [['gotMessage','hello%20world']]
If you wish to disconnect, the stranger ID is sent to /disconnect and /events page shown when entering your ID will be updated accordingly.
If your stranger decides to disconnect then the data is shown in /events when the stranger ID is passed to it.
Extra bits of code:
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// This function is from http://netevil.org/blog/2006/nov/http-post-from-php-without-curl
// It's pretty fab at posting stuff to websites.
function do_post_request($url, $data, $optional_headers = null) {
$params = array('http' => array(
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => $data
if ($optional_headers !== null) {
$params['http']['header'] = $optional_headers;
$ctx = stream_context_create($params);
$fp = @fopen($url, 'rb', false, $ctx);
if (!$fp) {
throw new Exception("Problem with $url, $php_errormsg");
$response = @stream_get_contents($fp);
if ($response === false) {
throw new Exception("Problem reading data from $url, $php_errormsg");
return $response;
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# An easier way to post something in Python, but does not seem to work for omegle (though works locally) as far as I can see.
# If anyone can figure out why, please say!
import urllib
import urllib2
def SaySomething(what,id):
...data = what.replace(" ","%20")
...data = urllib.urlencode([("msg",data)])
...request = urllib2.Request(o+"send")
...return urllib2.urlopen(request, data=urllib.urlencode({'msg':'data'}))
I hope this helps or at least interests people. Feel free to copy/distribute/modify - but please quote "dotty" as the source.
Please post any corrections to this, and your own code and comments. Thanks.


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COLUMBUS, OH -- Feathers were ruffled on Sesame Street on Tuesday when the Obama campaign launched a campaign ad starring Big Bird.
The new spot, which airs on cable networks, mocks Mitt Romney for saying during last week's debate that he would cut public funding to the Public Broadcasting Service – even though he likes Big Bird.
But Sesame Workshop – the nonpartisan nonprofit behind Sesame Street – wasn't pleased. In a statement, Sesame Workshop objected to the ad: "We have approved no campaign ads, and, as is our general practice, have requested that both campaigns remove Sesame Street characters and trademarks from their campaign materials."
The ad begins with an ominous voiceover listing the names of Wall Street criminals, including Bernie Madoff and Kenneth Lay. The deep, dramatic voice then says, "It's not Wall Street you have to worry about; it's Sesame Street."
The camera then cuts to a shot of Big Bird sleeping.
President Barack Obama has seized on Romney's Big Bird comment to argue that his Republican challenger would crack down on beloved American institutions such as Sesame Street but would allow Wall Street to run wild.
Speaking to a crowd of 15,000 in Columbus, OH the President said, "Today (Romney) decided we're going after Big Bird. Elmo's making a run for the border and Oscar is hiding out in a trash can."
Emphasizing the Sesame Street theme, recording artist will-i-am kicked off his performance at the Ohio event by playing the Sesame Street theme song.
The Obama campaign has also dispatched Big Bird mascots to stand outside Romney campaign events and even Michelle has entered the fray. On Tuesday, the first lady told supporters in Loudon, Va.: "We all know good and well that cutting Sesame Street is no way to balance a budget."
Related: 'Sesame Street' wants Obama campaign to yank ad mentioning Big Bird
Speaking in Van Meter, Iowa, Romney fired back: "These are tough times with real serious issues. You have to scratch your head when the president spends the last week talking about saving Big Bird."
The Romney campaign noted that Obama has in recent days made more public references to Big Bird than Libya – where the U.S. consulate was recently attacked and the ambassador killed.
But the Obama campaign stands by its strategy.
"The point we're making here is that when Mitt Romney was given the opportunity to lay out how he would address the deficit … his first offering was to cut funding to Big Bird and that is absurd and hard to take seriously," Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters.
With polls showing Romney improving since the debate, it remains to be seen whether the president's "Big Bird Offensive" will sway undecided voters.
But one thing is clear – Big Bird says the campaign ad doesn't fly.


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Offering a rare combination of history, culture and cuisine, China has long been a premier destination for travelers the world over. Going on a Chinese luxury tour is the best way to experience the country and take on the many and varied experiences it has to offer. Book your travel today to understand why so many people flock to China.
Hutong Neighborhoods
One of the most authentic ways to tour Beijing is to walk through a Hutong neighborhood. Formed by lines of courtyards, these alley neighborhoods are a throwback to China's dynastic period, where they were the lowest level of geographical division within a city and were complete with their own administration.
Since the 20th century, the number of hutongs has been gradually dwindling in favor of wider streets and taller apartment buildings with modern amenities. However, there has in recent years been a strong push to preserve the remaining ones so that visitors might tour the hutongs and be connected to a piece of Chinese history.
Walk around a hutong to get the full impact, stopping in a local home to have lunch.
Yangtze River
In China, the Yangtze river is known as Chang Jiang, a phrase that literally translates to "Long River." It is a sobriquet well-earned, as it is the third-longest river in the world and the longest in Asia. Snaking through nearly 4,000 miles, it is by itself a compelling reason to plan a trip to China.
Combine luxury and nature when you set sail down the river, stopping to admire the spectacular natural vistas which include jungles, plains and the Qinghai mountains. The Yangtze is also home to some species of animal that cannot be seen anywhere else, including the snow leopard, giant panda and finless porpoise.
On a five star-cruise, marvel at the unique flora and fauna in addition to man-made installations like the world's largest dam and electrical generator. The river also winds its way through several major cities, including Jiujang and Shanghai.
Looking for something a little bit off the beaten path? Look no further than Longsheng, a series of terraced rice fields that wind all the way from the riverside to the mountaintop, eventually settling more than a half-mile above sea level. Primarily built roughly 650 years ago, they took their name because the terraces bore a resemblance to dragon scales, fitting for a mountain range that looks like a dragon's backbone.
For enterprising visitors, Longsheng offers amazing views. When the sun is reflected in the water, a glow comes across the entire field and bathes the mountain in light. It is also something of an administrative marvel, transforming barely-arable mountain land into a usable area, all through creative irrigation techniques.
Chengdu Panda Research Center
Whether it is because of their cute appearances or playful natures, giant pandas have captured the imagination of many people around the world. Sadly, however, few people ever have the opportunity to see them, as they are among the most endangered species. In fact, giant pandas have become an emblem of animal and plant conservation, a symbol for all of those who understand the importance of protecting the natural world.
One such organization is the Chengdu Research Base, located in the panda's ancestral homeland. Here, researchers work to maintain and grow the numbers of these bruins, seeking both to understand and to protect them.
Visitors come far and wide to see the pandas, to both support the goals of the research base and see how cute the bears are in real life. If you have ever wanted to see one of the most beautiful creatures in the world up close, there is perhaps no better location.
Culinary Traditions
Chinese cuisine has been refined over thousands of years, and incorporates techniques that have been perfected over generations. In a country as vast as China, a wide range of culinary traditions were bound to emerge, with each province putting its own unique spin on the country's food. There are eight dominant regional cuisines, each with its own style and strengths.
They are:
Cantonese: The most popular style globally, Cantonese cuisine tends to favor stewing, braising and mild sauces with a light sweetness. Hong Kong is the epicenter for this kind of cooking, which takes full advantage of coastal proximity in its fine seafood dishes.
Sichuan: Bold flavors abound in Sichuan cuisine, with notes of chili, garlic, ginger and peanuts suffused throughout many of the dishes. Most prominent among these spices is the Sichuan peppercorn, a seasoning rare in other regional styles.
Jiangsu: The cuisine of choice for those who are interested in luxury Chinese food tours, Jiangsu cooking is precise and artful. Often served at government functions, this style is all about fresh, balanced flavors and dynamic presentation.
Zhejiang: Mellow, fresh and seasonal, Zhejiang cuisine is like a less elaborate version of Jiangsu cooking. Often served lightly cooked or raw, the dishes of this region are low-key and delicious.
Fujian: Fujian food takes full advantage of the sea and mountains to imbue its dishes with unique and exotic flavors. Don't miss the soups, which are bursting with unusual local spices.
Hunan: Like Sichuan food, Hunan cuisine caters to those that love to handle the heat. Steaming, smoking and sauteeing are the cooking techniques of choice, all in the service of creating bold flavors that draw on local vegetables and herbs.
Anhui: Ready to get a little wild? Anhui cuisine makes full use of the Yellow Mountains to collect the ingredients for its dishes. These local touches give the food of this region a taste you won't find anywhere else.
Shandong: Shandong has a long coast, which is uses to great effect - the seafood is some of the best in the world. Simple ingredients and impeccable technique really allow the taste of the fish to shine brightly.
A passport that is valid for at least six months after the end of your trip is required for both U.S. and Canadian citizens to enter and depart the country. Please ensure that the name on your passport matches all travel documents we have issued. If this is not the case, please contact us immediately.
Please make a photocopy of your passport's identification page and keep it separate from your original. It's also a good idea to leave a digital copy with someone at home. This may speed up the replacement process should you lose your passport.
Visas are required by all nationalities to enter China; except when visiting Hong Kong and Macau. Single-entry visas are normally valid for three months, double-entry for six months, and multiple-entry for six, 12 or 24 months. You will need to apply for your visa independently, through a local consulate or using a visa issuing service.
For more visa information please visit:
America: www.travisa.com
Canada: www.travisa.ca
Cancellation and Medical Insurance is highly recommended as it can safeguard against the expenses associated with in-country medical emergencies, lost or delayed baggage and emergency cancellation or interruption of your trip. Please ensure your policy will provide you with upfront medical coverage so that you are not responsible for a hefty doctor's bill while away. Insurance can be purchased through us.
No vaccinations are required to enter China. We do recommend the following vaccinations:
Some vaccines require more than one dose or a major length of time to be effective. For that reason, it is recommended to see your doctor or health provider at least 6 to 8 weeks before your trip. For all vaccinations and health requirements, you can also refer to the recommendations from:
World Health Organization (WHO): http://www.who.int and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://wwwnc.cdc.gov.
If there are any medical items essential to your health, such as prescription drugs or corrective eye wear, bring duplicates and divide them between your checked bags and hand luggage. While non-prescription drugs such as aspirin are generally available, it is difficult to replace prescription items.
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China's extreme size means it has a great diversity of climates, but being located entirely in the northern hemisphere means its seasonal timings are broadly comparable to those in Europe and the US. The northeast experiences hot and dry summers and bitterly cold winters. The north and central region has almost continual rainfall, hot summers and cold winters. The southeast region has substantial rainfall, with semi-tropical summers and cool winters. For up-to-date forecasts, check www.weather.com.
What clothes to wear depends on the season you travel and what kind of activities you are taking part in on your trip. China has varied weather systems from North to South, and so you may need to prepare for multiple climates. If visiting the mountainous regions, bring along a jacket for cooler evenings. In general, we recommend packing multiple layers for the changing temperatures.
FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS: Video camera, camera with zoom lens in a dust-resistant case, sufficient memory cards, a spare camera battery and charger. Photography is not allowed in certain religious buildings, especially temples. So be sure to ask permission before you take a photo.
Electricity: 220V is used across the whole of China. Socket types and sizes do vary however, but adapters can often be borrowed from the hotel. Laptop and phone chargers usually work on both 110v/220v. Do not use 110V outlets marked 'FOR SHAVERS ONLY' for anything else as they will not work and may even get damaged.
Phone: Roaming charges vary between carriers, but tend to be quite costly. Consult your phone provider prior to departure to discuss overseas rates and international package options.
Internet: High speed and Wi-Fi connections are readily available in the major towns and cities, but once you enter rural areas the internet becomes harder to find. Please note that it is extremely difficult to access Facebook in China. Wi-fi and internet service provided in properties is at the discretion of each establishment and Kensington Tours has no control over this. Please feel free to check with your Sales Consultant before travel if you'd like to know internet set up at each of your properties or contact the properties directly so you are aware of their internet policy if this is important to you. You may like to speak to your internet provider prior to travel to arrange a roaming package.
The currency used in China is the Renminbi (RMB). We recommend that you get a small amount of local currency from your bank before you leave home. Your bank card will likely work, and Visa or MasterCard are widely accepted. You will need a 4-digit PIN to be able to use your cards. Please note that it is much cheaper to exchange US dollars at a hotel in China. For current exchange rates please visit www.xe.com
Capital: Beijing
Language: Mandarin and Cantonese
Currency: Renminbi (RMB)
Religion: Buddhism and Taoism
Time Zone: GMT +8
Electricity: 220 Volt, 50 Hz
Telephone: Country code for calling is 86
Calling North America: Dial 001 plus area code and your 7-digit number
Emergency numbers in China: 999 Beijing and Shanghai. Rest of the country: 110 for police; 119 for fire; 120 for ambulance; 122 for traffic accident


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1. The Washington Post has done a great service in presenting a clear, uncomplicated chart that compares what people will receive under Medicare, depending on your age and who is elected president. The chart is worth sharing widely — by email or Facebook and just by showing it to people you know. Also see this post on how Obamacare affects people on Medicare.
2. According to Politico, the Romney campaign is uninterested in sharing details about their plans on Medicare (or much else).
Advisers say the campaign has no plans to pivot from its previous view that diving into details during a general-election race would be suicidal.
The Romney strategy is simple: Hammer away at Obama for proposing cuts to Medicare and promise, in vague, aspirational ways, to protect the program for future retirees — but don't get pulled into a public discussion of the most unpopular parts of the Ryan plan.
"The nature of running a presidential campaign is that you're communicating direction to the American people," a Romney adviser said. "Campaigns that are about specifics, particularly in today's environment, get tripped up."
Republicans have also avoided giving details on their tax policy.
And Paul Ryan, who was purportedly picked because he was able to clearly explain and defend Republican budget and Medicare proposals, is being urged to talk about "camping and milking cows."
3. While nonincumbent presidential candidates typically use their party's national convention to introduce themselves as persons, the Republican convention will mostly focus on Romney's background as a businessman and his economic policies.
Assuming the Romney-Ryan campaign will continue to obscure policy details, look for a lot of rather broad rhetoric.
4. Pennsylvania's extremely restrictive voter photo id law was upheld by a judge this week, but the legal fight has not ended. Meanwhile, after state officials told the judge that the law would not limit access, it went ahead and dropped one line of access.
On the same day a judge cleared the way for the state's new voter identification law to take effect, the Corbett administration abandoned plans to allow voters to apply online for absentee ballots for the November election and to register online to vote.
A spokesman for the Department of State said county elections officials told the agency that implementing the new online initiatives as well as voter ID requirements was too much to handle less than three months before the election.
But Stephanie Singer, the top elections official in Philadelphia, said she was unaware that there was an issue with setting up a system to allow voters to register and apply for absentee ballots online, and said shifting more activity online would actually make for less paperwork.
5. Meanwhile, in Florida, a federal court made voting more accessible via early voting in a ruling that minorities "will be disproportionately affected by the changes in early voting procedures because they disproportionately use early in-person voting."
6. And here's a fascinating, if depressing, bit of voting law history. The decision relied upon by the Pennsylvania judge who upheld the voter photo id law was passed to limit voting in Philadelphia and was upheld because residents of the city were judged to have lesser morality. Here's more about that 1869 case:
Referring to "the vicious vagrant, the wandering Arabs, the Tartar hordes of our large cities," the court held that this differential treatment between Philadelphia and the rest of the state was constitutional. According to the opinion:
Where population greatly abounds vice and virtue have their greatest extremes. A simple rural population needs no night police, and no lock-up. Rogues and strumpets do not nightly traverse the deserted highways of the farmer. Low inns, restaurants, sailors' boarding-houses, and houses of ill fame do not abound in rural precincts, ready to pour out on election day their pestilent hordes of imported bullies and vagabonds, and to cast them multiplied upon the polls as voters. In large cities such things exist, and its proper population therefore needs greater protection, and local legislation must come to their relief.


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SareyMc necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 104 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
I am a former wedding coordinator who is setting up an online wedding store supplying hard to find bridal items for weddings.
We are focused on selling the additional bits and pieces that make a wedding special. The main items we are selling are guest books, wishing wells, flower girl goods ect.
The name "Wedding Wish" was thought of more as a "wish upon a star" than the literal wedding wishing well.
Australian brides, mostly from small country towns who tend to be the largest online buyers. Brides with additional money to spend on extra items
Although we do sell wedding wishing wells as one of our major lines, we are not particularly wanting a wishing well as the logo as it excludes the other product lines (and is the logo of every other wishing well company on the planet)
Wedding websites tend to all have flowy writing, cakes and bride and grooms - we want to avoid this look to set us apart. We want to have a modern look logo.
The image that keeps coming to mind is a shooting star with some sort of small hearts in the trail, silver or gold colours or modern colours - browns, greens.
I have attached a photo of the kind of thing I have in mind. Where the design element that will come in is in the colours, shadings, background and forground. My image is to be used as a very very basic idea of the finished product we are after.
As we are an online business there should be a focus on the web address http://www.weddingwish.com.au either in the logo or below it
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1 pound bittersweet chocolate chips
3 (2.1-ounce) Butterfinger candy bars cut into irregular 1-inch pieces, or other candy bar of choice
3 (1.4-ounce) heath toffee candy bars, cut into irregular ½ inch pieces or other candy of choice
8 (.55 ounce) peanut butter cups, each cut into 8 wedges, or other candy bar of choice
¼ cup honey-roasted peanuts
3 ounces high quality white chocolate, chopped
Reese's Pieces and/or M & M's
Line baking sheet with foil. Stir chocolate chips in heavy medium saucepan over low heat until melted and warm (not hot) to touch. Pour chocolate onto foil, spread to ¼ inch thickness (about 12 x 10 inch rectangle). Sprinkle with Butterfinger candy, toffee, peanut butter cups, and nuts, making sure all pieces touch melted chocolate to adhere (or use whatever candy you have leftover).
Put white chocolate in heavy small saucepan. Stir constantly over very low heat until chocolate is melted and warm (not hot) to touch. Remove from heat. Dip spoon into chocolate, wave from side to side over bark, creating zigzag lines. Scatter Reese's Pieces and M&M's over, making sure candy touches melted chocolate.
Chill bark until firm, 30 minutes. Slide foil with candy onto work surface. Peel off foil and cut bark into irregular pieces.


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To ensure the Queensland manufacturing sector continues to grow and becomes globally competitive, the government has broadened engagement on the future direction of advanced manufacturing through a Manufacturing Ministerial Council to be chaired by the Honourable Cameron Dick MP, Minister for State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning.
Council members
|Ms Christine Bridges-Taylor, General Manager, B&R Enclosures Pty Ltd
Extensive experience in managing manufacturing entities serving over 35 years with B&R Enclosures.
|Ms Peta-Maree Broadley, Managing Director, Homefab
Heads a leading steel frame component manufacturer and DIY steel home supplier across Northern Australia.
|Ms Shay Chalmers, Director, Strategic Engineering Australia
Experienced engineering management professional, her global career has spanned a wide range of manufacturing environments.
|Ms Marina Chambers, Queensland Branch President, Australian Workers' Union
Worked for the AWU for almost 24 years, predominantly with industries such as steel, aluminium, aviation, glass, construction and general manufacturing.
|Mr John McLean, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Bundaberg Brewed Drinks
Took over as CEO of Bundaberg Brewed Drinks in 2007 with a mission to grow the business internationally.
|Mr Wasantha Mudannayake, General Manager Operations, Teys Australia
Oversees Teys Australia Rockhampton, a national beef processing facility with turnover of over $520 million.
|Mr Shane Rodgers, Queensland Director, Australian Industry Group
Heads the state peak employer organisation representing traditional, innovative and emerging industry sectors.
|Mr Andrew Spink, Executive General Manager, Customer & Government Partnerships, Downer Group
Responsible for representing Downer Group to government and customer partners.
|Mr Stephen Tait, Chief Executive Officer, Chamber of Commerce & Industry Queensland (CCIQ)
An experienced business leader who joined CCIQ as CEO in 2012 to represent Queensland's small and medium businesses.
|Mr Rohan Webb, State Secretary, Queensland and Northern Territory, Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union
A member of the AMWU National and State Executive and the Queensland Council of Unions Executive and Management Committee.
|Ms Julie Williams, Chief Executive Officer, AgSolutions Australia
Instrumental in the development of a thriving business employing over 40 staff who are committed to serving farming communities.
|Ms Jacqui Wilson-Smith, Global Innovation Manager, McCormick & Company Inc
An innovator, marketer, chair, director and board advisor as well as being part of the largest producer of spices in the world.


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LONDON - Models packed up and show spaces were dismantled as London Fashion Week wrapped up Tuesday, after five days that saw a flurry of catwalk action, celebrity sightings, and typically fickle British weather that left fashionistas drenched one moment and reaching for their sunglasses the next.
The fashion pack are heading for more new season displays in Milan after a series of frenetic catwalk shows led by Burberry Prorsum, Christopher Kane, Topshop, Tom Ford and Vivienne Westwood, among others.
London's style offerings are known to be more eclectic than other fashion capitals, but the week did see some unifying trends. Monochrome outfits, high-shine plastic-look and metallic fabrics, and embellishments like beading and sequins were popular. 1960s and 70s shapes and colours — think burnt orange, mustard, olive and brown — featured in a number of shows.
There was an abundance of warm cozy outerwear, perfect for the extreme winter weather seen in the U.S. and Europe: Fur and big thick jackets were seen everywhere, from the trapper hats at Preen to the super-fluffy colour block fur coats at Tom Ford.
The week got off to a shaky start amid wild winds and rain, which wreaked more havoc than ruining a few coiffed hairstyles.
A cohort of models and fashion editors flying in from New York Fashion Week — including U.S. Vogue editor Anna Wintour — were stranded in the northern city of Newcastle Friday, after gale-force winds caused their plane to divert. The idea of fashion's elite stuck in a style backwater prompted more chuckles than sympathy, and jokes about the incident kept many attendees entertained throughout the week.
Hollywood stars and musicians put in front-row appearances and provided more talking points. Actor Bradley Cooper sparked much excitement when he turned up at Burberry to watch his girlfriend Suki Waterhouse model. Other famous faces attending as VIPs included actress Naomie Harris and singers Harry Styles and Tinie Tempah.
Other shows may have lacked the star power, but entertained in eccentric ways: Shoe designer Sophia Webster put her models in a faux bubble bath for a kitsch-inspired display, while Orla Kiely had models twirl clear umbrellas in make-believe rain. Preen featured Star Wars, while Hunter, the rubber-rain-boot maker, launched its first fashion collection on a water catwalk and sent guests home with a magician's performance.
Fashionistas won't get much of a break: Milan Fashion Week is due to begin Thursday, followed by Paris a week later.


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View this webinar as we introduce the Model Predictive Control Toolbox. Learn how to design, simulate, and deploy model predictive controllers for multivariable systems with input and output constraints. Through product demonstrations, MathWorks engineers show how you can:
• Create plant models from experimental data or by linearizing Simulink models with Simulink Control Design
• Design and simulate model predictive controllers with Model Predictive Control Toolbox
• Deploy model predictive controllers by either generating C code with Simulink Real-Time or by using OPC Toolbox
View example files from this webinar here in MATLAB Central.
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PG&E to offer energy efficiency rebates for Sun servers
Pacific Gas & Electric will offer energy customers rebates for buying Sun Microsystems' newest line of servers which Sun and PG&E claim are more energy efficient.
Today, Sun Microsystems and California energy giant Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced an energy efficiency incentives program in the data center. According to Sun, PG&E will offer rebates to customers replacing old servers with Sun's new Sun Fire T1000 or T2000 machines.
The rebate falls under PG&E's Non Residential Retrofit program and customers replacing existing equipment with these servers can receive a cash savings between $700-$1000 per server. The one time rebate -- combined with Sun's claim for energy efficiency, $500 per year over competing platforms -- could result in significant savings, considering the list price for a T1000 is $3,995.
It should be noted that Sun and PG&E worked together to develop the program. According to a PG&E spokesperson the utility had not actively pursued other manufacturers to participate in the program, but it is open to other server manufacturers at this point.
According to David Douglas, Sun's vice president of eco-responsibility, Sun and PG&E started working on the program last winter, evaluating energy trends with shared customers.
Douglas said Sun has had initial discussions with other utilities about similar programs and will use the PG&E program as the proof of concept for others. But it's unclear whether this type of program will take off in other parts of the country.
Chris Olert, spokesman for Con Edison, operators of New York City's power grid, one of the largest in the country, said this type of program wouldn't be very likely to take off in his area.
"One of the challenges would be working with state regulators," Olert said. "We encourage all customers to use electricity wisely. For our large customers we offer energy efficiency incentive programs. But as far as rebates, we probably wouldn't be issuing them down to individual appliances."
According to Douglas, one of things that would help this program take off with other utilities around the country would be more standardized server metrics. There are several parties currently involved in putting standards in place. The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. committee (SPEC), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and even Congress have gotten involved in server energy efficiency metrics recently.
"Until we have standard metrics, it's going to be hard to tell the different between Server A and Server B," Douglas said. "I think you'll see this expand as we get some standards in place."
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