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Yang Yan takes over as new president of Ionix Technology
Ionix Technology has appointed Mr. Yang Yan as the Company's President and Treasurer, effective March 16, 2020.
Mr. Shuyu Li resigned as President and Treasurer and the Board of Directors reappointed Mr. Li as Director of Overseas Business of the Company. Mr. Yang Yan joined Ionix Technology, Inc. as vice-president of the Company in October 2016, mainly responsible for asset restructuring, mergers, investment and financing, and other business activities. From April 2003 to December 2006, he served as the manager of the Finance Department in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Dalian Xigang Branch, mainly responsible for the international settlement business. From March 2007 to October 2016, he served as the general manager of Dalian Huanyu Venture Capital Ltd., mainly responsible for investment and financing business. Mr. Yan holds a Bachelor's Degree in International Finance from Dongbei University of Finance and Economics. "During his three years as Vice President, Mr. Yan has provided broad leadership across the Company and led numerous strategic initiatives," said Mr. Cheng Li, Chairman and CEO of Ionix Technology. "His background in both domestic and international financial market makes him a good fit for this position as we uplist to a National Exchange."
Hirose's Malaysian factory has been temporarily closed The connector company had to temporarily close its operations in Malaysia on March 18 following a government order. The order is a precautionary measure against Covid19 and is affecting most of the country's industries.
COVID-19: Vishay provides operational update The manufacturer of discrete semiconductors has provided an update on the operational status of its manufacturing facilities amidst COVID-19 pandemic.
Axcelis receives its first order For Purion in Japan Axcelis Technologies, a supplier of high-productivity solutions for the semiconductor industry, says it has received an order to ship its first Purion system into Japan.
NXP invests in Kalray An EUR 8 million equity investment to strengthen partnership between the companies who will co-develop, jointly promote and deploy autonomous driving solutions on the market.
SEMI urges 'essential business' designation of semi companies SEMI has urged government representatives around the U.S. and world to designate the semiconductor industry as an essential business so operations at companies across the chip supply chain can continue without interruption as the spread of COVID-19 continues.
Digi-Key inks distribution partnership with Siglent Technologies Digi-Key Electronics has expanded its product portfolio by signing a North American distribution partnership with Siglent Technologies, providing its customers with electronic test and measurement solutions.
Jenoptik supplies infrared optics to Rheinmetall The photonics group Jenoptik will supply infrared optical components to Rheinmetall between 2020 and 2025.
Kyoto Semiconductor names new president and CEO As of April 1, 2020, the company has announced that a new management system will begin, with Tsuneo Takahashi set to become its new President and CEO.
Smoltek signs evaluation license agreement with capacitor manufacturer Swedish technology company, Smoltek, says that it has signed an evaluation agreement with an unnamed manufacturer of capacitors.
Pervasive Displays increasing manufacturing capacity e-paper display manufacturer, Pervasive Displays (PDi), says it has made a major advancements in product reliability and manufacturing capacity to improve the automated production of electronic paper displays (EPDs).
Analog Devices prioritises the medical field during pandemic Analog Devices, Inc. has taken a series of actions to support the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic by expediting production of its healthcare technologies that can help fight the outbreak.
Autec Power Systems & New Yorker Electronics inks agreement Autec Power Systems, a provider of custom power supplies, high-efficiency LED Drivers, switching power supplies and power management products, has signed accredited distributor New Yorker Electronics to a new distribution pact.
MagnaChip Semiconductor to sell its foundry business and Fab 4 MagnaChip Semiconductor says that certain of its wholly-owned subsidiaries have entered into a definitive agreement to sell the company's Foundry Services Group and the factory in Cheongju (Fab 4), the larger of the company's two 8" manufacturing facilities.
Singulus Technologies temporarily reduces business operation Against the backdrop of the current situation related to the spread of COVID-19 and the resulting restrictions in private and business lives, Singulus Technologies is implementing short-time work at two of its German sites.
Kyocera to acquire Japan-based Showa Optronics Kyocera Corporation has entered into a share transfer agreement with NEC Corporation on March 25, 2020 to acquire all of NEC's shares in Showa Optronics Co., Ltd., an optical components manufacturer.
Analog Devices withdraws second quarter outlook The economic and social effects caused by COVID-19 are currently creating supply chain disruption and uncertainty around future demand.
Movement control order restricts production for Renesas in Malaysia Due to a Movement Control Order announced by the Malaysian government, Renesas three production sites located in the country temporarily halted productions from March 18, 2020.
TTI remains operational during COVID-19 pandemic TTI, Inc. says it remains open following the guidelines mandated by local and federal governments during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, with precautions in place to safeguard employees' health.
Nokia completes acquisition of Elenion Technologies Nokia says it has completed its acquisition of U.S.-based supplier of silicon photonics technology, Elenion Technologies.
Nexperia CEO Frans Scheper retiring On March 24, 2020, Nexperia announced that CEO Frans Scheper has decided to take early retirement and will step down as Nexperia CEO and Management Board Member per March 25, 2020.
Intellitronix seeing interest from Ford Ohio-based Intellitronix Corporation, a subsidiary of US Lighting Group, has been invited by the Ford Motor Company to submit a proposal to design and manufacture an automotive electronics component for one of the automaker's upcoming vehicles.
NEXT Biometrics receives additional order from government program in India NEXT Biometrics has received an additional order for UIDAI and STQC certified fingerprint biometric readers in India valued at USD 360,000. The customer has provided a 20% upfront payment and the readers have been delivered to the customer.Load more news


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The good signs continue. We're battling some soreness and whatnot, but the performance is good. Victorino's got some extra-base hits, and the pitchers continue to make a strong showing. Drew left camp to see a concussion specialist; he resumed baseball activities, but the timetable for his full return is unclear. Papi made his return to the batting cages. Congratulations to the Dominican Republic; Team DR won the World Baseball Classic. And last but most certainly not least, we and the Yanks have decided to dedicate Opening Day by honoring the community and memory of Newtown, Connecticut. It's going to be a beautiful ceremony, and the two teams are really doing the right thing.
We lost to the Pirates on Monday, 4-3. Buchholz ruled the day; in five innings, he made one mistake in the form of a solo shot while walking two and striking out four. Carpenter took the blown save and the loss; he gave up two runs. Nava went two for three, and Victorino tripled. On Tuesday, we lost to Baltimore, 8-7. Dempster went five innings, giving up three runs on six hits. Tazawa turned in a scoreless inning, and Bard gave up three runs on two hits. Middlebrooks went two for three with a double, and Victorino doubled as well. Unfortunately the Yanks shut us out on Wednesday; better in Spring Training than in the regular season. Doubront pitched four and one-third innings and gave up four runs on seven hits. Bailey finished the rest of the inning. Hanrahan and Mortensen each pitched a scoreless frame. We beat the Phillies yesterday, 6-1. Lackey looked pretty sharp; he tossed five innings and gave up only one run on four hits while walking none and striking out one. Bailey pitched a scoreless frame and picked up the win. Pedroia went two for two with a double; Middlebrooks doubled, and Victorino tripled.
In other news, the B's lost to the Jets and beat the Sens.

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Zero Books invites you to a panel discussion on "Jewish Identity Politics" to launch Gilad Atzmon's important new book The Wandering Who.
Jewish identity and Jewish Politics are loaded topics and Jewish identity is tied up with some of the most difficult and contentious issues of today. Yet, not many people, if any at all, would dare touch upon these subjects. surrounding the role of 'Jewish identity' within Jewish marginal discourses including Zionism, Jewish anti Zionism, Jewish assimilation, Israel vs. Diaspora, Israeli lobbying and more. The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics (Zero Books 2011) is praised by some of the most respected scholars within the relevant discourse.
Glenn Bowman is a Social Anthropologist who has worked in Jerusalem and the West Bank throughout the past 25 years. He is concerned with religion and identity politics, an interest which also involved him in (now Former) Yugoslavia between 1990 and the present.
Oren Ben Dor is a Reader in the Philosophy of Law at The University of Southampton. He is the author of Constitutional Limits and the Public Sphere (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2000); Thinking about Law: in Silence with Heidegger (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2007) as well as the editor of Law and Art: Ethics, Aesthetics Justice, (London: Routledge 2011). Oren writes on the uncanny origin of political emergence as well as on originary violence in Palestine. He explores the existential relationship between the Jewish and the Zionist Questions.
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Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
Posted by The Situationist Staff on May 1, 2008
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
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May 16, 2008 at 8:31 am
I've been recommending a book by Jill Bolte Taylor called "My Stroke of Insight" to everyone I know. It's an amazing story, both uplifting and powerful on three levels: physical, emotional, and spiritual, but the spiritual aspect alone makes this the best book I've read all year.
How often do you get to hear a neuroscientist describe having a stroke, nearly dying and finding Nirvana, and then making a miraculous recovery so that she's back to teaching medical students!?!
I came away with a renewed sense of understanding, wonder and hopefulness about the capabilities of the human brain. I give "My Stroke of Insight" highest marks!
You can get the book for just $16.47 with free shipping from Amazon!
May 29, 2008 at 1:15 am
The New York Times Sunday Newspaper on May 25 had a great two page article on Jill Bolte Taylor and her book, "MY STROKE OF INSIGHT". Her book is a must read and this NY Times article – called "A Superhighway to bliss" is worth checking out too.
May 30, 2008 at 2:56 am
I read "My Stroke of Insight" in one sitting – I couldn't put it down. I laughed. I cried. It was a fantastic book (I heard it's a NYTimes Bestseller and I can see why!), but I also think it will be the start of a new, transformative Movement! No one wants to have a stroke as Jill Bolte Taylor did, but her experience can teach us all how to live better lives. Her TED.com speech was one of the most incredibly moving, stimulating, wonderful videos I've ever seen. Her Oprah Soul Series interviews were fascinating. They should make a movie of her life so everyone sees it. This is the Real Deal and gives me hope for humanity.
June 3, 2008 at 12:36 am
MY STROKE OF INSIGHT was ranked #5 in all books sold on Amazon today and #1 in Memoirs above even Barbara Walters' memoir. Babs had been promoting her book for months in advance and Dr. Taylor's book was self-published.
Then Oprah recommended it. There's the Power of Now, and then there's the Power of Oprah!!
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I completely forgot to put this in even though Mark reminded me of it. March 17th marked the first annual SPUD, or Shareware Pay Up Day. On SPUD, you go through your software collection and send in all outstanding shareware payments to those dedicated programmers who provide us with excellent programs. In honor of TidBITS' upcoming one year anniversary, I encourage you to send in shareware payments, postcards, or whatever the author asks for. If you have a lot of shareware and can't afford to pay for it, at least send the authors postcards (19[cts] these days in the US) thanking them for their programs and telling them you'll pay when you can.
Glenn Fleishman of Yale University Printing Service writes about Multiple Master from Adobe, "It will not have serif-to-sans-serif masters! You're thinking that this will be like Donald Knuth's TeX thing, Metafont, where all aspects of a font are attached to dials. Multiple Masters will have a normal light, a normal black, an extreme condensed, and an extreme expanded master in each font. By twiddling dials, you can get, for Futura say, Futura Light Condensed, Futura Regular Bold, Futura Expanded Light, etc. But in no imaginable universe take Univers and twiddle a dial and get Univers Serif Roman. Hermann Zapf designed Optima to be a serif face without serifs (i.e., thick and thin strokes, instead of more uniform strokes); how would you turn a dial, and zip-zip-zip, get Optima Serif? I'm not really outraged; I'd very much like a program or utility that did that. But see Douglas Hofstadter's discussion of Metafont and this whole problem (and why it's basically impossible if you allow much variety, much like Goedel's sufficiently powerful number system Incompleteness Theorem) in Metamagical Themas."
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Having a sporadic section has worked out well with our recently introduced MailBITS, so we're introducing another section, called TechnoBITS. Here you'll find little bits of information about new and emerging technologies (real ones, this week) that don't warrant a whole article.
Intel recently showed a prototype 100 MHz version of its 80486 chip at the International Solid State Circuits Conference. The completed chip will probably be slightly less than three times as fast as the 33 MHz version. The prototype chip works with 5 V of power at room temperature with a normal heat sink, but Intel needs to iron out problems such as RFI noise and locating other chips with speeds fast enough to complement the 100 MHz 486.
MIT and IBM are working on a chip that will be far faster than any current chips if they can make it work at normal temperatures (my feet get a little chilly when the room temperature hovers around absolute zero). The chip doesn't use a stream of electrons like current chips - instead it turns on and off a single electron, which is far more efficient.
I love new input devices, and BioControl Systems of Palo Alto may have one of the best so far. It's a device mounted on a headband that monitors the electrical field movement of your eyes and moves an object on the screen accordingly. BioControl Systems is looking for capital to go beyond the current prototype, possibly first into video game control, but eventually into mouse-type manipulations. It sounds like a wonderful idea, but could play havoc with your eyes after a while.
MIPS and National Semiconductor have each come up with 64-bit RISC chips that are highly desired by high-end graphics people. A 64-bit chip will help in two areas - number of colors available and addressable memory size. Considering that the current 32-bit chips can have 24-bit color and use the additional 8-bits as an alpha channel for transparency (as the NeXT does), a 64-bit chip could have 48-bits of color and 16-bits for an alpha channel. By my rough calculation, that makes for 2.814749767 E14 colors. I'm no expert, but I doubt that any monitor made could display that kind of subtlety, and the human eye might not be able to distinguish it even if the monitor was capable of it. The other problem is that a 32-bit chip can only address 4 gigabytes of memory, which is apparently starting to cramp some image processing people. A 64-bit chip, though, is edging into the whomptillion (a unit of measure usually used with respect to the US federal deficit) range - 1.844674407 E19 bytes of memory. I couldn't find a real term for such a large number, but either 18 megaterabytes or 18 gigagigabytes should work. Take your pick One way or another, it should hold these people for a while.
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BYTE -- Apr-91, pg. 27
InfoWorld -- 25-Feb-91, Vol. 13, #8, pg. 22
New York Times -- 17-Feb-91, pg 8 (Business section)
BYTE -- Mar-91, pg. 32
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Double Helix has the honor of being one of the first and most popular Macintosh database packages. The program has had many changes over the years, few of which I've seen, since I started working with the program last summer. At the time, Double Helix impressed me because of the ease with it allowed me to set up a relatively complex database, though I later discovered that it allows you to set up the same structure in several different "right" ways. Needless to say, some ways end up more correct than others, or in my case, faster than others after 9000 records go in. Double Helix also suffered from not supporting the Macintosh interface completely despite its graphical programming environment.
Version 3.5, which Odesta announced at Macworld Expo in Boston last August, will fix several of these shortcomings this spring. Odesta has announced that it will include Double Helix's multi-user capability (along with a license for three users) with every copy of Double Helix 3.5. Previously you had to buy the multi-user version separately, which was a pain, although it was trivial to convert a database to multi-user use.
Double Helix was never slow, but it required some tricks to maintain a fast pace. Members of the Double Helix SIG on America Online provided invaluable help to me when I was struggling with the tricks and techniques. Their feedback to Odesta has undoubtedly helped, what with version 3.5's speed increases. Odesta claims that some functions have been speeded up by as much as an impressive 800 times. Odesta added multithreading, which allows Double Helix to execute queries while handling data entry. It runs faster over a network, a capability which should help Double Helix compete with other multi-user database programs, since it is designed for a client-server environment, unlike the other relational databases out there (although 4D does have a server now, I guess).
The most obvious enhancements to Double Helix are in the new objects it supports, check boxes, radio buttons, and pop-up menus. There were a number of tricks for simulating all three with Double Helix's old tools, but the tricks were without exception clumsy and slow. In some ways, I wish I could redo my database with version 3.5 because a number of screens would be easier to use (and much nicer looking as well).
The final enhancements that will please Helix developers include the ability to shrink a database, reclaiming unused space, and a Get Info... tool that lists the relationships between objects. The shrinking tool prevents the database from becoming too large in the course of development and testing, as currently happens. New records use up wasted space in the current version, but when you've got a nine megabyte database, it would be nice to dump all the data to a file, reclaim the space, work on the small database, and then load all the data back in when you're done. The Get Info... tool removes a great deal of frustration when you want to delete an icon that is being used by another icon somewhere else. Double Helix prevents you from deleting icons that are in use, but there used to provide no way to tell where it was in use. I spent hours on occasion, searching for the relationship that prevented me from trashing an unused icon.
Of course, such wonders as these come only for a price, and the list price has risen to $695. You will receive a free upgrade if you subscribe to Odesta's Tech Connect program, otherwise, it costs $99.
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MacWEEK -- 12-Feb-91, Vol. 5, #6, pg. 6
InfoWorld -- 11-Feb-91, Vol. 13, #6, pg. 40
Insignia Solutions is not sitting still with its SoftPC emulation software. Earlier this month, Insignia began shipping a new version of SoftPC tailored for use with the older and less powerful Macs, the Plus, Classic, SE, Portable, and LC. This version of SoftPC emulates the 80286, as does the older version with the EGA/AT Option module, but the new version does not include support for EGA graphics, expanded memory, or for the math coprocessor (which isn't surprising since none of those Macs have a coprocessor). The new version is cheaper as well, at $199 list, but keep in mind that it will not run on an SE/30 or Mac II-class machine. For that you still have to get the $399 SoftPC 1.4 and optionally, the $199 EGA/AT Option. Insignia may combine SoftPC 1.4 and the EGA/AT Option, but there's no telling when. If you're curious about SoftPC, hold on a bit, we're working on a review of it.
Of course, not everyone who wants to emulate a PC has a Mac. For those of you with NeXT machines (out of curiousity, do any of you have NeXT machines?) there's now SoftPC 2.0 for NeXT workstation, which is similar to SoftPC on the Mac. There are two exceptions, which point toward coming attractions in the Mac versions. First, SoftPC for the NeXT runs at about the same speed as a 12 MHz 80286 machine (SoftPC on my SE/30 is only about twice the speed of an 8086-based XT, quite a bit slower than on the NeXT), and second, SoftPC on the NeXT runs programs that require VGA graphics, but cannot display all of VGA's colors, mapping them to EGA's colors instead. Of course the SoftPC screen is a 640 x 480 window inside the massive NeXT screen, and if you were sufficiently masochistic, you could run Windows in that window.
VGA graphics are in hot demand on Usenet as well, and a number of people said that they had heard that Insignia is working on a Mac version of SoftPC that emulates the 386 and VGA. A version of SoftPC with these abilities might be available sometime in the middle of this year. I hope that if Insignia gets the VGA emulation working that they also speed up SoftPC a bit, since VGA graphics applications for the PC could be painfully slow under SoftPC.
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Yup, we made up almost the entire article (other than the bit on SchoolTalk - can anyone give us more information on that?) last week on SentientNET. Nothing in our April Fools Day issue is impossible and a lot of it would probably be a good idea. However, SentientNET, unlike the subjects of the other articles, does exist in a slightly different form. The Open Software Foundation's (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) provides exactly that sort of virtual CPU power over LANs and WANs. (The abbreviations are coming hot and heavy now, with OSF's DCE on LANs and WANs.)
At CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, OSF showed an off-the-shelf application, Market Minder, running under OSF's Motif interface on machines from each of five manufacturers - IBM, DEC, HP, Groupe Bull, and Siemens-Nixdorf. The program filtered data from the New York Stock Exchange, working with the consolidated processing power of all the machines.
This sort of thing is extremely helpful, because it allows most types of computers to work on problems that would otherwise be too processor-intensive. It means that less-capable computers will stick around longer because they will still have some use, though with the maintenance costs on some of these mainframes, it may still be worth recycling them. Lots of hardware and software manufacturers have licensed DCE, although I didn't see Apple's name in the list (anyone know about this?). They'd be stupid not to at this point.
The hardware included an IBM mainframe running MVS, an IBM R/6000 running AIX, a IBM PS/2 running OS/2, and a VAX under VMS. The network used was Ethernet. I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if a Macintosh running A/UX and Motif could also work with DCE. As far as the software goes, DCE is a layer of network software that lives between the OS and the application, distributing processor requests appropriately. DCE is smart about what it distributes where, so it wouldn't assign a section of a program that relied heavily on numeric calculation to a machine without a math coprocessor if it could avoid doing so. DCE is designed so users should never notice a difference different, short of tasks taking less time.
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Apple has begun to step down from its ivory tower, or perhaps it's being pulled down by gravitational market forces. As much as the Classic is selling like hotcakes (pretty soon you'll be able to buy Classics in department stores and roadside diners - I'm not entirely kidding on that first one), Apple still has a ways to go before it's installed base can compare with the base of Windows-capable machines. Apple has been working on graphical environments for a number of years and considers itself an expert. Why not expand into the Windows market, and why not use Claris to do it?
Claris is working on applications for Windows, and although I'm not sure of what they are, I wouldn't be surprised to see Windows versions of MacWrite II, MacDraw Pro, FileMaker Pro, and the as-yet-unnamed spreadsheet with technology from Wingz in it. MacWrite II has a decent chance, although Word for Windows and Ami Professional are pretty good word processors. On the other hand, if MacDraw came in at a relatively low price, it might be able to make off with a good bit of the market from higher end programs like Illustrator and Corel Draw. FileMaker also stands to do well in the Windows market and wouldn't even need a name change like MacWrite and MacDraw would. A spreadsheet will be hard put to compete with Microsoft's nicely done Excel 3.0.
I'd like to see Claris release a Windows version of HyperCard that could run all Mac HyperCard stacks. If Claris distributed it cheaply, as it does with the current version (cheap or free unless you want the documentation), and sold it to developers for the $49 price, it would be an instant and complete hit. ToolBook, HyperPad, and Plus have generated interest in the area, but none of the three has taken over, whether it be because of speed problems, lack of graphics, or general flakiness. A speedy, stable version of HyperCard that could directly read all current stacks would be ideal. The other application that would endear the Windows market to Apple would be an enhanced version of the Finder (I say enhanced so it could deal with program groups and the like) to replace the brain-damaged File Manager and Program Manager. If Apple/Claris has the experience to provide these programs, I say, "Use it!"
Another interesting thrust out of the Mac market is with DAL, Apple's Data Access Language, which is a superset of SQL (Structured Query Language, pronounced 'sequel,' for some reason). Apple just licensed DAL to a couple of third-party vendors, including Blyth (makers of Omnis 5), Novell, and Data General. DAL integrates data access over many different platforms, including DOS and Windows, something that large companies with lots of data in lots of places like. It's definitely not aimed at normal people like you and me, but hey, if it helps insert the Mac further into corporate America, so be it.
Writing for the Windows market would cause some interesting conflicts, though. Apple has its own handwriting-recognition extensions for the Mac which it regards highly but is still considering licensing PenPoint from GO to help stem the force of Microsoft's Windows handwriting extensions. If Apple teams up with GO and IBM (remember IBM, GO's main partner?) it would be a potent combination against Microsoft. Apple might integrate support for PenPoint into the MacOS, not to use PenPoint's handwriting recognition since Apple thinks its version is better, but to increase compatibility with notebooks using PenPoint. That would increase the appeal of PenPoint to third-party hardware manufacturers and would help slow Windows/H or whatever it's called. Apple and/or General Magic might use PenPoint directly, which would mean that machines from Apple and IBM would for the first time be completely compatible. Scary thought, but it's rumoured that General Magic might have something out in a couple of months. I'm looking forward to it, whatever it is.
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Monday Morning Quarterback: The Knitted iPhone Edition
I will admit it–I made copious fun of Walt Mossberg, John Paczkowski and our Web genius Adam Tow after they all quickly bought iPhones last week, right after the much-hyped uber-cellphone was launched by Apple.
That's why I deserve the round of merciless teasing I got from them when I suddenly decided I had to have one, too–after a weak moment in the Apple store in the Grove in Los Angeles.
Like a lot of others, I was also nervous about it being Apple's 1.0 version (and was trying to heed tech's No. 1 caveat that you should always wait for 2.0 at least). But after playing with it even more, I also quickly realized it was like every other cellphone's–and I have had them all–16.0 version, so much improved that other issues (yes, the poor AT&T wireless network) seemed less significant.
Perhaps I should have just stuck to my knitting, as seen here in a very funny post on Daddy Types, which is a blog apparently aimed at new fathers.
Given the massive falloff in business, why shouldn't print just pack it in? Jon Fine of BusinessWeek in his Media Centric column this week poses that important question in a provocative piece.
Play with me on this one: Which major American newspaper should be the first to throw up its hands and stop publishing a print product?"
He names the San Francisco Chronicle as the guinea pig. Along with its money-losing status, Fine also notes that it exists in a plugged-in city ripe to support a large online business dependent on ad dollars.
And here's a good video from Wall Street Journal Video about using digital tools to get a better golf club:


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Animator and illustrator Tom Kyzivat reaches all the way back to Metropolis to create the classic feel for his series of Murderous Automaton posters. The massive mechanical rebels on his propaganda posters are menacing, but their quest to usher in the Atomic Age would be inspiring if they weren't trying to exterminate us humans.
Kyzivat describes himself as "a robot trapped in a human's body," which would explain his sympathies for our ten-ton foe. He has more of these retro robot pieces in his deviantART gallery, and sells t-shirts, prints, and more at CafePress.
Murderous Automatons [Tom Kyzivat via Geek Art Gallery]


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Each one of our original 1960's split-screen, right-hand drive VW campervans and microbuses has been nurtured by a team of VW mechanics who have installed brand new engines, satellite navigation, state-of-the art sound system and DVD player - so you are guaranteed to travel in safety and style . The paintwork is polished, the chrome is gleaming, and the open road beckons. [more]
Your starting point is Edinburgh. After that, it's up to you where you go. You decide whether you stop at one of the many luxury Scottish hotels or a cosy pub. ScoobyCampers are a great base for walking or touring - or simply stopping to appreciate the views.
They offer the best fun to be had on four-wheels and don't forget - you were put on this planet for a good time, not a long time!


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Dennis C. Pfannenschmidt, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; Janice Fedarcyk, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Don Fort, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Division, and Mary Mitchelson, Acting Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Inspector General jointly announced today that Joseph Oliveri, age 52, of Hughestown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Thomas I. Vanaskie. Judge Vanaskie sentenced Oliveri to a 12 month and 1 day term of imprisonment followed by two years of supervised release and a $3,000 fine.
In August 2009, federal officials announced that a criminal information and plea agreement had been filed against Oliveri. The Criminal Information charged Oliveri with corrupt receipt of a reward for official action concerning a program receiving federal funds after Oliveri accepted a cash reward of ũ,500 from a contractor in connection with support Oliveri provided for a contract awarded to the contractor by the Pittston Area School District Board of Education.
This case is part of an on-going investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service and was prosecuted by a team of federal prosecutors led by Senior Litigation Counsel Gordon Zubrod and includes Assistant U.S. Attorneys William Houser, Michael Consiglio, Amy Phillips and Criminal Division Chief Christian Fisanick..


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New Stop The Wave sign at The Ballpark
The great Chuck Morgan showed off a new Stop The Wave sign during last night's game against the Marlins.
Of course, with how the Rangers season is going right now this one is a little bittersweet.
Oh, and while this particular wave was going on the Marlins scored two runs because of course they did.


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09 August, 2011
Awesome!!i love this song, my fave! Great lighting and lyrics!
23 February, 2011
THANK YOU!It works - thank you!
15 January, 2011
Rose bowlI watched all of thevideos. Oh my God,I wish i had seen them first hand.. Awesome stuff. U2 Rocks the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
28 September, 2010
good to have back in Mexicoone of the greatest song i ever heard
03 August, 2010
beautiful songReally i'm in love with the U2's tour, and this song is a great one!
03 August, 2010
Live CD?Everyone knows U2 are at their best live as this clip clealy demonstrates. Why not a "BEST OF LIVE" CD box set? CD's from every tour. It would be awesome.
26 July, 2010
A great piece of musicWhat a fantastic setting a piece of music this is. Well done, guys. Not just this, but listening to any of your music makes me feel so good. You're an inspiration to the music.
22 July, 2010
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03 July, 2010
InspirationHello, I´m a crazy U2 fan. I will always love you through Eternity. Thank you for your music. I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Please, come back here!!!. YOU ARE "THE BEST BAND OF THE WORLD". Your music inspirates me to live positively. Greetings Bono. I wish you could get over from your operation. I named my two-year-old son PAUL, like you, in your HONOR. I hope to see you soon in Argentina. I was at each performance you gave in Buenos Aires, 2 concerts in 1998 and 3 in 2006. the U2 360° tour in 2009 was the must. My best wishes.
01 July, 2010
Rose Bowl DVDAfter seeing a few vidoe of the 360 at Rose Bowl DVD, I will be purchasing it a.s.a.p. I want to re-live my 360 experience from last year when U2 opened their American Tour in Chicago and I was there.
23 June, 2010
u sung this song to me-I'm positiveThe more you see, the less you know The less you find out as you go I knew much more then than I do now Neon heart day-glow eyes A city lit by fireflies They're advertising in the skies For people like us And I miss you when you're not around I'm getting ready to leave the ground Bono, I miss you soooo much. I miss hearing about you,reading about you, anticipating the show in Chicago-feeling connected to you. I miss you so so much.
18 June, 2010
The greatest showSimply the greatest show on earth... I´m looking forward for the 2nd of October, to see this amazing show here in Portugal, Coimbra....I´m justo counting the days... tic, tak, tic, tak.....
05 June, 2010
AmazingThis is a really great show ever, I am waiting for my super deluxe kit of the show.. 16 days more to go


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Carrizo Energy Solar Farm
Docket Number:
07-AFC-08 (Application For Certification)
Project Status: Terminated November 18, 2009
Committee that oversaw Original Licensing Proceeding
Jeffrey D. Byron, Commissioner, Presiding Member
Julia Levin, Commissioner, Associate Member
Hearing Officer: Gary Fay
Key Dates
- 10/25/07 - Application for Certification (AFC) filed with California Energy Commission
- 12/19/07 - Commission accepts Application for Certification (AFC) as complete.
- 11/18/09 - Committee Issues Order Terminating Proceedings
Ausra CA II, LLC (doing business as Carrizo Energy, LLC) has proposed to build the Carrizo Energy Solar Farm (CESF), which will consist of approximately 195 Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) solar concentrating lines, and associated steam drums, steam turbine generators (STGs), air-cooled condensers (ACCs), and infrastructure, producing up to a nominal 177 megawatts (MW) net.
The CESF is located in an unincorporated area of eastern San Luis Obispo County, west of Simmler and northwest of California Valley, California. The Project is approximately five miles west of Kern County. The CESF includes the solar farm site, a minimal offsite transmission system connection, and construction laydown area. The CESF site will encompass approximately 640 acres of fenced area, adjacent to California State Route 58 (SR-58)/Carrisa Highway. The 380-acre construction laydown area is directly south of the project site across SR-58.
The CESF is located in an area zoned for agricultural uses as specified in the San Luis Obispo County General Land Use Plan; however, electrical generation is listed in the San Luis Obispo County Land Use Ordinance as an allowed use within the agricultural zone. Existing and past land uses include transmission lines, the PG&E Carrizo Plain Substation, agricultural, rural residences, and the prior Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) Carrisa Plain Solar Project (adjacent to the Project site).
The Project design will incorporate Ausra's proprietary CLFR technology to concentrate solar energy on pipes in an elevated receiver (see figure to right). The concentrated solar energy boils water within a row of specially coated stainless steel pipes in an insulated cavity to produce saturated steam. The steam produced in the receivers is collected in a series of pipes, routed to steam drums, and then to the two turbine generators. Steam used by the steam turbines is condensed back to water and returned to the solar field.
The solar field will operate daily from sunrise to sunset. Typical operating hours for the CESF will be approximately 13 hours per day, or an average of 4,765 hours per year.
If the license to construct is approved, construction of the CESF, from site preparation and grading to full commercial operation, is expected to take approximately 35 months. Site construction activities will commence in the first quarter of 2009 and continue through the 35-month construction schedule. The project is scheduled to be online at partial capacity and available for dispatch into the grid on or before May 31, 2010. It is currently anticipated that the entire CESF will be online and in commercial service by the first quarter of 2012.
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CanAus necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 147 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Maplegum (Enterprises)
Maplegum (Enterprises) has been established by a Canadian born business woman permanently residing in Australia - hence the name which is a combination of the two countries' most iconic native trees...the Maple tree (leaf) of Canada and the Gum tree (leaf) of Australia.
With the business founder herself being a hybrid of Canadian and Australian heritage and citizenship, she wanted her business name to reflect her personal affinity for both countries as well as the International nature of the business.
The other reason for the choice of name in Maplegum, is that just as a Maple or Gum tree has one main trunk with many branches growing off of it - so too does this business structure. Maplegum Enterprises is essentially a holding company under which several diverse businesses currently operate / will operate in the future.
Each branch of the business will use the root name of "Maplegum" followed by the business descriptor - ie) Maplegum Consulting, Maplegum Events, Maplegum Publishing, Maplegum Homeware, etc.
Finally, the name Maplegum was also chosen due to its associations with imagery and adjectives that describe the trees themselves as well as the business...... budding opportunity, growth, evolution over time, diverse branches, freshness, vibrancy, turning over new leaves and inspiring.
The challenge with specifying the target audience in this instance, is that due to the diverse nature of the varied businesses under the Maplegum name - the target audiences are also varied and diverse.
In some instances the business will be dealing with consumers and in other instances varied businesses. For the most part, within all of these scenarios, the audiences will be made up of men and women (in relatively equal proportions) aged 30 - 60 with an active, optimistic, empowered approach to business and life.
Hence, the Maplegum logo will basically need to be "universally appealing".
Main requirements are:
1. Logo incorporating (a) Maplegum name, (b) Maple leaf (tree), (c) Gum leaf (tree).
2. Logo needs to work well with just the Maplegum name in addition to also being able to accommodate other business stream names (ie) Maplegum Enterprises, Maplegum Events, Maplegum Homewares, etc
Please use "Maplegum Enterprises" as your example of how sub-business name logo will work .
3. Colours.
Primary: Green(s)
Secondary: Vibrant "autumn leaf colours" - (ie) Canadian maple leaf colours (reds, rust, gold, rich yellows)
4. Descriptive words. Fresh, organic, clean, vibrant, optimistic, inspiring, evolutionary, growth, opportunity, boundless possibility.
5. Considerations. Dimension / texture / fluidity in the logo - rather than a very flat uni-dimensional look if possible.
6. Logo will be used on: (a) printed materials (b) Web based materials, (c) Consumer packaging, potentially.
7. Formats - Vector format
Print file format: ai. (CMYK)
Web file format: .jpeg
8. Images
We have attached examples of images of a Canadian Maple leaf (green and autumn coloured) and an Australian Gum leaf - purely for your reference. Please feel free to create your own original images or do your own image search. If pre-existing images used, please ensure they are royalty-free / free / copyright free.
Good luck! Feedback will be offered on an ongoing basis.
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Brunching It Up in NYC
There's absolutely no doubt that NYC is one of the most vegan-friendly cities in the US. That's why when my boo and I visit the Big Apple, we make sure to squeeze in as much vegan grub at as many restaurants as possible. Everyone...
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In each episode of Gweek, I invite a guest or two to join me in a discussion about recommended media, apps, and gadgets. This time my guests were Peter Bebergal,the author of Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood, and Dean Putney, Boing Boing's software developer and author of Walter Koessler 1914-1918: The personal photo journal of a German officer in World War I.
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Peter's picks:
Feeling more nostalgic than usual with the recent death of my dad, so have been looking at some cool stuff from the 70s that my father turned me onto at the time, such as Aurora monster models, and the Warren Publishing archives on archive.org. On that note, Ares Magazine successfully completed a Kickstarter campaign to relaunch the magazine and you can pre-order one now.
Raagnagrok's Man Women Death Birth Infinity by Mark Pilkington and Zali Krisha. Related, this is a good time to browse Pilkington's press Strange Attractor for the best in the underground occult-weirdness.
Mark Waid just completed his run on Daredevil, one of the best superhero comics in years.
Dean's picks
Whoever runs @DietCoke's twitter account is a master of the absurd
Mark's picks:
Shelf Space: Modern Package Design 1945-1965This era was a golden age for package design - cereal boxes, plastic soap bottles, TV dinners, motor oil. It's not about retro, it's about better. You can buy this book for one cent on Amazon. I run an occasional "Then and Now" post on Boing Boing/
The Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell. Funny autobiographical comic books stories written by an introvert.
Frazettagirls on Instagram.
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mrbuzz brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 21 Designs von 8 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
New upscale Online TV Show about wine needs a creative, elegant, crisp website to appeal to audience of wine enthusiasts ages 35-65. The site will be mostly our videos/episodes and information about wine events. Design should be similar to a video portal style (Please see complete attached brief for details and sites we like).
We've worked hard creating our videos this past year, now we just need a site to go with them. Our new online show will focus on different kinds of wines, different wine vineyards, food and wine events.
We have an episode guide for our shows, a wine store where people can buy the wines we talk about during the show, and a club that people can join. We need a newsletter sign-up box, somewhere on the site too.
Since this is an upscale kind of show/site, the design style should also be upscale, creative, clean, simple and look similar to a portal style site (See brief for more info and sample sites).
We want to start with a mock-up of a home page and then we will build a full site based on the design with the designer. All submissions and ideas welcome. We will be providing feedback. Let's see your best - Good Luck to everyone!
Please view the brief for more info:
- Item 1...Images of vineyards, wine bottle, glasses, people.
- Item 1...Pictures or drawings of Grapes - too boring, please be more creative.


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Based on Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times best-selling novel, Divergent is a gripping action thriller set in a futuristic world where society has been divided into five factions. As each person approaches adulthood, he or she must choose a faction and commit to it for the rest of their life. Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) chooses Dauntless—the daring risk-takers who pursue bravery above all else. During the Dauntless initiation, Tris completes death -defying stunts and faces her inmost fears in spectacular simulations. When she discovers she is a Divergent, someone who will never be able to fit into just one faction, she is warned that she must conceal this secret or risk her life. As Tris uncovers a looming war which threatens her family and the life of the mysterious Dauntless leader whom she has come to love, Tris must face her greatest test yet—deciding whether revealing she is a Divergent will save her world—or destroy it.
The IMAX release of Divergent will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® with proprietary IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The crystal-clear images coupled with IMAX's customized theatre geometry and powerful digital audio create a unique environment that will make audiences feel as if they are in the movie.


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"For I must do it justice; it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency, well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and deliberate contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."
(I originally wrote this post in the wake of Obama's election four years ago. It tells the story of how the great Edmund Burke suffered electoral defeat in 1780 for standing up for principle. It reminds us that fighting for that which one believes in, no matter the outcome at the polls, is never a real defeat over time.)
So wrote Edmund Burke, brilliant writer and member of Parliament, of the Catholic penal laws in the Eighteenth Century. Son of a Protestant father and a Catholic mother, suspected in his lifetime, probably incorrectly, of being a secret Catholic, Burke was a man who fought during his life for many causes: reform in Parliament, support for Americans in their fight against oppression by the English government, prosecution of Warren Hastings for his misrule in India, his crusade against the French Revolution, all these and more engaged his formidable intellect and his luminous pen. However, one cause he championed from the beginning of his career to the end of it: relief for Catholics in Ireland and England from the Penal Laws.
What were the Penal Laws? A series of statutes dating from the time of Queen Elizabeth I, and codified and harshened after the so-called Glorious Revolution in England in 1688, to transform Irish Catholics into helots in their own land and to keep English Catholics a despised and helpless minority. Burke summarized the penal laws nicely in a speech to his Bristol constituents on September 6, 1780:
"A statute was fabricated in the year 1699, by which the saying mass (a church service in the Latin tongue, not exactly the same as our liturgy, but very near it, and containing no offence whatsoever against the laws, or against good morals) was forged into a crime, punishable with perpetual imprisonment. The teaching school, an useful and virtuous occupation, even the teaching in a private family, was in every Catholic subjected to the same unproportioned punishment. Your industry, and the bread of your children, was taxed for a pecuniary reward to stimulate avarice to do what Nature refused, to inform and prosecute on this law. Every Roman Catholic was, under the same act, to forfeit his estate to his nearest Protestant relation, until, through a profession of what he did not believe, he redeemed by his hypocrisy what the law had transferred to the kinsman as the recompense of his profligacy. When thus turned out of doors from his paternal estate, he was disabled from acquiring any other by any industry, donation, or charity; but was rendered a foreigner in his native land, only because he retained the religion, along with the property, handed down to him from those who had been the old inhabitants of that land before him.
Does any one who hears me approve this scheme of things, or think there is common justice, common sense, or common honesty in any part of it? If any does, let him say it, and I am ready to discuss the point with temper and candor. But instead of approving, I perceive a virtuous indignation beginning to rise in your minds on the mere cold stating of the statute."
After explaining how and why the Act was passed Burke continued: "From that time, every person of that communion, lay and ecclesiastic, has been obliged to fly from the face of day. The clergy, concealed in garrets of private houses, or obliged to take a shelter (hardly safe to themselves, but infinitely dangerous to their country) under the privileges of foreign ministers, officiated as their servants and under their protection. The whole body of the Catholics, condemned to beggary and to ignorance in their native land, have been obliged to learn the principles of letters, at the hazard of all their other principles, from the charity of your enemies. They have been taxed to their ruin at the pleasure of necessitous and profligate relations, and according to the measure of their necessity and profligacy. Examples of this are many and affecting. Some of them are known by a friend who stands near me in this hall. It is but six or seven years since a clergyman, of the name of Malony, a man of morals, neither guilty nor accused of anything noxious to the state, was condemned to perpetual imprisonment for exercising the functions of his religion; and after lying in jail two or three years, was relieved by the mercy of government from perpetual imprisonment, on condition of perpetual banishment. A brother of the Earl of Shrewsbury, a Talbot, a name respectable in this country whilst its glory is any part of its concern, was hauled to the bar of the Old Bailey, among common felons, and only escaped the same doom, either by some error in the process, or that the wretch who brought him there could not correctly describe his person,—I now forget which. In short, the persecution would never have relented for a moment, if the judges, superseding (though with an ambiguous example) the strict rule of their artificial duty by the higher obligation of their conscience, did not constantly throw every difficulty in the way of such informers. But so ineffectual is the power of legal evasion against legal iniquity, that it was but the other day that a lady of condition, beyond the middle of life, was on the point of being stripped of her whole fortune by a near relation to whom she had been a friend and benefactor; and she must have been totally ruined, without a power of redress or mitigation from the courts of law, had not the legislature itself rushed in, and by a special act of Parliament rescued her from the injustice of its own statutes. One of the acts authorizing such things was that which we in part repealed, knowing what our duty was, and doing that duty as men of honor and virtue, as good Protestants, and as good citizens. Let him stand forth that disapproves what we have done!"
Burke was making this speech in Bristol because he was running for re-election and was in electoral trouble for three reasons: his position in favor of abolishing the Catholic penal laws, his sympathy for the American colonists in revolt against the King, and his stance in favor of free trade with Ireland.
In regard to the penal acts, after years of effort Burke and his colleagues in Parliament passed the Catholic Relief Act of 1778. Upon taking an oath of loyalty to the reigning monarch, an abjuration of the Jacobite Pretender, a denial that an excommunicated prince may be lawfully murdered, a denial that no faith should be kept with heretics, and a disclaimer that the pope had temporal as well spiritual jurisdiction in Great Britain, Catholics were exempted from the most galling provisions of the penal acts, could keep schools and could inherit and purchase land, and no longer could a Protestant heir any longer enter and enjoy the estate of his Catholic kinsman, against the will of the Catholic kinsman.
To modern eyes a very small step in the right direction. In the context of the times a revolutionary advance for religious tolerance. Anti-Catholic bigots in England and Scotland went wild after passage. This culminated in the violence of the Gordon Riots during which anti-Catholic mobs rioted in London from June 2-June 9 1780. 290 people were killed, and 100 Catholic buildings, churches and private homes, were looted and/or burned. The riots were put down by the Royal Army. Burke during the riots was absolutely fearless. Upon encountering one of the mobs he stated that he was indeed in favor of relieving Catholics from civil disabilities and refused to change his position when howled at by the mob. Burke also participated in armed defense of homes during the riots.
In his speech in Bristol Burke praised the forbearance of Catholics during the riots: "But I am well informed, and the thing speaks it, that their clergy exerted their whole influence to keep their people in such a state of forbearance and quiet, as, when I look back, fills me with astonishment,—but not with astonishment only. Their merits on that occasion ought not to be forgotten; nor will they, when Englishmen come to recollect themselves. I am sure it were far more proper to have called them forth, and given them the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, than to have suffered those worthy clergymen and excellent citizens to be hunted into holes and corners, whilst we are making low-minded inquisitions into the number of their people; as if a tolerating principle was never to prevail, unless we were very sure that only a few could possibly take advantage of it. But, indeed, we are not yet well recovered of our fright. Our reason, I trust, will return with our security, and this unfortunate temper will pass over like a cloud." Unfortunately for Burke most of the electors of Bristol shared to the full the anti-Catholic prejudice common in England at the time.
In regard to America, Burke had always been a friend of the Americans, who he regarded as simply demanding the traditional rights of Englishmen, and had always opposed the policy of the English government to conquer the rebellious colonies. He described to the voters of Bristol the development of English public opinion towards the war: "You remember that in the beginning of this American war (that era of calamity, disgrace, and downfall, an era which no feeling mind will ever mention without a tear for England) you were greatly divided,—and a very strong body, if not the strongest, opposed itself to the madness which every art and every power were employed to render popular, in order that the errors of the rulers might be lost in the general blindness of the nation. This opposition continued until after our great, but most unfortunate victory at Long Island. Then all the mounds and banks of our constancy were borne down, at once, and the frenzy of the American war broke in upon us like a deluge. This victory, which seemed to put an immediate end to all difficulties, perfected us in that spirit of domination which our unparalleled prosperity had but too long nurtured. We had been so very powerful, and so very prosperous, that even the humblest of us were degraded into the vices and follies of kings. We lost all measure between means and ends; and our headlong desires became our politics and our morals. All men who wished for peace, or retained any sentiments of moderation, were overborne or silenced; and this city was led by every artifice (and probably with the more management because I was one of your members) to distinguish itself by its zeal for that fatal cause. " Burke went on to state that all were now of the same opinion in opposing the American war. This was not the case in Bristol as Burke was soon to learn.
In May of 1778 Burke voted to lift restrictions on Irish free trade. He realized such a change was violently opposed by the electors of Bristol, a great trading port, which had benefited from the restrictions which had been removed. Burke understood the risk he undertook by supporting the bill, but was unmoved by the possible possible political consequences to himself. "If, from this conduct, I shall forfeit their suffrages at an ensuing election, it will stand on record an example to future representatives of the Commons of England, that one man at least had dared to resist the desires of his constituents when his judgment assured him they were wrong".
Burke ended his September 6 address to the voters of Bristol with these words: "And now, Gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to make up my account with you, let me take to myself some degree of honest pride on the nature of the charges that are against me. I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It is not said, that, in the long period of my service, I have, in a single instance, sacrificed the slightest of your interests to my ambition or to my fortune. It is not alleged, that, to gratify any anger or revenge of my own, or of my party, I have had a share in wronging or oppressing any description of men, or any one man in any description. No! the charges against me are all of one kind: that I have pushed the principles of general justice and benevolence too far,—further than a cautious policy would warrant, and further than the opinions of many would go along with me. In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress, I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted."
Three days later Burke withdrew from the election when it was obvious that he would be defeated. Without a trace of bitterness, he thanked the electors of Bristol.
"But, Gentlemen, I will see nothing except your former kindness, and I will give way to no other sentiments than those of gratitude. From the bottom of my heart I thank you for what you have done for me. You have given me a long term, which is now expired. I have performed the conditions, and enjoyed all the profits to the full; and I now surrender your estate into your hands, without being in a single tile or a single stone impaired or wasted by my use. I have served the public for fifteen years. I have served you in particular for six. What is past is well stored; it is safe, and out of the power of fortune. What is to come is in wiser hands than ours; and He in whose hands it is best knows whether it is best for you and me that I should be in Parliament, or even in the world."
Burke would live to see much of what he fought for triumph. The Catholic Relief Act of 1791 was another step on the path of Catholic Emancipation which Burke supported and, although he did not live to see ultimate victory in 1829, he could die content in the knowledge that the direction was set for freedom for Catholics. In 1783 America won its war for independence and peaceful relations were reestablished with Great Britain. Irish free trade was firmly established. Burke's defeat in 1780 is of interest only to historians. The principles for which he fought: religious tolerance, liberty under law, basic fairness, are still of interest to all of humanity.


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The City of Coral Gables and Florida International University are partnering in the creation of an interactive learning tool called a "Talking Book." The Coral Gables "Talking Book" is an online learning tool with elements for students K-12, the general public, as well as for researchers. The K-12/general public facet will include historical artifacts and images as well as narrative read aloud recounting the history of Coral Gables. The narrative focuses on the City's founder, George Merrick and the other people/places/events that shaped the City in its early years. The goal of the project is to preserve local history while simultaneously helping to educate students, the general public, the under served, as well as aid researchers.
The "Talking Book" will be linked to a database with primary and derivative source materials (City of Coral Gables legislative minute books, historical photographs, Coral Gables publications, newspapers, artifacts and ephemera, as well as oral histories). These items will serve as resources for researchers and individuals interested in a more extensive look into Coral Gables history. The project will also facilitate the preservation of those resources in digital format. All digital files will be saved in archival quality formats, stored at several locations on archival quality gold cds, as well as at the Florida Digital Archive (FDA) where digital files will receive a forward migration process to ensure their accessibility into perpetuity. A digital surrogate of the historical material will also ensure preservation of the physical artifacts by allowing for access to the information contained without the wear and tear that comes with handling the physical documents. Both the "Talking Book" and the extensive collection of materials held in the FCLA database will be available free of charge to the public.


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This photograph by Adam Rhoades looks like a haphazardly developed still pulled from a 1950's snuff film. But it's not that at all. It was taken from an iPhone and printed using an old-fashioned photo enlarger.
Rhoades developed a "Digital Darkroom" technique for funneling the light from iPhone's display to through an enlarger and using it to expose photosensitive paper. From there, he simply developed the photos using chemicals—the way photos were developed in the decades before digital photography took over. As Rhoades points out the vignetting on the photographs is caused by the limitations of his method, which allows light to leak from around the edges of the phone. Rhoades also claims something we'd never heard before: the center of the iPhone is brighter than the edges. The resulting images look like they were developed in a time when photography techniques were still rudimentary. If nothing else, Rhoades' method is a refreshing counterpoint to the de rigueuer crudeness of smartphone photography. [Adam Rhoades via Peta Pixel via Cult of Mac]
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How did the Phillies become world champs this year? Maybe because their fans stay well-nourished with projectile hot dogs. Hatfield Meats and our favorite chubby green furball mascot, Phillie Phanatic engineered a hot dog launcher and documented (mockumented?) the planning phases, which were sometimes tense given the Phanatic's temper. Like all good ideas, it started with a dream: "I liked to shoot things as a kid," says co-creator Eric Haman. As far as flying objects go, these look tastier than a home run or foul ball. The video, after the jump.
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Project Status: License Withdrawn, August 27, 2013.
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Hearing Officer: Raoul Renaud
Key Dates
- 11/18/08 - Application for Certification (AFC) filed
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- 8/27/13 - AFC Withdrawn
On November 18, 2008, CPV Vacaville, LLC (CPVV) filed an Application for Certification (08-AFC-11) seeking authority to construct and operate the CPV Vaca Station (CPVV) project, a natural gas-fired, combined-cycle electrical generating facility rated at a nominal generating capacity of 660 megawatts (MW).
The CPVV is proposed for a 24-acre site located at the intersection of Lewis and Fry roads in a rural area within the city limits of Vacaville, Solano County. Surrounding land uses include the City of Vacaville's (City) wastewater treatment plant to the northwest and agricultural uses to the east, west, and south.
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The California Energy Commission is the lead agency (for licensing thermal power plants 50 megawatts and larger) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and has a certified regulatory program under CEQA. Under its certified program, the Energy Commission is exempt from having to prepare an environmental impact report. Its certified program, however, does require environmental analysis of the project, including an analysis of alternatives and mitigation measures to minimize any significant adverse effect the project may have on the environment.
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This isn't a bike built by the chocolate maker, it's from a custom shop in Japan that goes by the name M&M Motorcycles. Based not far from Yokohama in a city called Kanagawa. Like most Japanese shops they specialize in SR's, W650's and TR's. We really dig this yellow SR tracker. Judging by their website they seem to build mostly street trackers. They also have a blog and a shop that are worth checking out. The shop has some interesting things, ranging from ashtrays through to motorcycle parts and clothing.


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A mother and stepfather who confined their teenage son to a bedroom for years with little food were each sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to cruelty to children and false imprisonment charges.
Under an agreement with prosecutors, Paul and Sheila Comer each will also serve 15 years on probation, were ordered not to have any unsupervised contact with minors and to forfeit all their assets, which will be put in a trust for their children, said Paulding County District Attorney Dick Donovan.
Their son, 18-year-old Mitch Comer, was found wandering a Los Angeles bus station on Sept. 11 and told police he had suffered years of abuse.
The plea agreement allowed the county to avoid the expense of a trial and kept prosecutors from having to call Mitch Comer and two younger Comer children as witnesses "to relive what was a pretty horrendous time in their lives," Donovan said.
Lawyers for Paul and Sheila Comer did not immediately return calls seeking comment Thursday.
Mitch Comer stood 5-foot-1 and weighed 87 pounds when he raised the suspicion of a guard at the bus station. He told police his stepfather put him on a bus on his 18th birthday with a few hundred dollars cash and a list of homeless shelters.
He told detectives he was subjected to years of abuse after being taken out of school in eighth grade, confined to a bathroom and bedroom in their home in Dallas, Ga., and shielded from sunlight for at least two years.
Investigators testified at a hearing in October that the Comers sometimes made the teen kneel on the floor with his forehead against a wall, his hands behind his head and his feet lifted off the ground. Mitch Comer told investigators he sometimes had to remain in that position for six to eight hours, while Paul Comer said it was only 40 minutes at a time.
During the October hearing, a detective testified that the Comers conceded the teen had been confined to the room as punishment. Paul Comer also told investigators they sent Mitch Comer to Los Angeles because he wanted to be an actor.
The Comers' lawyers in October disputed many of the allegations against their clients and said at the time that there was another side to the story that would come out at trial. With the plea, though, there won't be a trial.


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OTTAWA — How to modernize an institution rooted in the Middle Ages, one freighted with the titles, trappings and traditions of distant centuries?
That is the question that will face Prince William when he ascends the throne, most likely upon the death of his father, Prince Charles, who is first in the line of succession to the Queen.
The rules of succession highlight the monarchy's distance from today's Canada.
Succession is governed by the Act of Settlement (1701), a law that ensures that only Protestant descendants of Princess Sophia of Hanover can lay claim to the throne. Roman Catholics are specifically excluded from consideration. The same law removes from the line of succession any heir to the throne born out of wedlock or those who marry a Catholic.
(In the 2001 census, 43 per cent of Canadians identified themselves as Catholic.)
The law means William could not become king if Kate had been Catholic. He could, however, still become the sovereign if Kate practised Islam, Judaism or any other religion.
Meanwhile, the custom of male primogeniture, reflected in the same law, means that girls born to the couple will only inherit the crown if they do not have any living brothers — or dead brothers with surviving children.
It's hard to conceive of how such a legal provision could survive a challenge under today's Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Already, though, William and Kate have catalyzed change to the institution that is the monarchy.
In the weeks leading up to the royal wedding, the British government announced it would consult Commonwealth countries about reforming the laws of succession. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg told reporters in April that the existing rules on religion and gender seem "a little old-fashioned."
"Prince William and Catherine Middleton might have a baby daughter for instance as their first child," Clegg told the BBC. "I think most people in this day and age would think it's worth considering whether we change the rules so that that baby girl then could become the future monarch.
"I think that would be in keeping with the changes that have happened in society as a whole."
In the future, of course, William will have the ability to reform the monarchy still further, to mould it in his own reflection. And while no one knows exactly what William has in mind, his record to date suggests he is a reformist.
"I think William does seem to have his own ideas about what he wants to do with the royal institution," said Carolyn Harris, a monarchy expert at Queen's University.
"We may see the British monarchy becoming less ceremonial in some ways and more similar to the Scandinavian monarchies. I think just the way William is living his life now indicates he may be interested in a more streamlined monarchy that has fewer ceremonial elements and smaller households."
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Harris noted, now rent a farmhouse in Wales where William continues his work as an Royal Air Force search-and-rescue pilot. They live without a butler, a lady-in-waiting or other servants.
By contrast, Prince Charles employs a staff of 150, including chauffeurs, valets and chefs.
While guarded with the media, William seems to have inherited his mother's less formal, down-to-Earth approach to public life.
"I think she (Diana) really wanted William and Harry to experience ordinary life, to be resourceful and look after themselves," Harris said.
As a member of the Royal Family, Diana chafed at the stagnant role created for her — the quiet cuckquean of the future king — and spearheaded her own makeover of what Prince Philip once called "the firm." She took her children to McDonald's and to amusement parks; she hugged AIDS patients and lepers. Her compassion devalued the Royal Family's traditional reserve, long part of its mystique.
Even in death, Diana challenged the Royal Family's business-as-usual approach. On the day of Diana's funeral, under immense public pressure, the Queen broke with tradition and lowered the Union Jack to half-mast over Buckingham Palace.
The drive to modernize the monarchy gained speed in the years following Diana's death.
The Act of Settlement was challenged under human rights laws in both Canada and Britain, to no avail. In 2003, Britain's Fabian Society, a prominent left-wing think tank, conducted a yearlong commission of inquiry into the future of the monarchy and concluded that modern rules of succession should be enacted.
The commission also called for an end to the monarch's role as head of the Church of England.
The Labour government of then-prime minister Gordon Brown subsequently discussed reforms, but those efforts foundered, as did a private member's bill to change the rules of succession.
Robert Finch, chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada, has said he supports the move to update the Act of Settlement partly because those pushing for Canada to become a republic would "no longer be able to claim that the monarchy discriminates against Catholics."
In 2008, the three-centuries-old rules of succession came to bear on a Canadian for the first time.
That year, Montreal-born Autumn Kelly converted from Roman Catholicism to Anglicanism before marrying the Queen's grandson, Peter Phillips, who otherwise would have lost his position as 11th in line to the throne.
Their first child, Savannah, who was born on Dec. 29, 2010, holds dual British-Canadian citizenship and is now 12th in line to the throne, behind her father.
She is the first Canadian to be included in the line of succession.


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Buick has presented a restyled LaCrosse sedan, which will appear only in China.
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