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Izvestia newspaper interview URL: http://izvestia.ru/news/549078
Izvestia newspaper interview with the father about 5:00am EST on 19-April-2013
Here is the Youtube video that goes along with the Interview:
This is the same father (man) that claims the US is framing his sons for: the Boston Marathon bombing killing 3, wounding about 180 others, killing of MIT campus officer, car jacking, running gunfights / bomb throwing, running over Tamerlane, having guns/ammo/bombs(IEDs), shooting police … etc.
[Did I miss any of the ALLEGED offenses that father thinks are not true of his sons???]
Translation of Interview (of Anzor Tsarnaew – Анзор Царнаев):
Father of Tsarnaevich brothers, some years living in Dagestan, is confident that his sons were not involved in bloody events that took place a few days ago in Boston in the United States. The eldest son of Tamerlane, he said, was happily married – with his American wife he raised his daughter. And the younger Johar – honors and pride of the family. Tsarnaev Anzor, who lost one son, fears that security forces would kill both.
– My children just set up[framed/entrapped]. One killed, how could they? The same intelligence agencies. They had to hold it simple. Now I'm afraid for the second son. I keep in touch with them. Yes, I live far away, but I know what my kids are doing.
– When was the last time you spoke with your sons?
– With Tamerlane immediately after the terrorist attack in Boston. As soon as I heard on TV, how awful it happened, I immediately dialed the phone Sr., asked, "Were you there? Since you did not happen? "He said, 'Dad do not worry, we did not go there. All are alive and well. "
– When you last saw sons?
– A year ago. But all the time we called each other. They talked about myself, I know what my kids are doing. Senior – boxer, four-time champion of America, one of the versions. It in the U.S. everyone knows he is a celebrity. Tamerlane is also a musician, playing the piano jazz. Once wanted to become a professional boxer, we tried to dissuade him, they say, is a permanent injury, what do you need it? And then he got married and had a daughter, now she is three and a half years. And he changed his mind to go to the professionals.
– He[ Tamerlane] worked somewhere?
– No, he studied at the acting school, and sat with the child. He has worked as a wife. In a social institution – do not remember the name – took care of the disabled. My son did not have any free time. Everything is on the clock.
– And Johar? When did you last talk to him?
– Three days ago. I Called and asked how things and said that he should come here for a vacation. He agreed. After all, he is the last time the child was, as we left, so never and never returned. I briefly talked to him, he was in a hurry to go to class.
– It is known that he went to Cambridge?
– Yes, my youngest – the pride of the family. Always straight A student, dreamed of becoming a great doctor. He received a scholarship to study as the most talented. Never in any radical groups did not participate, hate talkers. With the money he has, of course, there were problems. But I helped him, sent a little bit, and he himself worked. In his free time, got into the pool lifeguard. He did not have time for all sorts of nonsense. And then, he could not go for it against the will of Tamerlane and his older brother would not allow to deal with such things.
– You yourself why left the U.S.?
– I went back home to die. I had a hematoma of the brain. I was sure – this is the end. But it has taken out, literally at my grave. And my sons were there.
– They became citizens of the United States?
– No, both of them – the citizens of Russia. In Tamerlane wife – an American, but he himself Russian. And Johar too. I fear for my second son. I am afraid that they will kill him, too. But I know – they [the sons] are not to blame.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The San Jose Earthquakes are unbeaten in their last seven home matches, having not lost at Buck Shaw Stadium since the very first match of the season.
Yet it didn't feel like that streak was worthy of significant celebration Saturday in the wake of a 1-1 tie with Colorado.
Last year, the Quakes won 10 of 17 regular-season home matches – nine of 15 when talking exclusively about their primary home of Buck Shaw Stadium. So far this season, San Jose are 3-1-4 at the friendly confines, which means they'd have to go 7-0-2 the rest of the way to match 2012's productivity.
OPTA Chalkboard: Rapids play it smart in San Jose
Colorado coach Osacr Pareja might as well have been speaking for both locker rooms when he told reporters, "The boys deserved more. …If we have that killer instinct, I thought we would have come out with three points."
That would be far preferable for the Quakes than debating whether the club's streak is a half-full or half-empty stretch of the season.
"On one hand, we can say, 'OK, we're not getting beat,'" said center back Jason Hernandez, who returned from a seven-match absence due to injury. "That's a positive. But we like to think we should be winning these matches. It's good not to be losing matches, but at the same time, we expect a lot from ourselves. And we expect to win games. That's the attitude we're always going to have."
San Jose sits second among MLS clubs with six ties on the season, one back of league-leading Portland (4-1-7). One side effect of that factoid is that it helps keep to a minimum the finger-pointing that one might see during a long losing streak.
"It's a little disappointing to us not to get three points, but it's also important to stay positive as a team and take the positives and move forward," forward Alan Gordon said. "We're going to get nothing out of getting down on ourselves. It's not what we're about. We're going to stay positive, stay together and we're going to move forward. We fought well tonight. We've just got to get the result."
Coach Frank Yallop could take heart in the fact that he had his widest array of players available to him of any match so far this season, including a starting XI that was pretty much the best the Quakes have to offer.
"It's not from lack of effort," Yallop said. "It's a problem if it is, but it isn't. I like our effort right now, our drive. We've just got to play with a little more confidence, a little more guile around the goal. I wouldn't say everybody's available, but it feels a lot better, what we've got on the field. I feel confident that [if] those guys can stay healthy, we will score more goals than the opposition here."
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28v laskettelija Angeli VanLaanen menetti tasapainonsa eikä kyennyt hahmottamaan milloin oli lasketteluputkessa ylös-/tai alaspäin. Hänellä oli ollut erilaisia outoja oireita jo 14 vuoden ajan; krooninen uupumus, huimaus, lihas/nivelkivut, selkäkipu, näköhäiriöt ja neurologisia oireita. Hän mm nukahti yhtäkkiä koulutunneilla. Vuosien aikana hän sai lukuisia erilaisia diagnooseja kuten mononukleoosi, hormonien epätasapaino, krooninen väsymysoireyhtymä, niveltulehdus, MS tauti. Oireiden jatkuvan vaihtelun vuoksi oireita väitettiin myös psykosomaattisiksi.
Marraskuussa 2009 Angeli sai viimein oikean diagnoosin; Krooninen Borrelioosi. Hän oli saanut tartunnan 10-vuotiaana. "En uskonut diagnoosia alussa sillä olin saanut siihen menneesä jo niin monta virheellistä diagnoosia. Hain varmistuksen diagnoosiin myös toiselta asiantuntijalta.
Angeli sai pitkän suonensisäisen ja suun kautta otetun antibioottihoidon. Ensimmäisen vuoden aikana pelkäsin että diagnoosi oli sittenkin virheellinen. Hän otti antibioottien lisäksi tulehduksia hillitsevää ruokavaliota, lisäravinteita ja teki erilaisia rentoutumisharjoituksia vähentääkseen stressiä.
Nyt hän valmistautuu Shotsin olympialaisiin ja luennoi Borrelioosista.
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhe ... s-olympics
While competing at the Aspen X Games in 2008, halfpipe skier Angeli VanLaanen was suddenly struck with vertigo during a high-risk aerial maneuver.
"It was extremely scary to be that high in the air, lose all sense of balance, and not know which way was up and down," says the 28-year-old skier. At the time, she had been battling a debilitating mystery illness for more than a decade.
"I took a really hard, scary fall, that shook me up, but thankfully I wasn't injured," adds Angeli. She was finally diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease and took a three-year hiatus from her sport.
After recently earning a spot on the U.S. Olympic halfpipe ski team, she will make a triumphant return in Sochi.
Scary Symptoms Went Undiagnosed for 14 Years
Angeli's symptoms—which included fainting spells, chronic fatigue, dizziness, muscles and joint aches, and back pain—began when she was a 10-year-old in Wisconsin.
"My symptoms would fluctuate, which would really confuse doctors," recalls Angeli, whose health problems worsened when she reached her early 20s. "I could push past the fatigue, but as the disease progressed, blurry vision and vertigo, neurological things like that really hindered my athletic career as a skier."
"(In high school), I would fall asleep in class because I had this extreme fatigue, and they misunderstood that as being a slacker or being lazy," says Angeli. "And having that negative feedback from them was really heartbreaking for me because I was trying my hardest. I was focused, and I wanted to succeed in my academics as well."
At various times, she was told that the problem was mononucleosis, a hormone imbalance, chronic fatigue syndrome, or arthritis. At one point, she was tested for multiple sclerosis. When her fluctuating symptoms continued to perplex medical providers, several doctors theorized that the problem was actually psychosomatic.
"I started doubting myself and going through the emotional experience of having doctors think I was crazy," says the skier. "Since they couldn't find an answer, I just pushed everything aside and hid a lot of my symptoms from people around me because I just wanted to move on with my life."
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Determined to Pursue Her Olympic Dream
Angeli VanLaneenHowever, Angeli decided not to let medical skepticism—or even her worsening symptoms—hold her back from pursuing her passion for her sport. "I thought okay, maybe they could be onto something," she says. "Maybe I need to overcome this mentally. And that led me to be very determined to not let my physical condition stop me from progressing in skiing and reaching for my dreams."
For a time, the skier gave up on getting a diagnosis, but in 2008 after the terrifying bout of vertigo at the Aspen X Games, the skier decided to resume her quest for a diagnosis. "I was still experiencing that kind of loss of control while doing such a high-risk sport, so it was definitely scary."
In November, 2009, Angeli was finally diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, triggered by a tick bite she'd gotten at age 10. "Honestly I didn't believe it at first, because I had gone through so many misdiagnoses. So I went right away, after being diagnosed with Lyme by one doctor, to a specialist in New York and got a second opinion where we confirmed that [it was Lyme]."
Live Longer, Healthier: Advice from "Golden" Olympians
A Long Quest For Health
The specialist prescribed intensive oral and IV antibiotic therapy, but it took many months to see improvement. "For the first year of treatment I was really fearful that it was just another misdiagnosis," says Angeli, who also switched to an anti-inflammatory diet, took supplements, and began meditating to combat stress.
Since then, Angeli has become active in fostering awareness about Lyme disease and has become a spokeswoman for the LymeLight Foundation, an organization dedicated to funding medical treatment for patients with the disease. She also raised money through a Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary about her experience.
Although she had to take a three-year break from her sport during her recovery, the skier is now healthy and incredibly excited about making her debut on the U.S. Olympic team, which she calls "a dream come true."
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Three people were killed and more than 60 were injured when a tornado cut a mile-wide path across Gloucester County Saturday, said Gloucester Sheriff Steve Gentry.The victims have been identified as Periccis Gerasimos Koutsoumbinas,a 60 year-old-male, of the 4900 block Hummingbird Lane, Richard Lynn Ingram, a 53-year-old-male, of the 4000 block of Shelly Road and Cecil Wray Page Jr, 90, of the 3600 block of Shelly Road.
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Among Sunday's developments:
- All schools in Gloucester County will be closed on Monday.
- County officials are considering a curfew for Sunday night.
- Gloucester County officials think a single tornado touched down, causing the Saturday night damage.
- Governor Bob McDonnell has declared a state of emergency
- Some roads in the Middle Peninsula have been closed to enable workers to clear roads of debris.
- Damage in Isle of Wight County was pretty much limited to the Windsor area, where several homes sustaned damage.
- The Grove area of James City County south of Williamsburg was hardest hit in that area.
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4:30 p.m. update
Not everyone is happy about all the attention paid to Gloucester Sunday. Many stretches of road are filled with onlookers snapping photos of the damage.
Jim Concio said people had been casually walking on his property to see the damage and take photographs.
"This is ridiculous," Concio ,49, said. "It's like a tourist destination."
A tree fell on his home and several were down in his yard.
But Anna Wimbish whose home sustained minor damage said most of the onlookers were looking to help.
"People do what people do," she said. "This doesn't happen all the time. I told them they could park here."
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1:15 p.m. update
Gloucester Sheriff Steve Gentry said Sunday that the identities of the three people killed by the tornado that struck Gloucester Saturday evening will not be released until family notifications are made.
At a press conference at Gloucester High School, Gentry said that traffic has become an issue, especially on Route 17 and asked members of the public to avoid "rubberneckin".
Hundreds of cars were passing by Hickory Fork Road and Cedar Bush Road with county residents surveying the extensive damage. "We have a lot of people coming for the wrong reason," Gentry said. Gentry said that right now the department does not need any more volunteers but that in the days to come more help may be needed.
After a helicopter tour authorities now believe a single tornado struck Gloucester County Saturday evening ,ripping across an 8.5 mile stretch through Coke, Glen Roy and Ware Neck . Gentry said the twister started on the ground and skipped several times, wreaking havoc throughout the county.
Ben Kiser, superintendent of Gloucester County Public Schools said that all schools would be closed Monday for the county. Kiser said that several scenarios were being considered for students at Page Middle School, including dispersing more than 580 students at several different schools. Kiser said the preferred option would be to keep students together with their teachers.
Kiser said despite the hardships, he remained optimistic. "That's who Gloucester is, we're a resilient people. Our famiies are strong," Kiser said.
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12:35 p.m. update
Governor Bob McDonnell has declared a state of emergency in response to yesterday's severe weather across the Commonwealth, authorizing state agencies to assist local efforts in response and recovery efforts.
Said McDonnell: "Administration officials are traveling today to areas of impact to assess damage and assist local recovery efforts. In the days after the tornados in Pulaski, we saw hundreds of Virginians come together to aid their fellow citizens who were impacted by the tragedy in the region. I want to thank the brave first responders and state and local officials who have moved swiftly to begin the recovery process following these most recent events."
Governor McDonnell will be traveling to Gloucester County Sunday or Monday to tour the storm damage and meet with residents, local officials and first responders. Details on the Governor's visit to Gloucester will be released later today.
A state of emergency is declared under state law so that state resources can be made available. The Governor's emergency declaration ensures a fully coordinated state response to support local initial recovery efforts. A declaration also decreases time and paperwork needed to get personnel, equipment and supplies on scene.
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12:30 P.M. update
All travel lanes of Route 33 in Middlesex County have been closed from North End Road (Route 631) east so Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) crews can clear debris from the roadway.
Confirmed tornados touched down at approximately 7 p.m. on Saturday evening in Gloucester and Middlesex counties causing downed trees and power lines.
Message boards have been posted west of the road barricades, at Stampers Bay Road (Route 630), to inform motorists of the closure. Motorists will be turned around at Stampers Bay Road unless they reside between Stampers Bay Road and North End Road.
Vehicle traffic is being temporarily restricted to allow VDOT work crews and Dominion Virginia Power to clear travel lanes on Route 33 and the surrounding roadways.
Crews are also working to clear debris from multiple primary and secondary roads in the neighboring counties.
Virginia State Police is providing traffic control at the road closure site.
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Noon update
Gloucester County officials are preparing to brief the public and the media on the state of the country following Saturday night's tornado.
We'll have the information here as soon as it is available.
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11:25 a.m. update
Gloucester County resident Roger Hogge and his fiance Lisa Van Dyke were watching a movie Satureay night when they heard the storm hitting near their home on Cedar Bush Road. Lisa got up to see the wind pick up and warned Roger.
When his son Jesse,13, came in the room, they heard the noise most people reported, the sound of a freight train.
They bunkered down in the tub.
"The house started skipping " Van Dyke said. Her face was smashed against the wall.
The house moved 30 yards away.
The family was happy to be alive.
"I've been smiling since it happened," Hogge said. "Im the luckiest man alive."
The movie they had been watching: Deliverance with Burt Reynolds.
"I've watched that movie a dozen times but it will never have the same ending," Hogge said.
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11:10 a.m. update
Busch Gardens is open Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Route 60 south of Busch Gardens had been closed since last night because of storm damage, but it is now open again.
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10:25 a.m. update
The Hickory Fork Road area in Gloucester was hit hard, with multiple houses sustaining heavy damage.
Shirley Niles 56, along with her daughter Stormi ,24, said they heard a what sounded like a freight train and ran toward the bathroom.
"It took 8 seconds," Shirley Niles said. When they came out they had a gaping hole in the roof. "Don't mess with mother nature," she said.
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9:55 a.m. update
Angela Byrd-Wright, assistant principal at Page Middle School in Gloucester said that the classes would be canceled on Monday.
"The safety of the building, and our students will be the top priority." Byrd-Wright said that parents should check the county school website for information on school
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9:20 a.m. update:
Preliminary estimates in Isle of Wight County show 22 houses damaged, most in the Windsor area, and one home destroyed.
Officials also said four of the 22 suffered significant damage and put the early estimate at $800,000.
A shelter has been opened at Trinity United Methodist Church in Smithfield. For information, call 838-7320.
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9 a.m. update:
Page Middle School in Gloucester County looked like a bomb had exploded on scene Sunday morning.
Piles of debris, brick, chain-link fence school supplies and other items were strewn across the adjacent field. Several buses overturned.
Stephen Patton, food services director for Gloucester Public Schools sifted through materials near a desk sitting beside the tennis court. "This used to be my office," Patton,53 ,said. His car stood a few yards away on its side, windows shattered. His high school and college yearbooks that he kept in his office had also been damaged. "I shouldn't have kept these here," he said.
Page Middle School had extensive damage spread throughout most of the building.
Patton said he saw what may have been an animal carcass in the field near the middle school.
Captain James Gilsinan with Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue said that the department had been called out over concerns some of the overturned buses would catch fire. " We'll help out today wherever we're called," he said.
Sheriff Gentry will host a press conference at noon at Gloucester High School to discuss recovery efforts.
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Three people were killed and more than 60 were injured when a tornado cut a mile-wide path across Gloucester County Saturday, said Gloucester Sheriff Steve Gentry.
"Several homes were leveled," Gentry said during a press conference Saturday night. Much of the damage was in the Ware Neck, Glen Roy Estates and Waverly Lane communities.
The deaths reportedly were in the town of Coke, located just west of Route 17, about halfway between Gloucester Point and Gloucester Court House.
The tornado was part of a band that moved across the region Saturday night, tearing the roof off a school and overturning buses in Gloucester, and wiping out at least three houses in Deltaville.
Although the county was doing a flyover Saturday night, Gentry said it would be Sunday before they can get a damage assessment.
Roadways were closed across the region and power lines snapped and injuries reported.
The most significant damage was reported in Gloucester and Middlesex counties, where sheriff's dispatchers from both counties said they were flooded with calls. No details on other injuries were available late Saturday.
The storm ripped the roof off Page Middle School and destroyed the back side of the building. High winds flipped over several school buses, knocked cars off the road and may have trapped residents in the Cedar Bush Road area.
Riverside Walter Reed Hospital in Gloucester saw 17 patients come in between 8:45 and 9:45 p.m. Saturday with storm-related injuries ranging from bumps and bruises to very severe injuries, said spokesman Peter Glagola.
An emergency shelter was set up at Bellamy Church in Gloucester.
Dominion Virginia Power is reporting power is out in the Millwood Estates area. Southbound Route 17 is blocked off before the T.C. Walker Road intersection and traffic on Hickory Fork Road is being turned around prior to the Route 17 intersection. Motorists heading south toward York County and Newport News on Route 17 are being diverted through West Point.
James City County/Williamsburg
Severe thunderstorms and possibly a funnel cloud damaged homes and downed trees and power lines in James City County, injuring one person.
Chief Bob Ryalls of the James City County Fire Department said dispatchers began receiving calls at 6:58 p.m. about damage in the Grove area of the county. Ryalls said the department suspects a tornado touched down, but could not confirm it. About 10 to 15 homes had significant damage and power was out in several areas, he said.
Areas reporting damage included lower Grove and lower Kingsmill, parts of Pocahontas Trail and Magruder Avenue and parts of Route 143.
Power lines were reported down at Country Village Mobile Home Park.
Ryalls said the fire department responded to one injury. The person was transported to Williamsburg Sentara Medical Center, but additional information about the patient's condition was not known.
As of 9:30 p.m., Route 60 was closed between the Busch Gardens flyover and the Newport News city line. Ryalls said crews were out checking damage.
James City County Fire Station 2 on Pocahontas Trail is currently being used as shelter. The Red Cross is helping displaced residents.
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight Sheriff's Department received several reports of funnel cloud sightings between 7 and 9 p.m., all in the Windsor, Walters and Carrsville communities, dispatchers said. A mobile home outside Smithfield was damaged.
The storm knocked down trees across two secondary roads in the county, said Surry County Sheriff's dispatchers.
Power outages
Dominion Virginia Power reported that 25,000 customers were without power in Hampton Roads as of 9 p.m. Saturday. In the Gloucester and Northern Neck area, 13,000 customers were without power because of a transmission line failure, Dominion spokesperson Dan Genest said. On the Peninsula, 2,700 customers were affected, Suffolk had 8,800 without power and in Williamsburg 4,700 customers were affected.
Genest said crews were out Saturday night to repair outages that were "fast and quick to do" and patrolling the region to see other damage and assess what needed to be done to "clean it up.". Genest said that Dominion is "hoping to have most everyone back up by Sunday night, but there may be people that fall over into Monday."
He added that the Outer Banks did not suffer any outages as a result of Saturday's storm.
The Virginia State Police were investigating at least 17 weather-related accidents across the region, including reports that a wave crashed onto the ferry and damaged vehicles crossing between Jamestown and Surry.
North Carolina
The brutal spring storm also raged across North Carolina, flattening businesses and homes, leaving officials with an unknown number of casualties from a system that already was blamed for killing 17 people in four states.
North Carolina officials said there were multiple fatalities, including two deaths in Bertie County, and they were working to confirm the exact number. In South Carolina, a church with six people inside collapsed after it was hit by a tornado, but no one was injured.
Police in Raleigh evacuated residents at a mobile park, and emergency crews went door-to-door looking for people injured or trapped by the storm that flipped mobile homes from one side of the street to the other.
Guillermo Villela, 34, said he saw two young children at the park trapped under fallen trees.
In the town of Sanford in central North Carolina, what could have been a deadly catastrophe was averted when a Lowe's hardware store manager who saw the approaching storm and corralled over 100 people to the back of the store.
The front of Lowe's was flattened by the storm, with cars in the parking lot tossed around and flipped on their roofs.
"It was really just a bad scene," said Jeff Blocker, Lowe's regional vice president for eastern North Carolina. "You're just amazed that no one was injured."
Staff writers Samieh Shalash, Austin Bogues, Matt Sabo, Andi Petrini, Cathy Grimes and the Williamsburg Gazette contributed to this report. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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FACETIME- Roast time: Tragers savor beany connections
"Coffee is all about human relationships," says William Trager, "from the farm to the roaster to the barrista with the customer."
He ought to know. For nearly 15 years, William and his brother, Joe, owners of Higher Grounds, have been brewing coffee in Charlottesville. Now a local chain of four coffee kiosks, the company once included a storefront in York Place on the Downtown Mall, now known as Café Cubano.
Staff at Martha Jefferson and UVA hospitals have been downing cups of Higher Grounds java since the first of the kiosks opened in 1993 (one is in Plan 9 on the Corner), and this month, the Seattle-born and -raised Trager brothers are delving even deeper into the coffee biz with the launch of their new venture, Trager Brothers Roasters. The company produces certified organic, Fair Trade, and Rain Forest Alliance coffee.
The idea of starting a coffee-roasting business was born three years ago, but working out details such as where to locate the new venture, where to buy roasting equipment, and how to build what is essentially a small factory was a challenge, says Joe.
The brothers settled on property in Lovingston– including a farmhouse where William now lives with his wife, Toya, and their three-year-old daughter, Olivia– and spent the better part of a year renovating the house, constructing a warehouse in the backyard, and adjusting to life in a rural community.
"I didn't know there was actually a squirrel hunting season," laughs Toya, an actress who's now handling some of the marketing for les freres Trager. She and William agree that the Nelson County community has not only welcomed them but "held our hands" through the red tape a business must navigate to open.
Part of the challenge for William has been learning the roasting craft, a task he undertook as a pupil of coffee legend Joe Kittay, founder of The Good Coffee Company in Seattle.
Among the lessons Kittay taught: "You have to have a feel for what's going on inside the bean."
As he intently supervises a batch of Sumatran beans roasting inside the vintage roaster he purchased in Amsterdam earlier this year, checking gauges and watching the beans as they pour out to cool, it's clear that William Trager has taken that advice to heart. Each batch is different, he says, depending not only on the country of origin– beans from Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Sumatra surround the roaster– but also the climate conditions for the crop as it grew. He adjusts roasting time and temperature based on those factors.
It's a change of pace for a man once used to serving up endless cups of coffee behind a counter.
"My life was a thousand 20-second interactions, and now I'm buried in a warehouse," he says with a smile.


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Microsoft Anti-Piracy Move Irks Chinese OfficialBy Reuters - Print
The anti-piracy move from Microsoft prompted lawsuit threats and howls of indignation in China, where the vast majority of computer users are believed to be using pirated versions, unwittingly or not.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A top Chinese copyright official chided Microsoft for launching an anti-piracy tool that nags users of counterfeit software with a black computer screen and said the company's prices were too high.
The U.S. software giant launched "Windows Genuine Advantage" in China last week, a program that turns the background of the Windows operating system's desktop black if the software fails a validation test.
The move prompted lawsuit threats and howls of indignation in China, where the vast majority of computer users are believed to be using pirated versions, unwittingly or not.
National Copyright Administration (NCA) Vice-Director Yan Xiaohong said his agency supported "the rights-safeguarding move taken by institutions including Microsoft," Xinhua news agency quoted him as saying in a report late on Monday.
But companies should "pay attention to the methods," Yan said. "Whether the 'black-out' method should be adopted is open to question. Measures for safeguarding rights also need to be appropriate," Yan said.
Microsoft has defended the program as a measure to protect its intellectual property and help customers determine that they have legal software.
Methods to subvert the program were circulated on Chinese blogs and Internet chat-rooms within days of its launch.
Dong Zhengwei, a Beijing lawyer, said Microsoft was abusing its market power and had filed a complaint to China's trade watchdog, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the China Daily said in separate report.
"Microsoft should be fined $1 billion," the paper quoted the lawyer as saying.
Yan said Microsoft's price policies needed to "fit the Chinese situation."
"The company adopted unified prices in the past without considering the income gap between developed and developing countries, so we need to kindly remind them that Chinese customers' affordability should be considered."
Microsoft's China office denied users were being forced to use the anti-piracy program and pointed to recent sales promotions cutting prices of its software in China.
"We appreciate the NCA's understanding and support on efforts made by right holders including Microsoft to protect IPR," it said in a statement on Tuesday.
"Building a market environment that respects intellectual property rights is critical to the development of the entire software industry and of knowledge economy in China."
(Reporting by Ian Ransom; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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Sharks being combined with tornados! Ian Ziering and Tara Reid are relevant again! Dogs and cats living together…mass hysteria!
We're talking of course about last night's epic and possibly Oscar-worthy (or at least Emmy-worthy) Syfy film Sharknado. In case you missed the Twitter brouhaha, (nearly 5,000 tweets a minute!), Sharknado is exactly what it sounds like: Sharks are sucked up into a tornado and the toothy funnels wreaks havoc on the fair city of Los Angeles. Everyone pretty much made fun of it, but if sharks ever fly in via a twister in real life, our faces are going to be so red.
If you missed the movie, or just want to relive the best scenes in all their CGI glory, here are the most ridiculous moments from Sharknado. Warning: Some graphic stuff ahead!
1. Fin (Ziering) cut a shark in half with a chainsaw, while the shark was in midair. No big deal.
2. In the opening scene that basically had nothing to do with the rest of the movie save for the sharks and a tornado, a man on a boat was devoured in the same manner we eat chicken wings. All in one bite.
3. It's raining sharks, which is significantly less fun than when it's raining men. How about a man-nado once in a while, right, single people? Right?!
4. Sharks popped up out of manholes, which presented an opportunity for skeet-type shark shooting!
5. Homegirl fell out of a helicopter and a shark took a break from his recreational tornado twirling to catch her in its mouth. Good thing it did that, or else she would have fallen to the ground and had a pretty gruesome death.
6. Lots of Los Angeles residents met their end via flying shark attacks. Don't sweat it, they were probably mostly tourists in town for a Price Is Right taping.
7. Fin, knowing the way to a shark's heart is through his stomach, jumps directly into the mouth of a tornado shark. He's got a chainsaw, so we all know how he'll be getting out of there….
8. ...a former 90210 castmember was birthed out of a shark last night. Never forget.
9. Los Angeles has been saved, and both Ian Ziering and Tara Reid survived a sharknado. Time to wipe the blood off our lips and suck face. Good luck you crazy kids, because if Speed taught us anything, it's that relationships that start under intense circumstances never last.
These GIFs aren't enough for you? Don't worry, because Syfy is airing an encore of Sharknado on Thursday, July 18 at 7 p.m. Don't be too cool for sharks being thrown around Los Angeles; watch the film and be part of all the kids' witty conversations on Twitter. And hopefully, before the week is out, Syfy will have greenlighted the sequel, Sharknado 2: The Sharkening.


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Karen Bartleson

Karen Bartleson, 2017 IEEE President, has over 35 years of experience in the semiconductor industry,

, specifically in electronic design automation. Karen retired as Senior Director of Corporate Programs and Initiatives at Synopsys, an electronic design automation company, where her responsibilities included creating programs for technical standards development, software tool interoperability, and creating and maintaining strong relationships with universities and research institutions worldwide. Prior to Synopsys, Karen brought her exceptional professional and leadership skills to bear at United Technologies Microelectronics Center and Texas Instruments.

Karen was President of the IEEE Standards Association in 2013 and 2014. During her tenure, she led the development of a new strategic plan, furthered the principles of the OpenStand market-driven standardization paradigm, and finalized IEEE's membership in the Global Standards Collaboration.

In 2016, Karen was also appointed to the new U.S. Department of Commerce Digital Economy Board of Advisors. Bartleson, an IEEE senior member, and 16 other leaders from the fields of banking, economics, law, and technology are tasked with recommending ways to advance economic growth and job opportunities in the digital age.

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Extra-caffeinated soda and chemical sweeteners for breakfast? PepsiCo introduces 'Kickstart' soda for people who absolutely hate themselves
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com
February 19, 2013
(NaturalNews) Ah, there's nothing like a heavy dose of caffeine, corn syrup and highly acidic phosphoric acid in the morning. And bringing it to you is none other than PepsiCo, the company that habitually uses aspartame, MSG and GMOs across its product line. Apparently drinking an aspartame-laced, caffeine-spiked soda for lunch and dinner isn't enough: PepsiCo wants to own your breakfast, too.
This new "Kickstart" soda reportedly is made with 5% juice (meaning it's 95% corn syrup, phosphoric acid and other ingredients). But here's where the laughter really begins: According to the FDA, a beverage containing at least 5% juice isn't considered a "soda." It's actually JUICE!
Yep, this means Kickstart can be served to your children in public school, because it's "not soda" according to the agreement between the FDA and the soda industry.
Except, of course, it is 95% soda. But that doesn't count by the FDA's "new math" in which 5 > 95.
Artificial sweeteners, too
Oh, it gets even better. Kickstart is formulated with artificial chemical sweeteners from the start. And it has more caffeine than a can of Mountain Dew, clocking in at 92 milligrams per 16 ounces.
Hold on, let me get this straight: A liquid concoction spiked with caffeine, chemical sweeteners, phosphoric acid and corn syrup is now "juice" according to the soda industry? Yep!
Does this mean NY mayor Michael Bloomberg will let you buy an extra large cup of it? Does the "5% juice" get retailers off the hook if they want to sell large quantities?
Overall, I'm not sure who's more stupid in all this: The company making it, the government agency regulating it, or the people buying and drinking it. To me, it all seems to be a collision of caffeinated morons. What kind of fool wants to wake up in the morning and chemically kick themselves in the b#lls while ingesting phosphoric acid, an extra dose of caffeine and synthetic chemical sweeteners?
Can you say, "Kickstart diabetes?"
Big Pharma and the entire health care industry will be thanking PepsiCo big time for this one. If Kickstart catches on, America can fully expect to be financially suffocated under a wave of bank-busting obesity and diabetes for generations to come. This is a great time to buy more PepsiCo stock, because if there's one thing Americans all agree on, it's that our retirement accounts should financially benefit from the companies that are destroying our children.
P.S. I invented my own soda called Monster Chemo Agent Orange Diet Fluoride Soda! Here's the advertisement:
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(DiverWire) Saturday, January 19, 2013, Dive Friends Bonaire @ Yellow Submarine filled up with enthusiastic volunteers ready for the first quarterly clean-up dive of the new year. The crowd primarily consisted of vacationing divers but there were also a large number of local residents, including a group of Junior Rangers from the Bonaire Marine Park. All of the participants collected their free tanks from the dive center and then assembled for the safety briefing.
Asko Zuidam of Dive Friends Bonaire addressed the group of 118 divers and explained what trash should be recovered and what should be left behind, as well as how to keep from damaging any marine animals. He also gave an explanation of how to safely remove fishing line which poses a great threat to our endangered sea turtle population.
After the briefing, the divers headed over to Karel's Pier, entered the water, descended, and began to fill their bags with trash. When filled, the bags were brought to the surface to those working as shore support.
The Dive Friends crew and volunteers checked once again to be sure no marine creatures had been inadvertently included, counted, and tallied the trash for statistics, and then disposed of it responsibly.
Karel's Pier is home to a lively bar and restaurant, and unfortunately the underwater terrain can accumulate more bottles and cups than is normal on the reef. The statistics of the rubbish collected once again confirmed this to be true. Items collected include: 1,438 bottles, 286 plastic cups, 38 pieces of fishing line, 885 plastic fragments, 3 pairs of sunglasses, 1 pair of reading glasses, 31 ropes, 14 PVC pipes, 36 metal fragments, a pacifier and 1 mobile phone. The total number of items collected was 3,043! This is almost 1,000 items more than in 2012.
That evening, all participants and their families were welcomed back for a Pot Luck BBQ and raffle at the recently remodeled Dive Friends Bonaire @ Hamlet Oasis. Dive Friends Bonaire (with help from our sponsors) provided drinks and main courses, while participants supplied side dishes. Ricky Thomas provided the music and added a wonderful atmosphere to the evening. Hamlet Oasis is also the location of the Debris Free Bonaire plastic collection container, so volunteers learned more about the new coastal clean-up initiative targeting floating marine plastic that washes ashore on Bonaire's east coast.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Business in the front, party in the back
Except that that's not me. Really, I swear that it's not. After all, my longest relationship to date has been with a guy whose stomach is so large and round, it looks like he's smuggling Humpty Dumpty around under his shirt. The dude actually named his ample gut (named it after his skinny old uncle, no less), and I found it charming, not revolting. Really. So yeah. I have my reservations. Everybody does, I think. But I can get past them, when all else is well aligned and feeling promising. Or, I hope so, anyway.
Jury is still out on my dates this week. I guess that's what I'm saying with all this.
Meanwhile, I have very little else on my mind to write about, which is the only reason I just spent three paragraphs telling you absolutely nothing. Sorry about that. It is colder than the proverbial witch's tit here at the moment (I despise that phrase, so please take my use with irony), and perhaps it's affecting my brain. It's also affecting my social calendar, unfortunately. My friend Carrie and I discussed venturing to a pond hockey tournament on a local lake this weekend, but I doubt either one of us even owns the appropriate layers to make that a reasonable plan. Incidentally, no, I'm not generally much for pond hockey (or any hockey, except maybe the tonsil variety, with the right partner), but we were going on a tip from a girl at Carrie's gym who assured us it was a fine place to find some single men. In Minnesota, I'm hoping that sort of event draws the general rugged, outdoorsy type and not strictly the Slap Shot-worthy, hockey hair type, as a mullet would most definitely fall under that category of one little thing wrong that could turn me off, and if I'm going to spend any more time than necessary outdoors when the wind chill is thirty below, it damn well better be for a guy with a proper haircut.
Alas, we may have to find another venue for our socializing and sport-flirting this week. We're trying this new thing, you see, where we actively attempt to put ourselves in situations where we're more likely to meet new people. This plan also involves going for drinks at a new-to-us bar at least once every two weeks in '08. I fear that plan might simultaneously conflict with our half-assed and insincere goal to drink less, but I like to rationalize potentially unhealthy behavior in the name of research and social experiment, don't you?
And with that, I'm going to quit digging this hole in front of me any deeper and work on that other goal that's not going so well: the "get to bed at a reasonable hour on week nights" one. Goals, schmoals. It is the Year of Stef! It'll all work out somehow, don't you think?
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- don't call me MA'AM said...
Sleep is highly overrated. Not by me, of course, but I'm sure someone out there would say that. ;-)
You are not Mauricio from Shallow Hal. Cut yourself some slack.
I went to bed at 9:30 last night, I'll try and send some of that love your way. As for the guys, it does take a really long time for an annoying quality to become endearing. And it takes practically no time at all for an endearing quality to become annoying.
We should just all give up and reproduce like amoebas.
- shelleycoughlin said...
No way, you can't give up yet! 2008 is the Year of Stef (and Noelle), and also, I love reading dating stories. You MUST write more about them! Especially if you go on a date with one of the elusive mullet tribe.
- Aaron said...
S'true, it is the Year of Stef (and, of course, Noelle), so don't sweat it. It's your year; if you want to booze, stay up late, whatever: the universe must oblige.
Also: I agree with NPW. I want some stories. Which is why I think you should set up a second, "secret" blog that only a select few people know about. Like me for example.
- Aaron said...
Oh, and: don't ignore the red flags, my friend. I did that for way, way too long. Doesn't matter how insignificant they may seem. If your instinct says "meh", go with it.
- 3carnations said...
I think we need to pester -r- for another Blog Share. I'm sure we've all got posting ideas...the holidays usually provide people with great material.
While I realize that we are all capable of organizing a blog share on our own, she's just so darn good at it...
- Mair said...
You're welcome to post it on mine. :)
Um. OMG. The word Blogger wants me to use to verify this comment is "hobux." Why do I feel like that's a perfectly acceptable name for Starbucks in some circles?
Stef- what about online dating?
- lizgwiz said...
I don't think even George Clooney could get me out on a frozen pond with a wind chill like that. I'm impressed you would even consider it.
Have you tried the hardware store on a Friday evening? I read a whole article the other day on why that's such a great place to meet single guys.
- Stefanie said...
DCCM--My yoga teacher recently cited a study that found people who got an hour less sleep a night than their research counterparts gained an average of ten pounds in a year. Something about your body needing time to mend and rest. That alone (if not my constant tired eyes and yawning) is enough to make me think sleep's not overrated!! :-)
Noelle--Who said anything about reproducing? Do amoebas make good companions?
NPW--I'm not saying I'll never write any more dating stories; I just have reasons for not wanting to write this one. I just rattled it all out to Noelle in an email, though, so maybe she can tell you when you're having a pillow fight and braiding each other's hair later.
Aaron--I actually was supposed to be part of Red's secret dating blog a long while back, but I have a hard enough time writing regularly on my own blog, so splitting the stories up onto two blogs just seemed silly. Rest assured, if I decide not to keep dating this guy, I will tell you all what my reservation was.
3Cs--I agree. Let -R- do all the work. :-)
Malia--Hmm. I'll think about that. ;-) And "hobux"? Hee.
Monkey--What about it? Are you suggesting just that I try it? Been there, done that, my friend. That's not to say I'm not open to doing it again, but another approach can't hurt, right? Plus, this way we get to have drinks! Yay!
Liz--I think I read that same article. I believe it also suggested meeting people at the grocery store, which, I'm sorry, haven't they been saying that for 30 years?? Has ANYONE ever met a date in the grocery store??
- -R- said...
I was actually thinking about blog share last night! I am thinking March 1st.
I think you and Carrie have a good plan. If you need another (married) wingwoman, let me know. =)
- Akkire said...
Hey there! I learned a great piece of advice from the Scrubs episode where JD breaks up with Mandy Moore's character. For once, his friends are all happy and think he did the right thing because usually he breaks up with women for dumb reasons, like the ones you listed for yourself. This time though, he broke up with her because she was not ready to start a life with him.
If you find "little things" wrong with men, is it because you're not ready? ready for what, that's for you to say...but it's just a thought. Or maybe you do meet heinous losers too :)
- L Sass said...
I am really anxious to hear what kind of fellows show up at Pond Hockey! Definitely brave the cold, if only to satisfy your readership's curiosity!
- shelleycoughlin said...
Hey! No fair. Noelle's hair is no longer long enough to braid. But YOURS is! Maybe you can tell me the dating stories and then we can play a round of Girl Talk and read chapters of Sweet Valley High to each other.
I told V at work about pond hockey, and she said, "I don't date hockey players. They're too aggressive." I guess you expect them to have bad hair! What a reputation they have.
I suggested that she can't categorize all hockey players in the same way. She suggested that I'm crazy. "Do you expect a guy who reads and cooks to be watching hockey in this weather?" Good point V. He's probably at home making an omelet and listening to The Current.
Really, there's going to be a negative-20-degree windchill tomorrow. That's insane (but the website does hype up the brats and beer in the warming tent...)
- Paisley said...
I love sleep. I don't really know if Sleep remembers me, though. I've got a little person who thinks that 4:45 is a perfectly reasonable time to get up. Twice this week. The third time it was 3:45. WTF?
Go stay out late and have a drink or five for me. I can't even remember what that was like and I kinda miss it. Kinda.
I happened on your blog when I noticed a comment you left over at bleeding espresso. I enjoyed reading your post and wish you all the best in your search for Mr. Right, or Mr. Will Do For Now, whichever works for you. Personally I believe God has your perfect match lined up for you and will reveal him at the right time. That's what I've always told my kids and though they think I'm crazy, they know I'm right! Take care and God bless,
Briggie ^i^
- Jess said...
I am soooo looking forward to hearing the verdict once the jury is in.
Also, pond hockey can DEFINITELY wait until the weather is mild enough that you aren't at risk for dying of exposure.
- Stefanie said...
R--Do you have any experience as a wingwoman? I'm gonna need to see some credentials or references, I think. ;-)
Erikka--I actually don't think I find "little things" wrong with men, but I worry that's what my friends think sometimes. I may pinpoint the little things because they make for better stories, but overall, it all comes down to chemistry and attraction. If it's not there, it's not there, and rarely is some one "little thing" to blame.
L Sass--Sadly, we did not make it there. Next year, maybe!
NPW--Ha! You can braid my hair anytime, my friend. I will tell you all my sordid (and not-so-sordid) stories. :-)
Carrie--You know how I feel about both beer and bratwurst. If only you'd mentioned WINE in the warming tent!
Paisley--My love of sleep is one of the very real reasons I'm not so sure I ever want a child. Selfish and silly? Maybe. But I slept until after 10 today. Did YOU? ;-)
Jehovahroi--Thanks. We'll see, I guess.
Jess--Thanks. I think you're the only one who gave me permission not to go! Glad that I didn't disappoint you, at least! :-)


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Kreators arrives with art in mind (and on its walls)
During the past few years, a crop of creative-minded bars have opened on Long Island -- pubs that pass on simply serving drinks, hosting bands and providing a place for pool. These spots, while virtually standard in city boroughs like Brooklyn and Manhattan, are still fairly rare on LI .?.?. but their numbers are slowly increasing.
Today, hangs like The Cortland in Bay Shore (27 W. Main St., 631-206-2220), The Leaky Lifeboat in Seaford (3603 Merrick Rd., 516-804-3203), The Nest in East Meadow (382 A East Meadow Ave., 516-227-6378), Tap and Barrel in Smithtown (550 Smithtown Bypass, 631-780-5474) and Velvet Lounge in Setauket (10 Woods Corner Rd., 631-751-7575) specialize in presenting offbeat promotions, indie music and craft beer – and while the amount of like-minded venues still remains small compared to the amount of sports bars, lounges, clubs and late-night eateries (and neighborhood watering holes) that offer a more mainstream experience -- the ranks of the alternate sort have recently expanded by one: Kreators Bar.
Opening recently in Mount Sinai (April 12), Kreators has taken over the space formerly home to Ric Jamison's Sports Bar and has continued with some of its predecessor's trappings, namely the ability to play pool and darts. But now, the attitude has switched from neighborhood tavern to a place to engage the Island's artistic community – a goal announced by the sign above the door (reading "Where artists come to gather").
The decor is sparse, but deliberately so, as the wall space is designed to be filled with works created by local painters, those who sketch, illustrators and others (with a few selections already in place). Anyone interested in hanging something only need come down and discuss the possible addition with the owners, Kenny and Robin Bones, who can be found behind the bar. Artists can sell their work via Kreators as well. There's no hanging fee, but the house does charge a 20-percent commission.
Then again, visitors can come without a showpiece in hand and still get creative, as the stage is open for bands, spoken word and other kinds of performances at all times (save when something is already scheduled). In addition, there is a "guest book" which is open for clientele to sketch or write in – and there are even pencils placed next to the journal for public use. In fact, the owners invite people to simply come down for a drink, with Robin Bones noting, "If you wander in and just want to draw at the bar, go ahead," then adding with a laugh to "just be sure and let anyone know you are planning to draw them first."
For more on Kreators Bar, check it out online at facebook.com/kreatorsbar.
Kreators Bar: 342 Rt. 25A, Mount Sinai, 631-509-4930


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Penny Pinching in the Cloud: How to run a two day Virtual Conference for $10 April 26, '13 Comments [28] Posted in Azure | Open Source | SignalR Sponsored By We've just finished Day One of "DotNetConf" our community-run free online conference for developers who love the .NET development platform and open source! UPDATE: All the Videos from both days of DotNetConf are now online and available for on-demand viewing! The Conference Platform It seems funny to call the software our conference runs on a "platform" as that sounds very "enterprisey" and official. In the past we've done aspConf and mvcConf with sponsors who helped pay for things. We used Channel 9 and had a studio and streamed either from Seattle or using Live Meeting. However, this year we wanted to do it on the cheap and more distributed. We wanted speakers from ALL over in all time zones. How cheap? About USD$10ish we figure. I'll get a complete bill later, but we basically wanted to scale up, do the talks and scale down. Video Broadcasting and Screen-sharing This year we are using Google Hangouts with their "Hangouts On Air" feature. A "dotnetconf" Google Account invites the presenter to a Hang Out and check the "on air" box before start the hangout. Then we use the Hangout Toolbox to dynamically add on screen graphics and speaker labels. Everyone sets their resolution to 1280x768 and the live stream ends scaling down to 480p. Once you hit "Start Broadcast" you're given a YouTube link to the live stream. When you hit End Broadcast, the resulting video is ready to go on your YouTube page within minutes. The hangout owner (me or Javier) then clicks "Hide in Broadcast" and fades away. You can see I'm faded away in the below screenshot. I'm there, but only if I need to be. When there's only one active presenter the Hangout turns into a full screen affair, which is what we want. Important Note: Rather than an 8 hour Hangout, we started and stopped as each speaker did their talk. This means that our talks are already discrete on the YouTube page. The YouTube videos can have their start and end times trimmed so the start isn't so rough. The Database Surprise! There is no database. There is no need for one. We're running a two page site using ASP.NET Web Pages written in WebMatrix. It runs in the Azure cloud but since our dataset (speakers, schedule, the video stream location, etc) isn't changing a lot, we put all the data in XML files. It's data, sure, but it's a poor man's database. Why pay for more than we need? How do we update the "database" during the talk? Get ready to have an opinion. The data is in Dropbox. (Yes, it could have been SkyDrive, or another URL, but we used DropBox) Our Web App pulls the data from Dropbox URLs and caches it. Works pretty nice.<appSettings> <add key="url.playerUrl" value="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/fancypantsguid/VideoStreams.xml" /> <add key="url.scheduleUrl" value="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/fancypantsguid/Schedule.xml" /> <add key="url.speakerUrl" value="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/fancypantsguid/Speakers.xml" /> <add key="Microsoft.ServiceBus.ConnectionString" value="Endpoint=sb://[your namespace].servicebus.windows.net;SharedSecretIssuer=owner;SharedSecretValue=[your secret]" /></appSettings> The code is simple, as code should be. Wanna show the schedule? And yes , it's a TABLE. It's a table of the schedule. Nyah.@foreach(var session in schedule) { var confTime = session.Time; var pstZone = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Pacific Standard Time"); var attendeeTime = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeToUtc(confTime, pstZone);

@confTime.ToShortTimeString() (PDT)

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} Scaling Out We've been on an extra small Azure Website and then switched to two large (and finally, two medium as large was totally overkill) web sites. We scale up (and hence, pay) only during the conference and turn it down to Small when we're done. No need to spend money if we don't need to. Updating the Site in Real-time with SignalR Because the YouTube link changes with each Hangout, we had the problem that attendees of the conference would have to hit refresh themselves to get the new URL. There's a number of solutions to this that I'm sure you're already thinking about. We could meta refresh, refresh on a timer, but these aren't on demand. We also wanted to show a few videos during the downtime. One of us preps the next speaker while the other queues up videos to watch. We realized this was a problem at about 10pm PST last night. Javier and I got on Skype and came up with this late night hack. What if everyone had SignalR running while their were watching the videos? Then we could push out the next YouTube video from an admin console. So visualize this. There's the watcher (you), there's a admin (me) and there's the server (the Hub). The watcher has this on their main page after including the /signalr/hub JavaScript:$(function () { var youtube = $.connection.youTubeHub; $.connection.hub.logging = true; youtube.client.updateYouTube = function (message, password) { $("#youtube").attr("src", "http://www.youtube.com/embed/" + message + "?autoplay=1"); }; $.connection.hub.start(); $.connection.hub.disconnected(function () { setTimeout(function () { $.connection.hub.start(); }, 5000); });}); The watcher is listening, er, watching, for a SignalR message from the server with the YouTube video short code. When we get it, we swap out the iFrame. Simple and it works. Here's the admin console where we put in the next YouTube code (I'm using Razor in ASP.NET Web Pages in WebMatrix, so this is mixed HTML/JS):
 <input type="text" id="videoId" name="videoId">
 <input type="text" id="password" name="passsword" placeholder="password">
 <button id="playerUpdate" name="playerUpdate">Update Player</button>
@section SignalR {} We put in the short code, the password and update. All this must be complex eh? What's the powerful SignalR backend up running in the cloud backed by the power of Azure and Service Bus look like? Surely that code must be too complex to show on a simple blog, eh? Strap in, friends.public class YouTubeHub : Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Hub{ public void update(string message, string password) { if (password.ToLowerInvariant() == "itisasecret") { Clients.All.updateYouTube(message); ConfContext.SetPlayerUrl(message); } }} This is either a purist's nightmare or a pragmatists dream. Either way, we've been running it all day and it works. Between talks we pushed in pre-recorded talks and messages, then finally when the live talk started we pushed that one as well. We also updated the DropBox links with the current Video Stream so that new visitors showing up would get the latest video, as new site visitors wouldn't have been connected when the video "push" message went out. What about scale out? We sometimes have two machines in the farm so we need the SignalR "push updated youtube video message" to travel across a scale-out backplane. That took another 10 minutes. Scaling out with SignalR using the Azure Service Bus We used the SignalR 1.1 Beta plus Azure Service Bus Topics for scale out and added an Azure Service Bus to our account. Our app startup changed, adding this call to UseServiceBus():string poo = "Endpoint=sb://dotnetconf-live-bus.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedSecretIssuer=owner;SharedSecretValue=g57totalsecrets="; GlobalHost.DependencyResolver.UseServiceBus(poo,"dotnetconf");RouteTable.Routes.MapHubs(); Now SignalR uses the Service Bus Topics for "Pub/Sub" to pass notifications between the two web servers. I can push a new video from Web 1 and it is sent to everyone on Web 1 and Web 2 (or Web N) via SignalR's realtime persistent connection. We'll delete this Service Bus Topic as soon as we are done. I would hate for the bill to get up into the nickels. ;) Here's example pricing from the Azure site: 432,000 Service Bus messages cost 432,000/10,000 * $0.01 = 44 * $0.01 = $0.44 per day. I'm not sure how many messages we've done, but I can rest assured it won't cost a pile, so that's a relief. Thank you to the Community! Big thanks to designer Jin Yang who created the dotnetConf logo and design. Tweet @jzy and tell him you think he is special. Thanks to Dave Ward for converting Jzy's design into HTML! Kudos and thanks to Javier Lozano for his coding, his organizing, his brainstorming and his tireless hard work. It was also cool for him to sit with me for hours last night while we hacked on SignalR and the DotNetConf.net site. Thanks to David Fowler for saying "it'll just take 10 minutes to add Service Bus." Thanks to Eric Hexter and Jon Galloway for their organizational abilities and generous gifts of time on all the *conf events! But mostly, thanks to the speakers who volunteered their time and presented and the community who showed up to watch, interact and play with us! Sponsor: The Windows Azure Developer Challenge is on. Complete 5 programming challenges for a chance at spot prizes, Stage prizes and the Grand Prize. Over $16,000 is up for grabs with 65 chances to win! « Project-less scripted C# with ScriptCS a... | Blog Home | Review: The Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch is my... » About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By Comments [28] Share on: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or use the Permalink


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