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Exclusive Deal Delivers A Fully Automated 3D Scan System for Manufacturers and Engineers
Morrisville, N.C. – October 30, 2012 – Geomagic®, a global company providing 3D technology for digital reality, has announced with Solutionix, a worldwide developer and distributor of 3D digitizing technology, today announced a distribution agreement in which Solutionix will exclusively provide Geomagic scan software with its Solutionix Rexcan CS Plus scanning systems.
The agreement allows scanner customers to quickly get started with complete, accurate and easy-to-use 3D scanning solutions for both metrology and reverse engineering, at a reduced price.
Rexcan CS Plus scanner users can now enjoy full integration with Geomagic Qualify, a leading 3D metrology software platform, and Geomagic Studio, which delivers easy-to-use tools for processing scan data into usable 3D polygon, surface and CAD models. From a 3D scan, Geomagic's powerful and straightforward software makes it simple to integrate data into CAD, export models for 3D printing, transfer models to animation platforms, perform first-article and production inspections, manage quality and more.
"Geomagic and Solutionix both want to make 3D data and modeling workflows more accessible and simple, so the partnership is a natural fit, and the bundle is a game-changer for any engineer's processes," says Len Chamberlain, VP of Sales, Geomagic. "Customers get top-notch equipment along with the best 3D reverse engineering and inspection software. The system is quick, adaptable and affordable. That's a win for everyone."
The Solutionix Rexcan CS Plus, the company's latest scanning solution, is a complete, accurate system that features automatic scanning, calibration and alignment of scan data. In desktop applications, users can simply set an object on the integrated 2-axis turntable and, with a single mouse click, begin scanning. For larger objects or in workspace applications, the scanning head can be removed and mounted on a tripod. Upon its release at the TCT Live 2012 conference, the fully automated CS Plus system impressed visitors with its scanning volume flexibility, which is delivered through interchangeable lens sets.
"Rexcan CS Plus employs a new process where full automation is implemented into a structured-light 3D scanning system. Through integration with Geomagic, a global leader of 3D metrology software, we'll be able to provide users with automation, convenience and high accuracy, in a reasonably priced, single platform solution," says Jet Kim, Director of Sales, Solutionix.
More information about Geomagic Qualify and Geomagic Studio, including a 30-day free software trial, is available at www.geomagic.com.
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Founded in 2000, Solutionix Corp. is a Seoul, South Korea-based developer and manufacturer of high-performance structured-light 3D scanning systems. The company is devoted to becoming a leader in the global 3D scanner market by developing innovative products and outstanding techniques. Via sales channels throughout the world, Solutionix offers a variety of highly accurate scanning systems for reverse engineering and inspection applications in the industrial, manufacturing and dental CAD/CAM markets.
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When Milan Lucic won the Stanley Cup in 2011 with the Boston Bruins, he followed tradition and proudly brought the Cup back to his hometown.
But he kept it fairly quiet.
Ken Mackenzie, his rugby coach at Killarney high school in East Vancouver, received a text from Lucic that summer: "He wanted to know if I would join him, four or five former teachers, a lot of friends from his grade. He rented a boat, and took (the Cup) around Coal Harbour, up Grouse Mountain and to his church."
As the boat slid through the waters around Vancouver, Lucic shared the magic moment with those who were closest to him.
"He didn't want to parade it around and have anything bad happen. He didn't want to bother anyone."
But when the boat came close to shore at Granville Island, "A cheer went up," said Mackenzie. "Everybody on shore was cheering when they saw the Cup. He's a hometown guy. He lives here."
But that can also be a problem.
He was bringing the Cup home as a Boston Bruin, to a city still reeling from the riot that followed the team's Game 7 victory over the Canucks. And sometimes it still appears to be reeling
The Bruins lost in Vancouver on Saturday night, but an altercation followed afterward at a Vancouver nightclub.
Lucic says he was on the wrong end of an unprovoked attack by a man he did not know, and with whom he had not exchanged a single word.
"There was no reason for him to punch me but he did and that's all I can really say right now."
Lucic said he is pursuing the matter with the Vancouver police, but the attack has added to the bitter disappointment he has felt in his hometown since the Bruins' Game 7 Stanley Cup win.
He said his grandparents were showered with peanuts and popcorn while attending Game 1 of the final series.
In February 2012, hooligans spray-painted male genitalia along with Canucks slogans on St. Archangel Michael Serbian Orthodox Church in Burnaby, which Lucic attends, and to which he had brought the cup.
His girlfriend complained about being "flipped off" in Rogers Arena, by Canucks' wife, for wearing a Bruins jersey.
Lucic told a reporter after Saturday's incident, "I have no reason left to defend my city and the people in my city. I'm disgusted and outraged that it had to come to something like that."
Asked about the incident Monday at a practice in St. Paul, Minn., Canucks assistant general manager Laurence Gilman said that in a "rabid hockey market like ours," players have a "very high degree of visibility" and have to be careful. "Things can happen. Unfortunately, you are not looked upon as a regular citizen."
But behind the scenes, to the local friends and family he remains close to, Lucic is one of the good guys.
He doesn't take his success on the ice for granted because he very nearly didn't get there.
"He reminds me that he was the third-best hockey player on the rugby team. He was ambitious and he worked hard," said Mackenzie.
Mackenzie is sure that if people knew Lucic the way he does, they'd be a little more respectful.
"He was always so quiet and reserved that I still have trouble seeing him as the power forward tough guy. In rugby he had no problems finishing tackles, but overall he was very quiet, easygoing and friendly."
Mike Moscone, who owns the Junior B Grandview Steelers, coached Lucic from the time he was eight until he was 16. "He loves the game, he was very dedicated to the game, and whenever he had the chance for extra ice time he practised twice as hard."
Moscone is bursting with pride about the east Van kid who, even back in the minors, was "a real leader in the dressing room."
He is dismayed that some fans can't let go of the city's 2011 loss. "Milan played his guts out (in that series), just the way he always did. I wouldn't expect him to play any other way."
Lucic fought his way into the Western Hockey League, according to Sun columnist Iain MacIntyre, who has followed his progress.
A naturally slow skater, he had to work to build up speed. He was bypassed in the WHL draft and didn't make the B.C. under-17 team in minor hockey, prompting him to almost give up. His first appearance at a Vancouver Giants game was entertaining on the ice between periods, wearing chicken feet.
But the underdog defied the odds. He was drafted 50th overall by Boston in 2006, won the Memorial Cup with the Giants in 2007 — and was named tournament MVP — and captained Team Canada for the 2007 Super Series against Russia.
And he has a Stanley Cup ring.
So, what do we lose if we can't celebrate Lucic's achievement and celebrate his victories as ours?
For Derek Popke, skating coach and president of the Vancouver Hockey School, we lose a chance for the kids coming up in the minors to have a hero, even if he plays for another city. Because no one spends more time with the little guys when he's at the rink than Lucic.
"He's been skating with us for about five years," said Popke.
Lucic joins the professional skate daily at the Richmond ice centre during the summer to hone his skills.
"He's absolutely phenomenal. All the kids know who Milan is. He is not one of those players that walks past the kids. He really makes an effort to stop, and take the time, to talk and ask them what association they play for, what position they play, and to sign autographs."
That kind of attention is inspiring to young players, said Popke. "He came out of East Vancouver, out of the minors."
When the kids see Lucic, they see possibility.
Richard Warke, a prominent local businessman and a friend of Lucic, brought his sons to the dressing room after the game on Saturday night.
He said Lucic is sensitive, articulate and grounded.
"It perplexes me that here you have a city with a homegrown kid that's done phenomenally well. It is so exciting, and Vancouver should be very proud of him, of the intensity he brings to the game, how hard he works, the professionalism."
Warke said it's unrealistic to expect Lucic to play to lose in Vancouver. "Sure we want to win, but when he comes on the ice, we should cheer."
He watched the video of Lucic with his sons when it surfaced on YouTube the day after the game. "I understand there's bad blood from losing the hockey game. But that's sports."
The lesson he wants to take from this for his kids, he said, is a different one.
"It's about sportsmanship."

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LAGOS — "Nollywood is dead," says a Nigerian entertainment lawyer, sipping a beer in a fashionable restaurant in the capital of the country's entertainment industry.
It sounds like a bold statement concerning Africa's most prolific film biz. But as a small but growing number of filmmakers look to make the jump from smallscreen to the bigscreen, a new movement is beginning to take shape.
"The whole point of New Nigeria Cinema is to put a proper structure in place … concentrating on distribution, on developing talent, and getting international recognition," says Wale Ojo, an actor who launched the movement in 2010.
Citing a fresh crop of Nigerian helmers shooting on 35mm with budgets upwards of half a million dollars, Ojo says the industry's energy is slowly shifting from the prolific output of low-budget, low-quality Nollywood pics to well-crafted films that can succeed in the global market — the New Nigeria Cinema movement.
It is a daunting task — only 20 locally produced films made it to Nigerian theaters last year, a number that's unlikely to be matched in 2012.
Exhibition spaces are rare. The nation's first multiplex was built in 2005; today, there are just nine scattered across a country of more than 160 million.
That is likely to slowly change. Industry insiders hope to see the number of theaters rise to 30 or 40 in the next five years, though the high cost of construction in country makes it difficult to judge the likelihood of that happening.
"We haven't even begun to scratch the potential of cinemas in Nigeria," says Kene Mkparu, managing director of Filmhouse, which is rolling out four new plexes in the next few months.
Pics that make it to the screen face stiff competition from Hollywood titles.
According to Mary Ephraim, CEO of distrib Okhma Global, the average foreign film in 2011 grossed around $32,000-$95,000, compared with just over $19,000 for domestic productions, with more than half the total domestic B.O. (about $395,000) accounted for by Mahmood Ali-Balogun's smash "Tango With Me."
While the numbers might look unimpressive, they represent a step forward for an industry that's still finding its footing, says Ben Bruce, CEO of the Silverbird Group, which owns West Africa's largest theater chain. When the first Silverbird theater opened in 2005, Bruce says the films it showed were "100% Hollywood." Today, that number has dropped to less than 50%.
"The new movies (Nigerians) make today are a lot better than the ones they made yesterday," he says.
For producers used to the Darwinian free-for-all of Nollywood's straight-to-VCD market, adapting to the theatrical model still involves a learning process.
At a recent conference on intellectual property law in Lagos, the debate turned acrimonious as producers accused distribs of cheating them, and plexes of dipping into the tills.
Ayo Sewanu, head of distribution for Silverbird Film, says that for many local producers, "there's this misunderstanding that once they go to the distributor, we're supposed to take over the fulltime marketing of the movie." Few will independently work to generate early buzz for films that typically get a theatrical run of only two to four weeks.
By comparison, he says, Hollywood imports arrive with a marketing budget and strategy.
Silverbird's Bruce maintains "the (Nigerian) movies are holding their own." The group plans to add a production arm to its media empire in the next few years — a big vote of confidence in the local industry.
As the movie biz continues to mature and expand, Bruce suggests that the time is near when Hollywood's star will have dimmed in sub-Saharan Africa's most populous country.
"If they pulled out of Nigeria two years from now, it would not make a difference to my box office return," he says. Local films "would pick up the slack."


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Anybody who says that only certain people are creative is wrong. Everybody is creative in their own way and just because someone's creativity may not be as obvious as someone else's, it should still be encouraged in a similar way. Creativity is important in many different areas of your life; it can keep a relationship fresh and exciting, it can help with hobbies and interests and it can definitely help in the business world.
Most employers would rank creativity very highly on a list of attributes that their potential employees should have and nearly all business owners would like to say that there work force is full of creative ideas. However, this is not often the case as employees can feel reluctant to express themselves creatively at work for many different reasons.
Now more than ever, business need to find new ways of developing and growing as a company and creative employees are sure to help with this. Here are a few ways you can increase the creativity, and therefore the productivity in your work place.
Encourage Interaction
A lot of business owners and managers will set their work environment up in a way which, in their own view, will get the most out of their employees and therefore promote productivity. However, the thought process behind this can often be misled. Arranging the desks in an office so that nobody is facing each other or separating each individual into their own cubicle may not be the best way to promote good work; especially when thinking about creativity.
Creativity works on a basis by which an idea is conceived and then developed by a process of discussion and manipulation. This cannot happen if your workforce is not encouraged to interact with one another. As long as the conversation remains focussed; ideas will be allowed to develop and flourish in a productive environment.
Have Regular Meetings
It may sound strange to anybody working in a small company but people working in many of the larger corporations are likely to never have met most of the other people that work within the business. Whether it's just between all the people in a single department or whether it involves many different areas of your company, getting your workforce together for regular meetings can really improve creativity in the work place.
They will be able to find out how things work in different areas of the business and in different branches which in turn may give them some ideas for the area in which they work. It will also give everybody an opportunity to discuss any ideas or concepts that they might have with like-minded people and people that are well informed to be able to give them feedback.
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Evolution
Deutscher Platz 6
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phone: 0049 (0) 341 3550 768
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I am currently a PhD researcher in the Department of Human Evolution at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and a PhD student in the Institute of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary Biology with Phyletic Museum at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. My primary research focuses on the evolution, biomechanics and functional morphology of motion system in vertebrates. I am particularly interested in the evolution of morphological diversity and motor patterns in the mammalian cervical spine in the context of the developmental constraints to only seven cervical vertebrae across all mammals.
During my Bachelor and Master studies at the University of Jena, I concentrated on multiple morphological 3D analysis and imaging techniques (e.g., geometric morphometrics, x-ray reconstruction of moving morphology - xromm, µCT, µMRT, laser scanning microscopy), the inference of joint mobility in fossil vertebrates and the regionalization of the mammalian axial skeleton. Analyzing cervical vertebrae with different morphological approaches enables crucial insides into the impact of head size, body posture and forelimb function onto the mobility and motion patterns of the head and neck.
My doctorial research in general seeks to understand how the cervical spine as one of the most constrained and static structure in mammals is subjected to functional and morphological variation in the course of mammalian diversification.
In my research project at the MPI EVA I compare the mobility and range of motion of the cervical spine of Neanderthals and anatomical modern humans using bone models and virtual experiments in the framework of the xromm approach. Given the evidences from vertebral and vestibular shape data it is tested whether Neanderthals potentially moved their heads and necks differently from AMHs.


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When The Creators Of Both The Internet And The Web Come Out Against The ITU, Shouldn't You Too?
from the just-saying... deptWe've been talking a lot about the ITU and its WCIT (World Conference on International Telecommunications) lately, given the importance of various proposals on the future of the internet. While Vint Cerf, often considered the "father of the internet" for his early (and continued!) contributions to the core of the internet, has been quite outspoken for many months about the threats of the ITU towards the internet, now we can add the creator of the World Wide Web to the list as well. Tim Berners-Lee has spoken out against the ITU efforts at WCIT.
Sir Tim is director of a standards body himself - the World Wide Web Consortium. He said that governments can already influence changes but should resist further interference.When the fathers of both the internet itself and the World Wide Web are both speaking out against the ITU's efforts to have further control over the future of the internet, isn't it time to step back and ask what benefit the ITU would really provide. To date, none has been shown. Instead, we get vague talk about increasing "fairness" by diverting money from innovators to telcos who haven't innovated with the promise that this will lead to greater investment. Yet, the evidence suggests that this doesn't work, and historically, such transfers and subsidies tend to be pocketed by execs (or governments) rather than invested in infrastructure.
"I think it's important that these existing structures continue to be used without any attempt to bypass them," he said.
"These organisations have been around for a number of years and I think it would be a disruptive threat to the stability of the system for people to try to set up alternative organisations to do the standards." Accelerating access
[...] "A lot of concerns I've heard from people have been that, in fact, countries that want to be able to block the internet and give people within their country a 'secure' view of what's out there would use a treaty at the ITU as a mechanism to do that, and force other countries to fall into line with the blockages that they wanted to put in place."
So, here we have two of the most visionary innovators out there -- who created the key platforms we rely on -- highlighting how the ITU process is the exact wrong way to go about things. Combine that with the key argument being made by the ITU being unsupportable based on history. And shouldn't we all be wondering why this big charade is happening in the first place?
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text: Share: July 21, 2012 | by Susan Milius Biodiversity It's often deer that municipalities blame for raising the risk of human infection with the tick-transmitted Lyme bacteria. Yet records from the past three decades link rising numbers of Lyme cases not with booming deer populations but with spreading coyotes, says ecologist Taal Levi, now at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y.As coyotes have trotted into new ranges, red foxes have retreated, Levi and his colleagues find. Coyotes don't pack a landscape as tightly or kill and cache rodents in flush times as foxes do. So a red fox fade-out allows more little rodents to survive, including white-footed mice and others known as hospitable hosts for the Lyme pathogen and the ticks that spread it. This scenario — coyotes in, foxes out, small rodent numbers up — could be fueling the spread of Lyme disease, the researchers suggest online June 18 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Connecting coyotes and foxes with the disease "is quite a fresh idea," says Jean Tsao of Michigan State University in East Lansing. Some ecologists have put forth the more general idea that changing predators might let the small rodents boom and the disease flare up, but not with these specific animals.Lyme disease has become the most commonly reported disease that is spread by an animal in the United States. Probable and confirmed cases totaled about 30,000 in 2010. Most of these cases showed up in 12 states, in the upper Midwest or Northeast, and Levi reports that some of these states have seen dramatic flare-ups of Lyme disease between 1997 and 2007: a 380 percent increase in Minnesota and 1,300 percent in Virginia.Lyme infections cause flulike symptoms and can be successfully treated when caught early. But some infections can linger or repeatedly reappear over the course of years, causing pain and other problems that disrupt everyday life.The disease doesn't spread directly from person to person. Instead a small Ixodes tick passes along the bacterial pathogen. Sometimes misleadingly called deer ticks, these little menaces actually bite a wide range of creatures.To test the idea that predators of small rodents might influence the disease increase, Levi and his colleagues pieced together state information on wildlife sightings and hunting from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York. In the first four of those states, Lyme cases climbed as coyote populations rose and red foxes declined, hunter records suggested. Deer records, however, didn't show any consistent pattern.Researchers also zoomed in on regions within a state where possible. A decade of wildlife sightings recorded in five regions of Wisconsin, for example, suggests red fox populations dwindled as Lyme incidence climbed.The pattern of coyotes replacing red foxes fits with other research showing that the foxes won't make dens when coyotes move into the neighborhood.Next, Tsao says, she'd like to know whether rodent populations actually did increase. Also, she would want to see whether experiments, and not just observational data, support the link between fox declines and disease increase.The new study adds to evidence suggesting that culling deer in the Northeast is unlikely to reduce Lyme disease in most places, says Lyme disease ecologist Richard Ostfeld, also of the Cary Institute, who was not involved in the new study. Deer kills may lower risk on islands and in enclosures, but free-ranging populations with lots of alternative animals to bite are different. "Reducing the herd by even as much as 60 or 70 percent likely won't do squat to the tick population," Ostfeld says. Share:


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MSNBC's Richard Lui reports on the massive fuel outages following Hurricane Sandy.
Updated at 1 a.m. Friday ET: Hundreds of thousands of people in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey may not have power restored for up to 10 more days, officials warned Thursday. Meanwhile, weather forecasters said a winter storm could hit the Northeast next week.
Meanwhile, FEMA and the National Guard dropped off diapers and water in the Bronx, where there has been no running water or electricity, NBC New York reported. Residents there said that people had broken into a supermarket to steal water and that the streets had grown dangerous. Without electricity, there's no light, and without cell service, there's no way to call for help.
In New York City, the utility ConEd said the 228,000 customers in Manhattan still without power should have it back by Saturday, but that would leave more than 400,000 elsewhere potentially in the dark beyond Saturday.
In a statement Thursday, ConEd said it hoped the vast majority of those would have power by Nov. 11.
The areas taking the longest, spokeswoman Sara Banda told NBCNews.com, are those with overhead lines. "It's taking a bit longer," she said, noting that crews have had to deal with 100,000 downed lines.
As for the potential for a new storm, Banda said ConEd has a team dealing with weather scenarios. "We're going to have to take that into account," she said.
ConEd also noted that many buildings in areas with restored service will continue to be without power until they repair any flood damage to their own electrical systems.
Millions remains without power, and in some places it could be weeks before the power goes back on. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
Related: Nor'easter possible for East Coast next week
Temperatures this weekend in the New York City area were expected to dip to the mid-30s, and hover around 40 during the week.
The outage outlook was similar along the Jersey coast as well as on Long Island, where 60 percent of homes were without power.
The region also struggled with transit on Thursday, three days after Superstorm Sandy tore through.
The promise of limited restoration of transit services lured hundreds of thousands back into the nation's largest city, but the commute was nightmarish even by New York City's standards: Seemingly endless lines at bus stops, backups at the city's bridges and tunnels stretched for miles, and many people simply gave up after an hour or two of frustration.
Jason DeCrow / AP
Motorists sit in heavy traffic while crossing the Robert F. Kennedy Triboro Bridge Thursday in the Queens borough of New York.
The scene was "pure mayhem," Lanisha Harris, who was trying to get to work in Manhattan from Canarsie, Brooklyn, told NBCNewYork.com.
The order that all vehicles entering Manhattan must have at least three occupants appeared to cut down on traffic in the city, but enforcement of the directive caused problems elsewhere.
At the approach to the Lincoln Tunnel, traffic from New Jersey was restricted to a single lane and cars with fewer than three people were being diverted, causing a backup that jammed the state's northern highways.
"Safety is our paramount concern, not convenience," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday in defending his order.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg addresses issues with commuter congestion in Manhattan, as public transportation remains crippled, and warns New Yorkers that certain parts of the city may remain in the dark through next week.
In downtown Brooklyn, "easily a thousand people, possibly more" were in line at the Barclay's Center Thursday morning waiting for public buses, NBC 4 New York reporter Kai Simonsen said from his helicopter viewpoint.
That led some people to try to hitchhike their way into Manhattan, with drivers eager to pick them up to make the three-person-per-car quota.
"Some folks offered me a ride," said Melanie Bower, 30, who lives in Fort Greene. "I was touched by their kindness at first. But then I realized they just needed me so they could have three in their car."
Bower walked into Manhattan instead, and then caught a bus uptown.
Related: Photoblog of the commuter chaos
Wednesday evening's commute out of the city was bad as well, leading Gov. Andrew Cuomo to declare that subway, bus and commuter rail services would be free Thursday and Friday.
TODAY's Natalie Morales reports from Hoboken, N.J., where chilling new images capture communities utterly destroyed; meanwhile, thousands still remain trapped in the region without water, power or heat.
After suffering the worst disaster in its 108-year-old history, subway services resumed at 6 a.m. ET Thursday on more than a dozen lines, supplemented by three bus shuttles.
"There will be no subway service between 34th St. in Midtown and Downtown Brooklyn," the MTA website said.
Across the city, the scene remained chaotic:
- LaGuardia Airport reopened but several hundred flights at the region's airports were canceled Thursday.
- Taxi companies pulled vehicles off the road as the fuel crunch deepened, with the vast majority of storm-hit gas stations in the greater New York area out of gasoline or power to run pumps. Open stations have lines with several hundred cars as well as individuals toting jugs to refuel generators.
- Downtown Manhattan was filthy -- from fish guts flowing down a street to untreated sewage in the Hudson River.
- Two brothers, ages 2 and 4, were found dead Thursday on Staten Island, where 19 deaths have been reported. Brandon and Connor Moore were swept away after their mother placed them on top of her SUV during the flood.
- Liberty and Ellis islands sustained serious damage, a source at the National Park Service told NBCNewYork.com. "The infrastructure is shot," the source said, adding that the docks and grounds were in "bad shape." While the Statue of Liberty and the museum at its base were OK, the source said, it would likely be "quite a while" before the islands reopen.
In Jersey City, across the Hudson River from New York, drivers negotiated intersections without the aid of traffic lights. Lines formed outside pharmacies, while people piled sodden mattresses and furniture on sidewalks. The city has issued a curfew on people as well as a driving ban from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
In the wake of the superstorm, people are banding together across New York City and New Jersey, offering power, food and even Halloween fun to their neighbors who have been devastated by wind and floods. NBC's Jenna Bush Hager reports.
Most of New Jersey's mass transit systems remained shut down, leaving hundreds of thousands of commuters braving clogged highways and quarter-mile lines at gas stations.
Power was still out to 4.5 million homes and businesses in 14 states -- and 3.2 million of those were in New Jersey and New York.
Five massive U.S. military C-5s and 12 C-17s were flying 61 electrical repair vehicles from California to New York on Thursday to help stressed line crews.
Sandy, meanwhile, dissipated over Canada.
The storm killed more than 80 people in the U.S. New York City on Thursday raised its death toll to 38, including two Staten Island boys, 2 and 4, swept from their mother's arms by the floodwaters.
Most of Sandy's flood waters on New York City's streets have receded, but much of the water beneath the streets remains trapped. TODAY's Savannah Guthrie met with Roger Less of the Army Corps of Engineers to talk about the task of drying out the underground.
On New York's Long Island, bulldozers scooped sand off streets and tow trucks hauled away destroyed cars, while residents tried to find a way to their homes to restart their lives.
Full coverage of Sandy from NBC News
In New Jersey, signs of the good life that had defined wealthy shorefront enclaves like Bayhead and Mantoloking lay scattered and broken: $3,000 barbecue grills buried beneath the sand and hot tubs cracked and filled with seawater, the Associated Press reported.
Nearly all the homes were seriously damaged, and many had entirely disappeared.
"This," said Harry Typaldos, who owns the Grenville Inn in Mantoloking, "I just can't comprehend."
Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening on a destructive and deadly path across the Northeast.
Atlantic City's casinos remained closed.
Farther north in Hoboken, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, nearly 20,000 residents remained stranded in their homes, amid accusations that officials have been slow to deliver food and water.
One man blew up an air mattress and floated to City Hall, demanding to know why supplies hadn't gotten out, the Associated Press reported.
At least one-fourth of the city's residents are flooded and 90 percent are without power.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
More content from NBCNews.com:
- As National Guard comes to rescue, so do NJ residents — with power outlets
- For some New Yorkers, it's back to business as usual
- Devastated NY community built by firefighters burned beyond their reach
- For some who stayed behind in New York, it wasn't too bad
- New Jersey investigating reports of price gouging
- Subway-dependent businesses see traffic slow to halt
- Fed up with waiting, air travelers rush rental car counters
- NY's Bellevue Hospital evacuates patients as power stays cut
- Off-duty NYPD officer dies saving his family from Sandy
- Toppled tree exposes skeletal remains, cement box
- Your Sandy photos: Show us the heroes in your life
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Sorry for the silence over the past few weeks as things have been pretty hectic getting everything organized for all the OSM has planned for this year, but in case you missed it, here are the past two tenants of the week, and what great tenants they are!
Tenant of the Week 9/27
Macky Franklin '11
In a project that he started this past summer at the Old Stone Mill, Macky will continue to work on Bicycle2Bicycle.com, an online social cycling network that he is coding from scratch. Keep up the good work!
Tenant of the week 10/4:
Ian Thomas '13.5
A new tenant this fall, Ian will continue his work designing, programming and publishing iPhone and iPad applications. Great to see this kind of cutting edge innovation happening at the Old Stone Mill!
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What, you thought the Hulkster would get married without any drama?
Former wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan married galpal Jennifer McDaniels Tuesday evening in Clearwater, Fla., in a ceremony that included an unplanned cameo by cops, according to TMZ. The action came when a security employee got into a scuffle with a photographer.
Cops showed up midway through the nuptials, but cooler heads opted not to press charges and the wedding continued and the couple is now officially man and wife.
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The day's top national and international news.
Hogan, who went through a nasty divorce from Linda Hogan two years ago, signed a prenuptial agreement. "He has one," the coupl;e's lawyer, David Houston said. "It has already been dealt with."
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I'm writing this standing up. That's right, standing up. Why the heck am I doing that, you ask? Well the latest word from the ever changing, constantly surprising medical research community is that standing up may be every bit as important in determining the size of your waist line as regular exercise. Seriously! But don't take my word for it, here's an except of the stunning revelation:
"In most cases, exercise alone, according to a team of scientists at the University of Missouri, isn't enough to take off those added pounds. The problem, they say, is that all the stuff we've heard the last few years about weight control left one key factor out of the equation. When we sit, the researchers found, the enzymes that are responsible for burning fat just shut down… [In tests] After the animals remained seated for several hours, 'the enzyme was suppressed down to 10 percent of normal,' Hamilton said. 'It's just virtually shut off.'
That's right, sitting on your posterior may be why that jelly donut you had in the break room is now taking out a mortgage on a lovely little 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom cellulite ripple on your thighs. (The thighs is one place the subprime mortgage crisis hasn't reached yet.)
But could losing pounds be as simple as standing around like an angst-filled, high schooler in the mall? I've decided to check it out in the days since I read the article. Instead of vegging out in the evening on the couch wasting my time watching crummy television programming, I've been standing up, wasting my time watching crummy television programming. And you know what? I have noticed a few subtle differences. To begin with, there's no convenient place to stand and watch the boob tube in my living room.
After the end of first evening, I noticed my lower back and my neck were aching. That wasn't terribly surprising. Part of my IT geek union membership involves an aptitude for endurance slouching. (The union better not find out about all this standing and good posture, they may revoke my membership.) More importantly, I slept like a log that night. Petrified wood. We're talking some seriously awesome sleep. The kind of sleep that makes waking feel like crawling out of a warm, deep, fuzzy hole. The only problem with sleep like that is you gotta wake up sometime. If it weren't for work, I think I had another four hours in me.
In the following days, I also notice the scale seemed to be reading slightly lower figures than normal. However, I don't know if I can attribute it to standing or to lack of exercise. Due to a recent case of illness, my work out regimen was temporarily put on hold. And as you probably know with muscles, if you don't use 'em you lose 'em. So it's a toss up. And it probably doesn't matter anyway, because a boozy weekend virtually erased any losses in the weight department. In either case, my sleep continued to be great.
Another interesting thing happens when you exercise the erectus ability we inherited from homo erectus. You tend to move around a lot. Before you know it, you be absentmindedly doing little chores that you would normally ignore whilst crashed on the couch. Even if you're in the zombie-coma state that often accompanies a day spent in front of a computer screen swigging coffee, I noticed that after about 10 or 15 minutes, you kinda wake up and feel a bit more energetic. This also makes sense. I noticed when putting together the stats for my post on the exercise prospects of the Nintendo Wii that my heart rate sitting down was as much as 20 BPM less than it was while standing.
So is standing up the new Atkins Diet? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say no. Though I am trying to come up with an entire line of gimmicky products to sell to gullible people who slavishly follow fad diets. (Got any ideas?) I'm calling these people "Standercizers". (I'm willing to license the term "Standercize" for a small fee! Hell, I'll even throw in some neon 80's leg warmers!) Seriously though, while I don't see standing up a realistic way of losing weight or gaining fitness, I'm going to keep doing it as long as I keep getting the awesome sleep.
The more important issue here is not whether or not standing will actually make you lose weight. It's about how incredibly fat and lazy have people have to be to not spend any time standing up during the day. When doctors have to advise you to stand up, much less work out, there's a problem. (I'm envisioning a gym full of large sweaty people on recumbent exercise bikes here, and it isn't pleasant!) Stand up people! Wait, don't just stand, Standercize!
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Species In-Depth
At the Aquarium
Our sea lions are on view in the Seals and Sea Lions Habitat.
Geographic Distribution
Eastern north Pacific from Vancouver Island, British Columbia south to Baja California, Mexico including the Gulf of California.
Sea lions inhabit temperate or subtropical waters. They haul out on quiet sandy beaches, offshore rocks, and on man-made structures such as piers, boats, breakwaters, and buoys. They remain close to the water's edge of beaches during warm weather, moving inland or up coastal slopes during cool weather or at night.
Physical Characteristics
The adult male's body is robust at the neck, shoulders, and chest with a rather slender hind end, while females and juveniles are slender-bodied and more streamlined. These sea lions have a long, straight, and narrow snout and distinct, small, external ears. Long paddle-like fore flippers that end in tiny claws with hair on the upper surface extending past the wrist are used for propulsion through the water. Their hind flippers, used as rudders for steering, are much shorter and have fleshy tips and short narrow claws at the end of the digits. They have a small but distinct tail. Mature males have a prominent protruding forehead with a large bump of bone called the sagittal crest. The crest is topped by a light colored hair tuft. Unlike other sea lions, California sea lions do not have a lion-like mane.
Adult males are mainly a dark chocolate-brown color, except for light tan areas on the face. They appear black when wet. Most males do not fade to a lighter color after molting. However, a small number do remain light yellow to blond their entire lifetime. Adult females and juveniles are tan or blond except for a short period after molting when they are light gray to silver-gray. Molting begins at about puberty. Adult males seem to molt in January and February, with females and juveniles molting from early autumn through the winter. Pups are dark brown to black when born, fading to light brown within a few weeks. At approximately four to five months of age, pups molt to a light gray pelage, darkening to a dark chocolate that fades to light tan.
Adult male sea lions may reach a length of 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) and a weight of 390 kg (860 lb). Females are markedly smaller reaching a maximum length of 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and a weight of 110 kg (240 lb).
These pinnipeds are opportunistic feeders usually seeking prey in cool, upwelling waters near the coast, around seamounts, along the continental shelf, and occasionally on the sea bottom, Mackerel, market squid, anchovy, rockfish, and salmon are favorite food items. Food is swallowed whole without chewing. They compete with commercial and sport fishermen, stealing hooked prey, catch from nets, and salmon migrating to spawning areas.
Females are mature at three years of age and males at five. These sea lions congregate in huge colonies in breeding and birthing areas—the Channel Islands off the coast of central California, islands along the northern Pacific coast of Baja California including Guadalupe Island; islands along the east coast of Baja California; and on beaches in the mid and southern Gulf of California. Males arrive at breeding grounds before females and set up territories that will eventually include three to forty females.
Birthing of sea lions takes place on land. Shortly after arrival, from late May through July, the pregnant females give birth to pups conceived in the past year's breeding season about 12 months ago. The pups weigh 6-9 kg (13-20 lb) at birth. Within about three weeks after giving birth, females are ready to breed again. Males compete to mate with the females and defend their territory with ritualized physical displays including vocalized threats, aggressive posturing, and occasionally physical combat. Delayed implantation of the fertilized egg in the mother's uterus ensures that her pup will be born at the breeding ground when colonies form again a year later.
Females stay with their pups for the first seven to ten days and then begin to forage at sea for one to three days at a time. Returning to shore, they quickly find their pup by smell and vocalization. They spend a day on shore after each foraging period nursing the pup. An older pup may accompany its mother on some foraging trips. Younger pups congregate in large groups to play and socialize. Pups are weaned abruptly and abandoned by their mothers usually when six months old.
California sea lions are social animals. When hauled out they rest close to and often on top of each other. The noise level in the colonies is intense as a result of their loud vocalizing that some have compared to a lion's roar or dog's bark. They may forms rafts or travel and play in groups of twelve or more.
These pinnipeds may spend several days to several weeks at sea foraging. During this time they dive almost continuously, taking brief surface rests. In the summer, females dive for up to four minutes to 75 m (245 ft). In winter, their dives are deeper and longer. The maximum dive time recorded is 12 minutes and the maximum diving depth is 536 m (1,760 ft).
They use their flippers to help regulate their body temperature. They rest on the surface of the water on their backs with heads and flippers above the water. They wave their flippers in the air to absorb heat from the sun and to lose heat to the water.
California sea lions are well adapted to their marine environment. Limbs that evolved into flippers and body shape allows efficient movement through the water. Their thick blubber layer aids in temperature control. Vision is keen and better in the water than out. Very sensitive vibrissae or whiskers are an important sensory part when the animal is hunting for food or swimming in a dark or constricted area. Muscle tissue myoglobin stores relatively large quantities of oxygen, helping the animal during long periods under water and during deep dives. The myoglobin can supply oxygen when other oxygen sources are exhausted. Sea lions have the ability to direct oxygen-rich blood to critical organs where it is most needed.
Female California sea lions have a lifespan of 18-25 years. That of males is slightly less.
Although hunted in the past, the current sea lion population has increased substantially along the United States west coast since the passage of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Of the five species of sea lions, the California sea lion is the only one in which the population has increased. This increase in numbers has resulted in conflicts with marina owners, fishermen, and local governments as the sea lions have damaged boats and docks, 'stolen' fish from fishing gear and salmon runs, and hauled out in numbers on popular beaches. The conflicts have escalated at the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River in Washington State where the sea lions target salmon congregating at fish ladders to go upstream to spawn. NOAA's Office of Fisheries issued permits to Washington , Oregon, and Idaho to capture or kill as many as 85 sea lions at the base of the dam for five years. The permit was challenged in court and a decision was made that only capture in traps is permitted. Captured animals are either relocated in the wild or sent to the protected environments of zoos or aquariums. There have been reports of trapped animals being illegally shot and killed by unknown persons.
Sea lions are affected by changes in water temperature associated with climate changes such as El Niño. As the water warms, many of their food sources move to colder waters, making it difficult for the sea lions to find food close to their breeding areas. Nursing females forage for food further and further away from their land-bound pups, often resulting in abandonment of the pups.
Nonpoint polluting runoff, (for example, agricultural runoff; pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers used in home gardening), increases the nutrient load of seawater often resulting in harmful algae blooms, a red tide that produces domoic acid poisoning in sea lions and other marine mammals and seabirds.
Marine mammal care centers annually treat sea lions affected by these climatic changes, parasitic and bacterial infections, and human-caused injuries. The goal is to rehabilitate the animals so they can be returned to the wild. If a decision is made that the animal could not survive in the wild, such as is often the case with abandoned pups, they are released to protected environments. Odin, one of the Aquarium of the Pacific's former sea lions, came from the Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort McArthur in San Pedro, California.


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Edited by Peter Murray, OhioLINK. This document represents a summary of comments on the Sakai Developers mailing list on April 26-28, 2006 to a question posted by this document's editor regarding possible integration points between Fedora and Sakai. The resulting threads were:
- Seeking status of 'Rep API' and 'JSR-170′ shim from "Sakai Repository API Design"
- Repository integration with Sakai
- Fedora in Content Hosting - An Alternative
The editor is indebted to the public and private responses of: Ben Brophy, Ian Dolphin, Glenn Golden, Adam Hochman, Jeffrey Kahn, Beth Kirschner, Peter Knoop, Anoop Kumar, Jim Martino, Mark Norton, and Charles Severance. Information from these individuals is supplemented by additional research by the editor, and the whole should not be viewed as a coherent or even advisable strategy. Direct quotes in this summary are not attributed to individuals, and the editor alone is responsible for omissions and quotes-out-of-context errors.
The editor's question related to the integration of Sakai and Fedora. OhioLINK's desire with the Digital Resource Commons is to build a unified content repository by meeting Sakai (and other tools such as OJS/DpubS for electronic journals, etc.) right where they store the data. In doing so, it is our expectation that allowing data to flow across applications will be much easier because there is one underlying repository.
Sakai Infrastructure
Description of ContentHostingService interface
ContentHostingService is one of the "backbones" of Sakai. To make Fedora the content repository (i.e. the attachment helper and resources tool, presentation tool, and any other tool using "content" in Sakai) then one must implement the ContentHostingService API. The API is found in https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/content/ as org.sakaiproject.content.api.ContentHostingService (JavaDoc) and the baseline implementation can be found as BaseContentService.
The ContentHostingService API supports WebDav, the AccessServlet, the WebServlet, Resources Tool, Presentation Tool, interoperates closely with Sakai's Authorization model, generates well-formed Sakai notifications, and real-time events, and is cluster aware and on and on. This is a key API used heavily by Sakai; an alternative implementation probably needs to implement it completely to be of any use.
Plugin Pattern
Most current open-source repository systems cannot handle the on-line performance demands of a large-scale Sakai installation. As an example, a Sakai installation supporting 500 users could easily store all of its resources in a separate repository. But a system supporting 100,000 users may not be able to "outsource" all of its storage.
What is needed is a sophisticated set of plug-ins that allow great flexibility for different Sakai installations. Instead of a complete re-write of the ContentHostingService interface, a plugin pattern that allows ContentHosting to precisely outsource things like blob storage and metadata storage with simpler APIs than ContentHosting and a very clean and simple API contract. Then one can write plugins for things like Fedora, JSR-170, DSpace, iTunes, etc.
Extend ContentCollection
Suppose one were to extend the existing ContentHostingService, specifically the ContentCollection class (JavaDoc) such that it serves as a gateway to a repository. It would need to represent the protocol to be used (Fedora, SRA, JSTOR, whatever) and likely include at least some support for digital rights management.
A simple idea with a lot of consequences, both easy and hard. On the plus side, repository-based collections could either be tied to a search pattern on the repository,or tied to a specific remote collection (including the root). Done right, it would integrate seamlessly into existing Sakai tools, such as the ResourceTool, etc. On the minus side, ContentResource might also be affected, since the tools would list content that is no longer directly accesible via the current implementation. WebDAV integration might also be challenging.
In the intial stages, this would have to be an optional feature that could be enabled or disabled since complete integration may not come quickly. Still, one could have an instance of the ResourceTool tied to a specific repository (not mixed) that could be billed as not supporting WebDAV or other regular content hosting features.
ContentHostingService refactoring
Ian Boston of Cambridge University reports development of a plugin into ContentHostingService that enables an implementing class, once it has registered itself with the ContentHostingService to be consulted if it 'owns' a node in the content hosting tree. Once it 'owns' the node, it takes responsibility for providing ContentResources for that node and all child nodes.
Cambridge has used this to implement an IMS Global Learning Consortium Content Packaging specification (IMS-CP) plugin, that 'plays' IMS-CP files but one could just as easily use it to 'mount' a repository inside the ContentHostingService at an arbitrary position.
If the resource is read-only, or can't be accessed via DAV, then it is the responsibility of the plugin to act accordingly (ie, not return the content).
Cambridge is also looking to write a plugin that 'interprets' an XML file loaded into resources to invoke a UI. With Fedora, that XML file might be the connection settings to the repository.
Since the plugin patch is small (<50 lines), and the plugins can be implemented inside webapps (ie reloadable), Ian is hoping that it will be useful and can be included in the BaseContentService (JavaDoc) for 2.2. If it isn't, Cambridge will maintain it as a patch as it as they are going to be running it in production in July. See SAK-4457.
JSR-170 interface
JSR 170 is the Content Repository API for Java. It specifies a standard API to access content repositories in Java independent of implementation. (See also its follow-on: JSR 283 Content Repository API version 2.0). Neither Fedora nor Sakai have JSR-170 interfaces, although if they did it could be a point of integration. Implementation of JSR-170/283 would be a new implementation of the Sakai ContentHostingService API.
See JSR-170 for Ian Boston's description of a JSR-170 Implementation of ContentHostingService as a prototype against the then Trunk 2.2 ContentHostingService.
AFS interface
UC Davis people have home directories in AFS space, and their course management system also utilizes this space. UC Davis has a problem statement for integrating the user home directory AFS space into Sakai.
Alternate Integration Points
OKI Repository OSID as a Sakai Tool/Service
Sakai offers Repository integration through the O.K.I. Repository OSID. The Repository OSID is used in a small (but perhaps growing) number of places in Sakai as a secondary interface to external repositories — it does not go through the main ContentHostingService interface. If this bridge were wide enough to include all the functionality Sakai needed, these calls could go through OKI. (Additional information is on confluence, implementation is tracked as SAK-2327, and an example application is Twin Peaks.)
One implements a set of interface methods that talk to your repository and then applications (one of which is Sakai) can search, retrieve, and upload content to your repository, subject to permissions. Since the interface is standard (maintained by the IMS Global Learning Consortium), the calling application can use the same approach for all repositories. The caller is also insulated from connection, protocol, and some data format specifics.
The Fedora OKI Bridge under development by Anoop Kumar of Tufts for VUE release 1.5 (expected June 1, 2006) will support following:
- It will work with Fedora 2.0
- It will provide read-only support.
- It provides ability to perform simple and advanced search.
- It will support three types of RecordStructure(OSID).
- Dissemination RecordStructure holds all disseminations of object as its parts.
- Image Record Structure will provide thumbnail, medium and high res images.
- VUE Default Record Structure will provide a default view for digital object and dublin core metadata.
Sakai may be able to use the bridge as is or we can add additional record structures to support Sakai's needs.
Sakai's Repository OSID is being considered as an integration point with the DSpace Institutional Repository application.
UMichigan Fedora Tool
Beth Kirschner at the University of Michigan is developing a Fedora repository interface for XSLT-driven CRUD operations against Fedora objects. The current implementation is a prototype, supporting browse, search and editing capabilities. Authorization is not yet integrated with Sakai. For more information, see: source.sakaiproject.org¿README.txt.
(Note: this document was originally posted to the web as Fedora plus Sakai: A view from 30,000 feet. That version will not be updated; this version is considered authoritative.)


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NCBA Submits Comments on Proposed Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling Rule
WASHINGTON — The National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) submitted comments yesterday on the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) proposed amended Mandatory County of Origin Labeling Rule (MCOOL). In the comments, NCBA stated that the proposed rule changing MCOOL will not satisfy the World Trade Organization (WTO) or the beef industry's largest trading partners, Canada and Mexico, who originally brought the WTO complaint.
"We have long advocated that MCOOL is a marketing tool and while cattlemen and women are proud of the products they produce, a mandatory labeling program does not provide a value to our industry or our customers," said NCBA President Scott George, a cattleman from Cody, Wyo. "We support and see value in voluntary labeling programs like Certified Angus Beef, where there is a genuine effort to distinguish and market the product. The proposed rule will not meet those ends and will only serve to increase the discriminatory treatment of non-U.S. product and will doubtlessly end in retaliatory tariffs on a wide range of our products and significant cost to our members."
Under the proposed rule, all products sold at retail would be labeled with information noting the birth, raising and slaughter. This requirement will place greater recordkeeping burdens on producers, processors and retailers. Further, the rule would eliminate the ability to commingle muscle cuts from different origin, which will add to the costs of processing non-U.S. born, raised and slaughtered products, resulting in further hesitance to process product that was imported at any stage of development.
"These provisions only serve to give our trading partners a stronger case at the WTO," said George. "The Canadian government has already confirmed that they will consider all options including extensive retaliatory measures. Our industry, battered by drought and high feed costs, and overregulation cannot afford additional burdens from the federal government. The USDA should spend its time and money working to avoid another threat of sequester of federal meat inspectors, not drafting new rules to fix an old problem."
The WTO has given the U.S. until May 23, 2013 to come into compliance with our trade obligations. In 2012, Canada and Mexico accounted for nearly $2 billion in beef exports, or 36 percent of total beef exports by value.
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text: Chris 0 Report post Posted October 3, 2012 So i have this website wich i first uploaded on a private free web hosting server. Now some images do not show, and i first thought it got to do with t´because it is a slow free server! But that was not the problem since i now uploaded it on fast pay web hosting domain. This one: http://iphonetryck.se/index.php The images are not shown there either! I tried everything i know from making all the images small equaly(because UNIX does not recognise with one big and rest small or something like that...), to make the pictures from indexered to RGB, or to jpg. Neither work! I need help on to why this is happening. I tried to reupload also btw. I attach a picture on how it is suppose to look like - on the index startpage. As you see the index picture to the top left is not there, and the colorimages for the menylinks is not there either. Also some other pictures like the iphone too in one other page. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Mariners lose challenge on Miller's bunt
SEATTLE -- Umpires ruled that a call on the field stands when Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon challenged a bang-bang play at first base with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning of Saturday night's game vs. the Rangers at Safeco Field.
With Seattle and Texas tied at three and a runner on first, shortstop Brad Miller laid down a perfect bunt. Rangers reliever Aaron Poreda fielded it and threw to first. In real-time, Miller appeared to beat the throw, but first-base umpire Gabe Morales ruled him out.
McClendon immediately trotted out of the dugout to discuss the call, then opted to use his challenge under Major League Baseball's new instant replay rules. The umpires conferred with MLB Instant Replay headquarters in New York before ruling that the call on the field was indeed correct.


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Having worked with companies a lot in the past few years on how to create a better customer experience and in-particular through MDM to help effectively identify the customer I know just what is possible even in very challenging environments. The Airline industry is not one of those areas but today with British Airways I received another example of how a company might have all the information required to deliver a good customer service but chooses not to provide that information to where it counts.
I was flying into Heathrow, on a transatlantic flight I booked recently, I'd originally planned to head into London and from then on to Paris via train but checking the prices it turned out flying was cheaper and as I was already at Heathrow it seemed the smart and good corporate citizen thing to do, so I made another booking.
So lets see what BA knew about me at this stage....
- All of my passport information - the goldest of gold standards
- My frequent flier, with shiny gold card indicating I need to get out less
- All my flights with them in the last 10+ years
- How many times I've missed a flight with them due to my own fault (zero)
- How many times weather or their issues have caused me to miss a flight (was 3, now 4)
So in the text book of Consumer MDM they have the perfect set of source data to identify the individual (the passport) and a unique number the customer wants to give out (frequent flier ID). It really couldn't be easier in a world where the ticket (which has the ID) and the gate (which scans the passport) to identify the individual.
They also had two bookings.
One that flew out on a Sunday and was due to land at 2pm on Monday, and a return leg for Wednesday (seriously I need to get out less.
One that flew from Heathrow to Paris at 15:15 on Monday and returned on WednesdayShared across these bookings are my details, indeed when my iPhone downloaded the two boarding passes it automatically paired them together as a single journey.
So what did BA do? Well the flight into Heathrow was delayed, but I still had 45 minutes to make the connection. There were a couple of others on the flight racing for the same flight... I reached the connections check-point first to be told:
You've been taken off the flightThe couple behind me (same inbound, same connection) were let through... this irritated me somewhat but it was only when I got to the rebooking desk that irritation turned into disbelief and outright annoyance.
BA: You missed the conformance check.
Me: I was on the flight from Phoenix, you knew that
BA: We can't see that its on a separate booking
Me: With your airline, made with your website
BA: Yes but its a separate bookingLets be clear, I like BA, I like the service from the individuals but this is a great example of how a company fails to leverage the information it has to deliver a decent customer service. Its not giving its people the right information, information it has, to make the right decisions.
My iPhone automagically recognised that a flight taking off from an airport less than 2 hours after I landed from a previous one was part of a single journey, independent of how many booking IDs there were. BAs systems have this information, I can see it in my Exec club profile, but at the front line they see only the booking.
Now the smart thing would be for BA to have a very simple check on bookings that says 'if bookings land and take off from the same airport within a set period, say 4 hours, we should consider them as one booking so our airport staff can see what is going on'. At the very least the people at the airports should have access to all my flight bookings so before they kick a customer, and one they've marked out as a priority customer, off a flight the person can check 'wonder if there is an inbound they are on that we know about?'.
This is truly a great example of a company undermining its excellent customer service by not providing its staff with the information to deliver it. This isn't about a lack of information, its not even about a lack of good quality information, its about the inability to integrate that information into the business processes where it is needed.
Disclaimer: I actually did a bunch of work for BA several years ago around BA.com and other customer facing parts of the business.


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No one could have conjured a character like Zoe Kazan out of thin air.
As her familiar surname suggests, Kazan is the latest talent to emerge from the line of show business luminaries, including her grandfather, director Elia Kazan ("A Streetcar Named Desire"), her father, screenwriter Nicholas Kazan ("Reversal of Fortune") and her mother, writer-director Robin Swicord ("Memoirs of a Geisha"). After launching a bright, busy career as a rising film, television and Broadway actress, as well as an accomplished playwright, Kazan makes her screenwriting debut with "Ruby Sparks," having crafted a Pygmalion-esque tale of a literary wunderkind facing writer's block (Paul Dano, Kazan's real-life boyfriend) who creates his ultimate dream girl (played by Kazan herself), but finds that trying to keep control of his creation is just as complicated as any real life relationship.
With another coupling at the helm – the husband-and-wife directorial team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris of "Little Miss Sunshine" acclaim – Kazan's tale adroitly balances its fantastical premise with the messy realities of romance. "This movie is not at all biographical, which I think should surprise no one," says Kazan. "It is very personal. I'm very interested in how people treat each other in their relationship, define each other, imagine each other, and what that process of love entails. It's something I contend with presently and also in the past. It's just interesting to me. Even thought the story is not mine, all the feelings are mine."
Did you feel like something special was happening for you with this material, both writing and acting in it – which is what the movie is kind of about, too?
I felt from the very start of my collaboration with Jonathan and Valerie how lucky I was to be in a position where I was working with people who's ideas about the material were the same as mine. Most of the time I think I have an experience where I have a great time making a movie and then I'm not as happy about it. Sometimes I think people slack off when they're having a great time, but everyone was working really hard. It felt really special when we were shooting it. It really felt like a labor of love for everyone. I just don't trust that feeling to mean that the outcome is going to be something that I feel really proud of, but I really trusted Jonathan and Valerie. I felt like no doubt that they were going to make a movie that I would love. It feels like we got really lucky in all these ways and I don't know how that happened. I'm just really proud of the movie that we made.
Coming from a showbiz family, were you always sure that this was the direction you were going to go in? Or did at some point you think you were going to do something completely outside of the family business?
I did not have that rebellious spirit in me! But part of it is that I didn't think about it as being something that they were in that I needed to rebel against. I always wrote, was always writing plays for me and my sister to act in, and then as soon as I started acting, that became my complete obsession. It didn't feel like I was following in their footsteps. I really felt like I was finding my own path, and that it just happened to be one that other people in my family had walked down, if that makes sense.
Did coming to this film with as much acting experience as you have make it easy to not be precious, in a possessive writer-ly way, about your performance, or your co-stars'? Were you open to everyone bringing what they could to your characters?
Yeah. I was really excited. I think for people who are creative, one of the great joys is when you really trust who you're working with and you can just take a step back and say, 'Okay, you do your job now and I'll do mine.' That's how I felt on this, and I was really eager to have these characters belong to someone else and not work on them any more and give them that full life that comes when an actor steps in. I don't know whether it's my theater background, whatever it is, but on this piece I felt that it was very easy to let go.
Between the writing and acting, is there one that's easier to switch on when you need it, or one that requires more work and discipline?
I know that for me, years of acting class and years of writing and not showing it to people, just doing it for my own edification and experience, made me better at what I do. I feel like I'm a better actor than I was two years ago, than I was two years before that, and that I hope to just get better. That's sort of the goal, to get better at what you do and feel like you're making something that you're proud of. So I think acting takes a lot more space in my life because it determines my schedule. You act on your schedule. You act on other people's schedules, and writing sort of takes a back burner because it's something that I can squeeze in on the sides. Increasingly, this year, I haven't had any time to write. I really fault myself for that because I haven't made the time. Up to this point I've sort of been able to juggle it more naturally and now I'm thinking I'm going to have to start thinking about how I want to prioritize.
Did you have any trepidation that by starring in this with Paul that people would try to graft elements of the story on to who you two are underneath?
Well, the story is so far-fetched. It takes such a magic realist leap that I think we'll maybe avoid some of those pitfalls. I think we're both actors who like to do new things all the time. Neither of us are people who try to look for the same part all the time. So hopefully that will help us avoid some of the fat. I was really concerned about people putting a spotlight on our relationship, I guess and that's something that I'm still concerned about, just because it's a lot of pressure. I think that can be really challenging for couples. But it was worth it to make our movie.
Your writing voice was really distinct, but there was a little bit of the premise that made me think Woody Allen might've done a movie like this. Was that ever in your head?
I love Woody Allen, and yeah, 'Purple Rose of Cairo' was definitely an inspiration for me, not in any specific way. I wasn't thinking about it when I started this, but as I was rewriting it and we were talking about the kind of movie we were going to make, that was one that came up because it's another movie where the sort of magic is never explained. I actually was looking more towards Woody Allen as a sort of model for what Calvin is doing with Ruby. Woody Allen has made all these beautiful real women, but I feel like he's sort of invented his own type, like he created that woman in his cinema and then she propagated in the world. I mean, in some way, literally, the way that they dressed, Diane Keaton in that movie, inspired a whole way for women to dress. I think there's a type of girl that exists sort of because he started worshiping her. For me that's so important to how I think of Ruby, which I think that Ruby is not the sort of perfect girl. She's not the ideal woman. If I was going to write about an ideal woman I would cast Angelina Jolie. She is fetishized by Calvin. She's a real person who he tries to put in the box of his love. That's just such an interesting thing to me, like what did Woody Allen do to Diane Keaton by putting her in that role. Did she inspire him or did he inspire her to become this sort of icon that she became, or someone like Mariel Hemingway. For me she will always be defined by that part. So, what did he do to her? I'm just so curious about that relationship. I think that thinking about that kind of inspired me to think of [Dano's character] Calvin.
Zoe Kazan Is Her Own Sparkling Creation in 'Ruby Sparks'
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