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Ever since P&O Princess and Royal Caribbean announced their plans to merge last month the real suspense has been over what Carnival will do. A comment by Mickey Arison, Carnival's CEO, recently that the line, the world's biggest – at least if and when the Princess/RCCL deal goes through – was definitely open to acquisitions.
And indeed Carnival Corp. has officially entered the fray -- literally and figuratively -- making a $4.6 million hostile bid to acquire P&O Princess in an effort to derail the latter's merger plans with Royal Caribbean.
P&O Princess' management has rejected the Carnival offer of cash and stock (the P&O/Royal Caribbean merger involves no exchange of either). P&O Princess shareholders are slated to vote on the merger with Royal Caribbean in January. In the meantime, Carnival has said it will bypass management and go directly to shareholders. However, Carnival's offer presents more challenges -- particularly obtaining regulatory approval in the U.S. since the combined Carnival/P&O Princess would own 47 percent of the market) -- and so far existing P&O Princess stockholders have been quoted as saying they stand with management.
If, indeed, P&O Princess shareholders abandoned their planned merger with Royal Caribbean in favor of the Carnival deal the company would owe RCCL a big chunk of cash. Under their agreement, the penalty for any cruise line that pulled out of the merger was a not-insignificant $67.5 million (and another $200 million for the southern Europe joint venture).
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Drone Photography
You will not find a lot of pictures of me. Sure, my family has some, but that is about it. I have always felt rather uneasy with the idea of someone "capturing" my image, although not really out of any superstitious notions of "soul stealing" or any nonsense like that. They just make me really uncomfortable, and so I avoid them as best I can. I make the occasional allowance for various events of import, but I never enjoy it. Its why this latest trend of "selfies" confounds me so much, as I cannot imagine desiring to take one's own picture so badly – not to mention so often – although that may also have something to do with me rather quickly turning into an old man or something.
Still, despite all of my hang-ups regarding photography, I admit that being skilled at it takes a lot of work. There is much more to being a photographer than just owning a camera, just like there is more to being an artist than owning a paintbrush and some oil paints. Photography is an art in its own right, and within the scope of that art is the understanding of how to make light work for the image you are trying to capture.
In light of that (forgive the unintentional pun), MIT and Cornell University researchers have developed small, light-equipped autonomous drones that are able to automatically assume positions needed to produce lighting effects for a photographer via a rather simple and intuitive camera-mounted interface. Using the interface, the photographer chooses where they would like the lighting to be and the small, helicopter-like UAV (unmanned areal vehicle) flies into position. From there, it is automatically able to maintain the specific lighting conditions desired, compensating for the movement of the photographer, the subject, or other possible variables. The camera itself supplies the drone with the control signal it needs to make these adjustments, sending images to the computer – roughly 20 times per second – running the drone's control algorithm which then evaluates the lighting conditions and makes adjustments as needed.
Researchers set the drone to do what is known as "rim lighting" for a demonstration. Rim lighting is a lighting technique in which only the edges of the photographer's subject are illuminated. Why? Because this is considered a very difficult thing to pull off and they wanted to show that their drone could do it. According to Manohar Srikanth, a senior researcher at Nokia who worked on the system as both a graduate student and postdoc at MIT, "It's very sensitive to the position of the light. If you move the light, say, by a foot, your appearance changes dramatically." Being able to pull it off, as it did, was a huge step forward for the project.
Interestingly enough, this amazing innovation uses a relatively simple algorithm compared to what one might expect from such a process. Initially, it was believed that the design team would need a very complex algorithm that would take the whole silhouette of the subject and determine its morphological properties, edge curves, and more, but in the end it was really much more simple than that. The algorithm just looks for the most dramatic gradations in light intensity across the whole image, measuring their width. In the case of the rim-lit subject, most of these congregated around the same value which the algorithm took to be the width of the rim, allowing to to make its needed adjustments. Even with using this much simpler method, the UAV is able to keep up with the movements both of the subject and the photographer, all while maintaining its determined lighting condition, even when that is something as complex as rim lighting.
All in all, an incredible contribution to the field of photography, proving that drones have a multitude to uses that some of us might have never before considered.
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novel histories (3)
The Sir Walter Disease
In a chapter of
Life on the Mississippi (New York:
P.F. Collier, 1917) entitled "Enchantments and Enchanters," Mark Twain begins
with a memory of seeing Mardi-Gras festivities in
He then notes that Mardi-Gras had been a relic of French and Spanish "occupation" of the city, but that any religious origins of the festivities had been "pretty well knocked out of it now." The reason for this, Twain tells us, is that "Sir Walter has got the advantage of the gentlemen of the cowl and rosary, and he will stay. His medieval business, supplemented by the monsters and the oddities, and the pleasant creatures from fairy-land, is finer to look at than the poor fantastic inventions and performances of the reveling rabble of the priest's day, and serves quite as well, perhaps, to emphasize the day and admonish men that the grace-line between the worldly season and the holy one is reached."(373-4)
More's the
pity, Twain believes.
He is pleased that it is unlikely that such pageantry is unlikely to
spread beyond
Now, while we may be less sanguine than Twain about the career of romance in the dens of practicality, he certainly makes an interesting case about the South, framed nicely in relation to the French Revolution. He writes:
Against the crimes of the French Revolution and of Bonaparte may be set two compensating benefactions: the Revolution broke the chains of the ancien régime and of the Church, and made a nation of abject slaves a nation of freemen; and Bonaparte instituted the setting of merit above birth, and so completely stripped the divinity from royalty that, whereas crowned heads in Europe were gods before, they are only men since, and can never be gods again, but only figure-heads, and answerable for their acts like common clay. Such benefactions as these compensate the temporary harm which Bonaparte and the Revolution did, and leave the world in debt to them for these great and permanent services to liberty, humanity, and progress.(374-5)
One imagines that Twain is capable of believing that "abject slaves" would not just mean Frenchmen, but could include the bonded Haitian, and his similarly situated brother and sister in the Old South. But, liberty, humanity, and progress, were to be taxed commodities in the domain of literature. "Then comes Sir Walter Scott with his enchantments," Twain continues,
and by his single might checks this wave of progress, and even turns it back; sets the world in love with dreams and phantoms; with decayed and swinish forms of religion; with decayed and degraded systems of government; with the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society. (375)
What Twain tells us is quite important, I think. Perhaps there is a historian who in a footnote about the Old South has mentioned the appeal of Sir Walter Scott to members of the slaveholding society; but none that I know of has gone so far as to attribute the characteristics of that society to changes in literary taste. With few exceptions, historians have a more materialistic bent, seeing culture as a reflection of material conditions – the superstructure built upon the economic base. Now, obviously one might still wonder why Scott might have the appeal in the Old South that Twain claims for him, attributing this to the institution of slavery perhaps, but one would still have to recognize what impact is being afforded a mere writer of Scottish romances. Twain notes:
He did measureless harm; more real and lasting harm, perhaps, than any other individual that ever wrote. Most of the world has now outlived good part of these harms, though by no means all of them; but in our South they flourish pretty forcefully still. Not so forcefully as a generation ago, perhaps, but still forcefully. There, the genuine and wholesome civilization of the nineteenth century is curiously confused and commingled with the Walter Scott Middle-Age sham civilization, and so you have practical common sense, progressive ideas, and progressive works, mixed up with the duel, the inflated speech, and the jejune romanticism of an absurd past that is dead, and out of charity ought to be buried.(375)
So, according to Twain, the South had been held back by its adoration for the romance of Scott and "but for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner…would be wholly modern, in place of modern and medieval mixed, and the South would be a generation further advanced than it is."(375-6) But the problems associated with the Scott disease were even more pernicious. For,
It was Sir Walter that made every gentleman in the South a major or a colonel, or a general or a judge, before the war; and it was he, also, that made these gentlemen value these bogus decorations. For it was he that created rank and caste down there, and also reverence for rank and caste, and pride and pleasure in them. Enough is laid on slavery, without fathering upon it these creations and contributions of Sir Walter.(376)
Much of the honor code described by Bertram Wyatt Brown as central to Southern mentalité in Southern Honor, a work that come closer than most others to an idealist rather than materialist interpretation of the South, can be linked to this Scott fixation. And, more still, Twain claims that this fixation was one of its causes of the Civil War itself:
Sir Walter had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the war, that he is in great measure responsible for the war. It seems a little harsh toward a dead man to say that we never should have had any war but for Sir Walter; and yet something of a plausible argument, might, perhaps, be made in support of that wild proposition. The Southerner of the American Revolution owned slaves; so did the Southerner of the Civil War; but the former resembles the latter as an Englishman resembles a Frenchman. The change of character can be traced rather more easily to Sir Walter's influence than to that of any other thing or person.(376)
As one reads "Enchantments and Enchanters" one is reminded of both Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The former work does a couple of things. First, it places the representative of northern practicality in a Scott-like medieval setting, but with an unexpected twist. Rather than simply showing the idiocy of Arthurian society and ridiculing its conventions, as one might predict from this particular essay, Connecticut Yankee has its Yankee imposing his own conventions in such a way that "the modern" itself becomes problematic. Second, the work provides a parable about Reconstruction. While the South may have been a weird mix of medieval and modern, northerners' attempts to reconstruct this region, without really knowing the extent of their own warped romanticism (and so their susceptibility to Southern wiles) and without understanding the region they were trying to reconstruct, would be abortive.
Huck Finn, by contrast, provides an antidote to Sir Walter's fare. Twain ends the "Enchantments" essay by juxtaposing Scott's work and that of Cervantes:
A curious exemplification of the power of a single book for good or harm is shown in the effects wrought by Don Quixote and those wrought by Ivanhoe. The first swept the world's admiration for the medieval chivalry silliness out of existence; and the other restored it. As far as our South is concerned the good work done by Cervantes is pretty nearly a dead letter, so effectually has Scott's pernicious work undermined it.(377-8)
Huck Finn provides an assault on the Scott-ridden South using Cervantine conventions. Huck is very much a Don Quixote maneuvering his way through the South's pretensions to chivalric civilization, finding its limits in the contradictions and hypocrisies evident in the racism of the South. Huck's companion, Jim, very much takes on the air of a Sancho Panza, uneducated and yet wise, especially by comparison with those who would keep him in bondage.
So, what of all this? We have then a novelist who has transformed a society for ill – showing the power of the novel not just to tell us about particular kinds of societies and historical narratives, but also to mislead us, and in so doing create a historical memory that begins to shape history itself. We have another novelist attempting to put things to right in his own writing, and doing so via the muse of Miguel de Cervantes. As we have said in the introduction to these "novel histories" – all roads lead to Cervantes; we will get there yet.
© Rob Gregg, 2004


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That is the S900 though isn't it, which has fixed memory..
Yes, that's right. I misread OP's post. I thought he was talking about a 900. VJ, don't think they are the same though look similar.
OP, check the KW on startup. If it's 1536, you have max RAM. if it's less and you've got the expansion (will be separate board like VJ's picture), then try reseating the card is all I can suggest. If you're in there take some pics and post them up, it might help. I'm replacing displays on both of mine in April. So I can take pictures then
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Actress Rituparno Sengupta often left the crew of her new film "Calapor" guessing about her whereabouts while managing her schedule very well.
It so used to happen that since "Calapor" was largely shot in Goa and Rituparna was simultaneously shooting for her other films and even promoting a film, was quite often seen shuttling between Goa and Kolkata.
A source told of how the actress would shoot her part in the film and then fly down to Kolkata via Mumbai the next day.
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No one from the production team would have any knowledge about her whereabouts whether she was in Mumbai or Kolkata," said the source.
But nobody ever had any complaint.
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CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, January 16. THE North Carolina men's and women's swimming and diving teams defeated Johns Hopkins in dual action Tuesday afternoon at Koury Natatorium. The UNC men won 170-109 and the Tar Heel women won 171-96.
UNC women who won two individual events included Taylor McFarlane (200 free, 400 IM), Ashley Howard (100 back, 500 free) and Meagan Eickman (50 free, 100 fly).
The two-event winners for UNC's men were Hank Browning (1000 free, 200 back) and David Solarz (1 and 3-meter diving).
North Carolina's men improved to 3-2 on the season with the dual meet victory while the Blue Jays are now 5-4. The UNC women are now 5-1 overall and the Blue Jays are 5-4.


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Of course, there are more problems that need fixing than can be covered in one column. My aim here is to focus on issues concerning people with disabilities.
All issues, arguably, have an effect on people with disabilities, as all of us are part of the same "American people." But here are a few particularly relevant areas to think about before casting your vote:
Health care: There was a time when a wonderful health care plan was constructed and presented to our congressional leaders. It would have, among other things, put us on the same page with other civilized countries. We need leaders who recognize that every human being deserves to receive the medical care they need and affordable medications. Many people who have disabilities or are elderly depend on Medicare and Medicaid, systems that often leave gaps and sometimes force people to make difficult choices.
What would your answer be, for example, if you had to ask yourself: Do I get married or keep my Medicaid benefits that provide the daily personal care I need to survive? Do I take a job and fulfill my dream of having satisfying employment for an honest wage or keep my Medicare benefits? You get the idea.
Then there's employment itself. Despite passage of impressive (and threatened) legislation such as the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act, the United States still sports a deplorable 70 percent unemployment rate among its citizens with disabilities.
As baby boomers age and acquire disabilities and as veterans from Iraq return with disabilities as mementos of war, the need for job training programs and increased awareness among hiring entities are desperate needs that are only going to increase.
Transportation: Not to bring up another sour grapes memory, but we had an opportunity to launch a 21st century mass transit system in this city a few years ago but apparently decided it wasn't nearly as important as two stadiums. If those aging baby boomers and returning disabled veterans are going to get to the jobs my optimism sees them landing, they'll need reliable transportation to get there.
Communication and entertainment: The Internet has been a truly amazing equalizer for people with disabilities, but it's still pretty much a toss-up and surprise as to which web sites will be accessible when you need to go there. Government entities are required to follow Web accessibility guidelines, but chance, good business sense or losing litigation are the deciding factors for too many others. The commitment to have all television programs accompanied by closed captioning has recently been weakened by the Federal Communications Commission. The commitment to providing video description for people with visual impairments has long lagged far behind.
Then there's life and death. While my stance on these might seem inconsistent with other views, the sacredness of life and death -- and protecting them solidly with legislation -- are high rankers on the disability agenda. If we abort babies because they might be less than perfect or place a lower value on the life of the hospitalized person who has serious (or sometimes not so serious) disabilities, we're headed right down the slippery slope that launched the Holocaust.
Every human life has equal value. It's no simple matter, but we need legislators who care about employing, educating, housing and transporting people with disabilities as well as providing everyone with health care and an equal opportunity to be alive.
Sadly, a deplorable minority within the country's largest minority -- i.e., people with disabilities -- has turned out to vote in past elections. Now that polling places are required to be physically accessible and every polling place is required to have at least one accessible voting machine, there is less reason than ever for anyone to stay home Nov. 7.
Three weeks is plenty of time to inform yourself and your neighbors, co-workers, family and friends of the policies maintained by this election's candidates. The hard-won legislation protecting the civil rights of people with disabilities are not cast in stone. If you don't take the time to cast your vote, you could easily be part of the problem, not the solution, as items on the disability agenda slide beneath the radar screen.
So, to quote that beloved pundit once more, "Vote as if your life depends on it -- because it does."
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I need to change the letter spacing/tracking of some text in iOS. (The font I'm using is a little too tight at small sizes.) There are core graphics routines that will change character spacing, but those routines don't handle Unicode. There are other core graphics routines that are defined in terms of glyphs but those seem like a world of hurt, among other things, not having the safety net of reverting back to system fonts for glyphs that don't exist in my font.
So core text seems like the way to do this and core text supports kCTKernAttributeName on CFAttributedString. I think this will do what I want, though this really isn't kerning since kerning is a generally a character-pair attribute and this (appears to be, from the docs) just a uniform adjustment to the glyph advance for all glyphs, i.e., tracking.
If anyone knows before I go down the rather painful path of converting to the core text API ...


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Another week has come and gone and brought us so many more silly and scary faces.
Sometimes I wonder if celebrities every look and these photos and think, "Oh my god, when did I make that face?" This week it's all about Oprah Winfrey's claw hand. Her face is great too, but her hand is legit scary. Selma Blair was having none of the paparazzi this week with her scary face.
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Maybe the problem isn't Fontana, maybe it's NASCAR
I can hear the chortling now.
The southern-fried writers who cover NASCAR never liked the idea of Southern California hosting two Sprint Cup events a year.
They ridiculed the crowds at California-turned-Auto Club Speedway. They made fun of the parade-like nature of many of the races on the two-mile oval.
Honestly, I can't say I disagreed with them.
After playing to packed houses when the track first opened, NASCAR attracted ever smaller crowds to Fontana until the governing body last fall said enough is enough and stripped Auto Club Speedway of its second race.
This weekend NASCAR pays its lone visit to Fontana in 2011. The race won't be part of the Chase for the Championship. It will be just another stop on the tour.
The southern media types will enjoy their I-told-you-so-moment.
But suddenly it is beginning to appear that we Southern California race fans are not as dumb as we appear to NASCAR. Truth is, we might be the trend-setters.
It is time for NASCAR to take a long hard look in the mirror. Perhaps the problem is the sport.
Case in point -- Bristol, Tenn.
Thunder Valley used to be one of those can't miss stops on the Sprint Cup tour. Think about 180,000 seats around a half-mile oval. It is like two Rose Bowls.
"I don't know how, but you can hear the fans over the cars and the cars are loud in that fishbowl of a track," Darrell Waltrip said several years back.
Last Sunday, however, you couldn't hear the crowd at Bristol. In fact, there wasn't much of a crowd. NASCAR put the crowd estimate at 120,000, which would mean the stands were a third empty. But some observers put the attendance at around 50 percent of capacity.
If NASCAR isn't concerned, it should be. If not the heart, Bristol is close to the soul of stock car racing. It is a direct link to when racin' was done on Saturday nights on bullring ovals like the .533-mile Bristol oval.
Tracks like Bristol, Martinsville and Darlington feed the appetites of old-school race fans.
It's one thing when fans don't show up at Fontana on Labor Day when the temperatures at stuck in triple digits. It is quite another when they say "no thank you" to a race at Bristol.
NASCAR for years has been losing the yuppie fans who jumped aboard the bandwagon when NASCAR was the "in" sport of the '90s. But when the core constituent stops walking through the turnstiles at Bristol it is time to re-examine the program.
But the southern types who come to Fontana this weekend will have their excuses lined up. Once rabid fans avoided Bristol like the plague because the economy is bad, the prices were high and it was cold outside.
Last Sunday had nothing to do with the racing or NASCAR. This is still the second-greatest sport in the land to the NFL.
Time to smell the shrinking dollars. Race fans, we have a disconnect here and it's just not the fans. Taken a look at your favorite car recently. You are seeing more hood and roof and fewer advertisements.
Trevor Bayne won the Daytona 500 with a car so clean of sponsorship that it looked like it rolled out of the '50s. Even some of the biggest teams laid off workers last winter as they slashed costs to match shrinking revenue.
Maybe we're not such bad fans in California. Maybe we're just smarter.
Time for NASCAR to address the issue rather than keep changing everything from the look of the cars to the rules to race times. With each change over the past five years, more fans seem to have fled.


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Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with funds donated by the Coe and Mordant families, 2009
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Michelle Nikou's practice has focused on the incorporation and recasting of everyday objects. Hanging glow bulb – like its companion piece Open (2009) – is made from a dense resin material laced with glow-in-the-dark pigment, a substance that absorbs light and then, when immersed in darkness, radiates a greenish colour. The after-glow lasts for about 5 minutes before fading.
Hanging glow bulb both represents light and is transformed by it. Within the installation a light source, set at a cycle of 5 minutes on/ 5 minutes off, floods the room with sudden brightness then plunges it into darkness. Forced to adapt to the change, viewers see first a dead globe, then its double – a strange glowing apparition suspended in the room.
Hanging glow bulb was made with the intention to investigate both optimism and confidence – it simply plays with notions of dark/light and fear/innocence. The shaping of the cord suggests a utilitarian movement of light to where it is needed, and though the work is static, this shape provides a sense of calm flow…
Judith Blackall (Head, Artistic Programs), Statement of significance, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010
Hanging glow bulb was made with the intention to investigate both optimism and confidence – it simply plays with notions of dark/light and fear/innocence.
Michelle Nikou, 2010
Michelle Nikou uses a wide range of materials including lead, bronze, resin and ceramics in her sculptural practice. Her work conveys universal themes with a candid, wry sense of humour and unconventional aesthetic.
Using a manual technique in preference to a more industrial approach, she uses traditional processes of metal-casting in materials such as lead, bronze, tin and aluminum. Yet unlike the traditional pour/cut/polish method of much sculptural work, Nikou's casting process is left evident along with much of the plaster.Learn more


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In many parts of the world the language education scenario is increasingly dynamic, as demographic, economic and social changes powerfully influence socio-political agendas in the sphere of language education. These in turn impact on complex issues such as linguistic pluralism, multiculturalism, and marginalization. This is especially so in the sphere of second language education where local, national and regional concerns often dominate the objectives underpinning policy choice and prioritisation.
This volume brings together scholars and researchers from a wide range of different educational contexts and turns a sociolinguistic lens on some of the key areas of concern for researchers in language education: critical awareness of power and identity issues; competence in dealing with new sociolinguistic repertoires, modalities and literacies; ethical concerns for all who are involved. The 'case study' approach enables the reader to reflect on and critically engage with these issues in a rich variety of contextual situations, and the volume as a whole provides a useful overview of (second) language education in the world today.
Contents: Edith Esch/Martin Solly: Introduction – Michael Evans: The Sociolinguistics of Schooling: The Relevance of Derrida's Monolingualism of the Other or The Prosthesis of Origin – Jin He: The Myths of English Proficiency: The Socially Constructed Ideas about English in China – Anne Ife: Achieving Successful Lingua Franca Interaction in a Context of Linguistic Disparity – Kizitus Mpoche: The Sociolinguistics of Language Education: Contextualising Language Policy and Language Education in Cameroon – Rebecca A. Mitchell: Language, Education and Identity in Gabon – Esterino Adami: English Language Education in India Today – Androula Yiakoumetti: Bidialectism and Aboriginal Language Education: Sociolinguistic Considerations Pertinent to Australia's Aboriginal Communities – Roxana Herescu: An Investigation into the Views and Practices of Teachers of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Romania – Steve Buckledee: Are Cambridge ESOL Examinations Appropriate for Users of English as a Lingua Franca? – Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez: The Implications of Language Choice in Education.
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Martin Solly is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Florence.
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Has the following brunch scenario ever happened to you?:
It's a glorious Saturday morning. You're looking to get together with a few friends and get this weekend started in the right direction: Brunch! Great idea. You've heard about some place that's supposed to serve the best ______ (name it: drunken french toast, eggs benedict, meat waffle) in the city, so you excitedly head there. When you arrive, bad news: at least an hour wait. Fine, we came all this way, we'll wait. A long, hungry, non-caffeinated wait later, and you finally get a cramped table in the corner and a server who seems to think that you should feel honored to occupy that space with a mostly empty mug of cold coffee in front of you. The food is good, but expensive and likely overrated, and the service is slow and unfriendly. Suddenly, you're out $20 for essentially just eggs and coffee, and left with a bad taste in your mouth from the whole experience.
For every great dining experience, there are always going to be a few duds. Even the best restaurants sometimes experience off-days, especially during a busy brunch hour at a popular spot.
When a few of my favorite old college girlfriends asked me to join them for brunch at Grand Cafe last weekend, I had some qualms that this might be one of those kinds of brunches. Searching the menu on their website revealed that Grand is in the higher price range for brunch ($9-14), and the reviews online, while overwhelmingly positive, indicated that it's a popular brunch destination. Of course, I wasn't going to NOT go out with the ladies, but my expectations were tempered. Long wait, pretentious service, here we come.
I could not have been more wrong in my assessment of Grand Cafe. We parked on the street directly in front of Grand at 10am on a Saturday morning and were seated immediately. Our server was more than accommodating, offering detailed and mouth-watering descriptions of four or five items on the menu. Our coffees and tea were brought with an almost over-the-top selection of add-ins — honey, lemon wedges, sugars, creamer — all of which was presented beautifully.
If our beverages were nicely presented though, they had nothing on the food which arrived maybe twenty quick minutes after ordering. We were dazzled as plate after gorgeous plate was set before us.
For myself, I chose the house biscuits and red-eye gravy, $11. I had been wavering in a three-way tie between that, the pork confit huevos rancheros ($13), and the eggs benedict ($14), but was swayed by our server's description of the unique spicy gravy with paprika. Yes, please! It was everything I expect biscuits and gravy to be: warm, satisfying, and rich. The kick of heat from the paprika took this dish from great to memorable. The fruit cup on the side was an appreciated fresh touch with my heavy meal.
Chelsie was a big fan of the house-made jam that came for her toast with her "Eggs Your Way" meal, $9. Joanna's eggs benedict, $14, was envy-inducing, with gorgeous bursts of color from the salty ham, buttery soft poached yolks, and the perfectly tender and bright sauteed asparagus. And Emily's eggs en cocotte ("eggs in a cup," $11) was a show-stopper, with savory poached eggs smothered in cream and gruyere, dotted with tasty bits of ham, all nestled underneath flaky chunks of puff pastry. Rave reviews were exchanged around the table.
Despite having a full dining room of patrons to appease, our server stopped by often throughout the meal to check on us and to offer fresh coffee or hot water for tea. When we got the tab and needed to split it in a combination of cards and cash, our server could not have been more gracious and accommodating. Once all of our plates were cleared away and the cafe was beginning to slow from the Saturday morning rush into an easy early lunch crowd, we lingered awhile as old friends tend to do, slowly finishing our coffees and sharing our plans for the rest of our weekends.
Grand Cafe is a grand way indeed to begin a day. I highly recommend it for a brunch that is humbly deserving of every word of hype it receives.
Comfortable, sunny, and cheerful. Refreshingly simple decor that doesn't feel like it's trying too hard.
The service can really make all of the difference; in this case, our server made certain we were always comfortable and well taken care of.
I wanted to Instagram every bite! The presentation was so impressive.
I don't think there was a single "off" dish. We all thoroughly enjoyed our meals.
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It's definitely not the kind of breakfast I would be able to afford every weekend; that said, for its price bracket, Grand Cafe is my favorite I've tried so far.
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CYPRESS CREEK, Fla. - It was supposed to be a funny senior prank, but it doesn't seem to be getting too many laughs. A central Florida high school is now taking action after seniors broke into classrooms and put the desks on the roof of their school.
Officials at Cypress Creek High School are considering suspensions for those responsible for breaking into what's thought to be six portable classrooms and, one-by-one, putting the desks and chairs on the roofs. Students say these senior pranks are tradition at the school.
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Celebrate Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22nd. Then gather with other families and attend the Down to Earth Festival at Shelby Farms on Saturday, April 19th, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This popular event features aerial acrobatics, a fishing rodeo, an eco-friendly egg hunt, green vendors, and food. ($5/parking, $8/rodeo.) Or elect to work with other volunteers cleaning up city parks, planting a garden at your school, or picking up trash in your neighborhood.
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WUHU - The newly completed highway and railway bridge across the Yangtze River in Wuhu, in East China's Anhui Province, which was opened to traffic on September 30, has added a new scenic site to this inland river port city. See Map
On October 1, when people from other parts of the country indulged themselves in various kinds of National Day festivities, thousands of local citizens swarmed to the Wuhu Yangtze Bridge, the last bridge built this century over the mighty river, and took a look around.
The city government of Wuhu suspended traffic on the bridge for four days during the National Day holiday, October 1-7, so that more people may have a closer look at the city from the bridge.
E.A. Lambert, president of Asia-Pacific Regional Business of FKI PLC Engineering Group of Britain, also joined the local crowd and walked across the 6-kilometre-long bridge.
Pointing to the lighting on the bridge, Lambert said a French subsidiary of the FKI PLC provided the bridge builders with some of the company's lighting equipment.
He went on to say that China's improved transport infrastructure has created a fine investment environment. He promised to come back again next year to inspect the bridge and the new economic development park adjacent to the bridge and discuss the feasibility of carrying out co-operation with local companies in developing high-tech projects.''
Fang Qinhan, a well-known Chinese bridge expert and also a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, took part in the design and construction of the four bridges across the Yangtze in Wuhan, Nanjing, Jiujiang and Wuhu. He said all the new technologies, new materials, new structures and new techniques used in building Wuhu Yangtze Bridge have met the world's advanced standards.
He described the four Yangtze River bridges in Wuhan, Nanjing, Jiujiang and Wuhu as the four milestones in China's bridge history of the century - from the time of having to rely on imported technologies to build a bridge, the stage of self reliance and innovations, the period of creation, to the stage of becoming one of the world's sophisticated bridge building countries. He said there are now 24 bridges across the Yangtze River, with more than half having been constructed in the past decade.
The Wuhu Yangtze Bridge was listed as one of the major State projects for the Ninth Five-Year-Plan period (1996-2000) in 1995 and began construction in March 1997. The bridge cost 4.6 billion yuan ($556 million), which was jointly invested by the Ministry of Railway and Anhui Provincial Government. (Xinhua)


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Getting rid of cradle cap...
How do you get rid of the stuff?! I have tried everything I can think of. My DR said to use a dandruff shampoo, that isnt helping. Any suggestions?
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My son has a really bad case of cradle cap - so bad that even olive oil only temporarily solves the problem. We found this soap called Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap; it's an 18-in-1 unscented baby-mild castille soap made with all organic oils. The first time I washed his hair with it, all of the flakes and weird goo came right off, didn't inflame his scalp, and I haven't had to worry about it anymore! It's a miracle soap for sure.posted 11/10/2007 by ashleygonnabamom
I heard using baby oil and a baby brush removes cradle cap. You use the brush to lightly work it in, then once it soaks in you wash their hair and it should be gone.posted 09/27/2007 by freakish_fairy
I can strongly recommend using olive oil. I rubbed it in the skin and let it soak for 15 minutes. Then I put him in the bath and gently combed it out wit a fine comb. I washed his hair with my usual baby shampoo to get rid of the oil. His cradle cap was completely gone after this half hour very inexpensive and natural cure.posted 11/03/2007 by a BabyCenter Member
My son's dermatologist recommended rubbing olive oil on his scalp and shampooing afterwards. If needed, using a 1% hydrocortisone ointment on stubborn areas twice daily.posted 11/09/2007 by anonymous526
Both my kids have had this.. shampoo with Gentle Naturals Cradle Cap shampoo and then after bath - cover their head (or spots) with Eucerin Calming Cream - put a hat on them and put them to bed. For my daughter, it was gone by morning!posted 10/30/2007 by sophia_murphy
vasaline works wonders,rub it on babys scalp leave on for 15min or so then believe it or not remove it gently with a lice or flea comb.posted 09/30/2007 by mamacici75
I used aquaphor ointment-my baby had it so bad and it smelled awful. I rubbed it in in the morning and washed her hair with shampoo and a washcloth in the afternoon. It takes a few times-but works great.posted 10/03/2007 by kaylinoas
I heard using hydrocortisone 1% on the infected areas helps. Just rub it in twice a day.posted 09/29/2007 by AutumMommy
My daughter had horrible cradle cap. I tried baby oil, olive oil, head and shoulders shampoo, and aquaphor. The only thing that really worked was Gentle Naturals (with Winnie the Pooh and Eyeore on the bottle). The first time I used it I was amazed at how the crusty scales gently combed right off. I used regular baby shampoo afterwards. Her scalp is so clean, and I think we've finally gotten rid of it, after only one use! I wish I had used this sooner because she lost a lot of hair during our trial and error phase. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to rid their baby of cradle cap without sacrificing their baby's hair in the process.posted 04/30/2008 by SJLW2005
My 3-month-old's doctor said to use Head & Shoulders twice a week. Just be careful of their eyes. This works well for the first day, but his cradle cap comes right back the next day. His hair is really shiny and his head is very soft though from using the H&S. But I wouldn't really reccomend it to anyone. We're going to try something else.posted 03/20/2008 by LoWo13
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While the speculation has already started on the status of "Iron Man 4" a week before "Iron Man 3" even opens stateside, let's put our focus back on the third film for a moment. As our review states, it's a solid film, but what fans really need to know is that despite Marvel's proliferation of marketing, there are some truly big surprises that haven't even been hinted at. So don't worry, this isn't a movie that's been given away before it's been released (though now that it has open internationally, you might want to stay off message boards unless you want it spoiled).
Anyway, a new clip has arrived and it doesn't feature Iron Man kicking ass, but rather Tony Stark coming clean to Pepper Potts. In the film, we meet a very different Stark, one who has been profoundly traumatized by everything that went down in "The Avengers" which adds a new and interesting layer to the character. His relationship with Pepper is fraying and in this scene, he lays it all out on the line. And it's indicative of a character with a bit more depth this time around. But don't worry, when it comes time to kick ass, he does.
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Posted By Jim On 02/10/2012 @ 12:41 pm In Taxes | 113 Comments
As of March 22nd, the average tax refund stands at just a hair under three thousand dollars. At this time last year, the average was a little over that amount, sitting at $3,030 (the average for last year would later fall to $2,803 as later filers were accounted for).
As is always the case earlier in the season, this average will likely go down. It's usually higher because people due refunds tend to file earlier than those who are not expecting one. If you were due a refund, it may make sense to adjust your tax withholding [3] as you don't want to give Uncle Sam 25% of your income.
I wanted to dig a little deeper on the question of average income tax refund because nearly three thousand dollars seems really high but it actually isn't. It took a bit of searching but after some research into their SOI Tax Stats [4] page, I was able to glean a few gems about the average tax refund.
As of March 22nd, we've seen 80.4 million returns, which is a 5.2% drop from this time last year. All the various filing season statistics are down this year, including the tax refund amount (down 1.5%). The one surprise in all this was the increase in self-prepared returns compared to tax professionals. There's a 0.9% increase in the number of returns that are being self-prepared – I think that's a great. Another great statistics is the percentage of filers requesting direct deposit refunds is higher than last year – folks are wising up! Don't wait for a check, get your refund faster [6].
As of April 27th, nearly two weeks after the end of tax season, the average tax refund dipped slightly from two weeks ago to $2,716 as more returns were filed. They've now processed 126.3 million returns of a total 133.5 million received with 99.1 million refunds. The number of direct depositors increased to 78 million with a total amount of refunds hitting nearly $228 billion. A stunning figure that's only 0.3% higher than the amount for last year.
As of April 13th [7], they have processed over 105.7 million returns out of 109.2 million. Not surprisingly, 69.7 million taxpayers opted for direct deposit and their refund was slightly lower at $2,762. What I'd like to know is why nearly 20 million refund eligible taxpayers didn't opt for direct deposit, why not get your money sooner? At least they're increases in totals over last year.
In previous years, the average tax refund has been in the same range, with the average peaking for the 2009 tax year before slipping:
If you're a stat junkie and glean anything remarkable in those IRS stats, please let us know!
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IBM InfoSphere® Master Data Management Server provides a complete data model for Party, Account and Product master data, and a large number of services (known as transactions) for querying and modifying master data records. A variety of extension mechanisms are supported to allow the data model and transaction behavior to be customized or to add completely new transactions if required.
MDM Server includes MDM Server Workbench, tooling that supports development of extensions to MDM Server. The workbench allows you to define the desired data model and transactions and generate the code required to implement the MDM Server extensions.
MDM Server Workbench is installed as an add-on to Rational® Application Developer (RAD). To develop extensions to MDM Server, you need to import into the RAD workspace the MDM Enterprise Application Archive (EAR).
The default development environment setup results in a large number of projects being created in the workspace. Fifty-five projects are created when importing the MDM EAR, and you may be creating a number of additional projects for extensions.
The large number of projects in the workspace can be confusing and adds to the overhead of building the code, managing it in source control, and deploying the code.
In this article, I will describe how you can reduce the number of projects in the workspace by changing some of them into binary modules. The instructions given here apply to the MDM Workbench with MDM Server 9.0.1 (WebSphere® version) on RSA 18.104.22.168. If you have different versions, the approach should still work, but there may be some differences in the user interface.
Development environment setup
Use the MDM Workbench Development and Test Environment Setup wizard to set up your development environment. After setup, you will have 55 projects in the workspace. Some are used for the initial setup of the MDM Server, but are not part of the MDM EAR. You do not need to have them in the workspace once the development environment is set up.
Once you are satisfied that your development environment is set up correctly and the Install Verification Test is passing, you can close the following projects:
- InstallVerification — This project contains the Install Verification tool used by the Development Environment Setup wizard to run the Validate Installation task.
- ManagementAgent — This project contains the ManagementAgent tool used by the Development Environment Setup wizard to run the Deploy Configuration task.
- ManagementConsole — This project contains the ManagementConsole tool used by the Development Environment Setup wizard to run the Deploy Configuration task.
- MDMDatabase — This project contains the database creation scripts used by the Development Environment Setup wizard to run the Create Application Database task.
Closed projects remain in the file system, but are by default not visible in the workspace. You might need to reopen these if you need to repeat part or all of the setup process later.
Filtering content in the workspace
To control whether closed projects are visible, use the Customize View menu item in the Enterprise Explorer view (to access the menu, click on the small down arrow in the View toolbar).
Figure 1. Customize View menu item
Items checked in the Customize View dialog are not visible in the Enterprise Explorer view.
Figure 2. Customize View dialog
If you are using the Project Explorer, Navigator, or Package Explorer views instead of the Enterprise Explorer view, the menu item may be called something different, but similar functionality is available.
Enabling use of binary modules
Next, in the folder MDM/.settings, create a file named com.ibm.etools.j2ee.teamshare. This is a marker file; the contents do not matter, only the name. If the .settings folder is not visible in your workspace, you need to make .* resources visible by following the instructions in the preceding section.
Figure 3. Create marker file in MDM
Using binary modules
The MDM application project contains a number of JAR files (binary modules), which are the modules of the enterprise application. Some of these are expanded into the workspace as projects, which allows you to modify the files they contain.
When the MDM EAR file is exported or published to the server, the source projects from the workspace are built into JAR files, which override any JAR files with the same names in the MDM project.
Normally, if you delete a project from the workspace that is an EJB module, web module or utility module, the module is removed from the EAR. But once the teamshare marker file is in place, deleting a project will not remove it from the EAR. As long as the module JAR file is still present in the EAR, the EAR will function the same as before.
All this means that now that you have added the teamshare marker file to the MDM project, you can delete from the workspace some of the out-of-the-box projects that you don't actually need for extension development.
If you have modified files in an out-of-the-box project for any reason, don't delete it from the workspace. Your changes won't be in the binary module. And although you can repackage the binary module to update it, you may lose your changes if you apply server fixpacks later.
Having deleted a project from the workspace, you can easily recreate it from the binary module if needed by right-clicking on the MDM project and selecting Java EE > Extract Binary Modules to Projects.
Deleting projects from the workspace
Deleting a project is different from closing it. A closed project still exists and Eclipse knows it is there, so you won't be allowed to create a new project with the same name. A deleted project no longer exists, and you could create a new project with the same name as the one that was deleted.
When you delete a project from the workspace, Eclipse asks if you want to also delete the files from the file system — generally, it is a good idea to delete the files.
If you don't delete the files and later decide to recreate the deleted project, then the new project in your workspace will be automatically populated with the files from your file system that were in the project before. This can be rather confusing if you have forgotten that the files were still there. I recommend always deleting files from the file system when you delete a project (keep a separate backup if wanted).
Deciding which projects are required
The following projects in the workspace are modules that do not normally need to be expanded as projects:
- DataServices
- DataServicesEJB
- DWLAdminServices
- DWLAdminServicesEJB
- DWLAdminServicesWS
- DWLAdminServicesWS_HTTPRouter
- DWLAdminServicesWSEJB
- DWLMessagingAdapter
- EventManager
- EventManagerEJB
- ProductServicesWS
- ProductServicesWS_HTTPRouter
- ProductServicesWSEJB
- TAILMessagingEJB
- XMLServices
Unless you know you need to modify the content of one of these projects for some reason, they can all now be deleted from the workspace (delete the files from the file system too).
Because you added the teamshare marker file to the MDM project, deleting these projects from the workspace will not modify the services available from the MDM application; the binary modules are still present and working.
If you are developing extensions to MDM Server, the following projects must be in the workspace:
- CustomerResources
- DWLCommonServicesEJB
- XMLServicesEJB
To enable definition of extensions to the MDM data model and services, I recommend you also keep the following projects in workspace:
- BusinessServices
- BusinessServicesEJB
- DWLBusinessServices
- DWLBusinessServicesEJB
- DWLCommonServices
- DWLCommonServicesEJB
- FinancialServices
- FinancialServicesEJB
- Party
- PartyEJB
- Product
- ProductEJB
If you delete from the workspace a utility JAR project, such as BusinessServices, the corresponding EJB project disappears with it. When you add it back, the EJB project comes along, too.
Web services
If you do not intend to use MDM web services at all, you can delete from your workspace all projects with names ending in WS, WS_HTTPRouter, and WSEJB. If you do this, then when you create new module projects you must disable web service generation.
To do so, edit the mdmgen.xml file in the module project and locate the line:
<target name="all" depends="sql, implementation, createReferenceModel, webservices, merge" description="--> description">
and change to:
<target name="all" depends="sql, implementation, createReferenceModel, merge" description="--> description">
Save the change and generate code as usual.
If you are using web services and the test server has security disabled, you need to modify the WSEJB projects to swap in the _SecurityDisabled versions of the WebSphere deployment descriptor files, which means they must be in the workspace as projects.
You should keep the WS, WSEJB, and WS_HTTPRouter projects for the same module together, all in the workspace, or all as binary modules.
In theory, it is possible to remove some of the out-of-the-box web services projects from the workspace depending on which ones you are planning to use and what extensions and additions you are developing. However, in practice, it is quite difficult to know which web services projects you will need because the dependencies are not straightforward. So I recommend that if you are planning to use web services, keep all the following out-of-the-box web services projects in the workspace:
- BusinessServicesWS*
- DWLBusinessServicesWS*
- DWLCommonServicesWS*
- FinancialServicesWS*
- PartyWS*
- ProductWS*
If you know that you don't plan to use the CrossDomainServices web service, then all the CrossDomainServices projects can be deleted. Keep them in the workspace if you are planning to use the web service.
Note that for MDM Server 10, a new set of web services has been introduced that don't require any of these WS projects. In the instructions here, web services refers to the web services in MDM 9 and earlier. If you are on Version 10 and are only using the new single endpoint web services, you can remove from the workspace all the *WS projects (make sure legacy web service generation is disabled for your own module projects).
Developing extensions
Create new module projects as usual. If you do not want to generate web services for the new module, then disable web service generation by editing the mdmgen.xml file before generating code for the first time.
When you generate code, if any errors occur or projects with the same name as out-of-the-box projects have been created in the workspace unexpectedly, you have deleted from the workspace a project that was needed by code generation. Review which projects are required and correct any problems.
To recover an out-of-the-box project that you may have deleted in error, right-click on the MDM project, select Java EE > Extract Binary Modules to Projects.
New projects you create in the workspace will not automatically appear as binary modules in the MDM application project. You can package them as binary modules if wanted, but I recommend keeping all your extension code as source projects in the workspace.
In this article, I have explained how to start using the binary modules approach to reduce the number of projects in your MDM Server workspace. Making a few simple changes can dramatically speed up common extension development tasks.
For more in-depth information on binary modules, see the article by Gary Karasiuk and Jason Sholl which is, referenced in Resources.
- "Using binary modules to optimize Rational Application Developer in a team environment" is a step-by-step guide to using binary modules when developing J2EE applications.
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The Yucca Theatre opened in January 1947, as a second-run theater, for the Albuquerque Theatres chain. It was very short-lived, closing in 1952. In 1953, the Evangelical Temple church is shown at this address. There is a truck rental and sales business at this address today, but not sure if the theater building is still standing or has been replaced.
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paulgarson on May 20, 2013 at 12:43 pm
The 'founders' (early congregants) of St. Therese Catholic Church held services at the Yucca in the late 40s before the permanent church was built nearby
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Circa 1945 photo added, photo credit Don J Akin. Apparently it later showed burlesque.
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