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Yes, many call this type of tasting a "cross," but that implies that you've only got one row and one column populated, whereas a matrix implies that you have multiple rows and columns populated.
Anyway, mathematical geekiness aside, this was the second tasting with my new tasting group, and while this was a comparison I (and every other Bordeaux lover) have been wanting to make, it also worked nicely as a tasting that gave the novices an intro to Bordeaux and a chance to to see the difference between vintages, while also providing lots of interesting fodder for the more experienced or more detail-oriented tasters.
Very much enjoyed by all, the combination of 2009 and 2010 delivering a solid lineup of consistently excellent wines. My WOTN without question was the 2010 Haut-Beausejour, and I think it was also the consensus WOTN, in the sense that it was the wine everyone could agree on - but opinions certainly ranged. Now the notes, then my thoughts on 2009 vs 2010.
Chateau Haut-Beausejour, St. Estephe 2009
Awesome, effusive, heady, rich, dense nose of black fruit, tons of mineral, some chalk, chocolate, tobacco. Similar notes on the palate, rich black fruit and some tart red fruit, with a nice, succulent finish. Forward and opulent but with some underlying austerity. Ready now with some time in the decanter, and surprisingly easy to drink, but with 10 - 15 years ahead of it. 3.5 Stars [10/18/13]
Chateau Haut-Beausejour, St. Estephe 2010
Outstanding nose, with incredible density of black fruit, chalk, dusty earth/cocoa powder, and succulent red fruit. Wow. Saturating density on the palate, with dark berries, tart red fruit, mineral, and dust. Huge and intense yet with some lushness, succulent, and very fresh. The balance is extraordinary. This is a wonderfully complete wine, combining richness and density with classical St Estephe character in an remarkable way, and with the potential to age for 15 to 20 years from now. 4 Stars [10/18/13]
Chateau Bernadotte, Haut-Medoc 2009
Excellent nose, but reserved, loaded with cool black fruit, graphite, tobacco, leather, black pepper, and smoke. Similar notes on the palate, rich and dense but coiled and reserved, with black fruit and lots of tart red fruit. Full bodied. This is poised to become something great, but give it 5 to 10 years more, and it will last for 15 years from now, perhaps longer. 3.5 Stars [10/18/13]
Chateau Bernadotte, Haut-Medoc 2010
Excellent and dense but low key nose of black fruit and a bit of fleshy red fruit, with lots of anise, and mineral. Very restrained on the palate, but full and dense, with some nice, sweet, red fruit, that having a hint of tartness. This needs 5 to 10 years, and will last for 15 to 20 from now, with the potential to develop into a very complete and classical claret. 3.5 Stars [10/18/13]
Chateau Puy-Blanquet, St. Emilion (Grand Cru) 2009
Good nose, with loads of black currant, a bit of lush blueberry, smoke, fig, and mineral. Identical notes on the palate, rich and dense, with a bit of grip. This has a very pleasant succulence and tartness, and is relatively easy going and approachable, but has some stuffing. Will last another 5 to 10 years. 3 Stars [10/18/13]
Chateau Puy-Blanquet, St. Emilion (Grand Cru) 2010
Low key but good nose, with smokey currant and mineral. But the palate is rather lovely, with wonderful red and black currants, savory, and beautifully lush. This is very similar in personality but more balanced and complete than its 2009 sibling, and should last for 10 years from now. 3.5 Stars [10/18/13]
First off, it is clear that 2009 and 2010 both deliver a remarkable depth of quality at every price tier. These were all from $25 to $35, and the two Left Bank chateaux in particular offered outstanding quality for the price. Now, I could be wrong, but my current perception of the critical opinion on these two vintage is that everyone is enthralled by 2009, and 2010 almost seems to be a relative afterthought for some, but that there is also a growing undercurrent of opinion that 2010 could turn out to be superior in the end. Based on my experience so far, aided greatly by this tasting, there is no question: to me, 2010 is clearly superior. It interesting that these two vintage are presented as being diametric opposites. But I'm no longer sure that that is completely accurate. They are both dense, rich, fully constituted vintages with excellent structure, and I'm beginning to think of the two vintages very much as siblings. And here is the crux of it for me: everything 2009 does, 2010 does better. It's as if the latter said to the former "Let me show you how it's done. I can be rich and dense too, while also being fresh and perfectly balanced." The 2010s seem to be such complete wines. This tasting has made me rethink my buying plans - I had this idea of only buying 2009 and 2010 in pairs by chateau. But, to be honest, while I will still do that to some extent just because these two vintages need to be tasted together down the road, I now plan to focus on 2010. In fact, I may end up buying more 2010 than I have done for any vintage so far.
So, what do the rest of the Bordeaux drinkers around here think? 2009 or 2010?


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Intel 320 Series 300GB SSD Performance Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging
Less than a month after the introduction of the 510 Series SSD, Intel has released the 320 Series. This is essentially a 'G3' X25-M, running at the usual SATA 3Gb/sec speeds. While it won't be as fast in a straight line as the 510 series, the 320 has the extremely nimble 10-channel controller under its belt. Check out our review to see how it fared against the competition, as well as against the other Intel models.
Today we take a look at the third generation of Intel's native SSD controller solution. What started life as the X25-M series has now been dubbed the 320 Series. This falls in line with Intel's new naming scheme, where all SSD lines get some form of a 3-digit number. 3xx Series are SATA 3Gb/sec, while 5xx Series are 6Gb/sec.
The X25-M series got off to a shaky start in life, as the initial shipping version was plagued by some long-term fragmentation issues discovered by yours truly. The plague was short lived, thankfully, as Intel stepped up to the plate and corrected these problems in firmware. The second generation model was released without a hiccup, but the addition of TRIM support via firmware saw some problems as well. Those were eventually ironed out and all was good once again.
Last month we saw Intel launch the 510 Series. The unit did not live up to our expectations from an Intel controller - mostly because an Intel controller it was not. Just as they were blind sighted and rushed a 6Gb/sec motherboard solution to the market, Intel did the same with the 510, opting for a Marvell controller. Sure they worked some of their own firmware magic into it, but there is only so much you can squeeze out of a given piece of hardware. Their Sandy Bridge launch did not go so great either, as some of our readers are still getting their motherboards replaced with correctly functioning B3 versions.
The 320 Series boasts 25nm flash memory. PC Perspective got a first hand look at 25nm production early last year. We had been waiting for this memory to make an appearance in an Intel part, and our wait is finally over. To revisit what 25nm flash does for us, check out this pic:
From left: 130nm (128MB) in 2003, 90nm (512MB) in 2005, 50nm (1GB) in 2007,
34nm (4GB) in 2009, and finally 25nm (8GB) flash now being produced at IMFT.
To the far right is the now standard flash memory TSOP packaging.
34nm (4GB) in 2009, and finally 25nm (8GB) flash now being produced at IMFT.
To the far right is the now standard flash memory TSOP packaging.
A single die of 25nm flash holds a whopping 8GB. While multiple dies can be stacked inside each chip package, the more you stack, the greater chance a failed part will cause a TSOP to be considered bad during the production process. For this reason, larger die capacities and fewer dies per chip make things cheaper to produce all around. This should make for some competitive pricing as well.
An important note: the 320 series, while packaged and sold to consumers, is also rated for enterprise use. This is the first MLC based Intel SSD to make such a claim. The ratings above were for consumer applications. Here are the ratings for enterprise usage where the drive will see heavy random writes spread across 100% of the available drive capacity:
Intel is failing *way* conservative, assuming no use of TRIM and 100% of the drive full of 4k random writes. This would make many other SSD's choke completely, so I'm shocked to see Intel be brave enough to even provide such a rating. I hit our sample really hard for half a day and was not able to get IOPS to fall as far as their rating.
Our 320 series sample came in the standard OEM packaging with the new style of sticker. The retail packaging comes with a CD and 3.5" adapter bracket in the box.
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Do you have a formula to help me calculate the amount of added sugar in a recipe?
There are obvious and hidden sources of added sugars in recipes.For the obvious sources, such as white and brown sugar, honey and corn syrup, here are the amounts for 1 cup and 1 teaspoon respectively:
Granulated (white) sugar: 200g (in 1 cup) and 4g (in 1 teaspoon).
Brown sugar (packed): 213g and 5g; Powdered sugar (sifted): 98g and 2g; Honey: 278g and 6g; Light corn syrup: 91g and 2g.
The hidden sources, such as the amount in sauces, are more difficult to determine, since this is not usually stated on the label. You can find some of them here: USDA Database for the Added Sugars Content of Selected Foods, Release 1. Happy cooking!


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Michael Wilson is chief investment officer of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Morgan Stanley & Co. and chief US equity strategist for Morgan Stanley & Co. As CIO and chair of the Global Investment Committee, Mike is responsible for all the investment and asset allocation advice provided to the firm's $2.1 trillion in retail client assets. Over the past 25 years, Mike has held various roles with increasing responsibilities, mostly within Morgan Stanley & Co.'s Institutional Securities Group. He started his career in 1989 in investment banking before transitioning to the Institutional Equities Division in 1995 where Mike created and managed the sector specialist team while serving as a technology sector specialist himself. In 2009, he became head of content distribution for North American institutional equities and then CIO for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in 2012. He was made chief US equity strategist and CIO for institutional securities in 2017. He is a regular guest on CNBC and Bloomberg and is often quoted in popular financial publications such as Barron's, The Wall Street Journal and on various news wires. He is on the operating committees of the firm's Wealth Management and Institutional Securities divisions. He is also a member of the Morgan Stanley Retirement Plan Investment Committee. Mike holds a BBA from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.


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Can the Economy Get its Mojo Back?
Ben Casselman joins The News Hub with a closer look at how the last few years of sub-par growth compares to previous economic expansions. (Photo: Getty Images)
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PARIS (AP) — Shoe hats, lobster dresses, and spiraling goggle glasses could easily be part of a closet inventory belonging to Lady Gaga.
But these objects were all spawned from the mind of another woman, who was born — incredibly — in 1890: the avant-garde Elsa Schiaparelli.
The house of the influential fashion designer, and hated rival of Coco Chanel, is being revived this fall, in one of the most highly anticipated fashion events of 2012 in Paris. There's been a flurry of activity this year, including actress Farida Khelfa being named as house ambassador.
If Schiaparelli is no longer a household name — her business folded in 1954, and she died in 1973 — her design firsts have certainly lived on: newspaper prints, exposed zippers, perfume bottles in the female form, shocking pink, and — arguably — the first woman's power suit.
"The house Schiaparelli is really the DNA of fashion," says Khelfa. "When you see the world of fashion across the century, you can see all the people she has inspired —all the great couturiers of the last century and this one."
The new house will, of course, inherit all the iconic house codes, but — lacking an artistic director and any clothes dating past 1954 — it surely must be one of the most curious fashion relaunches in recent times.
But why strike now?
"It feels like the right moment... and things are moving quickly," said Khelfa who added they've finally found a key piece of the puzzle in reacquiring the original showroom on the 21 Place Vendome, which will set the tone for the clothes production, expected next summer.
"It's really something to be in the very place of creation. We can imagine the boutique downstairs, with all the window displays made by (artist Salvador) Dali. ... In her day, there were three great women at Place Vendome: Schiaparelli, Madame Chanel and Madame Gres. Now we're back."
Inside the revamped showroom, Schiaparelli bigwigs have painstakingly recreated her surrealist universe. Original artifacts that artists designed for the Schiaparelli boutique are proudly on display. Across five salons, glittering gold columns by Alberto Giacometti, a powder compact in the shape of a telephone dial by Dali, a wacky colored carpet by Fernand Leger, spiraling metal glasses created by Man Ray.
Also featured is a "cabinet of curiosity" which featured the perfume Shocking — a reminder of why the Schiaparelli name became world renowned. A one-foot (30-centimeter) curved fuchsia perfume bottle stands provocatively in the shape of the bust of Hollywood sex symbol Mae West — a design echoed by designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier. "Shocking" was an adjective on high rotation in the Schiaparelli vocabulary. She invented a bright fuchsia hue — the now world famous "shocking pink" — that she chose as the house's signature color.
In 1948, according to company lore, a survey of Americans put Elsa Schiaparelli at the top of their list of most famous French people. But they still couldn't pronounce her name: the "Sch" is hard, as in "school."
A much-publicized exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in May, featuring Schiaparelli's dresses alongside modern Prada ones, introduced her melodic name to whole a new generation, but showed how avant-garde her designs remain.
People "had trouble seeing which was the dress from 1927 and which was from 2012," says Khelfa. "Often the 1927 ones looked more current! That's true avant-garde."
Paris-based fashion writer Rebecca Voight sees the launch as hugely promising. "She still has such an incredibly vibrant image and what a name. The people behind the launch are really in the know, so there's really no reason they'll get it wrong. The question is who will (the designer) be?"
The identity of the artistic director remains the biggest question mark.
The pressure for the launch to succeed may perhaps explain why there's still been no formal announcement, although it was scheduled for September.
Khelfa and Schiaparelli CEO Camilla Schiavone dismissed rumors that John Galliano might be in the running, but they both refused to reveal a short-list.
Schiavone tried to explain away the secrecy.
"The house was rebought in 2006. Now, we have the property. We've waited so long to get it right. We're not interested in running after someone. But you will know in the next three weeks or so. The first, what I call, ready-to-couture collection will probably be June 2013."
Ready-to-couture is a concept Schiavone hopes will keep the classy profile of the Schiaparelli name. Garments won't be available in boutiques but will be made-to-measure for select clients who are invited to the 21 Place Vendome for fittings. Though the house says the aim is to produce highly wearable clothes, the first collection will be shown during the Paris Haute Couture week — fittingly, alongside historic rival Chanel.
In their heyday, Coco Chanel dismissed Schiaparelli as "that Italian artist who makes clothes." Schiaparelli responded, equally cattily, calling Chanel "that milliner."
Fashion rivalries are in vogue at the moment. A highlight of this year's fashion calendar involves the media pitting the two new designers at Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior against each other.
So after 60 years does the Schiaparelli revival signal there'll once again be handbags at dawn on the Place Vendome?
"No! Chanel is Chanel. It remains Chanel," says Khelfa. She hesitates: "But Schiaparelli is coming!"
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I wouldn't call the Toshiba Canvio Slim II skinny, but that's my only major complaint about the new USB 3.0 portable external hard drive.
The drive inherits all the goodies that come with its older brother, the compact
In all, at the current price of around $100 for 1TB or $75 for 500GB, the Toshiba Canvio Slim II is an easy recommendation for anybody who needs a quick storage solution, either to expand their laptop capacity or to backup important data. For more choices on great portable drives, including those that are slimmer than the Slim II, check out this list.
Compact, sturdy and well-thought-out design
Measuring 4.2 x 3 x 0.5 inches, the Slim II is is very compact. It's not the slimmest drive on the market, however. The Seagate GoFlex Slim that came out two years ago is a bit thinner at .32-inch.
In my trials, the drive worked with all USB 3.0 ports and USB 2.0 ports without problems. It has one interesting feature, which is its status light in one corner. This light turns on when the drive is plugged in, turns off when it's not in use, and and flashes to indicate data activity. The color of the light changes to white if you use it with a USB 2.0 port and to blue when it's plugged into a USB 3.0 port. This is very helpful for folks who don't know which type of USB port they're using.
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|OSes supported
|Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, 7), Mac OS 10.4.6 or higher
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|NTFS driver (Mac) , Password Tools (Windows and Mac), NTI Backup Now Ez (Windows), Pogoplug@PC (Windows)
Helpful bundled software
Similar to the Canvio Connect, the Canvio Slim II comes preformatted in NTFS, so if you're using it with a Windows computer, all you have to do is plug it in. On a Mac, you'll need to install Tuxera NTFS for Mac, included on the drive itself, before you can write to the drive. After that, you can also use the drive to back up your Mac using Time Machine.
Other than that, it also comes with a few other software applications, including NTI Backup Now Ez, Pogoplug PC, and HDD Password Tool. The first two are available only for Windows and the last one is available for both Windows and Mac.


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Couldn't make it to Switzerland for this year's World Economic Forum?
No worries - you can watch a full video of one of the highlight events, Marissa Mayer's first one-on-one interview as CEO of Yahoo, right here thanks to Bloomberg Television.
She shares plenty of thoughts on what Yahoo needs to do and even some more general thoughts on the future of tech.


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The Education Achievement Authority of Michigan (EAA) recently announced the student assessment results, which showed significant growth in students and proved that the student-centered learning approach is working.
"The scores are phenomenal and impressive. Students have responded enthusiastically to the new blended, student-centered approach to education," said EAA Chancellor Dr. John Wm. Covington. "They are showing they want to learn and can learn given the right environment. They are closing the educational gap."
The tests, administered in late April and early May in the 12 direct-run EAA schools, show that 56 percent of students already have achieved one or more year's growth in reading and 44 percent have achieved two or more years' growth. In math, 65 percent of students achieved one full year's growth, and 48 percent achieved two full years' growth.
These scores are an increase from the growth experienced by students in the earlier tests administered in late January and early February when 27 percent of students had achieved one or more year's growth in reading and 22 percent in mathematics.
The most significant growth in reading at the high school level came at Central Collegiate Academy; where reading proficiency scores show that 62 percent of students have already achieved two or more years' growth. The most significant growth at the elementary/middle level came at Nolan Elementary/Middle School, where 36 percent of students had achieved two or more years' growth in reading whilst 23 percent having achieved between one and two year's growth.
The most significant growth in mathematics performance at the high school level was also at Central where 84 percent of students tested achieved two or more years' growth, and another 2 percent had a full year's growth by the end of April. Phoenix Multicultural Academy had the most significant growth at the elementary/middle school level with 48 percent of students achieving two or more years' growth and an additional 25 percent having achieved between one and two years' growth.
A year's growth is equivalent to the number of skills a student learns in a traditional school year as determined by a national sample.
"Students are making gains every day, some on small levels and others on greater levels," said Mary Esselman, Deputy Chancellor, Instructional Support and Instructional Accountability.
"My daughter and I both love her school, Nolan Elementary/Middle School," said parent volunteer Sheri Stovall. "I have watched my daughter achieve so much this year. Her reading test scores have skyrocketed and she loves to read all the time now. With the student-centered learning model, she gets to keep moving up in levels when she masters the material so she hasn't been getting bored or losing focus, which helps her achieve even more."
Esselman said that many parents and students are thrilled with the outcome of student-centered learning.
"My math and reading scores have improved and it makes me feel like I'm really learning," said Jordan Cook, 11, a student at Brenda Scott Elementary/Middle School. "I like being able to work at my own pace."
"We are able to continue adjusting their learning plans according to their learning needs so that each student continues to experience gains," Esselman said. "We are projecting that the majority of students will be on target to have closed their achievement gap by one year or more by June. We are especially pleased that no student will fail; students, in large part because of the extended school year, will continue to work toward mastery and growth.
"The schools admitted into the EAA were in the lowest of the 5 percent of Persistently Lowest Achieving schools in the State," Covington added. "This new data shows that these students now are learning. These schools have gone from a pattern of failing children to educating children. Students are catching up. We are working to get as many students at grade level and to make sure students who need more time are getting the attention needed."
Students achieving gains in individual growth in the 12 direct run EAA schools are as follows:
Reading 2 yrs or more 1.5 years 1 year Total 1 yr
Elementary/Middle growth growth growth or more
Brenda Scott Elem/Middle 39% 8% 10% 57%
Burns Elem/Middle School 26% 7% 7% 42%
Law Academy 43% 5% 6% 55%
Mary M. Bethune Elem/Middle 31% 6% 11% 49%
Nolan Elem/Middle School 36% 9% 14% 59%
Phoenix Multicultural Academy 40% 6% 7% 53%
High School
Central Collegiate Academy 62% 2% 0% 64%
Denby High School 47% 2% 2% 51%
Henry Ford High School 52% 3% 2% 57%
Mumford High School 43% 3% 2% 48%
Pershing High School 54% 1% 1% 56%
Southeastern High School 50% 2% 2% 54%
Math 2 yr or more 1.5 year 1 year Total 1 yr
Elementary/Middle growth growth growth or more
Brenda Scott Elem/Middle 37% 11% 15% 63%
Burns Elem/Middle School 26% 9% 15% 50%
Law Academy 33% 12% 12% 57%
Mary M. Bethune Elem/Middle 33% 9% 13% 55%
Nolan Elem/Middle School 25% 11% 16% 52%
Phoenix Multicultural Academy 48% 9% 16% 73%
High School
Central Collegiate Academy 84% 1% 1% 86%
Denby High School 67% 3% 1% 71%
Henry Ford High School 64% 4% 3% 71%
Mumford High School 64% 2% 2% 68%
Pershing High School 68% 2% 3% 73%
Southeastern High School 61% 3% 3% 67%


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HollyVote! Brangelina Baby Mystery Solved By Our BFFs!
We are so grateful for you readers! Whenever there is a mystery that needs solving, you jump right in to help us figure it out. For example, when we had trouble telling Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's identical children apart, you were there to help clarify!
And when NOBODY could agree on who the heck the baby in the photo above was — Knox, Shiloh, or a random imposter — you all weighed in.
And the majority of you think … the baby is Shiloh! The three-year-old has been looking more and more like a boy each day, but 39% of you say it is definitely little Shiloh in the photo!
And as read Village points out, "That's Shiloh. She never goes anywhere without her blue 'silky'. Brad talked about it on Oprah. Shiloh may look like a boy and dress like a boy, but she's got that satin blue square with her all the time."
But Santo, like us, thought this was not Shiloh! "For those who think the 1st is Shiloh please note the hair. She has always had blonde hair. That kid's hair is dark."
So, finally we have all been scolded into submission, and will say that it is in fact Shiloh in the photo above. (Even though some of us still thinks it's a boy cousin or secret Brangelina baby.)


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It may have been the warm weather, the great food or the inspiring scenery but the developers of South Africa couldn't have a picked a better time or place for the first BlackBerry® Jam Session Super Hackathon in Africa!
It was truly a remarkable event with people flying from Botswana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and different parts of South Africa. To make the event even more challenging we decided to hold a multi-city hackathon: with the help of our two BlackBerry Apps Lab Managers in Pretoria and Cape Town we established a video call session so that attendees and technical resources could interact and share experiences.
The event kicked off early in the morning when, after some caffeine and calories, everyone had enough energy to function and start the brainstorming.
There were 11 teams with one team, @NegatronDev, working on two apps at the same time!
And at the end of the day, only three teams could put their hands on the prize. I had the opportunity to spend some time with all the teams and got to know them better
Best App – ReserveMe – Flying Solo (Leon Van Dyk)
Since joining our BlackBerry Jam World Tour back in July, Leon's involvement with the BlackBerry platform has grown and he has actively participated with the activities in the BlackBerry Apps Lab in Pretoria.
"I registered for the hackathon to support the local community of developers, not only within Cape Town but also Southern Africa. The opportunity to meet local developers and network was a huge bonus with a few friendships being made before I left. I also wanted to test my BlackBerry skills and to partake in the first Jam Session Super Hackathon in Africa!" says Leon who has become quite familiar now with BlackBerry development – "I have developed one app that involves managing events and is heavily integrated into the BlackBerry 10 experience. I intend on continuing to develop ReserveMe and refine it a bit more until it reaches my personal quality requirements as well as BlackBerry's . I plan to have both apps in the store before launch".
Best Design – SnapMenu – Backspace (Ndivhuwo Nthambeleni, Vutlhari Rikhotso, Eugene Masinga)
Backspace is a team based in Pretoria who decided to create a menu app for students who have a tight budget and want a wide choice of fast food. Vutlhari told me "I get all my app ideas from problems that I face, so the idea came from a constant irritation of having to look at the display menus in restaurants."
Coding is their passion, "I love coding, I love designing, I love apps and I love people. I subscribe to the school of thought that believes software should be free unless it makes the receiving party money. I joined because I want to aid in enhancing the experience of using a BlackBerry 10 device".
Vutlhari is currently working on a BlackBerry 10 application that will be released soon and he's finding the BlackBerry Apps Lab in Pretoria to be extremely useful "Yes, the lab for one has been one of the greatest things about developing for BlackBerry, along with the people, the access to tools and internet. They all have been a major help in learning BlackBerry development"
Best e-commerce – BizFinder – BrightLabs (Kehiloe Sereo, Dintle Sealetsa)
BrightLabs came all the way from Botswana to represent their development studio. They are already familiar to the BlackBerry platform having developed an app for BlackBerry OS devices called 'ekse!'. They decided to attend the hackathon as that was "…an unmissable opportunity to have our first 'live' BlackBerry event experience and join in on the fun" says Dintle.
So how do they feel about being one of the winners?
"Winning app? We still can't get used to the sound of that! We were more than happy to just submit anything really. We brainstormed some ideas – some crazy, some colorful – until we settled on the idea we thought was easy and quick to hack, usable and of value to the user"
And it's a pleasure to hear that they think "the BlackBerry developer community is what makes the platform fun to develop on. And BlackBerry has done great in offering these developers top-notch support and development, and a robust set of tools to work with. Happy developers are a result of a happy and fun platform and ecosystem – KUDOS!"
And when the sun was down it was time to pack everything up and head home. The adrenaline was still high but some devs had a long way to go before being able to reach their bed.
And to sum this up "One can see huge amounts of effort was put into the event and I would like to thank everyone who participated into making it a reality and I hope to see them soon"
Not our words but we could say exactly the same! Big thanks to the BlackBerry Apps Lab Manager of Pretoria, Jacques Du Toit, and Cape Town, Glenn Stein, for supporting us throughout the event.
And last but not least, Lany Sommers, Senior Business Development Manager, whose mastermind is responsible for building the state-of-the-art BlackBerry Apps Lab facilities across the region says 'The talent in South Africa is overwhelming. A HUGE thank you to all who made the event happen and for all those who participated. What a way to inaugurate the launch of our lab in Cape Town!'
Next African stop: Nairobi, Kenya (Nov 17)
See you there!
Luca (@BlackBerryLuca) & Michael (@mweitzel)


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Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Bernhard Kohl is Not the Enemy of Cyclesport
And just to clarify, it was Roy Sentjens who said that you couldn't finish in the top-10 without doping, not Bernhard Kohl.
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Oh, we all know nobody's *won* the tour since the early 90s, but what Kohl said was that no-one could even get a top 10, which I think is stretching it. I can't think of anyone in the past 20 years who even podium'ed the TdF that I didn't highly suspect, or was subsequently proven to be doping, but you can catch a lucky break and top 10 without doping, IMHO.ReplyDelete
Matt, it was actually Roy Sentjens who said you couldn't get a top-10 w/o doping, not Kohl. Sorry if that wasn't clear.ReplyDelete
Your proposed preface will continue to be necessary until the subjects stop insisting that the Emperor is clothed.ReplyDelete
Joe, you're right, mea culpa. Hell in that case I'd be willing to go one step farther and say that it's impossible to podium in the TdF w/o doping.ReplyDelete
Congrats to Kohl for at least partially breaking the Omerta.
I feel bad that he feels that he can't be a pro anymore.
The irony, I think, about all these denials and excuses is that it never works. If you look at all the pros who just stick with the deny, deny, deny tactic, they've all failed. Hamilton, Landis, Mancebo, etc. They've all gone down the tubes. On the other hand, Dave Millar, said "Fuck yeah, I doped, Fuck You", served his two years, and has been a respected pro cyclist for nearly a decade after the incident.
Have you heard of the Tattoos that Adam Myerson and Phil Gaimon have gotten?
I can only speak as the average fan but I have no issue with Kohl. He got caught and he came clean (for the most part) and he has contributed to cleaning up the sport. He quietly accepted an invite to USADA annual conference and I guess he made some interesting points. This is not the path the typical doper takes, they deny or claim they only took it once and never when they were winning. He deserves better in my opinion because he manned up.ReplyDelete
I find it interesting and possibly self serving you choose 1999. You know full well the modern era of doping did not begin with LA. He may have raised the doping game a notch but all the winners back to but not including Lemond IMO were doped on EPO. Good blog as usual, I would love to know the first clean rider in the last 10 tours, any guesses?
Subconsciously picked 1999 - thanks for pointing out the arbitrariness of that. Date could be 1991 for all we know, over even earlier (though of course I hope that's not the case). Clearly the introduction to and adoption by the peloton of EPO and other oxygen-vector drugs is what changed the equation.ReplyDelete
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Directing in tandem: Belgium's Dardenne Brothers pilot tale of 'Kid with a Bike'
Climbing staircases, and traversing the labyrinthian hallways leading to a Lincoln Center green room, somebody asks the Dardenne Brothers if they feel like their young protagonist in The Kid with a Bike. For much of the movie, 11-year-old Cyril is either running or riding his bicycle. There is laughter, but neither of the trim Belgian filmmakers, 61-year-old Jean-Pierre and 57-year-old Luc, breaks his stride. In New York City for interviews and a New York Film Festival public screening, the Dardennes answer all other questions thoughtfully, yet with a reserve that lends an enigmatic quality to their personalities.
The Kid with a Bike, the Dardennes' eighth narrative feature, will open in U.S. theatres via IFC's Sundance Selects label on March 16. It marks a first in their oeuvre—the casting of an international star, Belgian-born Cécile de France (Hereafter), in a major role. Another noteworthy difference in the filmmakers' cinematic realism, which generally precludes a musical score, is a leitmotiv for young Cyril (Thomas Doret) from Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5. Cyril chooses Samantha (de France) as a step-parent after his father, played by Jérémie Renier, abandons him. This is Renier's third role in a Dardenne Brothers film; his debut, at age 14, was in La Promesse (1996).
Like Renier, all of the Dardennes' fledgling stars go on to film careers, including Émilie Dequenne in Rosetta (1999) and Déborah François in L'Enfant (2005). L'Enfant garnered the filmmakers their second Palme d'Or at Cannes; Rosetta was their first, with Dequenne collecting Best Actress. Arta Dobroshi, of the upcoming Late Bloomers, was unknown outside her native Yugoslavia when she appeared in Lorna's Silence (2009). The Dardennes handed Olivier Gourmet his breakout role when they cast him alongside Renier in La Promesse; he has since appeared in six of their movies, most notably in Le Fils (The Son, 2002).
Thirteen-year-old Thomas Doret was discovered in a casting call. His debut portrayal of a determined but very vulnerable Cyril, placed in a foster home by his father after his grandmother's death, is both disturbing and credible. That authenticity, which the Dardenne Brothers inspire in all the young actors they mentor, is what initially unsettles an audience. In the back of viewers' minds is the niggling question of from what well a teenager dredges up the disquieting emotions a Dardenne Brothers movie demands of them. The answer lies at the core of the writing-directing team's method of filmmaking, which begins much like the rehearsal of a dance troupe. "We hope by starting with the physical work," Luc Dardenne explains, "that we will free the actors, and us, too."
In this signature behavioral training, a 40-day rehearsal period before production, the actors engage in teamwork, and develop the level of stamina—the Dardennes do dozens of takes—required for their roles. "We don't hire a fight master," Luc says. "The actors get to know us through physical contact, and they get to know their acting partners. This helps to establish a climate of trust." Finding the gestures or stances unique to their actors and, by extension, the actors identifying expressions or poses intrinsic to their personalities, the Dardennes allow cast members to make their characters their own. Dialogue, emotion and gesture all meld to create a performance that appears artless, a key component of the realism which is the hallmark of the filmmakers' mise-en-scène.
"We need to turn them to work," Luc says, which is a reference to their method, but also to the resulting self-conscious psychological state of the actors that is key to the Dardennes' meaningful depiction of their working-class protagonists. This is most evident in Gourmet's performance in Le Fils, where the preciseness with which he approaches carpentry, and the teaching of woodworking to his students, illustrates a level of craft worthy of admiration. In child protagonists such as Rosetta and Cyril, that physical activity is a relief from psychic pain, a healing and rather enviable resiliency, which nonetheless springs from the circumstances of their lives.
The Dardennes, whose movies are set in their hometown, are undoubtedly filmmakers of conscience, but quietly so. "We saw people like our characters a little bit through the window," Jean-Pierre says of their working-class neighbors in the Belgian city of Seraing, "but we did not live as they did. They interested us a lot, though." Among those characters are the father-and-son team in La Promesse who house and exploit illegal immigrants, the eponymous teenager in Rosetta whose desire for normalcy is thwarted by an alcoholic mother, and Gourmet's carpenter in Le Fils, who discovers among his pupils the boy who murdered his son. In their misery lie the seeds of their transformation. As for their novice actors, the stand-ins for the laborers of Seraing, the Dardennes have, one at a time, "turned them to work."
The brothers, who share credit for directing, producing and screenwriting, find inspiration in real life, or in stories recounted to them. For The Kid with a Bike, they first imagined a boy's expression of his anger. The movie opens in an office of the foster home where Cyril and his teacher are attempting to reach Guy, Cyril's father, on the telephone. The number has been disconnected, but Cyril insists on trying again, wrenching the phone away from his teacher and dialing himself. He needs to find his father and his bike. "We thought of a bike," Luc explains, "because we said to ourselves, it's a boy and he's full of violence. We pictured him doing things that were dangerous, like wheelies, or getting up on top of the bike, putting all his energy and his anger into the bike."
The bike soon figured prominently in the plot. "It gives him the possibility of leaving the foster home," Luc says, "and of seeing his father. He also enters the forest when his bike is stolen." There, Cyril meets Wes, a troubled teenager, who uses him to commit a crime. Jean-Pierre adds that the bike highlights the fairytale aspect of the movie as well. "The first time Cyril goes into the woods, we are in wide angle," he notes. "He stops just before he goes in, right at the edge of the woods, and we underscore the danger he is in. Like Perrault's fairytale 'Hop o' My Thumb,' we are afraid for Cyril in the same way we are for the little boy who leaves breadcrumbs in the woods when his parents take him there to lose him." In the Dardennes' films, peril and the reckless acts they inspire are mitigated by the possibility of redemption.
Often compared to Robert Bresson for their elliptical style and use of non-professional actors, the Dardennes differ with the French master in several significant ways. "We are not as hard as Bresson," Luc observes. In The Kid, when Cyril is trying to escape his pursuers who will return him to the foster home, he runs into a clinic, spies Samantha, grabs her, and then holds her in a desperate embrace. "We thought that when the boy took her in his arms as he did, Samantha felt something very strong," Luc explains. Jean-Pierre adds: "In a way, one could think that they have something to accomplish together. These are two souls that are alone." The "souls" in the Dardennes' films almost always form new families from broken ones.
During pre-production, Luc and Jean Pierre use a small beta camera to map camera placement and movement. They record rehearsals with the same camera. "We try to find a way of filming all of the scenes in all of the sets," Luc says. Then, when we have found the movements we want for the camera and the actors, we call in the technical team." The Dardennes, who began as documentary filmmakers, discuss their plan for each location with cinematographer Alain Marcoen, who has been their DP on six features. During production, suggestions from cast or crew can change any aspect of the film.
If the Dardennes feel any loss of novelty for their techniques after more than 30 years of collaboration, it is not evident in their demeanor. They smile when asked about their unusual sibling partnership. Jean-Pierre points to the influence of 88-year-old Italian-French dramatist Armand Gatti, with whom he studied theatre. (Luc's degree is in philosophy.) "When I finished school, I kept working with him and then Luc joined me," he explains. "We were really impressed by the work we had done with Armand. He gave us the feeling that we could do things. At first, we did documentaries, a little bit like we had seen him do. That's how it all began."
Thanks to Dominique Borel for translation and editorial suggestions.


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Stay in touch with future developments in the Crossover Classic's transformation. Stop by the website for photos and blogs, and stand by for the next step: a complete overhaul of the Classic's instrument panel. With each stage in its completion, this project gets more and more ambitious.
AOPA's 2011 sweepstakes airplane—a 1974 Cessna Skylane we're calling the "Crossover Classic"—has passed a huge milestone. On January 26, 2011, Advantage Avionics of Chino, California, finished its eight-week, 300-man-hour instrument panel mega-installation. Now the airplane features a wealth (literally—the new panel's retail value is some $100,000) of state-of-the-art avionics.
The eye is most readily drawn to Garmin's G500 primary flight display (PFD) and multifunction display (MFD). This top-of-the-line retrofit glass may produce sensory overload at first, but with a little effort and a couple of hours behind the yoke, the system is easy to operate. Make that very easy if you have prior experience with Garmin avionics.
I went along on the airplane's shakedown flight with the new panel, which included checks of all the GPS, instrument, and autopilot functions. The Cobham/S-Tec System Fifty-Five X autopilot held heading and vertical speeds very well, and altitude-preselect climbs and descents, instrument approaches, and course intercepts were quite precise. The inevitable glitches included a too-loud autopilot-disconnect warning tone, and hunting in pitch while in altitude-hold mode. The airplane would climb and descend plus and minus 60 feet of the selected altitude; this was most pronounced in turbulence. Cobham/S-Tec will tweak the autopilot's gain levels to correct this nuisance and keep the airplane's altitude dead on.
Advantage's Mark Krueger had already plugged in our 182P's V-speeds into the G500 vertical-tape airspeed display, but for the time being these numbers are in miles per hour. This is to stay true to the Airplane Flight Manual (AFM) as the regs require. However, Air Plains is working on a new AFM that will use knots. This will let us use knots as primary references, making the airplane an all-knots ship (the L-3 Trilogy standby instrument system is already marked in knots).
The airplane's Garmin GTS 800 traffic advisory system (TAS) proved its worth in the skies over Southern California, issuing plenty of alerts for nearby traffic. It's a great tool for directing your attention to specific targets—and it works independently, no matter where you fly. It doesn't rely on approach control surveillance radar feeds (such as Traffic Information Services-Broadcast—TIS-B) or ground uplinks of other aircrafts' GPS locations, such as Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B). Instead, Garmin's TAS does its own scanning of other transponder-equipped aircraft.
By the way, the airplane's way out-of-rig, right-wing-low condition was corrected in an hour at Advantage. Seems the left aileron drooped, causing a permanent right-turning tendency. Everything was centered up, and all is well. Having an autopilot is a great cross-country aid. Having an airplane that will trim up to fly hands-off is just as good—and a necessary precondition for making the autopilot's job easier. I can't imagine how the previous owner could tolerate always holding left aileron.
Checks finished, squawks addressed, and XM WX downloaded (an ordeal I've described in a blog on the sweepstakes website), it was time to launch. Destination: Air Mod, an interior shop with an impeccable reputation, based at southwest Ohio's Clermont County Airport (I69). In all, this is a 1,200-nm voyage, so I ended up breaking the trip into several legs.
After leaving Chino (CNO), the first leg took me through the Banning Pass at 5,500 feet, sliding past the west side of the Palm Springs International Airport (PSP), then climbing to 9,500 feet on my way past the Thermal (TRM), Blythe (BLH), and Buckeye (BXK) VORs for a landing at the Phoenix-Goodyear Airport (GYR). This was a leg of just more than two hours. The next leg, to Albuquerque International Airport (ABQ), would be at 11,500 feet, and take another three hours.
Could I have flown from Chino to ABQ nonstop? Well, yes, considering that I had 98 gallons of fuel aboard (74 in the mains, and 24 in the Flint Aero tip tanks). But flying nonstop would have meant a five-hour leg in an airplane that would, conservatively, have left me with a legal, 45-minute fuel reserve. Personally, I like to land with at least an hour of fuel remaining, so this prompted me to gas up at Phoenix.
After an overnight at Albuquerque, the next day I set out for Wichita's Mid-Continent Airport (ICT), an easy, two-hour flight. After liftoff, it was a climb back up to 11,500 feet to clear the pass east of ABQ (and stay in radar contact), and then on to ICT in step descents that let me run up the power and boost cruise speeds to the 146-KTAS range.
A cold—or was it the flu?—took me down in Wichita, so I stayed there for a few days. It didn't matter to the schedule, anyway: A monster winter storm system with a wicked warm front shut down my entire proposed route of flight and even grounded airliners all over the eastern half of the nation. All I could do was watch The Weather Channel and keep checking my weather sources on the Internet.
After a two-day wait, the weather broke and I took off on the last leg of the odyssey—from Wichita to Batavia. This was a four-hour trip at 9,000 feet, with a decent tailwind, true airspeeds of 145 to 147 knots, and groundspeeds as high as 172 knots.
The G500 PFD and MFD set a new standard for simplicity of operation and interpretation in a glass cockpit. At a glance, you can see indicated, true, and groundspeeds, and the vertical airspeed and altitude tapes have magenta trend lines that predict your airspeed and altitude in the next six seconds. Heading, course, altitude preselect, vertical speed, and altimeter settings are all changed using a vertically stacked set of command buttons and the PFD's single rotating knob.
Simply press the button corresponding to the function you want—say, altitude preselect—then rotate the knob to the altitude you want. After a few seconds, the knob's function automatically reverts to heading select, the most commonly used feature.
As for the MFD, the presentation is like a large, significantly embellished GNS 530 screen. There are map, terrain-warning, XM WX, and flight plan "chapters" you can call up with line-select keys along the bottom bezel, and within those chapters reside "pages" of additional views. The WX page lets you post overlays of many weather features (we opted for XM WX's Aviator Pro subscription, which contains Nexrad weather radar, cloud-top, freezing-level, lightning, sigmets, airmets, and much more such information). And a page in the flight plan chapter shows Garmin's FliteChart database contents, which includes U.S. National Aeronautical Services (formerly NACO) arrival, approach, and departure charts.
Garmin's SafeTaxi airport diagrams can also be called up on the MFD—with the airplane's position georeferenced on the diagram. You can access these diagrams by selecting them from a dropdown menu on the flight plan page, or simply zoom in on the MFD. With SafeTaxi, you'll never get lost at an unfamiliar airport. There are about 700 airports in the SafeTaxi database.
We wanted the Crossover Classic to be the best an aged Cessna 182 could be. But after some serious deliberation, we've decided to forego the installation of Sierra Industries' Robertson STOL (short takeoff and landing) kit. Several factors fed into this decision. One of them was the shortened time frame for this year's restoration work. Traditionally, we had about a year to do our already-ambitious restoration work packages. But with the Crossover Classic scheduled to be given away at this year's AOPA Aviation Summit in September in Hartford, Connecticut, we lost precious months.
When we paused, reflected, and re-evaluated this year's project, we felt we were also heading into more complexity than was warranted. The Crossover Classic already has a 300-horsepower engine (70 horsepower more than the stock C-182P's 230 horsepower), 12-gallon wing tip fuel tanks, and the ultimate in modern retrofit instrument panels. Would adding a STOL kit be too much? Would the STOL kit make the autopilot work harder at slow airspeeds? Could the extra fuel at the wing tips cause a pilot to chase roll inputs while trying to track a course at slow airspeeds? Were we really creating a sort of new, hybrid airplane?
That's too many questions, and that's why we decided to skip the STOL kit this time around. Besides, with its big Continental engine and the Cessna 182's standard-issue, big, stable wing and large flap area and deflection, a strong argument can be made that a STOL kit simply isn't necessary. Trust me: The airplane leaps off the runway in very short order, and a V X climb will have you staring at a windshield full of sky, doing at least 2,000 fpm. For that matter, a V Y climb will produce the same result.
So with gratitude for Sierra's generous offer, great respect for the company's many achievements (especially its several Cessna Citation wing, reengining, and panel modifications), and a sobering learning experience on our part, the Crossover Classic moves ahead with STOL properties—but no STOL kit. Sometimes we get carried away when we first conceptualize a sweepstakes project, and this was one such time.
As this is being written, Air Mod is in the process of gutting the airplane's awful, old, disco-era flame-red interior. Air Mod's Dennis Wolter, a fanatic about finding and treating corrosion, proclaims that this airplane is remarkably free of it. Even so, the interior has been cleaned and zinc chromated in preparation for new seats, sidewalls, windows, and other modifications of Air Mod's design and specifications. One of them will be AmSafe's shoulder-harness air bags for the front seats. Another will be a replacement of the seat rails. This, by the way, takes care of an airworthiness directive that mandates 100-hour inspections of the seat rails. The danger of elongated seat-rail holes? That the seats may slip out of these locking holes, then slide back during takeoff or in steep climbs, causing an accident. (Fatal accidents in older Cessna singles have been attributed to worn seat rails and latching mechanisms.) Other fixes are also in the works at Air Mod, so check the sweepstakes website for late-breaking updates.
By the way, Sun 'n Fun is just around the corner (March 29 through April 3), and the Crossover Classic will be on display at AOPA's tent. Those lucky enough to be there can see the new engine, panel, and interior first-hand. Everyone else, of course, can always check the website—and these pages.
E-mail the author at [email protected]. Photography by Chad Slattery.


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ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — At least once a year, Mississippi lawmakers have the same basic argument about education funding.
One side says: You can't fix public schools by throwing money at them.
The other side retorts: How would anyone know? The state has never tried it.
A new report from the Census Bureau provides fodder for the debate. While it doesn't address the quality of public schools, it does provide detailed information about how much money the 50 states and the District of Columbia are spending on elementary and secondary education.
The report uses information from fiscal year 2011, which ran from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011, in Mississippi and most other states. A few states have budget years that run from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.
"The 50 states and the District of Columbia spent $10,560 per student in 2011, down 0.4 percent from 2010," according to a news release that accompanies the Census Bureau report. "The top spenders were New York ($19,076), the District of Columbia ($18,475), Alaska ($16,674), New Jersey ($15,968) and Vermont ($15,925)."
To find Mississippi, look all the way to the bottom of the list: "States spending the least per student were Mississippi ($7,928), Arizona ($7,666), Oklahoma ($7,587), Idaho ($6,824) and Utah ($6,212)."
Curious about per student spending for Mississippi's neighboring states? It was $8,242 in Tennessee, $8,813 in Alabama, $9,353 in Arkansas and $10,723 in Louisiana.
Mississippi's education spending dropped 2.4 percent from fiscal year 2010 to FY 2011, the report says.
The 0.4 percent national decrease marked the first year-to-year national drop in education spending since 1977, when the Census Bureau started compiling the information. In 2010, when most states set their FY2011 budgets, the nation was still feeling effects of the Great Recession that started in 2008.
The report also examines the sources of money spent on schools.
"States that had the highest percentage of their total public school revenue coming from federal funding included Mississippi (22.3 percent of the statewide education revenue), South Dakota (20.3 percent), Louisiana (18.7 percent), Alaska (17.8 percent), Florida (17.8 percent) and New Mexico (17.7 percent)," the news release says.
"Conversely, states that had the lowest percentage of their total school revenue coming from federal funding were New Jersey (5.1 percent), New Hampshire (6.5 percent), Vermont (7.1 percent), Massachusetts (7.8 percent), Minnesota (7.8 percent) and Connecticut (8.3 percent)."
So, two things: Mississippi spends way less than many states. And, a significant share of the education money in Mississippi comes from the federal government rather than state or local governments.
This all circles back to poverty — one of Mississippi's longest standing and most entrenched problems.
Separate reports on the Census Bureau website show that Mississippi's poverty rate from 2007 to 2011 was 21.6 percent, while the national rate was 14.3 percent. Mississippi's per capita income for those years was $20,521, while the national figure was $27,915. New York, the state with the highest education spending per student, had a 14.5 percent poverty rate and per capita income of $31,796.
When Mississippi lawmakers debate education budgets, it's inevitable that at least one person — House or Senate, Democrat or Republican — will stand and say that schools should receive enough money to cover their needs but not a penny more. They insist that schools could be run more efficiently and that the focus should be on classroom instruction.
The Census Bureau's education report shows Mississippi spent $3.9 billion on elementary and secondary schools in FY2011. Of that amount, $2.2 billion was spent on instruction and $1.4 billion was spent on support services.
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Of course, the photo I need is nowhere to be found
That little girl is looking at him in a really creepy manner.
That's Gonchar's daughter (I know that because I re-watched the Pens Stanley Cup DVD last night and saw her in a post-game interview with Sarge.)


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There's nothing sweeter than giving (and getting!) holiday cards throughout the season. But of course, we refuse to settle for ordinary holiday cards, so we like to DIY our own. We've been cruising the blogosphere for the best DIY holiday cards to use as inspiration, and we think we've gathered a great selection. Now we can't wait to add buttons, ribbon, lace, or pearls to a card to create our own unique version. Check out our favorites below! And if you want to create a DIY holiday card of your own, check out our card templates on mjtrim.com.
via Michelle Philippi / Art Fire / Lucy's Cards / Jeanette Lynton / Stephanie Mino


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A winner was selected from 51 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
We need a logo for a directory of extreme sports schools we plan to launch online. The directory will help visitors find the right school and instructor for the sport they want to learn.
Would be great to see what the logo looks like on stuff like cards or letters and stuff - but not required.
****UPDATE***** Almost every single logo is just saying "Real Sports Now" instead of an actual LOGO design. Please be creative - typefaces and fonts are not what we are looking for, we need an actual logo.
Real Sports Now
We cover lots of sports on the site and will help visitors the right school and instructor for the sport they want to learn... see the site for all the sports offered. Sports on the site are:
Bungee Jumping Kitesurfing Rock Climbing Surfing
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Flying Mountain Biking Scuba Diving Windsurfing
Golf Paintball Skiing Yoga
Horse Riding Paragliding Skydiving
Kayaking River Rafting Snowboarding
- A logo graphic image that is simple and represents Real Sports Now
- Flashy fonts and typefaces that say "Real Sports Now"
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xmodmap is a utility for modifying keymaps and pointer button mappings in Xorg.
xmodmap is not directly related to XKB, it uses different (pre-XKB) ideas on how keycodes are processed within Xorg. Generally it is not recommended to use xmodmap, except maybe for the simplest tasks. See X KeyBoard extension if you have special demands on layout configuration.
On a Linux system using Xorg, there are two types of keyboard values: keycodes and keysyms.
- Keycode
- The keycode is the numeric representation received by the Linux kernel when a keyboard key or a mouse button is pressed.
- Keysym
- The keysym is the value assigned to the keycode. For example, when you press the
Akey on the keyboard, it generates keycode
73. Keycode
73is mapped to the keysym
0×61which corresponds to the letter
ain the ASCII table.
- The keysyms are managed by Xorg in a table of keycodes defining the keycode-keysym relations which is called the keymap table. The command
xmodmapcan be used to show/modify that key table.
In order to use xmodmap, you need to install the xorg-xmodmap package from the official repositories.
Optionally, install also xkeycaps which provides a graphical front-end to xmodmap.
Keymap table
Print the current keymap table formatted into expressions:
$ xmodmap -pke
keycode 57 = n N
Each keycode is followed by the keysym it is mapped to. The above example indicates that the keycode
57 is mapped to the lowercase
n, while the uppercase
N is mapped to keycode
57 plus
Each keysym column in the table corresponds to a particular combination of modifier keys:
Not all keysyms have to be set, but if you want to assign a latter keysym without assigning earlier ones, set them to
You can check which keycode corresponds to a key on your keyboard with the xev utility, see Extra Keyboard Keys#In Xorg for details.
XF86AudioMute or
XF86Mail. These keysyms can be found in
/usr/include/X11/XF86keysym.h. Many multimedia programs are designed to work with these keysyms out-of-the-box, without the need to configure any third-party application.
Custom table
You can create your own map and store it in a configuration file in your home directory (i.e.
xmodmap -pke > ~/.Xmodmap
Make the desired changes to
~/.Xmodmap and then test the new configuration with:
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
Activate your custom table
If you are using GDM, XDM or KDM, there is no need to source your
~/.Xmodmap manually as these display managers source that file if it is present, whereas
startx does not. Therefore, to activate your custom table when starting Xorg, add the following:
if [ -s ~/.Xmodmap ]; then xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap fi
Alternatively, edit the global startup script
Test changes
You can also make temporary changes for the current session. For example:
xmodmap -e "keycode 46 = l L l L lstroke Lstroke lstroke" xmodmap -e "keysym a = e E"
Special keys/signals
You can also also edit the keys:
Alt and
Super (there always exists a left and a right one (Alt_R=AltGr)).
For example this can be useful if your right Control key is not working like your left one but you would like it to.
At first you have to delete/clear the signals that should be edited. In the beginning of your
!clear Shift !clear Lock clear Control !clear Mod1 !clear Mod2 !clear Mod3 clear Mod4 !clear Mod5 keycode 8 = ...
! is a comment so only
Control and
Mod4 (Standard: Super_L Super_R) get cleared.
Write the new signals at the end of
keycode 255 = !add Shift = Shift_L Shift_R !add Lock = Caps_Lock add Control = Super_L Super_R !add Mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R !add Mod2 = Mode_switch !add Mod3 = add Mod4 = Control_L Control_R !add Mod5 =
Super keys have now been exchanged with the
Ctrl keys.
If you get the following error message
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) it means the key you are trying to add is already in another modifier, so remove it using "remove MODIFIERNAME = KEYSYMNAME". Running
xmodmap gives you a list of modifiers and keys that are assigned to them.
Reverse Scrolling
The natural scrolling feature available in OS X Lion (mimicking smartphone or tablet scrolling) can be replicated with xmodmap. Since the synaptics driver uses the buttons 4/5/6/7 for up/down/left/right scrolling, you simply need to swap the order of how the buttons are declared in
~/.Xmodmap and append the following line to the file:
pointer = 1 2 3 5 4 7 6 8 9 10 11 12
Note how the 4 and 5 have been reversed.
Then update xmodmap:
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
To return to regular scrolling simply reverse the order of the 4 and 5 or delete the line altogether. For more information check Peter Hutterer's post, Natural scrolling in the synaptics driver, or the Reverse scrolling direction ala Mac OS X Lion? forum thread.
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Turn CapsLock into Control, and LeftControl into Hyper
Laptop users may find that using CapsLock as Control is so usefull.
clear control clear lock clear mod1 clear mod3 keycode 37 = Hyper_L keycode 66 = Control_L add control = Control_L Control_R add mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R Meta_L add mod3 = Hyper_L
See also
- Current man page at X.Org Foundation
- Multimediakeys with .Xmodmap HOWTO by Christian Weiske
- Mapping unsupported keys with xmodmap by Pascal Bleser
- Multimedia Keys articleTemplate:Linkrot on the Gentoo Wiki
- List of Keysyms Recognised by Xmodmap on LinuxQuestions