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Discovery of high-density molecular markers in barley and wheat through genotyping by sequencing: an interview with Dr. Jesse Poland (USDA)
Genotyping by sequencing (GBS) using the Ion PGM™ Sequencer facilitates crop breeding programs
Jesse Poland, PhD, is a research geneticist with the United States Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and an adjunct assistant professor at Kansas State University, Agronomy Department. Dr. Poland's research focuses on wheat germplasm improvement and developing new breeding technologies. He recently collaborated with Life Technologies and Dr. Nils Stein at The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany, to conduct a barley genotyping by sequencing study on the Ion PGM™ Sequencer. Dr. Poland was gracious enough to answer a few of our questions regarding his work.
What questions are you trying to answer for barley and wheat in particular?
Our primary research is on wheat, but we also work on barley to develop new genotyping approaches. The new genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) approach will be used in research on multiple crops. Barley is a good model system for exploring the larger polyploid wheat genome.
For barley we work mainly on mapping populations to develop high-density genetic maps, which are used to anchor the barley reference genome to develop a physical map, collaborating with Dr. Stein at IPK and the barley sequencing consortium.
For wheat, we focus on breeding material, largely using GBS approaches to genotype breeding lines from US programs and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). The GBS markers are used to characterize the germplasms and develop genomic selection models for breeding programs.
What technologies do you use today for genotyping?
My lab only works with GBS. Other labs use (Illumina®) 9K SNP arrays, which is a collaborative development by many labs in the wheat consortium. The consortium is also working on a 90K SNP array. Also, when researchers target on an individual gene, TaqMan® or KASPar (by KBioscience) individual assays are used.
What are the advantages of GBS compared to microarrays?
- First, it is de novo. There is no need for SNP discovery and then design arrays. This allows you to study new species or populations. SNP array development is very time-consuming and costly, but with GBS there are no upfront efforts.
- Arrays have a higher cost of scale—you need a very large number of arrays for manufacturing to be cost-effective. GBS costs the same (on a per-sample basis) for hundreds or thousands of samples. This is very important for smaller labs and smaller projects.
- As next-generation sequencing (NGS) becomes cheaper and faster, GBS becomes more accessible.
- GBS is free of the bias associated with a fixed array design. Arrays designed based on one set of populations might not represent the SNPs in a new germplasm set.
- GBS also has advantages when studying polyploid species. Polyploidy is a challenge for any technology. One advantage for GBS is that it relies on secondary genome-specific polymorphisms that are next to the SNP. This allows us to assign a given sequence to a specific genome so it becomes a single locus marker. For the array-based method, when a probe targets on a SNP it will assay all three genomes at the same time. The cross talk between genomes will make SNP calling very difficult.
- Finally, and most importantly, GBS has low cost per sample and per data point.
If a sequencing technology would allow you to sequence the entire genome at a low cost, will you sequence it or does GBS still have advantages in some cases?
GBS can be used as an intermediate solution prior to the availability of the sequence for the entire genome. But it is always cheaper to reduce the complexity of the genome. Cost per sample is very important for breeding. Also, the predicting power provided by 50,000 markers may not be higher than that of 100,000 markers. It makes more sense to increase the sample throughput when the sequencing capacity goes up.
In addition, the wheat genome, for example, has 80% repetitive sequences so it may never be practical to sequence the entire genome. We use methylation-sensitive restriction enzymes to avoid repetitive sequences. Therefore, it may always be important to reduce the complexity for these types of genomes. On the other side, for crops like rice, which has a much smaller genome, it might be more practical to do random resequencing of the genome.
What are the key requirements for a sequencing platform to fit those needs?
A platform that can generate a lot of independent sequencing reads. More sequences will offer a higher chance to target different genome regions for genotyping calls. For a given GBS library, if a sequencing run can generate 1 GB of data, it is better to have 10 million reads of 100 bp long than 1 million reads of 1,000 bp long. The longer reads still target the same regions. Of course, if the sequences are too short, there will not be enough to cover the SNPs. The sample multiplexing is also important because the cost per sample will depend on the multiplexing abilities.
Would you foresee GBS replacing approaches such as microarray or other SNP genotyping technologies? How about individual or low multiplexing SNP assays?
Yes, but I'm not sure how quickly it will happen. The main challenge is bioinformatics. It is more difficult to analyze complex sequencing data compared to a clear/easy SNP call using array technology. A lot of good tools for GBS are coming along from different research groups. With the fast pace the sequencing technology is developing, I see a lot of movement toward sequencing-based technologies.
Certain breeding or selection programs still assay one or two markers, which can be achieved using individual assays. Researchers may do a preselection on one or two targeted genes and then move to whole-genome GBS. It is also useful in specific projects when a researcher wants to perform fine mapping on a single locus.
The USDA is turning 150 years old in 2012. How did modern technologies change agriculture in the last 150 years?
We have seen more and bigger changes in agricultural genomics and breeding technologies in the past 10 years than in the entire 150 years prior to that. SNP discovery, genotyping, and NGS have really changed the way we are thinking. We can start asking questions we always had but never had the tools for (i.e., markers that allow us to assay the entire genome in a cost-effective way on very large populations). There are real opportunities to increase the output of breeding programs by putting these new sequencing technologies to work. The $1,000 genome project for human genetics can be leveraged in the crop world for a better understanding of those genomes in order to improve them. When you look globally, the impact on humans of applying those new technologies to improve crop and animal productivity can be much deeper and broader than that coming directly from human genomic research. We have hundreds of millions of children and families in extreme poverty facing food security challenges. Crop improvements that come out of these new technologies have the potential to dramatically increase their living standard.
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Will Privacy Protections Ruin the Internet?
European regulators are pushing to give Internet users more control over their personal data online. But critics say such moves in the U.S. would destroy the Internet as we know it. Quetin Fottrell reports on digits. Photo: Getty Images.
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How can analytics change the world of 'Narcos'?
By Michael Davis, Security Intelligence Expert, SAS
You won't hear analytics or data management mentioned in the hit Netflix show "Narcos." Spanning 1975 to the early 1990's, the show depicts the rise of Medellin Cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar and the efforts by Colombian authorities, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and others to bring him down.
The story is narrated by a DEA agent character and details many of the strategies the agency used to attempt to infiltrate and dismantle Escobar's complex networks. Of course, as a television show it takes dramatic liberties with how things actually went down, but does depict some tried and true investigative approaches.
Surveillance, wire-taps, interrogations, informants—these are all valuable intelligence gathering techniques that are still in use today. But modern law enforcement and federal agents are aided by a new technology: analytics. Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, federal, state and local agencies have stepped up information sharing, as data analysis technologies have dramatically increased in sophistication and scalability.
Unfortunately, drug trafficking has also become more sophisticated. Drug cartels function similarly to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Al Qaeda. There are disconnected cells of operatives working in locations across the United States and the world. While arresting and interrogating one of the members may bring down that cell, it doesn't provide useful intelligence to use against the network.
Much like during Escobar's reign of terror, there are few in a trafficking network that have full visibility of the operations. Then, as now, a highly-placed confidential informant (CI) is the golden goose of anti-trafficking efforts. Working a CI involves a complex relationship. Agents can't always be sure of the intelligence value a CI provides, but at the same time, the CI is putting himself at tremendous risk.
Perhaps the most famous CI related to the Medellin Cartel was Barry Seal, an American aircraft pilot, drug dealer and frequent smuggler for the cartel. As an informant for the DEA, he testified against many conspirators in the drug trade, including members of the Medellin Cartel. He was part of an operation to implicate Nicaragua's Sandinista government, a thread investigative journalists followed that led to the Iran-Contra Affair. Seal, with a $500K bounty on his head, was later gunned down by a Medellin assassin.
Like I said, a riveting story.
While a highly-placed informant remains a most desired asset, what can be done in lieu of a CI? Analytics technologies can reveal hidden relationships between entities, helping to fill intelligence gaps and expose the larger criminal network.
It can start with just one person or entity—a lead. Once a lead involved in the trade is identified, it becomes a locus in a possible network. By applying techniques such as entity resolution and network analysis to real estate and telephone records, social services data, arrest records, case notes from other law enforcement agencies, and other sources, we can begin to use analytics to uncover the relationships and activities comprising a criminal network.
Of course, this is easier said than done. Before advanced analytics can become as valuable as a confidential informant, we have to use data management to integrate and clean the data. That can't happen until law enforcement agencies and local, state and federal governments share data more effectively. Ironically, one area that would remain rightfully siloed within intelligence communities is information on confidential informants.
While our federal law enforcement agencies have taken many steps to break down siloes by forming units like the Joint Terrorist Task Force—co-located federal agents working within the Federal Bureau of Investigation—a gap remains in data and systems communication to produce more effective, actionable leads. FBI and ATF agents may sit side by side, but their respective agency's databases do not have the capability of sharing information in the same office, much less nationally or internationally. Nor do their systems tap into local law enforcements' information or data housed by organizations like the State Department or Homeland Security Fusion Centers.
There is a whole platform of intelligence that state, local and federal agencies store within their databases that could help bring down drug trafficking networks but, because it's not organized together, we have millions of pieces of information that do not connect. Some regionalized fusion centers focus on drugs, but still, it's just the right players working together, not the systems.
This is a worldwide fight that has grown exponentially more complex as drug trafficking intertwines with terrorism, international trade and the underground economy. Some international policing entities are investigating the problem globally, pulling in interesting data on drug trafficking routes and transport methods.
The threads we pull on in the United States can unravel networks that span the globe. We just need to find them. With better data management and information sharing, analytics is ready to do that.
* This article originally appeared in Homeland Security Today.
Michael Davis is a former Special Agent in the FBI with a focus on national security, terrorism finance investigations and intelligence. As a security intelligence expert at SAS, he helps government tackle fraud and abuse in health care, Medicaid and other areas.
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It's opening day for the fiscal cliff talks as Congressional leaders descend on the White House. We've got the same key players as in the debt-ceiling talks, but both sides have learned some lessons from that train wreck. General Electric CFO Keith S. Sherin says he isn't losing sleep over the cliff, but a real solution is still needed. Speaking with CFOJ's Matthew Quinn at the MIT Sloan CFO Summit near Boston, Sherin said that a lame-duck Congress probably can't resolve everything by year's end, but it can lay some groundwork. That's essential because kicking the can down the road a few months will just extend the uncertainty that's been hanging over Corporate America.
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Because it is winter, it's cold and it's been raining, I haven't been much in the outdoor kind of mood. Indoor plants have been on my mind. I've been thinking we need some indoor greenery around Drawn Outdoors HQ, but with my not so green thumb, I've been a little wary of actually taking the indoor plant plunge. I would need some sort of incentive, something that would make my aesthetic mind pop … Hello Peaches and Keen!
OK, so let's start with the rather cool name, then take a look at the super colourful handmade and unique planters that this Melbourne duo create. If there's something that will make me try my hand at indoor gardening these may be the trick. There's no secret that I love something handmade. If it's a little bit crafty, a bit creative and a lot unique, I generally love it. I also love a bit of colour. Sometimes the brighter the better. Peaches and Keen call themselves the "fluoro duo", and there are colours to make this rainbow lovers heart jump with joy.
And planters aren't the only thing they do. I love their jewellery and artwork too.
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My name is Sharon Ojala. I make tree dollhouses and furnishings for Gnomes, mice and other wonderful creatures. My youtube channel is also called, Where The Gnomes Live.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Ghost Child Doll
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so cute!ReplyDelete
Can you tell me approximately how much yarn you used? I was thinking of doing her in glow in the dark yarn.
Ps.. I can hardly wait for the cat!
thank you Battatter... hmmm, it's been a while since I made her but I do know it was less than a small skein. Wow, that would be cool to see a glow in the dark ghost doll :DReplyDelete
If you do make her I would love to see pictures!! If you don't mind post some on my facebook page, Amigurumi Freely
Looking forward to seeing your work :)
PS, the cat is a fun doll.. lol I enjoy him
- AnonymousOctober 27, 2011 at 12:29 PM
Absolutely beautiful work! I'm new to crochet but am "getting it" quite fast and have been looking forward to making your Wybie's cat as a gift for my partner. Now that I see the ghost child I think I'll have to make her, too. Thank you kindly for sharing!ReplyDelete
thank you so much madwhimsy!! I enjoyed your message today. I've been working on video tutorial for all the Coraline characters. I have the cat tutorial on youtube now, "The Ghost of Wuss Puss" and currently filming and editing wybie's! It's been fun :)ReplyDelete
I hope you enjoy making the Ghost girl, she is a pretty little doll.
Do you sell these?ReplyDelete
Hi Emma, sorry at this time I do not sell any dolls. If at any time in the future I do sell I will announce it on my blog. Thanks for the message :)ReplyDelete
I'm awe of your talent! The detail is immaculate! The eyes on Ghost girl are spectacular!ReplyDeleteReplies
thank you! I appreciate that Bebe :)Delete
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Information system architects, and even vertical industry standardization or government IT standardization bodies, derive immense value from XML schema definitions that describe the data structures and data types expected in valid transactions of the information system. However, these assets are focused on defining the completed transaction. In many a presentation, I've talked to potential customers about how IBM Forms documents express far more value because they are about the human interaction that takes place during the fill experience needed to produce those completed transactions.
As a bit of an aside, it's important for the technically minded reader to be familiar with the "sell" side of this equation. It is important to be able to easily justify technology adoption decisions with business owners who need to be able to understand how you will be able to better server your customers, reduce development and maintenance costs, increase competitiveness, eliminate vendor lock-in, etc.
In this blog, I'd like enumerate various benefits that you get from the standards basis of IBM Forms documents and their implementations, but I'd also like to separate the enumerations into two lists: 1) benefits above using XML Schema that you get just from using the XForms markup within an IBM Form, and 2) the benefits you get from the XFDL processor (XFDL is the XML vocabulary that IBM Forms provides as a presentation layer for XForms).
Firstly, an XForm is a clearly a superset of XML Schema since an XForm can incorporate the XML Schema if it is available and provide its validation information set to the fill experience and the submission experience. But an XForm provides many additional benefits, including the ability to:
- Express data validation constraints that are based on other XML data values entered during the fill experience.
- Automatically compute data values based on other input entered during the fill experience, rather than requiring users to perform the error-prone task of calculating and inputting summative results manually.
- Describe the inputs, outputs and triggering mechanisms of web services to invoke, such as to use entered XML data to obtain database query results that fill other parts of the form or to invoke server-side validation or calculation logic from a business rules engine.
- Control whether a data value is readonly or whether the user can enter a value, for example based on conditions related to a business process step or an access rule.
- Express user interface controls that indicate which XML data values will be available to the presentation layer for input or output.
- Conditionally show or hide the user interface controls (and hence their presentation) in response to conditions, such as those that may relate to a business process step or access rule.
- Define a step-wise fill experience to guide a user systematically through incremental successes in entering valid data.
- Provide customized help and validation error messages to help users fix data input errors when they occur.
- Provide prompting label text to be associated with the presentation of each input or output control, both visually and aurally (for accessibility)
- Associate a selection list with any XML data node in a way that constrains user input capability to the provided list
- Define labels, help messages, validation error messages and selection lists in more than one human language within the same form, thereby ensuring citizens receive the same form logic and interaction behaviors regardless of which official language they select to request government services
- Associate repeated data with a logically tabular set of user interface controls and encode the means by logical rows of the table are added or removed in response to insertions or deletions of data
While the above benefits indicate what additional behaviors and features of XML forms can be expressed above those that can be expressed by an XML Schema alone, XForms is also more interesting for standardization of a forms repository due to what it does not express. An XForm does not rigorously bind its many behavioral benefit to a specific presentation layer of the form. The intention of this language architecture was to address multimodal requirements of forms applications, e.g. rendition on a desktop, tablet, smartphone, telephone call-in voice service or instant messaging interaction. Different presentation layer implementations can address these requirements, and such implementations can even be provided by different vendors. The XForms working group also anticipated that there would be a wide array of varied technical requirements for presentation layers, and this language architecture allows XForms to be used with fundamentally different XML presentation languages that address these disparate requirements. Examples range from ODF for flowing text with fill-in-the-blanks fields to XFDL with its high-precision contract-style layout capability.
Due to the above mentioned language architecture, XForms markup does not comprise a well-formed XML document until it is incorporated into a presentation layer XML document. XFDL in the XML vocabulary used in IBM Forms to provide a presentation layer for XForms.
Of course, in a "baseline standard" version of a form, the default presentation layer associated with the XForms markup can be minimal in nature so that the only benefit is to provide a well-formed XML document to host the XForms markup. Interestingly, once you have this from XFDL, then the result is in fact an XML document, and so it can be processed by readily available XML processing tools like XSLT. These XML tools can be usd to automate creation of different versions of the baseline form that may have a richer presentation description, alternative natural language usage, or even different presentation layer markup. In addition, various consumers could use simple XML tooling to rebrand the forms.
The Extensible Forms Description Language (XFDL) in an XML vocabulary describing the presentation layer and richly interactive behaviors of modern web-based electronic forms. This XML vocabulary was first introduced to the W3C in 1998 (http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-XFDL) and over the years, the versions of the language have consumed XML data-processing components of the W3C XML technology stack as they have been standardized by the W3C, especially including XML Schema, XForms, and XML Signatures. XFDL is a royalty-free open format whose current version specification, which can be obtained from -
XFDL is a host XML language for the XForms standard, and so the many benefits of XForms described above are inherited by XFDL. The implementations of XFDL as a presentation layer language add the following benefits over the core XForms processing:
- very high precision control over the layout and rendition of the user interface
- integration of XML Signatures with both XForms and a high precision user interface
- comprehensive treatment for accessibility, localization and language support
- dynamically computable presentation layer effects based on data value changes
- multiple page support and ability to easily integrate web analytics within the form
- ability to print or generate a PDF snapshot of the form or of just the agreement style pages
- built-in ability to save the form locally and reload it later to continue the fill experience
- a built-in file attachments folder system, including the ability of digital signatures to protect files attached into the form
- a "public data" map for mapping XForms instance data to business process/workflow variables and case management properties
- integrations to standard application server processing of form results and to run-time processing by JSR 168 and JSR 286 compliant portlets
- the choice of zero-install operation within a web browser, using a server translator module
- the choice of a client install to support both offline and online processing
In a larger sense, though, this only part of the benefit derived from XFDL. Still more benefit is derived from the availability of the XFDL forms visual design environment, which gives form authors integrated access to GUI features for XForms, for XML Signatures, for schema-driven design, for web sevice connections, and for the XFDL language benefits included in the list. The design environment even includes a converter that helps preserve the layout of PDF Forms that are brought over into XFDL. Finally, the XFDL forms visual design environment also provides features for maintaining a collection of forms, such as SVN and other team repository plugins and management of form parts.


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A winner was selected from 111 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
Two page vibrant, professional design wanted for a company selling fitted bedrooms/kitchens. Winner guaranteed prize and future work!
See design brief.
We are looking for a clean, professional design for a website which is to be developed for a newly opened 'fitted kitchens/bedrooms' company.
The website is to offer high quality and prestige kitchens and bedrooms.
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Today's D day, and LG have released their butt-kicking, super-premium-looking, great-specs-sporting LG G4.
With Samsung Galaxy S6 sales not doing as well as anticipated, it looks like the South Korean giant is in hot soup after LG unveiled their latest high end premium smartphone – the LG G4 on Tuesday.
Now don't get us wrong, we love the Galaxy S6 but when we see a better model - it's in with the new and out with the old. If both models spotted the same specs then it wouldn't be much competition now would it? But the fact that the G4 is rocking three main advantages kind of makes us look at the Galaxy S6 and shake our heads. So we took some time to have a little one-on-one contest with the two fighters and see which one would come out on top. Read on to find out.
Two Heavy Weights Battle It Out
Now picture this, in the red corner we have the heavy weight LG G4 and in the blue corner we have medium weight fighter the Galaxy S6. Weighing in at 5.47 ounces, LG G4 is definitely the heavy weight in this ring as the Galaxy S6 only weighs 4.9 ounces. Bigger is always better and at 5.5 inches for screensize we are not complaining against LG's G4 when you compare with its rival Galaxy S6 which is marginally smaller at 5.1 inches. There is competition even in the battery department, check this out - The G4' has a 3,000 mAh removable battery over the S6's 2,600 mAh non-removable wireless charging version. We don't mean to continue with the assault but even front cameras on the models are also marginally different - 8MP vs 5MP respectively with the G4 being the 8MP sporting handset. Okay enough with the barrage, so similarities they share – they both have 3G RAM, both rear end cameras are 16MP shooters....and that's about it. Ok, we know we said we were done with the assault but one last one, we can't resist this - the G4 has extendable memory via a microSD slot, plus their removable back covers are hand stitched leather cases as opposed to the S6's metal and glass non-removable back. Phew! There you have it!
It also bites that the Galaxy S6 is barely a month old and already newer better models are entering the market. I guess you truly can't hate the player, it's the game you must hate. And in this tough cut-throat smartphone world only the best will survive.
The official price for the LG G4 is still to be announced but the phone was made to rival and go up against the best in the smartphone industry at the moment namely the Apple iPhone 6 and the HTC One M9 so we are pretty sure you will be paying a pretty penny for this nifty gadget. Offers on Amazon and other online retail outlets show that the phone will be commanding a price that truly shows that it's in the high end category of smartphones. In the UK alone reports say that pre-orders have started being taken with people paying £500 and expecting the phone to be available from May 26 onwards, but this is still to be confirmed. Just to throw it in Samsung's face once again, but the price tag on the LG G4 is marginally smaller than its own Galaxy S6. It's small things like this that give one phone that margin difference in this market. Should Samsung be worried right now?
Features Worth Mentioning
The LG G4 is set to come out in a range of colours, with the main ones being the ever charming metallic grey and the ever sassy gold, and for those who truly want to stand out of the crowd, the super classy black leather hand stitched option (and you will pay slightly more for this option). In the past LG used to have plastic backings but this year at least with this model they have tried to bring something new and fresh hence the hand stitched leather backings which reportedly take up to twelve weeks to create as opposed to the normal covers which take four working days. Then again you are looking at only the finest here. The thread, according to our sources, is apparently brought to the manufacturers from Germany and it's non-other than the famous Gutterman thread, so you best believe that this leather backing is about being the finest back end cover on the market!
The display of the phone is pretty well thought out too. At first glance you may be surprised to see the slight curvature of the phone, but this is a deliberate design tactic supposed to help keep the phone intact should it happen to fall onto the floor. The curvature will give it that needed break from landing full faced on the screenface and potentially damaging the phone. Pretty clever if you ask us. Comparing the G4 with its predecessors however we do see a bit of relegation especially in the chipset area where this time round we are seeing the Snapdragon 808, dual-core Cortex A57. LG asserts that this chipset is faster when compared to the Exynos 7420 but we are still to see detailed comparisons to believe these claims. LG claim that this chipset was opted for because it helps with the overheating issues that other previous models were encountering. And also likes its predecessors, the G4 is running on Android - v5.1 Lollipop to be specific. The built-in memory stands at 32 GB and as stated above, the microSD slot makes this phone that much more awesome. You will have no problems connecting to 4G LTE networks, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi with this gizmo.
We want to hear your views. What do you think about the LG G4? Would you purchase it if you had the chance? If not, why and which phone would you go for?


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Second-Half Rally Not Enough
HANOVER, N.H. – With 66 goals in its last four games, No. 16 Dartmouth's offense was definitely on a roll heading into Saturday's matchup with Yale at Scully-Fahey Field. The Bulldogs also hurt themselves with 21 turnovers, including 12 in the first half. So even with a late rally -- and while holding Big Green leading scorer Greta Meyer without a goal -- Yale wound up on the short end of a 12-5 score.
Those 12 first-half turnovers helped Dartmouth (5-1, 2-0 Ivy League) outshoot Yale (4-5, 1-2 Ivy League) 22-5 en route to take a 10-1 halftime lead. The Bulldogs regrouped, outshooting (11-10) and outscoring (4-2) Dartmouth in the second half. It wound up being too little, too late.
"You can't give a team like Dartmouth that many shots and turnovers," said Anne Phillips, Yale's Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Women's Lacrosse. "We didn't control the pace of the game."
Meyer, who came into the game with 15 goals and 12 assists, did not factor in the scoring of any of Dartmouth's first eight goals. She ended the day with no goals and two assists. The Big Green was also playing without Kat Collins, who was second on the team with 19 points, because she was sidelined by an injury suffered in the team's 17-10 win at No. 6 Syracuse last Wednesday. But three goals by midfielder Kirsten Goldberg, all scored in the first 22:11 of the game, spearheaded a balanced Dartmouth attack. Only a nice drive to the goal by sophomore attacker Caroline Crow for a Yale goal at 18:39 interrupted a string of 10 Dartmouth scores in the first half, including one in the final seconds.
Attacker Hana Bowers extended Dartmouth's lead to 11-1 50 seconds into the second half, but after that the Bulldogs settled down. Phillips kept searching for the right combination of players on the field, including the varsity debut of freshman defender Adrianna Amendola.
Fueled in part by a better job on the draw control -- Yale got four of seven draws in the second half, after getting just three of 12 in the first -- the Bulldogs began generating some offense of their own. Dartmouth was also intent on trying to run the clock, but the Big Green committed eight turnovers to give the Bulldogs some life.
Junior midfielder Logan Greer started Yale's run by scoring off a feed from sophomore attacker Winnie Call at 26:31 after a Dartmouth turnover. Less than three minutes later junior midfielder/defender Kaitlyn Flatley drove to the goal and scored despite being fouled. When senior defender Michele Fiorentino got the ground ball after a Dartmouth turnover and it led to a goal for senior attacker Jenna Block with an assist from Crow with 20:48 left, Dartmouth called time.
Call got the draw control after the Dartmouth timeout, but Yale had one shot go wide and then turned the ball over. Midfielder Dana Brisbane eventually scored on a free position shot to make it 12-4 with 16:50 to play.
Sophomore goalie Whitney Quackenbush made a pair of saves on shots from right in front by midfielder Hilary Smith after that, but the Bulldogs continued to be plagued by turnovers at inopportune times. Dartmouth, meanwhile, managed to run off just enough clock on each of its possessions to keep Yale from mounting more of a threat. Flatley scored on a free position with 5:16 to play, but time soon ran out on the Bulldogs. Quackenbush finished with 12 saves, her sixth double-digit save effort of the season. Dartmouth's Julie Wadland stopped five shots.
"It was a tale of two halves," Phillips said. "We finally got the draw in the second half, possessed the ball and scored. Julie Wadland's a good goalie, but we scored five goals with very few offensive possessions."
With the win, Dartmouth is one of three 2-0 teams in the Ivy League, along with Penn and Princeton. Brown beat Harvard Saturday, leaving the Bears, Bulldogs and Crimson all 1-2. Cornell, which is 1-1, hosts Penn Sunday. Columbia is 0-3.
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Expert Gives Seniors Tips for Starting Careerby Patrick McAlister '10 • March 20, 2007 Share:
Susan Strayer began her Monday night talk with a scene from the iconic 90s film Office Space - "Did you get the memo?" Although not exactly like the real corporate world, Strayer believes the film to be a "prerequisite" to the corporate world.
"There is only one time you have your first job. It just gets better from there," she said.
Strayer's program "Welcome to the Real World", which was held in Detchon Center's International Hall., was intended to give graduating seniors some perspective and advice on making how to make the difficult transition between college graduation and the workforce.
Strayer wrote an entry to her blog about the visit to Wabash. Read her impressions here.
In her presentation, she gave helpful tips for dress, resume construction and presentation during the interview process as well as actively involve the present seniors in various activities and simulations. In one instance, she divided the seniors up into groups and they were responsible for pitching their newly designed electronic device to an electronics retailer.
Much like that new electronic device, Strayer sees job applicants as a brand. She pointed out that a reason the iPod sells so better than other generic MP3 players is because of the aggressive marketing campaign waged by Apple. Strayer encouraged the students to focus on what makes them stand out above the other job applicants. Students were told to make themselves into a brand of sorts.
Other advice included proper social etiquette with co-workers both at and away from the office, some of the pitfalls of the first three months on the job, and social networking. Strayer put in a strong plug for linkedin.com, a networking site dedicated to young professionals.
"Opportunities like this teach you preparation skills you might not necessarily think about," said Schroeder Center director Scott Crawford. "As you go through your job search, as you go through your planning process, you may be doing things wrong. Therefore it's important to get some advice just find out the right way to go about selecting your career."
Student reaction to Strayer's interactive program was very positive. "I thought it was really helpful," said Ryan Stephens '07. "Programs like this give you insight on what happens after graduation, because you've never been there before."
Some students saw it as a motivation to begin to look at the next part of their life. "I thought this program brought really practical knowledge," said Adrian Starnes '07. "I'm someone who doesn't really know what he wants to do next year, so this program was helpful in motivating me to get on it before graduation."
Although Strayer see's some similarities between the satirized Office Space and the corporate world, her advice will hopefully go a long way helping prevent Wabash men from the same fate as the movie's star Peter Gibbons.
"I think a lot of people overlook the job search process," said Strayer. "They don't think about what comes next until it happens and then say 'oh no, what do I do now?' Being proactive is the best ammunition you can have. Pro-activity is the key."


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Buta no Shigureni (豚のしぐれ煮) is a quick and simple home-cooked dish, by simmering sliced pork in sauce. It goes really well with steamed rice as main dish or as side dish in obento. You can also use this recipe for seafood, remember to add in some shredded ginger to get rid of the fishiness.
- 200g pork belly, thinly sliced (shabu-shabu cut)
- ¼ onion, shredded
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- 2 tbsp water
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- Sugar to taste
- Put all ingredients for sauce in a pot, bring to a boil.
- Add in sliced pork, once the sauce starts to boil again turn the heat to low.
- Cook on low heat for 4-5 minutes or until it is well done. Turn the heat off.
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TNA made its biggest talent acquisition to date with the addition of Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle. But controversy and speculation run rampant as to the physical status and health of Kurt.
Angle was reportedly let go from the WWE for various reasons that many have reported on. Far be it for me to report on such things without first-hand knowledge as I will not get into speculation wars and hearsay battles. What I will report on is what I saw the last time I saw Kurt and my recent time spent at TNA with him.
The last time I saw Kurt was at some WWE shows last year and even then you could tell he was not at his physical best. Looking noticeably smaller at the time, he was not the Olympic hero I had known and loved in the past. I believe Kurt to be one of the best on-air talents of the last decade. Transitioning from the Olympic stage to the WWE stage with the seeming effortlessness in which Kurt did it is a testament to the workhorse and dedicated athlete he is.
This week at TNA I saw that same workhorse.
The internet has been rife with articles and message board postings of "How long will Kurt last?" or "Kurt Angle death watch." And to the posters of these articles and board tripe I say, give your heads a shake, preferably till they fall off. You people are what's wrong with wrestling now. How dare you question a man's right to earn a living! As it stands now, Kurt will be working a lightened schedule with TNA, giving his body ample rest and healing time. Multiple broken necks can take their toll. But all you internet dweebs who've never done an athletic thing in your lives know better, don't you? How dare Kurt support his family and improve his health.
At the last TNA tapings, I can tell you it looked as though Kurt had put on at least 10-15 pounds since the last time I'd seen him. He was in great spirits and truly looked at home in the TNA atmosphere. And I can tell you this -- his entrance into the Impact Zone and the following segments were a goosebump-inducing moment, the kind you don't really see in wrestling too much these days, what with backstage reports, and "insiders" ensuring no surprises anymore.
Yes it's true, it's damn true, that Kurt needs some rest and recovery. When you wrestle at only one speed -- 1000 mph -- it catches up with you. This isn't ballet. People get hurt. But unlike other sports where you sprain your knee or dislocate your shoulder, instead of going to the injured reserve list or taking time off, you are expected to suck it up and carry on. This is a pay for play sport. And Kurt Angle is too tough to sit out when a little thing like a broken neck tries to slow him down. And with TNA's lighter schedule, he will get the time he needs to come back at 100%. And then in TNA's less restrictive wrestling environment you could see a side of Kurt you haven't seen for years.
I look forward to the coming weeks of TNA and the direction Angle takes. His presence alone is a huge boost in legitimizing TNA as a contender to the WWE. With the addition of Vince Russo to the booking committee and primetime on Spike TV in November, things are really going to be interesting at TNA.
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For those of you in the Detroit area, I strongly suggest you make sure you have tickets to next week's Bound for Glory pay-per-view, TNA's Super Bowl, as it will be a once in a lifetime experience. Check www.tnawrestling.com for the card and ticket info. There is nothing like a live wrestling event to get the blood pumping and give you an excuse to drink lots and scream at burly goons and pretty boys. And Bound For Glory promises to be a defining moment for TNA and should not be missed for the avid wrestling fan.
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The 'Participant Guide' for President-elect Barack Obama's Potemkin 'health care community discussions' includes an 'Over of the Problem' section that is filled with false facts. The false claims include:
"Large medical bills have contributed to half of bankruptcies and foreclosures." This widely reported factoid simply isn't true. Bankruptcy expert George Mason University law professor Todd Zywicki writes: "The conclusion is based on a study in Health Affairs. Reviewing the study, it appears that the estimate that 50% of bankruptcy filings are precipitated by a "serious medical problem" cannot be supported based on what that study actually examined."
"Uninsured trauma victims are less likely to be admitted to the hospital and are 37 percent more likely to die of injuries." This factoid is based off of one single study conducted in one single state (Wisconsin). And even that study fully admits it only examined one type of trauma injury: automobile accident victims. Expanding this to all 'trauma' injuries is at best misleading.
"Only four cents out of every health care dollar is spent on prevention and public health." For this proposition, Obama cites Brookings' 36-page Hamilton Project study. But don't expect to find that 4 cents number mentioned anywhere in that report. Instead we get this sentence: "No solid estimates exist on how much is currently being spent on prevention in the United States." Really? No solid estimate? Because "four cents out of every health care dollar" sounds like a pretty solid estimate to us.
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Meeting called to discuss regeneration of Leigh Spinners mill
From http://www.leighjournal.co.uk A NEWLY-formed regeneration trust is in need of help to save a Leigh landmark. The Leigh Building Preservation Trust has been planning a project to restore and regenerate the historic Leigh Spinners mill since December. But to do this, the trust needs funding and prove it has community backing. "This incredible building is one of only a handful of Grade II listed buildings in the borough," said Trevor Barton, chairman of the Trust. It has formed part of the skyline of Leigh for a century, and we are keen to ensure it will play a big part in the town's future. "We're not only looking at preserving the mill, but filling it with a range of community, arts, heritage and business uses that will contribute to the local economy." The Trust is in the process of preparing bids for the Heritage Lottery Fund and other organisations and is supported by the Prince's Regeneration Trust. Mr Barton said: "To secure funding we need to demonstrate the support of the community. "So we're appealing to people from Leigh and beyond to come along to our community consultation event. "We want to hear as many views as possible about what should go into the mill, and we want everyone to have a say. The results of our consultation thus far with the Friends Group will be on display. "Hopefully you can support some of these ideas or add any new ideas you feel could be located within the mill." The consultation event will be at Bedford High School between 6pm and 8pm on May 15.


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nagerous wrote:Dibbun is a well known psychotic from the forums
Army of GOD wrote:Congrats to Dibbun, the white jesus, and all of his mercy and forgiveness.
Jdsizzleslice wrote: So you can crawl back to whatever psychosocial nutjob hole you came from.
william tennant wrote:IF ONLY tournaments could control who moves first in a game, this would be a great tourney. Going first in this tourney, with unlimited reinforcements, is a HUGE advantage. If we could alternate who went first, it would be like alternating serves! If you moved second and won the game, it would be like breaking the serve!
However, in my first set, my opponent has moved first in 7 of the first 9 games. Ridiculous. And almost impossible to overcome.
This is an awesome tournament, wm, but until CC lets you pick someone to move first maybe you should do chained reinforcements in your next one. Just to even it out more.
Not that I'm giving up yet! There's a long way to go in this match.
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First off, you should know that I am huge Rocky fan. My dad loves boxing, so growing up in the 80's it was inevitable that I would watch the Rocky saga whenever humanly possibly. In fact, to this day, if Rocky is in marathon mode on either TNT or TBS, we watch it despite the fact that we own all of the movies on DVD.
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KNBR Conversation: Carlos Rogers, 49ers
KNBR CONVERSATION With Carlos Rogers
An edited transcript of the conversation between 49ers cornerback Carlos Rogers and KNBR's Ted Robinson:
Robinson: What's it like preparing as a DB when you don't know much about and haven't seen the quarterback (Arizona's Brian Hoyer) you're going to face?
Rogers: ... We can't get caught up in the quarterback change, because they're running the same offense. It's not like they went from one quarterback to a running quarterback where we have to put in a lot of different defensive sets. It's kind of the same quarterback.
Robinson: And you know the receivers, right? These are guys you've played against many times ...
Rogers: Right. We do know the receivers. Like I said, they're running the same offense, so we run the same defense against what we know they do. It's a new quarterback, he's a veteran quarterback who knows a lot of stuff. But we'll be ready.
Robinson: When you play Arizona, it's always all about Larry Fitzgerald, but Andre Roberts caught 61 passes this year, so he's clearly a guy they're using a lot, right?
Rogers: Yeah, they are using him a lot. A lot of teams are taking away Fitzgerald, knowing that he's the big threat, and he demands a lot of double teams. We can't let (Roberts) get off while we're taking away Fitzgerald. But we're still going to focus on taking away Fitzgerald. We know he's the biggest threat - he's a Pro Bowl guy who can get off and change the game in a minute, so we need to take him away.
Robinson: This is the last regular season game, so you guys have played a lot of football. Where do you find the reserves in the tank to play at this time of year?
Rogers: I think that Coach has built this team up to withstand anything, overtime games and all, and we just find a way to make it work, no matter what. Just as much as we're playing out there, the other team is playing too - I just think we're built to last, through whatever. One overtime, two overtimes, then come back and play a Thursday night game, whatever - we're ready.
Robinson: The Patriots ran a play every 17 seconds in that game a couple weeks ago - that's incredibly fast for the NFL. What kind of an effect did that have on you guys?
Rogers: It has an effect defense-wise. Especially in that second half - not to take anything away from our offense, but we were going three-and-out a lot in that second half. Then they come back and run all these fast, quick plays, and then we're going three-and-out. It puts a lot of pressure on the defense, and it kind of makes us tired. But like I said, we are built to withstand that. ...
Robinson: When a guy like Justin Smith goes down, do you believe you've got a defense with enough talent out there to make up for that loss?
Rogers: Being that we have so many Pro Bowlers, you can easily say that. But you have to come out and play each and every week, no matter what has gone on. Justin is a big part of our defense - a really big part of our defense - but our coach and GM have done a good job of building guys up, training guys and getting guys ready to come in and play no matter who goes down. So we've got a lot of confidence in whoever is the backup to come in and get the job done.
Robinson: Who's the toughest receiver you've seen all year?
Rogers: I think being in the slot, (the Giants') Victor Cruz and (St. Louis' Danny) Amendola. Those guys are quick, they've got a lot of option routes and do a lot of things in the slot. First and second down, with big receivers, I think we do a good job of taking those guys away. Coach does a good job of not putting us out there on an island by ourselves ...
Robinson: I'm glad you say that, because I think a lot of people know about Victor Cruz, but Amendola really does present a lot more problems than he would appear to on paper.
Rogers: Yeah, you don't look on paper and think he'd be so dangerous, but when a guy has so many option routes and is as quick and as fast as he is, he's going to present a problem. He demands a lot of attention.


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Arnie, This change is accpetable to me. I approve on the motion. -Bob -----Original Message----- From: ***** IEEE 802 Executive Committee List ***** [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of email@example.com Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:24 AM To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: [802SEC] +++10 Day Ballot+++Opens 07 March Closes 17 March All: Attached please find a modification on the block change proceedure which tightens up when one may request an affiliation change. The current vote status on this motion is: CH: Paul Nikolich - DNV ES: Buzz Rigsbee - Approve RS: Bob O'Hara - DNV TR: John Hawkins - DNV 01: Tony Jeffree - Approve 15: Bob Heile - Approve 17: John Lemon - DNV 18: Mike Lynch - DNV 20: Arnie Grenspan - Approve Dear EC Members, The 802 Chair, Paul Nikolich, has delegated the conduct of the following motion via 802 EC email ballot to me, Arnie Greenspan. Moved: The Unconflicted 802 EC members approve the attached Procedure, to be used in the event there is a request for a change to an individuals block assignment during the 802.20 Sponsor ballot. Opens: 07 MAR 2008; Closes 17 MAR2008 Mover: Arnie Greenspan Seconder: Buzz Rigsbee Unconflicted EC (UC EC) members regarding 802.20 WG matters are eligible to cast a ballot on this issue. UC EC Voters: ---------------- CH Paul Nikolich ES Buzz Rigsbee RS Bob O'Hara TR John Hawkins 01 Tony Jeffree 15 Bob Heile 17 John Lemon 18 Mike Lynch 20 Arnie Greenspan ME Geoff Thompson non-voting EC members not eligible to vote: -------------------------------- V1 Mat Sherman V2 Pat Thaler 03 Bob Grow 11 Stuart Kerry 16 Roger Marks 19 Steve Shellhammer 21 Vivek Gupta 22 Carl Stevenson ---------- This email is sent from the 802 Executive Committee email reflector. This list is maintained by Listserv. ---------- This email is sent from the 802 Executive Committee email reflector. This list is maintained by Listserv.


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Hearts ... to all women today.
Today is the day to celebrate mom. Any mom. Anyone who is in the role of a mother. Or we could just celebrate all women today and/or every day.
We define a mother as a woman who dedicates a large part of herself to a child. Or a woman who challenges and pushes a child to become an adult. A mother is the woman who, no matter what, stands beside that child and helps - whatever her methods may be.
And a mother's love isn't a Hallmark card with a sweet quote and a cute picture. It might be getting a kick in the butt every now and then or a lecture.
To us a mother is someone very special in her own way and who gave life to every single one of us.
Darts ... to the fact that a missing Sun City woman was not found safely after nearly two weeks of searching.
Caroline Gibson's body was found in her car at the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport last Wednesday. Her family reported her missing April 27 after they last saw her the day before. A two-county search via air and land did not find her.
We wonder how a car sat at the airport for nearly two weeks without anyone becoming suspicious. The only consolation in this tragic event is that the family at least can stop wondering where she is and if she will ever be found.
Hearts ... to President Barack Obama for announcing his decision on same-sex marriages.
Obama had said his opinion on the issue was evolving and last week it evolved to become a huge news item when he said he supported same-sex marriage. His announcement came a day after the other Carolina - North Carolina - passed Amendment One, which defines marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman.
We're glad Obama let his position on the issue become public knowledge. Look for this issue to become a huge one between now and Election day.
Darts ... to two Greenville County residents who were arrested and charged with illegal neglect of a child after authorities found eight poisonous snakes in their home.
Deputies said a 28-year-old and a 25-year-old did not have a license, permit or certificates authorizing them to have the snakes. Arrest warrants state the couple also did not have proper housing for the snakes.
Authorities say the couple's 3-year-old and 2-month-old children were endangered.
OK, is it just us but why would anyone want to have poisonous snakes in the first place?
Hearts ... to spring high school football season.
Are you ready for some football? Ready or not, here it comes.
The Bluffton High Bobcats are ready for action. At least in the form of the annual spring game.
Game is set for 6 p.m. Friday at Bobcat stadium.
To get warmed up, go watch practice one afternoon or at least catch Bluffton Today sports reporter Lawrence Conneff on the Bobcat Radio at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. He will be part of a "Game Day" experience again this week. Live streaming at blufftontoday.com.


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With your brush, paint (cut in) around the perimeter of the wallpapered surface. Start at a top corner and continue along the ceiling and around the baseboards.
From the bucket, pour paint into a tray and work your roller into the tray until it is fully loaded with paint. For best results, use a 3/8" - 1/2" roller cover.
Starting in a 3' x 3' section at the top corner of the project area, roll the paint onto the wallpaper in a "W" formation.
Work the roller back and forth across the section until the "W" is completely filled in. Be sure to roll over the cut in area as well.
Forming a column from ceiling to floor, paint the next 3' x 3' section directly below the previous one.
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Experience NeededBy David Strom | Posted 2010-02-04 Print
The idea of running some of your desktops inside a secure data center has a lot of appeal, but the costs for building the right infrastructure can consume the savings that VDI promises to generate. Here are some guidelines for dealing with these challenges.
See also: Best Practices for Desktop Virtualization
Experience Needed
How much experience should I have with virtual machine image management and deployment tools?
If you've never used virtualization, now is the time to gain some experience, because a successful VDI rollout will need to build on this experience. The major VM vendors offer tools that make it easier to make wholesale changes across your desktop images, so you can avoid patching individual desktops one at a time.
VMware offers vSphere and vComposer, and Microsoft's System Center has various plug-ins to work with Hyper-V and its various VDI elements. There are also third-party tools, including LiquidWareLabs.com and VDIworks.com.
Do I have to beef up my network or storage infrastructure to handle the additional traffic demands of virtual desktops?
You need to plan for worst-case scenarios, such as the beginning of a workday when everyone boots up their virtual desktop. That's when you have to ensure that there's enough network capacity to send all these bits down the wire. Some VDI solutions, such as Ericom and Synchron, don't require storage area networks (SANs) right away for smaller deployments.
With the right deployment of SAN technologies, you can save storage costs by deduplicating the virtual images that are stored on them. This is what J&B Group ended up doing with their NetApp arrays, which saved them a lot of storage capacity since most of the VDI images use similar data structures.
What remote control protocol will I use between the virtual desktop and the client device?
Part of this decision is in understanding your network and the tools that are called "connection brokers," which determine how to marry a particular remote protocol and a desktop host machine. These tools include Citrix Desktop Broker for Presentation Server, LeoStream Virtual Desktop Connection Broker, Ericom and Quest Software's Virtual Access Suite.
At the University of Rennes, in northern France, they use the Leostream broker to connect more than 500 virtual desktops across the campus. They deploy a variety of operating systems, including both Windows XP and Linux desktops, and these can boot in a minute because of the way they've designed the network. The Leostream broker can also quickly scale up as demand for more connections increases, and it integrates with the university's single sign-on system. "Our users have to authenticate only once when they connect to our portal," says Humberto Duarte, the IT department co-director.
Will my users be able to access certain legacy hardware that they are accustomed to using from their PCs?
VDI solutions are notorious in their spotty support for these kinds of applications, and only now are we seeing some improvements that will provide the same rich experience that standard PC users take for granted. "For audio and video using Windows Media Player, our VDI solution works fine," says Duarte. "But if you are playing a Flash video or using another player, it isn't that good from either our remote desktops or the thin clients."
Sometimes, a single application can create deployment problems. Jeff Keith, senior network engineer with Redlands Community Hospital in California, says they "initially went with a thin-client device at the desktop to reduce support costs, but ran into a performance issue with a fetal monitoring application. The driver and connection broker client needed on the virtual machine caused high CPU utilization with this application, so we replaced several thin clients with desktop PCs running this app."
Since then, the hospital has migrated its VDI solution to a high-performance SAN and will replace its PCs with thin clients. "We don't anticipate any further performance issues," Keith adds. "We will continue to evaluate new thin clients and technologies as we move forward with our VDI plan."
If your plans call for supporting these applications, make sure whatever VDI solution you evaluate can address this issue.
Do I understand all the moving parts of my solution?
Finally, make sure you have scoped out your project and detailed all the parts that will make up your VDI implementation. For example, Microsoft's VDI solution requires four different Remote Desktop servers: Virtualization Host server, Connection Broker, Remote Desktop server itself and Remote Desktop Web Access server. While these can run concurrently on a single piece of hardware, there's a lot to keep track of.
Microsoft also requires special licensing, called the Windows Virtual Enterprise Centralized Desktop license, in addition to standard enterprise licenses. VMware's VDI solution is just as complex because a number of different products must work together. That's when having a VDI VAR can come in handy.
One alternative is to investigate a "starter kit," which some vendors have assembled to make deploying VDI easier. These include products from HP, Ericom, Synchron and Quest.
"We looked at others, but Ericom's ease of use, technical support and Microsoft integration were big reasons we went with them," says Larry Pickard, director of IT for the San Francisco Theological Seminary. It's using 80 VDI clients with HyperV, System Center and, eventually, Wyse thin clients.
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The the last Kickstarter game project we featured was sadly not successful and with only 11 days to go it doesn't look too good for Data Dealer either. But this HTML5 and CC-by-SA licensed game project comes with a pretty cool idea and is quite playable already.
It centers around the idea that services like Facebook & Google really arn't in the business of bringing you a good service (aka "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold") and makes a ironic game out of that.
Here is game-play trailer to give you an better idea:
Or try the current demo on their webpage.
Now of course as we have all recently learned (or at least got confirmation about), the reality is even more twisted than just the private business side of things. But over the revelations of the mass surveillance by the NSA & Co., we should still not forget that all those big internet companies arn't victims by far either.
P.S.: My best wishes go out to Mr. Snowden! You are a hero of our generation.
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Data Dealer, an interesting project to fund!
The the last Kickstarter game project we featured was sadly not successful and with only 11 days to go it doesn't look too good for Data Dealer either. But this HTML5 and CC-by-SA licensed game project comes with a pretty cool idea and is quite playable already.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Unvanquished summer tournament
Given the often quite small online communities around FOSS games, one has to become creative on how to keep players and attract new ones. Regular tournaments are one of those good ideas, albeit one that is a lot of work organizing.
One of the games that is still struggling to attract a stable player base is Unvanquished, even though the game is based on Tremulous and thus quite well developed game-play wise.
|Don't hide from the Aliens
Your tactics may need to change to compensate for this, but you can always test out the new gameplay on our development server beforehand, as well as by attending and observing our weekly development games on Saturdays. An explanation of the differences between our gameplay and the classic Tremulous variety will be explained in a helpful guide that we will provide to you shortly. Most notably, camping is no longer a desirable tactic, and map control is the new focus.
|They said "no more camping" !"§$%&/!!!
Registration starts on the 1st of July and you will need at least 3 other people on your team. I would naturally suggest a FreeGamer team, however due to my current bad internet connection, it is sadly not possible for me to join. But I hope some of the matches will be recored so that we can cover them here on the blog too :)
Monday, June 17, 2013
DevCorner: Underapprechiated game engines
In my never ending search for a FOSS game engine that is usable for game modding with out having to reinvent the wheel (nor requiring to be a C++ code master) & having decent tools for content creation (because I am spoiled and think that is a minimum requirement for a game engine) I have become quite disillusioned lately. That is because *spoiler alert* sadly there is none so far... but a few are close luckily.
The usual contenders for 3D action games are your mixed assortment of idTech based engines, most notably ioQuake3. There are a few upcoming contenders like Unvanquished's Daemon engine (which is a mix of ET:Wolf, ioQuake3 and Xreal) and a yet to emerge idTech4 based champion (my uninformed guess is that it will be dhewm3). But all of them lack a decent game-play scripting function.
On the other side of the idTech spectrum, there is the idTech1 based granddaddy DarkPlaces, which while having advanced to an quite impressive feature set, suffers a quite a bit from its nut-bolted & mostly undocumented client side add-on on the already a bit arcane script language QuakeC.
Interestingly the idTech2 based engines get little attention though. I have highlighted a few nice game projects based in it in the past, but it is probably due to the fact that each project is hacking on their own engine fork, that none has gained prominence as a game engine on it's own. But feature wise the engines behind AlienArena, Overdose and Warsow are probably the most advanced.
The last one of these, has been probably the most overlooked, with the game itself not exactly open-source friendly and the engine being developed more or less behind closed doors. It seems however that this has changed now, although given recent project news it is unclear what made them change their approach. But an all new version of it is now on Github with the main developer mentioning a few really nice changes here. Let's hope it isn't just a "source-drop" of a dying project, as after digging into it a bit (the documentation is really fragmented and lacking) I have to say that it includes a few really awesome features not commonly seen in other FOSS engines:
Besides being really performant, it is fully scriptable and has some quite unique multiplayer features like awards, friendlists and persistent game statistics. It also seems to make good process in having easy to edit GLSL shaders, which I have realized is a much rarer feature than I originally thought. Last but not least it has a really modern looking and fully scriptable menu and HUD.
Ah and before I move on to non-idTech based engines I should mention Engoo for those looking for a modernized software rendering engine based on idTech1 (there was some controversy over it, so I am trying to show some support for its further development here).
Ok, that covered, what are some maybe under appreciated non-idTech 3D engines?
First of all I should probably mention the well known ones for the sake of completeness: Cube2, Ogre3D and the new big player Torque3D. All of which are IMHO still failing to provide a good platform for easy game creation (mainly due, following the same order: in-fexibility & lack of scripting; huge mess of independent parts & bad toolchain; lack of Linux port & buggy and overly complicated toolchain).
One of the shining but lesser known examples of trying to improve the status quo is the jMoneky3 engine. Even though it is still a bit bare-bone (e.g. lacking game frameworks) the nicely integrated SDK and the great new node based GLSL shader editor keeps on attracting my attention. Similary the BlenderGameEngine sure has a few great advantages due to its tight integration. Sadly it seems to be the unliked stepchild of the Blender3D project though, which some quite serious limitations and awesome additions like the candy branch never reaching the the main release.
Then there are the still very much alive big names of the past: Irrlicht and Crystal Space. I am not exactly sure why those never quite reached the required mass to become the engines of choice, but I guess the license mess around Irrklang (and other non free but more or less required addons) and the CS Yo Frankie disaster might have to do with it. But at least Crystal Space was accepted as a hosting organization for this year's GSoC again, so they must be doing something right.
Last but not least, I would like to give a mention to a relatively new contender: Octaforge, which has supplied a steady stream of updated betas lately. The interesting things about Octaforge is that it takes all the good things from Cube2 and combines it with a much updated renderer (Tesseract) and full lua script support. But sadly it isn't quite there yet, and the move to a scripting language required the removal of all the nice game-code that it inherited from Cube2.
As closing remarks I have to admit that this article was rather lopsided towards FPS game engines (and more general purpose ones). Of course there are many great other game engines in the FOSS sphere that focus on RTS or (MMO)RPG games etc. I do however feel that many of the grievances voiced here probably apply there too, but maybe it isn't quite as frustrating there as in the FPS genre.
But if you have some better insights into those type of engines feel free to comment below!
tl;dr: the author (as an old school modder) is frustrated that after all these years there still isn't an FOSS FPS engine that can be modded as comfortably as the Half-Life2 engine or UDK. Don't miss the new qfusion stuff though.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Lost Sky Tactical J-RPG [PyGame]
To play on a system that has mercurial and pygame installed, run:
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/featheredmelody/lost-sky-project-public cd lost-sky-project-public/Story\ of\ a\ Lost\ Sky/ chmod +x srpg.py ./srpg.py
Story of a Lost Sky is a Turn Based Strategy RPG with gameplay that is similar to Fire Emblem. Units are placed on a tile map and each side takes turns moving and attacking. Outside the battle map, the player is able to customize their characters and equip new spells and traits.This project was discovered by seeing a link banner on Valyria Tear's blog. Yay networking!
Code License: New BSD
Content License: Various: PD, CC-BY 3.0, CC-Sampling+ (non-free), Unknown
Sunday, June 09, 2013
Xonotic 0.7 released
After an agonizingly long wait, I am happy to report that a new official release of the premier FOSS arena FPS Xonotic is available to the masses.
Here is a nice (but slightly older) game-play video for those not having played Xonotic yet:
Changes are quite extensive compared to the last official release... most notably an extensive update the the CTF mode, some neat additional features for competitive gaming and an assortment of great new maps.
|New maps in Xonotic 0.7
There are also finally an animation bending feature for the player-models and creation of new characters has never been easier now that the iqm format is used.
You can comment on this release over at the Xonotic forum release announcement thread (or of course here in our comment section).
Also check out these two still under heavy development mods for xonotic:
- Overkill is a mod that attempts to combine the best of minsta gameplay and TDM/CTF. It also has some nice vector shaded new weapons and player models.
- DotC is an DOTA like but in 1st person view type of mod.
P.S.: If you have a really fast Android device, you can also try to run Xonotic on it via this newly fixed DarkPlaces port. Just don't expect to be able to compete online with touchscreen input :p
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
DevCorner: Liberate some great Blender game art!
UPDATE: First set of files has been released (license CC0) and on my advise he added some stretch goals:
Currently it is standing at 530$ and there are 22 days to go, so chances are we will see some more nice stuff out of this.
600$ > 3 game ready Enemies! (models, sfx, animations, effects)
650$ > Dynamic optimized lighting system! (rich dynamic lighting with low resource usage )
750$ > 4 new weapons!(model, texture, sound)
850$ > Triple the amount of the actual props! (interactive objects,explosibles, new walls, doors windows etc.)
900$ > New player model (model, textures)
Way too many closed-source game projects never see the light of the day, and their code and assets are forever lost. Now at least one developer thought he could at least make a few bucks by liberating this content under the CC0 license:
There is some seriously nice stuff in that pack, and the 500 US $ he is asking for on his indigogo page is a bargain for it.
But I sure wish more developers of failed projects would release their assets like this.
Monday, June 03, 2013
Hedgewars 0.9.19 released
Everyone's favorite clone of worm-warfare, Hedgewars recently got a rather big new release as one of the developers pointed out to us by email.
|One of the new level themes for Hedgewars 0.9.19
The changes are quite extensive, so instead of failing to summarize them here, check out the above linked quite extensive original release announcement.
You can also have a look at this fan-made trailer if you enjoy cheezy stuff ;)