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Every Sunday: Morning Worship
8 a.m. & 11 a.m., Traditional Worship; 9:30 a.m., Contemporary Worship; St. Peter's Lutheran Church, E.L.C.A, 10301 Coastal Hwy., O.C. For more information, 410-524-7474.
Open Monday-Saturday: Atlantic
United Methodist Church Thrift Shop
10 a.m.-2 p.m., AUMC, 105, 4th Street, O.C. For more info, 410-289-4458.
Open Wednesday-Saturday:
Shepherd's Nook Thrift Shop
9 a.m.-1 p.m., Community Church at Ocean Pines, Rte. 589 & Racetrack Rd., Berlin. Accepting donations of gently worn clothes and small household items.
Open Wednesday-Friday: Stevenson
United Methodist Thrift Shop
5 Stevenson Lane, Berlin, across from the Laundromat. Wednesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; Sale days every Friday, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Now-March 6: Hearts Happen Show
At Zenna Wellness Studio
Downtown Berlin. Visit: Zennawellness.com for hours and events. including "Heart-astic" 2nd Friday on Feb. 8 with contests, prizes and new products.
Feb. 1: 55 Alive Safe Driving Class
Sponsored by the Ocean Pines Chapter of the AARP. Cost: $12 for members; $14 for non-members. Several auto insurance companies provide a discount for three ears for those taking the course. To sign up for this class or for more information call 410-641-6278. Details will be provided when you call.
Feb. 1: KC Bingo
5 p.m., doors open; 6:30 p.m., games begin; rear of St. Luke's Church, 9901 Coastal Hwy., O.C. Refreshments on sale. For more info, 410-524-7994.
Feb. 2: AYCE Breakfast Buffet
7:30-10 a.m., Eden United Methodist Church, Willards. Sponsored by the church. All-you-can-eat. Cost: $7, adults; $3.50, ages 6-12; children 6 and under eat free. For more information, 410-749-9204.
Feb. 2: Indoor Flea Market
8 a.m.-1 p.m., Bethany United Methodist Church, Rte 611 & Snug Harbor Rd., near Frontiertown, Berlin. Breakfast and lunch will be served. Great soups and baked goods. For more information or to rent a table, 410-629-0926.
Feb. 2: AYCE Fried Chicken Buffet
11 a.m.-until, Mt. Pleasant Church, Willards. Menu includes all-you-can-eat fried chicken, vegetables, beverages & desserts. Cost: $11, adults; $5, children. Ages 6 and under eat free. Bake table and carry-outs will be available. For more info, 410-614-9898.
Feb. 2: NAACP 16th Annual
African-American Celebration
3 p.m., Chipman Cultural Center, 325 Broad St., Salisbury. Sponsored by the Wicomico Co. branch of the NAACP. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Joanne M. Martin and the topic will be "Our Past Gives Us Strength, the Future Gives Us Hope."
Feb. 2 & 3: Soups On Fundraiser
11 a.m.-2 p.m., Ocean City Airport. Enjoy a cup of soup and view the Huey Memorial in support of Ocean City Aviation's (OCAA) Huey's restoration and future maintenance costs. For more information, 410-213-2471, 410-726-7207 or 410-641-6888.
Feb. 2: Civil War Trivia & Luncheon
1-5 p.m., OC VFW Post 8296. Cost: $10, includes lunch. For more information, 410-524-8196.
Feb. 2: Delmarva Elite Lacrosse
U-11 Team Tryouts
3-5 p.m., Crown Sports Center. If you plan to tryout please pre-register by sending player's name, address, birth date, phone number, email address and positions trying out for to firstname.lastname@example.com. A $10 try-out fee will be collected. For more information, visit www.delmarvaelitesharks.com or call 410-883-3538.
Feb. 3: AYCE Granville Trimper
Pancake Breakfast
8 a.m.-noon, Ocean View American Grill, 16th St. & the Boardwalk, O.C. All-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, coffee, tea, juice and soda. Cost: $7, adults; $4 for kids 10 and under. Children ages 5 and under eat free. For more info, 410-289-1413 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Feb. 3: Superbowl Party
Post opens at 12:30 p.m., American Legion Post #166, 23rd St. & Philadelphia Ave., O.C. All-you-can-eat buffet for $8, from 5 p.m.-end of game. Turkey, ham $ roast beef sandwiches, chicken fingers, chili, hot dog bar, chicken & dumplings, baked ziti, macaroni & cheese, pasta salad, chips, pretzels, dips veggie tray and brownies. Happy hour prices all day. For more info 410-289-3166.
Feb. 4: AARP Chapter #4507 Meeting
9:30 a.m., social time; 10 a.m., meeting begins; Ocean Pines Community Center. Guest speaker will be Judy Stinebiser from Shepherd's Nook and ethel Betts from Sarah's Pantry. Bring a friend and canned goods for the pantry. For more info, email: firstname.lastname@example.com or call 443-831-1791.
Feb. 4: AGH Diabetes Support Group
6-7 p.m., St. Paul's Methodist Church, Berlin. Guest speaker will be Altrenia Wright, Director of Outpatient Services at AGH on the topic of Laboratory Testing. For more information, 410-629-6877 or 410-641-9703.
Feb. 6: AYCE Grace Parker Breakfast
7 a.m.-1 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 13th St. & Philadelphia Ave., O.C. All-you-can-eat eggs any style, pancakes, buckwheat pancakes, bacon, Milton sausage, country ham, homemade biscuits, hash brown potatoes, grits, coffee and tea. Cost: $8, eat-in; $6, carry-out. Milk, soda and orange juice available. For more information, 410-289-9340.
Feb. 6: Luncheon & Bingo
11:30 a.m., luncheon served; St. Andrew Catholic Center, 144th St. & Sinepuxent Ave., O.C. To benefit St. Luke Church. Tickets are $25 and include 17 games. Split the Pot game will be extra. For tickets, 302-436-0351. If you or your organization would like to sponsor a game it's $40 for a regular game and $60 for a special game. Your name will appear in the program. To sponsor a game, 410-250-0300.
Feb. 6: TOPS Meeting
5 p.m., Ocean City Library. TOPS, or Take Off Pounds Sensibly is a support group for weight loss and provides education on health issues. For more information, 443-365-4722.
Feb. 6: AGH Diabetes Support Group
7-8 p.m., Ocean Pines Library. Guest speaker will be Altrenia Wright, Director of Outpatient Services at AGH on the topic of Laboratory Testing. For more information, 410-629-6877 or 410-641-9703.
Feb. 6: Bingo
5:30, doors open; 6:30, early bird games; 7 p.m., regular games; Ocean City Elks Lodge #2645, 138th St., across from the Fenwick Inn. $1,000 jackpot available, food, snacks and non-alcoholic beverages. No one under 18 allowed in bingo hall during bingo.
Feb. 6: Delmarva Hand Dancing
5:30-9 p.m., Skyline Bar & Grille (formerly Jordan's Rooftop), at the Fenwick Inn, 138th St., O.C. Jitter-bug, swing, cha-cha to the sounds of the 50's & 60's. Beginner and intermediate dance lessons 5:30-6:30 p.m. For more information, 302-337-3638.
Feb. 7: Legion Bingo
Doors open 5:30 p.m., games begin 7 p.m.; American Legion Post 166, 24th St. & Philadelphia Ave., O.C. Food and drink available. For more information, 410-289-3166.
Feb. 7: Women's Club Meeting
10 a.m., Assateague room, Ocean Pines Community Center. Sponsored by the Women's Club of Ocean Pines. Discussions of the proposed budget, dues and organizational concepts. Refreshments will be served. For more information, 410-208-2821 or email email@example.com.
Feb. 7: Sweetheart Tea
11:30 a.m., Poplar Hill Mansion, 117 Elizabeth St., Salisbury. Fashions by Nancy N., designer jewelry for sale and fun raffle items. Menu includes fruit cup, hearty soup, assorted tea sandwiches, homemade scones with clotted cream and jam, assorted sweets and Lady Gray tea. Reservations are suggested, space is limited. Cost: $20, person. For more information, 410-749-5168.


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Just a plug: the R. P. Anand Memorial Committee invites applications for its 2014 annual scholarship for post-graduate students of international law from all parts of the world. The deadline for applications is 30 November, 2013. More details about the scholarship can be found here.
Prof. Anand was one of the greatest international lawyers from India, contributing most notably to the development of the modern law of the sea, as well as shedding new light on the history of international law and the role of Asian and African States in its development. The Scholarship is a wonderful way of celebrating his life and work. Readers may also be interested in the electronic collection of Prof. Anand's works available on the website of the R.P. Anand Virtual Centre of International Law.


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Whether you want to make new friends, enhance your résumé, improve your marketability or just have new experiences, discover the opportunities to do just that at ACC.
You can:
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- Develop your leadership skills through and the Student Government the National Society of Leadership and Success
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MOSCOW -- Seth Lloyd, an MIT professor and self-proclaimed "quantum mechanic" who claims to have invented technology used in the world's first commercial quantum computer, from D-Wave Systems Inc., is crafting what he calls the first quantum application -- Quantum Machine Learning -- which he described here at the International Conference on Quantum Computing (ICQT).
"What can we use quantum computers for?" Lloyd said in his ICQT session. "I would like to propose the first quantum app, or q-app, which I call 'Quantum Machine Learning for Big Quantum Data.' "
In a nutshell, Lloyd's q-app (pronounced "quapp") encodes Google-like queries with q-bits that enable quantum computers to not only perform real-time searches through even the most gigantic databases, but which also insures their absolute privacy, since attempts to eavesdrop on the query by the search engine provider would disturb the delicate q-bit's superposition of states.
Lloyd has tried to get commercial funding to develop his q-app, but has so far failed to convince any venture capitalist to fund his project. The reason, he claims, is that his q-app insures that the search engine would not be able to store the user's queries to add to the reams of information they already store about each of their users.
"The VCs say that the search-engine business model is to learn everything they can about their users, so my q-app goes against the very core of their business," said Lloyd.
To prove that it will work, and hopefully attract some brave VC to fund its development, Lloyd is revealing the details of how his q-app makes real-time searches through the biggest conceivable databases. And after losing control of the technology that he claims to have invented, which he says D-Wave is currently using without paying him royalties, this time he has patented his Quantum Machine Learning q-app.
D-Wave's commerical quantum computer has already been installed at both Lockheed and the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab created jointly by NASA, Google, and Universities Space Research Association.
The technique he proposes uses the same types of machine learning algorithms that have already been developed for dealing with big-data, but encodes their queries with q-bits which can only be processed on quantum computers. He claims the technique is so powerful that it could search for results in real-time through the biggest possible data sets. For instance, if each person on the earth's genome was sequenced and encoded on a vector, then an array of these vectors could represent the entire combined genome of every person on the earth, which would be about 10 to the 20th bits (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000). However, Lloyd claims that even a gigantic database could be queried in real-time using his q-app running on a future quantum computer with only a 70 q-bit processor.
Lloyd said:
The key to Lloyd's q-app is that it would use quantum mechanics to map these big arrays of big vectors onto a tensor product space that results in an exponential compression of the data set.Today, it is impossible to perform even the simplest linear manipulation on such large data sets, which would take more operations than all the computers in the world have every performed since the very first computer was invented. But quantum computers are perfectly suited to processing this type of data -- big arrays of big vectors.
"We get a kind of quantum compression of the classical bits into much smaller q-bit space, then use conventional machine learning algorithms, but on the much smaller q-bit space," said Lloyd. "Many of the most popular machine learning techniques would work in this much smaller quantum space."
Lloyd has tested his algorithm -- in theory and on a small scale -- using a conventional supervised machine learning algorithm operating on his q-bit space that shrinks classical data sets exponentially. And he claims the process worked so well that even the largest data set of all -- every bit in the universe, which he describes in his book Programming the Universe, would only require a quantum computer with 300 q-bits to query in real-time.


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This is Sora Aoi. She is a former Japanese adult video actress who has been wildly popular in China. If one person can improve the tense relationship between the two countries, maybe it's her!
She's so popular there that there are the inevitable cash-ins for those fans who want to get very close to the star.
GAH. Those eyes. This, 21CN reports, is a new Sora Aoi sex doll. And her eyes close when she is laid flat, because that's not creepy at all. Nope!
In related news, China Times, is reporting that Taiwanese model Lin Chi-ling is actually the most popular blow up doll choice, with China's biggest online shopping site, Taobao, carrying approximately 620 inflatable Lins. In comparison, there are a mere 175 different Sora dolls. Um, congrats?
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I have picked this book up and started reading about 5 times now. Time goes by between each attempt. I don't understand why the first 20 or so pages just do not sink into my mind. It's like I can't envision the story being told or something. Very strange. This is the only book by King that I do this with. Anyone else have a hard time following this story? Maybe it was because it is co-written with Peter Straub?


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Events Edit
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- Spock is assigned to the USS Enterprise as science officer. (TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I")
- The Enterprise under the command of Christopher Pike, visits Rigel VII. While commanding the landing party, Pike enters an abandoned fortress and fights a Kalar warrior. The landing party's ambush leads to seven injuries and three deaths, including Pike's yeoman. (TOS: "The Cage")
- The Enterprise, en route to Vega colony to hospitalize the Rigel VII victims, is diverted by an eighteen-year old distress call from the SS Columbia, crashed on Talos IV. (TOS: "The Cage")
- Ensign James T. Kirk is assigned with Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Finney to the USS Republic. (TOS: "Court Martial")
- While aboard the training vessel Republic during a change of watches, Ensign Kirk relieves Commander Finney and notes that a circuit, which should have been closed, to the atomic matter piles is opened. After closing the circuit, Kirk logs the incident. (TOS: "Court Martial")
- Commander Finney is reprimanded for the incident aboard the Republic. (TOS: "Court Martial")
Other events Edit
- Leonard McCoy becomes romantically involved with the future Nancy Crater. (TOS: "The Man Trap")
Alternate reality Edit
- Spock begins programming the Kobayashi Maru scenario. (Star Trek)
Mirror universe Edit
- The Terran Empire rebellion establishes a base on Harlak. (DIS: "The Wolf Inside")
Numerous non-canon literature works, including several Pocket Books, place the Battle of Axanar in this year.
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Confession: American Idol remains one of our favorite guilty pleasures. But one thing with the long-running show always bothered us. While you can train your voice for years in preparation for a championship run, no one's there providing pre-diva style tips. All of Idol's visual upgrades happen after they ship the kids to L.A., so aspiring champs have to face those crucial, early rounds on their own. This, we cannot condone.
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Now Available: Innovators Under 35 2013 See The 2013 List »
Chris Poole, 23
Designing online communities for anonymous collaboration
4Chan, founded in 2003 by Chris Poole (better known as "moot"), is one of the few corners of the Web that still celebrate faceless commentary and action. Poole's commitment to anonymity has helped 4Chan acquire more than 12 million active users; it boasts 600 million page views a month.
The 4Chan discussion boards have given rise to Internet memes that have helped shape popular culture, such as the continuing vogue for abruptly inserting Rick Astley's 1987 hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" into an online video (or live event). Less frivolously, the site was the birthplace of Anonymous, a collective of activist hackers who have targeted Scientology and companies that shunned WikiLeaks for publicizing government and corporate secrets.
When Poole built 4Chan, he did so with the concept of anonymity at its center, seeking to create a place where people have their mistakes forgotten rather than being haunted by everything they've ever posted. There is no registration system, and users can post anonymously under whatever pseudonym they choose, even one associated with another user. There is no archive: content uploaded to the site by users disappears as new images and commentary are added.
Poole hopes to apply the lessons he has learned from 4Chan to a recent startup called Canv.as, which will allow users to share and edit images collaboratively using a built-in editor—anonymously, of course. —Nick Bilton
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MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: 2012 – Paralympic Games (Silver Medal). Volleyball Masters in The Netherlands (gold). 2011 – ECVD Continental Cup in Yevpatoria, Ukraine (Gold Medal). 2010 – Sitting Volleyball World Championships (Silver Medal)... Parapan American Championship (Gold Medal)… World Organization for Volleyball Disabled (WOVD) World Cup Egypt (Gold Medal). 2009 – Parapan American Zonal Championship (Gold Medal)… Eurocup (Gold Medal). 2008 - Paralympic Games (Silver Medal)... World Organization Volleyball for Disabled (WOVD) Intercontinental Cup (Bronze Medal). 2007 – Sitting Volleyball Invitational (Silver Medal). 2006 – Sitting Volleyball World Championship in Netherlands. 2004 – Paralympic Games in Athens (Bronze Medal). 2003 – Parapan American Games.
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 2012 – Started 13 sets at the Paralympic Games in London. Scored 23 points on 15 kills, seven blocks and one ace. Scored tournament-high six points against Ukraine in the semifinals and China in the gold medal match… Helped U.S. Women to a 4-0 record and a gold medal at the Volleyball Masters in The Netherlands. 2011 – Helped the U.S. Women to a 7-0 record and a gold medal at the ECVD Continental Cup in Yevpatoria, Ukraine... Helped the U.S. Women defeat the Shanghai club team in four exhibition matches played in conjunction with the 2011 Colorado Crossroads on March 17-20 in Denver… Tallied 19 points on 11 kills, good for fourth on the team. 2009 – Awarded along with team as the Paralympians of the Year for 2008. 2008 – U.S. team captain amassed 29 points to help the team to a silver medal finish at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing... Finished with 15 kills, 10 blocks and four aces in the tournament... Started all five matches and played in 16 of the 17 sets... Tied for the team lead with two blocks in a preliminary round loss to China.
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jwz: CSS is BS
Steven Canfield: CSS: Where art thou? (Height: Auto)
Jamie's issue smells to me like someone with a basic understanding of a technology throwing their hands in the air and denouncing the whole damn thing because they just can't figure out how to do exactly what they want. No one claimed CSS was going to be a walk in the park, but assuming it isn't capable just because you don't figure out how to make things happen strikes me as a flawed approach to learning anything.
Steven tackles a much thornier issue, one that as of yet has no sensible workaround or solution. He has obviously tried, and come up short, but that's no reason to throw CSS out the window.
I've never personally laid claim to CSS as being the be–all and end–all of web design. Far from it. The further I probe into what it can and can't do, the more I realize it was designed with semantics clearly in mind over visuals. There are inherent flaws in the language that probably won't be addressed for years to come.
However quirky CSS is though, I have to conclude we're still better off than using HTML alone to solve these problems. Okay, we can't do everything HTML 4.0 or even 2.0 let us do. But look at how much more we can do that neither of those could. Global style, separation of content and presentation, and reduced download times are huge points in favour of the new.
I'm sure the grass will always be greener on certain issues, but isn't it nice to have more or less solid CSS support and lament a couple of trivial bits of HTML 4, rather than bemoan the lack of support for CSS while stuck with HTML 4 alone?
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the new matrix movie coming out has the hurly burly martial arts fightscene (neo & agent smith) rendered completely through computers. it's easier for the 3d guys to edit the scenes, easier to make changes, easier to add things. this "engine" can also be reused for other movies. with all these new features, it truly seems we're better of using this new method than the old.
but what about the inherent nature of martial arts? what about the fact that we're mesmerised by most martial arts flicks because those physical stunts are achievable stunts? what about how "bullet time" effects are FAR MORE realistic than the CGi-rendered stuff? sure it took a month or two to prep a bullet time sequence, but damn does that stuff look amazingly sweet.
again, form vs function.
I believe CSS offers both form and function better than old-school HTML and tag soup. It introduces new problems, but I don't find them deal-breakers.
Did you get my recent e-mail, incidentally?
hrmm… prolly not. dunno. email's been buggy lately.
you emailing me to tell me that you wanna buy me free booze? gosh, yah didnt hafta but i ACCEPT! :0)
Very well said indeed. I have just attempted my first site in proper CSS for layout without any tables and it was far from a walk in the park but it was definatly a more enjoyable stroll.
In the past if I was creating a table layout and something looked abit wack then I would have to go back into the code, sift through hundreds of nested TD's and Tr's (Table cell and Table Rows for the un-initiated) to find where I was again and then make adjustments to the attributes of that particular row or cell and then check it and repeat the process until I was happy.
In CSS I simply find the element, class or id and change it. For example the width attribute and heypresto!
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Not the sport definition, but this one:
In our survey, the sweet spot for Windows are organizations with 300 to 1000 employees.
This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
It's the area at which different factors balance out to give an optimal result. In this sentence, organisations below 300 do not benefit as much as those above that number, while also organisations above 1000 doe not benefit as much as those below it; so 300–1000 is the "sweet spot".
More formally, we might say that it was the optimum range.
The origin is probably from sports, particularly racket or bat sports where there's a "sweet spot" that the ball should ideally be hit with, then expanding into other sporting uses, before becoming a more general phrase.
According to the contest of the sentence you presented, "sweet spot" is related to the point or situation where the best or optimal results can be achieved.
Pretty much the same as the sport meaning - the optimal size of organisation for Windows was ...
In circumstances where a desirable characteristic varies continuously, the sweet spot describes the point (or the region) of a local maximum. The term cannot be used in cases of a local minimum or where there is uninterrupted rise or fall in the variable.
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When I got there, the harper was playin' rhythm guitar and keyboards, and occasionally pickin' up a harp. I could tell he was a little rusty and was not really playing well, and he didn't seem to be enjoying it. At the first break he asked me if I wanted to play harp the rest of the night, so I got my case outa the car.
I had to ask what key every time, 'cuz nobody would offer it up. About 6 times in a row, the answer was "A". I guess I was really surprised that a bunch of accomplished veterans would stay in the same key for so long. I've never been a big fan of doin' that at a gig... I always thought it put the audience to sleep.
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Fanfare Is a Gateway to Content from CBS, Showtime Networks and More, Offering Consumers an Easy End-to-End Video Experience
MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA, October 22, 2007 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a leading developer of portable audio/video players, today announced the public BETA version of Fanfare™, a dynamic Web-based service that enables consumers to download television shows, movies and other premium video content to portable devices. The BETA of the Fanfare content delivery service platform coincides with the U.S. online retail availability of the new Sansa® TakeTV™ PC-to-TV video player (formerly "USBTV"). The combination of Fanfare with Sansa TakeTV creates an exceptional, end-to-end entertainment system enabling viewers to time-shift and place-shift their favorite shows by downloading them from their PC to watch them on nearly any TV, at any time.
"Fanfare is a very simple and affordable way to conveniently catch up on TV shows and watch other premium videos," said Kate Purmal, senior vice president and general manager of digital content for SanDisk. "Pairing Fanfare's content with a Sansa TakeTV player creates an unmatched, seamless solution where users can browse a rich array of TV programming and movies in a friendly Web interface, and then quickly and easily move this content to a TV, where it's meant to be enjoyed."
The first U.S-based content partners on the Fanfare BETA platform include: CBS, Jaman.com Inc., Showtime Networks, Smithsonian Networks, The Weather Channel and TV Guide Broadband. Among the programs available immediately are CSI, Survivor China, Dexter and Sleeper Cell.
Fanfare video content is a combination of free (ad supported) and paid episodes. The company is in the process of adding new episodes from current partners to the catalog, and acquiring additional programs, other premium content and channels. More than 85 titles are available today, with dozens more expected to be added each week to grant consumers access to thousands of hours of television programming.
SanDisk chose to launch an early version of Fanfare to begin to expose people to the innovative concept of easily transferring content from the PC to the TV. Fanfare will gain additional features when the full version is launched early next year. In addition -while the paid content model is common for other video download services-SanDisk is working closely with its content partners to establish an advertising-supported model for current season television programming.
The overall vision of Fanfare is to enable users to draw from a rich catalog of free and paid video content from a single location for playback on a wide variety of portable devices in the future. These devices will consist of SanDisk's line of Sansa audio/video players, as well as mobile phones, hand-held computers and TVs. Future plans also include video being transferred via SanDisk mobile cards.
Added Purmal: "Video downloading - particularly television-is in its infancy, and standards and business models are still emerging. SanDisk saw an opportunity to create a new solution that meets consumers' needs for a seamless user experience to access and play back television and other video content on our video-enabled products. We're excited to bring this innovative service to consumers."
"In testing conducted for SanDisk at our Television City research facility in Las Vegas, we found consumers were very receptive to the concept of capturing television programming through the Internet and then watching it on their TVs," said David Poltrack, president, CBS Vision and executive vice president and chief research officer, CBS Corporation. "To that end, we're pleased to add Fanfare to our growing list of distribution partners for the CBS Audience Network."
"We are excited to bring Showtime content to SanDisk's truly consumer friendly video distribution solution," said Robert Hayes, SVP GM Showtime Digital Media. "We share the intention of developing a rich, rewarding TV experience and look forward to gathering user feedback."
Fanfare is built around an intuitive, easy-to-navigate user interface designed by Schematic, an award-winning interactive agency specializing in innovative digital platforms. With a single click, programs and movies can be downloaded directly to the Sansa TakeTV player, which is then inserted into a small cradle attached to the TV for playback on the television. The cover of the Sansa TakeTV unit serves as a remote control.
Rights-managed content is protected with TrustedFlash™, a security technology developed by SanDisk that securely stores sensitive digital data and applications on flash media.
SanDisk also worked with digital media leaders IBM and Extend Media to automate key content delivery processes and assure content partners that their high-value assets are safely under control.
The Sansa TakeTV device must be purchased to extract content from Fanfare and transfer it to a television for playback.
The Fanfare public BETA is currently intended for the U.S. audience. To learn more about Fanfare or to access content for use with a Sansa TakeTV video player, visit www.fanfare.com.
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. The Company has been the second largest manufacturer of MP3 players in the United States since November 2005. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
SanDisk, Sansa and the SanDisk logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. Sansa, TakeTV, Fanfare and TrustedFlash are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation. All brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective holder(s).
SanDisk's product and executive images can be downloaded from http://www.sandisk.com/corporate/media.asp
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UK, Germans, Dutch slam EC Galileo plan
Those who pay the piper want to call the tune
The long-delayed European sat nav project Galileo was plunged into fresh controversy last night, as a plan by Brussels officials to solve funding problems met political opposition.
Galileo has been bogged down for some time now due to lack of funds for its construction. Originally this cash was to have been supplied by industry in return for the privilege of operating Galileo. However, industry was doubtful as to how much revenue could actually be wrung from Galileo users, given that the civil signal of the US armed-forces' Global Positioning System is available for free.
Earlier this year it was agreed by European national governments that public money would be used to make up the shortfall, amounting to approximately €2.4bn. However, the exact details of the funding changes and their consequences for the ultimate control of Galileo remained unclear.
Last month the European Commission (EC), naturally enough a citadel of Europe-as-a-superpower aspiration, proposed finding the money from the European Union budget. The Commissioners' plan would not involve any further money being supplied to Brussels by national taxpayers; rather, the idea was to raise the cash mostly from "unspent" farm subsidies already budgeted for.
Last night, however, it was reported that the EC plans had failed to find universal favour among national governments. The BBC reports that ministers from Britain, the Netherlands and Germany are opposed to the Brussels scheme. Reportedly these governments - large net contributors who pay more into the EU than they get out - would prefer that the taxpayer rescue money for Galileo was delivered via the European Space Agency (ESA) rather than the EC.
"The German government does not agree with the Commission's proposal in this form," said Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee at a Luxembourg meeting of transport ministers.
The ESA, despite its name, is nothing to do with the EU and is not under the control of Brussels, though there is a framework agreement on cooperation between the two bodies which is due for renewal next year. ESA also has a small transatlantic element, in that Canada has a seat on its governing council and participates in its projects. Nations contribute to ESA sat nav programmes on an optional basis.
If construction funding for Galileo were channeled via the ESA, the EU/EC government in Brussels would presumably have relatively little say in how the sat nav system was run. Conceivably, it might become a politically neutral service guaranteed to operate regardless of wars, disputes etc.
Brussels, by contrast, is widely suspected of seeing Galileo as a tool of military and strategic policy, just as GPS could be for the United States (of America). EC Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot has been quoted as saying that "Galileo is a strategic project for the EU. We don't want to depend on the GPS signal, as the United States can step in at any time for military reasons" and that "the debate still needs to be open" on military aspects of Galileo.
National finance ministers will now discuss Galileo, and a final decision is expected from heads of state in December.®


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Here you will find some frequently asked questions about Jeremy and our site. Click on the question to see the answer.
Questions About Jeremy
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This fall, the Supreme Court will hear two cases involving Eighth Amendment challenges to the sentencing of juveniles to life without parole ("LWOP") – Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida – claims that these types of sentences are "cruel and unusual." Cato takes no position on the wisdom of these types of sentences, but when evaluating their constitutionality the Court should only consider American law.
That is, regardless of the criminological or moral merits of juvenile LWOP sentences, the Supreme Court ought not consider non-binding provisions of international human rights treaties and customary international law in its analysis (as it has in cases like Roper v. Simmons and Atkins v. Virginia). To that end, Cato joined the Solidarity Center for Law and Justice, the Sovereignty Network, and 10 other groups in a brief urging the Court to limit its constitutional analysis to domestic law and the decisions of U.S. courts.
Our brief argues that the Court should leave to the political branches the decision of whether to transform international norms into domestic law and only allow duly ratified international agreements to override domestic law – in the way the Court has set out in cases such as Medellin v. Texas. It further contends that if the Court believes this is one of the rare cases where international norms are relevant, it should follow the test it laid out in Sosa v. Alvarez Machain, which addressed the (unrelated) Alien Tort Statute: The relevant norm must be widely accepted by the civilized world and as clearly defined as the historic "law of nations" norms regarding safe conduct permits, ambassadorial rights, and piracy on the high seas.
The brief also cautions that reliance on non-binding and indefinite international norms will undermine the democratic process and rule of law, casting considerable uncertainty over many U.S. laws.
More generally, while looking to foreign and international example is prudent when designing constitutions and drafting legislation – or even adjudicating complex international legal disputes – it is simply not relevant to interpreting the nation's founding document.


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Checking for Ketones
Ketone is a chemical produced when there is a shortage of insulin in the blood and the body breaks down body fat for energy.
Ketones in the urine is a sign that your body is using fat for energy instead of using glucose because not enough insulin is available to use glucose for energy.
Ketones in the urine is more common in type 1 diabetes.
How Do I Test?
Ketone tests are available at your pharmacy, so talk to your doctor about them as well as record-keeping methods he or she recommends. Most include either packages of strips or foil-wrapped strips (which store longer).
Urine tests are simple, but to get good results you have to follow directions carefully.
Check to be sure that the strip is not outdated. Read the insert that comes with your strips. Go over the correct way to check with your doctor or nurse.
Here's how most urine tests go:
- Get a sample of your urine in a clean container.
- Place the strip in the sample (you can also pass the strip through the urine stream).
- Gently shake excess urine off the strip.
- Wait for the strip pad to change color. The directions will tell you how long to wait.
- Compare the strip pad to the color chart on the strip bottle. This gives you a range of the amount of ketones in your urine.
- Record your results.
When Should I Test?
Ask your doctor or nurse when to check for ketones. You may be advised to check for ketones under the following conditions:
- Your blood glucose is more than 300 mg/dl
- You feel nauseated, are vomiting, or have abdominal pain
- You are sick (for example, with a cold or flu)
- You feel tired all the time
- You are thirsty or have a very dry mouth
- Your skin is flushed
- You have a hard time breathing Your breath smells "fruity"
- You feel confused or "in a fog"
These can be signs of high ketone levels that need your doctor's help.
What Do My Results Mean?
Small or trace amounts of ketones may mean that ketone buildup is starting. You should test again in a few hours.
Moderate or large amounts are a danger sign. They upset the chemical balance of your blood and can poison the body. Never exercise when your urine checks show moderate or large amounts of ketones and your blood glucose is high. These are signs that your diabetes is out of control. Talk to your doctor at once if your urine results show moderate or large amounts of ketones.
Keeping track of your results and related events is important. Your log gives you the data you and your doctor and diabetes educator need to adjust your diabetes care plan.


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Latest Casualty Of NSA Spying Revelations: Web Advertising Based On Tracking Users
from the collateral-benefits dept
As we've noted before, Edward Snowden's revelations about the globe-spanning spying being conducted by the NSA are have all sorts of interesting knock-on consequences. Here's another: people are starting to worry about being tracked by online advertisers, and taking action to avoid it, as this story in Adweek explains:
Now that consumers know that NSA spooks are reviewing their every click, online privacy has become a much bigger concern.
Some might think that a pro-active approach to privacy protection is a good thing, but it's deeply problematic for the online advertising industry that has largely built its business model around tracking people's online habits. Further evidence of the growing unease about privacy issues is provided by this advertisement from the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) [pdf], which was run in Advertising Age recently:
After seven weeks of steady media coverage, the percentage of Internet users worried about their online privacy jumped 19 percent, from 48 percent in June (when the story first appeared in The Guardian and Washington Post) to 57 percent in July, according to Annalect, Omnicom Media Group's data and analytics company.
The findings have huge implications for the targeted advertising because the more concerned Internet users are about privacy, the more likely they are to change settings and block tracking.
Rather bizarrely, this accuses the Mozilla open source project of "hijacking the Internet" because the former wants to give users greater control over tracking by advertisers. I've discussed elsewhere why such a claim is particularly ridiculous -- Mozilla has probably done more than most to free the Internet, rather than hijack it. And as the Adweek story indicates, it's Mozilla rather than the DAA that is in tune with the general public's concerns at the moment, so attacking the open source project for trying to help users to block unwanted tracking and have more control over their own information is hardly going to win the online advertising industry many friends at a time when it needs them.Follow me @glynmoody on Twitter or identi.ca, and on Google+
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