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Because analog-to-digital converters have an important role to play in the edit suite, at the dubbing station, and even on location, we'll take a look at some popular and functional outboard hardware devices (there are many fine software solutions, as well as devices specifically for audio or video, not covered here) for converting analog video into digital data.
Devices from under $100 to nearly $3,000 are available; the higher-end models distinguish themselves from the consumer products by the connectivity options (supporting one device or many; one format or many), the conversion quality (dependent on internal codec and sampling algorithms), and overall features and functions (some devices are continually upgraded via software downloads; others are fixed in their features and performance).
Some converters do much more than just convert: there are products with image processing and enhancement tools, TV tuners, scan converters, frame stores, and more.
The more moderately priced A/D converter products include offerings from ADS Technologies, Dazzle/Pinnacle, Formac, LaCie, Miglia, and TV One. The higher-end conversion set includes the AJA I/O lineup, the Blackmagic Design Multibridge family, and Miranda's DVBridge products. Canopus offers A/D converters at almost every price point and feature set.
DatavideoI've had occasion to work with three different models recently: the Datavideo DAC-100, Sony's DVMC-DA2, and the ProMax Pro Media Converter (Convergent Design SD-Connect).
The DAC-100 (about $180) is a simple and straightforward device for transferring video back and forth from DV to analog tape. Compatible with Mac or PC workstations, the unit has two 6-pin FireWire ports, along with Y/C and composite (RCA jacks) video and stereo audio I/O. Two control buttons are available: one for switching between A-to-D and D-to-A conversion, the other for switching between 16-bit and 12-bit audio.
Its DV output is ready for many NLEs (Apple, for example, recently qualified its output for Final Cut Pro 5, along with other units from DataVideo), and its video quality is quite good for the price. The audio is locked regardless of sampling rate.
Datavideo has other converters in its lineup; the newer DAC-30, for example, adds support for component video, balanced audio, and RS-422 connectivity. The unit has a built-in time-base corrector for image correction and stabilization, and the company's new software upgrade, called Smart DV, which helps eliminate system conflicts (such as when a computer senses both a DV tape source and a DV converter, in the same data stream). The DAC-30 lists at $2,499.
SonySony's A/D converter, the DVMC-DA2, is an older unit (shipments of this configuration were stopped a while ago, but used and stockpiled units are still available online for around $450) but still a good one. It, too, converts back and forth between analog and digital video, and the video quality is very good. DV, S-Video, and RCA audio and video I/O connectors are available.
It's with this unit that we first encountered A/D audio sync issues, however. By default, when going analog to DV, the DA2 encodes audio in 12-bit mode. Most video editing systems prefer 16-bit (even though they can be switched). Because of the rate mismatch, the audio can drift out of sync. It's not locked audio anyway, so longer clips can pose real problems.
But, by holding the Analog In button down on the DA2, the unit will switch to 16-bit. Interestingly, for those who need it, the DA2 will retain closed-caption information during video conversion.
ProMaxThe ProMax Pro Media Converter (aka Convergent Design SD) is a powerful A/D converter, with added features and functions always coming, thanks to its software upgradability.
The PMC is a much larger unit than the others mentioned so far; it features an LED screen that displays unit functions and settings, and it has an array of input and output connections on the back of the unit.
Component, S-Video, and composite machines all can remain connected to the converter, regardless of desired function. That's very handy in a multi-format editing environment (or any edit suite where getting to the cables is a nuisance); we have Betacam, S-Video, and VHS decks that remain connected all the time due to our workload.
Menu controls allow the user to select devices, conversion paths, and other settings quickly and easily, with just the twist of a dial. Current software (updates are downloaded off the Web) supports DV compatibility with Apple, Avid Xpress, Adobe, and Sony editing software, as well as some SDI devices. The unit converts analog audio to 48kHz audio; 32kHz support is coming (along with audio meter display, and audio/video test pattern generation), according to ProMax. The Pro Media Converter has an MSRP of $1,495.
Convergent Design, by the way, recently announced even more new software, new features, and new capabilities for the SD Connect converter box, including support for uncompressed (1:1) 10/8 bit video and audio over FireWire (beta drivers for uncompressed 10/8 bit video and 24-bit audio with Final Cut Pro had just become available at press time; uncompressed drivers for Premiere were expected within a month). The no-charge software adds 4-channel audio level meters, gen-lock delay control, SMPTE bars, and RS-422 to 1394 device control, among other features.
CanopusCanopus, as mentioned, offers several external conversion devices; all are real-time, compatible with both PC and Macs, and feature Canopus' proprietary DV codec, delivering some of the best quality video conversions. Included are one-way (analog to DV-only) solutions like the ADVC 55 (about $230), and the more sophisticated multifunction TwinPact100 (around $550), which acts as a two-way video converter, image enhancer, and scan converter.
TwinPact100 converts on-screen graphics to analog and digital video, supporting resolutions up to 1600x1200. It has controller software, which allows the user to pan, scan, and zoom into an area for conversion. It has brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness controls to further enhance output.
Blackmagic DesignConversion between analog and digital is one thing, but more and more videographers now are looking for standard to high-definition conversion, as well.
Blackmagic Design's Multibridge is a bi-directional analog converter that also switches between HDTV and SD video. The breakout box features just about connection you'll need for high-end video applications, along with selectable audio/video sampling rates and color space conversion ratios.
The HD Multibridge is $1,995 (a standard def-only version lists for $1,495). The company also offers PCI Express-based Multibridge models, priced up to $3,495.
MirandaMiranda's DV-Bridge Pro converts analog component or composite video to DV and vice-versa. It has balanced audio inputs as well as unbalanced line inputs, and it preserves linear and vertical interval timecode during conversion. It has bi-directional VTR control capability, and operates in several different modes, including analog-to-DV (encoder), DV-to-analog (decoder), or analog-to-analog (pass-through).
It also converts between 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, and uses audio sampling rates of 32, 44.1, and 48 kHz. The desktop package comes with universal built-in power supply, and is priced around $2,000. Miranda also offers a DV-to-SDI converter, for broadcast applications, that sits in between a camera and its tripod for field use and convenience.
AJAAccording to many users (and Mac enthusiasts), the AJA Io family delivers some of the highest-quality 10-bit uncompressed video and multi-channel audio around. Video inputs include composite, component and S-video connections; analog audio uses XLR and TRS connections. Digital SDI and AES/EBU are also supported.
The Io line's various outputs are available all the time, allowing for easy conversion, tape deck recording and real-time monitoring. Io devices also feature RS-422 machine control, an audio word clock for perfect sync, and a professional video genlock. Pricing starts at $2,300.
EdirolFinally, a quick word about a unique converter from Edirol. The VMC-1 breakout box features not only a bi-directional analog-to-DV converter (with 10-bit encoding and selectable 48 kHz/16 bits or 32 kHz/12 bits audio), but adds what Edirol calls a "Video Restorer and Optimizer." It's a built-in Time Base Corrector (TBC) and Frame Synchronizer offering four real-time color correction parameters, motion adaptive 3D Y/C separation for color fidelity, and gain controls to adjust exposure. Audio manipulation is not forgotten: the box boasts built-in audio level controls and separate clip/signal indicators as well.
While DV/1394 connections are featured, naturally, the other audio and video connections are RCA-type, one obvious drawback in an otherwise function-packed product.
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Happy Tuesday!
The RSVP's are coming in and it's getting me more and more excited for our big day.
Just 32 short days away!
I made sure to take pictures of my outfits this weekend to share on the blog.
I must say, I think my fiance is getting use to my outfit pictures. Haha.
I absolutely loved this red maxi skirt. It was super comfortable!
Polka dot button up:Old Navy/Maxi Skirt:Kohls/Watch: Michael Kors along with FitBit
Brought out the Ray Bans for the first time this summer. Really longing for a new pair though!
Earrings: Aldo.
Shameless selfie on the beach.
You're not going to believe where I purchased this super comfortable stripped dress:
K-Mart by Adam Levine!! $15!
Red bubble necklace: eBay
Watch: Michael Kors along with FitBit
The beach was surprisingly packed! The beach bars were open and we were just enjoying life, looking forward to what the summer has to bring.
Memorial Day!
Look at his face... priceless.
Dress: Lauren Conrad from Kohls/Forever 21 wrap belt/eBay flag scarf
I even sported a red lippie by NYX for the holiday.
I hope you had a nice Memorial Day weekend!

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Sucker Punch may not have seen it coming, but Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules packed more wallop than the hyped action movie in their debuts. Overall business was down six percent from the same weekend last year, when How to Train Your Dragon led.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules bagged $23.8 million on close to 4,000 screens at 3,167 locations, boasting a brawnier start than its predecessor. The first Diary of a Wimpy Kid drew $22.1 million on around 3,400 screens at 3,077 locations in its first weekend last March, which led to a $64 million final gross. Striking while the iron was hot seems to have helped the sequel, which was all the more impressive considering the historic difficulty in maintaining momentum for kids franchises. Distributor 20th Century Fox's exit polling indicated that 51 percent of Rodrick Rules' audience was male and 59 percent was under 25 years old, which was nearly the same as the first movie.
Striking approximately 3,900 screens at 3,033 locations, Sucker Punch mustered $19.1 million, which included around $4 million at 229 IMAX venues (representing a record share for regular IMAX at 21 percent). That was a tad behind Kick-Ass's opening last Spring but much greater than the debuts of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Jennifer's Body. However, it was no match for the Kill Bill and Resident Evil movies among other comparable titles, and, for all its hype, it was barely average for an action heroine movie. It was also director Zack Snyder's worst live-action start yet, following 300, Watchmen and Dawn of the Dead.
Sucker Punch succumbed to style and spectacle over substance: it was marketed as a video-game-like blur of random fantastical action bordering on sensory overload. One of the few clear things in the ads was that all the action was going on inside the head of an institutionalized girl, so it was yet another wannabe mindbender. Divorced from reality, it seemed to have low dramatic stakes. A lack of characterization (posters don't cut it) was further reason for people not to care. Considering this was largely a fanboy affair, business could have been worse. Distributor Warner Bros.' research showed that 64 percent of the audience was male and 74 percent was under 35 years old.
Among holdovers, thrillers appealing to adults saw the smallest percentage declines. Last week's leader Limitless eased 20 percent to $15.1 million for a $41.1 million sum in ten days. Its drop was much smaller than similar movies like 21, The Social Network and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps at the same point.
The Lincoln Lawyer held even better, down 19 percent to $10.8 million for a $28.7 million tally in ten days. Groupon ticket redemptions numbered an estimated 14,000 over the weekend, bringing the total to 75,000 (leaving around 115,000 unredeemed). The Adjustment Bureau had its best hold yet, falling 26 percent to $4.3 million for a $54.9 million total in 24 days.
It was largely business as usual for the rest of the holdovers. Rango slipped 35 percent to $9.8 million, increasing its sum to $106.3 million in 24 days. It surpassed Just Go With It and the $100 million mark on Saturday to become the top-grossing movie of the year so far. Just Go With It also crossed $100 million on Sunday, marking Adam Sandler's 12th movie to reach that milestone.
The aliens retreated en masse. Though holding respectably for its niche, Paul was off 40 percent to $7.9 million for a $25 million tally in ten days, dropping less than Hot Tub Time Machine at the same point. Seeing its $100 million dreams dim further, Battle: Los Angeles fell 48 percent to $7.6 million for a $72.6 million haul in 17 days. After having the best hold last weekend, Mars Needs Moms lost nearly a third of its locations and saw business come crashing down by 58 percent to $2.3 million. Its total inched up to a paltry $19.2 million in 17 days.
This Timeframe in Past Years:• 'Limitless' Leads Listless LotThis Timeframe in Past Years:• 2010 - 'Dragon' Takes Flight, 'Hot Tub' Gets Soaked• 2009 - 'Monsters,' 'Haunting' Scare Up Big Business• 2008 - '21' Scores• 2007 - 'Blades' Takes Gold, 'Robinsons' Merits Silver• 2006 - 'Inside Man' Takes the Bank• 2006 - 'Ice Age 2' Hot, 'Basic Instinct 2' Not• 2005 - 'Guess Who' Dines at Top Spot
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MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Redpoint Ventures today announced that it has closed Redpoint V, a $400 million early stage venture capital fund. Redpoint V will be used to support early stage entrepreneurs and startups as they create disruptive, industry defining businesses.
Redpoint V follows Redpoint IV, also a $400 million fund, which was raised three years ago. Redpoint now manages over $3.3 billion across its multiple funds, and has now invested in over 350 technology companies.
With recent IPOs amongst the Redpoint portfolio including HomeAway, Qihoo, Intermolecular, and Responsys, and acquisitions including StorSimple, NextG Networks, Efficient Frontier and Heroku, the Redpoint team has always focused investments on founders and businesses creating new markets or redefining existing ones.
"Since we created Redpoint in 1999, a great deal has changed in the tech market – how we invest, the markets we invest in and even the pathways to building successful companies," said Geoff Yang, Partner, Redpoint Ventures. "What has not changed is the nature of successful entrepreneurs and startups and the power of Silicon Valley. As such, with the Redpoint V fund our founding investment principles will remain the same as ever – a focus on being active investors in great entrepreneurs who are driven to create companies that change the technology landscape."
Redpoint V will focus investments in several evolving areas: new platforms being developed in mobile, cloud and social; next generation entertainment technologies and delivery systems; big data infrastructure and applications, and enterprise class cloud, and mobile infrastructure companies and applications.
"Redpoint is a true partner to founding teams and a great firm to work with. They are also one of the few firms who understand the unique needs of cloud infrastructure and enterprise technology companies - which makes the Redpoint V closing great news for the next generation of founders," said James Lindenbaum, founder of Heroku.
About Redpoint Ventures
Since 1999, the Redpoint team has been partnering with visionary founders who create new markets or redefine existing ones. From the earliest stages, Redpoint partners have supported over 350 companies, 44 IPOs and 73 upside acquisitions. Industry-defining investments include HomeAway, Fortinet, Qihoo, Right Media, Heroku, Netflix, Tivo, Juniper, among many others. Today, Redpoint manages over $3.3 billion across multiple funds and invests in disruptive founders and companies at the seed, early and growth stages.
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Jesus Calling didn't seem destined to sell millions. And then, quite unexpectedly, it did.
During the first three years after its 2004 publication, Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence sold a total of only 59,000 copies, a modest success for a daily devotional from a then-unknown author. But then book sales skyrocketed: 220,000 copies in 2008 alone.
Sales of the book have nearly doubled in each successive year, says Laura Minchew, senior vice president of specialty publishing at Thomas Nelson. As of this summer, Jesus Calling had sold 9 million copies in 26 languages, and Publishers Weekly reported that it remained the No. 5 bestseller of the first half of 2013—for all books, not just Christian ones: It outsold Fifty Shades of Grey.
But even as the book continues to top bestseller lists (and prompts spinoffs, including a devotional Bible, a storybook, and women's, teen's, and children's editions), its author, Sarah Young, remains virtually unknown. Most people seem unaware of who Young is, even if they have read Jesus Calling.
Yet not everyone is so enthusiastic that Jesus Calling is reinvigorating interest in the theology behind Young's writings—and, by extension, in Young herself. Young bases her works on listening prayer, a theological practice in which a person aims to hear messages directly from God. Critical readers want to know: Does Young really think Jesus is speaking directly to her? Is he?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — On June 12, 1999, George W. Bush began his White House quest with this comment at to a barbecue-going crowd in Iowa: "This country is hungry for a new style of campaign … a campaign that unites all Americans toward a better tomorrow."
"I'm a uniter, not a divider," the Texas Republican said throughout that campaign, pitching himself as a "compassionate conservative" with a broad domestic policy agenda.
A decade later, Bush left office with a reputation, deserved or not, as one of the most polarizing presidents of our time. Now, four years after he left the White House, it's worth taking another look at Bush as his presidential library opens in Texas this week.
Bush and his administration made some big mistakes, including a false conclusion that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, an overplayed hand on reforming Social Security and a bungled handling of the federal government's responsibility in Hurricane Katrina.
His federal spending also betrayed the Republican Party's small-government principles and was a contributing factor to the tea party's emergence and current rifts over the party's direction. He took some enormous risks that drew intense criticism, like bailing out Wall Street. And his confident, at times cocky posture rubbed some the wrong way.
But it wasn't entirely Bush's fault that he ended up dividing more than uniting. Presidents, after all, don't operate in a vacuum. He shares the blame with Democratic and Republican parties shaped by their respective extreme ideological wings, a Congress filled with lawmakers who have their own agendas and a modern American political system in which the unifying rhetoric of campaigning usually gives way to the divisiveness of governing.
Polling bears out Bush's slide. When he took office in January 2001, half of the country viewed him in a positive light while 30 percent had negative views in an NBC survey. By the time he left Washington eight years later, the network's poll showed that 31 percent had favorable opinions of him and 58 percent had unfavorable. He's improved some since then, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll ahead of the library opening: Some 35 percent of Americans now view him favorably, while 44 percent view him negatively.
"He started very much as a Republican who wanted to reach out to moderates and build a broad coalition," says Julian E. Zelizer, a historian at Princeton University and the author of "The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical Assessment." "He campaigned that way, and he started his presidency that way. But that didn't work over the long run, and he became more controversial."
A host of factors contributed to that transformation, one both his predecessor and successor also underwent to varying degrees. Bill Clinton in 1992 ran as a moderate Democrat who wanted to bring the country together, and Barack Obama in 2008 cast himself as almost a nonpartisan candidate. Each was looking to cobble together an ideologically diverse coalition. But each ended up deeply polarizing in his first year, beloved by Democrats and deplored by Republicans.
"It's something common that we see in this day and age. Part of it is where we are today in our politics. Part of it is just the traditional challenge of the presidency," Zelizer says. "All presidents who enter office talking about unity are bound to be disappointed."
In Bush's case, it was a 50/50 electorate that handed him a narrow victory in the disputed 2000 election that the Supreme Court resolved. He took office in a red-hot era of partisanship, with activists on the right and left embracing new technology to amplify their ideological views and assail the opposition.
Democrats, stung by losing the White House and beholden to the party's most liberal wing, demonized him at every turn. Many on the left viewed him as an illegitimate president from the start of his presidency.
Bush also took the reins of a Republican Party that he sought to make more inclusive by attracting Hispanics and others — an effort made more difficult because of domination by the far right. The House was far more conservative than him on a host of issues, putting pressure on him throughout his tenure to shift away from the center to get his priorities passed. And when he refused — on immigration reform, for example — his own party ended up undermining him.
His response to the 9/11 attacks, and his shift from a domestically focused president to a wartime commander-in-chief, sharply accelerated his transformation into a polarizing figure. In the attacks' immediate aftermath, Americans were united behind hunting down al-Qaida, and voters from both parties rallied heavily in support of Bush. On Capitol Hill, Democrats and Republicans alike voted to use force in Afghanistan and Iraq. Bush's popularity soared.
He had almost universal backing among Republicans then, and while it dipped a bit here and there, he closed out his second term with 75 percent approval among Republicans, according to Gallup. The opposite happened with Democrats. A stunning 84 percent of them backed him after the attacks but it wasn't long before his standing started sliding precipitously to a measly 6 percent by the end of his presidency.
By 2006, the Iraq war was unpopular. In the aftermath of Katrina, so was Bush.
From secret prisons to wiretapping to hard interrogation tactics, Americans ended up deeply divided about Bush's national security policies. Many Democrats opposed them, and many Republicans supported them. People of all stripes grew restless with how much was being spent on the wars, as the federal debt soared and budget deficits grew. Eventually, support sank for the Iraq war and wavered for Afghanistan, with independents, Democrats and even some Republicans fleeing Bush during his final White House years.
Four years after the unpopular president left the helm of a country embroiled in unpopular wars, it's easy to forget that Bush actually had several bipartisan triumphs — the No Child Left Behind education overhaul, the Bush tax cuts and the creation of a program to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa among them. He did make a good-faith, though ultimately unsuccessful, effort to work with Democrats to reform the immigration system. And he sought and obtained the support of both Republicans and Democrats to go to war.
So is the image of a divisive Bush rooted in reality, or is it simply a caricature, a myth built more on personality than policy and peddled by detractors? Was it inevitable, given high levels of polarization and partisanship in our country and a system dominated by the most liberal and conservative among us? And will Bush's fate be the same for any other president if this nation's politics stay this way?
Probably so. Yet Bush himself certainly didn't help matters.
Here's what he said in spring 2006 as the Abu Ghraib prison scandal flared and calls for embattled Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to be fired intensified: "I listen to all voices, but mine is the final decision. … I'm the decider, and I decide what is best."
Reasonable, perhaps — maybe even the purview of any president. Not too far, in fact, from Harry S. Truman's "The Buck Stops Here." But the way Bush put it conflicted sharply with the broad, inclusive pitch of his first campaign years earlier — and helped build the image of a polarizing, partisan president that still lingers today.
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Late blight is showing up all across western and central New York, which isn't surprising with the constantly wet weather, according to Cornell University.
The Cornell Vegetable Program will update potato growers on late blight and what to do about it at a field meeting Aug. 28 in Marion, Wayne County.
Late blight is showing up all across western and central New York, which isn't surprising with the constantly wet weather, according to a release from Cornell.
The gathering will take place at John Williams Farm on Decker Road, just west of Minstead Road in Marion, at 5:30 p.m. Participants will view a demonstration and Cornell University Potato Specialist Don Halseth will invite grower comments.
Cornell late blight expert, Bill Fry, will talk about strains showing up and the latest in control recommendations.
Colorado potato beetle continues to be a major pest on many potato farms, especially with the development of resistance to the previously very effective Neonicotinoid insecticides. Other Cornell experts will present results of trials and propose an insecticide rotation plan to preserve effective insecticides.
The event includes discussion and state re-certification credits will be available.
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Mike Corbit
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That's Mike Corbit at 15 years old in a Model A tub that he admits to not building. "I swapped and traded to get it," he says. "I didn't even have a license yet!" The photo was taken in 1955, and Mike's wondering today at 66 where all the years and cars have gone. The heavily channeled tub ran a Flathead, and of course Mike wishes he still had it. That's a common sentiment we can all relate to!
Joe Fears
Louisville, Kentucky
1937 Ford
Joe Fears writes that this roadster started life as a '37 Ford coupe, and was built by Mark Miller and Willie Sievert in 1949. Joe's father bought it in 1951 and that's a 14-year-old Joe behind the wheel. "Driving without a license in those days was not as big a deal as it is today," he says! "The Black Hornet", as the roadster was dubbed, was channeled and sectioned, with doors, hood, and nose formed from aluminum. It had a '39 Pontiac dash, Model A rear fenders, and Harley-Davidson fronts, with fully chromed suspension and the popular-back-in-the-day Cadillac hubcaps. A '48 Merc Flathead and three-speed pushed it down the road, as well as to First Place in the roadster division of the NHRA show in Indianapolis in 1950.
Joe's father sold the roadster in 1953, and he wonders what happened to it. Still involved with hot rods, he drives a homebuilt '46 Hudson coupe with a 305/350 combo and Nova subframe on a daily basis.
Jim & Sandy Bosman
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
1942 Buick Special
Jim and Sandy Bosman built this '42 Buick in their home shop, discovering later that only 2,500 Special two-door sedans were manufactured. However, there's only one like theirs, as every panel has been modified! It's chopped 2 inches, channeled 4 inches, the windshield has been laid back 2 inches, the roof was stretched by an inch, the rear fenders widened 2 inches, fadeaway fenders added, the hood pie-cut 3 inches, and the front bumper molded to the body. There are also frenched headlights, and the entire floor is new, as are the inner fenders.
The Buick sits on a later Electra frame that was shortened 6 inches and pinched 2 inches to fit the earlier body, with a '68 430 Buick engine that uses 455 heads, a Holley carb, and a COMP cam and lifters, backed by a 200-4R trans with B&M Shift Kit. RideTech suspension and a Flowmaster exhaust system complete the undercarriage.
The Bosmans did everything in their backyard shop except stitch the interior, which was done by A-1 Upholstery to their patterns, while Sandy's brother, Steve, laid on the topcoats. Completed now for two years, the Buick has 7,000 miles on the odometer, which shows what you can do with a the right tools and know-how, huh?
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Hi everybody !
While admitting that all three BSD Giants are excellent , mature , and secure operating systems .. I must confess -as a total newbie- that OpenBSD is the kindest to newbies for the following reasons at least :
* Straitforward installation steps , be it on intel or on powerpc machines ..
* Great documentation faqs .. although sometimes a beginner can find it hard to understand some technical jargon and so may fail to fully understand content ..
* secure-by-default settings ..
* OpenBSD is ready to connect and surf the web right after installation ..
* OpenBSD is clean and tidy as far as the package system is concerned .. a beginner won't get lost searching for the right ports.tar.gz (think : NetBSD'S pkgsrc.**.tar.gz) .. as well as with packages .. they well represent their respective OS versions ..
again that's a merely newbie evaluation which may not make sense for davanced users .. so please don't get upset ..
Some would favor pcBSD .. but the PBI philosophy is anti-unix as packages gets duplicated ..
We love and respect all the BSDs ..
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Unfortunately one big issue with BSD system is the inferior hardware support.
The situation could be better if was at least equal at the linux system.
Despite the waste of the space (more limited starting PCBSD 9) i would like have a similar solution even as option on linux because have even benefits.
Amiiiiico ! Come state ? :-)
well , I see it differently .. I have successfully installed OpenBSD on dell/ibook/imac/acer/old xeon/hpcompaq/ .. so far I have no problems except an ibook's wi0 issue .. pcbsd uses kde4 which is still immature and problematic .. it crashed many times on this very laptop .. I liked sudolphin but again some features are unnecessary ..
Something I love about OpenBSD , the Team never chooses any package until it becomes ready both at the security level and at the stability level .. and this reminds you maybe, of renowned Slackware ..
Hardware support is a matter of time .. it is related to how many hands/minds are helping .. and to what extent the manufacturers are willful to offer drivers source codes
Do pkg_add -i openbox will work out of the box after installation?
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"If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." Linus Torvalds
Linux is not UNIX! Face it! It is not an insult. It is fact: GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not UNIX".
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mmm .. Ocicat caught me red-handed .. :-) .. maybe I'm mistaken here but then why does the team preserve some older versions instead of bleeding edge ??
is it simply because of compatibility issues ??
why do they drop many software ?
part of it is already in the "red quote" above : no enough human res ..
the other part is : high pkg collection quality (comes after )
Hi Vermaden ! .. yes it works unless what you mean is extra menus etc which you can set .. obconf ... anyway I am happy with fvwm/cwm ..
There have been situations where, historically, particular types of hardware support has been better on the BSDs than Linux.
As for OpenBSD -- the project will NEVER accept a closed source solution for any hardware driver. There are many "open source" projects that will happily include a binary module supplied by a vendor, or who will sign non-disclosure agreements and keep vendor source code closed.
See the explanatory text in the left column for the OpenBSD 3.9-release song -- it is a good description of the OpenBSD Project's concern.
Thanks so much @Jgimmi !! for better clearifying this point ..
wow , many creative puffy art ..
a question : does the OpenBSD Project refuse the binary modules because this contradicts its motto/goal/licence ? or because it constitutes a security risk ?
fvwm version itself .. most browsers .. apache ..
what I mean is that OpenBSD doesn't seem to hasten toward the last-version-of mania nor fringe-technology unless secure+stable+opensource+++++ ..
lol .. I've got a strange feeling that this thread upsets some of you .. well the title is simple and doesn't reveal any uppishness on my part as a total newbie .. it is a recommendation from a mere noob to his fellow noobs .. not an OS-war .. lol
thanks @Jgimmi ! well pinpointed ..
Great Theo , you're right ! a businessman remains a a business-mind ..
" .. encumbered forever by desire and ambition .. there is a hunger still unsatisfied .."
Pink Floyd - Division Bell .
In another thread, I just wrote about a blob -- Opera:
Not only are third party ports not subject to formal audit -- in cases like this, they cannot be.
As for Apache, the Apache Foundation changed their license in the 2.x era. This was found to be incompatible with the goals of the OpenBSD project, so Apache 1.3 was the last version integrated into OpenBSD's base installation. Patches & tweaks have been ongoing, & Apache 2.x is available in ports.
I do not follow fvwm, but I'm sure you can spend time reading through the archives of the project's mailing lists to find a definitive answer.
The OpenBSD project knows that it is small, & it has some stasis with its current size. It does not try to be something it isn't. Other Unix-like operating systems exist which have larger support infrastructures affiliated with their communities to provide a larger number of support options.
The end result is that those that stay with OpenBSD usually are those that have more experience & dig through either the documentation or source code to answer their own questions.
So to advocate that this is a project where all kinds of inexperienced people are come to have all of their problems resolved is just not realistic. The structure to support them is simply not there.
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Thank you for the reminder, Ocicat. The n00bs who adjust the quickest, and seem to adapt in comfort are those who come with experience from some other *nix environments, Unix or Linux or perhaps another BSD. For those without that experience, the road is more difficult ... but it is not impossible. I'll quote myself from long ago...(where this is old, but a copy/paste from an even earlier posting elsewhere):
Ocicat , Jgimmi , thanks very much .. I'm learning new things
and yet I still consider OpenBSD the most likely to lead a noob to a successful Alternative OS the easiest way .. on legacy or new hardware .. ppc or intel
I'm not talking out of void although being a newbie .. examples ?
ok :
* I was using MacOSx 10.3.9 (Panther) on Bondie Blue .. that was the ultimate OSX solution possible .. so I was using insecure backdated software .. unless it be an offline gui OS , it's not anybody's solution ..
Now I'm running OpenBSD current on it .. with X working ..
* I was using MacOSX 10.4.11 (Tiger) on ibook Dual USB as the most recent possible OSX version .. still , it run slowly and hang several times .. so ? I installed OpenBSD which was warmly welcome ..
* an old Intel Xeon Precision Workstation never had been in full extasy until OpenBSD visit ...
* my old fragile tiny dell which ran windows .. never felt shorter of breath since openbsd as installed on it .. I used to use the OS for surfing/xchat/amule/..etc ..
* my current Acer Aspire 5610 .. there was a PcBSD here before .. but the PBI thing wasn't my cup of tea .. X server broke many times .. unneeded fancy features .. unstable kde4 .. security comes last .. not to talk about another important feature OpenBSD would not deny its users from : gaining knowledge .. (will+time are needed though ..)
Truth be said , slackware & debian worked well .. but once I landed on OpenBSD territory .. the new OS just ECLIPSED the rest ..
FreeBSD .. the other giant .. I simply never had to use it ..since PcBSD's last crash ..
I dont care how much time it might cost me to fully master the OS .. what's important *NOW* is that it pushed me -a total newbie- to go further and *deepen* (lol ! you may laugh at it now :-) ) my learning experience a far as OpenBSD/BSD/UNIX are concerned ..
as simple as this ..
" I concluded that all is well "
Oedipus .
ps . I challenge those advocating other *Nixes to do the following :
* successfully install slackintosh/yellowdog/crux/debian/fedora on ibook (dual usb) or imac .. without ening up with major issues like X issue+boot issue+speed+performance++ ..
* gain the same level of stability/security while using that alternative *Nix OS ..
Sorry .. this is not being stubborn .. it's being honest, to oneself ..
I'm so curious to know what Ocicat and other hackers think a better ' Soft-Transition-OS' is .. PcBSD ? DesktopBSD ? live ghostBSD/frenzy/trueBSD/freesbie/ ? other live OSes ? ubuntu and twins ?
ps. One more extra feature .. OpenBSD is ECOLOGICAL ..
recycling legacy hardware=more usability+less garbage
I think we were talking reasons why 'this' is better than 'that' ..
{meaning} is contextual , contrastive .. and dialogic .. unless I diapprove of x I wouldn't advocate z .. I put a few arguments waiting for someome to come and dispell them as myths ..
sometimes we are obliged to mention points that may seem to extend beyond the arch-theme .. yet those points are essential mythemes for the overall topic .. I apologize if I've been off-topic that often .. the thing is .. I like sharing ideas with those who've known/experienced more and better ..
Sure, i would like even my old hardware supported ... but i don't use closed driver (i use the standard VESA for my monitor).
Also i read the support for the Intel Sandy bridge remains back on the bsd world.
While i have no idea about the amd bulldozer or the amd fusion.
If an hardware isn't supported you can't use a system and if you can't use a system you can't add users and this means less diffusion.
About the rest, you have made example of branded hardware, while i use assembled computers ...
The only shop on my city that give some information about linux compatibility, after its acquisition, don't give anymore these informations (or at least i don't see it on their site now).
The computer where i have problem was "certified" for linux, that means that even if i look for system that work for linux, don't automatically can work even for bsd.
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text: Sydney's early convict days live on in The Rocks, a jumble of cobblestone streets and cul-de-sacs just five minutes from Circular Quay. You only have to step off the harbour foreshore to find the sandstone terraces and cottages and some of Sydney's oldest pubs. This historic precinct also draws both visitors and locals with its museums and galleries, lively weekend markets and hotels with harbour views. The past and present collide in the best way in The Rocks, home to both ghostly tours and some of Sydney's liveliest celebrations.


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Hauser Chair is a part of MMATERIAL collection. Fernando Mastrangelo has been using unique casting materials (salt, sugar, sand) as part of his sculpture practice for over a decade. In his new collection MMATERIAL by Fernando Mastrangelo, he re-contextualizes form and function once again, bringing together indoor and outdoor materials that fuse his minimalist aesthetic with deft ingenuity and craft. MMATERIAL strives to fuse sculpture and design in ways that are not found anywhere else in the market.
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Summer fun for everyone in Queenstown
Surrounded by majestic mountains and nestled on the shores of crystal clear Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown is New Zealand's premier holiday destination.
You can expect long leisurely days for your summer holiday in Queenstown. Daytime temperatures are usually between 20 and 30 degrees C.
The sun rises early and in mid summer dusk is about 10pm, perfect for getting outdoors and enjoying the many amazing experiences on offer, whether you're on your own, with friends or have the whole family to satisfy.
Adventure may be your thing (and you might surprise yourself as many others have) or venture onto our hiking and biking trails for all levels. A bit of golf may tempt you, or perhaps the wineries, cafes bars and resturants.
Many art galleries, often at the artist's residence, are open to browse or explore our rich heritage with a visit to the district museum in historic Arrowtown.
To cap it off there are a myriad of events, many free, to entertain and inspire throughtout summer.
Most of all, breath in our fresh mountain air, in a magical alpine setting and just relax and have fun!
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"When you look around, there is nothing to tell you that it's not 1936," says Scott Brittingham of his and wife Ella's Montecito garden, perched on a hill with a view of the sweeping coastal plain and California's Channel Islands. Nothing, that is, but the insistent beat of Grateful Dead tunes a live band might be playing during one of the Brittinghams' multigenerational parties. The gatherings spill from the long emerald lawn of the couple's quintessential California home down to terraces below.
Tucked away at the end of a lane off of one of Montecito's main streets, the property charms with beautiful old walls, topiary, a quartet of arbors abloom with iceberg roses and pink-throated jasmine, and majestic trees—including a redwood given as a sapling by Herbert Hoover. The home is so well hidden, Ella says, that "Visitors always exclaim, 'I never knew this was here!' "
The secluded garden is both symmetrical and elegant, with bone structure as enviable as Greta Garbo's—and a silver-screen connection, too. When the Brittinghams bought the 1930s home in 1997, a neighbor told them that the garden—stately but disheveled—was designed by Florence Yoch. She was the well-known landscape designer who created the spectacular outdoor set for Tara in Gone With the Wind in the days when movies were transitioning from fakey painted backdrops to live sets.
The couple got in touch with James Yoch, the designer's nephew and himself a landscape designer as well as a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. The Shakespeare scholar says if he could plop the garden down in one of the bard's plays, it would be in As You Like It, "because sections of it are civilized, but the edges have a sense of wildness." Yoch helped the couple restore the neglected garden in 1998, working from its original plan (before its some 30 acres were whittled to a single one).
A decade later, things needed freshening. So Ella (who cheerfully admits she has a black thumb) hired award-winning landscape designer Margie Grace to preserve the garden's integrity while making it work for the very contemporary Brittingham family. "I wanted to make it more it," Grace says with slightly unconventional logic. "I didn't want it to look like my garden at their house but to show who the Brittinghams are in their landscape." A priority was to find low-maintenance, period-appropriate plants that remember "they are the bridesmaid, and the bride is the view." There is considerable green-on-green in the shady garden, along with a romantic palette of pink and white. Ella loves her sweet peas, and Grace is triumphant that she was able to salvage junipers that had been growing in pots for nearly a century. "And I love to see the kids and dogs—two of each—tearing around in a blur of white fur and blond hair," Grace says.
The Brittinghams have permitted the garden to evolve with their family, turning what was once a teahouse first into an art studio for messy small children and now into a place for parents to relax as children play ball on the sports court.
They also took out the home's original fountain, salvaging materials for possible future use. "The flowers around it kept getting crushed by footballs, and the balls kept getting popped by rose thorns," Ella chuckles.
One of their additions is an intimate pool and Jacuzzi hidden away at the side of the house. "The pool is small enough that we can play Marco Polo and actually catch someone!" Ella notes.
Scott, who had a first career in real estate, directs the Brittingham Family Foundation, focusing on education and social services. Ella has helped with historic preservation at Lotusland, the Santa Barbara botanical garden. They love the 200-year-old grinding stone left behind by the Chumash Indians, which they discovered while renovating the garden. It remains under an ancient oak so visitors can enjoy it—a metaphor for living in the moment while honoring the past.
Photography by Holly LePere
Garden Design: Margie Grace, Grace Design Associates, 3010 Paseo Tranquillo, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; 805/687-3569, gracedesignassociates.com
The Brittingham family--Poppy, 12, with Tallulah, Tommy, 8, Scott, and Ella holding Digby--loves entertaining and spending time together in their Montecito garden overlooking the Channel Islands and coastal plain.
Scott and Ella were drawn to their 1930s-style Californian home because it reminded them of their grandparents' homes.
Roses, miniature roses, and Peruvian lilies fill pots beneath the lion-head plaque.
As in the original garden, potted lemon trees define the four corners of the lawn.
An example of the old-fashioned roses that Ella loves.
Steps to nowhere but the view: Landscape designer Margie Grace made the most of these original garden remnants by topping them with gnarled, century-old junipers.
A sturdy agapanthus is pretty as well enduring.
Flowering maple (Abutilon) was chosen by landscape designer Margie Grace because the profuse bloomer "plays well with the other old-timey flowers in the garden."
Topiary--a form of living sculpture--acts here as an exclamation point, announcing, "Behold the spectacular view!"
Statuesque acanthus stands out with its height, deep color, and complex texture.
With fluttery blossoms, intense colors, and heady perfume, romantic sweet peas evoke an earlier age.
Wide, imposing walkways were handy in the garden's heyday, because its owner often hosted large political gatherings on the grounds.
"In the back, the garden is a little devil-may-care," Margie Grace says. "Inside boxwood hedges are masses of cottagey roses."


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Gamblers Who Always Win (Aug, 1950)
Gamblers Who Always Win
The odds are that you can get odds on almost anything today because modern statisticians have really taken the risk out of chance
ONE afternoon a Lincoln, Nebraska, businessman sat in his car in a suburban gas station while his tank was being filled. As he waited, the telephone inside the station rang and presently the attendant came out.
"Are you Mr. L. R. Johansen?" he asked.
"I am," replied the businessman in some surprise.
"You're wanted on the phone," the attendant told him.
As he went inside, Johansen wondered who could have know that he had stopped for gas at this particular time and at this particular station. Then, a moment later, his wonder turned to astonishment. The caller thought that Johansen was answering the phone in his own office!
The caller, it turned out, had dialed the wrong number. And the phone that rang, amazingly, was the phone in the filling station where Johansen happened to be for the brief time it takes to buy a few gallons of gas!
Call it a coincidence if you want to—and you'll be right. No one has figured out the odds involved but one statistician has said that by comparison perfect bridge hands and human quintuplets would seem like everyday occurrences. Who knows, he may try to compute the actual odds some day when he hasn't much to do.
But there isn't likely to be such a day. Statisticians are among the busiest people of our fast-moving modern world and their still youthful profession is rapidly expanding. New statistical jobs develop every year, in almost every imaginable field of human activity.
The life insurance business, of course, is statistical science's towering triumph. It got that way thanks to the mathematical magic that finds a mysterious orderliness in random jumbles of facts. Its rock-solid foundation is a dry-looking set of tables built around a simple statistical truth: that although it would be the wildest kind of gamble to bet on the life-span of any particular individual, the number of years remaining to the average person can be figured so exactly that every shred of risk is eliminated. So free are life insurance tables from the rule of chance that a single company, the Metropolitan Life, is today the largest private business enterprise on earth.
Look almost anywhere and you'll find statisticians. Industry, science, government, education and recreation are some of their favorite haunts. They chart the weather and the stars, population trends and the ups and downs of markets, the opinions of the man on the street and generations of fruit flies in the geneticist's laboratory.
They know how tall you are and have turned the information over to architects, clothing manufacturers and (you might as well know it) coffin-makers. They've given your head size to the hatters, measured your feet for shoe and hosiery manufacturers, the length of your fingers for glove makers. If they didn't measure you personally, they got the facts from someone— a thousand or ten thousand someones—like you. You may never have met a statistician face to face but you're in his book as neatly ticketed, labeled and classified as a biologist's favorite kind of amoeba.
Turn a statistician loose on a batch of census data or the results of a psychological survey and he can tell you more about your future than a dozen gypsies with a ton of tea leaves. His predictions usually take the form of odds.
Are you single? If so, it's seven to one you'll still be single a year from now. But if you are 20 years old, it's ten to one you'll marry within five years, that your wife will be younger than you and that you'll have three children.
If you're married, it's three to one that your wife wished she had married the other man. For one thing (according to a study of women's pulse-beat-increase reactions), the chances are that she is less than half as much thrilled by your kisses now as she was in the days of your courtship. But don't worry: it's 113 to one that she'll still be your wife next year at this time.
Incidentally, if it's a long marriage you're after, your chances are best, according to records, in Brooklyn.
As for your career, the chances are 900 to one you won't have the job you now hold ten years from now, 1500 to one you'll never become boss, and a million to one you'll never be a millionaire. But don't be downcast. There's also a statistical silver lining.
It's better than two to one that you'll be earning more money in the future, 14 to one that you are healthy enough to pass an examination for life insurance, 220 to one that you'll never go to jail, ten to one that your house won't suffer damage from fire this year, and 2.5 to one that any telegram you receive will contain good news.
A gambler assisted at the birth of modern statistics. Some 300 years ago, the Chevalier de Mere noticed that the odds were better than even for a six to appear at least once in four successive throws of a die. From this he figured that since two dice can show six times as many combinations as one die, a pair of sixes should, on the average, turn up at least once in two dozen throws. At this point, however, De Mere got lost in figures.
He then took his problems to Blaise Pascal, the noted French scientist, philosopher and mathematician. Amused at first, Pascal presently found himself casting dice and intently studying the results. He even contacted another famous mathematician, Pierre de Fermat, and soon the two men, top-drawer intellects of the day, were wrapped up in matters that quickly went far beyond the Chevalier's gaming-table worries.
What eventually grew out of these pioneering dice-throws was the mathematical underpinning of modern statistical method. We call it the Law of Probability.
Briefly, this law defines an event's probability as the number of favorable cases divided by the total number of cases. Thus, the probability of throwing heads with a coin is one divided by two, there being one heads side out of a total of two sides. Other ways of saying this, of course, are that the odds are one-half, or even, or fifty-fifty.
Cards and dice still pose fascinating problems. Many statisticians, in fact, start their training by learning to play poker and shoot craps. Calculating the odds in card games often provides busy scientists with needed mental relaxation. Professor George Gamow, distinguished George Washington University physicist, for example, recently worked out the chances of drawing a flush in poker. Watch closely now:
You get your first card—a spade, let's say. That leaves 12 spades in the remaining 51 cards. Applying the probability law, your chances for a spade as your second card are 12/51. For your third card the ratio becomes 11/50, for your fourth, 10/49, and for your last, 9/48. To find the total probability, you now multiply these figures. The result is a real beauty, as fractions go: 13,068/5,997,600. Boiled down, this means that your chances of drawing a flush, after the first card, are about 1 in 500!
Probability mathematics is always at work in games of chance. Card-wise poker players, calculating the odds, remember that there are 2,598,960 possible combinations of five-card hands. Bridge players are faced by no fewer than 635,013,559,600 thirteen-card combinations. So if a royal flush is a great rarity, a perfect hand at bridge (containing all thirteen of a suit) is rarer still: one in 153 billion!
But the fact that statisticians sometimes find it convenient to study cards and dice doesn't mean that gamblers are statisticians. Far from it. Many gamblers, in fact, avoid looking at the cold truth that statistics reveal about their profession. Their trust is in the thou-sand-and-one superstitions that characteristically clutter up the various rackets.
A prime favorite with gamesters everywhere is the so-called "maturity of chance" notion. Every gambler in the midst of a losing streak believes that his luck is getting ready to change. Some mysterious force in the cards, coin, or dice is maturing, he thinks, and a favorable run must inevitably occur, sooner or later.
Tails, for instance, has turned up six times in a row. The gambler's idea is that the coin is gradually "getting hot" for an eventual display of heads.
The truth, of course, is that, on the seventh toss of the coin, the odds for an appearance of heads are exactly what they were on the first toss—namely, one-half, or fifty-fifty. For all anyone can predict, tails could turn up on the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and on up to the twentieth toss. And beyond that, too!
It's true that in the course of a very large number of throws (several hundred or a thousand) , the number of heads and tails will tend to be equal. But for any particular toss, the odds are no different from the odds for any other toss.
What about gambling systems? "Scientific" gamblers work out elaborate arrangements whereby bets are spread out here, or grouped there, or so ingeniously distributed that the element of chance all but disappears. They set great store by such systems.
No matter how complicated or scientific a betting system may be, it invariably turns out to be superstition for the simple reason that, somewhere or other, it runs counter to the mathematics of chance.
"Every system," says statistician H. D. Grossman, "carries the small chance of a great loss, and the smaller the chance, the greater the loss. No mathematical jugglery can cancel one iota of the total risk. You can only rearrange the hazards, concentrate them or distribute them. But you cannot change their sum."
Recently two University of Chicago students worked out a roulette system and invested $300 in an extensive tryout in some of Nevada's gambling palaces. Their method worked—for a while. Their $300 became $8,000. Then the "system" soured and they lost most of it. However, they came back the next year and started winning great sums all over again. Rumor has it that they finally quit $26,000 ahead but experienced Reno hands doubt it.
All human beings are statisticians, to some extent, in that we all use our past experience in an effort to predict the future. However, the trained statistician has fine-edged mathematical tools—thoroughly tested formulas and techniques—which help raise his forecasts to a high pitch of probability. He's the only gambler in the world who always wins! •


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Departing Google product chief Jonathan Rosenberg will be writing a book with former CEO Eric Schmidt about the company's rules, values, and cultures.
Speaking to the San Jose Mercury News, Rosenberg also confirmed that he is leaving because he could not meet new CEO Larry Page's demand for a long-term commitment, as Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson reported earlier today.
Rosenberg had long planned to step down in 2013 when his youngest daughter begins college.
Rosenberg also told the Mercury that he had a rough first year at Google, as its engineering culture didn't take kindly to his top-down management style."I found the Google donor patient basically was rejecting the Jonathan donor tissue," he told the Mercury-News. "This was not a company that wanted a senior executive to come in and dictate to people the decisions that needed to be made to move the company forward."
In an emailed statement, Google CEO Larry Page said that the company "tried to hire Jonathan multiple times because he was the only person we could imagine doing the job. It's lucky we were so persistent." Schmidt, who stepped down from the CEO job to become the company's executive chairman, said Rosenberg was "crucial to our success over the last nine years."
Rosenberg was a big driver behind the company's public stance toward open platforms and standards -- in 2009, he published a manifesto about openness on Google's corporate blog.
Of course "open" is a relative term, as shown by Google's recent crackdown on the Android source code and partnership model, as well as its (totally understandable) refusal to release certain information about its search and ad algorithms.
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Squeaky wheel, meet grease. After a week of relentless campaigning by Greenpeace's "Detox" initiative, Levi Strauss has finally committed to eliminating all releases of hazardous chemicals from its products and supply chain by 2020. The world's largest denim brand announced Thursday that it will require 15 of its largest suppliers in China, Mexico, and elsewhere in the Global South to disclose pollution data as early as June of next year. Another 25 major suppliers will follow suit by the end of 2013, providing communities living in or around discharge sites with crucial data about pollution in their local environment. Levi's has also promised to ban alkylphenol ethoxylates (APEOs), which scientists describe as "highly toxic" to aquatic life, as well as replace all perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) with fluorine-free alternatives by the end of 2015.
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Levi's pledge comes just eight days after Greenpeace released a report about the wide range of hazardous chemicals in the wastewater of two of the Mexico's largest garment factories, which have turned the nation's waterways into a toxic stew of persistent environmental contaminants with hormone-disrupting properties.
Levi's is the eleventh brand to make a "credible commitment" toward zero discharge of toxic chemicals.
Levi's is the eleventh brand to make a "credible commitment" toward zero discharge of toxic chemicals.
But eliminating hazardous substances isn't the denim giant's only goal. Levi's declares that it will also support "systemic (i.e., wider societal and policy) change" to encourage industry, government, science, and technology to head in the same direction, according to a press release.
"The scale and complexity of this endeavor make this a very challenging task," it adds. "But we will continue to work with the other brands, material suppliers, the broader chemical industry, [non-governmental organizations], and other stakeholders to achieve this."
The label is the eleventh brand to make a "credible commitment" toward zero discharge of hazardous chemicals since Greenpeace launched its Detox campaign in 2011. Other brands that have made similar pledges include Adidas, C&A, Esprit, H&M, Li-Ning, Mango, Nike, Puma, Marks & Spencer, and Zara.
"Levi's today becomes a global Detox leader after they promised to use alternatives to hazardous chemicals," says Pierre Terras, toxics campaign coordinator at Greenpeace Mexico. "[It's] a milestone in the way clothes are manufactured and a victory for people in Mexico and elsewhere affected daily by toxic water pollution."