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Hi Cold!
As all AH goblins I too found myself in a bit strange situation during the summer: I have some stockpiles and plans to use it, but my buyers are swimming on a beach, far from the WoW AH and from my sales.
While thinking about a solution (and reading great gold blogs like yours), I was just starring at my big pile of Elementium Ore. I must say, I was a bit mad at myself and while I was bored, I started to prospect my ores. I found myself with dozens of stacks of uncut gems and did not know what to do with them. Okay, cut the blue ones, stockpile some greens for the JC dailies (now I have enough Zephyrites for almost a year ahead, even if the JC daily is "Nibbler! No!" every day), maybe make some Fire Prisms (thanks on that tip tho!).
"What to do with those greens for which I simply don't have the space to store?" - I asked myself. Well, I had plenty of time and remembered those WotLK times, when the vendor price for some JC items was bigger than their material cost. Of course, this was not a big deal, you could only profit 0.5 - 1g per cut, but hey! that's more than nothing. I made from all of the greens some rings and other jewelries and started to vendor them. Here came one thing that I didn't think on before: I forgot that there's a chance for a blue item to be crafted! Of course I immidiately started mass producing these rings/necks and sent all of the blue ones to my enchanter for Disenchanting! I've got a lot of Heavenly Shards and Small Heavenly Shards, the former selling around 100-120g, the later for 25-40g (!) on my realm. I'm not such a big AH goblin as the gold bloggers, but I made like 8-10k profit (not sales, that's the raw profit!) just alone from these Shards.
The green rings/necks vendor for 5.5g each, need a Jeweler's Setting (1g50s before rep discounts), so if you happen to find ANY uncut Cata green gems (except for Zephyrite ofc) around 3g (which probably you won't on the AH), you are still profiting ~1g per ring/neck and you have a chance for a Small/Heavenly Shard for even more.
I didn't make complete calculations yet (spreadsheet incoming soon!), but from my experience, the equilibrium price for an Elementium Ore is around 1.5-1.7g each (30-35g per stack), with the prices on my realm.
Don't get me wrong, this whole thing is not new discovery, but many people might forget about this market during the summer and thought I share it with you (and your readers, if you happen to post about it).
Please let me ask you two questions:1. Is there a way or do you know about a way to mass produce Small / Heavenly Shards, except the method described above? Of course I don't want to flood my market to drive the prices to low, but from the Prospecting business I simply can't get enough of it.
2. Is there a way to efficiently store Fire Prisms? I'm preparing for the epic gem market (which might not even happen with the last content patch being the next one, 4.3), but as Fire Prisms are unique, I have to store them in my mailbox, constantly mailing them from one toon to another, which is a bit inconvinient.
Cold's Response
Thanks in advance!KhasDylar
Thanks for the Reader Submission KhasDylar! You remind us of some important gold tips. Everyone is so focused on the current hot money makers that we often forget to check back to the older strategies we've used previously or in older expansions.
Here are the answers to your questions:
Heavenly Shards
1) Heavenly Shards are going to come from disenchanting. I often search for items that disenchant into a Heavenly Shard right on the auction house in WoW. Buy it, disenchant it, and toss the Heavenly Shard back on the auction house for a profit. Another option for crafting items to disenchant yourself is Stormforged Shoulders (made by Blacksmiths).
Fire Prisms
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The cow is central to all of the products that we develop. This also applies to the design of the Lely Astronaut. Keeping the cow in mind led to free cow traffic. This is the basis of our automatic milking system and the most natural way possible to milk.
Natural milking and free cow traffic are not only about the cow's freedom to choose when to eat, drink, rest or be milked. They are also about the cow's well-being and degree of comfort during milking.
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1967 College Football Recap
The showdown of the 1967 season was between UCLA quarterback Gary Beban and Southern Cal halfback O.J. Simpson.
Meeting on the final day of the regular season with a Rose Bowl trip and the Heisman Trophy on the line, the two All-Americas put on quite a show. Playing with badly bruised ribs, Beban passed for 301 yards and two touchdowns, while Simpson had a 64–yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to win the game 21–20.
Simpson, a junior, got to the Rose Bowl. Beban, a senior, got the Heisman.
For Southern Cal and coach John McKay it was the second national championship in six years. USC beat No.4 Indiana in Pasadena to end the season at 10–1. The only blemish was a 3–0 loss to No.7 Oregon State.
Tennessee and Oklahoma, ranked just behind USC in the final AP and UPI polls, faced each other in the Orange Bowl. The Vols lost their opener to UCLA then won nine straight, including a 24–13 decision over Alabama that ended Bama's three-year unbeaten streak at 25. The Sooners were also 9–1, losing only to Texas. In Miami, Tennessee trailed 19–0 at the half, pulled to within 19–17 then 26–24, but lost when a last second field goal try sailed wide.
SWC champ Texas A&M returned the Cotton Bowl after a 26–year absence and upset Alabama, 20–16. Bear Bryant helped carry Aggie coach Gene Stallings off the field. Stallings played for Bryant at A&M.


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I am getting ready to install linux BIOS onto my laptop... it should be simple, because EVERYTHING is supported %100 by linux.... i just would like to have a good CMOS/Eprom programming tutorial. For those of you who dont know it, its the chip thats you're BIOS and that makes you're computer start up and run. Im going to install linuxBIOS wich if sucessfull with bring down my boot times to between 4-8 secs and will raise the efficiency of my entire machine. ///////EDIT///////////////////////////// Do you know a way to get my BIOS string with out opening or restarting my pc?
Post reply, i fixed up my problem. I went to www.badflash.com and www.motherboard.com and i found info there.


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A friend of mine attended a company training session on quality problems, and was shocked at one statistic. I don't remember the exact number, but a large fraction--well over half--of people surveyed said that if they bought a moderately priced item (such as a toaster) that turned out not to work when they got it home, they would not persue the matter, except that they'd quit buying things made by that manufacturer. This, of course, terrifies manufacturers--if they let something with bad quality slip though, they could lose over half their affected customers without even knowing anything was wrong.
Companies with smart management know that for every customer that calls with a problem there's others out there with the same problem, but not speaking up. The ones who speak up are the ones that they still have a chance to keep as a customer.


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This section shows how to build and deploy a simple web service and client. The source code for the service is in tut-install/javaeetutorial5/examples/jaxws/helloservice/ and the client is in tut-install/javaeetutorial5/examples/jaxws/simpleclient/.
Figure 16–1 illustrates how JAX-WS technology manages communication between a web service and client.
The starting point for developing a JAX-WS web service is a Java class annotated with the javax.jws.WebService annotation. The @WebService annotation defines the class as a web service endpoint.
A service endpoint interface or service endpoint implementation (SEI) is a Java interface or class, respectively, that declares the methods that a client can invoke on the service. An interface is not required when building a JAX-WS endpoint. The web service implementation class implicitly defines an SEI.
You may specify an explicit interface by adding the endpointInterface element to the @WebService annotation in the implementation class. You must then provide an interface that defines the public methods made available in the endpoint implementation class.
You use the endpoint implementation class and the wsgen tool to generate the web service artifacts that connect a web service client to the JAX-WS runtime. For reference documentation on wsgen, see the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Reference Manual.
Together, the wsgen tool and the Application Server provide the Application Server's implementation of JAX-WS.
These are the basic steps for creating the web service and client:
Code the implementation class.
Compile the implementation class.
Use wsgen to generate the artifacts required to deploy the service.
Package the files into a WAR file.
Deploy the WAR file. The web service artifacts (which are used to communicate with clients) are generated by the Application Server during deployment.
Code the client class.
Use wsimport to generate and compile the web service artifacts needed to connect to the service.
Compile the client class.
Run the client.
The sections that follow cover these steps in greater detail.
JAX-WS endpoints must follow these requirements:
The implementing class must be annotated with either the javax.jws.WebService or javax.jws.WebServiceProvider annotation.
The implementing class may explicitly reference an SEI through the endpointInterface element of the @WebService annotation, but is not required to do so. If no endpointInterface is specified in @WebService, an SEI is implicitly defined for the implementing class.
The business methods of the implementing class must be public, and must not be declared static or final.
Business methods that are exposed to web service clients must be annotated with javax.jws.WebMethod.
Business methods that are exposed to web service clients must have JAXB-compatible parameters and return types. See Default Data Type Bindings.
The implementing class must not be declared final and must not be abstract.
The implementing class must have a default public constructor.
The implementing class must not define the finalize method.
The implementing class may use the javax.annotation.PostConstruct or javax.annotation.PreDestroy annotations on its methods for life cycle event callbacks.
The @PostConstruct method is called by the container before the implementing class begins responding to web service clients.
The @PreDestroy method is called by the container before the endpoint is removed from operation.
In this example, the implementation class, Hello, is annotated as a web service endpoint using the @WebService annotation. Hello declares a single method named sayHello, annotated with the @WebMethod annotation. @WebMethod exposes the annotated method to web service clients. sayHello returns a greeting to the client, using the name passed to sayHello to compose the greeting. The implementation class also must define a default, public, no-argument constructor.
package helloservice.endpoint; import javax.jws.WebService; @WebService public class Hello { private String message = new String("Hello, "); public void Hello() {} @WebMethod public String sayHello(String name) { return message + name + "."; } }
You can build, package, and deploy the helloservice application using either NetBeans IDE or ant.
Follow these instructions to build, package, and deploy the helloservice example to your Application Server instance using the NetBeans IDE IDE.
In NetBeans IDE, select File->Open Project.
In the Open Project dialog, navigate to tut-install/javaeetutorial5/examples/jaxws/.
Select the helloservice folder.
Select the Open as Main Project check box.
Click Open Project.
In the Projects tab, right-click the helloservice project and select Undeploy and Deploy.
This builds and packages to application into helloservice.war, located in tut-install/javaeetutorial5/examples/jaxws/helloservice/dist/, and deploys this WAR file to your Application Server instance.
To build and package helloservice using Ant, in a terminal window, go to the tut-install/javaeetutorial5/examples/jaxws/helloservice/ directory and type the following:
ant |
This command calls the default target, which builds and packages the application into an WAR file, helloservice.war, located in the dist directory.
To deploy the helloservice example, follow these steps:
In a terminal window, go to tut-install/javaeetutorial5/examples/jaxws/helloservice/.
Make sure the Application Server is started.
Run ant deploy.
You can view the WSDL file of the deployed service by requesting the URL http://localhost:8080/helloservice/hello?WSDL in a web browser. Now you are ready to create a client that accesses this service.
At this point in the tutorial, do not undeploy the service. When you are finished with this example, you can undeploy the service by typing this command:
ant undeploy |
As a convenience, the all task will build, package, and deploy the application. To do this, enter the following command:
ant all |
The Application Server Admin Console allows you to test the methods of a web service endpoint. To test the sayHello method of HelloService, do the following:
Open the Admin Console by typing the following URL in a web browser:
http://localhost:4848/ |
Enter the admin user name and password to log in to the Admin Console.
Click Web Services in the left pane of the Admin Console.
Click Hello.
Click Test.
Under Methods, enter a name as the parameter to the sayHello method.
Click the sayHello button.
This will take you to the sayHello Method invocation page.
Under Method returned, you'll see the response from the endpoint.
HelloClient is a stand-alone Java program that accesses the sayHello method of HelloService. It makes this call through a port, a local object that acts as a proxy for the remote service. The port is created at development time by the wsimport tool, which generates JAX-WS portable artifacts based on a WSDL file.
When invoking the remote methods on the port, the client performs these steps:
Uses the javax.xml.ws.WebServiceRef annotation to declare a reference to a web service. @WebServiceRef uses the wsdlLocation element to specify the URI of the deployed service's WSDL file.
@WebServiceRef(wsdlLocation="http://localhost:8080/helloservice/hello?wsdl") static HelloService service;
Retrieves a proxy to the service, also known as a port, by invoking getHelloPort on the service.
Hello port = service.getHelloPort();
The port implements the SEI defined by the service.
Invokes the port's sayHello method, passing to the service a name.
String response = port.sayHello(name);
Here is the full source of HelloClient, which is located in the tut-install/javaeetutorial5/examples/jaxws/simpleclient/src/java/ directory.
package simpleclient; import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceRef; import helloservice.endpoint.HelloService; import helloservice.endpoint.Hello; public class HelloClient { @WebServiceRef(wsdlLocation="http://localhost:8080/ helloservice/hello?wsdl") static HelloService service; public static void main(String[] args) { try { HelloClient client = new HelloClient(); client.doTest(args); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } public void doTest(String[] args) { try { System.out.println("Retrieving the port from the following service: " + service); Hello port = service.getHelloPort(); System.out.println("Invoking the sayHello operation on the port."); String name; if (args.length > 0) { name = args[0]; } else { name = "No Name"; } String response = port.sayHello(name); System.out.println(response); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }
You can build and run the simpleclient application using either NetBeans IDE or ant. To build the client, you must first have deployed helloservice, as described in Building, Packaging, and Deploying the Service.
Do the following to build and run simpleclient:
In NetBeans IDE, select File->Open Project.
In the Open Project dialog, navigate to tut-install/javaeetutorial5/examples/jaxws/.
Select the simpleclient folder.
Select the Open as Main Project check box.
Click Open Project.
In the Projects tab, right-click the simpleclient project and select Run.
You will see the output of the application client in the Output pane.
In a terminal navigate to tut-install/examples/jaxws/simpleclient/ and type the following command:
ant |
This command calls the default target, which builds and packages the application into a JAR file, simpleclient.jar, located in the dist directory.
The run the client, type the following command:
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Francina Elizabeth Cox Greer King diaries, 1844-1866, 1871-1883
Thirteen diary volumes dated July 12, 1844, to July 23, 1866, and June 14, 1871, to October 29, 1883, written by Francina Elizabeth Cox Greer King, wife of an Oglethorpe County, Georgia plantation owner.
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Born December 31, 1810, to Richard and Elizabeth Meade Cox, Francina Elizabeth Cox grew up five miles east of Athens in recently formed Clarke County. In 1826, Francina Elizabeth Cox and John Cox Greer were married. Soon after, Elizabeth, as she preferred to be called, added a small inheritance when her father died. Located about five miles east of Athens on the road leading to Lexington, John Greer's plantation encompassed 300 acres along Shoal Creek. The Greers called their home Chalky Level because the drive around it was laden with limestone. The original structure was built around 1817, and had served as an inn for the stagecoach between Athens and Augusta. Elizabeth Greer became pregnant within a year of her marriage and over the next 19 years had 15 children, only three of whom survived to adulthood. Elizabeth Greer possessed enormous energy and a strong will to survive in spite of great personal losses. She was a very slight and fragile woman who, before the war, was often confined to bed and weighed only 77 pounds. Athens Banner Herald - Plantation life in Clarke County: the world of Francina Elizabeth Greer / Mary Levin Koch, June 17, 2001.
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The FAO Food Price Index rose sharply to a 10 month high of 212.8 in March as a combination of geopolitical tension over Crimea and poor weather conditions in North and South American regions led to a 2.3% increase.
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"The Index was influenced, as expected, by unfavourable weather conditions in the US and Brazil and geopolitical tensions in the Black Sea region," said Abdolreza Abbassian, FAO Senior Economist.
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"The Food Price Index looks at March trends. Since then, the initial fear over disruptions in grain shipments from Ukraine has subsided," he said. "Also, markets have started to discard any negative impacts that the current difficult domestic economic conditions may bear on plantings or harvests in 2014."
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The FAO said its Cereal Price Index averaged at 205.8 points in March, up as much as 10 points from February. Prices for wheat and maize surged and imports were strong amid concerns over the effects of dry weather conditions on winter wheat in the United States, unfavourable weather in Brazil, and tensions in Ukraine and the Black Sea region.
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For dairy, the Price Index averaged 268.5 points last month, said the FAO, who reported a fall of 6.9 points as purchases by China declined and uncertainty over trade with the Russian Federation continued. Good production in New Zealand and the northern hemisphere also influenced prices, said the report.
Sugar prices increased by 18.5 points – with an Index score of 253.9 - amid concerns of declining availability from Brazil and Thailand, due to drought and reduced sugarcane output, respectively.
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I've probably said this before, but if I could only eat one type of bread for the rest of my life, it would definitely be biscuits.
My favorite biscuits are made at a fried chicken restaurant my family always went to growing up (in fact, that's where my 1st birthday biscuit was from).
Their biscuits are so light and fluffy, and of course, best served with lots of butter and sorghum!
This recipe is the closest thing I've ever found to those biscuits. They're leavened with baking powder AND yeast, to ensure maximum fluffiness!
Brunch this morning
This recipe is the closest thing I've ever found to those biscuits. They're leavened with baking powder AND yeast, to ensure maximum fluffiness!
Notice that all the fried chicken is gone. . .
Angel Biscuits
Yields: 12 biscuits
Time: 30 minutes
1 tbsp active dry yeast
2 tbsp warm water
2 3/4 cup flour
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
3 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup vegetable shortening
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp milk
1 tbsp butter
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a skillet with parchment paper and spray with cooking spray.
2. Combine warm water and yeast in a small bowl. Combine remaining dry ingredients in a large bowl.
3. Cut shortening into the dry ingredients. Mix yeast mixture with buttermilk and stir into the dry ingredients until just combined.
4. Roll out on a lightly floured surface to 1" thick. Cut with a 2 1/2" circle cutter and place in the lined skillet. Brush the tops of the biscuits with milk.
5. Bake 13-20 minutes, until they reach the desired golden color. Brush the tops of the baked biscuits with melted butter.
How many biscuits is too many to eat in one day? I'll get back to you.


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Although a complete PostgreSQL installation for Windows can only be built using MinGW or Cygwin, the C client library (libpq) and the interactive terminal (psql) can be compiled using other Windows tool sets. Makefiles are included in the source distribution for Microsoft Visual C++ and Borland C++. It should be possible to compile the libraries manually for other configurations.
Tip: Using MinGW or Cygwin is preferred. If using one of those tool sets, see Chapter 14.
To build everything that you can on Windows using Microsoft Visual C++, change into the src directory and type the command
nmake /f win32.mak
This assumes that you have Visual C++ in your path.
To build everything using Borland C++, change into the src directory and type the command
make -N -DCFG=Release /f bcc32.mak
The following files will be built:
The dynamically linkable frontend library
Import library to link your programs to libpq.dll
Static version of the frontend library
The PostgreSQL interactive terminal
Normally you do not need to install any of the client files. You should place the libpq.dll file in the same directory as your applications .EXE-file. Only if this is for some reason not possible should you install it in the WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory (or in WINDOWS\SYSTEM on a Windows 95/98/ME system). If this file is installed using a setup program, it should be installed with version checking using the VERSIONINFO resource included in the file, to ensure that a newer version of the library is not overwritten.
If you plan to do development using libpq on this machine, you will have to add the src\include and src\interfaces\libpq subdirectories of the source tree to the include path in your compiler's settings.
To use the library, you must add the libpqdll.lib file to your project. (In Visual C++, just right-click on the project and choose to add it.)
Free development tools from Microsoft can be downloaded from http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/. You will also need MSVCRT.lib from the platform SDK from http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/. You can also download the .NET framework from http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/default.aspx. Once installed, the toolkit binaries must be in your path, and you might need to add a /lib:<libpath> to point to MSVCRT.lib. Free Borland C++ compiler tools can be downloaded from http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_cbuilder.html#, and require similar setup.


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Guest article by Oscar Ugaz. His view that an important part of the future will be in the hands of mathematicians and statisticians. And the reaction it received from more traditionally placed 'experts'. Connect with Oscar on Linkedin and follow on Twitter.
A few weeks ago, I was invited to participate in a round table at the Euroleague Basketball Summit 2012, an event that brings together the league's 23 teams to discuss their marketing strategy and business approach for next season. The objective was to discuss digital business and the new trends in the industry. Executives from Bwin, Turkish Airlines, Galatasaray and the director of a global advertising agency were also at the table.
The exchange of ideas flowed smoothly until the moderator asked for predictions. I dared to say something that, from my point of view, is obvious: an important part of the future in our industry will be in the hands of mathematicians and statisticians. A meaningful impact will come from individuals capable of working with large amounts of data, understand them and then extract insightful, relevant and remarkable products and services.
My idea raised substantial opposition from the director of the advertising agency. From his point of view, outstanding products and services can only be produced if numerical approaches are set aside, and if just the creative and artistic thinking prevails. He believes that would be more than enough, if a relevant brand pushes the idea. "And that" he says firmly, "is the end of the discussion".
Is that really the end of the discussion?
Sports and entertainment are some of the few industries that produce meaningful and powerful relationships with their clients/fans. This type of relationships makes some organizations behave like if they were managing an inelastic demand situation, which creates a culture of specialization in product and service deployment instead of exploring new ways to search and fight for additional sales. That's the case for some top notch sport properties.
Let's be honest here, the classic combination of TV rights, match day and marketing (sponsorship/merchandise/licensing) still makes sense. These traditional business models generate big amounts of money for the industry. The problem is that they also create resistance to exploring new options.
In that sense, disruptive innovation in media and the economic crisis has found many properties and sponsors unguarded. Nowadays, fans have new ways to enjoy content. Social media and online video portals (pirate versions included) bypass traditional ways to consume sports content. Meanwhile, many companies are looking for enhanced sponsorship deals that include new ways of activation and they expect not only awareness, but also conversion.
In the middle of this reality there is a new and relevant component: Data
Like never before, savvy sports properties and brands have the opportunity to obtain a lot of detailed information. Users of the mobile application of, let's say a football club, are providing vast amounts of data each time they consume digital content. Something similar happens when they purchase from an e-commerce store or from a ticketing platform
, use their membership cards to obtain a discount, consume video content on an official YouTube channel or engage with the club Facebook page. Each of these services provides aggregated, and in many cases, very personal data about demographics, behavior and consumption.
The gentleman from the advertising agency at the Euroleague round table mentioned Nike+ as an example of what can be done with a pure creative approach-that's a very naive point of view. Simply praising these products and services only for their clever gamification techniques, savvy social media approach or outstanding marketing campaigns misses the fact that data is not just a powerful externality, but a main goal to build around. With the adequate privacy and permission marketing authorizations, data about frequency, repetition, localization and relationships is obtained smoothly.
Does all this data makes sense by itself?
Absolutely not. It´s just an unconnected and senseless mess.
Here enters the mathematicians and statisticians with their clever business approach. Their mission is to make sense within the mess, and look for new insights and business opportunities. They will be able to connect them to generate new value. They will be able to see how the consumption of mobile content, the check-ins in a venue, the sales in an online store, the pattern of consumption of a membership card or the location of a run can help partners like Turkish Airlines or BWIN sell additional air tickets or bets. It will also help sport properties prepare new, insightful and more profitable products or services.
Big data is a relevant opportunity for the future of many industries including sports, but taking advantage of it requires the right approach and the right people. This is not about a sophisticated analytics system for a club website or an official mobile app. In fact, you must invest just 20% in software and platforms. The 80% must be oriented to pay clever people that can analyze the data and transform it into insightful and actionable information to generate new business. The bad news is that there is a shortage of this type of experts and it's going to get worse. You must start to profile and search for the right people today.
But first me must get rid of our bias visions about how strong our brands and traditional business models are and start paying attention to new disruptive opportunities like the one that data represents. The point of view of agents and middlemen that are adept to the status quo and the "creative big idea" approach that have guided their services in the last 60 years doesn't help.
Sports brands and properties with all their appeal and interaction can be outstanding examples of how powerful data can be used to exploit business objectives. Let´s avoid approaches that send us to the end of discussion and look for those who make it go further. It's time to look beyond the obvious and avoid naive opinions on digital in our industry.


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Other Alias
firmware_register, firmware_unregister, firmware_putSYNOPSIS
In sys/param.h In sys/systm.h In sys/linker.h In sys/firmware.h
struct firmware {
const char *name; /* system-wide name */
const void *data; /* location of image */
size_t datasize; /* size of image in bytes */
unsigned int version; /* version of the image */
The firmware abstraction provides a convenient interface for loading firmware images into the kernel, and for accessing such images from kernel components.A firmware image (or image for brevity) is an opaque block of data residing in kernel memory. It is associated to a unique imagename which constitutes a search key, and to an integer version number, which is also an opaque piece of information for the firmware subsystem.
An image is registered with the firmware subsystem by calling the function Fn firmware_register , and unregistered by calling Fn firmware_unregister . These functions are usually (but not exclusively) called by specially crafted kernel modules that contain the firmware image. The modules can be statically compiled in the kernel, or loaded by /boot/loader manually at runtime, or on demand by the firmware subsystem.
Clients of the firmware subsystem can request access to a given image by calling the function Fn firmware_get with the imagename they want as an argument. If a matching image is not already registered, the firmware subsystem will try to load it using the mechanisms specified below (typically, a kernel module with the same name as the image).
The kernel firmware API is made of the following functions:Fn firmware_register registers with the kernel an image of size datasize located at address data under the name imagename
The function returns NULL on error (e.g. because an image with the same name already exists, or the image table is full), or a Ft const struct firmware * pointer to the image requested.
Fn firmware_unregister tries to unregister the firmware image imagename from the system. The function is successful and returns 0 if there are no pending references to the image, otherwise it does not unregister the image and returns EBUSY.
Fn firmware_get returns the requested firmware image. If the image is not yet registered with the system, the function tries to load it. This involves the linker subsystem and disk access, so Fn firmware_get must not be called with any locks (except for Giant ) Note also that if the firmware image is loaded from a filesystem it must already be mounted. In particular this means that it may be necessary to defer requests from a driver attach method unless it is known the root filesystem is already mounted.
On success, Fn firmware_get returns a pointer to the image description and increases the reference count for this image. On failure, the function returns NULL.
Fn firmware_put drops a reference to a firmware image. The Fa flags argument may be set to FIRMWARE_UNLOAD to indicate that firmware_put is free to reclaim resources associated with the firmware image if this is the last reference. By default a firmware image will be deferred to a taskqueue(9) thread so the call may be done while holding a lock. In certain cases, such as on driver detach, this cannot be allowed.
As mentioned before, any component of the system can register firmware images at any time by simply calling Fn firmware_register .This is typically done when a module containing a firmware image is given control, whether compiled in, or preloaded by /boot/loader or manually loaded with kldload(8). However, a system can implement additional mechanisms to bring these images in memory before calling Fn firmware_register .
When Fn firmware_get does not find the requested image, it tries to load it using one of the available loading mechanisms. At the moment, there is only one, namely Loadable kernel modules
A firmware image named foo is looked up by trying to load the module named foo.ko using the facilities described in kld(4). In particular, images are looked up in the directories specified by the sysctl variable kern.module_path which on most systems defaults to /boot/kernel;/boot/modules
Note that in case a module contains multiple images, the caller should first request a Fn firmware_get for the first image contained in the module, followed by requests for the other images.
A firmware module is built by embedding the firmware image into a suitable loadable kernel module that calls Fn firmware_register on loading, and Fn firmware_unregister on unloading.Various system scripts and makefiles let you build a module by simply writing a Makefile with the following entries:
KMOD= imagename FIRMWS= image_file:imagename[:version] .include <bsd.kmod.mk>where KMOD is the basename of the module; FIRMWS is a list of colon-separated tuples indicating the image_file's to be embedded in the module, the imagename and version of each firmware image.
If you need to embed firmware images into a system, you should write appropriate entries in the <files.arch> file, e.g. this example is from sys/arm/xscale/ixp425/files.ixp425
ixp425_npe_fw.c optional npe_fw \ compile-with "${AWK} -f $S/tools/fw_stub.awk \ IxNpeMicrocode.dat:npe_fw -mnpe -c${.TARGET}" \ no-implicit-rule before-depend local \ clean "ixp425_npe_fw.c" # # NB: ld encodes the path in the binary symbols generated for the # firmware image so link the file to the object directory to # get known values for reference in the _fw.c file. # IxNpeMicrocode.fwo optional npe_fw \ dependency "IxNpeMicrocode.dat" \ compile-with "${LD} -b binary -d -warn-common \ -r -d -o ${.TARGET} IxNpeMicrocode.dat" \ no-implicit-rule \ clean "IxNpeMicrocode.fwo" IxNpeMicrocode.dat optional npe_fw \ dependency ".PHONY" \ compile-with "uudecode < $S/contrib/dev/npe/IxNpeMicrocode.dat.uu" \ no-obj no-implicit-rule \ clean "IxNpeMicrocode.dat"
Note that generating the firmware modules in this way requires the availability of the following tools: awk(1), make(1), the compiler and the linker.


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Well, as we just heard, New York Governor Kathy Hochul is calling today's Supreme Court decision reprehensible. And the state Senate's majority leader, also a Democrat, agrees. When I spoke with the leader earlier today, I asked Andrea Stewart-Cousins about her initial response when she tweeted that the court, quote, "decided guns are more important than lives in this country."
ANDREA STEWART-COUSINS: You would think in the wake of the tragedies in Buffalo and Uvalde and Tulsa, that even if the Supreme Court was thinking about doing something that loosens our laws here in New York, they would take into account the very, very tragic things that have happened just within the past month. And clearly, they did not. And so that's why I said that obviously they've decided that guns are more important than saving lives in this country.
But, again, I go back to why it's so important that states and state legislatures - and I'm glad that on the federal government, they are inching towards doing, you know, something for the first time in decades around guns. But state legislatures really are very, very important and are really the front line in many ways to protect our citizens' best interests as well as, you know, just try and deal with some of these, you know, radical decisions that the Supreme Court seems hellbent on making.
KELLY: To your point that you wish the Supreme Court had taken into account recent events and you feel that they didn't, I'm curious your reaction to a concurring opinion. This was from Justice Alito, conservative Justice Alito, who did reference the mass shooting in Buffalo and said, look. New York's restrictions failed to stop it. His direct quote was, "how does the dissent account for the fact that one of the mass shootings near the top of its list took place in Buffalo? The New York law at issue in this case obviously did not stop that perpetrator." What's your response?
STEWART-COUSINS: Well, the response is not to make sure that everybody can walk around with guns that are concealed. I mean, when that tragedy occurred in Buffalo, what we did as a legislature was - I mean, obviously, there's no way that you can anticipate every single thing that might happen. But we did come back and actually do things that addressed what happened there. For example...
KELLY: But just to push you on his central point or what I understood to be his central point, New York had, as you note, already some of the strictest gun laws on the books in the country. They didn't stop what happened in Buffalo. So...
STEWART-COUSINS: No.
KELLY: Please.
STEWART-COUSINS: I mean, and I'm not disagreeing with no, it didn't stop it. But I am saying that what we did as a legislature is looked at that particular thing and said, you know, how would we make it harder for some, you know, irrational 18-year-old, you know, white supremacist to buy a semiautomatic rifle? And how about the fact that we did have - I mean, you know, to that point, I mean, there was actually a trained police officer there. He didn't have body armor, and this kid did. So, I mean, you know, we could say the other point is true, too; that just because - look at what happened in Uvalde. Apparently, there were tons of trained police officers that stood outside for an hour.
So, I mean, we can always say this didn't happen and that didn't happen and it should have happened. But I think that clearly what needs to happen is that we have to have a sensible approach to guns in this country. You know, we're not - you don't need weapons of war.
KELLY: Yeah. And I know we're just hours out from this decision. It's very early days for you. But I saw that Governor Hochul is considering, among other things, new laws that might look at whether New York could restrict carrying handguns in sensitive locations, also looking at some changes...
STEWART-COUSINS: Yeah.
KELLY: ...To the permitting process for just...
STEWART-COUSINS: Yeah.
KELLY: ...Basic qualifications, training requirements for gun owners. Is that the type thing that you're looking at?
STEWART-COUSINS: Yes. I mean, obviously, I think there is still - I mean, I know among the majority of the legislature, there is a desire to have a process that really does not make it - you know, again, does not send the signal that, you know, we want you packing and it's perfectly OK. So, you know, obviously, the decision that the court has sent down we'll, you know, work within the parameters that are there. But I do believe that there are things, just as - again, when we had the tragedies of the past couple of months, we came in and tried to address those tragedies. This court ruling sends us back to the table on our process. And we will go back and come up with a process that fits within the scope of the law, but again, still sends a message that it matters what you do with lethal weapons.
KELLY: Last thing - New York's big state. There's New York City and Albany. There's very rural parts of New York.
STEWART-COUSINS: Sure.
KELLY: And I wonder how you think about gun laws, gun safety. Does what makes sense to you for one part of New York perhaps not apply to others? - kind of like America's a big country. Do different laws make sense in different places?
STEWART-COUSINS: Absolutely. There are a lot of things that we didn't do because we knew that it would impact, say, communities where they really do more hunting or, you know, there is a different approach to it. So understand that every time we look at these things, we look at it from a state-wide perspective and try to do the most reasonable and sensible things that not only meet the moment but respects the various regional differences.
KELLY: Andrea Stewart-Cousins is a democrat and New York's state Senate majority leader. Thank you.
STEWART-COUSINS: Thank you so much. It's been nice talking to you.
KELLY: And elsewhere on the program, I speak with the executive director of the group Gun Owners of California. He is celebrating the decision today from the Supreme Court. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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New York's top court on Tuesday rejected an effort to free Happy the elephant from the Bronx Zoo, ruling that she does not meet the definition of "person" who is being illegally confined.
The 5-2 decision by the state Court of Appeals affirms an earlier court decision and means Happy will not be released through a habeas corpus proceeding, which is a way for people to challenge illegal confinement.
The majority decision written by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore said that "while no one disputes that elephants are intelligent beings deserving of proper care and compassion," a writ of habeas corpus is intended to protect the liberty of human beings and does not apply to a nonhuman animal like Happy.
The case had been closely watched by animal rights activists and industries that depend on animals. The zoo and its supporters warned that a win for advocates at the Nonhuman Rights Project could open the door to more legal actions on behalf of animals, including pets and other species in zoos.
The advocates at the Nonhuman Rights Project argued that Happy is an autonomous, cognitively complex elephant worthy of the right reserved in law for "a person."
The Bronx Zoo argued Happy is neither illegally imprisoned nor a person, but a well-cared-for elephant "respected as the magnificent creature she is."
RELATED: Animals at B.C. zoo suffer 'boredom and frustration,' humane society says


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Physical education makes significant contributions to overall education
This is an excerpt from Introduction to Teaching Physical Education With Online Student Resource by Jane Shimon.
Philosophy of Physical Education
Many physical education teachers in the United States follow curriculum content standards and outcomes. You may wonder, then, why a physical education philosophy is important if you will be teaching to the standards. A personal teaching philosophy helps shape your values and areas of emphasis. What is really important to you about physical education? What value does it hold for you? Philosophy is the pursuit of fundamental truths and wisdom that will provide a clearer focus and understanding of what you do (Kretchmar 2005).
Philosophy is usually derived from two areas: values and science (Zeigler 1964). Values involve speculation, or what you believe has meaning and value (axiology). Your speculative side is usually guided by your present values of what is right or wrong, good or bad, or even beautiful or unattractive.
Your values may be derived, in part, from what you believe about reality (metaphysics), such as evolution or creationism, religion, higher orders, or harmony within the universe. Part of your philosophy is also determined by what is critical—in other words, the attainment of knowledge (epistemology) and what seems logical or makes sense (logic). Often you determine what makes sense based on your past experiences and what has worked for you or not. Your philosophy also is informed by what you know, the importance of that information, and how you learned it. The process of how you learned throughout the years will play a part in your professional teaching philosophy (see figure 2.3).
Your philosophy is more than just your thoughts and opinions, however. Your professional principles of physical education will become a source of direction that will determine the aims and values of your thoughts and actions. Thus, your beliefs will mirror what you do (Cowell and France 1963). For example, if you full-heartedly believe that being a skillful mover will help students become physically active adults, the majority of your physical education content will involve learning, practicing, and applying skills to various activities. If you truly value fitness and health, your program will be geared toward helping students reach higher fitness levels. If your belief is that students need to ultimately get along with others and work cooperatively to solve problems, then your program will consist mainly of group work and shared learning situations. In addition, developing a philosophy will help you articulate the meaning of physical education, the purpose and role physical education plays in the overall scheme of education, and the value and worth of learning physical education content (Davis 1963b).
Philosophies Connected to the History of Physical Education
You know that your professional philosophy reflects what you believe is most important; however, it also has to be logical, sensible, and linked to the historical philosophies of physical education (Siedentop 2009). Some of the past social and educational philosophies of physical education were presented in chapter 1. Past leaders based their programs and ideals on the philosophies of the time. For example, the German and Swedish gymnastics systems were both built on a nationalist philosophy, one that provided a unified sense of being and purpose to a nation. World Wars I and II ignited a desire to improve the physical fitness and health status of youth and adults. The importance of physical training and fitness reflected the philosophy of physical education at the time.
During the development of the United States, there was also a popular belief that physical fitness and competitive sports were important ways to develop the moral, mental, and religious qualities of men (Mechikoff and Estes 1993). This philosophy was called muscularChristianity. In a sense, the work of Robert Roberts and the YMCA helped to spread this type of character education across the country and had a great impact on the development of physical education and sport programs.
Thomas Wood developed the new physical education as a result of the progressive education movement of John Dewey. As you recall, his philosophy was based on a child-centered and natural educational approach, which was influenced by the attitude of social reform of the time. Within this philosophy, physical education was seen as an important way to allow students to play and participate in sports and games to achieve positive social goals.
Another example of how philosophy guided physical education in the past involved play and recreation. Luther Gulick's main passion was the importance of play. His philosophy of play was part of the movement that helped increase the development of playgrounds and recreational pursuits, which led to the inclusion of lifetime sports and activity offerings in physical education. Many physical educators believed that play and lifetime pursuits, along with positive social interactions, should be the primary focus of physical education.
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