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The website for whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks has been hit by a week-long and massive distributed denial-of-service attack.
The attacks arrive as the whistleblower site continues publishing new information related to global intelligence firm Stratfor, a company infiltrated by hacker collective Anonymous infiltrated late last year.
Roughly five million emails were stolen from Stratfor in the attack. It later handed over the emails to WikiLeaks for publication, which began releasing batches in February.
"The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods," WikiLeaks wrote at the time.
On Wednesday, WikiLeak's official Twitter account speculated the timing of the DDoS attack may be related to the Olympics; the ongoing releases of Stratfor and Syria documents, which also were handed over to WikiLeaks for publishing by Anonymous; or unspecified future releases.
A group calling itself AntiLeaks has taken credit for the DDoS campaign.
In a series of tweets on Friday, WikiLeaks said the group was going after its "donation infrastructure." The organisation said the assaults measured more than 10 gigabits per second, and are being delivered in a way that is impossible to deflect.
"The bandwidth [being] used is so huge it is impossible to filter without specialised hardware," the tweets said. "The DDoS is not simple bulk UDP or ICMP packet flooding, so most hardware filters won't work either. The [range] of IPs used is huge. Whoever is running it controls thousands of machines or is able to simulate them."
WikiLeaks has created a number of "mirror" sites in response, but most of those have been knocked offline as well.
WikiLeaks said it tried to move its servers to CloudFlare, a start-up that specialises in DDoS protection and website acceleration. However, WikiLeaks said it was turned away.
CloudFlare is no stranger to protecting targeted websites. The company had LulzSec as a customer during a three-week period last year when the close-knit hacktivist group was embarking on its rampage of breaches against companies like Sony and PBS. LulzSec, however, never violated CloudFlare's terms of service.
When asked Friday about WikiLeaks seeking CloudFlare's assistance, Matthew Prince, the company's co-founder and CEO, said the organisation wasn't denied service.
"We restrict all high-traffic sites from the automatic sign-up process," he said. "The purpose for this is to make sure a big site signing up has a great experience and that we're prepared so they don't overwhelm our network. You'd see the exact same error for the same reason if you tried to sign up Google.com. The list of high-traffic sites is pulled automatically -- it wasn't purposefully directed at WikiLeaks."
Its not the first time WikiLeaks has run into trouble with U.S.-based companies.
In late 2010 it began publishing secret diplomatic cables which resulted in a number of major brands including Amazon, PayPal and MasterCard cutting off server hosting or payment processing ties with WikiLeaks in response to U.S. political pressure.
WikiLeaks' embattled leader, Julian Assange, remains at the Ecuador's London embassy. He is seeking asylum to the South American nation to avoid extradition to Sweden to face alleged sexual offenses. But he has not been charged with any crimes.
The AntiLeaks group said its claimed attacks are specifically against Assange and his attempt to seek asylum.
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Golden-lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia rosalia)
We have two new Golden-lion Tamarins in the New World Tropics building. A brother and sister made their debut in January.
Their previous stompin' grounds were Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park in Colorado Springs. The male, "Marco," was born in 1997, and the female, "Risco," was born in 1996.
These inquisitive animals spend their day foraging for food and looking for snack treats the zookeepers hide throughout the exhibit. The monkeys are exhibited with red-footed tortoise, yellow-footed tortoise and two-toed sloths, because those animals share habitat in the wild.
Next time you're at the zoo, compare the Golden-lion Tamarins with other monkey species - the Howler monkeys, pygmy marmosets and pale-faced saki - that are also in the rainforest building. How are they alike? How are they different?
Weight: 1 1/2 pounds Head and body length: 11-16 inches in length Tail: 10-15 inches in length Color: light blonde-orange to dark orange with a lion-like mane surrounding the face.
High in the treetops (canopy) of primal forests (forests that have not been disturbed by humans).
Coastal forests of South America, near Rio Sao Joao, and the Poco d'Anta Reserve in Brazil.
Omnivorous - fruit, flowers, insects, small vertebrates, tree gum, nectars and bird eggs.
10-12 years in the wild, 15 years or more in captivity.
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|The items shown on this page are antique items, being sold as is, in the conditions and limited quantities shown unless otherwise indicated. Please email us or call us at 888.558.2329 to inquire about availability, request additional information or photos, or to purchase these items.
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|VSG012910-1: "Glasgow Rose" large stained glass casement window pair, measurements to follow. These are fantastic, with iridescent violet roses against an amber background. Circa 1910, these have been restored. $2250 pair
|VSG031010-3: Gorgeous Victorian window from a c. 1884 Queen Anne house. This window came to us in a box of many pieces, we have fully restored it. 19-1/4" wide x 26-1/2" high including frame. Frame is new and has hoops to hang this. $975. SOLD
VSG100710-06 Unique scene in this set of stained glass window sashes, restored and in great shape. $875.00
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|VSG031110-2: Leaded glass sash that has been cleaned and restored, we do have two of these that are identical. 19" x 25" each, new frames. $325
VSG1215-04: Interesting leaded glass window fully restored and ready for installation. 36" W by 31" T $295SOLD
|VSG0314-08 Circular stained glass window section; 32 inches long, three available. $145 each SOLD
VSG042611-11 Large Gothic Arch stained glass window, restored, ready to install and enjoy. 53" High by 38 ¼" Wide $595.00 SOLD
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|The mate to the round oak window in Row 1. Lots of teeny panes to be reglazed. There are 2 of these available. $350 each 40-1/2" square SOLD
VSG082511-01 Pretty little lily theme stained glass window in good condition. Overall 30" W by 27" T $350.00 SOLD
|VSG100710-02 Large church window with stained glass, restored and in good condition 26" W by 54" T. $695.00
VSG072611-02 Pretty flowered piece in good shape. 27 ¾" W by 23 ¼" T $325.00 SOLD
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|VSG0721-14: Church window c 1860, hand painted border. We have 6 total in varying conditions., priced from $450 to $995. This is the best of the lot, $995
|VSG0721-15:Church window c 1860, hand painted border. We have 6 total in varying conditions., priced from $450 to $995
2 stained glass windows with a shield design in good condition.
Both are 30" W by 25" T
$375.00 Each.
VSG072611-03 Good looking fluer de lis stained glass window in good shape has one break in a corner. 32 W by 15" T $400.00 SOLD
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|VSG080811-6: Newer stained glass sidelights featuring an acorn and oak leaf motif. Nicely made, these would complement any new or old house. 8-1/4" x 34". Sold each $195 SOLD
|VSG080811-7: Newer stained glass sidelights featuring an acorn and oak leaf motif. Nicely made, these would complement any new or old house. 8-1/4" x 34". Sold each $195 SOLD
|VSG080811-8: Newer stained glass sidelights featuring an acorn and oak leaf motif. Nicely made, these would complement any new or old house. 12-3/4" x 34". Sold each $195 SOLD
VSG092311-06: Beautiful Prairie style stained glass window. This widow would accent any Craftsman style home. Even a Frank Lloyd Wright house. Fine condition, but with two small cracks and mounted in an oak Frame. 38" wide x 53" tall. $895
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VCD062611-02 Set of 4 craftsmen style leaded glass windows in very good shape frames made of chestnut were stripped and refinished. 1 crack. Each door is 17" W by 37 ¼" T. $750.00 for the set.
|VSG1021-01 Its a little stained glass piece. 12" wide by 32" long $275.00 SOLD
VSG0314-04 Leaded and beveled sidelight, 17" wide x 88" tall, $675. Applied bow carving.
VSG042611-12 Leaded glass window with beveled glass centers restored in an oak frame ready to go.
54 3/8" High by 23 ¼" Wide $350.00
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Outstanding leaded glass window unit with transom lite. painted
oak trim on inside. Overall size is 107" long by 81 1/2" tall
|VSG071410-08: pretty design in this leaded glass window in good condition. 48" L by 18" T $450.00 SOLD
|VSG071410-01: Beautiful stained glass window cleaned and ready for your home. 27" T by 28" W $395.00 SOLD
VSG091511-01 Great potential in this vintage leaded glass advertising sign in very good condition. It would look great back lit.. 12' 6" L by 30" T $1450
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VSG042611-13 Leaded glass sidelights 2 pair to choose from all in excellent condition. 10" W by 68" T $395.00 per pair. SOLD
VSG042611-13 Leaded glass sidelights 2 pair to choose from all in excellent condition. 10" W by 68" T $395.00 per pair. SOLD
VSG0415-09 Great color and texture in this remnant of a very old stained glass window. $40" T by 28" W $ 525.00SOLD
VSG0218-03: Picture these 6 beauties in your cottage home. 28" wide by 33" tall. $150 - $175 Each, sold separately.
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VSG0607-01 Sidelite pair in oak frame. Several breaks. 11" W by 53 3/4" T $995.00 SOLD
VSG0930-01 Very large PAIR of leaded glass windows with unusual heart shaped design. Oak and mahogany veneers on alternate sides of wood frame. Each is 43 3/4" W by 83 1/4" T cleaned up and repaired in very good condition. $995.00pr SOLD
VSG1001-02 Set of 4 really great Praire
style leaded glass windows. Each is 25 1/2" W by 52 1/4" T
overall. One broken pane
VSG0415-10 A must have pair of stained glass sidelights. Wonderful design! Each 18 1/2" W by 58" T $1,695.00 SOLD
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|VSG0220-02: 2 cottage glass pieces pictured two others available 30" wide by 38" tall. $185.00 each, sold separately. SOLD
Outstanding set of praire style cabinet doors. Dont regret not buying these. 32" by 57 3/4" overall. $850.00
|VCD092211-01: Set of 2 gorgeous craftsmen style leaded cabinet doors in very good condition. Frames made of oak were stripped and refinished. Each door is 19-3/4" wide x 34-5/8" tall. $650.00 for the set.
VSG092211-02: Nice transom window. 19-3/4"
high x 35-3/4" wide including frame. SOLD
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VSG082511-02A, -02B Pair of stained glass windows, each has a flower with cut glass bulls eye center. Both need a good cleaning. Overall each is 28" W by 43"T. 02A is T $325 in good condition, 02 B is $300.00 has one small break. SOLD
VSG082511-03 Very nice craftsmen style stained glass window in good condition. 34" W by 25" T. $395.00 SOLD
VSG082511-04 Interesting craftsmen style stained glass window in good condition. 34" W by 25" T. $350.00 SOLD
VSG082511-05 Leaded diamond shape themes in this mostly clear glass window in good shape. 24" W by 46" T. $395.00 SOLD
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VSG082511-06 This was once part of a dutch door, oak framed and all beveled glass pieces in great shape, very heavy. Overall it measures 42" W by 48 ½" T. $725.00
VSG092211-04: A great pair of leaded glass side lights. 13-7/8" wide x 55-7/8" tall. $675
VSG092111-04: Large Gothic Arch stained glass window, in frame and ready to install and enjoy. 41- 3/8" High by 38- 3/4" Wide. $695.00 SOLD
|VSG092211-03: Four leaded glass transom windows. One set measures 19-1/4" wide x 42" tall, the other measures 19-1/4"wide x 38" tall $150 each, selling each separately.
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VSG100611-15 Not often seen bowed leaded glass windows and bowed open paned glass windows. Great old glass made the old fashioned way. Glass is in good shape the frames need some help. Pair of leaded glass windows $275.00. $125.00 for the pair of clear glass windows. Which leave's one single leaded one left for $125.00 .
VSG010612-01 A nice pair of flower themed stained glass windows in good shape. 35 ¼" W by 30 3/4" T Sell separately $395 each SOLD
|VSG020112-09 Large stained glass window with a nice fleur-de-lis style and some blue glass accents. 47 ¾" W by 24" T $425.00
|VSG030212-02 Large gothic arched
windows all in good shape some original wavy glass in them. 6
available 2 @ 38" W by 49" T and 4 @ 32" W by 49" T. $95.00 Each
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VSG031512-02: A little arched top leaded glass window in good condition. 25 ½" L by 13" T $125.00 SOLD
|VSG031512-01: 2 Transom windows
available with the spider web design. Both in good shape 48" L
by 13 ½" T overall. $295.00 each
VSG031512-01: 2 Transom windows
available with the spider web design. Both in good shape 48" L
by 13 ½" T overall. $295.00 each
VSG012713-03 What makes this unusual is the seldom seen oak frame around this all opaque glass leaded window. 1 very small break. 36" by 36 ¾" $325.00
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|VSG011513-05 For the seafarer in all of us 2 round windows, wood mullioned, in okay condition. Larger one is 35 ¾" in diameter the smaller 31 ½" sell separately for $250.00 and $225.00
VSG041212-02 Set of four leaded glass windows condition varies a
couple will need some work. 2 are 29 ½" W by 66 ½" T and 2 are
31 ½" by 66 ½" T Will Sell separately $200 – $375.00
|VSG062012-02 Stained glass window actually a remnant of a much larger one, bottom was beyond repair so we have this 43" tall by 31 ¾' wide piece in good condition available. $475.00 SOLD
VSG011513-06 The pair adds up to a pretty nice fanlight, could be used separately, both in decent condition, each window is 27" wide by 27 ½" tall. $225.00 pr
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|VSG070213-17: Lovely little stained glass transom window with a tulip motif. Caramel, green, and ivory slag glass background. $425
|VSG031010-2: Nice transom window, 16-3/4" high x 35-3/4" wide including frame. Excellent condition, with 3 jewels, one small crack. $695
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|VSG0104-12: 42 w x 19 tall, leaded with little jewels, two available, $325 each
|Beveled & Leaded, we have 4 of these panels. 24-1/2" x 62" $595 each
|VSG0505-16: Leaded & Beveled, we have 5 of these. 30-1/2" x 23" $350 each.
|VSG0104-10: Stained glass 34 wide X 21 tall, $225 SOLD
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|Large arched top window, 9 cracks & breaks, 32-3/4" wide x 60-1/2" high $595
|Large arched top window, 7 cracks & breaks, 32-3/4" wide x 60-1/2" high $575
52 long x 25 high, 1 crack. $525
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text: Humans also use the puppy face for various reasons. Many people use this expression as a way to get something they want or to get out of doing something undesirable. For humans, the face is expressed by pushing out the lower lip, tilting the head down at a 45 degree angle, and look almost straight up with only the eyes. This gesture causes the eyes to appear to become larger and also causes the user to subjectively decrease in height to the recipient. This means that the user appears younger or more childlike, which can cause the recipient to foster feelings of protectiveness and kindness for the user and hence achieves the desired goals.


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Sprint's Clearwire acquisition could signal move towards data
Queena Kim
Dec 17, 2012 To compete with AT&T and Verizon, which have about 70 percent of the market, Sprint needs more spectrum and Clearwire has it.
Shutting off the Internet in Syria, resisting the smartphone craze, and celebrating Pong at 40
David Brancaccio
Nov 30, 2012 An Internet and telecom blackout hits Syria, Pew research numbers get to the bottom of why some avoid buying smartphones, and the video game Pong turns 40-years-old.
BlackBerry hangs on by a keyboard
Queena Kim
Oct 23, 2012 Google's Android and Apple's iPhone are vying for number one and two in the smart phone market. BlackBerry comes in third with 11% of the market and 90 million users around the world, but just who are these users?
What the Apple-Samsung ruling means for you
Adriene Hill
Aug 27, 2012 Apple's win over Samsung could mean big changes for the smartphone and tablet markets.
When will all the really, really cool technology actually get here?
John Moe
Aug 20, 2012 And, a tech reporter gets off the Internet. And becomes way happier.
Watches thrive even in the smartphone age
Sally Herships
Jul 21, 2012 Even as more people use their smartphones as to check the time, watch sales are rising at a healthy clip -- especially on the luxury end
BlackBerry maker RIM holds annual meeting
Bob Moon
Jul 10, 2012 The struggling maker of BlackBerry smartphones, Research in Motion, holds its annual shareholders meeting today outside Toronto in the Canadian town of Waterloo. Shareholders are hoping to hear some reassuring news.
The mobile Internet economy
Chris Farrell
May 31, 2012 The troubled Facebook IPO is casting a pall over high tech (wrongly, I think). The signal moment for the emergence of an even larger digital economy wasn't Facebook. It was Apple's iPad. It's the visible symbol of the rapid embrace of wireless data -- video, images, content, data and communication -- throughout the global economy. A safe forecast: The mobile Internet will transform personal finance.
What the spectrum auction means for you and me
Adriene Hill
Interview by
Feb 17, 2012 Wireless companies may soon be able to buy more airwaves under a spectrum auction that will help pay for the payroll tax cut extension and other jobless benefits. What's the idea behind the auction?
Wael Ghonim on the Arab Spring and social media
John Moe
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Racing Racecars
Growing Independence and Fluency Lesson Design
Sharon Masterson
Rational: Reading smoothly, quickly, and expressively are all characteristics of reading. Reading fluently requires automatic word recognition. Through fluent reading, a reader can begin to read silently, which is faster than oral reading. The fluency formula is "read and reread decodable words in connected text". This lesson will use that formula by reading a decodable text, and then reading it to aid in the development of fluency.
Materials: stopwatches and calculators for each group, a copy of Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble, Fluency chart for each student (the chart has a column with numbers counting up towards the top of the page. The chart has a Racecar theme), car stickers, dry erase board with markers.
1.Being the lesson with explaining what fluency is, say: Fluency is when you read fast and smoothly-so you don't sound out each word-and when you read with expression in your voice. Being a successful reader requires fluent reading. One way we can all become successful fluent readers is to read a text more than one time. The more you read, the more familiar you become with the words. Today we will improve our fluency by rereading a text.
2.Use your dry erase board to write a sentence. An example sentence is "I have a dog named Mudge and he is very big and likes to run." Now review decoding steps, say: What do I do if I get to a word and do not know what it is? That's right I use the cover-up method. Let's practice on the word dog. First we find the vowel, the vowel is o and it can say either /o/ or /O/ so I need to look at the rest of the word to figure it out. I don't see a silent e at the end and I don't see any other vowels in the word so this o must say /o/ like the yawning boy. Now I can look at the beginning of the word and it's a d and I know that says /d/ so now I have /d//o/ we can blend together to make /do/. The last letter is g and I know g says /g/ so if we blend the sounds together we get dddoooogggg, dog. Then we check to make sure we have blended correctly by rereading the sentence to make sure that dog makes sense.
3.Say: Now I am going to show you the difference between reading without fluency and reading with fluency. (write on your board the sentence, " I love my red bag." And demonstrate reading slowly) I l-/O/-/v/-/e/-love my r-/E/-d no r-/e/-d b-/A/-/j/, that's not right, /a/, /b//a//g/. I love my red bag. What did you notice about my reading? It took a lot of my time up and it was harder to understand me too. If I was reading a whole passage it would take me a long time decoding all of these words. But when you learn to read with fluency, it will go much faster. Now I'll read it with fluency, "I love my red bag." Much faster and much easier to understand because I wasn't getting stuck on the words. This is how we will practice today, by decoding first then rereading the text.
4. Now this book, Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble is a story where Henry and Mudge go out in all sorts of weather getting messy and wet and get into some trouble, you're going to have to read to find out what happens to them. Give each student a partner. Pass out the book Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble to each child. Say: follow along in your book while I read the first two pages. I am going to read them twice, and then you will do the same with your partner. (the first time read it slowly and decode, then the second tie improve your reading.) Now it's your turn, read the whole story one time, then reread it two more times.
5.Walk around and observe the students as they read with their partner, taking notes on students.
6.Once every group has read the story three times, pass out a stop watch and the chart to each group. Say: we are going to play the fluency game, "Racing Racecars" listen closely so you will know what to do. One person will be the timer and partner two to start as the reader, then you will swap. The timer will start the stop watch to see how many seconds it takes to read the passage. Then count the words and the seconds it took the read it all and put the numbers into the math problem (# of words x 60 divided by the seconds. Then put those numbers on the graph chart. After you have graphed the reader's number, I want you to swap jobs. (Model how to put the numbers on the graph correctly). Do this three times and use the different car stickers to mark each reading so that each partner will have three cars on the chart marking their number for each read.
Assessment: After they have completed their three readings and graphed them, collect the graphs. Use these graphs for your assessment to see if their fluency improved and which students need more help. Then ask reading comprehension questions about the text they read to see if they can comprehend the text.
Falls, Jennifer. "Go, Go Speed Racer" A gaining fluency design created by Jennifer Falls, Auburn University, Reading Genie Website. www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/odysseys/fallsgf.html
Rylant, Cynthia. "Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble." Aladdin: 1987 pages 5-19.
Fluency chart that you must fill in the numbers for the race cars to reach
individual to each child's level
Fluency chart that you must fill in the numbers for the race cars to reach individual to each child's level
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Except, I'm not trying to change my login shell, I'm trying to change the
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> > I have a shell program with creates/changes the caller's environment.
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> > I want to call this from a perl program (and have the environment
> > but
> > the changes never exist after the execution. The script is being
> > and during the script I do some "echo"s and everything is fine. Can't I
> > this??? for example
> > [...]
> Changing %ENV within the script will only change the child process'
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VIA Technologies has shown some quite interesting stuff this year and it's quite a shame that we haven't seen many of those concepts in retail, but once again managed to stun us with its announcement of the new Mobile-ITX form factor. The new form factor is 50 percent smaller than Pico-ITX and it basically fits in the palm of your hand, so this is something that will certainly have a bright future in niche markets.
Microsoft's Windows ran to stay in place last month as Window 7's market share gains made up for the largest-ever declines in Windows XP and Vista, data released today by Web metrics firm Net Applications showed.
By Net Applications' numbers, Windows 7's gains were primarily at the expense of Windows XP. For each copy of Vista replaced by Windows 7 during November, more than six copies of XP were swapped for the new OS.
Meanwhile, Apple's Mac OS X lost share during November.
Intel PM55 is the only chipset supporting Lynnfield processors, which include the current Core i5 and Nehalem-based Core i7 notebook chips. As of now, it is selling for $40 in quantities of 1,000.
Beginning in Q1 2010, Intel plans to launch an additional chipset within the x55 mainstream series (currently just P55) as well we three new x57 chipsets. The HM55 will match the PM55 in regards to price and it will sell for $40 in quantities of 1,000. Overall, this implies that there is not much difference between the two.
Does the latest generation of energy-saving light bulbs save energy? A comprehensive study conducted by Osram, the German lighting company, provides evidence that they do.
While that may seem self-evident, until the release of the report on Monday the answer remained unclear.
After AMD's recently launched Congo platform comes Nile, which is scheduled for launch in 2010. Congo codename got replaced to 2nd generation Ultrathin as some people were against the name because of a massive genocidal campaign in Congo, which claimed the lives of around 5 million people in the past decade. We can assure you that AMD was just thinking about cool codenames for its chips and didn't have time to bother with politics.
Prices for DRAM are finally evening out after a period where manufacturers were demanding so much that suppliers couldn't manage to get enough chips to them.
Nanya Technology spokesperson Pei-lin Pai said that the shortage in the contract market was over. He said that PC OEMs can get enough from their contract market suppliers and were not having to buy from the more expensive spot market. Pai said that this had lead to a reduction in the price of DRAM chips, even if the amount of DRAM out there was not particularly high yet.
On paper, the Core i9 might not sound that exciting: It's a lot like the Core i7, except built with a 32nm fabrication process and two extra cores, for a total of six. Early benchmarks, though, say it flies. Sometimes.
The i9 doesn't extract significant advantages from its pumped core count (which brings processing thread count up to 12) in a lot of day to day tasks, so don't expect to see an increase in game performance, Windows startup speed or other single-core optimized tasks. It's when you start rendering video or doing 3D modeling—tasks that are suited to parallelization—that the i9 flexes its muscles.
$199 or $149, lower if you're lucky. Months prior to the original Eee PC launch, IT hacks were talking about sub-$200 netbooks that could change computing on the go for peanuts.
Of course, as soon as vendors realized they could make money on these toys, the market degenerated into showroom for nearly identical, overpriced netbooks based on Intel's brilliant yet very boring Atom CPU. Two years and a recession later, consumers will finally be able to get a brand new Atom netbook at just $199, courtesy of Black Friday.
Futuremark has already issued a new patch for its first game, the Shattered Horizon. We had a chance to try it out and we must confess that Futuremark did a great job with this multiplayer FPS and the "zero gravity" is even more fun than on paper.
Steven Sinofsky may not be talking about Microsoft's future Windows plans, but the Windows Server team appears to see more value in letting customers know its road map.
In at least two slides apparently shown at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft suggests that a major release update to Windows Server is due around 2012, with one of the slides confirming the Windows 8 code name.
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As I noted, the Arizona immigration bill is what comes from the confluence of federal inaction and election-year jockeying on both sides of the political aisle. Neither pro-immigration nor anti-immigration forces have the wherewithal to push through legislation, so the next best thing is to try to tempt the other side into embarrassing themselves. That's not hard in this arena. As the Wall Street Journal's editors write:
Arizona's new immigration law shows what happens when a state on the front lines of a failed immigration policy reaches the bursting point. What you get is a blunt instrument that produces lawsuits, more political polarization (if that's possible) and the risk of hostility between the local police and the public.
The law makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. without proper documents. It allows the police to stop anyone on "reasonable suspicion" that they may be in the country unlawfully and arrest them on the spot if they can't produce identity papers. The police aren't required to have a search warrant or even to suspect some illegal action has occurred before questioning a person. Traditionally the federal government has enforced immigration laws, so this is an extraordinary state criminalization of a heretofore federal authority.
Democrats see an opportunity born of their own delinquency in addressing immigration. ("Congressional Democrats have no intention of enacting serious immigration reform before November. President Obama is surely playing politics with the situation in Arizona for gain in the fall. He'd like to pick a fight and define Republicans as anti-Hispanic going into the election, without having to propose anything substantive.") So they decry the motives of their opponents and take offense at the notion that law enforcement should enforce immigration laws. Meanwhile, a segment of conservatives thinks this plays well to the base and that liberals' overheated rhetoric makes them appear "pro-illegal immigration." But the result is a crass political food fight in which each side's normal concerns are swept aside. (Are conservatives really in favor of what will amount to near-unbridled discretion by police to stop suspected illegals?)
Those hoping for any semblance of real reform should take note: the alliance of those who oppose any "path to citizenship" and the relaxation of legal immigration restrictions is a classic political marriage of convenience, with Big Labor and immigration restrictionists joined at the hip to block virtually any variation of reform that might conceivably pass. And the most extreme pro-immigration forces don't do their cause any favors by suggesting that legitimate concerns for border control are nothing more than a cover for racism. So expect the political charade to go on.


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The Maritimes' three fisheries ministers will gather in late March to discuss last November's recommendations of a three-person lobster panel. The panel suggested reducing the number of traps early in the season, taking days off each week and better marketing and quality control. FILE PHOTO
HALIFAX, N.S. ŌĆō Fisheries ministers from the Maritime provinces are moving forward to address issues facing the lobster industry at the Lobster Value Recovery Summit, March 26-27.
The summit was announced Wednesday by Nova Scotia's Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Keith Colwell, New Brunswick's Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries Minister Michael Olscamp, and Prince Edward Island's Fisheries, Aquaculture and Rural Development Minister Ron MacKinley.
The summit will focus on key recommendations in the Maritime Lobster Panel report, which was presented to the three ministers last November, and to gain consensus on the changes necessary to strengthen the industry.
"It is critical that we receive input and direction from the lobster industry," said Colwell. "I look forward to hearing the discussion that comes out of this summit as it will help define our actions as we move forward on this important initiative."
MacKinley said he is very pleased with the positive response to the report and the progress to date.
"We have participated in numerous meetings across the province," said MacKinley. "There is good discussion taking place within the industry on how we can achieve a more stable lobster fishery that will see increased prices for today's fishers and processors as well as for the next generation."
Since the report was presented, ministers in each province have hosted sessions where the lobster panel members briefed industry stakeholders on the report. Two additional session will be held in February, one in Nova Scotia and another in New Brunswick, for Atlantic First Nations' harvesters representatives.
"The report has generated attention and interest within the lobster sector," said Olscamp. "In order to move forward, industry stakeholders from all sectors must sit together and find the ways to implement the changes they wish to see in order to increase value for all segments of the industry."
The summit will also include representatives from Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec. The Lobster Council of Canada will lead the organization of the summit, with the assistance of a steering committee comprised of industry and government representatives from the three Maritime provinces.
The panel met with about 100 organizations representing fishermen, buyers, shippers, processors, brokers, and First Nations throughout the Maritimes, Newfoundland, Quebec and the state of Maine. The panel also received nearly 30 submissions from organizations, companies and individuals.
The report addresses the sudden drop in price in the spring of 2013 and examines the various cost and revenue components of harvesters, buyers and processors in the Maritimes. The report provides recommendations on marketing initiatives and on a course of action to stabilize and increase prices paid to harvesters. It also identifies options for a formal system where industry would know the price paid to harvesters in advance of landings.


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According to this article, the Webster and Posey Tubes to and from Oakland will be closed Monday and Tuesday night this week so they can be inspected. This after a chunk of concrete fell off the ceiling last week.
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Webster Tube reopened after fallen debris removed
The Webster Tube from Oakland to Alameda was shut down on Sunday after an 8-foot-by-8-foot chunk of decorative concrete fell onto the roadway about 6 p.m. According to Caltrans no one was injured, and the tube was reopened in time for this morning's commute. Details here. Last Thursday, the parallel Posey Tube, which moves trafffic from Alameda to Oakland, was shut down for a bus accident.


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New Showbiz Pals, An A-List Fella, Sexy Make-Over And More…
She's one of Australia's most famous exports – and now Delta Goodrem
is well and truly living the California dream!
And it seems the sassy songbird, who's undergone quite the LA make-over since relocating last year, has found the successful formula for cracking it Stateside!
First up, the clean-cut popstar has swapped her cutesy girl-next-door look for wavy locks, plenty of bronzer and a far more chic wardrobe, full of sexy dresses and platform heels.
Next, she's bagged herself the all important gaggle of showbiz BFFs!
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Mark of the Ninja not only perfects the stealth genre, it transcends it, such that even non-stealth-game fans are likely to enjoy its rewarding gameplay and captivating atmosphere.
"Fun" and "rules" are two concepts frequently placed at odds with one another, and yet one of the basic truths of video games is that they are fun because they have rules. Video games are simulations of various realities, built on sophisticated systems. Understanding the parameters and limitations of these simulations—what actions are and are not allowed, and what responses we should and should not expect—is often an essential part of successful and enjoyable gameplay.
A genre where rules are exceedingly important is the so-called "stealth game". In a typical stealth game, the player controls a vulnerable (though often quite powerful) character whose primary charge is to ambush, hide from, and/or otherwise circumvent adversaries using methods besides direct confrontation. For this type of gameplay to be effective, there has to be a well-understood set of rules. How can I tell if I am adequately hidden? What actions will cause an enemy to sense my presence? If I am detected, what are the consequences? When these rule sets are skillfully designed and well communicated to the player, stealth games become a challenging organic puzzle that tests the player's capacity for deceit and subterfuge. When they are not, stealth games become a vehicle for limitless frustration that test the player's capacity for anger management.
Mark of the Ninja is a 2D action game that implements the essential design elements of the stealth genre impeccably. Developed by Klei Entertainment (makers of the Shank franchise) and available via the Xbox LIVE Marketplace, Mark of the Ninja follows the Champion of the Hisomu ninja clan in his quest to destroy a powerful private military corporation that has assaulted his ancestral home. To fulfill his duty, the Champion must disable scores of heavily-armed guards, evade deadly and devious traps, and circumvent high-tech security measures.
Though his mission is daunting, the Champion is well equipped for the task at hand. A gifted ninja with superhuman abilities derived from his mystical tattoos (called "marks"), the Champion can effortlessly scale ceilings and walls, fling bamboo darks with unerring accuracy, and execute an unsuspecting enemy in complete silence. Despite this impressive list of powers, he's hardly invincible; if a misstep or botched kill raises the alarm, a burst or two from a mercenary's assault rifle kills him as dead as anyone else.
It is in its understanding and expression of the player character's advantages and limitations that Mark of the Ninja truly excels. When performing noisy actions such as sprinting or using your grappling hook, blue circles indicate the radius within which these sounds will alert a guard. When standing in light or darkness, the Champion's visibility to a foe is clearly apparent. In other words, whenever you end up dead on the ground with more holes in your face than nature intended, it's pretty much always because of a careless step or a flawed strategy, and you'll know exactly what went wrong.
In addition to the expertly implemented systems for player feedback, Mark of the Ninja has a pretty generous checkpoint system, which typically responds to your untimely demise by restoring you to the point just before everything went all sideways. Together, the feedback and checkpoints encourage a satisfying level of experimentation and choice. If I let that guard catch a glimpse of me, can I return to the shadows quickly enough to sneak past him when he comes over to snoop around? If I hang this guard's corpse from that lamppost, will it terrify those other two guards enough that they'll accidentally shoot each other? I often found myself repeating a section multiple times not because I couldn't complete it, but rather out of a desire to complete it as elegantly as possible. (Yes, I realize I just used "elegant" to describe the act of hanging corpses from streetlights.)
The artfully refined mechanics of Mark of the Ninja would add up to a pretty fantastic experience irrespective of graphics and story; however, the game manages to deliver on these other fronts as well. The characters are masterfully illustrated in Klei Entertainment's trademark comic-book style, and the richly layered environments possess a sense of purpose that embraces the visual extremes of light and dark. While for some games, the graphics are the point of the game, for Mark of the Ninja, the graphics communicate the point of the game, by taking the practical requirements of the world and restating them in a visually compelling way.
The story of Mark of the Ninja is also impressive for such a mechanical game, though it shines somewhat less spectacularly than the graphics. The characters are as well acted and are developed about as deeply as one can expect from a handful of cut-scenes and some limited instructional and expository dialogue, most of which involves a stereotypically taciturn ninja clan. The plot is similarly pragmatic, although it contains a few twists that, while fairly predictible, are thoroughly appreciated in a game that could have just as easily have ignored narrative altogether.
To summarize: Mark of the Ninja refines the stealth game to its functional zenith, and like all great feats of design, achieves in its complexity a certain simplicity. I believe that the elegance of its mechanics, along with its diverse opportunities for player experimentation and appealing aesthetic trappings, allow it to appeal to a wide audience. If you think you might enjoy pretending to be a bad-ass master ninja—which I'd like to think is pretty much everyone—then Mark of the Ninja is a game for you.


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While the Indiana legislature had authorized the establishment of a "hospital for the insane" as early as 1827, the doors of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane (later re-named Central State Hospital) did not open until 1848. At that time, the hospital consisted of one brick building situated on a large parcel of land, numbering over a hundred acres, in the outskirts of Indianapolis. From 1848-1948, the hospital grew yearly until it encompassed two massive, ornate buildings for the female and male patients, a "sick" hospital for the treatment of physical ailments, a farm colony where patients engaged in "occupational therapy", a chapel, an amusement hall complete with an auditorium, billiards, and bowling alleys, a bakery, a fire house, and a cannery.
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For a half-century, this complex array of buildings and gardens beckoned to all of the state's mentally ill. By 1905, however, mental health institutions built in Evansville, Logansport, Madison, and Richmond relieved an overcrowded Central State Hospital of some of its patient load, leaving it to treat only those from the "central district", an area of 38 counties situated in the middle portion of the state.
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By the late 1970s, most of the hospital's ostentatious, Victorian-era buildings were declared unsound and razed. In their place, the state constructed brick buildings of a nondescript, institutional genre. These modern buildings and the medical staff therein continued to serve the state's mentally ill, until allegations of patient abuse and funding troubles sparked an effort to forge new alternatives to institutionalization which, in turn, led to the hospital's closure in 1994. Fortunately, the Indiana State Archives, the Indiana State Library, and the Indiana History of Medicine Museum (housed in one of the hospital's remaining nineteenth-century edifices), are preserving the history of an institution that served, albeit not always well, the mentally ill of Indiana for 146 years.


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The more I use my computer, the more I realize how much I take search for granted. How many times have you lost a pair of socks or misplaced your keys only to wish you could search for them and have the location spit back out to you? Fortunately, Windows (and most other operating systems) comes with a handy search feature.
On top of the default search feature, there are a number of third-party tools that claim to be better and faster at searching your computer for relevant files and folders, and that raises a few questions. Is Windows desktop search slow? And if so, how much faster are the alternatives? I took a look at the best known Windows search tools and compared them – the results were surprising.
Note: I'm on a Windows 7 desktop so I'm testing these tools against the default search on that operating system. You can safely assume that Windows XP search speeds would be slower than Windows 7, but I don't know how much more the Windows 8 search improves. So if you use Windows 8, just keep that in mind.
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Interface: The Windows search integrates nicely into the actual operating system, so you'll feel right at home using it. Open up any explorer window (basically, any folder) and the search bar will be up in the top right. You can also search Windows in the Start Menu if you prefer it that way.
Search Time: Average 3m 30s for unindexed search; average <1s for indexed search. If you enable Windows search indexing, your computer will constantly keep an index of all files and folders, which helps to improve search speeds.
Features: I don't know about you, but I've always viewed the Windows search as a primitive function. That might be because I had some poor experiences as a child on Windows 98, ME, and even XP. However, rest assured that the latest iterations of the desktop search aren't so bad. There are a few tricks to improve Windows 7 search that you can use.
Interface: Everything's interface is as simplistic as they come. It's just an empty window with a small search bar across the top. As you type, the search results show up in the list below. There really isn't much else to say. Minimal and to the point – just how I like my tools to be.
Search Time: Instantaneous real-time. Everything is an impressive bit of windows desktop search technology due to how fast and responsive it is. Like Windows search, Everything works by indexing your entire computer's file structure, which allows it to present immediate search results as you type your search query. Everything can index a fresh install of Windows 7 in just a few seconds.
Features: You'd think that such a fast search tool would come with a downside. Well, as far as I can tell, there are no downsides to Everything. It barely uses any resources – less than 5MB RAM and less than 1MB of hard drive space. It also monitors file system changes live, so your index is always up to date.
Interface: The Listary interface is fantastic in my opinion, but I can see how it might be cumbersome or annoying for some users. Essentially, Listary doesn't have an interface of its own. As you browse around on your computer, all you have to do is start typing and Listary will know based on context whether you want to search or not.
Search Time: Average <1s for computer-wide search.
Features: Listary's search is extremely flexible. The query matching isn't verbatim, so you can just type multiple terms until you get the match that you were looking for. The search only performs in the current directory, though you can easily manipulate the search query to search in other locations if you want.
Pro Version: Though the Free version is feature complete and available forever, you can upgrade to the Pro version for $19.95 USD, which unlocks a few advanced features.
The absolute search times listed above have a lot of factors going into them, such as the size of my hard drives, how many files and folders I have, other programs running in the background that take up CPU resources, etc. However, just focus on the relative search speeds between each program and you'll see that all of them are quite good at fast searches.
My winner? I prefer Everything. Listary offers the same "find as you type" instantaneous search results but the interface can sometimes be intrusive, especially when you accidentally bring it up. I like how Everything is both fast and compact and only shows up when I open it myself.
I tested out a few other Windows desktop search tools that didn't make it onto this list. With indexing, Windows search is quite fast already. Everything and Listary were the only ones that could offer the same (or better) speed while adding extra features on top. Know of any other Windows search tools that are just as fast? Share them with us in the comments.
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Former Vice President Dan Quayle Endorses Dold for U.S. Congress Bob Dold, president of Rose Pest Solutions, strengthens his bid for the 10th Congressional District in Illinois with this endorsement.
FDA Seizes More Than $1 Million Worth of Food from Nashville Food Processor and Warehouse The agency acted to prevent distribution of food from rodent-infested facility.
Pestmaster Services of the Hudson Valley Raises Funds for Haiti Earthquake Victims The fundraising effort raised $2,320 and several bags of clothes in just four hours.
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Group Seeks Reversal of Ontario Pesticide Ban Some businesses want to overturn the Ontario government's ban on the cosmetic use of pesticides that came into force last year, arguing it is costing them hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue.
U.S. Pest Celebrates 25 Years of Service to the Nashville Area The company is under the direction of second generation president Erica Brister.
Craig Thomas Pest Control Announces Acquisition of JBK Pest Control JBK Pest Control was founded by Scott Smith, who will be retiring from the pest management industry.
GreenHow Pest Management Achieves Green Shield Certification The credential is offered by the independent, non-profit IPM Institute of North America, which verifies company performance using a rigorous, on-site evaluation that examines 63 separate aspects of pest control.
CPA Dan Gordon to Open NPMA's Regional Conferences Gordon has been involved with several pest control companies who have gone from start up to several million dollars in annual sales.
Industry Veteran Patterson Wins PCT Game Giveaway Bill Patterson, technical manager, Worldwide Pest Control, San Antonio, Texas, won the game "Hive," which was reviewed in PCT.
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Life is short, guys. It really is. I've been alive for a quarter of a century and while that isn't long, it means that even if I live to the ripe old age of 100, I am already a quarter of the way through my life. I'm really a third of the way through the years that I will be able to actually live, so yeah, life is short.
There are a lot of things that life is just too short to worry about. Here are a handful of those things:
1. Make the bed
Seriously, making the bed is so over rated. Why make the bed when you're just going to get in an mess it up again.
2. Worry
I'm bad for this. I worry about things a lot. My grades, what I'll do when I get to a certain stage in my life, what type of silly schedule the school is going to come up with this semester for courses. But really, what's the point? Worrying doesn't help a solution come about. It just makes us anxious, and it's bad for our health.
3. Waste time with people that don't make you feel good
I think everybody has somebody in their life that doesn't make them feel very good, but that they keep around for one reason or another. Do you really want to look back on your life and memories and have them tainted by somebody who doesn't appreciate you, who is always competing with you or who tries to drag you down into their own misery? Probably not!
4. Not look up stupid videos on YouTube
Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, I come home and spend an hour looking up really stupid videos on YouTube and laughing about them.
I get periods of guilt when I'm thinking about how I need to be more productive; I should be spending my time blogging or doing homework, not watching RWJ's commentary on outrageous videos and giggling to myself. But sometimes, you just gotta relax.
5. Dry clean your clothes
Seriously. Dry cleaning? I have a limited amount of time on this earth and I do not want to be spending it taking my clothes to and from the dry cleaners, thankyouverymuch.
Unless the piece of clothing is seriously nice and dry clean only.
6. Pre-wash your dishes (before they go in the dishwasher)
My stepmom does this, and it's so bizarre. I understand rinsing them off, but she actually uses a cloth and soap.
7. Complain
This goes along with worrying. I once had a friend tell me "never complain about the things you can't change". He was right; it's a negative, poor way to live a life. I complain a lot. I've been trying to reign that in.
If you don't like something, try and change it. If you can't change it, try and leave it behind you. If that's not possible, then learn to tolerate it. It's hard, I know.
8. Resent your circumstances
Even if we hate our jobs or want to strangle our neighbor, life is just too short to resent what life has given us. We have to do what we have to do, and thinking negatively about those things won't help them go away. Try to put a positive spin on the things that you resent; positivity is contagious and you'll be thinking positive more often.
9. Make reasonable meal choices
I understand that to keep living, we require nutrition. But I'll never understand those people that look at me funny for having a hot fudge sundae for breakfast, or pizza for six meals in a row. I'm not saying you should sacrifice your health, but it won't kill you to eat what you want every once in awhile.
Okay, pizza for six meals in a row might kill you. Don't try this at home.
10. Give yourself unreasonable restrictions for no reason (not drinking, no chocolate)
When your geriatric, you're not going to be looking back on your life and thinking "oh, remember that time I went a week without chocolate? Awesome!". You're going to be thinking about all of the things that you did and enjoyed. And if you really love chocolate, why not enjoy it (in moderation) here and there? Don't challenge yourself to stupid challenges.


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A new iPhone is shipping in a few months, so that naturally means that there is talk of the new Apple device including NFC capabilities. This time, the claims come via website NoWhereElse.fr, which claims that the above printed circuit board is a legitimate iPhone 6 part that includes an NFC chip and an 802.11ac WiFi card among the usual other components. Why would Apple include NFC, an old technology far inferior to Bluetooth Low Energy? I'm not sure, so don't count on it happening. You can see from the image above that the iPhone 6 part is quite similar to the current iPhone's variant, and today's leak does not tell us much more about what we already know is coming: a thinner, lighter device, with a larger and higher-resolution display, new sensors, and a faster processor. We've reported that at least the upcoming 4.7-inch model will take its bow in mid-September, while the 5.5-inch version is shipping later.
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Probably because NFC is already well established in Japan, where people use their phones as a payment device and as a SUICA card. In Europe NFC is also well established and embedded in every credit card and many SUICA like travel cards (such as Oyster cards on the Tube).
NFC and Bluetooth aren't competing technologies. There's certainly some overlap in functionality, but they both do different things better than the others. The issue with NFC for most phones up to this point is Samsung, Google, and other competitors have done a poor job of finding valid uses of the technology while touting how great of a feature it is. I've watched coworkers try to use it to transfer small amounts of data across devices and it is relatively tedious for how simple it should be. For transferring data, Apple's solution (Airdrop) is a better concept (unfortunately it is far from perfect, too).
The moment Apple has a good use of the technology, they will suddenly be more optimistic about it and include it. Apple's distaste for NFC has been more of a statement against NFC as an Android lame-duck selling point and not NFC as a technology. As others have pointed out, NFC is used a lot in other countries like Japan for public transit (where the iPhone has a HUGE install base) which is reason alone for including it.
I'm hopeful that they'll find some other great uses for it. I would like the ability to tap a device or beacon to use NFC to create a connection over an ad-hoc wifi network. Then, data could transfer over wifi very quickly. Kind of another entry point for Airdrop (i.e. Either find them nearby using the device UI or simply tap the devices together). Anyway, its always nice to have more tools in developers' toolkits rather than fewer. It would also be a nice way of logging into a Mac or taking control of an Apple TV with your iTunes account. Sure, these could be done using the device UI- but there's something to be said about the simplicity of someone just tapping a device to another- especially for the less savvy users.
Please let it be truth. I live in Europe and pretty much every shop I go to has NFC card reader.
it is great that they can tell us that the next iPhone will have NFC solely based on an UNPOPULATED board.


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bought on chainlove. should've known the discount meant something was horribly wrong. this glove is not warm enough for brooklyn winters. bought in september, and exactly 3 months later, regular use of ~90 miles per week has worn a hole in the palm of the right hand. maybe i should loosen my grip?
also i've never noticed anything reflective on them. certainly hasn't stopped cars from dooring me and turning into me here in brooklyn.
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Beletwein — At least four people were wounded Friday in central Somalia in an hour-long battle between pro-government forces and insurgents, Radio Garowe reports.
The fighting erupted in Beletwein after Hizbul Islam insurgents attacked the town's central jail, sparking a battle with pro-government forces guarding the jail.
Sheikh Abdi Mohamed Osman, a commander with Hizbul Islam, said they attacked the jail after pro-government forces began "targeting religious personalities" but he did not elaborate.
The battle subsided later on Friday, but residents said the warring groups are sitting on opposite ends of a strategic bridge that connects Beletwein's eastern and western halves divided by the Shabelle River. Beletwein is the provincial capital of Hiran region.
On Tuesday morning, Ethiopian troops pulled out of parts of Hiran region where they established a military post at Kala-Beyr junction in May to monitor traffic movement between Somalia's southern, central and northern regions. The junction also is a pathway to the Somali-inhabited region of eastern Ethiopia.
Hizbul Islam rebels are fighting alongside Al Shabaab faction to overthrow the Western-backed interim government in Mogadishu, led by former Islamist insurgent chief Sheikh Sharif Ahmed as president.


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The argument over Easter or Western aside, if there's one thing North Carolina knows, it's barbecue. Now, just because Charlotte may look like a buttoned-down banking city, that doesn't mean we can't grill with the best of 'em. What Charlotte establishment has the best barbecue in town?
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InDesign FX is a collection of self-contained effects projects designed to be completed in ten minutes or less. Taught by expert Mike Rankin, the series explores every aspect of InDesign's graphic effects capabilities through real-world examples, all without relying on Photoshop or Illustrator. The intent is to reveal the quick, practical, and sometimes surprising application of InDesign effects to creative projects.
Hi! I am Mike Rankin and welcome to InDesign FX. In this week's effect we'll take a look at alternatives to the standard drop shadow. In fact, we won't use the Drop Shadow effect at all. Instead we can create shadow effects by making a copy of objects or text, and then pasting other shapes into those outlines to create looks like these, let's see how it's done. So I'll go to the next page in my document, I'll take my Type tool and I'll click and drag to create a really large text frame. I'll change the font to Myriad Pro, Black, I'll make it really large, 150 points, and I'll type in the word Alt Shadows.
I'm also going to select all that and I'm going to track it back a little bit to about -50, just to compress it a little bit. I'm going to press Command+Shift+Option+O or Ctrl+Shift+Alt+O on the PC to convert this type to outlines and also copy it at the same time. So if I drag the new copy out of the way you can see that I still have the original text plus this outlined copy. I'm going to undo to place that back where it was. Now I'm going to take the Line tool and click and drag while I hold Shift right at the left edge of my page here to draw a line that's taller than the text.
With my Selection tool I'll choose Edit > Step and Repeat, and I'm going to use these values. I'll repeat a 110 times, Vertical Offset of 0 and Horizontal Offset of 9 pixels just to space out these lines a little bit, and so you can see it goes the entire width of the text here, plus a little extra. I'll click OK, and now I'm going to group all these lines, I'll cut them, I'll select my outline text, and I'll choose Edit > Paste Into. In the Control panel I'll change the fill from Black to None, and now I can use my arrow keys to nudge these outline shapes down into the right, and if I zoom in I can see these lines.
Now I want to control if look a little bit here, I want to change the stroke style that's on these lines. So up in the Control panel, I'll click on the Select content button, so now I've selected that group of 110 vertical lines and I'm going to change the stroke style from Solid to Triple, I'll increase the stroke width until I fill in all those spaces, maybe take it down to 7 points. I'll zoom out and see what I have here. So that's an interesting effect, let's change it a little bit here. Again I'll select those outlines, I'll select the content and I'll change the stroke style instead of Triple I'll go to the Straight Hash, I'll increase the Width and that'll fill in those little gaps.
Now I have horizontal lines for my alternative shadows. I can even choose Wavy if I wanted to, if I wanted a sort of zebra effect here. All right, let's zoom back in and try a couple of more things. Again I'll select the outlines, select the content, I'll go back to my Triple Lines and this time I'm going to apply some shearing. I'll select the shear value and hold down the Shift key on my keyboard and tap the up arrow until I get to about 30 degrees. I can even try other stroke styles too. If I wanted to I could use diamonds as well for a different effect.
You can really use any of these custom stroke styles you want to for the alternative shadows. So you can see there is no need to settle for the regular humdrum drop shadow that you've seen a million times before. Not when it's easy enough to create a fun alternative with the Paste Into command. I am Mike Rankin and I'll be back in two weeks. Thanks for watching!
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California ban on sale of 'violent' video games to children rejected
The Supreme Court has struck down a California law that would have banned selling "violent" video games to children, a case balancing free speech rights with consumer protection.
The 7-2 ruling Monday is a victory for video game makers and sellers, who said the ban -- which had yet to go into effect -- would extend too far. They say the existing nationwide, industry-imposed, voluntary rating system is an adequate screen for parents to judge the ... Full Story »


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Can Developers Help LinkedIn Learn to Have Fun?
LinkedIn's opening of its platform to a wider audience of developers last week offers a crucial opportunity for the company to overcome one of its biggest self-inflicted impediments: its aversion to fun.
The online social network for professionals has been far too slow to adopt the openness that has fueled the growth of other social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. That hesitation has stemmed mainly from an overdone desire to avoid being perceived as another online time-waster. When LinkedIn opened its platform to a small stable of investors in 2007, the company's then-CEO, Dan Nye, told The New York Times, "We have no interest in doing it like Facebook with an open API, letting people do whatever they want. We're not going to have people sending electronic hamburgers to each other…When you go to LinkedIn, we want you to be confident you can accomplish your goals, be productive and move on with your day. We are not trying to get you to come back multiple times throughout the day."
That last sentence in particular is an odd notion for a company that reportedly gets about a third of its revenue from advertising. But more importantly, those comments evince a dangerously narrow strategy and an unhealthy separation of business and pleasure. However work-oriented LinkedIn may want to be, it will be hard for it to sustain broad user engagement if the site's not fun to use.
Adding applications that are fun to use could keep a broad base of users involved while furthering the site's mission to aid user productivity. It's not hard to imagine fun Facebook- and Twitter-type apps that fall right in line with the company's existing features. For example, LinkedIn already tries to encourage networking through reaching out to contacts of contacts. Wouldn't it be more useful (and fun) to have an app modeled after the Six-Degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon game that shows you how connected you are to the people and organizations you want to influence by tracing, quantifying (and even visually illustrating) lines of contact?
LinkedIn also offers an app to track "buzz" about a given company, but it might be even more valuable to have one that follows what people in a given industry or ad hoc contact list (like "My Silicon Valley VC Contacts") are talking about. Such a service might mimic what teens are doing on Twitter, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be valuable in the business world.
Another example: LinkedIn already offers an "Answers" app that lets people show off their own knowledge by answering other users' questions. It's not that hard to imagine games, quizzes and contests that accomplish the same goal but in a richer way. If you earned points according to how good your answers were, you could brag about being the best authority on a given subject.
In fact, these points could also be used as a kind of virtual currency, in countless ways far more productive than buying virtual burgers. For example, Answers Points could grant one access to certain clubs or higher tiers of membership, in line with LinkedIn's current premium offerings. They could also be used to gain access to fun, socially oriented live online events — discussions with industry luminaries, for example.
There's a reason so many trade shows are in Las Vegas and Orlando, Fla., why so many trade show booths have magicians, and why so many exhibitors hold cocktail parties during the show. The temptation of fun is an effective business tool. Hopefully LinkedIn's new developers can help demonstrate that.


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Back in the fall, Spring Breakers star James Franco denied hooking up with his co-star Ashley Benson, but based on their hardcore PDA at the premiere after-party in Los Angeles last night (March 14), it looks like the jig is up.
According to an insider at Hollywood Life, the cast mates are "1000 percent hooking up." Apparently, once the cameras were off, Ashley and James were caught holding hands and were even spotted sneaking a kiss while Ashley sat on his lap. Scandalous!
Between all of the romance rumors over the past few months, the epic Justin Bieber parody video that they filmed together, and their recent red carpet canoodling, we're getting a total boyfriend/girlfriend vibe from these two.
What do you think of the news? Could Ashley and James just be having fun, or are they coupling off? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
Don't forget to check out HollywoodLife's full story and the super flirty photo they snapped of Ashley and James.
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Katie Holmes either wins a wet T-shirt contest or films a new movie
Katie Holmes sure seems to be having fun. First she popped up at the Met Gala with a fauxhawk and showing a little sideboob, embracing her punk rock side.
Now she's working on a movie in New York City and seems to be having a blast. Holmes stars with Luke Kirby in "Mania Days," and Tuesday (May 21) called for them to film a scene playing around in a fountain at Washington Square Park.
Of course, it could also just be the most clever excuse a director could ever use to get Katie frolicking around in a wet T-shirt. Paul Dalio, the director, seems legitimate though, so it probably has something to do with the story.
In "Mania Days," Katie and Luke play Carla and Marco, two manic depressives who meet in a psychiatric hospital and begin a romance. After this movie, Holmes jumps into her next project, "Responsible Adults," with co-star Chace Crawford.
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Meliar Design are members of tensile structure organisations including Tensinet in Europe and the Fabric Structures division of the Industrial Fabrics Association in America. We are registered developers for both the AutoDesk and Rhino CAD platforms. In the "About MPanel" section of the menu you can find more information about Meliar Design, our customers, and how to contact us.
software is probably the easiest tensile structure design software to learn and use. Operating as a toolbar within AutoCAD or Rhino, MPanel uses simple rules to build models, form find the shape, and create the panels. Using simple rules and procedures helps the designer to develop a feel for the structure, interactively design the desired shape, and then take it through the stages to production. And the model manipulation, viewing, rendering and printing uses the host CAD platform standard methods.
Although MPanel easily designs simple shade structures, it is also used on complicated multi element designs, such as multi peak conics, structures with internal webbing reinforcement, and inflated structures. And MPanel is extensible, there are additional modules that perform structural finite element analysis to predict the stresses involved with wind and snow loads, and a nesting module that arranges the panels for minimum material usage. In the "Online resources" section of the menu you will find tutorial drawings and videos, plus guidance notes, to help both the beginner and the experienced MPanel user.
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