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Making Lives Easier, One Drop at a Time
By Jason Kohn, Contributing Columnist
We often think of technology in terms of flashy gadgets and slick new applications. But the technology with the biggest impact is often more prosaic. It's about using straightforward tools to solve basic problems that make people's lives better.
One of the best examples I've seen of this recently is NextDrop, out of Hubli in the state of Karnataka, India. NextDrop is attacking a problem that affects millions of people in India and in much of the developing world: unpredictable and unreliable water supply.
The company was the brain child of co-founder Emily Kumpel who came to India as a PhD candidate researching water quality, but found that most of her time was spent waiting for the water to show up. This was because in many large cities in India (and elsewhere), the distribution system provides running water but not continuously—only once every three to four days.
"She would never know when it would come, so she'd have to wait at home and hope the water would show up at some point during the day," says Nishesh Mehta, vice president, NextDrop. "She realized that if this was a problem for her, it was probably a problem for a lot of people living in the city."
How it Works
As its core service, NextDrop sends short message service (SMS) texts to alert people when water will be supplied to their area. The system works like this: an employee at the water utility calls NextDrop and uses the company's interactive voice response (IVR) system to enter which area water will be released to and when it will be released. (For example, water will be supplied to Area A in 60 minutes.) The system then automatically generates an SMS to all subscribers living in Area A that they will receive fresh water in an hour. Subscribers pay 10 Rupees, or about 20 cents per month, to use the service.
It may sound like small thing, but it makes a huge difference. With no continuous water supply, people in Hubli must make elaborate plans to make sure they can collect the water they'll need for the next several days – for drinking, bathing, cooking, everything – until fresh supply is released. And if they happen to be away when the water comes, they'll have to find the extra money to buy it.
"If you're a lower-middle-income household, you and your spouse both have to work," says Mehta. "Every hour you miss, you're missing wages. But one of you will have to stay back, and sometimes, you will miss an entire day of work just to make sure you have enough water for the next few days. Thousands of man hours are lost every year as a result of this problem. In terms of the macro effects on the economy, it's a huge drain of resources."
With NextDrop's service, people are free to work, attend school, or run errands without worry. When they're notified that water is on its way, they can run home to collect it, and then get back to their lives.
A Human Smart Grid
NextDrop knows that, while the SMS alerts are helpful, they can't address the underlying issues that create unreliability in the water system—scarcity of water at different times of year and an aging and underpowered distribution system that can't keep pace with demand. Even here though, NextDrop is seeking to make a difference.
In addition to tracking water release times, NextDrop uses the same IVR infrastructure to track reservoir levels and measure how well water supply is keeping pace with demand. The end result is that decision-makers with the utility have a much more accurate picture of what's happening in the distribution system.
If this sounds familiar, it should. NextDrop is effectively creating a Smart Grid, an intelligent distribution system that provides continuous feedback on supply and demand. The only difference is that instead of using wireless meters and sophisticated telemetry systems, the sensors distribution systems, the sensors in the NextDrop system are human beings.
"A lot of system operations in the utility are done through best guesses or estimates, because there's no real-time data," says Mehta. "What NextDrop is trying to do is not just supply information for customers, but connect all of this information, which is actually system operation data, in real time, so that the utility can make data-driven decisions. We may not be able to solve the underlying problems, but we can help utilities optimize the systems they have, even if they can't make huge new infrastructure investments or augment the water source."
And of course, the technology that powers this "human Smart Grid" is straightforward and ubiquitous: SMS, IVR, and cell phones.
"IVR is probably the easiest way for people to input information," says Mehta. "At the same time, in Hubli, and basically anywhere in India and the rest of the developing world, everybody uses cell phones. The telephony is cheap, the SMS services are cheap, it's reliable, and it makes the entire system much cheaper to operate."
Going Global
Today, NextDrop serves 50 percent of Hubli, and is now expanding to other parts of India. But the company has its sites set beyond that.
"We want to take it to Latin America, where we estimate the market would be at least one third of the continent," says Mehta. "In Africa, we could probably serve half the continent. And Southeast Asia, another one third of cities there could use these services. Long term, we'd like to take it everywhere."
With NextDrop's unique approach to solving concrete problems with practical, inexpensive technology, there's no reason to think they won't make a difference on virtually every continent.
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text: In Search of Agriculture''s Promised Land May 6, 2010 07:00 PM Tweet By Mark Mueller Special Report Mark Mueller is a farmer from Waverly, Iowa. He farms about 2,100 acres of corn and soybeans. Starting Monday, AgDay will run a week-long series on the Top Producer Frontier Study Tour to Panama and Brazil. Watch it here. In the past two years I traveled to both Ukraine and central Brazil with the Top Producer Frontier Study Tour. The tour's objective was to assess the potential competition these regions posed to American farmers. In both countries I encountered agricultural expatriates from the United States. Their comments and the inevitable comparisons between these agricultural areas led me to the following observations. My initial thoughts were that Brazil's equatorial climate would trump Ukraine's high latitudes (Kiev is as far north as Winnipeg). Unfortunately, with tropical climates come tropical diseases. Without freezing temperatures to kill its host, treating Asian rust has become a major expense. Soybean growers plan on at least five costly sprayings throughout the growing season. This is another cash outlay for chemicals in a country where operating loans are already hard to obtain. The moist climate also requires harvested soybeans to be run through grain dryers to facilitate long-term storage. Ukraine was once known as the "Bread Basket of Europe". Prior to the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and Stalin's forced collectivization of farms in the 1920's, this part of the world was a major exporter of cereal grains. By the winter of 1932-33, however, famine was widespread and American journalists reported the snow-covered corpses of starvation victims along the roads leaving Ukraine. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the ascent of the independent nation of Ukraine, the collective farms were been broken up. The land was distributed to the former employees, usually in parcels of 5 to 15 acres in size. These new owners can either farm or rent to another farmer but they can not sell their land. The rural areas have seen an exodus of relocations to the larger urban areas (Kiev is one of the fastest growing cities in Europe). I saw the results: vast tracts of idle crop land and abandoned farm villages. Brazil's grain belt is also sparsely populated but is seeing an influx of migrants from crowded regions nearer the coast looking for work. For generations the population and farms were within 200 miles of the Atlantic coast. The only other agriculture was the Amazonian rubber plantations of a century ago. In the 70's large scale farming opened up the country's interior; now Brazil produces and exports soybeans and cotton on a scale that rivals the U.S. Farming communities are boom-towns. Some towns now with 50,000 inhabitants each weren't even listed on my 1999 map of Brazil. In both countries there is a strong trend toward megafarms of a size rarely attained in the U.S., with a few farms reaching 200,000 acres or more. In Ukraine a farmer may have to piece together literally thousands of small parcels with thousands of landlords. Ukrainian politicians say that necessary land reforms would include giving owners the ability to sell their land. Although everyone agrees this is a good idea, it still hasn't happened. Brazilian farmers must raise the capitol to purchase land in a country where credit is scarce. The bartering of soybeans often substitutes for an almost non-existent banking system with land values listed in bags of beans. The Big Differences Infrastructure is a huge difference between these countries. Ukraine has roads, rail lines, canals, utilities and businesses to handle ag commodities. Shipping of farm produce, whether from farm to terminal or seaport to another country involves relatively short distances. Brazil has none of that. Grain, meat or fiber have to travel a thousand miles over dirt roads and inadequate highways just to reach a port where days may be spent waiting to unload. Transportation is the limiting factor. One farmer located at the end of a 15 mile-long dirt road, reported that the truckers who are supposed to haul his grain get better offers from the farms they pass on the way and seldom show up at his fields. Labor highlights other differences. In Ukraine, decades of communism have snuffed out initiative and innovation. The labor pool seems to be powered by vodka. Ukraine is also plagued with employee theft and governmental corruption. One farm I visited had 40 employees, 24 of whom were security guards. Farmers have lost land because someone bribed a local magistrate to facilitate a takeover. It is fortunate that Ukraine's roads are already built since corruption makes a mile of new concrete highway ten times as expensive as in the U.S. I witnessed a soybean field being harvested by nine combines with only two small single-axle trucks and a tractor with a wagon to haul away the grain. As I watched in horror, the combines sat idle while the truck drivers, in a most leisurely fashion, gradually moved their loads out of the field and just as slowly returned empty. The combine operators were also culpable, making no effort to move towards any empty trucks or wagons. With combines, trucks and perhaps even operators loaded, a dozen men were doing the work of three. While all this was happening, in the farmyard sat two of the largest and shiniest brand new semi truck and trailers I had ever seen, unused because there was the potential of getting them stuck if it happened to rain. Brazilians may seem relaxed compared to their American counterparts but they are dynamos by Ukrainian standards. Brazil has had severe unemployment since the 1980's. Agriculture is viewed as the country's salvation by putting millions to work while becoming a global agricultural power. Brazilians work because they are desperate to lift themselves into the middle class. Farmers there have the same social status as doctors in our country. Leafing through the society pages of one Cuiaba magazine, I noticed that many of the glamorous wives pictured were from local fazendas. A "can do" attitude pervades everything connected with agriculture in Brazil. If a farmer needs a road he builds it himself (one farm I visited had over 100 miles of road to maintain). Since the nearest implement dealer could be several hours away, the highest paid employee on some farms is the mechanic who can probably double as a machinist. New meatpacking plants are moving into grain-surplus, livestock-deficit areas. Local farmers will then start raising livestock to which they can feed the grain. After all, when trucking is the chief bottleneck, would you want a semi to haul $4000 of soybeans or $100,000 of boxed beef? I believe the industriousness of Brazilian labor trumps the twin Ukrainian advantages of infrastructure and proximity to ports and markets. Brazilian farmers must cope with tremendous distances and poor roads, but their solution is to grow high-value crops like cotton or turn low-value soybeans and corn into meat. Brazil's farmers haven't conquered Mother Nature but they have brought her around to their way of thinking. Ukraine's farmers will have a difficult time changing the workforce mindset that stifles productivity. A generation of workers raised under communism will have to die off before a competitive work force emerges from those who have come of age under capitalism. Back to news

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Google Ngrams provide a fascinating peak at trending topics over time by allowing us to compare the popularity of expressions in published books. For Halloween this week I whipped up the following sketch of some of Hollywood's favorite monsters:
- Popular vampire movies since the '90s (Interview with a Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Twilight, etc.) helped catapult our leading ghoul.
- Zombies were a little late to the party (they were not part of Universal's 1930s horror cast) but have definitely risen to icon status – the trend line has been moving since the 1960 cult classic Night of the Living Dead, but the impact of recent Zombie TV shows isn't completely felt by the time the data runs out in 2008.
- How much of the Mummy trend line is corrupted by Egyptology?
- Is there any hope for our poor Hunchback and Werewolf? The Phantom of the Opera made such a weak showing that he had to left out. Don't take it out on me Phantom – blame Andrew Lloyd Webber!
- Is the dip in the 1960s due to the thriller/horror/monster genre being taken over by Godzilla and Hitchcock?
- If you think Vampires are a big deal you should check out Witches.
Interested in hearing about what you see – and what monster you're going as on Halloween!
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text: This patchset contains several changes that improve an overalldesign/performance of PPS subsystem. I'd like these patches to bemerged mainline if no one objects.Patches 1-3 are bugfixes.Patches 4-12 are other improvements to PPS subsystem.Patches 13-15 add kernel consumer support.Patch 16 adds parallel port PPS client.Patch 17 adds parallel port PPS generator.You can find description for my previous patchset (it describes patches13-17 in more detailed) here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/24/189This patchset is tested against the vanilla 2.6.36 kernel. But we areactually using it on 220.127.116.11-rt29 rt-preempt kernel most of the time.Those who are interested in other versions of the patchset can findthem in my git repository:git://github.com/ago/linux-2.6.gitThere is one problem however: kernel consumer works bad (if enabled)when CONFIG_NO_HZ is enabled. The reason for this is commita092ff0f90cae22b2ac8028ecd2c6f6c1a9e4601. Without it hardpps() is ableto sync to 1us precision in about 10 seconds. With CONFIG_NO_HZ it isnot syncing at all. This only affects patches 13-15, others are ok.Changelogv3 -> v4: * add patch 12 * fix memory leak when unregistering pps source * don't allow to pass NULL timestamp to dcd_change() to simplify the code because this possibility is never used * decrease SEND_DELAY_MAX from 300ms to 100us because spending 300ms with disabled interrupts is inacceptable while 100us can be tolerated in some setups * integrate Andrew Morton's patch that replaces create_rt_workqueue() with create_workqueue() * fix issues pointed out by Vitezslav Samel, Rodolfo Giometti, Joe Perches, John Stultz and Andrew Morton: * fix possible PPS device freeze due to event counter overflow * add a workaround for a possible race in tty code to the pps-ldisc module; it replaces a previously used workaround in pps subsystem code which was worse because it affected all PPS clients. The problem with the current tty code is that it uses mutexes for locking, but ldisc reference is taken and used in atomic context in uart_handle_dcd_change() so it can't lock mutex and therefore is race-prone. This issue should be discussed I think, but this patch should be ok for now. * override pr_fmt(fmt) to automagically print module names * add comments describing struct pps_normtime * add arch_gettimeoffset() to raw nanoseconds in getnstime_raw_and_real() * use WARN_ON_ONCE instead of WARN_ON in getnstime_raw_and_real() * convert SIGNAL_IS_SET macro in pps_parport to inline function * add documentation for pps_gen_parportv2 -> v3: * add patches 1-11 * add clear_wait parameter to pps_parport * add delay parameter to pps_gen_parport * fix seqlock unlocking * fix issues pointed out by Rodolfo Giometti: * move CONFIG_NTP_PPS to drivers/pps/Kconfig * swap parport client and generator patches * style and typo fixes * move patch that adds unified timestamp gathering to be the beginningv1 -> v2: * fix issues pointed out by John Stultz: * style fixes * add a about the authorship of the original code * replace timespec with pps_normtime struct where timespec is used in a wrong way * fix seqlock usage in hardpps() * unbind kernel consumer on device removal * send raw timestamp instead of the last difference to hardpps() which simplifies the code and is less error-prone * update comments in the kernel consumer code to match the reality * split the patch that adds MONOTONIC_RAW timestmaps into two * other small fixesAlexander Gordeev (17): pps: trivial fixes pps: declare variables where they are used in switch pps: fix race in PPS_FETCH handler pps: unify timestamp gathering pps: access pps device by direct pointer pps: convert printk/pr_* to dev_* pps: move idr stuff to pps.c pps: add async PPS event handler pps: don't disable interrupts when using spin locks pps: use BUG_ON for kernel API safety checks pps: simplify conditions a bit pps: timestamp is always passed to dcd_change() ntp: add hardpps implementation pps: capture MONOTONIC_RAW timestamps as well pps: add kernel consumer support pps: add parallel port PPS client pps: add parallel port PPS signal generator Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt | 2 +- Documentation/pps/pps.txt | 46 ++++ Documentation/serial/tty.txt | 2 +- drivers/pps/Kconfig | 10 + drivers/pps/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/pps/clients/Kconfig | 7 + drivers/pps/clients/Makefile | 1 + drivers/pps/clients/pps-ktimer.c | 44 ++-- drivers/pps/clients/pps-ldisc.c | 70 +++--- drivers/pps/clients/pps_parport.c | 247 +++++++++++++++++ drivers/pps/generators/Kconfig | 17 ++ drivers/pps/generators/Makefile | 9 + drivers/pps/generators/pps_gen_parport.c | 275 +++++++++++++++++++ drivers/pps/kapi.c | 334 +++++++++++------------ drivers/pps/pps.c | 203 +++++++++++--- include/linux/pps.h | 7 + include/linux/pps_kernel.h | 64 ++++- include/linux/serial_core.h | 5 +- include/linux/time.h | 2 + include/linux/timex.h | 1 + include/linux/tty_ldisc.h | 7 +- kernel/time/ntp.c | 425 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 38 +++ 23 files changed, 1502 insertions(+), 316 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/pps/clients/pps_parport.c create mode 100644 drivers/pps/generators/Kconfig create mode 100644 drivers/pps/generators/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/pps/generators/pps_gen_parport.c-- 188.8.131.52


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MWO Jenner Scout Build And DPS Variant
Welcome to my first MWO mech Build. The first MWO mech I am going to cover is the supper stealthy Jenner JR7-D. I have taken this mech two different ways. One way is focused on damage, while the other way if focused on scouting abilities. They both have there places on the battle field.
The first MWO Jenner JR7-D Build
I run 3 Medium Lasers, 1 Anti-Missile, 2 Streak SRM2, Endo-Steel, Ferro-Fibrous, Double Heat Sinks, 3 Jump Jets. With this build I can jump around targets or even get out of danger with the use of the Jump Jets. This build allows for a little more damage with the Medium Lasers, and a good way to lock onto light Mech's is the Streak SRM2. The only bad thing about this build is that unless you win, you are constantly draining Cbills for repairs.
- 113.4 Speed
- 35 Tons
- 25 Firepower
- 1.39 Heat Efficiency
- 179 Ferro-Fibrous Armor
This leads to one little nasty Mech. He harasses and keeps on going. I recommend everyone try this build at least once.
The Second MWO Jenner JR7-D Build
I run 2 Medium Lasers, 1 Tag, 1 Anti-Missile, 2 Streak Srms2, Endo-Steel, Ferro-Fibrous, Double Heat Sinks, 3 Jump Jets. With this build I can run around the map and usually target without having to many issues with missiles. I usually hide as much as possible while finding the highest point to spot from. This only works if you have support to kill the things you spot. The tag only last one shot, so make sure you keep re applying it.
- 113.4 Speed
- 35 Tons
- 20 Firepower
- 1.39 Heat Efficiency
- 179 Ferro-Fibrous Armor
I really love these two build variants for the different types of game play. I use one with friends in Atlas' and the other for running and gunning. The only problem I have with these builds, is witch one I want to run.
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Multiplicious Becomings: tantric theologies of the grotesque – II
"There is something demoniacal or demonic in a line of flight. Demons are different from gods, because gods have fixed attributes, properties and functions, territories and codes: they have to do with rails, boundaries and surveys. What demons do is jump across intervals, and leap from one interval to another."
Gilles Deleuze, Clair Parnet Dialogues II p40
"Busy in making themselves felt, the ganas were the comparitively infinitesmal quantities replete with the impulsion of his presence that swelled the host of the Great God. … The demonism and density of Siva's entourage, which throbbed with the invisible and varied texture of feeling alive, was tinged with grotesque and lugubrious hues."
Stella Kramrisch, The Presence of Siva p395
In the previous post, I examined Karraikal Aimmaiyar – "the woman who became a ghoul" and joined Siva's ganas. This time, I'm going to take a closer look at Siva's ganas – the hooligans of heaven. Continue reading »


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The Chief Rabbinate Council appealed to the Cabinet today to reverse its decision to abolish censorship for Israel's legitimate theater. The Cabinet voted 7-5 Sunday in favor of submitting legislation to the Knesset that would free stage productions from the requirement of obtaining a license from the censorship board.
The Orthodox rabbis claimed that the decision would lead to a "terrible moral decline" and demanded that censorship should be tightened "in these times when permissiveness is eating away at the vitals of our society." The Chief Rabbinate Council also sent a message of condolences to the family of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson. The message referred to Mr. Johnson as "a righteous gentile."


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LEICA X1 18 420 (10 oz/280g). enlarge. I'd get mine online at Adorama, Amazon or Calumet, or locally in California at OC Camera (phone them at (949) 347-1276). Using any of these links to get yours is what helps me keep adding these reviews of less common cameras. Thanks! Ken.
NEU: 29 March 2011: new LEICA X1 firmware.
Far superior: LEICA M9 ünd LEICA M-Lenses.
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The LEICA X1 is a German-made digital point-and-shoot with a half-frame sensor and a fixed 24mm f/2.8 lens. It was announced along with the far superior LEICA M9 on 9/9/2009, and started shipping in in December 2009.
The LEICA X1 uses a 15.7 x 23.6 mm sensor, with which the 24mm lens gives an angle of view similar to what a 36mm lens would see on a 35mm or full-frame camera. This sensor is close to APS' 16.7 x 30.2 mm image size.
While not up to the standards of a full-frame DSLR or the LEICA M9, the little sensor of the LEICA X1 is the biggest sensor ever put in a point-and-shoot digital camera, hallelujah.
It claims to offer technical image quality similar to smaller format DSLRs (meaning not LEICA ), while the X1 should have the slow response of every other point-and-shoot, since it has no reflex system with which to speed viewing and autofocus prediction.
Its top, bottom and dials are made of aluminum, not brass as a true LEICA. The body casting is magnesium.
The lens has an image stabilizer. Other silly features like face-detection and 11-zone AF smell of foreign design input.
The X1 has the same too-short 3:2 aspect ratio of 35mm film cameras and the M9.
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Trade Name: LEICA ELMARIT 24mm f/2.8.
Optics: 8 elements in 6 groups, one aspheric element.
Close Focus: 2 feet (0.6m), 1 foot (0.3m) in macro mode.
Diaphragm: Unknown design, f/2.8 - 1/16.
AF: 1 or 11 points, normal or fast, face detection.
Near-APS class 15.7 x 23.6 mm CMOS sensor
Professional 3:4 aspect ratio, superior to the M9.
Image Sizes
4,272 x 2,586 pixels (12MP) native, JPG and/or DNG.
3,264 x 2,160 (7MP) JPG
2,144 x 1,424 (3MP) JPG and
1,632 x 1,080 (1.8MP) JPG.
AUTO, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1,600 and 3,200.
White Balance
Auto, two gray-card manual settings, and the usual presets of direct sunlight, flash, cloudy and shade.
There is also WB trim in two axes.
Color Space
Image Tweaks
Standard, Vivid, Natural, B&W, Contrasty B&W.
Top, LEICA X1. enlarge.
There is no finder. You use the LCD and hold the LEICA X1 at arm's length.
You can use an outboard passive finder, like the 18 707 LEICA X1 Finder, but you'll see nothing but the image through its glass with no input from the X1.
Metering and Exposure
Exposure: Program auto, Aperture priority, Shutter-priority and Manual.
Meter Patterns: Matrix, center-weighted and spot.
30 - 1/2,000.
Cable release
Frame rate
3 fps, most likely with locked focus and exposure only.
Burst Depth
6 frames.
Self Timer
2 or 12 seconds.
LEICA X1 with flash pod erect.
There is a little built-in flash that pops out of the top of the camera.
There is also a hot shot that works especially well with LEICA SF 24D 14 444 and LEICA SF 58 14 488 flashes.
Modes included are on, off, red-eye, first or second curtain, slow sync.
File Formats
JPG Fine or Super Fine.
DNG raw.
Shoots either or both JPG and DNG at the same time.
50MB is built-in, also takes SD and SDHC cards.
LCD and Playback
Back, LEICA X1. enlarge.
2.7" LCD, looks like it's full-height 3:4 or 2:3 ratio, not squinty 16:9.
230,000 pixels.
The larger 3" LCD of the Olympus E-P1 has the same number of pixels.
Size, Weight and Materials
4.85 × 2.5 × 1.98 inches WHD.
123.19 x 63.5 x 50.29 millimeters WHD.
10 oz. (283g), rated.
Its top, bottom and dials are made of aluminum, not brass as a true LEICA.
The body casting is magnesium.
If all the guts come from the Orient as I suspect, and only final assembly of subassemblies happens in Germany, it's still marked Made in Germany.
Power and Batteries
LEICA BP-DC8 Li-ion rechargeable.
260 shots.
LEICA BP-DC8 charger.
Order Numbers
LEICA X1: 18 420 (painted silver).
Included with the LEICA X1 18 420
Lens cap. Oh crap - do you mean it has an erectile lens and expects me to cap and uncap it, and not to loose the darn thing? Whoops!
BP-DC8 Battery 18 706.
BC-DC8 Charger.
Battery cover — wow!
Leather strap for carrying.
USB cable.
Adobe Lightroom 2 (download).
Optional Accessories
LEICA X1 18 420 with 18 712 grip and 18 707 finder.
LEICA X1 Bright Line Finder 36mm 18 707 ($350 MSRP).
LEICA X1 Hand Grip 18 712 ($160 MSRP).
LEICA X1 Transport Case 18 709 ($170 MSRP).
LEICA X1 Never-ready Case 18 710 ($225 MSRP).
LEICA X1 System Case 18 711 ($270 MSRP).
Flash LEICA SF 24D 14 444.
Flash LEICA SF 58 14 488.
Tabletop tripod 14 10.
Ball head 14 110.
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How the heck should I know, I'm only reading the press information.
I expect technical quality will be excellent, but that ergonomically speed and handling will only be somewhat better than average for a point-and-shoot, meaning far slower than an SLR or the professional LEICA M9.
I love the idea of shutter and aperture dials on the top of the X1, each with an A setting. Just like the Pentax 645N of 1997, all you do is set what you want directly, and set whatever you want the X1 to figure out for you to A. If you set both to A, you get program mode. Brilliant, just as Pentax discovered
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People who've seen it confirm that it's a ladies' camera. It's a camera for the LEICA man's companion, but probably still bigger than she wants to carry while out and about. It's bigger than a D-Lux.
The lens has to pump in and out to turn off and on, just like any other point-and-shoot, but sadly, requires you remove and stow a separate lens cap on your own. There is no automatic lens cap as on other point-and-shoots.
I do like that the LEICA X1 takes a standard neck strap; I find it easier to carry around my neck than draw from a pocket.
I am intrigued by the possibility of superior LEICA usability in the overall ergonomics and menu operation. I'll wait and see.
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I did a brake job on my accord. New wheel bearings, pad clips, rotors and pads. Now every time I hit the brake I get a synchronous thump from the passenger side front when I slow down. When I push light its fine, the harder I stomp, the louder it thumps. Took it apart to see what it could be and the brakes seem to be fine, no uneven wear, no scoring in unusual places. The thing that I wanna know is if it could be something else (transmission, steering rack). I replaced the outer tie rods less than a year ago, the upper ball joints less than a month ago, and the cv axles about a year ago. The passenger side was from a junk yard and the driver side was re manufactured. Bottom line is that it didnt do this before. Im stumped. Anything would be helpful. Thanks.
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Musical Comedy "How Sweet It Is" To Begin Shooting This April
Mar 07, 2012, 13:39 ET from Suzanne DeLaurentiis Productions
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Factory Entertainment Group and Suzanne DeLaurentiis Productions will begin shooting the musical comedy "How Sweet It Is" in late April in Los Angeles.
The film was written by Brian Herzlinger and Jay Black. This hilarious musical comedy focuses on the life of a down-on-his-luck, alcoholic theatre owner named Jack. He is in danger of losing the one thing he cares about most because he is in debt to the mob. However, Jack has one last chance to save his legendary musical theatre, and it all hinges on his new musical production called "How Sweet It Is," which must have a strong opening night. This might not be a problem, except that the mob boss fancies himself a casting director and insists his crony friends and misfits play the parts. Jack doesn't have a choice but to go along with the plan.
Directed by Brian Herzlinger, Produced by Steven Chase, Rick Finkelstein, Suzanne DeLaurentiis, Ivan Kavalsky, Keith Weiner and Matthew L. Weiner. "How Sweet It Is" is slated for a fall release.
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1) Takahashi FC100 (2nd Review, 2013) 5/12/13
2) Takahashi Teegul-60 9/22/13
(100 mm f/8 apochromatic refractor OTA, NLA, replaced by FS102, 102NSV, and TSA102)
I recall a conversation with an old Physics professor:
"Son (he called everyone Son) - you want the least amount of JUNK between you and the sky."
He scribbled a diagram of a Schmidt-Cassegrain on a notepad. "Now you take this here Schmidt-Cassegrain. You got a corrector plate, a primary mirror, a secondary mirror, and a diagonal. That's four pieces of JUNK and we haven't even gotten to the eyepiece yet." He tore off the sheet of paper, wadded it up, and tossed it on the ground. It is fair to say, he was not a fan of Schmidt-Cassegrains.
On top of the next piece of paper he drew a diagram of a reflector. "Now on this here Newtonian reflector, you got a primary mirror and a secondary mirror. That's two pieces of JUNK, and one of 'ems, obstructing the other one." He wadded up this piece of paper (although with slightly less vigor than before) and tossed it on the ground.
On the third piece of paper he drew a ray trace diagram of a refractor. "Now notice how simple this drawing is. You only got one piece of JUNK between you and the sky. The lens - that's it."
He turned towards me and pointed a finger meaningfully at me. "For this reason, and this reason alone, the only astronomical telescope you should ever consider using is a refractor."
There are other reasons, of course, but no other kind of telescope garners the kind of fanaticism that good refractors do (OK, maybe you Questar people belong in this company too.) When someone shows up in the observing field with one, everyone stops and turns to look. For myself, after flirtations with all kinds of different telescopes, I always wind up going back to refractors. It feels like coming home.
Takahashi's amazing FC100
Enter the Takahashi FC100. My old Physics professor would approve. Like other refractors, it only has one piece of JUNK between you and the sky. Although, if you've ever looked at a Takahashi lens cell, JUNK is the last word that will come to mind. Takahashi lens assemblies are works of art. I sold my beloved FS102 years ago and I've regretted every moment of it since. I always vowed I'd get another one, but you know how it is. Life got in the way. After ten long years, I finally decided I was going to stop messing around and I'd get another one. But my - how things had changed in those ten years! The FS102 was replaced by the NSV (New Short Version) and the TSA102. Alongside these models were the TOA130 and the FSQ106. And the new prices were breathtaking. Luckily, I found one of the older FC100s on Astromart and jumped on the deal.
These older FC100 scopes had the fluorite element in the rear (newer models have them in the front.) The FC models include the FC50, FC60, FC76, FC100, FC125, and FCT150. All are desirable and are becoming increasingly rare on the used market. Of all the models, the FC76 seems to be the most common, and even these simple 3" OTAs go for upwards of $1200. There is a lot of debate about old vs new, with many astronomers preferring the older FC models, which are said by some to have superior contrast. This, coupled with their rarity, has bestowed a cult-like following for these FC models. I first visited this model back around the year 2000 (brief review here) in Arizona when some club members visited an astronomy bed and breakfast.
Close up of focuser and 6X30 finder
When the FC100 arrived on my doorstep, I sent an email to the seller thanking him for selling it to me. Then, I drove over to club member Mike T's house. Mike, who loves refractors more than life itself, immediately took it out of my hands and mounted it on his CG-5 outside. Suddenly relieved of anything to do, I sat at the kitchen table and talked to his wife and son. After a while, I wandered outside and found Mike at the scope with a set of University Optics Orthos. I am paraphrasing here, but here are his comments (in no particular order):
"This is so good it should be illegal."
"When are you going to sell it to me?" (three times)
We spent some time looking at Jupiter, and I had to admit, the scope is a killer. It seemed to soak up magnification and every bump in power seemed to reveal more detail. The seeing that night was quite steady, and the planet stayed tight and planted in the eyepiece. The star test was nearly perfect, but did reveal a tiny bit of the anomaly described in the AP175 review on the previous page (I am now taking this as a good sign.) There was a -tiny- trace of false color when we bumped it up to stupid-high powers that no one would ever use.
When Mike T was done with it, the scope went north to Old Dan's place near Concord NH. Dan reported splitting Sirius with it. I am impressed. This feat is nearly impossible up in NH because the star is always so low in the sky, and because we rarely get seeing good enough to split this elusive double. Having a good scope like the FC100 helped.
After a couple of months, I actually got to take possession of my telescope. I've used it on my GM-8 and my CG-5; both mounts hold the scope well. It is an interesting time of the year for planetary observing right now, with Jupiter setting in the west just as Saturn is rising in the east. You aren't sure which one to look at. All the times I've had it out have only verified my initial impression. The scope is a KILLER. Under good conditions, you can just keep pushing the power; the mount usually gives out before the optics do. But most of the time, I found myself just enjoying the views of Saturn with the 7 mm Nagler, and the 6 mm and 5 mm TMB Super Planetary eyepieces (the latter are excellent values, by the way.) Switching to low power with the 26 mm Nagler, I spent some time looking at the winter clusters for the last time this year - M35, M37, M36, and M38. M81 and M82 are nicely framed in the 26 mm Nagler, as are M65/M66/NGC3628 in Leo.
If my house were on fire, this would be one of the first things I'd grab on the way out.
2) Takahashi Teegul-60 9/20/13
(60 mm f/8.33 apochromat, Teegul alt-az mount, NLA)
You want obscure? You've come to the right place! I saw this on Astromart one day and it stopped me in my tracks. I thought I knew a lot about Takahashi lore, but I'd never seen anything like this in my life. Despite having big bills to pay around the house, I immediately responded to the seller (I tried not to look too hard at the price.) When it arrived about a week later, I set it up in the living room and just stared at it. This may be the strangest telescope I've ever reviewed.
Manufactured in the early 1990s, the Teegul 60 was part of a trio of scopes made by Takahashi for the Japanese market. Information is scarce, but the others in the series included 100 mm f/7.7 and a 150 mm f/5.7 scopes, apparently in a modified Cassegrain-Dall Kirkham configuration. All three were sold with a Takahashi's alt-az Teegul mount. Note that this is not a conventional FC-60 mated with a regular Teegul mount; closer inspection reveals that both the OTA and mount are custom made, and made to work together. Like many alt-az mounts, there is a dead spot near the zenith. In late summer, I could not observe Deneb or Vega, for example. Check out the beautifully tapered aluminum tube on the back end. The focuser is helical, with both a rough focus (draw out the whole tube and clamp it) and a fine focus - the arrangement is similar to the old TeleVue Ranger. The drawtube is marked with distances, and has charming drawings like mountains and stars on it. There's a position marking on it if you plan to use a diagonal. The clamp on mine is spelled "CLUMP." Unlike modern Takahashis, the finder stalk is integral to the OTA. In keeping with the light weight philosophy, the lens cap is a simple piece of plastic. The lens cell has no collimation screws or adjustments of any kind.
Takahashi's Teegul 60 (TeleVue diagonal installed. Unlike new Taks, the lime green pieces are steel, not cast iron.
This model was made before Takahashi went crazy with the cast iron. Although the lime green pieces look like the new cast iron Tak parts, they're actually steel, painted green. As a result, the OTA weighs next to nothing, a refreshing change from the bulky doorstops of modern Takahashis. The Teegul's integral tube ring is also steel, and clamps (or "CLUMPS?") shut with a simple friction fit; there are no hinges. Strange, eh? To emphasize that it's a system, "Teegul-60" is printed on the mount itself. There's a threaded black cap on the bottom of the mount that doesn't seem to do anything; club members surmised that it's for hanging weights to stabilize the system.
And it turns out that stabilizing the mount is the biggest issue with the scope. The whole assembly is so light - a kid can easily pick it up with one hand - that any bumps, including using the focuser, will cause the image to jiggle. I'm planning on mounting the OTA on my NexStar or CG-5, but -can you believe this- it's really hard to find 80 mm ID rings these days.
Drawtube has helpful markings on it. The clamp is labeled "CLUMP"
No collimation screws, no retracting dew shield
Finder stalk attaches to tube via a ring. Note the "Teegul-60" logo on the mount.
How are the optics? Outstanding. There's only a trace of spherical aberration, and almost no false color. There's a tiny fringe of purple (if you know where to look) on the limb of the moon, or around bright stars like Vega. How many 20+ year old refractor designs can you name that are still competitive today? The Teegul mount is the limiting factor, and will keep you under 100X for the most part, but for a casual quick-peek scope, 100X is more than enough. The scope's superb contrast allows for deep sky work that might not be possible with lesser refractors. In the summer sky, I had no trouble picking out M81 and M82, for instance. The Dumbbell, Albireo, M13, M92, and M3 are no problem. Even from my light polluted magnitude 4 skies in southern NH, I could just manage to see M65 and M66 with a 7 mm Nagler (71X.) Once I get the optical tube properly mounted, I'm going to try some imaging with it.
I took the scope to a skywatch at the local planetarium. You want to know one advantage of bringing a small scope to a public skywatch? People tend to leave you alone. They generally gravitate to the biggest scope they can find, leaving you in peace to observe. In late summer, under light polluted conditions, I had no trouble finding M8, M22, and M20, barely above the horizon. One person, who knew nothing about telescopes, told me that the view of Albireo was the best he'd seen that night. Chalk it up to that contrasty, sharp refractor magic.
An amazing scope, a solid performer, and a collector's item. The only problem is, now I want more of these old Takahashis - can my savings account handle this?


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SAE International 2013 Slate of Nominees
May 31, 2012, 11:30 ET from SAE International
WARRENDALE, Pa., May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SAE International's Executive Nominating Committee has named nominees for president and four director positions on its Board of Directors.
Officer nominee:
- 2013 SAE International President – Donald Hillebrand, Section Leader, Energy Systems Department, Argonne National Laboratory.
Director nominees:
- Paul Brothers, Chief Operating Officer, Director of R&D, COMP Cams, Inc.
- Arun Jaura, PhD, Vice President of Technology, Head of Eaton India Engineering Center (EIEC), Eaton Technologies
- Louis Kratz, Vice President, Logistics and Sustainment, Lockheed Martin
- Patrick Leteinturier, Senior Principal Automotive Systems, Infineon Technologies AGE
SAE International voting members will have the opportunity to vote on the 2013 Slate of Nominees 01-30 November via the SAE International website (www.sae.org). Those nominees elected will begin their terms on the SAE International Board of Directors in January 2013.
SAE International is a global association of more than 133,000 engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries. SAE International's core competencies are life-long learning and voluntary consensus standards development. SAE International's charitable arm is the SAE Foundation, which supports many programs, including A World In Motion® and the Collegiate Design Series.
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Does anyone know what the name of the large "ACY" font was that the AC&Y used on their boxcars, covered hoppers, and cabooses?
I searched the forum for "font" and didn't get a return, nor did I see a topic that looked like it applied to this, so I figured I'd ask!
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I know of no "font" for the ACY large lettering. All the large "Billboard" cars I made for my current decals were custom designed. Used various photos ,scanning programs and methods to develop the letter sizes. If you look on the "Great Decals" web-site under the ACY listing , I have all the large letter sets available. The big 4427 , 4460, 4600 and 4650 covered hoppers as well as the later paint schemes of the smaller GV-2 and ACF ones.
I also have quite a few of the various " Billboard" boxcars available. Drop me a line , and I can give you info. wade Griffis
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The game is about beating bosses and getting more powerful gear. Until such a time when Blizzard sells that, the in-game store shouldn't do anything to change people's motivation to play.
The game is about beating bosses and getting more powerful gear. Until such a time when Blizzard sells that, the in-game store shouldn't do anything to change people's motivation to play.
However, Blizzard is VERY close to crossing the line. I'm a huge Blizzard fan boy myself but I know foul when I see it. The RMAH in D3 crosses the line in my opinion. Now, keep in mind I actively play D3 (I have a p100). I do however strongly disagree with the rmah. The simple solution is I don't use it, and don't let it bother me. It really works, it sounds so simple, almost too simple, to just ignore the fact that it exists. But I do and it works. I bring this up because Blizzard mentioned they considered the RMAH for MoP but ultimately decided it wasn't right and did the black market AH instead.
As a loyal Blizzard fanboy I have even come to realize, Blizzard isn't the same company it was 5-6 years ago. While you can't buy buffs now, it won't surprise me if you can one day. And I hate it. I really, really, really hate the micro transaction model. It honestly has ruined PC gaming for me. I've been putting off upgrades on my build for about 8 months now because I haven't bought any new games in over a year. It's all free to play microtransaction bullshit. And quite honestly, Blizzard is part to blame, because they started it years ago with the pets and mounts. I don't know when Blizzard started it, but SOE started it with Everquest II in 2008. Alah beginning in 2010-11 you see this model start to really explode. Now in 2013 it's unavoidable.
Probably ranted too much, sorry.
But here's the rub: if they add such things, will they have any incentive whatsoever to do what they recently did and reduce the XP needed to get to level cap in current content tiers? Will they take the XP boost items into consideration when determining how steep the curve is to reach the next cap? Same with the idea of them selling charms. If they do that, would there ever be a nerf to how many are needed for roll tokens, or alternative ways added to get them, or nerfs to how many you get from the in-game ways?
My issue with them selling things like that is not the retail in and of itself, it's them encouraging you to do it by strongarming you with in-game slants. I'm not saying that is what Blizzard will do or would do. But to deny the possibility is just being naive, IMO. And as I've said before, the time to voice concerns is now, before such things get implemented, to try and influence things so they don't go down that road.
Shrug it off all you'd like, every new store item increases that percentage of the game that subscribers can never get without additional cost. That's the most important fact in the discussion, period. If you're willing to overlook that, then good for you, but you're an idiot of a consumer for doing so.
Give it another 3 weeks and no one will even remember that people complained about this.
I wouldn't mind being able to buy some of the TCG stuff from the store. Don't think that's going to happen though
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i dont care about the store but people here are a little blind about one thing
this isn't good for making more content, stop saying that, WOTLK was the most subbed expansion and we got Cataclysm with almost no content
so that reason is wrong, stop thinking about that
The only reason i'm fine about Store is because of the Subs losses it can stop some people from being fired, thats it, now more content? ya right
I see nothing wrong with the idea of the Blizzard store, but what I do find insulting is the pricing they use.
$10.00 USD for a pet, or $25.00 USD for mount? That's outrageous when you only pay $39.99 for an entire expansion pack. You're paying 60+% of the price of an expansion for probably 1/1000th of the content. That's revolting.
Your fact, once again, only takes one variable into account and thus is flat-out wrong.Shrug it off all you'd like, every new store item increases that percentage of the game that subscribers can never get without additional cost. That's the most important fact in the discussion, period. If you're willing to overlook that, then good for you, but you're an idiot of a consumer for doing so.
What you're saying would only be true if they didn't add items into the game. They would be idiots to do that and they most certainly do not. For every item added to the shop in an expansion, there's about five to ten that are added to the game.
If anyone's willing to overlook things, you are.
I think to make a fair argument one would have to show that the things available in game is dropping in a measurable way and the things in the cash shop is growing in a measurable way at the same time.
At the end of the day, the player base determines if it's acceptable to them or not. I suspect, as usual, people are unhappy in learning that they are really the minority of the playerbase and not the majority. If the cash shops turns into a huge success, you absolutely can not blame Blizzard. You have to blame all the players that have too much money and not enough better things to spend it on.
It may be a business move, but it is not a smart one. It is incredibly short-sighted, and was clearly pushed through by someone who knows little of the trends of the Gaming industry. No game with a mandatory subscription has *EVER* found success with microtransactions, and the only reason it hasn't proven to be a bigger issue with Pets and Mounts, frankly, is because most players don't seem that involved with them. I think with the introduction of Transmog items, though, they're affecting people in a much larger capacity -- particularly when it is abundantly clear that Blizzard's artists are putting almost zero effort into the in-game sets.
Then there's the whole issue of the XP Potion. That's not a "frivolous item that doesn't affect game-balance". Quite the contrary; it upsets the balance of the most fundamental aspect of the game. It is a well-known issue that leveling in Mists of Pandaria is more arduous than any Expansion to come before, and rather than exercise better game design, they're going to charge you to play the game that Blizzard is openly admitting is the way they intend it to be played.
If that doesn't piss you off, then this will; they've also mentioned that Lesser Charms of Good Fortune will likely be added as microtransactions. That's right, people with more money will be able to gear out more quickly than you, and you're kidding yourself if you think it's going to stop there. I know this industry, and if someone has managed to push these transmog-helms through as microtransactions, then they have far more dire plans in mind, barring a huge, unified player-backlash. It will probably start with heirlooms being purchasable, followed by removing those Lesser Charms and Heirlooms from in-game. Who knows; Blizzard may just announce "Hey guys, there's already so many amazing pieces of art in the game, we're not going to bother adding any more armor-designs at all! However, out artists have created some amazing new stuff exclusively for the Pet Store!".
This is an MMO with a mandatory subscription. Microtransactions simply cannot co-exist with a mandated subscription cost, and anyone who thinks otherwise is either foolish, or hasn't researched the topic enough. Now, if it's an optional subscription? Maybe. But consider this; WoW how 8 Million subscribers, by last count. What other MMO has even *half* of that? They're going to alienate a lot of players, just to make a few bucks here and there. Whoever made this decision to pursue this needs to be fired; not because it's unethical, but because it is simply poor business-practice, and risks a lot more than it could possibly make up for.
Remember the threads how people think exclusiveness is great.
Now you have exclusive items....for people with money.
I am sure that isn't what the guys preaching against LFR had in mind, seeing some are the same who now hate on the petstore, but I like the irony.


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The Purchasing System of the Financial Management Information System (FMIS) has been implemented at all community colleges, University of Hawaii at Hilo, University of Hawaii-West Oahu, and the Employment Training Center for fiscal year 1999/2000. The Financial Management Office (FMO) purchased FMIS from Software AG of North America to replace the antiquated Fiscal Information System (FIS). FMIS is made up of many subsystems from the original product, plus in-house customized programs. Personnel from business and administrative offices at the community colleges and other sites access FMIS by connecting to the IBM mainframe at UH Manoa via a TN3270 connection.
With the Purchasing System in place, the Central Offices (OPPRM and the Disbursing Office) now have the capability of real-time account verification and budget checking when creating purchase orders. Real-time encumbrances are created against the purchase orders to reflect true account balances.
A Web-based Requisition System was also implemented for authorized field personnel such as secretaries and Principal Investigators. This application was designed with two goals in mind:
The Web application performs account verification and transmits information to the FMIS Purchasing System. The appropriate business or administrative office processes the requisition and if approved, generates a hardcopy purchase order. The business office has the ability to deny processing of the requisition. In this case, the document must be modified and retransmitted.
End-users received training for the Requisition System in July 1999. The Web application has been in production since August 1999 with over 3500 requisitions created via the Web thus far.
Improvements to the Requisition System will continue to be made. Features to look for in the future include:
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Dubai: India's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) is looking to expand its presence in the Gulf region, a senior bank official said.
"We are there in a big way, but Kuwait is the only GCC country where we don't have a branch," Hemant Contractor, Managing Director of SBI told a Kuwait news agency during a visit to Belgium.
The Indian banking sector plays a very important role for trade and finance in the Gulf region and the Middle East and State Bank of India (SBI) is seeking to increase its presence abroad, he said.
He said the UAE is India's largest trading partner in the Gulf and ties between the Gulf region and India are "very, very strong".
SBI recently opened two new branches in the Gulf region -- one in Saudi Arabia and one in Qatar -- as a part of its plans to expand operations abroad.
The bank is present in 34 countries across the world and has 170 branches in those countries. It has 14 branches in Europe, including 10 in the UK and one each in Belgium, Germany and France, along with a representative office in Italy.
The branch in the Belgian city of Antwerp is SBI's fifth largest branch.
Asked about the effect of ban of import of Iran oil to Europe on India's economy, Contractor said, "India does import oil from Iran in a big way and ever since the last one year this has become a major issue because of the restrictions imposed both by the US and now also the EU on import of oil from Iran.
"So, Indian oil companies have tried to find out alternate sources of fuel supply and reduce dependence on Iran. It will involve some pain initially but I think they will have to look at other alternatives for supply of oil. They are tapping other sources in the Gulf."
Dubai: India's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) is looking to expand its presence in the Gulf region, a senior bank official said.


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We've got a big stretch of games coming up for the Wolves and it starts tonight.
Ever since Kevin Love broke his hand doing knuckle push-ups, we've been trying to figure out how this team survives the presumed month he's out healing. If the Wolves can be a .500 team during the month of November, it keeps them deep in the playoff race in the Western Conference. After a 2-1 start, the Wolves have five of the next seven games at home. Tonight's game against Orlando, Friday's game against Indiana, and then three in a row starting Wednesday of next week against Charlotte, Golden State, and Denver. In between, there are two road games against Chicago and Dallas (without Dirk and possibly without Marion).
This is a stretch in which the Wolves really need to win at least four of these games.
Tonight's game against Orlando should be one of those four wins. The Magic came out and shocked everybody by starting the season 2-0. After Dwight Howard was traded for veterans and protected lottery picks, the NBA world started pegging their lottery chances as quite high. But with a team of veterans who want to prove they can win without Dwight, the team has showed us a lot of pride in the first week of the season.
The Magic are currently without Hedo Turkoglu (broken hand), Al Harrington (knee injury) and possibly Jameer Nelson (his legs are falling apart). Those are two potential starters and three definite role players for Orlando. With the Magic down on talent already and missing key players, this is a game the Wolves have to put away early. This is what good teams do, even when they're missing their two best players. Good teams take advantage of the wounded. They don't play down to their competition; they show the competition where it needs to be to compete with them.
I think we'll see more of the same good defense we've seen so far this season (16th in the NBA). But how many mistakes will the Wolves make and how many will Orlando be able to take advantage of? Minnesota has the 11th highest turnover rate as a team and have given up the 11th highest offensive rebounding rate to opposing teams.
These are two things that have to get better. Granted, it's only been one week, but that doesn't mean the team doesn't have things to improve on right away. The rebounding part should be corrected once Kevin Love returns, but if they could sort it out prior to his comeback, it would go a long way toward keeping them in the Western Conference playoff run.
For today's 3-on-3, I've pilfered writers from Hardwood Paroxysm. Noam Schiller makes his AWAW 3-on-3 return and he's joined by Danny Chau. These guys are two of my favorite writers on the internet, especially when it comes to basketball. Noam is also currently rooting for our old friend Craig Smith, who is on Noam's favorite Israeli team Hapoel. Danny is a friend of ours who once wrote up a scouting report on Alexey Shved for AWAY. Now we turn their attention to Orlando and the match-up tonight.
I also brought in Danny Nowell from Portland Roundball Society and formerly of Magic Basketball. Danny was immersed in the Dwightmare for a while before he moved to Portland. I can only assume Danny will one day be signed by this blog, in order to keep our influx of former Portlandia people constant. Also, I really don't want to write about Orlando. That roster troubles me.
Let's do it.
1. I'll be honest: I'm trying to think of things to ask about Orlando and am struggling. So I'll ask this — what is interesting about the Orlando Magic roster?
Noam Schiller, Hardwood Paroxysm: As Trey Kerby would call them, "The Awns". I realize DeQuan Jones and E'Twaun Moore are hardly the sort of household names that put butts in seats, but that's the beauty of a team working with a completely blank slate – unknowns get a chance to shine. So far, Moore has been brighter, shockingly averaging 15 points on 56% shooting while filling in for an injured Jameer Nelson, but Jones had some nice preseason moments and might be that yearly undrafted treat.
Danny Chau, Hardwood Paroxysm: The roster is so devoid of any player remotely close to superstardom, it's endearing. Everyone (except Zach) loves a good underdog story, and it'll almost be fun watching this team scrap for moral victories through sheer egalitarianism. Also, there are myths of a connection developing between Josh McRoberts and Gustavo Ayon, which is basically a dream come true for me. Running a McRoberts/Ayon pick-and-roll is a recipe for disaster in almost all contexts, but on the Magic, it's an avenue worth exploring, because … why not? There's no getting around it: Orlando has a bad roster. But in the limited nature of the team, there are limitless possibilities. And unpredictability can be dangerous in certain combinations.
Danny Nowell, Portland Roundball Society: "Interesting," or good? That Glen Davis is among the lead leaders in usage is ceratinly "interesting," but I'm not sure how much anybody wants to see that. But I have betrayed my college fandom and been won over to the cult or Redick, so I'm enjoying J.J. Unchained. The way he has tailored an entire, well-balanced game around what was essentially one NBA-level skill when he was drafted is just so impressive to me, and his performance so far as more of a focus means somebody is going to push to add him to a playoff roster.
2. At what point does Orlando tell the veterans they're injured and just play the young guys?
Schiller: How about two days ago? Do you really think Hedo Turkoglu can break his hand that fast even with all that pizza padding? Or that Jameer Nelson can strain both his groin and his hamstring even though he's so small they're basically the same thing?
Chau: Ideally? Five hours ago.
Nowell: Well, today's Wednesday, so maybe ask me again this weekend? Orlando's in the unique position of their young players being unlikely core pieces—in essence, there's not even really continuity to consider when weighing whether veterans will help the development of young players. If Jameer Nelson's reported injuries change any more any time soon, we may already have our answer. Just kidding. OR AM I.
3. Andrei Kirilenko can be unleashed on one player in this game. Who do you assign him to harass?
Schiller: J.J. Redick. It's not an easy choice. Sticking Kirilenko on a shooter will greatly limit his ability to roam and block shots, and Arron Afflalo is the Orlando offense's biggest name and top perimeter scorer (Glen Davis is leading the entire team, and while I think AK47 can do reasonably well against him, you probably want Pek to guard him or else he'll be running around the perimeter). The thing is, Afflalo is mostly getting shots for himself, and he'll probably still do that regardless of defense. Redick, on the other hand, already has 19 assists in three games to go with his fairly crazy percentages, and Kirilenko's length and mobility will be a great asset in negating the value of running off all those screens.
Chau: Arron Afflalo had an outstanding game against Chicago, and I'm sure he'll be spending some time on Afflalo regardless, but I'd like Kirilenko on J.J. Redick, who appears to be the Magic's best playmaker with Jameer Nelson and Hedo Turkoglu out. It'll probably be a tedious duty given Redick's proclivities as an off-the-ball shooter, but the team's lack of a true facilitator foists the responsibility on Redick. He makes quick reads while he circles the floor, and many of his successful passes occur immediately after he catches the ball himself. Kirilenko's presence should help obscure some of the passing angles. And if Nelson doesn't return tonight, Redick may have to put the ball on the floor more often, which will fall right into Kirilenko's cold, dead hands.
Nowell: Probably Arron Afflalo. Afflalo had a great game against Chicago, and is still probably the most consistently capable individual scorer on the roster. Redick is a candidate, depending on how much he and Afflalo share the court. Maybe AK could stand in front of Jacque Vaughn all game, so he can't see the players well and has to just guess on plays and rotations.
Game Vitals
Place: Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Time: 7pm Central Time
Viewing and listening pleasure: FS North and you can listen to it on 830 WCCO.
Records: Wolves are 2-1 and Magic are 2-1.
Don't call it a comeback!
After the comeback in Brooklyn a couple nights ago, I'm feeling very good about this team. I'm not sure if it's excitement that will hold through this stretch of games, but the second unit seemed to find their identity and getting guys like Shved and Dante confidence for when they come into the game is a big thing right now. Also, Chase Budinger found his jumper.
Now if we can just have Brandon Roy back on track with his shooting, the Wolves should be in a relatively good place.


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The Linux file-system tree explained.
The standard Linux installation is laid out in various folders that each have a different role to play in the smooth running of a Linux distribution.
The / folder is the root directory of a Linux directory structure. There are the . and .. entries above the / folder, but this is the topmost folder and the root directory parents itself.
The /bin folder contains all of the basic Linux commands that are installed by the GNU Coreutils package such as rm, ls, cp and cat. The commands installed in this folder may be run by any user.
/boot is where the Linux kernel images and associated files reside. Usually they are named vmlinux although they may be named bzImage as well.
/dev The dev directory is where the Linux operating system stores its device files. For example a DVD drive would be /dev/sr0. The device file /dev/null is a bit bucket, files written to this device are immediately erased.
The /etc directory contains the configuration files for the various Linux programs that are installed on your system as well as the configuration for the bash shell and other miscellaneous Linux settings, such as configuring boot scripts and compilation settings in the case of a Gentoo system.
The /home folder contains various subdirectories that contain home folders for each user that is exists on a Linux system. Some users on a Linux machine merely exist to allow various packages to function and do not have a home folder.
The /lib directory contains the various shared libraries used by Linux programs to function. The purpose of a shared library is that code can be shared from the one library to many programs instead of every program needing to include that code themselves.
The /lost+found directory contains files restored after a major system malfunction. Linux will run file-system checks after a system crash and what data can be recovered will be stored here.
On most Linux systems, the /mnt folder will be used to mount various file-systems allowing the data to be accessed. Nowadays the /media folder will be used automatically when a file-system such as a USB drive or hard disk is mounted.
The /proc folder contains a range of virtual files that are representations of the various functions of your Linux machine. There are files such as /proc/meminfo that contain a wealth of information about your computers memory. And the /proc/version file that contains a string of text that tells you which kernel version you are running.
The /root directory contains the home folder for the root user on a Linux system. it is the same as the other home directories under /home, but it is only for the root user.
The /sbin directory is similar to the /bin directory, but it is reserved for system administration programs and you need to have system administration access to be able to run the programs in this directory.
The /tmp folder is the place where the Linux programs store their temporary data. This directory is readable and writable by the normal user and is very useful for creating temporary files when you are performing various Linux tasks.
The /usr directory contains the /usr/bin and /usr/share folders that contain system installed programs and the various resources needed by those programs respectively.
The /usr/local directory is the same as the /usr directory, this is where programs will be installed by default if you are installing from source. It is a good idea to install programs you have compiled yourself into the /usr/local folder and keep the /usr directory for programs installed through the package manager.
The /var directory is a place to store files on your Linux system that will change and be archived over time, such as the printer spools and the various log files such as /var/log. The mail files also reside in this directory. It is a good idea to read the files under /var/log to keep an eye on system activity.
Source: http://www.securitronlinux.com/lc/pocketbook2003.pdf, page 92.


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It seems that Yahoo! Is winning as it made an agreement with Vodafone to provide mobile advertising across Vodafone's entire wireless content network.
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MS has published a KB article about how to remove SQL Compact from a machine with SQL Server 2008 installed (which automatically installs SQL Compact 3.5 SP1 and corresponding Server Tools). Why would anyone want to do this ;-) ?
This blog tries to keep up with everything SQL Compact related, including forays into subjects like Microsoft Sync Framework, Windows Phone and SQL Server Replication
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Because it causes the installation of SS2008 to fail, and yet in some instances cannot be removed from the Add or Remove Programs screen.
Hence why I am passing through your blog :)
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