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Microsoft Campus Tours - Building 4 Refurb
Building 4, one of the original buildings on the Redmond campus, has just undergone a massive refurbishment, transforming it from the traditional one-office-per-employee layout to a modern, open space with an emphasis on collaboration and natural light.
John Snavely from the Office RED team gives us a tour of the new and improved work spaces in building 4 including the bike rack, work shop, Garage and "Soda-TRON 2000".
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I saw one of those Coke machines at Universal Studios Orlando. If only it served Pepsi.
Pepsi?!? Yuch...
Wonderful. And note the slant on the physical technology world going on.
Would like to see how Redmond compares with regional offices.
How much was the refurb to provide a "open collaborative" environment and how much of it was to cram a few more devs in? I'm very skeptical of the benefits of an open workspace. In my experience it means a lot of distraction. Every time anyone in your group has a visitor everyone else has to deal with the chatter. Not very pleasant.
@madscientist: Don't quote me on this as I'll need John Snavely to confirm but I believe there was no increase in the number of people (workers) allocated to the building as part of the refurb. Their goal was simply to use the space more efficiently. You'll notice in the video that there are both open areas for collaboration as well as private offices and individual workspaces.
@LukePuplett: Great idea; perhaps we can get some Campus Tours from campuses around the globe. I know the Sydney, Australia office was just refurbished and it looks great!
@nic: what if you don't like people? Is there a building designed for those of us who would rather be left completely alone?

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Federal prosecutors said Robert L. Schwartz, 70, pleaded guilty last year to mail fraud.
According to court documents, Schwartz helped establish an estate plan and trust agreements for a client in 2003. When the client passed away in 2005, the estate was worth approximately $12 million.
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For years, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been touted as a rising star in the Republican Party, with many luminaries in the conservative press having called on the Garden State's blunt-spoken executive to run for president in 2012. However, Christie has been persona non grata ever since he effusively praised President Obama for his response to Hurricane Sandy, a vital assist to Obama's campaign in the final week of the election. The images of Christie and Obama touring areas ravaged by the hurricane were splashed across cable news and the front pages of newspapers, bolstering Obama's bipartisan appeal. Now, Christie is working overtime to repair his standing within the GOP, a project that could be as daunting as reconstructing the Jersey Shore, says Michael Barbaro at The New York Times:
[B]ehind the scenes, the intensity of the reaction from those in Mr. Christie's party caught him by surprise, interviews show, requiring a rising Republican star to try to contain a tempest that left him feeling deeply misunderstood and wounded…
[I]n the days after the storm, Mr. Christie and his advisers were startled to hear from out-of-state donors to Mr. Romney, who had little interest in the hurricane and viewed him solely as a campaign surrogate, demanding to know why he had stood so close to the president on a tarmac. One of them questioned why he had boarded Mr. Obama's helicopter, according to people briefed on the conversations.
Barbaro reports that Christie even contacted Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, for advice on how to contain the damage. He has also "tried to frame his repeated praise of the president as a virtue," says Margaret Hartmann at New York, "saying he couldn't even think about politics during the crisis."
Christie is "a convenient scapegoat for Romney supporters," says Azi Paybarah at Capital New York, many of whom are unwilling to acknowledge that Romney lost the election for a whole host of reasons that had nothing to do with Sandy. But Republicans, still smarting from Romney's loss, aren't cutting Christie much slack. Some wounds heal with time, but "few conservatives will forget his panegyric praising of the president's 'outstanding' leadership," says Allysia Finley at The Wall Street Journal.


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Services Index Plummets, Points to RecessionBy Reuters - Print
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. services sector retrenched sharply in January to levels not seen since the 2001 recession, renewing fears about an economic slump, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
The Institute for Supply Management's index of non-manufacturing plummeted to 41.9 from 54.4 in December, its largest monthly decline on record and a far greater drop than Wall Street expected. A Reuters poll of economists had produced a median expectation of a slip to 53.0
"The recession has indeed arrived," said Jane Caron, chief economic strategist at Dwight Asset Management in Burlington, Vermont.
A reading below 50 indicates contraction, and bond prices jumped as the figures reinforced investors' conviction that the U.S. economy is already in recession. Stocks sold off.
The employment index fell to 43.9 from 51.8, corroborating last week's dire U.S. payrolls report, which showed the first net monthly contraction in the labor market in more than four years.
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Yao Jui-chung, Recover Main-Land China : Action (1996)
As an outsider the Taipei art scene can be difficult to access. The dearth of information in English and the lack of an international profile – compared to other countries in Asia – can make it appear a mysterious black hole. And perhaps that's precisely the appeal. Amidst the increasing standardization of the global art world, somehow Taiwan missed the brief. As usual it was left out of the loop.
Not officially recognised as a country – after it was abandoned by its allies and booted out of the UN in 1971, as the body instead came to recognise the Communist People's Republic of China – Taiwanese life seems characterised by diplomatic and cultural isolation. I remember living in Taiwan during the SARS epidemic of 2003 when, as Taiwan is blocked from attaining membership of the World Health Organization (WHO), the island was refused medical expertise and information. Eventually the U.N. body sent over an expert, only he became infected with the disease and had to leave. The front page of the newspaper showed a photograph of him walking back to the airplane, dressed in strange protective clothing, looking like a displaced astronaut. Once again Taiwan was left to its own devices.
I've heard it said that the uncertainty of Taiwan's future leads to a kind of nihilism. I first encountered this dark vision when I watched Tsai Ming-liang's feature film The Hole(1998) shortly before I moved to Taiwan in 2000. The film is set in Taipei in the final days of 1999. A strange virus has spread throughout the city causing its infected persons to writhe on the ground in cockroach-like movements. An evacuation order is ignored by the residents of an apartment building who decide to wait out the storm. One of the residents answers a knock at his door to encounter a plumber who has come to check the pipes. The resident leaves to open his small grocery store and upon returning home discovers that the plumber has drilled a hole through his concrete floor. The man begins voyeuristically using the hole to observe his woman neighbour who lives below, but eventually the hole becomes the only means of human interaction the two neighbours have. The film is bleak and claustrophobic, mostly set at night in the city where it seems to never stop raining. But the darkness is broken by occasional jolts into wild and colourful musical scenes, hopelessly nostalgic and desperate in their overexuberance...


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City officials issued a heat alert Sunday as high temperatures are expected to reach the 90s.
It's the first code red heat alert day of 2013.
"Heat-related hospitalizations and deaths are highly preventable," Baltimore City Commissioner of Health Dr. Oxiris Barbot said. "During hot summer days, it's important to stay cool, stay hydrated and stay in touch with your neighbors, especially seniors and the medically frail who live alone or without air conditioning."
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Hangin' with the Prez (on Google+)
In late January, President Obama participated in a Google+ Hangout with five US citizens who grilled him on various issues of personal and national concern.
Let's hit this from a variety of HighTechnocracy angles.
Hot on the heels of a question Obama successfully turned toward his moderately popular tax and student loan policies, President Obama's second question came from Jennifer Waddell from Ft. Worth, Texas (5:53) who asked him why the US government would insist on continuing the popular H-1B visa program despite the fact that engineers like her husband can't find a job.
The President avoided responding to the implicit protectionism in Waddell's question. I don't want to undermine her concern by caging it in illiberal terms like "protectionism," "nationalism," "xenophobia" or other anti-immigrant sentiments. Such concerns are valid. The Waddells are real people living through very real hard times. However, I don't think Waddell sees the causes of her problem the same way I do, which I will explain here.
Obama focused his answer narrowly on the national demand for engineers of various kinds (Waddell's husband is a semi-conductor engineer).Without being direct, Obama made it clear that, basically, there's no reason that Mr. Waddell should be without a job right now. Rather what he tried to emphasize is that the dearth of engineers is a national problem. Maybe Ft. Worth just doesn't need semi-conductor engineers. As President Obama tried to make clear, H-1B visas are only (supposed to be) issued when the employer can't find a US national who meets the required skill set.
And he's right.
Jennifer and her husband have two daughters. I'm sure they love them very much. And maybe they love Ft. Worth too. I haven't been there but I'm sure it's a lovable town, and if nothing else, it's home. The Waddells are a great example of one of the most critical factors in the immigration debate: the fluidity of labor, or it's lack of fluidity relative to other factors. My best guess, and since I'm not the president I can be more direct, is that the Waddells don't want to move where the jobs are. Do you know what immigrants will do tautologically? Move where the jobs are. That's what makes them immigrants! This willingness to move is not just an essential–nay! defining–characteristic of immigrants, it's also highly marketable. The Waddells have every right (and many incentives) not to move. But their failure to move to another state is not the fault of H-1B applicants who are ambitious enough to move to another country. I'm not saying, btw, that these immigrants are somehow more noble than the Waddells. it's all self-interest here and everyone has the right to prioritize their desires in the manner appropriate for themselves.
So there are two questions here: (1)Would Mr. Waddell be unemployed if he were willing to uproot his family and move to where the jobs are and (2)are there really immigrants employed in Ft. Worth doing jobs that Mr. Waddell is qualified for? The first is on the Waddells. The corporations requesting and the government extending H-1B visas when they haven't exhausted domestic pools share the blame for the latter. Specifically, we should keep our eyes on Texas Instruments where some other commenters allege that Mr. Waddell used to work before he was laid off. TI is also, apparently, a lead employer of H-1B immigrants. If that's the case, a study into their legal rationale may help policy makers fix a problem in the status quo.
Immigration is a key component to the continued improvement of the US economy and the sustaining of US dominance in global industry. And central to the US immigration policy has to be encouraging highly educated, highly skilled people from around the world to move here–and stay here. There are bound to be stories like Mr. Waddell's, but such stories have to be kept to an absoulte minimum. Obviously the best number of engineers out of work due to H-1B competition is zero, realistically that will never happen.
Actually quite a bit of the 50 minute, intimate discussion with the president centered or touched on technology. Ramon, one of those in attendance, was a technology consultant for small businesses; one of the questions (from Mr. Patel) was on the Obama administration's extensive use of drones in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (and I would like to add Somalia, Yemen and Mexico); and two questions were on IP, one on SOPA and one–the most popular question–was on the extradition of Richard O'Dwyer.
And even when the President wasn't fielding questions on technology specifically he wasn't afraid to wax technocratic. Why does the US spend so much money on foreign aid when there are homeless vets in the US? Simple accounting, my friend. The recipients of that aid are often allies in the Global War on Terrorism and they spend more helping the US meet its security goals than the US would spend if it had to do those jobs on its own. (Doesn't really explain why those countries would do that, but this isn't my international relations blog so I'll put a pin in that line of commentary). Why should high school students risk college knowing that a job is uncertain and college debt is so high? Simple probabality, friend. A job is uncertain after college, sure, but getting a job is far more unlikely without college. Work hard, plan ahead, and remember that you have to pay off those debts one day, so stay away from the keggers.
But of course the larger technological story here is the Google+ Hangout interview format itself. Obviously Google/YouTube has a commercial incentive to promote such an event.
After a solid start, Google+ hasn't been able to significantly change the social media landscape. Facebook is benefitting (strangely?) from social media inertia: objects at rest on Facebook tend to stay on Facebook. But to cement the digitial lethargy, FB successfully launched several new features that made their site look and act like Google+. On top of that Google policies regarding anonymity and commercial identities crippled the site from really taking off teh way they'd hoped.
The pre-Hangout buzz generated over 1.6 million questions and votes, but the video linked above only has 600,000 views. I say only 600,000 views because on YouTube it is not uncommon for homemade videos of cats on subscription painkillers to top 2 or 3 million. Only 10% of those viewers felt compelled to Like or Dislike the video. That's just over 1% of all Google+ users (as of October 2011) and an even tinier fraction of YouTube users. So did the gambit work? Was Google able to showcase the democratizing nature of the internet with a specific focus on tools it owns? Well, let me ask you, did you even know this event took place? And if so, were you there? Did you "hangout" with the president, did you sit through the 50 minute live netcast?
Did you even click the link now that I've linked it here?
And even if the event had worked, even if millions had tuned in, would we then consider the Google+ hangout to be a social media game changer?
I have my doubts.
The internet's real addition to the economy (without calculating the money suck that are cat videos, Farmville, and "How the World Sees Me" macros) is that it makes communication between groups and individuals faster. (For some industries it eliminates shipping costs, e.g., music and software downloads)
We can say that President Obama was able to reach ~600k voters all over the country (world?) without stepping foot in a plane, train, or automobile. That's a strategic use of the internet, especially in an election year.
On the other hand, the president can only talk so fast and he would have reached far more people if he'd just been on TV. In fact, this hangout took place at the end of January (I know, I'm a slacker) and just a week before he had given the State of the Union Address. Even with a 20% drop in viewers from last year's SOTUS Obama was able to reach ~38 million viewers not counting all the Congressmen, Senators, Secrataries, Supreme Court justices, and other government officials that were in attendance live.
The television was game changing technology, politically-speaking.
Those of us in communications, as I am, tend to argue that venues like SOTUS are one-way: from the president, unilaterally, to the viewers, while the internet is interactive. Certainly, Jennifer had no opportunity to raise her hand and ask the president a question on January 24th. But I didn't get my questions answered during the hangout either. Neither did 599,995 of the YouTube viewers (minimum).
So what is the internet really, seen in this light? Really nothing more than the illusion of interaction. Interaction for some, one-way spectating for the rest. A public affairs windfall, but more democracy? Not in my opinion.
I don't want to underplay the internet more broadly and I remain a technological idealist. But I do think that events of this kind can be overstated in their effects. I'm glad the president continues to take part in them. Sometimes the idea matters most. And certainly even marginal increases in political participation is better than the alternative. But if I had to choose between a congress that didn't propose legislation like SOPA and a president who uses YouTube, I would prefer the former by a large margin.
Presidential Candidates' 404 Pages
He may not be able to tell you the difference between Libya and Uzbekibekibekistan, but that Herman Cain sure can provide you with some internet funnies courtesy of a 404 easter egg on his site.
Other candidates, as the WSJ reports, are doing similar things, but not as much as they should for LOLsakes nor as pointed as Cain's. (See what I did there, with "pointed"?)


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When you are looking at the Kiva website, you might occasionally wonder: "Is that a real person and are they really getting a loan for what they're saying?" How does Kiva make sure their partners are doing what they claim to be doing? They send out over-qualified but eager volunteers who ride hundreds of hours on public transportation, drink countless cups of tea, and meet a randomly chosen sample of the borrowers you see on kiva.org. We're called Kiva Fellows, and this activity is known as a Borrower Verification, or in Kiva lingo, a BV.
There are many excellent posts about BVs by other fellows:
Why is there a gringo in my house and is he leaving soon?
Pakistan: Remarkable Women in Remarkable Places
How do you know Maria in Peru is really buying a sewing machine?
And the prize for the scariest blog about BVs: The Bridge: Between Life and Dead
My storytelling abilities are a work in progress, but I do like to count. I started a count when I began my BVs, and now that I'm almost done, I wanted to share them with you.
Borrower Verifications:
2 sets of 10 borrowers each, one set for Juhudi Kilimo and one set for KADET
Hours in the Field: 140
Hours on Public Transport (of the 140): 85.5
Days in the Field: 15
Missed Lunches: 15
Tea and bananas from a borrower: 5
Milk for tea came from borrower's cow: 3
Matatus (minibus): 30
Buses: 7
Public Taxis: 7
Boda Bodas (motorcycle taxis): 22
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Taxis: 9
Flat Tires: 1
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Kenny Rogers Songs: 13 (one was Kenny and Dolly together)
Kenny Rogers Ringtones: 2
Camels on side of road: 3
Things stolen from me: 1 camera
Wonderful people I met: Too many to count
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Discussion in 'Photos' started by tarvis pastrami, Jul 17, 2010.
riding west yellowstone with fellow ADV'er...
Frazier Mountain
Sequoia NF...
Stanislaus NF
xt600e, going vertical =)
Northern Calif. single track near Shasta
This is more like double track. Har, har.
Soverign single track
No breaking down here.:jose Bandito's everywhere.
Some of my favorites
Fugawe Trail
Pics shot in southern spain. Location and guide: http://endurofun.motorradreporter.com/
Briggs Creek Trail
SW Oregon
Quartz Creek
SW Oregon
A couple more from Colorado. You'll have to look closely in the first photo to find all of the singletrack:


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Provides Mail support to a running Grails application Plugin Collection
44% of Grails users
compile "org.grails.plugins:mail:1.0.7"
This plug-in provides a MailService class as well as configuring the necessary beans withinthe Spring ApplicationContext.It also adds a "sendMail" method to all controller classes. A typical example usage is:sendMail { to "[email protected]","[email protected]" from "[email protected]" cc "[email protected]", "[email protected]" bcc "[email protected]" subject "Hello John" text "this is some text"}
The Grails 3 Mail plugin is located here -- https://bintray.com/grails/plugins/org.grails.plugins:mailTo install the mail plug-in just run the following command
grails install-plugin mail
Mail Plug-inThe mail plug-in provides e-mail sending capabilities to a Grails application by configuring a Spring MailSender based on sensible defaults.There is a screencast showing how to use the basic features of the plugin (v0.4)
UsageThe mail plug-in provides a MailService that can be used anywhere in your Grails application. The MailService provides a single method called sendMail that takes a closure. In addition the sendMail method is injected into all controllers to simplify access.An example of the
sendMail method can be seen below:
Or if you're using the service directly you can use:
sendMail { to "[email protected]" subject "Hello Fred" body 'How are you?' }
To send HTML mail you can use the
mailService.sendMail { to "[email protected]","[email protected]" from "[email protected]" cc "[email protected]", "[email protected]" bcc "[email protected]" subject "Hello John" body 'this is some text' }
html method instead of the
body method:
If your HTML is contained within a GSP template you can use the render tag called as a method (available in controllers and tag libraries):
sendMail { to "[email protected]" subject "Hello John" html '<b>Hello</b> World' }
If you wish to render a mail body from a GSP view from anywhere in your application, including from services or jobs where there may or may not be a current request, you can use the new body method variant (v0.4):
sendMail { to "[email protected]" subject "Hello John" html g.render(template:"myMailTemplate") }
The view is the absolute path (or relative if you have a current controller) to the GSP. The plugin parameter is optional - if you need to render a template that may exist in a plugin installed in your application, you must include the name here. The model parameter is a map representing the model the GSP will see for rendering data.In this case the content type will be auto-sensed - use the GSP page contentType directive to set the content-type to use in the e-mail. The default is text/plain so you must include this at the top of the GSP for a HTML email:
sendMail { to "[email protected]" subject "Hello John" body( view:"/emailconfirmation/mail/confirmationRequest", plugin:"email-confirmation", model:[fromAddress:'[email protected]']) }
Note however that due to a limitation of the underlying Spring APIs used, XHTML content type text/xhtml will not result in a correct XHTML email.This plugin also accepts emails in the form "Bill Gates<[email protected]>". This allows you to specify the sender display name in mail clients.
<%@ page contentType="text/html"%>
Multiple recipientsYou can send mail to multiple recipients (in either of 'to', 'cc' or 'bcc') at once.
There is a pitfall when using a
sendMail { to "[email protected]","[email protected]" subject "Hello to mutliple recipients" body "Hello Fred! Hello Ginger!" }
List for storing the recipients. You'll have to invoke
toArray when providing it to the builder, like this:
If you forget the call to
sendMail { to issue.watchers.email.toArray() subject "The issue you watch has been updated" body "Hello Watcher!" }
toArray , Groovy will convert the list (even a list with a single entry) to a
String (the same way it does on the interactive console). The result will be something that is not a valid email address and you'll face
javax.mail.internet.AddressException .
AttachmentsSince version 0.9 attachment support has been improved. It is possible to have both, email body and multiple attachments. In order to activate multipart support, the 'multipart true' must be the first element in the closure passed to the sendMail method, e.g.:
See also GRAILSPLUGINS-1175.
sendMail { multipart true to issue.watchers.email.toArray() subject "The issue you watch has been updated" body "Hello Watcher!" attachBytes "Some-File-Name.xml", "text/xml", contentOrder.getBytes("UTF-8") //To get started quickly, try the following //attachBytes './web-app/images/grails_logo.jpg','image/jpg', new File('./web-app/images/grails_logo.jpg').readBytes() }
AsynchronousThe plugin can send mail asynchronously (the mail is sent on a different thread, and the sendMail message returns instantly, not waiting for the mail to be actually sent). In order to send asynchronously, 'async true' must be in the closure passed to the sendMail method, e.g.:
sendMail { async true to "[email protected]" subject "Hello John" html g.render(template:"myMailTemplate") }
ConfigurationBy default the plugin assumes an unsecured mail server configured at
localhost on port 25. However you can change this via the
grails-app/Config.groovy file. For example here is how you would configure the default sender to send with a Gmail account:
And the configuration for sending via a Hotmail/Live account:
grails { mail { host = "smtp.gmail.com" port = 465 username = "[email protected]" password = "yourpassword" props = ["mail.smtp.auth":"true", "mail.smtp.socketFactory.port":"465", "mail.smtp.socketFactory.class":"javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory", "mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback":"false"] } }
And the configuration for sending via a Yahoo account:
grails { mail { host = "smtp.live.com" port = 587 username = "[email protected]" password = "yourpassword" props = ["mail.smtp.starttls.enable":"true", "mail.smtp.port":"587"] } }
If your mail session is provided via JNDI you can use the
grails { mail { host = "smtp.correo.yahoo.es" port = 465 username = "myuser" password = "mypassword" props = [ "mail.smtp.auth":"true", "mail.smtp.socketFactory.port":"465", "mail.smtp.socketFactory.class":"javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory", "mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback":"false" ] } }
jndiName setting:
You can also set the default "from" address to use for messages in Config using:
grails.mail.jndiName = "myMailSession"
This will be used if no "from" is supplied in a mail. You can also disable mail delivery completely in certain environments by [email protected]@:
// Since 0.2-SNAPSHOT in SVN grails.mail.default.from="[email protected]"
This is useful for certain environments where you don't want mails to be delivered such as during testing. Another useful setting often set per-enviroment is @[email protected] lets you override the email address mails are sent to and from:
You can also adjust the size of the asynchronous mail sending thread pool. This size is the maximum number of threads that can send mail concurently. By default the value is 5 - so there could be 5 emails being sent asynchronously at the same time (if any more are sent, they will be queued). Note that is only used when sending mail asynchronously.
grails.mail.overrideAddress="[email protected]"
CloudFoundry configuration using SendgridYou must bind the sendgrid service to the application and run the Sendgrid initial configuration wizard by going to the Sendgrid Dashboard via CloudFoundry.Add these dependencies to BuildConfig.groovy
Configuration to Config.groovy
compile "org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-cloudfoundry-connector:1.1.1.RELEASE" compile "org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-spring-service-connector:1.1.1.RELEASE"
def cloud try { cloud = Class.forName("org.springframework.cloud.CloudFactory").newInstance().cloud } catch(e) { } if(cloud) { // configure sendgrid SMTP sender grails { mail { def smtpServiceInfo = cloud.getServiceInfos().find { it.class.name == "org.springframework.cloud.service.common.SmtpServiceInfo" } host = "smtp.sendgrid.net" port = 587 username = smtpServiceInfo.userName password = smtpServiceInfo.password props = ["mail.smtp.starttls.enable":"true", "mail.smtp.port":"587] } } }
- Attachment support
- Support for multiple parts
- Support for MailSender artefact and sendMail(with: 'defaultSMTP') {..} for multiple smtp servers
- Inline images
- etc.
- If an installation failed because of unresolved dependencies ...
(like "javax.activation#activation;1.1: not found"
… check if mavenCentral() is uncommented in your BuildConfig.groovy
- If you face
javax.mail.internet.AddressExceptionerrors referring to "Illegal address in string" or "Missing ']' in string", it could be that you try to send to a
Listof recipients, which is not supported by the plugin. See 'Multiple recipients' above for information how to deal with that.
- If you call sendMail in a service class rendering a gsp template, you may realize that the plugin is rendering the template as text/plain instead of html. To solve this issue you have to put in your gsp <%@ page contentType="text/html" %> or <%@ page contentType="text/xhtml" %> without setting the encoding


text: Born in Cape Town, South Africa, progressive singer/songwriter Yoav was interested in music from a young age. An avid songwriter by his teens, Yoav dropped out of college and spent a year in London shopping a demo of his songs around, to little label interest. Then, a call from his cousin, who had passed the demo along to a producer in the United States, brought Yoav to New York City, where he began playing local gigs. Around the same time, Yoav became increasingly influenced by electronic music and the club/dance culture that surrounded it. Looking to infuse his more traditional singer/songwriter compositions with this electronic vibe, Yoav discovered a more rhythmic, percussive way of playing the guitar and began writing music this way. Yoav moved to the U.K. in 2006 and began shopping his new tracks around to different labels, eventually signing with Field Recordings. He released his debut album, Charmed & Strange, in 2008. Foolproof Escape Plan followed in 2010. ~ Matt Collar


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Quick Specs
Gas Mileage 21 mpg City/28 mpg Hwy
Engine Gas I4, 2.0L
EPA Class Compact
Style Name 3dr Cpe SVT
Drivetrain Front Wheel Drive
Passenger Capacity 5
Passenger Doors 2
Body Style 2dr Car
Transmission 6-speed manual Getrag transmission
EPA Classification Compact
Weight Information
Base Curb Weight (lbs) 2551
Interior Dimensions
Front Head Room (in) 39.3
Second Leg Room (in) 37.6
Passenger Capacity 5
Front Hip Room (in) 49.4
Front Leg Room (in) 43.1
Second Shoulder Room (in) 53.7
Passenger Volume (ft³) 93.8
Second Head Room (in) 38.7
Front Shoulder Room (in) 53.7
Second Hip Room (in) 49.5
Exterior Dimensions
Width, Max w/o mirrors (in) 66.9
Liftover Height (in) 26.1
Wheelbase (in) 103.0
Track Width, Rear (in) 58.5
Height, Overall (in) 56.3
Length, Overall (in) 168.1
Min Ground Clearance (in) - TBD -
Track Width, Front (in) 58.8
Cargo Area Dimensions
Trunk Volume (ft³) 18.6
Fuel Economy
Fuel Tank
Fuel Tank Capacity, Approx (gal) 13.2
EPA Fuel Economy Est - City (MPG) 21
EPA Fuel Economy Est - Hwy (MPG) 28
Performance Specs
Displacement 2.0L/121
Engine Order Code NA
SAE Net Torque @ RPM 145 @ 5500
Fuel System MPI
Engine Type Gas I4
SAE Net Horsepower @ RPM 170 @ 7000
Trans Type 6
Third Gear Ratio (:1) 1.33
Clutch Size (in) - TBD -
Drivetrain Front Wheel Drive
First Gear Ratio (:1) 4.44
Sixth Gear Ratio (:1) 1.08
Trans Description Cont. Manual w/OD
Fourth Gear Ratio (:1) 1.08
Final Drive Axle Ratio (:1) 2.88
Trans Order Code NA
Second Gear Ratio (:1) 2.67
Reverse Ratio (:1) 2.640
Trans Description Cont. Again Getrag
Fifth Gear Ratio (:1) 1.33
Seventh Gear Ratio (:1) NA
Disc - Front (Yes or ) Yes
Rear Drum Diam x Width (in) NA
Brake Type Pwr
Rear Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) 11.0 x - TBD -
Disc - Rear (Yes or ) NA
Brake ABS System 4-wheel
Drum - Rear (Yes or ) NA
Front Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) 11.8 x - TBD -
Lock to Lock Turns (Steering) - TBD -
Steering Type Pwr Rack & Pinion
Turning Diameter - Curb to Curb (ft) 34.3
Steering Ratio (:1), Overall 16.0
Turning Diameter - Wall to Wall (ft) - TBD -
Spare Tire Order Code NA
Front Tire Order Code NA
Spare Tire Size - TBD -
Front Tire Size P215/45R17
Rear Tire Order Code NA
Rear Tire Size P215/45R17
Spare Wheel Size (in) - TBD -
Front Wheel Size (in) 17 x 7
Spare Wheel Material Aluminum
Front Wheel Material Aluminum
Rear Wheel Size (in) 17 x 7
Rear Wheel Material Aluminum
Suspension Type - Front (Cont.) w/Coil Springs
Stabilizer Bar Diameter - Rear (in) 0.83
Suspension Type - Front MacPherson strut
Shock Absorber Diameter - Rear (mm) - TBD -
Suspension Type - Rear (Cont.) NA
Suspension Type - Rear SLA Control Blade
Stabilizer Bar Diameter - Front (in) 0.83
Shock Absorber Diameter - Front (mm) - TBD -
Safety Features
Air Bag-Frontal-Driver Yes
Air Bag-Frontal-Passenger Yes
Air Bag-Passenger Switch (On/Off) No
Air Bag-Side Body-Front No
Air Bag-Side Body-Rear No
Air Bag-Side Head-Front No
Air Bag-Side Head-Rear No
Brakes-ABS Yes
Child Safety Rear Door Locks No
Daytime Running Lights No
Traction Control No
Night Vision No
Rollover Protection Bars No
Fog Lamps Yes
Parking Aid No
Tire Pressure Monitor No
Back-Up Camera No
Stability Control No
Other Features 4-wheel anti-lock braking system
Driver & front passenger Second Generation airbags
Front manual shoulder belt system w/adjustable D-ring,...
Rear outboard manual lap/shoulder seat belts w/3-point center...
Child safety seat anchors/tethers (rear outboard seats)
Interior emergency tailgate release
Dual note horn
Driver & front passenger Second Generation airbags
Front manual shoulder belt system w/adjustable D-ring,...
Rear outboard manual lap/shoulder seat belts w/3-point center...
Child safety seat anchors/tethers (rear outboard seats)
Interior emergency tailgate release
Dual note horn
Basic Miles/km 36,000
Basic Years 3
Corrosion Miles/km Unlimited
Corrosion Years 5
Drivetrain Miles/km 100,000
Drivetrain Years 5
Roadside Assistance Miles/km 36,000
Roadside Assistance Years 3
Other Specs
Cooling System
Total Cooling System Capacity (qts) - TBD -
Cold Cranking Amps @ 0° F (Primary) 540
Maximum Alternator Capacity (amps) 110
Wt Distributing Hitch - Max Trailer Wt. (lbs) NA
Dead Weight Hitch - Max Trailer Wt. (lbs) 1000
Wt Distributing Hitch - Max Tongue Wt. (lbs) NA
Dead Weight Hitch - Max Tongue Wt. (lbs) 100
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Okay, so I'm just gloating here but, Scott M. Fischer and his wife, Teresa, invited us up to a barbeque since we were in their neigborhood. It turned into a great gathering of artists and their (more sensible) significant others, with tons of amazing food and lots of show-and-tell:
Tiffany Prothero and Dan Dos Santos looking at proofs of Jon Foster's upcoming art book.
Melissa Ferreira, Jon Foster, and Dave Seeley looking at Greg Manchess' paintings. Tiffany and Christina Dos Santos looking at Scott Fischer's Peter Pan drawings.
Get more than three artists in one room, then someone is bound to pick up a brush. Here is the impromptu collaboration of: Cyril Van Der Hagen, Scott Fischer, Greg Manchess, Jon Foster, and Dan Dos Santos. AKA: Scott Van Foschessantos.


text: Microphone stands are arguably the most important accessory on any stage. Giving singers a place to rest their microphones when not in use, they also allow those who are playing other instruments to contribute vocals with ease. With a variety of different mic stands to choose from, you'll easily be able to find the one that is right for you, as well as the ones that are right for the rest of the band. When looking around for microphone stands, it's good to know the different styles available to you. You can get a fixed boom stand, a telescopic boom stand, stands with solid bases, and stands with tripod bases. Each style of stand offers its own benefits. For example, boom stands can be great for singers who are also playing another instrument such as keyboards or drums. They can easily be angled to pick up great sound without getting in the way of the performance. On the other hand, microphone stands with solid bases are incredibly sturdy, making them ideal for high traffic areas or high octane performances. Finding the perfect stand will go a long way in maximizing your performance. Once you find the style of stand that works for you, you need to ask yourself just how many microphone stands you're going to need. Are you a solo project? Just you and your guitar or piano? Then you may only need a single stand such as the Die-Cast Mic Stand from Musician's Gear or the Heavy-Duty Euro Boom Mic Stand from On-Stage Stands. If you need more than one microphone stand, there are several package deals that include enough stands for everyone in the band and then some. Purchasing in bulk can be a sure fire way to know you'll always have a stand available to you. In the end, you'll quickly be able to figure out the style of microphone stand that works best for you. These stands are valuable for any musician. Keeping your mic safely cradled can help you focus on your performance, so you can put on memorable shows every time you hit the stage.


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Cotswold neighborhood is a popular blend of both 50's and 60's quality built ranches – many expertly enlarged and upgraded by some of Charlotte's finest contractors – and boasts beautiful new homes built to the highest standards.
Talking about newer built Cotswold homes, the statistics are that in the heart of Cotswold, the average sales price of homes built since 2005 is $852,700 featuring on average nearly 4200 sq ft.
Part of the charm of Cotswold is the unique variety of homes styles found on every street. Nothing cookie-cutter here! Rather, each home reflects the evolution of trends and custom design, which make this neighborhood a joy to cruise through slowly. Generations of families have loved living in Cotswold, and still do! Although Cotswold is considered by long-time Charlotteans as Old Charlotte, the renovated, upgraded, and new homes that predominate offer the best of both!
Custom builder Kelly McArdle Construction has a strong presence in Cotswold, both remodeling and new construction. They are happy to provide past client testimonials from in-neighborhood owners.
Location is always an important factor, and Cotswold neighborhood is extremely well located. Driving times to Uptown Center-City are quick and easy. So is access to South Park Mall. Even closer, neighbors can walk to Cotswold Village Shops. One of Charlotte's earliest suburban malls, it contains a wonderful variety of stores, restaurants and services. For example this Cotswold Marshalls store is known for its offerings of higher end clothing lines and funky gifts. And the wine and beer section within Harris Teeter is exceptional!
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James wrote:That's actually a pretty darn cool picture, Lady Wu!
I was pretty shocked by what I saw, too. I don't really recall seeing the sky like that in Vancouver before, at least not at that shade of red. It was pretty surreal. I'm glad that some of that red made it into the photo!


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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Label: drawing, event, exhibition
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
mari menjahit
Thursday, July 14, 2011
for ARTCARE
Label: artwork
Thursday, July 7, 2011
fancy frenzy
Label: artwork, water color
(gambar yang dibuat beberapa saat sebelum hamil, mungkin ada firasat, hehehe)
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
'Jaga Tanah Ini', Arya Pandjalu, 2008
Ade Darmawan | Arya Pandjalu | Agung Kurniawan | Angki Purbandono | Abdi Setiawan | Agan Harahap | Beatrix Hendriani Kaswara | Caroline Rika Winata | Dian Ariyani | Dona Prawita Arissuta | Eko Nugroho | Erik Pauhrizi | Gintani Nur Apresia Swastika | Iswanto Hartono | Laksmi Shitaresmi | Moelyono | Maryanto | Octora | Popok Tri Wahyudi | Ruang Rupa | Restu Ratnaningtyas | Sara Nuytemans | Syagini Ratna Wulan | S. Teddy D. | Terra Bajraghosa | Ugo Untoro | Uji Handoko | Wibowo Adi Utama | Wimo Ambala Bayang
Opening: Thursday, 7 July 2011, 7.30 PM
The essential relationship between humans and animals assumes many cultural forms throughout the world and is a dominant theme in the discourse of contemporary art, particularly in Indonesia.
Indonesia's cultural history prior to the period of colonialism is rooted in animism and shamanism, in which myths about humans and animals flourished and were embraced in a civilization that was influenced by many beliefs and religions. The meanings of these mythological human/animal hybrids that often assumed roles as trusted protectors, gods, and vehicles for humans, and the animals that are venerated by humans, and the humans who imitated animals, have often undergone changes over time. Some of these figures have become used as symbols of critical commentary of the social and political life in contemporary Indonesia. The Art Exhibition BEASTLY 2011 (tentative) will present the works of three generations (80s, 90s and 2000s) of artists who use their media to express idioms that illustrate the relationships between humans and animals throughout history. The variety of these artists' works demonstrates the general phenomenon of how these concepts are visualized with humor, thus opening alternative spaces for new unique meanings regarding the relationships between humans and animals.
This exhibition also features articles by Heru Hikayat, which was the inspiration leading to this appreciation of the relationship between humans and animals.
This exhibition designed by Cemeti Art House will be opened on Thursday, July 7, 2011, and be open until July 30, 2011.
Label: event, exhibition
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But he was cleared of more serious charges over a bomb attack on the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta in 2003.
Ba'asyir, who was jailed for two-and-a-half years, had denied the charges and is expected to appeal.
Australia, which lost 88 people in the Bali attacks, said the relatively lenient sentence was "disappointing".
"We are disappointed with the length of the sentence," Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told the BBC.
A spokesman for the US embassy in Jakarta also expressed disappointment at the sentence "given the gravity of the charges on which he was convicted".
At the end of the court case, a statement read out by the five judges said Ba'asyir had not been directly involved in carrying out the Bali blasts, but had given his approval for the attacks.
Ba'asyir addressed the court after his sentence was delivered, saying: "I don't accept this verdict. This is not justice. God protect us from evil and its allies. Please, either open their hearts or destroy them."
He reportedly smiled broadly as he was led out of court, while his supporters climbed onto chairs with chants of "God is greatest".
The BBC's Rachel Harvey in Jakarta says it was always going to be a difficult and complex case for the prosecution to prove.
Their case was undermined when witnesses gave contradictory testimony, and a former US State Department interpreter gave evidence that appeared to back up the defence's claims that the trial was a result of US pressure.
Our correspondent says the atmosphere in the court swung from one extreme to another as the verdict was read out.
The announcement that Ba'asyir would not be convicted of the Marriott hotel attack - which killed 12 people, including a suicide bomber - was greeted with cheers by his supporters.
But they protested as he was found guilty of the Bali bombings.
The cleric was convicted over the Bali bombings under ordinary criminal legislation, rather than the harsher anti-terror laws, which were only brought in after the 2002 attacks.
A statement by the court said Ba'asyir was aware of the conspiracy behind the Bali bombings.
"The defendant knew that the perpetrators of the bombing were people who have been trained in bomb-making in Pakistan and Afghanistan... the conditions of evil conspiracy have been met," the statement said.
'Al-Qaeda ties'
Prosecutors who accused Ba'asyir of inspiring both the Bali and Marriott attacks had pushed for a jail sentence of eight years.
He was, however, jailed for immigration violations.
Police rearrested him in April 2004, as soon as he left prison, citing new evidence linking him to JI.
The US has alleged JI has ties to Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.


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Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship by Tom Ryan is published by William Morrow. It tells the story of my adventures with Atticus M. Finch, a little dog of some distinction. You can also find our column in the NorthCountry News.
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In Person
Angie Markle
Long Beach, California
Car enthusiast, middle school English teacher
How did you end up modifying cars on the weekends?
My husband surprised me with a 2001 Ford Mustang GT. Modifying it was something fun we could do together.
How do students react to your weekend hobby?
It's a great way to connect with students who assume they have nothing in common with their girly-girl teacher.
Best reaction?
I've been alerted by campus monitors that there's been an incident involving my car, only to walk out to the parking lot and find students taking cell pictures of it.
Ever had students or co-workers show up at a car show?
Yes! When they show up I spoil them with exhibitor goody bags and a VIP tour. They also get to meet all the celebrities, like Courtney Hansen from Spike TV and Chad McQueen, Steve McQueen's son.
Any interesting car stories?
I came out of the grocery store one time to find the late comedian Bernie Mac admiring my ride. And some college students once asked to film me doing a burnout for a film project.
—Erica Addision
Jim Carter
Dayton, Ohio
Radio DJ "Rev. Cool," K–3 literacy specialist
You've been on the air for more than 25 years. How do you avoid burnout?
The history of American music is one of constant change, and I'm always finding new and exciting things to share with my listeners. My focus these days is a mix of upbeat and high energy music from around the world.
How did a White guy end up helping expose Dayton to hip hop, punk, and reggae?
I try to keep an open mind and an open ear.
Are you really a reverend?
Yep, legally ordained and licensed to perform marriages.
If stuck on a desert island, what three artist's albums would you want with you?
Bob Marley, Hank Williams, and Tito Puente!
Ever use your work as Rev. Cool in the classroom?
Actually, I use a lot of what I learn in my classroom to make my show better.
Elisha Ankri
Brooklyn, New York
Magician, elementary physical education/health teacher
What gave rise to "The Great Benjilini"?
My mother attended a magic show in Israel while pregnant with me. The magician performed the "linking rings" trick, then flung the rings into the crowd. One hit her. From then on I've been a magician!
Do you incorporate magic into your classes?
Every day before my students leave the gym, I perform a trick. They love assisting me because it makes it real to them.
Where else do you perform?
Other schools, hospitals, fundraisers, and for politicians. From birthday parties to entertaining my fellow magicians at our annual conventions. In short, I have tried my best to make people smile!
Favorite trick?"
The "Linking Rings," of course!
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There are many books that celebrate the earth and show you how to keep the earth clean and healthy. If you want to learn more about Earth Day, check out these books at your local library or book store:
Celebrating Earth Day (Circle the Year With Holidays), written by Janet McDonnell and illustrated by Diana Magnuson.
Clifford's Spring Clean-Up, written by Norman Bridwell.
Earth Day, written by Linda Lowery and illustrated by Mary Bergherr.
Earth Day, written by Willma W. Gore.
Every Day Is Earth Day: A Craft Book (Holiday Crafts for Kids), written by Kathy Ross and illustrated by Sharon Lane Holm.
For the Love of Our Earth, written by P.K. Hallinan.
Gover's 10 Terrific Ways to Help our Wonderful World, written by Anna Ross and illustrated by Tom Leigh.
Just a Dream, written by Chris Van Allsburg.
Keeper of the Swamp, written by Ann Garrett and illustrated by Karen Chandler.
Mother Earth, written by Nancy Luenn and illustrated by Neil Waldman.
Mr. Garbage, written by William H. Hooks and illustrated by Kate Duke.
Pollution? No Problem!, written by David Morichon.
Tanya's Big Green Dream, written by Lida Glaser and illustrated by Susan McGinnis.
365 Ways for You and Your Children to Save the Earth One Day at a Time, written by Michael and Pat Hilton.
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Traces of the ancient Romans follow one after another along this route, which follows the longest river in North Rhine-Westphalia. Beginning at the location where Hermann defeated the Roman armies, the route moves on to museums and sites of former Roman camps, and brings the history of the Romans to life. The river was once the lifeblood of this region. Water and its usefulness for mankind is a constant feature of the route: from 'Odin's eye' at the source of the river to swimming lakes, river meadows, canals and locks. Along the way you pass through varied landscapes in the Teutoburg Forest, the Münsterland, Sauerland and Ruhr regions.
Terrain: flat and family-friendly route that follows the Lippe river on asphalt or crushed brick/stone paths. Detours are possible on the themed trails branching off from the main route.
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My husband asked how long I'll leave it like this and I tell him, "Until I miss it". Or until this weekend when some friends are coming over to visit. With all of the things I have to do everyday along with all of the images I see on a regular basis, this has given me such a sense of peace and after a week and a half I still don't miss anything yet.
The other nice thing is when I do take out all of my knick knacks and decorations, I can think of new places to put them. I would definitely recommend giving this a try, it's better than buying a bunch of new stuff.
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I do this as well - Unfortunately the visual noise always comes back again sooner than I'd like! I'm looking forward to a larger place where the visual noise ( ornaments basically ) can be more dispersed and I can appreciate it again.ReplyDelete
This is such a good idea--I realised which things I loved and which I didn't when we moved. I packed up the knick knacks quite early and i realised that most of them I was keeping because someone had given them us rather than because I loved them--gave me some perspective definitely.ReplyDelete
Love the view in the first picture, the simplicity and how open and fresh it looks. Could imagine this to remain this way - absolutely my style. I hardly ever buy any decoration stuff, but like to use my necessaries as decoration.ReplyDelete
this is brilliant!ReplyDelete
When you put all knick knacks (nice word) away, you realized what you are missing most and what you miss is important, rest -can stay in a cabin. I do this cleaning once a while. Looks nice as a empty. Have a nice week!ReplyDelete
a wonderful idea! empty it is awfully reassuring every now and then. all the best from austria, annieReplyDelete
I think this sort of 'interior purification' is very good and helpful to refocus and reconsider some interior decoration decisions:-) I should do that too!ReplyDelete
Some years ago I did the same thing and it is just like you're saying... I appreciated things differently when I put them out of closets and boxes again...ReplyDelete
Oh, I thought that you are moving ;) What a nice idea - like a fresh start after putting everything away first! BTW - love the font, what is it?ReplyDelete
I love the cupboard in picture 3. Where is it from?ReplyDelete
i love this! i would do the same, but i'm the complete opposite...i can never decide where to put things so our walls & shelves are just completely bare all the time! either i need to get over my indecision, or get some cuter knick knacks like yours! :)ReplyDelete
Amazing. I love this so much. Your home is beautiful both ways.ReplyDelete
thanks for the inspiration, I think I am in need of this as well!ReplyDelete
this is brilliant!!! you have beautiful walls. I seriously want to do this!ReplyDelete
the thought behind this is great! love how it shows all the clean lines & gives a sense of visual serenity. makes me also think of keeping our place clutter free... well, minus the studio space. ;)ReplyDelete
This is such a great ideaReplyDelete
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As you can see, this is a very multi-dimensional nail polish. (Don't you love how I've photographed this fantastic nail polish atop my dull grey sweatpants? LOL). Depending on how the polish catches the light, it can look green, gold, purple, or pink. In these pictures I'm wearing 2 coats, and hadn't yet applied a top coat. The first coat went on surprisingly thick, and looked more greenish. (could've stopped at one coat) Then with the second coat, the purple came out more. I love how smoothly it went on, and how dense the sparkle is. It's not a big chunky glitter, but rather, a fine shimmer that is so pretty. It didn't try super fast... pretty average in terms of drying time.
- Cupcake is laying on her back, arms outstretched, on my lap- as I type this.
- Cupcake fell into the bathtub today. I don't think she's as excited about water as she once was!
- I spent most of yesterday evening/night trying to upload my latest YouTube video. Turns out there were issues with my Macbook Pro & our old wireless router. Got a new one today & it's all good now!
- The Rams are going to lose the football game.
- Had a blast with the twins (Tyler's sisters) when they stayed the night Friday. Going to attempt a "twin tutorial" over Thanksgiving weekend if there's time.
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Why There Is a Demand for Liberty Reserve's Services
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In a free society with a market-driven economy, payment privacy and payment finality are legitimate and useful features of a currency physical or digital. To believe otherwise is to submit to the erroneous notion that full, involuntary financial transparency should be the norm and that a cashless society is a noble goal.
By default, Federal Reserve-issued physical cash comes with payment privacy and payment finality. Therefore, cash is a problem to regulators because the flip side to payments privacy is the ability to determine which transactions are seen by the watchful eyes of governments and to store wealth privately.
In a recent BankThink post, American Banker Executive Editor Marc Hochstein points out that "the anonymity-bashing has begun" and that the Feds wrongly demonize privacy in the Liberty Reserve case. Where was the Liberty Reserve government affairs lobbying team and would it have mattered? Also, why did U.S. prosecutors wait 12 years to move on a service provider that had been around since 2001?
These types of enforcement actions can also be viewed as seminal events along the ultimate trail to full cash eradication. Brandished as unnecessary and dangerous, the $100 bill is continually under attack by regulators and in Europe the fabled 500-euro note is more like the monetary unicorn: Many have heard about it but few have seen it.
Once troublesome physical cash is finally eradicated, any digital currency with privacy and irreversibility attributes will be next for scheduled termination. In the case of Liberty Reserve, It's not the individual infractions committed by clients of Liberty Reserve that are worrisome to the regulators, it's the fact that a semi-reliable platform for private payments existed in the first place.
Liberty Reserve provided a service that had a true market demand from legitimate business sectors and from non-criminals, notwithstanding the governments claim that virtually all its business was illicit. If banks and traditional financial institutions still respected basic client privacy and facilitated some form of digital payments that did not always involve harmful reversibility to the merchants, then companies like Liberty Reserve wouldn't even be necessary. In some jurisdictions, the act of not respecting your client's privacy is a punishable event, subject to serious jail time.
In addition to transactional privacy (or anonymity), payment finality is important here. Many users of digital currency systems probably wouldn't object to revealing their identity if they could obtain payment finality. Otherwise known as irreversible payments, or payments without chargebacks, payment finality is required for a large number of merchant categories that aren't serviced by traditional payment methods. Liberty Reserve satisfied that demand as well.
Naturally, merchants would prefer that all sales were final. But for some merchants, finality is a protection against cardholder fraud. As an industry that suffered a high degree of customer disputes, online gambling is instructive because when certain customers lost in the casino and "changed their mind," it became necessary for these merchants to accept only payment methods with finality.
Gold bullion and coinage is another merchant category that experiences an abnormally high percentage of customer credit and debit card fraud so these merchants are either ignored by the card networks and PayPal or they are charged significantly higher processing fees. To protect themselves, merchants require payment finality or irreversible payment methods. That means using only international wires or services like Liberty Reserve.
Referred to as digital gold, decentralized Bitcoin is also an irreversible payment method. But, bitcoin (small "b") is also the measured unit of account within the overall Bitcoin payment network similar to the LR-USD and LR-EUR units of account within the Liberty Reserve system. The notable difference being that bitcoin is a nonpolitical unit of account whereas LR-USD and LR-EUR were anchored to the respective political units of account.
In the early days of bitcoin, exchangers and sellers of the currency suffered because Visa MasterCard and PayPal blocked any transactions involving the acquisition of bitcoin, and for good reason. The purchasing of an irreversible instrument is simply not a good match for a payments industry that offers transaction repudiation, merchant chargebacks, and also has to absorb losses from counterfeit cards. To get their money to the Bitcoin exchanges, customers were forced to rely on expensive international wires and the services of Liberty Reserve. This was done more for the payment finality reasons than any desired anonymity.
Other business sectors that benefit from payment finality include online casino gaming, sports betting, lotteries, adult services, pawn shops, credit repair services, debt settlement services, and virtual currency exchanges that involve the trade of other negotiable instruments or the loading of prepaid cards. Although operating as legal businesses in many jurisdictions, these merchant categories have typically been labeled as high-risk and subsequently restricted by the payment networks. Liberty Reserve filled the market need left by the larger payment networks.
Liberty Reserve also extended into the foreign exchange trading world, as a means of paying independent brokers who signed up clients for forex trading firms, and in some cases as a deposit option for client accounts. In these cases, the Liberty Reserve payment system acted as an international wire service for regions of the world that were totally ignored or blockaded by SWIFT and the international banking system.
Masroor Ghoori, a foreign exchange broker and analyst in Pakistan, told the website Forex Magnates, "Forex brokers have been benefiting from Liberty Reserve's vast access as a payment provider, especially in countries where traders face difficulties in transferring funds. Liberty Reserve was a 'gift' for several traders, especially after the State Banks' (State Bank of Pakistan) changes to international money transfers."
Widely used by foreign exchange traders where domestic central banks restricted bank transfers to foreign entities, such as in Malaysia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Argentina, and Brazil, Liberty Reserve thrived as the preferred payment method. It offered traders a fast and cost effective funding method.
Clearly, identity is not the entire agenda. Any payment service offering payment finality must be "in the system," because according to the government, payment finality cannot be left to the free market. In the U.S., the government is the final arbiter of what transactions may or may not be reversed and it wants mandatory account identification because it facilitates the targeted enforcement. In the physical world with cash and gold, the power is exercised via seizure and confiscation. In the digital world with electronic accounts, the power is exercised through transaction reversals and account suspensions. At its essence, Liberty Reserve was an electronic value transfer service where payment finality was provided by the operator without judgment.
Choice in currency is a freedom of speech issue. Failing to recognize that fact only serves to strengthen the entrenched payment oligarchies and to undermine personal liberties in the transactions environment.
Today, voluntarily exiting the digital banking system has become a popular method of attaining a relative degree of financial independence and safety. Expect to see a lot more of these voluntary exits especially since the free market has been mostly stripped of digital payment finality and "Cyprus-ed" has become a verb.
Jon Matonis is an e-money researcher and crypto economist focused on expanding the circulation of nonpolitical digital currencies. His career has included senior posts at Sumitomo Bank, Visa, VeriSign and Hushmail. Currently, he serves on the board of the Bitcoin Foundation. Follow him on Twitter @jonmatonis.


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While all eyes were on Japan this week at the Tokyo Game Show, where cosplay is almost as big a draw as the games themselves (at least on the weekend), those engaged in the art elsewhere quietly had one of the most impressive weeks we've seen in a while here on Fancy Pants.
Seriously. If you like Korra, Mass Effect, Tekken, Zelda, Catherine, Alice, Diablo III or Saints Row III, you should probably check these out.
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Determining Whether a DLL or EXE Is a Managed Component
This article was an afterthought. There was a question asked in the CodeGuru forums dealing with a way to determine whether a given DLL/EXE is built as managed or not, and, in addition, to know the .NET framework the DLL is reliant on. All this programatically, of course. Given a DLL, I could make a guess whether it is a COM DLL or not (by querying for DllRegisterServer, DllGetClassObject, and such exports). This was much more intriguing because, unlike other kinds of FLLs/EXEs, the managed code had to run within the .NET runtime environment, and so, the loader has to know well in advance that it is a managed component and do the necessary tasks to prepare the managed code to execute. This article is a byproduct of the quest for an answer to that question and several other questions that came up in the process.
The question itself can be broken up into two parts:
- How do we know, given a file, that it is a .NET managed component?
- Given a .NET managed component, how do you know what other assemblies (indirectly the framework version) it is dependent on?
Let me deal with each of these questions in that order.
This is how it all started. The first thing I attempted was to look at what the dependent DLLs were. I fired up a sample managed DLL in depends.exe (dependency walker). It's just one import from one DLL _CorDllMain from MSCOREE.dll for DLLs and _CorExeMain from MSCOREE.dll for EXEs. What about all the code for the classes the assembly exposes? If you are familiar with .NET, you will know that all this is put into the assembly as metadata and the runtime uses this metadata for the actual action. So, no exports whatsoever, no imports whatsoever. Surely, the loader is doing something. The DLL has all the information, but it is not exposed in a traditional way (exported functions). There is a level of indirection and there should be some way to get to the metadata.
The next thing that came to my mind is Microsoft's PE file format. Having played with it sometime before and having seen the loads of information in there, I decided to take a peek again at the PE structures to see whether there was anything that could take me in the right direction. (Pretty much all the basic PE file format structures are "document"ed in WinNT.H.) I opened this file, and sure enough; there was some information that could possibly be it. It was called the CLR 2.0 header structure. A little research on the Internet gave me the confidence that I was headed the right direction.
PE Header
So, basically this is it. There is a PE structure like the one below; it has headers followed by sections of data. The PE Headers has NT Headers (IMAGE_NT_HEADERS in WinNT.h) that encapsulate optional headers (IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER in WinNT.h). The Optional Header has an array of IMAGE_DATA_DIRECTORY entries called DataDirectory. The IMAGE_DATA_DIRECTORY entry actually points to the actual location of the data within the PE file (called module when loaded). The entry you are interested in is at index IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_COM_DESCRIPTOR. This entry is what points to the .NET information. If this entry exists and the VirtualAddress field points to a valid area within one of the Sections following, it means the component is a managed component.
The following image shows the basic structure of how the metadata can be reached.
All this can be translated into the following code that given a path to the file. It will return TRUE if it is a managed component and FALSE otherwise.
BOOL IsManaged(LPTSTR lpszImageName) { BOOL bIsManaged = FALSE; //variable that indicates whether //managed or not. TCHAR szPath[MAX_PATH]; //for convenience HANDLE hFile = CreateFile(lpszImageName, GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ,NULL,OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,NULL); //attempt the standard paths (Windows dir and system dir) if //CreateFile failed in the first place. if(INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE == hFile) { //try to locate in Windows directory GetWindowsDirectory(szPath,MAX_PATH); _tcscat(szPath,_T("\\")); _tcscat(szPath,lpszImageName); hFile = CreateFile(szPath, GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL,OPEN_EXISTING,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL); } if(INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE == hFile) { //try to locate in system directory GetSystemDirectory(szPath,MAX_PATH); _tcscat(szPath,_T("\\")); _tcscat(szPath,lpszImageName); hFile = CreateFile(szPath, GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL,OPEN_EXISTING,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL); } if(INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE != hFile) { //succeeded HANDLE hOpenFileMapping = CreateFileMapping(hFile,NULL, PAGE_READONLY,0, 0,NULL); if(hOpenFileMapping) { BYTE* lpBaseAddress = NULL; //Map the file, so it can be simply be acted on as a //contiguous array of bytes lpBaseAddress = (BYTE*)MapViewOfFile(hOpenFileMapping, FILE_MAP_READ,0,0,0); if(lpBaseAddress) { //having mapped the executable, now start navigating //through the sections //DOS header is straightforward. It is the topmost //structure in the PE file //i.e. the one at the lowest offset into the file IMAGE_DOS_HEADER* pDOSHeader = (IMAGE_DOS_HEADER*)lpBaseAddress; //the only important data in the DOS header is the //e_lfanew //the e_lfanew points to the offset of the beginning //of NT Headers data IMAGE_NT_HEADERS* pNTHeaders = (IMAGE_NT_HEADERS*)((BYTE*)pDOSHeader + pDOSHeader->e_lfanew); //store the section header for future use. This will //later be need to check to see if metadata lies within //the area as indicated by the section headers IMAGE_SECTION_HEADER* pSectionHeader = (IMAGE_SECTION_HEADER*)((BYTE*)pNTHeaders + sizeof(IMAGE_NT_HEADERS)); //Now, start parsing //First of all check if it is a PE file. All assemblies //are PE files. if(pNTHeaders->Signature == IMAGE_NT_SIGNATURE) { //start parsing COM table (this is what points to //the metadata and other information) DWORD dwNETHeaderTableLocation = pNTHeaders->OptionalHeader.DataDirectory [IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_COM_DESCRIPTOR]. VirtualAddress; if(dwNETHeaderTableLocation) { //.NET header data does exist for this module; //find its location in one of the sections IMAGE_COR20_HEADER* pNETHeader = (IMAGE_COR20_HEADER*)((BYTE*)pDOSHeader + GetActualAddressFromRVA(pSectionHeader, pNTHeaders,dwNETHeaderTableLocation)); if(pNETHeader) { //valid address obtained. Suffice it to say, //this is good enough to identify this as a //valid managed component bIsManaged = TRUE; } } } else { cout << "Not PE file\r\n"; } //cleanup UnmapViewOfFile(lpBaseAddress); } //cleanup CloseHandle(hOpenFileMapping); } //cleanup CloseHandle(hFile); } return bIsManaged; }
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Steve Bishop, Φ III, 2011.
Stadium is a new event and exhibition space in Chelsea. The inaugural exhibition, "Performance Anxiety," featuring four artists, Steve Bishop, Ben Schumacher, Chris Chiappa, and Timur Si-Qin, opened on November 10 and runs until December 20, 2011.
"Performance Anxiety" was curated by artist Nicolas Djandji, who tragically passed away in a bicycle accident in September. A number of his friends took the research he conducted in the last few weeks of his life and grouped in order to finalize the administrative tasks necessary to complete the show and fabricate new works by artist Steve Bishop, Ben Schumacher, and Timur Si-Qin.
The artists featured in "Performance Anxiety" all deal in their works with the consumer culture of bodily self-improvement. Using quotidian products—deodorant, mouthwash, Vitamin Water—their works show how a trip to the pharmacy can tell us something about the way we live today and our value systems. From the press release:
Here, the notion that the pursuit of athletic, hygienic, and professional perfection should be sought through the constant purchase of new products is cast into doubt. Through a series of works arresting these normally utilitarian, performance-enhancing products in sculpture, Performance Anxiety waxes upon the paradoxical, collectively shared desire of the present-day individual to become superhuman–physically fit, sexually attractive, and immaculately groomed—by way of altering the body's chemistry and obscuring its most basic functions. Contextualizing these items as aesthetic elements rather than functional goods, each artist carves a meditative space reflecting upon the absurd modus operandi of these products.
A press release so intelligently written—that speaks specifically to the artists' works and practice while tying them in with the exhibition's theme and art historical traditions—is rare. And it seems that as a space Stadium is embarking on an ...


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With an IP67 resistance rating, this camera is completely sealed from dust and water, and can stay submerged for over 30 minutes at a time. It sends 2MP images or streams 720p or 1080p HD video to your smartphone for a detailed exploration, and is also compatible with your desktop to provide a bigger view.
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