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Almost two long years have passed since the official end of H7 development, which makes the situation around it clear: There is no chance we would get any more add-ons... in the official way at least.
Since that critical moment, we've been working on our Wryn Pendragon: Umbramancer Project. Finally, here comes the first Open BETA version, launched on August 24th.
What can you be eagerly anticipating every single moment during the upcoming three weeks before that Day D comes?
- Brand new Xel faction with its own town, creatures and heroes
- Over 30 new creatures including the return of powerful dreaded bosses
- Special game mechanics: Alchemy skill enabling you to create your own potions
- Specially developed Dynamic Weather System, making every combat different and challenging
- Three singleplayer campaigns, set in a brand new world Mondalar
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You can read there the whole background story and explore all the details of new features, as well as the BETA itself!
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Here is your open thread for the final game of the weekend. You know the drill.
Pittsburgh at Denver (CBS): It is being reported that Denver plans to switch to Brady Quinn if things get ugly early for Tim Tebow. Oh, ye of little faith. Now is when Denver decides to switch things up? What are you gonna do if you win the Super Bowl, Foxy, not believe it until you lay hands on the Lombardi Trophy?
The Broncos, obviously, are right because they realize what we all know: The Steelers are hobbling in to town on crutches and it will still take an actual miracle for the Broncos to win with Tebow at quarterback.


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US federal boffins, in charge of archiving colossal streams of data from automated sky-scanning telescopes around the world, are pleased to announce their new "Project Deep Sky" astro data cloud portal thing.
Ah - that's what it was! Some stars
The database in question is the astronomical one run by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center, handled by computer boffins at the Lawrence Berkeley jolly-difficult-physics lab.
"The whole concept of this project is to efficiently streamline access to massive amounts of data on NERSC's computers, basically providing a nice portal to astronomy data that we have acquired over the years," says Peter Nugent of the Computational Research Division of the Berkeley lab, Deep Sky project lead.
According to the Berkeley IT team, right now 8,000 large astronomical images stream into the NERSC files every night: and the number and size of these increases all the time as more sophisticated telescopes and instruments come on line. According to the data boffins, their NERSC Global File (NGF) system's contents rose through 100 terabytes last year and will pass one petabyte (1015 bytes*) by 2011. For Project Deep Sky, much of this info had to be got off previous, unsearchable tape archives and processed so that different pictures of the same piece of sky could be accurately overlaid.
"One of NERSC's overriding goals is to help scientists store, process, manage, search and retrieve the ever-vaster data sets that are being produced in almost all areas of science," says Cecilia Aragon of the Berkeley Data Intensive Systems Group, software lead for Deep Sky.
Apparently it's very handy to be able to overlay or cross-reference lots of pictures of the same piece of sky, as it lets you discover transient objects like supernovae, passing asteroids etc. It can also let a crafty skywatcher detect otherwise invisible or hard-to-spot static objects, as photons pile up over time in an aggregated image - so revealing light sources which would otherwise be invisible.
"Co-adding a variety of pictures of the same piece of sky not only allows us to better see faint objects, it also allows us to spot changes in the sky. If a bright spot has moved from one image to the next, it could be an asteroid, comet or planet; if a spot appears in a few images and then disappears, it could be cosmic event like a supernova," says Nugent.
The Berkeley computer brains say they have a prototype of Deep Sky up and running - the full system is expected to go live "later this year". There's more from them here, and more detail on NERSC's IT systems can be seen here (pdf). There's also more from Nugent here. ®
*Or 250, some say. The Berkeley people don't specify.


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Internet security is a broad term that refers to the various steps individuals and companies take to protect computers or computer networks that are connected to the Internet. One of the basic truths behind Internet security is that the Internet itself is not a secure environment. The Internet was originally conceived as an open, loosely linked computer network that would facilitate the free exchange of ideas and information. Data sent over the Internet—from personal e-mail messages to online shopping orders—travel through an ever-changing series of computers and network links. As a result, unscrupulous hackers and scam artists have ample opportunities to intercept and change the information. It would be virtually impossible to secure every computer connected to the Internet around the world, so there will likely always be weak links in the chain of data exchange.
It's easy to tell when the web site you are viewing is using an encrypted connection. If the connection is encrypted, the lock icon in the lower-right corner of the Browser/Navigator window is locked. If the connection is not encrypted, the lock icon is unlocked. You can also look at the browser URL Address line and check that the URL starts with https: (as opposed to the normal http: (note the "s" at the end indicating "Secure").
Trusted by organizations throughout the world, SecureTrust 256-bit SSL certificates provide the highest level of security and quality available in industry. Please roll your mouse over the Secure Site Seal below to see the Site Security Certificate. Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL (pronounced as separate letters), is a protocol which is used to communicate over the Internet in a secure fashion.
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Your personal data is fully encrypted to protect you from unwanted use of the personal information. We do NOT store your credit card information. You will need to provide your payment details each time you will process the order although you can retrieve your personal details such as name and shipping addresses as well as billing address when you return to the store.
How can you tell if a web site is secure? It uses encryption technology to transfer information from your computer to the online merchant's computer. Encryption scrambles the information you send, such as your credit card number, in order to prevent computer hackers from obtaining it en route. The only people who can unscramble the code are those with legitimate access privileges. You can tell when you are dealing with a secure web site in several ways.
Of course, transmitting your data over secure channels is of little value to you if the merchant stores the data unscrambled. You should try to find out if the merchant stores the data in encrypted form. If a hacker is able to intrude, it cannot obtain your credit data and other personal information. Be sure to read the merchant's privacy and security policies to learn how it safeguards your personal data on its computers.
Providing your Social Security number is not a requirement for placing an order at an e-commerce web site. There is no need for the merchant to ask for it. Giving out your Social Security number could lead to having your identity stolen. (See PRC Fact Sheet 17, "Coping with Identity Theft,"
Every reputable e-commerce web site offers information about how it processes your order. It is usually listed in the section entitled "Privacy Policy." You can find out if the merchant intends to share your information with a third party or affiliate company. Do they require these companies to refrain from marketing to their customers? If not, you can expect to receive "spam" (unsolicited e-mail) and even mail or phone solicitations from these companies. You can also learn what type of information is gathered by the web site, and how it is - or is not - shared with others. The online merchant's data security practices are also often explained in the Privacy Policy, or perhaps a separate Security Policy.
Given all of these uncertainties, you will want to think about the sensitivity of the data that is being compiled about you when you shop online. We cannot prescribe the best approach to take. Each consumer has a different interpretation of what is considered "sensitive."
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Don't click on any link embedded within a potentially suspicious email. Instead, start a new Internet session from the beginning by typing in the link's URL into the address bar and pressing "Enter" to be sure you're directed to a legitimate web site. Identity thieves send massive numbers of emails to Internet users that ask them to update the account information for their banks, credit cards, online payment service, or popular shopping sites. The email may state that your account information has expired, been compromised or lost and that you need to immediately resend it to the company.
Consumers using some brands of credit cards can get "virtual credit cards," or single-use card numbers, that can be used at an online store. The randomly generated substitute 16-digit number can also be used to buy goods and services over the phone and through the mail but can't be used for in-store purchases that require a traditional plastic card. With this free service, you never need to give out your real credit card number online. Among the card companies offering it are Citibank and the Discover card.
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Imagine a journey where by day you explore romantic vineyards, lavender plantations and olive groves, and by night you'll soak in twinkling vistas under clear skies. While this drive is easily completed in two hours, it's far more fun to take your time and enjoy some of Southern Queensland's gastronomic greats on this Grapes and Gourmet Trail.
This journey carries you through an abundant landscape stretching from Blackbutt, to the Booie Range and the Bunyas. Revealing a buffet of produce tended by passionate locals. Foodies can indulge in local artisan morsels and home-made fresh produce, while wine lovers will discover a host of award winning varietals in this developing wine region.
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Start your journey in Blackbutt, a town rich in history and heritage and framed by native flora and mountain views. Cosy accommodation can be found at a Wiikirri Retreat and don't miss the annual Avocado Festival, a vibrant celebration of agriculture, the beauty of the country side and the local creative community.
Continue the journey to the peanut capital of Queensland, Kingaroy, and visit the Peanut Van which has been serving road trippers and locals since 1969. Food and wine is in abundance in Kingaroy and to experience the best head north to the Booie Range. An area fast gaining a reputation as a tourist must-do thanks to the wineries, cellar doors and boutique accommodation. Soak in the panoramic views from the verandah at Hillview Cottages or taste the local wine at Crane Winery cellar door.
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Crane Wines
Kingsley Grove Vineyard and Winery
Taste South Burnett
Wondai Regional Art Gallery
Head South from the Booie Range back into Kingaroy wher you will find a cluster of boutique accommodation, recommendations are for Peppertree Cabins, Bethany Cabins, Taabinga Homestead.
Enjoy a leisurely drive to the up to the majestic Bunya Mountains, this natural wonderland is an offshoot of the Great Dividing Range formed about 30 million years ago and shelter that largest ancient bunya pint forest in the world. Enjoy the pictureesque view and unwind by the outdoor fireplace on the beautiful deck at The Bunyas or rent out a private home from Bunya Mountains Accommodation Centre.
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Level 1: Suitable for the disabled with assistance
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Clovely Estate Cellar Door Bed and Breakfast
Moffatdale Ridge Wines
Ringsfield House
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SALTON SEA: Generally slow tilapia action with the water temperature down significantly with cool nights and winds again this past week. The park entrance fee is $5 with self-registration. The water is so low that launching is nearly impossible except for small boats (boaters should check with the main office at the recreation area before bringing a boat). The camp store is open Friday through Sunday. Information: Camp Store at 760-289-9455 (open Friday-Sunday). Salton Sea State Recreation Area main office at 760-393-3059, or the ranger station kiosk at 760-393-3052 (or mobile phone at 760-331-9944).


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More and more, I'm seeing that standard recipe get re-mixed, thanks to the influence of social media--and not just one kind of social media, either. Here are the six ingredients of speeches and presentations that are getting tossed and turned in the process:
- Who speaks: Today's audiences expect to speak, share, question and contribute--so much so, I encourage my trainees to open their presentations with a Q&A session, to get the audience participating right away. All forms of social media, from networks like Facebook and Twitter to online video and blogging, have given "the people formerly known as the audience" a series of microphones and platforms of their own, and they're using them.
- Who shares: Once upon a time, only three people controlled what was shared outside the meeting room: The organizer, the speaker and any journalists who were covering the session. Today, the tools for sharing what's happening, live and in real time, are right in your mobile phone or laptop.
- Who stands where: At a TEDx event in New York focused one education, speaker Jeff Jarvis told his listeners, "You should be up here." He was speaking to the audience's expertise, but many speakers also are moving into the audience to hold listeners' attention, make a stronger connection and provide some visual variety. Standing behind the lectern's falling more and more by the wayside.
- Who listens: Listening in doesn't require being in the room anymore, thanks to the backchannel on Twitter and similar sites. That also means that "listeners" can scroll through an account of your talk hours, days or months later. You may need to provide more context online, including your slides, the text of your remarks or additional comments. I've taken to creating blog posts with useful links after my major addresses--they become the "handout" and the context, all in one.
- Who watches: With a webcam on a laptop, a cellphone or a Flip camera or other ultralight camcorder, your audience can record and upload your remarks within minutes--or choose to livestream it. Speakers who address audiences with "just between us in this room" remarks, beware.
- And for how long: The instant gratification, speed and variety of information available in social media can't be matched in most formal speeches. Attention spans are getting shorter, which is why I recommend that speakers need a strong, fast start. No matter how much time you're allotted, use far less for your formal remarks. Open it up for questions, take some Twitter breaks and get the audience involved.
Rebooting your events
Handouts no more!
I'm cross-posting this on both the don't get caught blog and The Eloquent Woman blog.


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Colin Kaepernick's upper body is virtually covered in tattoos. Big ones. Little ones. Long passages of writing.
Apparently that doesn't sit well with everyone. Sporting News columnist David Whitley is one of those people. We know that because he published a column that ripped into Kaep for his inky ways.
The column — which you can read HERE — sparked a bit of a controversy. Frankly, it read a little racist, a little ageist and a little out-of-touch-ist. At one point, the author complains that quarterbacks are supposed to be like CEOs.Yikes.
The magazine took so much heat that the publication's editor, Garry D. Howard, published his own reaction, which you can read HERE.
It's too bad Whitley didn't read The San Francisco Chronicle story, written by Scott Ostler, that ran back in 2011, when Kaepernick first joined the team.
In that piece, Ostler revealed that most of Colin's tattoos consist of religious scripture. Ostler wrote: "Kaepernick has several tattoos. They're all Scripture-based, mostly Book of Psalms. But don't pin down Colin. Says his dad, Rick: "He was baptized Methodist, confirmed Lutheran and went to a Baptist church in Reno."
Ostler's column went on to paint a picture of a kid that seems to have never done any wrong.
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'1-Man Death Panel'?
Pro-lifers expressed concern about another Obama appointee: Donald Berwick, who apparently favors rationing health care.
WASHINGTON — Pro-life groups and other critics who are worried about the specter of health-care rationing attacked the recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and pediatrician who was sworn in July 13 as the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the federal government's Department of Health and Human Services.
While Berwick's crusade to improve hospital services has earned national recognition, his past statements of support for health-care rationing and Britain's government-run system have sparked controversy.
The National Right to Life Committee led the charge against Berwick's appointment, calling the Harvard physician a "one-man death panel."
"Dr. Berwick has a long history of advocating governmental rationing of health care, including life-saving medical treatment," said Burke Balch, director of the Powell Center for Medical Ethics at the National Right to Life Committee. "We are deeply concerned that, in an effort to impose cost controls, he will follow the pattern set by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in Great Britain [the agency responsible for selecting services covered by the public system] of which he is an avid admirer."
"The fundamental problem is that the provision of life-saving medical treatment — especially innovative new treatment — is something Dr. Berwick is very skeptical about," added Balch.
Asked whether Berwick's previous comments of support for health-care rationing could signal future problems — such as limited access to health services for the elderly, disabled and other vulnerable groups — White House spokesman Reid Cherlin said, "Don Berwick believes deeply in putting the patient first. But the fact is, that isn't what's happening in our health-care system today. Right now, it's the insurance companies that decide what kind of care you can get — and it's based on what's best for their bottom line, not what's best for you."
Cherlin said that Berwick has "dedicated his career to making the system work better for patients and their families."
As a recess appointee, Berwick can serve until the end of the 111th Congress this coming January. Obama on July 19 resubmitted his nomination to the Senate, hoping that he will be confirmed permanently.
Berwick's controversial public record includes this passage from a 1994 article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association: "Most metropolitan areas in the United States should reduce the number of centers engaging in cardiac surgery, high-risk obstetrics, neonatal intensive care, organ transplantation, tertiary cancer care, high-level trauma care, and high-technology imaging."
In the June 2009 issue of Biotechnology Healthcare, Berwick stated, "The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open."
The National Catholic Bioethics Center doesn't comment on political appointments and did not issue a statement regarding Berwick. But Marie Hilliard, its director of bioethics and public policy, underscored the center's concerns regarding rationed care.
"We have a strong position on rationing: Rationing violates the Hippocratic Oath. Decisions regarding what treatments will be available must remain with the patient. That is what the sacrosanct Hippocratic principles of autonomy and consent are all about," said Hilliard.
"Granted, there are times when patients might choose things that are not in their best interests, and they can't expect health-care providers to be entrepreneurs who will address any and every demand," added Hilliard. "The patient-provider relationship is a covenant relationship in which a dialogue needs to occur regarding beneficial versus burdensome treatment."
Sister Carol Keehan
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops did not release a formal response to Berwick's appointment. "We don't comment on federal appointments," said spokeswoman Sister Mary Ann Walsh.
During the health-care debate on Capitol Hill, the bishops did not speak out about rationing. In a recent statement, they said that they were "clear in calling for health-care reform as a moral imperative and urgent national priority."
"We called for reform that would make health coverage affordable for the poor and needy, moving our society substantially toward the goal of universal coverage," the statement read. "We were equally clear in stating that this must be done in accord with the dignity of each and every human person, showing full respect for the life, health and conscience of all."
But the bishops set a higher priority on conscience protections and an ironclad ban on federal funding of abortion. When these concerns were excluded from the bill's final language, they announced, with clear regret, that they would oppose passage of the health bill.
But while the bishops' conference stayed on the sidelines of the debate fueled by Berwick's appointment, Daughter of Charity Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Health Association, publicly applauded his selection.
This spring, Sister Carol antagonized conference leadership when she backed the health bill during the final week of the bruising legislative battle. Pro-life groups quickly attacked her endorsement of Berwick.
But Sister Carol insisted that Berwick's critics soon would learn to trust his judgment, and she applauded his record of helping hospitals reduce infections and improve the quality of their services.
"When it comes to Berwick's commitment to the quality of care — when he says that every patient/physician encounter should be of high, consistent quality — that's pro-life," said Sister Carol.
She contended that critics who worried about health-care rationing ignored the brutal reality of American health care.
"We have the worst rationing of health care of any industrialized nation: When you get told you need surgery, you have to ask your insurance company, 'May I?' And if you don't have insurance, you need to find a program for the poor. We have terrible rationing right now."
Single-Payer Danger
But other experts argued that the vulnerable fare much better in America's multipayer health-care system, despite its limitations.
"One of the biggest problems with the 'single-payer system' is that it will quickly move into issuing mandates for participation. We have to consider the vulnerability of Catholic health care: What will be the implications for participation?" asked Marie Hilliard of the National Catholic Bioethics Center.
Berwick now directs an annual budget that exceeds $800 billion and covers more than 90 million people. He possesses broad authority to interpret the new bill's complex guidelines and mandated goals, from the inclusion of 16 million additional Medicaid enrollees to the reduction of $500 billion in Medicare payments within 10 years.
The recess appointment allowed President Obama to avoid the spectacle of contentious Senate confirmation hearings. Republicans had signaled they would fight the physician's confirmation, and the Senate's minority leader, Mitch McConnell, labeled Berwick as an "expert on rationing."
The White House, in turn, had accused the GOP of unnecessary obstructionism, and noted that almost 200 nominees still await Senate confirmation. But when the recess appointment was announced, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., the Finance Committee chairman, signaled his displeasure with the move.
Critics of the new health-care bill have argued that uniform rationed care will be an inevitable outcome of government-controlled mandates. During the long debate on Capitol Hill, the White House disputed this prediction.
Fragmented System
Now, Berwick's appointment has reignited those concerns. In a 2008 speech delivered in Britain, he lauded its health-care system and criticized America's approach as fragmented and lacking accountability.
"Trust transparency; trust the wisdom of the informed public; but, do not trust market forces to give you the system you need," he said. "I favor expanding choices. But I cannot believe that the individual health-care consumer can enforce through choice the proper configurations of a system as massive and complex as health care. That is for leaders to do."
This is the kind of talk that worries opponents of government-rationed care and single-payer systems. Now that Berwick is securely in place — at least through 2010 — critics see no immediate opportunity to challenge a vision of health care that will reshape the American landscape.
"They are trying to avoid a debate on how to handle these very difficult issues around cost," contended James Capretta, who worked on health-care issues in the George W. Bush administration and now serves as a fellow for the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
"They have a distinct point of view, and Berwick perfectly represents it," Capretta said. "The federal government has the capacity and responsibility to manage cost reduction."
Joan Frawley Desmond
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Follow all the action as West Ham host London rivals Spurs at Upton Park in the Barclays Premier League
West Ham: Jaaskelainen, Demel, Reid, Collins, O'Brien, O'Neil, Diame, Nolan, Jarvis, Carroll, Joe Cole. Subs: Spiegel, Carlton Cole, Collison, Vaz Te, Taylor, Pogatetz, Chamakh.
Tottenham Hotspur: Lloris, Walker, Dawson, Caulker, Vertonghen, Parker, Dembele, Lennon, Bale, Holtby, Adebayor. Subs: Friedel, Gallas, Naughton, Sigurdsson, Livermore, Assou-Ekotto, Carroll.
Allardyce warning over Bale
West Ham manager Sam Allardyce believes his side will have a greater chance of beating London rivals Tottenham on Monday night if they can stop Gareth Bale lighting up Upton Park.
The Welsh winger has been in scintillating form for Spurs this season, already scoring 17 goals and hauling Andre Villas-Boas' side out of trouble on more than one occasion.
Allardyce saw his side lose 3-1 at White Hart Lane in November, with Bale's name on the scoresheet and a Jermain Defoe brace proving enough for Spurs to take the points.
Although Allardyce is aware of the numerous attacking options at Villas-Boas' disposal he knows Bale is more than likely the man who can inspire Spurs to get a result.
"They've been very good," the 58-year-old said of Spurs' season.
"The team from an attacking point of view has been outstanding, Recently they've lost their leading goalscorer, who is Jermain Defoe, and (Emmanuel) Adebayor has been away at the Africa Cup of Nations, so from a goalscoring point of view they've had to rely on one man and one man only to come up with the goods.
"That's Gareth Bale and he's been the major difference between Tottenham and the teams they've played recently.
"Not only has he scored very important goals, but they've been stunning goals at that. He's going to need some looking after on Monday night."
Allardyce has confirmed both James Collins and Joey O'Brien have been training this week and are in contention.
Collins has been missing due to a hamstring problem whilst fellow defender O'Brien was sidelined with a thigh injury but both are now part of Allardyce's squad for the London derby against Spurs.
George McCartney (knee) is also on the comeback trail but the game on Monday will come too soon for him.
Mousa Dembele insists Tottenham have no reason to fear anyone.
The pressure is on Spurs to re-establish their four-point lead over Arsenal ahead of next Sunday's north London derby at White Hart Lane.
Last season Tottenham held a 10-point advantage over the Gunners in February, but they then fell away spectacularly and ended up missing out on Champions League qualification thanks to Chelsea's win in Munich.
Villas-Boas is determined not to let the same thing happen again this term. His team have been the personification of consistency in the league, where they are unbeaten since December 9.
They also go in to the game on the back of a morale-boosting win over Lyon in the Europa League - and the man who secured their progression to the last 16 on Thursday night thinks he and his team-mates are playing at the top of their game right now.
"We don't have to fear any team," said Dembele, who secured a 3-2 aggregate win with a 90th minute equaliser in the Stade de Gerland.
"People have respect for us. If you're in a winning mood it's important in the league.
"We have two more very important games coming up in the league so the confidence will stay high and that's good for us."
Given the gulf in ability between the two sides, West Ham are expected to approach the derby cautiously.
Tottenham have struggled at times to break down teams who shut up shop. They have often had to rely on the brilliance of Gareth Bale to find come away with three points, but Dembele is confident Spurs will be able to overcome their rivals on Monday regardless of the tactics they employ.
"It will be a different game to the Lyon one of course," Dembele said.
"Teams always have a lot of respect for us and they drop back so it's always difficult, but I think we need to do the difference, we have to fight for each other as well. It will be a physical game, for sure, but we are used to it and this is a special match for us and the supporters too because it is a derby."
Hugo Lloris is expected to return in goal after being on the bench in Lyon.
Striker Jermain Defoe (ankle) returns to training next week, but he will not be considered for the match against his former club.
Younes Kaboul, Sandro and Tom Huddlestone (all knee) are unavailable.
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It seems there's a lull every late summer, a time when only a couple of restaurants open their doors. Makes sense: Most hope to open before the big summer eating rush, a time when profits can almost double thanks to extra seating outside, and extra drinking to toast blue skies and sun-kissed skin.
We're just coming out of that lull and we're now on the verge of another swell of restaurant openings. Here are a few of the restaurant's I'm excited about.
Shanik. Hoo boy. If you're one of the very many who make culinary trips to Vancouver *just* to eat at Vij's, you already know that Vikram Vij's wife, Meeru Dhalwala, is opening a restaurant in South Lake Union named for their daughter, Shanik. And I bet you're getting your tent ready to camp out front for a week to get a chance to eat there within a month of its opening. In case there's any doubt: This is the opening of the year, and a huge get for South Lake Union. Expect world-class Indian food, a separate market with foods and spices to-go, and a full bar program overseen by Mike Bernardo, Vij's Wine Director. And expect a ton of national press about this one.
Mamnoon. Unlike Shanik, Manoon's opening has been kept pretty well under-the-radar. But if you've eaten at Melrose Market in the last three months, you've likely noticed the busy, three story construction project across Melrose street. That'll eventually (hopefully before the end of the year) become Mamnoon. Middle Eastern food is sorely under-represented here in Seattle, and the owners of this restaurant are going to impressive lengths to create a world-class restaurant to celebrate the flavors of Lebanon and Syria. Capitol Hill Seattle blog has been all over this opening; read the latest about Mamnoon here. And for a (blurry) look at what the restaurant will look like when it's open, turn to Mamnoon's blog.
The Whale Wins and Joule. One of my favorite restaurants in all of Seattle, Joule, is reopening in, let's hope, the next three weeks or so. I've been keeping track of the opening on the restaurant's Twitter feed, from which I've learned they'll have outdoor seating and, thankfully, the kitchen bar seating will be replicated at the reborn Joule. Those seats in front of Rachel and/or Seif have always been my favorites.* The Whale Wins is Renee Erickson's latest, the menu centered around foods that will be cooked in a wood-fired oven. Coming off of the roaring success Walrus & Carpenter has had, expectations are high. The one thing Renee nails time and again (I mean, besides the food, which I've always found totally delicious at both Boat Street and Walrus) is a light, sophisticated look. At the Whale Wins we can expect a "
Of course this is hardly a complete list of all of the restaurants opening this fall, these are just the biggies. For more details, check out Eater's preview and watch for more here this autumn.


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Cost Management 2002: Can Strategy Thrive in Tight Times?
- 80% of IT execs say they can still meet strategic goals despite constraints.
- 82% say communication on IT spending with business units has improved.
- 33% of large companies don't manage IT costs successfully.
- 9% of IT spending in the past 3 years was unnecessary.
Times are tough: Between the recession and the hangover from the Y2K and dot-com spending frenzies, most CIOs are expected to manage IT costs much more tightly than they have in the recent past. And the majority of the 357 IT executives we surveyed for this month's research believe they're doing a good job. For the most part, that seems to be true: They've reduced both the number of projects over budget and the percentage of IT spending over budget since 2000, and they've done it without sacrificing their strategic goals. What does it take to do it well? Judging by the habits of successful IT cost managers, communication between business units and IT and strong decision- making processes are what make for success. Confident cost managers are also more disciplined: They're better at executing the cost management processes that work for themmost notably collaborating with their peers on the business sideand better at using technologies, especially project management software, that help in the process of managing costs.By Gary A. Bolles
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CIO Toby Keeler is going to more meetings than he did two years ago, but he isn't complaining. They have helped him reduce the IT budget by 15 percent at Osmonics Inc., a $207 million water filtration equipment company in Minnetonka, Minn., without sacrificing any essential projects.
Most of our respondents pointed to "improving internal decision-making processes" as an effective way to manage costsmore than any other responseand we asked several CIOs and cost management experts how to do that. At Osmonics, the process, developed over the past two years, is fairly simple. Prior to a mid-year strategy session with other top execs, Keeler pulls his IT staff together to answer three questions: Are we lined up with where the business is going? What new technologies are out there? Can they contribute to the company's strategy?
"This is just back to basics," Keeler says. "It's doing what we should have been doing all along. There was so much panic in the dot-com frenzy that companies threw fundamental practices out the window. Two years ago it was spend or fall behind. Now, a project has to be scrutinized to make sure it meets a real business need. To do that, you have to have businesspeople coming to the table owning both the project and the results, and you need IT people saying what it's going to cost." Recently, Keeler tempered business-side enthusiasm for a CRM initiative with pointed questions about what it was meant to solve. The result: a pilot project limited to sales force automation rather than a sprawling initiative.
Keeler's experience illustrates two insights about successful decision-making. The first is that communication is critical. When we asked Ric Hughes, partner leader of IT solutions at PwC Consulting, to characterize companies that are skilled in decision-making, he said, "They tend to communicate very openly about IT objectives and costs."
Alan Boehme, the Atlanta-based CIO of Best Software Inc., says communication must occur among suppliers, vendors and employees. "And if you have a customer-facing application, you'd better involve customers as well," he says.
Communication can be face-to-face or written, Boehme says, depending on the culture of the organization. Enhanced project management tools in the future may help these discussions, but Boehme believes too many companies engage in documentation overkill, which slows things down. What needs to be communicated? Everything about a process that IT will support, he saysthe personnel, system, implementation and lost opportunity costs, for example. And what is the cost of delaying a project?
CIOs often overlook the team of employees who maintain systems, says William Ulrich, president of Tactical Strategy Group Inc. in Soquel, Calif. "Let's say I'm a CIO, and my direct reports decide to purchase a [new] system," he says. "If I don't have input from the people in charge of my current system, I'm missing information on how it might meet our needs without buying a new one. These people might know how to retool."
Time and again, he's seen companies missing the savings they hoped for when lower-level employees weren't encouraged to speak up. "It's almost Dilbert-like," Ulrich says. At one federal agency, managers ordered rewrites on three subsystems, but they were highly interlocked with other subsystems under the control of different managers, who weren't consulted. Employees could see a train wreck coming, but it didn't become apparent at the top for another 12 monthsand $1 million.
The second insight from our respondents and experts is that when it comes to managing costs, the business acumen of the CIO counts for more than technical wizardry. "Successful cost management is basic blocking and tackling," Hughes says, "but it's by seasoned veterans who really understand the business."
On his way to the CIO chair at Osmonics, Keeler came up through the business side, gaining experience in manufacturing and sales. "I don't say, 'This new technology is a great IT solution, so let's go use it somewhere.' I ask, 'What is the real business problem?' Maybe the answer is changing the business process, and that involves very little IT support. Or I can say, 'Here's a new tool that will work, and here's how we can control the cost of implementationwe only need 10 percent of this tool.'"
Boehme agrees that good decisions on cost management start with business savvy. "A CIO has to be married to the business," he says, "and take technology as a mistress."Terry A. Kirkpatrick
How the survey was done: CIO Insight designed the business process survey together with Advantage Business Research Inc. (advantageresearch.com), a Lake Success, N.Y.-based supplier of custom research services. IT executives gathered from a number of sources, including third-party lists and other Ziff Davis Media publications, were invited to participate in the study by e-mail. The questions were posted on a password-protected Web site, and 357 qualified respondents (172 from companies with 1,000 employees or more, and 185 from companies between 50 and 999 employees) replied from July 16 to July 23, 2002. All qualified respondents described themselves as knowledgeable or very knowledgeable about their company's business processes, and held one of the following titles: CIO, chief technology officer, senior and executive vice president of information technology or information services, vice president of information technology or information services, or vice president of IT strategy, planning, networking or communications.


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Paolo Venegas
We learn so that we may learn more in this committee.
I believe that we should develop a society in ourselves such that stealing should no longer be necessary. We should be a group with everyone equal, with everyone sharing common knowledge. It's not a competition thing. That's what I want for this committee. We are going to have activities later based on that. We are all learning here. It is not for any specific… it's not about being able to separate yourself from the group and being able to say that you're superior or elite. CompSAT as a helper in this community and that's what this organization is about.
We need to know the people we work with. Sometimes people are harder to work with than computers. People are different. Let's introduce ourselves and tell each other something about ourselves.
Started by learning Pascal and Assembly (a little) and he started in
high school, and it really satisfying because we only had DOS
and 486s, but it was a very good environment for starting out.
NagCS ako kasi when I was in high school we took up visual basic and
I thought CS would be easy because VB was easy. Apparently not.
Family background in IT?
Experience in high school, qbasic. QBasic was easy, so college should
have been easy, but I had a hard time with first and second year, but
VB helped me learn Java. I'm starting to learn C.
High school, VB. Relatively easy. Didn't have background in
Pascal.. Java is okay. It was a new learning experience.
I suck at programming. Star using asterisks. Now I'm learning
something. I can program. I can program code. That's all
I'm an extra at this meeting. My dad bought this computer. She was a
freshman at a compsat ga and answered that she was
hanggang HTML, pero naaaliw ako
Started with QBasic ?
Natuwa kasi ako noong first year sa library. Book on GWBASIC. Medyo(require 'revive)
(require 'windows)
masayang mag-program. Natutuwa pa rin ako. Adikt sa computer games
VB and Macromedia Director 6 in HS. Yung iba, nahihirapan sa
form.. ang galing mo. Mahilig sa computer games. bitmap editors.
High school, QBASIC, batch files. Computer games.
Started out with computers because of games. Dig Dug, Alley Cat,
Loderunner. Grade 5 – DOS prompt. Didn't learn prog until third year
high school, QBASIC. Learning C++.
Aside from I love computers, one of my classmates told me (when I was
asking what course he'd take) not business related. valedictorian.
like fiddling with computers a lot. Dune II. Couldn't beat the
game. Fiddled around with a hex editor. I eventually figured out…
Demistify the computer. Always been afraid of it. Now I want to learn
everything about it so that I can master it. If you're afraid of
something that you don't know. When you finally learn something and
you finally understand it, you have more respect for it. Programming
is understanding what the computer …
web dev.
One of his largest considerations
web design.
R&D working
started programming
third year HS, we started on QBASIC. Fourth year, we learned Word and
Excel, so I got very disappointed. Around that time nagkaroon ako sa
Starcraft. I wanted to learn how to make those games.
Friend from high school, game before. Quake II and Quake III. 3d
graphics modelling! 3D MAX. Games.
QBASIC in HS
First Mac in grade school, been in love with computers ever since.
medyo mabagal yung HS CS, 4th year VB. Stuck with office and all that
crap. 4th year discovered joys of programming. mental
challenges. stimulation. Potential of computing in multimedia.
I don't want to think of it as teaching. It's learning with people.
TJ, person beside him. Some people have taken electives, most people
have been taking 122.
PHP, Perl, Apache, PSQL, Oracle
I know that everyone's busy. There are 57 members and I'm sure that
not everyone's going to be able to give 100% of what they can give to
this committee. We need to do stuff.
Main concentration: web dev.
c/o Paolo Venegas
This is similar
They want us to make a website for the registration of the Philippine
Schools Debate Competition. Going to be presented to a much larger
audience. The PSDC is the Philippine counterpart of the Asian
contest, so it will be used as the model of the website for the
internatonal debate competition. We are going to make a website that
will be viewed by people all over the Philippines, and we'll also
coordinate with people outside the country. So this is a big project.
If we can get a better thing…
We're going to have to group now. Not about how many per group.. Not
a required thing. If you help, please make it good. After all, this
is CompSAT's name.
They want it on the 16th of September. We are under pressure.


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"You're the only group of people in Vegas who understand that when I say Monte Carlo, I'm not talking about the casino down the street," Jim Dario joked at the opening of his lunchtime keynote at the NAPFA Spring Conference 2013 in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Dario (left), managing director of product management for TD Ameritrade Institutional, tried to get as specific as possible in the time allotted about the role of technology in boosting the advisor's business.
"We are now four and a half years since the economic crisis began, and May 2013 feels very different from May 2009," he said. "Clients feel more confident, but they're essentially asking you to hold their hands as we move from crisis to crisis. The AP wire service gets hacked, and the markets plunge. They're looking to you to explain that."
Challenges he noted in the independent space include the coming regulatory changes, the fact that Wall Street is looking to reinvent itself in the fee model, and the "war for talent."
"In the next 10 years, there will be an estimated 250,000 shortfall of people in this industry," Dario said. "It mainly comes from the fact that wirehouse training classes, which were a feeder for our industry, are diminishing.
"The opportunities, however, are just as great," he added.
Dario argued the independent channel is the fastest growing channel in financial services, and has experienced 68% growth since 2005.
"One group's pain is another group's gain," he said, before noting the $4 trillion still held at wirehouses. "But [advisor] Ric Edelman shows in his research that big banks come in dead last in consumer trust, and this is the third year in a row that's happened."
Moving on to a discussion of technology in the advisor practice, Dario noted it's the fourth decade since the move to independence began, but the independent channel never set up the necessary tech infrastructure.
Citing the research and consulting firm FA Insight, he said between 40% and 45% of revenue goes to overhead, and the number—or spread—isn't changing as it should with the firms' growth.
"As they starkly observed, too many firms are simply not sustainable."
He then listed eight areas of a firm in which technology can significantly increase productivity.
1. Back office—"This area by far offers the most opportunity for improvement in efficiency and scalability. Integration is key with such services as e-sign, online libraries, document imaging and CRMs. 2. Quarterly reports/billing information—"This is another area that is ripe for gaining efficiencies. Electronic production of these reports produces no paper; clients receive them in a timelier, and green, fashion." Dario says the average firm saves $30,000 annually.
3). Client service delivery—Dario argued firms should deliver a Starbucks-like client service experience. "From the moment you walk into a Starbucks, everything has been planned, from the music playing to the décor to the way the cup feels in your hand. The baristas are facing the door so they never turn their back to you." This disciplined process equals a superior and consistent client experience. CRMs can help advisors systematize their processes to help them do the same.
4). Sales and marketing—FA insight also notes that referrals accounts for 80% of new business. "That's amazing," Dario said. "Yet so many firms don't have a constant and repeatable process for dealing with referrals. Something as simple as a CRM pipeline and dashboard works wonders. Once the data is organized, it can then be mined for new opportunities."
5). Reaching out to the next generation—"Echo boomers expect online relationships. They will track you down online before ever picking up the phone. Part of this is that they were latchkey kids that are more self-reliant than their parents."
6). Compliance—There is a clear mandate to apply technology to reduce the cost of compliance, Dario said. Paper is one glaringly obvious area. "Fully 70% of RIAs do not use a document management system, even though it saves 9% of revenue each year, on average. Document management systems store documents, but also emails, IM and other mediums. They are searchable and can be retrieved in real time."
7). People—Associates of the firm consume 60% of the P&L, by far the largest single item, Dario said. "Provide your associates with the latest hardware, software and mobile devices to get them to be as productive as possible."
8). Succession planning—The average RIA spends 3% to 5% on technology. Business value is directly linked to lowering costs. Increased efficiency equals a higher valuation once the partner exits.
"Think of a $1 million, medium-size firm that save $100,000 each year by automating its processes," he concluded. "That $100,000 flows through to the bottom. The going rate for the average firm, on the low end, is 10 times annual revenue. You just increased the value of your firm by $1 million."
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With the explosion in eBook readers such as the Kindle, Nook and iPad I've been intrigued on how things in the publishing world are changing. Katy Valentine has a good number of books in print and also available electronically. Not only that, Kat has helped local authors self publish their own books like Melissa Abbott. So to say that Kat can speak to the subject would be an understatement.
So Kat is doing a series on her blog-Parlez-Moi Press about the different ways that people go about bringing their books to the marketplace and she is Guest posting here on GMG.
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How To Publish Your Book (or Not)
Innovations in digital technology mean that publishing today is very different than it was even a few years ago. Also the growth and popularity of ebooks has changed the entire industry. In December 2010 Barnes & Noble announced that their web site sold more ebooks than print books. This trend is just beginning.
Since I have five books currently in paperback and six ebooks (plus 2 in production) I have learned a lot about the publishing industry. In 2010 I sold a little over a thousand books in a combination of paperback and eformat. Along the way I've learned a lot about publishing and I am writing this to provide information for other authors who wish to publish. What I write here is purely from my own experience and I will be adding to this as time permits in the hope it will help. So let me begin with a few words about conventional publishing:
Part 1 – Conventional Publishing & How It Works
The ideal for most aspiring authors is to sell their manuscript to a big publisher, get a hefty advance, and have their book edited, designed, printed and distributed. Once the book is in print authors dream of book signing tours set up and paid for by their publisher where they are wined and dined, meet their fans, sell and sign lots of books, and the money starts rolling in. The ultimate ideal is for the book to be optioned by Hollywood, a movie made with top name stars, and merchandising rights for everything from t-shirts to video games. This is a nice dream and it does happen for some lucky people but they are very much in the minority.
The truth is a publisher has to consider a lot of factors before even considering to publish a book, the top ones being a.) how much will they have to invest to produce it, and b.) how much market appeal does it have. Producing a book is very, very costly. The process of editing, working with the author through rewrites, designing, printing, distributing and promoting is expensive and publishers have to make sure their investment will yield a profit to justify their expenses. One of the things they need to consider is how marketable the author is, as well as the book. Like it or not, we live in a personality-driven society. New authors are tough to promote and an author who has a certain measure of "star" power has an advantage. Sad to say, but a lot of readers are more interested in the authors than in their books.
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After a loooooong wait, Iceman and I are proud to present a new MOTU Adventure:
Chapter One: Trouble in Targa
Its a peaceful afternoon on Eternia, and Prince Adam is busily wasting time fishing with Cringer by the Oberon Lake. He was told to prepare for some kind of celebration back in Eternos, but the prince was tired of responsibilities. After weeks of saving Eternia from various catastrophes as He-Man, he felt he and Cringer had both earned time to relax. But their sport is interrupted when he hears sounds of a struggle nearby. He sees a strange creature, not unlike a Snake Man, running for its life from large, horned beings with fang-like daggers and wide nets. At once the Prince raises his sword and calls on the power of Grayskull to become He-Man. Just as the horned hunters corner their frightened prey, He-Man and Battle Cat charge into the fight.
The Hunters speak to each other a language He-Man cannot understand, but he warns them to leave peacefully. The creatures charge, but Battle Cat bats them away with his mighty paws. He-Man bests the Hunters leader, sword to sword, and he is startled to find his opponent almost as strong as himself. But the hunters were not expecting resistance, and they do not stay when they realize this new warrior is a force to be reckoned with.
He-Man turns to the creature he has rescued and is startled to see that it too has gone. Did we stumble on a disappearing act, Battle Cat, he asks with a good spirited laugh. But he sees that the creatures foot prints stop by the rock in front of him. Its all right, he says reassuringly, hoping that the creature is still in ear shot. We are friends.
Friend? comes a voice from right in front of him. A figure steps away from the rock, appearing at first to be made of rock as well. Then the figures skin changes to reveal a reptilian hide. You saved me from the Gargons. Are you . . . an Eternian?
I am. My name is He-Man. And you?
I . . . do not know my name. I come from the Slave Pits of Targa where I was called Lizard Man before I escaped.
Slave Pits? Thats not possible, there is no slavery on Eternia, especially not in Targa! My fa---King Randor would never allow it.
I do not know this King Randor. I only know of the Slave Masters, and the digging. We were all there, myself and others like me.
He-Man takes Lizard Man to Eternos, where he tells his story of the Slave Pits and his narrow escape. I have heard of your people, Man-At-Arms remarks. The Reptons are close cousins of the Snake Men. Kobra Kahn recently escaped from prison, and its rumored hes sought shelter with them. King Randor however, refuses to draw conclusions based on rumors. Queen Marlena is especially concerned by Lizard Mans news, as she has visited Targa often in preparation for the Circos Eternia, a traditional competition to be hosted by Targa in three days time.
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Thai beef salad
Serves 4.
The next time you have leftover cooked beef, preferably a medium-rare strip loin steak or standing rib roast, make this easy, good-looking main course salad. It's from 3 Chefs: The Kitchen Men, by three Toronto chefs — Michael Bonacini, Massimo Capra and Jason Parsons (Whitecap, $26.95), the excellent cookbook that came first in Cuisine Canada's national cookbook awards for books published in 2010.
Unlike so many others, this is a chefs' cookbook you can really cook from. Capra, who runs the Italian restaurant Mistura, writes that he remembers his mother deliberately cooking too much of a food in order to have leftovers. When a friend introduced him to this recipe, he recalled her leftover habit and created this salad to serve with crusty bread.
1 pound (500 g) strip loin steak, trimmed of fat
Salt and freshly ground pepper
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
1/2 red bell pepper, thinly sliced
1/2 yellow bell pepper, thinly sliced
2 cups (500 mL) halved grape or cherry tomatoes
1 bunch fresh coriander or flat-leaf parsley, chopped
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 anchovy, chopped
Juice of 1 lime
Juice of 1 lemon
Olive oil
Leaf lettuce
Season the steak with salt and pepper and grill to medium-rare. Wrap in foil and set aside to cool completely. (If using pre-cooked meat, bring to room temperature.)
In a bowl, combine onions, red and yellow peppers, and tomatoes with the coriander, garlic, anchovy, lemon and lime juices. Moisten with olive oil to your taste. Let stand for about 30 minutes.
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Pueblos asked to join in fireworks ban
Governor: Drought reaches historic levels
It's no secret that New Mexico is in the middle of a drought, which has many cities and towns cracking down on fireworks, and now some pueblos are joining in the fight.
The governor met with leaders from all 22 pueblos, and some, including, Santa Clara and Santa Ana, agreed to ban fireworks on the reservation. The governor is determined to make sure residents only go to public fireworks displays this year so nothing goes up in flames.
"New Mexico is right at the bull's-eye of it all," said Gov. Susana Martinez. "You may have pine cones, dry leaves on top of your roof, and that bottle rocket that shoots up on top of your roof and you didn't realize you had all of this dry stuff, you're going to start a fire."
Martinez said this is the worst drought the Land of Enchantment has seen in 118 years.
"The drought from October 2012 to the present is an amazing map to see," she said. "It is almost the entire state with extreme drought."
Because it is so dry, the governor has urged local leaders to ban fireworks in their jurisdictions and many have. Now some pueblos have joined the fight.
"Which is very good because we don't have any control over that," Martinez said. "But they have voluntarily banned it themselves."
For three years the governor has pushed to get a fireworks ban bill passed by the Legislature.
"To allow the governor to ban fireworks or to allow the local community to do so is they so wish," she said. "All fireworks and then if it rains, they lift the ban. It's just that easy."
But since the legislation has not been passed, it takes local leaders, including those from the pueblos, to make the decision for their communities about whether to ban fireworks for the Fourth of July.
Officials hope to have a list next week of all the pueblos that have banned fireworks.


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- Demodulator ST STV0903B
- Tuner ST STV6110A
The ST STV0903 demodulator is pin compatible to the STV0900 but provides only one tuner link.
The ST STV6110A Tuner supports QPSK, 8PSK APKS16, APKS32 Modulation.
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Vendor: pci 0x1131 "Philips Semiconductors"
Device: pci 0x7146 "SAA7146"
SubVendor: pci 0x13c2 "Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH"
SubDevice: pci 0x101c
The SAA7146 is supported by Manu Abraham's driver ([[1]]). Some people in this (german) VDR board added this card to the driver at the end of april 2009. One Day later the development was committed to http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb.
However, this is still some initial support an might need some more testing.
[Update 2014/04/22] Card drivers are in kernel now, no special driver needed. Works great. For Diseqc you might need to use a patch from Guy Martin. At least I do ;) ([[2]])
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"I know that he always was surprised by the success — he never dreamed it would be as big as it was," said Hal Bogdonoff, who worked for two years in the 1950s as Carlson's lab manager in Haloid-provided space on Hollenbeck Street in Rochester's 14621 neighborhood. "He said that he was looking for a process to enable people to do copying easier than he'd suffered with when he was the patent attorney and had to hand-copy materials at the library. I don't think he ever visualized the mechanical embodiment and the success it would ultimately reach," said Bogdonoff, now a resident of West Palm Beach, Fla.
Carlson's work grew out of research he read about in the niche field of photoconductivity.
"There was no prior art for him to work off of," said Ray Brewer, company archivist for Xerox Corp., the company that Carlson essentially built with his discovery of electrophotography or, as some call it, "xerography," from the Greek words for "dry writing." Xerox — then known as Haloid, and based in Rochester — in 1947 acquired the rights to develop a xerographic machine.
"There was no 'Eureka' moment" in Carlson's work, Brewer said. "It was just hard work and research he did. He just stayed with it. He was very persistent. He went through a lot of chemical compounds, different types of powders. He had the general idea of how it was supposed to work, but he didn't know how to get there."
Today, electrophotography is a staple of modern business life. And Carlson's discovery is indirectly a major part of the fabric of the Rochester region, from the roughly 6,400 Xerox employees locally to the Chester Carlson Center for Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of Technology, the Carlson Science and Engineering Library at the University of Rochester and the Carlson MetroCenter YMCA in downtown Rochester.
The path between that Astoria apartment and success was a long one. Between 1939 and 1944, he pitched the technology to more than 20 companies and received more than 20 variations on "not interested." And Rochester-based Haloid's breakthrough product, the 914 copier, didn't come out until 1959.
Today, xerography is not the centerpiece of Xerox that it once was. Fifty five cents of every dollar Xerox takes in comes now from business process outsourcing services — from running call centers and computer servers to processing such transactions as insurance claims and debit-card swipes. Its traditional printing technology business — making, servicing and supplying office equipment and big digital printing presses — is struggling with declining sales.
"We actually asked ourselves that question, whether or not we wanted to put forth the effort to make a big deal (about the 75th anniversary) because we're not the same company we once were," said Renee Heiser, vice president of Xerox corporate and employee communications and chairwoman of the anniversary activities. "We made the decision to say this is an important date and it's beyond just the invention of xerography. It's about celebrating the company and our history as well as where we're going."
For the 75th anniversary, Xerox is planning a multimedia program that it will roll out over the course of the coming year "to generate excitement and pride and to reinforce our company purpose with our employees around the globe," Heiser said. "I want our people in Grenoble (France) or Chile to see a little bit of Chester in what they do."


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Lately, olive oil cakes have been all the rage, but little do most of us know, is that Italians have been using olive oil in their moist cakes for centuries.
Many chefs use olive oil because it provides a nice richness and an undertone of earthy flavor without all the denseness and greasiness of butter that you would usually use in baking.
Another difference of an olive oil cake is that it's not an overly sweet cake, taking the notes from citrus and herbs, in this case cardamom. Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Arab cultures loved infusing this spice into their foods and potions because of their aphrodisiac qualities. (So, if you are looking for that extra special Hanukkah gift, you might try serving this Cardamom cake to your hubby ASAP!!!)
Its nice to always add new spices to our cooking and baking menus because of the healing qualities that benefit a varied diet. In this case, cardamom also contains chemicals that appear to treat stomach and intestinal issues, and increase the movement of food through the intestine. Thank you Rachel Harkham of RecipeRachel.com. for sending in this wonderful recipe.
Cardamom Citrus Olive Oil Cake
by Rachel Harkham at RecipeRachel.com.
When you think of Hanukkah food you think of Latkes, right? Golden,crisp-fried potato pancakes are perfect holiday food for a cold winter's night. Lighting the menorah for eight nights aptly commemorates the miracle of little jar of oil that lit up the menorah in the Temple. Eating food made or prepared with oil is the best way to celebrate this eight day Festival of Light . But after a few crispy fried nights when your taste buds are yearning for a different texture and taste, Citrus-Cardamom Olive Oil Cake is just the thing to keep the oil celebration going. Made with olive oil (non-extra virgin yields moister results), with layers of bright citrus bursts and warm cardamom spice, this cake tenderly celebrates both flavor and olive oil in every bite.
Cardamom Citrus Hanukkah Olive Oil Cake
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup olive oil
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- Zest of one small lemon (about 1 tablespoon)
- ½ teaspoon cardamom
- Preheat oven to 350F and spray a round cake pan
- Beat together eggs and sugar until pale and fluffy and very thick
- Slowly stream olive oil into egg-sugar mixture, beat together on lowest speed .
- In separate bowl: whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, zest, and cardamom.
- Gently fold wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, being sure to mix completely.
- Pour into prepared pan and bake for 30 minutes or until light golden brown and it passes the toothpick test . After cake has cooled remove from pan, plate, and pour orange cardamom glaze over top of the cake, allowing glaze to drip lazily down the sides.
Orange Cardamom Glaze
1 ½ c. powdered sugar
1 teaspoon cardamom
1 teaspoon orange zest
4-5 tablespoons fresh orange juice
- Mix all ingredients together in bowl until the glaze is thick enough coat the back of your spoon. Alternately, dilute with 1 tbsp. of OJ at a time if the glaze is too thick.
Candied Citrus Slices
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup water
1 sliced lemon and/or orange cut into ¼ inch rounds
- In a medium saucepan combine the sugar and water. Bring to a boil and then reduce heat. Boil gently for 12 -15 minutes or until mixture becomes thick and syrupy, stirring every so often.
- Add fruit slices to syrup, stirring to submerge. Simmer for about five minutes until fruit is tender and slightly shrunken. Gently remove fruit from syrup and place artfully on top of the cake. Reserve citrus simple syrup for another use (it's great for mixed drinks).


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Smart Football has moved!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Malcolm Gladwell loves me
6 comments:
- Jon said...
Some random thoughts:
A friend tipped me off to that article. Wish there was a site called Smart Hoops, but Dean Oliver covers some of this ground in Basketball on Paper.
As a football player, Craig was legendary for the off-season hill workouts he put himself through. Most of his N.F.L. teammates are now hobbling around golf courses. He has run seven marathons.This is intriguing, but I thought that it was Jerry Rice with the hill course.
It has been a while since I read up on 18th Century American History, but Washington had a little bit of guerrilla in him. Witness Trenton.
New site design, eh?
- Year2 said...
I would argue that Gladwell is not advocating that an underdog should take the risky approach over the conservative approach. It's more about not letting the Goliath get into its comfort zone.
That might mean cranking up the tempo and getting aggressive against a three yards and a cloud of dust team, but it also might mean slowing down the tempo against a team that likes a fast pace.
In the terms of the main example of the article, a pressing basketball defense won't generally work against a team that loves to press. They've practiced it so much, they know how to defeat it. However, no one presses in girls' youth league basketball, so it's effective there.
It's the rationale why the service academies run the option and why the spread used to be an equalizer for under-talented teams. It doesn't necessarily mean underdogs have to take risks, it just means they shouldn't try to play the favorite's game.
- Chris said...
Year2, you're probably right that I overstated on the Gladwell piece. And I agree with you that it's as much about being "different" as anything else. Just thought I'd point it out.
That coach exemplifies much of what is wrong with youth sports today. Rather than try to teach his team the skills of the sport, he just had them run so they would be fitter than everybody else. Then, he used a strategy that only works against players who aren't very good at basketball so they could win. His players learned very little about how to play basketball. What will they do when they get older, and the other players skills improve to the point they can break the press? They will get killed, because they never learned the fundamentals of how to actually play the game. Pressing is very effective against unskilled players, but decreases in effectiveness as player skill improves. This can be seen in how many high schools have success pressing, a few colleges do, and in the NBA pressing is only used as a change of pace or in end-of-game situations and rarely works then.
- Brian Manning said...
Wow - great article! Definitely goes along with what you wrote about football strategies and thinking outside the box.
Anonymous: Gladwell addresses those issues farther on in the piece. "But [the insurgents'] other advantage is that they will do what is 'socially horrifying.'" Albeit that's more in a reference to the war aspect of the article, but it goes along with your comment about improving skills for later. There is also a great deal about Rick Pitino and how he has used pressing very successfully as a strategy throughout his career as a college coach.
- Ted Seay said...
The full-court press in basketball is a lot like the 46 Bear defense in football -- you examine your opponent thoroughly for his/her ability to perform under intense pressure.
Is it sound under all circumstances? probably not, unless you have an unbelievable talent differential.
Is it a useful tool in some circumstances? Betcher ass it is...but I prefer a 3/4 court trap, to offer the illusion of a safe path up the court for the team with the ball.


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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:26 am
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May I be among the first to wish you happiness in your retirement Sarape. My Dad retired at 50, and he's never been happier. I hope that the removal of the stresses of your job and the added free time are bring you happiness. I look forward to more posts about burnt food, cabbage tea and gruel, and hope that your acerbic wit is unaffected by your retirement.
Now can anyone else come up with a more tactful way to see we love you as the curmudgeon you are?
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Thanks for the warm sentiments. I really don't fit in with a structured world. I've always been independent and hated following leaders or joining groups. Of all my jobs, I've enjoyed those best where I was outside: golf-course 'starter' and golf-course grounds crew, and construction labor. I never liked the office, desk job.
I really think the life like those of the eighteenth century American founders like Jefferson and Washington has most appeal to me. I enjoy maintaining my "estate". This involves cooking, gardening, yard work, inside work, hobby stuff, and some financial planning. Since, I have to plan for zero income until I'm 59.5 years old. Which is another 14 years to go. Even at 59.5, I'll depend on my own investments and not on Uncle Sam.
So far, I love staying up late and not worrying about if it is a work or a "school" night. Also, sleeping late till 10:30am.
I've also incorporated onion "tea" as an alternative to my cabbage "tea". We have those thin, wild onions growing everywhere wild down here in Alabama.
Here's a really great cracker recipe I've also discovered: 1 part each of yellow corn meal, whole-wheat flour, and while flour, salt, pepper, water. No yeast involved. Thus, there's no rising stage and that's why it comes out as crackers instead of bread.
If you burn it a little and eat it with dried raisons or figs, well it tastes like.... No, it doesn't. But, this is a very good "bread".
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But you're still living on the edge with those onions, eh?
Enjoy yourself Sarape.
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Happy retirement Sarape. And don't get your onions mixed up with your daffodil bulbs.
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Have a great time, Sarape. I've worked as a casual part-timer for years and love the freedom it gives - taking time off whenever I want to for holidays, family activities, whatever.
I learnt some interesting things about daffodils recently .....
During a war (don't remember which one) soldiers were given daffodil bulbs to keep in their pocket to use as a painkiller if they were badly injured. They bit into them apparently. Of course the soldiers died, but at least they weren't in as much pain. The botanical name, Narcissus, is where the painkiller drug group Narcotic gets its name.
The daffodil is also the emblem of the Australian Cancer Council .... must do some more research about it.
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Féliciations, Sarape! It sounds like retirement is a perfect job for you!
I'm glad you are keeping us posted on the new creations that are keeping you occupied! Onion tea, huh?
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Let me comment on life in retirement at age 46.
I've been retired now for three months and I am completely satisfied with not having a job. I've adapted well and find it hard to remember life while working. I rarely even think about any of my former jobs or colleages. I've just about put them out of my mind.
I'm spending much more time doing things correctly instead of rushing through life. I now spend more time in the garden -- fighing off squirrels is my current obsession (they are eating my corn plants) -- preparing meals, cleaning, reading, listening to music.
I want to bring up the subject of "backyard gardens" again this spring. Maybe tomorrow.
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Move Over, Bare Minerals!
I've been exclusively wearing mineral foundation for over 10 years now (eeks, that makes me sound ancient!). Seriously, the thought of smearing tinty, chemically-preserved goop all over my face in the name of beauty gives me the chills (the bad kind).
I used to rock Bare Minerals back in the day when the brand was new-new. They kind of owned the market at the time and introduced the world to a new, more natural way of looking beautiful. Now it seems there are a bunzillion new mineral makeup lines, and for the most part, they are all pretty much the shit! As a bit of personal advice, I'd steer clear of "mineral makeup" from mainstream brands, like the kind found at Target and Walgreens (they often contain lots of fillers and aren't entirely "natural").
These past couple weeks I've been using Mineral Hygienics mineral makeup, and my skin's been lovin' it!
Reasons to give Mineral Hygienics a whirl:
- It's perfect for sensitive skin.
- You get maximum coverage (blemishes, age spots, blotchy bits go bye-bye)
- It's long-wearing.
- It contains natural SPF (which helps prevent wrinkles)
- It doesn't cake into your pores and allows your skin to breathe.
- The foundation, shadows, blushes, and bronzers are vegan.*
- They offer a 100% money back guarantee.
- From now until May 1, 2012 get 10% off your entire Mineral Hygienics order by entering the coupon code veganbeauty at checkout.
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Hi there, I was wondering if they test on animals. I heard really awesome reviews on their makeup and brushes.
Awesome blog btw. 🙂
I use Bare Minerals, too. But I don't know which brush to use with it. Do you have a recommendation? What do I have to pay attention to when buying a brush to apply mineral foundation? Thanks!
Hey there! I've just been doing a little research on Bare Minerals and I thought you should know that they are owned by a Japanese company named Shiseido, which tests on animals. Ugh! So sad.
It sounds like they're not a great company in other ethical ways, too. There's more info over here: http://guide.ethical.org.au/company/?company=5000
Hi! I'm a new vegan beauty reader, but I actually went back all the way of saved posts and read all of them and also saved all of the products I was interested in trying (my vegan cosmetics folder is now full!) I am also a new vegan (this year) I was a pescetarian for several years but now have cut everything animal based, and am going the cruelty free route all the way! I am also trying to buy organic/natural products without all of the gross parabens and the like, which has left me with not much makeup! So I am trying to rebuild my collection from the ground up.
I have signed up for the beauty subscription boxes from those you reviewed. I am very excited! So far I have received the true beauty box, and I really love getting special treats in the mail!
I wanted to ask you if you still like everyday minerals as your go to or do you now prefer this brand? I am in the market to get some new mineral foundation and can't decide on the two!
I have fair skin and don't really like to feel like I am wearing makeup. I like my look to be natural, but I definitely love my cosmetics!
Thanks so much for all you do! <3
Love the photo! Thank you, I've not tried this brand before so I will have to check them out! x
Hi, I'm having acne combined with redness from 5 years, I have consulted with many dermatologists and finally my acne is cured but the redness is still there. I got fed up with this redness on my cheeks,nose and chin. Can you please help me with this condition.
A great range of make up , you might like to consider using Celgenics – Skin For The Future anti ageing range. I developed it for one of my patients who was allergic to conventional skincare. It's vegan and energised with homeopathy, crystals and flower essences as well as vibrational informtion.
A bit like Creme de la Mer but affordable!
Oh 🙂 That sounds verrrry nice! <3 I loves me some mineral foundation. I used Mary Kay for 2 years before I just discovered they were lying about Animal testing…. so this is a great replacement! 😀


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Funny how things go in cycles...
I drove nothing but SUVs for 15 years. During those 15 years, I was skiing, mountain biking, rock climbing, and racing triathlons almost every weekend. When work and kids started reducing the time I spent having fun and my commute got longer and longer, I realized that spending 2-3 hours a day in an SUV commuting wasn't nearly as enjoyable as driving it to somewhere, well...more fun.
So I switch to sports sedans and am on my second 3 series BMW. My 2011 335i could be the perfect car. It's fully loaded, comfortable, wicked-quick, and a blast to drive. It's perfect! Perfect, that is, until you decide to start mountain biking again!
I bought a Yakima trunk rack for it and it's working fine for the 20-30 minute drives I have to my local trails. I noticed that the car has integrated mounting slots for a BMW rack but I don't see anything on Yakima's page that indicates they have parts to fit it. Anyone have any experience with these racks?
I definitely don't like climbing into that beautiful cockpit all covered with mud and sweat but I'm dealing with it. If I can get a more stable way to mount the bike, I'll probably be OK.
My only other option is to buy a third car (my wife's new Mazda CX-9 would be great but she won't let bikes near it!) and I'd rather not. But if I did, a Jeep Wrangler would be fun!
Wow, that was a roundabout way to ask a simple question. Anyone have first-hand experience with the integrated BMW 3-series roof racks?
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