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- October 23, 2012 7:00 AM
Michael Auping, chief curator at the Modern, worked with London's National Portrait Gallery curator Sarah Howgate on Lucian Freud: Portraits, contributing an essay to the exhibition catalogue as well as a series of interviews with the artist, who was often described as reclusive. These interviews were the last with the artist before he died and were completed between May 2009 and January 2011. For Tuesday Evenings at the Modern, Auping offers insights into the exhibition and shares what he learned through his repeated visits with the greatest portrait painter of our time.
Image: Lucian Freud, Reflection (Self-Portrait), 1985. Courtesy of The Lucian Freud Archive.
This popular series of lectures and presentations by artists, scholars, and critics is free and open to the public. To assure seating, free admission tickets are available at the Modern's admission desk beginning at 5 pm on the day of the lecture. Seating begins at 6:30 pm and is limited to 250. A live broadcast of the lectures is shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. Lectures begin at 7 pm. The Museum galleries and the café remain open until 7 pm on Tuesday evenings during the series.
Podcasts of these lectures are available here, two weeks after presentation date.
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For reservations, call 817.840.2174 or visit www.themodern.org/cafe.

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Assassin's Creed 4 Back To Basics
Assassin's Creed 4 Back To Basics
Assassin's Creed: Pirate Edition is a game you can approach from two angles. It's either the next entry in a series that isn't currently too sure where it should be going, or a stroke of simplicity that's utter genius. Despite finger wagging and sage nods from Ubisoft to assure us that this isn't just a pirate game, what we've played of Black Flag argues that this isn't the case. Assassin's Creed 4 is an open world pirate game – and from what we've played, it seems like a bloody good one.
The recent splurge of phoned-in nonsense that spread like a pandemic across the industry caused many of us to forget that pirates are awesome, as proved Sid Meier's Pirates!: a game which proved addictive to the point of temporarily erasing my requirement to eat food, or wear trousers.
This potentially trouserless paradise is the real crux of what Black Flag might be able to offer. Assassin's Creed 2 and later Brotherhood both proved equally morish even without mother-flipping pirate ships, baby. Ten minutes into my hands-on demo – when the German journalist watching me play got bored and wandered off to watch another station – I realised I was looking at something pretty damn cool.
"You can go and explore that island, if you want?" suggested the Ubisoft employee, his enthusiasm audibly starting to wane after three failed attempts to get me to stop sailing around in circles shooting cannons at anything and everything nearby. I'm on a beautiful boat, on a beautiful ocean, and I've got at least four different types of cannon. Islands can wait. I'm busy.
Speaking more directly to my sensibilities, the demo dude points out that I can use the d-pad to tell my crew to start singing sea shanties. Rigging the sails up to maxi-turbo mode, the camera swings way back to give me a glance at the beautiful ship that will function as Black Flag's Monteriggioni Villa – a moving castle that you can tweak and upgrade, while keeping it stocked with a crew of expendable humans.
Cannons on the front of your ship fire long-distance spinning bola bastards that are great for wiping out a ship's mast, the side cannons cause traditional chaos, and aiming to the back of the ship lets me drop a cheeky pair of exploding barrels. You can't just hold down the aim button and swing 360 degrees to cycle through the four sets of weapons – if a ship escapes the firing angle of your cannons, you have to release the left trigger and move the camera round to select a different set of weapons, or physically maneuver the ship into a better position. If you're feeling pro you can free-aim the cannons while still retaining full control of the ship – which is something I can't wait to gradually master.
My attempts to board enemy vessels aren't as slick as those shown in pre-canned demos, but if anything that comes as a relief. Mr. Pirate hops into the water, and fails to catch the escaping boat despite some proper Benny Hill swimming. When things finally do go to plan, the satisfaction is tangible. Captured ships earn better rewards, even if it isn't as fun as just straight-up smashing them to pieces.
Crates of loot/booty/'looty' can be picked up from the sea by tapping a button, while capturing boats brings up the option of salvaging it to repair your own, or sending it off to join the fleet, leading into an optional mini-game that you can play on a tablet device. Ubi are going big on the dual-screen stuff this year, and while I'm not 100% fussed about this method of enhancing games, what they've done here looks fairly swish: have the map of the world on your lap and set real-time waypoints without menus. It's the exact sort of thing that makes me want to spend money I don't have on things I don't need.
With the exploits of Desmond and Danny-f**king-Wallace happily wrapped up in Assassin's Creed 3, Ubisoft can finally put the sci-fi nonsense on the sidelines and concentrate on creating era-simulators. The noises it has made in interviews suggest the Animus will take a back-seat role, and the interface elements seem notably grounded – the glitchy electronic elements that pop up in the world seem downplayed this time, which suits me perfectly.
The desire for previous entries to tell a story always seemed to get in the way of what I like the most: exploring a world at my pace, and gradually working towards 100% completion. Black Flag has the potential to offer that and something far more satisfying than explosive hype. A bit of comfort-food gaming wouldn't go amiss. Source
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Note that I said "released" in the title - Nikon may still show their EVIL solution at Photokina, but I do not expect it to be available in stores any time soon. They may also come out with another press release (like they did at PMA), but there will be no other products released as far as I know. There could be another announcement by the end of the year, but it is too yearly to make any speculations yet.
Nikon Q
Now, the reason why I was holding up from publishing this post are the two pictures I received anonymously - no explanation, not details, just "Nikon Q":
Nikon did produce Q lenses back in the 50's (see some Q lenses on eBay) but I doubt those pictures were taken 60 years ago.
The second picture appears to display a camera with the letter "Q" on the front - is "Q" going to be the new Nikon mount? For their EVIL system maybe? I already reported that Nikon started labeling their lens caps with "F" which could be an indication that another mount may be coming soon.
Again, those two pictures could be fake or maybe referring to a different Nikon product. I do not know. I hope that by posting this online, we will get some more information on what "Nikon Q" really is.
Let the speculations begin.


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Chartering with Tania
For 12 years, Tania Aebi and Jill London have been professionally leading sailing flotillas to island groups and countries of the world, first as Women For Sail, then as TASA (Tania Aebi's Sailing Adventures), then with the sailing magazine, Latitudes & Attitudes, and now again, as W4S. Under whichever banner, their cruising destinations have included the Saronic, Cyclades, and Ionian Islands of Greece; coastal Turkey; Corsica and Sardinia; The French and Italian Rivieras; The Balearic Islands; The Grenadines; The Seychelles; Thailand; The Bahamas; New Zealand; and Croatia.
Sailing 38-60 foot boats from harbor to harbor anywhere on the planet is a uniquely rewarding type of travel, says Tania, and we still haven't found a better way to discover new lands and to meet fascinating people, aboard and ashore.
Its true. The women who have visited these island nations with Jill and Tania, who have been introduced by the sea to fascinating histories, stunning vistas, charming people, vivid colors, lively sounds and delicious foods, keep coming back for more and bringing along more of their friends each time. Jill and Tania make these trips hands-on live-aboard experiences for all, where everyone can participate as much or as little as they like, from hauling anchor to setting sails, to navigating, shopping, cooking dinner or working on the perfect tan. No matter your level of experience, you are welcome.
Their next trip (already sold out, sorry) will take place among the French Polynesian islands of Raiatea, Tahaa, Bora Bora and HuahineMarch 5-15, 2008. They are, however, looking ahead to 2009 and discussing a trip together in Vietnam, another destination that comes highly recommended!
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Groupon CEO Andrew Mason has told potential IPO investors that the company will be replacing 10 per cent of its sales staff in a push to get better deals from merchants and continue to grow.
Mason, who was talking to investors in Boston as part of the initial public offering roadshow for the daily deals site, said the company wanted to improve the quality of the deals it was offering, according to a Reuters report.
The coupon site chief exec also said that deals from new merchants make a better customer experience and there was some bias towards signing up new guys instead of hanging onto the old.
A Groupon spokesperson declined to comment.
Merchants haven't always been too complimentary about working with Groupon, with many saying they don't make any money from the advertising as it relies on them cutting their prices. And the news that existing merchant clients aren't the top priority for the site is unlikely to endear it to those customers.
But Mason is not exactly famed for keeping controversial opinions to himself, as an emailed rant about critics of the company is widely thought to be partially responsible for the postponement of the IPO.
Groupon looks like it might have a problem with repeat users, according to its latest filings to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the IPO.
The firm says it had around 143 million subscribers as of the end of September this year, but only 30 million of them bought coupons in the nine months to September, and only 16 million were repeat customers.
The daily deals site has already given itself a hefty discount, with its IPO currently seeking a valuation of $11.4bn compared to the $25bn it was hoping for in June, and a lack of repeat customers could affect its ability to capitalise on subscribers and make money – thereby further damaging its value.
According to the online version of its roadshow (an oddity in itself as these things are not normally conducted on the net), Groupon shares are scheduled to price around 3 November. ®


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Site rates Sunport one of nation's most expensive airports
Survey: Average round-trip ticket more than $550
Online travel site cheapflights.com ranks Albuquerque's International Sunport as the country's 10th-most expensive airport.
According to the site, a round-trip flight there goes for an average of $559. That's more than the Boston and Atlanta airports. The site says it complied the rankings by looking at prices from June to popular destinations around the globe.
But travelers who use the Sunport aren't on board with those numbers.
"I don't see any difference," said resident Ken Krupick.
Sunport officials dispute the numbers too.
The airport said its data from the last 12 months shows it's one of the cheapest. They said the numbers they collected from the last 12 months would make them 74th most expensive overall.
According to the survey, Honolulu is the most expensive airport at which to book a ticket, with an average price of $689. The survey lists the cheapest as Long Beach, Calif., at $216 average for a round-trip ticket.
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Located above Avenida Diagonal tucked away on a quite street- The Foto Colectania Foundation sits in a nondescript building and hides one of the best kept secrets documenting Barcelona's past. Their latest exhibit which opens on Wednesday (September 19) presents one the city's lesser known street photographers in a show simply titled "Barcelona 1957. Leopoldo Pomés". The Foto Colectania recovers the photographic journey through the city of Barcelona when publisher Carlos Barral commissioned a young Pomés in 1957 to document city life through his own eyes.
Far from portraying Barcelona as a "showcase" city, Pomés guides you on a tour through the very essence of Barcelona in the late fifties, offering up his own view rather than a generic look at the city as a whole. Documenting life in neighborhoods such as the Raval and the Eixample his camera lens also captured the more marginalized barrios of Barcelona like the now infamous Barceloneta, and the areas of the Verdum and the Encants, which at the time were located outside the city limits. However, despite its quality and intensity, for some reason theses images , most of which have never been seen have not surfaced until now.
Curated by Pepe Font de Mora, director of Foto Colectania the exhibit which runs from September 19 to January 26, 2013 will feature the 80 photographs, many of them vintage prints, that composed the original project.
The collection will also be compiled in a photo-book co-edited by Colectania in collaboration with La Fábrica, including texts by Juan Manuel Bonet, Leopoldo Pomés and Eduardo Mendoza and will be on sale at the Foundation.
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To celebrate the passing of another Friday the 13th, the folks over at Stange Kids Club commissioned this hilarious wallpaper from illustrator Glen Brogan. We kind of love where their minds are at, now someone please make a horror book with a collection villains like Where's Jason?, Where's Freddy?, Where's Michael?, and Where's Pumpkinhead?
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The FBI, Interpol and China's ministry of public security are all investigating the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, as fears grew that it had been the victim of a terrorist attack.
As night fell on the second day since the Boeing 777's disappearance Saturday 35,000 feet above the Gulf of Thailand, a search and rescue operation was continuing for the plane and its 239 passengers.
Deepening the sense of mystery surrounding the fate of the plane, Malaysia's air force chief said "the military radar indicated that the aircraft may have made a turn back" — while others seized upon a 2012 report that showed a a metre-long section of its wing had been damaged and later repaired after a "minor collision".
In what could be the first potential breakthrough, a Vietnamese search and rescue plane said it had spotted two pieces of debris about 80 kilometres southwest of Tho Chu Island. The fragments were believed to be a part of the inner door and a piece of the missing airline's tail, Vietnam's ministry of information and communication said on its website.
One Malaysian official, baffled by the lack of evidence 48 hours after the accident, said it "appears to indicate that the aircraft is likely to have disintegrated at around 35,000 feet." But aviation experts said it was impossible to know whether the plane disintegrated until wreckage was found, which could take days.
More ominous questions emerged about who was on board the Beijing-bound flight after the Malaysian authorities said as many as four passengers may have used fake or stolen passports. Interpol said it was "examining additional suspect passports" and the FBI was helping Malaysian investigators in identifying the four. Hishamuddin Hussein, the Malaysian transport minister, said the authorities "do not want to jump the gun," but had "informed the counter-terrorism units of all relevant countries."
Investigators are also reviewing the CCTV footage of the passengers at Kuala Lumpur airport.
There is a brisk trade in stolen passports in South East Asia and Interpol currently has 39 million stolen or lost passports recorded in its database — equivalent to the population of Poland.
"Any flight of that size in Asia would be carrying a couple of people with false passports," said Clive Williams, a counter-terrorism expert at Macquarie University in Australia.
"When you think about the number of passports that have been stolen or gone missing around the world, it could be related, but it is probably not."
However, others said if it was a coincidence, it was a remarkable one.
"What are the chances that one person boards a Malaysia Airlines plane on a stolen Caucasian passport?" asked one aviation expert who asked not to be named. "Maybe it is one in a thousand. Two? One in a million," he added.
Initially, Malaysia Airlines had played down the use of two stolen passports, saying that any passengers headed to Beijing would have had to apply for a Chinese visa.
However, The Daily Telegraph confirmed with China Southern, the code-share airline that made the bookings for the men travelling under the names "Luigi Maraldi" and "Christian Kozel," that both were merely transiting in Beijing and did not require a visa.
Two separate ticketing agents at the airline confirmed that the men were booked to fly onwards from Beijing to Amsterdam on a KLM flight in economy.
The real Luigi Maraldi appeared at a police station in the Thai town of Phuket to clarify that he had lost his passport while renting a motorcycle in the area last year. He said the woman in the shop had told him she had given his passport to another Italian man.
Hugh Dunleavy, an executive vice-president at Malaysia Airlines, said it was not the carrier's responsibility to validate a passport.
"We just need to make sure that if we see a passport, it doesn't look like it has been forged and it has a legitimate visa. If it all looks legitimate and everything else about the customer is legitimate we will load them on the plane," he said.
Another spokesman for the airline added that all the photographs had matched the passports of the passengers. But the Malaysian authorities have promised to tighten security at Kuala Lumpur after criticism that it had grown lax in recent years.
Meanwhile, the fate of flight MH370 remains a mystery. The jet was only 11 years old, had been recently serviced and was flying in clear weather.
Its pilot, 53-year-old Zaharie Ahmad Shah, was highly experienced and described by friends as an "aviation tech geek" who loved his job so much he even spent his days off tinkering with a flight simulator he had set up at home. "We used to tease him. We would ask him, 'Why are you bringing your work home?' " said a pilot who knew Zaharie for 20 years. "He knew everything about the Boeing 777. Something significant would have had to happen for Zaharie and the plane to go missing. It would have to be total electrical failure."
Friends who saw him the day before the flight said he had been in a "jovial" mood, according to the New Straits Times, a Malaysian newspaper.
An American government official told The New York Times that the Pentagon had reviewed its surveillance system that looks for flashes around the world and saw no evidence of an explosion. Another Boeing 777 pilot, who was flying 30 minutes ahead of MH370 en route to Narita airport in Tokyo, told the New Sunday Times in Malaysia that he had made contact with the plane shortly before it vanished. "We managed to establish contact with MH370 just after 1.30 a.m. and asked them if they have transferred into Vietnamese airspace," said the captain, who was not named.
"There were a lot of interference, static, but I heard mumbling from the other end. If the plane was in trouble, we would have heard the pilot making the Mayday distress call," he said.


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The people behind Batman's video games seem to think that players can never have enough Batsuits. Loads of variant outfits—some free, some not—have been pushed out for both Arkham City and the iOS spin-off Arkham City Lockdown. The latest update to the Dark Knight's portable adventure includes more new looks, including one from a graphic novel that's not even out yet.
DC Comics announced Batman: Earth One two years ago as a modern-day reset for Bruce Wayne's alter ego. But that book still hasn't come out, despite promises that it'd hit shelves in 2010. Making an Earth One Batsuit available to purchase for $0.99 seems a bit odd. It's a sharp design but there's not been an actual book to create any more attachment to it. If you're a comic reader of a certain age like me, the free 1970s Batsuit that's also part of this update will bring back memories of artwork by Jim Aparo and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. But readers don't even know if the Earth One version of Batman will even be cool at all.
Arkham City Lockdown's 1.1 update also delivers iCloud support so you'll be able to continue the same game from multiple devices. You can grab it on the App Store right now.


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Horses with a History; Brands with a Background
Legendary Quarter Horses and superior Black Angus cattle are hallmarks of "The Four Sixes" a historic Texas ranch that is part of Burnett Ranches LLC. The ranch stands some of the most well-respected Quarter Horse stallions in the industry, with elite broodmares that produce superior individuals for ranch work and racing. The "Sixes" is also a working ranch, bringing more than 100 years of superior cattle breeding expertise to a new Black Angus program. Full-service equine veterinary services also are offered.


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There seems to be no end to the battery of trials facing Yulia Tymoshenko, the peasant-braided, fiery populist who is indisputably Ukraine's most colorful politician and was also once thought by almost everybody to be the one most likely to succeed.
On Wednesday, a hastily assembled parliamentary coalition drove Tymoshenko from her last official bastion – the job of prime minister – by voting no confidence in her and her cabinet by a majority vote of 243 deputies in the 450-seat chamber.
That final defeat came on the heels of narrowly losing a presidential election last month to her longtime rival Viktor Yanukovich, after which Ms. Tymoshenko cried "fraud" and refused to concede. A few days later, however, she was compelled to retreat from allegations that Mr. Yanukovich stole the election and she withdrew her petition to Ukraine's highest court. However, she continued to declare Yanukovich's victory illegitimate.
Still defiant Wednesday, Tymoshenko insisted that she will not head a caretaker government, as Ukraine's Constitution allows, but will go directly into opposition.
"If Yanukovich thinks that, within a week, he will be playing golf and tennis, while his circle secretly loots the national wealth, then I can say ... they will have to account for their actions to the opposition every single day," Tymoshenko told parliament. "We will keep our finger on their pulse each and every day."
Tymoshenko has accused Yanukovich of being a tool of eastern Ukrainian industrial barons. She has also warned that the new president, who takes a more pro-Russian position than his predecessor and is slated to make an official visit to Moscow on Thursday, might sell out Ukraine's national interests to the Kremlin.
Tough spot for Tymoshenko
But experts say this is a very tough spot for the one-time heroine of the Orange Revolution, who has often styled herself as the only politician who can save Ukraine from its deep political and economic crises.
"The problem for Tymoshenko is that she never has a Plan B, because she never expects to lose," says Dmitro Vydrin, an independent Ukrainian parliamentary deputy and former aide to Tymoshenko. "She is stuck with this situation. She's out of power completely now, but she may find herself not needed among the ranks of the opposition either."
Put on trial?
Members of Yanukovich's Party of Regions say there may be further tribulations in store for Tymoshenko, and hint that she may even be put on trial for alleged misdeeds during her tenure as prime minister.
"Tymoshenko was acting outside the framework of the law, and she has been trying to cover up the traces," says Vadim Kolesnichenko, a parliamentary deputy with the Party of Regions and close advisor to Yanukovich. "We want an international audit to investigate what she did with the loans Ukraine received, and what happened to the country's currency reserves. There are quite a few problems that [Tymoshenko's] government concealed from parliament," he says.
Over the past 18 months Ukraine, a France-sized nation of 46-million, has been hit by an economic tsunami and seen its gross domestic product sink by 15 percent. The International Monetary Fund extended an emergency credit of $16.4 billion to Tymoshenko's government last year, but later suspended it over Ukraine's failure to abide by terms of the loan.
Yanukovich, a lackluster former governor of the coal-mining region of Donetsk, is considered by many experts to be a reasonably competent economic manager who will have to make major compromises with Ukraine's diverse political forces if he hopes to achieve stability.
"Everyone will have to come together and mount a major struggle against this economic crisis. Ukraine is facing an awful choice between default or hyperinflation," says Vadim Karasyov, director of the independent Institute of Global Strategies in Kiev. "A parliamentary coalition will have to be put together, by hook or by crook, to back the necessary measures," he says.
If no pro-Yanukovich coalition can be assembled from the Supreme Assembly's (Verkhovna Rada) fractious deputies within 30 days, Ukraine's Constitution stipulates that fresh parliamentary elections will have to be called. That could continue Ukraine's stormy politics for months to come.


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With eyes fixed on the burgeoning Linux enterprise market, networking software specialist Novell (Tuesday announced plans to shell out $210 million in cash to acquire Germany's SUSE Linux AG.
The SUSE acquisition is Novell's second major deal in the enterprise Linux space, coming just a few months after the purchase of Ximian, a Boston-based provider of Linux desktop, management and groupware technologies.
Jack Messman, Novell chairman and CEO, said in a press conference this morning most of the 399 employees at SUSE Linux would retain their jobs after the acquisition is completed, although some of the overlapping administrative functions would be eliminated. He emphasized that the German headquarters for SUSE would remain in place.
"I want to put those fears to rest by saying that Novell is firmly committed to maintaining SUSE's presence in Nuremburg," he said.
The acquisition of the No. 2 Linux distributor (Red Hat being in the top spot) is a clear sign that companies deploying the Linux operating system in competition with Microsoft's Windows operating system have raised their ante.
Novell also announced a $50 million stock investment from technology giant IBM, which has been aggressive about deploying servers and product lines in tandem with the Linux operating system.
Additionally, Novell plans to extend commercial agreements with Big Blue to continue markeing SUSE Linux on IBM's eServer product lines. "Both of these agreements [with IBM] will be effective when the acquisition of SUSE Linux by Novell is completed," the company said.
The deal is expected to close in January 2004.
Novell said the SUSE Linux purchase, which is a crucial component of its open source strategy shift, would allow the delivery of enterprise Linux products -- from the server to the desktop.
SUSE Linux has a major presence in Europe where it markets Linux-based operating systems and application software. The company's product line includes applications for servers, networking, data exchange, and multimedia functions. SUSE has received financial backing from IBM, Intel, and Silicon Graphics.
It is also among the more popular "flavors" of Linux, noted Joe Wilcox, a research analyst who covers Microsoft for Jupiter Research (whose parent company also owns this publication). In addition, Novell's NetWare network operating system, which was popular throughout the 1990s, has been eclipsed by Microsoft's Windows Server software, Wilcox said. For Novell to increase its stake in a popular Linux distributor based in Germany, where companies and municipalities are growing more receptive to open source software, indicates "Novell is not willing to cede the network operating system market to Microsoft without a fight," Wilcox said.
Chris Stone, Novell's vice chairman, said IBM would have a roughly 2 percent stake in Novell after its investment. He minimized speculation that the Linux buy was done to compete more effectively with Microsoft.
"We didn't do this to compete with Microsoft, that's not the intention at all," he said. "Our objective isn't to go out and replace Microsoft desktops or Microsoft servers; if it happened that would be a nice side benefit.
"The objective here is to reduce impediment to Linux in the enterprise, it's that simple," he continued. "There's an opportunity here we want to take advantage of."
In April, Novell detailed its planned technological migration of its NetWare network operating system at its annual "BrainShare" user and partner conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. At that time, Novell executives said NetWare 7 would be out in around a year and a half, and it will offer a suite of services, which will reside on both NetWare and Linux kernels.
Wilcox noted that there are still a lot of companies out there running Novell's legacy NetWare software. "Novell increasing its Linux offering [through the SUSE purchase] provides a non-Windows migration path for those customers," Wilcox said. "At the same time, we see competitors of Microsoft increasingly lining up with each other in the market," such as IBM, which is "betting big" on Linux, taking a $50 million stake in the purchase.
Messman gave his thoughts regarding SCO's $1 billion lawsuit against IBM, and the indemnification policy it extended to Linux users who paid them a licensing fee to continue using the operating system.
Many software vendors have said they would not to protect its customers who use Linux if SCO manages to win the lawsuit, with the major exception of Hewlett-Packard. Messman said his company is going to issue guidance to its customers in coming weeks about its own policy.
"We call on SCO to make public the basis of its claims on Linux, and I think today's announcement is evidence we're moving forward aggressively with our strategy to support Linux," he said. "We're not holding back because of SCO's disputed and unsubstantiated claims. We have not yet had the chance to figure out what our response (to SCO's indemnification policy) is, but we will do so very quickly. I think that most people are not concerned about it."
The article was originally published on internetnews.com.
Ryan Naraine of atnewyork.com contributed to this article.


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Two Observations, It looks like Sandy does the roadblock, I think that is her walking with the women in Black,Is that Ernie in the white outfit walking with a women at the road block?
It looks to me that Amani is leading the bunny through its paces...and then maybe Marcus has to entice it back?
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ESA workshop dedicated to ocean research
The oceans store approximately half of the carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning, yet there remains a lot about their role in the carbon cycle that remains unidentified, such as carbon absorption. Knowledge of ocean colour and sea surface temperature can help scientists answer these questions.
To support ocean carbon cycle research, ESA initiated the GlobCOLOUR project, aimed at developing a 10-year data set of global ocean colour, in 2005 and the Medspiration project, aimed at charting sea-surface temperatures (SST), in 2003.
In order to report on the progress of each project to date, ESA is holding a three-day workshop in Villefranche sur mer, France, from 4 to 6 December. The workshop marks the first user consultation meeting for GlobCOLOUR and the fourth for Medspiration, which has been demonstrating operational SST products since 2004. For example, an updated map of the SST of all 2 965 500 square kilometres of the Mediterranean is generated every day under the Medspiration project.
The workshop will include presentations from scientists as well as end users interested in the products and near-real time services for activities such as data assimilation into local and global oceanographic models. Similar initiatives from other agencies and organisations will also be presented to allow GlobCOLOUR to be set in a wider context. Medspiration users will report on how SST products are already being assimilated into ocean-forecasting models and analysed data products.
GlobCOLOUR presentations will range from overall project organisation to determining phytoplankton types from ocean colour. The main reason scientists want data on ocean colour is to study phytoplankton, which play a fundamental role in regulating the Earth's climate.
Because phytoplankton contain photosynthetic chlorophyll pigments, these simple organisms also play a similar role to terrestrial 'green' plants in the photosynthetic process. Phytoplankton are able to convert inorganic compounds such as water, nitrogen and carbon into complex organic materials. With their ability to 'digest' these compounds, they are credited with removing as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as their earthbound 'cousins'.
With SST increasingly seen as a key indicator of climate change, the idea behind Medspiration is to combine data from multiple satellite systems to produce a robust set of sea surface data for assimilation into ocean-forecasting models of the waters around Europe and the whole of the Atlantic Ocean.
Both ESA projects utilise data from state-of-the-art instruments aboard different satellites. GlobCOLOUR uses data from sensors such as MERIS aboard ESA's Envisat as well as MODIS carried aboard NASA's Aqua and SeaWiFS aboard GeoEye's Orbview-2 satellite. Medspiration utilises data from ESA's Envisat and Meteosat-8, the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) polar orbiters, the Japanese's Space Agency-NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the AMSRE instrument onboard NASA's Aqua.
The data and services being provided by GlobCOLOUR and Medspiration, projects developed under ESA's Data User Element (DUE) programme, are paving the way for ESA's Sentinel-3 satellite, which will be dedicated to providing operational oceanographic services. Sentinel-3, whose principal payload is an ocean-monitoring altimeter and an optical and infrared radiometer, is scheduled for launch between 2011 and 2012 as part of the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) service.
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A week ago today, I was at the Brandywine River Museum. (Aka, the Wyeth Museum.) I knew the day would be a good one when, early on, we saw a bald eagle fly over the Jersey Turnpike. I know eagles are occasionaly seen in the area but I never thought I'd actually spot one. Once at the museum, we met up with a group of friends -- it was the always lovely Julie Bell's birthday and she made a great picnic for us, including ultra yummy cupcakes.
Currently the Brandywine is hosting an exhibit called Flights into Fantasy. A children's book show that includes Arthur Rackham, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Kay Nielsen,and many other giants. The show is stunning. If you enjoy the work of contemporary illustrators such as Charles Vess, Tony DeTerillizzi, Tom Canty, and others of their ilk, you should check it out. It will be on display until November 18th and then moves up to the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst.
And then, of course, there are the 3 Wyeths...
I first visited the Brandywine a number of years ago. I was basically going to see N.C.'s work, which truly is wonderful, but after going through the Andrew galleries.....honestly, I have never since hesitated for a second when asked who my favorite artist is. I don't think I've ever been as affected by a painter as by Andrew Wyeth's work. The guy has basically painted his backyard for 80 years. At first blush the work appears formal and tightly rendered and yet once you get on top of it, and especially when you are confronted with a body of work, it becomes strange and loose and deeply personal. It appears to be full of secret iconography. It does not matter if I don't understand the symbols, the fact that some inner language is being spoken directly at me is enough to give me entre, or at east a glimpse, into a starkly beautiful, if at times slightly unsettling, world.
And Jamie Weyth can be cool too.
We toped off the day by seeing Tony Palumbo's exihibit at a gallery in Philadelphia -- a young man painting far better than his years should allow.
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The Brandywine River Musuem
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- Adam Rex said...
Where's the Palumbo show? I'll go have a look.
- Mike Dutton said...
I remember my first time on the East Coast, I was travelling by myself for the first time, and I was there to study who I considered the masters: Wyeth, Pyle, Dunn. I was there in the middle of January, this 21 yr old west coast kid, skidding on ice in a rental, recovering from a flu during the first three days... my fault for sleeping in the Philly airport my first night just to avoid paying for a motel.
When I finally made it to the Delaware Art Museum, the Wondrous Strange exhibit happened to be up, and I just wept gratefully in the parking lot. I think I stared at Pyle's Marooned for a good twenty minutes, but short story long, I gained a real appreciation for Andrew's work that day, and I'd say without a doubt that he's my absolute favorite artist now.
Sorry for the rambling, I just get nostalgic when I hear about Brandywine related stuff and figured it was a good story to share. :)
- Irene Gallo said...
Thanks for the story, Dutton!
Funny – when I first met Robert McGinnis I was terrified but we quickly go on the topic of Andrew Wyeth and spent all night talking. One of my early conversations with Michael Deas was about Andrew Wyeth, and we also spent hours talking about him. It seems when Andrew Wyeth hits someone, he hits them _hard._
Hey Adam,
Tony's show is at The Artists House on 2nd Street in Philadelphia.
Hope to see you sometime soon!
Hey Irene,
Thanks for mentioning the cupcakes. That was such a great day to share with all of you guys!
See you in Saratoga,
- Jorge Mascarenhas said...
"When Andrew Wyeth hits someone, he hits them hard." You just nailed the exact quote for the impact Andrew makes on lot of people in general. He continously blows my mind, and my biggest wish is to see one of his originals in person. Great post!
- capprotti said...
I've REALLY got to get back to the Brandywine River Museum! And I have to say, Tony has made my draw not only drop to the floor, but break right through it... ruining the artist house's beautiful hardwood! Ha ha, seriously, an amazing show as usual. I wish I could have stopped by there every morning. He has a way of making you want to be a better artist. Were you guys there on first friday? I got to the door and they weren't letting anyone else in. Ha ha, I wish they'd stay open a little bit later.
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• 3. Oops You Did It Again, You Played With My Heart ... . When Bronson Arroyo beats you in August, well, we don't really feel like talking about this. Reds 7, Cardinals 2, Bronson Arroyo ends 10-start winless streak. We shall now ingest an entire bottle of Johnny Drama's Propecia pills.
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7 week ban. Mitigating circumstances are that he plays for Quins, and isnt Ashton....
In the words of the RFU, it was an intentional act, but he didnt cause an injury, so reduced ban.
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I think Ashy was european city body too!
Never same outcome
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Looks like his first game back could be against - Saracens!
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I have no idea how anyone can say this was worse then Ashton's. Ashton grabbed a bloke by the face and threw him on the floor for heaven's sake!
Im sorry Fartheralice, but in the nature of a good spirited debate, thats not completely true. While there is a reduction in sentence if the person pleaded guilty, it is not automatically halved. Where I feel the ban is leinient is that it was considered intentional but only considered entry as no injury was caused, in world rugby laws an intentional act shouldnt be entry level, it should be mid point. Additionally world rugby have asked that an extra week be added for eye gouging, it wasnt.
I agree that Ashton should have pleaded guilty, but there were other factors, and intention did not play the same role. When Kruis was accused of contact with the eye during a maul against Bath it was thrown out as rugby incident as it was unintentional. By the letter of their laws it was contact with the eyes, but no ban given as accidental. Im not saying that Ashtons wasnt reckless, but it wasnt intentional, and no injury was caused, which wasnt a factor as it was this time
Im not saying Ash shouldnt have been banned, just that there should be consistency across punishments.
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There are no aggravating features and all of the standard mitigating factors are
present. The Player is genuinely contrite, he realises the damage done to an individual
and to the wider image of the Game, he admitted culpability at the earliest opportunity
and he undoubtedly wishes to make reparation for his offending. He is, therefore,
entitled to 50% discount from that entry point which leads me to conclude that the
appropriate sanction is a suspension of 32 weeks. Since this is a long sanction it will
run continuously through the summer vacation without a break.
Quote:19.11.11 Thereafter, a Disciplinary Panel shall identify all relevant off-field mitigating
factors and determine if there are grounds for reducing the period of
suspension and subject to Regulations 19.11.12 and 19.11.13 the extent, if at
all, by which the period of suspension should be reduced. Mitigating factors
include the following:
(a) The presence and timing of an acknowledgment of culpability/guilt
by the offending Player;
(b) The Players disciplinary record and/or good character;
(c) The youth and inexperience of the Player;
(d) The Players conduct prior to and at the hearing;
(e) The Player having demonstrated remorse for the Players conduct to
the victim Player including the timing of such remorse; and
(f) Any other off-field mitigating factor(s) that the Disciplinary Panel
considers relevant and appropriate.
19.11.12 Subject to Regulations 19.11.13 and 19.11.14 for acts of Foul Play the
Disciplinary Panel cannot apply a greater reduction than 50% of the relevant
entry point suspension. In assessing the percentage reduction applicable
for mitigating factors, the Disciplinary Panel shall start at 0% reduction and
apply the amount, if any, to be allowed as mitigation up to the maximum
50% reduction.
The thing that annoys me about this whole judgement is that Sinkler pleads guilty to get the reduction and immediately goes to the press and says it wasn't intentional which was the finding of the board
This comment basically negates his guilty plea - so get that reduction removed
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Which particular inconsistencies?
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Which particular inconsistencies?
Well done people! I was afraid someone was going to take the bait!
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Fair play to Sinckler, at least he owned up to breaking the rules. Better that than pretending it never happened even when everyone can see rules have been broken.
Quote:Quinten PoulsenQuote:TOKSQuote:Quinten Poulsen
Which particular inconsistencies?
Well done people! I was afraid someone was going to take the bait!
Just to be clear - did you have any inconsistencies in mind or did you just post it so that someone would ask a question about it?
Adey - your cynicism/realism could be a real asset to our board, reigning back our more myopic/excessive posts, balancing our tendency to get carried away by our support for our team. May I ask that you think about the tone of your posts? Please consider presenting your viewpoint in a less confrontational manner. And avoid personal insults whatever the perceived provocation - something I'm not always good at doing!
This is generally a friendly, welcoming board with very few ongoing arguments. I'd hate to see it degenerate to a clone of the Quins board. Please have a look at TOK's reply to QP as an example of how to make balanced posts.
I did have inconsistencies in mind, QP, and if you think really really hard you could probably make an informed guess as to which ones they are.
You make several good points and are always welcome on this board. Unfortunately we have a slight male chicken problem at the moment, both of whom have raised their beak during this thread, and hopefully will disappear soon. Please don't allow yourself to get tarred with the same brush as your views are always welcome.
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The red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, is a species of snout beetle also known as the Asian palm weevil or sago palm weevil. The adult beetles are relatively large, ranging between two and five centimeters long, and are usually a rusty red colour - but many colour variants exist and have often been misidentified as different species (e.g., Rhynchophorus vulneratus;[2]). Weevil larvae can excavate holes in the trunk of a palm trees up to a metre long, thereby weakening and eventually killing the host plant. As a result, the weevil is considered a major pest in palm plantations, including the coconut palm, date palm and oil palm.[3]
Originally from tropical Asia, the red palm weevil has spread to Africa and Europe, reaching the Mediterranean in the 1980s. It was first recorded in Spain in 1994,[4] and in France in 2006. Additional infestations have been located in Malta and Italy (Tuscany, Sicily and Campania). It is also well established throughout most of Portugal, especially in the South.[5] Researchers also suspect that it has established in Morocco, Algeria and other North African countries, but there remains no official confirmation.[6] The weevil was first reported in the Americas on Curaçao in January 2009[7] and sighted the same year in Aruba.[8] It was reported in the United States at Laguna Beach, CA late in 2010.[9][10]
Life cycle[edit]
This weevil usually infests palms younger than twenty years.[11] While the adult causes some damage through feeding, it is the burrowing of the larva into the heart of the palm that can cause the greatest mortality of trees. The adult female lays approximately two hundred eggs on new growth in the crown of the palm, at the base of young leaves, or in open lesions on the plant.[citation needed] The egg hatches into a white, legless larva. The larva will feed on the soft fibres and terminal buds, tunneling through the internal tissue of the tree for about a month. The larvae can occasionally grow to a length of six to seven centimeters.[12] At pupation, the larva will leave the tree and form a cocoon built of dry palm fibers in leaf litter at the base of the tree. The total life cycle takes about 7–10 weeks.[citation needed]
After fertilization, the adult female can lay between 300 and 500 eggs. They lay in holes they produced while searching for food, or take advantage of the cracks or wounds in a recently cut palm. At oviposition, females bend upward and the tarsi are anchored to the tissue with the spines of the third pair of legs to push the ovipositor into the tough palm tissue. After laying, the female protects and secures the eggs with a secretion that rapidly hardens around the eggs. On average, females produce 210 eggs per clutch, most of which hatch over a period of 3 days. The eggs are white, cylindrical, glossy, oval shaped, and measure 1 to 2.5 mm. The back of these eggs possess special 'gill cover' structures that provide the developing insect with oxygen.
The neonate larvae are yellow-white, segmented, legless, and have a chitinous head capsule (characteristic for curculionids) that is a darker brown than the rest of the body. They have powerful horizontal conical jaws which they use to burrow from the axils of the leaves to the crown, where they feed voraciously. Upon completion of larval development, the larva will sometimes emerge from the trunk of the tree, and build a pupal case of fiber extracted from the galleries inside the palm. The larva will then undergo metamorphosis into an adult. The larva will also weave a pupal case at the base of the palm fronds within the frond itself or at the centre of the base of the plant.
The adult insect is an excellent flier and is able to travel great distances.[citation needed] While they prefer to attack palms that are already infested or weakened by other stresses, they will colonize healthy palms.[citation needed]
The behaviour and bionomics of the red palm weevil have been investigated in the field .[citation needed] The biology and life history of the weevil have been investigated on five diets, including banana, sugarcane, squash fruit, apple, and palm crown. The rate of development showed great variation depending on the host used. Developmental time was shortest on palm crown, followed by banana, and then squash fruit and apple, and longest on sugarcane. Egg production was the highest on palm crown, being 338 ± 37.24 eggs/female followed by banana, squash fruit, and apple, and the lowest (117. ± 18.9 eggs/female) on sugarcane.[citation needed]
Studies show that this insect is attracted by ethyl acetate, 2-mehoxy.4.vinylphenol, gamma-nonanoic lactone, 4SSS-ferrugineol, 50H and 4me-9-5Kt.[citation needed]
Symptoms of infestation[edit]
The infestation of the pest can result in yellowing and wilting of palms, that may lead to the death of the affected plant. The crown wilts first, and lower leaves will follow, due to damage to vascular tissue. Major symptoms such as crown loss or leaf wilt are usually only visible long after the palm has become infested. Secondary infections of opportunistic bacteria and fungi may occur within damaged tissues, accelerating decline. By the time these external symptoms are observed, the damage is usually sufficient to kill the tree, and the infestation may have been present for six months or longer. In high-density infestations, sounds of the larvae burrowing and chewing can be heard by placing one's ear to the trunk of the palm. Recent research has been conducted using electronic listening devices or dogs trained to recognize the scent of weevils or palm decay to detect infestations at low densities earlier in the process.
Canary Island date palm, Phoenix canariensis, with first obvious infestation signs
The main control method is through the application of a systemic insecticide. Insecticide is usually applied through a funnel about 5 cm above the infested area of the trunk. The red palm weevil can be monitored using pheromone lures [13] bucket or pitfall traps,[14] and alternative forms of control use field sanitation and mass trapping with traps baited with pheromone and plant derived semiochemicals. New alternative technologies using semiochemicals and bio insecticides are being developed to more effectively control this devastating pest of palm trees. One of them is a new formulation with insecticide and pheromone called SPLAT[15] RPW that attracts the weevils to a point source and kills them. Another ecofriendly management technique is to drench the base of palm fronds with the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae,[16] or Beauveria bassiana.[17] An Italian company has developed a microwave collar that can be used to sterilize individual trees.[18] For early detection of Red Palm Weevil, bioacoustics analysis may be implemented [19] by inserting sensitive microphone into the tree and recording any produced sounds. These sounds are analyzed by digital signal processing and artificial intelligence to decide whether they are generated by Red Palm Weevil.
As the weevil prefers to lay its eggs in softer tissues, avoiding mechanical damage to plants can help to reduce infestation. Tarring wounds after pruning a plant of dead or old leaves can also reduce the probability of infestation. The movement of plant material such as husks, dead leaves, or untreated coir from infested to uninfested areas is not recommended.
Host range[edit]
The red palm weevil is reported to attack 19 palm species worldwide. Although the weevil was first reported on coconut in Southeast Asia, it has gained a foothold on date palm over the last two decades in several Middle Eastern countries, and then expanded its range to Africa and Europe.[20] This expansion has been due to the movement of infested planting material from contaminated to uninfected areas.[21] In the Mediterranean region, the red palm weevil also severely damages Phoenix canariensis. Currently, the pest is reported in almost 15% of the global coconut-growing countries and in nearly 50% of the date palm-growing countries.[22]
The list of known hosts includes: Areca catechu, Arenga pinnata, Borassus flabellifer, Caryota maxima, C. cumingii, Cocos nucifera (coconut palm), Corypha gebanga, C. elata, Elaeis guineensis, Livistona decipiens, Metroxylon sagu, Oreodoxa regia, Phoenix canariensis, P. dactylifera (date palm), P. sylvestris, Sabal umbraculifera, Trachycarpus fortunei, Washingtonia spp.[23] Lab studies have reared the insect on diets of Agave americana and Saccharum officinarum, but these findings have not been observed in the wild. There is evidence that the weevil prefers the 'Sukkary' cultivar of date palm to other cultivars.[24]
The palm species Washingtonia filifera and Chamaerops humilis may be resistant to the red palm weevil.[25]
Habitat range[edit]
Bangladesh, Bahrain, Cambodia, China, Ecuador,[26] India, Indonesia, Japan, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam, Egypt, also Papua-New Guinea and Solomon Islands. It has most recently been reported in Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, France, Italy, Malta, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Israel, Monaco, Morocco, Aruba and the United States.
Culinary uses[edit]
The larval grub is considered a delicacy in much of Southeast Asia. "Sago Delight", or "Fried Sago Worms" are considered a speciality in Malaysia, although versions of this dish can be found in many Southeast Asian countries and Papua New Guinea, where it is regarded as a delicacy. Sago grubs have been described as creamy tasting when raw, and like bacon or meat when cooked. They are often prepared with sago flour. In New Guinea, sago worms are roasted on a spit to celebrate special occasions.[citation needed] They are eaten either raw or roasted, and are regarded as a special high-nutrient meal among most Sarawak tribes such as the Melanau and the Dayak.[citation needed] The Asmat, Korowai and Kombai peoples of southern New Guinea also hold the larva in high regard as a food source.[citation needed]
- ^ Rhynchophorus ferrugineus at European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO)
- ^ Hallett, R.H., Crespi, B.J., Borden, J.H. 2004. Synonymy of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier), 1790 and R. vulneratus (Panzer), 1798 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Rhynchophorinae). J. Nat. Hist. 38:2863-2882
- ^ Rhynchophorus ferrugineus at North American Plant Protection Organization (NAPPO)
- ^ Ferry & Gómez. 2002. The red palm weevil in the Mediterranean. Vol. 46, No 4, Palms (formerly Principes), Journal of the International Palm Society. link http://www.palms.org/palmsjournal/2002/redweevil.htm link
- ^ "As palmeiras ainda podem ganhar a guerra contra o escaravelho-vermelho" Article in publico.pt, February 9th, 2014
- ^ [1] http://www.picudorojocanarias.es
- ^ "Biologische bestrijding Red Palm Weevil" Ben Kleine, March 28th, 2009 on Amigo.com
- ^ 2010 California Farmer periodical "World's worst palm pest in state" Richardson
- ^ [2] Orange County Register, "Destructive exotic beetle found in Laguna Beach."
- ^ [3] CDFA; Red Palm Weevil, Worst Known Pest of Palm Trees Detected in Laguna Beach
- ^ Abraham, V.A., Al-Shuaibi. Mahmood, J.R., Faleiro, R.A. Abozuhairah and P.S.P.V. Vidyasargar. 1998. An integrated approach for the management of red palm weevil, Rhyncophorus ferrugineus Oliv.-A key pest of date palm in the Middle East. Sultan Qaboos University Journal of Scientific Research, Agricultural Science, 3: 77-83.
- ^ Wattanapongsiri, A. 1966. A revision of the genus Rhynchophorus and Dynamis (Coleoptera: Curculonidae). Department of Agriculture Science Bulletin. Vol I. Bangkok. (TH)
- ^ [4] http://www.iscatech.com/ecommerce/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=35
- ^ [5] http://www.iscatech.com/ecommerce/index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=116
- ^ [6] http://www.iscatech.com/exec/SPLAT.htm
- ^ [7] http://www.iraqi-datepalms.net/uploadedfiles/entomopathogenic%20fungi.pdf
- ^ [8] http://www.pubhort.org/datepalm/datepalm2/datepalm2_31.pdf
- ^ http://www.ecopalm.it/public/en/ecopalm_ring.html
- ^ [9] http://www.eurasip.org/Proceedings/Eusipco/Eusipco2009/contents/papers/1569189952.pdf
- ^ Malumphy, C; Moran, H. 2007. Red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus. Plant Pest Notice, Central Science Laboratory (50): 1-3.
- ^ Ferry & Gómez. 2002. The red palm weevil in the Mediterranean. Vol. 46, No 4, Palms (formerly Principes), Journal of the International Palm Society. link http://www.palms.org/palmsjournal/2002/redweevil.htm link
- ^ A review of the issues and management of the red palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Rhynchophoridae) in coconut and date palm during the last one hundred years. J.R. Faleir
- ^ [10] FDACS Pest Alert
- ^ Al-Ayedh, H. 2008. Evaluation of date palm cultivars for rearing the red date palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculonidae). Florida Entomologist, 91(3): 353 - 358.
- ^ [11] Journal of Applied Entomology, "Are the palms Washingtonia filifera and Chamaerops humilis suitable hosts for the red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Col. Curculionidae)?"
- ^ http://www.cedaf.org.do/eventos/cfcs_2010/presentaciones/03_martes/tstar12p.pdf
Additional resources[edit]
|Wikispecies has information related to: Rhynchophorus ferrugineus
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rhynchophorus ferrugineus.
- European Commission - Directorate-General for Health & Consumers (2011) The insect killing our palm trees. EU efforts to stop the Red Palm Weevil. ISBN 978-92-79-21268-0
- CISR: Red Palm Weevil Information
- Red Palm Weevil Home
- Red Palm Weevil Control & Tips
- Red Palm Weevil Research Chair, King Saud University, Riyadh
- Greek webpage dedicated to management
- USDA information page
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
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Specimens with Barcodes: 310
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This post is a brief discussion about the advantages of activating parallelism by altering the session environment instead of using the alternative ways (hints, DDL). The latter ways are the most popular in my experience, but I have noticed that their popularity is actually due, quite frequently, more to imperfect understanding rather than informed decision - and that's a pity since "alter session force parallel query" can really save everyone a lot of tedious work and improve maintainability a great deal.
We will also check that issuing
alter session force parallel query parallel N;
is the same as specifying the hints
/*+ parallel (t,N) */ /*+ parallel_index (t, t_idx, N) */
for all tables referenced in the query, and for all indexes defined on them (the former is quite obvious, the latter not that much).
Side note: it is worth remembering that hinting the table for parallelism does not cascade automatically to its indexes as well - you must explicitly specify the indexes that you want to be accessed in parallel by using the separate parallel_index hint (maybe specifying "all indexes" by using the two-parameter variant "parallel_index(t,N)"). The same holds for "alter table parallel N" and "alter index parallel N", of course.
the power of "force parallel query"
I've rarely found any reason for avoiding index parallel operations nowadays - usually both the tables and their indexes are stored on disks with the same performance figures (if not the same set of disks altogether), and the cost of the initial segment checkpoint is not generally different. At the opposite, using an index can offer terrific opportunities for speeding up queries, especially when a full table scan can be substituted by a fast full scan on a (perhaps much) smaller index.
Thus, I almost always let the CBO consider index parallelism as well. Three methods can be used:
- statement hints (the most popular option)
- alter table/index parallel N
- "force parallel query".
I rather hate injecting parallel hints everywhere in my statements since it is very risky. It is far too easy to forget to specify a table or index (or simply misspell them), not to mention to forget new potentially good indexes added after the statement had been finalized. Also, you must change the statement as well even if you simply want to change the degree of parallelism, perhaps just because you are moving from an underequipped, humble and cheap test environment to a mighty production server. At the opposite, "force parallel query" is simple and elegant - just a quick command and you're done, and with a single place to touch in order to change the parallel degree.
"alter table/index parallel N" is another weak technique as well in my opinion, mainly for two reasons. The first one is that it is a permanent modification to the database objects, and after the query has finished, it is far too easy to fail to revert the objects back to their original degree setting (because of failure or coding bug). The second one is the risk of two concurrent sessions colliding on the same object that they both want to read, but with different degrees of parallelism.
Both the two problems above do not hold only when you always want to run with a fixed degree for all statements; but even in this case, I would consider issuing "force parallel query" (maybe inside a logon trigger) instead of having to set/change the degree for all tables/indexes accessed by the application.
I have noticed that many people are afraid of "force parallel query" because of the word "force", believing that it switches every statement into parallel mode. But this is not the case: as Tanel Poder recently illustrated, the phrase "force parallel query" is misleading; a better one would be something like "consider parallel query", since it is perfectly equivalent to hinting the statement for parallelism as far as I can tell (see below). And hinting itself tells the CBO to consider parallelism in addition to serial execution; the CBO is perfectly free to choose a serial execution plan if it estimates that it will cost less - as demonstrated by Jonathan Lewis years ago.
Hence there's no reason to be afraid, for example, that a nice Index Range Scan that selects just one row might turn into a massively inefficient Full Table Scan (or index Fast Full Scan) of a one million row table/index. That is true besides bugs and CBO limitations, obviously; but in these hopefully rare circumstances, one can always use the no_parallel and no_parallel_index to fix the issue.
"force parallel query" and hinting: test case
Let's show that altering the session is equivalent to hinting. I will illustrate the simplest case only - a single-table statement that can be resolved either by a full table scan or an index fast full scan (check script force_parallel_main.sql in the test case), but in the test case zip two other scenarios (a join and a subquery) are tested as well. Note: I have only checked 184.108.40.206 and 188.8.131.52 (but I would be surprised if the test case could not reproduce in 10g as well).
Table "t" has an index t_idx on column x, and hence the statement
select sum(x) from t;
can be calculated by either scanning the table or the index. In serial, the CBO chooses to scan the smaller index (costs are from 22.214.171.124):
select /* serial */ sum(x) from t; -------------------------------------- |Id|Operation |Name |Cost| -------------------------------------- | 0|SELECT STATEMENT | | 502| | 1| SORT AGGREGATE | | | | 2| INDEX FAST FULL SCAN|T_IDX| 502| --------------------------------------
If we now activate parallelism for the table, but not for the index, the CBO chooses to scan the table:
select /*+ parallel(t,20) */ sum(x) from t ------------------------------------------ |Id|Operation |Name |Cost| ------------------------------------------ | 0|SELECT STATEMENT | | 229| | 1| SORT AGGREGATE | | | | 2| PX COORDINATOR | | | | 3| PX SEND QC (RANDOM) |:TQ10000| | | 4| SORT AGGREGATE | | | | 5| PX BLOCK ITERATOR | | 229| | 6| TABLE ACCESS FULL|T | 229| ------------------------------------------
since the cost for the parallel table access is now down from the serial cost of 4135 (check the test case logs) to the parallel cost 4135 / (0.9 * 20) = 229, thus less than the cost (502) of the serial index access.
Hinting the index as well makes the CBO apply the same scaling factor (0.9*20) to the index as well, and hence we are back to index access:
select /*+ parallel_index(t, t_idx, 20) parallel(t,20) */ sum(x) from t --------------------------------------------- |Id|Operation |Name |Cost| --------------------------------------------- | 0|SELECT STATEMENT | | 28| | 1| SORT AGGREGATE | | | | 2| PX COORDINATOR | | | | 3| PX SEND QC (RANDOM) |:TQ10000| | | 4| SORT AGGREGATE | | | | 5| PX BLOCK ITERATOR | | 28| | 6| INDEX FAST FULL SCAN|T_IDX | 28| ---------------------------------------------
Note that the cost computation is 28 = 502 / (0.9 * 20), less than the previous one (229).
"Forcing" parallel query:
alter session force parallel query parallel 20; select /* force parallel query */ sum(x) as from t --------------------------------------------- |Id|Operation |Name |Cost| --------------------------------------------- | 0|SELECT STATEMENT | | 28| | 1| SORT AGGREGATE | | | | 2| PX COORDINATOR | | | | 3| PX SEND QC (RANDOM) |:TQ10000| | | 4| SORT AGGREGATE | | | | 5| PX BLOCK ITERATOR | | 28| | 6| INDEX FAST FULL SCAN|T_IDX | 28| ---------------------------------------------
Note that the plan is the same (including costs), as predicted.
Side note: let's verify, just for fun, that the statement can run serially even if the session is "forced" as parallel (note that I have changed the statement since the original always benefits from parallelism):
alter session force parallel query parallel 20; select /* force parallel query (with no parallel execution) */ sum(x) from t WHERE X < 0 ---------------------------------- |Id|Operation |Name |Cost| ---------------------------------- | 0|SELECT STATEMENT | | 3| | 1| SORT AGGREGATE | | | | 2| INDEX RANGE SCAN|T_IDX| 3| ----------------------------------
Side note 2: activation of parallelism for all referenced objects can be obtained, in 126.96.36.199, using the new statement-level parallel hint (check this note by Randolf Geist for details):
select /*+ parallel(20) */ sum(x) from t --------------------------------------------------- |Id|Operation |Name |Table|Cost| --------------------------------------------------- | 0|SELECT STATEMENT | | | 28| | 1| SORT AGGREGATE | | | | | 2| PX COORDINATOR | | | | | 3| PX SEND QC (RANDOM) |:TQ10000| | | | 4| SORT AGGREGATE | | | | | 5| PX BLOCK ITERATOR | | | 28| | 6| INDEX FAST FULL SCAN|T_IDX |T | 28| ---------------------------------------------------
This greatly simplifies hinting, but of course you must still edit the statement if you need to change the parallel degree.
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