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No matter what the CrunchPad is called these days -- the JooJoo, CrunchPad, whatever -- it's going to flop.
Why? The same problems it had in the first place. They are...
- Too much money for not enough gadget. At $500, this Web-only tablet is very expensive. And it doesn't do much -- just a Web device. No iTunes, no app store, not even Zune subscriptions. This is not something that mainstream buyers are looking for. And it's definitely not what Arrington first hoped the CrunchPad would be, "a dead simple Web tablet for $200."
- Tiny startup with no marketing prowess. This thing is supposed to go up against a tablet from Apple. And maybe one from Microsoft. And the Kindle. And much cheaper netbooks. Forget it.
- No major retail presence. The company says "in the future." But until this thing is on the shelves at Best Buy, Costco, Target, Walmart, etc., it's not going to sell enough to stay in business. And there's no reason to believe this will happen.
- It won't ship until February. This assumes no further delays, which is a pipe dream for hardware startups. By the time it actually ships, who knows what it'll be going up against.
For the uninitiated, this is the touch-pad gadget that was unveiled today as the JooJoo, after the company creating it -- Singapore-based Fusion Garage -- had a blow-up with TechCrunch's Michael Arrington last month.
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text: A Day In My Life As An MMU Student – Video $500 prize Winner: Nikki Utinkova, Czech Republic Nikki is an international student from the Czech Republic who studied on Mount Mercy's campus during the 2013-2014 academic year. Her video captures a typical day in her life as an MMU student. "In my spare time in between traveling back home, I created a video. I hope you will like it," she said. Nikki recently arrived home in the Czech Republic, and her friends on campus already miss her greatly.


text: Lift Systems (TORNADO) - LG Chem Polska Sp. Z o.o, Poland Sign up for our newsletter here!!! LG Chem suffered from lack of storage space at their existing warehouse. Another critical aspect was careful goods handling as products are moved from clean room to shipping. The main task was to provide a simple and more efficient solution to increase storage space in the existing warehouse. LG Chem had several types of boxes stored on trolleys that covered 80% of the storage space in an 8 metre high warehouse and each trolley was no more than 1.5 meter high. Therefore a large amount of headroom space was wasted. Solution: The solution was to use two special Tornado machines with 1220 mm trays and a 300 kg load fitted with two openings in each machine. That allowed LG Chem to transfer goods directly to the machine from the production clean room maintaining critical clean conditions and then from machine to shipping. The Tornados were fitted with glass cladding to provide visibility of the product stored and ensure quality and safety control. The Tornados are in operation 24 hours per day, 7 days per week therefore the machines are connected to on-line support system that allow them to be monitored in real time. Capacities: In total 540 Pol–boxes ( 32" flat screens polarizers)Storage space went from 38 m2 to 19 m2Increased capacity of warehouse by 60%Full FIFOBetter stock control Machine dimensions:8700mm and 8500mm4455 wide4200 depth Print Pdf Add


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We sure had some fun with the top 5 rockingest songs ever....and I mean ever; except that some of those songs totally didn't rock and I think you knew who you were even before you posted them. It's OK, "to each his own" comes to mind here. Not everyone has to rock. Not everyone can. Frankly, it's a responsibility and people get caught up in your whirlwind. One must be careful. It's kind of like inadvertent hypnosis. But I digress.
Next up, so we don't fall down the music rabbit hole, are the foods that other people like that you just.don't.get. So first off, let me tell you that I am making my peace with pork. Oh why didn't I make that my blog header? I still haven't quite accepted ham as a food, but I have moved bacon from my gross/gross category to my good/gross category. I can eat foods with bacon in them, and am working toward that glorious day when I can actually eat a piece of bacon. Like one just sitting on a plate there. That's progress!
So here is what I am looking for: foods that pretty much everyone else likes but that you just can't stand. Like, maybe you even have a hard time watching other people eat it because it reminds you of that one time that you accidentally put it in your mouth and then you were pretty sure you were going to have to spit it out but some authority figure was present and you had a cloth napkin and then someone asked you a question and so you had to actually eat said vile food product.
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The Lone Admin and The Cisco Technical Support iPad App
Authored by : Kent Wong, Product Manager, Technical Services
It was a evening like any other. The Lone Admin walks into a his local watering hole to relax after a full day of battling issues and keeping his company's network safe and secure. He is known somewhat as a miracle worker, a conundrum wrapped in an enigma. Even against the most sinister of network issues he is able to stand his ground and find resolution all by himself. How does he do it? None of his peers know.
At the bar the Lone Admin gets a pint of his favorite brew and settles down at a table in the corner to relax and catch up on emails using his iPad. Moments later his phone rings. On the other line was a manager crying of a black plague that has swept over the network. No one else at the company is able to figure out how to resolve it. The Lone Admin responds "Don't worry sir, I'm on it!". Calmly he turns to his iPad and launches the Cisco Technical Support iPad App. The App springs to life.
Within moments the Lone Admin is able to browse through new security articles under the feeds, view videos within the YouTube section, and search for discussions around the same issue.
A few minutes later he finds the issue. He is able to ask for detailed steps for resolution by posting a reply in the discussion thread. The question goes out to the community of thousands of other network professionals. Somewhere else in another distant part of the world another admin has issued a patch and posted the steps on installing the patch within the thread. The Lone admin rates the reply with five stars to thank his fellow community member. 10 minutes later the Lone Admin has helped the company apply the patch hence making his network safe and operational again. His manager cheers for his success and thanks him thinking that the Lone Admin has done it again. Satisfied with his performance the Lone Admin finishes his drink and walks out the bar into the sunset.
Because you see, the Lone Admin is not really alone when he has the Cisco Technical Support iPad App and the power of the Cisco Support Community by his side.
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Boehner vows another showdown over debt and taxes
House Speaker John Boehner set the stage Tuesday for another tense, partisan showdown over tax and spending policy later this year, as he vowed to insist on big spending cuts before he'll agree to a new debt ceiling – much like last summer's debt showdown debacle – and he also promised a vote before November's elections on whether to prevent Bush-era tax cuts from expiring at year's end, as scheduled.
Boehner's address to a Washington budget forum had chilling echoes of the 2011 clash over increasing the debt ceiling, a weeks-long standoff between the Obama White House and Republicans in the House of Representatives that roiled financial markets, led to a downgrade of federal credit and nearly forced much of the government to close.
Another vote on raising the debt ceiling is expected later this year, probably after the Nov. 6 elections. Boehner on Tuesday pledged to make it an "action-forcing event in a town that has become infamous for inaction. . . . When the time comes, I will again insist on my simple principle of cuts and reforms greater than the debt limit increase. This is the only avenue I see right now to force the elected leadership of this country to solve our structural fiscal imbalance."
The Ohio Republican also pledged to fight to extend Bush-era tax cuts, now set to expire at the end of this year, and called on President Barack Obama to join him. "If there's one action-forcing event that trumps all the rest – even the debt limit – it's presidential leadership," Boehner said.
Democrats scoffed.
"Republicans are once again choosing millionaires over the middle class and Speaker Boehner is threatening to take our nation into another manufactured crisis that will harm America's families," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Added Senate Democratic Policy Committee Chairman Charles Schumer of New York, "The last thing the country needs is a rerun of last summer's debacle that nearly brought down our economy."
The White House was somewhat more measured.
"Everyone except for elected members of Congress, the Republican Party, agrees with that general proposition that we need to take a balanced approach to our deficit and debt challenges," said spokesman Jay Carney. "A balanced approach" to deficit reduction is Democratic shorthand for a package including tax increases as well as spending cuts.
Boehner flatly rejected higher taxes.
"Any sudden tax hike would hurt our economy, so this fall – before the election – the House of Representatives will vote to stop the largest tax increase in American history," Boehner said, referring to the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts. Since the House has a 242-190 GOP majority, the cuts are sure to pass. But they're likely to go nowhere in the Senate, where Democrats control 53 of the 100 seats.
President Obama and House Republicans last summer engaged in weeks of negotiations over cutting spending and increasing revenues. They ultimately agreed to raise the debt ceiling in stages and to impose automatic spending cuts, set to begin taking effect in January. The first round will total about $110 billion next year, half from defense and half from domestic programs.
More crucial to the fate of the debt are the Bush-era tax cuts, which have lowered income tax rates for the past 12 years and which will expire at the end of 2012. So will a host of other tax breaks, including the 2 percent cut in the Social Security payroll tax. Extending the Bush-era tax cuts would cost roughly $3.8 trillion over 10 years, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Obama and most Democrats want current income tax rates extended only for those earning less than $250,000. They would limit deductions for the wealthy and impose a higher tax rate on millionaires. Republicans want all the Bush-era rates extended, and presumptive GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney wants them cut another 20 percent.
Boehner said his plan "will give Congress time to work on broad-based tax reform that lowers rates for individuals and businesses while closing deductions, credits and special carve-outs." The bill would establish a process by which Congress would consider "real tax reform" next year.
"The bottom line is if we do this right, this will be the last time we ever have to confront the uncertainty of expiring tax rates," he said.
Doing it right, though, would require the kind of political give and take that's been scarce in Washington in recent years. The 2011 scars are still fresh.
"We were on the verge of an agreement that would have reduced the deficit by trillions, by strengthening entitlement programs and reforming the tax code with permanently lower rates for all, laying the foundation for lasting growth," Boehner recalled. "But when the president saw his former colleagues in the Senate getting ready to press for tax hikes, he lost his nerve. The political temptation was too great. He moved the goalposts, changed his stance, and demanded tax hikes."
To House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., it all sounded like more of the same.
"The Republicans are good at buying and lousy at paying. They borrowed a lot of money. As a result, we owe a lot of money," he said.
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I've been under a bit o' stress thinking about how I'm going to hit minimum spend on 2 of the AA Exec cards, meaning I need to hit $20,000 spend in 3 months. Given my limited access to Vanilla Reloads in Manhattan, I was starting to sweat a little bit…that said, I found the cards mentioned in the Doritos incident last week, and all is OK.
But I started thinking about how you could nearly guarantee yourself 11 months to hit the minimum spend on any card, and I've come up with this:
First, I'm not saying you should do this.
Here's what you could do (if you were going to do this, which I'm not saying you should do): Buy a fully refundable business class ticket for an amount that is at least as much as the minimum spend for a flight 11 months from when you get the card. DO NOT buy the ticket on the airline associated with the card. DO NOT put in your frequent flyer number. Preferably buy the ticket on a random, somewhat obscure airline.
Continue to use the card to make sure that you will eventually hit the minimum spend during the 11 month period.
Refund the ticket a couple of weeks before the flight that you were never planning on taking.
You've hit the minimum spend with that purchase of the refundable ticket. You've spent the minimum spend for real(z) over the 11 months you have the card open, so that when you cancel that refundable ticket there is no (well, little) chance they claw back the points. You have avoided drawing any suspicion because you bought the ticket on Air Madagascar. You did not use your frequent flyer number, so the whole purchase isn't tied back to any of your frequent flyer accounts.
Foolproof? Probably.
Just a thought…


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Accenture Clone and Test enables the construction of SAP test environments using authentic SAP HR/Payroll data from production SAP ERP HCM systems. Data can be copied securely and flexibly between different SAP systems and then anonymized. The result is optimal quality, data protection and efficiency in the testing process and ongoing post "go-live" regression testing and application bug-fixes.
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Use copy and comparison techniques to monitor changes and retain the integrity of the production system.
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Copy and compare data directly either between the same or different "clients" within the system or across other SAP ERP releases.
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Copy virtually any data including customer-defined tables from SAP ERP HCM.
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Take up-to-date production data into a test system for more realistic training and new development testing.
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OAKLEY — A bicyclist hit and killed by a truck pulling a trailer on Sunday was identified Monday by the Contra Costa Coroner's Office as
62-year-old Robert Allen Montalbano.
A transient, Montalbano was riding a bicycle east on Main Street between Teakwood Drive and Empire Avenue around 1 p.m. on Sunday when the collision occurred, Oakley police Sgt. Jeff Solomon said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police administered toxicology tests to the driver of the truck, Solomon said. Investigators also are trying to determine if Montalbano was under the influence of any substance.
A portion of Main Street was closed in the eastbound direction until 9 p.m.
Paul Burgarino contributed to this story. Contact Rick Hurd at 925-945-4789 and follow him at Twitter.com/3rdERH.


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Augusta National this is not. This is Juniata, where a defaced sign warns you to lock your car and take your valuables. Where the backs of benches advertise security services and union locals. Where the "clubhouse" is actually a cart barn. And this is the new and improved Juniata, as it inches itself out of the path of a possible developer's bulldozer.
Conditions at the 78-year-old Juniata Golf Club, always the poor relation of the six city-owned public courses, had deteriorated in recent years, the victim of scarce funding, vandalism, and neglect. When a 2003 fire destroyed the clubhouse – and the bathrooms – there was no money to rebuild, and many golfers stopped coming. Those who did were increasingly irate at having to pay even $20 greens fees, only to encounter trash and weeds, vandalism, graffiti, and worse. Juniata was losing money, and last year the Fairmount Park Commission, which owned the course, cut off funding altogether.
It suggested to Bob Wheeler, the retired Philadelphia policeman who was club manager, that he put together a nonprofit foundation to run the course. Now, with the new club just a few months into its first season, Mr. Wheeler is credited with leading the resurrection of Juniata. "He took the idea and ran with it," says Barry Bessler, chief of staff of the park commission.
A reclamation effort began in earnest last summer. Today the course is busy, its tournaments and greens-fees business thriving. The women golfers, turned off by porta-potties introduced after the fire, have returned. And the greens, once again, are green. Joe Logan, who covers golf for the Philadelphia Inquirer, recalls visiting Juniata when "there wasn't a blade of grass to stick a tee in." Now, "for what it's trying to be, it's a success story. Juniata is a lunch-bucket golf course and they're proud of it."
Juniata is an odd place for a golf club. It's a working-class North Philadelphia neighborhood of well-tended brick row houses ringed by industrial buildings, corner stores, and aging playing fields. Once uniformly white and Catholic, it has seen an influx of immigrants in recent years, many Spanish speaking.
Wheeler is, as they'd phrase it in Philly, a "product" of Juniata. He never actually played golf as a kid. But he is a graduate of the rough-and-tumble playgrounds and ball fields here, of the local parish grade school, of North Catholic High, and of the lessons taught about sportsmanship and character by grown-ups. Though he may have gone on to graduate from college and even to move – after retirement from the police force – to a quieter place across the river in Jersey, he never really left the neighborhood.
How could he? He had the kind of youth that makes a guy legendary in Juniata – indeed, in the dozens of Juniatas in and around Philadelphia: He was a basketball champion. The MVP the year his high school won its only city championship ever, the guard who scored when he had to and hit the crucial free throws. It sealed his reputation here and garnered civic capital he would be tapping even 40 years later.
How could you turn away when "Wheels" came asking you to be on the board of his foundation? When he needed you to sink a deck post, pick up trash, lay a cart path, paint? Golf-loving members of the building-trades unions knew Wheeler or knew of him and came forward when it looked like the course, designed by noted architect Ed Ault, might close.
Volunteers converted the existing cart barn to a clubhouse that can seat 120 for a meal. They traded free golf for ranger duty, ushering off the errant, nongolfing teenager. If supplies needed to be moved, guys showed up with pickup trucks. If money needed to be raised, businesses paid to have their name put on a bench.
The Juniata Golf Foundation consists of 15 business and neighborhood leaders who backed the effort and encouraged others to, largely because of Wheels' street credibility. "When you come up living in the neighborhood and you come up in sports, you end up knowing a million people," says Tom Dooley, of the heavy equipment operating engineers union. "You build your reputation, and if it's a good one, it's a good one." Wheeler, he says, is "a straight-up guy, the kind of guy you trust. When Bob asks for help, we help."
Recently, at a meeting days before the club was due to host a wedding in its ambitiously named but unfurnished "Foundation Room," board members agonized that they had no tables, no dance floor, not even bathroom partitions.
A half-hour after the meeting – "a half-hour later," repeats Wheeler – he got word that a nearby restaurant was closing and selling its contents. "We got $10,000 worth of equipment for $1,000." The wedding could go on. "It was like it was made to be – like somebody was looking out for us," recalls the self-effacing Wheeler, in as direct a reference to cosmic intervention as you might expect in these surrounds.
Golf here serves the spectrum of age groups. About 70 senior members play most every day, and ease the cash flow early in the spring by paying a $400 membership fee. The pay-as-you-go players are the working people, from Juniata and beyond, who dole out about $30 a round, which includes a cart, if one is available.
The board hopes to surpass its $380,000 budget this year and have money to put back into the course, and ultimately to help other area charities. Though he'll write grant proposals and flush out all sources of potential cash for a new clubhouse, Wheeler almost seems to favor the pitch-in approach. "The thing I like about the place more than anything is there isn't any of the cliquishness that's the downfall of golf courses," he says. "This is a family atmosphere."
Married 30 years, Wheels has no children of his own. His prison-guard father was away for long stretches for work, and Wheeler has spent a lifetime being a surrogate father to others, as his coaches were to him.
During much of his tenure at the police department, he was assigned to oversee the neighborhood's arm of the Police Athletic League, a nonprofit group that brings sports, education, and recreation programs to 27 sites citywide. "I've always felt like I had 500 kids," he says of the hundreds who spent virtually every day at the league center. "But I maybe saw 20 parents, ever."
Golf is one more way to keep kids off the streets, he believes. The course hosts golf teams, church youth groups, clinics, Special Olympics, and students who need a break from summer school down the street.
The course's 85-acre green space offers elbow room in a community where there is little of it. The first hole is the traditional sledding hill in Juniata, and neighborhood kids can wander the course after golfers have finished up. Parents know that if their children go over to play or help out with work, they can expect them to be safe and supervised for five or six hours. Says the grey-haired, ruddy-faced ex-cop, who still spends his days in shorts and sneakers: "The kids need a place where they can stretch out."
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Newmar Corp., a manufacturer of Class A motorhomes and fifth-wheel trailers, has added A&S RV Center, Auburn Hills, Mich., as a motorhome dealer, according to a news release.
"Larry Andree and his family have a great reputation in the greater Detroit market area in providing quality products with great service," said Pat Terveer, Newmar director of sales. "This is a perfect match for Newmar to be able to provide our mutual customers with the opportunity to do business with such a fine dealership.''
A&S will sell Newmar's Bay Star and Canyon Star gas-powered motorhomes and the Ventana diesel pusher.
"A&S RV Center is pleased to carry Newmar motorhomes," said A & S RV Center President Larry Andree. "We always seeks to partner with manufacturers who have similar values and objectives and Newmar, a family-owned company with a focus on quality and excellent customer service, is a great fit."
A&S is a third-generation, family-owned dealership in operation since 1960. The company recently finished an expansion that doubled to nine acres it's outdoor display area while adding service bays, increasing the size of the parts and accessories store, and adding a large indoor showroom.


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We are getting close to nnBackup 3.01 release. Right now we are updating the docs and fixing the installation procedure.
Please, test the latest nnBackup beta ( http://www.nncron.ru/forums/viewforum.php?f=3 ) - this is a good idea the program to be tested thoroughly before it is released.
You can take a look at the updated docs as well: http://www.nncron.ru/nnbackup/help/help.htm . Please, report any glitches you have found!


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McKinley Park is the heart of East Sacramento. It is an urban oasis and thriving community center surrounded by some of the area's finest homes. The perks of living in McKinley Park are endless. Residents are surrounded by the amenities of East Sac, within walking distance of the multitude of Midtown's cultural offerings and are literally steps away from one of Sacramento's most scenic and inspiring gathering spots.
The park's Clunie Community Center was nearly closed in 2011 but the community came together via Friends of East Sacramento to take over the building, which now hosts a number of neighborhood events and houses a branch of the Sacramento Library. The park is also home to the McKinley Rose Garden, as well as a small lake, several horseshoe pits, baseball fields, soccer fields, and tennis courts. A favored spot for runners and walkers, the park is also popular for yogis, with a free Saturday morning yoga class held behind the rose garden.
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How to build a house with an architect
Lippincott, Aug 1, 1977 - Architecture - 190 pages
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ODU Plays Chowan In Exhibition Tuesday Night
By ODU Athletics
Nov. 3, 2008
NORFOLK, VA-- The ODU Monarchs host Chowan University in an exhibition contest Tuesday night at 7 p.m. in the Ted Constant Convocation Center.
The Old Dominion Monarchs, winners of a school record 94 games the last four seasons and 111 the past five, return seven lettermen along with four players with 16 or more starts. Last year's Monarchs won 18 games and advanced to the quarterfinals of the inaugural College Basketball Invitational. The 94 wins is the best among Virginia's Division I schools.
The Monarchs lost two of their top five scorers, including CAA Defensive Player of the Year Brandon Johnson who averaged 7.5 points, 4.6 assists and 2.7 steals. Brian Henderson ranked in the top 15 in the CAA in three-point shooting and was second on the team in scoring at 9.5 points per game. Henderson completed his career as ODU's all-time leader in games played with 134, while Johnson who set a new school single season steals mark of 91, is second all-time in career steals with 236.
Heading ODU's returnees are Gerald Lee (6-10, Jr, C-F, 12.9 ppg./5.8 rpg.), a second team All-CAA selection last season. Lee scored 20 points with eight rebounds against then sixth ranked Louisville and 24 points with 12 boards against then fifth ranked Georgetown. Also returning with at least 16 or more starts are Ben Finney (6-5, So., F, 7.0 ppg, 5.0), Darius James (6-1, So, G, 7.0 ppg., 2.2 apg.), and Frank Hassell (6-8,RS-So, 5.3 ppg./ 4.9 rpg.).
The Monarchs will be counting heavily on Jonathan Adams (6-6, Sr.,F, 6.0 ppg/ 4.1 rpg) along with Marsharee Neely (6-2, Jr,G, 3.0 ppg), Keyon Carter (6-8, F, RS-So, F, 2.0 ppg), and redshirts Kent Bazemore (6-5, Fr, G-F, Kelford, NC./Bertie HS), and Etoile Imama (6-3, Fr, G, Montreal, Canada/Champlain St. Lambert HS).
The Monarchs brought in another outstanding recruiting class which include: freshmen Chris Cooper (6-9, Fr, C, Woodbridge, VA./Forest Park HS), Trian Illiadis (6-3, Fr., G, Gwelp, W.Australia), Nick Wright (6-8, Fr, F, Suffolk, VA./Nansemound River HS) and Marquel De Lancey (6-0, Fr, G, Alexandria, VA., Mt. Vernon HS). Iliadis is nursing a foot injury.
The Monarchs averaged over 7,100 in attendance for the regular season which is the largest since the Constant Center opened in 2002-03. ODU has enjoyed the CAA's best home attendance three of the last four years.
The Monarchs will play another solid schedule with UAB, Richmond and Winthrop coming to the Constant Center, an ESPN Bracketbuster's home game and 18 conference games culminating with the 2009 CAA championships, March 6-9 at the Richmond Coliseum. The Monarchs will play road games at Charlotte, Marshall, Bucknell and Duquesne.
The Monarchs final exhibition game will be Saturday against Virginia State.


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fluidmobile needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 94 designs submitted by 46 freelance designers.
Fluid Mobile
Mobile technology and content delivery company requires professional corporate looking logo for web and print use. We will be targeting corporate clients so the logo must be crisp and professional.
Fluid Mobile
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Fluid Mobile is a new up and coming mobile technology and content delivery company that specializes in premium SMS services and websites for mobile phones (wap sites).
The logo must contain the words "Fluid Mobile" and look "clean" and "corporate" but apart form that we are open to ideas. Any color schemes are acceptable and icons/illustrations are welcome.
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Nakkers needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 154 designs submitted by 65 freelance designers.
Looking for a strong logo demonstrating professional image. Not clinical or high tech ; should be warm and welcoming giving a feeling of trust.
The logo will be used on our website http://www.ridoe.net
We are an insurance leads generating company, require an eye catching logo that appeals to the general public. We are in the process of building a search that will enable visitors to compare multiple insurance quotes. This service will provide our visitors with fast real time quotes.
- Strong solid fonts- Tag line - The home of insurance ( we also welcome your own suggestions!) - capitalize any letters you wish
- Neutral colors
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US 850 band users wanting to sell Neo
From Openmoko
The problem
The phase 1 Neo1973 does not support support the 850 MHz GSM radio band. Since the 850 MHz band is popular in North America this may be a problem for North American users, as they will find poorer reception and more "black spots" on the Neo than on phones retailed locally especially in rural areas.
More explanations in mailing list postings:
- http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-November/011473.html
- http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-November/011485.html
- http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-November/011414.html
These countries also use 850 MHz:
Because the phase 1 Neo1973 was intended as a developer release a number of North American buyers may have received their Neos before this problem was fully appreciated.
Will a modification to my Neo 1973 (GTA01bv4) be possible?
As of Feb 08, it has been confirmed by Openmoko[1] that this is not possible, presumably due to the difficulties in getting FCC approval for a (relatively) small number of phones for a model which is no longer in production.
The best option for those with GTAO1 phones in areas where they need 850MHz is therefore to get a Neo FreeRunner instead which everyone presumes will have an 850MHz option (a check on actual performance with 850MHz has already been done).
To sell up leave your details here
--Nicolas 10:00 EST, Jan 21st, 2010. NEW PRETTY SWEET DEAL!! I am selling a barely used Openmoko Neo FreeRunner GTA02, A6, GSM900, mint condition (used it for about a week), with the buzz fixed (as in A7), a brand new extra battery, headset, carrying pouch. For more information please check out the entry in the Ebay [2], or contact me via the seller questions for more information.
--Aberios 11:16, 6 December 2008 (PST) pre-owned Black FREERUNNER, $300 (or best offer) plus shipping from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Contact me though email openmoko-email(a)angelo.ca
--onida Dec 19 19:54:31 (PST) Black Neo Advanced Kit, $350 including domestic shipping from Portland, OR. Like new. Only used a couple of hours for testing. Excellent working condition. All factory accessories included. Email firstname.lastname@example.com
--Nsquires 7:01, 11 November 2007 (PST) Black Neo, $280 plus shipping from Los Angeles, CA. Like new, with screen protector film still on. Only used a couple of hours for testing. Contact me though my user page or email nathansquires (a) gmail.
--bchurchwell 20:01, 24 November 2007 (PST) Black Neo Advanced Kit, $400 including shipping from San Diego, CA. Like new, with screen protector film still on. Only used a couple of hours for testing. Most accessories never removed from case. Email email@example.com
--KrisAbsinthe Feb 15,2008 Neo 1973,Black and Silver $250 Free Shipping inside USA. All other countries will pay shipping. Great Condition w/ lanyard, stylus lost, 512 MB MicroSD,Head Phones. For $280 (total) I will send the device in for the GSM firmware upgrade. Before shipping it off. Includes Latest usable Root and Kernel. Gsmhandset.state has been hacked for better sound, GPS pre-installed and working with TangoGPS. firstname.lastname@example.com Selling cause I live in a GSM 850 area.


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Renee Loux: Green Expert & Chef
Renee Loux discusses how she became involved with providing and fighting for healthier options when it comes to the way we eat and serve food.
Renée Loux
Green Expert & Chef
Environmentalism begins in the body and in the mind. Renée Loux discusses how eating can be an environmentalist act.
Renée Loux is a champion for the environmental and sustainable food movements. She is an author, television personality, chef and monthly columnist for Women's Health magazine. Renée has successfully published four books on the subject of sustainability, environmentalism and healthy lifestyles. She is the host of It's Easy Being Green on the Scripps Network. Renée also designed Exhale Spa's GRN skincare line and serves on their board.


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State agencies investigating huge 'pasture party' in East Texas
SAN ANTONIO - A party in an East Texas pasture where thousands of people gathered earlier this month is under investigation by a slew of state and local agencies, including the Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission.
Van Zandt County officials have estimated between 3,000-5,000 people, many teenagers and some from out of state, attended the shindig in a mowed pasture behind a tree line in Ben Wheeler on June 14. Organizers charged a $5 admission, police say, which adds up to $15,000-$25,000 based on crowd estimates, according to KLTV.
Teenagers organized the farm fiesta via social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram using the hashtag #PB3, which stands for "Project Beall 3", according to flyers posted on social media. Two officers were the first to respond, and, unsurprisingly, had trouble controlling the situation.
"We found many, many liquor bottles. We found many, many beer cans. We found that potpourri that people smoke, K2 type substances. We found condoms on the ground. We found packages of those Cigarillos that they use for blunts, loading them up with marijuana. Just hundreds of these type of items on the ground," Van Zandt County Constable Pat Jordan told KLTV.
Gunfire was reported, assaults, and fights causing obvious injuries in photos posted online, according to KLTV.
Local law enforcement, as well as the TABC and the Texas Comptroller's Office are investigating the party throwers, who had no permit, no bathrooms, no security or emergency personnel.
"Our angle is whether there was a sell of alcohol without a permit," said Brian Bond, a lieutenant for the TABC. "I'm sure there are other agencies looking into other things."
Bond said the penalty associated with selling alcohol without a state license is a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail.
Photos posted to social media sites show dinged up vehicles, roughed up teenagers and huge crowds partying in the pasture.
"It's just country boys and girls gettin' down on the farm," Tim McGraw explained in his popular 1994 song.
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A mysterious puzzle driven campaign
A tactical and competitive multiplayer
VizionEck is two very different experiences packaged into a single game.
|One half of VizionEck sees the player isolated, disoriented, and powerless in a foreign and foreboding environment. Exploration drives the player forward as they solve puzzles and discover the truths of the world. It's a challenging adventure with paper and pencil recommended.
|The other half of VizionEck is a re-imagining of FPS multiplayer into an arcade like experience. Strategy and reflexes are more important than aiming precision plus a limited variety of weapons keeps the playing field level. Fundamentally it's a shooter unlike anything you've played before.
Check out "Adventure" if you love mysteries and go to "Battle" if you're a fan of competitive multiplayer. This "Home" page meanwhile has all the information about the game as a whole.
Universal Features
Photo Importing
VizionEck's photo mode has the defining ability to work "backwards." Screenshots found online or shared by friends can be converted back into gameplay.
This simple concept has lots of wonderful and sometimes bizarre possibilities. A curious player could load the screenshot shown above, and then pan the camera downward to discover what's at the bottom of those pillars. An artistic player could load this screenshot, and then spice up the shot with new image effects and a better camera placement. An adventurous player could load this screenshot, and then continue playing as if it was their own save file. Etc, etc, etc.
Converting from screenshot to game does not require a pristine quality image. If a player finds a low res screenshot with compression artifacts, they should still be able to load it into VizionEck without problems. It's then possible to resave the image with max quality settings.
*The original screenshot creator can enable/disable what's possible with their image.
Free DLC
Players are directly involved with how fast and how much free DLC is released. VizionEck's in game-currency is the backbone for this system. An Eckm (VizionEck money) is the game's unit of currency, earned by playing Adventure or Battle. Every time any online player earns an Eckm, VizionEck's "Community Score" also increases. Free DLC is released upon the Community Score reaching select milestones. Players can spend their Eckms to unlock game-skins, new maps, extras, bonuses, and more. DLC content is treated just like content available at launch, and usually needs to be unlocked as well.
Free DLC will be released for the life of the game.
Game Skins
The entire look and feel of VizionEck is customizable. Sound effects, graphics, image filters, music, etc. can be changed and modified as desired. Here is a very small sample of different visual changes.
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Additional screenshots may be viewed in the Gallery.
General Information
- Release Date: TBA
- Systems: PS4 lifetime exclusive
- Number of Online Players: 1 Adventure, 1-8 Battle
- Number of Local Players for Splitscreen: 1-4 Battle
- Price: Undecided
- Project Morpheus support: Post Launch
- Developer: VizionEck, AKA Mike Armbrust
- DLC: Tons of it, all free
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Exclusive: Brad Grey's Next Court Battle Could Involve Investor Backlash
While we're generally for keeping all-around courtroom bore Brad Grey out of Hollywood's legal spotlight in the future, a source tells Defamer that the Paramount boss and his Viacom overlords could face mutiny from hedge-funders unhappy with the way their studio investment is shaking out. Specifically, we hear the money men behind Melrose Partners — which joined the 'Mount in 2004 under the Sherry Lansing/Jonathan Dolgen regime — may take legal action challenging the underperformance of its $231 million equity fund after Grey came aboard in early 2005.
We can hear the legal saber-rattling from here, but we also know there's precedent — and it favors Wall Street.
In a nutshell, the two-phase Melrose fund underwrote up to 20% of net production costs on films like Mean Girls, War of the Worlds and even The Stepford Wives — titles with wide-ranging but ultimately profitable gross performances based on factors beyond box office (product placement, television licensing, toy deals and more). The Melrose group said that results for Melrose I "collapsed" after Dolgen and Lansing left, with even successful films failing to turn a profit for the investors.
Making matters worse, a source close to the situation tells Defamer that spending on P&A went up almost 50% under ex-Paramount COO Rob Friedman and nearly doubled under Grey; an advisor to the group describes Grey's takeover as "[o]ne of the most stunning exercises in spending (he's) ever seen in his thirty-five years."
A studio source said the results of Melrose II "make Melrose I look like investing in Google pre-IPO," while an investor said: "Since we had no say in what movies were being made, what [we] were backing was Dolgen's conservative risk management strategy which had proven successful in the past. Once he was gone, fiscal controls began to deteriorate and when Brad Grey took over they went out the window altogether."
With Melrose II still in force and Grey apparently tightening the reins of late, we hear the investors reportedly want Paramount to credit a "retroactive reduction in P&A spending" to its account — like, yesterday. Again, this isn't necessarily new: Sony agreed to something similar earlier this year for investors in its Gun Hill Road fund. But Melrose's financial terms aren't specific, and best of all, even Viacom CEO Phillippe Dauman reportedly has told the investors to stand down or face a counterclaim.
It's not the sexiest contretemps in the Official History of Hollywood Pissing Contests, but with Grey on the hook, it bears noting. What do you know about it?
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V&A Illustration Awards 2013: Published Category - Editorial Illustration (Newspaper, Magazine and Comic)
Editorial Illustration Award & Overall Winner
George Butler
Illustrations for 'Syria: the point of no return' by Martin Chulov, in Guardian G2
Published by Guardian News and Media Ltd., 30 August 2012, front cover and pages 6-11
'Syria, Azaz, 6 June 2012: These I believe will be the first drawings out of Syria, where I have been this week in the northern town of Azaz. After walking 4km from the Turkish post I was greeted by casually dressed men, the Free Syrian Army. I was asked, "What did I want to do?" and "Make some drawings" was not necessarily the answer they were expecting. But then I wasn't really ready to be offered a car, a translator and a place to stay in what had become a war zone. These drawings, done in situ, are not designed to compete with news teams or photographers but I hope offer an insight into how people react at a wholly vulnerable time.'
Butler began his career as a reportage illustrator in Afghanistan, drawing his uncle's regiment in their barracks. After completing a degree in illustration at Kingston University he has continued to pursue stories all around the world.
The judges commented, 'Powerful reportage, brilliantly captured. Very skilful given the speed at which he must have had to work'.
Shortlisted entrants
- Patrick Sandri for Portfolio Rebalancing (NZZ Equity Magazine)
- Mark Smith for The Fight Against Breast Cancer (Nature Journal)
- Michelle Thompson for Transgender (Plot Magazine)
The V&A Illustration Awards is supported by the Enid Linder Foundation


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The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is collaborating with the Louvre on two exhibitions of Islamic art in Paris, as well as with the Museum of Decorative Arts, also in Paris.
At the Louvre, the Trust has collaborated in the preparation of an exhibition entitled "Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum". As the opening event of a season devoted to the arts and culture of the Muslim world, the Louvre presents nearly 80 works from the collections of the Aga Khan Museum in an exhibition curated by Sophie Makariou.
The exhibition includes six rare folios from the Shah-nameh (Book of the Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, the most famous Persian manuscript of the 16th century. It also features magnificently preserved medieval garments. Various examples of calligraphy bear witness to the vitality of the artists of the Islamic world ranging from India to Spain and from the eighth to the nineteenth century.
As Eric Woerth, Minister of the Budget, Henri Loyrette, President and Director of the Louvre
and Christine Albanel, Minister of Culture and Communication look on, His Highness the
Aga Khan signs the official register for Heads of State at the opening of the Exhibition
at the Louvre, 1 October 2007
The thematic conception of the exhibition groups the works presented into four main parts:
• exchanges between the Islamic world, Europe and the Far East;
• from figuration to narrative;
• architectural elements;
• from the Qur'an to the aesthetics of calligraphy, including a section on the Shia tradition.
His Highness the Aga Khan with former French Prime Minister Édouard Balladur at the opening of the "Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum" Exhibition at the Louvre,
1 October 2007
The exhibition provides a preview of the treasures that will be presented at the new Aga Khan Museum, due to be inaugurated in Toronto in 2011. The exhibition presents a model of the future museum, which has been designed by renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. For exhibition times and other details, please visit the Louvre website for information in English and Francais.
The Song of the World - Iranian Safavid Art, 1501-1736
Several masterpieces from the Aga Khan Museum collection, including two of the most celebrated pages from the Houghton Shah-nameh (Book of Kings), will also be on display in another exhibition, "The Song of the World - Iranian Safavid Art, 1501-1736" (Le chant du monde - L'art de l'Iran safavide, 1501-1736), which is running from 5 October 2007 to 7 January 2008 in the Louvre's Napoleon Hall. Curated by Professor Souren Melikian-Chirvani, it is the most ambitious exhibition of Safavid art ever to have been brought together, and is expected to attract large numbers of visitors.
Museum of Decorative Arts/Le musée des arts décoratifs
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is also the main sponsor of an exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts entitled "Purs décors? Chefs d'oeuvre de l'Islam aux Arts Décoratifs" (Pure decoration? Islamic masterpieces at the Decorative Arts Museum), which will run from 11 October 2007 to 13 January 2008.
The museum has an outstanding collection of over 3,000 works of Islamic Art, including carpets, textiles, ceramics and miniatures. The exhibition is designed to question the artificial distinction between "fine" arts and "decorative" or "applied" arts – a differentiation particularly impossible to make in the field of Islamic art. When the show is over, almost the whole collection will be handed over on loan to the Louvre.
Exhibition Catalogues
All three exhibitions have very attractive catalogues, which can be purchased from the Louvre and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
For the Louvre exhibitions, please visit the on-line store.
For the Museum of Decorative Arts catalogue, please see the museum's website.
Additional Information
His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (Spiritual Leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, is celebrating his Golden Jubilee year from 11th July 2007 to 11 July 2008. Fifty years ago, at the age of 20, the Aga Khan succeeded his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan, as the 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims. The Aga Khan provides spiritual guidance to a community of 15 million living in some 25 countries, mainly in West and Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East, as well as in North America and Western Europe. As Spiritual Leader of the Ismailis, the Aga Khan has emphasised the view of Islam as a thinking, spiritual faith, one that teaches compassion and tolerance and that upholds the dignity of man, Allah's noblest creation. The Aga Khan is a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) through his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, the first Imam, and his wife Fatima, the Prophet's daughter.
The exhibitions at the Louvre showcase the collection of the Aga Khan Museum, which will open in Toronto in 2011. The museum is an initiative of His Highness the Aga Khan, (Spiritual Leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, who intends the museum to be a centre of education and learning dedicated to the presentation of Muslim arts and culture in all their historic, cultural and geographical diversity. Surrounded by a large landscaped park, the museum will be housed in a 10,000 square-metre building designed by the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. The Aga Khan Museum will offer unique insights and new perspectives into Muslim civilisations.
The museum is part of AKTC's wide range of activities aimed at the preservation and promotion of the material and spiritual heritage of Muslim societies. As the cultural agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), AKTC leverages cultural heritage as a means of supporting and catalysing development. Its programmes include the Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme, which works to revitalise historic cities in the Muslim world - both culturally and socioeconomically. Over the last decade, it has rehabilitated historic areas in Cairo, Kabul, Herat, Aleppo, Delhi, Zanzibar, Mostar, the Northern Areas of Pakistan, Timbuktu and Mopti. AKTC's other programmes include the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, established 30 years ago to draw attention to outstanding examples of architectural excellence as well as projects which provide solutions for the most acute social needs which exist in Muslim societies. AKTC also supports the Muslim arts and architecture departments of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as well as ArchNet.org, a major online resource on Islamic architecture.
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is a group of private development agencies working to empower communities and individuals, often in disadvantaged circumstances, to improve living conditions and opportunities, especially in Central and South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The Network's agencies work for the common good of all citizens, regardless of their gender, origin or religion. Its underlying impulse is the ethic of compassion for the vulnerable in society. Its annual budget for social and cultural development activities is US$320 million. The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, an AKDN development agency that makes long-term investments in fragile economies on a for-profit basis, has annual revenues of over US$ 1.5 billion. Profits are used to fund further development projects.


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Talk of stimulus has revived the work of John Maynard Keynes, a 20th-century British economist who urged government spending to fight recession. A century earlier, French economist Frédéric Bastiat gave a different view. Here are excerpts from Keynes's "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" and Bastiat's, "What is seen, and what is not seen."
John Maynard Keynes on the need for government action
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
At the same time we must recognize that only experience can show how far the common will, embodied in the policy of the State, ought to be directed to increasing and supplementing the inducement to invest; and how far it is safe to stimulate the average propensity to consume, without forgoing our aim of depriving capital of its scarcity-value within one or two generations. It may turn out that the propensity to consume will be so easily strengthened by the effects of a falling rate of interest, that full employment can be reached with a rate of accumulation little greater than at present. In this event a scheme for the higher taxation of large incomes and inheritances might be open to the objection that it would lead to full employment with a rate of accumulation which was reduced considerably below the current level....
In some other respects the forgoing theory is moderately conservative in its implications. For whilst it indicates the vital importance of establishing certain central controls in matters which are now left in the main to individual initiative, there are wide fields of activity which are unaffected. The State will have to exercise a guiding influence on the propensity to consume partly through its scheme of taxation, partly by fixing the rate of interest, and partly, perhaps, in other ways. Furthermore, it seems unlikely that the influence of banking policy on the rate of interest will be sufficient by itself to determine an optimum rate of investment. I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialization of investment will prove the only means of securing an approximation to full employment; though this need not exclude all manner of compromises and of devices by which public authority will co-operate with private initiative. But beyond this no obvious case is made out for a system of State Socialism which would embrace most of the economic life of the community. It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary....
Our criticism of the accepted classical theory of economics has consisted not so much in finding logical flaws in its analysis as in pointing out that its tacit assumptions are seldom or never satisfied, with the result that it cannot solve the economic problems of the actual world.… [A]part from the necessity of central controls to bring about an adjustment between the propensity to consume and the inducement to invest, there is no more reason to socialise economic life than there was before....
The central controls necessary to ensure full employment will, of course, involve a large extension of the traditional functions of government....
[A]bove all, individualism, if it can be purged of its defects and its abuses, is the best safeguard of personal liberty in the sense that, compared with any other system, it greatly widens the field for the exercise of personal choice. It is also the best safeguard of the variety of life….
Whilst, therefore, the enlargement of the functions of government, involved in the task of adjusting to one another the propensity to consume and the inducement to invest, would seem to a nineteenth-century publicist or to a contemporary American financier to be a terrific encroachment on individualism, I defend it, on the contrary, both as the only practicable means of avoiding the destruction of existing economic forms in their entirety and as the condition of the successful functioning of individual initiative...
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.… [S]oon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
Frédéric Bastiat on the folly, and unseen effects, of stimulus
Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, John Q. Citizen, when his careless son happened to break a square of glass?…
Suppose it cost six francs to repair the damage, and you say that the accident brings six francs to the glazier's trade – that it encourages that trade to the amount of six francs – I grant it ... you reason justly. The glazier comes, performs his task, receives his six francs, rubs his hands, and, in his heart, blesses the careless child. All this is that which is seen.
But if, on the other hand, you come to the conclusion, as is too often the case, that it is a good thing to break windows, that it causes money to circulate, and that the encouragement of industry in general will be the result of it, you will oblige me to call out, "Stop there! your theory is confined to that which is seen; it takes no account of that which is not seen."
It is not seen that as our shopkeeper has spent six francs upon one thing, he cannot spend them upon another. It is not seen that if he had not had a window to replace, he would, perhaps, have replaced his old shoes, or added another book to his library. In short, he would have employed his six francs in some way, which this accident has prevented.
Let us take a view of industry in general, as affected by this circumstance. The window being broken, the glazier's trade is encouraged to the amount of six francs; this is that which is seen. If the window had not been broken, the shoemaker's trade (or some other) would have been encouraged to the amount of six francs; this is that which is not seen.
And if that which is not seen is taken into consideration, …it will be understood that neither industry in general, nor the sum total of national labor, is affected, whether windows are broken or not.
Now let us consider John Q. Citizen himself.
In the former supposition, that of the window being broken, he spends six francs, and has neither more nor less than he had before, the enjoyment of a window.
In the second, where we suppose the window not to have been broken, he would have spent six francs on shoes, and would have had at the same time the enjoyment of a pair of shoes and of a window.
Now, as John Q. Citizen forms a part of society, we must come to the conclusion, that, taking it altogether, and making an estimate of its enjoyments and its labors, it has lost the value of the broken window.
When we arrive at this unexpected conclusion: "Society loses the value of things which are uselessly destroyed;" and we must assent to a maxim which will make the hair of protectionists stand on end – To break, to spoil, to waste, is not to encourage national labour; or, more briefly, "destruction is not profit."
What will you say, Moniteur Industriel? What will you say, disciples of good M. F. Chamans, who has calculated with so much precision how much trade would gain by the burning of Paris, from the number of houses it would be necessary to rebuild?
I am sorry to disturb these ingenious calculations ... but I beg him to begin them again, by taking into the account that which is not seen, and placing it alongside of that which is seen. The reader must take care to remember that there are not two persons only, but three concerned in the little scene which I have submitted to his attention. One of them, John Q. Citizen, represents the consumer, reduced, by an act of destruction, to one enjoyment instead of two. Another under the title of the glazier, shows us the producer, whose trade is encouraged by the accident. The third is the shoemaker (or some other tradesman), whose labour suffers proportionably by the same cause. It is this third person who is always kept in the shade, and who, personating that which is not seen, is a necessary element of the problem. It is he who shows us how absurd it is to think we see a profit in an act of destruction. It is he who will soon teach us that it is not less absurd to see a profit in a restriction, which is, after all, nothing else than a partial destruction. Therefore, if you will only go to the root of all the arguments which are adduced in its favour, all you will find will be the paraphrase of this vulgar saying, "What would become of the glaziers, if nobody ever broke windows?"


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Why SSD based arrays and storage appliances can be a good idea (Part I)Posted by gregschulz in Greg's Blog on Mar 13, 2012 7:38:43 PM
This is the first of a two-part series, you can read part II here.
Robin Harris (aka @storagemojo) recently in a blog post asks a question and thinks solid state devices (SSDs) using SAS or SATA interface in traditional hard disk drive (HDD) form factors are a bad idea in storage arrays (e.g. storage systems or appliances). My opinion is that as with many things about storing, processing or moving binary digital data (e.g. 1s and 0s) the answer is not always clear. That is there may not be a right or wrong answer instead it depends on the situation, use or perhaps abuse scenario. For some applications or vendors, adding SSD packaged in HDD form factors to existing storage systems, arrays and appliances makes perfect sense, likewise for others it does not, thus it depends (more on that in a bit). While we are talking about SSD, Ed Haletky (aka @texiwill) recently asked a related question of Fix the App or Add Hardware, which could easily be morphed into a discussion of Fix the SSD, or Add Hardware. Hmmm, maybe a future post idea exists there.
Lets take a step back for a moment and look at the bigger picture of what prompts the question of what type of SSD to use where and when along as well as why various vendors want you to look at things a particular way. There are many options for using SSD that is packaged in various ways to meet diverse needs including here and here (see figure 1).
Figure 1: Various packaging and deployment options for SSD
The growing number of startup and established vendors with SSD enabled storage solutions vying to win your hearts, minds and budget is looking like the annual NCAA basketball tournament (aka March Madness and march metrics here and here). Some of vendors have or are adding SSD with SAS or SATA interfaces that plug into existing enclosures (drive slots). These SSDs have the same form factor of a 2.5 inch small form factor (SFF) or 3.5 inch HDDs with a SAS or SATA interface for physical and connectivity interoperability. Other vendors have added PCIe based SSD cards to their storage systems or appliances as a cache (read or read and write) or a target device similar to how these cards are installed in servers.
Simply adding SSD either in a drive form factor or as a PCIe card to a storage system or appliance is only part of a solution. Sure, the hardware should be faster than a traditional spinning HDD based solution. However, what differentiates the various approaches and solutions is what is done with the storage systems or appliances software (aka operating system, storage applications, management, firmware or micro code).
So are SSD based storage systems, arrays and appliances a bad idea?
If you are a startup or established vendor able to start from scratch with a clean sheet design not having to worry about interoperability and customer investment protection (technology, people skills, software tools, etc), then you would want to do something different. For example, leverage off the shelf components such as a PCIe flash SSD card in an industry standard server combined with your software for a solution. You could also use extra DRAM memory in those servers combined with PCIe flash SSD cards perhaps even with embedded HDDs for a backing or preservation medium.
Other approaches might use a mix of DRAM, PCIe flash cards, as either a cache or target combined with some drive form factor SSDs. In other words, there is no right or wrong approach; sure, there are different technical merits that have advantages for various applications or environments. Likewise, people have preferences particular for technology focused who tend to like one approach vs. another. Thus, we have many options to leverage, use or abuse.
In his post, Robin asks a good question of if nand flash SSD were being put into a new storage system, why not use the PCIe backplane vs. using nand flash on DIMM vs. using drive formats, all of which are different packaging options (Figure 1). Some startups have gone the all backplane approach, some have gone with the drive form factor, some have gone with a mix and some even using HDDs in the background. Likewise some traditional storage system and array vendors who support a mix of SSD and HDD drive form factor devices also leverage PCIe cards, either as a server-based cache (e.g. EMC VFCahe) or installed as a performance accelerator module (e.g. NetApp PAM) in their appliances.
While most vendors who put SSD drive form factor drives into their storage systems or appliances (or serves for that matter) use them as data targets for creating LUNs or file systems, others use them for internal functionality. By internal functionality I mean instead of the SSD appearing as another drive or target, they are used exclusively by the storage system or appliance for caching or similar purposes. On storage systems, this can be to increase the size of persistent cache such as EMC on the CLARiiON and VNX (e.g. FAST Cache). Another use is on backup or dedupe target appliances where SSDs are used to store dictionary, index or meta data repositories as opposed to being a general data pool.
Part two of this post looks at the benefits and caveats of SSD in storage arrays.
Here are some related links to learn more about SSD, where and when to use what:
Why SSD based arrays and storage appliances can be a good idea (Part II)
IT and storage economics 101, supply and demand
Researchers and marketers don't agree on future of nand flash SSD
Speaking of speeding up business with SSD storage
EMC VFCache respinning SSD and intelligent caching (Part I)
EMC VFCache respinning SSD and intelligent caching (Part II)
SSD options for Virtual (and Physical) Environments: Part I Spinning up to speed on SSD
SSD options for Virtual (and Physical) Environments, Part II: The call to duty, SSD endurance
SSD options for Virtual (and Physical) Environments Part III: What type of SSD is best for you?
Ok, nuff said for now, check part II.
Cheers gs


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I'm working toward the bottom of the 6th page of the transcript today, still on debate #1. But hey, at least it's the second half of the first debate. And, surprisingly enough, I'm finding that I'm really enjoying going through and really examining closely what the candidates have to say. Twisted? Maybe. But I'm learning quite a bit, and that's a good thing. The parts of the Constitution pertaining to Congress have been where my understanding is the strongest; I've done the most study there. Doing these debates and the reading that I've been doing in that America's Constitution book has made me look more closely at the Presidency. I might even (someday) figure out what the Founders were aiming for when they created the Electoral College, and what sort of changes have been made since then. Figuring that out would be cool! But in the mean time, looking closely at the Presidency is pretty interesting, and this has been an instructional exercise for me.
Obama: Social Security is structurally sound.
Good grief. Really? Does he really expect that anyone will believe this? Why would you even say it, when it's a regular feature of the news that Social Security is under water, they've been taking from the trust funds, and the money's going to dry up? I certainly have no expectation that I'll ever receive a red cent. Social Security is a tax, not an insurance fund. It is important to note that the Supreme Court decision Helvering v. Davis(1937) held that Social Security is Constitutional only because the funds go into the general fund, like income taxes do, and are not earmarked in any way, so Social Security, like Obamacare, is [dubiously] Constitutional under Congress's power to tax. So, maybe what Mr. Obama is saying here is that he approves of the use of Social Security for the collection of tax moneys. I don't know. But, if you are playing along with the fiction that Social Security exists to help the poor and the elderly, as sort of a public insurance fund, then this comment makes no sense whatsoever.
Now there is a whole bunch of back and forth about ways that they want to (or don't want to) change Social Security, Medicaid, and how the other guy's going to cause huge expense and loss to a lot of deserving people. The two of them sound very much alike on this topic. They differ on the exact means, and Mr. Romney does seem to support more private involvement than Mr. Obama, but in general, both seem to be saying, "Federal involvement is necessary and here is how I think it should happen." I've already said that I think that Federal involvement is unconstitutional and explained my reasons for that opinion, so I'm pretty much skipping this section, except to say that I realize that fixing our nation so that we both care for our elderly and poor and also obey the highest law of our land isn't easy. And it's probably not something that can be fixed overnight. The New Deal started us on this path 100 years ago; we're not going to be able to turn things around over night. But I think we can - and should - look for ways to do away with government entitlement programs. Private entities, faith groups, and families are those who should be stepping up to this challenge. I think that we will all stand a little taller and be a whole lot more free if we do it. And I believe that we can do as good or better job without the inefficient, wasteful, corrupt government dictating to us what kind of care we are giving and receiving.
So. On to page 7 and a new question.
Question: what is your view about the level of federal regulation of the economy right now? Is there too much? And in your case, Mr. President, is there — should there be more?
It is useful to understand that the reason we call our states, States, is because that's what they are. At the time of the Declaration of Independence the colonies claimed nationhood. Massachusetts and Virginia and the rest asserted their right to be as independent and sovereign as England, Spain and France. And, although we speak of them as the colonies and then as the beginning of the United States, there was a period where there were thirteen individual nations here on this continent. Which is, as I understand it, why we use the same word for our States as you might use for the State of Uganda: it was the same sort of entity. This was such a revelation to me when I realized it! It changed the whole way that I think about the States that make up our nation. They were independent states which decided to unite together for certain, specific reasons outlined in the Preamble, who very deliberately and specifically retained the right to sovereign internal rule. This idea was so important that two of the amendments in the Bill of Rights deal with it.
Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people
Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it it the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
As free and independent States, each of the States already had the sovereign right to govern themselves - and, according to Madison's quote above, they would largely retain that, yet choose to present a united face to the world under the Constitution. They also agreed to play nicely among themselves. It's my understanding that the reason that the Congress was able to regulate trade among the States that joined the Union was to avoid things like interstate trade wars. Look at the limited nature of the trade authority that the states delegated to the federal government (Article I Section 8) when it was created:
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes...
Constitutionally, the answer to a question that boils down to, "How big should the government be?" should be very interesting. Let's see what the candidates have to say. Mr. Romney got to go first on this question.
Now, I'll be upfront here: I'm a small government girl. I don't really understand what they're talking about, but I'd rather err on the side of small government. It has been my observation that our government is, generally speaking, many times larger than the Founders intended it to be. Orders of magnitude larger. So my personal bias is to go with the small government option while I learn things; I find that tends to be more in line with the Constitution, once I figure out the question enough to have a fully-formed opinion on the matter.
Romney: Regulation is essential. You can't have a free market work if you don't have regulation. As a businessperson, I had to have — I need to know the regulations. I needed them there. You couldn't have people opening up banks in their — in their garage and making loans. I mean, you have to have regulations so that you can have an economy work. Every free economy has good regulation. At the same time, regulation can become excessive.
Lehrer: Is it excessive now, do you think?
Romney: In some places, yes. Other places, no. ... No, it can become out of date. And what's happened with some of the legislation that's been passed during the president's term, you've seen regulation become excessive, and it's hurt — it's hurt the economy. Let me give you an example.
Dodd-Frank was passed. And it includes within it a number of provisions that I think has some unintended consequences that are harmful to the economy. One is it designates a number of banks as too big to fail, and they're effectively guaranteed by the federal government. This is the biggest kiss that's been given to — to New York banks I've ever seen. This is an enormous boon for them. There've been 122 community and small banks have closed since Dodd- Frank.
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FRANK GALARZA BATTLES ALANTEZ FOX ON SEPTEMBER 22ND AT THE RESORTS WORLD CASINO NEW YORK IN QUEENS, NY Joe Smith Jr. to battle Yasin Rashid in Light Heavyweight main event plus undefeated Juan Dominguez, Rafael Vazquez & Mikkel Lespiere as well as popular Boyd Melson all in action
QUEENS, NY (September 6, 2012)—On Saturday night September 22nd, a historic night of boxing has just got stronger as two undefeated Jr. Middleweights will risk their zeros as Frank Galarza will battle Alantez Fox in the eight round Jr. Middleweight co-feature at the Resorts World Casino New York in Queens, New York.
The show is promoted by New Legend Boxing, Old World Promotions, and W.O.N Promotions.
The main event will feature popular Light Heavyweight Joe Smith Jr. (10-1, 10 KO's) of Long Island, NY taking on Yasin Rashid (7-2, 2 KO's) of Brooklyn, NY.
Galarza of Brooklyn has been perfect as he has a record of 7-0 with four knockouts and has been showing great power in his most recent outing as he has racked up three consecutive stoppage victories inside of two rounds.
In his last bout, he took out rugged Yolexcy Leiva in one round on June 8th.
Fox of Forestville, Maryland was an accomplished amateur and has not disappointed as a pro as he is now 7-0 with three knockouts.
The twenty year-old is looking to step up with a significant win after he defeated Fitzgerald Johnson on February 17th.
In a six round Super Bantamweight battle, Juan Dominguez (10-0, 7 KO's) of Brooklyn takes on Jesus Bayron (5-5, 4 KO's) of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
Rafael Vazquez (8-0, 6 KO's) of Brooklyn, NY battles Eddie Irizarry (7-3, 2 KO's) of Bronx, NY in a six rpund Super Featherweight bout.
Popular Jr. Middleweight Boyd Melson of White Plains, NY (9-1, 4 KO's) will box Yolecy Leiva (5-4, 4 KO's) of Nashville, TN.
Elton Dharry (9-5-1, 4 KO's) of Queens, NY will take on Gabriel Cruz (4-4-1, 1 KO) of Oceanside, CA in a six round Super Bantamweight bout.
In a four round Featherweight bout, Angel Garcia (2-1, 2 KO's) of Brooklyn, NY will fight Pedro Andres (0-1) Bridgeton, NJ.
In a four round battle of pro debuting Welterweights, Daniel Gonzalez of Queens, NY will square off with Anthony Smith of Brooklyn, NY.
Seeing action in separate four round bouts against opponents to be named will be Jr. Welterweight Mikkel Lespiere (1-0, 1 KO); Featherweight Alan Phalen (0-1) of New York and Heavyweight Vinny Celentano (3-0, 1 KO) of Howard Beach, NY
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Doors open at 6pm—First Bout at 7pm
The Resorts World Casino New York City is located at 110-00 Rockaway Blvd. Jamaica, NY 11420


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If you have not taken a look at the July 2nd report from the National Security Archive on FOIA you should. Like all of their efforts this it is an excellent review of the challenges faced in getting FOIA requests filled. 40 Years of FOIA, 20 Years of Delay[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB224/index.htm]
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Introductory comments from ALA Annual 2007
Thank you for the opportunity to serve as the Chair of GODORT. It is indeed an honor and I appreciate the trust that you have placed in me. As many of you already know if you read my nomination statement when I ran for Chair – and I hope that only a few of your are hearing this for the first time – I really intend for my tenure as Chair to be focused on positioning GODORT for the future. To that end I want to encourage all of you to think seriously about the type of organization we want GODORT to become in the next few years. The implementation of virtual membership, decreasing the number of meetings at annual 2008 (perhaps by relying more on e-mail and the GODORT Wiki in-between Midwinter and annual) and increasing the education and training opportunities for our members will be my priorities in the coming year. One very important effort that has just gotten underway is our Roundtable's strategic planning effort. The strategic planning process will be lead by Linda Johnson and Marianne Ryan and includes a mix of "old hands" and newer GODORT members who have been asked to focus on the needs of the organization and to help us improve our services and outreach efforts. As part of this process the Membership Committee will be sending out a survey to evaluate our services and mission. I know that many of us are bombarded with survey requests but I really want to encourage each of you to respond to this survey. It will help us to better prepare a plan for the future if we know with some degree of assuredness what our members value (or not) about GODORT. We will also be working with ALA to get the survey out to former members as well. Another challenge that I have asked Steering to consider is the question of virtual membership. I had several people ask me about this as an option when I approached them about serving in GODORT and it quickly became apparent that our organization must explore this opportunity for membership. I am calling on each Committee and Task Force Chair to communicate with your members about this so that by Mid-Winter we might be in a position to move forward on a plan to share with membership. Although you have been kind enough to elect me as your Chair I want to stress that I do not claim to be an expert on ALA or on the myriad of government information issues we will likely face in the coming year. I not only welcome n-put and guidance from the membership I will require it if we are to be effective. So please feel free to call on me if you have questions or just want to talk as I will certainly be calling on you. I am looking forward to a truly collaborative year. Bill Sleeman[1]
An excellent proposal for the future of government information can be found in Congressional Information & the Internet from the "Openhouse Project." [2]
This is a conversation that GODORT might want to be more involved in.
I wanted to let you all know that we had a very good meeting with staff from the Joint Committee on Printing on Tuesday during the ALA Day on the Hill event. Both Matt McGowan and Mike Harrison participated and the discussion was quite good. They were both engaged in the conversation and the Q&A was wide ranging. While I am not so naïve as to believe that they rushed back to their office to change their approach I do think that they heard us and appreciated our frank comments. I hope that we can build on this initial successful contact in order to give JCP access to some new voices on the issue of access to government information.
I want to express my appreciation to Lynne Bradley and Tara Olivero for setting the meeting up and I hope that you will too if you have a chance.
If you have not taken a look at the July 2nd report from the National Security Archive on FOIA you should. Like all of their efforts this it is an excellent review of the challenges faced in getting FOIA requests filled. 40 Years of FOIA, 20 Years of Delay[3]
The Awards Committee of ALA GODORT welcome applications from librarians within GODORT interested in participating in the ALA Emerging Leaders program and who are interested in being endorsed by GODORT.
The program is designed for new librarians (five years or less) to help them to develop as leaders within ALA and the profession. Information about the program and who is eligible to participate can be found at: [4]
Guidelines for applications. Please review eligibility requirements mentioned on the ALA site above before applying. Send a copy of your resume along with a short essay (2-3 paragraphs) explaining why you are interested in the program by August 1, 2007. You will be contacted by the Chair of the Awards Committee no later then August 6, 2007 whether or not you can indicate on your official application to the program that your application has been endorsed by GODORT. Up to two individuals will be selected as the GODORT candidates.
Please note that at this time GODORT cannot provide a stipend only our support for the candidate(s). Also, all nominees are required to provide a summary of the project(s) that they worked on at the ALA annual meeting during the GODORT membership meeting.
Applications will be accepted via e-mail (preferred), mail, or fax. Please send to Stephen Woods, Chair, GODORT Awards Committee, Social Sciences Librarian, Social Sciences Library, Pennsylvania State University, 208 Paterno Library, University Park, PA 16802-1809; phone (814) 865-0665, fax (814) 863-1403,or e-mail [firstname.lastname@example.com]