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How could you not be curious about a fruit that looks like a blowfish mated with a Venus fly trap? The dragonfruit, also called the pitaya or strawberry pear, is one of those strange-looking things you see in a market and just have to try. I had forgotten about eating these in abudance as a child in Guangzhou until I spent a lot of time last year in Zhongshan. There, dragonfruit is sold at almost every supermarket and served as dessert at many higher-end restaurants.
Dragonfruit is also happily consumed in Vietnam, Malaysia, and many other sub-tropical places. They liven up your grocery bag like nothing else, a bright spindly fucshia thing amidst a sea of cardboard boxes and plastic cartons. The flesh of the fruit, dotted with little seeds, looks and tastes a bit like kiwi. Some people think dragonfruit tastes a bit bland, but that may depend on where you buy them. (There are bland and tasty versions of every kind of fruit.) Dragonfruit with the pink flesh tend be sweeter than the ones with white flesh. But I've also had sweet versions of the latter, like this one sent all the way up to a supermarket in Beijing.
You can find dragonfruit jams and wine, and (according to 5 seconds of Googling recipes) use them in homemade salsas or even mooncakes. But I'm a purist. My favorite way of consuming of dragonfruit is diced up in a fruit salad, perhaps with clementine slices and grapes. Or simply cut the whole fruit in half and eat it one delicious scoop at a time. I may try out the salsa recipe at a later date though.


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Lamb of God's Mark Morton Sits Out of European Tour Dates Due to 'Family Emergency'
Due to a "family emergency," Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton is currently sitting out the initial dates of the band's European tour. There's no official word as to how long Morton will be out for, but Lamb of God surprised Austrian fans last night (Jan. 6) by bringing out Between the Buried and Me guitarist Paul Waggoner to fill in for Morton.
Cleared of all charges after a controversial Czech manslaughter trial, Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe no longer needs to fear touring throughout Europe. Regarding Morton's absence, Blythe addressed the Austrian crowd as follows: "You may have noticed Mr. Mark Morton is not here with us tonight," Blythe told the Austrian crowd. "He had a family emergency, so he had to stay home. It's family first for this band. We apologize, but he had to be with his family. Luckily, we have a very big music family, so we've got our friend Mr. Paul Waggoner from Between the Buried and Me."
There's no word on how long Morton will be apart from Lamb of God while the band is traversing across Europe. Lamb of God's string of dates only lasts until Jan. 21, so Waggoner could possibly stay on for the whole tour. As BTBAM fans know, Paul Waggoner can basically play anything, so Lamb of God's choice for a fill-in shredder is a perfect one.
Lamb of God will continue touring with Decapitated and Huntress until Jan. 21. The band is also scheduled to release their 'As the Palaces Burn' documentary in theaters worldwide on Feb. 27. Check out clips of Paul Waggoner playing with Lamb of God in the videos above and below.
Lamb of God, 'Redneck' (Live with Paul Waggoner)

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Scott Sherk: SurroundThe Martin Art Gallery proudly continues to develop a tradition of producing sound art exhibitions by featuring Scott Sherk: Surround, August 28 – September 28.
Monday, August 19, 2013 02:38 PM
Expectedly, Surround is about sound and listening. Gallery visitors who are used to the immediacy of vision will be rewarded if they are willing to spend time listening. Projected video imagery is included as a means to increase visitors' aural experience. Included in the show are Running, inspired by the individual cadence of joggers in Central Park Reservoir in New York Cityand Rondine, made from recording swallows swooping and diving in an Italian piazza. Other works included are: Dolmen, Birds in Bamboo, Games, Harmonizer: Friends Meetinghouses, and New York Glyptic.
When Sherk began his artistic career as a sculptor, he became interested in how three-dimensional objects in space define both the objects and the spaces. Experiences inJapantaught him that one can remove an object from a space, and yet a tangible sense of that space can remain.
His on-going creative journey has, in recent years, brought him to discover a similar experience with sound. He explains, "When one hears sounds in space, each sound reveals the space in which it exists. You clap your hands in a large room and you hear both the clap and the effects that the room has on the handclap—the reflections of sound off the walls, floor and ceiling." He hopes Surround "will in some way make us all pay more attention to the aural world around us."
An artist's reception will be held in the Gallery, Thursday, September 5, 4:30 – 6 P.M. The exhibition is free and open to the public Tuesdays through Saturdays, noon – 8 P.M. Information: 484.664.3467 and www.muhlenberg.edu.


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Hot Chocolate
The Benefit:
Improves mood and may help protect against heart disease. Chocolate increases the production of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which is responsible for regulating mood. (Low levels of serotonin have been associated with depression.) Cocoa is also rich in polyphenols, plant-derived antioxidants that may protect cells against oxidative damage that can lower HDL (good) cholesterol levels, possibly putting you at higher risk for a heart attack.
Calories: 195 for 8 ounces homemade cocoa; 115 for a powdered mix
Low-Sodium Tomato Juice
The Benefit:
May protect against numerous cancers. Processed tomato products are the richest source of the antioxidant lycopene, which has been associated with a reduced risk of lung and stomach cancer, as well as pancreatic, colorectal, esophageal, oral, breast, and cervical cancers. Lycopene also appears to protect the lungs and heart against oxidative damage, helping to ward off cardiovascular disease.
Calories: 31 for 6 ounces
Cranberry Juice
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Helps prevent gum disease. Research suggests that the same antibacterial properties present in cranberry juice that fight off urinary tract infections may also protect against periodontal disease. Experts theorize that a component of the juice called nondialysable material (NDM) inhibits bacteria from sticking to the gums. Many nutritionists are wary of fruit juices because of their sugar content, so limit your intake to no more than one glass (6 to 8 ounces) daily. "Make sure the label says 100 percent juice, not 'juice drink' or 'cocktail,'" suggests Heidi Reichenberger, RD, a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. You can find this type of juice in health-food stores and some supermarkets.
Calories: 140 for 8 ounces
Orange Juice
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May ward off cataracts, cancers, and birth defects and boost immunity. An excellent source of vitamin C, orange juice is also a potent antioxidant that may protect against a variety of diseases including cataracts (a clouding of the eye's lens that can lead to blindness) and lung cancer. Vitamin C may prevent oxidative damage that can cause cells to become cancerous, and it improves immune-cell functioning, enabling your body to fight off infections more efficiently. And it's a good source of folate, which protects against neural-tube defects in fetuses. To get the extra benefit of bone protection, try some calcium-fortified orange juice.
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Welcome to Stratum 0 in Braunschweig, Germany!
We had a bit of trouble finding this place — it's around the side of a fairly large building that was once a piano factory. The main door was ajar, and it was pitch black inside. Do we enter? Do we call? We walked in a bit, and were met with more darkness. A bit too spooky for our tastes. Our wits got the better of us and we decided to call and make sure we had the right place and not the lair of some homicidal maniac… It turns out if you just ring the doorbell the lights come on. Whoops.
Up to the top floor we go!
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Conference and Exhibition
Eurographics 2009, the 30th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, will take place from March 30 to April 3, 2009, in Munich, Germany. It will be organized on the Research Campus Garching of the Technische Universität München, supported by the TUM International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE). Eurographics 2009 will provide a unique platform for the computer graphics community to showcase latest techniques and educational work, and to explore new trends and ideas, and it will also offer the opportunity to demonstrate products and services to this community.
Eurographics 2009 will also address two special areas: computational graphics and explorative interaction, including new trends in rendering algorithms and systems, and interactive visual exploration of geospatial data.
Co-located with Eurographics 2009 are the following Events: the Computer Graphics Education Workshop, the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV), the Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, and the Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena.
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Interior of the Faculty Building for Computer Science at the Technische Universität München.
Social Events and Keynotes
Welcome reception and conference dinner will take place in the centre of Munich.


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Tri Color Coat - Burda Pattern
Added Sep 13, 2013
by Manic Pop
Chicago, Illinoi...
You guys wouldn't believe how hard it is to find coat fabric out there! The fabric I used was a wool melton blend from Fabric.com. I first toured around Joann's to see if they had anything (of course they didn't) but Fabric.com had some nice colors. This wool blend is nice and thick! I was really impressed with the quality of it. The brown lining fabric is from my standby, Textile Discount Outlet. I think 3 yards of it was only $8.
I created my own inside lining for the pattern since this pattern has no lining with it. The only adjustments I made on the shell was to the length of the sleeves overall. This one is sewn in a size 38 and I'm 5'1", 33" bust, 25" waist, 34" hips.
Although it says to use hooks and eyes on the inside like I did, I'm going to change them to toggles for better closure on it.
I'll be wearing it all fall!
Material Notes
Wool blend melton fabric from fabric.com
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Sep 14, 2013, 10.01 PMby arjedre
Good eye for the colors and texture – this is gorgeous! In fact, I don't think I would have even looked at the pattern without seeing yours.
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Sep 15, 2013, 04.56 AMby Manic Pop
Aww, thanks! I had my eye on making patterns for a Pierre Cardin knock-off 60s coat that looked very much so like this.
The only issue I have with this pattern is the hooks and eyes – they're not stable enough for some reason even though they are coat ones. I think I'll be adding 3 frog closures to the front to really keep it closed!
Sep 14, 2013, 03.51 PMby Yuki M
Love the fun colour blocking and cute pocket pouch fabric !
Sep 13, 2013, 07.18 AMby caireen
This is great! I love the colour combination, perfect for autumn!
Sep 13, 2013, 05.50 AMby marrrija
Fun-looking color combination. And the cut is nice, as well.
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You've reached the Badass of the Week, your one-stop shop for all things badassery-related. You should probably be aware that this site features an unnecessarily copious amount of profanity, so if you are easily offended by that sort of thing, then this would be a good time to turn off your computer and join a convent.
You are looking at the second complete redesign of Badass of the Week, and the first that doesn't involve me sitting around hand-coding Notepad files using the same bullshit HTML tags I was using when I made "Ben's Home Page" on Geocities in 1994. It might take a second to get used to the new layout, but take deep breaths and we'll all get through this together.
I do want to draw your attention to two new things – first, I've started a comic strip called Badass Con Carne, drawn by my friend Manny Vega, that will be updated every Wednesday. It's basically a webcomic about Andrew Jackson, Nikola Tesla, and Vlad the Impaler living in an apartment together and working at the mall. It's going to be very weird but I've seen a handful of finished strips and I'm really proud of the way it's coming together. I hope you'll like it.
The second thing is that every article in the site has been indexed with Tags to make it easier to browse for what you're looking for. The Tags will be at the bottom of every article, and you'll be able to sort through them using drop-down menus on the Archive page. I have no doubt that in the last six months of manually copy-pasting stories from my website into this new Wordpress format and hand-entering tags, I fucked some stuff up, so if you see something awry or have any cool ideas you want to share, send them to me here.
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Some Days I Wish I Was Rich
Like, stupid rich. Because there are just somethings that you can only get when you're so rich you don't know what to do with yourself.
Just to note though, at 180k (USD), the Morgan Aero Supersports is cheaper than a 458 Italia by about 130k. And I totally rather have the Aero.


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Florida singer/songwriter Shauna Sweeney has a boyfriend, and he sounds like a pretty great guy. He's into video games, comics, and he's pretty good at defragging a hard drive. And so she wrote this adorable (and catchy!) song, called "My Nerdy Boyfriend".
A lot of this kind of stuff — "cute girl sings a song about nerds" — can be condescending or misguided, but I really liked this song. It's a truly sweet tune, and for all her talk of how nerdy her boyfriend is, the jokes and references are so spot-on that I sense Sweeney herself may be the true nerd.
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It's so nice being off from school. Even though I have a part-time job, I still have a lot of free time on my hands to roam about, be with friends and eat, of course! Too bad this will only last for another few weeks.
Yesterday I went to Shake Shack for the first time. Shake Shack is one of Danny Meyer's famed eateries, with three New York locations (and counting.) Shake Shack is noted for the quality of their food, which includes burgers, fries and frozen custard as well as a few other classic favorites. The location I went to, in Madison Square Park, has heated outdoor seating; which, although will not protect you from the wicked wind chill, will allow you to eat outdoors in the winter at least semi-comfortably.
My friend and I each ordered a ShackBurger and fries and we shared a double frozen custard – Monday's flavor is Roasted Chesnut.
The ShackBurger comes with lettuce, tomato, American cheese and ShackSauce, and it is served on a yummy super-soft bun, which I'm pretty sure was Brioche.
This burger was incredible. It was definitely one of the best I've ever had. You can really taste the quality of all the ingredients. Five Guys now has some competition in my book…
The fries were also great – crispy on the outside and soft on the inside – just the way fries should be.
The custard was delicious too. It was very creamy and tasted homemade. We ate as much of it as we could, which was about half, but honestly had no more stomach room.
I am definitely coming back to this place for my next burger fix. The food is absolutely mouthwatering (it's even hard writing about it now) and the prices are beyond reasonable. For more information visit: www.ShakeShack.com.
P.S: This is my 100th post! Wow. I can't believe one hundred already.
Thank you everyone who reads my blog!
Also, today I'm leaving to Montreal for a few days, so happy New Year's everyone! I look forward to sharing more with you in 2010.
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The JAR file for the Inet Oracle driver is Oranxo.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: Oracle
DataSource Classname: com.inet.ora.OraDataSource
user - Specify the database user.
password - Specify the database password.
serviceName - Specify the URL of the database. The syntax is as follows:
For example:
In this example,localhost is the host name of the machine running the Oracle server, 1521 is the Oracle server's port number, and payrolldb is the SID of the database. For more information about the syntax of the database URL, see the Oracle documentation.
serverName - Specify the host name or IP address of the database server.
port - Specify the port number of the database server.
streamstolob - If the size of BLOB or CLOB data types exceeds 4 KB and this driver is used for CMP, this property must be set to true.
xa-driver-does-not-support-non-tx-operations - Set to the value true. Optional: only needed if both non-XA and XA connections are retrieved from the same connection pool. Might degrade performance.
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Dell Walks Fine Line in Buyout Talks
CEO Michael Dell needs to persuade Dell investors that the prospects for the company he founded in 1984 are anything but rosy if he is to succeed with his plan to take the computer maker private. Sharon Terlep reports.
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Evernote through its paces on your Android device, a new update adds a few more bells and whistles. First, the outfit has integrated speech-to-text transcription to go alongside its existing audio notes feature. Don't worry, the original audio is also attached to each note and the new tool can be disabled for sound-only reminders. This feature only works with Android 4.0 tech and "certain other devices" though.
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Dr. Bruce Gross, in a recent scholarly piece in the Annals of the American Psychotherapy Associaton, deftly gets his arms around the false rape phenomenon. He ends on this sobering call for rationality that mirrors the goals of this Web site:
"Although it may not be 'politically correct' to question the veracity of a women's complaint of rape, failing to consider the accuser may be intentionally lying effectively eradicates the presumption of innocence. This Constitutional right is especially significant when dealing with allegations of rape as in most jurisdictions, sex offenses are the only crimes that do not require corroborating evidence for conviction. Because there are often no witnesses and no physical evidence (especially if the victim delays in filing a report), the case may come down to the credibility of the accused versus the credibility of the accuser.
"There is a fine line between supporting victims and protecting the rights of the accused. Yet, considering the unique challenges of trying and defending rape cases combined with the potential costs to the falsely accused, being able to assess the credibility of the alleged victim takes on special importance."
Bruce Gross, False Rape Allegations: An Assault on Justice, Annals of the American Psychotherapy Associaton, Dec. 22, 2008.
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". . . failing to consider the accuser may be intentionally lying effectively eradicates the presumption of innocence."
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Nano-RK: A Wireless Sensor Networking Real-Time Operating System¶
Nano-RK is a fully preemptive reservation-based real-time operating system (RTOS) from Carnegie Mellon University with multi-hop networking support for use in wireless sensor networks. Nano-RK currently runs on the FireFly Sensor Networking Platform as well as the MicaZ motes. It includes a light-weight embedded resource kernel (RK) with rich functionality and timing support using less than 2KB of RAM and 18KB of ROM. Nano-RK supports fixed-priority preemptive multitasking for ensuring that task deadlines are met, along with support for CPU, network, as well as, sensor and actuator reservations. Tasks can specify their resource demands and the operating system provides timely, guaranteed and controlled access to CPU cycles and network packets. Together these resources form virtual energy reservations that allows the OS to enforce system and task level energy budgets.
- 5/31/2011 Paper on nanocf Cooperation framework for macro-programming at SECON 2011
- 4/12/2010 Paper on U-Connect neighborhood discovery at IPSN 2010
- 11/13/2009 Paper on Syntonistor for time synchronization wins best paper award SenSys 2009
- 10/15/2008 Paper on Rate-Harmonized Scheduling at RTSS 2008
- 2/12/2008 New release fixes kernel memory bug and adds Windows Support.
- 2/7/2008 gcc 4.2.2 with avr-libc 1.6.1 fix multiple minor bugs. Install new toolchain from Downloads page.
- 12/29/2007 Embedded.com Article discusses Nano-RK
- 10/20/2007 Paper on Vision-Enabled Sensor Networks using Nano-RK at RTSS 2007
- 10/6/2007 Public Subversion Read Access for pre-beta release
- 10/16/2006 Paper on Voice Over Sensor Networks using Nano-RK at RTSS 2006
- 9/25/2006 Paper on RT-Link running on Nano-RK wins best paper at SECON 2006
- 12/15/2005 Nano-RK paper introduced at RTSS 2005
- C GNU tool-chain
- Classical Preemptive Operating System Multitasking Abstractions
- Real-Time Priority Based Scheduling
- Built-in Fault Handling
- Task Timing Violations
- Stack Integrity
- Unexpected Node Restarts
- Resource Over-Use
- Low Voltage Detection
- Hardware Watchdog Timer
- Software Watchdog Timers
- Energy Efficient Scheduling based on a-prior task-set knowledge
- Tickless Timer
- Small Footprint (<2K RAM, 16K ROM, including link layer)
- SLIPstream (a simple gateway to IP network protocol and utility)
- TimeScope (a code execution time measurement utility built into the FireFly programmer boards)
- AVR Studio 4 Debugging (Simulating Nano-RK code on a single node using AVR Studio 4 is easy)
- Eclipse IDE allows for easy development
Nano-RK supports various wireless link layer protocols including:¶
- RT-Link for collision free Real-Time communication
- WiDom a collision free priority based link layer
- b-mac for low-power contention based communication
- U-Connect a Low-Latency Energy-Efficient Asynchronous Neighbor Discovery protocol
- PCF TDMA Flexible and simple, low-power, one-hop TDMA for both high and low data-rate collection
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Today: Santa Clara-based Arista Networks files for $200 million initial public offering after successful debuts of A10 Networks and Aerohive Networks. Also: Silicon Valley tech stocks bounce back on final trading day of first quarter.
The Lead: Arista Networks files for IPO amid Cisco investigation
Following two successful initial public offerings from Silicon Valley networking companies in two weeks, Santa Clara's Arista Networks filed for its own IPO on Monday as more details emerged about possible overseas bribery on the part of sector leader Cisco Systems.
Arista set its initial IPO goal at $200 million in paperwork publicly filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, though that figure is likely to change in future revisions. The nine-year-old company has illustrious Silicon Valley roots, having been co-founded by Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, the first outsider to invest in Google.
The IPO paperwork revealed a rift between the company and another co-founder, frequent Bechtolsheim collaborator David Cheriton, a Stanford University professor who also founded software startup Optumsoft. According to the prospectus, Arista licensed software from Optumsoft in 2004, when the company was founded, but Optumsoft told Arista it had violated the licensing agreement. Cheriton — Arista's largest shareholder through a trust he has set up — resigned from the company's board in March.
Arista's filing arrives after two successful IPOs in two weeks from Silicon Valley networking companies. San Jose's A10 Networks, which focuses on software used to run corporate data centers, raised $187.5 million before debuting March 21, and Sunnyvale's Aerohive Networks last week raised $75 million to boost its business of developing networking hardware focused on cloud management and mobile-device access.
Arista focuses on switches, a networking-hardware offering that is dominated by Cisco and other Silicon Valley companies, such as Extreme Networks. Arista is led by a former Cisco executive, Jayashree Ullal, who has been CEO since 2008, and will list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ANET.
The company will go to market with strong financials, producing profits each of its previous three fiscal years and boasting revenue growth of more than 86 percent in 2013, when the company clocked sales of $361.2 million.
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While its younger rivals push to market, Cisco was faced with a report that claimed federal authorities are investigating possible bribes by company executives in Russia, though Wall Street ramifications were minimal as stocks bounced higher on the final day of the first quarter.
In a Sunday feature, the website Buzzfeed reported, citing anonymous sources, that the San Jose networking giant is being investigated by the Department of Justice and SEC for alleged bribery in Russia. Cisco had previously disclosed the allegations, though the company said at the time that it would be conducting an internal investigation at the request of the two agencies. Buzzfeed claims that Cisco executives worked with Russian resellers of its equipment to offer kickbacks that were funneled to offshore accounts for the purpose of bribing officials. Neither the Justice Department nor the SEC would confirm the report Monday, while Cisco provided a statement that said, "We take our responsibilities as a global business seriously." Cisco still managed a gain Monday on Wall Street, increasing 0.4 percent to $22.42.
Apple declined 12 cents to $536.74 as its second Silicon Valley patent trial with Samsung began in San Jose, with jury selection kicking off the festivities. Oracle jumped 3.4 percent to $40.91 after Gartner reported that it moved past IBM to take second place in the global software market for the first time, trailing only Microsoft, which shuffled its executive ranks Monday. Intel rose 0.8 percent to $25.81 after revealing the specifics about its investment in Silicon Valley big-data startup Cloudera, while rival Advanced Micro Devices gained 3.4 percent to $4.01. Google dropped 0.5 percent to $1,114.51 ahead of its impending stock split, as Forrester Research reported that the Mountain View company's Google+ social network is just as popular as Twitter. San Francisco-based Twitter fell 1.3 percent while bringing on a new executive and expanding its television ambitions. Symantec gained 0.9 percent to $19.97 after Bloomberg News suggested a split-up for the Mountain View security software company, and Yahoo stayed steady at $35.90 before the Wall Street Journal reported it is in talks to acquire online video service NDN.
Up: Oracle, Gilead, AMD, Pandora, Salesforce, SolarCity, NetApp, Electronic Arts, VMware, Adobe, SunPower, Applied Materials, Hewlett-Packard, Symantec
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P413 - Was told last week when I called that delivery would "likely" be in December but there was still a chance of early January. I'm hoping that was an attempt at underpromising and overdelivering.
@AaronX - From what I understand, they are manufacturing 85kwh cars with Air Sunspension earlier, so your car may be manufactured later since yours has a 60kwh battery.
Max M.
Can P#5, waiting since 04/2009... and waiting for transport Canada to certify the car now.
Hope I'll not wait 4 years
Unless I missed something, William9's P83 is the lowest U.S. P. It's kind of interesting that we haven't seen anything lower. I wonder whether there might be large holes in the list?
I meant lowest U.S. P in this thread.
P-482 here. Finalized order in August and I am being told (via phone contact with my delivery specialist) January 2013. Reasons for January delivery: air suspension and 60kw battery
P-130 here. Haven't heard anything. It would be nice to hear 3-4 weeks in advance of delivery so that we can get financing and insurance set up. Time in this year is running short and even with a low P number I'm worried about getting my car this year.
R43 here - also have heard nothing concrete. MPVA stated Oct/Nov. Mid-Oct called and was told delivery likely by mid-Nov. Have been in waiting mode since.
Correction to the entry two above: standard suspension (not air suspension)
I'd call/email TM to get an update if I were you. Probably about time to get that financing in order right now.
That info about EU Sig colours suggests a 2nd Paint Center. That would free a lot of options up, and boost volume.
But maybe not.
I'm P#130 (85Kw performance brown with tan interior) and I called Tesla today to check on the status of my car. Was told that it would not start production for 1-2 weeks and they are still hoping to deliver before the end of the year. They also said that they typically will contact via email about 3 weeks before delivery to get financing/paperwork and maybe about 1 week before delivery they will contact you regarding delivery. One bit of good news is that deliveries to Arizona shipped directly from the factory and are not batched so this shouldn't be a delay.
Well, with a personally addressed request posted, I am compelled to respond. I have P1 sequence code and am still waiting for my call. I contact Tesla weekly and continue to hear soon/any day now.
Fingers crossed - I'm still dreaming of a (pearl) white Christmas.
We are honored sir! Welcome to the forums!
P425 here. 80kwh Performance. I'm hearing mid to end of dec but no official confirmation
@rbreezley - welcome! We now have F1 (Steve J), S1 (Jason C) and P1[US] rbeezley. Who's R1? And the other country '1's? Maybe we should start an honor roll thread? :-)
Welcome and well done regarding the p1 spot!
@rbeezley: Congratulations on the #1 spot! The early "P's" are a "rabid bunch" right now - all of us (with sequence #'s <1500 or so) are hoping for 2012 deliveries based on the proposed production levels. The only P's I know of that have VIN's are those who have contacted Tesla and asked. Any P's here that have been contacted directly by TM with final info?
I've been checking here almost daily for any news of regular P deliveries, so any updates would be appreciated.
FWIW, I'm P#4605 (Perf, 85Kwh). When I signed and finalized my MVPA on Aug 29, the note on it said Nov/Dec delivery. Yeah, right.... :/
As posted on TMC:
I have been in touch with several TM employees and the following seems to be the current situation. They are caught between finishing the run of Sigs, some delayed because of parts and QC resolution, and being able to start production of GP's. There are apparently "high level" meetings going on to attempt to resolve having the ability to deliver GP's but having the promise that all Sigs will go first. I was told that GP cars are currently being produced. It's the conundrum of delivery order that is giving them trouble. One of the people told me that if the Sig issues are resolved my P-83 has an outside chance of factory delivery on Dec 1. I'm not counting on it but at least there is hope I'll have it by my birthday, Dec 2!
Welcome, and congrats @breezley! Is it all right if I ask how you ended up with P1? Are you an insider, or a real inside insider? ;)
P65, I was told by tesla rep realistically a 50/50 chance of pre Xmas delivery.
Thanks for the comments and feedback. With the encouragement, I'll gladly share my journey with Tesla Motors. And I like the idea for a personalize plate!
I can't remember when I first heard about this new electric car company, but I followed any info I could find until they became available to order. I believe I put my initial order in for a Roadster more than 4 1/2 years ago. I went to the opening of the first retail store in West LA and took my first drive as soon as they got test cars on site. Later, I had a chance to take a few spins on a track at SpaceX.
As much as I loved driving the Roadster and how awesome a car it would be to own, I couldn't rationalize that kind of $$$ on any small sports car. When my turn came up, I passed on my opportunity to finalize my configuration and order. I was driving an Audi S8 (now an RS6) and knew the next car on the TM roadmap was to be a luxury sports sedan, so I waited.
I attended the Model S premiere at Space X and decided on the spot that it was exactly what I was looking for. (I was in line to go for a ride when Arnold showed up and took the car away for about an hour so didn't get a chance that night.) They were taking reservations that night for Sigs, but I didn't have a spare $40K laying around for the deposit and wanted to transfer my $5K Roadster deposit over to a Model S. It took TM awhile to come up with a form I could fill out to do that, and awhile longer to get a sequence number which delighted me when it came out "P One." They were still early in signing up Signature models then, so I was apparently the first person to want to wait for a GP.
Had I the $40K to put down on deposit and comfort signing the paper saying that I understood it was a startup and I might never get a car or my deposit back, I'd be driving a red Sig today. Later on, I had opportunities to upgrade while the [US] Sigs were still available, but I just thought having "P One" was too cool to trade in.
I'm fortunate to be in the LA area, so it has been easy to make a lot of events. I went to the premiere, and premiere party at the West LA store, for the opening of the "Revenge of the Electric Car" as well as the opening of the 3rd Street Promenade store in Santa Monica a few months back, joining in to sing Happy Birthday to Elon.
My most recent treat was visiting my brother in Denver over Labor Day weekend. He surprised me with a drop by the Denver TM store, where the wonderful sales staff insisted I come back on Labor Day when they'd have Model S's just released from finishing the US tour. Both my brothers were with me that day, and we all got to take a turn behind the wheel. Just whetted my appetite all the more.
So that's my tale. I've been waiting for a Tesla a long, long time.
My RN, btw, is RN001103. I've asked about my VIN but haven't gotten that info. If other P owners have, I guess I need to bug them again ...
p.s. ... minor historical correction ... it was when I put in my Roadster order that I had to sign the "you may never see your money again" document. There was an option then to put down $40K and get in the build queue quickly or stick to $5K and go to the back of the line. By the time I was able to order my Model S, I think it TM was on more solid ground and the decision point on a Sig was merely a matter of not having $40K to tie up for a few years.
congrats @rbeezley. hoping we all get our cars in for the tax breaks expire
should be a long time. Each manufacturer gets 200,000 cars in the program.
Brian, I suspect rwang is referring to the possibility that the tax break will be eliminated in whatever budget deal gets negotiated.
Well, he said "expire", not "get expired". ;)
It looks like Tesla has resolved the delivery issue:
As posted on the tesla website:
nkinkaid@teslam... | NOVEMBER 21, 2012
No. There will always be a small amount of overlap at the end of deliveries for one series and the beginning of another. We are approaching that time now with Signature and General Production. We are setting up the last few US Signature car deliveries now and are about to start contacting General Production customers to begin setting up their deliveries. The overlap will be minimal, but there will be a few General Production cars that get delivered before the final US Signature cars. In many cases, these final Signature cars are ones that were configured in September and October and have been given high priority throughout the process, but simply cannot be built in time before General Production cars have started.
Canadian Signature production is now well under way. Delivery of these cars will overlap some final US Signature cars and some General Production cars.
+1 ANY P's???
Congratulations, Mark2131. Performance or non-performance?
if I got this right, there is a 3(!)-day-delivery event there?
Maybe we get a big surprise ...
With Mark at P153 for a November 30th pickup, this might imply that they have ramped up to 400 per week, which would put them in the slot for approximatly 3000 cars by the end of the year. IF true, take your P number, divide by 1600 and start counting from Dec 1. At P4100, that might imply mid Feb delivery for example. That's good news. Well, not news exactly. More like speculation sprinkled with optimism.
On the other hand I looked at the job boards the other night. There are a LOT of production workers - Welders, assembly people, vehicle testers, ect that they have open positions for. My assumption was at ramp up they would have those roles staffed and trained. That's potentialy not good news, but I know little about their staffing requriements.
Like everything else in life, your actual mileage may vary. See your local dealer for details.
But there is no local dealer :o)
Or any "dealers" for that matter. lol.
It's a great model. I don't think anyone enjoys the buying process.
When we configured in August we were told that 80kWh and active air suspension would be the only vehicles produced in 2012. Not knowing how many Ps configured without these features really throws the ability to make an educated guess (or SWAG!) when speculating about ones chances of being included in the 3,000 car goal for 2012 production. If a lot of people chose smaller battery packs or standard suspension, then someone with a sequence number above P1500 has a good chance of getting a car this year (writes a person with 80kWh, active air and a sequence number just over 1500). That said, I think we've learned that sequence number is not as important to production order as we've assumed it would be. I'm all for doing what they need to do to get as many cars out the door as possible. Clearly there's much we don't know. It must be such a complex process!
About ½ the reservations seem to be non-85s so far. If you subtract out the Sigs, that goes up to about 55%. So Production 85s could get delivered at a time matching a # about ½ as high. E.g., a P#4000 might be about the 2000th P produced and delivered. This "factor" would reduce the further into the backlog we get.
Brian, where did you see that half the reservations are 85s? From observing the forums or was there a more official source?
Various polls here and on TMC. Some thought the 85 count would drop as time went on, but it seems to be holding.
Any idea what the Performance share is?
IIRC, about 41%. It's been the star of the show, so far.
So that means Performance is 80% of the 85kWhs? Or do you mean Performance is 41% of the 85kWhs?
41% of the total. As volume climbs, that'll likely drop, I guess. But maybe not for some time!
I'm not sure it will. To me the the high number of 85kWh battery choices just shows how desirable the long range battery really is, and if you can get 85kWh standard, going ~10k up from that is not that big deal (options that come as standard in performance compared to normal add up to $6500).
I actually think that if Tesla would offer another $10k more expensive 105kWh battery that would be the star of the show instead of 85kWh performance.
Majority of people that can't really afford 85kWh Model S are probably either waiting for GenIII long range car or do not even consider electric vehicle. Market for those smaller battery sizes with that high price tag is quite small. Also car is quite big for town commuter and as such impractical.
About ½ the reservations seem to be non-85s so far. (Brian H)
How did you arrive at that number?
Various polls here and on TMC. Maybe time to start a new one. The reservation rate has surged, and it would be very interesting to know the new ratios.
Notably: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/poll.php?pollid=122&do=showresults


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Even before the recession hit, the publishing industry has always been a volatile one. Editors get fired and staffers go insane or simply crack under the pressure of constant deadlines and the creative process of giving birth to a magazine every month. Magazines come and go, and it wasn't uncommon for whole companies to simply disappear and shut their doors as well. Others would be gobbled up in mergers or split up and sold off. I worked for three different companies without ever changing offices or the magazine I worked on. And this was in the span of only four years.
Anyone who has worked in it or been around it can tell you, the only constant in publishing is change. A month would be a pretty long time for there not to be news about a hiring, firing, layoff, a new magazine appearing and old magazine disappearing. As Alaskans say of their weather: Just wait a few minutes and you are bound to see changes.
Over its almost 10 years of existence, Dirt Sports has seen plenty of them. We started out under the corporate umbrella of Advanstar Communications as their very first consumer magazine. Once Advanstar figured out there weren't millions of dollars to be made, the magazine was taken over by Jim Ryan under the much smaller Ryan Communications Group. After surviving by hook or by crook through a recession, we "went corporate" once again, being bought by Grind Media (a smaller division of Source Interlink Media). Recently, Dirt Sports moved out of Grind and into Source's Truck Group.
As if that long list of change wasn't enough, Dirt Sports has now been merged with Off-Road magazine, with this issue marking the kickoff of Dirt Sports + Off-Road. Long-time readers of Dirt Sports will notice a modified new logo and subscribers of Off-Road magazine might be wondering how this new magazine ended up in their mailboxes. While the magazine might be thought of as new, it is really more of a blending of Dirt Sports and Off-Road magazine.
Why blend the two? From a business perspective having two magazines that were somewhat closely aligned in content didn't make much sense. Each competed for some of the same advertising base, which is never good for the bottom line. Having two magazines that also compete for some of the same readers is also not the best business sense.
While I could drone on about the business side of things, most of you are probably wondering what will change with the magazine. Since its beginning, Dirt Sports has dealt with mostly the upper end of the sport. While that is great to a point, there is also a whole level of reader who can't afford a Trophy-Truck or Class 1 and simply wants to improve the performance of their vehicle or build something more affordable. Traditionally, Off-Road magazine had done more to cover this with lots of real-world tech articles and vehicle features.
The idea is to mix the high-end vehicles, features and profiles Dirt Sports is known for with the more reality-based aspects of Off-Road into one magazine. Its focus will be on off-road performance, so there won't be articles about putting 40-inch tires on your Super Duty. And, while some of the tech will be more realistic, we are not going to cover how-to-build-a-prerunner for $50 articles either. The majority of the aspects that have made Dirt Sports so cool over the years will remain intact.
Basically, the mixture will result in a bigger magazine that will appeal to readers of both Off-Road magazine and Dirt Sports magazine. Getting that mix just right might take awhile, but the result should be a better magazine for all. Welcome to the new Dirt Sports + Off-Road.


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The Crabapple Capital City Club hosted the Howard Young Atlanta Golf Classic, which raises money for the prevention and awareness of pancreatic cancer through the Seena Magowitz Foundation. The benefit included breakfast, a luncheon, raffle and live auction, as well as competitions including a hole-in-one contest and longest drive contest. Atlanta golf lovers gathered for philanthropy and fun for this annual medal event. Photography by Terry Check


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Red Rover Series
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Experiment #47:
The New Talkies
SATURDAY, JUNE 11th
8:30pm / doors lock 9pm
John Beer
Daniel Borzutzky
Krista Franklin
Judith Goldman
Carla Harryman
Konrad Steiner
Neo-benshi guest curated by Konrad Steiner
co-presented with the Chicago Poetry Project
and funded in part by Poets & Writers
at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, Illinois
suggested donation $4
logistics --
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible
JOHN BEER is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium, 2010), which won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. He lives in Chicago, where he writes about theater for Time Out.
DANIEL BORZUTZKY is the author of The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat, 2011); The Ecstasy of Capitulation (BlazeVox, 2007) and Arbitrary Tales (Triple Press, 2005). He is the translator of Raúl Zurita's Song for his Disappeared Love (Action Books, 2010) and Jaime Luis Huenún's Port Trakl (Action Books, 2010). His work has been anthologized in, among others, A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years (Fence Books); Seriously Funny (University of Georgia Press, 2010); and Malditos Latinos Malditos Sudacas: Poesia Iberoamericana Made in USA (El billar de Lucrecia, 2010). Journal publications include Fence, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, Chicago Review, TriQuarterly, and many others. Chapbooks include Failure in the Imagination (Bronze Skull, 2007) and One Size Fits All (Scantily Class Press, 2009). He is a contributing editor to Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas. He lives in Chicago.
KRISTA FRANKLIN is a poet and visual artist from Dayton, OH who lives and works in Chicago. Her poetry and mixed medium collages have been published in lifestyle and literary journals such as Coon Bidness, Copper Nickel, RATTLE, Indiana Review, Ecotone, Clam and Callaloo, and in the anthologies Encyclopedia Vol. II, F-K and Gathering Ground. Her visual art has been featured on the covers of award-winning books, and exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions. Franklin is a Cave Canem Fellow, and a co-founder of 2nd Sun Salon, a community meeting space for writers, visual and performance artists, musicians and scholars.
JUDITH GOLDMAN is the author of Vocoder (Roof 2001), DeathStar/rico-chet (O Books 2006), "the dispossessions" (atticus/finch 2009), and l.b.; or, catenaries (Krupskaya 2011). She co-edited the annual journal War and Peace with Leslie Scalapino from 2005-2009 and currently edits a feature on contemporary innovative poetry for the e-journal Postmodern Culture. She is a Harper Schmidt Fellow and collegiate assistant professor at the University of Chicago, teaching in the arts humanities core and in creative writing. In fall 2011, she will be the Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at University of California, Berkeley.
CARLA HARRYMAN is the author of fifteen books of poetry, plays, and prose. Her most recent works include a collection of conceptual and experimental essays Adorno's Noise (Essay Press, 2008), the book length poem Open Box (Belladonna 2007), and a sequence of essays in The Grand Piano, a multi-authored serial work that locates its project in the San Francisco Bay Area writing scene between 1975-1980. The Wide Road, a novella in poetry and prose co-authored with Lyn Hejinian was just released from Belladonna Press. Recent performance works have emphasized polyvocal text, bilingualism, choral speaking voices, and music improvisation. She is co-editor of Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker (Verso, 2006) and she is the special issue editor of "Non/Narrative" for the Journal of Narrative Theory (forthcoming, 2011). She serves on the creative writing faculty of the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University and the MFA faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts.
KONRAD STEINER, filmmaker and independent curator, studied film at SAIC and Linguistics at Stanford University. Since 2003 he has produced events of live cinema collaborating with musicians and writers, as well as making single channel video and film.
RED ROVER SERIES is curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin.


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Martin Scorsese To Make Your Dad's Dreams Come True
Oh my goodness, it really must be Italian Appreciation Day. Marty Scorsese, beloved maker of mob movies, has signed on to direct a biopic of one Francis Albert Sinatra.
Yes, that sound you just heard was a pizza pie falling to the ground.
Universal and Mandalay have been working on getting the crooner's life rights for some time now, and they've finally succeeded. So all things are a go. Now they just have to find their Frank. Hell, it's probably just gonna be Chris Pine or something.
The best thing about this news, however, is that hopefully it means that this abomination won't get off the ground.


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Global Vaccine Action Plan 2011-2020
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The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) ― endorsed by the 194 Member States of the World Health Assembly in May 2012 ― is a framework to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people in all communities.
GVAP was the product of the DoV Collaboration, an unprecedented effort that brought together development, health and immunization experts and stakeholders. The leadership of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI Alliance, UNICEF, United States National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases and WHO, along with all partners – governments and elected officials, health professionals, academia, manufacturers, global agencies, development partners, civil society, media and the private sector – are committed to achieving the ambitious goals of the GVAP. Many more are expected to add their support in the future as the plan is translated and implemented at the country and regional levels.
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1. Foreword
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Continuing momentum for the Decade of Vaccines
3. GVAP World Health Assembly Resolution
4. Annexes
1: Recommended Indicators
2: Stakeholder Responsibilities
3: Costing and Funding Methodology and Assumptions
4: Health Impacts and Methodology Assumptions
5: Countries and Organizations that Contributed to the Elaboration of the GVAP
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The DoV Collaboration brought together diverse stakeholders to develop the GVAP to stimulate the discovery, development and delivery of lifesaving vaccines. The plan builds on the success of current work to transform the way vaccines move from formulation, to factory, to families.


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Today, guest author Bryn Havord concludes his article on English illustrator Brian Sanders.
The early colour supplements produced in Britain gave illustrators excellent shop windows for their work.
This series, in the prestigious Sunday Times Magazine featured the best shots made by ten great tennis players. The art director was Michael Rand.
Michael Rand also commissioned Brian to paint a series of cars used in fiction. The Aston Martin used in Ian Fleming's James Bond book was an MK3, rather than the DB4 used in the film. Brian used his own Aston Martin DB3 for the illustration.
Artist/Illustrator Roger Coleman, an old friend of Brian's – they shared a studio at Artist Partners – kindly portrayed Goldfinger for this illustration below.
The series led to Brian being commissioned to paint the illustration for the book cover shown below. I especially liked the way Brian used the windscreen to show Lord Montagu's house, Beaulieu Abbey, as a reflection.
Below, this painting of Cleopatra, together with a painting of Ophelia, were commissioned as Shakespeare for Schools posters, published by The Sunday Times,.
During World War Two Brian, together with thousands of other children living in London, was evacuated to the countryside to protect them from Hitler's bombing campaign, and Brian was sent to Saffron Walden, a charming market town in north Essex, where he and Lizzie now live nearby in an Elizabethan house.
His most recently published book is: Evacuee: A Wartime Childhood, the first in a biographic trilogy. It quotes him as saying; "I always wanted to be an artist and I'm still trying".
It is a brilliantly written and illustrated book, evoking the atmosphere of wartime Britain. I was also a child at the time, living in a different part of Essex from Brian, and his book brought back so many memories of a strange and threatening time, but also a time of great joy and fascination. The adult view at the time was that the American GIs were "Overpaid, oversexed and over here", and indeed many of them were a source of interest to many of the young British females. They were definitely of interest to many of us young boys with their stories of life in America and in the US forces; their chewing gum and chocolate were pretty good as well!
* Evacuee: A Wartime Childhood is available from www.smallfort.co.uk price £7.99, plus postage. Payment by PayPal.
* Many thanks to Brian and Bryn for an interesting and inspiring week! Bryn has promised to follow up in the next couple of months with a further look at Brian's work post-1970 ~ Leif


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From HaskellWiki
GuiTV adds graphical user interfaces to the TV (tangible value) framework, using Phooey. The functionality was part of TV up to version 0.1.1. I moved it out into a package to eliminate the dependency of core TV on Phooey and hence on wxHaskell, as the latter can be difficult to install.
Beside this page, here are some ways to explore GuiTV:
- Read the Haddock docs (with source code, additional examples, and Comment/Talk links)
- Get the code repository: darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/GuiTV
- Or grab a distribution tarball.


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Bent plywood is energy efficient in its construction. Also, less wood is wasted because the wood is not milled but molded instead. This overlap tray by Offi is molded plywood with a Baltic birch veneer, and has a cork covered area for your cup of coffee. Read more about Offi here.
Available from Amazon for $99.


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BBC commercial tentacle confirms iTunes store push
Now see here
BBC shows including Life on Mars, Spooks and The Mighty Boosh have today been made available to buy on the iTunes video store, as first revealed by The Register on Friday last week.
The move is part of a drive to increase the revenues brought in by the public broadcaster's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. The BBC charter allows Worldwide to exploit rights over via DVDs, magazines and other sales, and now downloads at £1.89 per episode.
The video is encoded in standard definition H.264 (AKA MPEG-4 Part 10), in common with other content on iTunes UK and compatible with PC, Macs, iPod and iPhone, as well as other mobile devices.
A total of nine complete and currently-running series are available on a download-to-own basis. Downloads via the BBC's free seven-day catch-up application, iPlayer, are made unplayable by DRM software after being stored for 30 days. Flash streams are also available for seven days after broadcast.
The first episode of the current series Ashes to Ashes is already available to buy on iTunes, despite also being available for free on iPlayer because it was repeated five days ago. Shows will appear on iTunes seven days after the first broadcast.
The price of the shows, being the same as other series on iTunes produced by US companies, is likely to anger some licence fee payers. Apple is often heavily criticised for its UK pricing, which approximates $1 to £1 despite the US currency's weakness. Similarly, BBC Worldwide already has a US distribution deal with Amazon's Unbox download service, where episodes cost $1.99 each - about £1.
However, the pricing picture becomes more complex when compared to BBC Worldwide's DVD offerings. The first series of Robin Hood costs £29.98 on DVD from Amazon, while the 13 iTunes downloads would run to £20.79.
Amazon is yet to enter the UK film and TV download market, though its recent investment in LoveFilm is expected to accelerate its plans.
BBC Worldwide is set to open its own TV download shop alongside Channel 4 and ITV later this year under the codename Project Kangaroo. ®


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Feb. 11, 2013
Four New Positives Found in Trans Pecos CWD Surveillance
Disease not discovered outside Containment Zone
AUSTIN – Nearly 300 tissue samples were collected from hunter harvested mule deer from the Trans Pecos ecoregion of far West Texas during the 2012-13 season for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) testing. Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory and National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) have confirmed CWD in four of those samples. All CWD-positive deer were harvested within the CWD Containment Zone.
Of 298 deer sampled during hunting season, 107 were harvested in the Containment Zone, 93 were harvested in the adjacent High Risk Zone, 25 were harvested in the Buffer Zone, and 73 deer were harvested outside of the CWD zones. Nineteen of the samples collected from the Containment Zone were from deer harvested in the Hueco Mountains.
"The good news is that CWD has not been detected in Texas outside of the Hueco Mountains of northern El Paso and Hudspeth counties," said Mitch Lockwood, Big Game Program Director with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Including the two positives reported from TPWD's strategic sampling effort last summer, and the three positives reported by New Mexico Game and Fish last year, CWD has been detected in 9 of 31 deer sampled in the Hueco Mountains.
CWD is a member of the group of diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). Other diseases in this group include scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease) in cattle, and Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. CWD among cervids is a progressive, fatal disease that commonly results in altered behavior as a result of microscopic changes made to the brain of affected animals. An animal may carry the disease for years without outward indication, but in the latter stages, signs may include listlessness, lowering of the head, weight loss, repetitive walking in set patterns, and a lack of responsiveness. CWD is not known to affect humans.
There is no vaccine or cure for CWD, but steps have been taken to minimize the risk of the disease spreading from beyond the area where it currently exists. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission and Texas Animal Health Commission adopted rules restricting movement of deer, elk, and other susceptible species within or from the CWD Zones, and enhancing surveillance efforts.
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text: Mello-Roos Posted on September 10, 2019 - 09:01 AM by Rodney Bustamante In purchasing your new home, your future monthly payments will be made up of principal, interest, real property taxes, and insurance. But what is the tax for the Community Facilities District, otherwise known as a Mello-Roos District? The Land Title Assoc... Read more


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Drunken paedo commie exposed on internet
Chinese official sacked for restaurant escapade
A Chinese government official has been sacked after photos and vid clips of him drunkenly trying to force an 11-year-old girl into the men's toilet of a Shenzhen seafood restaurant surfaced on the internet, Reuters reports.
Lin Jiaxiang, former Communist Party chief and deputy director of the Shenzhen Maritime Safety Administration, was quickly given his marching orders by the Ministry of Transport, an example of the government's increasingly swift reaction to official misbehaviour in an attempt to "try and dampen widespread disgust over corruption and officials' abuse of power".
According to other news agencies, Lin boasted to the parents of his intended victim that he was "a high official from Beijing" and offered them money by way of appeasement. The Ministry of Transport will further probe the matter before deciding if additional punishment is in order. ®
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I can see it's been a while since this page was active, so maybe it's a far shot.
Anyway, Linux Mint 15 on my Aspire 4810T does not work properly. Main issue is network manager, which will not run. Sadly, I have to stick to 13 and miss out a lot of nice features in 15.


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Remembering our beautiful niece, cousin, granddaughter, daughter, and sister Allison Ann Bowers (January 21, 1999 - October 26, 2010).
We are, as ever, grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ and the promise of the resurrection and that families can be together forever after death.
The soul shall be restored to the body, and the body to the soul; yea, and every limb and joint shall be restored to its body; yea, even a hair of the head shall not be lost; but all things shall be restored to their proper and perfect frame. And now...this is the restoration of which has been spoken by the mouths of the prophets—And then shall the righteous shine forth in the kingdom of God. (Alma 40:23-25.)


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wbrst needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 61 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
I'm looking for a clean, sharp web2.0 style logo for a new accountant directory called 'Accountant Links'.
Accountant Links
Desired Style:
clean / professional web 2.0 style
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
I'm looking for a clean, sharp professional looking web2.0 logo for a new accountant directory called 'Accountant Links'.
I'm open to the colors and shape of the logo as I'll have the web page design coded to fit in with the logo. Feel free to use images of accountants or book keeping in the logo, but an all text logo will be good also.
I'll provide daily feedback on this project. Thanks.
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Jen, John and I get billions of emails every day. Some tell us how funny we are. The rest are "enlargement" offers, unique international business opportunities, and requests for the photo of the uncensored German dong cake (yes, they're still asking).
In honour of "Clean Out Your Inbox Week," we've decided to respond to a few of those emails here.
Dear Jen and John,
I've had a hard week! With my in-laws coming to visit and my water breaking, I've had no time to myself! I finally found solitude when I locked myself in the bathroom for six hours on Saturday and read through the Cake Wrecks archives on my laptop. (Had to stop when Aunt Tilda had to go "Number Twosies.") Just wanted to say thanks for the laughs and also ask how do you keep from getting stressed out?
Crying tears of joy,
Dear Matthew,
I assume you meant to write that your water "heater" broke. However, we recently found ourselves in a similar situation when family came to visit over the holidays (only we chose to lock ourselves in the closet, not the bathroom). We restored our sanity by relaxing, meditating, and focusing on the love we have for each other.
And we also got drunk and ate lots of chocolate.
Don't forget to flush,
john (the hubby of Jen)
Dear Cake Wrecks,
While I generally consider myself a "humorous" person, I must admit I was deeply offended by a recent joke you made on your site. There is nothing at all funny in this punchline:
As the dealer for the Vegan Underwater Polish Canasta Team, I think you should consider your readers who hold the Joker in high regard. It is not a joke, Cake Wrecks. It is one of the most important cards in the deck.
Unfollowing. It's been fun.
Hi Betty,
We apologize for offending you and the other members of the Vegan Underwater Polish Canasta Team. We realize the Joker can be very important and will be sure to reference it in a higher regard next time we feature a wrecked playing card cake.
We plan to post the following cake next week and we sincerely hope your team won't be offended.
All the best-
Number One
Dear friend,
Please vote for my cat Smuckers in the Kennel Treats "Cutest Pet Sweepstakes!" The more votes my cat gets, the more chance we have to win! So vote often, and forward this email to all your friends!!
Vote now!!!
-Jeanna and Smuckers
Dear Jeanna,
Though we appreciate your interest and highly personalized e-mail, I'm afraid we get too many requests for online votes to grant ours to little Smuckers.
Plus we thought this guy was cuter:
Best of luck anyway!
-CW Team
Our deepest thanks to readers Fifi B., Theresa K., Jennifer D., Emily P., and Roberta for sending us emails with photos of cakes in them... and not just asking us to claim our winnings in the Euro Millions email promotion.


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Top of Their Game
Six local athletes tell us about the sports that changed their lives — and dish out some inspiration for the rest of us
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Kathleen Davis
54, Poughkeepsie
The recreation director for the town of Hyde Park, Davis is a member of Poughkeepsie's U.S. Masters swim team. The team competes year-round against other swimmers in the state and region; in 2007, Davis set a New England Masters Championship age-group record in the 200-yard butterfly.
How did you first get involved in swimming?
I was about nine or 10. My father was in the Marine Corps based in Norfolk, Virginia. My parents took my sister and me to the pool and we joined the swim team there. I continued swimming competitively as a youth, but I quit in high school. I just was not interested in doing it any longer. In the mid-1980s, I took it up again, and joined a U.S. Masters swim team that met at the Poughkeepsie YMCA. But the coach moved away, and that team sort of fell apart. About five years ago, I joined up with a group of people who were doing laps together at the Y. Eventually we decided to form another team, and we contacted Ron Terwilliger at Poughkeepsie Middle School to be our coach. There are now about 45 members. It's a very dedicated group of people.
Why did you decide to start swimming again after so many years?
Because it's a great way to get fit and stay fit, especially for your cardiovascular system.
What's your current routine?
I swim three mornings a week for one-and-a-half hours. We start at 6 a.m., and do about 3,000 to 4,000 yards — that's about 160 lengths of the pool, although the workouts vary from day to day.
You've been swimming competitively for several years. What are you most proud of?
I was pleased to find out that I'd broken some New York State championship times for my age group several years ago. But really it's the thrill of competing that I enjoy the most.
For you, what's the most difficult thing about being an athlete?
Having to get to bed early! I'm usually there by 9-9:30 p.m. Also, once you get into a routine, sometimes you burn out. Sometimes you'll overwork yourself, so you've got to slow down and rest. Or you might have an injury, so you'll seek out another way to stay in shape. Most of us on the team cross-train, maybe run, do yoga, walk, or hike.
How do you motivate yourself on those mornings where you'd rather sleep in than swim?
I keep reminding myself that exercise makes you feel better, and it keeps you healthy. When I don't exercise, I start to feel stressed. And I have a commitment to my team. If you don't show up, the coach is there asking where you've been. I feel a responsibility to my teammates.
What do you enjoy most about your sport?
I enjoy competing locally and regionally. And when you're on a team, it's a social outlet. I've made friends through swimming, and some of them are former teammates who've moved away. It's great to reconnect with them at other events. But when I'm in the pool, there's a sense of freedom, both physically and mentally, which is a great release for me. It clears your mind, relaxes and de-stresses. And all those endorphins — they just make me feel good!
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