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IT Heroes Episode VIII: Intercosmos Media Kept their Data Center Up through the entire Katrina Disat
How Technology Survived the Worst Natural Disaster in the History of the United States: Part I
Intercosmos Media Group, Inc. is one of the Top 10 internationally accredited domain name registrars, owning and operating directNIC.com. To date the company has registered more than 2.5 million domain names since launching in 1999. In the 23rd annual Inc. 500 rankings, Intercosmos was named the 68th fastest growing private company in the United States, having grown more than 5,000 percent in five years. Their data center of several hundred servers is located on the 10th floor of an office building in downtown New Orleans.
Following hurricane Katrina, for nearly three weeks without power or water these men kept their customers mission critical systems up and available. Hear how they did it. We speak with CEO, Sigmund Solares, and the Senior VP of Software Development, Donnie Simonton, about their preparations, remediation, and true grit in the face of tragedy.
This interview is the eighth in a new podcast series, IT Heroes: Stories from the Trenches; these are the real stories of men and women in IT making a difference everyday. We talk with authors, innovators and implementers about emerging technologies, troubleshooting and remediation of common infrastructure issues and charitable contributions in the community. We seek to educate and provide a forum for open discussion of the many uses for and specific ways in which people are everyday exploiting technology to create opportunities for themselves and others.
Stream the Intercosmos interview now!
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Bumpie Tip of the Week: How to Get Through the 3rd Trimester At Work
May 2012
Pregnancy is already tough, and if you're working right up until delivery, those last few months with a big belly can be especially hard. We found some great tips from Bumpies on the Working Moms message board for getting through the 3rd Trimester while still working 9 to 5.
Get comfy!
"I brought a huge water bottle, and my boss let me bring a pillow for my back." –mylittlebee220
"I'm a teacher. I started my 3rd Trimester as the school year began. I got a very comfy chair and did a lot of teaching sitting down." –waTracy
"Sit when you can. I use interoffice mail more or call people and ask them to come pick something up. I'm tired!" –alwaysduke00
Stay nourished
"I spent my day off prepping snacks for work. I would make little baggies of cut-up veggies, fruit, graham crackers and other little snacks that would be somewhat healthy." –Anne Mommy
"I made sure I grabbed a cup of ice to munch on from the pantry (I hated drinking water) and usually a small snack every couple hours." –jesspacatc
"Nutrition is really important to help with energy. Have small snacks every three hours, keep nuts, natural energy bars, and fruit nearby. The snacks really help me." –veronicad07
Take a break
"Try to stand every 30 minutes and stretch your legs. Do some simple calf stretches and thigh stretches. I've also tried wearing medium compression stockings; they're not too difficult to put on and they really help with leg pain and fatigue." –veronicad08
"I brought my yoga mat and would close my office door, lie down and stretch out when it got bad." –jlaOK
"I sit at a desk for nine hours so I made sure I got up at least every hour and took a little walk. If it got bad I went to health services and laid on a cot. The key is to listen to your body!" –kms34
Think about the future
"I kept my eye on the prize: Baby and maternity leave. I just kept working to get to my goal!" –shouldbworkin
What advice would you give a mom-to-be in her 3rd Trimester for getting through those last few months at work?

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Flower seeds are a simple and affordable way to add beauty to the garden! Many flowers are easy to grow from seed, and virtually care-free! Whether you're looking for native flower seeds, or seeds for edible varieties, you'll find them here.
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Cedar strip rowboat kits: A cedar strip version of the traditional Rangeley Lake boat, offsets from John Gardner.
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Pace yourself, Ben. It's a long season.
Here's Ben Affleck at the GQ Men of the Year party last night. Part of the deal in getting the cover is to show up for the magazine's event, although at the time of this writing (4am ET) I don't see any photos of Channing Tatum, also Man of the Year. That may have something to do with another magazine title for Tatum but the point is, Ben, like Tatum, obviously has enough clout to say, nah, I don't feel like showing up, if he doesn't want to show up, especially to a party with such a generous guest list. Chord Overstreet was there too.
But why risk pissing someone off during award season? It won't kill him to go to everything. And he seems to be, happily, campaigning, whether it's on the carpet on the party circuit or at the country mart with his children.
And there's four more months of this ahead. Including the Santa Barbara Film Festival where it's just been announced he'll receive the Modern Master award. Who's working harder than Ben Affleck?


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Big_Noid Wrote:yeah, but it's much cleaner if it's done like with add-ons. The first item in the list is for "None - clear the current settings". I can't add that in the select dialog that pops-up.
Also if I was to add a clear button for every item then there is even more code than I use now for the same functionality.
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Welcome to The Collection
At G . F Smith, we're constantly seeking out new papers and processes, expanding our collections and adding to our knowledge. So much so that it's been a while since we took a look at this site.
Well, having expanded our paper collection, tested and introduced new processes, and spent a lot of time talking to designers about selecting paper, we're delighted to present a complete overhaul of the site.
Perhaps most importantly, we've introduced search filters in the 'We Recommend' tool. You can now refine your search by a paper's suitability for processes like foiling or digital printing, or its availability in certain weights and finishes. When it's time to look at the real thing, you're able to easily place Sample orders through our 'My Samples' tool. Its quick and easy too.
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Paris is co-founder of Secret Lab Pty. Ltd., leading production and design efforts in the mobile game and app development space. A frequent speaker at conferences, workshops and training sessions, Paris enjoys discussing engineering, product development, design and other facets of the mobile and game development worlds. Recent conferences include Apple Australia's /dev/world/2011 in Melbourne (and 2008, 2009 and 2010), a keynote at CreateWorld Brisbane 2010 (and a speaker in 2009 and 2011), IxDA's Interaction 11 in Boulder (March 2011), XMediaLab Location-Based Services in Malmo, Sweden (January 2011), a tutorial and a session at OSCON 2011 and many others.
Paris is the co-author of the books 'iPhone and iPad Game Development For Dummies' and 'Unity Mobile Game Development For Dummies'. The books cover game development on mobile platforms such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android devices in languages/frameworks such as Objective-C, CocoaTouch, Open GL ES, Unity, C# and JavaScript. They also cover game design techniques, principles and patterns.
Paris founded and led ithinkitworks P/L from 2001 to 2008, spearheading product development and design efforts on a variety of platforms including desktop Linux, Windows, Mac OS, Palm OS, Windows Mobile/Pocket PC and others.
Paris is also a highly experienced software developer, product and project manager. Key experiences include Objective-C/Cocoa on the Macintosh and iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad platforms, Java on Blackberry and Google Android and C# on Windows Mobile. Open GL ES and Unity are also favourites.
Paris recently spent 2 years leading Meebo Inc.'s mobile strategy; Meebo is one of the world's fastest growing consumer internet companies and is based in Mountain View, CA. Paris is currently working on his next book, this time with O'Reilly (Learning Cocoa with Objective-C Third Edition), whilst working towards the completion of his PhD in Human-Computer Interaction.


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Morgan State University All-Stars seek to defend championship
Competition between HBCUs offers $50K prize
Morgan State University students seek to defend their crown in a national competition between students at America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
For the past 24 years, automobile giant Honda has supported an academic bowl, a major competition that pits Morgan's academic team against more than 40 schools from around the country.
A year ago, Morgan walked away with the top prize that included medals and a trophy -- both proudly displayed in the student center. The all-star competition covers everything from current events, pop culture, history and science.
"Three of the four of us are returning champions and I think we're ready. I think we're stronger than we were last year. There's not a doubt in my mind that if we do what we're supposed to do we're going to win," said Craig Cornish Jr., one of the Morgan All-Stars.
The competition is set for Monday in California, which means there's not much time to get ready.
"There is no real way to prepare for an academic bowl. The only thing that you can do is try to internalize as much as information as possible and try to replicate this information on flash cards to the point that you're always reviewing," said Kyle De Jan Morgan, one of the Morgan All-Stars.
The team can expect at least one major supporter in its corner, the school's president, David Wilson.
"We here at Morgan are enrolling at this institution some of the best minds in the country. They come here and they're very serious about their studies. We put them on the national stage and they outperform students from all over the country," Wilson said.
The champions not only come away with a trophy and prestige but also a paycheck of $50,000.


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Handmade Mustard Teepee
The Bunni Mustard Teepee is made by hand with love and care, especially for kids to enhance their "learning through play" experience.
Bunni playtents or teepees are recommended by occupational therapists, they are great for fantasy play, quiet times, reading books, to take to the park or to the beach to provide shade and a beacon for your child.
The Mustard teepee playtent is perfect for the park, your garden, the beach, even indoors on a rainy day. They are great for kids to make a camp, both indoors and outside. These blue teepee playtents are so easy to assemble and pack up very compactly, enabling you to transport them effortlessly. They fit comfortably in almost every car model and fit snugly behind a bedroom door, inside a wardrobe, or under the bed when not in use. Rubber feet prevent the poles from sliding on carpeted, tiled, light wooden and laminate floors, and also protect the poles from absorbing damp on surfaces such as wet grass or damp sea sand. Encourage your child to play using their imagination.
Occupational therapists recommend tents & teepees for children suffering from sensory integration disorder, children who fall under the autism "umbrella" and children with other physically and emotionally challenging issues.
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Best YouTube Moments in Oregon State Basketball: The NomineesPosted by Connor Pelton (@ConnorPelton28) on February 10th, 2014
Last month we introduced our new project, which is centered around determining the top YouTube moment in Pac-12 basketball history. We continue the nomination portion with Oregon State.
[ed note: These are just the top moments we could find on YouTube, which has a vast number and array of videos, but we won't be able to cover the entire 99 years of the conference.]
We open with perhaps the most explosive dunk in Beavers basketball history, courtesy of shooting guard Jared Cunningham. With three minutes left in the opening week of conference play, Oregon State was hanging onto a two-point lead against vaunted Arizona. Getting a running start from the three-point line, Cunningham read Joe Burton's missed jumper perfectly, rising over a pair of Wildcats and one of his own teammates to slam the ball home one-handed. If you were watching the game live, you'll remember how officials just stopped the game for a good 20 seconds because no one was quite sure what they just witnessed. There was no foul or timeout called, everyone just stopped playing. I thought that was pretty cool. If the Beavers wouldn't have pulled the upset, then the play would have just been remembered as a nice moment in an otherwise tough loss. But the offense continued to thrive down the stretch, and by the end of the night the Beavers were tied atop the league standings and owned the #6 play of the day on SportsCenter.


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If the last episode was the Arrow Christmas special, this one is an Arrow Christmas letter. It shows off the characters and generally updates you on how they are and what they're doing, but not much more. Just when I think that this is going to be an entirely forgettable episode - distinguished only by a physically preposterous climax - the show does one interesting thing. This thing, I will tell spoiler-loving readers about under the cut.
I won't tease you. I'll tell you the interesting development right up front. During this episode, Laurel steals the phone that her dad, Quentin, used to contact the Hood so she can ask for the Hood's help. Quentin takes this badly, but after demanding the phone back, he seems to have a change of heart, saying that the vigilante keeps Laurel out of danger. He gives it back to her. Turns out? It was bugged. And he's going to listen to his daughter's conversations from now on. (I am so hoping for embarrassing dirty-talk. Look not through key-holes, Quentin.) Not only does this pit Lance against Lance, it's the first sign that Quentin is finally getting into the game after several episodes of professional-grade bumbling.
The rest of the show is, yes, very much like a staid family Christmas letter. This is a CW show, so they'd never risk covering up their male lead's chest with a Christmas sweater, but "Burned" does nothing more than letting us know how the characters have been without really moving them forward. And how have they all been? Mopey.
Moira's been Mopey because her irredeemable evilness means that Walter has been missing for six weeks - kidnapped by her evil boss. She's been sitting around the house looking at photos and snapping at anyone who suggests she go in to work. Thea sees this and decides to talk to her - and at last we have one scene that proves that the dark-haired, dark-eyed Thea actually is related to this family of towheads. Moira unleashes her inner brat. That's right. It's a brat-off! They take turns yelling things like, "I didn't ask you to worry" and "Who's supposed to be the mother around here!" I hope against hope that one of them will lunge for the other one's hair, but sadly it was not to be. Instead Moira decides to perk up and take the CEO position of Queen Consolidated. Hilariously, Thea is not touched by the fact that Moira credits her for her recovery, and snipes about Moira's newfound cheeriness. God, that girl and brattery. She doesn't quit it. She's like a lone champion holding up the sky. I love it.
Laurel has also been mopey. This is partly because Tommy wants a drawer at her place while she wants to keep it light. But it's also because her friend at the office, Joanna, has a firefighter brother who just died in the line of duty. Joanna has been in every episode but I've never needed to mention her because her only job has been to want exactly the opposite of what Laurel wanted. If Laurel wanted to work, Joanna wanted her to go out. If Laurel wanted to talk to Oliver, Joanna wanted her to ignore him. That gave Laurel a chance explain her reasoning to Joanna, and to the audience. Joanna was Laurel's exposition helper, and basically there because it would look too weird if Laurel constantly explained her motivations to a cat or a stuffed parrot or something. Of course, at the end of this episode, Joanna takes a leave of absence to cope with her brother's death, so Laurel might have to get that stuffed parrot after all.
That leaves Ollie. He's still moping because the Black Arrow beat him like a pioneer woman beats a carpet during spring cleaning. The overall beating lasted so long, and was so hard, that it featured prominently in an Edgar Allan Poe story. The only people who've got more beat than Ollie are The Go-Gos, is what I'm saying, and that's only because they were paid for it. Ollie has spent the last six weeks recovering, and it didn't do him much good. When Laurel tells him that Joanna suspects that her brother was murdered, he rushes to another fire, fails to save another fire-fighter, and gets kicked around by a dude wearing fire gear. Digg tries to follow up that ass-kicking with one of his own, slamming Ollie down over a desk when Ollie seems despondent. Ollie immediately snaps back, popping up and slamming Digg over the same desk. He angrily asks Digg what that was supposed to prove, to which Digg replies, "That this is one sturdy desk." I have to admit it, Arrow. That was funny. And, fan-ficcers? You know your entrance line, don't you?
Ollie at last confides to Digg that, on the island, he didn't fear death (which is a total lie, but we'll let that pass since a bigger one is coming) because he didn't have anything to lose. Now he has family and friends who will miss him. Digg heroically restrains himself from kicking the desk over and screaming, "Why do none of you people ever remember that you are all twenty-year-old billionaires? Do you really not even think about that? What is is like to live like that? I would really like to know."
Ollie flashes back to his first kill on the island. He basically got in a fight with one of the military guys, fell down a ravine, and landed on top of the man - on top of a rock. Glorious it was not, but it beat the hell out of the final kill of this episode, and it netted him a map of the island.
At last, Ollie works out that Joanna's brother, and all of the burning victims, are members of a firehouse squad that wouldn't go back in to a burning office building, despite one of them begging them to come back in and help him save lives. That one, Garfield Lynns, died in the fire along with thirty-something civilians. Except he didn't die. He was pulled from the wreckage as a John Doe, woke up badly burned, and swore his revenge on the rest of the company. The climax of his revenge is torching a fundraiser for the fire department, with the chief of his house still inside. And that leads us to the most physically ridiculous climax that could ever happen. The chief is soaked in turpentine by the villain and listening to the villain's speech. Ollie, who was standing in front of the chief when the Lynns entered, has time to run downstairs, change into his full costume - including Cirque du Soleil eye shadow - and come back up before the villain's speech has ended. The man holds out a lighter, which Ollie shoots out of his hand. The chief runs. Amazingly, a man soaked in turpentine is able to negotiate his way through a wildly burning building without any trouble.
But the most amazing part of the final confrontation was the villain himself. After Ollie shoots the lighter out of the Lynns' hand, he tells the guy to give himself up, and that he wants to help him. Remember, this is a man who burned multiple people alive. Lynns rejects Ollie's offer, and then Ollie stands still and watches as Lynns slowly, slowly, actor-in-a-fire-suit-slowly turns. He carefully lights his own sleeve on fire, kneels like he's finally going to do that weeding he's been putting off all weekend, and then just lies down in the flames for a while. All with Ollie still standing there doing nothing. Do you know what that means? It means that I saw a man burn to death in this episode, and the most painful part was how socially awkward the incident was.
But there's hope! The next episode features Digg and Ollie disagreeing about whether or not they should take vengeance on someone, and features a bow-and-arrow versus gun stand-off between the two. I wonder which one of them will win. As usual, I hope it's Thea. See you next week!


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Our draft is #9998. Let's try this and see if we get a bunch of yokels crashing our party. Password "Heyward". If someone joins that shouldn't I think I can boot them over there, anyone know? Oh well, easier than sending 11 PMs. Join up under your draft spot as soon as you have a draft spot.
I gave us 14 hours, seems like in past years we've needed that for overnight picks sometimes. Nobody should ever use that long. Do it twice and I'll keep you on auto. Also have issues with position eligibility sometimes, so our solution has been to have an extra roster spot so that you aren't forced to take a scrub just to fill a hole. We'll go 27 rounds, I created a roster of 28.


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Efforts to halt the demise of Lake Kenyatta
Lake Kenyatta is one of the largest freshwater bodies in Lamu County, on the north Kenyan coast. It supplies water to an estimated 60,000 people as well as being a critical water source for wildlife and livestock. But the lake is under threat, and those threats are growing. When visiting Lake Kenyatta you can't miss […]Read more


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Posted by David on Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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Chris got the photo for me (thank you Chris!) so you can see this little side table from yesterday's post without squinting. Wouldn't it be nice by a chair or in a stray corner? $179 at Urban Outfitters. If it goes on sale its mine.
3 comments:
- Living the life in The Little City said...
They seem to have sales frequently. The table will be yours in no time.
- March 29, 2011 at 10:50 AM
- Raina Cox said...
Oh, it will go on sale. That's way too classic for their 20-something boho MCM Scandi-lovin' customers.
- March 29, 2011 at 2:47 PM
- Karena said...
Love, love it David!! It Should be yours!
Art by Karena
- March 30, 2011 at 3:25 PM


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Arabian "S" Hackamore Bit has a 6" cheek, rope nose, slobber bar and stainless steel curb chain. Read More
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Exactly what I needed for my small horse! He is pony sized so the regular horse little s hacks are a little too big for him. Great price as always!
I have a hackamore just like this one that someone gave me. It has worked on 3 out of 4 horses I commonly ride. On my quarter horse he treats it exactly the same as he does in a bit. There is no difference in my commands for using this compared to a bit, which surprised me. At first he tucked his head better in it, but now it's the same as the bit. I think he likes it better too, especially for cold weather. Then I tried it on my friend's quarter pony and it worked about the same. Then I tried it on another friend's paint horse who completely ignores the bit, refuses to stop, ect. The Hackamore made such a difference, he turned and stopped and did everything instantly. It was like riding a new horse. I figure he just hates the bit so much that he wanted to make a point of how much nicer the hackamore was. He seemed happier with it too. Unfortunately his leaser thinks the hackamore is harsher compared to her yanking all over the bit trying to get him to listen. Lastly when I tried this hackamore on my friend's quarter horse he was horrible. I could hardly stop him, he acted as if he had little to nothing on his face. I think he was purposely trying to run through it as much as possible. I would say if you're considering getting a hackamore in general, go try someone else's first to see if it works for your horse. If your looking for one that can stop a horse this one is probably one of the better ones. I tried a wide nose top leather one on my horse before and I felt like if he spooked he wouldn't stop easy. This one I have galloped and spooked him in and never lost control. One flaw that I would say comes from this one is that depending on its positioning, the noseband leaves a little indent on the horse's nose, even if you sat up there and did nothing the whole ride it still leaves an indent sometimes. the indent goes away after a little while (minutes), but its just from resting on the nose. I've never
"Great hack!"
Great little hack to use for many things.We like to use it for our seasoned horses when just trial riding, and have also had luck using it with the younger ones on trail and for fine tuning in the arena and for giving beginners lessons on our horses.If your horse is really stiff for bending this may not help that.
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I have a quick comment on a recent blog post I read: "The Politics of Disciplinarity at the Undergraduate Level" (Natalia Cecire) This is adapted and expanded from a lengthy comment I left at said blog.
I have an admission to make: I was a naive, stereotypical computer science major. How so? I looked down, so very much, on the humanities – on what I perceived to be the humanities. Soft, vague, insular, self-interested, and ultimately irrelevant to my (or anyone else's) life. "Learning for learning's sake" was my hobby, but somehow it seemed ridiculous as a university course. How would humanities majors get jobs? Perhaps it's partly my humble background, but majoring in something that didn't have a definable endpoint in a career that would make up for the investment in a college education just seemed worse than pointless. It seemed irresponsible and naive.
Yet I was the one who was naive, along with my fellow CS majors who mocked MBAs and even the information science students. They were the ones who couldn't hack it, right? If you're not in a hard science or engineering (and we counted ourselves among them), you're just playing around; you can't make it to our league.
Who was I kidding? Myself.
I am now, as you know, in a humanities PhD program. I'm in an area studies department but study the history of the book, and came to it via literature (and before that, via a very social-science oriented history department, which is also partly the explanation for my attitude toward things like cultural studies and other vague humanities, including history departments with this bent).
It's been a hard road, admittedly, for me to come to terms with this. I've never felt fully at home in the humanities and it's because of the carryover of this attitude. And yet at the same time I've been doing a dual degree in information science, the very discipline I used to mock along with my CS buddies as for the kids who couldn't hack our program, who couldn't move from pseudocode to real programming, to real work.
And as you may guess, I've changed my mind in that I've become less naive (I would hope) and much more broad-minded about what can mean. Of course it's more difficult to get a job that translates directly from a humanities degree to something concrete – but that doesn't mean that one's degree isn't widely applicable and doesn't prepare one for a variety of life paths. I know that's often considered a platitude uttered by career counselors at universities everywhere (not to mention tenured professors who don't understand undergrads' lack of appreciation for "learning for learning's sake") but it's true.
One of the things that was lacking from my CS education was a strong dose of critical thinking. It wasn't until a few years into my humanities PhD program that I could think critically about the science discipline that I had come from, about the inability to be truly objective but rather the ability to recognize and be aware of one's own biases, and about how the questions we are able to ask, the problems we are able to pose, are not self-evident. Thinking critically about code, about programming, about application design from the very concept of applications to the endpoint of execution, was not in my DNA until I had already left the field and joined the legions of critical thinkers that inhabited another.*
The blog post referenced above speaks to the implications of politics at the "academic" level about disciplinarity having perhaps unintended consequences for attitudes at the undergraduate level, and so I'm sharing my undergraduate attitude, and gradual attitude change, above. Below, I'd like to address another consequence that the author brings up: the possibility of differential undergraduate tuition that could reflect perceived value of various "hard" versus "soft" majors. This is what I had to say in my comment on her blog:
One school, at least, has already implemented the policy of differential undergrad tuition: University of Michigan (where I am currently a student). The tuition varies by college, with Engineering being the best example, but since Computer Science is in the college of Arts & Sciences but veers toward the money-making assumption about engineering, it also gets differential (higher) tuition at the upperclassmen level.
I was a computer science major as an undergrad, and this kind of system would have strongly discouraged me from pursuing the degree. As a woman who was often the only woman, or one of perhaps two or three, in a class of 40-60 students, this has serious implications for the demographics of the major, which are already an issue. I also have to say that as a computer science undergrad with a double major in history, I held that unfortunate attitude: CS is "real work" whereas history is something fun I did on the side, something not really relevant to anything but history and academia itself.
I'm now a PhD candidate in the history of the book (within an area studies department – humanities, in other words), and I see now the patronizing and narrow-minded attitude I have. But it is so prevalent that even I – and I naively considered myself broad-minded – held it for a long time, and actively mocked those outside the "hard" sciences because of it.
It's so pervasive, and I'm glad that you addressed the fact that what is often written off as academic squabbles and pissing matches impact undergrads profoundly as well.
* That's not to say that everyone who majors in the humanities ends up being able to think critically. I meet many who get by completely unable to do so. But here I speak from my own experience and say that it is what allowed me to do so.


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On the CakePHP Bakery site, there's another case study posted (from Neil Crookes) about a company that used the framework to develop a "Cruise Holidays" website: islandcruises.com.
I was lead programmer on the project and all my experience prior to it has been in writing procedural code, not OO and not MVC, however, after spending a few days looking through the manual and checking out the wiki, we decided to give CakePHP a try.
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Stuart delves into all the different aspects of how R&B guitar has had an impact within reggae music.
Taught by Stuart Ziff in Reggae with Stuart Ziff seriesLength: 9:54Difficulty: 2.0 of 5
I can really hear Wes with the octaves
Hey Stuart I'm really digging these lessons,but tell me why is the white reggae dudes last names start with Z? I'm just teasing you,You see I am a big fan of Rusty Zinn,and I have been checking out some of your other stuff.I like it a lot.Looking foward to more!
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Reggae is a unique genre of music filled with history and passion. In this series Stuart will do his best to distill the essence of the genre and cover it's core techniques.
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Welcome to lesson 1 of the Reggae Guitar series presented by Stuart Ziff! This lesson details the origins of reggae. In addition, Stuart gets you started with the basic ska comping pattern. Enjoy!Length: 8:22 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
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In this lesson, Stuart explains and demonstrates the "skank" rhythm. Practice this simple rhythmic pattern along with a "one drop" backing track.Length: 6:37 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
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Stuart delves into all the different aspects of how R&B guitar has had an impact within reggae music.Length: 9:54 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Stuart demonstrates how the delay effect can greatly enhance the music as well as how your rock & roll chops can easily be applied within the reggae genre.Length: 7:16 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Yet again, Stuart covers some tips on how to apply heavy rock & roll chops within reggae music. This is another great example of how this genre has been influenced by other genres.Length: 5:18 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Stuart demonstrates some techniques that are used in more modern / contemporary reggae music.Length: 6:14 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Stuart summarizes the last 8 lessons and explains how each topic covered is a defining characteristic of reggae music.Length: 3:32 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
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On May 17, 1954 the United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The Court's unanimous decision overturned provisions of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which had allowed for "separate but equal" public facilities, including public schools in the United States. Declaring that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," the Brown v. Board decision helped break the back of state-sponsored segregation, and provided a spark to the American civil rights movement.


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You're nobody if you don't have a 4K TV to launch at CES 2013 and Toshiba's on the case with its latest L9300 Series of Ultra HD TVs breaking cover today.
The new televisions come with Toshiba's bespoke CEVO 4K Quad+Dual Core Processor and use Resolution Restoration to upscale lower-resolution content to near-4K quality.
Other specs Toshiba's crammed into the sets include a 240 Hz refresh rate, UltraClear Dynamic Noise Reduction and built-in Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi and Miracast.
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I'm going to be busy over the next month. In addition to my usually client work I will be speaking at a couple of conferences. If you are in the area please stop by and say hello. Here's the list:
I'll be giving an online Webinar for JetBrains on September 10th. You can read about it here. In this Webinar I will be developing some test automation scripts using Cucumber and I'll be taking your questions.
I'll be speaking at the CukeUp conference in New York City on September 17th. Here is a discount code you can use when registering:
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There are a lot of great speakers presenting and if you use cucumber you won't want to miss this conference.
Finally, I'm speaking at Agile DC. I'm giving a very funny talk about team collaboration. A few lucky attendees from the audience will get to put on costumes and help me with the talk.
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From an historic manor house to a special hotel
The manor house which is now known as the Hotel Schloss Reinach came into being following the destruction of the previous moated castle in the 30-years-war. Despite the ravages of history – in 1870, it almost burnt down – until 1969, the property remained very much in use as one of the biggest manor houses in the region.
In 1991, the entire property was restored before reopening as a luxury hotel in the year 1993 – combining modern art with historic curiosity.
The hotel changed hands in 2007, and under the ownership of Beatrix and René Gessler, it underwent a full renovation before reopening on 5 June 2008 as the "new" Schloss Reinach at a festive gala evening. It has enriched its local environment ever since, and is a hotel that stands out due to its quality and variety.
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- In the thirty-years-war:Construction
- 1626: The estate falls into the hands of Baron Beat Melchior von Reinach
- 1870: The manor house almost burns down
- Until 1969: In use as a manor house
- 1991: Restoration
- 1993: Opens for the first time as a hotel
- July 2007: Mr and Mrs Gessler assume ownership of the insolvent hotel
- June 2008: Opening of the "new" Schloss Reinach


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Based in the German city of Bottrop, seepex GmbH produces and markets unusual screw pumps for delivering low to high viscosity, aggressive and abrasive materials to a global customer base, and has an extensive network of production sites, factory offices and local offices across 50 countries. With a focus on low life cycle costs, seepex has been producing optimized, economical solutions for customers in industries as diverse as chemistry, food, paper, oil and gas and environmental technology for over 30 years. The company employs 400 people at its headquarters in Bottrop, with a total of 700 worldwide.>
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Beyond the platinum blonde hair, the curvaceous body, the breathy voice and that oh-so-watchable walk, when it came to playing Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams discovered that it was the icon's sense of humor she most wanted to capture.
"Her humor knocked me out," says Williams, who dug deep to channel the more down-to-earth sides of the ultimate Hollywood sex symbol in the film "My Week With Marilyn" (opening tomorrow). "Her quick-wittedness, her abilities for verbal play and word games, and her ability to take a bad situation and, because of her intellect and her humor, spin it into something that was real and relatable. Like when her nude photos were published and the studio wanted her to deny that it was her, and they didn't want her to sign any of the pictures. And she would sign the nude photo of herself and say 'This isn't my best angle.'"
Williams says she could also relate to the troubled superstar's determined, sometimes desperate, struggle to be appreciated more for her considerable talent than her more obvious and prodigious genetic gifts."It seems to me that all that Marilyn Monroe really ever wanted was to be taken seriously as an actress, and she studied, she trained – harder than me," says Williams, who herself has been gratified by the respect and honors from her peers for her own performances. "She never got the recognition that she deserved and craved, and I feel very lucky to experience some of that."
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In fact. Williams explains, she's most likely to be her own harshest critic – much like the Marilyn she depicts in the film. Her self-scrutiny reached new heights in her bid to breathe a sense of reality into the icon audiences think they know. "I put a lot of pressure on myself about that one, yeah," she says. "I don't handle [my own pressure] very well. I'm pretty hard on myself."
Actor Don Murray, who was Monroe's leading man in the 1956 film "Bus Stop," recently presented Williams with the Hollywood Actress Award at the Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards, revealed that the modern actress' interpretation evoked strong memories of his classic co-star.
"What I noticed about Michelle's work in 'My Week With Marilyn' was that she created some moments that were so intimately familiar to me, because I spent 14 weeks with Marilyn and I had a lot of conversations with her," Murray told the audience at the awards show. "She was sort of struggling with things in her own life when she was in love with Arthur Miller and she was very concerned about whether she could become an adequate wife to this great intellectual and this great playwright. And she had a conversation with me one day that began with, 'Don, do you think a leopard could change its spots?' And it was obvious that she was talking about whether she could become a satisfying wife for Arthur. And then she also said some things that were very, very funny. But you didn't know whether it was a sense of humor or it was her just stating a fact."
"There's not one thing in that film that is not truthful," Murray added. "The film was just a revelation. And Michelle's performance made me appreciate not only Michelle even more than I already did from her other films but made me appreciate Marilyn more."
Williams says, awards aside, that kind of praise from those who knew Monroe personally is the true reward. "It means a lot to me. I did a Q&A recently and somebody stood up and said, 'I took classes with Marilyn. I was a member of the Actors Studio with Marilyn, and you got her.' Those are the best compliments."
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The plot thickens.
Cardi B and Offset's split just reached a whole new level of drama. Turns out, one of Offset's accused side chicks, Summer Bunni, was featured in Nicki Minaj a.k.a. Cardi's nemesis' "FEFE" music video earlier this year. (A shot of her in the video is shown below)
As previously reported, Summer issued a public apology for having an affair with the Migos rapper hours after Cardi announced their split on Tuesday (December 4). In a video interview with TMZ, Summer cried about feeling responsible for Cardi and Offset's break-up, saying she didn't intend to be a homewrecker. "I have not messed with Offset since he's had his baby. I didn't know how serious this marriage was," she claimed before breaking down in tears. "It took until today to actually get into this... I feel ashamed... I'm very sorry that this has happened."
If Summer is telling the truth about her affair with Offset that would mean she only stopped hooking up with the "Motorsport" rapper in July, which is when Cardi welcomed her and Offset's first child, Kulture, together. That's also the same month the "FEFE" video dropped. As of now though it looks like Summer's addition in the music video was nothing more than a coincidence. However, it should be noted that Nicki has history of casting people who have beef with Cardi in their music videos. Just last month, Nicki decided to make a not-so-subtle casting decision that appeared to be a direct shot at Cardi.
For her "Good Form" music video, Nicki hired the two women, sisters Jade and Baddie Gi, who are currently suing the "Money rapper. It seems the Nicki decided to enlist the ladies after their addition in her music video with Tekashi 6ix9ine fell through following the music video's cancellation due to the shooting that took place on the video set earlier this month. (Jade and Baddie were actually present at the shoot when gunfire erupted on set).
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2 companies cited after NC man killed at Va. plant
Two companies have been cited for an accident at a paper recycling operation in Virginia that killed a worker from North Carolina.
The Virginian-Pilot reports that ST Tissue of Franklin faces state penalties totaling $32,100. CR Meyer & Son of Oshkosh, Wis., faces $70,000 in penalties.
The companies are contesting the citations issued by the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry. The newspaper obtained the citations under the Freedom of Information Act.
Thirty-eight-year-old James Denny III of Fayetteville, N.C., suffered fatal injuries when he was hit by an overhead crane at the Franklin facility last October.
The newspaper says the citations show that state investigators determined that the crane's operator wasn't trained to run the machine. The operator also couldn't see where the crane was going.


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Mystery mulch: Gardening amid debris
It's too bad Virginia Paul isn't an archeologist; if she were, she might be excited about the changing nature of her front yard. Just the other day, for instance, she found a decorative piece of hardware that a friend thinks could be 200 years old. If that were all she'd found, it might have been intriguing.
But because Paul claims antique hardware is only the latest–and least distressing– object that has recently surfaced, she was anything but intrigued.
In late April, Paul and her husband, Rajendra, hired Albemarle Super Wash and Lawn Maintenance to spread mulch at their house on Still Meadow Road. Andrew King, Albemarle Super Wash owner, walked the property with Rajendra and estimated that the job would take 20 cubic yards of mulch and roughly 20 man-hours to spread. Both men agree that Rajendra insisted on a fixed price so that he wouldn't have to pay by the hour in the case of a slow worker. Rajendra claims that the only other requirement he and Virginia gave King was that the mulch match their neighbor's in "quality, color, and texture." According to Rajendra, King never mentioned different price ranges or grades of mulch.
King, however, claims that Rajendra said he would pay no more than $700 for the mulch and labor. Since King estimated the job would require 20 man-hours at $25 an hour –which comes to $500 –King says he only had $200 left over for the mulch. As advertised on the company's flyer, King sells 20 cubic yards of what he calls "homeowners grade" mulch for $195, so that's what he used. The Pauls, however, claim they were told the mulch would be "dark, high-grade, [and] double-shredded"–a far cry, they say, from what they got.
The Pauls signed King's contract on Thursday, April 29, and the job was finished the following Monday. According to the Pauls, except for some large pieces of wood, everything seemed okay at first. But then it rained, things shifted and settled, and, by their account, distinctly un-mulch-like objects began to surface. In a May 8 letter to King, Raj wrote, "We were delivered what looked like landfill with bits of hard plastic, sharp broken glass, sheet plastic pieces, rubber, cloth, ropes, twine."
"This is an unsanitary and hazardous condition in which to garden." He says that his wife, bending down to plant seeds, "narrowly missed a three-cornered piece of glass under her knee."
The Pauls claim that King declined to respond to Raj's letter, and that although he eventually agreed to come by and examine the situation, he never appeared. King agrees that he could have been more responsive, but says that this is his busy season, and he tends to get overwhelmed by work.
I went to Albemarle Super Wash, which King runs out of a house at 1036 St. Clair Avenue. My first question: "Why are there bars on all the windows, four locks on the front door, and a closed-circuit camera aimed at the street?" Answer: because King also sells guns, including AK-47s, from his heavily fortified headquarters in an otherwise bland residential neighborhood.
(By the way, in case you're picturing a burly, balding guy with decked out in camouflage, think again. King, who has a B.A. from Virginia Tech and looks to be in his mid-30s, is tall, thin, attractive, and Asian-American. He's also utterly charming.)
But back to the mulch. As to the mystery objects, King says he has "no idea" where they came from, but says he'll talk to the supplier. He also expects he'll end up taking the Pauls to court for nonpayment. The Pauls, in turn, expect they'll take him to court; they want King to remove the mulch and replace dead shrubs–which were killed, they claim, by mulch that was spread as much as 6 inches deep in spots.
I'll be updating this stand-off when and if there's a resolution. In the meantime, if you're looking to get your lawn mowed and round out your supply of assault weapons, Albemarle Super Wash offers convenient, one-stop shopping.
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Gary Ross says he won't direct "Catching Fire," the second installment in Lionsgate's blockbuster "The Hunger Games" franchise.
In a statement Tuesday, Ross says "after difficult but sincere consideration," he decided not to direct the film. He blames limited time to write and prep the film because of the fixed, tight production schedule.
Ross says making "The Hunger Games" was the happiest experience of his professional life. He also denies reports that negotiations with Lionsgate had been problematic.
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Did agents in Texas let guns 'walk' into Mexico?
WASHINGTON - Otilio Osorio was just 22 in October 2010 when he purchased a Romanian-made Draco AK-47 pistol in Joshua, just outside Fort Worth.
There was nothing remarkable about the sale until the gun, with its serial number obliterated, was identified as one of three weapons used to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata on a Mexico highway four months later.
Documents obtained by the Houston Chronicle show that at different points in 2010, two Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms divisions - Dallas and Phoenix - had evidence implicating Osorio well before drug gangsters gunned down Zapata and his partner Victor Avila, who survived.
But no one put it all together until agents in Dallas arrested Osorio in February, 13 days after Zapata's death and four months after Osorio purchased the deadly Draco.
Now the case of Osorio, as well as his ex-Marine brother Ranferi Osorio, and their next-door neighbor in the Dallas suburb of Lancaster, Kelvin Leon Morrison, is exhibit A in an effort by congressional Republicans to uncover a Texas version of the flawed tactics used in the Phoenix-based Operation Fast and Furious.
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Texas Sen. John Cornyn has demanded answers from Attorney General Eric Holder on whether ATF agents in Texas - akin to the botched Operation Fast and Furious in Arizona - allowed such guns to "walk" into Mexico in an effort to track them, rather than intercepting them and arresting the purchasers.
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August and September 2010: Dallas brothers Otilio and Ranferi Osorio are first flagged by ATF for multiple handgun purchases.
August 2010: A load of 23 weapons is seized in La Pryor, Texas, with its serial numbers obliterated. The guns are sent to West Virginia for tracing.
Sept. 17: Three of the guns are traced to the Osorios and friend Kelvin Morrison.
Oct. 10: Otilio Osorio buys a Draco AK-47 pistol in Dallas.
November 2010: The Osorios and Morrison deliver a load of weapons to an undercover informant as part of a secret DEA operation. But they are not arrested.
Feb. 15, 2011: U.S. federal agent Jaime Zapata is killed in Mexico in a highway stop by gangsters. Ballistic tests show one of the guns is the Draco bought by Otilio Osorio.
Feb. 28, 2011: The Osorios and Morrison are arrested.
"The attorney general has taken every opportunity to sidestep and stonewall, and until he reassures Texans that gun-walking never occurred in our state, I will continue to press him for answers," Cornyn said.
As part of Fast and Furious, ATF agents in Phoenix were instructed to track weapons purchases as they moved up the chain to Mexican drug cartels. But they lost sight of 1,400 guns that ended up in Mexico, two of which were found at the murder scene of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in Arizona in December.
Cornyn and others say they're especially concerned because the Osorio-Morrison case also involved a gun used in the murder of a U.S. law enforcement agent.
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ATF officials in Dallas remain adamant that there was no Fast and Furious in Texas.
"This case has nothing to do with Fast and Furious," said Thomas Crowley, spokesman for ATF in Dallas. "There hasn't been any gun-walking in the Dallas division of ATF."
The records reviewed by the Chronicle, some of them obtained from Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley - who along with Republican Congressman Darrell Issa of California is probing the Fast and Furious debacle - suggest the Zapata gun case instead may have been an instance of missed opportunities, intelligence-sharing failures and the inability to connect the dots and make arrests before the weapon was ever purchased in October 2010.
The Osorios first showed up on ATF's radar in August and September of that year when the Dallas division received records of their purchases, known as "multiple sales summaries," of the Dracos and other pistols in the Dallas area.
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Such reports flood ATF offices and by themselves are not normally cause for suspicion, ATF officials have said.
The trio next appeared on Sept. 17, 2011, the day the agency's National Tracing Center in Martinsburg, W.Va., completed traces on a load of 23 guns seized in a traffic stop in La Pryor, Texas, 46 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. One of the guns came back to Morrison and two to Ranferi Osorio.
The load, records show, actually had been flagged down in La Pryor more than a month earlier on Aug. 7. But the serial numbers had been obliterated. It took ATF technicians until mid-September to restore them.
Complicating the puzzle was the fact that the trace requests came not from the Dallas ATF, but the Las Cruces, N.M., office, where agents were investigating a family involved in smuggling guns to Mexico.
When the trace results were available, the reports were not sent to Dallas but to the Phoenix ATF office, which oversees Las Cruces.
A federal law enforcement source said the results trickled in to the Dallas office between Sept. 17 and Oct. 28, 2010.
ATF traced the sales to 10 people in the Dallas area, but did not zero in on the Osorios or Morrison. Instead, they had their sights on another buyer.
Only later did agents determine that buyer also was linked to the Osorios and Morrison, the source said.
Nevertheless, the source insisted: "We didn't ignore (the Osorios and Morrison). We looked into everybody.''
Robert Champion, ATF agent in charge in Dallas, declined an interview request, citing ongoing prosecutions in the case.
In November 2010, authorities encountered the Osorios and Morrison yet again.
According to affidavits, Dallas agents were asked by the Drug Enforcement Administration to provide an undercover informant for an operation in which he would call arms smugglers in the Dallas area and request a gun load for transport to the Los Zetas trafficking gang via Laredo.
When the informant pulled into a Walmart parking lot in the Dallas area, he was met by the Osorios, who handed over 40 firearms, about half of them Dracos or Romanian AK-47 rifles.
The informant drove the load to Laredo, where ATF agents arranged a traffic stop by deputies who seized the weapons.
Back in the Dallas area, officers did a similar stop on the vehicle that delivered the weapons to the informant, and officers identified the occupants as the Osorios and Morrison.
Yet, the three men were not arrested.
A federal law enforcement source said the November undercover operation was part of a larger DEA case, which authorities didn't want to jeopardize.
The Osorios and Morrison were arrested on Feb. 28 and have pleaded guilty to gun-law violations. They are awaiting sentencing.


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We've all the seen the vintage pictures from circa 1950: folks clustered around the tiny, black-and-white screen of the first TV on the block.
Television, from the start, has been, in one form or another, a social experience. And even if we all eventually got a TV in just about every room in the house, negating the necessity to watch with others, shows provided next-day conversation fodder.
The Internet, supposedly, changed all that. But there are indications the Web, after taking a hit on the tube, might be actually be helping TV.
The latest evidence: PBS is showing a new documentary about the environmental movement on Facebook – eight days before broadcasting it on TV, The New York Times reported this week.
The idea is for TV to tap directly into the social aspect of the Internet. Facebook viewers will be able to discuss "Earth Days" in real time with the filmmakers and other virtual friends on April 11.
PBS is bringing some organization to what's already happening in social media, where TV is a hot topic.
Ratings for the Super Bowl, the Winter Olympic, the Oscars and other recent big events were up – and some TV executives believe buzz on Twitter and elsewhere on the Web helped the cause, The Times notes. Recent popular Twitter trending topics include the NCAA tournament, Justin Bieber and "American Idol" – all entertainment-driven conversations.
There's something of a "Mystery Science Theater 3000" effect happening where we're all convinced we have something clever to say about what's unfolding on the screen. Though instead of being stranded on a planet with snarky robots, we're connected by the even more sci-fi-sounding wi-fi.
"Ten years ago, we laughed at Beavis and Butt-head watching bad heavy-metal videos. But clearly, they were on to something," New York Times media columnist David Carr wrote this week.
PBS, of course, isn't putting corny old horror movies or bad music videos online. The network is smart enough to pick a topic of great appeal to its audience for the Facebook experiment.
Entertainment is still very much a social experience – we're just coming off a record box office year for movies – even if the forum of conversation is shifting. We don't have to be in the same room anymore to have a vibrant discussion about a show in progress.
Still, new technology could soon get folks gathering around the TV again – years from now, we could be looking at pictures of people, wearing funny glasses, crammed around the first 3-D set on the block.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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sustainable expansion data center in Amsterdam
phase 1
The first phase completes the corner of the existing building and becomes a part of the existing structure by continuing the materialization. It is logistically connected to the existing data center and provides additional white space, plant room and technical area.
The expansion has an average power density of 1.500 Watt / m². The target was to achieve a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of 1,25 was met. Also, a 'very good' performance according to the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assesment Method (BREEAM) was achieved.
The location of Global Switch in Amsterdam is on a network dense environment, in terms of both transportation and fibre-wire infrastructure. The existing former typewriter factory is re-used and forms the heart of the new developments.assignment
Global Switch is a technical real estate company was established in 1998. The company is globally one of the largest providers of data center space. The data center of Global Switch in Amsterdam is already the largest carrier-neutral data centers in the Netherlands.
Global Switch has a shortage of space for new tenants. It has therefore commissioned Knevel Architecten in collaboration with Househam Henderson Architects in London for the development of an extension on their current location, which will be executed in phases.
Phase 2
The second phase is a major expansion of around 28.000m2 including new IT-space, technical plant and offices. The new data centre will target a PUE of 1.2 and will exceed Tier III operational performance.