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I'm new to Ubuntu, and I've installed 11.10 it on my 2006 Macbook. What else should I install to make it complete? I'm talking about drivers and the like. Is there a complete package I can download somewhere? Thanks.
1 Open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + t) and execute the following commands -
2. Install 'Ubuntu Restricted Extras' – codecs/plugins
You need to install the audio mp3 (MPEG Layer 3) decoders as it's required for playing your mp3 songs), similarly you need to install Adobe flash player on Ubuntu 11.10 for playing flash content such as YouTube Videos (although they are trying to replace the flash dependencies with HTML 5). You can install all these proprietary plugins/codecs by installing the package called 'ubuntu restricted extras'. Open a terminal and execute the command -
Restricted library/packages for playing encrypted DVD's
Although you've installed 'ubuntu-restricted-extra', you still won't be able to play any proprietary DVD (which is usually encrypted with CSS(Content Scramble System) ). Therefore You also need to install libdvdcss2, a free software library for unscrambling/accessing those DVDs. Open terminal and execute the following commands (You may need to reboot) -
3 install cheese – webcam software/driver for your webcam
If you want to use your webcam for taking pictures or recording videos then you must need a webcam software. Cheese is the most popular webcam software, and it's already there in Ubuntu Software Center, or install it from terminal -
4. Install Chromium Web browser for faster browsing chromium
Chromium - Browsing with Speed
Firefox is the default web browser in Ubuntu 11.10, which is slow and very unstable (if you've multiple tabs and add-on's installed). On the other hand Chromium is pretty fast and it's popularity is increasing exponentially. So it's a must have Application on Ubuntu (or any other OS). Chromium supports all the extensions/themes that you use on Chrome. it's one of the most popular software in Ubuntu Software Center. So you can install it in a single click from Ubuntu Software Center, or just type the command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T ) :
You should install some codecs like FFmpeg for playing multimedia contents on web.
If you want to use chrome then go here – I've already explained about – installing Google Chrome on Ubuntu 11.10, in detail.
5. Install VLC Player
VLC player is one of the most popular open source media player. It is commonly called as – 'all in one' media player, it has lot of features that you expect from a modern media player. On Ubuntu 11.10 – it's a must have application – for video player it's probably the best one. VLC player is capable of playing a wide range media formats such as mp3, avi, mp4, flv etc. Since it's available in Ubuntu Software Center – you can either install it from there or type the command -
6. Install any Image editing program
An image editing/creating software is necessary for every one, by default no such program is installed. So you're recommended to install an image editor.
GIMP is the most popular open source and free image editor, having features similar to Adobe Photoshop. GIMP has a lot of powerful features which allows you to create complex graphics designs/images. it is more suitable for intermediate users – those having some experience in image editing. To install gimp – either search in Ubuntu Software Center or install it from terminal -
For some extra set of brushes, gradients and plugins etc execute :
For my 2008 MB, I put this line in the Startup Applications to make it more manageable:
You should list the version of Ubuntu that you are using.
The first questions that you need to ask yourself are what is missing (at least according to your knowledge) and what do you want it to do? "Complete" could mean various things to different people.
Answering the question of whether or not you are missing a driver can be answered by checking the functionality of your hardware. For instance, are all drives, bluetooth, wifi and display properly functional? You can check your drives by inserting media to removable drives or browsing (after mounting) hard drives. For Bluetooth and wifi, check your connectivity. Verify that they properly transmit and receive data. As far as video, verify that your video is displayed properly; you can do this by eye or via the graphics card properties in the system.
If things are missing you could run the test that comes with Ubuntu. It's called "system testing", look for it in the unity dash. Running this will allow you to identify any problems and then you can ask more direct questions on how to fix them, for example if DVDs won't play we could point you to this post: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/06/how-to-enable-dvd-playback-in-ubuntu-11-04/ (Which is for 11.04, but I think it still works). Also if you provide an email address the profile will get uploaded online so other people can see how well Ubuntu performs on your model of laptop. (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/10/ubuntu-friendly-what-it-is-and-how-you-can-help/)


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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet session at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah this evening. He began by reviewing his contacts last week with foreign officials, including telephone conversations with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and meetings with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Al-Thani, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and Bahraini Crown Prince Sheikh Salman Al-Khalifa.
The Cabinet reiterated its firm position in support of the Palestinian people and their right to establish a unified, independent state. After reviewing a number of reports on regional and international developments, the Cabinet lauded the outcomes of the GCC Ministerial Council's 112th meeting held in Jeddah last Tuesday, the 84th session of the Arab Economic and Social Council held in Cairo last Thursday, and the meeting of G-20 Finance Ministers and Governors of Central Banks held in London last Saturday.
On the domestic front, the Cabinet commend the Saudi monarch on the formal opening of the King Abdullah University for Sciences and Technology (KAUST), which has admitted four hundred students as part of its first class. The university will officially open on September 23, 2009, coinciding with the 79th anniversary of the Kingdom's National Day.
The Cabinet expressed satisfaction over a report issued by the Ministry of Health, showing that 98 percent of those who contracted the H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) in the Kingdom have recovered, thanks to measures taken by health authorities.
The ministers also welcomed the decision to award Assistant Minister of Interior for Security Affairs Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz with the King Abdulaziz First Class Medal in recognition of his efforts in the security sphere.
After reviewing its agenda, the Cabinet approved a number of measures regulating the organization of the Saudi Red Crescent Authority; approved the accession of Saudi Arabia to the Explosive Remnants of War ((Protocol V to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons); authorized the Minister of Labor to sign a draft executive program for cooperation in the field of technical and vocational training between the Saudi Technical and Vocational Training Corporation and the Malaysian Ministry of Education; approved allowing any licensed bank in the Kingdom to establish a one-person company wholly owned by the bank; and approved the Saudi government's health care strategy.
The Cabinet also approved the appointments of Abdulaziz Abu Abat as Ambassador at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ghurm Malhan as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Hisham Zara'h as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Saud Al-Thubaiti as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Abdulkarim Al-Juhani as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Abdullah Marghalani as Director General of the Ministry's Branch in Jeddah Province at the Ministry of Hajj.

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Jeffrey Fisher
Jeffrey G. Fisher, a resident of Spokane, passed away on June 23, 2011 in Spokane at the age of 26. He was born on Dec. 18, 1984 in Spokane, the son of Thomas Wayne and Fisher and Lori Denise Munson.Jeffrey moved to Omak with his family, where he began school. While in Omak, he was introduced to T-ball, which developed into a life-long love of baseball. At the age of 9, his family moved to Colville, where he began the fourth grade. Jeffrey's love for baseball continued to grow throughout his education as he participated on Little League, Babe Ruth, high school and on American Legion teams. The highlight of his baseball career was leading the underdog Lions to the Little League championship in his final year. Jeffrey began working at Radio Shack while in high school and developed an avid interest in technology and electronic gadgets, especially cell phones. He was a young entrepreneur and began as a boy selling golf balls he had found to passing golfers. He enjoyed working with people and excelled in sales. Jeffrey graduated from Colville High School in 2003 and moved to Spokane that fall. He worked at Radio Shack in the Northtown Mall while attending Eastern Washington University. In 2004, Jeffrey began working for Wireless Advocates that operates cell phone kiosks in Costco stores. He worked his way from sales to kiosk manager at the Costco Store in the Valley. He was a loved and respected member of their sales team. He was an avid fan of the Spokane Chiefs hockey team and the Seattle Seahawks. In the summers, he enjoyed time on the golf course and during the winter months, Jeffrey snowboarded at area ski lodges. He had a passion for his work and shared much of his spare time with friends and family. Jeff was loved and his presence will be deeply missed.He is survived by his mother, Lori Munson and husband, Scott, Chewelah; father, Tom Fisher, Omak; sister, Ashley Simmons and husband, Allen, Kettle Falls; son, Lance Baker; grandparents, Violet Fisher, Wilbur; Don and Eileen Munson, Chewelah; nephews, Chase, Talan and Devan, and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.A memorial service will begin at 10 a.m., Saturday, July 9 at the Danekas Funeral Chapel in Colville. Memorial contributions may be given in benefit of Jeff's son, Lance Baker. Please send contributions to Downtown Hair, c/o Lance Baker, 11 S. Howard, Spokane, 99201. Checks can be made payable to Merrill Lynch, F.B.O. Lance Baker. Please visit the online memorial and sign the guestbook at www.danekasfuneralchapel.com. Danekas Funeral Chapel and Crematory has been entrusted with the arrangements.


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The Indiana Toll Road has banned long semitrailers for 24 hours because of high winds.
The highway's private operator, the Indiana Toll Road Concession Co., announced the ban would be in effect from 6 p.m. EST Thursday to 6 p.m. EST Friday for all triple-trailers and long double-trailers. The ban covers the entire length of the highway. It does not include low-profile steel haulers.
The operator says winds gusting close to 50 mph were forecast to begin Thursday night and continue into Friday as rain changing over to snow It says the snow and high winds will combine to reduce visibility, with near whiteout conditions possible.
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If you compare integration between WPF with XNA vs Winforms with XNA, what is the most suitable framework to integrate XNA framework with.
Both approaches are valid, but require a bit of thinkering. Using Winforms or WPF in XNA can work great and is great for level editors, but it's usually not that polished that you can ship it to customers, so only use it for your internal tools.
XNA in WPF: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nicgrave/archive/2010/07/25/rendering-with-xna-framework-4-0-inside-of-a-wpf-application.aspx
XNA in Winforms: http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/winforms_series_1 (official method, preferred)
XNA in Winforms: http://roy-t.nl/index.php/2008/10/09/xna-30-and-winforms-the-easy-way/ (quick but hacky method read the notes at the end!)
Another method, that you can ship to customers is to use one of the many GUI libraries for XNA. I've looked around a bit and this seems the most complete: http://msmvps.com/blogs/valentin/pages/xnaml-component.aspx but there is also this one which I've seen used in actual games: http://neoforce.codeplex.com/
Most people seem to prefer WinForms due to reduced hassle it takes to make XNA and WPF work together, which for the most part is fine. However, more and more people are doing their best to make WPF a good choice with the help of components and libraries that enable the ability to Render XNA inside an area or control portion of the screen. I helped develop the one I'm posting here and I think it's a fairly lightweight, simple solution for having XNA in WPF. However, just building a good UI system in XNA itself will make your product more shippable.
In either case, I'll leave this here: https://xnaml.codeplex.com/
This is a "which is better" question, and it depends entirely on your needs.
That being said I have done this previously using WinForms, I decided to use WinForms because the approach seemed to be simpler and require less setup. WinForms Graphics Sample is a link to an App Hub posting which includes the relevant source code to get started. Be warned though, mixing XNA calls and GDI calls causes severe flickering and is impractical. To overcome this limitation I drew basic shapes with another App Hub code sample: Primitive Batch.


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It's not often I get to steal away with my two high school BFFs for a weekend to reconnect and recharge. A weekend without kids and significant others means time for us to catch up, share stories, and celebrate with great food and shopping.
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On August 12–15, 2013, the Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the Dallas Police Department will host their annual Crimes Against Children Conference in Dallas, TX. Workshops to be offered at the training conference include: Preparing Children To Testify in Court, Resiliency 101: From Victim to Survivor, Modifying Assessments for Child Sex Trafficking Cases, and Sexual Victimization of Children: A Law Enforcement Perspective Over 40 Years. Learn more about the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Children's Advocacy Centers program.
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Is there anything I can do to make it easier to pull plug ins out of the wall sockets? All of the wall sockets in the kitchen make it very difficult to pull the plug in out of the wall receptacle. The toaster, the coffee maker, the can opener, the microwave, etc., are all difficult to pull out of the wall sockets in the kitchen.
This will depend in part on where you are in the world. Sockets in the UK can be very tight when new, but if you open them up you can often loosen the metal contacts so they don't grip the plug as tightly. I would imagine sockets in other countries will also have similar adjustments possible.
Make sure you turn off current at the breaker/fuse box first!
In general, though, I wouldn't advise doing this as it does increase the risk that you will get a bad electrical connection, which could lead to arcing and fire. This is still a low risk, so don't panic, but in general repeated plugging-in and removal will loosen and weaken the socket over time.
I do not unplug appliances in my kitchen, but just turn them off with the switches, which are designed for repeated use.
You could try something like this attachments to make plug easier to pull out:
These appear to stick onto your existing plugs.
You can get new plugs with a built in handle:
but these would require you to rewire all your appliances. This is perfectly safe if done properly, so if you don't feel confident in doing it yourself you should be able to get an electrician to do it for you.


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Party Basics
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Some of the best parties are thrown because the host wants to explore an interesting thematic idea. For example
- An entertainment-based party, such as a karaoke, film, or Super Bowl party, in which the theme event is central to the party's concept
- A crafting group, in which guests work on a specific yarn, sewing, or other craft project
- A game night, dice party, or scavenger hunt, at which guests participate in an activity or game
As you're planning a theme party, you'll need to determine any specific tools you or your guests will need to supply, directions you need to print up, or special equipment you'll need to buy, rent, or borrow.
Theme parties don't have to break the bank. Shop odd locations for theme-based party supplies, such as your city's Chinatown or another culturally rich area, where you can find clever, inexpensive decorations and favors your guests might find exotic and fun. You'll spend far less than you would at a party-supply store, and the unique details will impress your guests.
Choosing Party Décor
When thinking of party décor, many minds rush straight to streamers and helium balloons. These, however, are not the type of décor to which I refer unless you are throwing a Tacky Party or a birthday bash for your six-year-old niece.
You won't spend a lot of money or time adding these extras, but your guests will wow over the effort you'll appear to have put into making their night special. By just adding a few details, you'll turn everyday into extraordinary. Instead of focusing on traditional elements, try a little creativity:
- Having a barbecue? Make it a western barbecue by covering your tables with red-and-white checkerboard tablecloths, kitschy condiment squeeze bottles, vintage cowboy-printed fabric squares as napkins, and a centerpiece made of chili peppers and Tabasco sauce.
- Planning a martini party? Gussy things up with a swing theme: vintage bar glasses, mood lighting in low pinks and yellows, a bowl of cigars, and drink-recipe cocktail napkins.
- Turn an ordinary luncheon into high tea by investing in a three-tiered serving platter; linen napkins; clean, polished silver and crystal; and a lovely bouquet of tulips.
Planning for Food and Drink
Although your menu will change from party to party, one fact remains the same: Your guests will want to eat and drink. Before you get into extensive menu planning, consider a few basics.
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Southeastern Australia is in for a wooly few days next week as forecast models begin to jump on the cut-off low bandwagon.
Tasmania weather: Hydro report finds cloud seeding had no effect on Derwent Valley flooding
A report by Hydro Tasmania has found a cloud seeding operation carried out in June did not increase rainfall in the hours before major flooding.


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FLS615U: AP Sp La (2014-2015)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Advanced Placement
COURSE TITLE: AP Spanish Language
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
SUGGESTED PREPARATION: Spanish I, Spanish II, Spanish III, Spanish IV
About the Program:
The AP Spanish Language Course is a college level course, conducted in Spanish, which prepares students to communicate proficiently through three modes: interpretive (receptive communication), presentational (1-way productive communication), and interpersonal (2-way interactive communication). This course emphasizes the five domains of learning found in the DoDEA Foreign Language Standards: Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities. This class is interactive in nature with the expectation that students will be actively engaged in all assignments and projects. Students will be assessed in all the learning domains and on major projects. Weighted grades are calculated for students completing the course and taking the requisite AP exam. Students are expected to take the AP exam at the end of this course.
Major Concepts/Content: AP Spanish Language is equivalent to fifth and sixth semester college work (3rd year college) such as found in university level Spanish Composition and Conversation courses. The 5 domains of learning (Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities) involve the skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and developing cultural awareness appropriate to this level of coursework. The academic rigor for this course is high. Authentic materials are used in addition to the required text.
Course Objectives: By the end of this course, the successful AP Spanish Language student will:
- Comprehend Spanish (Advanced level or above on ACTFL scale) that is intended for native speakers in a variety of settings
- Demonstrate strong communication skills (Pre-Advanced on ACTFL scale) in the interpersonal, presentational, and interpretive modes
- Demonstrate a strong command of Spanish linguistic skills (Pre-Advanced on ACTFL scale) to support communication (accuracy/fluency)
- Produce Spanish (Pre-Advanced on ACTFL scale) comprehensible to native speakers in a variety of settings
- Acquire information from authentic sources in Spanish
- Demonstrate a heightened awareness of cultural perspectives, practices, and products of Hispanic peoples.
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Texas Gov. Perry to divulge 'exciting future plans' Monday
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry has sent an e-mail to friends and top fundraisers promising to reveal "exciting future plans" during an event Monday in San Antonio.
The message doesn't provide further details or even a location for the planned midday event, saying simply that more details will be forthcoming. But Perry has said he will soon announce if he plans to seek a fourth full term as governor next year.
The Republican is already the longest-serving governor in Texas history and America's longest-sitting governor.
He also hasn't ruled out a second run for president in 2016, after his previous bid for the GOP White House nomination fizzled in 2011. But Perry has also said he won't decide on that matter until later this year.


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At the end of the movie, The Innkeepers, why did the door to the room where Claire was staying in, close? What did it symbolize?
While most reviews I've read deal with the artistry and the tension of the film, two reviews I found offer similar interpretations of the film's symbolism.
This reviewer contends that the door closing symbolizes Claire's being shut out of the upper class "to which the inn historically catered" - further symbolized by the Blue Boy painting in the room, which represents luxury. The closing of the inn itself is symbolic of the end of the American dream and the ability to change classes, something the immigrant Madeleine was also unable to do.
According to Slant Magazine's reviewer, Claire is at a crossroads, with her life not turning out as she imagined, and the hotel, stripped and empty, symbolizes "vanished possibilities and remnants of a happier past."
If we look at the chain of events there, it seemed to me the inn has become cursed after Madeline's death. I think the unsatisfied soul of Madeline was searching to hunt another victim for a long time, but it was imprisoned efficiently by the inn-authority (maybe followed by a ghost-satisfaction-procedure!). But sudden appearance of Leanne made things unbalanced. The ghost arouse again (possibly sensing someone with psychic power came!). So the soul started her hunting again. She killed everybody and made an impact that the murdered people did suicide. And the killed people also become like Madeline, an unsatisfied soul trying to kill others like suicide (Remember, before the injury in her head in the stairwell, she was startled by an apparition of the elderly man). So I think the last scene, where the room is closed we can also see the apparition of her, signifying she has also become like Madeline and others (ghost actually!) and will remain their imprisoned killing others like them.


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The phrase I read on yahoo.com is the following one.
Tendulkar never scared me, says Akhtar.
The Pakistani maverick pacer said it was Adam Gilchrist and Brian Lara who scared the hell out of him.
Here, I just want to know the meaning of "scared the hell out of someone."


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- A Message to You, Rudy
- Blank Expression
- Concrete Jungle
- Doesn't Make It Right
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- Too Hot
- Too Much Too Young
- You're Wondering Now
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- More Specials
- Do Nothing
- Enjoy Yourself
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Outliers and Luck in User Performance
Summary: 6% of task attempts are extremely slow and constitute outliers in measured user performance. These sad incidents are caused by bad luck that designers can — and should — eradicate.
Generally, I advocate qualitative user testing: a handful of users is enough to discover most design flaws. Quantitative testing does have its place, however, and we've recently been running large tests for two different reasons:
- We're testing hundreds of users to generate in-depth findings for our eyetracking research. To determine whether men and women look at Web pages differently, for example, we have to test many people using the same websites. This is because users wander all over sites, and we need to test numerous men and women to get a sufficient number of samples for each page.
- We're running large-scale usability benchmarks for several clients so they can track their design improvements over time. These studies are really expensive and not recommended for small projects. For big projects, however, they're a good long-term management tool.
With all this fresh data at my disposal, I couldn't resist analyzing 1,520 measurements of user time-on-task performance for websites and intranets.
Does Usability Follow a Normal Distribution?
Almost all statistical analyses assume that data follows a normal distribution (the famous bell curve). Most people take this on faith, because it's true for so many phenomena. But let's check.
One way of assessing a dataset's distribution is to draw a quantile-quantile scatterplot. In a QQ plot, we plot each observation's empirical value on the x -axis and its hypothetical value on the y -axis, under the assumption that the entire set is normally distributed. We draw a straight line to represent a case with identical empirical and hypothetical values.
If our plotted datapoints are very close to the straight line, we conclude that the empirical values are very close to the hypothetical values. In other words, the observed data are the same as what the theory predicted, so the dataset follows a normal distribution.
Any datapoints that are far from the straight line represent cases in which the real and theoretical worlds differ substantially — in other words, the data doesn't follow the normal distribution.
I've plotted seventy QQ plots from our recent quantitative usability studies, and they all look the same, whether they come from website or intranet studies. Here are two typical examples:
QQ plots of two user studies: a test of a content-based magazine site (New York Magazine, on the left) and a test of a transaction-based e-commerce site (Kiehl's, on the right).
Each dot represents the task time of one user. The x-axis indicates measured performance and the y-axis indicates the theoretically matching normal distribution.
(Note: Because my analysis didn't include users who failed at tasks, the diagrams show only people who used the sites successfully. All seventy studies measured time on task — see earlier article on the definition of usability for other main quality attributes.)
Although the dots aren't exactly on the straight line, they're pretty close. There are a few outliers, but it seems safe to conclude that most users do follow a normal distribution. Close enough for government work — or more to the point, close enough for any analysis you need in a practical development project.
Outliers for Fast Performance
Outliers in the lower left corner of each QQ plot are shown as solid blue dots. These are users who were fast, but not as fast as the theory predicted. In fact, in the left-hand QQ plot, two dots are below the x-axis, indicating negative y values. The theory predicts that these two users would have finished their task before they started, which is obviously impossible.
In usability testing, there's a clear floor effect for measured task times: people simply can't be faster than a certain minimum, no matter how efficiently they use a site. Downloading pages and moving your hand between mouse and keyboard require a certain amount of time. Even the fastest typists still need time to type in search engine queries; the fastest readers still need time to read, regardless of how quickly they can find the salient information on a page.
All the studies I've analyzed included a few fast outliers. These fast (but not quite fast enough) users are easy to explain, however, and I don't think they should impact our thinking about Web usability.
Outliers for Slow Performance
Outliers in the upper right corner are shown as solid red dots. These are users who were dramatically slower than the slowest predicted users.
Of 1,520 cases, eighty-seven were outliers with exceedingly slow task times. This means that 6% of users are slow outliers. This is too many people to ignore. Of course, you should first and foremost improve the user experience for the 94% of users who are not outliers, but it's worth allocating some usability resources to that slow 6% as well.
The most seemingly obvious explanation for these outliers is simply that a few people are almost incompetent at using the Web, and they'll show up as slow outliers every time they test something. But this hypothesis is false. Once we recruit people for a study, we ask them to do multiple things, so we know how the slow outliers perform on several other tasks. In general, the same users who were extremely slow on some tasks were fast on other tasks.
Sixty different users were responsible for the eighty-seven slow outliers, for an average of 1.5 outliers each. Given that users were tested on an average of 6.7 tasks across the analyzed studies, each of these users had an average of 5.2 "normal" tasks — 3.5 times as many as their outlying tasks.
This topic clearly needs more research, and would make for several good graduate theses. For now, my best conclusion is that slow outliers are caused by bad luck rather than by a persistent property of the users in question.
Good Luck in User Performance
Before turning to bad luck, let's acknowledge that good luck also happens on the Web. People are sometimes "undeservedly" lucky on a website and get exactly what they want in fewer clicks than expected. Maybe, for example, they're looking to buy something that happens to be the homepage's featured promotion that day. In other cases, some users happily skirt gross usability mistakes that cause other people grave difficulties and much frustration.
Here's an example of good luck from a test with disabled users trying to use the website of the IRS (the U.S. tax authorities). One blind user wanted to find out whether she could deduct money donated to a high school band.
Because the IRS page was long and overwhelming, the user decided to have her screen reader device read out the list of links on the page. Further, because the user was looking for tax rules about "donations" she commanded the screen reader to read links that started with a "D." As it turns out, the IRS uses the term "deduction" rather than "donation" — something the user would never discover from a simple page or site search using the word "donation." However, because both words start with "D" and the person was using a screen reader, she easily happened upon "deduction" as the correct link. A joyful outcome, but one that's purely due to good luck.
(There are a few additional usability notes here. First, by using the term "deduction" rather than "donation," the site opts for system-oriented language over a term describing the user's action, which the site is presumably supposed to support. Second, using the screen reader shortcut is an expert behavior; you shouldn't use it as an excuse for long pages, which hurt less-experienced screen reader users. Finally, the "read links" feature is one of the reasons it's a guideline to avoid links with labels such as "click here" or "more," which don't make sense out of context.)
Bad Luck in User Performance
Most website and intranet users are all too familiar with bad luck. Typical examples include:
- Clicking the wrong link and being lost forever in the wrong part of the site.
- Using the wrong words. In contrast to the "good luck" example above, users can waste significant time scouring a site for a term that the site doesn't use and doesn't cross-reference to its own preferred term.
- Companies with multiple websites often bounce users off to the wrong site, but users don't realize the error.
- The link or information the user needs is scrolled just off the screen and so the user never sees it. (I discuss additional scrolling problems, including recent findings on how many users scroll under which conditions, in my seminar on Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability.)
- A pop-up distracts users just as they were about to get it right.
- Registration hiccups take users on detours long enough that their attempts to buy stuff are doomed, even when they've successfully found what they wanted and placed it safely in the shopping cart.
- Multiple small problems — any one of which could be easily handled in isolation — occur in a row and thus derail users.
Of course, none of these issues are really "luck" in the superstitious sense of something "unnatural" happening. In fact, they're all small, but real defects in the design's usability. What qualifies these flaws as bad luck is that, under rare circumstances, they condemn users to terrible misfortune. If things had gone a tiny bit differently — say, a user had scrolled down one line further — he or she might have had good luck and a very pleasant user experience.
Given that slow outliers account for 6% of Web usage, it's unacceptable to simply write them off. Although the data shows that most users will avoid bad luck in their next online task, you can't just say "better luck next time"; if you do, their next user experience will likely be on somebody else's website.
People leave websites that hurt them — they don't know that it's just bad luck, and that next time will be better. It's therefore incumbent on you to hunt down the root causes of bad luck and eradicate them from your site.
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Sorry - should have included the devel list when I sent this.On Mar 30, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:I'm not the expert on this area - Josh is, so I'll defer to him. I did take a quick glance at the sstore framework, though, and it looks like there are some params you could set that might help."ompi_info --param sstore all"should tell you what's available. Also, note that Josh created a man page to explain how sstore works. It's in section 7, looks like "man orte_sstore" should get it.On Mar 30, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Hugo Meyer wrote:Hello again.I'm working in the launch code to handle my checkpoints, but i'm a little stuck in how to set the path to my checkpoint and the executable (ompi_blcr_context.PID). I take a look at the code in odls_base_default_fns.c and this piece of code took my attention:#if OPAL_ENABLE_FT_CR == 1/** OPAL CRS components need the opportunity to take action before a process* is forked.* Needs access to:* - Environment* - Rank/ORTE Name* - Binary to exec*/if( NULL != opal_crs.crs_prelaunch ) {if( OPAL_SUCCESS != (rc = opal_crs.crs_prelaunch(child->name->vpid,orte_sstore_base_prelaunch_location,&(app->app),&(app->cwd),&(app->argv),&(app->env) ) ) ) {ORTE_ERROR_LOG(rc);goto CLEANUP;}}#endifBut i didn't find out how to set orte_sstore_base_prelaunch_location, i now that initially this is set in the sstore_base_open. For example, as i'm transfering my checkpoint from one node to another, i store the checkpoint that has to be restore in /tmp/1/ and it has a name like ompi_blcr_context.PID.Is there any function that i didn't see that allows me to do this? I'm asking this because I do not want to change the signature of the functions to pass the details of the checkpoint and the PID.Best Regards.
Hugo Meyer2011/3/30 Hugo Meyer <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Thanks Ralph.I have finished the (a) point, and now its working, now i have to work to relaunch from my checkpoint as you said.Best regards.Hugo Meyer2011/3/29 Ralph Castain <firstname.lastname@example.com>The resilient mapper -only- works on procs being restarted - it cannot map a job for its initial launch. You shouldn't set any rmaps flag and things will work correctly - the default round-robin mapper will map the initial launch, and then the resilient mapper will handle restarts.On Mar 29, 2011, at 5:18 AM, Hugo Meyer wrote:Ralph.I'm having a problem when i try to select the rmaps resilient to be used:/home/hmeyer/desarrollo/ompi-code/binarios/bin/mpirun -v -np 4 --hostfile ../hostfile --bynode -mca rmaps resilient -mca vprotocol receiver -mca plm rsh -mca routed cm ./coll 6 10 2>out.txtI get this as error:[clus9:25568] [[53334,0],0] hostfile: checking hostfile ../hostfile for nodes--------------------------------------------------------------------------Your job failed to map. Either no mapper was available, or noneof the available mappers was able to perform the requestedmapping operation. This can happen if you request a map type(e.g., loadbalance) and the corresponding mapper was not built.--------------------------------------------------------------------------[clus9:25568] errmgr:hnp:update_state() [[53334,0],0]) ------- App. Process state updated for process NULL[clus9:25568] [[53334,0],0] errmgr:hnp: job [53334,0] reported state NEVER LAUNCHED for proc NULL state UNDEFINED pid 0 exit_code 1[clus9:25568] [[53334,0],0] errmgr:hnp: job [53334,0] reported state NEVER LAUNCHED[clus9:25568] [[53334,0],0] errmgr:hnp: abort called on job [53334,0] with status 1Is there a flag that i'm not turning on? or a component that i should have selected?Thanks again.Hugo Meyer_______________________________________________2011/3/26 Hugo Meyer <email@example.com>Ok Ralph.Thanks a lot for your help, i will do as you said and then let you know how it goes.Best Regards.Hugo Meyer2011/3/25 Ralph Castain <firstname.lastname@example.com>
This is the option I would use. The other one is much, much more work. In this option, you only have to:On Mar 25, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Hugo Meyer wrote:
From what you've described before, I suspect all you'll need to do is add some code in orte/mca/odls/base/odls_base_default_fns.c that (a) checks to see if a process in the launch message is being relocated (the construct_child_list code does that already), and then (b) sends the required info to all local child processes so they can take appropriate action.Failure detection, re-launch, etc. have all been taken care of for you.I looked at the code that you mentioned me and i realize that i have two possible options, that i'm going to share with you to know your opinion.First of all i will let you know my actual situation with the implementation. As i'm working in a Fault Tolerant system, but using uncoordinated checkpoint i'm taking checkpoints of all my process at different time and storing them on the machine where there are residing, but i also send this checkpoints to another node (lets call it protector), so if this node fails his process should be restarted in the protector that have his checkpoints.Right now i'm detecting the failure of a process and i know where this process should be restarted, and also i have the checkpoint in the protector. And i also have the child information of course.So, my options are:First OptionI detect the failure, and then i use orte_errmgr_hnp_base_global_update_state() with some modifications and the hnp_relocate but changing the spawning to make a restart from a checkpoint, i suposse that using this, the migration of the process to another node will be updated and everyone will know it, because is the hnp who is going to do this (is this ok?).(a) modify the mapper so you can specify the location of the proc being restarted. The resilient mapper module will be handling the restart - if you look at orte/mca/rmaps/resilient/rmaps_resilient.c, you can see the code doing the "replacement" and modify accordingly.(b) add any required info about your checkpoint to the launch message. This gets created in orte/mca/odls/base/odls_base_default_fns.c, the "get_add_procs_data" function (at the top of the file).(c) modify the launch code to handle your checkpoint, if required - see the file in (b), the "construct_child" and "launch" functions.HTHRalphSecond Option
Modify one of the spawn variations(probably the remote_spawn from rsh) in the PLM framework and then use the orted_comm to command a remote_spawn in the protector, but i don't know here how to update the info so everyone knows about the change or how this is managed.I might be very wrong in what I said, my apologies if so.Thanks a lot for all the help.Best regards.Hugo Meyer_______________________________________________
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Last season for the Trojans, Beck tallied 90 strikeouts in 72.2 innings, while leading the team in complete games with five. Over his career, the right-hander posted 184 punch-outs with 11 saves and seven victories.
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5 Famous Wars That Showed Up in the Last Place You'd Expect
If, say, North and South Korea were to go to war again, you'd pretty much expect the fighting to stay there. If you were hanging around Disney World in Orlando and suddenly a couple of North and South Korean platoons showed up and started shooting at each other, you'd assume you were the victim of some elaborate flash mob prank. Yet that sort of thing has happened all through history, like the time ...
#5. The German Navy Attacked Cape Cod
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Quick: What exactly does the U.S. Coast Guard do? They save sinking boats and shit, right? Maybe stop smugglers, that sort of thing? All of it must seem like a pretty sweet deal if you're doing that instead of, say, fighting a world war. That's why the Coast Guard off the small town of Orleans, Massachusetts, probably thought they had a pretty sweet gig during World War I -- no filthy trenches or death-defying naval attacks for them. All they had to do for the war effort was guard a bunch of lobster traps and enjoy the whale watching. Which made it all the more pants-wetting when, out of the blue, an Imperial German submarine suddenly rose from the abyss in attack mode.
In freaking Cape Cod.
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This itty bitty little sideways elf shoe looking place.
It was July 21, 1918, and the German sub U-156 suddenly found itself in possession of far too many torpedoes and far too few targets. The U-boat's captain, Richard Feldt, spotted Orleans, with its several unassuming tugboats and barges docked in the harbor. Most people would've shaken their head sadly and gone off to blow their excess torpedoes on icebergs or whatever. Feldt, on the other hand, thought, "I must now shoot all of this," high-fived his second in command, and proceeded to attack the quaint little town in a move right out of a Stephen King novel.
Bemused bathers ashore stared in slack-jawed surprise as the U-boat began its attack, blasting at boats and spraying the town with bullets from mounted machine guns. The Coast Guard, annoyed by the pesky sounds of warfare in their peaceful station, popped their heads out to investigate -- only to find their little town quickly turning into a war zone. They hastily sent out a few shoddy aircraft, which completely failed to damage the U-boat with their bombs.
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"OK, that's close enough to finished -- just send it out."
Still, they lucked out: The Germans were apparently completely unprepared for an attack from an enemy nation whose soil they were actively bombing. They retreated in the face of the Coast Guard's desperate flailing, leaving the town in panic and disarray.
#4. The American Civil War Spilled Over into France and Brazil
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The big thing about civil wars is that they tend to keep within the country in question. That's the whole point, really. So if you were fighting in the American Civil War and took a break in, say, France, you'd think you had left the fighting behind and could relax with some nice 19th century French prostitutes.
Perhaps that is why the Confederate ship CSS Alabama was so confident when it stopped for repairs in the French seaside town of Cherbourg. The Alabama had been busy raiding Union ships in the Atlantic and went to get some repairs time on the other side of the ocean. Even if you have to endure accordion music and filthy mimes, a little holiday in a then-neutral country must've felt like heaven after all that hardcore warrin'. Then, after the repairs were finished, they sailed leisurely back to sea to run right the fuck into a Union battleship. Suddenly the North and the South were continuing their American conflict within sight of ... whatever France had at the time instead of the Eiffel Tower.
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Back then, their main tourist attraction was just a dude. People loved Chad France.
The ship was the Union vessel USS Kearsarge, a sloop-of-war that, unbeknownst to the Confederates, had been tracking the Alabama down due to everyone getting tired of its bullshit. The Kearsarge hung around French waters until the Alabama was shoddily (France, remember) repaired. The second the latter left safe waters, crew relaxed and hull creaking, it ran into the Kearsarge. Unable to turn back and unfit to fight, the Alabama had just one thing left to do: Say "fuck it" and challenge the Kearsarge to a one-on-one duel, just off the French shore.
This went about as well as you'd expect. The Alabama went under after an hour's combat, its crew presumably still cursing the French sea chanty from the tavern last night that they couldn't get out of their heads.
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"EAT SHIT, SCUMB- blbblbllblblbll ..."
By the way, almost the exact same thing happened to the Confederate ship the CSS Florida (which happened to be a sister ship of the Alabama) when it decided to stop for coal in the Brazilian port of Bahia. Despite the fact that they were in freaking South America -- the wartime equivalent of a get-out-of-jail-free card -- the Florida happened to encounter the Union ship USS Wachusett, which promptly captured the vessel.
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"Onward! We will not stop until we have shown the entire world how much we suck at war."
#3. Greenland Was Full of Secret Nazi Outposts
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Imagine being an American rescue pilot in 1943, gliding over the vast emptiness of Greenland. You may be drifting off course over the world's largest island, but you don't care -- you're thousands of miles from World War II, and that's what counts. After all, who the hell cares about Greenland?
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Look at that piece of shit. Just floating there like it doesn't know it sucks.
Suddenly, you notice a strange structure in the middle of the rugged wilderness below. Whatever could that be? Intrigued, you mark the spot on your map, making a point to return to the site on foot to see what this peculiar construct in the untouched wilderness might be. Days later, you finally make the trip and knock on the door of the structure.
Then, a Nazi comes out and punches you in the dick.
Why the hell were Nazis in Greenland? Did they hear that the Ark of the Covenant was buried there? Actually, it was all about monitoring the weather. In the days before weather satellites, you needed weather-monitoring stations in remote places to tell you what weather systems were coming your way. So when an American rescue plane stumbled upon that strange shack in the ass end of Greenland, they had actually come across a major Nazi operation.
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Or as we call it in the States, a "Minnesota Hitler shed."
Once a patrol had captured the lone German officer manning that outpost, they realized that the Nazi bastards had secretly littered Greenland's coastline with them, providing valuable weather data for Hitler and pals 24/7.
Since bombing the entire coastline of a massive island wasn't really an option even for America, they devised an alternate strategy: A 15-strong congregation of U.S., Norwegian, and Danish troops stormed station after station after station using dog sleds, commandoing their way through hundreds of miles of snow and ice. Sometimes they met heavy resistance from the Germans, while others surrendered almost immediately because their toilet had frozen.
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Which wasn't a huge issue until their assholes thawed.
By October 1944, the Allies had won one of the coldest operations of the war, losing just one man in the process, which is still more casualties than what they probably expected to lose in fucking Greenland.


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YouTube Era Creates New Metric For Billboard's 'Top 100'
Weekend Edition guest host Don Gonyea speaks with Silvio Pietroluongo of Billboard Magazine about the recent changes to the formula for the "Hot 100" chart. Billboard now incorporates the number of views on YouTube to determine the top songs in the country.
To music, and the number one song in America.
GONYEA: The song is "Harlem Shake" and it's by a DJ who calls himself Baauer - that's with two As. And this week it shot to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, the most watched ranking in the music biz. But if you turn on the radio, you might not actually hear the song. Baauer's "Harlem Shake" has taken the top spot mostly because of views on YouTube. This week, Billboard - for the first time - started to incorporate those views into its Hot 100 formula. The guy behind those changes is Silvio Pietroluongo. He's the director of charts at Billboard magazine. Hi, Silvio.
SILVIO PIETROLUONGO: Hi, Don. How are you?
GONYEA: Good, good. So, why the changes? Why start using YouTube?
PIETROLUONGO: Well, we always try to go where people are consuming music historically, and we've been doing this for decades now. And there's no denying the effect that YouTube is having on music and popular culture.
GONYEA: When you say you've always adapted to modern times, I mean, if we go way, way, way back, I understand you used to count sheet music sales.
PIETROLUONGO: Yeah. That was the first charts, and then it was jukebox, airplay sales, vinyl, cassette, CDs, and then we moved into ringtones and digital downloads. And we've had streaming in the Hot 100 for about five or six years, so this is just a continuance of increasing the pool of streamers that we have on the chart.
GONYEA: Explain exactly what's happening with "Harlem Shake." It wasn't even on the charts and now it's number one. How do you get that big of a leap?
PIETROLUONGO: Well, even if we didn't have YouTube in the calculations this week, the song would have debuted probably somewhere in the top 15 because it's been among the top-selling downloads this past week. And it might actually be the number one selling download next week when we have our charts. So, you saw this kind of activity with PSY, where it broke on YouTube and then it led to sales, which led to airplay and then led to way more sales.
GONYEA: Again, that's "Gangnam Style," that one, right?
PIETROLUONGO: That, exactly.
PSY: (Singing) ...sexy lady, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, opa gangnam style.
GONYEA: So, talk about how important radio is given this change. It's been one of the dominant factors in determining chart position. Where is it now?
PIETROLUONGO: Of the three streams that we use - of sales, airplay and streaming - sales still weighs heavier than radio; radio weighs heavier than streaming. But if you look at the top-selling downloads each week, if you look at the top streaming songs each week, 90 percent of the top it's the top radio hits. So, you know, radio still validates, I think, at the end of the day, what a major hit will be.
GONYEA: All right. Silvio Pietroluongo is the director of charts at Billboard magazine. He joined us from in New York. Thank you.
PIETROLUONGO: Thank you, Don.
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Captain Kirk has landed at the Frazier History Museum. Well, sort of.
On Tuesday, May 15, actor William Shatner, best known for his iconic character on Star Trek, stopped by the facility located on West Main Street to unveil a bronze sculpture he and wife Elizabeth donated to the museum.
Created by Kentucky artist Douwe Blumberg, the sculpture features a samurai warrior on horseback. The Shatners own a replica, which is displayed at their home.
"Today we're celebrating the unveiling of a new statue by Douwe Blumberg, one of America's great sculptors," Shatner said. "The history of Douwe Blumberg is quite unusual. … He was a horse trainer and became a sculptor. …We have three pieces of his at our home, and we admired his work since he began."
The donation and unveiling of the sculpture are in conjunction with the opening of the Frazier Museum's new "Samurai" exhibition, which explores the warrior culture and how it shaped an entire nation. "We're very proud to be able to donate this piece to Frazier Museum," Shatner said. "And it will last far longer than any of us – especially me."
Produced by the Frazier History Museum in partnership with the Kokusai Tosogu Kai, the 3,800-square-foot "Samurai" exhibit includes more than 200 objects, from armor and swords to rare textiles, artwork and religious items. Visitors will witness a diverse collection of artifacts spanning 1,500 years – including kimonos, wood block prints, theater masks, religious items and tea ceremony objects."I became interested in Japanese history a long time ago and was struck by the delicacy of the Japanese culture as well as the brutality, if you will," Shatner said of his interest in warrior art. "There is a mixture of refinement and warrior sensibility and I think that the statue reflects both those qualities."
The "Samurai" exhibit opened in Louisville on May 12 and will run until Sept. 30. The exhibit was designed with children in mind, offering a number of interactive stations and hands-on elements. Kids are also admitted for free. "Samurai" is included in regular museum admission ($9.50 for adults).
The Frazier History Museum, 829 W. Main St., is open Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
For more information, visit www.fraziermuseum.org.
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I luv people that wanna see me fail. They motivate me in a way nothing else can. They become the reason I improve, the reason I excel...
Those who are defensive and reactive find it impossible to have healthy relationships
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man. you KNOW im white collared when i take time off MY VACATION. to go BACK to 30rock to get my morning oatmeal just how i like it. #smh
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The end of the old woman's long life came suddenly. She died in her home, torched to death by a fiend with an unknown motive. While Seattle is undergoing unwelcome upscale change, it is strictly on the surface, as the Grim Reaper still lives in the shadows of the city. And it falls to Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont and his new partner, Sue Danielson, to get to the bottom of his latest handiwork. But the trail will lead to places and events that will leave two police officers and their cases shattered and nothing will ever be the same again.
About the Author
J. A. Jance is the New York Times bestselling author of the J. P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, the Ali Reynolds series, and five interrelated thrillers about the Walker family, as well as a volume of poetry. Born in South Dakota and brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, Jance lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington, and Tucson, Arizona.
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SAN ANTONIO (December 30, 2013) – San Antonio Rampage General Manager Mike Santos announced today that the American Hockey League (AHL) club has recalled rookie forward Logan Shaw from the team's ECHL affiliate, the Cincinnati Cyclones. In addition, the club has loaned defenseman Zach Miskovic to Cincinnati.
Shaw, 21, sits at third among Cyclones skaters with eight goals and 18 points through 20 games with the team this season. The 6-3, 204-pound winger played in seven games with the Rampage to begin the season before being reassigned to Cincinnati on Nov. 12. The Glace Bay, NS, native spent five years in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (2008-13), totaling 187 points (86 goals, 101 assists) in 311 career games between Cape Breton and Quebec. Shaw made his professional debut on Oct. 4 with the Rampage, in their home opener against Chicago.
Shaw was a third round selection by the Florida Panthers (76th overall) in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.
Miskovic, 28, is in his fifth professional season, and first full season with the Rampage. In 27 games with the Silver and Black last year, the 6-1, 197-pound defenseman netted four goals and nine assists through 27 games after being traded from Chicago on Feb. 14. The River Forest, Ill., native has 201 AHL games under his belt, with the bulk of it being spent with Hershey after turning pro in the 2009-10 season. He has 19 goals and 24 assists in that span.
Prior to his professional career, Miskovic played four full seasons for St. Lawrence University. In 154 games with the Saints, he totaled 27 goals and 46 assists. He began his hockey career in the United States Hockey League with the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders.
The Rampage will open a weekend home-and-home with the Oklahoma City Barons on Jan. 3 at the AT&T Center before traveling to Oklahoma City the next night. The first game carries a 7:30 p.m. puck drop, and falls on a KZEP / Bud Light Dollar Drink Night and will feature $1 draft beers and soda during the game. It also is the Rampage's "Social Media Night," where fans can tweet throughout the game to choose which player they want to be interviewed during the intermission. Tickets can be purchased by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554 or online at sarampage.com.


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Barbara Hoover, a math teacher at Dime Box Independent School District, will be presented the Texas A&M University Inspiration Award for Exceptional Education during Texas A&M University commencement ceremonies at 2 p.m. Friday (Aug. 14).
Teachers selected to receive this unusual award – believed to be the first of its type by any university in Texas – are nominated by one of their former students who are about to graduate from Texas A&M.
Recipients of the award are recognized during commencement ceremonies at the university, where they are presented checks for $2,000. Also, their high schools receive $1,000.
As a university known for valuing excellence, leadership and service, Texas A&M sponsors the award as a way of recognizing those values in the teachers who have inspired and challenged their students to excel.
Hoover was nominated for the award by one of her former students, Anne O'Toole, who is graduating from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M. O'Toole will be formally presented her biomedical sciences degree by Hoover, a privilege normally reserved for the university's president.
"As the teacher for all of the math classes, Ms. Hoover had five or six sets of lesson plans to prepare, lots of homework to grade, many tests to make and many students to teach," O'Toole said in nominating her favorite teacher. "She also coached UIL math teams, sponsored several student organizations and managed an after-school program. When she wasn't planning or grading, she could often be found showing her support for us by coming to our volleyball games or one-act play performances."
O'Toole adds that Hoover cares deeply for her students and proved it when O'Toole had to have surgery during her senior year of high school. Hoover met with her in the evenings to help her with calculus so she wouldn't fall behind and lose her class status as valedictorian.
"I am truly flattered whenever a student returns from college and thanks me for preparing them in math," Hoover said. "Anne is an exceptional student. She is always focused and has an internal drive to be the best she can be. I think that comes from her deep faith in God."
Hoover adds that O'Toole had set a goal to win the State UIL mathematics contest when the surgery set her back and she was not well enough to study for the contest. After the surgery,she was able to complete Calculus AB and make the top grade possible on the Calculus AB Advanced Placement Exam.
"She was an inspiration to me her senior year as she came to class and did her best while sitting on a 'donut' cushion due to her hurting back," Hoover added.
"It is not true that smaller schools have less to offer than larger schools," O'Toole emphasized. "Thanks to Ms. Hoover, I entered Texas A&M with a 750 on the math portion of my SAT and was well prepared academically for the math classes that were ahead of me."


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I've been using kdenlive for a long time now, its always worked great for me, but this has got me stumped.
I run Linux mint version 14, kdenlive 0.9.2 is the version in the repo. I always had crashing issues with that version so I updated to the latest git version about a month ago. Worked great for months.
But all of the sudden the speed effect is acting up. I take my video, cut the pieces I want sped up, move those little clips into a separate video channel, apply speed to each of them, set the speed to 300% and everything looks great in the preview, but when I render the video at every point where there should be a sped up section there is a super slowmo clip of the beginning of the video. Like literally under 1fps.
I'm confused and frustrated.
I figure it has to be fairly simple, but I'm tired, confused and want this video edited and done already.
Hope someone has some ideas for me,
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 09:07
Have you seen this http://www.kdenlive.org/forum/speed-effect-causes-corrupted-frames thread. Could your issue be related?
Fri, 03/01/2013 - 22:09
I do have the same issue: Speed effect simply slow down the frame to nearly not movement.
I am running Kdenlive 0.9.4 with linux Mint 13 Maya.
I confirm that I used the speed effect without problem in the past few months, but do not know either what update could have broken it.
Very frustrating.
Sat, 03/02/2013 - 00:58
Could this be this http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2963 defect which is resolved with changes in melt ?
Sat, 03/02/2013 - 21:35
I don't know for sure but it sounds pretty similar.
From the link provided, I don't understand the answer from ddennedy. Could you detail?
I tried this: http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=10973991#p10973991 (full reinstallation of Kdenlive, melt and mlt libraries
but without any success. The issue remains for me.
Sun, 03/03/2013 - 02:02
Right. Looks like you probably installed from sunabs kdenlive-release repository which will be version 0.9.4 of kdenlive and 0.8.8-0ubuntu0 of melt (https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archive/kdenlive-release)
As described http://kdenlive.org/download-development
you might want to try sunabs bleeding edge version which may have the speed effect fixed.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sunab/kdenlive-svn && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install kdenlive
Which is this https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archive/kdenlive-svn
This will give you melt 0.8.8+git20130226.928ea3c5-0ubuntu0 kdenlive 0.9.5+git20130301.1392e602
Sun, 03/03/2013 - 11:18
Hi ttguy,
Unfortunately, no more luck with this.
I proceeded the same way: Via Synaptics, I uninstalled Kdenlive, melt and mlt librairies (+ I removed the kdenlive sources)
then reinstalled kdenlive following your instructions.
The issue remains.
However, I noticed that if my current version of Kdenlive is 0.9.5, my version of melt is 0.8.8+git20130220.f03d0f54-0ubuntu0~sunab~precise1 (as shown in synaptics)
I do not know what it means, but it's different that what you expected.
Sun, 03/03/2013 - 13:29
Maybe you should also explicity install the mlt from from the ppa:sunab/kdenlive-svn
Because it does not look like you have the very latest that sunab has to offer there.
Tue, 03/05/2013 - 21:40
Sorry for late reply.
I somehow discovered that my Nvidia graphic card was not properly recognized and somehow managed to crash the whole system.
Now I am back with a fresh install of Linux Mint 14. And my Nvidia graphic card is now properly handled thanks to the bumblebee project.
However, still no luck: The video freezes wherever speed effect is in use... :(
ttguy, I am afraid that I do not know how to proceed with the install of mlt from ppa:sunab/kdenlive-svn.
I confirm that this kdenlive-svn shows correctly in my list of "other software" in the list of sources for update. But then what? How can I retrieve the very latest version of mlt? thanks in advance.
Tue, 03/05/2013 - 21:51
In synaptic package manager you can sort packages by origin (using the left hand buttons). Select LP-PPA sunab/kdenlive-svn as the origin and then synaptic will show all the packages from sunabs PPA. The upgradable packages will have a exclamaition point icon. In my screen shot the kdenlive packages are upgradable.
Right click one of the mlt packages and mark for upgrade - the rest will also get marked then.
Click the apply button.
Wed, 03/06/2013 - 11:23
Even with the newest packages from kdenlive-svn installed, I still see problems with the speed effect. In my project I have a clip region to which I apply the speed effect of 600%.
1. mlt calculates a different new length compared to kdenlive. For instance, if I position the cursor at the beginning of the speed clip in the time line then it will play that region at increased speed but will be finished before the region ends. In consequence, the final game will get repeated as long until play reaches the clip region end as set in the time line.
2. In contrast, positioning the cursor at the beginning or somewhere in between and the moving the cursor frame by frame using the cursor keys results in the proper result, i.e. there are no repeated filler frames at the end.
3. When rendering this region I get a similar result as with 1., so that the speed-up clip is to short and thus gets padded using the final frame. But I also get a lot of corrupted frames near the end of the region.
4. The order of effects applied to a clip with a speed effect also seem to matter. For instance, when I first place effects for, say, color correction and only then the speed effect, then the color corrections won't be applied at all, only the speed effect. It seems that the speed effect needs to be the topmost one in the effects stack in order to avoid all kind of strange things happening.
Wed, 03/06/2013 - 21:45
Looks like another bug different from 2963 which is "Speed effect makes kdenlive crash". But Diveo - you are not seeing crashes. Someone should raise it in mantis
Wed, 03/06/2013 - 22:10
I will try to create some descriptive screen shots both from kdenlive as well as the rendered result and file a bug on this issue with the mantis bug tracking system. This is a longstanding and really annoying issue as it basically makes the speed effect useless in many situations.
Thu, 03/07/2013 - 10:26
On my instal the video does not freeze after speed effect but the audio of any footage following becomes choppy in the rendered version. So I have issues too.
kdenlive 0.9.5+git20130301.1392e602-0ubuntu0~sunab~precise1
frei0r 1.3.0+git20130119.c3fdd674-0ubuntu0~sunab~precise1
melt 0.8.8+git20130220.f03d0f54-0ubuntu0~sunab~precise1
Thu, 03/07/2013 - 11:04
Double Hmmm.
I just repeated my test I got the same result.
And then I noticed another build of kdnelive in sunabs ppa. Installed that.
And now my test works. Speed effect next to regular video. Renders good. Audio good. - One off test though.
My system is now
kdenlive 0.9.5+git20130306.4af66752-0ubuntu0~sunab~precise1
frei0r 1.3.0+git20130119.c3fdd674-0ubuntu0~sunab~precise1
melt 0.8.8+git20130220.f03d0f54-0ubuntu0~sunab~precise1
There could be a workaround for people with this issue - just render the speed bit of the video by itself as a lossless output and then import that rendered version. It would probably work.


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The Particles and Fields Package, built by the University of California at Berkeley with some instrument elements from LASP and NASA Goddard contains six instruments to characterize the solar wind and the ionosphere of Mars.
NASA selected the MAVEN mission for flight in 2008. Scientists think Mars was much more Earth-like roughly four billion years ago, and want to know how the climate changed, where the water went and what happened to the atmosphere, said Jakosky, also a professor in the geological sciences department.
CU-Boulder also is providing science operations and directing education and public outreach efforts. NASA Goddard provided two of the science instruments and manages the project. In addition to building the spacecraft, Lockheed Martin will perform mission operations. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena provides program management via the Mars Program Office, as well as navigation support, the Deep Space Network and the Electra telecommunications relay hardware and operations.
MAVEN is slated to begin orbiting Mars in September 2014. For more information about MAVEN visit http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/maven/ and www.nasa.gov/maven.


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People seem to be making a point of the distinction of the role of Engineer and Producer. What's the difference?
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The engineer is the "equipment operator". His expertise is choosing the right equipment for the job and using it in the right way to achieve the desired effect. His role is analogous to that of the cameraman in film production.
The producer is kind of like a project manager. His job is to get all the individuals - musicians, vocalists, engineers - to each do their part to achieve the overall goal.
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I recently found out that most of the European monarchies have the same kind of lion in their flag. As you can see it is a lion with a strange long tongue:
United Kingdom
Prince of Wales
Now, of course the lion has always (since when to be precise?) been seen as the king of the forest, and in general an animal representing strength. So it makes sense to use it on a monarchy's flag, But my question is
Why do all these monarchies have the same lion in their flag?
It looks like they all come from the same source. Does anybody know what this common source could be?
Here somebody proposed that the rampant lion was a good choice simply because it fit the shields well. Personally I don't really agree with this point of view... many other designs can fit a shield perfectly!


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SAN ANTONIO (February 4, 2013) – The San Antonio Rampage raised $42,000 from a postgame jersey auction to benefit breast health awareness efforts following their third annual Pink in the Rink Night on Friday, Feb. 1, in which the Rampage earned a 1-0 victory over the Rockford IceHogs in front of a sell-out crowd of 16,205 fans. In three years, Pink in the Rink Nights have raised $116,000 to help in the fight against breast cancer.
The Rampage wore pink-themed jerseys that were auctioned off to raise money for breast health awareness. Seven Rampage jerseys were auctioned off for more than $2,000 apiece: Jacob Markstrom ($2,400), Nolan Yonkman ($2,300), Jon Rheault ($2,200), Eric Selleck ($2,200), Michael Caruso ($2,000), Scott Timmins ($2,000) and Justin Vaive ($2,000). Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich's game-worn tie raised $500 and ties worn by the Spurs assistant coaches and signed by Manu Ginobili, Kawhi Leonard and Borris Diaw raised a combined $1,300. In addition, Rampage head coach Chuck Weber's game-worn tie was auctioned for $300, a pink hockey stick signed by the 2012-13 Rampage team went for $650 and T-Bone's game-worn jersey raised $1,100 for breast health awareness.
The Rampage set a franchise attendance record as a sell-out crowd of 16,205 fans watched the Rampage skate on pink ice. The crowd was also the largest in an American Hockey League arena this season.
The Silver and Black will kick off their nine-game, 21-day Rodeo Road Trip tonight (Monday) with a 7:05 tilt against the Houston Aeros. The game will air live on FOX Sports Southwest with Rampage play-by-play broadcaster Dan Weiss and Spurs television host and in-game reporter Andrew Monaco calling the action live from the Toyota Center.


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Boston Market BOGO free Market Bowl (coupon)
Buy any market bowl plus a fountain drink and get a market bowl free.
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Just noticed this too. Thanks for posting!
What exactly is a "Market Bowl"? We haven't been to Boston Market in quite a while, so I looked at the menu posted on their site and I don't see it listed.
@gionot: Easiest response: click the "i want one" button, then click the Boston Market logo. It will show up. I only can wish there was one near me.
@jsimsace: Thanks! I have an uncanny ability to block out ads and other obvious stuff, so if that was on the page while I was looking at their site, I totally missed it.
Edit: Maybe I should point out I don't watch TV and I use an ad-blocker, so I usually don't see ads unless I go looking for them (and apparently not always then).
The Market Bowls are the chain's latest limited-time offer, which includes the choice of rotisserie chicken, roasted turkey breast or meatloaf, along with two sides. All ingredients are combined in one bowl and topped with the choice of beef gravy, poultry gravy or one of three sauces: mild zesty barbecue, a medium-hot sweet Thai garlic, or medium-hot honey habanero.
Link with pics: http://nrn.com/article/boston-market-promotion-plays-election-day-themes
So it's like their regular meal but they put it in a bowl....
i really like my sides, on the side, meaning not in the bowl with all the gravy
next thing they will take a bowl, then wrap it in a burrito
@fit410s: dude... that's an amazing idea!!
Sounds like KFC's bowl, which brings up Paton Oswalt's bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfan5MacmsI


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David Akers (1975/88): The 1911 is a common issue, one of the easiest to obtain in the series. In fact, only the very common 1926 and 1932 are more often seen than this issue. Below gem quality, i.e. MS-64 or less, the 1911 can be located quite easily. True gems are only moderately rare and can be found with little effort. There are some spectacular, nearly perfect examples of this issue in existence.
The 1911 is always well struck and most specimens have finely granular, frosty surfaces. A few specimens, however, have very little granularity and have a satin texture. Lustre varies greatly on this issue from average (for the series) to outstanding. As is always the case, the satiny ones are more radiant than the frosty ones although many of the latter are also extremely lustrous. Color is a strong point of this issue. Light to medium orange and greenish gold is the predominant color but a number of greenish yellow examples are also known.


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LAMPASAS (January 15, 2013)--A meeting will be held Tuesday to discuss the Lampasas River Watershed Protection Plan draft, which affects 7 area counties.
The draft is intended to address water quality concerns after potentially harmful bacteria was found in the river.
The 100-plus page draft was carefully constructed by the Lampasas River Watershed Partnership and affects Mills, Hamilton, Lampasas, Coryell, Burnet, Bell and Williamson counties.
The plan will be funded through a Clean Water Act grant to Texas AgriLife Research, administered by the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Tuesday's meeting will be held from 6 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at the Lampasas County Farm Bureau building on U.S. 281.
A second meeting will be held in Killeen on Thursday at the solid waste building located at 2003 Little Nolan Road.
That meeting will be held from 6 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.
The draft can be viewed on the Lampasas River website.