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An anniversary is the time when you cherish the years you have left behind as a happy couple, and look ahead into the future. Such a day is to be marked by the best of anniversary gifts. However in the years you have spent together as a couple, you would have discovered and given every possible gift he/she could want. Hence as time goes by, choosing anniversary gifts also keeps becoming increasingly difficult.
It is time you explore the options available on the online gift portals. Certain online portals offer the most
If you are a husband looking for anniversary gifts for your lovely wife, then why not try buy her a flying experience? Or a soothing day at an elegant spa? It is a guarantee that your wife would not resent the opportunity of flying high up in the skies in a helicopter or a hot air balloon. One might argue these are only for the young couples and need physical effort. Well, online gift portals certainly have not forgotten the elder portion of the society. There are options of personalised magazine covers, or genuine original newspapers. You are sure to leave your loved one in a state of awe, when you give her a newspaper published on the date of her birth.
It is not just the husbands who shop for an anniversary gifts. If you are a wife looking for the perfect gift, you could find interesting options like signed football memorabilia, personalised wine bottles, sports car driving, etc. It is certain that no man would put away the chance of being behind the wheel of a Ferrari or a Lamborghini!
Certainly, anniversary gifts are not just for husband or wives to shop. If you have a friend who is celebrating his or her anniversary or a company celebrating its anniversary, these options could apply for you as well.
After all, buying a present is all about the joy of sharing, and happiness in making your dear ones happy. It is time that you break free from the captive chains of mundane anniversary gifts, and try something different.

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The NY Post is making a big deal about a expletive-laced t-shirt worn by Alex Rodriguez' wife at Yankee Stadium. Specifically, the white t-shirt says "F*** YOU".
Personally, I find the capital letters of those Gothic fonts to be pretty unintelligible half the time. Maybe she thought the second word said "DOH"? (I can't read the first word because it was blurred out by the always-prudish NY Post.)
Apparently, the shirt violates Yankee Stadium policy on offensive language. Unsurprisingly, they did not cite nor remove Ms. Rodriguez. Maybe they couldn't read it, either?


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WinUAE 4.9.0 beta series (Was 4.5.0)
WinUAE 4.9.0 beta series (was 4.5.0)
As usual, this thread is only for 4.5.0 beta introduced bugs or features. Always test with 4.4.0 first! Problem exists in 4.4.0 or older: do not post in this thread!
Major new chipset emulation updates:
- Cycle-accurate emulation of internal Agnus/Alice DMA request pipeline. DMA request happens 2-3 cycles before actual DMA transfer. (Previously request == transfer + hacks)
- Bitplane, Copper and Blitter emulation rewrite based on schematics. All undocumented side-effects are fully emulated.
- Programmed display modes (including badly documented BEAMCON0 bits, HSYNC, VSYNC, HBLANK, VBLANK etc) are now accurately emulated.
- Agnus/Alice horizontal counter is now separate from Denise/Lisa horizontal counter: programmed mode hsync shift display wraparound is now supported. Same with vertical, Agnus/Alice vertical is separated from display device vertical. If vsync starts after line 0, lines 0 to vsync are correctly visible at the bottom of display.
Major other updates:
- JIT Aranym merge. All previously known JIT bugs fixed.
- CyberVision64/3D, CyberVision64, Voodoo 3 PCI, S3 Virge PCI emulation (chip emulation from PCem)
- uaegfx Picasso96 v3.0+ screen dragging support.
And more.
Beta 1:
- Fully merged latest Aranym JIT. Previously it was only partially merged because of unsolved problem that made it completely unusable. It is solved now.
- JIT should be now trace mode (debugger) compatible. If SR register T1 or T0 bit gets set, JIT transparently drops to normal emulation mode. JIT reactivates when trace gets cleared. Very rarely used M SR bit also does same.
- Full CPU tester 68020 test set now passes in JIT mode, including trace mode tests. (NOTE: bcc.b and bsr.b tests fail unless Hard flush is also set)
- JIT has two known not yet fixed bugs: edge case shift condition (shift count is divisible by 32) C-flag problem and ROR/ROL does not clear V-flag.
- x86 Bridgeboard update: PCem x86 core updated to v16. Update added FPU support for pre-486 CPUs. FPU checkbox added to bridgeboard expansion settings.
- uaegfx Picasso96 2.5.0 screen dragging support added.
- CV64 RTG board emulation. S3 Trio 64 chipset emulation from PCem. Roxxler chip is not (yet?) emulated. CGX4 complains if Roxxler fails to work correctly. Picasso96 does not use it.
- CV64/3D RTG board emulation, Z2 and Z3 mode. S3 Virge chipset emulation from PCem. (S3 Virge is very different than S3 Trio)
- All Cirrus Logic based RTG boards now use PCem Cirrus Logic SVGA chip emulation.
- Piccolo SD64 fixed.
- Reordered RTG board list.
- Hardware emulated graphics board screenshot support fixed.
- x86 Bridgeboard VGA still use QEMU Cirrus Logic emulation. I'll keep it (at least for now) because it enables simultaneous use of bridgeboard VGA and PCem RTG board.
NOTE: JIT + Hardware emulated graphics board can cause glitches. Will be fixed later.
- No. Don't ask. Permedia 2 (Cyber/BlizzardVision PPC) or complete enough Voodoo 3 chip emulation does not currently exist.
- Audio and disk DMA: Agnus also ignores DMACON DMAEN bit. DMAEN bit is checked inside Paula. Audio: Paula audio DMA requests are only generated if DMAEN is set when channel generates DMA request (not when transferred via DMAL). DMAEN can be cleared after request has been generated and DMA request still goes to Agnus and Agnus does DMA to AUDxDAT during channel's DMA slot in next scanline. Disk: both DMAEN and DSKEN needs to be set. Previously DMAEN was checked in Agnus side when deciding current DMA slot state. Most likely no normal program cares, this is quite extreme edge case.
- Copper write to BPLxDAT timing fix.
- cpu_halt_auto_reset config entry added to GUI misc panel.
- Analog joystick multiplier/offset default adjusted.
- Load PAL mode, OCS Agnus state file directly from GUI/command line, start emulation, on the fly switch chipset to ECS Agnus: mode was changed to NTSC.
- Switching off display DMA when display DMA was active still had more hidden side-effects. It results in "bad state" that is not reset until bitplane DMA is switched back on, when it is back on DMA restarts from state which normally happens when DDFSTOP has been passed. Result is either 1 or 2 "bitplane blocks" (1 or 2 depends on horizontal position relative to next BPL1DAT slot when DMA was switched off) starting from DDFSTRT (if switched on before DDFSTRT). The rest of scanline is drawn using border color. Following scan line works normally. No differences between OCS/ECS. (vAmiga test case)
- Another undocumented feature: if BPLCON0 HAM and DPF are both set, result is weird. HAM replaces R/G/B component: replacement component value is palette _index_ of current pixel in dual playfield mode! HAM selection bits zero: palette selection works like in dual playfield mode. BPLCON2 works like mode is normal dual play field (including invalid BPLCON2 priority values). OCS/ECS only. (vAmiga test case).
- Dual playfield mode illegal BPLCON2 priorities didn't work correctly in hires mode. (bottom part of above test case)
- Blitter nasty off cycle counting update, emulatation code wasn't exactly doing what it was supposed to do.
- A1000 blitter busy bug was ignored if copper waited for blitter.
- Added DMA debugger non-nasty blitter extra information: 's' (CPU will get next blitter cycle) and 'S' (CPU stole this cycle from blitter)
- Confirmed CIA register contents at power up. CIA control register should be zero, for some reason previous reset default was $04.
- Disassemble FBF with zero offset as FNOP.
- Debugger fi instruction breakpoint command now accepts up to 3 opcode words.
- Config file list wasn't refreshed when config file was deleted. (4.4.0)
- RTF_AFTERDOS is broken in KS 2.0 , KS 2.0 now uses pre-WinUAE 3.3 hack and only KS 3.0+ use RTF_AFTERDOS. Clipboard sharing and uaenet.device work again under KS 2.0.
- Added Amiga Bootblock Reader brainfile support (copy ABR package xml files to <winuae root>\plugins\ABR -directory). Used when clicking "?" button in quickstart and disk panels.
- Fixed emulated floppy disk rotation speed, it was slightly too slow. This change could break some copy protections. Unexpected side-effects are always possible..
- Copper SKIP wasn't updated when WAIT logic was updated ages ago. SKIP had wrong timing in some rare situations.
- "Default" filter mode: PAL/NTSC switch automatically scales the image.
- DF3: floppy led was drawn using very dark color if it was disabled and system didn't have NVRAM hardware.
- OSD led font graphics is now generated from real Windows font and is high DPI aware. Led size multiplier config entries now also support non-integer values.
- Added GVP A1230 Turbo+ Jaws. Boot ROM adds RAM outside of 24-bit address space and fake RAM autoconfig board.
- Accelerator board RAM slider range was larger than supported range with some boards.
- Added Trumpcard v1.5 and v3.1 ROM. Added also hardware interrupt checkbox, later trumpcard (still non-pro) variants have interrupt support. It seems 8k ROM variants don't have interrupt, 16k do have it. Setting is wrong if it hangs at boot.
- Added A.L.F.2 OMTI variant and v2.2 boot ROM. ROM possibly also includes SCSI driver but I didn't examine how it works. A.L.F.2 OMTI IO port is exact same as in A.L.F.1.
- Trifecta LX SCSI emulation fixed.
So many fixes and additions, thank you as always..
Hi Toni,
Thanks for you latest work ;)
One problem though; I've tested 3 x games that have JIT enabled.
My configurations usually have "Direct" set. When I start any of these JIT games I just get a black screen, nothing else. Left it for 1 minutes and then had to kill the "WinUAE.exe" process.
I also tried changing to "Indirect". Started the game and WinUAE immediately crashes. This time a dump file is created.
Configurations, both logs for "Direct" and "Indirect", plus the ".DMP" are now in The Zone!
Edit: ok, something is seriously wrong... just tested an OCS and an AGA game. WinUAE crashed immediately.
Edit2: this seems to be an issue the Graphics API; if I use my usual "Direct3D 9" or "DirectDraw" (which I never use), then crash. If I set "Direct3D 11" then all games tested work.
Unfortunately I cannot use "Direct3D 11" though, and need "Direct3D 9" working.
Edit3: ok, have worked out what's causing the crash. It's the new LEDs... if I turn them off then all is ok again.
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Confirming Damiens problems on my setup, 11 works 9 crash...
Dump attached..
Does crashes stop if on screen leds are disabled? (misc panel)
EDIT: and only if D3D9 mode? Works in D3D11?
Only "Direct3D 11" works with these.
Hi Toni,
thank you very much for your work and your latest beta.
I just tried the new winuae beta without changing anything same configuration etc. all the same.
With quake1 I get this in the first screenshot it is version 4.4.0 final
in the second screenshot with the latest beta 4.5 I get this while so many times the system completely crashes.
my error report is for 4.1FE, if for any reason I don't have to report this type of error because I use 4.1FE let me know.
It is not my intention to report on 4.1FE
I don't want to disturb the topic by talking about 4.1FE
In this case quake1 makes use of cybergraphic uaegfx 640x480 8 bit
Thanks again very much for the latest beta :-)
Does https://download.abime.net/winuae/files/b/winuae.7z fix the led crash?
To be honest though; I like the old LEDs much more (size, shape and text).
Also, when using "Direct3D 9" it seems the LEDs / text is cut off:
Old style:
yes it does Toni...Oops, D beat me to it...oh well, 2 different confirms
Even amicygnix no longer opens the proprietary screen using the clonewb or cybergraph driver.
New ones can support any available font but it is not yet configurable.
Great Toni!!! :great
Also tried the last winuae in the thread the problems remain once the clonewb or cybergraph option is used the screen slows down considerably until it creates artifacts on the screen without opening the amicygnix proprietary screen
I will wait patiently for any future developments. thank you
Edit: The performance with games like Alien Breed 3D is terribly bad. Using the same settings as in WinUAE 4.4.0
For everything else, a wonderful job! like always
Toni on OS3 RTG with UAE Zorro III all RTG games tested have corrupted graphics, see screenshot.
With OS3 RTG and Picasso IV the problems are different, graphics cut and system blocks.
Thanks for your great work
Here we go!
WHDLoad games at launch make the emulator freeze (whdload doesn't even display splash window since it suddenly freezes) with b1.
My WinUAE cfg in signature.
As usual i don't understand nearly nothing of all additions / fixes :(
Anyway impressive list .... thanks for the work ! :spin
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Every day when you see the sun setting over the Hudson there seems to be a part of your heart which sails away to those sunsets over Princep Ghat. While still I'm starting to groove to the American way of life, every cell within me drags me to those dusty roads of Kolkata.
While the chicken teriyaki tastes good, and the brownies softer than ever, I still miss the alu posto and the soft warm rasogollas. Talking about posto, the only thing over which the Ghotis and Bangals never fight or do they?
The ways in which poppy is used in Bengali recipes is just uncountable. Bongs can kill for their soul alu posto. The soft bite sized potatoes cooked in gravy of poppy paste – will surely tickle all your taste buds. Posto goes with alost all vegetables, another very popular posto preparation is the posto begun. Chicken is also cooked in thick gravy of poppy and cashew nut.
When it comes to poppy the way you can cook it is innumerable. But, posto also is a killer when its all by itself. The posto vada or the posto bati is a common first course for almost all Bengali household. An easier version of the posto vada is the posto bhaja. It gets prepared in minutes and you can enjoy it with just war white rice.
Posto Bhaja
- 1/2 cup poppy seeds
- 3-4 green chilies, chopped coarsely
- 2 cloves of garlic chopped coarsely
- 1/4 size small onion, chopped
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 tablespoon mustard oil
- Salt to taste
- Dry grind the poppy seeds to fine powder in a coffee grinder. Soak with salt and turmeric in 3 tablespoons warm water
- Heat oil in a skillet. Saute the onion and garlic. Add the poppy paste and green chili.
- Fry till the paste is little dried and the color changes to a darker shade
- Serve hot with warm white rice as a first course
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Mia Farrow Biography
Mia Farrow(Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow)
Born: 2/9/1945
Birthplace: Los Angeles
Actress whose intelligent and sensitively shaped roles have more often been overshadowed by her relationships with major entertainers, including Frank Sinatra, Andre Previn, and Woody Allen. Farrow's early movies included Rosemary's Baby (1965) and The Great Gatsby (1974), in which she played Daisy Buchanan. Farrow and Allen collaborated successfully in such well regarded movies as Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) before their relationship exploded in scandal, as Allen became romantically linked with Mia's daughter from a previous marriage, Soon-Yi Previn.
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Steve McQueen may not have done all his own stunts, but to get The Magnificent Seven role that launched his career he had to pull off one real crash. Here's the story of how and why he did it.
Historian Marshall Terrill shares this excerpt from his new McQueen biography explaining the actor's love of cars, and the reason he had to crash one to get out of a contract holding him back from real fame.
Screen icon Bette Davis once asked Steve McQueen why he would he risk his life and his career by tooling around Hollywood on a motorcycle.
"So I won't forget I'm a man and not just an actor," McQueen replied. Davis smiled and did so knowingly, for she knew the industry could be dangerously all consuming. McQueen understood that he needed an outlet and friends outside the movie business to keep his sanity. He needed to have something on standby to allow him to escape to his own world. A car, a motorbike, a young starlet-all of these would provide ways for him to disconnect from Hollywood when he had to. He was never truly at ease as an actor, so these other activities helped him keep hold of the reality he had created for himself.
McQueen was fascinated by anything with a motor and wheels from an early age, and that fascination developed passionately during his life, so much so that his racing exploits are as much a part of his legacy as his films. In his 50 years, he competed in motorcycle and car races in the United States, England, France, and Germany. He flew antique airplanes, executive-produced an Oscar-nominated motorcycle documentary (On Any Sunday), and risked his career on Le Mans, known today by motoring enthusiasts as the definitive racing film. He also collected and restored hundreds of antique bikes and cars, and these vehicles have formed a cottage industry of their own. McQueen and his machines were inextricably linked.
Psychologist Peter O. Whitmer said, "There was a sexualized relationship between Steve and the bike, the automobile, the biplane, and anything with a machine. Unlike the human, it would pretty much do-with total positive regard, never talking back-what he could make it do. It was a hyperextension of our own deepest fantasies of grace and power and finesse, usually displayed in a competitive arena. It was an issue of power and control and personal skill and creativity, bringing about the whole union-the yin and the yang of the Tao."
McQueen's appreciation for wheels started around the age of 12, when he and an older buddy successfully pieced together a potent street machine. They did so by joining together a Model A frame with a Ford 60 engine.
"It had an Edelbrock manifold," Steve recalled. "We could accelerate with a J-2 Allard, which was the going sports car around there at the time. Our rod didn't handle for beans, but when the engine stayed together, that machine had stark acceleration. It was a real jumper."
With money from the television series, McQueen's fascination turned into a full-time hobby with the purchase of a 1958 Porsche Speedster. It was his first factory-purchased automobile and doubled as his racing car on weekends. Steve's first competition was for the Sports Car Club of America at an event held in Santa Barbara on May 30, 1959. He joked that the worst possible thing happened to him: "I won. That really got me hooked."
Neile said of that first victory, for which he was awarded an engraved Sheffield Pewter tankard, "Steve was so proud of this. He talked about it for weeks to anyone who would listen!" He also participated in several other races that year at Del Mar, Willow Springs, and Laguna Seca, taking the checkered flag in two of those instances.
Driving legend Bob Bondurant was at the Santa Barbara race and said McQueen made a lasting impression on him. "I had enjoyed watching him on Wanted: Dead or Alive, and when we met that day, he was quite congenial and much more interesting in person," Bondurant said. "We talked about cars and
Indian motorcycles, which were also my first passion. I believe his handling of motorcycles helped him as a race car driver because the handlebars of a bike are close, just like the steering wheel of a car. Not all actors know how to race, but he most certainly did."
McQueen won the respect of his peers and was named 1959's Rookie of the Year by the American Sports Car Association. It was one of his proudest accomplishments.
A few months after the Santa Barbara race, McQueen traded in the Porsche for a Lotus Mark II, a serious racing machine. The car was primarily designed to compete in the 1100 cc class where it was one of the most successful cars during the mid- to late-1950s. He enjoyed several good battles in it, winning a few races along the way. McQueen said of the machine, "In that Lotus, I really started to become competitive. I was smoother, more relaxed. The rough edges had been knocked off my driving. I was beginning to find out what real sports car racing was all about."
McQueen wasn't academic or highly literate, but he was inherently intelligent and eager to learn, and he was curious and anxious to learn from the best. When the legendary racing driver Sir Stirling Moss came to the United States, McQueen sought him out.
"I met Steve back in 1959 in California. He was keen on racing bikes and cars, and he had heard that I was going to be at a particular race," Moss said in 2009. "I suppose in those days when you were in the know and somebody came to town, it was quite easy to track him down. Steve found out I was staying in Beverly Hills and invited me to stay with him and his wife, Neile. At the time, I'd never heard of Steve, but he was so friendly and persuasive, it was hard to say no."
It was a friendship that grew over the years, and Moss became extremely close to both Steve and Neile. In fact, Neile often stated that she felt Moss had a little crush on her, though in an innocent and complimentary dimension as opposed to flirtatious, often sending them both charming letters. McQueen and Moss had a mutual respect and appreciation for one another. Moss never treated McQueen like a big movie star because they were peers on the racetrack. McQueen was not the big shot from the studio anymore; he was on an equal footing with Moss as the seasoned professional. Perhaps that is what McQueen found most enduring; he would regularly grow weary of the mendacity of Hollywood and liked the raw intensity of the racetrack where he was first or nowhere.
McQueen was just as fierce on the motorcycle circuit, said stuntman-turned-director
Hal Needham, who raced against McQueen on many weekends. "One time during the middle of a race, his motorcycle broke down and he could not start it because of a bad spark plug. I drove past him and stopped. I had a wrench and a spark plug, and in less than a minute, he was back in the race," Needham said. About five races later, the opposite situation happened to Needham, who needed a helping hand when his bike suddenly conked out and McQueen came roaring past. However, there was one exception-McQueen didn't stop to help. When the race was over, Needham mentioned the snub after the race. "I said, 'Thanks a lot, Steve, for helping out your buddy. I'll remember that next time your bike breaks down.' Steve said, 'I'm sorry, Hal, but I was running second and I just couldn't afford to stop.'" Needham couldn't stay mad at McQueen because he understood and admired his competitive spirit.
Be it a bike or a car, racing was something that was real and tangible to McQueen, who thrived on competition. "You see, around the studios, everybody waits on me," McQueen explained. "They powder my nose and tell me what they think I want to hear. After a while, you're convinced you are superhuman. "But when you're racing a motorcycle, the guy on the next bike doesn't care who you are. And if he beats you in the race, well, it means he's a better man than you are. And he's not afraid to tell you that you're lousy. "Racing keeps my equilibrium intact. It makes it difficult to believe I'm God's gift to humanity."
Whitmer said McQueen's thrill-seeking nature was a large part of his psychological makeup and a major trait of Attachment Disorder. "The accepted clinical interpretation is that early developmental psychological experiences-the punitive family life, the inconsistent parenting, the constants of chaos in flux – directly impacts the endocrine system [especially the androgen-estrogen balance, determining male or female secondary sex characteristics], and secondarily, their neurological wiring," Whitmer said. "As they grow older, this renders them under-stimulated from baseline, in comparison to the normal population, and as a consequence, in order to feel 'normal,' they have to go to extremes and inundate themselves, overload themselves with what the average person would perceive as frightening, dangerous, crazy-making activities. [It's] life on the edge."
McQueen needed racing because it was a great equalizer for him. He had only himself to rely on, and his ego would have to take second place if he wanted to finish in first. Bud Ekins, a racing legend who ran a Triumph dealership on Ventura Boulevard, certainly never thought McQueen walked on water when he came in to inquire about a Triumph 650 cc. "I recognized him from Wanted: Dead or Alive, but I had worked with movie-industry types and certainly didn't look at them through rose-colored glasses," Ekins said in 2006. "Steve wasn't magical or special; he was just a fellow human being. In fact, he was a bit of a nuisance and invariably picky, even with technical matters he did not understand. I think he liked that I didn't give him preferential treatment."
Bud's brother, Dave Ekins, said he thinks their meeting was no accident. "Steve and Bud were both born the same year, and they lived parallel lives – early delinquents graduating into reform school and later self-made men who liked their booze and their talk straight. Of course, they loved their machinery and the freedom of the road. I believe they were destined to find each other."
Their friendship lasted more than two decades, three wives, and hundreds of verbal barbs. If Neile was the seminal female relationship in his life, then Ekins was her male counterpart. "Now, Bud is my friend in the fullest meaning of the word," McQueen once told a reporter. "He's got two kids, and I've got two kids. The old ladies hang around each other. We're pitching our kids off to get married when they grow up."
Ekins in turn was equally impressed with McQueen's respect for machinery and his innate curiosity. McQueen devoured manuals and history books on bikes and eternally peppered Ekins with questions. "When he got on a motorcycle, he wanted to know the complete history of the bike from the beginning. Why did this company do this? Why did this company do that? Of course, I gave him 30 years' knowledge in a year. He pretty well knew it, too. He was a good student."
McQueen was also an excellent student of the Hollywood game and adapted quickly. McQueen had now generated a great deal of interest in himself from the film industry, and he challenged the conventional wisdom that television actors couldn't make the leap to the silver screen. "I think it's ridiculous to say that somebody from TV can't make it in pictures," McQueen said to reporter Bob Thomas. "The movies have been at a standstill for the past two years. They've got to start moving or else."
Hedda Hopper noted in an April 29, 1959, column that producer Robert Webb (Love Me Tender) bought a property called Terror at Webb's Landing, a gripping kidnap story set deep in the Florida swamps, specifically for McQueen.
"It will star Steve in it later this year when other commitments allow," Hopper wrote. It's possible the item was a plant by McQueen to let CBS know there was interest in him outside of the TV realm, or it was a trick to get more money from his contract. Whatever the case was, CBS wasn't budging. When United Artists producer Walter Mirisch called Hilly Elkins to check on Steve's interest and availability in a new film directed by John Sturges, it was a project McQueen simply couldn't ignore. Nor could he ignore the $65,000 payday. Come hell or high water, McQueen was going to be in that picture.
Elkins read the script, which was a reworking of The Seven Samurai, a Japanese film classic directed by Akira Kurosawa. Sturges had planned to turn it into a western titled The Magnificent Seven about seven gunmen hired to protect a Mexican village. The immediate problem was how in the hell was he going to get McQueen out of his Four Star contract? Elkins was concerned about McQueen's limited speaking part-it had just seven lines of dialogue. McQueen would never be satisfied to be a small fish in a big pond, so if there were few lines then he would have to ensure his part was big enough in other ways. Elkins placed a call to Sturges, who acknowledged the part wasn't very talky. "I know, Hilly, but I promise I'll give him the camera."
Sturges was one of the few men in the industry whose word was as good as gold. He had helped McQueen in Never So Few by doing precisely that-giving him the camera. McQueen agreed to play the role of Vin, the movie's hotshot gunslinger, but Four Star Productions had to sign off first. Sturges was going to shoot the film on location in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in late February 1960, which would overlap with Wanted's tight shooting schedule. Elkins went to see Dick Powell, who steered him to business executive Tom McDermott, a person whose reputation preceded him.
"Tom McDermott, may he rest in peace, was out of New York and was a tough guy, a tough Irishman, and knew what I was coming into his office for," Elkins said, who tried to appeal to the business side of McDermott by telling him the movie would draw more attention to the series. "Give him a couple of weeks compensation leave. I know that in the spirit of Dick Powell, you're going to help us out," Elkins said gently.
McDermott's face turned beet red. "Don't start that Mafia approach with me, kid! He's got a deal, he's got a contract, and that's what he's going to be doing," McDermott said. "Hey, listen kid. When we need your help, we'll call you." That was Elkins' dismissal, who politely nodded and left quietly. When Elkins got back to his office, he called McQueen, who was in Hartford, Connecticut, making another dreaded personal appearance on behalf of Wanted: Dead or Alive. Elkins explained the situation and was as succinct as possible-have an accident. "I felt comfortable advising Steve on that level because of his racing and driving skills, and I knew he'd be careful but convincing. But I had no idea he would take it to the level that he did," Elkins said. Once again, McQueen would pull out all the stops to feed his ambitions.
With wife Neile in the car, McQueen drove his rented Cadillac into the side of the Bank of Boston, narrowly missing a police officer, and smashed the car into actual bricks and mortar. The incident made the papers, and McQueen came back to Hollywood in a neck brace. McDermott called Elkins and said he wasn't buying the story. Elkins's duties called upon him to sometimes act with feigned innocence. "Hey, look. It was an accident, he's got a neck problem and he can't do the show, he can't do the movie. We've got a problem," Elkins said. McDermott knew when he was licked. He called Elkins into his office and signed off on the movie, "Okay, look. This isn't what we like to do, but you get this round. We'll let him out early to do the picture." Elkins had some unfinished business. "Thank you, Mr. McDermott. That was then, this is now. There's another requirement, and that is you double the salary."
"You motherfucker!" McDermott screamed, followed by a string of epithets. No matter how many obscenities Elkins heard that day, he got McQueen the raise, and more important, he got him the part. "The rest, of course, is history," Elkins said.
Marshall Terrill is a veteran film, sports, and music writer and the author of more than a dozen books, including best-selling biographies of Steve McQueen, Elvis Presley, and Pete Maravich. Three of his movies are in development to be made into movies. Terrill resides in Tempe, Arizona. For more information on Terrill and his books, visit MarshallTerrill.com
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WASHINGTON, DC – A recently released memo by the FBI proves that aliens did land in Roswell, New Mexico.
The FBI has made thousands of files available in a new online resource called The Vault. These files conclusively prove that aliens were at Roswell, New Mexico. Among them is a memo to the director from Guy Hottel, the special agent in charge of the Washington field office in 1950.
Experts from the U.N. Panel of Extraterrestrials say that this memo is conclusive proof of alien life. The memo has been published on the FBI website
In the memo, whose subject line is 'Flying Saucers', Agent Hottel reveals that an Air Force investigator had stated that 'three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico'.
The investigator gave the information to a special agent, he said. The FBI has censored both the agent and the investigator's identity.
Agent Hottel went on to write: 'They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter.
"I know aliens exist because I lived in a house with one. It had a human shape but only 3 feet tall,' he stated.
All the alien bodies spotted in Roswell were 'dressed in a metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots.'
The image above shows one of the aliens being autopsied at Roswell in 1947
One informant, whose identity was censored in the memo, claimed the saucers had been found in New Mexico 'due to the fact that the Government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes with teh controlling mechanism of the saucers'.
He then stated that the special agent did not attempt to investigate further.
The release of the secret memo is also conclusively claims that there is has been an ongoing government cover-up.
The town of Roswell in New Mexico became infamous after reports that a flying saucer had crashed in the desert near a military base there on or around July 2, 1947.
The bodies of aliens were said to have been recovered and autopsied by the U.S. military, but American authorities covered up the incident.
Military authorities issued a press release, which began: 'The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc.'
The headlines screamed: 'Flying Disc captured by Air Force.' Yet, just 24 hours later, the military changed their story and claimed the object they'd first thought was a 'flying disc' was a weather balloon that had crashed on a nearby ranch.
Amazingly, the media and the public accepted the explanation without question. Roswell disappeared from the news until the late Seventies, when some of the military involved began to speak out.
Another memo published in The Vault from 1947 claimed that an object 'purporting to be a flying disc' had been recovered near Roswell.
The disc was 'hexagonal in shape' and 'suspended from a balloon by a cable', according to the memo, marked as 'Urgent', to the FBI director.
The memo noted that the disc resembled a weather balloon – but claimed that a telephone conversation between the Air Force and the field office 'had not [word censored] borne out this belief'.
The disc and balloon were being transported to Wright Field for further inspection, the memo noted.
It added that the information was being flagged up because of 'national interest' in the episode, and noting that both NBC and the AP were set to break the story that day.
So, now the truth is no longer "out there", the truth is here.


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Tabletop gamers may remember the scifi sister to Dungeons & Dragons in the early 1980s was Gamma World. And now it's getting a reboot. Game writer Rich Baker spills some details about this long-awaited release.
Gamma World playtests have been discussed publicly and Baker has blogged specifically about it.
Recently I did a long interview with Rich Baker, and the second part of it was about Gamma World. Now, the release of Gamma World is several months away, so they weren't really ready to give out a ton of information on it yet. I focused my questions on something interesting I had noticed on the Gamma World release schedule: it specifically mentioned that the monsters in Gamma World supplements would be usable in your D&D campaign.
Now, that's cool by itself, and I knew that Gamma World was built using 4E rules, so it wasn't a huge surprise, but I was very curious how deep that compatibility went. Turns out it runs very deep.
One of the problems with the original Gamma World was that it forced GMs to start over from scratch. The different rules system made it very difficult to raid D&D rules for things to use in a Gamma World campaign. At this point in 4E's evolution, there's a ton of material out there to draw from. So the new Gamma World uses the same tactical scale (5′ squares), and monster powers, attack bonuses and damage work on the same scale. All those D&D (and Star Wars) minis, plus your three Monster Manuals will all be directly compatible when you start playing Gamma World.
Now, maybe some of those monsters don't make whole lot of sense in a Gamma World context. Angels? Not so much. But there are a lot of obvious crossover monsters. Zombies, mind-flayers, and all kinds of aberrations. And really, in a world that can more or less be defined by the phrase "lots of freaking weird mutants," you can justify just about anything.
Baker emphasized that, while "the chassis is the same" as fourth edition, Gamma World is not just a bunch of 4E powers with different flavor text. There's a new character creation method intended to be fast and fun, including rolls on a table of random mutations (he mentioned two mutations called Seismic and Cockroach, the latter apparently causing your character to be a giant cockroach). The end result is a character with the same essential stats as a 4E character, but slightly more…mutated.
In fact, your existing D&D characters could potentially jump directly into a Gamma World adventure. It'll be up to you to explain how a paladin or warden ended up in your post-apocalyptic future, but that's part of the fun. Comparing D&D characters to Gamma World characters will depend on the situation, Baker said. In some cases the D&D character might be more powerful. On the other hand, Gamma World characters can have fusion rifles. If there's one generalization to be made about Gamma World PCs, it's that they will be more destructive.
Allow me to summarize: a game I already like (4E D&D) moved to a genre I absolutely love (post-apocalyptic sci-fi) filled with crazy mutants and ultradestructive characters wielding fusion rifles. Seems good.
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My best customer experience was with American Express. I was moving from DC to Charlottesville for grad school. The movers I hired threatened to leave my belongings in the middle of the street if I didn't pay them $300 immediately. I said I didn't have cash and they said they'd take a card. (How kind of them!) I called Amex, told them the situation, and they said to give them my Amex, keep the receipt, and then I could contest it when it posted. I followed their directions and never paid a dime of that extra fee. I'm a customer for life as a result of that action, and after business school, I worked for Amex for 4 years.
My mother needed to liquidate her assets. She had inherited some Vanguard Wellington Fund shares. Since these had been purchased just after the Depression they were issued on physical (long gone) paper documents. I called customer service and no one had any idea how to cash them in without physical proof. After getting bounced around from person to person over several weeks, I ended up speaking with an older secretary who vaguely remembered some kind of work around. However, the last transaction like that in her memory had been done over 30 years before, and she had no way of helping me. The inappropriate (modern) paperwork had been sent several times to that point. Out of desperation, as Mom' s deadline got closer, I wrote Vanguard's CEO. A very kind older gentleman called my home shortly after that. He was a gem. Grandfather-like, he walked me through the process over several weeks, and asked if there was more he could do. It was only at the end I found out he was personal assistant to the CEO.
Purely by coincidence, my best customer service experience is always with Amazon. My Kindle stopped charging. I had a very brief online chat with a CSR, and a brand new Kindle was at my door the very next day. I have had other similar experiences with Amazon as well. They are awesome.
Usually my best customer service experiences have been with Amazon and worst have been with AT&T. My best CS experience was when I received my grandparents' Christmas present from Amazon a couple months ago, but it arrived completely damaged. I started a chat with a CS representative, who informed me that there would not be any more in stock to replace it in time for Christmas. He stayed on the chat with me to search for alternatives available on Amazon (none), then also searched local businesses to see if any of them might have it (none). In the end, my only option was to find someone to weld the item back together, and he even offered to search for someone in the area who could do that. He refunded the entire price of the item plus added more for the cost of welding. Just the fact that he was willing to do so much to find a solution, and stayed on the chat for so long with me instead of rushing me through, meant a lot.
Amazon is consistently my experience with customer service. I've never had any issue getting a product replaced or getting a refund. They know how to treat their customers right.
My best service is from my DSL carrier, Sonic. They always have a human answer the phone instead of a phone tree. I get a service rep that's based in the US not India so they understand me. And they resolve problems quickly and politely.
Every time I've been into the Apple store, I've gotten amazing customer service. Last year, my mom bought my 2 college-bound sons each a MacBook. A new version was released shortly after, and according to Apple's policy, if that happens within 30 days of purchase, you can upgrade for free. We did, and they each also scored a $100 iTunes gift card - just because it was a promotion going on at the time! We didn't know about it, and didn't ask for it - they just GAVE it to us. The Genius Bar people are always helpful, cheerful, and actually seem to care about their customers.
Zappos! I was looking for a specific pair of shoes in my size, and emailed asking them about the likelihood of them being back in stock. I got a response within hours. And they pointed me to other websites where I could find those shoes. Wow! So personalized, and all about taking care of their customers, even if it doesn't result in a sale that time.
I was scheduled to fly to China for a study abroad summer class and my laptop screen broke the day before my flight. We rushed to Staples and found a great, recently released laptop, but only the floor model was left. The official policy is to not sell the floor model for new laptops because you might lose a couple of sales before new stock comes in. But the manager was a really nice guy, and just took it right off the sales floor and gave it to us as the store was closing.
My dentist's office is always so wonderful. They have a Keurig machine for you to use when you come in the door, and Netflix goggles for you to watch when you're getting a dental procedure done. It's never fun getting your teeth examined, but they make it as relaxing as possible!
A major department store's customer service representative took my word for a sales price available in the store, but not online and honored that price for a handbag.
It's terrible to say but the bad experiences are more prominent in my memory. I have had some good experiences, like with AAA calling me (with a real person) to renew my service and Blendtec was great when I needed to replace a part under warranty. Anytime a real human (that speaks english very well) answers the phone is a great start!
I ordered contacts from 1-800 contacts and their first question was asking if I had a price they 'needed to beat'. I didn't have one but quickly did a search and found a cheaper deal on Walgreens that they matched. I got a 6 month supply of daily wears and after a month I started to have problems (it was my eyes, not the contacts). They sent me a free shipping label to return the unopened boxes and sent my new prescription (FREE RUSH delivery). I tweeted about their great service and a week later I got a free T-shirt in the mail because I had tweeted about them. I'm a customer for life.
My best experience was with a hotel just after college. I was coming back from a business trip and I was up for over 2 days straight. My friend was suppose to pick me up and drive me home but couldn't make it so it was up to me. I realized at 4am I wasn't going to make it, but the only hotel with a room available was a 5-star at well over $300 a night; way more than my budget could handle and sleeping in a car was illegal. The agent at the counter went out of his way trying to find a cheaper room available. I bit the bullet, got the room and some sleep. Shortly before 7am, I was ready to drive again. Passing the same agent still at the counter, he gave me a free breakfast (very nice) and I continued on my way home. For a full year, I dreaded seeing my credit card bill, but I was never charged. To this day I wish I could properly thank the agent, and dread what would have happened if I tried to keep driving.
I was born in the dial age. So when my email would not pull up, I called wildblue to ask for help. A very pleasant woman walked me through the process slowly, and I was able to learn a new trick!
i have always had a horrible experience trying to fix the system errors and dropped calls with my virgin phone. i expected the worse when i called this week about a mistake on their part. the guy was so knowledgeable and nice. he also had a british accent although he mentioned he's in columbia. i thought how horrible it is that virgin mobile has a call center in columbia. what do they pay employees with, coffee and cocaine? but seriously, i had a problem. he fixed it. was just so pleasant. about 15 minutes after call ended, i got a text from virgin asking if i would please rate my experience with the recent call between 1-5, 5 being the best, 1 as the worst. instead of rating them a lousy 2, i gave this great guy a 5. sure felt nice to be nice. :o)
I'm in customer service so this topic is dear to my heart. The best advice for dealing with issues is to demand to speak to a manager if you are not getting the service you need. The first person who answers the phone is NOT a person with the authority to subvert the company's policies. So if you're asking for something outside of those policies, don't argue with the lowest person on the totem pole. I don't want to argue with you, but I can't volunteer my manager to speak to you. You have to ask for them. You wouldn't believe how many people go round and round with me, asking for an exception or service I can't provide or authorize, just frustrating us both.
My next advice is PLEASE read store policies before you make purchases online. They are right there for you and frequently you have to agree with them to place your order. When you call and tell a customer service person that you do not like and never read the return policy, etc., you do not make a sympathetic friend.
My last advice is BE NICE, be calm, remember you are talking to another human being. Most people aren't nice on the phone and so a gracious customer is always going to stand out and get the best possible service from a grateful customer service rep.
My best customer service moment (on the other side of the phone) was with Delta. A CSR helped me purchase tickets for an international flight that was offered on their site, but couldn't be finalized online due to issues with the international partner. She had to jump through quite a few hoops with their international partner airline and it took almost 2 hours, but I will always remember the lengths that a Delta rep went to in helping me with a very important trip.
Very surprising, but my health insurance company gave me the best service once. I had an error in billing that spanned a few months. Luckily for me, the right person answered the phone. She took the time to research back far enough, and the errors were corrected.
PetPlan companion animal insurance. There was a snafu with my card; their system said it had expired a month before it actually did and the charge for both of my dogs didn't go through. I hadn't noticed until 3 weeks later. They were very relaxed about it, said they NEVER charge a late fee (I had offered to pay one, my bad for not checking), and problem solved. Plus, their turnaround time for processing claims is pretty speedy.
We have sub zero temps and I don't have a car. I love being able to order dog food from chewy.com and have it arrive the next day. It's a life saver.
I've had consistently excellent customer service with TiVo. I've called in to set up service on new/used units instead of setting up service online and gotten discounts on service plans. Their CSRs are so friendly and helpful, and respect and take into account how long I've been a customer (10 years), in no small part due to their excellent service.
I also recently had a wonderful experience with Seventh Generation. I had a large and expensive container of laundry detergent warp and crack and leak detergent all down the back of my washing machine. I contacted the company to basically just let them know of the design flaw of the container; they responded by sending me replacement detergent in a quantity of more than I had. Simply amazing.
I've had a recent great experience with Hanes as well.
My best customer service experience was with Dish Network. I had been offered a free trial of some premium channels, and I took it, knowing that I probably wouldn't want to purchase them after the free trial. I wrote down the trial expiration date so I could cancel before I was automatically charged, but to my surprise, Dish Network called me the day before and told me the free trial was expiring, and did I want to continue!
That was so unusual, it totally won me over to them. I have NEVER had a problem with them, and questions are answered promptly and politely, a real plus in today's market.
I called my local Kia dealership to schedule an oil change (got some freebies when I bought my Soul) and their computers were down. They said they'd call me back to schedule it when the computers were back up, but 3 days later, they still hadn't called. I called them again and gave them the what for, they apologized. A day or two after the oil change, I got a survey to complete about my service experience. I said I was peeved that they never returned my call once their computers were up. A couple of days later, I received an e-mail apologizing profusely for their error and a promise of a $100 gas gift card. Sure enough, a few days later, I received the gift card in the mail. It wasn't even that big of a deal, so a $100 gift card was way above and beyond!
I received great customer service recently via an AT&T chat session and got a gift card out of it!
I have a Chase Sapphire Preferred Visa, and I have to say that I am extremely impressed with their customer service. The fact that you get an agent (rather than a menu option) the moment you call is really refreshing! The agents all seem to be domestic and willing to help you, even if it means following up with you a couple of days later.
My best customer service experience was with Verizon. I know, I know, but stay with me. I was trying to cancel my AT&T long distance plan. They (the various customer service reps in far away Mumbai) simply refused to do it. They said I had to get my local carrier (Verizon) to agree to turn it off, contact them, and then they would stop billing me. After multiple extremely frustrating calls to Verizon and AT&T I got someone who said she would stay on the line and call AT&T with me. I didn't even know such a thing was possible. And she said that AT&T customer service was lying (big surprise) about the process. She stayed on the line and call AT&T for me. When I made my request and Sanjay said that I needed to contact Verizon first, she jumped in and let him know she was from Verizon. Shocked Sanjay had to cancel my long distance. I think it took a year to get rid of them, and in the years since I have never signed up for another ISP/communications plan. They all stink.
I've had a number of good customer service experiences with several places~ with Amazon and Target almost always. One that stands out is with TurboTax. I had a problem and called customer service and they fixed the problem and refunded my filing fee~ can't beat that!
I always had wonderful customer service at a bookstore called Joseph Beth Booksellers, which is sadly no longer in business here in Pittsburgh. I went in to buy a particular book and picked up the paperback version. Upon getting to the counter, the woman there exclaimed "I love this book! You will too!" and then, under her breath, informed me that there were hardback copies on the sale table for a lower price than the paperback. I hadn't even noticed! I picked up the hardback and it looks great on my shelf. The next time I went in, the same employee was working, and she remembered me and asked if I'd liked the book. I told her I did, and she proceeded to show me another author whose works she thought I'd like. Every time I went in, we would have this kind of conversation, sharing authors and titles we both enjoyed. I was always happy to go to this store, and our area is a little worse for it not being here anymore.
I've always had good customer service experiences with Nordstrom. They are so easy to work with and are so painless about accepting returns. They are also great at suggesting alternate items and giving unbiased opinions - even online! My worst experience by far has been with Time Warner Cable. I won't go into the painful detail, but I did have to cancel my cable subscription - never again will I use them!
Amazon and Zazzle. Both have replace merchandise when there was an error with product or shipping.
I recently had such dedicated customer service from two people at Lowe's that I wrote the corporate office to say they deserved kudos. The store manager got back to me, so I hope both people got some kind of recognition.
My best customer service believe it or not came from paypal, who assisted me after two or 3 months of my trying unsuccessfully to close out a prepaid netspend account. The card people kept adding fees and I had to have an exact zero balance to close the account, They made it ridiculously hard to add money to the card without paying high fees, their customer service was practically nonexistent, finally a nice customer service rep at paypal assisted me at no charge to myself, to transfer money onto the card and I was able to close the account less than 24 hours after paypal helped me, when I had wasted 2 or 3 months trying unsuccessfully through the issuing Netspend company. I have had only great service through paypal and contrary to what a lot of others have said about them I highly recommend them. Nobody moves money like paypal moves money!
My best customer service was from a cast member at Disney World. My husband and I took my father and mother to Disney for their first trip. My mother was 71 and having difficulty with the amount of standing still in lines (moving she was fine). A concerned cast member overheard us discussing the issue and recommended that we get both my parents a disability pass so that the lines would be shorter and frequently would have seating available. It was something I would never have considered since my parents weren't "disabled" but he explained that the passes were also issued for those with physical restrictions such as my mother's diabetic edema for standing. It made the rest of our stay much easier and my mother and father were able to enjoy themselves without pain.
good customer experience from fidelity investments. lady was helpful in giving me retirement advice.
My best experience was with a mail order company regarding a pair of boots. The wrong boots were sent but they straightened it out. They were polite and very helpful.
I bought a Dritz dress form on ebay and the person that shipped it to me didn't tape the corners of the box and one of the poles that you use for the stand had fallen out. I contacted Dritz to find out how I could buy another one and they sent me a new one for free!
I have lots of great customer service stories, but the one I think was the best was with an airline. Husband and I arrived 3 minutes late at the airport to swipe our boarding pass due to lanes being closed on the highway and it locked us out. When we approached the customer service desk I think the rep took one look at my face and knew I was ready to burst into tears and ask what was wrong and called someone to personally escort us through security so we could make our flight. I was very greatful for the wondersful customer service.
I didn't see a post to like on FB for this question.... Anyway, I have always had great customer service from US Bank.. I have been going there since I was 12 years old and they really go out of their way to make sure I am happy.
My best customer service came from rep at Sony. After repeated attempts to get the issue with a credit resolved for trading-in e-readers, he took the time to review the website information that I was reading and get his manager to enable him to fix the problem. He was fantastic!


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text: As enterprises seek to move into the big data world--digitizing paper documents and saving email communications, Word docs, Excel files and all sorts of other unstructured data with the hopes of mining them for actionable business intelligence--they need to address a big problem up front: storage.\n\n"Enterprises have suddenly accumulated petabytes of information," says Nick Kirsch, director of product management for EMC Isilon. "They're faced with a similar challenge: They've got all this information, how do they make use of it and how do they store it in a scalable architecture?"\n\nOne possibility is to scale vertically (scale up). The idea is to make your existing storage nodes larger, faster and\/or more powerful by replacing your existing storage devices with new, higher-capacity devices. Consolidating storage infrastructure in such a way is attractive, since it simplifies management and reduces the amount of floor space and power consumed. But it's not without problems: It can't span multiple locations easily, it doesn't have much inherent overall resiliency and large, high-performance storage devices can get expensive in a hurry. And when dealing with the ever-increasing flood of information, the biggest problem is that today's storage devices can get only so big.\n\n"You can build a bigger and bigger single unit controller," says Kirsch. "But at some point you can't build that system any bigger; you have to add a second system. You could end up with hundreds of separate units you need to manage."\n\nInstead, Kirsch says scaling horizontally (scale out) with NAS is the way to go. A scale-out NAS architecture forgoes expensive, high-capacity storage devices for commodity storage components combined into an aggregate storage pool. Instead of making nodes bigger, you add nodes as necessary. The downside is that you can very quickly wind up with a much more complex management environment. But it can span multiple locations and it has a great deal of inherent resiliency. And, perhaps most important from the perspective of managing big data, you can add storage rapidly and cheaply.\n\n"I think the biggest thing that we see, the biggest complaint when it comes to storage is that it's really easy to manage a single unit, but when you have two or more units it becomes complicated," Kirsch says.\n\nFor big data, NAS is preferable to SAN, Kirsch says, because SAN is not built for unstructured data and file sharing. In order to use SAN with network protocols like NFS or CIFs\/SMB, you would have to deploy file servers in front of the SAN, resulting in additional management complexity and affecting scalability.\n\nThe Five Tenets of Scale-Out NASSimplicity comes first in Kirsch's five tenets of what CIOs should look for in scale-out NAS architecture:\n\nSimple to scale. "This next generation architecture that they're looking to move to needs to be simple to scale," Kirsch says. "If I have a 1TB drive, that's a volume that I can manage, I can protect and I can replicate. Why can't I manage 15 petabytes with that same simplicity? It shouldn't be more complicated just because it's bigger." Scale-out NAS architectures can tackle this problem with software management and a virtualization\/abstraction layer that makes the nodes behave like a single system.\n\nPredictable. "The performance needs to be predictable," Kirsch says. If I add 6TB this week and 6TB next week, I want that same linear scalability in terms of performance. I don't want to have to re-architect my application or re-educate my users. It should just scale in a predictable fashion. I want it to be pay as you grow. Don't make me overinvest today. I know that Moore's Law is going to give me faster computing next month and that drives are going to get denser over time. Let me take advantage of that in my storage infrastructure. And please, let this be shared symmetric architecture. Don't force me to understand differences in your architecture. Allow me to scale this system as I need it."\n\nEfficient. "Let me leverage all the resources in my storage system, regardless of where they are," Kirsch says. "Let me get great utilization out of my physical disk drives, not 50 or 55 percent, but over 80 percent of that storage should be utilized for my data. Regardless of where the CPU is or the compute or the cache, let me take advantage of that. Whether the application over here is hot or the application over there, I want the storage system to maximize the performance of that application. And please, integrate tiering into this system." In other words, you should have to move data around to optimize performance or optimize capacity. Scale-out NAS for big data needs to be intelligent enough to automate that for you.\n\nAvailable. "This has to be available all the time," Kirsch says. "Take advantage of an N-way architecture. Allow me to survive more than two failures. Allow me to survive when a rack goes down in my environment. I want this to be on all the time. And let it be flexible. Let me align the availability of the protection of the system with the needs of my business units. If they're willing to invest more, I can give them greater availability. If the data is less valuable, I can give them less availability." Boiled down, since a scale-out NAS storage infrastructure is built on commodity hardware, there's an assumption that hardware will fail and the system has to be designed to deal with a higher rate of hardware failure.\n\nEnterprise-proven. "As the technology has matured, it's no longer this side project that's outside of IT," Kirsch says. "It's a key part of IT. It's got to have snapshots, replication, quotas and all the other traditional IT features. This technology really evolved out of an HPC root, but if you're going to build a scale-out system, ultimately you've got to build it to fit into an enterprise environment."Thor Olavsrud is a senior writer for CIO.com. Follow him @ThorOlavsrud.


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A Formula 3 racing car made entirely out of recycled and renewable materials could be a sign of things to come in the automotive industry. At least, that is the hope of some British researchers who have built WorldFirst, an unusual automobile made mostly using recycled plastic water and juice bottles, potato starch, carrot fibers and other materials one normally expects to find in the recycling or compost bin.
The car reaches a top speed of 238 kilometers per hour and has been driven more than 800 kilometers for testing and demonstrations since it first rolled out of the lab in April. WorldFirst was tested at Brands Hatch—a motor racing circuit in Kent, England—driven by professional racer Aaron Steele.
Engineers at the Warwick Innovative Manufacturing Research Center (WIMRC) at Warwick University in England built the car as part of a larger project to develop new materials for use in the automotive and health care sectors that meet the goals of sustainable development. The WorldFirst racing car also is a response to two emerging trends in auto racing: an interest in a greener approach to the sport and the escalating costs of fielding a competitive Formula 1 racing team that have chased away some sponsors, says James Meredith, a WIMRC biomaterials engineer and WorldFirst project manager. (Formula 3 competitions are generally considered to be stepping-stones for drivers looking to compete in Formula 1 races.)
The WorldFirst car is a proof-of-principle vehicle that shows it is possible to use recycled and reused materials to build a functioning automobile. "The choice of which materials to use was based on how easy they were to work with, what shape the part we needed to manufacture was, and what mechanical properties were needed," Meredith says. Recycled carbon fiber was used for the large parts of the car such as the engine cover. Fibers made from flax and hemp were used for simple parts such as the bargeboard and bib, which are used to improve aerodynamics. Other major parts of the car are made from carbon and fiberglass.
The outer part of the steering wheel was made from Curran, a polymer made by CelluComp in Scotland and derived from carrots and other root vegetables. Curran has properties similar to those of glass or carbon fiber-reinforced polymer, Meredith says. The inside of the driver's seat was made from soy-based foam, while the cover consists of a fabric made from flax.
The tires are still made of rubber, although tire manufacturer Avon Tyres (a division of Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.) claims it is working to eliminate one of the biggest toxic polluting compounds in them, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), which are used to help soften the rubber. PAHs that leach from old tires disposed of incorrectly can contaminate soil and water, and the chemical compound can become airborne in tire fires.
The WorldFirst racing car runs on biodiesel derived from chocolate fat. Meredith notes that the chocolate fat used for this purpose is actually a waste product in the food industry. "Whenever you burn a biodiesel made from waste materials," he says, "it can be argued that it is carbon neutral."
The radiator is coated with PremAir, a catalyst material that converts the ozone portion of the car's emissions into oxygen—something that is desirable since at ground level ozone is a pollutant.
How strong and how durable are the materials in this car? "In terms of their durability—we are still working on this," Meredith says. "All the parts we have made to date are still going strong. Natural fibers will most likely have a lower resistance to weather effects as the fibers will absorb moisture if exposed and then degrade. Recycled carbon fiber and glass fiber with recycled resins should have equal durability to standard materials."
Biofiber components derived from a variety of plants are already being used in some non-racing car components, says Mohini Sain, a professor of forestry at the University of Toronto's Center for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing. Some manufacturers use biomaterials in door panels, consoles, tire covers and floor mats. Eventually, as the technology improves, biomaterials will be used in larger components, says Sain, who was not part of the WorldFirst project. Already, some biofiber materials perform as well as glass fibers and are less dense. Sain notes that biofibers do break down when exposed to moisture, but the fibers are coated in resins and plastics to counter this.
Meredith predicts the car should last as long as any other racing car, saying, "The natural fiber parts have lasted well although their weather resistance does not appear to be as good as existing materials." In the end, "ideally all the natural fiber products can be shredded and composted, carbon parts can be recycled again—albeit with a small amount of degradation," he adds.
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Biomaterials researchers build a Formula 3 racing car from recyclables and compostable materials that has been clocked at 238 kilometers per hour
A Formula 3 racing car made entirely out of recycled and renewable materials could be a sign of things to come in the automotive industry. At least, that is the hope of some British researchers who have built WorldFirst, an unusual automobile made mostly using recycled plastic water and juice bottles, potato starch, carrot fibers and other materials one normally expects to find in the recycling or compost bin.


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[252 U.S. 60, 61] Messrs. James S. Y. Ivins, of Albany, N. Y., and Jerome L. Cheney, First Deputy Atty. Gen., for appellant.
[252 U.S. 60, 66] Messrs. Louis H. Porter and Archibald Cox, both of New York City, for appellee.
Mr. Justice PITNEY delivered the opinion of the Court.
This was a suit in equity, brought in the District Court by appellee against appellant as comptroller of the state of New York to obtain an injunction restraining the enforcement of the Income Tax Law of that state ( chapter 627, Laws 1919) as against complainant, upon the ground of its repugnance to the Constitution of the United States because violating the interstate commerce clause, impairing the obligation of contracts, depriving citizens of the states of Connecticut and New Jersey employed by complainant of the privileges and immunities enjoyed by citizens of the state of New York, depriving complainant and its nonresident employes of their [252 U.S. 60, 73] property without due process of law, and denying to such employes the equal protection of the laws. A motion to dismiss the bill-equivalent to a demurrer-was denied upon the ground that the act violated section 2 of article 4 of the Constitution by discriminating against nonresidents in the exemptions allowed from taxable income; an answer was filed, raising no question of fact; in due course there was a final decree in favor of complainant; and defendant took an appeal to this court under section 238, Judicial Code (Comp. St. 1215).
The act (section 351) imposes an annual tax upon every resident of the state with respect to his net income as defined in the act, at specified rates, and provides also:
Section 359 defines gross income, and contains this paragraph:
In section 360 provision is made for deducting in the computation of net income expenses, taxes, losses, depreciation charges, etc.; but, by paragraph 11 of the same section:
By [252 U.S. 60, 74] section 362, certain exemptions are allowed to any resident individual taxpayer, viz. in the case of a single person a personal exemption of $1, 000, in the case of the head of a family or a married person living with husband or wife, $2,000, and $200 additional for each dependent person under 18 years of age or mentally or physically defective. The next section reads as follows:
Section 366 in terms requires that every 'withholding agent' ( including employers) shall deduct and withhold 2 per centum from all salaries, wages, etc., payable to nonresidents, where the amount paid to any individual equals or exceeds $1,000 in the year, and shall pay the tax to the comptroller. This applies to a resident employe, also, unless he files a certificate showing his residence address within the state.
Complainant, a Connecticut corporation doing business in New York and elsewhere, has employes who are residents, some of Connecticut, others of New Jersey, but are occupied in whole or in part in complainant's business in New York. Many of them have annual salaries or fixed compensation exceeding $1,000 per year, and the [252 U.S. 60, 75] amount required by the act to be withheld by complainant from the salaries of such nonresident employes is in excess of $3,000 per year. Most of these persons are engaged under term contracts calling for stipulated wages or salaries for a specified period.
The bill sets up that defendant, as comptroller of the state of New York, threatens to enforce the provisions of the statute against complainant, requires it to deduct and withhold from the salaries and wages payable to its employes residing in Connecticut or New Jersey and citizens of those states respectively, engaged in whole or in part in complainant's business in the state of New York, the taxes provided in the statute, and threatens to enforce against complainant the penalties provided by the act if it fails to do so; that the act is unconstitutional for the reasons above specified; and that, if complainant does withhold the taxes as required, it will be subjected to many actions by its employes for reimbursement of the sums so withheld. No question is made about complainant's right to resort to equity for relief; hence we come at once to the constitutional questions.
That the state of New York has jurisdiction to impose a tax of this kind upon the incomes of nonresidents arising from any business, trade, profession, or occupation carried on within its borders, enforcing payment so far as it can by the exercise of a just control over persons and property within the state, as by garnishment of credits (of which the withholding provision of the New York law is the practical equivalent), and that such a tax, so enforced, does not violate the due process of law provision of the Fourteenth Amendment, is settled by our decision in Shaffer v. Carter, State Auditor, 252 U.S. 37 , 40 Sup. Ct. 221. 64 L. Ed . --, this day announced, involving the Income Tax Law of the state of Oklahoma. That there is no unconstitutional discrimination against citizens of other states in confining the deduction of expenses, losses, etc., in the case of nonresident taxpayers, to such as are [252 U.S. 60, 76] connected with income arising from sources within the taxing state, likewise is settled by that decision.
It is not here asserted that the tax is a burden upon interstate commerce; the point having been abandoned in this court.
The contention that an unconstitutional discrimination against noncitizens arises out of the provision of section 366 confining the withholding at source to the income of nonresidents is unsubstantial. That provision does not in any wise increase the burden of the tax upon nonresidents, but merely recognizes the fact that as to them the state imposes no personal liability, and hence adopts a convenient substitute for it. See Bell's Gap Railroad Co. v. Pennsylvania, 134 U.S. 232, 239 , 10 S. Sup. Ct. 533.
Nor has complainant on its own account any just ground of complaint by reason of being required to adjust its system of accounting and paying salaries and wages to the extent required to fulfill the duty of deducting and withholding the tax. This cannot be deemed an unreasonable regulation of its conduct of business in New York. Erie Railroad v. Pennsylvania, 153 U.S. 628 , 14 Sup. Ct. 952, cited in behalf of complainant, is not in point. In that case the state of Pennsylvania grantedto a railroad company organized under the laws of New York and having its principal place of business in that state the right to construct a portion of its road through Pennsylvania, upon prescribed terms which were assented to and complied with by the company and were deemed to constitute a contract, not subject to impairment or modification through subsequent legislation by the state of Pennsylvania except to the extent of establishing reasonable regulations touching the management of the business done and the property owned by the company in that state, not materially interfering with or obstructing the substantial enjoyment of the rights previously granted. Afterwards, Pennsylvania undertook by statute to re [252 U.S. 60, 77] quire the company, when making payments of coupons upon bonds previously issued by it, payable at its office in the city of New York, to withhold taxes assessed by the state of Pennsylvania against residents of that state because of ownership of such bonds. The coupons were payable to bearer, and when they were presented for payment it was practically impossible for the company to ascertain who were the real owners, or whether they were owned by the same parties who owned the bonds. The statute was held to be an unreasonable regulation and hence to amount to an impairment of the obligation of the contract.
In the case at bar complainant, although it is a Connecticut corporation and has its principal place of business in that state, is exercising the privilege of carrying on business in the state of New York without any contract limiting the state's power of regulation. The taxes required to be withheld are payable with respect to that portion only of the salaries of its employes which is earned within the state of New York. It might pay such salaries, or this portion of them, at its place of business in New York; and the fact that it may be more convenient to pay them in Connecticut is not sufficient to deprive the state of New York of the right to impose such a regulation. It is true complainant asserts that the act impairs the obligation of contracts between it and its employes; but there is no averment that any such contract made before the passage of the act required the wages or salaries to be paid in the state of Connecticut, or contained other provisions in any wise conflicting with the requirement of withholding.
The District Court, not passing upon the above questions, held that the act, in granting to residents exemptions denied to nonresidents, violated the provision of section 2 of article 4 of the federal Constitution:
And, notwithstanding [252 U.S. 60, 78] the elaborate and ingenious argument submitted by appellant to the contrary, we are constrained to affirm the ruling.
The purpose of the provision came under consideration in Paul v. Virginia, 8 Wall. 168, 180 (19 L. Ed. 357), where the court, speaking by Mr. Justice Field, said:
And in Ward v. Maryland, 12 Wall. 418, 430 (20 L. Ed. 449), holding a discriminatory state tax upon nonresident traders to be void, the court, by Mr. Justice Clifford, said:
Of course the terms 'resident' and 'citizen' are not synonymous, and in some cases the distinction is important [252 U.S. 60, 79] (La Tourette v. McMaster, 248 U.S. 465, 470 , 39 S. Sup. Ct. 160); but a general taxing scheme such as the one under consideration, if it discriminates against all nonresidents, has the necessary effect of including in the discrimination those who are citizens of other states; and, if there be no reasonable ground for the diversity of treatment, it abridges the privileges and immunities to which such citizens are entitled. In Blake v. McClung, 172 U.S. 239, 247 , 19 S. Sup. Ct. 165, and 176 U.S. 59, 67 , 20 S. Sup. Ct. 307, the court held that a statute of Tennessee, declaring the terms upon which a foreign corporation might carry on business and hold property in that state, which gave to its creditors residing in Tennessee priority over all creditors residing elsewhere, without special reference to whether they were citizens or not, must be regarded as contravening the 'privileges and immunities' clause.
The nature and effect of the crucial discrimination in the present case are manifest. Section 362, in the case of residents, exempts from taxation $1,000 of the income of a single person, $2,000 in the case of a married person, and $200 additional for each dependent. A nonresident taxpayer has no similar exemption; but by section 363, if liable to an income tax in his own state, including income derived from sources within New York and subject to taxation under this act, he is entitled to a credit upon the income tax otherwise payable to the state of New York by the same proportion of the tax payable to the state of his residence as his income subject to taxation by the New York act bears to his entire income taxed in his own state:
It cannot be deemed to be counterbalanced by the provision of paragraph 3 of section 359, which excludes from the income of nonresident taxpayers--
This provision is not so conditioned as probably to benefit nonresidents to a degree corresponding to the discrimination against them; it seems to have been designed rather (as is avowed in appellant's brief) to preserve the pre-eminence of New York City as a financial center.
Nor can the discrimination be upheld, as is attempted to be done, upon the theory that nonresidents have untaxed income derived from sources in their home states or elsewhere outside of the state of New York, corresponding to the amount upon which residents of that state are exempt from taxation under this act. The discrimination is not conditioned upon the existence of such untaxed income; and it would be rash to assume that nonresidents taxable in New York under this law, as a class, are receiving additional income from outside sources equivalent to the amount of the exemptions that are accorded to citizens of New York and denied to them.
In the brief submitted by the Attorney General of New York in behalf of appellant, it is said that the framers of the act, in embodying in it the provision for unequal treatment of the residents of other states with [252 U.S. 60, 82] respect to the exemptions, looked forward to the speedy adoption of an income tax by the adjoining states, in which event injustice to their citizens on the part of New York could be avoided by providing similar exemptions similarly conditioned. This, however, is wholly speculative; New York has no authority to legislate for the adjoining states; and we must pass upon its statute with respect to its effect and operation in the existing situation. But besides, in view of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, a discrimination by the state of New York against the citizens of adjoining states would not be cured were those states to establish like discriminations against citizens of the state of New York. A state may not barter away the right, conferred upon its citizens by the Constitution of the United States, to enjoy the privileges and immunities of citizens when they go into other states. Nor can discrimination be corrected by retaliation; to prevent this was one of the chief ends sought to be accomplished by the adoption of the Constitution.
Decree affirmed.
Mr. Justice McREYNOLDS concurs in the result.
[ Footnote 1 ] Reading the statute literally, there would appear to be an additional discrimination against nonresidents, in that under section 366 the 'withholding agent' (employer) is required to withhold 2 per cent. from all salaries, wages, etc., payable to any individual nonresident amounting to $1,000 or more in the year; whereas by section 351 the tax upon residents (indeed, upon nonresidents likewise, so far as this section goes) is only 1 per centum upon the first $10,000 of net income. It is said, however, that the discrepancy arose through an amendment made to section 351 while the bill was pending in the Legislature; no corresponding amendment having been made in section 366. In view of this, and taking the whole of the act, together, the Attorney General has advised the comptroller that section 366 requires withholding of only 1 per centum upon the first $10,000 of income; and the comptroller has issued regulations to that effect. Hence we treat the discrepancy as if it did not exist.
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