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Gather around the BBQ! We are pleased to announce the availability of the beta release of Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) for Power. Want to get a taste of the future? Download it now:
What is the Beta Release?
The Beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 17 for Power. Our continued focus leading up to the general release of Fedora 17 for Power will be on critical boot & install time bugs.
However, this is still a beta release so some problems may still lurk. The Common F17 Bugs list does apply to Fedora 17 for Power, in addition to the Known Issues below.
In addition to the general Fedora 17 features, Fedora 17 for Power also includes the following delightful new condiments:
- Initial support has been added to RPM for building Power7 optimized packages (use 'rpmbuild --target=ppc64p7'). YUM is also capable of correctly detecting Power7 systems and installing the appropriate RPM when both are present. Note however that no Power7 packages are currently included in Fedora 17 for Power.
- Fedora 17 for Power beta is also capable of upgrading a Fedora 16 for Power system, including the switch from yaboot to grub2 as the bootloader. This has only been extensively tested on IBM POWER systems.
- IBM hardware no longer needs to pass the 'serial' paramater.
Known Issues
- When installing via the cdrom and using kickstart, you will run into the following error "Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated."
- To work around this, add
sshd=1to the boot command line and then execute the following command, via ssh, after you hit that error:
ln -sf /run/initramfs/live /mnt/install/source
- Then select retry to allow the installation to continue. We expect to have this issue resolved in the GA release of Fedora 17 for Power. (Bugzilla #817084)
- The 32-bit PPC tree continues to be built and have installation images created for it, available here, however additional testing and code contributions from the community are still required to ensure that Fedora 17 for Power installs and works well on Apple Mac PPC hardware.
- On certain hardware and under certain conditions, the up/down arrows do not work in grub2. Instead, use ctrl-n and ctrl-p.
- Gnome3 crashing on startup has been observed on one system. Investigation is ongoing.
Additional Notes
Many boot and install time options have changed, so please note the following:
- Kickstart files generated by anaconda on F16 ppc64 cannot be used unchanged for F17 installs due to the change in the boot loader. Look for the
bootloaderline in the kickstart file and change the
- Anaconda options have changed significantly between F16 and F17. Please ensure you are passing valid options according to this [1]
- If you are using static IP addresses, please note that the syntax for ip= has changed. The full documentation for dracut IP configuration is located at [2]. However, an example would be:
ip=<client-IP>:[ <server-id> ]:<gateway-IP>:<netmask>:<client_hostname>:<interface>:{none|off}
Server id is usually left blank (but the colon is still necessary). Also, keep in mind that you need to specify a DNS server with a separate nameserver=IP entry.
- Do not pass the root= and repo= options at the same time while netbooting. If you pass repo= , then please ensure the LiveOS/squashfs.img is within that repo. Also make sure the .treeinfo file is within that repo.
Contributing to Fedora
More information on Fedora for Power can be found on at Architectures/PowerPC. The team is generally active and discussing issues in #fedora-ppc on Freenode.
For more information on common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes:
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The spread of coronavirus has been followed by some of the biggest plunges in share markets since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), both here in Australia and around the world.
There's nothing new about a market correction, but for those close to retirement it can be a nerve-wracking experience. If you've checked your superannuation balance over the last week, you may need a stiff drink.
For investors, or anyone with super, the general advice is to hold your nerve. Selling out at a low will lock in losses. Market corrections are quite normal and share market pullbacks provide opportunities for investors to buy cheaper stocks that will rise in value over time.
Yet "hold tight" may be easily said to younger or middle-aged Australians accumulating wealth in the super system; but what about our ever-increasing pool of retirees? Do they have the luxury or the option to weather corrections such as this?
For younger Australians currently making regular contributions to super, the impact of large sell off is minimised for two key reasons. Firstly, there is plenty of time to wait until markets recover, and secondly, they also may benefit from buying cheaper assets at the bottom of the cycle.
Yet for retirees there are no such luxuries. While markets are down, every dollar of income drawn on from super is crystallising the loss at a market low point, this is commonly referred to as 'sequencing risk' and is the reason why retirees need to be more careful than those in accumulation phase.
We as a species have evolved with embedded natural instincts to flight or fight in times of crisis. The tendency for retirees to watch their investments closer and have a greater care-factor for their investment outcomes makes a lot of sense – they are less capable of replacing these savings. However, as a result, there can be a flight to safety at the worst possible time. Known as 'behavioural risk' this is the observation that investors tend to switch out of risky assets near the lows of the market cycle.
The spread of coronavirus and the resulting fall in markets highlights the importance of investors understanding how much risk they are holding in their super or pension account. Australians in or approaching retirement, who have sat up and taken notice of the recent market plunge, may now be wondering, what is the right amount of risk to hold in their investments?
Our view is that the decision to reduce risk needs to be traded off with the impact of potentially lower long-term returns. With record low interest rates and bond yields, the future return expectations on traditional safe-haven assets is lower than ever, strengthening the concept that if risk equals return, no risk equals no return! And with our life expectancy ever increasing with advances in medicine, science and technology, our retirement savings need to support our lifestyle longer.
Investors looking to reduce downside risk, but concerned about the impact on long term returns, could consider some of the following options:
- Diversifying into non-traditional income generating assets, such as infrastructure assets
- Remaining in equities, but adding protection
- Checking investments are being optimised for retirement tax treatment
- Remaining in growth assets but increase diversification into growth-alternatives
- Consider a strategy that dynamically adjusts the asset mix based on the environment
But most of all, with any of the above, our view is that right now is most likely not the right time to make a reactionary switch. Let the dust settle and move gradually over time.
Retirement is about enjoying life without the obligation to work. For your investments retirement is also about considering your own personal appetite and capacity for risk, the cost of suffering large portfolio losses, and the impact of not earning sufficient return.
It's a balancing act, but with the right help, in my view, entirely achievable.
Subscribe below to SMSF News to receive my latest articlesDarren Beesley, Head of Retirement and Senior Portfolio Manager
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This plugin does it best at optimize and clean up a model.
Plugins > CleanUp
- Fixes duplicate component definition names ( When in model scope )
- Purge unused items
- Erase hidden geometry
- Erase duplicate faces
- Erase lonely edges ( Except edges on cut plane )
- Remove edge material
- Repair split edges
- Smooth & soft edges
- Put edges and faces to Layer0
- Merge identical materials
- Merge connected co-planar faces
- SketchUp 7.1 or newer - You can run it on older versions, but it will not yield a predictable result - you will be warned about this.
- TT_Lib2 (v2.7.0)
Guide: How to install RBZ Files
Both the Sketchup Importers option too remove coplanar edges and the deletecoplanaredges plugin have given me mixed result. Geometry tend to disappear in some cases. Part of that is due to a Sketchup bug: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtop ... 30#p164501 and another part is due to what seem to be some inconstancy with the way Sketchup and the Ruby API deal with numbers.
As of 7.1 the first issue appear to have been fixed. (Yay! ) And I have found a work around for the other issue.
If you experience geometry to be lost, while using SU 7.1 - please let me know so I can look into it.
If you have geometry selected it will work on those only. Otherwise it will iterate over the current context.
Technical Jabber
Prior to SU 7.1 there was a bug where in some cases deleting an coplanar edge, either via Ruby or the Eraser tool, would make its connected faces disappear. See this thread for more info and samples: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtop ... 30#p164496
I tried to work around that previously, but the code ended up stupidly complex trying to keep track of all the edges I couldn't erase, and no matter what I did I always ended up loosing geometry, or not managing to remove everything. With this issue fixed in SU 7.1 it's now dead easy; Find'em and Erase'em!
Update — 22 April 2010
New and improved method to detect coplanar faces. No more messing about with tolerances.


text: Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack, Symantec, PayPal and other organizations. On Sunday, a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers, MySQL databases, routers and management servers used by the ImageShack and yfrog image hosting services."ImageShack has been completely owned, from the ground up," the hackers wrote in a Pastebin post. "We have had root and physical control of every server and router they own. For years."The post included source code, configuration files, database information, internal network IP (Internet Protocol) assignments and many other details allegedly taken from the hacked ImageShack servers.ImageShack was targeted in order to test how well the company has strengthened the security of its systems after suffering a security breach in 2009, the hackers said.ImageShack did not immediately return a request for comment.In the same post, HTP claims to have hacked servers belonging to Symantec. The leaked data includes information the hackers claim to have copied from a Symantec database, including the names, email addresses and hashed passwords of hundreds of users. Many of the email addresses are on the @symantec.com domain."Saved by your WAF [web application firewall]? You wish," the hackers said. "All the other major AV corps are owned too, yours just pissed us off the most. Oh, and if you think we're listing everything here, take the blue pill.""Symantec is aware of the claims being made online," Katherine James, Symantec's head of enterprise and corporate public relations for EMEA, said Monday via email. "We take each and every claim very seriously and have a process in place for investigating each incident. Our first priority is to make sure that any customer information remains protected. We are investigating these claims and have no further information to provide at this time."On Sunday, hackers associated with the Anonymous hacktivist collective compromised and defaced various websites including several NBC websites, a Lady Gaga fan site called Gaga Daily and several Australian websites.On Monday, the group also claimed to have hacked PayPal and published user account information allegedly stolen from the website's database in a document hosted on privatepaste.com. The document has since been removed."We're investigating this but to date we have been unable to find any evidence that validates this claim," Anuj Nayar, PayPal's head of public relations, said on Twitter. PayPal did not immediately return a request for comment sent Monday.The Anonymous hacks were in preparation for or part of the group's scheduled protests on Nov. 5, which is also known as Guy Fawkes Day, primarily in the U.K. One of the group's symbols is the Guy Fawkes mask that appears in the comic book series and movie "V for Vendetta."Fawkes was a conspirator in a failed plot to blow up the British Parliament in 1605 to kill King James I. He was executed for his role in the conspiracy and ever since it has been tradition to burn effigies of him on Nov. 5.More attacks are expected from Anonymous members as the day unfolds, as well as a scheduled march during the evening at the Houses of Parliament in London.


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2011: A look back A look forward
It's time for another post in this series. Here's another thing I wrote last year around this time:
Im going to be memorizing scripture through the year along with others in my church family who are joining in the journey (Ill be posting about this sometime in the next two weeks). My 8 year old daughter is also participating and when I sent her an email (yes she has email Ive introduced her to the Google Behemoth) to tell her that Im doing it too she replied, Neat. Bring it on Dad. The gloves are down.
What happened:
I've been memorizing every scripture every week and have about 38-40 scriptures memorized REALLY well and probably the rest I'm still working on. I've used a variety of tools to help me with this through the year but have settled on this iPhone app. Unfortunately my daughter didn't have the stamina to keep up with her Dad (of course, at 9 years old, she's got enough stuff going on!) BUT the cool thing is she is reading her Bible every day and goes out of her way to show me the latest stuff she's reading. I love it!
What I learned:
- You may think you can't memorize stuff. But you can. It still amazes me when I review the verses that I can even recite them from memory.
- Having scripture memorized enhanced my prayer life. There have been so many times when I've been praying for something and a verse came to mind that "fit in" with what I was praying. Powerful.
- Another benefit is that I'm finding when I read the Bible, the overall themes are more apparent because of the scripture I've memorized. I find myself thinking, "hey, that sounds familiar to something over in_______", where the blank is a scripture I memorized.
- Memorizing scripture has helped improve my memory overall. This was unexpected, but I am finding that I'm remembering things easier than before. Names come easier. The coding I do goes quicker because I'm not having to look up functions as much. Remembering I locked my van door is easier (those who heard me talk about that in a message I spoke last year will know what I'm talking about).
All in all this has been something that I've found to be a VERY beneficial discipline. Have any of you had experience with memorizing things? How has it worked for you? What benefits have you noticed?


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"[Working at the Akadema booth] is easy because I've used their products for five years," Ankenbrandt said. "I tell the players about my background with the company. I bring my glove to the booth and you can tell I use it all the time.
"I have learned how to show a product and I'm trying to show how it will change their game," Ankenbrandt added. "It's all about connecting with the customer."
Ankenbrandt, who sent a number of résumés in his search for an internship, said he found Dugout Media on a Craigslist search for possibilities in the Lexington, Ky., area. An internship in Lexington would have allowed him to stay with former teammate Cam Mueller, '10.
Ankenbrandt, part of a five-person Akadema crew in Cooperstown, described the All-Star Village as a "baseball resort," with teams in each week's tournament arriving on Saturday. From Sunday to Wednesday, the day usually starts with loading equipment from a box trailer at 8:15 a.m. Set up is completed by 9:15 and Ankenbrandt is available to demonstrate and talk about the Akadema products until 3 p.m.
Founded by brothers Joe and Lawrence Gilligan in 1997, Akadema is introducing innovative equipment like a fingerless infielder's glove that allows for a quicker and smoother ball transfer and a catcher's mitt with "stress wedge" technology. Ankenbrandt said New Jersey-based Akadema keeps its prices low by shipping its products from the warehouse directly to customers and by communicating directly with them through events like the Dugout Media mobile tours and e-mail.
From a professional development perspective, Ankenbrandt said being on a conference call with the Gilligans was on the level of collecting a game-winning hit.
"It was a great experience to hear their story and to hear their strategy behind pricing and customer engagement," Ankenbrandt said. "I had the opportunity to pick their brain and learn the message they want to deliver to the public. I also learned about their strategy behind pricing and customer engagement.
"Akadema keeps its prices low because the product doesn't get sent to big stores where it collects dust on the shelf," Ankenbrandt added. "The downfall is a lot of people haven't heard of Akadema, but [with the Internet and direct marketing] they are getting their name out there quicker than before. Most of the e-mail from the customers goes directly to Joe and Lawrence, and they receive the feedback and answer the questions."
A busy year of internships in sports
The Dugout Media mobile tour is Ankenbrandt's second internship. He spent the 2010 fall semester working on the sports desk at WXMI, the FOX affiliate in Grand Rapids. The experience he gained shooting and editing highlights during hectic Friday nights of high school football proved invaluable when he returned to campus as he produced video highlight packages from Briton basketball games for the Communications Office.
"I got to work at Michigan State basketball, Notre Dame football, and Lions games [for WXMI]," Ankenbrandt said. "With those three I would say I was assigned projects that really mattered to the station. It was a great experience where I got to meet a lot of great people and connections."


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Microsoft is bolstering its ergonomic keyboard collection in August with the release of the Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000, which will cost just $19.99. Here are the details from the Microsoft Hardware Blog.
Personally, I'm a maximum comfort kind of guy and prefer a split keyboard. But I understand that split keyboards might not be for everyone. One of the challenges has been – how can I provide better comfort and posture for people who prefer working with a straight keyboard? The original Comfort Curve layout was the first step in this direction. The new layout on the Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000 represents the next step.
Building on the original Comfort Curve, this new key layout is designed to be a better option for straight-keyboard users and has been improved in two fundamental ways. First, the QWERTY keys are uniformly sized in a way that is more similar to a standard straight keyboard. That increases the familiarity. Second, the curve has been modified to be more organic – adding curvature in the third dimension. That increases the comfort.
This keyboard has been three years in the making and I'm excited that people can finally benefit from it after all of those rounds of research and iteration.
The Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000 will be available in August for $19.95 at Amazon, Office Depot, and the Microsoft Store.


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County Executive Tom Gordon is pleased to invite New Castle County residents and visitors alike to attend the free Carousel Park Country Spring Festival this Saturday, April 12, from noon to 4 p.m.
"Spring is the time for renewal and we are excited to show off all the new life at Carousel Park & Equestrian Center," County Executive Gordon said. "Families can tour the barn and see Carousel's new baby ducks, goats, sheep as well as the turtles, bunnies, and other animals."
The barn tour is part of the new Carousel Kids Corral, which teaches children about different farm animals, said Regina Marini, a Community Services Administrator in the NCC Department of Community Services. Moreover, visitors to Carousel will be able to take hayrides around this picturesque park and get a photo with the Easter Bunny.
"In the courtyard shortly after noon, the County Executive will announce the arrival of Peter Cottontail coming down the Bunny Trail on a horse drawn carriage led by Elizabeth, a beautiful Clydesdale," Marini said. "We expect to see a large crowd, perhaps comparable to the 1,400 people who attended the Visit Santa event."
IF YOU GOWHAT Country Spring Festival (hayrides, barn tours, photos with Peter Cottontail, etc.)WHEN Noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 12WHERE Carousel Park & Equestrian Center • 3700 limestone rd., Wilmington, DE 19808 COST FreeCONTACT (302) 995-7670 • nccde.org/parks
The Department of Community Services provides a wide range of services to New Castle County residents and visitors that strengthen families and individuals, build social capital, improve neighborhoods, and ensure places and spaces to live, learn, play, socialize, and enjoy recreation.


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Latest Trends In Simple Syrup Sales Market. Companies Included - Humco (US), Heathglen (US), Stiring Flavors (US), Nunaturals (US), Cahoots (Canada), etc.2 min read
In this report published by Up Market Research (UMR), we analyse the major drivers and challenges for this market with an emphasis on macroeconomic trends in each region. We also provide our readers with insights into how these factors are affecting both regional markets and individual companies within the Simple Syrup Sales industry.
Major players covered in this report are:
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The report provides exhaustive analysis of the factors affecting Simple Syrup Sales market from both demand and supply side, as well as evaluating future trends. The PEST Analysis for all five regions (North America, Europe, APAC, MEA and South & Central America) is given after taking into account political economic social technological aspects that affect this industry in these areas.
The international key market is on the rise, with recent studies examining its characteristics and inadequacies. The report also offers an in-depth examination of new consolidations, financial backers, acquisitions and partners that will heavily affect this rapidly changing business space over the next few years. External factors such as economic conditions are covered to provide a full picture of how these developments may impact future markets for global keys.
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Chapter 1. Report Overview
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Pompeo: Cancel Snowden at SXSW
Rep. Mike Pompeo doesn't want Edward Snowden on the schedule at South by Southwest, and he's taking the event's planners to task for inviting him in the first place.
In a letter from Pompeo's office, he requested the NSA leaker's invitation to speak via telecast at the annual Texas event be withdrawn, lest it encourage "lawless behavior" among attendees.
"Mr. Snowden's appearance would stamp the imprimatur of your fine organization on a man who ill deserves such accolades," the Kansas Republican wrote. "Rewarding Mr. Snowden's behavior in this way encourages the very lawlessness he exhibited."
Snowden is set to appear at the Austin festival Monday at 11 a.m. for a discussion about personal privacy and surveillance with American Civil Liberties Union technologist Christopher Soghoian. The conversation will focus on the National Security Agency's activities, and audience members will have a chance to ask Snowden questions.
Pompeo, who is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote that the inclusion of Snowden in the event's lineup "undermines the very fairness and freedom that SXSW and the ACLU purport to foster."
"I strongly urge you to withdraw this invitation," he wrote.
Pompeo outlined grievances against Snowden, such as caring more about personal fame than the cause he represents, and giving real whistleblowers a bad name. Snowden remains in exile in Russia.
"Certainly an organization of your caliber can attract experts on these topics with knowledge superior to a man who was hired as a systems administrator and whose only apparent qualification is his willingness to steal from his own government and then flee to that beacon of First Amendment freedoms, the Russia of Vladimir Putin," Pompeo wrote.
In an announcement earlier this month, the event's interactive director Hugh Forrest wrote that surveillance and online privacy looked to be one of the biggest topics of conversation 2014 festival.
"As organizers, SXSW agrees that a healthy debate with regards to the limits of surveillance is vital to the future of the online ecosystem," Forrest wrote.
Snowden's address will be livestreamed by the Texas Tribune.


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Equilibrium (EQ) Does More for Kitchen Dealers Than Any Other Software
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The software that brought the Kitchen & Bath Industry to the technology age. Run your entire business through EQ and have access to all your orders, from anywhere, anytime, for however long you want.
Bake your process and pricing into EQ, and never have to train a salesperson how to "price" again. The system does it all, automatically. Hire a new person? Just teach them the EQ process and they're off and running, the way they're supposed to be. Consistently. Quickly. Efficiently. Amazingly….
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Jimmy Fallon Teaches Samuel L. Jackson How to Use Twitter [VIDEO]
Though it was once derided as a platform for oversharing geeks, Twitter's become so big amongst celebrities, we find ourselves surprised when a boldface name doesn't have a corresponding Twitter handle. Be-Kangol'd movie star Samuel L. Jackson is the latest celeb to join the social network, and signed up with a little help from prolific tweeter Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday's 'Late Night.'
Bearing an iPad, Fallon taught Jackson how to tweet during his interview and since the segment aired, Jackson has acquired almost 80,000 followers.
Fallon claimed the explicit tweet was Jackson's first, but if you look at his Twitter page, it's actually his fourth — he had a few pre-show thoughts to share, too:
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|error() const
|format() const
|notifyInterval() const
|periodSize() const
|processedUSecs() const
|setBufferSize(int value)
|setCategory(const QString &category)
|setNotifyInterval(int ms)
|setVolume(qreal volume)
|start(QIODevice *device)
|QIODevice *
|state() const
|volume() const
- 31 public functions inherited from QObject
|stateChanged(QAudio::State state)
- 2 signals inherited from QObject
Static Public Members
|const QMetaObject
- 9 static public members inherited from QObject
Additional Inherited Members
- 1 property inherited from QObject
- 1 public slot inherited from QObject
- 9 protected functions inherited from QObject
Detailed Description
The QAudioOutput class provides an interface for sending audio data to an audio output device.
You can construct an audio output with the system's default audio output device. It is also possible to create QAudioOutput with a specific QAudioDeviceInfo. When you create the audio output, you should also send in the QAudioFormat to be used for the playback (see the QAudioFormat class description for details).
To play a file:
Starting to play an audio stream is simply a matter of calling start() with a QIODevice. QAudioOutput will then fetch the data it needs from the io device. So playing back an audio file is as simple as:
QFile sourceFile; // class member. QAudioOutput* audio; // class member. { sourceFile.setFileName("/tmp/test.raw"); sourceFile.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly); QAudioFormat format; // Set up the format, eg. format.setSampleRate(8000); format.setChannelCount(1); format.setSampleSize(8); format.setCodec("audio/pcm"); format.setByteOrder(QAudioFormat::LittleEndian); format.setSampleType(QAudioFormat::UnSignedInt); QAudioDeviceInfo info(QAudioDeviceInfo::defaultOutputDevice()); if (!info.isFormatSupported(format)) { qWarning() << "Raw audio format not supported by backend, cannot play audio."; return; } audio = new QAudioOutput(format, this); connect(audio, SIGNAL(stateChanged(QAudio::State)), this, SLOT(handleStateChanged(QAudio::State))); audio->start(&sourceFile); }
The file will start playing assuming that the audio system and output device support it. If you run out of luck, check what's up with the error() function.
After the file has finished playing, we need to stop the device:
void AudioOutputExample::handleStateChanged(QAudio::State newState) { switch (newState) { case QAudio::IdleState: // Finished playing (no more data) audio->stop(); sourceFile.close(); delete audio; break; case QAudio::StoppedState: // Stopped for other reasons if (audio->error() != QAudio::NoError) { // Error handling } break; default: // ... other cases as appropriate break; } }
At any given time, the QAudioOutput will be in one of four states: active, suspended, stopped, or idle. These states are described by the QAudio::State enum. State changes are reported through the stateChanged() signal. You can use this signal to, for instance, update the GUI of the application; the mundane example here being changing the state of a
play/pause button. You request a state change directly with suspend(), stop(), reset(), resume(), and start().
While the stream is playing, you can set a notify interval in milliseconds with setNotifyInterval(). This interval specifies the time between two emissions of the notify() signal. This is relative to the position in the stream, i.e., if the QAudioOutput is in the SuspendedState or the IdleState, the notify() signal is not emitted. A typical use-case would be to update a slider that allows seeking in the stream. If you want the time since playback started regardless of which states the audio output has been in, elapsedUSecs() is the function for you.
If an error occurs, you can fetch the error type with the error() function. Please see the QAudio::Error enum for a description of the possible errors that are reported. When an error is encountered, the state changes to QAudio::StoppedState. You can check for errors by connecting to the stateChanged() signal:
void AudioOutputExample::handleStateChanged(QAudio::State newState) { switch (newState) { case QAudio::IdleState: // Finished playing (no more data) audio->stop(); sourceFile.close(); delete audio; break; case QAudio::StoppedState: // Stopped for other reasons if (audio->error() != QAudio::NoError) { // Error handling } break; default: // ... other cases as appropriate break; } }
See also QAudioInput and QAudioDeviceInfo.
Member Function Documentation
QAudioOutput::QAudioOutput(const QAudioFormat &format = QAudioFormat(), QObject *parent = nullptr)
Construct a new audio output and attach it to parent. The default audio output device is used with the output format parameters.
QAudioOutput::QAudioOutput(const QAudioDeviceInfo &audioDevice, const QAudioFormat &format = QAudioFormat(), QObject *parent = nullptr)
Construct a new audio output and attach it to parent. The device referenced by audioDevice is used with the output format parameters.
[virtual] QAudioOutput::~QAudioOutput()
Destroys this audio output.
This will release any system resources used and free any buffers.
int QAudioOutput::bufferSize() const
Returns the audio buffer size in bytes.
If called before start(), returns platform default value. If called before start() but setBufferSize() was called prior, returns value set by setBufferSize(). If called after start(), returns the actual buffer size being used. This may not be what was set previously by setBufferSize().
See also setBufferSize().
int QAudioOutput::bytesFree() const
Returns the number of free bytes available in the audio buffer.
Note: The returned value is only valid while in QAudio::ActiveState or QAudio::IdleState state, otherwise returns zero.
QString QAudioOutput::category() const
Returns the audio category of this audio stream.
Some platforms can group audio streams into categories and manage their volumes independently, or display them in a system mixer control. You can set this property to allow the platform to distinguish the purpose of your streams.
See also setCategory().
qint64 QAudioOutput::elapsedUSecs() const
Returns the microseconds since start() was called, including time in Idle and Suspend states.
QAudio::Error QAudioOutput::error() const
Returns the error state.
QAudioFormat QAudioOutput::format() const
Returns the QAudioFormat being used.
[signal] void QAudioOutput::notify()
This signal is emitted when a certain interval of milliseconds of audio data has been processed. The interval is set by setNotifyInterval().
int QAudioOutput::notifyInterval() const
Returns the notify interval in milliseconds.
See also setNotifyInterval().
int QAudioOutput::periodSize() const
Returns the period size in bytes. This is the amount of data required each period to prevent buffer underrun, and to ensure uninterrupted playback.
Note: It is recommended to provide at least enough data for a full period with each write operation.
qint64 QAudioOutput::processedUSecs() const
Returns the amount of audio data processed since start() was called (in microseconds).
void QAudioOutput::reset()
Drops all audio data in the buffers, resets buffers to zero.
void QAudioOutput::resume()
Resumes processing audio data after a suspend().
Sets error() to QAudio::NoError. Sets state() to QAudio::ActiveState if you previously called start(QIODevice*). Sets state() to QAudio::IdleState if you previously called start(). emits stateChanged() signal.
void QAudioOutput::setBufferSize(int value)
Sets the audio buffer size to value in bytes.
Note: This function can be called anytime before start(). Calls to this are ignored after start(). It should not be assumed that the buffer size set is the actual buffer size used - call bufferSize() anytime after start() to return the actual buffer size being used.
See also bufferSize().
void QAudioOutput::setCategory(const QString &category)
Sets the audio category of this audio stream to category.
Some platforms can group audio streams into categories and manage their volumes independently, or display them in a system mixer control. You can set this property to allow the platform to distinguish the purpose of your streams.
Not all platforms support audio stream categorization. In this case, the function call will be ignored.
Changing an audio output stream's category while it is opened will not take effect until it is reopened.
See also category().
void QAudioOutput::setNotifyInterval(int ms)
Sets the interval for notify() signal to be emitted. This is based on the ms of audio data processed, not on wall clock time. The minimum resolution of the timer is platform specific and values should be checked with notifyInterval() to confirm the actual value being used.
See also notifyInterval().
void QAudioOutput::setVolume(qreal volume)
Sets the output volume to volume.
The volume is scaled linearly from
0.0 (silence) to
1.0 (full volume). Values outside this range will be clamped.
The default volume is
Note: Adjustments to the volume will change the volume of this audio stream, not the global volume.
UI volume controls should usually be scaled nonlinearly. For example, using a logarithmic scale will produce linear changes in perceived loudness, which is what a user would normally expect from a volume control. See QAudio::convertVolume() for more details.
See also volume().
void QAudioOutput::start(QIODevice *device)
Starts transferring audio data from the device to the system's audio output. The device must have been opened in the ReadOnly or ReadWrite modes.
If the QAudioOutput is able to successfully output audio data, state() returns QAudio::ActiveState, error() returns QAudio::NoError and the stateChanged() signal is emitted.
If a problem occurs during this process, error() returns QAudio::OpenError, state() returns QAudio::StoppedState and the stateChanged() signal is emitted.
See also QIODevice.
QIODevice *QAudioOutput::start()
Returns a pointer to the internal QIODevice being used to transfer data to the system's audio output. The device will already be open and write() can write data directly to it.
Note: The pointer will become invalid after the stream is stopped or if you start another stream.
If the QAudioOutput is able to access the system's audio device, state() returns QAudio::IdleState, error() returns QAudio::NoError and the stateChanged() signal is emitted.
If a problem occurs during this process, error() returns QAudio::OpenError, state() returns QAudio::StoppedState and the stateChanged() signal is emitted.
See also QIODevice.
QAudio::State QAudioOutput::state() const
Returns the state of audio processing.
[signal] void QAudioOutput::stateChanged(QAudio::State state)
This signal is emitted when the device state has changed. This is the current state of the audio output.
void QAudioOutput::stop()
Stops the audio output, detaching from the system resource.
Sets error() to QAudio::NoError, state() to QAudio::StoppedState and emit stateChanged() signal.
void QAudioOutput::suspend()
Stops processing audio data, preserving buffered audio data.
Sets error() to QAudio::NoError, state() to QAudio::SuspendedState and emits stateChanged() signal.
qreal QAudioOutput::volume() const
Returns the volume between 0.0 and 1.0 inclusive.
See also setVolume().


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I want to begin by thanking you all for your attendance and participation in this very significant event.
Especially Senator Barbara Mikulski, who is here with us today.
As Chairwoman of the powerful Senate Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Mikulski has used her influence to increase cyber security awareness among the American public; and to lead the charge on Capitol Hill to develop policies that keeps our Internet safe and secure in the 21st century.
In fact, Senator Mikulski is responsible for including funding in the 2011 appropriations bill for a new $10 million Cyber Center of Excellence at Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology.
I'll let the Senator provide details on this in a few minutes – but suffice to say that this is just one of many cyber security initiatives where Barbara Mikulski is out front.
It was almost one year ago when President Obama challenged the U.S. government to collaborate even more closely with the private sector to meet the evolving challenges of cyber security.
This morning's event is symbolic of this improved public-private sector cooperation.
Today's symposium is hosted by the Department of Commerce Internet Policy Task Force, which is made up of senior staff from across different parts of the Department including experts in intellectual property, trade, Internet communications, and standards.
The task force is working on developing cyber security policy, as well as policy recommendations on other critical Internet issues like privacy, copyright protection, and international e-commerce.
With all of these issues, the input of the private sector and other stakeholders is absolutely indispensable. The Internet Policy Task Force needs your help to:
- provide a policy framework for innovation; and
- to help set the standards and rules of the road that will enable us to strengthen the connective tissue of the Internet.
Everyone in this room understands the economic and national security implications of cyber security.
You know that the Internet -- which analysts say is responsible for $10 trillion in annual online transactions – is a cornerstone of the global economy.
But ultimately, the importance of cyber security can be summed up in one word: Confidence.
That's what underpins everything we do on the Internet.
- Consumers need confidence that their identity and their personal information will be secure online;
- Businesses need confidence that their intellectual property won't be stolen; and
- Government agencies and our military need confidence that our trade, technology and military secrets are safe from our adversaries.
And let's be blunt -- because the Internet was initially designed for convenience and reliability, instead of with security as a top priority, we are fighting an uphill battle.
That was made abundantly clear in Symantec's recently published its 15th Internet Security Threat Report. It had three major conclusions:
- First, malicious activity is increasingly flowing out of countries where broadband and information technology penetration is growing the fastest.
- Second, so-called "advanced persistent threats" focused on large enterprises are becoming more common as thieves seek customer data, financial information and intellectual property assets.
- And third, mass-market attacks – those that small businesses and consumers usually fall prey to – continue to evolve in their sophistication. This underscores the reality that wherever we encounter a computer attached to the Internet, we will always have to be aware of cyber threats.
These rising threats demand an aggressive response – but they also demand flexibility because there is simply no one-sized-fits-all approach for dealing with cyber security threats.
For an organization like the Department of Homeland Security, or the Defense Department, the primary focus of cyber security might be more straightforward: keeping top secret information in, and keeping the bad guys out.
But for businesses, and other organizations that rely on a free flow of information to grease the wheels of commerce, a more tailored approach to cyber security might be necessary. The level of investment needs to be calibrated to the risk.
I am proud to say that the Commerce Department -- working closely with our colleagues throughout the administration and in the private sector -- is making significant progress in making it easier for commercial entities to be cyber secure.
In the next few minutes, I'd like to talk about how the Commerce Department, and in particular our National Telecommunications and Information Administration (or NTIA) and our National Institute of Standards and Technology (or NIST) have been working to improve America's cybersecurity.
And I'd like to suggest some avenues for discussion for today's symposium.
One of the Commerce Department's most important accomplishments went into effect a few weeks ago when D-N-S-SEC was fully deployed at the root of the Domain Name System.
This action essentially gave a "tamper proof seal" to the address book of the Internet, and applied to ".com" domains, as well as ".us," ".edu," and ".gov."
The Commerce Department is also continuing to play a central role in a variety of other cyber security initiatives.
Working with the National Security Agency, we are helping to standardize cyber security controls across national security systems and the rest of the Executive Branch.
We are also helping the Department of Defense better manage cyber security risks stemming from an insecure global supply chain. We've been working with experts in industry and across government to standardize both government and commercial supply chain best practices.
And then there is the work we are doing in conjunction with the NSA and the Internet Security Alliance to create the first-ever checklist of vulnerabilities for smart phones – which will have a large impact on helping create more robust devices at the outset of the product design process.
As the Commerce Department takes all these concrete steps to improve our cyber security, NIST is also coordinating a nationwide informational campaign called the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education.
Ultimately, effective cyber security is dependent on the vigilance of civil servants, of our military personnel, of citizens and of businesses. Everyone needs to understand how central cyber security is to the safety, security and prosperity of America.
This initiative will consist of four tracks of work:
- A national public awareness campaign that is being led by the Department of Homeland Security
- Formal cybersecurity education being led by the Department of Education;
- National workforce training being led by the Department of Defense; and
- Federal workforce development being led by the Office of Personnel and Management.
In every case, these Commerce initiatives have relied on feedback from stakeholders like all of you. Today, as we discuss government-wide policy recommendations on cyber security, we will need the same level of engagement. For example:
- What are the marketplace incentives and disincentives for better cyber security practices? Shopkeepers know to lock up their store and to secure valuables in the safe before they head home for the night. Why aren't they regularly locking up and safeguarding their digital assets?
- By Presidential directive, the Department of Homeland Security has responsibility for coordinating cyber security initiatives with those who operate critical infrastructure and those who provide other key resources. For the rest of the private sector, what are the most effective ways to share best practices?
- How can policymakers prevent balkanization of the global legal framework?
- Finally, it's often said that you cannot manage a problem unless you can measure it. How can the government's data gathering capability be put to better use in this space?
We are eagerly awaiting your answer to these questions – and I'd like to announce today that we are also casting a much wider net for input.
Tomorrow, the department's Internet Policy Task Force is releasing a formal notice of inquiry that will solicit viewpoints from stakeholders throughout the country on how we can both preserve innovation in the Internet economy and ensure security and confidence in the system.
There is of course an endless array of issues that people will have ideas about, and we welcome them.
But above all, what we need most in the cyber security arena is a commitment to "pull together" – to define roles and responsibilities more clearly – and to deliver on those responsibilities.
I know that the Commerce Department team is looking forward to the rest of today, particularly the remarks of our next speaker.
It is my pleasure to introduce the senior Senator from Maryland, Barbara Mikulski.


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Accidents claim lives of 12,000 U.S. kids each year, CDC reports
(HealthDay)—About 12,000 children die from unintended, accidental injuries each year, most of them preventable, according to a report issued Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The agency also noted that between 2000 and 2009, almost 116,000 Americans age 19 and younger lost their lives to these types of incidents, with boys facing nearly double the risk compared to girls. More than 9 million young people are also treated in the nation's emergency departments for nonfatal injuries each year, the CDC estimates.
With accidents remaining the leading killer of children, "decreasing the burden of injuries is a central challenge for public health in the United States," the CDC team concluded.
The study, led by Nagesh Borse of the CDC's Center for Global Health, is published in the Oct. 19 issue of the agency's journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
In the new report, the researchers turned to a statistical measure known as "years of potential life lost"(YPLL) to highlight the loss to society when very young people die. This measurement calculates the total number of years lost prior to the expected lifespan for these children.
The study found that boys had nearly double the years lost from fatal accidents compared to girls—1,137 lost years per 100,000 vs. 630 per 100,000, respectively.
Teenagers were more at risk than younger children (excepting babies), the report found. For example, while the rate of years lost for kids aged 5 to 9 was 367 per 100,000, it climbed to 1,768 for those aged 15 to 19.
But the highest death toll was reserved for infants under the age of one. Infants had a YPLL of 1,977 per 100,000, with most cases linked to suffocation (such as when infants die in their cribs).
Traffic accidents contributed to the majority (55 percent) of all life-years lost during the study period, the CDC team said. There were five times more years lost due to motor vehicle accidents than for the second leading cause, suffocation. Drowning was the third leading cause of child deaths.
Steps can be taken to turn these statistics around, however. "Most injuries are preventable, and many strategies are available to reduce child injury and mortality," the CDC said. Parents and schools can help with many of these efforts, which include "using safety belts, reducing drinking and driving, strengthening graduated driver licensing laws, using safety equipment during sports participation, requiring four-sided residential pool fencing, and encouraging safe sleep practices for infants," the agency added.
More information: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlines the ABCs of raising safe and healthy children.
Copyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved.


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Lord Christopher Monckton
MC: "Welcome ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming here. Our speaker needs no introduction, none at all, but I normally give one, and I'm not about to change my style for you lot! Personally I couldn't care less about our speaker, but the writers of this article are forcing me into a bloody impossible situation! So here goes.
"Lord Christopher Monckton, 1st Noble of Benchelly-on-Rind, is the 2nd Uncle of Prince Phillip, and will most probably become King of England unless Her Majesty The Queen lives forever, which is the case thus far. He is an inventor, a non-scientist, and was the former advisor to Dennis Thatcher during the time when Margaret was being a real bitch. He is perhaps best known for being a world-renowned denier, who has successfully denied that the Earth was round - for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize by proving the earth was 'globe shaped', and also that he is the father of Prince William. His most noted denial however is that global warming is bad and that Al Gore is good, both of which Lord Monckton considers to be utter poppycock.
"His name is known widely, from Baltimore to Cocomo, from South Shields to Dover, even as far as Bleached Bone, North Dakota. In fact, Lord Christopher Monckton is the only person the residents of North Dakota have ever heard of, apart from Al Gore.
"In this talk Lord Christopher Monckton will explain how the Sun, not mere humans, is responsible for global warming - which is an age old cycle - and why global warming is actually quite wonderful. If it weren't for global warming, 'we would all be freezing our nuts off', according to Monckton!
"He will disprove all the balderdash told by Al Gore in his SiFi horror film, An Inconvenient Truth, the film in which Mr Gore explains why we need a non-elected dictatorial world government and huge air-filters. Lord Monckton will also demonstrate how the Medieval Warming period, which was deleted by Gore, was truly a golden age, when the price of grain was as cheap as chips, and that there was no blasted Rap Music, and arse holes were drawn and quartered.
Enter Lord Monckton
"He is here to take our questions and set our minds at ease, Ladies and Gentlemen, will you please welcome His Right Royal Lord Christopher Monckton…"
Uproarious, noisy, loud, clamorous applause
Lord Monckton: "Thank you! Thank you! Alright quiet down now! Thank you very much! That's enough! Thanks! Thank you! Alright! That's enough! Stop! Stop! Quiet down! For GOD'S SAKE will you all shut up!!"
Pin drop silence
Lord Monckton: "Good! That's much better! Now, you're probably wondering what right do I have to deny anything? Well, I have as much right as OJ Simpson or Charlie Manson! Last year I was caught by my wife naked, in bed with our young chamber maid, and I was able to successfully deny it. So that just shows that the power of my deniability is undeniable! In fact, I could easily deny that you are even here tonight! And I could prove to you, scientifically, how you never came here in your entire life! I also deny that I am a scientist, being a simple-minded Royal, and humble servant of our great Island!
"Now, do we have any questions before we begin? Come on, let's see some hands! OK, you there!"
Random listener: "Well, I haven't heard your talk as of yet, so I have no idea what you're all about. But if you say that the Sun alone is guilty, then what evidence can you give showing that the Sun causes global warming?"
Lord Monckton: "Gad, man, don't be daft! Even my wife can see the evidence is all around us. The evidence, you see, is the warmth of the Sun, which is the only source of heat, apart from coal, wood, electricity, and paraffin heaters. Because it's now night time, I can't demonstrate my hypothesis, but tomorrow morning, bright and early, I can promise you that there will be more than ample proof that the Sun causes global warming! Right then! Next question? You there, young lady in the blue high heels..."
Young lady in the blue high heels: "Thank you! I was wondering about your being a denier; would you deny that?"
Lord Monckton: "Certainly!"
Young lady in the blue high heels: "Well, how would you prove such a claim?"
Lord Monckton: "I would deny it! And then I would deny that I ever denied anything in the first place. But, my being a denier is not the issue here, we are here to discuss that bloody scoundrel Al Gore, and his line of reasoning, which I have denied since the beginning! Alright, you there in red!"
Man in red: "I was wondering, why do you deny Al Gore so much?"
Lord Monckton: "Thanks for asking. Well, it's something in the way he denies reality. I mean Clinton, now he was a good denier, but Gore is bloody dreadful! Actually, I don't deny anyone. But I DO deTest Al Gore. And by that I mean I've disproved his testing, nothing personal, I can assure you!"
Man in red: "Do you mean his style of denying? Or the things he says are not true..or.."
Lord Monckton: "Sorry to interrupt you, but we must be moving along. Actually it's not what he says, it's more what he omits, he simply omits the facts. Such as the Medieval Warming Period! In Gore's silly chart he has completely erased the Medieval Warming Period from the history books. And all for his dear old hockey stick! - All right, how about you in blue?"
Girl in blue: "Thank you so much for taking my question. I have idolized you since I was a baby! All night I have waited for this chance to get your attention, and now that you are within my grasp I will hold on to you, and you will be my slave! Would you deny that?"
Lord Monckton: "Well, of course! But that really depends on your definition of slave? For example, if by slave you were offering me a chance to witness your naked charms, in that case, yes, I would deny such a denial! - Next!?"
Muslim student: "In the movie, 2012, they purposely omitted any scenes of destruction of the Kabaa in Mecca, even though we Muslims are the most worthy to be destroyed, still we are omitted from the very film! Why this discrimination? We demand to be destroyed as much as California. Otherwise, Allah will be displeased, and that will make matters much worse. Believe me when I tell you that although Allah is the most merciful, He demands to be destroyed like all others. Don't you agree, professor?"
Lord Monckton: "I'm not a professor, mind you! But I do agree there has been a grave injustice by Hollywood, and I believe you have as much right to be destroyed as a Christian or a Jew. Apart from that, I deny it! But, that's not because I'm against Muslims, it's just that, well, denial is my business, and business always comes before pleasure! - How about you there in green?"
California exchange student in green: "Listen, dude! I think I can dig where you're comin' from. I understand why the Sun causes global warming. It's cause it's warm, right!? I mean, the Sun, it's, like, seriously hot, man, any Mexican can see that. So, is that your point, that the Sun is hot?"
Lord Monckton: "Oh, aren't you a fine young chap! Now, at last, something which I cannot deny. Yes, indeed, it is hot. As my idol, Jerry Lee Lewis would sing, the Sun is a great ball of fire!"
California exchange student in green: "So that's it? The Sun causes global warming 'cause it's hot?"
Lord Monckton: "Well, it's perfectly obvious! Only a fool would deny the plain truth: The Sun heats the earth, so, of course, it's the bloody Sun! What can we puny humans do to change the natural cycle of things. I agree with the Natural Cycles! But I deny that tiny humans have any significant impact. Just look at this graph here, see the line going up and down? That means it was hotter, then colder, then hotter again! And that was long before SUVs! You can hardly call that a hockey stick! And that's my point, that global warming is caused by the Sun, not by SUVs! OK, then, how about the handsome man in white!?"
Handsome man in white: "Hello there, Doctor! My name is Derrick Drummand, I'm with the US Embassy here in UK. And I've been instructed by the Justice Department in Washington to arrest and deport you back to America to stand trial for high treason! Are you prepared to leave without a struggle?"
Lord Monckton: "Oh, do shut up! Next?"
Indian Student: "Dear Professor, I must say vhat an honor it is to bask in your presence. Just the other day I was telling my father that you are SUCH a great man. You see, in our religion, we too believe that the Sun is hot. So that goes to show that humanity can get along, if we would simply stop denying the very facts. Even my half sister agrees with you. And my Uncle thinks you're the smartest man in the entire vorld! Both my Mother and my third cousin, Rajiv, he also agrees that it is Surya, the very Sun, which alone is causing heat. Also the head of our village..."
Lord Monckton: "Bloody hell, man, get to the point. What is your question?"
Indian Student: "Begging pardon, sir! Actually my question is quite a technical one. Is the Sun really hot? Or does it just feel that vay to our material senses? In fact we, you, all of us are "atma" - that is spirit soul, and we transcend all mundane relativities, such as cold and heat, and, that being the case, the Sun is not at all hot to the soul! So, tell me vhy do we believe in such nonsense?"
Lord Monckton: "What nonsense?"
Indian Student: "The very nonsense which you are espousing! What is the practical use of such ignorance?"
Lord Monckton: "I BEG your pardon! But just..."
Indian Student: "Very well, pardon granted!"
Lord Monckton: "Well, that's certainly a weight off my shoulders! All right then, we have time for one more question. You there!"
You there: "Sir, mumble mumble, your view mumble the governments mumble world mumble mumble to create a mumble world order, all mumble to a one mumble communist government? Like the New mumble Order? Mumble mumble going to happen?"
Lord Monckton: "Precisely, and to the point! It is the plan of the communist New World Order, being controlled by the FED, which is driving the lies which Gore is telling. But that is a very complex subject, and quite apart from my central premise, that the Sun, being hot, is the cause of ALL global warming. It is simply not caused by humans. But I could save us all a lot of time by directing you to the information source, I should say "THE" information source. No! Not Wiki-bloody-pedia! I'm talking about Uncyclopedia. That's right, Uncyclopedia. If you want to get to the bottom of this New World Order, then I suggest to you all to visit the URL I'm about to give you. Get your pens and papers ready, now. Is everyone ready? All right, then! Visit http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/United_States_of_Earth, and there, I can assure, you will find the answers."
Al Gore's Myths
..."All right! That's quite enough questions. Now, let me tell you about Al Gore's big myths! But rather than bore you myself, I will show you an explanation addressing each point, which was prepared by my son's rather slender and quite well-informed American boyfriends, Mr. Carson Bell and Mr. Gabe Henderson. Please pay attention, as this is their feature film debut! With superb sound track, narration and editing. And I see a promising future for these talented young directors! Especially as the weather heats up a bit. Thank you..."
Written, directed, edited, and starring: Mr. Carson Bell and Mr. Gabe Henderson.
Lord Christopher Monckton's Conclusion
"Well, with those lies now exposed, I request you all to consider my main premise, and that is, Global Warming is a natural cycle, and, in fact, global warming is quite the opposite of an apocalypse, it's really rather nice. Why do you think people live in and take vacations where the weather is warm? Because warm is bloody wonderful! So, in fact, we are going into another Golden Age, as Americans like to call, "The Endless Summer." Once again they will be growing grapes on the summit of Mount Everest, and the Vikings will harvest bananas, and again The Scots will be making wine. So don't believe the lies. Face the hard, warm facts, and prepare for quite a pleasant change in the weather, as ordained by God, our creator, Himself. And with that I say, God bless you all, and enjoy the climate change! Thank you very much for coming and, I repeat, apocalypse no!"
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Obama Fooling on Fallon While Failing America
April 30, 2012
It may be that the crowds of youth Obama is appealing to by appearing on Jimmy Fallon's show and interviews in Rolling Stone Magazine are all he has got. Taxpayers, people at the gas pumps, veterans, Solyndra workers, Arizona ranchers and Governors and those who don't want to be forced to buy insurance and almost anyone over thirty-five know they need the change Obama promised in 2008 now, more than ever. They see that change as, electing a new president in 2012.
The crowd of high school seniors and college freshmen and sophomores who are still struggling with grammar school reading problems and who turn out online 50,000,000 strong to vote on American Idol may cheer him on, but this is the crowd that doesn't want a clue. Obama is depending on that, as misinformation, truth twisting and huge lies of omission lacing the rhetoric of Obama's 2012 lame campaign are all that his humor offers.
It is doubtful that many youth even bother to watch liberal TV showmen like Chris Matthews, (Much less O'Reilly) who with all the grace of a pregnant duck attempted to smear Romney for his view about evolution in an interview with former RNC Chairman Michael Steele. Later O'Reilly countered with an explanation of how Romney actually believes in intelligent design as God's means of creating man and our sundry scaled, furred and feathered friends.
Not much intelligence coming from either commentator because the one who came from the creator and was present during the creation (Jesus Christ) indicated that Adam and Eve were in fact historical people not stages in evolutionary development. The Big Bang, my papa was a chimp crowd, has decided that 'theistic evolution' is the best way to help God through an embarrassing spot and not give offense to the politically correct scientific community all at the same time.
A generational long effort to remove all allusion to intelligent design in our academics does not seem to be working, even as more evidence for special creation is discovered daily. But why let a good crisis (the crushing of intellectual honesty, curiosity and truth) go to waste? Chris Matthews who likens anyone who dares to believe in intelligent design as a 'flat earther' prefers to live a little bit further ahead in time from the flat earth days. He is stuck in 1925 when the Scopes Monkey Trial took place. What is known about creation science and what has yet to be proven in the evolutionary model is actually what is very embarrassing. There will be no repeat of 1925.
American youth are more likely to believe what they see on a TV reality show than what they see or hear in a real non-old-school media report of what Obama has failed to accomplish in nearly four years of trying. (When he was not on the green) Perhaps a reality show should be created to get the message across. Following the pattern of 'he said – she said' would be a great format to take off from. It might be, 'he said – we said.'
He said we needed to buy insurance.
He said he would be transparent.
He said he couldn't control gas prices.
He said this is not the time to be raising school tuition.
The episodes of this reality show are too numerous to suggest here but the point is clear, stop trying to hoodwink our kids. They are just kids who after all, may not fully know which end is up just yet.
Taking the Obama campaign message on the road will not be so easy when it meets the ire of many Americans who feel betrayed like, Catholics, the jobless, homeowners and taxpayers. But convincing kids is easy, let's get down in the ring with someone who knows business and the economy like Mitt in a good solid debate. This is when the opponents will be more evenly matched.
This writer would have preferred Santorum or Gingrich, but that notwithstanding when Mr. Obama is done fooling the kids let him come full circle and spar with a man who could debate economics with one hand tied behind his back and most likely leave the president in a state of abject embarrassment.
Comedy shows and children are one thing, but we are yet waiting for the rubber to meet the road, when the lies and nonsense are met by true men, statesmen and men of vision who know there is much more at stake here in America than a few laughs on a late night comedy show.
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In the first week of its third season—and its first airing on a Monday, without a cushy lead-in—HBO's Bored To Death pulled in 240,000 viewers. In week two, it was up, slightly, to 250,000 viewers. But it wasn't the least-viewed scripted show out there (if, indeed, there's a comprehensive list of such things. The show following it, the Mike White and Laura Dern-created Enlightened, debuted with 210,000 viewers and sank to 190,000 viewers in week two.
It's entirely possible at least one of these shows—and perhaps both of them—will be renewed.
Welcome to the weird world of pay cable, a world that includes the networks HBO, Showtime, and Starz, as well as all of their affiliates and off-shoots (such as Cinemax). It's a world where nothing is ever canceled, particularly on HBO. When In Treatment was given the axe earlier this year, the network brass talked about bringing back the psychotherapy drama in a different format (even though that will obviously never happen). When Big Love left the air, it was in agreement with the show's producers, according to the network. Both parties agreed the show had run its course and was ready to wrap up (despite some intriguing hints to the contrary in exit interviews given by the cast). Heck, when the network got rid of the low-rated sex therapy show Tell Me You Love Me years ago, it got the show's creator—Cynthia Mort—to say that the network had abandoned the second season it had already picked up because she couldn't find a direction for the show to take going forward.
HBO doesn't cancel things. It had every reason in the world to get rid of Hung at the end of its second season, as the series had attracted critical scorn and steadily slumping ratings. But the show came back, and now it's airing to about half of its season two audience after Boardwalk Empire every week. The only vaguely equivalent network out there is Showtime, but that network ditched United States Of Tara after a third season that saw it unable to average even 500,000 viewers (a number the renewed Nurse Jackie managed to hit). HBO briefly canceled Life And Times Of Tim—wholly justifiably, since it remains one of the few programs on such a widely watched channel to ever draw the dreaded 0.0 rating—then renewed it at the last possible second for no apparent reason. Boardwalk Empire's numbers are down, but it was picked up for a third season. How To Make It In America never set the world on fire, but it got a second season that's currently airing. By and large, the plan at HBO seems to be this: The show only ends when the creators say it does.
This leads to some weird situations. Entourage ran eight seasons, even though it spent most of the last four or five repeating itself endlessly. Larry David will disappear for up to two years between Curb Your Enthusiasm seasons, then come back to make another 10 episodes. And even though the guys behind Flight Of The Conchords decided they didn't have it in them to do a third season, would anyone be surprised if HBO announced a third season to air in 2015 tomorrow?
Obviously, this approach is best for serialized dramas. Though Big Love's final two seasons were nowhere near its first three, it ended before its reputation could be permanently marred by running on for far too long. (We're looking at you, Dexter.) The Wire and The Sopranos both went out at just the right time. When the time comes, Boardwalk Empire and Game Of Thrones will likely make graceful exits as well. (It does seem somewhat likely that HBO will keep pumping out new seasons of True Blood—if only for the constant revenue stream—in perpetuity.)
But, as any TV fan will tell you, it wasn't always this way. Deadwood was unceremoniously canceled before its third season aired, caught up in a dispute among the network, the studio that produced it, and its creator. Reeling from high costs as the network's initial ratings hits, Sex And The City, Six Feet Under, and The Sopranos, came to a close, HBO also shut down Rome and Carnivale before either show's story was complete (though Rome got time to rush a kind of conclusion). The network picked up a comedy called 12 Miles Of Bad Road, filmed six episodes, then decided it didn't want it after all and yanked it from the schedule without any episodes ever airing. (Some TV critics who've seen the episodes say HBO made the right call in this case.) John From Cincinnati flopped hard and was pulled immediately following its one, ill-fated season.
Something's changed in the last five years, however. HBO has always been more flush with cash than most networks, thanks to the subscription money it receives from cable companies and the healthy lead it maintains over Showtime and Starz. That's what allows the network to mount massive productions like Game Of Thrones or Boardwalk Empire, shows that don't make money back in traditional ways but do enhance the network brand. HBO increasingly realizes that the main draw for its customers is its original programming, and it's been aggressive in recent years about promoting that original programming, even if it doesn't seem particularly valuable on its own. In short: HBO renews shows in hopes that getting just the right mix of shows will keep its subscribers paying for HBO. The fact that the network's subscriber base remains relatively steady in the throes of economic turmoil would suggest the mix is just right at this point, and to get rid of any piece of the puzzle might damage the others.
The network has also been far more aggressive about online streaming and DVD sales. Having realized too late what big sellers DVDs for Deadwood, Rome, and Carnivale were, the network now bases a substantial portion of its strategy on what will return good profits on DVD. (Back when The Pacific debuted to lackluster numbers, network brass said they were unconcerned, simply because it would be a perennial Father's Day gift on DVD.) And while Boardwalk has yet to be released on DVD and it's impossible to know for sure, it seems incredibly likely that the network is hoping to minimize conflict with its new streaming service, HBO Go.
HBO Go is enormously important to HBO's strategy going forward for one simple reason: To watch HBO Go, you have to subscribe to HBO. So if you're a Game Of Thrones fan but don't watch True Blood, the network hopes you'll stay subscribed to HBO to be able to watch HBO Go (and keep up with Game Of Thrones). While Bored To Death's numbers on television are atrocious, the entire season is also being streamed early on HBO Go, presumably because the series is beloved by a slightly younger audience than much of the network's other programming. If Bored does well online but continues to crater on TV, HBO may very well bring it back just to have that particular show available on HBO Go. (On the other hand, it will likely be expensive to reassemble the cast, now that Ted Danson's on C.S.I., and the network may decide three seasons, all available on the site, will be enough.) Enlightened seems less likely to be back, since HBO sat on the show for quite a while and seemed to essentially cut it loose without much promotion. But if it unexpectedly gets awards attention, the network may renew it just for the prestige.
The point is this: Trying to decide whether HBO will or won't renew a show is essentially impossible—harder than any other network. Unlike with shows on ABC or NBC, where ratings are all and determine ad rates, figuring out if HBO values a show requires reading obscure tea leaves and trying to figure out just how much overlap a particular show has with the network's other shows. Hung and How To Make It may still be around because the network lacked guy-centric comedies as Entourage was leaving the air. Bored and Tim may be around because of how they play online and may be complete afterthoughts on TV. Treme gets to stick around with low ratings because it's relatively cheap and having a David Simon show on the air enhances HBO's buzz. Boardwalk Empire won eight Emmys. It could have sunk to viewership below 1 million and would still have come back. If you're wondering if HBO will bring back your favorite show, then, the answer is almost always: probably.
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America's Make-Work Sectors (Healthcare and Higher Education) Have Run Out of Oxygen
We can no longer afford the expansion of healthcare/education or their out-of-control costs.
If we strip away obscuring narratives, we can clearly see that the two employment sectors that have expanded rain or shine for decades have functioned as gigantic make-work projects. I refer of course to healthcare and education, specifically higher education.
We can see the outsized gains in these sectors by comparing total population growth to the number of full-time jobs and the number of jobs in education/healthcare since 1990. Here is total population: a 27% increase since 1990:
To separate out the wheat (jobs that support households) from the chaff (part-time work that cannot support a household--even a job with one hour a week is counted as a P-T job), let's use full-time employment as a baseline. Full-time employment rose about 20% since 1990, less than population.
Education/healthcare employment rose by 81% since 1990--three times the population growth rate and four times the percentage increase in full-time employment.
For more on these sectors' growth, please read Mish's recent entry, Ominous Looking Picture in Healthcare and Education Jobs.
If education and healthcare had expanded to meet the needs of a larger population, employment in the sectors would have increased about 30% since 1990, not 81%. So 50% of the sectors' expansion is above and beyond population growth.
Have education and medical services improved by 50% since 1990? In many cases, it can be argued the yield on our investments in these sectors has declined even as employment in the sectors has soared. Consider the study Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses which concluded that "American higher education is characterized by limited or no learning for a large proportion of students."
While student loans have soared to over $1 trillion, with direct Federal loans ballooning from $115 billion to over $700 billion in a few short years, only 37% of freshmen at four-year colleges graduate in four years (58% finally graduate in six years), and 53% of recent college graduates under the age of 25 are unemployed or doing work they could have done without going to college.
Why has employment soared in higher education? Look no further than bloated administration and non-teaching staff: New Analysis Shows Problematic Boom In Higher Ed Administrators:
In all, from 1987 until 2011-12--the most recent academic year for which comparable figures are available—universities and colleges collectively added 517,636 administrators and professional employees, according to the analysis by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting."There's just a mind-boggling amount of money per student that's being spent on administration," said Andrew Gillen, a senior researcher at the institutes. "It raises a question of priorities."As for healthcare in the U.S.: despite soaring employment and expenditures, life expectancy in the U.S. since 1990 has fallen well below that of the United Kingdom (U.K.), a nation whose healthcare system is widely criticized in the U.S. (World Bank, Life Expectancy at Birth)
The ratio of nonacademic employees to faculty has also doubled. There are now two nonacademic employees at public and two and a half at private universities and colleges for every one full-time, tenure-track member of the faculty.
The number of employees in central system offices has increased six-fold since 1987, and the number of administrators in them by a factor of more than 34.
Yes, there are many metrics of overall health, but the U.S. has not experienced a 50% increase since 1990 in any of them. If anything, the overall health of the populace has arguably declined, even as the nation pours almost 20% of its gross domestic product (GDP) into healthcare.
This is not a slam on those earning a living in these sectors; it is simply a description of sectors that have functioned as "make-work" sources of jobs.Consider the appallingly perverse dynamic of student loans: now that tens of millions of students need student loans to pay sky-high tuition and fees, colleges need huge administrative staffs to manage the student loan process.
The yield (in earnings) on the increasingly unaffordable college degree is declining sharply:
The enormous sums of money needed to pay for these make-work sectors is coming out of household incomes that are stagnating for 90% of all households.
If we subtract healthcare and debt service from household earnings, we find that wages/salaries are in recession territory:
In other words, the nation can no longer support these enormous make-work sectors, where employment and expenditures rise while the yield on those gargantuan investments actually declines--a classic case of diminishing returns.
Consider the percentage of healthcare employment that is paper-shuffling resulting from America's dysfunctional pastiche of private cartels and Federal programs; I have seen estimates of 30%, but this doesn't include the staggering sums lost to fraud, embezzlement, over-charging, useless or even harmful procedures, duplicate or needless tests, and so on.
As I have often noted, if we compare our per-person expenses for healthcare with other advanced democracies such as Australia and Japan, we find those nations spend roughly 50% of what the U.S. spends per-person, with better and more evenly distributed results. This strongly suggests that healthcare should cost half of what it currently costs, if the U.S. sickcare system wasn't so wasteful, ineffective and dysfunctional.
As for tuition costs: I have demonstrated in my book The Nearly Free University and The Emerging Economy: The Revolution in Higher Education that the tuition for a four-year bachelor's degree could (and should) cost $5,000, not $100,000 or $200,000. The technology and tools already exist to accredit the student, not the institution and provide distributed courses, adaptive learning and real-world, workplace-based workshops for a tiny fraction of the ineffective, unaffordable system of higher education we are currently burdened with.
Once costs decline 95%, there is no need for student loans or the bloated bureaucracies needed to manage the parasitic student-loan system.
Why is employment in these sectors finally slowing? For the simple reason that they've run out of oxygen: we can no longer afford their expansion or their out-of-control costs. Much cheaper and more effective systems are within reach, if only we look past failed models and politically powerful cartels and fiefdoms.
The Nearly Free University and The Emerging Economy:
The Revolution in Higher Education
Reconnecting higher education, livelihoods and the economyWith the soaring cost of higher education, has the value a college degree been turned upside down? College tuition and fees are up 1000% since 1980. Half of all recent college graduates are jobless or underemployed, revealing a deep disconnect between higher education and the job market.
It is no surprise everyone is asking: Where is the return on investment? Is the assumption that higher education returns greater prosperity no longer true? And if this is the case, how does this impact you, your children and grandchildren?
We must thoroughly understand the twin revolutions now fundamentally changing our world: The true cost of higher education and an economy that seems to re-shape itself minute to minute.
The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy clearly describes the underlying dynamics at work - and, more importantly, lays out a new low-cost model for higher education: how digital technology is enabling a revolution in higher education that dramatically lowers costs while expanding the opportunities for students of all ages.
The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy provides clarity and optimism in a period of the greatest change our educational systems and society have seen, and offers everyone the tools needed to prosper in the Emerging Economy.
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