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Boot Camp 3.1 for 32-bit Windows and 64-bit Windows, recommended for all users of Boot Camp 3.0, finally brings official support for the Apple wireless keyboard and everybody's favorite Apple Magic Mouse. There are also a few bugs fixed for the Apple trackpad, and the infrared sensor on all MacBooks now turns off on when it's not being used, to help conserve battery power.
But wait, there's more. For ladies and gents planning to do a straight upgrade to Windows 7 from Windows Vista instead of a clean install, there's this lovely Boot Camp Utility upgrade. It fixes an error that occurs because the Windows 7 installer foolishly tries to write to your computer's read-only Mac OS X partition. Just download the file while you're in Windows Vista, follow the rest of the directions in this tech note, and you're good to go.
If you've got a Mac Pro or an iMac, you'll want to grab these firmware updates. Graphics Firmware Update 1.0 lets your GPU play nicer with Windows 7. Download the 1.20MB update from Apple's site if Software Update doesn't grab it for you, and run the installer as usual.
If you have a 21.5-inch or 27-inch iMac that was first introduced in October, 2009, there's a driver update for Windows just for you. This one is a bit trickier, as it requires a spare USB drive to move the drivers from OS X to Windows Vista or Windows 7. Just leave the USB drive plugged in while you're installing Windows 7, and the installer should grab the necessary drivers right off the drive with no muss or fuss. There's a fourteen-step tech note to help walk you through the whole process.
Phew! Some of these procedures don't exactly feel "Mac-like," but at least Apple's provided thorough documentation. Then again, I suppose Steve Jobs isn't much of a Windows fan.


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There are few neighbourhoods that are as quintessentially New York as Harlem. Stretching from the top of Central Park all the way up to 155th Street, the area's cultural diversity and history of boom and bust have led to its notoriety as one of the city's roughest districts. However, over the last few years, the neighbourhood has seen considerable change. With an influx of new businesses and new residents making homes in some of Manhattan's most impressive late-19th century brownstone houses, Harlem is enjoying a second renaissance.
Chef Marcus Samuelsson moved to Harlem six years ago and, in March this year, he opened Red Rooster on Lenox Avenue, a restaurant named after a legendary and long-forsaken speakeasy that had been in the neighbourhood. "For a long time I've wanted to open a restaurant in the community," Samuelsson says. "But I knew it was really important to learn about the neighbourhood and be an active part of it before I did that."
From tacos and tostadas inspired by the residents of Spanish Harlem, to the beef patties brought over from the local Jamaican population, Red Rooster is firmly rooted in its location. And this involvement isn't purely culinary, it has also informed the restaurant's business model and its clientele.
"We've been able to create over 80 jobs for the neighbourhood and Harlem locals make up the majority of employees," says Samuelsson. "The restaurant celebrates the neighbourhood. The art is by artists who either live or work in Harlem, and we also host lots of classes for Harlem's kids—teaching them about food, cooking and business."
On any given day, the crowd filling Red Rooster's 120 seats is markedly mixed. From foodies making the pilgrimage to Harlem off the back of Samuelsson's reputation, to local residents and even the President of the United States (who not only held his first fundraising dinner for the 2012 election a matter of weeks ago at the restaurant, but has also recently appointed Samuelsson as Guest Chef at the White House), Red Rooster's approach fosters a clientele as diverse as its menu.
"We make sure that every night is only half reserved, so neighbourhood walk-ins can join us for dinner. We've kept the prices low and people can enjoy a beer and cornbread at the bar if they don't want a full meal, and the nook at the front of the restaurant serves goods to the community from 7am, so locals can grab breakfast before hopping on the subway," says Samuelsson. "Like the original Red Rooster, we want our restaurant to be a place where all people can come to have a good time—whether you're the mayor of New York or the guy from apartment 4B."

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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has announced tests of drones in urban areas as well as outside the pilot's line-of-sight, possibly paving the way for operations such as the aerial delivery of packages as proposed by companies like Amazon.com.
FAA administrator Michael P. Huerta announced Wednesday a new Pathfinder Program under which the agency has partnered with three U.S. companies to explore three key types of unmanned operations.
PrecisionHawk, a drone manufacturer, will be surveying crops in rural areas using unmanned aircraft flying outside of the pilot's direct vision, while BNSF Railroad will test the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to inspect their rail infrastructure beyond visual line-of-sight in isolated areas, Huerta said at a conference of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.
News network CNN will be testing drones for news gathering in urban areas.
The FAA and Department of Transportation proposed in February new rules that would allow companies to fly drones of less than 55 pounds at an altitude of up to 500 feet and at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour during daylight hours. The drone must be flown by a licensed drone operator and kept within visual line-of-sight at all times.
Huerta described the proposed rules as containing "commonsense provisions," like not flying near airports, at night, or more than 500 feet off the ground.
While the FAA addresses over 4,000 comments on the proposal before finalizing the rule, which would take time, it is meanwhile looking for other ways to expand the use of unmanned aircraft.
"We anticipate receiving valuable data from each of these trials that could result in FAA-approved operations in the next few years," Huerta said.
The FAA also released at the conference a smartphone app, called B4UFLY, that users can use to determine whether there are any restrictions or requirements in effect at the location where they want to fly their UAS. The FAA is inviting volunteers to test the app, with plans to release to about 1,000 beta testers. It will be available on iOS first with an Android version to follow.


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B.C.'s Conservation Officer Service says a man is facing charges under the Wildlife Act following the seizure of hundreds, if not thousands, of exotic animals from a rental home in Surrey Aug. 8.
Maple Ridge veterinarian Dr. Adrian Walton told the Now-Leader he was called to the home by Surrey's bylaw department after someone saw a "bunch of reptiles out on a deck."
Walton said after arriving at the home, he quickly realized there was a lot more to the story.
"While we were doing the investigation, you took one quick look in the window and you were seeing this entire room of deli cups full of bugs, basically. Mostly spiders, but you could see some scorpions," said Walton, who is head veterinarian at Dewdney Animal Hospital, which has experience caring for exotic creatures, albeit not this many.
Walton estimated there were thousands of creatures in the Surrey home.
Because of the condition of the animals, Walton said B.C. Conservation Officer Service got a warrant that was executed around 11 p.m. that evening.
Many animals were in "poor condition," he said, adding that some containers housing them didn't have air holes.
"From the bugs perspective, most of the animals were tarantulas and scorpions and these are venomous. Under Surrey bylaws, they're not legal, so Surrey can't adopt them out. You're stuck in a situation of what do you do with these animals? Many were not identifiable, because they were babies. Some animals in there that were highly venomous, that no group is going to adopt out due to liability issues, my understanding is that the decision were made that those animals were not adoptable so they were destroyed."
While the Maple Ridge clinic cared for many of the animals and insects, many have since been transported to the Victoria Bug Zoo. Others were taken to the Surrey Animal Resource Centre.
Walton said it was "pretty obvious" this was a wholesale situation and that the animals were either arriving or being prepared for shipment.
"This is a situation we deal with in the pet trade – the international and even national transport of animals. What we know from various studies is the mortality rate is approximately 70 per cent," he told the Now-Leader. "We have serious concerns about the ethics of that. So to see such a large volume of animals, many of which were not in the best of condition, it's very upsetting to someone who actually sees these animals as incredibly unique creatures. I'm supportive of the people, the local breeders, who raise these animals because they have a love…. You shouldn't be buying online, you shouldn't be buying from pet stores, you should be finding local qualified breeders and getting your exotic pets that way. "
As passionate as he is, Walton laughed as he said walking into a home with thousands of spiders at 11 o'clock at night "isn't exactly my idea of fun."
"I just went to pick up a couple of turtles, and was hoping to be home for dinner," he chuckled. "All the weird stuff, somehow Dewdney gets involved."
In an emailed statement, B.C.'s conservation service said a man who is known to them is facing "multiple charges" under the Wildlife Act in connection to case.
The statement noted was in "unlawful possession of live Schedule A wildlife, namely various turtle species" and that a search warrant was executed. The statement adds that the City of Surrey seized hundreds of spiders, scorpions and centipedes, seeing as they were illegal to possess under the municipal bylaw.
The man's name has not been released.
While officials wouldn't pinpoint an exact address of the home, they told the Now-Leader it was in north-east Surrey.
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In a Facebook post, the Victoria Bug Zoo wrote that it plans to begin adopting out the vinegaroons in its care on Sept. 4, for a fee of $40.


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Click to viewNetflix's first streaming box is finally here and it's pretty damn brilliant of a setup. First of all, the box is 99 bucks, and designed by Roku. It's fanless and quiet; has HDMI and optical outputs; and is about the size of five CD cases stacked together. Any Netflix disc mailing plan over $9 gets you unlimited streaming of almost 10,000 titles. Unlimited! 10K titles! Take that Apple TV and Vudu!
You boot up the box, set the network to wireless or Ethernet connectivity. You get a five digit code, head over to netflix.com/activate using a browser on a PC or other device, log into your Netflix account and enter the code. The Roku box gets your queue and the movie/show cover art. There are HDMI and optical connections on top of the standard video outs, but those cables are not included.
The box itself doesn't have menus. No, instead, you use Netflix's brilliant website to load up your queue. You just use the remote to scan through your instant viewing queue (now separate from the disc queue) select a movie and play. It starts streaming. (Remember, there's no download/purchase program here and the device has no HDD, just 64MB of buffer.) The box is completely quiet, again, due to its fanless design. Movies stream in at different VC-1 bitrates of 500kbps, 1Mbps, 1.6Mbps and 2.2Mbps, depending on connection speed. Quality is not great, even at 2.2 Mbps, but I'm happy enough considering viewing is instantaneous. Note: Unlike Apple TV, scrolling between cover art is not done in an animated way. HDMI res is 480p, while all the other outputs are 480i. Fast forwarding is handled by key-framing movie content every 10 seconds, so you can FF to parts of the movie that haven't been downloaded yet, at three speeds. Once you hit play, the movie buffers for a few seconds and resumes. Speaking of resuming, the player itself does remember where you left off last in a movie and will continue playing from that point. One nice touch: You can score movies from the movie detail page. One bad thing: You can't search the Netflix website specifically for instant titles.
While appearing to have double the collection of Apple TV or Vudu, what do you get in Netflix's 10,000 movie collection? Basically, you get a lot of back catalog (classic movies) and a lot of TV shows (unheard of in rental situations!) right as they hit the market. But you don't get the same blockbusters on day one release that you'd get from Apple TV or Vudu. That makes the Netflix box and disc system a great supplement to those systems, which seem to specialize in new releases. (Kudos to Saul from the NYTimes for discovering this initially.) The business model behind a flat rate unlimited streaming system is unheard of. Sure, they're taking a lot of older content, which is inherently cheaper. But think of it this way: For a nine-dollar-a-month account, you can hold off on buying older DVDs or watching TV shows. A box set of Ghost in the Shell or 30 Rock costs over 50 bucks on DVD or by renting individual downloads, but you can stream many of these episodes for nine bucks a month. Buying the Karate Kid, an old movie not on many download services, costs a few bucks on DVD, but I can just watch it whenever I want as long as I'm a Netflix customer. (And consider that the number of great back catalog titles like that will probably outpace new releases you'd find on Vudu or Apple TV.) It's basically the same as Netflix's current model, but instead of being limited by the postal service, you're limited by your spare time and interest in older titles. (And don't forget Netflix's disc-by-mail service, which still covers new titles.)
The Future
Netflix is planning HD streaming, and this box will support it. When Netflix gets HD streaming content, they'll update the box by firmware to support HD resolutions at higher bitrates of 4-6mbps, including 5.1 surround (everything is stereo now). The menus will also be upgraded to HD res, too. In the future, the Roku-branded box will be upgraded to accept non-Netflix content, too. (And btw, the update on the Mac client situation is that they're just trying to sort out the DRM issues, or lack of a suitable system they can stream to Macs on.)
The box will be sold on Roku's website directly. Worth buying if you're a Netflix customer (or thinking of becoming a Netflix customer) and can find enough titles for Instant Viewing on their site. [Roku and Netflix]
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"Dancing With the Stars" will have its last tango on May 21, at least for the season. And "Castle" will be raising its drawbridge on May 13.
Meanwhile, "Suburgatory" and "Revenge" will receive super-sized season sendoffs, with "Revenge" wrapping its second season with a two-hour blowout on May 12.
ABC released its finale dates for the 2012-2013 season on Wednesday, revealing the above dates and more. Check out the full finale schedule below.
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"Once Upon a Time" 8 p.m.
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"Castle" 10 p.m.
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"Shark Tank" 9 p.m.
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"Dancing With the Stars" (performance show) 8 p.m.
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Now that all the data is in, the fundamental reason for Mitt Romney's defeat is apparent, if largely unreported. It is not just that blacks, Latinos and single women showed up in record numbers at the polls. It's that whites didn't.
The final numbers suggest that 91.6 million votes were cast by whites — seven million less than the 98.6 million cast in 2008! Meanwhile, 16.6 million blacks voted, 300,000 more than in 2008 and 11 million Latinos voted, 1.7 million more votes than were cast by Hispanics in 2008.
We lost because whites stayed home. Particularly among the elderly, the voter turnout was disappointing with seniors casting only 16 percent of the vote, much less than had been anticipated. (Seniors were the only age group that President Obama lost by a significant margin — 15 points).
Why didn't whites vote and why didn't we all spot it sooner?
Impact of Sandy: There was no good national polling after Sandy struck. Gallup, for example, suspended its polling. At the last minute, it put together a national sample — with lots of disclaimers about the dangers of inaccuracies due to the difficulty of sampling storm-hit areas — and it showed a slight Romney lead.
Romney was, in fact, leading before Sandy. His chances blew away in the storm with the famous bi-partisan photo of Governor Chris Christie with Obama. And there was no way to measure the impact of Sandy since there could not logistically be any polling. Why was I wrong? I'm a pollster, not a meteorologist!
But the real question is why the support for Romney among whites was so shallow that the winds of Sandy blew it away. The answer lays in the fundamental strategic mistake the Romney campaign and the super PACs made in June and July — of not answering Obama's Bain Capital attacks.
These withering attacks undermined Romney's standing among white voters and led directly to their diminished turnout. The Romney campaign and the super PACs were so wedded to their attack ads that they failed to realize that Bain posed a mortal threat to the credibility of their candidate. Many other consultants joined me in pleading in vain for a reply to the Bain attacks, but none was forthcoming.
There is a very good story to be told about Bain, and it was masterfully captured in an ad produced by Romney media guru Stuart Stevens. Unfortunately, it aired for only a limited time and there was no follow up. Had that very ad been run more, Romney would, in my opinion, have been elected president!
The Republican consultants are so enamored with negative ads that they do not appreciate the impact of rebuttal media. It has the capacity to wipe away negative ads and trigger a backlash against the candidate who airs them. But the doctrine of always attack — reminiscent of the French and British generals in World War I — does not permit rebuttals, only new negatives.
And we paid the price.


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Friday, September 3, 2010
Sparklebean in Action
As I was sifting through yesterday's footage, I found this little gem. In this movie, Charlene is walking along and discovers one of her beloved sparkle balls on the floor. She pauses and plays with it, picks it up and walks over to the bed and batts it around again. You can hear her squeal in glee (it's a little distorted because the mic is right against her neck) as she plays with the ball. In the end, in all her excitement, she knocks the camera off her collar and all goes black.
I know it's not the greatest cinematography in the world, but I enjoyed watching it. We always find the sparkle balls all over the house. She'll leave them on our pillows, next to her food bowl, on the steps,, but never really see her play with them on her own. I'm glad she was able to catch herself on camera.
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Awww... this is great cinematography! I love that she was able to catch some sparkle ball fun on camera. Kind of makes me wish I was a cat. :)ReplyDelete
Sweet happy little sparkleBean!ReplyDelete
Our cat Spikie makes the same noise when he plays with his sparkle ball! He brings it to us as a gift - when I get home from work it's often lying on my bed pillow. Or if I'm sad or upset he'll run and get it and bring it to me. LOL!ReplyDelete
I love Charlene's little prrts and squeals and her paws batting at the sparkle ball.ReplyDelete
Just made me melt and wish I were at home with my kitties playing instead of in the office.
Love the Charlene cam. Can she wear it all the time? I love the idea of watching cat antics. Thanks Laurie.ReplyDelete
That was adorable! I agree with Your Daily Cute that the cinematography is great! It's neat to see the world through the eyes of The Bean! :)ReplyDelete
Lulu,,, I don't think I could live with at cat wearing a camera ALL the time. Oh, the pressure to keep the house clean! You don't realize how dirty your floors are until you put a camera on your cat.ReplyDelete
I can't wait to hear what the cat psychologist will make out of the beloved Bean. :)ReplyDelete
- Linda P.September 3, 2010 at 12:30 PM
SO CUTE!ReplyDelete
My little cat Newt carries little pipe cleaner 'bugs' around the house and likes to drop them in the water bowl. Cats are the best!
The noises just killed me. I love her little happy sounds!!!ReplyDelete
That was like the "Blair Witch Project" of sparkle balls. So cute and hilarious, thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
OMG!!! We can hear the Bean's voice!!! Laurie, this is fantastic! I love your comments about where you find the sparkle balls. We occasionally find kitty toys in all those places and more, including the water dish.ReplyDelete
Also, I noticed that only 25 cats are wearing video collars, while there were 50 in the original study wearing cameras. Guess our Sparklebean's talent is shone through. :)
I love this! The BeanCam last year was fun but this is ten times better. I love the POV of The Bean and the occasional whisker cameo is hilarious. So glad you are posting these!ReplyDelete
Katie makes the same noise (but louder!) when she's carrying her stuffed birdie around. Mind you, her stuffed birdie is as big as her head, and she has a mouth full of plush when she does it!ReplyDelete
Way to go Bean, for catching some sparkle ball action for us!
LOVE the prrrts! :DReplyDelete
Cool. I'm a little dizzy, but that should clear up in a second. My Andy likes to play with his "soccer balls" all over the house. (They are either waffle golf balls or caps to soda bottles). He has a distinctive meow that goes with it. So cute to see him so excited.ReplyDelete
My girls love the sparkle balls too. Phoebe will pick them up and carry them around the house, chirping for someone to come play with her. Reminds me to go on a sparkle ball hunt tonight at home.ReplyDelete
When I hear that sound in my house, I know that Daltrey is on the "hunt". Usually I hear it from another room, and she walks to wherever I am, and she drops the mouse/fuzzy toy on the floor.ReplyDelete
My boyfriend and I have learned her to thank her earnestly for sharing her catch. I'd swear that she looks very proud of herself afterwards!
What can I say, she's a great provider!
Oh man, this was fantastic. That little white paw tuft! Sparkly ball pats! PRRRTS!ReplyDelete
Great work, Laurie and The Bean!
- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2010 at 1:46 PM
OMG!!! Squeee, splort, my head jus asploded from the cuteness. That is absolutely priceless. Charlene Butterbean is pawesome.ReplyDelete
Love the toe-hawks as they flash by in the midst of the action!ReplyDelete
Way cooler than the still pix!
- Anne BoleynSeptember 3, 2010 at 2:13 PM
What do you mean, "it's not the greatest cinematography in the world"?ReplyDelete
I love the occasional whiskers going by!
- chanponSeptember 3, 2010 at 2:31 PM
OMG, Beanie-coos and Beanie-pawsies in action! What could be better?ReplyDelete
- CatmamaSeptember 3, 2010 at 2:50 PM
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography goes to ....... Charlene Butterbean! Awesome Miss Bean! Thank you for sharing a special sparkle ball moment. Love love love the sounds of joy.ReplyDelete
When will you be releasing the sequel?
- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2010 at 3:19 PM
Oh my gosh, the little paws darting into frame. brbdying...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2010 at 3:24 PM
That's pretty cute, I love the white toes getting in the shot all the time. We had sparkle balls for the fosters and they absolutely tore them to shreds, we found piles of yarn and sparkles strewn all around the floor. The camera seems to be pointing lower this time, we saw a lot of carpet?ReplyDelete
soo nice to the Charlene in action..she is so cute playing with her sparkle!!The noise she makes is so adorable..I wish I know what my kitty boy is doing with his fluffy stuffed cat toy on our bed everytime we are away...Hope you she will catch some more nice videos for us to watch...ReplyDelete
If it's not the greatest cinematography in the world (and I'm not willing to say that), then it most assuredly IS the greatest CAT cinematography in the world.ReplyDelete
What a treat! Girl loves her sparkle balls whether anyone's looking or not!
What adorable little noises!!! And the white toesies! My kitty sounds more like she's in distress when she does this, but I've figured out she's bringing me a toy and just wants a bit of attention when I hear her mewing.ReplyDelete
- WhiskersSeptember 3, 2010 at 5:03 PM
That was the most precious thing evar!! Love the prrrts!ReplyDelete
I <3 the Bean!
Oh that was awesome! So much fun to watch and vicariously see what my own fuzzies see when they're playing. hehe! Loved it!ReplyDelete
Oh no! Wot happened to the vid? It seems to be gone! I wanna see too! *pouts* :(ReplyDelete
catsonville,,, lots of carpet because she's looking at the ball on the floor. the camera is attached to her collar, so wherever she's looking, that's where it's pointing.ReplyDelete
Zippy, I don't know why you're having trouble. It's still there. Here's a link to it..
Laurie, or no matter how much you clean....a friend comes over in black slacks and leaves a fluff of white fur! Welcome to my world! LOLReplyDelete
catonsvillecats, I find sparkle ball thread lying about, too. Seems that the red balls are the favorite!ReplyDelete
That was absolutely precious! Awww Beanie, you are such a love.ReplyDelete
I think I've watched it fifteen times. Just love the little noises and the pat, pat, pat of the little mittens. Great fun!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2010 at 10:22 PM
As much as I love love love your posts, videos (this one is spectacular) and photos, it's your fans' comments that make me laugh, make me with I were more eloquent, make me wish they were my friends.ReplyDelete
- Tin WhiskersSeptember 4, 2010 at 2:42 AM
The secret life of cats! All of her little asides are hilarious. To my ear she sounds a little like Simon's Cat.ReplyDelete
- MaggielynneSeptember 4, 2010 at 8:46 AM
Cassis, who has Bean's face but is a tuxedo also loves her yellow sparkle ball. Hers has a yellow feather. I read somewhere that cats can only see yellow??? LOVE the glimpse of her fabulous whiskers!ReplyDelete
Actually all I could think was how incredibly clean your carpet looks. You should see mine, and all I have is two cats.ReplyDelete
A collar camera - what an interesting idea. Do they make them for spouses?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Is there anything the Bean can't do? I don't think so!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2010 at 10:57 AM
This is better than most student films I've seen. I think the Bean should go to film school.ReplyDelete
- Lita and the boys in MelbourneSeptember 5, 2010 at 9:22 PM
So very cute! I love the Sparkle Bean title and the Blair Witch comparison - hilarious! AND THEN at the end you get to select other videos to watch at thend and ta-daaaah! there's a butterbean 'Spazzing Out Part 1 & 2!' just excellent! i love the little paws moving in and out of shot.ReplyDelete
Oh that was fun! We LOVED watching it. Great paw action.ReplyDelete
That is fascinating; I love the paws, the whiskers and the "robot kitty" sounds!ReplyDelete
And the other videos are great too: there's one where Charlene is still a kitten, and there's even a couple with Drewey!
Yes, I came back to see Sparklebean again. Like everyone else, I often wonder what my cats are thinking. I think that this video is as close as I've ever come to seeing things from a cat's perspective. Very cool!ReplyDelete
- Betsey'sMomSeptember 7, 2010 at 8:13 AM
Thanks, Laurie! I'm curious (we were discussing this weekend as Ms. B talked to us about all sorts of stuff) - does she ever meow when she's alone? Or do cats just make their happy/killing noises when no one's around?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2010 at 9:35 AM
I guess there were no kittens around, or they would have made it into the video somehow .. as blurry patches, possibly. Anyhow, I heard that cats make those little purry noises with their toys as a way of saying "back off! this one's mine." If that's true, how interesting that Charlene makes noises even when no one is around! My baby used to grab her favorite toy and trot over to me while meowing with her mouth full. It was adorabuls.ReplyDelete
Charlene, you are a woman after my own heart! I have been playing with my red sparkle ball so much that it is coming apart! ~~JuniorReplyDelete
I can't believe that actually made me cry.. that was too precious. Makes me want to go out and get some cameras for my kitties!!ReplyDelete
Adorable Bean! I love the shots of seeing the paws moving. Got a little motion sickness actually. Cool video!ReplyDelete
My cat Gregory is the same way with "rattle mice." He must have 20 or so by now because they always get batted under the closet door and thus "lost." He's part Siamese so his noises are a bit louder and indignant. The best is when he brings me a "mouse" in his mouth and tries to talk about it at the same time. Love the video, love the blog!ReplyDelete


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Ready, Set, Knit! 354: Kathy talks with Jane PatrickSaturday, April 26th, 2014
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This week Kathy talks with Jane, Co-Owner of Schacht Spindle Company with her husband Barry since 1969. Jane has recently published a new book, Woven Scarves with co-author Stephanie Flynn Sokolov.
This is a follow up to her previous title, the Weaver's Idea Book, and makes a perfect pairing for the new and intermediate weaver using a rigid heddle loom. These project start with plain weave and then explore stripes, plaid, different yarns to use, and so much more.
Steve's Yarn Picks :
- On-Line Supersocke 4-ply Neon Color
- Sublime Luxurious Tweed DK
- Misti Alpaca Closeouts
- 40th Anniversary Huntington hand dyed by Lorna's Laces!
Anniversary Sale Yarns through April 30th:
- Cascade Eco Wool – retail prices go up on May 1st!
- Rowan Fine Art Aran
- Plymouth Yarns Boku
- Tahki Yarns Kismet
The Anniversary Sale continues but the April Sale yarns go back to their regular prices on May 1st and then a whole new selection of yarns are available.
Tent Sale May 17th and 18th, Fleece Market on the 17th with food trucks The Bistro Bus, Laughing Tomato and Sugar Bakers cupcakes!


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Microsoft has not gone for the nuclear option with Windows 10 -- forcing the new operating system on consumers and small businesses now running older editions -- but it has tiptoed close to that line.
Five months ago, Computerworld laid out the steps Microsoft had taken to distribute Windows 10, but noted that it had not yet moved to the next logical phase: not only downloading and initiating the upgrade, but completing it without any explicit user approval.
To recap, Microsoft kicked off the radical distribution strategy in January 2015 when executives announced that Windows 10 would be a free upgrade from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 for one year after 10's official release.
The Redmond, Wash. company then moved on with a succession of schemes, including letting customers "reserve" a copy of the upgrade; downloading the upgrade bits in the background to those users' machines; and finally, in October 2015, saying it would automatically push the Windows 10 upgrade to all eligible PCs, then initiate the upgrade process.
That last step was to take place in two phases. First, the Windows 10 upgrade would be added to the Windows Update list on Windows 7 and 8.1 systems as an "optional" item. Next, Microsoft was to shift the Windows 10 upgrade to the "recommended" list. Updates on the latter are automatically downloaded and installed on most PCs.
Even then, Microsoft promised that customers would have the opportunity to cancel the upgrade once it began, and if they were unsatisfied, roll back the OS to the prior edition if they did so within 30 days of the upgrade.
Since January....
Microsoft did, in fact, follow through with the two-step plan: It planted Windows 10 in Windows Update as an optional item no later than early February, and around March 12, began moving it to the recommended list.
But in March it also pre-scheduled the upgrade as it delivered the upgrade through Windows Update as a recommended download. According to a post by Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Andre Da Costa -- who is not an employee of the firm but a moderator on several of the company's support forums -- Microsoft automatically scheduled the upgrade process to launch four days after the bits were downloaded.
And that's when Microsoft neared the nuclear option.
What is the nuclear option?
Even before Windows 10 launched -- since the appearance of GWX, the auto-installed app that initially let customers reserve the upgrade -- some cynical users wondered if the firm might dare to take the profound step of not only downloading and initiating the upgrade, but completing it without any approval.
Such a move would be unprecedented, not just for Microsoft and its increasingly-aggressive distribution strategy for Windows 10, but for the software industry historically: Upgrades have always been optional, even if passing came with caveats intended to motivate acceptance, such as dropped support.
The logic of a you-must-upgrade step was inescapable, as it was the inevitable end game of the year-and-more Windows 10 distribution strategy. And there were reasons why Microsoft might take that step, whether to simply add to the Windows 10 tally toward its goal of 1 billion by mid-2018, boost the number of systems eligible for apps or to better secure users' PCs.
Sometime in March, perhaps around the 12th, as Da Costa said, but no later than March 23, Microsoft changed how the GWX app and the scheduled upgrade worked.
Rather than interpret a click on the red "X" in the upper right as "cancel" or "ignore" the notification of the impending upgrade -- as decades of user experience (UX), as well as Microsoft's own design rules mandated -- the company defined the action as approval of the scheduled upgrade. Not surprisingly, the change riled users, who saw it as a trick to get them to approve the upgrade to Windows 10 when they intended to reject it.
Even with this behavior, Microsoft left users an out: Eagle-eyed customers could click on a link embedded in the word "here" in the notification to either reschedule or cancel the upgrade. But the machinations of the X-as-approval came very close to the line, using questionable means to get to the same ends as the nuclear option.
Call it "near-nuclear."
But users maintain that they were upgraded without their permission
Whether it's because they were duped by the red-X deception or paranoia-gone-amuck, some users have sworn that they didn't approve the upgrade to Windows 10.
"Computers at our medical practice are automatically upgrading to Windows 10 without permission and this is severely affecting our operation," contended Chris Leathart of New Zealand in one of many comments appended to a petition asking the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to investigate the practice.
"Microsoft installed Windows 10 on my system without my having any voice in the matter," asserted Louis Rourke of Massachusetts in another comment appended to the petition. "I could not even stop or interrupt the download. There was zero notice of how to refuse or undo this installation."
What's going on? Does the upgrade automatically kick off and complete if the PC is left unattended during the time when Microsoft pre-scheduled the upgrade?
No, said one expert, who argued that users were probably mistaken. Although they may have been misled, at the very least they had to have accepted the EULA (end-user license agreement), which serves as the defense of last resort for those who don't want to migrate. As part of the upgrade process, users are required to accept the Windows 10 EULA by clicking a button.
"I'm seeing reports all over the place that the installation has gone through without clicking 'Accept' on the EULA. But I don't believe it. I think people are clicking on Accept, not realizing what they're accepting," said Woody Leonhard, a contributor and columnist with Infoworld, which like Computerworld, is owned and operated by IDG. Leonhard has been extensively examining Windows 10's upgrade antics, including setting up numerous virtual machines with Windows 7 to track how the upgrade offer has been implemented.
"I've been able to recreate a couple of scenarios using virtual machines, but none of them end with an install," Leonhard said in an email reply to questions. "If the EULA sits there long enough [without a click on 'Accept'], it [the upgrade] finally fails."
Nuclear or not, the damage is done
In some ways, it does not matter that Microsoft stepped up to, but not across the line: The company has succeeded in alienating, antagonizing and angering portions of its customer base. Twitter hashtags like #upgradegate and #stopwindows10 have appeared, for example; discussion threads fill with accusations of unauthorized upgrades completing; and some make the dangerous recommendation to turn off Windows Update.
In a post-truth world, perception and repetition reign. But Microsoft has only itself to blame.


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Google is thirteen today...back in 1998 when the site was still hosted at http://google.stanford.edu, Keith Dawson gave the search engine its first online coverage in English on the fondly remembered Tasty Bits From the Technology Front.
This site, one of the few rigorous academic research projects on Web searching, presents a demonstration database — only 25M documents — that already blows past most of the existing search engines in returning relevant nuggets. Google employs a concept of Page Rank derived from academic citation literature. Page Rank equates roughly to a page's importance on the Web: the more inbound links a page has, and the higher the importance of the pages linking to it, the higher its Page Rank.


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The Faker's Guide to Advanced Stats in the NHLRene Johnston/Toronto Star via Getty Images
So apparently it's time for the hockey world to fight about advanced stats again.
The most recent outbreak of hostilities was focused (as these things have a disturbing tendency to be) on the Toronto Maple Leafs. First it was forward Joffrey Lupul tweeting about Corsi. Next up was assistant coach Greg Cronin sharing his views on possession stats. If you missed out on those particular skirmishes, don't worry. Another one should be along any minute now.
If you're an old-school type who doesn't like advanced stats, you're … well, you're not reading this, because you instinctively slammed your face into your browser's "close" button as soon as you saw the headline. And if you're already an advanced stats proponent, you don't have time to read this because you're already busy fighting a civil war over what the various stats should even be called.
So that leaves the fans who haven't chosen a side yet. And in many cases, those who still find themselves on neutral ground might be there because they don't actually understand what the whole debate is about in the first place.
If you're interested in learning more about advanced statistics but aren't sure where to start, there are plenty of good resources available. Eyes on the Prize is running an ongoing summer school feature that will walk through some of the basic concepts. Broad Street Hockey has a basic glossary of terms, and Behind the Net has a more detailed one. Arctic Ice did a whole "Understanding Advanced Stats" section a few years back that has a ton of good stuff. And those are just a few examples. If you're willing to roll up your sleeves a bit, you can educate yourself fairly quickly.
But what if you're not interesting in learning more? What if you just want to seem like you did? What if you'd rather know just enough to fake your way through a conversation about advanced stats, while doing as little actual thinking as possible?
If so, I may be able to help you out. Let's see if we can make our way through this together, with my handy 12-step program for faking your way through the world of advanced hockey statistics.
Step 1: Don't be afraid
First things first: Hockey's "advanced" stats aren't actually all that advanced, at least as far as the math goes. Are you comfortable with tricky concepts like addition and subtraction? Awesome, you're halfway there. If you also understand what a percentage is and/or can divide by 60, you're going to be golden.
And beyond the math, the concepts themselves aren't all that complicated, either. If you can get past the new terminology, most of them will make intuitive sense to anyone who's ever played shinny.
Practical tip: You can do this. Stay with me.
Step 2: Have realistic expectations
You may be aware of the sabermetrics movement in baseball, and how it's slowly but surely been revolutionizing our understanding of the game. Hockey hasn't really come close to that yet, for two key reasons. One is that baseball's advanced stats work had a several-decade head start. The other is that baseball lends itself to much cleaner data, and has so much of it to draw from. By contrast, much of the data that advanced hockey stats rely on has been tracked for only a few years. We can go back and calculate Babe Ruth's career WAR, but we don't know Wayne Gretzky's Corsi and never will.
The advanced stats movement in hockey is still in its infancy. It's making progress, but it hasn't really revolutionized all that much yet. For the most part, its proponents are well aware of that, and you should be too.
Practical tip: If you're looking to learn more about a sport that you love, you're going to find this worthwhile. If you're setting the success bar at "life-changing breakthroughs," prepare to be disappointed.
Step 3: Don't say "moneyball"
Just don't. Yes, you read the book. (OK, fine, you saw the movie and heard about the book.) Yes, it was about advanced stats. But don't bring it up. You're just going to have to trust me on this one.
Practical tip: Saying "moneyball" in a discussion about hockey stats is like saying "totally radical" while working as an undercover narc at a high school.
Step 4: If you remember only one thing, make it this word: "possession"
Hockey is a game of scoring goals and preventing the other team from scoring them. But goals are relatively rare events in hockey, so relying purely on goal-based stats to predict future performance is dicey.
If we can't rely on goals, though, we need something that's more common and acts as a reasonably good stand-in. For many of hockey's advanced stats, that's puck possession. After all, you can't score if you don't have the puck, and you can't be scored on if you do. (Unless you are Chris Phillips.) And since one team or the other has the puck for the majority of every hockey game, we've got far more to work with than if we relied just on goals.
Again, this way of thinking is not especially advanced. You're basically asking "Which team controls the puck?," which is something fans have understood was important for decades. Possession was one of the intermission stats in NHLPA Hockey 93, and that game kept like only four stats.
So using possession seems relatively intuitive. That's the good news. The bad news is that there isn't really a stat that directly measures puck possession. So we look for a decent proxy. That's where shots come in, which we'll get to in Step 5.
Practical tip: During any discussion of a specific player, casually say, "Yeah, but those possession numbers …" and then trail off knowingly.
Step 5: Corsi and Fenwick
Corsi and Fenwick are two of the terms you'll hear most often as you're faking your way through the world of advanced stats. They measure essentially the same thing: how many shots are directed at each net at even strength.
Note that that's "shots directed at the net," not just plain old shots. That's because we're including traditional shots (i.e., goals and saves) as well as shots that miss the net. Corsi also includes blocked shots, while Fenwick doesn't. (Yes, there's a reason for that. No, you will never need to actually know what it is.)
You can express Corsi and Fenwick as a plus/minus or a percentage, and apply them to either a team or an individual player. If a team is taking more shots than it's allowing, that means it's (very probably) possessing the puck more than its opponents, which means that (all else being equal) you'd expect it to score more goals than the other team.
This is where you've probably started mumbling about shot quality, since Corsi and Fenwick and any variations seem to assume that all shots are created equal. That's obviously not true, since a breakaway or a goalmouth tap-in are more likely to result in a goal than an unscreened shot from the point. But as it turns out, there's little evidence that teams or players can get consistently outshot while still getting better chances. And while there have been efforts to track scoring chances as opposed to just shot attempts, the results usually just wind up mapping pretty well to each other. So over the long term, we can largely ignore shot quality — not because it doesn't exist, but because it tends to even out over time.
Corsi and Fenwick turn out to be great predictors of future success. Learn to love them.
Practical tip: As a side note, Corsi and Fenwick are both named after people. They're not acronyms. This doesn't sound important, but it is. If you ever write "CORSI," someone will immediately point at you and yell "Fraud!" At this point, they'll quite possibly stab you.
Step 6: A word about takeaways and giveaways
These are relatively new NHL stats that have only become prominent in the last decade or so, but if possession is so crucial, you'd probably assume that takeaways and giveaways are especially meaningful. But as it turns out, having a lot of takeaways is often bad, and having a lot of giveaways is often good.
That sounds crazy, but stay with me. If your team has the puck, it can't record a takeaway. So players/teams that have great puck possession numbers often do rather poorly in terms of takeaways, and vice versa. The same logic applies in reverse to giveaways — you need to possess the puck before you can give it away.
(This also applies to hits, another stat that fans would assume is a positive but can actually be a symptom of a team/player with lousy underlying possession numbers.)
That doesn't mean that a hit or a takeaway is a bad thing. Obviously, if the other team already has the puck, then taking it away is a good thing. It's just that if you spend the whole season racking up big numbers in these sorts of categories, there's a good chance it's at least partly because the other team always has the puck. And that's part of the reason why these particular stats don't correlate well to wins.
One more thing: Takeaways, giveaways, and hits all fall into the category of "real-time" stats, which are incredibly subjective and unreliable, and prone to huge home/away swings that can be attributed to rink bias. Most people disregard them.
Practical tip: Anytime someone mentions a real-time stat, scoff and ask if they're referring to road splits only.
Step 7: Death to plus/minus
OK, so you kind of understand basic possession stats. At this point, you may have found yourself saying "Wait, Corsi and Fenwick are basically the same idea as that old-fashioned plus/minus stat that I already know and love, only with shot attempts instead of goals." And you would be right! You may then have continued, "That must mean advanced stats guys love plus/minus!" And you would be more wrong than you have ever been about anything in your entire life.
Remember when we said that goals were relatively rare events and purely goal-based stats could be unreliable? Plus/minus is a purely goal-based stat. And it's one that penalizes players with defensive roles and/or bad linemates (more on that in a second).
Plus/minus is basically hockey's answer to baseball's RBI: a once-cherished statistic that, upon reflection, is actually more or less useless. Ignore it.
Practical tip: If you mention plus/minus, advanced stats folks will actually hiss at you.
Step 8: Context is king
Possession is the building block. Once you can fake an understanding of that, you're halfway home. But you can also expect to encounter a whole lot of additional stats that sound much more complicated. They are, but in a way that makes enough sense that they shouldn't trip you up.
Opponents of advanced stats sometimes try to dismiss the numbers by talking about context — you have to watch the game, man! But the advanced stats crowd is one step ahead of them, and has already developed plenty of stats that at least try to factor context into the equation.
Don't teams take more shots when they're trailing and fewer when they're protecting a lead? Yes, which is why we have Fenwick Close. What if a good player is just stuck on a crappy team? Let's check his Relative Corsi. What if he's stuck with bad linemates? Let's look at Quality of Teammates. Does he always line up against the best players? Quality of Competition. But his coach uses him as more of a defensive type of … Zone Starts! You get the idea.
Practical tip: These stats come up less often, so if you're a faker you can probably get away without really understanding any of them. Just don't try to shout "context!" at somebody who's reached a conclusion you don't like, because they probably have a stat in their back pocket that's going to make you look bad.
Step 9: Goaltenders: Save percentage good, wins bad
Wins are a bad way to measure a goalie's worth in hockey for the same reason that they're a bad way to measure any individual player's worth in any sport (i.e., they're just too team-dependent). Goals-against average is better, but still flawed because a goalie can't control how many shots he has to face. We'd rather look at save percentage, because it doesn't punish a great goalie who's stuck on a team that's giving up a ton of shots every night.
So save percentage is good. Even-strength save percentage is even better, because it eliminates the quality of special teams (which the goalie can't really control) from the equation. But if that number isn't handy, you can usually just go with save percentage anytime the subject of goaltending comes up.
Practical tip: Don't say "wins." God help you if say "wins."
Step 10: Understand the role of random chance
Random chance is a nice way of saying "luck," and that's good because luck is a dirty word in sports. If we say a team was lucky in a win, it sounds like we're saying they didn't deserve it. And as fans, it's more satisfying if we can tell ourselves that every result was the right one, and that wins and losses are earned by skill and effort alone.
But the truth is that, like any sport, luck plays a huge role in hockey. Some stats can offer insight into its impact. PDO is a simple but crucial stat that takes a player/team's on-ice save percentage and shooting percentage and adds them together, with anything significantly above (or below) 1.000 being a red flag of especially good (or bad) luck. Luck isn't sustainable, so keep an eye on teams and players who've had an especially lucky or unlucky stretch. They're great candidates to bounce back or crash back to earth.
There are other ways to try to measure luck, but they all lead us back to the same place: A lot of what happens in this sport is just plain random.
Practical tip: Not everything needs a narrative. Embrace randomness.
Step 11: When things go bad, your safe word is "sample size"
If you want to create a catchy narrative, you can do it based on a very small amount of data (or, if you're really good, no data at all). But if you want to be confident that you're drawing conclusions that are actually useful, you're going to need to base them on enough data to filter out the flukes and the noise. That's where sample size comes in.
One game isn't a big enough sample size. Neither is one playoff series. In many cases, even a full season isn't enough. This ends up coming up a lot in advanced stat discussions, and can make it tricky to draw firm conclusions.
Practical tip: If you're trying to fake your way through an advanced stats conversation and feel like it's getting away from you, just furrow your brow and say, "Well, that's a good point, but of course you have to be careful of sample-size issues." Everyone will nod solemnly and look at the ground, at which point you can make a break for it.
Step 12: Be prepared for counterintuitive conclusions
If you've made it this far, you probably want to know what exactly these stats guys have been learning about the NHL. And you're in luck, because they'll tell you. (Good lord, will they tell you.) But there's one final caveat — you're going to hear some things that don't seem to make any sense.
That is to say, you're going to be told things that are deeply counterintuitive to what you've come to believe during your life as a hockey fan. That's a good thing — if after all this work advanced stats only confirmed what everyone already knew, there'd be no point — but it can still be pretty jarring.
Here's an example: Does a good defenseman help his goaltender record a better save percentage? Of course! A great defensive defenseman pounces on rebounds and clears the front of the net and doesn't let his opponents get great scoring chances. He makes his goaltender better. Anyone who watches hockey knows this.
Except … well, this. The numbers don't play nice with common sense.
Once you go down the advanced stats rabbit hole, this stuff happens all the time. Sometimes it's big things and sometimes it's little things, but it's not rare and it takes some getting used to.
Practical tip: If, after all of this, you hear somebody say something that seems to go against your hockey fan common sense and (this is the key) they back it up with numbers, which are you going to trust? Can you at least accept that it's possible, just possible, that the numbers are right?
If you can't, then you're not going to be able to fake this after all. This whole thing has been a waste of your time. Sorry about that.
But at least you can probably get a job with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy? (Paperback)
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Your marriage is more than a sacred covenant with another person. It is a spiritual discipline designed to help you know God better, trust him more fully, and love him more deeply. Scores of books have been written that offer guidance for building the marriage of your dreams. But what if God's primary intent for your marriage isn t to make you happy . . . but holy? And what if your relationship isn t as much about you and your spouse as it is about you and God? Everything about your marriage--everything--is filled with prophetic potential, with the capacity for discovering and revealing Christ's character. The respect you accord your partner; the forgiveness you humbly seek and graciously extend; the ecstasy, awe, and sheer fun of lovemaking; the history you and your spouse build with one another--in these and other facets of your marriage, Sacred Marriage uncovers the mystery of God's overarching purpose. This book may very well alter profoundly the contours of your marriage. It will most certainly change you. Because whether it is delightful or difficult, your marriage can become a doorway to a closer walk with God, and to a spiritual integrity that, like salt, seasons the world around you with the savor of Christ.


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Never before has a bunch of skeletons been so heartwarming.
A new ad from the Ad Council shows people of all different ages, genders, races, sexualities, ethnicities, disabilities and religions coming together behind a digital screen.
The viewers only see their skeletons at first kissing, dancing and hugging with Mary Lambert's "She Keeps Me Warm" playing in the background, until the real people step out to reveal themselves.
The spot is part of their "Love Has No Labels" campaign, and it already has over 1.5 million views since it was released on Tuesday. It was shot on Valentine's Day of this year.
From the Ad Council:
Subconscious prejudice—called "implicit bias"—has profound implications for how we view and interact with others who are different from us. It can hinder a person's ability to find a job, secure a loan, rent an apartment, or get a fair trial, perpetuating disparities in American society. The Love Has No Labels campaign challenges us to open our eyes to our bias and prejudice and work to stop it in ourselves, our friends, our families, and our colleagues.
You will cry. So be prepared.


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Write your wishlist and ideas for FIFA 20 here. Write about the features that you think could be important for upcoming EA Sports FIFA 20 video-game. Put down your constructive ideas that could change the game. Share your thoughts and suggestions by writing down here.
Let's talk about your ideas, suggestions, concepts and comments for FIFA 20 and FUT 20 in the form given below. We will send your comments to the EA Sports developers.
You can also write your FIFA 20 Career Mode wishlist separately here in this link.
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It's official. Nelson, pictured above, is the ugliest bird in the world.
He has a face that only a mother could love.
But sadly for poor Nelson, his didn't.
The parrot chick, who must surely be a contender for the ugliest bird in the world, was rejected by his parents after he hatched.
However, he can at least take some comfort in the knowledge that he will one day grow up to be an attractive Kea parrot.
As such, the youngster is now being cared for around the clock by staff and spent the first four weeks of his life in an incubator.
Keas are large parrots native to the alpine regions of New Zealand that are known for their intelligence and curiosity.
Adults are mostly olive-green with a brilliant orange flash under their wings.
But his looks won't last forever…
Nelson, who has been described as looking like a cross between an alien and a roast chicken, was born last month at Bergzoo in Germany.
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February 18, 2013
Academic progress reports for freshmen
The collection and distribution of academic progress reports are a major part of the university's efforts to increase student retention. The reports will be collected from teaching faculty who have one or more freshmen enrolled in their course or courses. The reports will be collected electronically via the iSIS system beginning on Monday, Feb. 18. The collection file will remain posted until 5 p.m. Monday, March 4. You must enter your progress reports during this time.
Hopefully, you will have completed a formal assessment by the end of next week. However, whether or not you have completed an assessment, you may assign a "Satisfactory" or "Unsatisfactory" based upon such factors as poor attendance, failure to turn in homework, class participation, etc. For example, if you monitor class attendance and attendance is poor, you may assign an "Unsatisfactory" progress report and cite poor attendance as a reason.
If you have any questions about the assignment of Academic Progress Reports, please contact Michael L. Lynch at email@example.com or 785-532-7305.
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The Methodist Hospital System and University of New South Wales (UNSW) are First Customers in the World to Adopt Faster 802.11ac Wi-Fi
SAN JOSE – April 30, 2013 – Cisco today announced new products based on the next-generation 802.11ac wireless networking standard that offer data transfer speeds of up to one gigabit per second – fast enough to download significant amounts of Web content and run streaming video simultaneously. The new products, which are already being adopted around the world by hospitals, universities, law firms and other organizations, will enable businesses to more easily support the growing number of devices connected to their wireless networks and the high performance of high-bandwidth applications, such as HD streaming video, Web conferencing, and data backup and transfers.
The 802.11ac standard and Cisco's new product offerings arrive at a time when businesses are becoming increasingly complex and placing intense bandwidth demands on the network, caused by the growing number of employee-owned mobile devices. These demands will only increase, and by 2017, as mobile network connection speeds increase, the average bit rate of content accessed through the mobile network will increase. High-definition video will be more prevalent, and the proportion of streamed content as compared to side-loaded content is also expected to increase with average mobile network connection speed, according to Cisco research.
Operating in the 5GHz range, 802.11ac allows customers to provide end users with greater speeds and access to more bandwidth-intensive applications. Cisco's field-upgradeable modules help ensure high performance for connected users and also extend the battery life of mobile devices.
The Methodist Hospital System and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) are early adopters of Cisco's 802.11ac products. Methodist is Houston's third largest health system and listed among U.S. News World and Report's best hospitals, and UNSW is a leading Australian research and teaching university. Both organizations wanted to accommodate mobile devices in greater quantity and provide them with better performance. After deploying Cisco's 802.11n products and with plans to further upgrade their networks to .11ac, these customers can now provide the capacity required to support the growing influx of personal devices from employees, doctors, students, faculty and staff.
New 802.11ac Product Highlights
- The industry's first enterprise-class 802.11ac Access Point – The 802.11ac Wave 1 Module for the Cisco Aironet® 3600 Series, announced in October 2012, is available now and shipping to select customers. This module supports Wi-Fi speeds of up to 1.3Gbps and delivers extraordinary investment protection and wireless network leadership – allowing customers to decide when and where to deploy wireless today and cost-effectively migrate to the high capacity 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard in the future.
- Support for 802.11ac Wave 2 Module –Cisco's aggressive plans include future versions of the Cisco Aironet® 3600 Series field upgrade module to support the second part of the 802.11ac standard Wave 2, which includes MU-MIMO for switchlike performance in a wireless environment and higher bandwidth support via additional spatial streams and channels.
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Chris Spain, vice president of product marketing, Wireless Networking Group, Cisco
"We are continuing our leadership in the market with this rollout of 802.11ac offerings and are positioned to change the landscape for enterprise-class network infrastructure. We are in a new era of the digital lifestyle and our customers are looking to increase employee productivity for those working on their mobile devices, by supporting the higher bandwidth applications popular amongst these users. Cisco's new 802.11ac modules will support devices now operating on this standard while more effectively utilizing spectrum in the workplace."
Armand Stansel, director of IT Infrastructure Services, The Methodist Hospital System
"Our team is dedicated to researching new ways to use technology in order to improve staff operations and create an efficient workflow to treat patients faster, all the while decreasing costs. Today, we use our WLAN infrastructure to propagate voice and data communication with great efficiency. We're looking ahead to 802.11ac in order to advance the use of mobile devices in our environment, including video collaboration for viewing remote operations, real-time medical imaging and medical device connectivity in the hospital."
Greg Sawyer, manager of Communications Services, University of New South Wales
"We are seeing a widespread adoption of Wi-Fi enabled devices used in teaching – up to 21,000 concurrent devices on the network. Students are requiring faster, more efficient and reliable wireless connectivity. We deployed Cisco's 3600 Access Point and module which has helped us to reach our goal of meeting the increasing bandwidth requirements of the students' while providing an overall better classroom and education experience."
Supporting Customers and Resources
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All of Us: Out + Essential
In this moment, when a global pandemic and the subsequent economic fallout are disproportionately impacting LGBTQ people and people of color, we are reminded that the labor movement, the LGBTQ equality movement and the civil rights movement have an intertwined and shared history. As protesters demand accountability from police and proclaim that Black lives matter, it helps to remember that all three movements have seen violence at the hands of police in order to win our rights. And just this month, the Supreme Court ruled that the prohibition on sex discrimination in the workplace that was included in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to LGBTQ people as well.
With all of this in mind, we will engage in a discussion with leaders and workers at the intersection of these movements about how we can continue to lift up the lives of marginalized communities.