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Comparisons Between Simulator and Part Task Emulator-based Training
Paul Novacek, M.A.S., MCFI
VP – Product Development, ElectronicFlight Solutions Inc.
Former NASA Human Factors Researcher
Confusion often exists between the various cockpit training devices and the environments that best utilize their strengths. With the initial purchase of new avionics equipment or a new aircraft that requires familiarization training, there are three phases of the training program; pre-delivery, guided onsite and post delivery. Pre-delivery training builds on the existing knowledge and skills to prepare the pilot for an efficient on-site training experience. This pre-delivery training is necessary to bring the pilot "up to speed" with the equipment before arriving at the factory to receive specific, hands-on training. At aircraft delivery, the pilot uses that knowledge to efficiently proceed through the training at a pace that does not overwhelm the pilot. Post-delivery training is the period where all the previous training is honed and practiced until the pilot becomes fully familiar and competent in the new aircraft. Each training period requires specific techniques and different training materials.
Free-play Simulators
Simulators are devices that exactly replicate the operation of the actual device. They make excellent training devices when used in the training environment for which they were designed — namely in an instructor-monitored and scenario-based environment. Because they are free-play, the user is presented with the exact responses encountered in the real aircraft
Simulators are an excellent training tool for the on-site training phase when a pilot is introduced to the new aircraft. They are effective only under the following two conditions, 1) an instructor monitors all the actions by the student to provide the necessary feedback and guidance and, 2) appropriate and concept-based lesson plans are used to provide scenario-based exercises.
What makes simulator-based training effective also makes them expensive to implement. Specifically, the full-time employment of a dedicated instructor to monitor the pilot's use of the simulator and correct any mistakes. Thus, preventing any bad habits from forming and ensuring that all of the required tasks are learned to proficiency. A pilot left alone with a simulator without the guidance of an instructor will undoubtedly form bad habits that will lead to future problems and a possible accident. In addition, training solo on a free-play simulator does not hold the pilot accountable to any standards because a testing mechanism is not present. Additionally, the fundamental knowledge required to proficiently operate the controls is not taught. A simulator only teaches step-by-step procedures, which has been proven in studies to lead to multiple errors and confusion when unforeseen situations arise. Furthermore, procedures taught in a step-by-step methodology are not absorbed efficiently and need constant reinforcement and recurrent training.
Pre-Delivery Training
As is often the case, pilots exposed to new avionics equipment are often overwhelmed with the complexity and sheer amount of information that needs to be absorbed. Combined with a relatively short on-site training program, most pilots concede that it's like "drinking from a fire hose." Humans have a limit of the rate at which they can comprehend and absorb new information. More experienced and higher educated pilots have a faster rate of absorption, but the actual rate of material absorption cannot be predicted with any semblance of accuracy. There are just too many variables. To overcome this problem, the training of new material needs to be spread-out over a greater period of time. Thus decreasing the rate of delivery, which leads to an increase in absorption.
An efficient method to spread-out this training is to provide pre-delivery training to new aircraft customers. Various methods have been used in the past, such as mailing paper manuals or training books, but this has typically not been very successful. Mostly because of the reluctance to take the time to study the manuals and attempt to correlate all the information. Additionally, without being held accountable by testing, there is little incentive to read the manuals. With the advent of computer-based training, a more dynamic and thorough training program greatly eases the burden of learning new avionics equipment.
ElectronicFlight Solutions offers the type of computer-based training that uses emulators, or part-task trainers, that teach specific techniques with a building-block methodology. Using a three-element approach to training, every ElectronicFlight course teaches, 1) the overall concepts behind the operation of the avionics unit, 2) the learning of small common tasks that form the building blocks for procedures, and 3) plenty of guided practice on specific procedures to strengthen the foundation. All three of these elements are interspersed throughout the training.
By providing a new customer with the background information and competency of the avionics, countless hours can be saved in the on-site training phase. Additionally, a more thorough understanding of the operation is achieved which leads to safer operation during the entire course of aircraft ownership.
Therefore, each type of training method has its merits. Simulators are used as training tools in the on-site phase and require constant monitoring by a qualified instructor. Part-task and emulator-based training from ElectronicFlight gives the pilot a thorough understanding of the new avionics equipment long before taking delivery of the new aircraft. Thus, saving time, money and ensuring that better trained pilots leave with their new aircraft.
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Mt Tamalpais State Park: Dias Ridge Trail to Muir Beach, Photo Gallery, San Francisco: Marin Headlands - Mt Tamalpais - Point Reyes, California
Mt Tamalpais State Park: Dias Ridge Trail to Muir Beach
San Francisco: Marin Headlands - Mt Tamalpais - Point Reyes
The Dias Ridge Trail runs down the high slopes of Mt Tamalpais State Park to Muir Beach in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area of Marin County. This short, multi-use trail is part of the greater Bay Area Ridge Trail system, a 310+ mile route that runs through all nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Rolling hills and lupine along the Dias Ridge Trail
Quail nests may contain over 25 eggs; these large clutches may be the result of females laying eggs in nests other than their own, a behavior known as egg-dumping
A receding tide at Muir Beach reveals small tide pools and large basalt rocks
Poppy are ubiquitous along the Dias Ridge Trail
The Dias Ridge Trail crests at 808' before dropping rapidly to the coast
Barnacles cover rocks on the south end of Muir Beach
A well maintained single-track makes Dias Ridge a popular biking route
A Red Breasted Merganser in the lagoon at Muir Beach - the lagoon is a critical habitat for waterfowl and salmon
This wetland area adjacent to Muir Beach is protected and houses many rare species including the California red-legged frog
Turkey vultures have adapted featherless heads so they can feed deep into carcasses without dirtying additional feathers
Clouds loom over the lush green hills of Dias Ridge
Douglas Iris thrive on the Dias Ridge Trail
A group of Gambel Quail feed off the Dias Ridge Trail
In 2009 the Dias Ridge Trail underwent major improvements - made possible by the generosity of the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council, California Coastal Conservancy, and the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act.

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Fracking the Commons: Why Your Public Lands Are Under Assault by Oil and Gas Drilling
August 9, 2013
You can take action to ban fracking on federal lands here.
As a Forest Supervisor with the U.S. Forest Service in the 1990s, I put a 15-year moratorium on oil and gas leasing in Montana's Rocky Mountain Front. I made this controversial decision because the ecosystems on the Front are irreplaceably rich and diverse, and because I'd witnessed first-hand the cultural connections (in spirit, mind, and body) that countless people both near and far had to this extraordinary place. The towering limestone cliffs, the wealth of wildlife, and the sheer wildness resonate deeply with the human psyche, and have done so for countless generations for over ten thousand years.
I thought I'd seen the worst of the oil and gas industry during that battle: its death-grip on public agencies, its demand for ever more leases, and its running roughshod over drilling regulations with impunity. But some years later I learned about an insidious new threat from the fossil fuel industry—hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." In fracking, fluid is injected into underground shale formations to break them apart and release trapped natural gas (and increasingly, oil). Unfortunately, fracking fluid contaminates our water, fracked gas escapes into the atmosphere, and the breakneck pace of drilling for these low-quality wells wreak havoc on wildlife habitat and human communities alike.
In the early 2000s, fracking was mostly confined to the Southwest and seemed little more than a crazy, expensive, last-ditch effort to squeeze the last bits of gas out of old fields. But as the easy-to-get fossil fuels have been depleted, and as government subsidies for fossil fuels have increased, such last-ditch efforts have become the industry standard. Today, the battle I fought over the Rocky Mountain Front seems small in comparison to what the fossil fuel industry aims to do across the entire country with fracking, including on public lands.
(Click below to view a slideshow about fracking's impacts from our Energy Reality campaign.)
Click here to view the slideshow and take action
Public lands, private profit
In recent years, fracking has spread from the rugged and remote public lands in the American West to the well-populated, bucolic landscapes of Pennsylvania. After decades of the oil and gas industry quietly cracking apart the crust of the earth (well, "quietly" if you aren't in the vicinity) people are finally sitting up and taking notice. Communities across the US are attempting to ban fracking to protect their citizens, and so far over 250 have succeeded. Vermont has a ban, and Maryland and New York have moratoriums in place. The fight is far from over: Pennsylvania, for example, has passed a draconian piece of legislation[1] that strips communities of the ability to regulate, where, when and how fracking should occur.
But local and state-level lawmaking, while important, addresses only part of the picture. A significant amount of fracked wells are currently drilled on federal lands—that is, publicland, our national commons. Ostensibly we're the owners, and federal and state land management agencies are supposed to listen to us and to speak for citizens unborn, the future owners.
Groundwater chemical injections are indeed regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act…but in 2005 Congress exempted fracking fluids from that law. Fracking is also exempt from the Clean Air Act. And the Clean Water Act. If it's so safe, why does it need to be exempt from some of the most important laws protecting our health and our collective commons? Even new regulations promulgated in May 2013 are watered down[2] and do little to curb or cure the myriad problems associated with fracking.
You wouldn't pour unknown chemicals in your backyard, dump toxic wastewater into your community's water supply, or tear up the forests and fields around town; and you'd sue the hell out of any neighbor who tried the same. And yet we allow—we subsidize— these practices on our public lands. Our leaders aren't protecting us and our commons from this tragedy, so it's fallen to us—the public—to stop the juggernaut of the fossil fuel industry.
A fracking mess
Besides knitting countless roads and pipelines into the earth, and leveling broad drill pads in regimented patterns across the land, the realities of fracking strike at the heart of our shared lands.
The fracking recipe calls for high-pressure injections of a witches' brew of chemicals, sand, and water to fracture deep layers of shale and let loose a bit more gas. An average of 4 to 5 million gallons of water is pumped into each well, And some of that slurry is regurgitated by the earth with new additions: brine and radioactivity.[3] This flowback is alternately emptied on the ground, dumped into abandoned wells or forcibly re-injected into permeable rock.
The chemicals in fracking fluids have been deemed trade secrets and are thereby protected from exposure. The industry says they're safe—but have they been tested? Who knows, they're secret! Can they make people sick? There are many people living near fracked wells who started suffering a long list of maladies when the drilling and fracking started: nosebleeds, headaches, dizziness, nausea, even cancer. But conveniently, the fracking chemicals can't be tracked—because they're secret!—and so the industry can claim that they do no harm.
Fracking creates new pathways for gas to travel out of the shale formations where it's been trapped. The intent is to capture the gas, of course, and the industry regularly assures us that those pathways direct gas only towards the drill hole—never away from (fracking apparently causes natural gas deposits to defy physics) it and towards, say, nearby groundwater, or into the air to where it becomes 25-105 times as powerful a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide (depending upon whether you use a 20 or 100 year time frame)[4]. Fracking activities also release a slew[5] of pernicious gaseous compounds, particulates, and greenhouse gases, such as sulfuric oxide, nitrous oxides, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), benzene, toluene, diesel fuel, and hydrogen sulfide—all of which can have serious health implications.
Fracking's tentacles reach far beyond the well pad, too. Fracking requires a specific silica sand to prop open rock pores,[6] and an average well uses about 7 million pounds of sand—worth an estimated $175,000 to the mining company extracting it. (Talk about motivation to dig, baby, dig!) The communities near these silica sand mines are watching their forests and rolling hills get flattened and their air go hazy with silica dust, particulates that can permanently damage lungs. The sand is mined on private and public lands, causing erosion and damn-near-impossible-to-restore mine sites. An estimated 6.5 million metric tons of sand were used for fracking in 2009—a quadrupling since 2000—and that amount doubled just in 2010.
As if all that weren't enough, more and more studies indicate that the injection of spent fracking fluids into wells and rock strata near fault lines is associated with earthquake swarms in unusually high numbers. These injection wells tend to become hypersensitive to distant natural quakes, triggering more earthquakes.[7] Meanwhile, as fracking studies proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency mysteriously stop before completion or remain unpublished,[8] the anecdotal evidence mounts of fracking's true costs.
What's at stake?
Our public lands are reservoirs for biological diversity and ecosystem services, but they're also places to go be human: to connect with nature, recreate, and enjoy its beauty, meaning and solitude. These are all priceless attributes and irreplaceable by any human measures.
Ecosystem services are those things and processes that nature provides basically for free and without need of human intervention: filtering water; circulating carbon; providing food, fiber, shelter, and genetic diversity; producing soil, oxygen and biomass; cycling nutrients and water…Just to name a few. Note that without most of these things we'd be dead, or at least very, very unhappy.
Yet these are the very goods, services, and experiences that are being trashed, sold off, compromised, and fracked to death. The fossil fuel industry brags about how much gas and oil they "produce," but of course it's nature that produced the gas, and they are depleting it. No one, ever, will get that fossil fuel, the embodiment of ancient sunlight, back to use it again.
Public lands belong to us all. It's up to us to demand that they be kept in the best condition possible, their productivity, function, and splendor unspoiled. An irretrievable depletion of a limited resource is neither sustainable nor acceptable. So let's not accept it.
The Obama Administration recently proposed new rules for oil and gas fracking on federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
The BLM's proposed rules are weak, at best, and pave the way for corporate profits at the expense of our American treasures and essential resources. The BLM is seeking public comments on the proposed rules. Tell them: Don't frack public lands! The deadline for comments is August 23rd. You can sign the petition and submit public comments here.
Back to the Front
The 15-year moratorium I imposed on fossil fuel leasing in the Rocky Mountain Front expired last year. But in the meantime, the Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front has formed, and we have been very busy working to ensure the Front's sustainability. We stopped a drilling proposal in mid-study. We did economic studies showing the Front was worth far more intact and undeveloped than being peppered with gas wells. We bought out existing leases.
And most of all, we convinced our Senators to make the moratorium permanent. Our Coalition, under local volunteer leadership, collaborated for four years to craft a piece of legislation that will keep the Front just like it is for the next couple of centuries – it's working its way through Congress now. The people led and the leaders followed.
Those unfortunate people who are within a few miles of the fracking tremors are doing more than taking notice, they're taking action. With our health, our water, our land and our future at stake, action now is a very good idea. It's time to take back our land and ban fracking on public lands[9]!
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People who frequently cook meals at home eat healthier and consume fewer calories than those who cook less, according to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research.
"When people cook most of their meals at home, they consume fewer carbohydrates, less sugar and less fat than those who cook less or not at all – even if they are not trying to lose weight," says Julia A. Wolfson, MPP, a CLF-Lerner Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and lead author of the study.
The findings also suggest that those who frequently cooked at home – six-to-seven nights a week – also consumed fewer calories on the occasions when they ate out.
The study was presented at the American Public Health Association's Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La., and appear online in the journal Public Health Nutrition.
Wolfson and co-author Sara N. Bleich, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School, analyzed data from the 2007-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from more than 9,000 participants aged 20 and older. The survey asked detailed questions about what participants ate during a 24-hour period as well as other eating behaviors such as fast food in the past 30 days.
The researchers found that 8 percent of adults cooked dinner once or less a week and this group consumed, on an average day, 2,301 total calories, 84 grams of fat and 135 grams of sugar. Forty-eight percent of participants cooked dinner six to seven times a week and they consumed 2,164 calories, 81 grams of fat and 119 grams of sugar on an average day. The researchers also found that those who cook at home more frequently rely less on frozen foods and are less likely to choose fast foods on the occasions when they eat out.
The research found blacks are more likely to live in households where cooking occurs less frequently than whites; and individuals who work more than 35 hours a week outside the home cook less, as well.
"Obesity is an escalating public health problem that contributes to other serious health issues, including diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease," says Wolfson. "The evidence shows people who cook at home eat a more healthy diet. Moving forward, it's important to educate the public about the benefits of cooking at home, identify strategies that encourage and enable more cooking at home, and help everyone, regardless of how much they cook, make healthier choices when eating out."
Wolfson says there may not be a one-size-fits-all solution to getting people to cook more. "Time and financial constraints are important barriers to healthy cooking and frequent cooking may not be feasible for everyone. But people who cook infrequently may benefit from cooking classes, menu preparation coaching or even lessons in how to navigate the grocery store or read calorie counts on menus in restaurants"
"Is cooking at home associated with better diet quality or weight-loss intention?" was written by Julia A. Wolfson and Sara N. Bleich. Funding for the study was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (grant number 1K01HL096409).
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future media contact: Natalie Wood-Wright at 443-824-1371 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Media contact: Susan Murrow at 410-955-7624 or email@example.com.
For the source of this, and many other important articles, please visit: https://clf.jhsph.edu/about-us/news/news-2014/study-suggests-home-cooking-main-ingredient-healthier-diet/)


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Read, and be shaken by your shoulders: the open-world zombie game you've probably always wanted exists. It's called Day Z .
It runs as a mod for Arma 2: Combined Operations, in a haunted version of Arma's 225 km² imitation of the Czech Republic, Chernarus. It isn't perfect. The servers are usually full. But it is an incredible adaptation of the things Arma does well: emergent gameplay, making you feel vulnerable and powerful, decision making, managing supplies, and tense teamwork.
Check our our Day Z interview with the mod's creator here.
How does Day Z work?
Actually, it's miraculous that it functions at all. Having pulled out my own hair dealing with Arma's sometimes flaky netcode, it's unbelievable that the game can sustain 500-some AI-controlled zombies and fifty players simultaneously.
Players spawn at one of many pre-set locations with a basic kit: a pistol, flares, some painkillers, some beans, a canteen. Other than that, you're naked: mapless and compassless in one of gaming's biggest environments. Food, equipment, and weapons (including custom weapons like a quiet-firing crossbow) can be found around the game world or from killing other players.
If you die, that character is permanently dead. If you exit a server and rejoin another, you'll resume your most recent character--in the spot and with the gear that you left them. That's Day Z's persistency in a nutshell.
Survival mechanics like food and water intake are layered atop the threat of zombies. There's hunting. You need to take morphine to ignore pain. There's a lot more to tell, but part of the experience is figuring this stuff out for yourself in a brutal setting.
Why should I play it?
In short: it's scary as hell, full of stealth and surprise, you can't trust anyone, roleplaying is effortless, and you might save the life of someone that sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
On my second life in Day Z, I had an unforgettable experience of anonymous cooperation, not unlike what the PS3 game Journey was lauded for. Minutes into a new character, I spotted someone being chased by a zombie. We were both in the open, along a highway that connects a series of hamlets at the southern part of Chernarus. I rushed in to help him; I didn't think I had much to lose if he betrayed me or the zombie killed us both, and that risk seemed offset by the prospect of gaining a partner. We killed the zombie attacking him, but our gunshots attracted a few more. We settled into a back-to-back formation next to a gate, and used the entrance to bottleneck the zombies.
All through this, I was yelling instructions and directions of zombies. He wasn't talking back. I asked if he wanted to work together; no response. We looted a little, picking up anything the zombies were carrying. I tried not to point my gun at him. I turned my back to him; I wanted to convey that I could be trusted not to spontaneously murder this stranger and take his stuff.
It seemed like he wanted to work together. Calmly, in the middle of the night, we crouch-walked with the sea on our right side. I kept talking to him. "Hey. Don't go that way. Don't go that way, dude! Over here. This house." He didn't always comply, but he stuck with me, leapfrogging from house to house and tree to tree. I figured he didn't have a microphone, or that his push-to-talk key wasn't bound. Whatever, this was good enough. We were alive. We started throwing flares to signal danger—red bread crumbs for illuminating where we wanted to head.
In a moment of safety, I typed. Seconds later, he finally spoke. He called out over Arma 2's proximity-based voice chat.
In Italian.
Without speaking the same language, we'd worked as a two man team, killed two dozen undead, traveled a few miles east, and silently agreed to help each other survive.
CHKilroy's videos are great representations of the best experiences you can have in Arma and Day Z.
How to download Day Z
Something Awful 's guide to installation is the best setup guide I can direct you to. Be patient if you're hopping in for the first time--connecting to a server (even when it's hanging at a "Loading" or "Waiting for host" prompt) can take several minutes, and the servers are pretty stuffed at the moment.


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Ok! Time to enter this challenge again. XD My last entry was deleted *poo* so here is a new one lol. I don't know if I like it as much as the other...but it's pretty good. I hope you like it, Katty!
So...this time I used a scan from AP to be sure. Lol. This one. Super adorable. Or "totes adorbs" as I tend to say these days. XD Anyhoo, no, there's no angels per say in this card...so I went for something different...but the image looked so innocent and light, which is what the challenge wants. So I ran with the idea that angels come in many different shapes and sizes...they don't have to have wings; there are angels here on earth that are there for us, like friends and family, and PETS! So yeah, I decided to say these kitties were little angels lol. I even gave one a halo. <3 I did something I don't normally do for cards...2 things actually--didn't add any red gradients on screen, and I used Times New Roman as a font omg. I've never used the basic of basics lol!!!
So yeah, mostly just sharpening and enhancing of the colors and then working with the typography that was a bit of trouble, but I got it done. Haha. I hope you like it! <3


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Audie Award Nominee, Romance, 2013Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer, she works at home designing sophisticated security systems. Her own security is supplemented by a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms. She keeps to herself, saying little, revealing nothing. Unfortunately, that seems to be the quickest way to get attention in a tiny southern town. The mystery of Abigail Lowery intrigues local police chief Brooks Gleason, on both a personal and a professional level. Her sharp, logical mind, her secretive nature, her unromantic viewpoints leave him fascinated but frustrated. He suspects that Abigail needs protection from something, even if he doesn't know what - and that her elaborate defenses hide a story that must be revealed. Accustomed to two-bit troublemakers, Gleason is about to walk into the sights of very powerful and dangerous men. And Abigail Lowery, who has built a life based on security and self-control, is at risk of losing both.


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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwired – May 20, 2014) – Captora today announced the company raised $22 million in Series B financing, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation by Series A lead Bain Capital Ventures. Captora helps modern marketers discover, engage, and convert future buyers, turning multi-channel marketing into sales pipeline.
As part of this financing round, NEA General Partner Scott Sandell, lead investor in dozens of successful technology companies including Workday, Tableau, Salesforce, WebEx, and Data Domain, joins the Captora board to partner with the company on achieving its vision to revolutionize new buyer acquisition for marketers.
Captora has secured over 30 customers, including Marketo, Salesforce, ServiceMax, SnapLogic, and AppDynamics, in the first year of product availability — demonstrating the urgent need for technology that optimizes content and conversion-driven marketing campaigns across marketing channels such as search, advertising, and social.
"Tomorrow's most successful cloud technology companies will deliver a platform that includes significant domain expertise that makes marketers' lives easier," said NEA General Partner Scott Sandell. "Captora offers marketers an entirely new way to grow pipeline more effectively by leveraging existing content across the overwhelming number of marketing channels available today. The company's founding team brings unique experience and leadership to deliver on this vision and we were very impressed by their progress to date."
Founding team CEO Paul Albright, CTO Anindo Mukherjee, and CPO Srihari Kumar, together have decades of experience leading companies dedicated to helping marketers achieve their goals faster and more efficiently using cloud technologies.
"Captora is leading a new era for marketing with an adaptive marketing solution that combines data, content, and optimization to automatically scale multi-channel campaigns. And Captora enhances our customers' investment in marketing automation and CRM solutions by driving new buyers into their funnel, often before they know our customers' brands," said Paul Albright, Captora Co-Founder and CEO. "Bain Capital Ventures is a great partner and I am thrilled to work with NEA as Captora extends our leadership position in this emerging market."
Albright, most recently Chief Revenue Officer at Marketo (MKTO), has previously held executive roles at market-leading companies such as SuccessFactors (SAP), NetApp (NTAP), and Informatica (INFA). Mukherjee held technology leadership positions at Google (GOOGL) and BloomReach. Kumar was co-founder and CEO of LeadFormix, sold to CallidusCloud (CALD), where he served as VP & GM of the Marketing Automation division. Kumar has also been a co-founder or early executive at a string of successful companies such as Yodlee, Ringcube (CTXS), and VXTrme (MSFT).
"Captora is the first company to take a data-driven approach to the challenge of Adaptive Marketing which allows marketers to discover, engage, and convert new buyers by intelligently and automatically scaling content-driven campaigns across multiple channels," said Ajay Agarwal, Managing Director at Bain Capital Ventures. "We are thrilled with the progress Captora has made since 2012 when they began incubating the concept in our Palo Alto offices. We're excited to welcome NEA as new investors — they bring strong SaaS experience to Captora as we continue to scale the company."
Captora is experiencing rapid business growth as a result of helping marketers create a data-driven strategy to reliably discover, engage, and convert new buyers. Sample results include:
- Conversion rates: 50%+ improvement across organic and paid search and advertising channels
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TORONTO -- After sending right-hander Darren O'Day to a hand specialist for lingering numbness and tingling in his fingers, the Orioles believe a pair of injections could salvage the late-inning reliever's season.
Orioles manager Buck Showalter said O'Day received injections in two parts of his right wrist and hand area in Florida after seeing specialist Brian Schofield, which the club hopes can reduce the inflammation in nerves near the problem area.
"We feel good about getting our arms around what's going on there," Showalter said before Friday's game. "I don't think we're completely out of the woods, but the doctor said it should quiet down the inflammation that's kind of pressing and causing the discomfort. … Hopefully it will manage itself in a day or two. I think in the next 48 hours we'll know if it solves itself.
"It's basically a compression of those nerves there," Showalter added. "The inflammation compresses them.
If the inflammation subsides, Showalter said O'Day could rejoin the Orioles in Tampa on Friday. Showalter said O'Day needs to just throw one session without the numbness and tingling in order to return.
The club still isn't exactly sure what's causing the ailment, but Showalter said there is no structural damage.
O'Day, who leads the Orioles with a team-best 2.28 ERA, made just two appearances over the past two weeks before Showalter announced Thursday that he wouldn't join the club on the trip to Toronto.
Other pregame notes
** The club has selected the contract of Dan Johnson from Triple-A Norfolk. Johnson will be a replacement left-handed bat in place of Henry Urrutia, who is not with the team in Canada because of visa issues. The team placed Urrutia on the restricted list, so they would have to create space for Johnson if Urrutia returns to the active roster.
** Baltimore native Steve Clevenger will make his first start with the Orioles tonight. Showalter wanted to give starter Matt Wieters, who had caught six of the past seven games, a day off since he will be catching both day games Saturday and Sunday.
** Danny Valencia, who has thrived against left-handed pitching, is in the starting lineup against right-hander Todd Redmond tonight.
** Light-hitting Toronto infielder Munenori Kawasaki is starting at second and hitting second tonight. He has driven in eight runs in 11 games against the Orioles this season 16 against the rest of baseball.
Here are tonight's lineups:
Nate McLouth LF
Manny Machado 3B
Chris Davis 1B
Adam Jones CF
Nick Markakis RF
J.J. Hardy SS
Ryan Flaherty 2B
Danny Valencia DH
Steve Clevenger C
Jason Hammel RHP
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Jose Reyes SS
Munenori Kawasaki 2B
Edwin Encarnacion DH
Adam Lind 1B
Brett Lawrie 3B
Colby Rasmus CF
Moises Sierra RF
J.P. Arencibia C
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The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has temporarily reversed its earlier order that call records collected by the National Security Agency should be destroyed after the current five-year limit.
The court modified its stand after a District Court in California on Monday ordered the government to retain phone records it collects in bulk from telecommunications carriers, as the metadata could be required as evidence in two civil lawsuits that challenge the NSA's phone records program under section 215 of the Patriot Act.
The conflicting directives from federal courts puts the government in "an untenable position" and are likely to create confusion and uncertainty among all concerned about the status of the data collected over five years ago, Reggie B. Walton, presiding judge of the FISC, wrote in his order on Wednesday.
It is appropriate for the District Court rather than the FISC to decide what telephone metadata would be required as evidence in the civil suits, he added.
In view of the restraining order by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, hearing the two civil cases, the Department of Justice filed Tuesday for temporary relief from a FISC order on Friday to destroy the phone data within the five-year limit.
District Judge Jeffrey S. White of the California court had issued a temporary restraining order that the call data should be retained as evidence after the government informed plaintiffs and courts hearing civil cases against the NSA program that in line with the FISC order, it would start destroying the records on Tuesday in the absence of a court order to the contrary. A hearing on whether the District Court order should continue is set for March 19.
Judge Walton had on Friday denied a DOJ motion for relief from the current five-year limit for holding the data, citing privacy interests and the absence of any preservation order from a court or the indication of a request from a plaintiff for the retention of the phone data.
The data preserved beyond five years cannot be accessed by NSA intelligence analysts for any purpose, and can only be accessed by technical personnel for ensuring continued compliance with the government's preservation obligations, Judge Walton wrote in his revised order.
The government will have to give prior notice to the surveillance court if any further access to the data is required for civil litigation, and also notify it of a resolution in the temporary restraining order proceedings in the California court, he added.


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Speech Code of the Month: Rogers State University
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for November 2013: Rogers State University.
The Student Code (PDF) at Oklahoma's Rogers State University includes a policy on "Campus Expression" that provides, in relevant part:
In order to protect the rights of all concerned individuals, any students or student organizations wanting to hold a peaceful protest must register with the Office of Student Affairs by filling out a "Campus Expression Form" at least three (3) days prior to the event. A meeting will be arranged with the event organizers, Office of Student Affairs and the Office of Campus Police to facilitate the event. Under special circumstances exceptions to the three-day regulation may be granted by the Vice President for Student Affairs/Dean of Students or his/her designee.
Don't be fooled by the policy's lofty claim about protecting rights. No one's rights are threatened by a spontaneous campus protest so long as protesters abide by reasonable rules prohibiting demonstrations from interfering with critical university functions. Indeed, the Campus Expression policy already contains just such rules: Demonstrations may not cause "interference with ingress or egress at University facilities, interruption of classes, damage to property, or disruption of the operation of the University, nor blocking vehicular or pedestrian traffic, unless such traffic is diverted by previous arrangement with the Campus Police." So why does Rogers State need three days of advance notice prior to allowing students to speak their minds? Answer: It doesn't.
While administrators typically respond to criticism from free speech advocates by claiming these types of regulations are permissible as "time, place, and manner" restrictions, courts have held time and again that to be considered lawful, "time, place, and manner" restrictions must be "narrowly tailored" to serve a significant governmental interest, leaving open ample alternative channels for communication. Again: If student protesters at Rogers State are already prohibited from interrupting classes, disrupting university operations, and blocking vehicular or pedestrian traffic, what is the university's significant interest in requiring protests to be registered three days in advance?
By contrast, students may have a very significant interest in holding a spontaneous protest, since the emotional impact of speech on its audience often depends on its connection to unfolding events. This summer at the University of Alabama, for example, students wanted to hand out pro-choice fliers to counter a pro-life student group's display of graphic, abortion-related images, having only learned of the pro-life group's event the day before it was scheduled to take place. The university's policies, however, required the group to obtain a permit at least three days in advance, by which time the pro-life event would have been over and fading from students' memory.
Rogers State's policy is not saved by the fact that a university administrator has license to grant "exceptions to the three-day regulation." If anything, this only makes the policy worse, because it gives the university total discretion―with no objective criteria for making the decision―to decide if and when spontaneous protests may take place on campus, allowing the university to favor or disfavor certain speech on the basis of its content.
This policy is a serious infringement on the First Amendment rights that the university is legally and morally obligated to uphold. For this reason, it is our November 2013 Speech Code of the Month.
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I don't usually do reviews of the Watchtower Society's literature, but the November issue of the AWAKE! magazine was special because it dealt with atheists and atheism. This isn't something that flies off the Society's printing presses every month, and as an atheist with Witness in-laws, I just had to bite. Now that my reviews of each article dealing with atheists are over, I wanted to clarify some things and explain my conclusions about the AWAKE! in a single, cohesive article to tie it all together.
There's one major point I need to mention before we can begin. That's the huge gulf between the values of ex-Witnesses turned atheists like myself and the values of the Watchtower Society. I'm not talking about values like honesty, hard work, and all that. I'm talking about how both groups value information and how we form our opinions. These issues are much bigger than they might seem and can be applied to all sorts of peoples.
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We all do it. Don't be ashamed. If you know how to knit, you have some… FAILED KNITTING.
An anecdote: A friend of mine announced she was pregnant with her second child. In anticipation, I bought a pattern for a cute little sweater. Friend had baby: A girl! So I bought some pink-ish wools and started in.
A year later, it evolved into a first-birthday gift.
Many other years later, it evolved into something for one the child's dolls, perhaps.
Yet more years later… and I will be incorporating the pieces and bits of knit into some scarves.
I have done something like this a couple of times before. Once I felted an unfinished knit charity quilt-square (I missed the deadline, of course) into the end of a scarf. Here is a photo of the finished scarf:
I have more recently created a similar scarf. This time I used a finished, knitted scarf I wasn't happy with, and sewed on (by hand!) some ruffly chiffon. I have this for sale on my Etsy page for a few days, and if it doesn't sell it is MINE.
Some of us just aren't true knitters. We can't find happiness with what we make; however we are continually drawn to trying again and again. The path to peace within the realm of knitting is perhaps in finding a mixed-media outlet for yourself. Sew on knitting. Felt with knitting. Re-purpose knitted bits. Go on, you can do it. Do It Yourself.
Natasha Henderson, Montreal
*note this would work with crochet, too… and there's nothing stopping you from making something like a cup-cosy out of your little knit and crochet bits. Small is good…


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Friday, March 15, 2013
Baby Quilts ~ A Custom Order
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Gorgeous, Rita! Simple quilts are just so perfect.....ReplyDelete
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These are beautiful!ReplyDelete
Beautiful. I love the backing.ReplyDelete
Really cute. And maybe you don't, but I go into your archives ALL the time. Hope that doesn't make you feel weird or anything. :-DReplyDelete
Gorgeous! I'm a blue/green kinda gal so I'm really drawn to the fabrics in these quilts. I love the straight line quilting too, just perfect!ReplyDelete
Such cool and peaceful colors for these lovely baby quilts! I love the straight line quilting and the darling bicycle backing!ReplyDelete
SO beautiful!ReplyDelete
I love everything about these, especially love the one with linen!ReplyDelete
Due to allergies I prewash all of my fabrics and so never use precuts. The thought of cutting all of those single squares out of so many different fabrics, and the ensuing mess I would be left with, serve to deter me.... for now.
Love that bicycle fabric for the back. The blues & greens are indeed refreshing. Beautiful.ReplyDelete
Its beautiful as always. I have a general question regarding the pictures of your quilts, there's hardly ever a background, only the quilt. How do you do that?ReplyDelete
Sweet quilts Rita. I have a question for you. When you use a check or spot or some other regular print for the binding of a quilt, how obsessive are you about cutting the bind along the print? Very rarely are fabrics printed square which drives me crazy! So I am always torn between following the print (not square) or just squaring the fabric up and cutting across the repeat of the print. Hope that makes sense! Would love to hear your thoughts. Ros xReplyDelete
You inspire me alot with your wonderful colour choices. If only I was as fast as you making them. My little baby quilt is still being sewn together and I cut the squares out weeks ago. The backing is amazing tooReplyDelete
Wonderful colour selection and the fabrics blend so well. Simple and classic.ReplyDelete
Hi Rita, Love your quilts - all of them. How big do you make your baby quilts? I am always so indecisive about how bit they should be. And I also would love to hear your reply to Bloom's question about the fabrics used for the binding of the quilts. Keep quilting!!!ReplyDelete
Very sweet quilts, and I love the choices of backing and binding fabrics!ReplyDelete
Very very cool. Both are just delightful, Rita. Your bindings are always a cheerful surprise and add so much to the overall quilt-you are my queen of best bindings.ReplyDelete
beautiful quilt, beautiful fabrics and as I live near London I love the names of the fabric too!ReplyDelete
Wow - 930 posts!ReplyDelete
Cute quilts - I really love the bike fabric you used on the back.
Beautiful baby quilt - so bright and cheerful! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Another wonderful quilt! Love the mix of blues, greens, gray and white. Perfect binding, as always!ReplyDelete
It amazes me how fast you are able to churn these out, when I plod away for months at one small baby quilt project! And I love the simplicity of the squares, and the nostaglic fabric prints. Very lovely.ReplyDelete
Gosh, this post seems to have inspired a few questions! I was also going to ask about what size these quilts are. I have two baby quilts to make in the next couple of months and have been completely inspired by this palette, especially seeing as the sex of these babies is unknown. Gorgeous colours for a boy or girl.ReplyDelete
Your quilts are so unique to you Rita. You can blend many fabrics and come up with a treasure every time. Its not like using one whole line, it's a variety yet they all blend as if they were ment to be together. I have never seen anyone else do that and I doubt anyone else could. I see your quilts and just love them, and I think that's the reason you can not keep them in stock after you make them. You are one special quilter Rita and what a blessing to the quilting world you are!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for enjoying my King's Road fabrics!ReplyDelete
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Rice University's breakthrough silicon oxide technology for high-density, next-generation computer memory is one step closer to mass production, thanks to a refinement that will allow manufacturers to fabricate devices at room temperature with conventional production methods.
This scanning electron microscope image and schematic show the design and composition of new RRAM memory devices based on porous silicon oxide that were created at Rice University. Credit: Tour Group/Rice University
First discovered five years ago, Rice's silicon oxide memories are a type of two-terminal, "resistive random-access memory" (RRAM) technology. In a new paper available online in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters, a Rice team led by chemist James Tour compared its RRAM technology to more than a dozen competing versions.
"This memory is superior to all other two-terminal unipolar resistive memories by almost every metric," Tour said. "And because our devices use silicon oxide -- the most studied material on Earth -- the underlying physics are both well-understood and easy to implement in existing fabrication facilities." Tour is Rice's T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry and professor of mechanical engineering and nanoengineering and of computer science.
Tour and colleagues began work on their breakthrough RRAM technology more than five years ago. The basic concept behind resistive memory devices is the insertion of a dielectric material -- one that won't normally conduct electricity -- between two wires. When a sufficiently high voltage is applied across the wires, a narrow conduction path can be formed through the dielectric material.
The presence or absence of these conduction pathways can be used to represent the binary 1s and 0s of digital data. Research with a number of dielectric materials over the past decade has shown that such conduction pathways can be formed, broken and reformed thousands of times, which means RRAM can be used as the basis of rewritable random-access memory.
RRAM is under development worldwide and expected to supplant flash memory technology in the marketplace within a few years because it is faster than flash and can pack far more information into less space. For example, manufacturers have announced plans for RRAM prototype chips that will be capable of storing about one terabyte of data on a device the size of a postage stamp -- more than 50 times the data density of current flash memory technology.
The key ingredient of Rice's RRAM is its dielectric component, silicon oxide. Silicon is the most abundant element on Earth and the basic ingredient in conventional microchips. Microelectronics fabrication technologies based on silicon are widespread and easily understood, but until the 2010 discovery of conductive filament pathways in silicon oxide in Tour's lab, the material wasn't considered an option for RRAM.
Since then, Tour's team has raced to further develop its RRAM and even used it for exotic new devices like transparent flexible memory chips. At the same time, the researchers also conducted countless tests to compare the performance of silicon oxide memories with competing dielectric RRAM technologies.
"Our technology is the only one that satisfies every market requirement, both from a production and a performance standpoint, for nonvolatile memory," Tour said. "It can be manufactured at room temperature, has an extremely low forming voltage, high on-off ratio, low power consumption, nine-bit capacity per cell, exceptional switching speeds and excellent cycling endurance."
In the latest study, a team headed by lead author and Rice postdoctoral researcher Gunuk Wang showed that using a porous version of silicon oxide could dramatically improve Rice's RRAM in several ways. First, the porous material reduced the forming voltage -- the power needed to form conduction pathways -- to less than two volts, a 13-fold improvement over the team's previous best and a number that stacks up against competing RRAM technologies. In addition, the porous silicon oxide also allowed Tour's team to eliminate the need for a "device edge structure."
"That means we can take a sheet of porous silicon oxide and just drop down electrodes without having to fabricate edges," Tour said. "When we made our initial announcement about silicon oxide in 2010, one of the first questions I got from industry was whether we could do this without fabricating edges. At the time we could not, but the change to porous silicon oxide finally allows us to do that."
Wang said, "We also demonstrated that the porous silicon oxide material increased the endurance cycles more than 100 times as compared with previous nonporous silicon oxide memories. Finally, the porous silicon oxide material has a capacity of up to nine bits per cell that is highest number among oxide-based memories, and the multiple capacity is unaffected by high temperatures."
Tour said the latest developments with porous silicon oxide -- reduced forming voltage, elimination of need for edge fabrication, excellent endurance cycling and multi-bit capacity -- are extremely appealing to memory companies.
"This is a major accomplishment, and we've already been approached by companies interested in licensing this new technology," he said.
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Copper Plate with Lute Tablature (2017-12-10)
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The piece has been identified by Gerhard Söhne. It is a work by Alessandro Piccinini: Aria III Con parte variate. From Piccinini: Intavolatvra di liuto, et di Chitarrone. Libro primo, Bologna 1623, p. 49-51. But the version below is simpler and stems from another edition (possibly a pirate print?).
Request by Anna Bianco
Pietro Prosser sent me the request of the art historian Anna Bianco about the back of a picture that was drawn on a copper plate. The picture probably was made around 1640 in Italy (Rome/Bologna). On the other side the printing plate of a yet unknown piece can be found. If someone is able to identify the piece, it would be fine to contact me (see contact).
Markus Lutz
PDF of the transcription I made Midi-File
In the meantime lute builder Gerhard Söhne has made a version by changing bars.
The resulting Galliard has a regular structure of 8 measures and indeed could be the original version. He also supposed, that the plate had been thrown away because of the wrongly set bars.
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Research being presented at the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity in Aberdeen tomorrow (27 September 2011) will report a global estimate of the impact of longline fisheries on seabirds and reveals that, despite efforts to reduce seabird deaths, upwards of 300,000 birds are still being killed every year.
The study, recently published in the journal Endangered Species Research, was carried out by scientists from the RSPB and BirdLife International and is a powerful reminder of how far we still need to go to ensure ecologically responsible fishing.
Since the 1980s, scientists have linked global declines of albatrosses and other seabirds with 'incidental catch' in longline fisheries. Adult and juvenile birds become snared on hooks attached to the lines, which can be over a hundred kilometres long, and are dragged underwater to a premature death.
Presenting the research is Dr Orea Anderson, policy officer for the Global Seabird Programme and lead author of this study: "It is little wonder that so many of the affected seabird species are threatened with extinction - their slow rate of reproduction is simply incapable of compensating for losses on the scale this study has demonstrated."
A major factor determining this huge estimate is the emergence of fleets, with previously unaccounted for bycatch problems, adding to the global tally. While some fisheries have reduced their impacts on seabirds, we are only just becoming aware of problems in others - hampered by a lack of data.
The Spanish longline fleet on the Gran Sol grounds off SW Ireland is one such fleet, with preliminary data suggesting it may be responsible for killing large numbers of seabirds, potentially upwards of 50,000 annually, mostly shearwaters and fulmars. The Japanese tuna fleet came second in scale – over 20,000 killed each year, but with the largest impact on albatrosses.
Despite an exhaustive review, substantial data gaps remain (e.g. Nordic[1], Asian distant water, and Mediterranean fleets) and until these are filled it is impossible to gauge the true impact of global longline activities on seabirds. However, the continued declining trends in many seabirds remain a cause for grave concern. Seventeen out of 22 albatross species are threatened with extinction[2] with the main threat coming from mortality in fisheries.
Some fisheries have enforced strict regulations, resulting in substantial bycatch reductions in recent years. Seabird deaths around South Georgia in the CCAMLR[3] zone of the Southern Ocean have declined by 99% since regulations were enforced. South Africa achieved a drop of 85% bycatch in its foreign-licensed fleet in 2008, when a cap was placed on the number of seabird deaths permitted. More recently, in April 2011, Brazil passed a law requiring the use of stringent seabird bycatch measures in their domestic tuna longline fleets.
But the problem is so global in scale that every fishing nation has a role to play in alleviating this needless waste of marine life.
RSPB and BirdLife International's Global Seabird Programme call on regional fisheries management organisations and industry to protect seabirds through the use of simple, cost-effective mitigation measures that have been proven to reduce the threat of bycatch. They are also working to be part of the solution: the Albatross Task Force, founded by the RSPB and BirdLife International, works directly with fishermen and fishery managers in seven countries (bycatch hotspots) worldwide to reduce the number of seabirds being killed.
Dr. Cleo Small, senior policy officer for the Global Seabird Programme and co-author of the review, commented: "Using simple bird-scaring lines and weighting of hooks as they enter the water could dramatically reduce the number of seabirds being killed".
"With the UK's Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic holding a third of the world's breeding albatrosses, the UK has a major responsibility to ensure seabird-friendly fisheries. As for the EU, the findings of this review places a heavy onus on the forthcoming EU Plan of Action for Seabirds to deliver a robust set of remedial measures capable of reducing the impact of longline and other fisheries on seabird populations in EU waters and beyond."
[1] Iceland, Faroe Islands, and Norway
[3] Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources


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I know I have been quite silent about Rygel in general lately because I was quite busy with my day job. Since Zeeshan left Nokia after the MeeGo turmoil I took over his task of bringing Rygel in good shape to form the basis for Harmattan's DLNA functionality.
These efforts, started long ago by Zeeshan, are finally coming to a close and entering the wild. With the release of PR1.2 beta for the N950, the alert reader might have spotted the release note entry "Media sharing with DLNA compatible devices". You can probably guess what that's powered by 😉
One of the goals that we'd set ourselves has already been reached. The device is UPnP certified. The DLNA compatibility is in really good shape as well.
That is one of the reasons why the upstream Rygel development looks kind of stalled. The other one is that we've been focusing on ironing out the rough edges with emphasis on stability. Naturally, all of the patches that resulted here have been upstreamed, either to Rygel, GUPnP or libsoup.
On the device
So what's on the device? A more or less pristine upstream snapshot taken several commits after 0.11.3 with later patches cherry-picked and some minor adjustments to adapt ourselves to the environment, like different device details and icons.
What can it do?
It implements a M-DMS, a mobile media server, enabling you to share the media content of your phone in your home network.
In addition to the rather useless mandatory media formats defined by DLNA we have decided to include a LPCM transcoder and the necessary profiles to share all the videos and images you're going to take or already have taken on the device.
The server runs in a strict sharing mode where only media files that conform to one of the supported DLNA profiles are shared. This is configurable and we plan to release a "tweaking app" later to help the average end user to fine-tune and undo some of the limitations that had to be done due to the DLNA guidelines.
So, to all that already can, enjoy Rygel on your mobile phone.


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Worcester's downtown withered when city officials staked the neighborhood's future on a silver bullet development that missed its mark badly. Now the city is redeveloping downtown, albeit at a pace that seems impossibly slow. But impatience misses two key points. The massive effort is advancing, even in the face of a weak real-estate market, and it's advancing in the right direction. Worcester, once bedeviled by gimmicky real estate developments, is sticking to its plan and refusing to take shortcuts. Given the downtown neighborhood's history, that's the most important development of all.
When developers broke ground on Worcester's CitySquare project three years ago, the development was the largest post-urban renewal downtown redevelopment effort in Massachusetts history. The 20-acre, $565 million project involves demolishing a massive failed downtown mall, laying out a new street network, and constructing millions of square feet of offices, retail storefronts, and residential space. Worcester is trying to move beyond its failed downtown mall by creating something that is, in both physical form and philosophy, the antithesis of an urban shopping mall.
Scores of American cities suffered from disinvestment and population loss in the 1960s and 1970s. Worcester wasn't alone in throwing an expensive mega-project at its case of urban rot. But its results were especially disastrous. The city saw scores of shoppers abandoning downtown storefronts for suburban shopping malls, so it decided to drop a shopping mall in the middle of its downtown, sandwiched between city hall and the train station.
The mall was an unmitigated disaster. It failed twice. Those failures became magnified, because Worcester had bulldozed a huge swath of its downtown and erased key roads to accommodate the mall. The city had cut its downtown in two, for a gimmick that didn't even work.
The city is currently working on rebuilding a downtown that looks and functions like one. It's a turnaround plan that celebrates the downtown, instead of suburbanizing it. It recognizes that good downtowns start with people, and once downtowns fill with people, business happens organically.
CitySquare began with addition by subtraction. Construction crews demolished the old mall and much of the garage parking connected to it. They leveled 80,000 tons of concrete and rebuilt the street grid the mall had erased. The project developer, Leggat McCall Properties, built and opened a pair of commercial buildings, including a new headquarters for the insurance company Unum, in the midst of a poor development market.
Plenty of work remains. Well over 1.5 million square feet of buildings remain on the drawing boards. The city needs every one of them to create a downtown that hums with life. Worcester's failed mall showed that cities can't wish vibrant downtowns into existence. People need real reasons for coming, and staying, downtown. That's why the residential component of Worcester's CitySquare plan looms large — and why it shows the city understands the importance of incremental change.
CitySquare needs around-the-clock residents to anchor Worcester's new downtown, not just office workers who punch the clock before driving home. It needs a critical mass of bodies who are vested in the neighborhood, and who will attract the restaurants and coffee shops that will draw new visitors to the area that will allow the entire district to succeed. This critical mass needs to be large.
The city needs sizable apartment and condominium complexes to deliver the number of bodies that will anchor the rest of the neighborhood. Sizeable residential buildings are also very difficult to build in Worcester, because they cost more to build than they'd generate in rent. Cheaper wood-frame apartments could have gone up a year or two ago, but these low-slung buildings wouldn't generate anywhere close to the kind of residential density the CitySquare vision hinges on. It's a sign that the city gets it, that it's avoiding shortcuts and holding out for the kind of density it needs to create a downtown that isn't just full of buildings, but actually feels alive.
Paul McMorrow is an associate editor at Commonwealth Magazine. His column appears regularly in the Globe.


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Microbes living in the oceans play a critical role in regulating Earth's environment, but very little is known about their activities and how they work together to help control natural cycles of water, carbon and energy.
A team of MIT researchers led by Professors Edward DeLong and Penny Chisholm is trying to change that.
Borrowing gene sequencing tools developed for sequencing the human genome, the researchers have devised a new method to analyze gene expression in complex microbial populations. The work could help scientists better understand how oceans respond to climate change.
"This project can help us get a better handle on the specific details of how microbes affect the flux of energy and matter on Earth, and how microbes respond to environmental change," said DeLong, a professor of biological engineering and civil and environmental engineering.
"The new approach also has other potential applications, for example, one can now realistically consider using indigenous microbes as in situ biosensors, as well as monitor the activities of human-associated microbial communities much more comprehensively," DeLong said.
Their technique, which has already yielded a few surprising discoveries, is reported in the March 3 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The work was facilitated by the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center established in 2006 to explore microbial ocean life, most of which is not well understood.
The traditional way to study bacteria is to grow them in Petri dishes in a laboratory, but that yields limited information, and not all strains are suited to life in the lab. "The cast of characters we can grow in the lab is a really small percentage of what's out there," said DeLong, who is research coordinator for C-MORE.
The MIT team gathers microbe samples from the waters off Hawaii, in a part of the ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre.
Each liter of ocean water they collect contains up to a billion bacterial cells. For several years, researchers have been sequencing the DNA found in those bacteria, creating large databases of prevalent marine microbial genes found in the environment.
However, those DNA sequences alone cannot reveal which genes the bacteria are actually using in their day-to-day activities, or when they are expressing them.
"It's a lot of information, and it's hard to know where to start," said DeLong. "How do you know which genes are actually important in any given environmental context?"
To figure out which genes are expressed, DeLong and colleagues sequenced the messenger RNA (mRNA) produced by the cells living in complex microbial communities. mRNA carries instructions to the protein-building machinery of the cell, so if there is a lot of mRNA corresponding to a particular gene, it means that gene is highly expressed.
The new technique requires the researchers to convert bacterial mRNA to eukaryotic (non-bacterial) DNA, which can be more easily amplified and sequenced. They then use sequencing technology that is fast enough to analyze hundreds of millions of DNA base pairs in a day.
Once the sequences of highly expressed mRNA are known, the researchers can compare them with DNA sequences in the database of bacterial genes and try to figure out which genes are key players and what their functions are.
The team found some surprising patterns of gene expression, DeLong said. For example, about half of the mRNA sequences found are not similar to any previously known bacterial genes.
Lead authors of the paper are Jorge Frias-Lopez, research scientist in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), and CEE graduate student Yanmei Shi. Maureen Coleman, graduate student in CEE, Gene Tyson, postdoctoral associate in CEE, and Stephan Schuster of Pennsylvania State University also authored the paper with Chisholm and DeLong.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on March 5, 2008 (download PDF).


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Ho Chi Minh
|Ho Chi Minh
|Personal life
|Date and place of birth
|19 May 1890, Nghe An Province, French Indochina
|Nguyen Sinh Sac (father)
|Claimed religion
|Educated in France
|Tang Tuyet Minh
|Date & Place of Death
|3 September 1969 (aged 79), in Hanoi
|Manner of Death
|Heart failure
|Place of burial
|Buried in Hanoi with honors
|Dictatorial career
|Military service
|Led military as commander in chief during wars with France and US
|Highest rank attained
|Political beliefs
|Political party
|Vietnam Workers Party
|Date of dictatorship
|Served as President from 2 September 1945 – 3 September 1969
|Wars started
|Invasions of South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia; Vietnam War
|Number of deaths attributed
Ho Chi Minh, born on May 19, 1890 as Nguyen Tat Thanh, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and communist dictator who imposed socialist authoritarian rule on North Vietnam, dashing any hopes of it becoming a democratic country. He was prime minister of the Viet Minh, a Communist proto-state, from 1945 to 1955. The Viet Minh became the government of North Vietnam in 1954. Ho became president in 1955 and held this position until death on September 2, 1969. Ho was more a figurehead than a leader. Although Le Duan, the party boss, maintained a lower profile, he was a more powerful leader. "Ho" is a surname while "Chi Minh" means "the one who brings light." Vietnamese generally call him Bác Hồ (Uncle Ho). This phrase was coined in imitation of "Uncle Joe," one of Stalin's nicknames. Official propaganda stresses that Ho was celibate and dedicated only to welfare of the nation. Few Vietnamese are aware that he was married to Tang Tuyet Minh, a Chinese Catholic who lived in Guangzhou. After the Vietnam War ended in 1975, Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
Life and career
Nguyen Tat Thanh left Vietnam at the age of 20. He traveled to London, New York and Paris and took different jobs (among others: worked as a ship steward, gardener, cook in a restaurant). While working on a ship he used name Nguyen Van Ba, then he returned to his original name.
In 1919 he joined the French Socialist Party and in 1920, after the party fell apart, he become a member of the French Communist Party. He became an expert in colonialism issues. In 1922 he was delegated to Moscow, where he studied the doctrine and techniques of Communism. In 1925 he was sent to China, officially as a staff member of the Soviet Consulate in Canton, in fact as a Comintern agent. Then he became the Director of the Comintern Office in Shanghai. Since then, until the start of the Second World War he traveled a lot over Asia.
- Ho throughout his life was a dedicated Communist internationalist. In 1938 Ho went from Moscow to Moa's side at Yenan.[2][3]
- Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist in the sense that he had a special affection for Vietnam's people and favored Vietnamese unification and independence, but, from his reading of Lenin's Theses onward, he firmly adhered to the Leninist principle that Communist nations should subordinate their interests to those of the international Communist movement.[4]
- Because of Ho Chi Minh drafting a Declaration of Independence that specifically referenced the American revolution, liberals (including most infamously Barack Obama) thought Ho Chi Minh was inspired by Thomas Jefferson, even though many stuff in Minh's declaration had stark differences from Jefferson's ideas (namely, placing more emphasis on the nation than on individual men), as well as faking admiration specifically to trick Americans into supporting his cause,[5] falling in line with the Communist use of deceit to fool the public into believing the opposite of the Communists' true intentions.
External links
|Ho Chi Minh
|Vietnamese name
|Hồ Chí Minh
- Triumph Foresaken - history book by Mike Moyar which disproves most of the liberal propaganda about Ho.
- Viet Quoc- The website of the Vietnamese Nationalist Party.
- The Blood-Red Hands of Ho Chi Minh, Vietcong mass murder in South Vietnam
- Statistics Of Vietnamese Democide: Estimates, Calculations, And Sources
- The North Vietnamese Terror "More than 172,000 people died during the North Vietnam land reform campaign after being classified as landowners and wealthy farmers, official records of the time show. But official figures leave out summary executions of those accused of membership of the National People's Party, however. Unofficial estimates of those killed by Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam Labor Party, which later become the Vietnamese Communist Party, range from 200,000 to 900,000. ..."The land reform campaign was a crime of genocide like that of Pol Pot," Hao said."
- "The Massacre of Hue", Time Magazine, 1969 South Vietnamese skulls stacked on top of one another in dozens of mass graves reveal a gruesome slaughter of thousands by the Vietcong.
- "The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam," US Government Report estimates that at least half a million were killed in the north and that up to one million will be killed in the south following the Communist victory. See the rest here,here, and here. Communist Lt. Col. Chuyen states that 5 million South Vietnamese are targets for persecution and that about 500,000 will be killed--which is almost exactly what happened. When asked if fears of a bloodbath are exaggerated, he says "they could not be exaggerated. It will happen." It did happen.
- Ho Chi Minh's Land Reform: Mistake or Crime? Lam Thanh Liem, a major authority on land issues in Vietnam, concludes that the communists perpetrated a huge bloodbath and that the death toll was in the hundreds of thousands.
- The Vietnamese Gulag Chilling reports of the utter despair and mass suicides that followed Communist victory in South Vietnam.
- In Vietnam's Gulag, the Captives Die a Slow Death
- "Hanoi Regime Resolved to Oust Nearly All Ethnic Chinese"
- Nightmare at Sea Haunts Refugee Who Survived Communist ethnic cleansing and forced expulsions literally drove millions into the sea, where hundreds of thousands died.
- Camp Survivors At least a million South Vietnamese were sent to concentration camps, with at least 165,000 never being seen again.
- Genocide in Laos The Vietnamese and Laotian Communists waged a genocidal war against the Hmong tribesmen, with 100–300,000 dead.
- Ho Chi Minh The Man and The Myth Documentation on YouTube
- ↑ Available sources attribute either traditional Vietnamese folk religion or atheism to Ho Chi Minh
- ↑ OSS in China: prelude to Cold War, By Maochun Yu.
- ↑ http://www.oldwardogs.us/2006/12/understanding_r.html
- ↑ http://www.triumphforsaken.com/index.php?pr=Excerpt
- ↑ https://www.wnd.com/2013/07/obama-ho-chi-minh-comment-echoes-kgb-disinformation/


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Time is money and a lot of time and money is wasted when business owners dont take time to plan what they want from their website design. After working with several U.S. based and Australian website designers, Ive found that its not uncommon for businesses to expect a quick delivery of a new or reworked website. Progress can really get bogged down if you dont work through a preliminary step.
If you are working with website designers in Australia, India, the U.S or anywhere, you risk having project delays when you havent properly thought through one critical area. Also, if your web design consultant doesnt spend time learning more about your business before implementing a website, theres a good chance youll be disappointed with the final product. Here are some areas to work through before you sit down with your Australian website designers.
Who is Your Target Audience?
Its proven over and over again, successful websites cater to a very specific audience. This is often difficult for business owners to grasp as there is a tendency for them to want a generic company website. By targeting a specific audience, the content on your website is also more specific. Having a brand strategy really helps in this area. Understanding the overall focus for your brand helps the web design team select appropriate keywords, plan navigation and content. This strategy captures people searching for that specific keyword and those people on the perimeter are drawn in to your website, too.
For example, you have a tightly defined website developed to appeal to "athletes with foot problems." Your web pages are optimized for that topic they begin to rank well in search engine results. In fact, athletes with foot problems find your web pages. However, analysis of traffic shows people searching for "seniors with foot problems" and "children with foot problems" are likely to come across your pages, too.
Here is another great example where a business focused their website on their core product, in this case, coffee. Look at Australias Muzz Buzz dot com website. Their frontline product is premium coffee. They also offer fruit specials, cold drinks, bagel sandwiches and donuts. When you look at their website you are greeted by a design clearly branded around coffee. They targeted people looking for drive-thru premium coffee shops. Their Australian website designers understood the concept of using a highly targeted approach to capture a wider audience.