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[Editor's Note: Thanks to Terry Harpold for sending this for TidBITS. If you can make it to this session, we guarantee that it will be a stimulating hour and fifteen minutes. Most of you have read about Ted Nelson and Xanadu in our special issue, but Stuart Moulthrop and Jay Bolter may be less familiar. Stuart and Jay helped to make my degree in Hypertextual Fiction from Cornell University possible. Without Jay's Storyspace (more on Storyspace in a few weeks) and their combined support, I never would have completed my senior honors project. They are appropriate companions to Ted Nelson in that all three live and breathe hypertext, something that I wish were not so rare.]
A Special Session of the 1990 Convention of the Modern Languages Association: "Canonicity and Hypertextuality: The Politics of Hypertext"
Session #344
Friday, 28 December 1990
Grand Ballroom East, Hyatt Regency Hotel
Chicago, Illinois
Important note: Sessions of the MLA convention are generally open only to MLA members and their guests, though it is possible to register to attend only sessions on a given day. For more information on registration, contact:
MLA Convention Office
Modern Languages Association
10 Astor Place
New York, NY 10003-6981
Telephone: 212/475-9500
DESCRIPTION OF SESSION -- One of the principal assumptions of the promoters of hypertext applications is that the freeform, non-linear organization of linked documents in a hypertext system alters not only the way in which the document is consumed, but also how it (and the information it contains) is perceived. Hypertextuality, they argue, is a different kind of textuality; the experience of navigating a docuverse (a open set of documents by one or multiple authors, all or some of which may be linked in any number of ways) is qualitatively different than the experience of moving within the relatively closed space of a conventional, linear text.
While the extent of these effects is still open to debate, there can be little doubt that the formal aspects of a hypertextual corpus offer unique challenges to the historical and institutional constitution of literary canons. Hypertextual literatures are fundamentally non-hierarchical, collaborative textual environments, in which traditional distinctions between authors and readers, or between more or less proficient readers, are subverted. In the most radical hypertext systems, these distinctions collapse completely.
This panel will address the political dimension of hypertext as a literary mode and institutional practice. Each of the papers will analyze from a different perspective the effects of the fundamentally non-hierarchical, non-linear structure of document relations in a hypertext environment for the description and dissemination of a literary canon in that environment. Hypertextuality has a fracturing effect on structures of canonicity. If, as is widely believed by theoreticians of hypertext, these technical innovations in the deployment of textual information mark an historical and epistemological break with earlier forms of literature, then the consequences for the future shaping of what we have known as the literary canon are of enormous significance.
DESCRIPTION OF PAPERS -- The papers for the panel will be structured as a linked series of exchanges. The panel will begin with Ted Nelson's introduction of Project Xanadu, the best-known and most sophisticated hypermedia system currently under development. This presentation will include a brief slide presentation of the system in action and a discussion of its methods and philosophy. The slide presentation will serve as a nodal point for the discussions that follow. After this introduction, Nelson will present his analysis of the political consequences of a non-linear, non-hierarchical literary corpus, and the new literature that is taking shape in the development of hypertext systems. Stuart Moulthrop will follow, applying and critiquing Nelson's analysis in relation to the institutional domains of the academy, and, in particular, to the contradictions that emerge within pedagogical applications of hypertext for a profession that is founded on hierarchical relationships of canonicity. Jay David Bolter's paper will follow, addressing Nelson's conclusions from an historical and epistemological perspective, in which the political dimension of hypertext-as-a-new-literary-form is considered with relation to the history and philosophy of literature in the West.
Though Nelson's presentation and analysis will to a large extent direct the shape of discussion in the panel, Moulthrop and Bolter will not be acting strictly as respondents. Our goal here is to weave the three presentations together so as to address the issues raised by Nelson from positions that, while in agreement with many of his conclusions, come to those conclusions by very different methods. The panelists will be working collaboratively on their presentations before the session, and are being encouraged to keep a large part of each presentation open for extemporaneous divagation.
Ted Nelson: "How Xanadu (Un)does the Canon"
Stuart Moulthrop: "(Un)doing the Canon (1): The Institutional Politics of Hypertext"
Jay David Bolter: "(Un)doing the Canon (2): Hypertext as Polis and Canon"
TERENCE HARPOLD -- (Session leader), Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania
Related Publications:
"The Grotesque Corpus: Hypertext as Carnival." (In a forthcoming special issue of Computers and Composition. Spring, 1991.)
"Hypertext and Hypermedia: A Selected Bibliography." The Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook. Emily Berk and Joseph Devlin, eds. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.
"Threnody: Psychoanalytic Digressions on the Subject of Hypertexts." Hypermedia and Literary Studies. Paul Delany and George Landow, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. 171-184.
TED NELSON -- Founding Designer, Project Xanadu; Distinguished Fellow, Autodesk, Inc.
Widely considered the foremost theoretician of electronic textuality, hypertext and hypermedia in the world. He is generally credited with having coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" in his writings on electronic textuality in the mid-1960s, and with being the first to advance the concept of a universal server for electronic document linkage.
Founding designer of Project Xanadu, the twenty-odd year-old hypermedia project that is the ancestor and paradigm of nearly every hypertext system since devised.
Related publications:
Computer Lib: You Can and Must Understand Computers. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1987
Literary Machines. Swarthmore, PA: T.H. Nelson, 1981. Literary Machines. Vers. 87.1. Guide Envelope Document. Bellevue, WA: OWL International, Inc., 1987.
Innumerable articles and lectures on electronic textuality and hypertext.
STUART MOULTHROP -- Associate Professor of English, University of Texas, Austin.
Related Publications:
"Hypertext and 'the Hyperreal'." Proceedings Hypertext '89. November 5-7, 1989, Chapel Hill, NC. New York: ACM, 1989. 259-267.
"In the Zones: Hypertext and the Politics of Interpretation." Writing on the Edge 1.1 (1989): 18-27.
"Making Nothing Happen: Hypermedia Fiction." The Hypertext/ Hypermedia Handbook. Emily Berk and Joseph Devlin, eds. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.
"Reading from the Map: Metonymy and Metaphor in the Fiction of 'Forking Paths.'" Hypermedia and Literary Studies. Paul Delany and George Landow, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. 119-132.
Numerous publications on electronic gaming and interactive fiction.
JAY DAVID BOLTER -- Assistant Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Leader of the design and programming team for Storyspace, a hypermedia design and authoring system for the Apple Macintosh platform. Storyspace will be published by Eastgate Systems in December, 1990.
Related Publications:
Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
"The Idea of Literature in the Electronic Age." Topic: A Journal of the Liberal Arts 39 (1985): 23-34.
"Topographic Writing: Hypertext and the Electronic Writing Space." Hypermedia and Literary Studies. Paul Delany and George Landow, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. 105-118.
Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990.
Information from:
Terence Harpold
Graduate Group in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
420 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Telephone: 215/898-6836
America Online: THARPOLD
Bitnet: tharpold@penndrls
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A Texas company called Cork Computer Corp. claims to have designed a computer requiring only the 128K ROMs from a Mac 512KE, Plus, or SE to give it a IIci's performance. The Cork System 30 has everything that IIci does, including onboard video driving most monitors on the market, a 25MHz 68030, 68882 coprocessor, three NuBus slots, and a SuperDrive. Cork says that its added a Motorola 56001 DSP chip, which provides CD-quality audio in and out as well as 9600 baud fax and modem capabilities (it may be v.everything [that's our term for modems that have v.22, v.22 bis, v.32, v.42, v.42 bis, MNP 1-5, and other abbreviations and codes after their names]). Cork claims the System 30 is completely compatible with current Mac software, because otherwise no one would buy it, which is extremely astute.
The trick to all of this is the ROMs. The 128K ROMs are pretty capable, but they lack Color QuickDraw, which didn't surface until the Mac II's 256K ROMs. Luckily for Cork, much of the 256K ROM code can be obtained from patches and INITs. Potential buyers will wish to keep in mind that the ROMs are optimized for the processor in the original machine - so a Cork System 30 might not be as fast as a true IIci. Still, at about $2300 for a base system, it's not a bad deal if it runs all or most Macintosh software.
You've never heard of Cork Computer Corp.? Not too surprising, but you may have heard of another firm, Texas MacStuf (formerly Texas MacExpress), a mail order firm formed to fund the years of work needed to develop the Cork System 30.
Apple Legal has apparently been informed of Cork's work on the System 30 and currently has no problems with it. Cork is cautious of the litigious nature of the industry though, and has retained the services of an international law firm with an excellent Intellectual Properties department. Everything Cork has done has been passed by the lawyers first, which accounts for Cork's confidence that its machine is legit. From talking to Cork, I gathered that it is designing and marketing its machine not to challenge Apple's dominance, but to broaden the Mac market. It knows that there are millions of Macs out there with the 128K ROMs, and if the Cork System 30 can turn those machines into powerful machines once again, it will be a victory for the abstract Macintosh as well as for Cork. Who loses? No one particularly, though a powerful Macintosh clone might steal some sales from the PC-clone makers.
Cork Computer Corp. -- 512/343-1301
9430 Research Blvd., Bldg. 2 Suite 250
Austin, TX 78759
Information from:
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Cork Computer Corp. representative
Related articles:
PC WEEK -- 26-Nov-90, Vol. 7, #47, pg. 27
InfoWorld -- 12-Nov-90, Vol. 12, #46, pg. 8
Yes folks, the epic tale of confusion continues. We just saw a press release from Claris and there are not one, not two, but three different releases of HyperCard 2.0. Don't worry, though, the HyperCard program is exactly the same among the three. If you're anything like us or other people on Usenet, you want to know what comes with each package. This wasn't made clear in the Claris press release (where do they get these press writers, anyway?). First the brouhaha when they announced that there would be two versions of HyperCard and forgot to mention that they would be the same program, and now this). Luckily for all of us, Kevin Calhoun, the HyperCard project leader checked into it and clarified the matter.
Here's the deal as of Monday, 03-Dec-90 at 15:49. I'm not making any guesses as to what will change by tomorrow, but I'll have sent out this issue by then (yes, we work on a flexibly tight deadline). Package #1 of HyperCard is the one that everyone who buys a new Mac gets, which is the HyperCard 2.0 program, three stacks, and a wimp 35-page manual. This version is set to the Typing level of access, but that can be changed.
Package #2 of HyperCard is the $49 upgrade kit, which includes five disks, the same wimp 35-page manual, a 600-odd page HyperTalk guide. You're paying for that last manual and the telephone support, but it's probably a good reference book - the previous one for HyperCard 1.x was quite good. Claris says the upgrade kit won't ship until around Christmas.
Package #3, the Development Kit, includes Package #2 and as a special bonus it has three more manuals, "Getting Started With HyperCard," "The HyperCard Reference Guide," and "Beginners' Guide to Scripting." Supposedly, the upgrade is the differential between the complete HyperCard 1.x and the Development Kit, which is aimed at people who are interested in programming in HyperCard but have never done so before. Of course, the Development Kit costs $199 and won't be out until February of '91, so it's probably cheaper to order the upgrade and buy a third party book that teaches HyperCard programming for $30, saving yourself $125 or so in the process.
Claris -- 800/628-2100
Information from:
Kevin Calhoun -- firstname.lastname@example.com
Mary Bushnell -- HyperCard Product Specialist at Claris
(Yup, a slow week)
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jrh_cardinal wrote:Lindax wrote:Yep, great idea bart.
I made this a "sticky", since players will want to check the score board regularly.
Lxyou 2, fuzzy pengui knows about this, right? He's the one that is gonna be naming the tourneys and such from now on, and most of the time he would leave the stuff in parentheses off of the name, but having TPA at the end is kind of importantNight Strike wrote:I have decided that the Top 3 overall finishers will all receive Contest Achievement Medals at the end of the season.
With this new database, we have the ability to change a tournament's title (and change the topic it links to) at any time without the problems that came with the previous system.

subset: commoncrawl


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Hope you have a wonderful weekend, my lovelies!
No matter how you spend it, may it be filled with joy and delights. xx
P.S. Here's a Cut And Dry post that I'm sure you'll find it quite amusing. How about a Ba-Donka-Donk? ;)
beautiful set of fall moments!
really pretty fall colors and i am grateful for your second photo which makes me want to BE there. gorgeous. and i like the log photo a LOT
Beautiful fotos!!!
I wish you a wonderful weekend
regards Crissi
Those are great photos! I love the fall and especially the fireplace. This was the first morning in Atlanta that I had to scrape ice off the windshield. Love that crisp air...
Very - Arty, colourful, and enjoyable post and pics, my friend.
Being at the right place at the right time is 90% of what good photography is about. The other 10% is having the good sense/eye to recognize it. Beautiful pics, Betty.
truly beautiful! thanks for sharing it!
yes, wonderful autumn and so beautiful images you have made !
wish you a lovely weekend too !
Excellent fall expressions! Have a wonder-filled weekend! :-)
I love how that tree branch frames the photo in that second shot! All lovely photos! Have a great weekend!
Αγαπημένη μου Μπέττυ
Τι υπέροχες φθινοπωρινές φωτογραφίες!!!
Αγαπώ πολύ το φθινόπωρο, για τα χιλιάδες χρώματα, το τζάκι, τα πεσμένα φύλλα!!!
Σου εύχομαι ένα υπέροχο οικογενειακό Σαββατοκύριακο, γεμάτο αγάπη!
Πολλά φιλάκια
Such glorious, delightful autumn photos - well done to both you and mama nature. Hoping you also have a great weekend Betty, my best wishes to you and yours.
Love that duck photo ... perfect light!
The colors of the autumn. The first is my favorite, i love ducks :)
thanks, craver vii, i'm looking forward to that!
Very nice pictures, many people on my blogrol are writing about the fall. My article was also focussing on it.
LOL at the video clip! It's always strange for me to hear House talking with his true accent. I don't know how he pulls off the American accent on the show. I love him to death!
Great images! Have a splendid weekend, Betty.
Thank YOU friend :-)
Aloha from Honolulu
Comfort Spiral
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Thanks for stopping by! Wonderful fall pictures!! Love that duck!
I'm so grateful for the Fall, too. It's the best season of the year. I just love all the colors, and the temperature is just right... . Everything is perfect... Beautiful pictures, btw!
and thank you for stopping by my blog and leaving such a sweet comment!
hugs from my corner. Have a wonderful weekend!
Nice Duck! The berries and leaves are perfect; sort of surprising. I took a picture of firewood last week! Thanks for your blog, you convey the spirit of thanksgiving all year round.
Nice autumn photos!Have a great weekend,too!
These are wonderful autumn pictures. I also enjoyed the Ba-Doka-Donk video. I hope you have a great weekend.
what a gorgeous collection of fall photo's!! and wow on that duck close up, that's so special!!
have a wonderful weekend!!
I'm hoping yours is equally wonderful as well! :)
these are great pics Betty - I do have to do a fall posting before winter!
This is a wonderful series of images Betty!
I absolutely love the berries. Nicely done!
Sending you wishes for a wonderful weekend!
Beautiful autumn images.
Ah, I love your photos :)Big hug :)
That third one looks like a cross between a photo and a painting. It's amazing.
Happy weekend, sweet Betty.
Beautiful photos so stunning.
beautiful photos each and every one...
Awesome fall pictures, I enjoyed each one. Have a wonderful weekend!
Gorgeous Autumn/Fall images and text dear Betty, I love this Season.
Have a wonderful weekend!
xoxoxo ♡
What wonderful fall photos! I love them!
Hope you have a wonderful weekend, Betty!!
love all those beautiful shots!
Awesome fall pictures and funny video.
Have a great weekend!
I love your fall pictures, each one is so beautiful!
Have a good weekend!
Ah, the last days (and images ?) of autumn, and these are beauties, Betty. I especially like the one of the rapids in the stream, with all the colours under the water.
Have a great weekend !
That setting is extremely beautiful! Wow. I'd love to spend a day there, relaxing. Have a happy weekend!
Such an amazing set of pictures -- just gorgeous!
What lovely colours and texture! Our trees are bare over here - or very nearly.
Very enjoyable! Have a nice day!
Delicious autumnal atmosphere photos my favorites are the river and the road.
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Olá, amiga!
Sua série de fotos está deslumbrante... uma festa colorida para os olhos...
Bom fim de semana!
Ciao Betty
Grazie per la visita e per i commenti.
Trovo il tuo blog e le tue foto molto interessanti.
A presto
Your fall colors are just delicious, my dear! Warm and passionate and full of life. Just what I need to curb the bite of the chill autumn air...
I hope you are enjoying your weekend. :-)
Warm hugs,
I love your photos.
I love fall colors too, but here in MO USA, the colors are now on the ground and not so colorful.
Winter here we come.
Have a great weekend.
We love your blog is wonderful and we are always here giving all the news.
We wish you guys a great weekend.
Super Glorinha kisses.
I'm so partial to the goose photos (since I have about 12 of them at the farm!) Lovely captures of Autumn. xoxo
My, your photos are wonderful! Love the geese! Thanks for sharing and Happy Pink Saturday.
I like the selective color, if that's the right phrase, in the second last photo. Very nice effect.
I feel like I am on a little journey as I look down the page. So many wonderful shots. I saw a different post that you had swans in...beautiful!! I also saw you recently lost a friend. So sorry. It sounds like she was much loved and appreciated. What a wonderful way to live and then to be remembered once your life comes to a close. Precious. ~
Beautiful images, I love the autumn colors. I've never tried pumpkin soup , is it good? Have a wonderful weekend!
Colorido otoñal en tus buenas imagenes, gracias por compartir.
que tengas un feliz fin de semana.
un abrazo.
Μπετούλα μου να περάσεις ένα υπέροχο σαββατοκύριακο !!!!Φιλάκια και μια ζεστή αγκαλιά!!!
Wow! What great captures! love them all especially the geese.
These are amazing photographs.
Beautiful images. Every single one of them is wonderful.
Great Photo
Original serie con estupendas fotos, saludos...
Wonderful fall images, esp the 2nd shot! =)
Yesterday was really really nice in my neck of the woods, but today, it's raining... I'm glad it isn't freezing cold & snowing, though! =)
beautiful pictures.. Wish you the same Betty dear
You have fully expressed the beauty of fall through your pics.
Each image is beautiful!
I like this post. That is one of your greatest posts to me.
Wow! Beautiful landscapes, I like the light and color. Delicious frames. I love that autumnal atmosphere.
Autumn is the bomb for the pure coziness and rich color and texture it brings. An invitation to rest. How welcome!
Those first two images are lovely and your processing of the second one is just wonderful! I'm really taken with the next to last one with the selective coloring. Makes me think a little leprechaun has walked that side of the path. :)
Love Hugh Laurie - great video!
Hi, I have seen your comments often on Petty Witter and then behold I saw you in my Blog.
I will pick up on some of your posts when I have time.
The ones in here, the pictures are beautiful.
In my journeys to Europe in autumn , I have sensed the descriptions you gave in here. The crispy fallen leaves , and the air itself waits eagerly in bated breath.
Thanks for the poetic ride.
that about sums up autumn! Although I live in the land of mostly palm trees, we're RV camping up in the mountains for a couple of weeks and there is so much color! Maybe we'll wake up to snow...
Your photos made me dream of this kind of season that our country will never have. Thanks for this great experience. Have a great week ahead.
Love the autumn pictures!! They're so pretty.
Beautiful images...I hope you had a wonderful weekend.
Congratulations for your point of view
Great fun here, Betty! I like the near and far aspects in the first few images, especially the peekaboo factor in the third image (leaves & logs).
The swirling stream is marvelous. I have yet to learn how to set my camera to capture that kind of look.
You've been nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award. Come check it out.
Marcia :)
What magical colors and light! Stunning series of shots.
Beautiful group of pictures.
Have a great week!:D
I just love the colors and the tone of your photos. Very rich.
Bonitas y coloridas tomas otoñales.
wonderful fall photos!!
marcia, so sweet of you...:) thanks so much, i am very honoured that you thought of me. xo
I live the first picture, beautiful tones of colors.
great shots! have a nice weekend ♥
Wonderful fall colors; lots of variety in colors.
All feel-good photos! What a lovely fall path through the woods!
Μπετούλα μου να περάσεις ένα υπέροχο σαββατοκύριακο !!!!Φιλάκια και μια ζεστή αγκαλιά!!!


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The signing of the Protocols to amend the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy and the Brussels Convention Supplementary to the Paris Convention took place on 12 February, at OECD headquarters.
The revised Conventions allow for a considerable increase in the amount of compensation available to victims of a nuclear accident and for the expansion of the scope of application of the Paris Convention.
Håkan Rustand, Swedish Justice Chancellor and Chair of the Contracting Parties of the Paris Convention signs the Final Act of the Conference watched by Donald Johnston, OECD Secretary-General (left) and Luis Echávarri, NEA Director-General (right). To Mr. Johnston's right is Patrick Reyners, NEA Head of Legal Affairs. Looking on are NEA staff members Julia Schwartz and Jack Radisch.
The most important features of the revised Paris Convention include an increase in the nuclear operator's liability amount to a new minimum of €700 million. In addition, the minimum liability amount applicable to low-risk installations and transport activities will climb to €70 million and €80 million respectively.
The Convention contains a detailed definition of "nuclear damage", allowing for a broader range of damage to be compensated than the existing personal injury and damage to property. The definition refers specifically to economic loss, the cost of measures to reinstate a significantly impaired environment, loss of income resulting from that impaired environment and the cost of preventive measures, all of which are likely to be considerable in the event of a serious nuclear accident. In addition, the geographical scope of the Paris Convention is extensively expanded.
The most important feature of the revised Brussels Supplementary Convention is a substantial increase in the three tiers of compensation under the Convention. The first tier, corresponding to the minimum liability requirement under the Paris Convention, jumps to €700 million and continues to be provided by the operator's financial security, failing which it must be provided by the installation State from public funds.
The second tier climbs to a new high of €500 million and continues to be provided from public funds made available by the installation State. The third tier (international) rises to €300 million and continue to come from public funds provided by all Contracting Parties. Total compensation available under the revised Paris-Brussels regime is now €1.5 billion, compared to the previous amount of €300 million IMF Special Drawing Rights (approximately €350 million).
The Protocol to amend the Paris Convention will come into force when ratified by two thirds of the Signatory States, the Protocol to amend the Brussels Supplementary Convention will come into force when ratified by all the Brussels Supplementary Convention Signatory States.
Photos from the signing ceremony
News media contacts:
Ms. Cynthia Gannon-Picot
Head, External Relations and Public Affairs
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
Tel.: +33 (1) 45 24 10 10
Fax: +33 (1) 45 24 11 10
Website: www.oecd-nea.org


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Nvidia's GTX Titan launched at $999, which is quite steep even for a high-end graphics card. However, Nvidia doesn't feel like it is facing a lot of pressure at the moment, so it can afford to slap such a price on its new flagship. Gainward's GTX Titan is available at €940 and higher. For the same money one can get the GTX 690, which is a little bit faster in games, but the GTX Titan offers unmatched single GPU performance, free from multi-GPU issues. Gainward's card is based on Nvidia's reference design, which is pretty good to begin with, and the picture below speaks louder than words.
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It comes with one 6-pin and one 8-pin power connector. Geforce GTX logo lights up when the card is powered up and we must say the Titan is one of the best looking cards we ever had a chance to play around with. Mind you, with such a saucy price, it has to look and feel like a premium product.
GTX Titan specs include a total of 2668 CUDA cores, 837MHz+ clock and a total 6GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6008MHz and paired up with a 384-bit memory interface.
We played Crysis 3 at 1920x1080 and 2560x1600 resolutions with maxed out effects, 4xMSAA and 16x Anisotropic filtering. The charts show the two fastest cards in single GPU and multi GPU categories and both are pretty much a benchmark for other NV cards out there. However, Crysis 3 is a pretty tough nut to crack even for high-end cards. At 1920x1080 we could enjoy really nice framerates, but at 2560x1600 we experienced the occasional stutter. Overall the prformance gap does not seem so high, it is about 12 percent at 2560x1600. Of course, an in-depth review is coming soon, so stay tuned.


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The Broncos have more than just Peyton Manning. While he's terrific, there are many Broncos who are great fantasy options. Receiver Eric Decker has eight touchdowns and is averaging 62 yards a game, and Demaryius Thomas has five scores and averages 93 yards receiving per game. These outstanding receivers are must-plays every week. Another option as a flex player is Brandon Stokley. This Manning favorite has five touchdowns and is a reliable pass catcher. The Broncos are averaging more than 30 points per game and are strong in the red zone. This team is going to keep scoring, so if you have Broncos, play them.


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Ask the Wi-Fi Guru, Episode XIX
September 22, 2009
Our monthly Q&A series offers advice to those seeking help with home or small business WLANs. This month our Guru offers advice on range extension and bridging, WPA-Enterprise, and static DHCP addresses, among other things.
Our monthly Q&A series offers advice to those seeking help with home or small business WLANs. This month our Guru offers advice on the common problems of range extension and bridging, among other things.
It is that time of year againwhen the children head back to school, a bit of color starts to peek through the leaves, and of course, let us not forget the meeting of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Standards Review Committee, also known as RevCom. This years RevCom was an exciting one, too, as they finally ratified the 802.11n wireless standard.
802.11n, which offers many important enhancements over 802.11g, including double-width channels for up to 300Mbps, has been slowly evolving for seven years. Having been assured that the ratified standard would be fully backwards-compatible, many wireless vendors released 802.11n-draft 2.0 products over the last two years. While n-draft consumer products work perfectly well for basic wireless networking in most scenarios, only relatively advanced users can take advantage of the full capabilities of 802.11n. Getting the most out of the current crop of 802.11n-draft gear can require particular configurations and a lot of time tweaking and debugging. Hopefully ratification of the standard will accelerate vendor improvements so that 802.11n gear is easier for everyone to enjoy to its fullest extent.
Q: I have a Buffalo WHR-G125 running as a primary router and I want to extend the range using a Buffalo WCR-G54. The WCR has a ROUTER/BRIDGE/AUTO mode switch on it. I was planning to use the WHR-G125 as the primary router with DD-WRT installed and the WCR-G54 as secondary. Andy
A: The WCR-G54 router is pitched by Buffalo Technology as having many automatic configuration features. One such featureand an unusual one at thatis this hardware switch that can be set to router, bridge, or auto mode.
The bridge mode in this case configures the router to behave as a simple AP (access point) meaning that it disables its DHCP server and firewall, among other things. You can use this feature to create a wired bridge to extend your wireless rangein other words, by running an Ethernet cable from a LAN port on your primary router to a LAN port on the secondary router.
You would not need DD-WRT installed on your primary router (unless you wanted it for some other reason)all the features you need to create a wired bridge using this setup are already included. In fact, anyone can create a simple wired bridge like this to extend the wireless range of his or her primary routeryou dont need a router with a marked bridge mode. Simply connect via cable as described and configure your secondary router to disable the WAN connection, disable DHCP server, and disable the firewall. Manually configure the secondary routers LAN IP address to an address compatible with your primary router (for example, if your primary router is 192.168.1.1, configure your secondary router to 192.168.1.2).
Of course, the key word in setting up a wired bridge is wired. That is to say, you need wire, and if your routers are very far apart, that might not be very convenient.
If you wanted to setup a wireless bridgewith no cable between the routersthe scenario changes. There are two options:
1 Using software built in to both of these routers, configure them for WDS (wireless distribution system). A WDS link between the two routers will make the secondary router behave as a kind of repeater.
2 If WDS mode is not supported or does not work, you can create a real repeater setup. This would require using DD-WRT. In fact, your DD-WRT router (the WHR-125 in this case) would need to become the secondary router, and the WCR (or any router) would be the primary router. The secondary router with DD-WRT would be doing all the work, receiving the signal from the primary router and re-broadcasting it.
Q: We implemented WPA-Enterprise to connect all of our wireless laptops to the corporate network. Everything is working great. Now they come in with a wireless camera from Linksys (WVC200) and when we try to configure this, the only options for wireless are WEP or WPA personal. Is there any way to get this WPA personal device to connect to a WPA-Enterprise protected AP? Dennis
A: Few home users may be familiar with WPA-Enterprisethe corporate variation on WPA security. In an Enterprise configuration, passkey authentication is not performed by the router, but is handed off to an external machine running a RADIUS server. In a situation like Denniss, this is done so that the authentication is tied into the organizations Windows domain controller.
Some wireless clients do not support WPA-Enterprise mode, the Linksys WVC200 IP camera being one such example. Not to be flippant, but the easiest solution is probably to buy a new cameraone with WPA-Enterprise support.
But if we want to get all MacGyver about it, one idea does spring to mind. A router running DD-WRT or Tomato could be configured as a wireless bridge to the companys network. In this setup, the bridge router would authenticate via WPA-Enterprise. Any devices wired to the bridge routersay, this camerashould then be online. Of course, if you dont already have a router lying around that supports DD-WRT or Tomato, buying one simply to bootstrap this old camera may be seen as a stretch over in Accounting.
Q: The Linksys router that I have allows me to enter the MAC address of clients into a table to reserve permanent IP addresses. Is this the same as Static DHCP because the router will always assign the same IP Address to each client? Koshik
A: Yes, this is exactly the same as a static DHCP address. It is the very definition of a static DHCP address. Simply a case of vendors sometimes using their own lingo.
Q: I have an iPod touch and use it to listen to XM Radio around our property. The signal from our Actiontec Wi-Fi router reaches 250' or so. Will a repeater in the house increase my signal distance significantly or is there another solution? - Doug
A: If the repeater can be placed in a location where it is significantly closer to the property than your primary router, then this may very well increase the range you can stream XM over the Internet.
Handheld devices like the iPod touch and iPhone have relatively small internal antennas and lack the wireless sensitivity you would find on, say, a good laptop. This bodes well for using a repeater to boost the signal strength, since you would essentially be leveraging the repeaters reception to your primary router.
As described in the first question above, you could try either a WDS configuration or a true repeater, but the latter does require a router that can support DD-WRT.
Q: I was using my iPhone with firmware 2.2, but couldnt connect to any wireless networks; it didnt detect networks in range. Now I have upgraded to firmware 3.0, but the problem is not fixed yet. What can I do? - Yasser
A: There are quite a few anecdotal reports of iPhone weirdness with Wi-Fi networks. Some problems appear to be software related; others could be due to overheating or other hardware problems. In this case, it sounds like your iPhone has not detected wireless networks with either the old or newer firmware. Sounds like good reason to contact Appleits probably broken.
Aaron Weiss is a freelance writer, author, and Wi-Fi enthusiast based in upstate New York. To submit your questions to the Wi-Fi Guru, simply click on his byline (above) and put "Wi-Fi Guru" in the subject line. Click here to read last month's column. For more by Aaron Weiss, read "DD-WRT Tutorial 3: Building a Wireless Bridge." For definitions of unfamiliar term, visit our searchable glossary.


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- When disinfection is completed, a log will open in Notepad and you may be prompted to Restart.(See Extra Note)
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If MBAM encounters a file that is difficult to remove,you will be presented with 1 of 2 prompts,click OK to either and let MBAM proceed with the disinfection process. If asked to restart the computer, please do so immediately.
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WPIAL Section 1-AAA doubles tourney loaded with rematches
The Section 1-AAA doubles tournament provided some familiar matchups for the section's singles players.
Franklin Regional's Lauren Bailey and Natalia Perry combined to win an tight, three-set final over Penn-Trafford's Alexis Ryan and Charlotte Vertes, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, at The Club in Monroeville last Thursday.
The win means Bailey again qualifies for the WPIAL Class AAA doubles tournament, which she did in 2010 and 2011, while Perry is a section champ in both singles and doubles in her freshman season.
Both the FR and P-T teams in the finals advance to the WPIAL doubles tournament, which begins Thursday at 1 p.m. at Norwin High School.
Not only was the final match something of a rematch between Perry and Vertes, who faced off in the section singles final two weeks earlier, the two semifinal matches pitted players from the same schools that met in singles.
In one semifinal, Perry and Bailey defeated Norwin's Alexa Holleran and Courtney O'Connell, 6-1, 6-0. Perry and Holleran also met in that round of the singles tournament.
In the other semifinal, Vertes and Ryan defeated Hempfield's Madison DeBone and Carly Bryan, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. Vertes and DeBone also met in the singles semifinals.
The third-place match also went the same way as in the singles tournament, as DeBone and Bryan defeated Holleran and O'Connell, 6-1, 6-4, for the section's final spot in the WPIAL tournament.
Each local school also had a second team compete in the tournament.
Norwin's Madi Guffey and Allie Green won their opening match by defeating Paige Kemsey and Annie Neurohr of Greensburg Salem, 10-7, but fell in the quarterfinals to Vertes and Ryan, 10-2.
Penn-Trafford's team of Sara Rupchak and Dana Kelly also won its opening match by defeating Amber Vozar and Shannon Sebak of Kiski Area, 10-5. They fell in the quarterfinals to Holleran and O'Connell, 10-7.
Franklin Regional's team of Jenna Bailey and Grayce Behnke fell in an opening-round tiebreak to Niki Kusy and Bella Lane of Latrobe, 11-10 (7-2).
Matt Grubba is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-388-5830 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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BRIAN MITCHELL: I have been involved in local, family and emigration research in the wider Derry area since 1982. The database whose construction I supervised from 1982 to 2007, containing one million records (dating from 1642 to 1922) extracted from the major civil and church registers of County Derry, can now be accessed at www.derry.rootsireland.ie.
I offer a free advice service to anyone tracing their roots in North West Ireland (i.e. Counties Derry, Donegal and Tyrone). Be it a query about place names, surname origins, sources to search or record offices to visit, visitors and locals alike are encouraged to forward their queries to me at email@example.com.
Deborah: What mistakes do family history researchers outside of Ireland commonly make? What basic information does a researcher need before commencing research in Ireland?
BRIAN MITCHELL: Making the jump across the Atlantic to trace Irish roots without completing research in the home country! The first step in tracing your Irish roots is to gather as much information about your ancestors from research through sources in USA, Canada etc.:
· Where he/she came from in Ireland; the county of origin, a townland or parish
· What was his/her religion
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Family memories and knowledge should not be underestimated. There are many instances where family folklore, passed down through the generations, extends beyond what is written in historical records or captured in databases.
In addition to oral tradition, a search should be made through family papers to unearth old photographs, newspaper clippings with perhaps an obituary, letters, or even a family bible with its own family tree within.
Armed with this information, family history researchers will be in a much better position to undertake online research of Irish databases and/or explore record holdings in local and national archives in Ireland.
Deborah: What is the key to unlocking family origins? You mentioned "the importance of place."BRIAN MITCHELL: The key to unlocking Irish family history origins is the knowledge of place. In tracing your roots in Ireland the most important piece of information, to be gleaned from either family folklore or record sources, is any information as to a place of origin of your ancestors.
The most effective way to view Ireland is as a country that is subdivided into 32 counties, which in turn are subdivided into parishes (2,428 civil parishes), and which in turn are subdivided into townlands (60,462).
As many records of genealogical value were compiled on a parish basis it means that, in absence of indexes or databases, genealogical research generally requires knowledge of the county and parish in which your ancestor lived. The "Placenames" search facility at www.irishtimes.com/ancestor allows researchers to search more than 65,000 Irish placenames to pinpoint their county and parish locations.
Deborah: How can researchers obtain such information?
BRIAN MITCHELL: An excellent starting point for research of Irish surnames is the Irish Ancestors website at www.irishtimes.com/ancestor as their 'Surname search' option enables you to examine the location, frequency and history of Irish surnames.
A good starting point for tracing your Irish family history is an examination of the indexes to 20 million birth, marriage and death records for Ireland at www.rootsireland.ie. This website is the largest online source of Irish church register transcripts. You can either search across all counties or search a particular county (for example, County Derry at www.derry.rootsireland.ie).
As the search facility on this website is very flexible it means that you should be able to determine if any entries of interest to your family history are held on this database. For example, if you are searching for the baptism/birth of a child you can narrow the search down by year, range of years, names of parents and by parish of baptism/district of birth. Marriage searches can be filtered by year, range of years, name of spouse, names of parents and parish/district of marriage.
It must be stated, however, that a failure to find any relevant birth/marriage entries in this database doesn't mean that the events you are looking for didn't happen in Ireland. It simply means that they are not recorded in the database; for example, they may be recorded in a record source which doesn't survive for the time period of interest or in a source that has not been computerized or, perhaps, in the database of another county. For example you can search, for free, the church registers for Dublin city, south Cork and Counties Carlow and Kerry at www.irishgenealogy.ie.
Deborah: Any other advice for researchers?
BRIAN MITCHELL: Researchers of Irish record sources must realize there are many ways of spelling the same place names and surnames in Ireland!!
Place names, originally in Gaelic, were Anglicized from the 17th century, by settlers with little knowledge of the Irish language. This resulted in a number of different spellings of the same place name. For example, in Clondermot Parish, County Derry, the townland which was standardized as Coolkeeagh in the Townland Index was recorded as Killkeeraugh in the 1831 census and as Culkeeragh in the Tithe Book of 1834.
You will find that in the context of Irish historical records there are many spelling variations of the same surname. There is no doubt that the process of Anglicization has obscured the origins of many Irish surnames. From the 17th century Gaelic surnames of Irish and Scottish origin were translated, and in many cases mistranslated, into English; others were changed to similar-sounding English names. Family names of Gaelic origin were further disguised in the 18th century by discarding the prefix Mac, Mc and O.
Thus, in conducting family history research you should be aware of the possibility of different spellings of the same surname. For example, Doherty can also be written, to name but a few, as Dogherty, Dougherty, Docherty, O Dochartaigh, O'Doagharty, O'Dogherty and O'Doherty in record sources
Deborah: A huge THANK YOU, Brian Mitchell, for sharing your expertise and advice with us!


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Summer Sewing Challenge - Peacock silk
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The sewing challenge on Burda came at the perfect time. I had exactly 2 yards of this BEAUTIFUL silk peacock print and wanted to make a dress that would really challenge my skills while I discovered how to work with silk. I envisioned a simple silhouette with some dramatic details to highlight the beautiful (almost neon!) pattern. After hunting around for a good pattern fit, i decided to mix a few favourite Burda designs. I love the soft draping around the neck of the Gathered Blouse, and the sweet gathered back panels of the Peplum Blouse.
I made a Frankenstein.
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I am over the moon happy with the results (there could not be a more breezy summer dress) and think it's a great example of what you can do when you decide to mashup and reinterpret Burda patterns to create the exact image you had in your head.
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Her Chambre Bleue
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A performance of two discrete but simultaneous parts by Ilona Dorota Sagar with text and spoken word I wrote with direction, that was performed at the Frieze vernissage 2010. Dancers dressed in blue moved around the space (a bar and socialising space in a relatively exclusive members club in Covent Garden, London) blocking people's paths, dividing the crowd, slipping between and under people, and splaying themselves along the walls, bar and carpet; at the same time four actors dressed anonymously approached people as if they were acquainted, and eagerly, intensely, told them one of the three pieces of text below, which weave together the space of the Hospital Club and its cheap furnishings that only look acceptable at night, together with the Salon of Mademoiselle De Vivonne in the Hotel de Rambouillet, and all of its refined luxury, selective membership and bristling conversation.
Cobalt blue, Azure, deep and dazzling all at once don?t you think, particularly when they dance around with it like that, so much ease in their movements, but it really isn?t that easy, what they?re doing, they just make it look like it is, a lot of training you see, the kind of training that used to be expected in places like this, one couldn?t just say what came to mind, it had to be said beautifully, one needed wit and no little charm, now they don?t even open their mouths, and that blue, it wasn?t always just a pleasure to look at, it was a deadly game Cobalt was, named after a German sprite, an angry little gremlin that lived in the mountains and hated visitors so much that the Arsenic in the Cobalt mixture would eat away at the miners? feet, and tear apart their lungs, but it looked beautiful on the canvases on the walls of all the Salons, and on the hemlines of dresses, and on letters that they would write to each other in intrigue that would look blank until they were heated and their slanderous words would appear by candle-light, blue lines written beautifully about the blue room, hard work and dangerous though it was.
I have a little vignette to paint for you, it?s helpful you see, an instruction on these dancers, and their delicate moves. It?s a scene, an atmosphere, you see, that they are repeating, again and again. They speak as one, dance as many, and they have a nose for luxury, I tell you they can always sniff out what is genuine and what is not, they have an eye for elaborate artifice and no patience for dreary imitation, in you and me, whoever they come across, and they let you know. Somewhere past, in a room like the inside of a rock of Lapis Lazuli, somewhere between the Tuileries gardens and the Louvre, four men approached them in greeting, hoping for a dance to a fashionable minuet, and, like judges at their own court of subtle suggestion they delivered their verdicts by hand and foot and mouth for everyone to see: Leg up and hand outstretched they delightedly say ?Monsieur, I am honored to present you my most humble respects in this dance?; leaning to the left with their hands pointing up they respectfully twitter ?Monsieur I am your most humble servant, follow me?; shoulders slouched and falling to their left they politely retreat with ?Monsieur, I am honored to greet you. Perhaps another time?; and finally, in the presence of ill-concealed pretension and failed elegance, collapsing into one another they say with ice ?Hello, Monsieur?.
The text from the performance was also published in Art Licks magazine, and was featured on Hive London.
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anyone else changing careers to go into nursing? - page 25
Hi everyone! Is anyone else here totally changing careers to go to nursing school? I guess I'm looking for a little encouragement that it's OK for me to want to get out of the corporate/business... Read More
Jan 10, '12Hi JasonPB,
I'm the original poster, and I wanted to encourage you to go for it. I went through with it, and now I've been a nurse for 6 1/2 years. I totally get everything you said about the corporate world, and I've never regretted leaving it for a second. Like you said, every job has its negatives, but if you can work in a field you truly find meaningful, it can make all the difference at the end of a rough day.
So the answer is, NO! You're NOT crazy for considering this!
Jan 11, '12Hi Amy,
Wow, you first posted about your career change back in 2003 and here I am asking the same question! Thank you so much for your advice. You are so right, it is just hard to find any "meaning" within the corporate world. Kind of a big move for me, considering I've been doing this for 6 years and have my M.B.A. Oh well, sometimes it takes working in one profession to realize that its not for you.
Thanks again.
Jan 12, '12Brian,
How did things work out in regards to nursing? Feel free to read my post from this thread a few days ago....
Jan 12, '12I see all of the enthusiastic responses and it makes me think of how I was back in 2005. I got laid off from a furniture factory and went to school for LPN. I had such high hopes. Then I started working in long term care. Taking care of 30 pts. Getting hit, spit on, sworn at, ect.. by those same people I was trying to help. Getting blamed by management for not being able to accomplish the impossible. Working every holiday and every other weekend and missing out on family time. I got plantar faciitis and two bad knees. I attribute this to chasing dementia patients up and down the hall for eight to ten hours a day, while trying to get my work done and fill out endless paperwork.
Finally, I had enough. There were a few rewarding moments, but they were few and far between. I was offered an office job and thanked god for the chance to get out of LTC. I was bored stiff sitting in front of a computer all day, but it beat the heck out of the nursing home. Now, my father is ill and needs constant care. I will give up this office job the end of Jan to become a nurse again. This time I'll only have one patient. I pray that we can qualify for a program through the VA that will pay me something to do this. It will be much less than what I'm making now. Nursing can be rewarding, but it can also eat you up and spit you out. I just think you should look at the good as well as the bad before changing careers voluntarily. These days many people are changing them involuntarily. My time in LTC was when there was an abundance of jobs to be had. I'd ahte to think of how things run with a shortage of jobs.
Aug 22, '12Hi folks. Lots of posts here! I read the first few...then the last few. I'm sure I missed a lot of great comments, but have the overall idea (I think).
I'm like several of you, but I have been in the corporate world now for over 20 years. I'm not at a point where I can make a career change just yet (gotta get my kids through college), but I am thinking about it. I have to get away from the desk job eventually.
Nursing has been popping up in my mind for a few years. I can't even remember how/when/why, but it keeps coming up.
I really am only scratching the surface of looking into this. But I thought I would post here partly to see what people think of this as a career change a little bit later in life (hey, I'm not that old!). I saw where several men posted in the past year about making this career change...any older (late 40s) guys like myself doing the same thing? Or does anyone know someone not on this site who has made a similar career change?
Also, as I'm digging around for basic info...what are some good online resources? Honestly...I'm just starting and don't know the difference between an CNA, AA, LPN and RN (well I sort of do, but you know what I mean).
Aug 23, '12I am so mad at myself for not majoring in nursing when I got my bachelor's the first time! I've always been interested in medicine, but doing it as a career just seemed too scary I guess. Now that I've sat at a desk for a couple years, I've found myself going back to school for nursing. It would have been so much easier to do this all at once back then, but I guess everything happens for a reason and who knows how different my life would be now if I'd changed my major six years ago.


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