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Micropayment sites surge, while RM images look to come back.
As the stock-image industry evolves, some trends are playing out as forecasted within these pages just a year ago. Consolidation through acquisitions, the strength of royalty-free (RF) licensing models, and the increasing popularity of subscription-based services all continue to have an impact upon the marketplace.
Just when you think you have the stock-image market all figured out, however, it twists and turns so as to keep you on your image-sourcing toes. This year, a few additional and important trends have been developing-trends that could very well affect the types of stock images you buy, and how you go about doing so. These new trends include:
* Micropayment sites-an even less-expensive version of RF and subscription models;
* New licensing avenues for rights-managed (RM) stock, and the possible comeback of this image model; and
* Modifications to technology in the form of better, more useful search engines throughout the stock-image marketplace.
Micropayment sites: for the people, by the people
One of the most interesting and, possibly, important trends stems from the fact that stock photography is no longer the exclusive purview of professional photographers and, in some cases, well-known photo agencies. With the availability of affordable digital cameras and a multitude of electronic outlets, everyday consumers are also posting and selling their digital images online either from personal websites or more formal venues-called micropayment sites-some of which are owned by larger stock agencies.
"Power in the marketplace is shifting away from control-of-content to control-of-distribution," explains Robert Gubas, VP of marketing at Getty Images. "Today, with the advent of accessible, moderately priced digital cameras, everyone is a photographer." Additionally, says Gubas, "When you also consider the availability of simple and reasonably effective search technology and the ability to market with greater precision, affordability, and measurability (via paid search), you have a situation where everyone can become a distributor and reach potential customers."
This "community-generated content"-which has already garnered its own industry acronym, CGC-includes stock photos, illustrations, Flash movies, and other content that's created by amateurs, semi-professionals, and sometimes professionals themselves.


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Two Muslim-American women who reported being physically assaulted and harassed on a Chicago neighborhood sidewalk Thursday, blame the political climate created by Donald Trump for the attack.
Suzanne Damra says the woman followed her and her mother as they walked to their car just after daybreak Thursday, in the 1600 block of West Howard St. in Rogers Park, spitting at them and hurling anti-Islamic insults. The two women were wearing a hijab, the traditional Muslim head covering.
Cellphone video captured by one of the victims from inside the car shows the alleged assailant trying to open the car's doors. The woman can be heard saying "You're ISIS [EXPLETIVE]. You're ISIS [EXPLETIVE]."
The woman then appears to try to break the car's side view mirror. Damra said it was at least the fifth time she and her mother had been accosted by the woman.
Her mother, meanwhile, can be heard in the video blaming the woman's bigotry on the Republican presidential candidate, who has called for a ban on Muslims seeking to immigrate to the United States.
"That's what you get from Donald Trump!" she screams as the suspect walks away. "Encouraging crazy people."
In an interview with NBC5, Damra's mother Siham Zahdam said she believes Trump's rhetoric had emboldened people with anti-Islamic sentiments.
"People copy what he is saying," she said. "And they think he is going to make the white people more powerful."
Damra tells NBC5 that she was more upset by the lack of empthay of two bystanders, who she said witnessed the incident and did not intervene, then the attack itself.
"There were two very young men, I don't think they were more than 21 or 22," she said. "They were laughing, they high-fived her, and said, 'yeah, they are ISIS.'"
Chicago Police said they are investigating the incident as a simple assault. But Chicago's Council on American-Islamic Relations called for both state and federal authorities to make a more aggressive inquiry.
"It's very clearly a hate crime," said CAIR spokesman Hoda Katebi. "To file this as a simple assault is not at all close to what it actually is."
A Chicago Police spokesman acknowledged that police know who the alleged assailant is, but said investigators are waiting for the two women to swear out a formal complaint.

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Im having problem generating the labels for content created by the following function:
function setOutput(){
if(httpObject.readyState == 4){
var answer = httpObject.resultsponseText.split(",");
var results = document.getElementById("resultsultadosScan1");
var article = document.createElement("div");
var weight = document.createElement("div");
var price = document.createElement("div");
article.className = "article";
weight.className = "weight";
price.className = "price";
document.getElementById('outputText0').value = httpObject.innerHTML= answer[0];
document.getElementById('outputText1').value = httpObject.innerHTML= answer[1];
document.getElementById('outputText2').value = httpObject.innerHTML= answer[2];
article.innerHTML = httpObject.innerHTML= answer[0];
weight.innerHTML = httpObject.innerHTML= answer[1];
price.innerHTML = httpObject.innerHTML= answer[2];
A friend wrote this sample script to achieve generation of labels on my script, but I have been trying for hours with no luck, can someone take a look and tell me the correct usage of this script:
function createLabel() {
var target = document.getElementById("target");
var label = document.createElement("label");
var text = document.createTextNode("Article");
Can you help me with the correct "combination" using my script above, a "real life" example?
Thanks a lot!
Currently that createLabel function only creates a label with the text "Article" and appends it to an element with an id of "target"
Here's a modification of the function that should be helpful
function createLabel(text) {
var label = document.createElement("label");
var text = document.createTextNode(text);
return label;
Before much more of an answer can be given, can you give us an example of what you want the resulting HTML code to look like?
Thanks Paul!
You can see a sample page here, all I want is to place the labels before the text box, and style them via css, since each div has its own class.
If you want to see the page's complete code so far here it is: muckup
Thanks again!
Are you meaning labels as in the actual tag  element that is used in forms, so that you can click on the label name and have the input selector focused in a field?Or is it a more generic meaning of label that you want, where you just want the text on the screen next to the data?
In the mean-time, here is how the above code can be simplified so that less duplication occurs.
It makes no sense to set the httpObject.innerHTML, so that part is removed.Now let's reorder the lines so that each part is grouped together:
var answer = httpObject.resultsponseText.split(",");
var results = document.getElementById("resultsultadosScan1");
var article = document.createElement("div");
article.className = "article";
document.getElementById('outputText0').value = answer[0];
article.innerHTML = answer[0];
var weight = document.createElement("div");
weight.className = "weight";
document.getElementById('outputText1').value = answer[1];
weight.innerHTML = answer[1];
var price = document.createElement("div");
price.className = "price";
document.getElementById('outputText2').value = answer[2];
price.innerHTML = answer[2];
Now we can put those three groups in a loop, where the class name is accessed from an array called items.
var answer = httpObject.resultsponseText.split(","),
results = document.getElementById("resultsultadosScan1"),
items = ['answer', 'weight', 'price'],
for (i = 0; i < items.length; i += 1) {
item = document.createElement("div");
item.className = items[i];
document.getElementById('outputText' + i).value = answer[i];
item.innerHTML = answer[i];
Or is it a more generic meaning of label that you want, where you just want the text on the screen next to the data?
That's all I need for now, the text next to the data.
Now I'll try your suggestion.
Well currently this is what the HTML code for the updated info would look like:

SUNGLASES

2.00

23.00

Since the inner divs all have a border around them and are all displayed inline, you may want to contact some CSS people about an HTML structure to use for the on-screen labels that will work in with your page.
Paul, seems that you are a guru type of guy, I should have said at the beginning that Im just starting programming and what I have is the result of days asking around and reading and sleepless nights like tonight, here, at home, is 4:09 AM and look, trying to get this thing up and running.
The thing is that I dont even know how to start with your solution. Seems to me that it is the best solution, but Im clueless on how to implement it now so at least the page works, so far I just "copied and pasted" in my page and dont get anything, can you please elaborate a little on what exactly do I have to do?
Thanks a lot for what you're doing!
Just go back to what you were doing before, until you get info about what HTML tag structure to use, and the associated CSS code for it.
There's no point even trying to make progress with the JavaScript code until you have some idea of what you want to achieve with the HTML code.
Just so I know tell me if at this point is a very complicated thing just to get a name next to the text box saying what that info is? I want to know so I just go on another direction.
Should I forget about this approach of doing this?
With your existing HTML structure, it will become messy and complicated very quickly. Messy and complicated and very bad things, because people just leave them untouched in fear of breaking something.
A better HTML structure could be to use a data list, for example:

which starts off looking like this:
But with some simple CSS, you can style it similar to what you currently have.For a fancy example of what data lists can be used for, see the [InfoGrid article ([url="http://css-tricks.com/examples/InfoGrid/"]demo](http://css-tricks.com/grid-accordion-with-jquery/))


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- McLaren news
McLaren coy over driver negotiations
McLaren is staying quiet over its 2014 driver line-up, refusing to comment on the delay in taking up options on the contracts of Jenson Button and Sergio Perez.
At the Belgian Grand Prix Button confirmed he has not yet taken up his contract option for next year but has also made clear he is keen to stay on at McLaren, at least for 2014. Sergio Perez is also keen to stay and team principal Martin Whitmarsh has said they both "deserve" to continue in their positions next year.
However, when asked what the hold up was during the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes phone-in, McLaren managing director Jonathan Neale remained coy on the subject.
"We don't comment on the rumour mill over drivers until such time that we are ready to make an announcement," he said. "I can't tell you when but it won't be too much further from now that I hope we will be able to clarify what's going on. When we do you [the media] will be the first to know that.
"At the moment we are focused on our preparations for this weekend [in Singapore], making sure that we get every bit of learning out of this season and prepare well for next year. That is our top priority at the moment, not to say our drivers are our second priority, but when we have something to say we will let you know."
Asked if McLaren has explored other options, Neale said: "This is that time of year when everybody is talking to everybody and there are technical staff moving around as well as drivers. It would be wrong for me to speculate, but we will get to it pretty soon and you will be the first to know."
In 2015 McLaren will switch to Honda engines, but when asked if the team was seeking to tie its drivers in to ensure some level of consistency during a period of change, Neale said McLaren was simply after the most competitive package possible.
"More than anything else what you really want is talent and high performance," he added. "We've shown in the past that we weren't afraid to make the changes that we felt that we needed to in the team, whether it was inside the organisation or in the driver line-up, in order to get the job done.
"We're really excited about the return of Honda and we are working really hard behind the scenes to make that successful. But we are also really looking forward to what we hope will be a very competitive powertrain from Mercedes in 2014 and our focus and preparation for next year. "


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I was wondering if there were jpeg functions in C++ that are equivalent to the following PHP jpeg functions:
imagesx (width)
imagesy (height)
imagecreatefromjpeg (load the jpeg basically)
imagejpeg (save the jpeg basically)
imagedestroy (destroy the image handle)
If there isnt equivalent functions, how would I check to see if a file is a VALID jpeg file (not just with a .jpg extension), retrieve the width and height, and "change" the quality of the image. In PHP, I use imagejpeg(image); to decrease the filesize of the image, but it doesnt necessarily "change" the quality.
Thanks in advanced for any help!!! It would be GREATLY appreciated!!!


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Gore Range > Eagles Nest > Climber's Log
Eagles Nest Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|cataract TH
Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2012
|didnt look at any info for this peak... climbed own route.. lots of fun 5th on sketchy rock always enjoyable.. thanks dale...impressive after a 15hr drive... must go back another day for the traverse to powell. gorgeous day in the gores.
|Posted Aug 27, 2012 3:29 pm
|Matt Lemke
|With Peak C
Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2012
|Approached via Piney Lake and Game Pass (to the north of Kneeknocker Pass) and up the south ridge. Did Peak C the day before
|Posted Jun 18, 2012 12:02 am
|South Ridge from Piney
Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2011
|Climbed with Brian and Ben. Started at Piney and left the Kneeknocker trail to head for the saddle between Powell and East Corner. Dropped slightly to the Cataract Creek basin but stayed high contouring below the Eagles Nest-Powell ridge. Ascended boulderfield to talus gully to ridge just north of the major difficulties of the traverse. Continued on to traverse the ridge to Powell, plenty of scrambling, mostly class 3 and 4 with some bypasses of the higher difficulties.
|Posted Aug 20, 2011 9:43 pm
|East Ridge with Powell
Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2011
|Climbed as part of two day trip to climb the North Face of Mount Powell. See TR.
|Posted Aug 17, 2011 1:41 am
|East ridge
Date Climbed: Sep 18, 2010
|Took advantage of the good weather and did a LONG car shuttle traverse from Eagles Nest to Powell. Eagles Nest to Powell traverse is filled with gendarmes! See TR.
|Posted Dec 7, 2010 5:39 pm
|Eagles Nest to Mount Powell traverse
Date Climbed: Sep 18, 2010
|Started at the surprise Lake Trailhead and climbed Eagles Nest's East Ridge. Straightforward with one tricky downclimb to pass a big gendarme. Continued on to Mount Powell via the connecting ridge.
|Posted Sep 20, 2010 2:32 pm
|West Slopes, North Face Gullies Descent
Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2006
|From upper cateract to mirror lake, then ascent of west gullies. Descent of North face gullies. First mountaineering experience ever for my brother and no one else in sight on 4th of July weekend. Great 6.5 hr day.
|Posted Jul 3, 2006 5:42 am
|Route Climbed: Western slopes from Mirror Lake Date Climbed: July 5, 1978
|My first Colorado summit attempt. Turned back on steep rock at about 12,500' after deciding I had no business being up there alone and inexperienced. A month later I enrolled in a basic mountaineering school with the Colorado Mountain Club.
|Posted Apr 9, 2004 8:42 am
|Route Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: August 11, 2001
|A very long(!) one day climb from the east ridge. 13 hours round trip.
(I've also been to the South Ridge but didn't summit).
|Posted Apr 5, 2004 1:25 pm


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Mobile pioneer ? ITYM 'patent troll'.
Mobile pioneer Openwave has launched action against Apple and RIM, claiming patent infringements and asking for a ban on US imports of Apple and RIM's infringing kit as well as the traditional damages. Openwave's action sees claims filed with a Delaware court which state that both Apple and RIM are infringing Openwave's …
Mobile pioneer ? ITYM 'patent troll'.
They developped a few "novel" things and brought them to market; a decade later Apple goes all "revolutionnary" by selling a rehash of these. The US patent system is a wreck, but this is one of its very few sensible applications.
They DID innovate, and they DID bring some products to market - ahead of their time, in some ways. Complain about the patent system all you like (I certainly do), but by most commonly accepted definitions, Openwave absolutely fails the patent troll test.
"Openwave absolutely fails the patent troll test."
Apart from the obvious "wait until company raking in billions and then sue" angle?
I was composing email offline on a mobile phone in 2000 thanks to the Nokia Communicator.
In those days the phone didn't have GPRS and so you had to dial up to send and receive.
Ah, the good old brick.
I seem to recall managing to connect enough cables & connectors on the back to log on to both Cisco and Sun kit (had to be careful not to send an interrupt to the Sun kit though :) using some kind of beta terminal server software (Z rings a bell).
Looked odd but worked a treat.
"I was composing email offline on a mobile phone in 2000"
And long before that I was composing letters offline before posting them.
To quote Groucho Marx, "I'll go further than that, I'll get off at the depot". I seem to recall being able to do this (or something darn near like it) on a Newton. Which, help me out here, was a mobile device made by some company ... now who was it ...
To quote Abe Simpson, "My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it." I recall the use of a stilus for data entry on ancient wax tablets used by the Romans and Greeks of antiquity. I'd date to guess said wax tablets were also rectangular with a display surface that nearly covered one side. Of course we can only guess what the penalty for violating a patent in ancient Rome may have been but I'd wager it was somewhat more sporting and the inventions were less trivial.
Time for Apple to get a taste of thier own medicine. I really hope the case is solid and Apple is blocked from importing its IStuff. Karma is a female dog baby.
Well, why am I not surprised that RIM and Apple are the "first" targets.
I guess Openware are hoping they'll settle rather than face the 'possible ban' of their handsets into the USA
This industry thrives on ideas, it's how they're turned into practise that makes the difference, thus offering many competing products that in essence do the same thing/s, albeit, in different ways.
I think the first Poster's comment "patent trolls" sums it up. When I was a kid I dreamed of and drew a flying car.
I still have those pictures stashed in the attic somewhere, time to dig them out and make some money from people who "infinged my IP" (or imagination) and plan on turning my daydreams into reality..
Did you make that flying car? No didn't think so.
Openwave did make browsers and email clients for mobile phones. I've used them.
So that would make you the troll and Openwave the company that actually did produce something.
What IP? Did they copy your pictures? If so, you might have a copyright case. But I don't imagine that you filed any patents. You don't qualify for troll status, but you do just about manage 'idiot'.
How can this be? Apple's a US Company! Surely they're not making all their kit abroad - that wouldn't be very patriotic would it? Maybe we should start revisiting what it means to be an "American" or "British" company when it turns out that all of their products are actually made elsewhere.
Frankly I'm with Openwave on this if only because of the law of unintended consequences.
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." - Dorothy Parker.
How come Apple get an instant legal ban on Galaxy in Germany, in a hearing where the 'defendant' wasn't even notified of the case so they could defend themselves, but this IPTO one involves a ruling in eighteen months? Shouldn't there be an immediate ban on the off-chance that there's a case to answer, followed by a final ruling in 18 months? Perhaps Openwave are using the wrong court...
Because not every ware has the same laws as the US.
It might be inconvenient for multinationals but us Yuropians have gone to war to ensure that there is not one law across all states.
...because this is an actual patent case, and that's a community design case. So they're even more not the same thing.
Well, first off, we're dealing with two completely different jurisdictions. To be honest, I don't know what the rules are on serving papers in Germany, but they clearly allowed it to happen - which has nothing to do with what's happening in a different case in a U.S. court. Second, preliminary injunctions are usually issued to stop (further) damage from happening. At the moment, that doesn't seem like a truly immediate issue - if Openwave wins, they will be awarded damages as well as either getting some form of ongoing compensation or a preferment injunction.
I doubt they'll win, but since they actually did real work, even to the point of producing a real product, I don't mind them trying.
I had an Ericsson mobile with an Openwave browser in 2000, been a long time since I heard that name.
Before Nokia SW sank in a morass of Bureaucracy.
I had one. Fax worked well. Email perfect.
I had a company account so they paid for double timeslot GSM so Web browsing was 28k. I only had 19K on the home phone line.
The office used ISDN, DSL was in office end of 2001.
I liked my Nokia Brick. You could do real work on it too.
I have no idea of the virtue of these claims though.
It even doubled up as a handy defensive weapon.
I was mugged once; it involved CS gas, so I couldn't see to use it as a weapon; however the low-lifes that did it didn't want it because it was an "old brick phone"
I also remember a flight attendant saying that it was a very big phone and me opening it and saying that no it was a very small laptop :)
... a flight attendant (presumably female?) goes"Ooh, what a big phone you've got!" and the best you can come up with is "No, actually, it's a small laptop...".
I think I see why you are a Bachelor :-)
...I'm not sure why any of this is considered to be remotely specific to cellphones, anyway. Email uses standardized protocols. Composing emails offline then going online to send them was the way *everybody* did it back when you had to pay for dial-up internet access by the minute, and the POP protocol was designed with it specifically in mind. This goes back to the 1990s, if not the 1980s. I haven't read the Openwave patents, but I'd be very surprised if they can actually claim anything which prevents a cellphone simply implementing the perfectly normal offline abilities of standard email protocols.
Offline email goes back well before the 1990s - back pretty much to the origin of email, in fact.
POP (Post Office Protocol) was first standardized in 1984 (RFC 918). BITNet's RSCS store-and-forward email system started in 1981. Unix email with UUCP transport (which, yes, was typically used with offline composing and reading) dates back to 1979. IBM's internal VNET / RSCS network to 1975.
Earlier email systems I'm familiar with were often single-machine (users could only send messages to other accounts on the same system), so I'm not sure if there was an earlier system that had a real "offline composition" feature. But I bet there was.
Maybe Openwave did add some innovation in this area, but it's certainly not clear from the article or comments (at least that I've seen so far) what that was. And it's hard to see how much of anything to do with offline composition or reading of email isn't obvious to a skilled practitioner.
At this rate, no-one in the world will be able to buy a smartphone anywhere in the world because they'll all have been banned from sale due to patents. Every company has some patent that it deems someone else is infringing, apparently...
The endgame is that all the existing manufacturers will cross-license just to keep producing, and this will effectively bar all newcomers from entering the market.
The same thing has happened with big Pharma in the US.
Disney did the same thing with copyright too, changing the public domain rules so no-one could use Mickey Rat after they used public domain works to establish themselves. They went through a door and closed/locked it behind them.
Testing mobile web apps in an Openwave browser when I was at uni. Good times, pity they were so left behind that this is the first I've heard of them in years.
"...which are accused of infringing patents covering such basics as composing email while offline and over-the-air application updating."
The crime here is that this was allowed to be patented in the first place.
... or maybe just a sleazy mob of patent trolls eager to feast upon his blood.
This stuff is going to eventually plug up the pipes and give us all constipation, while in the meantime China is going to thumb its collective nose and tell us that if you want to take advantage of your bright idea then produce something that competes for customers - don't go complaining that it is your idea.
Besides, the stuff that the patent office is patenting is patently silly.
In the 1990's, all e-mail was composed off-line. Then we endured the screachy connection and our mail was synched while we went and did the shopping, saw a movie, collected a pizza and came back to perhaps see the final couple of mail transactions.
I'm not even going to bother reading the patent filings.
I was in the Bluebell Railway museum and read about Watt who patented the external condenser in the late 1700's - he was accused of holding up steme engine development for many, many years.
Oh I wish I had the vision in my youth to patent such specifics. I would (amongst other things) have patented, transporting water in liquid form, external cell phones (leaving Apple only the I-Intestine series for development), oh so many possibilities. Hmm, is there a patent on binary data yet?
I don't like Apple, but my country has obviously lost it collective spine to these ridiculous lawsuits. It makes me sad to see this type of frivolous crap.
I was also dialing into my host and browsing the file system, and the Internet at large, in the same time frame. I used a Panasonic Senior Partner luggable ... all 33 pounds of it. I still have the silly thing. After over a quarter million miles of air travel together, you tend to get attached to the daftest things :-)
At least two of them seem to be, "just like on the Internet, but using a mobile phone data connection.", with additions for server-side processing, which wouldn't be the case for Apple (but would be for RIM). i.e. a bit dubious.
I would love to watch the "end of the world" if openwave was able to ban iphone imports..
.. but more realistically, Apple will just buy their way out if push comes to shove.
I guess that's what they [Openwave] will be wanting as well.


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Store Site Demolition.. First 3 days
by Jason
We are now on our 4th day of Demolition and Construction of the new Superb Retail location. The Demo went surprisingly fast and everyone is working really hard to get this project underway.
So far we removed all the layers of old stores, going back what seemed like centuries.
Previous owners attempted to renovate the place by simply adding new layers of stuff on top of what was previously there, so we had to remove multiple layers of material from almost every surface to get back to basics. We love the brick we uncovered on the far wall.
The building must have known we had a thing for damask wall paper because after removing 3 layers of stuff we happened upon this!
Stay tuned.


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To use those annoying apps/games on Facebook now?
No thanks
Facebook is launching an App Center to recommend mobile applications based on demographic preferences as well as user ratings, just as long as they're tied into users' Facebook credentials – with a view to monetising the process eventually, of course. The App Center won't just recommend mobile apps, it will also showcase web- …
To use those annoying apps/games on Facebook now?
No thanks
And so it begins. Before Facebook have even completed their IPO the company are turning around and looking for ways to actually generate an income to justify their insane valuation.
This is the start of a land grab though today it's an app centre then tomorrow they've forked Android to create a facebook mobile OS then the day after you can only post on sites if you log in using your Facebook account credentials and then suddenly before you know it you are locked in because they've got you by the balls
Why stop there?
First something simple...
"Sorry this petrol station doesn't support unregistered cars without owner's Facebook credentials."
Next something very inconvenient...
"Sorry this bank's ATM cannot be used without Facebook credentials."
Finally something altogether nasty...
FB-209 - "Unregistered Facebook alien, present Facebook credentials! You have 20 secs to comply or you will be terminated!"
... and 95bn is quite a valuation. In 'rough' terms people usually look at a valuation of around 10x earnings - Facebook are somewhat higher!! But then again so are Amazon - makes Apple shares look cheap.
Who needs a passport or a driving license when all your credentials will be on the facebook profile for whoever to see?
The sooner Greece default on their austerity measures and leave the Euro currency to join Facebook Credits the better
The Facebook collective are to begin constructing the first of many giant cube spaceships, with the sole aim of assimilation as a means of "achieving revenue perfection".
Was not aware Apple offered an 'affiliate' scheme - so unless they get the authors to pay not sure how it would make them any money.
i cant see apple being happy either way. Could get interesting! Will fb be the next flash and iDrones get told its a toxic poisonous scam app which Apple wont allow for the protection of its users?
With Farcebook's app store, there will be even MORE ways for people's computers to become infected with crap.


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Two 17-year-olds have been charged with the murder of a man with learning difficulties, police said.
The male youths also face charges of conspiracy to rob and possession of an offensive weapon, Scotland Yard said.
Dean Mayley, 24, was stabbed in the heart as he walked along Ruislip Road, Greenford, west London, on February 7.
He suffered from a development disorder which led to him having moderate learning difficulties and the mental age of a nine-year-old.
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Not only is he the king of country music, Garth Brooks also holds crown as the RIAA's best-selling solo artist of all time. His career has spanned three decades, produced multiple hit records, and won him countless awards. Even in retirement, he remains a fan favorite for his hard-rocking country style. To celebrate his life, our friends at Snakkle.com found the best (and most surprising) pics of his life and career.


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To get started writing a plugin, please see the following tutorials:
- Addons Development - for Gramps version 3.2
- Gramplets
- Quick Views
- Report-writing tutorial
For more general GRAMPS development information, see:
Have you written a plugin for GRAMPS you want to share with the world? Here's how you do it:
- Add the correct license. GRAMPS is GPLv2, you use the GRAMPS plugin system, so make sure you have the correct license at the top of your file. See Howto: Contribute to GRAMPS
- Create a filename.tar.gz or filename.zip file of your plugin code
- Upload the code to this wiki
- Add an entry of your plugin to Plugins. See Plugin List Legend for meaning of columns. Please use these meanings and pay attention to details; this page is machine readable.
- Create a new wiki page, and refer to that page here, with a short description of what the plugin does
Internationalize it (3.1 and prior)
This section describes a method of internationalizing your code for versions of Gramps 3.1 and earlier. The following section describes a new method for Gramps 3.2 and later.
There is a big possibility that you are not a native English speaker and want your report in your mother tongue. To enable others to use your report, and make it easy to include your report later in GRAMPS without large changes, do the following for text:
Translation function
- Suppose you have a string Name, which you want for your own use in French, so Nom. Then write a translation function with the name _.
- For every string, pass it through your translation function: _("Name")
- Your translation function should then look like this:
mytranslation = { 'Name' : "Nom" } from gettext import gettext import locale lang = locale.getlocale()[0] if lang: lang = lang.split('_')[0] def _(string): if lang == 'fr': return mytranslation.get(string, gettext(string)) else: return gettext(string)
Change here 'fr' by the language code of your language
- If the report becomes part of GRAMPS, it will suffice to delete this code and replace it by
from gettext import gettext as _
- Note that you only need to include strings that are not yet a part of GRAMPS, as those will be translated automatically by the gettext routine
Also, have a look at Coding for translation.
- We support right to left languages like Arabic, so never constructs text parts by concatenation of pieces. Always use full sentences/paragraphs with variable substitution, so that a right to left language can translate it correctly.
- There is a possible template which lists references. (see this issue.)
Translators may add references to their main translation.
Internationalize it (3.2 and later)
This section describes a method of internationalizing your code for versions of Gramps 3.2 and later. The previous section describes a new method for Gramps 3.1 and earlier.
Please see Addons Development for complete details.


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Trains, including diesel-powered consists, will be added to the Morris & Essex, Montclair-Boonton, and Main/Bergen County lines. In addition, NJ TRANSIT will restore 19 trains that have been operating "partial-length" trips to their complete trips.
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Vulnerability management is vital for large companies that need to secure containers across thousands of hosts, but many struggle to understand how exposed they are when they discover a new high security vulnerability. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, John Morello, CTO of Twistlock, addressed this pressing concern by introducing the concept of the "Vulnerability Risk Tree API," which brings all the data together in a simple REST endpoint, allowing companies to easily grasp the severity of the ...
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BUT...what are all of you enthusiasts using for HDR processing these days? I did some Google searching and came up with a variety of options for Lightroom plugins and shareware programs and now I'm not sure what to try first.


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I have I2C compass sensor, which I can't get to work properly.
Compass automatically sends data, when you connect to it, which means that I just have to send something to it and then I retreive 10-bit number (split into 2 bytes).
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I2CPort i2cport = (I2CPort) SensorPort.S3;
byte[] input = new byte[2];
i2cport.i2cTransaction(0x42, new byte[] {0x00}, 0, 0, input, 0, 2);
System.out.println(new DataInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(input)).readUnsignedShort());
However, value seems to be a bit jumpy. I printed some more info on screen and figured out that second byte won't go over 127. It will go to 127 and then skip to 0. But it also won't return any negative numbers, so signed/unsigned is not a problem. It's like first bit is completely ignored. Here is RobotC code that works without problems on same sensor:
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ubyte received[2];
byte message[2] =
while(nI2CStatus[I2Cport] == STAT_COMM_PENDING){}
sendI2CMsg(I2Cport, message[0], 2);
while(nI2CStatus[I2Cport] == STAT_COMM_PENDING){}
readI2CReply(I2Cport, received[0], 2);
int result = 256*message[0] + message[1]; //Here is the proper result that is not jumpy
Any idea what could be wrong?


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Elk Mountains > "Castleabra" > Climber's Log
"Castleabra" Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Castle and Castleabra
Date Climbed: Aug 5, 2013
|Hiked up Castleabra by going up and over Castle Peak.
|Posted Aug 7, 2013 10:39 am
|Long 4WD
Date Climbed: Sep 30, 2010
|Long 4WD road, would recommend a different route than from the southeast.
|Posted Jul 26, 2013 7:13 pm
|Via Castle
Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2012
|Whoa! That ridge over from Castle Peak was extremely loose and puncuated with more cliffs than I thought it would be. Took some doing for route finding.
Saw a bear! About 200' below the Castle-Conundrum saddle on the west side. I have no idea what it was doing up so high.
That makes 2 bear sightings inside a week now. Hope the guys get some food. :o(
|Posted Sep 3, 2012 11:44 am
|Cunning couloir to 13550
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2008
|Ditto what Sarah said. That was one of my most challenging backpacks ever! The stream crossings were the crux of the trip. All bets are off in the Elks after a heavy winter. Even in early summer, there was still tons of snow in the Conundrum Creek basin. As for the couloir, it's a nice one, but a lot of work to get to. Steepness was low to mid 40's until near the top where there was a short stretch of 50 degrees on hard snow. Test your routefinding skills with a traverse to 13550, but be ready for rotten rock and exposed terrain. It's a similar traverse to the Bells sans cairns.
|Posted Jun 30, 2008 11:34 pm
|Cunning Couloir & Traverse to UN 13,550
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2008
|The backpack to Conundrum Hot Springs was very difficult as EVERY one of the bridges at the MANY creek crossings was out. The creek was raging and crossings varied from finding snow bridges to traversing slippery, shaky logs, to hip deep wading in swift currents with the assistance of a hand line, to building our own bridges. Climbed the Cunning Couloir on Castlebra (see Roach) and then did the time consuming, very tricky, rotten traverse to UN 13,550. Soaked in the springs afterwards. An awesome but grueling trip.
|Posted Jun 30, 2008 2:59 pm
|West Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2007
|Hiked the West Ridge from camp at Conundrum Hot Springs with my friend Keith. We continued on to Castle Peak. The hot springs are awesome!
|Posted Feb 1, 2008 9:58 pm
|Brian Kalet
|West Face (ascent), North Face (descent)
Date Climbed: May 27, 2003
|Skied from the summit!
|Posted Aug 16, 2007 11:34 am
Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2007
|Four hours to reach the summit. The scree field is indeed unpleasant.
|Posted Aug 14, 2007 1:00 am


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Norwegian deliveries
Norwegian deliveries
I was in Helsinki once at the end of December and it was pretty much twilight between 10 and 2 and dark otherwise. And it's on the Baltic about the same latitude as Oslo. Setting it at night appears to be a reasonable solution.
David, I'm in the Oslo area, we have daylight and even Sun, but by 3...twilight starts...good news starting in Jan each day has more light by 6 min....
Yes, the hours of daylight increase by much more each day than around here.
Must be tough in the summer when you only get 4 hrs to sleep. ;)
When I relocated here (49°N) from about 43° (after being raised at 46°), I was disoriented by the change in seasonal swings and sun angle etc. for years.
Oslo have lots of sunshine. Try at nerby 69*39"N. We have not seen sun for 42 days now. And that was the same day I was delivered our car.
By the way. Our car preforms very nice on snow and ice, whitout spikes in winther-tires. In a few weekend we shall see how it preforms in cold wether. (10C - 20C below zero, maybe 30C below.)
We have only had 2 small trips (150Km - 200Km), so most of driving is in our city. But we will drive south this summer. So i am praying for some SC at E6 north of Trondheim.
Happy New Year
Heh. What is it about Norwegians and the word "with"? They seem almost to have a block against spelling it right. "Whit" seems to be the favorite mistake. :D
Brian H,
There is no Th sound in Norwegian...You're corrections here are totally inappropriate. How many languages do you speak, read or write? BTW, I'm American and you're an embarrassment !
Bug off. I'm trying to be helpful. There are numerous sounds in German which don't exist in English, and I learned them to be able to speak clearly. Norwegians have expressed interest and gratitude at learning. Some monolingual Americans may find that hard to grasp.
@GeirT Congrats on your car. I know you have been waiting a long time for it. I have enjoyed your posts on the forum. Best wishes for the new year.
BTW - Great choice on color. (Can you guess what color my S is? :) )
Can any one fill the blanks and adjust the TOTAL Please?
Tesla sold the following number of cars in 2013
Norway 1986
The rest of the world like the GULF etc.
It is resonable to assume that Tesla made more cars than that if we take into account the cars that are on boats to be sold and the demo cars.
Now should we not include the Model X that they are working on? And maybe other secrets!
I think that Tesla made well over 30k in 2013 from the Model S alone.
Any thoughts gents?
I'm not one of those monolingual Americans, I speak, read and write three languages, I'm the slow one in the family, my parents read, write and speak seven perfectly.
So don't give out anymore of your condescending attitude towards me....you might mean well, but your approach leaves much to be desired. The Norwegian board is not the only one where you correct English grammar and spelling...you said I should "bug off" Darling you need to get a life! And here is where it ends, you're ignored from this minute on.
I think your numbers are wrong, Tesla said only few weeks ago they met production of 600/week (that means 30,000 anualized at the end of 2013, not at the beginning of 2013). More reasonable number would be around 3000 in 2012 and 25-27,000 in 2013. I hope we will see more than 40,000 in 2014.
SnowWhine +1...!!


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Angels lose infielder Sanchez in Rule 5 Draft
By Alden Gonzalez / MLB.com
The Angels, who will have their 40-man roster at 39 once starter Joe Blanton and reliever Sean Burnett pass their physicals, chose not to make a pick in the Major League portion of the Draft, which took place at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and wrapped up the Winter Meetings.
Any player taken in the Rule 5 Draft costs his new club $50,000. That player must then remain on the drafting team's active Major League roster for the entirety of the following season, or be offered back to the original club for $25,000.
Sanchez, 29, has a .255/.304/.308 line in 184 career Major League games. In 107 games for the Astros' Triple-A affiliate this past season, he hit .320 with a .390 on-base percentage, prompting the Angels to give him a chance to compete for the backup-infielder spot this spring.
With Sanchez now gone, Tommy Field, who was claimed off waivers from the Twins, and Brendan Harris, signed to a Minor League deal, will compete with Andrew Romine for the utility-infield spot.
The Angels selected lefty-hitting outfielder Robbie Widlansky, who posted a .316/.404/.446 slash line for the Orioles' Double-A affiliate in 2012, during the Triple-A phase of the Draft.
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Gonzo and "The Show", and follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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After 11 years of follow-up, compared to those who did not take supplements, those who were regularly taking antioxidant-rich vitamins, such as vitamin A, C, E, and their combinations, when the study started were 42 percent less likely to have died from any cause and 48 percent less likely to have died from cancer.
There were several differences between supplement users and non-users. Those who took supplements tended to be more physically active, have a healthier diet that included more fruits, vegetables and milk, and less meat and processed meat products, and were more likely to be college-educated older women.


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A hydatidiform mole is a rare mass or growth that forms inside the uterus at the beginning of a pregnancy. It is a type of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD).
See also:
Hydatid mole; Molar pregnancy
A hydatidiform mole, or molar pregnancy, results from over-production of the tissue that is supposed to develop into the placenta. The placenta normally feeds a fetus during pregnancy. In this condition, the tissues develop into an abnormal growth, called a mass.
There are two types:
A partial molar pregnancy means there is an abnormal placenta and some fetal development.
In a complete molar pregnancy, there is an abnormal placenta but no fetus.
Both forms are due to problems during fertilization. The exact cause of fertilization problems are unknown. However, a diet low in protein, animal fat, and vitamin A may play a role.
A pelvic examination may show signs similar to a normal pregnancy, but the size of the womb may be abnormal and the baby's heart sounds are absent. There may be some vaginal bleeding.
A pregnancy ultrasound will show an abnormal placenta with or without some development of a baby.
Tests may include:
If your doctor suspects a molar pregnancy, a suction curettage (D and C) may be performed.
A hysterectomy may be an option for older women who do not wish to become pregnant in the future.
After treatment, serum HCG levels will be followed. It is important to avoid pregnancy and to use a reliable contraceptive for 6 - 12 months after treatment for a molar pregnancy. This allows for accurate testing to be sure that the abnormal tissue does not return. Women who get pregnant too soon after a molar pregnancy have a greater risk of having another one.
More than 80% of hydatidiform moles are benign (noncancerous). The outcome after treatment is usually excellent. Close follow-up is essential. After treatment, you should use very effective contraception for at least 6 to 12 months to avoid pregnancy.
In some cases, hydatidiform moles may develop into invasive moles. These moles may grow so far into the uterine wall and cause bleeding or other complications.
In a few cases, a hydatidiform mole may develop into a choriocarcinoma, a fast-growing cancerous form of gestational trophoblastic disease. See: Choriocarcinoma
Lung problems may occur after a D and C if the woman's uterus is bigger than 16 weeks gestational size.
Other complications related to the surgery to remove a molar pregnancy include:
Kavanagh JJ, Gershenson DM. Gestational trophoblastic disease: hydatidiform mole, nonmetastatic and metastatic gestational trophoblastic tumor: diagnosis and management. In: Katz VL, Lentz GM, Lobo RA, Gershenson DM, eds. Comprehensive Gynecology. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2007:chap 35.
Copeland LJ, Landon MB. Malignant diseases and pregnancy. In: Gabbe SG, Niebyl JR, Simpson JL, eds. Obstetrics - Normal and Problem Pregnancies. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2007:chap 45.
Goldstein DP, Berkowitz RS. Gestational trophoblastic disease. In: Abeloff MD, Armitage JO, Niederhuber JE, Kastan MB, McKenna WG, eds. Abeloff's Clinical Oncology. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2008:chap 94.
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Long product name IBM ServicePac SD150 :
ServicePac SD150 2YR IOR 5x9x4hr / 2005 32B 5KB
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IBM ServicePac SD150:
The official marketing text of IBM ServicePac SD150 as supplied by the manufacturerUsing the IBM ServicePac family of specialized support services can help you make the most of your technology investment. Each prepackaged service includes a specific statement of scope, service agreement terms and conditions and easy to follow instructions.
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Grainy Leather Card Case
€250.00 €250.00
- A grainy leather card case featuring an envelope-style foldover top with a press-stud closure. As well as external and internal card slots, the design has an expandable compartment to store receipts.
- 7.5 x 10cm/3 x 3.9in
- Outer: 100% calf leather
- Lining: 100% polyamide
- Foldover top with press-stud closure
- Three internal card slots, one external card slot
- One expandable compartment
- Hand-painted edges
- Raised Burberry lettering at front
- Imported


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In celebration of Earth Day on April 22nd, TheLadders released a new survey revealing that job seekers go for the green when making a decision about their future employer. In fact, when offered two equal job opportunities, 72 percent of candidates would choose the more eco-conscious company versus 10 percent who said that they would not. Less than a fifth (18 percent) said it would not influence their decision. TheLadders surveyed more than 100 professionals in the following industries: construction, education, engineering, finance, human resources, law, marketing, medical/science, operations, real estate, sales and technology.
TheLadders Earth Day survey also revealed other key learnings:
Less than half (48 percent ) of the respondents consider their most recent company to be green, 35 percent said they work for a company that is not green, and 17 percent are not sure.
Working for a green company is important to 87 percent of respondents in varying degrees — extremely important (28 percent), very important (30 percent), moderately important (22 percent) and slightly important (7 percent) — whereas only 13 percent find it not important.
Workers are willing to go green for a change. Most employees (75 percent) are willing to change their daily routine if their recent company provided them with small incentives to be green. Only a quarter (25 percent) was resistant.
Source: TheLadders; www.theladders.com.


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Austin Bluff Parkway Traffic Advisory Night Work Scheduled
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Traffic ShiftAustin Bluffs Parkway, Nevada Ave. to Union Blvd.
Starting Sunday, July 7, through Wednesday, July 10, from 8 p.m. – 6 a.m., night work will occur on Austin Bluffs Parkway between Nevada Avenue and Union Blvd. in preparation for a westbound traffic switch. Both westbound and eastbound traffic will be reduced from two lanes to one. Two lanes will be open to traffic, both westbound and eastbound, by 6 a.m. each morning.
This work is being done to accommodate median work. Median work will include removal of the existing median, placement of asphalt and pavement markings to establish a traffic shift along a new westbound lane alignment. The new alignment will shift the westbound lanes to the newly paved median so work can continue on the north side of Austin Bluffs.
Motorists should expect delays and are strongly advised to use alternate routes during this planned night work. Posted signage, cones and flaggers will be present to help motorists safely navigate the area.
For more information please contact the project hotline at 719-377-2436, or the project website at www.austinbluffscorridor.com.


text: donny donny 25 Report post Posted May 25, 2013 Is there going to be a new one coming out in time for the World Cup? If there is I hope they move away from the crappy St George's flag designs. I'd like something simplistic like the current England football shirt but with a grey chevron, or a stitched on white one if the shirt is made from cotton. I've done a mock up; Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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DENVER They were prepared for a fight. They got little more than a staring contest.
Riot police cleared out a tent camp outside the state Capitol early Friday morning after a mostly peaceful standoff that didnt end until daybreak.
The vast majority of people voluntarily left the park. We had no violence and minimal arrests, said Gov. John Hickenlooper.
State and Denver police arrested 23 people, said State Trooper Heather Cobler.
Earlier Thursday, Hickenlooper told Occupy Denver protesters they could not stay overnight in Lincoln Park, a one-block area bounded by four busy streets in front of the Capitol.
Demonstrators say they are working for the 99 percent working Americans who dont have the same privileges as the top 1 percent.
Hickenlooper and Colorado State Patrol Chief James Wolfinbarger told protesters that the 70 or so tents they had set up were illegal, and the park was closed from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m.
As the deadline passed, tension built while Denver Police vehicles cruised the streets.
Its anxiety. Its restlessness. Its uncertainty, said Neil Therrell, one of Occupy Denvers coordinators.
At 2:30 a.m., a State Patrol captain in an SUV began making a series of announcements that the park was closed and police would clear it out in 45 minutes.
At 3:20, dozens of police clad in riot gear marched from a nearby parking garage into the park.
A demonstrator with a bullhorn began chanting Darth Vaders theme song, Dum dum dum, dum-da-dum, dum-da dum bringing laughter from the state troopers guarding the Capitol.
Police quickly tore down most of the tents but made no arrests, ignoring both angry taunts from some demonstrators and invitations to join the protest from others. Instead, they set up a perimeter around the park and subtly shifted their positions, squeezing protesters onto the sidewalk a few feet at a time.
As the predawn chill set in, the number of protesters dwindled noticeably.
Protesters decided to make a stand at their kitchen tent, which they called the Thunderdome, and set up a human chain around it. Police did not dismantle the final tent until after dawn had broken.
Police closed the park indefinitely early Friday morning. Hickenlooper said state workers needed time to clean up squalid messes. He also said protesters hacked into an underground electrical cable to run their kitchen equipment.
Occupy Denver protesters reassembled Friday afternoon in Civic Center Park, which is city property and out of the states jurisdiction. They began their meeting with a chant at state troopers, who were maintaining a heavy presence in Lincoln Park.
Hey cops! they shouted. Were still here!