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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday after being convicted of espionage and other charges in connection with a massive leak of classified material.
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Manning faced a maximum of 90 years in prison after his conviction last month on charges of espionage, theft and fraud.
Manning was convicted of one of the largest leaks of classified material in U.S. history and was at the center of a growing debate over government secrecy.
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Under military law, the sentence will be automatically appealed. He would probably be eligible for parole after he served one-third of his sentence.
Eugene Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School, said he thought the sentence "was a bit on the high side," but that defense attorneys had a tough case.
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Because every wife is different, the answer to this question will vary depending upon your own wife. Regardless the kind of wife you have, balance is the key with any pastor's wife. Balance to protect them from that which would be unhelpful to their soul. Balance to include them in that which would help us discern a particular situation they may have a keen insight on. For example, It is not helpful for my wife, or any wife for that matter, to know the men who struggle with pornography in our church, but she may be a valuable asset in caring for a woman who is battling depression.
Pastors, we must lead our wives well to capture a fruitful balance. Stray too far to one side, and we are keeping our heart from our wives and cutting her out of our inner circle; stray too far to the other side, and she can feel trapped about situations in which she has no voice or recourse. The most important reality to remember in finding this balance is that she is your wife, not your fellow pastor. Include her for her benefit and the benefit of others, but she is not called, nor required to carry the same burdens we are.
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Home sales declined in February with the combined effects of severe winter weather and the decline in affordability due to higher mortgage rates and prices than those seen in the previous year. Sales have also been hindered at the beginning of this year by new mortgage and flood insurance regulations that recently took effect. The flood insurance regulations are currently set to be reviewed, and buyers and sellers in flood-prone areas may want to become informed on how these regulations and potential changes are affecting their market. Home prices however, rose slightly from January to February even as inventory levels loosened slightly and home sales slowed. In addition, prices are still well above those seen at this time last year. Buyers willing to brave the cold may be able to take advantage of some of the short-term price breaks seen early this year. With prices still showing an upward year-over-year trend and inventory levels still tight, sellers remain well positioned in the Queens real estate market.
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Why Apple axed Xserve, and how it can reenter the server marketMany of Apple's customers in enterprise environments are shocked by the company's decision to discontinue the Xserve. There's an easy answer why it happened: they weren't selling well. Here's why, and how the company may address the server market in the future, using lessons learned from iOS.
Apple was a very different company when it launched the Xserve in 2002. It had just started to recover from its mid-90s brush with death, only to be hit hard by the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2001, a shock that aborted the high priced, stylish Power Mac G4 Cube and sent the company scrambling back into its defensive bunker to create products that would reliably sell.
The company had been investing in a variety of potential new revenue engines to keep itself afloat. It had just started a new push in application software with the purchase of Final Cut from Macromedia in 1997, which quickly snowballed into a series of Pro Apps and what would turn into the iLife suite and later help spawn iWorks.
It had also just ventured into a new retail initiative, opening its first two stores in May 2001. Apple also launched the iPod in October 2001 as its first major foray into personal electronics products outside the definition of "computers and peripherals."
At the same time, the company was investing heavily in notebook development, having just launched the new Titanium G4 PowerBook at the beginning of 2001, and was now floating the Xserve its first dedicated server hardware since discontinuing the Apple Workgroup Server in 1998.
At the center of each of these efforts was Apple's combination of existing goodwill and established markets around the Mac, and the NeXT software the company had acquired along with the return of its founder, Steve Jobs. The epicenter of Apple was Mac OS X, a product it still wasn't ready to sell as its mainstream operating system until 2002.
Server ready to go: 1998-2002
In the meantime, Apple worked to sell consumer hardware running the classic Mac OS 8 and 9. But major Mac developers fought the company over its original plans to migrate from classic Mac APIs to an entirely new development platform based on NeXTSTEP, called YellowBox and then later Cocoa (named to associate it with the existing hype around Java).
That forced Apple to repeatedly delay Mac OS X on the consumer desktop until it could fold in enough compatibility with the old Mac OS to enable existing software to run comfortably. NeXTSTEP also needed to be updated to serve the needs of consumers, as under Jobs' former company it had morphed into a niche role as a higher-end workstation and server solution.
It appeared that the fastest route to market for Mac OS X was to sell it as a server operating system, which Apple had been doing since 1999. By 2002, Apple was ready to release the Xserve as a dedicated hardware product aimed at broadening the installed base of the new operating system as an easy to use distribution of Unix.
Three months after the release of Xserve, Mac OS X for the desktop had finally worked its way from early adopter betas into being a mainstream OS for consumers with the release of Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar.
Why Xserve hardware?
Apple likely didn't expect to sell that many Xserves, but it didn't need to sell a lot to expand its installed base into strategically important directions. It was currently selling between 750,000 and 810,000 Macs per quarter. Having just announced Mac OS X to be its official, primary OS at the beginning of 2002, the company said it expected to have an installed base of 5 million Mac OS X users by the end of the year.
Having a server product in place to support those new Mac OS X clients was critically important, particularly because Mac OS X was still emerging as a suitable file print services client for Windows-based servers and had some issues with generic Unix file servers as well. Companies running a Windows server infrastructure with Mac OS X and legacy Mac OS clients often found it easier to set up a dedicated Mac OS X Server rather than messing around with Microsoft's archaic "Services for Macintosh" or other third party server software capable of serving file shares in the Mac's native Apple Filing Protocol.
And so, when Xserve appeared it existed as a new product category for the expanding Apple, one that promised a significant new potential for growth, particularly in Apple's core education market. While the costs for developing Xserve were significant, there were few opportunity costs spent on it; the company didn't have anything else offering better sales prospects to spend its money on.
A lot changes at Apple: 2002-2006
From 2002-2006, Apple's consumer Mac sales began to gain traction but were overshadowed by the dramatic explosion of iPod and iTunes. While pundits continued to bet that Microsoft and its Windows Media / PlaysForSure program would at some point steal Apple's iPod business, that never happened. Their parallel, contradictory guess/advice/wishful thinking that the success of iPod would cause Apple to scuttle Mac OS X and begin selling Windows-based Macs was also wrong.
Instead, iPod sales continued to grew exponentially. Thanks to the parallel growth of the new Apple Stores in retailing the hot gadgets, Macs hardware sales also began to grow, leaping from a baseline around 750,000 per quarter to 1.6 million per quarter by the end of 2006.
While Apple continued to develop new Mac OS X Server hardware as a way to broaden the installed base of Mac OS X users, it also began a new project to develop mobile devices running a slimmed down version of Mac OS X.
This time, rather than trying to woo existing Mac developers with a "does it all" platform that supported native Unix apps, legacy Carbon apps, cross platform Java apps, Apple's own Cocoa apps, and supported a variety of third party platforms such as Flash, Apple set out to build a mobile platform with a clean, modern development API built exclusively upon Cocoa.
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Yesterday evening, ThinkProgress spoke with Lieut. Gen, Harry Soyster and Ret. Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, at a Human Rights First reception honoring retired generals who have spoken out against President Bush's torture policies. Soyster criticized Bush's veto of a bill banning the CIA from waterboarding — a veto Sen. John McCain supported. Soyster said one clear standard on torture was needed:
SOYSTER: Our position is, all of us, that we need one standard for the United Sates. And because the Central Intelligence Agency has authorized torture, then Americans are torturing. It doesn't matter where your paycheck comes from.
Taguba reiterated Soyster's critique of Bush's torture policies, and also slammed the Pentagon's military analyst program, which the New York Times revealed in April. He said he found it "incredible" that generals would agree to be the Pentagon's spokesmen, and said military "experts" should do their own research:
TAGUBA: You can probably provide an expert opinion, but you always have to preface that by saying, 'Nobody told me to say these things.'
TP: What if someone did tell you to say those things? Then you shouldn't be saying them?
TAGUBA: You shouldn't be saying them. We should take bold measures to provide our own perspective through your own research. That's why they call you an expert. They don't call you an expert because they fed you information. That means you're just a talking head. You don't want to be a talking head. Do your own research.
In fact, the participants in the Pentagon program were explicitly prohibited from following Taguba's urging: to say explicitly whether they were repeating someone else's facts. As the Times report revealed, "The access came with a condition. Participants were instructed not to quote their briefers directly or otherwise describe their contacts with the Pentagon."
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528 reference. I took this as not having internet access. Guess not..
Is it possible to use the following with PL431 &/or PL528 without having to add anything extra?
Continue with whatever you're busy with cause there's more than enough to do something with here.
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Dead'in the water or..
? Still nuthin Benny, huh? You've gotten nowhere with this..
Perhaps then you'll tell us which
universe you're from.. I'd like to get in on this time-line..
In at most 2 days more I'll decide..
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Thank you for your interest, Semme!
I've been VERY busy with this issue because it has turned out to be NOW more than at the beginning a personal thing. First I thought that this was something I could do in < 5 hrs, when a few days later I realized I'd invested ~12 hrs on this it jumped to the personal category.
After that point in time I spent increasingly more time until now I'm spent, I almost all day long I think about this.
See the flow as I've experienced it:
1) after many months that machine with another monitor & cleaned RAMS resurrected;
2) only one Administrator acct but no recollection of what it was;
3) after about a keek of reading & searching my choice was to try first chntpw but even though it started OK there had not the driver for that HDD;
4) decided to switch app & konboot was it & encountered dificulty making a diskette that could be run there so decided to try to boot konboot right from the cfcard;
5) decided to give grub4dos a try & the experience has been very bad, after ~3 days trying to learn how to configure it right, even though it's booting up it can't start konboot nor DSL (the only choices I've played with until now). I've googled for info on it but the said "Tutorials" & info pages are lacking in structures & completeness at a high degree.
No, Semme, I'm still pushing the cart. Even though I might be taking ~2 days off because I've to go to another town for the said period of time, I'm sure I will be thinking on this...
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Benny.. C'mon now- get a grip. CAN the machine in question boot from cdrom or not?
Can you use it or another box (presumably a neighbors) to burn the iso image?
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If you need to burn from Linux- speak up!
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Thanks for replying Semme!
As a wrap-on-all: The Sick-Mach boots from usb (DSL) & from the cdrom drive (Lupu - think it was 528) AWA Ubuntu 8.10. There's no access to the web there nor has it a cd burner. It has a 3.5" diskette drive. Since I had quiet a few of those around without any immediate use for them but no unused cdroms & almost non rewritable ones it was mainly for this reason I, first read about the issue for a few days &, finally, decided the ophcrack was my Ist choice, konboot the IInd & trying to d/l + install into a cfcard, say HBCD, the IIIrd.
Haven't managed to install konboot into a 3.5 diskette yet, for doing this HERE I've to use the HP laptop (which is the only computer with such a drive I've) & that only boots from the usb drive (DSL). Have various puppies frugally installed here at the VAIO but haven't found a way to boot that HP with any of them, including the Lupu cdrom that boots the Sick one. ??? Iǘe even tried PXE bootin the HP but it never finishes.
I've stumbled upon a VERY OLD BartPE cdrom & I'm planning to go there with it to see if I can do some useful work with it. I don't remember what can be done with it but many years ago it solved an issue I had here with another VAIO that used to run WinXP. I'll see what happens & will post anything relevant.
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Benny, place
on your DSL pendrive, then install'em after booting 528. You'll have your chntpw all set to go..
Do you think if I d/l
this file
, put it within my DSL pendrive (which boots already there) it will run under DSL?
Hey, gotta ask >> You *will* know what you're doing once you're finally underway, right?
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Sorry for been so late with my reply.
I think, Semme, that you're confused with respect as to what is hiding inside that pendrive: it's DSL. I use this to boot up that HP (another machine different from the one I'm using right now, which happens to be a VAIO notebook).
According to your last post you suggest me to d/l & install something in that pendrive after I've booted up 528; the problem is that I think DSL would be needed to install something that , later on, is expected to be run by/with DSL at another machine. In any case, I don't have an idea if I can trully install something for DSL to use from any Puppy.
BTW, chntpw already ran at the patient-machine. The problem was that it lacks the necessary disk-drivers for recognizing that unit, so it's/I'm blind... I kept reading at the pogostick site & it appears that there might be a solution if I find the appropriate third-party disk driver to include it, somehow, in the list already present. This last thing isn't clear for me so I haven't tried it, yet. I'm working on it...
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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray).
This is the legacy Bug Tracking System for the POV-Ray project. Bugs listed here are being migrated to our github issue tracker. Please refer to that for new reports or updates to existing ones on this system.
FS#264 - Improve precision of photon direction information
Opened by Christoph Lipka (clipka) - Friday, 04 January 2013, 23:39 GMT
Last edited by William F Pokorny (wfpokorny) - Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 12:21 GMT
In the photons map, the direction of each photon is stored as separate latitude & longitude angles (encoded in one byte each), causing the longitudinal direction component's precision to be unnecessarily high for directions close to the "poles" (Y axis); in addition, encoded value -128 is never used. For better overall precision as well as precision homogenity, the following scheme could be used instead:
latCode = (int)((LatCount-1) * (lat/M_PI + 0.5) + 0.5)
LC = LngCount[latCode]; lngCode = (int)(LC * (lng/(2*M_PI) + 0.5) + 0.5) % LC;
dirCode = LatBase[latCode] + lngCode;
A relevant paper for this task:
Thanks for the reference, Simon. Looks like exactly the same basic idea, except that they used a more precise formula for LngCount[] (which they call N[Theta]), and add a few more ideas on top of that. Unfortunately their main focus appears to be variable-length encoding into a bit stream, while our problem is fixed-length encoding, so the actual steps of encoding latCode and lngCode into a single fixed-width value, and decoding that value into latCode and lngCode again, are not addressed by the paper.
I was thinking a bit about this, and came to the following conclusion:
If you encode the precomputed map in 8-bit precision, there is no reason to encode at all. You don't save any space with that. A look at the code shows that the photon structure is
float[3] #location (12 bytes)
char[4] #color (4 bytes)
char #info (1 byte)
char[2] #direction information (2 bytes)
On all modern architectures, the memory alignment is at least 4, if not 8 bytes, so the entire structure is packed into 20 bytes (sizeof(Photon) on gcc 4.7.2, x86_64). Having char[3] for location would have the same precision as a 8-bit precomputed list, and would take no more space in the structure. Encoding only makes sense if you save space or increase precision by using it. I think that having simply char[3]=(x,y,z) for direction is just fine if you decide for 8-bit precomputation - simplicity over obfuscation :)
For our specific case, the location data takes much more space than the direction anyway, and it cannot really be reduced, because you need sharp location for accurate caustics.
Edit: for 8-bit encoded components, you need normalization after conversion to float (so this precomputation does not help increase speed). So:
if you keep it as is, you have precomputed sin/cos values (fast)
if you make the encoding more complicated (more accuracy), you can either have built-in char[3] (simple but slow because of required renormalization) or 16-bit encoding with global float[3] lookup table (fast and more precision).
Or, of course, you can ignore that 8-bit precision can result in vector length a bit different than 1 and live with the consequences.
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On a sunny day last January, CPS Energy announced it had reached a long-awaited deal with OCI Solar Power to construct one of the largest solar projects in the world, a plan that is to add 400 megawatts of clean energy in San Antonio.
It was a unique deal, formalized under contract in July, that didn't just add enough electricity to power 80,000 homes. It also was an economic development project with OCI Solar, whose parent is a South Korean chemical company, and Nexolon, another South Korean firm closely tied to OCI, that guarantees a capital investment of more than $100 million and the addition of 800 permanent jobs here — with an average salary of $47,000, Mayor Julián Castro announced that day in January.
On Friday, cable news network CNN aired a seven-minute segment critical of the deal, speculating that CPS could have contracted with U.S. firms that have more experience and alleges the mayor backed a plan to send millions of dollars overseas.
Local solar advocates, the mayor and others quickly defended the deal Saturday and said the CNN piece was riddled with problems.
Castro said the deal brings good jobs employing American workers in an industry that will be making solar materials here, "yet folks who watched that (segment) got the sense that the opposite was true."
"It was very clearly a sloppy, inaccurate and very misleading example of reporting," he said Saturday. "First, it created the impression that somehow jobs are being shipped overseas. And that's ironic because the entire point of the way we have done things at CPS is to bring jobs to San Antonio, to create local jobs, and that's exactly what's happening here. And that was never mentioned by the reporter."
CNN correspondent Ted Rowlands declined to comment on reaction to the segment. A CNN publicist sent an emailed response to this story, simply saying "CNN stands by its reporting."
The segment tells viewers that in October 2011, Castro traveled to South Korea and then to Washington to attend a state dinner for the South Korean president.
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January 2011: CPS Energy announces plan to add 50 megawatts of solar power and leverage it as a development project.
April 27, 2011: Castro announces he will lead local businesses on trade and investment mission to ?S. Korea and Taiwan.
July 2011: CPS rebids solar project for 400 megawatts because price of solar continues to drop.
Oct. 11-12, 2011: Castro travels to South Korea.
Oct. 13, 2011: Castro attends White House dinner; sits with U.S. and South Korean presidents.
November 2011: CPS tosses out bids on 400-megawatt project and reopens process in hopes of getting a better deal.
Jan. 11: CPS announces deal with OCI Solar Power to bring 400 megawatts of solar power to S.A., 800 jobs, $100 million in capital investments.
July 23: CPS signs contract with OCI.
Friday: CNN airs correspondent Ted Rowlands' 7-minute piece disparaging OCI and saying Castro "backs deal that sends millions abroad" and implies CPS could have gotten a better deal from an American company.
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He was part of a local trade delegation and also spoke at the Urban Environmental Accords summit on green cities. The trip was slated to last several days, but Castro had to cut his portion short to fly to Washington for the state dinner.
Castro said he never had any conversations about the CPS Energy proposal or the companies seeking the deal.
"That wasn't the purpose at all — of either visit," he said.
It's not been uncommon for Castro to travel to the White House. He has attended several functions there.
CPS spokeswoman Lisa Lewis, who was interviewed for the CNN story, said the correspondent repeatedly asked her about the mayor's trip to South Korea and sending money overseas.
"The part I found most bizarre was that they kept talking about it as outsourcing. I think of that as sending jobs overseas," she said. "It didn't make any sense."
Rowlands aired interviews with Sandy Fardi, whose Farmers Branch-based 1SolTech firm was part of a consortium that unsuccessfully bid on the project, and a freelance journalist who covers the energy industry.
Fardi could not be reached for comment Saturday, but a company representative said 1SolTech was approached by CNN about the 400-megawatt project, and that the solar company did not seek out the media coverage.
In January 2011, CPS CEO Doyle Beneby announced the utility would invest in "big solar." Whichever group chosen as the solar provider would have to locate part of its business in San Antonio and bring jobs.
More than 100 proposals came in from companies around the world, and after a few delays, in July 2011 CPS made international headlines when it announced it would allow companies to expand proposals from 50 to 400 megawatts, enough to power 80,000 homes.
The field narrowed to 19 companies last fall.
CPS used outside legal consultants and technical consultants to guide it through the bidding.
The San Antonio Express-News was unable to compile a complete list of bidders on Saturday.
The CNN segment questions why OCI won the contract because of the company's experience and the pricing per kilowatt-hour it offered to CPS Energy.
Rowlands' story quotes "multiple sources familiar with the bids" saying that OCI offered to sell solar power to CPS for 11 cents per kilowatt-hour while another consortium offered a 9.8-cent rate.
CPS does not publicly disclose the cost of individual power contracts.
Lewis said it's difficult to make a pure per-watt cost comparison of the final companies. Some proposals included so-called "all-in pricing." Others didn't include the cost of obtaining the land for solar farms or a manufacturing site.
Others who watched the bidding process unfold say the mayor's heightened political profile make him a new target for criticism.
Castro was on the national stage last month when he presented the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. He since has traveled to several battleground states as a surrogate for President Barack Obama.
Lanny Sinkin, executive director of Solar San Antonio, said the "political answer" to why CNN aired the story is because of Castro's emerging role as a national politician, "so now he's a target."
Lewis said OCI's package made it the best choice.
OCI's financial stability, manufacturing expertise and ability to follow through on the contract played a role in why it was chosen, as well as technical expertise.
OCI Solar and Nexolon are considered major players in polysilicon and wafer production. OCI offered to build dual-axis solar farms, which means its panels will track the sun as it moves across the sky daily, as well as adjust to the changing level of the sun in the sky throughout the seasons.
The quality of the jobs and the type of manufacturing the companies would bring also were factors.
"They're going to build components and panels here not just ship parts from other places in the world and assemble them," Lewis said. "There's a difference between manufacturing and just assembly. Comprehensively, they had the best package."
OCI Solar will locate its international headquarters here, and Nexolon America is establishing its North American headquarters here.
Lewis also said there are contracts to come on the project, which could mean more jobs for U.S. companies. OCI still is working on contracts for everything from who will build the solar farms to who will manufacture components or frames for the solar panels.
"That's the real genius of this deal and was one of the major goals of Mayor (Phil) Hardberger and, later, Mayor Castro," said Tom "Smitty" Smith, director of Public Citizen's Texas Office. "It was to create a clean-energy economy in San Antonio by using the purchasing power of CPS to bring jobs home instead of continuing to ship your money to Wyoming to buy coal or to California to buy solar panels."


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By Peter Jon Lindberg, Travel + Leisure • Updated 26th February 2013
Shhh. They can hear you. They're listening as we speak -- logging every word, tracing every step. Even tonight, while you sleep under your hotel-monogrammed duvet, rest assured that 20 stories below, in some undisclosed location, researchers are hard at work documenting your whims and wishes -- Loves biking! Hates bananas! -- trying to crack the profound mystery that is You.
How much do they know? They want to know everything: your relationship status, your income, your allergies, your preferred brand of toothpaste, how you like your eggs -- all those sundry habits, peeves and predilections, even the ones you didn't know you had.
Hotels have always kept logs on their guests, tracking previous stays, comments and complaints, even which pay-per-view movies you ordered. "We write down everything," says Karambir Singh Kang, area director, USA, for Taj Hotels and general manager of the Taj Boston. So when the bellman casually inquires, "Where are we off to today, folks?" no doubt your reply will be fed into your ever-expanding profile. Sometimes this "research" can take on questionable ethical dimensions. One veteran general manager told me his staff aren't above going through guests' trash.
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But fishing around is not a recent development. What has changed, in this brazen new world, is the sheer amount of data that hotels now collect on guests, and the often startlingly personal nature of that data. With the explosion of social networking, and our increasingly unguarded presence online, profiling guests has become a lot easier, and a hell of a lot more effective.
A representative for a prestigious Beverly Hills hotel recalls welcoming a first-time guest to the property. "We knew very little about her before she checked in, so we searched for her online and discovered she had a dog named Bo," the rep says. "When she arrived, there was a little doggy gift waiting in her room, with a note card that said 'Bo misses you.' " Creepy? Cute? You be the judge.
Prying is the new pampering. The payoff, hospitality executives say, is the ability to tailor service to a guest without the guest's initiating any requests herself. Under the old model, a guest would have to volunteer that she loves tennis and might enjoy a lesson. Now, ideally, she need no longer say a thing; the staff has already sussed her out and booked a 9 o'clock with the pro.
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As for that quaint "pre-arrival questionnaire" they used to send to incoming guests? Nearly obsolete, except at the most traditional properties. Who has the time to fill one out? Besides, for many of us, our identities, preferences and proclivities are already posted online, and ripe for the culling.
For hotel companies, social media has essentially become a sanctioned form of eavesdropping. "Hotels have trained their staff to be intense listeners and mine information about their guests. This gives them a whole new realm in which to listen," says Niki Leondakis, CEO of Commune Hotels & Resorts (formerly the president and COO of Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants). And listen they do.
At One&Only Resorts, reservation teams look up incoming guests on Twitter, work-related sites and blogs, then draw up detailed profiles (photos included) to distribute to top-level managers.
The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort, meanwhile, Googles every guest two weeks before arrival. "We actually create a little story about them -- just a paragraph or so -- and share that with the heads of each department at our daily NDA (next-day arrivals) meeting," says general manager Michael Schoonewagen. (You didn't know they had a little story about you, did you?)
It's not rocket science, Schoonewagen adds, and it doesn't cost them a thing. "The first page of Google results is usually sufficient. We're not digging into every last detail of someone's life -- we just want a picture of who they are."
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Other hotels invest more money and manpower in tracking guests online. The Surrey Hotel in New York was an early adopter of the powerful Libra OnDemand software, which aids in "customer relationship management," or CRM. "Libra acts as a one-stop shop for searching guests on Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and other channels," explains José Lema, the Surrey's director of guest relations. "It gives us the power to get to know our guests, beyond what they'd think to share with us."
As Lema sees it, guests are looking not only for great amenities but also for "connection" -- with a staff that can intuit their tastes and desires, including unspoken ones.
"Previously, we did all our profiling via manual online searches, and only VIPs and guests paying a certain rate were researched," Lema says. "Now every reservation is processed by Libra." In today's social-mediated paradigm, wherein everyone lives in public, all guests can be treated like celebrities.
This proves especially useful in orchestrating what hotels call "surprise-and-delight moments." So if you happen to tweet "Just arrived @FSLosAngeles for anniversary weekend!" don't be shocked if a bottle of wine appears at turn-down. (Be surprised and delighted, but don't be shocked.)
"A guest's Twitter feed can provide information that they aren't even telling you -- and then you can really surprise them," notes Leondakis. "For instance, maybe the hotel will find out the guest is an advocate for LGBT rights, in which case the staff can personalize the welcome amenity by including a magazine they would identify with. Something unique and personal that says, 'This is just for you.'"
Cranks and paranoiacs will surely see all this probing and profiling as a sign of the apocalypse, or at least a serious incursion into their privacy. (It's worth noting that, because of privacy regulations in the EU, companies are less likely to gather personal information online, so these practices are more common at U.S.-based and independent hotels.)
Some may pine for the days when travel could be refreshingly anonymous, when hotels were at least purportedly about discretion above all else. But would we really want to go back?
The fact is, profiling works -- most of the time. Who wouldn't want their hotel to know, without even asking, what type of pillow to leave on the bed, which magazines to leave on the coffee table, what brand of juice to put in the mini-bar? Who doesn't enjoy being surprised and delighted?
And just so we're clear, we're talking about hotels here. Hotels -- where, discreet as one might hope to be, it's impossible not to leave an identifiable footprint. Long before Twitter this was so. You might hang that flimsy privacy sign on your door, but you can't hide. You can't "turn off cookies." The staff's eyes and ears are everywhere. (For God's sake, they're going through your trash!) Trust me, they know plenty about you already, and they didn't need a search engine to find it.
The key, as one hotel manager puts it, is "to act on that knowledge without calling undue attention to it." If your profile says you requested the Wall Street Journal on a previous visit, a skilled desk clerk will simply have it delivered again this time, without comment.
Nobody wants to hear the words "And we see from our deep background check that Sir enjoys the Journal"! No, we prefer to think this stuff happens by magic, not by design; that the staff are just incredibly good at their jobs, not following a computer-generated set of directives -- which, frankly, seems like cheating.
Bear with me as we compare your hotel to Santa Claus. One would like to believe that Santa knows what you want -- and whether you've earned it -- based on his compassion, care and superior powers of intuition. What you don't want to discover is that Santa's elves have been monitoring your Google, Bing and Amazon searches for gift ideas, then poring over your Facebook wall to see if you've been good enough to deserve them.
Of course, there's a delicate line between intuitiveness and intrusiveness, between "personalization" and, well, stalking. Consider this curious tale from New York restaurateur Danny Meyer, who literally wrote the book on hospitality. (It's called "Setting the Table," and it's required reading for anyone in the industry.) Last June -- on Father's Day -- Meyer returned to his room at the Little Nell in Aspen, Colorado, to find a framed photo of his wife and children beside the bed. "On the frame it said 'Happy Father's Day from your friends at the Little Nell,'" he recalls. "They'd gone online to find a picture of us."
To me that sounds neither surprising nor delightful, but downright terrifying. I'm trying to picture my own reaction: You hunted down my FAMILY?!? Leave them out of this, you monsters!! But Meyer, to his credit, found it touching.
"I almost started crying," he says. "That photo is now on my dresser at home. I thought it was a genuinely thoughtful gesture. Look, anyone can give you a plate of cookies, and sure, that feels nice. But this wasn't off-the-rack. It was about customization -- one-size-fits-one. That's true hospitality."
What do you think -- thoughtful or creepy? What have hotels done to personalize your stay?
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Putting Stafford's performance in the proper perspective
Matthew Stafford and Mark Sanchez will be compared to one another for the entirety of their careers. They declared as underclassmen for the same draft, went top five with plenty of naysayers suggesting the other was the better quarterback, and best of all they're friends in different conferences who could conceivably make for a storybook Super Bowl one day. (Dare to dream, Lions fans.)
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I haven't had any offers like that, he said. My abs aren't as cut as those of Mark Sanchez. But no, I saw that. I'm going to have to give him a call about that later this weekend or something.
Both quarterbacks returned to their teams earlier this week after a few weeks off following rookie minicamp, and both took part in their third full-squad OTA Thursday. Stafford completed 6-of-12 passes in team drills and 5-of-5 in seven-on-seven, while Sanchez, according to the New Jersey Star-Ledger, was 1-of-9 with one interception in 11-on-11 and clearly was outplayed by veteran Kellen Clemens.
What does all that mean? Nothing, really. It's May, no one's in pads and Stafford was throwing against the Lions' defense. OK, that was cheap. True, but cheap. (Damn, I did it again).
Still, no one walked away from either practice thinking they had the next Peyton Manning or Ryan Leaf. Sanchez earned high marks for his footwork and arm strength, though he got taunted by vets and chewed out by coaches for missing open receivers and misdiagnosing reads.
Stafford, meanwhile, has all the requisite tools to be a great NFL quarterback, but so did Jeff George and Tim Couch and so many others. He made a good first impression, but he also slapped his hands in disgust once or twice, something I'm sure he'll do again in the future.
A few other random thoughts:
I wrote about defensive end Eric Hicks yesterday, but only in relation to the zinger I got in on Stafford. Really though, Hicks is an interesting story as a 32-year-old 6-foot-6, 280-pound defensive lineman who's getting a long look for a backup job. Hicks said he was out of football completely last year. He had a tryout with the Redskins during training camp, and spent his fall working out and volunteering at his son Rocco's kindergarten.
I actually had a book club group ... so you can see me, 6-6, 280, and scaring the hell out of little kids, 'Read your book,' Hicks joked. No, we try to do as much of that as possible. We do a lot of volunteer work. We have our own foundation, so we're kind of philanthropic with the Children's Hospital in Kansas City.
Hicks worked out for the Lions on the recommendation of defensive line coach Bob Karmelowicz shortly before the draft he played under Karmelowicz and defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham in Kansas City and signed a week later when the team was still in the market for help up front.
I haven't watched Hicks enough to break down his strengths and weaknesses or chances of making the team, but just looking at the numbers, he's got a shot. Having Karmelowicz in his corner doesn't hurt, either. He could be this regime's Langston Moore.
I got another chance now and I'm going to hold on to it and just hope for the best, he said.
Hicks' charity, by the way, is The Hicks for Hearts Foundation, which he formed after his daughter, Shayla, needed three open-heart surgeries in her first six months of life. She just got a clean bill of health this week, and is celebrating her 10th birthday with a party in Kansas City tonight.
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- XOrg 7.3 which features BulletProofX for failsafe graphics mode and GUI for XRandR. I've blogged about BulletProofX previously and on XRandR here
- Transmission replaces Gnome Bittorrrent as the default bittorrent downloader in Ubuntu Hardy Heron LTS. Transmission is a lightweight bittorrent client with automatic banning feature and protocol encryption.
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Bricks 4 Kidz is devoted to providing an extraordinary atmosphere for children, where we learn, we build, and we play with LEGO Bricks. Classes are designed to teach the fundamentals of S.T.E.M. (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education, built around our proprietary model plans, created by engineers and architects. At Bricks 4 Kidz, we believe that kids learn best through activities that engage their curiosity and creativity.We offer activities for children ages 3-13+, including:After-School Enrichment Classes, Week-Long Summer Camps, Birthday Parties, In-school Workshops, Pre-School Classes, Kidz Night Out. Our programs provide a safe, relaxed learning environment where initiative is invited and self-expression is celebrated. Specially designed project kits and theme-based models provide kids with the opportunity to solve problems and develop an appreciation for how things work, while having fun and socializing in a non-competitive atmosphere. (less) ... Read more
Toyon Bay
For 50 years and with more than 1 million participants, Outward Bound continues to lead the way in outdoor adventure-education for youth and adults. With locations throughout the United States and Internationally and over 500 courses to choose from, your perfect adventure awaits! Outward Bound programs emphasize personal growth through experience and challenge in the wilderness. Students develop self-reliance, responsibility, teamwork, confidence, compassion, as well as environmental and community stewardship. Courses range in length from four days to three months, for ages 12 to 45+. Activities include backpacking, canoeing, rock climbing, mountaineering, white water rafting, sailing, dog sledding, skiing and much more. Scholarships are available. (less) ... Read more
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Posted: May 23, 2008
May 23, 2008
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Santa Clara sports teams are pleased to announce the dates for their 2008 summer camps.
Santa Clara University annually sponsors summer youth camps for the sports of baseball, boys basketball, girls basketball, girls soccer, boys soccer, tennis (girls and boys), softball, and volleyball (girls only), plus an all-sports camp.
Each camp requires specific forms to be filled out. For more information on camp dates and how to sign up, please follow the below links.


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Online Pre-Registration
You can pre-register online your church messengers for the 2011 SBC Annual Meeting. It's easy and convenient. No more waiting in long lines, filling out cards, writing your name, verifying your church, etc.
How does it work?
- When you pre-register a messenger online, each messenger gets a unique 8 digit "Registration code."
- Write down, or print out the registration details, and give it to your church messenger.
- When your church messengers go to the 2011 SBC Annual Meeting, they can use our "Express Lane."
- The church messenger gives the registration code to us, we type it in the computer, and print out his name tag. And you're DONE!


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Massachusetts Events, Coupons, Reviews!
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"Lords and Ladies, we welcome you to Medieval Times!" Huzzah! From the moment we stepped over the drawbridge into the castle at Medieval Times Dallas, we were transported to another era. Full of Kings and Queens, Knights and Princesses, this magical castle is the perfect setting for some fabulous family-friendly entertainment. When you walk into the castle, your family will receive your seating assignment and get the opportunity to take a picture with a knight. Then you walk into the lobby, where you can purchase a souvenir, belly up to the bar, or take pictures with some of the Knights from the show (or even a falcon!). About 20 minutes before showtime, you will be escorted into the arena by color. Once inside the area, you find your seat and your server arrives to give you some instructions for the evening. Before long, the show begins and servers start bringing out course after course. The horses and falcon show off their tricks during dinner and are truly magnificent. After dinner, the real magic begins. A knight arrives to fight for the Princesses' hand in marriage spurring on a contest of riding, jousting, and sword fighting. The whole evening is very fast paced and exciting. It is so high energy and by the time a winner is crowned, you feel like you have been truly transported back to Medieval Times. Our family loved this evening of entertainment and fun and we can't wait to visit Medieval Times Dallas again!
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Dundas Castle Courtyard
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Medieval European style castle built by Ralph W. Dundas beginning around 1910 or so. Construction ended in 1924, several years after Dundas died, and it was never completed or occupied. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
Jon and I hiked up the steep hill in waist deep snow and we were rewarded with this spectacular view of the unoccupied castle.


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RE/MAX Southern Shores sells homes and condos at Arrowhead in Myrtle Beach
Arrowhead is a coastal Carolina golf course community located along SC 501 just 6 miles west of Myrtle Beach, a mile from the Intracoastal Waterway, and 5 miles from Myrtle Beach International Airport. As an affordable residential area along the Grand Strand, Arrowhead attracts "native" South Carolinians as well as "transplants" as residents.
Arrowhead is distinguished by diverse communities situated on and around the world-class Arrowhead Golf Course. The lushly landscaped course extends throughout the community adding that "resort living" touch to homes and condos. Arrowhead Golf Club also offers residents membership packages that are competitive with other golf memberships. This video will highlight golf options.
Arrowhead Grand is just one of the lovely neighborhoods within the Arrowhead subdivision. These luxury homes are set on the golf course and the Intracoastal Waterway. Buildable lots as well as established homes are available for purchase within this gated community. Arrowhead is a great neighborhood with an ideal location!
Regardless of the specific site you choose in Arrowhead, you will be close to Tanger Outlet, grocery stores, Grand Coastal Mall, Myrtle Beach, and SC 31, a six-lane highway that connects Little River to Murrells Inlet. Arrowhead residents can take advantage of all of the Grand Strand attractions in addition to the Arrowhead amenities. Average prices of homes in Arrowhead are in the $75,000 - $250,000 range making this an affordable community that maintains its property values.
This 3BR/2.5BA home sits on a heavily hardwood treed .28 acre lot in the mature Arrowhead subdivision. The home features many upgrades including hardwood throughout, smooth ceilings, irrigation, screen porch, white on white kitchen, stainless refrigerator, upgraded lighting throughout including recessed lights, 3rd bay garage/workshop, and ceramic tile in all the bathrooms and utility room. The Arrowhead subdivision offers residents a great recreation center including tennis, pool, and playground.
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