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Windows 8 includes a feature called File History that caches, or backs up, different versions of your documents and other data files, so you can "go back in time" and recover previous or deleted versions of those files. It's a great feature that builds on technology that's been in Windows since 2003—long before Apple copied it with Time Machine—and it works very well. The trouble is, File History is disabled by default in new installs of Windows 8. So you'll need to enable first.
I previously wrote about File History in Windows 8 Feature Focus: File History, so please refer to that article for a more comprehensive rundown of how this feature works. But the short version is that, once enabled, File History automatically backs up files in your desktop and libraries, contacts, IE Favorites, and Microsoft SkyDrive. If you delete, damage, or change a file stored in one of these locations, you can use File History to restore it to any stored version. In this sense, File History really does provide you with a "history" of your most important files.
File History is of course most easily found with Start Search. Since it's implemented as a classic control panel, you'll need to filter the search to Settings.
Aside from being disabled by default, File History has one semi-onerous requirement: It requires an external drive, like a USB-based hard drive or memory drive, or a network location, such as a share on another PC, a Windows Home Server, or similar. (If you have a second internal drive, that will work as well, though you can't have mapped any library locations to this disk.)
To use File History, you can plug in an external disk, which will cause the File History control panel to change like so:
Or, tap the Use network location link and then click Add network location to find an acceptable share location on your home network. (I happen to use a location on my Windows Home Server for this purpose, so my instructions will follow this path.)
When you've configured the location you want to use, click the Turn on button and File History will begin backing up your files. It also asks if you'd like to recommend this to other PCs in your homegroup, if configured. This way, if you enable File History on those PCs next, you can more easily configure it for the same location, creating a centralized store of versioned files.
Once File History is up and running, you can pretty much forget about it, as it will operate normally and automatically without any interaction required. That said, if you're using an external drive for File History, you'll want to ensure that the drive is connected to your PC when possible.
I explain how to actually use File History in Windows 8 Feature Focus: File History, of course, including the most crucial piece, file recovery, which occurs through a nice new interface that's vaguely reminiscent of Windows Media Player.
One last note: File History also maintains an offline cache, which replicate some percent of your full file history on the C: drive so you can access backups when disconnected from the home network or external drive. This is useful, in particular, for portable computers, so you won't lose File History functionality when out and about. By default, File History takes 5 percent of the space on your primary disk for this cache, but you can configure this, and a few other options, in Advanced Settings from the File History control panel.


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October 2013 : Sunday Oct 2013 : Sunday
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Driving through the Desert – Destination Vegas
How to get a red road at night
Usually I light up the road at night with my headlights, but I figured out this strange trick by accident! I was parked, facing the other way, and the tail lights were illuminated because the headlights were on. There was barely any red visible on the road itself, but the long exposure ended up making everything on the ground and walls a wondrous red!
Daily Photo – Driving through the Desert – Destination Vegas
Here is another recent photo from my trip to the desert. This was a very long exposure from a beautiful road in the Valley of Fire. Those glowing lights in the far distance? Those are the lights of Las Vegas, plainly visible even though it is still 60 miles away!

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Spirit Bear
In a moss-draped rain forest in British Columbia, towering red cedars live a thousand years, and black bears are born with white fur.
On a drizzly autumn morning on the coast of British Columbia, a shadowy figure lumbers down to shore. A black bear has come to eat. It's spawning season. Egg-heavy fish glut the streams of Gribbell Island, a small piece of Canada's Great Bear Rainforest, one of the largest coastal temperate rain forests in the world. The bear pauses on a patch of rockweed algae to sniff the air. The rain and mist can't mask the funky rot. Pink and chum salmon carcasses lie tangled in linguine strands of tidal sedge. The bear moves like a silhouette across the landscape, its black fur blending in with the dark rocks and dusky woods.
Marven Robinson spots the bear but turns away, uninterested. "We might have better luck upstream," he says. Robinson, 43, stocky and swathed in rain gear, is a wildlife guide and member of the Gitga'at First Nation, whose traditional territory includes Gribbell Island. This bear isn't what he's looking for. He's after a more revered and rare creature: what the Gitga'at call mooksgm'ol, the spirit bear, a walking contradiction—a white black bear.
Neither albino nor polar bear, the spirit bear (also known as the Kermode bear) is a white variant of the North American black bear, and it's found almost exclusively here in the Great Bear Rainforest. At 25,000 square miles—one and a half times as big as Switzerland—the region runs 250 miles down Canada's western coast and encompasses a vast network of mist-shrouded fjords, densely forested islands, and glacier-capped mountains. Grizzlies, black bears, wolves, wolverines, humpback whales, and orcas thrive along a coast that has been home to First Nations like the Gitga'at for hundreds of generations. It's a spooky, wild, mysterious place: There are wolves here that fish. Deer that swim. Western red cedar trees that have stood a thousand years or more. And a black bear that is white.
As his boots slosh up a soggy trail fringed with ferns and devil's club, Robinson scans for movement. No bears. He spots a tuft of white fur snagged on an alder branch. "They're around here, for sure," he says. He points to the chewed bark. "They like to stand and bite the tree just to say to other bears, I'm here using this river."
An hour passes. Robinson waits patiently on top of a moss-patched boulder. Then he sees a rustling in the bush. "There he is," he says.
A white bear steps out of the tree cover onto a streamside rock. Set against the dark palette of the rain forest, the bear's fur appears shabbily radiant. Not pure white, exactly. More like a vanilla-colored carpet in need of a steam cleaning. The bear swings its head from side to side, peering into an eddy for salmon. Before it can lunge for one, a black bear suddenly comes out of the forest and runs the white bear off its perch—though "runs" might be a bit strong. Everything the bears do seems to unfold in slow motion, as if they're trying to conserve every last calorie for the coming winter. The white bear lumbers into a thicket and disappears.
Robinson watches. He's spent 15 years among the spirit bears. Still, he's transfixed. "This particular white bear is very submissive," he says. "Sometimes that gets to me. I'm protective. I once saw an old white bear attacked by a younger black bear. I was about to jump in and pepper spray the black one. The instinct was strong in me. But then the white one reared up and threw him off." Robinson smiles, as if to admit the absurdity of a man jumping into a bear fight. But in his eyes there's a hint that he might have done it.
Robinson isn't alone. That same protective instinct runs strong throughout the Great Bear Rainforest. It's one of the factors that have kept the spirit bear alive.
"Our people never hunted the white bear," says Helen Clifton, sitting in her kitchen in Hartley Bay, a small fishing village marked by tendrils of wood smoke and the echoing calls of ravens. Strong in voice and spirit, the 86-year-old Clifton is a clan matriarch of the Gitga'at, one of 14 bands that make up the Tsimshian people of British Columbia's northwest coast. Bear meat was rarely a main food, she says. But First Nations hunters went after black bear in greater numbers when European merchants established the British Columbian fur trade in the late 18th century. Even in those days, though, taking a white bear was taboo, a tradition that has continued through many generations. "We never even spoke of the spirit bear at the dinner table," Clifton says.
That tight-lipped custom might have been an early form of environmental protection. By not speaking of the bear, much less hunting it, the Gitga'at and neighboring bands never let word of the creature reach the ears of fur traders. Even today the Gitga'at and Kitasoo/Xai'xais people keep a watchful eye on their bears during hunting season. "It's not a good idea to come after black bear in our territory," says Robinson. "You never know. Our bears might shoot back."
That attitude makes a difference. For decades the presence of poachers and trophy hunters—as well as mills and a cannery—made grizzlies in the Great Bear scarce and skittish. The industries are now gone, as is the grizzly hunt in parts of the rain forest. The bears are responding. "In my early years it was really something to see a grizzly bear," Doug Stewart tells me. As a fisheries patrolman, Stewart has been monitoring fish runs in the Great Bear for over 35 years. "Now you see them all the time. I may come across five grizzlies in a morning."
They're doing so well, in fact, that some wonder if the grizzly's return isn't pushing black bears, and some white ones, off the best fishing stations on the rivers. "Where you see a griz, you won't see a black bear—or a white one," says Doug Neasloss, a Kitasoo/Xai'xais wildlife guide. "The black bears give griz plenty of room."
That leads to an intriguing possibility: Perhaps the griz had a hand in concentrating the Kermode gene on Princess Royal and Gribbell Islands. "Grizzlies and black bears coexist everywhere except these smaller islands," says Thomas Reimchen, a biologist at the University of Victoria. "There's not enough habitat for grizzlies on those smaller islands. They need big grassy estuaries, subalpine habitat, and an enormous home range, which those islands don't offer."
The islands do offer something else: the eyes of humans watching over them. "I tell the younger people," says Helen Clifton, "when you see a spirit bear, don't get on the VHF and broadcast it. If you want to tell someone, say you saw mooksgm'ol. They'll know what you mean. And it'll keep the bears safe."
Scientists know how black bears are born white. They're just not sure why. The phenomenon, known as Kermodism, is triggered by a recessive mutation at the MC1R gene, the same gene associated with red hair and fair skin in humans. To be born white, a bear must inherit the mutation from both parents. The parents themselves don't have to be white. They just need to carry the recessive mutation. So it's not uncommon for white bears to be born to black parents.
White fur occurs in only one of every 40 to 100 black bears on the British Columbia mainland coast, but the trait is especially pronounced on certain islands in the Great Bear Rainforest. On Princess Royal Island, one in ten black bears is white. On Gribbell Island, directly north of Princess Royal, it's one in three. Biologist Wayne McCrory of the Valhalla Wilderness Society calls Gribbell "the mother island of the white bears."
It's unclear how the trait arose. One theory was the "glacial bear" hypothesis that Kermodism represented a remnant adaptation from the last great ice age, which ended here 11,000 years ago. At that time most of modern-day British Columbia was still icebound, and a white coat may have offered camouflage. But the glacial bear theory raised a question: Why didn't the white fur trait die out when the glaciers receded?
To learn more, Doug Neasloss and I go looking for bears on Princess Royal Island. "Hey, bear," Neasloss says, as he hops out of a boat near the mouth of a small river. It's like he's hailing a friend named Bear, though there are no animals in sight. "You don't want to startle them," says the 28-year-old guide, who works the traditional territory of the Kitasoo/Xai'xais. A can of grizzly-strength pepper spray rests in a holster on his hip. Crunching across barnacle-encrusted boulders, Neasloss parts the curtain of the rain forest. Under the canopy everything turns soft and muted. Lichen drips from hemlock, cedar, and yew branches. His rubber boots leave no print on the spongy ground, which is so green it appears as if the sky has let loose a snowfall of moss.
Neasloss claims a spot under a hemlock tree and pulls his hood tight against the ceaseless rain. He saw a white bear near here recently, he says, though there's no guarantee it'll reappear. At a little past three, he points across the river. A white bear waddles down the riverbank. This bear's bigger and more confident than the Gribbell Island bear. Fat rolls down its belly. It appears to be wearing a coat two sizes too large. It perches over a small pool, then lunges with both paws and comes up with a plump three-foot chum salmon.
Researchers have recently proved that the spirit bear's white coat gives it an advantage when fishing. Although white and black bears tend to have the same success rate after dark—when bears do a lot of their fishing—scientists Reimchen and Dan Klinka from the University of Victoria noticed a difference during the daytime. White bears catch salmon in one-third of their attempts. Black individuals are successful only one-quarter of the time. "The salmon are less concerned about a white object as seen from below the surface," Reimchen speculates. That may answer part of the question about why the white-fur trait continues to flourish today. If salmon are a coastal bear's primary fat and protein source, a successful female can feast on salmon to store more fat for winter, potentially increasing the number of cubs she can produce.
As the rain continues to fall on Princess Royal Island, Neasloss and I watch the spirit bear feed on a bounty of salmon. When the pickings are this good, bears can turn finicky. Some eat only the fish head. Others may slit the belly and suck out the eggs. Some are gluttons. "I once saw a spirit bear eat 80 salmon at one sitting," Neasloss says. This bear prefers to dine privately. It turns with the salmon in its teeth and runs straight uphill to some unseen hideaway. Twenty minutes later the bear returns, nabs another fish, and takes it into the forest. This goes on for hours, until daylight fades from the sky.


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"First, some background. Coffee is the second most popular beverage in the world, after tea. Historians believed the use of coffee as a stimulant originated in ancient Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Caffeine is the component of coffee that is responsible for its mild stimulatory effect on the central nervous system. A six-ounce cup of coffee typically contains approximately 50 to 75 milligrams of caffeine, although the amount varies considerably depending on the method of preparation and the type of coffee; Robusta coffee contains nearly twice as much caffeine as Arabica, for instance. For people who are sensitive to caffeine, even 10 milligrams can cause discomfort. That is why nearly all decaffeinated coffees contain less than 10 milligrams of caffeine (typically two to five milligrams) per serving. Today decaffeinated coffee accounts for approximately 12 percent of total worldwide coffee consumption, or nearly 1 billion pounds per year.
"The first process for decaffeinating coffee was invented by Ludwig Roselius in 1905. Roselius's method used benzene, a potentially toxic hydrocarbon, to remove caffeine from premoistened, green coffee beans. Modern decaffeination processes are much more gentle; many make that point by claiming to be 'naturally decaffeinated.'
"There are three main decaffeination processes currently in use. They have some basic similarities. In all three approaches, the green or roasted beans are first moistened, making the caffeine soluble so that it can be drawn out. Also, they all decaffeinate green coffee at moderate temperatures, typically ranging from 70 to 100 degrees Celsius (160 to 210 degrees Fahrenheit).
"One method is water processing. As you might expect, this process employs water as the solvent to remove caffeine from the green coffee beans. Typically a battery extraction process using eight to 12 vessels is employed; each vessel contains green coffee at a different stage of decaffeination.
"A mixture of water and green-coffee extract that has already been reduced in caffeine is circulated around the coffee beans within the extraction battery (oils in the coffee extract aid in the decaffeination process). After a predetermined time, the vessel that has been exposed to the low-caffeine extract is isolated and emptied. The decaffeinated coffee beans are then rinsed and dried, and a vessel containing fresh green coffee is put on stream. The caffeine-rich extract that was drawn off from the vessel containing the fresh, green coffee is passed through a bed of activated charcoal, which absorbs the caffeine. This charcoal has been pretreated with a carbohydrate, typically sucrose, that helps it absorb caffeine without removing other compounds that contribute to the flavor of the coffee. The sucrose blocks carbon sites that would normally absorb sugars from the liquid, green-coffee extract. The caffeine-reduced extract can then be reused to begin the process anew. The water process is natural (that is, it does not involve any chemicals), but it is not very specific for caffeine; it removes 94 to 96 percent of the caffeine.
"A second decaffeination method is the direct solvent method. These days this technique usually employs methylene chloride (used predominately in Europe), coffee oil or ethyl acetate to dissolve the caffeine and extract it from the coffee. Ethyl acetate is an ester that is found naturally in fruits and vegetables such as bananas, apples and coffee. The liquid solvent is circulated through a bed of moist, green coffee beans, removing some of the caffeine; the solvent is then recaptured in an evaporator, and the beans are washed with water. Residues of the solvent are removed from the coffee to trace levels by steaming the beans. Often this process utilizes batch processing--that is, solvent is added to the vessel, circulated and emptied several times until the coffee has been decaffeinated to the desired level. Solvents are used because they are generally more precisely targeted to caffeine than is charcoal, leaving behind nearly all the noncaffeine solids. The more caffeine-specific solvents, such as methylene chlorides, can extract 96 to 97 percent of the caffeine.
"The third approach, supercritical carbon dioxide decaffeination, is very similar to the direct solvent methods, except that in this case the solvent is carbon dioxide. High-pressure vessels (operating at roughly 250 to 300 times atmospheric pressure) are employed to circulate the carbon dioxide through a bed of premoistened, green coffee beans. At such pressures, carbon dioxide takes on unique, 'supercritical' properties that enhance its usefulness as a solvent. Supercritical carbon dioxide has a density like that of a liquid, but its viscosity and diffusivity are similar to those of a gas. These attributes significantly lower its pumping costs. Carbon dioxide is a popular solvent because it has a relatively low pressure critical point, and it is naturally abundant. The caffeine-rich carbon dioxide exiting the extraction vessel is either channeled through a bed of activated charcoal or through a water 'bath' tower to absorb the caffeine. The carbon dioxide is then recirculated back to the extraction vessel. Supercritical carbon dioxide decaffeination is capital-cost intensive, but it offers very good yields. It typically can extract 96 to 98 percent of the caffeine originally present in the beans."


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New petitions were filed last Friday, January 10, with Kent County, to recall Cedar Springs City Councilors Patricia Troost and Ashley Bremmer.
Resident Mark Laws filed the new petitions after the language on two previous petitions was rejected at a clarity/factual hearing on December 31. Elections Director Susan deStiguer said that none of the three on the committee thought the petition held any facts.
A clarity/factual hearing has been set on the new petitions for January 29, at 8 a.m.
The new language (reason for recall) reads:
"1) On July 11, 2013 the city council motioned and supported to adjourn to a closed session and then adjourned. The Open Meetings Act 267, 15.267, 8A allows a closed session if the named person requests a closed hearing. No such request was made.
2) City council has a protocol in place requiring any change of import to be on agenda for public input and comment before it can be acted on by council in a following meeting. Former council member Merlington wrote this protocol. The new logo that was approved in November 2013 council meeting was not presented to the public for input or comments."
The first reason applies to a council meeting where then Mayor Bob Truesdale was allegedly taken into closed session without asking for one and then verbally lambasted by other council members. The second reason has to do with the process of adopting the new logo.


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Once it became clear that Steven Jackson would void the final year of his contract with the St. Louis Rams, Around The League's Gregg Rosenthal listed the Atlanta Falcons as a likely suitor for the veteran tailback.
That match is picking up steam. Jackson's priority isn't to settle for a potential playoff team; he wants to finish his career with a legitimate Super Bowl contender. The New England Patriots are the only team with a better regular-season record than the Falcons over the past five seasons, while the St. Louis Rams are dead-last over that span.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch identified the Falcons as one of Jackson's most likely suitors, which meshes with the feeling in the air at the NFL Scouting Combine the past couple of days.
"(Steven Jackson's) likely landing spot seems to be Atlanta," Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports tweeted, "based on what was happening at the NFL Scouting Combine."
Around The League examines what's next for all 32 NFL teams in 2013. Chris Wesseling breaks down the Falcons. **More ...**
With signs continuing to point toward Tony Gonzalez returning for at least one more season, Jackson could be the missing ingredient to the Falcons offense as a clear upgrade on the soon-to-be-released running back Michael Turner.
Had Jackson been around to salt away a commanding third-quarter lead against the San Francisco 49ers, there's a good chance it would have been the Falcons facing the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII.


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I am big fan of outdoor activity, jungle trekking is nothing more than a stroll in park for me. #SkyTrex hit me, how hard can it be? It turns out, it was really hard.
Few months back I PM-ed Azlan, the marketing manager for SkyTrex and asked him to accommodate bloggers. In return we will blog about SkyTrex. So he agreed to give SalamMedia (my marketing startup) some free passes to the Extreme challenge, the most difficult route. I did call in last minute to downgrade to Big Thrill, but Azlan insist we have 'fun'. His definition of fun is definitely messed up.
Here's some pictures of the awesome activity.
Safety first! The harness does hold up the sack really well.
I went first. Flying fox looked easy, yeah because this is the practice version. I spotted a couple of fawns near the bushes and wished I had my AR-15 upper receivers.
There's a limit to number of people per platform. 1 monkey per tree.
This is about 20m from the ground and we had to climb that!
Flying into nothingness. I did imagine what if I stopped half way. That's my fault for having a fat lazy bum. Thankfully it was one of the most memorable flying fox I have ever done in life.
or what if I missed the platform, slipped and fell? I can feel the movement in my bladder when I saw this picture taken by Abdus
One of my favorite route, I call this the hammock. Reminds me of Sara's baby hammock.
Monkey bar, only for the weak. I took the easier route, glide on the ropes. Haha
This V shaped string requires a lot of balancing. I did mess this up while trying to do too much in a single leap. I ended up almost loosing my head when the rope strangled my neck. Thankfully a hero doesn't give up easily. I pulled myself up and retraced the step. For the moment, it did feel like defusing a timed bomb.
Ammar decided to sleep, programmers sleeps at dawn. Can't blame him for being sleepy all the time, their sleeping habits is all over the place!
This was the easiest, if you know your way around the ropes. Noticed one glove? Yeah, I dropped one while trying to fart.
The pulley is made in France, land of Peugeot and Zidane, it's very sturdy for flying fox. The carabiner is also solid.
Some camwhoring with 'le wife.
Every time I took a challenge, I enjoyed the scenery. It was breathtaking and downright beautiful. The guys at SkyTrex really planned the route well.
Aisyah nearing the finishing line. I was a bit sad to see end. I really wanted another hour.
The monkey swing was the last challenge and it almost broke my back!
They even provided a hashtag for SkyTrex.
If there's one complain from me is the plastic pipes which are being used extensively in the challenge. I guess because it's cheap and strong hence the extensive iterations of it. Those pipes are slippery and sometimes too big to hold. It does require and additional effort just to grip it properly. Despite that, I am still giving SkyTrex a 5 star.
The SkyTrex Brochures
Overall, SkyTrex nothing but awesome. I could feel my adrenaline rushing up and down my veins while writing this blog post though it happened sometime last March. The greenery was perfect, the staff were really helpful and playful, which was good. They gave moral support and never wanted us to quit half way (but some participant did, age is really a factor).
My best recollection of #SkyTrex was the flying fox. It was the only avenue for me to be lazy, to enjoy the scene and for the first time, it felt like I kicked my acrophobia in the nuts that day (fear of height). I walked out a taller person, knowing that I've conquered my fear. If there was a stress meter, I'm sure it was down to zero.
Who is this for? Young executive, students, family, couples, Ranjits, Kumars, Chins, Alis or whoever wants quick escape, nerve wrecking, eyes squirming, lose bladder control or scream your lungs out, this my friend is for you. My advise, do wear long pants to avoid blister, bring your own gloves for better grip, and seriously, take your time doing the challenge, enjoy the scenery and don't focus on completing it soonest.
If you want more information, check out the official site.


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It's a hip hop song with very current electro touches. Synthesizer and percussion sounds hip hop. Saturated and aggressive bass. If you are looking for a base for your projects this could be your best choice. This song has the typical beginning with percussion Hip Hop. After we part with a piece Strings where an explosion of sounds and melodic electro base.
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DREAM's world bantamweight grand prix is set, and a few surprise names made the cut.
DREAM officials announced the eight participants and pairing for September's opening round, and the matchups include Antonio Banuelos (18-7) vs. Hideo Tokoro (30-23-1), Bibiano Fernandes (8-3) vs. Takafumi Otuska (12-8-1), Masakazu Imanari (23-9-2) vs. Abel Cullum (18-5) and Rodolfo Marques (12-1) vs. Yusup Saadulaev (8-0-1).
DREAM.17 takes place Sept. 24 at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
No North-American broadcast plans have been announced for the show.
A 13-time WEC veteran, Banuelos makes his DREAM debut after suffering a decision loss to Miguel Torres in the UFC's octagon. He faces Tokoro, who brings a four-fight win streak to the contest after capturing the promotion's eight-man Japan bantamweight grand prix tourney title.
Former featherweight Fernandes looks to rebound from a New Year's Eve loss to Hiroyuki Takaya against 12-time DEEP veteran Otsuka, who is just 2-4 in his past six outings.
Japan bantamweight grand prix runner-up and 11-year veteran Imanari draws Cullum, a nine-time King of the Cage fighter who looks to snap a two-fight losing streak.
Lastly, a pair of promising prospects make their promotional debuts as Nove Uniao's Marques meets undefeated Illini Saadulaev.
The current lineup for DREAM.17 now includes:
- Antonio Banuelos vs. Hideo Tokoro*
- Bibiano Fernandes vs. Takafumi Otuska*
- Masakazu Imanari vs. Abel Cullum*
- Rodolfo Marques vs. Yusup Saadulaev*
- Joachim Hansen vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri
- Shinya Aoki vs. Rob McCullough
- Willamy Freire vs. Satoru Kitaoka
- Takeshi Inoue vs. Caol Uno
* – World bantamweight grand prix quarterfinal
For more on DREAM.17, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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Spanish Word for live-in
English Word: live-in
Spanish Word: residente
Now you know how to say live-in in Spanish. :-)
Spanish Word: residente
Now you know how to say live-in in Spanish. :-)
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studying spanish and enjoying this city (Granada, Nicaragua)
Buenas dias, how are you all doing? I am just great, still in Granada and this place is really starting to grow on me. I have moved to a third hostel now and I think I like this one the best, especially since it´s only 3 dollars a night and all the walls are covered in colourful artwork and poetry. Plus there is a mango tree in the courtyard that randomly drops yummy snacks. I do miss the...
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Popular Phrase: toast in spanish | Conjugated Verb: reconquistar - to reconquer [ click for full conjugation ]


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Follow the timeline here. On December 29, the Times noted that he wasn't scheduled to anchor Current's coverage of Iowa or New Hampshire and would therefore be "sitting out the biggest political nights of the season." Not true, countered Olby:
On Thursday afternoon Mr. Olbermann suggested that Current's published plans might not be accurate. When a reporter asked him via email why he was not participating in the Iowa caucus coverage, he answered, "That's not my understanding. We've already prepared a 'Best Of Countdown' for Monday, and are planning a live Countdown on Tuesday."
That's the plan that Mr. Olbermann told his viewers about on Dec. 22, his last live program of the year. "We'll be bringing you Best of 'Countdown' each night from tomorrow through Monday, Jan. 2, and then back — live, live, live — on Tuesday, Jan. 3," he said. He added, "Congratulations on getting through another year of this crap. Good night and good luck."
Cut to five days later, just hours before the caucus results started rolling in. A fan tweeted him to ask whether he'd be anchoring the coverage after all, to which he replied, "headed into the office now." The Times was wrong! But … no, actually, they weren't. Another terse tweet followed a few hours later: "So as not to mislead: I am informed Countdown will not be on tonight, I must defer on all questions to @JoelHyatt @AlGore and @Current." So the Times was right. Or was it? According to a Current spokesperson later in the evening, "We asked Keith to be the sole anchor and exec producer of our primary and caucus coverage beginning tonight… Unfortunately, he declined to anchor or participate."
Why would a guy billed as the network's "Chief News Officer" decline to cover the first big result of the presidential campaign? Over to you, Hollywood Reporter:
"I was not given a legitimate opportunity to host under acceptable conditions," Olbermann said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday. "They know it and we know it. Telling half the story is wrong."…
Apparently [Current TV President David] Bohrman, upon learning that Olbermann had assembled his staff for a show that would be pre-empted sent a memo to Countdown staffers to clear up the "misunderstanding."…
Representatives for Olbermann did not immediately elaborate on exactly what "acceptable conditions" would entail. But it's no secret that Olbermann's show has had its share of technical snafus. And this is a source of frustration, say sources.
In early December the studio lights went out while Olbermann was on the air, prompting him to return the following evening with a candle.
Follow the link and scroll down to read Bohrman's memo to the "Countdown" staff. Key phrases: "As we assumed Keith had communicated to you" and "We tried several times to have Keith participate in our coverage." How can it be that the staff thought they were doing a show last night when the entire world, thanks to that NYT story, believed days earlier that they weren't? Surely management would have stepped in to clear things up between last Thursday and Tuesday; did a certain someone "forget" to pass along their instructions to the "Countdown" team? And who leaked Bohrman's memo to the Hollywood Reporter? Was it one of the staffers, annoyed at the confusion and/or brinksmanship between Olby and management, or was it management itself as a way to counter Olby's fingerpointing? Hard to believe Current would have let the staff operate under the impression that they were going to do a caucus show up until the very last minute, only to pull the plug. Maybe "someone" decided to call everyone in despite management's orders, start putting together a show the way he wanted to do it, and then dare the brass at Current to tell him he couldn't go on the air with it. Or maybe this is yet another case of tyrannical cable-news execs trying to tell a genius how to practice his craft and then besmirching him when he insisted on doing it his way. It happened at Fox and MSNBC, right?
Exit question: If/when this parting of the ways happens, would CNN dare take a chance? Gotta do something drastic to get those primetime ratings flowing.


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For Immediate Release
Office of the First Lady
May 21, 2002
Mrs. Bush's Remarks to Roundtable Discussion at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Prague, Czech Republic
MRS. BUSH: Thank you so much, Tom. Thank you very much for inviting me today. And I'm looking forward to listening to each of you and hearing what you all have to say. But first, I can't resist applauding the important work that you and other organizations that you represent are doing in Afghanistan and many other places throughout the world.
Organizations including People-In-Need, Caritas, International Organization for Migration, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty are delivering supplies, information and economic assistance to people who desperately need them. By doing so, you're delivering help and hope for a better life, one person at a time. You know better than anyone that the need is great. Thanks to you, the people of Afghanistan are learning that the world's concern for them is also great. The people of Afghanistan -- to the people of Afghanistan, you offer the outstretched hand of the world.
I'm meeting with you today not only to get an update and commend your work in Afghanistan, but also to focus on the critical importance of nongovernmental organizations, NGOs, in fostering a civil society, a society where freedom and democracy can flourish.
More than 25 American NGOs are currently working in Afghanistan. Together to other international organizations, they'll help rebuild the education system, integrate women back into society, and jumpstart small businesses through training and micro-lending programs. I don't think it's an overstatement to say that the work of NGOs formulates the glue that helps hold a civil society together.
The United States of America puts a lot of money into starting and strengthening NGOs, because they meet needs and foster communities in a way that government often cannot. Government can build schools and pay teachers, but it took the PTA to organize parental involvement and community investment in those schools. Government can provide money, as it did in setting up an American enterprise fund in the early days of democracy here in the Czech Republic. Yet it was the American Chamber of Commerce that helped identify emerging corporations and linked available money with aspiring people in a way to improve and invigorate the entire economy.
Also here in the Czech Republic, the Association for Education for Citizenship and Democracy has developed civic education curricula and trained teachers to help teach democratic values to the nation's young people. The Environmental Partnership Foundation has matched American environmental experts with local Czech leaders, resulting in many land stewardship and community development projects. The Broumov Center has sponsored community and cultural events to encourage tolerance, fight racism and promote cross-border cooperation with Poland and Germany. In all these examples, the United States government supports and helps fund the important work of nongovernmental organizations, because they strengthen the foundation of democracy.
Nongovernmental organizations are made up of highly motivated, caring people. They frequently do what government cannot do, providing humanitarian relief in places where local parties or ethnic groups are suspicious of government. They sometimes do what government will not do. NGOs helped deliver food to starving people in Afghanistan, even when the Taliban tried to block these deliveries.
Because they work at the local level, close to the people, NGOs generate new ideas to solve old problems. And always, they focus on individual human beings that we are trying to help. Our government works with NGOs around the world in much the same way that my husband wants our government to work with faith-based and community groups into our own country. His faith-based initiative recognizes what NGOs prove every day, that people who are motivated by their faith or by good will for their fellow man, people who have a passion to make a difference, are often far more effective at delivering help to people in need than government ever could be.
United States of America believes the work of NGOs is so important that our government will spend close to $1 billion worldwide this year on programs that help foster democracy and the civil society upon which it depends. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a great example. Radio Free Europe is a non-profit, private entity that is funded through a federal grant from the Broadcasting Board of Governors. By bringing news to people who need it, this radio service is widely credited with helping to end communism in Eastern and Central Europe. Polish leader Lech Walesa said its role was comparable to the one the sun plays to the earth.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty defines its fundamental mission as helping people create the conditions of freedom in which they can make decisions for themselves and for their countries. One of those conditions is information. Some of Radio Free Afghanistan's most important work right now is informing citizens about the Loya Jirga and what it means to their lives.
Another condition of freedom is freedom of association, an individual's ability to join with others of common interest and common concern. Freedom of association is often denied in the world's most repressive societies, as it was in Afghanistan when women were isolated and treated as virtual prisoners in their homes. Some of the most important work that NGOs will do in Afghanistan is helping women integrate back into society. After years of isolation, many women who are joyful about their new freedom are also understandably apprehensive and uncertain about how to take their place in society. NGOs can help bridge that gap with training, education and moral support, providing opportunities to bring together like-minded individuals and help them find a comfortable place.
All of you are here because you are committed to making a difference. On behalf of the American people, I thank you for the important work that you are doing. As you and your organizations work in Afghanistan and around the world, you're providing resources, training, education and a powerful example, an example of the best that a civil society has to offer.
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GlobalSpec Industrial Processing Online Trade Show and Event Draws More Than 1,300 Attendees
GlobalSpec Industrial Processing Online Trade Show and Event Draws More Than 1,300 Attendees
78 percent of the engineering, technical and industrial professionals at GlobalSpec online event are decision makers
EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The January 16 "Industrial Processing" online trade show and event hosted by GlobalSpec, recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYS: IHS) , drew more than 1,300 participants, with 78 percent of attendees reporting they are decision makers within their organizations. The free online event is now available on demand to give engineers and industrial professionals easy access to educational presentations and industry-leading supplier resources from the live-day event.
GlobalSpec's "Industrial Processing" event provided opportunities to meet with leading manufacturers; listen to industry experts eager to share their solutions for keeping facilities and operations running safely, smoothly, and efficiently; and learn of the latest trends, technologies, and innovations across key industrial processing technology areas including: fluid/gas handling equipment; thermal processing; solids handling; plus filtration, separation, and recycling. Attendees were able to network with their peers and suppliers, participate in key educational sessions and gain the knowledge needed to help their companies remain competitive in today's marketplace.
Industrial professionals were able to take advantage of these learning and networking opportunities from the convenience of their desktops, without having to budget for travel expenses or lose time away from the office.
"Once again the Industrial Processing show kicked off what will be another exciting year for online events at GlobalSpec," said Donna Lewis, director of e-publishing & e-events for GlobalSpec. "Throughout the year, we will connect manufacturers with the decision makers in their industries and deliver high quality educational sessions for the engineering and manufacturing communities."
Speakers and topics at the event included:
Commercial and Industrial Insulation/Safety and Sustainability
Commercial and industrial insulation can be a productive and safe asset. The choices for insulation selection are many and varied, relative to safety and sustainability. This presentation detailed the proper choices, their root reasons, and the long term impact to facility owners.
Presented by Steve Oslica, director of marketing, Pittsburgh Corning
Simplify PID Tuning to Meet Process Objectives
PID tuning and features determine process performance but the relationship is not well understood, leading to a divergence of opinions and a multitude of rules. This presentation unified major tuning rules to a simpler set that, when used with key PID options, can achieve a diverse spectrum of process objectives.
Presented by Greg McMillan, senior fellow, Emerson Process Management
Electronic Design Trends in PLC-based Control Systems
Equipment used for industrial control, such as the programmable logic controller (PLC), has increasing levels of connectivity, embedded processing, and functional safety. This presentation examined how these trends affect the design and functionality of various types of I/O modules, the building blocks of PLC-based control systems.
Presented by Navin Kommaraju, engineering manager, Texas Instruments
I/O on Ethernet... What do I need to know?
New Ethernet networks allow remote I/O to be collected using high-speed modular architecture supporting different I/O types and protocols. However, with the openness of Ethernet comes risk, demanding attention of network security.
Presented by Jason Haldeman, product marketing lead specialist, Phoenix Contact
Companies exhibiting at this event included: Pittsburgh Corning (FOAMGLAS® insulation); Continental Products Co.; Enerquip LLC; BEX Spray Nozzles; IHS Inc.; Kadant Johnson Inc.; and Vaughan Co., Inc.
For more information on exhibiting opportunities for the Industrial Processing event in 2014, download an exhibitor kit or call 800.261.2052.
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"Over the past few years I have witnessed numerous schoolmates of mine as well as family members who have divorced young or have been mistreated by their husbands. After a girl divorces in this country people are anything but kind, and they look at her differently — as if she's to blame, lacking what it takes to keep a husband and marriage happy. I can't put myself through that."A 27-year-old:
"My family and friends always try to change my mind telling me that not all men are the same, but I can't help but hate them to the extent that I was even reluctant to have children fearing that I might have a son who might one day continue the cycle of violent abuse."Refusal to marry is a classic tactic in the fight for women's rights. Giving women their rights should be necessary in the defense of marriage, though some people think the opposite is true.
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Salma, an English professor [said,] "At first I was hesitant to talk about the subject of marriage, but I indulged the students. They told me that for some it wasn't the idea of nuptials that abhorred them [sic]. It was the thought of marrying a Saudi man that they disliked. One girl casually said that her dream is to marry a foreign man, saying that foreigners are more open-minded, romantic, and share in responsibilities as a partner. They don't become liabilities, she told me. Saudi men tend to be unaffectionate, fickle and just plain selfish."


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Really disturbing news out of Afghanistan that may be being overlooked with all the Presidential election news going on. The New York Times reported in August that the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan has more than doubled since Pres. Obama: took office.
From Michael Yon:
"Afghan forces are infested with Taliban suicide killers. Two more "green-on-blue" attacks have occurred in the last few days, killing six more troops.
Days ago, the Taliban executed an audacious attack on Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan where Prince Harry is stationed. Under darkness without moon, at least fifteen attackers breached the wire, killed two U.S. Marines, and wounded numerous other people.
They badly damaged two jets and destroyed six more Harriers with a reported price tag of about $30 million each. The Harriers are no longer produced. This is not the way our force should be downsized. This loss is reportedly affecting ground operations.
The enemy also destroyed or damaged other facilities. In addition to lives lost, the total destruction could easily tally $200 million."
Michael's piece is about the real possibility that Prince Harry could be targeted and killed while in Afghanistan. The story for the U.S. is pretty chilling. Michael goes on to explain how Afghanistan is covered in Opium, giving us not only killers, but drug addled killers.
"This was 2006 and most people believed that the Afghanistan war had been won, though clearly it was going badly. Please see the dispatch Dasht-e-Margo.
More than six years later, the area remains hostile. Open warfare continues, and we just permitted the Taliban to destroy about $200 million dollars' worth of assets. Short of digging an epic tunnel, there is no way to approach Bastion unseen. The Taliban still managed to breach what should have been one of the most heavily guarded military facilities in the world. Someone needs to be fired.
Many wonder how the enemy could have conducted reconnaissance for the airfield attack. This war is mature and more than eleven years old. The Afghan military is infested with Taliban, not to mention the Afghan workers on the bases.
As for current and granular imagery of Camp Bastion and other bases, commercial flights come in from various directions, including from Dubai. Big-T Taliban has money. If they want the latest imagery, they can send agents to land there, and have them snap away from the air, and while landing take a long panorama of the aircraft and the defenses on the aprons. At Kandahar Airfield, commercial flights land, including 747s. When you land and taxi on the runways, passengers snap away. The same thing happens in Bagram, Kabul, and Jalalabad. Pilots can photograph many bases at their leisure, and can provide near real-time imagery.
The Afghan military is loaded with turncoats, moles, infiltrators, and drug-addled lunatics. They prove this practically weekly. Last year, a long-time Afghan Air Force Colonel, a helicopter pilot, went berserk and killed nine Americans.
The Afghan Air Force might as well be the National Reconnaissance Office for the Taliban. One crewmember with a camera can get all of the latest imagery from many bases in his area. But aside from that, what if another rogue Afghan pilot decides to go lethal? We have been training their M-17 helicopter pilots to fire rockets."
So, we are basically training those who will use their training to kill our soldiers. Go to the link as Michael describes the different scenarios. Thank goodness, we have just suspended training new recruits to the Afghan Local Police.
"If a rogue used a helicopter bomb in Kabul, it could flatten our Embassy.
Anyone who does not know that the Taliban and the Pakistanis have the will, the intelligence, and the resources to pull off such an attack, or worse, is detached from realities. Both natural and unnatural alliances can align for the worse.
Aside from the fact that six jets were just destroyed while parked on a remote base, and two more badly damaged, this wraps back to our most famous Apache pilot, Prince Harry. When you land at Bastion, it is easy to see where the Harriers, the Apaches, and other aircraft are parked. An Afghan pilot would know the area well. With the intelligence network that the Taliban has developed, there is little doubt that they will, or already have, figured out where Harry lives and works. The Taliban has no shortage of fighters who are ready to swap lives on a one-for-one exchange rate. They are good at infiltrating sleepers. Nobody should doubt that moles are on Bastion."
What Pres. Obama called "the good war" has gone terribly wrong, and it's about time we paid attention to it.


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Dodgers start Chad Billingsley, RHP (7-0, 3.38) vs. Ubaldo Jimenez, RHP (0-0, 3.75).
Dodgers: 57-47 (T-1st place NL West, L1)
Rockies: 52-51 (4th place NL West, 5.5 GB, W1)
From Dodgers.com, the scouting report on the starters:
Dodgers: With a weary bullpen down to a third-string closer, Billingsley came up with the game of his young career. He went the distance with a five-hitter, resting the bullpen and exhibiting command of off-speed pitches as well as his fastball. A finger blister that had bothered him reacted well to a change in between-starts workouts. He made 107 pitches, fewer than he needed in only five innings against Philadelphia in his previous start.
Rockies: Jimenez hasn't been known for his efficiency. In fact, when he was called up last week from Triple-A Colorado Springs, the one concern was that he wouldn't eat up enough innings. But Jimenez pitched an efficient seven innings -- 91 pitches, 59 for strikes -- in his second start Tuesday against the Padres. After giving up a three-run homer to Mike Cameron in the first, he held the Padres scoreless and allowed only two hits through the next six innings.
- W-L-W-L-L-W-L-W-L-L-W-L. That's the Dodgers' record after sweeping the Giants after the All-Star break. Meanwhile, the Padres are 3-7 in their last 10 and the Diamondbacks have won 8 straight to surge into a first-place tie.
- Everybody seems to have pitching woes. The Dodgers and Diamondbacks have each lost a pitcher expected to be a major contributor this season (Jason Schmidt and Randy Johnson), and the Padres have just placed Chris Young on the DL.
- With the trade deadline looming, let's hope Ned Colletti doesn't trade any of the kids in a last-minute panic move. It'll all be tilting at windmills because an AL team is going to win the World Series this year.


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Editor's note: Links to screen shots of e-mails sent to and from Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail address have been removed from the story.
A group of hackers that hit the Church of Scientology's site earlier this year have apparently cracked the Yahoo Mail account belonging to Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, according to documents and screenshots posted on the Web.
A security expert called the practice of using private e-mail accounts "incredibly dangerous" for public officials such as Palin.
The group, which calls itself "Anonymous," announced that it had gained access to Palin's Yahoo account in a message last night to, a site that regularly posts confidential documents. Among the files that WikiLeaks had posted for download were five screenshots from firstname.lastname@example.com, an address book and two digital photos of Palin's family.
One of the account's screenshots shows a short exchange in July between Palin and Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, who is running against Democrat Ethan Berkowitz for Alaska's lone congressional seat. In her reply, Palin called Anchorage-based conservative radio host Dan Fagan "inconsistent and purposefully misleading" in his comments about Parnell.
Another screenshot displays the text of a message to Palin from Amy McCorkell, whom Palin appointed to the Governor's Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse in October 2007. According to a press release issued by Palin's office at the time, McCorkell was previously a private legal investigator, an office worker and a fitness instructor and, like Palin, lives in Wasilla, Alaska.
In the message dated Sunday, McCorkell said: "I am reading the paper and have thoughts and prayers going your way ... don't let the negative press wear you down! Pray for me as well. I need strength to 1. keep employment, 2. not have to choose. Lately I just pray may God's will be done."
The day before, The New York Times had published a story critical of Palin's hiring practices as governor. The story did not mention McCorkell but said that Palin had appointed at least five former high school classmates to state positions since she took office.
Palin has come under criticism for using private e-mail accounts to conduct state business, with some alleging that she and others in her administration have used them to skirt message-retention and public records laws. The Bush administration has been accused of doing the same thing.
"Using private accounts for government or business use is incredibly dangerous," said Adam O'Donnell, director of emerging technologies at message security vendor Cloudmark Inc. "There's a reason why you have an official account. It's so that you can apply proper security management to the account."
Earlier this year, the Anonymous group launched several attacks against the Web site of the Church of Scientology, claiming that it wanted to "save people from Scientology by reversing the brainwashing."
The Republican National Committee and the McCain-Palin campaign had no immediate comment.


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NCTA: The Professional Organization for The Real Christmas Tree Community
The National Christmas Tree Association (NCTA) is the national trade association representing the Christmas tree industry. NCTA represents more than 700 active member farms, 29 state and regional associations, and more than 4,000 affiliated businesses that grow and sell Christmas trees or provide related supplies and services. Members are located throughout North America, as well as in South America and Europe. It is estimated that those affiliated with the NCTA produce roughly three-quarters of the farm-raised Christmas trees in the United States.
The need for a recognized, nationwide Real Christmas Tree community – with the desire to have its voice heard – has never been stronger. The NCTA represents the Real Christmas Tree community with one voice to protect and advocate on the industry's behalf.


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Sony on Sunday introduced two Android new phones into its NXT series, following the first phone in the series that it launched at CES earlier this year.
Neither of the new phones, which will be available in the second quarter, runs Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Android. They'll come loaded with Gingerbread instead.
The Xperia P has a four-inch display and an aluminum body. It has a 1GHz dual-core processor, 16 GB flash storage and an 8 megapixel camera.
It's the first phone to include WhiteMagic, a technology developed by Sony to automatically adjust the display brightness when users are viewing the phone in bright sunlight.
Users of the phone will also be able to buy a SmartDock which will let them easily connect the phone to a Sony TV to watch videos loaded onto the phone or browse the web on the TV from the phone.
The Xperia P also features a new technology called SmartTags that uses the NFC chip in the phone. Users will be able to program a tag to activate applications on the phone. In one example, a user might hang the tag near the front door of their house. Before going out for a run, the user can swipe the phone against the tag to automatically activate GPS, turn on the Bluetooth, and launch a running application.
The slightly lower-end Xperia U has a 1GHz dual-core processor, a 3.5 inch screen and a 5 megapixel camera. It features a thin strip across the bottom of the phone that changes color to indicate incoming calls.
Sony also announced that the Xperia S, the first phone in the NXT series which was introduced in January, will go on sale first in Barcelona this week.
Sony used its press conference to highlight its plans since it completed its purchase of Sony Ericsson. The deal closed on Feb. 15.
"Tonight is different," said Bert Nordberg, president and CEO of Sony Mobile Communications. Even though Sony Ericsson has had a presence at the Mobile World Congress for ten years, he said "Here, we are 100 percent Sony. Today we are kicking off a new chapter for our company."
The company emphasized services that it plans to offer across all of its products, including phones, TVs and tablets. Users will be able to download videos including movies and TV programs from Sony Entertainment to their phones and watch them on their Sony TV, for instance. Users of Sony phones will be able to download games from the online PlayStation store. Phone users will also be able to stream from Sony's Unlimited music streaming service.
Nancy Gohring covers mobile phones and cloud computing for The IDG News Service. Follow Nancy on Twitter at @idgnancy. Nancy's e-mail address is email@example.com


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President Donald J. Trump has invited several guests to attend tonight's address to a Joint Session of Congress. These special guests will be seated with First Lady Melania Trump in the Executive Gallery of the House Chamber. Watch the Joint Address live at 9 p.m. ET at WhiteHouse.gov.
John Crowley & Megan Crowley
At 15 months old, Megan was diagnosed with Pompe disease and not expected to live more than a few short years.
- Published in Federal


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In Honor of Today's Gore-Fest, My Climate Video
Al Gore is doing his best Jerry Lewis imitation by holding an all day climate telethon today. In honor of this, let me repost my climate video for those who have not seen it.
Catastrophe Denied: The Science of the Skeptics Position (studio version) from Warren Meyer on Vimeo.
Other viewing options, as well as links to download the powerpoint presentation, are here.


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|Safe Haskell
Basic definitions for the HUnit library.
This module contains what you need to create assertions and test cases and combine them into test suites.
This module also provides infrastructure for implementing test controllers (which are used to execute tests). See Test.HUnit.Text for a great example of how to implement a test controller.
- data Test
- (~=?) :: (Eq a, Show a) => a -> a -> Test
- (~?=) :: (Eq a, Show a) => a -> a -> Test
- (~:) :: Testable t => String -> t -> Test
- (~?) :: AssertionPredicable t => t -> String -> Test
- assertFailure :: String -> Assertion
- assertBool :: String -> Bool -> Assertion
- assertEqual :: (Eq a, Show a) => String -> a -> a -> Assertion
- assertString :: String -> Assertion
- type Assertion = IO ()
- (@=?) :: (Eq a, Show a) => a -> a -> Assertion
- (@?=) :: (Eq a, Show a) => a -> a -> Assertion
- (@?) :: AssertionPredicable t => t -> String -> Assertion
- class Assertable t where
- class ListAssertable t where
- listAssert :: [t] -> Assertion
- type AssertionPredicate = IO Bool
- class AssertionPredicable t where
- assertionPredicate :: t -> AssertionPredicate
- class Testable t where
- data State = State {
- data Counts = Counts {
- type Path = [Node]
- data Node
- testCasePaths :: Test -> [Path]
- testCaseCount :: Test -> Int
- type ReportStart us = State -> us -> IO us
- type ReportProblem us = String -> State -> us -> IO us
- performTest :: ReportStart us -> ReportProblem us -> ReportProblem us -> us -> Test -> IO (Counts, us)
Declaring tests
The basic structure used to create an annotated tree of test cases.
|TestCase Assertion
A single, independent test case composed.
|TestList [Test]
A set of
|TestLabel String Test
A name or description for a subtree of the
Shorthand for a test case that asserts equality (with the expected value on the left-hand side, and the actual value on the right-hand side).
Shorthand for a test case that asserts equality (with the actual value on the left-hand side, and the expected value on the right-hand side).
|:: AssertionPredicable t
|=> t
A value of which the asserted condition is predicated
|-> String
A message that is displayed on test failure
|-> Test
Creates a test case resulting from asserting the condition obtained
from the specified
Making assertions
Unconditionally signals that a failure has occured. All other assertions can be expressed with the form:
if conditionIsMet then IO () else assertFailure msg
Asserts that the specified condition holds.
|:: (Eq a, Show a)
|=> String
The message prefix
|-> a
The expected value
|-> a
The actual value
|-> Assertion
Asserts that the specified actual value is equal to the expected value. The output message will contain the prefix, the expected value, and the actual value.
If the prefix is the empty string (i.e.,
""), then the prefix is omitted
and only the expected and actual values are output.
Signals an assertion failure if a non-empty message (i.e., a message
other than
"") is passed.
When an assertion is evaluated, it will output a message if and only if the assertion fails.
Test cases are composed of a sequence of one or more assertions.
Asserts that the specified actual value is equal to the expected value (with the expected value on the left-hand side).
Asserts that the specified actual value is equal to the expected value (with the actual value on the left-hand side).
|:: AssertionPredicable t
|=> t
A value of which the asserted condition is predicated
|-> String
A message that is displayed if the assertion fails
|-> Assertion
Asserts that the condition obtained from the specified
AssertionPredicable holds.
Extending the assertion functionality
class Assertable t whereSource
Allows the extension of the assertion mechanism.
Since an
Assertion can be a sequence of
Assertions and
IO actions,
there is a fair amount of flexibility of what can be achieved. As a rule,
the resulting
Assertion should be the body of a
TestCase or part of
TestCase; it should not be used to assert multiple, independent
If more complex arrangements of assertions are needed,
Tests and
Testable should be used.
|Assertable Bool
|Assertable ()
|ListAssertable t => Assertable [t]
|Assertable t => Assertable (IO t)
class ListAssertable t whereSource
A specialized form of
Assertable to handle lists.
listAssert :: [t] -> AssertionSource
type AssertionPredicate = IO BoolSource
The result of an assertion that hasn't been evaluated yet.
Most test cases follow the following steps:
- Do some processing or an action.
- Assert certain conditions.
However, this flow is not always suitable.
AssertionPredicate allows for
additional steps to be inserted without the initial action to be affected
by side effects. Additionally, clean-up can be done before the test case
has a chance to end. A potential work flow is:
- Write data to a file.
- Read data from a file, evaluate conditions.
- Clean up the file.
- Assert that the side effects of the read operation meet certain conditions.
- Assert that the conditions evaluated in step 2 are met.
class AssertionPredicable t whereSource
Used to signify that a data type can be converted to an assertion predicate.
Provides a way to convert data into a
Test or set of
Test execution
Note: the rest of the functionality in this module is intended for implementors of test controllers. If you just want to run your tests cases, simply use a test controller, such as the text-based controller in Test.HUnit.Text.
Keeps track of the remaining tests and the results of the performed tests. As each test is performed, the path is removed and the counts are updated as appropriate.
A data structure that hold the results of tests that have been performed up until this point.
Uniquely describes the location of a test within a test hierarchy. Node order is from test case to root.
testCasePaths :: Test -> [Path]Source
Determines the paths for all
TestCases in a tree of
testCaseCount :: Test -> IntSource
Counts the number of
TestCases in a tree of
type ReportStart us = State -> us -> IO usSource
Report generator for reporting the start of a test run.
type ReportProblem us = String -> State -> us -> IO usSource
Report generator for reporting problems that have occurred during a test run. Problems may be errors or assertion failures.
|:: ReportStart us
report generator for the test run start
|-> ReportProblem us
report generator for errors during the test run
|-> ReportProblem us
report generator for assertion failures during the test run
|-> us
|-> Test
the test to be executed
|-> IO (Counts, us)
Performs a test run with the specified report generators.
This handles the actual running of the tests. Most developers will want
to use
HUnit.Text.runTestTT instead. A developer could use this function
to execute tests via another IO system, such as a GUI, or to output the
results in a different manner (e.g., upload XML-formatted results to a
Note that the counts in a start report do not include the test case being started, whereas the counts in a problem report do include the test case just finished. The principle is that the counts are sampled only between test case executions. As a result, the number of test case successes always equals the difference of test cases tried and the sum of test case errors and failures.


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The following is taken from John Petrucci's classic column, "Wild Stringdom." For our final lesson on chromatics, I thought I'd throw you a little curve and give you a few odd-meter exercises in 5/8. Now you might ask, "Why play anything in 5/8?" Well, I came up with this sequence because it's easier for me to play across the strings. As some of you already know, I use alternate (down-up-down-up) picking exclusively. This can present a bit of an efficiency problem when crossing strings to play a three-note-per-string pattern, because the first note on every other string lands on an upstroke. To avoid this awkward movement and make my patterns flow a bit better, I try to craft them so that each time I cross strings, the first note falls on a downstroke. Let's get the 5/8 feel under our fingers first. FIGURE 1 is a good place to start.
Practice it by playing it on each string up and down the neck chromatically to the 12th position and back. Don't be intimidated by the odd meter: the one important thing to remember is that even though the rhythm is syncopated, the picking remains steady and strictly alternate (down-up-down-up). Once you feel a little bit more comfortable with 5/8 meter, play FIGURE 2, a great exercise to work on your string-crossing technique. Notice that I added accents to the pattern as if it were written in triplets. But if the pattern was simply three 16th-note triplets (or 9/16 meter), crossing strings would be awkward. To make it easier to pick, I added one note to that 9/16 pattern (making it a figure in 5/8 meter) while still accenting the notes to keep a bit of the triplet feel.
One way I make FIGURE 2 more exciting is by playing it up the neck using a metronome with the guitar set to the bridge pickup. When I reach the 12th position, I'll raise the metronome setting a few clicks and change to the neck pickup, and work my way back down. I keep repeating this until I either reach my target metronome tempo OR I feel sufficiently warmed up. I change pickups just because I like the way the neck pickup sounds in the upper register. To make this exercise even more interesting, try applying the 5/8 sequence to a diagonal four-note-per-string chromatic scale. Though Chopin's Etude No. 2, Opus 10 doesn't have any measures in 5/8 time, it's full of "diagonal" chromatic moves such as those found in FIGURE 3.
Make sure to practice these patterns with a metronome-this will certainly get you playing fast, clean and with a lot of authority. Lest you think that 5/8 is too impractical a time signature, play FIGURE 4, a riff that doesn't sound "odd-meterish" at all-in fact, it rocks pretty hard.
If you've worked on the other chromatic exercises in this lesson, you should be able to feel the 5/8 pulse pretty easily by now, so this one shouldn't be too difficult.


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|Oracle® Database Administrator's Guide
11g Release 1 (11.1)
Part Number B28310-01
|View PDF
You can create tablespaces with block sizes different from the standard database block size, which is specified by the
DB_BLOCK_SIZE initialization parameter. This feature lets you transport tablespaces with unlike block sizes between databases.
Use the
BLOCKSIZE clause of the
CREATE TABLESPACE statement to create a tablespace with a block size different from the database standard block size. In order for the
BLOCKSIZE clause to succeed, you must have already set the
DB_CACHE_SIZE and at least one
DB_nK_CACHE_SIZE initialization parameter. Further, and the integer you specify in the
BLOCKSIZE clause must correspond with the setting of one DB_nK_CACHE_SIZE parameter setting. Although redundant, specifying a
BLOCKSIZE equal to the standard block size, as specified by the
DB_BLOCK_SIZE initialization parameter, is allowed.
The following statement creates tablespace
lmtbsb, but specifies a block size that differs from the standard database block size (as specified by the
DB_BLOCK_SIZE initialization parameter):
CREATE TABLESPACE lmtbsb DATAFILE '/u02/oracle/data/lmtbsb01.dbf' SIZE 50M EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNIFORM SIZE 128K BLOCKSIZE 8K;
See Also:
"Setting the Buffer Cache Initialization Parameters" for information about the
DB_CACHE_SIZE and
DB_nK_CACHE_SIZE parameter settings


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NEW YORK — Facebook's recent effort to force people to adopt its standalone mobile messaging app has privacy-concerned users up in arms. Many of them believe the app is especially invasive.
One blog from the Huffington Post published in December has gone viral, making the rounds on the social network recently because it claims the app gives Facebook "direct control over your mobile device" and allows Facebook to call phone numbers without a user's intervention and send text messages without confirmation, but none of that is accurate.
In truth, Facebook Messenger isn't any more invasive than Facebook's main app — or other similar applications.
The fear and confusion stem from a message that greets owners of Android devices when they install the app. It explains that the app requires permission access to the device's camera, microphone, list of contacts and other information.
Here's what Facebook's mobile messaging app does and doesn't do.
— Myth: You have to use the Messenger app if you want to send messages to your Facebook friends.
— Reality: While it's required to download if you are using Facebook's mobile app on iPhone or Android smartphones, you can avoid it if you use the Facebook messenger service on your desktop or laptop, iPad or even the mobile Facebook website.
— Myth: The Facebook Messenger app's terms of service are different from — and more intrusive than — Facebook's own official terms.
— Reality: Facebook's terms of service are the same for all its mobile apps, including the main Facebook app. You can read them here. What's upsetting people is the list of "permissions" they see when they download and install the app on an Android phone. It's a long list with 10 items, each of which states that the app needs access to features on your phone including contacts, calendar, location data and Wi-Fi information. Sure, that's a lot of personal data. But it's the same data most messaging apps have access to. On the iPhone, users don't get the list of permissions when they install the app, but when they use it, permissions pop up individually. You can view the app's list of permissions here: Click "view details" under Permissions.
— Myth: Facebook's Messenger app will use your phone's microphone to record you.
— Reality: The app needs permission to use your phone's microphone and camera. But it requires that access because the microphone is needed for voice calling, a service that the standalone app offers that the Facebook app doesn't, and sending sound with videos. Same with the camera: It needs access if you want to send your friends pictures.
— Myth: Facebook will direct the app to send SMS, or text, messages without your permission.
— Reality: One of the permissions does say that Facebook can edit, receive, read and send SMS messages. But the company says the reason it wants to send and receive SMS messages is so that if you add a phone number to your Messenger account, you can confirm by a confirmation code that Facebook sends via text message.
— Myth: The Messenger app is new.
— Reality: Facebook's Messenger app has been around since 2011. In April, it started requiring that users in Europe download and install the app if they wish to send messages to Facebook friends. Two weeks ago, the company said it would expand the requirement to other parts of the world. Facebook says it's forcing users to make the switch because a standalone app offers more features. For example, the app is faster, it offers a selfie cam and stickers, and can be used to reach people on your contact list who are not Facebook users.