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Thepanel displays the action sets available for the bundle. Depending on the bundle type, the possible action sets are Distribute, Install, Launch, Verify, Uninstall, Terminate, and Preboot. For example, if you select a Windows bundle, six actions sets (Distribute, Install, Launch, Verify, Uninstall, Terminate) are available. If you select a Preboot bundle, Preboot is the only available action set available.
You can choose to modify the action sets. For more information on modifying the action set options, see Section 12.2, Modifying Action Set Options.
The bundle category that you select during bundle creation is listed as an action in the actions page. For example, if you selected Copy Directory category during the bundle creation, Copy Directory action is listed in thetab of the actions page.You can also add an action to any of the available action sets. When you do so, that action is also performed whenever the action set is applicable. For example, when you add an action to the Install action set, that action is performed whenever the bundle is installed.
For information on managing the actions, see Section 12.1, Managing Actions.
You can access the action dialog box as follows:
In ZENworks Control Center, click thetab.
Click the underlined link of a bundle in thecolumn of the list.
Click thetab.
Click one of the action set tabs (Distribute, Install, Launch, Verify, Uninstall, Terminate, or Preboot), click thedrop-down list, then select an available action.
The following sections contain information about the actions you can configure for the Distribute, Install, Launch, Verify, and Terminate action sets.
For more information about the actions you can configure for the Preboot action set, see the ZENworks 11 Preboot Services and Imaging Reference.
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Sarah Graham loves all things gluten free. She also loves local & organically grown food. She also loves dessert. That can be difficult for someone with a gluten intolerance, yet she perseveres. Sarah runs her own gluten free blog Gluten Girl in Austin, is the Austin Gluten Free Food Examiner and interns at a local organic food company helping plan events. She works a "boring" job in real estate to support her love of food and gluten free dessert. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sarah's Recipe: Grandma Dorothy's Spaghetti & Meatballs
Sarah's Tip: Cook with love
Why does all of America pretty much detest Mr. Ex Sandra Bullock (Jesse James)? Well because we love Sandra. Her engaging and down to earth personality has won her many fans over the years, but she's never had as many as she does now. When we found out Jesse James cheated on her, the nation embraced Sandra with magazine covers, standing ovations and more positive press than most get in an entire career. It's kind of silly isn't it? That we think we know a person without ever having met or spoken to her? Yet we feel a connection with her through films & interviews. We relate. It feels like we know her.
Unfortunately, my life began close to the end of grandmother Dorothy's. I don't remember her. I wish I did. The things I know of her are the lovely memories others have, her delicious meatball recipe, and my personal favorite, that I sometimes remind people of her. It's my laugh or my smile or my nose. It's hard to miss a person you never met, but sometimes I do. She was a good cook. I am not…not yet anyway. She had a delicious spaghetti & meatball recipe that my mother reprises from time to time. When Diane called for recipes, I knew I wanted to try it myself.
I almost felt nervous about attempting the dish. I wanted to be sure I got it right, that I made my grandmother proud. As the sauce simmered, I watchfully tended to it for over an hour. I pictured Dorothy doing the same in her kitchen, albeit with less nerves than I.
I gently rolled the meatballs in gluten free breadcrumbs and thought about what she and I might have chatted about over lunch. Did our laughs really sound alike? Was her nose pointy like mine? Throughout the two hour cooking process, as I followed each step, it felt a little bit like meeting my grandma. No, I don't have a memory I can reckon back to when I think of her, but cooking her spaghetti helped me feel her spirit, her presence. I felt like I knew her, just like we feel like we know Sandra, and I don't care if it's silly.
Now I share her love with you and ask that you pass it on. Maybe not through this recipe but one that is special to you. So many days we need a quick & easy meal, me more than anyone. But some lazy days, it's nice to set aside a few hours to relive a family tradition like grandma's meatballs or mom's apple pie or dad's bbq chicken and to really put love into what you are cooking. Then pass the recipes on to your children, and your children's children. Let your love live on. It may not seem like it means much now, but maybe one day it may help someone you don't even know feel close to you, even if just for a meal.
Grandma Dorothy's Spaghetti & Meatballs
Note: I encourage the use of local produce when possible. I purchased the onion, pork, bison, parsley, garlic, eggs and mozzarella from the local farmer's market.
1 chopped onion
3 tbsp oil (any kind, I used olive)
1 lg can tomatoes (sauce or crushed will work)
2 six oz cans tomato paste
1 ½ c water
1 tsp salt
½ tsp pepper
1 bay leaf
Brown onion in oil. Add other ingredients & simmer for one hour. While simmering, make the meatballs.
¾ lb ground bison (or sub ground beef, turkey, etc)
¼ lb ground pork
¾ c gluten free breadcrumbs
½ c grated parmesan cheese (finely grated)
1 sprig parsley, chopped finely
1 clove garlic, minced
¼ c milk
1 well beaten egg
salt & pepper to your preference
Combine ingredients into balls and brown in large skillet.
A note about the breadcrumbs/wet ingredients: I recommend adding the wet ingredients last so that you can judge if you need more or less based on how your breadcrumbs absorb them. I tried Glutino's brand in my recipe, and they did not absorb. Therefore I had to use less wet ingredients than you will if you use a better kind of breadcrumbs. You might need to up the milk to ½ c or eggs to 2 if you use something more absorbent.
Cook until done inside. Add meatballs to sauce & cook an additional 15 minutes on low heat. While cooking, boil gluten free pasta. I used Tinkyada organic spaghetti. If you use the whole bag, you'll still have extra sauce, so just make what pasta you'll eat and save the sauce for leftovers.
Remove bay leaf from sauce. Top cooked noodles with sauce & sprinkle with Parmesan or mozzarella cheese if desired & serve.

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Sedalia Real Estate
Those traveling south on U.S. 85 toward Castle Rock or those looking for adventures in the Pike National Forest will have to pass through Sedalia to get there. While new communities are being developed on either side of Sedalia, the tiny community has managed to keep many of its quaint qualities. Several older buildings and homes remain in the area and a few craft shops and restaurants are all within walking distance of the town's heart—the old rail line. The corner bar is also a favorite for bikers making the scenic rides along the two thoroughfares.
Cherokee Ranch is one structure in Sedalia that's impossible to miss. The Scottish-style castle, which towers on a knoll above town, is filled with art and collections from all over the world. The ranch's famed works include fifteenth- and sixteenth-century European paintings and original drawings by Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Cherokee is also a working cattle ranch with over 3,000 acres of open space.
Those seeking outdoor adventure rather than art will enjoy spectacular fly fishing along the South Platte River west of Sedalia. Hiking and biking trails and camping facilities also abound throughout the Rampart Range in Pike National Forest, also due west of town.
5019 S Perry Park Road
750 S Perry Park Road
5040 Plum Avenue
Sedalia Listings Summary
Sedalia - Town vs. County Stats
Avg Price in Sedalia: $2,112,200 / County Avg $1,058,300
Avg Taxes in Sedalia: $5,100 / County Avg $4,800
Avg Sq. Ft. in Sedalia: 4,818 / County Avg 3,349
Avg Price per/sqft in Sedalia:$438 / County Avg $316
Avg Walkscore in Sedalia: 11 / County Avg 17
Avg Year Built in Sedalia: 1995 / County Avg 2008
Avg Days on Website in Sedalia: 158 / County Avg 67
Sedalia Real Estate Market Health
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In Part 1 of this series we covered eight fundamental concepts of sound for documentary. In our next post we will move closer to the practical, nitty gritty matters of sound for documentary, however, before we do, I want to briefly get into what sound is. We are going to focus on just some of basics we need to understand as documentary media makers in order to become better sound recordists, editors, and designers. If you want to go deeper into this question, future posts will include more links to resources get you going with that.
To put it in one sentence, sound is vibrations in air that touch us. Like the proverbial tree that falls in the forest, if nobody is around to hear it, did it really make a sound? The vibrations caused by the falling tree don't become sound until they touch us. And these waves literally touch us, according to developmental psychologist Ann Fernald, who describes sound as "touch at a distance" in the Musical Language episode of Radiolab. I believe the intimacy of touch Fernald is describing has something to do with why there's such a strong connection between our emotions and sound.
In their landmark book, Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?: Experiencing Aural Architecture, Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter suggest that social relationships are strongly influenced by the way that space changes sound. Every environment has an aural architecture, whose attributes contribute to the fabric of human culture. We can sense spatial configurations through hearing, for example, with our eyes closed we can find an open doorway or know if we are in a room with low ceilings. The aural imprint of Tokyo is quite different from that of New York, and once we have experienced one of these cities we are likely to recognize their aural imprint much in the same manner we recognize images. Sound recording on a documentary need not just be about getting clear dialog, it can also be about capturing the aural imprint of the spaces we are observing. Whenever possible, when I am out observing with my camera, I try to record stereo ambience as well. Given that a good stereo audio recorder can be had these days for about $200 there's no reason a separate audio recorder can't be capturing the aural landscape when you are out capturing video with your camera. In fact, given where things are heading technologically and aesthetically, perhaps we should go the distance and record surround ambience. It is all well and good that Hollywood features create amazing soundscapes during the post-production process, but as documentarians, we should try when we can to capture the actual aural landscape of the locations we observe.
A particularly impressive example of the aural landscape as an integral component of a documentary is Habana – Arte nuevo de hacer ruinas (2006, Florian Borchmeyer, English title: Havana – The new art of making ruins). For Borchmeyer the beauty of Havana lies in the poetry of its ruins and through this documentary he presents a portrait of the inhabited ruins of Havana in their final moments before the majestic buildings of pre-Castro Cuba either crumble or are renovated. When I spoke with Borchmeyer at the Rio International Film Festival the year the film was released, I told him I was impressed by the dimensionality the aural landscape in the film. He explained that when he shot the interviews, he also recorded surround sound of the environment. As a viewer I was transported into the buildings and the stories the interviewees were telling, but there was something more going on, I felt as if I was enveloped by the landscape in a manner I have rarely experienced in a documentary. All too often capturing the aural landcape is the farthest thing from a documentarians mind, however, listening to and recording the aural landscape can create a sensory experience that will engage viewers in a deep, primal manner.
From a documentary filmmaker's perspective, sound offers a way of capturing the auditory sense of space in a manner complimentary to the camera's visual recording of that space. Blesser and Salter remind us that from prehistoric multimedia cave paintings, to classical Greek open-air theaters, through the time of Gothic cathedrals and French villages, auditory spatial awareness has been a prism through which cultural attitudes and a sense of space are revealed to us. Their book really opened up my ears to the importance and potential of sound as an integral component expanding the sensory dimension of documentary.
What is the physical nature of these vibrations that touch us the way they do? A movement, for example a hammer striking a table or those made by human vocal cords, creates waves in the air, much like when you thrown a rock, or pour a stream of water, into still waters. You see waves that move out in all directions away from the point of impact. It's important to appreciate that these waves go in all directions, bounce off walls, travel around corners, it's very messy. In addition, the intensity of these waves falls off quickly the farther you are from the source of the vibration.
Sound is not like light, which travels in a straight line. Recording sound is not like taking pictures with a camera, there is no equivalence to the edge of the frame. Sound travels around corners. Reflections from hard surfaces add unwanted reflections that smear the sound. Other sounds from all over the place mixes in with the sound you want to record. Sound waves are promiscuous little devils compared to the stoic light rays. With your camera the frame is the frame. You don't see what's out of the frame, but not so with sound, we hear everything around us and so does the microphone we use for recording. And while our sensory apparatus is good at separating a salient sound out of a collection of sounds (a phenomenon known as the cocktail party effect), the microphone and the recording systems we use capture everything with annoying equality.
The process of recording sound involves capturing an analogue of the sound waves and converting the signal as faithfully as possible into a stream of digital data. This is usually accomplished with a microphone, an electromechanical device with a delicate diaphragm that vibrates in response to the waves that fall upon it. These movements are translated into an electrical signal, which is amplified and then sampled (converted into a stream of digital data) and then stored in a data file. Two common audio file formats used in production are WAV (Waveform Audio) or AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format). Both formats are uncompressed and can reproduce the exact same signal on playback that was initially stored in them. How this process occurs through the signal chain from microphone to data file has an effect on the quality of the sound. Microphone technologies, the designs typically used in documentary work, along with various recording options, will be discussed in a future installment, as will microphone placement strategies and noise management techniques. In later posts we will also get into more details about audio files and other technical details.
For now, what's most important to remember is that when you're out in the field with your microphone and recording device, your microphone is always picking up a mix of three things:
- The direct sound from the source you want to record,
- reflected sound from surfaces close to the source (including troublesome reverberation from walls in a space), and
- noise, common sources being the natural background sounds in an environment and wind noise.
In addition to these three, you also get as a bonus noise caused by electrical circuits in the signal chain, and if your unlucky, you might pick up some interference from a nearby sources of electromagnetic radiation or perhaps crackling sounds from a defective cable.
You always want to maximize the relative level of #1 while reducing #2 and #3 as much as possible. Move away from reflective surfaces, get the microphone as close in as possible (but not too too close, there's the proximity effect, bass exaggeration when sources are very close, that works well for radio announcers but is not always what you want for dialog recording). There are also issues with breath pops (wind screens help with that).
Not only does sound radiate in all directions, it also falls off so the intensity falls off quickly the farther you are from the source, or from a physics perspective, sound radiation follows the Inverse Square Law, which is a fancy way of saying that sound intensity from a point source of sound drops off at a rate proportional to the square of the distance. Or simpler yet, double the distance from the source, you get a quarter of the original sound energy. That's why it's so important to get that microphone close to the source you are recording.
When you play back the sound you recorded, the reverse process takes place, the sound you recorded, stored as a digital representation (created through sampling and encoding) is converted back to an analog signal which is amplified and in turn causes the movement of the speaker diaphragm, creating vibration in the air. The sound waves that result are never exactly like the original, there's always something that changes in the process. There's always noise and distortion added along the way. We try to minimize these problems using good techniques and good gear.
Some terms that will come up a lot when working with sound include the Decibel, frequency, and more. An overview of human hearing, intensity, signal levels, frequency, along with some other fundamental terms and concepts, will be the topic of our next post. Hopefully these will provide a foundation that helps us better understand what we're doing when we work with sound. After that we will dive into tools and techniques. Until then, good night and good sound.
Image credits: 1. "Water Spire' by likeablerodent; 2. "Three things" by the author.
Note: Note: Minor edits were made to this post on 11/17/2015 to remove a broken YouTube link to a clip from Havana – The new art of making ruins.


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Full frame image - the eye of the needle is about 1.5 mm long.
The Little Blue Bottle
I wondered if I could capture the subtle concavity. It took a while to get the light and the angles...
Grandfather's Razor
My Grandfather Clifton Williams shaved with this razor on his wedding day, December 25, and for the rest of his 87 years - the only razor he ever owned.
Winter sunlight through a collection of brightly colored hand blown glass vases.
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Experimenting with light
Strawberries and Mint
Picked on a beautiful June Day.
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Magic Cookies
Decadent Homemade Dessert! Manual lens used was OM 90mm f/2Macro @ f/2


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TLA5000 Series Upgrade Guide
Software Support User Library
Software Support User Library
Tektronix has a large library of support software for the TLA5000 Series logic analyzers. This software is free of charge upon request from your local Tektronix account manager or from the Tektronix Customer Support Center. Examples include:
- Processor/Bus Support In addition to its Tektronix-developed TMSxxx processor/bus support, Tektronix has a wide variety of Application Engineer-developed processor/bus support. If you need a particular processor/bus support package customized for your application, be sure to contact your local Tektronix account manager or the Tektronix Customer Support Center to see if your particular device is supported.
- PACQMEM (Packed Acquisition Memory) Oftentimes, an application (e.g., video, radar, disk drives, serial communications, etc.) would benefit from trading channels for record length. Tektronix offers a special support package for the TLA family of logic analyzers called PACQMEM. PACQMEM comes in a wide variety of channel and memory configurations. Depending upon the width of the TLA logic analyzer, channels can be traded for memory at up to a 16-to-1 ratio. As an example, a single TLA7Q4 136 channel logic analyzer module with 64 Mb could provide 1/16 or 8 channels at 16x the record length for a total of 1 GB. A merged set of three TLA7Q4 136 channel logic analyzer modules could provide 24 channels at 1 GB record length.
- TPI (TLA Programmatic Interface) Software Examples In addition to the TLAScript capability provided in all TLA Application Software, Tektronix has several examples on how to effectively use TPI to remotely control your TLA logic analyzer.
- TLA-GPIB While the TLA logic analyzers have LAN, there are occasions where control via GPIB is required. TLA-GPIB makes the TLA logic analyzers GPIB-programmable using the TLA Programmatic Interface (TPI), which is based upon Microsoft COM/DCOM. All TLA Series TPI functions are supported, including Load or Save: System, Module and Trigger setups; Start, Stop or Get system run status; Get module configurations; Get acquired data; Export data to the TLA700 file system; and Transfer any kind of file to and from the TLA file system. TLA-GPIB is available as an Excel 97 spreadsheet or as a compiled Visual Basic program.
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Wed, 26 January 2011
Roundup '10 - Alternative Views in Software DevelopmentFully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO.
It's not yet too late to join us for the next Java Posse Roundup, coming up Feb 22nd to 25th in Crested Butte, CO, with a free Languages/Hackathon day on the 21st.
Direct download: JavaPosse338.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:03am PDT
Sat, 22 January 2011
Codemash 2011 Panel
We teamed up with Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin from the .Net Rocks podcast for a discussion panel at Codemash 2011 moderated by Barry Hawkins. Maker's Mark bourbon was involved too.
Direct download: JavaPosse337.mp3
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Tue, 11 January 2011
Slightly Late Holiday Special - Part 2
Roundup sign up page is now live. You too can join us in Crested Butte for the annual geek-and-ski-athon.
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Fri, 7 January 2011
Slightly Late Holiday Special - Part 1
Join us for the Java Posse Roundup '11 in Crested Butte, CO from Feb 21st to 25th.
Gifts Given and Received
Events of Note in 2010
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
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Resettlement of Ex-Servicemen
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry Of Defence
29-July 2016
Resettlement of Ex-Servicemen
The salient features of the policy being implemented for resettlement of Ex-Servicemen in the country are as under:-
The Directorate General of Resettlement (DGR), an Attached Office of the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, Ministry of Defence, is responsible for rehabilitation of retired defence personnel in the country through training courses, reservations in Central / State / PSU jobs and resettlement schemes including self-employment schemes.
The salient features of the policy being implemented for resettlement of Ex-Servicemen (ESM) in the country are as follows:
Meaningful professional and vocational training to retiring Officers, Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO) and Other Ranks (OR) is imparted by DGR through various training institutes for the rehabilitation and resettlement of ESM in civil life by upgrading their skills to prepare them to take on new assignment / jobs and assisting ESM in finding re-employment. An option to undergo resettlement courses in reputed institutes pan India is provided to Officers, JCO / OR and retired personnel to enhance their educational qualifications and increase employment options post retirement. An exemption of 100% of the course fees is given to JCOs / ORs and 60% to Officers. The exempted amount against the course fees is paid by office of DGR.
(i) Reservation in Government Jobs:
The Central Government has provided the following reservation for ESM for vacancies in the posts to be filled by direct recruitment:-
- 10% in Group 'C' posts and 20% in Group 'D' posts in Central Government jobs.
- 14.5% in Group 'C' and 24.5% Group 'D' posts in Public Sector Undertakings and Nationalized Banks which includes 4.5% reservation in each category for Disabled Soldiers and Widows / Dependents.
- 10% posts upto Assistant Commandants in Central Paramilitary Forces.
- 100% in Defence Security Corps.
(ii) Most State Governments also provide reservation in State Government jobs, which varies from State to State and is based on the rehabilitation policy of the concerned State and the total population of Ex-Servicemen domiciled in the State.
(iii) Placement Assistance through DGR: Directorate General Resettlement (DGR) sponsors Ex-Servicemen (Officers) to various Government organizations, Public Sector Undertakings, Corporate Houses, Private Sector, Central Para Military Forces etc. based on their requisition for re-employment of ESM. The DGR sponsored ESM are re-employed by the requisitioning agencies after due process of selection by them.
(iv) Army welfare Placement Organization and similar placement cells in Air Force and Navy help ESM in finding suitable jobs in Banks, Industries, Corporate Houses, Academic Institutions, Hospitals, Hotels and Real Estate.
(v) Age relaxation is available to the Ex-Servicemen in posts filled by direct recruitment.
(vi) DGR sponsored Security Agency Scheme.
(i) Schemes for Officers only:
- ESM Coal Loading and Transportation Scheme.
- Allotment of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited / Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Company Owned Company Operated Outlets PAN India.
- Management of CNG Station by Ex-Servicemen (O) in National Capital Region.
(ii) Schemes for all:
- Coal Tipper Attachment Scheme.
- Allotment of Army Surplus Vehicles.
- Allotment of Regular LPG Distributorship Scheme under 'Government Personnel' Category.
- Allotment of Oil Product Agencies under 8% Defence Quota.
- Allotment of LPG Agency Under Rajiv Gandhi Gramin LPG Vitran Yojna.
(iii) Schemes for JCOs / ORs Only:
- Allotment of Mother Dairy Milk Booths and Fruit & Vegetable (SAFAL) Shops in NCR.
- Allotment of Milk Shops of Gopaljee Dairy Pvt. Ltd. In Delhi / Noida.
- Allotment of KIOSKS / Retail outlet of Gopaljee Farm Fresh in Faridabad / NCR.
Welfare and resettlement of Ex-Servicemen is a continuous process and the Government endeavors to explore every possible avenue for increasing employment opportunities for the Ex-Servicemen through various initiatives including pre and post retirement trainings and awareness programmes. The resettlement schemes are reviewed and upgraded from time to time and new schemes are also initiated in consultation with the concerned stake holders.
This information was given by Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar in a written reply to Shri Konakalla Narayana Rao in Lok Sabha today.
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I saw a great project on Pinterest a few weeks ago and I've had in on my mind ever since – it was these fabulous dot painted plates and bowls by Ashley Ann at Under the Sycamore.
The idea of dot painted porcelain dishes sat with me for weeks until I decided to play off the same idea and make some accent plates of my own. These versions have a delicate falling leaf design, as an autumn themed appetizer plate or for our Thanksgiving place settings.
Get all the details on how to dot paint porcelain over at Ashley Ann's, she has a detailed step by step. Basically, it's the process of using paint pens designed for porcelain or ceramics to create your design, then baking your finished design in the oven. You can find inexpensive plain white dishes in a lot of places from Walmart to Target to IKEA.
I'm experimenting as Thanksgiving gets closer with some leaf designs formed with a gold paint pen for ceramics. I used craft foam leaves as a template to form my pattern.
Porcelain paint pens are a fun tool for personalizing and doodling on simple plates with your own original design. They're also an opportunity to create something special for that host or hostess on your list.
I also made myself this little mug with the same idea – it will be cute to hold pens on my desktop too.
Just to show you how easy it is, here are six more hand painted porcelain dish ideas I found online to inspire:
From top left: Dot Painted Dishes by Under the Sycamore; Hand Drawn Details on Accent Dishes by BH&G; Circle Painted Dishes by A Merry Mishap; Peacock Dot Dish by Birdhouse Family; Hand Painted Herringbone Mug by Wit & Whistle; Dot Painted China by Martha (she offers a few templates to work with too).
Imagine the possibilities! This is proof how stimulating and addicting Pinterest really is. Too much sometimes, right? Darn you Pinterest!!! Sometimes I just can't sleep with all the ideas I find over there.
Have you recreated anything you've seen on Pinterest lately?
*** 10.26.11 Update: Hey friends! It has just come to my attention from some very thoughtful readers (thanks Jules and Kris) that the Pebeo Porcelaine markers although labeled "non-toxic" are not recommended for surfaces that come in contact with food, aka not "food safe"! Say what? Apparently, it says so on this website. Doh. That's me, blushing a nice shade of pink in embarrassment. Glad I found out now, guess there aren't going to be any leafy accent plates on my table. Better safe than sorry! So do as they say, not as I do, and keep your designs to the outsides of bowls and mugs kids. Over and out.


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The Media Built That For Obama
On August 5, Chris Cillizza at The Washington Post announced he was playing with a "somewhat controversial idea" that Mitt Romney should be the favorite to win the presidential election. Debatable, maybe. But controversial? Well, yes. It violates the pro-Obama mandate of our national press corps.
The usual political measures look terrible for Obama, he noted. "The unemployment rate has been over 8 percent for 42 straight months, a streak unparalleled in American history." Obama must win despite the crippled economy – the most important issue for the voters.
The numbers are political red alerts. The Post's polling in July showed 44 percent approved of how Obama was dealing with the economy, while 54 percent disapproved, and 41 strongly disapproved of the job he is doing on the economy, while only 21 percent strongly approved. Six in ten said the economy was getting worse, not better, in a Gallup poll.
And now the unthinkable: His campaign is being outmuscled financially. Obama's team has spent more than $400 million already on his re-election effort, The New York Times estimates, and Team Obama is deeply worried he will be outspent by Mitt Romney and GOP-favoring super PACs in the fall.
So where can Obama find optimism? Cillizza cited the "narrative." "From the debate over when Romney totally cut ties to Bain Capital, to the (ongoing) debate over whether he should release more of his tax returns, to the negative press surrounding Romney's trip to Britain, Israel and Poland last week, the narrative of the campaign over the past month has worked heavily in Obama's favor."
Curiously, Cillizza omits the fact that the dominant narrative writers of the campaign are the national media, our "news" purveyors, working overtime on Obama's behalf. Reporters pin down the candidate, slap his face, and steal his lunch money, and then go on camera and say it's sad the candidate had another bad day with his narrative. When Barack Obama was hailed by crowds in Berlin in 2008, the media were thrilled. When Romney traveled to Europe and Israel in 2012, 86 percent of the network news stories were negative, dwelling on supposed gaffes, "diplomatic dust-ups" and foreign "missteps."
In nearly every interview, reporters are pressing Romney about his tax returns, rolling out the red carpet for anyone who will demand he release them immediately. Can you imagine reporters in 2008 asking Obama repeatedly for his college grades, or about his cocaine use, or Reverend Wright, in interview after interview?
Obama granted five interviews to "60 Minutes" before that election, and was never asked about his record in Illinois, or any of his scandalous associations, from Reverend Wright to Bill Ayers to Tony Rezko (now in prison), who helped him buy his house. Instead, Steve Kroft asked in his first interview "Do you think the country is ready for a black president?" Kroft was still curious in his fifth interview, as they sat down in apparently racism-wracked Nevada: "I know, for a fact, that there are a lot of people out there, there are a lot of people right here in Elko, who won't vote for you because you're black. I mean, there's not much you can do. But how do you deal with it?"
Ultimately Barack Obama will never be outspent – if you were to calculate the price of the promotional air time provided by the pro-Obama media, and in this cycle, their relentless Romney-bashing. While the networks manufacture gaffes overseas with Romney, real Obama gaffes – "If you've got a business, you didn't build that" – are called Republican smears, quotes out of "context."
In an online analysis, ABC claimed Republicans were basically lying: "Republicans have seized on the line 'you didn't build that' to falsely claim that Obama was speaking directly to business owners about their businesses." On CBS, morning anchor Charlie Rose complained about Obama being taken out of context, and the network's political analyst John Dickerson agreed that Obama needed to be defended: "Exactly, and what the President was saying, is it takes a village, essentially."
When Obama said "Look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own," he knew whereof he spoke. Everything he's gained in politics has been granted to him by an adoring news media. Look no further than Steve Kroft beginning his first Obama interview in 2007 by seriously comparing Obama with Abraham Lincoln.
It's no surprise that many voters have a serious feeling of buyer's remorse. But our shameless media have no remorse at all for foisting this man on the country, and no capacity for embarrassment that they put him on Mount Rushmore without an accomplishment to his name. It's too bad America can't vote to send the media packing. But they can, and should turn off the nightly narratives lamely called a "newscast."


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Lexra did implement a 32-bit variant of the MIPS architecture. Noteworthy architectural feature was the lack of the MIPS I instructions
lwl, lwr, swl and
swr that optimize the handling of unaligned loads. Later the LX4580 core added hardware multithreading. Products implementing Lexra's architecture include the LX4080, LX4080P, LX4180, LX4280 and LX5280, LX8000. Today Lexra is a defunct company. Several key employees of Lexra founded the digital video core company Ultra Data Corporation, the intellectual property assets of which have since been acquired. Many other key Lexra employees, including co-founder and CEO, Charlie Cheng, now work for ASIC vendor Faraday Technology in Taiwan, Sunnyvale, CA, and Framingham, MA. Lexra co-founder and CTO Pat Hays is now vice president of engineering for MIPS Technologies, Inc. in Mountain View.
Jonah Probell has written a history of Lexra
Linux support
The instructions
lwl, lwr, swl and
swr are covered by US patent 4,814,976. Lexra therefore choose to implement these instructions by software emulation. In the 1999 - 2002 lawsuit of MIPS Technologies, Inc. vs. Lexra, Inc. about violation of this and a second patent, Lexra and MIPS reached an agreement and the court never ruled on the matter. Which means it isn't clear if Linux can or cannot legally emulate the instructions.
The '976 patent has expired December 23, 2006.
Instructions emulator sourcecode from Lexra exists as Linux MIPS kernel patches and available under GPL license.
Technically support for Lexra processors without adding emulation of these instructions would be possible but the question is how much sense it would make as some software may rely on it fairly heavily.
Following the lawsuit Lexra became a MIPS32 license. MIPS later acquired Lexra's IP. This resulted in the end of Lexra's former products and so at this time there also seems to be little interest in actually adding Linux support.
Realtek RTL8181
The Realtek RTL8181 is a highly integrated System-on-a-Chip with a high-performance 32-bit RISC microcontroller, two Ethernet MACs and a WLAN controller embedded onto a single chip. PCI Bridge supports one external PCI/MiniPCI device.
The embedded Lexra LX5280 32-bit RISC CPU runs at up to 200MHz and features separate 8KB instruction and data caches.
- RTL8181 description
- Linux on Realtek RTL8181
- Known RTL8181-based consumer devices
- RealAP - Linux mini-distribution for RTL8181 based devices
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Don't confuse the RTL8181 with the RTL8180. It's just plain WLAN chip, that also happens to be the one embedded on the RTL8181.


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Cirque. These two colors combine really well! I started with applying two coats of Boudoir, a reddish purple, on my pinky and index fingernail and Vesuvius, a warm pink, on my ring and middle fingernail. I used a makeup sponge to create a gradient effect on the middle nails. I love this effect! The only thing is that it's a shame the lineair prismatic effect lost its strength by sponging it on (vertically). But I can't get over how gorgeous both nail polishes are! :L
November 15, 2014
Cirque - Boudoir Meets Cirque - Vesuvius
November 8, 2014
Mix & Match Mani with Flower Decal
products used
pinky: China Glaze - Millennium
ringfinger: OPI - My Boyfriend Scales Walls, flower water decal (ebay seller)
middle finger: China Glaze - Dorothy Who?
index finger: OPI - My Boyfriend Scales Walls, plate BM-301 + China Glaze - Millennium
thumb (not pictured): China Glaze - Dorothy Who?
Labels: blue, BM 301, Bundle Monster, China Glaze, creme, glitter, metallic, mix & match, nail art, OPI, silver, stamping, water decal, white
November 1, 2014
Nails! Nice & Neutral
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I can't believe it's been a year since I posted my last nail pictures... I'm not one for long explanations, but how about some new nail pics? I decided to go for something nice and neutral. Two coats of OPI - Don't Bossa Nova Me Around, stamped with a england - Her Rose Adagio. I wore Her Rose Adagio a couple of times and loved it. As you can see it's also amazing for stamping! The stamped design is from plate BM-406, one of the plates from the Bundle Monster 2013 'Create Your Own' stamping set. This organic design is one of my favourites from this set.
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January 23, 2014
I'm Alive + Flower Pot Cake
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Barnet bloggers have received copies of a leaked document headed 'One Barnet Procurement Principles', a report written for a meeting of the council's directors' group on 1st March, 2011.
Ironically, this was the day of the infamous budget meeting at Hendon Town Hall where the use of heavyhanded security measures by the authority's illegally operating security company MetPro caused so much outrage, and was to prove the catalyst for a wide ranging investigation of the council's financial organisation, especially the grossly incompetent procurement, tendering and contractual processes.
As we know now, therefore, when this report was written, there had been no recognition of the council's complete abject failure properly to organise and maintain the private contracts it already has, no understanding of the enormity of the authority's culture of failure, the widescale breach of regulations, and financial mismanagment.
At this meeting, however, agreement was to be made on the principles by which a future marketing of one billion pounds worth of business opportuntities for the private sector should proceed. And despite, or perhaps because of, the staggering level of incompetence which Lord Palmer's audit report uncovered, the very next day after the meeting to which his report was delivered, the package of £750 million pounds worth of services to be outsourced was rushed out, before anyone could stop to question what was happening.
What does this document tell us?
Now that we are being pimped to the gentlemen callers sitting on the sofa in the salon, there are certain house rules, an etiquette, to be observed, in order to preserve the modesty of the madams on the One Barnet management team, if not the working girls and boys being exploited by the authority.
We start with some prurient words about 'dialogue confidentiality'.
'With the number of staff involved in the process,' we are told, 'managing confidentiality will be very difficult.' Oh dear - yes, that would appear to be true, wouldn't it?
There is some discussion about something called 'variant bids'. Put simply, rather than service the outsourcing company clients according to a strict menu of delights, the Barnet madams will allow interesting suggestions from clients, in line with their own idiosyncratic desires. These wishes may or may not be entertained, according to what the manager madams think they can get away with, but will not be dismissed out of hand, in case it puts clients off.
Job creation: we are told that 'some outsourcing contracts require partner organisations to make some contractual commitment to creating new jobs within the location' ... guess what, though, Barnet is not keen on this ... in case it puts clients off.
As we will see, not only do they not care whether new jobs are created, they don't care about where the old jobs remain. But they realise this idea may not be popular with the Tory councillors - 'this may be a key issue for members' - if they even know this is part of the deal ... do you know, Tory councillors? How many local jobs are you destroying with the One Barnet outsourcing? And what effect on our local economy is this all going to have?
The report describes various staffing implications and 'numerous employment issues' ... pensions are a matter of huge concern to all Barnet staff, of course, and they are right to be worried, as Barnet appears keen to hand over risk to new employers.
Ah: delivery locations ... the report tells us that they are not going to restrict the location of future delivery of services to the Barnet area, oh no, because they claim the closer to home that might be, the more expensive the proposal. Wouldn't it be fascinating to see the hard evidence for this claim? And how interesting it will be - customer service centres in Aberdeen, planning offices in Penzance, the possibilities are endless ... and as they tell us, breathing heavily, 'the council should be receptive to any proposal from potential partners' ...
Oh, here is an interesting part of the deal - accommodation ... referring to the council's assets, we are told, 'Whether these are council assets that the provider is permitted to use, or whether it is the provider's own assets, the council will ultimately pay for for their use ...' Er, what?
The council - ie you and me - will pay the clients - ie the private sector companies - for the pleasure of f*cking us, whether they do it at our house, or theirs. Is this how it is supposed to work, procurement?
But there is an even more outrageous suggestion: not only will we be f*cked by the private sector, and charged for it, if they want to bring in other entertainment to join the party in our house, they can: even if the council does not wish a provider to use the accommodation for fun with other parties, we are told there is little they can do - 'even if this is prohibited in the contract terms it would be very difficult to police' - so that's ok then, let them do whatever they want.
Contract terms: oh, long contracts are what the clients want, for their complete satisfaction, and at first they will be very keen, spending lots of money on the new partnership, but we must be aware that after the intial enthusiasm, there are 'many examples of long term partnerships where the commitment and enthusiasm of the provider has waned over the duration of the contract period' ... what a surprise, eh?
Which brings us to the sensitive subject of contract failure ... what happens when the relationship breaks down? Traditionally, we are told, contracts are arranged with a bond undertaken by the provider to cover the cost, should failure require the council to take the service back in house, or give it to a new provider. Ah, but guess what, our management team does not want our gentlemen on the sofa to be put off by that unromantic thought: they want the council to set aside a bit of money by themselves, with an insurance policy, to see us through, should that happen. I certainly would trust them with the selection of a suitable policy, wouldn't you?
Various recommendations are made at the end of the report: oh hello - they suggest 'a conflict of interest register be established in order to register any potential conflict of interest issues' .. was that proposal implemented, we wonder, and if so, how did this not prevent the apparent inaccuracies in Mrs Angry's FOI on this very subject?
What else?
Variant bids should be allowed ... no requirement to create new jobs ... no requirement to buy back support services ... no requirement for services to be located locally ... private companies should be allowed to use council accommodation for their other clients ... they want ten year contracts, oh: and someone needs to phone up gocompare.com to see if they can get a quote for one billion f*cking pounds worth of outsourced council services being sold off to the profiteering private sector, but being cocked up and left with a catastrophe on an apocalyptic scale as yet unseen in the entire history of corporate life in the United Kingdom.
That's all. Nothing to worry about.
By the way, Tory councillors of Broken Barnet, who may be struggling to understand the implications of all this: it means you have been well and truly shafted, and so have we, and at the next election you can all wave goodbye to those allowances you steal from us on the pretence that you are in office to protect the best interests of our borough.
Please come to your senses and call a halt to this programme now, before it really is too late.
If you are a Barnet employee, and you have read this, you will perhaps see now, if you didn't know already, that the interests of staff have been betrayed by the senior management of this borough, while they continue to protect and expand the number of highly paid senior posts - and consultants fees. If you are not a union member, now is the time to join and fight to save your job.
If you are a Barnet resident, you probably didn't understand the hugely significant implications of outsourcing, and what it will mean for services in this borough that you and your family have always taken for granted. In fact, and this won't make you feel any better, the vast majority of the councillors of this borough don't understand either, and the Tory councillors have supported the plans without any real interest or urge to challenge the adoption of the massive One Barnet programme. Now is the time to contact your elected representatives and give them hell. This is your prerogative, as the tax payer and voter who pays their very generous allowances.
You can contact your councillor by the methods explained here:
http://www.barnet.gov.uk/index/council-democracy/democracy-elections/councillors-general-information.htmPart of this document is scanned and available here - http://barnetfutureshape.blogspot.com/2011/10/barnet-council-secret-documents-one.html Part Two will be available tomorrow.


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Just wanted to give you a sneak peak of what's coming up - the Monthly Mingle round up for Liquid Dreams. Lots of great entries and these are just half of them!!
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UPDATE– Shortly after I completed this post, the BoE announced a 200 billion yuan ($32.6 billion) swap line with the PBoC, according to the Financial Times. This is the first time a G7 country has taken a step to provide funding for the PBoC, although Japan already has such a line, according to the FT. Might not the Fed be far behind? What a firestorm that would ignite. The headline, "Bernanke bails out China?" I can't see it but it would certainly make things interesting if they did.
The world's major central banks are now working at cross purposes, creating massive crosscurrents that are making life extremely difficult for investors. This isn't likely to end soon. In fact, conditions should get worse.
The 4 big central banks in the world are the Fed, ECB (European Central Bank), BoJ (Bank of Japan), and PBoC (Peoples Bank of China). The BoE, (Bank of England) is far smaller but important from a policy signaling perspective and because of who its counterparties are. They include not only the 3 mammoth British banks that are US primary dealers but all the other major players in world markets, who all have big operations in London.
The Fed, ECB, BoJ, and BoE all deal with the same banks and the securities dealers affiliates of those banks. For example, of the Fed's 21 Primary Dealers who are the Fed's sole counterparties, only seven are US domiciled. Three are Canadian banks. Eight are European, including three British banks, and three are Japanese. All of these banks are also major players in Europe and Japan.
These banks are all playing in the same sea of liquidity. When one central bank pumps, that action may impact not only the central bank's home market, but any or all of the world's markets. When central banks buy securities, those purchases cash out the counterparty banks and dealers, who then use the cash and the leverage it creates to buy other securities and push asset prices higher. What they buy is up to them. They deploy the funds where there money gets the love. Over the past 7 months, until last week, that was mostly US equities.
The situation with the PBoC is different. Its system is not fully integrated with the world financial system. China's central bank serves only its domestic banks, and they in turn serve only domestic financial institutions, including the out-of-control shadow financial system. However, many of those institutions are significant players in the world markets.
US and European banks who were engulfed by bad loans and their own horrendous practices were bailed out by the Fed, ECB, and BoE. Unlike them, the major central banks are not there to bail out China's miscreants. Apparently the PBoC has also decided, no more! It has slammed the door on them to put a stop to the wild speculative bubbles they have blown. Now that they are swamped with trillions in bad loans these players have no place to go and no means to raise the needed cash other than to sell whatever liquid assets they can, wherever they can around the world. If not the primary impetus for last week's selloff, this selling was at least a major contributor to it.
While the PBoC doesn't play directly in the world liquidity sea, it has dammed a major tributary and has inserted massive reverse flow pumps into the pool. As a result, the players along that tributary have not only stopped the flow of liquidity into the world sea, but in order to replenish their own liquidity which has run dry, they are pulling cash out of world markets that they had previously pumped in. These institutions are largely insolvent. The reverse flows going back into China aren't likely to turn back toward the rest of the world again anytime soon unless the PBoC relents and prints money.
As it grew its balance sheet, the PBoC in the past provided funds to the world cash pool indirectly via its shadow financial institutions. This year it pulled the punch bowl. It shrunk its balance sheet early in the year, then has grown it by only 1.3% since April, hardly enough to prop up massive overhangs of bad loans in both the banks and shadow financial system. Its assets remain below the peak levels reached early in the year.
The Fed and BoJ are still furiously pumping cash into the world pool, and markets were responding accordingly until the last few weeks, or at least the equities markets were. However, the European banks have been pulling funds out of the pool to repay loans from the ECB. Some of them who did not want the funds originally but were forced to take them, had bought Treasuries. When the ECB opened the repayment window early this year the banks liquidated the Treasuries they had bought with the funds. Others sold other sovereign bonds they had bought. Still others who had reached for yield in emerging markets began selling those securities. The process began to snowball over the past few weeks.
The BoE has also stopped providing funds to the pool. After growing its assets by 50% from Q4 2011 to Q4 2012, it too has stopped supplying funds to the markets.
The Fed and BoJ are the last two major central banks still adding cash to the system. They are fighting the PBoC, BoE, and ECB. Unlike the other central banks, the ECB's money printing involved mostly loans rather than direct asset purchases. The ECB is allowing banks to pay down loans, with the resulting liquidation pressures beginning to snowball. As those loans are repaid they create liquidation pressures in world markets. It started with US Treasuries and has spread to other sovereigns and emerging markets, and last week it hit US stocks.
Central banks working at cross purposes have generated liquidity crosscurrents that have buffeted the markets in recent months. Those crosscurrents are likely to turn more difficult to navigate as the Fed begins to wind down QE, assuming it does what Bernanke said that it would do. But until that happens, there should still be net liquidity growth overall as the Fed and BoJ continue to pump. It depends on just how bad things become in China and just how much selling and asset price decline the PBoC is willing to tolerate. China holds massive stores of assets around the world including US Treasuries, and it's not clear how much pain it is willing and able to bear. It's also not clear how much difference it will make if the PBoC does decide to print money.
As the world's Last Ponzi Game Standing, the US is likely to see most of the benefit of whatever positive liquidity flows remain, particularly in equities where most of the recent funding has headed. The cross currents of liquidation will make the seas far more choppy and treacherous to navigate, fun for traders who strictly trade the charts both long and short, but longer term investors probably won't be able to keep their ships afloat.
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Not so long ago, aspirin was being hailed as the wonder drug of the century. Recent research has, however, revealed its dangers, and a new study has added to these concerns.
It shows that pregnant women shouldn't be taking the painkillers as they can dramatically increase the risk of miscarriage.
But the danger isn't just limited to aspirin. The risk also extends to paracetamol and other members of the family of NSAIDs (non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs), researchers from the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute in California have discovered.
These common drugs increase the risk of miscarriage by up to 80 per cent, the research team found. The risk was increased if the woman was taking an NSAID when she conceived, or if she took an NSAID for longer than a week.
The risk was just as strong if the woman had regularly and continually taken an NSAID before she conceived, although paracetamol was the only NSAID not linked to this specific risk.
The researchers studied 1,055 pregnant women up to the 20th week of their pregnancy, of whom 53, or 5 per cent, said they had taken an NSAID around conception or during pregnancy.
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During a press briefing today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky revealed some of the company's plans for Windows 8, the next major version of its flagship operating system. One of the most significant revelations is that Microsoft intends to support the energy-efficient ARM architecture alongside x86. Windows 8 will be able to run on SoCs made by Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and TI—opening the door for further Windows growth in the increasingly important mobile and embedded space.
The real question is how Microsoft intends to address software portability challenges and bridge the gap between the two architectures for third-party application developers. During the presentation, Microsoft demonstrated its own Office suite running on an ARM SoC, but it's unclear how the port was executed. Sinofsky says that Microsoft hopes to leverage the flexibility of the Windows kernel to offer real convergence in mobile computing, blurring the boundaries between device categories and offering a Windows experience that runs across a variety of form factors.
The real strength of Windows, however, is its broad ecosystem of third-party software—much of which is tightly bound to the x86 architecture. Without a path to bring that software to ARM, Microsoft could face an uphill battle making Windows a compelling platform on ARM SoCs.
Microsoft's .NET development framework offers a possible answer to the portability question, because applications built with .NET technology are compiled down to bytecode that is executed by an architecture-neutral runtime environment. It's worth noting, however, that a number of .NET applications still call down into native platform code.
During the press conference, Microsoft expressed enthusiasm for Intel's SoC offerings and AMD's new Fusion APU, but the company's newfound interest in bringing the full Windows experience to ARM alongside x86 could pose a threat to the dominance of x86 chips in netbooks, ultraportables, and tablets.
Microsoft also showed off Surface 2.0, the latest incarnation of its large form factor touch hardware. The technology has come on by leaps and bounds. The old Surface was a large table, containing a screen, multiple cameras, and a PC running Windows Vista with the custom Surface software on top. It was extremely bulky, and the table form factor greatly limited its applications.
The new Surface is a screen just a few inches thick. It can be mounted horizontally, akin to the old Surface, but now also has the option of vertical mounting. It's tough—it apparently includes the largest piece of Gorilla Glass of any device on the market, and will withstand having a full can of beer dropped on it from a height of 18 inches—and it's precise. Each individual pixel in the new Surface can report touch and image information, allowing much more precise tracking of touch and gestures, and enabling scenarios such as holding a piece of paper up to the screen and having it instantly scanned.
Behind the scenes, the new Surface is running Windows 7 on an AMD system-on-chip. Microsoft did not show off the system's software—though may do so later tonight when CEO Steve Ballmer delivers his keynote presentation—and did not talk about pricing or availability, though promised that the new device would be more affordable, and hence more widespread, than its predecessor.


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Published 12:00 am Wednesday, June 5, 2013
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The deadly tornado that plowed through an area near Oklahoma City last week was even larger and more powerful than previously estimated — a record 2.6 miles wide with winds that reached nearly 300 mph, just shy of the strongest winds ever measured.
The National Weather Service on Tuesday announced that the twister that hit El Reno was a top-of-the-scale EF5 twister — the second to strike the area in less than two weeks.
Friday's tornado was initially rated as an EF3. But the agency upgraded that ranking after surveying damage and concluding that the storm had winds of 295 mph. Nineteen people died in the storm and subsequent flooding, including three storm chasers.
The Oklahoma City area also saw an EF5 tornado on May 20. That one raked Moore, a suburb 25 miles southeast of El Reno, and killed 24 people. Moore was hit in 1999 by another EF5, which had the strongest winds ever measured on earth: 302 mph.
The massive tornado that formed Friday avoided highly populated metro areas, a fact that almost certainly saved lives.
Winds were at their most powerful in areas devoid of structures, said Rick Smith, chief warning coordination meteorologist for the weather service's office in Norman.
"Any house would have been completely swept clean on the foundation," Smith said.
The twister marched through the countryside between El Reno and Union City, a region of largely rural farm and grazing land. Most of the destruction came toward the end of the tornado's 16.2-mile path along Interstate 40, where several motorists were killed when their vehicles were tossed around.
Like many Midwestern cities, the Oklahoma City metropolitan area continues to expand in the suburbs, but the rapid growth hasn't quite reached as far west as where Friday's tornado tracked.
William Hooke, a senior policy fellow of the American Meteorological Society, said the continued growth of cities in tornado-prone areas makes it only a matter of time before another monstrous twister hits a heavily populated area.
"You dodged a bullet," Hooke said. "You lay that path over Oklahoma City, and you have devastation of biblical proportions.
In El Reno, the city of 18,000 suffered significant damage, including to its vocational-technical center and a cattle stockyard that was reduced to a pile of twisted metal. But Mayor Matt White said it could have been worse had the twister passed to the north.
"If it was two more miles this way, it would have wiped out all of downtown, almost every one of our subdivisions and almost all of our businesses," White said. "It would have taken out everything."
The EF5 storm that hit Moore decimated neighborhoods.
"It's very scary … I don't think a normal person can fathom just how scary," White said. "I don't think they realize how lucky El Reno was."
The storm's 2.6-mile-wide path surpassed a record set in 2004 in Hallam, Neb. And it would have made the storm hard to recognize up close, Smith said.
"A 21/2-mile wide tornado would not look like a tornado to a lot of people," Smith said, explaining that the twister would not have a tapered funnel and would instead resemble a dark cloud hanging below the horizon.
Greg Carbin, a meteorologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, said May in Oklahoma is a time of weather transition, offering the perfect fuel for violent thunderstorms that can produce tornadoes — a combination of warm, moist air combined with cooler jet stream energy that causes massive instability in the atmosphere.
"In these past two events, we've had a lot of unstable air sitting around, a lot of moisture and warm air," Carbin said. "That provides the fuel for thunderstorm development."


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Maine Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen announced the King Middle School sixth-and seventh-grade teacher as Maine's top educator in a surprise all-school assembly Tuesday
PORTLAND – A 24-year veteran teacher at the state's most diverse middle school is the 2014 Maine Teacher of the Year.
In a surprise assembly at King Middle School (KMS) in Portland Tuesday morning, Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen announced Karen MacDonald, who has served students in Portland Public Schools since 1979, as Maine's top teacher.
The sixth-and seventh-grade English language arts teacher is described by students as a "gift," by colleagues as a teacher leader who is "the most consistently innovative" and by her principal as "relentlessly committed to the success of all of her students."
In a letter to MacDonald shared by Commissioner Bowen Tuesday, Governor Paul R. LePage thanked her on behalf of a grateful state for devoting her life to serving the students who are Maine's future.
"In the 33 years you have taught in Portland schools, you have exemplified what it means to put students first, constantly improving your teaching practices to best meet the changing needs of your students in innovative, imaginative ways," Governor LePage wrote. "The 'you can do this' message you always give your students – many of them new to this country and our English language – instills them with the confidence that they can do anything, including realizing the American dream. Thanks to you, education truly is the great equalizer for students from all walks of life who come through your classroom door."
KMS serves the most racially, ethnically and economically diverse neighborhoods in Maine and its 550 students represent 22 countries and 29 native first languages.
Those students were joined in celebrating MacDonald by Commissioner Bowen, Portland School District Superintendent Manny Caulk, King Middle School Principal Mike McCarthy, past Maine Teacher of the Years including 2013 winner Shannon Shanning, Educate Maine Director Tanna Clews, Bangor Savings Bank Regional Market Manager Stephan Woods, Hannaford Director of Corporate Communications Michael Norton and State Board of Education Chair Nancy Perkins and Vice-Chair Peter Geiger.
Thinking it was an assembly about the state's technology program, MacDonald stood attentively next to her students, taking notes until Commissioner Bowen announced he was actually there because of the great teachers at KMS, and one in particular. Students erupted with excitement, giving a standing ovation as MacDonald made her way to the stage where her family joined her.
MacDonald quickly turned her award into a teachable moment, addressing her class privately after the assembly was dismissed to tell students she never dreamed she'd actually win Maine Teacher of the Year and that it was a lesson in the value of taking risks. She promised to share her journey with them, including her upcoming visit to the White House and NASA space camp.
"I am so proud to be a teacher. It's an amazing career," she said.
In addition to MacDonald, the other 2014 finalists were Mary Graziano, a fourth-grade teacher at Hartland Consolidated School, and Suzen Polk-Hoffses, a kindergarten teacher at Milbridge Elementary School.
"It's certainly a great day in the teaching career of Karen MacDonald and it is also a great day for King Middle School," said Principal McCarthy. "But every day that Karen MacDonald is here it is a great day. She is simply the best teacher we have ever known."
As Teacher of the Year, MacDonald will serve as an ambassador for her profession and Maine's students, and she will be available to travel across the state speaking to colleagues and business and community groups. Starting last year, Bangor Savings Bank began reimbursing the Teacher of the Year's school district for the cost of substitutes while the Teacher of the Year was out of the classroom on official duties.
Maine Teacher of the Year is a program of the Maine Department of Education, administered by Educate Maine. Educate Maine is a business-led organization whose mission is to champion college, career readiness and increased education attainment with a goal of Maine's students and workers being the best educated and most highly skilled in the world. For more information, visit www.educatemaine.org. Funding for the program is generously provided by Hannaford, Geiger and Bangor Savings Bank with support from the State Board of Education and the Maine State Teacher of the Year Association.
The nomination process for the 2015 Maine Teacher of the Year begins this November. Those interested in nominating a teacher should contact their school principal or visit the Maine Department of Education website at www.maine.gov/doe/toy.


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