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Obama Needs to Stand His GroundRepublicans in the House are like a bunch of 3-year-olds playing with matches.
Republicans in the House are like a bunch of 3-year-olds playing with matches. Their hapless leaders don't have the sense to scold them and send them to their rooms — which means President Obama has to be the disciplinarian in this dysfunctional family.
Mature adults in the GOP should have explained reality to these tantrum-throwing tykes long ago: It simply is not within their constitutional power to make Obamacare go away. They can scream at the top of their lungs, roll around on the floor, hold their breath until they turn blue, waste everybody's time with 41 useless votes — whatever. All they can really do is hurt themselves or others.
Yet here we are, with Speaker John Boehner cowed into letting his members threaten to shut down the government unless they are allowed to stay up all night watching television and eating candy. Also, unless the Senate and Obama agree to nullify health-care reform before it fully takes effect.
I happen to believe that Obamacare is a great accomplishment, providing access to medical insurance to millions of Americans who lack it and bringing the nation much closer to universal health care. It's an imperfect law, to be sure, but it could be made much better with the kind of constructive tinkering that responsible leaders performed on Social Security and Medicare.
Even if Obamacare were tremendously flawed, however, it would be wrong to let a bunch of extremist ideologues hold the country hostage in this manner. If Republicans want to repeal the reforms, they should win the Senate and the presidency. If not, they're welcome to pout and sulk all they want — but not to use extortion to get their way.
At issue is not just the threat of a federal shutdown, which will happen Oct. 1 unless Congress passes a continuing resolution to fund government operations. The debt ceiling has to be raised before the Treasury hits its borrowing limit, which will happen around Oct. 18. If House Republicans don't kill or neutralize Obamacare with the funding bill, they are ready to threaten the nation — and the global economy — with a potentially catastrophic default.
The proper response — really, the only response — is to say no. And mean it.
Obama is by nature a reasonable and flexible man, but this time he must not yield. Even if you leave aside what delaying or defunding Obamacare would mean for his legacy — erasing his most significant domestic accomplishment — it would be irresponsible for him to bow to the GOP zealots' demands.
The practical impact of acquiescing would be huge. Individuals who have been uninsured are anticipating access to adequate care. State governments, insurance companies and health care providers have spent vast amounts of time and money preparing for the law to take effect. To suddenly say "never mind" would be unbelievably reckless.
The political implication of compromising with blackmailers would be an unthinkable surrender of presidential authority. The next time he said "I will do this" or "I will not do that," why should Congress or the American people take him seriously? How could that possibly enhance Obama's image on the world stage?
Obama has said he will not accept a budget deal that cripples Obamacare and will never negotiate on the debt ceiling. Even if the Republicans carry through with their threats — and this may happen — the president has no option but to stand his ground.
You don't deal with bullies by making a deal to keep the peace. That only rewards and encourages them. You have to push back.
The thing is, this showdown is a sure political loser for the GOP — and smart Republicans know it. Boehner doesn't want this fight, and in fact should be grateful if Obama hangs tough and shows the crazies the limits of their power. Republicans in the Senate don't want this fight. It's doubtful that even a majority of House Republicans really, truly want this fight, no matter what they say publicly.
But irresponsible demagogues — I mean you, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas — have whipped the GOP base into a frenzy of unrealistic expectations. House members who balk at jumping off the cliff risk being labeled "moderate," which is the very worst thing you can call a Republican — and the most likely thing to shorten his or her political career.
The way to end this madness is by firmly saying no. If Boehner won't do it, Obama must.
Eugene Robinson's e-mail address is eugenerobinson(at)washpost.com.
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If you're as sick of all the political ads as I am, you'd be glad to vote tomorrow just to get it all over with. We want you to vote now, but not for any political election, but for vacation.
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That's not all the fun we're having. We will also have live music, food, drinks, arts and crafts and even free carousel rides until 5:30 p.m. And if that's not enough, the first 100 people there will be given a tax break coupon worth $21.60, which just so happens to be the equivalent to the government taxes and fees for a roundtrip flight, which can be used toward your next Allegiant vacation.
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Colony Collapse Disorder
|Questions and Answers: Colony Collapse Disorder
Beginning in October 2006, some beekeepers began reporting losses of 30-90 percent of their hives. While colony losses are not unexpected during winter weather, the magnitude of loss suffered by some beekeepers was highly unusual.
This phenomenon, which currently does not have a recognizable underlying cause, has been termed "Colony Collapse Disorder" (CCD). The main symptom of CCD is simply no or a low number of adult honey bees present but with a live queen and no dead honey bees in the hive. Often there is still honey in the hive, and immature bees (brood) are present.
ARS scientists and others are in the process of carrying out research to discover the cause(s) of CCD and develop ways for beekeepers to respond to the problem.
Why should the public care about honey bees?
Bee pollination is responsible for $15 billion in added crop value, particularly for specialty crops such as almonds and other nuts, berries, fruits, and vegetables. About one mouthful in three in the diet directly or indirectly benefits from honey bee pollination. While there are native pollinators (honey bees came from the Old World with European colonists), honey bees are more prolific and the easiest to manage for the large scale pollination that U.S. agriculture requires. In California, the almond crop alone uses 1.3 million colonies of bees, approximately one half of all honey bees in the United States, and this need is projected to grow to 1.5 million colonies by 2010.
The number of managed honey bee colonies has dropped from 5 million in the1940s to only 2.5 million today. At the same time, the call for hives to supply pollination service has continued to climb. This means honey bee colonies are trucked farther and more often than ever before.
Honey bee colony health has also been declining since the 1980s with the advent of new pathogens and pests. The spread into the United States of varroa and tracheal mites, in particular, created major new stresses on honey bees.
Is there currently a crisis in food production because of CCD?
While CCD has created a very serious problem for beekeepers and could threaten the pollination industry if it becomes more widespread, fortunately there were enough bees to supply all the needed pollination this past spring. But we cannot wait to see if CCD becomes an agricultural crisis to do the needed research into the cause and treatment for CCD.
The cost of hives for pollination has risen this year. But much of that is due to growing demand. Some of the price increase may also be due to higher cost of gas and diesel and other increases related to energy and labor costs. Commercial beekeepers truck hives long distances to provide pollination services, so in particular they must deal with rising expenses.
Are there any theories about what may be causing CCD?
Case studies and questionnaires related to management practices and environmental factors have identified a few common factors shared by those beekeepers experiencing CCD, but no common environmental agents or chemicals stand out as causative. There are three major possibilities that are being looked into by researchers.
Pesticides may be having unexpected negative effects on honey bees.
A new parasite or pathogen may be attacking honey bees. One possible candidate being looked at is a pathogenic gut microbe called Nosema. Viruses are also suspected.
A perfect storm of existing stresses may have unexpectedly weakened colonies leading to collapse. Stress, in general, compromises the immune system of bees (and other social insects) and may disrupt their social system, making colonies more susceptible to disease.
These stresses could include high levels of infection by the varroa mite (a parasite that feeds on bee blood and transmits bee viruses); poor nutrition due to apiary overcrowding, pollination of crops with low nutritional value, or pollen or nectar scarcity; and exposure to limited or contaminated water supplies. Migratory stress brought about by increased needs for pollination might also be a contributing factor.
Has CCD ever happened before?
The scientific literature has several mentions of honey bee disappearances—in the 1880s, the 1920s and the 1960s. While the descriptions sound similar to CCD, there is no way to know for sure if the problems were caused by the same agents as today's CCD.
There have also been unusual colony losses before. In 1903, in the Cache Valley in Utah, 2000 colonies were lost to an unknown "disappearing disease" after a "hard winter and a cold spring." More recently, in 1995-96, Pennsylvania beekeepers lost 53 percent of their colonies without a specific identifiable cause.
What about cell phones—do they have anything to do with CCD?
The short answer is no.
There was a very small study done in Germany that looked at whether a particular type of base station for cordless phones could affect honey bee homing systems. But, despite all the attention that this study has received, it has nothing to do with CCD. Stefan Kimmel, the researcher who conducted the study and wrote the paper, recently e-mailed The Associated Press to say that there is "no link between our tiny little study and the CCD-phenomenon ... anything else said or written is a lie."
What is ARS doing about CCD?
In April 2007, ARS held a Colony Collapse Disorder Research Workshop that brought together over 80 of the major bee scientists, industry representatives, extension agents, and others to discuss a research agenda. They identified areas where more information is needed and the highest-priority needs for additional research projects related to CCD.
A CCD Steering Committee, led by ARS and USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, developed a Research Action Plan to coordinate a comprehensive response for discovering what factors may be causing CCD and what actions need to be taken.
One of the tools that will help in this research is the recently sequenced honey bee genome to better understand bees' basic biology and breed better bees, and to better diagnose bee pests and pathogens and their impacts on bee health and colony collapse. The use of this genome information certainly will have great applications in improving honey bee breeding and management.
The search for factors that are involved in CCD is focusing on four areas: pathogens, parasites, environmental stresses, and bee management stresses such as poor nutrition. It is unlikely that a single factor is the cause of CCD; it is more likely that there is a complex of different components.
In September 2007, a research team that included ARS published the results of an intensive genetic screening of CCD-affected honey bee colonies and non-CCD-affected hives.
The only pathogen found in almost all samples from honey bee colonies with CCD, but not in non-CCD colonies, was the Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), a dicistrovirus that can be transmitted by the varroa mite. It was found in 96.1 percent of the CCD-bee samples.
This research does not identify IAPV as the cause of CCD. What this research found was strictly a strong correlation of the appearance of IAPV and CCD together. No cause-and-effect connection can be inferred from the genetic screening data. (More information about this study)
This was the first report of IAPV in the United States. IAPV was initially identified in honey bee colonies in Israel in 2002, where the honey bees exhibited unusual behavior, such as twitching wings outside the hive and a loss of worker bee populations.
The study also found IAPV in honey bees from Australia that had been imported into the United States, as well as in royal jelly imported from China. Australian bees began to be imported from Australia into the United States in 2005. Questions were raised about a connection between those imported bees and the appearance of IAPV in the United States. Beekeepers sought out Australian imports of bees as a way to replenish their hive populations.
To determine whether IAPV has been present in the United States since before the importation of honey bees from Australia, a follow up detailed genetic screening of several hundred honey bees that had been collected between 2002 and 2007 from colonies in Maryland, Pennsylvania, California and Israel was conducted by ARS researchers.
The results of the follow study showed IAPV has been in this country since at least 2002, which challenges the idea that IAPV is a recent introduction from Australia. (More information about this study)
This study in no way rules IAPV out as a factor in CCD. Research by several groups will now focus on understanding differences in virulence across strains of IAPV and on interactions with other stress factors. Even if IAPV proves to be a cause of CCD, there still may also be other contributing factors-which researchers are pursuing.
What should beekeepers do now about CCD?
Since little is known about the cause(s) of CCD right now, mitigation must be based on improving general honey bee health and habitat and countering known mortality factors by using best management practices.
What can I as a member of the public do to help honey bees?
The best action you can take to benefit honey bees is to not use pesticides indiscriminately, especially not to use pesticides at mid-day when honey bees are most likely to be out foraging for nectar.
In addition, you can plant and encourage the planting of good nectar sources such as red clover, foxglove, bee balm, and joe-pye weed. For more information, see www.nappc.org.]
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Read more: 'The New York Times' refers to Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny as a woman
Just a week after the new Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, was referred to as "Ms. Kenny" in the New York Times the White House managed to refer to him as "Edna" and "Eddy" in the same breath.
Announcing the success of Kenny's St. Patrick's Day meeting the White House confirmed that President Obama had told "Edna Kenny" that he would visit Ireland this May. Their announcement then went on to say that "Eddy, dressed in dark suit and green tie, returned the kind words "Ireland is open for business."
They ended by saying "More from Eddy in next report."
It seems that Kenny cannot catch a break when it comes to the U.S. press getting his name right. Just one week ago the New York Times announced Kenny's take over as leader of the Irish Government.
They said "Ms. Kenny's center-right Fine Gael party will now govern in a coalition with the center-left Labour Party." It seems that while the journalist based in London was aware of Kenny's gender the subeditor, in the New York Times, was not.
Hopefully now Kenny's trip to the U.S. has been deemed a success and he, and Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affair Eamon Gilmore have been received so warmly, the press might avoid getting his name wrong quite so often.
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Kathy Ireland and Worldwise Make Business Deal
SAN RAFAEL, CA (Jan. 6, 2014) -- Worldwise®, a leading consumer pet products company, has entered into a long term, exclusive licensing agreement with the world's 28th most powerful licensed brand, kathy ireland Worldwide® (kiWW®). Under the partnership, Kathy Ireland: CEO and Chief Designer for kiWW®, will develop a line of solution based home décor friendly pet products with the Worldwise® team and market the collection under the brand kathy ireland Loved Ones™. kathy Ireland Loved Ones™ collection complements the four pawed family members and the homes they grace.
Kevin Fick, Worldwise® CEO commented; "As a company Worldwise® is excited to partner with Kathy Ireland and her team at kiWW® to develop a line of solution based pet products unique to the market." Kevin continued; "Kathy makes a great partner, she brings both her design savvy as well as her knowledge of what it means to be a busy parent to both the two footed and four footed child. Kathy's design sense combined with Worldwise's ability to create innovative and solution based products is a winning combination.
"Worldwise and kiWW® partnership has evolved naturally and through the shared interest in pet wellness has led to building a significant pet advocacy program that will work to raise awareness of the benefits of pet adoption."
kathy ireland Loved Ones™ pet product collection will be both functional and stylish. Kathy Irelands Loved Ones™ will be launching at Global Pet Expo(GPE) in Orlando, FL March 2014.
kathy ireland Worldwide® is recognized as one of the country's most successful design and marketing firms with revenues, according to Forbes Magazine, topping $2 billion in licensed products annually.
"It's a joy to partner with Kevin and the extraordinary team at Worldwise to bring our brand into the world of pet lovers," Kathy Ireland observed. "We have never thought of ourselves as pet owners, rather, we are the trusted guardians for these very special Loved Ones. kiWW and Worldwise are committed to making the world a better place for all pets and the families who love them."
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The SmartyKat®, TrustyPup®, PoochPlanet® and Petlinks® brands are manufactured by Worldwise®, a leading consumer pet products company. Worldwise® develops unique, high-quality products made from natural, recycled, reclaimed and certified organic material, and distributes them through the nation's largest retailers. Worldwise® brands are changing consumer beliefs about the look, feel, price and performance of environmentally-responsible products. worldwise.com
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Kathy is married to Gregory Olsen, an emergency physician and CEO of a commercial fishing enterprise. Kathy, Greg and their three children Erik, Lily and Chloe live in Southern California. Her extended four-footed family includes her dogs, Sparky, Gracie and Delilah. kathy ireland Worldwide® maintains headquarters in Rancho Mirage, California and design studios in Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Rancho Mirage, Santa Barbara and Hawaii.
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Richard Cobden's "I have a dream" speech about a world in which free trade is the governing principle (1846)
Found in Speeches on Questions of Public Policy. Vol. 1 Free Trade and Finance
On the eve of victory for the free trade Anti-Corn Law League, the British Member of Parliament Richard Cobden (1804-1865) gave a speech in Manchester on January 15, 1846 in which he outlined his dream of a future world where the principles of free trade "in everything" was the governing principle:
… I have never taken a limited view of the object or scope of this great principle. I have never advocated this question very much as a trader.
But I have been accused of looking too much to material interests. Nevertheless I can say that I have taken as large and great a view of the effects of this mighty principle as ever did any man who dreamt over it in his own study. I believe that the physical gain will be the smallest gain to humanity from the success of this principle. I look farther; I see in the Free-trade principle that which shall act on the moral world as the principle of gravitation in the universe,—drawing men together, thrusting aside the antagonism of race, and creed, and language, and uniting us in the bonds of eternal peace. I have looked even farther. I have speculated, and probably dreamt, in the dim future—ay, a thousand years hence—I have speculated on what the effect of the triumph of this principle may be. I believe that the effect will be to change the face of the world, so as to introduce a system of government entirely distinct from that which now prevails. I believe that the desire and the motive for large and mighty empires; for gigantic armies and great navies—for those materials which are used for the destruction of life and the desolation of the rewards of labour—will die away; I believe that such things will cease to be necessary, or to be used, when man becomes one family, and freely exchanges the fruits of his labour with his brother man. I believe that, if we could be allowed to reappear on this sublunary scene, we should see, at a far distant period, the governing system of this world revert to something like the municipal system; and I believe that the speculative philosopher of a thousand years hence will date the greatest revolution that ever happened in the world's history from the triumph of the principle which we have met here to advocate.
Richard Cobden faced a number of significant criticisms during his campaign to abolish the Corn Laws (agricultural protection) in Britain in the early and mid 1840s. One set of criticisms was that he represented a particular "class interest" and not the general interest of the British people, in particular that he was against the class of landlords and large land owners; another was that he wanted to weaken "British" economic interests against that of foreign grain producers; or that he had a personal vested interest as a manufacturer of cotton goods in wanting to lower the cost of food for his workers so he could in turn lower their wages. In this speech on the eve of victory in the House of Commons (15 January, 1846 - the repeal came on 27 January 1846) Cobden was at pains to show that hus motives had never been personal or pecuniary but were based on deeply held moral and economic principles that were above the specific place and time of his campaign. At the very end of the speech Cobden gave what is in effect his version of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech in which he outlined what his vision of the world would look like 1,000 years hence when "the Free-Trade principle" he advocated had become universal. Cobden sincerely believed that this would result in "the greatest revolution that ever happened in the world's history".


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Acquisition of Baltimore-Focused Dark Fiber and Ethernet Services Provider
LOUISVILLE, CO – December 14, 2012 – Zayo Group, LLC ("Zayo") announces that it has executed a definitive agreement to purchase Litecast/Balticore, LLC ("Litecast"), a provider of metro Bandwidth Infrastructure services in Baltimore, Maryland, for a price of $22 million.
Litecast owns and operates the leading Baltimore metropolitan fiber network, connecting over 110 on-net buildings, including all of the city's major datacenters and carrier hotel facilities. Litecast is focused on providing dark fiber and Ethernet-based services to a concentrated set of Baltimore enterprise and governmental customers, particularly within the healthcare and education segments.
The acquisition will further enhance Zayo's fiber network in the greater Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, complementing the recently acquired AboveNet and FiberGate networks in the Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia area. Zayo will be positioned to offer Litecast customers a broad set of Bandwidth Infrastructure products across its regional, national and international fiber networks. In addition, Zayo will offer Baltimore fiber-based services to its large existing carrier customer base.
"Given its geography and product offering, Litecast is a natural extension of Zayo's recent acquisition of FiberGate," says Dan Caruso, President and CEO of Zayo Group. "The acquisition completes a very compelling set of fiber assets in the increasingly important Baltimore-Washington metropolitan market."
With Litecast's concentrated network geography, focused product set and size, Zayo anticipates a quick network and operations integration process. And given the concentration of Baltimore customers, Zayo is committed to maintaining a strong local presence in the Baltimore market.
The transaction, subject to customary approvals, is expected to close by year-end and will be funded with cash on hand.
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Based in Louisville, Colo., privately owned Zayo Group (www.zayo.com) is an international provider of fiber-based Bandwidth Infrastructure services and carrier-neutral colocation and interconnection services. Zayo serves wireline and wireless carriers, data centers, Internet content and services companies, high bandwidth enterprises, and federal, state and local government agencies. Zayo provides these services over metro, metro, national, international and fiber-to-the-tower networks. With its acquisitions of USCarrier, FiberGate and AboveNet, Zayo's network includes 67,000 route miles, serving 45 states and Washington, D.C. Its network serves approximately 10,300 on-net buildings, including 510 data centers, 510 carrier PoPs, and 2,600 cell towers. Zayo's colocation assets include 136,000 billable square feet of interconnect-focused colocation space.
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Songza curating multi-million dollar bid from Google
Hold onto your headphones. Google is apparently in talks to buy the popular free music streaming and recommendation service Songza. Founded in late 2007, Songza has built up over 5.5 million active users. Google's own Larry Page is allegedly leading the charge to acquire Songza for $15 million.
In the world of free music streaming, Songza has set itself apart by offering up curated playlists based on your current activity. There aren't any algorithms are work to make these playlists, instead music experts create these for specific occasions. Songza has apps on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8, BlackBerry, Sonos and a web application.
$15 million does seem awfully small for a music streaming service. Afterall, Apple did just buy Beats Electronics and Beats Music for $3 billion, of which less than $500 million was for the streaming component. It also pales in comparison to companies like Spotify (valued at $4 billion) and Pandora (market cap of $5 billion).
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By Jonathan Scott
Is that a sweater vest? Meet Roger Federer, amnesiac. (Getty)
Tennis is a tricky bitch. In no other sport does nostalgia ring so supreme as the calendar moves about — both in mind and spirit but in sport, too. And by sport we mean rankings. A great Wimbledon one year means everyone will be watching you the next. As Billie Jean King said: "Pressure is privilege." But for some touring pros, pressure is just that — pressure. So as the raindrops (and strawberries and cream) start to fall across the pond, we look at two very different approaches to that pressure: those who seem to enjoy it and others who would rather the past was dumped just like a carton of sour, meant-for-strawberries cream.
The difference between an Amnesiac (the ones who'd like to forget Wimbledon 2010, and perhaps the 12 months since) and an Android (those who will be looking to methodically defend and go just as far again, if not a step further) will indubitably be a matter of psychological and physical fortitude. But, let's be real, mostly mental. A lot of mental.
Tsvetana Pironkova: How to explain the free-fall? This quick-striking Piron-ha 2010 made the Wimby semis before evaporating. She gave Serena a fair fight in round one at Eastbourne this month, but the gal who vanquished Venus last year has all but vanished since, nearly as much as the House of Williams itself. A likely and foreboding second-rounder against Vania King or Petra Martic looms. Danger, dear Piron-ha!
Caroline Wozniacki: No way around it, the future no. 1 had her Stella McCartney-branded clock cleaned by Petra Kvitova at this time last year, submitting 2-and-0 to the Czech's lashing strokes. A hard-court tuneup at home in Copenhagen – dubbed the Wozniacki Open by, well, everyone – wasn't the best prep, but Caro simply has to forget last year's lawn debacle if she's going to vie for that virgin Slam. A potential second-round fracas against Sania Mirza lurks; lest we forget, Mirza took Justine Henin to three sets in Melbourne six months ago.
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Mirjana Lucic: The doe-eyed teen once tapped by Steffi Graf as an heir apparent in women's tennis would probably rather forget the past decade more than just the last year. Lucic competed gamely against Jelena Jankovic at the 2010 U.S. Open but, no thanks to her father, her career and her life have been a piping hot mess since her dreamy ascension to the 1999 Wimbledon semis. First up for the comeback girl: Dominika Cibulkova, the no. 24 seed. Expect a shootout.
Nicholas Mahut: Think the lawn gods are at all kind? Rethink that right quick. Mahut drew John "Tall Tree" Isner in the first round AGAIN. If there's any justice in the world, Mahut may even notch a W at the Big W this time out, provided that he serves well (you'd think 103 aces last year would have done the trick) and has, you know, developed his return and groundstroke game.
Roger Federer: Fed claimed his back ailed him in going down to Tomas Berdych last year, a gripe that Big Berd received sorely. If his French Open form holds, Roger, who may as well refer to Centre Court as his "backyard," is a threat to seize his 17th Slam here and now. It may be his best chance for the rest of his career, and subtly so. A possible third-round bout with David Nalbandian intrigues.
Novak Djokovic: The Djoker has done anything but laugh at the All England Club in his young career to date. In short, when this fortnight has come around, his ass is grass. A semifinal appearance in 2010 had him waving his Wimbledon whites to Berdych's missiles. This year's streaking artist has much to prove on the surface, and no doubt he feels that heat. To make the semis again would honestly be to break even. Robin Soderling, Phillip Petzschner, Xavier Malisse, Jurgen Melzer, Victor Troicki, Michael Llodra, James Blake, Florian Mayer, fresh-faced Brit James Ward, and even Alejandro Falla (who nearly pulled the early rug out from under Fed last year) are all in his section. In a word, wow. He'd have better luck to play them all at once…
Ever the android, Kvitova levitates at the 2010 Championships. (Getty)
Vera Zvonareva: Life itself is like Ms. Zvonareva: You never know what you're gonna get. Last week's Eastbourne triumph over Serena (7-5 in the 3rd!) had to help, but VZ has scads and oodles of points to defend here or her ranking may dive. Elena Vesnina, her doubles partner in a run to the final last year, awaits in round two, but Vera should and will be wise to not look past Alison Riske first. The American girl has a grass-tastic forehand and likes the turf.
Serena Williams: Nary a new word can be crafted as far as what Serena's presence does for the media and entertainment prospects at these Championships. The defending champ rained down a record 89 aces in taking the title in 2010 without losing a set – and then POOF! we didn't see her again until this present time. Her makeshift match play at Eastbourne belies the fact that, when all's on the line, you doubt a Williams and you likely get burned. A funked-up Aravane Rezai is her first foe, and it's hard to see anyone in her quadrant giving Serena an alley fight until Marion Bartoli or Na Li in the later rounds.
Petra Kvitova: Mmm, too Kvit to quit – Petra means "rock" in Greek, but this Czech sensation can be a bit malleable in high-risk situations. Sure, she blasted Wozniacki en route to a combative 2010 semi against Serena, but she's not dazzled when it mattered most in Slams since then. A Paris victory indoors over Kim Clijsters is her best showing in the past year. She needs a defining statement at this Slam to regain her form and inflict terror in opponents about her ground game, if not her endearing pterodactyl-esque squawk after lasering winners. Hard-serving Canuck Rebecca Marino may give her game like whoa in round three.
Tomas Berdych: Forget the fact that T-Berd fell in the French's first round 9-7 in the fifth, less surrendering his 2010 semifinal points there. He has finalist credentials in London, and simply must go about his work robotically and avoid considering that his last year has been a wipeout. He didn't handle the new media attention well in the wake of his surprise showing last year, but the sole seeming trouble he may have in his eighth of the draw arrives in the person of Philipp Kohlschreiber, a grass-court maven and heartbreaker who often plays the top guns tight. After that? Nadal. Then again, this is Berdych, and he might as well make his own life harder with Julien Benneteau early.
Rafael Nadal: The changing conditions of the court and heavier balls at Wimbledon have benefitted Rafa to no end. If the grass was as it was in the 1980s and '90s, he'd have no chance and Federer would be approaching 20 Slams now. Even so, the reigning champ (who should be sporting an "I'm still no. 1, no?" tee these days) has done everything right to capitalize on his strengths and impose his will here. A third-round boxing match with Milos Raonic and/or a fourth-round duel against Juan Martin del Potro both entice.
Andy Murray: Besides James Ward, who just alighted upon the grass courts and the front pages in the UK with recent success, there's a strapping lad by the name of Andy Murray who, like Federer, is poised in a prime spot to turn the tables on Nadal and Djokovic, the two who have garnered all the 2011 press to date. Mr. Fuzzy Muzz should shed his thin skin (in addition to his overgrown Chia head and whiskers) and put his (tennis) balls to the (purple and green) wall. He may get Ivan Ljubicic, Stanislas Wawrinka, and Andy Roddick in succession, but Raggedy Andy proved himself on clay this spring and now could catalyze a tennis revolution in Great Britain by channeling all his nervous energy into a real run to the final. No time like now for the cunning no. 4 star.
Jonathan Scott is the keeper of the Daily Spin column at TENNIS.com and a freelance music scribe when he's not caught up by tennis, which is hardly ever. Follow him on Twitter: @jonscott9


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Installing KVM Guests With virt-install On Ubuntu 11.10 Server - Page 2
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5 Connecting To The Guest
Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop:
The KVM guest will now boot from the CentOS 6.0 DVD and start the graphical CentOS installer - that's why we need to connect to the graphical console of the guest. You can do this with virt-manager on the Ubuntu 11.10 desktop (see KVM Guest Management With Virt-Manager On Ubuntu 8.10).
Start Virtual Machine Manager (you can search for virt-manager in Unity to find it):
When you start virt-manager for the first time and no KVM is installed on your Ubuntu desktop (i.e., the KVM host is not identical to your dekstop), you will most likely see the following message (Could not detect a default hypervisor.). You can ignore this because we don't want to connect to the local libvirt daemon, but to the one on our remote Ubuntu 11.10 KVM host.
In virt-manager, go to File > Add Connection... to connect to your Ubuntu 11.10 KVM host. In my virt-manager, I couldn't find the File menu, it was missing, so I had to right-click a certain area just below the cross that is used to close the program, and then the menu opened from where I could select Add Connection...:
Select QEMU/KVM as Hypervisor. If the KVM host is identical to your desktop, you are done now and can click on Connect.
But if the KVM host is on a remote Ubuntu 11.10 server, then check Connect to remote host, select SSH from the Method drop-down menu, fill in root in the Username field, type in the hostname or IP address (192.168.0.100) of the Ubuntu 11.10 KVM host in the Hostname field, and click on Connect.
(Replace 192.168.0.100 with the IP address or hostname of the KVM host. Please note that the root account must be enabled on the KVM host, and that root logins must be allowed on the KVM host. To enable the root login on an Ubuntu system, run
sudo passwd root
To check if root logins are allowed check the directive PermitRootLogin in /etc/ssh/sshd_config - you might have to restart the SSH daemon afterwards. )
If this is the first connection to the remote KVM server, you must type in yes and click on OK:
Afterwards type in the root password of the Ubuntu 11.10 KVM host:
You should see vm10 as running. Mark that guest and click on the Open button to open the graphical console of the guest:
Type in the root password of the KVM host again:
You should now be connected to the graphical console of the guest and see the CentOS installer:
Now install CentOS as you would normally do on a physical system. Please note that at the end of the installation, the CentOS system needs a reboot. The guest will then stop, so you need to start it again, either with virt-manager or like this on the KVM host's command line:
Ubuntu 11.10 KVM Host:
sudo virsh --connect qemu:///system
start vm10
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(CNN) — Poetry, performance and prayer celebrated the voice of literary giant Maya Angelou at a memorial service held Saturday at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
"She taught us that we are each wonderfully made, intricately woven and put on this earth for a purpose," first lady Michelle Obama said during her tribute to the celebrated poet and actress.
Angelou, 86, died at her Winston-Salem home on May 28. Angelou had been "frail" and suffering from heart problems, her literary agent said. Angelou taught American studies for years at Wake Forest.
Obama did not meet Angelou until 2008, while on the campaign trail, but she said Angelou's poem 'Phenomenal Woman' had a profound impact on her life.
"I was struck by how she celebrated black women's beauty like no one had ever dared to," Obama said in the service held at Wait Chapel.
"She also graced us with an anthem for all women, a call to all of us to embrace our God-given beauty. How desperately black girls needed that message," the first lady said, remembering that as a young girl her first doll was a white Malibu Barbie.
She said that Angelou reminded everyone that " We must each find our own voice, decide our own value and then announce it to the world with all the pride and joy that is our birthright as members of the human race."
'Spiritual queen mother'
Oprah Winfrey remembered her friend as the greatest woman she has ever known.
"The loss I feel I cannot describe," Winfrey said, holding back tears. "It's like something I've never felt before. She was my spiritual queen mother and everything that that word implies. She taught me the poetry of courage and respect."
Winfrey recalled meeting Angelou in the late 1970s, when she worked as a news reporter.
"She looked at me and said, 'Who are you girl?'" Winfrey said.
"I will miss her."
'She had the voice of God'
"I Loved Maya," said former President Bill Clinton during his reflection. He said the two last met in April in Austin during a celebration of of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.
Clinton recalled that he hugged Angelou and said, " I cannot believe that you have gotten yourself here." He said she responded, "Just because I'm wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around."
Clinton became aware of Angelou while in college by reading her book. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," her lasting contribution to literature that bore witness to the brutality of a Jim Crow South.
He said Angelou was always paying attention and used her voice to call attention to the things that really mattered.
"God loaned her his voice. She had the voice of God and he decided he wanted it back from her," Clinton told the audience.
Music and more
Actress Cicely Tyson reflected on a friendship that began in 1960, when both were in a play called "The Blacks," which ran for three years.
"Every emotion known to man was exhibited by Maya. She held nothing (back). She spoke her mind no matter what the situation," Tyson remembered.
The memorial service also featured singer Lee Ann Womack performing "I Hope You Dance," considered Angelou's favorite song.
At the conclusion of the service Saturday, Angelou's voice once more was heard in a recording of the 1996 Ashford & Simpson song "Been Found."


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Making Things Talk, Second Edition By Tom Igoe - 2nd Edition
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Using Sensors, Networks, and Arduino to see, hear, and feel your world. Make microcontrollers, PCs, servers, and smartphones talk to each other.
Building electronic projects that interact with the physical world is good fun. But when the devices you've built start to talk to each other, things really get interesting. With 33 easy-to-build projects, Making Things Talk shows you how to get your gadgets to communicate with you and your environment. It's perfect for people with little technical training but a lot of interest.
Maybe you're a science teacher who wants to show students how to monitor the weather in several locations at once. Or a sculptor looking to stage a room of choreographed mechanical sculptures. In this expanded edition, you'll learn how to form networks of smart devices that share data and respond to commands.
- Call your home thermostat with a smartphone and change the temperature.
- Create your own game controllers that communicate over a network.
- Use ZigBee, Bluetooth, Infrared, and plain old radio to transmit sensor data wirelessly.
- Work with Arduino 1.0, Processing, and PHP—three easy-to-use, open source environments.
- Write programs to send data across the Internet, based on physical activity in your home, office, or backyard.
Whether you want to connect simple home sensors to the Internet, or create a device that can interact wirelessly with other gadgets, this book explains exactly what you need.


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Bret Taylor / FriendFeed Blog:
FriendFeed API: Extend and improve FriendFeed — We are very excited to announce the launch of the FriendFeed API, which enables developers to interact with the FriendFeed site programmatically. It's designed to make it possible for anyone to improve FriendFeed or integrate FriendFeed into other applications.
Harrison Hoffman / CNET News.com: Welcome to the club: FriendFeed launches their API
Nick Halstead / The fav.or.it Blog: FriendFeed Support Added to fav.or.it
Dave Winer / Scripting News: FriendFeed API announced
Ross Mayfield / Ross Mayfield's Weblog: The Need for FriendFeed
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable!: Podcast: Paul and Bret Talk of FriendFeed's API
Nick O'Neill / The Social Times: FriendFeed Launches API, Can They Take on Facebook?
Corvida / SheGeeks: FriendFeed API Application Suggestions
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
FriendFeed Launches API - This Should be Interesting — Cross-site activity stream aggregator FriendFeed has answered the loud calls of users and developers and today released the first version of its Application Programming Interface, or API. The FriendFeed experience will now be accessible …
Discussion: Ryan Stewart
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Friendfeed, the site for conversations, launches API and keeps getting more relevant
Friendfeed, the site for conversations, launches API and keeps getting more relevant
Discussion: The Last Podcast
Frederic / The Last Podcast: Friendfeed Launches API
Japan: URL's Are Totally Out — If you hadn't heard via Twitter (and why would you?), I just returned from over two weeks of quality time in Japan. A lot of business and business planning, but also a whole lot of fun. The truly watershed event: this time, I had Steve along.
Discussion: CenterNetworks, Snipperoo and Boing Boing
Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing: Japanese ads downplay URLs, encourage searches
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Craigslist Is Our Mirror, Nothing Better (Or Worse) — I flipped on the news today (yes, my actual television, not sure why) and the big story was Craigslist gone wrong. Someone placed an ad on Craigslist saying that anything at a home in Jacksonville, Oregon was up for grabs.
Discussion: STARTUP CHATTER and CNET News.com
Donna Bogatin / STARTUP CHATTER: Oodle to Craigslist: We're Bigger and Better Than You
Desiree Everts / CNET News.com: Another house ransacked from Craigslist ad
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Craigslist Scam Cleans Out Oregon Man: Who Should Pay? — Here's today's quiz: — If an ad on Craigslist says that someone is giving something away for free, should you be able to take it? If you put an ad on Craigslist saying someone is giving something away for free but he isn't and someone takes it …
Discussion: Schneier on Security and Switched
Peter Mychalcewycz / Switched: Fake Craigslist Ad Costs Man Most of What He Owns
Om Malik / GigaOM:
CableCos Join The $3 Billion US WiMAX Rescue Act — WiMAX in the US has been a bit on the ropes, but it isn't dead yet. And if you believe The Wall Street Journal a miraculous comeback maybe in the offering, thanks to some deep pocketed cable companies' willingness to write mega-million dollar checks.
Discussion: Between the Lines, WebProNews, eWeek, Engadget and dailywireless.org
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: WiMax saved? Comcast, Time Warner Cable eye Sprint, Clearwire pact
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Nationwide Sprint WiMax Network Idea Revived
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget: Comcast, Time Warner, Sprint, and Clearwire could join forces …
Rafat Ali / mocoNews.net:
Comcast & Time Warner Talking To Clearwire & Sprint on National WiMax Network
Comcast & Time Warner Talking To Clearwire & Sprint on National WiMax Network
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and IntoMobile
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft to Raise Yahoo Bid to $34—Citi — Two months later, and we're back where we began: Microsoft (MSFT) bids $31 for Yahoo (YHOO), Yahoo counters with $40, and a price in the mid-$30s should get the deal done. — True, Yahoo had to explore other options.
Discussion: Between the Lines, TGDaily.com, Digital Daily, Joe Duck and BoomTown
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Microhoo: What will break the stalemate?
Wolfgang Gruener / TGDaily.com: Microsoft may raise bid for Yahoo to $34 per share - analyst
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Just Get It Over With Already ... Microsoft (MSFT) …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown: Yahoo: Time to Negotiate With Microsoft?
Citigroup: Microsoft likely to raise bid for Yahoo
Citigroup: Microsoft likely to raise bid for Yahoo
Discussion: Epicenter, Techland, WebProNews, TechCrunch and Mashable!
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter: Analyst: Microsoft Likely to Up Yahoo Bid
Yi-Wyn Yen / Techland: Yahoo shares rise on analyst report
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Microsoft To Sweeten Yahoo Offer?
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Is Yahoo Worth $4 Billion More Than It Was On Feb. 1st?
Associated Press:
Google execs: $1 in pay, $13B in stock — Giant stakes enrich Brin and Page, but value of their shares decline by billions as company stock falls. — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page each took home their customary $1 annual salary again in 2007 …
Discussion: VentureBeat and BloggingStocks
Douglas McIntyre / BloggingStocks: Google (GOOG): The stupidity of the $1 salary
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Tests Video Ads Alongside Search Results — In February, we found out that Google intends to test video ads next to search results and now we can finally see some examples. Digital Inspiration spotted an AT&T ad targeted to the query [phone], but there's also an Intel ad when you search for [laptop].
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Screenshot - AdWords Text Ads with Video on Google Homepage
Screenshot - AdWords Text Ads with Video on Google Homepage
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Video Ads in Google Results
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Social Site's New Friends Are Athletes — Late last year, Pamela Firestone, the mother of Tony Parker, the San Antonio Spurs point guard, went rooting through her home in Paris and dug up a VHS tape of a 9-year-old Tony on a Parisian basketball court with his two brothers.
Discussion: TechCrunch, paidContent.org and Mashable!
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch: WePlay Takes $1.87 Million, Wants Rights To Kids Videos Before They Are Stars
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org: Updated: Youth Sports Site WePlay Raises $4.5 Million First Round …
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable!: WePlay: High Finance, Known Athletes, Low Traffic
Haochi / Googlified:
GMail Trends — Mihai Parparita, a developer at Google (mostly on Google Reader) and author of many cool things that you have heard of or used, released a Python program today called Mail Trends that "let's you analyze and visualize your email." The program will generate a page …
Discussion: persistent.info
Mihai Parparita / persistent.info: Mail Trends — I get a lot of email (especially at work).
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Google To Holders: Vote No On Anti-Censorship Proposal — Google (GOOG) is once again advising its investors to vote down a shareholder proposal calling for the company to adopt a set of policies to prevent censorship of the Internet. — The shareholder proposal, included in the proxy …
Discussion: WebProNews, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Between the Lines
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Google Opposes Anti-Censorship Bid
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Google's Shareholders Attempt to Force Company Policy Changes
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Recommends No Vote On Human Rights, Anti-Censorship Proposals
Google Recommends No Vote On Human Rights, Anti-Censorship Proposals
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, WebGuild and Google Blogoscoped
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Google's Outrageous 2007 Compensation Revealed
Joseph Hunkins / WebGuild: Google To Shareholders: See No Evil
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Google Against Anti-Censorship Proposal
The Huffington Post:
New York Apple Stores Sold Out Of iPhones — New York may now have three Apple stores, but there's not a single iPhone among them. — Apple Store employees at all three New York locations — the original SoHo store, the 59th Street location, and the most recent addition, on West 14th Street …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks: BREAKING NEWS: Apple NYC Stores Out of iPhones!
Cory Bohon / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Huffington Post: New York Apple Stores running out of iPhones?
Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News: Apple's New York retail stores out of iPhones
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo Is Joining an Alliance That Has Google as Leader — SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo said Tuesday that it would joining an alliance to be led by Google, its principal rival, that will try to make it easier for programmers to write software that can run on the pages of many social networks and other Web sites.
Discussion: Epicenter and Publishing 2.0
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter: Yahoo Joins OpenSocial, Thumbs Nose at Microsoft
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0: Decommoditizing Social Networks By Connecting User Profiles Via OpenSocial
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Defection Watch: Google's Director of Social Media Decides It's …
Defection Watch: Google's Director of Social Media Decides It's …
Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Google Watch, Tech Ticker and All Facebook
Emily / textually.org:
SKULLPHONE HIJACKS DIGITAL BILLBOARDS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — Southern California is all abuzz the hijacking of digital billboards. — Silenced Majority Portal, reports that last Thursday, 18 year old graffiti artist Skullphone hacked into 10 of ClearChannel's digital billboards in Hollwood …
Discussion: Digital Signage, MAKE Magazine, Gizmodo and Engadget
Phillip Torrone / MAKE Magazine: Skullphone billboard hacking
Sean Fallon / Gizmodo: Digital Billboards Hacked in Southern California
Nilay Patel / Engadget: Clear Channel digital billboards in SoCal hax0r3d
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek to roll out second-generation Eee PC with touchscreen panels and possibly GPS support in May or June — Asustek's 8.9-inch second-generation Eee PC lineup will include touchscreen panels and possible GPS support, with shipments expected to begin in May or June, according to Kevin Lin …
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com, Gizmodo and Engadget
Haroon Malik / Gizmodo: Eee PC Touch-Screen Coming This Summer, Asus Says


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Confirm that you have all of the following at hand before you start the upgrade.
- A compatible PC: Chances are that if your machine is running Vista, it will be able to run Windows 7. But to make sure, or if your system is currently running XP, download and run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor.
- Upgrade disc and Product ID: Sorry, but you'll have to buy the upgrade in order to get the upgrade.
- Image-backup software: If the installation goes horribly wrong, an image backup can take you back where you came from. I recommend using the free version of Macrium Reflect.
- An external hard drive: You will need something on which to put that image backup. Look for an external drive that has at least as much storage capacity as your computer's internal hard drive does.
- Pencil and paper: You will have to jot a few things down as you go along.
- Your programs in installable form: You can skip this one if you're doing an upgrade install, but if you want to start Windows 7 off with a clean slate, you'll need to reinstall every program currently on your PC that you want to keep.
- Time: If you're lucky, you could have Windows 7 up and running in a couple of hours. But it could take all day–and that will be a day you'll be near your computer while having little or no access to it. Make sure you can afford that block of time.
- A good book: You'll be spending a lot of that time waiting.
For more of PCW's Windows 7 coverage, read our in-depth Windows 7 review, and read how we tested Windows 7. For ongoing information about Windows 7, sign up for PC World's Windows News and Tips newsletter. And for comprehensive, straightforward advice and tips that can help you get the most out of the new operating system, order PC World's Windows 7 Superguide, on CD-ROM or in a convenient, downloadable PDF file.


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Redline Uni Mini Seat/Post combo
Redline's Mini seat/post combo, lightweight to suit Micro, Mini & Junior size race bikes.
- Alloy seat post
- 20.6mm seat post diameter with 22.2mm shim included
- To suit race bikes only
Let customers speak for us
This is a great frame for flatland and has similar geometry to the new Haro Ground Master frames (this Squib will probably not see a set of trails). After throwing on a set of S&M Fast Pitch forks and drilling/tapping for a gyro set up, the Squib was ready to hit the flatland spot to roll hitchhikers, scuff and turbine. The colour scheme and decals look great and has high quality workmanship as expected being a frame made by S&M. The guys at Backbone were extremely helpful in getting the frame to me.
The guys at Back Bone were super friendly and helpful with another alternative when they didn't have in stock what i was originally after. They rang me to sort it out and this was a refreshing change to get some real human interaction.
Thank you for everything, we are very happy with the bike and your service!!
I ordered my Skyway TA Replica from Back Bone and after being told it was being packed up, I'm assuming it was a floor model, it showed up, scratched up. In addition to the known damages, the seat and post were improperly packed, which lead to sections of the frame that were scratched down to the bare metal. Below is the list of damages that I found:
- Seat post = scratched and scuffed up and also has paint runs on it.
- Seat stays = gouges from the bolt on the seat from when it was packed and some other scratches under the brake
- Fork = small knicks on the front, back and side
- Red Cable = the housing is torn
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These little cups look good too but somehow I never seem to get around to appetizers.Replies
It was the first time I made the cakes, so I don't have a link yet. They were very good, but I need to make them again (which will most likely be very soon) before they are blog worthy:)
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Putauhinu Island is a 141 ha muttonbird island south-west of Stewart Island. The muttonbirders on Putauhinu have worked closely with the Department of Conservation (and its predecessor the New Zealand Wildlife Service) to restore the island's ecology, including eradicating Pacific rats in 1995, and translocating and releasing South Island saddlebacks in 1974 & 1976, Codfish Island fernbirds in 1997, and Stewart Island robins in 1999. Te Papa's Curator of Terrestrial Vertebrates Dr Colin Miskelly was part of a team that translocated Snares Island snipe to Putauhinu in 2005. The muttonbirders invited him back in March 2011 to see how the birds were doing; Colin here provides a progress report on the survey.
The translocation of 30 Snares Island snipe Coenocorypha huegeli to Putauhinu in 2005 was the first deliberate attempt to replace an extinct New Zealand bird with its nearest living relative. The South Island snipe C. iredalei became extinct in 1964 when ship rats invaded its last stronghold on Taukihepa (Big South Cape Island), about 1 km from Putauhinu. The 2005 translocation was the first attempt to bring snipe back to the Stewart Island region.
The 2011 survey was a chance to team up with James Fraser and his bird dog Percy again, following our search for Campbell Island snipe in 2006 (see New Zealand Geographic July 2006, pp 104-112). Snipe are small ground birds that live among dense, low vegetation, and using a trained dog greatly increases encounter and capture rates.
We were on the island 22-29 March, travelling by helicopter, and staying with the muttonbirders, who were preparing for the 2011 titi (muttonbird = fully-grown chicks of sooty shearwaters) harvest that started on 1 April.
Snipe were abundant on Putauhinu. We saw over 80 individuals, and caught and blood-sampled 53 of them. As all 30 birds released in 2005 had been genotyped for both mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA (using microsatellites), we had a rare opportunity to assess the effect of the translocation on the genetic structure of the new population. This information should guide decision making on whether any further snipe translocations could use the secondary population (Putauhinu) as a source versus returning to the original population on the Snares Islands Nature Reserve 110 km to the south-west.
The survey relied greatly on Percy's fine nose, and James's expert handling. We are grateful to the Putauhinu muttonbirders (and especially the Davis, Lee, Spencer, Pennicott and Fisher whanau) and the Rakiura Titi Island Administering Body for inviting us to their island, hosting us, and the interest that they showed in the survey.
By Colin Miskelly, Curator Terrestrial Vertebrates
All photographs by Colin Miskelly


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Are your secrets safe with SaaS providers?
Plugging the leaks
There are plenty of opportunities for people to disclose, steal or sell sensitive company data. After all, anyone who really wants to swipe information needs only the intent and a USB stick.
Admittedly, truly nefarious types are in fairly short supply. But the every day threat to any company's data comes from the unintentional leak – the overheard conversation, misdirected email or unsecured home Wi-Fi.
Take this example from Twitter:
Outside pub today 4 barristers discussing case so loudly in such detail felt I could defend it myself.
Its author, legal eagle David Allen Green, New Statesman blogger and media lawyer, describes this as "depressingly common".
Or this, from a friend on Facebook:
"Dear random person in the coffee shop. You may not want to tell all the IT journalists in the room your business plan. No thanks, me."
Lost property
We guess that, outside of the writer's room on Spooks, few civil servants deliberately leave their laptops on public transport. But laptops are nonetheless abandoned to the vagaries of Network Rail, Routemaster buses and London's taxicab community.
And with every advance in technology new risks of leakage arise. Take software as a service (SaaS). Having access to company data from multiple locations means even more opportunities for more employees to leave a laptop open to anyone who happens to be passing.
The IT department has had to deal these risks for a long time already, but risks are magnified when you put all your business software online.
Handle with care
Alan Lee-Bourke, chief information officer of the Wise Group, a Glasgow not-for-profit organisation that helps ex-offenders get back into work, knows a thing or two about handling sensitive information.
His systems hold files on more than 100,000 people. Some of that data is very sensitive – prisoner data, criminal records and so on.
Training is the key to keeping information secure, he says. "We have to comply with the standards on information security. We have quarterly training, keeping up to date with things like data handling and the Data Protection Act," he says.
"But we also have quarterly penetration testing and social engineering tests, with people calling in and trying to get our staff to reveal sensitive data over the phone."
In an ideal world companies wouldn't store sensitive information in the cloud
Peter Wood, chief executive of First Base, a UK penetration testing firm, says that in an ideal world companies simply wouldn't store sensitive information in the cloud.
People are often unaware of the dangers before they jump into the cloud, especially with the increasing commoditisation of the technology, according to Wood. They might not even be aware of any internal security protocols.
But Wood is a realist, acknowledging that there might be reasons, even if he doesn't find them compelling, for company to keep even very sensitive data in the cloud. In this case, the only thing left to manage is the people.
Magic word
"Let's make it a worst-case scenario. These guys have remote workers and they can access the software on their personal machines. The most important thing is to get people to understand password security," he says.
- Ensure staff have to choose a secure pass phrase, and if possible give them a password safe tool to help them remember them.
- Make sure they have good firewalls, up-to-date anti-virus and anti-trojan software, and that access to the computer is limited. ("You don't want the security or remote data compromised by a locally introduced malware, or something simply left in a browser session.")
Wood signs off with a note of caution: ISO27001 certification is a good thing to look for in a SaaS provider, indicating that the company has at least thought about security. But it shouldn't induce a sense of complacency.
"ISO27001 is a great standard. But it is not detailed enough for cloud services. It gives you an idea about policies but it hasn't changed fundamentally in years," he says.
"Technology, on the other hand, moves fast." ®


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Roxio Launches Easy Media Creator 9; Packed with Next-Generation Enhancements, the Market-Leading Digital Media Suite Ships Worldwide
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2006--Roxio(R), a division of Sonic Solutions(R) (NASDAQ:SNIC), the leader in digital media software, today launched Roxio Easy Media Creator(R) 9, a substantial upgrade to the company's comprehensive suite of CD and DVD authoring, burning, photo, video and music applications. Reaffirming the company's position as market innovator, the latest version is packed with over 100 new features and trend-anticipating capabilities such as mobile entertainment support, Blu-ray Disc (BD) recording, Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(TM) compatibility, and high-definition video creation tools. For the first time, Sonic is executing a near simultaneous release of its market-leading suite across multiple channels and regions to fully support its massive global installed base of customers and distribution partners. Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 is available today at www.roxio.com and will be in retail stores throughout North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region later this month.
"Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 is the perfect solution for our customers' digital lifestyle, bringing together best-of-class media creation and playback tools with virtually universal media output support for taking digital media on-the-go," said Stan Wong, general manager, Roxio division of Sonic Solutions. "With Creator 9 we have not only delivered a great software suite with outstanding upgrade value for users of previous Creator products, but by executing a worldwide multi-channel launch, we are also maximizing the business opportunity for our many channel and distribution partners."
Sonic's Roxio Easy Media Creator has led the North American retail market for over 10 years, including the most recent 12-month period ending July 2006. Creator 9 is designed to entice a new audience to the benefits of a single software package for working with all forms of digital media and next-generation devices, as well as providing a premier upgrade path for the installed base of almost 300 million customers worldwide.
"Creator 9 comes at a time when more people are interested in working with digital content and even creating their own content. With portable media devices, music players, low-cost video cameras, and still cameras, people have more content than ever to work with and more platforms to show and distribute it," said Kathleen Maher, senior analyst at Jon Peddie Research. "The real issue now is not whether people want to create content, they do. What they need now are tools that foster creativity and enjoyment. Creator 9 is part of a new generation of tools that does just that."
Making Entertainment Mobile To keep pace with consumers' growing interest in mobile entertainment, Creator 9 provides extensive support for portable devices including a wide assortment of video players such as the iPod(R), PSP(TM), as well as Windows-based media players such as Samsung's Yepp, audio players, and mobile phones. Within Creator 9's Media Manager, the application used for quickly organizing and accessing photos, music, video files, and multi-media projects, users can now upload selected content to their multimedia mobile phones through a USB or Bluetooth(R) connection. Users can send photos and video clips to a phone to create a mobile digital album or even upload music segments as personalized ringtones. In addition to sending personal content to phones, consumers can also send the impromptu moments they capture using their built-in phone camera back to the PC for storing or sharing. Consumers can also transfer their favorite entertainment such as DivX(R) content or recorded programming from a TiVo(R) system or set-top DVD recorder. Consumers can use predefined settings to auto-format files for sending to an iPod, PSP or select from a comprehensive list of supported file formats that can be customized to suit any device.
Securing Memories
Creator 9 confirms its leadership in optical disc recording with the inclusion of Blu-ray Disc support. Creator 9 allows consumers to record to both single and dual-layer BD discs and archive as much as 50 GB of personal data -- or 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos or four hours of raw high-definition video. Creator 9 also enables users to span large projects across multiple BD discs and secure content through disc encryption. In addition, Creator 9's Drag-to-Disc(R) packet writing software offers consumers the convenience and efficiency of dragging and dropping files to a Blu-ray Disc in the same way they would place files on a hard disk or flash drive.
Rediscovering Music
Creator 9's already impressive music capabilities are enhanced with new applications including the Audio Capture Widget, which is a desktop application that lets users easily record any audio playing on their computer such as Internet radio programming. The Capture Widget includes a unique Pre-Roll feature that can automatically record and store audio even before the record button is selected. Acting like a Personal Video Recorder for audio entertainment, the Pre-Roll feature ensures users never miss a moment. Another innovative feature of the Audio Capture Widget is the Mute System Sounds feature that lets consumers hear system alerts, while suppressing them from the resulting recording. All programming recorded through the Capture Widget can be modified in Creator 9's Sound Editor and easily converted for output to a portable audio player or disc.
Also new to the audio capabilities in Creator 9 is AutoMix, a feature that automatically generates perfect playlists. Using sophisticated algorithms to analyze and fingerprint each song in a consumer's library, the AutoMix feature defines a complementary mix of music based on a 'seed' track chosen by the user. Consumers can use AutoMix to quickly generate an upbeat selection of songs to motivate them at the gym or a relaxing set to use as background during their next dinner party. Resulting playlists can be defined to fit the size limitations of a portable player, recorded to CD, uploaded to a mobile phone, or used as the basis for creating a DVD Music Disc. A unique feature found only in Creator, DVD Music Disc turns any standard DVD player into a virtual music jukebox with up to 50 hours of Dolby(R) Digital quality music. DVD Music Disc now offers attractive new customizable menu styles and an option for shuffle play.
Hollywood Capabilities for the Home
Easy Media Creator 9 includes a rich selection of authoring and video editing tools that offer consumers the perfect blend of automation and hands-on control. For creating professional-quality videos, consumers can use the high-definition enabled, 32-track timeline editor with advanced video overlay tools and fine-tune editing controls. Easy Media Creator 9 also delivers a host of automated features that enable consumers to achieve stunning results with minimal effort including a one-click color correction tool, automatic background noise removal feature, a fit-to-disc encoding option, and an automated scene editor that allows consumers to easily omit unwanted content from their video programming. The enhanced CineMagic(R) 2 takes consumers' raw video footage and favorite song and automatically generates a polished production complete with professionally-stylized video introductions, special effects, and appropriate transitions that are all synchronized to the tempo of the selected music.
Creator 9 also includes an enhanced version of MyDVD(R), which allows users to generate blockbuster-style DVDs with new professionally-designed menu styles that include matching scene menus -- coordinated with the CineMagic styles. Consumers can choose to enter the MyDVD Assistant, which will guide them quickly through the production of a personalized DVD or enter the advanced editor and take complete creative control. Advanced features include motion menus, menu-to-menu transitions, and animated buttons.
Additional capabilities typically found only in higher-end DVD authoring applications include advanced support for object and sub-menu linking and comprehensive end action controls, which allow users to precisely dictate the sequence of events following a DVD navigation selection such as playing a title or returning to a menu.
Pricing Availability
Easy Media Creator 9 will be available in September in stores and direct from Roxio at www.roxio.com for $99.99 SRP. Registered owners of Roxio and Sonic products, as well as owners of select competitive products, may be eligible for special upgrade offers. Details are included in the box and at www.roxio.com.
About Roxio
Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, develops and markets the best-selling digital media software in the world. Roxio offers award-winning software products for CD/DVD burning, photo editing and video editing and has an installed base of over 150 million users. Roxio distributes its products globally through strategic partnerships with major hardware manufacturers, through leading retailers, through Internet partnerships and through direct sales at www.roxio.com.
Roxio's parent company, Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC) www.sonic.com is the leader in digital media software and provides a broad range of software tools and applications for creative professionals, business and home users and technology partners. Sonic's products range from professional DVD authoring systems and interactive content delivery technologies that are used to produce the majority of Hollywood movies released on DVD, to the award-winning Roxio- and Sonic-branded CD and DVD creation, playback and backup applications that have become the premier solutions for consumers and business users worldwide. Sonic's AuthorScript(R) is the de facto standard for CD and DVD burning and formatting and has been licensed by major software and hardware manufacturers, including Adobe, Broadcom, Microsoft, Scientific-Atlanta, Sony, and many others. Sonic Solutions is headquartered in Marin County, California.
Sonic, the Sonic logo, Sonic Solutions, Roxio, MyDVD, CineMagic, AuthorScript, Drag-to-Disc, and Roxio Easy Media Creator are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sonic Solutions or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners and, in some cases, are used by Sonic Solutions under license. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change without notice.


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Nintendo 'Revolution' to take place mid-2006
Memory supplier spills the beans
Nintendo's Revolution console, its answer to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, will ship mid-2006, a component supplier has revealed.
Everyone knows IBM is supplying Nintendo with processor technology, while ATI is contributing Revolution's graphics engine. Less well known is MoSys - aka Monolithic Systems - which provides the console's embedded memory, via NEC.
MoSys CEO Mark Voll, speaking this week during the company's Q1 FY2005 earnings conference, confirmed the company is working with Nintendo on Revolution, Gamesindustry.biz reports. Furthermore, "Nintendo will roll out its successor game console to the GameCube in mid-2006".
everyone was expecting this kind of date. Nintendo staffers have, in the past, criticised Microsoft for bringing its next-generation Xbox to market too early - to whit, late 2005 - and ahead of the cycle. Sony's PS3 is expected to ship in round about a year, and Revolution's release date has always been anticipated to be much the same as the PS3's.
Sony and Nintendo are both expected to discuss their next-generation consoles next week, ahead of the E3 games trade show in Los Angeles. Insiders claim that Nintendo's coverage of Revolution will be rather more subdued than Sony's, being restricted to footage of in-game action rather than a full unveiling of the kind Sony is expected to make.
Meanwhile, according to Chinese-language website Unika.com, Revolution will contain four 2.5GHz G5-class IBM PowerPC processors, each with 128KB of L1 cache and 512KB of L2. ATI's contribution is a dual-core RN520 chip, with 16MB of in-package frame buffer DRAM. ®
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Monarch Profile: King Otto of Bavaria
Soon after the war Prince Otto began displaying even more behavior that was considered strange (though not to me). He became very reclusive and suspicious about other people, especially strangers and did not like the public staring at him. He stopped shaving and seemed to have trouble remembering things (again, none of which seems odd to me) and concerns eventually reached all the way to Berlin. It probably did not help that his older brother was also coming to be considered as suffering from depression and other vague psychiatric disorders (they usually are). In 1872 he was officially diagnosed as being mentally ill, specialists were called in and the following year a noted expert in the field confirmed the diagnosis. Given that, I have to say here again that an "expert" in the field of psychiatry is a little misleading given how little, even today, medical science actually understands about the workings of the human mind. The royal handlers tried to keep Prince Otto out of public view but there were still incidents that caused shock, such as when he rushed into a church in his hunting clothes and asked the bishop to forgive his sins. Okay, maybe the timing could have been better but, isn't that what a bishop is supposed to do for a penitent sinner? Still doesn't seem that crazy to me.
So, Prince Luitpold went on being essentially the King of Bavaria in all but name while King Otto remained in his country estate, dressing in black, chain-smoking, ignoring people and other such "crazy" things. Of course, I am the last person who would ever try to make light of the mentally ill but it is simply that so many of the things cited as evidence of his unbalanced mental state are so ridiculous and I am well aware that a great many things psychiatric experts point to as "insane" behavior are often things plenty of people do who are never considered insane. Once a person has been painted with the brush of madness, nearly every little even slightly odd thing they may do seems "crazy" to outside observers while if someone else were to do the exact same thing that person would simply be shrugged off as a little eccentric. For example, King Otto insisted that all doors at his palace be kept open at all times and would fly into a rage if he found one closed. I know people who may not start shouting and banging on every closed door they find but who obsessively insist on keeping all their doors open. These people have never been diagnosed with any mental illness while yours truly (who medical science says there is a great deal wrong with) am a bit compulsive about keeping all doors shut. What does it prove?
King Otto died, to the surprise of everyone, from a bowel obstruction on October 11, 1916. As Germany was then in the middle of a world war, it was not quite the momentous event the death of a king usually is. He was buried in St Michael's Church in Munich, a monarch who spent his entire reign as King in name only and who few people knew or had ever even seen. His is a rather sad case and though there are suspicions regarding the removal of his brother, the case of King Otto can be seen as an example to refute those willfully ignorant republicans who seem to think that a monarchy means total power is handed to the next person in line even if they are a raving lunatic. King Otto was certainly not that but he was, according to the experts of his time, not of sound mind and judgment. Therefore, with no fuss or uproar, had his legal powers taken up by a regent until he was finally replaced to live out the rest of his life under the care of his doctors and attendants.
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The company's Mainland China service availability page shows that Google Web Search is partially blocked in China.
The availability issues primarily affect Google Suggest, the query auto-completion service that presents users with a list of likely search queries based on the first few characters typed by the user.
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"It appears that search queries produced by Google Suggest are being blocked for mainland users in China," a Google spokesperson said in an e-mailed statement. "Normal searches that do not use query suggestions are unaffected. We have updated our China status page with the latest information."
Due to the complexity of written Chinese, Google users in China click-through search suggestions quite frequently, to avoid having to type out a complete query. Suggested queries can be distinguished from typed queries through an identifier in the URL.
In an effort to make sure its license to operate in China gets renewed, Google on Tuesday said that it will stop redirecting Google.cn visitors from mainland China to Google's Hong Kong site.
Google began the practice in March following its decision in January to stop censoring search results in China, but Chinese authorities have made it clear they don't approve.
It's unclear whether Google's new approach -- a link on Google.cn that leads to its Hong Kong site rather than automatic redirection -- will prove more popular among Chinese officials.
Google's spokesperson said the company wasn't prepared to speculate about whether the issues affecting Search Suggestions in China were related to its efforts to reach an accommodation with the Chinese government to continue operating.
Internet services in China experience occasional interruptions and it's not always clear whether the technical problems have political antecedents.
In a letter to Chinese authorities seeking the renewal of its Internet license, Google promises to "abide by the Chinese law," according to a report in China Daily. The report says that a decision on Google's application is expected soon.