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Art movement
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An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years. Art movements were especially important in modern art, when each consecutive movement was considered as a new avant-garde.
According to theories associated with modernism and the concept of postmodernism, art movements are especially important during the period of time corresponding to modern art.[1] The period of time called "modern art" is posited to have changed approximately halfway through the 20th century and art made afterward is generally called contemporary art. Postmodernism in visual art begins and functions as a parallel to late modernism[2] and refers to that period after the "modern" period called contemporary art.[3] The postmodern period began during late modernism (which is a contemporary continuation of modernism), and according to some theorists postmodernism ended in the 21st century.[4][5] During the period of time corresponding to "modern art" each consecutive movement was often considered a new avant-garde.[4]
Also during the period of time referred to as "modern art" each movement was seen corresponding to a somewhat grandiose rethinking of all that came before it, concerning the visual arts. Generally there was a commonality of visual style linking the works and artists included in an art movement. Verbal expression and explanation of movements has come from the artists themselves, sometimes in the form of an art manifesto,[6][7] and sometimes from art critics and others who may explain their understanding of the meaning of the new art then being produced.
In the visual arts, many artists, theorists, art critics, art collectors, art dealers and others mindful of the unbroken continuation of modernism and the continuation of modern art even into the contemporary era, ascribe to and welcome new philosophies of art as they appear.[8][9] Postmodernist theorists posit that the idea of art movements are no longer as applicable, or no longer as discernible, as the notion of art movements had been before the postmodern era.[10][11] There are many theorists however who doubt as to whether or not such an era was actually a fact;[4] or just a passing fad.[5][12]
The term refers to tendencies in visual art, novel ideas and architecture, and sometimes literature. In music it is more common to speak about genres and styles instead. See also cultural movement, a term with a broader connotation.
As the names of many art movements use the -ism suffix (for example cubism and futurism), they are sometimes referred to as isms.
19th- and 20th-century art movements
19th century
Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: The Savage State 1836, Hudson River School
Gustave Courbet, Stone-Breakers, 1849, Realist School
Edvard Munch, 1893, early example of Expressionism
20th century
Wassily Kandinsky, 1903, Der Blaue Reiter 21.1 cm × 54.6 cm (8.3 in × 21.5 in)
Henri Matisse 1905, Fauvism
Pablo Picasso 1907, Proto-Cubism
Piet Mondrian, 1912, early De Stijl
Kazimir Malevich, (Supremus No. 58), Museum of Art, 1916, Suprematism
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, Dada
Theo van Doesburg, Composition XX, 1920, De Stijl
Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes (1921), Tate, Surrealism
Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930, Social Realism
21st century
See also
- 20th-century Western painting
- Art periods
- List of art movements
- Post-expressionism
- Western art history
- ↑ Man of his words: Pepe Karmel on Kirk Varnedoe — Passages – Critical Essay Artforum, Nov, 2003 by Pepe Karmel
- ↑ The Originality of the Avant Garde and Other Modernist Myths Rosalind E. Krauss, Publisher: The MIT Press; Reprint edition (July 9, 1986), Part I, Modernist Myths, pp.8–171
- ↑ The Citadel of Modernism Falls to Deconstructionists, – 1992 critical essay, The Triumph of Modernism, 2006, Hilton Kramer, pp 218–221.
- 1 2 3 Post-Modernism: The New Classicism in Art and Architecture Charles Jencks
- 1 2 William R. Everdell, The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-century Thought, University of Chicago Press, 1997, p4. ISBN 0-226-22480-5
- ↑ "Poetry of the Revolution. Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes" introduction, Martin Puchner Retrieved April 4, 2006
- ↑ "Looking at Artists' Manifestos, 1945–1965", Stephen B. Petersen Archived September 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 4, 2006
- ↑ Clement Greenberg: Modernism and Postmodernism, seventh paragraph of the essay. URL accessed on June 15, 2006
- ↑ Clement Greenberg: Modernism and Postmodernism, William Dobell Memorial Lecture, Sydney, Australia, Oct 31, 1979, Arts 54, No.6 (February 1980). His final essay on modernism Retrieved October 26, 2011
- ↑ Ideas About Art by Desmond, Kathleen K. , John Wiley & Sons, 2011, p.148
- ↑ International postmodernism: theory and literary practice, Bertens, Hans , Routledge, 1997, p.236
- ↑ Alan Kirby, The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond
- ↑ Willem de Kooning (1969) by Thomas B. Hess
External links
- the-artists.org Art movements since 1900.
- 20th-Century Art Compiled by Dr.Witcombe, Sweet Briar College, Virginia.
- WebMuseum, Paris Themes index and detailed glossary of art periods.


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July 23, 2013
LONDON: The world was awaiting the first glimpse of Britain's new prince on Tuesday with camera crews poised to photograph Prince William and his wife, Kate, leaving a London hospital with their baby son.
Prince William's wife Kate gives birth to royal baby boy.
July 23, 2013
LONDON: The world was awaiting the first glimpse of Britain's new prince on Tuesday with camera crews poised to photograph Prince William and his wife, Kate, leaving a London hospital with their baby son.
Prince William's wife Kate gives birth to royal baby boy.
Kate, 31, gave birth to the couple's first child, who is third in line to the British throne, on Monday afternoon, ending weeks of feverish anticipation about the arrival and surprising royal watchers, who were widely expecting a girl.
The baby's name will be announced later but George and James, both traditional royal names, were favored choices with British bookmakers for the child, who could one day be king.
The popular couple sidestepped tradition by announcing the birth via a press release but were expected to adhere to protocol by giving the public the first sight of the royal baby on the steps as they leave St. Mary's Hospital in west London.
"All we will probably see is a glimpse of the top of the baby's head but they will stick to this tradition," said Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty magazine.
"After that we won't see them for some time. Having a baby is a very private moment and they are a private couple so the next time we see the baby will be the official photo and that could be weeks."
Kensington Palace announced the arrival of a boy weighing 8 lbs 6 oz (3.8 kg) at about 8:30pm (1930 GMT) on Monday, four hours after his birth, saying Kate and her child were doing well and would remain in hospital overnight. Prince William was with them.
Their son is third in line to the throne after Grandfather Prince Charles and father Prince William, 31, and pushes the fun-loving Prince Harry, William's brother, into fourth place.
Boost for Britain
Congratulations flooded in from all over the world after the announcement of the birth, which was followed moment-by-moment by the world media as well as the British press with the excitement seen as a boost for Britons facing economic austerity.
British tabloid newspaper The Sun temporarily renamed itself The Son in honour of the baby while the left-leaning Guardian newspaper provided readers of its website with a "Republican" button so that they could filter out the barrage of royal news if they wanted.
The birth fuels a new wave of popularity for the House of Windsor led by the younger royals, William and Harry, who were both born to the late Princess Diana at St. Mary's Hospital.
Support for the royals dipped after Diana's death in a car crash in Paris in 1997, a year after her divorce from Prince Charles, as the royals were accused of being out of touch with modern Britain in the way they handled the death of the popular princess.
But last year's celebrations of Queen Elizabeth's 60th year on the throne showed the affection with which she is held by most of the population despite a small Republican movement.
Hordes of TV crews and photographers, and royal fans wrapped in Union Jacks, remained camped outside the hospital overnight Monday, waiting for the first photo of the baby, who will be called the Prince of Cambridge.
Prince William and Kate, who met when they were students at St. Andrews University in Scotland about 10 years ago, have officially been known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge since their sumptuous royal wedding in April 2011.
Tourists in London were reveling in the celebrations that top a run of British sporting victories and an unusual heat wave.
"For me it's a wonderful, historic event. You spend a lot of time studying these things. To actually get to be here to witness one is tremendous," said George Boudreau, 48, a history professor from Philadelphia, outside Buckingham Palace.
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A Great Start to the Green Build Road Show!November 3, 2009
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Daniel Harris has been a Foreign Service Officer for over 25 years serving at posts in Europe, South America, Africa, and Washington, DC, most recently as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Operations, U.S. Commercial Service. He currently serves as the chief of the Commercial Section and the senior representative of the U.S. Department of Commerce in the U.S. Mission to France.
What a great start to a two-week Road Show! The U.S. Commercial Service has kicked off its "Green Build Road Show" on the 31st Floor of a Pittsburgh skyscraper. Thanks to the beautiful fall weather my colleagues and I have been treated to an expansive view over a city that has become famous for re-inventing itself from a gritty rust-belt town to a leader in green technology. We're here because the Commercial Service office in Pittsburgh has recruited an audience of 40 people from 35 companies plus four Pittsburgh associations to hear about the European sustainable construction sector.
Senior Commercial Officers from Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the Nordics presented market research that outlined market drivers, best prospects and key issues in each of these five big markets. Recognizing that regulatory requirements can scare off American companies, a Commercial Specialist from the U.S. Mission to the European Union outlined the EU system and explained how the Commercial Service can help companies navigate their products through the regulatory process.
Why bring such a high powered team across the Atlantic for two weeks to talk about green building? Because sustainable construction in Europe is one of the best growth markets to come along for years! With strong public support, EU governments have committed to ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions – even putting money behind this campaign in the form of tax credits, subsidies and other incentives. Changes in building codes, taxes on carbon and other measures will change behavior and building practices. American companies with competitive services, technologies and products are well-positioned to successfully export to this sophisticated market.
What I liked best about the day: Most of the companies we met were new to the Commercial Service, which is just what I'd hoped – we want to reach beyond our existing clients and describe the huge opportunities in Europe to green companies who have not yet tried exporting. I loved watching my CS colleagues bound up to the podium like race horses from the starting gate, happy to offer new opportunities and fresh perspectives on their markets. An added bonus for our audience was the presentation by Professor Volker Hartkopf, who wowed us with his hard-hitting analysis of energy use in the United States. The bad news is that we waste a huge amount of energy; the good news is that we can dramatically reduce energy consumption and expand renewables through technologies that already exist. We'll learn more about that on Tuesday when we visit his institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
It was a great start to a two-week trip that will take us to five cities and introduce us to dozens, maybe hundreds, of new clients in the green space. Stay tuned as we share insights along the way – or join us if we'll stop at a city near you, or perhaps at our final stop at the Green Build Conference and Expo in Phoenix. We hope we'll meet you along the way!


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Big thanks to SoSG fave, Aguilas de Zulia superfan Karina, for this update on Dodgers playing in the Venezuelan Winter League:
Bravos de Margarita, on their playoff roster, have Carlos Monasterios and Ronald Belisario, and they added Jay Gibbons for the postseason. Alberto Bastardo, Dodgers minor leaguer (I think he was with the Isotopes), also is a relief pitcher with that team. If the Bravos make it to the Finals, I'll think someone is mocking me! ;)
Hector Gimenez was playing with his team, the Tigres, against my Aguilas in Maracaibo on Sunday and Monday, but he was bad. His numbers in two games: 8 AB, 1 R, 2 H, 1 RBI, 5 K. My Aguilas just won the first two games of the playoffs! I'm so full of faith I can't believe myself ;)
Go Aguilas! Rancho Ardiendo on to victory!


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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers have defined a new class of software, calling it "surrogate interaction," which enables designers and video gamers to more easily change features of complex objects like automotive drawings or animated characters.
The new interactive approach is being used commercially and in research but until now has not been formally defined, and doing so could boost its development and number of applications, said Ji Soo Yi, an assistant professor of industrial engineering at Purdue University.
Conventional computer-aided design programs often rely on the use of numerous menus containing hundreds of selection options. The surrogate interaction uses a drawing that resembles the real object to provide users a more intuitive interface than menus.
The Purdue researchers have investigated the characteristics of surrogate interaction, explored potential ways to use it in design applications, developed software to test those uses and suggested the future directions of the research.
Surrogates are interactive graphical representations of real objects, such as a car or a video game character, with icons on the side labeling specific parts of the figure, said Niklas Elmqvist, a Purdue assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.
"If you click on one label, you change color, if you drag a border you change its width. Anything you do to the surrogate affects the actual objects you are working with," he said. "The way it is now, say I'm working on a car design and wanted to move the rear wheels slightly forward, or I want to change an object's color or thickness of specific parts. I can't make those changes to the drawing directly but have to search in menus and use arcane commands."
Several techniques have been developed over the years to address these issues.
"But they are all isolated and limited efforts with no coherent underlying principle," Elmqvist said. "We propose the notion of surrogate interaction to unify other techniques that have been developed. We believe that formalizing this family of interaction techniques will provide an additional and powerful interface design alternative, as well as uncover opportunities for future research."
The approach also allows video gamers to change attributes of animated characters.
"For computer games, especially role playing games, you may have a warrior character that has lots of different armor and equipment," Elmqvist said. "Usually you can't interact with the character itself. If you want to put in a new cloak or a sword you have to use this complex system of menus."
Research findings are detailed in a paper presented during the Association for Computing Machinery's CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems through May 12 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The research paper was written by industrial engineering doctoral student Bum chul Kwon, electrical and computer engineering doctoral student Waqas Javed, Elmqvist and Yi.
Kwon and Yi helped theorize the idea of surrogate interaction with relation to previous models of interaction.
The method also makes it possible to manipulate more than one object simultaneously.
"In computer strategy games you might be moving an army or maybe five infantry soldiers, and you want to take a building," Elmqvist said. "Using our technique you would let a surrogate, one soldier, represent all of the soldiers. Any commands you issue for the surrogate applies to all five soldiers."
Current video game technology lacks an easy-to-use method to issue such simultaneous commands to all members of a group.
The method also could be used to make maps interactive.
"In maps, usually you have a legend that says this color means forest and this symbol means railroad tracks and so on," Elmqvist said. "You can see these symbols in the map, but you can't interact with them. In the new approach, you have a surrogate of the map, and in this surrogate you can interact with these legends. For example, you could search for interstate highways, bridges, public parks."
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This graphic illustrates a drawing editor for a new class of software, named "surrogate interaction," a term coined by researchers at Purdue University. The approach enables designers and video gamers to more easily change features of complex objects like automotive drawings or animated characters in video games. (Purdue University image/Niklas Elmqvist)
A publication-quality photo is available at http://www.purdue.edu/uns/images/2011/elmqvistsurrogates.jpg
Abstract on the research in this release is available from: http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2011/110510ElmqvistSurrogates.html


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Oh yes he was! He listened to vinyl before you did. He drank whiskey before you and he even had a mustache before you did. Admit it: your dad was a hipster before you were!
Based on the blog phenomenon of the same name, this book celebrates dads as the original hipsters. Vintage photos of real dads back in the day-in their short shorts and tight tees playing arcade games-accompany snarky captions that at once tip a cap to Dad's glory days and poke fun at modern hipsters. Featuring tons of never-before-seen content, this is the perfect gift for dads, hipsters, and those who love to tease them!
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The 2012 slaying of Florida teen Trayvon Martin has been one of the most-explosive cases in recent history. With respective evidence mounting from both prosecutors and the lead attorney for former night watchman George Zimmerman, the defense is making a bold attempt to alter the image of Martin by linking him to a series of controversial images and texts.
RELATED: NewsOne's Coverage of Trayvon Martin Case
Lawyer Mark O'Mara appeared on Fox News Thursday afternoon to present new evidence depicting a more violent side of the teenager. Photos allegedly lifted from Martin's cell phone show a Black person's hand holding a firearm (pictured below), images of marijuana plants, and texts that suggest the teen was in a fight.
"If Trayvon Martin's propensity for violence becomes relevant, then I think the jury can consider the fact that he has several pictures of a gun," said O'Mara who wants the courts to consider the photograph as evidence.
Eric L. Welch Guster, managing attorney of the Guster Law Firm, spoke with NewsOne regarding the unfolding scenario. Guster says O'Mara's tactic is an expected salvo in a high-profile case such as this.
It is very common for defense attorneys to strike back via media before and during a trial. The prosecution has released its version of evidence in their case and the defense is doing the same. Unless the judge issues a gag order, the defense will continue to "put their case out there" for the public to view and I am sure it is their hope for potential jurors to see the information. They are aware that potential jurors have heard evidence via news reports in this case and they are working to offset the damage done by those reports.
They want to show that Trayvon has a propensity for violence. That is admissible in court because it can show how Trayvon typically would act in certain situations and show that Zimmerman may have acted in self-defense against someone who was typically known for violence. In self-defense cases this is a common theme "He/she was typically violent and was violent in this situation too, therefore I have to shoot/hurt/kill that person"
Unfortunately, Guster believes this move from O'Mara certainly helps the defense's case, because it may sway potential jurors and shatter the idea that Martin was an innocent high school student.
Watch the O'Mara interview here:
While Trayvon Martin allegedly wasn't perfect, much like any other 18-year-old, attempts have been made to slander him before. That doesn't discount the murky circumstances that led to his death, nor does it take Zimmerman off the hook for ignoring authorities and taking justice in to his own hands.
As this case continues to unveil itself further, it will be interesting to witness what evidence jurors will be presented with ahead of their deliberation.
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Republicans Grill Park Service Chief on Closures, As Debt Deadline Looms
Jarvis says decisions were not political.
Brought to Capitol Hill under subpoena, National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis on Wednesday defended his agency's near-total closures of 401 park sites during the government shutdown.
His testimony at a contentious House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing came as Congress was scrambling to reach a final deal on re-opening government and lifting the debt ceiling. .
Accused by Republicans of ignoring "common sense" in shutting down open-air parks and nearby access roads to maximize pain from the shutdown, Jarvis said his 24,000 employees -- all but 3,000 of whom are furloughed -- had no choice but to use a skeletal staff to protect Park Service properties under the Anti-Deficiency Act as interpreted following the Sept. 27 shutdown guidance from the Office of Management and Budget.
He said he has only nine employees currently on duty at the Park Service's national office, which is the reason he declined the committee's invitation to testify voluntarily. It took time, he said, for his staff to decide which sites could be reopened before the shutdown ended.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the oversight committee, convened the hearing by asking why American veterans and tourists were being turned away from such national parks as the Grand Canyon and the World War II Memorial on the National Mall. "Why are access roads being closed to traffic, why are local businesses being hurt?" he asked.
"These are punitive measures taken at no savings to the American people," Issa said. "We should never [allow] all of the Park Service to be subjected to political influence. The Park Service under your leadership has performed less well than the one we had" during the previous government shutdown in the mid-1990s.
The closure policies are "arbitrary, inconsistent and ever-changing," added Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee. "They are motivated by a desire to make the shutdown as painful as possible and to squash the ensuing bad public relations. The actions of the Obama administration have sullied our great national parks system."
After delivering a letter to the Park Service protesting its policies partially reopening some parks, Republican leaders brought in witnesses from impacted local governments, park sites and the tourist industry to dramatize the losses due to the shutdown.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., ranking member of the committee, blasted the hearing as a distraction on the day when most eyes in Washington are on the unfolding final negotiations to end the shutdown and avoid exhausting the United States' borrowing authority. "What in the world are we doing here?" he demanded. "If my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are truly concerned about the shutdown, allow us to end it. Stop this madness today. Let us bring the clean Senate bill to the House floor, and let us pass it."
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., called the hearing "at best, nonsensical" and "political theater." Holding up a mirror directed at Republicans, he blamed the shutdown on their "ineptitude and intransigence," and asked: "When you decided to shut down government two weeks ago, did you forget that the NPS is part of federal government?"
Jarvis said, "It pains us not to be able to invite the American people into their national parks," noting that national parks draw 282 million visitors annually -- including 700,000 per day in the month of October -- while generating $76 million per day for the national economy. He said his employees are aware that veterans groups who travel to such sites as the World War II Memorial are making a "pilgrimage that may be their last."
But he disagreed with assertions that the current approach to mounting barricades and closing access roads is different from what occurred during the 1995-96 shutdown. Protections are needed to maintain surveillance and secure firefighting service because his normal staff of 300 on the Mall is reduced to 12, he said. "Monuments don't take care of themselves, they need people to clean restrooms and pick up trash and be the eyes and ears of the Park Police," he said.
First Amendment protections, due to long-standing statutes, allow groups with 25 or fewer members to enter monuments without a permit, he said in explaining some apparent exceptions.
Acknowledging that Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Oct. 10 opened discussions with some states to allow them to pay to reopen parks, he called those "practical and temporary solutions that will ease the pains for some."
The Park Service was criticized by Anna Eberly, managing director of the privately operated Claude Moore Colonial Farm, in McLean, Va., which sits on federal property and receives $100,000 annually from the Park Service for services. "We were closed, then allowed to reopen on Wednesday, but we still don't know why. Why can't someone admit their mistake?" she said. "The Park Service stabs us in the back at every opportunity."
Denis Galvin, a board member of the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association and former deputy director of the Park Service, defended Jarvis' approach and called the shutdown itself the bigger failure. "Shutdown plans are by force of circumstances hastily prepared, and people hope they won't be used," he said. "With 401 sites, some across the international dateline, it's not possible to cover every eventuality."
Issa ended the hearing by announcing further subpoenas for Jarvis for documents that Issa thinks are being withheld to cover poor performance. "Whose land are the parks?" he asked. "The people's or the government's?"
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It's long been clear that Linux users are more than a little unhappy with the "Secure Boot" technology implemented by default in Windows 8 hardware, but in Spain, one group has decided to do more than simply try to work around it.
Specifically, on Tuesday Linux group Hispalinux filed a 14-page complaint with the Madrid office of the European Commission, calling Secure Boot an "obstruction mechanism," according to Reuters.
Earlier this month, European Union antitrust officials fined Microsoft $731 million for failing to live up to a 2009 settlement that requires it to offer Windows users a choice of alternate browsers.
Controversial solutions
Originally discovered by Red Hat developer Matthew Garrett in late 2011, the Secure Boot problem for Linux users arises from the fact that Windows 8 hardware comes with Secure Boot enabled in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), meaning that only operating systems with an appropriate digital signature will be able to boot.
Microsoft maintains that the technology was implemented in the name of improved security.
Since then, however, the topic has been the focus of much urgent work among the various Linux distributions as well the Linux Foundation, all in an effort to create workarounds allowing Linux to boot on Windows 8 hardware. The Free Software Foundation and Linux creator Linus Torvalds himself have also weighed in with their own opinions on the matter.
Fedora's solution to the problem has been to get its first stage boot loader, or "shim," signed with a Microsoft key, causing considerable controversy among Linux users.
'Irreparable damage'
Now, with this new complaint from Hispalinux, which reportedly represents some 8,000 users and developers of the free and open source operating system in Spain, Microsoft faces yet another probe for what the group says are anticompetitive practices that place a "technical barrier" before consumers and cause "irreparable damage" to the European software industry.
I reached out for confirmation and further insight to Antoine Colombani, a spokesman for competition and for Vice President Joaquín Almunia within the European Commission, but he declined to comment. I'm still waiting to hear back from Microsoft, but will post an update if and when that happens.


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Tismana Monastery
Tismana Monastery, dubbed "the Star of Orthodoxy", is located near the city of Târgu Jiu. Founded in the 14th century, it is one of the oldest, the most important, and the most beautiful monasteries in Romania. The architecture is in the Byzantine style combined with Romanian elements indicating the existence in this place of a Dacian-Roman fortress in earlier times. The actual church of the monastery is built directly on rock. Tismana had an extraordinary treasure, now lost because of the numerous hardships that came over the monastery over time.Read More


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Home Page Chess Life Online 2009 May Five Lead in Saint Louis
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GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Josh Friedel, Gata Kamsky, Yury Shulman and Varuzhan Akobian are all tied for the lead in the 2009 U.S. Championship with 3/4. The event, held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis runs from May 7 to May 17.
Akobian won a very nice game against GM Julio Becerra, which you'll find out more about in the round four video recap with me and Macauley Peterson.
But the fight of the round was GM Josh Friedel's tough defense against GM Gata Kamsky. Despite coming out of the opening with a big disadvantage, Josh held on and found some nice simplifying tactics in the endgame like Kc5 and Ne1. Even GM Alexander Onischuk, watching from the VIP room, called Josh's technique top-notch, which IM Sam Shankland pointed out, "means a lot coming from Onischuk."
This is Josh's fourth straight marathon game. Tomorrow he plays defending champion GM Yury Shulman with white. In round five, we will also see the much awaited match-up on board one- Nakamura vs. Kamsky. Check out the round five pairings here. Click here to Download pgn for all games from round 4. All games available for replay within the Monroi viewer on the Live Coverage page.
Shulman and Nakamura was also a hard-fought draw, with Shulman achieving a fine opening but losing a pawn and then struggling for the half point.
The young players also continue to impress. Hess drew against Onischuk with Black, while Sam Shankland prevailed over IM Enrico Sevillano and Ray Robson beat Ildar Ibragimov.


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A new biography of Benjamin Britten has suggested that tertiary syphilis may have contributed to his death.
The British composer died in 1976 of aortic incompetence – a condition in which blood leaks through a valve in the heart causing it to become gradually weaker – but, says Paul Kildea, the author of Benjamin Britten: A Life in the 20th Century, it was the presence of syphilis that prevented Britten from being successfully treated for the condition.
'Syphilis did not kill him,' Kildea has told The Guardian, 'but it meant that his heart was not in the condition required to recover completely from the procedure he underwent and from which his consultant expected him to make a full recovery.'
If indeed Britten did have the disease, it is not entirely surprising that it was kept secret at the time of his death – given the stigma attached to syphilis, those close to the composer would have seen little value in making it widely known. Kildea, though, speculates that Britten probably caught it from his lover Peter Pears, who was believed to have played the field widely during their relationship.
With no post-mortem having been carried out, and most of those who knew Britten well now either deceased or choosing to remain silent, Kildea's theory is unlikely ever to be proved or disproved. However, if true, he joins a not inconsiderable list of leading composers to have suffered from the disease, including Schubert, Schumann, Delius and Scott Joplin.
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Got a friend who thinks most people are jerks? It is probably no surprise that he is not the nicest person in other contexts, either. But the way you view others may reveal much more about your character than you think, according to a study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Researchers at Wake Forest University, the University of Nebraska and Washington University in St. Louis found that college students who were more inclined to rate their peers positively—as being trustworthy, nice and emotionally stable—reported greater life satisfaction, less depression, and better grades and test scores. In general, women were more likely to rate others positively than men, although the study did not examine why. And a survey of the volunteers' classmates showed that people who rated others positively were more likely to be well regarded by their peers and to be judged as being agreeable, conscientious and emotionally stable.
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First Official Description of GDrive
The product category for GDrive is "online file backup and storage" and there are two lines that describe the application:
"GDrive provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents. GDrive allows you to access your files from anywhere, anytime, and from any device - be it from your desktop, web browser or cellular phone."
If the description is accurate, we can conclude that GDrive will provide a software that could be included in Google Pack, you'll be able to store any kind of files and you'll be able to access them from your mobile phone.
{ Thanks, Brian. }
69 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 12:44 AM
When ??? :-)ReplyDelete
Live Mesh is good, but I hope GDrive will be better !ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 12:49 AM
It will be never better as Dropbox!!!ReplyDelete
I hope Google than acquire Dropbox, that guys dont be upset. Anyway I hope GDrive will be as good as Dropbox is and with bigger Space =)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 1:43 AM
If you can't wait till it launches.....use Live Mesh....www.mesh.comReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 1:53 AM
Dropbox's dead folks. They just don't know it yet. GDrive will kill them all.ReplyDelete
I First Time hear about Live Mesh and went to see what is that.ReplyDelete
5GB is advantage (over 2GB of DropBox)
But No Linux support is disadvantage for me!
Maybe there more +'s, but for now I'm very happy with DropBox.
(In reality I just don't like MS products =))
I think that GDrive will resolve the problem of the attachments in Offline Gmail and it will couple it's space with your Gmail and Picasa. I also doubt they will have a Linux client.ReplyDelete
And this has been translated into many different languages already:ReplyDelete
"Brain Ussery noticed an interesting reference..."ReplyDelete
Do you mean "Brian"?
I wonder if there will be a proper backup client which monitors your selected files and upload them to gdrive automatically if they change.ReplyDelete
Maybe it is just me, but I feel a bit uncomfortable about storing my data on Google's servers, they do not have a great reputation when it comes to privacy.ReplyDelete
Microsoft's Live Mesh is a bit of a rubbish product, the p2p synchronization is nice but the user interface is horrible.
I prefer Syncplicity for my data synchronization and I don't think I will ever switch to GDrive.
I guess the GDrive will be made available only with Google Pack. What would be great is sharing the GDrive content via bittorrent. Remember AllPeers?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 3:56 AM
Live Mesh with its 5 piddly gigabytes is a stinking joke. Hope Google comes into play soon because their offerings are very much in tune with what is actually useful.ReplyDelete
@Johan. Syncplicity, or Mozy, or Backblaze and others are nice, until you seeReplyDelete
(1) The pricing of most when you go beyond 100 GB -- and show me one person who has data smaller than that today. With my music and other multimedia content I'm close to 250 GB already. And growing.
(2) The fact that they only support Windows. There are a couple of trial tools for Mac, which leave a whole lot to be desired.
(3) Most importantly, the speed of syncing is horrid. Mozy for instance throttles at 1mbps, even for "Mozy Pro" users! So those of us who live in countries with proper broadband networks still have to wait forever. Try syncing 100GB at 1mbps. Get used to messages like "469 days remaining...".
We're far from a decent offering. I hope GDrive brings some sanity to this space. Backing up data online is absolutely vital in this day and age.
(And what do people mean by "Google's record with privacy is not good"? Proof please.)
this is exciting news indeed. i hope this service gets integrated with google apps as well.ReplyDelete
Very exciting. I heard somewhere that GDrive users will have access to a more advanced version of Google Docs. Has anyone heard about this? I use Docs a lot, and follow their blog/updates, there hasn't been any updates since Dec. 18th, and blog posts have not been software related. So it kind of (and I'm hoping) seems like the team may be working on something major.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 6:58 AM
Why do you get so excited about things that are designed to strip you of your privacy?ReplyDelete
Are you posting as agents of the company to boost public sentiment for this service?
I'm not an agent of the company, I'm an educator working at a university in eastern Canada. Google is a great company, they release excellent products that are often free or low cost and provide great educational discounts.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 8:20 AM
GDrive is almost 100% similar to Dropbox. Also, GDrive already HAS an installer for Linux, unlike what someone else suggested. They will likely release the Windows version first, for testing, and roll out the Mac and Linux versions later... but it already exists and has existed for years.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 8:47 AM
dropbox (http://www.getdropbox.com) vs. gdrive will be interesting to see....ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 9:15 AM
Would you like your irreplacebale photos, videos, and docs in a beta product from Google? Hmm... gmail went out oodles of times over the past few years. And they have started killing off products. They started with unlimited email storage and then backed away (Yahoo now claims unlimited storage).ReplyDelete
No thanks.
Google GDrive doesnt get an FAIL for fail, but a G for GIGANTIC FAIL.
(oh don't let the little thing called Live Mesh or AWS get in the way of reality.)
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 9:40 AM
More proof here:ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 10:31 AM
It's one API hack away from a remote bittorrent client.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 10:45 AM
I need a firefox extension that keeps me from seeing any comment containing "fail" in all caps.ReplyDelete
With Olipo, I store ALL my files on my GMail, transparently, and it's about 7 GB, as fast as Google can do. I also use Olipo to agregate all my files on the cloud to me (Picasa and Flickr, RSS podcasts, Google Docs...) Just perfect for me. http://olipo.net (click go and choose the GDrive plugin)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM
This reminds me of xDrive from AOL which is now Closed :) , if this would be done about 5years ago it would be super sweet!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Alex I already translated this file in Italian, Bosnian, Slovenian and Russian :)ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Well see... Before ANYONE uses it I would first recommend you read the Terms of Service and Privacy agreement.ReplyDelete
So Google might integrate Google Docs and Picasa Web Albums.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 4:22 PM
You know what? Before any of you post further, I would suggest some intensive English grammar and capitalization courses. Seriously, this thread is appalling to read.ReplyDelete
I found this quite interesting:ReplyDelete
@Steïn - If it's anything like Picasa or Chrome, they'll have a Linux client... eventually, and promise a Mac client for years and yearsReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 9:25 PM
When will this officially be launched? Seems like google is going to give a good fight for Live, Mesh services.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Mozy throttling your speeds?ReplyDelete
We do not place any restrictions on the speed or bandwidth. Check:
- Your Internet Service Provider
- Whether a firewall is restricting your speeds on your home gateway router/modem
If you are unable to resolve your problems, please contact your Mozy Support.
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2009 at 4:48 AM
check out evernoteReplyDelete
i use idrive its awesome 2 gs then send enmial invites and get 10 more for freeReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2009 at 5:51 AM
WOW. That is amazing. However the downside is when your out and about without an internet connection (So no wifi) then what? You have a unit that essentially will be like a laptop just without a drive on it. But your real hard drive is on the G drive. Your kinda screwed don't you think? Overall great concept but unless wifi is more commercially available than now, then the products is good for at home use only :(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2009 at 7:13 AM
Can you use GDrive if you already have a G drive?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2009 at 7:15 AM
Its likely this will be free / no charge, fantasticReplyDelete
I can't say enough good things about Dropbox (getdropbox.com).ReplyDelete
It will be difficult in my opinion for Google to compete with Dropbox.
Google should just purchase Dropbox and use their interface.
My 2 cents.
- AnonymousFebruary 1, 2009 at 5:32 AM
hmmm.... i'd like to keep on it back-ups of all my music - 2,2 Tb of flac files... wonder if would be possible (extra payment, of course) Amazon S3 is pretty expensive (2 Tb costs somewhere around 150 bucks/month..)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 1, 2009 at 6:02 AM
adrive.com offering 50G free space.ReplyDelete
for me, dropbox is the way to go, but let's see what will happen if...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 1, 2009 at 8:04 PM
I just got a Zumo Drive account...pretty cool...it resides a the "Z" drive on each of the computers I use..only 1G is 'free' though...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 1, 2009 at 10:07 PM
text is gone... so probably just a mistake. Doubtable that Google will release such a service months after Microsoft offers 25 GB for free incl. public sharing access.ReplyDelete
Probably just some press stuff or some employee who did do a mistake...
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2009 at 2:01 AM
Everybody waiting for it but i think Google was too late for this service. I hope it will be the best one.ReplyDelete
Hi all. Just to let you know, I work for www.nomadesk.com. We offer easy and secure file sharing, wherever you are. Being online is not required. I read this post on Google's GDrive with great interest and just wanted to add NomaDesk to the mix in this discussion.ReplyDelete
NomaDesk has already been on the market for some time, and we offer similar features geared specifically towards the need of the "digital nomad". We are convinced that the more data gets synchronized, the more likely it gets compromised. Therefore, NomaDesk includes an encrypted virtual drive that keeps your files securely available off-line and remote file shredding and IP-tracking with TheftGuard. Of course, we impose no limits on storage and bandwidth. A Mac version is on its way.
I would appreciate your review.
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2009 at 9:48 AM
Hi there,ReplyDelete
I have GDrive on my machine but in fact, all saved files on GDrive are redirected to my Gmail mail and if I use a pop client, the files go to out from the cloud... Is it normal?
Edu Godinho
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2009 at 12:30 PM
GDrive sounds very interesting. In the meantime, I would like to mention another useful way to back up your most important files. SpiderOak provides an easy, secure and consolidated online backup, storage, access, sharing & sync tool for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Ubuntu & Debian). If any of you get a chance, definitely worth trying out. 2GBs are free to start.
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2009 at 2:57 PM
What's the difference of the Live Mesh and SkyDrive?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 3, 2009 at 5:11 AM
GDrive on my MacOS crushes ... I couldn't find out any help anywhere. It crushes immediatelly during login...ReplyDelete
Is there any experience in regards it?
I tried with GSpace on Firefox for Mac, but either for a few hours I can't login...
- AnonymousFebruary 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM
All your data are belong to usReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 27, 2009 at 7:42 AM
Please take a look at http://www.FilesAnywhere.comReplyDelete
This cloud storage service exists TODAY. It is the perfect way to store, use and share files from anywhere. FilesAnywhere has features for all types of users, from individuals to small workgroups and larger corporate teams.
You can get a no-charge account immediately and try the "next big thing" right now!
- AnonymousMarch 4, 2009 at 7:09 AM
If you are in Sweden and a Mac fan :)ReplyDelete
Or... http://www.storgate.se
should be launched before i die...... ;-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 11, 2009 at 4:26 AM
ZOMG stoooorage lolReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM
When is this going to arrive!ReplyDelete
I need it now, I like Dropbox but I would much rather have an abundance of space rather than a lack of it. Of course I need it for free as well.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 11, 2009 at 12:55 PM
how about unlimited online storage from www.binfire.comReplyDelete
http://www.binfire.com also has collaboration tools like group permissions, file history and file lock tools.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2009 at 8:57 AM
www.willemijns.com/backup.htm list all gdrive competitorsReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 23, 2009 at 1:12 PM
I would like something really similar to ZumoDrive, which is awesome! ZumoDrive is like a pendrive and this makes all the difference. You don't need to upload a file. It would be better still if it worked like a mirror: save the file in your PC C:drive and in the Z:drive simultaneously.This would be perfect!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Welcome to the Borg.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM
- AnonymousDecember 9, 2009 at 6:47 AM
People have been spouting "GDrive is coming SOOOOOON!!!!" since 2006. Don't hold your breath, folks.ReplyDelete
The curiosity is killing me. I need a direct link into the google-brain. In fact, I want to be on the gdrive engineering team so I can expedite this.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2010 at 6:59 PM
Small developers are already creating sites that surpass google's overly ambitious projects. They are making things way too complex, most people just need to store a minimal amount of files online so that they can access them from school and work computers...ReplyDelete
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- EZ2 Result May 10, 2023 – Official 2D Lotto
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Digit Games Draw
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- 3D Lotto – Monday to Sunday at 2PM, 5PM and 9PM
- 4D Lotto – Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9PM
- 6D Lotto – Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 9PM
Small Town Lotter (STL)
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Mindanao STL Pares, Swer3 & Swer2, Swer4 – Monday to Sunday at 10:30AM, 3PM and 8PM.
PCSO Reminders
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Minors are strictly prohibited to play any of the PCSO games. Only eighteen (18) years old and above are allowed to play.
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PCSO is a government-owned entity tasked to do fundraising to provide funds for health programs, medical assistance, and charities.
This game show aired on the Philippine Television Network (PTV) for fixed-prized lottery and sweepstakes games. There are also plans to make PCSO games online to gain more bettors resulting in bigger funds.
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The Next #LovingtheBike Generation
I'm sure I'm not alone in hoping that the next generation continues to work towards better harmony between cyclists and drivers, and that people continue to love riding bikes.
I'm not the biggest bicycle advocate out there, but I try my best to promote cycling as a way of life and how riding a bike can lead to a greater and more fulfilled life. Today I want to celebrate the next generation of cyclists and give away a very tiny version of our Loving the Bike jersey.
This past summer we did a run of jerseys and kits and now have several cyclists around the world proudly sporting our brand as they ride through their hometown. These kits were designed by our very own, Stevie, and they look amazing. The folks over at Champion Systems took the design and created one hot kit….and I swear that it makes me windproof when out riding in it. Probably bulletproof as well.
Both of my boys have one of these, and now I'd like to give away a jersey to someone else who has an up and coming cyclist…or who knows of a child out there who would look great wearing one of these.
I only have one extra to give away, so unfortunately the size of the jersey is limited. The dimensions are as follows, and likely suitable for someone around 3 years old (give or take a few months).
Enter to Win:
The contest is now closed. Congratulations to Tom who receives a cute little Loving the Bike jersey for the young cyclist in his life. Thanks to all of you who entered. Oh, and thanks to those of you who added the great pictures as well….we need all those kids in Loving the Bike kits. Watch for another order run in the Spring.
All you have to do to enter is leave a comment telling us about your little cyclist and why they are deserving of this Loving the Bike jersey.
Social Media Bonus:
Receive one bonus entry by posting the following on your social media networks (maximum of 4 entries if you leave a comment and do all of the following):
Twitter – "I just entered to win a hot looking kid's #LovingtheBike jersey: http://wp.me/p1oH5M-2PW"
Facebook – "I just entered to win a kid sized Loving the Bike jersey and want to tell the Facebook world all about it: http://wp.me/p1oH5M-2PW"
Google+ – "I just entered to win a kid sized Loving the Bike jersey and want to tell the G+ world all about it: http://wp.me/p1oH5M-2PW"
Contest closes on Monday at Noon EST and we'll select a winner soon after.
We currently don't have any more kids or adult size jerseys and kits available, but if we have enough interest in them we can always do another run. Contact me if you're interested.


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Last year I waited by my computer for "Cyber Monday," to order big discounts online, but not this year. This year is Small Business Saturday, and I shall go out to my favorite local businesses and buy a thing or two.
Not all of my favorite small businesses are for everyday shopping; so I'm letting my readers know about local, small businesses I recommend that you may not be aware of.
I have a moderate to severe hearing loss in both ears. In early 2009 I was fitted for a hearing aid by Audiologist Sarah Carey at The Hearing Center in Bishop Ranch 11. Sarah was able to locate one demo and one reconditioned Starkey 1200 behind the ear hearing aids at 1/3 the regular price. She spent a lot of time with me adjusting and tuning the aids without any additional charge. I highly recommend Sarah Carey for any hearing instrument, in the ear or behind the ear. She will get you the best deal possible and gives excellent service (925) 830-5094. Tell her Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer, sent you.
I need bifocals now and I have two different eye glass prescriptions, one for computer work and one for distance. A few years ago I bought glasses at Sears Optical, which is run by Lens Crafters. This year I went to Eyelab Factory Outlet in San Ramon (925) 837-3111. It sounds like a chain, but it is locally owned. It is more expensive than Lens Crafters but you get more personalized attention and the frames are better quality.
Eyelab also makes custom clip-on sun blockers. These are not the usual cheap flip-ups. They are cut to fit over your glasses and clip on to look attractive. They come regular or polarized to cut glare. They would make a nice Christmas present for any eye-glass wearer. Tell the owner you read about it in the San Ramon Observer blog in the San Ramon Express.
Around the corner from Eyelab, which is in the Safeway Shopping Center on San Ramon Valley Blvd, is Levy's Bagels. I'm not a fan of bagels. Bagels have become the Jewish ethnic food-de-jour, but Levy's isn't just for bagels. It's really a Jewish deli.
It's the best and only authentic East-Coast style Jewish deli I've found in the Tri-Valley. They not only make and sell bagels, which are pretty good for hard, crusty, doughy donuts (I was never fond of bagels in case you can't tell). They make and sell traditional Jewish deli sandwiches on bagels or better yet on corn bread.
Corn bread? How can they make a sandwich on cakey, yellow, corn bread, you ask? No it's not the Marie Calendar's kind of corn bread. It's Jewish Corn Bread which doesn't have any corn in it. I don't know where the name came from, but it is really a dark, chewy rye bread. When I was a kid I would cut the heel off a fresh loaf and chew it for ten minutes. I have not found authentic Jewish Corn Rye bread anywhere else in this region, and here it is at Levy's in San Ramon, right across the driveway from the new BevMo.
It's hard to find a service business that's still small or locally owned. That's why when I need an electrician I call McGuire Electric, (925) 829-1190. McGuire Electric is Michael McGuire. He lives down the street from me in South San Ramon, but he travels all over the County for jobs. He installed my tankless electric water heaters, not once but several times, until I found a reliable model that didn't leak or burn out. I need outside lights installed on the South side of my house. I shall probably buy them from OSH or Lowes (not small businesses), but I'll call Michael to install them.
Auto shops are usually small local businesses. I take my Maverick to Ray's Dublin Auto . Yup that's in Dublin. I like to shop in Dublin over Danville or even the auto shops in the North end of San Ramon, because it's easier for me in South San Ramon to get to places in Dublin, and they are usually less expensive. Ray knows how to keep my 1973 Ford Maverick Grabber running at peak performance.
Another Dublin small business I love is Denica's Pastry Café . This is on Dougherty Road near Dublin Blvd. They have the best pumpkin muffins and oatmeal walnut raisin cookies. They also serve breakfast and lunch in the bakery side and lunch and dinner in the adjacent Taco Lounge. The business is located in Dublin, but the owners, Denica and James Freitas, live in San Ramon. They are the nicest, most hardworking family you could ever meet. Please visit Denica's and tell her Roz Rogoff, the San Ramon Observer sent you.
Another small business that's not in San Ramon but is local is McHale's Insulation . That's all they do is insulation. They insulated my attic in 1999, and last year came back to top up the insulation as part of the warranty. Can you believe that?
Tom McHale sold the business two years ago but still works for it as an estimator. He came over earlier this year to give me an estimate on insulating the floor under my house. What a nice guy, even my cats like him. The crew did the job in October and I can tell the difference it made in cutting down how often my furnace goes on. I should have had this done years ago.
Last but not least are the pet stores and vets. ABC Vet Clinic in the North end of San Ramon provides low cost spay and neutering for Safe-Cat and other animal rescue groups. Dr. Raj is the sole vet there, in contrast to the expanded staff at Bishop Ranch Veterinary Center & Urgent Care. Their Pet Care Depot is the only independent pet store left in San Ramon now that Nicia's Pet Depot has closed.
One more small business I'd like to point out is the San Ramon Express. This online news source is part of the Embarcadero Publishing Company in Palo Alto. The Palo Alto Weekly has been around since 1979. The East Bay side of Embarcadero Publishing began 10 years ago with the Pleasanton Weekly and expanded into Danville and now San Ramon and Dublin.
I'm not in advertising sales, but if anyone reading this has a small business who wants to advertise locally, this is the place. The other local online newspaper is owned by American Online (not a small business), and the paper newspaper with the local name is part of Media News Group, which by their own description is "one of the largest newspaper companies in the United States."
If you want to keep your business local and accessible, Embarcadero Publishing has a Shop San Ramon website where you can start a FREE local webpage. Check it out. I may take them up on it for my writing and training business. So stay local, stay small, and shop Small Business Saturday and every day.


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Case study
Swati Balai
Swati is a 25-year-old tribal woman who lives in the urban slums of Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India with her maternal family. Swati was widowed at just 21 years old, when her husband fell into a well and died. He left behind three young children – a boy (currently aged ten), and two girls (now seven and five years). Soon after Swati's husband's death, she moved back to her parents' home because her in-laws were not supportive of her: 'you know how in-laws are. They didn't want me to stay with them. So, I had to come here.' Swati now lives in an extended family with her three children, parents (aged 60 and 50), brothers (aged 23 and 18), sister (aged 30, who is also widowed) and her sister's three children.
Swati, who has no schooling, works informally as a construction worker during the monsoons (15 minutes' walk from home) and as a brick kiln worker for eight months of the year. She works for 8–12 hours per day. As a brick kiln worker, she migrates to the brick kiln site with her three children, along with one of her brothers, her sister, and sister's children. She migrates to each temporary site as it is set-up, all within the same city. At the young age of 25, she is already an experienced brick kiln worker, having started work in the brick kilns at just eight years old. Swati has now been a brick kiln worker for most of her life (17 years).
Swati finds that life working in the brick kiln is filled with drudgery: 'there is pain in my hands and feet because I have to climb many times. I go crazy.' Even so, Swati finds the facilities available at the brick kiln site are better than the conditions at her maternal home, particularly as there is running water at the site of the kilns. When she is at work at the kilns, the children, 'spend their time playing near the work site.' Swati also values the work that she does as it enables her to contribute to the household – she buys the essential commodities such as wheat flour, pulses, vegetables, spices, etc.
When Swati is home from the brick kilns, the division of labour in the household is as follows: her father stays at home and looks after all the children, her mother works at a paid kitchen, Swati does construction work, her brother works on a vehicle, and her younger sister (when she is not also working at the brick kiln) brings in the firewood. Swati helps with the housework when she gets back from her construction work. She cooks, washes clothes, looks after the children and fetches water. The biggest issue Swati faces is the difficulty with accessing water and sanitation facilities at her home, as public services are very sporadic: 'we are fed up with running around for water.' She has to walk 3km daily just to collect water. Swati's ten-year-old son and her sister's children are recruited into collecting water too. Swati's mother also helps with the collection of water, and her father helps with washing the children's clothes and with looking after the children. Most of Swati's support comes from her family, rather than the wider community.
Swati's migratory status as a brick kiln worker has a big impact on her children, as they do not attend school when they migrate with her to the brick kilns. Even when she is back in her maternal home, none of Swati's three children attend school, as the school is 'very far' (3km away). Moreover Swati says, 'on the way to school, there is a drain which overflows and it is difficult for children to cross it.' She sees educating her children as an impossible choice: 'there can be only one thing, either I go to my work or they go to school.'
Swati's life has been determined by the loss of her husband. She says of herself and her sister (who lost her husband to a snake bite several months ago):
Now we both are widows. We have no facilities. Neither me nor my sister received any compensation [a payment to widows] of Rs 10,000. Government has not paid us even a single penny… Even our children have not received any facility from government… I do my work to bring up my children.
'Once your husband is no more, no one cares for you', Swati says.


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Here in the Carolina Lowcountry, there are few things lower in the esteem of American citizens than the United Nations.
While filling the tank of my SUV this morning, I noted the following about the pickup truck at the pump ahead of me: a South Carolina license plate, a U.S. Marine Corps decal, a National Rifle Association decal, a gun rack in the rear window, a sticker reading "Armed Infidel" and another that said "Get US Out of the UN" on it. The owner, it turned out, was a medical doctor on his way to visit a patient. Apparently, down here, doctors still make house calls. Our brief conversation went something like this:
Doctor: "You're Col. North, aren't you?
Me: "I'd better be. I'm using his credit card."
Doctor: "That's a pretty Boykin spaniel you have there. Do you hunt her?"
Me: "Every chance I get."
Doctor: "You're on the NRA board, aren't you?"
Me: "Yes. I see you're a member. Were you in the Marines?"
Doctor: "No, my son is. He just got back from Afghanistan. I'm really proud of him, but I want him to get out and finish college before Obama sells us out to the U.N. They're out to take away our Second Amendment rights. This isn't about 'gun rights.' Guns don't have rights. We do. 'We the People' have rights — and one of 'em is the right to keep and bear arms. That's why I belong to the NRA and why we ought to get out of the U.N."
We parted so he could get to his patient. In the car, I turned on the radio to hear the mellifluous voice of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan — now the U.N.'s "special emissary" — announcing in Geneva yet another "peace plan" for Syria. He claims to have had "productive discussions" in Damascus with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad on a "transition plan" and says that the U.N. Security Council must now "send a message to all that there will be consequences for noncompliance."
Annan's announcement prompted a scurry of diplomats and "experts" rushing to microphones in New York, Washington, London, Paris and Moscow — all expounding on this "new initiative." Meanwhile, the killing in Syria continues. Opposition groups and human rights organizations now estimate that more than 17,000 have been killed in the 15-month uprising against the Assad regime.
The continuing catastrophe for the people of Syria isn't likely to end any time soon. At the instigation of Annan's "working group," two separate Syrian opposition delegations went to Moscow this week, seeking concessions from the Kremlin on Russia's backing for Assad. After meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, they left empty-handed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is committed to retaining Russia's naval base at Tartus, Syria. Moscow's toehold in the Mediterranean Sea depends on Assad's remaining in power. That's why Russia will continue to use its veto power as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council to block any serious sanctions against the Assad regime.
The Syrian civil war is increasingly deadly — and a vivid reminder of what happens when the fate of a nation is placed in the hands of dithering diplomats at the United Nations. Everyone ought to know by now that U.N. bluster about serious "consequences for noncompliance" and utopian talk about a "transitional government in Damascus" are futile. And that's in keeping with the U.N. track record on everything from stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them to the disaster in Somalia.
These failures go beyond the intransigence of Beijing and Moscow. They also point to the naivete, incompetence and corruption in the "world body," as the U.N. bills itself.
It was Annan who promised to "clean up" the U.N. after Fox News exposed rampant fraud and bribery in the so-called oil-for-food program, which helped prop up Saddam Hussein's brutal regime in Baghdad. Apparently, he missed some. Two months ago, Fox News reported that the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization shipped sophisticated computer technology to North Korea in violation of U.N.-imposed sanctions.
Now it's apparent that more high-tech computers were shipped by WIPO to Iran. Adding insult to injury, the banned shipments were financed by the United Nations Development Programme — which gets most of its support from U.S. taxpayers.
Last year, the U.S. forked over more than $8 billion to the U.N. — about 25 percent of the organization's budget. Apparently, that's not enough. This week, the U.N. told its 193 member countries that "donor nations" will have to increase their "contributions," and it has suggested "voluntary taxes" on carbon emissions, billionaires and currency transactions.
No wonder the doctor who admired my dog wants us to get out of the U.N. Maybe we should start by moving the U.N. out of the U.S. How about Mogadishu?


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WEST MANSFIELD, Ohio – Concessions by farmers in this state to sharply restrict the close confinement of hens, hogs and veal calves are the latest sign that so-called factory farming – a staple of modern agriculture that is seen by critics as inhumane and a threat to the environment and health – is on the verge of significant change.
A recent agreement between farmers and animal rights activists here is a rare compromise in the bitter and growing debate over large-scale, intensive methods of producing eggs and meat, and may well push farmers in other states to give ground, experts say. The rising consumer preference for more natural and local products and concerns about pollution and antibiotic use in giant livestock operations are also driving change.
The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015. In another sign of the growing clout of the animal welfare movement, a law passed in California this year will also ban imports from other states of eggs produced in crowded cages. Similar limits were approved last year in Michigan and less sweeping restrictions have been adopted in Florida, Arizona and other states.
Hoping to avoid a divisive November referendum that some farmers feared they would lose, Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio urged farm leaders to negotiate with opponents, led by the Humane Society of the United States. After secret negotiations, the sides agreed to bar new construction of egg farms that pack birds in cages and to phase out the tight caging of pregnant sows within 15 years and of veal calves by 2017.
Farmers in Ohio have accepted the agreement with chagrin, saying they sense that they must bend with the political and cultural winds.
Tim Weaver, whose grandparents started selling eggs in the early 20th century, is proud of his state-of-the art facilities, where 4 million birds produce more than 3 million eggs a day. In just one typical barn here at his Heartland Quality Egg Farm, 268,000 small white hens live in cages about the size of an open newspaper, six or seven to a cage.
Weaver said that after his initial shock at the agreement, he has accepted it as necessary. He will not be immediately affected since it allows existing egg farms to continue but bars new ones with similar cages. He defends his methods, saying, "My own belief is that I'm doing the right thing."
Egg production is at the center of the debate because more than 90 percent of the country's eggs are now produced in the stacked rows of cages that critics call inhumane.
Ohio is the country's second-largest egg producer, after Iowa. In the modern version of an egg barn, hordes of hens live with computer-controlled air circulation, lighting and feeding, their droppings whisked away by conveyor belt for recycling as fertilizer. As the hens jostle one other, their eggs roll onto a belt to be washed, graded and packed without ever being touched by human hands.
Weaver insists that his chickens are content and less prone to disease than those in barnyard flocks, saying, "If our chickens aren't healthy and happy, they won't be as productive."
Keeping chickens in cages is cruel and unnecessary, counter advocates like Wayne Pacelle, chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States, which has played a central role in the state-by-state battles.
"Animals that are built to move should be allowed to move," he said in an interview, and for chickens that means space for dust-bathing, perching and nesting.
The assertion that animals must be happy to be productive is not accurate, Pacelle added, pointing to abnormal behaviors like head waving or bar-biting and to a loss of bone density in confined animals.
In the mid-20th century, developments in animal nutrition and farm technologies as well as economic competition spurred the emergence of large-scale farms, often driving out small farmers who could not afford the large capital investments or survive the lower prices.
Now, the United Egg Producers, a national trade group, says that egg prices would rise by 25 percent if all eggs were produced by uncaged hens, putting stress on consumers and school lunch programs. Animal proponents say that better noncage methods could be developed and that price is not the ultimate issue anyway.
The American Veal Association, under pressure from consumers, agreed in 2007 to phase out the close confinement of calves by 2017. The requirement in the California law and the Ohio agreement to phase out the use of "gestation crates" on hog farms will have much wider effects.
The family of Irv Bell, 64, has been growing hogs in Zanesville, Ohio, since the 19th century. Where males and females were once put into a pen to mate, sows are now inseminated artificially and most are kept through their pregnancy in a 2-by-7-foot crate, in which they can lie down but not turn.
"I work with the hogs every day, and I don't think there is anything wrong with gestation crates," he said. "But I have to be aware of things on the horizon, the bigger things at work."
Formally, the new Ohio agreement only makes recommendations to a state livestock standards board, and getting opponents to recognize the authority of that board was an important achievement, said Keith Stimpert, a senior vice president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.
"We all know change is coming," Stimpert said, adding that farmers would also respond to demands by consumers and restaurants for free-range products.
"But is this how we're going to deal with these issues, on a state-by-state basis?" he asked.
That timetables and rules differ among states is going to cause economic harm, he said.
The Humane Society of the United States, for its part, is already picking new targets. The advocates have the most leverage, Pacelle said, in the states that permit referendums. He said that the issues were likely to be pressed in Washington and Oregon. Winning concessions may be harder, he acknowledged, in states without referendums, including Iowa and the South.
Meanwhile, a new dispute over chicken cages is already brewing in California. The breakthrough 2008 law said that animals could be confined only in ways that allowed them "to lie down, stand up, fully extend their limbs and turn around freely." Egg producers and even some animal advocates say this may permit housing hens in larger "enriched cages," with perches and nesting spots.
Pacelle asserts that no form of caging can meet a chicken's needs for "running, flying and wing flapping," and that denying these impulses can cause a rise in stress hormones.
"There's going to be a legal wrangle over this," Pacelle predicted.


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(HealthDay News) — Positive margins (ink on invasive carcinoma or ductal carcinoma in situ) are associated with increased risk of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR), according to consensus guidelines published online Feb. 10 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Meena S. Moran, M.D., from the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., and colleagues conducted a systematic review of 33 studies involving 28,162 patients. The authors sought to reach a consensus regarding optimal margin width in breast-conserving surgery for invasive breast cancer and the risk of IBTR.
The researchers found that, compared with negative margins, positive margins (ink on invasive carcinoma or ductal carcinoma in situ) correlated with a two-fold increase in IBTR risk. Neither favorable biology, nor endocrine therapy, nor radiation boost mitigated the increased risk. Compared with no ink on tumor, more widely clear margins did not significantly decrease the rate of IBTR. No evidence was observed in support of more widely clear margins for reducing IBTR in young patients or for patients with unfavorable biology, lobular cancers, or cancers with an extensive intraductal component.
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"The use of no ink on tumor as the standard for an adequate margin in invasive cancer in the era of multidisciplinary therapy is associated with low rates of IBTR and has the potential to decrease re-excision rates, improve cosmetic outcomes, and decrease health care costs," the authors write.
Several authors disclosed financial ties to the medical device industry.


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Sample applications that you can examine and deploy to the Application Server are available. If you installed the Application Server as part of installing the Java EE 5 SDK bundle from Java EE 5 Downloads, the samples may already be installed. You can download these samples separately from the Code Samples page if you installed the Application Server without them initially.
Most Application Server samples have the following directory structure:
The docs directory contains instructions for how to use the sample.
The build.xml file defines asant targets for the sample. See Chapter 3, The asant Utility.
The src/java directory under each component contains source code for the sample.
The src/conf directory under each component contains the deployment descriptors.
With a few exceptions, sample applications follow the standard directory structure described here: http://java.sun.com/blueprints/code/projectconventions.html.
The samples-install-dir/bp-project/main.xml file defines properties common to all sample applications and implements targets needed to compile, assemble, deploy, and undeploy sample applications. In most sample applications, the build.xml file imports main.xml.
In addition to the Java EE 5 sample applications, samples are also available on the GlassFish web site at https://glassfish-samples.dev.java.net/.


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I know that there is a theorem that a non-empty level set of a regular value of a smooth function $f:M\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ on a smooth manifold is a regular submanifold (or embedded submanifold) of codimension 1.
Now I wonder if there is also a condition in which the converse holds true. I mean suppose $c\in\mathbb{R}$ is a critical value of $f$ is there a condition under which you know the level set of $c$ is not a regular submanifold.
If $g:M\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ is defined by mapping all of $M$ to $0$ then it seems to me that $0$ is a critical value of $g$. Now $g^{-1}(0)=M$ so definitely a regular submanifold of $M$. So I know that it is at least not true without an extra condition.
Also if the function is second degree polynomial from $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}$ then the level set of a critical value is just a point which would again be a regular submanifold.
If there is no such general condition on the function $f$ or the critical value then how in general does one go about showing that a critical level set is or is not a regular submanifold?
Thanks in advance


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Jody Brazil
President and CTO, FireMon
President and CTO, FireMon
As Founder and CTO of FireMon, Jody Brazil is a seasoned entrepreneur with more than two decades of executive management experience and deep domain expertise in all aspects of networking, including network security design, network security assessment, and security product implementation. Before joining FireMon in 2004, Brazil spent eight years at FishNet Security, serving as their Chief Technology Officer, where he was responsible for providing direction for solutions to their customers. Brazil developed and released the first ever graphical firewall policy change view in 2001 and the first ever firewall rule usage analysis application in 2004. Brazil holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Kansas State University