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Currently, most of people use
MS DCOM/COM+, Java Bean/RMI, and Corba to do distributed computing over internet. All of these
technologies are provided with some tools and intermediate objects to simplify
internet development. However, these technologies have one common and fundamental problem
that all of the calls between a client and a server are blocked for a returned result (please
correct me if this is wrong). A client stays still, and has to wait for a while after
sending a request to a server. If the request is a lengthy action, the client application
seems to be dead to a user. In most cases, we could use a worker thread at the client side
to do background computation for solving this problem. However, this comes with an
expensive price, more coding, data synchronization and mess in coding logic.
Additionally, I also doubt that these technologies are able to really move data across
internet efficiently.
Recently, I had time to create a framework
package, named as SocketPro, on socket for writing distributed computing applications over the
internet, which contains a set of COM dlls and a standard dll (NetBaseR.dll) for EASY
development of both client and server applications. In the near future, the documentation
for all of the dlls and other help articles will be provided at the site of <a
All of applications developed from this
framework will have the following BIG advantages plus other numerous
In regards to the client side development, this
advantages implies that a client is able to send simultaneously multiple requests to a
server through either one or multiple sockets for non-blocking and parallel computation.
The client GUI components could be NEVER blocked without creating a worker
thread. The important point here is that you can achieve non-blocking compuing without
involement of threads. All of client function calls, which lead to data movement over
internet, can be switched between blocking and non-blocking modes at your will after a
socket is created. This is another particular advantage. It is hard to get this feature
from other technologies, MS DCOM/COM+, Java Bean/RMI, and Corba.
In regards to the server side development, this
advantage implies that a server application is able to fast and parallel process multiple
requests from one or different client machines no matter whether the request is lengthy
action or short action. The server is developed with multiple threads and message queues.
All of queues are running independently and in parallel. In some cases, the server can be
developed so that a quick request can be processed and returned first, even though the
request is sent to the server after a request with a lengthy action. The server
application groups/clusters various calls and assign them to different queues for
processing. In all of cases, all of short requests from one or different sockets are
assigned to one queue only, for reduction of involved threads and queues. The server is
also able to kill all of idle queues and threads automatically for reducing system
resources required and thread context switch. The server is able to detect the dead
clients with a ping function.
You may think that this must be difficult to be
implemented. It is true to take me a long time to create this piece of software component.
You may think that it is difficult to develop a server and client applications based on
this framework because of message queues, multiple threads, data synchronization problems.
You are wrong and wrong!!!! Actually, The frame wraps the Winsock 2 library, and
automatically manages message queues, threads and data synchronizations for you, and also
efficiently by default. All you need to do is that you need to implement your functions,
and tell the framework if the function is lengthy action or not. That is all! Attached
with this article, you will also find three Visual C++ examples, DResolver (client), NTSvs
(Server) and NormalApp (Server), to show you how to write client and server applications
from the SocketPro package. You could see how simple to write such cool client and server
applications from the SocketPro package.
At the beginning, I said I doubt if MS
DCOM/COM+, Java Bean/RMI, and Corba can move data over network efficiently. Let me tell
you a simple reason using a typical example. On an Ethernet network, the MTU for TCP/IP is
1460 bytes. Suppose that a client sockets send 29 requests, each of them with 50 bytes,
and get 29 returned data of 50 bytes. If you use MS DCOM, the number of data round-trips
will definitely be 29. However, if your server and client applications runs in the
non-blocking mode, the Nagle algorithm will come in effect by default. Socket stack will
automatically coalesce all of 29 requests into one big stream, and send it onto a server.
The server similarly does coalescing and sends all of processed results to the client with
one big stream if all of 29 actions are not lengthy action. The number of data round-trips
is just one! As far as I know, even though Nagle algorithm may be turned on, all of MS
DCOM/COM+, Java Bean/RMI, and Corba can hardly take advantage of coalescing through Nagle
algorithm (Correct me if I am wrong) because their functions can't be internally
non-blocking. I can hardly imagine these technologies can generically and automatically
batch all of function calls into one, and then unpack it into separately calls at the
server side.
Even if your client socket-based application
doesn't run in the non-blocking mode, you can batch calls into one by your code. But it is
not friendly to do so. There is no way to pack function calls with DCOM/COM+, Java
Bean/RMI, and Corba.
Nagle algorithm is important especially for the
server application. Reduction of data round-trips are the most efficient way to improve
the server and client application performance, especially when many clients are connected
with a server application, and data movement over network is extensive or your network is
slow like a dial-up networking.
Additionally, SocketPro directly talks with
Winsock 2 without middle layers. In comparison to MS DCOM with identical protocol and
hardware, SocketPro still runs 130 % faster even though SocketPro runs in the blocking
mode across machine according to my experiments. In order to show you what performance you
can obtain from this SocketPro package, I wrote a sample name as SpeedTest, and compared
results with DCOM applications (DCOMSleep and ClientTest). All of sample source codes are
provided with this package for your test. Look at the codes and play with samples. Like
me, I think you will sign with various feelings after obtaining your performance data!
Here is performance result I obtained from my machines.
Hardwares: client -- P133 with 48 RAM; Server
-- P700 with 256 RAM; Fast Ethernet 10/100 Network Cards + Ethernet 5-Port Hub (10Mbps) +
Two Category 5 100BaseTX Network Cables ($50 totally, LinkSys NC100).
Software: Client -- Win95; Server -- NT 4.0 Server.
Table 1. Speed comparison among different methods with the average of 1000 calls.
Under all of my tests and conditions,
SocketPro applications always faster than DCOM. I hope this test data are attractive to
you. Running with samples, please give me a message here or privately if you find your
result is against with these results. In some cases, if only one request is sent to a
server, the speeds among these methods do not change very much. However, the performance
with batch or Nagle algorithm will be speeded up if two or more asynchronous calls are
called together by reducing data frames over network.
DCOM/COM is limited to window platform only,
although MS said DCOM frameworks are available for other platforms. It is hard to find a
real DCOM application developed on other platforms. You can use many languages (Java,
C/C++, VB, dot.net, etc) from any platforms to develop client socket application to talk
with a SocketPro server application, because socket communication is based on binary data
and has very low dependency. In regards to a server application from SocketPro, you can
only develop it with C++ for the best performance on Win 9x, NT4.0 ME, 2k and XP platforms
at this time.
Other advantages includes:
One disadvantage is that a developer must be
ready to handle both blocking and non-blocking calls at both the client and server sides.
It is involved with more coding for packing and unpacking sending and received data. It is
simple and understandable in concept but tedious and more codes. For the best performance
and reduction of data trips without help of Nagle algorithm, a developer should try the
best to pack data on his or her own instead of Nagle algorithm, because the Nagle
algorithm still costs a little time if the machine is not fast. In order to reduce the
code of packing, a help class, CPacking, is provided with the package. For how to use it,
see the following VC++ samples code.
After downloading the socketpro.zip, unzip the package into a directory. You need to set
up both client and server applications which are located in the directories of
..\netdemo\clientcomponents\ and ..\netdemo\svrcomponents\, respectively.
To start up the sample server application,
you could double click the application MultipleSvs.exe (port # =1741). If your server is
NT or its descendents, you could also start a NT service, MultiSvs.exe (port # = 1739). To
start the NT service, you should install it by executing the DOS command, MultiSvs
-Service. After installing it, you could start it by ->Settings->Control
Panel->Services->MultiSvs from NT platform. If you use the platform other than NT,
you could follow the similar steps to start it.
To run the sample client application from a
Win32 (not CE) platform, you need to register four COM dlls (ClientSocket.dll,
SockFile.dll, SBroker.dll and DResolver.dll) at your client machines first, which are
located at the directory of ..\netdemo\clientcomponents\. To test the performance of
sample NT server application, you could run multiple applications at one client machine or
multiple client machines. Additionally, the sample VB client application and code are
provided. See the files in the directory of ..\netdemo\samples\. I hope you like the
application and give me your bug reports, questions, suggestions and concerns.
Here is the list of functionalities available
from the demo server application:
Here is the list of functionalities
available from client components:
Here is the features of the demo client and
server applications:
In this package, you can get the source code of
all of four VB client applications. In regards to VC++ code, you get the source code of
two client applications (SpeedTest and DResolver) and two server applications (NTSvs and
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In announcing her verdict, Judge Marina Syrova said Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, carefully planned a performance of a protest song in a church, RIA Novosti reported.
"The defendants were aware of the offensive nature of their actions," Syrova said. "They sought to publicize their act and provoke a public reaction; they wanted to insult not only church clergy but also the broad sections of society."
"They have deeply hurt and insulted the faithful," the judge said.
Three band members have been jailed for more than five months, which is the equivalent of 10 months in prison per Russian law, RIA Novosti said. Under the same terms, the band members could be released in 14 months.
The women maintained their "punk prayer" at Christ the Savior cathedral in February was a political act to protest the Russian Orthodox Church's support of President Vladimir Putin. The church's leader said the obscenity-filled performance was tantamount to blasphemy.
U.S. officials expressed concern about the matter.
"The United States is concerned about both the verdict and the disproportionate sentences handed down by a Moscow court in the case against the members of the band Pussy Riot and the negative impact on freedom of expression in Russia," the U.S. State Department said in a statement. "We urge Russian authorities to review this case and ensure that the right to freedom of expression is upheld."
Before the verdict, some statues in the city were covered with colored balaclavas, the band's trademark look, to show support for the women, the BBC reported.
Support for the band members spread across Russia and Ukraine, RIA Novosti reported.
Tolokonnikova said Thursday she wasn't bitter about being jailed, but declared in a Twitter post through her lawyer: "Politically, I am furious. Our imprisonment serves as a clear and unambiguous sign that freedom is being taken away from the entire country."
Her husband, Pyotr Verzilov, had told the BBC he didn't think the court would be impartial.
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Skirting the Issue
"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sexism is Alive
Does talking about something make it an issue? I can vividly recall being told as a medical student that sexism was just something that women chose to see in everyday life. That is was not really an issue; it was one that we chose to use as an excuse every time things did not go our way.
I can actually remember thinking that this MUST be true. I mean, here I was, a woman in a class of medical students where HALF of us were women! How could sexism really exist? It certainly wasn't holding me down! I thought that women who were victims to this were just that--victims--weak women who were victims of their own personalities or fears. At the time, I refused to join AMWA or get a key to the 'women's room' that women students, residents and faculty could seek out as a private 'sexist' refuge. I told myself that if I segregated myself from men by reminding them that I was a woman, I would be contributing to the problem.
I am not sure when my beliefs changed. Maybe it was when a chief resident opened the top button of my shirt in hopes that it would help the chauvinistic interventional radiologist give me our study. Maybe it was when I realized that a lot of the female nurses DID treat me differently than my classmates who were male. The realism that sexism could also come from women was an eye-opening and depressing experience. Or maybe it was just the natural progression of realizing that male faculty whom I KNOW believe in me and support me still DON'T REALLY understand the challenges that women face. In fact, they often, albeit unintentionally, place them in our way.
Whatever the reason, I know that sexism exists. It is not because I choose to see it where it isn't. It is not because I talk about it. It is because the world in which we live has socialized us to believe that men and women SHOULD be different. And when we, as women, try to take on stereotypically "male" roles, attitudes or personality traits, I think it makes people uncomfortable. This is the inherent reason why strong women are considered to be too aggressive or pushy or, god-forbid, the B-word, while men are just doing their job and somehow gain respect.
We need to accept that there is a double standard. There SHOULDN'T be! But there is. It's there. Now. . what are we going to do about it?
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HERSHEY, Pa. - Derek Meech scored a power-play goal in the third period to lift the St. John's IceCaps to a 2-1 win over the Hershey Bears on Saturday in American Hockey League action.
Meech's slapshot from the point, on a nice passing play with Ray Sawada and John Albert, gave the IceCaps the lead at 6:56 of the third period.
Eric O'Dell scored in the second period for St. John's (6-7-0), while Mark Dekanich made 18 saves for the win.
Barry Almeida replied for Hershey (5-5-1). Dany Sabourin stopped 25 shots for the Bears.
Meech's power-play goal broke a 1-for-42 slump for the IceCaps. St. John's had the man advantage after a four-minute double minor by Matt Pope for his high stick on Carl Klingberg.
Ray Sawada carried the puck in to the Bears' zone and dropped it back to John Albert, who fed Meech with a tape-to-tape pass, and the blue-liner blasted a slapshot past Sabourin.
The win snapped a two-game losing streak for St. John's and sends the team back to Newfoundland with two wins on their five-game road trip.
The IceCaps played a solid first period, outshooting the Bears 10-8 and showing some good jump in all three zones. The teams finished the first 20 minutes in a scoreless tie.
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Hershey tied the game late in the second period after forcing an IceCaps turnover on a hard forecheck. Jeff Taffe dug the puck out and Pope grabbed it at the side of the net, centring a pass to Almeida.
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The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree will arrive at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol along First Street, NW, at 10 a.m. on Monday, November 25, 2013.
This year's tree is an Engelmann spruce from the Newport Ranger District of the Colville National Forest in Washington State. It was harvested on November 1, and is currently traveling from Washington across the country; making stops in 22 communities along the way. After it arrives at the U.S. Capitol and is secured in the ground, the tree will be decorated with thousands of ornaments, handcrafted by Washingtonians to reflect this year's theme, "Sharing Washington's Good Nature," which highlights the state's historical, cultural, and natural beauty.
The tree will be lit by Speaker of the House John A. Boehner during a ceremony on Tuesday, December 3, on the Capitol's West Front lawn beginning at 5 p.m. Architect of the Capitol Stephen T. Ayers, FAIA, LEED AP, will serve as master of ceremonies.
"The arrival of the Capitol Christmas Tree means the season of giving draws near, and with it the chance to rekindle in our hearts that message of peace and goodwill to all. We wish good tidings to everyone looking out for the safe passage of this majestic spruce, and hope children of all ages will come and see it lit up on the West Front of the Capitol," said Speaker Boehner.
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Graded EX-MT 6 by PSA. Bright and clean example of one of the most popular of all Lou Gehrig cards, and one of the most classic of all 1930s bubble-gum cards. Strong colors. Perfect registration and bright, bold colors. Centered slightly towards the top right (approximately 70/30 L/R and 35/65 T/B). The corners show a touch of light, even wear but are still square. The reverse of the card is also extremely clean, with bold green text. We grade this card slightly more conservatively than PSA at Ex, due to the left-to-right centering, a hint too much corner wear, and very tiny (barely noticeable) stain on the right border (perhaps of no consequence, extremely small), but it is still a beautiful example of one of Gehrig's most desirable cards, and the key card from this classic 1930s bubble-gum card series. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000/$2,000. SOLD FOR $1,998
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -October 9, 2012 --An eastern Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole after pleading guilty but mentally ill in the slaying and dismemberment of his girlfriend last year.
Forty-six-year-old William Ward entered the plea Monday in Lehigh County Court to a first-degree murder charge in the June 2011 slaying of 29-year-old Trisha Sadler.
Public defender Earl Supplee said the plea could help his client end up in a prison designed to house inmates with mental illnesses.Ward said in court "I'm just sorry for my mental illness."
Police arrested Ward after a five-hour standoff at the Bethlehem home where he lived with Sadler, his girlfriend of nine years.
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Joey Glynn of Abington played 26 basketball games as a freshman for Bentley University after finishing his Cardinal Spellman career as one of the school's greatest players. He died Monday night at age 19 during a men's league game in Watertown.
Former Enterprise All-Scholastic boys basketball star Joey Glynn of Cardinal Spellman died Monday night during a Watertown Men's League game at Saltonstall Park in Watertown.
Glynn, 19, was playing with the Middlesex Magic when he collapsed on the court. He was taken to Mount Auburn Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A witness told The Boston Herald there was no physical contact before he collapsed.
The 6-foot-6 Glynn played in 26 games as a freshman at Bentley, averaging 3.3 points and 3.2 rebounds a game for the Falcons.
One of the greatest players to come out of Cardinal Spellman, Glynn was named The Enterprise Player of the Year in 2011.
He reached the 1,000-point mark in his junior season and concluded his career with 1,425 points and 803 rebounds.
Glynn is the fourth of Joseph and Susan Glynn's five children. He is survived by sisters Kelly, 26, Sarah, 24, Stephanie, 22, and Ashley, 13.
In a statement posted on Tuesday morning, Bentley University President Gloria Cordes Larson said the cause of death had yet to be determined."Our deepest sympathies go out to Joey's family, friends, classmates, teammates and professors as they struggle to comprehend the sudden loss of such a vibrant young life. Joey was 19 years old and from Abington, Mass. He graduated from Cardinal Spellman High School in 2012 where he was a two-time Boston Globe and Boston Herald All-Scholastic," the statement read. "Joey was a two-year captain in basketball, captain of the football team during his senior year, and lettered in baseball. As a junior he had the distinction of playing at Gillette Stadium and TD Garden for the high school Super Bowl. In his senior year he led Spellman to the Super Bowl for a second time." Larson added that a campus memorial is in the works and support was available at several locations around the Bentley campus.
"I know that our Bentley community will join together during this difficult time and support each other. Please reach out to those who are mourning Joey. And also remember that the Student Counseling Center, the Spiritual Life Center, the Center for Health and Wellness, and Office of Student Affairs are open as places of support and comfort. Information about a campus memorial will be shared as soon as it is available."


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Part G of title IV (20 U.S.C. 1088 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
`(a) PREPARATIONS FOR YEAR 2000- In order to ensure that the processing, delivery, and administration of grant, loan, and work assistance provided under this title is not interrupted due to operational problems related to the inability of computer systems to indicate accurately dates after December 31, 1999, the Secretary of Education shall--
`(1) take such actions as are necessary to ensure that all internal and external systems, hardware, and data exchange infrastructure administered by the Department that are necessary for the processing, delivery, and administration of the grant, loan, and work assistance are Year 2000 compliant by March 31, 1999, such that there will be no business interruption after December 31, 1999;
`(2) ensure that the Robert T. Stafford Federal Student Loan Program and the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program are equal in level of priority with respect to addressing, and that resources are managed to equally provide for successful resolution of, the Year 2000 computer problem in both programs by December 31, 1999;
`(3) work with the Department's various data exchange partners under this title to fully test all data exchange routes for Year 2000 compliance via end-to-end testing, and submit a report describing the parameters and results of such tests to the Comptroller General not later than March 31, 1999;
`(4) ensure that the Inspector General of the Department (or an external, independent entity selected by the Inspector General) performs and publishes a risk assessment of the systems and hardware under the Department's management, that has been reviewed by an independent entity, and make such assessment publicly available not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of the Higher Education Amendments of 1998;
`(5) not later than June 30, 1999, ensure that the Inspector General (or an external, independent entity selected by the Inspector General) conducts a review of the Department's Year 2000 compliance for the processing, delivery, and administration of grant, loan, and work assistance, and submits a report reflecting the results of that review to the Chairperson of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Chairperson of the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives;
`(6) develop a contingency plan to ensure the programs under this title will continue to run uninterrupted in the event of widespread disruptions in the flow of accurate computerized data, which contingency plan shall include a prioritization of mission critical systems and strategies to allow data partners to transfer data through alternate means; and
`(7) alert Congress at the earliest possible time if mission critical deadlines will not be met.
`(b) POSTPONEMENT AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR 2000-
`(1) PURPOSE- It is the purpose of this subsection to provide the Secretary with the flexibility necessary to--
`(A) ensure that the resources and capabilities of institutions, lenders, and guaranty agencies are not overburdened by the combination of student aid processing and delivery requirements added or modified by the amendments made by the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 and by the changes required to ensure that the systems of the institutions, lenders and guaranty agencies are Year 2000 compliant; and
`(B) avoid the disruption of grant, loan, or work assistance funds awarded to students because of Year 2000 compliance problems at a substantial number of institutions, lenders, and guaranty agencies.
`(2) AUTHORITY TO POSTPONE- The Secretary may postpone, for a period of time described in paragraph (3), the implementation of any requirements under part B, D, E, or G that are added or modified by the amendments made by the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 related to the processing or delivery of grant, loan, and work assistance (which shall not include the determination of need for such assistance) provided under this title, if the Secretary--
`(A) determines that--
`(i) implementation of such requirements would require extensive changes to the existing systems of institutions, lenders, or guaranty agencies; and
`(ii) postponement is necessary to avoid jeopardizing the ability of a substantial number of institutions, lenders, or guaranty agencies to ensure that all of the systems of the institutions, lenders, or guaranty agencies related to the processing or delivery of such assistance function successfully after December 31, 1999; and
`(B) promptly publishes in the Federal Register a list of, and notifies Congress of, any provisions, the implementation of which the Secretary intends to postpone, with the reasons for such postponement.
`(3) EXCEPTIONS TO AUTHORITY- The Secretary may not postpone the implementation of one or more provisions described in this subsection longer than the earlier of--
`(A) the period of time that the Secretary determines necessary to ensure that the processing and delivery systems of the institutions, lenders, and guaranty agencies referred to in paragraph (1)(A)(ii) are capable of functioning successfully after December 31, 1999; or
`(B) one award year after the effective date applicable to such provision under the Higher Education Amendments of 1998.'.
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Senator Wonders: How Do You Stop A Polish Army On Horseback?
You know what never gets old? Polish jokes! You know what really never gets old? A Republican Senator telling Polish jokes to a big group including Polish people, for kicks—dumb Polack kicks, ha!
Sen. Arlen Specter, who has already defeated Chris Matthews without throwing a single punch, decided to "warm up the crowd" at a Republican event in Manhattan last night:
A witness reports Specter began by asking if anyone in the room was Polish. About 10 guests out of hundreds there raised their hands. Specter deemed the number insignificant and forged ahead with some supposedly funny Polish jokes, including the old one about the man who interrupted him once, saying, "Hey, careful. I'm Polish!" Specter said he responded, "That's OK - I'll tell it more slowly." Specter also told two other tasteless jokes in the same Polish vein.
Arlen Specter would never make it out of Greenpoint alive. [P6; Racist answer to headline: "Turn off the carousel." No Arlen did not ask that specifically, AS FAR AS WE KNOW.]


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New Car Review Video
2013 Toyota Prius: New Car Review - Video
The 2013 Toyota Prius is the latest edition of the most successful gasoline-electric hybrid on earth. It outsells all the other hybrids in its class ... combined. And that's pretty impressive.
The exterior profile of the Prius hasn't changed much since its redesign into a hatchback for the 2004 model year. The unusual wedge shape has mostly gone from "way out there" to "pretty familiar looking" as the Prius quickly gained popularity. So, the 5-passenger 2013 Prius remains basically the same as the 2012 version except that Toyota added a new Persona Series Special Edition at the top end of the model range.
Within the Wedge
Roominess. That's what the interior of the Prius is all about, both front and rear. Rear headroom is down from earlier hatchback years since the roofline is more sloped, but four adults can find all the room they need. With five adults, it can get cramped, but it's still tolerable. There's decent cargo space, too, maxing out at 67.3 cu ft.
The dashboard is right out of the future with digital readouts and hybrid performance diagrams displayed clearly. Even in the base model, there are plenty of features for fun and convenience, including a standard 6-speaker audio system with Bluetooth connectivity. But to get things such as voice-activated navigation and Toyota's excellent Entune interface, you'll have to opt for a higher-level trim package.
Our biggest complaint about the Prius model's interior is that the quality of the materials isn't outstanding. It's mediocre and lackluster. Moreover, the seats provide only so-so comfort and support. That said, there's plenty of room for improvement in these areas.
Hybrid Driving
With the Prius, there are only two areas worth discussing when it comes to performance: its lack of power and its remarkable fuel economy. The 1.8-liter inline 4-cylinder gasoline engine and electric motor combination musters up only 134 horsepower, so passing on a 2-lane road takes planning. The Prius can run solely on the electric motor but only if you're gentle on the accelerator; otherwise, the gasoline engine kicks in. Front-wheel drive and a continuously variable transmission complete the powertrain.
The regenerative brakes take getting used to, but they direct braking energy back into the battery pack to recharge it. And, except for some road noise on the highway, the Prius is whisper quiet.
As far as mileage goes, how does 51 miles per gallon city/48 mpg hwy sound? Enough said about that.
Sensibly Priced
The base trim model of the 2013 Toyota Prius stickers at a very sensible $24,200. Drive and compare the Honda Insight and Civic Hybrid, or the Toyota Prius c and Prius v, before making a buying decision.
With all the high-tech features, interior space and tremendous gas mileage, is it any wonder the Toyota Prius has so many devoted owners? The 2013 model is still under-powered, and the cabin isn't Toyota's best work, but it's hard not to appreciate how the Prius has made driving a hybrid mainstream.


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Executive Search Committee appoints librarians from OCLC member institutions, staff and other library leaders to Community Advisory Group
DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 20 October 2011—The Executive Search Committee of the OCLC Board of Trustees has named 13 people to a Community Advisory Group that will be involved in the search for the next President and Chief Executive Officer of OCLC to succeed Jay Jordan, who has announced his plans to retire June 30, 2012.
Members of the Community Advisory Group will provide the Executive Search Committee with counsel regarding the selection of a new President and CEO, including input to the position profile, names for consideration, potential sources of candidates, and stakeholder perspectives. The Group will also be engaged in the final stage of the interview process.
"The Community Advisory Group will work with the Executive Search Committee to represent the interests of OCLC members and staff," said Sandy Yee, Chair of the Board's Executive Search Committee. "We want the search process to be as inclusive as possible."
Members of the Community Advisory Group are:
- Pam Bailey, Member Advocate, OCLC
- ChewLeng Beh, Vice President/President-Elect, OCLC Global Council, and Senior Director Library and Professional Services and Director of SILAS, National Library Board, Singapore
- Paul Cappuzzello, Senior Library Services Consultant, OCLC
- William Crowe, Former Member of the OCLC Board of Trustees and Librarian Emeritus, University of Kansas, USA
- Carol Diedrichs, Director of Libraries, The Ohio State University, USA
- Berndt Dugall, OCLC Global Council President and Direktor/Librarian, Universität Frankfurt, Universitätsbibliothek Johann Senckenberg, Germany
- Chrystie Hill, Director, WebJunction Community Services, OCLC
- Patrick Losinski, Executive Director, Columbus (Ohio) Metropolitan Library, USA
- Constance Malpas, Program Officer, OCLC Research
- Andrew Pace, Executive Director, Networked Library Services, OCLC
- Anja Smit, Regional Representative, OCLC Global Council, and University Librarian
Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- John Ulmschneider, University Librarian, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
- Norbert Weinberger, Managing Director, Germany, OCLC
The OCLC Board of Trustees announced formation of an Executive Search Committee on August 1. This Committee is leading the process to select the next leader of the OCLC cooperative:
- Chair, Sandy Yee, Dean of the Wayne State University Libraries and Library and Information Science Program
- Ed Barry, President Emeritus, Oxford University Press
- Maggie Farrell, Dean of Libraries, University of Wyoming
- Bernadette Gray-Little, Chancellor, University of Kansas
- Kathleen Imhoff, Library Consultant
- David Lauer, Former President and COO, Bank One, NA
- James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University
- Elisabeth Niggemann, Director General, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
The OCLC Board has hired the executive search firm of Heidrick & Struggles to assist in the international search.
On June 27, 2011, Jay Jordan announced his plans to retire as OCLC's fourth president and CEO on June 30, 2012; by then he will have served 14 years in that position, the longest tenure of any OCLC president.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing library costs. More than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world's largest online database for discovery of library resources. Search WorldCat on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.
OCLC, WorldCat and WorldCat.org are trademarks/service marks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Third-party product, service and business names are trademarks/service marks of their respective owners.
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Former Marblehead state Rep. Douglas Petersen, who over his career in public service steadfastly supported progressive social and environmental causes in an era when it was less popular to do so, died Tuesday, July 1. He was 66.
Private funeral services were held over the weekend, according to his obituary, which appears on Page B11 of this week�s Reporter. "Doug Petersen was at the forefront of some important issues at junctures of time that required some political guts to take a stand against the prevailing status quo,� said Anna Waclawiczek, his longtime staff member. �Doug spoke out and remained firm in his convictions."
Many who knew him personally and professionally describe him as an unwavering, principled proponent of same-sex marriage, women�s rights, campaign-finance reform and sustainable environmental practices.
According to his obituary, Petersen realized a �long-held aspiration� when he was elected in November 1990 to represent the 8th Essex District, which encompasses Marblehead, Swampscott and two precincts in Lynn. He would serve until 2007.
A committed environmentalist, he was particularly proud of his work and service on the Joint Committee for the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture, which he served as vice chairman of for two years before being appointed chairman of for four years, according to his colleague, state Sen. Thomas McGee, D-Lynn.
McGee admired Petersen�s �passion,� saying it was a privilege to witness while working together on policies that benefited their shared Marblehead, Swampscott and Lynn constituents.
�I had a chance to work with him in many capacities, and we had a great relationship working together on important legislation,� McGee said. �He believed in the Democratic Party�s values and put them into action.�
He added, �He will be missed.�
While on the Natural Resources committee, Petersen defeated an initiative by milk processors to do away with the New England Dairy Compact, increased technical assistance to farmers and wrote legislation keeping harmful pesticides far from educational facilities in which children learned. Over his 17-year legislative career, he sponsored or co-sponsored over 250 bills.
In 2007, he left the Legislature when Gov. Deval Patrick appointed him commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, which he led until 2009.
�Doug's passing is a shocking loss. He was an early supporter in politics and a friend in the Legislature,� Patrick said. �As commissioner, Doug was a tireless advocate for Massachusetts farmers. My heart goes out to his family.�
The appointment didn�t come without criticism, as some surmised that Patrick was rewarding Petersen for being an early supporter in a primary field that featured more entrenched, established Democrats.
�He earned that appointment and welcomed the opportunity,� Marblehead Democratic Town Committee Chairman Marilyn Segal said adamantly.
And he was enthusiastic about the job, especially about the opportunity to help farmers during a time of transition for their industry.
�I am thrilled to have the opportunity to serve in the Patrick administration in this important role,� Petersen said when he was appointed. � I look forward to helping the agricultural industry and the communities it supports thrive in the 21st century.� Mary Jordan, director of the Division of Agricultural Markets for the MDAR, said when Petersen entered the department as head he �admitted he didn�t have a lot of knowledge about agriculture� but soaked up as much as he could, listening attentively to people who knew more than him.
�When I think about Commissioner Petersen�s heading the department, I remember him being a real cheerleader for Massachusetts� agricultural industry,� said Jordan, who reported directly to Petersen. �He was passionate about the industry, people in the department and new initiatives, particularly regional ones.�
Petersen�s departure from the Legislature led to a 2007 special election in which current state Rep. Lori Ehrlich was chosen to succeed Petersen. Ehrlich�s environmental stewardship has built on a foundation laid by Petersen and his predecessor, Lawrence Alexander.
�Doug was a good man with a kind heart,� said Ehrlich. �He courageously stood up for equality, good governance and the environment, often at the peril of his own advancement.�
Segal elaborated on Ehrlich�s �peril� notion, describing a contentious moment when former House speaker Thomas Finneran, whom she called a �conservative Democrat� who wielded a �very heavy thumb� during his tenure, stripped Petersen of his chairmanship on the committee he enjoyed leading �because Petersen wouldn�t vote the way Finneran wanted him to vote on an issue that would have compromised his beliefs,� Segal said. �Petersen always voted with a conscience.�
As Frank Yetter, Petersen�s former campaign manager wrote in a tribute for the Reporter, �Come to Doug looking for patronage, a handout or, as Tom Finneran did, with a quid-pro-quo promise of power in exchange for a modest tweaking of his principles, and you�d be sent packing.�
Yetter explained that episodes like the one with Finneran would stoke Petersen�s passion for his role.
�The man had a way with words that could curdle milk from 100 yards off,� Yetter wrote, adding, however, that Petersen quickly moved on from the Speaker�s slight.
Former Marblehead town clerk and chairman of the Board of Selectmen Tom McNulty was an early Petersen backer. He called Petersen an avid supporter of his constituents, a thoughtful public servant and a benevolent soul.
�When I first met him in 1990, I thought, �This is a man who should be in the state Legislature,��said McNulty.
McNulty added, �He was someone who was always in the community when he got into office, made himself available and was what I considered to be one damned good state representative.�
Former state rep recalled for principles, passion
Former Marblehead state Rep. Douglas Petersen, who over his career in public service steadfastly supported progressive social and environmental causes in an era when it was less popular to do so, died Tuesday, July 1. He was 66.


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Elissa's Salmon in Parchment with Curried Yogurt Sauce Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009
Recipe: Salmon in Parchment with Curried Yogurt Sauce
Category: Omnivore
How long does it take? 25-30 minutes
Name: Elissa
Why is it a favorite meal? It's easy, healthy, delicious and elegant.
Salmon in Parchment with Curried Yogurt Sauce
For the Salmon
2 salmon fillets (I used wild king salmon)
1 tbsp basil (chopped)
6 lemon slices
salt & pepper for seasoning the fish
2 sheets of 15 inch parchment
For the Curried Yogurt
1 cup low-fat plain yogurt
2 tsp curry powder
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1 clove garlic (finely minced)
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cilantro (chopped)
1/2 tsp mint (chopped
Pre-heat the oven to 400. Place each salmon fillet in the middle of your sheet of parchment. Make 3 deep slits with your knife in each fillet. Stuff the slits with the basil. Season the fish with salt and pepper and lay the 3 lemon slices on top of each piece. Fold the parchment paper in half and cut into a large half circle, discarding the cut scraps of paper. Place the fish on one side of the half circle, fold the other side over so the cut sides meet, and roll and press the open edges together until it creates a sealed package for the fish. Set each parchment package on a baking sheet and put into the oven for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, whisk the yogurt, curry, cayenne, garlic, salt, cilantro and mint together in a medium bowl. Set aside. I like to blanch green beans, zucchini and carrots to go under this dish. A bed of arugula is delicious as well.
Once the fish is cooked, cut through the parchment, remove the fish and top with the curried yogurt sauce.
Thanks Elissa, and good luck! Readers, give Elissa a thumbs up if you like this recipe!
Enter our Quick Weeknight Meals Contest!
You could win some fabulous prizes and we'll all collect some great new recipes.


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There's nothing like a big unhealty dose of acute bronchitis to get you contemplating lack of a future. Reality, so called, sharpens to an almost unbearable sequence of images, almost all of them surreal, such as leaving the doctor's office and stopping off at the health food grocer's, there only to be accosted by a scruffy looking customer who apologizes in order to catch your attention. What does he want, I ask. "Are you a Christian?" Hesitant, I ask myself, what is this, a come-on? A guy I know in my profession, a devout Catholic who once told me I could have as clients all the nuns in the archdiocese if only I'd convert, regularly enjoys making fools of street people, e.g. telling the pan-handlers seeking money for lunch, "I'll take you to a nearby restaurant," knowing they'll almost invariably beg off, some with honest admissions they're only seeking the cash for liquor or beer.
Feeling lousy, I couldn't think of anything to say except "No, I'm not," adding, in a cold voice, "and I am not religious, either." Had I felt better I would have said something blatantly atheist, but as it was, I only wanted to be left to my own devices. I just wanted to get rid of him, fast. Bob Dylan in a movie made the sound-over point that American capitalism uses fear to get us to buy things we don't really need, but I think he copped that notion from Burroughs, who said that our government and that nebulous thing we called, in the 60s, "the Establishment," put out conflicting messages ("believe this, don't believe this") in order to put us in a perpetual state of conflict, such that we buy things we don't need, thinking they'll distract us from our fears. Then, too, Eldridge Clever said that we would never have another revolution so long as the supermarkets stay open.
Dis-ease does something else to you, too: it heightens awareness of the truths of atheism, including the explanation that we are not conscious of life before birth, nor will we be conscious of it after death. Also, that the moment of birth is the time we begin to die. Dylan said that, too. One also finds less hostility to Christians who say that they're praying for you. Burroughs said "Pray in one hand, shit in the other; see which one fills up faster." Knowing from my awful cough, wheezing, and spitting gunk into tissue, at least three of my clients this week have said, "We're praying for you." I could set them straight, telling them, for example, that actual studies of prayer for seriously ill hospital patients showed not that prayer helped them but that it caused the prayed-for patients to die in greater numbers. But when you are seriously ill, you are not exactly in a mood to pick quarrels with people. And all of the drugs I've been taken have rendered me ineffective in debate.
Facing death is harrowing for some. I hope I can emulate the great Christopher Hitchens, dying of a brain tumor, incurable. I hope I can go out like he did, without retreat to belief, especially belief in that other country from which no one returns. But will I? Will I have that courage. To me, religion preys on people more than it prays for them. Like the Consul in John Huston's film of Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, I would like to believe but I can't. The scene of the Consul going into a cathedral and staring up at one of those waxy-faced Madonnas so prevalent in Mexican churches especially, is pure John Huston (the director of the film). In interviews, the atheist filmmaker said he wanted to believe but could not, that he actually envied those who could. He had emphysema and eventually died of it. I hope my acute bronchitis goes away soon without putting my lights out just yet. But I ain't gonna pray it away. If I die after their prayers, they can always say God works in mysterious ways. There's no mystery to me. You're born, you live, and you die. Life is what you make of it, and you don't need deity to get there.
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I used to envy religious believers, but I don't envy them much now. While I wish I could add hundreds of more years to my lifespan (think of all that one could learn), I suspect that at some point life would offer too little that is novel and it would mostly become tiresome. Being aligned to a so-called higher purpose or meaning no longer has the charm for me that it once did. Terrestrial purposes and meanings seem pressing and important enough and, potentially, achievable. Eternal purposes would be discouraging precisely because they are endless. What I don't miss at all about religious faith is all that unquestioning obedience. But serfdom has never set well with me.
What I do still envy a bit about religious faith is the sense of community it gave me--diverse people joined together in real (in-person) contact around a common set of values and beliefs. I'd still like to experience that but with less ideational homogeneity. There is something to be said for involvement in communities of concern.
Atheists are young on this curve, Dana, yet we are developing such communities. Don't look now, but You're In One!!!
I had the opposite near the the end of my religion (credit to Dawkins for helping me).
I believed this thing that didn't make sense, but I couldn't choose not to.
Reason raged and belief smirked, but it did make my "de-conversion" all the sweeter.
Unrelated, but here is a link streaming Burroughs reading Junkie in its entirety: http://www.openculture.com/2011/09/william_s_burroughs_reads_his_no...
As the years move on and friends and relatives pass away or become seriously ill, it is harder and harder to ignore your own mortality.You realize that it is all pretty much outside your control. There are many things you can do to shift chances toward a longer and healthier life, but nothing much to do to prevent cancer or eliminate heart disease. It's largely a matter of luck and it's well to be prepared.
What you principally fear is an unpleasant death and these days there are more opportunities to avoid that if you choose. In the case of very serious illnesses, you might choose to avoid treatments that compromise quality of life.
One fear that has never bothered me in the slightest is a fear of suddenly turning religious after a lifetime of atheism, perhaps because my atheism got its start when a member of my parents' church died after the entire church prayed for his recovery. It seemed to me from then on that something was mistaken in religion.
I admire the dying words of Jeremy Bentham: "I now feel that I am dying : our care must be to minimise the pain. Do not let any of the servants come into my room, and keep away the youth: it will be distressing to them and they can be of no service. Yet I must not be alone; you will remain with me, and you only; and then we shall have reduced the pain to the least possible amount."
His concern was to minimize the pain to himself as well as to those around him—that is the best anyone can do.
The worst thing that can happen is that the religious invent stories of how you had a change of heart when the time came. It happened to Darwin and many others. I was certain it would happen to Christopher Hitchens. Apparently not. But you pinpoint the fear that you yourself will have a reconsideration. I certainly pray that you will not. Oops! Excuse that inept choice of words. (I was only joking.)
Hitch made sure to mention that he had no intention of having a deathbed conversion in his final moments during several interviews. He said that if anybody said that he had a change of heart, it was either a lie, or he was not in his right mind (he did expect delirium from the heavy hospice meds).
I do not imagine that I would have a deathbed conversion. I have faced the death and the close calls of loved ones, and I did not even consider seeking solace with a deity. I do not find the concept of a finite life horrible. I do think that immortality would be terrifying and boring at the same time.
In his send-up of occultism, Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco introduces at one point the fabulous figure of the Comte de Saint-Germain, who claimed to have lived for centuries, sans reincarnation. When asked what it was like, Eco has him quip that it is boring in the extreme, as one meets the same people making the same mistakes generation after generation after generation. There are times when, exasperated, I myself exclaim, "Enough already. I'm ready to die. I've seen more than I wanted to and tire of the foolishness of my species." I am reading Hitch-22 at the moment, and I think he had come to pretty much the same conclusion. But then neither of us had to live many lifetimes to see the folly.
The Sybil of mythology was supposed to be immortal.The epigraph to Eliot's The Waste Land reads (in Latin and Greek)
"And I myself with my own eyes saw the Sybil of Cumae, hanging in a cage. When some boys asked her, "Sybil, what do you want?" she answered, "I want to die."
Smart (and world weary) woman.
Well articulated, James.
I've been getting this comment from family, "I know you don't believe in it, but please pray for..." This makes me think they really don't get how absurd it would be for me to pray. My response is always, "Prayer, the next best thing to doing something."
Cop out or don't cop out. No shame either way. I don't think there is a wrong way to make your final departure. Big picture? Humans are the reigning champs at self-delusion. Self-delusion should be listed as the primary identifying trait for our species. I think atheists who come to atheism through logic and critical thinking are only vaguely more aware (sometimes) of this perpetual process than other folks. In truth, all thoughts that create positive and negative emotional states, tend to be a bit delusional in nature. I guess I'm defining delusional as ideas that lack supporting evidence.
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Recall 12V491000
The Master Window Switch May Overheat
Recall Details
Toyota and General Motors are recalling certain models because the power window master switch assembly in some of these vehicles was built using a less precise process for lubricating the internal components of the switch assembly. Irregularities in this lubrication process may cause the power window master switch assemblies to malfunction and overheat. This could result in the switch melting or possibly catching fire. Dealers will inspect and repair or replace the master window switch as necessary.
Our Quick Take
The power window master switch may overheat, melt, or possibly catch fire.
What Should You Do?
As of this writing, the manufactures have not released a notification schedule for this recall. If you are experiencing problems with the master window switch, or you don't receive notification and you feel you should have, please contact your dealer. It's helpful to have your vehicle identification number (VIN) handy when you call.


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I haven't been running in over two weeks. I don't remember the last time we grocery shopped. My PVR is filling up with season finales that I may get around to sometime next month.
We are working on a cool carpentry project (at least we think it's cool), but I'm doing the staining and poly-ing very slowly because I want this one to look amazing. So it may be next week before I'm ready to show it to you.
If I can just make it through to tomorrow night. Because this is where I'll be spending my weekend:
Tom's employer is holding their (postponed) Christmas party at Blue Mountain Resort on Saturday night and they are paying for us to stay there as well. We are going up on Friday night so that Tom can bike the trails with his friends on Saturday morning.
Have you ever been to Collingwood (the nearest town) or Blue Mountain? They are both so beautiful. Blue Mountain is mainly a ski resort but I like it more in the summer. The mountain stays open with cross-country and downhill biking and hiking trails. They also have an outdoor rock-climbing area as well as a beach.
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She tells U.S. news show Entertainment Tonight, "We're thinking of having the baby in Paris maybe... (but) we're still deciding."
Kardashian also admits she and West have discussed honouring her deceased dad, Robert, and the hip-hop star's late mum, Donda, as they consider names for their firstborn.
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Bada Bing Pizza (1716 Eubank NE) now sleeps with the fishes. Once known as Moe's New York Style Pizza, the Italian dine-in and delivery restaurant quietly shut its doors several weeks back for reasons not yet known to us. Bada Bing was one of the few places in the city that served a truly great home made cannoli, not to mention a damn good pie. They were a little slice of New York nestled in the Northeast Heights. Judging from the responses we've received so far, they will be missed by pizza-philes everywhere.
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Last year the Stanford University dining hall became a "peanut-free" zone, a haven for all of those kids who feared Snickers like the plague and had to settle for jelly and jelly sandwiches. Of course, there was an initial uproar—in California they protest everything. No more spicy kung pao chicken? No more pad thai or ice cream sundaes? Students dressed as peanuts for Halloween and ran into the hall trying to scare the allergic kids; others threatened to spike the dishes with nuts unless they got more ice cream and fewer vegetables. Even at Stanford, people can be ridiculous.
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Whether you're more familiar with the French Riviera or the French Quarter, there are plenty of places in Albuquerque to get a taste of authentic French cuisine. Read Hosho McCreesh's review of Le Quiche Parisienne in this issue, and check out these other restaurants in the city that will cater to your wanderlust and make you feel, if only for the evening, that you're dining in the City of Lights. Bon appetit, mes amis.


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On Eagle Mountain
By Todd Mosby
Label: Self Released
Released 3/22/2016
On Eagle Mountain tracks
1. Spirit of the Mountain
2. Soaring
3. Eagle Mountain
4. Falling Light
5. Colorado, Missouri
6. Jack's Fork
7. Spirit Dancer
8. Ode to Joe
9. Moon Song
10. Mountain Lullaby
11. Star Song
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On Eagle Mountain
is notable for two reasons (besides the fact of how good an album it is, obviously). One is the presence of Mosby's "imrat guitar" on selected tracks. The instrument has a discernible Indian (i.e. sitar-like) sound to it. The other noteworthy issue is that, despite the album being recorded at Imaginary Road Studios and produced by Will Ackerman and Tom Eaton, there is a fair amount of ambient/textural synth work (by Eaton himself). While synths are not verboten at IR, their presence is a rare event. However, it's not like the synth pads steer the end result into EM territory, but it is unusual to see them listed on seven of the album's eleven tracks. All that said, Eaton's synthesizer embellishments stand in service of the main draw, which is Mosby's artistry on both the Eastern-sounding imrat guitar and "regular" acoustic guitar. The relative newcomer crafts melodies which reflect both a subtle world music influence as well as a melodic sensibility which mirrors the many fine recordings which have poured forth from Imaginary Road Studios since its inception.
You will undoubtedly hear the Indian influence on the opening "Spirit Of The Mountain," with its accompanying bells, singing bowls, and other additions played by Eaton. That carries over to the next track, the one-minute long "Soaring," which, curiously enough, doesn't even feature Mosby, comprised only of Premik Russel Tubbs' EWI and Eaton's pads and textures. Track 3, "Eagle Mountain," (which flows uninterrupted from the previous song) sees Mosby switching to traditional acoustic guitar, but the music still features a certain "world beat" element, not as overt but there nonetheless. It can also be stated that the song contains plenty of that "certain something" which differentiates albums recorded under the guidance of the Ackerman/Eaton production team at Imaginary Road Studios from many other quality releases. I have previously postulated that Imaginary Road produced/engineered recordings are, essentially, the re-emergence of the ground-breaking Windham Hill record label which Ackerman founded, and
On Eagle Mountain
exemplifies this. There is an eclectic aspect to Todd Mosby's music. It is not just the components, e.g. the presence of imrat guitar, the synth pads provided by Eaton, or the many additional touches courtesy of the "usual suspects" from Imaginary Road Studios (Bisharat, Friesen, Haley, Haynes, Tubbs, et al.). More so it is the heart of
On Eagle Mountain
which presents, for lack of a better definable term, a uniquely American approach to instrumental music. I realize that in today's highly-charged political arena the use of this classification is less than desirable, but it stands all the same. Todd Mosby embodies that special quality that Will Ackerman unearthed four (!!!) decades ago, an approach to instrumental music that embraces multiple influences yet is unified by a specific vision which crosses barriers and genre-lines with effortless grace.
Todd Mosby is a relative newcomer to the instrumental scene (at least from my perspective) and yet his music features uncommon maturity, a sensation of having "arrived" that seems in contrast to any newbie classification. While some of this may be attributed to Ackerman and Eaton and the various accompanying artists, at the core of it is Mosby who displays a knack for crafting guitar music which manages to be special yet also approachable and accessible so that listening to
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(despite its more exotic musical aspects) is like putting on your favorite pair of well-worn jeans. That is a special talent and one which should lead him to a successful recording career.
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Don't blame GM, Toyota exec says
December 20, 2006
GM got a raw deal.
It's the kind of thing you hear over dinner every week in Detroit, but it comes as a surprise when a top executive with Toyota leans across the table to make the point.
"The movie 'Who Killed the Electric Car?' was terribly one-sided," Ernest Bastien, Toyota Motor Sales vice president for vehicle operations, said intensely. "It was not balanced at all."
We were talking in Charlotte, N.C., a couple of weeks ago. I was there to drive Toyota's new 2007 Tundra pickup, and the change in topic was completely unexpected.
If it's not surprising enough to hear Toyota defending GM, try this on for size: The film's director pretty much agrees.
"We let Toyota off the hook for how they subverted the program" to sell electric cars because GM had a higher profile, director Chris Paine told me over the phone Sunday.
The automakers, of course, don't think they subverted anything.
GM's Saturn EV1 electric car and Toyota's RAV4-EV electric SUV failed for the same reason -- customers didn't want them -- said Bastien, who was point man for Toyota's short-lived effort to sell the RAV4-EV in California.
GM delivered about 800 EV1s to customers from 1996 through 2000, while Toyota delivered 342 RAV4-EVs in 2002-03.
The film, which suggested GM sabotaged a promising technology that could reduce fuel consumption and pollution, caused a furor when it was released earlier this year.
The movie also intentionally ignored Toyota's experience to make its case, Bastien said.
"We shared all our experience with the RAV4-EV," but the filmmakers intentionally omitted it, he said.
He said the movie's suggestion that GM "chose not to make money on a car people wanted to buy in California" is ridiculous.
"They spent a huge amount of money advertising that car in California," Bastien said. "People wouldn't buy them."
Toyota did everything it could to attract buyers to the RAV4-EV, too. It subsidized the price, so customers paid $279 a month -- the same price as the company's hit Prius hybrid. The price included an expensive home charging station.
Toyota used the same savvy Internet-intensive marketing model that fueled the Prius craze. It even gave its dealers a sweetheart deal so they could make twice as much selling a RAV4-EV as a Prius.
To no avail. Toyota sold about 300 RAV4-EVs in 2002, compared with 20,119 Priuses. Buyers waited in line for the hybrid. They avoided the electric car like it was a downed power line and Toyota, like GM, pulled the plug on the project.
"Customers are not willing to compromise on things they need," Bastien said. "They need cruising range. They don't want to worry about running out of fuel, and they don't want to wait five hours to recharge. The movie didn't give any consideration to that fact."
Filmmaker Paine bought a RAV4-EV, but he's not buying Toyota's explanation.
"I don't agree that they made a good-faith effort to sell the car," he said. "Their priority was the Prius. The EV1 and RAV4-EV were never properly marketed.
"Toyota was no better than GM."
Which brings us back to the original question: Why was the movie so much harder on GM?
It made a better target.
"GM handled it so poorly," Paine said.
His crew filmed protesters outside Toyota's offices, but the company's security guards came out and gave them bottled water and Toyota key chains.
GM, Paine said, turned the water sprinklers on protesters. GM insists they were timed sprinklers, and the protesters just happened to be there at the wrong moment.
Whatever the case, the GM footage was more dramatic, entertaining video. It made it into the movie. Toyota wound up on the cutting-room floor."I don't want to say that we picked on GM," Paine said. "The EV1 was the iconic electric vehicle. That's why we focused on GM."
Let me translate that: GM ended up in the crosshairs because it invested the most time and effort into its electric vehicle. The futuristic EV1 was designed from the start to be a revolution. It was the poster child for electric vehicles. The sedate RAV4-EV looked like just another small SUV.
GM declined to comment.
The nail that sticks up will be hammered down, as they say. GM was the nail. "Who Killed the Electric Car?" was the hammer.
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The ministry published a request for tender in November, seeking suppliers of 26,400 laptops, 1760 servers and 1760 wifi access routers. The value of the contract is set at just over 15 million euro. The purchase will be partly financed by the European Regional Development Fund. The ministry is asking for laptops and servers that can run either a ubiquitous proprietary operating system or Linux. But, say the Greek Linux User Group (Greeklug) and Eel/lak, a Greek open source advocacy organisation founded by 25 universities and research centres, the technical requirements clearly favour proprietary solutions over open source. "The specification is a copy of the proprietary vendor's e-mail and office software."As someone who gets to deal with government bid contracts, I can assure you that this is extremely common. It's often the case that these kind of request for bids begin with an end product in mind and then develop the bid language to conform to that product. For anyone who wants to actually put together their own effective solution for consideration, it's incredibly annoying. But for a country with the kind of money problems that would make a homeless guy with an addiction to gambling on crack consumption laugh, to linguistically exclude an open source and less expensive software option is simply dumb.
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We're on a couples roll here today; the first 4 posts have been couples-related. And I really want to keep this going because I'm lame with the theme thing but this is totally a cheat because Rooney Mara and Ryan Gosling aren't a real couple, they're just playing one in a Terrence Malick movie shooting in Austin. Another example of how long it takes to make Malick movies happen because they started this last year - click here for old photos from November 2011.
Look at him. This is one of the reasons why he makes women stupid. Ryan Gosling is great all-round actor. But he's particularly good at acting the lover. At convincing the viewer that it's not acting, that he's actually in love with the person he's supposed to be pretending to be in love with. More in love than any legitimate, not-fake love in the entire world. It started with The Notebook. Even in Fracture, which wasn't about love, he was super into it with Rosamund Pike. Lars And The Real Girl, obviously. And the way he held on to Michelle Williams's face all the time in Blue Valentine...
I can't wait to see what it'll be like with Eva Mendes in The Place Beyond The Pines.