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I picked up this book recently and thus far I must say it's pretty interesting. It certainly explains how buffer overflows and other techniques are used. The majority of the book, not surprisingly, covers off programming aspects itself. This is not a how to program book but rather how can programming, if not done well, can be abused/misused. It also looks at specifics of networking (MITM, hijacking, rst hijacking, etc.) and cryptography.
This is the 1st edition so the text is fairly sparse (only about 230 pages) but what is has is to the point and direct.
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Welcome to Flextras
Flextras is a set of Free UI components for Apache Flex® (Previously Adobe Flex).
Mobile Components
Flex Mobile ComponentsOur Mobile Component set includes a Flex Mobile DropDownList and our Flex AutoComplete component.
Product Info
Our Mobile Flex Component set includes:
- A Mobile Flex AutoComplete component
- A Mobile Flex DropDownList component
- A Radio Button ItemRenderer
- A Square Button Skin
Flex AutoComplete ComponentOur Flex AutoComplete component automatically filters your dataProvider as the user type.
Product Info
The Flextras AutoCompleteComboBox is a Flex Component that will let's your users hone in on their choice as they type more characters. It features:
- Automatic filtering of the dataProvider. Use our default filtering, or write your own filter function for your data.
- Control the text highlight in the drop down with itemRenderers.
- Both MX and Spark Implementations for your application.
Check out the ASDocs and other documentation or some live samples. Register to download our Free Edition or purchase to acquire the full source code.
- Release Notes (PDF)
- Manual (PDF)
- All ASDocs (Spark Version)
- ASDocs For AutoCompleteComboBox Package (Spark Version)
- All ASDocs (MX Version)
- ASDocs AutoComplete Package (MX Version)
- Blog Posts on AutoCompleteComboBox
Spark AutoCompleteComboBoxLite
These are samples for our Spark AutoCompleteComboBox Lite:
Halo/MX Samples
These are samples for our MX AutoCompleteComboBox.
- API Explorer Sample
- API Explorer Sample Q&A Presentation
- First Only Sample
- First Only AutoComplete (Blog Writeup)
- AutoComplete Stylized Item Renderers Sample
- AutoComplete Stylized Item Renderers Sample (Connect Presentation)
- AutoComplete from a Database Sample
- AutoComplete from a Database (Connect Presentation)
- AutoComplete As an ItemEditor
- AutoComplete As an ItemEditor (Blog Post)
Flex Calendar ComponentThe Flextras Calendar Component lets you to display dated data in a Flex app as if it were in a Calendar.
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The Flextras Calendar Component allows you to add a Calendar view into your application. Just plug in your dataProvider and be off and running:
- Completely Customizable: Everything you see on screen with our Calendar is implemented using renderers. Create your own days or headers by extending our defaults or completely replacing them to create the display that you need to.
- Item Editors: Do you need to edit your data in the Calendar format? We support all the same itemEditor properties and events from the Flex List.
- Localization: Do you need to localize your Calendar? We implement all the localization features from the DateChooser API, such as firstDayOfWeek and monthSymbol.
- Drag and Drop: What would a Flex App be without some drag and drop properties? We support all the Drag and Drop properties and events from the List API. You can drag items into the Calendar, and drag items out of the Calendar.
- Release Notes (PDF)
- Manual (PDF)
- API Reference (Full ASDocs)
- ASDocs Calendar Package
- ASDocs Calendar Class
- Blog Posts on Calendar
This list contains samples we put together to show off the component:
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ZAGREB, Croatia Twenty-five Soldiers from
the 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team trained
with the Croatian Army at a command post exercise
here called Immediate Response 2011.
Serving as the higher headquarters for the Minnesota Army National Guard's 2nd Combat Arms Battalion, 136th Infantry, the Soldiers from the 50th IBCT trained at the Croatian Armed Forces Leader and Staff Simulation Center from June 4 – 19.
The exercise, which included a field training exercise at Slun, is a multinational operation hosted by the Croatian military that includes more than 1,000 participants from U.S. Army Europe; Minnesota, New Jersey, Texas and Utah National Guards; the United States Air Force and service members from Croatia, Montenegro, Germany, Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia and Serbia.
The two-week exercise is primarily focused on company level training aimed at improving U.S. interoperability with allied and NATO forces and helping Croatian forces prepare for deployment.
"This is the first time we conducted an exercise like this overseas," said Col. Kenneth Schechter, the 50th IBCT commander.
"While our mission was to exercise the Minnesota battalion and work with our Croatian counterparts, the byproduct of what we did was to exercise our own staff," said Schechter.
The exercise was based on counterinsurgency operations in an Afghanistan province using both military forces and civic actions in order to defeat the enemy. The exercise used the Joint Conflict and Tactical Simulation system, which is used for command level training. Laptops and desktop computers filled brigade and battalion headquarters tactical operations centers. Other systems worked within the exercise included the Command Post of the Future and the Blue Force Tracking systems, which allowed some real-time training for U.S. and Croatian Soldiers.
Croatian Army 1st Lt. Marko Skovrlj served in two roles during the exercise. The first was as a Civil Military Cooperation officer with the 361st Civil Affairs Brigade, an Army Reserve unit from Kaiserslautern, Germany. Within this role, Skovrlj served as a liaison between the military and non-military community leaders and nongovernmental agencies coordinating humanitarian efforts in the simulated war-torn province. The second was to serve as a public affairs officer and track newsworthy events happening around the battle space.
"It was a very good experience and a pleasure to work with people with so much experience," said Skovrlj. "It was interesting to watch American military doctrine."
Capt. Stren Lea, a brigade battle captain, worked directly with a Croatian counterpart during the training event.
"We are very fortunate to be able to share our training experience with our coalition partners," said Lea.
During the exercise, many Soldiers held two positions while serving as a higher headquarters for the battalion. One of the Soldiers, Spc. Matthew Ziegler, served in operations and communications. And during the preparation phase of the exercise, the young Soldier set up or moved computers for the event. Consequently, Ziegler became the go-to guy for technical support during the exercise.
Ziegler said he was most impressed with the training and working in a tactical operations center.
"It was a good experience for those Soldiers who have never worked in a TOC," said Ziegler. "The overall scenarios used for the training were very realistic."
"Working in a multinational military force is very interesting because they learn from us and we learn from them," concluded Ziegler.
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Each cupcake charmingly captured the essence of the beach — with the blue sea lapping at grainy sand and little bathing-suited bears lying under umbrellas and floating in inner tubes.
The kids were astonished. The adults probably even more so, taking in what Robinson calls "a little miniature work of art." Yet she swears it was easier than pie.
Robinson, a semiretired attorney from Roland Park who writes a dessert blog called B-More Sweet, is part of a creative cadre whose efforts are hopelessly setting back the "don't play with your food" movement. They're painters with icing palettes and craftspeople whose Home Depot is the grocery store treats aisle
Robinson calls herself a "candy detective," following in the sugary footsteps of Karen Tack and Alan Richardson, the original detectives who wrote 2008's "Hello, Cupcake!" and its sequel that just came out this month, "What's New, Cupcake?"
The authors, who spent decades together styling food, pride themselves on building their creations with ordinary treats, things like marshmallows, spice drops, M&Ms and licorice.
To them, a Circus Peanut candy isn't just a Circus Peanut — it's the body of a goldfish, it's the head of a horse or the feet of a clown. Fruit chews and Tootsie Rolls are both sliceable geometric pieces and modeling clay.
"People are surprised that by taking a few candies and using simple techniques, they can turn cupcakes into these really professional creations," Richardson says. "It's really an eye-opener for people to think outside the box on how to decorate a cupcake."
Robinson's beach masterpiece was constructed of crushed cookies (the sand), Teddy Grahams (the sunbathers), coconut strip candy (the beach towels), Gummi rings (the inner tubes) and gumballs (the beach balls). The water? Nothing trickier than store-bought icing with blue food coloring.
"It's so much fun to see the people when they see these," says Tack. "They're like, 'Oh my God, that looks so difficult.' But it's so easy. They are so, so doable."
Though these elaborately decorated treats will obviously be great for children, perfect for birthdays and holidays, it's just as easy to take the desserts in an elegant, sophisticated direction.
Tack and Richardson transform cupcakes into full-blown mums with mini-marshmallows, colored sugar and licorice. Gorgeous, glistening red apples are done with mini-doughnuts, Tootsie Rolls, green fruit chews and chocolate-covered sunflower seeds. Knitters who want to invite folks over for some communal stitching could serve yarn cupcakes with needles — just white chocolate, wheat sticks, light yellow Smarties and carefully piped icing.
The Chinese takeout cupcakes, which almost have to be seen to be believed, would work at any adult dinner party. Fruit chews, licorice, sprinkles and icing look disturbingly like lo mein, while the same sort of chews combined with rice cereal, jelly beans and more licorice ends up looking just like fried rice — particularly when placed smartly in one of those ubiquitous cardboard containers, as Tack and Richardson, who never miss a detail, do.
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Makes: one bouquet or 8 cupcakes
8 vanilla cupcakes with orange paper liners
1/4 cup each blue,white, light yellow, bright pink, bright yellow, orange and purple decorating sugars ***
1 bag flavored mini-marshmallows in assorted pastel colors
1 bag mini-marshmallows
1 cup canned vanilla frosting
40 pastel-colored licorice pastels (like those made by Jelly Belly)
Green licorice twists (like Twizzlers Rainbow Twists)
Place each colored sugar in separate shallow bowls. Sort out 22 like-colored marshmallows for each cupcake. Make the petals for each cupcake by cutting the 22 mini-marshmallows in half on the diagonal, allowing all of the marshmallow pieces to fall into one of the colored sugars. Shake the bowl and press the cut sides of the marshmallows into the sugar to coat. Repeat with the remaining marshmallows and colored sugars.
Spread a thin layer of frosting on top of one cupcake. Starting along the outside edge of the cupcake, arrange like-colored marshmallow petals, sugared sides up, close together. Continue with another two rows of the same color marshmallows to almost completely cover the cupcake. Repeat with the remaining frosting, cupcakes and marshmallows.
For the stamens, insert five like-colored licorice pastels in the center of each cupcake. Arrange the flower cupcakes on a serving platter. Trim the green licorice twists to look like stems and place on platter.
*** To tint your own sugar: Place sugar in a zip-lock plastic bag. Add a few drops of food coloring to the bag. Create new colors by mixing basic colors like yellow and red to make orange. Seal the bag and shake until the sugar is evenly tinted.-- From "What's New, Cupcake," by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson


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Life after Summerfield Waldorf School
Waldorf education provides a well-rounded foundation as our students move out and about into the world to attend diverse colleges and universities and to work in many different professions. The Survey of Waldorf Graduates, conducted by David Mitchell and Douglas Gerwin, indicates that Waldorf Education is achieving the following in its graduates:
- Multiple Intelligences and Cross Disciplinary Learners
- Global Consciousness and Sustainability
- Basis for Moral Navigation
- Creative Problem Solving
- High Levels of Social Intelligence
- Environmental Stewardship
- High Levels of Emotional Intelligence
- Thinkers Who Think Outside the Box
According to this recent study of Waldorf graduates:
- 94% attended college or university
- 47% chose humanities or arts as a major
- 42% chose sciences or math as a major
- 89% are highly satisfied in choice of occupation
- 91% are active in life-long education
- 92% placed a high value on critical thinking
- 90% highly values tolerance of other viewpoints
Where Are Waldorf Students Accepted and Where Do They Go?
"The simple answer is, 'everywhere.' They go to schools from Amherst to Yale, from the University of Maine to the University of California at San Diego. They go to local community colleges and to elite Ivy League universities. Some go to design schools, music, visual and performing art schools."
- Excerpt from "Life After Waldorf High School" by Abraham Entin, published by AWSNA


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Inova Loudoun Hospital
44045 Riverside Parkway, Leesburg
Health classes offered: Call Cynthia O'Hara at 703-858-6360 for information on safe sitter, prenatal classes and sibling classes, call 703-858-6358 for information about the diabetes program; or call 703-204-3366 for CPR classes.
Loudoun County Commission on Aging, Leesburg
Loudoun County Area Agency on Aging
Information about services and activities available for seniors. Call 703-777-0257 for information.
American Red Cross, Loudoun Chapter
604 South King St., Suite 006, Leesburg
Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
703-777-7171; fax 703-779-8046.
Capital Hospice, Leesburg
209 Gibson St., N.W., Suite 202, Leesburg
Nonprofit, community-based organization that provides complete home health care for people with terminal illnesses. Takes in more than 600 patients and their families a day.
Services: Halquist Memorial Inpatient Hospice Center provides closer management than in-home services can. Also provides respite care for the primary caregiver of a patient where patients can go to the center to be treated giving caregivers time to themselves.
Inova Blood Donor Services
45745 Nokes Blvd., just south of Route 7 behind the Dulles Town Center. Walk-ins welcome.
Mondays, 12-8 p.m.; Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Fridays, 6 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sundays, 12-4 p.m.
Call 1-866-BLOOD SAVES (1-866-256-6372)
Loudoun County Health Department
Mondays, Wednesdays-Fridays, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. and Tuesdays, 1-7 p.m.
Poison Control Center: 202-625-3333 (call collect)
The Office of HIV Services (Inova Juniper Program): 1-800-828-4927
The service of the Inova Juniper Program at the Fairfax Hospital can be reached at 703-321-2600.
The Whitman-Walker Clinic, Arlington (HIV-AIDS): 703-237-4900
Loudoun County Mental Health Centers
Mondays-Thursdays, 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Fridays, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; may be closed during severe weather, check WAGE radio 1200 for announcements. Call 703-771-5100.
Emergency Services: 703-777-0320
Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons
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Terri Wilder, M.S.W.
Working in the Frontlines of the HIV Pandemic Since 1989
Eight Characteristics of Long-Term Survivors of HIV/AIDS
July 6, 2009
Hey everybody. At the beginning of June I volunteered for THRIVE! -- a one-day educational and empowerment workshop in Atlanta for people living with HIV. I love doing this workshop and think that it is a valuable guide for people on living a long life with HIV.
Thoughts About Women and Oral Sex After Visiting the NYC Sex Museum
March 15, 2009
I was on my spring break and felt like I should do something "wild" since historically, spring break is the week that college students are supposed to "let loose." Since I am a 41-year-old student and not 18 anymore, I felt like making a visit to the New York City Museum of Sex was about as wild as I was going to get during spring break. So, for the price of $11.50 ($3.00 coupon deducted from the original price), I spent two hours roaming the exhibit halls of the Museum of Sex fantasizing about the life I wish I had.
The Death of an HIV/AIDS Organization
September 25, 2008
My heart is breaking. It is not breaking over a guy rejecting me or not paying attention to me, but from the end of something amazing.
Standing My Ground With Latex
July 27, 2008
Dating sucks. I hate it and wish I didn't have to participate in it. I realize that no one is forcing me to date, but does it have to be so complicated? Can't we just go out, like each other, find each other attractive, have great safer sex, get tested, get married, have kids, live happily ever after and avoid all the BS that comes with dating?
Where Is the Martin Luther King Jr. of HIV?
June 12, 2008
World AIDS Day has come and gone. The theme for World AIDS Day 2007 was "leadership." The commentary on the World AIDS Day webpage (http://www.worldaidscampaign.info) noted that this theme can be "as flexible as possible to accommodate a range of campaigning needs."
Coping With a Friend's Diagnosis -- and a Race-Blind Virus
April 9, 2008
Before you accuse me of being something that I am not, hear me out. I am sick of seeing posters that associate this disease with one race. Are we not all at risk for this disease? Why do the majority of HIV prevention posters, videos, etc. only target one race?
Remembering a Great HIV Advocate
February 12, 2008
It has been well over a year since my friend Dan Dunable died. We think he died on October 4th ... but we are really not sure ... we don't know, we are guessing. What we do know is that he was dead when we found him on Wednesday, October 4, 2006. "We" included me, Butch, Jon, the Atlanta Police Department and the Atlanta Fire Department. It was a circus and a nightmare.
How We Talk About HIV
December 1, 2007
Have you ever thought about how we come to believe what we believe or why some people think what they think? Let me give you an example; or, actually, let me share an e-mail exchange between me and one of my not-to-be-named cousins.
An HIV Fighter Tells Her Personal Story
August 2007
Hi. My name is Terri Wilder. I am a person ... a weird, opinionated, compassionate person who has worked in HIV for 18 years. I didn't start out in the field because I was personally affected. That came later. I started in the field because I was walking through the School of Social Work at the University of Georgia and found a brochure ... one brochure, announcing an AIDS-related workshop.
Working in the Frontlines of the HIV Pandemic Since 1989
Terri Wilder is a social worker who has worked in HIV for nearly two decades. She has written numerous articles about HIV, and has presented at HIV conferences around the United States. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in sociology at Georgia State University.
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July 6, 2009 - Eight Characteristics of Long-Term Survivors of HIV/AIDS: A Blog Entry by Terri Wilder, M.S.W.
March 15, 2009 - Thoughts About Women and Oral Sex After Visiting the NYC Sex Museum: A Blog Entry by Terri Wilder, M.S.W.
September 25, 2008 - The Death of an HIV/AIDS Organization: A Blog Entry by Terri Wilder, M.S.W.
July 27, 2008 - Standing My Ground With Latex: A Blog Entry by Terri Wilder, M.S.W.
June 12, 2008 - Where Is the Martin Luther King Jr. of HIV? A Blog Entry by Terri Wilder, M.S.W.
Articles by Terri:
Are We Thinking About HIV and Older Adults?
Twenty-Seven Years of Women Living With HIV:
Past, Present and Future (January 1, 2008)
The Hidden Epidemic: White Women and HIV (September 2001)
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We apparently can learn something from the birds and the bees when it comes to human sexuality: new research shows that, just like humans, stressed-out birds are more likely to cheat on their partners. Scientists used to think that the majority of birds were monogamous, but we now know that most "cheat" on their "spouses" and that global warming exacerbates the trend: researchers found that females in unstable climates lay more eggs that lack their spouse's DNA and swap mates more often between breeding.
Researchers also discovered that female birds are more likely to stray if their male spouses aren't bringing enough to the table. "A tern that brings plenty of fish back to the nest one season may not be able to find any fish the next, prompting his mate to seek out a better partner," according to the study. (Hey, did these bird-ladies read my post earlier today on marriage as "luxury"?!?) Some really harsh birds will drop a beau if he's not looking too fly, and formerly-pretty males can lose their shiny plumage if weather conditions are bad.
After reading this, I'm expecting the Real HouseBirds of Orange County to premiere on Bravo sometime soon. However, unlike humans, birds are a lot chiller about adultery. In fact, their species benefits from it! "Mating with multiple partners improves the chances that at least one chick will have the genes to cope with the variable conditions to come," the lead researcher behind the study explained. Which means any upcoming bird-centric reality television shows would lack a certain amount of drama.
Climate Change Increases Mate-Swapping in Birds [Scientific American]


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Grateful residents — and their pets — welcomed North Shore Animal League America to East Rockaway on Nov. 15 when members of the no-kill shelter came to hand out pet food for those residents with hungry dogs and cats.
"People are overwhelmed," said Byron Logan, Director of Corporate and National Shelter Outreach for NSALA. "After we received the donation form Purina PetCare of over 6,000 bags of dog and cat food, we've been to Island Park, Lindenhurst, Freeport, and now here, in East Rockaway to distribute it." Logan and his associates set up the NSALA mobile unit outside of the Bethany Church, whose auditorium has been turned into a donation drop off and pick up relief center since Hurricane Sandy. Outside, dozens of pet owners thankfully took some food to take home to their "best friends" – or their friends' and familys' pets.
"This is so great, I can't tell you what this means to us," said Alice Barnes, who owns three cats. "I stayed at my house during the storm because of them, and I need to take care of them now more than ever. Thank you!"
Some residents were shy about taking food, but NSALA Manager of Pet Behavior/Rescue and East Rockaway resident Mike Malloy told them, "It's just one less thing you have to worry about."
A man who lives upstate was in town to help his mother, an 84-year-old longtime Bay Park resident. He took some food for his Labrador. "I can't wait to get him back home so he can run around again."
The NSALA associates and Mercy First students and their teacher took a smaller van to go into Bay Park. "It was really bad down there," said Logan. "We've been to Lindenhurst, Freeport, Island Park … this is just as bad as anything we've seen." While there, they left bags of food for people who were known to own pets. "If they weren't home, we just left it at the door."
For more information about NSALA and their Sandy relief efforts, visit www.animalleague.org


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Type J3C Model L20 Electric 24V Actuator Power Open Power Close
J3C-L20 On Off Electric Actuator Maximum 25Nm for 24V
Overview: Maximum 25Nm 12-24V Multi-voltage reversible IP67 failsafe modulating quarter turn smart electric actuator, with manual override, heater, torque limiter, LED status light, external Din plug connection and dome visual indicator. F03,F04 & F05 x 14mm female star mounting.
Function: Continuous external power, movement controlled by DPS (Digital Positioning System) input control signal, typically 4-20mA or 0-10V. Configurable to open, close, or freeze on loss of control signal. Pre-set to fail open, or close on loss of external power failure. Output signal provided. Supplied with BSR & DPS systems pre-installed and function tested.
Select Actuator Function:
Sizing Criteria:
Max break torque 25Nm.
Max run and reseat torque 20Nm.
Max ambient temp range -20 to +70C.
Failsafe using internal battery (BSR) kit.
Modulating using potentiometer positioner (DPS) kit.
Failsafe modulating using BSR & DPS kits.
9mm or 11mm female star drive output.
|JJ Electric Actuator Type J3C-L20 Overview
|J3CL20 On Off
|On Off
|On loss of power
|Stays put
|Max Break and Run Torque Nm
|25 - 20
|Supply Voltage Range
|12-24V AC or DC
|Working time
|Power Light
|Actuator Status Light
|Yes, Red LED
|Fault Status Light
|Yes, Flashing Red LED
|Electrical Connection
|External Din plugs (Supplied)
|Valve mounting
|ISO5211 F03 F04 and F05
|Drive Output
|14mm female star
|Ingress Protection
|IP67 Fully weatherproof
|Anti-condensation Protection
|Thermostatic heater supplied
|Ambient Temperature range
|-20C to +70C
|Over Torque Protection
|Electronic torque limiter
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Smokey Robotic – Grace Under Fire x new EPApril 24th, 2011 by Siegz | Alternative/Indie, Dance, Hip-Hop/Rap, Music Video, Pop, R&B, Rock |
If you haven't heard of Smokey Robotic yet, it's time you know about this superfuture genre-blending music group. A couple months back they released their Outside The Lines EP, and it's a must download. After the EP came out, a few weeks later they released "Grade Under Fire" featuring Roscoe Umali & Styliztik Jones. Here's that track and my favorite track from their latest EP that we haven't posted on here yet.
Grace Under Fire (feat. Roscoe Umali & Styliztik Jones)
Smokey Robotic – Redzone
Below, watch the official music video to "Grace Under Fire".


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It's always entertaining to see how home prices vary from place to place, and to see what homes command the highest prices. Usually, the priciest properties have names. They also tend to have swimming pools on landscaped grounds, a gourmet kitchen and very often a wine cellar. But what else do they have that commands such prices? It's not always obvious. Two of the following homes are being sold unfinished, and one of those two is charging an extra $50,000 for parking. A handful of these properties don't even have enough square footage to qualify as mansions.
What follows are the priciest listings currently posted on Realtor.com in each of the 10 most-populous cities in the U.S. This list is an indicator of the top end of real estate offerings in these cities. However, it should not be considered comprehensive as it does not include pocket listings, which may appear on each property's exclusive broker website but are not distributed to other sites through the multi-listing system (MLS).
Which of the following 10 cities has the most expensive home? In which city is the most expensive listing a mere $4.5 million? Ranked in order from the least expensive to the most expensive mansion, here are the priciest homes in the 10 biggest cities in the U.S.
By Colleen Kane
Posted 27 June 2012


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WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - The Transportation Security
Administration on Monday delayed a controversial policy change
that would have allowed small knives to be carried onto
airplanes for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001.
The decision, announced in a letter to TSA employees after a
week of heightened security tensions following the Boston
Marathon bombings, was greeted with cautious relief by flight
attendant unions, which have been waging a high-profile campaign
to overturn the plan.
"The 90,000-member Flight Attendants Union Coalition, which
has opposed the TSA's ill-advised plan from the start, remains
resolute: no knives on planes ever again," the group said in a
Last month, the TSA said that starting on Thursday, it would
allow folding knives with blades 2.36 inches (6 cm) or shorter,
to be carried onto airplanes, as well as hockey sticks, golf
clubs, ski poles and billiard cues.
The agency had determined that these items would not pose a
catastrophic threat to an aircraft, and confiscating them from
passengers in airport security queues was distracting security
officers from screening for greater threats, such as
non-metallic explosive devices.
Hijackers in the Sept. 11 attacks used small knives to
attack crew members and gain control of aircraft. Cockpits on
commercial planes have since been required to have locked doors
during flights.
But flight attendants have argued that they could be put at
risk from knives carried onto planes and have sought input into
the TSA's decision.
"By delaying this policy, the TSA is taking a solid, common
sense step in the direction of safer skies," said Senator
Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat and one of several
lawmakers working with the flight attendants.
"This delay acknowledges that permitting knives on planes is
a bad idea. Now the TSA should go the rest of the way and end
this flawed policy altogether," Schumer said.
(Reporting by David Lawder)


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EAST PALO ALTO GETS AN IZZY'S ... As Izzy's Brooklyn Bagels celebrates its 16th year in Palo Alto at 477 S. California Ave., it has opened a second shop in East Palo Alto. Located at 2220 University Ave. at Bell Street, it sits behind Three Brothers Tacos in a small strip mall. Izzy's general manager Diana Arzate said she was thrilled with the new venue. "We have been looking for a second location for at least five years, but we were having trouble finding a spot nearby with reasonable rent," she said, adding that she has lived in East Palo Alto for 13 years and not found any healthful options for breakfast in town. The 2,000-square-foot bagel shop has scheduled a grand opening, with free bagels, for July 4.
SHOKOLAAT SHUTTERED ... Shokolaat Restaurant at 516 University Ave. in Palo Alto served its last truffle on June 16. The building's landlord plans to convert the downtown building to retail and office space in another year, and though he offered Shokolaat one more year of life before the conversion, "We weren't interested in taking it," said co-owner Shekoh Moossayi, who shared ownership of the restaurant with her husband, Mark Ainsworth. The couple plans to move to France.
NEW RESTAURANTS AT STANFORD ... The fast-casual Mexican grill Chipotle opened this month at Stanford Shopping Center, next to Pinkberry. Although the menu is identical to those of other restaurants in the chain, the interior has a different look, with a long, sleek contemporary style. Also newly opened in the mall is Yucca de Lac, a tropical-looking indoor/outdoor Asian-fusion restaurant. Located near California Pizza Kitchen, Yucca de Lac hails from Hong Kong, where it has been a mainstay for 50 years.
BETSEY GOES BANKRUPT ... The news is not so great for Betsey Johnson, whose unconventional, high-end clothing and accessories store is no more. The company has filed for bankruptcy, forcing all of its 63 stores to close, including the one at Stanford Shopping Center. The only items that remained were the black-and-white checkered tile floor and a handwritten sign on the window that said "Closed Forever." But even those remnants were covered recently when the space was boarded up, awaiting a new tenant. Betsey Johnson fashions can still be found at Nordstrom and Bloomingdale's.
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Justin Bieber Takes Mystery Girl to NBA Finals + Delays Flight Looking for Pet Monkey
Just when you thought the drama was over, there's more monkey business for Justin Bieber.
You probably remember the fiasco surrounding his pet monkey, Mally, who was eventually left in Germany. Now the Biebs held up a private jet because apparently he lost yet another pet monkey!
TMZ reports that Bieber was slated to hop on a private jet to leave Miami yesterday, but left it grounded for eight hours while he searched for his primate pal.
Bieber's flight was slated to take him from Miami to Burbank at 11AM ET, but Bieber called to tell the jet company he was running late. He then showed up around 3PM ET, but still needed to pick his monkey up from West Palm Beach. He even hired a helicopter to help him get past traffic on the ground to scoop up his pet!
Biebs wound up getting on the plane around 5:10PM ET, but no one knows whether his monkey made it or not.
Maybe Biebs was distracted by his new rumored love interest. He was spotted with a hottie at the NBA finals -- and it looks a lot like the same girl he took to ride Space Mountain at Disney! A spy snapped and tweeted the photo below so you can check her out.


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From The Beacon: Get a passport to library's resources
"I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries."
Carl Sagan in "Cosmos"
Life today is very challenging. We're all trying to do more with less.
If you take a moment today to stop and reflect, you know that you're probably working more and spending less. Think about this: The Beaufort County Library System provides our community with resources and services many of us could not afford. Nowhere else in the world can you find:
Beaufort County, like most of the nation, has seen a lot of change in the past few years. In 2007, we were the fastest growing county in South Carolina. Now, we have an unemployment rate of more than 9.5 percent. Our citizens and visitors are looking for resources and information to help them deal with the challenges of economic, educational and personal change.
So what is the role of libraries today? Our county library system is innovative, responsive and makes the most of often limited resources. Our libraries are welcoming places for our people to gather. We serve as a hub for community organizations, networking and support groups, families, friends and neighbors. And, our libraries are exciting places where ideas are exchanged and shared so that we build a new understanding of ourselves and the world.
Collaboration is a big part of what we do at the library system every day. We partner with individuals, organizations, libraries across the state and groups around the globe to bring you programs, materials and access to a world of information.
You can find us throughout the social media world, too. Want to discuss your favorite book or share a remembrance about 9/11? We're on Facebook, Twitter and Blogger so you have a forum to do just that.
We take our programs and information on the road to parks, schools, Rotary and Lions club meetings, outreach events and even local business expos. Our Friends of the Library Groups and Public Library Foundation work together and provide much needed financial support for activities in and out of the library so that our mission to serve and support the community is a mission accomplished. Indeed, we reach out as far as our county and volunteer resources allow us to go to bring those library services to every corner of our community.
Our libraries are more than information, more than technology and more than materials. Don't underestimate how important libraries are to all the residents of our community. They are absolutely essential to our American way of life.
So join the more than 90,000 card holders at the Beaufort County Library System. September is National Library Card Sign-up Month. Just bring proof of residency to get your new card, or if you already have your card and can't find it, come in during September for a free replacement card. Library Card Sign-up Month is a time when libraries across the country remind parents that a library card is the most important school supply of all. Thousands of public and school libraries join together each fall in a national effort to ensure every child signs up for his or her library card.
As we say at the Beaufort County Library system, "We're for learning, for leisure and for life." Most of all, our library system is for everyone.
Sandra Saad is the director of development and marketing for the Beaufort County Library System and serves as the chief development officer for the Public Library Foundation of Beaufort County.


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Profiling with OProfile
From PostgreSQL wiki
OProfile is an operating system level profiler for Linux that's known to give useful results profiling PostgreSQL.
Initial Setup
This needs to be done only once per system boot:
sudo opcontrol --init sudo opcontrol --setup --no-vmlinux
although you can re-issue the --setup command to change profiling options later.
If you need detail about what the kernel is doing, get debug symbols for your kernel; then the setup command looks something like
sudo opcontrol --setup --vmlinux=/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux
There are a vast number of other options to the --setup command, but you don't need them for ordinary cases.
Virtual Machine Setup
If you are using a virtual machine, you might need to make oprofile use a timer instead of trying to use hardware performance counters that might not be available. You can do that on the fly by shutting down oprofile if it's running and executing:
sudo opcontrol --deinit sudo modprobe oprofile timer=1
You can make this setting permanent by adding a file to /etc/modprobe.d (at least on Fedora) called oprofile.conf with these contents:
options oprofile timer=1
Start/stop profiling
sudo opcontrol --start sudo opcontrol --reset ... exercise your debug-enabled program here ... sudo opcontrol --dump ; sudo opcontrol --shutdown
The test case should run at least a minute or two to get numbers with reasonable accuracy.
opreport --long-filenames | more opreport -l image:/path/to/postgres | more
If you really want detail:
opannotate --source /path/to/postgres >someplace
The --reset command zeroes the stats that these programs report on, so be sure to save the output you want before running another test case. Also, modifying the executable program-under-test invalidates the stats for it.
Additional analysis
Getting callgraph information from oprofile can provide additional detail about libraries that are being used, including using of the common libc library calls. Although it won't directly tell what function in libc is being called, you would see where the calls are coming from, which is usually enough to guess what the libc function is.
Important: to get useful callgraph information, you must compile with -fno-omit-frame-pointer.
You can also get the oprofile data, including callgraph, into kcachegrind, which is *very* helpful, using a script such like http://roberts.vorpus.org/~njs/op2calltree.py
Interpreting the results
A good example showing how to use the results from oprofile to help make a performance-related coding decision is oprofile results for stats collector test
Other alternatives
OProfile is preferred to gprof because of several limitations of gprof.
Another possibility is to use valgrind for profiling; example usage
Newer Linux systems (kernels 2.6.31 and later) can use the perf utility.
Installing the software
Whether OProfile works correctly is very dependent on how your Linux distribution was packaged. According to the Unladen-swallow project, "The oProfile packages in Debian Sid and Ubuntu Hardy, Jaunty, Karmic, and Lucid are all broken", with an alternate package suggested there you can swap for the system one. Debian Squeeze should have a working version, as shown in the good Ceph tutorial on using the program. You will need the linux-image-debug package to trace into the kernel, and when that's available you may be able to start the program without the "--no-vmlinux" flag.


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To everything there is a season. After trailing the market for the first half of the year, the Sizemore Global Macro portfolio has performed well in recent months. According to returns data compiled by Covestor, the portfolio was up 17.0% in the 90 days to October 1 vs. a gain of 4.9% on the S&P 500 index.
The reason for the reversal of fortune?
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Our allocation to social media stocks via GSV Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: GSVC) was certainly a contributing factor. GSV Capital is up year to date, and it is one of the portfolio's largest holdings.
But the biggest contribution came from the portfolio's allocation to Europe. Ten of the portfolio's 22 current holdings are domiciled in Europe. This overweighting was a major drag on performance during the first half of 2013, as the U.S. markets outperformed virtually all others. But as investors rediscover the investment merits of the Old World, the gap is closing fast.
In my opinion, Europe may outperform the U.S. markets for the remainder of 2013 for the following reasons:
- European shares are significantly cheaper than their American counterparts, particularly when you consider that European earnings have been depressed by years of crisis. By Societe Generale estimates, European stocks trade at a discount to their American counterparts.
- The bond markets in Europe have stopped reacting to bad news. The Italian government teetered on the brink of collapse this week due to the shenanigans of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi…and (yields barely budge). In my opinion, a calm bond market creates the conditions of stability that a stock market rally requires.
- European companies have better indirect exposure to emerging markets than their American counterparts. This was a negative earlier this year when investors were fleeing the asset class. But as China looks to be stabilizing, I expect to see emerging market growth surprise to the upside.
Disclaimer: The investments discussed are held in client accounts as of September 30, 2013. These investments may or may not be currently held in client accounts. The reader should not assume that any investments identified were or will be profitable or that any investment recommendations or investment decisions we make in the future will be profitable. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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text: To answer my own question (GIYF, after all:-) there is a white paper here: www.ptsdcs.com/whitepapers/20.pdf that does indeed address this very question. The answer (in a nutshell) is that an EPO is required by code to protect a "data center". A datacenter has a very specific definition, and just not having fire resistant walls suffices to make something "not a data center" and hence exempt. This is bizarre and backwards, of course. Hence most wiring closets and small server rooms, including the one I'm working on, appear to be exempt. There are also significant requirements on room air conditioning for data centers under the same code, BTW -- the HVAC has to also be disconnectable, and the air returns have to be HOWEVER, if you love your local firemen and want them to live (or love yourselves and the other employees who sit near the data not-a-centers), the same white paper says that an EPO switch is still a very good idea for small server rooms and wiring closets that are not "data centers" but are just "data closets" or "data rooms that aren't quite centers". This white paper STILL doesn't help a whole lot with the actual nuts and bolts of how to wire a room kill -- it makes is seem like every room is supposed to be a unique piece of engineering where you should expect to drop thousands of dollars on the process (more than the cost of the UPS's being controlled by a factor of two or so) rather than a simple "wire the following standard cat5 rj45 cables from here to here, plug them into the EPO switch suitably mounted on the wall here, test" type HOWTO. But I will persevere. Google is still there, and the information I seek MUST be somewhere in webland...;-) rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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I am not one to give a shit about high/low designer collaborations (although the upcoming Marni/H&M situation might change my mind), mostly because I don't wait in line for anything really, especially not clothes, which has to do more with my laziness than with my being a snob (which I'm definitely admitting to being). I didn't know that the Versace and H&M thing was ongoing, but I'm stoked to see that their second round of clothes will be offered online. As soon as I saw the looks on Abbey Lee only one thing came to mind; the epic April 1995 issue of Vogue with Kristen McMenamy on the cover.
Bummer that they decided to go with fruit instead of the butterfly print, but the inspiration is undeniable (she's wearing Versace on the cover). The looks might not be a remake of this classic but they definitely fit in with one of the editorials featured inside:
All I need is a blunt-bangs black wig and some killer red lips and I am ready to go. Thank you internet! Once again you've made my life better.
Versace + H&M collab pics via.
April 1995 Vogue pics via.


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Linux Rising in Financial Firms; But Some Users Wonder Why
Points of View Matter
Among early adopters of Linux, Wall Street looms as tall as its skycrapers. But why are some financial services firms starting to take giant steps into Linux, and what stands in the way of even bigger penetration? At this week's Linux on Wall Street show in New York City, participants gave often opposing views on these and related issues, including the question of whether Wall Street gives back to the open source community as much as it gets.
In both formal presentations and casual conversations, few disputed Wall Street's role as a major force behind open source deployments. Yet some financial IT folks admitted to lingering doubts about the overall value of Linux to their organizations.
"Lots of financial services companies are switching now from Solaris on SPARC to Linux on PC grids," said Nicolas Pintart, RMDS product manager at Reuters, an entity that used this week's show as the forum for unveiling a deal with HP and Novell.
Pintart attributed the rise in Linux to increasing fascination among algorithmic Wall Street traders with ultra high-speed "low latency" data feeds.
"PC-based Solaris is also doing well with our customers, but Solaris on SPARC isn't. PC grids run much faster than SPARC," contended the product manager, speaking with LinuxPlanet at an HP-sponsored event at the show.
During an ad hoc interview elsewhere at the conference, a Dutch systems integrator maintained that Wall Street is embracing Linux a lot more quickly than the European financial community is doing.
"Europe isn't 'behind' the US in implementations, though," according to the integrator. "It is just waiting."
And what is Europe waiting for? "It's waiting for the right underlying infrastructure to be available," he responded.
In roundtables at the show, vendors talked up other benefits, including the lower costs of Linux and the ability to tweak applications easily via open source code.
Stephen Jenvey, an associate at Fidelity Ventures, said that some firms capitalize on Linux by using the OS mainly as a platform for quick development of initial code for new software programs.
But during the same session, an attendee took the mike to ask the panelists, "What's in it for us to use Linux?"
As deployment barriers, the audience member cited problems he perceives around patent issues and desktop Linux.
Panelists responded that the impact of Linux patents on user organizations is almost nonexistent so far--and, further, that licensing issues for commercial software are just as confusing to users as Linux patents.
Carl Drisko, Linux and open source principal at Novell, pointed to his company's recent announcements at Novell's Brainshare conference as indicating that the industry recognizes the need for better user interfaces.
But the attendee who asked the question, an IT administrator who asked not to be identified in print, didn't walk away satisfied by these answers.
"I still don't understand what's 'in it' for the financial services industry to use Linux," he later told LinuxPlanet.
Even within financial services, users' perceptions of Linux advantages appear to hinge heavily on their own roles within the organization, conjectured James Grady of Code4Design, during an IBM-sponsored event at the show.
"Desktop Linux might be hampered by a 'geek factor,'" according to Grady. "A lot of people seem to think that you have to be 'really technical' to use Linux," he elaborated.
Grady added that his company is also striving to overcome these kinds of fears with its offering, which adds a user friendly front end to a hosted Apache Web server environment..
According to Grady, IBM helped Code4Design to port its environment from PC Linux to Linux on zSeries just in time for the Wall Street on Linux conference.
Meanwhile, back at the roundtable, speakers also took up the topic of the relationship between Wall Street and the open source community.
According to Shaun Connolly, VP of product management for JBoss, Wall Street firms have already shown themselves capable of working together to build open source components commonly needed in financial services.
Wall Street has helped considerably to drive both the SourceID and the Federated Identity Stack projects, he told the audience.
"But the difference is in when the code is specific to you," Drisko interjected. For custom applications, Wall Street firms are not ever likely to give up their code to the community, according to the Novell exec.
"Why? Because of all the competition on Wall Street. The companies need to make money," Drisko told LinuxPlanet afterward.


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More than 500 Naval Base San Diego (NBSD) sailors and civilians participated in the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 5k Run/Walk in early December on the waterfront in San Diego. The event, organized by the NBSD Morale, Welfare and Recreation department, commemorated thousands who lost their lives during the 1941 Japanese attack.
Retention Management's sales grew 655 percent from 2005 to 2006, according to results for the fiscal year that ended on Dec. 31, 2006. Growth came from most areas of the market, including independent clubs, medically based facilities, YMCAs, JCCs and multi-club companies, the company says.
Nautilus partnered with the National Academy of Sports Medicine to offer new education programs for fitness professionals and provide research and training support for new fitness products.
Ken Germano and Marc Onigman, who recently launched sales and marketing company Stone Hearth Fitness, are working with the American College of Sports Medicine on its ReFit program. The program is aimed at creating children's fitness facilities nationwide, including professional fitness mentoring, educational materials and an environment that will encourage participants to consider professional fitness-industry career paths.
ASF International sponsored a donation drive for the Denver charity, Family Tree. ASF's staff donated household items, toys, clothing and other supplies to help Family Tree's Women in Crisis and House of Hope shelters. ASF also made a cash donation to the charity.
Fitness Together, a personal training organization, opened 29 studios in the last quarter of 2006, a 16 percent increase over the same period the previous year, says Rick Sikorski, CEO of the Highlands Ranch, CO-based company. In all, 91 studios were opened in 2006.
Town Sports International Holdings Inc. (TSI) opened its 100th New York Sports Club in the metro New York area. The 15,000 square-foot club in midtown Manhattan offers equipment with audiovisual entertainment and studios featuring cycling and group ex classes.
Gold's Gym Capitol Hill recently opened its newly renovated facility in Washington, DC. The redesigned 19,000-square-foot facility provides upgraded services including a newly designed free-weight floor, an additional stretching area and 42-inch plasma screen televisions. Group exercise classes, including Body Jam and Body Attack, were also new additions.
Bilancio, a fitness studio in Purchase, NY, recently opened. The facility, which is owned by Paul Bruni, offers personal training, Pilates, yoga and group exercise classes.
Iron Grip Barbell Co. recently joined the JCC Association's Continental Preferred Vendors program, which is offered to a select group of suppliers whose products meet the needs of JCC facilities. As a preferred vendor, Iron Grip will be recommended to the JCC's network of more than 275 JCCs, YMCAs, YWCAs and summer camps throughout North America. Iron Grip will also sponsor the JCC Professional Conference and Biennial Conference.


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Aerohive has introduced a new cloud-enabled mobility management product designed to simplify enterprise networking and extend visibility and control over connected mobile devices. The new Aerohive Mobility Suite manages a variety of mobile device needs, from transient guests requiring basic Internet access, to company-issued devices with tightly-controlled applications and content.
The Mobility Suite includes three main components:
ID Manager
Aerohive's ID Manager provides self-service portals and kiosk-based guest registration as well as delivery of access credentials via SMS, e-mail, and even Twitter direct messaging. For management of devices in a BYOD environment, an Employee Sponsorship functionality allows employees to register for guest credentials to connect their personal devices to the guest network.
Client Management
The Client Management application allows IT administrators to onboard and provision institution-issued and employee-owned devices with unique client credentials. Device-level configuration profiles can be combined with device ownership to create personalized policies and controls. Client information is displayed in Aerohive's HiveManager for monitoring and reporting. The integration of Client Management with the context-based policy enforcement of Aerohive's network infrastructure means IT administrators are able to create mobile policies that utilize both network- and device-based information.
Integration With Software Partners
Aerohive Mobility Suite's partnerships with mobile device management (MDM) vendors AirWatch and JAMF Software facilitate enrollment and enforcing the continued installation of MDM agent software. In particular, the Aerohive-AirWatch integration allows Aerohive devices to query AirWatch management for enrollment and compliance status. When a connected device is determined to be out of compliance, the Aerohive devices can quarantine the out-of-compliance client device on the network as well as send a message to the user to remediate the device before they are granted full access to the network.
For more information, go to the Aerohive site.
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Monday, June 12, 2006
The FBI national crime figures for 2005 are out - and violent crimes are up for the first time in 5 years.
The Treatment Advocacy Center (www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org) is a national nonprofit dedicated to eliminating barriers to the timely and effective treatment of severe mental illnesses. TAC promotes laws, policies, and practices for the delivery of psychiatric care and supports the development of innovative treatments for and research into the causes of severe and persistent psychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.


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Both Microsoft and Nokia have been featured in this year's Google Zeitgeist. The report takes into account global searches in 2012 and shows what the world has been searching for. Taking two spots in the consumer electronics top ten, the Lumia 920 and Surface tablet were in position 10 and 8 respectively.
As expected, the iPad was featured more than once with the iPad 3, 4 and Mini all making an appearance. The full list from the category is as follows:
- iPad 3
- Samsung Galaxy S3
- iPad Mini
- Nexus 7
- Galaxy Note 2
- Play Station
- iPad 4
- Microsoft Surface
- Kindle Fire
- Nokia Lumia 920
The top searches were split into eleven categories in total: overall searches, images, athletes, events, people, feature films, television shows, performing artists, consumer electronics, airlines, and Google+ hashtags.
While the Lumia 920 wasn't anywhere near the top, we're feeling quite proud that Windows Phone made the list (the iPhone 5 was ranked #3 in the 'images' list of searches).


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Special Edition
Restless Records (74321619762)
Release Date: March 31, 2003
Conducted by Ennio Morricone
Formats: CD, Digital
Average Rating: 4 stars (1 user)
Best of 1999: Best Special Release
|Once Upon A Time In America
|Deborah's Theme
|Childhood Memories
|Prohibition Dirge
|Cockeye's Song
|Amapola Part II
|Chilhood Poverty
|Photographic Memories
|Friendship & Love
|Deborah's Theme - Amapola
|Suite (from Once Upon A Time In America)
|Poverty (Temp Version)
|Unused Theme
|Unused Theme (Version II)
|Track lengths not available for this album. If you have track length/time information for this album, please e-mail it to us at email@example.com and we will add it to the database.
|by Messrob Torikian
August 25, 2003
Once Upon A Time In America is the final re-teaming of director Sergio Leone and composer Ennio Morricone, two titans of the film world whose previous collaborations were nothing short of brilliant. Together they forever changed the face of the cinematic Western landscape. Leone gave the world his completely different perspective on the Western while Morricone infused the films with operatic grandeur. The films (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, and Once Upon A Time In The West) became landmarks and ushered in a new genre of movies: the "Spaghetti Western".
While the two had not worked together since 1972s A Fistful of Dynamite, nothing seemed to have changed between then and the 1983 release of Once Upon A Time In America. For Leones epic tale of Jewish gangsters spanning 60 years, Morricone created another one of his superb scores. Although there are perhaps only four themes played throughout the film, its how theyre used that makes them so effective. As with his past work, Morricone knows how to use one theme to evoke different emotions depending on which scene its used for. America is a four hour movie thats told in a non-linear fashion. When the same themes are used over and over again as the story unfolds, there is an immense payoff by the end. Ennios themes are what keep the epic scope of the film from dwarfing the individual characters whose lives we follow. Its a difficult task but Ennio makes it seem like a breeze.
While not operatic as his previous scores for Leones films, Morricones style in America is closer to his work in The Untouchables and the unused What Dreams May Come. While those films came much later, you can hear the basic motifs for the main themes springing out of his work for America. One of the unique aspects of this score is Ennios incorporation of Gheorghe Zamfir, who plays a pan flute. (Ed.: Yes, this is the same Zamfir who had those mail-order ads in the 1980s!) At times this music is used to convey remembrance, at other times terror. Zamfirs flute playing was also used to haunting effect in Peter Weirs Picnic at Hanging Rock.
This Special Edition release contains the 15 tracks that were previously available on the Mercury German Import CD plus some 27 minutes worth of unreleased material. One of these bonus tracks is a 13-minute medley of the themes along with some atonal suspense music used in the movie but missing from the previous release. Another cue is a temp version of the "Poverty" theme. The last two tracks are unused early versions of the main theme, and it is interesting to see how the theme evolved to what it is in the final version. All this extra material makes this CD a "must have" even if you own the previous release. In fact this release is a "must have" for any Morricone fan, any soundtrack collector, or simply anyone who loves beautifully composed music.
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Maps don't always give you the whole picture.
Looking at a layout of the Fraternity Quad won't tell you what to do on a Saturday night (SAM's Beach Party, anyone?). Perusing the guide to the Old Stacks in Rush Rhees Library won't tell you which floor has the best view or help you find outlets you can plug into so that you can stay up until 2 a.m. working on that paper due the next day. And going on Google Maps to get a birds-eye view of the city of Rochester— well, that's about as helpful as a Nick Tahou's garbage plate is to your digestive tract.
In college, we're taught to think outside the box. Maps are cookie cutter; Rochester students certainly aren't. And neither are the things we do. In an attempt to capture some of that eccentricity, I drew the assignment of asking Rochester students—from student government leaders in the College and at Eastman to the crowds of kids milling around the Eastman Quad on a spring day—all the same question: What do all Rochester undergraduates need to do before they graduate?
With their help, we put together a handy list: The best of the best 101 things you have to do before you accept that diploma. The place to be on a given weekend night, the ultimate venue for an all-night stakeout during midterm week, your best bet for where to grab food at all hours—all are included. The method wasn't scientific, and the order is a little random—but we hope the results capture the Rochester experience.
And, most important, this is certainly not a map.
So, in recognition that this is the season of Commencement, here's the list. How many have you accomplished?
In order to come up with our list of 101 Rochester musts, Dana Hilfinger '10 talked to several student leaders, interviewed students in the College and at Eastman, and drew on her own student experience.
Dana has packed a lot into her four years on campus. The English major from Ann Arbor, Mich., played varsity volleyball for two years, served as sports editor and editor-in-chief of the Campus Times, was a resident assistant, and has worked for both the sports information department and the Career Center.
In an effort to get even more of the Rochester experience, she'll be a Take Five Scholar during 2010–11, focusing on environmental science and conservation.
Dana introduces some of her personal favorites among the 101 items listed.
—Scott Hauser
Burying calculus? Freshman beanies? Beers at the Rathskeller?
We recognize that our list of 101 things represents only a slice of the entire Rochester student experience. That's why we're interested in hearing from you. What would make it to the top of your list of key things to do before you graduated from Rochester?
Write us at Rochester Review, P.O. Box 270033, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. 14627-0044.


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Adele Wax Figure Makes Its Debut in London [Photos]
Adele's wax figure was unveiled and made its debut at Madame Tussaud's on July 3 in London. While so many stars-in-wax-form end up looking creepy, thanks to their vacant eyes, Adele's is strikingly realistic and captures the English rose's natural and stunning beauty.
With a thick crop of blonde hair, mega long and curled lashes, pale pink lips, dagger-like nails, which were silver on top and red underneath like the sole of a Christian Louboutin shoe, and her signature LBD, which she wore to her "comeback" performance at the 2012 Grammys after having vocal cord surgery, Adele is a vision.
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Born in 1930, Peter Lassen started working for Fritz Hansen after leaving the Navy. Working there from 1955 to 1978 when he was Managing Director, Lassen was influenced by designers of the era that he came in to contact with, such as Arne Jacobsen and Verner Panton. Lassen left Fritz Hansen to start his own company dedicated to modular storage systems – Montana. He says "Montana has become a system about freedom, not only at the moment the choice is made, but the freedom to alter the style, composition and function, whenever the urge strikes you".
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VIDEO: GameTime: Role players shape Game 3
MIAMI — The ball did not stick in Game 3. And the results were remarkable.
After his team lost Game 2 of The Finals on Sunday, San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich remarked how the ball "stuck" too much in his team's offense.
According to SportVU, the Spurs made exactly the same number of passes in Game 2 (337) as they did in Game 1, and on fewer possessions (88 vs. 95). But some passes are better than others, especially against the Miami Heat defense. When you say the ball sticks, you could mean that it sticks in one guy's hands or that it sticks to one side of the floor.
In the first half of Game 2, the Spurs swung the ball from one side of the floor to the other with a pass just 19 times (on 46 possessions). They were passing, but they didn't necessarily move the ball effectively. Here's an example of a possession where the ball was passed four times, but stayed on the right side of the floor.
In the first half of Game 3, the Spurs swung the ball from side to side with a pass 30 times (on 44 possessions), which led to a relentless attack of the paint.
Monday's Film Study noted the Heat's ability to close out on shooters and force the Spurs' into 23 mid-range shots in Game 2. On Tuesday, the Spurs attempted just eight mid-range shots, the same number as they attempted in their Game 1 victory.
When the ball is coming from the other side of the floor, closing out on shooters is tougher. The Heat's weak-side defenders are generally in the paint, ready to help on a drive or cut. So when the ball is reversed, they have a longer distance to travel than if the ball is coming from the top of the key or the same side of the floor. They may get to the 3-point line, but their momentum keeps them from being able to stay in front of their man as easily.
And when the defender is coming from far way with that momentum, attacking those close-outs is easier. With the ball moving from side to side on Tuesday more than it did on Sunday, Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green went right at the Heat's recovering defenders.
Here are a few examples…
Play 1: Swing and attack
- NBA.com/stats video: Leonard drives and draws a foul
The ball movement wasn't crisp on the Spurs' third possession of the game, in part because they were trying to take advantage of a mismatch – Mario Chalmers guarding Leonard. But once they saw that they couldn't get the ball to Leonard in the post, the ball swung from the right side of the floor to the left. And when the ball came back to the right side, Leonard had just enough of a lane to the paint…
Leonard drew a foul on Chalmers on the play, but also could have hit Tony Parker for an open 3 in the left corner…
Play 2: Got him with the rocker
- NBA.com/stats video: Leonard gets by Wade and gets an and-1
A few possessions later, the Spurs quickly swung the ball from the left side of the floor to the right, and then reversed it back to Leonard at the top of the key. With 16 seconds left on the shot clock, the Heat were already scrambling, with LeBron James having totally lost contact with Leonard and Dwyane Wade forced to switch out …
Leonard looked to swing the ball to Green, but James recovered well enough. Wade displayed some great awareness to see James on the baseline and know that he had to go guard Leonard. And because Leonard first looked to pass (and because Chris Bosh also hedged over), Wade was able to get in front of him. But a simple rocker move got Wade leaning to his left, and Leonard was able to get him on his hip, get into the paint, draw a foul on Bosh, and hit a nifty scoop shot.
Play 3: Green gets in the act
- NBA.com/stats video: Green gets by Wade for a runner
The ball stays on the right side of the floor on this play, but it's another example of Leonard's and Green's attack-the-close-out mentality. After Parker gets a sideline screen from Tim Duncan and takes the ball toward the right corner, he reverses it to Green. Wade closes out and positions himself to force the ball to the sideline …
… but Green uses Wade's momentum against him. He attacks that right leg and gets into the paint for a runner.
Play 4: Taking what they give you
- NBA.com/stats video: Green drives off another ball reversal
The Heat are trying to push the ball to the sideline on their close-outs. They do not want the ball in the middle of the floor, where layups can be had and passes can more easily be made to whoever is open.
We were still in the first six minutes of the first quarter when Parker and Duncan ran a standard high pick-and-roll. A quick pass put the ball in Boris Diaw's hands with Ray Allen sinking down to the right block on the weak side…
Two passes and 1.5 seconds later, the ball was in Green's hands on the right wing. Allen closed out and, just like Wade, positioned himself to force the ball to the sideline…
Unlike Wade in the play above, Allen has help in the presence of Duncan and Chris Andersen, who are preventing Green from attacking that right leg. But Green still uses Allen's momentum to get to the basket. He just goes the other way.
Where the title will be determined
Green set a Finals record with 27 3-pointers in last year's series. And Leonard's mid-range shooting has improved quite a bit since he came into the league. But the pair were a combined 12-for-12 in the paint in Game 3, because of how well the Spurs moved the ball from side to side and because of how well they attacked the Heat's close-outs.
There's a reason all three Finals Film Studies thus far have been about the Spurs' end of the floor. The Heat have been solid offensively throughout the series, especially when James has been able to stay on the floor. They've scored at least 105 points per 100 possessions in eight of the 11 quarters in which his body didn't shut down.
In order to win their third straight championship, the Heat will need to get more consistent stops. They're trying to be only the fourth team in the last 35 years to win a title after not ranking in the top 10 in defensive efficiency in the regular season. And there's a reason why only three teams have done it in that span.


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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Too hot to handle
The red-hot University of Maryland men's basketball team won its sixth straight game tonight, defeating Duke (at Duke) 85-77. Two staight wins against the Blue Devils? Back-to-back wins over Carolina and Duke? It doesn't get much better than that. Unfortunately, I missed most of the game because of work, and ESPN experienced technical difficulties during the home stretch. But the box score tells the story. We outrebounded and outshot the »
Saturday's Radio Show
Last Saturday, we had Washington Post movie critic Stephen Hunter as a guest, and got his predictions and commentary on the Oscars. I put that interview up as a podcast right away, since the Oscars were the next night. Now I've done the first hour of the show, which was fun but not as news-intensive as some. I missed the first two segments, as I was filming an appearance on »
Heroic history
Mark Moyar is the author of the revisionist Vietnam war history Triumph Forsaken, which we have discussed here previously. Today's New York Sun carries Mark's thoughtful review of the new book by H.W. Crocker III, which Mark highly recommends: "Over There: America's Unsung Heroes." Here is a part of Mark's lead-in to the review proper: The Vietnam-era journalists began a tradition that today's press consistently upholds. We hear very little »
The News War, cont'd
Michael Freund of Israel National News has an interesting Jerusalem Post column on the uses of the blogosphere in countering the Arab propaganda war against Israel: "Right on! Circumvent old meda — go for the blogosphere." Michael includes a list of blogs that have in his view proved adept in seeking to circulate the truth in matters related to Israel (to which I'm adding links): As a blogger myself, I »
The Dems Try Again
House Democrats have now retreated from Jack Murtha's "slow bleed" strategy (aptly named, as we now know, by John Harris) to bring about failure in Iraq, and are casting about for a new approach. The latest trial balloon, being discussed by the Democrats behind closed doors, is described here by the Associated Press. It isn't described very clearly, however: House Democratic leaders are developing an anti-war proposal that wouldn't cut »
D'Souza's descent
In a post at his AOL blog, Dinesh D'Souza responds to the title of my New Criterion essay ("D"Souza goes native") on his new book. D'Souza's post is "Mr. Johnson goes nativist." D'Souza disparages the New Criterion, praises himself, and seems to criticize my Midwestern parochialism (or is he referring to readers of the New Criterion?). And he also calls me a nativist. See if you can follow the logic: »
Follow That Armadillo!
One of the early articles that Scott and I wrote was called, with characteristic understatement, "The Global Warming Hoax." It appeared in the Minnesota Journal of Law and Politics in late 1992. One of the things we wrote about was the global cooling scare of the 1970s; we quoted articles from Time and Newsweek about fears that we humans were about to cause another ice age. This has been on »
Mission Accomplished?
There is a lot of commentary this morning on the suicide bomber in Afghanistan who killed a number of people in what the Taliban claimed was an attempt to assassinate Vice-President Cheney. The attempt didn't come close to succeeding, of course, and I think it's safe to say that no one would send a suicide bomber to an Air Force base with the serious expectation that he would be able »
D'Souza's critics at home
At Dean's World Ronald Coleman has posted an extremely flattering and thoughtful reading of my New Criterion essay on Dinesh D'Souza's new book. Coleman views my essay as opening a breach on the right. However, I am not aware of any conservative who has risen to the defense of D'Souza's book. Conservative critiques of the book include those by Roger Kimball (in National Review), Victor Davis Hanson, Dean Barnett, Robert »
May the hairier party's candidate win
The Boston Globe has obtained a copy of consultant Alex Castellanos's 77-slide Power Point presentation on the Romney campaign. The Globe story by Scott Helman is of interest in several respects. Perhaps most striking, as our friend Hugh Hewitt comments herehere, is the fact that the Globe has posted precisely one of the 77 slides to accompany the online version of the story. According to Helman, Castellanos's analysis of voter »
A Cooper Union preview
I'm in New York to attend the Cooper Union event with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former New York Governor Mario Cuomo tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. (Eastern). Speaker Gingrich and Governor Cuomo will discuss what they believe to be the leading issues of the 2008 national election. The Cooper Union event can be viewed by webcast here. It perhaps grandiosely seeks to elevate the discourse of »
A season to remember?
Long-time readers probably know that I'm anything but a fan of Duke University sports. In fact, the biggest victories I root for in sports every year are Everton over Liverpool in soccer; the Redskins over Dallas in football; and Maryland over Duke in basketball. (There are a minimum of six such contests each year, and many years I'm lucky if I get satisfaction once). However, I've decided to follow and »
A truth, maybe; inconvenient, without a doubt
Here's Jimmy Carter, as quoted in today's Washington Post, on Al Gore: My favorite Democrat. . .has been Al Gore. . .His burning issue right now is global warming and preventing it. He can do infinitely more to accomplish that goal as the incumbent in the White House than he can making even movies that get Oscars. . .I've put so much pressure on Al to run that he's almost »
Someone's spinning, but it's not Dick Cheney
Vice President Cheney continues to infuriate E.J. Dionne, surely a good sign for the Republic. Dionne is unhappy with this statement by Cheney: Al Qaeda functions on the basis that they think they can break our will. That's their fundamental underlying strategy, that if they can kill enough Americans or cause enough havoc, create enough chaos in Iraq, then we'll quit and go home. And my statement was that if »
Al Gore Night at the Oscars
Last night, my wife and three daughters and I attended a fun Oscar party hosted by AM 1280 the Patriot, and featuring Michael Medved. It was Al Gore night, which I found amusing on several grounds. I commented on the Oscar program and on Al Gore's prospects for another Presidential campaign at our AOL site: Get Out A Cross and a Clove of Garlic. »
Trouble In Paradise
The Associated Press offers a surprisingly candid appraisal of the Democrats' position, as they struggle to do something with their majorities in Congress: Swept into power by voters clamoring for an end to the war in Iraq, Democrats have seen their efforts falter under a reality more complicated than they found on the campaign trail. While the public is fed up with Iraq, there is little consensus over what to »
Bomb Factory and Iranian General Discovered in Iraq
American military spokesmen told reporters in Baghdad today that a facility for manufacturing bombs from Iranian components has been discovered north of Baghdad: U.S. officers said Monday they had discovered a factory for assembling sophisticated roadside bombs from Iranian-made components _ the first such facility uncovered in a religiously mixed province north of Baghdad. The officers, who displayed weapons for reporters at a U.S. base in the capital, said the »