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New developments and curiosities from a changing global media landscape: People, Spaces, Deliberation brings trends and events to your attention that illustrate that tomorrow's media environment will look very different from today's, and will have little resemblance to yesterday's.
There are about 1.6 billion people with access to the internet, and among those more than 44% play online games-- that's over 700 million people worldwide! The global mobile games market is expected grow 27.3% annually to double its current size in 2016 and reach $23.9 billion in revenue. This growth is driven by both an increasing number of players as well as higher average spending per paying mobile gamer. The Asia-Pacific region is the largest market for mobile games, representing around 48% of global revenue.
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Milestone's XProtect Analytics 2.0 Framework
XProtect Analytics operates multiple video content analytics (VCA) systems under a single system. The framework integrates all known kinds of IP-based VCA systems in the marketplace today, server-based, edge-based (in the camera) and library-based (embedded into the Milestone software). This gives users a single, easy-to-use user interface that correlates alerts from multiple systems, reduces operating cost and enables them to build a best-of-breed system that incorporates the future-proof advantages of a true open platform solution.
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High Point, NC- Conference Carolinas announced the All-Conference Teams, Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, and Freshmen of the Year award winners in conjunction with the Conference Carolinas Basketball Tournament Championships that will begin this weekend. Head Coaches from conference member institutions nominate and then vote on the award winners who represent the best of the best for the conference.
Women's All-Conference 1st-Team
Esty Flores, Barton
Tomeka Prichard, Mount Olive
Audrey Timmerman, Erskine
Jasmine Whitby, Mount Olive
Marissa Hudley, Queens
Women's All-Conference 2nd-Team
Keana Boyd, Anderson
Henna Koponen, Coker
Shayla Jackson, Belmont Abbey
Sara Fleming, Barton
Porsha Morgan, Erskine
Women's All-Conference Honorable Mention
Alexa Neal, Anderson
Blanca Gonzalez, Limestone
Cortney Naquin, Belmont Abbey
Lotta Aaltonen, Coker
Devona Knight, Pfeiffer
Freshman of the Year
Porsha Morgan, Erskine
Player of the Year
Esty Flores, Barton
Coach of the Year
Jessica Ridgell, Erskine


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Ron Cito, owner of Patsy's Inn, has died
Ron Cito, owner of the beloved and recently closed Patsy's Inn, died on Feb. 11 at the age of 81.
Ron Cito, owner of the beloved and recently closed Patsy's Inn, died on Feb. 11 at the age of 81, Westword reports.
The life-long Denver resident — who once tried out for the Broncos — bought Patsy's with his wife, Kim DeLancey, 10 years ago, reclaiming what was once the family business.
Cito's great-aunt and uncle, Maggie Tolve Aiello and Michael Aiello, opened the classic red-sauce Italian restaurant in 1921. It closed in August last year when Cito and DeLancey decided to retire.
Services will be at 2 p.m. this Wednesday at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 3549 Navajo St.
Initiative 300 sets off campaign sign skirmishes and thefts across Denver
Both sides of the debate over whether to overturn Denver's urban camping ban say their campaign signs are being taken from yards.
Local sticks star in Patrick Dougherty's 300th "Stickwork" installation at Chatfield Farms
The Gardens' latest art infusion was a collaborative effort with Colorado land managers and local volunteers.
Denver City Council passes its 20-year 'Blueprint' for growth after after five hours (and three years)
The 300-page document will guide what gets built where and aims to cure Denver's car addiction while curbing displacement.
Cannabis entrepreneurs won't get any extra space to operate lounges in Denver
No one knows if slightly looser regulations would have encouraged more places to vape and eat weed legally.
The Park Avenue West Bridge is going to get messy as repairs begin this week
We're facing lane closures on and off through July. Start practicing those breathing exercises.
It takes a patchwork of funding to get affordable housing like Sheridan Station Apartments off the ground
A groundbreaking was held Monday along RTD'S W Line for a project of 133 rental units earmarked for households earning between 30 and 60 percent of AMI.
Denver wants to put a new park in University Hills using a sales tax approved by voters last year
The parcel the city is interested in buying currently houses a greenhouse, which will close if the plan is approved.
Denver's Blueprint for the next 20 years of growth is ready for a City Council vote
Council is set to discuss and vote on the seminal city document tonight, but some candidates and locals are looking to stall the decision until after Election Day.
Denver Film Society executive director Andrew Rodgers steps down due to 'difference of vision'
Britta Erickson will serve as interim executive director.
A Highlands community center could shut down after a contractor walked out of a renovation
The pastor of the church housing the center fears they'll have to sell the historic building.
Denver's new Department of Housing and Homelessness is real, will be in 2020 budget
Mayor Hancock also announced a $15.7 million, three-year initiative to get people off the streets and into housing and shelter.
Walking vs. busing down Denver's 16th Street Mall: Which is better?
Another Denverite transportation race, for science.
City workers embark on sidewalk clean-up around Denver Rescue Mission to address health concerns
Denver Homeless Out Loud has its own health concerns.
Denver announces a housing and homelessness department — kind of
No details yet, but the Hancock administration says a "proposed new department will galvanize and enhance city resources."
Home Depot might build homes on top of the Home Depot getting built where Denver wants homes to be
Some neighbors are resisting the big-box store next to a place that's supposed to be compact and walkable.
Denver mayoral candidates discuss camping — sanctioned and not
The hopefuls were brought together by the nonprofit GoodCinema for a documentary and discussion about housing.
Registered sex offenders would be barred from Beloved Community Village
It's a change in policy adopted in response to concerns raised by Globeville neighbors who have opposed hosting the village.


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Techonomy: Changing How the World Learns
Almost everyone agrees that technology has the potential to change education, but there are so many different approaches that it's often hard to figure out which technologies really work and which ones are just hype. At the Techonomy conference this week, an interesting roundtable on changing how the world learns brought together a number of entrepreneurs and even a young student to talk about the technology and what it can do.
In an earlier conversion, Osman Rashid of Kno told me he thought the tipping point for electronic textbooks would be the start of the 2013 school year, as the basic textbooks now exist and many districts have already done pilot programs. He expects digital textbooks to account for 25 percent of the textbook market in the U.S. by the end of 2015, with many school districts adopting BYOD policies. I was curious about the pricing model, and Rashid said the idea is that textbooks could cost about $10 per year, which is one-sixth of the cost of a physical textbook. This won't save money because school districts don't replace physical books each year, but it will provide other advantages of electronic textbooks, including interactivity and frequent updates.
At the session, Tara Lemmey of Net Power and Light, which makes the Spin collaborative computing platform, talked about how, in some cases, small group classes can work much better than the "sage on the stage" model that used to be prevalent. When kids learn collaboratively, they can excel, she said.
Kennedy Shine, a young student, said teachers do a great job of teaching the main concepts, but that she can learn more from having friends teach her how to do things. For instance, she learned to play Minecraft in part from YouTube. She said you can learn real-world skills from games, and said she thought games could be a part of the learning environment. (In the Minecraft environment, you often have kids building environments for other kids, moderator Gary Bolles of eParachute explained.)
DimensionU is coming at education from a gaming perspective, with multiplayer educational games. "Think Halo without the violence," said founder Nt Etuk. This builds engagement and is also more efficient because it gives kids an incentive to help other kids. While some have been worried about the "signal-to-noise" ratio inherent in games, he said in game models, students learn how to play on their own. (One issue Etuk mentioned was that there are challenges in delivering communities for children under 13 in the U.S. because of restrictions not letting the children communicate freely with each other.)
Minh Nguyen of Syllabuster talked about his company's upcoming platform. For a long time, teachers could put a syllabus up on the Web easily, but they needed a platform that takes into account how the curriculum changes over time.
One key factor that a number of the participants discussed was analytics. Kno's Rashid said data is very important, with evidence that more engagement is a good indicator of performance. For instance, without grading, the platform can tell the different between an A student and a C student. The data can be used for a range for things, from assessments to analytics.
Edward Hanapole of Kaplan, Inc., the large test preparation company, talked about how the company needs to change to meet the requirements of students today. "Digital natives" already have expectations of how they want to work and learn in a digital age, so Kaplan is trying to adapt to those needs. He described how there is a whole value chain for education, and said the company's challenge is to deliver a highly interactive experience that students want but also the skills that matter. This doesn't necessarily need to be the most efficient method of education, but rather something that the students like, as long as it delivers the skills.
Lemmey said it is important to separate learning from mastery, saying we should be driving insight and learning, and then separate out the measurement and the evaluation. She thinks sometimes we're overly focused on analytics, while Kaplan's Hanapole said you need some level of measurement to figure out what is working. He noted that in education, new things are often introduced into a curriculum before we know whether they are going to work, which is why measurement is so important.
One interesting side discussion was on the importance of simulation. Hanapole explained how simulation is helping the Baltimore Ravens NFL team. Most of the participants were positive about the benefits of such simulations, but Lemmey did note that simulating all of the physicality of "bits to atom" is hard. In general, she said it is important to remember that simulation is not the real world, and while simulation can be very useful, it is better to use a compendium of tools, including simulation and real hands-on work.
Change will come from both sides, Rashid said, from inside and outside the educational system. Parents will bring in electronic versions of the physical textbooks and try to influence teachers to move there. He said he expects the demand from outside the system to happen more over the next 24 months.
An audience member said the problem is that teachers are not "digital natives." Rashid agreed that teachers below 45 are adapting the new technology much faster than older teachers, but said this will change over time. Lemmey talked about "teachers teaching other teachers" as key method of distributing this technology.
In summary, the members of the roundtable were very hopeful about the new technology, and I'd have to agree. Still, I do agree with Hanapole and others that we need to measure the results to see what works and what doesn't.


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Court system overview
Following is a brief overview of the Wisconsin Court System. For more details on each level of the court system follow the links below.
Find information on how a case moves through the courts here.
Municipal courts
- 237 municipal courts
- 240 municipal judges
- Milwaukee has the largest municipal court and three full-time municipal judges. Madison has the only other full-time municipal court
- More details
Circuit courts
- Single level trial court since 1978
- 249 circuit judges in 72 counties. Judges elected countywide to six-year terms in non-partisan elections
- Milwaukee County is the largest jurisdiction with 47 judges
- 30 counties have one judge each; smaller counties share a judge
- More details
Court of Appeals
- Created in 1978 and originally designed to handle 1,200 cases per year
- Mostly mandatory jurisdiction, meaning that litigants have the right to appeal their cases from the circuit court to the Court of Appeals
- 16 judges in four districts. Judges elected district wide to six-year terms
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Supreme Court
- Seven justices elected statewide to 10-year terms
- Court of last resort
- Court reviews approximately 1,000 petitions per year and accepts between 100 and 120
- More details
Administrative/management structure
The administrative structure of the court system is detailed in Article VII, section 4(3) of the Wisconsin Constitution, Statute (758.19) and Supreme Court Rule (SCR) Chapter 70 . The chief justice is the administrative head of the judicial system, exercising authority according to procedures adopted by the Supreme Court. The structure is analogous to a corporation, with the chief justice as the chair of the board, the other justices as the board of directors, and the director of state courts as the chief operating officer.
For administrative purposes, the circuit courts are divided into nine judicial administrative districts. The districts range in size from one county to 15 counties. The judicial business in each district is supervised by a chief judge selected by the Supreme Court to serve a two-year term. A chief judge can serve up to three two-year terms if the court continues to appoint him or her. Each district also has a district court administrator who is a permanent employee of the Director of State Courts Office who in turn is assisted by a court management assistant. The district court administrators' offices are generally located in the largest city in the respective district.


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This fused glass pendant features layers of iridescent glass and dichroic glass. Dichroic glass possesses its own type of magical effects because with every angle, you notice something different. My process includes three trips through the kiln to produce these effects.
Measurements: approximately 3/4″ x 1/2″
*Please note the necklace cord or chain is sold separately.
The bail opening fits onto a 1/8″ (4 mm) chain or cord.
Each handmade Thistle Glass piece has been properly annealed in a kiln for added strength and durability, and every bail has been professionally heat set to ensure the best bond possible.
Care Tip: Please do not wear while swimming or bathing.
di·chro·ic (dīˈkrō-ik)
- showing different colors when viewed from different directions, or (more generally) having different absorption coefficients for light polarized in different directions.


text: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote: > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 17:48:56 you wrote: >> A point I >> didn't make in my blog post on this stuff is that the academic side, >> while a nice market to play in, isn't terribly profitable. You have to >> give "killer" discounts to play in many cases. Which in the case of a >> low margin commodity business, is, in a real sense, a killer. > > But aren't those killer discounts paid back in image building and > advertisement savings? It would make sense for companies to invest in some > academic partnerships/projects, to make the buzz, and build up an image of > performance, reliability and trust. Something along the lines of: "see, this > prestigious university/institution is using that company's product line, and > they must know what they're talking about, so I should do it too." Not really, not "in general". For certain fairly specific products, sure. The question is, who is going to be influenced by their "free" college experience to make an "expensive" long term purchase decision? For Microsoft-anything, there is an enormous post-college market for Microsoft-everything. So Microsoft usually gives Universities and schools a big break. Raise up little Windows-heads, and they'll presumably be loyal when they reach corporate america or just go to Best Buy to buy systems of their own. This is impossible for Sun-anything. There IS no such thing as "consumer Solaris" or over the counter machines with Solaris on them for use at home or work. This is an important counterpoint to Linux -- even though for most of its life Linux has been "expert friendly" on the desktop compared to preinstalled Windows on a box from whoever, it has ALWAYS been a desktop system first and everything else second. Linus has rejected many, many alterations to the kernel over many, many years now on the basis that they'd negatively impact desktop performance (although that's not much of an issue anymore on modern hardware and I'm guessing that policy is de facto more relaxed at this point). To take Duke as an example, we have a campus mirror for Centos and Fedora and have a (currently indifferently) supported "Duke distribution" of both that is basically a few add on yum repos with site license or Duke restricted stuff, need a Duke IP number to access. Many, many users -- students, faculty, departments -- here and elsewhere use this site to simply pop linux onto their systems, be those systems desktops, servers, laptops, whatever. We even have a vmware site license at this point, which is making Win under Lin (using our Windows site license) a knee-jerk sensible choice for many, although dual boot is still favored by gamers. In the process, users lose their fear of Linux (and learn of its utility for providing access to e.g. the best, free, programming tools, to firefox and mail, to open office, to most of what one needs on a desktop system and usually have to pay for on a Windows box. SURE we can could put Solaris on systems for free as well. But how? And why would we want to do such a thing? Does Solaris support dual boot? I don't know, but I sort of doubt it. Only if I install grub from linux or use MS's multiboot manager -- maybe then. Does Solaris support a free network install mode? To install linux on campus one at MOST downloads a boot image and boots it (from a USB key or CD) although in many (tecnical/science) departments booting on a wire gives one a set of PXE boot images to choose from for an install and in some (like physics) one PXE boot into a system-specific custom generated kickstart. Most students can manage this with at most a bit of help, and of course it is obviously free and fairly well publicized. Nobody outside of the computer science department and a few techno-heads like myself even knows that Solaris is available for free. There is no easy path facilitating its installation anywhere. No server. No PXE. No support. I'm an ex-Sun head (very ex at this point, but ex) and I have no idea how to go about getting Solaris to even try to install under vmware just to play with, and have no idea why I'd ever want to do such a thing. I'm guessing that I could visit Sun's website and fill in a form swearing I'm University affiliated, or maybe get it through OIT or the CPS department, but just figuring out where it is and how to get it would take longer than actually installing Linux the hard way, let alone via kickstart. So IF Sun's plan was to use free distribution as a loss-leader, it was hopelessly executed. But let's move on, back to the question of why would I WANT to install Solaris? Is there one, single thing that I can expect to do on Solaris that I can't do better -- far better -- in Linux? Let's see. Solaris is Unix. Linux is Unix. Solaris, with some work, comes with some set of packages that hopefully includes a compiler, although as already noted at one time they unbundled the compiler to their everlasting dismay. Unix without cc is like a day without sunshine, just plain stupid. REALLY stupid NOW, with infinite room for the OS image compared to nearly all possible boot/execution media. I'm guessing that it comes with X, some sort of window manager, and a handful of applications, at least I hope it comes with some applications. Linux -- well let's see. 15,000 packages in Fedora 10, who knows how many in current Debian (25,000? 30,000?). You want to be able to take a PDF and extract page three and convert it into a PNM image? As they say in Mac-land (where it is, of course, untrue) "there's an app for that" (taking the liberty of calling a short pipe of commands an app) and app is a yum install away if it isn't already installed by default. Want to remove red-eye from photographs and print them? There's an app for that. Want to monitor a cluster of linux systems? There's an app for that. Want to test random number generators with a tool integrated with R? There's an app for that -- apt-get and it can be on your system, for free, in a few seconds. Security concerns? No problem -- linux updates these days all day long. The window for a successful exploit from the time of discovery has shrunk from 24-36 hours three or four hours ago to as little as 3-4 hours today. Conficker that. APPLICATIONS drive operating systems. This has been true since operating systems were invented. Nobody boots a system to stare at a command prompt. So what are the applications available for Solaris and how do they help differentiate it? How easy/hard are they to obtain and install? Who supports them? The answer is: the same list of GPL-alike apps that are available to all of the OSOS's, only way, way shorter, plus the usual mix of commercial apps that are of interest only to a very limited community of users. We know who supports the open source apps and while Sun does contribute (open office, SGE) it is still not, really Sun. Here's the kicker. Sun (or by proxy now, IBM) could even now, today, become a "player". How? Dump Solaris. Dump Sparc (please!) Embrace the penguin. And if you must compete on the CPU front do it with an Intel compatible general purpose CPU, not a proprietary, single source, non-commodity (and other flaws not worth mentioning) failed architecture that everybody but Sun has known was toast for over a decade now. Think about it. "Open Solaris" or not, Solaris is pointless. How many Unixoid environments with irrelevant differences do we need? We already have too many. A few have relevant differences (and I'm the last person to argue that there isn't advantage in innovation and competition) but put those innovations where they belong in an open source world, not into an operating system that -- "open" or not -- is PROPRIETARY. Now imagine Sun Linux. Oooh, has a ring to it, doesn't it. Sun is one of two or three companies that could credibly compete in the Linux marketplace in this way from day one. The only others I can think of offhand are Apple, IBM, and Microsoft (although hell will have to descend to liquid nitrogen temperatures or below for the latter to be credibly likely) and of these, Sun actually has the best cachet and could conceivably pull off actual market dominance. Imagine Sun contributing to the linux kernel. I have the greatest respect for Sun's coders -- some of the best in the world there (and I'm sure a lot of them contribute to linux already, officially or unofficially). Imagine Sun cutting deals with hardware and software companies to open up sources for hardware drivers and to guarantee support for software ports. (Imagine IBM pitching in here as well, especially on the server marketplace where IBM/Intel hardware is a dominant force). They could give Red Hat a run for its money from day one. IMO, the "RISC vs CISC" wars of the 90's are long since over and CISC (usually in the form of a CISC shell over a RISC-like engine or other hybrid approaches) has one. It one not because of the theoretical arguments that dominated the 90's but because silicon itself "voted" -- it turned out to be necessary to go multicore instead of continue to try to push clock; single CPU systems suddenly became "clusters" (or at least de facto SMP systems). If there's room to put four entire cores on a piece of silicon with an enormous L2 cache, and one is clock limited on that system for other reasons (like heat dissipation capabilities) the CISC vs RISC argument becomes irrelevant to performance because real estate needed for a translator from CISC to whatever the CPU "really" uses at the ALU level stops being all that critical a resource. The original argument (for those who came in late, since articles on this subject all but dried up by the early 2000's because nobody cares any more) was that with RISC you can put more, simpler, ALUs on a chip by not using real estate for complex instruction translation, and make better use of those ALUs with smart compilers, which of course produced larger code using fewer, more elementary commands, that in aggregate make a single instruction on a RISC system. This in turn requires much better than average compilers and libraries and uses up more RAM in operation but is supposed to give you a faster CPU, all things being equal. The problem is that they have never been equal and will never be equal. All that matters to the consumer is price/performance, and for better or worse, the RISC-iest processors have never been beloved by the marketplace because a) their price/performance has sucked at the hardware level; and b) nobody has written lots of software for them at the software level EXCEPT the one company that owned or was the major/only consumer of the CPUs. CISC code is cheap to build and sort of optimize, CISC CPUs are mostly CISC translators on top of RISC-y back ends that are pre-optimized for the most likely execution pathways anyway, so at most one gets a rare boost from a RISC for some special application. This isn't to disrespect RISC -- I was very fond of SPARC for many years, but honestly I didn't really care about SPARC per se, what I cared about was "make myapplication" doing a perfect compile and producing a result as cheaply and quickly as possible, and the ability to find applications I could just drop onto the system and run that were built by Other People, for free (saving me a ton of money and time that vastly, vastly outweighed the CB of the argument for nearly all possible uses of the system). That's why nobody cares. Power PC a good CPU? Sure, why not? But unless it is two times better than Intel AT CONSTANT OVERALL COST and unless there is just as much prebuilt software and a hundred vendors using it as the basis of commodity platforms that are totally vanilla and interoperable, it won't touch Intel/AMD. To touch them it has to become them -- be implemented by hundreds of vendors (not just Apple and/or IBM), provide a vast wealth of prebuilt software, be cheap AND STILL be faster than either one. So here's an idea for Sun -- nobody loves your SPARC, no matter how technically good it is. Nobody will ever love SPARC, ever again. It is done. Finished. Forget it. Gone. This Parrot is Expired! So take the damn parrot apart. There's some great technology in there. Put an Intel/CISC translator onboard, and feed your SPARC-y back end utterly compatible code. Sell it in direct in your face competition with Intel -- don't even think of keeping it proprietary and for in-house use only. Stop thinking of yourself as a hardware company selling computers. That was Apple's problem -- they were a software company that thought it was a computer hardware company. Once they (finally) realized that the hardware was commodity and the software was key, once they focused on OTHER hardware like ipods and iphones and made an intel-based Mac, they actually started to make money and survived! You can do the same thing, differently. You've GOT the silicon foundry, just use it to make something that you can actually sell to somebody other than a direct market of rather stupid end-users who really should have bought Intel or AMD servers and required all of your wiles to decide otherwise. That really is a scary thought. Think of all the companies that would absolutely hate it if Sun pursued this strategy. Intel would hate it; they tolerate loss of business to AMD, but they're still in the driver's seat in the world CPU marketplace. Sun AND AMD, both making competing chips, quite possibly both making competing chips that are faster AND cheaper than Intel's -- Houston, that would be a problem. AMD would hate it too -- it would be enough to kill them off, although it could also weaken Intel enough to actually improve their position and create an actual free market where they are a rational choice. Red Hat would REALLY hate it. Right now they are the venerable old man of the commercial Linux world, but Sun is positively antique and has enormous cachet in the computing professional industry in spite of their silliness and blindness of the past fifteen post-linux/intel years. I manage an Intel system running Solaris in a small medical practice. It is running at this very moment, on a cheap, over the counter Intel box with 4 GB disks. Yes, it is that old. It hasn't been updated in a decade or more. I'm sure that it could be cracked in an instant, if you could find a cracker that actually remembered the exploits of that long ago. This system has run, continuously, for twelve years. It never crashes (which is a damn good thing, because it is broken enough at this point that I have to bring up its network by hand from the console). Its commercial software package (sole reason for its existence) still works, still serves the data it contains. THAT'S the kind of reputation Sun can bring to the Linux party -- Linux can do this sort of thing too, but who can beat Sun in terms of overall Unix-expertness? Not a whole lot of companies can even come close. Microsoft would hate it, because it provides yet another set of experienced salespeople pushing the Penguin, an Othello-like flip of all those Solaris boxes into Linux instead of Windows 200x server. Sun has the leverage to fix the eternal hardware driver issue. Sun would bring along at least some commercial applications and increase this space. Sun COULD even join with IBM and introduce consumer linux big time, complete with TV advertisements. IBM has never forgotten who made Microsoft into Microsoft and who got screwed by Microsoft a mere decade later. With Open Office onboard for free, with margins that Microsoft can never compete with no matter what they do (short of embracing the Penguin themselves and it isn't that cold outside yet), with businesses looking for ways to save all that money they are currently spending on Microsoft's enormously expensive software suite, with conficker and many other perpetual embarrassments and increasing pressure from Europe, China, Russia (all sick of paying monopoly prices for a broken, insecure, mess) all it would take is the NAMES IBM and Sun to create instant long-term confidence. Ah, dreams. Fantasies, perhaps, but interesting ones. Heck, let's bring SGI back to life in similar fashion -- they too have some damn good coders, they've got the name and cachet, they just need the large market that would appear if the world ever turned the corner on Microsoft. > That seems to me like a short-term profitability loss, but a long-term gain > since it could drive more sales. Sales to who? The only users of Solaris systems in Universities are computer science types (at least around here) and there aren't a lot of even them. The big markets that justify the loss-leader approach are consumer, corporate, gaming, even large scale research. Only the latter gets any boost at all from such a plan, as the corporate share has been shrinking (lost to lin and win) in SPITE of it. And loss-leading cannot compete with advantageous CBA. The bottom line is the bottom line -- it has to be at least comparable to justify a free choice. It hasn't been comparable for years. rgb > > Cheers, > -- > Kilian > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > 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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Shanir needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 81 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
Gwiazdka Centrum or GC
Gwiazdka Centrum is a polish company established 1.5 years ago in order to bring the innovative and top marketing tool today to the Polish advertisers. What is the Star Service??
Anyone can dial from any phone, short number starts with star:
*2424 *3333 *1234 *2407
Or Star follow by the company brand name or occupation:
ANY Business or call center can have short dial number instead of regular number.
our compnay is providing a short telephone numbers, star follow by the brand name or star follow by 4 digits or even both to advertisers.
Statistics shows an uprising of 10%-20% in the income calls for advertisers that have changed their regular numbers to STAR numbers!
In a competitive business environment, companies need to increase their visibility, attractiveness, product range and other elements. the way these companies can convey the message and thus mobilize and influence A very high percentage of advertisers advertise a phone number as an integral part of the advertisement itself, in order to mobilize their target audience into action.
These companies usually try to use phone numbers that are as memorable as possible, to promote the fastest possible response time.
A memorable number would mobilize your clients into immediate action
Our target audience is ANY sector business that is using phone numbers in their advertisements
Decision makers
The logo must include the star (astrisk) sign → * same as it appears on any telephone\Mobile
it should reflect the service on the best way, innovations
for batter understanding: attached is our previous logo and a photo of billboard with advertisement that is using the star number (BMW)
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Jodi Arias testifies she doesn't remember how she killed her lover
PHOENIX – A woman charged with killing her lover testified Wednesday that she has no recollection of stabbing him, slitting his throat or even whether she shot him during a fight at his Arizona home nearly five years ago.
Jodi Arias, 32, has spent eight days on the witness stand recounting in precise detail one life event after another -- from an abusive childhood to dead-end jobs and ex-boyfriends -- but when pressed Wednesday about how she killed Travis Alexander, she drew a blank, noting there was a "huge gap" in her memory from that day in June 2008.
Arias spent the rest of the day explaining to jurors why she repeatedly lied about her involvement in the killing, first telling authorities she knew nothing about Alexander's death, then later blaming it on masked intruders. She eventually settled on self-defense.
She said she had been contemplating suicide after she killed Alexander, and didn't want to sully his name with lurid details of their sexual relationship, given his public persona as a devout Mormon who was saving himself for marriage. She also said she was scared of being arrested, and wanted to keep up the farce to avoid suspicion.
"I just have always heard don't admit to anything," she told jurors.
When asked about the killing, Arias said she remembers getting in a fight with Alexander, shooting at him as they tussled, putting a knife in the dishwasher and disposing of the gun in the desert as she drove from Arizona on her way to see a friend in Utah.
"I knew my life was pretty much over," she told jurors, tearfully recalling how she contemplated suicide.
"Do you remember stabbing Travis Alexander?" defense lawyer Kirk Nurmi asked.
"I have no memory of stabbing him," Arias said. "I remember dropping the knife and it clinked on the tile ... And I just remember screaming. I don't remember anything after that."
Arias said the fight started after a day of raunchy sex when she accidentally dropped Alexander's new digital camera while taking provocative photos of him in the shower of his Mesa home. She said he flew into a rage, body-slammed her and chased her around the house, coming at her "like a linebacker."
Arias said she grabbed a gun from his closet, and that it went off while they tussled. She wasn't sure if it hit him.
"I didn't mean to shoot him or anything," she said.
"He was angry at me and he wasn't going to stop," Arias added. "It was like mortal terror."
Prosecutors say she planned the killing in a jealous rage, savagely attacking Alexander in his bedroom, then dragging his body into his shower where it decomposed for five days until friends found him. He was stabbed and slashed 27 times, had his throat slit and was shot in the forehead.
Alexander's friends have said outside court that Arias is lying about her contention that he had sexual desires for young boys, and that he was physically abusive, and no witnesses have testified of any previous violent behavior. Authorities also have said they did not believe Alexander owned a gun, and there has been no testimony to back up Arias' story that he kept one in his closet.
Arias is hoping the jury will spare her the death penalty with a conviction on a lesser charge -- or even an acquittal. Prosecutors must prove she planned the attack in advance to secure a first-degree murder conviction and a chance for a death sentence.
She has repeatedly denied bringing any weapons to his home. Her grandparents reported a .25 caliber handgun stolen from their Northern California house about a week before the killing -- the same caliber used to shoot Alexander -- but Arias claims to know nothing about the robbery.
On Wednesday, she was asked why she didn't dial 911 after she killed him.
"I was scared. I couldn't imagine calling 911 and telling them what I had just done," Arias said. "I was scared of what would happen to me." She has yet to express any remorse for Alexander's death, but has instead repeatedly referred to her life being over -- either by suicide or arrest.
"I have a million regrets," Arias said.
Her inability to remember key facts of the killing stood in stark contrast to her previous testimony. She has recalled the exact type of flavored coffee she ordered at Starbucks in the days leading up to the attack, specific dates of sexual encounters and road trips, and in-depth accounts of stories from 10 years ago when she was just a teenager.
But as questioning finally turned to the killing, she recalled very little.
She later explained for jurors how she left Alexander's home and immediately began planning an alibi, leaving a voice mail on his mobile phone and traveling to see a friend in Utah after disposing of the gun in the desert to "throw the scent off for a little while."
She explained how she kissed and cuddled with the man she was visiting on the very day she killed Alexander, "just trying to act like myself."
"I just wanted to seem like normal, like things were OK," she told jurors. "Like I didn't just do what I just did."


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Koetter saying little about Boise State interview
Falcons offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter isn't saying much
about his recent interview with Boise State.
Koetter confirmed on Tuesday that he met with Boise State
officials, but declined to elaborate.
"All I can tell you is the same thing (Falcons head coach Mike
Smith) told you yesterday," Koetter said. "I did talk to Boise
State, and that's really all I'm going to say about that right
In two seasons with Atlanta, Koetter has had mixed results.
Last season's team, led by Pro Bowl performances from
quarterback Matt Ryan, receiver Julio Jones and tight end Tony
Gonzalez, went 13-3 and finished 10 yards shy of the Super
This season, the Falcons are 3-10 and have been undermined by a
porous offensive line, an ineffective running game and Jones'
season-ending injury.
Boise State is trying to replace Chris Petersen, who took the
job at Washington. Koetter was the head coach at Boise State from
1998-2000 and left with a 26-10 record to take the head job at
Arizona State, but from 2001-06 with the Sun Devils, he went 40-34
before getting fired.
Koetter, who worked as the Jacksonville Jaguars' offensive
coordinator from 2007-11, described the current season as one of
his most frustrating in 29 years of coaching.
Poor play by the line has given Ryan little time to set his feet
in the pocket and find receivers.
Jones broke his foot in a Week 5 home loss to the New York Jets,
and Roddy White played most of the season with ankle and hamstring
injuries that hurt his effectiveness.
And running back Steven Jackson missed four games with a
hamstring injury for a rushing attack that ranks third-worst in the
These problems allowed opponents to consistently double-team
Gonzalez, the league's No. 2 career-leading receiver, and limit his
"Personally, it's tough on everybody," Koetter said. "Nobody
has higher expectations for the Falcons than the players and the
coaches do. We haven't lived up to expectations. We haven't played
as well as we're capable of on offense."
Atlanta, which began the season as a Super Bowl contender,
dropped eight of nine games through a Week 12 home loss to New
Orleans and fell out of playoff contention.
The Falcons' defense hasn't played well either, ranking 30th in
scoring and 29th in both third-down efficiency and total yards
But even with Gonzalez, White and Jackson seemingly healthy in
midseason, the offense averaged just 14.8 points during a five-game
losing streak.
Though Koetter wouldn't cite individuals or units for the
meltdown, much of the blame publicly has fallen on the offensive
Left tackle Sam Baker and right tackle Mike Johnson were lost to
season-ending injuries. The front office decided not to re-sign
longtime center Todd McClure, and Peter Konz flopped as his
Right guard Garrett Reynolds struggled so much that Konz
eventually took his job after Joe Hawley became the starting
In last week's 22-21 loss at Green Bay, the Falcons couldn't
hold an 11-point lead and went scoreless in the second half.
Gonzalez and receiver Harry Douglas dropped late passes that
would've put Atlanta in field-goal range, but the offense went
three-and-out on its first two possessions of the third quarter,
and Ryan was sacked early in the fourth and lost a fumble.
"The guys were disappointed," Koetter said. "The coaches were
disappointed. We just felt like we didn't do our part, didn't
finish on offense to get it done."
The Falcons host the Washington Redskins (3-10) on Sunday.
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Q: After a long chronic illness, my husband — the love of my life — recently suffered a serious stroke and is in the hospital. He is now stable and we are faced with the difficult decision as to what's next. I'm not sure how long he will live and fear he will just wilt and possibly die in a rehabilitation center or nursing home. If he comes home he will require 24-hour care, which is very expensive. The rehab center will likely provide more physical therapy than what he will get at home. I just don't know what the future holds — hospice, getting better or just staying the same. I am stressed and exhausted. Any words of wisdom? Many thanks.
A: The situation you face is emotional, complex as well as potentially expensive. Throw in fatigue, uncertainty and love, and your exhaustion is understandable. Let's begin with a few practical thoughts.
Consider having a serious conversation with his physician. What is the outlook for your husband, his recovery and needs? Ask a most difficult question — "Is hospice warranted?" Generally a six-month life expectancy is a rule of thumb.
On a lighter note, while in hospice, the late columnist Art Buchwald was given two to three weeks to live. He defied the odds and lived for 11 months and has been quoted as saying, "I never knew how many perks were involved with dying."
During his 11 months, Buchwald held court in a beautiful living room with a constant flow of visitors such as former Sen. John Glenn, Jack Valenti, Ethel Kennedy and more. He marveled that there was no diet and could order out McDonald's hamburgers and milkshakes. During that time, Buchwald wrote "Too Soon to Say Goodbye" (Random House, 2006) and canceled his own funeral.
One moral of this story is that none of us know when our final exit will occur, despite medical predictions.
Now let's return to your question. Consider speaking with your husband about his preferences. Assuming a stay in a rehabilitation facility is appropriate, the frequency of having more physical therapy may lead to faster and perhaps better recovery — a possible selling point. If that's the decision, consider giving him a guaranteed exit if he is unhappy there. For example, "Dear, if you are not comfortable at the facility, call me immediately and I promise you that I'll pick you up in 24 hours and take you home." Offer him as much control as possible and reasonable over his destiny.
Although this is no consolation, you are not alone. According to the National Family Caregivers Association, each year more than 50 million people provide some caregiving services. Eighty percent to 90 percent is provided by family members.
Here are some additional facts that give us a picture of caregiving in the U.S.:
• In 2007, the estimated annual value of caregiving was $375 billion. That amount is comparable to Wal-Mart's total sales in the same year. Although this information is somewhat dated, today's cost would not be less.
• Almost one-third of family caregivers for older adults are 65 and older.
• Family caregivers who experience a high level of stress can age prematurely, shortening the life of a family caregiver as much as 10 years.
• Those providing elder-care services have yearly out-of-pocket expenses, on average, of $5,531.
• California, the state with the highest number of people 65 and older, also has the largest number of family caregivers in the U.S., almost 3.5 million. The state with the next largest number of comparable caregivers is Texas with just over 2 million.
A big challenge is "managing it all." Here are just a few tips to consider:
• Take some time off from caregiving responsibilities. Perhaps another family member or friend can fill in to provide some respite for you.
• Take care of yourself. Remember the importance of exercise, nutrition, sleep and managing stress. In a quiet moment, write down all of the healthy things you are doing. Then write the changes you want to make and the resources that can support you. Then, in the Nike tradition, "Just do it."
• Identify what brings joy into your life. Incorporate at least one "joy item" into your daily schedule. It could be a walk at the beach or coffee with a friend.
• Consider contacting a caregiver support group in your area. For up-to-date information and support, contact USC's Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center at 800-540-4442.
B.E., best wishes for your husband's recovery. And best wishes to you for health and resilience during this difficult time.
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By putting out LPs comprised of reworked traditional pieces, Sam Amidon casts himself as a folk artist in one of the truest senses of the term: receiving songs from elder generations, and organically adapting them through performance to the point at which the concept of ownership not only dissolves, but doesn't even matter. His earlier collections may have ranged in tone – from the sparseness of earlier records, to the breezier, full blooded optimism of his recent I See The Sign – but have all essentially settled as reasonably straight pitched interpretations of the source material, with excellent results.
Bright Sunny South complicates the picture a bit, but without compromising either the quality of the material, nor the authenticity of Amidon's folk credentials. With this record, he strips back the arrangements in comparison to the showier flourishes of his preceding LP, and in employing texture more sparingly, he permits himself to create interesting dissonance between tone and content. Passages of Bright Sunny South are deceptively disorientating in execution, even as Amidon lulls us into relaxation through the ease of his delivery.
Let's take the most ostensibly jarring facet of this LP: the inclusion of a Mariah Carey cover. And it's not even one of her languid, silky ballads which might most easily translate to whispered acoustica. It's the softly pumping, up-tempo R&B Emancipation of Mimi cut 'Shake It Off'. Here, retitled as 'Shake U Off', the piece takes on a far more downtrodden tone, with sadness weighting its tempo to a near stop, turning the song into a vignette of its former self at a perfectly rounded one and a half minutes. Such is the confident and unapologetic ownership of the material that it might pass as Amidon's own, while still being wholly identifiable the instant the recognition clicks. This is a masterful stroke of folk performance.
Elsewhere, the incongruities and eyebrow arches are a little subtler, more often taking the form of understated ironies between delivery and content. Take the well-known 'Bright Sunny South' which gives the album its name, casting the LP in the glow of an implied happy-go-lucky demeanour and positive outlook. From the top of the record, however, Amidon makes no fuss about gently undercutting this sort of expectation, with the journey set out in the lyrics painted atop a dour arrangement of gloomy heel dragging. Conversely, lines like "oh I wish to the Lord / that I'd never been born" get the treatment of throaty gusto, sung over plucky banjo and jaunty rhythms. And again, such is the naturalism of the delivery that these moments play out as slow reveals.
Throughout the record, there's an underlying tension between what Amidon is singing and the means of his delivery – a melancholic feeling allowed to take root in the spaces between the thin arrangements, only rarely bubbling over into the textural anxiety displayed in the backend of 'He's Taken My Feet'. The result is his most emotionally and tonally complex LP to date. With Bright Sunny South, Amidon has taken a huge step forward as a folk artist, creating arrangements which preserve his musicianship, while deepening the maturity of his interpretive skills.
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Spanish-language radio star Eduardo "Piolin" Sotelo, formerly based in Glendale, has filed a lawsuit against six former staff members who worked on his canceled Univision Radio program, claiming the group banded together to try to extort $4.9 million from him.
Sotelo claims to be a victim of a shake-down by former employees who allegedly demanded a big payday in exchange for taking their Univision workplace secrets "to the grave," the Los Angeles Times reported.
The suit seeks general damages and punitive damages "in an amount sufficient to punish defendants and to deter them from engaging in similar conduct in the future," and legal costs.
An attorney representing the six former colleagues released a statement Monday afternoon saying the group will be filing their own lawsuit against Sotelo. He rejected Sotelo's lawsuit as lacking merit.
"This lawsuit is a public relations ploy by Eddie Sotelo to deflect attention from the merits of the allegations of Sotelo's harrassing and abusive conduct towards six of his former co-workers," said John C. Taylor. "The lawsuits speak for themselves and will be filed soon."
Before joining Sotelo's crew, the suit claims, most of the group held low-level jobs outside of radio -- working as a fast-food server, a bakery delivery man, a warehouse employee, a medical waste hauler and a copywriter. But after going to work on Sotelo's popular radio show, the employees were well compensated and able to rub elbows with the likes of President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and entertainerJennifer Lopez, who were guests on the show.
"This case arises from the defendants' ingratitude, unmitigated greed and desire to extract from [Sotelo] some perceived revenge and an undeserved monetary windfall," the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit is the latest messy twist in the saga of Sotelo, an immigrant from Mexico who crossed into the U.S. at the age of 16 and worked menial jobs in Santa Ana before landing in radio and eventually rising to national prominence. Sotelo, who became a U.S. citizen in 2008, used his top-rated "Piolin por la Manana" Univision Radio program as a platform to galvanize huge crowds to participate in immigration reform marches.
But last month, Sotelo lost his radio program on Univision after a call-screener and performer on the show complained to Univision that Sotelo had created a hostile work environment. The employee, Alberto "Beto" Cortez, alleged that Sotelo sexually harassed him over a three-year period.
Sotelo has since signed a new deal with SiriusXM, which is planning a Spanish-language channel to launch this fall devoted to Sotelo and his blend of humor, which mixes farce, sarcasm and sound gags. SiriusXM executives hope Sotelo will be their equivalent of a Spanish-language Howard Stern, who signed up for the satellite service after leaving his longtime radio job.
Sotelo's lawsuit, which alleges civil extortion and intentional infliction of emotional distress, names Domingo Rodrigo Ochoa, Tomas Alejandro Fernandez, Samuel Heredia, Gerardo Palencia, Sergio Vera and Bertha "Betty" Velasco, who several years ago worked on Sotelo's program. None of the six were still employed with Univision. Cortez was not named as a defendant in the Sotelo suit.
The suit is unusual because it also named the group's two Los Angeles attorneys, Richard R. Clayton and John C. Taylor, as defendants. The attorneys also represent Cortez in his claims against Univision and Sotelo.
The eight defendants, the suit said, "have attempted to extort $4.9 million from plaintiff under the threat of publicly embarrassing [Sotelo] and damaging his reputation by the disclosure of false and misleading allegations regarding plaintiff's alleged conduct on the program." The suit claims that the group has no legal claims against Sotelo, and that they know it.
"But [they] insisted that they be paid anyway, in exchange for their agreement to seal their lips and take their purported allegations 'to the grave,' " the suit said. "At bottom, defendants have attempted a naked money grab."
The alleged extortion plot began after the Los Angeles Times in late July published a front-page article that detailed complaints by Cortez. Cortez claimed that Sotelo repeatedly made aggressive and unwanted sexual advances, including grabbing Cortez's buttocks and genitals when Cortez would arrive at work in the morning at Univision's Glendale studio, where Sotelo's show was produced.
The lawsuit alleges that Sotelo's hiring by SiriusXM gave rise to the plot by the six ex-employees, "who are now trying to shake him down under the threat of filing a (baseless) lawsuit that would damage his reputation. ... Defendants' extortion has caused Piolin extreme mental stress and emotional suffering, as well as forcing him to amass considerable legal and professional bills at a time when he should be preparing for the launch of his SiriusXM show."
-- Meg James, Los Angeles Times
"Piolin" Sotelo, Univision parting follows harassment allegations
Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo decries allegations, hints of new radio gig
SiriusXM to form Spanish-language channel starring Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo


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Swfdec (pronounced "swiff deck") is a decoder/renderer for Macromedia Flash animations.
Swfdec 0.8.4 is the new stable release that supports the newer videos on various video sites, such as Youtube.
With Swfdec 0.9.2, a new unstable version got its first release.
Swfdec 0.8.2 is the new stable release.
A new stable release of Swfdec is out: Swfdec 0.8.0.
Here are slides for the talk given at LugRadio Live and GUADEC.
Release time: Swfdec 0.7.4 (unstable) and Swfdec 0.6.8 (stable) are out.
The first release of the unstable series is out: Swfdec 0.7.2.
older news
See OldNews for even older entries.
Swfdec is the library for decoding and rendering Flash animations. It is still in heavy development. The intended audience are developers or people using it for pretested Flash animations (think embedded here). If you use it on unknown content, expect it to have issues and don't be surprised if it crashes. If you encounter such a crash however, make sure to file a bug immediately.
Swfdec-Mozilla contains a plugin for Mozilla browsers that uses the Swfdec library for playing SWF files.
Swfdec-Gnome provides tools to integrate Flash into the GNOME desktop. It contains a standalone Flash player and a thumbnailer. You can find the latest releases on the Gnome servers.
The ?ScreenShots have their own page, for obvious reasons. :)
The current release is 0.8.4. You can download it at http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec/0.8/swfdec-0.8.4.tar.gz. Older releases are available at http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec/.
The current release is 0.8.2. You can download it at http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec-mozilla/0.8/swfdec-mozilla-0.8.2.tar.gz. Older releases are available at http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec-mozilla/.
unstable releases
Unstable releases that will lead to Swfdec 0.10 in March 2009 can be found at http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec/0.9/ and http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec-mozilla/0.9/
For instructions regarding how to install from these files please see the Installation page.
Some infos follow. For more info, see the Developers page.
If you got any questions, head to Freenode, channel #swfdec - see the DevelopersList for our nicknames.
Mailing List
The mailing list is firstname.lastname@example.com. You can subscribe to the list or view its archives.
There is also a mailing list that receives new commits made to Swfdec. Subscribe, view archives.
Bugzilla can be found at https://bugs.freedesktop.org. Use the swfdec component.
API Documentation
The Swfdec is also available online. Examples are also available.
Development source code
The development source code is kept in git. The repositories are
- git://anongit.freedesktop.org/swfdec/swfdec for swfdec
- git://anongit.freedesktop.org/swfdec/swfdec-mozilla for swfdec-mozilla
- git://anongit.freedesktop.org/swfdec/swfdec-gnome for swfdec-gnome
Some questions are asked to the Swfdec developers more often. The answers are collected in the FAQ.
If you want to send encouraging email, have a look at the DevelopersList
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Confession Tuesday - The Opinionated Edition
Dear Readers,
I'm feeling much more relaxed since my last posting. It's been 7 days since my last confession and I confess I never think I have anything to say when I begin these posts, but I always do.
I confess that if you were to ask me if I'm opinionated, I'd say no, but I'm completely opinionated. Very opinionated.
I had this happen recently. I was telling a friend that I didn't have strong opinions about things, then went on about something I had a strong opinion about thus completely disproving my own self-concept.
Thinking it over, what I realize is that while I am very much a live-and-let-live gal, there are certain beliefs I just, well, believe in.
I think people can see me as easy-going, casual or laid-back because I don't try to debate everyone's opinion, sentences, statements, etc. I try to be open-minded as much as possible and listen to other points of view without feeling as if I need to insert my own belief into the conversation. I guess I'm not really into trying to change someone's mind.
It took me a couple decades to realize that just because someone believes something different than I do, it doesn't mean that I'm right and they are wrong (or vice versa), it just means it's just different. (I've been working for years trying not to label things right/wrong as I just think that shuts down a lot of interesting things in life.)
As a friend said, There are a million ways to wash dishes.
And I realize this is life. There are a million ways to live and do things, but there are no one right ways or wrong ways, just different.
But back to opinions. There are a few strong opinions I have. And I confess, I do still label things right/wrong, though they are probably not what you think they are.
1) I confess it drives me absolutely bonkers that people still wear those digital watches that beep on the hour.
I was recently watched one of the best movies I've seen in a long time called Exit Through the Gift Shop, an indie documentary by the street artist Banksy,
(HIGHLY Recommend by the way, if you can find this film near you, see it-- it's interesting and quite funny at times, but a great insight to street art and the art world in general...)
Anyway, the film begins and about 15 minutes into it, just at that point where I'm completely lost in what's happening on the screen, someone's watch beeps, that quick beep-beep as they do and I know immediately that's it's 5 o'clock. My mind has left that magical world of film back into a world with time. Bugger!
It takes me a few minutes, but again I return into the film and I am in the place of FLOW, that timeless place where there are no clocks and in the middle of my happy place-- beep, beep-- Ugh! It must now be 6 o'clock, which has my mind doing simple math figuring out how many minutes are left in the movie before this wonderful film ends.
My opinions--
a) Why on earth would you want a watch that beeps every hour to remind you that yes, 60 more minutes of your life has passed by? To me, having to wear one of these watches daily would be my own personal purgatory, like shopping at Costco (my other purgatory).
b) If you wear one of these watches, please remember there are some of us in the world who do everything in their power not to be controlled by time, who love being lost in time and do not want to know (or need to know) the hour -every hour.
c) And if you must wear one of these watches, please do not wear them into movie theaters, especially small movie theaters.
2) I confess I absolutely love it when someone tells me that they have a soft-boiled egg for breakfast and coffee. I don't know why. I think I find it quite romantic and self-caring for oneself. I know, this makes no sense. But it makes me happy when I hear people are eating soft-boiled eggs for breakfast.
3) I confess I truly believe no one should skip dessert. Even if you're "watching your weight," there still should be a bit of sweet at the end of a meal.
4) I confess that I think all writers need to make their writing a priority. As you will see in an upcoming post, I'm very opinionated about my writing time and writing time/writers in general. My posts become a little ranty this week, but I'm quite passionate about my belief that if you have something inside you that says you should write, you should write.
5) I confess I panic if I can't find my slippers.


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As an atheist and a skeptic, I sometimes have trouble challenging my own ideas with the same kind of scrutiny I challenge others'. This article points out some facts that are not consistent with the current "party line" on the Pope and his effects on the fight against AIDS in Africa.
Read it and let me know what you think. Are we overestimating the power of the Catholic Church in Africa?
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The Edison High football team is in Hawaii this week, not only to enjoy the sights and sounds of Maui but to open its 2011 season.
The Chargers launch their campaign Friday at Baldwin High in Wailuku. The game marks the fourth time in the past 10 years (2002, 2005, 2008, 2011) that they have opened their season on the islands. The Chargers are 1-2 in their previous three visits 5-3 overall playing in Hawaii.
Friday is the first meeting between the two schools. The Bears went 9-2 last year and have won six straight Maui League championships.
Edison has 13 starters, including nine on offense, returning from a 2010 team that went 7-4 and finished second to Los Alamitos in the Sunset League race. Seven of those players are returning with honors. Among them is senior quarterback Chase Favreau, who last fall was voted the Sunset League's Offensive Player of the Year and senior wide receiver/kicker Gavin Perdomo, who was the league's 2010 Kicker of the Year.
Below is a capsule look at the 2011 Chargers.
League: Sunset
Head coach: Dave White (26th year; 189-100-3)
Coaching staff: Harry Schmidt (offensive line); Jesse Sapolu (offensive line); Al Granado (offensive line); Mo Time (offensive line); Marty Burns (offensive line); Dave Grace (quarterbacks); Mike Walters (running backs); Buddy Noble (defensive ends); John Donnelly (defensive line); Ryan Tombrello (defensive backs); Robert Dubrish (defensive backs); Mike Rivera (wide receivers); Allen Atkins (wide receivers); Fred Marquez (defensive backs).
2010 record: 7-4
2010 league record: 4-1 (second place)
2010 CIF playoffs: Lost first-round Pac-5 game to Santa Margarita
Type of offense: Spread
Type of defense: 4-3
Returning starters: 9 offense/4 defense
Returning with honors: Chase Favreau (2010 Sunset League Offensive Player of the Year); Gavin Perdomo (WR/K, 2010 Sunset League Kicker of the Year, Sr.); Nick Masaniai (LB, all-league, Sr.); Curren Provost (WR, all-league, Sr.); Troy Baljeu (WR, all-league, Sr.); Bryce Campbell (LB, all-league, Sr.); Trenton Aschoff (DL, all-league, Jr.).
Top newcomers: Sedric Hill (WR/CB, transfer from Mater Dei, Sr.); Andrew Mosely (WR/CB, Sr.); Elijah Herrera (RB/LB, Jr.); Derek Baljeu (DE, Jr.); Nick Covelli (DL, Sr.); Trevor Borkowski (WR/FS, Jr.).
Others to watch: Zach Salazar (CB, Sr.); Tico Fuga (OL, Soph.).
Key losses: Charles Burks (2010 Sunset League Defensive Player of the Year; 21 career sacks; now at USC).
Team outlook: "We have experienced skill players and our defensive line should be good," said White, who noted that areas that need work are an "inexperienced defense" and an offensive line that "must improve."
The schedule: In addition to Friday's opener in Hawaii, the Chargers play on the road against Dana Hills and Mater Dei and host Garfield of Los Angeles and defending Pac-5 Division champion Servite in nonleague play. They open Sunset action at home Oct. 13 against defending league champion Los Alamitos.
"Mater Dei and Servite back-to-back is a real challenge," White said. "It sure gets us ready for league and the playoffs."
2011 schedule
Friday: at Baldwin (7:30 p.m., Wailuku, Hawaii)
Sept. 8: Garfield (7 p.m., Huntington Beach High)
Sept. 16: at Dana Hills (7 p.m.)
Sept. 23: Servite (7 p.m., Huntington Beach High)
Sept. 30: at Mater Dei (7:30 p.m., Santa Ana Bowl)
Oct. 13: *Los Alamitos (7 p.m., Huntington Beach High)
Oct. 21: at *Marina (7 p.m., Westminster High)
Oct. 27: at *Huntington Beach (7 p.m.)
Nov. 4: vs. *Fountain Valley (7 p.m., Orange Coast College)
Nov. 10: at *Newport Harbor (7 p.m.)
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Matthew Norklun first publicly stepped into the whole dogs-on-beaches mess when, on Sept. 3, 2008, he left a bag of dog feces — duly labeled with the date and name of the beach where it had been collected — on the steps of East Hampton Village Hall. He was found guilty of littering, and fined $500.
"I'm just trying to help out," he said in an interview with The Star this week, when asked to explain the four phone calls he has made since May 8 to the East Hampton Village Police Department, to report dogs running wild on Georgica Beach.
As of the second Sunday of May, the ordinance banning dogs and vehicles from the beach between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. is in full effect.
For the past 20 years, Mr. Norklun, an actor and successful magazine and advertising model (and onetime lifeguard) who lives in East Hampton, has tried to do his part to help rid village beaches of animal waste. "You're barefoot, you're walking in urine, you're walking in feces, why is that acceptable?" he asked.
His usual tactic is to approach people on the beach who have not cleaned up after their dogs, and politely ask them to do so. Sometimes this works, he said, sometimes it does not.
Frustrated with a problem that just hasn't gone away, Mr. Norklun has gotten into the habit of calling in the cavalry. "When the police write a ticket, it has more impact than someone asking you to not do it," he said.
Police responded to two of Mr. Norklun's recent complaints by informing dog owners of the ordinance; in the other two cases, the dogs were gone by the time they arrived.
According to Chief Gerald Larsen, Mr. Norklun's are the only complaints to have come forward thus far this season.
"We don't have officers patrolling the beach full time yet," said Chief Larsen.
With summer looming, Mr. Norklun and the police expect violations to pile up in the weeks ahead. "All the signs may not be in place at this point, but we're gearing up, and everything will be in place by Memorial Day," said Chief Larsen.
In the meantime, Mr. Norklun is staunch in his efforts to rein in the dogs. "I saw a dog kill a seal one day," he said. "I've been attacked. I've become the dog Nazi. Now people know me. I stopped one woman on the beach with her dog, and she said, 'Oh, you're that guy.' "
Despite the lone-ranger reputation he may have earned in some dog-walker circles, Mr. Norklun has behind-the-scenes emotional and financial support. His littering fine was paid for by admirers from Florida to East Hampton, he said. "Almost everyone who contributed said, 'Look, don't use my name.' "
Mr. Norklun had his own explanation for why his supporters might be reticent: "Dealing with the village board is like dealing with Tony Soprano," he said. "You ruffle some feathers, and you're not going to get a building permit or anything that is discretionary to the village board."
While Mr. Norklun admits many people do not agree with his methods, he claims that there are a greater number who appreciate his efforts, and who have thanked him for taking action that they haven't had the nerve to take themselves.
"Nobody wants to deal with it. I do go to the beach every day, so I care about it. It's time to stop being polite. The dogs certainly are not."


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The joint venture Liebherr Machine Tools India Private Limited in Bangalore manufactures gear cutting machines which are primarily intended for the Asian market.
The company performs final assembly for the Indian market, commissions gear cutting machines and provides sales services and general services.
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Sara Kay
Program Director, Health, Nathan Cummings Foundation
Bob Crittenden
Executive Director, Herndon Alliance
We were sitting around one night and talking about what happens if we move towards health reform in this country. What have we done wrong over the last 70 years?
It was probably late 2004, and the discussion came up that we really need to connect with American people differently (about health care issues) and along with that we were trying to figure out well how can we do that most effectively and I met with Lance (Lindbloom), the executive director of this foundation whom I've known from before.
He's a bright guy and he had a lot of really good suggestions so we decided to put together a meeting bringing together about 50 groups and just ask the question - what do we need to do differently? We had a little bit of start up funding from an individual donor, but the early funding (from NCF) of that meeting actually is what got this thing off the ground and it was interesting, because that meeting was entirely different from what most people are used to and I think it accelerated our work easily by two years. It was a very catalytic meeting in the sense we really got launched in a very quick way.
What came out of that meeting was that we really needed to connect to the American people differently. We needed to hook up with their emotions, we tend in the progressive side to talk about plans, facts and things. In fact, when people make decisions they really make decisions on emotional bases with a few facts to make sure they support it. So that was the concept, at least, and that's the reason we got the thing started.
But I think the thing that really struck me about it was the big issue was, in all this work was, really trying to define that we are a community and not individuals and I don't mean to get into the "love the content" piece, but it really, that was the underlying piece that was what's the responsibility as a community as – versus individuals.
And I think it was a risk – we could've come out of that meeting with nothing, very honestly, and I think the ability to take that risk or take the chance of doing something that people weren't used to was huge, and I think when we wrapped it up at the end of it it was hugely beneficial, it was a huge step forward to getting people to work together.
What it did was, it gave everybody a voice that by the time we got to the end everybody was basically on the same page. It was wonderful to watch people who were just always fighting find common ground around communications and even though they had different policy tweaks, I mean they all wanted the general thing, they all wanted health reform, but with this, with that - maybe it's abortion, maybe it's this, maybe it's that - they're focused on Medicaid on Medicare, whatever it may be, they found common ground in the communications and it really - it was really phenomenal to watch, trying to remove the policy fights from the ability or the value of them working together for the greater good, that they could then fight the policy fights near the end as opposed to the beginning.
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Neil Ding, MathWorks
Learn how radar system engineers can reduce the time required to model, simulate, and implement radar system designs and their constituent signal processing algorithms.
In this presentation, engineers from MathWorks and Altera demonstrate how MATLAB and the Phased Array System Toolbox can be used for radar algorithm development and end-to-end system level simulation, and demonstrate the implementation of algorithms in floating-point using the Altera DSP Builder Advanced Blockset to perform pulse compression, MTI , Doppler processing (using FFT corner-turn with DDR interfacing) and detection processing using FPGAs.
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About the Presenters:
Michael Parker is DSP Product Planning Architect for Altera Corporation. Mr. Parker joined Altera in 2007, and has over 20 years of DSP wireless engineering experience with Alvarion, Soma Networks, TCSI, Stanford Telecom, and numerous startup companies. He holds an MSEE from Santa Clara University, and BSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Neil Ding is a principal engineer specializing in the field of signal processing and communications at MathWorks. Prior to joining MathWorks in 2007, he worked for a number of commercial electronics companies, including Texas Instruments, Cisco Systems and Samsung Mobile,. He holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering.
Product Focus
- Phased Array System Toolbox
- DSP Builder Advanced Blockset
- Qsys Integration Tool
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text: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Kwan Wing Keung wrote: > Dear experts, > > We have installed a 32 nodes dual 1 GHz P3 clusters a year already. Its > performance is excellent, and the system stability is fairly OK. > > Due to the increase in system loading, we are going to install > additional nodes in the coming half year. I would like to have more > hints from our experts on the following questions: > > (1) Currently most of the major vendors already propose P4 nodes of > at least 2.2 GHz. In view of the difference in processor speed, > definitely the new nodes have to be separated from the old nodes. > We can either create new batch queues to accommodate these new nodes > (but still sharing the old file system), or build an entire > new cluster with its own front-node and file system. > What will be the relative advantages/disadvantages? This depends on your work mix. If your task mix is embarrassingly parallel (as it sounds like it might be given that you use a batch queue) and doesn't interact strongly with local resources or the network, then there is very little disadvantage in perpetually augmenting a cluster with newer faster nodes. The biggest problem is just keeping track of which queues are which and ensuring that one user/group isn't accidentally starved relative to another by being inequitably pushed onto the slower nodes. If your task mix is NOT all EP -- some tasks are synchronous, some tasks have large communications fractions in addition to computation, some tasks use lots of data to initialize (that has to be distributed to all the nodes to start a computation), some tasks create a lot of data on the nodes (that has to be loaded back to and postprocessed or stored on a single master node later) -- in any of these cases there can be any of a variety of problems associated with mixed speed clusters. For example, load balancing of a partitioned, synchronous task (where the overall process is limited to time of completion of each task increment on the node where it takes the longest to complete) is much more complicated if the nodes aren't all identical. If identical, all nodes can get identical sized chunks. If the nodes are different, then it may not be easy to even MEASURE the function for completion time of subtask as a function of the partitioning, let alone dynamically correct the partitioning to achieve balance, especially if the subtasks are themselves not necessarily uniform in their structure. This is visible even on very simple homogeneous clusters -- something like a mandelbrot set problem parallelizes very easily by partitioning the region into equal sized chunks and distributing them, but points in some regions escape "quickly" (after only a few iterations) while points in other regions don't escape at all. One often finds that just a few strips of points take much longer than the rest, blocking progress until they complete. An inhomogeneous cluster just makes this problem worse, and creates the problem even if all the strips do require roughly the same computational effort to complete. Similar considerations exist for any potentially bottlenecked, shared resource. For "ordinary" filesystem access, NFS from a single server is fine on far more than 32 nodes, so if all you do is start up jobs, read a bit of data in (up to a few MB, perhaps), run a long time, and write out a bit of data (up to a few MB) there may be no reason at all to create a second cluster with a duplicate head node/server structure. If you plan to start up a job, read in a 2 GB data file, process for a relatively short time, and then write back a 2 GB data file, well, you've got a problem that requires careful thought to distribute nicely even on 32 nodes, and NFS may not be the answer. So the answer is, as one might expect, "it depends". I have generations of increasing speed nodes in several miniclusters working from a common set of servers on a common, flat network, and for my EP tasks this is just fine -- I track node speed mentally and distribute work accordingly. Other people might find this collection of resources and its architecture almost completely useless for their problem(s). Others might be in between. YMMV, and you'll have to analyze your problem mix to figure this sort of thing out. > > (2) If we real intend to build a completely new cluster to house all the > new nodes, i.e. with its own front-node and file system, is it > possible for us to build some backup resilience between the 2 > clusters as well? Sure, lots of ways (depending on what you mean). Do you mean backup resilience in the sense of mirroring/synchronizing data between them on some reasonable granularity? See rsync and rdump. Do you mean operational resilience so that if one (sync'd) server fails the other can take over? Sure, just put two NICs into your servers and interconnect the surviving server across the two (necessarily connectionally contiguous) lans. And you might (as noted above) find that just one server works fine in this configuration for both clusters even if you do keep them on separate lans. It is relatively easy to set up hot spare servers and the like, especially if you can tolerate a loss of (say) the last eight hours of filesystem changes on a serious crash. Just rsync'ing two servers three times a day will give you that. Make sure that you use fast disk(s) and have adequate memory and horsepower in the servers, though, so they can function satisfactorily during the rsync. > Another way is just a cross-mounting of two file servers. > Likely the postgrads will be on the old server while > the researchers will be on the new one. During normal operation, > each cluster is only going to use its local file system, but the two > servers will be "rsych" during the night time. Yeah, like this. Lots of ways to engineer it. > In case a file system is inaccessible, all users will be allowed > to access the remaining available file system (after the sysadm. has > done some work). > > This sounds complicated, but should be much cheaper. Any expert > has such experience? It isn't that complicated, and can be as cheap as "free" (runs on existing resources). Alternatively you can keep your servers on same-day contracts from e.g. Dell or maintain a host that can function as a not-quite-hot spare, use rdump to a dedicated hot-backup host a few times a day, and count on rapid disk replacement followed by rapid restore from the hot-backup host to the repaired system or reconfigured spare to get back online in, say, two to six hours. We do something like that here -- we have a RAID (and yes, it also crashed in the last year:-p but with an rdump backup of the primary workspace -- which also means nearly-instantaneous restores of files users just trash, as they often do -- plus a decent server contract there are several ways to bring our primary server back online in a matter of hours. Most of these ways come at the cost of maybe losing work done in the last 0-24 hours, and should not be considered an adequate replacement for a real tape backup scheme. > (3) Most of the major vendors proposed blade server approach as alternate > proposal to the conventional 1U server. By stuffing 14 > processors board into a blade centre (actually just another type of > rack-mounted chassis occupying 7U), the "processor density" can be > double. The issue here is more one of whether or not space is "expensive" to you. If not, blade solutions are going to be relatively more expensive per flop and relatively less powerful in terms of networking and storage options and configurations beyond a single/mere latency question. In order of cost per raw aggregate GFLOP (by whatever measure you like) it runs blade, rackmount, tower/shelving. In terms of configurability and available node options, the order is reversed -- access to the full bus and maximal disk and cooling options in a tower, usually a riser subset of 1-3 slots in a rackmount chassis, and quite possibly no bus at all or a single expansion option in a blade design. Consequently, one usually chooses a cluster configuration based at least in part on the "cost" of space to you. If you have a gym-sized room, mostly empty and nicely climate controlled, and only plan to EVER own maybe 64 to 128 nodes at any one time, heck, save the money, buy more nodes, and use tower chassis and heavy duty shelving from Home Depot. If you have a decent sized server room (maybe five to ten meters square) you're more likely to need to go with rackmounts to keep things neat and clean and provide room to work and for additional systems as time passes. If you have a glorified broom closet with a window unit for an air conditioner, a blade system suddenly looks very attractive. There can of course be alternative ways costs and benefits can be locally tallied to push toward one or the other configuration; this is just intended to be illustrative. The point is, do a cost-benefit analysis, being fairly honest about costs and benefits in your local environment, and be properly skeptical about vendor's or integrator's claims for the same. Whatever you do should make sense, and not just be done because that was the way you thought everybody did it. rgb Robert G. 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This is a rare 1950ies Kirovskie K-43 "crab or fancy lugs" wristwatch. It was produced in the USSR at the legendary First Moscow Watch Factory (as indicated on the signed movement).
The First Moscow Watch Factory was the fist Soviet watch factory and was founded by the ministry of defence and Stalin in 1930 to produce watches for the red army.
It was American expertise that began the soviet watchmaking history. The Soviet government bought the defunct Ansonia Clock Company of Brooklyn, New York in 1929, and the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company of Canton, Ohio. They moved twenty-eight freight cars full of machinery and parts from the USA to Moscow in order to establish the factory. Also twenty-one former Dueber-Hampden watchmakers, engravers and various other technicians helped to train the Russian workers in the art of watchmaking as part of the Soviet's First Five-Year Plan.
The model comes in different dial colours black, green, red and brown; the red one is the most sought after. The case shows signs of use, mostly on the back, but it is still in good condition considering that it is 60 years old. It is in working condition and keeps correct time.
The watch is all original and has a brown dial which says "Made in the USSR" in Russian; it has a nice black leather wristband.


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If you were trying to book a wedding next March in Columbus, Ohio, over the last few months — not that anybody we know might have been — one of the primo spots in town was booked for a huge, lavish wedding between former Ohio State Buckeyes and current Green Bay Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk and Laura Quinn, the sister of Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn. (Laura is, of course, most famous for her ridiculous half-Irish, half-Buckeye outfit during the Fiesta Bowl last year.) Afterwards, once Hawk's first season in the NFL was over, they were going to honeymoon in Aruba. It was all going to be beautiful.
So why, then, did the couple hasten to shotgun a recital of vows yesterday afternoon in the Green Bay downtown law offices of Liebmann, Conway, Olejniczak & Jerry? Doesn't that seem a bit unusual? No family or friends were there either.
Hmm. Doing some math ... August ... September ... October ... March ... that's about, oh, eight months. Hmm.
Former OSU Linebacker A.J. Hawk Gets Hitched [Dayton Daily News]
(UPDATE: A source closer to this situation than we are — that is to say, a source who occasionally leaves his/her apartment — says it's not a slip-past-the-goalie situation. "it's simply to facilitate a better financial situation by allowing Laura to be insured and have the rest of her education paid for by the NFL when AJ signs his contract."
OK, that makes sense.)