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In late June 1998, I received a letter in the mail. It was from my Editor at the time, Joe Patrick of Gater Racing Photo News, an upstate New York motorsports trade paper that covered the weekly short track action in New York, parts of New England, and Northern Jersey. I was the NASCAR Winston Cup (as it was called in those days) correspondent. But this wasn't your ordinary letter. It was one of those letters inside a letter. The letter inside was unopened and in a hand-written envelope that had my name with Gater's mailing address on it. It came from Pocono Raceway.
I opened it up with a good amount of curiosity. What I found inside was a short typed note from Dr. Joseph Mattioli, the founder and CEO of Pocono–the eastern Pennsylvania NASCAR track I had been to dozens of times as a kid growing up. The letter was sent to let me know how much he enjoyed a column I had penned in the previous week's paper. It seemed that Doc Joe, as I would grow to call him (instead of the usual Doc which everyone called him), took particular delight in this column.
Now, those of you who know me personally know that I can sometimes get on a pretty big soapbox, yes even more so than I do in the pages of Circle Track. And this column was just one of those times. It was written in response to the political hot potato that was the New York Yankees. Around that time Yanks owner George Steinbrenner was holding, or rather trying to hold, the city of New York hostage over building the Yankees a new stadium. Now I'm not talking about the current one that just got completed a year or so ago. I'm going back some 14 years. Anyway, George was upset that NYC wouldn't cut the Yanks any big tax breaks to build the park. Basically, he wanted the city to fund the build with taxpayer dollars or he threatened to move the Yankees to New Jersey. It turned into a politically charged debate that caught my interest. Without delving into the content of the whole column, suffice to say I slammed the billionaire Yankees owner for not having the guts to fund his own stadium. In the course of my journalistic tongue lashing I used Doc's trials and tribulations while building and running Pocono as the perfect example of how it should be done. Doc used his own money, nobody else's, to build the track and I was emphatic (still am today) that public dollars should not be used to fund NASCAR tracks. Well, when Doc read the column, he felt compelled to send me the note (he would tell me this later).
Being the "good" journalist, I called Doc personally to thank him for the acknowledgment of my work. It was during the course of that conversation when he invited me out to Pocono to learn firsthand of some of the improvements he was making to the facility. I naturally jumped at the opportunity and headed east two hours into the Pocono Mountains.
By this time in my motorsports "career" I had interviewed plenty of NASCAR personalities from Earnhardt Sr. to Bill France Jr. to Hut Stricklin, but other than seeing him around the track during the two Pocono stops, I never interviewed Doc.
Most interviews during that era would last maybe 30 minutes (if you were lucky). Well, this interview with Doc turned into much more than just a Q&A session. It lasted four hours and included a tour of the infield, tracks (yes there is more than one), and surrounding property. At this point in time, Doc was leveling the old garage area and building a completely new facility. The new plans and layout, which he showed me in his office, carried a black and white racing theme, and were designed to be highly functional. One of the features he was most proud of was the fact that he surrounded the garage area with a wrought iron fence, just 56 feet from the cars. The fence allowed fans full view of the all the action going on. You could see all the crews, cars, and trailers. He also kept his famous autograph alley area where fans could line a fence for an autograph from their favorite driver as they walked to the starting grid. Keep in mind that Doc designed the whole thing himself years before Daytona built its "FanZone" (which it charges to get into). Doc designed the new Pocono with one thing in mind, to help make his track the most fan friendly venue on the circuit.
There was another side to the whole project that was indicative of Doc's approach to business. Nothing was wasted. For example, when they tore up the asphalt in the old garage area to lay down fresh new pavement they didn't simply toss the old stuff into a landfill. Doc rented an asphalt milling machine to recycle the old pavement. If you go there today, many of the infield access roads are paved with the millings from the old garage area.
Also included in the build was a 150-site motor home park for the racers, 124 of which have water, sewer, and electricity. He yanked out all of the old 375 toilets and replaced them all with Long John, the biggest toilet facility in the world, with 1,000 stalls. Doc was adamant that Pocono would never have lines for the restrooms again. To this day I'm not sure whether he was more proud of the see-through fence or Long John…probably the fence…maybe. Finally, he built an expansive Midway that is completely landscaped with 14 40-foot-high Blue Spruce, 200 picnic tables and gazebos all over that anybody can use to relax. You could say that Pocono was green long before green was a fashionable buzzword.
All of the success that Pocono has had over the years is an outgrowth of some very difficult times. Doc pulled no punches in the interview when talking about how he almost lost the track.
He had served in the Pacific during World War II as a Navy medic. Using the G.I. bill, he enrolled in the dentistry program at Temple University (where he met his soon-to-be-wife, Rose.) Upon graduation, he developed his dental practice into a very lucrative business by working 12- to 14-hour days, six and sometimes seven days a week. He then began investing in and developing properties in Philadelphia and Northeastern Pennsylvania. That's when he became involved in the start up of Pocono Raceway. But Doc and his lovely wife Rose nearly went broke a number of times while building what is arguably the most unique racetrack on the NASCAR circuit.
They held their first race on the long-gone 3/4-mile track in 1968. That was followed by the first 500-mile Indy race on what is now called the "Tricky Triangle" in 1971 and then the first NASCAR 500-mile race in 1974. But thanks to construction mistakes, the CART-USAC fight and a lot of inexperience, they ran into some serious financial problems.
I remember Doc telling me, "I was almost bankrupt two or three times but was too dumb to realize it." He went on to say that he had kept all the keys to the racetrack on one very large key ring. "I had gotten to the point
that one day I went down to the bank that held the papers on the track, walked into my banker's office, tossed the keys on the table, and said, 'Congratulations, you now own a racetrack.'" As Doc told me, when he turned around to leave, the banker wouldn't let him. After all, back then no banker wanted to own a racetrack.
It was shortly thereafter when Bill France Sr. asked Doc to meet with him in New York. France Sr. wanted the Mattiolis to stick it out and not leave the business. Doc makes no bones about the fact that he resisted France's desires. Toward the end of the meeting France pulled out a business card and penned a message for Doc on its back. During our interview Doc pulled the card out of his desk and showed it to me. It said, "on the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of millions, who within the grasp of victory, sat and waited and in waiting died."
Card in hand, Doc headed back to Pocono, deciding to give it a shot. Doc said that the Frances gave much moral support and a lot of good advice following that New York meeting. Bill Sr. and his wife, Annie B., came to the races the next two years to show their support for Pocono. Shortly thereafter he and his son, Bill Jr., gave us our second NASCAR race. From there, Pocono stabilized and became a jewel in the NASCAR crown. Still today, it's the only family-owned racetrack on the NASCAR Sprint Cup series schedule.
During my interview with Doc, we walked around the infield and talked not only of racing and his planned facility improvements, but of the importance of how you treat your customers, in his case, the fans and the competitors. Put them first in your mind and you can be successful he said. I grew up in New Jersey just a couple of hours east of Pocono and I have spent a lot of time there over the years, in the grandstands, on the track and in the garage area. I have seen the transition of Pocono from a NASCAR track (my first visit in the mid-'70s) to a world class, sustainable motorsports complex (today).
One of my favorite, more recent, memories of Doc was during the annual Media Picinic that Dr. Rose throws during the June race. Held in the infield at the Mint Julep Club (first floor of the tower), the Mattiolis use it as a chance to say thanks to all of the media members who cover the races at their track. Inside the club is a nice lounge area with couches arranged facing one another to form a square. A couple of these squares back up to each other. I was sitting in one of these squares with my father. Directly behind us sat Doc and Chris Economaki talking about the past history of Pocono. It seemed like they covered everything, USAC, NASCAR, ARCA, and more. I leaned to my dad and whispered, "If only I had a recorder." Doc turned around and said, "Rob you'd need a truck load of batteries to keep it running with the two of us."
Doc was 86 when he passed away on January 26 of this year. Not surprisingly, he was in the office daily, until last fall, overseeing all aspects of the Pocono Raceway operations. Three years ago, at age 83, he spearheaded an ambitious solar energy project. He built a 3 megawatt photovoltaic solar energy system on 25 acres at the track, making Pocono the world's largest solar- powered sports facility. Like the reuse of asphalt in the late '90s, Doc's solar farm is another example of how forward thinking he really was, not just a track owner and not just a promoter, but a visionary of how a motorsports facility should be run. Many a short track in this country could learn from Doc.
I built a great relationship with the Mattiolis over the years. I always prodded Doc to write a book about his experiences, but he preferred let his facility do the talking. Everybody in this business has a track that they consider home. It may be where you started racing or it may be where you won the most races, or maybe neither. Perhaps it's where you just feel totally relaxed and part of the family. Having been to hundreds and hundreds of racetracks around the country, there is only one Pocono and for me it's like home, thanks to Doc.
Fun Pocono Facts
Pocono is located just 90 miles from New York and Philadelphia and is within 200 miles of 60 million people.
There are actually three separate road courses contained within Pocono's 2.5-mile main track. Each course utilizes one of the NASCAR track's corners and all three tracks can run at the same time. None of the corners are the same and all of the straights are different lengths, making Pocono one of the most challenging racetracks for crew chiefs to set up a car. It's also the only non-road course track where the NASCAR boys shift. They do it going down the front stretch and yes that straightaway is long enough to land a small plane.
In 2009, Dr. Joe received the Philanthropic Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Association of Fundraising Professionals for his generous and continuous contributions to local civic organizations, hospitals, schools, and charities.


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"The Fern Lake Fire is not completely out," said Kyle Patterson, the park's public information officer. "But with 12-plus inches of snow, it has reduced the fire spread and potential to spread to very low."
Patterson explained that there will be small isolated areas of smoldering and the fire that has burnt nearly 3,500 acres west of the Bear Lake Road, including Moraine Park, may produce visible smoke in the coming days.
"Keep in mind the fire is also in the Forest Canyon area, where it initially started," said Patterson. "A fire has not burned in that area for over 800 years, so the fuels in that area are very dense and deep."
It is this depth and density that has kept the fire smoldering for over two months, with the occasional flare-up. The most notable was over the Dec. 1 weekend, when driven by 75-mph wind gusts, the fire ran through the Moraine Park area, while more than doubling the fire's size. At one point, the fire moved an incredible three miles eastward in just 35 minutes.
The early morning flare- up resulted in hundreds of Estes Park residents being evacuated from their homes in the middle of the night. An evacuation center was set up Dec. 1 at the Estes Park High School and then moved to the Mt. View Bible Fellowship Church on Dec. 3.
The investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing. Officials believe the fire was started by an illegal campfire in the lower Forest Canyon area.
The tab for fighting the fire is currently at $6.5 million. The fire is now being managed by a Type 4 Rocky Mountain National Park organization, reflecting a less complex fire with reduced fire behavior. A Type I crew was brought in to manage and fight the fire after the Dec. 1 flare-up. They were Released, once fire activity died down.
The snow has also brought with it increased recreational activities and some danger. The avalanche danger for the Front Range zone is considerable on northwest, north, northeast, east and southeast slopes at all elevations. Human-triggered avalanches are becoming likely on steep slopes with old, weak snow near the ground. Backcountry ski conditions and backcountry snowshoe conditions are currently listed as good. Travelers are warned that winter driving conditions exist with slick and snow covered roads that are being plowed. There is 11 inches of snow at Bear Lake parking lot. Overall snow totals in the Bear Lake area are 26 inches. Hidden Valley sledding and snow play conditions are also listed as good.

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Wabash Students Question Indiana Appeals Judgesby Howard W. Hewitt • February 22, 2005 Share:
Wabash speech and pre-law students didn't get the live Appeals Court hearing they were expecting Feb. 22, but instead may have gotten something better.
The Indiana Court of Appeals had scheduled a live hearing on a murder case. The hearing was canceled when lawyers didn't get notice the hearing was not going to be in Indianapolis.
Instead of the hearing, students had the opportunity to question the three appellate court judges for nearly an hour.
"This is part of what we believe to be our education mission," the Honorable Margret G. Robb said. "We think part of the reason people respect courts and their decisions are when they have some knowledge of them. And particularly with young people, it's important to let them know we're real live human beings; we have family; we have kids; and we don't know all the answers."
Robb was joined by the Honorable James S. Kirsch and Honorable Patricia A. Riley in the Goodrich Room at Lilly Library for the discussion.
"Coming here is always a special thing for us," Kirsch said. He also admitted a bit of prejudice since his son, Adam '06, is a Wabash student. "This is always one of our best audiences."
The gathering included David Moscowitz's legal debate speech class, other students, professors and 5-6 lawyers from the Crawfordsville community.
The judges answered questions about the appeals court and talked about the appeals process.
"In the vast majority of cases we don't rule or not whether we would have ruled that way, but did the trial court judge have the right to make the decision he did," Kirsch explained.
Many of Moscowitz's students are pre-law students. "They're already so invested in the process so they're drawn to the class already," Moscowitz said. "But they want to know real world results. When we do simplified or mock cases in class it's not entirely satisfying when they ask me what happened with this when it's based on a real case, but it's not an exact case.
"Really bringing this process on to campus, into their environment, into their context is really a powerful process of identification that they can engage in."
Andrew Weintraut '06 is a member of Moscowitz's class and is considering law school.
"It was a great opportunity to hear these people talk," he said. "They're high-ranking judges in the state of Indiana and just being able to hear firsthand what they're doing is quite an experience."
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Top right: Robb makes a point while Riley, at right, and Kirsch listen.
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Credit card bills, rejoice! Here are 4 fab ways to get fashion week flare at your local craft store. Add a little bit of elbow grease and - voila! - runway goddess.
During the Hermes runway show, Glamour Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive tweeted,
As soon as we could peel our eyes away from those hot orange shoes, we nodded emphatically in agreement. These handkerchief-like hemlines are a fun twist on the straight-across mini skirt, don't you think?
Kenzo's spring collection is already one of my faves and this outfit is a good representation of the sporty, layered-up vibe that made it so cool.
While I'm probably not going to be climbing into houndstooth short shorts in real life, that key chain, belt and sweater just might make the cut. And key chains are a thing, I've noticed. Grab a friend, make 'em in a million different colors and you've got eye candy for the whole spring season (and maybe a burgeoning Etsy store on your hands).
At Fendi, Glamour Executive Fashion Director Anne Christensen tweeted,
One look at the vintage store-approved suede skirts, bags and tops and we knew it was a brilliant idea.
Somehow those little holes make these neutral suede pieces more spring-y, too!
I find it slightly unfair that I can't be this woman from the Yves Saint Laurent spring 2012 runway but never mind that.
I'm pretty sure I can find versions of these separates for little bit less and that belt, well, that's a craft store project one could accomplish in no time. A nice touch: actually attaching it to that kicky little pencil skirt so that both pieces look more finished - and therefore more expensive! - as a whole.
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Dell's M&A Head Johnson Leaving for Blackstone
A force in Dell's acquisition binge is leaving the tech company to join private equity operations of Blackstone Group, Dell confirmed Monday.
Dave Johnson, who had been the senior vice president and head of corporate strategy, was labeled the "busiest man in tech" last year by an analyst amid Dell's spending spree that saw it make three deals in three days.
Dell lauded Johnson in a statement that also pledged to continue its "aggressive M&A activities."
"Mr. Johnson has been instrumental in helping to bring to life Dell's strategic vision as a leading end-to-end IT solutions provider," the company said. "He leaves a strong and sustainable organization behind; one that will continue to execute our strategy and pursue our aggressive M&A activities. The performance of our acquisitions is unmatched in our industry and that's largely a testament to Mr. Johnson's leadership."


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Healthcare reform laws must expressly prohibit funding for abortion and for insurance coverage for abortion, and must not undermine any existing federal or state restrictions on abortion funding or coverage.
Five Essential Pro-Life Principles for Healthcare Reform
Healthcare reform laws must not mandate insurance coverage for abortions, abortion-inducing drugs/devices, or other drugs/devices that can end life.
Healthcare reform laws must provide broad protection for the freedom of conscience for individuals, entities, and associations. No person, employer, healthcare provider, or insurer should be compelled to act contrary to his, her, or its conscience in the payment for, provision of, or performance of health care.
Healthcare reform laws must not contain provisions that mandate or encourage the withholding, withdrawal or curtailment of effective life-sustaining treatment to the elderly, terminally ill, chronically ill, the disabled, or other vulnerable persons.
Federal healthcare reform laws must not place restrictions on states' ability to enact and enforce legislation that protects and affirms life. For example, states must be permitted to choose which providers and plans to work with and to determine how money will be spent and who is eligible for funds in their state.
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Session: Security testing and validation, Wed., Sep. 16, 14:15 - 14:45
Security testing and validation is a key research area at SAP, aiming to enhance SAP products and processes with cost-effective techniques for automated detection and prevention of security vulnerabilities. In this talk we will first introduce an overview of the main topics in this area (e.g., dynamic analysis fighting injections via E2E taint tracking, open-source vulnerability assessment, automated security checks for best practices) and we will then dig into a few of them to provide more concreteness. In particular, we will target the multi-party web applications domain and present a few techniques---ranging from design-time security protocol analysis to black-box dynamic testing---that we devised to support developers and security experts at SAP over the software development lifecycle of these applications. We will demo these techniques and discuss their pro & cons with special focus on the cost and potential exploitation at SAP.
About Luca Compagna
Dr. Luca Compagna joined SAP in 2006. He is Research Expert at SAP Product Security Research, where he is contributing to the SAP research strategy and responsible for various internally- and externally-funded research projects. He received his MSc in Informatics Engineering from the University of Genova and his Ph.D. in Computer Science jointly from the University of Genova and Edinburgh. His area of interests include cyber-security, security engineering, automated reasoning, security testing, and their application to industrial relevant scenarios. He contributed to various projects on information security and he has published various scientific publications in his area of interest.


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Center Anze Kopitar was cagey when asked when he might return to the ice after suffering a sprained right knee while playing in Sweden during the lockout.
He said he would be fitted for a knee brace, but wasn't sure when. He also said he wouldn't resume skating until he gets the brace.
The Kings expect Kopitar to be sidelined for two to three weeks.
Goaltender Johnathan Quick reported no pain in his back after his first training camp practice after undergoing offseason surgery to repair a disk in his back. He might have been sidelined until only a few weeks ago had the players not been locked out by the owners.
Willie Mitchell did not skate with his teammates because of an unspecified knee injury. Sutter was uncertain when Mitchell might be sound enough to practice, but it's expected the veteran defenseman won't be available to play in Saturday's opener against the Chicago Blackhawks.
The Kings' practice at 7 p.m. today at Staples Center is open to the public free of charge. Fans can download complimentary tickets at www.ticketmaster.com/lakings. The workout also will be televised live on Fox Sports West with Bob Miller, Jim Fox and Patrick O'Neal calling the action.
Single-game tickets for all Kings home games go on sale at 6 p.m. today, at the Staples Center box office and at LAKings.com. There also are a limited number of individual game suites available for groups of 12 to 132.
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Truth or Satire? Facebook Labels Articles from the Onion
After seeing an article on Facebook about a 9,600-mile endurance roller-coaster ride at Busch Gardens that lasts 14 days, spans five time zones, and dips under Lake Tahoe, one user was confused.
"Is this for real? Sounds impossible but at the same time the article sounds legit," the Facebook user wrote, according to the blog literallyunbelievable.org.
Not really. The article was published by the Onion, the satirical newspaper that has been writing outlandish but almost-believable yarns for 26 years (unless you believe it was founded by Friedrich Siegfried Zweibel in 1756 before it was sold to a Chinese conglomerate in 2009). Most readers recognize the articles as satire, but some people don't get the joke.
In a serious attempt to clear things up, Facebook began testing a "satire" tag when such articles are shared to Facebook. The social network adds the tag to posts in the "Related News" section of a user's news feed referencing articles from the Onion and other satirical news sites.


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Valve Announces SteamOS
The world waited to see what news Valve would break first as part of its trifecta of announcements this week. Coming first, SteamOS, a new free Linux-powered operating system.
Like many of its living room competitors, the SteamOS will incorporate streaming video, music, sharing with other family members and most of all, gaming. SteamOS will be free forever, and Valve will offer it for download soon. There will be a handful of games coming natively to SteamOS in 2014, but you'll also have access to the Steam library via streaming.
"With SteamOS, 'openness' means that the hardware industry can iterate in the living room at a much faster pace than they've been able to. Content creators can connect directly to their customers," Valve stated. "Users can alter or replace any part of the software or hardware they want. Gamers are empowered to join in the creation of the games they love. SteamOS will continue to evolve, but will remain an environment designed to foster these kinds of innovation."
A future-proof living room media and gaming machine? We have a feeling there are going to be plenty of people excited at the opportunities SteamOS presents. There are still two more announcements coming from Valve, with the next coming on Wednesday. With a new operating system, it wouldn't be much of a shock to learn Valve will be introducing its SteamBox hardware before week's end.


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The Nokia Lumia 620 is an affordable, impressive entry level Windows Phones. We were impressed with the 3.8″ device (here's our review) and it is now coming to the U.S. market.
The not-so-good news of it all is that while the Lumia 620 is making an appearance in the U.S. market, it's not with a major carrier. The Lumia 620 is being offered by the relatively new wireless carrier Aio Wireless.
Unfortunately, for the time being, the Aio Wireless service is limited to the Tampa, Orlando, and Houston areas. The company does have hopes to expand nationwide within the next year. This may not be good news for those of us on other carriers or that live outside these limited markets. But it's a start.
If you happen to be in one of the three Aio Wireless markets and are looking to make a switch, the Lumia 620 is running $179.99 (no annual contracts) with rate plans starting at $55.00 a month. The Lumia 620 is being offered with the cyan shell but customers can exchange the cyan shell for violet, yellow or green shells at no cost at Aio Wireless retail stores.
You can find all the fine print on the Aio Wireless Nokia Lumia 620 here at the Aio Wireless website.
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I have a certain fondness for courtroom drama.
From the novels of Scott Turow to the pulsating shenanigans of my selfless mentor, Alan Shore of "Boston Legal," the posing and the revelations can often be far more exciting than anything in Henry James or E. L. James.
But though the excitement of seeing excluded evidence being slipped into journalists' hands is precisely the sort of thing the great Shore would have done with innocent eyes and guilty lips, one aspect of the case confuses me.
It gnaws at me like the tags on an H&M shirt. It is this: Is there any evidence that any real human being bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab rather than an iPad because they thought they were the same?
I did hear that Apple's Phil Schiller declared in court his shock at seeing some Samsung designs: "My first thought was, 'wow they've done it again, and they're just going to copy our whole product line.'"
He also said: "Customers can get confused on whose product is whose." (There were allegedly reports of some people returning Galaxy Tabs at Best Buy because they -- somehow -- thought they were iPads. Not that this was any obvious stampede of complaint.)
And yet, despite this alleged potential for confusion, Apple has 68 percent of the tablet market. The name "iPad" has become generic. Apple's large cut seems to be threatened more by cheaper devices such as the Kindle Fire than by Samsung's alleged fine copies.
As for phones, Apple created a very pleasing chart that showed how closely Samsung's phones seemed to have followed Apple's fine designs. The "before" looked Barney Rubble-ish in comparison to the "after."
But while the jury will, sadly, be mired in considering the virtues of tiny but significant points of design, I fear the drama might suddenly disappear from the courtroom as the mold of legalese takes hold.
Though Apple's claim that it never does consumer research was rather undermined by Schiller's revelation that, well, Apple does consumer research, isn't this one moment when the consumers themselves might help Apple more than any lawyer?
How very Alan Shore, how very Erin Brockovich it would be if Apple could parade real people who would tearfully relate how they accidentally bought a Samsung instead of something from Cupertino.
"It looked just the same," Janice McFlounder might say. "And before I knew it, I had walked out of Best Buy with a shiny new phone. But then I turned it over and it said 'Samsung.' I couldn't believe it."
Or what if Michael Kasinada, eyes filled with the hurt of the duped, would stare at Samsung's lawyer and exclaim: "Your clients sold me a fake iPad! It's like a fake Rolex, only more expensive! How could you do that to me?"
Failing the wailing of the pained turning the jury, how about at least producing a few people who bought Samsung's machines and would tell the court: "C'mon, it's obvious. These Samsung Tabs are the same as the iPads! And that Samsung logo is so much cooler!"
Though I am sure that each side's lawyers are having enormous fun in parsing the minutiae of gadget design, I feel equally sure that -- whatever the outcome -- the future will still reveal a huge amount of design similarity.
If the new iPhone 5 has a bigger screen, will Samsung attempt to declare: "Gosh, you got that idea from our fine S3?"
When ever-more vast amounts of money are at stake, it's sometimes hard for any company to be too original. They assume everyone wants the same thing, so they make it. Except for Apple, of course, which does no consumer research whatsoever and manages to make genuinely original products. Or at least products that look so much cooler than anyone else's.
But I have a feeling that some designers occasionally consult lawyers while they're designing. They ask them what they can get away with. They rehearse their arguments even before the product leaves their computers.
And now the lawyers are in court seeing whether some of those rehearsals work on the live stage.
Which is why this case needs far more raw human drama.
Line up some real people and offer them the Samsung Challenge. Give them the Apple-Samsung side-by-side and see if they can tell the difference.
There's been too much technical legal swordplay in the tech world lately. It's time to let the people decide.
The poor, nine pressured humans on the jury need help from the fellow men and women, not from lawyers and employees of the two companies.
Because there's one thing you know about all those people with vested interests: not one will be telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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HAWKESBURY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Nov. 24, 2014) - Ontario government indifference to care quality, provincial policies and low funding for long-term care are fostering systemic neglect of residents, say personal support workers (PSWs) and registered practical nurses (RPNs) who took part in intensive focus group sessions in five Ontario communities.
"What PSWs and RPNs told us are frank, powerful and often heartbreaking accounts of how, despite their outmost efforts and dedication they are forced to provide what amounts to substandard care to residents," said Kevin Tyrrell a regional vice-president with the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) in releasing the focus group report - Long-Term Care in Ontario: Fostering Systemic Neglect - at a Hawkesbury media conference today.
While the PSWs and RPNs said while they stay in the field because they have an affinity for the work and genuine care for residents, they are demoralized and defeated by routine understaffing and chronically low staffing levels which are resulting in lonely, isolated and often depressed residents. PSWs and RPNs simply don't have adequate time to provide residents with the social and emotional care they desperately need, said the focus group participants.
It's the provision of emotional care - that is key to providing LTC residents with a "home" to live in, rather than a facility where they are simply "warehoused", said Dorothy Winterburn a PSW who told of her own challenges in providing care quality she can be proud of.
91 per cent of the study participants said they are not able to provide good quality care, while 97 per cent identified not enough staff and heavy workloads as the key reasons they cannot provide quality care. They identified dangerously high resident to staff ratios - up to 15 residents per PSW on dayshifts and up to 42 residents per PSW on nightshifts. RPN staffing ranged from 30-42 per resident on both the day and nightshift.
The report calls for a legislated four hour daily care standard and a higher ratio of direct care staff.
Chronic understaffing and short-staffing is fueling a barrage of injuries (in both residents and staff), infection, bed sores, abuse and unsafe work practices. Short-staffing they said is hastening incontinence and loss of mobility in residents because there are not enough PSWs to toilet residents as needed. "This is the ultimate indignity for residents. They deserve much better."
Lax infection control and delayed testing of new residents for common infection and unsafe situations where there is "no one on the floor". A huge concern they say in cases of evacuation or other emergencies.
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The season is winding down and things haven't gone so great in Detroit. The Pistons are just waiting to be mathematically eliminated from playoff contention for the fourth straight season and are on pace for their worst winning percentage in four seasons as well. Other than a roster stocked with young talent like Greg Monroe, Andre Drummond, Brandon Knight, Kyle Singler and fan favorite Viacheslav Kravtsov, there have not been a lot of reasons to get pumped about Detroit this season.
But don't tell that to Shannon Sailes, or as he's better known to The Palace at Auburn Hills faithful: The Dancing Usher. Since last season, Sailes has made a name for himself by busting out some pretty sharp dancing moves during the Dance Cam segment during timeouts at Pistons home games. We haven't seen any video proof of this until this season and after seeing it, Sailes joins the aforementioned young core as a reason to take in a Detroit home game.
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We as the human species unfairly place human emotions on dogs. Have you ever heard someone say or perhaps you've caught yourself saying, "My dog knows he did wrong", or how about this, "My dog knows he's guilty", or better yet "My dog did that just to spite me because he's mad at me." I'm here to tell you, dogs don't think like that. What we're doing is placing human emotions on our dogs to explain their behavior.
Dogs respond in the moment to their physical surroundings, available resources, and social pressures. They don't sit there and think, "you know, I didn't like it when Dad/Mom yelled at me earlier today so I'm going to rip out their cable line attached to the house and I'm going to do it when they least expect it. I'll show them!" Dogs just don't think like that. Although we all have very smart dogs, they don't sit there and think out plans of revenge.
What's really happening is dogs are opportunists looking for opportunities to take, possess, and/or guard resources. In the above example with the cable wire, it's much simpler behavior that's being expressed than an outrageous act of revenge. The dog has too much unsupervised time outside with fun toys available for him to amuse himself with. Trust me, I know this personally. I looked out the window one day to find my young German Shepherd ripping out my professional grade landscape edging. I'm here to tell ya, my dog Zena lived a pampered dog's life with plenty of food, exercise, and massages. There wasn't anything that she could possibly be upset about with me. In fact, she adored me so much I sometimes question if she knew she was a dog. But let's stick to one topic for discussion here.
In a dog's mind, Zena found the largest tug toy there was, 20 feet of edging material. And, better yet this toy was hidden treasure since it was partly buried in the ground. What an adventure it must've been for her.
It reminded me of the time when my brother and I were young kids digging a hole to visit China. Jimmy, as I called him back then, was looking down into our huge hole when I raised the shovel to take out another load of dirt. We were positive China would soon appear. Unfortunately, the shovel connected with the bridge of my brother's nose. To this day, he still reminds me of having scarred him since boyhood. I just wish he would understand that at age 5, I didn't know one should first go to Engineering school prior to constructing a tunnel. I'm happy to report though, while he may not have forgotten that tragic expedition experience, he has since forgiven me. Thank you Jim.
But let's go back to Zena. She was expressing the zest for life and adventure as my brother and I had in our earlier days. She was having the time of her life and I couldn't help but marvel at her commitment to remove that toy from the ground. She was tugging with all her might on one end of the edging material having successfully exposed 15 feet of it. With another tug or two, she certainly would remove the remaining 5 feet still buried in the ground. If I hadn't spent so much time and sweat installing that "tug toy", I think I would have found myself cheering her on. But instead, it really wasn't that funny when I thought about the work it would take to replace what she had removed.
Okay so what did I do? Well I certainly didn't replace that edging where she could perform another search and destroy mission time and time again. My mistake was failing to anticipate her commitment and resolve to amuse herself in my absence. And, while the edging material was there prior to her coming into my life, I couldn't expect her to make this extirpation. That would be placing a human emotion on her. Instead, I used the edging material in another part of my landscape that isn't accessible to her and I purchased a large jolly ball (a tough but still flexible rubber ball). She loved to pounce on that ball, carry it around and throw it just so she could chase it again. And, that one ball which seemed expensive at the time (approximately $24.00) was a drop in the bucket. It certainly saved me much more money, sweat and tears from having other landscape objects destroyed.
Zena was being a dog operating in the moment, which is one of the reasons I loved her so much. In a world that we find ourselves pondering the motive behind another person's behavior towards us; it's reassuring to know my dog was perfect at being a dog. Instead of blaming her for finding a truly wonderful tug toy, I found her a new appropriate toy to occupy her time and energy.
So the next time you find yourself considering your dog's unacceptable behavior as being a well planned out and executed act of revenge consider the following question. When my dog is being "good", did he/she sit there and think "you know its my owner's birthday tomorrow, so I am going to be extra nice because I love them so and this is what they would want me to do?" I'm sorry to inform you they don't have this forethought either. Instead, they are fun loving opportunists thinking and acting in the moment.
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Women who want to be manhandled by a lover with a questionable sense of style. Vanilla women is out of the question and I only do KINK women that have a drive and a need to be controlled and in a submissive relationship. I am DOM in a good way, I am not a beater, yell or threaten - any male can to that, we call them ass holes. A true DOM knows how to control by asking once and can give you a look that will melt you in one second.
This guy likes to be in control. He knows what he wants and he's confident in his ability to melt flavors other than vanilla with a look that has been clocked at one second. Unfortunately, honing this incredible melting stare power has kept him from having time to get to the mall. Our best estimates track this tie to the Structure's spring collection. In the first line where he reveals that it's a recent picture of him.
He may not be what we call "ass holes," but his pose and choice of neck wear are clearly giving off a heavy vibe of dork. And, it's not the sweet helpless sort of dork either. We're guessing that the annoying repeated capping of "DOM" is an indication our friend is desperate to act out a control fantasy that has something to do with being passed over for a manager position at the grocery store where he's a "professional" cashier.
We don't see why a listing that gives off the same bitter vibe he does in person would make his chances any better. I'm offering ot take you on a cruise to Hawaii expenses paid for with me that is round trip to LA.
It just doesn't happen. So despite all the name calling, feelings of alienation and social discrimination, sometimes it is really, really awesome to be gay, like when you get extended a two-week Hawaiian vacation and cruise for a few hook-ups. Also, sometimes it's not that awesome to be straight, broke and desperately in need of a vacation.
Honestly, the only thing wrong with this listing is that it evokes a great deal of envy amongst heterosexual males. The curious straight guy who happens upon this inquiry will inevitably ask themselves why they've been cursed with an attraction to the opposite sex when the best you can hope for in the women-for-men listings are year-old single mothers looking to host dudes who enjoy big-bodied females at their mobile home.
The only way this goes wrong is if he's full of shit and the cruise turns out to be a trip around the bay on his Uncle Remus' fishing boat. You could really get hurt if you resist. But pushing past that fear, by passing through it, lite rally the joy that lies on the other side of convention If you're an atheist, you will get to know God experientially, from being fucked in the ass. Butt sex means a lot to this guy. Not many listings offer a spiritual experience, but the author of this one is doing just that.
Photos of his torso display a muscular build, because no one wants to be reamed to a point where they "know God experientially" by someone who doesn't have a membership at Crunch. When the Archbishop of Ass-Nailing completely disregarded the fact that this is called Casual Encounters. The feeling you get after reading the listing is that an encounter with this guy is going to be anything but casual.
In fact, it doesn't seem like a stretch to think his idea of foreplay includes some chanting and the sacrifice of a goat. However, it's good our anal missionary here is looking to convert nonbelievers using Craigslist. Taking his divine message door to door like a Mormon would be pretty creepy and probably illegal in most states.
Really just a matter of whichever one gives out first. Some famous people are radically different from the images we hold dear in our hearts. We're here to catch you up on all the interesting stuff you should know.What happens in North Vegas will haunt your dreams forever. I won't have sex with you. And, if that's not enough to scare them off, he mentions tonight, "tomarow" and the weekend as times he's available. We're here to catch you up on all the interesting stuff you should know. And, it's not the sweet helpless sort of dork .


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The death of Buford junior varsity football player Seth Muennich rocked the eastern Lancaster County community.
A promising life was cut short by a car accident near the school last fall.
But Muennich's name and the life he lived won't soon be forgotten.
Buford High School officials want to make sure Muennich's memory is always prevalent in the minds of Yellow Jackets' fans.
According to CNN's Moni Basu, the plight of folks living in Lancaster is likened to Tom Joad's family in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."
Steinbeck documents the misery the Joads experience as they leave their foreclosed, dust-covered farm in Oklahoma to find work in Depression-era California.
"In hard-hit S.C. town, faith and finances fuel political decisions," Basu equates the aftermath of Springs Industries' demise to the Joads' struggle as migrant workers.
2011 has passed, but University of South Carolina Gamecocks fans will long savor it for the sweet memories.
OK, some did spill over into 2012, which USC backers won't moan about because it was a grand start to the new year.
But 2011 was a watershed year with a flood of fond memories.
Of course, the USC baseball team provided many thrills with its second straight national championship run.
Tomorrow, registered voters across the state will be able to exercise one of the most precious privileges democracy grants us – the opportunity to determine who will represent them in their government.
And though local voters have no local contests to decide, the first-in-the-South Republican primary will determine who will be on the Republican presidential ticket this fall.
Voters will choose between these GOP presidential hopefuls:
u Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
u Texas Congressman Ron Paul
u Texas Gov. Rick Perry
The Republican primary season is in high gear in South Carolina, evidenced both by the number of campaign signs popping up like mushrooms in area yards and the number of presidential hopefuls racing around the state.
This week, GOP presidential hopeful Texas Gov. Rick Perry made two stops in Lancaster County – both to talk with senior voters. He stopped Tuesday morning at Sun City Carolina Lakes, where he spoke at the Lake House, then stopped to have lunch with the Retired Council of the Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce at Charley's Cafe.
In more than two decades of service as the director of the Lancaster County Voter Registration and Election Commission Office, Cassie Stump has seen plenty.
During her 20 years with the county, Stump has seen voting go from the use of paper ballots to the now easier-to-use touch screens at the various county precincts.
"Now we have electronic voting equipment, which is so easy to us," said Stump, who retired from her duties Dec. 30.
Giving back. We hear these familiar words often, especially during the holidays.
But the holiday season affords us a chance to live those words.
In Lancaster County, the opportunities are endless. Take your pick because there are several ways you can help someone less fortunate.
What about the Angel Tree? Often during this time of year with its hectic schedule, you might be dining out at an area restaurant. If so, look for an Angel Tree. Look over the tree and find a way to make a difference for a child.
Today is Black Friday, the official beginning of our nation's frenzied holiday shopping season. Retailers everywhere have been gearing up for this day for months, hoping to draw in shoppers with once-a-year deals.
Now that the holiday shopping season is in full swing, we'd like to remind shoppers to Think Lancaster First before heading to malls outside the county to do their holiday shopping.
It's hard to believe that tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day, the traditional kickoff of our holiday season.
Our national day of giving thanks dates back to 1621 in Massachusetts, where we believe the Pilgrims and Native Americans celebrated a successful harvest with food and festivities.
Given our economic situation, some in modern-day America may find it difficult to give thanks, but we still have much to be thankful for – health and family and freedom, to name a few.
There's plenty of activities here to honor Veterans Day in Lancaster.
It should be.
Veterans Day is the time our nation, from Main Street, USA to Washington and across our county, to salute military veterans.
The federal holiday is also celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world and falls on Nov. 11, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I.
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text: couple of follow-up questions.... ******************** I personally try to advocate diskless clients whenever I get a chance. There are several reasons for this: 1. Administration is much easier if you don't have local data or OS or anything that won't be fixed by a simple power cycle. If a problem persists through that, you know it's hardware (I guess it could be BIOS setup, but I'd consider that hardware). ******************** this is easy enough to automate though...a single shell script that rcp's the changed files to all the nodes (for configuration files). Then I was thinking of nfs exporting any applications that are needed...simply install them into /usr2, and share out /usr2...wouldn't that handle that? ******************** 2. You do save money on hard disks, but have to spend a little more on NICs. What this does mean though, is that you can put a more advanced storage system on the server (or network attached storage). Putting SCSI Raid or such on the server will increase performance and / or reliability (I think Gig E is faster than most IDE drives and I know Myrinet is, so you should improve total system performance). ******************** well, we do use 15k rpm scsi drives, but yeah....ya want to do as few reads as possible even then. Just seems with a potential of there being 100 of these nodes, I very well may have to boot one every few days...and that would be lots of traffic. At that point, is it advisable to have a worldly node set aside for doing the boot-up? Hell, I could have everything bootstrap off their 100bt ports, then actually work off a gig-ethernet port...hmmm... ************************** 3. In theory, you shouldn't be writing to the local disks in a program anyway. This will slow your computations waaaay down. Same thing for swapping to disk. 4. You only have one copy of data, so not only do you save in total storage costs (assuming cost/byte is fixed), but you also only have one copy of the data so you don't have to worry about inconsistencies between nodes (there are other ways to get the hard drives consistent, but they are a bit of a pain). Also, as a sys-admin it is nice to only have one place to look if there are problems. ************************* the data would obviously be shared out, yeah. With a possibility of a multi-terabyte database that the cluster is querying in a year, there's no way I'd put a terabyte on each node..hehe. I mean, IBM can say all they want about low-end drives being 400gigs in a year or so, but... point being, whether they are diskless or not they'll be pulling in all their data locally. Its just the OS that would be local, and perhaps any applications I'd want on each node. ************************** 5. You can call it intuition if you like (although it's based on facts), but I really think this is the way clusters are going. This is the way that big systems like the Cray T3E work. It's a lot simpler for programmers (It took me a while to explain how to write to local disks vs. server disks). It's also just a lot more elegant, which may sound like a cop out, but most good solutions are elegant. ************************* Elegancy is certainly not a cop-out in my book. The more elegant something is, the better it works...this is almost always true. ********************************** Having said all that, it is important to note that diskless nodes are not for everyone. In fact our cluster is not diskless, and we aren't looking at getting diskless nodes any time soon (give me a few years). Right now it doesn't meet our needs since we need the local disk and we have our disked cluster working fine. Hope this helps a little. Jared ************************************* Any tips are helpful. I'm just sittin here trying to decide which would be better for -our- particular application. When is it better for there to be disked-clients? Is diskless pretty much something I should obviously do considering the fact that the cluster will be quering a huge database anyway? Brian LaMere Diversa Brian LaMere wrote: > > why does every guide around talk about diskless clients? I mean...disks are > stinkin cheap nowadays... > > I have ~$150,000 to make a test cluster (with WAY more if the test cluster > shows worth) but the boss-man wants to go with nodes which aren't exactly > "commodity" in my book. dual p3-1000 with 1.25Gb ram, 15krpm 18Gb drives. > The things cost $8k+ each...tried to explain that 148 $1k machines would way > out perform 16 $8k machines, but...oh well. These boxes take up 1u, which > seems to be their main selling point (HP's lp1000r). Fortunately, these > boxes are down to $6.5k now in cost (dropped a bit since we bought them a > couple months back), but still... > > on to my point. Getting PVM to see everyone as one happy little family was > easy enough. Got the network guys to isolate the little guys, so that only > the worldly node could see them, since I wasn't happy with opening up > everything and simply putting a little all:all in hosts.deny, and having > that be all the security I had. But every guide that I've found has been > all about diskless nodes for a beowulf. And this isn't really a beowulf > with just pvm (and soon lam-mpi and mpich), right? I personally thought > that the network nfs/tftp traffic would be horrible if they were all > diskless clients... > > so the real question: I can put gig-e cards in the boxes instead of hard > drives...right now they just have 2 100bt enet connections. I'm only using > one of the enet ports at the moment, too. Would I be better with no disks, > and gig-e instead? Some of the concerns I have here: though we're only > starting with a hundred gigs or such of data, we'll be at multi-terabyte > within a year. To be throwing around data that large, while nfs'ing the OS > filesystems (on the clients) just seems like a lot for the boxes to do. Am > I looking at it wrong? Also, for cost reasons we may be doing our data > storage on something as tacky as network attached storage; we were looking > at some NetApp boxes, but went with some EMC boxes instead. Note I'm not > talking about a symmetrix box or something (I already have one of those > housing my oracle data), but instead a EMC product called an "ip4700." Not > all that impressed with it. > > Just a little genetics research firm, needing some serious horsepower to > start running big hammer and blast jobs. The data we have now is just the > bare minimum we need to get by, but if we had things like a working beowulf > the scientists upstairs would start making, since they'd be able to use it, > much more data. They hired me on as the unix guy here knowing I don't know > squat about beowulfs, but that I really want to learn :) Got "how to build > a beowulf" <grin> and I've read the manuals for pvm, mpich, lam-mpi, etc, > and several other beowulf how-to guides. All are about diskless. Is > diskless better? Is it just better because its cheaper? Are there other > reasons its better? Would having gig-ethernet in the boxes instead of hard > drives be far better performance-wise? > > Brian LaMere > Diversa > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Jared Hodge Institute for Advanced Technology The University of Texas at Austin 3925 W. Braker Lane, Suite 400 Austin, Texas 78759 Phone: 512-232-4460 Fax: 512-471-9096 Email: Jared_Hodge at iat.utexas.edu


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text: We tested different things on a few HE-SL and LE based boards. In the default setup, we found the LE to be faster than the HE-SL. After tweaking settings on the HE-SL board, things improved and pushed the HE-SL ahead of the LE based machines. We ran a variety of tests, both benchmarks and our own codes. We did our testing remotely with a very cooperative vendor (Atipa-DCG). On the SuperMicro board, there is a "use optimal" setting which improved things over the default. The BIOS allows you to twiddle with the CAS memory paramaters. At this point, we have not determined if CAS 2 versus CAS 3 memory makes any difference on a ServerWorks based board. Has anyone made this determination? I would love to hear feedback. On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:54:19PM -0500, William R. Pearson wrote: > > Unfortunately, I am still in the process of evaluating dual processor > boards based on the Supermicro LE and HE-SL chipsets. > > One of the vendors I am working with suggests that the HE-SL has > considerably lower performance than the LE chipset, which seems > surprising considering the HE-SL chipset supports interleaved memory. > > Does anyone have experience with boards based on the two chipsets? > > Bill Pearson > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf ============================================================================= Ray Muno http://www.aem.umn.edu/people/staff/muno University of Minnesota e-mail: muno at aem.umn.edu Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Phone: (612) 625-9531 110 Union St. S.E. FAX: (612) 626-1558 Minneapolis, Mn 55455 =============================================================================


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Office Skirt for a friend
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Tallinn, Estonia
Last year i made a navy blue office dress for a friend and now she ordered from me a skirt. Luckily i still had the same fabric for skirt and lining so used those.
It was a bit tricky since i tried some new tehniques. Its far from perfect and i*m not happy with it. I really should take some sewing lessons. :)
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