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Mellan update: yesterday, he spent the day at the vet so they could monitor him and take chest x-rays. When we picked him up yesterday afternoon, the vet showed us the x-rays, and he said that he didn't see anything that stood out to him as abnormal. Today, our vet spoke with some specialists, aand the radiologist also agreed that his heart looked normal. So while there is definitely a heart murmur present, they do not feel it is life threatening at this time. I imagine that unless we start seeing symptoms, we should assume he's pretty normal (well, for him!). Thank you all SO much for your kind words and thoughts. They meant so much to us 🙂 I took the above photo tonight, after I did tonight's look — he always keeps me company by staring into the bathroom (he's not allowed in it except for baths) longingly!
I got the urge to try and recreate my "Barbie Loves MAC" look, and I did… using not the same products as before, LOL.
I used Golder's Green pigment (LE) on lid, Pink Pearl pigment above crease, Metamorph eyeshadow (LE) on lid, Stars 'n Rockets eyeshadow above crease, Parfait Amour eyeshadow in crease, Living Pink eyeshadow (LE) above crease, Hush eyeshadow on brow, Metamorph eyeshadow (LE) on lower lash line, Blacktrack fluidline on upper lash line, Feline kohl power (LE) on lower lash line, and Plushlash mascara on lashes. I had Don't Be Shy blush (LE) on cheeks with Lightly Lilac beauty powder to highlight. I wore Fashionably Fuchsia lipstick (LE) with Crystal Rose lipglass (LE) on my lips.
** These are recommendations for dupes based on permanent colors available — may not necessarily be identical; they are the closest I can think of!
Golder's Green = Kelly Green + Chartreuse; Metamorph = Juxt; Warm Chill = Surreal + Juxt; Living Pink = Swish; Feline = Graphblack; Don't Be Shy = Well Dressed; Fashionably Fuchsia = Girl About Town; Crystal Rose = Pink Pearl pigment + clear gloss


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Collaboration Is Still a Singular, Personal ExperienceBy David Strom | Posted 2008-05-27 Print
Collaboration technologies would seem to be all the rage over the years, but the personal aspects of computing continue to dominate. Sharing is for sissies.
What makes the PC successful as a personal productivity tool has also been its biggest obstacle toward better collaboration: the fact that it is personal. And the more powerful PCs become, the more difficult it is to collaborate with them.
The primary collaboration tool today is still what it was 10 years ago: sending an e-mail attachment with a PowerPoint deck or Word document back and forth between two or more parties. It is a serial form of collaboration: I put together my work product, send it to you, and you send back your thoughts or changes. It is fraught with problems: I have to wait to receive your revisions before adding my own, and if I don't agree with them, we pretty much have to start the process from scratch. I have seen documents that had more changes and comments than the original text.
Weren't local area networks supposed to help us share our documents, at least around the office? Now the hard disks on the average computer can contain hundreds of gigabytes, so we can carry around our entire work output for the last decade and still have room to digitize our movies, music and pictures. And just in case we don't carry our PCs around, we all have iPods and can shut out the rest of the world by booting them up. Our electronic cocoon has become more potent.
Wasn't a constant Internet connection supposed to make it easier to connect distributed work teams? Well, it has made e-mail even more powerful, and now most of us feel bereft when we are offline for a few hours. Organizations such as CA that turned off their corporate e-mail system for several hours a day (which it did in the early '90s to get people to actually move around and talk to each other) seem so quaint now.
What about blogs and wikis, putting the power of communication in the hands of the common folk? Still, e-mail is the main system to notify users when this content changes. And while Google Docs and all those nifty Web 2.0 mashups have made it easier to build collaborative applications, someone still needs to collect the data sources and do the heavy lifting. And social networks, which are great at grabbing and spamming your contact list, aren't really all about collaboration, but more about who can collect the most names fastest. I didn't do well at popularity contests in junior high, and I still feel somewhat deficient today.
There have been some notable attempts at collaboration, but all have been abject failures. Look at Lotus Notes, which is nearly 20 years old. It is still 95 percent used as an e-mail system. Yes, it has some wonderful collaborative features, particularly with its Sametime messaging and telecommunications add-ons, but most people don't know how to build their own Notes apps or don't have these add-ons installed.
The inventor of Notes is now at Microsoft with his Groove product, which is also a great idea that has hasn't gotten much traction. To get any real collaborative benefit from Groove, you have to change the way you think about your data. SharePoint isn't much better, but to leverage that you need a lot of Microsoft infrastructure, and many organizations are just getting started with understanding how to use it for something besides running a simple Web bulletin board.
I've seen some promising signs of change, particularly with two-person teams that make use of screen-sharing technologies like LogMeIn or GoToMyPC, where both parties are connected and can control the same desktop, to make changes to a presentation or to interactively edit a document. Call this the Jurassic period of collaboration: We still have a ways to go up the evolutionary chain. Salesforce.com is another good case in point, where multiple people can share contacts and client information, provided they are religious about doing the updates. And a third area that is also promising consists of shared calendars, which at least make scheduling meetings easier.
So, as PC processors get faster, disks get bigger and our social networks get larger, we still don't have the perfect collaboration solution. We still think of the data on our hard disks as our own, not our employer's. Sharing is still for sissies. Until that attitude changes, the headphones will stay firmly stuck in our ears, blocking out the rest of the world around us.
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I was thinking about the famous question in philosophy of mathematics: "When are two proofs the same?" and I was wondering if we could somehow "classify" proofs by establishing some sort of functorial relationship between proofs and other mathematical objects which we can classify (like for example, surfaces; my initial idea was to somehow capture the logical structure of a proof in a graph and then classify graphs by their topological structure). I searched MO and found this interesting post which contained some similar ideas.
However, I was wondering if we can come up with a list of examples of classification problems in mathematics which have been answered using category theoretic tools by functorially "translating" the original problem into a different category in which we can classify the corresponding objects... and everything works in a nice way. The natural place to start is obviously algebraic topology.


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What Goes Up is Coming Down
Who doesn't have memories of the Bangor Auditorium and Civic Center?
I wasn't even born when the current facility was constructed and opened in 1955, but, like so many other Mainers some of my fondest memories, from childhood through adulthood, have been generated in that building.
From Shrine Circuses as a child, to watching my daughter graduate high school, to Garden Show rendezvous with family, to singing the National Anthem, I have spent many hours inside the Bangor Auditorium and Civic Center.
Heck, I even had an office in the Civic Center portion of the building while I worked for the Bangor Convention and Visitors' Bureau several years ago.
I was personally familiar with the leaks, and some of the "hidden" hallways and rooms that existed between the Civic Center and Auditorium that haven't see the light of day, or public traffic in years.
All of those memories came flooding back today when I snapped this picture of the demolition process starting.
Cianbro took control of the building at the end of May and more than likely by the end of July the Bangor Auditorium and Civic Center, that now sits in the shadow of its replacement, the Cross Insurance Center, will be gone.
Company Spokesman Alan Grover says asbestos abatement is part of the demolition process and when it's all said and done the steel will be recycled.


text: Pulling Power December 17, 2011 12:33 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Farm Journal Editors Email By H. Kent Sundling Subtle changes in new trucks involve towing and hauling The 2012 model year trucks are considered mid models, so don't expect any drastic changes. As far as pickup exteriors go, the Ford F-150 has a new appearance package, Nissan Titan and Frontier have new sport appearance packages and Toyota Tacoma has a slightly refreshed exterior. Under the skin, however, midyear 2011 and 2012 heavy-duty models boast increased pulling power. Chevy and GMC. Upgraded towing and hauling ratings for 2012 Chevy and GMC trucks stem from new rear springs, shackles, cargo box mounts and strengthened cargo boxes. As a result, the Sierra and Silverado HDs can now tow up to 23,000 lb. with a fifth-wheel trailer, up from 21,700 lb. in 2011. Sierra and Silverado also increased dually payload; the 3500HD regular cab 6.0-liter V8 gas dually now has a 7,215-lb. rating. Upgraded trailer hitch receivers increase conventional towing to 18,000 lb., up from 17,000 lb. Chrysler Ram. Formerly known as Dodge, Chrysler Ram has a new Tradesman HD, a half-ton 1500 that is really a heavy-duty, three-quarter-ton 2500 with a higher payload package. For Ram midyear 2011 dually models, there's a new Max Tow option package that features a 4.10 rear axle ratio, which includes stronger helical gears, upgraded bearings and finned aluminum differential cover to dissipate heat. There's also a new water-to-oil transmission cooler and power-steering cooler to help manage the higher towing ratings. The Max Tow package increases fifth-wheel towing to 22,750 lb., up from 18,500 lb. Max Tow is available for regular and crew cab Ram 3500. The gross combination weight rating has been increased to 30,000 lb. for certain models. The new High-Output option 6.7-liter Cummins diesel engine increases torque from 650 lb.-ft. (in early 2011 Ram HD pickups) to 800 lb.-ft. for all 2500 and 3500 models that are equipped with Chrysler's 68RFE six-speed automatic transmission. Ford. Higher-strength steel in a frame crossmember and an upgraded trailer hitch give the Ford Super Duty additional towing capacity. The changes also boost the F-350 DRW 4×2 pickup maximum payload to 7,110 lb. and maximum fifth-wheel towing to 22,700 lb. A beefed-up frame and hitch produce a conventional trailer tow rating of 17,500 lb. for the Ford F-350 and F-450 (dual rear wheels) equipped with the 6.7-liter Power Stroke V8 turbocharged diesel engine. The Ford-engineered heavy-duty Power Stroke diesel produces 400 hp and 800 lb.-ft. of torque. The standard 6.2-liter V8 gas engine has 15% better fuel economy compared with the previous engine and produces 405 lb.-ft. of torque and 385 hp. It is capable of running on E85. New for 2012 is a compressed natural gas/propane prep engine option. Weight Rating Most states have a CDL exemption for farm trucks, but be aware that 2011 and 2012 Ford, GM and Dodge 1-ton dually diesels have a gross combination weight rating of 30,000 lb. instead of 26,000 lb. as in previous years. CDL requirements start at 26,000 lb. Your farm license plate might keep you from being pulled over by the law, but if you travel with a trailer and look commercial, know the new rules. Back to news


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Compatible Hardware with Windows 9x
Below is a list of compatible hardware that works on Windows 9x systems (and or have suitable drivers) Especially of interest is newer hardware that supports or still supports Win9x. Please start by including hardware you have on your system that you can confirm works with Win9x. I will add the hardware to the list as time allows. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================= PROCESSORS: Win9x DOES NOT support HyperThreading (please disable in the BIOS), Multiple Processors or MultiCore processors. Win98/Me may run on MultiCore processors but only 1 core will be utilised. Windows 95 has timing problems with CPU speeds higher than 350 Mhz. Windows 98 FE (and consequently Win95) cannot exceed CPU speeds higher than 2.2 Ghz (Note: This can be fixed. Read this thread: ) Supported Processors: Intel: 486 DX2-66 + Pentium Pentium Pro Pentium MMX Pentium 2 Pentium 2 Xeon Pentium 3 Pentium 3 Xeon Pentium 4 Xeon (Pentium 4) Pentium 4 Extreme Edition ... (3.73 GHz is the fastest) Pentium D ... (Only a Single Core will be utilised) Pentium Dual-Core ... (Only a Single Core will be utilised) Core 2 Duo ... (Only a Single Core will be utilised) Core 2 Quad ... (Only a Single Core will be utilised) Dual-Core Xeon ... (Only a Single Core will be utilised) Quad-Core Xeon ... (Only a Single Core will be utilised) Celeron Celeron D AMD: 486 586 K5 K6 Athlon Duron Semperon Athlon XP Opteron Athlon 64 (FX-57 2.8 GHz is the fastest) Turion 64 HARD DISKS: Windows 95 supports FAT16. Windows 95B / 98 / 98SE / Me supports FAT16 and FAT32 Win95 can NOT support hard drives bigger than 32 gig FAT16 supports drive partitions up to 2 GB. Win9x's FAT32 can be used on any hard drive larger than 512MB and supports hard disks up to 137 GB in size. To use bigger hard disks the system requires a system update. (See Below) Windows 9x natively supports ATA IDE Hard Disk Drives. SCSI, SATA and RAID disk drives are supported through third party drivers. Large Hard Disk Support Windows 98 and Me do not natively support 48-bit LBA drives larger than 137 GB. This means: - If you have a hard disk larger than 137GB... and Windows trys to save data onto that disk past the 137GB barrier, data corruption (loss of files) is likely to occur. - It doesn't matter if you partition the hard disk into smaller partitions, all partitions above the hard disks physical 137GB barrier will be affected. - If you put a single partition on the hard disk using fdisk or alternative, and its less than 137GB (UNDER 128GB is recommended as safe) you will be fine (Just Don't allocate the remainder of the disk). But if you want to use the rest of the disk you must use a work around. Work Arounds: LLXX's Enable48BitLBA - Implements 48-bit LBA support into Windows 95/98/98SE and ME's default IDE driver. Windows 98 - get the 4.10.2186 driver Windows 98 Second Edition - most users should get the 4.10.2225 driver. If you have a old IBM laptop you may have to get 4.10.2226 Windows Me - get the 4.90.3000 driver - create a primary partition on that drive (smaller than 128GB), using fdisk - install win9x on that partition - install drivers - install the suitable LLXXs patch - fill the rest of the disk with new partitions. (Keep them under 128GB if you still wish to use Scandisk and Defrag) http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=78592 Intel Application Accelerator - Allows users to access the full capacity of hard drives that are larger than 137GB on supported Intel® chipsets with a supported operating system. http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/sb/cs-009299.htm Rudolph Loew's 48-bit Patch - The High Capacity Disk Patch Program patches Windows 98/98SE/ME to provide direct support for hard drives larger than 137GB without requiring a controller card. The patch installs support for the 48-Bit LBA addressing mode required for hard drives larger than 137GB. http://rloew1.no-ip.com PCI ATA Controller card - Using a PCI ATA controller card to connect your 48-bit LBA hard drive to the system is the easiest and simplest option. With this option you can partition the hard drive without the need to upgrade the BIOS to support 48-bit LBA if it does not support this technology. The drivers provided with controller card will provide 48-bit LBA support in Windows 98 or Me. More information on the 48bitLBA --> http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm Partition Size Limits The size of individual Partitions are subject to additional limitations due to FileSystem design and Partition management tools. Microsoft specifies a maximum Partition size of 128GB. Third Party Partition Management tools may have other limits. DEFRAG and SCANDISK (in Windows Mode) are limited to less than 136.9GB Some people have reported limits as low as 127GB. DOS, WINDOWS and SCANDISK (in DOS Mode) can handle at least 400GB. WARNING: Diskeeper 10 claims to support Partitions up to 768GB and Windows 98/SE/ME. Tests show that it can corrupt large Partitions. It is recommended that you Partition your Large Hard Drive with 2 or more Partitions so that no single Primary or Logical Partition is larger than 127GB. FDISK can be used to Partition Large Hard Drives but will incorrectly report sizes above 64GB. You will need to enter sizes as Percentages in order to use the full capacity of the Hard Drive. OPTICAL DISK DRIVES: Windows 9x natively supports IDE optical drives without additional drivers. This includes CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD Dual Layer drives. FLOPPY DISK DRIVES Windows 9x natively supports internal Floppy Disk Drives.
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Passenger Jet Style and Comfort Finally, you can fly your own passenger jet with the Jet-Stream Type B! This is a fun and easy plane to fly whenever you want to be your own airline pilot. Dual electric enclosed motors give you the multi-engine flight experience, and the realistic looks will really wow your friends! With powerful dual brushless motors and long-life lithium-polymer batteries, you get plenty of flight time and loads of power! The brushless motors and the enclosed motor pods sound amazing in flight, you have to hear them in action! Enclosed Motor Pods The Jet-Stream Type B7 encloses both brushless-type motors in realistic engine covers which look just like the real thing! The covers also help the motors produce more thrust and protect the propellers. Super-Light Foam Construction The entire aircraft, from nose to tail, is made from a space age foam material that is highly resistant to crash damage yet extra light in the air. This gives you a strong and durable plane that is easy to launch and fly! Ready-To-Fly Electronics Whether this is your first RC aircraft or just the latest addition to your hangar, you'll have a fun and easy time getting airborne with 456MB! 456MB RTF kits have all of the electronics are pre-installed in the fuselage, so you don't have to spend any time getting things ready. Complete printed instructions show you exactly what you need to do to get going, plus a professionally produced instruction DVD with step-by-step assembly instructions is provided in every 456MB box. Every 456MB RTF plane includes the complete aircraft kit plus a multi-channel radio transmitter, crystal set, rechargeable plane battery, battery charger, electronic speed controller, motor and tuned propeller. With all 456MB RTF plane kits you get an advanced 4-channel radio transmitter which goes beyond the 2- or 3-channel radios you get from other starter RC aircraft. This allows you to get used to the habits and controls that will allow you to fly expert-level aircraft with ease as you grow in flying experience. You can also use the radio with other model aircraft very easily. With 456MB, you get the total package to advance your flying skills! The ARF (Almost Ready to Fly) version of the Jet-Stream Type B7 features everything the RTF version does, except there are no electronics included in the kit. You will need to provide the complete radio system, flight battery, a dual-motor electronic speed controller, and two motors. Easy to Use Charger and Battery The charger included with the RTF version couldn't be easier to use - simply attach it to your 12v car battery, plug in the lithium-polymer plane battery and the charger will automatically charge the battery. After about an hour, the battery will be fully charged to the correct voltage and you're ready for flight! The clamp-style power connectors allow you to recharge batteries at the flying field for maximum convenience and time in the air. You can also use the charger at home with a 12-volt power supply, available at any hobby shop. Jet-Stream Type-B7 Models * 66469 Jet-Stream TYPE-B7 ARF (includes fuselage, main wing, elevator, propellers, printed instructions, 456MB training DVD) * 66489 Jet-Stream TYPE-B7 RTF (includes fuselage, main wing, elevator, propellers, motors installed, speed controller installed, micro servos installed, 4-channel radio, battery for plane, battery charger, printed instructions, 456MB training DVD) Specifications * Type of plane: Passenger Jet * Pilot Level: Advanced * Fuselage material: Foam * Wing material: Foam * Speed control: Brushless * Motor: Dual Brushless * Battery: Lithium Polymer, 11.1v 1000mAh, with balancing plug * Charger: 12v DC Balancing Lithium Polymer Rapid Charger (1 hr, clamp-on connector) * Wingspan: 830mm * Length: 810mm * Wing Area: 9.62 square dm * Wing Load: 42.62 grams per dm * Weight, ready to fly: approximately 410g * Radio: 4-channel, 35mHz * Type of tail section: Conventional * RTF/ARF: both available What You Need Both models require: * 8 AA batteries for both models ARF version also requires: * 3-channel radio transmitter * receiver * 2 motors * 2 micro servos * battery * charger


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Hi, this is Emily. I design under the name Aunt Em and my blog is Em's Scrapbag. This is my first time getting to post on Moda Bake Shop and I must say I'm tickled pink to be here. When I first saw the line Cuzco, I thought of my daughter. Her favorite colors are orange, purple and green. A perfect fit, don't you think? She always wants to eat outside so a picnic quilt is perfect for her. I hope that you will enjoy it also.
First open those yummy jelly rolls and mix and match the strips into 18 sets of 3. Sew these together.
Take each of your strip sets and cut them into 2 1/2″ lengths.
Mix and match these to create 85 nine patches.
Take 10 of these nine patches and line up your ruler so that the 1/4″ line runs through your center points.
Stay stitch a scant 1/4 inch along cut edge to keep from stretching.
From your background fabric cut
68- 6 1/2″ squares
5- 9 3/4″ squares cut on diagonal twice
2- 5 1/4″ squares cut on diagonal once
Using the 5 1/4″ squares cut on diagonal once for your corners and the 9 3/4″ squares cut on diagonal twice as setting triangles along edge follow the diagram below to lay out your quilt.
Sandwich your quilt and quilt as desired. I did organic zig zag lines. If I had more time I would have loved to do some big stitch quilting in the quilting in the colors of the prints in the quilt. Bind with remaining platinum.
One 70″ x 87″ quilt perfect for a picnic in a mountain meadow, or for cuddling under with cocoa after a day on the slopes.
Stop by and visit me for what to do with the the other half of your setting nine patches or just to say 'hi'.
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Awesome Stuff: Keeping Your Online Activities Private Suddenly More Interesting
from the well,-look-at-that deptGiven all the recent leaks about surveillance lately, we figured this week's awesome stuff would look at some crowdfunding projects that are a bit more focused on keeping your online activities secret. Startups that actively protect their users privacy from snooping eyes of the government are getting a lot of renewed attention. Search engine DuckDuckGo has seen a massive bump in traffic. Kim Dotcom's Mega is now working on encrypted email and messaging to go along with its encrypted storage offerings. On the crowdfunding front, we're seeing a bunch of other privacy-related projects popping up -- some with a bit more reasonable plans than others.
- Deservedly getting a ton of attention this week was the announcement about Heml.is, a new secure messaging app for mobile devices, put together by the same crew of folks who created Flattr, including Peter "brokep" Sunde (also of The Pirate Bay fame), Linus Olsson and Leif Hogberg. These are three very, very smart guys.
- HiddenToolbox looks like they're trying to create a userfriendlish version of TrueCrypt or something similar, such that you can store your documents/files/data secretly, with some additional cool features built in, such as remote self-destruct, a panic shutdown, file shredder and more. Some of it sounds cool feature-wise, but it would be interesting to see if any security experts have really had a chance to stress test their system to find out how secure it really is. There seems to be precious little info on that front.
- There are a bunch of anonymous surfing tools out there, but iAnonym is looking to make completely anonymous internet surfing easier. The project looks pretty comprehensive, and (unlike the HiddenToolbox above) they lay out a lot of the details of what they're trying to do and why it should actually allow for anonymous activities online.
- Can't trust pure software? How about hardware. Adonify is offering a plug and play network device for people to surf the web privately. Unfortunately the video explanation is horrible. I mean this might be the worst crowdfunding video I've ever seen. The video quality, the sound quality, the explanation of the product, the dude standing around smoking while the other guy explains what's going on... it's all pretty weak. When will people finally learn that a quality video is a pretty key part of a crowdfunding campaign. For what it's worth, their IndieGoGo page isn't particularly informative either.
- If the Adonify had some problems attracting attention, that appears to go double for Cryptomania, a Swiss company that is trying to crowdfund money for a secure storage and communications platform. They don't have any video for their product, and they barely explain their product at all. And the crowdfunding awards are for equity in their company, which almost certainly violates public offerings laws in the US and other countries (while other countries do allow equity crowdfunding, and the US is getting there, the rules tend to be rather specific and rather strict -- and it doesn't appear these guys followed any of that). They're also trying to raise a much larger amount: 250,000€. So far... they've made 0€ with less than 3 weeks to go. It seems doubtful they'll get much more.
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Dec 4, 2011
56 comments:
- December 4, 2011 at 7:36 PM
- Gary Scott said...
The new chapter might be more interesting for all of us.
- December 4, 2011 at 7:42 PM
It's good to hear that you're going to move on and tackle different topics. There's a whole world out there, away from the crumbling world of print journalism.
- December 4, 2011 at 8:07 PM
Well, it looks like a vacuum is forming on news from the unhappy land of LANG. Any past or prospective screw-ees care to take up the mantle? (I'm neither and have no sources.)
- December 4, 2011 at 8:29 PM
- John Clifford said...
It seems to be what is happening in the blogosphere (is that even still a word?). The local bloggers are losing interest or have moved on to the "social networking" realm.
I've enjoyed this blog and will continue to monitor it. It was one of the brighter spots in local blogging.
- December 5, 2011 at 4:55 AM
Thanks Gary for letting the anger be expressed. IO guess it final just got old. The people at LANG are in prison of hope as we all are waiting for the warden to pardon us.
Some advice to the LANGRY people is face your fears and channel the anger.
All the best and look forward to some content that can inform and make us better.
- December 5, 2011 at 8:55 AM
- Erica Smith said...
"Axes gave way to buzz saws" is a great turn of phrase -- and sad and true. (Folks looking for newspaper job cut news, I'll offer my own newspaperlayoffs.com as a source.)
Gary, congratulations on the changes, good luck and happy blogging!
- December 5, 2011 at 9:13 AM
Four or five years of unpaid time and effort, news, commentary and engagement ... Much appreciated, Gary, and best wishes in your new ventures.
- December 5, 2011 at 9:19 AM
Thanks for the well-written, thoughtful and even-handed posts over the years, Gary. Good luck in future endeavors.
- December 5, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- Ed Padgett said...
Gary my friend,
I'm sorry to see you go and hope our paths cross again where ever this may be, yet I understand the time consumed by blogging extremely well myself, and wish you the best.
Thank you for sharing all the information I would have never read, and also for linking my blog here, it was an honor.
I'm certain we haven't seen the last of you, and look forward to what the future may hold.
Peace be with you,
- December 5, 2011 at 11:20 AM
listen people he's not leaving totally! I quote: "I'll continue to write here and would appreciate to hear from people who to discuss what comes next. But I won't be a reliable repository of job cut updates anymore."
We will just have to hear sad news about layoffs and cuts elsewhere, but this is a new chapter, one that might create more useful dialogue! Thank you Gary!
- December 5, 2011 at 11:42 AM
11:42 AM I think the people posting know that. With perhaps the exception of one post, I don't know where you got the idea that others think he's leaving for good.
- December 5, 2011 at 12:42 PM
- Gary Scott said...
@11:42 am: I've already corrected the grammar in that atrocious sentence you quoted.
By the way, four people have left comments under non-anonymous names. That may be a record!
- December 5, 2011 at 1:01 PM
Thanks, Gary, for your work on the blog, and for providing a forum for the exchange of information, as well as plenty of venting and whining. (And, yes, I did my share of both around here.)
Good luck wherever and however you land!
- December 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM
Take me with you.
- December 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM
- Chris Moran said...
A prince among paupers, you Gary.
- December 5, 2011 at 11:54 PM
Thanks Gary for all the great posts. We will miss you and hope that Kevin Roderick will get back to his roots or that FishbowlLA will see that it has to do more than aggregate a dwindling number of aggregators. Best wishes at KCRW.
- December 6, 2011 at 1:29 AM
Is this another LANG cutback?
- December 6, 2011 at 10:54 AM
Can't be, this one is done with some thought and class.
- December 6, 2011 at 12:45 PM
you could just put up a generic post once every month that says "LANG management announced a bad idea this week" and everyone in the comments would explain what it is and why it's a bad idea. crowdsourcing at its best. also, you would still get the ad revenue from other people's work -- aggregating at its best.
- December 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM
sorry, once a month or once a week isn't enough for the clowns at lang.
- December 6, 2011 at 4:28 PM
Late breaking news... Ed Moss is out at SD.
- December 6, 2011 at 5:07 PM
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. He probably made a pile of money on the misery of others and was a complete jerk to work for. Talk about a guy who accomplished nothing good in his tenure anywhere.
- December 6, 2011 at 7:01 PM
Ed Moss is a transitional senior management figure in the big collapse that started in 2007-08. He came to LANG still speaking the rhetoric of the previous five years: solutions, niches, special sections, consolidation, newspapers next. But the task was crunch it. It appears that Ed moss abandoned the solutions rhetoric when he went to San Diego.
He was not in control of cascading events, and he was not personally destructive. In better times, he would have been regarded favorably. Part of the resentment stems from kool ade drinking associated with the media news Newspapers Next vaudeville staged at daily news Santa clarity's plant in 2007, an embarrassing group stunt.
- December 6, 2011 at 8:50 PM
Amen on the group stunt. One of the biggest shams and time waster in the biz. You can call him a transitional manager or anything else you want, to most of us he was bad. You can drink the punch, do your job, make the cuts, but, be honest and open. People understand reality...they may not like bad news, but they understand it. Look at the people he has hired...not a spine among them.
- December 7, 2011 at 4:36 AM
You are and will always be the best Gary!
- December 13, 2011 at 2:44 PM
Gary, nice note from the mother of all buzz saws. And here I thought ol dino was not computer literate.
- December 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM
- Gary Scott said...
Yes, no doubt that's the real Dean Singleton
- December 14, 2011 at 6:48 PM
As silly as a number of the comments posted here, including some of my own, I miss the bantering back and forth as well as the news of the industry. My guess is, many feel the same way. Not unlike your local newspaper not delivering any longer. You feel pangs of losing a bit of enjoyment. I miss the many characters we use to comment on. Dilbert was never better. I wanted to wish you Gary and the readers a Merry Christmas and a healthy and employeed 2012.
- December 24, 2011 at 4:04 AM
It's langs fault.
- December 24, 2011 at 6:13 AM
was there ever a doubt?
- December 25, 2011 at 3:57 AM
Hey you little butterfly, when you gonna post next
- December 26, 2011 at 5:24 PM
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- December 28, 2011 at 6:41 AM
Gary, report that the Whittier Daily News and Redland Facts are not publishing on MONDAYS after Jan 16. Circling that drain faster and faster BuhBye Lean Dean
- December 28, 2011 at 1:11 PM
This is the kind of crap the brilliant management team has done for years. Example one. Shutter the printing plant. Move the operation. Shut down that plant. Job out the printing. Example two. Reduce web width not one but multiple times and keep screwing with advertisers, readers, and by the way increase your costs. Example three. Stop delivering on Monday. Then go to Tuesday. Then go to Wednesday etc. Can anyone in the organization make a decision that makes sense? Sorry, silly question. Must be a lot of Whittier and Redlands news going to go uncovered...paleaaaaaaaase.
- December 28, 2011 at 2:09 PM
Nonsense. There's little news in redlands and Whittier. Few people live there . You could cut Redlands and Whittier back go three or four days a week and no one outside of either would notice. The money saved could be invested in putting for sale signs on offices in San bernardino and Covina.
- December 28, 2011 at 2:41 PM
hey 2:41...reread the above comments...a little tongue in cheek me thinks. There is virtually no news there and the brains at lang haven't covered what is there for years.
- December 28, 2011 at 4:25 PM
Is this blog over with?
- December 29, 2011 at 12:09 PM
It appears Gary has left the building.
- December 29, 2011 at 2:10 PM
Gary...you might want to check out a few posts for bankruptcy in nevada and property in india...under editor leaving for tennessee.
- January 6, 2012 at 5:11 AM
hey ghosts in the machine. anyone heard any rumblings about ron redfern leaving Riverside?
- January 11, 2012 at 10:33 PM
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It's good to hear that you're going to move on and tackle different topics. There's a whole world out there, away from the crumbling world of print journalism.
- January 15, 2012 at 10:52 PM
i for one miss the crumbling world of journalism and advertising. that was my chosen career when it use to be fun to sell space. things change and i miss the coverage.
- January 16, 2012 at 3:52 AM
- helena said...
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- February 5, 2012 at 11:47 PM
My guess is that not many will see this since Gary has stopped posting, but, the latest retread by medianews or whatever they call themselves now is a giant joke. Ed Moss, the man who has accomplished so little for so many is rehired by this group of...insert your own phrase here. He doubled the online revenue at san diego...yep, from about 100 dollars to about two hundred dollars...I guess that is doubling. They were running so little, w? Doubling is still a failing grade. So Singleton was devastated when Moss told him he was leaving...guess why bankruptcy was the ultimate solution for the organization. Maybe he can revisit newspapers next in denver. Is this all newspapers have left to offer. Where is the talent, ideas, creativity, leadership, innovation etc.
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- February 15, 2012 at 3:14 AM
Fred Hamilton, to pursue other interests my ass. Klunder has some tiny shoes to fill.
- February 17, 2012 at 10:58 AM
Three months Gary...any reason to keep checking for more? Or, is this the end of a ver entertaining site?
- March 10, 2012 at 5:04 AM
knock knock
- March 22, 2012 at 7:01 PM
Well, It has been almost 4 months.
- March 29, 2012 at 8:12 PM
Well, after many years of enjoyment, reading and posting, it appears all good things come to an end. I can't figure why this site is still up other than looking at other sites. So, thank you for the memories.
- April 17, 2012 at 4:20 AM
- May 9, 2012 at 2:52 PM
"I'll continue to write here." OK, I understand this is not your primary concern, or living, but, what does continue exactly mean? Should readers eliminate this blog and stop looking for continue? I enjoyed this blog, miss it, and hope it returns. Thank you for many enjoyable and informative moments. If it is over, please let us know.
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Tiger skin in practice
Posted 22.08.2017
by Laca Molnar
Perhaps the title is misleading, but no, we're still not in the poaching business. Our skins' purpose is much more noble, I bet you already know. :)
I made a few sample albums now just to test how the skin works from the user's perspective. This little excercise was also beneficial to face everyday problems – you might stumble upon as a user – and fix numerous bugs in the process. Finally I put up four different albums with different looks to show off how flexibly Tiger albums can be customized.
I'm not sure if this is widely known, but jAlbum saves the settings along with the uploaded albums (unless you opt out), which makes it possible for other people to copy the look of the album. Naturally, only the public details – like colors or layout – not the sensitive data, like Facebook App ID, or your email address. Use the
File → Import → Settings from Published album and copy/paste the album's URL.
1. Travel album
Perhaps showcasing travel photos is the most frequent use of jAlbum. When I travel, I prefer showing off my photos in a low-key, elegant way, with emphasis on the photos themselves. Besides using folders based on years / locations, I use keywords to label places. This makes it easier later collecting images made at the same place or made along the same concept (e.g. panoramic photos). I used Tiger's default style (Linen) and modified just a few things.
This album has more than 1 600 photos, which took some 15 minutes to make on the first run, but subsequent makes took only ~25 seconds. Pretty quick, isn't it? We have streamlined both jAlbum and the skin to process large albums as fast as possible. Initially, jAlbum has to go through all files to gather camera dates, but this information is now cached, speeding up future album builds considerably. Previously this process could take 10 times longer.
2. Multimedia album
Adding video files in a Tiger album hasn't been a problem since the beginning, but lately the so-called "External content" feature has been added too. Through this you can add just ANY content you want (instead of the original picture): custom HTML code, an external website, or embed a YouTube/Vimeo video. You name it. This content then shows up in the lightbox ebedded through a window. You can even use jAlbum variables in the code. If you're curious, you can read how this album was made. The album also demonstrates an unusal way of using face tags.
3. Shopping cart
This PayPal-based shopping cart component of Tiger has appeared first in our Photoblogger skin. This collects the chosen items locally and allows the customers to edit (change options, quantities, etc.) before they send it to PayPal. Previously, Turtle skin had two different types of shopping carts: one that sent items to PayPal right off upon clicking the button in the lightbox, the other made it possible to select more items but only on the index page, and all had to have the same price (and same other options). This was probably hard to follow for the visitors. Check out how the new shopping cart works! Did you know your visitors don't have to sign up with PayPal? Besides using their PayPal balance, they can pay the usual way with their credit card too.
If you want to have a custom content above the page – like here – simply use the
Settings → Tiger → Header → Custom content feature. This way you can easily add your site's logo and/or your site navigation instead of the ugly, user experience killer "IFRAME" method. Similarly, look for the
Settings → Tiger → Footer → Custom content box for adding your custom page footer content.
4. Album with map locations
Thanks to jAlbum 14's new Location setting feature you can easily add GPS coordinates to your photos if they are missing. Previously I went through all these Venice photos and copied the coordinates from Google Maps to Turtle's proprietary "Location" text field, which was a bit of a hassle, I have to admit. Now Tiger skin not just reads those Turtle-specific fields but also converts them to "standard" xmp.GPS values right away. (You have to run "Make album" at least once though, because the skin code runs only during album making.)
Tell us what you think, your comments are welcome.


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Dmellick needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 322 designs submitted by 62 freelance designers.
SONS of RON
Sons of Ron is a new menswear brand being launched in 2011 by an Iconic Australian menswear retail company, "Ron Bennett"
With stores nationally in Australia, Ron Bennett has been a leader in Australian men's tailored suiting and associated business wear for over 40 years, and continues to grow within the Australian retail and fashion landscape.
Its success has enabled the company to form lasting relationships with its traditional customer base and from these relationships is beginning to see a new generation of customers flourishing via generation change.
The opportunity has arisen to target this new customer who are seeking a younger, modern collection of clothing for men merchandised within existing stores and Sons of Ron concept stores.
The new Brand "SONS OF RON", the name deriving as a 'pun'...... Ron Bennett's sons, the next generation, the collection will be new modern more casual clothing that is based around an urban lifestyle on the east coast of Australia.
Attached are photos which encapsulate what we see as "Australian" coastal lifestyle, the collection will be designed around this lifestyle.
The brand will focus on smart casual clothing, including cool jackets, shirts, sweats, pants, knits, accessories, shoes,bags and will also introduce a select collection of printed Tee shirts that exemplify what the brand is about.
Below is a brief on who the customer is:
The Sons of Ron customer: Male
• This twenty-five to 50 year old free-spirited male is driven by an open-ness to experience everything the world has to offer – in large and impactful doses.
• They seek constant stimulation and the new. And their early adoption of the new is based on turn-on factor – something they are always seeking.
• They are intelligent, confident, high on energy and individualistic. Yet they are also social people developing strong political, humanitarian and environmental opinion shared by their peers.
• They are university educated and are either in the early stages of establishing a career path or are on their way to a very successful career already– many by accident, some by design.
• They are the epitome of urban coastal café society and live in the moment without fear.
• They are the vibrant part of the now casual urban dressing culture, albeit in a watered down manner which is more befitting the safety we seek as followers.
• They define the contemporary fashion of music, art, movies, pop culture and new business initiatives.
They are spirited, driven, genuine, contemporary, fun regardless of their age. And they inspire us.
Thet are all young at heart regardless of their age.
To associate with another brand....think as Polo Ralph Lauren is for inspirational upstate New York American lifestyle, Son of Ron will be similar for aspirational East Coast Australian lifestyle.
we need T- shirt designs.
Tee shirt prints designs will be based around the following Australian coastal lifestyle activities.
1. Australian favorite past times:
snorkeling and diving
2. Australian favorite coastal activities:
Socialising - pubs, cafes, restaurants
Life saving & Australian beaches
hanging out at the beach
Holidays at beach houses
Exercising and staying fit.
3. Australians are laid back funny people therefore cheeky designs summing up all of the above activities is what we are looking for.
4. Collecting Memorabilia -
This is a favourite hobby amongst Australians whether it be collecting vintage cars, guitars, 1950's theatre posters etc Collecting items with history and value is a favourite past time
You can design prints for one particular theme or for each theme.
We will be choosing at least 3 designs from each theme.
the designs must fit the brief of the typical customer. the designs should be COOL, MODERN and ORIGIANL.
We are looking for designs with a washed and aged feel to them; faded colours, unique images and designs.
will pay more for chosen designs.......


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Let's discuss an easy way to embed a file-level TOC in a FrameMaker document. We'll generate a standalone TOC for the document and then import it by reference into the same document.
Here's how:
- Open the FrameMaker document.
- Click Special > Table of Contents. When FrameMaker prompts if you want to create a standalone TOC, say Yes.
- In the Set Up Table of Contents dialog, select the paragraph tags that you want to include in the TOC. Click Set. FrameMaker creates a separate TOC file and stores it in the directory where your FrameMaker document is stored.
- Open the new TOC and format it as necessary. You may want to change the font styles/sizes for the TOC paragraphs and set tab stops/leaders.
- Now, open the parent FrameMaker document, place the cursor at the intended insertion point (usually the beginning of the file), and then click File > Import > File. Select the external TOC file and click Import.
- Retain the default settings in the Import Text Flow by Reference dialog box and click Import. FramaMaker imports the TOC by reference into the parent document.
Now, whenever you update the external TOC, simply select the embedded text inset in the parent document and click Update in the Text Inset Properties pod.
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AnaG needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 67 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
Help me create a professional logo to brand my magazine!
Taste! The Restaurant Guide Inc.
I've just started a magazine guide that will cater to Restaurants. The magazine will showcase all restaurants in a community with a focus on the finer establishments. This logo will be on the front cover of my magazine as well as business cards and website.
- Item 1...Taste! The Restaurant Guide
- Item 2...The logo needs to be stylish and professional
- Item 1...No cartoon graphics
- Item 2...No photos of food (this is catering to all restaurants)
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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A daunting challenge for each of us in dealing with metabesity — including even our physicians and health policy makers—is to sort through mountains of information and products to make informed evidence-based choices.
San Francisco (PRWEB) January 22, 2013
With the global epidemic of obesity and diabetes, the importance of getting new solutions for prevention and treatment has never been greater. At the 2013 Biotech Showcase running in parallel with JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, noted endocrinologist and strategist Dr. Alexander Fleming was interviewed by Ellie Rubin following his participation in a panel discussion on the challenges for advancing treatments for obesity.
Dr. Fleming expresses long and broad views of metabolic disease in our society and the potential solutions for not just treating these diseases, but preventing them. Obesity and diabetes make up only the tip of the iceberg of root metabolic disorders, which contribute to the most common causes of mortality and morbidity today—cardiovascular disease and cancer. The aging process itself is accelerated by these metabolic disorders.
Metabesity is the term Dr. Fleming uses to describe the entire iceberg of interrelated conditions—diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia, cancer promotion, and accelerated aging—which collectively represent enormous health and economic burdens. Evidence is emerging that many of these conditions can be attacked simultaneously with the same intervention. And, intervening early to maintain health and prevent disease is clearly where we should be focusing more of our efforts.
Dr. Fleming stresses that solutions to metabesity will come from many directions: nutrition, physical activity, electronic tools, dietary supplements, drugs, medical devices, and even surgery. Right now we have relatively strong evidence about how to treat diabetes with drugs, but weak evidence about how to prevent diabetes with drugs.
Development of regulated products, drugs and medical devices, for the clinical treatment of diabetes and obesity has been increasingly complex, costly, and risky. Dietary supplements do not require FDA review prior to marketing and almost never have long term evidence of safety and efficacy. But, the world needs effective solutions from all these product approaches to meet the metabesity crisis. Our challenge is to build the evidence that a given product is safe and effective.
"One important step in this holistic approach that we at Kinexum have taken," stated Dr. Fleming, "is to establish a strategic relationship with Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge. PBRC is one of the premier metabolic research organizations in the world. Pennington's early leadership in obesity research has extended into every area of and approach to metabesity. Working together, we are committed to catalyzing commercial, government, and academic efforts to bring forward much needed preventions and treatments."
Dr. Fleming, as CEO of Kinexum and during his career at FDA responsible for landmark approvals of metabolic drugs like metformin and the first statin, has experienced firsthand the trials and tribulations of metabolic product development. "Kinexum was founded not to develop health products, but to make these products better and move forward faster to reach the market. We feel privileged to be joining with Pennington and other organizations to accelerate progress against metabesity."
About Kinexum
Kinexum specializes in translational regulatory and development strategy for the global healthcare industry. Kinexum professionals bring decades of experience from the FDA and industry spanning regulatory, preclinical, clinical, and manufacturing solutions. Kinexum has helped more than 200 companies based in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and India over the past decade to achieve successful commercial-value milestones. http://www.kinexum.com
About Pennington Biomedical Research Center
The Pennington Biomedical Research Center is at the forefront of medical discovery as it relates to understanding the causes of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia. It is a campus of the Louisiana State University System and conducts basic, clinical and population research. The research enterprise at Pennington Biomedical includes approximately 80 faculty and more than 25 post-doctoral fellows who comprise a network of 50 laboratories supported by lab technicians, nurses, dieticians, and support personnel, and 17 highly specialized core service facilities. Pennington Biomedical's more than 500 employees perform research activities in state-of-the-art facilities on the 234-acre campus located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. http://www.pbrc.edu


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Gallery Folders
Autobot Engagement Ring GipsonDiamondJeweler 56 3 Diamond Encrusted Brooch GipsonDiamondJeweler 34 5
Gorgeous work! I am a fan do you ever do shows? Would you?
These are all cool!! !!
i saw your jewelry,all are very beautiful..........
from how long you are doing this????
I've been designing jewelry for over 7 years now.
ah glad to know that.....
and where do you live in US???
Southwest Kansas. www.gipsondj.com, tells you all about mine and my dad's store.
i saw your website its really beautiful and your store as well.....
and i was your gold jewelry....and many of the designs are like the designs which i make here in india but i put little traditional touch in them....
and how much you pay normally for making and buying stones??????
We don't cut our own stones. Stone cutting is a profession all it's own. And are you wanting to know how much we buy stones for, or how much we sell them for?
If you want to know how much we buy our stones for, that I cannot tell you.


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In 2011, Rod 'n' Reel Restaurant celebrates its 65th year. For all its changes it hasn't changed so much. You'll have the same far horizon your grandparents did with nothing between you and the Eastern Shore but water, sky and boats.
The Donovan family hasn't changed grandfather Wesley Stinett's philosophy, either, making Rod 'n' Reel a place where you feel like you're on vacation.
Food comes first in a Dining Guide.
Food at Rod 'n' Reel's weekend brunch is so hearty and tasty that you won't need to eat the rest of the day. At lunch and dinner, broad Bay views make you think fish. You'll find plenty on Rod 'n' Reel's menu — crustaceans, shellfish and finfish — in original as well as traditional preparations. Meat-eaters are not left out. Rod 'n' Reel chefs take it as their special challenge to make every dish so appetizing that you'll be tempted to leave the fish in the Bay.
In 65 years, Rod 'n' Reel has changed with the times to master the art of good times for each new generation.
1 lb. colossal blue crab meat, all shell removed
3/4 cup Hellmans mayonnaise
1 tbs. Dijon mustard
1 tbs. Lemon juice
1 tbs. Old Bay seasoning
1 egg
3/4 cup Panko breadcrumbs
Combine mayonnaise, mustard, lemon juice, Old Bay and egg in mixing bowl. Add bread crumbs and mix thoroughly. Fold in the crabmeat carefully so as not to lose the large lumps. Make five cakes by hand.
You may now, bake, deep fry, sauté, or broil them until they reach 140 degrees internally.


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text: Dear Joel, > Awesome. Good to hear, Derek. > I'd love to hear your solution. Sounds like you are doing the right thing anyway re: the mounting now. Not sure I could offer more unless you run into other issues. You also want to make sure you are sharing the complete set of libraries you need via the config file libraries section but that's about it. How are you starting your remote distccd's? I found that it was also useful to create /root/.distcc on each node. > I got it running myself, and it's looking hopeful, but having some > problems doing a kernel build. > > Your comments about how Bproc and distcc are orthogonal was right on the > mark.. distcc was having problems because the compute nodes didn't > mount /usr. (Bproc doesn't really come in to the picture at all.) > > By adding a /usr mount point to /etc/exports and /etc/beowulf/fstab I > was able to get distcc running. As I said above... ;-) > However as I hinted above, I seem to be running in to a kernel build > problem using distcc. >... > {standard input}: Assembler messages: > {standard input}:5: Error: file not found: > arch/x86_64/ia32/vsyscall-syscall.so > ... > These files exist and show up with a > bpsh -a ls -l arch/x86_64/ia32/ > > ... > The best I can think is that perhaps something in the make or shell > environment is missing? (PATH?) One thing to check: Where are the intermediate files being created? Is /tmp accessible on all the nodes? Is that being shared (shouldn't be - should be local to each node)? Also, - are the target dirs being mounted r/w on the nodes? If not, then it might be having problems creating the target files. I take it you're doing the kernel build in /usr/src/linux? Is /usr mounted ro or r/w remotely? Just a thought. Kind regards Derek Jones.


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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
The Guardian
The future of development: Goodbye aid and MDGs, hello global goods and well being [1]
"The future of development. What a title. It's fraught with hostages to fortune, bear traps and day dreams.
I pick 2030 as "the future". Partly because, 15 years after the first set of millennium development goal (MDG) targets I expect poverty (percent and numbers) in Asia to be much lower, and in Africa I expect the decline to be strong too. But partly because it is far enough away to think a bit more freely."
State of the Mobile Web, February 2011 [2]
"Lately, we have seen the tremendous power of the Internet as a source of information and tool for social change. We witnessed the beginning of an uprising, which became a modern revolution. According to our analysis of Opera Mini usage, there was a sharp uptake in the use of the mobile Web in Egypt, which was not surprising, given the circumstances in that country during the month of February. Even more interesting, perhaps, is that we observed a sustained increase in traffic to certain sites in Egypt, even after events in the region stabilized. We believe more and more people are becoming accustomed to the Internet as their primary news source, and that is especially true for people who need instantly available and up-to-date information in hot spots around the world."
The Status of Civil Society in Zambia [3]
"Progress towards higher levels of human development can be measured by the expansion of choices and freedoms that the public enjoys. This includes how far the voices of the poor and vulnerable can influence national policy and investment debates and decisions. Having such an empowering public space pre-supposes the existence of effective, responsive and accountable public institutions that can take actions that serve the needs of the people. But they cannot do so alone. While state bodies must play their roles to ensure that the gains of development grow and are accessed in an equitable and just manner, civil society organisations (CSOs) must play a set of complementary roles to develop and adapt locally relevant programmes, provide key development services, ensure a monitoring and "watch dog" function to make sure things are on track, and most importantly provide and protect the right of the community to actively engage in determining their own paths to greater human development."
Transparency International
The Anti-Corruption Catalyst: Realizing the MDGs by 2015 [4]
"The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) build on previous international development promises and represent an unprecedented, comprehensive framework for combating poverty, reaching universal education and achieving gender equality, among other aims. As this report highlights, however, there is clear evidence that corruption has proven to be a major obstacle for countries and regions to reach the MDGs by 2015 as pledged. The costs of corruption can be explicit, implicit and hidden. Decision-makers must recognise these problems and find solutions that integrate the MDG and anti-corruption agendas. This report provides practical examples and quantitative data to show how strengthening transparency, accountability and integrity does have a 'MDG payoff'. Such measures need to be systematically built into development initiatives and form part of any five-year action plan put forth on the MDGs."
Ars Technica
Google spends $1 million on censorship and throttling detection [5]
"Google has awarded $1 million to Georgia Tech researchers so that they can develop simple tools to detect Internet throttling, government censorship, and other "transparency" problems.
That money will cover two years of work at Georgia Tech, with an additional $500,000 extension possible if Google wants an extra year of development. At the end of the project, the Georgia Tech team hopes to provide 'a suite of Web-based, Internet-scale measurement tools that any user around the world could access for free. With the help of these tools, users could determine whether their ISPs are providing the kind of service customers are paying for, and whether the data they send and receive over their network connections is being tampered with by governments and/or ISPs.'"
Independent Commission for Aid Impact launched [6]
"ICAI is the independent body responsible for the scrutiny of UK aid, focusing on delivery of value for money for the UK taxpayer and maximising the impact and effectiveness of the UK aid budget. With a remit to scrutinise all UK Official Development Assistance (ODA), ICAI will evaluate and review ODA spend in government departments."
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Kenya now has the cheapest mobile phone services in Africa- at a cost [7]
"I was just in Kenya and amazed that I could call endlessly in Kenya, call to the USA, and surf massive amounts of data on my iPhone and laptop (via the $100 Google IDEOS mobile phone acting as a wifi hotspot), and yet only use a trifling amount of Safaricom airtime."
Ghana conference urges transparency and accountability of petroleum resources in Africa, effective use of revenue for economic growth [8]
"It is up to the African governments to make sure there is full transparency and accountability of resources, including in the petroleum sector, and that they are used effectively to generate revenues for economic growth, said participants at an international policy conference that ended in Accra today.
The two-day event, titled "Competitiveness and Diversification: Strategic Challenges in a Petroleum-Rich Economy", was organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry."
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Digital Diaspora [9]
"Most every Western country has diaspora communities, from fragile states and from other Western nations. With increased broadband Internet access around the world (surpassing 2 Billion people as of 2010) and the rapid growth of social technologies such as Facebook, blogs, Twitter and a number of other free services, diaspora's are increasingly able to connect.
The Impact of Digital Diaspora
In Canada, as an example, the largest Tamil, Tunisian, Armenian and Haitian diaspora communities in the world are very active in social media. From recent immigrants to second and third or fourth generation. Secondary generations can now "connect" digitally with their countries of origin faster and at less cost than ever before possible."
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A natural reaction to the phrase "top 10 plug-in cars" might be, "ARE there 10 plug-in cars"? Yes, when you count full electric and the hybrids that run on electric and gas, there are more than 10. How many of those models are available in your area is a different matter. With that in mind, Total Car Score assembled this list.
Plug-ins cost more than their traditional gas-powered equivalents, so the countdown to number one also takes pricing into account. The model that landed on top has the lowest price of all the cars, plus good availability. "Ultimately, the long-term future of electric-powered personal transportation will hinge on making these cars as affordable and accessible as tradition automobiles," said Karl Brauer, editor in chief of Total Car Score. (Keep in mind numerous plug-in models qualify for tax rebates.)
Another essential to plug-ins catching on is charging infrastructure. In terms of where drivers actually plug in these vehicles, they can all be charged in standard 110-volt household outlets, but those take more time than if using a separately purchased "Level 2" 240-volt charging unit.
"This means a Nissan Leaf that takes 21 hours to charge an empty battery on 110-volts would charge in approximately eight hours with a Level 2, 240-volt charge unit," Brauer explained. "These units cost around $2,000, but there are often tax rebates that will reduce their cost by half or more."
As far as public charging stations, both types of chargers are popping up (even in Brauer's home area, 50 miles outside of L.A.) but they are not as widespread as they need to be for plug-ins to really take hold. For now, here are the models that are best representing the emerging plug-in category of automobiles.
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'Justified' Season 5 Teaser Trailer: The Crow Flies Straight
Those with eyes on 'American Horror Story: Coven' this year have no doubt seen one or two 'Justified' season 5 teasers (even 'The Americans' season 2, natch), but at long last FX has pulled out the big guns. The first 'Justified' season 5 teaser has landed online, and it looks like we'll all be eating crow this year.
There's no new footage to speak of unfortunately, though like the other spots we've seen from FX, crow imagery pervades the 'Justified' season 5 campaign for one very good reason. After sitting out the entirety of season 4, Dewey Crowe (Damon Herriman) will return this season, introducing the entirety of the Crowe clan as our major big bads!
Michael Rapaport has been revealed to portray the Florida-based Crowe clan patriarch Dale Jr., while 'Friday Night Lights' vet Alicia Witt will play a paralegal and public face of the Crowe crime family. Elsewhere, 'X-Men: First Class' star Edi Gathegi will take the role of Haitian criminal and Crowe employee Jean Baptiste, a former member of the Haitian secret police.
Elsewhere, we know of 'Justified' season 5 that the action will pick up with Boyd also desperate to get Ava out of prison, putting revenge on Lee Paxton ('LOST''s Sam Anderson), Sheriff Mooney and Johnny Crowder (David Meunier) on the back burner. Raylan will have both his potential promotion and the long-awaited birth of his daughter to worry about, while showrunner Graham Yost previously expressed a desire to craft a new means of driving the character action beside the big bad and mystery approaches already used in recent seasons.
Take a look at the first 'Justified' season 5 teaser above, and tell us in the comments what you want to see from the January 7 premiere!


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Keith Moon Unable To Attend London Olympics Ceremony
Keith Moon was capable of many things. He could drive cars into swimming pools, destroy hotel rooms in a single night, create havoc whenever needed, and most importantly, play the hell out of a drum kit. One thing our beloved Moonie cannot do, however, is rise from the dead and take part in this year's London Olympics.
According to the U.K. Sunday Times, the organizers of the 2012 London Olympics approached the Who's manager, Bill Curbishley about having Moon play at an Olympics related event called 'The Symphony of Rock.' "I emailed back saying Keith now resides in Golders Green crematorium," Curbishley told the Times, adding that Keith had in fact "lived up to the Who's anthemic line 'I hope I die before I get old'."
Presumably, they're currently waiting on a return call from Peter Grant about John Bonham's availability.
Keith Moon was one of a kind. He passed away on September 7, 1978 but his legacy and utterly unique style remains in the hearts and minds of fans everywhere.


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Carrie Underwood's New Album Expected to Have Darker Songs
Carrie Underwood is nearing completion of her new, yet-to-be-titled fourth album (due out in 2012), and she says the songs she's chosen were influenced by time spent in studio with Tony Bennett, Steven Tyler and Brad Paisley. The 28-year-old also tells Entertainment Weekly that the album's songs will include darker storylines.
MJsBigBlog reports that the Underwood is the lead story in this week's 2012 album preview inside Entertainment Weekly. In the article, she talks about how Bennett's method of recording his vocals in an open room with the musicians was a new experience for her. Working with Tyler and Paisley also helped shape how she approached the new project.
Additionally, she teases that the music still carries the playful attitude found on 'Play On' and 'Carnival Ride,' but she'll tackle darker themes as well. To date, 'Just a Dream' is probably the one time 'American Idol' winner's most haunting storyline.
Underwood worked with Paisley on their chart-topping duet 'Remind Me,' and Bennett on his recently released 'Duets II' album.


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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Map of Western Belarus: Hrodna (Grodno) Province, 1993
My maternal grandparents came from villages near Scucyn. The family of Aleksandr Prokopowicz lived in Kozarezy, about 7 miles east, and the family of Stefania Ruscik in Staro Gierniki, about 3 miles north of the city. I have traced their roots there back to the 1700s.
My paternal grandparents came from villages near Radun, a town of about 4,500 people, located about 18 miles northwest of Lida. Radun is only about 8 miles from the Lithuanian border and the small city of Eisiskes (Ejszyszki). The family of Julian Prokopowicz most recently resided in a series of small villages to the north and west of Radun; where they lived before the 1890s I do not yet know. The family of Anna Blaszko, however, has roots in Skladance back to at least 1810. That village is very close to Bastuny, east of Radun.
This map, Welcome to / Bienvenu en / Willkommen in Belarus (scale 1:800,000), was published by the Committee of Geodesy of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus in 1993. It is the first contemporary map of Belarus that I acquired, and I have stared at it so much, it's amazing that I haven't burned holes in the paper. Although it is not detailed enough to show my ancestral villages, this is my favorite map of today's Belarus because, first and foremost, the city and town names are transliterated from Cyrillic Belarusian to Latin script, and the map legend is in English, French, and German, so I can read it. Dzieki boze! (Thank God!)
It shows important features like major and minor roads, railway lines, rivers, streams, lakes, forests (in green shading), and the "zone of radioactive contamination" from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine (horizontal orange stripes, very sobering to consider). The customs inspection points near Hrodna, Druskininkai, Salcininkai (Soleczniki), and Pahranieny are indicated by red circles crossed by red bars.
This map came folded in sections, and its creases are now so tattered I expect it to fall apart every time I pick it up. In retrospect, I wish I had made a full-size color copy while it was still in pristine condition. I acquired it 12 years ago through an online map store in Ontario, Canada. The store seems to have gone out of business, and I have never found another source for this map. Detailed English language maps of Belarus are rare. I also have a Ravenstein Verlag road map, Weiss-Russland / Belorussia / Bielorussie (1:750,000), which has locations labeled in both Latin and Cyrillic script and provides an extensive index.
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Again, I've enjoyed your latest post. I cannot get enough of learning about the history of our Polish ancestors. Although my ancestors have been in America for over 100 years, I still know that they lived in the lands of Poland much longer...Thanks for sharing the history of the area of Poland that your ancestors had came from!ReplyDelete
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Well, Basia, you'd better keep a tight grip on your map, because I've been looking for a map like this for many years!ReplyDelete
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text: Thursday, October 20, 2011 Models Fail to Identify Risk of Readmission As the federal government moves toward policies that base reimbursement on hospital readmission rates, a new study shows that many risk-prediction models do a poor job of forecasting which patients are at high or low risk for repeat hospital stays, says a Medscape Medical News article. From a review of 7,843 citations, Devan Kansagara, MD, and colleagues from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, identified 30 studies and 26 models for predicting hospital readmission risk. The authors identified few models capable of reliably identifying preventable readmissions. Their findings, published in the October 19 issue of JAMA, suggest that the models generally fail to properly consider the social and behavioral variables that combine with clinical factors to determine readmission risk, the article says. According to the study, a special calculation, called a c statistic, was especially useful for assessing the relative ability of various models to discriminate between patients who are at high and low risk for readmission. A c statistic of 0.5 indicated the model was no better than a coin flip for predicting readmission. A c statistic of 0.7 to 0.8 correlated with modest or acceptable discrimination ability. Good results are more likely when the c statistic is greater than 0.8. Of 286 potentially relevant articles identified from the medical literature, 21 studies reported c statistics with values from 0.55 to 0.83. Only 6 of the studies reported a c statistic above 0.7, indicating a modest ability to discriminate risk. Even among these top performers, the predicted 30-day readmission rates for patients differed by from 20.4% to 34.5% from the actual readmission rates, Medscape says. Comments Patients are often readmitted because of noncompliance, inability to pay for recommendations of assistance at home or medications. Another problem is that patients thrive in the hospital environment when given three meals and medications at correct times. It is unfair for medicare to base reimbursement on readmissions. Posted by anna on 10/21/2011 4:42 PM


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Metabolism-regulating high temperatures retarded development of berry weight and size and caused other defects in California table grapes early in the 2001 season.
Nick Dokoozlian, University of California viticulturist at the Kearney Agricultural Center, Parlier, said he saw a 20 to 25 percent reduction in berry weight and diameter in his table grape research plots farmed the same as in 2000.
High temperatures in the southern San Joaquin Valley were prominent at the critical first three weeks after fruit set. Weather records show temperatures 100 degrees or higher, with duration from three to seven hours, occurred eight times during that period.
In essence, high temperatures cause vines to consume carbon supplies for survival rather than for developing new cells, he said.
Temperature effects
Berry color was also affected by temperature. Although the processes are known, the causes ultimately rest with Mother Nature.
Plant growth regulators can make differences in berry size and color, but they really don't mitigate the effects of temperature extremes, Dokoozlian said during the recent SJV Table Grape Seminar in Visalia.
After reviewing his data from the hot spells in 2001, he said, "if you have 100 degrees for five hours or more, you will get severe reductions in berry growth. And any time the temperature is above 95 degrees, you can expect some inhibition of berry growth. The warmer the temperature, the less time is required for the exposure to take effect."
Table grape growers also saw shortcomings in color in 2001, and Dokoozlian said response to heat and light is variety specific. A group of pigments govern berry color, and the proportions differ from one variety to the next.
That accounts for the ability of Tokay, once a principal table variety, to develop its intense, flame color in the cooler nights of the Lodi district, while Tokay grown in the warmer Delano district fails to develop color.
Dokoozlian said the improved color on second-crop grapes is because the later conditions are more conducive to pigment development.
An isolated problem with "pink berry" on white table grapes, including Thompson Seedless, Italia, and newer varieties with a Muscat heritage, was also blamed on heat stress in 2001.
An imbalance in pigments can cause red or black berries to lack color, but in this case, the imbalance brings on color where it is not wanted.
Dokoozlian said the genes for producing color are carried in the white varieties but typically are not expressed. However, heat stress after veraison can activate the color mechanism in the plant. The effects usually occur after several weeks of warmer-than-average temperatures.
Accumulations of pigments triggered by heat stress also produced surface browning seen on some Thompson Seedless in the 2001 season. Some growers reported pitting on berry surfaces, and Dokoozlian attributed that to build-ups of phenolics, the same enzymes that cause raisining inside and on the surface of the fruit during hot weather.
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text: NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. Since then, it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from tablets and portable media players to notebooks and workstations. NVIDIA's expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. The Company holds more than 1,800 issued patents worldwide, including ones covering designs and insights that are essential to modern computing. For more information, see www.nvidia.com


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In today's post I will be reviewing; Cosmic Shimmer Vintage Mica Flakes by Creative Expressions.
Product Details
- Manufacturer/Brand; Creative Expressions: Cosmic Shimmer
- Item number: Tarnished Bronze; 055260 904440. Precious Gold; 055260 904457. Luna Silver 055260 904433.
- RRP at time of writing: £3.65 each. I bought mine as a set of three on Create & Craft.
Reason For Buying
Impulse! I am not a fan of glitter because it gets everywhere and I have a lot of static so this makes it worse. THIS on the other hand has much larger flakes. I saw these Mica Flakes demo'ed on Create and Craft by Sue Wilson and they seemed much heavier than glitter and gave a dazzling result. I want to use them with a series of different mediums and experiment, I could see a lot of possibilities with these. I also liked that they were more vintage colours rather than bright or candy colours which isn't my style.
- 50 ml pot. Large enough to experiment with but not too big to store
- Good fitting screw top lid
- The flakes vary in size which adds a nice dimension to projects too.
- Nice stable pot, with a wide top for pouring the flakes back into. Although I'll put mine into a bigger box, makes it easier to use and less to clear up 😉
- Lovely vintage colours, I can see more potential for my uses for these than with bright or candy colours that glitter often comes in. The gold is a nice soft old gold kind of colour, the silver is more like soft pearl and the bronze is a warm version of autumn leaves. Tricky to photograph, but they are totally lush!
None, just a little outside my comfort zone 😉
Build Quality
Nice, I like the variation on flake size and the vintage colours. The pots have a nice wide opening making it easy to pour any unused flakes back in. The jars have well-fitting lids that hold well but aren't difficult to open.
Value for Money
Fair. You get lots in the little pots, and a small amount goes a long way.
Would I buy it Again?
Ask me in a few months. I'm not a big one for glittery things, so I need some time to get used to the concept and how I'll incorporate them into my style.
Summing up
This was a leap of faith for me, I wanted to add a more textural dimension to my projects and experiment with more colours.
When I've had more time to play and experiment, expect to see more projects and tutorials using this product. I can see a lot of potential for this and look forward to finding out what more I can do with it.
Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon
Billie 🙂


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Abstract: Ephesus in Late Antiquity and Beyond
Ephesus, one of the largest, most populous and flourishing cities of the Roman Imperial period, experienced dramatic changes in the course of the 3rd century. Amongst other events, a series of earthquakes, which since the late Severan period are impressively apparent in the archaeological record, was responsible for these changes. A seismic catastrophe in the third quarter of the 3rd century represents the culmination of these processes; entire city regions were irreparably destroyed. In contrast to earlier earthquake destructions, however, the city was not immediately rebuilt; instead, the disastrous combination of natural catastrophe, plundering raids, and economic crises brought long-lasting consequences not only for the prosperity of the region but also for the urban appearance of Ephesus. For decades, people lived amongst ruins and masses of debris, so that although the building stock was indeed quickly repaired, this was done only in a makeshift fashion.
A distinct recovery, incorporating a building programme, was first instituted only towards the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 5th century. While the old city centre was indeed renovated, numerous public buildings lost their original function, were abandoned to ruin, or were transformed. The public space was relocated from the open plazas to the monumental streets, which were ostentatiously elaborated with statuary programmes and honorific inscriptions. The administrative buildings were relocated to the lower city, where a new city centre grew up and where, in the course of the 5th century, a building programme consisting of sacred and prestigious structures, yet also residential districts, was implemented. The Roman harbour, which was already connected to the sea in the Imperial period by means of an artificial channel, maintained its function until far into Late Antiquity and probably even longer. Along the channel a street of tombs developed throughout the 3rd century, which was in use until the end of the 5th century.
Numerous Christian chapels and churches characterised the Late Antique urban appearance of Ephesus, which also advanced to an important pilgrimage centre. Not only the Basilica of St. John, but also the Church of St. Mary, the Cemetery of the Seven Sleepers, and other sacred buildings attracted pilgrims in droves, and led finally to pilgrimage which developed into an important branch of the urban economy.
Probably in the course of the 7th century a transformation in the settlement can be detected. On the one hand, the core city in the Harbour area was protected by a wall, while on the other hand settlement concentrations developed in the immediate environs, in particular around Christian sacred buildings. The Curetes Street and the Terrace Houses now lay outside the fortified city, and in these regions only craftsmen now settled. The history of Ephesus after the 7th century can only be sporadically comprehended; nevertheless, the results of the most recent excavations reveal increasing evidence of a continuous settlement of the ancient site up until the 14th century, and the Harbour too seems to have maintained its function. Parallel to this, a Byzantine settlement around the Basilica of St. John and at the area of the sanctuary of Ephesian Artemis can also be assumed. The Selçuks also moved their settlement concentration to this area: during the following centuries mosques, baths and an impressive fortification construction grew up here.
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Mounds of data and layers of field maps are common elements of precision farming systems. A new web-based tool simplifies variable-rate technologies, combining historical field satellite imagery with test plot data to field-tailor seed selection and prescriptions for planting and fertilizer application.
The R7 Tool was introduced 1½ years ago by WinField, the seed and crop protection products arm of Land O'Lakes. Since then, the company has trained more than 3,000 cooperative and retail agronomists to use the tool with farmers to evaluate their fields' variability.
The process starts with satellite photos of a specific field, including a bare soil image, USDA soil survey map and crop images from two recent dry years and two recent wet years. Used to measure plant biomass, four crop images are all chosen from the same time of year, when the crop's vegetative level is the highest, (between the VT and R4 stages).
"Those images measure greenness, or health, of the crop, which has been shown to correlate with yield potential," says Dave Gebhardt, WinField director of agronomic data and technology. It works extremely well with corn and cereal crops, he says, helping identify agronomic issues and variation in a field's yield potential.
The satellite images and vegetative indices are used to create a map of different management zones within a field. That map is then used to develop variable-rate seeding and fertilizer prescriptions for that field.
"You don't need historical yield data or soil test results, but if you have those things, it's great to layer them into the process," says Gebhardt. "If you don't have data, or have a new field to manage, you can create a map on any field in the U.S."
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The other part of the R7 Tool is a proprietary database of hybrid information based on years of field trials conducted at WinField's 197 U.S. Answer Plots. "From the Answer Plot data, we provide the grower with calculations for hybrid responses to changes in plant population, nitrogen levels and crop rotations," says Gebhardt. For example, hybrids differ in their response to corn-on-corn versus corn-on-bean rotation. Data drives all those scores, on every hybrid in the Answer Plots, he says.
Data is collected on Croplan brand hybrids and varieties, as well as the latest numbers from partner seed companies like Mycogen, NK Brand, DeKalb and Asgrow, as well as competitive brands, such as Pioneer.
Drought complicates trials
For Keith Roberts, 2012 wasn't the best year for testing new precision farming technology. The drought impacted his corn and soybean fields, near Morral, Ohio, so he wasn't able to see as much of a yield increase as he was hoping for from variable-rate planting. But he's still optimistic about its potential.
"We're definitely going to use it again this season and I expect we'll see some yield benefit by increasing the populations on the darker soils," he says. "We typically have three to four different soil types in each field, so we know there is variation."
Knowing how to read the satellite images is important, says Roberts' agronomic consultant, Christina Howell, of Sunrise Cooperative, Crestline, Ohio. "In the corner of one of Keith's fields, we saw a noticeable difference in the crop. After scouting and soil probes, we figured out it was due to soil compaction. While he couldn't do anything about it last summer, he did some tillage in that part of the field last fall."
In other cases, images reveal possible nutrient deficiencies. "Tissue tests can confirm them; then the grower can make an in-season application," she says.
Some differences show up that require investigation, she says. "Then we have to ask if they've done some tiling lately or changed an aspect of their crop management.
One farmer had a mysterious strip on his field image where the crop clearly looked different, she recalls. "It turns out a gas line had been laid across that field several years ago and, in the process, different soil types had been unearthed along that strip."
Start with one or two fields
The tool's name is derived from WinField's R7 placement strategy, which matches crop inputs with field conditions. The seven key components include: genetics, soil type, plant population, cropping system, traits, plant nutrition and crop protection.
Fields with the most variability are likely to benefit most from variable-rate planting and using multiple hybrids, says Joel Johanningmeier, Winfield R7 sales specialist. "But even those fields that seem fairly uniform could vary more than you'd expect."
The R7 Tool helps most in choosing the right genetics for the right soil type, adds Johanningmeier. "Once a grower is confident in those choices, we can look at other management aspects, such as how those hybrids respond to population changes, and then the nutrient needs of those various population levels. But it all starts with making the best hybrid choices.
"Answer Plot data usually includes several years of yield results on new hybrids, and that allows growers to plant some of the newest numbers on their fields with more confidence," he says.
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