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Rule 376a. Form of Transcript (1981)
(a) In making a transcript, the proceedings shall be entered in the order of time in which they occurred, as prescribed by Rule 376, unless counsel on each side shall by agreement in writing, to be itself filed and copied in the transcript, direct the clerk which of the papers shall be included and which may be left out, as being useless in the decision of the case. The judge may order any instrument included in the transcript which he deems proper. Subpoenas shall not be inserted, nor shall the citations, in case where the defendant or defendants have filed answers, unless some question is made upon them which will require them to be copied. Where a pleading has been substituted by the filing of an amended pleading, all pleadings prior to the amendment are classed as discarded pleadings and shall not be included in the transcript unless specially requested by counsel. However, where the original petition is not included in the transcript, the clerk shall note on the amended petition the date on which the original petition was filed. Trial briefs and memoranda of authorities shall not be included in the transcript. The transcript shall include a copy of the order, if any, for the transcript submitted by appellant's attorney and any request by opposing counsel for additional material. The transcript shall contain a bill of costs, and there shall be included therein the charge for the preparation of the statement of facts.
(b) In copying the proceedings inserted in the transcript, there shall be a space left between them, so that each one can readily be distinguished from the succeeding instrument. At the top of each instrument included in the transcript, the clerk shall note the name of such instrument, and at the bottom thereof he shall note the date of its occurring or being filed. All judgments and orders, as far as practicable, shall show the dates upon which same were signed. This does not mean then date the judgment or order was entered in the minutes, but means the date the judgment was signed by the judge. The pages of the transcript shall be numbered in some conspicuous place.
(c) The transcript may be either legibly duplicated, typewritten or printed. If typewritten, it shall be on good heavy white paper, in good clear type not less than standard pica type, with double space between the lines, and typed on only one side of the paper, with no sheets cut or mutilated; and all the sheets upon which it is written shall be securely fastened together. When the transcript is printed, it must be on both sides of the paper, in not less than small pica type, bound and paged in pamphlet form, of octavo size, and fastened at the back; but in other respects shall conform to the rules laid down for typewritten transcripts.
(d) The caption of the transcript shall be in substantially the following form, to wit:
(e) There shall be an index on the first pages preceding the caption, giving the name and page of each proceeding, including the name and page of each instrument in writing and agreement, as it appears in the transcript. The index shall be double spaced. It shall not be alphabetical, but shall conform to the order in which the proceedings appear as transcribed.
(f) It shall conclude with a certificate under the seal of the court in substance as follows:
(g) The front cover page of the transcript shall contain a statement showing the style and number of the suit, the court in which the proceeding is pending, the names and mailing addresses of the attorneys in the case, and it shall be labeled in bold type "TRANSCRIPT." The following form will be sufficient for that purpose:
The Clerk shall deliver the transcript to the party, or his counsel, who has applied for it, and shall in all cases indorse upon it before it finally leaves his hands as follows, to wit:
"Applied for by P. S. on the ---- day of ---, A.D. 19-, and delivered to P. S. on the --- day of --- A.D. 19-," and shall sign his name officially thereto. The same indorsement shall be made on certificates for affirmance of the judgment.
(h) In the event of a flagrant violation of this rule in the preparation of a transcript, the appellate court may require the Clerk of the trial court to amend the same or to prepare a new transcript in proper form at his own expense.
Amended by order of June 10, 1980, eff. Jan. 1, 1981: Paragraph (b) is changed to provide that judgments shall show the date on which they were signed, rather than "rendered" or "pronounced." Burell v. Cornellius, 570 S.W.2d 382, 384 (Tex. 1978). The first sentence of paragraph (c) is changed to permit duplication of pages by methods other than typing and printing.
|Prior Amendments
|Future Amendments
|Jan. 20, 1944
|Dec. 19, 1984, eff. April 1, 1985
|Oct. 3, 1972, eff. Feb. 1, 1973
|Repealed by order of April 10, 1986, eff. Sept. 1, 1986


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Places : Manali – Jispa – Sarchu – Leh – Khardung La – Nubra Valley – Pangong Lake
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Duration: 07 Nights / 08 Days
Starting Point: Manali
End Point: Pangong Lake
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Duration: 07 Nights / 08 Days
Starting Point: Manali
End Point: Pangong Lake
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Attractions :Manali | Sarchu | Lahul Valley | Jispa | Tanglangla Pass | Leh | Khardung La | Hunder | Nubra Valley | Diskit | Pangong Lake | Hall of Fame | Magnetic hill | Sangam | Pathar Sahib Gurudwara
Today we start our journey to Leh with overnight stopover at Sarchu (4253 m), the border of the states of Himachal Pradesh (Lahaul) and Jammu & Kashmir (Ladakh). During the drive, we cross through the Rohtang Pass (3978 m) enter to Lahaul Valley, visit Raja Gyepan temple at Sissu Village, lunch at Keylong (3350 m), thereafter drive to Sarchu by crossing Baralacha Pass (4890 m) a beautiful drive on high altitude to be remembered for a lifetime. Stay overnight in Sarchu / Jispa.
Day 1 : Manali – Sarchu / Jispa (235 KM / 8 Hrs)
Early morning after breakfast leave for Leh, through Nakeela and Lachangla Pass 16,617 ft. Lunch at Pang. After Lunch drive to Leh passing through Skyangchu Thang (Biggest and Highest Plateau on Earth on Stretch of 42 Kms), Tanglang La Pass 17,585ft 2nd highest motorable road in the world and Indus Valley. Reach upshi where you drive along with Indus River. On arrival at Leh check in to the Hotel. Stay overnight in Leh.
Day 2 : Sarchu to Leh (250 KM / 8 Hrs)
After breakfast visit to Magnetic Hill, Hall of Fame, Gurudwara Pathar Sahib and The Sangam of Zanskar & Indus River. Later in the evening visit to Shanti Stupa, Leh palace & Market. Stay overnight in Leh.
Day 3 : Leh Local (Sham Valley)
After Breakfast drive to Nubra Valley via Khardung La (Highest Motorable road in the World, 18,380 ft) continue drive till Hunder village. On arrival check in to the Camp. After lunch enjoys the beauty of sand dunes one can also enjoy Camel Safari. Stay overnight in Nubra Valley.
Day 4 : Leh – Khardung La – Nubra Valley (125 KM / 5-6 Hrs)
After breakfast, visit to Deskit Monastery and have a wonderful view of Nubra Valley. Later drive back to Leh by same Route, crossing Khardung La Pass. Stay overnight in Leh.
Day 5 : Nubra – Leh (125 KM / 5-6 Hrs)
Day 6 : Leh - Pangong Lake (155 KM / 05 Hrs)
Day 7 : Pangong – Leh (155 KM / 05 Hrs)
Day 8 : Leh
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Validity / Season : 01st April 2019 To 31st October 2019
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Validity :1st April 2019 To 31st October 2019
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Cost Includes
- Welcome Drink (Hot Tea / Coffee / Kahwa) on arrival.
- Accommodation on twin sharing Basis as per Package Selected.
- 04 Night's Accommodation in Leh & 01 Night Accommodation in Sarchu / Jispa on twin sharing Basis as per the Itinerary & Meal (Bed Tea, Breakfast & Dinner).
- Pick up from Manali & drop to Srinagar Airport.
- Transport with all sightseeing tours by Non A/C Innova, Xylo, Mahindra XUV for Premium, Luxury, Super Deluxe and Deluxe Packages (Point to Point).
- Transport with all sightseeing tours by Non A/C Scorpio, Qualis or Sumo Grand for Standard Package (Point to Point).
- Transport with all sightseeing tours by Tempo Traveller for 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 person (Point to Point).
- Wild Life fees & Red Cross fee for Nubra Valley & Pangong Lake.
- Inner line Permit to restricted / protected areas (Khardung La Pass & Pangong Lake).
- Environmental Fee Included at Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council fee (Ladakh entry fee).
- Complimentary Oxygen Cylinder for Nubra & Pangong Tour Only.
Cost Excludes
- Rates are subject to change in case of change in any Tax Stucture.
- Any Airfare / Train fare.
- Any meals other than those mentioned (Highlighted) above.
- Any portage at Airport and Hotels tips, Insurance, Laundry, Mineral water, Telephone charges And all items of personal nature and meals and drinks not specified in the inclusions.
- Any Kind of Personal Expenses or Optional Tours / Extra Meals Ordered.
- Monument Entrances, Innerline Permit, Environmental Fees, Oxygen Cylinder, Rafting & Camel Safari Charges.
- Anything not specifically mentioned under the head "Prices included".
- The Services of Vehicle is not included on leisure days & after finishing the sightseeing tour as per the Itinerary.
- Any Kind of Drinks (Alcoholic, Mineral Water, Aerated).
- Any increase in taxes or fuel, leading to increase in surface transportation and land arrangements, which may come into effect prior to departure.
- Heater Charges in Hotels.
- Cost incidental to any change in the itinerary/ stay on account of flight cancellation due to bad weather, ill health, roadblocks and/or any factors beyond control.
Supplementary Optional Charges (NET)
- Professional local English speaking Tourist guide - INR 1750/- Per day
- One Oxygen cylinder in Leh (01 Litter) - INR 500/- Per day
- Oxygen Cylinder for trip 04 Nights / 05 Days - INR 2,000/-
- Cultural Dance Per Program - INR 6,000/-
- Motorbike Enfield 500 CC hire for full day - INR 1500/- Per Bike + Fuel
- 1 Litre Packaged Water Bottle - INR 30 Per Bottle
- Two Hump Camel Ride at Nubra Valley at Sand Dunes - INR 350 (15 Mins) / INR 700 (30 Mins)
- Pedal down the highest motorable road on a cycle - INR 1500/- per pax including transport (min 4 pax)
- River Rafting (Transfer, Rafting & Lunch) Phey – Nimoo (Indus) / Choksti – Nimoo (Zangskar) - INR 1800 Per Person
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- Prices valid from 01st April 2019 to 31st March 2020.
- Prices valid for minimum 02, 04, 06, 08, 10 & 12 Pax travelling together in one vehicle.
- Check-In / Check-out time at all the properties would at 1200 Hrs (Noon).
- Triple Room does not necessarily mean Three Separate Bed.
- Triple Room can have One Double Bed + 1 Roll Away Bed.
- All Cost quoted is in INR (Indian Rupee).
- 100% payment to be deposited before the trip starts.
- Final tour Vouchers will be provided on receipt of full 100% payment.
- Extras Payment in Leh office should be Cash Only.
- Vehicle provided as per mention tour plan (Point to Point Basis only), any additional sightseeing not mentioned in the Itinerary will be charged extra.
- In Case of exceptional circumstances where in we are not in position to provide Hotel mentioned, we shall offer similar Hotel.
- April & October Month, Pangong Lake Journey will be done in one-day excursion.
- No Refund or Compensation for any unused services / transportation in any circumstance.
- Visit to all Museums in program is subject to their remaining open on day of visit as per rules of competent authority.
- We will not bear any cost for flight cancelled or delayed due to Bad weather or any other reason given by the airline. Cost for accommodation and transport in such cases will have to be borne by passenger.
- In case of increase in Airfare (If included) we shall be duly compensated by actual supplement cost at time of booking.
- There would be no refund for the road blocks at Nubra Valley | Pangong Lake & Tsomoriri Lake due to natural calamity. The alternate accommodation Cost at Leh due to the same should be bear by the passenger directly.
- No changes in the date of travel once booked.
- All Rates & bookings subject to availability.
- Rates are subject to change.
- Room allotment will be as per availability at the time of check in, floor or view preferences are not guaranteed.
- Food menu as per availability of vegetables based on Buffet | Fixed menus.
- 25% advance (Non Refundable) to be deposited at the time of booking confirmation & Balance 75% one month prior to arrival.
- Cost of Child between 5 to 11 Yrs (Without Bed only) & Children above the age of 12 years will be charged the applicable adult rates & for extra Bed kindly consider the cost of Extra Bed.
- Child below 5 Yrs of age will be complimentary without extra Bed.
- Maximum 7 Pax can be accommodated in one vehicle (Scorpio or Similar).
- Any addition in Tax or Fuel charge done by Airlines / Transport Company etc. will be chargeable to group members.
- All expenses which are not included in the cost of package shall be paid directly by tourist at the time of checkout.
- All tourists are advised to take comprehensive Insurance on their own.
- The timings given in itinerary and program may be changed without notice keeping in mind local development.
- Journey can be arranged from Delhi / Chandigarh / Jammu Railway Station or Airport at Nominal Extra charges.
- Hotel Accommodation in Delhi | Chandigarh | Manali | Keylong | Jammu | Srinagar can be arranged on best deals.
- Blocking of Rooms will be hold for period of 07 Days only.
- Tour is organized on the basis final instructions and requirements received from yourselves and on your own risk and responsibilities.
LIABILITY: We shall in no circumstances whatsoever be liable to the client or any person travelling with him for:
- Any death, personal injury, sickness, accident, loss, delay, discomfort, increased expenses, consequential loss and/or damage or any kind of theft howsoever caused.
- Any act, omission, default of any dependent Contractor or other person or by any servant or agent employed by them who may be engaged or concerned in the provision of accommodation, refreshment, carriage facility or service for the client or for any person traveling with him howsoever caused.
- The temporary or permanent loss of or damage to baggage or personal effects howsoever caused including willful negligence on the part of any person.
- We shall not be responsible and / or liable for any damages caused to the Client due to reasons beyond our control (Force Majeure / Vis Majeure).
- No liability on our part arising in any way out of this contract in respect of any tour, holiday, and excursion facility shall exceed the total amount paid or agreed to be paid for.
- Law prevalent in India is applicable and as a part of the cause of action arises in Mumbai and the Company has its Registered Office in Mumbai, it is agreed between the parties that in the event of a dispute or difference between the parties the exclusive jurisdiction shall vest in a court / forum / tribunal in Mumbai alone having jurisdiction to decide the matter.
- For Cancellation please refer to our Terms and Conditions available at our booking office.
- Coaches/ Tempo Traveller are not allowed in airport premises so we will send Non A/C Innova / XUV/ Aria / Xylo/ Scorpio for Airport Pickup only.
- AC in vehicles will not be applicable in hilly area.
- The above given cost is calculated on the basis of base category rooms at the mentioned hotels (unless specified otherwise) and if this category of rooms is not available we shall try to confirm accommodation in next available higher category of rooms and shall advise supplementary cost involved while conveying the status.
- Kindly note that names of hotels / Camps mentioned above only indicate that our rates have been based on usage of these hotels and it is not to be construed that accommodation is confirmed at these hotels until and unless we convey such confirmation to you. In the event of accommodation not becoming available at any of the above mentioned hotels we shall book alternate accommodation at a similar or next best available hotel and shall pass on the difference of rates (supplement / reduction whatever applicable) to you.
- We shall not be responsible for any change in the itinerary due to landslides, flight cancellations, weather conditions or any unforeseen circumstances. The additional cost incurred such as cost for accommodation and transport in such cases will have to be borne by passenger.
- During the month of October to April most of the Camps | Guest houses | Hotels won't be operational due to off season in various locations of Ladakh like Nubra Valley | Pangong Lake | Tsomoriri | Tsokar | Sham Valley | Kargil | Zanskar region etc. (So in that scenario best alternate accommodation will be provided with prior information to the guests at the time of booking).
Cancellations Policy for Land Package:
- 15% cancellation charges if cancelled before 30 days before the tour.
- 25% cancellation charges if cancelled within a 20 days before the tour.
- 50% cancellation charges if cancelled within a 10 days before the tour.
- No refund for tour starting within 10 days of tour or after starting or middle of the tour.
- No Show 100% of tour cost.
- During High peak season period, Hotels Specific Cancellation Policies will be applicable in these cases the hotels may not refund any amount if the booking is cancelled after issuance of Hotel Voucher.
- The Process of Refund will take around 60 days to complete & the refund will be paid by Cheque or credit note only.
- Ladakh Appetizer - 3 Nights / 4 Days
- Discover Moon Land - 3 Nights / 4 Days
- Majestic Indus - 4 Nights / 5 Days
- Nubra Valley Tour - 4 Nights / 5 Days
- Mini Ladakh - 4 Nights / 5 Days
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- Lamayuru Chilling Trek - 9 Nights / 10 Days
- Rumtse Tsomoriri Trek - 13 Nights / 14 Days
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- Junglam Trek - 18 Nights / 19 Days
- Lamayuru Marsha Rupshu Valley Trek - 20 Nights / 21 Days
- Lamayuru To Darcha Trek - 22 Nights / 23 Days
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- Manali to Leh Bike Trip - 6 Nights / 7 Days
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I have something else, pretty minor though but it might be nice.
SIGNATURES : maybe I do something wrong here, but when using a default signature and starting a new mail the signature is at the top of the message (offcourse) and when you fill in the needed data (continue to the next field with the TAB key the cursor will be put UNDER the signature while IMHO it should be out "above" the signature.
Also maybe a feature to "protects" the signature from being accidently modified/deleted while making/editing the email ? (and a button or option to disable the signature for that 1 post if you don't want a signature).
And finally, I personally like how the bad handles it. so let me explain here :
First, when you compose a mail to (for example) email@example.com the email will automatically start with :
"Drear John,
then you can enter you email and at the bottom there is your signature but not just plain text but formatted (using a default template that you can modify if you want).
The signature is also default (IIRC) and you don't need to do anything to get it. After you setup your account that information is used for the signature so the "name" you entered as your name in the account setup is used as the signing name and your email is also included.
Also a nice feature is that when you select your language from English to Dutch both the greeting and the signature will change into that language without you needing to change anything, with with the example above the greeting would become :
"Beste John,
I don't know if it will show well but a new mail with signature looks like this :
Dag PocoSystems,
you enter you message here and everything above and under this is automatically inserted.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Patrick mailto:email@example.com
Note, that the green text should be grey but that's not available here in the forum software.
There is also a space between the name "Patrick" and the mailto (but it doesn't show here), the mailto starts after the comma on the previous line.
The downside to this is that when using the Dutch version to send an English mail you get 2 languages mixed (but the "Dag" is quickly changed into "hello" or "Hi" or whatever you want to use, and since Barca only supports English it could be a minor issue and there could be a setting somewhere in options where the user could set the default greeting of the email (since some people might want to use a more distinguished greeting then just "Hi" (like corporate users).
And the same goes for the signature.
Another isue I might see is when sending a mail to support, let's say "email@example.com" then the greeting will become "Hello Info," and that's not correct offcourse (it should then be dear Sir/Madam or like in Dutch "Geachte Mevrouw/Mijnheer" at least that's how I think we learned it in school in the past ).
~ Moved from the Beta section ... Eric ~


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Few days ago I was having a conversation with a co-founder of a very promising software startup on which she was explaining a few ideas they have been working on. One of the things that truly impressed me was the obsession that this founding team put into selecting the right idea to work on. After having a fairly successful career as a technology consultant, my friends keeps telling how she doesn't want to work on mediocre "shit" anymore and wants to focus on problems that can have some impact in a specific industry.
"Selecting the right idea for your product is like finding the right guy to date", jokingly she said. I wish it was that simple, I responded 😉
The conversation with my friend reminded of some ideas that I wrote on a previous blog post that I thought it might be good to present it to the newer audience of this blog 🙂
If you are any good in your space, whether you are a programmer, artist or any other profession, you are going to have a lot of ideas about how to improve that space. As an entrepreneur, you need to discriminate the ideas that are worth pursuing from the ones that might not be so good. The answer sometimes is far from as trivial as it seems.
Here are a few tips that might help you with the process of selecting the right idea for your product.
Doubt Yourself
Most of the time, people will tell you to trust yourself and your ideas. I am advocating the opposite; doubt and question your ideas every step of the way. Doubting and questioning the viability of a specific idea is not only the responsible thing to do in terms of the people that depend on you but it will keep you incredibly sharp and innovating. The trick is to NEVER LET THE DOUBTS PARALIZE YOU but, instead, use them as a way to refine and improve your ideas.
Believe in your Idea
Always try to pick an idea that you believe in. Sometimes being passionate about an idea is more important in the long run than the idea itself. Building disruptive companies is a painful journey. You are going to face a lot of skepticism, criticism, and disappointments. The he worst part is that those challenges will extend to your loved ones as well. At any point, your passion and belief in your ideas will keep you going.
Walt Disney would occasionally present some unbelievable, extensive dream he was entertaining. Almost without exception, the members of his board would gulp, blink, and stare back at him in disbelief, resisting even the thought of such a thing. But unless every member resisted the idea, Disney usually didn't pursue it. The challenge wasn't big enough to merit his time and creative energy unless they were unanimously in disagreement!
Take Criticisms
I am very blunt about this one, PEOPLE WHO CAN'T TAKE CRITICISMS OR ARE VERY SLOW ASSIMILATING THEM WILL NEVER MAKE GOOD ENTREPENEURS. If you are over sensitive about criticisms you won't be able to improve and you will let emotions get in the way of your company's success. My advice here is to trust the intention of the people criticizing your idea, filter the smart criticisms from the stupid ones and MOVE ON.
When Michelangelo was finishing The David, along came Piero Soderini, the town mayor or boss, to have a look. Michelangelo had put a canvas around the scaffolding so no one could watch him work. Piero Soderini put on the show of the art connoisseur, walking around under the huge figure. "It's coming along wonderfully," said Piero Soderini. "But do you know what? The nose is too thick."
He knew that from where Soderini was standing it was impossible to judge whether the nose or anything else was right. "Well, we'll fix that right now," he said; and quickly grabbing a hammer and chisel, climbed up the scaffold like a monkey. Clink, clink—Soderini heard the hammer against the chisel and saw marble dust fall. Clink some more. "How's that?" Michelangelo called down from the scaffold. Of course he hadn't touched the figure at all but only pretended to be altering the nose.
"Oh, that's much better!" exclaimed the mayor. "Now you've really put life into it."
Be Knowledgeable
I cannot stress this enough, having deep knowledge about the industry you are playing in, the history of companies in the space, and the market in general, will be key to making the right strategic decisions about your product. I will go a bit further to say that your knowledge of history, science, philosophy, art, or social dynamics will also shape the way your company evolves. In my experience, exceptional entrepreneurs are very often knowledgeable in a lot of these subjects and are able to incorporate ideas and drive inspiration from those subjects into their products.
Larry Ellison is a great admirer and a deep connoisseur of Japanese history and culture. That passion has influenced a lot of aspects of Oracle like aggressive sales and acquisition tactics and the permanent goal of achieving 100% market domination.
If You Like Your Idea, Try To Break It
If you think you have a great idea then try to break it. Spend time and energy exploring every possible reason that could make your product fail and set the passions aside. If you can easily point flaws in your idea then you can expect others will as well.
Evaluate the Risk
Ultimately, you need to evaluate the risk of failing to come up with some strategies to recover from failure if it happens. There are some ideas that are worth trying simply because there are minimum risks in case of a failure.
When the podcasting company Odeo realized that they had little chance against ITunes, Jack Dorsey presented an idea to the team that could help reinvent the company. The idea didn't have the best reception but, realizing that they had little to lose; Evan Williams gave Jack and Biz Stone two weeks to work on it. Have you heard about Twitter…..? J
Make Others Believe
The degree to which your core team believes in your vision, dreams and capability will directly impact the type of company you are building. Software startups can't be seen as a factory anymore in which the bosses dictate and the developers follow well defined recipes. Disruptive products need vision, passion, team-collaboration and are typically painfully hard to build. If you are able to inspire your team to share your dreams and passion, they will make your company, product and team better every day.
Can You Execute?
Your capacity to execute is as important as the quality of the idea. As an entrepreneur you should obsess about the execution of your team, you need to spend less time doing the fun stuff and more taking on the painful things and making others execute better.
The French invasion of Russia in 1812 was considered a great idea from any military standpoint but Napoleon totally underestimated their capability to survive the crude Russian winter. If the Russian campaign turned out to be successful, it would have been the end of years of European wars and would have granted France one of the biggest empires in human history. Instead, the failure of the execution forced the French troops to retire from Russia in December 1812 marking the beginning of the decline of the Napoleonic empire.
Stop Sketching and Start Executing
Execution is the best way to validate and improve your ideas. Don't try to answer every question before you start executing. Most likely, you won't be able to. Without executing on an idea you are unlikely to find out its true potential. Remember that failure is rarely the worse outcome, mediocrity is.


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Disneyland Paris will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a new nighttime spectacular in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle and a revamped evening parade starting in April.
The Disney Dreams show will feature castle projections, water screens, dancing fountains, pyrotechnic displays and laser effects that combine elements from the Magic, Memories, and You show at Florida's Magic Kingdom and World of Color at Disney California Adventure.
PHOTOS: Disney Dreams water show at Disneyland Paris
The new Disney Dreams nighttime spectacular at the French theme park will employ 30-foot-tall water screens in the moats in front of the castle that will serve as giant canvases for Disney animated scenes set to an original musical score.
Disney's Imagineers have electronically mapped the entire castle to allow video projections to wrap the exterior like a digital skin.
The water and light show about courage and compassion will follow the adventures of Peter Pan's shadow as it weaves among more than a dozen Disney and Pixar stories, including "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Cinderella," "Beauty and the Beast," "Little Mermaid,""Aladdin," "Lion King," "Toy Story," "Lilo & Stitch," "Finding Nemo," "Wall-E," "The Princess and the Frog," "Tron" and "Tangled."
Disneyland Paris will also transform the current Once Upon A Dream daytime parade into the nighttime Disney Magic on Parade (La Magie Disney en Parade) with a theme of light and color for the anniversary celebration.
The opening and closing floats in the revamped parade will get a complete makeover while all-new costumes, music and choreography will be added to the procession.
Two carriages with carousel-style horses will pull Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty along with their princes. The grand finale float will feature Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters in "Sorcerer's Apprentice" magicians costumes.
Along with extended operating hours, the two new nighttime shows are designed to encourage visitors to stay later at the park and spend more money on food and souvenirs.


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MIDDLEBURY —The Addison County Regional Planning Commission (ACRPC) purchased a used Toyota Prius on March 24 with funds from its regular operating budget. Then, at the end of May, the planning commission went to a third-party provider in Boston called Hymotion to convert the car into a plug-in hybrid using federal stimulus funds.
Essentially, what Hymotion did was take out the spare tire in the trunk and replace it with a rechargeable 5-kWh battery pack. The car is now a hybrid with extra energy storage in the back that is charged using an outlet.


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Get It While It's Hot: Patchwork Denim
We've almost reached the end of Denim Week (le sigh), but we have yet to cover one of our favorite indigo trends for spring: patchwork. Already adored by the street style set, including Miroslava Duma and We Wore What's Danielle Bernstein, this pieced-together look is vastly stylish and unquestionably cool. To help you incorporate the trend into your own repertoire, we've gathered a slew of must-try products and outfit ideas. Keep reading for all the goods!
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Styling Tip: For high-impact results, double up on the patchwork pieces in the same look.
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Current/Elliott Cotton Bandana-Print Shirt ($198)
Featuring a mix of bandana prints, this button-down offers a cool riff on the classic western shirt.
Paige Denim Cara Patchwork Ultra Skinny Jeans ($229)
Can't decide between dark or medium-rinse jeans this spring? Get the best of both worlds with these patchwork skinnies.
Christina DeSmet of DeSmitten
Styling Tip: Kill two spring trends with one outfit by accessorizing a minimal shift dress with oversized jewelry.
On DeSmet: A Detacher dress; Raia necklace; Zara sandals.
Rebecca Taylor Short Sleeved Railroad Dress ($275)
All this little denim shift dress needs is a pair of neon sandals and a cross-body bag.
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Leandra Medine of Man Repeller
Styling Tip: Denim can be glamorous, just add a statement necklace and metallic pumps.
Tommy Hilfiger Janell Shirt ($99, available April)
Contrast this menswear-inspired shirt with a flirtatious circle skirt for the weekend.
DKNY Jeans Avenue B Ultra Skinny Jeans ($80)
We first fell for the patchwork design, but it was the flattering fit of these skinnies that really sold us.
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Hedvig of Northern Light
Styling Tip: Add instant polish to cool blue hues with a pair of nude pumps.
On Hedvig: Celine shirt; Acne shorts; Chanel bag; Camilla Skovgaard heels.
MiH Denim Patchwork Parka ($341)
Whether you style it as a shirt or use it as a lightweight layer, you're sure to get plenty of wear out of this jacket all season long.
Jonathan Simkhai Patchwork Denim Shorts ($295)
Give these denim shorts a feminine spin with a white sleeveless button-down and nude wedges.
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Michelle Nielsen of Stone Muse
Styling Tip: Play up the casual vibe of patchwork boyfriend jeans with sneakers.
On Nielsen: H&M jacket and jeans; Nike sneakers.
Karen Millen Patched Denim Collection Jeans ($130)
Try these low-slung jeans with a tucked-in chambray shirt for a current take on the denim-on-denim look.
Topshop Patchwork Denim Luggage Bag ($68)
Summer is the season of stylish road trips and weekend getaways—all the more reason to pick up a new travel bag.
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Amy of Two Shoes, One Pair
Styling Tip: Experiment with multiple washes—black, medium, and faded—for a harmonious denim-centric look.
On Amy: vintage jean jacket; Topshop top, jeans, and boots.
Timo Weiland Carrie Denim-Effect Leather Patchwork Jacket ($1250)
The jean jacket just got that much cooler, thanks to this denim and leather motorcycle hybrid.
MICHAEL Michael Kors Color Blocked Romper ($130)
We credit the mix of dark and wash denim for this relaxed romper's grown-up look.
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Styling Tip: For a feminine take on the trend, pick up a mid-length denim skirt.
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Urban Renewal Quilted Denim Shirt ($59)
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johan bertrands necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 84 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
MeFirst.be or mefirst.be of Mefirst.be
We are a new website comparing Belgian insurance (car , home life insurance...). In order to launch the website and image we would like to design a logo for our brand mefirst.be.
It is still a completely unknown brand inthe market and a total new concept.
We wish to built a stron web identity with this logo.
The site aims at a pretty general audience, but the main target remains people who are looking on the web for the insurances they need and wish to compare. The audience wil be on the net, looking for insurance information, trying to find the best deal in the market. Price is an issue, as well as other caracteristics of the products.
The idea is to built around the "mefirst.be" brandname. "Me" stands for the independence, the options, choices one can have. It starts from the individual, the "I" what is specific, the situation of "me". Me means as well that you take the lead, the action, want to drive the deal. With the knowledge you will be able to contact your broker and discuss with him or do it yourself on line.
The main color for recognition should be blue, but the shade is free, this color is just a guideline.
We would like the logo to be clear enough to be readable in small size (70x30) or to have a buttoned version we can use for recognition where the full logo cannot be used.
We prefer to see the URL easily readable in or next to the logo: that people who see the logo in a printed add directly know it is a website and what URL to type in.
Feel free to play with the capital letters M or F.
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Three restaurants in Sussex have made it into The Sunday Times' prestigious Top 100 Restaurants supplement.
They are Amberley Castle, The Pass in South Lodge Hotel, Lower Beeding, near Horsham, and the Lickfold Inn in Lickfold, near Petworth.
Both the Lickfold Inn and Amberley Castle debut on the list, which is published tomorrow (Sunday November 8).
The Pass has featured in the top 100 since 2013, while its head chef Matt Gillan has recently found success on the BBC cooking show The Great British Menu.
Overall, 13 South East eateries make the list, the most of any region outside of London.
Editor of The Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants, Karen Robinson, said: "The Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants combines the opinions of thousands of diners to produce a definitive list.
"Basing it on the ratings of everyday restaurant-goers, who are paying their own money, means it is an honest reflection of the nation's tastes, so chefs and restaurants should be truly proud to make the list."
The list is compiled by The Sunday Times in association with Harden's. Now in its sixth annual edition, it is based on 63,000 reviews from almost 7,000 diners
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|Jan 23, 2013
First global assessment of land and water 'grabbing'
|(Nanowerk News) As world food and energy demands grow, nations and some corporations increasingly are looking to acquire quality agricultural land for food production. Some nations are gaining land by buying up property and accompanying water resources in other, generally less wealthy countries.
|Sometimes called land grabbing, this practice can put strains on land and water resources in impoverished countries where the land, and needed water, has been grabbed for commercial-scale agriculture.
|A new study by the University of Virginia and the Polytechnic University of Milan, and currently published in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ("Global land and water grabbing"), provides the first global quantitative assessment of the water-grabbing phenomenon, which has intensified in the last four years largely in response to a 2007-08 increase in world food prices.
|Over less than a decade, the rates of land and water grabbing have dramatically increased, said Paolo DOdorico, Ernest H. Ern Professor of Environmental Sciences in the University of Virginias College of Arts & Sciences, and a study co-author. Food security in the grabbing countries increasingly depends on grab-land agriculture, while in the grabbed countries, local populations are excluded from the use of large parcels of land. Even just a fraction of the grabbed resources would be sufficient to substantially decrease the malnourishment affecting some of the grabbed countries.
|The study shows that foreign land acquisition is a global phenomenon, involving 62 grabbed countries and 41 grabbers and affecting every continent except Antarctica. Africa and Asia account for 47 percent and 33 percent of the global grabbed area, respectively, and about 90 percent of the grabbed area is in 24 countries.
|Countries most affected by the highest rates of water grabbing are Indonesia, the Philippines and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The highest rates of irrigated water grabbing occur in Tanzania and Sudan.
|Countries most active in foreign land acquisition are located in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe and North America. Overall, about 60 percent of the total grabbed water is appropriated, through land grabbing, by companies in the United States, United Arab Emirates, India, United Kingdom, Egypt, China and Israel.
|DOdorico said that in most cases where land has been acquired, there is a switch from natural ecosystems such as forests and savannas or small-holder agriculture run by local communities, to large-scale commercial farming run by foreign corporations.
|He said one possible positive effect of foreign land acquisition is that corporations can afford investments in technology, such as irrigation systems, that increase agricultural productivity while creating employment opportunities for local populations.
|However, there also are negative implications, DOdorico said, such as that the local populations are excluded from the direct use and management of their land and water resources and concern that in the long run, foreign land acquisitions could lead to overuse of water and land with negative effects on the environment (whereas local small-holder farmers are often in a better position to be good stewards and managers of their land and water).
|By losing control of part of their land and water, in many cases local people are giving up to wealthier nations their most precious natural resources resources that could be used now or in the future to enhance their own food security, DOdorico said.
|He noted that countries such as Sudan and Tanzania have the potential to become new breadbaskets because of either rain or river flow, but lack investments in agricultural technologies that would enhance productivity. For this reason, he said, foreign corporations see in them strong potential for high-profit investments and thus are rushing to "grab" these lands and water.
|It is hard to think that this phenomenon may be stopped, DOdorico said. However, both the United Nations and the national governments should ensure that some of the wealth generated by foreign investments in agricultural land are used to benefit local populations, for example by sustainably improving their food security and enhancing the productivity of small-holder agriculture.
|There is also the need for institutions that can make sure that locals are involved in decisions about the reallocation of rights on land and water resources.
|Source: University of Virginia
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This is regarding David Bagwell. We are in love with his neighborhood, and are considering lot in Broughtonbut his behavior is causing us a lot of concern. Do you know how his bankruptcy has affected his strong hold on his communities?
A little background here: Developer David Bagwell, who once worked with Mayor Leppert at the Trammell Crow Company,  has super strict rules for just about every move you make if you buy a home in one of his five Colleyville developments: who builds the house, who repairs it, what you can plant, where you can plant it, even how many inches away the front door coach lanterns have to be. And when you submit your new home or remodel plans to the Architecture Control Committee, you have to pay a fee. About this time last year here's what we were discussing on DallasDirt: "David Bagwell is working as hard at staving off foreclosure on some of his Colleyville lots as he once did being the architectural control Nazi of the neighborhood. As one reader put it, not only did he peer over fences to check for compliance, homeowners were charged repeatedly just for submitting and re-submitting requests:
"Candy, you missed one thing about submitting for approval. Not only do you have to submit for approval, if it is declined, you have to pay a fee to resubmit. Basically the entire fee structure is set up to fail to keep submission payments coming in. You have to pay a fee to submit for approval to stain your garage the SAME color it currently is.
The CCR's are located on Bagwell's website. If you have 10 hours to waste, go read them."
I don't have ten hours to waste. Last I heard, Bagwell's lots got foreclosed on, Toll Brothers has picked up some of his mortgage notes, which ought  to make homeowners in three of the subdivisions perk up: If Toll bought the 26 lots in Broughton, 49 lots in Old Grove and 36 lots in Whittier Heights, they could ask for control of the development, shake things up at the HOA. Life might be groovy again.
Any of my Southlake/Colleyville readers know if the foreclosure has made these communities a more pleasant place to live? And here we thought fore-closure was a bad thing!


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|Molecular Plant Pathology On-line, the world's first electronic copy-only, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to plant pathology, ceased to publish new papers on December 31, 1999.
This pioneering journal, created by BSPP in 1996, has been a rapid vehicle for publication of a wide range of papers on a variety of aspects of molecular pathology from scientists around the world. Papers published in MPPOL can be accessed at this website address and BSPP is fully committed to maintaining indefinitely an archive of this journal.
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The advances made in technology and the experience gained in creating and running MPPOL formed an excellent foundation for the launch of the new journal, Molecular Plant Pathology (MPP), in January 2000. This will be published in electronic version with additional features in a similar way to MPPOL, and its hard copy version will gain ISI recognition. It is backed by Wiley-Blackwell where full submission details can be found and MPP is fully integrated into their electronic publication system.
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by George L. Spaeth, M.D.
Bob Previdi, in his May 26 opinion piece "Chestnut Hill needs a reality check", argues for more development, larger institutions, more students and more trust in the Chestnut Hill Community Association (CHCA) as the way to assure the well being of Chestnut Hill.
His thesis appears to be based on a belief that (1) the health of the Chestnut Hill community depends on enlarging its business district, (2) the success of the business district lies in attracting more people to Chestnut Hill, and (3) those who disagree with these types of changes are "naysayers and bullies."
Regarding point number 1, the health of Chestnut Hill primarily depends on the health of the Chestnut Hill residential community, which is primarily related to the quality of life of the residents, including economics. Increasing traffic congestion, introducing mega-schools and chain stores, decreasing the viability of the wonderful specialty stores that characterized a well functioning business district, destroying ancient trees, decreasing property values – these and similar changes decrease the quality of life for those living in Chestnut Hill.
Regarding point number 2, greatly increasing the volume of people who come to Chestnut Hill is probably counterproductive. Our small streets are already overcrowded. The reasons for coming to Chestnut Hill to shop and for living in Chestnut Hill will disappear. Consider places like Cambridge, Mass., or many of the small towns in England, very similar to Chestnut Hill, which have evolved beautifully.
They are increasingly pleasant places to live, in which the businesses and institutions flourish BECAUSE they are small and special; they and the residents all prosper together. They have succeeded because they have meticulously controlled "development."
An unnecessary tragedy of urban evolution in the United States is the transformation of lovely, viable cities and towns into ugly, stereotypical urban/malls where few, if any, people prefer to live, and where the businesses then fail, leading to a blight. If congestion increases – as it certainly will if institutions and businesses try to bring more people to the area – the Chestnut Hill stores will probably suffer, not flourish.
Providing excellent goods and services that a community really needs and wants and lowering overhead is often a more successful route to greater profits than becoming broader and increasing expenses. Chestnut Hill has shining examples of this.
Chestnut Hill is a small community, where people have chosen to live because it is quiet, green, with easy access to churches, a good hospital, public transportation, parks, stores and services they need. Chestnut Hill is a mature, low density, community with narrow, sunny streets, low buildings and a wide variety of happy residents. People love living in Chestnut Hill because it is quiet and NOT "where the action is."
Change is inevitable, but it can be for the better or the worse. How change is controlled is crucial. Consider the expansion of Chestnut Hill College. The community has little idea what is happening because –instead of open discussions – the president of the CHCA imposed a total news blackout.
The original plan submitted by the college when it was considering buying the Greenfield property seemed appropriate. I and many of those now concerned supported the expansion with words and money. In fact, we were the YEA-Sayers. Change that is likely to benefit the community needs support. Change that results in deterioration of the community must be resisted. Thank goodness there are those willing to endure the insults that are frequently the result of opposing powerful people intent on having their own way.
Economics are important. There are many sections in Philadelphia that were once lovely places to live but are now unpleasant places to avoid. That is the natural evolution of communities that do not take care of themselves, that do not have a vision of what they want to be and how they can make that happen.
The Chestnut Hill Community Association was developed to try to have that vision arrived at democratically, rather than as the consequences of developers, wealthy people, or businesses or institutions the community does not want. Unfortunately, we no longer have a Chestnut Hill Community Association, but rather have a Chestnut Hill Institutional/Business Association that often considers the residents its enemies.
There are many different visions of the American way of life. They include Donald Trump, megamalls, strip malls, and lovely quiet towns where the economic value of real estate (the small homes, the large homes and the businesses) increases because it is not destroyed by deteriorating forces.
Yes, Chestnut Hillers do need a reality check. Specifically, in what kind of a world do the residents of Chestnut Hill wish to live, and how willing are they to work for that, recognizing that when they do they will be called naysayers, bullies and anti-American? I consider those who do want to preserve and enhance what this small, quiet "Greene Countrie Towne" offers heroes, not bullies.
Yes, Chestnut Hill does need to change. It needs to change in a way that will make it a better place to live by preserving and enhancing those characteristics that make it such a wonderful place now. It does not need to change in a way that will force many of those presently living here now to move somewhere else where they hope to find what Chestnut Hill has to offer, but may squander.
George L. Spaeth, M.D. is a past president of the Chestnut Hill Community Association and a founder of the Chestnut Hill Community Fund.


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MINNEAPOLIS — Alexandra McHale, the daughter of basketball legend Kevin McHale, died over the weekend, it was announced Sunday.
Known as Sasha, she died Saturday in a Twin Cities hospital. She had turned 23 in late October and had been in college at Minnesota Duluth until illness forced her to take a leave of absence.
She played varsity for Totino-Grace High School for three years and made honorable mention all-state in 2008, the year her team won the Class 3A state title.
"She was an outstanding basketball player and the life of the locker room," said Shannon Hartinger, her coach at Totino-Grace for three years. "She was a joy to be around. You could tell she loved to play basketball."
Kevin McHale, a former player for Hibbing (Minn.) High School, the Gophers and Boston Celtics, spent 16 years with the Timberwolves as a broadcaster, coach and general manager.
"While Kevin was with our organization, we all watched Sasha grow up and become an outstanding young woman," Wolves owner Glen Taylor said in a statement. "She will be sorely missed by her family and friends."
During her playing career, Sasha McHale wore the same No. 32 that her Hall of Fame dad wore while he played for the Celtics in the 1980s.
Hartinger said that despite her father's fame, Sasha never felt pressured to play basketball to live up to the family legacy.
"It was a complete non-issue," Hartinger said Sunday. "She was like her dad, everything rolled off her back. They were a very close family."
Kevin McHale became coach of the Houston Rockets last season but has been on a leave of absence since Nov. 10. The Houston Chronicle said the leave was to deal with his daughter's health issues after she was hospitalized for a condition related to lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body. The Lupus Foundation of America estimates 1.5 million people in the country have it.
Hartinger said she was diagnosed last year but that very few people seemed to know there was anything seriously wrong.
The Rockets organization also expressed its sympathy. "Kevin and Lynn are loving and dedicated parents who will need our continued support throughout this very difficult time," owner Leslie Alexander said.
Sasha McHale is survived by her parents, a sister and three brothers. No funeral arrangements had been announced as of Sunday night.
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Also what's everyone think of the fine & joel trade?
Joel gets immediate help with the injury setbacks his suffered... But Fine got some big pieces on his team that may pay dividends if he is inm the playoff picture at week 13. (fine will have a starting lineup of eli-andre-larry fitz-colston-cj2k & sjax) that right there is pretty beastly.
That's a bingo. Joel gets some injury relief in Schaub and Meachem, and a strong RB in Wells. I get the stud RBs I wanted without having to give up my WRs. I can wait for Colston as long as my starting WR stay healthy. But I didn't get Eli Manning in the trade (maybe I should have asked).


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Waiting for the inspiration for a new theme it suddenly arrived yesterday out of nowhere… Soul. Why? well…above all musical genres Soul is in my flesh, blood and bones. Deeply ingrained from before I was born. allow me to outline my historicity
My mum and dad were both Original London Mod/ernists from 1962 and anyone who knows will agree that the authentic soundtrack to Mod/ernist is Soul…Rhythm & Blues too of course but whereas Rhythm&Blues had been around for many years Soul was 'modern' (albeit a fusion between Doo Wop and Gospel).
Between 1958 and 1960 the seeds of Soul were sown as the cultural boundaries began to be crossed in earnest and as is often the case it was music that blew the trumpet for change loud and clear. No more would the universal language be categorised strictly by 'Race' (my belief is that it's the only language that speaks to all regardless of colour, nationality or creed). Artists such as Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, James Brown, Smokey Robinson, Jerry Butler, Curtis Mayfield, Gene Chandler, Dee Clark, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett, Marvin Gaye, (along with a whole host of lesser known but just as illuminating singers, songwriters and musicologists), began to flex their musical muscles and craft the 'new lick' without the backing of Corporate thieves and vultures.
In December 1968 themusicologist was born with the soundtrack of Soul ringing in my heart and soul and from that day to this it has been ever present. Beginning with the 'classics' I have matured throughout the 70's 80's 90's and into the 21st Century with the heartbeart of such priceless musicology as the soundtrack to my existence. There have been and are many other genres that have had a profound impact on the I but Soul still is (and always will be), my first musical love.
Kicking off with one of my favourite early Soul cuts courtesy of the pioneering 'Miracles' who first recorded in 1958 for Chess, but it wasn't until hooking up to Berry Gordy's fledgling Motown Label that the musical sparks began to truly fly. Just like to add that without doubt The Miracles were a foundation stone on which the Berry Gordy empire was built…


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I sat at a piano in a sun-filled modern church. The audience—other young pianists and their parents—watched as I played the first eight notes of a piece by composer Edvard Grieg. At the ninth note, I froze. I tried again: da dee dee dee, da-da dee dee. Silence. On the third try, chords tumbled from my fingers, and the piece flowed from there.
That event at age 14 was scarring, and I soon stopped taking piano lessons. Two years ago, however, I revisited that dormant memory as the band I joined much later prepared for its public debut. Too bad I'm a terrible performer, I thought gloomily.
But as this month's special report makes clear, recalling a memory also reshapes it. Memories are not preserved behind air locks in some squishy cellular vault. Rather they resemble clouds swirling in the currents. Change the conditions in which you remember, and the reminiscence twists accordingly, as journalist Ingfei Chen writes in "A Feeling for the Past." In the mutable landscape of memory, a sharp mind must also delete thoughts selectively. Scientific American Mind's Ingrid Wickelgren explains why in "Trying to Forget." If letting things go is a struggle, the nuclear option—a pill to blot out the past—may soon offer respite, writes journalist Adam Piore in "Totaling Recall."
Experiments on memory reveal how slippery our sense of truth can be. Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, experts on visual illusions, show how researchers exploit our error-ridden models of reality in "Mind-Warping Visions." For a light take on our all-too-human inconsistencies, turn to "The Partnership Paradox," by NPR's Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman. You will learn why your beloved's once alluring traits now seem so singularly annoying.
As for my botched recital, I no longer dodge the memory as if rotting vegetables were flying at my face. The problem, I now believe, was not stage stupor but my lousy practice record at the time. By rewriting that old memory to underscore effort rather than incapability, I shifted my sense of self—and my hopes for the future.


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text: On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 21:33, Kwan Wing Keung wrote: > The question is: will there be a timing difference in case a processor > in the 3rd blade, insider the 3rd chassis, is trying to communicate > (through MPI) to a processor in another blade within the SAME chassis, > as compared to another processor in a blade housed within ANOTHER > chassis. Yes. You are increasing the number of switch hops by at least 1. There will be a timing difference, unless you get a blade system which uses a secondary network on each blade to connect directly to the same switch (such as a Myrinet, or an "Infiniband" unit). > A sales from a vendor answered me that there should be some difference, > as the communication within a blader centre will go through the > back-plane. Once it goes out from the blade centre, the communication > has to go through an inter-chassis switch, thereby should have some > timing difference. He further told me that it is the beauty of That is substantially correct. > the "infiniteband" which I don't have any experience. Infiniband. Not many do have this experience yet. > However another sales answered me that they should be the same, > because all processors within the entire "rack" should have distinct > IP addresses, and the communication between any 2 processors should > be fair and equal. Sounds like a sales person who didn't have their techie on the line with them. They are wrong. In one chassis, using the supplied networks on the blades, you have an internal 10/100 or (preferably) GigE switch. Between chassis, you should have a GigE switch. Look at it as a hierarchy. Draw a blade. Put a circle around the blade. Draw the 7u rack mount around the blade, put a circle around that. Your communication path crosses circles, which represent boundaries, and hence latency and bandwidth limitations. The circles represent network/communications bus fabric boundaries. Boundary crossings cost time and bandwidth. You are drawing a logical picture of the network. If you have a different network fabric than the internal 7u switch network, draw your blades residing in that switch (large circle). With Myrinet or its ilk (Quadrics, DolphinICS, et al) the latter picture emerges (star network up to a point, then structure beyond that as node counts exceed switch capacity). There you have nearly the same latency/bandwidth between every pair of ports, so it doesnt matter which blade center your unit is in. You cross the boundary effectively twice (going into and out of a blade). With the internal switches in use rather than the Myrinet type devices, you cross 2 sets of boundaries to go out of a blade, and 2 sets to go in. 4 effective hops versus 2. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615


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A report published by the Florida Health Review criticizes a 2011 Institute study that found red light cameras in 14 large cities significantly reduced fatal red light running crash rates (see "Red light running kills," Feb. 1, 2011).
The report by University of South Florida professor Barbara Langland-Orban alleges the finding is incorrect and the research suspect because the Institute is supported by insurers.
The Institute examined fatal crashes before and after the cities implemented red light camera programs, and then compared the results to 48 cities without cameras. The idea was to see how the rate of fatal crashes changed after the introduction of photo enforcement. The independent, peer-reviewed Journal of Safety Research published the study in August 2011.
The Langland-Orban report argues that rather than making a before and after comparison, researchers should have zeroed in on the difference in crash rates between the camera and noncamera cities after photo enforcement was implemented. Langland-Orban says that because crash rates were 25 percent higher in the "after" period in the camera cities compared with those without, the cameras must be to blame for the higher rate. It is true that crash rates were 25 percent higher, but Langland-Orban ignores the fact that they were 65 percent higher in the "before" period.
The measure that matters is what happened to fatal crashes after photo enforcement was implemented, compared with what would have been expected without it. The Institute's study demonstrates that the camera cities experienced a bigger drop in fatal crash rates. In the 14 cities that had cameras in 2004-08 but didn't have them in an earlier comparison period, automated red light enforcement saved 159 lives. Had cameras been operating during the period in all large cities, a total of 815 deaths would have been prevented.
Langland-Orban says the Institute is biased because insurers benefit from photo enforcement by raising rates on ticketed drivers. However, in most jurisdictions, including Florida, there is no insurance consequence from photo enforcement. Florida law prohibits insurers from using the violations to set rates, and in most other states tickets from cameras don't go on driver records, and no points are assessed. Many studies have concluded that red light cameras are effective, and most of them were conducted by government agencies and other traffic safety experts not connected to the insurance industry.
Red light running is a serious traffic safety problem that kills about 700 people and injures an additional 130,000 each year. Solid, published research by the Institute and other experts demonstrates that red light cameras save lives.
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Eating Asian food is probably one of our pastimes here at ThinkGeek. Right by the office, we have a friendly Japanese place with sushi and bento boxes, a Vietnamese place to get our pho on, two scrumptious vegetarian Indian buffets, and even a Thai place with a garden dining area lined in hot pepper plants. And even though Sheldon would yell at us for using chopsticks to eat our Thai food, we do it anyway. You know why? Because eating with chopsticks is FUN with a capital FUN.
When we first saw these, we were like, "Oh cool! Chopsticks that look like samurai swords! WANT!" Then we looked a little closer and realized that they're modeled after the weapons of actual samurai. Allow us to introduce you:
- Maeda Toshimasu (better known as Maeda Keiji) fought with Uesugi's clan and was best known for breaking through enemy lines in the battle against the Mogami with only eight riders. If you're ever in Japan you can check out Keiji's armor at the Miyasaka Museum.
- Sanada Saemon-no-Suke Yukimura (Sanada Yukimura for short!) was an excellent military tactician, winning battles even if his forces were outnumbered. He was called "a hero who may appear once in a hundred years" and a "crimson demon of war."
- Date Masamune was known as the one-eyed dragon due to his outstanding tactical skills and (more notably) his missing eye. Masamune's army was instantly recognizable by their black armor and golden head gear.
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Fill in panels are a piece of nylon fabrics that "mimics" profile (eg struts are straight). Recently only North is (still?) using them, but were used by few brands in the past. I've used them on few kites but dropped them on new ones completely.
I could talk of ideas/intelectual rights/open source/what's wrong with the world etc for a long time but here it won't get the point. Now, some of the inventors are lucky and go into development and finally to production but some not and their ideas get stucked in the space until later they're maybe found again. To put it simple the credits from me gets the one who did/discover something first and not the one who uses those ideas or wrap them into something "else". I think that this is right if there is any justice in the world. Altho I respect that you have the courage to go into it.
To be perfectly clear I am totaly aware that upgrades of the ideas can be better than originals and I'd rather go kite with new ILE strutless than the old ones.
boardriding maui wrote:herculon - Thanks for the great news! Since I had the scale out, I grabbed the 8 just to see. 4.7 lbs / 2.13 kg. With all the news this week of brands launching strutless designs, if a weight war is waged as a result it will be critical in my opinion for riders to be aware of the huge % of weight that is now the bladder material. I think cutting corners there would be terrible mistake. I see bladder failures as a main contributor to a kite's lifespan and this was a major influence in my motivation to seek a strutless design solution so riders would have less problems with their gear. So, thinner bladder material isn't worth the tradeoff to my thinking.
BWD - I believe your question was regarding warranty, but post has gone down before I've replied. An excellent question. The simple answer is "the standard" one year material and workmanship. The more accurate answer is that my work does not fit the industry "standard". I thought to say that every part of my offering is handled directly by me but this fails to give credit to others that are involved. But from every part of its design to its sale, I take full responsibility. There will be no "Sorry Man, that's just the policy" from any individual without their heart in it. Success for me is measured by every stoked rider, and keeping them stoked. Hope that answers your question, let me know if not.
DrLightWind - Thanks for reposting. Tell me more about "flexible in-fill panels"! Did the material have flex?? If so, what was the result. Sounds fascinating!! For the relaunch, yeah, without even the wingtips up in the air very much + the weight in the canopy + the long flat section in the LE, I was just wondering how that could work. For the invert issue - YIKES! I can't comment on that kite having not been involved in its design, but can say from my own development that I've experienced how critical bridling is to reliable performance.
Gigi;) - I agree that offering an aspect ratio is totally doable. My point was that given the substantial differences in kite designs that this measure is misleading. Years ago, seemed like a standard system of projected area was going to develop for the sport, but that doesn't seem to have happened. I can't imagine a way for this to accurately account for the majority of affect to what the rider experiences anyway. A measure of a kite's cord line at center could maybe be useful information, but then opens the door to wanting camber too. But what good is all that when there's no way to even objectively test for windrange for a design. Its all subjective, and speaking just for myself, I'm cool with that. What is a bummer for me is that my work didn't make your list for "credits & ideas". I agree that development and innovation are to commended, but hoped you'd give me a shout out for the very different level of work and commitment needed to bring a new idea to production. In your defense, I guess the very title of this thread includes "in development". So "production" is off the topic.


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Mike wrote:I know there were some chinese companies making revs with fiberglass spars. Maybe that's where it came from.
I don't know what people are thinking, making their own revs!
I know; selling them is against the law, making them for yourself isn't.
I still want to make my own set of Rev2's...
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Astronomers have had remarkable success recently in their search for planets outside our solar system. However, efforts to understand exactly how planets form in the first place have been stymied by a fundamental question: How can large boulders avoid being swept into the central star by the effects of gas surrounding the star or being pulverized by other objects before gravity can bind them into asteroid-size planetesimals too big for gas to influence or collisions to destroy? Full-fledged planets are believed to form from the collision and accretion of such smaller planetesimal bodies.
Recent modeling developed by astrophysicists from the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, the University of Virginia, and the University of Toronto has shed new light on this fundamental part of the planet-forming process and shown that the very forces that appeared to prevent planetesimal formation"gas drag and turbulence"can actually promote it. A study led by Anders Johansen, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, describing the team's results appears in an upcoming issue of the journal Nature.
In the early stages of planet formation, dust grains in the diffuse cloud surrounding a young star collide and stick together to build up ever-larger bodies. However, earlier models of planet formation showed that the slower-rotating gas disk surrounding the central star appears to impart a drag on boulders larger than a few feet in diameter, causing them to slow and eventually spiral into the star after only a few hundred orbits. In addition, the fast-moving boulders do not stick together well but instead collide violently and break apart.
However, recent studies of boulders moving through gas have revealed two effects. First, turbulence in the gas causes them to clump in high-pressure regions; and second, gas drag causes further clumping as the boulders in the densest regions start pulling gas and nearby debris in with them. When the team included this behavior into simulations of gas and gravitationally interacting boulders, they found that the orbiting boulders concentrated so strongly that gravitational attraction between boulders caused them to collapse into large planetesimals that are not affected by gas drag.
"Our work provides the first scenario that appears capable of answering this gap in our basic understanding of planet formation, a process first identified over 30 years ago," said Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Curator and Chair of the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. "Of course, this work raises new questions about how planet formation occurs in protoplanetary disks. Still, we believe the fundamental properties of gas-boulder interactions that we describe will indeed provide the ultimate solution to this long-standing problem."
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Returning tonight, to a surprisingly welcoming crowd, is Christian and his Peep Show. A number of unevenly matched contests, a new nickname for CM Punk courtesy of Chris Jericho, and another match set up for Wrestlemania round out the show.
Opening the show is good ol' Captain Charisma. Christian gets the boos eventually by inviting the warring GMs of Raw and Smackdown into the ring, and joining "Team Johnny". Teddy Long tries to one-up him by introducing his newest team member, Kofi Kingston, and making a match to open the show.
Match #1 – David Otunga (w/Christian) vs. Kofi Kingston (w/ Santino Marella)
Also at ringside are the GMs and Aksana, watching Otunga, in dress pants, beat Kingston down and take some time to flex. He has also ripped his pants right down the backside, and somehow the commentators stay away from that. Kingston tries to drop the boom on Otunga but Christian grabs his foot. As the ref ejects Christian and argues with Laurinaitis, Kingston hits Trouble in Paradise.
Winner via pinfall: Kofi Kingston
Daniel Bryan awaits AJ outside the Divas locker room, and she emerges uncomfortably in a black dress that Bryan bought for her. He's disappointed, saying it looked better on the mannequin.
Match #2 – Nikki Bella (w/ Brie) vs. AJ (w/ Daniel Bryan)
The World Heavyweight Champion is barking instructions from the floor, unhappy with how Nikki takes charge of the match with a series of submission stretches. AJ fights out with a spinning kick to the jaw and, after Bryan alerts the ref to the Bellas trying to trade places, she rolls Nikki up for the win.
Winner via pinfall: AJ
On just one day of the year, Cody Rhodes explains to Matt Striker backstage, is the Intercontinental Champion assured that Big Show will choke. That happens to be at Wrestlemania, so he's quite confident going into their match on April 1st.
Match #3 – Cody Rhodes vs. The Great Khali
When the match starts, Rhodes is hitting and running, eventually getting Khali down to the mat for arm and leg-lock combinations. Even though Khali gets back to his feet, Rhodes drops him again with kicks culminating with a Beautiful Disaster.
Winner via pinfall: Cody Rhodes
Randy Orton heads to the ring with a new t-shirt to question his recent issues with Kane. Kane steps out and shows footage of a fight between them from last summer, after which Kane offered a handshake. Kane says this was a moment when he realized he lost his inner monster, and wants to destroy Orton at Wrestlemania to complete his transformation back into a beast. No official response from Orton.
Match #4 – Big Show vs. Drew McIntyre
Evidently, as announced by Teddy Long on the big screen before the match, McIntyre signed a one-year contract with Laurinaitis last week. He tries to celebrate with a Future Shock DDT on Big Show, but receives a spear, choke-slam, and WMD instead. Big Show can't even go for the cover as the ref calls for the bell.
Winner via referee's decision: Big Show
Scowling, Cody Rhodes watches the carnage from the locker room.
Match #5 – Mark Henry vs. Yoshi Tatsu
This week's theme seems to be a lot of David and Goliath matches. Tatsu is power-slammed and World's Strongest Slammed in quick order.
Winner via pinfall: Mark Henry
Long gets some more support, this time from Zack Ryder on his YouTube show, hoping to be on Team Teddy. Back in the ring, Chris Jericho explains why he won't apologize for what he said about CM Punk's dad on Raw. In fact, he goes further in his descriptions of how Punk's entire persona is designed to hide his own alcoholic temptations.
Ending with his own quiet chant of "CM Drunk", Jericho promises to win at Wrestlemania and celebrate with a cocktail.
Match #6 – Sheamus vs. Chris Jericho
Meeting one-on-one for the first time since the end of the Royal Rumble, Jericho is out-muscled early on and finds his aerial attacks backfiring. After Jericho finally catches a break by pulling the ropes on a charging Sheamus, sending him to the floor, Daniel Bryan and AJ saunter down for a close look at the match.
After the break, Jericho has built up an advantage and keeps the pressure on with dropkicks and a long chin-lock. Sheamus steps aside from a bulldog attempt and takes control again with double-axe handles and a backbreaker.
Neither man can seal the deal as Sheamus blocks a Codebreaker before missing a Brogue Kick himself. After Sheamus reaches the ropes to a break the Walls of Jericho, he clotheslines Jericho to the floor and follows him where there will surely be some shenanigans with Bryan.
Indeed, as Jericho gets back into the ring and distracts the ref, Bryan lays Sheamus out with a dropkick of his own. Sheamus can't beat the ten-count back into the ring.
Winner via count-out: Chris Jericho
After the match, Sheamus gets a consolation prize by returning to the ring and dropping Jericho with a Brogue Kick, then staring down Bryan at the top of the ramp.
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text: On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 17:36, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > My reasoning was to get the node install time as *low* as possible and I > > was assuming that kick-start wasted to many cycles/bandwidth on stuff > > I'm not certain about this. A package is typically compressed (to be > network efficient) as the network and disk write rates are likely to be > the rate limiting steps, not the decompression. The CPU required for > decompression and installation %post configuration is "free" anyway. A > tgz image probably requires very similar amounts of network bandwidth > and decompression CPU -- at most it saves some of the %post processing. It's not an assumption I've ever tested to be honest, my time would probably be better spent refining the list of packages that get installed, and then wasted again in a few weeks time when I realise that in actual fact I do need a compiler on every node. So, I just going leave it as it is and if I ever am in a situation where I'm waiting for a node re-install then I will use the time to drink more coffee. > > that would just end up the same anyway. kick-start wouldn't allow you to > > customise the image as much either. > > I'd have to disagree with this and would indeed roll the opposite way. > kickstart installs already automagically probe for hardware and manage > moderate differences between e.g. sound and video and network and disk > configuration. To accomodate these with diskless images, one has to > build the diskless image for EACH supported hardware configuration > separately. This can be quite time consuming, because one WON'T > generally have e.g. kudzu or some other probe/configuration tool to do > most of the work for you, one has to do it by hand or by somehow running > an "install" on a mounted template on an architypical node. > > One is always free to build as many kickstart images as you like or need > for distinct configurations; customizing them is likely as simple as > > cp basicnode.ks customnode.ks > emacs customnode.ks > (add or delete packages, change hard configuration parameters) > emacs /etc/dhpcd.conf or whatever > (direct nodes to use customnode.ks on their standard install) > > and then boot the install. Alternatively, for slightly different > one-of-a-kind nodes (could we install the compiler group only on THIS > node) that are standard plus a package or two, one can do a kickstart > install to a basicnode.ks state, then yum install pkgname. I'd forgotten about heterogeneous clusters, that does make things more difficult. You only need to do the hardware detection *once* though, and then cache everything in a per-host configuration file/script. I would use "apt-get" rather than "yum" by choice but I don't want to go anywhere near that argument :) > > This would take some effort to setup the "install" script and possibly > > wouldn't be worth it because it would only save a few minutes (in > > parallel) of unattended time while the node installs itself. > > Yeah, that's the rub;-) Once things are bleeding edge efficient and > scalable, it stops being worth it to screw around saving even > significant fractions of the little time things take, especially > unattended time. Five minutes or ten minutes of network install time > per node is pretty irrelevant, as long as I don't have to wait around > for either one to complete and as long as both complete without incident > on request. It's only irrevelevent sometimes, you say yourself that the COD project is aiming for "minutes" to do an install. It all depends on how often you see yourself re-installing, for most cluster people it can probably be classed as seldom. Of course in the nfs-root world there is no such thing as "installing", you just change the export/mount options (assuming you share the root fs across machines). There is also a distinction between diskless and nfs-root, I chose to use nfs-root on my home machines because it allows greater flexibility in what software is running but I still have swap, /tmp and /local running of the local hard disk. In the days before grub it was really handy to get the kernel over the network to. > > However... Once you have got the node-install time low enough then you > > have the possibility of requesting node configurations when you submit > > your jobs, they could install with a different flavour of the os and > > different kernels depending on what requirments the job has. I've not > > heard of anybody doing this though so perhaps it isn't desirable but I > > know I can think of uses for it. > > This is the goal of the "computing on demand" (COD) project at Duke. > Justin Moore is working on The Ultimate Environment Loader. With it, > one will be able to select, in real time, to boot into the entire > install image of your choice including OS, kernel, work environment. > He's shooting for times of order minutes for the "boot/install" to > complete. With this nodes can be dynamically reconfigured to work on > completely distinct projects with completely distinct operating systems > and work environments and user account and security environments, giving > one a whole new perspective on scheduling and resource sharing. Need a > freebsd node? Boot it that way. Need a linux node within your > organizational domain? Not a problem. Plan to break the hell out of > your node installation while doing research on e.g. operating systems, > networks, kernels? Fine, break away and reinstall the base image when > you're done. Even WinXX, in principle, loaded on demand and it just > goes away when the demand ceases (in practice, of course, one has to > manage all sorts of copyright issues that I don't want to even think > about, or break the law:-). > > I think that this will be very, very cool and might even change the very > way we think about compute resources from the desktop on down. I agree, this is very cool and definatly the way forward, not just in clustering either. Linux-bios will help a great deal to. Ashley,