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Lemmings on CD-i: "Great puzzles, but other platforms' versions are better"
>> Tuesday, August 25, 2009
It's not a game-killing botch like Axis & Allies, which squandered great source material on a clumsy game, but the CD-i adaptation of "Lemmings" has a few flaws which will frustrate many players. That's a pity, since "Lemmings" is arguably the best computer puzzle game ever devised, and CD-i puzzlers deserve better. The premise is equal parts adorable and sick. A door in the sky opens and the lemmings -- little green-haired guys in blue cloaks -- fall out, hit the ground and start walking. Unless they hit something they can't climb, they'll continue right into the ocean, lava, lemming-smooshing traps, etc. If they do hit something, they turn around and walk the other way, probably into more danger.
It's your job to save a certain percentage of the stupid little guys, by assigning skills to members of the horde. The tools at your disposal are indicated at the bottom of the screen, along with the number of times you can use them. For example, if the lemmings are heading towards a pit, you can choose the staircase-building tool and pick the lead lemming; he'll start building a 12-step staircase the other lemmings can safely climb over. You also get three varieties of digging: horizontal, down, and diagonally down. The lemming will continue digging until he gets into the clear, hits steel, or dies. To control the flow of lemmings, you can also use a "blocker", who turns around any lemmings who run into him. And an "explosion" tool tells a lemming to explode, following a five-second countdown. Two skills stay with lemmings as long as they're alive: climbing and parachuting. The latter skill allows lemmings to fall from heights that would otherwise kill them. A lemming with both of these skills is called an "athlete", and is particularly useful to send out in advance of the horde to dig tunnels, build bridges, etc.
The playfields can be several screens wide, meaning you need to be careful to know what's happening in several places at once. You scroll by pressing your cursor against the edge of the screen, holding button-two to scroll faster. A tiny map at the bottom right shows the entire level, with a box indicating what's on the main screen. Clicking on this map or dragging the box around provides a way to quickly change your view. What's always been ingenious about Lemmings is the ways in which the level designs challenge your creativity. Early levels develop your resource management skills, teach you to send out "scout" lemmings to prepare tunnels and bridges for the horde, etc. But later levels challenge you to think about your options in non-intuitive ways -- the digging and staircase tools become a way to turn around a lemming, the bomb becomes an excavation tool, staircases built the wrong direction become ways to catch falling lemmings.
Lemmings has been a classic on every platform for which it's been released -- which seems like every computer and video-game system on the market since the early 90's. That's part of the problem for the CD-i version. It compares unfavorably with other versions, even those developed for less powerful hardware. The first thing I noticed, having played the Macintosh and Atari Lynx versions, is that the lemmings themselves are tiny on the CD-i screen. This makes the action hard to see and difficult to control at times, since it's nearly impossible to pick out a specific lemming unless he's in the clear.
If anything, the lemmings should have been larger on the CD-i. Computer players sit right in front of their screen, making small objects perfectly visible, while video-gamers often sit halfway across the room. Not for nothing do CD-i controllers have 12-foot cords. Also, the control problem is exacerbated by what appears to be a slight delay in response to pressing the button. I've noticed about a quarter- to half-second delay. The practical upshot is that if you've selected the digging tool and you're waiting for a lemming to reach a wall you want to tunnel through, you'll hit the button as he reaches the wall... and then be shocked as he turns around and then starts digging the wrong way! The CD-i version retains the charming music of other versions of Lemmings, and it's got a much more sophisticated timbre and higher sound-quality on the CD-i. In fact, it sounds like the music is being played back from a studio recording of some sort, rather than clinked out in bits and boops by a sound chip. On the other hand, since that limits the ability to switch back and forth between verse, bridge, and chorus, the shorter musical clips get repetitive when played through a dozen times on one level.
With 120 levels, this isn't a game you'll finish quickly. At the end of each level, you're given a 10-letter code that can be entered to continue the game later at the highest level you've reached. These codes are the same as for the PC and other home versions. I really don't like these systems, despite their popularity in games with dozens of levels. First off, the type-style used in every version of Lemmings isn't easy to read -- you may botch a password by confusing the nearly-identical D, O, and Q characters. And 10 letters for 120 levels is overkill -- there are 141,167,095,653,380 possible combinations. "Chip's Challenge" on the Lynx and PC only needed four letters for 148 levels. Heck, I've seen adventure games that save your location, inventory, and game status with 10 characters, not just a level number.
But beyond that, the CD-i could have used the player's storage to save games, completely eliminating the annoying task of writing down passwords for every level. The space consumption would be trivial, assuming one byte for the level number, 10 bytes for the player's name. I think the only advantage of the password system is that it allows players to get codes from friends, magazines, or the internet to cheat and skip levels they haven't been able to beat -- hardly an advantage.
So, should you get "Lemmings" for your CD-i? That depends. If you've played through the 120 levels on another system, the answer is no -- there's nothing more to see here other than a charming intoductory animation. If you've played through part of the game on another system, you're probably better off avoiding the frustrations of this disc and going back to your computer, video-game, or portable. But if you haven't played it, and like many other CD-i owners you're an inveterate puzzler, and you've already finished Merlin's Apprentice... then I think CD-i Lemmings runs neck-and-neck with Dimo's Quest as your action/puzzle game of choice. Dimo has more accurate controls, and better graphics and music... but like Lemmings it has tiny characters, and Dimo's level designs are nowhere near as clever.
Besides, what other game has on-screen characters who yell "oh no", grab their heads, and burst into lots of colorful little bits? Flaws aside, Lemmings remains a unique combination of wits, cutes, and sick humor.
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Just a little over four years ago, Hillary Clinton, then running for President, ran a controversial ad strongly suggesting that Democratic rival Barack Obama was not ready to take that "3 a.m." phone call in the White House when "something is happening in the world." America needs a President who "knows the military" and is "tested and ready to lead," the ad warned. Now Clinton is Obama's Secretary of State and the President last week gave an interview in the Situation Room at the White House to discuss the decision he made one year ago to send Navy SEALs on the mission that resulted in killing of al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. And less that three years after Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he is winning praise as the "Warrior in Chief" carrying on a "militarily aggressive" foreign policy.
As the Obama campaign prepares to formally begin the reelection drive on Saturday, May 5, with appearances in the key states of Ohio and Virginia, campaign spokesman are describing the President as defender of the middle class and the foe of tax cuts for the wealthiest "one percent" of Americans. But in the past several days, with the anniversary of the May 1 killing of bin Laden at hand, administration spokesmen and Obama campaign supporters have been talking up last year's raid on bin Laden's home in Abbottabad, Pakistan, as not only a major victory for the United States, but also as evidence that Obama is a tough and decisive leader. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last week that the slaying of bin Laden, along with the killing of other al Qaeda leaders over the past few years, "has prevented them from having the command and control capability to be able to put together an attack similar to 9/11."
Vice President Joe Biden, conflating the bailout of the auto industry in 2009 and the killing of the bin Laden two years later, suggested a bumper sticker for the campaign might read, "Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive." And a video celebrating the anniversary on the campaign web site has angered supporters of the apparent Republican nominee Mitt Romney. It features former President Bill Clinton, who campaigned with his wife against Obama in the 2008 presidential primaries, praising the President for nailing bin Laden. "He took the harder and more honorable path and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result," Clinton said. An on-screen graphic then poses the question, "Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?" and displays a statement Romney made about the pursuit of bin Laden in 2007: "It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."
GOP strategist Nancy Pfotenhauer told Fox News the video "politicizes something that shouldn't have been politicized" and is a sign of how "nasty" the 2012 campaign will become. Senator John McCain of Arizona, Obama's Republican opponent four years ago, accused the President of turning "the one decision he got right into a pathetic, political act of self-congratulation.... Shame on Barack Obama for diminishing the memory of September 11th and the killing of Osama bin Laden by turning it into a cheap political attack ad." Democrats voiced similar criticism in 2004 when the George W. Bush reelection campaign used images from the "Ground Zero" at the World Trade Center in a campaign ad, and when vice President took Dick Cheney suggested the election of Democratic candidate, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, might result in another terrorist attack.
Obama campaign advisor and former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday told the New York Times that raising the question of whether Romney would have authorized the raid that killed bin Laden is "fair game."
"Maybe the comments he made a few years ago he admits are wrong, or he's flip-flopped on yet another issue," Gibbs said. Indeed, Romney, in a December 2011 interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News credited Obama for the raid in words that appear to contradict his 2007 statement.
"We're delighted that he gave the order to take out Osama bin Laden," Romney said at that time. "Any president would have done that, but this one did, and that's a good thing. I'm not going to say everything he's done is wrong."
Republicans have also criticized Obama's decision to use the White House crisis center known as the Situation Room as the setting for the interview with NBC's Brian Williams about the bin Laden raid. "I don't believe it ever would have occurred to us to conduct an interview in the Situation Room and don't believe we would considered it appropriate," said Tony Fratto, deputy press secretary to President George W. Bush.
The President and his political advisors have clearly had it in mind for the past several months to highlight the bin Laden s a sign of the President's toughness in dealing with the nation's enemies. The Obama campaign had posted a video about the raid earlier this year and the President talked about it in both the opening and closing passages of his State of the Union address in January. In December of last year, Obama responded to a question about Republican charges that he has been appeasing America's enemies by saying: "Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top Al Qaeda leaders who have been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement."
In an opinion piece published in Sunday's New York Times, Peter Bergen, a director of the non-partisan think tank, The New America Foundation, described Obama as the "Warrior In Chief" who has overcome the "Vietnam syndrome" that plagued previous Democratic aspirants to the White House and has shown himself to be "more like Teddy Roosevelt than Jimmy Carter." Obama, said Bergen wrote, "has turned out to be one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades."
"Mr. Obama decimated Al Qaeda's leadership," Bergen wrote. "He overthrew the Libyan dictator. He ramped up drone attacks in Pakistan, waged effective covert wars in Yemen and Somalia and authorized a threefold increase in the number of American troops in Afghanistan. He became the first president to authorize the assassination of a United States citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and played an operational role in Al Qaeda, and was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen. And, of course, Mr. Obama ordered and oversaw the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden."
Bergen made no mention of the constitutional issues involved in launching military attacks on countries with whom we are not at war, not to mention authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen far from any field of battle. He did acknowledge that these extra-constitutional extensions of executive power seem to be of little concern to many on the political left who were vocal in their condemnation of the excesses of the Bush administration.
"The left," Bergen wrote, "which had loudly condemned George W. Bush for waterboarding and due process violations at Guantánamo, was relatively quiet when the Obama administration, acting as judge and executioner, ordered more than 250 drone strikes in Pakistan since 2009, during which at least 1,400 lives were lost."
How many of those whose lives were lost in those drone attacks were innocent people who had nothing to do with terrorist activities? That's another question Bergen did not address. As Glenn Greenwald noted on Salon.com, neither the word "innocent" nor "civilians" appears anywhere in Bergen's 2000-word essay celebrating Obama's foreign policy achievements. Nor is there any mention of al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son, who was killed in a separate drone attack, also in Yemen, though according to the Pentagon the teenager was not a target. He was merely part of the collateral damage.
Nor is there any mention of the possibility that instead of making us safer, the U.S. military actions Bergen describes may inspire more of what the CIA calls "blowback" — attacks on American targets by people in far-off lands as retaliation for our military attacks and political interventions in their countries.
Greenwald, meanwhile, has been unsparing in his criticism of those on the left who appear to accept and even approve of policies under Obama that they viewed with alarm when carried out by President Bush. One of "Obama's most enduring legacies," he wrote will be "transforming these policies of excessive militarism, rampant secrecy and civil liberties assaults from right-wing radicalism into robust bipartisan consensus."

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- Charge your phone and personal computer to full charge (at least above 60%-70%) to avoid any issues during upgrade. (Note: If you don't upgrade properly you might even brick your phone.)
- Run S5570_Odin Multi Downloader v4.38 application on your PC.
- Click OPS button and select Tass_v1.ops file downloaded earlier.
- Select/Tick One Package Option (Don't Check/Uncheck others, leave them as they are.)
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- If you see a yellow triangle icon with Downloading written inside it connect it to your pc via USB.
- If odin detects your phone it will show COM Port # (Port Number) written in yellow background on its window (see image below).
- If everything above went well click Start Button to proceed then wait till it finishes (approx. 5.30 minutes) and reboots your phone.
- When Odin says PASS close the application and disconnect your phone.
UPDATED!!! September 21, 2011
I have added the link to download Asian region gingerbread 2.3.4 rom and is probably the latest firmware update for galaxy pop gts5570. So, users from Asia are recommended to flash this rom.


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A wonderful thing happened this past October. The project that Ivan worked on, The Supernovae Cosmology Project, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for Dr. Perlmutter... and thus the phone call to Ivan, with an invitation to attend the ceremony in Stockholm to recognize and thank him for his contribution.
This incredible, loving husband, father, brother, son and friend will be crossing the ocean today to be recognized for his work in discovering the expansiveness of the universe. We will miss him as he will be away from us for a week, but there are not enough words to describe our pride in him.
We love you, Ivan. You are amazing, you are cherished and we are proud to be yours.
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Random characters are minor characters found around the game world with whom the player can interact, often providing the player with a small bonus mission or objective. They have appeared in every game in the HD Universe with the exception of Grand Theft Auto Online.
GTA IV, EFLC and GTA Chinatown Wars
Their presence is indicated by a small blue person icon on the radar, but only when within close proximity to the player (Usually around 1 block). In The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony upon unlocking the random character's mission, their location will appear on the minimap represented by a white person icon. They provide Niko, Johnny, Luis and Huang with small missions. They generally are in some problem and will ask the Protagonist's help.
After completing all the random encounters in GTA IV, the achievement/trophy "No More Strangers" will be unlocked. Most of the random character missions are required for 100% completion. Though some are not required (like Cherise Glover's, Brian Jeremy, Ivan Bytchkov's, Clarence Little's, and Jeff Harlingford's random encounters).
In Grand Theft Auto V random characters are known as Strangers and Freaks. They take elements from the Strangers featured in Red Dead Redemption, which means that even after starting one of this side missions, the player is still free to roam around the map and complete other missions.
There are a total of 58 Strangers and Freaks missions, though only a specific 20 of them are required for 100% Completion.
Random characters in GTA IV
Random characters in The Lost and Damned
Random characters in The Ballad of Gay Tony
Random characters in GTA Chinatown Wars
Strangers and Freaks in GTA V
External Links
- pwnsu Random Characters map - GTA IV
- GTA 4 Liberty City Map (select NPCs > Person (contact) in the right menu).
- Random Characters map on GameFAQs - GTA Chinatown Wars'.
See also
There's a few more types of distinguished random people:
- Soapboxers - People who talk about themselves, or something.
- Buskers - Performers.
- Prostitutes.
- Random Events - Unnamed people in GTA V who are usually in some kind of trouble, like getting robbed/mugged/hijacked. The player can return their vehicle/wallet/purse after killing the thief.


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At times, we might forget that there are a good number of very bright, extremely dedicated, and fundamental people working in Congress. Elected officials and staff. Our funding system that seems to drive member after member to be begging, tin in cup, for funds can make the entire process look open to purchase. The traditional media mania for ever lower quality reporting magnifies this, making foolish shallowness the norm. Reality is far from this and it is worthwhile at times to take a moment to consider that reality.
An e-mail came into me today that reminded me of this, a letter with perhaps the best single word I've seen to summarize Republican truthiness when it comes to energy issues but a letter with substance.
Thank you Representative Earl Blumenauer.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gold futures settled lower Thursday, with investors showing disappointment after the metal's failure to reclaim the $1,700-an-ounce level, as upbeat global economic data helped dull the metal's safe-haven appeal.
Silver futures finished with a loss for the first time in eight sessions. Morgan Stanley lowered its 2013 forecasts on gold and silver prices.
February gold futures US:GCG3 fell $16.80, or 1%, to settle at $1,669.90 on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
"Gold once again failed to bust through the $1,700 mark. It's been trying on and off for a month now," said Ben Traynor, chief economist at BullionVault. "It looks like some speculative longs have concluded it isn't going to happen yet so they might as well close out their position."
Gold fell $6.50, or 0.4%, to settle at $1,686.70 an ounce on Wednesday, giving back more than its gains made on Tuesday. Futures prices haven't settled above $1,700 since mid-December.
"The latest punt on the [U.S.] debt ceiling has diminished the safe-haven appeal of gold somewhat," said Peter Grant, chief market analyst at USAGold.
On Wednesday, the U.S. House approved a suspension of the debt ceiling until May 19. See: House OKs short-term debt-limit extension.
Additionally, Thursday's "better-than-expected U.S. initial claims print has increased speculation that the [Federal Reserve] will be able to remove accommodations sooner rather than later," said Grant. "This too is weighing on the yellow metal."
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But the gold market "still has very strong underpinnings," he said. "Talk this week has focused on the latest [Bank of Japan] policy moves, and an expectation that super-accommodative monetary policy is in fact going to prevail for some time."
On the economic front, data Thursday was mostly upbeat, likely dulling some of gold's safe-haven appeal.
U.S. Labor Department said first-time applications for jobless benefits fell 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 330,000 in the week ended Jan. 19. That was the lowest level for first-time claims since January 2008. See: Dollar boosted as weekly U.S. jobless claims fall.
The preliminary flash U.S. manufacturing purchasing managers index saw its strongest rate of growth since March 2011. See: Jan. U.S. flash manufacturing PMI at 22-month high.
The U.S. leading economic index rose 0.5% in December, the strongest result since September. See: Economic indicators rise in December.
And the Markit composite purchasing-managers' index for the euro zone showed that the economic downturn in the region eased in January. See: Euro-zone PMI signals downturn eased in January.
Forecast cut
Morgan Stanley on Thursday cut its 2013 outlook for average gold prices by 4% to $1,773 a troy ounce.
The bank said it is still far from giving up on the metals. "We remain bullish on the gold price outlook in 2013 despite recent selling pressure triggered by market concerns of an earlier-than-previously-anticipated tightening in U.S. monetary policy," it said.
Morgan Stanley said silver should continue to outperform gold on a relative basis this year, despite expected volatility. See: Morgan Stanley cuts gold outlook, still sees gains.
Still, the bank cut its silver price outlook for 2013 by 4% to $33.44 an ounce.
Silver pulled back Thursday after a seven-session climb. The metal for March delivery US:SIH3 fell 72 cents, or 2.2%, to finish at $31.72 an ounce.
Silver had been gaining due to huge inflows into silver-backed exchange-traded-funds, plus demand for coins and bars on an international basis. The Tell: U.S. Mint sells out of silver coins: report.
March copper HGH23, +0.00% fell less than a cent, or 0.2%, to $3.68 a pound. April platinum US:PLJ3 shed $8, or 0.5%, to $1,683.80 an ounce, while March palladium US:PAH3 added 50 cents, or 0.1%, to $726.70 an ounce.


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Illinois Democratic Congressmen estimate that nearly 3,500 people in northwest Illinois lost their long-term federal unemployment benefits over the weekend.
On Dec. 28, extended unemployment benefits for 1.3 million Americans ran out after Congress failed to pass an extension. Democrats are working on a plan to extend the benefits in the new year.
The federal benefits kick in when the state unemployment benefits run out. Without the extension, they revert back to 26 weeks of assistance.
According to a group of represensatives, including Cheri Bustos, who represents part of Winnebago, 81,867 people lost their benefits. Locally, that included:
Boone - 328
Carroll - 50
Jo Daviess - 52
Ogle - 326
Stephenson - 337
Winnebago - 2,388
Republicans who are blocking extending the benefits argue that they are a disincentive for job hunting and are no longer necessary as the economy improves.
In northwestern Illinois though, the economy hardly improved in 2013. The unemployment rates as of November locally were:
Boone - 10.4 percent
Carroll - 7.8 percent
Jo Daviess - 7.1 percent
Ogle - 9.7 percent
Stephenson - 9.4 percent
Winnebago - 11.1 percent


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Fitness comes in many forms, and conditioning is specific to the training program. For example, joint flexibility is enhanced through stretching exercises, cardiovascular endurance is improved through aerobic activity, and muscular strength is increased through resistance training. Certainly, all of these fitness components may contribute to better tennis performance. If you were to focus on one area of physical conditioning for tennis, however, it should undoubtedly be strength exercise.
Basic Strength Exercises
Tennis play involves a lot of musculoskeletal activity, including all kinds of movements in the legs, midsection, upper body, and arms. You should therefore train all of the major muscle groups. This ensures overall strength and balanced muscle development to enhance performance power and reduce the risk of injuries. The machine exercises in Table 1 provide a solid base of conditioning from which to progress into more advanced training when you are ready.
Table 1. Recommended basic exercises for conditioning the major muscle groups.
The exercises are presented from the larger muscles of the legs to the smaller muscles of the neck, which is the recommended order of performance. One set of each exercise is sufficient, as long as you train with good form to the point of muscle fatigue. Because intensity is the key to strength development, use enough resistance to fatigue the target muscle groups within about 50-70 seconds. In general, this corresponds to the heaviest weight load that you can lift for eight to 12 controlled repetitions.
Each repetition should be completed in approximately six seconds, with two seconds for the lifting movement and four seconds for the lowering movement. The slower lowering phase emphasizes the stronger negative muscle contraction, and should make each exercise set more productive. It is also important to perform each repetition through a full range of movement. This enhances both joint integrity and flexibility.
As your muscles become stronger, it is essential to progressively increase the work effort. This is best accomplished by gradually increasing the exercise resistance. Once you complete 12 repetitions, the weight load is no longer heavy enough to produce maximum strength benefits. By increasing the resistance about five percent (typically 1 to 5 pounds), you can continue to stimulate strength development.


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Asian financial markets and regulatory bodies need to understand and learn from the mistakes of the West or risk having their own interests trampled upon, said the chief executive of Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission.
The Asian financial sector, boosted by the expansion of regional emerging markets, will grow to rival that of the West, but it will be "unbelievably stupid to try to grow the Asian financial system while ignoring the problems that arose in the West," said Ashley Alder, chief executive of Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission.
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Speaking at the third annual Thomson Reuters Pan-Asian Regulatory Summit, Alder acknowledged that banks and other financial institutions in Asia have been worried about certain elements of strict financial regulation being drawn up in the West.
However, he insisted that there is no "one size fits all" template and Asia must pressure Western regulators to agree on a workable set of international rules as well as enact similar regulatory reforms to protect their own financial and economic interests.
He said:
"The threat is that if we or Asian firms don't play ball, international firms will find it hard to operate here, seriously harming liquidity in these markets. It could be a case of my way or the highway," he said.
Addressing concerns that Asia would benefit from stricter financial rules in the West, Alder cautioned that "regulatory arbitrage always ends in tears" and stated that there is "no advantage in lowering our standards in order to attract business".
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It is with great joy that today we are turn page on our old Release Engineering infrastructure. Since Q1 2010, we have run unit tests and talos jobs on rev3 minis which have seen seven different end-user operating systemsxp,win7-32/64-bit,10.5,10.6,Fed12 32/64-bit.
|I'm so high! Have you seen this infra? It's magical! Rainbows for you and me.
e enabled jobs on .
What is shiny about this infrastructure?
Q and Mark (from Relps) Microsoft's GPO (Group Policy Object)The same setup as with our Windows 8 infrastructure. This helps us deprecate our lovely (...not) OPSI system and it takes away the pain of deploying things manually through VNC or SSH (I know, I know :S ) on our Win7 machines.
Another neat thing is that we will be able to remotely power cycle these machines like the rest of our infrastructure.We can also increase this infrastructure more easily than Mac the hardware
We now have 130 nodes for each Windows flavor (Win8, Win7 and WinXP) taking care of all of the jobs on mozilla-central based trees plus mozilla-aurora.For now the rev3 machines will ride the trains until ESR17 is killed December. We could try to fast track by uplifting some patches but we don't see a pressing reason to add more human hours into it.
It's been a pleasure to be part of this large testing infrastructure refresh and working together with arr, coop, dmoore, dustin, edmorley, Fredo, hwine, Hubear, mr, melissa, philor, Q, rail, RyanVM, tfranco, van, vinh, and devs. My apologies if I missed anyone.
If you're curious, all 5 different operating systems were setup under this huge tracking bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=820243
EDIT: 30-May: I added few more people to the thank you list.
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As a result of the conflict in Western Sahara in 1975, refugees moved from the region into Algeria. They settled in four camps located from 40 to 180 kilometres southwest of Tindouf, where they have been living ever since. WFP has assisted the Government of Algeria in meeting the basic food needs of the Western Sahara refugees living in the desert camps since 1986. To date, WFP assistance totals over US$153 million.
WFP's US$43 million two-year relief operation provides a general food package to the most vulnerable refugees. People living in the camps also receive humanitarian assistance from a number of bilateral donors, non-governmental organisations, UN agencies (WFP, UNICEF and UNHCR) as well as from the Government of Algeria. Because of the harsh, desert environment, the nutritional situation, particularly of vulnerable groups including women and children, remains fragile and needs to be monitored closely.
WFP moves food from the port of Oran to the Rabouni complex in Tindouf. From this point, it is collected by the refugee authorities who are responsible for dispatching and final distribution of commodities to vulnerable people in the camps.
The food pipeline for the current operation has been very fragile. Pipeline breakdowns have occurred over recent months, which were reportedly only partly covered with bilateral donations.


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Ultimate Ears WONDERBOOM Portable Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker
Truly portable and waterproof, the Ultimate Ears WONDERBOOM Bluetooth speaker delivers surprisingly big sound that's clear, crisp, and full of beautiful bass. It keeps playing for up to 10 hours and goes from the shower to the beach and everywhere in between thanks to a completely waterproof design. And if you need to really turn things up, you can quickly pair two WONDERBOOM speakers for even more sound.
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UW Bothell has a lot of network ports around campus, but only some of them are "live" and connected to the internet. UW Seattle's technology group handles the technical work related to our internet ports, but the UW Bothell IT department will coordinate with them for port livening on your behalf.
If you need to setup a computer (or anything else) that requires a wired network connection:
IMPORTANT: Allow up to three weeks for port livening. UW Seattle sends technicians up to Bothell to complete this work as fast as they can, but they sometimes experience delays based on request volume.
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I am anxiously been anticipating this case to open and now it is here! Check it out!
Posted on November 06, 2012 by itccs
Public Announcement and Instructions to Citizen Jurors
Brussels: Monday, November 5, 2012 6:30 pm GMT
The first evidence in the opening case in the docket of our Court is now posted online for examination and a verdict by our Citizen Jurors and the world community. It is accessible through the youtube link posted in this email.
This first posting addresses the evidence of intentional genocide by the churches and government of Canada, and the Crown of England and the Vatican, according to the first three of the five defined crimes in the indictment. The final two crimes will be addressed in the second online posting of this case, to occur around November 15, 2012.
Further instructions will be issued to our citizen Jurors and other Court officers.
We urge the world community to follow the evidence and participate in the sentencing and enforcement procedures of the Court that will follow the verdict, after the other four cases in the Docket.
We also ask you to post this youtube link widely, and share it with your political representatives, media, libraries and educational institutions, as well as your communities.
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Hamish takes the gold but the ABC wins a swag of Logies
THE red carpet may have been bulging with television's most commercial creatures, soap stars and models, but it was the national broadcaster that stole the show last night at the 54th annual TV Week Logie Awards.
Click here for the full list of winners
Historically, the ABC has played bridesmaid to its commercial sisters at TV's so-called ''night of nights''.
Last night, however, it scooped the pool, walking away with one-third of the 23 awards.
The critically acclaimed drama The Slap won outstanding drama and one of its stars, Melissa George, the award for outstanding actress.
Rob Carlton, who won almost universal praise for his performance as Kerry Packer in the miniseries Paper Giants, won the award for outstanding actor.
The ABC's venerable Four Corners won the award for outstanding public affairs report for its story, ''A Bloody Business'', in which the journalist Sarah Ferguson investigated the export of Australian cattle to Indonesian slaughterhouses.
The ABC also won nods for Spicks and Specks, its host, comedian Adam Hills, and the children's series My Place.
The night's top award, the Gold Logie, is awarded to the most popular personality on TV.
Nine's Hamish Blake steamrolled favourites Carrie Bickmore and Karl Stefanovic to win the award.
Considering the TV networks invest in aggressive marketing campaigns to back their candidates in the category, Blake was clearly aided, in no small way, by his Twitter following of 291,000 and 1.5 million Facebook fans.
The other stakeholders will walk away with mixed feelings. Seven, which won six awards from the strongest starting position of 31 nominations across the various categories, will be less than overjoyed. Foxtel, from eight nominations, won nothing, except its part-share in Molly Meldrum's TV Week Hall of Fame Gold Logie. (Meldrum is contracted to both Foxtel and Seven.)
SBS, with seven nominations, won only one, but it was a good one: the controversial reality series Go Back to Where You Came From won the award for outstanding factual program.
The results will do little to ease growing tension between Seven and Nine. The two old rivals have a blood feud dating back decades, but recent tension is accelerating the slow dissolution of a gentlemen's agreement which has, for five decades, let the host broadcaster go through to the finish line without serious opposition.
This year, no doubt because of frustration with Nine's long-term ownership of the awards (Nine's parent company owns TV Week, the magazine which created the awards in 1959),
Seven launched a Kerri-Anne Kennerley-powered season of Dancing with the Stars against it.
Seven also withdrew some of its star-power from the Logies red carpet, instead putting celebrities into the audience of the Dancing with the Stars telecast.
In any event, it was the boy band One Direction who stole the show, turning the Logies telecast into an impromptu rock concert, and causing scenes at Melbourne's Crown Entertainment Complex that were reminiscent of tours by somewhat more iconic performers, such as ABBA or the Beatles.
Full list of winners:
Gold Logie, Most Popular Personality on TV
Hamish Blake (Hamish & Andy's Gap Year, Nine Network)
Silver Logie, Most Popular Actor
Hugh Sheridan (Ben Rafter, Packed To The Rafters, Seven Network)
Silver Logie, Most Popular Actress
Asher Keddie (Nina Proudman, Offspring, Network Ten / Ita Buttrose, Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo, ABC1)
Silver Logie, Most Popular Presenter
Adam Hills (Spicks and Specks / In Gordon St Tonight, ABC1)
Most Popular New Male Talent
Steve Peacocke (Darryl "Brax" Braxton, Home and Away, Seven Network)
Most Popular New Female Talent
Melissa Bergland (Winners & Losers, Seven Network)
Most Popular Drama Series
Packed To The Rafters (Seven Network)
Most Popular Light Entertainment Program
Hamish & Andy's Gap Year (Nine Network)
Most Popular Lifestyle Program
Better Homes & Gardens (Seven Network)
Most Popular Sports Program
2011 AFL Grand Final (Network Ten)
Most Popular Reality Program
The Block (Nine Network)
Most Popular Factual Program
Bondi Rescue (Network Ten)
Silver Logie, Outstanding Drama Series, Miniseries or Telemovie
The Slap (ABC1)
Silver Logie, Outstanding Actor
Rob Carlton (Paper Giants, ABC1)
Silver Logie, Outstanding Actress
Melissa George (The Slap, ABC1)
Graham Kennedy Award for Outstanding New Talent
Chelsie Preston Crayford (Underbelly: Razor, Nine Network)
Outstanding News Coverage
The Queensland Floods (Nine News, Nine Network)
Outstanding Public Affairs Report
A Bloody Business (Four Corners/Sarah Ferguson, ABC1)
Outstanding Light Entertainment Program
Spicks And Specks (ABC1)
Outstanding Sports Coverage
State Of Origin III (Nine Network)
Outstanding Children's Program
My Place (ABC3)
Outstanding Factual Program
Go Back To Where You Came From (SBS)
Michael Idato is entertainment editor-at-large of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.


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The starter kit for this month's recipe card challenge at theStudio is in my store. This will be a freebie for those who participated the month before; others can purchase it for a low price. Reminder: The papers in this mini kit are sized 4 x 6, and the elements are smaller to fit the paper size. These are just the right size to create brag book pages, too!
The focus for December's cards is your favorite holiday treat recipe – whatever you'd like to go along with this theme. If you'd like the complete set of recipes at the end of the month, just use this kit and prepare/share at least one card ~ read all the details HERE. You can check out all the cards in the gallery!
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In honor of Lena Horne, who passed away last Sunday at the age of 92, Philip Furia has reflected on her legacy. Furia is a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and the author with Laurie Patterson of The Songs of Hollywood.
I would never pretend to be an expert on Lena Horne, but my research prompts me to make a few observations on her career as a singer of popular songs. Perhaps the most striking thing about her stellar career is that Lena Horne, alone among the great singers of her era, never introduced a hit song. The songs she is associated with are the "standards" of what's been termed The Great American Song Book. In the television obituaries, for example, she was heard singing the classic songs of Cole Porter, Ira and George Gershwin, and Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers. Even her signature song, "Stormy Weather," was originally written by Ted Koehler and Harold Arlen for Ethel Waters in the 1933 Cotton Club Revue. (Waters, supposedly, always resented the fact that Lena Horne had co-opted "her" song).
One reason why Lena Horne's song repertory was confined to the great standards is that for most of her career she worked in Hollywood films. In a few of these films, such as Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather (both 1943), she had a leading role, but in most of her other films she had cameo roles where she sang songs as "performances" in night clubs and other settings. Rather than have her render new, untried songs, Hollywood studios took the safer route of having her sing tried and tested standards. Hollywood's practice of recycling old songs, in fact, is one reason these songs became "standards" instead of simply fading away as most popular songs do after their heyday. (It didn't hurt, too, that the studios often owned these old songs and stood to profit from their renewed popularity.)
Lena Horne's greatest opportunity to introduce new hit songs came in 1946 when she was offered the lead in the Broadway musical St. Louis Woman, where she would have introduced such songs as "Come Rain or Come Shine" by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen. Horne, however, refused the lead because she felt that the show caricatured blacks—even though the book was written by two African-American playwrights. Without Horne, St. Louis Woman quickly folded, and the singer lost one of her few chances to introduce hit songs.


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Two northern Indiana women were mentoring adolescent girls, including several who were frustrated with life. As the duo learned of students acting out the emotional toll they were feeling, the duo thought they had to do something more.
That's when Monica Murphy and Meghan Roder wondered: how could they reach out to young women to provide support and encouragement?
Murphy and Roder decided to create an iPhone application, which developed into a partnership with Indiana State University senior Cory Rehs. Together, the trio created "Beautiful You," an iPhone app that encourages and empowers women. The app features quotes, reflections and challenges to promote positive self-esteem, acceptance and healthy emotional well-being in a world where flaws can be ridiculed and marginalized.
"We thought, 'well, a lot of people have cell phones and iPhones,'" Murphy said of their decision to create an iPhone application. "I think it was respecting the fact that females are using technology in their daily lives, and it was how we can reach girls that way."
The students from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Ind., decided in late 2011 that they wanted to create an iPhone app, though it was easier said than done. Murphy met Sister Alma Mary Anderson, a St. Mary's graduate and professor of graphic design and computer imaging at Indiana State, who then introduced Murphy and Roder to Rehs, who was one of her students.
He eagerly accepted the project, as he wanted to learn more about programming iPhone applications. Though the information technology major from Greenwood had taken programming classes while at Indiana State, he did not know much about programming applications specifically for iPhones.
"I've never had experience with it, so I was dealing with trial and error a lot," Rehs said. "I had to do a lot of research."
Rehs worked on the technical aspects of the iPhone app, while Murphy and Roder created the app's content. They worked nearly 11 months discussing and refining the project. Murphy and Roder would discuss the content with Rehs, who would then go to work programming it into reality. "Cory is so fun to work with," Murphy said. "All three of us were new to this. We had no idea what we were doing. Cory was on top of it all the time, and he showed us progress throughout the project. It was a great experience."
The trio developed the app through most of 2012 before releasing "Beautiful You" in the iTunes store late in the fall. The app fosters users' sense of self-worth through inspirational quotes and insights and challenges social standards of beauty by helping users to develop a healthy and positive outlook. It also helps users track their self-esteem on daily basis, so they can measure and evaluate their personal progress.
An additional feature allows users of "Beautiful You" to write inspiring messages for others to read and be encouraged.
"Encouraging YOU: as a girl, woman, sister, mother and daughter to see the beauty within you because you are worth it!" the creators wrote in the app's description in the iTunes store. "When you love who you are, and embrace all that you were created to be, nothing can hold you back."
Murphy, Roder and Rehs would Skype frequently as they developed the app. They would discuss content elements and challenges that would arise programming them into an iPhone app."This was the first project I ever had a collaboration with a client, and that was new to me," Rehs said. "It was a learning experience."
Users from throughout the United States as well as Canada, Germany, Spain and Ireland have downloaded "Beautiful You." The creators hope that, as word gets out, more people will take advantage of the app, which costs about $1 on iTunes.
"For Megan and me, having the app developed and approved was just a huge dream of ours," Murphy said, "and the fact that it is a reality now and our dream came true is really good."
Photo: http://isuphoto.smugmug.com/photos/i-tLFVhVf/0/L/i-tLFVhVf-L.png (Submitted photo)"Beautiful You" iPhone app logo
Photo: http://isuphoto.smugmug.com/Other/Media-Services/Cory-Rehs/i-JDpnRkp/0/L/01_17_13_cory_Rehs-6581-L.jpg (ISU/Tony Campbell)Indiana State University senior Cory Rehs, who co-created the "Beautiful You" iPhone application with Megan Roder and Monica Murphy.
Photo: http://isuphoto.smugmug.com/photos/i-bvPWv9r/0/L/i-bvPWv9r-L.jpg (Submitted photo)Meghan Roder and Monica Murphy, who co-created the "Beautiful You" iPhone application with Indiana State University senior Cory Rehs
Media Contact and Writer: Austin Arceo, assistant director of media relations, Office of Communications and Marketing, Indiana State University, 812-237-3790 or email@example.com
ISU senior Cory Rehs teamed with Monica Murphy and Meghan Roder to create "Beautiful You," an iPhone app featuring quotes, reflections and challenges to promote positive self-esteem, acceptance and healthy emotional well-being for women.
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one addendum i might add for a minor situation: i have used the google script, and it works well until you're in a secure situation.
If the script is going to be used in a https environment, IE throws an alert about the document containing both secure and non-secure items, which might scare off some buyers (a reason you might be secure in the first place).
it is easily worked around, if that's an issue, by putting that script locally on your server, and then accessing it with a relative URI/URL (/js/script_name.js). At that point, IE won't throw the alert.


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Sunday, 16 January 2011
The snow was still lying last Sunday, so all we could do was empty the kitchen waste into the compost bin and check the broccoli cage. As well as the usual fox, cat and dog tracks in the snow, we saw some rabbit tracks for the first time.
All was fine at the plot. Beautiful, even, with this delicate tracery of fennel stems against the snow.
But winter is about survival.
No traces of fur or feather to tell what had been done to death. No rabbit prints nearby, so perhaps urban rabbit escaped to nibble more unprotected cabbages and broccoli.
15 comments:
- Mark Willis said...
If life is about Survival of the Fittest, maybe you have to forgive the rabbit for eating (or trying to eat) your brassicas, so that it can grow strong and escape the foxes, stoats or whatever?! What would you do?
P.S. Linda the last picture is definitely not your average gardening blog picture!
- 16 January 2011 at 18:19
- RobD said...
And I've just had my tea! As you said though, it's about survival.
- 16 January 2011 at 18:40
- Green Lane Allotments said...
Oh dear - life is cruel isn't it?
- 16 January 2011 at 18:46
- Linda said...
I know, Mark, it's all a food chain!
- 16 January 2011 at 21:46
- Kris said...
Circle of life. Can't live without it....
- 17 January 2011 at 00:54
- Oakland Daily Photo said...
Whoa. A leap from the ethereal to the visceral in one photo. Took me by surprise.
- 17 January 2011 at 02:30
- Jo said...
Oh poor thing, whatever it was.
- 17 January 2011 at 09:15
- clairz said...
Here in the desert, we have little signs that say "coyotes" by each external door. That way, if one of us hears coyotes howling nearby at night, we stick the coyote sign on the door as an alert not to let out the cats or the little dogs until (we hope) the danger has passed.
We were also warned when we moved here to keep an eye out for large birds of prey, lest our smaller pets get carried off.
Your photo essay is a stunner!
- 19 January 2011 at 13:05
- fer said...
How crude can nature be. Survival indeed
- 19 January 2011 at 19:50
- Joycee said...
I was thrilled to have a visitor from Scotland today! You must have thought this was strange food...the blue Jello and my mention of BBQ and fried okra, I'm sure our Southern specialties need explaination! Your photographs are amazing, the patterns of the snow all different. I've never heard it described at beaten egg whites, but so accurate! Your allotment, is that where you live or separate from your house? Why do you have to build such cages around the garden? Anxious to read more of your posts and I hope your Dad is feeling much better.
joy c. in Arkansas
- 20 January 2011 at 00:11
- Jo said...
I've left you an award on my blog. Don't feel under any pressure to accept it if you don't wish to do so, I just wanted to let you know that I enjoy reading your blog.
- 20 January 2011 at 11:20
- Linda said...
Joycee, our allotment is a plot of ground that we rent from the city council for growing fruit and veg. It's near our house, but that's just luck. Most cities in the UK have these sites, some with large numbers of plots, some quite small. The council provides basic services such as running water and often composting toilets. (And yes, I did think the blue jello was strange).
Jo, thank you so much - I'm really flattered but inept about doing anything with awards!
- 20 January 2011 at 21:25
- donna said...
That last photo caught me off guard, but it's important to be reminded of the Circle of Life, Survival of the Fittest, etc.
Another impressive post, as always.
- 22 January 2011 at 17:29
- Blondie's Journal said...
Poor animal...whatever it was. It saddens me even though it is all part of the food chain. I was never one to sit through National Geographic!
Thanks so much for stopping by today, Linda. It was very nice of you to visit!
- 26 January 2011 at 11:49
- Ron Scheer said...
Enjoyed taking a few moments to tour your allotment under winter snows over the last two months. I like your eye for pattern and detail. Also the narrative thread, your father, and the 70 year old man (someone hardly older than me) looking after the gardening for him...Thanks.
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So it is set: Fed vs. Birdman, Murray vs. Cilic. Is there an upset brewing from Birdie? I don't expect any unless he plays lights out tennis.
Fed vs. Murray if all goes the way of favorites. So who thinks Murray can best Fed again in a repeat Olympic performance? Who thinks Fed has the #1 mettle to contain Murray and go straight to the presumably game Djoko?
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I don't see Birdy winning. No chance at all for Cilic. I have to put my bets down on Murr dog. He is playing so well. Here's hoping!
Murr dog not looking good against Cilly. Down 3-6, 2-5!
Well, he turned that one around! I think he is going to beat the Birdman too.
Check out the head to head between Birdman and Murray (Berdych 4- Murray 2):
Not looking good against Birdy. Down 6-7, 2-5!
Birdy got any chance of winning this thing?
I don't see Birdman beating Djoko though. Head to head Djoko-9/ Berdych 1:
Ahhhhh, but things change. Nole may not be what he was last year and Birdman might be soaring high - that's why we got to watch brother!
Birdie's got the hot new girlfriend too! Bull Durham time. lol
So sorry Dave. Maybe next year.
Do you think Tomas can win the whole thing this time?
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Chamblee incorporated on August 17, 1908. It is one of eight cities located within DeKalb County.
The origin of the city's name is somewhat a mystery. One story has it that in 1885 local residents petitioned the U.S. Postal Service to establish a post office at Roswell Junction. At the time, the U.S. Postal Service worried that the proposed name for the office "Roswell Junction" would confuse carriers who also delivered mail to the neighboring city, Roswell. Supposedly, the Postal Service then randomly selected the post office name "Chamblee" from the list of petitioners.


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Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, frequently critical of The Wire for its "overly negative" portrayal of crime and corruption, was indicted today after a three-year investigation.
Dixon was charged with four counts of perjury and two counts of theft over $500, as well as theft under $500, fraudulent misappropriation by a fiduciary and misconduct in office. The charges stem in part from gifts she received from former boyfriend and developer Ronald H. Lipscomb, who was also charged earlier this week.
A grand jury indicted Dixon on 12 counts, including four counts of perjury and two counts of theft over $500. She was also charged with theft under $500, fraudulent misappropriation by a fiduciary and misconduct in office.
Dixon, a Democrat, has been the target of a nearly three-year probe by State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh into corruption at City Hall, an investigation that has centered on allegations that Dixon has used her office to award lucrative contracts to various people including her sister, her then-boyfriend and her former campaign chairman.
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Some of the charges center on gift cards that Dixon received from two real estate developers. According to the indictment, Dixon told one of the developers that the gift cards were going to be distributed to needy families in Baltimore. Prosecutors say that in December 2005, when Dixon was City Council president, she used 19 of 20 Best Buy gift cards for herself, purchasing personal items, including a digital camcorder, a PlayStation 2 and other electronics.
Prosecutors say that in December 2006, she used Old Navy, Best Buy and other gift cards intended for needy families for an Xbox 360, a PlayStation Portable, clothes and other items for her own use.
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Typical delivery of enterprise software involves a very controlled date with a secret roadmap designed to wow prospects, customers, press and analysts…or at least that is the way it usually works. Open source, however, changes this equation.
As described here, the vision for extending Hadoop beyond its batch-only roots in support of interactive and real-time workloads was set by Arun Murthy back in 2008. The initiation of YARN, the key technology for enabling this vision, started in earnest in 2011, was declared GA by the community in the recent Apache Hadoop 2.2 release, and is now delivered for mainstream enterprises and the broader commercial ecosystem with the release of Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0.
HDP 2.0, and its YARN foundation, is a huge milestone for the Hadoop market since it unlocks that vision of gathering all data in Hadoop and interacting with that data in many ways and with predictable performance levels… but you know this because Apache Hadoop 2.2 went GA last week.
Just as the vision for YARN was publicly described and then delivered, the same can be said for Phase 2 of the Stinger Initiative. In February of 2013 we described 3 phases of investment aimed at improving Apache Hive's Speed, Scale, and SQL, and the release of Apache Hive 0.12 included in HDP 2.0 delivers on Phase 2 of that vision. Apache HBase 0.96.0 is also in HDP 2.0 and is the culmination of more than a year's worth of effort that's delivered important enterprise features such as Snapshots and improved MTTR; read more here. But wait…there's more! You can also read about the latest Apache Pig 0.12 here and Apache Ambari 1.4.1 here.
The point is that there are LOTS of new features and capabilities delivered in HDP 2.0, and since a picture is worth a thousand words, let's look at what I fondly refer to as the "asparagus chart" to highlight the fact that HDP 2.0 contains the latest stable innovations developed within the Apache community, all nicely integrated, tested and made ready for the enterprise in HDP 2.0.
The chart above also helps illustrate our 100% open source model. All of those components, including the management and monitoring a la Apache Ambari, are all Apache open source projects and integrated into HDP; making HDP the most complete 100% open source enterprise Hadoop product available. And if you look at the version numbers, you will notice that HDP 2.0 includes the very latest releases of the components you rely on.
How are we able to deliver the latest innovation from the community within HDP? Simple. We do ALL of our engineering work (feature development, bug fixes, patches) within those Apache Software Foundation projects…no holdbacks. So we understand where each project is in its release cycle and maturity curve. We then integrate and test the latest stable releases of all of the projects that are ready for the enterprise into HDP. This means that if a component has not been declared stable within the community, then it's implicitly not ready for the enterprise and we don't ship it.
Moreover, this means that when we deliver the GA version of Apache Hadoop 2.2…it's Hadoop 2.2 and not an early branch that's been forked early and patched often. While Halloween is next week and Frankenstein monsters may be seen roaming the streets, you won't see us shipping a product that resembles a Frankenpatch monster. That's just not how we do our work. Managing lots of patches outside of the Apache process negates the benefits of the open source project development model, causes confusion and incompatibilities for the broader ecosystem, and can lead to lock-in.
Bottom-line: Staying in sync with what the Apache community builds and declares GA is critical for ensuring speedy and stable enterprise adoption. And HDP 2.0 brings the freshest innovations from the community to you, so try it out and let us know what you think!
Finally, we are not the only ones excited about the release, check out the list of ecosystem parters certified on HDP 2.0.
We have a lot of information to help you learn more about Hadoop 2, YARN, HBase, Stinger and all the exciting new developments in HDP 2.0, but here are a few quick links that you might find useful:


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This is a chiste I heard in Spanish, but with the chiste, I think is a valuable lesson. Here's my approximate translation to Spanglish.
A group of gringos went on vacation to Mexico. Part of the package included a tour of a local farm. While on the tour, one of the gringos noticed a campesino. The campesino wiped the sweat from his forehead, went to the shade of a big tree, and sat down to rest. The gringo approached him saying:
Hola amigo, ¿Cómo estas?
Muy bien jefe, aquí descansando.
Tell me, why don't you work more on your land?
¿Y para qué?
To have bigger crops and sell more.
¿Y para qué?
So you can make more money…and buy livestock!
¿Y para qué?
The livestock will reproduce, and you could sell them, and earn more money!
¿Y para qué?
So you could have a pretty house, live in peace and rest.
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If you're as addicted to SETI@home as I am you probably look for every chance to install the BOINC client on any computer possible. The default installation of the BOINC client requires administrative rights on Windows computers. If you're working on a shared, supported or corporate computer you may not have administrative rights. Here's the easy way around that.
- Download the BOINC client. (Version 6.6.36)
- Open a DOS box and change directory to the location of the BOINC client.
- Launch the BOINC client using the "/a" flag as in "boinc_6.6.36_windows_intelx86.exe /a"
- You will be prompted for a location to install the server portion of the application. Pick something.
- That's it! Launch the client using "[install path]\program files\BOINC\boincmgr.exe"
There are other flags available for the install file. Use "/?" to see them all. For help with installing earlier versions of the BOINC client read this.


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Today in show business news: Not many people watched the American Idol finale, The Voice is still going strong, and Pete Campbell takes to the stage.
Well, the numbers are in and they are not good. Last night's American Idol season 12 finale earned the show's lowest finale numbers ever, by a lot. Entertainment Weekly reports: "Idol had 14.3 million viewers and a 3.6 rating, according to Nielsen's final overnight numbers. That's off a steep 44 percent from last year." Yikes! A 44 percent drop is huge, and surprising even for this lackluster season. The show has been plagued by ratings problems all season, forcing us to wonder if the great Idol gravy train might finally be pulling out of the station. There will definitely be big overhauls next year, with a whole new judges panel, but will that help any? The real problem has been time and the contestants. If it does go away, are we ready for an Idol-less world? It could be coming in a year or two. Prepare yeself. Meanwhile, The Office's series finale did pretty well, earning the highest ratings of the season. Good to go out on a high note. Idol should take a lesson from them and build a time machine and go back in time and end the show after Carrie Underwood won. It's the sensible thing to do. [Entertainment Weekly]
NBC's The Voice is chugging along comfortably, though. They've just announced that original judges Xtina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green will be returning for the fall cycle, with Shakira and Usher filling in again in the spring. Yeah, two more cycles in the next year, which is a lot. It's almost as if NBC is desperate to squeeze every last dime out of its only big hit. I'm sure it will work perfectly! No one's going to get sick of it, no sir. Also, has anyone actually ever won that show? And if so, who are they? Who are these people who have supposedly won The Voice? [The Hollywood Reporter]
Perhaps hoping to win nerdy English major ladies to his cause, Mad Men's Vincent Kartheiser will be playing Mr. Darcy in a stage adaptation of Pride & Prejudice at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis this summer. Is he really a Mr. Darcy type? He certainly can be rude and uptight, but in a bratty way. I mean, technically no one except Colin Firth is legally allowed to play Mr. Darcy, but there are better options out there. Or other plays that Vincent Kartheiser could have been in. But, oh well. It's happening. Enjoy it, Minnesota! [Entertainment Weekly]
The Amazon Studios show audition experiment is coming to an end. They're starting to make pickups and informing those that haven't made the cut. One big "no: was Zombieland, which caused the creator to chastise the movie's fans, saying "I'll never understand the vehement hate the pilot received from die-hard Zombieland fans. You guys successfully hated it out of existence." Yikes. Amazon has said yes to Alpha House, the wan political comedy from Gary Trudeau starring John Goodman, and Betas, an annoying thing about Silicon Valley. The painful Huffington Post musical satire (yes) Browsers also didn't make it. Poor Bebe Neuwirth. [Deadline]
Here is a longer trailer for the final season of Dexter. From the looks of it, we're going to be dealing with a lot of drunk, angry Deb. As opposed to just angry Deb. I'm excited! Last season was mostly a brutal success, ending both insanely and inevitably. Come to us, sweet Dexter! Tell us the dark ending to your dark and sometimes kinda silly but usually pretty entertaining if nothing else tale.
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Chill homegrown veggies with chives, garlic and oil.
By Christine Facciolo
Recipe: Marinated Zucchini Salad
This simple, tasty recipe will come in handy when you start picking homegrown zucchini from your garden, although the store-bought variety will work just fine. This recipe comes from Candice Linton of Highland Orchards of North Wilmington.
- Zucchini (sliced/quartered)
- Lemon juice (moderate splash)
- Olive oil (generous splash)
- 1 clove garlic (chopped small and fine)
- Sprinkle sea salt/black pepper as desired
- 1-tbsp. chives (chopped small)
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Welcome to Used Car Face Off, where we find two similar or similarly priced used cars and ask you which one you would buy. Choose wisely!
It just takes a burning oil refinery and a leap in gas prices to make people think about ditching their guzzler of an SUV for something like a Ford Fiesta. And then gas goes down about 30 cents a gallon and everyone stops panicking. It's the status quo, these days.
The recent surge in gas prices in California must have people rethinking their purchase of a fast, inefficient SUV, which means it's going to be a good time to pick one up for cheap.
Think back to the early '00s and the simultaneous phenomenons of luxury carmakers making SUVs and sticking monster engines in them. Gas was, what, $1.19 a gallon? Good times. The BMW X5 debuted 13 years ago now, and it's safe to say the first-gen model looks pretty good today. After all, it's really an inflated and jacked-up E39 Touring, which was the last good-looking 5-series and before design duds like "Bangle Butt" and "Flame Surfacing" ruined the look of BMWs. It's also worth mentioning that the X5 was kind of the first crossover that had no off-road pretentions but was rather good to drive on the road.
The 4.6is was the first attempt to make a really hot X5, and this example is a beautiful Estero Blue one and very clean – and will probably go for dirt cheap. Like I said, these old X5s look good today. But no X5 is renowned for its durability and you're also going to look at a car that might be devoid of iDrive, but has one of the most daft sat navs in the world. And even if you don't push it, your MPG will probably be in the teens. Still, fast, good-looking, practical, all-wheel drive: Those Germans know their cars.
But the X5 4.6is is not the king of bonkers German 4x4s of the 2000s. That crown has to go to the Porsche Cayenne Turbo. Those three words elicit so many different emotions, from outrage to curiosity to outright respect. Remember how much outrage the Cayenne caused purists when it was first unveiled a decade ago? And remember how many of them popped up in places like Beverly Hills and Houston?
The Turbo is still an insane thing, but what's even more outrageous is how plentiful and cheap they are on the used car market. I picked this one because it's green and is going just $17,000.
Sure, it's got some mileage on it, but remember these went for $90-100,000 when optioned up with expensive Porsche extras. And you get a powerful, proper off-roader, because unlike the X5, the Cayenne has height-adjustable suspension and diff locks.
I wonder if any Cayenne Turbo has seen much off-roading, but it's nice to know it won't get stuck on anything more adventuresome than a polo field.
Honestly, though, if I were dropping my cash on a car it wouldn't be either of these. But if I had to pick, I think I'd like the X5 more. The Cayenne Turbo may be absurdly fast and talented in the rough stuff, but it must be getting uglier with age. Not only does it still look like a 911-meets-Country Squire, but it comes from a time when Porsche was putting cheap plastic inside its cars.
I remember sitting in a new Cayenne shortly after its North American launch at the LA Auto Show and the silver trim was already peeling. The X5 may be the most poser-ish 4x4 by far, but as a fast wagon it's very convincing. I'm always tempted by cheap X5 V8s and the 4.6is tempts me a lot – all the way to $5/gallon 91 octane.
Which one would you pick? Tell us in the comments.
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With a little help from the Kimball Group, I have become somewhat knowledgeable with the Data Mart dimension model approach to Data Warehousing. The PASS DW/BI Virtual Chapter has graciously allowed me to present on Dimensional Modeling. I am not an expert, so this is an introduction to what I have learned over the years.
At Crown Vantage (a paper mill), I was tasked to move a data warehouse from the old (bankrupt) home office to the lone paper that was left. After reading A Diary to Data Warehousing, I found out that our office (Sales) just needed a Data Mart, and did not need a Data Warehouse for the nightly reports. Years later I was a DBA at Amedisys and started to help the BI team performance tune the SQL. This led me to the BI department of Amedisys.
Please join me tomorrow if interest in a level 101 intro to Dimensional Modeling!!!
Tues July 17th 11:30am - 12:30pm Central
Dimensional Modeling 101
Speaker: Thomas LeBlanc
URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=J89H27&role=attend&pw=w%7B37%3A4SWd
This session is going to help create a dimensional Data Mart from the AdventureWorks database that includes dimension tables and 2 example fact tables. The Kimball spreadsheet for documenting a Data Mart will be used to re-enforce the need for Requirements and Functional specifications. A brief review of ETL for Slowly Changing Dimension and population of the Fact will be demonstrated as well as a simple cube for reporting.


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BRYAN Q. MILLER Brings the TEEN TITANS To SMALLVILLE
A team of Titans are visiting Smallville this week, as readers of the TV show-turned-comic book learn more about Jay Garrick's school for the "gifted."
The school was mentioned in a recent issue of the ongoing digital-first series Smallville: Season 11, the comic written by Bryan Q. Miller that continues the continuity of the Smallville television show.
Beginning this week, in a four-week digital-first story titled Smallville: Titans, readers will get to see the Smallville universe's version of characters like Conner Kent (Superboy), Mia Dearden (Speedy), Jaime Reyes (Blue Beetle) and Zan and Jayna (The Wonder Twins).
It's not the first time Miller has written a Titans team — his first comic gig was writing a story arc of Teen Titans in 2009. Along with his current Smallville comic, Miller has been working on other comics projects, including a Kickstarter-funded title called Earthward, as well as the Syfy TV show Defiance.
The Titans special comes as the ongoing series switches its numbering system to mini-series. After the end of the "Olympus" story arc in the ongoing series (in which Wonder Woman was introduced to the Smallville universe), the Smallville comic will pick up with a new #1 issue and new story arc titled Smallville: Aliens.
Newsarama talked to Miller about the Titans special and the future of the Smallville comic.
Newsarama: Bryan, how has it been overall to expand the Smallville universe through comics, and why was the switch made to mini-series and specials instead of the ongoing?
Bryan Q. Miller: To the best of my knowledge, we shifted gears a bit in presentation to help lower the intimidation factor for new and potential readers. If you're on the digital store, and you see "Smallville Season 11: Chapter 70," that's kind of two sets of qualifiers that shout "You're really behind on your reading!" So rolling back to #1 with each new arc lessens that.
Nrama: What was the motivation for the Titans special?
Miller: Aside from me wanting to play with a version of the Teen Titans? Superboy. We've been doing "parallel" stories that are shorter than the main arcs and sort of run along side them, from a narrative standpoint. We had some staggering craziness happening as we transitioned from our previous main Supergirl arc ("Argo") into our current Wonder Woman arc ("Olympus") that dictated we start the next side story before "Olympus" finished. So we had to get a new smaller story started, with someone related to the show but not involved in all the madness in Washington D.C. in the main arc… and since we mentioned that Conner (who we first met in Season 10) was at a school for the "gifted" in San Francisco during "Olympus"… you can see where we're going.
Nrama: Besides Conner, what other characters will we see in the issue?
Miller: Jaime Reyes! Megan Morse! Mia Dearden! Zan and Jayna Whatever Their Last Names Are! And their mentor/teacher, Jay Garrick! As well as a villain we haven't met, but who has ties to some bits and pieces of Season 10.
Nrama: You've described where Conner is, but can you describe the status of some of the key Titans characters as they start this story?
Miller: I certainly can, but then that gets into some of the reveals as to why they've come to Garrick's school in the first place, which we reveal as the four-week story unfolds.
Nrama; What are some of the more interesting relationships you're getting to portray?
Miller: There's tension between Jay and Conner, for sure. Conner's got an "S" on his chest, and all the perceived responsibility that comes along with that. And Jay's seen "little punks" come and go his entire life. "Scion" in Season 10 was about Conner struggling against his Luthor and Kent genetics. Titans sees him trying to figure out how to not let those base instincts rule in either direction, and be his own man. And, to the delight of some Young Justice fans, there's a good chance Conner and Megan might get some alone time.
Nrama: Is it a side story, or does it further the themes / evolution of the characters you've been exploring in the ongoing?
Miller: It's a side story, but ties in with the very last moments of "Olympus" — though the reader will get to read the end of "Olympus" first.
Nrama: What can you tell us about the art for the four-week story?
Miller: Cat Staggs, who does our covers and did full interiors on one of our previous side stories, "Valkyrie," returns with a vengeance for Titans!
Nrama: What's coming next for the Smallville comic, as the ongoing series switches to mini-series?
Miller: Smallville: Alien — our over-arching story for the year involves a race of inter-dimensional beings called Monitors. They destroyed Earth 2, and our heroes know that something called "The Crisis" is coming. In Alien, a Monitor literally falls to Earth in Russia. Superman and Lex both know how valuable it is to get face time with one, and it turns into a bit of a race, with some secret identity complications.
Nrama: You came to comics from the world of television, and I know you've got some other projects happening in both media. What else are you working on?
Miler: On the comic book side, the digital version of my funded Kickstarter, Earthward, is going live to backers in the next few days and will see print before Christmas. Then, next May, I've got Space Mountain coming out through Disney comics.
Over on the TV side, I just turned in my draft for my season 2 episode of Syfy's Defiance, which the world should get to see maybe in July, I think.
Nrama: Then to finish up, as we look at a preview of this week's first issue of Smallville: Titans, is there anything else you want to tell fans about the story?
Miller: Lots of action. Lots of heart. Lots of angst. It's the Teen Titans, after all!


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A few years back, I began to think about all of the commercial building space that exists in this country. I wondered how much energy was being wasted to heat, cool, and light this typically inefficient space. After the economy took a nosedive, I moved on to other topics, realizing that commercial property owners really had no incentive to improve the energy efficiency levels of these older buildings, unless they were lucky enough to tap into some sort of government, state, or local rebate program. Even then, it was still a tough sell to get them to approve these types of projects. However, recent news reports have once again got me thinking about this topic.
Earlier this year, the City of San Francisco enacted the Existing Commercial Building Energy Performance Ordinance, which requires non-residential buildings to make annual energy-usage reports available to the public. It also requires owners to perform an energy efficiency audit every five years for buildings with more than 10,000 sq ft.
More recently, the City of Seattle developed a program that requires all commercial and multi-family residential buildings larger than 10,000 sq ft to measure their energy performance using the EPA's Energy Star Portfolio Manager. The reporting requirements will begin on October 3 of this year for non-residential buildings 50,000 sq ft or larger and extend to both non-residential and multi-family residential buildings 10,000 sq ft or larger in April 2012. Although the ordinance doesn't include energy performance targets or mandates, the city hopes the ordinance will encourage building owners to make energy-efficient investments on their own.
I guess the thinking is if tenants have the option of taking up space in several different building spaces, they would be wise to choose the space that offers them the most energy-efficient option. Do you think commercial energy performance benchmarking and reporting mandates make sense? Are these programs good for the country and for your business? I believe the answer to these questions is a resounding yes.
If building owners are required to disclose the performance rating of their properties, they should be doing everything they can to make sure their numbers are as good, or better, than their competitors. It's a tough rental market out there right now. They should be going above and beyond to make their existing tenants happy and make their empty spaces more appealing to potential tenants. They should also be much more interested in retrofitting and upgrading their old and outdated mechanical and electrical systems. This is where you should be ready to step in and help them out.
Now is the time to really foster those relationships you have with commercial building owners. Make sure they're aware of these new ordinances being put in place, and let them know how you can help them prepare for this trend. One good resource to help you keep track of U.S. building energy performance benchmarking and disclosure initiatives taking place across the country is BuildingRating.org.
Just how low can we push energy consumption levels in new commercial buildings? For a look at what's happening on this front, check out this month's cover story, "A Step Closer to Net Zero," starting on page 22. In this special report, Staff Writer Beck Ireland reveals the details of the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), which is scheduled to be released this month, as well as outlines the latest trends in energy efficiency for this market segment.